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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1821 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Australia, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Belgium, Biafra non, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Djibouti, Germany and non, Greece, Guam, India, Iran, Ireland Northern non, Korea North, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Sarawak non, Sweden non, USA, Zambia SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1821, April 14-20, 2016 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off this week?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off this week] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser NOTE: I have *resolved* to make DXLD leaner, more selective, as I seriously need to reduce my workload, much of which has been merely editing gobs of material into presentable form. This makes it even more important to be a member of the DXLD yg for additional material which may not make it into weekly isssues (gh) DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. A16 schedule for KNLS The New Life Station, Anchor Point: 0800-0900 English 11870 0800-1200 Chinese 9655 0900-1000 Russian 11870 1000-1100 English 11870 1100-1200 Russian 11870 1200-1300 English 7355 11870 1300-1400 Chinese 9655 9920 1400-1800 Chinese 9920 1400-1500 English 11765 1500-1800 Russian 9655 (knls.net via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 9855, April 10 at 0126, S1 JBA carrier, too weak even to be certain it`s the R. Tirana IS, but it better be as nothing else is supposed to be on here. Propagation is degraded, but the other Albanian site with CRI English relay, on 9570, is much better at S5-7, altho still poor (and 9580 Cuba relay is off). Yet Turkey direct is usable on 9770, Spanish at S7-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9854.971, Exact accurate shortwave frequency of Radio Tirana Albanian service on Apr 10, 2016, checked in 2300-2359 UT transmission hour to North America. Propagation WAS VERY BAD on shortwave this night. Only poor S=4 signal heard on threshold -98dBm signal level - VERY POOR SIGNAL tonight. Increased a little bit til end of transmission at 2356 to 2359 UT; from S=5 to S=7-8 in peaks. Albanian National hymn heard around 2356 til 2357:47 UT. Followed by RT interval signal til transmitter switch OFF exact at 2359:15 UT (that means 01:59:15 local Albanian summer time, on April 11th). NOTHING of 9855 kHz Shijak HEARD TONIGHT IN BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, or IRELAND area. Very bad propagation condition on April 10, 2016, 31 mb frequency band Kind regards (Wolfgang Bueschel, Stuttgart, Germany, monitored on remote SDR radios in MA-NY Massachusetts / New York / New Jersey, and Detroit, Michigan, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9854.97, April 11 circa 2340, R. Tirana Albanian hour to North America with talk and music, rates only S9. Always off-frequency to lo side; no adjacent or co-QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.7, RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 18955-1919, 07/4, anúncio das freqs. (*), noticiário 35342. Em 4949.8 em 09/4 e dias ss., até 11/4. *) "11955, 4950, 1088, 1010, 944" e algumas freqs. em VHF-FM, mas vale a pena "apreciar" a de "11955" e as restantes. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e., all imaginary except 4949.7 (gh, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. NOVEDADES EN LA X-BAND ARGENTINA --- En el segmento del dial que se extiende desde los 1610 a 1710 kHz, es posible reportar un buen número de estaciones de radiodifusión sonora de Amplitud Modulada emitiendo sus señales desde el AMBA (Area Múltiple Buenos Aires) Argentina. La mayoría de esas emisoras son de carácter religioso, y sus transmisiones pueden ser recepcionadas desde cientos - tal vez miles - de kilómetros de distancia. En las últimas semanas aparecieron dos estaciones operando en ese segmento del dial. Una de esas emisoras se trata de RADIO UNIDAD, operando en 1630, estación cristiana evangélica que se ha reactivado en esta nueva frecuencia después de varios meses de inactividad en AM (ex 1490 kHz). Radio Unidad, es operada por la Iglesia Internacional Unidos en el Amor de Jesús, a cargo del pastor Lázaro Oscar Díaz y su esposa, la pastora Alicia del Carmen Díaz. La citada Iglesia tiene su sede central en la calle Juan Carlos Molina Nº 830 de la localidad de José Mármol, Partido de Almirante Brown, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Teléfono: (011) 4291-2544, mientras que la Planta Transmisora de la estación se ubica sobre la calle Juan Manuel de Rosas Nº 1043 de la ciudad de Alejandro Korn, Partido de San Vicente, utilizando una antena omnidireccional y un transmisor de 1 kW de potencia. Hace un tiempo, la emisora operaba además una estación de Frecuencia Modulada activa en 94.1 MHz, y un Canal de TV en la banda de UHF (Canal 45 “Unidad”), los cuales al parecer están fuera del aire. Por otra parte, en 1710 kHz se hubo reportado una nueva emisora con emisiones de prueba y difundiendo música de la zona del litoral argentino, identificándose como “AM 1710 SELVA”, la cual difunde además varios comerciales de festivales de música chamamecera en la zona del Partido de La Matanza. La nómina de estaciones que operan actualmente en la denominada “X- Band” son las siguientes: 1610, RADIO GUABIYÚ (Gregorio de Laferrere) 1620, RADIO VIDA "Red de Vida" (Monte Grande) 1620, RADIO SENTIRES (Parque San Martín) 1620, RADIO ITALIA (Villa Martelli) 1630, RADIO UNIDAD (Alejandro Korn) 1630, AM RESTAURACIÓN (William C. Morris) 1640, RADIO HOSANNA (Isidro Casanova) [logo:] https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/1640-hosanna1.jpg 1650, RADIO 20 DE AGOSTO (Longchamps) 1650, RADIO EL MENSAJERO (Rafael Castillo) 1660, RADIO REVIVIR (Gregorio de Laferrere) 1670, RADIO BETHEL -[irregular]- (Banfield oeste) 1680, RADIO SANTA FE (Canning) 1690, RADIO CLS - Cristo la Solución - (San Justo) 1710, AM SELVA (Pdo. de La Matanza) [Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Buenos Aires, Argentina] (GRA blog April 6, also via Arnaldo Slaen, dxldyg via DXLD) Thanks Arnaldo for an up to date Argentina list between 1610 and 1710 kHz. Regards (Tony Magon, VK2IC, ibid.) I believe there are lots of other X-banders in Argentina beyond El AMBA. And nothing said here about whether any of them are licensed. In WRTH 2016, only one of the quite different list of X-banders has a callsign (not one of these), which implies they are not. In Argentina, maybe it really does not matter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.86, April 11 at 2354, S3 signal in distorted Spanish, i.e. RAE shortly before QSY to 11710.7v. I also notice this always-off-frequency but variable carrier around 1350 April 12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA / AZERBAIJAN. The station calls itself as "The Voice of Justice", and "Voice Talishistana" or "Public Radio of Azerbaijan" re- aired and seen for the first time on April 2 from 0800 to 1400 in the broadband frequency 9669 to 9681 kHz, but the best signal is now 9674 kHz azerskom language. News on the hour starting with information from Armenia, weather forecast in Stepanakert (Nagorno-Karabakh), in Shuschy etc. (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, SW Bulletin April 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) Or narrow-band FM mode (gh) ** ASCENSION. 6135.00, April 7 at 0551, open carrier, what`s this? 0553 comes to life with undermodulated YL saying ``BBCHausa.com``, as scheduled 0530-0600; slight het on hi side, Aparecida? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580 > // 12085 > // 12065, Monday April 11 at 1350, RA with great Appalachian/bluegrass music, on `The Daily Planet`, eclectic world-music, despite own online schedule still showing talkshow `Late Night Live` during this hour weekdays. A mistake? Brought up feed from wrong domestic ABC network? Why can`t we have both? Un/daylight-time shifts in NSW and Vic always lead nonsensically to confusing RA programming jumbles for the international audience. 9580, Tue April 12 at 1341, American folk music, so must still be `Daily Planet` on RA. Unlike yesterday`s check, RA program schedule now shows DP at 13-14 Mon-Thu; no more `LNL`, but `Conversations with Richard Fidler` continue at 14-15. Every time I go to RA sked, some cookie insists on displaying it in ``London time``, but my computer really stays on UT, so I`m always having to change that from the drop-down timezone locality list, which includes lots of exotic locales from Kerguelen Island, to Srednekolymsk to Qyzylorda (but not Enid!), going to the very end where UTC finally appears as if it were the least, rather than most important! http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule?timezone=UTC&stream=ras-1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. A16 schedule for Reach Beyond Australia in English 1115-1130 smt.tf. As 15575 (Spotlight) 1130-1145 s....f. As 15575 (Family Care) 1330-1400 O..f. As 9720 15340 (Hindi/English) 1445-1600 Daily As 15340 (extract from schedule via Alokesh Gupta dx_sasia, via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) I assume the 1330 entry did not originally have an O for a day of the week --- such are the risks of messing with dot-dot-dots (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. 17570, April 10 at 1945, fair in French talk about Mexique, soon obviously Christian, so not RFI: it`s AWR at 1930-2000, 300 kW, 170 degrees from Moosbrunn, which has become a hotbed of Adventism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745-USB, Radio Bahrain/Shabab FM, 2330-0010. Middle Eastern music programming mixed with Arabic talk by a male presenter. No ID heard unfortunately, but signal only audible in USB. No sign of carrier on LSB or anything on AM, so likely not Radio Cairo, which would be splattering all over. - Signal weaker to fair April 9 (Carlie Forsythe, WI, ODXA YRX via DXLD) 9745 USB, Radio Bahrain (Tentative), 0006, 4/10/16, in Arabic. Man with talk at some length then at random checks later until after 0100. Weak signal only in USB (nothing on LSB), so it would seem to be Bahrain rather than Egypt (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm Park, Mini DXpedition, 4/9–10 UT outside Madison, WI, Tecsun PL660, 100’ random wire. With Bill Dvorak and Carlie Forsyth for evening greyline listening. It got rather cold which we braved for some nice DX, NASWA Flashsheet April 10 via DXLD) Yes, Cairo is now supposed to be on 9745, now starting at 0045 in Spanish, 0200+ Arabic; normally just an open carrier, can be fairly strong (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 7 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar, open carrier at S3, barely enough to perceive ending of the mis-timesignal today at 1400:27, to commence the Urdu service. 15505, April 10 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar open carrier is about S8, quite an improvement. IS starts at 1359:24.5 but only one play and a fragment of another before cut to 5+1 mis-timesignal ending at 1400:04, much closer than usual, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Belarus turned off the radio transmitters that broadcast on the territory of the country and abroad on all bands except the FM. Since April 1, stopped broadcasting of the Belarusian Radio and radio station "Belarus", broadcasting on the outside, on long, medium and short waves. This is the website of the Belarusian Broadcasting Center, reports "Radio Svaboda". "In connection with the refusal of the National State TV and Radio of the Republic of Belarus RUE" Concern RRT services "and the lack of other customers, with the year 01.04.2016 stops broadcasting of sound programs" First National Channel of the Belarusian Radio "and" Radio Belarus "in the low range, medium and high frequencies. " And there is the transfer of transmitters that do not work in Kolodishchi, Osipovichi and others. A member of the technical department of the Belarusian Broadcasting Center explained: "Firstly, stopped broadcasting at long wavelengths - programs that spread on the territory of Belarus. This transmitter covers almost the entire territory of the country in the wavelength range - 279 kHz. That is, the first channel of the Belarusian radio in this range no longer be distributed on April 1. In the short and medium wave broadcast, we in Western Europe and Russia. They broadcast the program of the First Channel of the Belarusian Radio and foreign broadcasts - "Belarus" radio program. Medium Wave "finished off" to Africa. Propagation of the beam passed, so not all of Western Europe was covered, but only a part. England did not fall, the northern part of France, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries. And Central and Southern Europe fell. When operating at maximum power transmitters broadcasting the Belarusian came to Africa. Although we wrote one German company that we have been heard, even in North and South America. Now our customer - BTRC - renounced our services. And we were forced to turn off the transmitter. The official reason - the reduction of funding. The letter signed by the Chairman of Belteleradiocompany Gennady Davydko. Today Belarusian radio, you can listen only on the FM band and VHF. But LW, MW, SW ranges in Belarus no longer used." On the question of whether to change something, whether it is possible to enable the transmitters in the future, the technical department Concern RRT officer said that in the next two years - 2016 and 2017 - will not change anything. And in general the return will not be "transmitters are turned off and on again they can not be. New transmitter of this kind, which worked, worth about $ 1 million. " Chief director of "Radio Belarus", which broadcasts to foreign countries, Naum Galperovich said that this is a general trend of transition to new technologies, the Internet: "We are expanding our broadcast on the Internet in all eight languages, and now we can listen to all kinds of gadgets, working in a range of FM close to the regions, and the satellite. So we have not only narrowed and expanded broadcasting. Now it is a hybrid radio. Videos appear on our site. " But Rimantas Plyaykis, former Minister of Lithuania Communication, founder of Radio "Baltic Waves", through which the RL is relayed on medium wave since 2000 on radio technologies specialist, author of the study on radioglusheniyu, comments on the termination of the Belarusian radio broadcast on long, medium and short waves "In this connection it should be noted five items. Firstly, it is socially unjust step in relation to insolvent people who will be forced to buy the FM-receiver. Secondly, such a "thrift" - a sign of the financial crisis of the regime. Third, the Belarusian national radio will no longer hear those who live or travel in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia. Fourth, the "saved" money can corrupt the Belarusian State TV and Radio "eat through" together with private production companies. Fifth, it lost an occasion to introduce digital broadcasting using DRM." At the same time, neighboring Lithuania continues to broadcast radio programs in Russia and other countries to the east of it, according to the Foreign Ministry. These programs are broadcast through a transmitter power of 75 kilowatts, which is located in the village of Sitkunay at Kovno. In addition, the United States will bring a modern Lithuania transmitter power of 200 kilowatts. (For comparison, the transmitters are disabled in power have Kolodishchi 150 and 250 kW, Asipovichy - 500 and 800 kW). "The new equipment will strengthen the Western countries to inform policy and the fight against Russian propaganda in the region, as well as communications in Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the region", - quotes the statement of the MFA of Lithuania Delfi. Charter97.org (Portal Radio.ru via RusDX April 10 via DXLD) ** BELGIUM. Guido Schotmans just wrote in the World Radio TV Handbook 8 April 2016: RVi's Frans Vossen known from Radio World and Brussels Calling died yesterday. RIP. Afrikakenner en VRT-journalist Frans Vossen overleden http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/cultuur%2Ben%2Bmedia/media/1.2623000 (via Mike Terry, April 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Andy Sennitt just wrote on the PCJ Media Facebook page: Sorry to learn of the death of Frans Vossen at the age of 74. I read about it late last night on a teletext page of the VRT. During the 1980s I met Frans at numerous conventions for shortwave listeners, and it was always a pleasure to spend time with him. For four decades he worked for VRT (formerly BRT), the Flemish public broadcaster in Belgium, producing and presenting English programmes. His funeral and cremation take place tomorrow, 9th April. RIP (via Terry, ibid.) As a tribute to and remembrance of our old friend Frans Vossen of VRT/RVI Belgium and Flanders Today, here is a link to a Media Network (RNW) program first broadcast in 1995 that profiled RVI and had an extensive interview with Frans. During his career at RVI, Frans made annual trips to visit us and his listeners in Kulpsville, PA. http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/radio-vlaanderen-internationaal-profile (John Figliozzi, Co-Chair, Winter SWL Fest, ibid.) So sorry to hear of Frans' passing. I got to visit Frans at his studio in Brussels, and he came to my music gig at the Philadelphia Flower Show before SWL Fest one year. Lovely man, I will miss him (Saul Broudy (W3WHK), Philadelphia, PA USA, ibid.) Sorry to read about Frans Vossen. I fondly recall hearing him on BRT. Photo of him from BRT in the (announcers section of) Belgium at http://www.kg4lac.com 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, ibid.) below lots and lots of QSLs (gh) A real friend of the SW community. It's sad as our numbers decline with time. He'll be missed. BRT was very good to SW listeners when on the air (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/cultuur%2Ben%2Bmedia/media/1.2623000 From: Christian Ghibaudo = Subject: R.I.P Frans Vossen Ciao, Ce matin, un ami animateur de la RTBF Bruxelles, Jean François Herbeck, m’appris la mort de Frans Vossen. Ces obsèques auront lieu demain samedi. J’ai mis l’info sur Facebook, ce matin à 06h00 et Roberto Pavanello l’a partagé.. Il avait 74 ans. R.I.P. C’est la disparition d’une personne très serviable, et aimable. A bientôt, (Christian Ghibaudo, France, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Very sad to hear of this. I used to listen to RVI on a daily basis and always regarded Frans Vossen's "Radio World" slot as required listening, which meant I would always put a pen and paper by my bed on a Saturday night ready to note down any frequency tips heard during the "Radio World" slot on the Sunday morning. RIP Frans, and thank you (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here's a photo of him (far right) at the 1983 ANARC Convention in DC. The other people are Jeff White of now WRMI and a R. Beijing announcer (Don Hosmer W8SWL, W Branch MI USA, ibid.) In the middle and the thumbnail, looks like Alfonso Montealegre of Radio Nederland. I add my regrets about Frans (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Dear friends, Belgian broadcaster Frans Vossen, who worked a long-time at the Belgian Radio's foreign service (last known as Radio Vlaanderen International) with programmes as "Brussels Calling" and "Radio World", passed away on 6th of April at the age of 74 years. Frans was well-known to the shortwave community as in addition to his programmes he was a regular visitor in many EDXC meetings and various other DX and shortwave gatherings. A small memorial text can be found here https://edxcnews.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/frans-vossen-rip/ Rest in Peace, Frans. Missing you, my long-time friend (Risto Vähäkainu, FDXA, tietotekniikka-asiantuntija, Helsingin yliopisto, Tietotekniikkakeskus, p. 050-529 2909, April 11, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Viz.: Frans visiting FDXA Summer Meeting in Lepaa 2004. Photo: Hannu Perttula (HPE) [caption] With sadness we have received the information that the well-known international broadcaster and a good friend to EDXC and many individual DXers, Mr. Frans Vossen from Brussels, Belgium passed away on 6th of April 2016 at the age of 74. He is missed by his wife Marie Gertrude Losami and three sons. Frans was born in eastern Belgium and Flemish was his mother language. In the 60’s and 70’s he lived many years in Zaire, the former Belgian Congo where he also met with Gertrude. He worked there as a teacher and there he also discovered shortwave radio to receive quick and reliable information. He used in one of his presentations the expression “Shortwave radio opened a new world to me”. His knowledge of languages was vast. In addition to Flemish, French and Lingala (home language) he spoke excellent English and German, and when he returned to Brussels he started his work at the international service of Belgian Radio working in the English section. Frans Vossen visited many EDXC meetings as well as several other radio gatherings and conferences during his career. For us in Finland he was introduced in the Espoo EDXC meeting 1987 and ever since that he was a close friend to myself. We met in many meetings and also did some travelling together. He was the only western journalist to attend the first and the last DX meeting of the Soviet Union held in December 1990 in Leningrad. He also attended several SWL Fests in the United States and we had the pleasure of having him twice as the special guest star of the FDXA summer meeting in Finland. Of his trips he always compiled interesting and informative programs presented at “Brussels Calling” or the DX show “Radio World”. Everybody who has met Frans remembers his great mustaches. Even in 2011 when I visited Gertrude’s and Frans’ home in Strombeek, Brussels the mustaches were still there, a bit greyer though than earlier. In 2002 we visited Tallinn right after the EDXC meeting in Pori, Finland, and in Tallinn Frans had a bad accident. He broke his knee badly and that caused a permanent problem to his mobility. And mentally the early retirement more than 10 years ago, because Radio Vlaanderen International decided to cease its shortwave service, was a bad thing, too. In 2011 we looked at the Atomium from their window and spent a memorable evening remembering the old times. His health was already then clearly weaker, but his great sense of humor was still there. I shared many meetings and travels with Frans and I always appreciated his vast knowledge and his professional work as journalist and his impact to the shortwave radio. Rest in Peace my friend. Risto Vähäkainu 112-1247_IMG EDXC Conference held in Pori 2002: From left: Vesa-Jussi Rinkinen, Valentina Jolkver (DW), Frans Vossen, Dmitry Mezin and Alexander Beriozkin. Photo: Jarmo Salmi (JIS) [caption] 111-1187_IMG EDXC Conference held in Pori (2002): from left Frans Vossen (VRT), Arto Mujunen (IBB) and Waldemar Kraemer (DW). Photo: Jarmo Salmi (JIS) [caption](via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) We personally spoke to EDXC conference in 2002. Frans took us to Alexander Berezkin interview, sounded then on Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal waves. Link to post at bottom of page http://dxsignal.ru/audio/varrus.htm Everlasting memory (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia / "open_dx" via RusDX April 10 via DXLD) I also met Frans several times at the EDXC Conferences and know him very well. He made several interviews of me to R Vlaanderen International. I can only support Risto’s obituary. It is a great loss for the DX-hobby. May he Rest in Peace (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window April 13 via DXLD) obits ** BHUTAN. 6035.053, odd frequency BBS Thimpu, not on air at 0034 UT, nothing heard here on remote SDR unit in eastern Thailand location (Wolfgang Büschel, log 0005-0035 UT April 7th, in eastern Thailand, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6035.05, BBS, 1146-1233*, April 11. Normal segment of pop songs till ToH (unable to confirm if in English, as had been noted in the past); 1215-1230 very distinctive indigenous instrumental music/singing; usual PBS Yunnan (6035.00) QRM. Certainly one of their better days and running somewhat past their usual sign off time! My audio, starting with indigenous instrumental music/singing (mixing with PBS announcer), followed by BBS announcer in vernacular (mixing with PBS music) - https://goo.gl/Ar1Al7 6035.05, BBS, 1221-1236*, April 12. Second day of above average reception; same format as yesterday; usual PBS Yunnan QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. http://radiobiafra.co/ http://radiobiafra.co/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=173682:radio-biafra-shortwave-frequency-changes-over-to-11700-khz-at-25-meter-band-on-the-20th-of-april-2016&Itemid=484 Radio Biafra Shortwave frequency changes over to 11700 kHz at 25-meter band on the 20th of April 2016 Our shortwave listeners worldwide please note that from the 20th of April 2016 our frequency will change over to 11700 kHz at 25-meter band, broadcast time is 7 pm to 10 pm London time tell your friends and family and also share to every platform, timelines, etc.... Radio Biafra Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, April 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) I guess still via provider SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod relay of Bulgaria? ? 1900 UTC ? wb (Wolfgang Büschel, HCDX via DXLD) So their website is domained in Colombia. Accessing this item depends on hitting a rotating News window, and it`s right next to an old ``BIAFRA MEDIA POWER HOUSE`` graphic claiming the SW frequency is 15560, long abandoned. 7-10 pm London time is now 18-21 UT; do they realise that Biafra time is now the same? Will it again be via Bulgaria? Probably, one of their reserved -00 frequencies. You`ll recall that Denge Kurdistanye took over 11600 until 2100 in A-16; apparently no planning ahead was done (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Wolfgang, HFCC A-16: 11700 1500 2259 28,27 SOF 50 306 0 885 1234567 270316 301016 D 5000 Eng BUL NEW SPC 16158 BUL (José Miguel Romero R., HCDX via DXLD) Not really 306 degrees at 50 kW. HFCC mentions the usual easy RHOMBIC horizontal #885 antenna and 50 kW unit at 306 degrees towards western Europe. But Biafra will be 100 kW and 195 degrees and curtain #618 dipole antenna to West Africa. 618 EHR(S)4/4/1.0. 2100 ex-11600 SOF 100 kW 195 deg to WAf, after close of Denge Kurdistan (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 8, BCDX 13 April via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6025, RED PATRIA NUEVA, 12/4 0040-0052 UT. Hombre habla en idioma indígena que no es posible identificar. SINPO: 43343 con marcado QRM de otra emisora sin identificar y QRN propio de la banda de 49 metros. No obstante, cerca de las 0050 se la emisora presenta un ID que se oye de manera clara (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: Realistic DX- 160, ANT: 40 metros de hilo, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6105.37, Radio Panamericana, La Paz. 0022 April 7, 2016. Presume the one, very poor against unidentified 6105 kc/s carrier, with Spanish talk (possibly sporting event). (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6105.35, UT Friday April 8 at 0011, JBA carrier, suffering from 6115 WWCR splash, lessened by LSB tuning. Probably R. Panamericana, and perhaps activated to cover a silly ballgame? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BONAIRE [and non]. USA/Bonaire: "8-Year-Old Does His Part to Share Gospel --- Even very young believers can have a role in fulfilling Christ’s mandate to take the gospel to all the world. During early April, 8-year-old Rusty heard his local Christian radio station, WHCF 88.5 FM in Bangor, Maine, encouraging listeners to help TWR cover Cuba with gospel broadcasts. Obviously not one to let others do all the heavy lifting, Rusty took action. He showed up at the station and emptied his piggy bank --- a whole dollar, a sizable sum for youngster. “He wanted to give ‘so those people in Cuba can hear the gospel,’” said Tom Obey, president of the Lighthouse Radio Network. Every little bit helps, as the saying goes, and WHCF went on to raise $22,500 for TWR’s “Cover Cuba with the Gospel” campaign. That amount was also raised by KTLF of Colorado Springs, Colorado, while another faithful station, WAFT of Valdosta, Georgia, added $10,000. The campaigns are helping TWR to more than quadruple the power of its AM transmitter on the island of Bonaire. It’s a huge undertaking, with a total cost of $3.8 million, but one that will double the potential listening audience of TWR gospel programming, reaching all of Cuba and far south into South America. So far supporters have stepped forward to donate $2.4 million, leaving $1.4 million to complete the project. Also joining the national campaign in April and May are WBGW Thy Word Network of Evansville, Indiana; KCBI 90.9 of Dallas, Texas; and KFSI 92.9 and WJRF 89.5 Refuge Radio of Rochester and Duluth, Minnesota, respectively. Local campaigns are continuing in KBHW 99.5 Psalm FM of International Falls, Minnesota; WGRC 91.3 of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; WGNN 102.5 Great News Radio of Fisher, Illinois; WLYJ 88.5 of Tullahoma, Tennessee; and WTGN 97.7 of Lima, Ohio. Want to know more about “Cover Cuba With the Gospel”? Check out twr.org/cuba." (TWR Global Update -- April 2016 via Hansjoerg Biener, Germny, DXLD) While it is noteworthy that the medium wave project on Bonaire is still going on, I would like to add a tip on Biblical living: "Thou shalt not exploit children, neither for donations nor public relations... ... or anything else." (Dr Hansjoerg Biener (Lutheran pastor), DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Shortwave Documentary / Documentario Ondas Curtas / Territorio Xavante T.I. Pimentel, Documentario Gravado na Aldeia Wederã Xavante a 142 KM de Nova Xavantina / MT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khf4r1OIpfI&feature=youtu.be Direção, Edição, Roteiro e Montagem: Samuel Leal Captação de Som: Leandro Parinai’a Argumento e Produção: Samuel Leal e Leandro Parinai’a Vencedor do X Prêmio Pierre Verger – Filme Etnográfico 2014 oferecido pela Associação Brasileira de Antropologia. Sobre o Autor/ http://www.redekino.com.br/author/samuel/ Blog da Aldeia / http://wedera.blogspot.com.br/ Cinema Xavante / https://funaixavantina.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/vem-ai-o-dia-do-cinema-xavante-em-nova-xavantina-18-de-novembro-na-unemat/ Expedição ou Dicionario Xavante para Português / Daniel Wyllyans [Gratuito, copias do dicionario]. Apoio / Funai Xavantina, Canarana e Barra do Garças / MT Desde meados do século XX, com a pacificação do contato com o homem branco, as comunidades Xavante da T.I. Pimentel Barbosa incorporaram as tecnologias da cidade no seu cotidiano. Este vídeo mostra a relação da aldeia Wederã com o rádio de ondas curtas, que permite ouvir estações do mundo inteiro (Daniel Wyllllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list April 11 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. ce3fzl --- Estimados Amigos Lista Radioescutas: Deseo saber cuáles estaciones Brasileras confirman con Carton QSL. Solo tengo confirmado Rádio Brás... antigua Rádio Nacional do Brasil, Atte, (Héctor Frías Jofré, CE3001SWL, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Hector, atendendo a sua solicitação: Rádio Nacional da Amazônia 6180, 11780 Rádio Nacional do Brasil, 6180, 11780 (via RNA 0000-0700 UT) Rádio Trans Mundial 5965, 9530, 11735 Rádio Aparecida 5035, 6135, 9630, 11855 Rádio Brasil Central 11815 RB2 6040, 9725, 11935 Rádio Voz Missionária 5940, 9665 Rádio Canção Nova (transmissão irregular) (foram as que últimamente enviaram cartões QSL para quem enviou informes de recepção) Disponibilizamos estas e muitas outras informações na lista QSL.window, que você pode acessar no meu blog http://dxways-br.blogspot.com (link à direita abaixo do logotipo do DX Clube do Brasil), inclusive quando e qual radioescuta recebeu a confirmação, e adicionalmente qual o endereço postal ou eletrônico aplicado para receber a resposta. A lista QSL.window pode ser distribuída livremente a todos que assim o desejarem faze-lo. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. DXing: Tropical Wave Band 120 Meters - 2380 kHz Rádio Educadora de Limeira. ANN comercial de comercio na rua Antônio Machado 550 no 0:07 no video. OM fala a cidade de ´´Limeira´´ no 01:13 do video OM Fala anuncio de festa: ´´Secretaria e mão de obras de Limeira, Apóio prefeitura municipal de Limeira´´ SINPO 34232 Dia 08 Abril 2016 em 1013 UT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HXK9s1sk58&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000. Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 3360 kHz Rádio Educadora, Laranjeiras do Sul / PR [Harmonico verdadeiro 3 X 1120 kHz = 3360 kHz] 1019 UT, Slogan ´´Na sua Educadora´´ in 0:14 video, in 0:23 video fala o estado do ´´Paraná´ / Brazil. SINPO 34322 Dia 08 Abril 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZZMk7eppQ&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000 Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** BRAZIL? 4858, UnIdentified (perhaps Rádio Alvorada de Londrina), 0105, 4/10/16, in Portuguese. Fast moving section of woman, man, musical bridge, same man, second woman. Still there until after 0115 when we pulled the plug due to cold. Fair. All 3 of us had this on separate kinds of receivers so it doesn’t seem likely to have been receiver generated (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm Park, Mini DXpedition, 4/9– 10 UT outside Madison, WI, Tecsun PL660, 100’ random wire. With Bill Dvorak and Carlie Forsyth for evening greyline listening. It got rather cold which we braved for some nice DX, NASWA Flashsheet April 10 via DXLD) If so, further off-frequency than usual (gh, DXLD) 4861.7, R. Alvorada, Londrina PR, 2235-..., 09/4, texto; 25331. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, April 11 at 0537, music at S9 with CCI, so both Brazilians active, instead of neither? Or maybe it`s just one with a wobbly carrier. Needs LSB tuning to escape CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 5980.01 kHz UNID / Mar. 1, 2016 1013 UTC WOW, are 3 stations 0:01 in video OM in Portuguese; entendi a palavra 20 kHz, faltou um pedaço antes de 0:01 em video. 0:06 em video um claro prefixo [ ZYL ] talvez isso seje um harmonic portuguese de MW desde Minas Gerais https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicativo_de_chamada . 1:08 in video is Radio Marti; 1:17 OM Radio Chaski VS YL Radio Marti Notice. from 2:17 in video MX Flauta Gospel Radio Chaski VS YL Radio Marti Notice. -De qualquer forma posso ter errado nisso, sendo o 1420 e 5980 kHz no ID radio Guarujá de Florianópolis, por favor algum dexista / radioescuta do estado de Santa Catarina fique de olho nisso 5980 kHz tem historico de TX Muito, muito ruim. Veja: Estive nesta semana em Florianopolis e constatei que o áudio dos 5980 lá mesmo está meio naquela de portadora em ordem, mas, áudio lá em baixo e como se fosse saturado. Normalmente onde fico quando vou para lá (São José), o áudio é excelente, tanto em OM como em OC. Desta vez, negativo. Ontem à noite ouvi as OC da Guarujá aqui em São Bernardo, sem dificuldades, inclusive o áudio das OM (1420 kHz) também chegava aqui perfeito. Mas no meio da semana, verifiquei lá que o áudio estava mesmo do jeito. Rudolf Grimm [Isso foi em 2009] 5980.01 kHz UNID / Mar. 01, 2016 1013 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUzpdVP6p0c 2010DFS / Japan (via Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, April 13, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6080, R Marumby, Curitiba, PR (presumed), 0155, Apr 06, !!!Spanish!!!, emotional religious speech in Spanish, 25332 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window April 13 via DXLD) or portunhol?? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6180.75, April 7 at 0545, RNA is on with one carrier peak, and totally overriding 6180.0 VOA SAO TOME, which expected to have frequency to self at 0530-0630 M-F; will have to move? 6180.58, April 8 at 0014, RNA is S9+40 and now on in our evenings, perhaps 24h. Includes weak lo het from 6180.70, apparently self- generated parasite spur 120 Hz (2 x 60) away from peak, which Wolfgang Büschel has also detected. 6180.03, April 9 at 0031 check, RNA is finally back in whack, almost on-frequency, good modulation, no self-spur het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília, 0602-0610, 09-04, Brazilian songs, ID "Rádio Nacional da Amazônia", Portuguese, comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Enviado desde TypeApp, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] 6180v, April 10 at 0132, RNA is gone again after a few days of reactivity, having just attained normality last night. Meanwhile 11780.1v remains VG at S9+25. 6180, April 11 at 0533, weak French from VOA São Tomé, again unimpeded by de-reactivated RNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL Rádio Nacional da Amazônia 6180 kHz --- Recebido QSL em apenas 4 dias por carta registrada! chegou confirmando 6180 kHz mas a escuta na verdade foi em 6181.200 kHz. email para informes - centraldoouvinte@ebc.com.br e ouvidoria@ebc.com.br segue a escuta - 6181.200 kHz, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia (+ Anomalia #2) Notada nova anomalia às 1301 UT no IC-R75 Presizamente em 6181.200 kHz, passando O Nacional Informa com YL. SINPO 45444, Dia 31 Março 2016. Certamente os tecnicos estão trabalhando no parque de ondas curtas do rodeador. Veja as fotos onde fica o parque do rodeador: https://dxswl.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/visita-ao-parque-do-rodeador-ebcradiobras/ http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2016/04/qsl-radio-nacional-da-amazonia-6180-khz.html RX: Icom IC-R75, Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Ràdio Nacional Brasìlia, 11780.1, 0052 12 APR - SINPO = 55334. Portuguese, ID at 0057z as RN Brasília and RN Amazónia, fb news jingle and then news read by male announcer with many musical interludes with news jingle. QSB=slow-to-moderate rate, somewhat deep fades but mostly very strong modulation well above the noise floor. (nothing heard on // 6180 kHz). sf116.6, a6, k1, geomag: very quiet. 250kw, beamAz 360 , bearing 116 . Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 9067KM from transmitter at Brasilia, Parque do Rodeador, DF. Local time: 1749 (Rodney Johnson, NV, April 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190, Apr 11, 2016. 1755-1805, R. Inconfidência, Contagem. Program in Portuguese; Inconfidência News; ID. R. Pilipinas better than Inconfidência in certain moments. In resume, this transmission is a collision, it´s true (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CANADA. CHIN 1540 PROGRAMME CHANGES --- CHIN Toronto 1540 has long aired programming from “G&E Studios” which is a US company fronting for China Radio International. This arrangement came to an end on 10th February (according to Wikipedia) since when they now broadcast dance music from DJFM. In November 2015, Reuters exposed how James Su’s company G&E Studios was disseminating Chinese government backed programming from CRI describing it and other similar companies as “China’s covert global radio network”. This has prompted an FCC investigation because, say Reuters, the US Foreign Agents Registration Act requires anyone inside the US seeking to influence American policy or public opinion on behalf of a foreign government to register with the Department of Justice. This change puts an end to the top of the hour CHIN announcement in which they tell listeners that “on this station your ideas matter”. I once wrote to them suggesting that they might consider “changing the record” because it was getting a bit past its best. My ideas didn’t matter enough for them to want to change it. In late March, the DJFM programming seems to have given way to Indian subcontinent music (Andrew Brade, York, April MW News via DXLD) ** CANADA. NOT QUITE OFF THE AIR: 1650, QC, Montreal, CJRS. Was scheduled to go dark on April 1st due to financial difficulties. A last minute ownership change was announced (subject to CRTC approval) which should breathe new life into the station (CANADIAN RADIO NEWS – Dan Sys For March 2016 (April 1 2016 – next update May 1 2016), IRCA DX Monitor April 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) 1650, CJRS, QC, Montréal – “Radio Shalom” ended April 1; may stay on air with Christian RELIGION (AM Switch, NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) STATION NEWS --- 1650, CJRS, QC, Montreal – 4/1 1800 [EDT] = 2200 UT] – Financially struggling “Radio Shalom” ended Jewish programming at this time, but did not go silent as originally believed. Station remains on air, but with a format flip (or should I say conversion) to evangelical Christian! Apparently the CRTC’s license does not require CJRS to have an all-Jewish format and they aired some Christian programs on Saturdays (the Jewish Sabbath) and Jewish holy days (Mike Brooker, Toronto, Domestic DX Digest-East, NRC E-DX News April 18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) RADIO SHALOM, A VOICE FOR MONTREAL'S JEWISH COMMUNITY, TURNED OVER TO EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS --- Steve Faguy, Montreal Gazette - April 2, 2016 Radio Shalom, Canada’s only radio station devoted specifically to the Jewish community, signed off on Friday evening for the last time. Owner Robert Lévy, who for months has been trying to find financing for the Montreal station in a last-ditch effort to keep it running, told staff this week that he’s pulling the plug. The station’s signal, at 1650 AM and based in the Town of Mount Royal industrial park, will remain on the air. Lévy has asked André Joly, who operates an evangelical Christian service on Radio Shalom during the Sabbath, to take over programming 24/7. Joly said he is in talks to buy the station, but there may still be hope for someone in the Jewish community to step in and keep Radio Shalom alive. Lévy did not respond to requests for comment about the future of the station. Radio Shalom started about 15 years ago as a subcarrier service, which required a special FM radio to receive. But in 2006 it got licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and CJRS 1650 went on the air on AM on May 5, 2007, according to the Canadian Communications Foundation. But even though the station was run almost entirely by volunteers, it struggled to pay the bills. In December, Lévy said he was no longer willing to run Radio Shalom out of his pocket and urged the Jewish community to step in. “In order to keep Radio Shalom and the voice it provides for the Montreal Jewish community alive and on the air, we need our Jewish community to work together to provide a recurrent and stable partnership that will assume responsibility of the radio’s administrative and financial needs,” he wrote at the time, giving an ultimatum of Jan. 31. Despite a two-month extension to the deadline, there was not enough support to keep it going. Stanley Asher, a Radio Shalom host involved with the station since Day 1, said he was disappointed but not surprised to see the station go. He said he went to the station on Monday and found his pre-recorded show from the previous week hadn’t been broadcast due to technical issues. He intended to run that show this week and prepare one for next week, but was told “don’t bother.” “It was a big part of my life, I have to adjust to that ending,” Asher said. “We were unique. We were trying to follow a model that’s common in Europe, trying on a very limited budget to provide a cultural service.” Radio Shalom’s CRTC licence, which expires Aug. 31, 2017, does not set language requirements or require it to be a Jewish radio station. But it does require balance on religious issues and set limits on popular music. A change in ownership of the station would also require CRTC approval, so for now Joly will be providing programming while Lévy remains in charge of the station (via Sheldon Harvey, April CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. Shortwaveservice.com Facebook group: April 6, 2106 We are happy that Radio Canada International https://www.facebook.com/rcinet/ is now a part of our weekend-schedule. Listen to RCI's "The Link" in English on Saturdays at 1400 UTC on 7310 kHz shortwave and "Tam-Tam" in French on 6005 kHz at 1400 UTC. Oh, and there might be some more shortwave-news on this Facebook page in the near future, so stay tuned... Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. Horizon FM, Tenerife, heard on 6205 on 19th March from 1900 tune until past 2000 when they were still going strong. Programme consisted of male announcer with an English review of the local Tenerife news followed by lots of advertisements for shops, clubs, night spots, restaurants, etc., then into endless disco and acid house music. Heard again on 20th March at 1750 with the same programming. Not heard over the bank holiday weekend though. Good signal on a clear channel. SINPO was 35443. According to my log archive, the last logging of this station here was on 29th March 2014 when they were heard at 0644 & 1930 on the same frequency of 6205 (Michael Ford, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) It’s believed to be relayed via a transmitter in Ireland (eds. Axel Röse & Vick Haviland, Alternative Airwaves, ibid.) ** CHAD. 6165, April 8 at 0522, RHC again with that LAH caused by RNT a few Hz away, but much weaker and can`t copy anything from it. (Also: no signal on 6115 now from Congo, or Japan) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I did not check every day, but at least four or five times over the past week: - presumed Chad with low modulation some days till 2000v, sometimes untraced by 1900. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6165, April 11 at 0533, SAH from ONRTT still quite obvious beneath RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CHINA TARGETS ILLEGAL RADIO BROADCASTERS CRI April 11, 2016 http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-04/11/content_38216097.htm Illegal radio broadcasts first began filling China's airwaves back in 2013. Since then, they've become rampant, normally blasting listeners with various types of content, ranging from sketchy medical infomercials to lewd and pornographic content. Law enforcement officials say for the exception of Tibet, these types of illegal broadcasts have been noted all over China. Chen Shiqu with the Ministry of Public Security says their campaign has focused on getting to the root of the problem. "We've been trying to target the business operations which set up the illegal broadcasts. We've also been targeting those who produce and sell the equipment used for the broadcasts. Those who purchase airtime on them to spread their illegal information are also being targeted." Authorities estimate it can cost around 50-thousand yuan a month to set up and maintain the illegal transmitters, which are normally set up in residential areas. However, some of the larger operations are reportedly able to make millions of yuan in profits through the sale of their air-time. While the transmitters themselves are often poorly made, many of them are high-powered. Li Changwei with the Civil Aviation Administration of China says these high-powered broadcasts have the potential to interfere with vital communication channels. "These shadowy radio frequencies severely affect the operations of our control towers at airports. Sometime, pilots and the air traffic controllers are unable to communicate effectively, impacting flights." A six-month, nationwide crackdown on illegal broadcasts began in February. So far, over 400 illegal radio operations have been shut down cross the country. To help with the crackdown, authorities are using drones with radio-wave sensors to track their targets. Song Qizhu is with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. [caption] "We can now very accurately and effectively monitor and locate these illegal broadcasts. We have built a comprehensive wireless monitoring network to alert us when these broadcasts are spotted." Under Chinese law, anyone caught setting up illegal broadcasts is subject to fines and up to 7 years in jail. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 11820, April 8 at 0039, YL poor at S4 in Cantonese: must be CRI as scheduled this hour only via Xi`an; ISO/EiBi/SIL/HFCC abbr. for lang. is Yue. At 0050, JBA signal on 17490 must be same service, Beijing site. 11989.98, April 8 at 0041, heartfelt song at S6, even an hymn? 0044 announcement in Khmer and Mandarin, so it`s no hymn but certainly CRI Cambodian as scheduled this hour only via Nanning site. 17559.97, April 8 at 0050, poor S3 signal in Mandarin: scheduled this hour only is IBB in Cmn via Tinang, Philippines, so probably I`m getting a CNR1 jammer against it. Only significant signal on 16m now after Australia on 17840. 13690, April 10 at 1349-1353, last few minutes of Dvorak`s New World Symphony atop weaker CCI; also found // on weak 13830, fair 11785. Leave it to ChiCom jammers to broadcast some great classical music, which Western targets would never waste SW time on, even on an American theme. This is regular programming on CNR1 Sunday evenings. Vs: 13690 IBB in Chinese via Saipan; 13830 IBB in Tibetan via Tajikistan; 11785 IBB in Chinese via Tinang, Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jamming: see also INDIA [and non] CNR1 Jammer/Firedrake --- 11785, 1357 10 APR - CNR1 JAMMER/FIREDRAKE. SINPO = 54434. Traditional Chinese music. no announcer. QRM=cochannel with R.Free Asia(?) in Chinese (probably who they are trying to jam?). QSB=slow rate, strong modulation occasionally dips to mixing with with noise floor but mostly well above.. Received at Las Vegas, United States. Local time: 0657 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17485, Mon April 11 at 1441, S7 with Doppler-flutter, trace of modulation. Almost-lowest frequency on 17 MHz band (except 17480 Egypt if active) is scheduled as IBB Tibetan via Thailand M/W/F at 14-15, so probably am hearing CNR1 jammer. (17630 CRI English East Turkistan is audible better) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9745, Firedragon, 1918 & 1931, April 13. Strong signal of FD non-stop musical jamming against RFA; unable to tell if CNR1 also used (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Re: ``CUBA. 9580, April 10 at 0127, no signal from CRI English relay still supposed to be here at 0100-0200 in A-16`` Glenn, I noticed 9580 was missing a day or two ago and assumed it was due to a faulty transmitter. However, when checking the schedule on the CRI website it shows they're no longer using 9580 for English to the US. See the schedule that began on March 27. http://english.cri.cn/7146/2015/10/29/2141s901749.htm 73, (Jim K5JG, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So it is; looks like all the other Cuban (and Albanian) relay frequencies (none labeled as such) for CRI English are still in place, never changing from season to season. Time conversions to PDT and EDT are correct, except they are both labeled STANDARD time! That`s not the same, as so many people seem to think (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But 9580 came back a few days later (gh) ** CONGO. I did not check every day, but at least four or five times over the past week: - no sign ever of R. Congo 6115 between 1700 and 1800 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. 6115, R. Congo, April 12 checking 0530-0610. Not a trace of Congo heard; only Japan ("RN2") heard (// 9760) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Geomagnetic Activity has been building the last several days and it peaked last night (see attached). That may have something to do with not-hearing some of these. Hope that helps, 73s (--Rodney Johnson, NV, ibid.) Thanks, Rodney! Interesting info about the peak being on the 13th UT. Fortunately I was listening on the 12th UT, before the peak. Also as I was able to hear RN2 on 6115, if Radio Congo had signed on at any time, believe I would have heard them, as in the recent past they were much stronger than Japan. Best regards, (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** CONGO DR. 4/4 2045-2115, 5066 kHz, Radio Candip, Bunia RDC, music and program in French, sign off with drums. Good signal. The audioclip and the history of Radio Candip available here: http://swli05639fr.blogspot.it/2016/04/radio-candip-5066-khz-audioclip-and.html 73's de (Francesco Cecconi, QTH: CENTRAL ITALY, RX: ICOM R71, ANT: 100 mt LW, April 11, condiglista yg via DXLD) CONGO-Kinshasa. 5066.9, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1901-1915, 07/4, dialecto local, texto; 35332. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. [Re 16-14]: HM01 off 5855 to another WRMI area? Shawn, OK, I checked UT Wed April 6 around 0526 & 0556, and no sign of any HM01 anywhere in the 9900-10000 range (nor on 5855). (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn - my experience is they sign on with a carrier about 5 minutes before top of the hour but don't start the broadcast till about 1 minute before TOH. And by 26 minutes after TOH they would be a carrier only until about 29 minutes after TOH - so checking at 0526 and 0556 may have been too early; just my two cents. Lately the 2100z broadcast [on 11635?] has been just carrier till 2104z, then right into a single group of 5 figures then digital then the next group of 5 figures then digital, etc. (i.e. no preamble of the string of 6 groups of 5 figures with no digital between groups). (Rich Ray, IL, ibid.) HM01 may well have been in between transmissions at the times you listed (0526 seems a bit late for the first time through and early for the second time through). Their programs have been getting a bit shorter lately (closer to 20 minutes) and may end towards 0522 and 0552 UT (starting around 0502 UT and 0532 UT), similarly for programming at other hours. (They may not have the previous open carrier that they did before, but I can't "prove" that for sure since my radio is getting worse -- on the tuning portion, I literally have to hold my thumb down on the band selector to get any band at all after I try to "click" it in. Old fashioned, isn't it?) Perhaps a better time to find them for the 05 UT broadcast is around 0510 or 0540 UT. We can try again this Friday. BTW, I DID get the numbers from that broadcast that you missed by "that much" (to borrow from Maxwell Smart): 37275 57588 13526 88025 35881 87004 -- and I now await the update from 11462 at 05 UT today (04/07/16). We'll find the actual frequency for ex-5855, yet! It's out there, somewhere --- (Shawn From Flushing NY Fahrer, Thu April 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked again UT Friday April 8, at 0500-0503, 0520, still no sign of even a carrier in the 9900-10000 range. (There is almost always some utility noise circa 9912, and sometimes louder crackle from some other ute around 9982). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA. Radio Havana Cuba plan to resume relays on medium wave, using at least one of the frequencies used by provincial stations when they go off the air at local midnight. RHC would be relayed overnight until six o'clock in the morning (local time) when provincial stations start their daily broadcasts. Previously, RHC was relayed overnight on national AM high power transmitters up to around 1990 (Arnie Coro on RHC DXers Unlimited, 13 April, and in email to AP 14 April) Radio Artemisa in western Cuba is testing 770 kHz at present, running 10 kilowatts into an omnidirectional antenna. Parallel frequencies to this are 1000 and 1320 kHz (from the city of Artemisa) and 1020 kHz (from the town of Bahia Honda). (Arnie Coro, RHC via Alan Pennington, 14 April, April BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** CUBA. 1450, Radio Mayabeque, Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque. 1006 April 10, 2016. Traditional Cuban flute instrumentals, parallel 1140 kc/s. The 1 kWer, and probably the one I had as unidentified a few days earlier (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some observations from Cuba: RHC 15370 in French at 1950 7 April. English not heard on 15140. Portuguese on 15370 at 2000, then Arabic at 2030. Spanish from 2133+ sign in on 7 April: 15370 exc, 11760 good, 9535 poor, 11840 poor and undermodulated, 9710 and 5050 inaudible. What must be Mesa Redonda at 2300+ on 6000 and 11950, both moderate on 7 April in Spanish. 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re: Radio Habana Cuba English Service During the Obama Visit "The broadcasts on the two days were recorded and parts will be archived." Those recordings plus one from the following Saturday night (local time) covering the Rolling Stones concert have been archived here: https://archive.org/details/RadioHabanaCuba6.000MHz22March20160100UTC and here: http://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-habana-cuba-march-22-23-and-27-2016 (-- Richard Langley, April 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 17730, April 9 at 0003, surprised to find bigsig S9+20 here from RHC, somewhat overmodulated and distorted with hum, and it`s in French! Not // 5040 in Kriyol. Still on at 0032, but mostly hum atop music now. 17730 in tentative A-16 sked is at 11-15 UT only; in B-15 it`s also been at 2230-0030 to South America, the last semihour allegedly in Quechua; to be replaced by 15370. 9580, April 10 at 0127, no signal from CRI English relay still supposed to be here at 0100-0200 in A-16. 9550, April 10 at 0130, here`s RHC in Spanish, S9+15, stronger than // 9535 S7, about Bolivia and Che; yawn. In B-15, 9550 was in morning only, and Arnie told Wolfie that it would no longer be used in A-16, nor does 9550 figure in his tentative schedule, morning or night! It`s to go into effect April 10 or 11, so look for even more confusion than usual the next few days. We`re in a very special transitional period. 6060, April 10 at 0134, another anomaly: RHC in ENGLISH instead of Spanish, so // 6000 and 6165 rather than 6075. 6060 is S9+20, 6000 is S9+40 and 6165 is S9+25 but all are undermodulated in talk, less so when music starts. Hard to believe, but 6165 gets some splash from 6160 CBC! And you never know if or when 6060 will show up in English instead of Spanish before 0500, but it happens frequently. 6000, April 10 at 0547, RHC English with distorted music, unlike the // frequencies. See also CHINA [non] 15140, April 10 at 1942, RHC`s first English hour of the day is now here, ex-11670, and VG signal during mailbag on Sunday. I had checked it earlier somewhat after 1800 and it was not on, altho supposed to start at 1800 with Arabic for ``Chicago``, 340 degree beam (close enough to Dearborn?) with 100 kW from Bauta site; total span 1800-2030 in Arabic, Creole!, English, French. Before it came on, a weak 15140 signal could be heard, no doubt OMAN which is now going to be blasted away. Next day, April 11 at 1824 check, RHC is on 15140 in Arabic, so don`t guess it`s Oman now. 11670 however is at last cleared of QubaRM to AIR, 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru to Europe and beyond at 1745-2230, mostly in English. But not hearing any of that at 1850 check April 11; at least must get less QRM in Europe. 15370, April 10 at 1948, RHC in French, very good --- the only other RHC frequency to be emitting at this hour 1930-2000, 100 kW, 10 degrees allegedly for Europe, but aiming more like Québec, Nouveau- Brunswick, Terre-Neuve. 6100, April 11 at 0534, NO signal from RHC, which in A-16 is still scheduled for English at 05-07, 100 kW, 310 degrees from Bauta and consequently their strongest signal here when active. 11760, April 11 at 1335, RHC Spanish buried but detectable under CRI English, hi-ho, sputnix! RHC A-16 has 11760, 100 kW non-direxional at 11-15 (Sun -1530 Esperanto), while CRI is 12-14, southeastward from Kunming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12230.0, April 11 at 2350, very poor S2 AM signal with music; first checked 6115 WWCR but NOT // so not a second harmonic of that, rather something more exotic. RHC is the logical next option; how about a leapfrog? Yes! making a match on // 11670, 11760, 11840, but not 11950 which is separate with talk during `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast hour. 12230, however, results from a leapfrog of 11670 over 11950 another 280 kHz higher. All of these are from Bauta site except 11840 Quivicán (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, April 13 at 1259, RHC frequency announcement partially caught, claiming 15370 will be on the air until 1600! Out of date for a month, since DST closing moved to 1500*. I suppose the rest of the announcement hasn`t been updated either; typical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15370 kHz, 2230-2300 UT, co-channel !!!!! Cuba RHC via Bauta 100 kW Spanish, but also via Bejucal 50 kW French/Esperanto CUB_Bejucal_15370_April 13_2324UT.jpg 97KB Save OGG 15370_CUB_Bejucal_French_2324UT.ogg 646KB Save OGG 15370_CUB_RHC_Bauta_French__Bejucal_French_2233 UT_April 13.ogg 2 MB 1930-2000 15370 BAU 100 kW 010 degr WeEUR French HRS 4/4/0.8 A2 2000-2030 15370 BAU 100 kW 010 degr WeEUR Portuguese HRS 4/4/0.8 A2 2030-2100 15370 BAU 100 kW 010 degr WeEUR Arabic HRS 4/4/0.8 A2 2100-2300 15370 BAU 100 kW 010 degr WeEUR Spanish HRS 4/4/0.8 A2 2230-2300 15370 BEJ 050 kW 135 degr SoAM French Mon-Sat HRS 4/4/1 A27 2230-2300 15370 BEJ 050 kW 135 degr SoAM Esperanto Suns HRS 4/4/1 A27 2300-2330 15370 BEJ 050 kW 135 degr SoAM Creole HRS 4/4/1 A27 2330-2400 15370 BEJ 050 kW 135 degr SoAM Portuguese HRS 4/4/1 A27 0000-0030 15370 BEJ 050 kW 135 degr SoAM Quechua HRS 4/4/1 A27 Checked this CO-CHANNEL 30 minutes sce of both services from Bauta 100 kW northwards 10 degrees, as well as co-channel Bejucal in French/Creole 135 degrees towards South America target. From 2231 UT noted a BUZZ and FLUTTERY STUTTERY audio signal, a mixture of both Spanish - and French services. Listen to attached two recordings, at 2233z and 2324z. Backlobe of SoAM sce Bejucal 135 degrees at S=9+5 or -68dBm signal in New Jersey or Detroit Michigan remote units, taken at 2324z. On the 50 kW 135 degrees signal, 14 x 120 Hertz apart distance audio peak strings visible on screenshot, as well as two main peak strings at 540 and 900 Hertz apart. That cause some 120 Hertz audio BUZZ tones, listen to the recording. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, April 13, DX LISTENIG DIGEST) Way to go, frequency manager Arnie! (gh, DXLD) See also DX-PEDITIONS See also UNIDENTIFIED 5955 [WORLD OF RADIO 1821] 9805, April 8 at 0021, S4 pulse jamming against nothing, the reactivated A-16 Radio Martí frequency, but in use only at 10-13 UT, and it would be totally out of character for OCB/IBB to turn it on at a completely different daypart --- but if you`re absolutely paranoid about any contrary views getting thru to the repressed Cuban People, you can`t be too careful. Meanwhile any other legitimate users of same frequency should need to avoid it (HFCC has only KBSWR at 09-11, 16- 17, 22-24, possibly exaggerated spans) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, April 8 at 0034, N1NR, Nelson Roig in PA, with a KE4 also in Spanish discussing how Seven Mile Beach on Gran Caymán is prettier than Varadero, absolutely nothing but sand as white as sugar. These guys go on and on with anti-Castro comments, also around sunrise, tho not checked or heard then lately. Someone remarked that ``pirates`` were active on this frequency, but these are licensed hams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. From the Isle of Music on WBCQ and Channel 292, Apr 19 Our April 18 (in the Americas) / April 19 (in the rest of the world) program will feature Bellita Exposito, leader of Bellita y Jazztumbata and much more – she has also been a presence in TV and radio in Cuba. You'll hear some great Cuban Jazz and an interesting.interview about her own history and the expanding roles of women in Jazz in Cuba generally. Also, some intense music from Pure Mezcla by Pablo Menéndez & Mezcla, more of the beautiful concert piano album Danzas Para Piano de Ignacio Cervantes, and some vintage 1980s popular dance music from Juvenia 2000. The WBCQ broadcast is best for the Americas, the Channel 292 for the rest of the world (to date, we have received favorable reception reports from as far East as Moscow and as far Southeast as Thessaloniki, but we should be audible beyond as well). Two listening options on shortwave: WBCQ, 7490, Tuesdays 0000 UT (8 pm EDT Mondays) Channel 292, 6070, Tuesdays 1900 UT (2100 CEST) Promo graphic attached. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC 5713 N. St. Louis Av Chicago IL 60659-4405 email: bill@tilfordproductions.com phone: 773.267.6548 website: http://www.tilfordproductions.com April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 1431 kHz, Radio Sawa, Djibouti - 3/5/2016 0049-0053 UT - Decent carrier noted several times here in past nights finally culminating with some audio on March 5th. Occasional strong peaks bursting into pop music lasting for several minutes. Parallel to a remote Perseus SDR located in the Mediterranean region that had a strong copy on Radio Sawa which provided a nice real-time comparison. 7,481 miles from my North D-KAZ antenna (Tim Tromp, Stuff heard from West Michigan during March, 2016, ABDX via DXLD 16-14 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD 16-15) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9800, April 8 at 0022, S8 stilted Spanish talking about Mexico`s UNAM. Chex as CRI, or rather RIC, via Kashgar at 23-01 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180, CRI, Kashi, China at 0014 in English with program “People in the News”. Tonight`s topic seems to be Chinese-Canadian issues. Interview with Chinese/Canadian Senator, then discussions regarding Chinese students in Canada. Signal only Fair, S6, with moderate static and some sporadic fades. A little offset at 6180.014. No sign on Brazil right now (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 variable terminated Superloop antenna, UT April 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9965.059, April 8 at 0017, R. Cairo carrier, just barely modulated (in Arabic presumably) with whine, for a change almost on- frequency, instead of way above or below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERTU Voice of Arabs, 12085, 0318 9 APR - SINPO = 35221 (no modulation, just a hum on top of the fluttery but fairly strong carrier). sf100.9, a9, k1, geomag: very quiet. 250kw, beamAz 315 , bearing 29 . Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 11738KM from transmitter at Abis. Local time: 2018 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15400.08, April 12 at 1352, very poor with some music modulation. A well-known BBC frequency, I figure this is probably the UAE or RSA site, well-known for frequency inaccuracy --- but, no, per HFCC only thing at this hour is R. Cairo in Prs, 250 kW, 61 degrees from Abis at 1300-1400. In this case, as WRTH reveals, Prs really means Dari, not pure Persian. Being only 80 Hz off is pretty good for ERTU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12005, Apr 12, 2016. 2213-2220, Radio Cairo, Abis. Portuguese service. Open carrier, S4, dead air. 13580, Apr 12, 2016. 2150-2155, Radio Cairo, Abis. French service. Open carrier, S4, dead air (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S & Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non-log]. 5005, RNGE, R. Bata, April 12 checking 0544-0610. Clearly not on the air during this time period (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Geomagnetic Activity has been building the last several days and it peaked last night (see attached). That may have something to do with not-hearing some of these. Hope that helps, 73s (--Rodney Johnson, NV, ibid.) Thanks, Rodney! Interesting info about the peak being on the 13th UT. Fortunately I was listening on the 12th UT, before the peak. Regarding 5005, it was a nice clear frequency for any possible RNGE reception, but didn't even have a weak carrier there. Best regards, (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. I did not check every day, but at least four or five times over the past week: - and interesting to check 6090 after 2000: sometimes Kaduna, sometimes Amhara, sometimes none of them or both. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. Music on Shortwave --- I’ll be producing my usual Music on Shortwave listings again for the A16 season very soon – and welcome any information you may have. Rafael Martínez writes: “It seems the RFI programme Musiques du Monde is back on shortwave, noted on Sunday 27 March 2010-2100 UT on 7205, 9790 and 11995 kHz. Regarding the other music programme aired until now by RFI at the same time, L'Épopée des Musiques Noires, according to RFI's grille de programmes has been moved to Sundays 1733-1800 UT - on 13740 15300 17620 17850 21580 kHz per HFCC. On Sunday 27th March, I also noted the VOA English to Africa relaying between 1900-1930 VOA One Hits; I don't know if it has been aired regularly or is only an occasional fill-in.” // As always, thanks Rafael for your support (Listening Post with Alan Roe, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Europa 24, Datteln, on 6150 kHz is now using a new 250 W transmitter which replaced a 10 watt unit. The antenna is a dipole at 10m with a second dipole below it; the height of which can be adjusted to both improve the match to a 50 Ohm feed (from a regular 75 Ohm dipole) and help with NVIS propagation. The 250 Watt transmitter, built and supplied by BDXC member Dave Porter, G4OYX, is a valved unit with a solid-state crystal oscillator. Russian copies and developments of wartime German valves are used in the high power output stage. The modulator is a Maplin Public Address Amplifier driving a purpose-made modulation transformer. BnetzA required a second harmonic output of at least -50dBc to conform with international regulations so an output filter was made comprising a nine-element Chebyshev unit with assistance from BDXC member R Glyn Jones G4AIJ. In the event the second harmonic was -80dB, which was typical of the rest of the harmonics. The programme material is sent via an internet connection form a studio some 40 km away. Datteln is just the transmitter site (Dave Porter, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re: VOA Radiogram, 9-10 April 2016 Am 08.04.2016 um 12:45 schrieb VOA Radiogram: ``Hello friends, The German communications regulator Bundesnetzagentur has changed its mind about allowing digital modes on shortwave broadcast transmitters in Germany. Apparently BNetzA thought that Channel 292 was transmitting the text and images in single sideband (SSB), which is how amateurs, military, etc., transmit the digital modes. Now that they know that the MFSK32 and other modes are sent as program audio on an analogue amplitude-modulation shortwave transmitter, their objections were withdrawn. (It's similar to A2A modulated CW.) .............. The Mighty KBC will (after a one-week break) transmit a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at about 0220 UT (Saturday 10:20 pm EDT) on 6040 kHz, via Germany. Sometimes the MFSK32 is as late as 0228 UT. Reports for this KBC reception to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com`` What a luck - now I could see again Max Berger from Dessau - and his "ghost" (with ~ 300 ms delay). ;-) http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-04-09.htm#KBC (roger, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Channel 292 has been offering free airtime in March; as a result there are many more stations scheduled on 6070 kHz (Rohrbach 10 kW) in the next few weeks. Latest schedule at http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings/ (Alan Pennington, Alan Gale) Some of the regular programmes scheduled during April include: Monday 1400-1500 Broad Spectrum Radio Monday 1600-1600 DARC Amateur Radio Monday 1700-1900 Radio Northern Ireland -Live (Jordan Hayburn) Monday 1900-2000 DARC Monday 2000-2030 DigiDX - digital modes Tuesday 1600-1700 Authentic Rock Radio Tuesday 1900-2000 Isle of Music Friday 1600-1700 Flying Circus Rock Show Saturday 0600-0700 World of Deliverance Saturday 0900-1000 Radio Waves International Saturday 1000-1200 SM Radio International Saturday 1200-1300 Rarities Show (Saturday 23rd & 30th April only) Saturday 1300-1400 Grooveline (Stephen Howie) (last Saturday of month, i.e. 30th April) Saturday 2100-2200 BCL News Radio Sunday 0600-0700 World of Deliverance Sunday 0700-0800 Superclan Radio Sunday 0800-0900 Goldrausch 6070 Sunday 0900-1000 DARC Amateur Radio news (Moosbrunn 100 kW)[instead] Sunday 1000-1100 BCL News Radio Sunday 1500-1600 Mennonite Radio Sunday 1900-2000 Flying Circus Rock Show Jordan Heyburn emailed to say that Radio Northern Ireland will be broadcasting live via Channel 292 every Monday from 1700 to 1900 UT effective from 4th April. Stephen Howie’s Grooveline had a few slots on Channel 292 during March and is now scheduled monthly at 1300-1400 on the last Saturday of each month. Steve is currently offering a free QSL card for reception reports sent to steve@groovelineonline.com (April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Subject: Channel 292 News / 50 kW for the USA Deutsch / English / Nederlands An unsere Hörer und Kunden, Im Augenblick bereiten wir eine Kooperation mit einer Kurzwellenstation in den USA vor. Wenn Interesse besteht, können unsere Kunden in Europa dann Kombi-Buchungen für Europa und die USA vornehmen; der angedachte Preis wären 49 USDollar / 44 €uro für jeweils eine Stunde zusammen. Unsere Partnerstation in den USA sendet mit 50 kW und erreicht die USA, Zentralamerika und Teile von Südamerika in guter Qualität. Wir möchten hiermit unsere Kunden und Interessenten bitten, erst einmal vollkommen unverbindlich mitzuteilen, ob sie an einer Kombi- Buchung evtl. Interesse haben, oder auch nur an einer Buchung für die USA alleine. Bei Kombi-Buchungen sind die Inhalte für Europa und die USA natürlich unabhängig voneinander, d.h., in den USA kann ein anderes Programm gesendet werden als in Europa. Für eine baldige Antwort oder auch Fragen zum Thema wären wir sehr dankbar! Grüße, Radio Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de To our listeners and customers, at the moment we are working on some kind of cooperation with a station in the USA, broadcasting on shortwave, too. If interested, our customers in Europe could place combined bookings for Europe and the USA together; we are thinking about a price of 44 euros / 49 US Dollars for one hour on both stations. The station in the US uses 50 kW and reaches the US, Central America and parts of Southern America in good quality. Herewith we ask our customers and prospects to let us know, if the possibly could be interested in combined bookings, or maybe for bookings only for the US. In case of combined bookings of course the contents for Europe and the US can be different. We are waiting for your comments and questions! Regards Radio Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de Aan onze luisteraars een klanten, Op het ogenblik zijn we bezig met een vorm van samenwerking met een korte-golfstation in de Verenigde Staten. Wanneer er belangstelling voor is, kunnen onze klanten in Europa vervolgens gecombineerde boekingen afspreken voor Europa en de Verenigde Staten. De prijs die we hiervoor in gedachten hebben is $ 49/€ 44 voor steeds een uur tezamen. Ons partnerstation in de Verenigde Staten zendt uit met een vermogen van 50 kW en bereikt daarmee in goede kwaliteit de Verenigde Staten, Centraal-Amerika en delen van Zuid-Amerika. We willen op deze manier graag onze bestaande klanten en belangstellenden vragen om ons zonder verdere verplichtingen te vertellen of er eventueel belangstelling is voor zo’n gecombineerde boeking of alleen voor de Verenigde Staten. Bij gecombineerde boekingen is de programma-inhoud voor Europa en de Verenigde Staten uiteraard onafhankelijk van elkaar, oftewel in de Verenigde Staten kan een ander programma uitgezonden worden dan in Europa. We zijn je erg dankbaar voor een spoedig antwoord en dat geldt natuurlijk ook voor vragen over dit onderwerp. Met vriendelijke groeten, Radio Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de (via Tom Taylor, April 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) See USA: WBCQ ** GREECE. 9420, V Greece with a really swell show of "American Songbook" classics (like Frankie's Love & Marriage & the like) as well as Big-Band through 50s Jazz vocals all in English, but with YL Greek announcer between. I was playing with the AM Synch function of Cocoa Modem2 and with a strong signal like this, it made a good signal sound like a local AM, although because the SPR4 has a pretty tight SSB filter, it did cut off everything above 3 kHz making the audio a little light on the 'top end' when compared to the standard envelope detector. That said, a software implementation of the Sony 2010's sync detector is pretty slick. Using this on a radio with filters independent of mode selection would make this a real winner! FUN programme. I had no intention of listening as long as I did, but I got sucked in! :) 5554+4+ If I were in a generous mood, I'd give it all fives. 0300-0330 7/Apr SPR4 + randomwire & Cocoa-Modem2 sync function- (Ken Zichi, Williamston-Howell Metroplex MI, MARE Tipsheet April 8 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) That was a UT Thursday, in case it`s a regular spot to check (gh, ibid.) 9934.95, April 8 at 0020, ERT is whining away from center carrier here, but music can also be heard, // 9420 in the clear. 9934.965 approx., April 8 at 0458, ERT still whining and not much other modulation on carrier. 9934.95, April 9 at 0021, ERT whiny with music at S9+20; 9420 is unwhiny with music at S9+45 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece Avlis noted on two channels, when tuned-in between 0440 and 0505 UT on April 9th. 9420.005 clear audio transmission at S=9+30dB or -42dBm powerful here in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland western Europe target on morning twilight time slot. English international pop music played at 0454 UT. And also on 25 mb outlet on 11644.934 kHz odd frequency, the usual whine buzzy audio annoying sound at 0445 UT on April 9th. Visible were 13 x 274 Hertz apart distance whine signal strings either sideband. S=9+25dB or -48dBm signal strength here in southern Germany and western Europe target. At 0501 UT Greek station ID heard by female presenter, followed by Italian! male pop music singer. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9934.964, April 11 at 2106, Greek talk under whine, ERT also as usual slightly off to the low side. 11644.965, April 12 at 0526, ERT whine with trace of modulation, S7-S4 with flutter, so the grossly defective 9935 transmitter has moved up here now; why bother at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I didn't log it because I couldn't positively ID it, but last night (~0600z 4/12/2016) I heard JBA carriers on all three Voice of Greece (Avlis) frequencies 9420, 9935, and 11645 here in Nevada. Conditions seemed good, and I thought for sure it was VOG, but they all three faded fast and by 0615z they were all gone. In the future I will look for them earlier if I can. Cheers (Rodney Johnson, Las Vegas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL da Voz da Grécia!!! 9420 kHz --- UM QSL IMPROVÁVEL. Após 488 dias, ele chegou - Sem nenhuma probabilidade! Quando retomei as minhas atividades como Dexista, no final do ano de 2014, um dos primeiros relatórios de recepção que enviei foi para a Rádio Voz da Grécia. Porém, como a resposta passou a ficar muito demorada, pesquisei um pouco e obtive uma informação de que a referida emissora, passava por mudanças drásticas, e que a mesma teria sido "tomada" por um grupo revolucionário, ou algo parecido. Desnorteado com a informação, desisti da confirmação, mas o IR [informe de recepção] ficou guardado nos meus arquivos até os dias atuais. Sábado passado (02/04/2016), ao "dar uma geral" nos meus arquivos, deparei-me com vários informes não confirmados, e resolvi reenviá-los, para novos endereços de e-mail que adquiri durante este novo período de atividades. Um dos informes que reenviei, foi o da VOG, e imaginem o tamanho da minha surpresa hoje, quando abri a minha caixa de e- mails! Lá estava ele, um belíssimo e histórico cartão QSL da Voz da Grécia!!! Abaixo, estou divulgando uma cópia do meu informe de recepção enviado em 2014, juntamente com o seu respectivo QSL. José Maranhão / DX SOCIETY (The world of radio) http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2016/04/qsl-da-voz-da-grecia-9420-khz.html (via Daniel Wyllyans, HCDX via DXLD) ** GUAM. "SOLAR PROJECT ON GUAM READY FOR LAST PHASE --- Solar power is widely touted as a way to save money and clean up the environment. And now we can add a vital new function ?spreading the gospel. It’s that first function that makes the important new function possible at TWR’s powerful transmitting facility on the Pacific island of Guam. Electricity has become so expensive that it’s severely affecting the ministry’s budget. But once Phase 3 of this project to install solar panels is completed, a savings of more than $47,000 a year can be applied to expanded efforts to broadcast the gospel to this heavily populated part of the world. If you feel led, you can play a part in this final push to complete the solar project on Guam. Find out more at twr.org/solar." (TWR Global Update -- April 2016 via via Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) If KTWR is ever operating anywhere near their rated total capacity of 800 kW from five transmitters, what minor percentage of that could possibly be generated by solar (not forgetting to add a lot for inefficiency)? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. DENUNCIA PLAN PARA PRIVATIZAR RADIOS ESTATALES EN GUATEMALA El espacio que mediante usufructo poseen algunos medios estatales en Guatemala pudiera ser privatizado a través de una enmienda a la iniciativa de Ley de radios comunitarias, denunció el diputado del Movimiento Político Winaq, Amílcar Pop. De acuerdo con el legislador las emisoras TGW, Radio Cultural, Radio Universidad y Tv Maya serían algunas de las afectadas de concretarse el presunto plan de dar esas plazas en concesión a empresarios so pretexto de la falta de espacio radioeléctrico. "Esperamos que no se tome la decisión de quitar esos espacios al Estado. Pelearemos por una Ley de radios comunitarias justa, que no afecte a la población y al Estado", manifestó, según el sitio digital del Congreso de la República. Pop también expresó su convicción de que "la ley no debe beneficiar a empresarios que solo buscan la privatización, porque estos medios son del pueblo al servicio del pueblo". El representante del único partido guatemalteco de raíz indígena, pese a que ese grupo social representa cerca de la mitad de la población en este país centroamericano, convocó a los directores de esos medios de comunicación a analizar el tema y a hacer un frente común para impedir la maniobra en ciernes. Sin embargo, sólo asistió a la reunión el director de Tv Maya, Roberto Aguilón, quien explicó que ese canal cuenta con un presupuesto de 30 millones de quetzales, es decir, cuatro millones de dólares. "Esto nos ha servido para funcionar poco a poco y evitar el cierre del canal. Tenemos cobertura en 16 municipios y de nueve mil hogares", detalló. En cuanto a los ausentes - los directores de TGW, Radio Cultural y Radio Universidad- Pop precisó que al no acudir a la cita ya cometieron un delito. Pero, añadió, por el gran problema que existe se les dará otra oportunidad de explicar cuál es el estado de los medios que representan. (Prensa Latina via GRA Blog, Argentina, April 8 via DXLD) PRELA = Cuban government news agency, so do not assume all info about this is unbiased and accurate. I wonder if Amílcar Pop is any relation to Dr Edgar Amílcar Madrid of Radio Verdad; maybe it`s just a popular Guatemalan name (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA [non-log]. 5050, AIR Aizawl, not heard April 12 at 1309 & 1326. So reactivation only last a few days? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, April 7 at 1340 AIR in English, 1350 classical vocal music, S9, better than usual. 1403 ID and plug www.airworldservice.org then GOS of AIR ID, into Ravi Shankar sitar concert for some special occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 15040, April 10 at 1305, music at S7-S9 but fluttering, i.e. AIR Chinese service, 1145-1315, 500 kW, 35 degrees from Bengaluru. It ought to be jammed but this is not what CNR1 is carrying elsewhere. 15050, April 10 at 1305, much weaker S2 signal than 15040; this is also AIR, 1115-1500 in Tamil and Sinhala, 250 kW, 174 degrees from Delhi. AIR has yet another down here, 15030 at 1000-1100 via Aligarh in English. Strange how these intrusions into the aeronautical band 15005-15100 have survived apparently with no objexions. Per HFCC, one other is IBB`s extensive use of 15090 to Afghanistan at 0030-0300 via Thailand, 0300-1430 via Kuwait. 15035-15040-15045, April 11 at 1328, DRM noise at S5. Per HFCC A-16, AIR Chinese at 1145-1315 only on AM, but IIRC they have put DRM on this frequency before. Can`t hear an AM carrier amid. Maybe it`s ChiCom jamming overrun, but heard nonesuch yesterday at 1305. The true picture requires consulting EiBi: 15040 1145-1315 IND All India Radio DIGITAL M FE b 15040 1215-1330 IND All India Radio DIGITAL TB FE b i.e. overlapping transmission from a single Bengaluru transmitter, with two programs sharing DRM, so self-jamming, in effect. HFCC fails to show any DRM here, nor any Tibetan; how strange! DRM/jamming can ruin a full 10-kHz range supposedly reserved for off- route aeronautical communications. 15034-USB, CHR Trenton VOLMET barely escapes it. 15050, April 11 at 1328, S5 AM signal with no modulation detectable, scheduled as AIR Sinhala service from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [and non] Glenn - this broadband digital scratching noise against AIR Chinese and Nepali sections is mostly 20 kHz range wide, same jamming installations used against BBCWS English since 3-4 years now (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA/INDIA Checked the AIR Chinese program outlets on shortwave on April 13 around 1155-1220 UT in Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand remote posts. All three channels Khampur 11845, and 15040 + 17705 kHz, latter both from Bangalore, a l l are covered by broadband CNR1 Chinese word programm jamming, CNR1 checked against \\ 11925 kHz. Two peaks visible on 11845.000 and 11845.013 kHz. Two peaks visible on 15040.000 and 15039.986 !! kHz, latter which is the DRM center string from DRM signal Bangalore. Jamming broadband in wideband range 15032.2 to 15047.9 kHz scratching signal, - from China. But measured the AIR DRM signal in range 15035.16 to 15044.83 kHz range, smaller than the Chinese scratching jammer. Two peaks visible on 17705.000 CRI1 Chinese, and strange enough underneath AIR subcontinental music odd 17705.067 kHz. Wideband CNR1 audio block visible 17694.9 to 17715.2 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750.00, 2140-2145* 30.3, RRI Makassar (tentative) Talk in Bahasa Indonesia (tentative - not in Chinese!), abrupt s/off, 25121 AP-DNK 4750.00, *2153-2215 30.3, CHINA, Voice of China, Hailar. Chinese talk // 4800, 25222 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, latest loggings heard in Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) So would RRI be spot-on frequency now rather than significantly to the low side? I believe I still hear a het there between them around sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9525, April 12 at 1345, VOI in the clear, but just barely modulated at S3-S5, so once again SWLing it is pointless. One might listen online, however, and also participate in the Wonderful Indonesia Quiz, http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/10798-wonderful-indonesia-quiz-2016 possibly winning a free visit to Indonesia. There, I have just diminished my own chances should I decide to participate, but if you win as a result of this notice, how about a tip of the hat? Get your passport first. Deadline is May 7. I think past trips have been in August or September, with a small group of alleged listeners from different countries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Hi Drita, Glenn and all: IRIB Tehran has planned closing down their shortwave facilities, but the matter is not closed. I received a friendly e-mail from them, asking about my opinion on these plans. I said that in favour is only a reduction of costs and the somewhat irregular propagation on shortwaves. The negative aspects are many more: IRIB will miss the opportunity of finding casual listeners, those checking the shortwave bands just to find something interesting, further; in crisis and war the listeners may be without Electric Power and internet Connection, but a transistor radio with batteries can be used everywhere and the broadcasts reach the listeners - There is also the aspect of internet broadcasting and listening being under the surveillance of different foreign security organs which can be harmful to many listeners. Finally, shortwave listening is thrill, internet listening is without a hobby achievement! IRIB transmissions in English to Europe still Heard on 9665 kHz at 1920-2020 UT with fair to excellent signals (Ullmar Qvick, Sweden, April 7, via Drita Çiço, Albania, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English from Iran: 13780 kHz is coming in well via the Twente receiver at 1545 UT today (Thursday, 7 April). (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRAN A-16 IRIB schedule, much reduced IRIB shortwave these days, irregularly unstable schedule - varying changes from day to day Monitored A-16 summer season shortwave schedule for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI / IRIB / PARS). But PROGRAMS still be distributed via web and satellite services. ALBANIAN 0620-0720 delete13845sir delete17820kam 1820-1920 7235sir delete11985kam 2020-2120 delete6060sir delete9830kam ARABIC South Arabian peninsula target 0230-0530 9755sir 11855sir/exkam 0530-0830 13780sir198deg 13780kam178deg delete17710kam 0830-0900 13780sir delete17625kam 0930-1130 13780sir 1030-1130 delete11925sir (ex AHW) 1130-1430 13785sir216deg 13785kam178deg delete17755kam 1430-1730 delete13690kam 1730-2030 delete11740kam ARABIC Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, -west Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan target. 0030-0230 ?7215zah 0230-0530 delete7370kam 11660zah "Al-Quds TV" 0530-1430 15750zah 0530-0730 13610sir {nothing heard April 8} 0600-0830 9840sir 13610sir-not heard Apr 8 9840sir closed-down at 08.44:30 UT Apr 8. 0730-0930 13610kam not heard April 8 til 0930UT. CNR1 terrible co-ch QRM. 0930-1430 13610kam heard April 8 from 0930UT. 1030-1130 delete9410kam 1430-1730 9580sir 1730-0030 7285zah ARMENIAN 0250-0320 7220sir 9420sir delete9750sir 0920-0950 delete11945sir delete13720sir 1620-1720 7230sir 9655sir AZERI 0320-0520 delete11760sir 1420-1650 delete 9475sir BENGALI 1420-1520 13840ahw 15400kam delete11720kam 1620-1650 9675kam 11825kam/sir? delete9435kam BOSNIAN 0520-0620 delete13590sir delete15310kam [Se-Cr] 1720-1820 9610sir delete11865kam heard \\ 7350 kHz instead of Russian. 2120-2220 delete7310sir delete11630kam CHINESE 1150-1250 17870kam 21520sir delete17715kam delete21455sir 2320-0020 7300sir 11865kam 13715sir DARI 0250-0620 delete12070kam 13740ahw-not heard Apr 8 0550-0820 13740sir 0620-0920 delete13740kam 0820-1420 ex13765ahw delete13840ahw 0920-1150 13740sir 1150-1450 delete12070kam ENGLISH 0320-0420 delete 9420kam delete11780sir "Voice of Justice" 1020-1120 delete17820kam delete21510kam 1520-1620 delete11640kam 13780sir 1920-2020 delete7315kam delete9420kam 9665sir 12015sir FRENCH 0620-0720 delete15430kam delete17780sir 1820-1920 9420sir delete9860kam 13730kam GERMAN 0720-0820 delete15175sir delete17520sir 1720-1820 7235kam 9660sir HAUSA 0550-0650 17560sir 1120-1150 delete21505sir delete21750sir 1820-1920 delete12015(ex13810)kam delete15525sir HEBREW 0420-0450 12030kam 13770sir delete9880kam delete11780sir 1150-1220 13685kam 15180sir HINDI 0150-0250 ?9420sir ?11955sir 1420-1520 11955sir 13830kam ITALIAN 0620-0720 delete13650kam delete17660kam 1920-1950 ?5945sir ?7205kam JAPANESE 1320-1420 delete13660sir delete15225kam 2050-2150 9765sir 11695kam delete 9655sir 11865sir 11880sir KAZAKH 0920-1020 15715sir/exkam 17635sir (new time) 1520-1620 delete9800kam delete11825sir KURDISH 0320-0420 7415sir/exkam 9695sir Sorrani dialect. 1320-1620 $ delete7410kam Kirmanji dialect. $ rather CRI Japanese co-ch QRM, March 28. MALAY 1220-1320 17670sir 21750sir 2220-2320 7360sir 9720kam PASHTO 0220-0320 ?6175sir ?9700kam 0720-0820 delete12010sir delete13730sir 1220-1320 delete11730sir delete13730kam 1620-1720 5925sir delete9760ahw PORTUG. 1020-1050 17630sirCeAM 21610sirSoAM new SW service, but not on air Apr 8. RUSSIAN 0820-1150 delete17820sir CeSiberia FE Russia 1420-1520 delete9800kam delete12085ahw CeSiberia FE Russia 1650-1750 9480ahw delete7350kam CeSiberia FE Russia 1920-2020 6035kam CeSiberia zone 30 RUSSIAN 0820-0920 delete17760kam WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1420-1520 delete13660sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1750-1850 delete7300kam delete9850sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1920-2020 6035kam 7375sir delete7405sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. SPANISH 0020-0220 ?9550kam ?12025kam 0220-0320 ?9550kam 0720-0820 delete15430kam 17530sir 17815sir (new time) 2020-2120 9665kam 11800sir SWAHILI 0320-0420 13750sir 15340sir new time slot 0450-0550 13750sir delete15340kam 15630sir new time slot 0820-0920 delete17830sir delete21525sir 1720-1820 delete9540sir delete11965kam TAJIK 0050-0220 ?5950sir ?7280kam 1550-1720 7360kam delete5950sir delete7435kam TURKISH 0420-0550 11925sir/exkam 13710sir/exkam 1550-1720 9850zah/exkam delete5940kam delete7360kam URDU 0120-0220 ?7410kam ?9440kam ?9620ahw 1250-1420 9790sir 13795sir delete15520kam 1520-1620 9810sir UZBEK 0220-0250 7400kam 9840sir 1450-1550 % 9465kam 11880sir % 15.00-16.00 UT on 9465 kHz heavy interference by RTI English service co-channel 9465 R. TAIWAN Int 1500-1600 1234567 300 225 Paochung RTI. Saut Falestin "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" ARABIC 0320-0420 9825kam 11970sir Thanks Kai Ludwig for PARS link to Albanian Armenian Bangla English German Hausa Hebrew Hindi Indonesian Italian Japanese Kazakh Kiswahili Pashto Portuguese {new shortwave request at 1020-1050 UT now} Russian Spanish Turkish (IRIB/PARS, updated by wb wwdxc BCDX TopNews April 8, dxldyg via DXLD) A-16 IRIB Tehran schedule, IRN IRB 12025 0020-0220 6S,7S,8S,10,11 KAM 500 310 0 218 SPANISH 7250 9550 0020-0320 12-16 KAM 500 259 -15 215 SPANISH 1917 9550 0020-0320 12-16 SIR 500 270 -25 156 SPANISH 16072 12025 0020-0320 6S,7S,8S,10,11 KAM 500 300 0 218 SPANISH 16090 7215 0030-0230 37-39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 7078 7325 0030-0230 37-39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-W 16063 5950 0050-0220 30SE,31SW,40E SIR 500 46 30 218 TAJIK 1882 7280 0050-0220 30SE,31SW,40E KAM 500 58 0 145 TAJIK 1896 7280 0050-0220 30SE,31SW,40E SIR 500 53 -30 218 TAJIK 16061 7410 0120-0220 40E,41N KAM 500 118 0 146 UURD 1903 9440 0120-0220 40E,41N KAM 500 94 15 216 UURD 15035 9620 0120-0220 40E,41N AHW 250 84 0 145 UURDUU 7244 9420 0150-0250 41 SIR 500 90 0 145 HINNDI 7190 11955 0150-0250 41 SIR 500 102 0 146 HINNDI 1968 7410 0220-0250 30S,31S,40NE KAM 500 58 0 145 UZBEK 16168 9840 0220-0250 30S,31S,40NE SIR 500 18 0 146 UZBEK 7248 6175 0220-0320 40E,41W SIR 500 53 -30 218 PUSHTO 1888 9700 0220-0320 40E,41W KAM 500 94 0 216 PUSHTO 1925 9700 0220-0320 40E,41W SIR 500 47 17 218 PUSHTO 16075 7370 0230-0530 37-39 KAM 500 250 0 145 ARBIC-W 7266 9755 0230-0530 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16077 11660 0230-0530 38,39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 1946 11855 0230-0530 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 7087 11855 0230-0530 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16087 7220 0250-0320 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 25 156 ARMENIA 1892 9420 0250-0320 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 0 146 ARMENIA 7085 12070 0250-0620 30S,31S,40E KAM 250 85 0 147 DARI 1977 13740 0250-0620 30S,31S,40E AHW 250 84 0 145 DARI 1992 7415 0320-0420 39 KAM 500 0 0 935 KURD-SO 1905 7415 0320-0420 39 SIR 500 298 -25 218 KURD-SO 16068 9420 0320-0420 7-10 KAM 500 315 0 216 ENGLISH 7160 9695 0320-0420 39 SIR 500 310 0 211 KURD-SO 7332 9825 0320-0420 38E,39W KAM 500 244 -30 215 Palestine 7225 11780 0320-0420 7-10 SIR 500 330 -10 218 ENGLISH 7168 11970 0320-0420 38E,39W SIR 500 282 0 146 Palestine 1970 13750 0320-0420 39S,47,48,52 SIR 500 216 0 216 SWAHILI 16100 15340 0320-0420 39S,47,48,52 SIR 500 223 -30 218 SWAHILI 16105 11760 0320-0520 29S,40NW SIR 500 336 0 146 Azeri 1950 15340 0350-0450 39S,47,48,52 KAM 500 210 0 218 SWAHILI 2007 9880 0420-0450 38E,39W KAM 500 250 0 145 Hebrew 7166 11780 0420-0450 38E,39W SIR 500 293 30 218 Hebrew 16085 12030 0420-0450 38E,39W SIR 500 293 30 218 Hebrew 16091 13770 0420-0450 38E,39W SIR 500 282 0 146 Hebrew 7170 11925 0420-0550 29S,39N KAM 500 289 15 215 Turkish 1965 11925 0420-0550 29S,39N SIR 500 302 15 218 Turkish 16089 13710 0420-0550 29S,39N KAM 500 289 15 215 Turkish 1986 13710 0420-0550 29S,39N SIR 500 304 -15 218 Turkish 16096 13750 0450-0550 39S,47,48,52 SIR 500 216 0 216 SWAHILI 16145 15630 0450-0550 39S,47,48,52 SIR 500 216 0 218 SWAHILI 16146 13590 0520-0620 28S SIR 500 310 0 211 BOSNIAN 7089 15310 0520-0620 28S KAM 500 300 0 218 BOSNIAN 7303 13610 0530-0730 37,38,39 SIR 500 295 0 211 ARBIC-W 15005 13780 0530-0830 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 15038 13780 0530-0830 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16101 15750 0530-1430 38,39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 14009 17560 0550-0650 46,47 SIR 500 263 0 218 HAUSA 7205 13740 0550-0820 30S,31S,40E SIR 500 46 16 218 DARI 16098 9840 0600-0830 37,38,39 SIR 500 235 0 146 ARBIC-W 16081 13610 0600-0830 37,38,39 SIR 500 235 0 146 ARBIC-W 16092 13650 0620-0720 28S KAM 500 289 15 215 ITALIAN 1981 13845 0620-0720 28S SIR 500 302 15 218 ALBANIA 7094 15430 0620-0720 27,28 KAM 500 304 30 215 FRENCH 2010 17660 0620-0720 28S KAM 500 294 0 218 ITALIAN 2026 17780 0620-0720 27,28 SIR 500 310 0 211 FRENCH 2030 17820 0620-0720 28S KAM 500 300 0 217 ALBANIA 15004 13740 0620-0820 30S,31S,40E KAM 500 94 0 216 DARI 7154 12010 0720-0820 40E,41W SIR 500 60 -30 218 PUSHTO 7198 13730 0720-0820 40E,41W SIR 500 65 -15 156 PUSHTO 1989 15175 0720-0820 27,28 SIR 500 322 0 211 GERMANY 7172 15430 0720-0820 27S,28S,37,38 KAM 500 289 15 215 SPANISH 12039 17520 0720-0820 27,28 SIR 500 310 0 211 GERMANY 7173 17530 0720-0820 27S,28S,37,38 SIR 500 300 30 218 SPANISH 12040 17815 0720-0820 27S,28S,37,38 SIR 500 295 0 211 SPANISH 16110 13610 0730-1430 37,38,39 KAM 500 259 -15 215 ARBIC-W 15006 17635 0820-0920 30-33 SIR 500 46 -30 216 RUSSIAN 7206 17760 0820-0920 28E,29,30 KAM 500 321 0 218 RUSSIAN 2029 17820 0820-0920 29E,30,31 SIR 500 31 15 218 RUSSIAN 2031 17830 0820-0920 47,48,52,53 SIR 500 223 -30 218 SWAHILI 7337 21525 0820-0920 47,48,52,53 SIR 500 233 -30 218 SWAHILI 2035 13740 0820-1150 30S,31S,40E KAM 500 94 0 216 DARI 7155 13840 0820-1420 30S,31S,40E AHW 250 84 0 145 DARI 15044 13780 0830-1130 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 15039 11945 0920-0950 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 0 146 ARMENIA 1967 13720 0920-0950 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 322 0 211 ARMENIA 1988 15715 0920-1020 30,31 KAM 500 45 0 217 KAZAKH 2015 15715 0920-1020 30,31 SIR 500 17 0 218 KAZAKH 16108 17635 0920-1020 30,31 SIR 500 31 15 218 KAZAKH 2023 13740 0920-1150 30S,31S,40E SIR 500 46 16 216 DARI 16099 13780 0930-1130 39 SIR 500 216 0 216 ARBIC-S 16102 13610 0930-1200 37,38,39 SIR 500 235 0 146 ARBIC-W 16093 17630 1020-1050 6S,7S,8S,10,11 SIR 500 310 0 211 PORTUG 16170 21610 1020-1050 12-16 SIR 500 263 -25 156 PORTUG 16171 17820 1020-1120 41 KAM 500 110 0 217 ENGLISH 2032 21510 1020-1120 41 KAM 500 110 0 218 ENGLISH 7174 9410 1030-1130 37,38,39 KAM 500 238 0 146 ARBIC-W 7084 11925 1030-1130 39 SIR 500 235 0 146 ARBIC-S 1966 21505 1120-1150 46,47 SIR 500 255 -15 218 HAUSA 7208 21750 1120-1150 46,47 SIR 500 263 0 218 HAUSA 2038 13785 1130-1430 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 15040 13785 1130-1430 39 SIR 500 216 0 216 ARBIC-S 16103 13685 1150-1220 38E,39W KAM 500 259 -15 215 Hebrew 1984 13685 1150-1220 38E,39W SIR 500 295 0 156 Hebrew 16094 15180 1150-1220 38E,39W SIR 500 282 0 146 Hebrew 2003 17715 1150-1250 42-44 KAM 500 64 -30 216 CHINA 2028 17870 1150-1250 42-44 KAM 500 55 0 217 CHINA 7117 17870 1150-1250 42-44 SIR 500 53 -30 218 CHINA 16111 21455 1150-1250 42-44 SIR 500 76 0 216 CHINA 2033 21520 1150-1250 42-44 SIR 500 65 -15 156 CHINA 7118 12070 1150-1450 30S,31S,40E KAM 100 85 0 147 DARI 7152 11730 1220-1320 40E,41W SIR 500 60 -30 218 PUSHTO 1949 13730 1220-1320 40E,41W KAM 500 91 0 218 PUSHTO 1990 17670 1220-1320 49,54 SIR 500 115 0 218 BM/BI 7207 21750 1220-1320 49,54 SIR 500 107 0 216 BM/BI 2039 9790 1250-1420 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 UURDU 1934 13795 1250-1420 40E,41N SIR 500 80 0 156 UURDU 1997 15520 1250-1420 40E,41 KAM 500 109 15 216 UURDU 2012 7410 1320-1420 39 SIR 500 298 -25 218 KURD-SH 16066 9410 1320-1420 39 SIR 500 313 0 218 KURD-SH 16069 11640 1320-1420 28E,29,30 SIR 500 320 0 146 RUSSIAN 16083 13660 1320-1420 45 SIR 500 60 -30 218 JAPANES 1982 15225 1320-1420 45 KAM 500 60 0 217 JAPANES 7201 15480 1320-1420 28E,29,30 SIR 500 320 0 146 RUSSIAN 16107 7410 1320-1620 39 KAM 500 0 0 935 KURD-SH 1904 9800 1420-1520 30,31 KAM 500 58 0 145 RUSSIAN 1935 11720 1420-1520 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 BENGALI 1948 11955 1420-1520 41 SIR 500 102 0 146 HINNDI 7197 11955 1420-1520 41 SIR 500 107 0 216 HINNDI 16104 12085 1420-1520 30,31 AHW 250 26 0 145 RUSSIAN 1978 13660 1420-1520 29-30 SIR 500 322 0 211 RUSSIAN 1983 13830 1420-1520 41 KAM 500 109 15 216 HINNDI 7200 13840 1420-1520 41NE AHW 250 84 0 145 BENGALI 7093 13840 1420-1520 41NE SIR 250 90 0 218 BENGALI 2002 15400 1420-1520 41NE KAM 500 99 0 217 BENGALI 2008 15400 1420-1520 41NE SIR 250 80 0 156 BENGALI 16106 9475 1420-1650 29S,40NW SIR 500 336 0 146 AZERI 7243 9580 1430-1600 37,38,39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 16073 9790 1430-1730 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16078 13690 1430-1730 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 7302 13690 1430-1730 39 KAM 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16095 9465 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE KAM 500 58 0 145 UZBEK 1913 9465 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE SIR 500 18 0 146 UZBEK 16070 11880 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE AHW 250 26 0 145 UZBEK 16088 11880 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE SIR 500 30 0 206 UZBEK 1961 7410 1520-1620 39 SIR 500 300 30 218 KURD-SH 16067 9800 1520-1620 30,31 KAM 500 58 0 145 KAZAKHI 1936 9810 1520-1620 40E,41N SIR 500 90 0 145 UURDU 7246 11640 1520-1620 41,49,54 KAM 500 109 15 216 ENGLISH 1945 11825 1520-1620 30,31 SIR 500 18 0 146 KAZAKHI 7195 13780 1520-1620 41,49,54 SIR 500 106 30 216 ENGLISH 7171 5950 1550-1720 30SE,31SW,40E SIR 500 46 30 218 TAJIKKI 1883 7360 1550-1720 29S,39N KAM 500 289 15 215 TURKISH 14014 7435 1550-1720 30SE,31SW,40E KAM 500 58 0 145 TAJIKKI 1907 9850 1550-1720 29S,39N KAM 500 298 0 146 TURKISH 7249 9850 1550-1720 29S,39N ZAH 500 289 0 145 TURKISH 16082 9580 1600-1730 37,38,39 ZAH 500 0 0 935 ARBIC-W 16074 9675 1620-1650 41NE KAM 500 100 0 216 BENGALI 16169 9820 1620-1650 41NE SIR 500 90 0 218 BENGALI 16080 11825 1620-1650 41NE KAM 500 94 0 216 BENGALI 1955 11825 1620-1650 41NE SIR 500 90 0 218 BENGALI 16086 5925 1620-1720 40E,41W SIR 500 90 0 145 PUSHTO 7186 7230 1620-1720 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 25 156 ARMENIA 1894 9655 1620-1720 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 0 146 ARMENIA 1921 9760 1620-1720 40E,41W AHW 250 84 0 145 PUSHTO 7333 7350 1650-1750 30,31 KAM 500 58 0 145 RUSSIAN 7221 9480 1650-1850 30,31 AHW 250 26 0 145 RUSSIAN 16071 7235 1720-1820 27,28 KAM 500 304 30 215 GERMANY 7157 7235 1720-1820 27,28 SIR 500 316 0 211 GERMANY 16059 7350 1720-1820 28S SIR 500 319 0 218 BOSNIAN 16065 9540 1720-1820 47,48,52,53 SIR 500 216 0 216 SWAHILI 7331 9610 1720-1820 28S SIR 500 310 0 211 BOSNIAN 1920 9660 1720-1820 27,28 SIR 500 319 0 218 GERMANY 7163 11865 1720-1820 28S KAM 500 298 0 146 BOSNIAN 1956 11965 1720-1820 39S,47,48,52 KAM 500 206 0 217 SWAHILI 7228 7340 1730-2030 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16064 9810 1730-2030 39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-S 16079 11740 1730-2030 39 KAM 500 178 0 146 ARBIC-S 7086 7285 1730-2100 37-39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 16062 7300 1750-1850 29,30 KAM 500 321 0 211 RUSSIAN 13026 9850 1750-1850 29,30 SIR 500 322 0 211 RUSSIAN 7227 5950 1820-1920 28S SIR 500 298 -15 218 ALBANIA 16056 7235 1820-1920 28S SIR 500 295 0 156 ALBANIA 16060 9420 1820-1920 27,28 SIR 250 310 0 211 FRENCH 7161 9860 1820-1920 27,28 KAM 500 304 30 215 FRENCH 7165 11985 1820-1920 28S KAM 500 298 0 146 ALBANIA 1972 12015 1820-1920 46,47 KAM 500 253 0 217 HAUSA 15037 13730 1820-1920 46,47 KAM 500 259 -15 215 FRENCH 1991 15525 1820-1920 46,47 SIR 500 263 0 218 HAUSA 7202 5945 1920-1950 28S SIR 500 295 0 156 ITALIAN 7187 7205 1920-1950 28S KAM 500 298 0 146 ITALIAN 7188 7205 1920-1950 28S SIR 500 300 0 218 ITALIAN 16057 6035 1920-2020 28E,29,30 KAM 500 58 0 145 RUSSIAN 15003 7315 1920-2020 27,28 KAM 500 304 30 215 ENGLISH 7158 7375 1920-2020 28E,29 SIR 500 326 0 211 RUSSIAN 16167 9420 1920-2020 52,53,57 KAM 500 205 0 216 ENGLISH 7162 9665 1920-2020 27,28 SIR 500 313 0 218 ENGLISH 7164 12015 1920-2020 52,53,57 SIR 500 216 15 216 ENGLISH 7169 6060 2020-2120 28S SIR 500 305 0 211 ALBANIA 7077 9665 2020-2120 27S,28S,37,38 KAM 500 289 15 215 SPANISH 7245 9830 2020-2120 28S KAM 500 298 0 146 ALBANIA 1937 11800 2020-2120 27S,28S,37,38 SIR 500 295 0 211 SPANISH 1952 9765 2050-2150 45 SIR 500 60 -30 218 JAPANES 1932 11695 2050-2150 45 KAM 500 60 0 218 JAPANES 7267 11695 2050-2150 45 SIR 500 60 0 218 JAPANES 16084 7230 2100-0030 37-39 SIR 500 198 0 146 ARBIC-W 16058 7285 2100-0030 37-39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARBIC-W 7299 7310 2120-2220 28S SIR 500 305 0 211 BOSNIAN 7080 11630 2120-2220 28S KAM 500 298 0 146 BOSNIAN 1944 7360 2220-2320 49,54 SIR 500 113 0 218 BM/BI 7265 9720 2220-2320 49,54 KAM 500 109 15 216 BM/BI 1928 9720 2220-2320 49,54 SIR 500 120 0 211 BM/BI 16076 7300 2320-0020 42-44 SIR 500 65 0 211 CHINA 7111 11865 2320-0020 42-44 KAM 500 79 0 216 CHINA 15036 13715 2320-0020 42-44 SIR 500 53 -30 218 CHINA 16097 (hfcc database April 6) (Wolfgang Büschel, April 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) original PLANNED, but much of this NOT in use (gh) 17630 and 21610, Apr 11, 2016. 1020-1030, VOIRI, Sirjan, in Portuguese (new entry). No signal, no modulation, none (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) http://parstoday.com/en/radio/frequencies now shows reduced shortwave broadcasts without those to North America. Other language versions of that page: http://parstoday.com/it/radio/frequencies - Italian http://parstoday.com/de/radio/frequenzen - German http://parstoday.com/sq/radio/frequencies - Albanian http://parstoday.com/hy/radio/frequencies - Armenian http://parstoday.com/pt/radio/frequencies - Portuguese http://parstoday.com/es/radio/frequencies - Spanish http://parstoday.com/ru/radio/frequencies - Russian http://parstoday.com/ja/radio/frequencies - Japanese (via Ste Cooper, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) I.e. ONLY SW frequencies now shown for English: 1520-1620 13780 1920-2020 9665 12015 Other transmissions remain at previous times but only on local FM, or internet/satellite (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Since the start of the A16 schedule period Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran has significantly reduced its shortwave output with many of the previous SW transmissions no longer heard. It appears that frequencies which were from the Kalamabad transmitter site are not currently heard, but the Ahwaz, Sirjan and Zahedan sites remain on the air. The full A16 schedule has yet to be established but the following frequencies have been confirmed so far for VIRI services in European languages: Bosnian 1720-1820 7350-sj 9610-sj English 1520-1620 13780-sj 1920-2020 9665-sj 12015-sj French 1820-1920 9420-sj 13730-?ka? German 1720-1820 7235-sj 9660-sj Italian 1920-1950 5945-sj 7205-sj Russian 1320-1420 11640-sj 15480-sj 1650-1750 9480-aw Spanish 0020-0320 9550-sj 12025-sj 0720-0820 17530-sj 17815-sj 1020-1050 17630-sj 21610-sj 2020-2120 11800-sj (Schedule observations by Wolfgang Bueschel and Dave Kenny, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Subject: Re: [INTRUDER ALERT] 10120 arab. voice in AM / Broadcast??? A friend of mine wrote: "IRIB. At least one of the two programs that can be heard there." Thanks, Patrick de DF5JL Tom, April 10, INTRUDERALERT mailing list. TX center Zahedan in Iran 500 kW, G.C. 29 28 34.01 N 60 52 06.81 E #145 curtain dipole antenna #935 NAVIS non directional fountain like antenna, from 16.00z I guess rather #935 non-directional antenna produces intermodulation? kHz UTC ITU zones kW deg ant ADM BRC # 9580 1430-1600 37,38,39 ZAH 500 289 0 145 ARABIC-W IRN IRB 16073 9850 1550-1720 29S,39N ZAH 500 289 0 145 TURKISH IRN IRB 16082 9580 1600-1730 37,38,39 ZAH 500 non-dir 0 935 ARABIC-W IRN IRB 16074 INTERMODULATION formula: 2 x 9850 kHz = 19700 kHz 19700 minus 9580 ---à 10120 kHz Usual intermodulation of Arabic-westerly program against IRIB Turkish language program on 9850 kHz, main audio signal on 10120 kHz should be Arabic of 9580 kHz fundamental. Turkish language audio modulation from Iran could be also ON AIR, but less strong on symmetrical 9310 kHz frequency on lower side. ARABIC Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, -west Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan target. 1430-1730 9580sir TURKISH 1550-1720 9850zah (Wolfgang Büschewl, ibid.) IARU INTRUDERALERT mailing list (via Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK UK Director #KresySiberia harmonics yg via DXLD) Or, leapfrogging (gh) ** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. Radio Northern Ireland WRMI Hi Glenn, Just giving you a brief update on what I'm up to recently. Radio Northern Ireland is back to North and South America via WRMI with the following freq's and times in UT. With the recent success of our first broadcast, our main efforts are currently with WRMI; please find the schedule below. We broadcasted on Monday via 9955 with great success. We will continue with WRMI for the foreseeable future. WRMI 9955, 0130-0200 UT (Monday) WRMI 15770, 2100-2130 UT (Saturday) Best Regards, (Jordan Heyburn, April 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST, via dxldyg before 2100 Sat, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. 15515, Apr 9, 1618, ANTI, Milano. Saturdays only in Oromo. B16 shows via Milan (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, Manitowoc, WI, via Bob Wilkner, SW Bulletin April 10 via DXLD) You must mean B15, or A16. A Big Lie about the transmitter site, not in Milano for many years but still registered as such in HFCC; instead hires time in Bulgaria, Romania, or somewhere else (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 3925, R N 1, 4/6, 1300. M announcer, electronic trance music, M again, then into symphonic music. Good. RN 1 and RN 2 are never boring. 3945, R N 2, (Chiba-Nagara), 4/6, 1230. House dance-mix music, pop vocal. ID by W at ToH "R N Two". Good. 73 and Good Listening (Rick Barton, AZ, Comms gear with random wire antenna or Slinky unless otherwise noted, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, Radio Nikkei 1, Tokyo. 1132 April 9, 2016. Japanese male talk, piano solo filler, good. Parallel threshold 3925 kc/s, and just a carrier on 9595 kc/s assuming them. Didn't check any of the Net 2 channels. How much longer until these fold? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. NORTH KOREA REACTIVATION ON 3920 KHZ? 07042016 18196 3920 kHz - KCBS Pyongyang reactivation? https://youtu.be/G0EyBBoBb_I (Eduard Korsakov [Cyrillic], Russia dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Info and comments with the YouTu.be [which has nothing to do with Belgium]: 15 views Published on Apr 8, 2016 3920 kHz, 1643-1702 UT - tentative KCBS Pyongyang, Hyesan, 5 kW. Received in Moscow region 07.04.16 on Degen 1103, built-in whip antenna. senderjaeger4 days ago (edited) Great catch and very interesting observation! The style of music fits to North Korea for sure and the language is definitely Korean. Seems like an ID is heard at 0:53 ("Pyongyang (?) Pangsong imnida"). 73!? +senderjaeger Thank you very much for more detailed information. I have never heard Korea on this frequency, the other ones were not audible that evening - 2850, 3250, 3320 kHz, 73!? Lewis Cottle Nice upload! #AddItHere? +Lewis Cottle Thank you. I found this signal by accident, the next day 3920 was empty, 73! (via gh, DXLD) A-12 entry in Aoki Nagoya datalist: 3920 KCBS Pyongyang 2000-1800 1234567 Korean 5kW ND Hyesan KRE 128 02 E 41 04 N KCBS At 2120 UT April 8, only heard 3912 and 3985 on remote unit in Thailand SoEAsia. KRE_Hyesan 765 kHz 50 kW SW 3920 kHz 5 kW easy dipole ant ?, visible two masts at 41 23 40.91 N 128 10 35.16 E visible 2 masts at https://goo.gl/maps/vJvxKUdFs472 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thanks. Fair signal also here in Finland now at 1600. Not necessarily Hyesan, could also be Wonsan or Kanggye, which are not on the air. 73, (Mauno Ritola, April 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6015, KBSGN1, 1700, Mar 28, Korean, jammed, pips, news under “wuu-wuu” type jamming from North Korea – the jamming was // to same sound like on 15245.9 where were observed jamming + Voice of Korea programme. At 1700 generally 3 different programs in Korean are on the air: on 6015; on 7275 // 9740 and on 9515, 42442 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window April 13 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 11710, Voice of Korea, Kujang. 1103-1127 April 10, 2016. Decent signal with English quasi news, mostly about Short Phat One, orchestral fill, closing announcement giving this and 15180 kHz though only a weak carrier propagating on the latter (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5935, April 13 at 1300, poor S5-S9 piano music, and sounds like Korean instead of Japanese, as Korean is scheduled at this time on Wednesdays from Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, April 7 at 1324, JBA carrier is all I get from presumed Denge Kurdistanye; earlier check at 1300 heard CHINA closing with timesignal and nothing further. Must be a bad propagation day. On April 3, Ivo Ivanov issued a ``final update of Denge Kurdistan transmitter sites: 0300-0500 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs 0500-1300 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs 1300-1700 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs + 2nd harmonic 23200 1700-1930 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs ex Grigoriopol KCH 1930-2100 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs ex 1700-2100 UT`` ISS = FRANCE; KCH = PRIDNESTROVYE; SCB = BULGARIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 6130.000, Lao National Radio, Vientiane site, nice S=9+20dB signal at 0014 UT. Lady program presenter, Lao language scheduled, but I had rather feel like a Thai language presenter news reader heard instead? (Wolfgang Büschel, log 0005-0035 UT April 7th, in eastern Thailand, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thai and Lao are very similar (gh, ex-Thailand, DXLD) ** LIBYA [and non]. 1053.102, R. Libya, Tripoli, MAR 30, 2350 - Brief fade up over band noise and adjacent channel splatter; recitations into brief Arabic talk. Very poor but you can tell it's there. I had read that this was supposedly recalibrated to exact frequency but definitely offset tonight. Algeria is in on 891 with a much better signal (Stephen C. Wood, Harwich MA; Perseus SDR with 25 x 50 northeast terminated SuperLoop, NRC IDXD April 8 via DXLD) APR 1, 0100 - Male Arabic vocal; fair, on USB to dodge 1053.0 growl (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth MA; Microtelecom Perseus, cardioid-pattern SuperLoop 10-m vert. by 11-m horiz. (peak 165 , null 345 ), cardioid-pattern SuperLoop 11-m vert. by 30-m horiz. (peak 80 , null 260 ), ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, April 9 at 1800 and 1828 chex, NO signal from MWV, or African Pathways Radio. It`s been AWOL for more than a week, still waiting for replacement of some failed part in their new Continental transmitter(s). Yeah, why did both of them fail at the same time? Does not speak well for Continental; see also ZAMBIA! I had a chance to see and touch these very transmitters at the Continental factory in Richardson TX during the HFCC conference in Dallas a few years ago. I assume it would have been propagating if on, as it was last week, altho conditions are not so good: Spain 17855 only ~S7 with deportes, and really nothing else on 16m from Africa to compare (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today talked with Konstantin Chernushenko. He said that really in the MWV transmitter shorted out, even a small fire. The transmitter is out of warranty, are now waiting for when it will be repaired. the early days of broadcasting from Madagascar most reports it is necessary to vremya.Za in the Russian department, about 70. About 10 reports came from Finland just for receiving Russian programs. Constantine also said e-mail addresses of other language departments: English Department for Africa - hhuffard@africanpathways.org English Department - knls@aol.com Arabic - contact@radiofeda.com Spanish - cpioutreach@icloud.com China Division - smzg@smzg.org (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 11985.0175 approx., April 11 at 2059, song until cutoff at 2100*. HFCC shows it`s NHK French, 250 kW, 305 degrees via Talata at 2030-2100. So MGLOB is yet another site with lax frequency control. It was obviously off, as with BFO I tuned by on 1 kHz steps, then refined on the R75 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 6050.027, Someone reported, RTM Kajang FM program back on air, heard with typical SoEaAsia singer at 0007 UT, S=9+25dB in eastern Thailand (Wolfgang Büschel, log 0005-0035 UT April 7th, in eastern Thailand, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. 6050.04, Asyik FM off the air April 11, so a short lived recent reactivation? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. Has anyone been checking 783 lately? I haven't noted Mauritania's huge signal recently. Just a propagation fluke, or is the station dark or degraded in power? Any of you having captures over the last week or so, please check. I know Bruce gets a lot of information from international hobby and broadcast-forum sources for his IDXD column. Any news about the Mauritanian? (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, April l3, WTFDA mwdx gg via DXLD) 783 has been MIA here recently iirc (Keith, Hingham MA, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 739.95, XEQN, Torreón, Coah. MAR 21, 1204 - Area news in progress, with Coahuila datelines; this was entitled "Fórmula Noticias Torreón;" local and national weather was presented at 1208; phone numbers of 204-51-46 and 204-51-47 were announced; tourism spot for El Cañón de Rio Lamenta in Chiapas. Generally fair on LSB, separable from the 740 group (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC IDXD April 8 via DXLD) Can make terrible growl against KRMG Tulsa, but what should they care? AM is now only an adjunct of FM 102.3 (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 870, April 8 at 1207, YL in Spanish greeting a new day, typical of XETAR Guachochi, Chihuahua, but 1209 TC sure sounds like ``5:09`` instead of 6:09. Chih. is supposed to be on DST of UT -6 now. Into three mañanitas songs, more typical XETAR fare, but certainly not limited to them. XETAR is also a daytimer, but presumably would be opening now at 6 am local (not 5 am). I guess the timecheck was a mistake by her or me. Is there another NW Mexican on 870? Yes, XEFIL, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 1000/250 watts per IRCA Log, but it`s also on MDT of UT -6. Rotating the DX-398, I find that WWL is still in if I null the XE and vice versa, but XE is fading at 1219. Around 1205 I had had SS on 650, probably XETNT in Sinaloa, but nothing much else on lowband. Sunrise here: 1207 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1590, XEVOZ, La Mexicana, México, DF. 1057 April 9, 2016. Surprised to hear this one, bubbling up with beginning of anthem at 1057, male calls at 1100 and quickly faded in multiple domestic co- channel. Ranchera vocals briefly in at 1125, presumably them again (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM Radio Educación, México DF. 0024 April 7, 2016. Excellent signal and modulation for a change with Spanish male and female political/public affairs talk, ID. Cuba too strong at this hour to hear what 1060 kc/s was airing. Sometimes but usually not parallel (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. FM Digital --- I must admit to not following this topic as closely as perhaps I should, but after an opening to Mexico last season, I'm reminded that I don't know what the status and intended future for Mexican FM Digital is - what type of digital, and when this might occur. I've seen a lot about TV, but my personal concern is FM. I'll greatly appreciate this info. Thanks- (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NW Philadelphia, PA, WB2BJH -- Grid FN20id Yamaha T-80 & Conrad RDS Manager; Yamaha T-85 & Conrad RDS Manager; Onkyo T450RDS; 4) Tecsun PL-310; 2) Sony ICF2010; all w/ APS-9B @ 15'; 2) Grundig G8/whip; April 10, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I would assume, Russ, that you are asking whether HD, DAB, or some other method. It is HD just like the USA. Canada is using it now too. In both countries, there are only a handful using it. However, I was blessed to actually catch an HD flashing in Feb (yes Feb) 2012 on 90.5 which is occupied by WVUM here; the Sony showed XEDA-FM (Mexico City). I learned that at the time, it was the *only* Mexican FM to have it! Later that year XEDA-FM showed up again strong enough for its HD2 which I caught for one split second! cd (Chrisi Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, ibid.) Thanks ! That answers the question and gives me more hopes for at least a few more years of analog FM DX from both Mexico and Canada (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) Cofetel authorized IBOC in 2008 for all stations in the border coordination zone (320km from the US-Mexico border) and in 2011 for all stations in the country. Adoption is very low and is the highest in Mexico City where there are quite a few HD Radio stations. There are also a good number near the border. The only group I know that has all of its FMs in HD is IMER. For its part, XHTP-FM Xalapa Ver. claims they were the first in HD. This is a list of all authorized HD Radio stations in Mexico. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/contenidogeneral/industria/estacionesautorizadasautilizarrdtiboc_1.pdf I have found more auths in the RPC and some additional mentions on the HD Radio Mexico Facebook page (XHQD was a total surprise): XHLC, XHUZ (operating), XHUNO (not operating), XHQD XHBU and XHBW may also be operating in HD judging by the likes on the page. They are also part of MegaRadio's Chihuahua Capital cluster which includes XHQD. They do not have auths. Shortly I will be releasing a map "HD Radio in Mexico" which should be more up to date than the linked table (Raymie Humbert, AZ, ibid.) XHTP eh? I thought I read that 'twas XEDA. Oh well. cd (Chris Dunne, ibid.) I think two or three stations lay claim to "first" status. XEDA was on at least by February 17, 2012 (Raymie, ibid.) My photo from the Sony is dated Feb 12, 2012, I see./cd (Dunne, ibid.) I think the first HD station in Mexico must be in the US-Mexico border for the proximity with American technologies. I mean, it happened with DTV, FM Stereo and over (Gargadon, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, April 11, ibid.) Yeah, that is true (given adoption and the fact that stations there were cleared from 2008 to use HD Radio), but outside of that 320km border region, it probably was XEDA or maybe XHTP (Raymie, ibid.) So as in the US, these are all hybrid IBOC operations? That's also good as it means that more adoption won't alter analog DX prospects (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- It's not exactly exciting or new, but the IFT site now has the repacking tables up at this page. http://www.ift.org.mx/espectro-radioelectrico/reubicacion-de-los-canales-de-television-localizados-en-la-zona-de-coordinacion-por-debajo-del-canal If only they'd bothered to update the tables too... Meanwhile, the permit wolves of Zacatecas http://ljz.mx/2016/04/04/necesario-retirar-concesiones-de-uso-social-de-television-a-empresarios-solis/ have the head of La Red México A.C. howling and saying that the concessions never should have been awarded, especially to government officials (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, April 8, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Quote Originally Posted by Raymie ``Let's call out the FCC for a change: The Mexican data available in the FCC Query has been updated quite a bit. More missing stations are being added, though some on post-repacking facilities. And then there is, surviving repacking like a boss... XHRBA-TDT 29 Río Bravo Tamps., 200 kW`` Come on now --- I don't understand why the IFT hasn't included this station in their upcoming auction. It even has call letters (well at least according to the FCC). That's more than can be said about the Cadena Tres stations! (mismac7, South Texas, ibid.) The PABF does not specify specific channels for television. The 2016 PABF includes one commercial station for Reynosa-Matamoros (inherited from the Radio Centro package, likely to be RF 31) but no other stations in the general area. We will likely know more when the guidelines for the digital television auction (which I believe will be numbered IFT-6) are released; they hope to be done with this auction by August, so I expect this soon. Looking at the requests for inclusion of various localities, a proposed Matamoros public use station was turned away for coordination reasons. The transmitter location of Río Bravo would be closer to Reynosa, and it is not unprecedented to need two transmitters to cover both of them (see Azteca and Multimedios). I have to wonder why the IFT has left this station in all this time. As to Cadena Tres, the lack of calls baffles me to this day, and it's been a year since the concession was awarded (Raymie, ibid.) I am proud to release a creation of mine, HD Radio in Mexico: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1nw9cghqnInWiefP1w9y4k9PqLco&usp=sharing HD Radio in Mexico is more accurate and up-to-date than the IFT's own HD Radio tables. Why? Because it uses the same resources that have kept you up to date here for the last two years: the RPC and a lot of digging. You see, new HD Radio stations get an auth filed in the RPC, like any other technical or ownership change. Some of these are totally undocumented. For instance, until today, nobody had any idea that XHUNO-FM Aguascalientes is HD Radio-ready. http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/260515-TECNICA_IBOC-009929.pdf (It is not on the air, but sister XHUZ is). And the HD Radio Mexico page revealed that MegaRadio updated their Chihuahua cluster to HD last year — but none of their three stations is authed in the RPC. This map includes that information. I'm working to make it coordinate- accurate where coordinate information is available. And I'm excited to share it with you (Raymie, ibid.) I made a truly incredible find in the RPC today. In the process of going through the concession history of XHOM-FM Coatzacoalcos, I did not expect much. My guess at the station's history was "some concession date in the 1970s issued to some obscure concessionaire whose name happened to have an O and an M as initials". It's a correct match for quite a few FMs in Veracruz. Not for XHOM. It All Evens Out To figure out where XHOM came from, we have to go back to May 1950, and the concession of a new AM radio station in Coatzacoalcos. By the 1960s, XEOM-AM 1340 was owned by Radio Coatzacoalcos, S.A., a company soon to be acquired by a certain Francisco Ibarra López. Like many AM stations at this time, there were experiments with FM simulcasting. It didn't go over well in Mexico, on the whole. The market for FM receivers didn't exist until the 1980s. Adoption was slow, and it was not until the AM-FM migration that there were more FM than AM stations in the country. But there is one thing that makes these short-lived FMs even more peculiar on a continental level. I've covered this before. Even decimal frequencies. (This is a new find, as XEOM is not on any of my lists of these stations.) This is one of the few cases where a station actually survived its even decimal days. What began as XEOM-FM originated on 88.4 MHz in April 1961. It was owned by Radio Coatzacoalcos and represented a quasi-move to FM. As late as 1969, XEOM was still on 88.4, and still XEOM. (Veracruz's only XE- FM station, XEHU 104.5 Martínez de la Torre, got its concession in 1972.) In the early 1970s, the remaining quirky even decimal stations moved to more sensible frequencies with odd center frequencies. XEOM became XHOM-FM 107.5 and increased its ERP to 23 kW from the original 3.8. XHOM remains under ACIR ownership and currently carries the Amor format. XEOM, on the other hand, was sold to Radio Fórmula in the 1990s. It migrated to FM as well and is now XHEOM-FM on 98.5 MHz. Just three stations can be traced directly using the RPC to even frequency predecessors: XEWV-FM (89.6 -> 106.7), XEH-FM/XHQQ-FM (93.2 -> 93.3), and now XEOM/XHOM (88.4 -> 107.5). (Raymie, April 12, ibid.) That coulda been some interesting DX, had I been involved in the hobby that early in my life. I know that Guatemala had 88.8 maybe into the early 90s (I think I caught it on a whip in 1983), and Bermuda had a couple as well before moving (94.9 was 94.6 and 106.1 was 106.2, neither heard by yours truly). cd (Chris Dunne, FL, ibid.) Another lost station? You better believe it! The DOF on November 25, 1970 ran a list of standardized ad rates for commercial television stations. (This is the same month they ran the master list of radio and TV stations.) And they left us another mystery. Aside from listing the TCM stations, XHCB-13 Tepic, XHBW-9 Monclova and such, they gave us two leads on TV stations I've never heard of: XHBP-7 Tehuantepec Oax. XHBB-20 Cd. Juárez Chih. XHBB is by far more interesting. I've never heard of it until today. It would have been among Mexico's first UHFs. Only XHS-23 Ensenada, XHAS-33 Tijuana and XHBB show up on this list as UHF stations. What happened? XHBB did not show up in Mejía Prieto 1972 which leads me to think it is not related to Tele-Cadena Mexicana (Raymie, ibid.) When you get money to start a radio station and don't realize you're going to need a permit, ...you're gonna have a baaaaaaad time: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2016/04/09/politica/007n3pol 11 years ago, a group of residents created the station with federal money awarded to them by the Secretary of Social Development (Sedesol) when the community was recognized as a native people, [station manager Teresa Aldama] said in an interview. The project was cleared for 150,000 pesos; however, they were not told that they needed a permit from the government. This station operated on 89.3 MHz in a small community in the Milpa Alta delegation of Mexico City (Raymie, April 13, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA [non]. A16 schedule for Voice of Mongolia via Shortwaveservice, Kall (Germany): 1400-1430 Su-Fr English 7310 1500-1530 Mo-Sa English 6005 1930-2000 Daily English 3985 (April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 3985, 1930, V of Mongolia via Kall. “Expat Hour” chat (but only ½ hr - 2000). English, 454, 29/03 (Alan Pennington. Caversham, Berkshire, AOR 7030+ / LW, Beverage, ALA1530, / Sony 7600GR, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. 9575, Apr 2156-2202, Medi 1, Nador. Music; OM talks in Arabic. Radio Medi 1 has a transmitter problem: Very good signal, S4, and very poor or barely audible modulation, 45442 to 45441 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S & Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. Checked the local 0000 UT reception time slot in 49 mb in eastern Thailand SDR remote unit today April 7: 5914.992, Myanma Radio Nay Pyi Taw noted at powerful S=9+25dB level, male monotonous singer heard at 0005 UT on April 7. Thazin Radio / Myanma Kachin Radio, from Pyin Oo Lwin and Myanma Radio on single 5915 kHz from new capital Nay Pyi Taw erected in 2008 - 2009 year by MW Nautel, and SW BBEF Beijing in Pyin Oo Lwin / RIZ Zagreb in Yangoon Yegu site units. 5985.000, Even frequency likely from old empire broadcast center at Yangoon Yegu site, S=9+25dB signal, male Burmese presenter talk at 0012 UT on April 7. 6029.9935, Accurate measured, Thazin Radio, from Pyin U Lwin northern broadcast center site, strongest signal in 49 mb of the four Burma origin stations. S=9+35dB, native male guitar singer group, 0013 UT. 6164.9965, Thazin Radio, from Pyin U Lwin northern broadcast center site, 0015 UT on April 7, S=9+15dB signal heard in eastern Thailand remote unit. Light native music singer performed (Wolfgang Büschel, log 0005-0035 UT April 7th, in eastern Thailand, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greetings! Pipeline to Myanmar this morning! Radio Myanmar 7200 kHz April 10th 1330 UT local pop music. Very good signal with ham QRM. Radio Myanmar 5985 kHz April 10th at 1525 UT in local language. At 1530 their usual Musical interlude / IS then into English News and weather read by male announcer that is impossible to understand. First English pop song at 1537 was Canadian singer Shawn Mendes with his hit "Stitches". I wonder if he ever thought that he would appear on Myanmar Radio; and will he even get royalties! Really lost in the noise by 1540 (Mick Delmage, AB, Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7200.00, Myanmar Radio on April 11 again with their best transmitter, providing fair to good reception; at 1328 heard their normal, very distinctive format - singing jingle ID giving three different "kilohertz", then indigenous instrumental theme music followed by chimes/bells; in vernacular; BoH UT is their ToH local time. Can now be heard from about 1300 to 1500, after the CNR1 jamming of RTI ends. My nice clear audio of BoH format - https://goo.gl/XbNMSU (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Mighty KBC 6095 kHz update --- Mighty KBC have tonight written a comment their Facebook page in reply to someone saying how they miss 6095 kHz to Europe saying - "April 17th we are on 6095, only for 2 hours 0800-1000 UT" Posted by: (Ste Cooper, April 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) "The Mighty KBC 6095! Sunday April 17th 10:00 - 12:00 CET [0800-1000 UTC] The Giant Jukebox - Eric van Willegen" (later response to posting) "Only occasionally on 6095" (The Mighty KBC Facebook page, 10 April) (100 kilowatts via Nauen) Posted by: ("Alan Pennington", April 13, bdxcuk yg via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 2598-USB, April 8 at 0055, S4 YL voice in French, which per Canadian CG website http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2015/Part-2-Atlantic-Facilities-Information is, starting at 0048, MCTS Placentia, VCP via St Lawrence site (in SE Nfld Island), with ``Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts for marine areas: 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237 and 238. Weather and Wave height forecasts for marine area 213.`` And nothing about it being bilingual like some other entries. Routine check of the CCG frequencies around sunset here, not really expecting to pull them thru increasing spring noise level, but also: 2749-USB, April 8 0056, also S4 signal but sounds slightly weaker, in English. This one is, starting at 0040, MCTS Sydney, Nova Scotia, VCO via Port Caledonia site, with ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis and forecasts for marine areas: 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 231 and 232. Wave height forecasts for marine areas: 209, 213, 214, 215 and 217. Notices to Shipping in areas Cape Breton Shore (covering Cabot Strait to Banquereau Bank), Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland South Coast, P.E.I. and Miramichi Bay. Notices to Shipping revising the position of every reported offshore exploration and exploitation vessel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 11725, Thu April 7 at 0541, no signal from RNZI; also 9700, Thu April 7 at 1340, no signal, or rather something else very weak, and no RNZI on 6170 either. Must be maintenance day again, with half the transmitters already down. Nothing else listed on 9700, so possibly RNZI itself on minimal power? Australia is inbooming as usual on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNZI had a good signal into NB this morning (7 April) on 9700 kHz at about 1050 UT when I checked before leaving for work (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15720, April 8 at 0051, RNZI poor S3 in English, but at least confirmed back on the air. 11725, April 8 at 0504, RNZI is VG at S9+20 with news, after absence last night. 6170, April 11 at 1355, RNZI is about to fade out, poor at S5, and gone from 9700, which is was temporarily using last week due to one transmitter being down. So back to two? No! Had not monitored for a couple days. Further revamped schedule without notice, consulted 1830 UT April 11, has brought 6170 back, but still only one transmitter at a time; nothing there currently to explain the problem: ``RNZI AM transmission is from 2100-1650 UTC, 0900-0450 NZT 0459-0658 11725 AM Daily 0659-0758 9890 DRM Tonga Mon-Fri 0759-1058 9700 AM Pacific Daily 1059-1258 9700 AM PNG Daily 1259-1650 6170 AM Pacific Daily 1651-1835 7330 DRM Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa Sun-Fri 1836-1950 11690 DRM Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa Sun-Fri 1951-2059 15720 DRM Pacific Sun-Fri 2100-0458 15720 AM Pacific Daily`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. I did not check every day, but at least four or five times over the past week: interesting to check 6090 after 2000: sometimes Kaduna, sometimes Amhara, sometimes none of them or both. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Following its surprise reappearance on SW in February., Voice of Nigeria, Lagos, has not been heard since early March. Its frequencies to check are 15120, 11770 or 9690 kHz (April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) However, the 0600 Hausa service on 7255- continues to be easily heard (gh, DXLD) Voice of Nigeria, Abuja, is currently audible with English on 7255 kHz - weak but fair with some background interference. Clear ID at the start of the English service at 1800 (Strong DRM on 15120 which I presume is also Voice of Nigeria, Abuja, in English). 73s (Dave, Caversham, UK, Kenny, Lowe HF225 / 25m long wire, 1802 UT Sunday April 10, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) Hi Dave - Listening to V of Nigeria on 15120 in DRM mode since 1810 with News broadcast followed by Reflections with a strong lock at 24dB. Live announcement at 1820 that they were having some technical difficulties so playing only music since then (and continuing at 1835). (Alan Roe, England, via Kenny, ibid.) At 1920 UT I 'see' only a small poor tiny string on 7254.939 kHz tonight. Nigeria usual in x.921 to x.940 range (Wolfgang Büschel, April 10, ibid.) 7255, Apr 10, 2016. 1904-1910, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja. YL/OM talks in english; News abt Nigeria; Today, VON has a good signal and a distorted sound modulation, 45433 to 45432 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, RX (s) Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 13 April 2016 - 11H25 NIGERIAN RADIO JOINS THE FIGHT AGAINST BOKO HARAM http://www.france24.com/en/20160413-nigerian-radio-joins-fight-against-boko-haram (c) BOKO HARAM/AFP/File / by Aminu Abubakar | Screen grab from a video made available by Boko Haram shows leader Abubakar Shekau [caption] KANO (NIGERIA) (AFP) - When Boko Haram Islamists raided a remote village on Nigeria's northeastern border with Niger last year, frightened and confused residents fled into the bush to escape the marauding attackers. But the locals got lost and in desperation called a radio station based hundreds of kilometres (miles) away in the commercial hub of Kano. "The distraught villagers called our studios on a mobile phone from the wilderness and explained their predicament," explained the head of radio station Dandal Kura, Umar Said Tudun-Wada. "The information they provided was used by security operatives to track them," he told AFP. Dandal Kura has been on air since the start of 2015, broadcasting to residents who have been plagued by Boko Haram for nearly seven years. It is the first outlet dedicated to the conflict and every day transmits three hours of programming on short-wave to the remote region's ethnic Kanuri population. Its 30 staff includes 11 reporters across the Lake Chad basin comprising northeast Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southwestern Chad and southern Niger -- and its aim is simple. "Our focus is to provide a voice to the over nine million native Kanuri in the Lake Chad area, particularly in Borno state, to lend support to the counter-insurgency efforts because the Kanuri ethnic group is the worst hit by Boko Haram," said Tudun-Wada. - Life-saving advice - Dandal Kura, which has been backed by the USAID, currently has studios in Kano at a building which also houses the privately owned Freedom Radio, where Tudun-Wada used to be general manager. But it is set to relocate its studios to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram, as a relative peace returns to the conflict-hit city. Dandal Kura in Kanuri means 'big arena' and aims to provide a platform along the lines of the traditional village square where people affected by the conflict can exchange views. The bulk of Boko Haram membership is Kanuri, the dominant ethnic group in the Lake Chad region. Boko Haram was founded in Maiduguri in 2002 and drew its support largely from Kanuri-speaking youth disenchanted with social inequality and the failure of political leadership. The group used ethnic and linguistic affinity to recruit members among the local population, capitalising on anger at poverty, illiteracy and the lack of access to economic opportunities. The radio station's social media officer, Yagana Kachallah, said the broadcasts also have wider aims given the spate of bomb and suicide attacks in the region. "There is the need to sensitise the people in the northeast, the victims of the violence, on how they should respond to the Boko Haram violence," she said. "Doing so requires speaking to them in their own language." Muslim clerics, for example, use 15-minute religious programmes to counter the Islamists' extreme ideology to dissuade potential recruits from joining their ranks. There is also advice on what to do when approached by a Boko Haram recruiter, tips on identifying suicide bombers and what to do in the event of an attack. "These basic tips have helped save lives of people in the theatre of violence," said Tudun-Wada. As a result, people no longer cluster around scenes of suicide or bomb attack because of information broadcast about the risk of secondary strikes, he added. - Overwhelming response - Kachalla, who tracks listeners' feedback on Twitter, Facebook and text messages, said the volume of response from the Kanuri audience took the radio station by surprise. "We receive an average of 120 responses from our listeners every week," she said. Radio has long been the major source of news in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, where literacy levels were low, even before the insurgency. Broadcasters such as the BBC, Radio France Internationale (RFI) and Voice of America (VOA) capitalised on this and set up affiliates in the dominant northern language, Hausa. But Tudun-Wada said the demand for Kanuri radio was also there -- even beyond the Lake Chad region. "We never knew there was such a huge number of Kanuri in Sudan until we were inundated with sustained requests... for representation... and we had to recruit a Kanuri reporter in Khartoum," he added. In addition, Boko Haram fighters have also tuned in and last September a man who identified himself as a rebel commander phoned in and took issue with the station's reporting of one attack. "With more funding from donors we intend to expand our reach by establishing FM stations across the countries in the Lake Chad region to strengthen the impact Dandal Kura is making in tackling Boko Haram insurgency," said Tudun-Wada. by Aminu Abubakar (c) 2016 AFP (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WRTH 2016 page 513 translates Dandal Kura as ``meeting place``, Does NASA still have a tracking station at Kano? (gh, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hi Gents: Lots of pirate activity, I heard just a bit of it: PIRATE-NA. Red Beacon Radio, 7610 AM, 1900-2100*, 4-2-16 SIO: 444 Male station OP chatting about pirate radio, his equipment, etc. Said was running 20 watts, played tunes by Imagine Dragons, Adele, The Cars, etc. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. Radio Illuminati International. 6150 AM, 1908-1920*, 04-02- 16 SIO: 343. Just caught tail end of transmission. Heard tune by Andrew Gold, then into multiple sign off announcements, mentions of Facebook, etc. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. WAZU [W-A-ZED-U], 6925 AM, 2200-2259*, 04-02-16, SIO: 343. Veteran pirate OP Fearless Fred with funny show of tunes by Frank Zappa, Humble Pie, Sammy Hagar, etc., with “the fearless one” making funny comments. He pronounces Z as zed so maybe from Canada? PIRATE-NA. Wolverine Radio, 6950 AM, 0041-0120+, 04-03-16, SIO: 343. Songs about water, including “Back Water Blues” by Bessie Smith, “Dirty Water” by The Standells. Signal a bit watery due to propagation. PIRATE-NA. TCS-The Crystal Ship, 6850 AM, 0012-0057+, 04-04-16, SIO: 343. Sign on with “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf, tunes by the Beatles, Tommy James, Grassroots, 3 Dog Night, Zager & Evans, etc. Frequent IDs by computerized voice. PIRATE-NA. XLR8, 6955 USB, 0116-0133+, 04-06-16, SIO: 232. Tunes by Corrosion of Conformity, Some Velvet, Chemical Brothers, ID by OM 0122. Signal better than usual. PIRATE-NA. Radio Free Whatever, 6945 USB, 0015-0118*, 04-07-16 SIO: 454. Nice signal from Dick Weed and his humble assistant Stavin, playing their usual assortment of alternative rock. Tunes by The Foals, Girls In Hawaii, Farmacos, Ex Hex, The Morning Benders, Primal Scream, etc. Frequent ID’s, shout outs to hfunderground posters. (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA USA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-535, Aerial: G5RV Dipole, April 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. Radio Northern Star, Bergen, was heard here on 25 February on 5895 kHz USB from 1518 tune in until 1600*. The programme consisted of voice identifications in Norwegian, English, Swedish, Czech and Japanese. Clear identifications were heard in English at 1520, 1530 and 1600. The identification statement was ”You are listening to LKB / LEE on 1611 kHz medium wave and in the 49m shortwave band on 5895 kHz". An identification in Morse is also heard as follows: VVV VVV VVV DE LKB / LLE LKB / LLE LKB / LLE. In addition, Radio Northern Star also broadcast special electronic music composed for the transmissions by Øyvind S. Ask and there is also instrumental music played by Bjørn Tore Bystrøm on Saxophone. Weak but easily readable signal here on a clear channel with no co-channel interference. SINPO was 25432. Heard again on 26 February from 1400 sign-on when the signal was at threshold level. Had improved by 1600*. Programme content was the same as on the 25th (Michael Ford, England, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. On the NRD-545 with ALA-330, checking out some daytime groundwave LW A2/MCW beacons, reference the latest MARE Log Summary: 362, April 9 at 1822 UT, ORP --- I don`t think I miscopied it, but looks like this must be OWP in Sand Springs OK near Tulsa; miskeyed? 365, April 9 at 1823 UT, HQG: Hugoton KS Municipal airport (200 miles = 321 km, not bad. How much power?) 350, April 9 at 1824 UT, RG: Will Rogers World Airport, OKC 341, April 9 at 1824 UT, EI: Enid OK! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HQG: I am seeing them at 25 W, according to AirNav. 73 (Rick Barton, Arizona, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, April 9 at 1818 UT, KGYN Guymon with C&W music is still reading S3 on daytime groundwave into the Wellbrook and NRD-545. Circa 0100 UT April 10, it`s quite strong with more of same by skywave, still presumably on 10 kW day pattern until official April sunset of 0115 UT (May: 0145 UT; June, July: 0200 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, April 9 at 1257 UT, open carrier/dead air, so is it KOKB Blackwell or something atop it? Finally make out some weak modulation same as on sibling 1020 KOKP Perry, about the joys of shooting turkeys (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, April 12 at 0450 UT I am listening to KUCO Edmond with overnight `Sleepers Awake` classical music service from WCPE in North Carolina, when the modulation goes dead circa 0455 UT. At first I wonder if my radio volume control is at fault, but no, other stations are still heard. Still dead by 0515 UT. That`s what happens when you rely on automation rather than paying a genuine human to be at the controls at all hours --- something apparently completely out of the question in today`s broadcasting world. Instead, some poor staffer probably had to make a trip to the studio eventually in the middle of the night; whenever anyone in charge noticed. 91.7, April 12 at 1400 UT, KOSU goes to dead air too after `The Living Room` monthly discussion show; finally JIP NPR news about two minutes later. Surely there was really an human nearby at this hour. Such outages are all too common (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 15730 kHz Islamabad on air April 8th, 0500-0700 UT Urdu to Pakistani national workers in NE/ME. Came across the Radio Pakistan Islamabad signal, of their UT morning service to NE/ME to serve their national workers mainly in Arabia target. When heard at 0550 UT, signal was strong and overmodulated, at S=9+30dB or -43dBm strong powerhouse. Signal was much BROADBAND at 15706 to 15754 kHz frequency range. At 0557 UT the final power amplifier broke down, and signal decreased to poor S=5 or -82dBm strength. But final powerful unit 'came back' at 0604 UT, heard in Greece and southern Italy too, at S=9+15 or -63dBm strength. At 0600 UT heard their time pips and international news read by lady presenter. At 0636 UT music stopped, and some short announcements of female presenter heard, at 0638 UT music programm started again. Signal in Doha Qatar, Greece and southern Italy SDR remote units still on S=9+15dB or -63dBm. TILL SIGN OFF suddenly midst on music performance at 0639:35 UT. listen to the ogg.format recording on box.com server and listen to via your local VLC-player https://app.box.com/s/7307hxxl4p11m7cwp5thi49tz6vkwtuv https://app.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_60402908233 PAK15730ISL_20160408_0557UT Pakistan Islamabad 15730 kHz at 0500-0640 UT cl-down 20160408 much overmodulated as usual. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 8, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, also on other days it has stopped after 0600, but sometimes continued until 0700. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, April 8, DXLD) re Radio Pakistan ISL, Nothing heard on April 9th at 0526 UT on that 15730 kHz channel. 73 de wolfy (Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. 12420 kHz, Radio Concepción / Paraguay , [Harmonic 9 X 1380 kHz = 12420 kHz] OM ANN Comerciales, YL en 01:11 en video con slogan ´´AM 1380 Concepción´´, SINPO 34232, Fecha 07 Abril 2016 en 1802 UT. Esperé cuatro horas para algunas identificaciónes, es la primera vez que veo a la armónica en banda 25 mietros [sic] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q448ktUJSZg&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Beverage simples NSSEA-21 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) Very hard to make anything out of the extremely distorted 2:32 of audio, but I guess he got enough to ID it. If it`s putting out all the way up to ninth, good chance of lower ones too, especially odd ones, so let`s compute possibilities: 2760, 4140, 5520, 6900, 8280, 9660, 11040, 13800 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) ** PERU. 4955, April 10 at 0120, JBA carrier where usually there is none; presumably R. Cultural Amauta, only known station here, on later than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5030, 2243, R Virgen de la Alta, Huamachuco, Perú – YL talk [reactivated? –ed] 323 15/03 (Keith Howells Tondu, Bridgend, UK, Eton E1, Tecsun PL380, telescopic, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Anything like an ID? YL talk is hardly a useful program detail (gh) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. 12/4 2256-2306 UT. Himnos instrumentales, hora local: “Son las 18 horas en Red Radio Integridad”, posteriormente otro ID, aviso de memorización de un texto bíblico y el programa “Alimento para el alma” con una reflexión sobre el pecado. A las 2305, nuevamente, música instrumental. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: 40 metros de hilo, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 9910 // 12120 // 15190, R. Pilipinas, *1730-1854 & 1930*, April 13. Choral Anthem; long version of the "PBS" song; ID with frequencies; still giving ex: 9925; in Filipino; the usual opening statement from Sammy Coloma; 1735-1745 news from "Provincial News Bureau" (Secretary Coloma said 6.4% growth for the Philippines, item about Bangladesh ambassador to the Philippines, etc.); fortunately with enough words in English to follow the main points of the story; 1757-1830 "Show Business" segment; 1833 song from an "ASEAN" country; 9910 fair-poor; 12120 very poor with strong CODAR QRM; 15190 the best signal with fair reception the whole time; off with ID, frequencies and choral Anthem. Even after all this time, I still very much miss the former simulcast of DZRM Radyo Magasin via R. Pilipinas on Wednesday and DZRB Radyo ng Bayan on Tuesday and Thursday, both of which ended about 2011. They were about the only opportunity we SWLers had to catch their unique programs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A16 schedule for Radio Pilipinas (PBS) - all via the IBB Philippines relay site 0200-0330 English/Filipino ME 12010-ph 15640-ph 17820-ph 1730-1930 English/Filipino ME 9910-ph 12120-ph 15190-ph (HFCC via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 9730, UT Fri April 8 at 0023, RRI in English, something about Denmark, outro as `Travelers` Guide`, and next show, `Guests on Radio Romania International`. Only // is 11800, unchecked yet. 9730, April 9 at 0023, RRI English hour to North America is S9 here, but JBA on // 11800. 9620, April 9 at 0509, French good at S9-S7, about Romanian culture, and plugging a vacation contest. This is RRI, 285 degrees from Galbeni for France; and should improve slightly here at 0530 English aimed 300 degrees toward UK. 9620 also preceded by an hour of Romanian at 0400 toward France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7335, 0130 10 APR - RADIO ROMANIA INT. (ROMANIA). SINPO = 25222. ?Eastern European Language?, live classical piano music, male announcer. QSB=moderate-to-rapid rate, modulation on noisy carrier occasionally drops below noise floor but mostly mixing with, or slightly above it. sf106.6, a3, k0, geomag: inactive. 300kw, beamAz 310 , bearing 24 . Sangean ATS505 w/Kaito KA33 active loop in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 10096KM from transmitter at Galbeni. Local time: 1830 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17800, April 10 at 1944, stilted Spanish with mailbox, soon obviously from RRI, VG signal // 15450 somewhat weaker. Both are 300 kW, 262 degrees from Tsiganeshti for Spain at 1900-2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. Problem with the transmitter (or jamming?) on 7430 at 2200. All that is scheduled is Romania in English and CRI in Chinese so I'm not sure who would be jamming it. Recording here if anyone can recognise it - https://clyp.it/xbmkactc Posted by: (Ste Cooper, April 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See shot image, physical path towards Eng-, Ireland and Scotland at 300 degrees, as well as perfect propagation from eastern China into Cape Town, at 255 degrees around the globe. Checked at 2245 UT and both signals were CLEAR AUDIO in their target, like S=9+30dB in eastern Thailand, Doha Qatar, as well as RRI in various European cities. Maybe you heard some OTHR military and security force signal? wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Sounds to me as if the Galbeni transmitter had been modulated with this. Anyway it was gone at 2250. But still there was the bad QRM from China. It was even the same on both 41 metres frequencies used for RRI English 2200-2300: 7325 gets interfered by the same Chinese program from CRI as well. It's in fact an almost identical mess on 7325 and 7430. Congrats! (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Someone on the Twente SDR chat mentioned that they thought it was a transmitter problem but also said the same time and frequency was affected last Sunday also. I should have also mentioned that my recording was from North West England (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) A different noise heard on 7430 kHz tonight at 2230 - https://clyp.it/0j2b3h5f (Cooper, April 13, ibid.) 11870, April 11 at 2057, RRI IS in the clear on AM, no DRM, so have they fixed the auto-collision, or did the DRM transmitter go off just before I tuned in? AM closes in less than a minute, as does somewhat weaker // 13650. The second frequency for North America, English at 2030 was originally supposed to be 15170, as Wolfgang Büschel points out. It`s not too late to go there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, Radio Free Sarawak, per Aoki via Palauig- Zambales (Philippines), 1240-1300*, April 12. A rare reception for me, as normally when I daily check on this, all I hear is a well below threshold level open carrier, as the higher bands are mostly dead about this time period, but today well above threshold; in vernacular chatting via phone; 1258 ID for "Radio Free Sarawak" and pop song till off. BTW - Aoki schedule for RFS is incorrect (his dated April 13 1100UT shows 1230* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, April 7 at 0556, very lo-fi clips of Brother Scare via WWCR, and no better on non-synch // 7570 WRMI. Seems he is playing YouTubes of reception of him via Radio Africa Network recorded outside Africa, which he says is transmitted by World Harvest Radio! While we all know RAN is via WRMI, geez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11825, Overcomer Ministry via WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 1737, 6-Apr; Bro HyStairical said he’s on 12 transmitters 300 hours a day. [That works out to 25 hours per day per xmtr. B.S. is transmitting so fast, time has slowed down for him. Damn that pesky relativity.] B.S. ragging on “Mr. Hauser and all you antagonists out there.” “We might take over the whole shortwave spectrum for a short period of time.” “Brother Jeff [WRMI] said to me the other day, ‘We’re going to help you reach the world’.” SIO=3+43 well over co-channel QRM; CRI via China in ‘HR’ listed (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s a stale old rerun segment from weeks ago. B.S. has such a hard time expressing his own scheduling correctly, how can he possibly process accurately the alleged millions of dollars flowing thru Walterboro to accomplish it? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 8 at 1925 check, REE is a JBA carrier instead of bigsig. // 15500 and 15390 also JBACs. Yet, K index of only 1 at 18 & 21 UT, but following a G1 storm in the past 24 hours, so not yet recovered. Solar flux at 92 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 10 at 0114:47.5, prélude joined in progress after open carrier from a semiminute earlier; 2+1 mis-timesignal ends at 0115:17.5, SLBC ID and sign-on in Hindi(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. IBRA Radio - “Radio Sama” Radio Sama is a new station heard initially on 11 March and daily thereafter. During the B15 schedule period the observed schedule was 1800-1900 on 9635 kHz via Woofferton [now 1700-1800 on 15260 via Woofferton-ed]. The station seems to be an Arabic language lifestyle and self enhancement programme with lots of chit-chat mixed with serious talks and some music. Frequent “Radio Sama” identifications are heard throughout the programme. Oddly, the station is listed as IBRA Radio in the HFCC database and it does sound like them at sign-on (Michael Ford, April BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) Indeed it seems to be one of IBRA Radio’s outlets to the Arab world. Announces web site http://www.radiosama.net where a postal address is given of PO Box 53379, 3302 Limassol, Cyprus. Email info@radiosama.net A confusingly similar name to the US government’s “Radio Sawa”! The full schedule for IBRA Radio’s Arabic services in the A16 period is registered in the HFCC as 0800-0830 on 15260-au, 1700-1830 on 15260- wo, 1730-1900 on 15510-wo (ed., ibid.) See also DJIBOUTI ** TAIWAN. A16 schedule for Radio Taiwan International in English (same as B15) 0300-0400 As 15320-tw 1100-1200 As 7445-tw 11600-tw 1500-1600 As 9465-tw 11685-tw (WB - BC-DX via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) That`s all? (gh) ** TAJIKISTAN. New e-mail station Ovozi Tojik: ovozitojik2016@mail.ru Submitted to this address a report on the reception and got here the answer: yes it is correct. Even my report is not attached. I was such a confirmation has not arranged. I send them a sample confirmation of the Belarusian Radio, but so far no response. Apparently, it is introduced them to a dead end (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 10 via DXLD) ** TIBET. 4905, 1600, Xizang, Lhasa – ‘Holy Tibet’ program in English // 4920 6025 6130 6200 7385 (and not on 6110 or 7255). 252 28/03 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF2001D, VEF201, Folded Marconi 16m, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 11513, April 7 at 1304, very poor talk, no doubt V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN on signature split frequency. And likewise JBA carrier on 15567 at 1304, but in a few seconds off and then found on 15552 instead. No CNR1 jammer carriers audible 2 or 3 kHz from any of these. 11513, April 8 at 1321, carrier with no ACI, no doubt current outlet of V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN, altho no modulation audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 18980, Fri April 8 at 1322, JBA carrier, which chex as the Tue & Fri 13-14 UT frequency of RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT, or could be CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID ** TURKEY. The following TRT MW stations are operating in A16, confirmed on 27-31 March 2016: From 0355 on 630 kHz in Arabic and on 891, 927, 954 in Turkish; From 0155 on 1062 kHz in Kurdish (most likely around o’clock) (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Should we from this draw any conclusions that other listed MW TRT stations are not operating any longer? (gh, DXLD) ** TURKEY. 15450.024, April 7 at 1245, VOT in English at fair level; 1307 with Turkish music. 9830, April 12 at 2159-2202, trying to detect VOT English to North America, but all I hear is the strong RTTY station. (9870 does have Saudi Arabia propagating). 2230 recheck, RTTY is off (or in a pause?) and now there is a JBA carrier, presumably TRT. It`s been colliding with the RTTY summer after summer, but never considering a QSY, duh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. [non-log]. 5915, clandestine Radio Lead Africa Media. Finally had a change to check on the Monday (April 11) broadcast of their new frequency (ex: 5910). At 0235 had Zambia open carrier; 0245- 0251 normal IS (African Fish Eagle); after 0300 only heard an open carrier below threshold level (no audio could be heard), so have no idea what was going on here from 0300 to 0400. Cannot say if Radio Lead Africa was even on the air; totally unusable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This morning, Wednesday, I would have expected them on 12060 kHz from 0500-0600, but at 0555 there was nothing. 73 (Thorsten Hallman, ibid.) ?? But he sent this THURSDAY April 14 at 0600 UT (gh, DXLD) ** U A E. 17680, Thu April 7 at 1315, music-box IS heard once, very poor S6, and into BaBcoCk IS. Gone at 1337 recheck. This had been TWR via UAE, in Afar, scheduled Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun only at 1300-1315, 250 kW, 230 degrees from Dhabbaya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. The A16 schedule is released for BBC WS. Link to A16 frequency page which features additional links to regional frequency charts and transmitter details. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2x9tqt6mc05vB2S37j8MWMJ/global-short-wave-frequencies (Via Dan H. on SWLing Post Blog, via April CIDX Messenger via DXLD) A16 SCHEDULES FOR BBC WORLD SERVICE IN ENGLISH BBCWS English to East and Southern Africa 0400-0500 7360-me 15420-dh 0500-0600 3255-me 6190-me 7445-as 11945-me 15420-dh 0600-0800 6190-me 9410-me 13580-md 15420-dh 1500-1600 12095-md 15420-me 1600-1700 3255-me 6190-me 7445-md 12095-me 17640-as 1700-2000 3255-me 6190-me 7445-md 9410-dh BBCWS English to West Africa 0500-0600 5875-as 6005-as 0600-0700 6005-as 7445-as 12095-me 15105-wo 0700-0800 11770-as 12095-as 13660-as 17830-me 1600-1700 17830-as 1700-1800 15400-as 17780-as 17830-as 1800-2000 11810-as 13660-wo 15400-as 2000-2100 9915-wo 11810-as 12095-as 2100-2200 9915-as 11810-as 12095-as (Mon-Fri) BBCWS English to East & South East Asia 1000-1100 6195-kr 9740-th/kr 15285-kr 17760-th 21660-th 1100-1200 6195-ke 9740-th/kr 15285-kr 17760-th 1200-1300 5875-th 6195-kr 9740-kr 11750-th 1300-1400 5875-th 6195-kr 9740-kr 2200-2300 3915-kr 5840-th 5890-th 5905-th 6195-kr 9740-kr 9890-om 2300-0000 5840-th 6195-kr 9740-kr 9890-th 11850-kr 12010-th BBCWS English to South Asia 0000-0100 5970-om 9410-th 12095-th 0100-0200 9410-om 12095-th 15310-th 0200-0300 12095-om 15310-th 0800-0900 17790-th-drm 1300-1400 1413-om 6195-kr 11835-th 15310-om 1400-1500 1413-om## 11890-kr 15310-om 5845-th-drm# 1500-1700 7465-ta 11890-kr 5845-th-drm 1700-1800 1413-om 5845-th-drm BBCWS English to Middle East 0130-0230 1413-om 0300-0400 9440-om 12095-om 0400-0500 1413-om 12095-om 13660-om 1500-1600 9410-om 11675-om 1600-1700 7375-om 9410-om 1700-1900 6195-om 7375-om 1900-2100 1413-om (BBC WS A16 frequency charts/D Kenny, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U K. BBC LAUNCHES WORLD SERVICE AD TO PROMOTE VALUE TO BRITISH PUBLIC --- The Guardian, 6 April 2016 The BBC World Service has launched its first ad campaign in seven years, in a seemingly counterintuitive move to promote the international service to the British public. The BBC said the decision to promote the World Service at home – it is synonymous with being a popular and trusted news source in foreign countries – was to address the misconception that it is solely for overseas audiences. The BBC has championed the World Service, which has over 133 million listeners globally, as a beacon for democratic, unbiased news and current affairs in many countries to counter big state-sponsored media rivals. “With a wealth of content ranging from news, current affairs and global stories to science, music and arts, we want to make sure licence fee-payers in the UK know they can listen to our unique offering and get a deeper understanding of the world,” said Mary Hockaday, controller of BBC World Service English. The decision to launch a promotional drive to alert licence fee-payers to what they are paying for follows the BBC taking on the £245m annual cost of the World Service, which had been funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in 2014. The BBC says the World Service has a loyal following of about 2.2 million listeners in the UK. The ad campaign, which has been developed by ad agency RKCR/Y&R, will run across BBC TV channels, radio stations and online for a month. “The World Service is what the BBC is all about,” said Mark Roalfe, founder and chairman of WPP-owned RKCR/Y&R. “Bringing an amazing range of programming from around the world, in a way that no one else could do. This campaign really looks to celebrate these core values, using real World Service content to do so.” In September, BBC director general Tony Hall announced proposals for a significant expansion of the World Service potentially including a YouTube TV service for Russian speakers and a daily radio news programme for North Korea. In November, the government agreed to give the BBC £289m over the next five years to invest in expanding the World Service as part of its strategy to strengthen the UK’s “soft power” (via Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DXLD) ** U S A. 4443 / 6993, FLORIDA, WH2XWF, ASTRA (experimental class Traveling Ionospheric Disturbance Stations), Hawthorne, Inverness, Homosassa and/or Keystone. 2203 April 6, 2016. Carrier(s) at fairly strong levels both channels, thanks David Crawford tip. Other listed frequencies not audible here. Says 164 watts (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What are the other frequencies? (Glenn to Terry, via DXLD) ** U S A. 13564, April 8 at 0048, I can barely make out GNK, slow CW IDs vs CODAR swishes. I scan the 13550-13570 Part 15 band almost every day at various times with no results lately, poor propagation, or lack of operation by all the beacons which are listed? GNK is in Madison WI, last logged Jan 19 and Dec 11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. A16 schedule for Voice of America in English 0300-0400 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-bo 0400-0500 Daily 4930-bo 4960-sa 6080-sa 15580-bo 0500-0600 Daily 4930-bo 6080-sa 15580-bo 0600-0700 Daily 6080-sa 15580-bo 1400-1500 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-sa 1500-1600 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-bo 17530-bo (Border Crossings) 1600-1700 Daily 4930-bo 6080-sa 15580-bo 1700-1800 Daily 6080-me(to 1730) 6080-sa(from 1730) 13590-va 15580-bo 17530-gr 1800-1830 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-bo 17530-gr 1830-1900 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-bo 1900-2000 Daily 4930-bo 6080-bo 15580-bo (Learning English) 2000-2100 Daily 4930-bo 4940-sa(SaSu)## 6195-bo 15580-bo 2100-2200 Daily 6195-bo 15580-bo (HFCC) A16 schedule for VOA Studio 7 to Zimbabwe in Shona, Ndebele and English: 1700-1800 Daily 909-bo 4930-bo 6065-bo 15460-sa 1800-1900 Daily 909-bo 6065-bo 15460-sa (HFCC) A16 schedule for VOA South Sudan in Focus in English 1630-1700 Mo-Fr 11985-me 15180-va 13750-wo (HFCC via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) That`s all ** U S A. 17530, Sunday April 10 at 1946, jazz song in English, VG signal, from VOA French hour 1930-2030 via Greenville. OK, but if VOA ever plays a note of American/classical music, I`ll keel over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also VIETNAM [non] ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: Thu April 7 at 2100, WRMI 13695 resumes Brother Scare after an ID break, instead of WOR. I go to computer to e-mail Jeff White about this, and when I recheck at 2123, now WOR is playing, at a point indicating the playback started at 2100 except it wasn`t radiating at first on 13695. Jeff checked his logs which indicated WOR did air on time --- we are both confused. He says, ``We can't figure out how that could have happened. But anything's possible I guess with equipment that is quite old. I can say, though, that we have bought and are installing a new audio matrix with computer-controlled audio switching which should eliminate this type of problem. Making all of the connections is going to be quite a job. Can't say how long it will take yet, but it's in the works`` And I replied later, ``Jeff, Another anomaly: checked 7730 UT Friday April 8 at 0030 and it was TOM // 7780, 7570 etc., etc., etc., instead of World Music as on your skedgrid. Of course, I hope that by UT Monday when you have put WOR in at 0030, 7730 will really be playing System D. 73, Glenn`` WOR confirmed Thu April 7 at 2329+ on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB. Measured at 2357 on about 9329.89. Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Friday April 8 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, poor; and at 2130:30 on WRMI 13695, very good S9+20. (Jeff White says TOM instead of World Music on 7730 at 0030 April 8 was intentional, but would soon be back to normal World Music, and so it is at 0026 April 9, and thus ready for new WOR airing 48+ hours later). WOR 1820 also confirmed Fri April 8 at 2329+ on WBCQ, 9329.9- CUSB, fair. Next: Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Sat April 9 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330-CUSB, poor in noise level; also confirmed at 0330 UT Sun April 10 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, 13 minutes in, so started about 0317. Next: Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 10 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Monday April 11 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+30-40, new airing, 285 degrees toward Texas. Also confirmed UT Monday April 11 at 0301 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0320 check on WBCQ 5129.735-AM, S9+20. Also confirmed UT Monday April 11 after 0330 on WRMI webcast, but JBA on 9955. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed Monday April 11 from 2329:23 on WBCQ 9330.02-CUSB. (The Planet ID & IS already playing at 2325; another measurement at 2355 comes closer to 9330.03). Next: Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed April 12 at new Tuesday time 2130 on WRMI 15770, good altho aimed NE. Also confirmed Tue April 12 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.02-CUSB. Also confirmed Wed April 13 after 1315 on WRMI 9955, poor at S6 but no jamming. Also confirmed Wed April 13 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, following ``secret words`` during automation misalignment, ``toilet paper``. (Also, the canned WBCQ singing ID immediately preceding, always gets cut off before the final music notes resolve, not only now, but I think at other breaks.) WOR also confirmed on WBCQ, AM 7490-, Wed April 13 at 2121, very poor in daytime noise level. Also confirmed Wed April 13 at 2329+ on WBCQ 9330.090v-CUSB, poor. WORLD OF RADIO 1821: ready for first broadcasts April 14: Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [or off air last week and this?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [or off air last week and this?] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 11580, Fri April 8 at 1321, WRMI with World Music, but now mixing about equal level with some Asian station --- i.e. KTWR GUAM in Vietnamese until 1330 (except Sat to 1345). By 1348 recheck, now the problem is strong ACI from 11585, which is also KTWR from *1345. By 1425, WRMI 11580 is in the clear but weakening, still World Music, and on 9955, different World Music, African at the moment, both instead of scheduled Brother HyStairical after 1400. See also WRMI under WORLD OF RADIO monitoring 15440, April 9 at 1804, this WRMIBS is absent, but TOM redundantly audible still on 13695, 11825, 11580, 11565, 9955, and a weak signal on 17790 would be that too. 21675 with RAN remains a JBA carrier these days. 11580, April 10 at 1337, WRMI with World Music, African at the moment; earlier in this hour it had a non-BS gospel huxter as scheduled Sundays only, so switched at 1330? 15440, April 10 at 1359 and 1405, no signal from WRMIBS; strange, as RHC is blasting in on 15370, so propagation is OK. Have noticed 15440 missing before, unlucky #13 transmitter, nominally scheduled 14-23, paired with 7730 at 23-14. By 1503 recheck, 15440 is on with BS but poorly audible with fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) "Your Weekend Show" --- Glenn comments often about separation of church and state and the various religious broadcasters on shortwave. I came across "Your Weekend Show" with Bob Biermann on WRMI this afternoon (11580 kHz at 2000 UT), and as far as religious programming goes, this show is quite refreshing. We've talked here before about programming from more moderate, non- fundamentalist, Christian groups including Quakers and Mennonites. Bob Biermann is an Anglican bishop (raised a Lutheran) and his religious message is low-key and intelligent. So whether you are an atheist, agnostic, or a follower of one of the world's established religions, it's worth a listen. One of his tag lines: "international shortwave is back." Maybe (Richard Langley, NB, Sunday April 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for sharing this. I will be sure and give him a lesson and if it is good, to plug him on Mennonite Radio & Broad Spectrum Radio. We need more moderate and progressive voices on SW (James Branum, OK, ibid.) Lesson? O, I think he means listen, hi (gh, ibid.) I reported on this a semiyear ago: ``7455, Oct 4 at 0111, WRMI TruNews service is in secular program, two DJs from the 60s and 70s reminiscing about how rock radio used to be in several major US markets. One is named Bob, but never heard full names of either; among many stations mentioned is WOSN (which is 97.1 in Indian River Shores FL, ``The Ocean [Osean?]`` with adult standards, per WTFDA). Before a break at 0130, program ID as ``Your Weekend Show``, then Rick Wiles plugging nonsense. More here: http://www.yourweekendshow.com with Bob Biermann, a primarily shortwave program which I had never run across before, so put off am I by the anti-American politix and gospel huxterism of TruNews. Archive goes back to March 7-8, 2015. Sked on WRMI is: Sat 06, Sun 01, 06, Mon 01 UT on 5850, 7455, 9395. TruNews is a ``partner`` and Bob is ``in the ministry`` tho you`d never know it from the few minutes I heard, whew`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21675, FL, WRMI, 4/11, 2200. Vintage rebroadcast of The Green Hornet. Excellent reception. I haven't heard this before. 73 and Good Listening (Rick Barton, AZ, Comms gear with random wire antenna or Slinky unless otherwise noted, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Old-time radio seems to be regular at 2200 on this; daily or not? (gh) 21675, April 12 at 1358, TOM theme via Radio Africa Network via WRMI, at S9+20, instead of usual JBA carrier, so is getting sporadic E boost. After 1400 into other music not // TOM frequencies. 15610 WEWN is also much stronger than usual, S9+20, but 15825 WWCR is still poor at S8. 15555-USB WJHR is just starting with ``Rock of Ages`` theme, S9 despite peanut-power. Therefore I conclude the sporadic E opening up to at least 22 MHz is operative from southeast, but not east. Nothing audible here on 12 or 10m. Checked at 1455, the 6m ham dxmap shows no activity, but on 10m there are lots of mostly east-west coast-to-coast contacts by unknown mode, which might imply F2, but that would not be affecting 15 MHz as close as 1 megameter, nor maybe even 21 MHz at 2 megameters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn. Re the missing Hal Turner show mentioned in the latest edition [16-14]. I wasn't listening to the radio that night, was watching television. Ramsey called and asked if I knew what was on in place of Hal Turner that night. He said that someone had mentioned Radio Bipolar. I turned it on for a few seconds but didn't hear any ID. Ramsey thought that it was possibly Tom Barna's show, BCQ`s resident engineer. On the next AWW to air it was mentioned that there was a problem with the feed from Hal Turner and the problem had been fixed and that what was aired was indeed Radio Bipolar and that it was indeed programmed by Tom Barna (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5130, nf, WBCQ WITH Plastic Magic Rock 'n Roll Radio Program with program & WBCQ ID with freq. [uency or uent?], obscure Deep Purple & Heavy Balloons etc. tunes. Email from listener on SW asking about the sked. This is a new frequency for 'area 51'. SID at ToH into a rerun of Gene Shepard [sic: he was Jean Shepherd --- gh] Show from WOR which was quite the strange 'train of thought' topic hodge-podge [or rather `stream of consciousness` --- gh]. Bits of wisdom from 'you have to learn to read just so you know what kind of car you're stealing' & 'Mingus Texas, where long-neck beers are 45 cents & the knuckle sandwiches are free, and plentiful.' Classic stuff. Another WBCQ SID at 0238. IDs & silliness then into Hauser's World of Radio #1819 from March 31 recording. 44443+ 0148-0328 4/Apr; SPR4 + AM4/randomwire (Ken Zichi, Williamston-Howell Metroplex MI, MARE Tipsheet April 8 via DXLD) UT Monday. Shepherd is alt. weeks (gh) 7489.97-AM, S9+30, UT Fri April 8 at 0000, WBCQ opens classic SF drama from NBC and Galaxy Magazine, `(X Minus 1)`, but only for one minute, as it`s really the new show hosted by J. J., `Reverb Madness` or is it `Rebirth Madness`, or even `Reefer Madness`? probably the first one but somewhat mumbled, since it appears to be about classic rock music, starting at 0003 with Dick Dale and ``Let`s Go Trippin```. Still not entered on the WBCQ website schedule so I can`t spell title for sure. During this hour it replaces repeats of `Allan Weiner Worldwide` from last Saturday or earlier. 7489.90-AM, UT Sat April 9 at 0002, William Tell Overture, but no Allan Weiner, as he warned last week: subbing are cosmikdebris and Jane with a bit of music to start, and then continuous conversation, assuring us is live on 7490 and 5130 (5129.74) but comparing them, 7490 is running about one word behind 5130. Jane is recovering from an ankle injury. Cos recommends 7200-LSB for vulgar and yelling hams; discusses Free Radio Weekly, of which he is a co-editor: lots of pirate activity the past week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Channel 292 News / 50 kW for the USA Deutsch / English / Nederlands [cf GERMANY] To our listeners and customers, at the moment we are working on some kind of cooperation with a station in the USA, broadcasting on shortwave, too. If interested, our customers in Europe could place combined bookings for Europe and the USA together; we are thinking about a price of 44 euros / 49 US Dollars for one hour on both stations. The station in the US uses 50 kW and reaches the US, Central America and parts of Southern America in good quality. Herewith we ask our customers and prospects to let us know, if the possibly could be interested in combined bookings, or maybe for bookings only for the US. In case of combined bookings of course the contents for Europe and the US can be different. We are waiting for your comments and questions! Regards, Radio Channel 292 http://www.channel292.de (via Richard Langley, dxldyg via DXLD) Which 50 kW transmitter, I wonder? One of WBCQs? That's the worst U.S. station, typically, for me. Almost always in the shadow zone (Richard Langley, Fredericton NB, ibid.) Apparently WBCQ; Allan was talking about such a deal on the air during AWWW (gh, DXLD) Thanks, Glenn. Too bad not for WWRB, which puts in a better signal here. Just listened to the last ten minutes on 5050 kHz before they signed off with the "free speech radio" spiel as you've previously noted (Richard Langley, ibid.) Grits Radio Show-0154-4-10-16 The Merle Haggard Show --- Enjoy ! http://www.mediafire.com/download/b163pdzdusc9lcs/Grits+Radio+Show-0154-4-10-16-The+Merle+Haggard+Show.mp3 -- listen http://gritsradio.pmlol.com/ (Brad Read, April 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pirate Radio Station on w5kub.com April 12: http://www.eham.net/articles/36541 Back for part 2. Allan Wiener, world famous radio pirate will be back with us again Tuesday April 12 at 8:00 PMCT. There was so much that we did not have time to cover during his last appearance. Lets get more detail on why he put Radio New York International on the air from a ship off the coast of NY, how the FCC busted him, the crews arrest, the trial, and his straight path to owning several FCC licensed radio stations. Allan is also a highly skilled radio engineer and a collector and restores vintage equipment. Phone lines will be open for viewers to call in. Watch the show on Amateur Radio Roundtable on w5kub.com Tues at 8PM CST or listen to the show on international shortwave station WBCQ on 5130 kHz. Note to all of you that complained last time that we were promoting this illegal behavior. This is controversial but it is not condoning illegal operation. It is a discussion of past history, it shows you that if you try this you will be arrested, and it also shows that even for those that started off like this, some made a turn around and have become licened. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, April 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5050, April 8 at 0004, WWRB is S9+40, during some gospel huxter. Since my last report about rants from Frantz, I`ve received a couple emails from Dave, April 6-7, (edited here only for style): ``We will use 5050 till the fall. We start WWRB free speech broadcasting at 6:55 pm ET with our interval signal. We are open to ALL faiths & religions, political groups, left, right, center. What ever? WWRB is nothing more than a RF transmission provider: We take no sides in programming content. We no longer provide ANY charity flights on our aircraft. The airplanes do not move unless the entire flight is paid for: FULL commercial charter rates apply. We provide zero subsidies and not interested in 'tax deductible' receipts. We will however 'Pray' for free --- Just like we have heard for the last 20 years whenever we have needed ANY kind of assistance. We have changed formats on WWRB and our airtime is open to all``. I don`t recall ever hearing an interval signal from WWRB, so must be sure to catch that at 2255 UT. 5050, April 8 from *2253, S9+10 open carrier comes on from WWRB; standing by to record their interval signal --- which starts at 2256, and it`s, it`s --- Radio RSA, from the apartheid era!! Nice tune ``Wer in de Wereld, Kittie`` on guitar mixed with Bokmakirie bird chirps. Excuse my Afrikaans if misspelt. It`s like this, without the ID announcement or anthem: http://www.intervalsignals.net/Files/afs-z-radio_rsa_1977.m3u Plays repeatedly until 2300:25 when Dave does a quick sign-on and frequency announcement for 5.050; into music, presumably introducing a preacher; white supremacist?? Well, why not use fine old or outdated ISes from defunct SW stations? I wonder if different ones will air on different days? WLIS! 5050, April 9 at 2255, WWRB again playing the Radio RSA interval signal prior to sign-on. Recheck at 0117 April 10, now it`s S9+50 as Dave is pitching for business since format change last week, any kind of programming now welcome including Islamic, phone 931-728-6087 for ``115,000 watts of Freedom of Speech``; then some quintessential disco music which is enough to splatter upon 5040 RHC unless it`s tuned with LSB. Rerecheck at 0146, now big band music, ``I`ll Be Seeing You``. How about program schedules? No direct link on the website, but if you dig for it, http://www.wwrb.org/tsched.php From there click on Global One for 5050: and see this embedded pdf, which I am quite sure is way out of date, still including e.g. WORLD OF RADIO Thursday at 11:30 pm ET http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf 5049.993, April 10 at 2255, WWRB again playing the Radio RSA interval signal, so seems they are making it their own and not co-opting any others (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was so surprized when I encountered yesterday the interval signal of Radio RSA on 5050 kHz. This was my most favorite i.s. Video clips in my blog: http://shortwaverecording.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/interval-signal-surprize/ (Sakae Obara, AB5MF - JH0BDK, New Jersey, April 11, dxldyg via DXLD) 5050, April 11 at 2319, I find DJ Dave Frantz is devoting this hour on WWRB to pitching for new business, alternating with some tunes. Similar spiel from one break to the next. Summarizing his points: WWRB is not using souped-up military surplus junk transmitters from the 1940s, such as a BC-610, but state-of-the-art Harris 100 kW transmitters with solid-state modulators which can change frequencies from 1 to 30 megacycles in 10 seconds, frequency-agile auto-tune. Has professional, top-notch, modern rhombic antennas on real radio towers 200 feet high, not lower telephone poles. No guessing, antenna radiation patterns have been measured by flying around the site, with instruments on one of his airplanes. Also used to locate FM pirates down to 3 meters for clients, takes only 15 minutes, but it`s expensive. 5050 is now running the #4 transmitter at 95% (? I didn`t copy this number for sure) efficiency. Brother Ben is coming at top of hour. WWRB wants to sell time only in the evenings until midnight ET when there is a shortwave audience, not 3 am overnight and certainly not 3 pm in the daytime when you would be wasting your money. An Islamic broadcaster starts this week with Holy Qur`an in English to USA, Central America, Caribbean (no time or frequency given! nor does he ever mention airtime rates). Purchasers of one program hour or 100 are all welcome. It`s clear to me that denigrating ``surplus junk`` like the BC-610 is a dig at WBCQ; and ``200-foot towers instead of telephone poles`` is a dig at WTWW and WWCR. Meanwhile I have received more e-mail from Dave, about an hour after this broadcast, edited here only for style: ``Greetings! Lots of questions on our format change and are we still 'Christian' ??? Our reply is we no longer put up with: WORTHLESS Christian lip service --- We're going to PRAY for you. We are 'quid pro quo' NOW!!! When a requesting church / pastor wants us to come over and fix their air conditioning system, computers, video, PA systems, re-lamp, rig, or paint their radio tower, fix their FM transmitter, AM transmitter - -- WHAT EVER, We tell them right then: what are your going to DO for US in RETURN, period, and they have to sign a contract! No more we`re going to PRAY for you or one-sided Christian bull shit. For years this is ALL we have heard & endured. They get MAD as hell -- - better THEM than US! No more hurt or utter abject disappointment of being grievously used --- The source of my so called 'rant's as you put it! Only TWO types of people in this world: GIVERS & TAKERS`` I replied: ``Hi Dave, I also heard your pitches this evening and will be summarizing them --- putting down WBCQ, WWCR, WTWW --- I hope you will be putting an up to date program schedule on your website before long. 73, Glenn`` And he replied again: ``Not putting down anybody, just telling listeners / potential broadcasters we operate 'modern' auto tuned transmitter equipment that performs with high efficiency, and new automation equipment. 160 foot high (sag point) suspended on steel towers rhombic antennas proved and adjusted by aircraft; (N5259Q, our radio survey aircraft). Not guessing on the patterns: and they MEET THE 10 dB GAIN rule at 3 MHz. We are the ONLY SW station ever inspected by the FCC and they are welcomed here at any time, with the caveat to inspect ALL of us! and prove their facilities like we had to, including the 10 dB rule at 3 MHz. WWRB is a business now and we are marketing our facilities. I am sorry if you got the impression we we're putting someone down; as you are aware, the unlicensed pirates in the upper 6 MHz band are PLENTIFUL and no doubt running military surplus gear, like BC-610-s etc. (had one myself years ago). Now that WWRB is a free speech radio station they are welcomed to join us, be legal and be heard!! Come out of the shadows --- WELCOMED on WWRB. In closing, We do not play games; after 7 NO-KNOCK FCC inspections, we KNOW they EXIST AND mean business!!! and know their shit. It's a damm good thing we were / are operating by the rules when they came, or it would have been our ass!`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5050, April 13 at 2331 check, no WWRB, after several regular appearances from *2255 with Radio RSA IS. Richard Langley says Dave was doing his monolog later UT April 14 after 0200. Maybe timing depends on when he has an unsold hour to fill, and/or whether he`s off on a flight. Hey, why not broadcast remotely live from the air? Richard says he was talking about his experiences as a pilot from a young age (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WMLK, 9275.03 at 1947 with Jacob O. Meyer. Decent modulation. 7 April (Cameron 73/Liz, MI, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 9265, April 12 at 1349, surprised to find a gospel huxter about pharisees at this early hour on a Tuesday: got to be WINB uniquely scheduled here. Own website sked as of April 3 still shows it not signing on until 2 pm ET on weekdays (*18 UT; Saturday *1430, Sunday *1130). So a lot of new customers? Who were pharisees, anyway? http://www.gotquestions.org/Sadducees-Pharisees.html 9265, Wed April 13 at 1337 check, WINB is again like yesterday on air way earlier than before on a weekday, with a gospel huxter at S5; also Thu April 14 at 1434, poor S6. Program schedule as of April 14 still hasn`t caught up with this, showing nothing before *1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505v, April 9 at 0059 and 0147, WRNO is still absent. Apparently has been off all month, as Walt Salmaniw says it was off for last few days as of April 3. I`ve yet to encounter any programming to be missed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** U S A. 12050, April 9 at 1807, open carrier/dead air at S9 from WEWN, while // Spanish 13830 is also OC/DA at S5. 11550, April 11 at 1333, Vatican Radio in Spanish relay by WEWN, but this time // 12050 is AWOL. I guess one of their transmitters is completely down. 12050 // 13830 in Spanish, and 15610 in English, April 11 at 2058, all three WEWN transmitters are now vigorous. Previously one frequency or another was AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: WWCR media programs --- Hi Glenn, I see that Wavescan is no longer listed at 1630 Saturdays on 12160 on the WWCR program schedule (Peter W Hansen, April 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, `Wavescan` has been moved to UT Sundays 0330 on 4840. Also corrected time for `Into Tomorrow` to: Sundays 0505-0600 on 4840. Looking thru rest of WWCR schedule, I am amused to see ``Descansados`` from Pacific Garden Mission, M&F 2130-2200 on 15825. That word means ``rested`` or ``untired`` --- program is really ``Desencadenados``, literally ``unchained``, i.e. Spanish version of ``Unshackled``. (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** U S A. 12105, WTWW, Lebanon TN; 1733, 6-Apr; Permanently Planted Petunia-Pushing Pastor Pete Peters; said he’s tolerant of many things. S10 with strong whine in AM; USB takes it out. Does not appear to be // Patently Perverse Pastor Pete Peters on 9475, also WTWW (presumed), unless they’re many seconds apart (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 17-18 & 01-02 segments are separate, constituting the only English other than ID breaks, on 12105 (gh, DXLD) 12105, 1856-1900+, 6-Apr; “The Bible Worldwide”; said they QSL; Call/QTH ID at ToH, into Spanish huxterage; Still with the strong whine. Not // 9475 with PPP (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475, April 12 at 0543, poor S7-S5 signal with SFAW, and nothing on 5830, so yet again Ted has neglected to change WTWW-1 to night frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 17775.00, April 12 at 1923, surprised to hear KVOH Spanish on the air later than nominal 1900*, S9+20 but undermodulated music, until 1936 a segment praying to a padre, then music; 1940 seems like sign-off, until 6 am, and mentions 12 horas as in noon, when it normally closes by PDT. But more gospel rock keeps playing with a heavy beat, and 1950 another preaching program starts, `El Camino de la Vida`. I can`t hang around, but maybe finally goes off circa 2000, an hour late. A hangup in their automation playback, or confused by PST/PDT? PDF program schedule http://www.voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf shows the `Camino` show is supposed to air at 1800-1815 UT, but it hasn`t been updated since January and still shows wrong standard time conversions. I`ve never understood why they don`t broadcast several hours later, when 17775 is certainly propagating better into Latin America and there could be more listeners in the evening; maybe just a matter of expense. Are KVOH still not running their latest acquired transmitter? At least this one is spot-on frequency. BTW, 17775 is a JBA carrier at best at *1400 these days. Now before 2000 it`s advisable to tune USB to avoid blast from 17765 WHRIBS. (KVOH, BTW, had the good sense to turn down Brother Scare who would like to occupy every US SW station.) Of course, SCG`s main attention is now focused on getting going in Zambia. Ray Robinson tells me that VOH Africa haven`t been on 4965, 6065 or 9680 since Good Friday; the area service may come back later this month, once linkups between Lusaka and site are firmed up; but awaiting a replacement part for the other transmitter to West Africa, which it may take months for Continental to fabricate and provide. More about this on WORLD OF RADIO 1821 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Adventist World Radio A16 schedule for AWR in English 1030-1100 .mtwt.s As 17870-gm (Filipino, may include English) 1300-1330 Daily As 15430-tr 1530-1600 smtw..s As 15670-nn 1600-1630 Daily As 11975-tr 15530-gm 1630-1700 .m.w.f. As 15360-gm 1830-1900 Daily Af 15155-tr 2100-2130 Daily Af 11955-tr 2200-2230 s.t.t.. As 15435-gm (HFCC via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Guam, Sri Lanka, Germany Yet not all of these carry Wavescan on Sundays. No matter: WRMI airs it dozens of times each week (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 580, April 10 at 1209-1211 UT, Pres. Obama`s Weekly Address, about consumer protexion, via WIBW Topeka KS. Assume this is a regular spot, Sundays at 1206 UT. These used to air first on Saturdays at 1406 UT followed by Republican dis-response an hour later, or vice versa. C-SPAN (1) tries to schedule them circa 2220 UT Saturdays, not always succeeding, just before their media program, The Communicators (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 810, KLVZ, CO, Brighton – Silent Apr. 1; will develop a new format and identity (AM Switch, NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1220 kHz, appropriately at 1220 UT April 8, ads for Table Rock Community Bank, and for Ed`s Heating & Cooling, loops NE/SW or so --- love it when I hear unique local ads! Bank name leads to Kimberling City, Stone County, Missouri, with a branch in Branson, so KOMC, 1000/44 watts U1, Branson MO which is just east of Kimberling. Ed`s Heating & Cooling is not quite so unique, but there is such a biz in Branson. {BTW, KOMC was the original callsign of TV channel A8 in McCook NE, which I DXed numerous times in the `60s, before it was overtaken by the Kansas State Network as KSNK Oberlin} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, April 9 at 1222 UT, two ``1370 KGNO`` IDs before and after a commercial, then C&W music, 1226 UT fading into QRM. At last! I am hearing KGNO Dodge City KS, after months of trying, day, night and in-between like now just after sunrise. This 5000/230 watt U1 = non direxional day and night, should not be so difficult, only 151 miles = 243 km away, if it`s really been on the air with licensed facilities. Next check April 10 at 0056 UT tune-in, I immediately get another ``1370 KGNO`` ID and C&W music! Yet I will never classify KGNO as a pest after so much abstinence (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 9 at 1237 UT while trying to ID the ``Ke Buena`` here (see UNIDENTIFIED), I get a bit of South Asian vocal music, which is surely the Asian-format listed station in Pasadena TX, KLVL, 5000/500 watts U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, April 10 at 0140 UT, dominant signal here is classic rock, ``Bee-Bop-Baby``, then 0141 UT, ``Wonderful K-Box in Dallas``, more tunes, heavy SAH at times of 4 or 5 Hz; 0144 UT, ``Go-go sound of wonderful K-Box in Dallas``, so reactivated KBXD is still stunting thus. I don`t find anything recent about KBXD on radiodiscussions or radioinsight. Radio-locator still has it as gospel music, way outdated. Earlier, April 9 at 1229-1245 UT during my ``Ke Buena`` log, see UNIDENTIFIED, I was wondering if that could have been another format change for KBXD. No, but why wasn`t I getting the present KBXD then? Now its major lobe to the NW is enough to take over 1480, but it sure sounds like 50 kW instead of nite power of 1.9 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, KRAE, WY, Cheyenne – CP for U1 500/72 has expired and is deleted (AM Switch, NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) So presumably remains on air at 1000/72 watts U1 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1500, LOUISIANA, KCLF, New Roads. 0828 April 10, 2016. The usual and enjoyable Blues and gospel Blues. Suspect they are always on day power (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, Hillsborough County, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, April 9 at 1250 UT, half a sesquihour after sunrise, classic rock is still overcoming KOKC talk, pro-Celtic sea salt, anti- poisonous GM food, so KYND Cypress (Houston) TX is still QRMing KOKC from way out of its market, making very slow 26/minute SAH = 0.43 Hz. A few degrees apart, I can clear KOKC by tight nulling of KYND, but that also lessens KOKC signal which must still be on ~half the power of KYND, self-defeating; 1254 UT fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540.056, April 8 at 1227 UT, persistent het against 1540.00 KXEL, no doubt from KGBC Galveston TX, as previously identified, and still audible just about any time at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, KMPC, CA, Los Angeles – 3/6 0753 [EST = 1253 UT] – Korean programming to 0756 then into long station info and ID announcement, followed by US and ROK NA's. TOH time pips then English ID announcement "50,000 watts maximum power, Radio Korea, AM- 1540, KMPC, Los Angeles," then into more Korean programming (Robert Vance, El Paso TX, Domestic DX Digest-West via NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1560 KGOW --- Absolutely blasting in here in Bloomington MN obviously on day power (Todd Skaine, 0301 ut April 10, ABDX via DXLD) From the day site. It has different day and night sites. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) 1560, April 12 at 0556 UT, promo for Yahoo Sports Radio shows, dominating even on E-W longwire, but no doubt KGOW Bellaire (Houston market) TX, 46 kW day power and pattern to the NE, rather than 15 kW night to the SE; as others have reported lately, including this just in from George Thurman, Houston: Can you get KGOW 1560 up there at night? They have been running BOTH of their transmitter sites at the same [time] at night. I reported it to the CE. GEORGE THURMAN`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I sent the C.E. a voicemail about this Tuesday. It is still going on this Tuesday night/Wednesday morning (George Thurman, TX, Wed April 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1580, WPJK, SC, Orangeburg – Silent Nov. 1 (2015); financial problems, looking for buyer (AM Switch, NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) tsk2, in January 2011, WPJK was a SW station via second harmonic on 3160, as I logged them (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1620, WDND, IN, South Bend – Format to NOS (ex-ROCK); slogan to “America’s Best Music,” networks to DG; delete // WNDV-FM-92.9. (via Scott Fybush, (AM Switch, NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) ** U S A. BernieS sends us a pointer to this interesting article: "Some Tuesday morning listeners of KIFT, a Top 40 radio station located in Breckenridge, Colorado, were treated to a radically different programming menu than they were used to. Instead of the normal fare from Taylor Swift, The Chainsmokers, or other pop stars, a hack by an unknown party caused one of the station's signals to broadcast a sexually explicit podcast related to the erotic attraction to furry characters. The unauthorized broadcast lasted for about 90 minutes." http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/nation-wide-radio-station-hack-airs-hours-of-vulgar-furry-sex-ramblings/ (via FRW via DXLD) ** U S A. Hackers attack stations. More details regarding the hijacking of the multiple stations’ audio have come to light. Furcast wrote a long accord [sic] of what happened on their end after they were tipped off to their content being heard on the stations. The hacker apparently used the Shodan device search engine to build a database of unsecured Barix devices which then broke into as many of the devices as possible and connected them to Furcast’s stream. When Furcast was made aware they cut off the stream and moved it to a new URL to prevent further access. ArsTechina also has a feature up on the event. The Michigan Association of Broadcasters published a report on how to further secure a Barix box including using a 24-character password and hide the web access to the box underneath a firewall. Original Report 4/6: Some listeners of Always Mountain Time Hot AC “Lift FM” 106.3 KIFT Kremmling CO and other stations across the country got a surprise on Tuesday morning when the stations began airing the audio of an explicit podcast about furry sex. KIFT was not the only station to be affected. 104.3 KXAX-LP Livingston TX, an AM in Denver and a national syndicator that wished to not be identified were also affected by what seems like a directed botnet attack seeking access to as many public facing Barix while then locking out the stations. Engineers at the stations needed to do a hard reset of the devices to regain control (From Radio Insight via NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non]. Vatican Tentative A16 schedule for Vatican Radio in English: 0140-0200 Daily As 11730-va* 15470-va 9515-va** (*to 3 Sep, ** from 4 Sep) 0300-0320 Daily As 15470-ph 0300-0330 Daily Af 7360-va 9660-va 0500-0530 Daily Af 9660-md 11625-va 0630-0700 Daily Af 11625-va 13765-va 0630-0645 .mtwtfs ME 15595-va 0700-1030 irreg Af 21550-va (irreg -special events) 1130-1200 .....f. AsAu 17590-va 21560-va (mass) 1530-1550 Daily AsAu 11695-rv 15470-ph 17485-va-drm (Sa: Mass to 1600) 1615-1630 Daily ME 15595-va 1730-1800 Daily Af 11625-md 13765-va 15570-va 2000-2030 Daily Af 11625-va 13765-va (HFCC/DK, Apr BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Madagascar, Philippines ** VIETNAM [and non]. Tentative A16 schedule, Voice of Vietnam English 0100-0130 Am 12005-wo 0230-0300 Am 12005-wo 0330-0400 Am 6175-whri 1000-1030 As 9840 12020 1130-1200 As 9840 12020 1230-1300 As 9840 12020 1330-1400 As 9840 12020 1500-1530 As 9840 12020 1600-1630 EuMEAf 7220 7280 9550 9730 1700-1730 Eu 9625-au 1900-1930 EuMEAf 7280 9730 2030-2100 EuMEAf 7220 7280 9550 9730 2330-0000 As 9840 12020 (HFCC via April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. NGUYEN NGOC BICH, WHO DIRECTED THE VIETNAMESE SERVICE OF RADIO FREE ASIA, DIES AT 78 --- By Bart Barnes, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nguyen-ngoc-bich-who-directed-the-vietnamese-service-of-radio-free-asia-dies-at-78/2016/04/11/038099c4-fcf8-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_print.html Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a Vietnamese emigre who directed the Vietnamese service of Radio Free Asia, translated and wrote about Vietnamese poets, and taught Vietnamese culture and literature, died March 2. He was 78. He died of a heart attack while on a flight from Washington to Manila, where he was scheduled to participate in a conference, said a brother-in-law, John Schwankhaus. Mr. Bich fled Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon to the Viet Cong and the ensuing evacuation of remaining U.S. diplomats, military personnel and supporters. In the period immediately before the fall of Saigon, he was director general of the Vietnam Press Agency and a special envoy of South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu to the U.S. Congress in a last- ditch campaign for more war aid in the face of the Viet Cong's last offensive. Mr. Bich was born July 26, 1937, just north of Hanoi in what then was French Indochina. His father was a province chief under the French colonial administration, and he grew up in what The Washington Post described as a "19th century French neoclassical palace . . . ringed by gardens, storage rooms and apartments for hundreds of servants and soldiers." After World War II, he moved with his family to Saigon. He attended Princeton University on a Fulbright scholarship, graduating in 1958. He did postgraduate study in Asian studies at Columbia University and in Japanese literature at Kyoto University in Japan. A resident of Springfield, Va., he held several teaching appointments, including adult education posts in Arlington elementary and high schools, and teaching Vietnamese literature and culture at Trinity University in Washington and George Mason University. He was a teacher trainer in bilingual and multicultural education at Georgetown University. He was deputy director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education during the George H.W. Bush presidency. In 1997, he became the first director of the Vietnamese service of Radio Free Asia. He retired in 2003. He was editor or author of books and anthologies of Vietnamese poetry and a translator into English of verse collections "The Flowers of Hell" by Nguyen Chi Thien and "Blood Seeds Become Poetry" by Hat Mau Tho. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Dao Thi Hoi of Springfield. (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) obit ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINAS: 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, Argélia. A emissão matutina continua sem o programa em castelhano, originalmente, passado entre 45 min. a 1 h antes do encerramento. A vespertina tem, com alguma regularidade, esse segmento entre as 2300 e as 2330, hora a que encerra. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, April 7 at 1324, nothing but a JBA carrier instead of bigsig from Republic of Yemen Radio. Must be a bad propagation day from Sa`udi Arabia, or wherever. Slightly better and recognizable at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rep. Yemen Radio, Sana`a (Saudi Arabia Relay?) 11860, 1352 7 APR - SINPO = 25322. Arabic, female announcer interviews a rather excited male. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation on noisy carrier occasionally dips below noise floor but mostly mixing or just above it. sf88.5, a7, k1, geomag: very quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM! from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0652 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, April 8 at 1247, Republic of Yemen Radio, back up to S9 good signal level but fading to S5, with traditional ME song and orchestra, voice which I associate with Umm Kulthum, but can`t be positive it`s she. 1259 ID mentions ``Yemeniyah``, theme music, Arabic ``mission statement``, into talk by YL. If anyone can hear this around 1517 (not likely me), that`s the current sunset time for Sana`a, in case they resume any Maghrib calls-to-prayer. Yet, no Turkey audible before or after 1300 on 15450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No call to prayer noted today (9 April) around 15:17 UTC while listening via Twente. SoundHound identified one musical item played just after that time as "The Cedars of Lebanon" by Ron Goodwin on "Music for an Arabian Night." -- Richard Langley 11860, 1324 9 APR - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 15222. Arabic, male announcer interviews male who gets rather exited at times. (Spot checks at 1305z nothing heard. 1350z SINPO 35323 male interviewing male. 1443z SINPO 25222 music with microtonal vocals). QSB=moderate-to-rapid rate, modulation on noisy carrier occasionally peaks above noise floor but mostly mixes or below it. sf100.9, a9, k1, geomag: very quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ- 1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0624. 11860, 1336 10 APR - in ARABIC from RIYADH?. SINPO = 25222. Arabic, female announcer interviews male. musical interludes. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation on noisy carrier mostly just above or mixing with the noise floor. (Spot check at 1443z SINPO15312 music, male announcer) sf106.6, a3, k2, geomag: quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0636. 11860, 1340 11 APR - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 35222. Arabic, male announcer interviews male (who does most of the talking, and gets rather excited at times). QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, deep, modulation mostly above noise floor but constant rapid fades to well below it. (Spot check @1456z SINPO25322 music) sf114.1, a7, k1, geomag: very quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ- 1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh? Local time: 0640 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, April 12 at 1313, Republic of Yemen Radio, modulation is cutting off and on, YL in Arabic, mostly off, at S8-S3; 1319 back on to stay; by 1340 interview it`s up to S9 to S9+10. I`m checking the A-16 HFCC whether there is any scheduled usage of 25m now by Riyadh site around this time, to compare signals? NO, nothing at all between 12 and 18 UT. How about Jeddah? Yes, still a suspicious one obviously not in use on frequency listed as 50 kW, non-direxional: ``11855 0600 1700 38E,39,48NW JED 50 0 Ara ARS ARS ARS`` And as exhaustively discussed in past months, the 11860 signal has got to be much higher power, more likely from Riyadh, but still very veiled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Conditions here have been fair for the most part; an overnight Minor Geomagnetic Storm has shut down the polar paths here this morning (~1330z-1500z) but the higher solar flux has kept the trans-equatorial signals from Asia/Pacific coming in, also a couple of Madagascar relays. Most signals were weakened and suffering from fading, but old reliable signals from R. Australia on 9580 and BBC Singapore on 11890 were strong and perfectly readable. One notable absence was Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa on 11860 of which there was no trace of carrier this morning. I assume they are transmitting but since the polar paths are shut down they are not getting through as this has happened before in the wake of Geomagnetic Storms. This still makes me wonder about what path (north pole or long path, long gray-line, etc.) of which this signal arrives, but I guess a geomag storm would absorb of any of those paths. Heard last couple of days: 11860, 1315 12 APR - REP. YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 15411. Arabic, male announcer. QSB=moderate-to-rapid, only occasionally discernible modulation on noisy carrier just above a very quiet and low noise floor. (Spot check at 1513z SINPO 35323 music, male announcer). sf113.2, a6, k2, geomag: quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0615 (Rodney Johnson, NV, April 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. Voice of Hope, Zambia? Haven`t seen any logs of this for a week or more. Ray, is it still on and testing? North Americans may not have kept trying for it since scheduling is unfavorable for us (Glenn Hauser, April 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Glenn. Voice of Hope - Africa has not been testing since Good Friday. We found out what we needed to about the primary transmitter and antenna from the three weeks of testing before that, which was good. QSL cards for the 50 or so reception reports we received for the test transmissions have now all been mailed. Right now we are still working through some equipment issues with the studio in Lusaka and it's connection to the transmitter site. Once they are resolved, we will launch with the first transmitter, hopefully later this month. There will be plenty of opportunities for North American DX-ers to log the station once we start using the second transmitter with the beam to West Africa. Unfortunately that transmitter still needs a crucial component (part of a tube socket), and Continental shipped us the wrong part. We now have to get a replacement sent out, but from experience we know that could take a few months because Continental has to fabricate the part before they can ship it and they have a backlog (Ray Robinson, VOH Africa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, ZNBC/Radio One, 0401, April 12. Almost fair reception; long GOtv promo in vernacular; check at 0448 found them off the air. Bill Bingham (RSA) was listening slightly earlier and noted "I tuned in very late, about 0355. Zambia was on air and audible, but spoilt by the SAH. No modulation heard from Lead Africa. Their carrier was cut at 0359 and immediately Zambia came in with a much stronger, clear signal and an ad for GoTV." Thanks to Bill for his input! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UGANDA [non] Thanks Rodney! Interesting info about the peak being on the 13th UT. Fortunately I was listening on the 12th UT, before the peak. Had very respectable Zambia reception. Best regards, (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 702, April 10 at 1157 UT, JBA carrier peaks WSW, i.e. 2BL Sydney, Australia; also a trace on 774, but too weak to tell whether from Melbourne or Japan. Our sunrise today: 1204 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 774, April 8 at 1156, JBA carrier peaking WSW on the DX- 398, and still at 1207, presumably 50 kW 3LO Melbourne (only other DU possibility a 5 kW NZ). True bearing of Melbourne from here is 249 degrees. Precisely WSW would be 247.5. No other 9-kHz carriers found except 1548, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, April 9 at 1229 UT, Spanish ID for ``1290 y 1480, Ke Buena``, and I think preceded by an FM in the 102s. Again at 1245 UT, same non-ID by SHVA (super-hype voice actor). I`m getting this only by nulling the gardening show from KQAM Wichita which is NNE, but doesn`t mean this is directly ESE/WNW. Makes slow SAH just over 1 Hz, 64 fades per minute. Searching for a matchup of Ke Buenas on 1290 & 1480 is unproductive, but it seems that 1480 KAVA Pueblo CO 1000/107 watts U3 is `Qué Bueno` per latest NRC AM Log, yet radio-locator say it`s I-25 Talk Radio (i.e. en inglés). And websearching leads to 1480 KCZZ Mission KS 1000/500 U4 as a Ke Buena, but not at all certain that is current, as NRC Log has it as a Radio Luz, and so does radio-locator now. KC is a bit clockwise from Wichita, so somewhat separable. No 1290s at all in Colorado, nor in the KC KS/MO area. Very few SS on 1290 in NRC AM Log, none in adjacent or second-adjacent states except far KRGE Weslaco TX, then a religious Radio Vida. At this late hour after sunrise, I think all this must be nearby Unitedstatesian rather than Mexican --- and no Ke/Que Buenas listed on 1480 there. Of course you never know by listening whether they are spelling it Qué in proper Spanish, or Ke, so putting an accent on that would be nonsensical. By now maybe more format changes unlisted yet. Any ideas? See also USA for other 1480s 1480, April 10 at 1237-1302 UT, I`m trying again for the ``1290 y 1480 Que/Ke Buena`` I had exactly 24 hours earlier, but today the only music I hear contending with talk from KQAM KS, is South Asian, i.e. KLVL Pasadena TX. 1480, April 12 at 1230-1245 UT, again no sign of ``1290 y 1480 Qué Buena``, mostly KQAM Wichita dominating as it will do more and more with earlying sunrises. Thinking about this, where are there a 1290/1480 pair in nearby cities, close enough, yet far enough to make sense for a such a duo? Laramie & Cheyenne WY, both of which would need to have radically changed format, as 1290 KOWB is/was news/talk/sport in English; and 1480 KRAE Cheyenne is/was nostalgia/oldies {different licensees per FCC, but still possible.} Could Coloradans if not Wyomingans check these? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: KRAE UNIDENTIFIED. 1548, April 8 at 1158, JBA carrier loops westward, most likely 50 kW 4QD Emerald, Queensland (altho there are two NZ at 1 kW or less on 1548). True bearing of Emerald from here is 264 degrees. It`s inland west of Rockhampton. Sunrise here: 1207 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1589.944, April 8 at 1230 UT, by coincidence another persistent carrier against 1590.00 stations is making virtually the same 56-Hz pitch het as KGBC TX does above 1540, but I have never been able to pull anything more from this one to ID it. Also audible just about any night. Can`t be too far from here, and not KVGB KS nor KWEY OK. Several possibilities in TX and MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If I recall, someone told me KWBG was on the low side of 1590. I get something there aimed west, but am not 100% sure what it is, 73 KAZ near Chicago (Neil Kazaross, IL, ABDX via DXLD) Boone IA, 1000/500 U2 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: 1700, 3/17 2143 [EDT = 0143 UT 3/18] – Classic rock song in English; would assume any station playing music would now be KKLF Richardson TX, but they have been Tejano; diversified? The other TX and IA 1700s are sports or at least talk (GH-OK)`` Why not WRCR? (David Yocis, ed., NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) Would be quite a feat out here with all the CCI. Getting anything from New York/New Jersey is very tough, > 2 megameters (gh, OK, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 5955, UNKNOWN, 0114, 4/10/16, in Spanish. Man and woman in lively conversation. At this point we were too cold to wait around for an ID. Unable to find anything at this time on this frequency (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm Park, Mini DXpedition, 4/9–10 UT outside Madison, WI, Tecsun PL660, 100’ random wire. With Bill Dvorak and Carlie Forsyth for evening greyline listening. It got rather cold which we braved for some nice DX, NASWA Flashsheet April 10 via DXLD) Probably leapfrog mixing product of RHC 6165 over 6060 another 105 kHz lower, with audio from 6060; check for a match with that or other RHC SS frequencies. 6060 and 6165 are at the same site, Bauta (Glenn to Mark, via DXLD) HI Glenn, Thanks for the suggestion on 5955. A mixing product makes sense. Cuba produces these all over the place (Mark Taylor, ibid.) Not sure I have ever heard RHC on 5955 but I know it has been reported before. 5955 is also a spot for occasional Cuban jamming since R. República via Costa Rica years ago was on 5954+ (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 5980.01 kHz UNID / Mar. 1, 2016, 1013 UT --- WOW, are 3 stations 0:01 in video OM in Portuguese, entendi a palavra 20 kHz, faltou um pedaço antes de 0:01 em video. 0:06 em video um claro prefixo [ ZYL ] talvez isso seje um harmonic portuguese de MW desde Minas Gerais https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicativo_de_chamada 1:08 in video is Radio Martí 1:17 OM Radio Chaski vs YL Radio Martí Notice [news] from 2:17 in video MX Flauta Gospel Radio Chaski VS YL Radio Martí Notice De qualquer forma posso ter errado nisso, sendo o 1420 e 5980 kHz no ID Rádio Guarujá de Florianópolis; por favor algum dexista / radioescuta do estado de Santa Catarina fique de olho nisso 5980 kHz, tem histórico de TX Muito, muito ruim. Veja: Estive nesta semana em Florianopolis e constatei que o áudio dos 5980 lá mesmo está meio naquela de portadora em ordem, mas, áudio lá em baixo e como se fosse saturado. Normalmente onde fico quando vou para lá (São José), o áudio é excelente, tanto em OM como em OC. Desta vez, negativo. Ontem à noite ouvi as OC da Guarujá aqui em São Bernardo, sem dificuldades, inclusive o áudio das OM (1420 kHz) também chegava aqui perfeito. Mas no meio da semana, verifiquei lá que o áudio estava mesmo do jeito. Rudolf Grimm [Isso foi em 2009] 5980.01 kHz UNID / Mar.01,2016 1013 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUzpdVP6p0c 2010DFS / Japan (via Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6133 approx., April 12 at 0548, rapid pulsing with tones, like a jammer, but sounding different than anything heard before (and not like any of my domestic devices such as DTV cable converter boxes which transmit to infest various SW frequencies). Victim is 6135, BBC Hausa via Ascension during this semihour only, surely not likely to be deliberately jammed, and evitable completely by USB tuning. Maybe it`s the defective Radio Aparecida transmitter normally on 6135.2? If not Radio Santa Cruz, normally off 6134.8 by this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9510, 2354, 4/9/16, in uncertain language. Man with apparent Bible teaching with mention of “Jesus Christ.” Good. Unable to find information on this frequency at this time in Aoki, EiBi, Flashsheet, or the last month of DX Listening Digest. Very good (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm Park, Mini DXpedition, 4/9–10 UT outside Madison, WI, Tecsun PL660, 100’ random wire. With Bill Dvorak and Carlie Forsyth for evening greyline listening. It got rather cold which we braved for some nice DX, NASWA Flashsheet April 10 via DXLD) Probably something from Nauen as in HFCC; don`t you check that too?: ``9510 2330 0030 41NE,43S,49N NAU 250 85 0 216 1234567 270316 291016 D 9600 Mul D MBR MBR 1249 A.320`` (Glenn to Mark, via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11435-USB, April 8 at 1316, most active frequency of Indonesian(?) QSO pirates, with bits of music looping battling with different callers. At 1319 two tones repeated over and over. Also weaker voices on 11440, 11450 USBs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15000.10-15000.15-USB, April 11 at 1436, INTRUDERS, colloquial Spanish 2-way, not all on exactly same frequency judging from their sideband pitches, but overriding WWVH 15000.0000! discussing puta-madres (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWNIA: 17630, China Radio Int’l; 1447, 4-Apr; Chit- chatty English M&W discussing the importance of hair. SIO=2+53- listed from both China & Mali during 1400. I suspect this is via Mali, as checking 17630 after 1500 later, sig was not nearly as good, listed only from China after 1500 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- DX LISTENING DIGEST) I disagree, as I have to keep pointed out during this duplicative A- season scheduling: suggest you check before and after 1400, and see if there is any difference, i.e. EAST TURKISTAN, not Mali. Here, the E.T. sites, especially when aimed toward Europe and US, are incomparably better then Bamako aimed east (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 18970, April 12 at 1306, JBA carrier; 18990, April 12 at 1357, S2-S3 carrier, so RFA Tibetan via Kuwait? If so, either not adhering to schedule in DXLD 16-14, and/or ChiCom jammer is on wrong frequency. 18970 is not on the schedule at all, while 18990 is not on sked at this hour; 18980 is supposed to be the Tue 13-14 frequency, splitting the difference? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1821: Thanks to William Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, for a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to Chuck Ermatinger, MO, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Glenn, I sent a contribution to WOR. I haven’t been able to send much lately, but, I wanted to do this. I like to play with numbers sometimes. I decided that 1818 was a cool number, so, I sent something to honor that program, and all the good you do for us. 73, (Tim Hendel, AL, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Thanks to Will Martin, St Louis MO, for a generous check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 I hope this small amount helps with the superb work you do for listeners and DXers around the world. Thanks, Glenn (Tim Gaynor, NSW, via PayPal in Australian $ to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ Subject: A16 shortwave radio list Hi Glen[n], I use your SW lists as a handy reference when hearing signals I can’t normally identify. When does the A16 list come out. I am asking because I print a copy as a handy reference tool. Cheers! (André Fredette, Oakville, Ontario L6H 3H2H, April 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) André, There are lots of different A16 lists, so not sure which one you are referring to. Beware of printing one out and referring to that from now on, as most of them are being updated frequently. I now have updated linx to the ones I have confirmed available on my homepage. Look for the ones labeled A16: http://www.worldofradio.com/index.html (Glenn to André, April 12, ibid.) Thanks Glenn. Much appreciated for the feedback. Yes, last year I printed the A15 list and found that it took up a lot of paper. 80 pages! This year, I will use my old Ipad to look up the A16 list rather than printing it. I also found that the short-wave.info site is very useful also for helping to identify some of the weak stations. If all else fails there is also the WRTH handbook. Cheers! (André Fredette, ibid.) PRESS RELEASE FROM THE DANISH SHORTWAVE CLUB INTERNATIONAL (DSWCI) http://www.dswci.org NEW SURVEY AVAILABLE : The DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY 18 (DBS-18), April 2016 edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen. ISSN 1399-8218 The 59 years old DSWCI, which counts experienced DX-ers in 33 countries all over the world as members, will in April issue the 18th Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey. This survey is divided into three parts: Part 1: The 44th edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestines. Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience. Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear. This new Survey is based upon monitoring by our members, many official sources and DX-bulletins. A16 schedules are included when available. About 65 domestic shortwave stations frequencies have left the bands. In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period April 2015 – March 2016, if each of the 500 station frequencies is on the air. ACTIVE stations are marked with an A (”Regular”), B (”Irregular”) or C (”Sporadic”) in the list. D means ”Likely inactive”. A unique feature is the right column called ”Last log”. It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2016 when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3. No other frequency list has this feature! Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans. Four sample extracts from the DBS-18 are shown on the next page. 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I had lunch today with Rick Lucas, who's just back from a two-week tour of Cuba. At least for now, US regulations require that US citizens visiting Cuba have an educational purpose for their trip, which typically means a lot of "person-to-person" activities like meeting farmers and watching dance troupes and such. (Canadians and others can go to Cuban resorts and lounge on the beach if they so desire...) But it occurred to us that if we could get enough DXers and other radio folk together, it might be possible to organize a trip that would focus on Cuban radio - visiting studios and transmitter sites, interacting with Cuban radio people and DXers, meeting with Arnie Coro, and so on. I'm not going quite so far (yet!) as to bid for a Havana convention in 2017 or 2018; but I'm curious to find out whether anyone else would be interested in a hypothetical week-long trip next winter. If there's interest, I'd be willing to reach out to the tour companies that have licenses to organize Cuba trips to see what the next steps might be. So, any interest? (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, April 9, NRC-AM et al, via DXLD) One question to ask is, would the Cuban officials allow tours of stations, especially transmitter sites? Is that now allowed? (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) In a word, yes. My wife and I were there several years ago, before "things" changed. Would go back in a heart beat (Bob Coomler, W7SWL, Tucson, AZ, ABDX via DXLD) Count me in. I'm a teacher, so the educational aspect would be covered. Plus I teach about Cuba in my 6th grade world geography class. My in-laws saw Frankie Baby down there before things went south. They even stayed in the same hotel. :-) (Bert KI4SYC New, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.) Hi all, I would love to, but I have to go to back to Panamá first. I haven't worked Arnie in many many years, but have worked Oscar CO2OJ several times. I would look him up as well. All I can say is make sure you take the time to enjoy the Cuban cuisine while you are there. They make the best food on the planet. Have fun and I hope you all get a trip together this winter. 73 (Art Jackson KA5DWI/7, AZ, ibid.) I just went and I can't wait to go back. I'm still going through my airchecks from Habana (Juan Gualda, Fort Pierce, FL, ibid.) Nice and intriguing idea, Scott. I grew up in Miami, pre-Castro, but never got to Cuba (or even the Bahamas, for that matter). It would be interesting to find out if the U.S. approach to Cuban normalization procedures calls for power reduction on some of the frequencies which are currently under considerable duress thanks to the excessive power levels in use on the island. Just askin’ (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA, ibid.) I wouldn't take any equipment there - they saw Ron Schatz taking pictures of xmtrs, incarcerated him and confiscated his radio. Wouldn't give it back, either (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, NRC-AM via DXLD) That wasn't Rick's experience last month. He went (and came back) with a Sony 2010 and a camera, and he reported having no issues taking pictures of tower sites from the bus as it toured the island. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) I didn't realize it until we were in Cuba that taking a GPS in was illegal (we were going on to do some sightseeing in Florida). The Cuban authorities didn't blink an eye at that or my Sony ICF-SW7600GR. (Bob Coomler, W7SWL, Tucson, AZ, ABDX via DXLD) If nothing else, seeing the circuit boards they use to make a transmitter "wobble" would be educational. Not to mention figuring out what the thinking behind this highly unusual mode actually is. DXpedition from eastern end of Cuba would also be interesting, i.e. what US/Canada stations, Caribbeans, South / Central Americans, and TA's would you typically hear? Would they even let a potential "spy" radio like a Perseus, Excalibur, or Elad into the country (not to mention the PC to run it)? Ultralight with FSL might also get dirty looks. Downtime could entail making a photo gallery of the world's biggest living museum of classic cars (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, IRCA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See MEXICO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See MEXICO; DRM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also BELARUS; INDIA; NEW ZEALAND; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; ROMANIA; UK; VATICAN DRM HOLDS SUCCESSFUL GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT FRAUNHOFER IIS HEADQUARTERS IN GERMANY --- Radioactivity April 07, 2016 The 2016 General Assembly of the DRM Consortium took place on 5th and 6th of April at the headquarters of Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, near Nuremberg (Germany). The theme for this year's event was "Digital Radio Mondiale – Smart Radio for Everyone". This event held in conjunction with the DRM European Workshop gave an opportunity to Consortium members and invited guests to get together and exchange exclusive information on DRM in one of the most innovative research institutes in the world. During the General Assembly the participants reviewed the excellent progress made in India, the interest shown in some of the Asian countries and the planned DRM+ trial in South Africa. The commercial launch of the full-feature DRM Indian receiver, of the line-fit car receiver in a top Indian car model, the traffic information demonstration for cars, the multimedia player and the software defined radio receiver were practical examples of DRM progressing significantly in the past 12 months. The DRM members welcomed the decision of Hungary to recommend DRM alongside DAB for its digitisation and encourage therefore the production of analogue/DRM/DAB receivers. Besides the country updates the company updates, including that from its newest member, Panasonic, were the highlights of the event. The DRM General Assembly elected its Steering Board and Ruxandra Obreja as Chairman. It also welcomed representatives of the PBC (Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation) and RRI (Radio Republik Indonesia) as observer members of the Steering Board. The General Assembly approved the future strategy focused on getting DRM receivers so that digitisation can be enjoyed by all broadcasters large or small for the benefit of their listeners. Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman said: "DRM is digital radio for all as became so evident during the presentations and discussions on these two days and during the following European workshop. With effort, dedication and open mind DRM can now turn promise into reality." The DRM European workshop which overlapped with the General Assembly also began today (Wednesday 6th and also on the 7th), being organised by the Consortium, Fraunhofer IIS and by the DRM German Platform. Joachim Lehnert, Platform Chairman, explained that: "The event will focus on the receiver and car industries. We need multi-standard radios in Europe which can and should include DRM reception in the AM and in the VHF bands." --- DRM Consortium pressoffice@drm.org http://www.drm.org http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/digital-radio-mondiale-drm-holds.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+alokeshgupta+(R++A++D++I++O++A++C++T++I++V++I++T++Y) Posted by: (Mike Terry, April 7, dxldyg via DXLD) They had years to turn "promise into reality"; the bizarre thing about these receivers we keep being told about is that, as time goes on, there appear to be less of them and they get worse. Now go to their website and see that the press release posted there today is exactly the same one as they posted on March 14 2016, which is now inviting people to register for an event that has already taken place. Press Releases | Digital Radio Mondiale Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) General Assembly to be held at Fraunhofer IIS Headquarters in Germany , April 5-7th 2016 Apr 7, 2016 http://www.drm.org/?page_id=518 What an amateurish shambolic organisation this is using much European public money during times of austerity (Mike Barraclough, UK, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ GLENN`S ONE HUNDRED FAVORITE SHORTWAVE FREQUENCIES FOR BST-1 MEMORY My wish-list, should I ever have time to delete all the ones I don`t want, step-tune one by one and enter the new ones, in no particular order here, nor in the bank. These represent a balance of signal quality, programming interest, not all in English, some mainly for music, and/or in use only for an hour per day. US SW frequencies included only if not totally gospel-huxters/far-right political talk: AUSTRALIA 9580 12085 15240 17840 ROMANIA 7325 7330 7335 7430 9620 9730 9760 11800 13650 CUBA RHC 5040 6000 6060 6100 6165 9710 9850 11760 11880 13740 15140 15370 BBC 5875 6005 6195 7445 9410 9740 11890 12095 WWCR 4840 9350 12160 WWRB 5050 WRMI 5850 7730 9955 11580 13695 15770 GREECE 9420 ALBANIA 9855 ALGERIA 7295 9535 12060 JAPAN 5910 5975 11705 11970 17540 CHINA 6020 9570 9790 15700 WBCQ 5130 7490 9330 NEW ZEALAND 9700 11725 15720 VOA 6080 15580 17530 17895 ARGENTINA 11711 VIETNAM 6175 12005 BRAZIL 11780 CUBA DOMESTIC 4765 5025 MEXICO 6185 GERMANY 9800 11820 15250 INDIA 9690 TURKEY 9515 9830 15450 JAPAN NIKKEI 3925 6055 9595 SOUTH AFRICA 3345 7230 SPAIN 17855 CANADA CFRX 6070 CANADA CBC 6160 WWV 2500 5000 10000 15000 20000 WTWW 5085 9930 MARTI 7365 9805 13605 GUATEMALA 4055 Might want to leave a few open for special appearances, e.g. just to check 9275 for WMLK (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DEATH KNELL FOR OTA TELEVISION? One could put it another way. The young people live in the future and the old people live in the past. A company has to have profits and will look at the older person as dying out but the younger ones have a way to go. So they will give token service to the old but will put effort in serving the young (Old Roy Barstow, Cape Cod, April 1, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Well put, Roy. The bottom line is - the future of terrestrial broadcast television is of concern globally and much bigger than the opinions expressed on the WTFDA forums. Established in 2011... FOBTV - The Future of Broadcast TV http://www.nercdtv.org/fobtv2012/index.html Read about it on the About Us page on the left at top. International groups are working together to steer developing technologies and marketing efforts of terrestrial broadcast television. Globally, trillions of dollars are on the line and its all about the young generation and the generations to follow, not what was :-( (Jim Thomas, Springfield MO, ibid.) I also will turn 70 later this year. I agree in some parts with many of the thoughts in this thread. My two adult sons are opposites on this - one has satellite TV, the other would be OTA if my daughter-in-law didn't pitch a fit every time he suggested it. And they don't either of them watch enough to warrant paying for cable. But they're all in their 30's and so not the same 'younger generation' some here are speaking about. I've never had anything but OTA. But the issue is less where the transmission comes from than how convenient it is and what it costs. The latter explains the growth in cord cutting. The former explains why it's hard to get the younger folks into TV that comes anywhere other than via their Smartphone. Somebody's first law of economics says that if you give people what they want, in a manner they find convenient and at a price they will pay, you've hit the jackpot. It's all about how much something is worth to the consumer. That's my reason for never going to cable - too much money for too many channels we'd never watch and too few we would. So I don't believe that there's anything currently happening to be considered as a death knell, I also realize that there are powerful forces out there who want the spectrum and who are trying their mightiest to make terrestrial TV go away. My generation won't be here forever. The same is true for the next group. Eventually, there will be a delivery system which offers sufficient choice at a price the market will accept which will kill terrestrial TV and perhaps cable as well. When? I've no idea (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ( 15 mi NW of Philadelphia ), Grid FN20id, ibid.) I am 78 and have Verizon FIOS, but once NFL football season is over I almost never watch TV. For one thing, I am very busy with my ham radio on the air and club activities and volunteer work for my national ham radio society and an international ham radio foundation. But principally because YouTube fulfills all my personal video needs. There I can watch what I want, when I want. However I would caution against overly pessimistic predictions of doom regarding OTA TV. Contrary to the predictions of some, television did not make local movie theaters obsolete and television did not make radio broadcasting obsolete. FM radio has not made AM radio obsolete. Regards, (Fred Laun, K3ZO, Temple Hills MD FM18mt, ibid.) There has on at least one occasion been video on demand on broadcast television. I can't remember when it was, but it was while I was program director at KTWU-11 in Topeka. I remember it was in an afternoon. The master control operator had just called informing me that a half hour program scheduled that afternoon could not be run due to technical problems. About that time a woman called wanted to see another half hour program. It was appropriate for the time slot so I called the control room and had it run. The woman was quite happy when I told her when it would be on. Fortunately she never called back requesting another program at the last minute (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, ibid.) I definitely don't think cord cutters, looking for OTA, are going to be buying a Vizio product. And IMHO, I think OTA television is going to be around MUCH longer than *some* speculate. I believe the ONLY ones that *think* OTA television is dying are those that rarely watch it - or - those that have already become consumed by sources such as Netflix or YouTube. There is a certain percentage of the viewing public that will refuse to pay for video sources and those are the ones that will continue to drive OTA television. Even cable/sat subscribers won't pay for services for ALL of the TV's in their house, so they want an antenna on the extra TV's. I belong to some FTA (free-to-air) satellite forums, where members look to the skies for FREE satellite content. Its a much bigger hobby than some would expect and those same persons readily promote local OTA television. Local news, local weather, local community activity reports, etc - who will supply that information to the masses on a local level for FREE, if OTA television goes away? Don't say the internet - because you PAY for it, it`s not FREE (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) KAJF-LD 16 --- The new "Topeka LPTV" that I first noticed on March 10 licensed to Topeka, Kansas is not really in Topeka. I have seen the channel 16 station a few times since and wondered why I could not get it all the time. I have learned from the chief engineer at KTWU-11 that the station is actually located on the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. That would be about 55-60 miles away from the city of license. COL with this FCC is a joke. I will list it as Kansas City, Missouri as it takes some tropo to get the signal to Topeka. As I recall 16.1 is GetTV which is now offered in Topeka on KTKA's channel 49.2. Nice not to have KAJF-LD actually in Topeka as it keeps channel 16 open for tropo (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, April 6, ibid.) Why have a city of license if the station has no connection to the COL named? Was KAJF ever analog in Topeka? Even if so, it would seem to me they ought to change the COL now to Kansas City. It looks like they could move to Chicago or Washington, DC and still have a COL of Topeka. We have a similar situation around here with WASA-LD RF-25 New York. They have been in New York City at Times Square ever since going digital, and program to NYC with Chinese and Spanish programming. Yet their city of licence is Port Jervis, NY, way outside their coverage area. Why? It just doesn't make sense to me (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, ibid.) Everyone wants to be a Winner and the little boys (LPTV) want to be associated with the more powerful stations Even some small station many miles from the city will be listed for that city even if the coverage may or may not cover that city. I mean what person (majority) cares about the coverage area and all that stuff. They just turn the TV on and the signal comes in or it doesn't (Roy - Falmouth - Barstow, ibid.) KAJF-LD never did operate a digital transmitter -- in Topeka anyway. I've never seen a KAJF around here until now. Most stations want to be near the larger population. Around here KTVH-12 made the move from Hutchinson (KS) to Wichita and is now KWCH. It is still licensed to Hutchinson. Also KGEO-5 in Enid (OK) is now in Oklahoma City as KOCO- TV.KMCI (MCI is the airport designation for Kansas City) started out in Lawrence, Kansas but has made the move to Kansas City as has KTVX-8 from Muskogee to Tulsa and KTAJ-21 from St. Joseph to KC. But at least the last five can reach their COL. Their are now three low power stations licensed to Topeka that cannot regularly reach the city. The other two are KCKS-25 located near Basehor, KS on the west side of Kansas City a nd KMJC-22 located south of Kansas City near Louisburg, KS. Both channel 22 and channel 25 are licensed to Topeka. KMJC-22 was originally intended to serve Manhattan and Junction City (hence the KJC in the call letters. KCKS stands for Kansas City). Another strange thing is that channel 26 has the call letters WROB-LD. One of the owner's names is Rob. I'm not sure how they got call letters beginning with a W. WDAF-TV and WIBW-TV serve the area but those call letters date back to the early days of radio. I understand that he was surprised when those call letters were approved. The FCC doesn't seem to care. It is interesting seeing all of these new stations to go on now with the spectrum grab coming up. I think it will be chaos when more UHF channels are stolen and stations are jammed into fewer channels. I guess it depends on how many stations sell out (Dave Pomeroy, KS, ibid.) Here, I think, is how today's FCC sees the matter: What is a "community of license" for? In 2016, it defines where a main studio needs to be located, how ownership caps are calculated (sometimes), where a transmitter can be located in order to put the required level of coverage over that community, and whether a station can claim cable must-carry. But an LPTV (a) doesn't have to have a main studio, (b) doesn't count against ownership caps, (c) doesn't count as primary service and therefore has no coverage requirement and (d) isn't eligible to demand cable must-carry. In essence, then, "community of license" for LPTVs (and other categories of secondary stations such as LPFM and translator) exists only as a blank space on the application form. The actual determination of whether any given LPTV can be allocated is based entirely on the coordinates of the transmitter site. If it fits, the FCC allows it, and it's up to the licensee to determine what city it's trying to serve. In the case of a station like WASA-LD, I assume the idea is that as long as the signal goes where the owners want it to go, the licensee has no compelling reason to change what's on the FCC records, even if it still says "Port Jervis." I realize this isn't the answer most of us want to hear --- but from an FCC perspective, I think it's fairly accurate. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES --- GEOMAGNETIC SUMMARY MARCH 2016 Via Phil Bytheway – Tabulated from email status daily (K = 0000 UTC). Flux A K Space Weather 1 97 8 3 no storms 2 98 7 1 no storms 3 99 8 2 no storms 4 99 4 0 no storms 5 96 4 1 no storms 6 96 35 7 strong, G3 7 94 24 4 minor, G1 8 96 8 1 no storms 9 97 6 2 no storms 10 95 10 2 no storms 11 94 23 3 moderate, G2 12 95 13 1 no storms 13 93 4 1 no storms 14 93 14 5 minor, G1 15 94 24 4 minor, G1 16 91 22 5 minor, G1 17 92 21 3 minor, G1 18 90 8 2 no storms 19 89 18 1 no storms 20 88 10 2 no storms 21 89 8 3 no storms 22 87 8 2 no storms 23 87 10 3 no storms 24 87 7 2 no storms 25 86 6 0 no storms 26 86 3 1 no storms 27 88 13 2 no storms 28 88 10 3 no storms 29 88 11 1 no storms 30 84 12 2 no storms 31 82 7 1 no storms Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level / Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level / Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (via NRC E DX News April 18 via DXLD) METEOR SHOWERS IN APRIL The Lyrids are due on April 21-22, but the 2016 showers are forecast to only be 10-15 meteors per hour, which may not be much use for meteor scatter propagation, but in past years these meteor showers have been at the rate of around 100 per hour. http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/earthskys-meteor-shower-guide#lyrids Links to propagation articles can be found on my propagation links page at: http://www.jameswelsh.org.uk (James Welsh`s propagation column, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) SOLAR REPORT QUESTION? As we are getting closer to the summer skip season, I would like to know if/how the data shown in the twice daily Solar Reports we get through googlegroups pertains to E-skip. I haven't really noticed any correlation. For that matter, is there a connection between the data and F2 and/or auroral conditions? If anyone is really knowledgeable, please explain exactly what A, K, and SFlx are. Thanks (Chris Lucas, Poughkeepsie NY, April 11, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Chris, Didn't see any replies to this so I thought I would throw this link out there for you to read... http://www.uksmg.org/content/sporade.htm Drop down to the sub-topic "Eskip and Solar Activity" and you will read about this much debated subject. FYI (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) Written almost 30 years ago For what they are, see these: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GEOMAG/kp_ap.html https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/0209038.pdf As to what they mean for FM/TV DX, the short answer is that the experts aren't sure, but they seem to lean toward the idea that there is no correlation. The actual experiences of DX'ers however, do suggest some sort of linkage. I have personally observed many instances of good Es events following solar disturbances / geomagnetic storms. But I've also experienced a number where the linkage points to strong storm fronts advancing across the continent. Sometimes, both are in evidence. But other Es events have no apparent connection to either. Some experts suggest other weather factors, including wind shear. For further discussion of these aspects, I'd recommend http://www.dxfm.com (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA ( 15 mi NW of Philadelphia ), ibid.) RF NOISE GENERATED FROM WIND TURBINES In this issue we have a very interesting contribution from Stefan Wikander regarding the noise generated from wind turbines. I have one wind turbine only 1 km away but no problem with that. Stefan has already about 90, increasing to about 240 when the park is completed. It seems that Siemens use a special type of current regulator causing the trouble. It's a pity a lot of the new stuff are causing so much noise. Most DX-ers complain and have problems at home. Keep on …. ============= R e d a k t i o n: Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin April 10 via DXLD) Viz: DX-ING MED 90 VINDKRAFTVERK PÅ 50 KM AVSTÅND Sommaren och hösten 2014 beslutade jag mig för att testa att DX-a i vår stuga som ligger på ett berg ca 7 km från Hammarstrand. Ingen el finns närmare än ca 5 km så de blev batterier som gäller. Testade under sensommaren och det verkade lovande. Satte upp en 430 meter lång Beverage i riktningen 310 grader. Såhär såg bandet ut på dagtid med två 10 db preampar påslagen. Preamparna måste till för att få upp antennbruset över Perseus eget brus på dagtid. Peakarna är radiostationer. Hela mellanvågen är helt slät med ett antennbrus med två 10 db preampar på -115 db. Syns upp till höger på Perseus. Tidigare erfarenhet från mitt QTH i Pålgård ca 7 km bort var att så fort det blir dimma eller snöar så stör koronaurladdningar från 220 kV och 400 kV ledningar. Det gör det också i stugan men inte så starkt som i mitt tidigare QTH som låg närmare ledningarna. 220 kV ligger ca 5 km från stugan och 400 kV ca 7 km från stugan. Det försämrar dynamiken med ca 10 - 15 db på dagtid när det snöar eller är dimma. Efter nyår 2015 upptäckte jag ett oljud runt 500 kHz som jag först inte kunde lokalisera. Även högre upp på mellanvågen fanns områden med ökat brus. Började att pejla med en superKAZ antenn. Den visade att oljudet kom från ca 330 grader. I den riktningen finns bara skog tills man kommer till fjällen 20 mil bort. Det enda som hade hänt i den riktningen var att man höll på att bygga en jättestor vindkraftpark ca 50 km bort. Det skall bli 240 jättestora snurror. Efter lite forskning så visade det sig att de just hade startat flera verk. Kunde sedan verifiera att det verkligen var därifrån störningen kom. Bla visade vattenfallsdiagram på Perseus ett mönster med 5 kHz intervall. De är switchfrekvensen som man har i dessa vindkraftverk för att man skall få ut 50 Hz. Nu är det c:a 90 sådana stora vindkraftverk i gång. Såhär ser mellanvågen ut idag i stugan 50 km från vindkraftparken. Det är samma antenn som 2014, två 10 db preampar som 2014 och AM 4 kHz bandbredd. Markörena uppe till höger visar störtoppar. Markör 1 ligger på ett område som inte påverkas av vindkraften och har som på bilden från 2014 -115 dbm. Under 650 kHz hörs inget DX och stora delar av mellanvågen är rejält försämrad. Över 1,7 MHz märker jag ingen störning. Nu skall man veta att en Beverage i framriktningen är mycket känsligare än en longwire eller en superKAZ som jag också har. På super KAZ antennen i samma riktning som Beveragen med två 10 db preampar är störnivån ca 10 db lägre än på Beveragen. Skall under sommaren testa en antenn i 295-300 grader och se om det blir lite bättre. Nu tror jag inte att alla vindkraftverk stör som dessa och skulle antennen vara riktad åt annat håll skulle knappt något störa. Här är mätningar från Nya Zealand och det är samma märken på vindkraftverken på båda ställena. Se http://www.zl6qh.com/rf-noise-measurements-quartz-hill-2009-v3.pdf Den är gjord på 80 meter. På kortvågen hör jag inget från vindkraften. Skulle jag komma närmare så skulle jag säkert också höra det. (Stefan Wikander, SW Bulletin April 10 via DXLD) DX-ING WITH 90 WIND TURBINES 50 km away Summer and autumn of 2014, I decided to test the DX-A in our cottage situated on a hill about 7 km from Hammarstrand. No electricity is closer than approximately 5 km so the batteries were in force. Tested during the late summer and it seemed promising. Set up a 430-meter Beverage in the direction of 310 degrees. Here's saw the band on the day with two 10 db preamps on. Preamps need to bring up the antenna noise over Perseus own noise in the daytime. Peak Arna's radio stations. The whole of the scale is completely smooth with an antenna noise with two 10 db preamps at -115 db. Visible top right of Perseus. Previous experience from my QTH in Pålgård about 7 km away was that as soon as there is fog or snow as large corona discharge from the 220 kV and 400 kV lines. It also makes it into the cabin, but not as strong as in my previous QTH which was closer to the lines. 220 kV is about 5 km from the cottage and 400 kV, about 7 km from the cottage. It impairs the dynamics of 10 - 15 dB in the daytime when it's snowing or fog. After the New Year 2015, I noticed a noise around 500 kHz, which I first could not locate. Even higher on the scale were areas with increased noise. Began to direction-find with a superKAZ antenna. It showed that the noise came from about 330 degrees. In this direction is only the forest until you come to the highlands 20 mil away. The only thing that had happened in that direction was that they were building a giant wind farm about 50 km away. It will be 240 giant turbines. After some research, it turned out that they had just started several works. Could then verify that it really was from where the interference came. Bla showed waterfall charts at Perseus, a pattern with 5 kHz range. The switching frequency is that you have these wind turbines in order to get 50 Hz. Now it's about 90 such large wind turbines in operation. Here's how it looks from way out today in the cottage 50 km from the wind farm. It's the same antenna 2014 2:10 db preamps as 2014 AM 4 kHz bandwidth. Mark unclean upper right shows disturb peaks. Marker 1 is located on an area not affected by wind power and, as the picture from 2014 -115 dBm. Over 650 kHz is not heard the DX and large parts of the wave is significantly impaired. Over 1.7 MHz, I notice no interference. Now you know that a beverage in the forward direction is much more sensitive than a long wire or a superKAZ which I also have. On super KAZ antenna in the direction of the beverage with two 10 db preamps are the interference level about 10 dB lower than the Beverage. Shall in the summer be testing an antenna in the 295-300 degrees and see if it gets a little better. Now I do not believe that all wind turbines disturb these and antenna could be focused elsewhere would barely anything interfere. Here are the measurements from New Zealand and it is the same brands of wind turbines in both places. See http://www.zl6qh.com/rf-noise-measurements-quartz-hill-2009-v3.pdf It is made of 80 meters. In the short wave, I hear nothing from wind power. Would I get closer, I'd probably also hear it (Stefan Wikander, SW Bulletin April 10 through DXLD) (Google Translate via DXLD) Copy of the conclusion from the report above from Quartz Hill: "The measurements conducted on 10 May and 15 August 2009 confirm that it will not be possible to operate an amateur radio HF station in the vicinity of Quartz Hill due to the high level of radiated noise interference from the wind turbine infrastructure. At 3.73 MHz, the measured level of radiated noise is approximately 50 dB greater than that sought for weak signal HF amateur radio communications. Our analysis of the measurement data suggests that an amateur radio station would need to be separated from the nearest turbines by a distance of at least several kilometres, and possibly up to more than 10 km, in order to reduce the interference to the desired level." MODERN WIND TURBINES GENERATE DANGEROUSLY “DIRTY” ELECTRICITY Another interesting aspect of Wind turbines, see http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/?page_id=220 (Stefan Wikander, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ STUNNING MW CATCH 1233 kHz, Cape Greco, Cyprus 1850 UT, 12-April stunning catch on just a Hyundai car radio & its small whip antenna for roughly 1 minute with Middle Eastern music just prior to Newcastle 1233 resuming transmissions having been off for maintenance (Geoff Wolfe, Cooma NSW, Australia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOLAR STORM SCIENTISTS PREPARE FOR GEOMAGNETIC EVENT THAT COULD DESTROY TECHNOLOGY ACROSS THE WORLD FOR YEARS Independent By Andrew Griffin 8 April 2016 Scientists are preparing for a solar storm that could break communications for years and potentially put life on Earth in danger. Many people are still unconcerned or even unaware of the possibility of a geomagnetic storm coming from the sun that could cause huge damage to life on Earth. But such a possibility is referred to as a “low probability but high-impact event” that is being planned for by agencies including the US Department of Homeland Security and Nasa, and scientists have warned that humanity needs to do more to deal with it. Space weather has previously caused some problems, lightly disrupting technology and leading to visible changes. But none recently have been as dramatic as the infamous Carrington Event of 1859, which caused one of the worst known geomagnetic storms and would throw off much communications technology if it happened today. If such an event were to hit the Earth, it could stop communications satellites from working, break GPS systems and stop planes from flying. It could also lead to even more lasting problems, like wiping out data from computers’ memory. Its effects could last for months or even years, as authorities wold have to work to repair the infrastructure that the modern world relies on. Estimates from Lloyd’s of London suggest that fixing all of the problems could cost between $600 billion and $2.6 trillion. Now the US government is looking to work more seriously to stem some of those effects — including getting better at predicting space weather and dealing with problems it would cause. "We know there is a gap in our ability to assess vulnerability and consequences," said Jack Anderson, a senior analyst for the US Department for Homeland Security, at a conference held to plan for the “big one” in storm events. At the moment, scientists are unable to predict how issues would pan out as they knock on to each other. "Once systems start to fail, (the outages) could cascade in ways we can't even conceive," said Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, at the same event. But the US government is at a “fundamental turning point” in addressing the problems, according to Tamara Dickinson, a senior staff member at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Last year, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills published a report into the risks to the UK of severe space weather. An event such as a coronal mass ejection could wreak havoc ... (Abridged) More here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/solar-storm-scientists-prepare-for-geomagnetic-event-that-could-destroy-technology-across-the-world-a6974421.html Posted by: (Mike Terry, April 10, dxldyg via DXLD QSO TODAY EPISODE 81 TAD COOK, K7RA Southgate April 11, 2016 Propagation, especially in the HF bands, still remains a mystery for many amateur radio operators. Eric is joined in this QSO Today by Tad Cook, K7RA, author of the weekly ARRL Propagation Bulletin, to discuss our hobby and the effect of Space weather on low band propagation. Show Notes: http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/k7ra Podcast Link: http://goo.gl/bNUFxa iTunes Store: http://goo.gl/CvLNmV Stitcher: http://goo.gl/uhf1XZ QSO Today Episode 81 Tad Cook, K7RA | Southgate Amateur Radio News http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2016/april/qso_today_81.htm#.VwyzxzH2bIU Posted by: (Mike Terry, April 12, dxldyg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Apr 11 0439 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 - 10 April 2016 Solar activity was at very low levels on 04-05 April with low levels observed from 06-10 April as Region 2529 (N09, L=341, class/area, Eki/820 on 10 April) began its transit across the solar disk. The region emerged as a large bipolar group that produced 15 low level C-class flares during the period. The largest flare was a long-duration C2 at 09/1342 UTC, however it also produced another long-duration C1 flare at 10/0934 UTC. Other activity included a 10 degree filament eruption, centered near N18E29, that erupted beginning at approximately 10/1000 UTC. An associated CME was observed off the NE limb at 10/1100 UTC. The CME is currently being analyzed, however it is likely that little to no impacts will occur given its location and direction. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels from 04-07 April with normal levels observed from 08-10 April. The highest flux value observed for the period was 3,924 pfu at 05/1605 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to (G1) minor storm levels. Solar wind parameters were at mostly nominal levels through the period until a solar sector boundary crossing (SSBC) occurred around 07/1737 UTC. During this time, total field increased to a maximum of 13 nT while the Bz component deflected southward for approximately 8 hours reaching a maximum of -13 nT. The geomagnetic field responded with G1-minor storm levels late on 07 April through early on 08 April. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 11 APRIL - 07 MAY 2016 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight chance for M-class (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) flares until Region 2529 rotates off the NW limb on 21 April. Very low levels are expected from 22 April through 03 May. Low levels are expected once again from 04-07 May with the return of Region 2529. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 15-18, 24-28, and 30 April - 02 May due to coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 12-15, 23-26, and 29-30 April with G1-minor storm levels likely on 13-14 and 29 April due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Unsettled to active levels are also likely on 04 May due to activity associated with an SSBC. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Apr 11 0439 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2016-04-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Apr 11 112 8 3 2016 Apr 12 112 15 4 2016 Apr 13 112 30 5 2016 Apr 14 112 30 5 2016 Apr 15 112 10 3 2016 Apr 16 112 5 2 2016 Apr 17 115 5 2 2016 Apr 18 115 5 2 2016 Apr 19 115 5 2 2016 Apr 20 115 8 3 2016 Apr 21 110 8 3 2016 Apr 22 100 5 2 2016 Apr 23 100 12 4 2016 Apr 24 95 10 3 2016 Apr 25 95 10 3 2016 Apr 26 95 8 3 2016 Apr 27 95 5 2 2016 Apr 28 95 5 2 2016 Apr 29 95 20 5 2016 Apr 30 90 15 4 2016 May 01 90 8 3 2016 May 02 90 5 2 2016 May 03 90 5 2 2016 May 04 95 12 4 2016 May 05 100 8 3 2016 May 06 105 5 2 2016 May 07 110 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1821, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF APRIL 14 2016 From IPS in Australia, the global HF propagation forecast: on April 15, normal to fair at low and high latitudes but normal at mid latitudes, and on April 16 also normal at all latitudes. From Spaceweather South Africa: magnetic conditions unsettled April l5, quiet on the 16th; shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. From F K Janda in Prague, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to unsettled on April 16, 23 - 25, May 2 quiet on April 17 - 18, 21 - 22, 27 - 28, May 4 mostly quiet on April 19 - 20, 29, May 1, 3 quiet to active on April 26 active to disturbed on April 30 From Met Office UK, Four-Day Space Weather Forecast Summary thru April 17: solar activity low or very low. Geomagnetic activity declining, the weekend mainly quiet. No solar radiation storms expected. From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels April 23-26 with A and K indices of 12 and 4 on the 23rd;, and 29-30 with G1-minor storm levels likely on the 29th with A and K indices of 20 and 5; Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 or 8 and 3 on April 16-22, and 26-28. Solar flux peaking at 115 on April 18 to 20, and dropping to 90 by April 30 to May 2. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting along the coasts of Angola, Namibia and South Africa, and between Oman Pakistan and India, especially April 16 and 17. Also between India and Myanmar and east of Vietnam on April 15 and 16. At least until April 19 along the southeastern coast of Brasil. Watch out for sporadic E openings; I already had one up to 22 MHz the morning of April 12. RSGB says The 2016 Lyrids meteor shower peaks on April 21 and 22. A noticeable increase in meteor rates can be expected from about April 16. Timeanddate.com says the peak is April 22 and 23, lasting until the 25th, best from midnight until dawn. Earthsky.org expects only 10 to 15 meteors per hour, but some Lyrid showers have reached 100. A full moon will hamper viewing, but tune to open FM channels and listen for bursts of DX reception (via DXLD) ###