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A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. KYRGYZSTAN, Afghan Christian Radio, Sadaye Zindagi on Oct 14 1515-1615 on 5130 BI 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Pashto/Dari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9NlV0pIvOU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uheQ-cDWlB8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaT9zB-jGo&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 7355, Oct 14 at 1306, open carrier/dead air with flutter. Suspect it`s KNLS, which has English until 13 on 7355, and is supposed to resume 7355 at 1400 with Chinese; nothing else scheduled between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA. 891, 981 and 1422 kHz, the three frequencies transmitted from Ouled Fayet near Algiers, are off since some days ago (Rafael Martínez, Barcelona, Catalonia - 10 Sept; in MW Report, BrDXC-UK Communication magazine Oct 2015, page 29, via BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) That's due to 891 kHz transmitter hard- and software replacement of the new solid state TransRadio Berlin Germany made refurbishment work to TDA LW Tipaza 252 kHz {already finished in Febr 2015}, MW Bechar 576 and Ouled Fayet 891 kHz, wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295.0, FRANCE, RTA HQ prayer via TDF Issoudun site towards Sahel in northern Africa, \\ 9535 ISS. Both S=9+35dB powerful. 10.8 kHz wideband signals (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS [and non]. 4760.0, Oct 8 -1630* Some very strange signals here before 1630. As you can see from Arne Nilsson's screenshot and mine below, a carrier signs off at ~1625*. Unfortunately too much noise to have any chance to catch an ID. The harmonics [spurs?] continue until 1630:15. I have checked the frequency nearly every day lately and the same pattern repeats each day. Down here at my place the only real signal noticed is the one from Port Blair all alone after 1630. It should be nice to know if it could be AIR Leh with transmitter problems causing a lot of spurs or sidebands. -1625* and the spurious signals end at 1630:15. One station remains until carriers (on the low side) disappears and at 1630:15 the main Radio giving a nice ID at the end of sign off at 1630. On Oct 10 the spurs were completely gone and the station signing off at 1625 turned out to be Trans World Radio! We have to wait a few weeks more until Christoph Ratzer has installed his new reversible beverage up on the mountain hoping for reception of AIR Leh then. (TN) 4760.0, Oct 10 -1625*, Trans World Radio Manzini, Swaziland with good signal when the annoying spurious signal here was completely gone. Only station remaining after sign off was AIR Port Blair. (TN) 4760.003, Oct 8 -1700*, AIR Port Blair. I have been monitoring this frequency for a while both in the afternoon and at night here. Weekdays sign off at ~1700 (1700:45) and Saturday & Sunday at ~1730. The signal at 1730 is remarkably weaker than at 2400. The ID heard on Oct 8 at sign off sounded like "Akashvani Radio Port Blair". Exact frequency measured by Christoph Ratzer, see screenshot below. (TN) 4760.003, Oct 8 2356, AIR Port Blair. The signal here has improved day by day. ID is given after the same piece of music each day at about 2356. ID as "Akashvani kabli Port Blair Kendra Hey" or as a plain "Akashvani Port Blair Kendra Hey". The ID also repeated just before 2400. On Oct 9 no signal noticed at this time but the station was heard at sign off 1700. Also take a look below on the graph from Christoph Ratzer showing Port Blair signing on at 2342 and AIR Leh at 0157 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) 4760, AIR Port Blair noted Oct 11 from 2348 UT tune via Perseus site in Central Germany to past 0025 UT, but fading fast as the gray line had passed Port Blair after 0000 UT. Decent signals today with vocal/instrumental music, woman announcer between songs. From 0001.5 to 0007 UT there was a group singing with drum accompaniment - not a typical Hindi vocal but sounding more indigenous. SINPO was 33433 using a Beverage covering South and SE Asia. A 2-20 MHz vertical at the same site gives similar results but with increased atmospheric noise (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Oct 12 via BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) FYI, same report edited differently: 4760.00, AIR Port Blair, heard via Perseus site in Central Germany at 2348-0025, Oct 11, but fading fast as the gray line had passed Port Blair after 0000. Decent signals today with vocal/instrumental music, woman between songs. At 0025 there was a short announcement by woman and then a man. From 0001.5 to 0007 there was a group singing with drum accompaniment - not a typical Hindi vocal, but sounding more indigenous, 33433 using a Beverage covering S. and SE Asia. A 2-20 MHz vertical at the same site gives similar results but with increased atmospheric noise (Bruce Churchill, CA, DSWCI DX Window Oct 15 via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, 2033, LRA 36. Songs and anns, talk by YL in Spanish, 342, 25/09 (Arthur Miller, Llandrindod Wells [Wales], Powys JRC NRD 525, NRD 545, G5RV 40m long wire, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15345.16, Radio Nacional, General Pacheco, 1835-1850, 04-10, Spanish, soccer, live, match Velez Sarfield-Nuevo Chicago. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.69, Oct 9 at 0050, RAE measured here as it varies slightly, never to 11710.0 or 11711.0. Recheck at 0212 to confirm it`s in French, despite someone reporting English during this hour, which was swapped several months ago with French ex-03 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted station announcement in various languages, but started at 0100 UT Oct 10 in Japanese language, gave station contact addresses, on 11710.766 kHz footprint at 0108 UT, S=9 in Germany, but much weaker in FL, NJ, NY, and Edmonton Canada, 11710.763 ... x.766 varying few hertz up and down (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.628, Unstable fluttery signal of RAE Buenos Aires, Portuguese service (Wolfgang Bueschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. Good signal of Voice of Armenia in 1430-1630 slot, Oct 12: from 1430 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Farsi till 1630 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Greek 1900-1930 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, no signal Oct 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuFWNIp8AA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeagWrE5EIQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASCENSION. 7415.0, ASC, "Dandal Kura Radio", Babcock brokered in African language Kanuri service, at 0511 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see NIGERIA [non] for more ** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Oct 8 around 1200, even RA is severely attenuated after G3 storms and K index up to 6, now 5. Recovered sufficiently by 1308 when `Conversations with Richard Fidler` is again with a psychiatrist, same one as yesterday? No, per website that was Patrick McGorry, while today it`s Sandy McFarlane. (Tho both dated one day ahead). While I`m at the RA program sked, let`s see what`s running now in the 14-15 UT hour: Thu, The Body Sphere; Baby Talk Fri, Unearthed (JJJ music until 17) Sat, Saturday Night Country (hour 3) Sun, Sunday Night (hour 3) Mon, ABC Editors Choice; The Main Ingredient (food) Tue, Who Are You; Brunch with Simon Marnie Wed, My Soundtrack with Lucy Durack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA [and non]. 6159.965, CANADA, one of the Canadian domestic stations, noted at 0459 UT, hit heavily by adjacent door [?] program opening from ORF1 program, 6155 of ORS Moosbrunn Austria. Election results on Vienna local parliament. Lots of votes lost by Austrian Socialists, reinforcing the conservative right wing party, according to the refugee crisis in Muslim World, Near East and Europe. Zero cC temperature and fog in Austria this Oct 12 morning (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. Strong signal of Ictimai Radio, Oct 9 from 0745 on 9676.9, unknown tx site to CeAs Azeri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZVKerm7ps&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sm-RMjKgVg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nMpjPQseME&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ictimai Radio on broadband FM modulation noted Oct 9 around 1245-1255 UT S=8-9 signal strength here in Germany, 26 kHz wide, wideband modulation 9664 .... 9690 kHz visible on Perseus browser screen (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BAHAMAS. OCT 4 1000 - ZNS1, Nassau, 1540, Believed to be the source of open carrier spurs at 1521 and 1559 (+/-19 kHz) producing hets against 1520 WWKB and 1560 WFME. Thanks to Chris Smolinski and Brett Saylor who helped solve the 1521 and 1559 mystery (Bruce Conti, WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, MWDX-5 phasing unit, 15 x 23-m variable termination SuperLoop antennas at 60 northeast and 180 south, NRC IDXD via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) Hi Bruce, Your 1521 spur from ZNS certainly caught my eye. Of course we would not be getting Saudi at 10 UT, but I`ll have to be careful when I am assuming that in the evening. So far I believe I`ve had DF from NE rather than SE (and never noticed any 1559). I have also made sure it`s on exactly 1521.0 (1521.00?), so I wonder how close to 1521 the ZNS spur is? Or was? (Glenn to Bruce, ibid.) ** BAHRAIN. Reception of Radio Bahrain, October 8 1410-1450 on 9745 ABH 010 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKmXm4vR7So&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_J5u1sYvQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmizfaTG0Sk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6YfQfacbWo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAvC2WJh8c&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 693, R. Bangladesh - Betar Ben Dhamraiz; 1621z man in Bengali, haunting subcontinental vocals alternating man and woman. Global Tuners - Phuket, Thailand. "Gotta love Global Tuners for great DX 24/7" 73's de Steve AB5GP Wiseblood, TX, Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, one of my favourite stations to catch at my DX cottage off the north coast of BC. It's uncommon, but when the band is open, can be very strong. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 7250.00, 1700-1720 11.10, Bangladesh Betar, Khabirpur. Bengali news mentioning Bangladesh eight times, 1710 music and a comment, 1715 ID: "Bangladesh Betar", local song 55444 surprisingly strong! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 9455, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 11 *1314-1323, 34333, Nepali, 1314 sign on with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 11730.00, 1205-1220 11.10, R Belarus, Kalodziscy. Belarussian ann [does that mean announcer, or announcement?? There is a difference --- gh] on Election Day, local song, talk about Ukrainian President and Belarus, 1213 ID: "Belaruskaje Radyjo Minsk" 55444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. Photos Radio Bhutan on 6035 kHz Shortwave and Antennas Park Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) from Thimphu - Bhutan Photo announcers of Radio Bhutan 6035 kHz Photo antennas Park of Bhutan 6035 kHz Radio Shortwave http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/photos-radio-bhutan-on-6035-khz.html (Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Oct 9, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6034.96, Oct 4, 1500, BBS Thimphu, Bhutan. Ich konnte keinen Grund finden warum heute so lange gesendet wird, vielleicht hat der Radiomechaniker des Königs Geburtstag. Und auch nach 17 UT noch immer ein gutes Signal aus Bhutan… Von 15 bis nach 18 Uhr UT konnte ich keinerlei Unterbrechungen hören, einzig gegen 1812 UT war das Audio kurz weg, danach aber bis zum Beginn der Sendung aus dem Iran um 1919 UT wieder ohne jede Störung aufzunehmen. Ein seltenes Vergnügen. Thimphu hat gestern (Oct 4) tatsächlich den ganzen Tag und die ganze Nacht durchgehend gesendet. Größte Signalstärke gegen 00 UT mit S9. Ein Bild des Signals von 2030 UT bis zum Fade/out (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) Daß man Muttertag in Bhutan erst am Oct 4 und dann mit solchem Trara feiert ist schon sehr interessant! (Martin Elbe via A-DX, ibid.) 6034.95, Oct 4, 1540, BBS Thimphu. Extremely strong signal with extended service, observed at 1930 and as late as 0100 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310-, Oct 10 at 0931, very poor music slightly on the lo side, and since it doesn`t match the KCRC/KGWA 1390/960 local mix of talkers, conclude it`s really R. Mosoj Chaski, which I never hear in the evenings. Quick DXLD archive search on ``3309.`` finds several reports of it on 3309.98, from 2009-2010-2011y if not lately. Only an earthquake can get me up at this hour. Not much else from LA, but 3290 Guyana, 4875 & 4885 Brasil are audible on the FRG-7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) However: Here is what I heard the last couple of days in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire: 3310.00, 0135-0145 9.10, R Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, Quechua ann, music, 15121 AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) I`ve never been quite sure whether all his ``exact`` frequencies are really measured, or some of them merely *defaulted* to two decimal places .00 -- at least he uses periods rather than commas (gh, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.475, Oct 10 at 0013, JBA carrier approx. here from Radio Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.449, probably Emisoras Pio XII in Spanish ??? (Wolfgang Büschel, log on North American remote units on Oct 10, around 10-1033 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. BOLÍVIA, 6055, R. Fides, La Paz, 2135-2149, 08/10, castelhano, relato de jogo de futebol; 33341, QRM adjacente. Melhor sinal em 09/10, com SINPO 33442, QRM adjacente. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Photo Radio Caiari Tropical Waves Radio 4785 kHz and 1430 kHz AM From Porto Velho, Rodônia - Brazil Foto das Antenas de Ondas Tropicais da Radio Caiari em 4785 kHz Photo Tropical Wave Antennas for Radio Caiari on 4785 kHz Fotos Parque das Antenas da Radio Caiari em Onda Tropical 4785 kHz e AM 1430 kHz Photos Park Caiari Radio Antennas in Tropical Wave 4785 kHz and AM 1430 kHz http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/fotos-radio-caiari-ondas-tropicais-4785.html (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4875.1, 0341, R Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, – nice program of Brazilian pop, Portuguese ID/anns, ads. 0400: closing ID/anns, choral NA at 0401. fair 03/09 (Richard A D`Angelo, PA, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 4875.10, Oct 12 at 0235, Brazuguese talk at S7, the SBOB, certainly R. Roraima, Boa Vista, Rondônia on its fingerprint off-frequency. Wolfgang Büschel, also logged this direct from Germany a sesquihour later tho WRTH-listed sign-off is 0300: ``4875.102 BRA Rádio Dif Roraima Boa Vista, RR, 0402 UT threshold level`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885+, Oct 14 at 0552, a Brasilian is back here in the nightmiddle, with music, over CODAR. With BFO I can tell there is a second weaker carrier slightly offset. The main one is slightly on hi side compared to 9885 VOA on the FRG-7. 0555 full canned ID for R. Clube do Pará, mentioning MW and SW frequencies two or three times each (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4885.013, probably Rádio Clube do Pará - Belém, tiny too. Oct 12 circa 0400 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4885, Rádio Clube do Para - Belém, 0332-0340* Oct 7, serious discussion between two men announcers in Portuguese language. ID at 0337 UT, announcements and into pop music which seemed to be cut off mid-song. Either transmission problem or closedown. Fair (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Oct 12 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965 kHz, Rádio Alvorada de Parintins, ON: Parintins, Amazonas, Brazil. Passando um jornal, OM e YL CX sobre o Governo do Amazonas e da liberação de créditos a pequenas empresas e pequenos produtores rurais, sinpo 33333. O som está sendo recebido com média interferência atmosférica em minha região esses dias. 12/10 às 0958 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQtv7VBtqSA RX: Tecsun S-2000; Antenna: Long wire 3000 Meters (wire fence steel for cows) (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Starting on 18 October from 0200 UT the programme “Com A Mãe Aparecida” broadcast in Portuguese by more than 100 stations across Brazil will be aired on SW as follows: 2200-0700 on 5035, 6135, 9630, 11855 0000-0700 on 6040, 9725, 9820*, 11935v* (* not currently heard here); The Aparecida network also carries news from the Vatican at 2100-2130 and a relay of Vatican Radio at 2130-2200 on 5035, 6135, 9630 and 11855 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Oct 18 is the beginning of DST in Brazil: UT -2 in the south/east (gh) ** BRAZIL. 5939.915, Rádio Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, SC, at 0433 UT, S=6-7 fair signal, talk in BrasPort. Signal was not frequency stable, wandered up and down 3-5 Hertz. 5964.972, Rádio Transmundial (RTM), Santa Maria RS, sermon very weak tiny signal, S=4-5 (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6120 kHz, Rádio Universo, ON: via Rádio Globo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. OM Davi Filho, pregação e oração às pessoas direto da Sede Mundial. Rádio Universo é uma emissora de rádio brasileira concessionada em São Bernardo do Campo, porém sediada em São Paulo, SP. Opera no dial AM, na frequência de 1300 kHz, além das faixas de ondas curtas arrendadas da Rádio Globo São Paulo https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rádio_Universo em 6120 e 9585. Variado kHz (essa freqüência atualmente está variada) Dia 09/10, sinpo 45333, às 2108 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDPVS-GabA&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000; Antenna: Long wire 3000 Meters (wire fence steel for cows) (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9629.944, Rádio Aparecida SP, S=7 fair signal, female Brazilian singer at 0522 UT on Oct 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9664.93, Oct 9 at 0041, R. Voz Missionária is drifting off- frequency again after being reported on 9665.0; fair signal in Brazuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9665, Rádio Voz Missionária at 2225 in Portuguese with an interview between a man and a man and woman on the telephone with mentions of “Missionária” and “Brasil”, then a singing ID at time checks at 2240 and 2250, then English at 2257 of “We welcome your reception reports” and address of RVM Radio, PO Box 2004, zip code 88340, Camboriu, Brasil – Fair to Good and fluttery Oct 10 (Carlie Forsythe, WI, ODXA YRX via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) Nice English details, Carlie, as I have never heard them in English before! YRX ed. Mark Coady, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 11780.1, Oct 9 at 0516, RNA/RNB is still slightly off- frequency, but good modulation level, splashing out no more than 10 kHz. I am happy to say, that after complaining about them for many months with countless logs, I haven`t said anything lately, because I don`t want to jinx it, but the awful distorted spurs at ~35 kHz and multiples below and above, e.g. 11745 and 11815, have not been heard for a few weeks, so seem to have been fixed. You`ll be sure to hear about it if they resume (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780.099, Radio Nacional Brasil, many IDs also R Nac d Amazônia heard between 0058 and 0100 UT Oct 13. Time announcement 0100 UT, ocho hora [?? Oito? That would be UT-5 like here, rather onze = 11 pm, in UT -2? Not yet: see below --- gh] Strong signal again, one of their 3 transmitters landed here (Wolfgang Bueschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Per timeanddate.com, DST in Brasil starts October 18, until Feb 22, 2016, i.e. UT -2 in the south/east. These areas do NOT observe DST: Amazonas, Pernambuco, Bahia, Sergipe, Pará, Paraíba, Ceará, Amapá, Alagoas, Rondônia, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauí, Maranhão, Acre, Roraima, Tocantins, regions of Mato Grosso (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re my observation that 11780.1 is no longer spurring, Wolfgang Büschel replies: ``So, I guess the Brazilians have 3 transmitters at their disposal, and one of these units produces still spurs`` --- and one of them does not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11815.026, Rádio Brasil Central, modern Brasilian dance music. 0106 UT 11764.663, SRDA poor signal hit heavily by RHC 11760 adjacent channel. 11856.242, Rádio Aparecida, poor on threshold level 0112 UT. 11894.470, Most probably Rádio Boa Vontade Porto Alegre RS, poor S=4 wandered some 7 Hertz down. 11924.975, Bandeirantes has been gone from SW, so I heard another Trincomalee signal here at 0123 UT. Aoki Nagoya list shows AWR Sri Lanka relay in Chinese AMOY language, sermon? and followed by woman religious chorus. Also SLBC Trincomalee on exact 11905.0 kHz at same time. 11934.955, Rádio RB2, talk of presenter in BrasPortuguese, Santa Catarina mentioned, on phone-in program at 0124 UT Oct 13 (Wolfgang Buschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190.1, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 0908-0917, 04-10, program "Trem Caipira": "Pela Rádio Inconfidência, Trem Caipira", Portuguese, comments and Brazilian songs. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURKINA FASO. PIRATE RADIO STATION PROVIDED INFO DURING BURKINA FASO COUP --- Radio World 10 October 2015 When soldiers loyal to former Burinka Faso president Blaise Compaoré staged a military coup against interim President Michel Kafando on Sept. 16, they took over Radio Television du Burkina, the state-owned national broadcaster, and sent soldiers to stop privately owned media outlets in Ouagadougou from broadcasting. To help keep the public informed with developments, a group of journalists and civil society activists set up a pirate radio station called Radio Resistance. Radio Resistance’s first broadcast took place on Sept. 18 and was a speech from Moumina Cheriff Sy, a journalist elected president of the National Transitional Council, which called on the people of Burkina Faso to march against the coup. Soldiers behind the coup attempted to shutdown Radio Resistance by removing or destroying transmitters at known radio stations, as well as threatening and intimidating journalists, according to news reports. On Sept. 19, soldiers raided the home of Charlemagne Abissi, president of the national union of independent broadcasters, and seized the Radio Resistance transmitters. But reports indicate that Radio Resistance had already had a major impact, with its call to resist resulting in people setting up barricades. On Sept. 23, the soldiers relinquished power and Kafando was reinstated. Reports indicate that 10 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. As other radio stations have come back on the air, Radio Resistance has ceased broadcasting, but its impact was well regarded. “[Radio Resistance] became the official radio of the country,” said Basidou Kinda, an investigative journalist from ‘L’Evenement,’ in an article on the Committee to Project Journalists blog. “Without the station, a resolution would not have come this quick.” Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK?? ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Oct 10 at 0052, a bunch of pre-recorded ``Notices to Shipping`` by M human voice, with serial numbers M2052, M2050, also mentioning XX4, i.e. obstructions and other hazards. Soon switches to French with heavy English accent, ``Avis aux navigateurs``, and modulation is telco-quality, from afar? Canadian CG reference shows MCTS Sydney [NS] / VCO - Broadcasts starting at 0040 UT from site Port Caledonia, which is near Sydney and per Wikipedia: ``Port Caledonia (also known as Big Glace Bay) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island. It is located on the Donkin Highway, between the town of Glace Bay and the village of Donkin. It currently has one gas station/convenience store as well as a public beach, known as the Big Glace Bay Beach. The community received media attention in 2011 when resident Shirley Sampson appeared on the reality television program Canada's Worst Driver 7, ultimately being named the worst driver in Canada.[1]`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now it has received more media attention! See also NEWFOUNDLAND ** CANADA [and non]. 6160.067, at 10 UT probably Brazilian station in Portuguese 6159.963, CAN, most probably CKZN St. John`s? 6159.977, CAN, CKZU Vancouver lower mainland, easy task to fetch them on remote Vancouver SDR unit. 6069.994, CAN CFRX Toronto at 1015 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, log on North American remote units on Oct 10, around 10-1033 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 7425-AM, RCW (en estado de test). 8/10 0240 UT. Música. SINPO: 25222. El diexista Jorge Zúñiga desde Padre Hurtado, Región Metropolitana informa lo siguiente: “08/10/2015 RCW 7425 kHz, 0230 UT, Emisión de prueba con música variada en inglés, latina, animé, etc. SINPO 34354. Rx: Akita R-9803 con antena telescópica. QTH: Padre hurtado R.M http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/g6qESYoj/file.html http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/3u2uMsU6/file.html La grabación no representa fielmente lo oído en vivo.” (Vía grupo “Radioescucha onda corta desde Chile / Short wave radio listening from Chile”, https://www.facebook.com/groups/ondacortaCHILE/permalink/10156135538190068/ (via Claudio Galaz, Chile, Oct 8, RX: REALISTIC DX-160. ANT: 30 metros de antena de hilo, más antena de tierra y balún de ferrita 4:1, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) ** CHILE. 12250, Radio Colo Colo, tentative, not listed in the WRTH, 1349 to 1350. No understandable ID, Spanish, Sandra found some info on the station on the Internet. It seems to be a shortwave relay of a medium wave station, I heard a male in a narrative, the 6790 and the 687’ horizontal array. 10/6 (John Davis, northeast of Columbus OH, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 11 via DXLD) WHERE on the internet? Colo-Colo did show up on SW many years ago, IIRC. It`s on MW 880 in Santiago. Or could this be something from 6125 x 2? Colo-Colo is also the name of a team, of which a game was relayed as in DXLD 14-04, but on 12365-USB. I would make this less than tentative, with one minute of Spanish and no ID (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 7505, 2229, Chinese music jammer jamming RFA via Tajikistan in Tibetan 343 05/09 (Michael L Ford, Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs NRD515, NCM515, NRD545, 85' lw, Wellbrook 330ALA loop, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 21500.0, 1150-, CHINA, 6.9, Firedrake, Dongfang, 44444, KDS-D (Klaus- Dieter Scholz, HF-150, DE 1103,E1, PL-880, Degen 31 MS, Sept-Oct DSWCI SW News via DXLD) CNR-1 Jammer vs Sound of Hope, Oct 10 from 1130 on 15800 unknown site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP_s2bMNScc&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6730-J, 1645, CNR 1 Jammer vs Sound of Hope // 11925, 343 10/09 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF2001D & VEF201, Ant Folded Marconi 16m, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CHINA. Noted UNIDentified station in 25 mb this morning: CHINA {probably} 11975 kHz between 0535 and 0543 kHz switch-OFF time, continuously female singer heard of Central Asian monotonous audio kind, probably CNR Kyrgyz singer via PBS Xinjiang domestic via Urumqi site. But signal visible on software screen had also rush accompanied peaks - visible each 100 Hertz distance apart, 8x times each sideband. Aoki Nagoya list mentions PBS at 0305 UT, up to closing at 0530 UT. Kyrgyz service, transmitter off at 0543 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 6010.16, Oct 5, 0030, La Voz de tu Conciencia not strong and disturbed by a considerably stronger R Inconfidência on 6010.065. Also noted on Oct 10 at 0130 with quite weak audio on 6009.94 so drifting from day to day (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) 5910, Oct 8 at 0549, this HJDH is absent again, but the other HJDH on 6010 is still audible fairly. With a K-index of 6, TWR Austria is not making it either on 5910 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alcaraván Radio was back on air after several days of absence: from 0502 on 5910.1 PLS 001 kW / non-dir to CLM Spanish, videos on Oct 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBIqurPAClU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGh7LyyOpU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wOkoeNEcM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8u0p_HJLQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0527-0540, 10-10, Latin American songs, at 0531: "Son las 0 horas 32 minutos". Weak. 14321. (Méndez) 6010.1, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras (presumed), 0445-0557, 08-10, Latin American songs. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6009.950 ??? CLM ??? Voz de Conciencia, 100% Spanish language station. 5910.060, Alcaraván Radio, Spanish at 1023 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, log on North American remote units on Oct 10, around 10-1033 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910 & 6010, Oct 10 at 0627 check, both HJDHs are on with fair signals, different musix. Recheck at 0928 after our 4.3 earthquake, still on but 5910 is stronger (originally, 6010 was using a direxional antenna to protect México which unfortunately is no longer necessary) 5910 & 6010, Oct 12 at 0243, neither HJDH is detectable, presumed off. However, Wolfgang Büschel reports one of them even later Oct 12: ``6010.062 CLM La Voz de tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, Puerto Lleras, Meta, tiny S=5 signal, weak orchestra music at 0442 UT`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010.062, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, Puerto Lleras, Meta, tiny S=5 signal, weak orchestra music at 0442 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910.051, Alcaraván Radio, popular Latin American music, 0042 UT (Wolfgang Buschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Alcaraván Radio was back on air after several days of absence, 0500-0542 on 5910.1 PLS 001 kW / non-dir to CLM Spanish, videos Oct 14, after R. Japan NHK till 0500 and before TWR Interval Signal from 0542: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpgrqx--Vw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqtlJbRB3YI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdZv2P4NyTE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjULMfwcVVQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmn6eSgnCM&feature=youtu.be Reception of Voz de tu Conciencia on Oct.14: 0445 & 0452 on 6009,9 PLS 005 kW / non-dir to CLM Spanish From 0500 very strong QRM from BBC WS English on 6005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP37yZRNvG0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZu4UBj1FA&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Observer SW News Oct 13-14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Oct 14 at 0547, ranchera song about Hermosillo, fair but deep fades, 0550 ID ``Alcaraván Radio, 1530 kHz AM, desde [Puerto Lleras?], Departamento del Meta, Colombia``. Quite stronger than the other HJDH on 6010.1 which also has adjacent QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1750-1819*, 04-10, French, comments, at 1801 identification: "Radio Congo", news, French, "Radio Congo, le journal". 14321. Also 1815-1837, 06-10, French, news and comments: "Les Congolaises, La République". 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. 5066.32, 4/10 1820, R. Candip, Bunia, Congo R.D., nice songs, talks, fair/good. Milano, Italia QTH: Control remote listening place Bocca di Magra SP - RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: http://airradiorama.blogspot.it/2015/06/ala1530s-imperium-il-nuovo-loop-della.html 73s (Giampiero Bernardini, PLAYDX 5 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. RADIO NACIONAL DE COSTA RICA INTRODUCE MODIFICACIONES A SU PROGRAMACIÓN --- 100% MUSICA COSTARRICENSE Radio Nacional del Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisión (Sinart) anunció en mayo que la música programada en esta emisora sería 100% de producción nacional. Hoy 5 meses después la emisora está lista para hacer esta transición. El cambio entrará en vigencia a partir de la madrugada del miércoles 14 de octubre. A partir de este día toda la música que se escuche en 101,5 será de artistas nacionales. La base de datos de la radio ya cuenta con las producciones de más de 1.200 artistas nacionales de géneros como el tropical, rock, pop, entre otros. A esto se le suma la fonoteca que la emisora ya tenía compuesta de música tradicional y campesina. “Más allá de buscar rating es porque una radio de servicio público es una radio que una de sus principales funciones es el aporte a la creación de identidad nacional y entendemos la música como una de las manifestaciones más importantes de nuestra identidad”, explicó Randall Vega, director de Radio Nacional. Este nuevo paso de Radio Nacional representa un reto debido a que la gran mayoría de la música programada en radios nacionales es producida fuera del país. “Creemos que esta apuesta va a llamar a diferentes generaciones hacia la emisora, el relacionamiento con los mismos artistas y los colectivos culturales van a provocar que esos públicos cautivos, esos movimientos musicales y culturales se acerquen a la radio”, manifestó Vega. De acuerdo con datos de la Asociación de Interpretes y Ejecutantes de Costa Rica (AIE), durante el 2014 solo el 3,5% de la música que se programó en las emisoras del país es nacional. Los números han venido disminuyendo desde el 2011, año en que se alcanzó el 6,3% de la programación en el país. Para Denis Solera, director general del AIE, la campaña “Quiero más música nacional en la radio”, impulsada en conjunto con Acam y el sistema de música de la UCR, fue un factor importante para elevar los números de programación de artistas nacionales. Por otra parte, para Solera este es un problema de oportunidades y no de calidad o gusto de los oyentes. “No existe la capacidad de competencia contra el resto del mundo. Es un problema que se da en otros países también, el costarricense no tiene la oportunidad de escuchar la música nacional en la radio”, manifestó el director de la AIE. De acuerdo con datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Cultura 2013 el 83,2% de las personas que escuchan radio lo hacen con programas de música, los programas religiosos son los segundos más escuchados en el país (CR Hoy via GRA blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) ** CUBA. 670, Oct 10 at 0020, R. Rebelde bigsig overcoming WSCR with un partido tonto de pelotas (silly ballgame = PTP/SBG), immediately //able but with slight echo to 5025. So I then check 1620, also dominated by Spanish and as expected it`s not // but immediately mentions ``FM Rebelde`` which is customarily what happens to this transmitter when the main frequencies air a PTP. We always assume this is the closest 5 kW Guanabacoa CH transmitter tho a couple of further Rebeldes are listed on 1620 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5025, Oct 12 at 0520, R. Rebelde, rough modulation to go with rapidly wavering carrier; meanwhile 5040 RHC has no such problem. Still that way at 1259 check with R.R. ID. See also UNIDENTIFIED 5010+ 5025.0, Radio Rebelde, Bauta, S=9+20dB, "Los Locos" singer, but hit heavily by ute high speed two tone CW signals on 5021.900 and 5022.100 kHz on lower sideband. Rebelde had 20 kHz wide broadband signal, 0415 UT talk on Guantanameros local people, orchestra and pueblo local, esa provincia, 'Cartandilla Group'. Rough audio quality, but RHC 5040 next door was much better quality, S=9+30dB (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11950, Oct 11 at 1338, RHC `En Contacto` DX program as CO2IR is reporting on his group`s DX-pedition to a cayo off Pinar del Río, for ILLW --- the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. Despite mosquitos, breaks for electrical storms, erratic propagation, they made over 2000 contacts, also with 17 other ILLW participants. Followed by a now regular Arnaldo Coro segment by phone, this time about how Edwin Armstrong invented the regenerative circuit in 1912, which is still used today, such as in car remote-control locks. In native Spanish, AC speaks extremely rapidly, as he tries to cram as much info as possible into the few minutes available, at times taxing my comprehension. No jamming. 15370, Oct 12 at 1325, no signal from RHC, unlike 15730 and much weaker // 15230. 17730, Oct 12 at 2041, RHC`s (only?) Arabic announcer who speaks with extreme glottal-stopping, sounds like he`s choking. Now made even worse by rough modulation causing cut-outs, plus big hum. Wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11670, Powerful signal of RHC, S=9+25dB even in Germany, Raul Castro leader item at 0102 UT, 21 kHz wideband signal. \\ 11760 S=8, and distorted rough audio on 11840 kHz, latter rather final tube failure? (Wolfgang Bueschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11650, Oct 14 at 1402, typical Cuban pulse jamming vs some weak Asian signal. Must be a stray, as 14-15 on 11650 is HFCC- scheduled CRI in Nan via Kunming site. Aoki translates that language to Amoy, from Kunming-Anning site. They agree on 150 kW, 177 degrees. Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio Marti 13605 with NO Jamming 1245 pm Central/1745 UT on 10/11/2015 in Southwest Arkansas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAGVm-xURs Posted by: ("Paul B. Walker, Jr.", dxldyg via DXLD) ** DENMARK. 6309.8, Sep 30, 1415, Radio OZNRH, Denmark, with easy- listening jazz, transmitter power only 8 W. (24332) (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Randers, Denmark, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) 6309.979, Sep 30, 1533, OZNRH, Danmark med modern jazz och QSB S2-S5. OB (Olle, nice catch! Down here, only 60 km away from the transmitter, just as weak as at your site (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 1670, La Voz del Yuna at Bonao has been heard by European DXers since August, with power reported by the station as 3 kW and identification as "Desde Bonao, Rep. Dominicana, está escuchando La Voz del Yuna, al servicio de la cultura..." (via Real DX Yahoo Group via Oct NZDX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) That would be the fifth X-band station in DR, four listed in 2015 WRTH (gh, ibid.) ** EAST TURKISTAN. Correcting third frequency mentioned: 9580, not 9850! --- 9470, Sept 30 at 0135, CRI English with stox, even NASDAQ, and running about two words behind 9570 ALBANIA, two words ahead of 9580 CUBA relays. So it must be between Albania and Cuba? No, Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. China Radio International direct channels off Yesterday report to Austrian newsgroup A-DX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Kreuzinger" Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 9:13 PM Subject: [A-DX] China Radio International Direktfrequenzen deutsch 7395 O=4 11650 no Signal 11775 no Signal 73 Frank SONY ICF SW-77 Posted by: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Some high-power 500 kW units at both Kashgar and Urumqi were off yesterday, but not all, they are much flexible in RTC facilities. Similar observed today in 15-16 UT time slot, when listened to the registered channels. Maybe the Chinese maintain there high-power sites some 4-6 weeks duration, before the strong winter in western China start. See their CRI RTC A-15 registrations: 11940 1600 1700 27-29,37NW KAS 500 294 216 Eng RTC 11965 1600 1700 27-29 KAS 500 298 288 Eng RTC 13760 1600 1700 27-29 KAS 500 308 288 Eng RTC 13790 1600 1800 37SE,38,39,40W KAS 500 269 216 Ara RTC 15680 1600 1800 27SE KAS 500 308 216 Fra RTC 13785 1630 1730 46E KAS 500 269 216 Hau RTC 9435 1700 1800 28SW KAS 500 294 216 Hrv RTC 13760 1700 1800 27-29,37NW KAS 500 308 288 Eng RTC 9450 1730 1830 46E KAS 500 269 216 Hau RTC 7340 1800 1900 28SW KAS 500 294 216 Ita RTC 7395 1800 2000 28NW KAS 500 308 216 Deu RTC 11775 1800 2000 28NW KAS 500 308 216 Deu RTC 13760 1800 1900 27-29,37NW KAS 500 308 288 Eng RTC 7295 1900 2000 37SE,38,39,40W,47NKAS 500 269 216 Eng RTC 7385 1900 2000 28SE KAS 500 294 216 Sqi RTC 9730 1900 2000 37NW KAS 500 298 288 Por RTC 11895 1900 2000 27 KAS 500 308 288 Yue RTC 7245 2000 2100 37SE,38,39,40W,47NKAS 500 269 216 Chn RTC 7295 2000 2100 37SE,38,39,40W,47NKAS 500 269 216 Eng RTC 7415 2000 2100 27-29 KAS 500 308 216 Eng RTC 9585 2000 2030 28SE KAS 500 298 288 Srp RTC 9600 2000 2100 27-29 KAS 500 308 288 Eng RTC 7345 2030 2130 28SW KAS 500 294 216 Ita RTC 9585 2030 2100 28N KAS 500 298 288 Hun RTC 11660 2030 2230 27SE KAS 500 308 216 Fra RTC 7415 2100 2200 27-29 KAS 500 308 216 Eng RTC 9600 2100 2200 27-29 KAS 500 308 288 Eng RTC 9640 2100 2300 37NW KAS 500 298 288 Spa RTC 7315 2200 2300 13-15 KAS 500 294 216 Epo RTC 9410 2200 2300 13,15 KAS 500 294 216 Por RTC 9685 2200 2300 13,15 KAS 500 269 216 Por RTC 9860 2200 2300 13-15 KAS 500 269 216 Epo RTC 7350 2300 2400 27-29 KAS 500 308 216 Eng RTC 9590 2300 0100 14 KAS 500 294 216 Spa RTC 9800 2300 0100 14 KAS 500 269 216 Spa RTC 6165 1600 1700 39NW URU 500 270 216 Tur RTC 9770 1600 1700 53S,57N URU 500 212 216 Hak RTC 11875 1600 1700 29,30 URU 500 308 216 Rus RTC 15250 1600 1700 38,39N,40W,47N URU 500 270 218 Eng RTC 9435 1700 1800 53S,57N URU 500 212 216 Yue RTC 11875 1700 1800 29,30 URU 500 308 216 Rus RTC 13640 1700 1800 29,30 URU 500 308 216 Rus RTC 7275 1730 1830 38,39N,40W,47N URU 500 270 216 Chn RTC 9685 1730 1830 18,27-29 URU 500 308 218 Chn RTC 7210 1800 1900 29,30 URU 500 308 216 Rus RTC 11650 1800 2000 28NW URU 500 308 288 Deu RTC 13700 1800 1900 27SE URU 500 308 216 Nan RTC 7265 1830 1900 28SE URU 500 308 218 Bul RTC 7350 1830 2030 46 URU 500 270 216 Fra RTC 6090 1900 1930 28E URU 500 308 216 Ron RTC 7415 1900 1930 28NW URU 500 308 218 Ces RTC 9560 1900 1930 28N URU 500 308 216 Hun RTC 6090 1930 2000 28E URU 500 308 216 Ron RTC 7265 1930 2030 18,27-29 URU 500 308 216 Epo RTC 7415 1930 2000 28NW URU 500 308 218 Ces RTC 9745 1930 2030 18,27-29 URU 500 308 216 Epo RTC 7305 2000 2100 28N URU 500 308 218 Pol RTC 7325 2000 2030 28SE URU 500 308 216 Srp RTC 7265 2030 2130 28SW URU 500 308 216 Ita RTC 9430 2030 2230 27SE URU 500 308 216 Fra RTC 9720 2030 2100 28SE URU 500 308 216 Bul RTC 7445 2130 2200 28N URU 500 308 216 Hun RTC 7250 2200 2400 37NW URU 500 308 216 Spa RTC 7260 2200 2300 37NW URU 500 308 218 Por RTC 7395 2200 2300 38,39N,40W,47N URU 500 270 216 Chn RTC 9865 2300 2400 18,27-29 URU 500 308 218 Chn RTC (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9964.98, Oct 9 at 0037, JBA carrier, I guess it`s Cairo in Arabic, while inaudible on 9315, 11935 (except bit o` Brasil, off-frequency) or 12070; QRM from USB 2-way on the hi side, 9965.75 approx., sounds Brazilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.10, R Cairo, Abis, 1640-1700, Oct 11, English talk and local songs, but completely unusable modulation as it has been for years! 35231 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Oct 15 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, 2051, R Malabo, Equatorial Guinea – song, ID ‘Radio Malabo’, song, ID, TC, talk mentioning ‘Radio Batá’. Spanish. 333 24/09 AM --- Arthur Miller in Llandrindod Wells [Wales] says the ‘highlight’ for him in the past month was the return on 5005 kHz of Equatorial Guinea (see log above). “I thought we’d heard the last of them when they were not on the air during the big football tournament [Africa Cup of Nations] there a few months ago. I suspect that both Batá and Malabo are using the same frequency. Just before the transmitter cut out at 2058 UT, there was an announcement mentioning Radio Batá and, four minutes later, another station appeared with a much weaker signal that I couldn’t copy.” (Oct BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) GUINÉ EQUATORIAL, 5005, RNGE, Bata, 1813-2035, 11/10, canções tribais, música pop' africana; 44343, QRM de sinal de estação ponto a ponto durante algum tempo, desde as 18h13. O fecho da emissão ocorreu entre as 2035 e as 2050. A RNGE saíu (finalmente) da toca ou isto é apenas uma amostra de curta duração ou não se tratasse de uma estação africana? 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Bata from Equatorial Guinea can now be heard mornings on 5005 kHz signing on around 0500 UT. First noted on 5005.02 at tune in 0505 UT on October 13 with non stop music only. Also on October 14 from sign on at 0501 with non stop music. And on October 15. Today October 16 the transmitter was switched on at 0505 and soon followed by at least three clear station ID's and announcements in Spanish. Today heard on 5005.05 kHz. Signal strength at sign on is fairly good, but at my receiving location the signal starts fading out around 0515 and by 0545 the signal is lost. I haven't been able to catch Radio Bata - or even a trace of a carrier - during evening hours. I am using 250 metres beverage aerial towards south. Best 73's (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, R. Fana, Addis Ababa Oct. 12 at 2055 - tune in to east African string music with OM vocals. Good signal (S7/8), with only slight fades and little QRM. Music continued up to 2059 followed by brief announcements by OM in language (Amharic listed), then right into national anthem until 2101. Carrier disappeared at 2102. Good local afternoon reception for this station which only sporadically audible here (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR With 25 x 50 SE terminated superloop antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. FRANCE, Radio Xoriyo without white noise digital jamming, Oct 12 from 1600 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7nwuGMCMTk&feature=youtu.be Oromo Voice Radio + white noise digital jamming on Oct 12 1600-1615 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon 1615-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English Mon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4BalK0FgPY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNq9bhgGZi4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAs7codr4JQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti via Secretbrod [BULGARIA], ex via Tsiganeshti [ROMANIA] 1500-1530 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat from Oct 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyE3ml94p-A&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlqFFSD3QTc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJE81d6TDHU&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Dimtse Radio Erena via Secretbrod, Oct 10 1700-1730 on 11855 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoDaRAfRqkk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqzylfWzWI&feature=youtu.be 1730-1800 on 11855 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROim--CwGc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0etrY08Ln0Q&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Dimtse Radio Erena on Oct 15 1700-1730 11855 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo 1730-1800 11855 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo instead of Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGJinna3b8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMzdFAgdts&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. Scandinavian Weekend Radio had no licence to broadcast 4-5 September because of a new telecommunication regulations authority in here Finland. However, the next broadcast dates are: 2-3 October, 5-6 November [SIC; should be 6-7 Nov = UT Fri/Sat] and 4-5 December. Written reports to: SWR, PO Box 99, FI-34801 Virrat, Finland. Answer by QSL-card, postal fees; 2$, 2 IRC or 2 Euros. E-mail reports to: info@swradio.net. We answer these by e-QSL. More info about station: http://www.swradio.net It's too free to be legal! Good listening (DJ Häkä, Scandinavian Weekend R, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** FINLAND [non]. Sunday 20 Sept: 1900 UT. Spaceshuttle Radio in English (and a little Finnish) on 13600 kHz via Bulgaria. This was Dick Spacewalker’s final broadcast of Spaceshuttle (in fact his third attempt to broadcast this programme which had failed to air over the Bulgarian transmitter in each of the preceding two weeks). Reception was initially only fair, but it did improve as the hour progressed – and I’m pleased that I stayed with the broadcast as the DJ kindly played my music request. I had listened to Spaceshuttle back in May to an enjoyable Boney M Special, and I had written suggesting that he play one of Lulu’s great songs. I mentioned “Shout”, “To Sir, With Love” and “The Man Who Sold the World”. I was hugely pleased to hear all three songs played – especially my favourite of those: “The Man Who Sold the World”, with which he ended the final programme. Spaceshuttle may, perhaps, return one day. I, for one, would enjoy that! (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** FRANCE. B-15: Radio France International continues the hour broadcast in English, now on 9675 at 0600 again from Issoudun (Stephen Cooper, UK, Oct 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ex-13725 A-15; maybe we`ll be able to hear it again, as 13 MHz was propagating only in summer (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ETHIOPIA non ** FRANCE. Members, The following comes from Matthew Boggis from Grimsby who wrote the following in mw-circle Facebook website. He has given me permission to copy it for your benefit. "After emailing someone at Radio France, I asked if France Bleu 864 kHz is still in stereo and I received the answer of yes. I also asked if the French will be closing MW on December 31st to which I received this reply: Yes, it is a strategic choice economics Radio France has done in order to re-direct its policy towards the media and make savings in this capacity, among others. Seems a lot of MW tx's will be going off at the end of this year". 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Oct 10, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Atlantic 2000 --- see GERMANY ** GERMANY [and non]. 6069.990, CFRX hit heavily by European Radio Liberty Belarus program signal from Biblis Germany on 6075 kHz, S=9+20dB, similar signal also \\ 6105 kHz from Lampertheim Germany, 13.2 kHz wideband signals towards Belarus. And hit also on upper side VoA São Tomé 6080 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Atlantic 2000 will be on the air this Sunday 11th of October on 6070 kHz. - 0800 to 0900 UT (10:00 to 11:00 CEST) - 1900 to 2000 UT (21:00 to 22:00 CEST) If you don't receive with your own receiver you can try web receivers: Twente, Netherlands : http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ Zielona Góra, Poland : http://websdr.sp3pgx.uz.zgora.pl:8901/ The programme will be streaming at the same time on our website. Reports to : atlantic2000international@gmail.com Atlantic sera sur les ondes ce dimanche 11 octobre, sur la fréquence de 6070 kHz. - 0800 à 0900 UT (10:00 à 11:00 heure de Paris) - 1900 à 2000 UT (21:00 à 22:00 heure de Paris) Le programme sera audible à la même heure sur notre site internet. Bonne écoute! -- Visit our website : http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr (via Manuel Méndez, Espagne, dxldyg via DXLD) No site mentioned, presumably Radio 292, Germany on 6070 (gh, DXLD) HISTORY OF THE STATION FROM THEIR WEBSITE: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr/HISTORY.htm We transmitted for the first time on shortwave on June 6th, 1982 on 7325 kHz. But in fact, the name of "Atlantic 2000" is very much older. In 1956, Radio Andorra is not received very well on the Atlantic coast. Its owner, Jacques Trémoulet, decided to rent airtime to a Spanish station of the SER network, Radio San Sebastian. Thus was born Radio Atlantic, transmitting from Spainto the French Atlantic coast. But due to a lack of advertising revenue, the station closed down in 1960. In 1968, Jacques Trémoulet came back on the BasqueCoast. He rented airtime to another Spanish station, named" la Voz de Guipúzcoa", transmitting from the UliaMount, near San Sebastián. He launched RadioOcean. The station transmitted several hours per day in French language on 273 meters on medium wave. Jacques Trémoulet passed away in 1971. His successors did not want to continue Radio Ocean. The station came under the control of the French newspaper Sud-Ouest, directed by Henri Amouroux, and became Atlantic 2000 in 1972. During the following years, Atlantic 2000 continued to transmit on 273 meters, and became popular in the South West of France. In 1974, Henri Amouroux leaves the newspaper Sud-Ouest. His successors are not interested by Atlantic 2000, and the station has financial problems. In 1975, due to the death of General Franco, a national bereavement forced all Spanish stations to play classical music without advertising during several weeks. Transmitting from Spain, Atlantic 2000 is concerned by this decision. The management of the station used this pretext for close down the station for good. But in 1978, the listeners of the French Atlantic coast heard a new station named Atlantic 2000, playing popmusic on 101 MHz FM. In tribute to the station disappeared 3 years earlier, our team relaunched Atlantic 2000. The new Atlantic 2000 began broadcasting at the end of 1978 on 101 MHz FM. A few weeks later, the station was switching on a second transmitter on 95 MHz, broadcasting simultaneously on 101 and 95 MHz for a short time. The frequency of 101 MHz was abandoned on December 31st, 1978. Each weekend, and during the summer, Atlantic 2000 continued its regular broadcasts on 95 MHz until the end of summer 1981. The station produced some new transmissions on 95 MHz in early 1982. Atlantic 2000 International was broadcasting for the first time on short wave on June 6th, 1982 on 7325 kHz. We were on the air usually every month until July 1988. Some frequencies were tested, on the 48, 41, 38 and 26 meter bands. The best results were obtained on the 41 meter band. After more 19 years of silence, Atlantic 2000 was back on the air on October 28th, 2007 on 6280 and 6210 kHz. From 2008 to 2010, we broadcasted from Italy, by using the transmitters of Mystery Radio, and then, Radio Amica. From December 2010, we broadcasted on 6005, and later on 7310 kHz, from Kall-Krekelin Germany, who is the transmitting site of Radio 700. Since October 2011, Atlantic 2000 is occasionally using the relay service of MV Baltic Radio, from Göhren in Germany. The current frequencies of this transmitter are 7265 and 9485 kHz. On Sunday, March 22nd of 2015, Atlantic 2000 transmitted with a power of 10 kW on 9865 kHz, via Radio Revival from Sala in Sweden. Since the 14th of June 2015, Atlantic 2000 uses the transmitter of Channel 292, transmitting on 6070 kHz from Rohrbach Waal in Germany. Since the beginning of our shortwave transmissions, we received a lot of reception reports from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, Ukraine, and more countries via several web receivers in Europe. Atlantic 2000 can be listened all around the world on the Internet. We have a lot of connections. Many listeners are now interested by this new transmission mode (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GOA. INDIA, Frequency change of All India Radio 1315-1415 NF 11700 PAN 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 11740 1415-1530 NF 11700 PAN 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 11740 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TTA87yudI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84bQxKZmWrk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Vs0csciQ4&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. The ERT web site shows the following shortwave schedule as of September 2015: 1900-0720 on 9420 kHz to Europe & North America 1900-0350 on 9935 kHz to Europe & Central America 0400-0700 on 11645 kHz to Central & South Africa Actual times are very variable. http://webradio.ert.gr/syxnotites-radiofonias/ Times converted to UTC from local time (Dave Kenny, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 9420.004, Only single frequency of ERT program heard around 1258-1307 UT Oct 9, when time pips at 13 UT were too late, end pip happened late at 1300:39 UT. 10.8 kHz wide broadband audio signal, S=9+35dB signal strength here in Germany. Noted very clean audio quality. Speech to crowd in Spanish! language for two minutes duration, short piece of papa Francisco on recent Cuba journey visit noted at 1301 UT, then followed by Greek female reader comment. Nothing heard \\ on 9935v 11645 15630, nor 15650 kHz. wb Posted by: ("Wolfgang Bueschel", dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece programs on Oct 8 and Oct 9: from 1900 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 0500-0600 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^ 0600-0705 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 0705-0708 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Arabic and off at 0709 ^ Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Albanian, Arabic. Today missing languages are Polish and Italian. Second tx on 9935 and 11645 is off, due to maintenance. From Monday, Oct 12 these transmissions will be moved 1 hour later from 0500-0600 to 0600-0700 and respectively other transmissions of VOG will be moved 1 hour later: Arabic, Polish and Italian from 0705-0715 to 0805-0815 Serbian, Romanian, Russian from 0805-0815 to 0905-0915 Spanish and Albanian from 0905-0915 to 1005-1015 and English from 1200-1205 to 1300-1305 if broadcast on SW -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? Why one hour later from Oct 12? DST continues in Greece like rest of Europe until Oct 25; unconfirmed? (gh, ibid.) [and non] Voice of Greece transmissions on October 12 1200-1202 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 1202-1209 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu English 1209-1812 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Second tx on 9935 and 11645 is off, due to maintenance. * co-ch CNR 13 in Uyghur and VIRI/IRIB in Arabic -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece transmissions on October 14: till 0600 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, ex till 0500 0600-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^, ex 0500-0600 0700-0805 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, ex 0600-0705 0805-0810 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary#, ex 0705-0715 0905-0910 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary*, ex 0805-0815 1005-1010 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary+, ex 0905-0915 ^ Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Polish, Albanian, Italian and Arabic. Today missing languages is Russian # Arabic & Polish. Today missing languages is Italian * Romanian,Serbian. Today missing languages is Russian + Spanish & Albanian plus additional language Italian. Second tx on 9935 or 11645 is off, due to maintenance. No signal from Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz at 1050 (Ivo Ivanov, Observer SW News Oct 13-14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated summer A-15 of Voice of Greece only via tx#3 0000-0605 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek 0605-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^ Mon-Fri 0600-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Sat/Sun 0700-1100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary+ Mon-Fri 0700-1100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Sat/Sun 1100-1155 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 1200-2255 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek# 2300-2400 on 9420*AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek * 1430-0030 co-ch Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran in Arabic * 1100-1805 co-ch China National Radio 13 in Uyghur ^ 3-6 minutes news Mon-Fri in Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Italian, Arabic and music between each language. + 2-3 minutes news Mon-Fri in Arabic, Polish 0705-0710, then Greek + 2-3 minutes news Mon-Fri in Serbian, Romanian, Russian 0905-0920 + 2-3 minutes news Mon-Fri in Spanish, Albanian, Italian 1005-1015 # 3-6 minutes news Mon-Fri in English 1200-1205 and then in Greek. Summer A-15 schedule of Voice of Greece by transmitters. Some days the station is not on the air on shortwave. Often the technicians don't make frequency changes, according to the schedule. All freqs is not registered in official summer A15 schedule of HFCC database tx#1 is off due to maintenance 0400-0600 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek 0600-0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Vary^ Mon-Fri 0600-0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek Sat/Sun 0700-1100 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Vary+ Mon-Fri 0700-1100 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek Sat/Sun 1100-1155 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek 1200-2255 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek 2300-0355 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek tx#2 is inactive in A-15 0400-0955 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek 1000-1855 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek 1900-2255 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek 2300-0355 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 260 deg to CeAm Greek tx#3 (very rarely on 9415 or 9425 kHz) 0400-0600 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 0600-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary^ Mon-Fri 0600-0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Sat/Sun 0700-1100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary+ Mon-Fri 0700-1100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Sat/Sun 1100-2300 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek 2300-0400 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3289.8, Voice of Guyana-Sparendaam, at 0231, on 4 Oct. The station is playing an old time Rock and Roll song, “Bye, Bye, Love.” A male DJ came on at 0235 spoke and then played a new song with a male singer also in English. At 0255 the song, “Harper Valley PTA” sung by Jeanie C. Riley, came on. At 0300 “Ring of Fire,” sung by Johnny Cash came on. At 0303 a DJ gave a station ID which was followed by “Hotel California,” by the Eagles. On a recheck at 0939, on 9 Oct, a male speaker is talking in English, he stated “Values in Life are the Bible, and The Word of God.” He continued to talk about the Bible. Fair-Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Tecsun PL-660, GAP-Hear It In Line Module, Timewave ANC-4, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, PARS-EF-SWL HF End Fed Receive Antenna x 2, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** HAWAII. 2863-USB, Oct 12 at 1233 UT, VOLMET with American accent, barely audible. No doubt it`s Honolulu as scheduled per EiBi at :25 and :55 past the hours, shared only with Tokyo at :40 and :10; 24 hours. 2850-AM Korea North also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND [and non]. TV RECEPTION IN ICELAND --- Theo Donnelly, our Mailbag Editor, has been on the move again. He takes up the story: Well, I have to hang my head after going the whole four weeks tripping over the North Atlantic and across the Excited States without ever turning the PL380 on even once --- not even to hear the Faroes on 531 or the Icelandic long-wave transmitter on, what is it, 189? Ho hum. But I did spot this gem across the street from the Botanical Garden in Akureyri in northern Iceland: a DX story dating from the mid-1930’s about TV being received from London --- yikes. Between 1934 and 1936 remarkable experiments were conducted at Sjonarhaeth, the house at the bottom of the hill before us. Two communication enthusiasts received television transmissions from the Crystal Palace Studios in London with equipment they had partially created themselves. The two men were an Englishman, Frederik Livingstone Hogg, an engineer, and his apprentice, 22 year old Grimur Sigurthsson, who later became a radio mechanic. At the time, few Icelanders had even heard about television and most were still absorbing the magic of radio that had only recently been introduced! The transmissions received by these two men were the first in Iceland and made Grimur Sigurthsson the first Icelander ever to watch television. Both were experimenting during TV’s absolute infancy in the world. In order to do so, they borrowed a few devices from the UK but others they built themselves. The antenna they needed to receive these broadcasts from London was already present in Akureyri, because a few years earlier the missionary Arthur Gook and his Christian Sjonarhaeth-Congregation had pioneered radio broadcasting in Iceland by setting up a missionary radio station at Sjonarhaeth. Frederik Livingstone Hogg had been the main technical person in that endeavour. This radio station was one of the two first in Iceland before the creation of the state Broadcasting Service, RUV. RUV had the broadcasting monopoly from 1930-1986. Both these stations were closed down before the state radio began. At the beginning of the 1930s in London, some experiments were being done on TV transmissions over long distances. These experiments were part of an international competition to see which technology would win out in the television business. It was especially important to see which technology the BBC would choose for its broadcasts. The broadcasts that were received in Akureyri were based on “mechanical television technology”, pioneered by the Scottish inventor John L. Baird who conducted experimental transmissions from Crystal Palace. This technology ultimately lost out in the competition and after a major fire at the Crystal Palace Studios in 1936, the broadcasts were ceased. In a 1980 radio interview, Grimur Sigurthsson talked about the television project with Hogg. He said the technology they used was based on 30-line technology, which means that the screen and the images they were viewing were small, probably similar to today’s cell phone screen. Transmissions were sent four nights a week for about an hour each, between 22:00 and 23:00. Grimur did not go into detail about what they were watching but said sometimes the pictures were very clear. He particularly recalled watching a dancing woman who had a large ring on one of her fingers which they saw very clearly. The canyon below is called Barthsgil. It is located above the Sjonarhaeth House, and was important in the pioneering radio and television work in Iceland. The antenna towers that were built for radio were later used for television broadcasts and were about 35 meters high, located on each side of the top of the canyon. Connected to the antenna towers was an extensive web of copper wires that was buried in the ground and served as the ground connection. The copper is presumably still buried here under the trees and vegetation that has grown up in the canyon over the last eight decades (Oct NZDX Times via DXLD) ** INDIA. Dear DX-friends, I enjoyed the Mahalaya Service in Denmark, but it was only audible here on three AIR SW frequencies: 4810.00, Around *2305-2315 Sunday 11.10, AIR Bhopal, Sanskrit, traditional "Mahalaya" ; recitation of hymns with chorus 35233 // 4895 (Petersen) 4895.00, 2230-2315 Sunday 11.10, AIR Kurseong, Sanskrit, traditional "Mahalaya"; recitation of hymns with chorus, 35233 // 9470 (15131). Best 73, (Anker Petersen, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9620-, Oct 14 at 1312, south Asian singing, poor with flutter. 1315 and 1319 long pauses between songs, by 1339 very poor with talk. Presumed AIR Sindhi service scheduled 1230-1500 via Aligarh site, which stays on 9620 until 2030 in other languages. Slightly on lo side compared to 1620 and 620 signals on FRG-7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. DRM in car: see DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM ** INDONESIA. I had exceptional reception of what I presume to be RRI Marauke on 3905 this morning. While this station is usually there in the local mornings around sunrise, this morning's signal was the loudest I've ever heard them. This recording is from around 1240 UTC. I'd planned to make another recording from the top of the hour, but the station ended up getting buried by ham QRM. If anyone can give me a positive ID I would appreciate it. Last I heard, New Ireland was still off the air on 3905, but confirmation one way or the other would be nice. https://youtu.be/ihyfHANh5lo (Tim, Perseus SDR, SAL-20 antenna, Rahto, Iowa, Oct 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 100% RRI and not PNG. Very typical sing-song style of the presenter is not at all the style of PNG stations, which are either in English or Pidgin/Tok Pisin which have lots of English words. Fantastic reception, too, Tim. I thought I caught an "Indonesia" towards the end of your YouTube clip. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) ** INDONESIA. 4749.95, RRI-Makassar, Oct 11 1259-1310, 33433, Indonesian, ID at 1300, Talk and music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750-, Oct 11 at 1309, RRI Makassar, W&M chatting in Indonesian, also with LAH from a 4750.0 station, Bangladesh or China. By 1311, however, no LAH heard, as a child`s voice joins them and makes noises with some toy(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4749.944 kHz footprint, RRI Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, at 1230 UT on Oct 14, S=5-6 signal on remote SDR unit at Nagoya / Tokyo Japan. Adjacent channel of CNR1 - stronger signal on 4749.993 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9526.00, 1255-1325 10.10, Voice of Indonesia, Cimanggis, song by choir, 1259 closing ann in Japanese, 1300 English ID and news, comment, 1315 ID, English dialogue, 35232 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Really? Not closer to 9525.9 as usual??? It`s far too easy to let a logging program ``fill in the blank`` with default incorrect zeroes unless overridden. One reason I don`t use them (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Well, here`s a report at the same date and time with VOI only 20 Hz below 9526, which could be rounded to 9526.0, but not 9526.00: (gh) 9525.98, V. of Indonesia, Oct 10 1330-1342, 35433, English, Talk and music, ID at 1332 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Voice of Indonesia on Oct 12 from 1355 on 9526 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_gl5pLoqVM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If it`s so good into Europe and inaudible in N America central, I suspect it`s on the NW antenna, not the NNE one listed. Furthermore, it`s a mostly-day path thataway, not thisaway (gh, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL. [We have TWO separately compiled X-band listings, neither made in USA] AM X-BAND LIST FOR THE MEDIUMWAVE DX SEASON 2015/16 With autumn heralding the start of the mediumwave DX season in the northern hemisphere, this is a good time to include an updated list of stations in the Americas using the extended AM band between 1610-1710 kHz. Transmitter powers for US stations are generally around 10 kW, with many of the stations listed required to reduce power at night, often to around 1 kW. Because this part of the AM band is relatively clear in Europe, it is possible to hear some of these stations at night when conditions are right. ITU Call Station name Location kW Language/format 1610 AIA Caribbean Beacon The Valley 50 University Network ARG Radio Guabiyú Greg de Laferrere BA 1 Spanish ARG Radio Comunitaria Regional Laboulaye CO 0.5 Spanish ARG Radio Fósil Rosario SF 0.2 Spanish CAN CHHA Radio Voces Latinas Toronto ON 6.25 Multilingual MEX XEUACH Radio Chapingo Texcoco MX 0.25 Spanish PRU OAU6O Radio Flor de los Andes Paucarpata AQ 0.5 Spanish PRU Radio Inka Acora PU Spanish 1620 ARG AM 1620 La Radio Mar del Plata BA 10/1 Spanish ARG Radio Italia Villa Martelli BA Spanish ARG Radio Sentires Merlo BA Spanish ARG Radio Vida Monte Grande BA 2 Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde Guanabacoa CH 5 Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde El Sapo CH Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde Bayamo GR Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde Guantánamo GU 1 Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde El Coco HO Spanish CUB CMBA Radio Rebelde Amancio LT Spanish DOM HISR Radio Taina/Radio Planeta S Pedro Macorís PM Spanish USA KSMH Immaculate Heart Radio Auburn CA 10/1 Religion USA WNRP News Radio 1620 Gulf Breeze FL 10/1 News/Talk USA WDND U93/WNDV 92.9 FM South Bend IN 10/1 Hot AC USA KOZN 1620 The Zone Bellevue NE 10/1 Sports USA WTAW News Talk for Brazos Valley College Station TX 10/1 News/Talk USA KYIZ The Z Twins Renton WA 10/1 Urban Contemporary VIR WDHP Powerhouse of the Caribbean Frederiksted VI 10/1 News/Talk/BBCWS 1630 ARG La Voz de Diagonal La Plata BA 10 Spanish ARG Radio Restauración Hurlingham BA 1 Spanish ARG Radio Melody San José ER 1/0.25 Spanish ARG Radio Nueva Bolivia Ciudad Madero CF 2 Spanish MEX XEUT Radio UABC Tijuana BC 10/1 Spanish USA WRDW News Talk Sports 1630 Augusta GA 10/1 News/Talk/Sports USA KCJJ The Mighty 1630 Iowa City IA 10/1 News/Talk/AC USA KKGM Your Radio Station for Hope Fort Worth TX 10/1 Religion USA KRND La Jota Mexicana Fox Farm WY 10/1 Spanish/Reg Mexican 1640 ARG Radio Hosanna Argentina Isidro Casanova BA 1 Spanish DOM Radio Juventus Don Bosco Santo Domingo NC 1/0.5 Spanish PRU Radio Kalikanto Chamaca CU Spanish USA KDIA The Light for San Francisco Vallejo CA 10/1 Religion USA WTNI 1490/1640 The Champ Biloxi MS 10/1 Sports USA KZLS 1640 The Eagle Enid OK 10/1 News/Talk USA KDZR Radio Disney Lake Oswego OR 10/1 Kids USA KBJA Super Radio 1640 Sandy UT 10/1 Spanish/News/Talk USA WSJP Relevant Radio Sussex WI 10/1 Religion 1650 ARG LRI227 Antares AM Pilar BA 1/0.5 Spanish; irregular ARG Radio El Mensajero Rafael Castillo BA Spanish ARG Radio Fenix Temperley BA Spanish CAN CINA Cina Radio Mississauga ON 5/0.68 South Asian CAN CJRS Radio Shalom Montréal QC 1 Jewish MEX XEAZR Radio ZER México DF 5 Spanish USA KYHN Arklahoma's Power Talk Radio Fort Smith AR 10/1 News/Talk USA KFOX Radio Seoul Torrance CA 10/0.49 Korean USA KBJD Radio Luz Denver CO 10/1 Spanish/Religion USA KCNZ 1650 The Fan Cedar Falls IA 10/1 Sports USA KSVE ESPN Deportes 1650 El Paso TX 8.5/0.85 Spanish/Sports USA WHKT 1650 The Answer Portsmouth VA 10/1 Talk 1660 ARG Radio Revivir Greg de la Ferrere BA 1 Spanish PTR WGIT Faro de Santidad Canóvanas PR 10/1 Spanish/Religion USA KTIQ Radio Anvictio Merced CA 10/1 Spanish/Religion USA WCNZ Ardiente 1660 Marco Island FL 10/1 Spanish USA KUDL 1660 The Score Kansa City KS 10/1 Sports USA WQLR 1660 The Fan Kalamazoo MI 10/1 Sports USA WBCN America's Pulse Charlotte NC 10/1 News/Talk USA KQWB Fox Sports 1660 West Fargo ND 10/1 Sports USA WWRU Radio Korea Jersey City NJ 10/1 Korean USA KRZI 1660 ESPN Central Texas Waco TX 10/1 Sports 1670 ARG Radio Bethel Banfield BA Spanish; currently off ARG Radio Gratitud Glew BA Spanish ARG Radio Rubi Rafael Castillo BA Spanish CAN CJEU Radio Jeunesse Gatineau QC 1 French/Kids DOM La Voz del Yuna Bonao MN Spanish MEX XEANAH Radio Anáhuac Huixquilucan MX 1 Spanish USA KHPY Radio Católica El Sembrador Moreno Valley CA 10/9 Spanish/Religion USA KNRO Fox Sports Radio 1670 Redding CA 10/1 Sports USA WPLA Fox Sports Radio 1670 Dry Branch GA 10/1 Sports USA WOZN 1670 The Zone Madison WI 10/1 Sports 1680 ARG Radio Santa Fe Canning BA Spanish DOM HISV Radio Senda 1680 AM S Pedro Macorís PM 1 Spanish USA KGED More Conservative Talk Radio Fresno CA 10/1 News/Talk USA WOKB Urban Empowerment Station Winter Garden FL 10/1 Religion USA KRJO LA 105 Monroe LA 10/1 Classic Hits USA WPRR Public Reality Radio Ada MI 10/0.68 News/Talk USA WTTM La Unika Lindenwold NJ 10/1 Spanish/Reg Mexican USA KNTS Radio Luz Seattle WA 10/1 Spanish/Religion USA Highway Advisory R Eastern Virginia Travel Information 1690 ARG Radio Cristo La Solución San Justo BA 1 Spanish CAN CHTO Multicultural Radio Toronto ON 3/1 Greek/Multicultural CAN CJLO Concordia's Underground Radio Montréal QC 1 Student USA KFSG Radio Bamdad Roseville CA 10/1 Ethnic USA KDDZ Radio Disney Arvada CO 10/1 Kids USA WMLB The Voice of the Arts Avondale Estates GA 10/1 Eclectic USA WVON The Talk of Chicago Berwyn IL 10/1 Urban News/Talk USA WPTX News Radio 1690 Lexington Park MD 10/1 News/Talk VIR WIGT WGOD 97.7 FM Charlotte Amalie VI 0.92 Religion 1700 ARG Radio Fantástico Tigre CF 5/1 Spanish ARG Radio Imagen Castelar BA Spanish [ex-1710] DOM Radio Eternidad Santo Domingo NC 5/1 Spanish MEX XEPE ESPN 1700 San Diego Tijuana BC 10 English/Sports USA WEUP Huntsville's Heritage Station Huntsville AL 10/1 Religion USA WJCC Radio Mega 1600 Miami Springs FL 10/1 Haitian USA KBGG 1700 The Champ Des Moines IA 10/1 Sports USA WRCR Spring Valley AM 1700 Radio Unscripted Ramapo NY 10/1 Adult Contemporary USA KKLF Kick 1700 Richardson TX 10/1 Spanish/Tejano USA KVNS Fox Sports Radio 1700 Brownsville TX 8.8/0.88 Sports 1710 USA Radio Celestial New York (Bronx) NY unlicensed Radio Disney announced on 13 August 2014 that it was selling all but one of its remaining stations. With the exception of 1110 KDIS Pasadena CA, all will remain on air as Radio Disney until sold, including X-banders 1640 KDZR Lake Oswego OR and 1690 KDDZ Arvada CO. At the time of editing both of these stations still appear to have Radio Disney programming. Highways Advisory Radio of the Virginia Department of Transport listed on 1680 is one of many lowpower Travelers Information Stations that operate on the AM band. This particular station was first heard in the UK during the Sheigra DXpedition of March 2015 by Dave Kenny and Alan Pennington. Their website states that "The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) operates a network of Highway Advisory Radio transmitters throughout the state to keep motorists informed on traffic and travel conditions and construction information. Transmitters broadcast on 1620 AM in VDOT’s Northern, Southwestern and Central regions, and 1680 AM in the Eastern Region". Details of these stations can be found on the FCC website at https://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/travelers-information-stations-search or in the IRCA TIS/HAR List, please see below for availability. Compiled by Tony Rogers, 2 October 2015. Please send updates to tony@bdxc.org.uk (Oct BDXC-UK Communication, updated for DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRCA TIS/HAR List (Summer 2014) The IRCA TIS/HAR List gives details of all US and Canadian Travelers Information Stations (also called Highway Advisory Radio) by frequency, including call letters, state (province,) city, county, licensee, address, coordinates, expiration date and dates of DXM/DXN reports/sources. It has been updated with FCC data, DXM, DXN and DXer reports, and on-line listings through 1 August 2014. Prices: IRCA/NRC members – $9.50 (US), $11.00 (Canada) $12.50 (México), $14.00 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members – add $2.00. To order from the IRCA Goodie Factory, send the correct amount (in US funds payable to IRCA) to: IRCA Goodie Factory, 9705 Mary NW, Seattle, WA 98117-2334. or order through PayPal [add $1.00] to email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com (Phil Bytheway via BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)) It must be added that there are *many* more X-band stations in Europe, i.e. pirates mostly in Netherlands and Greece, some Balkans, and these can be on any frequency at all, as can be seen in Carlos Gonçalves` prolific logs from Portugal. Pulling any of those into North America would be quite a feat (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) AND --- NORTH AMERICAN X BAND AT-A-GLANCE 10/2015 (thanks to Tony King) 1610 CHHA Toronto ON SS ‘Radio Voces Latina’ Call in SS & EE. Distinctive chimes Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla EE religious. Dr Gene Scott/Mrs Scott CHRN Montreal QU South Asian Format 1620 WDND South Bend IN Rock KOZN Bellevue NE CBS Sport “The Zone” WTAW College Station –Bryan TX ‘Newstalk 16-20 WTAW’ Takes C-to-C AM KYIZ Renton WA Urban, r & b, hip-hop //KRIZ “ Z Twins” KSMH West Sacramento CA Rel. ‘IHR (Immaculate Heart Radio) Sacramento” WNRP Gulf Breeze FL News/Talk Fox News “News Radio 1620” R Rebelde Six R Rebelde Tx sites SS. 5 note chime on hr. Sync echo. WDHP St Croix, US Virgin Is Talk. Overnight NZT currently b2b music. 1630 KCJJ Iowa City IA Hot AC “Mighty 16-30 KCJJ” KRND Fox Farm WY SS new ID “La Jota” 1/11 KKGM Ft Worth/Dallas TX ID ‘Hope 1630’ WRDW Augusta GA Talk/Sport Fox, SRN. 1640 WSJP Sussex WI EWTN. Relevant Radio KDZR Lake Oswego OR Disney ‘KDZR Radio Disney Portland” “AM 1640 KDZR” KDIA Vallejo CA Talk/religious/life issues WTNI Biloxi MS “ESPN AM 1640 The Champ” KZLS Enid OK Red Eye Radio [Red Eye is merely the widely syndicated overnight talkshow originating at WBAP 820, not the name of KZLS itself! -- gh] KBJA Sandy UT SS music overnite EE ID “KBJA AM Super 1640” 1650 KSVE El Paso TX ESPN SS “ESPN Deportes 1650” KCNZ Cedar Falls IA Fox Sport KBJD Denver CO Rel. Radio Luz KFOX Torrance CA Korean/EE ID on hour CINA Mississauga ON South Asian format WHKT Portsmouth VA Talk. ”Freedom 16-50” KHYN Fort Smith AR “Conservative Talk Radio”? [sic; it`s KYHN -> KFSW] 1660 KTIQ Merced CA SS. Slogan ‘Radio Anvictio’ WBCN Charlotte NC ex Sport now ‘Americas Pulse’ WWRU Jersey City NJ Korean WCNZ Marco Is FL SS ‘Ardiente 1660” WQLR Kalamazoo MI “Fox Sports Radio 1660, The Fan” KRZI Waco TX ‘KRZI Waco ESPN radio’ KQWB West Fargo ND C & W “Willie 1660” KWOD Kansas City KS “1660 The Score” CJRS Montreal QE Radio Shalom - ethnic. 1670 WPLA Dry Branch, GA “Fox Sports 1670 Georgia” WOZN Madison WI Reverted to earlier call. Cancelled WUSW. CBS Sport and SRN “The Zone” CJEU Gatineau QC Radio Disney en français. KHPY Moreno Valley, CA Radio Católica SS. Sung ID on hr. “KHPY Moreno Valley 1670” KNRO Redding CA CBS Sport 1680 WTTM Lindenwold, NJ Ethnic – Asian ‘Radio Unica’ [sic] WOKB Winter Garden FL ‘Christian Reality Radio’ ”WOKB Winter Garden- Orlando” WPRR Ada MI ID “Public Reality Radio” KGED Fresno CA “Conservative Talk Radio 1680” KNTS Seattle WA SS Religious. EE ID 00:10 after hour. “Radio Luz” KRJO Monroe LA “Classic Hits 1680 “LA105” 1690 KDDZ Arvada CO “R. Disney AM 16-90 KDDZ Arvada Denver” KFSG Roseville CA Ethnic EE ID on hr “KFSG Sacramento” WVON Berwyn, IL Talk ‘The Talk of Chicago 1690 WVON” WMLB Avondale Estates GA News/Talk ‘WMLB Avondale’ CBS news WPTX Lexington Park MD News/Talk/Sports YL with ID “WPTX Lexington Park 1690” CJLO Montreal QU EE college station CHTO Toronto ON AM 1690. Ethnic. WIGT Charlotte Amalie US VI 920 watts 1700 WEUP Huntsville AL Black Gospel “1700 WEUP the Peoples Station’ KKLF Richardson-Dallas-Ft Worth TX SS “Kick 1700” Some EE ads. KBGG Des Moines IA CBS Sport “The Champ 1700” KVNS Brownsville TX Fox Sport XEPE Tecate BCN MX ESPN sports/talk (NEW ZEALAND DX TIMES PAGE 26 OCTOBER 2015 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. FIRST GLOBAL POP-UP RADIO STATION DEEMED SUCCESS --- media.info October 12, 2015 Radio Everyone, a global pop-up station we reported on three weeks ago, has been deemed a success. Piers Bradford, a former BBC Radio 1 executive who's been working on the Radio Everyone project, told us that Radio Everyone content will in some form or other have been on over a thousand radio stations around the globe - with a combined potential reach of well over 350 million listeners in over 75 countries. The online stream was heard by people in 117 different countries – and many shows are still available to listen to on demand. Radio Everyone has been on radio stations everywhere, including Hong Kong, South Korea, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, USA, Canada, Australia, Bukina Faso, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, UAE, Bahrain, Lebanon, Morocco, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Serbia, Turkey, UK, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Madagascar, Guatemala, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cap Verde, Chad, Comores, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo; plus Spotify, MixRadio and Mixcloud. Organisers asked stations to either use our content, produce their own, or mix the two. Here's part of what happened: * A dedicated Radio Everyone pop up channel on ABC in Australia * Global Goals playlists across CBC Music in Canada * Europa Plus, the most popular radio station in Russia, had Russian star director Egor Konchalovsky on to talk about the Global Goals and played Global Citizen highlights * On 92.7 Big FM in India there has been week long activity including special shows from A R Rahman, Hrithik Roshan and Kailash Sayarthi. * Deutsche Welle across Africa broadcast a special focus week on the Global Goals in six languages, with reports, interviews and dedicated programs on the Goals. * Astro Radio stations in Malaysia – presenters from stations Hitz FM (Malaysia’s #1 hit music station), Mix FM, Lite FM, Era FM, Sinar FM, My FM and THR Raaga have been picking a Goal and posting their Global Goals Selfies. Plus a host of amazing Dizzy Penalty films have been uploaded to Youtube featuring the station’s presenters. * Daily features on Arirang’s Good Morning Seoul in South Korea. * A 3 hour Global Goals special on Hit Radio Ö3 ORF in Austria * Special Global Goals coverage on Colours FM Bangladesh involving models, artists, authors and journalists. * Daily interviews and a special social media campaign on Homeboyz Radio in Kenya. They also did a Goals quiz with their DJ’s. If they got the question wrong they had to go out and tell 5 people on the street about the goals. * RTL Luxembourg have been telling their audience about the 17 goals with reports and interviews with Politicians, NGOs and various personalities. * On Dodoma FM Tanzania there were phone-ins about the MDG's and their impact on the lives of the audiences plus local musicians and leaders have been in to the studio to talk about the goals. * There was amazing support from across Radio Algerie including a round table on Chaîne 3 where Algeria’s UN Representative talked about the SDGs and coverage across their youth station, Jil FM. * Ariana Radio 93.5 FM in Afghanistan have given a wide range of coverage to Radio Everyone- shows include audience discussion, presenter pieces about the Goals and lots of support online. * On Radio Afgoi in Somalia, there has been support for Radio Everyone across the week, including special packages from journalists recording with local ‘superheroes’. * Radio2 Rai in Italy - used Global Citizen highlights to talk about the Global Goals and coverage across the daytime, every day this week * Joy FM, in Ghana, put together a two-part documentary to highlight the gains and short comings of the MDGs in that country. Their documentary team toured remote places within Ghana as well as places caught up in the urban sprawl. Tell Everybody, which featured Ghana's top musician Sarkodie was a hit with the station. * SBC in the Seychelles has been using short goals packages to engage listeners on their FM outlet and coverage has tied in well with a local conference on the goals which was hosted there this week. As a legacy project SBC is now planning to create documentary content, made locally, around the goals * World Have Your Say from the BBC World Service broadcast a special show last week, live from the UN. Amina Mohamed and Helen Clark were quizzed by an audience of young people about the goals. https://media.info/radio/news/first-global-pop-up-radio-station-deemed-success Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) It's sad that this was all in support of the UN's Agenda 2030, which is no more than the promotion of global communism. Don't be fooled by the socialist propaganda! (Ray Robinson, CA, ibid.) ? ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. The New York Times Media| WNYC to Open New Podcast Division By BEN SISARIOOCT. 12, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/wnyc-to-open-new-podcast-division.html WNYC, the public radio powerhouse in New York, is about to grow even bigger through a new division that will develop programs for the expanding podcast market. The division, WNYC Studios, is to open this week with a plan to raise $15 million for new programming. Among the shows being developed at the studio will be "The New Yorker Radio Hour," a partnership with the magazine; a spinoff of WNYC's popular "Radiolab" program coming next year that will focus on the Supreme Court; and "Only Human," a health program. In addition, the division will allow WNYC -- which has used NPR to syndicate many of its shows -- to distribute its programs to other radio stations around the country, a move that could help WNYC make more money and raise its profile in markets outside New York. "This is the way we will become a much, much bigger content company, period," said Dean Cappello, WNYC's executive vice president and chief content officer. Related Coverage * Jay Allison, producer of "The Moth Radio Hour," said even though he sympathized with podcasts' funding needs, he was uncomfortable with the idea of people who worked in public radio being asked to help sell products. Ads for Podcasts Test the Line Between Story and Sponsor JULY 26, 2015 * State of the Art: Podcasting Blossoms, but in Slow Motion JUNE 17, 2015 * ArtsBeat: Marc Maron Discusses His Podcast Interview With President Obama JUNE 19, 2015 * Louis C.K. with Mayor Bill de Blasio at the "Made In NY" awards ceremony in Brooklyn in November 2014. Louis C.K. Defends Bill de Blasio on the Radio. Maybe. AUG. 18, 2015 * What I Love: Jami Floyd, WNYC Host, on the Upper West Side SEPT. 25, 2015 The move is being driven by the popularity of podcasts, which public broadcasters have seized on as a way to expand their programming portfolios and build greater loyalty from listeners. The most popular podcasts, like "Serial," attract tens of millions of fans and have begun to penetrate the cultural mainstream. In June, for example, President Obama was a guest on the comedian Marc Maron's show "WTF With Marc Maron," which Mr. Maron tapes in his garage in Los Angeles. Photo Jad Abumrad is co-host of WNYC's popular "Radiolab" program. A spinoff of the show coming next year will focus on the Supreme Court. Credit Matthew Septimus WNYC says that its podcasts, which include "Freakonomics Radio" and Alec Baldwin's "Here's the Thing," are downloaded at least 20 million times each month. Related in Opinion * The Serial host Sarah Koenig, left, and Dana Chivvis, a producer. Editorial Observer: Hooked on the Freewheeling Podcast `Serial' FEB. 12, 2015 Among the shows that WNYC Studios is developing in pilot form are a partnership with Vice News; a program with the author Roxane Gay; "Two Dope Girls," with Jessica Williams of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" and Phoebe Robinson; and a scripted fiction series with the comedian Sara Schaefer. WNYC Studios will operate as a separate division, but some of its programs will be heard on the radio, like "The New Yorker Radio Hour," which will begin broadcasting on Oct. 24 and will be hosted by David Remnick, the magazine's editor. The establishment of a new studio may also help WNYC prevent the departure of top hosts and producers as investment begins to pour in to private podcast outlets like Gimlet Media -- co-founded by Alex Blumberg, a former producer on the radio show "This American Life" -- and Audible, an audio company owned by Amazon. "The public radio system is losing a lot of its talent to podcasting," said Larry Rosin, the president of Edison Research, a firm that has studied the popularity of podcasts. Podcasts are also attractive to public broadcasters because they are not subject to the Federal Communications Commission's strict rules about corporate sponsorship that govern the public airways. That means that more sponsorship segments can be included in a typical podcast program than on the air, an issue that has raised concerns about editorial independence; in one episode of the Gimlet Media show "StartUp," for example, a reporter from the show interviewed engineers at Ford, an advertiser. Mr. Cappello said that WNYC was still being cautious about how to carry out sponsorship -- often called underwriting in the public broadcasting world -- into podcasts. So far, WNYC Studios has raised $2 million of the $15 million it plans to use as seed money for the new shows. That contribution has come from a single philanthropist, and the station says it has received interest from various investors for the fund. The fund will be replenished as new shows establish themselves and become supported through WNYC's standard operating budget. Last year, New York Public Radio, the nonprofit group that controls WNYC and WQXR, had nearly $70 million in revenue, including $28.9 million in contributions from individual members and $16.7 million in corporate underwriting, according to the organization's latest annual report. Its expenses included $38.5 million for radio programming. "What the donors like is that it's kind of a double whammy," said Laura R. Walker, the president and chief executive of New York Public Radio. "They get to give money to new shows and know it will be managed well, and it's not going to disappear." A version of this article appears in print on October 13, 2015, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: WNYC to Open New Division (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. `The Martian`, a great new movie I saw in Enid, Earth, in 3-D, October 9 between 1930 and 2215 UT, seems to have gone to great lengths to maintain scientific accuracy, yet I have a few nits to pick, the first one rather big: 1: With the exception of one brief shot probably in slo-mo, Mars appears to enjoy 1-G, i.e. same gravity as Earth. It`s really somewhere between Earth and Moon, yet there was none of the hopping and loping we saw from real men on the Moon. Guess it would have been too cumbersome to simulate Mars gravity of 0.38-G! Weightlessness in the spaceship: no problem. 2: of course Matt has to wear a helmet and pressure suit whenever he`s outside, yet the suit just hangs loosely on his body, obviously not pressurized from the inside. Wikipedia: ``The atmospheric pressure on the Martian surface averages 600 pascals (0.087 psi), about 0.6% of Earth's mean sea level pressure of 101.3 kilopascals (14.69 psi)``. So I seriously doubt that duct/duck tape would be effective in sealing any leaks! And a momentary loss of pressure should be fatal in what is really a near-vacuum. (Can`t wait for Terraforming!) 3: sound depends on air pressure: yet we hear sounds outside on the surface just as loudly as if it were on Earth. 4: there are fabulous vistas of the rocky Martian landscape (CGI from NASA imagery?), which is totally orange/red and relentlessly dusty between the rocks. Not a hint of native H2O! (Of course the movie was completed long before that recent discovery.) 5: there was one brief shot of lightning in the distance. Is that possible on Mars? 6: you`d never guess what Earth country shows prominently in the credits and names of many crew, but surely with nothing like Martian landscapes; interiors, post-produxion there? {You`re NOT leaving before the very last note on the soundtrack, are you???!!!} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Eike Bierwirth replies: ``Gotta see that Mars movie, thanks for the review. NASA is not sure about lightning on Mars, but deems it possible, per: http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/towhnall/question/521/is-there-lightning-on-mars while the University of Michigan in 2009 reported Martian lightning in dust storms observed in 2006: http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/7199 73, Eike`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9511.22v, Oct 9 at 0041, very poor carrier here and it`s wobbling; nothing on 9510.0, so no doubt VIRI Zahedan`s unstable transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. On `Allan Weiner Worldwide` Oct 10, we learn that another new show on WBCQ 9330.22v-CUSB is `Radio Northern Ireland` from a guy named Jordan, at 7-8 pm ET (=23-24 UT, not clear to me which day of week, Wed or Thu?), but because of bad propagation that will get a repeat tomorrow (Sat) at same time. I mentioned RNI on WOR in July or August, when it was on 6070 Germany, and Jordan sent me a [sample!] QSL in appreciation: http://www.w4uvh.net/RNI1.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/RNI2.jpg But I hadn`t heard from him since about going on WBCQ. None of this new programming yet appears on the WBCQ online schedules. He`s been posting his plans on HFU, however: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23796.0.html ``Radio Northern Ireland tonight 9330khz 2300UTC WBCQ « on: October 07, 2015, 2120 UTC » Hi all throwing a quick ball out there... On the air 2300 UTC 9330 khz on WBCQ playing a relay! Tune in and enjoy. Just a quick note I've stopped card qsl for free due to postage cost but will send for a donation. I will however eqsl! Thanks`` Yes, I was surprised to see a full pound postage stamp on that little card. So it was on UT Wednesday Oct 7 at 23-24. Not yet clear whether this was a one-shot (plus the comp repeat anyway Oct 10). 9330.2-CUSB, Oct 10 at 2341, I remember to check for the Radio Northern Ireland make-good that Allan Weiner Worldwide said would be on this hour Saturday, due to nil propagation during original Oct 7 airing (which we didn`t find out about anyway until it was over). Fair-good signal now, but nowhere near as strong as 9350 WWCR. Hard rock music is playing; 2345 ID as ``RNI, Radio Northern Ireland on 6070 kHz`` [original airing via Germany], tnx to sponsor Stephen Cooper for hosting on http://shortwave.am - Address for e-QSLs, radionorthernireland @ outlook.com and also via Facebook. It`s only 2346 but Jordan seems to be signing off, ``looking forward to next week at 2100 on this frequency``. But more hard rock plays rest of hour, starting at 2349 with song about paramilitary, soldiers I couldn`t follow. Same genre as before so I guess this was still coming from RNI, not WBCQ fill. BTW, ``RNI`` is already a WBCQ abbr., for Radio New York International (I`ve always wondered what became of the Y). 2359 to familiar 16-note ``Lincolnshire Poacher`` IS repeated several times. 0000 Oct 11, ``WBCQ, The Planet`` IS and ID a few times, and canned AW sign-off by a ``concerned family`` with classical music, then cut off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, Many thanks for mention on the DX email I receive each morning. I'd like to keep you updated that after a few changes with my show. With tonight`s broadcast on WBCQ 9330 kHz that has just finished I will be aiming to stay at the same time and date. As you are aware I am no longer doing QSL cards for free, simply because of postage prices when sending out 10-15 at one attempt; however, that being said, I will happily send one for £1 to cover or $2, I will continue with e-qsl as well. I had been out of sync a lot due to internet problems at home and with channel 292 being off the air briefly a few weeks back. I've started doing a live show once a week on the 48m band in Europe (the day exactly I'll be on to be confirmed) thanks to a relay service. I will continue with channel 292 beginning the week coming. Thankfully with these new changes I am expanding my audience into America and keeping Europe as well. Best regards, (Jordan - Radio Northern Ireland, Heyburn, Oct 11, Sent by Outlook for Android, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. ISRAEL RADIO’S ENGLISH NEWS FACES CLOSURE --- IBA English News’s departing chief reflects on 25 years behind and in front of the camera http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-Radios-English-News-faces-closure-421530 VETERAN ISRAEL RADIO broadcaster David Ze’ev makes a point. (photo credit: TWITTER) As the Israel Broadcasting Authority approaches its end next March, staffers at Israel Radio have been losing a war of attrition. A station that once employed more than 20 professionals is now down to four, and they are hurting. “We get the feeling that from the prime minister down, no one wants us around,” says veteran broadcaster David Ze’ev. It has not always been this way. When public radio was first launched in pre-state Israel in 1936, the broadcasts were in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Established by the British Mandate authorities and modeled on the BBC, the Palestine Broadcasting Service eventually evolved into the Voice of Israel. The first English-language broadcaster was Ruth Belkind, who in later years as Ruth Connell Robertson was a highly respected copy editor at The Jerusalem Post. Belkind was originally from England, and many of the broadcasters who followed her were also British expatriates. But there were also Americans, South Africans, Canadians and Australians. New immigrants from English-speaking countries, plus those from other countries whose English was better than their Hebrew, and of course foreign diplomats stationed in Israel, relied heavily on Voice of Israel English language broadcasts to know what was going on in the country, and perhaps even more people were listening to English language broadcasts from Israel on short wave radio. One of the listeners who was in Israel to study at a yeshiva in Jerusalem was Ze’ev, who together with fellow students from the United States used to listen to the radio in the dorm. He knew even then that he wanted a career in journalism, and thought how wonderful it could be if he could tell people about Israel from Israel. He wasn’t interested in propaganda. He wanted to report on news as it was happening and to interview people who were in the news. Some 30-plus years ago, the wish came true. Ze’ev came on aliya, there was a vacant slot at the radio, and he was one of those fortunate immigrants who was literally living the dream. At that time in 1981, there were two departments – news and features and more than 20 people worked in them. Over the years short wave radio broadcasts were eliminated, as was the features department. The staff load was reduced to only four people, who write, edit and anchor news broadcasts in addition to trying to keep on top of ongoing developments and interviewing the relevant people. The department is headed by Naomi Segal and the two other journalists, Mark Weiss and Neal Sandler, are veterans like Ze’ev. There was a fifth member, Jacqui Beecham. But she left on September 30 along with a couple of hundred other employees of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, who had been offered a relatively attractive package to leave voluntarily rather than wait to be dismissed. A sixth member of the team, Idel Ross, left several months previously. Whenever someone leaves they are not replaced, says Ze’ev, and those who are still working have to shoulder an additional burden of responsibility. No full-time person has been hired by the department since the early 1990s, he asserts. The worst part is that no one in the higher echelons of the IBA respects what the English team is doing. “At this point, we’re led to believe that we’re parasites,” says Ze’ev. “We are hanging by a thread” he declares, explaining that three out of the four do not live in Jerusalem. They all work two shifts, both early morning and late night. If they are doing late night and then early morning, it doesn’t pay to go home, but the IBA does not provide them with a hotel room. They either sleep in the studio or stay with friends. There are days that he doesn’t even know why he is doing what he is doing in an environment in which he and his colleagues are so underappreciated. Among his interviewers over the past week were MK Ahmad Tibi, talking about the Temple Mount, Yigal Henkin, the brother of Eitam Henkin who together with his wife, Naama, was murdered by terrorists, and settler leaders who are camped around the corner from the Prime Minister’s Residence. Ze’ev tries to the best of his ability to be up to date and to present both sides of any story. It’s not always easy when you have a deadline, limited air time, and you have to write news and anchor as well. The IBA has never made any effort to publicize the English News, so Ze’ev and his colleagues have no idea whether anyone is listening or not, or even whether people are aware of the existence of the English- language news service. None of the four has been told whether there will be broadcasts in English in the yet-to-be-established successor to the IBA, which is in the process of liquidation. This is causing all four to give serious thought to their best financial options. Should they stay in the hope that they will be part of the new entity or should they leave now with whatever financial package is being offered? Ze’ev is angry over the misreporting in the print media over how much money IBA employees are allegedly earning. He concedes that there may be a few people on very high salaries, but overall salaries are barely above the basic wage and pensions. The extras that crept into salaries over the years are not calculated into the pension, and were introduced as compensation for the low salaries, according to Ze’ev. Despite the nightmare conditions under which he works, Ze’ev loves radio as a communications medium, and would be prepared to last out the duration if he were shown a concrete plan for English news and feature radio broadcasts in the new public broadcasting entity and was given a concrete guarantee of future employment. “We’re still working as if nothing is happening around us. It’s been an emotional hell!” says Ze’ev. “We are a public radio service, not government radio, and we get the feeling that from the prime minister down, no one wants us around. We feel like a sinking ship trying to do our job and the government doesn’t care. I don’t want the government to intervene, but I don’t want them to destroy us.” (Jerusalem Post via Kim Elliott, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) More proof that when stations stop using SW they fall into obscurity and fade away. I have research showing this, but it is private and if I shared it I'd have to kill you! .... :o Posted by: (Kenneth V. Zichi, MI, dxldyg via DXLD) IBA radio is still on web site and local Israel FM band (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel DX Corner from 1987 explaining DX terms to novices such as heterodyne, having lunch with people of different sexes. Published on Feb 10, 2014 --- This recording was put on tape in 1987 and sent to Australia to a pen-pal with whom I exchanged letters to improve my English. He kept the tapes and digitized them. So years later I was able to listen to myself from 1987 and to the recordings again. Thanks +Luke Biddle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQTbNCUKihs (via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Mike, That's hilarious! I vaguely remember it from back then. One of my favorites was "Propagation". I QSL'd Kol Israel when I listened to them often back when I was in High School. At the time I lived out in the country in eastern Washington State with my budget Heathkit SW- 717 with a 50 foot folded dipole (Rodney Johnson, NV, ibid.) ** ITALY. Dear friends of Short wave community, Greetings from Italy! Here is the schedule for this week’s test broadcasts of Marconi Radio International: Wed 14th October 2015, from approximately 1730 to 1900 UT Fri 16th October 2015, from approximately 1745 to 1945 UT Sun 18th October 2015, from approximately 0830 to 1230 UT Our frequency is 11390 kHz and power in the region of 30 watts. Test broadcasts consist of non stop music and station identification announcements in Italian, English, Spanish and Catalan. MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3- file) of our broadcasts are welcome! Until now correct reception reports have been received from Italy, Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, and Switzerland. We are anxious to receive feedbacks from more countries! We QSL 100%. Our E-mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com We hope that you will share this information with your members. Thank you very much for your cooperation -- (Marconi Radio International (MRI), Short wave test broadcasts from Italy on 11390 kHz, Oct 12, also via Harold Frodge, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA, Unscheduled broadcast of IRRS Shortwave via Radiocom, Oct 10: 0930-1200 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg WeEu English Sat, scheduled on Sun 0800-0900 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg WeEu German Sat R. City, nothing!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRzrnHKHXo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGTa0m10qJA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjEw8X_6Q4M&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQiHDgGlYZU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-nCDYPoaQ&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRRS Shortwave via Radiocom on October 11: 0930-1200 on 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipivRYP43Do&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVR5qaSKFI&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. FM BANDPLAN --- cf. DXLD 15-40, ``To accomplish adding 90-95 MHz to the FM dial, must have moved out all (?) the TV stations on channel J1, 90-96 MHz (gh, DXLD)`` Analog TV broadcast using J1-J12 channel (VHF 90-222 MHz) was terminated in March, 2012. All the TV stations have switched to Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting using UHF. The plannings of vacant 90-108 MHz are; 90-95 MHz for complementary FM broadcasting of AM stations, 95-99 MHz for buffer (no use), 99-108 MHz for digital FM broadcasting (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. THE MEDIA IN LADAKH NEEDS A HELPING HAND, June 3, 2015 Students of the Department of Convergent Journalism, Central University of Kashmir, on a trip to Ladakh, found that in the Himalayan region the media is not exactly in paradise. The government should actively explore the possibility of starting community radio and even community television services to better integrate the people of the isolated region with the mainstream developmental processes, says John K. Babu Ladakh is far away from anywhere. It is regarded as Paradise on Earth, and offers a serene retreat from the pressures of modern life. Long caught between unfriendly neighbours China and Pakistan, Ladakh is a border region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It consists of two districts – Kargil and Leh – with a total population of 2,74 lakh(*) (2011 Census). It is famous on the world tourist map because of its rich cultural heritage. However, students of the Department of Convergent Journalism, Central University of Kashmir, on a trip to the Himalayan region, found that in Ladakh, the media is not exactly in paradise. Students learn the news reading process at the Doordarshan Station in Leh. The writer can be seen in the background, to the right. [caption] Newspapers and magazine are needed to serve as a window to Ladakh’s centuries-old cultural heritage and values, apart from daily happenings, for thousands of outsiders visiting the unique place, besides Ladakh’s own scholars, students and academicians. Despite considerable climatic constraints, weekly, fortnightly and monthly periodicals have been registering growth over the last few years. Reputed national media professionals pool their efforts and contribute to the running of local papers for the benefit of Ladakhi people. There are a handful of private news outfits. Reach Ladakh Bulletin, a fortnightly English newspaper is published from Leh and printed in New Delhi. The colourful 12-page tabloid is the leading newspaper of the region and is full of attractive pictures and information. Tundup Dorjey, who founded the publication in 1999, has kept it on a steady course all these years. Editor Rinchen Angmo Chumikchan’s primary focus is the latest news and tourism-related information from Ladakh. Rangyul, previously called Kargil Number, is a fortnightly bilingual (English and Urdu) newspaper published from Srinagar covering news of Ladakh. The 16-page, black and white tabloid paper mostly circulated in Kargil started its journey in August 2004. With a mission to promote functional literacy, Ladags Melong (Mirror of Ladakh) was started by the Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL). It is a bilingual (English and Ladakhi) magazine published from 1993 to 2005 and has a web portal providing news content besides video and pictorial information. Heritage Himalaya is a bi-annual news magazine, launched on 21 August 2012, published by the Himalayan Cultural Heritage Foundation (HCHF), a Leh-based Non-Government Organisation devoted to cultural promotion and preservation. Ladakh Sargyur (Ladakhi News) a bi-monthly newspaper is perhaps the only paper available exclusively in the Ladakhi language. This colourful, four-page newspaper is edited by Chhimet Namgyal and published by Ladakh Buddhist Association youth wing from Leh. Voice of Ladakh is a Kargil-based newspaper owned by the Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust. It consists of eight pages and is a bilingual fortnightly tabloid. Daily updated news of Ladakh can be accessed on http://visitladakh.com Stawa, a monthly English news magazine is published from Leh and printed in Mumbai under the editorship of Sunetro Ghosal. Interestingly, Ladakh has been pushed onto the digital media bandwagon without experiencing the usual quota of daily print publications. Ladakh Today, a multi-edition newspaper is published from Delhi, Leh and Jammu and Kashmir, in electronic form. In today’s digital age, electronic journals provide publishers and readers an opportunity for wider dissemination of knowledge than print publications. They can incorporate daily updates along with features that improve on or go beyond those that have traditionally been available in print publications. Apart from local periodicals, some daily newspapers such as Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, State Times, The Daily Excelsior, Kashmir Times and some monthly magazines which cover the state as a whole also include Ladakh in their scope. National dailies have to reach Ladakh by air. At the best of times, they arrive a day late, and during winter, it could take up to a week or ten days. All India Radio (AIR) started its services in the tiny town of Leh on 25th June 1971. There are three transmissions in a day, together amounting to 12 hours and 30 minutes. Ladakhi, Urdu, Hindi, Balti and Tibetan are the languages in which programmes covering a population of about 200000 (including paramilitary forces and Tibetan refugees) are being broadcast in Ladakh’s two districts. Doordarshan (DD) has a station in Leh that broadcasts local content and news for a few hours a day. The Ladakhis produce feature films that are screened in auditoriums and community halls. They are made on fairly modest budgets. Rigzia Dolma, an educated young woman in a jewellery shop in Moti market in Leh, said, “People, especially elders in Ladakh, rely on the radio for news and information. For entertainment purpose, they have local folk media with its rich heritage of song and dance and television.” There are well established religious, social and political organisations in both districts that could easily run newspapers and thereby contribute to making this backward society aware of the political and social developments taking place in and around Ladakh. In April 2013, two organisations – Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi and Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO) – jointly conducted a two-day media workshop for journalists in Leh with special focus on reportage of local environmental issues. About 30 reporters from Leh and Kargil attended. The time is ripe to make extensive use of alternative media channels such as local newspapers, community radio, and community television channels, apart from social media and online news magazines. Government support and cooperation is needed to help media organisations in Ladakh to bolster the efforts of the local people. The government should actively explore the possibility of starting community radio and even community television services to better integrate the people of this isolated Himalayan region with the mainstream developmental processes. (The writer is assistant professor, Department of Convergent Journalism, Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar.) From http://pressinstitute.in/the-media-in-ladakh-needs-a-helping-hand/ Comment: (*) Lakh är en indisk räkneenhet, och motsvarar 100 000 i det västerländska tiosystemet. Skrivs lakh i pluralis görs detta enligt följande mönster: 7 500 000 = 75 lakh indisk stil: 75,00,000 Det går sedan 100 lakh på 1 crore (via Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) ** KENYA. [re 15-40]: Re: Sao Tome & Principe: Rádio Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe goes online --- David, It is a lucky situation that Saotomé broadcaster published its program schedule on its website. If you see KBC English Service (Kenya) you cannot get program schedule clicking on its the program guide. I tried to ask KBC in an email which wasn't answered (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, Strong signal of Shiokaze Sea Breeze on Oct 15, 1600-1700 on 5985 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVvezllNatk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY7bEpWrLgs&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) While the earlier 1330-1430 broadcast had shifted to 6020 (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. In today's broadcast of Free North Korea Radio on 15640 kHz between 1230 and 1330 UT (presumably from Yangiyul) there was a couple of minutes of English! This item, from Suzanne Scholte, honorary co-chair of Free North Korea Radio, indicates a partially religious bent of Free North Korea Radio. Perhaps each broadcast contains a Christian message. An item on the Defense Forum Foundation website http://www.defenseforumfoundation.org/north-korea/123-special-north-korea-outreach-program.html seems to indicate that this is so. A recording of the two-minutes of English is attached. This recording was made using the WebSDR receiver at the University of Twente. Today is "Party Day" in North Korea. Did anyone else notice special items in broadcasts from or to North Korea? -- (Richard Langley, NB, Oct 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PHILIPPINES, BaBcoCk music + North Korea Reform Radio, Oct 15: 1425-1430 on 11550 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs BaBcoCk music 1430-1530 on 11550 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5OdrRnCwA&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PHILIPPINES, Good signal of Voice of Wilderness, Oct 8 1300-1400 on 11860 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean 1400-1430 on 11860 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to NEAs Korean Sun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIGvmqun1_0&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Good signal of Radio Free Chosun, Oct 8, 1300-1500 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUb6v02u1E&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Oct 8 at 1405, Denge Kurdistane all-talk now, usual strong and fluttery signal via PRIDNESTROVYE. It`s really amazing how well this reaches OK, slightly off the SE Turkey target area, unlike any other 25mb signal from E Europe or ME; is it longpath? Again the YL speaker with a French??? accent, and occasional borrowed(?) words such as ``democracie``. This time I keep listening closely for site swap to BULGARIA, and I`ve got it! At 1415 a slight echo starts, and a few seconds later the first signal goes off leaving a somewhat weaker one. Quite smooth and well-coördinated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BTW, I`ve yet to understand any ``Denge Kurdistane`` ID at hourtop or anywhen (gh) SECRETLAND, Denge Kurdistan via Secretbrod [Kostinbrod, BULGARIA], distorted audio on Oct 10: from 1414 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish plus 2nd harmonic on 23200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFE3khUc1zM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Denge Kurdistan via Secretbrod and Issoudun Oct 8 till 1700 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, distorted audio from 1702 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, 2 min dead air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80s_IpKHEI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSuQ0zyFcvA&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYSTAN. Reception of Kyrgyz Radio HS 1 on Oct 14: from 1630 on 4010 BI 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Kyrgyz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAxcQMqZRF8&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AFGHANISTAN [non] ** MADAGASCAR. MADAGÁSCAR, 5010.4, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano, 2112- 2120, 10/10, texto, presum. em malgaxe; 25341, sinal com portadora e BLI [LSB]. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Regarding [MWV] Madagascar: in the winter there will be no regular broadcasting from there. The frequencies - no more than a formal registration. The first test enable are expected closer to spring 2016 (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") via RusDX 11 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) Why should it take nearly a year more after transmitters finally installed? Not that we are in any hurry for yet another gospel huxter to infest the SW bands (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** MADEIRA. If you need PEF Madeira on 1530, it is in here at the moment with songs and occasional Portuguese ads. You can check for parallel at http://pef.pt/sitepef/category/canal-1/ (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, 0113 UT Oct 14, IRCA via DXLD) ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1130-..., 09/10, dialecto local (?), canções tribais; 25442, modulação extremamente fraca. Melhor áudio em 10/10, pelas 1130. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 550, Oct 8 at 1202, kid choral NA, full ID for XEPL, ``La Super Estación`` 24h on AM and FM from Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua; 1203 into edition #41 of `Mundo del Trabajo` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 620, Oct 8 at 1202, ``La Norteñita`` ID from XEBU Chihuahua2 plus FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Oct 14 at 1220, PSAs including one from Ciudad Juárez, and federal Cámara de Diputados y Diputadas --- seems now officially acknowledging that women participate, at least secondarily. Shorthand could be: ``Diputad@s``. 1221 ``B-M Noticias 640``, i.e. XEJUA Juárez, separable from OK station, and atop anything from KFI, perhaps the SAH source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 680, Oct 14 at 1222, mentions Festival Cultural de Sinaloa, ad mentioning Sinaloa Poniente (western, i.e. the sundown-side); 1223 UT TC for 6:24 and regresa, back to live `Noticiero de Sinaloa`, i.e. XEORO, Guasave, 1000/500 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Still hearing nothing on 800 from XEROK, so I search out its website, which is http://calibre800.com/ the alternate branding of Radio Cañón, alluding to CAnal LIBRE = clear channel. This leads to live stream: http://www.gruposiete.com.mx/radio-canon/ which in fact is funxioning. And the website looks completely normal and current with lots of news linx, nothing found about it being off the air from 800, nor anything about a new FM frequency. At 1514 UT Oct 13, taking phone calls on the air (poorly audible) even from El Paso and the studio is rather echoey, hardly professional. Get out the egg cartons! Generally lo-fi modulation. Seems to be about medical advice. Closes at 1525, ID including ``Desde la Frontera, 800 AM, Radio Cañón -– Colonia El Hipódromo -- Grupo Siete`` and over to string of ads/PSAs including Chihuahua state government. 1530 another R. Cañón ID, with rock in Spanish, `Los Buenos Tiempos` is show now. Again DJ in studio with echo, also discusses salud; 1540 ``Old Fashioned Love Song`` in English by Three Dog Night. So the question remains, is XEROK really on the 800 air and audible at least in the El Paso area, if not into NM and OK, day and/or night? Perhaps with much less than 50 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 870, Oct 8 at 1214, a bit of local version of ``Mañanitas`` faded completely out for YL announcer to give generic birthday wishes without specific names, efemérides info, XETAR, La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara ID from Chihuahua, then brings more ``Mañanitas`` song back up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 950, XEMAB, La Poderosa, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. 1033 October 11, 2015. Male canned "La Poderosa" between each Mexi-tune. Presumed the one, positively IDed previously, though there's two others with this slogan at lesser powers in Chihuahua and Nayarit (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 980, Oct 13 at 1236 UT, Spanish report on oil prices, IMER Radio ID, and `Antena Radio` news program. I check 1570 for // XERF, but not audible. 1237 local ID for 980 AM, 103.1 FM, ``más música``. 1239 fuller ID for ``La FQ``, 980 XEFQ, FM 103.1 XHFQ, Cananea, Sonora, full address, ``una emisora del Instituto Mexicano de la Radio``. IRCA and Cantú show 2500/500 watts, but no FM, while WRTH also lists 103.1. Fadeout shortly later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, Oct 14 at 1231, from WSW, promos for R. Fórmula, Grupo Fórmula, so must be XEYC Ciudad Juárez. IRCA shows power 1000/1000; Cantú and WRTH, 5000/500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEPUE, Puebla noted on 1210.15 with ident as "La Mexicana 1210" at 0458 UT on 5 September by James Niven and Chris Knight on a DXpedition to Padre Island Texas (via NRC DX News via Oct NZDX Times via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1260, unidentified. 1108 October 11, 2015. Presume a Mexican, pointing E/W, with odd format of all 60's/70's Classic Rock. Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb" at tune-in, Spanish male DJ introducing The Byrds "5D (Fifth Dimension)" segued to Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze" then Donovan "Sunshine Superman" into Iggy Pop "Lust For Life" segued to The Doors "The End" at 1126, then signal lost at 1130 when WHNZ, Seffner, FL daytime power kicked on (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, UT Monday Oct 12 at 0305, XERF with `La Hora Nacional` --- weekly federal government show mandatory(?) for all stations to carry. I am seldom monitoring at this hour, so take the opportunity to chase `LHN` across the dial. As to be expected, XERF is best, but still can`t eliminate the QRM from US stations, notably the one in Missouri, 3 kW KBCV Bott gospel- huxter, Hollister (Springfield). {FYI Glenn, the Hollister MO 1570 is considered the Branson market rather than Springfield; Bott network website (bottradionetwork.com) calls it "Branson 1570 AM." 73, Randy Stewart, Springfield Hi Randy, OK, but they do have a street address in Spfld. per NRC AM Log. Then, what market would you attribute KLFJ-1550 to? 73, Glenn I know the FCC considers KLFJ's COL to be Springfield, and that's what I've always thought it to be, since its transmitter & tower are actually within the Springfield city limits. And KBCV's transmitter is south of Branson near Hollister, with a city-of-license of Hollister. 73, Randy Stewart} Considering the gobs of Mexican MW stations I do DX, it`s rather strange that so few can be heard now, and not even La Poderosa enough to be QRM-free. 1050, XEG Monterrey NL should be #2, but it too suffers from a lot of QRM. At 0313 it does seem to be in LHN, while taking phone calls from fans, but far from synchronized with XERF. At 0307 some US station in English is atop XEG with fight-the-IRS ad. 990, XET Monterrey, sometimes heard well, must really be direxional south tonight, ceding to CBW. Other major stations are useless: 1220 XEB, 1140 XEMR, 940 XEQ, 900 XEW, 800 XEROK (kaput?), 730 XEX; 540 XEWA maybe has it, but again not synch with XERF. Also try 690, 620, 580 with nothing listenable. 6185, Oct 12 at 0318, XEPPM, Mexico`s only remaining SW station, must surely be carrying `La Hora Nacional` --- but NOT, totally different music playing than on 1570! I`m about to conclude `LHN` is not really mandatory; and instead of all stations in nation linking up to a single feed, each has its own download to play back out of synch, if at all --- maybe not even same episode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6184.977, Still visible an empty carrier on air at 0500 UT, TX switched OFF exact at 0503 UT this morning, probably the Mexican XEPPM (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6184.977, XEPPM, Radio Educación, fluttery signal, poor level (Wolfgang Buschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- The IFT has put out for public comment the modification to its technical regulations decreasing FM station spacing to 400 kHz. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-ift-sometera-consulta-publica-proyecto-de-disposicion-que-propone-reducir-la-separacion-de Other improvements in the new Technical Disposition IFT-002-2015 will include harmonization of standards to international norms and more parameters for the operation of HD Radio stations. As part of the public comment, which is highly technical in nature, there will be analytical documents from the various units of the IFT. The public comment period is 30 days in length. All the documents are located here. http://www.ift.org.mx/industria/consultas-publicas/consulta-publica-del-anteproyecto-de-disposicion-tecnica-ift-002-2015-especificaciones-y There are tests relating to how XHUIA-90.9 behaves in various parts of Mexico City with XEDA and XHFAJ on either site. XHUIA is 3 kW ERP. The only way to get high-powered stations at 400 kHz would be to use common transmission infrastructure. That is kind of hard to do in countries like the US and Mexico where broadcasters often own their own transmission infrastructure. "...Un servicio más de Radio Programas de México." Read my Mexico Beat blog | Next analog shutoff: Torreón + Gómez Palacio, San Luis Río Colorado and Cuernavaca, October 29 (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Oct 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The Parral Station You Don't Know About Some time back when I was reading about the history of XHJMA I heard mention of a second station, "El Canal del Pueblo" (channel 11) which broadcast mostly sports programming. I've learned a little more on it. This station, which has operated on channel 11 for most of its history though it briefly wound up on channel 22 http://parralalinstante.com/portal/Local/4367.html (now home to XHHDP-TDT Azteca) because of issues with the VHF transmission equipment, was run by the municipality! Its programming in 2008 consisted of movies off of cable, sports, and family programming — Parral does not have full network service (it lacks Canal 5), so this filled a void. However, it appears the gong may have sounded on this pirate. http://www.elmonitorparral.com/notas.pl?n=71716 Earlier this year, El Canal del Pueblo ceased operations, citing the apagón analógico as a principal cause. Of course, the station would need a permit (or, nowadays, a public or social use concession), and conversion costs for a non-licensed station were deemed too rich for the municipality's blood. Also worth noting is that moving to UHF with their current transmission equipment would not be possible given the use of channel 22. (25, 26 and 30 are the other digital frequencies in use there.) (Raymie Humbert, Oct 10, ibid.) "...Un servicio más de Radio Programas de México." Raymie, that sure is a strange situation with XHJMA. Thanks (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) That's not XHJMA, it's just another unlicensed station in Parral. I wonder why the municipal government never bothered to get their station permitted. Up until April of last year two of the five TV stations in Parral were unlicensed. Speaking of puny stations on channel 22, local reports indicate that one of Mexico's most unlikely, XHMZE-TDT, is broadcasting in digital on RF 21 with virtual channel 22. Yes, that's right, the little station that could in Zacatepec. The image quality is poor, according to the local reporter, but it's impressive to see XHMZE actually operating in digital (Raymie, Oct 12, ibid.) I'm sorry I didn't read the first paragraph more closely. The pirate is an unusual situation, nevertheless (Danny, ibid.) Did you know that 86% of Mexicans receive a digital signal from at least one of the four commercial networks, and 76% of them get all four? http://legacy.canaldelcongreso.gob.mx/TTiK6sKV/otitular.php?id=8079 (Raymie, Oct 14, ibid.) Article roundup: El Heraldo de Saltillo: "Lamentan académicos de la Narro riesgo de que desaparezca Radio Universidad Agraria" http://www.elheraldodesaltillo.mx/2015/09/22/lamentan-academicos-de-la-narro-riesgo-de-que-desaparezca-radio-universidad-agraria/ XESAL-AM 1220, Saltillo daytimer, is at real risk of closing up shop due to the negligence of the agricultural school's rector; the current rector is desperately working to try and renew the permit that expired three years ago (the article says with the SCT, though he should be talking with the IFT instead). I've posted an article or two about this recently as well. El Financiero: "Apagón analógico deja sin señal de TV a un millón de personas en NL" http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/apagon-analogico-deja-sin-senal-de-tv-a-un-millon-de-personas-en-nl.html There are more unprepared people than you thought there were in Monterrey. There are warnings that this could mean serious loss of viewers elsewhere in the country. Notimundo: "Porcentaje de población sin señal por apagón analógico; IFT" http://notimundo.com.mx/porcentaje-de-poblacion-sin/ This article notes that the apagón could be about to extend: this week or next, the IFT Pleno will vote to authorize an apagón in León, Celaya, Querétaro and San Luis Potosí. My only concern with the first two cities is a shadow channel concern (Azteca León) and XHCEP in Celaya (which may be exempt even as it builds its digital facilities); the other two are fully ready, in Querétaro's case with two digital- only TV stations. And in several weeks time, the IFT may be able to call an apagón for the Mexico City area (Raymie, Oct 15, ibid.) There are more unprepared people than you thought there were in Monterrey. There are warnings that this could mean serious loss of viewers elsewhere in the country. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Thanks for the interesting news, Raymie (Danny, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) News of two big station sign-ons that bring digital parity to two new cities: XHRCG-30 Saltillo This was the last remaining station in Saltillo and could pave the way for an apagón of remaining stations soon. Testing only. (Photo) http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/miguel_gcn/IMG_20151015_1937471.jpg XHST-28 (13.x) Mérida Identifying as "XHST-HD" but with no HD programming, just a 16:9 SD picture. This station appeared in the recent RPC document dump and is fairly strong for a state network at 100 kW ERP (analog station was licensed for 42, operating at 5). This station is in full operation. (Photo) http://s8.postimg.org/hbwm5g2dh/XHST_TDT_1.jpg (Raymie, ibid.) So on one forum, a user was pretty happy because the number of TV stations in digital in Jiquilpan, Mich., went from one to three. The one was XHSAM-TDT 38 (8, CE). The other two were Aztecas at 10-1 and 12-1. I was confused until I figured out that they had to be shadows. (They are, of the Guadalajara stations with PSIP matching their analog locations.) (Raymie, Oct 16, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. MONGOLIA/KOREA D.P.R. Extreme bad audio mixture channel of Ulaanbataar selected, when the Mongol did action to avoid Radio Australia on 12085 kHz. Today 12014.875 kHz footprint in Chinese, and additionally Korea D.P.R. in Russian on 12014.988 kHz and ahead an RTTY service on 12014.575 / 12015.425 kHz. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Meixner" Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 4:21 PM Subject: [A-DX] Log: 12014.9, VoMongolia(t), 14.10...UC, 09.10.15 Ich nehme an, es ist VoMongolia! S=3...5; O=2 und bis 3; Am Besten in USB ---- AOKI: 12015 VOICE OF MONGOLIA 1400-1430 1234567 Mongolian 250 178 Ulaanbaatar MNG ---- Mit Gruss, Herbert, 3160 Traisen, NRD 535DG, MiniWhip (via wb, DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [non]. 3985, Voice of Mongolia via Kall-Krekel [GERMANY], *1900-1910, 07-10, English, identification: "Welcome to the Voice of Mongolia in English", news and comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sangean ATS-090X, Tecsun PL880, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. Saturday 19 Sept: 2010 UT. Medi 1, Morocco in French on 9575 kHz and a programme of reggae music in Sélection Reggae with Sanae. Now, this is a programme I’ve not heard before and didn’t know was aired on this station, and I don’t recall seeing it in the schedules. Indeed, the “listen-again” archives for this programme only go back to 12 September, so I’m assuming therefore that this is a new programme. It was an enjoyable selection of tunes from such greats as Bob Marley, 10CC, Culture Club, Eddy Grant, Peter Frampton and Bob Dylan (Right: Sanae. Source http://www.medi1.com [caption of a woman`s portrait]) (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) Her name, not South African National Antarctic Expedition! (gh) ** MOROCCO. [If it is not in the WRTH, it's news.] Information on the availability of live streams of the Moroccan state radio and television: http://www.alidaa-alwatania.ma/player.php which does not work any more, has been replaced by streaming portal http://snrtlive.ma which provides access to four radio and up to eight television channels (some designated as on test). Radio streams are available at: http://snrtlive.ma/alidaa-alwatania (main programme in Arabic) http://snrtlive.ma/alidaa-alamazighia (minority languages, at times in parallel with the Homeland programme) http://snrtlive.ma/idaatmohammedassadiss (Qur`an channel in Arabic, at times in parallel with the Homeland programme) http://snrtlive.ma/chaineinter (Chaîne Inter in French) According to http://snrtlive.ma/docs/grillechaineinter.pdf Grille De Programmes Chaîne Inter 2015/2016, the international channel is mostly in French. It does however include 1300-1330 LT Sat-Thu Spanish, 1330-1400 LT Sat-Thu English. On Fri the time slot is used for a repeat of the Friday prayer. News in French, English and Spanish are instead broadcast at 1230-1300 LT. (This schedule is a change when compared to the WRTH 2015.) At the moment, Morocco observes Daylight Shifting Time, ending in the night from 24 to 25 October (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, 14 October 2015, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 9590, Thazin R.(Presumed), Oct 10 0820-0828*, 34433, vernacular, Music, Closing announce at 0827, 0828 IS?, 0828 sign off. 9590, Thazin R.(Presumed), Oct 10 1322-1328*, 34433, vernacular, music, closing announce at 1327, 1328 IS?, 1328 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Re: Following from Eric van Willegen. "For our international Mighty KBC listeners: The last transmission on 7375 kHz from 0000 to 0300 UT will be on October 11th, 2015. Afterwards we start broadcasting on 7395 kHz from 2300 to 0200 UT, first effective October 17th (to 18th), 2015." 73, Kraig, KG4LAC`` This information was also transmitted as a digital text message last weekend on 7375 kHz. Fortunately, it is in use the robust MFSK-32. The former MFSK-64 had a worse performance over the scattered signals in the skip zone. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2015-10-11.htm#KBC Last Sunday the transatlantic signal of the VOA had again excellent SNR values: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2015-10-11.htm#VOA (roger, germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Oct 10 at 0050, YL in English, S8 with winds forecast; she has very good enunciation and sounds like a human. The Canadian Coast Guard website I referenced recently shows starting at 0048 is MCTS Placentia / VCP - Broadcasts via site St. Lawrence --- that`s rather imprecise or is there a place by that name in Newfoundland? Otherwise it may be the site just across the Labraborder in Quebec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA [Nfld being treated here as a separate radio ex-country] Re 2598-USB, CCG site St. Lawrence, Eike Bierwirth replies: ``Hi Glenn, if you use Canadian Coast Guard's website http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2015/Part-2-Atlantic-Facilities-Information then you can find not only transmission schedules but also transmitter site coördinates, such as St. Lawrence 46 55'06?N - 055 22'45?W which is in southern Neufundland`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 11725, Oct 10 at 0617, RNZI is playing a heartfelt version of ``Jerusalem``, their `Saturday Night` request/dedication show, which we love to listen to, but it`s been starting too late for us all northern-summer, 2 am CDT. Now from last Sunday in Sept, NZ is back on its own DST of UT+13, which makes it one hour earlier here, from 1 am CDT, --- and when we go off DST in November, will be even better, two hours earlier, to start at midnight CST (or rather after news on the hour, not worth mentioning in schedules). Locally on RNZ National, it`s a 5-hour show from 7 pm until midnight. I guess the whole thing is also on SW until 1100 UT, altho the RNZI sked does not specify it until 0908! Apparently not available on demand, but look at the partial playlists of great, mostly old, music: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturdaynight 11725 signal is VG as usual, even if not much else is propagating on 25m except Brasil --- Unlike Australia, which stix to 19 and 16 m until 0900! long faded out here. After an earthquake shaking us at 0921 UT [USGS: magnitude ``4.4, 18 km SW of Medford, Oklahoma, 2015-10-10, 09:20:43 UTC, 6.4 km`` deep -- - that`s about 15 miles due north of Enid! And there was another one I didn`t notice: ``3.7, 21 km SW of Medford, Oklahoma, 2015-10-10, 15:20:48 UTC, 5.4 km``], at 0924 I take the opportunity to check RNZI`s next frequency, 9700, and it too is VG, now playing rock music. By now RA has sensibly moved to night frequencies, where 9580 is also VG with soft folk rock. After 1100, RNZI 9700 beamswitch from NNE to NNW greatly reduces its signal here for another bihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Proposed B-15 northern winter/southern summer schedule 5950 1300 1600 61S,62,63W RAN 50 35 148 NZL RNZ 5950 1300 1600 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 325 148 NZL RNZ 7330 1545 1700 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 NZL RNZ DRM 9700 1300 1745 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 325 156 NZL RNZ 9700 1300 1745 61S,62,63W RAN 50 35 148 NZL RNZ 9765 0800 1100 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 325 156 NZL RNZ 9765 0800 1100 61S,62,63W RAN 50 35 156 NZL RNZ 9780 1550 1900 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 NZL RNZ DRM 11690 0645 0800 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 NZL RNZ DRM 11690 0645 0800 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 NZL RNZ DRM 11690 1745 2000 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 NZL RNZ DRM 11690 1745 2000 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 148 NZL RNZ DRM 11725 0500 0800 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 35 148 NZL RNZ 11725 0500 0800 61S,62,63W RAN 50 325 148 NZL RNZ 11725 1745 2200 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 35 156 NZL RNZ 11725 1745 2200 61S,62,63W RAN 50 325 156 NZL RNZ 13840 1100 1300 51,56,64S,65S RAN 100 325 156 NZL RNZ 15720 1845 2200 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 NZL RNZ DRM 15720 1845 2200 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 NZL RNZ DRM 15720 2145 0500 61S,62,63W RAN 50 35 156 NZL RNZ 15720 2145 0500 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50 325 156 NZL RNZ 17675 0250 0400 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 NZL RNZ DRM 17675 0250 0400 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 NZL RNZ DRM 17675 2050 2200 51,56,64S,65S RAN 35 325 156 NZL RNZ DRM 17675 2250 0200 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 NZL RNZ DRM 17675 2250 0200 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 NZL RNZ DRM (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) This includes alternatives --- they have only two transmitters, one AM and one DRM, altho the DRM one can also be switched to AM if necessary (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. RUSTING TITAHI BAY RADIO MASTS TO BE DEMOLISHED AFTER BEING DEEMED SAFETY RISKS --- JOEL MAXWELL Last updated 20:58, October 14 2015 The Titahi Bay radio mast - the second tallest structure in New Zealand. ROSS GIBLIN / FAIRFAX NZ [caption] New Zealand's second-tallest structure behind the Sky Tower is rusting and must be demolished as a safety hazard. The 220-metre Radio New Zealand transmission mast at Titahi Bay, Porirua, is set for demolition, along with its 50m neighbour, after engineers discovered significant corrosion. A third tower would remain. RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson said on Wednesday that the 50m tower was identified as the most at-risk in a report delivered on Monday. "They said 'Get it down immediately', so we fenced it off today ... no-one will be able to go into the hazard zone, we'll get that down in the next week or two." Engineers recommended the 220m tower be demolished by next March, but RNZ would instead look to bring it down this year. "It's a really tough environment for metal structures, but you reach a point where the advice is these things need to come down." He said while the 50m mast was now fenced off, the bigger tower was not. "It would take a lot of bad luck, including a catastrophic storm, to create a problem there." If it were to topple, it wouldn't fall "like a tree in the forest" rather it would fall in on itself. "Because it's partially a public area, and there are houses nearby, we just want to get it down as soon as possible." The 220m mast was opened in 1937 by prime minister Michael Joseph Savage, allowing nationwide radio broadcasting for the first time. It was not until Auckland's 328m Sky Tower was completed in 1996 that the mast lost its title as tallest structure in New Zealand. Titahi Bay Golf Club manager Tom Campbell said golfers would just have to play around the safety fence cutting into three fairways: the seventh, eighth and ninth holes. "This is a quiet period of the year, so it won't matter that much." He said RNZ contacted the club on Tuesday about the report, then fenced off the danger area. He said the 50m tower, which was on golf course land, was an obstacle and was something players could do without anyway. "Our balls won't bounce off it any more." Thompson said the masts broadcast on the AM frequency, and all current services could be run through the remaining tower. He said RNZ might have to replace one of the masts eventually, but AM broadcasting was not as important as it used to be. A meeting open to the community would be held on Tuesday at the Titahi Bay Golf Club from 7 pm, he said (via Paul Kristen, NZ, Oct 14, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Paul and other members, Thank you for uploading the picture of Wellington 567 kHz. I found it in the Photostream part of the Photos section. From the full text I think that the 567 kHz output is now coming from the 50M mast?? Perhaps there can be clarification here? All of the photos in the Photostream part have been copied into the ordered continental Albums. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, ibid.) Hi Dan, I suspect the prime reason for the mast's demise will be a lack of maintenance; this useless market-driven National Government which we have been stuck with for the past eight years froze Radio New Zealand's funding after they came to office. It's a wonder they have managed to keep operating at all without major programming changes. Being still non commercial RNZ, is still the jewel in the crown. Speaking personally, they're the only network in NZ that is worth listening to. FM is their main emphasis these days, being co-sited with TV masts, they don't own the transmitting sites so won't have the added costs associated with them. Radio New Zealand National is transmitted on FM in mono because of the cost factor (you can hear them in stereo via the internet and the Free View and Sky TV service whilst Radio New Zealand Concert which is FM only is in stereo on all fronts) (Paul Kristen, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. 9689.90, V.of Nigeria: Oct 10 0558-0614, 0655-0658*, 33443-34443, Hausa, IS from 0559, Opening announce, Talk, Drums IS at 0657, 0658 sign off. Oct 11 0623-0658*, 34433, Hausa, Talk and local music, Drums IS at 0657, // 7255 kHz (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct. 11, 1800+: Voice of Nigeria on 7254.9 with the English service, presumed // 15120 DRM (not decodable on remote DRM tuner in Italy). 15120 was missing recently most evenings. This morning, Oct. 11, 7254.9 // 9689.9 after 0600 as usual. From 1800, only 7254.9 again, nothing on 15120. Afternoon transmission unheard on both 9690 (or anywhere else) and livestream - the usual situation for two weeks at least. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Radio Dandal Kura found on 13 September on a new schedule as follows: 0700-0800 on 15480-Woofferton (ex 0500-0700 on 7415-Ascension). Fair on a clear channel. 1800-2100 on 11830-Ascension (ex 1800-1900 on 12050-Ascension). Weak on a clear channel. This station transmits in Kanuri to northern Nigeria (Michael Ford, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) From July 2nd: 15480 0700 0800 46SE WOF 250 165 15 216 1234567 020715 251015 Kau G BAB. Need to check the signal here locally (Wolfgang Buschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ?? I`m still hearing something in African language after 0500 on 7415, presumably this (gh, DXLD) And so are many others: Dandal Kura (Ascension Island Relay), 7415, 0536 8 OCT - SINPO = 15211. ?African Language?, male announcer. QSB=moderate rate with noisy carrier occasionally showing peaks with modulation above noise floor. sf80.0 a77, k5, geomag : minor storm. 250kw, beamAz 55 , bearing 90 . Sangean ATS505 w/Kaito KA33 in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas [NEVADA], United States, 11498 km from transmitter at Ascension Island. Local time: 2236 (Rodney Johnson, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, 7415, Dandal Kura, Oct 11 0651-0659*, 24332-34332, Kanuri, Talk, ID at 0651 and 0656, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ASCENSION ISLAND, 7415, "Dandal Kura Radio", Babcock brokered African language Kanuri service logged at 0511 UT on Oct 12, S=9+5dB audio level here in southern Germany. But audio feed was NOT CLEAR, spill- over cross-talk in background also to mention. Some undesired coupling heard so far. Maybe sound mix in Babcock UK control room happened? Next door ASC BBC 7445 kHz was totally 'clean' (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7415, Oct 13 at 0537, good signal in African language about Nigeria, no doubt Kanuri from the US-sponsored Dandal Kura for the Boko-Haram stronghold in the northeast. Aoki shows since July 1 this has been 250 kW, 55 degrees from ASCENSION at 05-07. Checking here since in Oct BDXC-UK Communication, Michael Ford reported that the 05-07 7415 broadcast had been replaced by 07-08 on 15480 Woofferton. I don`t know about that emission, but it`s certainly still on 7415 earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I've been logging that frequency around that time for awhile now under a wide variety of conditions and have been assuming the same thing: http://swldx.tumblr.com/search/7415Khz But something happens at 0600z that makes it weaker, either a power cut or a beam change? Dandal Kura (Ascension Island Relay): 7415, 0557 21 SEP - DANDAL KURA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA). SINPO = 25322. ?African Language?, male announcer interviews male over the phone. 0559z carrier abruptly ends then comes back 0600z with weaker modulation. 0602z carrier ends or fades out. Fades back 0604z, substantially weaker (beam change?). sf102.9, a43, k3, geomag: unsettled. 250kw, beamAz 55 , bearing 90 . Sangean ATS505 w/Kaito KA33 in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 11498 km from transmitter at Ascension Island. Local time: 2257. Dandal Kura (Ascension Island Relay): 7415, 0536 11 OCT - DANDAL KURA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA). SINPO = 25322. ?African Language?, male announcer interviewing male. QSB=moderate rate, good modulation on wavy noisy carrier that often dips below noise floor. sf82.0, a12, k4, geomag : active. 250kw, beamAz 55 , bearing 90 . Sangean ATS505 w/Kaito KA33 in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 11498KM from transmitter at Ascension Island. Local time: 2236 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Radio Paisano: 6925.1v/AM, 2201-2210+, 11-Oct; Italian-accented M with talk & tunes; "Mamma mia, thatza somea spicey meataball." SIO=2+32+ with drifty frequency with accompanying hum. +++ 6925.1/AM, 2240-2247+, 12-Oct; Apparently repeat program with cutesy Italian-oriented tunes; RadioPaisano@gmail.com SIO=2+33- with LSB pesky & buzz burst QRM; apparently solved the drift problem from previous day (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow- tie; 60 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Suspect same transmitter as Liquid Radio on signature off-frequency (gh, DXLD) 6925 - Radio Paisano at 2245, Oct. 12,2015 - Excellent reception of this annual Columbus day pirate broadcast. Solid signal, S8, with only slight QRM from ever-present Portuguese fishermen's net. Very entertaining, excellently politically incorrect, program of 1950-60’s Italian novelty songs. Mainly from New Jersey’s own Lou Monte. I received a QSL from “Luigi” in less than 10 hours. QSL has a picture of Columbus’s fleet and was #155. I mentioned to “Luigi” that I had lost a previous QSL in a computer crash. He was kind enough to forward a copy of that QSL from 2008. This was not expected, or requested. What a great operator and a pleasure to deal with (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR with 25 x 50 SE Terminated Superloop antenna, Oct 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6955-USB, Oct 12 at 0325, rock music at S9; 0326 segué; 0331 pause and ID as ``Accelerate`` --- this was clearly enunciated, rather than ``XLR-8``, more music. It was not on at my previous bandscan about an hour earlier; there must have been a break, since first logs of it started at 0001, and the last one at 0312, per http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23874.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. COMMENTARIOS --- John Sedlacek: Wolverine Radio is a station I truly find enjoyable broadcast after broadcast. Wish one day one would be able to have copies of his shows available for replay at home (Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Sidenotes about earthquakes around Enid: see NEW ZEALAND; BOLIVIA; COLOMBIA ** OKLAHOMA. 780, Oct 9 at 0117 UT, KSPI Stillwater, 250-watt daytimer has left its carrier on again way past official FCC October sunset of 0000 UT (Nov & Dec: 2315 UT). I can hear WBBM IL and KCEG CO mixing underneath. 780, Oct 10 at 0024, steady open carrier/dead air obviously from daytimer KSPI Stillwater; ditto at: 0046, 0103, 0112; and 0124 when I am hearing WBBM under it. Oct sunset is officially 0000 UT! (Nov: 2330 UT) 780, Oct 12 at 0306 UT, daytimer KSPI Stillwater is still burning dead-air carrier, with CO and IL audible underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 800, KQCV, Oklahoma City. 0928 October 10, 2015. Female with inspirational words, mention of Oklahoma, then man, "... right here on KQCV." For their puny power of 2500/1000, this one gets out. I often hear it back at the house. [BECA] (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See DX-peditions; what, no PJB? I get it here, hi; aimed at Brasil then tho (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Oct 8 at 1231 UT, KGYN Guymon, but with Kansas news from Mid-America network which owns it, then ad for something in Amarillo TX, nothing about OK. After all, Guymon is in Texas County, and also in No Man`s Land. Meanwhile, between these there is a brief break in transmission and signal weakens a bit, which is not what one would expect if going from direxional-west night, to ND day. {could it be they`ve got it backwards, direxional day, ND night??} Anyhow, official FCC Oct sunrise is not until 1245 UT (Nov: 1330 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. CALL CHANGES: FREQ OLD CALL CITY OF LICENSE NEW CALL 1270 KTUZ Claremore, OK KRXO 1570 KZLI Catoosa, OK KTUZ 1650 KYHN Fort Smith, AR KFSW (Robert J Wien, FCC info, IRCA DX Monitor Oct 17 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. In late September, I received a phone call out of the blue from Rick Sellers of Drumright OK, who is in the oil business, and also the ``friend and financier, and owner`s agent`` of KUSH, 1600, Cushing OK. Seems he has been reading my log reports including about KUSH, the latest of which was in DXLD 14-45 (and brief follow-up 14-46) of last November, when we were monitoring their Saturday morning Indian program, and then, ``What about the CP for power increase from 1 to 5 kW? Certainly still sounds like 1 kW. FCC shows no info about it being LIC yet for that output, but there was a Consummation of Transfer of Control on July 14, 2014. The confusing FCC info also shows it`s presently ND-1 with 70 watts at night, while the CP calls for ND-2 still with 70 watts at night. Yet, it`s one tower, and surely non-direxional at all times. Direxionality in the daytime might have been a requirement for higher power but not so indicated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1746, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Rick wanted to update that info, so told me all about KUSH, as I summarize from notes: They have until Xmas to activate the CP for 5 kW, and plan to meet the deadline. 5 kW transmitter is on the way, and hope to be on air with it by mid-December. That should also get them better into at least part of Oklahoma City, daytimes. Already got a new transmitter in 2011, rehabbed the tower and the rest of the station in 2012 --- it works like new altho it doesn`t look like new. Rick wonders if co-channel Vietnamese station in The Metroplex, KRVA, 25000/930 watts U4, is cheating. Says at SR & SS, it`s hard for him to hear KUSH only 10 miles away. Not sure here, but even if it isn`t, KUSH doesn`t have much of a chance with 70 watts at night (when it`s Yahoo Sports Radio, anyway). If not KRVA, it`s mostly a contest between Denver and St Louis at near right angles to each other on 1600. I wondered if he had looked into an FM duplicator; he has, but so far nothing available that would be cost-effective. KREK in Drumright, for instance, was sold for $300K. A translator closer to Tulsa would have cost $40K. Has several news sources; compares it to KRMG 740 Tulsa in the good old days. Rick, 60, says he has been into radio since childhood; put up a rock `n` roll pirate FM in the late 60s, with 900 watts from Grove, reaching Tulsa, got TVI complaints (channel 6 there, you know), then went straight after an FCC visit. Rick says they are keeping the station local, not a lot of canned stuff (but Dennis Miller and Clark Howard occupy 6 hours a weekday per sked). KUSH music format is ``Americana`` at least 11 am - 1 pm CT, and he thinx it`s the only such station in OK, at least the only one reporting to an Americana website. Also plays some ``Red Dirt`` Texas music. ``The KUSH Team in the Morning --- 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM Monday Through Friday on KUSH. A quick Start to your day with the latest news and local information, local guests and more`` KUSH has been owned by the Kelly family since the 1960s. But heir apparent Sean Kelly, son of founder Don Kelly, was killed in car wreck last year; his widow and family continue to own it, and most of the staff are women. Don Kelly also lent his name to KELI in Tulsa. Rick also mentioned some connexion with KMOD in Tulsa. Later I look up on website info about Sean, including: NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE CHARGE FILED IN KUSH RADIO OWNER'S FATAL ACCIDENT Patti Weaver 1600kush.com Published on: 12/30/2014 (Stillwater, Okla.) – A Mack dump truck driver was charged Monday with negligent homicide in a Highway 33 collision west of Cushing that took the life of KUSH radio station owner Sean Kelly, 53, of Stillwater, nearly a year ago. The defendant, David Bruce Thomas, 52, of Shawnee, then an employee of Kinder Dozer Inc. of Carney, was not arrested when the charge, which is a misdemeanor, was filed by Payne County Assistant District Attorney Tyson Branyan 11 months after the fatal accident. . . http://1600kush.com/story.php?id=7915§ion=1 Formal obit for Sean Michael Kelly: http://1600kush.com/story.php?id=6638§ion=1 Partial program schedule and link for live streaming: http://1600kush.com/index.php?section=7 Includes the Saturday morning Indian show, `Native Air` with Hugh Foley, an OSU professor and also the PD of KUSH. I was going to monitor it again on Oct 3, but other activities caused me to miss it. Friday Oct 9 I checked the caradio around 1530 UT, and found KRVA still heavily QRMing KUSH on skywave almost a bihour after sunrise, but it was about to fade out. Saturday Oct 10, however, tuning the NRD-545 and ALA-330S antenna aimed eastward for best reception, and nothing but a SAH from KRVA even when nulling KUSH on the PL-880: I tune in at 1457 UT during a song; 1500 UT, KUSH ID by Lee Denney, State Rep. for District 33 (I thought she said 32, but she`s here:) http://www.okhouse.gov/Members/District.aspx?District=33 and is axually Speaker Pro Tem. Then some ads: 1501 UT, Quicken Loans, mental-bright.com; 1502 UT, E- cigarette starter kit, free! 1503 UT Legal Advocates for Indian Country, http://laic-law.com --- 1504 UT no show opening other than drumming & chanting, which continues until 1513 UT when Hugh finally introduces `Native Air`, talks about football games; 10:14 TC in English and brief bit in a native language; Sac & Fox news in English including: a ``rap council`` coming Oct 24, and at this very hour Oct 10, another important S&F meeting is in progress. I find its site: http://sacandfoxnation-nsn.gov/ Sac & Fox is one of the smallest tribes; Wikipedia: ``The Sac and Fox Nation is headquartered in Stroud, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional area covers Lincoln, Payne, and Pottawatomie Counties. Their Principal Chief is George Thurman.[1] Five elected officials, each elected for a four-year term, govern the tribe. Elections are held in odd-numbered years in August.[2] Of the 3,794 enrolled tribal members, 2,557 live in Oklahoma. Membership to the tribe requires a minimum 1/8 blood quantum.[1]`` He looks at a language page, including a word list, such as a long word for Moon he`s going to have to practice before pronouncing; and shorter ones for fire and pumpkin. It seems that LAIC is the show sponsor. 1517 UT plays some more drumming & chanting featuring ``Young Bear recorded from the Enid Powwow 2015`` --- that must have been where we were last Saturday afternoon! 1520 UT ID as ``the mighty Kush``. At this time I decide to turn on the computer and hear it better on webcast, but unfortunately it requires some flash plug-in I haven`t installed. So far I haven`t heard either slogan as in IRCA DX Monitor Oct 3: ``1600 KUSH Cushing, OK, old slogan: "The Source"; new: "The Voice Of Cimarron Valley"``. Nor do I see either on the website, even by searching. Tnx to Rick for calling, and I hope he eventually sees this writeup! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Oct 10 at 1406 UT, open carrier, dead air except for big hum from KZLS Enid/Hennessey, not unusual for them. I`ve better things to do than keep listening for it to come back, but it is remodulating with music at next check 1744 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. The NRC advises: 1650, KYHN, AR, Fort Smith - Call change to KFSW. (Station Locator has this call but the station website has KYHN as at October 11? Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK. MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) Had the stream on and they are still identifying as KYHN, at least today. Maybe the call change starts tomorrow. 73, (Guido Schotmans, Belgium, Oct 11, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 106.3, application for a new 6 kW station in Waukomis, which is the first small town south of Enid on US 81, whose claim to fame has been as a 45-mph speed trap. The town is entirely on the west side of the hiway, and there is *no* pedestrian traffic across it. Yet it`s close enough to Enid that one could ``Walk home`` if necessary after getting a speeding ticket (no, I never have; TG for cruise control). This PUBLIC NOTICE appeared on page 2 of the Enid News & Eagle Oct 13: ``On October 1, 2015, Chisholm Trail Broadcasting CO., (``CTBC``) filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission seeking authorization for an FM radio station operating on Channel 292 at Waukomis, Oklahoma. The sole officer, director, and shareholder of CTBC is Hiram Champlin. The facilities sought are for a Class A FM station operating at 6 kw with an antenna height of 109.7 m above ground level at a geographical location of North Latitude 36-17-15.9 and West Longitude 98-2-11.8, with studios at an appropriate location to be determined. A copy of the application and related material is on file for public inspection during regular business hours at Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, 316 E. Willow, Enid, OK`` (retyped by gh) FCC info: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl?Facility_id=198764 Bing map shows the site is west of Waukomis, but all of Enid, and Hennessey are within the 60 dbu contour. Paving the way for this? Also on record is a vacant allotment: ``Licensee: LINDA CRAWFORD, D/B/A WAUKOMIS, Service Designation: FA VACANT Allotment record Channel/Class: 292A Frequency: 106.3 MHz Vacant allotment`` Hiram Champlin has two broadcasting companies: Chisholm Trail Broadcasting owns 95.7 KXLS, 107.1 KNID, 1390 KCRC (plus spurs close to 1360 & 1420), 1640 KZLS, and also has another APP for 6 kW in Hennessey OK on 97.7. It`s the next town south of Waukomis (and the 1640 transmitter site is east of there). Champlin Broadcasting owns 96.9 KQOB and 99.7 KNAH, both rimshooting the Oklahoma City market. KQOB COL is still Enid, site halfway to OKC west of Crescent; KNAH COL is Mustang, SW side of OKC, now mostly blocked in Enid itself by new LPFM on 99.9. KNAH started out as COL Alva, site halfway to Enid, as KXLS, later bought out by Champlin, and moved to Mustang, while KXLS calls transferred to another property, 95.7 Lahoma, ex-KNID, ex-KMKZ, ex-KACL (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9740.0, Oct 10 at 0010, VP signal with ME? music. Must be RSO extending the scheduled 22-24 UT channel instead of switching to 9500, where there is nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Open carrier/dead air from Radio Sultanate of Oman on Oct 15: from 1426 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English from 1505 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic continues at 1555 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj45M04Sf7s&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpeEzc0YY4&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Checked three hours the ME Perseus receiver SDR unit at Doha, Qatar in the Middle East this morning, heard very distorted Islamabad signal, listen to the recording, nothing changed to the audio signal, the sound is really so TERRIBLE kind. 0457:40 UT strong Urdu service crash start on 15395.000 PAK R Pakistan Islamabad, distorted signal, ID at 0458 UT, and in HQ prayer at 0459 UT. S=9+10dB signal into Qatar ME. Limited 4 kHz wide heavily distorted signal. Oct 15. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As far as I know, this is one of the repaired 250 kW units of 1960 vintage. There appears to be only one of them working. The distortion problem has been on-going for years now, and despite several attempts to improve audio, they have never completely succeeded. I've asked for information about the two 100 kW transmitters that were delivered to Karachi, but I don't get an answer. I can remember being told several years ago that the old 10 and 50 kW transmitters had been removed to make room for the new ones. But then, nothing more. However, I understand that they intend to continue broadcasting into B-15. I haven't seen any registrations yet though. I've heard signals on 15395 and also 15310 (0830-1104 UT) but never strong enough to copy. 73 from (Noel Green, Blackpool, NW England, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Pakistan PBC on Oct 15 from 1325 on 15485 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME IS 1330-1530 on 15485 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Urdu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDIszkFF9rs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RlDpYStkHU&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Fotos de Radio Santa Mónica y el parque de antenas en Onda Tropical en 4965 kHz, AM 660 kHz y FM 93.9 MHz desde Wanchaq, Cusco - Photo of Radio Santa Mónica in 4965 Tropical Wave kHz, 660 kHz AM and FM 93.9 MHz. http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/fotos-de-radio-santa-monica-y-el-parque.html Antenas parque Fotos Radio Santa Mónica, tenga en cuenta: también tiene otras antenas de otras compañías en esta ubicación. Photos park antennas Radio Santa Mónica , note: also has other antennas from other companies in this location. Ahora tienen un sitio web, es: / They now have a website, is: http://rtvsantamonica.com/ (Daniel Wyllyans, Oct 14, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980, Oct 9 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0106:56.5*, which is 32.5 seconds later than last check Oct 4 until 0106:24*, average slippage 6.5 seconds later per diem 5980, Oct 10 at 0038, JBA carrier from R. Chaski; retune just in time to catch autocutoff at approx. 0107:03* which is another 6.5 seconds later than last night at 0106:56.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUNTLAND. Today, Oct 12, 13800 CUSB, 1558+, talk, mentioning Somalia a few times at 1600+, likely in Somali then into traditional music. Quite strong on Italian remote receivers at 1600, not so here in Germany. Signal declining, almost inaudible at 1645 not checked later. Not heard recently. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Sunday 6 Sept: 0100 UT. Radio Romania International in Romanian on 7335 kHz. Another strong signal from this always reliable station. This slot each week features classical music and is a replay of the first hour of the previous Friday’s two hour programme broadcast on domestic Radio România Muzical of live music from the RRM "Mihail Jora" studios. During the winter season from October to end of June is the Radio Concert Season of live broadcasts. During summer, there are other recorded classical music programmes in this slot, and this night I enjoyed an hour of light popular operatic works. I’m no expert in opera, and although many of the works were familiar, I couldn’t name those tunes. The second hour is broadcast on RRI, but from 0200 UT is web only. There is so little classical music offerings on shortwave that I think that it’s a shame that the full 2 hour broadcast isn’t carried on shortwave, starting at 0000 UT and replacing the As We Like! programme of club/dance music (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Also well heard into North America, the real target, on 7335 and 9520 at 00-02 UT Sundays. In B-15 these shift to: 5910 and 7340 at 01-03. 5910 likely to suffer from LAH de HJDH Colombia, a station ignored by the Big Guns / big `uns (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Sunday 20 Sept: 1800 UT. Radio Romania International in Romanian on 11975 kHz with Zi-le D-Alead-Ale Noastre – a one-hour programme of folk music with male presenter, today including some interviews with a man and, later, a woman - both via phone call. Whilst I couldn’t understand the interviews, they were not too long, and the great folk music soon was played again. I understand that it’s maybe not everyone's cup of tea - but I love it! – and will frequently tune in (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) B-15: 5990 and 7375, and presumably one hour later (gh, DXLD) As of October 25th 2015 RRI broadcasts on new SW frequencies. Please check them out: [ENGLISH only] schedule-valid-from-october-25th-2015 WESTERN EUROPE 0630 – 0700 7345; 9600 (DRM) 1200 – 1300 13580; 15460 1800 – 1900 6090; 7350 (DRM) 2130 – 2200 6030 (DRM); 7375 2300 – 0000 6015; 7220 SOUTH-EAST AFRICA 1200 – 1300 15150; 17765 NORTH AMERICA (East Coast) 2130 – 2200 6170; 7310 0100 – 0200 6145; 7325 NORTH AMERICA (West Coast) 0400 – 0500 6020; 7340 JAPAN 2300 – 0000 7395; 9620 AUSTRALIA 0630 – 0700 17780; 21580 INDIA 0400 – 0500 11790; 13730(DRM) (via Richard Lemke, AB, and Bill Mattheews, OH, DXLD) Winter B-15 schedule of Radio Romania International ARABIC 0730-0756 11660G 15200G 15330T 17810T 1300-1326 11945G 13660T 15400T 15460G 17810T 1630-1656 9680T 11760T 11975G 15170G AROMANIAN 1530-1556 5955S 1730-1756 5955S 1930-1956 5945S CHINESE 0500-0526 15220T 17640T-DRM 1330-1356 11855T 13660T ENGLISH 0100-0156 6145G 7325G 0400-0456 6020G 7340G 11790T 13730T 0630-0656 7345T 9600G-DRM 17780G 21580T 1200-1256 13580T 15150G 15460T 17765G 1800-1856 6090T 7350T-DRM 2130-2156 6030G-DRM 6170T 7310T 7375G 2300-2356 6015G 7220G 7395T 9620T FRENCH 0200-0256 5975G 7395G 0600-0626 6040G-DRM 7360G 9770T 11790T 1100-1156 15255G 17640T 17870G 21580T 1700-1756 5935T 7400T 2100-2126 6030G-DRM 7375G GERMAN 0700-0726 6020T-DRM 7345T 1500-1556 6040T 7330T 1900-1956 6010T 7405T-DRM ITALIAN 1500-1526 5955S 1700-1726 5955S 1900-1926 5945S-DRM ROMANIAN 0100-0256 5910T 7340T 0500-0556 6145G 7220G 0800-0856 15370T 15430G Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17850G 17860T 0900-0956 15380G 15430T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17745G 17775T 1000-1056 15260G 17640T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17870G 21580T 1300-1356 9880S Saftica transmission opens earlier 1400-1556 9655G 11975G 1700-1756 5920G 7370G 1800-2056 5990G 7375G RUSSIAN 0530-0556 5940T-DRM 7320T 1400-1456 9880T 11985T 1600-1626 5930T-DRM 9800T SERBIAN 1630-1656 5955S 1830-1856 5945S 2030-2056 6030S SPANISH 0000-0056 7325T 7335G 9525G 9730T 0300-0356 6125G 7335T 7345G 9470T 2000-2056 6010T 7235T 2200-2256 7380T 9790T UKRAINIAN 1600-1626 5955S 1800-1826 5945S 2000-2026 6030S G=Galbeni 2x300 kW, S=Saftica 1x100 kW, T=Tsiganeshti 3x300 kW. (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RadioCom Tsiganeshti-2 - rather Saftica site via revolving horizontal log-periodic antenna to neighbouring countries, planned as follows in B-15: 5945 1800 1830 29SW SAF 75 30 812 Ukr RRO 5945 1830 1900 28SW SAF 75 270 812 Srp RRO 5945 1900 1930 28SW SAF 100 270 812 Ita RRO 5945 1930 2000 28SE SAF 100 210 812 Rup RRO 5955 1500 1530 28SW SAF 100 270 812 Ita RRO 5955 1530 1600 28SE SAF 100 210 812 Rup RRO 5955 1600 1630 29SW SAF 100 30 812 Ukr RRO 5955 1630 1700 28SW SAF 100 270 812 Srp RRO 5955 1700 1730 28SW SAF 100 270 812 Ita RRO 5955 1730 1800 28SE SAF 100 210 812 Rup RRO 6030 2000 2030 29SW SAF 100 30 812 Ukr RRO 6030 2030 2100 28SW SAF 100 270 812 Srp RRO 9880 1300 1400 28N SAF 100 300 812 Ron RRO (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 20, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 14 Oct via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Comintern Radio, new winter schedule, probably from Oct 1: 1200-1500 on 6990 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu, ex 1500-1800 in Summer Comintern Radio relay Local Radio Voronezh in Russian from 1404, Oct 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-vfJsfik4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiO6vfHkqZo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXXxGbODvUM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux47h-TLBUM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1m_QOMfr5U&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Local Radio Voronezh via Comintern Radio, Oct 10 1200-1500 on 6990 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMQkNG1O2Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tm_yAAs1L4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KbDHnEmrik&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-ux4DHfbU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JiSAngLR4w&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Local Radio Voronezh and Comintern Radio on Oct 12 till 1405 6990 VOR 001 kW / non-dir EaEu Russian Local Radio Voronezh from 1405 6990 VOR 001 kW / non-dir EaEu Russian Comintern Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOaRDHYGks&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJrj21DUSM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mzoqQ-JA94&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cnvzGNobmM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Local Radio Voronezh on Oct 13 from 1405 on 6990 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeS7_zJ3HZ8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daaOwen3zEI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AixFDgDrIuI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkh-nSKiXrM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Observer SW News Oct 13-14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Seemingly the only remaining Russian [SW] broadcast station, despite of Armavir Krasnodar kray outlet of Radio Maykop, Adygeyan Radio relay towards nationals - in former Osmanic empire a century ago ... in Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt. From Oct 25 on B-15 schedule: 6000 kHz 1800-2000 29 ARM 100kW 188degr Adygey RUS VOR GFC (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 10, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 14 Oct via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. During the EDXC Conference last month we listened to the wide range of FM stations in St Petersburg. There were about 35 in total. My time listening led me think that Russian chanson seems quite a popular format with that style heard on Piter (Peter) FM, Radio Dacha, Retro FM and Radio Shanson. “Russian chanson (Russkiy shanson) covers a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, songs performed by singer-songwriters, and Blatnaya Pesnya or "criminals' songs" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld.” (Wikipedia). A lot of American and British music, although all of these genres also had Russian equivalents on other stations. It was great to be able to hear famous old stations Radio Rossii and Mayak in glorious FM. Hearing a version of Abba’s ‘Ding a dong’ in Russian on Russkoye Radio was amusing but my favourite station was Detskoe Radio, which in the daytime is a station for children and parents with fairy tales etc. but from midnight to 0600 local time it plays a relaxing non-stop mix of ambient, chill out & gentle classical music (Chrissy Brand, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9714.923, Usual odd frequency of HQ service via NON- directional NE / ME antenna from BSKSA Riyadh, at 0524 UT on Oct 12. Usual this signal fade-out at this time slot in Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Oct 3, 0758, SIBC heard from Perseus site in Edmonton AB at virtually local quality - this with 20 db attenuation set to minimize R. Rebelde on 5025 which usually overpowers SIBC. Tonight, however, SIBC was overpowering Cuba from 0758 to past 0900 with armchair listening - the best I have ever hrd SIBC. SINPO 4+4444 with gradual improvement over time. Many interesting programs in Pidgin and English. Program schedule by woman at 0800, news at 0801, frequent commercials and local announcements, pop vocals and local music - at 0831 drums, "Thanks to God" messages and information about death of a Chief in the Isabel province, qualifications and rules for National Youth Awards, etc. with drums again at 0843. Man giving PSA for villages to be visited by government health field teams. Anchor Baby Milk commercial. Pop music. Man with schedule times and other PSAs on traffic safety. More pop and local music with Bible reading from Luke at 0859, ID of "SIBC, Voice of the Nation", Storytelling by man at 0900 to past 0910 (Bruce Churchill via DXPlorer via SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) 5020, Oct 3, 1930, SIBC with quite good signal and music. Heard several days at this time lately. Usually gone around 2000 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) 5020, Oct 7, 1900, Solomon Island Broadcasting Corp., Honiara. Viel statisches QRM, aber der Sendebeginn mit der Hymne um 19 Uhr UT war auf 5020 zu hören. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, ibid.) 5020, Oct 14, I awaken at 1157, so hasten to this frequency almost buried in splash from Rebelde 5025 music. The JBA carrier does cut off at 1158:42* [not 1159:42* as in original report] in keeping with SIBC normal practice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7119.98 approx, Oct 12 at 0332, fair carrier but no modulation from R. Hargeisa, just after sign-on --- but wait, turning up the volume, there is JBM Qur`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. SABC legal drama ongoing --- Two articles about the SABC losing its battle in the Supreme Court of Appeal. http://emma.thedailymaverick.co.za/servlet/link/3890/581065/32116434/3037096 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/co/UqJF/~3/Q71bJeC3H-k/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email SABC heads to Constitutional Court http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Motsoeneng-case-heads-to-the-Constitutional-Court-20151009?isapp=true (via Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 10 at *0114:39, JBA carrier from SLBC, soon cuts off and back on, so weak I can`t tell exactly when the music starts, before 0115:00, and mis-timesignal ending about 0115:17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. CENTRAL DARFUR GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH FOUR RADIO STATIONS COUNTERING RADIO DABANGA http://allafrica.com/stories/201510090335.html Khartoum — The government of Central Darfur has agreed with the federal Ministry of Information on the establishment of FM broadcasting stations in the state. After a meeting with Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman, Central Darfur Governor Jaafar Abdelhakim told reporters in Khartoum on Wednesday that the new project aims to connect the people of Darfur to "the current issues and cultures of their country through radio and television". The meeting decided to form a follow-up committee on these issues and the appointment of radio and television correspondents in Central Darfur. Apart from a long-wave [sic] radio station in the state capital Zalingei, three other FM radio stations will be established in Jebel Marra, Wadi Salih, and Um Dukhun localities, "to cover the entire state," he said. Radio Dabanga Late 2014, the broadcasts of Radio Dabanga were discussed in the federal parliament. The MPs stressed the need to disrupt the radio's "hostile activities" or completely stop them. They accused the Sudanese media of being "almost non-existent", and asked the Minister of Information to establish radio stations, TV channels, newspapers, and a Sudanese satellite channel to counter Dabanga. Speaker of parliament El Fateh Izzeddin gave the Ministry of Information a one-month ultimatum to create a remedial plan to cover the conflict zones in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan. Radio Dabanga broadcasts in shortwave to the whole of Sudan and neighbouring countries. Satellite broadcasts are confined to the larger cities. (See elsewhere on this site for audio feeds.) Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) 11645.0, CVA Radio Dabanga, southern Sudan service via SMG Vatican radio center relay site. Many IDs and jingle repeats. - next on adjacent channel: 11650.0 noted a TECHNICIAN measurement alignment signal ON AIR. 0530- 0540 UT. 1000 Hertz tone signal checks over and over again, switched on and off. I guess it was not the Sudan secret service as jamming sound against 11645 kHz Radio Dabanga UN sponsored radio service (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I guess it still is, originally co-channel before Dabanga shifted down (gh, DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 4760.0, Trans World R, Manzini, -1625*, Oct 10, good signal when the annoying spurios signal here was completely gone. Only station remaining after sign off was AIR Port Blair (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, DSWCI DX Window Oct 15 via DXLD) New frequency! (DSWCI Ed., ibid.) Not so new: in HFCC A-15 as from at least start of season: ``4760 1420 1625 53SW MAN 100 3 0 101 1234567 290315 251015 D ENGSHA SWZ TWR TWR 7006 NEL`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. EXTRA GRIMETON RADIO/SAQ TRANSMISSION --- There will be a transmission with the Alexanderson VLF alternator on 17.2 kHz on “United Nations Day” October 24th, 2015 at 10:00 UT (12:00 local time) Start up and tuning from about 0930 UT. This time we do not require any QSL-reports and will not verify. There will be activity on amateur radio frequencies with the call "SK6SAQ". Any of following frequencies: - 14.035 CW - 7.035 CW - 7.080 SSB - 7.050 PSK31 QSL for SK6SAQ via SK6DK or SM-bureau. The radiostation is open to vistors 10:00-15:00 local time. No entrance fee. Welcome! Also read our web site: http://www.alexander.n.se Regards. SM6NM/Lars (From Lars Kalland, October 11, 2015, Posted by: Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. MORE CUTS FOR SWISSINFO.CH, SUCCESSOR TO SWISS RADIO INTERNATIONAL. Swiss Broadcasting Corporation announces job cuts - SWI swissinfo.ch The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), swissinfo.ch’s parent company, announced on Tuesday the elimination of 250 jobs, following ... http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/public-media_swiss-broadcasting-corporation-announces-job-cuts/41702476 "Smaller operations, including swissinfo.ch, which publishes news online in ten languages, and RTR, the Romansh-language broadcaster, will contribute to savings by decreasing current operating expenses. swissinfo.ch went through a cost-cutting exercise in 2011. Its annual budget was reduced from CHF26 million to CHF17 million and the number of full-time-equivalent positions cut from 126 to 86. Around one third of these losses were incurred by the editorial services, with the remainder in the support sector." (via Kim Elliott, Oct 8, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAHITI. Arm chair copy --- Like I have never heard it before. 0532 - OCT 14 - 738 kHz (Colin Newell, BC, IRCA via DXLD) A reminder of how *early* this can make it to N America --- remember that Tahiti is in the same timezone as Hawaii, UT -10. Papeete sunset was 17:58* local, i.e. 0358 UT. At 18 degrees south, it varies less than an hour over the year, but will get as late as 0439 UT in a trimonth, per gaisma.com So when I get a 702 kHz carrier at 0548 as I did Oct 13, could it be from west rather than east? It`s still 2+ hours before 0808 UT sunset upon 50 kW in Sydney, tho there are a couple of low-power NZers on 702; sun sets at 0637 UT upon a 10 kW station in Auckland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9230, R Free Asia, 1500, Oct 04, Cantonese (presumed), ID in English “This is Radio Free Asia“, ID in Cantonese or Mandarin (another programme in Chinese was reported from 1500 on 6730 // 9155, 9180, 10960, 14775, 14870 which was not CNR1 compared with 6000 and 11925), 34433 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window Oct 11 via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.00, Tajik R., Oct 10 1342-1352, 35343, Tajik, Talk and music, ID at 1349 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4790-, Oct 11 at 1309, very poor signal with talk, presumed BBC Uzbek relay. No ChiCom jamming reported anywhere I`ve seen, so maybe this tactic is working. Over here, CODAR is the enemy. See also UNIDENTIFIED 4790, Oct 14 at 1255, very poor carrier vs CODAR, 1259 BaBcoCk IS for a bit, 1259.5 announcement, 1300 5+1 timesignal, i.e. BBC Uzbek relay for half an hour, but it seems the carrier comes on way earlier. I imagine it`s quite a bigsig into neighboring Uzbekistan, but why don`t the ChiCom jam it? It`s only 307 km = 191 miles from Dushanbe to Tashkent, unless you`re driving: 423 km/263 statutes. [and non] No second carrier audible now, but less than a semihour after 1238 sunrise here, between 1300 and 1304, I get lots of JBAs on 60m, a few with bits of modulation, mostly matching Tibet/China/India frequencies, except for two on 4750: Indonesia/Bangladesh/China? --- 4760, 4800, 4810, 4820, 4835-Australia, 4870, 4880, 4895, 4910, 4920, 4940-China, 4970, 5040, 5050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. Weak signal from Voice of Tajik, October 9 from 1345 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qCJXLlfc9Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JylpqYHYvZk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJZHgL6AqY&feature=youtu.be Weak signal of Voice of Tajik on Oct 12: from 1350 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUo0LMPP0T8&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. NEW ONE FOR MY LOG!! Radio Thailand, 15590: Before this recording was made, I heard an ad for Benny Hanna's restaurant and some kind of medical services place. This sounded like a news magazine type show in english. It appears it's primarily broadcast locally and the SW broadcast is just an extension or bonus.. the carrier was cut in mid report just before 730 pm Central/0030 UT and didn't come back despite saying there should've been more programming, in English. 10/13/2015, 726 pm Central: 0026 UT [Oct 14] in Southwest Arkansas on a Tecsun PL680 [sic] and 80 foot long wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU762Iz7D2g With audio/video links. Recordings made in Camden, (Southern/Southwest Arkansas) with an 80 foot longwire and a Sangean ATS909X, Tecsun PL880 or Tecsun PL660 (Paul B Walker, Jr, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. CHINA, Voice of Jinling vs PBS Xizang on Oct 14 till 1500 6200 NJG 100 kW / 161 deg EaAs Chinese Voice of Jinling till 1600 6200 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg EaAs Tibetan PBS Xizang from 1600 6200 LHA 100 kW / 085 deg EaAs English PBS Xizang Holy Tibet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1b4eB5spfo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQ6AhkCczM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpVk4F0NtS8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tCkx9c_eA&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIMOR LESTE. There's an interesting article on Radio Maubere, a clandestine station broadcasting on 3805 (later 5270) shortwave to and from within Timor-Leste (a.k.a. East Timor) after the Indonesian invasion in 1975. It now broadcasts legitimately on 99.9 MHz FM in the capital, Díli, and various other FM frequencies throughout the country. http://tinyurl.com/clandestine-easttimor (National Film and Sound Archive, Australia, via David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TONGA. I heard what I assume was Tonga-1017 thundering in at 1350 with what sounded like a sports play-by-play. It was definitely in an island language and not Tagalog. Romania was mentioned several times. The Rugby World Cup is taking place right now. Tonga is participating, so Radio Tonga is probably there to broadcast the highlights. Romania played Italy today, so that's apparently the game they were covering at the time (Bruce Portzer, WA, Oct 11, IRCA via DXLD) As promised, 1017 recording from 1417UT this morning: http://www3.telus.net/public/shallpat/listen/1017_20151011_1417.wav Any guess as to language please, better yet, certainty. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, ibid.) Nick: I hear accented English: :23 "at the end of"; :31 "end of"; :32 "South pacific"; :38 "afternoon". The same woman was heard before and after on Tonga with the same mix of English and Samoan (Chuck Hutton, WA, ibid.) Gary - The game was interspersed with a few blocks of talk up until 1416, but I don't hear any more play by play after that. There are some ads in the following minutes but I quit listening (Chuck, ibid.) Bruce and Nick, Thanks for your comments on the 1017 mystery signal around 1400 this morning. My reception of the signal was nowhere near as favorable as Nick's recording, but I do remember that the other CRI stations on 963, 1044, 1206 and 1323 were nowhere near audio at the time, which supports the idea that it may have been something trans- equatorial (or Filipino). During signal peaks I heard a male voice that sounded Korean to me, but it was too weak and garbled to be sure. The male voice seemed excited, which supports Bruce's suggestion that it may have been sport coverage. 1017-Tonga has never managed a trace here, however, and neither have any of the 1017 Filipinos. Nick's recording doesn't sound at all like the excited male voice I heard around 1350. It doesn't really sound like sports play-by-play either, but maybe the game that Bruce mentions was over by 1417? About the only thing I can say for sure is that 1017 had an unusually stable, steady heterodyne with weak audio peaks from 1250-1405 here, and there was also unusually good propagation from 738-Tahiti at the same time. For a lackluster DX location like this, it's probably the best 1017 scenario possible (Gary DeBock, Puyallup WA, ibid.) So Tonga is no longer signing off earlier? I ask since I sometimes have a reasonable carrier on 1017 here and think there's a chance to log them in IL. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) Perhaps, Neil. 1017 is there, much better (at least a lot less splatter) right now at 0552 UT. Modulation isn't great, though. Rats, as I type this, the signal just faded away to nothing. Hmm (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Oct 12, ibid.) As mentioned earlier, a real mix, but with the Grayland guys weighing in, Tonga seems more likely on 1017 than my guess at a possible Filipino. Overall, a lot of stations, with many I probably missed, but not a lot of strong stations. Also, unlike Grayland, apparently, quite a few New Zealand stations seemed to be appearing here (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.) This very late 1017-Tonga sign off after 1400 UT seems like a rare special event, Neil. We kept a pretty close watch on 1017 during the ocean cliff DXpeditions this summer, since the Tonga sign offs usually occurred about the same time that we would deploy to the Rockwork 4 cliff turnout on the Oregon coast for our sunrise sessions. The usual sign off time was around 1100 UT, but a sign off time around 1200 was common late Saturday night in Tonga (our Saturday mornings, here). That seemed to be the usual pattern (Gary DeBock, ibid.) ** TUNISIA. 963 MW, RTCI, 0350, Sep 19, DJ in French with disco hits in English from the 90s, often ID like “Er Te Pe I“ (“I” like in English “E“), but no heard “Er Te Tse I” (at 1845 mixed with Cyprus signal on same date), 53443 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window Oct 11 via DXLD) ** UGANDA. New SV Imagery --- Thanks to new Google SV imagery, the Radio Uganda SW transmitter site is now viewable. Pity closer imagery wasn't available, however. Two selected pics below https://goo.gl/maps/um8HkfULsRv https://goo.gl/maps/hH5sLxJ81np (Ian (AUS), Oct 8, swsites yg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 7445, Oct 10 at 0624, BBCWS in English, 65 degrees from ASCENSION, with constant splatter from 7455, WRMI music at 285 degrees from Okeechobee. Earlier in evening these can usually coexist altho I wish they were further apart. Steven Luce in Houston TX, closer to the boresight of 285, says, ``I noticed that WRMI was missing from 7455 at least between 0500 and 0540 October 10, which allowed splatter-free reception of a very solid BBCWS Ascension signal on 7445. Didn't check other WRMI frequencies`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAJIKISTAN, UNID 4790 ** U K. WORLD SERVICE ANNOUNCES BOOST TO MUSIC, ARTS AND FACTUAL PROGRAMMES --- Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:23 PM http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/world-service-boost Our new schedule will deliver a richer mix of bold programmes and great talent to reflect the breadth of our listeners’ interests. Mary Hockaday, Controller, BBC World Service English [caption] Last updated: 12.10.2015 at 11.11 Category: World Service BBC World Service has announced a raft of new programming which will boost music, arts and factual programmes on the network. Launching this autumn, the new schedule includes a brand new arts strand highlighting cultural happenings around the world, three new music programmes bringing the scope and expertise of BBC Music to global audiences, and a new weekly strand for landmark factual series exploring contemporary issues and stories. Mary Hockaday, Controller of BBC World Service English, says: “News and current affairs remains the heart of the World Service, but there’s room for more breadth and depth – guiding listeners through a complex world and offering more culture and music - and our new schedule will deliver a richer mix of bold programmes and great talent to reflect the breadth of our listeners’ interests. An innovative new arts strand will sit where arts and news collide, new music programmes will showcase the BBC’s outstanding musical expertise for our global audience, and I’m also introducing a new home for distinctive factual series where we’ll take a deeper look over several episodes at the big questions of our time.” The new factual strand, The Compass, will provide a home for longer factual series to explore topics in greater depth. Each series or sequence of programmes will help explain the world with a narrative arc across the weeks. Every series will reflect something new and essential about the 21st century with the very best presenters. The approach will be authoritative and revelatory but contemporary in sound and feel. The strand will launch with Waithood, an examination of the changing timetable of adulthood. Across the world, the gap between childhood and adulthood is getting longer for many young people who struggle to find jobs and settle down to start a family. Over three programmes, Jake Wallis Simons examines the challenges and new identities of Waithood in communities in Africa, Europe and America. Waithood is followed by Local Warming – three programmes in the run-up to the Paris Climate conference examining how people regard climate change where they live as their environment changes. Other commissions include America In Black And White, a four-part series examining the future of race relations in the United States, and My Perfect Country – a new series and digital proposition with Fi Glover and Martha Lane Fox, who share successful examples of technological and social change across the globe. New arts strand The Cultural Frontline will see leading writers, reporters, thinkers and artists send in dispatches from their part of the world, investigating the ways that culture – from art and design to architecture, literature and performance - is responding to and changing the world they live in. Sitting where the arts and the news collide, the weekly programme will provide a platform for reactions and observations from the frontline of the arts and social change. It will be exuberant, thoughtful, global, innovative. Also announced is a major collaboration between BBC World Service and BBC Music, which produces the BBC’s outstanding range of musical content. They will join forces to launch three new monthly programmes. BBC Radio 6 Music presenter, singer and reporter Cerys Matthews will have her own show, BBC Music On The World Service With Cerys Matthews, celebrating all genres and eras of music on a musical journey joining the dots between early pioneers and contemporary performers; Music Extra will present a diverse selection of music documentaries and special programmes from all of the BBC radio networks; and BBC Introducing will see Radio 1’s Huw Stephens showcase the best of new British music for a worldwide audience. The new programmes, plus the World Service’s existing monthly music programme Global Beats, will air in rotation across the month, giving global audiences an hour-long weekly instalment of the best new music from around the world and within the UK, and explore the musical connections that stretch across countries. Steve Titherington, Senior Commissioning Editor for BBC World Service, says: “Music is a vital part of people’s lives globally. We want to celebrate the best music being created in the UK and around the world and explore how music is connected across countries and languages. By teaming up with BBC Music, we can capitalise on the BBC’s extensive archive, iconic DJs and authoritative presenters with interviews, documentaries and special features on a range of musical trends, themes and history.” Further Programme Information --- The Compass; Waithood Jake Wallis Simons examines the changing timetable of adulthood in Africa and Europe and asks what it means to be a grown-up in the 21st century. If the path to maturity is about stable work, marriage and a home for your family where does that leave those who haven't pursued these goals? Across three programmes, Jake talks to those who have followed and those who have diverted from the ‘expected’ path. The reasons are rich and varied with the economy often playing a role, but are they experiencing ‘waithood,’ a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood? It seems that the entrance to adulthood is happening later and later. A new generation is getting married later, having babies later and buying homes later. This new economic reality is changing the way we think about adulthood. With a shortage of jobs, many are finding their futures restricted and some feel they are failing to live up traditional ideals. The Cultural Frontline The Cultural Frontline is a new programme for the World Service which invites leading writers, thinkers and artists to send in dispatches from their part of world, investigating the ways that culture is responding to - and changing - their world. Every week, the programme will carve out a space where journalists respond to the culture around them and artists and cultural figures reflect on current affairs. As the first Palestinian National Museum opens in Ramallah, we’ll hear how museums can help to shape and inform a nation’s identity, and one year on from the Hong Kong democracy protests, one artist who took part will explain how he’s trying to preserve the work that was made. As ancient artifacts continue to be destroyed in Palmyra, our correspondent explains why she’s reconsidering her stance on restitution of historical objects. From South Africa we hear how student protests about a statue of Cecil Rhodes have spilled into a debate about representation in literature. In Argentina, a high- profile new cultural centre is giving free tickets for everything. So when a government gives culture to the people, what do they give and what does it tell us about their agenda? Our correspondent reports. BBC Music on the BBC World Service BBC Music on the World Service with Cerys Matthews – a new music programme celebrating all genres and all eras of music. Cerys takes the listener on a musical journey joining the dots between early pioneers and contemporary performers, and follows the music across borders in a show that promises to inform, entertain and amaze. Every month, Cerys will be joined by an esteemed guest: a singer, player, producer or songwriter to explore pivotal moments in music history, and together they will revel in little-known gems from the world's rich musical heritage, side by side with well-loved classics in all languages. The programme will draw upon the BBC’s extensive archive, including from iconic DJs John Peel and Charlie Gillett, and the music will be expertly programmed with the discussion to provide an authoritative, insightful and accessible musical journey for a global audience. Music Extra – Aimed at younger listeners in particular, BBC World Service will air a selection of music documentaries and special programmes drawn from across the BBC’s other networks, giving World Service audiences a taste of the musical expertise that can be found on Radio 6 Music, Radio 2, Radio 1 and 1Xtra. An hour long, the programmes will be a rich mixture of speech and music exploring major musical legacies or issues which have a direct interest to our younger audiences. BBC Introducing – Huw Stephens from Radio 1 showcases the best of new British music for a worldwide audience. This monthly compilation will include interviews and clips with emerging artists, and explore different genres and themes. There’s a fascination around the world for the musical trends and talent emerging from the UK during the last half a century. This is the chance to learn what the next big thing might be, and about the lives of young people throughout Britain. The music is accompanied by interviews with new artists producing new songs from across all parts of the UK. The show will draw on the live performances during the year at UK festivals including Glastonbury, Reading, T in the Park, Radio 1 Big Weekend and 6 Music Festival, as well as international festivals including SXSW. The show will also draw on the BBC Introducing Maida Vale performances, and reflect the journeys made from BBC Introducing to global recognition by many artists (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Oct 13, DXLD; also via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) ** U S A. Wildwood eLoran Transmitter Test Operations --- According to UrsaNav, Inc., the Wildwood eLoran (100 kHz) transmitter will be continuously broadcasting from 0900 (EDT) on 20 October 2015 through 1800 (EDT) on 22 October 2015. Wildwood will be broadcasting as 8970 master and secondary – (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13556.3, MTI, Stone Mountain GA; 1621, 11-Oct; last heard in May; not there at 2038. [same] +++ 2004, 12-Oct, on 13556.9 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 60 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. CUTTING THROUGH THE FOG: AN AUTUMN UPDATE -- by Dan Robinson BBG Watch > Analysis > BBGWatcher October 15, 2015 0 Comments Analysis, Featured News, Hot Tub Blog http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/cutting-through-the-fog-an-autumn-update/ BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public diplomacy, disinformation, and propaganda. The following commentary is by former VOA White House, Congressional and Foreign Correspondent Dan Robinson, who retired in 2014. Dan examines some recent developments, including remarks by the new BBG CEO, John Lansing. All views expressed are those of the author. THE HEADLINES As is always the case when BBG and other officials in government- funding broadcasting are involved, we have again arrived at a point where we need to cut through the fog of their public statements. First, let's look at something important, the big headline, from what we have heard so far from BBG CEO John Lansing, and others, such as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Richard Stengel. For those who may not have noticed, we have some new Washington acronyms. The future of this agency is going to be increasingly focused on and probably shaped by, M&C -- Messaging and Countering -- and on CVE, for Countering Violent Extremism. In his job for just over a month, Lansing -- a former Scripps Howard and cable TV executive -- spoke about his past roles in various newsrooms. But he made a point of talking about "mission". In an interesting exchange, Stengel acted as journalist (he was formerly with TIME), asking Lansing how he plans to reconcile policy with journalism. Journalists, said Lansing, must ensure that policy is "clearly articulated and understood" and emphasized the importance of conveying the "American perspective." Lansing and Stengel agreed that people are not "entitled to their own facts". "There is more to any story than two sides" said Lansing, adding that "amplifying the lie to give it equal weight to the explanation I think is in and of itself a distorted approach to conveying information." This would all seem simple. But there is a lot of room for wandering on slippery slopes. For example, at one point during the George W. Bush administration VOA correspondents were directed to include the latest U.S. policy position or guidance in every report that they wrote. But here is a reality. With threats facing the United States -- terrorism, ISIS, challenges from Russia and China -- policymakers and funders of BBG repeatedly make clear that "mission" is paramount. BBG officials, and some at State, may pay lip service to journalism. But everyone knows that to secure ongoing congressional support, budget year after budget year, the agency needs to fall further in line with what are seen as exigent priorities. AGENDAS . . . AND PROTESTS At times, it seems that VOA journalists themselves miss the part about the BBG, for which they work, having an agenda. For many in non- government media, working under the BBG disqualifies someone from being recognized as a true journalist. Yes, this is still the case today. Perhaps sad, but true -- despite some respect that private sector journalists gave to VOA reporters, most of those I considered friends held on to a deep-set disdain and suspicion of the BBG. Ultimately, every VOA journalist was tainted. Created after the former USIA was dissolved in the late 1990's, BBG always had an agenda, and always will. In addition to news-related functions, it has grown to involve activities, and programming, funded through the State Department or USAID to counter suppression of press and Internet freedom. Other broadcasters, born under the BBG umbrella, including Radio/TV Marti for Cuba, then Radio Free Asia, and others -- all were created with agendas. Some were DESIGNED to weaken undemocratic regimes, through their programming, not just to promote the free flow of information. Reporters at VOA were displeased that all of these organizations were lumped together under the same umbrella. But the fact is that VOA also had an agenda, from the beginning of its long, complicated history in the 1940's. Yes, the first broadcast talked about telling the truth, but there was an agenda. This past summer, in an event that went largely unreported by mainstream media, journalists based in VOA's central newsroom protested a previously unpublicized panel discussion. It was sponsored by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank (BBG governor Kenneth Weinstein heads it). The subject was how to enhance efforts to counter violent extremism. Some reporters, primarily those in VOA's central newsroom, were livid, demanding that agency officials renounce any intention to undertake agenda-driven journalism, which they said would be a violation of VOA's Charter. Some VOA reporters have said that movement in this direction might make it impossible for them to remain with VOA. No one likes to think about losing a comfortable job. Positions under the BBG offer steady, secure income provided you carry out the specifics of your job description. But now might be the time consider whether they can stay in a place that amid the ongoing and by now quite tiresome debate about firewalls and journalistic credibility, remains a key cog in a government- funded, and therefore policy-linked (and at levels rank and file probably don't recognize), policy-directed federal agency. PATIENCE: ZERO In his remarks to the BBG on October 8th, Lansing stressed that the run-up to his taking the reigns of the agency included extensive talks at the White House, State Department, and Capitol Hill. Members of Congress, their staff, and officials don't engage in, or have time for, such discussions without a purpose of communicating objectives, and ensuring that they are achieved. On Capitol Hill in particular, no patience remains for business as usual. While the White House didn't sign on completely with the original bipartisan reform legislation, which opponents attempted to label as partisan, Secretary of State Kerry did publicly align the administration with the need for change. Officials at the White House and State made clear they too have little patience with a BBG, and VOA specifically, that have lacked impact, and reach. TOSSING BREAKING NEWS OVERBOARD During a BBG session on October 8th, Lansing said he believes that VOA should no longer be focusing on trying to be a reliable provider of breaking news (he calls it spot news or spot coverage, or news of the day). Indeed, VOA has made increasing use of the "wires" -- Reuters, AP, and others -- and often appears to be little more than a pass through for these commercial organizations. This echoes a view expressed by a BBG member, Matt Armstrong, in 2014 during remarks in VOA's newsroom. It also raises serious questions, because a major part of what VOA has done for decades is cover breaking news, though less competently in recent years. For any reporter, covering the news involves the most basic of instincts. Something happens, someone says something . . . there are obvious repercussions and impacts. A reporter's responsibility is to get the word out, an automatic reflex for anyone who ever worked in news. Lansing proposes to have VOA, and possibly other BBG entities, move away from what he called spot coverage. This is a process that gained momentum from 2010 to 2014, under former VOA director David Ensor. A bit unclear is the extent to which Lansing sees this happening, and what steps he would direct be taken to make it a reality. VOA still has a newsroom. Millions of dollars are spent each year on incoming news agency and video feeds, and equipment to handle and process news and reports to air and online. Language services gained direct access to news wires for the first time, courtesy of the strategy that gained momentum under former director David Ensor of creating 43 newsrooms. That approach, and what VOA managers touted as their "Digital First" strategy, have been shown to be less effective than they claimed they would be, and that's understating things. Former and current VOA employees have observed that unless Congress gives the agency a substantial injection of funds -- highly unlikely given public attitudes about spending -- VOA's ability to handle breaking news events will continue to deteriorate. It's ironic -- just a few months ago Armstrong asserted that a rare major U.S. network's (CBS) use of a VOA correspondent's coverage (of the terrorist bombing in Bangkok) could lead to commercial networks having more respect for VOA's news capabilities, implying it could change their perception of VOA as being just a government mouthpiece. In Washington, VOA has news bureaus with highly-paid reporters, compared to most non-government colleagues, at least those below the network correspondent level. VOA has bureaus in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with resources increasingly shared by other BBG broadcasters such as VOA's PNN for Iran, and others. What is a correspondent to do? You're sitting in a briefing at the White House, accompanying the president or Secretary of State on a domestic or overseas trip --- or at the United Nations --- or Capitol Hill amid breaking news. Is your job reduced to tweeting and filing an Instagram pic? Does a VOA reporter bother to ask questions about things said, or that happen, and if the response to something you asked produces a news lead -- do you file on it? It's breaking news, of course. What will VOA's highly paid foreign correspondents be doing? On assignment, should they focus primarily on producing, as Lansing said, "contextual" reporting, and features? If you're in Somalia, and a drone hits a suspected al-Shabab leader nearby, do you just tweet something out, and phone your desk? Or, as has so frequently been the case, does VOA simply post a Reuters or AP report? A side issue, but no less significant and one I have raised before. If VOA is no longer a breaking news outfit, how will professional media galleries in places like the Capitol Hill and the White House, react? For example, congressional media association regulations specifically bar anyone who works for "any legislative or executive department or independent agency of the Government." Should VOA, or any other BBG entity, stripped by its governing agency of a breaking news focus, be permitted to retain physical filing booths, which would essentially become extra office space of a federal agency to produce not "spot news", but long form feature-oriented programming? BBC RULES Amid criticism of numerous breaking news failures, VOA tried to emphasize the virtually non-existent reach of its correspondents via social media channels, placing tweets in a small window on the VOA front page labeled "US News and Opinion". Meanwhile, the BBC, for decades VOA's main competitor, continued to do what it has an established reputation for doing. The BBC supplied global audiences -- regardless of geographic region - - with superior blanket coverage of U.S. and global news, including presidential and foreign policy issues, underscoring how slowly the VOICE OF AMERICA was reacting. The latest reminder of this occurred on the day of a mass shooting in Oregon. Minute-by-minute accounts and an entire page devoted to the event were seen on the BBC website. VOA was, yet again, slow and late in reflecting developments. Reaction so far to Lansing's endorsement of stepping back from breaking news has been, for the most part, a resounding thud, as these excerpts from Facebook comments by former VOA employees reflect: "VOA might as well shut down it's newsroom, if not shut down entirely. . . Mr. Lansing makes it clear that it will no longer be a timely source of major breaking news, not even. . .right in VOA's back yard. Why does anyone need VOA, with so many other sources of timely news and information readily available? The VOA Charter clearly states that VOA will consistently serve as a reliable and authoritative source of news. Mr. Lansing does not have the authority to modify the VOA Charter." "As a news entity, VOA's job includes covering and broadcasting breaking news. I don't know what I was doing on Oct. 31, 1984 if it wasn't covering and broadcasting about the assassination of Indira Gandhi" DO IT RIGHT, DO IT IN DETAIL If Mr. Lansing and BBG members supporting him, are truly serious about turning VOA and other BBG entities away from breaking news, what should be done? First, everyone needs to be on the same page. It's a bit of a contradiction for a CEO to talk about eliminating "spot news" coverage, if a BBG governor (Armstrong) is busy touting VOA's ability (as what he calls a "free resource") to provide commercial networks with breaking news from overseas. Similarly contradictory are Armstrong's remarks that seem to imply there will be some reversal of the destruction that was done to VOA worldwide English broadcasting in the first part of this century. The trend has been pretty much in one direction for many years. If Lansing agrees on the need for a revival of BBG capabilities in English, he should make sure people know this, and pledge to heavy up, as he puts it, this aspect of operations and repairing the damage done to VOA's news division in recent years under the last director. However, recognizing current reality, namely seriously weakened capabilities, if VOA's strength now is primarily to produce video that BBG and VOA officials contend can't be found anywhere else, then by all means, do that. One question that remains, however, is where are the resources to do so with 43 language demanding equal shares of those resources? At minimum, if Lansing and others are serious, there should be a thorough review of job descriptions, just as there would be in any other government agency or private company, at a time of major change. That means every area where human and technical resources are expended -- newsroom, overseas staff, language services, technical -- in often ham-fisted attempts to provide coverage of breaking news in a timely fashion. Veterans and newcomers alike should know that VOA is no longer a breaking news organization. Bright-eyed, ambitious young journalism or international affairs graduates straight of college, refugees from private sector layoffs -- all should be crystal clear about the new VOA they have landed at. Similarly, in a straightforward and honest way whatever global audiences that are thought to remain, in what Lansing called the information "spheres of influence", should be told not expect competent breaking news coverage from VOA -- unless, that is, they are looking for Reuters and AP stories. They should be told that VOA is transforming essentially into a video feature service, using its foreign and domestic bureaus and paid freelancers. It will be a clearinghouse (a former VOA director used this description) . . . a government-funded ATM for Internet and mobile-delivered video and social media, supplemented by pick ups of live presidential and policy-related statements. This will be more complex than people think, and should include another deep dive, as the BBG is fond of doing, to examine VOA's English and language websites, all of which currently have a major focus on BREAKING NEWS. SHRINKAGE INEVITABLE Unless Lansing can generate sufficient funding support on Capitol Hill, shrinkage would, and should, be inevitable. The still-bloated VOA of today, in the crumbling edifice at 330 Independence Avenue, should be downsized. As was once rumored might happen, a slimmed down VOA could be placed somewhere in Virginia or Maryland. It could look like those FBI operations centers in TV shows like '24' or `The Blacklist'. This may be all for the better, based on what we have seen in recent years in which VOA attempted to play in the major leagues with heavy-hitting news organizations, but frequently failed in spectacular and embarrassing fashion. Better for the country, and for those who once worked in the place and remember that it once could, and did, do a much better job. At least things would be clear. Lansing knows he faces tough decisions about where to spend existing funds. At one point, he said he would consider trying to "heavy up" in targeting areas where BBG efforts appear to matter anymore. Here's what I expect will happen. Some VOA reporters, those who opposed congressional legislation, out to protect civil service and some foreign service job slots that place them in a high earning percentile compared to most working commercial journalists, will try to ignore the big headline. Remember the highlights from the last BBG session, and which have actually been signaled for the past few years: Messaging and Countering, and Countering Violent Extremism. Lansing also mentioned what he sees as a need for "curation and acquisition", seemingly a reference to VOA becoming even more of a conduit for externally-produced material that would have the desired impact. And make no mistake -- BBG will probably not spend taxpayer money to curate and acquire material that isn't seen as helping to further a policy mission, rather than just serve a journalistic intent. Without strong steps by Lansing, some reporters in VOA will simply attempt to continue business as usual, stretch things out as long as possible to preserve the status quo. They will also likely ignore an uncomfortable fact, which is that some of their own colleagues, in the VOA news division and language services, long ago started to use their journalistic roles to promote certain causes. They became (and some were to start), journalists-cum-activists. They are also likely to continue to underplay the significance of VOA being hours or a day late in mentioning major global or domestic developments on which any other news organization worth its weight would not be caught flat-footed. GAME OVER If history can be a guide, these reporters will also ignore another fact -- which is that any battle for VOA's journalistic independence (such that existed in the 1970's) ended a long time ago and in today's world has little if any support from policymakers and funders. They are also likely to ignore that over the years some of VOA's managing officials -- including those shaping and directing VOA's news coverage -- often violated firewall provisions, and pandered to the very policy circles that, some VOA reporters now warn, threaten their credibility. As if to illustrate the degrees of naivete that exists on this subject, in the meeting last July where reporters challenged managers over the CVE agenda, one participant asked if the State Department was ever involved in discussions about VOA programming. If anyone believes that no one in VOA, over the decades, has ever engaged in discussions with people at the State Department, or the White House, well I have a Volkswagen diesel to sell them. These are things that many in VOA claim ignorance about, or if they are aware of the truth, rarely leap to discuss. But they go directly to the discussion about policy promotion and "countering" versus journalism that is now in the forefront. END THE DEBATE Since leaving VOA in 2014, fed up with the mind boggling inefficiencies, mismanagement and bungled news coverage, I argued that journalists were not necessarily wrong in trying to protect their work from being influenced or manipulated by policy goals. But I also continue to assert, after witnessing VOA's decline in recent years, that the debate itself that raged for decades is simply no longer constructive. It's not worth taxpayers footing the bill just so various sides can continue to argue, so more executive jobs can be created within a bloated bureaucracy, and an agency that perhaps should have been shuttered sooner after the Cold War ended, can just live on, and on, and on. Of course, Congress has obviously chosen to continue funding the BBG, in my view mostly because it doesn't have the courage to just shut the agency down. Lansing's appointment, helped likely by entreaties to lawmakers by BBG officials, may have stopped legislative reform efforts for the time being, especially in this election year. Interestingly, only one 2016 presidential candidate from either major party -- Ben Carson -- has found the time to even mention BBG (writing in The Hill, Carson urged "a new Voice of America that pounds creative messaging, hitting sensitive issues head-on, while pushing relevant messaging into the cyberspace discussion." ) From Hillary Clinton, who as Secretary of State lit the fire by calling BBG practically defunct, we have yet to hear anything on the campaign trail. If she wins the White House next year, BBG she will no doubt seek answers as to what has been done to clean up the BBG mess. Now embedded atop a notorious entrenched bureaucracy, heading an agency with one of the worst reputations in government, stuck at the bottom of employee satisfaction ratings year after year, John Lansing needs to make sure that actions follow talk. If that includes removing VOA and other BBG entities from the breaking news business, than this and other steps should be executed correctly and comprehensively. Lansing didn't have to campaign for his position. He was sought out by BBG Chairman Jeff Shell and encouraged by others, such as Stengel. Policy pronouncements he has made are certainly likely to be adjusted in coming months -- one could speculate that the one about spot news may be substantially walked back. I would encourage him to seek the advice of former news professionals, veterans and younger, who left in recent years voicing the same type of frustrations I did in 2014. What this agency can't afford anymore, and what taxpayers and their elected representatives should not tolerate, are half measures that will allow a continuation of business as usual. ---- Dan Robinson retired in 2014 after 34 years with the Voice of America. In addition to his White House posting as senior VOA correspondent, he served as bureau chief in Nairobi, Kenya and Bangkok, Thailand. He was also the chief of the VOA Burmese Service and the Capitol Hill correspondent (BBG Watch Oct 15 via Mike Cooper, DXLD) VOICE OF AMERICA SHOULD NOT DO AWAY WITH SOME TYPES OF BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE, A LISTENER ABROAD SAYS --- BBG Watch > Featured News >BBGWatcher October 13, 2015 0 Comments Featured News, Hot Tub Blog A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) staffer provided this comment to BBG Watch regarding the issue of whether Voice of America should cover breaking news: "VOA needs to cover breaking news as one way to attract people to the context and analysis. If people turn to BBC, CNN, et. al. when news breaks, they're going to continue to stay there to follow up on the developments. There's nothing distinctive anymore about VOA that can lure people away from a major news outlet to one that no longer has the resources or clout to make the grade." The following analysis was provided to BBG Watch by a user of VOA news content abroad. "As a listener, I think there are two entirely different categories of breaking news. I would not expect Voice of America (VOA) to cover in great depth the first category, which I would categorize as O.J. Simpson car chase-type breaking news, that is, news which would garner huge live coverage within the U.S.A, but which is essentially showbiz news with no substantive diplomatic impact. If VOA doesn't cover these type of stories live, it's no great loss. However, I would put in an entirely different category the second category of breaking news - developments involving the U.S.A which have a significant international / diplomatic impact. I believe VOA's global audience would expect VOA (in English at least) to cover this type of news on a breaking news basis, with substantive live updates from VOA correspondents at least once an hour whilst the story is still developing. The VOA News Division used to cover this second type of breaking news incredibly well in the period from the mid 1980s through into the early 1990s. It's one reason I still listen fairly regularly to VOA today, because of the listening habits I formed during that period. As one example, VOA's live continuous coverage of the 1988 shooting down of a civilian Iranian aircraft by the U.S.S. Vincennes was exemplary - when the first suggestions broke that a civilian plane had been downed, VOA started providing live coverage each hour on its "Newsline" programmes and stayed with the news for the next several hours with live correspondent two-ways from the State and Defence Departments, live coverage of press conferences and so on. I listened to VOA's coverage late into the night (here in the UK) because no other broadcasters were providing the live, in-depth coverage that VOA was providing - not even the BBC. I believe VOA could honestly make a convincing case that its coverage of the U.S.S Vincennes incident was among the best - the promptest, most in-depth, and most carefully factual - in the world. Voice of America was able to cover the story so well back then because (1) it clearly recognised this was a crucial story for VOA to cover, and cover well, for VOA's own credibility as much as anything else, (2) the VOA News Division had far more reporters and news anchors in Washington than it does today so wasn't caught short of staff to provide the coverage, and (3) VOA's hourly newscasts and the many editions of the "Newsline" backgrounder programme which followed always went out live - so the format was ideally geared to covering breaking news when required to do so. Sadly, it seems that today none of these three points apply any more. So I would respectfully suggest that the BBG/IBB decision makers should recognise that not all breaking news is the same. If O.J. Simpson hits the road again in his Ford Bronco chased by the police, VOA would be right not to cover that as breaking news. A 3 minute correspondents report the next day would suffice. But for breaking news with an international diplomatic impact (such as the Boston bombings), I think VOA should provide live in-depth hourly updates beyond that provided in the 5 minute top of the hour newscasts, breaking format to provide live continual coverage where the story is diplomatically important enough to justify this. I actually think much of VOA's global audience, particularly to Global English, would see this as exactly the type of news that VOA should pull out all the stops to cover live and in-depth, and indeed, for which VOA should be seen as one of the authoritative global news providers. Clearly this would require significant additional resources compared to what VOA News presently has allocated to it. So I think the policy outlined at the BBG meeting should be refined - not that VOA should never cover breaking news, nor indeed that VOA should always cover it. Instead VOA should more carefully set out what types of breaking news it should and should not cover live, with an emphasis (as in the 1980s and early 1990s) on providing live coverage of breaking U.S. news with a significant international diplomatic impact (BBG Watch comment Oct 13, via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed second SW broadcast, Thursday Oct 8 at 2100 on WRMI 7570; sufficient. Also confirmed UT Friday Oct 9 at 0100 on WBCQ, 9330.28-CUSB; preceded by at least 3 minutes of IS/ID loop relief after Blalock; good signal. Next: Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: I was unable to monitor and confirm the Friday Oct 9, 2130 on 15770 and 2130.5 on 7570 airings on WRMI --- since I was viewing the excellent new 3-D movie `The Martian` and altho I had the G8 with me, signals would not penetrate into the only cinema in Enid [See INTERNATIONAL VACUUM]. Did anyone hear these WOR broadcasts or definitely try but not hear them? The next WOR, 2330 Friday on 5850, I did check at 2355 when it should have still been on, but fill music instead. All these are still on the WRMI schedule; apparently they had some problems today as there was a lot more fill music on 5850 and 11580; see separate WRMI log. Next for WOR: Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW 5850, Oct 9 at 2355 check for WORLD OF RADIO 2330 Friday broadcast, WRMI instead is playing fill music, and it continues: at 0002 Oct 10, Qur`an, quite a novelty on US SW radio, but 0003 into a song in Spanish with piano. VG signal here and find the same thing // on 11580. 0032 still fill; at 0056 the familiar fado from the fill-music loop is playing. During the 00-01 hour every night, both 5850 and 11580 are supposed to carry R. Slovakia International in Slovak and then English. At 0100, 5850 comes to life with `Son Power Radio on World Band` mentioning 5850, 7455 and 9395. 7455 carrier had come on a few minutes earlier, and 9395 was already running as it is 24h with TruNews, Son Power being part of that ``service``, altho TN was not mentioned now. By 0106, 11580 is about to fade out, which is getting to be the usual situation. In the meantime, the sked has been updated again, reducing Radio France International at 01-02 on 11580 to only two nights, UT Fri & Sat, but I can`t tell if that`s on now. (Besides the one-shot Global 24 on UT Wed, and Steve Weeks on UT Tue, as we already discussed, sked now shows `Sounding the Alarm` on UT Thu; while UT Sun & Mon already had non-RFI shows. Evidently, RFI has been used merely as a filler, tsk2) 1860-AM, Oct 11 at 0353, I don`t get to checking WA0RCR until now, and some ham news show other than WORLD OF RADIO is on, so presumably it had already completed, started no later than 0324. Next: Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed Sunday October 11 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Monday October 12 from 0301 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB; also confirmed UT Monday October 12 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, sufficient. Next: Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed Wed Oct 14 from 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, sufficient but with lite pulse jamming: tnx a lot, Arnie! This airing always starts after 1315, preceded by the gh WRMI ID at 1300.0 --- which always precedes some but not all WOR broadcasts on WRMI, and at no other times. Next: Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490. WORLD OF RADIO 1794 monitoring: confirmed Wed Oct 14 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490: first checked webcast, but fairly good signal later on 7490 --- this should steadily improve westward with earlier sunsets, and get a good boost from Nov with shift to one UT hour later, 2200. EXCEPT! Per HFCC B-15, there will yet again be a collision with BBCWS in English via THAILAND from 2200 on 7490, 250 kW at 25 degrees aimed right across North America along the grayline! Frequency ``coördination`` fails again because people who don`t actually try to LISTEN, can`t imagine this would be a problem. At the very least there will be a het with WBCQ off-frequency. WORLD OF RADIO 1795 completed in time for first airings Oct 15: Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 0100 WBCQ 9330-CUSB to WSW Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Fri 2330 WRMI 5850 to NW Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7570, WRMI Radio Miami Int'l; 2100-2131+, 15-Oct [Thu]; Glenn Hauser's World of Radio #1795, including item from Harold Frodge re Radio Marconi Int'l; WOR close covered by brief Caribe music, into Spanish WRMI ID; 2130 brief Arabic chant! into Radio Blues Int'l. SIO=3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 60 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9954.97 approx., Oct 9 at 0030, Bruce Baskin on WRMI with a sports promo, 0031 R. Prague relay in English. Most of WRMI`s frequencies are closer to .00 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330, Oct 8 at 0130, no signal audible from WBCQ. AWWW had publicized a couple new shows at 01-02 UT Thursdays, starting tonight, just when I`m busy recording the next World of Radio. I was more interested in the first one by title, `Broad Spectrum Radio`, than the 0130 one, `Mennonite Radio` from ``James in Oklahoma``, but if on, no propagation anyway. WWV says yesterday`s solar flux was only 81, almost as low as it ever gets; K index at 00 today was 6, and at 03 it would be 5; ``Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred.`` If anyone heard B.S.R., please send us a review! These don`t yet appear on http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 At the same hour on 7490, the notorious Hal Turner was to revive, unchecked. He is now on the corresponding 7490 sked for two hours, annotated `` After harshly criticizing his supporters, listeners, and WBCQ, Mr. Turner left the airwaves on March 22, 2004``. 5109.70-CUSB, UT Sat Oct 10 at 0004, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, // 7490, while 9330.22-CUSB is screaming Terry Blalock, whom Allan claims, rather incredulously, people including himself axually listen to. During this session I`m running three radios, one ear on 7490 for `AWWW`; the other on the NRD-545 bandscanning; and the PL-880 for keeping track of other things, or checking //s. Allan starts out talking about dark energy and dark matter, having read about that in Scientific American. Then he raves briefly about how great the new movie `The Martian` is; must see. I agree! See my review under INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Allan later discusses how no one could hear Hal Turner`s revival UT Thu Oct 8 at 0100-0300 on 7490 due to SW blackout; so their webcast was almost maxed out instead. But ``he did a great job``. Even less so the simultaneous new shows on 9330, 01-02 UT Thu, `Mennonite Radio`, which Allan says he hasn`t listened to either, but the guy in OK was also supposed to use part of that time for `Broad Spectrum Radio`. BTW, Allan adds that because of Hal Turner on 7490, Brother Scare is moved to 5110 at 01-04 UT Thursdays only. Another new show on 9330 is `Radio Northern Ireland`; see IRELAND NORTHERN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7489.958, WBCQ Monticello, talk on Islamic culture, democracy action (Wolfgang Buschel, short log of 0000 to 0130 UT time slot on Oct 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. K-index of 6 at 03 and 06 UT Oct 8 and geomag storms reaching the G3 level mean that the Tennesseans were very poor to just barely audible instead of inbooming, Oct 8 at 0548-0549 chex: 5935, 5890 (only residual Cuban jamming audible), 5830, 5085, 4840; only 3215 and 3185 remain at good levels. With its southern advantage, WRMI is still VG on 5850, as are the Cubans on 5040, 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12160, Sat Oct 10 shortly after 1900 UT on BST-1 SW caradio, blues music, even from Beale Street, via WWCR-2; periodic announcements by Allan Gray as `The Last Radio Playing`, continues past 1930 for a full hour as I then listen during lunch on my G8, tnx to the usual bigsig from this unit, allegedly azimuthed 85 degrees. Checking the WWCR program sked later, dated Oct 1 (times should shift one UT hour later in Nov after DST), TLRP airings are: Sat 00 4840 [monthly after first Friday] Sat 05 3215 Sat 06 4840 Sat 19 12160 Mon 20 9350 Tue 23 9350 WWCR deviously sprinkles worthwhile music programming among the muck of gospel huxters, far right wackos, boring logs from DU, thus discouraging people from totally eliminating its frequencies from their memories. So far haven`t detected any politico-religious agenda on this, just a DJ and his music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9474.95, Oct 9 at 0046, very poor signal from WTWW-1 with SFAW, not realizing 9 MHz is too high after dark, and as always, off- frequency. A few nights ago with propagation disturbance it was inaudible. --- Voilà: 5830, Oct 10 at 0012, WTWW-1 is already here with VG signal, ex-9475, which Ted had been keeping on until 0200. Despite shunning me for routinely publicizing problems, rather than suppressing bad news, he must have seen my recent log pointing out that it wasn`t propagating! My profuse apologies to the SWL community for inadvertently giving him useful frequency management advice, resulting in improved audibility for Passé Pastor Pete Peters and his SFAW! 5830, Oct 14 at 1404, WTWW-1 is still on here instead of day frequency 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975.00, Oct 10 at 0007 check during `TruNews`, KVOH back in-or-near frequency within a couple Hz, AFAIK. Does this mean the `new` transmitter is on yet, even as a test? We hope Ray Robinson will let us know. 9975.105 approx., UT Monday Oct 12 at 0253, JBA carrier. At first- tune, assumed KVOH was off, lacking normal level signal. Then detected this JBA carrier, which could be co-religionists via Uzbekistan? No, that transmission on 9975.0 was canceled months ago, while 9975.1 is a known KVOH off-frequency, but why so weak? Propagation at this hour, especially from the west, should still be OK. Must be reduced power, maybe exciter only? BTW, current Aoki alleges that WORLD OF RADIO is on KVOH, UT Sunday at 0230 --- news to me, and presumably to KVOH as well, tho it would certainly be a worthwhile addition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7504.71, Oct 10 at *0057, I`ve been waiting for WRNO to pop on, and so it does, JIP music, ID for ``7505`` in ``New Orleans, Louisiana``, open live show `The Havenist` (I think they said), Mike Randal and Laurie playing ``great gospel music``. But it`s rather overmodulated and distorted tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 620, Oct 9 at 0002 UT, ``North Texas, 620 AM, KEXB, Experts in Business``, opening Tony B--- with `Job Search Solution` which he initiates with a Christian prayer. That`s Salem for you. So the new call for Plano TX facility 49320 starting Oct 1, ex-KMKI (Disney) from 12/21/1998, ex-KAAM from 8/11/95, after it was hijacked from Wichita Falls as originally KWFT, a station I listened to when it axually had programs and put me on the mailing list for its schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, Oct 12 at 0304 UT, Navajo drumming and chanting, dead giveaway that it`s KTNN, Window Rock AZ/NM; they habitually mix that in with English music and programming. QRM but separable from talker in English, presumably KSKY The Metroplex. Always enjoy hearing KTNN, and haven`t lately here. When I do at full night, I must suspect it`s out of whack, not protecting WFAN NYC/NJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Oct 10 at 0023 UT, KKOB Albuquerque NM, good signal with quick ID; must be ideal time pre-sunset: yes, 0030 UT in Oct, which means the 230-watt Santa Fe fill-in hasn`t come on yet --- but it`s still in at 0105 UT with local news mentioning Balloon Fiesta, APS, APD, Bernalillo County --- so now which KKOB is it? Official sunrise is 1315 UT, when we should also hear the 50 kW ND daypattern pop on in Oct; November: 0000 UT & 1345 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Oct 12 at 1313 UT, in accordance with my recent remark, I`m standing by for KKOB Albuquerque to pop on to 50 kW ND pattern at official October sunrise --- but nothing happens at 1315 UT; KAAM The Metroplex from right angle continues with weak signal, Jack Davis Show at 1316 UT; and with 2.2 Hz SAH before and after 1315, which could be from KKOB. Maybe KKOB will be making it later in October (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780, Oct 8 at 1210 UT, promo for Norfolk Community Theatre, local news from WJAG, i.e. Norfolk NE, 1 kW ND daytimer, but before 1245 UT in Oct, must be only on 500 W PSRA; yes, one of those few legacy W-calls west of the Miss. Nearby KSPI OK is nulled, and at this time no WBBM, after axual Chicago sunrise today at 1155 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, Oct 8 at 1220 UT, dominant good signal is LONG adstring starting with Smiles Forever Dental Center, next to the Roswell Mall, so I know right away what I`ve got despite mostly national ads/PSAs to follow: Rite-Aid, GEICO, Grasshopper, United Way, Home Depot, NY Pork Chops, Home Depot again, Dishnet. By now it`s 1225 UT as a morning show finally resumes. It`s KKBE Roswell NM, an ID never heard, ex-KBIM since April 21, 2015. Likely on 5 kW ND day pattern already, since 500 W night pattern goes south, tho official Oct sunrise is not until 1300 UT! (Nov: 1330 UT).(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 990, Oct 9 at 0006 UT, Charles Osgood selling insurance, ``AM 990 KWAM`` ID from Memphis TN, and `The Smith?Schmidt? Show`. I guess it had been `The Osgood File`; altho he`s no Charles Kuralt, I am satisfied with Osgood as host of CBS Sunday Morning (TV), but not when he ``sees you [sic] on the radio``, i.e. `File`, a very brief CBS feature which seems like it is more than 50% commercial. One day I`ll time it. 990, Oct 10 at 0025 UT, signal blasting in at 25 over 9, promo Sat 8-9 am show `Mind Your Business on 990 KWAM`` Memphis TN. Got to be still on tight E-W 10 kW daytime pattern rather than 450 watts night, despite official Oct sunset having been at 2330 UT (Nov: 2300 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1020, Oct 14 at 1227 UT, 8:28 TC in Spanish, weather for New York City area, so what else could it be but KCKN Roswell NM where it`s two hours earlier, relaying WWRV 1330, Radiovisión Cristiana. Makes 3 Hz SAH with nearby victim KOKP Perry OK. Even with KOKP nulled I am hearing KCKN, not KMMQ, another 50 kW SS in Nebraska. KCKN obviously continues to run 50 kW ND rather than protecting KDKA, and incidentally KOKP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1080, Oct 8 at 1227 UT, with KRLD nulled as much as possible, another station making a fast SAH with it, ``KDY? 105`` ID. I`m pretty sure of the FM number, which could refer to a 104.9 or even lower. The only two likelies to the west of here, which I have heard before, are KGVY Green Valley AZ, and KSLL Price UT, but I can`t find any connexion with a ``105`` FM for either. There is a 104.9 translator in Price, but allegedly for something else. UNIDENTIFIED. Re my 1080 log mentioning 105 FM: Tho really KSLL on 1080, Price UT brands itself as ``KASL`` which is a bit closer to ``Castle``. The real legal KASL is 1240 in Newcastle WY. ``Castle Country`` -- maybe related. As of Feb 2013, the 1080 Price ``KASL`` was linked to a 104.9: https://www.facebook.com/kasl1080/photos/pb.253626021392938.-2207520000.1444336359./416794555076083/?type=3&theater Tnx to Greg Hardison for finding this (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thread from ABDX reconfirms my 1080 unID as KSLL, Price UT: Glenn, I was in Utah the last week of September. KSLL-1080 was calling itself "Rock 105" or something similar, mentioning "105" way more often than the other FM. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ABDX via DXLD) This is for sure KSLL. I can't recall if slogan is Rock 105 or Classic 105 or Classic Hits 105. They are often on at night. Recently clobbered on west array here by KYMN running day power at night. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) = 1000/11 watts U1 Northfield MN (gh) I'm listening to one of my recordings now. They just referred to themselves as "Classic Rock 105." In promos they also mention "KUSA FM 100" fairly often. 73 (Tim Hall, ibid.) It was a tip from Bill Dvorak in Madison, WI that helped me nab this last week. Definitely running day power at night. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html ibid.) ** U S A. 1090, Oct 12 at 0308 UT, gospel music in English at steady S9+20, looping E/W. 0310 ID as AM-1090, KAAY and advertising for new sales rep, current one gushing over what a great job it is for her. This dominant bigsig is not what we normally get nor are supposed to get from 50/50 kW KAAY Little Rock AR on night pattern. They have an STA for 5/5 kW non-direxional, but surely sounds like more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Oct 10 at 0027 UT, Mexican music loops E/W, generally atop CCI with SAHs, something unusual; also at rechex 0041, 0059. Finally Spanish SHVA ID at 0101 UT as WLBA Atlanta, and also mentioning a couple other stations, not sure if FM or AM, right back to music. The letters WLBA were pronounced in English altho they don`t have to be. Oh2: another 10 kW daytimer! and non-direxional. CoL is really Gainesville GA. Supposed to go off at 2300 UT (and reduce power for CH after 2100 UT in Oct to only 1 kW: NOT, NOT!) (November: 2230 UT and 2030 UT) 1130, Oct 10 at 0630 UT, still hearing Mexican music from east, no doubt WLBA Georgia daytimer still cheating as in earlier report; makes fast SAH but separable from KWKH to the southeast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Oct 12 at 1245 UT, KLEY Wellington KS instead of dead air is modulating with distortion, making it hard to understand, both during a remote about sports and then a commercial for Radioworks Joblink in Kansas; carrier sounds OK with BFO. Is anyone at station listening to off-air monitor? Is anyone at station? 1130, Oct 13 at 1241 UT, KLEY Wellington KS, with the same modulation distortion as 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1180, Oct 8 at 1230 UT, about traffic in Sioux City, but then The Zone ID for Omaha, i.e. KZOT Bellevue NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1310, Oct 9 at 0008 UT, ``Madisonville`s ESPN Radio``, and weather forecast. Which Madisonville? Not TX north of Huntsville, as on 1220v KMVL, but Kentucky 1310: WTTL, 1500/500 watts U2, between Hopkinsville and Henderson in western KY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Oct 8 at 1236 UT, mentions weather for Phœnix, then baseball discussion. Double-take, surely not KFNN Mesa yet, biz format, but rather KCTE Independence MO, on ESPN network, with heavy CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, Oct 8 at 2357 UT, rock music over KOKC with silly HS ballgame, Moore vs Owasso. As I expected, Oct 9 at 0000 UT announcement as a GME Studio program, contact tellmydj@gmail.com and off with no ID. Which means it`s KYND Cypress TX, which mainly (?) relays China Radio International to Houston market. FCC shows 25 kW day, 18 kW Critical Hours, no night, direxional with different constants. Rather it`s the same pattern merely dropping power in a futile nod to lessen QRM to KOKC, during the first and last bihour of its daytime, which indeed ends at 0000 UT in October (2330 UT in November). Pattern is supposed to have a major lobe at 110 degrees, and virtually nothing toward us or anywhere from south clockwise to northeast (we are NNW). I don`t believe it! KYND close to the same direxion from here as KOKC, and also a regular around sunrise, almost zero-beat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, re KZNX Creedmoor TX: Glenn, Looks the 95.1 translator was sold. KZNX and K236AY-95.1 have common ownership. With both in the Austin area it appears that K236AY-95.1 is now // KZNX and KTXZ [1120] is operating without an FM outlet. 73 (Wayne Heinen, Editor AM Radio Log, Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Oct 13 at 1244 UT, ad for a painting costing $195 from area code 816 (northern Missouri); 1247 UT ID for KQNK, which is Norton KS, 1 kW daytimer, briefly dominating frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KMIK-1580 --- The application to transfer the license of KMIK from Radio Disney to Gabrielle Broadcasting Licensee I, LLC (with a Phoenix address) was granted on Tuesday. Look for a format change change soon if it hasn't already happened. I'll check tonight. Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, CA, Oct 9, IRCA via DXLD) KMIK has requested new calls KHEP, which is an old call for 1280 in Phoenix. I believe the former operators of KHEP 1280 will be running the new 1580 KHEP (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1795) Sounds right. The email address of the assignee is jjb@1280kxeg.com Sent from my iPad (Gibson, ibid.) I guess I'll always remember them as K-TUF/KNIX, Buck Owens country stations in Tempe-Phoenix. I also remember KHEP calls being on 1280 in Phoenix for many years. Old school memories but what goes around comes around (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) 1580 KMIK is currently dark until the new owners of the station sign on with their new callsign. R Disney is gone from here, which opens up DX possibilities for locals to DX 1580, as well as 1570 and 1590, sans hash & splash. 73 and Good Listening, (Rick in Arizona Barton, Oct 17, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Format change in Colorado Springs --- Reviewing my Perseus recordings from the Border Inn, I'm happy to report that the moronic drug-user format on KHIG-1580 didn't last. They are now "la guapa 1580 AM" playing grupera music: https://www.facebook.com/LaGuapa1580/timeline?ref=page_internal I don't know if they have changed calls. 73 (Tim Hall, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. KDAV-1590 Lubbock format change --- Sad to report this wonderful oldies station has bit the dust. They are now simulcasting KVOP-1090 "the mighty 10-90" with frequent High Plains Radio Network (HPRN) mentions. They also carry the West Texas Friday Night Scores program (see fridaynightscores.com) which already airs on 1 and possibly 2 other stations in Lubbock. KDAV was a great oldies station. They put more effort into their jingles than most stations put into their whole schedule. RIP. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Oct 9, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ABDX via DXLD) This is a shame, but maybe I can nab them here in IL tonight thru KVGB pest on WSW antenna array. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, Barrington, ibid.) I used to listen to KDAV via the internet back in 2001 at work. They had a couple of good old boys doing the morning show and playing some great old and obscure tunes. I specifically remember September 11 2001 and hearing them talk about a plane flying into one of the world trade towers, I will never forget that show (Jim B. in Springfield MA, WA1EDN, ABDX via DXLD) Two weeks ago, the game on KVGB was delayed by lightning, so in the 9:00 hour KDAV had already joined the West Texas wrapup show while KVGB was still running an individual game. There is a similar wrapup show for Kansas but I don't recall if KVGB airs it. Interestingly, KGYN-1210 in OK runs the KS wrapup show. My Perseus recordings from Sept 25th have yielded an incredible 116 identified HS FB broadcasts plus a handful of UNIDs. I'll publish a revised list in time for tonight's games. 73 (Tim Hall, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ibid.) See PUBLICATIONS I've already noticed a few tribute pages popping up on Facebook and elsewhere for KDAV-1590 and the original KDAV of Buddy Holly's day, which was on 580 IIRC. In this day and age of trashy automated programming, the demise of a "real" radio station like KDAV-1590 and KEVA-1240 is a real loss. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX via DXLD) I don't know what callsign it held in the late 1950s, but wasn't the 1590 the station where Waylon Jennings was a DJ for a brief time around 1956-57 before becoming the bassist in Buddy Holly's band? 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska EN21AF http://www.dxworld.com/bcblog.html ibid.) KDAV-1590 and KVOP-1090 are calling themselves "the hub" now that they are simulcasting HPRN programming (Tim Hall, CA, Oct 14, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 1600, Oct 12 at 1251 UT, as I am trying to listen to the KUSHing OK local morning show, still too much skywave from Vietnamese KRVA TX, and also a singing ID in English for ``103.9`` --- Looking thru the 58 entries on 1600 in the NRC AM Log 2015-2016, I do find one with an FM on 103.9! --- KRFS Superior NE, 500/44 watts and also 500 W PSRA, // Country 104, not a translator. Likely, but can`t be positive it`s the only 1600/103.9 duo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Need help with Texas HAR, please. Here's an interesting UNID from the Border Inn beverage site: On 1610 I had a HAR station with mentions of several lane closures on I-27 (so the station must be between Amarillo and Lubbock). I also thought I heard a mention of I- 20 in this message, but I-20 and I-27 do not meet, so either it was I- 40 (placing the station in Amarillo) or I simply couldn't hear the "7" in "I-27" one time. I know there used to be a station in Amarillo that got out really well, but it went dark when the operators heard that the (relatively useful!) practice of rebroadcasting NOAA weather was technically illegal on a TIS license. The FCC TIS search page has been down for almost 3 days. Can any TX/OK DXers help with this one? Thanks (Tim Hall, ABDX via DXLD) Checking FCC and internet, all I find in the area is a parking info TIS at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Amarillo was recently reported off by Glenn Hauser when he drove thru on his trip into NM. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) I-27 is under serious construction in Amarillo: Construction on I-27 http://www.newschannel10.com/story/6998870/construction-on-i-27 KFDA-TV NewsChannel 10 - Your source for news, weather, sports and more in Amarillo, Texas and the surrounding communities. (Bruce Carter, ibid.) Thanks - I just found a site that lists the closures for the week of Sept 21-27 (which is what was still playing when I logged this station on Sept 28th). Listening to the recording again, I am hearing mentions of I-27, I-40, and possibly Coulter St. http://kgncnewsnow.com/txdot-street-closures-sept-21-27/ Seems we have a new HAR (probably a mobile unit) in Amarillo, operating at least sporadically. Thanks/ Here's a story about the old 1610 ceasing operations: http://www.newschannel10.com/story/25470014/tx-dot-decides-to-discontinue-1610-am (Tim Hall, ibid.) ** U S A. 1630, Oct 12 at 0228 UT tune-in, immediate partial ID in Spanish for ``94.7 FM y 1630 AM``, ergo KRND Fox Farm WY, i.e. Granja del Zorro. 94.7 is really a negligible translator, tail wagging the fox. No problem from KKGM TX or KCJJ IA at the moment. AAMOF, no problem from WRDW GA either, the only other 1630 in the USA, I`ve yet to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 1700, Oct 9 at 0001 UT, amid pileup of stations, one or two FM translator IDs in English and mention of 94.5. You guessed it --- no known 94.5 corresponding to KBGG IA or KVNS TX or (Spanish) KKLF TX. Nor WEUP AL. I can`t imagine this not being one of the above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WEUP/W233BR, per Google search (GREG HARDISON, DX LISTENING DIGEST). That`s Huntsville AL, 10/1 kW U1. May be new for me. Tnx again, Greg, for help with my unIDs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Education --- USF CONSIDERS CLOSING WUSF-TV IN FCC AUCTION The USF Board of Trustees is expected to vote today whether to auction the broadcast spectrum used by WUSF-TV, a prime slot that's worth a fortune. CHRIS URSO/STAFF [caption] By Anastasia Dawson | Tribune Staff Published: October 12, 2015 | Updated: October 13, 2015 at 05:52 AM http://www.tbo.com/news/education/usf-considers-closing-tv-station-in-fcc-auction-20151012/ TAMPA — The University of South Florida’s TV station could soon be pulled from the air if top university officials decide to put its spot on the broadband spectrum up for auction. Today, the USF Board of Trustees’s will vote on entering WUSF in the auction, which could ultimately shut down the station in return for millions in payment to the university. The trustees’ Finance and Audit committee gave its approval to the idea Oct. 6, with just one member voting against the move. WUSF’s FM radio station would not be affected. For the first time, in April, the Federal Communications Commission will hold what’s called an incentive broadcast spectrum auction, which will allow TV stations across the country to voluntarily sell or trade their broadcasting rights to free up space on the spectrum to serve the growing demand for wireless mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. TV stations that voluntarily enter the auction will have the option of sharing channels, switching from a high quality UHF channel to a lower quality VHF channel, or forfeiting a broadcast license completely and go dark. WUSF broadcasts on local digital UHF channel 34 and virtual channel 16 — valuable spots on the spectrum. The university is researching the ramifications of all options, spokesman Adam Freeman said, and remain on the table — including channel-sharing and maintaining current operations. Experts say this will be the last FCC spectrum auction for TV stations in the foreseeable future. “USF will make a decision consistent with our mission and in the best interest of our students, faculty, staff and the broader community,” Freeman said in an email to the Tribune. “It’s also important to emphasize that even if USF chooses to participate in the FCC’s spectrum auction, the university can elect to remove itself from the bidding at any time without penalty.” Entering the auction doesn’t guarantee a sale, either. WUSF, which broadcasts to Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, has a prime spot on the spectrum that could bring in significant interest from bidders, USF’s new chief marketing officer Tom Hoof said in a presentation to the trustees’ committee Oct. 6. However, if USF chooses not to participate in the auction, or rejects every offer, the FCC could still move WUSF to a different, potentially low-quality frequency if it chooses. The university launched WUSF TV in September 1963 to allow students to take classes via television, but the once innovative idea is losing money today. In 2009, USF moved its broadcast courses to the Internet and now WUSF airs public broadcasting programming and shows produced at the university. According to the university’s presentation to the trustees’ committee, “viewers like WUSF shows including quilting, sewing, crocheting, Love Miss Fisher, Father Brown, Call the Midwife and Nova.” WUSF reported a loss of $279,659 in the 2015 fiscal year, $182,564 in the 2014 fiscal year, and $224, 921 in the 2013 fiscal year. The TV station’s cash flow so far this year is negative $775,373. The radio station, meantime, made money during the same period. WUSF TV also has a $715,696 loan with the USF Foundation due next September. The tax effects of a sale, and how many top research universities still operate TV stations, are questions still being researched by USF officials. They did point out to the trustees’ committee that the University of Florida and Florida State University have decided to keep their TV stations. The FCC is accepting applications for the auction through November and December. USF has already hired financial consulting firm Bond & Pecaro to assess the value of WUSF’s place on the spectrum and legal counsel to represent the university in the auction process. WUSF TV has a nine-member advisory board but it wasn’t clear Monday where they or station manager JoAnn Urofsky stand on the auction proposal. “The board is fully in support of the direction that JoAnn Urofsky wants to go,” advisory board member Casey Fletcher told the Tribune. But Urofsky and others on the board referred all questions to board chairman Mark Sena and member Sam Bell, husband of former USF President Betty Castor. Neither could be reached for comment Monday. Bell told trustee committee members at their meeting Oct. 6 that the advisory board supports joining the auction but not going off the air. Instead, Bell said, the trustees should keep WUSF operating through channel sharing or moving to a lower-quality space on the broadcast spectrum. The full Board of Trustees meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Marshall Student Center, Room 2709. In the 1970’s, WUSF became a Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, making Tampa one of few cities with two competing stations airing PBS programming. The other station, private, non-profit WEDU, airs 75 percent PBS programming while WUSF offers 25 percent PBS shows. Other WUSF programming includes local shows like “Tampa Bay’s Top Ten,” “Power Yoga: Mind & Body,” and “University Beat,” as well as documentaries and other nationally produced shows like “Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey.” PBS content also can be viewed on the WEDU website and streamed online with Apple TV and other services. Even if USF gives up its TV station, the university could produce content that can reach a wide audience, marketing officer Hoof told the trustees’ committee. If WUSF does give up its broadcast license in the auction, USF could combine the remnants of WUSF-TV’s broadcast facilities with the USF Sun Dome’s production facilities and others into one combined entity run by University Communications. That revamped production company would work with the Muma College of Business, The College of Arts and Sciences, Innovative Education, M.I.T., and the ZAP advertising program to give students more hands-on production training, Hoof said. It would also produce all of the university’s videos, from on-campus athletic events to online classes, instead of having separate in-house facilities competing for resources, Hoof said. WUSF’s building, near the Marshall Student Center on the USF campus, houses two, 3,000 square-foot TV studios that could be rented to a local TV station interested in moving, Hoof said. WUSF Radio would still broadcast from the facility. There are limited commercial production facilities in the Tampa Bay area, and the university could rent out the space or use it to create projects for clients, he said. USF officials also hope focusing its resources on one digital production company will expand student training. The TV station has a few interns, but more could be added. The university would partner with a company like Home Shopping Network to act as a consultant on state of the art techniques and trends for both students and faculty and set up internships. “Video content isn’t going away, in fact it is increasing,” Hoof said in his presentation. “Mobile devices are today’s delivery system like TV was in the past.” (TBO.com: Tampa Bay Online, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times - breaking news and weather. Tuesday, Oct 13, 2015 via Terry Krueger, Clearwater, DXLD) TRUSTEES AT WUSF’S UNIVERSITY VOTE TO PARTICIPATE IN UPCOMING AUCTION By Dru Sefton | October 14, 2015 http://current.org/2015/10/trustees-at-wusfs-university-vote-to-sell-spectrum-in-upcoming-auction/ WUSF-TV airs in an overlap market with WEDU in Tampa. (Photo: Mike Halterman via Creative Commons) The University of South Florida Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to sell at least some of the spectrum used by its public TV station in the upcoming FCC auction, reports the Tampa Tribune. http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/wusf-tvs-future-even-more-in-doubt-as-usf-explores-selling-stations-broadcast-spectrum-20151013/ Trustees did not vote on how the public TV station will participate, according to the newspaper. WUSF could sell all of its spectrum and go dark, share a channel with another station or move from UHF to VHF. In its early days in the 1960s, the station aired distance-learning classes for remote students; now those classes are online. “I cannot see a compelling reason for us to have a TV station now, and I believe in the future it would be even more unlikely a need would ever come up,” trustee Stanley Levy said at the meeting. “If we elect to try to stay in business, it would cost us millions of dollars.” Some 30 employees at the station could be affected by the decision. The station has struggled financially in recent years but is slowly recovering. According to its most recent audit, operating revenues increased by 14.5 percent in fiscal year 2014 over FY13, after a 19.6 percent decrease from FY12 to FY13. Trustee Nancy Watkins, the board’s representative in the auction, will make the final decision on how the university will take part, the Tribune said. Over the next six months, she will meet with business partners about potential ways to use the station. WUSF-FM, the university’s radio station, will not be affected. The TV station is in an overlap market with WEDU-TV, PBS’s primary member station in Tampa. A presentation to the trustees noted that of 62 universities in the Association of American Universities — a group of research universities that USF hopes to join — only 10 own a TV channel. Nine of them are PBS member stations (via Terry Krueger, FL, DXLD) I suspect we shall see similar situations in many other markets by April (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) See also DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV ** U S A. MSNBC, Oct 11 at 1851 UT, on `Meet the Press` playback, Chuck Todd continues to LIE: ``back in just 45 seconds, we promise, with our End Game segment`` --- which came back in TWO MINUTES AND 45 SECONDS!!! Same thing happened last week, and every week. Why in the world does he go out of his way to make false promises; as most commercial breaks are not overtly timed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Democratic debate on AM radio (or even shortwave) --- Glenn, Do you know which high power AM broadcast stations in the Midwest will carry tonight's (Central Time/UTC Wed) Democratic Presidential debate? I doubt any FM stations in Central Arkansas have coverage (2 of the talkers are rightwing) and want a backup plan in case my slow rural DSL internet streaming is reduced to constant buffering. Even in the US, Internet access can be tricky. I have not had cable/satellite TV since August 2011 by choice (because I am a "cord cutter"). (Haley Prentice, Star City AR, KC5KBV, 2205 UT Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Haley, Sorry, I didn`t see this till it was over. I didn`t check. Probably not many/any? CNN would have had exclusive TV rights to the live broadcast, altho Anderson did mention some other medium at the outset. Maybe you can tell me now which ones carried it? (Glenn to Haley, 0406 UT Oct 14, ibid.) Glenn, I found an article on All Access that stated WLS (AM) 890, WLAC 1510 Nashville, and WSB (AM) 750 Atlanta were broadcasting the Westwood One radio coverage. None of the local (to me) FM newstalk stations in Central Arkansas/Metro Little Rock had debate coverage (KHTE 96.5 England AR, and KARN-FM 102.9 Sheridan AR) -- I did check to confirm at the bottom of the 7 pm CDT hour. WLAC was airing Dave Ramsey (tape-delayed) until 7:30 pm CDT/0030 UT while WSB 750 had a local pre-debate program. WLS was bathed in co-channel interference and not the dominant station on 890 as heard in rural Southeastern AR. I read in a news blog after the fact from a commenter, that the 91.7 frequency in Central AR (actually AFR owned KBDO Des Arc) had debate coverage. I had WLAC to start and even attempted to watch the CNN streaming, but in addition to about 2-3 minutes latency with the stream, there was severe and frequent buffering. I quickly gave up on trying to watch and went with old school AM radio which while not a perfect solution was better than the bufferfest that many cordcutters (non-cable/non Sat TV subscribers) chose. After the first commercial break, I switched to WSB (AM) which tended to fade less despite the shorter distance between my location and Nashville (TN). However during the time of 9:40 CDT/0240 UT, WSB started to have deep fades and at times I was unable to hear the candidates speak clearly. I'm going to paste some comments I made at my Facebook page earlier this morning. The text is below and you are free to publish these. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A spot on quote by Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog regular commentator "Deathbyinches": "You know the country has gone to shit when you can't get a national Presidential debate on regular TV or radio. Oligarchs demand to make tons of money to broadcast something to a few people that belongs to all 320 million of us. Even our political process has been privatized." http://www.arktimes.com/%E2%80%A6/debate-night-open-line-race-for-u%E2%80%A6 No mainstream radio station in Central AR had debate coverage, although I saw on the AT Blog after the fact that another blog commenter claimed the rimshot 91.7 FM frequency (which is the American Family Radio Talk station in Des Arc -- KDBO 91.7) had debate coverage. I switched between WLAC 1510 Nashville (TN) and WSB 750 Atlanta -- the latter had a more consistent signal albeit with severe fading at times especially toward the end of debate. Those without cable had to watch a dodgy internet stream marred by buffering on both CNN's and the individual's ISP ends. One should not have to resort to AM radio DXing, a distant FM radio station owned by a certified Hate Group, or a dodgy internet stream as alternatives to "cable" to be an informed citizen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of comment from Facebook. PS. I also live tweeted during the debate concerning both content, but mostly reception issues at http://twitter.com/dxingwithhaley (@dxingwithhaley) Thanks (Haley Prentice, AR, WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. BABCOCK music via Tashkent, Oct 13 from 1130 on 15735 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to SoAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyUQU2NV7xA&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Observer SW News Oct 13-14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. EWTN, WEWN-3 Radio Católica Mundial relay Vatican Radio: 1330-1400 on 11550 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to MEX Spanish, Oct 15 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. Radiodifusión en Venezuela --- Este pasado domingo 04 de octubre se celebró el "Día Internacional de la Radiodifusión", en conmemoración de la primera asamblea de radiodifusores, que se celebró en Ciudad de México, el 04 de octubre de 1946; en nuestro país se recuerda la efemérides el 06 de junio de 1944, cuando fue fundado el primer Sindicato de Radio, en Caracas, cuando el gobierno del general Isaías Medina Angarita disolvió los sindicatos, consideradas "comunistas"; estaba vigente el Artículo 6, Inciso 32 de la Constitución vigente, que lo prohibía. La primera radiodifusora instalada en Venezuela, fue "AYRE", en Caracas, por la iniciativa de los técnicos Luis Roberto Scholtz y Alfredo Möller, contando con la ayuda política del coronel Arturo Santana, edecán del general José Vicente Gómez; el 25 de septiembre de 1925, esta iniciativa fue clausurada a raíz de la "Semana del Estudiante", en febrero de 1928... http://www.eluniversal.com/opinion/151013/radiodifusion-en-venezuela (via José Miguel Romero2, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. VIETNAME, 9635.8, R. Voz do Vietname, Son Tay, 1029- desvanecimento total 1145, 09/10, vietnamita, texto, música; 25442. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. PALAU, Very good signal of Radio Que Me via T8WH Angel 3, Oct 9 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XcqwTUPLeE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7AA4OiwlaA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnM1DhFvX0&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINAS: 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, Argélia, *1700-..., 09/10, árabe, hino, oração corânica, canções, entrevistas; 35444, mas em ascensão. 1550, idem, 1115-1300*, 11/10, árabe, texto, frequentemente algo inflamado, canções; 25342, mas quase imperceptível pela hora do fecho. O programa em castelhano, por norma, entre as 1215 e as 1300, na emissão matutina, e entre as 1715v e as 1800, na emissão vespertina, continua a faltar, porque "foi dar uma grande volta" ou porque ainda subsiste, embora em horário que ainda pude verificar. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Good reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) 1800-1807 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf English, video Oct 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyj0icv-jYE&feature=youtu.be -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZANZIBAR BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 11735, with 50 kW non directional from a tower site in Zanzibar just east of the Tanzania shore, south of Kenya. Despite the super crappy conditions with solar flares and solar storm stuff going on, I've had Zanzibar on 11735 daily here in Southwest Arkansas. On the average day, it's barely above the noise floor, but you can hear the African music. Well, the last few days, it's been at pretty listenable levels and at times, been shockingly strong. Here's a 70 second clip Heard at 3:45 pm Central/2045 UT on 10/08/2015 in Southwest Arkansas using a a Tecsun PL880 and Magic Wand Antenna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukXIlU0ZCi0 (Paul Walker, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) > re ``non directional``: do not believe the t a l e s in Aoki list; see screenshot of 06 06'08.83"S 39 15'27.99"E location --- typical China curtain design visible, 50 kW transmitter of BBEF company from Beijing. wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 702, Oct 13 at 0548 UT, the only carrier I can detect on a TA frequency is here. Loops ENE/WSW. So what`s possible per WRTH from W Europe or NW Africa? 25 kW from Algeria, Nigeria? 200 kW from France? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAHITI UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search Oct 14 at 1207-1211: JBA on 702, 774 both looping west rather than NW so suspect Australia. Nothing else up to 1000 except for 945 and 954, the latter vs heavy splash from local 960 KGWA so can`t get a DF. Nothing out of Pacific or Asia stands out on these from WRTH listings. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1238 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 730, Oct 9 at 0103 UT, a station in English rather than Korean or Spanish, ad for something in Hattiesburg; but unfortunately there is no 730 there or anywhere in Mississippi. 730, Oct 10 at 0021 UT, I am again getting a station in English looping east/west; YL with possible African-American accent discussing significance of hair color, e.g. blue. Looking at the 730 map, a good candidate is my closest to the east, KQPN, 1/1 kW U4 in West Memphis AR, altho listed as a YSR affiliate. Could also apply to the Hattiesburg mention I heard before, in a neighboring state and the closest 730 to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 750, Oct 8 at 1208 UT, music and ``750-AM . . . Grupo Fórmula`` ID, from ~SW, separable from northerly KMMJ, NE. Trouble is, no ORF affils listed on 750 in IRCA Mexican Log, nor Cantú. Finding any affiliates at http://www.radioformula.com.mx/estaciones.asp is frustrating. Could it be a US station? KAMA El Paso would fit except it`s with Univisión América (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I don't see a Radio Formula station on 750. Their Internet list hasn't been updated in years. The webpages are copyright 2012. Their station list is on the RAMSA site, http://ramsa.radioformula.com All of the Mexican stations on 750 that I have looked at for this year's XE Log have slogans on a Network website except XEMG, Arriaga, Chiapas. So either a recent format change or an American station. (Martin Foltz, IRCA XE Log Editor, ABDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 774, Oct 12 at 1225 UT, JBA carrier loops W/E, not NW/SE. It`s the first frequency I check for TP DX when I awaken before sunrise, and often get trace of NHK, but today it must be Australia, 3LO Melbourne, and the only other one I can find is on 702, also from west, i.e. 2BL Sydney, both only 50 kW for ABC Local Radio. Nothing audible in the 1500s, such as 1548 Emerald. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1236 UT, latening by 6 or 7 minutes per week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 702; TAHITI UNIDENTIFIED. 990, Oct 12 at 1240 UT, song in Spanish, 1242 UT interjects one word, ``Lozana``, or something similar before another song. I was expecting ``Rockola`` from XECL Mexicali as also logged recently and this too loops roughly east/west. Could have been artist/music name rather than station name. Nothing in the three XE references. Could be a US station: there are several SS listed, the most likely at this time and direxion being KTKT Tucson, except it`s ESPN Deportes. WSGO New Orleans keeps coming up in searches but it`s talk in English. There is also a small town at the southern tip of TX called Lozano (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1160.08, Checking three consecutive days -- October 10- 12, and no trace of the mystery carrier that always came up at 0957 GMT. Gone? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1200.08, 1002 October 11, 2015. Pretty strong het, pointing N/S, reading approximate. More problematic for WJUA, Pine Island Center, FL (Spanish "Juan AM") than WOAI, San Antonio, TX, at least for me (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1309.80, 1139 October 11, 2015. This one has been here forever, points NNE/SSW, so maybe domestic or Central American. Log entries on October 11, 2011; November 14, 2014; January 25, 2015; February 5, 2015 (though it's really always there in darkness hours). Measurement approximate and might vary a bit day to day (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL NRD-535, IC-R75, active loop, roof dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1510, Oct 8 at 0558 UT, `Dave Ramsey Show` on signal that sounds like WLAC Nashville, except they normally carry `C2CAM` at this hour. WLAC sked shows DR at 5-8 pm CT. DR Show website station finder is most unhelpful, requiring one to enter a location or zip code, and then displays affils in or near the area, but one must go to each station`s website to find out the time! Only other DR in the NRC AM Log 2015 for 1510 is daytimer KAGC in Bryan TX, which claims DR is on there at 3-5 & 7-9 pm [sic] CT. I thought it was end of a DR program hour, but maybe it was just a promo on WLAC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Times are: Eastern Local time [UT -4] for Domestic DX. 1580 UNID 10/13 0810. Faded up with a weather forecast saying temps would be in 70’s and 80’s over the coming week. Then a mention of downtown Clearwater. No ID heard. Any guesses? Remember on a Clear Day You Can Hear Forever (Shawn Axelrod VE4DX1SMA, Winnipeg MB Canada, NRC-AM via DXLD) Possibly some station picking up the Tan Talk radio network http://www.tantalk1340.com/ They used to be on an Arkansas station. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. AM 1655, NO ID, programación música peruana y hora UT -5 Video de la misma: Video de la UNID 1655 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJCWD1lkrxg&feature=youtu.be (San Carlos DX-CAMP, Mendoza Argentina, Días 2, 3 y 4 de octubre de 2015, Camping Millaray, Participantes: Miguel Castellino, José Kucher, GRA blog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4057.994, Unidentified - probably Korean language spur or harmonic -, noted on remote Nagoya / Tokyo SDR network unit at 1235 UT on Oct 14. Mathematics: could be 73 kHz apart intermodulation of Korean fundamentals 3912 / 3985 kHz? (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 14 via DXLD) That fits UNIDENTIFIED. 4790-, Oct 8 at 1247, JBA carrier yet again amid CODAR. Is it BBC Uzbek via Tajikistan warming up already for its 1300 broadcast? Thomas Nilsson in Sweden hears that well and sent a clip of the closing by 1330 yesterday including the BaBcoCk theme music. Then I hear from him today: ``Hello Glenn, Set my Perseus for recording today. Enclosed you will find a pdf showing two signals from 1240 UT about 1.5 Hz apart. The stronger one is BBC WS. I can't tell what the other signal is, maybe a spurious signal from BBC WS as it is far too early for Indonesia here at this time of the year. The exact frequency is 4789.99 taking the misalignment into account. So I think people over there must check for a possible Indonesia. Regards, Thomas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re gh`s 4790 unID: I checked it via Brisbane remote receiver and nothing else but carrier for BBC Uzbek [TAJIKISTAN] appearing at 1250 on 4789.99 kHz today. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 9, ABDX via DXLD) Hello Glenn, Got this info from Mauno Ritola re your question of a carrier on the low side of BBC WS on 4790. (Ref log in latest SWB). 73 Thomas Hei Thomas, > On Oct 10 I noted an extremely weak carrier here on 4789.85 at 1420 on the Asian antenna direction. (TN) < I think it is something from Eastern Europe. Not visible in Japan, Australia or Qatar but in Moscow, here etc. 73, (Mauno Ritola via Thomas Nilsson, DXLD) Subsequently filed more certainly: TAJIKISTAN UNIDENTIFIED. 5010.925 approx., Oct 12 at 0238, JBA carrier, suspect MADAGASCAR which is known to vary around here. The Cubans are not off- frequency from 5040 and 5025, so if they produced a leapfrog it would be close to 5010.0. (However, if 5025 and 5040 are really at different sites now, as in Aoki, Quivicán and Bauta, respectively, there could be no such transmitted mixture anyway.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6131.5 approx., heavy RTTY INTRUDER centered approximately here has been infesting the 49m exclusive SWBC band ever since I first reported it Sept 19. It`s been constant whenever I have checked any evening, and perhaps all-night. I have yet to see *any* other logs of this. Apparently utility DXers don`t bother to check the SWBC bands, and SWBC DXers just avoid the frequency. Many of them have RTTY-decoding capability, so why doesn`t anyone ID it? Or at least try to? I myself do not decode RTTY and have no interest in doing so. Searching into the UDXF yg, I found only these old oblique refs to anything on 6131, which may well be totally unrelated: ``VOICE: 6516.0 ---: unid station, 2004, J3E/USB, Security Havnoy over, poor copy, QSY 6131 (30 Oct 2013)(PPA) (Peter Poelstra, The Netherlands, ALA 1530 loop antenna, Winradio G31DDC)`` ``6131.0, dig Link-11 CLEW, 2 channels tfc, UNID NATO MIL Station (on ISB) 0040:57 UT (2013-09-09) (mco1 in Portland, ME USA on StarChat#wunclub) These are the loggings from the NSA logbot on several IRC channels. They are listed by Freq, Mode, Comment, UTC time, nickname, QTH and IRC channel`` If not 6135 and 6125, this of course makes 6130 unusable for broadcasting in the Americas; HFCC B-15 shows no usage of it during our evening except for Tibet. Current Aoki adds Laos, both never going to be heard here when it`s daytime there. Fortunately, CHNX Halifax has been gone for decades. Still this utility has no business inside the SWBC band, when there is plenty of open space on the fixed and other utility bands. The least we should do is identify where it`s coming from. Attention, SWBC-only editors, who are about to delete this as off-topic, a mere unID utility. It`s relevant (Glenn Hauser, Oct 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135.0, ASCENSION, BBC French service, hit heavily by High Speed CW signal around 6132 kHz, some annoying peaks visible on 6129.5, 6130.55, 6131.4, 6132.0, 6135.220 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, circa 0455 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Não identificada: 6370 R. do Ministério da Defesa (da Coreia do Sul) (p), 2055-2109, 11/10, emissão em coreano (p), texto; 25331. Tenho sérias dúvidas de que se trate de uma emissão sul- coreana. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified. station with Arabic music: 1038 on 9400, unknown transmitter Oct 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXqZxxcpBM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified. With Arabic music, Oct 14: 1030-1035 on 9550 unknown transmitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDYHcy_zk10&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFV6HN-6uU&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Observer SW News Oct 13-14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hi folks, during the past two weeks, I regularly observed a strong white noise signal (does not seem to be DRM, but sounds a bit similar at the first glance) around 9690/9695, covering about 15 kHz, and occasional weak carriers around 9690 or 9691.5 in particular, starting around 1550 and lasting until 1700 or longer. Noise is quite weak here in central Europe, much stronger on italian remote receivers. Carriers too weak to make anything out of it. Probably again ETH-ERI jamming? 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Next to Radio Dabanga 11645 kHz from Vatican Radio, heard an on-air-engineering technician test on exact 11650 kHz at 0530 UT, an 1000 Hertz tone test heard few times, once again at 0534 UT. Technician test was of perfect professional kind on exact frequency (Wolfgang Büschel, log around 0330-0600 UT Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13555.5/USB, 2 Euro-accented M talking about catching catfish & haddock, using "colorful" words & phrasery: 1425, 12-Oct (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 60 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) I guess he means English? Cf my recent report: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 13555.5-SSB, approx., Sept 22 at 1348, 2-way in Spanish amid the ISM band, also vs CODAR; again 24+ hours later Sept 23 at 1402`` And from 2014y: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 13555.5-SSB, Sept 17 at 1328, Spanish 2-way, very poor, as I am still looking for recapture of the American English `A1A` station which was on 13555-USB`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15985.5-USB, Oct 14 at 1346, 2-way in Spanish, including whistling (during futile scan for any ChiCom jammers) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1795, Thanks to Tom McLaughlin, Lubbock TX, for a generous annual contribution in memory of Gigi Lytle, to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 If you`ve been with us for more than fifteen years, you will remember Gigi Lytle, SWL and valued contributor to WOR, RIB and DXLD. Her companion Tom McLaughlin reminds us of her every year at this time. She died in Lubbock, TX, fifteen years ago, October 18, 2000. How time flies (Glenn) One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ THE HFCC B-15 SCHEDULES HAVE BEEN POSTED AT http://www.hfcc.org/data/b15/ Lots of info to digest. Particularly interested if BBCWS has made any further SW reductions due to budget issues (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HS FB TARGET LIST - 116 STATIONS FROM 20 STATES LOGGED AT THE BORDER I've reviewed a good cross-section of the recordings I made during the HS FB hours 2 weeks ago at the Border Inn beverage site (US 6/50 at the NV/UT border). I have now identified a total of 116 HS FB logs from 20 western states, and I'm still chasing a handful of UNIDs. I've filled in some missing information from last week's first draft of this list, and corrected a few typos. Tips for folks DXing from western states tonight: 1. Watch out for college games that are increasingly sneaking into Friday nights. BYU often plays on Friday night, and on Sept 25th there was a game between the Oregon SU Beavers and Stanford Cardinal which showed up on a bunch of stations off the back of my unterminated ESE wire (unterminated on purpose so it would bring in TX off the front end and OR off the back end). 2. There is an excellent wrapup show for games in West Texas (see fridaynightscores.com). There is at least one such show for Kansas which airs on KGSO-1410 and KQAM-1480, which may or may not be the same Kansas wrapup show that airs on KGYN-1210. In addition to the affiliates listed on fridaynightscores.com, that show can also be heard on KFYO-790 and KDAV-1590 (which currently simulcasts KVOP-1090 with "HPRN" High Plains Radio Network). Have fun! https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ABDX/conversations/topics/70256 (Tim Hall, CA, Oct 9, ABDX via DXLD) THE POST-QSL ERA Hi Glenn, I hope this e-mail finds you well. I have been listening lately sporadically at best, sharing time between SWBC stations still operational, pirate broadcasts on or around 6925 kHz. Last weekend, I logged activity from the Hurricane Watch Net as well. It seems that I am trying to transition myself to that part of the hobby still left, without reception reports. Kind of like life after QSL's for so many years (Ed Insinger, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ed, I transitioned out of RRing and QSLing decades ago (except for a few specials), and saved gobs of time, trouble, money and frustration (Glenn to Ed, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, What you say about QSL'ing is true. A case in point for me has been Radio Thailand. Can't tell you how many reception reports they have received from me, to no avail. I will occasionally send an e-report to new pirate stations which I have logged (Ed Insinger, ibid.) LISTS OF THE TWO MAIN US CATHOLIC NETWORK AFFILIATES CAN BE FOUND HERE Relevant Radio: http://www.relevantradio.com/about-us/stations EWTN: http://www.ewtn.com/radio/affiliates.pdf 73 (Andrew Brade, Oct 11, MWCircle yg via DXLD) FILMS ABOUT RADIO [cf. DXLD 15-36] Continuing the theme of radio related films, ALAN FOSSEY has been good enough to write to us from Cwmbran and he has these suggestions: ‘Freedom Radio’ – UK 1941 black and white notquite-official British propaganda about pirate radio operating in Nazi Germany and ‘A For Andromeda’ (BBC1, 1961 – Episode 7) admittedly made for television but a classic worthy of mention and far superior to the rather similar Carl Sagan story, ‘Contact’. There was a television movie, says JONATHAN KEMPSTER, in the early 1980s called ‘The French Atlantic Affair’ (written by Ernie Lehman K6DXK) set on a cruise ship and featuring a young boy with an Atlas 210X transceiver in his cabin. Adding to the growing list of films is a further suggestion from DAN GOLFARB (via David Harris) and this is ‘Frequency’ by Gregory Hoblit made in 2001. RUMEN PANKOV from Sofia, Bulgaria, has added “when I was a schoolboy, maybe in the 1950s, I saw the French film “Si tous les gars du Monde“ directed by Christian-Jaque based on a novel by Jaques Remy for the international help of many radio amateurs to save a man – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049703/ In English the name is “If All The Guys In The World“ or “Dead Run“. By the way I found one forum with a discussion on same theme http://www.forum.bfra.org also based on data from http://www.radioscanner.ru More films related to radio are: Vasko da Gama from the village of Rupcha (Bulgarian); Making Waves; Phenomenon; Frequency; Spotkanie (Polish); The Telegraph Route. To add to our other ongoing theme of radio songs, Rumen mentions ‘Pilot of the Airwaves’ by Charlie Dore (H. I’ve been listening to your show on the radio H). (Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) SHORTWAVE MUSIC +++++++++++++++ [this used to be a below the ~~~~~~~~~ category in DXLD, but lately you would more likely find compilations under I-NTERNATIONAL; or under individual countries, such as this time, ROMANIA, q.v. --- gh] I often feature music programmes on shortwave. For me, they make great background listening whilst performing other tasks (such as writing Listening Post, for example), but also now that there is less to listen to on shortwave, it is still possible to enjoy the music programmes of many different radio station language services without any understanding of the language. I am therefore very pleased to receive the following contribution from Rumen Pankov: 1230, CNR13, China in Uighur, daily pop show with songs in CC & EE on 9420 13700 1830, V of America in Amharic with Saturday show featuring US hit singles on 12040kt 12080wo 12140bk 13865wo 15630fr Also, three different non-stop music programmes mainly with instrumental pieces daily: 1705-1805, PBS Xinjiang in Kazakh on 6015 7340 1705-1805, PBS Xizang in Chinese on 4820 6050 7240 7450 1705-1805, PBS Xizang in Tibetan/Chinese on 4905 6130 7255 7385 9500 9590 // Thanks again Rumen! I often come across Chinese stations playing music (the various CRI language services, the various CNR services and also the various PBS services) but I am seldom able to confirm if these are regular (i.e. daily or weekly) programmes. I am always interested to hear about any regular such programmes that you note (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ GLENN`S NEW MEXICO TRIP LOG Here`s the permanent link to my report of AM & FM in NM et al.: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20151001171504543 which unfortunately messes up the accents (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) DX CAMP REALIZADO EN SAN CARLOS, PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA, ARGENTINA lea la interesantísima nota haciendo "click" en el siguiente vínculo: https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/informe-sobre-san-carlos-dx-camp/ (Arnaldo Slaen, dxldyg via DXLD) BELLEAIR CAUSEWAY BOAT RAMP Logs appended with [BECA] were made at the Belleair Causeway Boat Ramp, Belleair Bluffs, FL. This site is not far from the house. It is small, flat dredge spoil island in the Intracoastal Waterway between the mainland and the coastal barrier islands of Pinellas County. It was drastically redesigned a few years ago when the new bridge (higher, eliminating the draw bridge) was built. I used to come here occasionally in the early 1980's to medium wave band scan while living in a very power line noisy house near downtown Largo, maybe even a couple of times in the late 70's during visits to my grandparent's house (the same one). With the constantly increasing electronics RF in the current neighborhood, I wanted to make a pre-dawn through just after sunrise check to see how quiet it is at the boat ramp as a potential remote site that's close and easy to get to. Despite nearby multi-story condos and homes jutting out on finger canals, and the lights on the bridge above plus on the ramps, it's dead quiet. I only used the active loop coupled to the ICOM IC-R75, but there's at least 200 feet of seawall that drops down onto a narrow patch of sand with sparse mangroves, sea grapes and ,mostly Ipomoea imperati vines present on the south side of this county park, opposite from the boat launches, that would work well for a random wire. The park is well lit and has primitive restrooms. A two story bait house, snack bar and observation deck remains perpetually under construction. Parking is $2.00 if you can figure out how to make the automated machine spit out a valid ticket after losing your money. Despite the nearness to the house, signals here are stronger along with enhanced reception of stations along the Gulf of Mexico rim states (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, DX LISTENING DIGEST) cf OKLA KQCV CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ WORLDDAB ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Radio World October 12, 2015 http://www.radioworld.com/article/worlddab-announces-keynote-speakers/277275 With the WorldDAB General Assembly 2015 less than a month away, more keynote speakers have been confirmed to take part in the conference. Graham Ellis, deputy director, radio, BBC; Graham Dixon, head of radio, EBU; Julia Maier-Hauff, secretary general, AER; and Col. Dr. Sukonrat Natee, vice-chairman, National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, Thailand, are among the new additions to the keynote lineup. The WorldDAB General Assembly will allow attendees to learn about the latest development in new and existing markets, progress toward the digital switchover, DAB receiver innovations, new digital radio content and formats, and collaboration with the auto and mobile phone sectors on putting DAB into the market. Attendees of WorldDAB General Assembly will also have the option to attend Digital Radio UK’s “Radio Digital Countdown” event on the morning of Nov. 3. The WorldDAB General Assembly 2015 & International Digital Radio Symposium will take place in London from Nov. 3-4. To register, click http://www.worlddab.org/events/detail/386 Posted by: (Mike Terry, Oct 11, dxldyg via DXLD) EDXC 2016 IN MANCHESTER, 9-12 SEPTEMBER We are pleased to be able to announce that, subject to formalities within the Council (i.e. a vote of the member clubs), BDXC will be hosting next year’s EDXC Conference in Manchester from 9-12 September 2016. The last time the conference was held in the UK was way back in 1983 and we hope that many BDXC members will attend, along with DXers from around the world. We will of course give you more details as they become available (Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ A VISIT WITH H. DICKSON NORMAN The NDXE piece in 15-40 brought back some interesting radio-related memories from decades gone by. The Ex & I made a mid-September 1986 visit to my old hometown of Atlanta, where we rented a car to bounce back and forth, seeing the changing sights and sponging off of assorted relatives and friends. On one of those afternoons, we jumped in and took a drive down I-85 to Opelika, Alabama, H. Dickson Norman's home base. We spent three or four hours at Dickson's home, with him and his charming wife Mary; we found them to be gracious hosts in the old Southern style, as the wives discussed recipes, et al, and H.D. and I of course talked nothing but Radio. Dickson's "plans" included eventual acquisition of the necessary transmitter, which was allegedly to be placed with curtain antennae on a piece of land just north (as I recall) of Opelika, on the other side of I-85. In the interim, he was happy to build his promotional empire around the proposed facility. I remember we discussed the possibilities of my doing a regular show on the station, depending upon my gaining access to studio/recording facilities in L.A. (in those dark days before ISDN, or even Switch-56 remoting). Very early into the visit, I had the impression that this would never be, but played along just for the warped amusement of it all. H. Dickson did not seem to be a genuine huckster, as he clearly was not soliciting anyone for money. If I had to guess, I would bet that he and Mary were getting by on old, small-town Family money of some sort; his great-greats probably owned a plantation, or somesuch. Dickson insisted he could get the actual call letters of the proposed station assigned as "NDXE", owing to the international allocation of "N--" belonging to the United States. Of course, NDXE was to be an acronym for "In Dixie", reflecting the obsequious Southernness of the whole affair. As souvenirs, H.D. GAVE me two plastic cups (from which the NDXE logo completely wore off some fifteen years or so later, dammit!), and an NDXE T-Shirt, which I would love to find again somewhere in my mound of possessions, but was probably stolen by my ex-wife. All in all, it turned out to be a very pleasant, friendly visit. H.D. and Mary expressed hopes that we would send more visitors their way; they certainly seemed to have nothing to hide. We jumped back into the Chevette and motored back up I-85. The Normans did not feed us dinner, which led to a culmination of the trip with delicious greasy burgers and hot peach pie from The Varsity, the "world's largest drive-in", and a favorite childhood haunt in downtown Atlanta. And so it was (GREG HARDISON, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for a great first-person account! I recall locating his office/building in Opelika, but I don`t think I met him, not having made advance contact. But I also recall going to an empty field outside of town, which was supposed to be the antenna/transmitter site. Someone must have given me direxions. So long ago. I wonder if I wrote about it in more detail at the time? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA DELANO TRANSMITTER READIED FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY If you’ve been following the saga of the Voice of America’s Delano, Calif., transmitter plant since its closure in the fall of 2007, you know that one of the big Collins Radio machines there — a 1960s- vintage 821A-1 250,000-watt shortwave transmitter — was rescued through the combined efforts of the Antique Wireless Association and the Collins Collectors Association. [caption:] The Collins 821A-1 250,000-watt transmitter is shown after its reassembly at the AWA Museum in Bloomfield. Photos by James E. O’Neal The Antique Wireless Association decided to recreate the VOA’s Delano transmitter plant’s control room. When the facility was active, operators could keep tabs on the station’s Collins and ASEA Brown Boveri quarter-megawatt transmitters. Photos by James E. O’Neal The organizations pooled their resources to create the Collins Radio Heritage Group and funded the removal and shipping of 38,000 pounds of heavy-metal transmitter some 2,700 miles to the small New York town of Bloomfield. During my visit in 2014, the Collins 821A-1 had arrived, but was still in relatively small pieces occupying more than 100 packing boxes and pallets. (The accumulation of big rig components was sometimes referred to as “the world’s largest Erector set” or “the Heathkit from hell” by those involved in its relocation.) Making things all the more challenging was a mandate attached to donated transmitter by the General Services Administration, manager of the Delano site after it was vacated by the VOA, that required the transmitter to be reassembled and on display within 12 months of its acquisition. TOGETHER AGAIN I’m pleased to report that the 821A-1 transmitter — as well as the VOA’s Delano transmitting station control room where the facility’s aggregation of high-power quarter-megawatt rigs were monitored and controlled — are both back together now, looking very much as they did in their California location. Everything was made ready in time for a viewing at this year’s annual AWA conference in mid-August, though according to the AWA’s deputy director, Bob Hobday, the official opening is still a couple of months away. “We were rushing quite hard to have the transmitter available for the conference members,” said Hobday. “We still have to put up some displays and walls around it. This needs to be done before we can open it to the general public as part of the museum.” Hobday said in late September, “Our hope is to have the grand opening in early November. The construction is well underway.” He said that visitors arriving at the museum prior to official opening would still be allowed to view the new exhibit. The Delano “big rig” now shares space in the AWA’s new museum facility with a range of yesteryear’s communications equipment. Photos by James E. O’Neal [caption] YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED Hobday stated that, while costs associated with relocating the VOA gear — some $20,000 — had been covered by donations and other funding, financial assistance is still needed. “The fundraising effort is still ongoing,” said Hobday. “We’ve paid for the expenses [associated with the move and reassembly]. However, to put the transmitter in a museum setting we’re incurring some additional expenses. If anyone wants to get in on the support of the project, we sure would appreciate their help.” Additional information about the VOA transmitter/control room project and how readers can support it may be found at antiquewireless.org. The AWA Museum was established more than 60 years ago, and in 2013 moved from its previous home a few miles west of here to the present 10,000-square-foot facility in Bloomfield, N.Y. In addition to the VOA transmitter, the collection also includes early spark transmitters, amateur radio gear, a wide range of consumer radio and television receivers, military electronics and more. The AWA has some 1,800 members worldwide. For more on this topic read our March 2014 story “VOA Delano Station Goes on the Block” and our February 2015 story “AWA Saves Piece of Delano Station” at radioworld.com. James O’Neal is a frequent contributor to Radio World who often writes about the history of broadcast technology. See more at: http://www.radioworld.com/article/voa-delano-transmitter--readied-for-public-display/277263#sthash.czuge3g7.dpuf Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via DXLD) POWERHOUSE' RADIO STATION CELEBRATING ITS 80TH BIRTHDAY Much fretting goes on nowadays about the future of traditional broadcast radio. Appliances are changing, and the old-school radio that used to be a fixture in kitchens, cars and pocket transistors has morphed rapidly into smartphones and Wi-Fi devices. Though the future of broadcast is murky, the roots of what's now consumed as KIRO Radio on multiple platforms (including radios) is clear, and is celebrating a big milestone this week. In a nearly hidden basement at 4th and University Street in downtown Seattle, KIRO Radio officially went on the air 80 years ago with help from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Vice President John Nance Garner. . . http://mynorthwest.com/11/2826965/Powerhouse-radio-station-celebrating-its-80th-birthday (via José Miguel Romero2, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) KIRO is quite a rarity to the east, since altho 50/50 kW, night pattern lobes are to the NNE and the SW, but there is an itty bitty lobe to the SE. Day is non-direxional. Don`t think I`ve ever heard it in OK. What`s to celebrate? Once a great station, now it`s nothing but an ESPN repeater (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FAREWELL BARRY WILLIAMS (78), ZL1ACZ, NZ DXER OF 1951 TO 2015 With considerable sadness we record the passing of another senior member of the DX League in New Zealand. Former National President and Life Member Barry died in Auckland on 1 October 2015. He was very keen on radio history and produced numerous competently written articles, many of which grace the pages at http://radiodx.com See: (Bryan Clark / Paul Ormandy in NZ DX Times, Oct 2015 via Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 14 Oct via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ 9629.95, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2101-2115, 08/10, propag. relig. e canções; 45444. 9630 idem, 1020-desvan. total 1105, 11/10, canções, rubrica Mundo Benfeitorista (sic.),..., missa; 25432. Creio que ouvi bem, "benfeitorista", e se foi o caso, então é mais uma das (inúmeras) corruptelas da língua Portuguesa que grassam por Terras de Vera Cruz; a questão é simples, "benfeitor(a)" pode ser um adjectivo ou um substantivo. Estive a ver http://www.a12.com/radio-aparecida/programas/ mas não encontrei nada relacionado com isto, talvez por tratar-se de uma qq. [qualquer?] rubrica dentro de um programa principal; e por falar em programas, a R. Aparecida que se decida: ou escreve "Sertanejo Bom de Mais" ou "Sertanejo Bom Demais", não ambas, mas que escolha a forma correcta! Não haverá ninguém da RA que saiba a diferença entre "de mais" e "demais"? Já agora, conviria corrigir o resto que há por lá. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY See also AUSTRALIA, BRAZIL, NEW ZEALAND: DST +++++++++++++++++ Re: PLAIN OLD UT, NOT UTC Why not Z for Zulu, and be done with it? (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, but it would be even harder to get everybody to adopt that, vis-a- vis UT instead of UTC (Glenn, ibid.) OK. So long as no one is using GMT. On my last trip over there, I discovered that the Greenwich Meridian is off by about 100 meters ("Actually, sir, the true location runs approximately through the trash bin by that walkway over there.") The wonders of GPS (Chuck Albertson, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES above ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCSTING --- IBOC ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HD DX in AZ This isn't something I make an effort at, but my car radio has AM/FM HD and I set a new AM HD distance record this morning. I had an HD lock for more than a minute on 740-KCBS at 610 miles, a few minutes before local 6:30 am MST sunrise. That might be hard to beat (not that I necessarily want to), as I think the next obvious candidates are 1080-KRLD, 1170-KFAQ, and 1200-WOAI all at 900-950 miles (Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ, http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/ Oct 12, IRCA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UNIDENTIFIED 9690+ DRM RECEIVER INSTALLED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AN INDIAN CAR-MAHINDRA' http://www.radioandmusic.com/biz/mobile-digital/digital-radio/151008-drm-receiver-installed-first-time-indian NEW DELHI: For the first time, an Indian car manufacturer has installed the DRM receiver that will be capable of receiving FM, medium wave, and also short message videos. Mahindra & Mahindra’s new Sports Utility Vehicle called TUV300 is incorporated with DRM receiver in the audio system. According to a spokesperson for Mahindra and Mahindra, it is joining the DRM Consortium India Chapter “in this epic journey”. Reacting to the news, DRM India Chapter Honorary Chairman Yogendra Pal who is also advisor in the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry, hailed the achievement and said this would provide “excellent radio reception facility, which is much superior than even FM, while driving. The pleasure of radio listening is more in automobiles which have excellent acoustics and DRM reception will certainly enhance this pleasure.” In a communication to DRM India Chapter, a Mahindra and Mahindra spokesperson expressed the hope that there are many major transmitters installations/broadcasting are in pipeline throughout the country. The auto manufacturer congratulated All India Radio and the DRM India chapter for taking the radio transmission into digital era and the inauguration of DRM transmitter in Kolkata recently. “This makes us very proud as AIR has attained the vision of implementing the Digital Radio Transmission and surely this would make most of the vibrant Indian Radio fans happy,” the communication said. ---- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 8, dx_india yg via DXLD) Just how robust is car MW DRM, vs noisy powerlines, electric rails, traffic lites, etc.?? I can easily imagine signals dropping off completely as you drive along, which doesn`t happen with local FM (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) DRM IS BETTER THAN IBOC, MIGRATION AM TO FM IN BRAZIL http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/migracao-am-para-fm-drm-digital-radio.html e preparação para o novo sistema de rádio digital (via Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Multiple signatures advocating DRM; button for English translation, which leaves something to be desired, e.g. `sinal` becomes `mark` (gh) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; USA: WUSF ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ LIFTING THE SPECTRUM AUCTION FOG ??? Brief story published yesterday by Deborah McAdams, executive editor of TV Technology on Multichannel website. Six months and counting. http://www.multichannel.com/blog/mcn-guest-blog/lifting-spectrum-auction-fog/394261 TV Technology's McAdams Talks Disclosure 10/02/2015 4:15 PM Author: Deborah McAdams, executive editor of TV Technology The television spectrum incentive auction is six months away. This unprecedented auction may radically alter the availability and delivery of local news in markets across the country. The auction itself represents a transformation of the nation’s communications infrastructure into a fully paid access model. It is, by all measures, a government-facilitated privatization of what we once knew as the public airwaves. Perhaps the public should be informed, rather than spun by D.C. fog factories portraying this auction as the key to the country’s technological future, in the name of all that is good for the public, which has yet to be informed about the impact on monthly household bills. A “National Broadband Plan” implies a nationwide infrastructure providing service to all Americans at no or very low cost, creating opportunities across socioeconomic lines. That is not the case, however. The National Broadband Plan is a tax, and a rather poorly designed one in terms of the public interest. The Fed is selling one of its most valuable public assets — the spectrum — for a one-time cash payout from wireless providers, who in turn will charge the public to use it, most likely to watch TV, which they can now do for free. This is a television tax nicely tucked into a legacy infrastructure project. Will the public benefit? Will we all have faster Internet, or rather, will it be any faster than it would have been had wireless providers developed the spectrum they’re sitting on rather than dropping another $40 billion on frequencies they don’t need, just to keep them out of anyone else’s hands? I kind of doubt it. Does anyone believe for a moment that there will be more ISP competition, so broadband prices go down? I don’t. Does anyone believe this auction is not a crapshoot that could have a devastating effect on local media? We’ll find out in a few months. This story was republished from Multi sister site TV Technology (via DXLD) It's interesting to read and contemplate television broadcast airwaves spectrum, which has always been free to the public, as now having been hijacked by the FCC and that the Fed's *own* it and can sell it. When did that happen? Yes, I know this has been in the news for sometime now. I think I hear Puff Daddy's "It's All About the Benjamins" playing in the background. I can't believe broadcasters are letting Uncle Sam get away with this. Next on the agenda - why aren't you paying for the air you're breathing? And on page two - who pays for the sunlight you use to see where you're going? Film at 11 (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, Oct 3, WTFDA gg via DXLD) The theory is that the public indeed owns the radio spectrum. And as the public's trustees, the government must manage that spectrum to the best benefit of the public. What the government believes is: - The American people, *as a whole*, would rather have faster data service on their phones than free-to-air TV. - The Amercian people would like to have more services from their government, as long as they don't have to pay more in taxes. - The cellular companies are happily willing to buy that ex-TV spectrum and use it to provide data service. - The money they pay will provide for more government services. - This is one of those areas in which Democrats and Republicans are in near total agreement. Obviously many of us would disagree with those priorities, but frankly we're quite in the minority. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Oct 4, ibid.) Reluctantly, I have to agree with Doug on all counts here. The mediums that many of us cherish (radio, television, newspapers, even e-mail) are vanishing or changing into forms that are barely recognizable. I recently watched the entire new season of "Longmire" on Netflix in two days. "Binge" watching an entire season of shows, rather than waiting for them to air on a weekly basis has become commonplace--and frankly, it makes more sense. If you haven't seen the Amazon original series, "Bosch", you're literally missing the best show on television. Likewise, why wait to listen or watch whatever content you're interested in -- when it can be available, instantly on demand? With more spectrum, this can quickly expand to replace traditional broadcasting as we know it. Want local news and traffic on the way to work -- it can (and will be) instantly available in your car, on the train, or while biking to work. Want to read the local sports news or box scores from last night's MLB playoffs -- available instantly, on demand. "Broadcasting" may cease to exist entirely. And it may happen quicker than you'd think. Perhaps even in our lifetimes. I'm 53, and I used to believe that AM radio would survive (in some form) for the rest of my life. My vision was that the service would decline, and gradually serve smaller markets — including ethnic audiences, and religious outlets. In the end, we'd be left with a static filled mess filled with foreign languages and preachers. But there would still be something to DX. Now, I doubt if FM will survive another decade --- much less AM. Smartphones will become easier to use, and cheaper. Data rates will plummet, and advertiser supported content will flourish. Soon even the elderly will be served by easy to understand devices, powered by voice recognition that will supply whatever content they want, instantly. Reruns of "Gilligan's Island?" Pick an episode. The newest season of "Homicide Hunter?" Binge watch it from the retirement home. And with it, the hobby will love will also fade into a nostalgic memory. If you're not yet a ham, I strongly suggest you get licensed. Soon, it may become the last true RF analog signals left to enjoy. Progress is as painful as it is inevitable. -- 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, EM63, Member WTFDA, NRC, IRCA, & Medium Wave DX Circle Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA, Oct 4, ibid.) The FCC dropped the Morse code requirements to get a ham license years ago. The first level license (Technician) will let you operate on all available VHF and UHF ham bands. There are even some analog TV operators on UHF. That is where I will go when there is no more TV to DX (Mike Glass, Lebanon, IN, N9BNN, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) I've been trying to receive amateur TV DX -- the hobby seems DEAD except for a couple of a few small pockets of activity. Any attempted contacts I've made as a non-ham have been ignored. wrh (William Hepburn, Ont., Oct 5, ibid.) I agree except on the timetable. Economics will be part of the reason for that - both at the source and endpoint. Second, these things tend to take longer because a large segment of the market isn't going to jump on the bandwagon until there's no choice. The third element is less well known, and probably consists of a smaller number of people, but we've reached the point where miniaturization is leaving a segment of the population behind. That segment is mostly disabled, elderly and/or vision impaired, and simply unable to adequately see or use the smallest media, which are most oriented toward the young and able. I expect that AM and FM will hang on for some time, and that when they go, OTA TV will too. Perhaps by then someone will have figured out that not everyone wants or can use the tiniest devices which seem to be proliferating today (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), ibid.) > broadcast airwaves spectrum, which has always been > free to the public, as now having been hijacked by > the FCC and that the Fed's *own* it and can sell it. [snip] I think there's some confusion here. The FCC is not proposing to auction off the entire TV spectrum. The goal is to "repack" exiting TV stations into fewer channels in order to clear some 84 MHz of bandwidth for use by other services. The key here is that two TV stations can occupy one channel. As we all know, most TV stations already broadcast two or more signals within one channel. Alternatively a station may move to an unused channel if it can find one that meets channel- and distance-separation requirements. As I understand it, the incentive auction proposes that stations in the high UHF band move to lower channels (VHF and low UHF). Specifically, stations on Channels 38 and up must find space in lower channels between 2 and 36 (keeping in mind that Channel 37 is reserved for radio astronomy). As for Ms. McAdams's statement: > from wireless providers, who in turn will charge the > public to use it, most likely to watch TV, which they > can now do for free. Reception of OTA broadcast signals will still be free; just in different places on the dial. Virtual "channel" numbers will remain the same. OTA viewers will have to tune to different channels and might have to reorient or replace outdoor antennas. Cable TV and satellite TV subscribers won't even notice the change. Here is an article that explains the legal process: "The Form of Things to Come: Media Bureau Previews Relocation Fund Reimbursement Process" by Anne Goodwin Crump. Washington: Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC, "CommLawBlog", September 29, 2014. http://tinyurl.com/nqbzmly Here is an article that describes the nitty-gritty technical stuff: "Repacking Challenges" by Tom Smith. Madison: SBE Chapter 12, "Newsletter", October 4, 2015. http://www.sbe24.org/letter/C24Letter.pdf (Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.) On 10/6/2015 3:04 PM, Roy Barstow wrote: > each other's way. > It seems to me interference will be a problem with so called > repacking. Maybe each station will have to lower the power output. With digital TV on the same RF channel, both streams are just 1's and 0's intermixed. The receiver sorts them out into two separate pictures. Now there is a bandwidth limit on how many bits can fit within the time frame which limits the resolution of the streams. But that has nothing to do with power (Allan Dunn K1UCY, Oct 6, ibid.) Well yeah. But if every (real) channel carries the signals of two stations, the total number of channels remains the same but the number of "stations" doubles. The virtual (PSIP) "channel" numbers remains the same for each station. Except, of course, in the situation I mentioned where a station in some specific geographic location might be able to find an unused channel that meets channel- and distance-separation requirements; i.e.; that will not result interference. Of course each "station" would lose some (possibly all) of its subchannels. Just like back in the analog days (Neal McLain, ibid.) So has the spectrum auction became the FCC's *LAW*? Meaning - will the broadcasters have no say if they want to *play ball or not* with the spectrum auction? Has it already been decided that everything above RF 38 is going to go away and the broadcasters have no say in the matter? What if a broadcaster that has a license for RF 42 says they don't want to give up their assignment? Will they get hit with a big fine and a slap up the side of the head and told to get with the program? Or perhaps threatened to have their license revoked? Sorry I haven't been reading up on how much the FCC has taken control of the impending spectrum auction. I know there are a few engineers here that know the scoop on how it is possibly going to play out (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, Oct 6, ibid.) From the CommLawBlog ar ticle cited in my original post: ================================= When the Incentive Auction rolls around, stations opting to participate will either give up their channels or agree to shift channels in return for a share of the proceeds from the auction. Stations electing not to participate in the auction will be squeezed (“repacked” is the term the Commission uses) into the lower end of the spectrum now allocated to TV. As a result, an unknown number of TV stations will be forced to change channels. Implementation of such changes will necessarily force the affected stations to spend money. Not to worry (too much), however: the TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund (Fund) will come to the (partial) rescue. The Fund, established by Congress in the Spectrum Act, consists of a total of $1.75 billion set aside to reimburse eligible TV broadcasters (and cable and satellite providers) for the reasonable costs imposed as a result of the channel changes. The Reimbursement Form will be the mechanism for seeking reimbursement; the instructions accompanying the form outline the reimbursement process. Comments on the draft instructions are also sought by the Bureau. ================================= (Neal McLain, ibid.) I would agree with Doug on all points except #4. As a retired USG bureaucrat with 25 years' service I would rephrase that point to say that "the money they pay *could* provide for more government services." In actual fact, the FCC gets to keep for its own budget almost nothing of the funds it generates through such auctions . The bulk of what will be obtained will go to fund benefits for seniors such as myself (age 77) because seniors vote at a significantly higher percentage than other population cohorts no matter how you slice them. And since we are retired and have more time to devote to political observations, we make noise out of proportion to our numbers. And thanks to medical advances our numbers are increasing all the time. Hams are complaining because FCC enforcement of regulations within the ham bands is almost non-existent. When the FCC field offices do take action, the US attorneys in those areas do not follow through to collect the fines that the Commission assesses because they also have increasingly limited budgets and feel that they must concentrate on more *important* matters such as drug enforcement, child pornography, etc. And the Commission as you all know recently proposed to drastically reduce the number of its field offices due to budget pressures, only to modify their proposal somewhat as a result of stakeholders' complaints to Congress. Broadcasters are also complaining, such as a friend of mine who works in engineering for CBS, who says that pirate FM is "out of control" and the FCC is doing little about combating it. He says that when the state legislature of Florida recently enacted legislation to empower local police to confiscate pirate FMBC transmitters, the Commission did not oppose this presumed encroachment on its areas of responsibilities because it implicitly agreed that it did not have the wherewithal to act to the extent required in such cases. Eventually as the benefits to seniors crowd out all other government expenditures and politicians refuse to touch the political third rail of tax increases, we will be facing more and more of this. Regards, (Fred Laun, K3ZO, Temple Hills, MD FM18mt, ibid.) A bit of an oversimplification I think in that today the politicians are influenced as much or more by lobbyists and campaign contributions as they are by votes, and benefits which are aimed at seniors (in full disclosure, this includes me also) are not expanding like they once were. It is indeed true that the numbers are increasing, but with many of us (again myself included) continuing to work past 65, that growth isn't as large as it could be. Bottom line, without getting any more political than absolutely necessary, a lot of that money is going other places. Further, unless something has changed, there's also an implied presumption that some number of stations will simply turn in their licenses rather than put more money into moving, since that fund isn't intended to do any more than assist stations (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), Oct 6, ibid.) It appears there is no way that antenna viewers will not lose some service. If two stations which now offer multicast sub-channels, will they not have to drop some of their existing service? Of course, I don't know what channels will be used but when all of the area stations on channels 38 to 51 are relocated it doesn't leave much open. There are currently 9 area stations on the 13 channels to be taken away and 14 stations on the remaining 23 UHF channels. That leaves 7 open UHF channels to handle 9 channels. There are only 4 open high band channels. The 5 low band VHF channels are open. They are nice for skip, but no so great for home entertainment. When we lived in Anchorage there was a channel 5 that we could not get. They ended up adding a UHF translator to fill in. We were then able to watch "channel 5." We get our television from stations in the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Topeka markets and distances between these cities is 50 to 60 miles. It will be even more difficult to make this work in larger markets -- particularly in the northeast. But I don't think the FCC is concerned on the impact to home viewers (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, Oct 7, ibid.) Probably true. But since OTA viewers are a small minority, and in the eyes of the FCC are insignificant, that isn't a concern because "they can always subscribe to cable or something else". The back story here is their push to get rid of OTA so that they can sell all of the spectrum for other uses. The only open issue is just how long that process will take (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) Maybe the FCC does want to "get rid of OTA", but Congress apparently doesn't think so. Congress refuses to do anything that would restrict the ability of broadcasters to extract ever-rising retransmission- consent fees from CATV and DBS retailers. Two bills introduced in the 113th Congress never even came to a vote. So rejoice OTA viewers! CATV and DBS subscribers are subsidizing your hobby! (Neal McLain, ibid.) I don't think there is any question about that. Their goal definitely to eliminate OTA. Yes, we could subscribe to cable or satellite and could afford it but just don't see the need to. All this is coming at a time when payTV subscribers are "cutting the cord." They are going to other sources including online and OTA as well. We have a cabin in the mountains of New Mexico served by translators. Full power stations do not reach it (except for skip), there is no cable available and satellite signals are blocked. Guess we just need to have a stock of DVDs (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, ibid.) Those of us who work in broadcasting might argue that our industry subsidized the creation of CATV and DBS. Because we created the most popular programming on the air - and provided it to CATV and DBS at no charge, allowing them to resell it at a profit, and knowing they would use it to compete against us (not that that was a charitable action on our part, it was required by the must-carry rules) == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Of course you did! From the earliest proto-CATVs in Astoria, Tuckerman, and Mahanoy City in 1948 until HBO's satellite launch in 1975, CATVs relied almost exclusively on broadcast signals. As for must-carry, it was the broadcast industry that demanded it. The cable industry sued to overturn it, with some success at first, but lost in 1997 when the Supreme Court upheld the FCC's must-carry rules in Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (95-992). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must-carry (Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.) In Canada, the "us" and "them" are the same. The TV networks own the cable companies --- or the cable companies own the TV networks (depends on who bought who first). So OTA is just a regulatory nuisance. Should never have been allowed (Bill Hepburn, ibid.) Every time somebody "cuts the cord" the CATV industry loses a customer. And every broadcast station that the CATV carries loses the corresponding retrans fee. There must be some time in the future when ever-rising retrans fees cause so much cord-cutting that the broadcasters actually lose money. If that point ever arrives, broadcasters might (hopefully) moderate their demands. Maybe (Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.) That's probably going to be the result of the other piece of that cycle - the Cable people trying to make up for the cord cutters by raising the rates for those who stay (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, Oct 7, ibid.) Well, maybe. But keep in mind that every cord-cutter is a potential customer for the company's internet service. If the customer wants to watch streaming video without hiccups it may have to upgrade to a faster (more expensive) internet service. Incremental revenue for the cable company *without* any incremental programming expense (Neal McLain, ibid.) "The number of homes in the U.S. that get network TV over the air and don’t have cable or satellite service has gone up about 17 percent in the last five years, according to the media research company Nielsen." “Initially, my goal was to sell 35 antennas a month," said Richard Schneider, who runs a company called Antennas Direct, not far from St. Louis. "Last month, I think we shipped 70,000.” And now the FCC wants to screw it up. Leave it to the government (Steve Indianapolis Rich, Oct 14, ibid.) Here is a *case example* underscoring the importance of OTA television services. On May 22, 2011 an F5 tornado hit the city of Joplin, Missouri. Joplin is in the 417 telephone area code. Almost immediately, or within minutes, cell phone usage became IMPOSSIBLE. Not maybe or next to impossible, but IMPOSSIBLE. All circuits (landline and cell phone data) were at an unimagined peak. It was impossible to make a phone call. This condition lasted for at least two hours. It was reported several days later the reason for the logjam in cellular telephone calling was two-fold --- first, basically making a phone call. Everyone locally wanted to call someone. Secondly, people were trying to access the internet with a smart phone to get the latest news on the Joplin tornado. The news reporters said cell phone service providers are not equipped to deliver at that volume, telephone calls or internet data. And thus they said the old fashioned over the air television service became very important, once again. And once again amateur radio operators were in high demand to get messages delivered to emergency and disaster personnel. In some ways I think people still forget what good their local OTA services provide. Until a disaster strikes (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, Oct 14, ibid.) OTA and Disaster Response --- Our firm works extensively with public service agencies, law enforcement, and emergency management. We've responded to dozens of wide-spread disasters nationwide in recent years -- including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornado outbreaks, etc. In nearly every instance, I've been disappointed with the information available locally via radio. Satellite fed stations with little or no local staffing also means that those stations left on the air are unable to serve their audience with vital information. Television usually fills that role--but reception in the post-analog days can be difficult. Most residents lack OTA antennas, or don't have TV receivers that can run off battery power. Many residents don't even know that OTA reception is still possible. Citizens need to start demanding that broadcasters and wireless companies provide public service as a condition of using the spectrum. And instead of the broadcasting industry pushing for deregulation that allowed for increased automation, transition to digital transmission, etc. they should have thought about how those same regulations are now allowing them to be easily replaced by "narrow casting" services offered through wireless data networks. If I were advising the NAB on their PR efforts, I'd target lawmakers with the argument that only OTA broadcasting can provide timely- widespread information during an emergency using simple, affordable, and fully deployed technology. Instead of continuing to push for "digital solutions" like IBOC, they should embrace their analog heritage, and tout how simple, reliable, and effective it can be in an emergency. But that would also mean hiring staff, providing local news, and focusing on serving their communities instead of maximizing corporate profits. -- 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, EM63, Oct 14, WTFDA gg via DXLD) I certainly agree and find that radio is generally worthless when it comes to emergency weather. The major network Kansas City television stations provide excellent storm coverage and the Topeka stations do a pretty good job. During a storm warning last summer while in KC I tried to get emergency weather information on the car radio. Never found it. I didn't have a battery powered TV with us. We have one in our tornado shelter hooked up to an outside antenna. TV stations do promote their weather coverage with WDAF-34, KCTV-24, KMBC-29 and KSHB-42 quite competitive. However, during a recent storm warning, Brian Busby at KMBC-TV told viewers to go online if their cable went out. Why are they advising viewers to go online. Certainly an option, but why not educate them to go to "channel 9" (RF 29) to watch their station? They promote weather radios but should also encourage the use of regular battery-powered TV sets. I'm not sure station personnel know how to view OTA. With OTA viewing on the rise again it is indeed a shame that the FCC is doing what they can to destroy it. We now have over 60 options with all the multicast channels. And there is no monthy bill (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ HEATHKIT IS BACK IN BUSINESS ??? Art Bell W6OBB announced on his radio show that he had "breaking news" for Amateur Radio operators and electronic experimenters. He said that the beloved electronic kit company Heathkit has returned and is back in business. I about fell off my chair! This appears to be true. Here is a link to their website FAQs https://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html (Ron Bohm, KD0ULA, Oct 8, Minnesota DX Club yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) About three years ago I heard about the formation of a new Heathkit company. I filled out a survey but didn't hear anything more until now. The first kit is a TRF radio. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: Begin forwarded message: From: Heathkit Date: October 8, 2015 at 2:40:51 AM PDT Subject: New Heathkit kits. ```Dear Heathkit Insider, ``What I really hope Heathkit will produce,`` a Silicon Valley colleague recently told me, ``is a new radio kit with a beautiful finish, maybe in rosewood.`` Something great to enjoy building and learn from, and also visually stunning, so he could put it in his living room and keep it forever. Today, my friend gets his wish. Exciting news. More on that in a moment. It`s been a while since we wrote to our Heath Insiders. We promised not to clutter your email inbox until we had something to say. Here`s a quick summary of what we`ve quietly been doing at Heathkit during the past year: We assembled a terrific team of very talented, hard- working, inventive people. We acquired another company and merged its management, products, assets, and operations gracefully into Heath Company. We ensured we own every last bit of Heathkit intellectual property, to bring you all the manuals, books, vintage designs, and classic logos you love, unencumbered and in perpetuity. We built a company division and acquired a line of vintage add-on designs to sustain the vintage products so important to many Insiders. We developed and integrated our eBay site, so you can buy or bid on auctioned items. We authored and published a helpful Android software app on Heathkit`s GooglePlay site, with more apps to come. That`s a lot, but there`s more. We`ve designed and developed a wide range of entirely new kit products. We authored the manuals for these kits, complete with the beautiful line art you rely on, preserving and respecting our iconic historic Heathkit style. We developed many new inventions and filed patents on them. We relocated Heathkit, and set up a factory, and a warehouse, and offices, in Santa Cruz, California, near Silicon Valley. We built the back office infrastructure, vendor and supply chain relationships, systems, procedures, operations methods, and well-thought-out corporate structure that a manufacturing company needs to support its customers, to allow us to scale instantly the day we resume major kit sales. All this effort enables us to introduce a fleet of new kits and helps ensure Heathkit can grow, prosper, and continue to bring you great new products for a very long time. As you can see, we`ve been busy. It takes a lot to bring Heathkit back into the kit business. And we`ve done it. We`ll have many product announcements coming, but today I want to tell you about our flagship kit. It`s a simple kit --- by intent. We feel an enormous responsibility to respect and maintain the incredible legacy of Heathkit. To us this means, bringing you kits you can build yourself, using our historic renowned Heathkit you-can-do-it ``We won`t let you fail`` approach, yielding working useful appliances so beautiful you`ll be proud to display and use them daily. It also means creating an educational experience that teaches you how they work, and how you can modify or repair what you own. Further, we feel a very strong commitment to making this experience available to everyone, from 8 to 88 years old. That`s an especially high hurdle. And we`ve done it. The result is the Explorer Jr.â„¢ It`s a simple, beautiful professional-looking little radio. It`s a historic design, made new. It comes in several different colors. You build it yourself. Take it anywhere. When you build it and as use it, you`ll learn to fall in love with radio, for the first time --- or all over again. And it`s just the first in a series. As a Heath Insider, you are special to us. In a few days, we`ll connect http://www.heathkit.com to our new website where our new products are listed. But you stayed with us through this process. And we want to thank you. So we are giving you, as an Insider, personal advance notice of the new products and new website through this email, before we tell the general public. We want you to know we appreciate your enthusiasm and respect for the Heathkit name and history. We know that as an Insider, you want to own the first major kit we`ve issued in decades. But please also think about this: Maybe you have a child, or a granddaughter or grandson, who is ready to start their lifelong love for technology, or who will benefit from the enormous self-esteem that comes from accomplishment. They deserve an Explorer Jr too. (Remember to choose the style they`ll want most -- - we have six colors). And then, please think about gently helping them build it. You might remember the parent-and-child graphics on the front of so many Heathkit manuals: We can`t count the number of Insiders who fondly remember an adult helping them build their first Heathkit when they were young. What a great way to spend time with someone you care about. We do not expect initial stock to last long, so please don`t wait to visit our site. Also, please be patient while our new major kit, and new website, go from zero to sixty in two seconds. We might have a few bumps in the road as we scale up, and we appreciate in advance your patience. We`ll work with you to get everything we can right. We anticipate 30-day shipping time for this week`s orders, and we`ll continue to do everything we can to get all kits ordered this Fall to you in time for the holidays. You can see and order the Explorer Jr. at https://shop.heathkit.com/ now. Please don`t wait to be last: We don`t want to disappoint anyone, but most of all, we don`t want to disappoint our Insiders. Think about whether there`s anyone who would love one of these kits as a holiday present. And thanks for your loyalty and patience as we brought back to you Heathkit`s incredible legacy of the world`s best kits again. Sincerely, Andy (President) and the team at Heathkit``` I guess the goal is something an 8 year old could build and would want to use. Hopefully later the 8 year old will become a Ham and want all sorts of gear. My question is with modern solid state transistors, can they get enough gain? Are they using ceramic filters to keep out other frequencies or some other scheme? How can it be very selective with out multiple stages? I think I built a 2-tube real TRF set as a kid, and it was not impressive. That was a VERY long time ago (FARMERIK, ibid.) $150. That joker is expensive. Doesn't have dial markings either. (Kevin Redding, Crump. TN, ibid.) Did you notice HOW it is to be put together? No Solder, just use the stainless Nuts and screws to clamp the leads from the components in… I think after I made sure the damn thing actually works, I would go back and Solder all of the connections with a good brand 60/40 Solder. All in All, I think Don needs to go back to the Drawing Board. Why not make useful kits such as Dummy Loads, VSWR Meters, O-Scopes, and that sort of thing? 73, (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD, CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, ibid.) Wow, I wondered what all that hardware was for. I didn't see much solder. I think I'll pass (Bill, ibid.) It does have a reduction drive on the cap, which would be nice if it tunes sharply. I use one all the time on various loops. You have to be able to see the plates to judge where you are on the band though. It sounds like no external antenna is used. Waiting for a review (FARMERIK, ibid.) Thanks for sharing. Interesting. Do you think this is a finished prototype? The lack of any frequency markings seems odd. Cool overall look. 73 (Russ Johnson, Oct 8, IRCA via DXLD) Thanks for the info and link, Dennis. I was a Heathkit fanatic in the 1980's, building almost all of their amateur radio-related kits. Unfortunately, the prognosis for this resurrected company is unlikely to be much better than that of the original, in view of the changing demographics of the electronic experimenter group. The thrill of long- distance radio reception and the excitement of building electronic kits are concepts which don't seem to connect with the younger generation -- raised on cell phones, email and Skype. Even among our own generation, the percentage of hobbyists who are ready, willing and able to build electronic kits (and/or design new antennas) has been shrinking every year, mainly due to age-related health issues. Even simple loopstick transplant projects can be intimidating to those who don't have their original eyesight and/or hand coordination. As such, the new Heathkit $150 radio kit may be a tough sell in view of what features it offers in today's highly competitive radio market, and the shrinking number of hobbyists willing to take up the building challenge. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) "Heathkid" on eBay, ibid.) This company could be some rich Silicon Valley types who think this is viable and have more money than sense. In the 1970's using a soldering gun (not iron!), I built a Heathkit phone patch and was surprised that it worked. I admire all of you who build these great things Gary and many of you have designed. I got my Novice ham license in 1969 and didn't need knowledge of electronics for employment so I didn't keep up with it. I've never been good at building and have shied away from projects such as small loops. Even simple things I build usually don't work. I've given up. I just turned 60. My hand/eye coordination isn't what it used to be. I have friends who would do a great job of building one of these for me but not for $150. Even if the price was more reasonable I wouldn't pay someone to beta test their new product. I've already paid Microsoft plenty for that "privilege". :) Heathkit had a few turkey ham kits. The worst one was the SB-104/104A HF transceiver in the 1980's. Two friends bought one. It spawned many Yahoo Group type nets. One was called the SB-104 disaster net. Not the usual type of disaster ham radio is very good for. I wish the new Heathkit company good luck. I think they will need it. Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, IRCA via DXLD) Not to mention the extremely high price ($150) for a simple "TRF radio", one of the pictures shows all the components apparently being held in place not by soldering them but using nuts and bolts! Who would want to build something like that? Not me, even if the price were $29.95 (Steve Ratzlaff, ibid.) Whomever is running Heath now is completely out of touch -- maybe living in a dream World. The hardcore DIY'ers are going Arduino, programmable boards, embedded systems, CNC, robotics - If anyone wanted to build something like a radio, the market is already saturated with things like QKITS -- There is absolutely no need for Heathkit in the 21st Century. Lively dialog expected! (R Colin Newell, IRCA via DXLD) Sadly, this is very true, Gary! I had to laugh when I saw the "solderless" screw-type circuit construction, which is evidently used instead of soldering. Rather than being a radio worthy of the Heathkit name, it seems to me to be more of a glorified Radio Shack Science Fair kit. Most of the parts expense looks to have gone into the cabinetry and controls rather than circuit design and components. For someone looking to brush up on their soldering skills or to build their first "real" kit, I'd suggest the Scout Regen Receiver as a starting point: http://www.qrpkits.com/scoutregen.html The price for the kit is a more reasonable $60 compared to the $150 Heathkit, and you are paying mostly for parts that actually contribute to the radio's performance, not the enclosure. QRPkits has a good selection of fairly priced and useful kits, not just for the QRP enthusiast but for radio hobbyists in general. 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.) INTERFERENCE SOURCE - LED BULB I have been plagued by nasty harsh "line noise" type interference for past couple of months. I finally decided to see if something in the house was causing it. I found it pretty quickly. It was an LED lightbulb that must be going bad. I have 2 of them in ceiling fan. I was amazed at how much hash this thing threw out and how much distance it covered. It was picked up even by external antenna (inverted vee). I got the LED bulbs as I thought it would be radio friendly. The other one is quiet, so something must be going wrong in the offending bulb. If you are using these and have mystery hash interference in the AM band, you might check them. Mine was a Utilitech LA190M. A 7.5 watt bulb that replaced 60 watt incandescent. From Lowes. Probably 2 years of use. FYI (Russ Johnson, Oct 9, NRC-AM via DXLD) Every controlled intersexion in Enid features an increased noise level on AM radio tnx to the LED traffic lites; red/green switches and the level goes up or down but hard to tell which lites are worse than others --- those facing us or at right angles? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) "LONGWAVE BROADCASTING RETAINS LISTENERS" Radio World October 10, 2015 Interesting article by James Careless http://www.radioworld.com/article/longwave-broadcasting-retains-listeners-/277274 Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) "DAB is for city dwellers, long and medium wave is for the rest of us" Radio 4 is available to 99% of the UK population on FM and by the end of this year to 97% of the population on FM. A google search by James Carless could have found this out. As to the shipping forecast being "hugely popular" amongst maritime listeners the comments on the Royal Yachting Association forum in response to the BBC survey did not back this up, all vessels over 300 tonnes apart from recreational vessels are subject to GMDSS requirements. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Maritime_Distress_and_Safety_System The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is an internationally agreed-upon set of safety procedures, types of equipment, and communication protocols used to increase safety and make it easier to rescue distressed ships, boats and aircraft. Royal Yachting Association survey http://www.rya.org.uk/cruising/Pages/DoyoulistentotheBBCRadio4shippingforecast.aspx From their forum: "I must admit as far as shipping forecasts go BBC shipping forecasts on any frequency are now pretty far down my list. One of the elements in every RYA shore course I did was what were the alternatives to the shipping forecast and even back in the 70s there were plenty." "the current service isn't really very useful to sailors as a key source of maritime safety information. I don't happen to be listening to radio 4 long wave as I sail along so, unless I remember to set an alarm, I am frequently going to miss it. Hence, I rely on other ways to access updated forecasts when at sea (most typically the broadcasts by Solent Coastguard or by the French CROSS that are announced on channel 16 which I am actually monitoring)." "R4 LW is all you get for considerable areas of the west coast of Scotland. usually probably out of mobile range about 50% of time. and fair chance of ending up holed away to weather a storm, if you have no mobile reception in your hidey hole, there is nothing else, unless you start buying eg navtex, or a sat phone etc" Advice from the MCA/IMO is in fact to have Navtex when going offshore. If people can afford a yacht they should be able to afford some of the GMDS equipment mandatory for most non recreational vessels. If Mr. Nowlan spoke to his engineers he would realise that the valves are not glass but ceramic and are available made to order. As to "firestorm of protest" the Irish post survey got 300 replies, the online Irish in Britain petition has 1869 signatures, not all of whom live in the UK as can be seen from the comments. I believe signatures were also collected at Irish community groups, but given the half million Irish expats in the UK, this is hardly significant. Reception in many parts of the UK, particularly in the winter, is poor to impossible due to interference from co-channel Algeria. RTE: Don't cut off the Irish in Britain We are requesting that RTE keep its broadcasting services to the Irish in Britain. RTE announced with one month's notice that it would shut down its long... https://www.change.org/p/rte-don-t-cut-off-the-irish-in-britain Posted by: (barraclough.mike, ibid.) > If Mr. Nowlan spoke to his engineers he would realise that the > valves are not glass but ceramic and are available made to order. Can it be safely ruled out that this fairytale has been spread by the BBC itself, as part of a communications strategy to prepare the public for a closure of the longwave service? What makes be particularly suspicious is the circumstance that pictures of former, presumably long scrapped Droitwich equipment are omnipresent while not a single one of the current transmitters can be spotted. No surprise that people readily believe in such stories, as it apparently happened to the North American industry magazine here. Which, by the way, a bit too obviously shows its North American perspective by stating that "the most powerful medium wave and shortwave transmitters are usually no bigger than 50 kW". Not in Europe of course, and in the case of shortwave not even in North America where 500 kW shortwave transmitters are in operation as well. The frequency range of the longwave broadcasting band is not correctly specified either, leaving out three complete channels (261, 270, 279 kHz). (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DXLD) SIETE RAZONES PARA ABANDONAR LA ONDA LARGA Apenas quedan algunas emisoras europeas en dicha banda, pero la impresión general es que en unos años la mayoría, o todas, desaparecerán Miércoles, 14 Octubre, 2015 20:21 | Por Pablo A. Montes http://www.radionoticias.com/noticias-2015/siete-razones-para-abandonar-la-onda-larga-14102015.html Droitwich [caption] Centro emisor de onda larga de la BBC en Droitwich (Reino Unido). Las emisiones en onda larga han ido desapareciendo en los últimos años y apenas quedan algunas estaciones europeas que se mantienen activas. ¿Cuáles son las razones para el abandono de esta franja de frecuencias? He aquí algunas. 1.- La onda larga se utilizó en los primeros años de la radio para cubrir largas distancias, sin embargo actualmente se utilizan otros medios más prácticos (y algunos más económicos) como las transmisiones por satélite, Internet e incluso redes de transmisores de frecuencia modulada. 2.- Es una banda con muy poca fidelidad y, por lo tanto, limitada a las emisiones de señales habladas. 3.- La simplicidad de la FM es mucho mayor, resultando más económica de mantener y aportando una calidad de sonido notoriamente superior. 4.- La captación de señales de onda larga requiere antenas de mucha longitud, que puedan llegar a centenas de metros para un rendimiento óptimo. Por ejemplo, la estación de la BBC de Droitwich usa un radiante de casi 180 metros de largo y está sustentada en un par de torres de más de 200 metros de altura. 5.- La difusión en esta banda precisa de estaciones con una importante potencia de emisión, mucha más que la onda corta, un serio inconveniente en la actualidad cuando la mayor parte de los gobiernos se plantean, o ya han aplicado, serios recortes en la radiodifusión. 6.- Mientras que las ondas media y corta entran dentro de los planes de la futura digitalización de la radio, la onda larga no está contemplada. 7.- La industria ya no fabrica repuestos para los transmisores que todavía se mantienen en activo. Algunas de las pocas piezas de repuesto que quedan son prácticamente de museo, ejemplares casi únicos que las radiodifusoras pueden llegar a disputarse. De ahí que algunas emisoras ya han manifestado que una vez que se queden sin repuestos dejarán de transmitir definitivamente. Frente a estos inconvenientes, hay algunos países (Reino Unido y Noruega son dos claros ejemplos) que continúan transmitiendo en onda larga en base a dos puntos a favor: con ella se cubren distancias muy grandes, llegando incluso a alta mar para la recepción de informaciones en los barcos, y estos captan esas señales con equipos relativamente simples y no demasiado caros, frente a otras tecnologías, como el satélite, que requieren instalaciones más complejas. Pese a todo, nadie duda de que la onda larga en unos cuantos años habrá pasado a la historia y sus frecuencias quedarán definitivamente libres (via Jose Miguel Romero2, dxldyg via DXLD) FM VS AM As I understand it, it was a toss-up at one time whether broadcasters would use AM or FM transmission when radio was getting started. As we know, AM won out because of pressure from broadcasters. The question is: If the FM system had been adopted, would it have been possible to use it on the medium wave band and if so, would that have meant both ground wave and skywave coverage instead of line-of-sight? (Harry Van Vugt, Canada, Oct 14, dxldyg via DXLD) Not exactly. AM was well established by the time FM was invented. It requires much wider bandwidth than AM. Altho it could be applied to the MW band, there would have been room for much fewer stations (or narrow-band FM which is not so hi fidelity). Of course it would have propagated the same as AM signals do on that frequency range. Putting FM on VHF is just where it works best (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Amplitude modulation was the next successor from on off keyed carrier modulation first used my Hertz and Marconi. FM was the invention of Major Edwin Armstrong, and the following article will be very enlightening as to the history of FM and how it (and David Sarnoff and RCA) literally killed the Major. Radio History: The Dawn of FM Radio Strongly believing in his invention, Armstrong started to develop FM radio on his own. He sold rights to manufacture FM radios to several... http://www.cybercollege.com/frtv/frtv020.htm (via William D. Knight, KJ6TBE, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SCARY TV TOWER CLIMBING Do you like being scared? Try this link of climbing a TV tower sent by Roger http://bit.ly/1KSmAl6 (Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ WWV ALERTS "G" AND THEIR MEANING... http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation I did not really have an understanding of what the G numbers mean; I knew they weren't "good" but I did not know their actual value. Now I do. -- (Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com - Coffee.bc.ca and DXer.ca -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada, IRCA via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2015 Oct 12 0140 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 05 - 11 October 2015 Solar activity was at very low levels throughout much of the period (05-10 Oct) with only B-class flare activity observed. Solar activity increased to low levels on 11 Oct due to a long-duration C3 flare at 11/2229 UTC from an unnumbered region behind the southeastern limb. The seven numbered active regions on the visible disk throughout the week were generally stable, simple, and unproductive. No Earth-directed coronal mass ejections were observed this period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached very high levels on 09, 11 Oct with high levels observed on 05-06, 08, and 10 Oct, all due to an enhanced solar wind environment and increased geomagnetic activity caused by a coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Moderate flux levels were observed on 07 Oct. Geomagnetic field activity was quiet to G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 05 Oct and quiet to active levels on 06 Oct due to brief periods of southward Bz in addition to isolated periods of substorming. The influence of a recurrent positive polarity CH HSS caused active to G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm levels on 07 Oct, active to G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm levels on 08 Oct, and unsettled to active conditions on 09 Oct. Quiet to active field conditions were observed on 10-11 Oct due to waning CH HSS effects, an enhanced solar wind environment, and localized substorming. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 12 OCTOBER-07 NOVEMBER 2015 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels throughout the period with a chance for M-class flares (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) Radio Blackouts) for 16-29 Oct due to the return of Region 2422 (S20, L=102) which produced a total of 18 M-class flares last rotation. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be high levels on 12-15, 18-24 Oct, and 01-02, 04-07 Nov. Moderate flux levels are expected on 16-17, 25, and 27-28 Oct with normal levels expected on 26, 29-31 Oct, and 03 Nov. Geomagnetic field activity is likely to reach G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 12, 15-16 Oct, and 03 Nov due to the influence of multiple recurrent coronal hole high speed streams (CH HSS). Active levels are anticipated on 13-14, 17, 29 Oct, and 04-05 Nov. Quiet to unsettled field activity is expected for the remainder of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2015 Oct 12 0140 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 2015-10-12 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2015 Oct 12 85 20 5 2015 Oct 13 90 15 4 2015 Oct 14 90 18 4 2015 Oct 15 90 20 5 2015 Oct 16 100 20 5 2015 Oct 17 110 15 4 2015 Oct 18 110 8 3 2015 Oct 19 110 8 3 2015 Oct 20 110 8 3 2015 Oct 21 110 8 3 2015 Oct 22 120 8 3 2015 Oct 23 120 5 2 2015 Oct 24 120 5 2 2015 Oct 25 125 5 2 2015 Oct 26 125 5 2 2015 Oct 27 130 5 2 2015 Oct 28 120 8 3 2015 Oct 29 110 12 4 2015 Oct 30 100 10 3 2015 Oct 31 90 8 3 2015 Nov 01 85 8 3 2015 Nov 02 80 8 3 2015 Nov 03 80 20 5 2015 Nov 04 80 15 4 2015 Nov 05 80 15 4 2015 Nov 06 80 12 3 2015 Nov 07 85 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1795, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF OCTOBER 15 From IPS in Australia, Slight relative improvements in HF conditions may be possible on October 17, from normal at low latitudes, to fair at mid latitudes to poor at hi latitudes. Spaceweather South Africa calls for magnetic conditions to be in minor storms thru October 17. SW fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. From Met Office UK: Space Weather Forecast Summary thru October 18: Another coronal hole facing Earth is expected to perpetuate the enhanced solar winds we have been seeing over the last week or so. Further unsettled geomagnetic periods with a planetary K index of 3, are likely with a 50% chance of isolated G1 minor storm periods on October 16 reducing to 40% on the 17th and 18th. From Spaceweather Canada, the highest DRX index in the Auroral zone is forecast at 127 on October 17. F K Janda in Prague says the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to active on October 16 - 17, 20, 30, November 1 mostly quiet on October 18 - 19, 21, 27 quiet to unsettled on October 22, 25, 28 - 29, 31 quiet on October 23 - 24, 26 active to disturbed on November 2 - 4 From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field likely to be at active levels on October 17, 29 and November 4-5 with a and k indices of 15 and 4 or 12 and 4; G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on November 3 with a and k indices of 20 and 5. Quietest period of 5 and 2 will be October 23- 27. Solar flux rising from 110 October 18 to a peak of 130 on the 27th, down to 80 by November 2. Bill Hepburn`s VHF-UHF-Microwave DX forecast calls for extreme tropospheric ducting over the eastern Mediterranean and the coasts of Namibia and Angola on Oct 17 and 18; the Central Mediterranean on Oct 19 and 20. All week round the Red sea. And along northwestern Australia (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLAGIARISM AND FAKE RADIO RECEPTION REPORTS? Yessiree. There are a few DXers out there who in the pursuit of a QSL have the gall to fabricate a reception report. The phenomenon, if it can be called that, is nothing new. It is as old as radio itself. Why address the subject? Well, a few days back a fellow DXer and free- radio operator called it to my attention. He informed me of an individual who, apparently after reading my blog entry for his station, decided to pass off a reception report as his own. The station alerted me and promptly asked the guy to submit an audio file of the transmission. Guess what? He couldn't produce it. Wait a minute! He could have sourced the Internet for an audio file and produced a sample, right? It does happen. I actually had one young man do just that. He submitted a file of WWV and CHU on frequencies for times normally not received in his quarter, yet he tried to pass it off as genuine. How did I know it was fake, aside from the obvious physics? The audio file -- stolen from a fellow radio listener -- still had the original Box or Soundcloud name attached to it. Even with the advent of remote web-receivers some DXers attempt to pass off the remote RX location as their home RX location. A diligent station engineer/operator will immediately recognise this for what it is -- a bogus or less than accurate report. Why hide the obvious fact? There is no shame in stating the actual RX location, even if it is remotely observed. Simply keep one's home and remote QSLs in separate categories. Be honest. Now, it is possible to submit a reception report to a station, honestly believing it is a particular broadcaster. The time, frequency and language of the broadcaster all seem to be the station. Unfortunately after either submitting a report or further listening, usually days later, one discovers the error. It happens. I have done it more than a few times myself over the decades. Yet, I will fess up and duly note my error. Folks, honesty is more priceless than any QSL, however prized it may be. No DX contest for X number of stations, X number of countries is worth sacrificing one's integrity. Be patient and diligent in DXing. It's like fishing. It takes time, calculation and patience. And the results are far more rewarding when one knows it was a genuine catch. Happy DXing!!! Timm Breyel, Malaysia (73 via Christoph Ratzer via A- DX) Please, visit Timm breyel's website: SOUTH EAST ASIA DXING http://shortwavedxer.blogspot.se/ SW Bulletin Oct 11 via DXLD) ###