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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1878 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Argentina non, Australia, Bougainville, Burundi non, China, Cuba, Fiji, Kashmir non, Korea North, Korea South, Kosovo, Morocco, North America, Perú, Russia, Slovakia non, Taiwan, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1878, May 18-24, 2017 Thu 2130 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 [NEW] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [to be canceled] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 9455 [to be canceled] Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 [NEW; to be canceled] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 9455 Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 9455 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 ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NOW tnx to Keith Weston, also Podcasts via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio 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 issues (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/ ** AFGHANISTAN. DESTRUYEN LA VOZ DEL CALIFATO, LA RADIO AFGANA DEL IS 13/05/2017 Operar la radio de Estado Islámico en Afganistán, La Voz del Califato, es una auténtica condena a muerte para cualquier yihadista destinado a esa tarea. El brazo radiofónico de la propaganda de los terroristas es uno de los objetivos primordiales de Kabul y la coalición internacional, motivo por el que ha sido destruida en varias ocasiones matando, cada vez, a docenas de combatientes. Sin embargo, los terroristas sólo tardan unos días en hacerla resucitar. La radio, que es de naturaleza itinerante para no ser un objetivo fácil y retransmite desde la provincia de Nangarhar, al este del país y donde el grupo terrorista tiene su centro de operaciones, ha vuelto a ser destruida días pasados durante un ataque aéreo en el que también han muerto 34 combatientes del IS, según han informado el Ministerio del Interior afgano y la Misión de la OTAN en el país (Resolute Support). El portavoz del gobernador provincial, Attaullah Khogyani, ha informado que “diversos ataques aéreos en los distritos de Nazyano y Achin”, dos de los más conflictivos del país, “combinados con varias operaciones de los comandos afganos y las fuerzas extranjeras, han destruido escondites y posiciones de los yihadistas, así como su principal medio de comunicación radiofónico en la provincia”, refiriéndose a La Voz del Califato. Asmismo, Khogyani ha confirmado que “al menos 34 terroristas del IS han resultado muertos durante las operaciones”, para luego hacer hincapié en que “muchos de ellos eran extranjeros”. De esta manera, el portavoz ha vuelto a exponer que, pese a tener sus capacidades mermadas, el grupo terrorista todavía es capaz de introducir combatientes en el país bajo la bandera negra del Califato de Khorasan, que es como los yihadistas llaman a la zona que comprende Afganistán, Irán, Pakistán e India, entre otros países. Por su parte, el Ministerio del Interior afgano ha realizado un comunicado público en el que, además de confirmar la cifra de muertos, han informado que “la radio estaba retransmitiendo ilegalmente por toda la provincia de Nangarhar difundiendo los mensajes de los terroristas, así como amenazas contra civiles y los trabajadores gubernamentales” Resultado de imagen para la voz del califato [capción] Pese a los muertos, la radio siempre resucita El brazo fuerte de la propaganda yihadista al este de Afganistán fue creado en 2015, poco después de la llegada del grupo terrorista al país, cuando conquistaron grandes partes de la provincia de Nangarhar, para luego centrarse en el montañoso distrito de Achin, famoso por sus cuevas en las que se han escondido ejércitos desde tiempos inmemoriales, y donde la construcción subterránea no ha parado desde que los mujahidín lucharon contra la Unión Soviética (1979-1989) financiados por la Agencia Central de Inteligencia norteamericana (CIA), más tarde continuado por los talibán que las agrandaron y alojaron a Osama Bin Laden, y ahora por Estado Islámico. Por otro lado, Achin es el mismo distrito donde en abril pasado Estados Unidos lanzó la GBU-43, el mayor proyectil no-nuclear de su arsenal militar, apodada como la madre de todas las bombas, cuyos efectos todavía causan controversia a nivel político, tras el enfrentamiento entre el ex presidente afgano, Hamid Karzai, y el actual dueño del Palacio Presidencial, Ashraf Ghani, y a nivel militar, ya que tanto los presuntos 94 terroristas del IS muertos como los efectos de la bomba todavía no han sido confirmados. Desde su creación, La Voz del Califato ha sido destruida en varias ocasiones. El mayor ataque aéreo contra el medio propagandístico lo llevó a cabo la aviación estadounidense en febrero de 2016, que la destruyó en el mismo distrito matando a 21 terroristas que se encontraban en los aledaños de la misma. Un éxito, por otro lado, efímero, ya que pocas semanas después la radio volvía a estar en antena y retransmitiendo hasta el corazón de Jalalabad, la capital provincial que es clave para sostener todo el este de Afganistán. La destrucción de la radio del IS puede que vuelva a ser una acción efímera, pero ésta llega un día después del demoledor golpe a su estructura militar tras la confirmación por parte del Pentágono de la muerte del mulá Abdul Hasib Logari, uno de los máximos cabecillas del grupo terrorista en el país, durante la operación en la que el pasado 27 de abril murieron dos soldados estadounidenses. Unas muertes que todavía están siendo investigadas para esclarecer si éstas se produjeron a consecuencia de fuego amigo. Según Washington, los sargentos Joshua P. Rodgers, de 22 años y oriundo de Illinois, y Cameron H. Thomas, de 23 y nacido en el estado de Ohio, formaban parte de un comando de los Rangers, una de las ramas de las fuerzas especiales norteamericanas, realizando una misión en el distrito de Achin para matar al mulá Logari, quien estaba en la lista de los terroristas más buscados y peligrosos tras orquestar el ataque contra el hospital militar de Kabul en el que murieron 140 civiles y militares afganos (El Mundo via GRA blog via DXLD) WTFK? ** AFGHANISTAN. Reception of Radio Afghanistan External Service May 10 1530-1635 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs English/Urdu/Arabic & off 1635-1730 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Arabic/Russian, NO SIGNAL http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-radio-afghanistan-external.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via DXLD) [and non] Random reception of R. Afghanistan External Service May 16 from 1533 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs English and no signal at 1550 Very weak 6100 KNG 250 kW / non-dir NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang at 1555 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-afghanistan-external-sce-kcbs.html Weak to fair signal of Radio Afghanistan External Service on May 17: 1530-1705 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs English/Urdu/Arabic/Russian & off! * from 1705 6100 KNG 250 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang, weak signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/weak-to-fair-signal-of-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. MILITANTS STORM AFGHANISTAN’S NATIONAL BROADCASTER ISLAMABAD — A group of heavily armed militants, including suicide bombers, have stormed a state broadcaster’s facility in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least two people and wounding at least 20 others, officials said. Wednesday’ assault in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province, began with bombers blowing themselves up, making way for others to enter the building of national Radio Television Afghanistan, or RTA, officials and witnesses told local journalists. There were no immediate claims of responsibility. The main Taliban insurgency has denied involvement, saying it has nothing to do with the attack. Militants linked to Islamic State are also active in Nangarhar and have regularly carried out attacks against government-run facilities as well as Afghan and U.S. forces who are conducting joint operations in the province to eliminate loyalists of the Syria-based terrorist group. Here is the original link: http://www.voanews.com/a/militants-storm-afghanistan-national-broadcaster/3853882.html Posted by: (Antonello Napolitano, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ALASKA [and non]. 11765, May 12 at 1359, CNR1 jammer against Taiwan, to timesignal 1400 and off, then KNLS sign-on in English immediately audible, but still some weaker CCI, which is CRI English via Urumqi on a 212 degree azimuth per Aoki. KNLS aims due west, so hearing it at all down here is difficult. Not really strong enough for listenability, and also has some splash from 11760 RHC especially during music, even with USB tuning. Where is the other KNLS transmitter at 1400? 7355 in Chinese. Other English broadcasts are all on 11870 at 08-09, 10-11 and 12-13, the last also // 7355. I recently remarked that the KNLS English hour was easier to hear via MADAGASCAR, but really now unseems so: 02-03 on 9600, 03-04 on 15515, both aimed at India (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA URL of Livestream the Foreign Service Program-3 "Radio Tirana": This stream URL is embedded in the website of "Radio Tirana": Radio Tirana programme schedule. These should be the correct UTC now: 0000-0015 UT Greek 0015-0030 UT Serbian 0030-0100 UT Italian 0100-0130 UT French 0130-0200 UT English 0200-0330 UT Albanian * 0330-0400 UT German 0400-0430 UT Turkish 0430-0500 UT Italian 0500-0530 UT French 0530-0600 UT German 0600-0512 UT English 0630-0700 UT Turkish 0700-0800 UT Albanian * 0800-0815 UT Serbian 0815-0830 UT Greek 0830-0900 UT English 0900-0930 UT German 0930-1000 UT Italian 1000-1030 UT French 1030-1100 UT Turkish 1100-1115 UT Serbian * 1115-1130 UT Greek 1130-1200 UT English 1200-1230 UT German 1230-1300 UT Italian 1300-1330 UT French 1330-1400 UT Turkish 1400-1530 UT Albanian * 1530-1545 UT Serbian 1545-1600 UT Greek 1600-1630 UT English 1630-1700 UT German 1700-1730 UT Italian 1730-1800 UT French 1800-1830 UT German 1830-1900 UT Turkish 1900-1930 UT Italian 1930-2000 UT German 2000-2030 UT English 2030-2045 UT Serbian 2045-2100 UT Greek 2100-2200 UT French << Error? Possibly 2130-2200 UT. 2100-2130 UT Italian 2200-2230 UT English 2230-2300 UT Turkish 2300-0000 UT Albanian * (Richard Langley-NB-CAN, dxld May 3; and * updates by Alexander Busneag-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 14, via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Télédiffusion d'Algérie via TDF Issoudun, May 17 0400-0458 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px 0500-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px 0500-0513 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 0513-0558 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1 0600-0613 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 0613-0658 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-telediffusion-dalgerie-via_17.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. Question: Abbreviations Used In WOR --- Hi. I have noticed some SWL abbreviations used in the WOR transmissions. So far, I have not found out what they mean. Even Google Searches did not show me what they are. The first one that comes to mind is 'DGS'. Anyone know what that abbreviation stands for. Maybe there is some place on the internet where I can find what these SWL abbreviations stand for. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chuck, Welcome to the group. As for abbrs., You will become familiar with our lingo as time goes on, but feel free to ask about others. DGS = Doctor (or Dead) Gene Scott, who is still heard on Anguilla 6090, 11775; WWCR 5935, 13845. Also his widow, PMS = Pastor Melissa Scott. 73, (Glenn, ibid.) Hi Glen[n], Thanks for the reply. Ahha. DGS=Dr or Dead Gene Scott transmissions. 'World of Radio', I have recently started reading on the internet. I have been listening occasionally to the 'Caribbean Beacon', Pastor Mellisa Scott's transmitter during the day off and on for many months and noted the extremely distorted audio being emitted from their Anguilla Island shortwave transmitter on 11775 kHz. I have tried contacting the 'Caribbean Beacon' station via email (no response), and via Dr. Melissa Scott's Twitter account (no response so far). To me it sounds like the transmitter modulation control is turned up too loud. It could be that station might be controlled remotely, from California via internet, with a computer which I think is being done more and more. It could be that either the transmitter or antenna was damaged in one of those hurricanes a while ago. I remember seeing a Twitter feed from Pastor Melissa Scott's in, I think, January 'praising God that the Caribbean Beacon had returned to the air'. I feel that it is a waste of resources to transmit such a distorted transmit signal. I hope to continue this endeavor, as I was an avid SWL Dx'er before I received my ham radio license. 73 de (Chuck W3ON, ibid.) ** ANTARCTICA. LRA36 R Nac Argentine Antarctica --- 15475.973 kHz noted only string visible UNDERNEATH threshold, only S=3 or -105dBm level, no audio signal so far. On May 11th at 1840 UT heard in western England SDR remote unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 1848 UT May 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15475.973 kHz noted only string visible UNDERNEATH threshold, only S=2-3 or -113dBm level, no audio signal so far. On May 12th at 18.50 UT heard in western England SDR remote unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. ESTÁ FUERA DEL AIRE RADIO MADRES --- 13/05/2017 Desde hace algún tiempo está fuera del aire Radio Madres (ex La Voz de las Madres), que operaba en la frecuencia de 530 kHz, ignorándose las razones de su salida del éter y si volverá al aire. COMENZÓ A TRANSMITIR UNA NUEVA RADIO EN LA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES --- 13/05/2017 Está transmitiendo en la frecuencia de 540 Khz “Pasión por la Radio”. Su identificación dice: Está transmitiendo AM540 Pasión por la Radio, desde la Ciudad de Buenos Aires”. La nueva emisora estaría vinculada a K24 en Radio que transmite en 690 kHz también desde CABA [Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires]. Uno de los programas de la emisora es “Conexión Verde y Blanca” dedicado al Club Atlético Excursionistas, institución deportiva ubicada en el Bajo Belgrano (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, GRA blog via DXLD) not coincidental? (gh) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, May 12 at 0100:00, WRMI with Bob Biermann ID, then 0100:30 to RAE starting with their multi-lingual ID, Bob again saying something about World Band (so this is sorta integrated into Biermann`s Oldies service), and on to RAE itself, ``celebrating the WRMI relays`` (but it seems only mentioning this frequency, not planned? // 11580, and for Spanish, only 5950? at 22-23 which is also supposed to be on 11580 now). (Most of this hour I must watch Rachel Maddow on MSNBC for first-rate reporting on the scandalous Trump regime.) 0153 recheck, Farrías` wrapup mentions the Audio Now phone service, and also says they are ``currently working on expanding SW relays to all 8 languages``. That should mean a lot more airtime on WRMI, perhaps all afternoon to Europe (like 15345v was --- hey, WRMI could occupy that frequency), but what about Chinese and Japanese? A long shot via WRMI (but less long than direct from antipodal General Pacheco!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, Friday May 12 at 2200, RAE, Argentina al Mundo, Spanish service is opening via WRMI; originally on 5950 only aimed south, which remains a JBA carrier if any so early here, much better 11580 was soon added, but RAE apparently doesn`t know it. On the NE 44-degree antenna toward Europe, so midnight in Spain (still not returned to only UT+1, while it should really be UT=0). Also a beam better along the east coast of North America. I think it was on a week ago too but at 2230 cut to WORLD OF RADIO for the last time at this hour. This week, RAE continues past 2230 and seems to be amid the DX program, `Actualidad DX` at 2227, but I don`t have time to listen closely. 11580 also continues to show on the WRMI sked grid for RAE in English at 01-02 UT Tue-Sat, as well as 9395, but 11580 is still carrying variety of other programming this hour: 0117 UT May 13, some gospel huxter, presumably following `Dub Politico` at 0100. And at 0147 amid IBC Radio with the ham DX news I have heard before. So I listen to 9395 for a while. YL with scripted feature, mixed with nice music bits, 0128 outro as `Stories of the Bicentenary`. Then multiple contact info, song, and starting at 0133.5, the ``Saturday`` DX program, so they really mean UT Saturday in this case, a good thing, since there is no SW broadcast on UT Sunday! In Spanish it`s `Actualidad DX` but I`m not clear what they call it in English, as ``Actuality DX`` doesn`t really translate well. First reminds us of RAE`s own new SW relays via WRMI, Spanish M-F 22-23 on 5950; English Tue-Sat 01-02 on 9395 (and only these, not mentioning either the 08-09 Spanish scheduled on 5850; can anyone awake confirm that? Tue-Sat). After that, only one subject, about a station (FM of course) for Mosul, Iraq, transmitting from Erbil, Kurdistan, with clips. Ends at 0145 already with credit to Arnaldo Slaen for production, into song; 0152 headlines and about to close. Reception remains strong and steady, altho later in the evening, the MUF often falls below 9395 into a JBA carrier. I thought early editions of the new DX program (in Spanish) were much longer, and they may vary some, but now we have the time to enter into DX/SWL/Media Programs, in English: UT Sat 0133-0145 http://www.worldofradio.org/dxpgms.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [non]. RAE in German back on SW via Germany RAE - auf Deutsch - auf KW - Sonder-QSL-Karte Liebe Freunde! heute melde ich mich bei Ihnen, um Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass RAE wieder auf der Kurzwelle sendet und zwar in deutscher Sprache -via Radio360- wie folgt: Montag-Freitag 2100-2200 UTC RAE (Live) en 3985 kHz Dienstag-Samstag 0900-1000 UTC RAE (Wiederholung) auf 6005 kHz Die Empfangsberichte sollen mit einer nummerierten Sonder-QSL-Karte von RAE bestätigt werden. Ich hoffe, Ihnen allen geht es sehr gut! Liebe Grüße aus Argentinien! (Ihre Rayén Braun, May 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) According to the Shortwaveservice website, the new relay RAE - Argentinien in die Welt relay at 2100-2200 UT results in the R Belarus German relay to be moved to 2200-2400, and V of Mongolia in English to move to 0000-0030. [i.e. way after midnight in Europe --- gh] http://www.shortwaveservice.com/index.php/de/sendeplan/3985-khz (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, May 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [non]. From RAE Argentina to the World --- Querido Glenn, Este correo [abajo] es una respuesta genérica que se envía a los SWL y diexistas que nos hicieron llegar reportes correctos y verificados. Ya tenemos las QSL CARD impresas (y numeradas, comenzando por la tuya, que como ya sabes es la 001) y en pocos días saldrán via correo postal hacia allí. Asimismo hay un jpg que tiene una imagen del frente de la tarjeta que recibirás y también el schedule que comenzamos a implementar paulatinamente entre los dias 22 y 23 de mayo y que significan, nada más ni nada menos, que la emisión via relay WRMI de los programas de RAE en nuestros 8 idiomas de LUNES A VIERNES (en algunos casos MARTES A SABADO UTC) Para los idiomas español e inglés habrá actualización informativa pues realizaremos 2 emisiones diarias. Teniendo en cuenta que el programa en francés dura 30 minutos estamos trabajando en difundir un programa diario también de 30 minutos en lenguas quechua. Lo cual está encaminado pero aún no se ha confirmado. Estamos felices con la repercusión de nuestra presencia en SW via WRMI, entusiasmo que esperemos ayude a reparar nuestro emisor histórico en la planta de Pacheco. Reportes vienen llegando todo el tiempo desde los más remotos lugares del planeta, confirmando lo que muchos sabemos pero otros tantos ignoran: LA ONDA CORTA ESTÁ VIVA y presenta excelentes oportunidades a quien sepa, pueda y quiera, asumirlas. Mi abrazo y afecto de siempre. 73 (Adrian Korol, 1707 UT May 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friend, We have just received your reception report to RAE Argentina al Mundo, via WRMI relay. According our files we are happy to tell that your report is correct. Next week we are going to send you our SPECIAL NUMBERED QSL CARD via regular POST In these experimental shortwave broadcasting we appreciated emails, reports, comments and messages from SWL and DXers all around the world. RAE new project focus at radio in all its ways, 360 degrees radio platforms, from shortwaves to iTunes. Broadcasting in 8 languages from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Next week we´ll start to transmit all our languages programms on shortwaves, you´ll find the UTC time and KHZ frequencies in the pdf document attached to this email. The eqsl is only an advance gift, you are going to receive the printed one in a few weeks. Thank you very much for listening and report RAE shortwaves broadcast. Keep in touch! 73 & DX Adrian Korol Director, RAE Argentina al Mundo Tel: (+549) 1152789100 Int. 640 Mobile: (+549) 1128531039 Web: http://www.rae.com.ar (via Korol, English version also via Mark F. Tattenbaum, DXLD) The attached pdf ``experimental`` schedule is not in copiable form, so I retype it: Mon-Fri: 11-12 9955 Portuguese 13-14 11580 French 21-22 11580 German 22-23 11580 Italian 22-23 5950 Spanish Tue-Sat: 00-01 7730 Spanish 01-02 9395 English 06-07 7730 Japanese 07-08 5850 & 7730 English 08-09 5850 Chinese 09-10 5850 Japanese This adds up to 60 transmitter-hours per week, probably second only to Brother Scare as a WRMI client {Or third, after Oldies on 9395} All this knox out a whole lot of other WRMI programming, including more of the WORLD OF RADIO times, leaving only: Sun 0200 11580 Mon 0330 9955 Tue 2130 9455 & 15770 Wed 1000 5850 & 9455 Wed 1315 9955 We hope Jeff will be able to slot us in at some other times! Of course, these will also need to be reconfirmed, as they could also be knocked off by other higher priority programs knocked off by RAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. WESTERN AUSTRALIA: NEW LOW-POWER SHORTWAVE BROADCASTER SEEKING LISTENER REPORTS by Thomas from The SWLing Post on 2017-05-02 11:46 (#2N2HG) https://pipedot.org/article/2N2HG SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg Many thank to SWLing Post reader, Stefano Mollo–a licensed Australian broadcaster–who shares the following news: Hi, Thomas, I have started test transmissions from Perth, Western Australia, on 5045 kHz, at 75 watts (300 PEP). Shortwave-Transmitter.jpg Stefano’s HF transmitter For the time being, I am using the same audio of my other station–77.4 MHz FM–which you can also find and stream online here: http://www.77400.fm Digital-Tech-Shortwave-Transmitter.jpg My test transmission are on the air from about 7:00 pm to about 10:00 pm every evening, local Perth WA time (1100–1400 UT). Please direct listener reports and any enquiries to 77400fm@gmail.com Thank you for sharing your news, Stefano! Post readers: While 300 watts PEP is a modest broadcast signal, no doubt many in Australia, Oceania and Asia will be able to log Stefano’s station when conditions are favorable. During band openings, his signal might travel quite a distance. Let’s help Stefano by contacting him with detailed listener reports! http://swling.com/blog/2017/05/western-australia-new-low-power-shortwave-broadcaster-seeking-listener-reports/ (via Ian, May 11, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Antenna is a Moonraker, made in Tasmania: Type 32H/S HF base station antenna system for tropical and high wind locations (via Ian, ibid.) You may be able to find a spex and instruxions pdf page via: https://www.moonraker.com.au/hf-antennas too slow-loading for me (gh, DXLD) Hi Glenn, Since this announcement came out, I have been daily monitoring 5045, but with no results here in California. Not even a trace of a carrier heard. Believe it will take much more power before it reaches my QTH. Am daily hearing India on 5040 and China on 5050, during my mornings (Ron Howard, May 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've listened several nights, including last night (May 13) around 1145 UT; never a trace of a carrier even with the SDR in a very high RBW mode. Yet I routinely copy VK6 stations on 160, 80 and 40m in wspr mode, which are typically very low power, in the milliwatt or just a few watts. 300 watts and a decent antenna should do quite well. I'm not convinced 5045 has been on the air at any of the times I've listened (Don Moman, Alberta, VE6JY, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, ibid.) Kiwi DXers have also been monitoring 5045 regularly since 3 May. Only on 4 May has there been any evidence of this station coming on air, with weak audio being heard between 1109 and 1400 by DXers in Otago, Taranaki and myself in Northland. A carrier was observed opening on 5044.984 kHz at 1109 UT that day. I subsequently heard disco or drum & bass rhythms at very weak level at 1350 past 1402. An enquiry to the station together with an audio file resulted in an automated response: ``thank you for emailing us; we take every email seriously and we do read each and every one of 'em, but we may not reply to all of 'em. We will contact you if we feel is the case or if we need more information from you. Cheers, The 77400FM team :-)`` However nothing since received, either on shortwave or by email (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, NZ, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Don, I saw a report from station last week that said off air due to antenna issues. I haven't heard station as yet, but I have attempted to receive the station over the last two local evenings within Australia & it definitely wasn't on air at the times I tried, circa 11-12 UT (Ian, AUSTRALIA, May 14, ibid.) Looks like transmitter is this one, modified for 60mb. http://www.pll.gr/product?pid=AM-75W TX antenna problems reported last week on: http://swling.com/blog/ Station not reported by anyone over last week (Ian, May 13, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 6507-USB, May 11 at 1234, very poor signal with marine weather in Oz English by OM. EiBi shows it`s VMC, Charleville, Queensland at 0800-2100. This is one of the stations the powers than be say those in need of weather info should listen to instead of deleted ABC. So now I know where the sibling to more frequently heard VMW Wiluna WA, 6230-USB at 10-23, resides. Yet on the 12 MHz band they are only 3 kHz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: Dearly beloved, we come together to reflect upon RA Shepparton More: - Nigel today forwarded this link published today from the 'Shepparton News' http://www.sheppnews.com.au/2017/05/11/88161/radio-australia-for-sale An important poignant reminder to readers of the article. Closing date for expressions of interest in the property is June 2017. However the Federal Government Senate Committee is not due to report until August 2017! :-( (Ian, May 11, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Re: AUSTRALIA: Senate Committee - ABC SW Sites Thanks Kai, Nigel's submission #40 only appeared subsequent to my posting. I strongly encourage readers to read Nigel's post. It's superbly written - but that's a personal opinion http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=05460a3d-58ca-416c-971a-8fcdc2546c92&subId=511076 (Ian, May 11, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Best read in the original pdf of 9 pages, but very important to reproduce entirely here. Note the quotation marks, which surround italicized material from ABC in the original. Some headings are also in bold face (gh, DXLD) Viz.: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017 Submission 40 Committee Secretary Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications PO Box 6100 Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Dear Secretary, My background demonstrates extensive strategic and practical experience in shortwave (High Frequency - HF) technologies applicable to broadcasting, data & telemetry and emergency communications as well as all other technologies used for radio broadcasting including online and satellite systems. e.g. * 1990-2013, Transmission Manager, Radio Australia, at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Responsibilities included delivery of Radio Australia (RA) programming to international audiences using Australian based HF, satellite, online, re-broadcast (off-shore HF and in-country AM/FM) and transcription technologies. * 2002-present, member of Australian Radio Study Group 3 (Radio Propagation in ionised & non-ionised media) which is an ITU-R review and proposal group under the local direction of ACMA. * 1997-present, member of the High Frequency Consultative Committee (HFCC), Geneva. * 1983-present, volunteer member of VICSES where HF technology is a proven and valuable dimension to emergency communications. I offer a submission in support of Shortwave (High Frequency or HF) broadcasting for the consideration of the Committee. The submission addresses the need for Australia to retain a HF delivery infrastructure for domestic and international broadcasting as a component of national security and soft diplomacy, and as a key broadcasting conduit for the ABC to meet its charter obligations. The submission questions ABCs motives and methods in using HF systems in recent years. Summary: High Frequency (HF) is the frequency spectrum with a practical range of 2 MHz to 40 MHz. It has unique and useful propagation characteristics allowing long range communication with simple apparatus. Australia is the world's largest civilian user of HF spectrum for remote area communications. All militaries retain and use HF plant. Most Australian emergency services use HF infrastructure. Properly managed HF broadcasting is an economically and technically efficient way to communicate to a dispersed population across very large geographic expanses. HF broadcasting has a long history of providing reliable communication to marginalised communities in remote parts of Australia and the Pacific region. HF transmissions for Radio Australia have carried the day when other technologies had failed due to environmental factors or political interference. Operating efficiencies can be greatly improved for the Australian domestic HF transmissions with an improvement in reach and reliability of those transmissions and a reduction in operating costs. HF broadcasting continues to be widely used by international broadcasters to reach dispersed populations who for political, economic or environmental reasons are unable to avail themselves of satellite, cell phone and "broadband" technologies. ABC is neglecting a charter obligation to cater for all Australians. Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017 Submission 40 Does the ABC know what it's doing? Michael Mason, ABCs Director of Radio stated that: “While shortwave technology has served audiences well for many decades, it is now nearly a century old and serves a very limited audience. The ABC is seeking efficiencies and will instead service this audience through modern technology.” (ABC website December 2016) Mason needs some remedial lessons on the history of broadcasting. Medium Frequency (MF) ("AM") broadcasting commenced around 1921 and HF broadcasting came along a decade later. But Mason's ill-informed comment begs the question: when did the maturity of a technology determine its use-by-date? Would Mason champion a triangular wheel on the grounds that the existing model has been around for a few thousand years? Mason and the rest of the ABC executive are probably aware that John Faine, Steve Price, Ray Hadley, Alan Jones and Neil Mitchell command huge audiences - through the full range of media available to "radio" broadcasters including "AM" which, by Mason's thinking must be hopelessly outdated. I could be mean and point out that "AM" continues to provide the lion's share of audience to these worthies. What we see here is an insight to the ABCs intention to found a view that HF broadcasting is ineffective in order to subvert transmission funds from HF to program production and more sexy modes of delivery, i.e. expand DAB+ around the capital cities and environs. After several years of intentionally degrading its domestic and international HF services ABC felt sufficiently safe to answer the question: "How much money will the ABC save through ending the shortwave services?" with this bizarrely damning effort "This decision is about maximising finite resources and better focussing them on audiences. The closure of shortwave radio transmission services will potentially allow for $1.9 million to be reinvested in expanded content and services. Part of this reinvestment includes improved FM broadcasting capabilities to some of the regions currently relying on shortwave. Domestically, the costs of transmission via shortwave will be reinvested in extending digital radio services into all eight capital cities." (about.abc.net.au/press-releases/shortwave-radio/ 2017 January 7) Or in other words: we at the ABC really like making programs; less keen on distributing them and really irritated by remote area listeners when we could be pandering to our inner city elites. And if the dispersed HF audiences across the remote areas of Australia were in any doubt on how the ABC views them then the answer to the next question clarified the matter once and for all. "What will the ABC reinvest this money in?" Answer: "Domestically, the ABC, working alongside SBS, is currently planning to extend digital radio services in Darwin and Hobart, and to make permanent its current trial in Canberra. Extending DAB+ into all eight capital cities would represent an additional reach of 700,000 people, increasing the overall reach [of DAB+] to 60% of the Australian population. ABC Radio is also investigating transmission improvements to address reception gaps in the existing five DAB+ markets. It aims to ensure a resilient DAB+ service in every capital city, with enhanced bitrates and infill where necessary. Internationally, part of this reinvestment includes improved FM broadcasting capabilities to some of the regions currently relying on shortwave." (about.abc.net.au/press-releases/shortwave-radio/ 2017 January 7) I'll pause here to let the roars of approval from the former HF listeners in Canberra subside. The miserable cries of the grey (& black) nomads, truckers, stockmen and Jillaroos within a 1000 km of Tennant Creek don't reach the upper floors of the ABCs HQ fortunately. This is a good place to comment on the last paragraph of that ABC response. Up to 2011 RA had a fully funded network of dozens of in-country FM relays through either partnerships with local broadcasters or with new self-contained FM transmission facilities, all fed from a comprehensive satellite distribution network across southeast Asia and the Pacific regions. There were two specialised staff within RA who installed and commissioned the new FM transmitters, and provided technical support to maintain the FM relay systems. From 2011 to the present ABC progressively attenuated money and staff in the RA transmission arena with predictable results. The money was diverted into television programming, international business development and questionable relationships with overseas broadcasters. Most of these FM relays are now permanently off-air. But FM relays were merely one string in the bow of RAs international broadcasting conduits. Across the Pacific cyclones routinely bowl satellite dishes into the ocean, drop local broadcast towers and devastate communities. Political upheavals leave local media under real threat. Local infrastructure such as electricity plant is often out of action for hours or days for lack of maintenance or funds. In these situations battery powered HF receivers are life savers. In 2009 the two local RA FM relays in Suva and Nadi were terminated at gun point and remained off-air for over two years. HF carried the vitally important RA news and current affairs services into a country desperately starved of uncensored media. Cyclone Pam flattened the RA FM relay in Port Vila (Vanuatu) in 2015 just when it might have had something helpful to communicate. The local VBTC services were also disrupted. RAs HF broadcasts remained loud and clear and available. Recently an Australian retailer shipped in to Solomon Islands 500 HF broadcast receivers, small, portable, battery-powered, solar-charged. This enabled listeners beyond the 20 km reach of RAs FM relay in Honiara to hear: their own SIBC domestic HF, runner up was RA on HF followed by Radio New Zealand International on HF. The RA FM relays in Lae and Port Moresby have a range of about 20 km on a good day. How does the rest of the country fare? I'll give you another clue, HF is used by PNGs NBC. Yup, listeners across PNG can listen to their domestic broadcasts on HF. They used to be able hear RA on HF until January this year. To be fair I have to point out that NBC transmitters are often off-air due to poor maintenance and/or non- payment of salaries & power bills. But surely the ABC is not distorting facts that support HF broadcasting? The ABC is spreading falsehoods in the fervent hope the casual reader will take these as gospel based on the broadcaster's previous good reputation. ABC asks us the question: What is the shortwave service area in the NT? And answers: ``The current shortwave system was designed as a “vertical incident transmission system”, with reliability designed for a 200 km radius from the transmission tower. While the service can be received beyond this (on occasion, due to atmospheric conditions, across the other side of the globe), it is in no way assured. For reliable day/night coverage frequency changes are recommended and are common place. The single frequency at Rowe (sic) Creek (due to equipment reliability issues) has caused interference problems with other broadcasters for some time, leading to coverage issues. Further to this, QLD, SA, WA and NSW do not have an ABC shortwave service, nor has there been an expressed need for this – these States also having vast remote areas.`` ABC has stated the range of the domestic HF service is a radius of 200 km from each site. The ABC`s statement is wrong and misleading. The design range is 450 km with an omnidirectional pattern. The actual service area is 630,000 square kilometres or five times greater than the area the ABC would like us to believe for each site (Alice Springs, Tennant Ck & Katherine). In practise HF signals gallop across state and national boundaries a fact which irritates dictators and the ABC alike. The signals from the domestic HF stations at night provided worthwhile reception in most of WA and QLD. Hell, I could routinely hear the evening signals from Alice Springs 2,000 km away in Melbourne at good level. In fact the original design service areas covered part of Queensland. The design service range of 450 km was verified by commissioning tests in 1986 and was maintained until ABC deliberately used an inappropriate night- time channel for the Alice Springs transmitter. Starting with the domestic HF service ABC has mounted a campaign of wilful degradation in the management of its HF transmission systems to promote a perception of poor performance and declining listenership. Part of an HF system is frequency management. Due to the unique propagation mechanisms utilised by HF signals a range of frequencies must be used across the 24 hours, and across the 11-year solar cycle. Typically two frequencies will be necessary for a domestic service with a range of 0-450 km (the service range of each of the three NT domestic HF transmitters). A "day" frequency around 5 MHz and a "night" frequency around 2.3 MHz had been used at each NT site since the service commenced in 1986. Under the guise of improving transmitter availability due to poor maintenance ABC insisted its contractor drop the night frequency at the most important NT site (near Alice Springs) and run the day frequency continuously. This had the effect of diminishing the night- time signal in the range of 0-450 km - precisely that site's prime target area! An unintended consequence was a massive increase in the strength of the night-time signal at ranges of 1000-5,000 km! Listeners in the Top End > 1000 km from Alice found an extra service in addition to those from Tennant Creek and Katherine while RAN listeners afloat in the Indian Ocean were really chuffed at being able to follow rugby coverage over and above that offered on RA. On the serious issue of emergency communications including alerts of severe weather events ABC has continued in the vein of partial truths and pushing inquirers towards its preferred position. "Are Bureau of Meteorology shortwave broadcasts for marine forecasts/info only?" Answer: "The only weather information broadcast on HF(shortwave) in Australia is from the BoM, which is mainly for maritime use. This is except in emergency situations, where BoM provides detailed reports on cyclones and other storm emergencies. BoM HF reports are specific to maritime weather, more specifically cyclones which are predominantly the major cause of mass emergency in the NT. BoM is the best place for advice, and is the same source of information for the ABC. BoM services scale to the conditions, i.e. while day to day services have a maritime focus, during periods of forecast cyclone activity the Bureau provides appropriate information (supplemented with their online services). There are no full time HF (shortwave) broadcasts of emergency information in Australia, except for the BoM maritime reports at the top of each hour for approximately 10 minutes. They cover the coastal areas and areas where cyclones occur." (about.abc.net.au/press-releases/shortwave-radio/ 2017 January 7) ABC routinely takes BoM information and inserts it into MF ("AM") and FM broadcasts which have a limited range, typically 150 km and 100 km respectively during daytime, and cover much smaller areas compared the HF services. Clearly ABC is telling the public that people travelling outside of Sydney or indeed even Darwin do so at their peril and cannot hope for timely information from ABC on safety-of-life matters. Again, a damning example of half-truth is contained in the ABC answer above: ABC conveniently neglects to mention that the BoM HF broadcasts employ "upper-sideband, suppressed carrier" modulation (USB) which is *completely incompatible* with HF broadcast receivers intended for reception of services such as the ABC domestic HF transmissions. n.b. the converse does not hold. Professional-grade USB receivers & transceivers may receive HF domestic broadcasts quite well. This fact is exploited by grey nomads, sailors & truckers using HF two-way radios, e.g. RFDS, private & maritime HF networks. Many sailors programmed their HF transceivers with RA HF channels to receive news and entertainment across the Pacific. If the ABC is correct in its observation concerning a lack of emergency broadcasts on HF, using accessible modes, then it should continue to fill this void with its domestic HF services. Following the successful ploy to degrade the efficiency of the NT HF service from Alice Springs by using an entirely inappropriate frequency, ABC extrapolated the idea to Radio Australia HF services into the Pacific. An efficient HF schedule using six transmitters was established many years ago and used around forty frequencies over 144 hours of transmission daily. This was verified with reception reports, modelling using Space Weather Services (formerly IPS) programs and assessment by external agencies. After 2013 ABC applied the "domestic" model of frequency management to RA HF services and cut the senders to just three using just two frequencies per transmitter, six frequency assignments in total. This was entirely incompetent frequency management that puzzled HF professionals around the world (not just broadcasters). The desired result during the key reception periods in the Pacific morning and Pacific evening saw RA broadcasts on too low a frequency completely attenuated in the upper atmosphere before even returning to earth while those on too high a frequency were fired, equally uselessly, into outer space, punching through the upper atmosphere. Reception across the Pacific was harmed to the ABCs satisfaction. Beyond Broadcasting - Who Else Uses HF? ABC asks "What is shortwave broadcasting?" and says "... Shortwave radio is used for broadcasting of voice and music to shortwave listeners, and long-distance communication to ships and aircraft, or to remote areas out of reach of wired communication or other radio services. Additionally, it is used for two-way international communication by amateur radio enthusiasts for hobby, educational and emergency purposes." The correct question is "Who uses HF in Australia?" Answer: "Hundreds of different organisations and hundreds of thousands of individuals." HF communication is a primary medium of choice when large geographic areas require a minimum level of reliable service using simple, economic and often portable or mobile receivers or transceivers. Clearly ABC doesn't understand Australia is a large geographic area or that the Pacific is even larger. Australia is the largest civilian user of HF communication technology in the world. Several Australia companies are world leaders in HF radio design, construction and sales. They sell to grey nomads in Queensland and the world's military alike. Earlier this year, one of these companies, Barrett Communications provided portable HF radio communications equipment to the West Midlands Fire Services (WMFS) for its specialist search-and-rescue teams who respond to international emergencies. I looked, but couldn't find a reference to this in ABC news. See http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/navigation/barrett-tactical/pressbarrett-equipment-rescue.html and http://www.barrettcommunications.com.au/News84_West_Midlands_Fire_Service.html Consider just one sliver of HF spectrum, 4750-5060 kHz (4.75-5.06 MHz). This is globally allocated to tropical broadcasting as opposed to international broadcasting, land mobile, aero mobile, marine mobile etc.. However it is such a useful commodity here that we find it contains over 500 Australian assignments mostly non-broadcasting i.e. in those other mobile categories. Three of these relate to the ABC broadcasts in the NT (4835, 4910 & 5025 kHz) each covering an area of >600,000 square km. A random, but not exhaustive sample of the non-broadcast users included: Australian Plague Locust Commission, Geraldton Fishermens Co Operative Ltd, Ergon Energy Corporation, Alcoa, Ambulance Victoria, Ambulance Service of NSW, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Newcrest Mining, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, Telstra, Morr Morr Pastoral Co, Bureau of Meteorology, Ardmona Stainless Steel, Shire of Upper Gascoyne, McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd, Queensland Police Service, VICPOL, Derby Volunteer Marine Rescue Group Inc. and numerous private users in remote and suburban regions of Australia. The point is that HF remains an affordable, ubiquitous and proven method of communicating over vast areas. ABC doesn't want the public to know this. The HF spectrum from 3 to 30 MHz has 21,250 assignments in Australia. These are people and organisations which pay ACMA annual licence fees for access to HF spectrum. They do so because this spectrum meets needs for communications and data transfer which are essential to their operations. This number does not include broadcast listeners, amateur radio operators or CBers. QANTAS, Defence, Telstra, RFDS, Newcrest Mining and VICSES use satellites, digital terrestrial VHF/UHF radio and broadband services. These are not poverty stricken operations, they know the meaning of mission critical communications and the need for timely dissemination of information. Unlike the ABC they know which way is up. They all use HF in routine operations. The same propagation technology that Michael Mason calls "nearly a century old" is an essential component in providing security and diversity in communications to organisations which really do know the value of money (especially taxpayers' money). But the ABC knows better, it says. ABC points at satellite services such as VAST & satellite telephone and pleads that marginalised communities are thus economically and completely served. It could be that ABC is out of touch with communities it is supposed to consider in planning content and delivery. ABC suggests "Many 4WD and long distance truck drivers are equipped with comprehensive long-range radio and/or satellite phones - both of which are two-way in nature and therefore more useful in an emergency than SW's one-way path." (about.abc.net.au/press-releases/shortwave-radio/ 2017 January 7) ABC doesn't seem to understand that AM/FM, DAB+ and VAST are also one- way paths or that the "comprehensive long-range radio" uses . . . HF (SW)! Sounds like the ABC would really like to get out of disseminating emergency information in any shape or form. ABC suggests using satellite telephone technology to establish remote area emergency communication. Sure, that works. The ABC is less forthcoming about the capex required to establish a satellite telephone facility or the continuing costs of each and every call when accessing the system. It's expensive at every step, far more expensive than operating a HF broadcast receiver or even an HF two-way transceiver, but ABC doesn't have to meet that cost so it's happy. Satellites are not sacred The fragility of satellites and indeed all inner geo orbits was demonstrated in 2007 when China intentionally shot down a satellite with a missile. The resultant debris field worried communication (and space travel) professionals far more than the act itself which merely duplicated earlier US and USSR demonstrations. Two years later two satellites collided creating a debris catastrophe. Orbital debris destroys one satellite per year on average, adding further to the problem. Earlier in 1989 high altitude satellites were destroyed by solar emanations. First world consumers' affordable access to satellite technology into the future is not guaranteed. It is imperative that Australia retains a minimum HF broadcast facility not just internally, but also for regional stability and disaster support operations. Who uses HF broadcasting these days, anyway? The current HFCC registration of international HF broadcasts list over 4,900, mostly daily, frequency assignments scheduled for the next six months. While the BBC World Service no longer uses HF to reach southeast Australia or New York it retains a swarm of HF channels in its schedule for remotes areas with limited access to online or AM/FM services or to regimes where politic volatility makes this sensible.. BBC has been in this game just about longer than anyone else and knows about horses for courses. BBC is not constipating its international HF delivery options to support domestic digital roll-outs. It has just concluded a twenty million pound refurbishment to the key HF broadcast site on Ascension Island. The current A17 BBC WS schedule shows 254 HF assignments broadcasting from UK (two sites), Singapore, UAE, Ascension Is, Taiwan and others. see http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A17&broadc=BBC A similar story applies to Deutsche Welle (43 assignments from sites in Germany, Sri Lanka, UAE, UK, Ascension Is and South America), and NHK (134 assignments from mostly its own site at Yamata, but also Germany, UAE, Tashkent, Palau, UK). Many other leading broadcasters have retained HF broadcasts today where it is clearly an effective vehicle. Voice of America runs a swarm of HF channels too - to regions where it recognises that HF works. See http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A17&broadc=IBB China is extending the range, duration and number of HF broadcasts in every HFCC registration since 2000. It has taken over at least one channel formerly used by RA into the Pacific. China's HF registrations now outnumber the combined schedules of the next three international broadcasters. I gave up counting their current assignments - it's a motza. If you have the urge see http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A17&broadc=CRI Why do CRI, NHK, VOA and BBC and others (RNZI etc.) operate major HF broadcast schedules? What do they know that escapes the wit of the ABC? PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu use HF for domestic broadcasting to reach out the hundreds of kilometres necessary to cover their islands. The remote populations have HF radios and were happy to use them to receive RA as well. What can be done? A domestic HF service carrying ABC regional programming is necessary as a service to taxpayers in remote areas. It can be provided more cheaply and more reliably than at present. One scheme would see the relatively new Continental 418G transmitter relocated from NT to the Shepparton International High Frequency Transmitting Station where electricity is much cheaper, the site's environment is more benign, trained staff are available onsite and spares are consolidated with the existing international-service Continental transmitter. One or both HF aerials from the former RA site at Brandon would be relocated to Shepparton and aligned to service a sector ranging from 020 degrees to 300 degrees azimuth with minimum overlap. Both aerials would be established with equal radiating characteristics. The relocated transmitter would feed both aerials simultaneously and use an appropriate day frequency (9 or 11 MHz would be considered) and a night frequency around 5.9 MHz. This would cover a sector ranging from 1500 to 3000 km between the bearings nominated. Coverage would be close to that presently achieved from the three NT sites. The transmitter would operate under an appropriate frequency management regime. A minimum international HF broadcast capability needs to be maintained at Shepparton International High Frequency Transmitting Station in the interests of national security and to offer choice to Pacific listeners in the face of rising Chinese HF broadcasting presence in the region. The HF capacity would also provide an immediate response capability in the event of natural or political interruptions to the access to free media in the Pacific region. Four transmitters should be retained with appropriate aerial plant and frequency management for this purpose. Electricity costs are a substantial part of the operating costs of transmitter plant. These costs could be off-set by an appropriately scaled solar photovoltaic facility in the southern half of the Shepparton site. This would be a project that could receive funding assistance from the Commonwealth and State governments as a facility with > 220, 000 PV modules would provide excess power into the regional grid and provide continuing revenue to the site's operator. Nigel Holmes, April 2017, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017, Submission 40 (via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. RADIO AUSTRALIA FOR SALE by Barclay White May 11, 2017 http://www.sheppnews.com.au/2017/05/11/88161/radio-australia-for-sale Radio engineer Greg Baker believed that shutting down the shortwave Radio Australia broadcast was a big mistake. For sale, one large semi-rural 229ha block. Key features include large-scale grazing potential, two irrigation channels and a shortwave antenna that can broadcast to all over the globe. The former shortwave broadcasting station that for decades sent the Radio Australia broadcast around the world was quietly put on the market a couple of weeks ago. The site, at 490 Verney Rd in Shepparton's north, had a significant role in Australia's wartime history, when it broadcast impartial news across the pacific during World War II to counter propaganda from Axis powers. For decades the site sent the Radio Australia broadcast of the ABC via shortwave to listeners in the Pacific and across the globe, until the ABC cut funding and the service went offline earlier this year. A spokesman for BAI Communications, which owns the site, confirmed it intended to sell the unique property. ``The company has initiated a broad expression of interest process to assess potential market interest in the site,'' the spokesman said. ``The future land use is undetermined and will be subject to council approvals.'' Commercial real estate company CBRE is handling the potential sale, and an online listing has described the property as a ``significant land banking opportunity'' in a growth area of Shepparton. Comment was sought from CBRE on the sale, but The News was told the company could not comment at the request of BAI Communications. The sale could throw into jeopardy any move to restart shortwave broadcasting, as it is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the country. South Australian NXT senator Nick Xenophon visited the site earlier in the year, and later introduced a bill to the senate to restart shortwave broadcasting. The bill was sent to a senate inquiry and was due to report by August. Former radio engineer at the site Gary Baker has been campaigning for the resumption of shortwave, and was not happy the site was on the market. ``If the ABC has to start broadcasting internationally again this could cost taxpayers millions of dollars, which would be stupid,'' Mr Baker said. A sign in front of the property indicates that the closing date for expressions of interest in the property is in June (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RADIO AUSTRALIA - A POSSIBLE RETURN? If you have been following the saga surrounding the closure of Radio Australia on shortwave over the past few months, you will already be aware that this once strong international broadcaster has now gone. But is this really the end? Could we see Radio Australia (RA) rise from the ashes? [long illustrated article; one excerpt:] Big Listener Response In the lead up to the big switch-off, and in the days immediately following RA’s demise on shortwave, SWL and DXing social media was full of listener comments regretting the decision and offering their recollections about how RA had impacted their lives over many years. An especially strong outcry came from North American listeners who recounted regularly tuning in to RA’s broadcasts to the U.S. It seemed that when RA did close the North American service to concentrate its limited funding on the Pacific and Asia, many U.S. listeners continued their listening habits. Probably the frequency most mentioned was the long-time 9580 kHz, an outlet that had been RA’s “home” for decades. Responses from listeners ranged from dismay and sadness to downright anger! http://medxr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/radio-australia-possible-return.html (via Mike Terry, May 16, dxldyg via DXLD) Whilst the gist of Rob's blog is correct, I personally don't hold out much hope. For curiosity sake, and with the thought Federal Parliament might push the ABC to restore shortwave, I contacted my Federal MP (this was several weeks ago). Turns out he (and apparently many others) were unaware of any push to have these services restored. Obviously, there is limited momentum in Canberra to make this happen, otherwise it would be top-of-mind with MPs. The ABC also continues to resist. One problem is, there don't seem to be hard numbers to demonstrate just how many people listened to HF. The NT government should attempt to provide reliable figures and also the governments of respected Pacific island nations, impacted by the RA closure. I don't believe we'll see a change unless significant hard numbers are produced. Unfortunately, complaints from beyond this geographic area would probably carry little significance as RA's scope has been (was) the Pacific and ABC domestic HF, the NT. Sent from (David Sharp's iPhone, May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Vale: Mark Colvin, distinguished ABC journalist & former host of the ABC Radio program PM for 20 years. I'm sure many listeners to ABC Radio will recognise his voice. Sadly missed. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-11/abc-journalist-mark-colvin-dies-aged-65/8509740 (Ian, May 11, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 1000-1005 noted in Quechua with YL, fair signal strength 17 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, DX South Florida 1981-2017, Mosquito Coast DX News via NASWA yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.5, Emisora Pio XII – Siglo Veinte, 0222, 5.12.17, in Spanish. Man announcer with indigenous guitar music under which comes up periodically to separate different sections, 0226 music continues, 0228 announcer continues through a musical bridge when a woman joins him, 0231 ID sequence over a fanfare and same male announcer continues over instrumental music, off 0232 mid sentence. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, RTL2832 V3 dongle for SDR’s; E1, Satellit 800, PL 660, and various other portables for physical radios; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5953 [sic: must mean 6025 – gh]. RED PATRIA NUEVA. Mayo 13. 2133-2147 UT. Anuncios comerciales y de la emisora en español y quechua, luego información de una elección de una coordinadora campesina y un consejo de vigilancia, junto a avisos de carácter local de la zona de Oruro y localidades cercanas. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 0904-1200*, May 17. Wonderful to hear this station again, after a considerable absence. Not many IDs given, but heard several "NBC Bougainville" IDs at 1022 and sign off announcement at 1156; segments in English and Pidgin/Tok Pisin. Mostly poor, with heavy QRN (static). Highlights: 0904: News in English. 1000-1011: Usual PNG bird call; news in English. 1011-1022: Sound bites from a series of speeches. 1022-1101: Pop songs. 1101-1111: News preempted by announcer (monologue). 1111: Pop songs; John Waite - "Missing You" (I ain´t missing you at all), etc. 1200*: Suddenly off. My unedited audio of sign off announcement and pop song till cutoff at http://goo.gl/42ZyaH Most of today's programs seemed to deal with the upcoming national election being held in Bougainville and PNG, in late June. Imagine we will be hearing more SW activity from them as the election approaches (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 1010-1017 deep fades, om chat, no music. First time heard in a while 17 May. Tnx Dave Valko (Wilkner) 4805, Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus, 1000-1007 noted om chat in Portuguese with weak alas steady signal 17 May (Wilkner) 4875.21, Brasil Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR 1010-1015 om Portuguese, good signal 17 May (Wilkner) 4925.26 Brasil, Rádio Educação Rural, Tefé, AM, 1015-1020 yl in PT, good signal - 17 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, DX South Florida 1981-2017, Mosquito Coast DX News via NASWA yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6059.85, May 15 at 0327, very poor carrier, presumed usual off-frequency SRDA Curitiba; in the absence of 6060 RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11856.04, May 15 at 0014, JBA carrier, maybe R. Aparecida, which I have not otherwise heard for a few weeks, always off-frequency to hi side of 11855, and even 11856+. Only other JBA ZY carrier on 25m at this time is 11764.6 SRDA; the ranx are thinning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Powerful signal of Mighty KBC Radio via SPL Secretbrod, May 13 1500-1600 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu The Giant Jukebox + 2nd harmonic 18800 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/powerful-signal-of-mighty-kbc-radio-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via DXLD) ** BURUNDI [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Radio Publique Africaine via TDF Issoudun, May 10 [Wed] 1800-1858 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg SoAf Kirundi only, without French Problem in TDF Issoudun, interrupting audio signal throughout program http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/problem-with-reception-of-radio.html Reception of Radio Publique Africaine via TDF Issoudun, May 11 1800-1858 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg SoAf Kirundi/French, good signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-radio-publique-africaine_11.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via DXLD) Burundi is not in southern Africa (gh) Good signal of Radio Publique Africaine via TDF Issoudun, May 14 1800-1830 on 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg to SoAf Kirundi 1830-1858 on 15480 ISS 250 kW / 145 deg to SoAf French http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/good-signal-of-radio-publique-africaine.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. SECRETLAND, Additional transmissions of BV Broadcasting via SPL, May 16 0300-0315 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7 1645-1700 on 11700 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Dardasha 7 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-transmissions-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Updated summer A-17 schedule of Bible Voice Broadcasting http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/updated-summer-17-schedule-of-bible.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Gannan PBS, back on former 5970. After six months of being on the unique frequency of 5979, they have returned to their former frequency; thanks to the timely observation made yesterday by Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan). Now ex: 5979 is silent. May 14, tuned in at 1127 to hear traditional Chinese music; 1230 announcer in Chinese with EZL background music (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7500, CNR1 [jammer]/VOA (Udon Thani) 1315+ 5 May. VOA's Chinese broadcast & Beijing's jamming running about 50/50 this morning. MCDXN logs: (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 15040, May 12 at 1257, CNR1 with good signal, no trace of jamming target AIR in Chinese; usual format with 6-pip timesignal at 1300 and continuing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CRI SILK ROAD CONTEST in 65 languages with vague prizes Concorso Radio Cina Internazionale Concorso "Le mie conoscenze sulla Via della Seta" Il 14 e il 15 maggio prossimi si terrà il forum di alto livello sulla cooperazione internazionale sul tema "una Cintura e una Via". Per aiutare il pubblico straniero a capire come sia nata l'iniziativa "una Cintura e una Via" e quali sono le sue priorità di cooperazione, per far conoscere i risultati finora raggiunti e l'impatto che ha avuto a livello internazionale negli ultimi anni, e per creare un ambiente positivo tra l'opinione pubblica internazionale in vista del forum, Radio Cina Internazionale ha in programma di indire, dal 15 aprile al 5 maggio 2017, il concorso "Le mie conoscenze sulla Via della Seta". Per l'occasione, il pubblico straniero potrà partecipare in maniera interattiva o rispondendo alla domanda sul nome dell'iniziativa, direttamente dal sito di CRI in 65 lingue, dalle piattaforme di social network o dalle APP, pubblicando post, foto, file audio e video relativi al tema "Una Cintura e una Via". Domanda: "una Cintura e una Via" è l'abbreviazione di quali fra queste espressioni? A "Cintura economica della Via della Seta" B "Via della Seta marittima del 21 secolo" C "Nuova Via della Seta" Come partecipare al concorso: 1. I netizen possono partecipare al concorso rispondendo alla domanda sul nome dell'iniziativa. 2. Per partecipare al concorso i netizen possono pubblicare commenti, condividere o mettere un "Mi piace" al post sul quesito. 3. Per partecipare al concorso i netizen possono, inoltre, pubblicare post, foto, file audio e video relativi al tema "una Cintura e una Via" sui propri account Facebook, condividendo allo stesso tempo il nostro post originale. I migliori post dei netizen saranno condivisi sul nostro account ufficiale Facebook. Sulla base delle risposte e del numero di post, foto, file audio e video pubblicati e al grado di partecipazione ("Mi piace", condivisioni e commenti), saranno estratti i vincitori del concorso, a cui saranno conferiti dei premi dalle caratteristiche cinesi. Inoltre, a ciascun partecipante al concorso sarà inviato un biglietto ricordo. Il nostro indirizzo : Radio Cina Internazionale Sezione Italiana 100040 Pechino Repubblica Popolare Cinese Tel: +86 (10) 68891736 / 68891525 Fax: +86 (10) 68891749 Il nostro sito internet : http://www.chinabroadcast.cn/ I nostri indirizzi e-mail: criita@vip.sina.com criitaliano@yahoo.com.cn (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicilia, May 11, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. [re 1060v station(s)] Dear Glenn, You can listen to Radio Furatena, Chiquinquirá at: http://www.colombia.com/radio/i63/radio-furatena There you can find a lot of Colombian AM radio stations. 73's (HK3MIZ, Luis Cardozo, Bogotá, May 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15730. RHC. Mayo 14. 2131-2159 UTC. Servicio en esperanto. Se escucha un audio muy débil frente a un alto ruido ambiental con un SINPO: 25131. Sin embargo, según Claudio García desde Corrientes, Argentina confirma la audición de este programa, con informaciones sobre la asociación de esperanto, correspondiente al idioma informado una señal de S5 a S7 con marcado ruido ambiental con Receptor: Yaesu FT-790R y Antena G5RV. (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ?? That`s the third different time for this weekly. Last Sunday he said it was at 2330, and before that at 2230! (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** CUBA. Noted here at a hotel on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, Radio Rebelde music programming over RHC with a good signal on 13740 kHz from about 02:00 UTC to tune-out at 0300. Is this a regular feature of RHC? Is it // to 5025 kHz when they do it? (-- Richard Langley, 0316 UT May 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13740, May 14 at 0328, R. Rebelde music // 5025 instead of RHC programming, tnx to a tip from Richard Langley in Hawaii who was hearing 13740 only before 0300. I checked other RHC Spanish frequencies, 5040, 6060, 7340, 11670, 11840 and with different music they were // each other, but not 13740. 5025 itself is often absent in the evenings, but on tonight. Suspect 13740 just another SNAFU in feed routings, but we shall see if it happen again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No: 13740, May 15 at 0354, Spanish is // 9535, not 5025, so really RHC instead of Rebelde on 13740 as happened last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL 6059.85 Many thanks Mauno for the WRTH update A17. Re China / Cuba: these Habana entries for CRI Cantonese Chinese etc. are not fully correct, re location table Bauta or Quivicán. CRI and RHC use both the 5 x 250 kW transmitters at Quivicán San Felipe, but China page section entries are marked as 'hab' / Bauta, and not qvc La Habana, Quivicán CUB 22N49 082W18. Cantonese, Ch, En, Sp, Port 5990qvc, 9570qvc, 9580qvc, 9790qvc, 13740qvc, 15120qvc kHz. (Wolfgang Büschel, May 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. THE BEGINNINGS OF RADIO HABANA CUBA by José Altshuler, Dr.Sc. Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. [8-page pdf, illustrated; mostly about the post-revolutionary communist dictatorship era; mentions that Bauta site originally was for ``combined duty`` with PTP for Prela, but fails to mention zpy numbers and jamming! Also no mention of Arnie Coro`s role in establishing RHC! Which he certainly tells us about frequently] The first decade of the 20th century saw the installation and regular operation of the first radio communication stations in Cuba, using De Forest and Telefunken low- and medium- frequency spark transmitters to provide wireless telegraphy services, essentially ship-shore. By 1916, in the context of World War I, the Cuban government equipped its station at the entrance of the bay of Havana with a 20 kW transmitter so that it could reach “the United States and [...] any ship 500 miles or more from the island” [5]. . . . http://www.schct.sld.cu/publicaciones/RadioHabanaCuba.pdf (via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. 9490, UT Monday May 15 at 0340, wall of noise jamming dominates, so I strain to hear what`s under it, and conclude there really are two stations, as to be expected from overlapping MBR registrations, self-QRMing: Radio República via FRANCE which on weekends runs an hour later until 0400; AND NHK in Japanese, SE from Germany which always starts at 0300. I compare it to // 6105 via France on another receiver, and the talk sounds the same but not in synch (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Dimtse Radio Erena via BaBcoCk Secretbrod with new schedule in Tigrinya/Arabic 1700/1745 UT Mon-Fri, instead of 1700/1730 UT Mon-Fri [??? But shown below as -1800, not -1745 --- gh] till 1700 11965 KAS 500 kW / 298 deg to WeEu English China Radio Int 1700-1730 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1730-1800 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri 1700-1800 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sat/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/dimtse-radio-erena-via-babcock.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. GERMANY(non [sic]), Radio Voice of Adal via MBR Issoudun with new schedule, May 17 1500-1539 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg Arabic Wed/Sat, ex 1500-1530 1539-1558 15205*ISS 100 kW / 125 deg Tigrinya Wed/Sat, ex 1530-1558 * co-ch 15205 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg WeEu Holy Quran, Riyadh from 1549 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-voice-of-adal-via-mbr-issoudun.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa via TDF Issoudun on May 11 1630-1700 on 17840 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Tue/Thu/Fri via Alyx & Yeyi Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with very strong white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-sagalee-qeerroo-bilisummaa.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FIJI. QSL: 558, R Fiji 1 (Fijian program) with e-mail QSL from Arthur Rounds, Operations Dept. based on my recording of their MW broadcast as heard 9 May from 0715 to 0750 from an SDR receiver in Tauranga NZ (near Auckland). Arthur says that 558 kHz is currently operating at reduced power of 2 kW but FBC planning to return to 10 kW soon with new MW transmitters. FBC will also add a new English service with a frequency to be announced. A sports station in Invercargill also operates on 558 but even with only 2 kW, R Fiji 1 dominates the channel at this hour. DX is 1367 miles but at 2 kW this is good MWDX. [and non] Other Pacific Islands still on MW include Norfolk Is. (good luck on this one at 100 watts!), French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu - decent DX targets for SDR's in Hawaii, NZ and Australia (Bruce Churchill, CA, May 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry, Bruce. French Polynesia (738) is no longer on MW. They left a few months ago. Cheers! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) Guam, Micronesia and Kiribati are also still on MW (Bruce in Seattle Portzer, ibid.) Right you are; thanks! Micronesia actually has 6 AM stations in 4 different states, assuming they're still active. Guam I should have remembered since I lived there for two years and more recently visited a couple of times while in the Navy! Did not realize that the Republic of Kiribati includes a relatively unknown island group south of Hawaii (the Line Islands, I believe), which on some maps is called Kiribati, a.k.a. Kiritimati, a.k.a. Christmas Island (but not the Australian Christmas Island to add to the naming confusion??). The U.S. ceded the Phoenix and Line Islands to newly-independent Kiribati under the Treaty of Tarawa and in 1995, Kiribati moved the International Date line east to Kiritimati so that the entire country would be in the same time zone and same day. Prior to that, Kiribati was the only country in the world to be in all four hemispheres: northern, southern, eastern and western since it also straddled the Equator. Thought maybe I could hear Kiribati on AM from Hawaii, but alas, it was the wrong part of Kiribati; there is one FM station on Kiritimati, however. Sorry for the rambling but turns out that Kiribati's history is pretty interesting (Bruce Churchill, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Messing with the Dateline does not change the fact of its inhabiting all four hemispheres (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. SEA SENDERS - Interesting report about sea sender against Hitler Germany: Ein Seesender gegen Hitler --- Der Sender der Deutschen Freiheitspartei --- von Martin van der Ven Bekanntermaßen tauchten im vergangenen Jahrhundert zahlreiche Radioschiffe in den Nordseegewässern auf und strahlten mit ihren Rundfunksendern meistens Pop- und Rockmusik aus. Umso bemerkenswerter, dass der erste und einzige deutsche Seesender einem politischen Zweck diente — dem Widerstand gegen das Naziregime. Als Radiomacher fungierten im Exil lebende deutsche Journalisten, die bei ihrem mutigen, aber leider nur kurzlebigem Projekt von Niederländern, Briten und Franzosen unterstützt wurden. Martin van der Ven dreht das Rad der Geschichte noch einmal zurück ... [much more] http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME15/Seesender_gegen_Hitler.shtml (via BC-DX 15 May via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Channel 292 relay Radio Waves International on May 13: 0700-0800 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu Fr/En/Ge/Sp Sat, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/channel-292-relay-radio-waves.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Reception of HCJB Germany via Weenermoor, May 16-17 2100-2200 on 5920 WNM 001 kW / 145 deg SEEu German 0300-0400 on 5920*WNM 001 kW / 145 deg SEEu Russian 0400-0500 on 5920 WNM 001 kW / 145 deg SEEu German *strong co-ch 5920 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sun WHRI Angel 1 *strong co-ch 5920 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Mon-Fri, Angel 2 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-hcjb-germany-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. [Re 17-19:] ``In the meantime: Deutsche Welle strives for domestic dissemination, via cable and DVB-T2 with its TV programs in English, Arabic and Spanish. http://www.medienkorrespondenz.de/politik/artikel/auslandsfernsehkanaele-der-deutschen-welle-bald-auch-im-inland-zu-sehen.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, May 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` It probably depends which cable TV provider you have. My Telekom bouquet has always included a DW channel although it changed from German to English later. Unfortunately, France 24 and al-Jazeera were removed some time ago. My father in law, who seems to have Vodaphone/Kabel Deutschland as provider, cannot watch Deutsche Welle TV (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 13 May 2017, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Vodafone cable system, which emerged from the "official" postal office service, indeed does not include DW TV, cf. https://zuhauseplus.vodafone.de/digital-fernsehen/tv-sender/?icmp=sender%C3%BCbersicht (and note how classic DVB-C has already been lowered to a secondary offer on an infrastructure now primarily used as IP access line) Which indeed is unlike other cable nets who use to take the Hotbird signal of DW TV for a long time. The change from German to English two years ago was not made by them but by Deutsche Welle itself. Here's the outcome of an "impress the journos" tour they made back then: http://www.wwwagner.tv/?p=27880 Satellite distribution of DW Deutsch is now limited to Asiasat 5 and Astra 4A, the latter being a satellite on 4.8 E not relevant for DTH reception outside Scandinavia and Ukraine at all (the Ukrainian use made people already believe they could reach anyone in Russia via this platform: not so, I fear). So it's pretty obvious how DW Deutsch is only a secondary service. It now offers primarily cultural content (I have not checked out so far what that means in detail) and has left the hard news business. The primary services of DW, besides their website and the few remaining radio broadcasts, are now the DW English, DW Español and DW Arabia TV channels. And apparently (the draft from which the referenced report quotes has not been published yet) they now want the official responsibility to distribute these programs within Germany itself, too. At present they already run, limited to the end of this year, the domestic "DW Arabia 2" project, citing extraordinary circumstances (the migration crisis of course) as justification. And it is their point of view anyway that nothing requires to cut off the German tax- payer from the foreign broadcasting service produced with his money. But now they seek to make it official. By the way, the reference to DVB-T2 raises a question in as far as this service is divided into two segments: There are the free-to-air feeds from the public broadcasters, and on the other side there are the encrypted feeds of the commercial broadcasters, visible only with a smart card for which a fee has to be paid ("freenet TV connect" as presented at https://www.freenet.tv/ and here you now see for real the telcom company that purchased Media Broadcast). It remains to be seen where, if at all, the DW programs will find their place. Btw2, it's interesting to see that the Chinese DTMB box, as shown at https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/2016-Cuba-Market-DTMB-T-Receiver_60478172612.html has a CA smart card slot as well. So it's already ready for encryption, too, something that appears to be unthinkable for the US ATSC, or does it have an encryption feature as well? Btw3, after the recent fuss about VOA Chinese it might be of interest that DW Chinese was repeatedly a place of scandal, or alleged scandal, over the last ten years. It's hard to comprehend all these accusations in detail. At one point it was about being a friend of the Chinese government, then it was about too one-sided criticism of the Chinese government. In 2009 they hired a new head for the service to make a new start, a certain Adrienne Woltersdorf who until then was the Washington correspondent of the Taz newspaper. Ms. Woltersdorf left after only three years, and some people claim that she rather had been fired than leaving at her own wish. Either way she moved on to a new position in Singapore that has nothing to do with media/journalism anymore. The only thing that is obvious here is a rather deep distrust between foreign staff members and their German superiors. The same could be observed, through publications from exiled Ethopians in the USA, for the Amharic service. Even on the Russian side it was already remarkable how I learned about the closure of the radio service: From Moscow. So much about these stories which you will never see published in English anymore, or do I miss something? (I just don't have the time to do this routinely and extensively.) All the best, (Kai Ludwig, May 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV ** GERMANY. Re: NPR Berlin --- The applicants: http://mabb.de/uber-die-mabb/presse/pressemitteilungen-details/elf-bewerbungen-auf-berliner-ukw-frequenz-1041-mhz.html "KCRW Berlin" is proposed by a shelf [shell?] company, so it's impossible to tell if the NPR affiliate in Los Angeles has anything to do with this. "Capital Radio Berlin" is a name that first appeared in 1995 in conjunction with "Charlie 87.9", a joint venture of VOA and now defunct (it went bust in 2005) Hundert,6 that existed for a mere two years (it was replaced by Star FM with which VOA cooperated again until 2006, when they decided to want the frequency alone --- the rest is history). The other applicants are the usual suspects, none of them likely to be interested in any cooperation with NPR. A hearing of the applicants, which could be followed by the decision immediately, is scheduled for July 4 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, May 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz & 9935 kHz, May 11-12 1830-0605 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 1900-0605 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 From 1900 UT Voice of Greece relay Eurovision Song Contest. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-9935-khz.html Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz and 9935 on May 16-17 1800&2100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 No signal on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 This evening again music, no news, due to national strike! from 0400 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek#tx#3 from 0400 on 9935*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 * instead of 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 This morning with news and off 9935 at 0500, 9420 at 0505. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-and-9935-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA [and non]. See OKLAHOMA, Rother`s beatification proceeds with exhumation ** INDIA. AIR Urdu Service noted today (from my tune in at 0315 UT) on 7500 instead of 7520. Sked of 7520 is 0015-0430 Urdu (Pakistan), 0700- 0800 Nepali (Nepal), 0830-1930 Urdu (Pakistan). Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos May 12, dx_india yg via DXLD) Now at 0900 off the air on both frequencies (Mauno Ritola, Finland, May 13, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Satellites: (Frequencies in GHz) I parked on Galaxy 19 this week which is where a lot of 'small dishes' are aimed for FTA Ku-band signals. MUCH of what is there is in languages other than English, but there is a fair amount of English as well as some pretty fascinating stuff in other languages that is fun to watch/listen to. And the best part is -- no monthly bill! The 'common wisdom' is that if you can't afford a movable dish, this is 'the one' to point your stationary dish at. I still recommend a movable dish! ;) And C band too -- more and more good stuff is returning to C Band FTA! --kvz Radio: 97 W Galaxy 19 11.960-V / 22000 Msps Voice of Turkey World with English programming [(presumed)// to SW] with English News by YL, and ID by OM at 0305, and at 0315 “Culture of Living Together” which continues with talx re the tolerance shown by Turks in Anatolia. 52% quality and steady QPSK/MPEGs 0303-0318 7/May. One of two radios on transponder. TSR Radio (Turkish State R?) (p) Turkish Srv ID 2001. VoT World (service) Srv ID 2002. --Zichi MI2 97 W Galaxy 19 11.966-H / 22000 Msps The Overcomer with Bro Spare pontificating about politics. If anyone thought he was racist by slamming Obama so much, he disproved that in this broadcast by slamming Trump and Bush and calling them (and Obama) “evil incarnate” and blathering about a new world order etc. 51% quality and in steady QPSK/MPEG2 1320-1330, 6/May. This is one of 5 audio only streams on this transponder: TGN Radio Service ID 0005 - silent Persian Radio Service ID 0014 - music City Life Radio Service ID 0017 - music The Overcomer Service ID 0021 - Brother Swear Duna World Radio Service ID 0027 - Talx in (p)Slavic language 97 W Galaxy 19 12.060-H / 22000 Msps Sputnik Radio (Digital ID is still “Voice of Russia”) with English talx re Middle East. Audio ID at 0321 as “Sputnik Radio”. 44-46% and lots of dropouts making listening in comfortable! QPSK/MPEG2 0318-0323 7/May. --Zichi MI2 97 W Galaxy 19 12.184-H / 22000 Msps V of IRIB [Iran] was NOT heard during any of my checks. They have either moved transponders, or stopped broadcasting on FTA satellites audible in North America to parallel their bad decision to stop SW to North America. I will need to rescan Galaxy 19 the next time I take a long weekend up here! 5- 7/May --Zichi MI2 Television: 97 W Galaxy 19 12.145-V / 22000 Msps, SSBC (South Sudan Broadcasting Corp) with Jesus pop in English and (mostly) Arabic (presumed) with English/Arabic crawl with obits, wedding announcements and general news headlines. Into Arabic “Good Morning South” morning show at 06027 which despite the title is in Arabic. 50% and steady. QPSK/MPEG2/480i SD 0545-0630 6/May --Zichi MI2 97 W Galaxy 19 12.152-H / 20000 Msps, Saudi 2, English medical show “Elixir of Life” with YL and OM doctors talking about Parkinson’s. 51% and steady QPSK/MPEG2/480i SD 0632-0637 6/May. --Zichi MI2 (Ken Vito Zichi, Pt Hope MI2, for Satellite logs: Manhattan DJ-1997 FTA receiver +96 inch movable dish, MARE Tipsheet May 12 via DXLD) ** IRAN. Additional transmissions of VIRI IRIB for Ramazan, May 27 - June 28 1930-2300 on 7315 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg to CeAs Azeri 2200-0100 on 9630 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg to N/ME Arabic, alt.9810 2300-0300 on 7410 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg to CeAs Azeri 0023-0120 on 9810 SIR 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Turkish, alt 9760 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-transmissions-of-viri-irib.html Additional transmissions of VIRI IRIB for Ramazan, May 27-June 28, UPDATED: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-transmissions-of-viri-irib.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, May 16, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: 1930-2300 on 7315 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg to CeAs Azeri 2200-0100 on 9630 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg to N/ME Arabic, alt.9810 2300-0300 on 7410 SIR 500 kW / 336 deg to CeAs Azeri 2330-0030 on 7285 SIR 500 kW / 320 deg to N/ME Kurdish 0030-0130 on 9760 SIR 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Turkish, alt 9810 (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. U.K., R. Sedoye Mardom and R. Payem e-Doost via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on May 11: Sedoye Mardom/Voice of Men 1700-1730 on 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri BaBcoCk Music, dead air Radio Payem e-Doost 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Daily, good signal with echo http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/sedoye-mardom-and-payem-e-doost-via.html Radio Ranginkaman & Sedoye Mardom via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, May 12 --- Radio Ranginkaman including English teaching program "Beta Speaking" of BBC 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri Radio Rainbow Sedoye Mardom, again BaBcoCk Music, open carrier/dead air, off at 1705 1700-1730 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri V. of Men: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-ranginkaman-sedoye-mardom-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. GERMANY, Additional frequencies of R Farda from May 13: 0330-1030 on 11530 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Farsi, very poor & 0330-0628 on 13845 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Farsi, fair/strong 0628-0638 on 13845 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs, only open carrier 0638-1030 on 13845 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Farsi, Radio Farda Unscheduled & unregistered frequencies in summer A17 HFCC Database Additional frequencies of Radio Farda from May 13, updated by transmitters http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-frequencies-of-radio-farda.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. BBC Persian TV launches #Shoma ahead of Iranian elections --- In the run-up to the elections in Iran, BBC Persian is launching its digital-first TV programme. From Saturday, 13 May, #Shoma invites audiences across platforms to share their opinions and stories. . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/bbc-persian-tv-shoma (BBCWS PR via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SHUTTERS STATE NEWS SHOW WITH JUST AN HOUR'S NOTICE --- By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM -- Just an hour after Israel's Press Council warned that media freedom in the country was "at risk," the government shut down the state broadcaster's venerable nightly news show. The anchorwomen from Channel One's evening news cried before the cameras after being informed that a sudden political decision meant that it would be the station's last program after 49 years on the air. The closing down of the Israel Broadcasting Authority did not come as a surprise. It has been more than three years -- and much political wrangling -- in the making. The news program had been losing viewers for years, and the whole public broadcasting authority had been accused of being corrupt and wasteful. After numerous postponements, the authority had been slated to close May 14, but on Tuesday, David Han, the channel's official liquidator, decided to go ahead and shutter the news program in what critics say is only the latest in the cruel and chaotic treatment of the authority. . . https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israeli-government-shutters-state-news-show-with-just-an-hours-notice/2017/05/10/912f685a-3563-11e7-99b0-dd6e94e786e5_print.html (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) This last, quite dramatic broadcast is at least for now, still online: http://www.iba.org.il/program.aspx?lcode=13347 See also http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-704-p-m-after-81-years-israel-radio-fades-to-music/ (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At some point this afternoon the IBA TV, which until then had stayed on air with repeats, was shuttered altogether. Only this Chyron remains until the plug will be finally pulled: http://radioforum.foren.mysnip.de/file.php?8773,file=9202 Yes, launched not before 1968, and broadcasting in colour not until 1977, at least if matters are described correctly in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Israel This year`s ESC [Eurovision {sic} Song Contest] was, it seems, the last live broadcast of IBA TV and also the last one in which Israel participated at all (Kai Ludwig, May 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHEN BROADCASTING MAKES THE NEWS By Greer Fay Cashman May 14, 2017 03:25 After over eight decades of history, public broadcasting is scheduled to start anew on Monday In Israel, broadcasting outlets not only report the news, but also make news, and it’s not just in the area of public broadcasting, which on Monday will take on a new identity. Commercial stations are also having survival problems. Over the past couple of weeks, broadcasters on Israel Radio (Kol Israel which literally translates as The Voice of Israel) have signed off lamenting the demise of 81 years of radio in this country. Actually, the first radio broadcast was in April 1932 at the Levant Fair. The British Mandate authorities granted a special license to Mendel Abramovich, and the historic broadcast also featured Tel Aviv’s first mayor Meir Dizengoff. After that there were intermittent broadcasts for three years from what became known as Radio Tel Aviv... http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/When-broadcasting-makes-the-news-490647 (The Jerusalem Post May 14 via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ISRAEL BROADCASTER ENTERS NEW ERA AFTER TEARFUL FAREWELL http://www.france24.com/en/20170515-israel-broadcaster-enters-new-era-after-tearful-farewell (c) POOL/AFP / by Jonah Mandel | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [caption] 15 May 2017 - 12H40 JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's new public broadcaster went live Monday after reforms to television and radio stations, seen as integral to the country's history, threatened snap polls and evoked tearful on-air tributes. Radio newscasts began with the same two-hour show as previously, with iconic anchor Aryeh Golan remaining in the chair. "Good morning, at this time the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation sets out on its way," he said in his opening remarks. But in a reference to layoffs accompanying the reforms, he said, "Our rejoicing, of course, is tinged with sadness for the hundreds of our colleagues from the IBA who were left by the wayside." The number of jobs lost has yet to be confirmed. Many Israelis grew up with only public radio and television run by the former Israeli Broadcasting Authority until private stations began appearing in 1993. The launch comes after bitter political infighting over the reforms that seek to streamline the former authority's operations. The now- defunct IBA had one television channel and eight radio stations, as will the new corporation. A dispute between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon over how to move ahead with the reforms threatened early elections, before a compromise was reached in March. Netanyahu has been accused of reneging on a previous agreement by seeking too much control of the new broadcaster, while Kahlon was committed to it and wanted to see through financial reforms. Employees of the old corporation have harshly criticised the way the shutdown was handled. Staff from its main nightly television news programme were informed last week its broadcast that day would be its last, drawing emotional on-air tributes. In a sign of how much the reforms remained in flux, the new corporation was still looking for a boss. The official receiver charged with the IBA breakup on Sunday published an "invitation to apply for the post of temporary managing director". Channel One public TV is due to go on air later Monday. - Years of reform attempts - For years the government had tried to reform the IBA, the Jewish state's sole broadcaster until 1993, when the first commercial TV channel went on air followed by several commercial radio stations and a second television channel. It was accused of financial mismanagement, bowing to government interference and allowing bloated staffing imposed by strong unions. In 2014 parliament passed a law to shut it down but implementation was repeatedly delayed as Netanyahu and partners in his unruly coalition government argued over its successor. Its mandate was supposed to include freedom from government interference, but Culture Minister Miri Regev, of Netanyahu's Likud party, famously said in 2016 "What good is the (new) corporation if we don't control it." Netanyahu even threatened elections over the make-up of the new body, widely known by its Hebrew name "Kann" (Here). He eventually backed down after two senior editors were removed from their new positions and a deal reached -- currently before the courts -- to separate its news operations from its more entertainment-focused divisions. Debates in parliament over the launch date left staff recruited to it in limbo until a surprise May 9 announcement that the last TV news broadcast would be that day. Reporters and presenters on the popular show packed onto the set that evening, complaining bitterly that they had been given no advance notice or opportunity to put together a dignified farewell edition after 49 years of the flagship "Mabat" (Look) evening news. The spectacle sparked a wave of public and media sympathy, even among supporters of broadcast reform. - New voices - Netanyahu's discontent with the IBA, formed in 1965 and modelled loosely on Britain's BBC, has been growing since his first term as premier began in 1996. He saw it as lacking people who identify with the political right- wing, said Yariv Tsfati, head of the communications department at Haifa University. He also fumed at the power of its staff unions and the reluctance to adopt more efficient practices. "It was a television channel embarrassing at times to watch," Tsfati said, while noting "islands" of exemplary journalism and the more professional production of its radio departments. To Tsfati, taking on the media was a convenient way for Netanyahu to win political points among the right-wing, which felt under- represented by the IBA. Avi Meshulam, a journalist who has also worked on IBA radio shows over the years, said "no reform would have worked at the authority" because of entrenched practices. The IBA "was closed because of employees who failed to understand that their unique status from the 70s and 80s was over," he wrote on Facebook. by Jonah Mandel (c) 2017 AFP (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. RESHET BET ON NEW MEDIUMWAVE FREQUENCY On the first day of operation of new public broadcaster 'Kan' 531 kHz is noted carrying Reshet Bet [Network B] //657 kHz instead of Reshet Alef/Reshet Moreshet [Network A/Heritage Network] as previously. The broadcaster continues to ID on air as 'Kol Yisrael, Reshet...' [Voice of Israel, Network...]. They don't seem to have got their webstreams up and running yet (the foregoing observations were made via a web SDR in Israel); the new Kan website at www.kan.org.il is only hosting an audio stream of continuous music interspersed with occasional 'Kan' IDs (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online (15/5- 2017, 1733 UT), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This morning (16 May 2017) at 0500 UT, Israel's new public broadcaster 'Kan' was observed with its Heritage Network back on 531 kHz, identifying on air as 'Kan Moreshet'. The streaming situation has also been sorted out, with the organisation's website at http://www.kan.org.il now hosting live streams from eight radio and two TV networks. (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) ** ITALY [non]. 11580, Friday May 12 at 1300, WRMI with IBC Radio on new schedule, an old-fashioned DX program now in English. First segment is ``Italian Shortwave Panorama`` reading a bunch of logs in upward frequency order attributed to DX Fanzine, ``from the studios of Marconi Radio International``. The logs all date from late April/early May. As one-liners, program content is irrelevant beyond language and SINPO --- nor do I hear any individual reporters credited, but most of them probably from editor Antonello Napolitano. ISWP #55 ends at 1311, spoken by Mario Candelli; IBC jingle, English ID and Spanish ID sounds like Dino; a bit of music, address ibc@europe.com and a website I don`t copy. 1314 on to next segment ``DX-Italia`` from I2MQP with a heavier accent, all ham DX news, mostly concerning DX-peditions, or rather dates of visits by individual hams to countries other than their own, starting with Mauritania, Uganda; outro at 1324 as having been spoken by Gabriele, bit of music, and starting just before 1325 the final digital segment in MFSK32, content unknown; 1329:30 over to WRMI WNYW-style ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Like other 1300 UT shows newly stripped, expected to be replaced by RAE in French (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 11815, NHK World/R Japan, 1500. Running a little overtime today, music, W and M in Japanese, followed by a whistled tune. Went off suddenly and gone at 1505 May 11 (Rick Barton, AZ, times/dates UT, unless otherwise stated, language English and equipment being RS SW- 2000629 and outdoor shortwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11825, NHK (Yamata), 0445-0500* 9, 10, 11 May. NHK's 0430-0500 Chinese service usually rolls in poor-OK with chat, features (one about children & poetry in English with Chinese translations), plays light J-pop just before closing announcements (mentions of NHK one day only) and at TOH, the 3+1 NHK pips & power off. MCDXN logs: (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, NASWA yg via DXLD) Here, it`s way under CCI from MWV APR in English (gh) ** KASHMIR [non]. Per DXLD 17-19: ``INDIA, Strange frequency of Voice of Kashmir / Sedoye Kashmir on May 9 1430-1530 NF 6100*DEL 100 kW / non-dir SoAs Kashmiri, instead of 6030 *0730-0830 on 6100 DEL 250 kW / 134 deg SoAs Kashmiri in summer A-17!! . . . . http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/strange-frequency-of-voice-of-kashmir.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1877, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Hi Ivo and Glenn, Was interested to learn that Dave Valko, via a remote web receiver in Coimbatore, India, was clearly hearing Voice of Kashmir / Sedoye Kashmir, on 6030, with sign on at 1429, on May 12. Wonder if 6100 was perhaps a brief anomaly? Has it been heard there again since May 9? Neither frequency works well for me here on the coast of California, with 6030 covered by a strong China (CNR1) and 6100 covered by a strong N. Korea (KCBS). (Ron Howard, May 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) INDIA, Voice of Kashmir, Sedoye Kashmir was back on his QRG 6030 kHz on May 11 1430-1530 on 6030 DEL 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Kashmiri, instead of 6100 May 9 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/voice-of-kashmir-sedoye-kashmir-was.html Reception of Voice of Kashmir, Sedoye Kashmir on May 17 1430-1530 on 6030 DEL 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Kashmiri, weak/fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-voice-of-kashmir-sedoye.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. D.P.R. Re: P5-land, KRE, Voice of Korea Korean 57 minutes. Hello Wolfie! But the question was whether VOK in Korean is \\ to 6100, 9665, 11680, or to 6400 kHz, or the difference between VOK and KCBS & PBS? What says the SDR, please inform me, 73s, (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, May 9, BC-DX 15 May via DXLD) Some programs end at xx.21 hrs - when meterband change needed, or xx.26:57 hrs - like Japanese section 3-minute program break, or throughout service of Korean language programs, no pause break at all. Hello dear Rumen, I don't understand Korean, Japanese or Chinese as language, I checked music program sound ... in detail, but I checked the CONTENT / Type of Program at 1730-1810 UT tonight May 9 See the various D.P.R. Programmes in time sorted EXCEL table contain also with latest HFCC list [?? Really in HFCC? gh] total different programmes at 18 UT on May 9: three different programmes heard in Japan: 1 - 621 MW, 3250 3320 6400 kHz 2 - 2850, 3220 (-18), 6100, 9665, 11680 kHz. 3 - 9435, 11710, 13760, 15245 kHz. Total different programmes at 21-22 UT on May 9: five different programmes heard in Japan: 1 - 3320, 6400 kHz different Korean. 2 - 2850, 6100, 9665, 11680 kHz different Korean. 3 - Foreign 2030- UT 7210, 9425, 9875, 11635, 11910, 12015 kHz Korean KCBS to embassies, diplomats, merchandise fleet, fishery, students, South Korean nationals ... 13760, 15245 kHz French Europe 4 - Foreign 2130- UT 3250, 9650, 11865 kHz Japanese 7235, 9445, 9875, 11635 kHz Chinese 13760, 15245 kHz English Europe. Korean #1, #2, nor Foreign sce - NEVER observed SAME Korean language program content. Total different programmes at 0800-1030 UT on May 10: different programmes heard in Japan: 1 - 3320 6400 kHz different Korean, continuously, throughout, no break 0825-0830 UT. 2 - 2850, 6100, 9665, 11680 kHz different Korean, continuously, throughout, no break 0825-0830 UT. 3 - Foreign 0730- UT 3250, 9650, 11865 kHz Japanese, final annmt 0825:40 - 0826:56 UT end 9875, 11735, 13760, 15245 kHz Russian final 0826:30 UT end 4 - Foreign 0830- UT, Opening hymn start at 0831:15 UT program start open at 0833:06 UT. Chinese & Japanese end at 0927 UT - pause, Russian sudden crash stop break at 0926:57 UT 3250, 9650, 11865 kHz Japanese 7220, 9445 kHz Chinese 9875, 11735, 13760, 15245 kHz Russian 5 - Foreign 0930- UT, chimes pause interval signal 0930:17 UT Opening station annmt 0930:40 UT anthem / hymn start at 0931:20 UT. 3250, 6070, 9650, 11865 kHz Japanese, throughout 1026:55 UT carrier on air til 1030/1031 UT. 7220, 9445 kHz KCBS Korean, empty carrier tx on air start 0928 UT; off air 1020 UT. 9875, 11735, 13760, 15245 kHz Russian til 1021 UT. 6 - Foreign 1030- UT, chimes pause interval signal 1030:15 UT Opening station annmt 1030:45 UT in Korean Opening station annmt 1031:15 UT in English anthem / hymn start at 1031:20 UT til 1032:58 UT 3250, 6070, 9650, 11865 kHz Japanese, 11710, 11735, 13650, 15180 kHz English. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 9 / 10 / 11, BC-DX 15 May via DXLD) Please try to understand: my comment was ONLY about Korean programmes transmitted by Voice of Korea, which stop at 20 minutes past the hour. Of course home service SW and Pyongyang BS SW have no breaks, because they are continuous services (Mauno Ritola, Finland, May 11, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH. DPRK --- Received QSL from the Russian edition of the Voice of Korea for the report on February 27. You can see card here http://freerutube.info/2017/05/12/qsl-the-voice-of-korea-kndr-severnaya-koreya-fevral-2017-goda/ Several reports were sent, but only one was confirmed. Just sent the magazine Korea, number 3 for 2017 (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX 14 May via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. JAPAN, Fair signal of Shiokaze Sea Breeze May 11: 1600-1700 on 7215 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/fair-signal-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea-breeze.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6040, JAPAN, Shiokaze/"Sea Breeze" 1300. Caught at sign/on. Fair/Poor and degraded over the half hour. Opened with W and piano music, allowing me to confirm they were on today. No jamming heard at my location. May 11 (Rick Barton, AZ, times/dates UT, unless otherwise stated, language English and equipment being RS SW-2000629 and outdoor shortwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6040, May 11 at *1259:20 carrier on, 1300 piano music and presumed Sea Breeze opening weekly Thursday English hour (or rather two semi- hours), but too weak to copy this far into summer dayside. Merely confirming no QSY yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6039.0 & 6040.0 & 6041.0, May 13 at 1217, three peak carriers of rapid tonal pulse jamming, against nothing. I suppose to be applied by Korea North against Shiokaze which doesn`t start 6040 until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, May 14, noted very strong North Korea jamming (pulsating noise) on 6040, which totally blocked reception of PBS Yunnan (China) on 6035, at 1155. The strongest and widest jamming I have ever heard against Shiokaze (1300-1400). Is not uncommon for them to run the jamming long before Shiokaze starts (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6040, JAPAN, Shiokaze/"Sea Breeze" 1330. Long talk with M in Japanese. Closing on time at the ToH with M talking over soft piano music. Transmitter off on the hour, leaving high pitch jammer and muffled China Radio International (via Xi`an). Today, for the first time, I am very sure I am hearing a jammer (since they started using this channel). VG today. (For a cupla weeks, conditions have put this station at threshold levels). May 14 (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6518, May 11 at 1234 noise jamming and presumed Korean talk underneath. Aoki shows this precise info for both: N Korean jamming of 250 kW from Kujang at 0525-2330 // 6600, vs Voice of the People, 50 kW ND from Kyonggi-do Koyang, South Korea at 0528-2332 // 3480, 3912, 4450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. I received a QSL card from KBS World Radio. Russian edition. 9645 kHz / 1300-1400 UT / 04.04.16 & 15.04.16 (An error in the year is now 2017) Theme: Culture of the dancers of Chenyo island of Chekjudo. You can see the card here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/05/blog-post_10.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX 14 May via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. On new frequency of 5920, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed), ex: 6135. Thanks to the timely tip posted to WRTH Facebook page by Mauno Ritola. May 15, seemed to sign on about 1130(?), checked this new frequency on and off after 1107; first noted at 1137; in Korean and playing easy listening pop songs; an abbreviated transmission of about an hour; they went off close to 1238* and not heard after that. Ex: 6135, heard only white noise jamming there as usual. The format certainly seemed correct for VOF; clearly not on their normal 6135 (under the white noise). My audio http://goo.gl/uCblFP (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [slightly later:] Hi Glenn, Seems I may have heard a test transmission. Per Hiroshi's web site http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/e122168.html (in Japanese), there are a few new frequencies (5920 & 6020) registered with the HFCC. Thanks very much to Chulsu at http://radio.chobi.net/bbsasia/?res:3018#3667 (in Japanese), for his feedback (Ron, ibid.) On a new frequency of 6020, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed). Tuned in on May 16, at 1013; clearly not Vietnam (VOV4), which is also on this frequency; suddenly off at 1017*; VOF's usual 6135, only had the normal white noise jamming and the other new VOF frequency that was heard yesterday on 5920, was silent all of today. At 1018, found VOF had switched to 6135, underneath the normal white noise jamming; usual format of being in Korean and playing EZL songs; still there at last check of 1240, with 5920 silent and a weak VOV4 on 6020. Seems therefore that they are randomly testing their two new frequencies (5920 & 6020), as well as using their normal 6135. Certainly no pattern yet established as to their testing schedule (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Two additional frequencies, registered from KBS May 12 via Hwa Sung, probably for clandestine transmissions of V. of Freedom http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/two-additional-frequencies-for-voice-of.html 0000-2400 5920 HWA 010 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, addit. frequency 0000-2400 6020 HWA 010 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, addit. frequency 0000-2400 6135 HWA 010 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean, ex Chun Cheon tx Voice of Freedom on air 0300-0800; 0900-1500; 1600-2000 and 2100-0200 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Poor signal of KBS World Radio on 9645 & 9880 kHz, May 17 1255-1300 on 9645 KIM 100 kW / 319 deg CeAs KBS WR Interval Signal 1300-1400 on 9645 KIM 100 kW / 319 deg CeAs Russian KBS World Radio 1355-1400 on 9880 KIM 250 kW / 264 deg SoAs KBS WR Interval Signal 1400-1600 on 9880*KIM 250 kW / 264 deg SoAs English KBS World Radio * co-ch same 9880 NNN 100 kW / 200 deg SEAs Khmer CRI 1400-1600 UT, * co-ch same 9880 XIA 500 kW / 292 deg CeAs Russian CRI from 1500 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/poor-signal-of-kbs-world-radio-on-9645.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOSOVO. SERBIA [KOSOVO disputed - UN break away] Re: The last MW transmitter in Kosovo is Prishtine on 549 kHz. It is still active and it relays Radio Kosova 1. Not listed in WRTH. Reported by Boris Bielik and David Kriz, two members of the Czechoslovak DX Club (CSDXC) traveling in that area. (Karel Honzik-CZE, mwdx May 10) In previous decades had a 10 kW unit also on 1512 kHz: SRB_Baksija Pristina, Kosovo 549 kHz / 1413 kHz / 100 kW 1512 kHz 10 kW G.C. 42 43 20.93 N 21 06 31.63 E Former High-Power antenna mast pole MW 1413 kHz on the right upper image corner, feeder line poles still visible. (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX 15 May via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Denge Kurdistan via Issoudun & Grigoriopol May 13: 0230-0500 on 7350 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, strong signal 0500-1400 on 11600 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, weak to fair: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/denge-kurdistan-on-7350-khz-issoudun.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOLDOVA, Extended transmission of Denge Kurdistan from May 9: 1930-2100 on 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex till 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEnrKcxkIbs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPEKd2B-qfk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNtpd4z14Ds&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/extended-transmission-of-denge.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. RFA: New TX site image QSL of IBB Kuwait --- Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces the release of the fourth QSL card in the series highlighting the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) transmitter sites used for RFA programming. RFA programs also broadcasts from these IBB sites: Biblis, Lampertheim, Saipan and Tinian. IBB Kuwait is one of the most cost-effective transmitter sites in IBB’s inventory and is also an integral part of IBB’s global satellite interconnect system (SIS) carrying RFA programming where needed. This is RFA’s 64th QSL overall and will be used to confirm all valid RFA reception reports from May 1 - August 31, 2017. See pic here: https://www.facebook.com/rfa.qsl/ (Ian, May 11, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Re KGZ 4010v 4819v 5130 kHz Bishkek. Checked tonight all 3 channels: On May 10, at 2344 UT noted empty carrier on 4010.191 kHz S=9+15Db signal on remote SDR unit at Delhi India. Empty carrier. But at 2353 UT the station technician started 1000 Hertz test tone procedure. On May 11 at 0002 to 0011 UT the transmitter wandered from 4010.191 upwards to 4010.206 kHz. Nothing heard from KGZ on air on 4819v kHz. Only Lhasa CNR Tibet China program on air 4820.0005 kHz. Nothing heard on my monitoring in past 5-6 weeks from Bishkek 4819 kHz. Transmission are very irregular in past months. Last notings: March 24 at 0110 UT 4819.886 kHz, single day of operation. Jan 7 on 4819.903 kHz, and Rumen Pankov in Sofia Bulgaria reported on Feb 4 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 10 / 11, BC-DX 15 May via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6129.979, In Queensland remote SDR unit at Australia downunder heard tiny S=4-5 signal of Lao National Radio Vientiane. Womans chorus in likely Laotian language, at 1128 UT on May 15. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 6065, May 15 at 0325 talk in unID language, 0330 song, poor. Must be AWR in Malagasy this hour, 100 kW at 20 degrees per HFCC. They better watch out: if KIMF ever gets on the air from Nevada, it`s registered for 6065 at 01-06, 50 kW at 138 degrees in Spanish. And will VOH Zambia ever come back on 6065 in mornings? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 9560, May 15 at 0337, NHK in Swahili with big hum and wavering whistle, carrier wobbling but S9+30. This Talata unit is really ailing, also accompanied by S9 parasitic spur carriers without modulation very close to 9555 & 9565, the latter vs Cuban jamming still running long after Martí is finished. NHK normally loud and clear here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Tim Hall, Chula Vista CA (between San Diego and Tijuana) Perseus SDR-IQ, 560 ft unterminated mini-BOG aimed SSE(/NNW) Reviewing my recordings from the first week of May. Dates/Times UT. 560, XEYO, Huatabampo SONORA - 5/1 0400 - On top of channel with "Radio Lobo" slogan (and wolf howl?) followed by a nice clear ad for a local pizza restaurant, roughly as follows: "Quisieras un poco de pizza? Abuela Pizza es tu mejor opción! ...Huatabampo y Etchojoa, calle 5 de Mayo casi esquina con Alvaro Obregón, servicio de ___, 4263803." Phone number and address for Abuela Pizza ("Grandma`s Pizza!" ) match the restaurant`s Facebook page. NEW, station #1400! 73 (Tim Hall, ABDX via DXLD) ** MEXICO. LA RADIODIFUSORA XEJAM LA VOZ DE LA COSTA CHICA CELEBRÓ UN NUEVO ANIVERSARIO --- 11/05/2017 [Oaxaca, 1260] Hablar de La Voz de la Costa Chica es hablar de 23 años de tiempo y compromiso social con las comunidades indígenas. Resultado de imagen para radiodifusora XEJAM La Voz de la Costa Chica Es hablar de una radio pública en donde los amuzgos, mixtecos, chatinos, zapotecos y afromexicanos, todos por igual, tienen un lugar muy especial. Es hablar de un encuentro y diálogo de la pluralidad cultural y de pensamiento. Y es ante todo hablar de libertad, de ser cada quien como quiere ser. La radio llegó hace 23 años como el más extraordinario aparato de comunicación e información para los pueblos indígenas de la Costa Chica y Sierra Sur de Oaxaca, bajo el lema Una voz para todos. Llegó para poner al radioescucha en relación con los otros. Surgió la gran posibilidad de hacer hablar al oyente. Uno de los antecedentes para la creación de la emisora, fue la solicitud presentada por Joel Merino Vásquez, presidente de la Organización de Profesionistas y Empleados Federales Asociación Civil (OPEFAC) de Santiago Jamiltepec al director del Centro Coordinador de la Mixteca de la Costa, Leopoldo Meyer Mendoza, firmada el 13 de septiembre de 1991, solicitud que se canalizó a las oficinas generales y prosperó al siguiente año, por un lado por el interés comunitario manifiesto a través de la solicitud presentada para contar con un medio de comunicación propio, y por el otro, porque el Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenistas se encontraba en un proceso de crecimiento, para contribuir al desarrollo cultural y social de las comunidades indígenas. La edificación de la XEJAM inició el 1 de enero de 1992 y se terminó el 15 de diciembre de 1993, en donde el gobierno federal realizó la inversión de 1 millón 717 mil nuevos pesos, recursos provenientes del Programa Nacional de Solidaridad y supervisados por el entonces Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI), siendo director general Arturo Warman. La Voz de la Costa Chica lanzó por primera vez al aire las transmisiones de prueba el 9 de diciembre de 1993. Durante el primer semestre de 1994 se dedicó a la experimentación técnica, de enero a marzo sólo transmitió tres horas diarias y de abril a junio se aumentó a cinco horas al día, lo que permitió consolidar, enriquecer y actualizar sus contenidos de programación. Así, los locutores transmitieron los primeros meses con mucho nerviosismo, pero al mismo tiempo con mucho entusiasmo. Resultado de imagen para radiodifusora XEJAM La Voz de la Costa Chica Del año 1994 al 2005 La Voz de la Costa Chica transmitió con 5 mil watts de potencia efectiva, en el 1260 de amplitud modulada, a partir del 27 de enero de 2006 mejoraron la calidad de la señal, con el aumento a 10 mil watts de potencia, lo que les permitió, “llegar más lejos para estar más cerca de ti”. Gracias a las nuevas tecnologías de la información y comunicación, la XEJAM llega prácticamente a todas partes, llevando así la voz de los indígenas a todo el mundo, gracias al lanzamiento de su señal por Internet, que sirve como puente entre las regiones y los connacionales que viven en otras latitudes, siendo un logro importante en el mes de febrero de 2009. “A 23 años de distancia, estamos avanzando en la mejora de la calidad técnica, pero sabedores de que la radio está en constante movimiento, nos preparamos y trabajamos muy fuerte para mejorar la calidad de los contenidos de la programación, para enfrentar los retos del futuro inmediato, esos que plantea la convergencia tecnológica y que llevará a la emisora a integrarse a la era digital y a rediseñar sus contenidos y sus propuestas”, señaló el responsable de la emisora Luis Santos Alderete. Aún dentro de la diversidad de formatos que las nuevas tecnologías favorecen, La Voz de la Costa Chica seguirá siendo distinta, seguirá procurando y preparando una oferta radiofónica basada en su compromiso con las comunidades indígenas y fiel a su vocación cultural, seguirá con la creatividad, el entusiasmo y la originalidad para ponerla a la altura de los retos del mundo actual. Asimismo presta sus servicios comunitarios de avisos y mensajes diversos que intenta superar las barreras geográficas y la insuficiencia de sistemas regionales de comunicación, proporcionando información sobre aspectos de interés para las comunidades y pueblos indígenas, con el fin de contribuir a la mejor comprensión de su entorno y ubicación nacional. La producción y realización de contenidos son el eje conductor que da integración, coherencia y sentido a la misión de toda emisora de radio. En el caso de la XEJAM, uno de los retos más importantes desde su origen fue presentar programas diferentes y alternativos. De esta forma, La Voz de la Costa Chica cumple 23 años al servicio de los pueblos y comunidades indígenas de la región. A 23 años, XEJAM se afianza en la vida cotidiana del radio-participante, rompiendo el silencio. Por eso aquí y ahora “La voz es nuestra, de todos la palabra” (de http://imparcialoaxaca.mx/ via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. LANZAN SERIE DE RADIO SOBRE DERECHOS DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS --- 05/05/2017 Con el objetivo de ampliar su barra programática de las mañanas, Radio Educación lanzó al aire la serie “Voces y cantos de la tierra viva”, que abordará temas de defensa y lucha por los derechos sociales de los pueblos originarios de México. Resultado de imagen para radio educacion [capción] La serie, que se transmitirá cada viernes a las 06:00 horas [HCVM = 1100 UT], representa una nueva opción informativa de orientación testimonial y cultural de los diferentes grupos sociales, cuya presencia toca los márgenes de los medios de comunicación, informó la emisora cultural. Recordó que tiene especial énfasis en difundir los procesos comunitarios, su entorno, organización y dinámica social de su desarrollo, a partir de su Barra del Amanecer. Otros programas que conforman dicha barra son “México… de profunda raíz”, una radiografía económica y social entre el campo y la Ciudad de México. “Voces del INAH” es un espacio para el conocimiento de la diversidad cultural e histórica del país, que se produce en colaboración con Radio INAH; Y “Raíz y razón de…”, que habla sobre la organización de las comunidades, costumbres y la defensa de la tierra. También se transmite “Del campo y de la ciudad”, sociedad, política y cultura que une comunidades, y “Expresiones comunitarias, AMARC en Radio Educación”. Estos programas se transmiten de lunes a jueves en el mismo horario de las seis de la mañana. Las seis producciones que conforman la Barra del Amanecer puede escucharse a través de las siete señales de la emisora: 1060 de Amplitud Modulada; en el 107.9 de FM en Mérida, Yucatán; en los 6185 khz de Onda Corta, a través de la Señal Satelital, por el Canal 2 de Edusat, en la señal On Demand e-radio.edu.mx, a través de la señal Xperimenta, por internet en la señal radioeducacion.edu.mx, algunas apps para dispositivos móviles (La Voz de Michoacán via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. New tropo DX record --- After 8 years finally pulled out a 2nd 1000+ mile FM band tropo signal evening of May 9, good signals from the usual two Coatzacoalcos FMs 101.7 and 107.5 which is the most distant corner of the Gulf. 89.7 XHVX in Tabasco showed up with a surprisingly "hot" signal. Often heard on Es, this was a first on tropo, 6 kW at 937 miles SS on 100.9 first suspected to be Minatitlán which has been logged years before at 993 miles. Quite a surprise to hear public radio type programming and the CORTV ID - "Oaxaqueña radio Aro FM La voz de nuestro estado". 100.9, XHLAB transmitter is on a mountaintop site south of Lagunas, Oaxaca. Less than 75 miles from the Pacific Ocean. 1086 miles from my location. The next morning produced some usual Texas and Mexico coast signals and rare 101.7 XHVIR Ciudad Victoria came up strong for some time from 897 miles. Even with RDS at times, perfectly listenable while driving to work. Usual 93.9, KMXR Corpus Christi, TX was overpowered for a good 45 minutes by XHYP Ciudad Mante. Not too strong, in and out but several IDs including full. "Di 93.9", 25 kW, 927 miles. First time via tropo Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version. Name: dx 5-9-17.JPG Views: 13 Size: 261.9 KB ID: 20302 Attached Files File Type: mp3 89-7_XHVX_TOH_Tr_May09_17.mp3 (885.4 KB, 11 views) File Type: mp3 93-9_XHYP_May10_17.mp3 (2.69 MB, 9 views) File Type: mp3 100-9_XHLAB_May09_17.mp3 (2.05 MB, 17 views) File Type: mp3 101-7_XHTD_TOH_Tr_May09_17.mp3 (1.12 MB, 5 views) File Type: mp3 101-7_XHVIR_TOH_May10_17.mp3 (1.07 MB, 5 views) File Type: mp3 107-5_XHOM_Tr_May09_17.mp3 (453.2 KB, 7 views) (Randy KW4RZ Zerr, Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Amazing what a good strong tropo duct will bring. My farthest tropo (TV) to date I believe is ch 9 Villahermosa TAB (862 mi). I've got some work to do obviously. Awesome job, Randy! (Mike, South Louisiana, TVDXing since 7/27/09, May 12, 2017, ibid.) No doubt that's CORTV! I agree on XHLAB as XHMAJ is clear across the state from the PTA (Raymie Humbert, AZ, ibid.) probable target area XHRAW has used the annoying echo and distortion in many of their IDs for at least 12 years. and often change their handle. They have been signing "La Raza" for at least 2 years now but web still shows them as "La Poderosa". They have a big signal for 2.6 kW. Have made it this far on tropo over Corpus Christi 100 kW. Nice catch, Mike (Randy KW4RZ Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, ibid.) They are definitely still La Poderosa. La Raza would get them confused with 1060 AM XERDO. Their FB is still being updated: https://www.facebook.com/LaPoderosa93.9FM/ (Raymie Humbert, AZ, May 11, ibid.) last two recordings from here they sound like La Raza. Must be saying something else. Attached Files File Type: mp3 93-9_XHRAW_Jun23_15.mp3 (374.5 KB, 1 views) File Type: mp3 93-9_XHRAW_Tr_Oct16_15.mp3 (438.3 KB, 0 views) (Randy KW4RZ Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, May 12, ibid.) Oh yeah, those do. I think they went back to La Poderosa last year (Raymie, ibid.) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [including DTV] Noped Out Found this doozy while digging through IFT meeting minutes. Looks like a bunch of multiprogramming authorizations have been renounced! The headliner is that Imagen TV has dropped its multiprogramming plans — probably a good thing, as timeshift channels of Imagen TV were the primary offering. The other drops were the Jalisco state network outside of Guadalajara; Radio Ibero for an HD3; and XHFX for Foro TV in Morelia (Raymie Hunbert, Phœnix AZ, May 12, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) After another eight participants peeled out of the IFT-6 race, the IFT has signaled that it may not bid out all 148 stations in the auction. http://mediatelecom.com.mx/index.php/radiodifusion/television/item/137207-quedar%C3%ADan-sin-licitar-canales-de-tv-digital We're now down to 16 participants, and that number could still go down. Adel Hibert, a former Cofetel commissioner, says he expects between five and eight final entrants. Bidders are primarily focusing on stations in capital cities and large metropolitan areas (Raymie, ibid.) It's time for Mexico's favorite radio game show about Mexico's favorite unpredictable radio broadcaster --- What's Going On at Grupo Radio Centro? This time, it's an absolutely wild carousel of changes at Radio Centro's AM stations. It looks like three stations are getting the ax out of a total of five. GRC will consolidate its AM programs onto 690 and 1110 AM. http://radiocentro.com/carrusel/cambio-de-frecuencias.html 690 will be the new home of El Fonógrafo oldies from 10 am to midnight on weekdays and starting at 11:30 am on weekends. Radio Centro 1030 will occupy the rest of XEN's airtime. Over on 1110, Formato 21 is shacking up with Radio Red, resulting in 1110 picking up a news wheel format with the La Red de Radio Red newscasts. It's arrivederci for 790, 1030 and 1150 kHz in Mexico City. As you might expect, these stations have seen a lot. 790 and 1030 were the original frequencies for Organización Radio Centro and have a significant historical value for them. 790, which signed on in 1946, was Radio Éxitos and was the birthplace of the El Club de los Beatles program that survives on Universal 88.1. 1030 has been Radio Centro for seemingly all time, though it nominally got its concession in 1954. 1150 kHz, traditionally XEJP-AM (except for its stint as XECMQ-AM from 1996 to 2004), spent most of its life as Radio Variedades until the musical format slid up the dial to 1320. Formato 21, on the other hand, enters its 25th year on its fourth frequency. It started on XECMQ 1320, moved to 1150, then to 790, and now slides to 1110. The real death goes to La 69, a format that primarily consisted of recycled GRC news and talk programs and always seemed like it was going nowhere. But wait! There's more! GRC owns XEEST-AM 1440, which is operated by Grupo Siete Comunicación as part of the deal that lets GRC operate XHFO-FM 92.1. The Quiéreme romantic format on 1440 is sliding to 1560 AM, marking its first regular formatted broadcasts since March 2008. Confused yet? Last edited by Raymie; 05-14-2017 at 10:21 PM (Raymie, ibid.) AMPLITUD DESOLADA --- Grupo Radio Centro gives the ax to four AM stations but signs on another Grupo Radio Centro today shut off several AM stations in Mexico City, its breadbasket radio market, and moved their programs around, as described above. The stations affected - XERC at 790, XEQR at 1030, XEJP at 1150, and XEEST at 1440 - have all gone off the air. In exchange, XEINFO 1560 AM is on with a regular format (read: not automated Regional Mexican music without PSAs or INE spots) for the first time since it was sold to Eduardo Henkel Rojas in 2008, a move likely facilitated by the definitive end of legal proceedings between GRC and José Gutiérrez Vivó. An internal memo apparently states that the changes were made due to "changes in our AM transmission infrastructure". https://twitter.com/Multimedia7mx/status/864133919381352449 Management is reviewing the status of programs forced off the air by this consolidation. The choice of 690 and 1110 AM is deliberate. These are the highest- power stations GRC has on AM in Mexico City (XEN is 100/5 and XERED is 100/50). XEEST to XEINFO is also an upgrade, particularly at night. Some additional information: -Promotions by GRC indicate a power hike to 200 kW for XERED. This would be a shocker. It might also be distortion of what's actually going on. -Isabel Ángulo's musical programs on 92.1 Red FM have also been displaced — the 1110 AM talk programs have found shelter on FM. She put out a series of tweets explaining the facilities issue and saying she would keep her fans informed. -One displaced 1030 AM talk program is promoting an internet stream. https://www.facebook.com/MetodoSilvaMexico/posts/1440712159322799 Last edited by Raymie; 05-15-2017 at 01:52 PM (Raymie, ibid.) So Javier Tejado Dondé's column this week in El Universal is a whopper. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/entrada-de-opinion/columna/javier-tejado-donde/cartera/2017/05/16/tecnoradio-una-simulacion-para You might remember that Adrián Pereda of Radiorama said that there were no family ties between him and Tecnoradio. Turns out that there's another Radiorama principal that's related. Alí Eduardo Bañuelos, the president of Tecnoradio, is married to Viviana "Vivis" Toscano. In turn, Viviana is the niece, by marriage, of Javier Pérez de Anda, who is married to Rebeca Margarita Toscano. They have three daughters. Elizabeth Pérez Toscano is listed on LinkedIn as the CEO of Grupo Audiorama Comunicaciones. There are additionally relationships on Pérez de Anda's paternal side with the stakeholders of Tecnoradio. The connections are close enough that they should have been notified in the list of shareholders, and the IFT should not have awarded Tecnoradio the "new broadcaster" designation. Tejado Dondé goes on to explain that RR is kind of in the middle of a family split between the Pereda, Pérez Toscano and Sanabria families, which is generating some competition among the families. This explains quite a bit of RR's confusing structure, especially its "double clusters" in places like Mexicali, Tampico and Cuernavaca. Radiorama is more and more the Pereda faction. The Pérez Toscano family runs the Audiorama stations. And Grupo AS represents the Sanabria family. The Pérez Toscano family might have been motivated to expand its footprint. Tecnoradio, according to this report, was created in 2011 in order to provide services to stations, but never got off the ground. It was then dusted off for IFT-4. The report suggests that the IFT will have to investigate this matter and could end up disqualifying Tecnoradio, resulting in stations being awarded to the next highest bidder (or some that would sit abandoned, certainly), and Tecnoradio could face fines. Additional repercussions could come from the fact that TR drove up prices in many of the lots in the auction. ——— The IFT released a statement http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/otros-documentos/postura-del-instituto-federal-de-telecomunicaciones-sobre-la-licitacion-ift-4-de-frecuencias-de on Tejado Dondé's column, reminding the public that IFT-4 is not over and that they could revisit Tecnoradio and see if they may merit disqualification. Last edited by Raymie; 05-16-2017 at 10:10 PM (Raymie, ibid.) Stenographic notes catch us up on what happened at the IFT's April 26 meeting, with only two standout items: Shopping galore. XEWO and XHCNL will be multiplexed with CJ Grand Shopping, following the lead of XHTV in Mexico City. New IPN stations. Calls and channel information are now available for the four new IPN transmitters: XHPBCN-20 Cancún XHPBGD-23 Guadalajara XHPBTP-11 Tepic XHPBMY-33 Monterrey The first two stations came from the 2015 PABF, which explains why they are on UHF. Monterrey's U is probably because of international coordination, as like Tepic it emerged from the 2016 PABF. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie Humbert, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 12035. May 14 at 1013, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, in Chinese. Woman announcer talks & talks. Station with poor signal and barely audible modulation, 25331 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Location: Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, Longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. From May 1 again no signal of Radio Medi 1 on 9575 kHz 0000-2400 on 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg to NoAf Arabic/French http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/from-may-1-again-no-signal-of-radio.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Nor here (gh, OK) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sunday May 14, The Mighty KBC via GERMANY is doing much better on its second week back on 31m, VG S9+20/10, Uncle Eric introducing Kraig Krist at 0140, about 10 minutes earlier than usual. Forgotten Song is #28 from April 1977, the Jacksons` ``Show You the Way to Go`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. (Canada): 6160, CKZN, 0137-0245, Music program called "Saturday Night Blues" with OM host. Very enjoyable entertainment till 0159 ID as CBC Radio One, the show promo and CBC News at 0200 and weather report at 0204. Blues program resumed at 0205. Going to listen out to this music as it very relaxing. Good on 5/07 (Don Hosmer, West Branch MI, ICOM IC-7200 w/102' & 51' G5RV dipoles, MARE Tipsheet May 12 via DXLD) 6160.00, 0215-0220 15.5, CANADA, CKZN, St. John's, New Foundland, English ann, music, 25222 AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, made on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) Another example of reporting more precision than is correct. Always slightly off the the low side, like CFRX (gh, DXLD) 6160, Canada, CKZN, St Johns, 0030-0045 political news and discussions, fair signal with fades 17 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, DX South Florida 1981-2017, Mosquito Coast DX News via NASWA yg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Changes of Radio New Zealand International in AM mode, May 7: 1651-1950 9700*RAN 050 kW / 035 deg English Cook/Tonga/Samoa Sun-Fri 1951-2050 11725*RAN 050 kW / 035 deg English Cook/Tonga/Samoa Sun-Fri 2259-0458 13840 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg English All Pacific Dly, x 15720 * additional transmissions for CYCLONE Warnings via the second transmitter. Updated A-17 schedule of Radio New Zealand International may be found here. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/04/radio-new-zealand-international.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. NBC REVOKES 54 TELEVISION, RADIO LICENSES The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked 54 television and radio licenses while another 120 licenses are being processed for revocation due to offences bordering on inability to pay for their licenses within the mandatory 60 days period and failure to go on air two years after the licenses were issued. The Director General of the commission, Ish’aq Modibo Kawu, who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in Abuja observed that frequencies cannot be held indefinitely by individuals as there are other people waiting and ready to make use of those frequencies. He also announced that NBC has extended the deadline for the payment of the over N5 billion debt owed the commission from March 15 to March 31, 2017 adding that after the date, any station still owing the commission would be closed down. Kawu, who warned that the harsh economic realities of the country was not an excuse for stations not to meet lawful obligations, disclosed that some of the licenses expired since 2015, stressing that every license issued is provisional and could be revoked at any point. He said: “There has been no plan by any station to pay. Some even wrote us that the amount they were expected to pay was too much, suggesting to the commission the amount they intend to pay. “However, this is a new era. All outstanding sums owed the NBC must be collected. The practice of using political connections or going to the Aso Villa to seek black market endorsement will not work,” Kawu said. The NBC boss stated that the commission has commenced the settlement of all indebtedness arising from the contracts awarded in respect to the Digital Switch Over (DSO), especially to the Set Top Box manufacturers to the tune of N5billion. According to him, the next phase of payment being processed is that of the signal distributors, Pinnacle Communications and it is to enable them meet their obligations and deepen the efforts to meet a nationwide DSO (The Guardian via Steve Whitt, May/June Medium Wave News 63/02 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Unknown Name Radio Network, 6880 AM. 7 May 2017 2321-2359. Frequency shifts galore! At least eight changes in the period that I listened: 6880, 6888, 6880, 6888, 6880, 6880, 6915, 6880, and to 6925. Oh, and they played some music, too! So many numbers I forgot to record SINPO! (Ron Hunsicker, Wyomissing PA, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) 6880.0-AM, May 13 at 2340, pirate music at S8-S6, no doubt Unknown Name Radio Network on its favorite but not only frequency. Yes, per this thread at this hour, starting as early as 2116, including some log from overseas: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=34836.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924.9, May 15 at 0027, very poor, seems like there are two carriers, one with talk. Captain Morgan Shortwave, per these: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,34881.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6936, May 13 at 0149, sounds like SSTV, probably a pirate, and no vocal ones heard this hour. Sent several SSTV images, some of them displayed here, but no IDs: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,34819.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 6934.5 USB, PIRATE, UnIdentified SSTV, 0133, 5.13.17. Series of SSTV images. There had been several prior to these of women’s torsos with R rating: 0133 (Simpson’s character with “HAHA” – probably a reference to prior SSTV of woman’s breasts), 0140 (Busty woman with beer bottle between her breasts), 0142 (dog with human like teeth and a big lusty smile), 0152 (dog with woman’s back side “of course I’ll sniff that.) No ID, but see Pee Wee Radio on 6955U later tonight for a clue. Fair – good images (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, RTL2832 V3 dongle for SDR’s; E1, Satellit 800, PL 660, and various other portables for physical radios; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, May 15 at 0026, C&W vocal song at S5 in noise. Several other logs, all unID, enumerate tunes on a Mothers` Day theme: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,34883.0.html At 0026 it was ``Mother Rose`` by Patty Smith (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7615, YHWH, 5 May 0453* with mention of youtube / Soundcloud channels for his videos, "Station YHWH" ID with "7615 megaHertz, 7-6-1-5.." and back tomorrow at 7:30 Pacific Time (give or take a few minutes). 6 May 0337 "creepy song" with semi-closing announcements, but continued with reading letter from ??. Signal quality varies remarkably, but the audio is still cheesy. And the boy does get around! on 7605 14 May 0345+; apparently wanders the high-end of 41M like those Israelites in the desert, as others have logged him on 7700 & 7630 the past couple of days. MCDXN logs: (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, NASWA yg via DXLD) 7615, USA [sic] (Pirate), YHWH, 0300. Caught in progress, 0315. Usual guy. Fair signal level, a little better at 0330. Recheck still on with Fair signal at 0400. 0500: Fair/Good, saying Conservatively Incorrect things - trashing Trump, patriotism, nationalism, and wars. The weird music at 0517, closing announcements, to high pitched continuous tone. Not a ute, as our man broke in with "Testing". Seemed to be done at 0528, but back on from 0531 to 0533. 0534, back on reading a letter, then article; a repeat from earlier. Over next ten minutes, appeared to be testing both AM and SSB (The SSB test was terrible!). Everything went off at 0545. I listened to the channel for more, but called it a night at 0600. May 11 (Rick Barton, AZ, times/dates UT, unless otherwise stated, language English and equipment being RS SW-2000629 and outdoor shortwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I agree it`s likely he`s in the USA, but how do you KNOW? Could possibly be Canada or even Mexico. That`s why we put secret location pirates under broader NORTH AMERICA (gh, DXLD) A record for YHWH? Tuned in YHWH a few hours ago, and on rechecking, it's still on the air at 0537 (past 10:37 PM local). Signal strength is quite good, but modulation is very low, almost barely audible. I did note a little squiggle in the carrier a few minutes ago. It was 50 to 100 Hz higher, and I could see the waterfall shift suddenly down in 2 steps, back to the nominal 7615.0 kHz. I don't recall whether they've ever stayed on the air so late. I'll leave the recorder going in the meantime to ascertain sign-off time. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0540 UT May 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Answered my own question with the transmitter cutting out suddenly at 0541, but something must have blown, as the carrier did come on twice over the next minute for a few seconds, with no modulation, then disappeared. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0543 UT May 11, ibid.) 7615 & 7610, May 12 at 0230-0237, no show yet from Station YHWH. 7615, May 12 at 0535, now there is a JBA carrier from presumed Station YHWH, much later than before. Rick Barton in AZ has heard him starting at 0300. On May 2, Walt Salmaniw heard him until 0520:30* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH: 5/12/17 0343-0509 UTC 7615 AM. Very weak signal listening in USB mode, some music and OM talking with mentions of "Yahweh", "Christianity and religion" and "God", OM also mentioned "dot com" several times which may have been an email address or a website, first time hearing YHWH! (Joe Filipkowski, Warwick RI, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) YHWH New frequency 7630 --- Heard tonight at 0317 UT tune-in with usual shtick. I do wish his modulation would improve. Powerful signal into Victoria, but modulation is only fair/good. Does not make for pleasant listening. 73, Walt - Posted by: (Volodya Salmaniw, 0322 UT May 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) HI ALL, I was sitting on 7615, no joy, started tuning around the dial. Now hearing YHWH on new freq. 7630. everything else the usual. FaiSW- 2000629 and 9' helical antenna, vertically polarized. 73 from Arizona (~Rick Barton, 0347 UT May 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now just dropped to 7620 (0404) due to jamming (as he announced as he was changing frequency). There was someone else just above 7630 which I could see on 7630. As I type this, at 0406:50, there's the "jammer" back on top of YHWH, but 30 Hz high. Interesting! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) An interesting evening, with YHWH jumping around trying to evade a cochannel jammer who's following him, but 30 Hz above YHWH. He's now on 7605. Before each frequency change, he quickly announces the change, and goes to the new frequency. Interesting to listen to. I can just make out the music jammer who's clearly there to bother the religious pirate. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0429 UT, ibid.) I have him with strong signal here too (Arizona) 7605 (posted 0435 Z) (Rick Barton, ibid.) No sign of the cochannel jammer on 7605 up to 0441 UT. Perhaps he finally got a little bored, and gave up. He didn't remain on any of the earlier frequencies, either. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, May 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7630, USA [sic] (Pirate), YHWH, May 14, 0340. Tuning around, stumbled onto this one in progress (after wasting most of the evening sitting on 7615). Creepy music at 0352. Signal going off and on at 0400. Fair overall. At times peaking Good and other times dropping into Poor range. May 14. 7605, YHWH, 0430. Found him here. At 0440, went off briefly saying he was checking the channel for a jammer, then back on. Rereading letter from start of broadcast, then the creepy music song at 0510. Closing announcements at 0515, "I love you...signing off". Back on briefly at 0516 to taunt jammers & gone. May 14 (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another new frequency : YHWH --- am now hearing YHWH in progress at 0255 tune-in on 7700 kHz. Good here in Arizona. 73, (Rick Barton, UT May 15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Rick. He's just barely there. Heard him last night talk about a change in frequency (he tried about 4 different frequencies last night, trying to escape a music jammer). 73, (Walt in Victoria, BC, 0317 UT May 15, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7700, USA (Pirate), YHWH, May 15, 0245. Tuning around, stumbled onto this one in progress. Usual program. Operator took a short break at 0320 to check for jamming; none found, so he went on. Went off again at 0335. At this writing, still waiting for him to return. Good signal with 9’ helical antenna and SW-2000629. May 15 (Rick Barton, AZ, 0358 UT, ibid.) Went off again at 0335 without closing announcements. Recheck had him back on at 0428 (Barton, AZ, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) 7700.0, May 15 at 0317, new frequency for Station YHWH with the usual, S8 and somewhat suptorted, still at 0329 but gone at 0346. He`s no Marconi. Last night he was jumping all over the 7.6 MHz band to avoid jamming, but none heard of that tonight. Another new frequency then was 7630 per Rick Barton and Walt Salmaniw, so I check there, and find a JBA carrier but it`s wobbling and probably a receiver birdie (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585-AM, YHWH (religious pirate), 0306, May 17. Very rare that I find him very readable, as I did this evening (my local sunset at 0308 UT); his usual strong anti-Catholic rant (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still going at 0513 UT/10:13 PM local with usual poor audio quality. Nearby, there's a strong OC on 7597.427. Any idea(s) who that might be? Rambled on for a few minutes after his signature tune. Fair number of static crashes made it difficult for me to follow, but he mentioned "2 1/2 kHz", and also some variability in sign-on times (I think). Transmitter then cut promptly at 0525 UT. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 7597+ OC has shown up periodically; I was still hearing it later when 7585 was off. Probably another unID RTTY ute pausing (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Here`s the latest on the murdered manager of La Voz de Atitlán, 2390 kHz, GUATEMALA, from the Front Page of the Enid newspaper! Gross. One day there may be a market for Rother relix, knucklebones, etc. He left his heart in Santiago. Note to self: eschew cremation in order to remain saint-eligible. What percentage are RCC in OK? Less than 5% per http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/state/oklahoma yet someone`s very excited about ``sainthood`` for an Okie! http://www.enidnews.com/news/local_news/martyred-priest-exhumed-verified-in-next-step-before-beatification/article_7d2d6378-7697-5639-ad80-cbf63c7d69f9.html MARTYRED PRIEST EXHUMED, VERIFIED IN NEXT STEP BEFORE BEATIFICATION editor's pick Enid News & Eagle May 17, 2017 Updated May 17, 2017 The remains of the Rev. Stanley Rother were exhumed May 10 from an Okarche cemetery and transported to Oklahoma City to be verified in the next step before the martyred priest’s beatification, according to the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. As required by the Catholic Church for the beatification process, his remains were examined by medical professionals and re-interred in the chapel at Resurrection Cemetery in northwest Oklahoma City. Once the vault was removed from the gravesite, it was transported to Oklahoma City where his remains were removed, examined and verified. He was placed in a new casket with golden vestments alongside a document signed by those in attendance. A red ribbon was wrapped around the casket and sealed with a wax seal of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. Attendees sang “Salve Regina,” a Gregorian chant hymn, before the casket was lowered into a crypt at Resurrection Cemetery. The martyrdom of Rother was recognized in December by Pope Francis, making the former Okarche priest the first U.S.-born martyr in history. The official recognition of Rother’s martyrdom was announced Dec. 2 by the Vatican, clearing the path for his beatification — the last step before sainthood in the Catholic Church. Rother will be the first U.S.-born male and first U.S. priest to be beatified during a ceremony this fall in downtown Oklahoma City. Deemed a Venerable Servant of God, Rother was assassinated in 1981 while working as a missionary in Guatemala, where he served as pastor of the parish of Santiago Atitlán. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City opened Rother’s cause for beatification in 2007 – 26 years after he was murdered in his rectory by unknown assailants believed to be government soldiers. By early 1981, Father Rother had been placed on a hit list along with several members of his parish staff and catechists for their continued aid, education and preaching of the Gospel to the poor population of Tz’utujil Indians. At the request of his parishioners in Guatemala, Rother’s heart is enshrined inside the Guatemalan church. In June 2015, Rother was recognized formally as a martyr by a special Theological Commission at the Congregation of the Causes of Saints in Rome. This recognition is the final stage before canonization as a saint. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City's Cause has been working to have Rother beatified to make him Oklahoma’s first saint. Cardinal Angelo Amato, who serves as the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome, will celebrate the beatification Mass on Sept. 23 along with the Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, archbishop of Oklahoma City, and thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons and other faithful from across the United States. There is no charge and no tickets are required to attend the Mass. “The witness of Father Rother’s life and death has been a source of encouragement and inspiration to me as a seminarian, priest and now as a bishop,” Coakley said. “I consider it a great gift to be entrusted with overseeing the continuation of his cause for beatification and canonization begun by Archbishop (Eusebius) Beltran. “His beatification is an unexpected blessing for Oklahoma and for the United States as we celebrate this ordinary man from humble beginnings who answered the call to serve an extraordinary life. His witness will continue to inspire us for generations.” In Okarche, a temporary sign marks the gravesite at Holy Trinity Cemetery where the original vault and casket are reburied. A permanent memorial marker will be placed. The chapel at Resurrection Cemetery, where Rother will remain until his shrine is completed, is locked for security, but visitors are welcome. Call (405) 721-4191. For information about Rother’s life, his cause, the process of canonization and details about the beatification Mass, go online to http://stanleyrother.org The Associated Press contributed to this report (Enid Eagle via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.3, May 15 at 1629 UT, ``Radio 74, The Answer`` non-ID still from KIEL Loyal OK. This 3.8 kW station at 47 meters is not very far, but not always audible here without a little help from the troposphere vs the local 89.1 translator. Gospel huxter. OK has six other lower-powered stations on 89.3. 92.1, May 15 at 1631 UT, Spanish and praise music, presumed KAMG-LP Enid back on after several weeks` absence (and before that, dead air). Much weaker than other LPs in Enid, 94.3 and 99.9, and still there circa 1900 UT check May 16; driving around Enid, not solid signal at all, and modulation somewhat over- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1203*, May 17. Cut off just after announcer said "Election 2017"; poor. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands (presumed), 1203, May 17. Only hearing an open carrier here (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Last night I heard a very good signal of Radio Quillabamba, Peru on 5025 kHz here in the middle of Europe: from May 15 2335 UT to May 16 0050 UT Radio Rebelde CUBA was silent on this frequency so I could listen to a long portion of Rosario on Radio Quillabamba until 0002 UT when IDs started (5 IDs within 1 minute!) followed by info programming, often mentioning Quillabamba. My recording is here: https://app.box.com/s/e2db0m1lbqw44g0tho1lj57kadv1yfrk (Karel Honzik, CZECHIA, May 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. Radio Logos, Chazuta, Peru on 4810 kHz heard last night (May 15/16) around midnight UT here in the middle of Europe. The signal was weak but clear with LSB (Karel Honzik, CZECHIA, May 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Radio Logos must be reactivated. Not reported for over a year. The April 2017 DBS by Anker Petersen had moved it to Deleted, as last reported Feb 2016. Only two other stations are known on 4810 at any time: India, signing on at 0025, and Armenia. 73, (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Would be strong in the local mornings 1000 GMT (Bob Wilkner, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bob, yes, I`ll be looking for your logs of it (gh) 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 0025 weak carrier noted; 1000 to 1015 om chat then into music until fade 1023. Previously stronger signal, nice to see reactivation. 17 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, DX South Florida 1981-2017, Mosquito Coast DX News via NASWA yg via DXLD) Yes, Radio Logos was reactivated and I heard it signing on last Fri + Sat (May 12 + 13) at 0902 and 0901 UT. No signal at 0900 on Sun + Mon + Tue. I was listening via remote SDR in Edmonton CAN, because here in the middle of Europe it is not possible to receive signals from SA in the 60mb at 0900 UT. It is possible later in the European evening when condx start at around 2300 (Karel Honzik, Czechia, May 17, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) ** PERU. 4824.49, *t.* Perú, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos, 0020 to 0027 some audio, alas weak signal 17 May (Wilkner) 6173.92, *tentative *Perú, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco 0030 to 0045 weak signal with om Spanish? 17 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, DX South Florida 1981-2017, Mosquito Coast DX News via NASWA yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI – RED RADIO INTEGRIDAD. Mayo 14. 2300-2310 UT. Música instrumental, avisos de la emisora, música de himno protestante y devocional. SINPO: 45232 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Radio Chaski --- Amigos DX: Radio Chaski, desde Urubamba, Cuzco, República del Perú, cambió el horario de transmisión: 1100 a 1630 y 1730 a 2330 UT. Siempre por los 5980 kHz. Los informes de recepción, deben ser dirigidos al e-mail de Valentín Quispe, gerente de la radio: vaquime24@hotmail.com Cordiales 73. Atte (ALFREDO CAÑOTE, Lima, Perú, dxspacemaster, TELF: 51+99958-6329 (13:00 - 01:00 UTC) RECEIVERS : ICOM IC-R71A GRUNDIG YB400PE SONY ICF-7600DS REALISTIC DX-440 ALINCO DJ-X3 ANTENNAS: SW: RADIO SHACK 20-181 MW: CPDS-1 QUAD MW: Select-A-Tenna 541-M NOISE CANCELLER: JPS ANC-4 "Somewhere. .. something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan, May 15, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) So that explains our no longer hearing it around former 0100+v* or even one hour earlier. Now the question is whether the same approx. 6.7 sec/day recession in autocutoff times apply circa 2330, but hearing its JBA carrier here that early will be difficult, especially during our summer. 5980, May 16 at 2330, no signal detectable from R. Chaski. Alfredo Cañote, Lima, says this is the new sign-off time ex-0100v*. A sesquihour earlier in our summer means it will be even more difficult here, to determine whether the same ~6.7 second recession per diem in autocutoff times now applies circa 2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. On May 11th at 1840 UT heard in western England SDR remote unit. Also excellent armchair reception of Radio Pilipinas, Manila on 12120 and 15190 kHz, fair signal on 9910 kHz. 1730-1930 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 1848 UT May 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Radio Veritas Asia via two different txs, May 17 1330-1357 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Zomi-Chin 1400-1427 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Hindi is CANCELLED 1400-1427 on 11880 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bengali 1430-1457 on 11630 SMG 250 kW / 089 deg to SoAs Urdu 1430-1457 on 11870 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu 1500-1557 on 15620 SMG 250 kW / 107 deg to N/ME Filipino http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-veritas-asia-via-two-different.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 11825, May 15 at 0350 ME? music. Then English talk about radio, a letter to Bucharest, poor signal I first thought might be MWV on early, but it`s only RRI as scheduled with Listeners` Letterbox, // 9730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Reception of Adygeyan Radio on May 12 1745-1755 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs test tone and 1755-1800 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs open carrier, 1800-1900 on 6000*ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Fri: *from 1832 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Brother Stair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-adygeyan-radio-on-may-12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. NVK R Sakha Yakutsk, 1000 UT 7345.000 1 Files 257KB MP3 7345_000kHz_RUS_R_Sakha_Yakutsk_20170515_10UT.mp3 7345.000, in 0954 to 1006 UT time slot on May 15 checked 41 mb Yakutsk outlet on remote Tokyo Japan remote unit. Grayline at Nagasaki, Magadan, Anadyr path. S=8 or -80dBm signal strength. Music til 1000 UT. Last time pip check occured at 1000:10 UT, compared to accurate time signal in Germany 77.5 kHz. BUT NOTHING SEEN / VISIBLE / HEARD on EMPTY CHANNEL 7295 kHz channel at 10 UT. Despite the 41 mb is full of Asian signals though. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, May 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. PHILIPPINES, FEBC Radio relay Radio Teos in Buriyatian on May 11 1500-1600 on 11650 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian/Buriyatian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/febc-radio-relay-radio-teos-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [re 17-19:]. Members, I can only confess that I did not expect this. My own records, ITU, and mwlist are all wrong! Karel Honzik again in Mediumwave Info has found a mast at 43 15 39.5N, 19 58 28E or 43.260960, 19.974447. Well done to Karel. Changes have been made to the various spreadsheets including placement of Leskovac into Inactive or Closed. It is interesting that up to 2005 WRTH Leskovac was the station on 1602 kHz. Then on WRTH 2006 Sjenica makes its first appearance. Whether the appearance of Sjenica amounted to improvement in record keeping or a change of transmitter site could be a subject for fascinating research if anyone wishes to take up the challenge. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, May 11, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Did you check WRTH's 2006-2008? You have Radio Leskovac listed there. It is a local station 160 km away from Sjenica, which has R. Beograd 1 relay, both with low power and not tied with each other (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. International Radio of Slovakia. New QSL card. 2017 in Slovakia was declared the year of Josef Miloslav Gurban, the Slovakian politician, writer, philosopher, who was the first chairman of the Slovak National Council and one of the leaders of the Slovak uprising in 1848-49. On the card is his photo. http://rursi.rtvs.sk/clanok/131227?name_url=qsl-2017 (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX 14 May via DXLD) R Slovakia Int is relayed from Kall in Germany at 0500 (in French) and 0530 UT (in English). These broadcasts are not listed in the shortwaveservice web pages at http://www.shortwaveservice.com/index.php/de/sendeplan/3985-khz (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, May 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But the 2100-2130 RSI English via WRMI 11580 to be replaced by relay of Argentina (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVENIA [and non]. 918 2.5 2200 R National Kampuchea, Phnom Penh med stark signal i 5 minuter innan den dök. Fick en fin inspelning i varje fall. Det gäller att kolla nätet - hittade ett tips på nätet att Slovenien var off den 2.5. Här är förklaringen: "MW transmitter for the 1st Slovenian national radio program (RA-SLO1, 918 kHz) was indeed unoperational since Monday morning due to severe malfunction. As of today, (13:15) it is again onair, still some additional interruptions may happen in the following hour/days. Thank you for your concern! Greetings, Primož" (Thomas Nilsson, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko 15 May via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA, Fair to poor signal of Radio Hargeysa, May 11 1500-1900 on 7120 HAR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Somali: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/fair-to-poor-signal-of-radio-hargeysa.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. DRM+ Trial in South Africa The Westbury Community Development Centre (WECODEC) serving the disadvantaged communities around the Westbury, Sophiatown and surrounding areas near Johannesburg has been granted an 8 month licence by the regulator ICASA, to test DRM+. South Africa is considering the options available to migrate to digital broadcasts. WECODEC is currently broadcasting BBC content as part of the test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bxqEhhmu0&feature=youtu.be [30-second clip with jumbled video] http://mailchi.mp/drm/drm-newsletter-april-1227777 DRM Newsletter May 2017 Posted by: (Mike Terry, May 17, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? ** SUDAN & SUDAN SOUTH [nons] Reception May 13 Radio Tamazuj 0330-0430 on 9600 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic 0330-0430 on 11650 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic Radio Dabanga 0430-0500 on 9600 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic 0430-0500 on 11650 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf IS INACTIVE 0430-0500 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-radio-tamazuj-and-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I say again, and again, are you sure R. Dabanga is in Juba Arabic? That`s the South Sudan dialect, i.e. R. Tamazuj, while Dabanga is for (north/west) Sudan (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Reception of Eye Radio via Alyx & Yeyi TDF Issoudun, May 16 1600-1900 17730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Arabic/English, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-eye-radio-via-alyx-yeyi.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND [and non]. TWR Africa on 15105 & 9940 via 2 different transmitters on May 12 --- Very poor on 15105 Manzini & Grigoriopol, good/poor on 9940 Grigoriopol & Manzini: 1557-1627 on 15105 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to SoAf Kirundi Mon-Fri 1630-1645 on 15105 KCH 300 kW / 160 deg to EaAf Somali Sun 1630-1700 on 15105 KCH 300 kW / 160 deg to EaAf Somali Mon-Sat 1800-1845 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Thu 1815-1845 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Fri 1800-1830 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigre Sat 1800-1830 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Kunama Sun 1905-1935 on 9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf Lingala 1935-1950 on 9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf French http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2017/05/reception-of-twr-africa-on-15105-9940.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND vs ROMANIA. Radio Romania Int vs. TWR Africa on 9500 kHz, May 16 Radio Romania International 1600-1656 on 9500 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu French 1700-1956 on 9500 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian Trans World Radio Africa 1630-1645 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Amharic Sat/Sun 1630-1645 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon 1630-1645 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Kambaata Thu/Fri 1630-1700 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Oromo Wed/Thu 1645-1700 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Oromo/Borana Sun-Tue 1645-1700 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Hadiyya Thu/Fri 1700-1730 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun-Thu 1700-1730 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Amharic/Oromo Fri 1730-1800 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon-Sat 1730-1830 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun 1802-1832 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf English Mon-Fri 1802-1902 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf English Sat 1832-1847 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic Mon-Fri 1834-1849 on 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to EaAf English Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/radio-romania-int-vs-twr-africa-on-9500.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Complete sked of English from RTI 0300-0400 daily SEA 15320pao 1100-1200 daily SEA 1359fan, 7445pao 1100-1200 daily SEA,Pac 11600pao 1500-1600 daily SEA 11685pao (WRTH A-17 update via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) [and non]. 7445, RTI, 1155. Checking signal from RTI today, heard two men in dialogue with Fair signal. After only a minute, powerful jammer signal came over. China jams the Chinese service of RTI which will commence at 1200; the jammer comes on 5 minutes early often. May 14 (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TASMANIA [non]. 11580, May 13 at 2342, WRMI amid `Hobart Radio International` with clip from Netherlands, 2342 ID and addresses, then PSS = Pirate Station Special with clip of Radio Barracuda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Checked quick this May 11, Voice of Tibet via Dushanbe TJK: TAJIKISTAN, 11507, VoT, S=9+35dB powerhouse, heard in Delhi India remote SDR unit at 1300-1330 UT, but tiny China jamming on 11505 kHz. 15528, V Of Tibet noted strange, not before 1330 UT, later from 1330- UT, but adjacent China jamming 15525 kHz from 1300-1330 UT on air, left the air when V of Tibet began on adjacent 15528 kHz ... though. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Wolfgang, Voice of Tibet noted at my home at 1230 UT this day on 15533 sign on, CNR1 jamming at 1233 UT on 15535. 73 (Franck Baste, F4LKC, France, Rx: Icom IC-756 pro III + Vertical, May 11, ibid.) 11513, V of Tibet observed at 1200 UT on May 13 in remote unit in Brisbane Queensland Australia, S=4 or -101dBm, Tibetan male voice, and much weak jamming on 11510 kHz downunder, latter from mainland China started later, - around 1206 UT. And moved hopped 6 kHz down to 11507 kHz at 1215 UT on May 13. Jamming 11510 kHz noted only on remote unit in India, but not in Brisbane Australia. 15527, V of Tibet observed at 1231 UT on May 13, S=9+10dB in Delhi India remote unit. No jamming signal visible at 1242 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, May 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Re: Voice of Turkey -- 17 April --- I also recorded the 2200 UT broadcast on 17 April 2017 reporting on the referendum results on 9830 kHz using an Eton Grundig Field BT receiver with its built-in whip antenna at my house in Hanwell, New Brunswick, and have finally gotten around to archiving it here: https://archive.org/details/VoiceOfTurkey9.830MHz17April20172200UTC and here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/voice-of-turkey-april-17-2017-referendum-results-english-then-german-ls (second recording on this page) (-- Richard Langley, HI, May 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15450.05, Saturday May 13 at 1252, VOT opens `The Letterbox Program`. VP reception partly tnx to my line noise level which is still bad on this band, but has some intermittent breaks, and VOT strength gradually increases a bit around S9; this may be the only unscripted show on station, as host informally reads bits of reception reports and thanks them. Somebody acknowledged getting a program schedule. Wish I could say the same. Does anyone have a current hard (or soft, yeah sure) copy? Ends with same theme and title at 1306, then ``The Voice of Turkey, always by your side``. So this is confirmed as an on- week for fortnightly show, and time as 1252-1306v http://www.worldofradio.org/dxpgms.html 9515, May 15 at 0339, VOT tune-in to Chinese portion of multi-lingual IDs, finally finishing with Turkish at 0340; during English broadcast, and on to music, S9+20. 11980, May 15 at 0352, classic TRT IS alternating with Turkish IDs leading up to Turkish service at 0400, S5 with flutter but strong modulation. Not the same IS they use before foreign languages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Radio network Lyubimoe Radio (Radio Favorite), which broadcasts in 17 cities of Ukraine, is reformatted and changes its name to Power FM. The corresponding changes were approved on May 12 by the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting. The National Council reissued the licenses of two of the three companies united in the network Lyubimoe Radio PE "Company" New Wave "and PE" TRK "Center". A statement of Radio Sharmanka, which is also part of the network, moved to the next meeting due to the fact that the apparatus of the National Council did not manage to prepare draft decisions. The radio network changes not only the name "Favorite radio" on Power FM, but also the software concept: the volume of information- analytical and journalistic programs will decrease from 45 minutes to 30 minutes per day, the selection of music - from 7:00 to 5:00 per day, And the volume of entertainment and music programs increased from 10:00 to 13 hours 15 minutes per day. In addition, the radio network is reoriented from Russian-language and Ukrainian-language music to European: more than 60% of the songs on its air will compose songs in the languages of the European Union - it means that it will have a lower quota for songs in Ukrainian (25% instead of 35% for two years). The radio station Power FM already worked in Ukraine from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, it was reformatted on Radio Sharmanka, which developed into a nationwide radio network. In 2014, "Sharmanka" was reformatted to "Favorite Radio." Now the radio station returns to its first name. Lyubimoe Radio (and now Power FM) is a part of Radio Business Holding Radio Group (other assets are "Chanson", DJ FM, "Business Radio"). The ultimate beneficiaries of the radio network are the head of the Business Radio Group, Antony Evtukhov (indirectly controls 50% of Radio Sharmanka Ltd, owns 100% of TRK Center LLC and 10% of Novaya Volna LLC), his wife Larisa Yevtukhova (indirectly Controls 25% of Radio Sharmanka Ltd, owns 90% of Novaya Volna Company LLC) and father of People's Deputy Vitaly Khomutynnik Yuri Khomutynnik (indirectly controls 25% of Radio Sharmanka LLC) (Source: Portal "Media detector"). http://proradio.org.ua/news/2017may.php (via RusDX 14 May via DXLD) ** U K. Special broadcasts of BBC World Service in DRM mode: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/special-broadcasts-of-bbc-world-service.html 1330-1400 on 7215 WOF 100 kW / 126 deg to WeEu English Tue 1330-1400 on 9890 WOF 100 kW / 122 deg to WeEu English Tue 1330-1500 on 7215 WOF 100 kW / 126 deg to WeEu English Wed 1330-1500 on 9890 WOF 100 kW / 122 deg to WeEu English Wed 0730-0900 on 5905 WOF 100 kW / 126 deg to WeEu English Thu 0730-0900 on 7330 WOF 100 kW / 122 deg to WeEu English Thu -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strange, so not for the DRM session at Simi Valley on Wed May 17; so what are they for, especially? (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Test transmission with BaBcoCk Music and open carrier, May 11 1530-1535 on 15150 probably via Woofferton, weak to fair with fading http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/test-transmission-with-babcock-music.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC ARABIC LAUNCHES TWO RADIO PROGRAMMES FOR THE GULF AND NORTH AFRICA Date: 16.05.2017 Last updated: 16.05.2017 at 17.51 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/bbc-arabic-gulf-this-morning-radio-maghareb BBC Arabic is launching innovative bi-weekly news programmes on May 17 for radio and online audiences in North Africa and the Gulf as part of the largest expansion of the BBC World Service since the 1940s. The thirty minute interactive current affairs programmes will feature a wide range of stories that matter to local people as well as drawing on the BBC’s unrivalled global news resources. Correspondents based in the regions will present news, business, sports and specially commissioned features. The programmes will also create a platform for debate, reflect a wide range of opinion and engage with audiences on social media platforms. Conversation in the studio will feature trending topics, live regional newspaper reviews and a short news bulletin. Listeners can expect to hear local voices, music and the diverse cultures of the Gulf and North Africa in a quick-paced, lively and engaging presentation style. Adel Soliman, Radio Editor for BBC Arabic, says: “The new programmes will provide an excellent space to serve our audience in these two under-reported areas. The programmes will create a platform for younger people to debate the local issues that matter to them and resonate with the rest of the region. "We will also focus on reflecting the rich and diverse cultures of North Africa and the Gulf to the entire region through original reportage and giving a voice to a wide spectrum of people on the web and on air. This is an exciting and valuable addition to Arabic Radio and its audience in the region and beyond.” These programmes will be broadcast at the following times and can be listened to via the BBC Arabic site as a live stream, via BBC iplayer radio, or via FM relays: The Gulf This Morning (?????? ??? ????) - Monday & Wednesday 0430 GMT Maghareb Today (????_???????) - Tuesday and Thursday 0630 GMT MF/WS Notes for Editors BBC Arabic delivers a broad range of impartial and original news and information content for Arab speakers all over the world 24 hours a day 7 days a week on radio, TV, mobile and online. Associate your brand with our award-winning content on TV every week over 31.2 million watch BBC Arabic TV station on radio every week over 6.1 million people tune in to listen to BBC Arabic radio programmes every week over 1 million unique users visit bbcarabic.com to get the latest news and information from a website updated round the clock [BBC Global Audience Estimate (GAE) 2016] The presenting team for the programme is as follows: Abdessamad Ben Jouda, Alya Charabati, Fouad Razek, Hala Hindawi, Iman Elkasir-Hoath, Mahmoud al Mossallami, Mahmoud Al Sheikh, Nagwa El-Gebeily and Somaya Bryant. The programme can be listened to on the following FM relays: Bahrain 103.8, Doha 107.4, Kuwait 90.01, Libya: Benghazi 91.5, Al Zawiya 91.5, Misrata 91.5, Tripoli 91.1, Mauritania 106.9 in Nouakchott and 102.4 in Noadhibou, Muscat, Oman 89.8 FM. The BBC World Service delivers news content around the world in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 246 million. As part of BBC World Service, BBC Learning English teaches English to global audiences. For more information, visit bbc.com/worldservice The BBC attracts a weekly global news audience of 320 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news BBC World Service received further funding of £289m until 2019/20 from the UK Government. The BBC Trust and the Foreign Secretary have approved the new language services, in accordance with the Broadcasting Agreement (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, May 16, DXLD) not SW? BBC Facility Management is launching an innovative schedule of cleaning up the lavatories in Broadcasting House twice a day as part of the largest expansion of building cleaning since the 1940s... Seems they have been asked by some partners if they could provide some radio content. And never miss an opportunity for sending out a good PR puff, even if you have only a trifle to announce. I'm just back from a business trip. Zapping through the hotel TV again showed what international broadcasting is nowadays: They have, to mention only the stations from outside the EU, BBC World News, RT, CNN, CNBC, Al Jazeera, Arirang (that's KBS), NHK World, Cubavision (still with a rather soft picture) and Telesur (that's Venezuela), and maybe even more I have forgotten. The cable source also carried a ghost: "RTL 1440", a satellite channel RTL in Luxembourg had shut down together with the mediumwave transmitter if I'm correct. Audio on this cable channel was http://www.radiolebensquelle.org/ (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Armed Forces Day monitoring, May 13 at 2310-2333, quickly checking all the frequencies in this schedule: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhcm15bWFyc3BvcnRhbHxneDo3OWI5ZWQ4YWQ1YTBiMDNl altho it`s soon obvious nothing is propagating above 15 MHz or below 6 MHz, results: 7360-USB, May 13 at 2310, CQ Armed Forces Day Crossband, from NWKJ [all calls given fonetikaly], then contact with an N9? Very poor. NWKJ is USS Yorktown, CV-10, Charleston SC. 13963.5-USB, May 13 at 2312, CQ AFD from AAC in Lexington KY, QSX 14240 [nobody really says QSX, but I do]. AAC is at Barrow Army Reserve Center. Some frequencies have more than one station listed, so I hit 13963.5-USB again a few minutes later in search of WAR at The Pentagon, but I never hear it on this or any frequency, instead AAC again at 2317 with WH7W in Hawaii. Says 6-8 weeks for QSL reply. At 2333, AAC op gives name as Harv, good signal. 14438.5-USB, May 13 at 2313, YL says ``unable to give out callsign at this time``, but then Pat at AAZ contacts WQ5L. AAZ is at Fort Huachuca AZ, which is handling QSLing for all the stations, but it may take about 60 days. QSX 14340 USB, out at 2314. 6913-CW, May 13 at 2323, strong CW signal, ``DE NWVC`` which is LST- 325 in Evansville IN. 7535.0-LSB, May 13 at 2325, NSS Annapolis MD special reactivation with W8VVE, then KF8IY, Bob in OH; QRZ on 7255. This is listed at 7533.5- USB! Apparently a bit of confusion with 1.5 kHz offset reference frequency and which SB, run by hams used to LSB on 7 MHz. The original NSS at the US Naval Academy had been off the air for about 40 years. See stories in DXLD 17-18 and 17-19. 14487-USB, May 13 at 2327, trace of something, looking for ADB at Camp Foster, Okinawa, but also listed for NSS. 6903.5-USB, May 13 at 2329, poor signal but ID as NEPM, Matt with almost unreadable contact, then KF7OQY? NEPM is USS Iowa BB 61 in Los Angeles CA. After lawnmowing and a recovery period, another session in case anything else can be heard after 0143 UT, altho many of the stations have officially closed earlier: 5357, May 14 at 0143, digital tones. Two stations listed here for USB, ABH in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii (still too early), and ALT in nearby Camp Mabry (Austin) TX. I don`t try to copy anything digital. 7360, May 14 at 0146 has a broadcast station, BBC via Austria to Afghanistan, altho NIIW in San Diego is listed until 0500 (I heard it last year, like several of the above). See last year`s full report: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1620.txt 6913-USB, May 14 at 0147, NWVC with good signal; 0150 Art calling CQ from LST-325 in Evansville IN, QSX 7212-LSB, contact K4CGA (I don`t try to hear any of the hams); see http://LSTmemorial.org for QSL address 4040-USB, May 14 at 0148, weak station in Spanish, surely not NSS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 12045, May 14 at 1346, Korean talk and music, from VOA via TINIAN, about 4 seconds ahead of stronger // 12080 via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, which from further west, is more directly aimed USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1876 monitoring: confirmed Wed May 10 at 1030 on WRMI 5850 by Rick Barton, AZ, excellent (should also still be on // 9455). WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, Thursday May 11 at 2130 on WRMI, 11580, good. Also confirmed Thu May 11 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.23V, fair (but power failure evidently by 2348). Next: Fri 2230 WRMI 11580 to NE [probably canceled] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; unconfirmed yet] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: de-confirmed Friday May 12 at 2230, no longer on WRMI 11580 (see ARGENTINA [non]). Confirmed Fri May 12 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.0v-CUSB, fair. Not confirmed the Sat 1431 on HLR 7265-CUSB; checked at 1455, noise plus lightning crashes around UTwente, maybe a trace of audio which could be me. Next: Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; unconfirmed yet] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW 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) GERMANY, Weak signal of HLR relays on 6190 CUSB, May 13 World of Radio #1877: 0630-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat English -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 13 at 2251 the 2230 broadcast on WBCQ 9330.10v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed the newest addition, UT Sunday May 14 at 0200 on WRMI 11580 (replacing Ukraine which had not been sending new shows on weekends), good signal and still S9+10 at 0225 recheck when I am mentioning this very emission. Richard Langley visiting Hawaii was also hearing it with a fair signal on Saturday afternoon; despite allegedly aiming northeast from Okeechobee. Also confirmed here UT Sunday May 14 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, good, about Ireland`s LW 252, some 13 minutes in, so started circa 0314. Next: Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW 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) New Broadcast of WoR over WRMI --- Also noted here in Hawaii a short time ago with a fair signal, the new broadcast of WoR over WRMI on 11580 kHz between 0200 and 0230 UT (Saturday afternoon here). (-- Richard Langley, 0322 UT May 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Your program heard in India! To Glenn Hauser: From: Jose Jacob, VU2JOS National Institute of Amateur Radio Raj Bhavan Road Hyderabad 500082, India Hello Glenn Hauser, Today (Sunday 14 May 2017) morning I had the pleasure to hear your broadcast via WRMI from 0200 UT on 11580. Reception was poor. I heard you give DX news about AIR 4760, WRMI 9395, 11580, 5850, BBS 6035, Spain 15740? Receiver: Yaesu FT 757 GX II; Antenna: Folded Dipole Icom AH 710. When I checked your broadcast schedule in latest DXLD I saw that the transmission I heard is unconfirmed. Maybe it is a new sked? So I am confirming about hearing it!!!! Surprisingly, I am getting WRMI nowadays on 11580 in our local mornings 5.30 to 7.30 am (0000-0200 UT). Reception is poor on most days but on some lucky days it is fair reception. I do remember hearing your broadcast many many years back on some stations and was happy to hear it again after a long gap. All the best. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, Hyderabad, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jose, Thanks for the report. Glad to know you could hear it and hope that reception keeps up. Yes, the first time at that hour on that frequency. Also was heard in Hawaii so seems to have wide coverage despite aiming at Europe. 73, (Glenn to Jose, via DXLD) Greatly expanded RAE Argentina to the World relays via WRMI start phasing in the week of May 22 [see below], leaving only these WOR times unscathed (unless they are bumped by higher priority programs bumped by RAE): Sun 0200 11580 Mon 0330 9955 Tue 2130 9455 & 15770 Wed 1030 5850 & 9455 Wed 1315 9955 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak signal of HLR relays on 9485CUSB, May 14 Hamburger Lokalradio World of Radio#1877 1030-1100 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: confirmed Sunday May 14 at 1030 on HLR 9485-CUSB, weak in Bulgaria, says Ivo. Also confirmed here Sun May 14 after 2330 on WBCQ 9330.12v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Monday May 15 from 0302:37 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5129.809v-AM, fair with storm crashes. Also confirmed Mon May 15 from 0330 on WRMI 9955, this time very good S9+30. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: confirmed Monday May 15 at 2355 the 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330.20v-CUSB, good S9. Also confirmed UT Tue May 16 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, very good S9+45. Next: Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW http://www.worldofradio.org/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1877 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday May 16 at 2130 on WRMI 9455 to WNW, much stronger than // 15770 to NE. Also confirmed Tue May 16 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.30v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed Wednesday May 17 at 1315.5 on WRMI, 9955, S9. Also confirmed Wed May 17 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490v-AM, poor in summer noise level but loud & clear on webcast. Also confirmed Wed May 17 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.02v- CUSB, good. WORLD OF RADIO 1878 ready for first airings May 18: Thu 2130 WRMI 11580 to NE [probably final time this week] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSE Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW [to be canceled] Tue 1300 WRMI 11580 to NE [NEW; to be canceled] Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW 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. Checking the new WRMI scheduling on 11580: at 1300: Tue was WORLD OF RADIO; Wed May 10 `Frecuencia al Día`, Thu May 11 `Studio DX`, in Italian, all as on skedgrid (and Fri should be `IBC Radio`, English/Italian/digital). But the old sked at 0100 UT on 11580 has been continuing, not replaced (yet?) by RAE ATTW in English, which remains on 9395 only. Besides Wed May 10 with PCJ Radio International; UT Thu May 11 was `Sounding the Alarm`; UT Fri May 12, `Your Weekend Show`, and UT Sat should be `Dub Politico`. However the ID at 0059 on 11580 has been the Spanish one by Rubén Guillermo Margenet in Argentina, as if to introduce RAE. 11580, Saturday May 13 at 1310, checking what`s on WRMI? `Your Weekend Show` as Bob laments that ``the promise of the internet is gone`, full of fake info, people glued to it via their phones. Also has musical CCI. EiBi shows KTWR GUAM also here until 1315 in Vietnamese, which doesn`t shift to 11585 until 1315; why wait? And also Sound of Hope, Taiwan relaying Radio Free Asia in Chinese, ergo CNR1 jamming could be too. (EiBi also has multiple WRMI entries for each program/station relayed.) After 1400 this Sat, 11580 is still playing World Music, which leads me to have another look at their skedgrid for that: http://tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs It seems that the name no longer appears anywhere! The 14-15 UT hour on 11580 is unaccounted for, but there remain mostly blank entries at 06-07 on 5850 & 7730, with two half-hour exceptions. 7730, May 16 at 0604, WRMI with gospel music, presumably // 5850. This hour most days is blank on the WRMI skedgrid, and formerly filled with `World Music`. I am afraid the WM music loop has been retired, as we no longer hear any of the familiar tunes (except sometimes as filler for a minute or three between programs on various frequencies). Altho ``Up2 & Away`` was done to death, we miss most of the others. Same applies to the 14-15 UT hour on 11580, following Ukraine weekdays until 1400 and before BS starts at 1500. 7730 // 5850, May 17 at 0602-0632, I listen to the `World Music` on WRMI as I am dozing off, and do hear some of the familiar tunes such as the song in German, and some African music, contrary to my lament that the WM content had changed completely. Also, the WRMI skedgrid now labels 0700-0800 UT Tue/Wed/Thu on both frequencies as `World Music` -- but that will soon change along with much other WRMI programming. Also on 11580 after 1400 UT May 17 I hear some more familiar WM tunes, mixed in with unfamiliar ones including gospel songs. So this hour not shown in the skeds, continues with WM. No word from WRMI itself yet, but Adrián Korol, Director of RAE Argentina to the World, has notified us that much expanded ``experimental`` relays of all languages via WRMI will start phasing in the week of May 22. Great news for RAE, WRMI and the SWL community; but this amounts to 60 transmitter-hours per week, necessarily knocking off much current WRMI programming, including some WORLD OF RADIO airings. The RAE ATTW sked will be: Mon-Fri: 11-12 9955 Portuguese 13-14 11580 French 21-22 11580 German 22-23 11580 Italian 22-23 5950 Spanish Tue-Sat: 00-01 7730 Spanish 01-02 9395 English 06-07 7730 Japanese 07-08 5850 & 7730 English 08-09 5850 Chinese 09-10 5850 Japanese [some of these may also be on 9455, if the previous // timings stick] He says however, the French service is currently only half an hour, and plans are to start a new Quechua service to fill the other half. However, 1330 UT on 11580 to Europe would not be appropriate for that; rather, Quechua should be sometime on 9955 toward South America. He also says that the additional broadcasts in English and Spanish will have updated news bulletins. All this will greatly impact numerous DX and other programs, even relays of other stations, such as Slovakia in English which has been at 2100 on 11580 (and still confirmed on May 17). WORLD OF RADIO loses its airings on 7730, Tue at 0030; on 9955, Tue at 1100; on 11580, Tue at 1300 (which just started); on 11580, Thu at 2130, in addition to already lost Fri at 2230. Even these may be in jeopardy, in case higher-priority programming bumped by RAE has to find new times (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ARGENTINA [non] ** U S A. 7490.09v-AM, Thu May 11 at 2305, WBCQ with `Uncle Bill`s Melting Pot`, sounds like Japanese music, and more variety; 2315 cuckoos and IDs, good on my inside random wire during a storm. 2330 filler this week is repeat of `Furthermore 29-54` as heard Monday at 2300, again with `Send in the Clowns` and more music variety. 2348 next check, however, 7490 off the air, evidently power failure at Monticello. By 0001 May 12, I find 9330v-CUSB also off, and no signal on 5130v. 0045 still missing, but by next2 check 0155, back on with BS on 7 and 9, something else on 5, as is scheduled UT Fridays only `Just Right` from Ontario at 01-02. At 0224 next3 check, 5129.82v-AM is also BS. And I see that the full schedule has finally been updated to show all the additional BS hours which started months ago, confounding some English schedule compilers (also sortable for one frequency at a time) http://schedule.wbcq.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fred Flintstone has decided to continue with his Saturday night web show (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, May 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Different from on WBCQ 7490, Friday 2300-2400? (gh, DXLD) (7490), UT Sat May 13 after 0000, I can only catch a bit of `Allan Weiner Worldwide` WBCQ webcast on his first week back in Monticello from DeLand of Fla; says the home studio is dusty. Discussing SW and TV transmitters and equipment, as he does most of the time. Mentions that TimTron is doing better, recovering from an unknown bug, and has resumed belching on the (ham?) air. 5129.82 & 7490v, May 13 at next check 0146, are back to BS, and 9330 should be too, but it`s S9+25 of dead air. Still the case at 0203, and 0540! when I measure it on 9330.043. Still/again, dead air at 1230, S6 on 9330.05, or is it JBM? So dead all night? Anyhow, all that time would be nothing but BS if modulated. 9330.10v-CUSB, Sat May 13 at 2308, WBCQ `Allan Weiner Worldwide` replay during Available Timeslot, as I tune in, lamenting that someone has quit his show even after the price was halved; who was that? Interrupted by a call from Jay Miller (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Additional transmissions of Brother Stair on 5130/7490/9330 via WBCQ The Planet http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/additional-transmissions-of-brother.html Additional only if you didn`t know about them in January(?) when they started and as I reported; delayed in appearing on the WBCQ sked (gh) Viz.: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 Additional transmissions of Brother HySTAIRical via WBCQ The Planet 2200-2300 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun-Thu CUSB 2300-2345 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Fri CUSB 2300-2400 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Mon-Thu CUSB 0000-0030 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Thu CUSB 0000-0100 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue/Wed/Fri/Sat CUSB 0100-0200 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue/Sat CUSB 0200-0400 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Tue/Thu-Sat 0230-0400 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Wed CUSB 0400-1000 5130vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily 0400-0700 7490vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily 0100-2230 9330vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Daily 2230-2330 9330vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm Sun-Fri Updated A-17 shortwave schedule of Bro. HySTAIRical may be found here http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2017/04/brother-hystairical-overcomer-ministries.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Was up early yesterday getting ready to leave. While pulling the night's emails I listened to the Power Hour. Joyce Riley has been sick forever it seems like. Her cancer has spread to her bones. Daniel Brigman has been hosting the show in her absence. Yesterday during the second hour they announced that Joyce had been unable to eat for the last forty days and that three days ago they thought that she was going to die. Said she'd lost about fifty pounds. She is eating solid food again now and called the show on the phone and talked to the audience. She sounds terrible and was befuddled at times. The voice was weak and quivery. Unknown if she is coming back. Daniel Brigman is taking over the show and making some changes. A new interactive website, a revamping of the Power Mall and possibly a change in the name of the show. Joyce was happy to be eating solid food again and said she planned to eat a banana and an avocado and was looking forward to it (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, May 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) M-F 07-10 UT on 4840; 12-15 UT on 7490 & 13845. One would think the 2 am CT trihour would be a repeat of the live 7-10 am airing, but not shown as Tue-Sat on the WWCR pdf sked which STILL has the wrong CT/UT conversion. Maybe on Monday at 07 they play back the Fri at 12. In case you`re not familiar, Joyce was heavy into conspiracy nonsense. Not a fan nor because of her pushing questionable products. But it`s sad that she is losing her `power`. I don`t see anything about her condition at http://www.thepowerhour.com Physical address is in Versailles, central MO between Sedalia and Lake of the Ozarx (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I used to listen to the show a lot when I was working. They were on WHRI at that time and would easily come in on a portable at the factory. Beat the hell out of the local C&W station. Joyce retired from the Air Force with the rank of captain. She was a trauma flight nurse among other things and served in the first gulf war. Back in the real world she worked as a nurse in a hospital and became a whistle blower when a nurse was killing babies in the hospital. She has always been a stanch supporter of veterans` rights. She supports a group in Texas that shelters veterans and every year collects tons of clothes, medicines and food stuff for the veterans. In the old days it wasn't uncommon for a vet to call the show complaining about problems they had and Joyce would take them offline and get their name and address and send them whatever med would help them from the PowerMall at no charge. Yes, she is at times into conspiracies but she has a good heart and never stinted when it came to vets even when our government ignored them or tied them up in red tape. I have no ax to grind on either side of this. Just wanted it known that she would march to hell for a vet and that has to mean something (John Carver, mid-North Indiana, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listened to the PowerHour again. The PowerMall is closing tomorrow and will reopen in three weeks in a new location with a new webpage. Joyce called in again and said she's being moved to a nursing home and didn't know if she would be able to call the show anymore or not. Said she would try to call in during tomorrow's show (John Carver, May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, May 13 at 2123, WTWW-3 is S6 of dead air instead of bibling, but 9930, WTWW-2 is loudly musical. 12105, May 15 at 0016, WTWW-3 is S5-S6 of dead air again; why bother at all to turn on the transmitter? 12105, May 16 at 0042, WTWW-3 yet again in dead air at S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Frequency change of World Harvest Radio International WHRI Angel 1 from May 7, 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf 1300-2000 17815 English, ex 21610 as follows: 1300-1400 17815 English Sat/Sun Brother Stair 1400-1500 17815 English Sat Brother Stair 1400-1500 17815 English Sun 1500-1600 17815 English Sat/Sun 1600-1800 17815 English Daily 1800-1900 17815 English Mon-Fri Brother Stair 1800-1900 17815 English Sat/Sun 1900-2000 17815 English Mon-Fri Brother Stair 1900-2000 17815 English Sun 1300-2000 21610 English back again from Sep 3 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/frequency-change-of-world-harvest-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775v, May 17 at 1900, KVOH is running late, which is not unusual, with hymns in Spanish, Onward Christian Soldiers (hey, LeSEA owns that! hi), and Wonderful Words of Life, which is rudely chopped off the air at 1906*. Before that I note that the carrier again has a pronounced wobble when monitored with BFO. The annual NASB meeting is just getting underway, sponsored by KVOH, including visits to the studio and transmitter site: http://www.shortwave.org/index.php/annual-meeting-info/ DXLD/WOR contributors Ben Dawson and John Figliozzi are there, so we hope for reports about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Minimum Power Level question --- Glenn, with regard to the new FCC application for a SWBC station in New Jersey: You asked in DXLD 17-19, May 10, 2017: "is a DRM transmitter of only 10 kW even eligible?" Yes, according to FCC Rule 73.751(c). http://www.hallikainen.com/FccRules/2016/73/751/ (Benn Kobb, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, May 16 at 1232 UT, yes, KBXD Dallas has a new ``renter`` --- Spanish monolog preaching, Jesucristo-this & that, and plugging newly on 14-80; mostly below KQAM which I can`t null completely, making a 72/minute SAH = 1.2 Hz. It`s a pain to have to listen to the latter, with a diehard Wichita local host Trumpster, still partisan to the corrupt, treasonous, incompetent, minority mis- elected Trumpence regime. The preacher mentions another AM frequency before 14-80, which I have trouble copying; at 1239 UT brief CCI from a third station with praise music. KBXD fading down as hourtop approaches, but 1258 UT canned English ID as heard before, ``KBXD, 1480, Dallas``, a bit of music, and then Spanish ID mentioning Wylie- Dallas-Fort Worth, studio address, fade; 1301 UT a 972 AC phone number, YL now; 1302 UT Spanish song and repeated requests by a different OM for reception reports, how far are they reaching now that they have 50,000 watts on 1480, Waco? I finally copy the first frequency definitely as 700, and apparently going to do this until next program at 8:15 am CT. So 1480 is duplicating 700 KHSE, CoL Wylie, which counts upon only 1500/920 watts U4. Too late this morning to get it, altho under best conditions is barely audible on groundwave and at night skywave with plenty WLW QRM. Related from radio-insight.com: ``Station Sales Week Of 5/13: By Lance Venta on May 13, 2016 No Comments --- Mark Jorgenson’s ACM JCE IV B LLC sells 1480 KBXD Dallas to Chris Muse for $1.5 million plus a $13,000 payment to break the station’s tower lease`` So it`s not only been rented but sold. What`s this about the tower lease? Are they moving somewhere else again? BTW, right next to it from Venta is an item about Amarillo 99.7 Fun FM called ``KBXD`` as well, but WTFDA FM Database shows its correct call is KBZD (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, May 16 at 1230 UT, promo for a show on ``Estrella TV, Canal 29``, which we long ago pegged to The Metroplex market; and string of ESPN Deportes promos, from KZMP University Park, now on 32 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WMVX Methuen, MA, 1570 change to WCCM Nossa Rádio – 1570 WMVX – changed city of licence last year from Beverly MA to Methuen MA and has now changed call sign to WCCM in a swap with a sister station on 1110 kHz [Salem NH]. It will be recalled that the 1570 station was WNSH from 7th January 1984 until 26th November 2012 when it changed to WMVX. As Viva 15-70 and later Transamérica it aired a Spanish tropical format, but picked up its Portuguese variety/religion format in mid- 2014. It seems that for now at least, the Portuguese format remains on 1570 despite the changes to city of licence and callsign (Andrew Brade, May/June Medium Wave News 63/02 via DXLD) Hello Andrew RE MWN NA News; "It seems that for now at least, the Portuguese format remains on 1570 despite the changes to city of licence and call sign." 1570 WCCM Methuen MA noted here with English ID "WCCM 15-70 AM Eagle Radio Methuen" on 05/05/17. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, ibid.) Did you mean that the Portuguese format is no longer carried? The web site still has a Portuguese audio web stream on 1570 and I last heard them in Portuguese on 8th April. As far as I know the format remained the same. I sent the copy to the editor on 30th March (Andrew Brade, ibid.) English talk but couldn't catch which network news they had. Sorry. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK. Lat. 55.0119N, Lon. 02.9672W, ibid.) ** U S A. WDQN-1580 DuQuoin, Illinois' final sign-off 5/14/2017 9:30- 11:00 p.m. CDT: https://www.facebook.com/wdqnradio/videos/1477411092280376 Sad to see this one go. Rural America loses another important small- town public-interest voice. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, NRC- AM via DXLD) Being on 1580, I'm sure many on this list in the Midwest have heard the station at sunrise or sunset. I have, from several locations. Ashamed [sic] to see them go. At one time Illinois had four stations on 1580. Now maybe just two? Urbana and Aurora? (Earl Higgins, Saint Louis, Missouri, ibid.) Actually, Earl, now it's down to just one. WKKD in Aurora was taken off the air sometime in 2009 (essentially to make room for the increase in power for WGCO-1590 in Evanston) and WBBA in Pittsfield went off sometime after that. I noted the Urbana station on during our GTG in Champaign in Sept. 2013, but it sure didn't seem to have a very clean signal. And on the subject of Midwestern stations on 1580, South Bend went silent a few years ago, as well. That ought to have opened up a path for me to be able to get WVKO in Columbus, Ohio at sunrise, but that one still hasn't arrived here. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/news/20170516/wdqn-falls-silent-after-64-years Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, IRCA via DXLD) Sad to see small town America lose a station that really did serve their community as I could tell when hearing them a few times. Like many small town stations they also served their community at times with Friday Night HSFB that got out well. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) ** U S A. 1640 KBJA UT, Sandy 5/9 0330 man in English “The all new KBJA Sandy” ...mentions of new FM frequency. This ID after an hour of old time radio drama and comedy (When Radio Was), which was what caught my attention. Haven’t heard that before on this frequency. Recheck next night had what obviously was a local talk show program. Good, over and under co-channel KDIA. This had been an all-Spanish station before the beginning of May (Rick Barton-PO Box 5503-Peoria AZ 85385 desertmoon_dxshack @ inbox.com Hammarlund HQ-120X and HQ-200, RS SW2000629, Terk loop, outdoor Slinky IRCA DX Monitor May 20, published May 16, via DXLD) ** U S A. 1690, May 16 at 1223 UT, local news on a change of personnel at KMGH (channel ``7`` named originally for McGraw-Hill publishing), non-ID as `Denver`s Money Talk` from KDMT Arvada/Lakewood (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. KHJ Tribute Station --- By now some of you have heard about the new planned LPFM station in Albany OR (Also to be found streaming on TuneIn by typing in KHJJ) This is of course to honor the Boss Radio days of KHJ 930 AM in Los Angeles. Thankfully those calls are still with us today. Many of the original personalities will actually be on the air on this station (not to mentioned many taped segments featuring the late Wolfman Jack as well as the late Real Don Steele). This is pretty interesting news to oldies fans as well as those of us who regularly listened to RKO radio as kids. Take a look at the website: KHJ FM Index --- KHJFM online is a result of years of preparation and dedication by all of the Boss Jocks who have helped to make this a reality. Special thanks to Shaune Steele for ... 73 (Mike Sanburn, May 16, IRCA via DXLD) And not to forget KKHJ in American Samoa, for apparently the same reason! It was kinda weird to hear casual "K-H-J" mentions while wandering around Pago Pago a few months back during a cruise call. The main frequency of 93.1 almost makes it too (Theo Donnelly, BC, ibid.) I have Tunein on my iPhone, but unfortunately the stream to KHJJ is NOT live and they say they don`t have it. I will keep an eye on the thread and let you know if better news shows up? I am having a great time tuning the Pacific Islands on MW from an SDR located at the Marine station in Russell Northland NZ, Tonga and Fiji, particularly wonderful local music, as if locals (which they are pretty much. Stay ahead of (and pop of) the grass, Brian! (Tony Ward (VE3NO) http://www.nyaa.ca tonyward@rogers.com I'm in two minds about ambivalence ... ibid.) Whoops. Meant private. Beginner`s error from someone old enough to know better! ? (Tony, ibid.) ?? Private, instead of what? (gh) Remote SDRs will provide DXers a whole new level of excitement. I'm hoping that the KHJ tribute station will be fully functional online soon, perhaps even have their very own app. Ms Sent from my iPod (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) The American Samoa KHJ has been around for several years now. It has streaming audio on its website http://www.khjradio.com/ for those who want to listen (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) Teuila Lotulelei is alive -ALIVE! (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, ibid.) ** VIETNAM. Radio "Voice of Vietnam" has updated its page on the Internet. Now it has a new look. WEB: http://vovworld.vn/ru-RU.vov The update occurred on all language services of the station. (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX 14 May via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. FALERISTICS. === "Voice of Vietnam." You can see the icon here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/05/blog-post_13.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX 14 May via DXLD) Faleristics, or Phaleristics, or Faleristix, is collecting of badges and medals, or pins. I think I had never seen that word before (gh) ** YEMEN [non]. Reception of Republic of Yemen Radio on May 10 0900-1758 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic 1752-1758 on 11860 unknown tx and Jeddah tx, with echo 1752-2300 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/reception-of-republic-of-yemen-radio-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1007 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 14, 2017 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 930 Mystery, or 26 "I Know's" continues --- 0907 May 13, 2017. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (while WGAD's website stream was playing Band On the Run -- so they are ruled out, too); Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut; Hinder - Lips of An Angel; Mickey & Sylvia - Love Is Strange; Alabama - When We Make Love; The Kinks - Lola; Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come); low voice male for about 45 seconds at 1000, presumably a station ID but too weak to make anything out; America - Tin Man; Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson & Clover; Billy Joel - You Might Be Right; Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine. Then, by about 1016, faded and lost to the usually dominant WFXJ sports babble. 930, UNIDENTIFIED, 1003 May 14, 2017. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band; UB40 - Red Red Wine. Didn't stick with it after this. But recheck around 1025, gone as usual with WFXJ owning the channel. Anyone else hearing this? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hallo to all, observed from just after 1900 (not checked before) until just before 2000: 4911.5v, fair/weak signal, quite the same pattern as the Madagascar transmitter on 5010v had until fixed about one or two months ago. Recent observations hint to that one was on quite stable 5009.93 approximately. I also did not check if this one was on until its usual 1900 s/off. So not much hint on the origin at all. Not local nor a receiver product, as heard both via Enschede and and a Polish Web-SDR. 73 thorsten Posted by: (Thorsten Hallmann, May 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6640 and 6679, May 13 at 1222, JBA AM carriers during bandscan, intriguing. Anything likely in EiBi? 6640 has New York and San Francisco LDOC, whatever that mean, 24h, and he doesn`t specify what`s SSB, AM or other modes. 6679 has Hong Kong, Honolulu, Tokyo and Auckland VOLMETs rotating twice an hour, and starting at :20 is Auckland, NEW ZEALAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6905-LSB, May 12 at 1249, ham-like ragchew QSO in Spanish between Raúl and weaker Arnaldo (or Armando?) who obviously know each other well, until 1257* with no callsigns. Probably Mexicans who don`t bother to get a license to operate inside 40 meters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7610 & 7615 YHWH [NON]. Looking for this pirate and came across some sort of commercial net operating in USB on 7615 kHz at 0200 on 5/11. Tactical calls with OM and YL operators. Not sure of who they were, but no sign of YHWH at this time. Net ended at 0202. Fair signals. Later detected a het [carrier] at 7615 kHz at 0355. Could barely make out male voice and music at times. Never have had a decent signal from them and presume they are on the west coast of the US (Don Hosmer, West Branch MI, ICOM IC-7200 w/102' & 51' G5RV dipoles, MARE Tipsheet May 12 via DXLD) As I have reported recently and sometimes before, the earlier net on 7615 is Civil Air Patrol (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT [sic]. Unidentified station with Egyptian music on May 11: 1100-1111 on 9600 unknown tx / unknown to UNID, poor/weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/05/unidentified-station-with-egyptian.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9894.6, May 13 at 2121, S7 open carrier. Suspect it`s Cairo, French scheduled on 9895 until 2115*, as the *2115v- English scheduled on 9800 has been showing up on 9799.6 and has also been reported coming up very late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1878: Glenn, having gleaned many good DX tips from your podcasts, I am sending you a contribution by check in support. Please continue. Thanks and 73, (Art Peterson, Richmond CA, to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 72702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks also to John Cimisi, Springfield Gardens NY, for a check to PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WRTH A-17 UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE FREE Sean Gilbert just wrote on the WRTH Facebook group: WRTH has now released the A17 International broadcasting schedules file. The PDF file is 75 pages long and contains the broadcast schedules of nearly 200 International and Clandestine/Target broadcasters; Selected language broadcasts; International DRM broadcasts; International MW and SW frequency listing and an International transmitter site table. The file is free to download and can be used as a standalone item, but it is best utilised in conjunction with the printed WRTH. Go to http://www.wrth.com and follow the links for the A17 pdf download. Please feel free to propagate this message to your friends/colleagues and via your various social media platforms and groups. Happy listening/DXing, WRTH Editorial Team (via Mike Terry, May 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Going thru the major update sexions I have the following comments & correxions, sent on to WRTH: ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA ‡ (Pub) Key: ‡ Ceased SW broadcasts at the end of March 2017 NO, ceased at end of January! BANGLADESH each frequency listed twice BELARUS German time just changed with addition of Argentina in German relay on Kall, also Mongolia changed; see DXLD yg FINLAND Key: * 1st Fri of month from 2100 Sat 2100 (with scheduled break every 3 months, as required for renewal of temporary licence Not positive, but I think their broadcasts are on the first Saturday of the month LOCAL time starting at midnight. So the correct way state this in UT would be: Friday before first Saturday of month from 2100 --- Otherwise some months would be one week off when the first Friday is followed by the second Saturday. In other words, it would be starting on the last Friday, not the first. IRAN Ramzan extensions not included yet. See Ivo PCJ RADIO INTERNATIONAL kHz: 5850, 7730, 9955, 11580 Summer Schedule 2017 English Days Area kHz 0100-0200 ..w.... NAm,Eu,ME 11580rmi 0700-0800 ....f.. NAm 5850rmi, 7730rmi 2200-2300 ..w.... NAm,Eu,ME 11580rmi 2200-2300 ....f.. LAm 9955rmi Note: Some broadcasts include “Media Network Plus” prgr. The 0700 broadcast was appearing every week on THURSDAYS, not Fridays during the B-season when I was awake late enough check it. Despite showing on their skedgrid as Fridays. Have you now confirmed it is really on Fridays??? Truly monitored info is always more accurate than published info even by own station. WBCQ – THE PLANET kHz: 3250, 7490, 9330 Summer Schedule 2017 English Days Area kHz 0000-2400 mtwtf.. NAm,CAm 9330bcq* 2000-2200 daily NAm,CAm 7490bcq** 2200-0300 .....ss NAm,CAm 3250bcq† Key: * H3E (AM compatible USB) mode (Includes The Overcomer Ministry); ** Sign on time varies by day of week; † Irregular tests. WBCQ listing completely omits 5130! Which was confirmed as 22-10 UT daily. And does not show primary frequency 7490 after 2200! I explained the day of week variations on this sign-on time. It`s on every day at least between 22 and 07 UT. M/W/Th/F from 20, Tue from 19, Sat from 22, Sun from 21 (sometimes an hour earlier on Sat/Sun for special bookings.) (Or rather ~5 minutes earlier than all for IS and ID loop.) WBCQ website sked has finally been updated more or less correctly. WRMI schedule is really for WORLD OF RADIO times only, not specified as such! Later changes: delete Thu 1130; ADD Tue 1300 11580, Sun 0200 11580 {and see above, even more changes due to Argentina relays} CLANDESTINE: R Tamazuj is primarily for S Sudan, not Sudan, as explained in the WRTH itself, altho you also have it paired with Dabanga under SUDAN. All frequencies for this and Dabanga shown as varying: I don`t think so. No jamming lately? 73, (Glenn to Sean Gilbert, via DXLD) WORLD RADIO MAP http://worldradiomap.com/tj/dushanbe (via David Kernick, dxldyg via DXLD) Lists radio stations with linx to their audio, example TAJIKISTAN, Dushanbe. In Russian, but multi-language translations available, English first among equals. Or start here: http://worldradiomap.com Default map seems centered on one`s IP. Around here shows Wichita, OKC and Tulsa but not smaller places, e.g. Enid --- search on Enid, only gets to KZLS 1640 because of its OKC market link. http://worldradiomap.com/us-ok/oklahoma-city Station lists in FM and AM frequency order seem quite exhaustive, for eligible cities, including translators and LPs, and display tower site location described in text. Makes it easy to perceive which stations are sharing towers. Abottom are photos of a number of the tower sites and further info linx. AM list includes several out-of-market signals, certainly weak or even inaudible in daytime, why? WBAP, KRLD, KAAY, KWKH. Also not completely up to date, still showing 930 WKY as ``The Indomitable`` [sic] (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) Excellent information, Glenn. makes DXing a bit easier (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TX, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Interesting map, with good info! The default map seems to be set to the middle of the county. My map also seems to start just as yours does. Thanks! (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SHORT-WAVE.INFO Pleasant and useful resource. Found on http://www.short-wave.info/index.php Very useful and convenient search engine of various international Broadcasting. Timetables are topical, dated April this year. Search by name, time, language, frequency and range. I recommend! (Blushing_shy) (Igor Ashikhmin, Primorye, Rossia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 14 May via DXLD) ALAN ROE`S HITLIST UPDATED MAY 19 http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES See also DRM +++++++++++++++++++++++++ DAYTON HAMVENTION 2017 Southgate May 16, 2017 The adventure is about to start. Our live coverage of the new Hamvention 2017 with so many prizes for our viewers it will make you head swim. (Dstar, Fusion HTs, antenna tuners, HF antennas, mobile rigs, and much more). Join us at http://w5kub.com to watch and say hi in the chat room. The fun begins Wed morning May 17 about 8:00 AM (0100 UTC [sic]). Astronaut Doug Wheelock will be back for the 5th year as our co-host. Watch the live drive starting Wed morning. Please join our Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/w5kub for more details. Wed 1300 UT live 500 mile drive Thurs live set up Friday-Sunday the event with prizes Monday 500 mile live drive back home. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/may/hamvention-2017.htm Posted by: (Mike Terry, May 17, dxldyg via DXLD) EDXC CONFERENCE 2017, 18-20 AUGUST, TAMPERE, FINLAND Dear friends, It is high time to register to this year's EDXC Conference which will be held in Tampere, Finland on 18-20 August organized by the Finnish DX Association. We have already received about 30 registrations from abroad and registration of the Finnish participants will also activate these days. Altogether we expect to have a participation of 120-150. This meeting will most probably be the last big DX and shortwave meeting in Europe, so don't miss it! We are working hard to have a comprehensive conference program. A new version has just been updated to the conference website More details will be added later, when some still tentative sessions have been confirmed. A tour to the beautiful Finnish Lapland will follow after the conference for those interested. We do have already a good list for tentative participants of the tour, but the possibility to join the tour will still be open for 10 days, so if you want to join it, act quickly. After 26 of May we will make a final decision on how the tour will be done and what the costs will be. Conference registrations, tour inquiries and all questions are welcome to rv at sdxl dot com. Welcome to Finland for a great DX conference! on behalf of the organizers (Risto Vähäkainu, FDXA, May 16, Hard-Core- DX mailing list via DXLD; also via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Dear friends, we apologize that the given link doesn't work correctly, but gives an error message. We are working to correct this. Anyway you can already now see the contents of the EDXC2017 pages when pressing the button "EDXC2017" in the upper bar. 73 (Risto Vähäkainu, EDXC, May 17, ibid.) 31ST WINTER SWL FEST EXTENDED TO 3 DAYS! The feedback from the 30th SWL Fest in March was consistently positive: People enjoyed having the extra day for forums and fun. We've decided to keep the 3rd day for 2018 -- so begin making your plans now. The 31st (!) Annual Winter SWL Fest will be Thursday, March 1st through Saturday, March 3rd, at the Doubletree Guest Suites - Philadelphia West in Plymouth Meeting, PA. We'll start forums in the early afternoon on Thursday. Details to follow in the months ahead! Registration will begin in the autumn, though we will probably set up hotel registration before then. Updates will posted at the Fest website, http://www.swlfest.com Thanks to all for supporting us in 2017 and all the prior years! (Richard Cuff & John Figliozzi, co-chairs, May 14, NASWA yg via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ ARCHIVES OF RADIO. RUSSIA, WW II Radio during the Great Patriotic War was one of the main sources of news from the front. RIA Novosti provides a unique opportunity - to hear the broadcasts of 1945 from the archives of the radio Sputnik: https://ria.ru/culture/20170509/1493775371.html (from https://vk.com/tatarstan_radiotv via RusDX 14 May via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See AUSTRALIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See SOUTH AFRICA; UK; USA; PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CONCLUDED SUCCESSFULLY IN SWITZERLAND 13 May Posted at 11:23h in News, Press Releases by glo34ry The DRM General Assembly ended by announcing that All India Radio, the Indian public broadcaster, has now joined the Consortium and its leading bodies. This year's General Assembly reviewed the many and successful developments of the past year and set the directions for 2017-2018 with emphasis on receivers and key markets in Asia and Africa. Under the banner "Digital Radio Mondiale Delivers", the 2017 General Assembly of the DRM Consortium took place on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th of May in Baden, near Zurich, Switzerland, being hosted by the industrial company and key Consortium member Ampegon. The exclusive General Assembly meeting for members only on Wednesday, May 10th in the morning reviewed the major developments in DRM, updates on technical developments, receivers, cooperation with international organisations and specific developments as reported by some of the key members like Fraunhofer IIS, NXP, Radio France International, BBC, Nautel, Ampegon, RFmondial etc. The open DRM sessions had special addresses from the representatives of Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) and BBC. The open session had two major headings: key DRM countries. This was illustrated with reports from local representatives in India, Pakistan, Germany, Southern Africa and Brazil. The other major topic was the development of several types of DRM receivers. The news on several car models launched this year in India and carrying standard DRM receivers was greeted with interest. Equally impressive was the presentation of the software defined multi-standard receiver, Titus II, and the latest developments of receivers like Avion and Gospell, as well as the plans of companies in South Korea and the UK. The available receivers were put to good use on both days when Babcock facilitated a live BBC transmission from the UK. On Thursday participants were linked to the Babcock engineers at the Woofferton transmission site in south-west England while the signals were on air. For the coming year, the DRM Consortium will consolidate its work in markets like India, Indonesia, other Asian countries and Southern Africa. In parallel it will vigorously pursue receiver developments, preferably as multi-standard offers, and will pay particular attention to the automobile segment. For Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairman, the General Assembly was more than a moment to take stock. "It was a celebration of success in countries like India. It was also a moment to review the excellent DRM progress in other key countries like Pakistan, Indonesia, South Africa, and acknowledge the interest shown for DRM in some African countries, Russia and other Asian countries. The fact that there are already ingenious standalone and car receivers featuring DRM gives confidence in DRM and the ultimate success of digital radio all over the world." After the General Assembly, some of the DRM members and experts made their way to Indonesia where together with RRI they will carry out a DRM for local coverage demo and will present an update on the full benefits of DRM for both wide and local coverage (DRM PR via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ?? Surprised India is just now joining, since it`s the major country endorsing and implementing DRM on MW. Successful? Still negligible acceptance worldwide, especially on SW. Calling it a ``General Assembly`` is rather grandiose. There will be a session about DRM Wed May 17 at 2-5 pm PDT [21-24 UT] at NASB in Simi Valley --- but don`t expect to hear it on KVOH! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also GERMANY+, MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONSEQUENCES OF REPACKING CHANNELS Did someone already mention this? How much time before the stations that sold their spectrum have to vacate their channel? The reason I ask - KGHZ 19/33 Springfield, MO (ex KSPR RF 19) is going off the air without actually selling their spectrum. They didn't get a dollar bill and I guess that's because RF 19 won't get turned off ??? I understand that KYTV 44/3 (also Springfield), will eventually be moving to RF 19, so technically, they probably won't turn the signal at RF 19 off. When the time comes to move, I imagine they will just turn RF 44 off, where KYTV currently broadcasts. So KYTV has already started running crawls about channel changes and that *antenna* viewers might have to re-scan their TV if they think a channel has disappeared. The crawl does not say anything about a particular date, and I would think it would be soon, since they are running a message crawl already (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, May 14, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ^ Isn't that jumping the gun a bit? It'll be at least 16 months or so before Phase 1, no? If KYTV runs that crawl that long, it'll annoy any viewer.* Along those lines, it'll be interesting for those stations running a similar crawl, that are going to low-V like Pittsburgh's WQED. Oh, they can tell viewers to rescan, but what'll happen when folks with improper antennas scan, and the station isn't stored? Things that make you go hmmmmm. cd [* Although not repack related, WTVJ 4 here in 1988, after NBC bought them, ran a "Don't Worry, Be Happy" campaign --- basically that NBC shows would still be available on WTVJ after 7 WSVN went to Fox. I remember they dropped the campaign, after they got too many complaints about the ads being run so often!!] (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines, FL, ibid.) The FCC filings tell the story. The KGHZ license is going off the air -- to be replaced by an STA for 15 kW for KYCW-LD on channel 19. That will presumably last until the appropriate phase hits and KYTV moves to 19 instead. Legally speaking, since KGHZ is turning in its license as part of the Incentive Auction process, it has to run crawls for 30 days before going off the air. Come visit RabbitEars for all your digital TV subchannel informational needs. Comments are my own and not that of the FCC (my employer) or anyone else. (- Trip Ericson, Alexandria VA, May 15, ibid.) ^ I mustn't be reading everything right (which isn't unusual for me); but Jim was saying it was *KYTV* running the crawl, and they won't be moving until late 2018. I can understand the -LD doing a crawl now, but not KYTV. Of course there is a lot I still don't understand. cd (Chris Dunne, FL, ibid.) While KYTV isn't yet *required* to run crawls, there's nothing that says they're *prohibited* from doing so. It's also conceivable this has nothing to do with the repack. Maybe they're shuffling some subchannels around? I note KYTV and KGHZ run multiple major virtual channels, with both channels 3 and 33 split between the two transmitters. Finally, this would be a question for Trip but I suppose there's nothing that says a station that's leaving the air entirely can't do so early (and that if it does, as he says it must run crawls announcing that) (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com May 15, ibid.) That's correct (- Trip, ibid.) KYTV has adjusted the crawl now to say "KGHZ will be leaving the air on May 31, 2017. Shortly after that time, the CW will be moved to broadcast 19 and your television will continue to show it as 33.3. Antenna TV will continue on broadcast 15 and your TV will show it as 33.3" I guess that puzzles me. Doesn't a licensed station have to have call letters assigned to it to operate? If they are calling RF 19 "CW Ozarks", don't they have to have call letters assigned to them? And what would they be? The original KYCW-LD (RF 15) was where the "CW Ozarks" had been. RF 15 is now Antenna TV, but I would think they still hold the KYCW-LD call letters for that channel. Seems really confusing (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, May 17, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ DISCOVERER OF RADIO? DAVID EDWARD HUGHES (16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900), was a British- American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. In 1855 he patented a printing telegraph. He moved back to London in 1857 and further pursued experimentation and invention, coming up with an improved carbon microphone in 1878. In 1879 he identified what seemed to be a new phenomenon during his experiments: sparking in one device could be heard in a separate portable microphone apparatus he had set up. It was most probably radio transmissions but this was nine years before electromagnetic radiation was a proven concept and Hughes was convinced by others that his discovery was simply electromagnetic induction (source? via May/June Medium Wave News 63/02 via DXLD) RUSSIAN “RADIO DAY” 122 years since the radio receiver was demonstrated, Saint Petersburg Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated the Popov lightning detector, a primitive radio receiver, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7, 1895. (See 1989 USSR stamp depicting the demonstration, right) Popov in the early 1890s began conducting experiments along the lines of Heinrich Hertz's research. In 1894, he built the first radio receiver, which contained a coherer. He further refined the design as a lightning detector. A paper on his work was published in December 1895, but he did not apply for a patent for his invention. In March 1896, Popov transmitted radio waves between different campus buildings in St Petersburg. In 1898, Popov realized ship-to-shore communication over a distance of 6 miles and then over 30 miles a year later in 1899. In 1900 a radio station was established under Popov's instructions on Hogland Island (Suursaari) in the Baltic Sea to provide two-way communication by wireless telegraphy between the Russian naval base and the crew of the battleship General-Admiral Apraksin. In some parts of the former Soviet Union May 7 is celebrated as Radio Day as Popov has generally been recognized in Eastern Europe as the "inventor of radio," in contrast to the West's recognition of Marconi and Tesla. Popov's work on the emission and reception of signals by means of electromagnetic oscillations built upon Nikola Tesla's accomplishments demonstrated in 1893. Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for radio in 1896, but his device is widely thought to be based on various earlier techniques of other researchers, including Tesla, and resembled instruments demonstrated by others, including Popov. The three inventors are among a small group of scientists and engineers who had a hand in the invention of radio. Radio Day (Russian: Den' Radio), Communications Workers' Day (as it is officially known in Russia) or Radio and Television Day (as it is known in Bulgaria) is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia. It takes place on 7 May, the day in 1895 on which Alexander Popov successfully demonstrated his invention (source? via May/June Medium Wave News 63/02 via DXLD) RADIO IN THE WORLD In the world there are more than 51 thousand radio stations and more than 2.4 billion radio receivers. A radio signal can be received by at least 75% of households in developing countries and most of the inhabitants of developed countries. https://vk.com/rtrs_info (RusDX 14 May via DXLD) “FREQUENCY,” “LAST MAN STANDING” TV SHOWS QRT ARRL 05/10/2017 http://www.arrl.org/news/frequency-last-man-standing-tv-shows-qrt Hollywood Reporter reports http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/frequency-no-tomorrow-canceled-at-cw-1001320 that The CW television network has pulled the plug on the Amateur Radio-themed show “Frequency,” which stars Peyton List as young police detective and radio amateur Raimy Sullivan. “Frequency was a combination of two of the season’s most popular trends: time travel and movie reboots,” Hollywood Reporter said, noting that the show had been averaging 1.5 million viewers. As in the 2000 movie Frequency that inspired the TV show, Amateur Radio provides a means for the protagonist to reconnect over time with her late estranged father Frank Sullivan. NBC had initially expressed interest in launching a “Frequency” TV reprise but ultimately passed on the idea. “Frequency” had joined ABC’s “Last Man Standing,” starring real-life radio amateur Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, KA0XTT, in providing Amateur Radio some small-screen exposure, albeit fictional. News on May 10 from Variety https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/last-man-standing-canceled-abc-6-season-1202422924/ is that ABC has now canceled “Last Man Standing” after six seasons. Occasional scenes on “Last Man” showed Allen’s character at his ham station. The program’s producer is John Amodeo, NN6JA, and real-life Amateur Radio special events have been staged from the show’s Hollywood set. (via Mike Terry, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) Frequency per zap2it.com is already off the CW schedule. But this info about it: Frequency --- Detective Raimy Sullivan has carried around pain and resentment over her father's death for 20 years, believing NYPD Officer Frank Sullivan was corrupted during an undercover sting and got himself killed. Everything changes when she hears his voice coming from his old ham radio, somehow transmitting from 1996. Raimy tells Frank about his murder, allowing him to survive the event, but the change has tragic consequences on the present, and the two detectives must find a way to rewrite the past without destroying everyone they care about. Premiere: Oct 05, 2016 Original Network: CW Network Episode First Aired S01, E13 Signal Loss 1/25/2017 S01, E12 Harmonic 1/18/2017 S01, E11 Negative Copy 1/11/2017 S01, E10 The Edison Effect 1/04/2017 S01, E09 Gray Line 12/07/2016 S01, E08 Interference 11/30/2016 S01, E07 Break, Break, Break 11/16/2016 S01, E06 Deviation 11/09/2016 S01, E05 Seven Three 11/02/2016 S01, E04 Bleed Over 10/26/2016 S01, E03 The Near Far Problem 10/19/2016 S01, E02 Signal and Noise 10/12/2016 S01, E01 Pilot 10/05/2016 Watch free on the CW app: http://m.cwtv.com/shows/frequency/ (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TECH: IMPROVED LF FOR WELLBROOK ALA1530LNP I recently got a new Wellbrook ALA1530LNP antenna with its 3 foot diameter loop and Interface with integral +9 dB amplifier. The headend loop amp has been improved for lower noise plus it's now supplied as a separate box from the loop assembly itself. Greatly increased LF sensitivity can be obtained by using the headend amp with a larger loop. Loop sensitivity is directly proportional to loop diameter (area) and to frequency. Thus loop sensitivity suffers as frequency decreases, and at LF is significantly less than at HF, for a given loop diameter. Previous untuned loop experiments that I made from several years ago indicated for decent LF sensitivity the loop should be at least 6 feet in diameter; my tests went to 10 foot diameter loops, with even better sensitivity. Currently an eBay seller in Nebraska offers 30 feet of half-inch aluminum flexible fuel line for $30 with shipping. Many other sellers offer 25 foot lengths (about 8 foot diameter loop). I went with the 30 foot circumference for an approx. 9.5 foot diameter loop. Antenna comparison results I have a 900 foot unterminated E/W longwire and my weakest consistently-heard daytime NDB is 251 SV in Silver City NM, 185 miles. Rarely, 251 AM Amarillo, TX at 580 miles can also be heard but conditions need to be very good. 242 EL El Paso TX at 282 miles is also consistently heard but it's a much stronger signal than SV so I don't use it for comparison tests. The new 9.5' dia. loop oriented E/W hears the same weakest daytime NDBs that the longwire hears, in fact at slightly greater volume due to the Interface amp, so I consider the new loop to be a resounding success. Thanks, Wellbrook! Reception in MW and HF is also very good so it doesn't appear even HF reception suffers any, at least that I can tell. So the much smaller 9.5' dia. loop appears to be roughly equivalent to the 900' longwire at least at LF. 73, Steve AA7U, near Sahuarita, AZ Materials 3 ten foot lengths of 1 1/4" Schedule 40 PVC Pipe 1 PVC cross, 1 1/4" Can of PVC cement 30 foot roll of 1/2" flexible aluminum fuel line. The eBay seller is "speedway_motors", search for "1/2 aluminum 30 long fuel line tubing" 7/16" wood dowel two 1" 4-40 stainless steel screws with flat washers, lock washers and nuts small gauge iron wire for securing loop to PVC frame vertical support for the mast -- of your choosing -- metal tee-post; sturdy wooden post, existing support, etc. Construction Sand two inches of the dowel down so it's a very snug fit in the tubing ends -- cut in half and use each half in each end (tap in place with hammer). Drill 1/8" hole through tubing and dowel, 1/2" from end. Glue the PVC cross to one full ten foot length of PVC pipe -- this will be the mast and loop frame. Measure 4'8" on the remaining two lengths, cut off and glue to the PVC cross for the three top loop frame arms. (You'll need to measure and cut a second time on one piece.) Drill 1/8" hole in the top 3 arms for securing the loop to the frame -- make sure to drill perpendicularly if it's not obvious to you how the holes should go! Lay the loop frame flat on the ground. Gently unroll the tubing. Measure from one end to the center, 15 feet and wrap black electrical tape for at least several layers to give a cushion when tying the loop to the frame. Measure 7.5' from the ends, wrap tape at those points, for the three loop mounting points to the loop frame arms. Using a length of the small gauge iron wire, tie the top loop in place (center of the tubing). Then gently bend the tubing for a symmetrical bend on each side and tie each wrapped side to the two horizontal loop frame arms. Gently bend the tubing ends so they meet at the bottom vertical section of the loop frame. You can either leave them loose or tape them to the mast. Make sure you do not use anything metallic as you don't want to short out the loop! If appearance is a factor you could paint the loop and frame with a blue or grey or brown, etc. color. That would stop the loop tubing from reflecting and also protect the loop PVC frame from eventual UV damage. Stand the loop up noting it's fairly light weight. Attach it to your vertical mast support. Attach the headend amp two wires to each end of the loop tubing with the 4-40 screws and tighten very securely -- the inner dowel prevents the tubing from collapsing so you can tighten very tightly. You want as low resistance from tubing to the amp wires as possible. Secure the amp to the mast frame with ty-wraps or however you wish. Attach your coax cable and your loop is ready for use (Steve Ratzlaff, May 15, IRCA via DXLD) "AIRPORT-FRIENDLY" FSL ANTENNA DESIGNS Up until very recently it was only a dream to be able to enjoy high- sensitivity MW-DXing in a motel room after long distance air travel. Ultralight radios (hot-rodded and stock) could be packed away for some basic DXing fun, but serious high-gain antennas required either serious packing space, or deployment outside of the motel room (a dubious possibility in most cases). In an effort to make high gain MW-DXing possible during long range air travel, a new series of "Frequent Flyer" FSL antennas was developed here over the winter. These antennas were designed to be serious MW- DXing performers, but still have non-subversive appearances, allowing them to routinely pass through TSA security screening at major airports. All of them can easily be carried within standard hand-carry luggage (while protected by matched-sized plastic totes). Because of the increased MW-band sensitivity provided by the new 1162/46 Litz wire, it was possible to shrink the size of the 2012-year 5" Mini-FSL model (providing inductive coupling gain roughly equivalent to that of a 4' air core box loop, fully described at http://www.mediafire.com/file/9ze98h293s85p86/5_inch_FSL.doc down to a very compact size, allowing the development of this "Frequent Flyer" FSL series. Three new "Frequent Flyer" FSL designs have been built and tested, and two recent Hawaii DXpeditions were conducted with the first of these models. The 5" Bar FSL model --- design photo at https://app.box.com/s/2lixzaly97goivq7i3qqj6etrr0ce109 was used by Craig Barnes for a very successful trip to Princeville, Kauai (during which about 40 Asian TP's were received on a stock Tecsun PL-310 model), and I had a very enjoyable DXing trip to Kona on the Big Island, receiving exotic Pacific Island DX at S9 levels --- fully described at http://swling.com/blog/tag/gary-debock/ This model has successfully passed through airport TSA screening checkpoints 7 times, although the 100mm Russian surplus ferrite bars used in its construction are extremely scare, limiting the number of these models that can be made (only 5 are planned). Performance-wise, through, the following ferrite bar model can provide equivalent MW sensitivity with readily available construction parts. The new 3.5" ferrite bar model --- design photo at https://app.box.com/s/az7wz583mpgeftw98v04zah7nc9nj4z0 was designed to combine high performance with easy construction, and readily available parts. It has a smaller diameter than the above FSL model but longer ferrite length, giving it equivalent MW sensitivity. The 27 Russian surplus 160mm x 8mm ferrite rods can be purchased on eBay for about $70 shipped, giving the model an overall construction cost of about $150 US. It uses the same high-sensitivity 1162/46 Litz wire as the above FSL model, but because of the ferrite rod design it can provide inductive coupling boosts on both the sides of the antenna, as well as in the front or back. A full "Heathkit-like" construction article is planned for this model, similar to the 2012 5" Mini-FSL model article linked above. Finally a "economy-class" 4.7" Frequent Flyer model using the commonly-available Russian surplus 62mm ferrite bars has also been built, with the design photo at https://app.box.com/s/mlnhho99rswvdrp62ik634ft7t5a6s9a This model can be built for around $65 US, and provides a good inductive coupling boost to a stock Ultralight radio (with greater MW sensitivity than the 7.5" loopstick hot-rodded models). Because of the limited ferrite bar length there isn't enough space to wind the required number of 1162/46 Litz wire coil turns on this model, so 660/46 Litz wire is used instead. That is one of the reasons why the construction cost of this model is significantly lower, since 660/46 is relatively cheap by comparison. Thomas Witherspoon of SWLing.com was kind enough to post an article detailing the runoff of this "economy class" FSL model against the Terk Advantage commercial loop, http://swling.com/blog/2017/03/daytime-dx-gary-compares-terk-advantage-with-homebrew-fsl-loop/ Depending upon interest in this FSL model, a full-construction article may also be written in the future. Hopefully these compact, high performance FSL antennas will give DXers some new options for enjoying their hobby during long-range air travel. 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), UT May 17, IRCA via DXLD) Gary - I'd like to see a construction article for the 3.5" and 4.7" models. I'll build one or the other (Chuck Hutton, ibid.) Chuck, If you are making a decision between building the second (3.5") FSL model or the third (4.7") model, you should definitely go for the second (160mm ferrite rod) model. It has a sensitivity "point score" (ferrite length x coil diameter) of 560, whereas the third FSL model has a point score of 292. In addition, the second model uses the highest sensitivity 1162/46 Litz wire, while the third model uses the less sensitive 660/46 type. By comparison, the 5" FSL models used by Craig and I in Hawaii last month have sensitivity point scores of 585 (and also have the most sensitive 1162/46 Litz wire). In any case the first "Heathkit-like" full construction article (for the second, recommended, 3.5" FSL model) should be completed in about a month-- which will give any interested DXers the time to order and receive the 160mm x 8mm ferrite rods from the (newly prosperous) eBay sellers in the Ukraine (Gary DeBock, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GULF OF MEXICO TROPO - FM TO 800 MILES Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TX, Kchibo KK-D6110 whip antenna (near 2nd floor window), Local time (CDT) [UT -5] Distances are on par with Sporadic-E, however this is definitely GULF tropo --- Tropo 5/10/2017 103.5 WKNK FL Callaway; 1931 “KICKN 103.5” modern C&W, mentions of Panama City Beach, ads 780 miles 102.7 WXBM FL Milton; 1938 modern C&W, “NASH-FM 102-7”, ads, mention of Pensacola Beach 715 miles 99.3 WEBZ FL Mexico Beach; 1946 “99-3 The Beat” into Slow-Jamz music; 800 miles 97.5 WABD AL Mobile; 1952 pop/hit music, Miley Cyrus promo, Zack Sang(?) show, 660 miles 95.9 WRBA FL Springfield; 1959 ads mention of “Florida Water Sports”, ID “Classic Rock 95-9 Springfield-Panama City” “The Alice Cooper Show” 785 miles 104.7 WAAZ FL Crestview; 2007 ad “Alan Turners Chevrolet” “Come home to the good country and WAAZ” 745 miles 105.1 WASJ FL Panama City Beach; 2008 Classic hits “Playing the best of the 80’s and 90’s”; 780 miles 105.3 WWL-FM LA Kenner; 2012 Sports talk, talk of airline mis-steps, mention of New Orleans and taking down Confederate monuments. 525 miles 106.7 KMEZ LA Port Sulphur; 2015 “Old School 106.7”, ads, mention of Canal Street. 545 miles Posted by: (Steven Wiseblood, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) May 11 2017 Tropo --- While it’s no substitute for e-skip, it was great fun to be in the midst of some long-range tropo overnight. I had several new catches of 500+ miles into South Florida. The opening was even more unusual in several ways. I live in a deed- restricted neighborhood with a strict HOA. Three years ago, I obtained permission to erect a single TV antenna due to federal law protections. I opted to install a Korner 9.2 antenna, but it’s mounted at only about 15 feet, and in the back yard. The house sits at 400 feet ASL elevation, with a large ridge to the Southeast. Based on over six years of weak signal VHF work on 6 Meters, 2 Meters, 222, and 432 — Florida is largely a non-starter. Openings to the panhandle such as Pensacola are common, but anything beyond that has required meteor scatter even on weak signal modes. So last night’s opening on FM into South Florida was rare to say the least. Keep in mind that “DX” for me depends almost entirely on e-skip to get beyond LOS distances. Stations are even 125-200 miles usually require some type of enhancement. Last night netted literally dozens of new stations for the logs in AL, FL, MS, GA, and TN. Nothing past that, though I spent a lot of time looking for stations in Texas and LA. Hoping that we get some e-skip soon, but I’ve now got hours of recordings to go through. :-) 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park Maylene, AL, EM63nf, Member WTFDA, IRCA, NRC. Former CPC Chairman for NRC & IRCA. Elad FDM-S2 SDR, AirSpy SDR2, Quantum Phaser, Wellbrook ALA1530 Loop, Wellbrook Flag, Clifton Labs Active Whip. WTFDA gg via DXLD) QUESTIONS REGARDING E SKIP If a person gets an E Skip opening in one state, is it likely other states are getting an E Skip opening during the same time period? For example, if a person in Alabama discovers an E Skip opening, would a person in Ohio likely hear E Skip if they checked at the same time? Also, are there any good tools for predicting E Skip openings particularly on the FM and OTA TV bands? June of last year just by checking most days I was able to log E Skip twice (1 Mexico opening, 1 Colorado/Wyoming opening); this year I am hoping for 3 E Skip openings to beat last year`s total. Any help answering my questions is appreciated (Rrrrzzzz419 is offline Member, Currently DXing In NW AL And NE MS, May 11, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Here is a link to the map that I use to check for e-skip: [originally truncated, but this is the old version I use ---- gh] http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/mapo.php?Lan=E&Frec=MUF&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=ING2&HF=N&GL=N I check that map regularly during e-skip season. If I can hear e-skip from Alabama, then chances are good that someone in Alabama can also hear my location in Ohio. Or it can go perpendicular; like someone in Virginia hearing Missouri. There just has to be a good e-cloud in between. The numbers on the map indicate the maximum usable frequency (MUF), and it doesn't necessarily take a number in the FM range on the map to hear FM e-skip. A lot of times the higher MUFs aren't reported, but when I notice a cluster of numbers forming on the map, then I know it may be time to check (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, ibid.) Both ends of an Es opening will likely obvserve Es. If someone in Alabama is hearing Minneapolis, a DXer in Minneapolis will likely be hearing Alabama. A DXer in Pittsburgh --- maybe, maybe not. I don't know of any way of predicting Es openings beyond statistics. Openings are more likely to happen during the "season" -- from late spring (about now) through mid-summer (mid-July). They are more likely in late morning and late afternoon. I don't know of a way of predicting "there will be an Es opening next Tuesday" (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) I have noticed, in 39 years (minus 11 days) of following E-skip, that when one opening occurs, there will be a larger than usual chance that E-skip will be in about thirty hours later (but by no means assured). Furthermore, Es on a given day may be followed by another twenty-eight days later (more true of the winter Es season, but applies to the summer season as well). Es openings are often "mobile" - the ionization zone moves, ergo, the areas from which you can hear (and, in ham radio, be heard) change during the opening. So often were the same stations seen in midday summer openings I named them "Prairie Specials". These would start with WEDU, KATC or KTBS, continue to KFDX, KOET, KSNW (sometimes missing), KSWK (after it was built), KTVS, and usually ending with KOTA (though sometimes CFSS would come in as a bonus). Note that this path has the ionized region moving from SE to NW, (completely unlike the winds of the jet stream miles below). Winter openings seemed to move from west to east. As for the mutuality of Es paths, if you can hear City X by Es at your site, a DXer in City X will usually be able to hear your locals, but if someone in Nunavut can receive a signal from Massachusetts, the DXer in MA can't expect to log Nunavut as stations in Nunavut are low power and few and far between. If an ionization region should be broad and round - like a blob over Louisville, and A DXer in Minneapolis is logging Atlanta, then not only would a DXer in Atlanta be able to hear Minneapolis, but DXers in Pittsburgh and Tulsa should have Es to each other's cities as well (also Montgomery to/from Escanaba and Wichita to/from Richmond). But, if the ionization were to form along a line, say, along the length of Tennessee, things can be more complicated. The ionization regions along the east/west line would likely progressively bend the signals such that DXers in Kansas City and Washington DC could hear each other's FMs and even work each other on 2 meters, whilst a ham in Grand Rapids would find his 6 meter radio absolutely lit up with hundreds of hams on 6m in a swath running from Dallas to South Carolina - but nothing on the FM broadcast band. Comparing Sporadic-E skip to skip on the AM and shortwave bands is like comparing apples and oranges. [taglines] Comparing tropo to skip is like comparing apples and bacon cheeseburgers (Robert Grant, May 11, ibid.) I've seen super FM Es openings from Florida and the south that went into New Jersey, while at the same time I had nothing. 100 miles made a big difference. I have had FM Es to the southwest and west while the guys in Boston had absolutely nothing. You can have very sharp cut offs. And then there are openings that it seems that everybody in the country gets in on. Es can be strange, besides sporadic (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, -72 30' W/41 59' N, FN31RX, Online since 1999 and still going at http://mikesdx.com Archives: The Original Mike's TV/FM Page with Tuner Mods and Lots of Old Stuff, May 12, ibid.) Thanks for your comments so far. I guess it's safe to say that while there are tools that can provide some help (thanks for the link Crazy Monkey), that E's are very unpredictable. Hopefully this year is better than last year for E's (Rrrrzzzz419, May 12, ibid.) Yes, it does have sharp cut-offs. I experienced a DX'er that was eight miles away to the east of me getting moderate signal strength DX signals on the FM band and I heard nothing at all via Es. During the event I checked, doubled, and triple checked my equipment just to make sure there were no unforeseen issues. Es needs about a dozen interactions before it flips-on, not just a single number of ingredients. The question is, when all these elements mix together, what and where is the ignition source? Is it in space or is it in Earths atmosphere? or Both?!? (GACTVDX, Easton PA, ibid.) My own hypothesis is that it is from inner space (i.e., within our solar system), and it generates the ionization (ergo the E-skip) when the earth slams into it. Exactly what it is? That's another question. Perhaps nanometeors (dust), or even gas. Somewhere on this forum, I mentioned a PBS program on the history of the telescope, where they mentioned aiming a laser at sodium atoms "about 100 km above the earth" - a figure that puts it close to the E-layer (Robert Grant, May 12, ibid.) Last summer I had e-skip into FM from Colorado Springs. I started messaging another DXer across town, about 7 miles away, and he had nothing. Another time, I had KNOP from Nebraska in steady in and out for over an hour while the other DXer had nothing. I questioned if perhaps he lived in a noisier area or if it was just strange e-skip behavior. On another occasion, I was able to listen to Denver FMs for almost two hours with little fading while driving all across town, a 25 mile spread (Crazy Monkey, OH, ibid.) I have definitely seen E Skip move, I had Florida and, Texas / New Mexico one morning and then I had North / South Carolina then Virginia, and even further up the coast. I had around 50 New logs that day! Janesville WI - Sony XDR-S10HDiP & Kaito KA1103 & Insignia ND- HD01A portable ???????? FM Log - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hj_qIvAZBQx-MTGqRs-Nko2tQzS-9o3_pEoTULyuudY/edit?usp=sharing FM Log Map - https://www.easymapmaker.com/map/84a6b858044a6ccba32f2e84bcf806f0 (JVL DXer, May 18, ibid.) It's common for E skip to move. Here in New England it will begin in Florida, move later to MS/AL/LA and then head north eventually ending in ND/SD and MB. Sometimes it stays in one place, other times it moves (Mike B., Enfield, CT, ibid.) COSMIC RAYS INTENSIFY OVER CALIFORNIA Southgate May 13, 2017 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/may/cosmic-rays-intensify-over-california.htm The solar cycle is plunging to its lowest level in years. As sunspots vanish and the sun's magnetic field weakens, cosmic rays are penetrating the inner Solar System in greater numbers than usual. High-altitude balloon flights over California have detected the change in the form of increased radiation levels in our planet's atmosphere. Visit today's edition of Spaceweather.com to see the latest data and to learn how intensifying cosmic rays can affect us on Earth. (via Mike Terry, May 13, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: COSMIC RAYS ARE INTENSIFYING: Many people think Solar Minimum is boring. Wrong. During the nadir of the sunspot cycle, the entire heliosphere changes its personality with many consequences for the space around our planet. One of the most important changes involves cosmic rays--high-energy radiation reaching Earth from deep space. As sunspot numbers decline, cosmic rays intensify. Is this actually happening? The answer is "yes." Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been monitoring radiation levels in the stratosphere with frequent high-altitude balloon flights over California*. Here are the latest results, current as of May 6, 2017: [graphic in original] The data show cosmic ray levels intensifying with an approximately 13% increase since March 2015. Cosmic rays are high-energy photons and subatomic particles accelerated in our direction by distant supernovas and other violent events in the Milky Way. Usually, cosmic rays are held at bay by the sun's magnetic field, which envelops and protects all the planets in the Solar System. But the sun's magnetic shield is weakening in 2017 as the solar cycle shifts from Solar Maximum to Solar Minimum. More and more cosmic rays are therefore reaching our planet. How does this affect us? Cosmic rays penetrate commercial airlines, dosing passengers and flight crews enough that pilots are classified as occupational radiation workers. Some research shows that cosmic rays can seed clouds and trigger lightning, potentially altering weather and climate. Furthermore, there are studies (#1, #2, #3, #4) linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias in the general population. The sensors we send to the stratosphere measure X-rays and gamma-rays, which are produced by the crash of primary cosmic rays into Earth's atmosphere. The energy range of the sensors, 10 keV to 20 MeV, is similar to that of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners. NOTE: This increase is not happening ONLY over California. All parts of the world will be experiencing elevated levels of cosmic rays. The amount varies from place to place depending on the uneven protection afforded by our own planet's magnetic field. In the week ahead we will share new data from intercontinental balloon launches tracing the global response to this phenomenon. *Abstract === We have developed a “Space Weather Buoy” for measuring upper atmospheric radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms. The Buoy, which is carried to the stratosphere by helium balloons, is relatively inexpensive and uses off-the-shelf technology accessible to small colleges and high schools. Using this device, we have measured two Forbush Decreases and a small surge in atmospheric radiation during the St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm of March 2015. . . http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/2016SW001410/full (via DXLD) In case some are wondering what energetic galactic cosmic rays do, they increase ionization in the D layer and negatively impact the LW, MW and SW frequency bands in the form of higher RF signal absorption. 73, (Thomas F. Giella, W4HM, Lakeland, FL, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) who posts a daily propagation forecast to the dxldyg :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 May 15 0217 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 08 - 14 May 2017 Solar activity was at very low levels with only B-class activity observed. On 13 May, an eruptive filament located near S60E10 was observed in H-alpha imagery starting to lift off at approximately 13/1300 UTC. An associated CME was observed in LASCO/C2 coronagraph imagery beginning at 13/1712 UTC. The majority of the ejecta appeared to have a southern trajectory; however, there was indication of an Earth-directed component. ENLIL modeling suggested an arrival at Earth late on 16 May. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels on 08-09 May and 13 May while quiet to unsettled levels were observed 10-12 May and 14 May. Mostly nominal solar wind conditions were observed throughout the period with an SSBC slightly enhancing the solar wind environment on 09 May. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 15 MAY - 10 JUNE 2017 Solar activity is expected to be very low throughout the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to range from normal to very high levels. Normal levels are likely on 19 Apr. Moderate levels are likely on 20 Apr, 05-06 May, and 08-14 May. High levels are likely on 18 Apr, 21-23 Apr, 29 Apr-04 May, and 07 May. Very high levels are likely 24-28 Apr. All enhancements in flux values are anticipated from multiple, recurrent, CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to G2 (Moderate) storm conditions over the outlook period. Active conditions are likely on 15 May due to an anticipated CIR late in the day. 16 May will likely observe G1 (Minor) storm conditions due to a positive polarity CH HSS. G2 (Moderate) conditions on 17 May are likely as CH HSS influence is forecast to combine with the 13 May CME. G1 (Minor) storm conditions are again likely with the onset of a negative polarity CH HSS on 18 May. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to increase to G2 (Moderate) storm levels on 19-20 May as wind speeds from the CH HSS peak. As the negative polarity CH HSS influence slowly wanes, G1 (Minor) storm levels on 21 May are likely to decrease to active on 22 May and finally to unsettled on 23 May. With the exception of a period of quiet to unsettled levels on 10 Jun, the remainder of the forecast period is expected to be at quiet levels. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 May 15 0217 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 2017-05-15 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 May 15 72 12 4 2017 May 16 72 22 5 2017 May 17 74 32 6 2017 May 18 74 20 5 2017 May 19 74 48 6 2017 May 20 74 36 6 2017 May 21 74 20 5 2017 May 22 76 12 4 2017 May 23 76 8 3 2017 May 24 76 5 2 2017 May 25 76 5 2 2017 May 26 76 5 2 2017 May 27 76 5 2 2017 May 28 76 5 2 2017 May 29 76 5 2 2017 May 30 74 5 2 2017 May 31 74 5 2 2017 Jun 01 74 5 2 2017 Jun 02 74 5 2 2017 Jun 03 74 5 2 2017 Jun 04 72 5 2 2017 Jun 05 70 5 2 2017 Jun 06 70 5 2 2017 Jun 07 70 5 2 2017 Jun 08 70 5 2 2017 Jun 09 70 5 2 2017 Jun 10 70 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1878, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF MAY 18, 2017 Keith, From Space Weather Services Australia, the global HF propagation forecast thru May 20: normal to fair at low latitudes, normal to fair to poor at middle and high latitudes. Also, minor to moderate MUF depressions and degradations in HF conditions may be expected on May 20 due to an expected rise in geomagnetic activity from late on May 19. From the Regional Warning Center of China, the monthly average sunspot number this week is 40.0. The Space Environment Prediction Center of China calls for the Planetary A index to reach 23 on May 21. Solar flux to peak at 82 on May 25 and 26. From space weather South Africa, magnetic conditions call for a major storm May 19, minor storm May 20; shortwave fadeouts unlikely; MUF unstable. Met office UK says G1 or G2 intervals of geomagnetic activity are likely on the 19th with a continued risk on the 20th and 21st due to elevated solar wind speeds at Earth. From F K Janda, in Prague, the Geomagnetic field will be: active to disturbed on May (17 - 19, 31) quiet to active on May 20, 21 - 22, June 2 quiet to unsettled May 23 - 30, June 3, 5 - 7 quiet on June 1, mostly quiet on June 4 From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field activity is expected to increase to G2 (Moderate) storm levels on May 19 and 20 as wind speeds from the coronal hole high-speed stream peak, with A and K indices reaching 48 and 6, then 36 and 6. G1 (Minor) storm levels on May 21 are likely to decrease to active on May 22 and finally to unsettled on May 23. Then lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2, from May 24 all the way to June 9. Solar flux barely peaking at 76 on May 22-29. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting along the Mexican Gulf coast May 19-20 and off the west coast of Mexico May 21-23. And these for the entire week at least until May 23: off the west coast of Africa around Cabo Verde; off Angola and Namibia, and all around South Africa`s coast. All the seas around the Arabian peninsula as far as India, and off the east coast of India (via DXLD) ###