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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1824 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canary Islands non, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia non, France, Gambia non, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kashmir, Korea North non, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, North America, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Romania, Sarawak non, Solomon Islands, Sudan South non, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda non, Ukraine non, UK, USA, Vanuatu SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1824, May 5-11, 2016 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 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 Sat 0700 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 [not aired, Slovakia // 5850 & 11580 instead] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 [confirmed on webcast] Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 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/ ** ALGERIA [non]. 7495, FRANCE, Radio Algerienne (relay), Issoudun. 2135-2300* April 29, 2016. Clear and weak to start, parallel 9655, with Qur'an recitations, Arabic announcers, good after 2230. 9655, FRANCE, Radio Algerienne (relay), Issoudun. 2112-2200* April 29, 2016. Qur'an recital until 2132, Arabic female announcer, Arab vocals, parallel 7495. No other parallels heard (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.75, 2330-2340, 1.5, R Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos Portuguese talk, audio barely audible 15111 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030 receiver with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ASIA [non]. R FREE ASIA COMMEMORATES THE 2016 RIO OLYMPICS MAY 2016 Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces its 61st QSL card. This latest design commemorates the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil scheduled for August 5-21, 2016. The Games always bring people together from around the world in peace and harmony to respect universal moral principles. This new design shows an adaptation of RFA’s first panda design originally used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This updated version of the original design adds a hat made of various fruits. The fruit hat was popularized in the 1900’s by Brazilian singer and actress, Carmen Miranda. This QSL design is used to confirm all valid reception reports from May – August 2016. RFA encourages listeners to submit reception reports. Reception reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by mailing a QSL card to the listener. RFA welcomes all reception report submissions at http://techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX’ers, but also from its general listening audience. Reception reports are also accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org and by mail to: Reception Reports Radio Free Asia 2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036, United States of America (A. J. Janitschek, RFA, DSWCI DX Window April 27 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Life after Death: The Future of AM Radio Brad Smart, Australia, April 27, 2016 http://www.bradsmart.com.au/Life-after-Death-The-Future-of-AM-Radio/ Have you ever noticed when you talk to young radio executives about AM, you can almost see their eyes glazing over within seconds. To these guys, AM radio belongs to a bygone era. If their benchmark is solely capital cities, then they’re probably right. But, there’s always two sides to a story. Without AM radio, many people, in the more remote parts this country, would be cut off from the World --- well, at least from what’s happening in their nearest community, and, that could be up to 200 kilometres away. Sure, AM’s ‘use-by date’ was definitely punched the day FM rode into town. FM’s superior music quality always guaranteed there was going to be a serious exodus, and, eventually AM’s share of the listeners would start to dwindle. In fact, it didn’t take too long at all before FM radio started to hook a large slab of the audience; those aged up to 39. AM was left with the rest. Back in the nineties, this all seemed like a pretty good solution, but now, AM’s audience is literally starting to die off. So, in recent years, AM broadcasters have been asking themselves - “what can we do about it?” Right now, there’s a proposal afoot, here in Australia, to convert AM stations to FM, in markets where both stations are owned by the same broadcaster. By owning two FM stations in the one market, operators would be free to migrate away from their expensive News/Talk programming on the AM band in favor of two music formats; a lot cheaper option. This proposed FM conversion of AM stations could work very well in areas where there’s a real concentration of listeners, such as along the coastal strip, but in really remote areas, a lot of people may find themselves waking up the next morning, without any access to commercial radio at all. If you’re a radio person, you’ll know that FM coverage is confined, in general terms, to line of sight; that’s why they put FM transmitters on top of the tallest mountain they can find. However, there are very few, if any, high mountains in outback New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland or Western Australia. This is country, where AM still shines, at least, for its wide area coverage. In the United States, AM radio is also dying, and, pretty much for the same reasons as here. Responding to this problem, the FCC has recently taken a different and very interesting approach to AM. To be fair, the US problem is on a far greater scale than ours. They have over 3,000 local, independent AM stations dotted across small regional towns, some of which are also dying. The FCC is aware that there is no longer enough revenue to be generated from many of these small towns for local AM operators to survive, even if they dominate the audience in their coverage area. In its appraisal, the regulator also realised that unless something radical was done to address the issue, the current FCC commissioners could be presiding over a situation where, hundreds or potentially, thousands of small AM station operators across the country could begin ‘throwing in the towel’, walking away from their businesses and ‘going dark’.No commissioner wants that on their CV! So, late last year, the FCC devised an AM Revitalisation Program. The US radio industry operates not just on licensed AM and FM stations, but supplements them with thousands of FM translators. Of course, we have FM translators here too, but they’re licensed specifically to a defined radio station. Not so, in the US; anyone can buy a translator at auction. While these successful bidders can’t run their own programming on these translators, unless they’re a licensed broadcaster, they can lease them or sell them to AM or FM operators. The private trade in FM translators in the US is growing like topsy, but this profiteering has been forcing the costs up far higher than many regional broadcasters can afford. At the end of last year, as part of this AM Revitalisation Program, the FCC announced plans for a specially-created offering of FM translators to be limited to AM broadcasters only. That special auction will be held next year, but, at that time, AM broadcasters will only be able to apply for one translator per AM station. In the meantime, what the FCC has done is allowed AM broadcasters to acquire existing translator construction permits and transfer them back to their home service areas, under what is known as the ‘250 mile rule’. The broadcaster can even apply to establish that FM translator in their AM’s home town, if they wish. By putting an FM in-fill service in their home town, the AMer is suddenly on an equal footing with the local FM licensees, yet they still retain their AM service for wide area coverage. This is where the US and Australian models vary, as here, if the FM conversion proposal goes ahead, ACMA wants the AM licence surrendered. That demand has seen a number of regional broadcasters, who have recognised the necessity of AM’s wide area coverage in rural areas, refusing to apply for FM conversion. Under the new US plan, local AM broadcasters aren’t compelled to put the FM translator in their home town. In fact, they’re free to apply to move it anywhere in their service area, that they feel will give them the best advantage. This means they can even apply to locate it closer to their service boundary, which may be near a larger town or city and enjoy some fortuitous FM coverage of a bigger audience, as long as they comply with certain FCC regulations. One small-town AM station about 40-kilometres from the centre of Atlanta, has recently sited its translator, so that it now covers many of Atlanta’s outer suburbs, which have been progressively growing towards the once-isolated town. That translator is apparently now up and running and the station is reportedly writing revenue from the Atlanta market, where previously the station was all but ignored. Once considered a local AM station out in the sticks, the AM Revitalisation Program has already given this station, and, no doubt, many others, the ability to provide a high quality FM signal into a larger market. The point here is, that these local AM stations were never regarded by bigger operators as a threat to their audience or revenue. Now, with the access to high-quality FM, they’re suddenly on the radar. This may not be a genuine revitalisation of the AM band, as the FCC envisaged, but it has certainly given many of these small town broadcasters a new lease on life. I’m sure there’ll be a number of Australian broadcasters, who have been giving the consequences of this US plan more than a cursory glance. This is probably why, in the Australian AM to FM conversion proposal, in those areas where the local AM and FM stations are owned by competitors, conversion is not even up for discussion. Despite those apparently sincere pleadings to the Minister and ACMA that AM to FM conversion is critical to better serve the audience, there’s no way that an incumbent FM broadcaster is ever going to give its AM commercial rival the same quality advantage, without one helluva legal stoush. Never mind the audience --- this is business! I noted previously that AM radio is critical for wide area coverage in remote areas, albeit at a quality disadvantage. So, perhaps now, in this time of imminent change to the media landscape, ACMA and their political masters should be closely examining the recent US experience, and, seriously considering whether elements of the American AM Revitalisation Plan should be embraced and implemented here. It would seem to me plain common sense to give regional AM stations FM in-fill services in their home towns to allow the local audience to benefit from higher quality sound and less interference, yet still retain their widespread AM coverage, so as not to disenfranchise remote listeners, just because they don’t happen to live in built-up areas. There are definitely some real merits for Australia to take the initiative and devise its own AM Revitalisation Strategy, rather than simply relying on the current ‘band-aid’ approach to these issues, in the hope that it might just get us through. Posted by: (Mike Terry, April 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 11387-USB, May 3 at 1330, robotic YL with VOLMET for places such as Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide. EiBi shows this 24h on the hours and half-hours, frequency shared for 5 minutes each with Kolkata, Bangkok, Karachi, Singapore, Mumbai in that order, but only Kolkata and Mumbai are 24 hours, the others during local daytime only. Australian site ``n`` = Ningi QL 27S04'00"-153E03'20" which is just north of Brisbane (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 3210, 0850, Unique Radio, Tamworth [NSW] at very weak level with Glenn Hauser’s ‘World of Radio’ on 17/4. From 0856 mainly spoken features followed till 0955 tuneout due increasing noise level. (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs, May NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. WHAT A NIGHTMARE: SETTING UP HF DOMESTIC BROADCAST SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA A few months ago digging thorough ACMA (Australia) license database I've discovered broadcasting category called "HF Domestic Service". Basically, this type of license allows operation of a HF AM broadcast station with 1KW output and vertical antenna. Proposed assignments to the HF broadcasting service are in the bands of 2300 – 2495 kHz, 3200 – 3400 kHz, 3950 - 4000 kHz, 4750 – 4995 kHz and 5005 – 5060 kHz. Immediately I got excited: wouldn't be nice to put up a signal and have some fun transmitting? Of course, I would not be the first one to get on air in this band segment --- from time to time there were other Australian signals appearing on the band, like Radio Symban on 2368.5 or recently, Unique Radio on 3210 kHz. I made a call to ACMA and this is when all the hell broke loose. To cut the long story short, for the past few months I am having nothing but grief and quite frankly I am at the verge of pulling the plug on the project. The amount of ignorance, bureaucracy and undiluted stupidity - all coated under 'technical' aspect of what should be a simple licensing issue - is beyond belief. First of all, while the licensing agency has at its disposal ability to allocate almost any frequency within the generous bandwidth, it turns out that only 3 fixed frequencies are allowed, and to be shared within the entire Australian continent. Many years ago some bureaucrat said so, set the precedent and since then this is how it is. The licensing process works in this way: you spend months trying to find an application form. When the form is submitted (accompanied with $400 per frequency fee) then the application gets automatically rejected with no explanation. The next step is then to hire a professional spectrum management agency and re-apply. The role of agency is to verify that frequencies allocated for HF domestic service are available. And this is where I am right now: unable to get a frequency allocation because another user 1,000 km north from Sydney has been licensed for a transmitter site 30 km away from my location. While he has no intention to actually put a signal on air, the frequency is basically unavailable to any other potential users. And ACMA is unwilling to issue alternative frequency stating that there are no 'free' frequencies to be allocated! I spent hours on the phone trying to convince inactive users (there are bunch of them who collectively hold 12 licenses + ABC domestic Broadcast service) trying to reach some kind of agreement where I could co-share a frequency (ACMA would probably OK such agreement) but no luck so far. I have not seen more territorial bunch of characters in my life: apparently, for one to be 'approved as AM broadcaster' and prove himself worthy of joining the group, a demonstration of certain skills is required. Those "skills" have nothing to do with engineering or broadcasting but social interaction of some kind to which I am not accustomed nor interested in. I have to say here that owner of Unique Radio on 3210 is probably the only sane person out there, as well as Craig Allan who is genuinely trying to help. Last week I have re-applied for 3 more frequencies in a different state. If license is granted, I intend to setup a remote station in Queensland. However since the 'coverage' of domestic service is left for ACMA`s intepretation under unknown criteria, there is no guarantee that this application will ever be approved either. In the meantime, I am trying to set up an internet radio (webcasting). This is another can of worms. There are two organizations which cover copyright issues. The first one is AMCOS which deals with text/music copyright. The license is $275 per year and to obtain one is straightforward procedure. However the second license is a nightmare: PPCA is music label umbrella organization. The license fee for a commercial webstreaming could cost up to $60-100 per day or $1 per song played! The alternative is a hobby license. Hobby license is 'only' $1200 per year but the requirement is for server to be located in Australia. I would have to block all non- Australian listeners (???) and submit playlist as a commercial station. No profit or even income could be generated, no advertising, despite $1200 per year to be paid to record company mobsters. I find this licensing requirement absolutely ridiculous and refuse to sign it. It goes against basic principles of what broadcasting is all about: to allow users from anywhere in the world to access my web radio. The alternative is to enter into a contract with unknown and independent musicians and probably set up a station with Voscast or similar host. The bottom line: so far, this project was huge waste of time and money. Dealing with incompetent government bureaucrats, spectrum management experts, label mobsters and local disillusioned AM 'community' who believes that there is money to be made in domestic HF broadcasting is nothing but the most unpleasant undertaking I've had in years. Is it worth it? Definitely not. I am still awaiting outcome of my license application. This could take months so don't expect to find me on the air any time soon. However the excitement is long gone. The only benefit so far is that I now appreciate my amateur license even more: ham band allocations are extremely generous, the output power allowance is more than adequate for any amateur mode of operation, I can basically use any antenna I wish and operate any time and my license cost just $50 per year. 73, (Nick VK2DX Hacko, http://www.RadioDX.com.au May 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Nick, The best thing I suggest to arrange a meeting with your local federal member of parliament, and then to try and arrange a meeting with the federal communications minister - who from memory is the Prime Minister if I am not mistaken. You may be able to cut through the red tape going in this direction. 73 (Tony VK2IC, ibid.) Nick, One thought for you on the licensing situation. I've been using mixcloud to stream my programs, which includes the required licensing for streaming online at the cost of $15USD/month. It is far from ideal but it is at least one workable and affordable work-around to absurdly expensive licensing situation, at least on the internet side of things (James Branum, BroadSpectrumRadio.com OK, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. ESQUEMA DE HORARIOS Y FRECUENCIAS DE HCJB AUSTRALIA - EN VARIOS IDIOMAS DESDE LAS 1040 A LAS 2345 UT. All: KNX | 100 | | 1040 1145 | 11905 | Cfm | 1055 1130 | 15400 | Jpn | 1100 1115 | 15575 | Bod [Tibetan] | 1100 1115 | 15575 | Vie | 1110 1215 | 15575 | Eng | 1140 1245 | 15550 | Cmn | 1200 1245 | 9720 | Ind | 1215 1300 | 9685 | Ind | 1225 1600 | 15340 | Hin | 1255 1430 | 15290 | Eng | 1255 1430 | 15320 | Eng | 1300 1445 | 9720 | Hin | 2155 2245 | 9625 | Ind | 2225 0001 | 15525 | Cmn | 2225 2300 | 17760 | Jpn | 2225 2330 | 15525 | Cmn | 2255 2345 | 9655 | Ind Atenciosamente, (Héctor Friás Jofré, CE3FZL, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Note the English broadcasts, more than I thought they had, on unfamiliar and unheard frequencies here; partly English? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Shabab FM Radio, Bahrein. Arabic on 15/4 at 1927 together with RFA in Chinese & Fire Dragon pseudo opera music, plus from 1930 with CRI in Esperanto (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BELARUS. On 23 April, 1815 UT on 6290 kHz accept pirate station without stopping twist Soviet songs 60s. Woman in Russian with an accent announced that it Radio Zhuravli. At 1906 UT disconnected. Audibility is rather weak and 6295 appear a hindrance (Alexander Golovihin, Tolyatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" & "open_dx" via RusDX May 1 via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Also the second day somewhere in the 1800 UT hear Radio Zhuravli. As I understood by their declaration of the Belarusian station. Gave e-mail in English, but I did not understand everything as a quick read on the air (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, ibid.) Free radio log of April 23, 2016: 6290, 1849-1905 c/d, Radio Zhuravli playing Soviet Retro songs, ID is given several times in Russian and English: "?? ???????? ????? ??????? ?? ????????" or "You are listening to Radio Zhuravli from Belarus", fair to poor signal with high level of noise and fades, sinpo 3-24222, very good reception via Twente SDR, sinpo 55444 (!), finish ID is: "Radio Zhuravli is closing down and God bless the USSR", first Belarussian free radio that I heard, but it seems that they are not exactly from Belarus (fake station???). (Lviv_DX, Ukraine, ibid.) ** BELARUS. An article on the dismantling of SW / MW-center in Grodno http://s13.ru/archives/138553 (Sergey Alekseichik, Grodno, Belarus / "open_dx" via RusDX May 1 via DXLD) Viz.: Soviet "jammers" to dismantle Ponemuni Object "5-16" under the "classified" designed for the Ministry of Communications of the USSR in 1984. Two radio tower height of 124 meters and two 60 meters were put into operation near the village near Grodno Ponemun December 31, 1986. It's no secret was that their main purpose - to create interference to foreign radio stations. However, the tower was used as "jammers" in Grodno long, they redirected for other purposes: the broadcast of several programs of All-Union Radio, the radio station "Mayak", All- Union and Republican broadcasting to foreign countries. Already in independent Belarus they broadcast national radio stations, and partly to the Russian FM. Operated rigs in Ponemuni until 2012, according to "Grodnenskaya Pravda". But in the "numbers" era became unclaimed. RUE "Belarusian Broadcasting Center" was decided on the phased dismantling ponemunskih towers. Institute "Grodnogiprostroy" developed a project of dismantling of all four radio masts. - Now dismantle towers project is under examination, - says Director Nicholas Monich Institute. - In addition, the design of demolition projects of three radio towers in height from 118 to 124 meters in the Mogilev region and a fifty-meter near Baranovichi in the Brest region. When dismantling towers, demolition and dismantling of concrete foundations came in disrepair of buildings completed, vosmigektarnogo reclamation of the land will be held in Ponemuni, which will go to the city. Probably land offered to investors. (RusDX May 1 via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** BELARUS [non]. ALEMANIA, 3985, Radio Belarus, Kall-Krekei, 0731- 0734, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en alemán a locutora con comentarios, SINPO 34333 (Via SDR Holanda) (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN [and non]. 6035, BBS on May 2, tuned in at 1217 to hear the usual format: BBS indigenous music mixing with PBS Yunnan (China); 1219 one of the stations went off the air; as I have recently been reporting, this would fit the BBS pattern, then leaving the frequency clear for PBS. Not so today! It was PBS that went off the air; I continued to listen and noted I was still hearing the BBS indigenous music and was clearly not with PBS Vietnamese, but was in vernacular; after 1230 had a long interview; 1300 an often heard BBS theme music; announcer in vernacular till suddenly off at 1307. Truly a unique reception for both BBS and PBS. Rare to hear BBS without the normal PBS QRM. May 1, noted at 1212 & 1306 that PBS Yunnan was off the air on 6035 (also no BBS), so seems PBS is having technical difficulties now, so a good time to monitor Bhutan. BTW - No hint of Myanmar on 6035 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, May 3 with extremely poor Asian/Pacific reception this morning!! Jim Young and I both noted what he reports: "BBS on 6034.994 this morning from 1149 to 1217:17*. No PBS under," but my reception of BBS yesterday was many times better than today. Hope we can get some days with good propagation, while PBS is having problems. Almost all the regulars that I listen to were very weak. 0930-1000 was listening to RA (9580 // 12065 // 12085 all fair-good) with special live 2016 budget speech by Scott Morrison and wanted to check if ABC also had it. Very rare for me to find that 4835 only had an open carrier - No Audio. Normally I have very decent audio, but none today! (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11700, Apr 24, 2016. 2046-2051, Radio Biafra, Kostinbrod. OM talks in English. Irregular or unsettled signal, S1-3, 2-4, 3-1, 4-2, and barely audible modulation; sometimes, unlistenable, 25331 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11700, R. Biafra, Kostinbrod. Noted what sounded like hymns at 1803, a male announcer in English at 1805 (distorted and muffled audio) and a telephone interview (clear audio) at 1812 with many mentions of the political situation in Nigeria. Occasional breaks in the audio but the carrier remained throughout, until around 1820 when the audio disappeared completely. Audio back on at 1829 with the telephone speaker still hammering away at it. At 1859, the studio announcer returned with distorted audio, then the audio disappeared again at 1900. 26/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 11700, April 28 at 1945, JBA carrier, S2, maybe trace of English from R. Biafra via BULGARIA; interrupted by much stronger utility bursts occasionally on lo side, ``running water`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11700, OPPOSITION, Radio Biafra – Kostinbrod, BULGARIA (Presumed), 2015–2102, 4/30/16, in English. Afropop, male announcer with a series of talks by a variety of people – mostly personal rather than political, ended with talk by announcer, African choir, different male speaking to a crowd with a brief exhortation, off. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, Perseus, SDRPlay, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X with clear mod, and various other portables; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet May 1 via DXLD) 11700, May 1, 2016. 1932-1941, Radio Biafra, Kostinbrod, English service. African song; OM talks, a song. Moderate to strong interference by CRI in French, on 11695, but R. Biafra is perfectly audible, 33442 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6025. RED PATRIA NUEVA, 3/5 0029-0039 UT. Informaciones noticiosas sobre el desarrollo productivo de Cochabamba según la opinión del gobernador. SINPO: 43343 con QRN y QRM de otra emisora sin identificación y siseos de R. Martí en 6030. RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: 40 metros de hilo, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6105.15, R. Panamericana, La Paz. Just separable from Taiwan on 6105, Spanish announcements. 1150, fair only on 30/4 (Craig Seager, VK2HBT, Bathurst NSW (Perseus SDR, Icom IC-746, Icom IC-R71E, Airspy SDR with Spyverter, Loop Skywire, LZ2AQ Amplified Loop, G5RV Jnr, Hustler 5-BTV Vertical, KIWA Preamp), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1120 till suddenly off at 1201, May 4. Long series of speeches; 1150 playing pop Pacific Island music; in Tok Pisin/Pidgin; after NBC went off heard JBA carrier of assume RRI Palangkaraya. May 1, NBC not heard at all. May 2 clearly off early at 1136 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL UPDATE: Cordial verification e-mail from NBC Bougainville, Papua New Guinea concerning a transmission on 3325. Initial report was sent to the Executive Director of NBC who forwarded it to Bougainville. The QSL arrived in four weeks from the station manager, Adrian Rasin. E- mail address is rasineddie@gmail.com (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee, WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); Icom IC-R75 (Grove Flex antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet May 1 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6090a, 0545, Rádio Bandeirantes reactivated here, time pips on quarter hour, Portuguese commercial programs on 6089.96 just audible under Anguilla. Much better reception on // 9645.4 10/4 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs, May NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Checked 31 mb in North America and Brisbane, Queensland. 9565.074, SRDA, 0949 UT 9645.390, Rádio Bandeirantes, 0941 UT. 9664.982, ZYE890 Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 0944 UT 9724.951, RB2 Portuguese, 0946 UT 9819.222, R 9 de Julho, Port, 0947 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 9695, Rádio Rio Mar, Manaus, 1535-1540, escuchada el 3 de mayo de 2016 en portugués a locutor con comentarios de carácter religioso, SINPO 24242 (Via SDR Holanda) https://soundcloud.com/valenciadx/96950-radio-rio-mar-manaus-3-may-2016?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRM 9695 hasn`t been heard here in a long time, evenings or overnight; limited daytime schedule?? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11780.013, April 29 at 0320 check, RNA is (almost) back on frequency! After months way off above 11780.100, so was always making a het when tuning past on 1- or 10-kHz steps. I first noted this earlier, April 28 at 1943 as an unID very poor S4 signal, YL maybe in French? and no het, so at first thought the ZY was off exposing something else, but nothing else at all is scheduled between 18 and 24 on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Weak to good signal of Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok, April 28 1130-1200 17860 TAC 100 kW / 122 deg Khmer Thu/Sun via RED Telecom http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/weak-to-good-signal-of-voice-of-khmer.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. The Way Back Machine: I found this video on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGofxiWIAU It is a history of various CBC Radio-Canada identification logos and TV ID’s. It is interesting to see the various logos and ID’s as the network changed through the years (Shawn Axelrod, MB, DX Toolbox, NRC DX News May 9 via DXLD) ** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. 5815.1, 2103-... 17/4 ? Energy FM (Canary Is. stn) via UNID - pirate, Pops. CG 5815.2, 2117-... 19/4 G ? Weekend Music R - pir. Pops. 35332 CG 5855.1, 2115-... 19/4 ? Energy FM (Canary Is. stn) via UNID - pirate, English, pops, ads. 45433 CG (Carlos Gonçalves, Lisboa, Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP & PERSEUS sdr; homemade amp. (W7IUV version); 20 m T2FD, 30 m inv. V, 6x19x6 m Ewe 135º, raised, 4 loop K9AY, via Dario Monferini, Play-DX Electronic 2 May via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Note two different Energy channels ** CHAD. 6165, April 28 at 0542, no longer hearing Ndjamena underneath RHC, which for a while was making an obvious subaudible het sometimes with audio. Nor have I for a few nights now around this time. So are they completely gone again from SW? Thorsten Hallmann in Germany reported April 24: ``6165 RN Tchadienne: There is usually a little gap between 1757 (CRI off) and 1800 (BBC on) to indicate Chad activity which seems to be running not always till after 1900, when the channel becomes clear again. But not there in the gap on Thursday and Saturday`` [April 21 and 23] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not on air on 6165 kHz at 2007 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, April 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Vesterday, May 2nd, was the first day I noted the gap 1757-1800 filled again (not checked every day though), and a carrier was signing off at 1953*, with very little modulation before. Both would fit for Chad. Not there just now, 1935 on May 3rd. I didn't mind the gap today, luckily not being in a London tube station (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, ibid.) ** CHINA [and non]. EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9745, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 1946, 26-Apr; Presumably against Radio Free Asia via Kuwait — not heard. Still on at 2041 but weaker & other audio evident; RFA still listed (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15590, April 28 at 1357, CNR1 jammer // 11785 atop algo, still at 1401. Target victim is VOA Chinese at 13-15, but shifting site at 14 from Thailand to Tinang. 9745.00, April 28 at 1951, instrumental Chinese music at S5 in DSB, so hardly Bahrain. Scheduled at this time, 19-21, is Radio Free Asia in Chinese via Kuwait, but as usual, lacking anything more specific, one must assume more likely to be heard is CNR1 jamming. However, CRI in Esperanto is also scheduled on 9745 at 1930-2030, 500 kW, 308 degrees from Urumqi toward Europe, in which case the ChiCom would not hesitate to jam one of their own broadcasts under the circumstances. I`m hearing only one station so should have listened a bit longer. 17485, Fri April 29 at 1433, song, S9 with flutter; 1439 can hear Chinese talk and CCI from second station. So it`s CNR1 jamming vs VOA Tibetan via THAILAND, this hour only and on M/W/F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 7210.00-AM, April 30 at 2327 checking a tip of something unusual here, maybe a pirate? It sounds very poor, but registers S9+10 vs storm noise level of S8 on a nearby open frequency. 2328 sounds like gospel rock, 2330 announcement maybe Spanish, then intonation sounds like English, 2332 another song. 2356 still a rock song, off between 2357 and 2358* leaving nothing but SSB hams around 7210. I must assume this is CRI Spanish as listed via Albania at 22- 24, despite the unexpected programming style. Could have checked //s had I known in time. 5990, May 3 at 0025, CRI via CUBA is just barely modulated, presumably Spanish, likewise on // 15120. ** CHINA [and non]. 11910, May 3 at 1323, CRI English at S5, but it`s not // 9570 via CUBA. Conveniently, right next to it on 11900, is CRI English equally weak with a completely different program-hour, and it is // 9570. 11910 is Beijing site, 11900 Kunming. Has anyone ever unraveled all the different CRI English program hours on which frequencies currently at which times? Much of the content of course now comes from the domestic Easy FM channel, and some of them annoyingly mix English and Chinese as if we were all bilingual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn - I have just been working on that very thing. CRI completely revamped their shortwave program schedule since 26 April. It is now the same schedule as, and in parallel to, the AM1008 Beijing service. The daily China Drive is dropped, and the former weekend programs of Heartbeat and Horizons now have weekday airings. In addition new (to shortwave) programs are introduced. In particular, Chinese Theatre and Alight on Literature are definite highlights. The broadcast day now starts at 1600 UT (i.e. 0000 Beijing Time), so programs from 1600 to 2400 UT are one UT day earlier than 0000-1600 UT (previously the SW broadcast day started at 0000 UT). The full schedule is now here: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2015/06/25/2203s884567.htm - note that the times here are Beijing Time. I have attached a pdf of the same schedule but for ease of reference, have changed the times and day headings to UT. Hope that helps everyone (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, May 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alan, Great. But this does not respond to my original query, about two entirely different CRI English programs being heard during the same hour (13 UT), one on 11900/9570 the other on 11910. So maybe it is not as clear-cut as you had thought? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CHINA [and non-log]. 4029-USB, VC01 (Chinese Military numbers station), 1224, May 4. Numbers in Chinese; almost fair. 6035, PBS Yunnan. Quick check at 1223 on May 4, found no signal from PBS, nor from BBS/Bhutan; was a clear frequency. Seems PBS is still having problems (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1823-1830*, 25-04, French, news and comments "L'actualité", "Congo". Very weak today, best on LSB. 13221 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31 MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO [DEMOCRATIC] REPUBLIC, 5066.4, Radio Tele Candip, Bunia, 1836.1850, 28-04, African songs and Vernacular comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31 MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COOK ISLANDS. SOUTH PACIFIC DX REPORT --- Australian DXer ROBERT SHEPHERD recently visited Argentine Antarctica, Chile and then crossed the Pacific on Queen Mary II. This trail features some of the stations that Robert heard on his small Degen 1121 with inbuilt telescopic aerial. Of particular note for us is the first DX report of the new Fijian operation on 990. The photo shows Robert with his receiver and WRTH 2016 checking out the DX from the aft of Queen Mary II’s Deck 6 which seemed to be the best DX location on the ship, considering he was surrounded by 155,000 tons of steel and significant electronics QRM. 630, 0800, Rarotonga tracked on and off for 16 hours as we cruised by the southern cluster of islands forming the Cook Islands. ID “The time on Radio Cook Islands is 7.58 pm”. Plenty of great ukulele music. 1/3 (May NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** CUBA. 17730.007, April 28 at 1230, I measure this RHC frequency once it has built up to blasting daytime level, also overmodulated & distorted. When tuning across it, I have long noticed a bit of a wobble against the BFO, also the case with several other RHC frequencies, but overall they do a good job of frequency accuracy, {generally within 10 Hz of nomninal.} There, I said something positive! 19280, April 28 at 1257, JBA carrier from RHC, 2 x 9640; might also be one on 19070 = 2 x 9535 as before, but now that`s blocked by a blob from a local device. 11640-11700, April 29 at 0052, RHC 11670 is splattering out to plus/minus 30 kHz, even during talk, not just music, and it`s somewhat suptorted on fundamental, forcing the squeezeout around the edges. 11830, April 29 at 0055, S4 signal is just barely modulated, but I manage to // it to RHC on 11670. A similar signal is on 11850, as I reported recently and calculated it to be a leapfrog of 11670 over 11760. Now however, it looks more like plus/minus 10 kHz parasites attached to the other RHC frequency 11840. Or is 11850 both?? John Cooper in PA also had this 11830 and wondered if it was listed R. Daqui, Brasil reactivated? I did too at first, but not enough signal yet on 4915 to check // there (and 4915 bears an additional ZY anyway), while the other R. Daqui frequency, 6080 is inactive per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, R Havana Cuba with Spanish music and announcements (whoops!) until about :32 and then into the English News and introduction as if it were the ToH. Still mentioning the 55th Anniversary of RHC. Carrier abruptly off at :30 in mid sentence, but back at 0432 [sic] with music, and restarting with the beginning of the English transmission at :33. They are 'having issues'! 5554+4 with noticable hum in the modulation. 0307-0435 29/Apr SB-310 +ANC4 and randomwire antenna (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet April 29 via DXLD) The times in above item are exactly as received --- a very good example of why it`s not a good idea to delete the hours and just show the :minutes within body of report, only showing the full span of the log at the very end. Was this really over a sesquihour period, or was 0307 a typo for 0407? I started to expand the times properly but then I couldn`t be sure whether :32, :30 and :33 were 03+ or 04+! (ed. gh, DXLD) 9850, Sunday May 1 at 1345, RHC is still on this frequency instead of closing at 1300, and it`s not playing `En Contacto`, but instead talking about Venezuela, Colombia; stronger than 9535, weaker than // 9710 & 9640. I expect RHC`s official fifty-fifth anniversary today will lead to more program pre-emptions. 11760, Sunday May 1 at 1501, RHC reconfirmed starting weekly Esperanto semihour with its particular theme music. Also confirmed amid Espo Sunday May 1 at 2251 still on 17730. 6060, UT Monday May 2 at 0243, RHC catches my ear with some modern classical piano music, 0244 outro as by compositora Thalia Castellanos, who is then interviewed briefly from a buzzy TV show, plugging ICR, the Revolution, and the 13 Congreso del CPC, so she is certainly politically correct; then a version in Spanish of ``Mona Lisa``. 0252 program title announced as `Formalmente Informal`, which is one of their better music shows {but always got to get in some pro- Communist propaganda}. Also on 9710 and 5040, but modulation distortion on all of them is a drawback, only partly from selective fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was hearing nasty NASTY distortion out just about all of Cuba's frequencies last night. Must have been a studio issue (or was it a number of transmitters at fault) ?? Yeah, I know a ongoing thing for Arnie's praised transmitters. Best Regards, (Dave Zantow, Janesville, WI, May 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9710, May 3 at 0015, RHC Spanish has considerable CCI in Brazuguese, i.e. CRI, 500 kW, 269 degrees via EAST TURKISTAN from Kashgar (and another two hours of Spanish are scheduled 0100-0300 at 294 degrees), Commies vs Commies! They are close to zero-beat, anyway. 6100, May 3 at 0509, RHC at S9+10 of dead air instead of English, which does emanate from 6165, at S9+10/20; 6000 too but undermodulated, during self-congratulatory spiel about RHC`s 55th anniversary, tsk2. (SW started in Feb 1961 as La Onda Corta Experimental Cubana; we remember it well on 11760, but not proclaimed as RHC until May 1). At this hour, 0500+, 5040 is still in Spanish, contrary to Aoki and EiBi which both show English at 0500-0600*; maybe it is sometimes. If 5040 stay on another hour until 0700, that would normally be in English along with all the other English frequencies. Such uncertainty about the language on 5040 has been rampant for a longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear amigo Wolfie: This is the latest update of our schedule. We are still using 15140 kiloHertz to North America during the local afternoon hours as not one listener has complained of any incompatibility with another station. All reports tell us of a SINPO 55555! Do you have any remote SDR receiver near Chicago/Toronto to check and see what the signal to noise ratio is there? 73 and DX, Your friend in sunny La Habana, Cuba, Arnie Coro, CO2KK, Host of Dxers Unlimited, May 3 (via wb, DXLD) RHC certainly overrides the weak 15140 signal from OMAN (if and when it is really on the air), here in central North America. The question is whether Oman is being harmed further east; does he care about that? First things first! Or whether we are able to hear Oman at all during this time? His previous usage of 11670 uncaringly and selfishly blocked All India Radio. Wolfie later points out to him that there would be no QRM at all on 15150 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. 5040, UT Wed May 4 at 0540, RHC fails to broadcast in Spanish like in this hour last night, but instead English, as Arnie in `DXers Unlimited` is talking about sporadic E, sprites and T-storms causing it? Mentions Pat WA5IYX Dyer`s deep research into sporadic E; then explains how RHC 6 MHz channels can be heard on cheap radios just above the MW band, i.e. mixing with third harmonic of local oscillator (which we have also explained years ago). Yet Arnie never says a word about all the TRANSMITTED spurs out of RHC --- harmonics, intermodulation / leapfrog mixing products, defective modulation, splatter, etc., etc. He leaves that to us. Wraps up at 0548, with usual marked improvement in audio quality on his standard closing, recorded years ago in studio, compared to his telco phoned-in body of program. RHC has also failed to broadcast English dead air on 6100 during this period like it did last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio República 0000-0200 on 9490 ISS 150 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) I believe it starts later, runs later (gh) FRANCE, 9490, at 0142 UT noted Radio República on air via TDF Issoudun unit, at S=9+15dB or -59dBm signal level heard remotely in MA-NJ-USA unit. 11 kHz broadband signal visible on Perseus software screen73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7489.87-AM, UT Tue May 3 at 0006 past 0025, WBCQ with `From the Isle of Music`, good signal. Advance listings of each week`s content are posted on the DXLD yg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos cordiales, 6070, Channel 292, Rohrbarch, Waal, 1918-2000, escuchada el [martes] 3 de mayo de 2016 el programa From The Isle Music en español a locutor con entrevista a músico de jazz cubano, emisión de música jazz, SINPO 44444 (Via SDR Holanda) https://soundcloud.com/valenciadx/6070-chanel-292-programa-from-the-isle-music-3-may-2016 (José Miguel Romero2, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. [From DXLD 16-17:] ``Radio OZNRH – which previously has been heard on 1611 and lately on 6310/6320 kHz is due with a new frequency in the near future: 15650 kHz. Likely to be on the air Sunday afternoons and into the early evening, so look out for OZNRH Sundays around 15-18 UT. More info: http://radiooznrh.webnode.com/ (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Randers, Denmark, SW Bulletin April 24 via WORLD OF RADIO 1823, DXLD)`` OZNRH on 15650 now? (Glenn Hauser, 1519 UT May 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos cordiales Glenn, desde el SDR de Holanda no se capta señal alguna en esas frecuencias; en el rango de 6200 a 6400 hay varias emisora piratas emitiendo, pero no capto nada en 6310, ni 6320 ni 15650, anuncian emitir con 100 w, equipo de radioaficionado. Un saludo, (José Miguel Romero2, Spain, ibid.) No trace of any signal at 1635 UT on 15650 today May 1st. Maybe the frequency is too high for reliable propagation into my area? (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) Nothing in southern Finland at 1702 (Jari Savolainen, ibid.) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 17630, April 29 at 1434, CRI English during `Roundtable` chat show, 1436 greeting listeners in Finland, St Kitts & Nevis. This is S9+20 with flutter, 500 kW, 308 degrees from Urumqi, like so many relays toward Europe. Last year this was pretty regular way over here beyond, but haven`t heard it so well this year. Maybe will improve into summer over almost-polar sunlit path. But in general we`re having to live with lower MUFs. Since CRI English, eastward via Bamako, MALI, is also scheduled during this hour on 17630, and some North Americans choose to believe they are hearing that site instead, I make a point of listening at the closure of Urumqi during the Chinese-lesson filler at hourend, which happens at 1457:10*. There remains on 17630 only a JBA carrier, which was too weak to detect while Urumqi was on, but Mali does continue another hour with CRI English in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. INICIA CONCURSO PARA ACCEDER A 1.472 FRECUENCIAS DE RADIO Y TELEVISIÓN El Consejo de Regulación de la Comunicación (Cordicom), el Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones, y la Agencia de Regulación de Control de las Telecomunicaciones, abrieron el concurso para la adjudicación de frecuencias de radio y televisión de señal abierta. En total, los organismos del Estado decidieron que los medios de comunicación podrán acceder a 1.472 frecuencias. De estas, para las radios en Frecuencia Modulada (FM) corresponden 846, para Amplitud Modulada (AM) 148, y para televisión están disponibles 478 frecuencia. Según Ana Proaño, directora de la Arcotel, solo este martes se postularon 25 personas. De todas las frecuencias, 846 serán para Frecuencia Modulada (FM), 148 para Amplitud Modulada (AM) y 478 para televisión. Los interesados deberán presentar sus documentos hasta el 15 de junio. Augusto Espín, ministro de Telecomunicaciones (Mintel), dijo que podrán participar todos los ciudadanos, excepto aquellos a quienes se revertió la frecuencia. De esta manera, sí podrán hacerlo aquellos que tienen la concesión caducada o prorrogada. Según Espín, el proceso se realizará por dos fases. La primera estará a cargo de la Arcotel, que revisará la parte técnica, mientras que la Cordicom se encargará de la parte comunicacional. De esta manera, Proaño señaló que en la parte técnica se analizará el plan de gestión (40%), la sostenibilidad financiera (40%) y la parte técnica de ingeniería (20%). Los interesados deberán presentar la documentación para acceder a la frecuencia en forma física y en medio magnético hasta el 15 de junio de 2016. No deberán estar inmersos en las inhabilidades y prohibiciones contempladas en la Constitución y la Ley de Comunicación (La Hora, Ecuador via GRA blgo via DXLD) WHAT ABOUT SHORTWAVE? Those AM/FM/TV breakdown figures do add up to the 1472 total, so unless SW be included in the AM category, forget about it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9800, R. Cairo, Abis. Seemingly English to EU at 2145, usual unbearable audio problems, 4/4. 9895, R. Cairo, Abis. French to Europe at 2035, NF (ex 9900) and with the usual distorted audio, 10/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 9325, R. Cairo, Abis. In Hausa 2024, signal was okay but as usual the transmitter sounded terrible with a strong hum over the top, 15/4 (Phil Brennan, DX-Pedition Ubud, Indonesia, May Australian DX News via DXLD) 9964.98v, April 30 at 2349, R. Cairo almost on frequency, but wobbling slightly, 2351 it`s JBM with YL in English, and a lite whine. 12005.05, May 1 at 0011, horrible distorted loud modulation centered here, apparently Arabic, got to be Cairo. Yes, HFCC shows 2215-0045 in Portuguese/Arabic, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis. Also shown on 12070 but nothing there. Also shown as // 13820 from the other site, not checked. Good thing this is done before 0100 when Vietnam starts its North American service via Woofferton on 12005 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9315.035, R Cairo, Abis, Spanish service, S=7 -88dBm. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, May 1, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Circa 0150 UT judging from adjacent logs (gh) ERTU Voice of Arabs: 12085, 0204 1 MAY - SINPO = 15211 (modulation barely perceptable), male announcer, musical interludes. QSB=moderate- to-rapid rate, barely perceptible modulation on noisy carrier mostly below noise floor with occasional peaks that mix with it. sf93.7, a7, k3, geomag: unsettled. 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, 11731KM from transmitter at Abis. Local time: 1904 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency unstable outlet of R Cairo Arabic, scheduled 2300-0430 UT, S=9+10dB or -60dBm, noted at 0215 - 0225 UT May 1st wandered up and down between 9965.232 ... 9965.240 ... 9965.262 ... 9965.250 kHz. 73 15160.002, Radio Cairo from Abu Zabaal registered, in Uzbek language, at 1550 UT BUZZ covered audio signal, S=9+20dB signal strength, 21 x 50 Hertz each apart distance signal peaks visible like a garden fence on Perseus software screen. Arabic singer of Radio Cairo era fifty years back. 73 wb df5sx. 15345.038, Radio Cairo English to all-Africa from Abis site, 16-18 UT scheduled, heard at 1605 UT on May 1st. 39 x 50 Hertz each apart distance signal peaks visible like a garden fence on Perseus software screen. And another broadband 5 kHz wide BUZZ from same service, centered at 15329 kHz too. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, May 1 in Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965.25, May 2 at 0228, R. Cairo is S9, but JBM in Arabic with whine. 9315.02, May 2 at 0231, S8 signal with suptorted modulation; can`t tell if it`s English, but may well be reactivated yet useless North American service at 0200-0330, which was unfound here or anywhere during the entire B-15 season. Now both 9315 and alt 9860 are registered for English, 250 kW, 331 degrees from Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965 - R. Cairo, Abis, 2312 May 3, 2016 - Tune in to Arab YL vocals. Time pips at 2315 followed by YL with ID for Radio Cairo North American service, fanfare then into English news. Ended news with Egyptian weather then into news analysis program featuring Syrian conflict and attempts at ceasefire. This is one of the best signals I have heard from Cairo in quite a while. Audio was clear, signal was strong, S9+20, and steady. Interference was minimal. There was a very noticeable constant hum on the signal which although slightly annoying did not cause any serious degradation to the audio (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 variable terminated superloop antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9590, May 3, 2016. 1935-1940, Radio Cairo, Abis, German service. Open carrier, dead air! 9685, May 3, 2016. 1940-1945, Radio Cairo, Abis, Russian service. Open carrier, YL talks; music pause; YL talks. Barely audible and unlistenable (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, RX (s) Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Can someone help identify an Arabic-sounding station signing on at 1700 on 11885, following a Babcock interval signal. Sounds like "Radio Erranaar" with mention of Eritrea. Quite strong here in London. I know one of you will know! (Jonathan Kempster, London E14, May 4, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) According to "Africa on Shortwave & Mediumwave" on the BDXC website, it`s Radio Erena, target broadcast to Eritrea 1700-1730 in Tirgrinya, 1730-1800 in Arabic (on 11885 via Kostinbrod, Bulgaria). More details on the station at: http://www.bdxc.org.uk/africa.pdf (it's listed under Eritrea) 73, (Alan Pennington, ibid.) Dimtse Radio Erena 1700-1730 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Dly 1730-1800 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Sat 1730-1800 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N), Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Radio Assenna 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Eritrean Forum Medrek 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N), Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Clandestinas: 17765 NO ID, Issoudun, 1748-1758, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en oromo a locutor con comentarios con referencias a "Oromo ti ti, Mali, Uganda", emisión de música étnica, nueva emisora clandestina aún no identificada ni en EiBi ni en Aoki, sólo emisión los domingos de 1730 a 1800 en oromo desde Issoudun, locutora con comentarios, referencias a Oromo, SINPO 45554 (Via SDR Holanda) (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified station 1730-1800 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) FRANCE, Reception of UNIDentified clandestine station via TDF, May 1 1730-1800 17765 ISS 150 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun via WRMI broker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxhqOoP1g4Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IDNqROrLM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IDNqROrLM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeff, could you identify this Oromo clandestine of yours? (gh to Jeff White, RMI, via DXLD) Radio Front for Independence of Oromo (RKWO) (Jeff White, May 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This appears to be the website, or a related one: http://bakkalcha.com/rkwo-bitooteessa-5-2016 So KWO means: Kallacha Walabummaa Oromiyaa But I don`t find anything about SW broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR 1700-1800 on 17630 ISS 100 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun May 1 Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2h9LRQn-Yk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CeHruhNN44&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCQSwo4Nc28&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7T2LHFv8yY&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat 1600-1630 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Oromo Voice Radio 1600-1615 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Mon 1615-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English Mon 1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Wed/Sat Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Voice of Oromo Liberation 1700-1730 on 17630 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Wed 1730-1800 on 17630 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Amharic Wed 1700-1800 on 17630 ISS 100 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Radio Voice of Independent Oromia 1600-1630 on 17860 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) FRANCE, Weak signal of Radio Voice of Independent Oromia via TDF, May 1: 1600-1630 17860 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Oromo Sun, QRM 17855 REE Sp Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MsRdI5tvu0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQdLyK7iJpo&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Piratas via SDR --- 4026, Laser Hot Hits, 0520-0525, escuchada el 30 de abril de 2016 en inglés a locutora con comentarios en programa musical, música pop, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34333 4015, Laser Hot Hits, 0527-0535, escuchada el 30 de abril de 2016 en inglés a locutor con comentarios anunciando frecuencia y emisión de música pop rock, SINPO 34333 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Web SDR, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they changed frequency during 0525-0527, same transmitter? (gh) Pirata: 5835, Laser Hot Hits, 1647-1700, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en inglés a locutor con comentarios y música disco de los años 80, SINPO 34343 (Via SDR Stafford, England) (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FIJI. SOUTH PACIFIC DX REPORT --- Australian DXer ROBERT SHEPHERD recently visited Argentine Antarctica, Chile and then crossed the Pacific on Queen Mary II. This trail features some of the stations that Robert heard on his small Degen 1121 with inbuilt telescopic aerial. Of particular note for us is the first DX report of the new Fijian operation on 990. The photo shows Robert with his receiver and WRTH 2016 checking out the DX from the aft of Queen Mary II’s Deck 6 which seemed to be the best DX location on the ship, considering he was surrounded by 155,000 tons of steel and significant electronics QRM. 990, 1700, Radio Fiji, Suva with Hindi Indian communities program. Very good level 2/3. No sign of 558 kHz. Per 2016 WRTH Suva 990 and 558 kHz planned late 2015, funded by Japanese aid program for cyclone warning, tsunami alerts and other national emergency events (May NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Good signal of Radio France International in Mandingo, April 28 1200-1230 on 17815 ISS 500 kW / 198 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri till May 28 1200-1230 on 15275 ISS 500 kW / 198 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri May 29-Sep.3 1200-1230 on 17815 ISS 500 kW / 198 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri from Sep.4 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/good-signal-of-radio-france_28.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 13725, RFI, Issoudun. English to CAf 0600-0700, NF (ex 9790), strong signal on 11/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ?? I thought the ex- was 9675 in B-15? So says EiBi as of March 24, while 9790 was in French (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) [13725, RFI] Speakers in English difficult to follow due to muffled audio and noise. Relatively rare to have RFI select English in this broadcast. Program directed to Central Africa 0650, 22/4 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC NRD-535D with 7m. vertical), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ?? This frequency-hour alone is supposed to be always in English (gh) ** GAMBIA [non]. 15465, April 29 at 1955, check just in time to hear a JBA carrier, which would be Radio Free Gambia via FRANCE, as others have reconfirmed on the air again this Friday from 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Gambia 1900-2000 on 15465 ISS 100 kW / 207 deg to WeAf English* Fri * plus other languages: Mandinka/Wolof/Fula/Serer/Krio (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) Listened to Radio Free Gambia from 1902 to 1932 and no English heard despite being listed as in English in both Eibi and Aoki. I guess it must have been one of the local languages: Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, Serer, or Krio. Heard Gambia mentioned frequently but it sounded like they were saying Zambia not Gambia. Reception was Very Good (Peter W Hansen, FL, April 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. ALEMANIA, 7265, Hamburguer Local Radio, Bremen, 1406-1414, escuchada el 30 de abril de 2016 en inglés a locutor con entrevista a invitado, referencias a "Australia y Broadcast", SINPO 35453 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Web SDR, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That would be Media Network Plus, just before WORLD OF RADIO (gh) ** GERMANY. Reception of Deutscher Wetterdienst and DP07 Seewetter, April 30 0604-0630 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir CeEu German Deutscher Wetterdienst 0730-0800 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir CeEu German DP07 Seewetter 1200-1200 [sic] 9560 KLL 020 kW / non-dir CeEu German DP07 Seewetter 1204-1230 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir CeEu German Deutscher Wetterdienst http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/reception-of-deutscher-wetterdienst-and.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ``final edition`` April 30 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Not a pirate but a low power German Station: Europa 24- Datteln, 6150, 0104-0300, 04-23-16, SIO: 222, Program non-stop oldies heard after pirate station Radio Illuminati signed off. 0159 OM announcer came on in English with “it’s 4 o’clock in Central Europe”, then rapid talk in German, sounding like a newscast. Back to the oldies at 0202 UT. ID in German 0230 with short news, then oldies until covered by “Voz De Alegria” [Madagascar World Voice In Spanish] at 0300 (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA USA, Receivers Eton E1, JRC NRD- 535, Antena: G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s La Voz Alegre; do they ever really vary ID to ``Voz de Alegría?`` I keep seeing that: The Happy Voice vs The Voice of Happiness (gh) 6150, Europa 24, Dattlen [sic], 1646-1705, 29-04, pop music, comments in German, ID in German and English "This is Europa 24". 24322 increasing to 34333. Also 0623-0705, 29-04, pop music, German, comments, ID. "Europa 24". 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31 MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also heard at 1500-1530, 29-04, at the beach, Cantabrian Sea, with the small Tecsun PL-310ET and telescopic antenna (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) "Datteln" ===> http://tinyurl.com/h26ra4r Mi distancia a la ciudad de Datteln son 320 km. Necesito un foF2 de 5.3 MHz para la recepción de 6150 kHz: http://www.rhci-online.net/files/D-06193_Petersberg_150km_mapping+foF2.png (roger, Petersberg, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Reception of HCJB via Weenermoor, May 1 from 1905 on 7365*WNM 003 kW / 145 deg to SEEu German, good signal from 1915 on 3995 WNM 1.5 kW / non-dir to CeEu German, poor signal * not on new 5920 WNM 003 kW / 145 deg to SEEu effective from May 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzVeLuY1PhY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GYxD1snSE4&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW Amharic via Al Dhabbaya UAE Babcock relay site, - to be jammed by Eritrea? UAE, 17800, Deutsche Welle Bonn in Amharic scheduled 16-17 UT, but in first half hour heard also - accompanied - whine and like garden f e n c e string whistle tones at S=8 level at 16.20 UT April 28. Could be an jamming made interference like a 7 peaks x each 8 Hertz apart distance continuously butzzing on the lower side flank on 17799.994 17799.986 17799.978 17799.970 17799.962 kHz and a separate peak also on 17799.833 kHz. 17800 1600-1700 UT to zone 48 DHA 250kW 225deg Amharic UAE DWL 15048 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Apr 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I would expect Ethiopia to jam this rather than Eritrea (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. [AUSTRIA/BULGARIA/FRANCE/MADAGASCAR/USA] MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK FMO) A-16 period (27/03/2016 - 29/10/2016) A-16 operational MBR schedule of April 18th, 2016. Times are in UTC. FREQ STARTSTOP CIRAF AZI TYPE DAYS LOC POW BRC Language 5975 0400-0430 28SE 140 146 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Bulgarian 9530 0300-0330 48 140 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Tigrinya 9565 2000-2030 46E,47W 186 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR French 9610 1930-2000 37,38W 210 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Tachelhit 9610 2000-2030 37,38W 210 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR French 9790 0900-1000 28W 180 216 1...... NAU 100 AWR Italian 9830 1600-1630 28SE 130 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Bulgarian 11790 1900-1930 46W 218 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Wolof 11790 2030-2100 46SE 165 216 1234567 ISS 250 AWR Yoruba 11800 1900-2000 37,38W 215 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Arabic 11880 0700-0730 46S 203 196 1234567 ISS 250 AWR French 12035 0600-0630 46S 180 196 1234567 ISS 250 AWR French 15140 0800-0830 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR French 15170 1730-1800 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Kabyle 15205 1930-2000 46SE 165 218 1234567 ISS 250 AWR Ibo 15225 0700-0800 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Arabic 15225 0800-0830 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Kabyle 15225 0830-0900 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Tachelhit 15265 1500-1530 41N 90 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Panjabi 15265 1530-1600 41N 90 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Hindi 15490 1630-1700 48 139 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Tigrinya 15640 0600-0630 46S 181 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR French 15670 1530-1600 41N 75 218 1234..7 NAU 250 AWR English 15670 1530-1600 41N 75 218 ....56. NAU 250 AWR Tibetan 15700 0500-0600 38E,39,47N,48N 127 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Arabic 17570 1630-1700 48 140 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Somali 17570 1700-1730 48 141 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Amharic 17720 1730-1800 48 145 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Oromo 17810 1300-1330 42,43W 70 218 .23456. NAU 250 AWR Mandarin 17810 1300-1330 42,43W 70 218 1.....7 NAU 250 AWR Uighur 17810 1330-1500 42,43W 70 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Mandarin 5930 2000-2015 39N 120 216 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul 5945 0700-0730 27,28N 260 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 5945 0700-0730 27,28N 260 146 ......7 NAU 100 BVB Mul 6130 1730-1900 28,29 90 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 6130 1800-1815 28,29 90 146 ....56. NAU 100 BVB Mul 6130 1800-1830 28,29 90 146 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 7310 0300-0315 39S 128 216 1234567 MOS 300 BVB Mul < 9435 1815-1830 39,40 125 216 1...... NAU 250 BVB Mul 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW,38W,37180 146 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul 9550 0430-0445 39N 120 216 ......7 NAU 125 BVB Mul 9550 0430-0450 39N 120 216 .23456. NAU 125 BVB Mul 9550 0430-0515 39N 120 216 1...... NAU 125 BVB Mul 9635 1830-1915 39 129 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 9695 0430-0445 39N 120 216 ......7 NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 9695 0430-0450 39N 120 216 .23456. NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 9735 0430-0500 39,40 120 216 ..345.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 9735 0500-0515 39,40 120 216 .....6. NAU 250 BVB Mul 9735 0500-0530 39,40 120 216 ....5.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW,38W,37180 146 1234567 NAU 125 BVB Mul 11855 1800-1830 39,40 105 216 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1800-1900 39,40 105 216 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1830-1900 39,40 105 216 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1830-1900 39,40 105 216 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 11945 0200-0215 41 50 156 ..3..6. MDC 125 BVB Mul 11945 0200-0230 41 50 156 ....5.7 MDC 125 BVB Mul 11945 0200-0300 41 50 156 1...... MDC 125 BVB Mul 13580 1700-1715 39,40 125 218 .....6. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13580 1700-1715 39,40 130 218 12345.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13580 1700-1715 39,40 125 218 ......7 NAU 250 BVB Mul 13660 1700-1800 39,40 130 218 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40W 141 616 1234567 SOF 150 BVB Mul 13810 1715-1745 38E,39,40W 141 616 ..3.... SOF 100 BVB Mul 13810 1715-1800 38E,39,40W 141 616 .2.4.6. SOF 100 BVB Mul 15160 1630-1730 47,48 145 218 1234567 NAU 100 BVB Mul 15215 1700-1715 39 115 218 .....6. MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1700-1730 39 115 218 ....5.. MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1700-1900 39 115 218 1...... MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1715-1900 39 115 218 ......7 MOS 100 BVB Mul 15390 1100-1200 43S,44S 45 157 1234567 MDC 125 BVB reserve 21480 15640 1500-1515 40,41 90 616 ......7 SOF 100 BVB Mul reserve 15640 1515-1600 40,41 95 216 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 15640 1530-1559 40,41 95 216 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul reserve 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 .2..... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1730 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1730 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ......7 NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ...4... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1730-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ......7 NAU 250 BVB Mul 17535 0830-0915 38,39 145 218 .....6. NAU 125 BVB Mul 17535 0900-0915 38,39 145 218 ..... 7 NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 17650 1400-1415 41 95 218 1...... NAU 250 BVB Mul 17650 1400-1430 41 83 216 ......7 ISS 250 BVB Mul + 17650 1430-1500 41 83 216 ......7 ISS 250 BVB Mul 21480 1100-1230 43S,44S 45 157 1.3456. MDC 125 BVB Mul reserve 21480 1200-1300 43S,44S 45 157 ......7 MDC 125 BVB Mul 21480 1230-1245 54 80 157 1...... MDC 125 BVB Mul 1/3 Sun 9800 0300-0400 48SW,52E,53NW 155 216 1234567 NAU 500 DWL Swa 15250 0500-0600 46E,47-48,52-57145 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 15275 1700-1800 37-38,46-475253170 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Fra 15275 1800-1900 46,47W 175 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 15530 0630-0700 46,47W 185 218 1234567 NAU 500 DWL Hau 15530 0700-0800 37-39,46-48,52-53 175 216 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 17740 1700-1800 37-38,46-47,52-53 180 207 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Fra 17800 0630-0700 46,47W 160 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 17800 0700-0800 37-39,46-48,52-57 160 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 17800 1800-1900 46,47W 170 207 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 6055 1030-1100 27,28 222 146 1.....7 NAU 125 EMG Mul 9450 0030-0130 40E,41NW 100 216 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 9510 2330-0030 41NE,43S,49N 85 216 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15350 1230-1500 41 89 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S,49N 85 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15395 1530-1630 40E,41NW 99 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 13800 1530-1630 29S 100 216 ......7 NAU 100 HCJ Mul 7330 1000-1100 27,28 283 805 1...... MOS 100 JOY Mul * 6040 0000-0300 2,3,4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 275 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng #) 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 17 AprilNAU 100 KBC NldEng < 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 1...... NAU 100 KBC NldEng 9620 2300-0200 2-4,6-10 300 216 ......7 NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve 9925 0000-0300 2-4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve 11650 0700-0800 27N,28S 230 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng # 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE 180 216 1234567 ISS 500 LWF Hau 7330 0900-1000 27,28 283 805 1...... MOS 100 MBR Mul reserve 9435 1800-1815 39,40 non-dir 926 1...... MOS 300 MBR Mul reserve 9435 1800-1815 39,40 125 216 1...... NAU 250 MBR Mul reserve 9515 1930-2030 37,38 155 216 ...4..7 NAU 250 MBR Mul reserve 15265 1400-1500 41 83 216 1234567 ISS 250 MBR reserve 15385 1600-1830 38-39, 47-48 135 216 1234567 ISS 100 MBR reserve 17715 15500 1700-2000 47E, 48W 135 206 1234567 ISS 100 MBR reserve 17800 1400-1500 41NW 95 218 1234567 NAU 500 MBR Sing. reserve 6140 0800-0900 27,28E 270 805 1...... MOS 100 MVB German # 13750 1600-1630 29,30 60 218 ......7 NAU 250 MWF Mul 15320 1200-1230 19-26 60 218 ......7 NAU 250 MWF Mul 5985 0400-0430 11,12 222 805 1234567 YFR 100 NHK Spa 11680 0300-0500 38,39,40 140 216 1234567 NAU 250 NHK Jpn 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 140 218 1234567 NAU 250 NHK Jpn 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 130 217 ..3...7 ISS 500 OGM Mul 9515 1930-2000 37,38 155 216 1...... NAU 250 PAB Mul 15205 1400-1430 41 95 216 1...... NAU 100 PAB Mul 15205 1415-1430 41 95 216 .234567 NAU 100 PAB Mul 15205 1430-1445 41 95 218 1...... NAU 250 PAB Mul reserve 15205 1430-1445 41 90 616 1...... SOF 250 PAB Mul 13800 0527-0557 47,48W 152 218 1234567 NAU 125 PNW SudanArabic 15150 1429-1501 47,48W 150 218 1234567 NAU 125 PNW SudanArabic 17600 1600-1700 48SW,58NW 144 207 ......7 ISS 100 RIY reserve 17605 1700-1800 48SW,58NW 144 207 ......7 ISS 100 RIY < 17605 1801-1900 48SW,58NW 310 158 ......7 MDC 125 RIY < 17815 1630-1700 48SW 140 217 1234567 ISS 250 RIY reserve 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 233 146 1...... NAU 100 RSH Mul last Su 17630 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 130 217 1...... ISS 100 SBO Mul 17630 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 139 218 ...4... NAU 100 SBO Mul Frequency sorted FREQ STARTSTOP CIRAF AZI TYPE DAYS LOC POW BRC Language 5930 2000-2015 39N 120 216 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul 5945 0700-0730 27,28N 260 146 ......7 NAU 100 BVB Mul 5945 0700-0730 27,28N 260 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 5975 0400-0430 28SE 140 146 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Bulgarian 5985 0400-0430 11,12 222 805 1234567 YFR 100 NHK Spa 6040 0000-0300 2,3,4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 275 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng #) 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 233 146 1...... NAU 100 RSH Mul last Su 6055 1030-1100 27,28 222 146 1.....7 NAU 125 EMG Mul 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 17 AprilNAU 100 KBC NldEng < 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 1...... NAU 100 KBC NldEng 6130 1730-1900 28,29 90 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 6130 1800-1815 28,29 90 146 ....56. NAU 100 BVB Mul 6130 1800-1830 28,29 90 146 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 6140 0800-0900 27,28E 270 805 1...... MOS 100 MVB German # 7310 0300-0315 39S 128 216 1234567 MOS 300 BVB Mul < 7330 0900-1000 27,28 283 805 1...... MOS 100 MBR Mul reserve 7330 1000-1100 27,28 283 805 1...... MOS 100 JOY Mul * 9435 1800-1815 39,40 non-dir 926 1...... MOS 300 MBR Mul reserve 9435 1800-1815 39,40 125 216 1...... NAU 250 MBR Mul reserve 9435 1815-1830 39,40 125 216 1...... NAU 250 BVB Mul 9450 0030-0130 40E,41NW 100 216 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 9510 2330-0030 41NE,43S,49N 85 216 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 9515 1930-2000 37,38 155 216 1...... NAU 250 PAB Mul 9515 1930-2030 37,38 155 216 ...4..7 NAU 250 MBR Mul reserve 9515 2030-2045 46N,47NW,38W,37180 146 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul 9530 0300-0330 48 140 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Tigrinya 9550 0430-0445 39N 120 216 ......7 NAU 125 BVB Mul 9550 0430-0450 39N 120 216 .23456. NAU 125 BVB Mul 9550 0430-0515 39N 120 216 1...... NAU 125 BVB Mul 9565 2000-2030 46E,47W 186 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR French 9610 1930-2000 37,38W 210 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Tachelhit 9610 2000-2030 37,38W 210 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR French 9620 2300-0200 2-4,6-10 300 216 ......7 NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve 9635 1830-1915 39 129 146 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 9695 0430-0445 39N 120 216 ......7 NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 9695 0430-0450 39N 120 216 .23456. NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 9735 0430-0500 39,40 120 216 ..345.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 9735 0500-0515 39,40 120 216 .....6. NAU 250 BVB Mul 9735 0500-0530 39,40 120 216 ....5.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 9790 0900-1000 28W 180 216 1...... NAU 100 AWR Italian 9800 0300-0400 48SW,52E,53NW 155 216 1234567 NAU 500 DWL Swa 9830 1600-1630 28SE 130 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Bulgarian 9925 0000-0300 2-4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve sic 11650 0700-0800 27N,28S 230 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng # 11655 0600-0615 46N,47NW,38W,37180 146 1234567 NAU 125 BVB Mul 11680 0300-0500 38,39,40 140 216 1234567 NAU 250 NHK Jpn 11790 1900-1930 46W 218 216 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Wolof 11790 2030-2100 46SE 165 216 1234567 ISS 250 AWR Yoruba 11800 1900-2000 37,38W 215 216 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Arabic 11855 1800-1830 39,40 105 216 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1800-1900 39,40 105 216 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1830-1900 39,40 105 216 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 11855 1830-1900 39,40 105 216 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 11880 0700-0730 46S 203 196 1234567 ISS 250 AWR French 11945 0200-0215 41 50 156 ..3..6. MDC 125 BVB Mul 11945 0200-0230 41 50 156 ....5.7 MDC 125 BVB Mul 11945 0200-0300 41 50 156 1...... MDC 125 BVB Mul 12035 0600-0630 46S 180 196 1234567 ISS 250 AWR French 13580 1700-1715 39,40 125 218 ......7 NAU 250 BVB Mul 13580 1700-1715 39,40 130 218 12345.. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13580 1700-1715 39,40 125 218 .....6. NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13660 1700-1800 39,40 130 218 1234567 NAU 250 BVB Mul reserve 13750 1600-1630 29,30 60 218 ......7 NAU 250 MWF Mul 13800 0527-0557 47,48W 152 218 1234567 NAU 125 PNW SudanArabic 13800 1530-1630 29S 100 216 ......7 NAU 100 HCJ Mul 13810 1700-1715 38E,39,40W 141 616 1234567 SOF 150 BVB Mul 13810 1715-1745 38E,39,40W 141 616 ..3.... SOF 100 BVB Mul 13810 1715-1800 38E,39,40W 141 616 .2.4.6. SOF 100 BVB Mul 15140 0800-0830 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR French 15150 1429-1501 47,48W 150 218 1234567 NAU 125 PNW SudanArabic 15160 1630-1730 47,48 145 218 1234567 NAU 100 BVB Mul 15170 1730-1800 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Kabyle 15205 1400-1430 41 95 216 1...... NAU 100 PAB Mul 15205 1415-1430 41 95 216 .234567 NAU 100 PAB Mul 15205 1430-1445 41 95 218 1...... NAU 250 PAB Mul reserve 15205 1430-1445 41 90 616 1...... SOF 250 PAB Mul 15205 1930-2000 46SE 165 218 1234567 ISS 250 AWR Ibo 15215 1700-1715 39 115 218 .....6. MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1700-1730 39 115 218 ....5.. MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1700-1900 39 115 218 1...... MOS 100 BVB Mul 15215 1715-1900 39 115 218 ......7 MOS 100 BVB Mul 15225 0700-0800 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Arabic 15225 0800-0830 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Kabyle 15225 0830-0900 37,38W 210 218 1234567 NAU 100 AWR Tachelhit 15250 0500-0600 46E,47-48,52-57145 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 15265 1400-1500 41 83 216 1234567 ISS 250 MBR reserve 15265 1500-1530 41N 90 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Panjabi 15265 1530-1600 41N 90 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Hindi 15275 1700-1800 37-38,46-475253170 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Fra 15275 1800-1900 46,47W 175 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 15315 1830-1900 46S,47SE 180 216 1234567 ISS 500 LWF Hau 15320 1200-1230 19-26 60 218 ......7 NAU 250 MWF Mul 15350 1230-1500 41 89 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15385 1600-1830 38-39, 47-48 135 216 1234567 ISS 100 MBR reserve 17715 15390 1100-1200 43S,44S 45 157 1234567 MDC 125 BVB reserve 21480 15390 1330-1530 41NE,43S,49N 85 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15395 1530-1630 40E,41NW 99 218 1234567 NAU 250 GFA Mul 15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 140 218 1234567 NAU 250 NHK Jpn 15490 1630-1700 48 139 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Tigrinya 15500 1700-2000 47E, 48W 135 206 1234567 ISS 100 MBR reserve 15530 0630-0700 46,47W 185 218 1234567 NAU 500 DWL Hau 15530 0700-0800 37-39,46-48,52-53 175 216 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 15640 0600-0630 46S 181 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR French 15640 1500-1515 40,41 90 616 ......7 SOF 100 BVB Mul reserve 15640 1515-1600 40,41 95 216 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 15640 1530-1559 40,41 95 216 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul reserve 15670 1530-1600 41N 75 218 1234..7 NAU 250 AWR English 15670 1530-1600 41N 75 218 ....56. NAU 250 AWR Tibetan 15700 0500-0600 38E,39,47N,48N 127 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Arabic 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ..3.... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 1...... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1600-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 .2..... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1730 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ......7 NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1730 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 .....6. NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ....5.. NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1630-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ...4... NAU 100 BVB Mul 17515 1730-1800 38S,39S,47,48 148 218 ......7 NAU 250 BVB Mul 17535 0830-0915 38,39 145 218 .....6. NAU 125 BVB Mul 17535 0900-0915 38,39 145 218 ..... 7 NAU 125 BVB Mul reserve 17570 1630-1700 48 140 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Somali 17570 1700-1730 48 141 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Amharic 17600 1600-1700 48SW,58NW 144 207 ......7 ISS 100 RIY reserve 17605 1700-1800 48SW,58NW 144 207 ......7 ISS 100 RIY < 17605 1801-1900 48SW,58NW 310 158 ......7 MDC 125 RIY < 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 130 217 ..3...7 ISS 500 OGM Mul 17630 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 130 217 1...... ISS 100 SBO Mul 17630 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 139 218 ...4... NAU 100 SBO Mul 17650 1400-1415 41 95 218 1...... NAU 250 BVB Mul 17650 1400-1430 41 83 216 ......7 ISS 250 BVB Mul + 17650 1430-1500 41 83 216 ......7 ISS 250 BVB Mul 17720 1730-1800 48 145 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Oromo 17740 1700-1800 37-38,46-47,52-53 180 207 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Fra 17800 0630-0700 46,47W 160 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 17800 0700-0800 37-39,46-48,52-57 160 217 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Eng 17800 1400-1500 41NW 95 218 1234567 NAU 500 MBR Sing. reserve 17800 1800-1900 46,47W 170 207 1234567 ISS 500 DWL Hau 17810 1300-1330 42,43W 70 218 1.....7 NAU 250 AWR Uighur 17810 1300-1330 42,43W 70 218 .23456. NAU 250 AWR Mandarin 17810 1330-1500 42,43W 70 218 1234567 NAU 250 AWR Mandarin 17815 1630-1700 48SW 140 217 1234567 ISS 250 RIY reserve 21480 1100-1230 43S,44S 45 157 1.3456. MDC 125 BVB Mul reserve 21480 1200-1300 43S,44S 45 157 ......7 MDC 125 BVB Mul 21480 1230-1245 54 80 157 1...... MDC 125 BVBMul 1/3 Sun * = 1st Sunday of the month + = 1st Saturday of the month Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment: AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting DWL Deutsche Welle Bonn / Berlin, Germany EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Reach Beyond (former HCJ Voice of the Andes), Sats only, 1530 UT Russian, 1600 UT Chechen language. JOY Radio Joystick, Germany, 1st Sun KBC& Mighty KBC Radio # KBC& Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun. Sun to North Americas. LWF Lutheran World Federation MVB Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Baltic Radio. # MWF Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Gummersbach - Germany NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Radio Japan World, Tokyo, Japan. OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] PAB Pan Am Broadcasting PNW Press Now (HOL) RIY RPRK Radio Inyabutatu, in Kinyarwanda to Ce/EaAfrica. Veiled in MBR schedule, taken from ITU/HFCC database. RSH MBR internal customer name SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation. TRS Transport Radio on Mon/Thu/Fri only. TWR Trans World Radio VOK Target Region Khaatumo in central Somaliland. & For reception reports please mail to: or write to: The Mighty KBC Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede The Netherlands, Europe Website: Michael Puetz MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1 D-51103 Cologne, Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: E-Mail: Internet: WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 D-61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY E-Mail: Internet: (MBR Cologne Germany, April 18, 2016, .PDF format, extracted & reformatted by wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 27, 2016, April 30 via DXLD) ** GOA. 11560, AIR, Panaji. Scheduled to s/on 1315, but I couldn't find it. I sat on the frequency for a while. Suddenly, at 1326 there was a short test tone for a few seconds and then Dari programming switched through in the middle of a song. A talk with many mentions of Pakistan at 1330. Fair to good signal but with a slight audio or transmitter hum, 11/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 15174.980, INDIA, AIR Goa Panaji, in Gujarati language towards East Africa, Islands in Indian Ocean and Madagascar, S=8-9 on sidelobe, subcontinental typical music and singer. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, May 1 in Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Circa 1555 UT judging from adjacent logs ** GREECE. 9420.005, ERT Avlis, Greek folk music, Bouzaki string instrument orchestra, 10.6 kHz wide signal visible on Perseus. S=9+15dB or -67dBm at 0155 UT on May 1. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 9650: Noted in Tauranga on [April] 16th at Fair level with uninterrupted music at tune in 0410. Announcement in French at 0432. Tuned in again at 0450 carrier noted but little or no modulation. Not heard since the 16th. Editor). (Editor John Durham, May NZ DX Times via DXLD) 9650, Radio Guinée, Conakry. Reactivated after many years! Fair to good with French talks, including ID as “Radio Guinée, Conakry” 0725. Heard through until 0804* when went off abruptly. Some trouble from Korea North from 0730 co-channel in Japanese, 16/4. Good to hear them back on, though not 100% conclusive that it is direct (Craig Seager, VK2HBT, Bathurst NSW (Perseus SDR, Icom IC-746, Icom IC-R71E, Airspy SDR with Spyverter, Loop Skywire, LZ2AQ Amplified Loop, G5RV Jnr, Hustler 5-BTV Vertical, KIWA Preamp), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** INDIA. 9870, April 28 at 1235, no signal from AIR VBS as supposedly restarting at 1230; but already on at next check 1249. Jose Jacob`s site has the accurate info: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm 9870 500 Bengaluru 0025-0440, 0900-1200, 1245-1740 (Vividh Bharati) But enjoy the Indian pop music while we can, as by 1300, CRI English will be colliding on 9870 until 1557. If it`s this bad over here, how much worse can it be in Asia? There`s also a collision with Turkey in Spanish at 0100-0150v, but Saudi`s use of 9870 at 18-23 fits neatly between VBS broadcasts. Both BSKSA and AIR make 9870 worth memorizing for their music. 11645, April 30 at 0024, JBA carrier, presumably AIR GOS in English from Delhi as scheduled until 0045, rather than Greece, which hasn`t been showing here until after 0400 (and neither 9420 nor 9935 is on now) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710, Apr 30, 2016. 2017-2045, All India Radio, Khampur. Indian traditional songs; YL talks in French, ID; OM talks, ID, a song; at 2045 YL ends the program with ID, frequencies, address. Fair signal and poor modulation, 35432. Note: This Saturday (Sunday in India), the program goes to 2045 UT (not 2030). At 2030 start slight interference by CNR1 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, RX (s) Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 13710, May 1 at 1328, AIR at S4-5 with music, not their IS, why not ???? // 9690 at S5-8, 1329 announcement in Tibetan(?), 1330 sign-on GOS in English, 1331 formal newscast. Announces these plus third frequency 11620 which as usual is inaudible, really off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. The 2015-16 Annual Report of Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India is now available in following link: See page 154 onwards for info on All India Radio http://mib.gov.in/WriteReadData/documents/Annual_Report_2015-16.pdf Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos May 4, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL. [most items from this complete listing are duplicated elsewhere in this issue, some with further comments] DX RE MIX NEWS # 950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Sat April 30, 2016. Also visit: & ====================================================================== CLANDESTINE Updated A16 schedule of clandestine & other target broadcasts: Videos of some of these broadcasts are here Radio República 0000-0200 on 9490 ISS 150 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Payem e-Doost 0230-0315 on 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Radio Lead Africa 0300-0400 NF 6090 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to CeAf English Mon/Tue/Fri 0500-0600 on 12060 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg to CeAf English Wed/Thu 0500-0700 on 12060 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg to CeAf English Sat 1900-2200 on 7425 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to CeAf English Sat/Sun Denge Kurdistan 0300-0500 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 0500-1300 on 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1300-1700 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish + 2nd hx 23200 1700-1930 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1930-2100 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish + 2nd hx 23200 Radio Tamazuj 0330-0430 on 9600 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0330-0430 on 11650 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1430-1500 on 15150 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1430-1500 on 15550 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic Radio Dabanga 0430-0600 on 11650 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0430-0530 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0530-0600 on 13800 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1530-1630 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1530-1630 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic Eye Radio (former EDC Sudan Radio Service) from April 26 0400-0500 on 11730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic* 1600-1700 on 17730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic* *plus other langs: Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho Radio Dandal Kura International 0500-0700 on 7415 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf Kanuri 0700-0800 on 15480 WOF 300 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri 1800-2100 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri Republic of Yemen Radio 0600-0900 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic 0900-1800 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic 1800-2300 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic 2300-0600 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic Manara Radio 0730-0830 on 15440 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 1600-1700 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa Radio Free Sarawak 1100-1300 on 15420 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope 1130-1200 on 11570 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong 2230-2300 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok 1130-1200 on 17860 TAC 100 kW / 122 deg to SEAs Khmer Thu/Sun Radio ERGO 1200-1300 on 17845 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali Voice of Tibet 1200-1215 on 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1215-1230 on 15538 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1245 on 15573 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1245-1300 on 15567 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1315 on 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1315 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1315-1330 on 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1315-1330 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1345 on 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1330-1345 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1345-1400 on 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1345-1400 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15560 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15565 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2300-2310 on 7598 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2310-2320 on 7592 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2320-2330 on 7587 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan All frequencies are jammed by China on xxxx0 / xxxx5 Changes between frequencies vary from 5 to 7 minutes Que Me 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri Radio Free North Korea 1200-1300 on 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze 1300-1330 on 9900 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1300-1330 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1500-1530 on 9765 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9765 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean National Unity Radio 1300-1600 on 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to NEAs Korean Furusato no Kaze 1330-1400 on 9900 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1330-1400 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 on 9560 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9470 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese Shiokaze Sea Breeze 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Mon 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Mon 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun 1405-1435 NF 7325 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Daily 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Mon 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Mon 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun Voice of Wilderness 1330-1530 on 7615 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean North Korea Reform Radio 1430-1530 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean 2030-2130 on 7595 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti 1500-1530 on 15515 TIG 150 kW / 165 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Sat Voice of Martyrs 1530-1700 on 7510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat 1600-1630 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Oromo Voice Radio 1600-1615 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Mon 1615-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf English Mon 1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Wed/Sat Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri 1600-1630 on 15690 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri, cancelled Radio Voice of Independent Oromia 1600-1630 on 17860 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Dimtse Radio Erena 1700-1730 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Dly 1730-1800 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Sat 1730-1800 on 11885 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Sun Voice of Oromo Liberation 1700-1730 on 17630 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Wed 1730-1800 on 17630 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Amharic Wed 1700-1800 on 17630 ISS 100 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Radio Assenna 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Eritrean Forum Medrek 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat Sedoye Bahar Voice of Spring 1730-1800 on 7495 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri UNIDentified station 1730-1800 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun Radio Biafra 1800-2100 on 11700 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English Lutheran World Federation Voice of Gospel(Sawtu Linjilia) 1830-1900 on 15315 ISS 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf Fulfulde Radio Free Gambia 1900-2000 on 15465 ISS 100 kW / 207 deg to WeAf English* Fri * plus other languages: Mandinka/Wolof/Fula/Serer/Krio Stream of Praise Music Ministries 2100-2130 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to EaAs Cantonese/Chinese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/dx-re-mix-news-950-final-edition.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 12015, VOIRI-Sirjan, at 1930, on 25 Apr. A male announcer was giving out news headlines in English followed by brief musical bridges between each headline. He then went on to talk about worldwide terrorism. At 1934 the station faded out very badly with audio JBA. Prior to that audio was good to fair with fades. Good-JBA (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, GAP- Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) [and non]. 15805, VOIRI. Arabic on 2/4 at 1050 // 13780, ID “Idaatu Tehran” but the Beijing’s jamming on 15800 type "siren" (wide approx. +/- 4.5 kHz) is almost covering, both Iran & WWCR 15795 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long), May Australian DX News via DXLD) Special broadcast of VIRI IRIB from May 2 to May 9 1623-1820 on 6105 SIR 500 kW / 026 deg to CeAs Turkmen -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What for??? (gh, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri 1600-1630 15690 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri, cancelled ** IRAN [non]. Good signal of Sedoye Bahar via BaBcoCk, April 28 1730-1800 7495 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri Voice of Spring http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/good-signal-of-sedoye-bahar-via-babcock.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Payem e-Doost 0230-0315 on 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** IRAQ. State broadcaster Iraqi Media Network has a new website and new URL http://www.imn.iq live streaming three TV channels and three radio services - Republic of Iraq Radio, Radio Iraqia and Radio Furqan. The last-named has Islamic connotations, so presumably replaces Holy Koran Radio. The site gives very little up-to-date info on their radio services, but a short YouTube video dated July 2014 gives their FM and satellite frequencies (the mediumwave outlet on 792 kHz is not mentioned): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWCIpvjpXYM (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, May 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAQ. Pirate alert! Southgate May 3, 2016 'The Daily DX' reports: The ever-persistent Hassan, the pirate from Baghdad, Iraq, continues to plague the Amateur Radio bands. This guy has been pirating and bootlegging multiple calls for several years. He has been heard bootlegging the calls YI1HR, YI1H, YI1HRP and YI1HI and pirating the calls YI1BGD, YI1IRQ, YI1DZ and most recently TA7/YI1RZ. Unfortunately in Iraq there does not seem to be any enforcement to take Hassan off the air, much less do anything about the situation. Therefore let's get the word out not to work or spot Hassan, who operates on 20 Meters SSB, usually around 14178-14188. In fact the best policy is to ignore him completely on the air (via OPDX) (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. 15770, Radio Northern Ireland, 2115-2130 escuchada el 30 de abril de 2016 con emisión de música rock duro, SINPO 45444, radionorthernireland@outlook.com (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Via WRMI, of course (gh) ** ITALY. IBC - Italian Broadcasting Corp regular schedule --- We are now on the air every Tuesday and Thursday on 3930 and 6970 kHz, between 16 and 20 UT, 18-22 local time (from http://ibcradio.webs.com/apps/blog/ 1 May) Tuesday May 3: on the air 16-20 UT on 6970 kHz USB and 3930 Khz USB. Latest news on FB and http://www.ibcradio.webs.com (IBC - Italian Broadcasting Corporation Facebook page, 2 May) Posted by: (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** ITALY. Greetings from Italy! As from Wednesday, 4 May 2016 Marconi Radio International will start a regular service according to the following schedule: On Wednesdays, from 1800 to 1900, from 2000 to 2100, and from 2200 to 2300 UT on 7690 kHz USB mode (alternative frequencies: 7700 and 7790 kHz). The power is in the region of 100 watts. We have standardized our transmissions: there are now only broadcasts 60 minutes long. The first half hour is always a DX programme in English (Italian Shortwave Panorama) followed by mailbag (or DX) show in Italian or non-stop music interspersed with announcements in English, Italian, German, Spanish and Catalan. MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3- file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our electronic mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com - Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a printed QSL card. Last but not least, we need your help! If you use social networks, please post an announcement on Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience. We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's -- (Marconi Radio International (MRI), May 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FREE RADIO ON AIR COOLAM RADIO: Today Wednesday May 4, IBC will relay COOL AM Radio on 6970 kHz from 19 to 20 utc, 21-22 CET. Reports to coolamradio@hotmail.com Stay tuned! MARCONI RADIO INTERNATIONAL: From Wednesday, 4 May 2016 Marconi Radio International will start a regular service according to the following schedule: On Wednesdays, from 1800 to 1900, from 2000 to 2100, and from 2200 to 2300 UT on 7690 kHz USB mode (alternative frequencies: 7700 and 7790 kHz). Reports to marconiradiointernational@gmail.com ITALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: As usual also tomorrow Thursday May 5 on the air from 16 UT on 6970 kHz USB and from 17 UT on 3930 kHz USB, till 20 UT. Reports to ibc@europe.com website http://ibcradio.webs.com During the program you will listen also a DX programme co-produced by MRI and IBC. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, May 4, dxldyg WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [and non]. AJK RADIO, FM-101 SHORT OF FUNDS http://nation.com.pk/newspaper-picks/27-Apr-2016/ajk-radio-fm-101-short-of-funds MIRPUR (AJK) - Due to non-payment of funds by the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, the news section of Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur and FM-101 have reached at the verge of complete closure. Now, there is an apprehension that its daily news transmissions may go off air at anytime, officials concerned said. The PBC authorities at Islamabad have completely withdrawn, by now, the monthly funds of Rs80,000, allocated for the disbursement of remuneration of the staff including news translators and news readers, of the news section of AJK Radio Mirpur plus Radio FM-101. The slash in the allocated funds of the news section of the AK Radio Mirpur was practiced gradually for the last six months. The funds were curtailed from Rs80,000 to Rs20,000 and later withdrawn completely. The complete stoppage of the monthly funds caused non-payment of the remuneration to the staffers. The ugly state of affairs has led the apprehensions of complete closure of the news section. Azad Kashmir Radio and FM-101 are presently airing three news bulletins on daily basis one each in national language of Urdu besides in regional Gojri and Pahari languages, since its inception on September 30, 2002. Despite the exceptional significance of the unit in this part of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, the station was always found facing step-motherly attitude of the PBC authorities. Even the due sanctioned strength of its manpower is not met so far despite the long 14 years of its establishment. The radio station is sanctioned with the due manpower strength of 60 positions of different nature including news editor, sub editors, reporters, computer operators, resource persons for news section as well as programme producers, broadcasting engineers, mechanics and other subordinate administrative staff members. However, the radio is being run by only 30 persons at present. When contacted, the station director said that the Radio and FM-101 were strongly encountering at least 19 rival transmitters of All India Radio at its medium wave, short wave and FM frequencies operating in the Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir, frustrating the nefarious propaganda of the enemy (India) about Kashmiris indigenous struggle for freedom with full vigour. Station Director M Shakeel confirmed the total withdrawal of the due allocated funds meant for the news section of the Radio Station by the higher authorities. He, however, said that authorities concerned have been apprised of the grim situation on emergency grounds with strong recommendations of early resumption of the allocated funds for keeping the news section functional. Local elite representing diverse segments of the society have expressed grave concern over the alarming situation at Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur where news section has reached at the verge of complete collapse. The civil circles have invited the immediate attention of Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervez Rashid, Federal Secretary Information and Broadcasting and Director General PBC towards the situation demanding an immediate notice of the circumstances. Posted by: (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, Frequency changes of Shiokaze Sea Breeze, April 28 1300-1330 NF 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs various*, ex 5935 * Chinese Mon; Japanese Tue/Sat; Korean Wed/Fri/Sun; English Thu 1330-1400 NF 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs various*, ex 5935 * Korean Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat; English Thu; Japanese Tue/Sun 1405-1435 NF 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese, ex 5935 [but see later report of this on 7325!] 1600-1630 NF 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs various*, ex 5915 * Chinese Mon; Japanese Tue/Sat; Korean Wed/Fri/Sun; English Thu 1630-1700 NF 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs various*, ex 5915 * Korean Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat; English Thu; Japanese Tue/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/frequency-changes-of-shiokaze-sea.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) or 7325???? 5965, Tue May 3 at 1301, S4 very poor, piano music and YL, i.e. Shiokaze from JAPAN on latest QSY. Tuesday language is Japanese for both semi-hours per Ivo Ivanov. BTW, the recently added daily broadcast in Japanese at 1405-1435 he says is on new 7325! So much for the CRI window allowing Wantok Radio Light to be heard. When will 1 kW WRL, PNG, ever figure out that they should find a frequency without the Asian big`uns on it? WORLD OF RADIO 1824, Ivo says the other Shiokaze hour at 1600 is now on 6090, another brand-new frequency for it. English is on both hours (or rather all four semi-hours) Thursdays only. This is from the ``FINAL EDITION`` #950 of DX Re Mix News Bulgaria dated April 30, which will be sorely missed, altho Ivo is continuing to send us various individual reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Here is my MP3 audio from last Thursday's (April 28) English intro: https://goo.gl/XlY0ir for Shiokaze/Sea Breeze on 5965, at the start of their COMJAN produced broadcast at 1300. COMJAN (Investigating Committee on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea) has produced Shiokaze's programs since January 2003. Google translation of Shiokaze's homepage: https://goo.gl/nBEMXn and about COMJAN at http://goo.gl/fjfWRL (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UNIDENTIFIED: 15630 NO ID, 1328-1340, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en dialecto africano sin identificar a una mujer con alocución ante público femenino, se la escucha alejada del micrófono; en 15620 está emitieno VOA en somalí, la emisión no es la misma, se escuchan aplausos al final de alocución, SINPO 45554 (Via SDR Holanda) (Jose Miguel Romero2, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) The language is Korean, probably extended broadcast of Radio Free North Korea via Tashkent, now 1200-1530 on 15630, ex 1200-1300, effective April 28, according to IBB Monitoring (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Thanks Ivo, La señal era buena pero la calidad del audio no; más tarde sí que me ha parecido coreano o japonés, he escuchado un par de veces mencionar algo parecido a "Mandinga" y me ha confundido. 73 (Jose Miguel, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs from April 28: 1530-1700 NF 7510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 7520 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/frequency-change-of-voice-of-martyrs.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ``final edition`` April 30 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Extended broadcast of Radio Free North Korea effective from April 28 1200-1530 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg Korean, ex 12-13 via RED Telecom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qfHh-ANUdU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv0MxvygNVY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqZEJJlT8k&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Radio Free North Korea 1200-1300 on 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze 1300-1330 on 9900 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1300-1330 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1500-1530 on 9765 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9765 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean National Unity Radio 1300-1600 on 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to NEAs Korean Furusato no Kaze 1330-1400 on 9900 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1330-1400 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 on 9560 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9470 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese Shiokaze Sea Breeze 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Mon 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1300-1330 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Mon 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1330-1400 on 5965 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun 1405-1435 NF 7325 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Daily 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Chinese Mon 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sat 1600-1630 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sun 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Mon 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Tue 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Wed 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Fri 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Korean Sat 1630-1700 on 6090 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs Japanese Sun Voice of Wilderness 1330-1530 on 7615 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean North Korea Reform Radio 1430-1530 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean 2030-2130 on 7595 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean Voice of Martyrs 1530-1700 on 7510 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 11550, National Unity Radio-UBS, Dushanbe - Yangiyul, 1318-1323, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en coreano a locutor y locutora con comentarios, segmento musicalinterpretado por piano, SINPO 22342 (Via SDR Holanda) UZBEQUISTAN, 7510 Voice of Martyrs, Tashkent, 1625-1632, escuchada el 1 de mayo en coreano a locutora con comentarios acompañada de música de fondo, se escucha una señal morse parece una baliza, su emisión es lenta y pausada, raya, punto, punto, SINPO 33443 (Via SDR Holanda) 15630, Radio Free North Korea, Tashkent, 1230-1240, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en coreano a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34433 (Via SDR Holanda) 15630, Radio Free North Korea, 1328-1432, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en coreano a una mujer con alocución ante público femenino, se la escucha alejada del microfono, se escuchan aplausos al final de la alocución, intervención de diferentes mujeres contando algo, alguna incluso llora, música de acordeón y locutor con comentarios, locutora con comentarios y música de fondo, SINPO 34443 (Via SDR Holanda) (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, April 28 at 1219, two stations adding up to poor-fair S8, atop in Chinese. Aoki shows 12-13 with RTI Taiwan in Amoy, and not jammed, but why not? Anyhow, this buries Denge Kurdistanye, which should have a clearer shot after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Denge Kurdistan 0300-0500 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 0500-1300 on 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1300-1700 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish + 2nd hx 23200 1700-1930 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1930-2100 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish + 2nd hx 23200 (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. This may be of interest to the group. It's a short video of the antennas and transmitters at IBB Kuwait. https://youtu.be/svRAmz0BeYY 73, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4009.89, *0000-0005, 2.5, Birinchi R, Krasnaya Rechka, tone signal, fanfare, ID in Kyrgyz and Russian: "... Birinchi Radio ... Govorit Bishkek" , national hymn by choir, 0003 Kyrgyz ann, 42342 frequent digital QRM // 4819.95 (33232 QRM Xizang) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030 receiver with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) ** LAOS, 6130, LNR. Have recently been checking for their unique gong/bell that they ring slowly 7 times (7:00 PM their local time), followed by anthem at 1200; yes, am able to hear them very faintly but can confirm it's them; otherwise unusable (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, May 3, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope 1130-1200 on 11570 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong 2230-2300 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, *0525-0543, 01-05, tuning music, at 0530 id. "This is ELWA Radio, short wave...", English, religious comments and songs. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31 MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. USA [non], 9400, May 1, 2016. 0103-0110, RFA, Sitkunai, Uighur sce. OM talks. Good signal, slight interference by CNR1 jammer and fair modulation, 44433 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.91, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano. Light music and chat programming in the Malagasy language at 1745. Usual wobbly carrier but seems even more so today (check out the carrier in SSB and listen to it bounce around on the spot), fair signal on 26/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 11615, Madagascar World Radio - Mahajanga. Seem[ing]ly transmitter problems with no audio, only carrier at s/on 2100. Then the carrier went on and off a few times till finally the service in Mandarin began in the middle of the broadcast at 2110. Very good signal from then on, but with slight QRM from 11620 AIR-Bengaluru's English service, 31/3. Then again, on 15/4 at 2103, back here after transmitter repairs, poor signal at Mount Evelyn but strong on the Twente remote (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 9570, World Christian Broadcasting, Madagascar, 1800-1805, escuchada el 1 de mayo de 2016 en ruso, sintonía y locutor con presentación "...programa.. música.. cultura", segmento música pop, SINPO 45444 (Via SDR Holanda) (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11615, May 2 at 2154, gospel music sounds like it is in English, not exactly useful, since at 2156 Chinese announcement, 2157 SZMG/KNLS jingle once and off. It`s that strange MWV service not to China but on 325 degree beam to W Europe, and carries on well to N America, trans- equatorially even when more northerly signals are degraded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 28 at 1137, a twist of the wrist holding the DX- 398 while hearing KTNN [see U S A], nulling that, brings in a Spanish partial ID for 102.9 FM, and that leads directly and only to XEEY, Aguascalientes2, 50/10 kW, La Kaliente (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. AUTORIZA IFETEL 23 CONCESIONES DE USO SOCIAL Un total de 23 estaciones de radio cultural fueron autorizadas por el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Ifetel) para cambiar de régimen, ya que en lugar de operar como “permisionarios culturales” como venían haciendo, ahora serán “concesionarios de uso social” en la prestación de los servicios de radiodifusión sonora, una transición establecida en la Ley Federal de Telecomunciaciones y Radiodifusión (LFTR) aprobada desde 2014. Por otra parte, el organismo actuó contra dos estaciones de radio en Tabasco que actuaban de manera ilegal, es decir sin contar con las concesiones respectivas, e impuso una multa de mil salarios mínimos al dueño del inmueble donde operaba una de ellas, en Ciudad Cárdenas. El Ifetel sostuvo que “declaró la pérdida a favor de la Nación de los bienes y equipos destinados a prestar servicios de radiodifusión sin contar con la respectiva concesión, permiso o autorización, derivado de los procedimientos administrativos iniciados en contra de los responsables de las instalaciones y equipos de radiodifusión que operaban diversas frecuencias en los municipios de Cárdenas y Huimanguillo, Tabasco”. Sobre los 23 casos de “transición” de permisionarios a concesionarios de uso social que autorizó en su más reciente sesión, el pleno del Ifetel precisó que a cada solicitante otorgó “una concesión sobre bandas de frecuencia del espectro radioeléctrico y una concesión única” . El organismo también aprobó que una de esas 23 concesiones fuera “para uso social comunitario”, un tipo de radiodifusora también contemplado en la ley. Fue emitido a favor de la Asociación Veracruzana de Comunicadores Populares porque “acreditó que las actividades y fines de su estación en Teocelo, Veracruz, son acordes con los principios de participación ciudadana directa, convivencia social, equidad, igualdad de género y pluralidad”. Fuera de los permisos de transición, el Ifetel otorgó una concesión nueva a la asociación civil La Fuente de Poder - Educativa Indígena de Chiapas para usar y aprovechar bandas de frecuencia del espectro radioeléctrico, así como una concesión única, ambas de uso social, para la prestación del servicio público de radiodifusión sonora en amplitud modulada en la localidad de Betania, Chiapas. Con ello, los habitantes de Betania contarán por primera vez con una estación de radio, con los beneficios que implica de comunicación y difusión de la cultura, como mecanismos de inclusión social, argumentó el Ifetel. El Ifetel recordó que con la reforma constitucional de telecomunicaciones se determinó “homologar el régimen de permisos y concesiones de radiodifusión”. Con ello se estableció que únicamente existan “concesiones” que aseguren una diversidad de medios y se distingan por el uso que les den, es decir, comercial, público, privado y social (en éstas últimas se incluyen las comunitarias e indígenas). Así, todos permisos en radiodifusión otorgados antes de la reforma a los poderes de la Unión, gobiernos estatales, del entonces Distrito Federal y de municipios así como órganos autónomos e instituciones públicas de educación superior deben transitar al régimen de concesión de uso público y el resto tendrán que hacerlo al régimen de concesión de uso social pero “previa solicitud debidamente presentada ante el Ifetel” y, desde luego, sujeto a su autorización como sucedió en los 23 casos ya mencionados. Según el Ifetel, con las autorizaciones que otorgó, “se materializan los beneficios de contar con figuras homogéneas y uniformes que se utilizan para la prestación de servicios de radiodifusión, con lo cual las obligaciones técnicas y legales de los concesionarios se vuelven transparentes y acordes al nuevo marco regulatorio”, además de que también favorece la simplificación administrativa y certeza jurídica a favor de los nuevos concesionarios. Las concesiones de radiodifusión para uso social no fueron las únicas autorizadas por el Ifetel ya que el pleno también aprobó: - Dos solicitudes de cambio de frecuencia de canales de televisión para uso comercial, derivadas de la transición a la televisión digital terrestre: de la banda de 632-638 MHz por la 566-572 MHz (Canal 41 por el Canal 30) y la 686-692 MHz por la 536-542 MHz (Canal 50 por el canal 25), ambas para uso comercial, y cuyos distintivos son XHJCI-TDT y XHVTU-TDT. - Dos concesionarias el intercambio de bandas de frecuencias en la banda de UHF, para las estaciones SHBZ-TDT y XHCC-TDT por la reestructuración en la operación digital que llevan a cabo en sus estaciones de televisión que operan en la misma ubicación. - Cinco nuevas concesiones únicas para uso comercial y de una concesión para usar y aprovechar bandas de frecuencias del espectro radioeléctrico, así como un título de concesión única, ambos para uso público, así como el cambio de frecuencias solicitado por un concesionario que le permitirá hacer uso de bloques contiguos de espectro, situación que se traduce no solo en un uso eficiente del espectro, sino en beneficios directos a los usuarios de servicios de telecomunicaciones. - 14 solicitudes de prórroga de vigencia de concesiones. - Tres solicitudes de modificaciones técnicas a diversos títulos de concesión. - Una cesión de derechos y obligaciones de un título de concesión para instalar, operar y explotar una red pública de telecomunicaciones. Por otro lado, el organismo negó: Una solicitud de transición a concesión única, seis solicitudes de prórroga de vigencia de asignaciones de uso oficial que fueron presentadas de manera extemporánea y cuatro solicitudes de prórroga de vigencia de concesiones de redes públicas de telecomunicaciones y una solicitud de prórroga de una concesión para usar, aprovechar y explotar bandas de frecuencias de espectro radioeléctrico (tomada de La Jornada on line via GRA blog, Argentina, May 2 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- Quote Originally Posted by Gargadon: ``Well, XHCUA-FM appeared in IFT listings around 8 years after its first broadcasting (I think it was not logged in Cofetel listings). And in Camino Real zone, the ICATCAM (Instituto para la Capacitación para el Trabajo del estado de Campeche) Calkiní had a pirate station in 106.1 MHz around 2005.`` Well then! I know some of the stations that got concessions last year were once pirates, especially community stations. (La Chalmerita comes to mind, to the point where they will be returning to the frequency they initially broadcast on.) One, I think, operated continuously and then got its social concession. (I'm talking about XHUHV-FM 97.9 in Chicontepec Ver., owned by the Universidad Huasteca Veracruzana. It is a private university, which explains the concession type.) FYI, XHCUA-FM was permitted on December 19, 2012. When did it sign on? (It is not an AM-FM migrant, technically speaking; the UAC holds two separate permits.) I strongly think that XEUBJ will end up with new calls and a new concession history at some point. I also expect it will need to move frequencies as it is not quite correctly spaced. Oaxaca has an 89.7 and a 93.7 (and nothing in between). 91.3 or (post-400 kHz) 91.7 would be available frequencies with optimal spacing (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, April 28, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) [Re XHCUA-FM] It signed on at 2007 approx. as a test signal only, probably as the same time they applied for a FM station. http://www.uacam.mx/?modulo=noticias&acciones=ver_noticia&id=eEpX In latter years they shut off their AM station and since then, they stayed only in FM. http://www.dxing.info/lists/2008_Mexico_list_by_estado.pdf (Gargadon, Campeche, ibid.) The end is near, for permits. The IFT today moved 23 permit stations to social use concessions. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-ift-resuelve-la-transicion-de-permisos-para-la-prestacion-de-servicios-de-radiodifusion-sonora-al#overlay-context=users/antoniocontreras The headliner is XEYTM-AM Teocelo, Ver., the dean of Mexican community radio stations, which has been granted just the second social- community concession ever. (The first, 106.7 Hermosillo, is not on air yet.) The IFT also: - Moved XHJCI to 30 and XHVTU to 25, the first repacking authorizations of existing commercial stations to hit the Pleno to date - Authorized a channel swap in Colima between XHBZ and XHCC - Authorized a new social AM station, the first in its area, for Betania, Chiapas, to be operated by La Fuente de Poder, Educativa Indígena de Chiapas, A.C. (Raymie, April 29, ibid.) A follow-up to the death of XHVX owner Moisés Dagdug in February, as his murderer was found in Mexico City. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2016/04/detienen-en-la-cdmx-al-presunto-asesino-del-empresario-y-exlegislador-moises-dagdug/ The 25-year-old was found in the Benito Juárez delegation of Mexico City (Raymie, April 30, ibid.) As a reminder, AM-FM migrations lead to a lot of callsign confusion. The Arizona Cardinals' Mexico station list was a horrendous mess with bad callsigns ("XHEOBS" stands out in my mind). But it's another thing to see a legal ID where they have it wrong. XHEOA 94.9 in Oaxaca, Oax. identifies as XHOA-FM (which does not exist, so it's odd that an E was thrown in here). Whoa...or should I say XHOA! (Raymie, May 2, ibid.) Perilous Permits A while back, the IFT put an announcement on its home page that all permit stations had to apply to transition to public or social use concessions in a certain week. Given the urgency of the announcement of stations, I asked Gabriel Sosa Plata to reshare it. Unfortunately, not everyone got the message, because these stations dropped from the table release that dropped last week: XHCRI 91.5 San Cristobal de las Casas Chis. XHHCC 97.3 Hercules Coah. XHIC 92.5 San Francisco de Campeche Camp. XHITD 92.1 Durango XHMAO 90.9 Matamoros Tamps. XHMTE 92.3 Cd. Mante Tamps. XHMZL 90.5 Mazatlan Sin. XHNLR 104.9 Nuevo Laredo Tamps. XHRYN 90.5 Reynosa Tamps. XHTIO 105.5 Tampico Tamps. XHUTG 98.5 Iguala Gro. Some of these drops are startling. XHHCC was permitted in 2012, and XHUTG in 2013 (though the latter did not make it to air). XHIC FM came to air last year. XHMZL had an old permit and had been operating for 25 years, and XHITD just shy of that. Five stations are the repeaters in the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas state network: XHUNI Cd. Victoria is safe, it appears. Some research will be necessary at the institutions. They may want to hear of this. XHCRI is the only one that is a permit wolf on this list. [Doug Smith had this list after I sent him the new tables and also had other stations that probably dropped at the April 2015 table release: XHINS Saltillo and the Michoacán SRCI FM stations. He also found that XHEQC Puerto Peñasco had vanished from the tables; it is the only commercial station to have done this.) Last edited by Raymie; 05-05-2016 at 12:14 PM. Reason: nope (Raymie, May 5, ibid.) Speaking of permits, 69 TV stations and 26 radio stations are now public concessions. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-ift-autoriza-la-transicion-de-diversos-permisos-al-regimen-de-concesion-de-uso-publico-para Among the nine TV permit holders are the SPR, IPN, Congress, state government of Nayarit and Universidad de Guadalajara (Raymie, May 5, ibid.) ** MOLDOVA [and non]. RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service Chisinau Bureau Chief Vasile Botnaru has been distinguished with the highest civilian honor bestowed by the president of Romania. Romanian President Klaus Johannis signed several decrees decorating Moldovan public figures on April 21. Botnaru was conferred with the National Order for “Faithful Service” with the rank of Commander for his journalistic work. The distinction recognizes Botnaru’s contributions to strengthening community, language, and social ties across the Romania-Moldova border. . . http://www.rferl.org/content/vasile-bosnaru-award/27713468.html (3 May 2016 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 12035, Apr 28, 2016. 0910-0915, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. YL talks news in English. Poor signal and BA modulation, 25431 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. RE: DXLD 16-17: Log (presumed) of Myanmar on 6035. Hi Glenn, Do not believe Myanmar has used 6035 since they last did so in 2010. Back on April 28-29, Bhutan, at Thimphu, hosted a prestigious SAARC summit (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). Some DXers at the time did not believe it was a coincidence that Myanmar decided to broadcast just then on 6035, rather it was seen for what it was - blatant jamming of Bhutan, who had traditionally used 6035 to broadcast their BBS programs. It should be noted that back in 2008 Myanmar requested membership in SAARC, but is still not a member today. In 2010 they were an observer nation at the SAARC summit. Instead Myanmar is today a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Almost daily I check 6035 for BBS (Bhutan) and PBS Yunnan (China) during my mornings. Also regularly listen to Myanmar Radio on 5915, 5985, 7200 and 9730. Believe I would have noticed if Myanmar were using 6035 recently, but I confess the 16th was not a day that I was listening at the beach. Back on April 28, 2010, I was one of the ones to hear Myanmar broadcasting on 6035 (DXLD 10-17 and also note comments in DXLD 10-18). SW lists can be a benefit or a curse, depending on how we use them! (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. Strange happenings! Myanmar Radio noted off the air on 5915 and 5985; also Thazin Radio was off the air 7345 (a clear frequency, not even the usual CNR1 was here), at 1227, May 4 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAMIBIA. ANALOGUE TV SHUTDOWN IN NAMIBIA --- I just returned early this morning (0200) from a couple of weeks in southern Africa including a few days in Walvis Bay, Namibia. On a national network (NBC) which sounds familiar to one of our major networks was a box in the upper left hand corner saying that there were 7 Days Left until the analogue shutoff. As I recall that was Sunday night so it looks like this Sunday analogue will be gone in Namibia television (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, April 28, WTFDA gg via DXLD) DTV It's hard to believe that a big chunk of Canada still has analogue, but an African country won't. /wrh/ (William Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) I was surprised when I saw the analog shut off alert. With the extreme poverty in South Africa and other places including Namibia I thought they would stretch out the analog era. There are some pretty poor areas in Cape Town that rival the favelas in Rio. While these shacks (some are shipping containers) do not have running water (thus the large number of outhouses in these "informal settlements") they do have electricity. Satellite dishes and a few TV antennas (usually 4- bay bow tie UHF antennas mounted horizontally) can be seen. However, when you see somewhat nicer homes there are more antennas than satellite dishes. Apparently the residents are putting their money into their homes and not to watching pay TV. Either way they are settlements that likely all of us would not want to call home (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Just a reminder. In a few hours, at 0000 UT on May 1, 2016, the Mighty KBC switches to 9925 kHz (previously was on 6040 kHz). Hope reception is 555 for everyone. 73, (Kraig Krist, 2123 UT April 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9925, April 30 at *2358:55 carrier on from Nauen, just in time for The Mighty KBC to reactivate its summer frequency ex-6040 from the very first seconds of May 1. Modulation from 0000 with brief sign-on, highly produced rock DJ other than Uncle Eric during this hour, lotsa jingles, asks for reports to themightykbc@gmail.com It`s S9+15 here, or SINPO 55434. 0002, ``9925, 125,000 watts of songs, all-American rock``. 0021 insert by a fan prompting financial support for KBC and plugging his own blog http://hfradioreview.com This appears to be another anonymous one, tho I think he said his name is Ted, and he`s advertising on KBC; he has a thing for weather fax DXing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9925 kHz May 1st, TX on air 23.59:00 UT (April 30) S=9+20dB or -54dBm heard remotedly in MA-NJ-USA unit; 0000:07 UT on May 1st, crash start music, at 0001:40 UT rock-n-roll Radio announced. 73 wb df5sx 6040 0000-0300 2,3,4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng 6045 0800-0900 27E,28 275 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng #) 6095 0800-1000 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 17 AprilNAU 100 KBC NldEng < 6095 0800-1500 18SW,27,28W,37 240 156 1...... NAU 100 KBC NldEng 9620 2300-0200 2-4,6-10 300 216 ......7 NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve 9925 0000-0300 2-4,6-10 300 216 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng reserve [sic] 11650 0700-0800 27N,28S 230 146 1...... NAU 125 KBC NldEng # (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RADIO HAURAKI PIRATE CHRIS PARKINSON DIES Radio New Zealand 28 April 2016 http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/302539/radio-hauraki-pirate-dies Radio Hauraki co-founder Chris Parkinson has died at the age of 74. He was one of the four original directors of the country's first pirate radio station, which broke the government monopoly on radio broadcasting in the 1960s. Broadcaster Chris Parkinson was a co-founder of pirate radio station Hauraki. The original Radio Hauraki broadcast from a boat moored in the Hauraki Gulf outside the three-mile territorial limit. Its popularity eventually persuaded the government to relax the regulations around radio broadcasting, allowing other private stations to begin transmission. Chris Parkinson went on to become involved with talk station Radio Pacific, and worked in the Australian radio industry. His voice was regarded as the one of the best in broadcasting. He was the recipient of many awards during his career, including the Pater Award for the Golden Voice of Australasia in 1987. Mr Parkinson was also the well-known continuity voice for TVNZ News and Current Affairs, and other programs throughout the 1990s. He died in Auckland --- Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Hauraki at Sea: The beginnings of private radio --- 18 March 2015 The dramatic story of the Hauraki pirates and their stormy start both ashore and at sea in the late 1960s. Listen (duration 38'?:46?) http://www.radionz.co.nz/collections/resounding-radio/audio/2593921/hauraki-at-sea-the-beginnings-of-private-radio Programme contents 0' 00" Actuality: Pirate radio ship MV Tiri aground off Great Barrier island, night of 28 January 1968. Paul Lineham 1' 50" NZBC responsible for issuing radio licences after 1962 but does little to set up competition against itself. 2' 25" Actuality: Radio Hauraki. 2' 40" Older politicians don't like young people bucking radio system. Derek Lowe 3' 07" Pirates keep plans secret from politicians and officials because control of broadcasting at stake. Derek Lowe 3' 40" Mid 1960s time of change. Post-war generation challenging old ways. 4' 25" Pirate radio seems easy – just get some money arid a boat. MV Tiri found but is dilapidated hulk and needs much work. (Speakers for rest of programme are mostly undesignated) 6' 15" Poor condition of Tiri used to delay pirates by Marine Department. 6' 25" Key role of Jack Scott, Minister of Broadcasting, Marine, and Postmaster General. 7' 10" Scott unofficially on pirate's side. Would help but has to be seen to toe government line. 7' 55" Description of upgrading and equipment needed on Tiri. 9' 00" Transmitter kept hidden. Exciting adventure. 9' 50" Pirates get financial support but also need to keep public interested. 10' 55" Never going to get seaworthy certificate so decide to put to sea anyway. 11' 10" Dramatic story of attempt to sail out of Auckland harbour but run aground at low tide and police lower viaduct to block Tiri. Brawl on board with police. Large crowd of pirate supporters. Tiri sails but arrested by police launch. Crowd harass police. 18' 10" Crowd at waterfront probably New Zealand's first mass youth protest. 18' 35" Humiliating processing at Auckland police station. Bail granted. Pie cart story. Court appearance pending. 20' 35" Auckland Town Hall emotive public meeting in support of pirates. Near riot at bottom of Queen St. 23' 00" Pirates win court case and Tiri sails quietly for Hauraki Gulf. 24' 05" Actuality: Test transmission from Tiri. Good signal and plenty positive audience feedback. 26' 20" Tough conditions at sea take toll of transmitter masts. 27' 05" Lead-up and grounding of Tiri off Great Barrier island. 28' 20" Actuality: Radio Hauraki describing Tiri's plight on rocks and abandon ship. Paul Lineham 30' 40" Actuality: Hauraki on rocks – (unique in annals of our radio history.) 31' 30" Back to square one. Tiri is beyond repair. New ship supplied by financial backer Jim Frankham and one month later Tiri 2 back at sea. 32' 10" Actuality: Radio Hauraki. 32' 45" Description of Tiri 2 hit by Wahine storm 10 April 1968. 35' 30" Smooth sailing for next 15 months but still arguing case for a land licence. Government finally introduces legislation making Hauraki legal. 36' 20" Actuality: On air goodbyes Born Free sung by Matt Munro at end of Hauraki's last day at sea 1 June 1970 after one hundred and eleven days at sea. Ian Magan 36' 45" 2 June 1970 Hauraki disc jockey Rick Grant falls overboard and is drowned as Tiri 2 returns to land for Mayoral Reception. 37' 55" Hauraki starts broadcasting legally from land in August 1970 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Hello, Marketing with this summary of the Radio New Zealand programme "Hauraki at Sea: The beginnings of private radio" raised my attention. I listened it and from the programme I add the frequency that I heard: 1480. I think it was the frequency of the pirate Radio Hauraki. Did they receive back this freq after they have gotten an official license as a private station? Mike, thanks for the summary (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, ibid.) Hi, Yes Hauraki retained the 1480 frequency after they got their land licence. Unfortunately the programming and jingles completely changed. Regards (Tony Magon VK2IC, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. 7255, May 1, 2016. 2045-2058, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja. Music; OM/YL talks in Hausa; 2057 IS (drums) and s/off at 2058. VON returns after many days inactive to my location, on 7255 kHz. Today, presents a good signal and fair modulation, 45433 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. Radio Dandal Kura International 0500-0700 on 7415 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg to WeAf Kanuri 0700-0800 on 15480 WOF 300 kW / 165 deg to WeAf Kanuri 1800-2100 on 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri Manara Radio 0730-0830 on 15440 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa 1600-1700 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hi Gents: A few pirate logs to report! PIRATE-NA. Radio Illuminati, 6150 AM, 0047-0059*, 04-23-16, SIO: 433. Caught end of show, tune by Billy Joel, then into sign off routine. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. Radio Illuminati, 6150 AM, 2317-2346+, 04-29-16, SIO: 444. Great oldies by Martha Reeves, The Marvelettes, Righteous Brothers, Fontella Bass, Little Anthony & The Imperials (Chris, Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA USA, Receivers Eton E1, JRC NRD-535, Antenna: G5RV Dipole, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And see GERMANY 6150 ** NORTH AMERICA. Old Classic Radio Plays: 6850.24/AM, 2354-0005:46*, 23/24-Apr; 20s-40s music; Off after repeated IDs. SIO=2+43- with pulse & chirp bursts (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Watch out for WRMIBS now on 6855 ** NORTH AMERICA. Red Beacon Radio (presumed): 7610/AM, 2158-2218+, 23-Apr; Lite pop/rock; SIO=353-, fady. +++ [same], 2034-2047+, 24-Apr; Op talking about his setup, said all computerized; Cajun music SIO=2+52+, fady. No ID heard, or ever heard (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow- tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. Pirate, 6950.00-USB, April 29 at 0039 tune-in to last few notes of ``Doctor Who`` theme, then nothing heard for at least a minute, so off? HF Underground has some more logs of this playing Dr Who several times, resuming at 0044; and at 0048 ``Ride of the Valkyries`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.00-USB, April 30 at 2335, rap music peaking S9. 2356 recheck it`s off. Several logs here say it was WJD Radio Indiana, http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,27896.0.html especially the one from RainBrandy in Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1550, KMAD, Madill, OK adds slogan: “Hometown Country Classics`` (IRCA DX Monitor May 7 via DXLD) One that still eludes me, opposite side of state (gh, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KZLS, Enid. 1028 May 1, 2016. Simulcasting the FM with "Better Things To Do" by Terri Clark, 99.7 Hank FM promo (KNAH- FM, Mustang, OK) into more Classic Country, parallel crankhank.com and a redirect via the shell of a site kzlsam.com. Het from unidentified low side TIS/MIS and weak WTMI malfunctioning carrier audio. Damaged by power/pattern up from second harmonic of nearly line-of-site 820 WWBA at 1045, but Ronnie Milsap's "Any Day Now" still leaking through. (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Confirming what I have tried to get thru to X-band listings of KZLS as (political) talk format only --- not 100% (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. The Big 4 DTV stations in OKC are once again in wall-to- wall storm/tornado coverage, April 29 from 20 UT or so, the area being hit southern OK up to OKC (but we are just rainy in Enid), so before and after 22 UT, I do an AM & FM bandscan to confirm which OKC-area radio stations are simulcasting which TV stations: 88.5, KFOR 89.7, KFOR 91.7, KWTV 92.5, KWTV --- must have deal with Tyler Media 93.3, KWTV 94.7, KFOR --- must have deal with iHeart 96.1, KFOR 96.9, KOKH --- says has deal with Cumulus 98.1, KOKH 98.9, KOKH 99.7, KOCO 100.5, KOKH 101.9, KFOR 102.7, KFOR 104.1, KWTV 106.7, KTUZ --- in Spanish of course 107.7, KWTV List does not include any of the numerous translators or some marginal stations I can`t hear easily in Enid, and also skips some gospel huxters which don`t bother with such earthly emergencies (God is not responsible for damage, deaths: only for saving people from close calls). KOCO is clearly in fourth place, as previously noted also only on KGOU 106.3 and its relays, but I can`t even hear 88.1 KWOU Woodward at the moment. 640, KOKH? 800, NOT, altho they were talking about weather for a bit, original? 890, NOT 930, KOKH, with voice-over in Spanish 1000, KFOR 1520, KWTV Couldn`t hear 1140, 1340, 1460, 1560 stations well enough vs local device and noise level. As for the TV stations themselves: KWTV 39 ``9.2`` which is normally old newscast replays, still is! At 2234 UT, the clock says 12:02 (noon), what a waste. But CBS Evening News is again shifted to KSBI 23 ``52.1``. KOCO 7 ``5`` has NOT put ABC News on 5.2 but keeps MeTV going, altho last time ABC prime after 0000 UT went onto the subchannel. KETA 13 ``13`` allowed EAS tornado warnings to interrupt program audio repeatedly with horrible modulation/noise last time, crawl at screen- top, but this time manages at least to get thru BBC News 2200-2226 with no interruptions. KFOR 27 ``4`` is running wx simulcast on 4.2 instead of Antenna TV, AND ALSO on KAUT 40 ``43``, until 2230 UT when NBC News goes on KAUT, which was not done last time. Is this all ad-hoc, decided on moment`s notice? KOKH 24 ``25`` already has continuous weather, mix of national and local on 25.3. But it may have been looping older stuff rather than // current WTW coverage on 25.1. KTUZ 29 ``30`` is also doing continuous weather in Spanish, + KTUZ 106.7 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Enid, 36, K36MV, New to air, 6kw, 36-32-12/98-00-38 (DTV America) (FCC News edited by Doug Smith, May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Doug, No, it isn`t. No signal on RF 36 right now and have never seen it. If it really come on, will cause a bit of confusion, since the Univision channel of KTUZ-29 is virtually 36-1 (and with high power is `local` to Enid). (Glenn Hauser, 1743 UT May 7, to Doug, via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Some adjustments have been made in the last week to what is still Enid`s ONLY local TV signal (despite what some listings claim), K17JN-D, which is carrying Three Angels (Adventist) programming on six subchannels. For months, one of the channels was dead and another as received on my Sanyo TV, but not via the Zenith STB, had audio suppressed with this notice, now two of them thus: ``Unsupported Audio Codec, please contact content provider for help.`` Now as of May 2, we find with the PSIP first, then bug ID lower right: 17-1, K17JN-D, 3ABN (their main channel) 17-2, 3ABN-PR, Proclaim! 17-3, SmrtLfS, Smart Life Style Television (Audio Codec notice, Sanyo) 17-4, 3ABN-ES, 3ABN Latino (Spanish) 17-5, HopeCh1, HopeChannel 17-6, AmFacts, AFTV (Audio Codec notice here too on Sanyo TV only) Info button shows all of them, including 17-1, as 480i, SD, 4:3. This is the only signal we can normally get on rabbit ears, and with a little help from the troposphere on the exterior antenna, can be broken up even here by 1000 kW KDOR-17 in Bartlesville some 200 km away (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. Additional transmission of Brother HySTAIRical from May 2 1200-1300 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs English T8WH Angel 5 Additional transmission of T8WH Angel 4 from May 1: 1200-1300 on 9950 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English Sun Frequency change of T8WH Angel 5 from May 1 1300-1400 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs English Sat/Sun, ex 9930 1400-1430 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs English Sun, ex 9930 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, May 2 at 0101, JBA carrier from Radio Chaski is slightly stronger than usual so I can detect it without turning off all the local noise sources. It`s been quite a while since I last timed its auto-cutoff, April 4 until 0104:13.5*, and now that happens at 0106:48.5*, which is 155 seconds later, and 28 days later, or averaging a slippage of 5.54 seconds per diem (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980. R. CHASKI, 3/5 0012-0028 UT. Programa “La Biblia dice” con el tema del sacrifico de Cristo y el amor de Dios. A las 0020, música instrumental. A las 0024 avisos con las frecuencias de “Red Radio Integridad de Lima en 700 AM, Radio Filadelfia de Cajamarca en 88.9 FM y Radio Chaski de Cerro Pasco, Cusco en 94.9 FM, 630 AM y 5980 de la onda corta”. Y luego más himnos instrumentales. SINPO: 45444. RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: 40 metros de hilo, QTH: Ovalle, Chile (Claudio Galaz Toledo, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** POLAND. POLES HIJACK RADIO VOTE IN MEDIA FREEDOM PROTEST By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring 4 May 2016 Image copyright EPA Image caption: Journalists at Radio Trojka, also called Channel 3, have complained of political interference Polish music fans have protested against government influence over a public radio station by voting a song called I Love Freedom to the top of its chart. A group of Radio Trojka listeners started an online campaign calling for people to choose the track in a public vote on the best Polish songs of all time, in protest at recent personnel changes at the station, Poland's Newsweek website reports. The song ended up topping the chart when the results were revealed on Wednesday. . . http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36203530 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC and via Jon Collins, UK, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 15170, 17745, Apr 24, 2016. 2115-2120, RRI, Tsiganeshti, Spanish service. Program "Radio Domingo"; Music; YL talks. Today, the transmission frequencies is horrible. Potential problems in the transmitters (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9730, S9+35 and // 11800 S9+25, UT Fri April 29 at 0033, RRI English here with classical music, excerpt of a piano concerto, insert a brief unrelated talk about a band on tour in New York, then a bit of Rachmaninov`s Piano Concerto No. 2, on `Today`s Music Program`; 0040 that`s cut abruptly to `Open Studio` with ``pick of the week``, about visit of a British-American poet. Always nice to hear classical on SW, but not so nice to have it cut up into little pieces (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 9655; 9655, April 30 at 0012, no signal unlike 24 hours ago, when it appeared to be in Romanian, and thus RRI. This time the four RRI transmitters are all accounted for on scheduled 7335 & 9790 (S9+25) in Romanian, 9730 & 11800 in English. 9655 was on the B-15 RRI schedule from Galbeni (at 14-16 in Romanian), so altho not currently scheduled anywhen, that would explain how it`s still on the roster and could get punched on the air accidentally. Now, both 7335 and 9790 at 00-02 are listed as Galbeni, so one of those was probably missing when 9655 was transmitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Romania has finally changed frequency at 2030 --- listening on 11850 now // 13650. It is also on their frequency schedule page now (Peter W Hansen, FL, May 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Romania International have made a frequency change at 2030 replacing 11870 AM transmission with 11850 kHz - finally avoiding the clash with the simultaneous 11870 DRM transmission. Noted signing off today 2 May, and new frequency is confirmed on their website at http://www.rri.ro/en_gb/frecvente-259 (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Romania International 2030-2056 NF 11850 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to ENAm English, ex 11870 // frequency 13650 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to ENAm English parallel freq 6170 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English // frequency 11870 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English DRM mode -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Utilities BROADCASTING --- According to weather radiosvodkam can hear the name of the airports in different parts of Russia. This frequency: 2869, 3116, 4663, 5691, 6617, 6693, 8888, 8939, 10090, 11297, 11318, 13267, 13279 kHz. It includes not only the city, but also the name of the airport. Below is a list of airports of federal significance on the name of the airport and the city where it is located. GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION R A S P O R I E S & E on April 20, 2016 ? 726-p MOSCOW In accordance with paragraph 8 of Article 40 of the Air Code Russian Federation to approve the attached list of airports federal significance. Airport Name Note 1. Abakan / International 2. Anadyr (Ugolny) / International 3. Anapa (Vityazevo) / International 4. Arkhangelsk (Talagi) / International 5. Astrakhan (Narimanovo) / International 6. Barnaul (Mikhailovka) / International 7. Belgorod / International 8. Blagoveshchensk (Ignatievo) / International 9. Bratsk / International 10. Bryansk / International 11. Vladivostok (Knevichi) / International 12. Vladikavkaz (Beslan) / International 13. Volgograd (Gumrak) / International 14. Vologda 15. Voronezh (Chertovitskoe) / International 16. Gorno-Altaisk 17. Terrible (Severny) / International [as in Ivan The???] 18. Ekaterinburg (Koltsovo) / International [i.e. Yekaterin`burg] 19. Ivanovo (Yuzhny) 20. Izhevsk 21. Irkutsk / International 22. Yoshkar-Ola 23. Kazan / International 24. Kaliningrad (Khrabrovo) / International 25. Kaluga (Grabtsevo) / International 26. Kemerovo / International 27. Kirov (Pobedilovo) 28. Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Dzemgi) / International 29. Kostroma (Kostroma Airport) 30. Krasnodar (Pashkovsky) / International 31. Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo) / International 32. Barrow [not the one in Alyaska, I hope --- gh] 33. Kursk (Vostochny) / International 34. Kyzyl 35. Lipetsk / International 36. Magadan (Sokol) / International 37. Magas (Sleptsovskaya) 38. Magnitogorsk / International 39. Makhachkala (Uytash) / International 40. Mineral Water / International [gotta translate into common words!] 41. Moscow (Vnukovo) / International 42. Moscow (Domodedovo) / International 43. Moscow (Sheremetyevo) / International 44. Murmansk / International 45. Nalchik / International 46. Naryan-Mar 47. Nizhnevartovsk / International 48. Nizhnekamsk (Begishevo) / International 49. Nizhny Novgorod (Strigino) / International 50. Novokuznetsk (Spichenkovo) / International 51. Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo) / International 52. Nogliki / International 53. Omsk (Centralny) / International 54. Orenburg (Centralmy) / International 55. Orsk / International 56. Ostafyevo / International 57. Penza 58. Perm (Bolshoye Savino) / International 59. Petrozavodsk (Besovets) / International 60. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Elizovo) / International 61. Providence Bay / International 62. Pskov (Kresty) / International 63. Ramenskoye / International 64. Rostov-on-Don / International 65. Sabetta / International 66. Salekhard 67. Samara (Kurumoch) / International 68. St. Petersburg (Pulkovo) / International 69. Saransk / International 70. Saratov / International 71. Simferopol / International [CRIMEA] 72. Sochi (Adler) / International 73. Stavropol (Shpakovskoye) / International 74. Surgut / International 75. Syktyvkar / International 76. Tomsk (Bogashevo) / International 77. Tyumen (Roschino) / International 78. Ulan-Ude (Mukhino) / International 79. Ulyanovsk (Baratayevka) / International 80. Ulyanovsk (Vostochny) / International 81. Ufa / International 82. Khabarovsk (Novy) / International 83. Khanty-Mansiysk / International 84. Cheboksary / International 85. Chelyabinsk (Balandino) / International 86. Cherepovets / International 87. Chita (Kadan) / International 88. Elista / International 89. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (yoke) / International 90. Yakutsk / International 91. Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) / International (RusDX May 1 via DXLD) See also WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Sarawak 1100-1300 on 15420 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N), April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. - - - - - Ron wrote: "SARAWAK[non]. 15420, Radio Free Sarawak.... Why did the jamming not start up again during the past year? A major policy change by Malaysia? Anyone have any thoughts about this? Thanks for any comments." - - - - - - Hi Glenn, Sent an inquiry directly to Timm Breyel, who resides in Malaysia, asking if he had any insights regarding the RFS and non- jamming issue. As always, Timm has a very informative response: "1) As you probably know, Sabah and Sarawak are autonomous states in East Malaysia. In the last Malaysian General Election these two states helped the ruling party retain power. The states are also rich in natural resources, i.e. oil, natural gas, timber, and mineral deposits. They need these states for political and financial clout. 2) My guess is the ruling Malaysian government does not wish to provoke and draw attention to RFS and the opposition parties there. The ruling government needs assistance from the people to keep pirates and Islamic extremists at bay around the Sulu and South China seas, near Sabah. In this way, the government can show there is 'Freedom of Speech' (at least for now) and defend their eastern borders. 3) Having said this, the Malaysian government last year issued an arrest warrant for Clare Rewcastle Brown, the founder of RFS. Interestingly the warrant had nothing to do directly with RFS and their activities, but rather had more to do with a report she published about the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. The Wall Street Journal filed a similar report, and again the PM and ruling government attempted to squelch it. Nothing came of either charge: Interpol dropped Malaysia's request and the lawsuit against WSJ will be tied up in the US courts for years. If anything, the PM and Malaysia's financial image is tarnished. So, the Malaysian government needs to put up a good show to her eastern states. 4) You may have noticed RTM only relays Wai FM [11665], Sarawak FM [9835] and possibly Asyik FM [6050] (all indigenous-related) broadcasts on short-wave. Gone is Klasik Nasional, TRAXX FM and a few others. Again, it looks like the ruling government is demonstrating their interest and commitment to the people in Sarawak and Sabah. In other news, I read the new NBC Bougainville station was constructed partially to shore up the politics there, especially after the separatist movement tried to take control of the island. Papua Barat, on Borneo, is another place to watch. Like Sarawak and Sabah, there is talk of succession too. These places are so far removed from their respective central governments and the dominant cultures, they are flexing their muscle. In Sabah alone, the government policies are very flexible and arbitrary compared to the states in West Malaysia (where I live)." Greatly appreciate Timm taking the time to give me such a detailed analysis of the situation. Very nice to be able to get a local perspective (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11930, Apr 24, 2016. 2052-2058, BSKSA, Riyadh, Holy Qur´an chant with collision by Radio Martí. Note: Today, after some time, returns the collision between BSKSA and Radio Martí. In certain moments, prevailing the signal of BSKSA (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 15204.970, BSKSA Radio Riyadh, Arabic, S=9+30dB strength at 1558 UT on May 1st. scheduled 1545-1757 UT, Arabic 1st program and \\ 15225.000 kHz same program. S=9 at same time. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, May 1 in Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As always, see also: YEMEN [non] ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, SIBC on 5/1 with S5 and clear signal into Edmonton Perseus site (S4 at home QTH with higher noise level) from 0647 tune with local pop music request program with woman announcer to 0700. IS followed by news by woman in English to 0711 followed by weather broadcast and local bulletins - sponsored by Silentworld shipping co. - time given as "17 minutes past 6" followed by program sched by woman. Vocal by man and accompanying group at 0717. Male vocal "I'll Fly Away" at 0750 and time "7 minutes to 7" by woman at 0753. Recorded Solomon Airlines commercial followed by SA schedules by woman at 0755.5 to 0758.5. "SIBC Radio Happy Isles, the Voice of the Nation" ID by woman repeated twice at 0759 followed by IS and news in Pidgin by woman at 0800. Best I have heard SIBC on any frequency; definitely armchair quality! (Bruce Churchill, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBC still going strong at 0852 UT (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai - New Zealand ibid.) Good morning from Europe, checked 31 mb in North America and Brisbane Queensland. 9544.997 kHz slightly odd frequency on lower side. Solomons ads in English, but I guess also vernaculars or accented English in between. Weak signal deep-night in Detroit Michigan at 0933 UT on May 1st, but S=9+15dB at 0952 UT in Brisbane Queensland and also strong at Edmonton Alberta CAN remote SDR unit. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YL with news in pidgin at 1012 into OM with IDs, into choral music. Difficult to get clear audio due to band noise and propagation. Still this is one of the best signals from here in quite awhile. This is a rare one for me here on east coast USA (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, MA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX ALERT!!! Guess who is 4 1/2 hours late in signing off on 9545 kHz?? The second night in a week I've caught Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation on late with 9545. It's supposed to sign off at 0500 UT and 5020 takes over. A few nights ago, 9545 was on for about 3 hours past the 0500 sign-off time, 5020 wasn't on. 9545 suddenly disappeared in mid sentence and 5020 appeared a few minutes later. When 9545 is on late, it's noticeably stronger then 5020 is. I'd say 5020 on its best night here is a [?] or a 6 out of 10. 9545 is about an 8 out of 10. 5020's modulation isn't quite as good as 9545 from what little I can tell. But the better audio and signal and lack of on-time sign-off confuses me as 5020/9545 use the same transmitter! (Paul Walker, Galena, Alaska, 0940 May 1, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. KENYA, 17845, May 3, 2016. 1228-1247, Radio ERGO, Dhabbaya, in Somali. OM/YL talks; Regional song; Interview; 1243 YL says Radio Ergo and interview with a woman. It´s my R. Ergo first log. Good signal and fair modulation, 45433 (in certain moments, 45444). (FIRST STATION LOG). (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, RX (s) Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) There are certainly Somalis, refugees in Kenya, but is this station really for them? HQ is in Kenya. WRTH classifies it as target to SOMALIA (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Article: SABC DUMPS AMERICAN PROGRAMMING http://www.channel24.co.za/TV/News/sabc-scales-back-on-international-content-20160429?isapp=true (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg, April 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good! No one needs to see mind sapping pap like "The Vampire Diaries" anyway. A commitment to more localized content is the way to go. Of course, if it turns out to just be a South African version of what the American entertainment studios have been offering, this new direction will be of very limited benefit (John Figliozzi, NY/FL, ibid.) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, April 19 at 0050, S9+40 dead air from TOM, so I quickcheck other WRMI frequencies: equally silent on 7780 S9+20, 5765 and 6915; but non-BS WRMI frequencies with other programming are OK: 7730 World Music replaying ``Sandunga``; 5850, 5950, 11530, 11580. Finally at 0054, 7570 at least resumes Brother Scaring. See also UKRAINE [non] 15770, April 29 at 2036, WRMI yet again with Brother Scare replaying that bit referring to what I said about his shoveling money at WRMI. This was first heard back on February 6, so BS must really enjoy it! Or be sorely hurting for any new material. 6915, April 30 at 0011, this WRMIBS frequency is missing; tho always weak and noise level is hi now, I can`t even get a JBA carrier, while I can on 5015, 5765. The others are in dead air when I first check, but within a minute resume modulating. 0042 recheck, still no 6915 at all, while 5015, 5765 and 7570 are BSing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI Very good signal of Brother Stair via WRMI Okeechobee, April 30 from 0735 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English BS TOM tx#09 Ralph G. Stair talk about transmitters, frequencies and Glenn Hauser! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/very-good-signal-of-brother-stair-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ``final edition`` April 30 via DXLD) 11825, May 1 at 1340 tuneby, WRMI with BS talking yet again about how something significant is going to happen when Franklin Graham dies, and anti-Islam comments. IIRC, this was the same segment from Feb 6 when he had just talked about yours truly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI, WWRB Hi Glenn, I`m just recovering from laughter. You were just mentioned by Brother Scare on his broadcast today and worked into his sermon on the fact that people aren’t scared of anything. Well, I guess you are in the big time now. 73 (Doc W2MFT Tattenbaum, NY, 1750 UT May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard the Overcomer Ministries on 9965 from 1200 to 1300 UT this morning with a poor signal here in south Florida. T8WH 100 kW at 345 degrees; target Zones 43 & 44. Found on World Harvest Radio website program guide Angel 5 (Peter W Hansen, May 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965, May 2 at 1259, surprised to hear Brother HyStairical here (especially since WRMI is AWOL from 9955), must be new frequency, S9+10. But without any ID, cuts abruptly at 1300 to deceased Peter Sumrall introducing a lesson from pre-deceased Lester Sumrall, but then he is cut off the air abruptly at 1300:45*. Obviously a ragged ending to a T8WH PALAU transmission. IIRC, TOM has been on T8WH before, as part of his WHR carriage. What does their online sked say? It`s Angel 5 with Overcomer only at 1200- 1300 daily on 9965. (The only SW frequencies shown for this 24-hour program stream are: 9965 at 1200-1430; 9960/9975/9965/9960 at 1430- 1630 for ``GOJ``, code for Government of Japan? = the Furusato services. And 1630-1700 on 9960). You would not think Angel 5 is Palau, since the click-on coverage map for it is Africa and the Mideast, disinformation! HFCC, which is also degraded by disinformation, is more truthful in this case, 318 degrees to CIRAF 43 & 44 = central and eastern China, except the northeast - Manchuria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother HyStairical TOM on a new frequency via WRMI Okeechobee, May 1: till off at 1200 NF 15560 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm tx#5, ex 6915 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0WGVmyfKM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUihz7dXtKQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZRqovT5Q8&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, this turned out to be the 7780 transmitter misradiating on 2 x 7780, not ex-6915, which went to 6855 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, May 1, 2016. 1916-1930, Radio Omdurman Sudan, Al Aitahab. OM/YL talks in arabic, a interview, presumed. At 1923 start a IS and NA of VOIRI station and Qur´an chant. So, after 1923, it´s a true collision (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Radio Omdurman again on nominal frequency 7205 kHz, May 1 from 1918 on 7205 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic, ex 7206.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rYEt016Oqw&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7206, May 3, 2016. 1843-1852, Radio Omdurman Sudan, Al-Aitahab. OM talks and talk, in Arabic lang. Fair signal, poor modulation, 35432 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo, PB, Brazil, RX (s) Sony ICF- SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SUDAN [and non]. Radio Dabanga 0430-0600 on 11650 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0430-0530 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0530-0600 on 13800 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1530-1630 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1530-1630 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) 15150.0035, MADAGASCAR, Radio Dabanga, Sudan Arabic? S=9+10dB, 11.4 kHz wide broad signal at 1540 UT May 1st (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wolfi, You put a questionmark directly after the word Arabic at the item 15150 kHz, Radio Dabanga. Yes, Dabanga broadcasts in Arabic (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, ibid.) Sure, whow, whow, you know the southern Sudan language to identify? Existing FM broadcasts in South Sudan. The broadcast brings listeners news and information in Arabic, Shilluk, Dinka, Bari, Zande, Lutoho, and Nuer languages. http://topnews.wwdxc.de Best regards, wb df5sx (Büschel, ibid.) No, I don't know those languages. When I heard Dabanga on shortwave it broadcasted in Arabic. I have serious doubts over its FM network in South Sudan. South Sudan had a civil war, lasted for 2 years in which the infrastructure is damaged, especially in the northern states like in the oil-rich Unity state. That's why I wondered why Radio Miraya finished its shortwave broadcast last year. Miraya also claims that they have an area of FM network but I have never seen a frequency list mentioning any of Miraya's FM frequencies and neither which of them works and which of them out of service. Not to mention the power of their FM transmitters. It is incredible to believe that they can broadcast in those towns which are looted/burnt/destroyed by gunfire + Ugandan warplanes. Some towns were destroyed totally; even the U.N. were shocked on the scale of the brutality. And even now there are militias who aren't subscribed to the peace efforts and who are continuing the war. I also don't believe that an independent radio can broadcast without governmental supervision. The president Salva Kiir is known for his authoritarian point of views. He doesn't want to create a concurrence in a wartime situation when an information war is going. It also pushed Miraya and other newsmedia last year toward a neutral policy to news (meaning you shall stop broadcasting politics or we will shoot you down approach). For these reasons I have a very serious doubts when i hear/read that Radio Dabanga or Miraya has a chain of working FM transmitters. Of course they will state this because some equipment was donated by westerners and these westerners want to see something for their money. I also have serious doubts whether these donating NGOs are brave enough to visit Bentiu or other war-torn locations in South Sudan to see the status of their equipment. They simply will believe the fairy tale of a well-functioning radio network, sorry, networks, chains of networks in one of the poorest countries of the world where life is so cheap. Cheaper than the radio equipment. No, I think this is too good to be true. Maybe some FM transmitters work but nobody knows which ones and where. Even we couldn't establish which AM transmitters exist and which are not. When I started to work on it, I tried to separate Sudanese and South Sudanese mediumwave transmitters (you can see the results on http://www.emwg.info) but I couldn't go further. There is simply no reliable information (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, ibid.) Tibor, Wolfgang, R. Dabanga is mainly for Darfur, not South Sudan, so why would it have an FM network there? It broadcasts both in Arabic and smaller Darfur area languages. You can see a list of Miraya FM's sites and powers in WRTH. Of course there are breaks and inactivities in transmission in worst areas, but installing the FM network is the main reason for stopping shortwave transmissions. Miraya among some other Juba stations have been confirmed on the air recently by two transmitter engineers, one visiting and one living there. The only active MW transmitter in South Sudan is currently Juba 693 kHz. I heard it here in Finland in March this year. I don't know what is unreliable in your mind in Sudan MW transmitters. 73, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, ibid.) Yes, we must now be careful not to confuse SOUTH SUDAN with THE REST OF SUDAN; or, I should write: SUDAN SOUTH, and SUDAN THE REST OF (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Radio Tamazuj 0330-0430 on 9600 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 0330-0430 on 11650 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1430-1500 on 15150 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1430-1500 on 15550 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic 1500-1530 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Sudanese Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) Radio Tamazuj on two frequencies not in parallel, May 2 1430-1500 15150 NAU 125 kW / 152 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, not // 15550 1430-1500 15550 ISS 250 kW / 134 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, not // 15150 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuOeA9_CWNY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6IQKEtxS3Q&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Completely unrelated content or just way out of synch // ? (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Eye Radio (former EDC Sudan Radio Service) from April 26 0400-0500 on 11730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic* 1600-1700 on 17730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic* *plus other langs: Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) 17730.03, *1600-1700* 26.4 SSD (South Sudan), Eye R, Juba, via ? Fanfare, ann in Dinka (tentative), news and reports, jingle, interview, ad, 1655 local song by mixed choir, closing ann with Horn of Africa music, 25333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030 receiver with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Very good reception of Eye Radio today on 17730 kHz, programming in Arabic at 1600 sign-on, but from 1620 to 1635 was in English about the peace process in South Sudan. The presenter several times said “good morning” so this must have been a recording. Now back to vernaculars at 1640. Still unsure of what the transmitter site is for this broadcast. 73s (Dave, Caversham, Kenny, Lowe HF225 / 25m long wire, April 28, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) 17730.000, Exact measured frequency, very good strong signals heard in Warsaw Poland and Doha Qatar remote units just at 1650-1700 UT today April 28. S=8-9 strength, and audio crystal clear quality, so I guess it's a TDF Issoudun outlet, brokered by Ludo's "BRB Broadcast Belgium" FMO. But not Kostinbrod Sofia Bulgaria site of older USSR tx sounding units. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, ibid.) QSL. Eye Radio 17730 kHz - P.O. Box 425 - Juba - Sud Sudan con messaggio di Messanger di Facebook allegato in 1 giorni [sic]. v/S Daniel Danis Programming Manager. Roberto Pavanello (via Dario Monferini, April 29, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) It`s just an e-mail, no details, no QSL design (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Today at 1630-1700 heard South Sudan in Focus from VOA on 15180 (Vatican Relay). Reception was excellent. Before the broadcast started the voice kept saying Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Praha, not the VOA sign on with the Yankee Doodle music (Peter W Hansen, FL, April 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard the same back in February on that broadcast too - https://clyp.it/afomtlgl On the Hotbird 13E satellite there is one transponder that has lots of VOA/RFE/RL audio feeds and some of those have "Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Praha" repeating constantly when nothing is on the air so perhaps the Vatican use one of these feeds. List of audio streams on that transponder is here - http://en.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=1157 (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) ** SWAZILAND. I got a confirmation for listening on the TWR Africa for listening to the transmission for January 23 via transmitter, located in Manzini, Swaziland. It is a field image with antennas, printed color printer on a standard sheet of paper. First, I try to send an e-mail, but the letter was returned. Posted by regular mail on 30 January. Interestingly, not listening to the details indicated in the ID, because while listening to it not blurts. Several years ago, the report is also sent by regular mail indicating the ID, etc. - It is not confirmed, it's nothing. Also, in a brown envelope was a new schedule (A-16) African broadcasting season TMP units (Viktor Varzin, Leningradskaya oblast, Kommunar, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" & “open_dx” via RusDX May 1 via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Broadcasts over Radio Revival from Sala, April 30: Radio Nord Revival 1100-1200 on 3975 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish AM 1100-1200 on 6060 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish LSB Swedish DX Federation 1200-1315 on 3975 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish AM 1200-1315 on 6060 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish LSB Radio Sala 1315-2400 on 3975 SAL 005 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish AM 1315-2400 on 6060 SAL 010 kW / non-dir to WeEu Swedish LSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/broadcasts-over-radio-revival-from-sala.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ``final edition`` April 30 via DXLD) An update from Radio Revival Sweden, Sala: Broadcasts over Radio Revival Sweden from Sala on Saturday, April 30: 1100-1200 UT Radio Nord Revival 1200-1315 UT Programme from the Swedish DX-Federation SDXF 1315-2400 UT Radio Sala Cruisin' Special with lots of vintage music, reports from the streets of Sala where the cruising is taking place, interviews and more. Requests are welcome at 0046 73 8165608 or by email studion@radiosala.se. Do surprise our friends at Radio Sala, call them and let them know how their SW transmission is coming through in your area. The frequencies are 3975 kHz (5 kW) and 6060 kHz (10 kW). Reception reports can be sent by e-mail to qsl@sdxf.se or by snail mail to SDXF, Box 1097, SE-405 23 Gothenburg, Sweden.for the SDXF transmissions. Reception reports for the Radio Sala transmissions can be mailed to qsl@radiosala.se and they have a great printed QSL card. -- European Music Radio: http://www.europeanmusicradio.com (Tom Taylor, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060.00, 1100-1115 Sat 30.4, R Nord Revival, Sala only in AM and LSB. Nonstop Elvis Presley songs, e.g. "Blue Hawaii", 1106 Swedish chat about Elvis Presley 45454 // 3975.00 best in AM and USB (35243) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030 receiver with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) SUECIA, 6060, Radio Nord Revival, Sala, 1102-1130, escuchada el 30 de abril en inglés a locutora y ¿sueco?, a locutor, emisión musical, SINPO 34433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Web SDR, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, Radio Revival Sweden, Sala, 1757-1840, 30-04, Swedish, comments, pop songs. 23322. Also 1938-2030, 30-04, ID and comments in English, frequencies, nice pop songs in English, other comments in Swedish. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600G, Sangean ATS 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31 MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, Radio Revival, Sweden. Carrier visible after 1800, then slowly getting stronger, 1826 "Rock around the clock", male presenter in Swedish. Followed by number of similar 60s items. LSB only! Overall weak to modestly strong. Local QRN. 1840 banjo instrumental. 1901 female presenter. 1918 "In the summer time". The signal peaked around 20:05 (Sydney sunrise). Carrier disappeared around 2100 UT. Receiver: Perseus. Antenna: 10m vertical (Nick Hachko, Sydney - Australia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strong signal on 6060 kHz (AM+USB) at present (2040 UT) parallel weaker 3975 kHz (AM). Latter faded in when sun set. Both clear channels at the moment. Continuous oldies being carried at present. Some Swedish pop included. Earlier also some Swedish talk. Radio Sala is an FM station on 97.0 MHz I think. 73, (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030 plus 30m longwire, Caversham, UK 2040 UT April 30, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Forgot, 3975 kHz would be briefly blocked by Vatican Radio for 20 minutes or so just after I sent this! But 3975 in the clear again after 2100 UT, though 6060 still much the strongest signal. Sadly, no IDs for a while though - just continuous oldies. 73, (Alan, 2114 UT, ibid.) 6060 kHz actually signed off at 2159 UT (not 2400 UT per schedule above) with YL with repeated Radio Revival ID. (This was midnight Swedish time) At 2155 UT was suffering QRM from Sichuan PBS which had just signed on on 6060. Had been in the clear until then. Nice English ID from Sichuan heard under Sala though at 2156 UT: "...Nationality Channel Sichuan Radio Station" :-) 73, (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Caversham, UK, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) I tried to hear it before 2400; off-frequency carrier must have been Brasil, as in unID (gh, DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. 11874.9, IBRA R., Surprisingly, quite a way off frequency here for the Radio Ibrahim Hausa program at 1945 to s/off 2000, NF (ex 7235) and fair signal, 15/4 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Sangean ATS909, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ- 1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 11874.935, April 27 at 1929, off-frequency S3-S6 signal stands out like sore thumb, as I bandscan in 1 kHz steps with BFO on R75. Sounds like vocal HOA or at least African music, then vaguely familiar sounder, 1930 drumming and tonal language. HFCC A-16 shows 11875 at 1900-2000 is IBRA via Woofferton UK, 300 kW, 170 degrees to CIRAF 46 in ``Und`` language. But would be unusual for WOF to be that far off frequency by -65 Hz --- suspect transmission has been switched to someplace like RSA or UAE capable of achieving this. How about it, Dave Porter? What do other listings show? Aoki, also Woofferton: since this is Day 4 = Wednesday: Going from Ful to Zar at 1930. EiBi agrees , but with abbrs. curtailed to FU and ZA. So what are they, really? FU is Fulani/Fulfulde, spoken in Nigeria, Niger and Burkina Faso. ZA is Zarma/Zama spoken by 2 Mega in Niger. CIRAF 46 is Nigeria & Niger, and westward to the coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11874.925, April 28 at 1939, another check of the off-frequency IBRA transmission, this time measured here on the NRD-545. Wolfgang Büschel replies to my yesterday report: ``U.K. 11874.9215 odd frequency from Babcock Woofferton site on April 28 at 1945 UT again, S=8-9 in Doha Qatar site. Rather used again an older B6124 Marconi Communication Systems Limited, MCSL transmitter, not RIZ Zagreb latest GPS technology. Last time, Dave [Porter] told the community: "Regarding last week and WOF the reason that .... kHz was off freq was, that a Marconi B6124 was carrying the service as the normal RIZ sender was being maintained. The Marconi B6124 sometimes do lose their freq lock from the 1 MHz standard. RIZ Zagreb senders are locked to GPS"`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued at UK ** SWITZERLAND [non]. Good to hear the Swiss Radio International interval signal on shortwave from a new Swissinfo broadcast via Kall on Saturdays (7310 kHz) and Sundays (6005) - both transmissions at 1445-1500 UT (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9725-AM, Xing Xing BS (Star Star Broadcasting Station), V13, 1208, May 4. Ex: 7502-AM; numbers in Chinese; close to fair. My MP3 audio at https://goo.gl/XmSBX3 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Log on remote Osaka Nagoya remote SDR units in Japan, May 3rd at 0535 to 0600 UT. 12500.211 SOH S=8 12800.135 SOH S=7 12910.207 SOH S=6 12950.216 SOH S=4 12980.113 SOH S=7 and all S=5 -96dBm strength on 13130.190 13199.829 13229.997 13270.016 13530.218 at 0548 UT. 13640.000, SOH fq, but I guess S=9+10dB strong transmission originate from China mainland jamming facility, though a tiny signal 'seen' underneath on 13639.876 kHz. 13679.811 SOH S=5 13820.198 and 13820.191 two very weak tiny peaks visible 0535 UT. 13919.915 SOH S=6 signal. wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Above report was prompted by my log under UAE of 13820+ (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 7445, April 28 at 1125, RTI in English is poor at S7. At least there is no CCCCCCI (Chinese Communist Chinese language co- channel interference), and this is probably our best chance to hear it in North America, since RTI blew off its audience here by canceling relays via WYFR and not renewing them on WRMI (unlike Spanish!). Rick Barton often reports 7445 RTI English from Arizona, but that`s at 4-5 am local! Like all Taiwan info, this transmission is banned by the ChiCom from appearing in HFCC, while they themselves do not include their own pervasive jamming disservices. Last year`s Aoki showed 7445 as 100 kW, 225 degrees from Paochung, hardly a suitable azimuth for us but directly off the back would be 45 degrees, and it was a*terisked then as jammed. WRTH 2016 shows only two English broadcasts left on SW from RTI, the other being 03-04 on 15320 via Tainan, both targeting SE Asia. O, I just noticed in Aoki that the 11-12 English is also listed on 11600 via Paochung and not marked as *jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KURDISTAN [non] Regarding my item about the lack of English broadcasts from RTI, there is another one missed because I was searching Aoki on Eng Paochung, rather than Eng Tamsui Dist, despite WWDXC thinking the same frequencies be from Paochung as does EiBi; whatever: maybe these could make it to North America off the back: ``9465 1500-1600 1234567 English 300 225 Paochung TWN RTI 11685 1500-1600 1234567 English 300 205 Paochung TWN RTI (R TWN Internat., March 22, 2016; via ADDX Andreas Volk-Munich Germany; transformed and condensed by wb - via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 24, WWDXC DX MAGAZINE 4/2016 via DXLD)`` (Glenn Hauser, April 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TANZANIA. 1377 kHz, Radio Free Africa, Mwanza with talk in presumed Swahili and African music (05-01-2016 0032 UT). I have been waiting patiently for this one to show up at my place and it finally did :-) It came with fair peaks at times but the window didn't last very long. I was hoping for a second shot last night around that same time but unfortunately, it didn't materialized as it did the other night, except for a faint carrier maybe. Thanks Allen Willie for publishing your TA tips from Newfoundland on FB. As you can see, they can be quite helpful for other DXers :-) This adds BTW a new country to my total. Here's how it sounded: http://www.quebecdx.com/mp3/tanzania_1377.mp3 The signal was also present on the African Beverage although with a higher noise level, thus less intelligible. Distance: 11300 Km / 7020 miles (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC CANANA, Perseus + 290m / 950ft Beverage to Europe & the Middle-East, IRCA mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Rare even at Cappahayden [Nfld DX-pedition site]. It required either France to be off the air, which did happen one year for a day or two. And one year aurora wiped out Europe. The only stations weakly audible were Spain and Algeria. This allowed unprecedented reception of Angola, Moçambique and Tanzania. Nice job! (Jim Renfrew, NY, ibid.) At least something to cheer about after an average season; How nice it would be if Africa could offer more mediumwave stations to look for like Latin America for instance, where tons of AM stations still operate successfully (Sylvain Naud, ibid.) The few African signals on so many empty channels those heavy auroral nights made me wonder if there are any stations at all remaining on MW or if they are running very low power. The absence of Nigerian signals alone was indicative of few being on the air. The only Nigerian station we've heard lately is 917 (Jim Renfrew, ibid.) ** TIBET [non]. 15560, Voice of Tibet relay heard at 1355 on 4/29/16, a woman speaking in listed Tibetan. Fair-to-poor (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee, WI, JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); Icom IC-R75 (Grove Flex antenna); Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet May 1 via DXLD) VOT via Tajikistan is always on split frequencies ending in -2, -3, -7 or -8. Aoki shows at this hour it`s on 15558, but subject to frequent changes. If what he heard was really on 15560 it would have been the CNR1 jammer. Those stick to -5 or -0 frequencies. (After 1400, VOT relay via Madagascar is not on split frequencies, starting on 15565 then around 1407 jumping to 15560 leaving the jammer behind, again per Aoki). 73, (Glenn to FS, via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. Voice of Tibet 1200-1215 on 15543 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1215-1230 on 15538 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1245 on 15573 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1245-1300 on 15567 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1315 on 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1315 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1315-1330 on 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1315-1330 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1330-1345 on 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1330-1345 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1345-1400 on 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1345-1400 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1400-1415 on 15560 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15552 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1415-1430 on 15565 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2300-2310 on 7598 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2310-2320 on 7592 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 2320-2330 on 7587 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan All frequencies are jammed by China on xxxx0 / xxxx5 Changes between frequencies vary from 5 to 7 minutes (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) 15552, May 4 at 1416, JBA carrier here and on 15550, ergo Voice of Tibet via Tajikistan and a CNR1 jammer respectively. As of April 30, Ivo Ivanov had VOT Tibetan via Dushanbe on 15552 at 1300-1330 & 1415- 1430, with 15558 in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 6040.15, 0355, Voice of Turkey tuning signal and sign on with anthem, good on this odd frequency 3 April (Bryan Clark: WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+, Lake Ellesmere DX Pedition, NZ, May NZ DX Times via DXLD) 11615, April 28 at 1946, very poor S3 in French; it`s La Voix de la Turquie, 262 degrees for West Africa. 17770.061, May 4 at 1424, very poor S6 signal off-frequency. Of course, it`s VOT as scheduled in Arabic this hour, 500 kW, 252 degrees from Emirler, which always seems to be off to the high side. Turcalibration leaves a bit to be desired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. 7425, R. Lead Africa via Meyerton. Noisy signal at fair strength of group in agitated speech with faint music in background. Listed to be in English but not recognised so presumably in Luganda. Signal ceased at 2036 without formal announcement or ID. Scheduled to close at 2200. 2030, 23/4 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (JRC NRD-535D with 7m. vertical), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Radio Lead Africa 0300-0400 NF 6090 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to CeAf English Mon/Tue/Fri 0500-0600 on 12060 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg to CeAf English Wed/Thu 0500-0700 on 12060 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg to CeAf English Sat 1900-2200 on 7425 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to CeAf English Sat/Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) Thanks, Ivo for the update. Good that RLA will move away from 5915, which gives the frequency back to Zambia, but 6090 is a terrible frequency for their reception in the USA due to strong Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla being on 6090 (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi there, thanks also. Currently it's not air on 7425 and I doubt whether it's on air at all. 6090 will also clash with Amhara Regional State Radio if this is really on air from here-and-there-listed 0255. So really not a good choice, again. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, 2058 UT Sat April 30, ibid.) Sorry for the mistake: 0300-0400 is 5915 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Was there some reason to believe it would be on 6090? (gh, DXLD) 7425, Radio Lead Africa not on air tonight / Saturday. 7425 kHz SenTec Meyerton NOT ON AIR. April 30 at 1910 to 1920 UT, checked in Australia, Qatar, Greece, Calabria southern Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany etc. etc. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, ibid.) ** UKRAINE [non]. 15770, Thu April 28 at 2139, WRMI with R. Ukraine International ID, and `Ukrainian Perspective`, good signal, as I am reprogramming the memories of the BST-1 SW caradio. But RUI now? Strikes me as odd, and indeed the WRMI skedgrid shows R. France International at this hour on Thursdays only (while at 2130 other days there is other programming such as WOR on Fri & Tue) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U A E. 13820.1305 approx., May 2 at 1240, JBA carrier. These off- frequency ones are always intriguing. Aoki shows Radio Free Asia in Burmese via UAE, which is notorious for frequency inaccuracy, so that`s probably it. Aoki doesn`t show many precise frequencies but it also does have this: ``13820.209 2120-1400 TWN * SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng Chi? 1-7`` This userlist1 version suppresses power info, but very likely is one of those 0.1 kW nuisance transmitters to tie up jammers, doubtful what I am getting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Frequency change of BBC in Pashto/Dari from April 22 0200-0230 NF 11925 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to WeAs Pashto,ex 11790 0230-0300 NF 11925 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 11790 0300-0330 NF 11925 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg to WeAs Pashto,ex 11790 1500-1600 NF 12035 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Pashto,ex 11730 1600-1630 NF 12035 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 11730 1630-1700 NF 12035 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto,ex 11730 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/frequency-change-of-bbc-from-april-22.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. [re gh`s log, see IBRA SWEDEN [non], April 27 on 11874.935] 11874.9215 odd frequency from Babcock Woofferton site on April 28 at 1945 UT again, S=8-9 in Doha Qatar site. Rather used again an older B6124 Marconi Communication Systems Limited, MCSL transmitter, not RIZ Zagreb latest GPS technology. Last time, Dave told the community: "Regarding last week and WOF the reason that .... kHz was off freq was, that a Marconi B6124 was carrying the service as the normal RIZ sender was being maintained. The Marconi B6124 sometime do lose their freq lock from the 1 MHz standard`` (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Wolfie, after your [sic] request in Top News, Mart has sorted the problem with Sender 83. I guess you'll have a check now to see if it's OK! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 73 (Dave G4OYX, 1948 UT May 3, via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Hi Dave, yes, checked tonight at 1953 UT S=9+35dB on 11874.9995 against various ASC, ISS and other CHN transmissions. 73 (Wolfgang, May 3, cc to gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UNITED KINGDOM. Babcock HF sender broadcast station in Woofferton, 15510 kHz, verified an electronic report in 16 days with a N/D friendly message and picture of the transmitter site. "Hello, Thank you for your report and I confirm the details are correct. These transmissions were to fault-find on a 250/300 kW sender at the UK HF transmitter station at Woofferton. These duration of these tests can be variable as the engineers can sometimes need a long time to establish a fault or they may interrupt the test, make an adjustment and resume. This is particularly so if the fault is of an intermittent nature. Babcock, Woofferton is the only remaining UK HF sender broadcast station and also is the only one with this transmission test audio and email address. The audio is contained in a file play-out system and incorporates non-copyright music and voice announcements from one of the engineers, Martin 2E1EKX at the transmitter site. Thanks for your interest". V/S: Dave G4OYX, (Retired) Senior Transmitter Engineer Woofferton 1982-2012. A video presentation of Woofferton on https://www.youtube.com/user/wooffertonuk - There is also the history of WOF on http://www.bbceng.info/Technical%20Reviews/technical_reviews.htm - E-mail address: transmissiontest@gmail.com - (Antonello Napolitano, Taranto-ITALY, April DX Fanzine via DXLD) ** U K. BBC'S WEEKLY GLOBAL AUDIENCE RISES TO RECORD 348M These are fantastic results which show the BBC going from strength to strength around the world and demonstrate the global appetite for accurate, impartial news. Francesca Unsworth, Director, BBC World Service Group [caption] Date: 29.04.2016 Last updated: 29.04.2016 at 11.18 Category: BBC Worldwide; World Service; BBC World News The BBC reaches a record weekly audience of 348 million people worldwide, a 13 per cent increase on last year, according to new figures released today. The figures – the BBC Global Audience Measure (GAM) - represent the combined measured reach of international content, both news and entertainment, for the year 2015/16. They show that the BBC’s weekly global news audience has increased by 38m people, or 13 per cent, to a total of 320 million. For the second year running, television (162m) is a bigger platform than radio (147m) for the BBC’s international news services. All platforms have grown since last year – television, radio, and digital (80m). The BBC World Service, shortly to begin adding new and enhanced services across the world after receiving new funding from the UK Government, has seen its audience increase to 246m, from 210m last year. This growth is largely driven by new TV news bulletins in languages other than English. BBC World Service English radio has again shown a significant audience upturn, with an audience of 66m. BBC Global News Ltd, which comprises BBC World News and bbc.com, has seen its audience grow to 108m. Francesca Unsworth, Director of BBC World Service Group, says: “These are fantastic results which show the BBC going from strength to strength around the world and demonstrate the global appetite for accurate, impartial news. “We’re about to begin the biggest expansion of the World Service since the 1940s, thanks to the additional funding agreed by the UK Government last year. “This will ensure we reach more people than ever, especially in countries where media freedom is under threat.” Tim Davie, Director of Global and CEO of BBC Worldwide, comments: “BBC Worldwide continues to fuel international audiences’ appetite for premium content, and in the second year of the Global Audience Measure, we’ve reached 36.4m people per week across our owned and operated TV and digital platforms providing a 27.4m incremental contribution to the Corporation’s total.” Other key findings include: the top 10 markets for BBC’s international news services are the US (35m); Nigeria (35m); India (23m); Pakistan (13m); Iran (12m); Egypt (11m); Tanzania (10m); Brazil (8m); Afghanistan (7m); Bangladesh (6m). The figures in Brazil are notable because it is a digital-only market for the BBC. US reach increases to 43m when BBC Worldwide figures are added. in total, 152m are accessing BBC news in English; 201m in another language. The audience for non-English language TV (91m) is nearly as big as the audience for non-English language radio (94m) the figures show the BBC on track to reach the target of 500m weekly reach by 2022 one in every 16 adults around the world uses BBC News. The GAM is measured every year by the BBC using a consistent methodology comprising surveys, ratings data, and digital analytics. These data sources are converted into individual adult weekly reach and de-duplicated. Notes to Editors The Global Audience Measure (GAM) measures the combined weekly reach of the BBC’s international news services – BBC World Service, BBC World News, bbc.com and BBC Media Action. It also includes the majority of BBC Worldwide’s BBC-branded direct-to-consumer services, where measurable and obtainable. It excludes audience for BBC programmes made or sold by BBC Worldwide to third party broadcasters and other platforms. GAM figures are ‘de-duplicated’ – that is, adjusted downwards to avoid double counting people using multiple devices (e.g. both tablet and smartphone) and to avoid double counting people who consume more than one of the BBC’s services (e.g. both BBC World News and BBC Worldwide). The figures in the GAM have a standard error margin of +/- 3%. CM7 (via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A. 4443.0, May 2 at 0254, JBA carrier, with CODAR swish QRM only on USB side. IDed by exact frequency alone as one of those 164- watt Florida stations in DXLD 16-16 from Terry Krueger, also on 6993, WH2XWF, ASTRA (experimental class Traveling Ionospheric Disturbance Stations) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13564, April 30 at 0025, GNK CW beacon is barely readable in noise level, but that`s something; Madison WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25910, KLDE, San Angelo. 2300, gave call: “KLDE San Angelo 105.3 & Eldorado’s finest 104.9", into oldies. (N.B. weekends runs Spanish & Mexican ranchera). Best in NFM mode (Chris Martin, Beechmont Qld (AOR 7030+, best on 300 antenna at 110 deg.), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) Glad to see this is still active, but from previous seasons suspected it was really the Metroplex transmitter formerly used by KSCS/WBAP. No doubt the F2 MUF sufficed for him, as it rarely exceeds 25 MHz, but those of us in much closer sporadic-E range inside North America should be on lookout for it; unfortunately I am too close whichever TX site it may be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 161, 30 April-1 May 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted: 1:33 Program preview 2:43 Russia launches rocket from new cosmodrome* 6:44 Freedom House press freedom report* 14:01 Olivia 64-2000: Dwarf planet has a moon* 23:31 MFSK32: Old RFE/RL transmitting site in Spain* 26:07 Closing announcements* * with image Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com. VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT): Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17580 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina. The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at about 0220 UT (Saturday 10:20 pm EDT) on its new summer frequency of 9925 kHz, via Germany. This is part of the KBC broadcast to North America, 0000- 0300. Eric will want to know how the new 9925 kHz frequency is working, so please send reports to themightykbc@gmail.com DigiDX will transmit DX news in MFSK32 and perhaps other modes on its usual schedule: Sunday 2130 UT - 15770 via WRMI Florida Sunday 2330 UT - 11580 via WRMI Florida Monday 2000 UT - 6070 via Channel 292 Germany Consult https://www.facebook.com/digidx/ for any additions or changes to this schedule. (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Can anyone with a more technical background than I explain why sometimes the MFSK photos sent via both KBC and VoA are occasionally 'shifted' right or left. This is NOT a 'registration' error as I've adjusted based on WWV timing as described in FLDigi's manual. Here's what I regularly (but by no means always! And sometimes all the photos in a given transmission but one are 'good' as was the case at 0930 today....) alt 'shifted' vs alt and alt 'normal' ... As you can see reception was darn near perfect today, yet, the first (and only the first) photo was shifted. Ideas? Something I'm doing wrong or is this just something that 'happens' on SW? How many of us are there out there who bother to decode this stuff? I find it fascinating! 73 // (Ken Zichi, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe 8 dozen, when I add the "listeners" of DigiDX. Digital signals have defined parameters. It is fascinating to see what influence the ionospheric paths to the digital pattern. Slanted images: Clocking problem with PC + soundcard, not 100% exactly. Here: decoding IF-recordings from MEDION-PC on MEDION-PC: slant - 20 rx ppm decoding IF-recordings from DELL-PC on MEDION-PC slant + 200 rx ppm "Shifted" images sometimes on DELL PC ("eletrical ckicks"), NEVER on MEDION PC, so: PC-caused. Not via SW, PC caused. Probably caused by the transmitter: slanted lines in LSB / USB, in the AM-signal sum both sideband interference are deleted. ===> http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-02-20.htm#3x3 Caused by shortwave: e.g. a ghost image: (~300 ms delay) ====> http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-04-09.htm#KBC (~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~roger~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Germany, ibid.) Did you record the broadcast and then decode from a playback? If so, some of us could try decoding your recording to see if we see the same thing or not. The only times I have experienced image shifting personally is part way through an image when there is a noise pulse that screws up the synchronization (Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) Am 29.04.2016 um 16:27 schrieb VOA Radiogram: Hello friends, This weekend's VOA Radiogram will include a news item in Olivia 64-2000. This might be an opportunity to investigate why some listeners do not have successful decodes of this mode. One way to do this is to use two radios, with two different bandwidths. The hypothesis is that a wider bandwidth should work better with the wide Olivia 64-2000 mode. You could decode "live" from one radio while recording from the other radio for later decoding. ================================================================ For testing was set a sharp USB filter with only 2 kHz width, from carrier. Thereby only 75% of the total OL64-2K-track data are available. Nevertheless, the decoding of the text is 100% successful. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-04-30.htm#OLIVIA64-2K_1500Hz_cut Older test with minimum bandwidth: 800 Hz bandpass http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-01-23.htm#OL-64-2K "....to investigate why some listeners do not have successful decodes of this mode." Audio recordings of it would be useful for analysis. (Roger, May 1, ibid.) ** U S A. SANDY SUGAWARA SWORN IN AS VOICE OF AMERICA DEPUTY DIRECTOR Sandy Sugawara is sworn in by VOA Director Amanda Bennett as VOA's new Deputy Director. Kelu Chao, Associate Director for Language Programming, holds the U.S. Constitution. [caption] WASHINGTON D.C., May 2, 2016 -- Award-winning journalist Sandy Sugawara, who played a leading role in transforming The Washington Post's newsroom to a data-driven, digital operation, was sworn in as Deputy Director of the Voice of America on Monday, May 2, joining the leadership team of Amanda Bennett, who was sworn in as VOA's new Director two weeks ago. "I am so excited to welcome Sandy to our team," Bennett said. "She has both impeccable journalistic credentials and deep experience in leading news organizations through digital transformation. We will all be looking to Sandy to help guide us in building on the progress VOA has already made toward becoming a modern, agile digital operation around the world." Sugawara is VOA's first Deputy Director in nearly two decades. "Our diverse audiences around the world are increasingly turning to digital means to get their news and information, which makes our ability to reach them in this way more critical than ever before," Bennett said. Sugawara has spent more than three decades in journalism, starting as a UPI reporter and rising to senior management positions at The Washington Post. Most recently, she served for more than three years as Managing Editor for Trove, a digital news startup owned by The Washington Post/Graham Holdings Company. She developed editorial, engagement and social media strategies and oversaw the Trove editorial team. She also worked closely with technical experts to develop a system that delivered high-quality personalized news to diverse audiences. Previously, as head of The Washington Post's Universal News Desk (2009 to 2012), Sugawara helped lead efforts to merge the newspaper's print and digital operations and to collaborate with the Trove innovation team (formerly WaPo Labs). "I am thrilled to be stepping into this amazing opportunity," said Sugawara, a graduate of Wellesley College. "I can't wait to start working with Amanda Bennett and the rest of the VOA team, as the organization embraces the challenges and demands of an ever-changing media world." Sugawara also served at The Washington Post as Assistant Managing Editor for business. She oversaw coverage during the global financial meltdown of 2008 to 2009, with the paper's business staff winning several journalism awards. She also supervised coverage of airline security in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, financial and securities fraud, and immigration issues. As a reporter at The Washington Post, Sugawara spent several years as a Tokyo-based correspondent and covered the Securities and Exchange Commission, telecommunications, government contracting and local politics (VOA PR May 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. Has VOA discontinued "International Edition"? I checked English audio stream at 1300 UT to hear it, but there was only a newscast, then "VOA One" music programming. I checked on-demand program list on the web site and selected "International Edition 0805 EDT." That recording also had the tail end of a newscast and then music programming. No way to tell if this is a one-time aberration. I also see that the VOA shortwave broadcast schedule page, which lists frequencies through March 26, 2016, has not been updated with information for the current season (Mike Cooper, GA, May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mike, Let us know whether you hear any I.E. on May 3 or 4 (gh) Glenn: Again today, no International Edition at 1205 UT (or at 1305 UT repeat time). After three days of this, I must assume this edition of the program has been discontinued, perhaps because there are no longer any shortwave broadcasts to longtime target area Asia during this time period. A check of the program page for International Edition still offers on- demand access to International Edition shows. These are listed by time (in EDT, not UT, how Washington-centric can you be?), with editions of the show listed at 0805, 1305, 1805 and 2330 EDT. On-demand versions of the 0805 EDT airing contain VOA-One music programming. Apparently, no one's gotten the word that this edition of the program no longer exists and some sort of automated system is merrily recording this time block. Impossible, of course, to find a program schedule for VOA English on the web site for confirmation of the change. How sad to see the current state of VOA compared to decades ago (Mike Cooper, GA, May 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA KINYARWANDA PROGRAMMING AVAILABLE ON MOBILE IN RWANDA http://www.insidevoa.com/content/voa-kinyarwanda-programming-available-on-mobile-in-rwanda/3308916.html (VOA PR May 3 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring: confirmed Wed April 27 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 webcast; this time after the long WBCQ ID, a short almost-ID is inserted in the 2?-second gap before WOR playback starts: ``Free Speech Radio, WBC``. Also confirmed at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.86-CUSB, fair. WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thursday April 28 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, good at S9+10, no jamming, and still so at 1159 conclusion. Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW 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 [confirmed last week] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?] 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 Complete schedule including AM & FM, satellite, webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 28 at 2123 during WRMI 2100 broadcast on VG 13695, a frequency I`ve just added to the BST-1. Also confirmed at 2330 Thu April 28 on WBCQ 9329.987-CUSB, already BST-1 programmed as 9330. 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 [confirmed last week] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?] 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed Friday April 29 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, and 2130.5 on WRMI 13695; also confirmed Fri April 29 at 2330.0 on WBCQ 9330.00-CUSB. Next: Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [confirmed last week] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?] 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: I`d rather not be awake at 1:30+ am local, but since I am on Sat April 30, it`s a good chance to find out if I can hear or at least detect WOR via 1 kW Hamburger Lokalradio, on 6190. At 0634 tune-in, there is a JBA carrier! Measured on 6190.013. Perhaps someone can confirm whether that match HLR as heard in Europe. However, BBCWS English via South Africa is also scheduled on 6190 at this time, 100 kW at 0 degrees/or non-direxional. It`s certainly capable of being even more than 13 Hz off-frequency. (BTW, Aoki still doesn`t show Göhren on 6190, but outdated winter usage of 7265 at 07- 09, even tho switched to 6190 before B-season was over). How about comparative sunrise times? Gaisma.com has lots of places in Germany, but not Göhren, and not even Nauen! Let`s settle for Rostock as an approximation: 0335 UT. That`s three hours before I am hearing this. Likewise with Meyerton: > Johannesburg as an approximation, where sunrise was 0432 UT. Still a stretch, but with power and darkness path advantage, will have to go with Jo`burg as likely for this. Abed, I`m not messing with the computer to try UTwente at 0630. But I`m up for the next broadcast, which was missing last week. Now at 1451 check Sat April 30, 7265-USB does provide WOR via UTwente SDR, completely readable R5, and no QRM, but not enough to overcome all the noise level. Goes off at 1500, and still no CRI CCI to be heard, that long before sunset in Europe. WORLD OF RADIO 1824, WOR 1823 also confirmed Sat April 30 at 2240 on WBCQ 9330.00-CUSB, as on Sats only it plays an hour earlier, from 2230. Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday May 1 at 0323 on WA0RCR, MO, 1860-AM, poor signal, about 4 minutes into program so started circa 0319. Also confirmed Sunday May 1 at 2338 on WBCQ 9329.971-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Monday May 2 at 0034 on WRMI, 7730, S9+30, each starting on the previous half-hour. Also confirmed UT Monday May 2 at 0302:31 after some music and ID on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5129.92-AM. Also confirmed UT Monday May 2 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, poor. Next: 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 ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: Monday May 2 2330.0 broadcast on WBCQ confirmed at 2356, measured on 9329.842-CUSB. Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed Tue May 3 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, very poor compared to 15440 due to azimuths. Also confirmed Tue May 3 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.82-CUSB, poor. Also confirmed Wed May 4 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, good. Also confirmed Wed May 4 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast and poor at 2126 check on 7489.9. Also confirmed Wed May 3 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.88-CUSB, poor here but I hope better elsewhere. WORLD OF RADIO 1824 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast Thursday May 5 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, S9+10 loud & clear, rock steady, no jamming audible, SINPO 55555. Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW 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 Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW 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. 11583.0, April 27 after 1925 as I tune by, what`s this? WRMIBS is 3 kHz off, but at approx. 1925:49 it cuts off and back to 11580.0. This happened so quickly on the R75 that I could hardly believe my eyes & ears, but I do tend to attribute it to transmission anomaly rather than reception. 5765, April 28 at 0536, as I tune in WRMI, Brother HyStairical is yet again replaying his bit bouncing off me, ``the leading worldwide spoxeman for shortwave``. Well, that`s quite an unsolicited testimonial! I`ve yet to tune in before he starts this segment to get the whole thing, always in the second half of an hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] Brother HyStairical TOM on a new frequency via WRMI Okeechobee, May 1: till 1200 NF 15560 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm tx#5, ex 6915. Off at 1200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0WGVmyfKM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUihz7dXtKQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZRqovT5Q8&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6915, April 30 at 2356, WRMI BS is still missing from this frequency, which had been 24 hours for a couple months. 15560, May 1 at 0016 in routine bandscan, here`s Brother HyStairical on a new frequency, and it`s synchro with WRMI 5765. So #5 transmitter on 285 degree azimuth must have been moved from 6915 to 15560, but 24 hours, or not? WRMI skedgrid still shows 6915 24 hours. 15560 already has several other stations on it during the day, including KSDA but no CONUS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Brother HyStairical on a new frequency via WRMI tx#5, May 2 from 0745 NF 15560 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English, ex 6915. No signal at 0755/1000/1100, 1130-1200 dead air&then weak signal! Other active transmissions on same frequency in summer A-16: 0100-0130 on 15560 BOC 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Javanese FEBC 0530-0600 on 15560 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to ECAf Swahili RFI 0800-1000 on 15560 XIA 500 kW / 292 deg to CeAs Chinese CRI 1300-1330 on 15560 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs Kachin KSDA 1330-1415 on 15558 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan VOTibet 1400-1415 on 15560 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan VOTibet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyWxradNWkc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrOfkUp-ZKo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66TanwKYmKU&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) May 1 at 1454, no signal on 15560, which showed up last night with BS, WRMI having replaced 6915. Ivo Ivanov says 15560 finished at 1200, so if that is the night frequency, what is the new day frequency on this transmitter, as yet unencountered, with only 6915 remaining on the skedgrid? By May 2 at 0224, 15560 is but a JBA carrier if really WRMI. 7780 at 0233 May 2 check is AWOL, but BS still on 7730, 7570; 6915 still gone, but all other WRMI frequencies checked nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Anomalies at WRMI, May 2-3: 9955, May 2 at 0552, is off instead of World Music instead of TOM; clearly the case, since 9395 SonPower Radio is in at S9+20 7780, May 2 at 0557, is still off 9955, May 2 at 1259, is still off, ditto at 1413 check 6915, May 3 at 0007, still off. Not on 15560 either (Cuba is in well on 15230, not much else on 19m or higher bands, degraded propagation) 7780, May 3 at 0019, open carrier/dead air at S9+20 instead of TOM 7570, May 3 at 0019, open carrier/dead air at S9+40 instead of TOM 5765, May 3 at 0027, open carrier/dead air at S9+20 instead of TOM 5015, May 3 at 0028, as I reach WRMI`s lowest frequency, now it`s BS talking about the significance of May 15 (also signif to RBA, coincidence?), so quickly check 5765, 7570 and 7780, now also BSing. Meanwhile, other WRMI frequencies checked with other programming were nominal: 11580, 11530, 9955, 9395, 7730, 5950, 5850 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6855.00, May 3 at 1253, weak S6 music, male vocal song, a pirate at this unusual hour? No, must have been World Music, as 1259.5 WRMI Zanotti ID and 1300 switch to Brother HyStairical, so at least today this is the replacement for 6915. Carrier still on 6855 at 1403. As of 1430 May 3, WRMI frequency schedule at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit#gid=0 *still* shows 6915, 24 hours for XMTR 5 at 285 degrees. AFAIK, 6915 had been 100% BS, no WM, but the more World Music, the better, eating into The Overcomer disservice. Then here`s the scoop from Jeff White as of 1455 UT May 3: ``Glenn: 6915 has been replaced with 6855 because of US Army interference complaint. 15560 was unintentional (2 x 7780) -- a tuning error on the transmitter, which has been resolved. 9955 also had a problem a few days ago, but it has also been resolved. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I have not seen this mentioned elsewhere yet, but I have noted what appears to be WRMI on 6855, apparently relocated here from 6915, with the usual Brother Stair programming: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,27945.0.html (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems http://www.blackcatsystems.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) [BEWARE of this and vice versa:] Old Classic Radio Plays: 6850.24/AM, 2354-0005:46*, 23/24-Apr; 20s-40s music; Off after repeated IDs. SIO=2+43- w/pulse & chirp bursts (Harold Frodge-MI, DXLD)] New frequency of WRMI Brother Stair registered in HFCC May 3 0000-2400 NF 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English tx#05, ex 6915 Nothing about new 15560 (2 x 7780 kHz) via Glenn Hauser via Jeff White 0000-1200 on 15560 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to MEXI tx#13 observed May 1-2 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17790, May 4 at 1414 check, not even a carrier detectable from this WRMIBS frequency, yet one can be on 4-MHz-higher 21675 RAN service, so I conclude 17790 must be off. When on, the modulation is always under. So I am forced to tune down to 15440 for a loud & clear signal from Brother HyStairical, currently: ``Masons sell their souls to Satan; Saddam Hussein, Benyamin Netanyahu and Trump are all Masons``. 15440 transmitter has some hum and the signal strength is cutting up and down but not completely off. // 13695 also has VG strength but cutting a bit, and with hum; // 11565 is steady. By 1423, 17790 is on and audible. 15770, Wed May 4 at 2129, WRMI with 1-minute commercial from the ``Smart Money Guy`` --- a spot ad, quite a rarity on SW, not part of a program block. 2130 into `Blues Radio International`, instead of Radio France International still on the schedule for 2115-2200 Wed; and last Thu at 2130-2200 we also heard Ukraine instead of France, so is RFI on WRMI at all any more? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, Have noticed several times in your reports you mention very short snatches of music or truncated sentences before your broadcasts start. I have heard that since WBCQ is computerized now, Tom Barna has it set up so any dead air, no matter how short, is filled with something so the computer spits out part of a song or a spoken word bit. It also sounds like the last report of yours had a station ID that didn't fit the time allotted. Have no idea if this relates to your reports or not. Just mentioning it (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, April 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s it (gh) 7489.9-AM, April 30 at 0006 check, J. P. Ferraro from WHVW is substituting Worldwide for Allan Weiner this week on WBCQ, but at 0038 check, Allan is there on the phone, from the NH hamfest? Discussing how we can`t rely on any digital medium to be permanent. Also try 5129.91-AM, presumably // but too buried in the storm noise, which is also bothering 7 MHz and even up to 12 MHz at least. Nothing audible on 3250v if that should be active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.0-AM, April 30 at 2342, J. P. on `Shortwave Saturday Night` is advising a caller about antennas. Seems WBCQ frequencies have been adjusted, maybe only a few Hz off 7490 instead of 7489.9, and 9330- CUSB with WOR an hour earlier was spot-on; for now. I think 5130 was still lo but didn`t measure it in the noise, and nothing from 3250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Amateur Radio Roundtable Subject: FCC Questions and Dry Tortuga Expedition Our guests this week (May 3) on Amateur Radio Roundtable include Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, retired FCC special counsel, Emmett Hohensee, W0QH, chief engineer of Radiowavz, and Katie Allan, WY7YL. Riley will answer questions our viewers have sent in. It's not too late to submit your FCC related questions to AskRiley@w5kub.com. Riley retired from the FCC’s Compliance and Information Bureau as Legal Adviser for Enforcement Program. Emmett will discuss the Dry Tortuga Expedition, which will run from May 6-9 from Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortuga Island in the Caribbean. This will be held in conjunction with the National Park Services Centennial Anniversary, Katie, WY7YL found her passion for ham radio 10 years ago when she was hired as the ARRL Membership Manager where she spent nearly three years. She's worked in ham radio for CQ and HRD and will announce her newest endeavor on the show. 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(Tom Medlin, W5KUB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9942.90 & 9917.10, April 28 at 1947, parasitic spur carriers, 12.9 kHz each side out of the huge 9930 WTWW-2 transmission; and splattering between them. Furthermore, amorphous blobs peaking at double the distance, plus/minus 25.8 kHz = 9904.2 and, oh oh, 9955.80, so that`s the source of hash QRMing 9955 WRMIBS on its hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9474.977, WTWW English, lady singer performance at 0152 UT May 1st. S=9+5dB or -68dBm. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, always off frequency to lo side (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 17775, April 29 at 1441, KVOH is S9+20 and with sufficient modulation for a change, as Spanish announcer is talking about being on air until ``5 pm``, before switch to 9975 in English. That would be 0000 UT, but I think he`s referring to extended webcast as 17775 is supposed to close at 1900, altho I have heard them several times later, so I check again today: 17775, April 29 at 1905, gospel music in Spanish is S9+20 but as always rather lo-fi, lacking in highs, again on air after nominal sign off. By recheck 1952 it is off. 9975, May 2 at 0228, KVOH is still AWOL. Anything on their website about it? No. Perhaps Ray can explain, even if he`s still in Zambia. 17774.998, May 3 at 1404, the SSOB by far on 16m is KVOH, S9+20, but undermodulated and distorted. Normally it`s a JBA carrier from *1400 as the F2 post-sunrise MUF struggles to surpass 17 MHz. So this must now be thanx to some sporadic-E boost which will be happening more and more from May thru July (and will occasionally reach VHF, surging to 108 MHz or even more). Nice confirmation of this at 1435 on the 6-meter maps at http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA http://tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/propagation-maps/north-american-sporadic-e/ showing contacts between Los Angeles/Lincoln, and Las Vegas/Lincoln area, Nebraska. One may also switch the first one to 10 meters, and the second one has color-coded lines on the same map for 28, 50, 70 and 144 MHz. By 1535 UT, there are a lot more 6m contacts across the western USA and the MUF is 65 MHz per dxmaps. Without Es, from 1400, 16m normally bears 17730 RHC as the SSOB, but now it`s only S9, and 17790 WRMI is only S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, Wed April 27 at 2331, WWRB is still AWOL; maybe back on air for the weekend? Check Friday/UT Saturday in case the `Pirates Cove` thing gets going. 3185, May 1 at 0551 check, WWRBS is off; but had been on earlier this evening. Neither it nor day frequency 9370 is on at 1325. 5050 with a g.h. is running UT Monday May 2 circa 0230. 5050, UT Tue May 3 at 0028, WWRB is on tonight even tho it`s not a weekend, gospel huxter with extremely lo-fi audio, like a terrible phoneline? Nothing now on 3185 or 9370 from WWRBS. 9370, May 4 at 2008, no signal from WWRBS day frequency, which has been missing a lot lately, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9275, WMLK, Bethel PA; 1938-1944+, 22-Apr; Non-Elder Meyer uxter on Yahweh & the creation; Full ID at 1942:36, into the Sacred Name telecast with Elder Meyer who said that the telecast was for Bible education, not “religious entertainment” (that’s Bro. HyStairical’s forte) S10 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9275.04, April 28 at 1954, WMLK is on at S8, deceased EJOM with his ``Sacred Name Is YAHWEH`` obsession, what else? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9275, May 4 at 2008, no signal from WMLK. After all, EJOM has said it all, so why keep repeating the same ``Yahweh is the Sacred Name`` stuff? 9265 WINB is only a JBA carrier now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB, Red Lion PA (presumed); 1932-1938+, 22-Apr; Illiterate huxtress with audience of ameners; “He done did everything he’s s’posed to do.”, “When the Lord gets ready to move for you, he don’t care about nuthin.” “Have you came to yourself yet?” (You can go blind doing that!) SIO=4+54- with wind-blow QRM/N (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7315, May 2 at 0235, WHRI with gospel huxter on the squealy transmitter, ``Angel 1``. Haven`t noticed it squealing when on 9605 with KBS Spanish relay at 01-02, nor 6175 with Vietnam 0300-0430, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, April 28 at 1132 UT, KTNN, Window Rock AZ with unique Navajo chanting and drumming, as this station is in another episode of running 50 kW ND day facility at night, as has been reported by numerous listeners to the east who normally can`t hear it. 50/50 kW U2 night pattern is supposed to be a circle tangent to the west, nothing eastward. It`s not merely a matter of going to day pattern too early, but all night per other reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Station aims to deal in dirt Local radio station aims to become TMZ of airwaves Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau 8:48 p.m. EDT May 2, 2016 courser_gamrat_1 (Photo: Rod Sanford, Lansing State Journal) The Word radio station — 910 AM in Southfield — is on its way to becoming scandal central. And that’s just fine with station owner Kevin Adell. The station has brought on plenty of scandal-tainted talent, including: Christine Beatty, the former chief of staff and mistress to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick; former Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, who retired from the department after getting caught up in a sex scandal; former Wayne County Judge Wade McCree, who was banned from the bench after it was discovered he had an affair with a woman who was appearing before him in a child support case; and ex- state Rep. Todd Courser, R-Lapeer, who resigned from his seat in September after getting caught up in a sex scandal and bizarre cover- up. “If I just took a normal person and put them on the air it would be boring,” said Adell, who bought the station last year and began airing the controversial brand of talk radio 12 weeks ago. “We’re the go-to station for controversy. And there’s no shortage of scandals.” . . . http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/02/local-radio-station-aims-become-tmz-airwaves/83837062/ (via Harry Van Vugt, Ont., May 3, dxldyg via DXLD) This story never gets around to the facts, but must be referring to: 910, WFDF, Farmington Hills MI, 50/25 kW U4, address in Southfield, per NRC-AM Log (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1380, May 2 at 0259 UT, multi-station ID for emitters in Houston TX area, in progress at tune-in and don`t hear this one mentioned: KRCM Shenandoah TX, obviously *still* on 22 kW day power and pattern favoring Europe as it`s dominating 1380 with no special effort to hear it other than nulling local 1390 KCRC on the DX-398. Call letters pronounced in English, including several translators mixed in with regular calls, K273AL 102.5, K245AR 95.1, KAVA, K218BJ, and many more. Then back to a gospel song in Spanish, ``Levántate``, ``get up, you``, as these are all Radio Aleluya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, FLORIDA (NON), WRXB. St. Pete Beach. I haven't heard this one on the air for a couple weeks at least, maybe longer now that I go back to all my 1590 logs on April 9 and realize there was no WRXB co-channel. They're notorious for having transmitter and audio issues, so it may be temporary. They have a translator, W243AK on 96.5 MHz in Bradenton (south of Tampa Bay), which rumor has it was acquired because the station owner lives or lived out on the beach down there and wanted a better signal for his listening. The translator could be pulled very poorly from my house. Checked from the office this morning, May 2, where it might not make it, and it's not there. Checked late afternoon from the house, no translator signal. If the primary (1590) isn't on -- which is still isn't -- the translator legally shouldn't be on either, in which case they are complying. Their website has no functioning links for contact or sales. FCC dB still show this as active. None of the live streaming sites are streaming WRXB. But something stinks profusely here. 1639.96 UNIDENTIFIED TIS/MIS. 0950 May 1, 2016. Threshold male and female loop, content impossible to copy. Suspect it's the WQDM970 FDoT Florida Turnpike, Sawgrass Expressway MM 4, Broward County TIS, heard here in December. Hetting the presumed malfunctioning WTMI open carrier. Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. MEDIUM WAVE DAYTIME BANDCSAN, CENTRAL MARYLAND, 26 APR 2016 Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 2042-2106 UTC, Mount Airy, Maryland. Tecsun PL-600. Unseasonably warm weather, clear. Stations logged: 54 Formats observed: Sports talk: 10 Religious: 10 Spanish: 10 News/talk: 10 Classic hits: 4 Pop music: 2 Chinese/Indian/Asian: 3 Oldies: 2 Country music: 2 TIS: 2 570 WSPZ Bethesda MD, Sports talk 580 WHP Harrisburg PA, Talk, Harrisburg local politics 600 WCAO Baltimore MD, Gospel music, weak. Uncommon, first time this one's been heard here in a couple of years. Despite their 5KW signal my location is in a null as their signal is beamed south and east of Baltimore. 630 WMAL Washington DC, Right wing talk 700 WDMV Walkersville MD, Spanish talk 730 WTNT Alexandria VA, Spicy spanish music 750 WBMD Baltimore MD, Family Radio, preaching 780 WAVA Arlington VA, Religious talk 800 WCHA Chambersburg PA, Classic hits, Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar" ID "The greatest hits ever made, the new FM ninety six three" 820 WFMD Frederick MD, Pop music "The Gamut" 860 WFSI Baltimore MD, Family Radio, church music 890 WFKJ Cashtown PA, Religous radio play "Unshackled" 900 WILC Laurel MD, Spicy disco spanish music 920 WURA Quantico VA, Mellow spanish music 930 WFMD Fredrick MD, News/talk, ID "930 WFMD" 950 WCTN Potomac MD, Eighties pop/dance music, lo-fi sound. On April 27 their music mix was replaced by a buzz. The buzz continued for several days. On May 2, the buzz is gone, now simply an open carrier. 960 WHYL Carlisle PA, "Good time oldies" News/talk, traffic for the I-81 Carlisle/capital region, weak 980 WTEM Washington DC, Sports talk 990 WLLI Somerset PA, Sports talk. Rarely heard here. splattered by 980 1000 WIOO Carlisle PA, Country music, Commercial for a family diner in Carlisle that has banana splits, burgers, fries, hot dogs, spaghetti, etc. 1030 WWGB Indian Head MD, MOR spanish music 1050 WBQH Silver Spring MD, Spanish music 1070 Montgomery County Maryland traffic advisory, very buzzy sound, mostly unintelligible 1090 WBAL Baltimore, Baltimore city news, into CNBC business radio update 1120 WUST Washington DC, Spanish talk 1160 WMET Gaithersburg MD, Commercials for catholic men's conferences, Ave Maria Radio, sign up for daily alerts, etc. 1190 WCRW Leesburg VA, Chinese government propaganda 1220 WFAX Falls Church VA, Normally religious talk, but right wing political talk heard today 1240 WJEJ Hagerstown MD, Oldies music, bluesy cover of "Fever" 1260 WWRC Washington DC, Right wing talk, commercial for "debt control" abruptly cut at end. ID "The Answer." The abrupt cuts happen frequently on this station, maybe their automation system is a little too quick for its own good. Awful selection of pretentious "evangelical" right wingers on this station owned by Salem Communications. 1280 WHVR Hanover PA, Country music 1300 WJZ Baltimore MD, Sports talk, Commercial, "Hi I'm Joan Lunden ...a place for mom" 1310 WDCT Fairfax VA, Chinese or korean language commercial mentioning Columbia College, ID in English, "You have your dial set at WDCT Fairfax Virginia" and back into asian language talk, poor signal, bothered 1320 WGTE Gettysburg PA, Sports talk. "News" at top of the hour, but only sports-related stories. ESPN Radio. 1340 WYCB Washington DC, News, Fox Report, commercial for Quicken Loans. Gospel music "Spirit 1340" 1350 WOYK York PA, Sports talk. 1370 WQLL Pikesville MD, Classic hits, Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke" 1380 WCBG Waynesboro PA, Sports talk, host on a rant about internet comments, misogyny, tapes with lots of bleeps 1390 WZHF Capitol Heights MD, Spanish music 1400 WINC Winchester VA, Right wing talk, "Information overload hour" 1410 WHAG Halfway MD, Classic hits, Chicago "Feeling Stronger Every Day" 1420 WKCW Warrenton VA, Religious talk, "one god ministry dot org". This station is very irregular; is frequently off the air or on very low power for days at a time. Lately, has been religious programming in the mid-day hours and classic hits in the mornings. The station appears to have no sales staff at all because I haven't heard a single commercial in two years. 1430 WVAM Altoona PA, ESPN Radio, very weak. First time heard here. 1450 WTHU Thurmont MD, Talk, Frederick County, Maryland politics 1470 WTTR Westminster MD, Classic hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama", ID "The greatest hits of all time" 1490 WARK Hagerstown MD, Right wing talk, Hannity 1500 WFED Washington DC, Talk, "the federal drive", ID "Federal News Radio". This is the most boring station I've ever tried to listen to. 1520 WTRI Brunswick MD, Indian pop music, ID at top of the hour "WTRI Brunswick" over top of "Radio Chai" (sounds like "radio zhee" to me) ID that IDs several stations but not WTRI. This station had been off the air for at least two years, and was reportedly in receivership as of May 2014. Apparently the station has a new lease on life, having been acquired for $275K in August 2015. Station went back on only in the last month or so. 1540 WACA Wheaton MD, Spanish talk, commercials 1550 WMRE Charles Town WV, Sports talk 1580 WJFK Morningside MD, Sports talk, at least three PSAs in a row, ID "ESPN Radio" 1590 WHGT Maugansville, MD, Religious preaching 1600 WLXE Rockville MD, Spanish talk. This station's antenna is reportedly a wire on a telephone pole in a parking lot in Rockville. Despite this they have a very good regional signal for their 1 kilowatt daytime service. 1630 WAVY570 Computer female loop, ID "Maryland Highway Administration Highway Advisory Radio WAVY570" weak, fluttery (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland (radio@zappahead.net), May 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. PIRATE RADIO IRKS BROADCASTERS Posted Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:05 am http://www.pollstarpro.com/NewsContent.aspx?cat=0&com=1&ArticleID=824238 Authorities and broadcasters are increasingly concerned about an inability to control the proliferation of pirate radio stations. Despite a reported increase in the number of illegal broadcasters hijacking public frequencies, as calculated by David Donovan, president of the New York State Broadcasters Association, the number of pirates warned or fined by the Federal Communications Commission fell to 100 in 2015 from 400 in 2010. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency’s current staff is its smallest in 30 years, and its current strategies of fines and seizures of the relatively inexpensive equipment required are ineffective at stemming the flood of incoming pirates. One concern of regulators and broadcasters is that pirate radio blocks the public’s access to the Emergency Alert System, which relies on different stations’ ability to hear one another. A large amount of illegal radio is broadcast in languages other than English, and its defenders claim that this is the only way immigrant communities are finding media that serves their needs. New York congress members and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters have expressed concern about illegal broadcasters. The NYSBA estimates there are 100 pirates anchored in the NYC area, broadcasting in a cacophony of languages. FCC records show that agents have targeted at least one pirate in every state in the last 10 years (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. Chuck Todd still lies about the last commercial break on Meet the Press, ``back in 45 seconds`` and on May 1 it takes 3x that, 135 seconds! On MSNBC. Maybe it`s 45 on the original NBC airing, but if MS crams in another sesquiminute of ads, it sure makes him look bad. Why in the world specify how brief a commercial break is, if it is flexible? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 3944, 0827, Radio Vanuatu may be using a low powered alternative transmitter on 75 metres as now being heard at weaker level than usual on 3944.21. Best on LSB to avoid Japan 3945, first noted 18/4. Parallel 7259.95 noted at vgd level on 19/4 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs, May NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) [and non]. 7259.96, April 28 at 1200, I`m looking for R. Vanuatu, as reported by Ron Howard active on the 41 mb. At first on 7260.0, I hear a Chinese 5+1 timesignal but it`s 8.5 seconds late! That carrier stays on, without modulation? There is a second carrier, obviously making double-het with BFO offtuned to 7259.0. They add up to S6, also with some QRhaM on the upper side. The stronger carrier cuts off at 1205:35.5* uncovering the JBA one as then measured above presumed to be R. Vanuatu. Aoki does show -1205 for Urumqi 7260. Here`s the situation from Ron Howard, California: ``7260, R. Vanuatu on April 22, just at 1205 heard PBS Xinjiang go off the air here, leaving the frequency clear for RV reception; announcer and some pop songs; 1216 clear National Anthem (“Yumi, Yumi, Yumi”); audio ended at 1217, but they keep the transmitter on for a long time after that. Wish they would carry some filler music or something, seeing as the transmitter is on anyway! Thanks very much to Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan) for the tip about the post-1205 reception of Radio Vanuatu! Should be of help to many DXers`` WRTH 2016 scheduling indicates RV has a single 1.5 to 2 kW transmitter, on 7260 for day, 3945 at night. At 1221 I check 3945 where R. Nikkei 2, Japan is still on, this being a weekday until 1400 (while Sat/Sun it`s off after 0900), but detect a second carrier there too underneath, so could RV be running two transmitters now? (An AM ham could be confusing things; RN1 on 3925 is usually avoided by hams but now someone in LSB is right atop it.) At UT +11, approx. sundown in Vanuatu is 0700 UT, so 7260 after 1200 is way too late for ``day``. Confirming that RV is off-frequency to the lo side are several recent reports to the DXLD yg by Bryan Clark, Wolfgang Büschel and Mauno Ritola putting it on 7259.95, 7259.9555 and 7259.96; the 75m frequency as low as 3944.204. On 7260 one must also beware of listed Mongolia at 0655-1500. Via Mike Terry and José Miguel Romero2, RNZI has reported that there is a 100-day plan ending July 1 to return RV to its ``former glory of nationwide coverage`` by somehow upgrading shortwave, but a problem is informing the public of the correct frequencies to tune rather than spotty FM coverage, not to mention using SW receivers at all (WRTH 2016 shows the national broadcaster has only two low-power MW frequencies, one of which is off, and two even lower-power FMs at the same locations as MW). RNZI: ``New Zealand radio transmission engineer, Steve White, has made several trips to Vanuatu and other Pacific countries to help set up transmission equipment. He says the big advantage of short-wave radio is that receivers are extremely cheap to buy. Mr White says the other benefit is that the transmission is capable of covering enormous distances. STEVE WHITE: From Port Vila you can cover the entire country of Vanuatu, which spans something like 1100 kilometres in a roughly North-South direction, that can't be achieved by any other transmission mode`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 11875.00, May 2 at 1253, Russian talking about Cardinal Newman, which strongly implies it`s Vatican Radio, and surely an FE relay. Strangely enough, nothing listed in HFCC or Aoki, but EiBi has it: ``11875 1230-1300 CVA Radio Vaticana R Sib /PHL-t`` --- meaning relayed by IBB Tinang, PHILIPPINES, violating Separation of Church and State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Vatican Radio 1230-1300 NF 11875 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to FERu Russian, ex 12030 // frequency 15370 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to FERu Russian -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re my log of Vatican in Russian on 11875, May 2 at 1253 via IBB PHILIPPINES, Ivo Ivanov explains why it`s new: ``Frequency change of Vatican Radio from May 2 1230-1300 NF 11875 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to FERu Russian, ex 12030 // frequency 15370 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to FERu Russian`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. Que Me 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. PALAU, Very weak signal of Radio Quê Me via T8WH Angel 3, April 29 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/04/very-weak-signal-of-radio-que-me-vis.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ``final edition`` April 30 via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 9950, RFA. Vietnamese on 15/4, from 1400, the jamming type "police alarm" started at 1358 & at 1300 ID in English was “This is Radio Free Asia, the following program is in Vietnamese” // 12045 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant 16 meters long), May Australian DX News via DXLD) Would be via Tinian -cs (Craig Seager, ed., ibid.) ** YEMEN [non]. Republic of Yemen Radio 0600-0900 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic 0900-1800 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic 1800-2300 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic 2300-0600 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Sat April 30, 2016, via DXLD) Greetings from Nevada! Conditions here have been fairly good and improving the last few days probably due to rising Solar Flux and relatively quiet Geomagnetic Field. I'm still hearing Rep. Yemen Radio (Sana'a) on 11860 kHz in the mornings here (~1300z-1500z) and this morning it had the best readability all week. Peace talks have entered their second week without a breakthrough, but the UN is still 'positive' about them: UN ENVOY ‘POSITIVE’ AS YEMEN PEACE TALKS ENTER SECOND WEEK Government delegation also submitted a letter of strong protest to the UN envoy over alleged rebel ceasefire violations ... http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/un-envoy-positive-as-yemen-peace-talks-enter-second-week-1.1814601 (Rodney Johnson, Las Vegas NV, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard here the last several days: Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa (Saudi Arabia Relay?) 11860, 1333 26 APR - SINPO = 25333. Arabic, male announcer interviewing male over the phone. (spot check at 1401z, SINPO 15311 male announcer). QSB = moderate-to-rapid rate, modulation on noisy wavy carrier mostly above noise floor with occasional peaks well above it. sf81.9, a5, 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, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0633. 11860, 1343 27 APR - SINPO = 15422. Arabic, male announcer. QSB = moderate-to-rapid rate, modulation on noisy carrier mostly just above the noise floor but occasionally dips below it. (Spot check at 1458z nothing heard. On adjacent 11866 heard some sort of data transmission?). sf86.2, 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, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0643. 11860, 1340 28 APR - SINPO = 35323. Arabic, male announcer, music with microtonal vocals followed by male announcer interviewing female over the phone (‘Yemen’ mentioned many times). (Spot check at 1431z, only wavy noisy carrier with occasional traces of modulation). QSB=rapid rate, modulation mostly well above the noise floor but with many sudden short fades to mixing with it. sf91.6, a10, 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, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0640 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, April 28 at 1220, Republic of Yemen Radio is S7 in Arabic and triumphal music. After 6+ months we have no confirmation that site is Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as seems very likely by circumstantial evidence. Reception is no longer so amazingly loud and clear here, but varying a lot from day to day and hour to hour. We are also wondering how much longer this will last, as peace talks have finally started; Rodney Johnson forwards this to the DXLD yg: FINALLY, WARRING YEMEN SIDES SIT TOGETHER FOR NEGOTIATIONS [in Kuwait] --- Rebel team wants political transition before disarming and vacating territories http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/finally-warring-yemen-sides-sit-together-for-negotiations-1.1719808 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, 1358 30 APR - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 35312. Arabic, female announcer interviewing male in studio. 1401z music with microtonal vocals. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, fluttery modulation mostly well above the noise floor but rapidly fading to mixing with it. (Spot check at 1507z SINPO 15312 music, 1529z SINPO 15212 music [note: even R. Australia and BBC are starting fade!]). sf92.1, a4, 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, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0658 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARABIA SAUDI, 11860, Radio Sana´a, Jeddah, 2228-2235, escuchada el 30 de abril de 2016 en árabe a locutor con comentarios en programa musical, música árabe, SINPO 45444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, antena hilo 10 m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, 1308 2 MAY - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 15311. ?Arabic?, male announcer. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, bare perceptible modulation on noisy carrier only rarely mixing with the noise floor for short durations and mostly below it. (Spot Checks: 1330z SINPO 25312 Arabic, male announcer interviewing male in studio 1400z SINPO 25322 male announcer, musical interlude 1508z SINPO 15411 male announcer, barely perceptible modulation on noisy carrier). sf93.0, a16, k3, geomag: unsettled. 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, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0608. Greetings from Nevada! Conditions here have deteriorated steadily over the last 24 hours probably due to the wake of minor and major GeoMagnetic storms almost a day apart yesterday. Rep. Yemen Radio (Sana'a) on 11860 wasn't heard this morning after reception seemed to be steadily improving just before the storms. It seems the peace talks in Kuwait have stalled and A UN envoy is trying to revive them, so I am doubting that they are simply *not* transmitting today: UN YEMEN ENVOY MEETS SIDES SEPARATELY http://www.trtworld.com/mea/un-yemen-envoy-meets-sides-separately-98997 (Rodney Johnson, May 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UN Yemen envoy meets sides separately News > MEA > UN Yemen envoy meets sides separately / May 3, 2016 UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed attends a news conference in Kuwait City, Kuwait April 26, 2016. The UN special envoy to Yemen Cheikh Ahmed meets with warring side separately to revive troubled peace talks. The United Nations said on Tuesday that the UN special envoy to Yemen met delegates of warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations after a walkout by the government. Fragile peace talks that launched on April 21, resulted with a quit by government on Sunday because of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels' seizure of one of the few government army bases in the northern mountains. Foreign Minister and head of the delegation to the negotiation, Abdulmalek al Mekhlafi, said that the suspension will be maintained “until guarantees for compliance were provided” and there would be no further breaches of the ceasefire. It came just a day after rival delegations held their first face-to- face meetings in a bid to end a conflict that killed more than 6,400 people and displaced some 2.8 million, since March last year. The envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed met both government and rebel delegations late on Monday to find a solution to the dispute over the seizure of the Al Amaliqa Base on Saturday. Shiite Houthi rebels drive a patrol truck past an Ansar al Sharia flag painted on the side of a hill, along a road in Almnash, the main stronghold of it, the local wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Rada, Yemen Nov. 22, 2014 (Reuters via DXLD) A ceasefire between warring sides began on April 11. Commanders appeared to have put up no resistance as the rebels overran the base in Amran Province, nearly all of which is under their control, tribal and military sources said. Despite a Saudi-led military intervention in support of the government launched in March last year, the rebels and their allies still control the capital, as well as much of the northern and central mountains and the Red Sea coast. Source: TRTWorld and agencies (via DXLD) At 1824 UT on air at S=9+10dB in southern Germany. At 1825 UT TX break down. At 1826:20 UT back on air. 73 wb df5sx May 3 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), May 3 [Tue] from 1800 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf Swahili, no English news 1800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMr93J8UG24&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6060-, April 30 at 2332, JBA carrier off-frequency to lo side. I`m checking for the publicized extended broadcast of the 10 kW Radio Revival, Sala, Sweden, transmitter, nominally until 2400 with ``Radio Sala Cruisin` Special``. The last few minutes would be about our only chance way out here, still more than a sesquihour before our sunset at 0119 UT. At 2353 I measure the frequency as 6059.79. Can someone further east confirm such an offset? RHC is scheduled to start 6060 at 0000, and by 0002 UT May 1 it is on, but I can still hear a slight het from the understation. Chengdu, China is supposedly on here during this entire span with 50 kW northwards; and then there`s SRDA Curitiba, Brasil, nominal 6060 and sure to be slightly off, if it`s on. This year`s DSWCI DBS indicates it is active, 24 hours, reported as recently as March, but doesn`t bother with precision frequencies. Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, had SRDA April 9 at 2251 on 6059.9, with QRM from China. I`m afraid I also more likely had SRDA than Sala. No carrier at all audible on Sala`s other frequency, 5 kW 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See SWEDEN: later learnt that Sala went off at 2159* (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.58, April 29 at 0041, S9 open carrier is still here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified. Station with Arabic music was observed again, May 2 1110-1115 on 9600 unknown(secret/hidden)site, poor signal today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyKYRDOPjM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqxQQOBQnPM&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9655, April 29 at 0032 good signal with lite whine, conversation sounds like Romanian, but nothing scheduled here, a move, mistake or new? RRI Romanian at 00-02 is supposed to be on 7335 and 9790, which need to be checked should 9655 recur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DX LISTENING DIGEST) For English at same time see ROMANIA UNIDENTIFIED. 9860.000, empty carrier at 0212 UT, S=9 or -78dBm, likely Al Dhabbaya UAE Babcock unit? on air. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s also registered as Cairo, alternate to 9315 North American English, but you had 9315 a bit earlier, see EGYPT (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 11420-USB, May 1 at 1333, pileup of presumed Indonesian QSO pirates, some making noises other than speech, mostly here, but also something JBA on 11455.5-USB. Usually they are at evenly spaced 5-kHz channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11815, Test transmission, 1200, on 27 Apr. A station keeps playing a musical interval followed by a male speaker stating “You are listening to a test transmission?” is all I can copy at this time followed by instrumental music again. The station came on stronger with an e mail address for reports to testtransmission@gmail.com followed by Indian style music. An e mail report was sent to this address and I am waiting for a reply. Good- Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR- IQ, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) BaBcoCk, Woofferton (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 11954.1, May 2 at 0217, JBA carrier; it ought to be a Brazilian to go along with all the other off-frequency ones audible right now, on 25m alone: 11934.8, 11925.2, 11854.9, 11764.6 --- but there are no ZYs listed on 11955. The only thing which is listed, is VIRI Hindi via Sirjan, as originally scheduled, but it`s one of numerous Iran transmissions which had not been confirmed as still on the air following drastic cutbacks in April (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15585.0-USB, April 30 at 0031, poor signals 2-way in colloquial Spanish, intruders, as I am on my way to check 15590 for Radio Thailand, which is even weaker, unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 16540.0-USB, 0033 April 30, multi-station net, one much stronger S8 than others, with androgynous voice I will not attempt to assign a gender, sorry! In unknown language, but could be Tagalog or similar. Weaker ones keep talking underneath. Presumably aboardships; is anyone familiar with who use this frequency? Klingenfuss 2002 Guide, which I still have handy, merely says ``worldwide ship stations simplex frequency``, like its neighbors at 3-kHz spacings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. FMBC, 100.1, Midland MI?; *11:15-11:30+ AM EDT, 26-Apr; I was monitoring C&W, & talker uppops when a bigsig suddenly upcame; 2 hippity-hop tunes & a Midland Feeny Chrysler ad; then a series of pop tunes & ads, all cut short. Pirate? (the 87.9 pirates heard here in the past were not on) Test? I checked back at 11:50 AM & gone. Nearest station listed in Michiguide is translator W261BH Flint, listed as contemporary Christian — not very likely what I heard. This merits more ear time (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, GMC Car Radio for FMBC logs, --- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --- DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1824: Thanks to Will Martin, St Louis MO, for a generous check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: 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) Thank you Glenn for your continued support in the Short Wave community. I always enjoy your weekly updates. Good health, strength and happiness in the next year. 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My cousin's been listening to your DX Reports since he first heard on RCI's "DX Digest" He's been hearing "World of Radio" Since 1982. I've been hearing it since 1990. We really miss your other series "Continent of Media". Till then, 73's to you, 88's to the ladies (J K and Josh, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ UPDATED: DX/SWL/Media Programs http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html World of Radio schedule http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Alan Roe`s Hitlist of SW Stations http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm (Glenn Hauser, May 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subject: [dxld] DX RE MIX NEWS # 950 Final Edition ======================== DX RE MIX NEWS # 950 (F I N A L E D I T I O N). Date: Sat April 30, 2016. Also visit: & Dear Ivo, So you are stopping publication of DX Re Mix News, and of SWLDX Bulgaria News?? And thus also the blog? Please reconsider! We will very much miss all your valuable information! (Glenn to Ivo) SAVING RADIO HISTORY From Australia SAM DELLIT reports that he has been scanning the ERNIE MOORE collection of some 630 QSL cards and letters which he holds in trust for the former DX Australia club. You can view the scans at: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=57BF270CF7D61DCE!7073&authkey=!AOFnF_ecuoHtA4c&ithint=folder%2c Refer the QSL collections folder. Remaining to be done are about 50 utility QSLs and 100 amateur QSLs, together with about 150 programme schedules and station brochures. The separate Station Books folder holds scans of all the Australian P&T Department, DoC, DoTaC, ABA and ACMA station books 1979-2016). The spreadsheet is an index and will allow easy selecting and sorting. Sam says that Ernie was born in 1916 and died in 1982. His name will be familiar to our older members as he was a DX League member and attended a number of League conventions in the 1970s (Sam Dellit via ICDX Yahoo Group via May NZ DX Times via DXLD) ERNIE MOORE QSL COLLECTION STATUS REPORT Thanks to the long weekend, I have now finished scanning all the MW and SW broadcast QSLs (about 630, over 1200 scans). These are being uploaded to the cloud as I type this (sorry, it's 2+ GB, all hi res 600dpi, only lightly compressed). Remaining to be done are about 50 utility QSLs and 100 amateur QSLs, together with about 150 program schedules and station brochures. Should all be complete in 2 / 3 weeks, all going well. I will try to gather a little data on his personal and DX life, to go with the collection. Club magazines should be very helpful. Albert Ernest (Ernie) Moore was born in 1916, never married, and passed in 1982. I believe he was a member of the LDS. He had no children and only one sibling, a brother Arch. Per the collection, he was DXing from at least 1940, was involved with the WIA Qld as secretary in the late 50s, obtaining his novice callsign (to his great delight) in the early 1970s. Membership certificates in his collection include: NZ DX Club, NZ Radio and Hobbies Club, NZDXRL, ARDXC, SCDXC, DXA, Sydney DX Club, All World All Wave DX Club, Australian DX Club (Listener In), Victory Club, NNRC. I recall that for several years after Ernie's passing, his sister-in- law continued as a member of ARDXC or DXA. In the process of scanning the QSLs, I was fascinated to see a note on a QSL from WDSU New Orleans in 1946, that they had received 40 reception reports from Australia. Comment (1): I had no idea that NA MW DX was so prolific in Australia in those days, East Coast graveyarders, I thought impossible. Comment (2): All the WDSU QSLs would have been part of serious QSL collections, but have any of these survived? Is the destruction rate in excess of 98%? Sad 73s GD DX de (Sam Dellit, ICDX Mailing List via May Australian DX News via DXLD) Will pass on the URL when we have it! -cs. (Craig Seager, ed., ibid.) ENDANGERED STATIONS An interesting record of the current status of shortwave operations can be found on the Internet at http://shortwavearchive.com/endangered/ (SWLing Post via Paul Rawdon via DX Dialog via May NZ DX Times via DXLD) COLD WAR AMERICAN CLANDESTINE RADIO BROADCASTING OVER THE IRON CURTAIN A series of posts so far covering Nasha Rossia (Our Russia), Future of Romania - Voice of National Resistance and Novaya Ukraine, All these stations operated in the 1950's. First of six blog posts by Richard Cummings was on March 24. http://coldwarradios.blogspot.co.uk/ (Mike Barraclough, England, April 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LONG TERM FUTURE OF YAHOOGROUPS? ``I'm a bit concerned about the long term future of yahoogroups. Does anyone share my concern?`` Yes. I would not consider posting stuff here as a suitable means of archiving. The photos are almost locked in, at least that's my impression right now, with Yahoo stumbling over its own tracking stuff (i.e. I just gave up an attempt to browse the collection, it takes decades to load). But what concerns me even more is all the material and knowledge that has been shared only through private conversations, because the stuff in private mail folders will ultimately get lost altogether. ``I wonder if its an idea to look at alternative backups for the mid- term or long-term?`` Certainly, and of course Facebook and other social media are no archiving solutions whatsoever. By the way, since Ian just emphasized copyrights: Take a look at their terms of service, just in case there is an impression that one is still the sole owner of material posted to social media. Has http://dokufunk.org already been contacted or are there feelings in the way I'm not aware of? (Kai Ludwig, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) What's your ISP download speed? I'm on only 5Mb/s & never had an issue with viewing the content in the Albums. My only annoyance is that I always have to perform the sort function in each photo album & entire photo section to view the way intended, i.e. alphabetical. I'm not sure if I understand the 'locked in' & 'Yahoo tracking' comments, sorry. Personally I've always tried to encourage content to be SHARED in the group message area, rather than via private messages, though there will always be some content that can`t be shared immediately with all, or communications with members who don't wish to share certain content with all or risk having content lifted from the group & shared publicly with their name associated with the content. There appears to be a distinction between what is posted in an open public Yahoo Group vs a members only Yahoo Group, ours is a membership group where photos and the like are hidden from open public access & thus we do have a bit of control re unauthorized distribution of material - provided all members do the right thing. Trust being the operative word among the membership. Yes, I understand Yahoo are losing huge amounts of money each year. I guess there are three basic possible scenarios for the future. 1. Yahoo finds a way to keep Yahoo Groups alive. 2. Yahoo Groups disappears in future 3. Yahoo Groups is sold off to another business & survives in present or similar form. It's a pity another strong replacement for Yahoo Groups isn't 'seemingly` in existence somewhere. It would be a nightmare attempting to archive all our group's content & establish it all again elsewhere (Ian, ibid.) RADIO SONGS THREAD IN DXLD YAHOOGROUP I have not attempted to rework all this into DXLD, but yg members have access to all of it (gh) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ ON 7 MAY. RADIO DAY IN RUSSIA Day 7 May entered the history of world science and technology as a birthday radio. On this day in 1895 at a meeting of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov gave a presentation and demonstration of the world's first radio created by him, having carried out the first radio session. Today is a holiday of workers of all branches of communication. In 1945, on May 7 in the USSR it is widely celebrated the 50th anniversary of the invention of radio. In this regard, the government has decided to consider this date the annual Day of the radio that was later approved, and Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from October 1, 1980 ? 3018-X "On public holidays and commemorative days." And it seems that recently Russian Popov and Italian Marconi tried to convert electromagnetic waves into human speech, and less than a century ago, crystal receivers with headphones were perceived as a miracle. But today radio, television, mobile phones have become the natural attributes of our lives. Source: http://www.calend.ru/holidays/0/0/39/ (RusDX May 1 via DXLD) SPEED OF LIGHT [re: conversion factor wavelengths/frequencies] This is the value used by FCC, and I believe it comes from NBS or NTIA Boulder: wavelength (m) = [speed of light (m/sec)] / [frequency (Hz = cycles/sec)] where speed of light = 2.99792456 * 10 suprascript 8 meters/second (Ben Dawson, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC Mentioned just below in DRM segment +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There are many parallels to AM IBOC in the U.S. and DRM on shortwave. Neither have ‘revitalized’ the medium though they can produce remarkable reception under the right conditions at the expense of other services nearby. It seems to me counter-productive to keep ‘fighting the flow of technology’ to keep pushing these old spectrums to do things they’re not meant to. It may well be time to put the red wrist band on them, indicating ‘Do Not Resuscitate,' and allow them find their own way into history (Bill Whitacre, DC, April 26, IRCA via DXLD) DRM submission to FCC --- Southgate April 25, 2016 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2016/april/drm_submission_to_fcc.htm#.VyGyRDH2bIU Radio World reports the Digital Radio DRM consortium has submitted comments to the FCC in regards to AM Revitalization (MM Docket No. ET 13-249) The article says: While the organization says that it is supportive of changes to rules for AM broadcasters, in its comments it also submits a proposal for the FCC to consider its DRM30 standard mode for replacing analog sound broadcasting in frequency bands below 30 MHz. The organization cites its recent rollout in India as an example of its benefits. Among the benefits of the DRM 30, according to DRM, is its ability to provide data services — such as emergency warnings, data carriage, and EPG — to supplement the program content or for independent purposes as required by Recommendation ITU-R BS.1348. DRM says that its service can provide AM audio quality close to that of FM. It also offers up to three audio channels and one data on a single frequency, as well as stable reception over long distances. The organization claims that current infrastructure can be used and upgraded. Read the Radio World story at http://www.radioworld.com/article/drm-recommends-drm30-for-fccs-am-revitalization/278678 DRM submission to FCC http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60001572176 FCC Revitalization of the AM Radio Service https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-13-139A1.pdf FCC most active proceedings https://www.fcc.gov/rulemaking/most-active-proceedings Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) "While we recognize that the United States has selected HD Radio technology for its standard, other systems are in wide use in other parts of the world,” Ruxendra Obreja, Head of Digital Development at licence fee funded BBC World Service, DRM Consortium Chair. That would be DAB/DAB+ in Band 3 then? Or is she claiming DRM actually has an audience. Endless "test transmissions" or broadcasts no one hears are not wide use (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) I won't hold my breath for SSB + Carrier like CHU-Canada. Regards (Paul S. in CT, ibid.) FUTURE OF AM RADIO IN USA: See AUSTRALIA [and non] DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB Mentioned only just above here ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; NAMIBIA; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FCC TO AUCTION OFF 126 MHZ OF SPECTRUM Written by Mark K. Miller for TVNewsCheck [April 29, 2016] Source: http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/94379/fcc-to-auction-off-126-mhz-of-spectrum The FCC said today that it has received “binding commitments from broadcasters” to reach its highest clearing target of 126 MHz of spectrum that it wants to acquire in its incentive auction. Bidding begins May 31 and the weeks leading up to it will be devoted to providing bidding process information and mock auctions to let qualified bidders become familiar with the system and ask questions. The commission said it will be sending confidential letters today to broadcasters “to inform each applicant that was permitted to make an initial commitment in the reverse auction of its status.” The letter will notify the applicant for each station included in the application either that (1) the station is qualified to participate in the clock phase of the reverse auction; (2) the station is not qualified because no initial commitment was made for that station; (3) the station is not qualified because the commitment(s) made by the applicant for that station could not be accommodated; or (4) the station is not qualified because the FCC’s Auction System determined that the station is not needed to meet the initial or any subsequent clearing target. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said of today's announcement that “robust broadcaster participation is key to the success of the incentive auction. Today’s announcement reflects the voluntary decision by many broadcasters that this auction truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The 126 MHz initial clearing target ensures that wireless carriers and other forward auction bidders have their chance to compete for the maximum amount of low-band ‘beachfront’ spectrum. The wireless industry has said it needs additional spectrum to meet growing customer demand and usher in the age of 5G. The broadcasters have stepped up and done their part to fulfill that demand.” Under the band plan associated with the 126 MHz, 100 MHz, or 10 paired blocks, of licensed spectrum will be offered in the forward auction on a near-nationwide basis. In addition to receiving the maximum amount of spectrum it was seeking for the auction, a senior FCC official said that “it was important to note that of the blocks made available for the forward auction, 99% will have no impairments at all, meaning there will be no interference from broadcasters assigned to channels in the wireless band.” Reacting to the news was Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker, who said: “On the positive side, the highest possible clearing target suggests that there was signficant broadcast participation — not a surprise given broadcast commentary prior to the Jan. 12 quiet period. However, given that we still are not certain of how much demand there will be on the forward side, there is a high probability that this 126 MHz clearing target is not met in the first stage of the auction. At this point, we would not be surprised for the auction to go well into Q4 — the reverse auction is starting about a month later than originally anticipated, and with such a high clearing target, we could be looking at multiple stages lasting anywhere from 4 months (the first stage) to 2 months (subsequent stages). “At least we are starting to get some certainty here — we are not likely to get much more information until the forward auction begins, which we estimate to be sometime in July. We again remind you that we have no potential auction proceeds in any of our broadcast valuation ranges — but we would highlight Sinclair, Media General, NBC, and Tribune Media as being best positioned for this auction,” she added. NAB President-CEO Gordon Smith released the following statement following the FCC's announcement: “Broadcasters are excited that the TV auction process is moving forward and that the FCC is being aggressive in its auction estimates. Now the onus is on the wireless industry to demonstrate there is significant demand for 600 MHz spectrum. We look forward to the conclusion of a successful auction that preserves and sustains America’s vibrant free and local television business that is the envy of the world.” Following is the commission’s timeline of educational and informational materials for reverse auction applicants that are qualified to bid in the reverse auction clock phase leading up to the May 31 auction launch: FCC Incentive Auction Reverse Auction Bidding System User Guide — “We will make available an “FCC Incentive Auction Reverse Auction Bidding System User Guide,” which will describe the features of the Auction System that will be used to bid in the clock phase of the reverse auction. This user guide will be emailed to each authorized bidder on May 5, 2016. It will also be made available on the Commission’s Auction 1001 web page through a link in the ‘Education’ section on May 5, 2016. Once posted, the user guide will remain available and accessible on the Auction 1001 web page for reference.” Online Bidding Tutorial. “An online tutorial regarding bidding in the clock phase of the reverse auction will be available on May 18, 2016. The online tutorial will be accessible from the Auction 1001 web page through a link in the “Education” section. Once posted, the tutorial will remain available and accessible on the Auction 1001 web page for reference.” Bidding Preview Period. “The Auction System will be available during a preview period that will open at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 23, 2016, and close at 6:00 p.m. ET on May 24, 2016. During this preview period, authorized bidders can log in and view the list of stations for which they may make bids in the clock phase, each station’s bidding status, the initial relinquishment option assigned to the station, and, where applicable, available bid options with associated vacancy ranges and next round clock price offers.” Clock Phase Workshop. “On May 24, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. ET to 1:00 p.m. ET, the Task Force, in conjunction with the Media and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus (the Bureaus), will host a public workshop on the bidding system that will be used for bidding in the clock phase of Auction 1001. Details about the workshop and remote viewing will be released at a later date. After the event, a recording of the clock phase workshop will be accessible from the Auction 1001 web page through a link in the ‘Education’ section. Once posted, the clock phase workshop will remain available and accessible on the Auction 1001 web page for reference.” Mock Auction and Mock Auction Preview Period “The Task Force and Bureaus will conduct one mock auction for all bidders qualified to bid in the clock phase of Auction 1001 beginning on May 25, 2016, and ending on May 26, 2016. The schedule of rounds for the mock auction is as follows: May 25: Mock Bidding Round 1 10 a.m.–noon ET Mock Bidding Round 2 3–5 p.m. ET May 26: Mock Bidding Round 3 10–11 a.m. ET Mock Bidding Round 4 1–2 p.m. ET Mock Bidding Round 5 4–5 p.m. ET Clocks Rounds Start Date and Round Schedule Bidding in the clock phase of Auction 1001 will begin on May 31, 2016, on the following schedule: May 31: Bidding Round 10 a.m.–4 p.m. ET June 1: Bidding Round 10a.m.–2 p.m. ET Starting on June 2, 2016, and continuing until further notice, the schedule will be: Bidding Round 10:00 a.m.–Noon ET Bidding Round 3–5 p.m. ET Read the FCC's Public Notice here. http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0429/DA-16-453A1.pdf (via May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) SPECTRUM AUCTION TO CLEAR 126 MHZ It looks much worse for OTA than expected. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler expressed his gratitude to broadcasters for doing their part in selling spectrum to make 5G possible. All spectrum above channel 29 will be cleared to the highest bidder. . . http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/94379/fcc-to-auction-off-126-mhz-of-spectrum (via Andrew Knafel, April 29, WTFDA gg via DXLD) The transition time will give some DX openings as stations drop off while others stay on longer. It will be interesting (Mike Glass Lebanon, IN, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) I had been hoping that only channels above 37 would be given up. Anyway, it looks there would be a few stations operating above ch 29. And from one of the comments to the tvnewscheck article, Ion TV would be gone. Nothing is said about what happens to all the LD's, but it looks like there's going to be nowhere to fit them in. The CD's are going to be tough enough. And I would guess that the VHF-Lo band will be too crowded for any meaningful e-skip decoding. There's always hope the spectrum bidders won't bid high enough, and less spectrum could be cleared. In any event, the transitionary period should prove the most interesting for DXers (Chris Lucas, Poughkeepsie, NY, ibid.) I'm not going to miss Ion Television. That's a blowtorch here at just 1.6 miles away. Hopefully ATSC 3.0 brings the possibility to fit more channels in less bandwidth. At least there is still that hope left for OTA, but the FCC doesn't seem too concerned with protecting what we currently have. I remember reading a comment from a particular person from the FCC about how he thinks we have too many channels OTA. It was an interview of someone from the FCC complaining that there were too many OTA channels in markets like NYC where most people never even knew these channels existed. To me, it just sounded like an excuse to justify an extreme spectrum auction (Andrew Knafel, ibid.) My wife and daughter will definitely miss ION programming which we receive on KPXE-TV now on channel 30 in Kansas City, MO. My wife spends more time watching channel 30 more than any other station. She enjoys MeTV a lot from KMBC-29, AntennaTV on WDAF-34 and PBS programming on KTWU-11 and KCPT-18. I hope we don't lose too much programming after the auction disaster and am anxious as to what stations will disappear. There are a few that I could do without including KSQA-12 and KTAJ-21 with country music and TBN respectively. I'm pretty sure KSQA-TV will go away. I think they only existed to rip off the government (taxpayers) anyway. Needless to say this will have a negative on my TV DX'ing as well.Dave PomeroyTopeka, Kansas, May 1, ibid.) I will not miss Ion Television as the only local I have being Ion will leave as 2 others like, 32 WBPX and 26 WHPX in CT. which blocks DX down the coast on that channel. And with the short UHF band will they re-tool the antennas to fit the band? I think not (Roy Barstow, Falmouth MA, ibid.) This is one way it could turn out for me; who really knows. "Right now as it stands I have local channels on 31, 33, 35, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 51. *If* they all stay on and don't cash out or end up on another station's xx-2, some could probably take the only empty channels here, which are 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 25 and 29. That would leave four more that have to go to VHF somewhere and since nobody really wants lowband 2-6, with ch 10 and 11 already occupied with locals, ch 7, 8, 12 and 13 would fill up leaving me with just ch 2-6 for DXing. Now this is all just conjecture, but could things play out this way? Why not." I found a wall and saw the writing on it. Oh, by the way, there are over 400 people on the Facebook group now (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Mike, Hartford is really too close to so many other markets. Already Hartford has full power stations running very short-spaced to Boston and New York City. It has been said that repacking would not restore spacing to normal minimums --- even though this would be a great opportunity to accomplish that, but would require less spectrum to be auctioned off. Remember, however, the FCC is counting on lots of stations pairing up and the same channel, and a bunch of stations simply going off the air. Since the FCC has now stated that there is enough station interest in this plan to clear all of channels 30 and up, a lot of stations must be indeed pairing up or going dark, especially in the Northeast. Also, remember LD stations are not explicitly part of this repacking plan. I believe this includes translators such as W41DO in New York. What will become of these apparently remains to be decided. And what happens if a major network affiliate chooses to go dark; say for example "NBC Connecticut" WVIT DT-30. I suppose another station (say Fox station WTIC) will pick up NBC as a secondary affiliation. But if that doesn't happen, would local cable companies be obligated to carry an out-of-market NBC station (maybe WNBC New York in this example)? Such a scenario may not occur in Hartford, but there's bound to be a number of major affiliates choosing to go dark around the country, those that rank 3rd or 4th (or lower) in their market and not making a profit. Interesting times lie ahead (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, ibid.) When are any of these stations going off the air? Or is it wait and see. When they closed analog to DTV many stations here received on DTV which I have yet to receive since they all went to DTV. So before they pack them in like Sardines could be another time to add to one's total (Roy Barstow, Falmouth MA, ibid.) UHF ANTENNA HEIGHT I know there has been a lot discussion on this, but I want to share the results of some testing done here NW of Indianapolis. I am 20-30 miles from my Indy locals and they are line of sight (LOS). I generally keep my 10 ft dish at 40 ft AGL in a flat area with no hills within many miles. I do lower it all the way down (27 ft AGL) for winter. This season I decided to do some measurements of signal strength to see what impact the 13 ft difference makes. I raised it to 40 ft, made RF signal strength measurements and lowered it back to 27 ft and made more measurements. This is during a time of little, if any, enhancement. Station Service Distance (mi) Signal strength change from 40ft to 27 ft WRTV 25/6 DT 21 -13db WHMB 20/40 DT 21 -10db WTTK 29/29 DT 21 -9db WFYI 21/20 DT 21 -9db WXIN 45/59 DT 21 -8db WALV 46/46 LD 20 -10db WISH 17/8 LD 21 -6db WDTI 44/69 DT(28k) 21 -4db WNDY 32/23 DT 27 -13db Stations beyond LOS but not requiring enhancement: WTIU 14/30 DT 69 -2db WTTV 48/4 DT 53 -7db WCLJ 42/42 DT 53 -6db WIPX 27/63 DT 53 -5db WIPB 23/49 DT 56 -7db WICD 41/15 DT 77 -4db Empty channel noise level when aimed at strongest stations: ch 37 -15db I also set the antenna to Fort Wayne, IN, UHF stations at 95 miles. At that distance reception is unstable, relying on Tropo Scatter. I was able to easily receive all 5 full power stations, but could not get reliable measurements to determine a difference. However, the maximum reading was the same for all stations. What I see here for me is that the farther away a station is, the less impact from antenna height. Obviously I cannot go much lower before distant stations drop out. I think there is a sweet spot that greatly reduces locals with minimal impact on DX. Interestingly, I have received 3 other ch 25 DX stations over my strongest local WRTV only at the 27 ft antenna height. (Mike Glass N9BNN, Lebanon, Indiana USA Digital - Zenith DTT901, HDHR-US VHF - Antennacraft CS1100 at 35 feet AGL UHF - 10' parabolic dish w/CM4220HD feed at 27 feet AGL Preamps - HDP-269(VHF), RC 9261(UHF) HDHR-US for real time DX at: http://www.n9bnn.ham-radio-op.net/TV1/ Current count at Lebanon, IN: DTV 456 starting 4/20/2014) Indy count May 2007 to Feb 2014 - 208 analog, 390 digital April 30, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Mike, are you line-of-sight to the Indianapolis stations at 40 feet and not at 27 feet? (Chris Lucas, Poughkeepsie, NY, ibid.) Chris, according to TVFool I am LOS at 27 feet. Interestingly, they show only a 1 dB drop in signal strength from 40 to 27 ft. Do the locals drop a lot because the signal is very focused and my lower height drops below the beam? Distant stations would not have such focused beams and would be less sensitive to height? (Mike Glass, ibid.) Mike, I suspect that there aren't any tall trees around your location that could reduce the signal strength of UHF signals. At my location, there are trees about 35 ft. tall to the South, North and a few to the East. I have noticed when the leaves are on the trees that signals on channels 39 & 42 are reduced in strength. There are other stations on channels 41, 45, 46 & 50 but they are locals and have stronger signals (Bob Seaman Hazleton, PA, ibid.) Hi Bob, Actually, I do have a double line of pine trees about 40 ft tall to my south about 50 ft from the tower. All but 3 of the stations on my list go through them. My understanding is that it takes some depth of foliage to make a significant difference and I don't know if pine needles are different than leaves. I found an article some time ago that claimed you lose 1db for every 10 meters of foliage at 1000 MHZ. I guess it is tough to use cell phones in the woods (Mike, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) Interesting results, Mike, Those ~10 db differences at 21 miles are huge. Might they represent the difference between LOS and not quite LOS? All LOS from same distance should remain within +/- 6 dB of each other, the 6 dB representing the ground gain or lack thereof depending on the terrain. Or maybe they represent, as Bob said, the attenuation from trees? (Doug Allen, Inman SC, ibid.) I just had 48 WRNN NY. and many others through the rain. Maybe the rain not making it to the surface yet! Normally the wall of rain prevents stations getting through. 7ft. dish at 55ft. w/Kitz amp (Roy Barstow, Falmouth MA, ibid.) I find the large increase in signal strength with height for LOS signals puzzling. I would think once you're line of sight, any further increase in antenna height should have negligible effect... unless it's trees. I thought I'd use TV Fool to check what happens with antenna height for my three strongest LOS signals. There's WRNN and WTBY at about 20 miles, and WEPT at about 25 miles. For 25 foot antenna height, TVFool shows WRNN @ 60.5db, WTBY @ 59.6db, and WEPT @ 43.2db. An increase to 40 feet shows absolutely no difference. Cranking it up to 100 feet, again no difference for WRNN, and WTBY and WEPT increase by 0.1db each. Looking at 5 feet. WRNN and WTBY are unchanged from 25 feet, while WEPT drops to 1-edge with 40.5db. Higher elevations do help farther out signals according to TV Fool, but not as much as I thought. I must say, I don't put a lot of faith in TVFool, however. A lot of their New York City numbers, for example, both TV and FM seem very low (Chris Lucas, Poughkeepsie, NY, ibid.) Thanks, Chris, for your comments. I don't know all the factors TV Fool takes into account, but I don't totally trust them either. As for the trees, both the distant and local stations have to go through the same trees. I will try the same test another day and turn off the preamp, which may be affecting the readings. It does overload when aimed at the locals at 40 ft (Mike Glass, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) This may have something to do with Huygens' Principle. I know that you can be LOS of a signal and yet not be seeing as good of a field strength as you could because of signal diffraction. Example: If you're on top a hill, some of the signal diffracts below the other side of the hilltop. So in that case, the field strength at the top of the hill is several decibels less, even if it's LOS (Andrew Knafel, May 1, ibid.) Hi Andrew, that is quite an explanation! I am not on a hill, so that may not apply. I have been looking up info on beam tilt used with TV transmitter antennas. An antenna is designed to tilt the primary lobe a little below horizontal so the max signal is aimed earthward. I believe the goal is to have the primary lobe meet the surface of the earth out near the radio horizon, about 45 miles for UHF. Transmitter antennas for UHF are generally very high gain which means the primary lobe is quite narrow. At 20 miles from the transmitter (where I am) that narrow primary lobe is most likely well above me. Are there any TV engineers that can weigh in on this? (Mike Glass, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) I miss the awesome signal strengths I use to see on UHF DX stations from my 12th floor apartment in the late '80s/early '90s - especially to the southwest; but the locals were not direct LOS and instead reflected off nearby buildings. Height definitely made a difference there. I used an indoor 4-bay sitting on top my entertainment unit (rotated by hand). (Bill Hepburn, Grimsby Ont, ibid.) I did the same test today as before with only the locals on the NW side of Indy. I made signal measurements at 27 ft and 40 ft both with preamp off. Station Service Distance (mi) Signal strength change from 40ft to 27 ft preamp off WRTV 25/6 DT 21 -12db WHMB 20/40 DT 21 -9db WTTK 29/29 DT 21 -9db WFYI 21/20 DT 21 -11db WXIN 45/59 DT 21 -8db WALV 46/46 LD 20 N/A WISH 17/8 LD 21 N/A WDTI 44/69 DT(28k) 21 N/A With the preamp off the weaker stations were lost. The results are similar with the preamp off today as before with the preamp on. I think the large drop in signal strength from 40 ft to 27 ft AGL is due to the narrow vertical beam pattern from high gain UHF antennas. I hope a TV engineer gives his two cents! (Mike Glass, Lebanon, IN, ibid.) RabbitEars.info shows the beam tilt for each TV station. Like you said, most of the power is broadcast out 0.5 to 1.0 degree below the horizontal. Since I'm so close to the Akron towers where I live, I'm about 10 degrees below the transmitters, and I only see a fraction of the signal. That's certainly good for me; I don't want my preamp to overload. Here is a graph for WDLI (see attached photo). The X-axis shows the number of degrees below the horizontal, and the Y-axis shows the amount of signal. Unfortunately this is the only example I have. I don't know where you can find these graphs. Someone in another forum sent me this, but I'm sure other TV stations are similar (Andrew Knafel, May 2, ibid.) Yes, Andrew, that is exactly what I am talking about. The beam width is so tight on those antennas that receiver antenna height should matter for many miles out. It would be interesting to see data like that to see if it is similar to what I am seeing here (Mike Glass N9BNN, Lebanon, Indiana USA, ibid.) Mike, IF you go here for the Indy market: http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?mktid=33 Then on each station of interest, click on the Technical Data and Screencaps. Trip has the technical information listed for each station, for example: WTTV 0.6 Elec Beam Tilt; Dielectric TFU-24DSB C260(C) and of course he shows the directional pattern, if the station has one (otherwise circular). You can also click on the number in parenthesis next to the ASL height and get more information on the tower/antenna (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) Mike, you're 21 miles away from several of the Indianapolis transmitters. 13' of antenna height shouldn't make any difference if we're strictly talking about the transmitter's beam tilt. I know it's a really tight lobe of power, but at 27' or 40', you're still at about 0.5 degrees below the transmitter no matter which height you consider. I just did the math using WRTV as an example. You're roughly 110,880' away from WRTV, and its transmitter is 964' HAAT. Assuming you're located at exactly average terrain height, you're 0.5 degrees below the transmitter with a 27' tall antenna or 40'. It's like splitting hairs (Andrew Knafel, ibid.) Yes, it does seem like splitting hairs, but their is more to consider. The curvature of the Earth puts me lower than the base of the WRTV antenna. The angle change from curvature alone is 0.3 deg at 21 miles and 0.65 degrees at 45 miles. The vertical height change at 21 mi is about 290 ft. My shack is on ground 70 ft above the WRTV tower base. So, at 21 miles the center of the beam is about 220 ft above me. I do not think it unreasonable that as I go higher I am cutting into the peak and will see a greater increase than normal. Regardless of the reason for my test results, there is a good reason for me to keep my antenna lower. I will greatly reduce my adjacent channel interference as well as cochannel interference. Every location is different (Mike Glass, ibid.) Changing the subject slightly, as my experience is with FM, I have found that in my location, with the locals anywhere from 8 to 15 miles, and most of them strong, that I had to put the antenna lower on account of adjacent channel interference as well as mixing products. I initially tried the antenna on a temporary mounting on a mast at about 35'. It is currently at 15', which has the added benefit of being mounted up in the rafters over my attached garage which eliminates problems with wind, ice, etc. The difference on mixing products alone was substantial. I didn't have any means to measure those differences, but several mixing products went from quite audible to nonexistent at 15'. So that's certainly an element to consider. Mixing products are where you have a metallic object in the near field of the transmitters which is receiving and re-radiating the signals of two (or occasionally more) different stations. An example is one which I could hear with the antenna higher on 94.9 which contained audio from my locals on 93.3 and 94.1 - a sum-and- difference spur is another name for it. I could similarly hear a mixing product of 92.5 and 93.3 on 91.7 (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), Grid FN20id, ibid.) FM radio stations don't have the same tight patterns that DTV stations do. That's why when you're near any FM broadcast towers, interference can be substantial. I know every time I drive near the Akron towers, all the weaker FM signals are obliterated, even the ones I should be receiving without any difficulty. Here in Akron, 94.9 and 89.7 are on the same tower, and it causes terrible interference on 100.1 which is about 15 miles away; it's because the difference between 94.9-89.7 = 5.2 MHz, added to 94.9 equals 100.1. I always hear distorted audio of 89.7 and 94.9 on 100.1 in my car radio when I drive near that tower. Back on the topic of DTV beam tilt, Mike, if you're 70' above average terrain, then you're 0.61 degrees below the WRTV transmitter. So the strongest lobe of power is aimed right at roughly 18.5 miles away from the tower (WRTV has a beam tilt of 0.7 degrees). I drew up a scaled drawing in CAD, considering the earth's curvature and that's what I got. The top of your 40' tower is roughly 0.59 degrees below the WRTV tower (Andrew Knafel, ibid.) I was assuming a 0.5 deg tilt, but you are correct that 0.7 would be close to me on the ground. Well, if it's not beam tilt, then I am not sure how to explain the bigger drop from strong LOS stations. Many say it's trees, but I get the distant stations through the same trees about 20 deg off Az. More research needed (Mike Glass N9BNN, Lebanon, Indiana USA, ibid.) More distant blockage? Also, LOS will differ for each transmitter's HAAT (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) I continue to think that if Mike's results are not due to absorption losses from trees, then up to 6 dB of the differences may be explained by the many loops in elevation pattern of the receive antenna (see article) If possible, it would be useful to climb the [tower?] during a clear day to inspect the horizon for trees at the two heights. Does your parabolic exhibit a similar elevation pattern to a long yagi? I'm not sure about that? Those who operated 2M AM mobile or listened to VHF AM in a moving vehicle are familiar with the picket fence phenomena of phase cancellation that occurs on VHF and UHF and is very noticeable on AM (less so on FM) - somewhat analogous to what is happening in the elevation pattern. The following article discounts the effect of ground gain over the TV UHF frequencies, but I think that may be wrong. How to explain the 10 and 12 dB changes. I have no idea? I am wondering if the Home Run tuner and rabbit ears software are giving inflated dB levels? Mike, is it possible to use a different instrument to measure the signal levels? Here's the URL- http://www.qsl.net/oz1rh/gndgain/gnd_gain_eme_2002.htm (Doug Allen Inman, SC, ibid.) Excellent point, Doug, about the phase cancellation. Although your QTH is flat, Mike, you could still be getting subtle multi-path effects affecting the overall dB level - especially at the lower elevation. My QTH is the other extreme where I'm 93% of the way up a 350' escarpment. I've had 300+ mile DX, such as weather radio from WV, coming in at ground level despite that direction completely blocked by a 25' rise in elevation in our backyard. In other words, I'm at -25' below ground and still received a signal. In the analog days, we would get WSEE-35 via TrS (83 miles) in on the bedroom TV with a bowtie - again blocked. Unless your spot is completely multi-path free, this could mess with your signal strengths, esp. UHF (and one of the reasons I find phasing UHF-TV next to impossible, even though VHF-TV is doable). (Bill Hepburn, Grimsby Ont, May 4, ibid.) Mike, While thinking about your signal strength data, I remembered an online software program that doesn't apply to figuring out your LOS signal differences, but is fun and informative and can show your exact LOS from various heights at your house or other areas. If you put K4LY in the VIEW box, you'll see I, just barely, have LOS to 4 states. I'm just now celebrating one year of TV DXing here at the SC retirement QTH hilltop (chosen for VHF DXing) with 181 unique stations, all DTV except 5. During the year I had absolutely no tropo over the nearby Appalachians, not even to TN where I have mountain top LOS to one spot on the NC/TN border. The Appalachians block NW and north, about 125 degrees total. Without 500 mile+ tropo to the NE or the SW and west, I've pretty much exhausted decoding very many more stations from here, but hope springs eternal! Here's the URL- http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ (Doug Allen, Windmill Hill, SC, ibid.) Hi Doug, I am not sure about the elevation pattern, but that would be worth looking into. As for measuring signal strength, I am using a Sencore FS-74a field strength meter and am measuring the DTV pilot. I have not tried using the HDHR for that purpose (Mike Glass, ibid.) Some day or night the Gulf Coast will open and even Texas could make it to inland SC. If I have received 45 WYCW some 27 miles from your location then you may also at least pick up RI. You have received stations from E. VA. and from there it's a skip and a jump over water to Cape Cod. So, Doug, many things await us. Yes hope springs eternal (Roy Barstow, Falmouth MA, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ GH FREQUENCY MEASURING METHOD FYI, the way I do this on the R75, which came to me from Brandon Jordan accurately calibrated, is in USB or LSB mode, pick a frequency to three decimal places ending in zero on one side of the frequency to be measured, so it makes an audible het. Then tune to the other side to hear the same pitch (preferably eyes closed, or not looking at readout) and note the frequency there. Then punch in the exact frequency on the other side and hear if it match pitch. If not, make slight adjustments until they do. Then subtract the difference, divide by two and add the result to the lower measurement (or subtract from the upper position), and there you have the exact carrier frequency halfway in between. Depending on the strength it may also be possible to listen for a zero beat, tuning up and down in 1-Hz steps, but I think there is greater accuracy by the method described. (On the NRD- 545 a similar technique, but it`s slightly out of calibration, so I am having to make adjustments of 1 or 2 Hz, somewhat less precise.) (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER - MUST WATCH VIDEO! SBS TV in Australia recently ran a 1h 17m video titled: The Russian Woodpecker. This is a must watch video for SW transmitter site enthusiasts interested in the history & imagery of one of the behemoth of SW antenna arrays ever constructed. But much, so much more than that, this video is compelling viewing for anyone interested in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant disaster, current day politics of the Ukraine/Russia & the old Soviet politics of the day. What is captivating is the exploration of a possible link between the construction of the woodpecker site in the Ukraine & the Chernobyl disaster & the ramifications of exploring that link I loved the way the video was crafted. It was in so many ways richly captivating as it explores many themes of Fedor's life & his search for the truth. If you watch just one video a year, make this the one you watch. Viewers in Australia can watch the video on demand at: http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/666212419734/the-russian-woodpecker Our other members can find out more about the video & where to watch it here: http://www.russianwoodpecker.com/ The video is produced by GraciaFILMS 2015. http://www.russianwoodpecker.com/reviews/ Well done Fedor. Thank you (Ian, April 29, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) I'm not going to bother watching it. Viewers outside Australia can't watch it due to stupid copyright rules, other websites show only a trailer and you have to buy it. Forget it! (Colin Miller, Canada, ibid.) have you seen this documentary. available everyone I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbi6eoh63ZQ (Jonathan Marks, swsites yg via DXLD) Here is more about the DUGA-3 Woodpecker Transmitter : Climbing the array : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0 Tour inside the control building : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UXWh4Rj_E Met vriendelijke groet/Kind regards, (Jan Oosterveen ibid.) Docu: The Russian Woodpecker Arte-TV showed a Docu / Conspiracy feature about the Russian Woodpecker transmitter Dagu near Tschernobyl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russian_Woodpecker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar Although some conspiracies are very stupid, there's a lot of other interesting stuff in it. For example US-TV news clips from the 1970s claiming that this transmitter is not an OTHR but a high power transmitter to turn human beings (Europeans) into zombies. What a joke. Just US xenophobics, not news as one would expect. But the tramsmitter also jammed Sowjet services, so they changed frequency, but then it would not "cross the polar region anymore due to polar lights". Not sure if a frequency change would have been the reason. The docu can still be viewed online until next Tuesday, but only within Germany and France. So use a proxy in D or F http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/061670-000-A/der-russische-specht Never have I seen an OTHR featured in a docu for that long (Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany Ant. hor: 29-45MHz 7-el, 45-87MHz 11-el, FM 15.11, Band-3:13-el, UHF:48-el TV: Winradio G305 / Fly2000 + video noise filter & variable IF BW FM: Downconverter + Perseus + Speclab as WFM demod. 27-1000MHz: Airspy with HDSDR MW: 30 x 4m EWE 320 with JB-terminator, Winradio & Perseus http://zeiterfassung.3sdesign.de/station_list.htm StationList http://zeiterfassung.3sdesign.de/stationlist-m.htm StationList-M for Android http://dx.3sdesign.de/tv_offset_list.htm ibid.) There are copies of the documentary with English subtitles available with a little hunting you should be able to find them. There are a number of bogus links on YouTube. I did come across this channel which has some 'tourist' footage. Some of the videos are from inside the building https://www.youtube.com/user/bionerd23/videos (Paul R., Nz, MWDX yg via DXLD) Apparently same as this German-language version, curated by WDR in 2015: http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/061670-000-A/der-russische-specht (Most likely geoblocked, too.) About the craziest conspiracy theory I ever heard. Already saw various comments about this film which in essence agree that it impressively shows how the post-Soviet space went mad completely. Oh, what's this: Book a tour? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19oB0eJED7U And here, ladies and gentleman, we're coming to an impressive RBMK reactor --- By the way, years ago I read somewhere that the Duga transmission equipment was a variant of the design called Kondor as a SWBC transmitter with 2000 kW AM carrier power, as installed at Grigoriopol and for some time indeed used at full power. Btw2, have you seen the recent report about the actual transmission facility used for the Radio Vilnius relays when they caught much attention for well-known reasons? Certainly no one abroad would have guessed back then that it was in fact a RF signal from boiling Pridnestrovye (Kai Ludwig, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) I gather you are referring to Grigoriopol - Maiac SW transmitter site as being one of the sites of the Radio Vilnius broadcasts during the USSR days. I personally have a Radio Vilnius QSL from 1981 that I was not able to identify site or power for. For the record, 12060 kHz at 2200 UT on 26/7/1981. I guess the above site is probable. I recall the frequency used either before or after for the above broadcast for a multitude of different stations; at least Radio Stantsiya Rodina was one of them from memory. For the record I can't recall knowing that 2000 kW was used from Grigoriopol - Maiac. The Ukraine yes. In fact, as mentioned in past communications re a Ukraine SW site with 2 MW there were restrictions on personnel being near the 2000kW txers when operating, as they would pass-out etc. Regards (Ian, ibid.) My thanks to Jonathan, Jan and Kai for your comments and suggestions. Although the links were not about the SBS video, they were nevertheless very interesting. What a huge waste inside the DUGA-3 buildings. I wonder if they have any plans to use those huge antennas in the future? Apparently the Woodpecker was monitored again in December 2013. Does anybody know which site was used? (Colin VE3CMT, ibid.) Hi Colin, Yes, I too pass on my thanks to Jonathan, Jan & Kai for the fascinating links. Actually when you go looking, there are plenty of interesting YouTube videos that have surfaced in the last couple of years, especially around the Duga 3 antenna site & Chernobyl site in the Pripyat area. Tours as well. It is interesting reading on the Internet the purported events leading up to the Chernobyl explosion & the people making decisions & the reluctance to challenge authority of the day, etc. The film mentioned explores a link and I agree it`s a wild conspiracy theory. Add 2 and 2 together and get 5. We all love a good conspiracy theory, we all know Hollywood likes to be creative with non fictional stories to the point that they become fictional. Additionally I'm sure there's no shortage of love lost between some Ukraine citizens and Russia in recent years. This and the fact that Fudor and the American director are from artistic professions should be weighted with their investigative skills, etc., so all these things should be put into perspective when viewing the film. That said, it's still a fascinating film to watch. Colin, I tried searching for a free version of the film online, but failed. You could make a request to the CBC (TV) there in Canada to screen the film if it hasn't already occurred (Ian (AUS), May 4, ibid.) FM RADIO SUPPRESSED IN CELL PHONES I noticed this thread, AFTER hearing quite a bit recently about the NAB's current push to get ALL cell phone service providers to activate the FM radio that is built into US made cell phones. Most globally available cell phones have a built-in FM radio. The user just has to have an FM app installed to be able to use it. According to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), they say the biggest offenders of NOT activating the FM radio are Apple and Verizon. The NAB's stance on this is that IF Apple would activate the FM radio in their iPhone, it would work against their marketing efforts of iTunes and similar services. The NAB also says that Verizon is a huge contract supplier with iPhones and thus won't activate the FM radio, in support of Apple's marketing efforts. The NAB is also lobbying Congress to make it a law that all cellular telephone devices sold in the US come with the FM radio already activated. Some opponents to this think it lessens the perceived image of the cellular telephone, but as the NAB says, the user doesn't have to USE the FM radio if they don't want to. The NAB has been concerned for a while now about listeners availability to tune to an FM radio station in the event of an emergency. Their case examples are during the time of year with severe storms, such as tornadoes. Experience has proven that during tornado events, cellular phone activity increases dramatically until service becomes unreliable, where all circuits are busy. The NAB's stance is that people are carrying their cellular telephone with them all the time, but not necessarily an AM/FM radio. Suddenly they want to know what's going on with the weather. This is where the use of a cellular telephone comes in to play. The NAB's question to those services that refuse to activate the built in FM radio, "Why sell a product with such technology that the user can't access?" Additionally, many *non broadcast educated* cellular telephone users believe an FM radio would use data. The NAB says NO! It's an FM radio. It is not using the internet to tune a radio station. It is using radio airwaves (thus it needs the earbuds for an antenna) to receive the radio station signal. And an FM radio uses very little battery power so it will not drain the battery during its operation. IMHO, I think the NAB is frustrated that so many people have forgotten about broadcast sources, such as FM & TV. Many believe the only way you get information is satellite, cable, or the internet. Maybe an informal poll here - are you with a cellular telephone service that has activated the FM radio in your phone? I am with Verizon and I cannot get access to the FM radio in my iPhone 5C (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, May 2, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Sometimes, the chip needs to be enabled at the hardware level. iPhones don't have FM radio capability, and neither do certain phones (such as a Nexus 5 or 6P). It's really common in the developing world, though, because it doesn't use data. The Android One phones all had packed-in FM functionality, and the Moto E and G do as well (even on Verizon, but not on Marshmallow). The Moto app is different (though it, too, has Material Design, which is nice). T-Mobile and AT&T recently joined Sprint in deciding to go for FM, but I don't think T-Mo has started doing that yet. The NextRadio site says the Galaxy S7 has FM on AT&T and Sprint, and it's the newest of the phones their site lists. That said, this does seem to be the year that AT&T is pushing for FM radios in every device it orders from manufacturers (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, May 2, ibid.) Hello! here at El Salvador, only de Iphones doesn't run a FM radio by default, even the cheapest $12 cell phones have activated the FM, the most of time with RDS, regardless of the service provider. Saludos (Humberto Molina, San Salvador, ibid.) Sometimes, the chip needs to be enabled at the hardware level. iPhones don't have FM radio capability, and neither do certain phones (such as a Nexus 5 or 6P). It's really common in the developing world though because it doesn't use data. The Android One phones all had packed-in FM functionality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXcc3sguAf8 and the Moto E and G do as well (even on Verizon, but not on Marshmallow). The Moto app is different (though it, too, has Material Design, which is nice). http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/27/motorolas-native-fm-radio-app-updated-with-material-design-music-recording-sleep-timer-and-usability-improvements/ T-Mobile and AT&T recently joined Sprint in deciding to go for FM, but I don't think T-Mo has started doing that yet. The NextRadio site says the Galaxy S7 has FM on AT&T and Sprint, and it's the newest of the phones their site lists. That said, this does seem to be the year that AT&T is pushing for FM radios in every device it orders from manufacturers. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/29/report-att-wants-all-its-android-phones-to-have-an-active-fm-radio-tuner-starting-next-year/ (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, May 2, ibid.) Based on comments on the Apple user forum, the iPhone DOES have the capability to *have* an FM radio. They acknowledge there is an FM radio chip built into the IC board, but they refuse to enable it. IF it were enabled (set so that a user could access it), all the user would need to do is supply an APP that works as a tuner for FM and then use earbuds for the antenna (or a cable plugged in to the headphones and fed to portable speakers). (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, ibid.) Well, the NAB claim there is "the Murata 339S0228 chip, in the case of the iPhone 6" that is used for BlueThoot and Wifi conecctions and a no activated FM radio. http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/20/fm-radio-iphone/ (Humberto Molina, ibid.) A month ago I bought a 3rd. Gen. Moto G, and is the best phone for DXers. It doesn't have the crappy Mediatek processor, very awful for FM distant signals (even for weak local signals). Instead it has a Qualcomm processor (which it can recognize signals even with a gap of 200 kHz), and a FM app (available on the Play Store) which can record radio. Grabación 4 - 106.5.mp3 http://forums.wtfda.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=18711&d=1462325519 In other words, don't buy a Mediatek processor-based cellphone. They are crap (Gargadon, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, ibid.) THE BEST RADIO ANTENNA IS ONE THAT'S A TANK Eric Tegler April 29, 2016 "Whip" antennas - those long metal rods that used to extend from our cars - look pretty cool in a Smokey and the Bandit kind of way. But for military vehicles, they're not such a great solution. Troops in the field communicate using relatively low frequency radio signals. The upside is that they don't require much power and can travel long distances. But to operate efficiently, antennas need to be at least one quarter the length of the radio waves they transmit. Since military comms use the HF band where radio waves can range from 10 to 100 yards in length, big antennas are better. But putting huge antennas on a Humvee or an armoured personnel carrier or a tank just isn't practical. Short antennas, meanwhile, are inefficient, operating in a narrow bandwidth and dissipating as much as 90 percent of input power as useless heat instead of useful broadcast radio signals. But what if you could effectively enlarge antenna size by using the vehicle itself as an antenna? That's what University of Wisconsin– Madison engineers are seeking to do as part of a project supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). "We're basically looking at using the 'antennas' traditionally mounted on military vehicles as a means of exciting the platform itself," says Nader Behdad, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison. "If a large metallic structure is there, why not take advantage of it?" The team aims to design "coupling structures" that, when strategically placed on a vehicle, allow it to transmit or receive signals at low frequencies. The structures act as electric or magnetic dipoles "exciting" the main structure, that is, making it resonate at frequencies comparable to its size and shape. They can "tune" the vehicle to work as an antenna across a range of frequencies. "Think of an armoured personnel carrier for example," Behdad says. "The dimensions are generally about 10 meters long. Some natural resonate [sic] modes of the structure resonate very efficiently at HF frequencies with different [stimulative] current distributions and radiation patterns. With the scale model we used, we showed that this works." The scale model they made was merely a simple metal box paired with rudimentary loops as coupling structures. The project is only two months old, but over the course of the next two years the researchers want to scale up to a full-size vehicle. Behdad says they've found that the shapes of the coupling structures matter less than their placement, but that if energy is efficiently coupled to the platform, wide band antenna operation at low frequencies around 10 MHz is possible. Conveniently, the process doesn't require changing the vehicle structures themselves. "We're not going to cut or alter the platform, we're just going to put coupling structures on," Behdad emphasizes. "You could hear signals from the other side of the world." Bandwidth is important. Current military vehicles use separate transmitters [to] handle internet data, Bluetooth connections, and cellphone calls because each signal uses a particular bandwidth. If a truck-as-antenna has enough bandwidth can [have] capability to send and receive multiple types of information, it can dispense with multiple antennas, becoming more stealthy and less prone to damage. "If you increase the volume over which your radiating current is distributed, you have increased bandwidth. Because the platform is the antenna, you get more bandwidth than with a whip antenna mounted on it and tuned to the same frequency," Behdad says. The team's goal is to achieve a bandwidth of 25 kHz at 2 MHz and a larger range at 10 MHz. Such bandwidth could allow for data transmission rates up to 100 Kbps, sufficient for voice and text data if not video or images. In this era of high-speed, high-frequency broadband technology, it's an oddly simple solution. "When I was younger, I used to listen to short-wave radio stations using a small transistor radio. You could hear signals from the other side of the world. That was amazing to me. I tell my students that if our infrastructure breaks down for some reason, HF radio is going to be the only reliable means of long range communication." (Popular Mechanics, via Yahoo Tech via May ADXN via DXLD) Why not when older??? A WET TALE (TAIL?) As much as I don’t enjoy passing on stories that paint me as a bigger fool than you may already perceive, you may be able to relate to a recent senior’s moment this side of the Great Divide. Normally I’m too mean to pay the higher fee for taking the vehicle into the “drive through” car wash, preferring to either use the hose, bucket and front lawn, or at the most, avail myself of the self-wash and scrub with high pressure soap at a commercial establishment, which usually costs around $4 if I’m quick. However, in the interests of time last week, I thought I’d try out the “deluxe” service – you know the one where all sorts of giant brushes automatically move over the sides and top of the vehicle, leaving no bits untouched and dislodging anything loose? Problem was that once in the booth, with all sorts of machinery starting up, I realised that my Mobile One scanning antenna was still magnetically affixed to the bonnet and was about to be dislodged and maybe even mangled in a flurry of brushes. Thinking I still had time, I somehow climbed over the centre console to the passenger side and wound down the window to grab the antenna and it base and attempted to drag it back through into the cabin. In the prevailing panic, I somehow forgot that it was actually cabled through the door – and had to quickly rethink the strategy. Maybe the rethink was too quick, as I opened the door and ended up getting a foot tangled in the antenna cable. By this time, however, multiple nozzles were squirting suds in the front window of the car as well as all over me, and there was grave danger of the cabin and its upholstery being totally flooded. Accordingly, the antenna was surrendered to the elements as a hasty retreat was arranged. The end result: great entertainment for any onlookers, and much lost pride – but the antenna (and car) survived. The lesson learned (other than don’t be an idiot) – stay in the car! (Craig Seager, NSW, May Australian DX News via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES – Compiled by: Phil Bytheway E-mail: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Geomagnetic Summary April 1 2016 through April 30 2016 Tabulated from email status daily (K @ 0000 UTC.) Date Flux A K Space Wx 1 82 3 1 no storms 2 82 22 6 moderate, G2 3 82 15 4 no storms 4 83 7 1 no storms 5 83 5 1 no storms 6 87 7 1 no storms 7 92 17 5 minor, G1 8 98 9 1 minor, G1 9 106 3 0 no storms 10 111 7 3 no storms 11 117 6 1 no storms 12 111 19 5 minor, G1 13 108 26 3 minor, G1 14 111 22 3 minor, G1 15 112 9 2 no storms 16 113 12 4 no storms 17 102 19 3 no storms 18 95 5 1 moderate, R2 19 89 3 1 no storms 20 83 4 1 no storms 21 77 5 2 no storms 22 77 13 4 no storms 23 79 12 5 minor, G1 24 82 11 1 no storms 25 82 5 0 no storms 26 85 6 3 no storms 27 93 10 2 no storms 28 95 5 1 no storms 29 92 3 1 no storms 30 94 7 3 no storms Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level (IRCA DX Monitor May 7 via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 May 02 0421 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 25 April - 01 May 2016 Solar activity was reached low levels this period. A total of seven low-level C-class flares were observed through the week, four of which were from Region 2535 (N05, L=124, class/area=Hax/60 on 24 Apr) and the remaining three were from Region 2539 (N16, L=084, class/area=Eai/100 on 01 May). A pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with flare activity from Region 2535 were observed in LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery at 28/0216 UTC and 28/0636 UTC, but did not impact Earth as anticipated. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 25-30 Apr and was at normal levels on 01 May. Geomagnetic field activity was quiet on 25, 28-29 Apr, quiet to unsettled on 26-27, 30 Apr, and quiet to active on 01 May. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 02 MAY - 28 MAY 2016 Solar activity is likely to be low with a slight change for M-class flares (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) Radio Blackouts) on 03-16 May due to return of old Region 2529 (N09, L=342) which produced an isolated M6 flare (R2-Moderate Radio Blackout) last rotation. Very low to low levels of solar activity are likely through the remainder of the period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is likely to reach high levels on 11-13 May with normal to moderate levels expected for the remainder of the outlook period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1-G2 (Minor-Moderate) geomagnetic storm levels on 02 May due to an enhanced solar wind environment and prolonged southward magnetic field orientation. G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are likely on 11 and 20 May with active levels likely on 10, 12, 14, 19 and 21 May due to the influence of recurrent coronal hole high speed streams (CH HSSs). Quiet to unsettled field activity is expected throughout the remainder of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 May 02 0421 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 2016-05-02 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 May 02 90 10 4 2016 May 03 95 5 2 2016 May 04 105 5 2 2016 May 05 110 8 3 2016 May 06 110 12 3 2016 May 07 110 12 3 2016 May 08 110 10 3 2016 May 09 105 8 3 2016 May 10 100 18 4 2016 May 11 95 25 5 2016 May 12 95 20 4 2016 May 13 95 5 2 2016 May 14 95 12 4 2016 May 15 95 5 2 2016 May 16 90 5 2 2016 May 17 82 5 2 2016 May 18 82 5 2 2016 May 19 82 12 4 2016 May 20 82 15 5 2016 May 21 82 12 4 2016 May 22 82 5 2 2016 May 23 85 5 2 2016 May 24 90 10 3 2016 May 25 95 5 2 2016 May 26 95 5 2 2016 May 27 95 5 2 2016 May 28 95 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1824, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS, AS OF MAY 5, 2016 Keith, From IPS in Australia, the global HF propagation forecast thru May 7: normal at low latitudes, normal to fair at middle and high latitudes, with MUF depressions on *May* 7. From Spaceweather South Africa, thru May 7, magnetic conditions quiet until unsettled on the 7th; shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. RSGB says, a look at an HF propagation coverage map from VOACAP Online shows May generally sees the start of the summer doldrums when maximum usable frequencies are generally lower during daylight hours, but remain higher at night. From Met Office UK, Four-Day Space Weather Forecast Summary until May 9: Solar activity expected to remain at low or very low levels with none of the currently visible sunspots posing a significant risk of Moderate class flares (R1 Radio Blackouts). On the 7th and 8th geomagnetic activity is expected to become enhanced due to the influence of a coronal hole high speed stream. Active (Kp 4) intervals are likely with a chance of isolated minor storm (Kp 5 / G1) intervals. From Petr Kolman in Prague, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on May 7, 16 - 17 mostly quiet on May 8, 15, 22 - 25 perhaps active to disturbed on May (9 - 10) or quiet to active on May 9 - 11, 14, 19 - 20 quiet to unsettled on May 12 - 13, 18, 21 From SWPC in Boulder, G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are likely on May 11 with A and K indices of 25 and 5; and May 20 at 15 and 5. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 on May 13, and 15 to 18. Solar flux dropping from 110 on May 8 to 82 by May 17. Keep checking for sporadic E openings as low as 15 MHz, strong signals from stations too close for normal reception, such as for me WWCR 15825 at 1 megameter distance. It can build up to 26, 60, 100 MHz or more for unpredictable openings more likely in the afternoon and evening. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting from May 8 along the southwestern coast of Mexico; all week along the coasts of Angola and Namibia, and all around the Arabian peninsula, and extremely extreme as far as India (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ PRINCE As a follow-up to my previous remarx about not dying on a Thursday (April 21), and poor Time Magazine not being able to cover this for another biweek due to a pre-planned ``double-issue`` --- when the next issue finally emerges, post-dated May 16 but received May 6, what do they do?? A routine 1-page obit and certainly no cover about Prince, but instead a full-page ad for a special issue one must purchase separately all about him (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###