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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1881 contents: Alaska, Argentina non, Bangladesh, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada, China, Cuba, East Turkistan, France non, Germany, Indonesia, International Waters, Italy, Korea North and non, Mali, Myanmar, North America, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Solomon Islands, South Carolina non, Spain, Turkey, UK and non, USA, Yemen non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1881, June 8-14, 2017 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 [confirmed] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed, Bulgaria] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 15770 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. Statement on Kabul bombing and Mohammed Nazir Date: 31.05.2017 Last updated: 31.05.2017 at 10.22 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/statements/mohammed-nazir Statement from Francesca Unsworth, BBC World Service Director: "It is with great sadness that the BBC can confirm the death of BBC Afghan driver Mohammed Nazir following the vehicle bomb in Kabul earlier today, as he was driving journalist colleagues to the office. "Four BBC journalists were also injured and were treated in hospital. Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening. "Mohammed Nazir worked as a driver for the BBC Afghan service for more than four years and was a popular colleague. He was in his late thirties and he leaves a young family. "This is a devastating loss to the BBC and to Mohammed Nazir's friends and family. We are doing all we can to support them and the rest of the team in Kabul." (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 1 June 2017, DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Frequency change of VOA Radio Ashna from May 28 1500-1630 on 12035 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari, ex 11590 1630-1730 on 12035 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto, ex 11590 Deleted frequencies of Voice of America in Oromo/Amharic/Tigrinya http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/frequency-change-of-voa-radio-ashna.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [non]. 89.3, June 5 at 1910 UT I happen to tune nearby KIEL Loyal OK, as Ron Myers is talking about the ``Mission Alaska`` project of Radio 74 Internationale, trying to raise money. I only hear the last part of it: To put a 50 kW AM station on the air before the CP expires next January. Needs to get work done on the antenna site this summer before everything freezes; but still raising funds of $150K to purchase the land. See http://www.radio74.net so I research further: It`s for 50 kW on 1200 kHz from Chugiak AK. More about it here: https://www.radio74.net/alaska-project-brochure which talks about this to bring Adventist/3ABN programming to Alaska. As if Alaskans have no gospel huxters on radio already. Yet this page, https://www.radio74.net/about-us says ``RADIO 74 INTERNATIONALE is an independent Christian ministry and is not sponsored, regulated or controlled by any denomination or religious organization.`` {My impression is that KIEL is really predominantly or nothing but 7DA, e.g. `Your Story Hour` until 1629 UT June 7} More, if it will ever load: https://www.radio74.net/blog NRC AM Log shows 1200 as ``K#8 Chugiak AK U1 50000/9600 new not on air ``. FCC AM Query says licensee is Steve King, and there was correspondence about this dating back to May of 2010. Is 74 trying to acquire the CP from King, or is he the front for 74 all along? Where is Chugiak? 32 km NE of downtown Anchorage per Wikipedia. On a US map including Okie station, own website also shows they have two other stations in Alaska. The affiliate list can be found under the LISTEN drop-down, which is not a link to webcasts. The AK stations are on FM in Juneau and North Pole (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. USCG Kodiak, Alaska DRM --- This station is S7 into Redmond, Oregon. 6850 kHz 0457z 1 June 2017. A rotating frequency schedule. Glenn and Walt have posted this information in the past. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Redmond, Oregon USA, SDRs: Perseus and Elad FDM-S2, Antenna: Wellbrook ALA1530AL, (dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Right you are, George. I'm receiving it intermittently this morning at 1400 UT on 6850. Not bad, as it's been light for several hours here. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, June 1, ibid.) I did find the USCG DRM transmission from Kodiak, with the heading, "Standard PRBS" on Channel 1. Centered on 8000 kHz this time. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 0411 UT June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also decoded the DRM transmission from Kodiak at 0455z 7 Jun 2017 on 8000 kHz. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Redmond, Oregon USA, SDRs: Perseus and Elad FDM-S2, Antenna: Wellbrook ALA1530AL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 11765, KNLS “New Life Station,” May 31, 2017, 1440–1458 in English. Religious broadcaster. Tour of “Hers” factory run by a devout follower. Sermon and Hymns. Good signal but with steep, slow QSB. Bill Humble talk of cave where Abraham is thought to be buried. “Bible Archeology” and mention that Muslims do not allow archeology in tomb of the patriarchs. Pop music clips, target is Asia. ID at 1454, with schedule given for English broadcast on various frequencies. “The English Hour” signed off at 1458 (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Equipment currently in use: Tecsun PL-380, JRC NRD-525, Drake R8B, Sony ICF-2010, Ten-Tec RX-340. Antennas are half-meter whip on PL-380, 1.2 meter whip on ICF-2010, and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east-west, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 11870, KNLS (New Life Station). Caught the closing English ID by M with sked for English programming at 1254, one last Pop song, some deadair, then off. Kind of surprised it was so readable. Audio recording at https://app.box.com/s/4oplz5zkyscp5vxjtf0u05nc12m9b8q9 3 June. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) 11885, KNLS Unscheduled Transmission --- Was recording 11870 to catch upcoming start of English program and found 11885 on the air unscheduled in Mandarin with pop music, M talk including ID, deadair, then start of English program with ID by W and IS // 11870. Both fairly strong but this frequency slightly better. Is this a new transmission, an error, or testing?? Was in Mandarin before 1200 UT, and in English after. Went off at 1259 followed by 11870. Posted a Youtube video of the reception which can be viewed using this link: https://youtu.be/AisW-DfKeXU Use 480p setting for best viewing. (5 June) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S loop antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) Probably instead of 9655 in Chinese till 1200 and 7355 in English from 1200, both via tx#2 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9655, KNLS (Anchor Point) at 1500. IS and opening with M in Russian, to alternative rock cut. Very Good. June 3. Equipment was RS SW- 2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. May’s other DX highlight was positive loggings of Argentinian X-band stations Radio Guabiyu on 1610 and AM 1710 Selva. Unfortunately, haven’t been able to trace an email address for either of these 1 kilowatters. 1610, 0918, Radio Guabiya with folksongs & accordion music over CHHA 7/5. Event promos & ident finally caught at 1019. Peaking fair to good. 1710a, 1043, 17-10 AM Radio Selva peaking fair 14/5 with several idents. Signature frequency is 1709.837, causing het on 1710 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. My report to RAE was apparently their first from NZ so I was interviewed by Fernando Farías for RAE’s programme ‘The Conversation’ (Bryan Clark, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) 7730, 0700, USA/ARGENTINA, RAE via WRMI with new temporary English transmission for Oceania, very good 23/5. News, tango feature and DX column till closing 0755. Brother Stair took over freq at 0800 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) 9395, June 1 after some Andean music, RAE English wrapup until 0158.5, so now occupying more of the hour rather than finishing circa :55. Mirian Turkula, as if talking mainly to podcast listeners, assures us that to hear them on SW, we must listen at 01-02 UT Tue-Sat on WRMI 9395. No mention of the repeat at 07-08 on 5850 and 7730, which is too late for me to check, but has been confirmed on both by two different Australian listeners. 11580, Thursday June 1 at 1400, checking what`s on this WRMI today: guess what: RAE in Spanish! To stay or just filling this hour with whatever? An unscheduled prolongation of the French hour before 1400. 11580, June 1 at 2229 check, this RAE relay hour via WRMI is finally in Italian instead of Spanish, maybe previously as not checked for a couple days. 11580, Friday June 2 at 1358, WRMI with jazz music fill after RAE French hour, 1359.5 WNYW-style ID, 1400 once again RAE Spanish for the second day at this hour, opening with its usual music downbeat, intro as ``primera edición del primero de junio``, i.e. repeat of the Thursday 2200 on 5950. Now we see that the WRMI sked grid has been updated to show RAE Spanish at 1400-1500 Monday-Saturday on 11580. This presumably compensates for the originally planned 0000-0100 on 7730, which has not been implemented, to the relief of a variety of programs in that span. Due to confusion last week about the timing for RAE`s DX program in English, I am listening continually UT Saturday June 3 from 0100 on WRMI 9395, VG. This week it lasts from 0114 to 0125. I seldom quote from on-air DX programs since they hardly ever have any newsworthy material not already published in DXLD/yg. But to get us started with this show, here are my complete notes about it for the record: Opening title seems to be ``actualidaddx.com.ar``. Asks for reception reports with recordings [it`s always loud and clear here]. DX news mostly comes from Observer, Bulgaria but not credited. Clips of each item are however added, perhaps from remote receivers or online if not receivable in Argentina. Music bridges between each: Deutscher Wetterdienst, 6180 at 20 in German with 100 watts [no, 10 kW per WRTH]. V. of Oromo Liberation from Nauen to Ethiopia, Wed/Fri/Sun 1700-1730 on 15420 with 100 kW, and ``hamming`` from Ethiopia. Belarus on SW via Germany new sked, 22-24 on 3985, 1 kW. R. Xoriyo in Somali via France at 1600-1630 on 17630, 500 kW, Tue/Sat, with hamming. DP0— Seewetter, via Kall at 0730-0800 on 7130 [sic] with 1 kW; 1200-1230 on 7310 in German Mon-Fri. Mexico, XEINFO 1560-AM full ID clip, to illustrate Grupo Radio Centro which has closed its 790, 1150 and 1030 stations, consolidating programming on 690 and 1110. CNN reports ISIS claims credit for attack on TV station in Jalalabad, east Afghanistan, killing 6 [no clip]. VOV and Cuba meet at ICRT. Production by Arnaldo Slaen, edited [translated?] by name uncopied, presented by Fernando Farrías. Outro [only] refers to program as ``DXers Special``, every Saturday. [Perhaps will be repeated on UT Tuesday again, regularly?] After music break, 0129 plugs a new program ``talking with listeners`` based on their comments to rae@raeargentina.com but doesn`t say when it airs. This time gives frequencies only as 5850 & 7730, which apply to the 07-08 UT repeat, not now. 0131 next program is `Stories of the Bicentenary` about early racism, voiced by Mirian. 11580, June 3 at 1407, RAE AAM new Spanish hour via WRMI confirmed also on Saturday for 6-days-per week, but are there only 5 programs per week, so a repeat of yesterday? May contain the DX program. 11580, Monday June 5 at 1320, RAE French relay via WRMI is in DX program, so repeat of Friday show; content and clips seem the same as heard in English version. 1346 recheck, now the DX program is re- starting as the French semihour is aired twice in succession. 1400 into new Spanish relay time, previewing DX program by Arnaldo Slaen again contained in this Monday hour; no mention of this transmission they may not be aware of yet in Bs As, just 22-23 on 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI ** AUSTRALIA. /ITALY: The broadcasts of IBC Italian Broadcasting Corporation, in both Italian and English, are now also available daily on FM in the area of Perth in Australia, from 1400 to 1600 UT on the frequency of 77.400 MHz and worldwide online at http://www.77400.fm - 77400 is a relatively new station transmitting from Greenwood (Western Australia). The first broadcast was made on 20 June 2016. Its schedule includes 80s and 90s disco/dance music and the News West Radio Amateurs news program, at 10 am Sunday and then repeated at 10 am and 6 pm every day (Local Perth WA Time [UT +8 yearound]). Its aim is to provide a Happy and informative local radio station that you will want to tune into whenever you want some energetic music to cheer you up. The station, owned by Stefano Mollo, an Italian who lives in Perth Australia (that explains why many Italian songs are played), welcomes any comments, compliments or critic. You can drop them an email at: 77400fm@gmail.com - But that is not all. The station has already got a license from Australian authority to operate on the shortwave frequency of 5045 kHz. A 300 watt transmitter was purchased from RF Audio Electronics, a small company based in Greece. It should be added that preliminary test transmissions have already been made at the start of May, from 1100 to 1400 but they were unsuccessful in reaching any audience. A new antenna is currently being considered by the owner. This will become reality as soon as a project made by two fellow radio amateurs in Italy is completed. If all goes well, shortwave operations will start in the next few months. It is still unclear whether or not a different name will be used for shortwave broadcasts (IBC-Italian Broadcasting Corporation via May DX Fanzine via DXLD) Abbiamo iniziato una proficua collaborazione con l'amico Stefano VK6WFM che permette la messa in onda delle nostre trasmissioni in italiano ed inglese sulla frequenza di 77.4 MHz nella zona di Perth, in Australia, ogni giorno fra le 14 e le 16 UTC (22-24 ora locale di Perth). Oltre all'FM i nostri programmi e quelli dell'emittente possono essere ascoltati in streaming sul sito www.77400.fm. La stazione inoltre inizierà al più presto a trasmettere anche in onde corte, sulla frequenza di 5045 kHz, in banda 60 metri. Tutte le nostre trasmissioni che vanno in onda sulla frequenza di 1584 kHz possono essere anche ascoltate in gran parte della Toscana su 87.3 Mhz in FM. Anche in questo caso è attivo lo streaming all'indirizzo myradiostream.com/radiostudiox (via DXLD) We already had news about the new Perth 5045 station in DXLD some weeks ago. But not currently active. Since the distinct frequencies available in Australia for LPSW are unreasonably limited, there could come a day when we have another 5045 on the air from the east, interfering with each other (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) What domestic radios can tune to 77.40 MHz? (Gareth. Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Concerning 77.400 MHz: many radios produced in Asia can receive from 76 MHz to 108 MHz (Japanese FM band). Some details concerning these "Narrowband area service" operations in Australia: http://www.acma.gov.au/theACMA/narrowband-area-service-licensing 73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, ibid.) Indeed, but what domestic radios can tune 77.40 MHz? To answer my own question, there are a few Chinese radios that cover 65 to 108 MHz but they are not readily available on the domestic market. Seems pretty pointless to broadcast on a frequency no one can receive (Gareth. Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, ibid.) They're probably easier to acquire than DRM receivers. My own Degen DE1103 portable covers 76-108 MHz on FM. Australia also licences narrowband stations in the American X-band at the HF end of MW (1611- 1701 kHz) but with 9 kHz channel spacing and 8 kHz overall audio bandwidth, so again non-standard receivers might be necessary. My Degen DE1103 also covers this band using the ferrite rod, before switching to the telescopic or external antennas from 1710 kHz upwards. I think several Tecsun/Eton/Grundig models would probably fill the bill. In sparsely-populated areas they probably make a lot of use of mail-order including Amazon and e-bay. About 6 months ago I acquired a book from a charity shop about Australian Radio history, and it appears that Australia has a history of permitting low-power stations outside the normal allocated frequencies, going back to the 1920s and 1930s. Regards, (Ian Brooks (BDXC2504), ibid.) My Eton E5 will cover 76-108 MHz; however, when I bought it, I found that out by reading the manual as it was set to 87-108 MHz. Resetting it was very easy. Would off the shelf domestic radios in Australia be set to the Japanese band? (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) I have the Tecsun PL-380 and PL-880 and the Sangean ATS-909X, all of which tune down to 76 MHz or below. I don't think there is any problem in obtaining a receiver to tune to these frequencies. 73's (John, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, ibid.) We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this is a hobby station (VL8FM) on 77.4 MHz so probably isn't anticipating a mass audience. It carries Western Australian Amateur Radio News (NewsWest www.VK6.net) twice daily, as well as IBC, so I think most of the audience they expect have equipment that covers 77.4 MHz. There is an item on the shortwave 5045 kHz parallel transmitter of this station on page 33 of the June edition of Communication. Anybody seen any reports of this being heard yet? 73's (Alan Pennington, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 7250, 13.05.17, *1558-1602, Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka, Arabic: IS, Pips, Signature Tune, 45333, TK, Holy Quran recitation. (Antonello Napolitano in Taranto (Italy). RX: ICOM IC R70, Sony ICF 2001. ANT: 20 metre outdoor wire, May DX Fanzine via DXLD) 7250, 27.05.17, 1620, Bangladesh Batar, Dhaka, Arabic: music. Fair (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, ibid.) Bangladesh Betar - 31 May and 1 June: Recorded the 13580 English transmission between 1745 and 1900 UT on Wednesday and Thursday using the U. Twente SDR receiver primarily to get a first-hand report on the impact of Cyclone Mora on Bangladesh. Reception wasn't great on Wednesday, at least initially, and the poor signal combined with the accented English made it difficult to understand the news. Much better on Thursday. However, during the Thursday broadcast there were brief (a few seconds but several times) of what I think was co-channel interference of Chinese music, possibly Firedrake. Could this have been testing of one of the CRI Urumqi transmitters, known to use this frequency? Also during these recent broadcasts, there is an announcement about the External Service of Bangladesh Betar now being on 90 MHz in Dhaka between 18:30 and 02:00 local time (1230 and 2000 UTC). Their website says the 90.0-MHz transmitter has a power of 5 kW. (-- Richard Langley, NB, June 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE. NBC Bougainville, 3325, 1050 UT, this has been a tough catch all year but I could actually hear some content 5/29 and again 6/1, Island music with a deep-voiced announcer, SINPO 13411 both days, barely visible on waterfall. 6/2 no copy (Chris, KC5IIE, Krug, Tulsa, OK, Anan10E, 40m loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1027, June 3. Mixing with Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, which had reciting from the Qur'an. 1046-1150*, OM DJ in Pidgin; playing pop songs; off in mid- song; occasional RRI QRM; poor to almost fair at times. June 2, at 1200, with PNG bird call and into the news in English; off the air at 1201*. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1117-1158*, June 6. In Pidgin; DJ with pop Pacific Islands songs and old hit song "Take Another Piece Of My Heart"; good number of "NBC Bougainville" IDs with frequencies; "3325 kilohertz, 90 meter band, shortwave one . . . FM 95.5"; suddenly off; almost no RRI QRM. June 5, at 1100, "Monday night broadcasting Bougainville"; as usual no news at this time period; in Pidgin, with pop Pacific Islands songs; 1111 promo for "National elections - Your choice"; suddenly off at 1201*. June 4, off at 1147* (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. RB2/Rádio Evangelizar - ondas curtas --- Em 6040 kHz da RB2, tenho sintonizado outra emissora católica, a Rádio Evangelizar, mas as outras ondas curtas da RB2 em 31m e 25m, não sei se é por falta de propagação neste período do ano ou se as silenciaram. Tentei contato com a RB2 e até o instante não recebi retorno. A QRG 6040 kHz é bem sintonizada por aqui, com boa qualidade de áudio. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira SP, 1-6-2017, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRAZIL: Here is an interesting report received on 3 May 2017 from the Brazilian DXer Daniel Wyllyans, about the current status of the few stations in Brazil still using the tropical bands of 120, 90 and 60 metres. The original report was written in Portuguese and has been translated into English (at the best of his possibilities with the aim of keeping at minimum errors) by your DX Editor. 2380 kHz Rádio Educadora de Limeira-Limeira | SP 0.250 Watts ZYG852 SP 2000-1030: Irregular. Better reception in Rio de Janeiro in 2017 was February. In other periods, always heard with strong carrier and poor audio. On 10 February 2017 the best SINPO was 24112. It's the last station from Brazil and probably around the world to use the 120 metre tropical band. Web: http://www.educadoraam.com.br/ 3365 kHz Rádio Cultura de Araraquara-Araraquara |SP 1.000 Watts ZYG855 SP 0700-0300: Irregular. This transmitter is used mainly when football matches are played in the city of Araraquara. Some of those matches are broadcast live in connection with Rádio Tras-America Hits FM. Web. http://www.radiocultura.net/ 3375 kHz Rádio Municipal-São Gabriel da Cachoeira | AM 1.000 Watts AM ZYF276 AM 0000-2400: Regular but audio is so distorted that, despite a good reception in my QTH, it's impossible to understand what the announcer says. The best SINPO was 34233. This station, which is officially mantained by the Prefecture of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, broadcasts in Portuguese and at least three indigenous languages of Amazonia. The following weblink takes you to the site of a Non Government Organization (NGO), which operates the station: http://www.criarbrasil.org.br/comunicacao/noticias-conteudo.asp?cod=3214 4765 kHz Rádio Integração FM-Cruzeiro do Sul | AC: Very irregular in 2017. In my opinion their audio is the lowest around the world in the tropical bands. Web: http://radioetvintegracao.com.br/ 4775 kHz Rádio Congonhas-Congonhas | MG 1.000 Watts ZYG207 MG 0900- 2400: Web: http://www.radiocongonhas.com.br/ 4785 kHz Rádio Caiari-Porto Velho | RO 10.000 Watts ZYG790 RO 0900- 0300: Very irregular in 2017. Web: http://www.radiocaiari.com/ 4805 kHz Rádio Difusora do Amazonas-Manaus | AM 10.000 Watts ZYF273 AM 0930-0100. Web: http://www.difusora24h.com/ 4815 kHz Rádio Difusora de Londrina-Londrina |PR 10.000 Watts ZYG640 PR 0755-0355. Very irregular in 2017. Web: http://www.radioalvoradalondrina.com.br/ 4845 kHz Rádio Cultura de Manaus-Manaus | AM 5.000 Watts ZYF278 AM 0800-0200. Web: http://www.tvcultura.am.gov.br/site/pagina/radio-cultura/ 4865 kHz Rádio Verdes Florestas-Cruzeiro do Sul | AC 5.000 Watts ZYF203 AC 1000-0300. Web: http://www.verdesflorestas.com.br/quem-somos/ 4862 kHz (Frequency variable) Rádio Alvorada de Londrina-Londrina | PR 5.000 Watts ZYG641 PR 0000-2400. Web: http://www.radioalvoradalondrina.com.br/ 4875 kHz Rádio Roraima-Boa Vista | RR 10.000 Watts ZYG810 RR 0800- 0405. Web: http://www.radiororaima.com.br/ 4885 kHz Rádio Difusora Acreana, Rio Branco | AC: Very irregular in 2017. 4885 kHz Rádio Clube do Pará-Anannideua-Belém | PA 5.000 Watts ZYG362 PA 0000-2400. Web: http://www.radioclubedopara.com.br/ 4895 kHz Rádio Novo Tempo-Campo Grande | MS 5.000 Watts ZYR200 MS 0000-0000: Irregular in 2017. Web: http://novotempo.com/campogrande/ 4905 kHz Rádio Relógio-Rio de Janeiro | RJ 5.000 Watts ZYG683 RJ 0730- 0300. Web: http://www.radiorelogioam.com.br/ 4915 kHz Rádio Daqui-Goiânia | GO 25.000 Watts ZYF691 GO 0800-0500: Currently off-air. Web: https://www.facebook.com/daquigoiania 4925 kHz Rádio Educação Rural de Tefé-Tefé | AM 5.000 Watts ZYF271 AM 1030-0300. Web: http://www.radioruraltefe.com.br/ 4965 kHz Rádio Alvorada De Parintins-Parintins | AM 5.000 Watts ZYF275 AM 2200-0200: Regular and on the air 24 hours a day. Web: http://www.alvoradaparintins.com.br/ 4985 kHz Rádio Brasil Central-Goiânia | GO 10.000 Watts ZYF690 GO 0000-2400: Web: http://www.radiobrasilcentral.com.br/ 5015 kHz Rádio Cultura De Cuiabá-Cuiabá | MT 1.000 Watts ZYF903 MT 0000-2400: Very very irregular in 2017. Most of programmes are relayed from Super Rádio Deus é Amor. Web: http://www.radioculturadecuiaba.com.br/ 5035 kHz Rádio Educação Rural de Coari or Rádio Coari-Coari | AM 5.000 Watts ZYF272 AM: Very irregular in 2017. Web: http://radiocoariamot.blogspot.com.br/ 5035 kHz Rádio Aparecida-Aparecida | SP 10.000 Watts ZYG853 SP 0830- 0400. Very irregular in 2017. Web: http://www.a12.com/radio-aparecida (Daniel Wyllyans in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso-BRAZIL, May DX Fanzine via DXLD) So that`s what has become of Daniel. He stopped posting to HCDX last October, complaining about quarrels, and referred us to his own blog https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/ which I see has occasional entries, including June 4. Most of his recent DX in DX Fanzine is on MW from Brasil and vicinity. Also he said, Sobre a lista ondas curtas do brasil vai continuar sendo atualizada basta ascessar: https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/lista-completa-de-frequencias-de.html Wait a minute, is that three years old as the url implies? No, updated in 2016 and 2017 and also goes above the tropical bands (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Central do Ouvinte Date: 2017-06-05 10:45 GMT-05:00 Subject: Re: Radio Nacional da Amazonia -- Onda Curta To: Kevin and Jodi De Reus Olá, Kevin. A Rádio Nacional da Amazônia está fora do ar porque a subestação de energia de Brasília, que alimenta as transmissões em ondas curtas, foi severamente atingida por uma sequência de raios. Houve prejuízos nas duas antenas. Estamos buscando solucionar o quanto antes a questão. A Rádio Nacional da Amazônia ainda pode ser sintonizada pela internet http://radios.ebc.com.br/aovivo?emissora=radio-nacional-da-amazonia ou localizando nossa emissora no aplicativo TuneIn. Att, Bruna Alves, Central do Ouvinte Hello Glen[n], I learned that Rádio Nacional da Amazônia got hit by lightning. It took out their power sub-station and some antennas. That's why no signal on 11780 or 6180 kHz at night. Can't remember if I heard you mention this or not (Kevin DeReus, Otley, Iowa June 6 WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180.01, 0115-0120 26.5, R Nacional da Amazônia, Brasilia, DF. Portuguese conversation, 25232. It was Off 1.6 at 0150! (Anker Petersen, my recent loggings on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, wbradio yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) !! Only report of RNA we have seen since both 6180 and 11780 disappeared months ago. The only signal on 6180 listed by Aoki on 6180 at this hour is CRI in English southwards from Kashgar at 23-02, which we often hear, barely --- but Anker had I=5, no QRM at all in Denmark (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BOA NOITE, ESTAMOS TESTANDO DRM EM ONDA CURTA DIRETO DA EBC, SEGUNDA FEIRA TEM TRANSMISSÃO EM 25 E 31 MTS. QUEM TER RECEPTOR DRM E QUERER CONTRIBUIR, FICAREMOS AGRADECIDOS. http://WWW.ABRADIG.ORG.BR (source? via Ariovaldo Lobrito, Brasil, June 1, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) How vague, and I don`t see this until the following day, so test only on Monday? 25 and 31 m EBC implies 11780 and what? The two high-power AM transmitters on 11780 and 6180 have been silent for months. Previous DRM tests have been very low-power, somewhere in the 9.7s, I think? Website has nothing about this, only basic generic info (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9750 with 150 watts DRM (WRTH 2017 frequency table via DXLD) Infelismente o governo e os cabeças de bagre da ABERT e suas irmãs, juntamente com os donos de radios que preferiram migrar para o FM, deixando de lado a modernidade da tecnologia digital DRM e vão para FM analógico, no momento que todos migrarem para FM ai vão sentir o peso da interferência na banda de FM, no entanto estamos trabalhando sózinhos sem apoio de ninguém somente com nossos recursos, estamos fazendo testes direto de Brasília no site do Rodeador, onde a energia esta cortada kkkkk [sic] esse é o Brasil .. usamos uma energia do gerador e só colocamos 200w em DRM. Digital Radio Mondiale - Brasil | ... ABRADIG - Associação Brasileira do Rádio Digital .. divulguem e contamos com vcs. websdr.org ([sic] Ariovaldo Lobrito, June 5, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) Is Ariovaldo involved in this himself? (gh) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4775, R .Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2115-2127, 03/6, missa; 35231. 4875.2, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2209-2220, 01/6, canções; 45433. 4894.9, R. Novo Tempo, Cp.º Grande MS, 2220-2232, 02/6, canções no decorrer de programa de propaganda religiosa; 25331. 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2207-2218, 01/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 45333. 4965, R. Alvorada, Parintins AM, 2203-2214, 01/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 35332. 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2216-2229, 02/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 34342, QRM de teletipo. 5035, R. Educação Rural (presumed), Coari AM, 2148-2220, 04/6, texto, aparentemente, programa de propaganda religiosa, música a condizer; 25231. Não se tratou da R.Aparecida, activa noutras fqs. com programa bem diferente. 5939.9, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2223-2235, 02/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 35343. 6010, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2231-..., 02/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 14341. 6040.7, R. B2, Curitiba PR, 2233-2244, 02/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 35343. 6080, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2112-2121, 03/6, texto; 23341, QRM da CHINA // 9515 com SINPO 35443. 6135.2, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2210-2223, 05/6, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 34443, QRM adjacente. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2016-2026, 01/6, propag. relig., indicação das freqs.; 35343. 9630, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2140-2155, 05/6, canções, anúncios de programação; 35443. Sinal inaudível, entre 1 e 4 de Junho, pelo menos, no período compreendido entre a hora vespertina em que o sinal já se capta por cá e as 2300. Dias houve em que talvez tenha havido sinal, mas desprovido de modulação, enquanto noutros não houve mesmo sinal. Quando os 9630 voltaram ao ar, parece que o tx sofreu algum melhoramento. 9630 idem, 0930-desvan. total 1030, 07/6, canções, conversa, informações horárias, tudo no programa O Canto da Terra; 15431. 9665.8, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1905-1919, 01/6, prgr. de propag. relig. Missionários da Última Hora; 35343. 9665.8, idem, 1016-desvan. total 1130, 02/6, propag. relig., notícias, às 1030, ..., mais propag. relig.; 25342. 9819, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2014-2028, 01/6, missa; 35343. 9819, idem, 1001-desvan. total 1055, 03/6, texto; 15341. 11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1411-1446, 02/6, propag. relig.; 35433. 11764.2, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 1408-1427, 03/6, anúncios de programação, canções, tudo no prgr. de propag. relig. O Poder da Fé; 34443. 11764.6, idem, 1815-1827, 04/6, testemunhos de curas (...); 35443. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 1409-1429, 02/6, prgr. Parada dos Desportos, anúncios comerciais; 35443. 11856, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1412-1438, 02/6, texto, música; 24341, QRM adjacente. 11856, idem, 2141-2158, 05/6, canções, anúncios de programação; 35443. 11935, R. B2, Curitiba PR, 1414-1439, 02/6, anúncios comerc., ref. ao prgr. social Rede Vida, propag. relig.; 24442, QRM adjacente. 15190.1, R.Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 1205-1416, 02/6, conversa, canções, informações várias, ..., comentários de futebol; 25332. 15190.1, idem, 2102-2129, 04/6, prgr. de futebol; 35343, em perda. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6040, two stations bad mixture signals, 700 Hertz whistle interference tone. 6040.005, TURKEY, TRT Emirler heard daytime program opening with National Anthem at 0356 UT, scheduled 0355-0555 UT, S=8-9 strength noted in southern Germany. - and 6040.703, rather weaker S=6 signal of - probably - newly reported Rádio Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, male BrasPortug voice heard at 0410 UT on June 3. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9819.037, ZYR96 R. Nove de Julho, São Paulo SP, poor and tiny S=4 signal in central Florida remote SDR unit, at 0444 UT on June 3. http://www.radio9dejulho.com.br [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11734.98, R. Transmundial, 1733 end of song, then M announcer in Portuguese. Got ID and e-mail announcement later. Getting a low level het with slightly weaker Zanzibar above on 11735. Surprised to hear Transmundial here as it’s not very common at this time. 26 May. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Cierre definitivo de la sección español de Radio Bulgaria. vía Marta Ros (Mamá española en Bulgaria) "Hoy os voy a dar una noticia en EXCLUSIVA, y lamentablemente no es una buena noticia: Durante los últimos dos años he estado trabajando como colaboradora en RADIO BULGARIA, que tiene varias redacciones de idiomas. En cada una de ellas se traducen las noticias y los reportajes a varios idiomas: español, inglés, francés, alemán, ruso, turco, griego... PERO el nuevo director general de Radio Nacional de Bulgaria ha decidido, en un alarde de "ingenio", cerrarlas casi todas. Deja solamente la inglesa, la rusa y la turca. Estas dos últimas, porque conviene tener contenta a la gran madre Rusia y a Turquía, el vecino inestable. En mi opinión, un país tan pequeño y "desconocido" como Bulgaria necesita DARSE A CONOCER, no cerrarse al resto de Europa. Que la Radio Nacional deje de publicar y emitir en los idiomas de la UE es una mala decisión, me atrevería a decir que potencialmente catastrófica. Dudo que se pueda hacer nada ya, ni siquiera la Embajada española consiguió evitarlo, pero si por casualidad alguien conoce al Presidente, al Primer Ministro, a la ministra de Turismo o al ministro de Exteriores, por favor, informadles. Que lo sepa todo el mundo. Que los sepan los 300.000 búlgaros en España. Que sepan todos cómo la mismísima radio nacional, por "ahorrar" unas levas en salarios (bajísimos, inferiores a la media nacional) SE CIERRA A EUROPA. Termino añadiendo que han sido unos años fantásticos; con un trabajo así he aprendido muchísimo búlgaro, he conocido gente maravillosa y ha sido un honor y una gran satisfacción trabajar con ellos. ¡Ah! Y si os interesa algún artículo de la web de Radio Bulgaria, descargaoslo en pdf, porque probablemente en breve los van a borrar. Tantos años de trabajo de tanta gente... -> http://bnr.bg/es https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbnr.bg%2Fes&h=ATPCU88BLgJC0aTlMIcEoqReCv7-JRTPsjAcNN6ACPqirzyNiFZd9k25qoDlVAuIyXlZ5jqGycHnvOBmcYQh5XadKJSMrDyU-rFQqS19ttpyZ8fQUvY7SpYY9zcy5pA5qHlH5oOfZzNhr3iCoLBdsg&enc=AZMPIURsBJLe2fXrZjrA7ytKA1BSnFabp8t7ZaTU40Mbf4ZjXXhkMZw09MoSIqqbYsFb0YdICDKaVBf6mkegV-UfsguZc_Fd1rorO3jzAAUrzvKM9qKtek7lRGyVaeUuPmlk9EuVeDUDgkN4iVDyi0MRA3zUkI6IaV57NPC3CTjkpAHU9CvtpJ9Z_00PQHOoe4iR2aaawjauxojYcdC5pU9q&s=1 " Una pena, pero sigue la línea que han tomado los gobiernos con casi todas las emisoras internacionales europeas en los últimos años; quitarles las ondas cortas primero, cancelar redacciones de idiomas después y terminarlas finalmente, con el supuesto "ya está la red para eso, reforcemos la presencia digital y ya." Primero cayeron las que de algún modo desaparecieron con los cambios políticos de sus respectivas regiones, los servicios internacionales de la DW de Alemania, de Yugoslavia basados en Radio Belgrado, de Checoslovaquia basados en Radio Praga https://www.facebook.com/radiopraga.es/?hc_location=ufi y el cambio radical en Radio Moscú que devino en el actual servicio RT de RIA Novosti; después seguirían el cierre de la redacción española de la BBC y el final de RNW en Holanda. Ahora con esto, solo quedan los "vecinos" rumanos y poco más (via Sandro Lenart, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Re: Bulgarian Radio re-broadcast in foreign langs via SW Germany 6005 kHz end on May 30, 25 years after communist eastern block collapse. On 31 May 2017 at 14:58 Wolfgang Bueschel wrote: Hello Glenn and Noel, hot news from German A-DX newsgroup. Only Radio Bulgaria English, Russian and Turkish remain on website from June 1st Hi Wolfie, and Glenn, I don't normally listen to external broadcasters via the internet, so I wasn't aware that Bulgaria still had them. But it looks like they are cutting back, and perhaps because people don't use them. It was so easy to tune in a radio signal but not always so easy via a computer. Nearly all of the German low power signals are hard to copy up here in the north of England. They simply are not strong enough to overcome the local noise levels. The best one used to be on 7310, but even that is now at poor strength. All of this in daytime, and I wouldn't expect much difference at 'night' when bigger signals could cause problems (Noel Green, England, June 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re 17-22:] >> BULGARIA --- In case it has not been reported in detail otherwise (in English language): The production of Radio Bulgaria broadcasts ceased on May 31. The general director of BNR gave low listener numbers as reason. The foreign language webpages are still being updated at present, but this is supposed to mostly stop within the next few weeks as well, only text services in English and Russian will be kept. Radio Bulgaria hopes that external institutions can save it from being wound up completely. http://bnr.bg/de/post/100837060/radio-bulgarien-stellt-seine-audio-programme-ein http://bnr.bg/de/post/100837523/schliessung-von-radio-bulgarien-bleibt-eine-offene-frage (Presumably similar articles could be found in the English section as well.) Remember how Ivo said "it's the beginning of the end" when they stopped the shortwave (and a little bit later mediumwave, too) transmissions five years ago? The last gasp of the Padarsko transmitters is still online: http://www.box.com/shared/bq9ye4t5jgkxu05lgffx (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. 9620, AUSTRIA, Requiem for Radio (program relay via Moosbrunn). Didn’t know it at the time but found the very strong signal at 2352 with program of droning organ music and other sounds, and gone at 0000 without announcements. Also heard on 9690 (Nauen Germany) equally as strong. Youtube video of reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/xByytGjxAXs 26 May. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. 6850.5, PIRATE (NA), Requiem for Radio (program relay via Pirate Radio Boston). Should have started at 2300 but didn’t hear anything until 2303, then got noticeably stronger a minute later. Program of same droning organ music and other sounds such as Gregorian chant-like vocals at 2305, and utes and number stations, etc. Heard the other “tracks” of the program broadcast on 5129.8 (WBCQ), 9620 (Austria), 9690 (Germany), and 11580 (WRMI). WRMI was the best. There were never any announcements and all went off around 0000. Pulled out the R-388, NRD-535D, and E1 receivers to tune in and record each frequency. Strung up a temporary 40 foot +/- random wire for 11580 on the E1. Had the Perseus recording 9620 and 9690 using the Delta loop antenna, the R-388 tuned to 5129.8 with the Wellbrook ALA1530S, and this frequency on the NRD-535D also using the Wellbrook. Combined pieces of all frequencies/tracks at 2 different times to create the complete program in mono. Here is the link to the combined recording (2313, 2347 UT https://app.box.com/s/joq1bs8ndct4168ln6owvioll8dzblxl Despite the lower 2 frequencies being a bit noisy, the final recording came out pretty well. Here's a link to a recording of all 5 frequencies separately in order https://app.box.com/s/6av2x72fjmco6juc9n21xrsk9s5o4ona 27 May. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. CHU, 3330 was not propagating today at 0630 UT check - probably too low in frequency at this time of the year, although a loud Stanag on about 3327 might have been covering it. 7850 was also unheard at this time (Noel R. Green (NW England), June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3330, CHU (Utility), 0630. Since hearing of their return, have noted the station in passing, but not logged it into my books officially until now. After going off for maintenance, they return with excellent quality signals here in Arizona. VG signal tonight on little Longine's Symphonette World Traveler portable, time tones and announcements in English and French. Only using the built-in whip. VG, June 3. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3330-CUSB, June 4 at 0018, CHU timesignals are JBA, so at first I fear they are gone again. Just too early before sunset now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6069.986, CFRX Toronto, S=8 here in Germany, 0351 UT on June 3, phone-in talk by male/female voices. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6754-USB, June 2 at 0615 check, CHR, Trenton Military is gone again, must be sporadic. 15034-USB, June 2 at 1342, day frequency is also AWOL; not due to propagation as 14670-CUSB CHU is S9. 15034-USB, June 2 at 2012, CHR is back but very poor at S2-S3, mixture of no-report-received aviation weather from Shearwater, but with reports from Greenwood, Gander, Halifax with timestamps of 2000Z! But terminal forecasts which follow for same aerodromes, are all NRR. Then ID at 2015 and correct!!!! time as 2015 zulu. Progress (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was no trace of Trenton today (June 3) on 6754 at 0645 UT check, but Gander Volmet was audible on 6604 at weak to fair strength. At 1535 UT Trenton is audible - just - on 15034, but too weak to copy what is being said (Noel R. Green, (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. ANALOG TV USERS WILL SOON SEE FEWER STATIONS http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2017/06/04/analog-tv-users-will-see-fewer-stations-starting-in-2019.html The government has decided to clear much of the ultra high frequency band for wireless users, which will force some stations to switch spots on the dial, or shut off their analog signal completely. Users who rely on analog signals to pick up stations from their old TV sets will have fewer options starting in 2019. (Tim Boyle / GETTY IMAGES) [caption] By Rob Drinkwater, The Canadian Press Sun., June 4, 2017, Toronto Star Years after TV stations in Canada’s larger cities were required to switch from analog to digital transmission, many broadcast towers that serve smaller areas continue to pump out signals that black-and-white sets made in the 1950s can still pick up. But the number of those stations appears set to shrink following a federal government decision to clear a large portion of the ultra high frequency (UHF) band for wireless users, and, because of cost, some of those towers will be going dark. That means viewers without cable TV or Internet won’t get those stations anymore. “We had to make the hard decision to shut it down,” said Tom Lister, operations manager for Miracle Channel, about the station’s analog transmitter that serves portions of southeastern Alberta, including Medicine Hat. Miracle Channel, a Christian broadcaster based in Lethbridge, Alta., will still broadcast a digital over-the-air signal from its main transmitter. But the analog transmitter based in Bow Island, Alta., sends its signal on Channel 39 which is in the bandwidth that needs to be cleared. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has said Miracle can move lower on the dial to Channel 20. Lister said the conversion would cost roughly $100,000 and with additional maintenance that would be required, the expense is too much to bear. The power will be switched off sometime this summer, Lister said. There are no plans to replace it with a digital signal. Analog signals in North America use a standard that was developed in the mid-20th century. It’s the same standard that beamed programs such as The Friendly Giant to Canadians as well as the 1972 Canada-USSR hockey series. Provincial capitals and broadcasters in cities with populations over 300,000 were required to convert their analog over-the-air signals to new, higher-quality digital signals in 2011, but analog transmitters serving many smaller places were allowed to keep running. Most are repeater transmitters which carry signals from big-city stations. Some of those broadcasters have already stopped providing over-the-air signals due to cost of operations and limited over-the-air viewership. Repurposing the 600 megahertz (MHz) bandwidth [sic] is being done in conjunction with the United States, a spokesperson for Innovation, Science and Economic Development said in an email. Hans Parmar said more than 70 per cent of broadcasters will not be affected. And stations in the repurposed 600 MHz band that are not interfering with mobile services or other broadcast stations will only be required to move on an as-needed basis. “These measures will not only enable the delivery of better and faster wireless services to Canadian consumers and businesses, it will also drive down prices,” Parmar said. The affected broadcasters will have a minimum of two years and up to five years to implement the changes, Parmar said. The first changes will not begin until June 2019. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has called for financial assistance to help with the costs associated with the change. Wayne Rabishaw, director of operations for CHCH-TV based in Hamilton, Ont., said the station is still evaluating the cost for converting some of its analog transmitters that serve places such as Sault St. [sic] Marie and Sudbury. He said their London, Ont., transmitter was converted to digital in 2011, but will have to move again because it’s in the frequency the government wants for wireless. “The last thing we want is for people who are counting on us to lose the signal, but it’s not a cash-rich environment right now for Canadian broadcasters,” said Rabishaw. CTV Calgary also has to move two of its repeater stations in southern Alberta further down the dial. “Our intent is to keep them going,” said Dale Coutts, the station’s operations manager (via Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, 5 Jun, AMFMTVDX mailing list via DXLD) DTV ** CHINA. 9745, June 2 at 2007, poor S7 signal vs high noise level of Firedragon music jamming, per Aoki vs RFA in Chinese via Kuwait at 19- 21. Seems the only signal from east Asia making it here at this hour, and for sure no Bahrain, which in its area may be getting a bit of bother from Kuwait if not FD! I thought the USG was on good terms with Bahrain too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15775even, CNR word program jamming, meant against SOH Sound of Hope clandestine Taiwan channel usually on 15775.093 kHz, at 0446 UT on June 3, S=8 signal noted in remote Delhi SDR unit. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. I've been following the recent China alterations and additions, but haven't knowingly heard anything of them as yet. CNR seems to have more or less "disappeared" from 17, 15 and 11 MHz here in daytime. Even what was a very big signal from Kashi on 17490 is struggling some days, and today as I type at 1025 UT, it`s peaking to only S-9 with quite a bit of fading. Normally it was 9+++. I assume this is due to me being in the northern hemisphere of the northern hemisphere !!! It's interesting to read that Dongfang is being used to replace some of the transmitters that are 'under maintenance'. I wonder what the power of these transmitters is. The one registered on 17800 for DRM is shown as 30 kW, but if in AM perhaps would operate at a higher power? Maybe it's a coincidence that so many transmitters are undergoing 'maintenance' at the same time. It would nice to think they are off air altogether. Thanks for the infor and best 73 from (Noel Green, England, June 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 17875even, CNR 10 program, substitute now via DongFang Hainan Islands installation substitute outlet, S=8 til 9+5dB, at 1243 UT on June 2. DongFang is a secret serevice Jamming facility, which use 100 kW on AM mode, 30 kW DRM digital white noise broadcasts. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17875, June 5 at 2347, song at S1 --- so my local noise problem must have abated. Nothing anywhen on 17875 per HFCC, but Aoki reminds us this is the temporary May 17-June 30 frequency for the CNR10 program, at 2300-1300 UT (except 06-09 Tuesday siesta), 100 kW, 15 degrees from Dongfang, Hainan site, so a good azimuth onward for us, and a well- chosen opening. WRTH shows CNR10 is ``Voice of Old Age`` or ``Senior Citizen Radio`` originally on MW 1053 in Beijing, but on SW backup while that is off for maintenance. Glad to know millions of Chineniors must have SW radios! Weak as it is, 17875 is the SSOB, with nothing but weaker JBA carriers on 17780 (also a temp Dongfang sub, for CNR16) and 17560 (VOA Chinese via Tinang, so likely a CNR1 jammer). 15570, June 5 at 2350, Chinese at S3, i.e. RFA via TINIAN, and I think there were some English inserts, so maybe really this instead of CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Additional unregistered frequencies of PBS Xizang & CNR-8: 0000-1230 NF 13870*LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang 0000-1400 NF 15680#LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang 0900-1500 NF 9695 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Korean CNR-8 2100-0300 NF 12070 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Mongolian CNR-8 *2050-2400 on 7385 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang *1230-1805 on 7385 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Tib/Eng PBS Xizang #2000-2400 on 7240 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang #1400-1800 on 7240 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xizang CNR-10, CNR-16 and CNR-17 are also on unregistered frequencies 2025-2300 on 9620 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-10 2300-1300 on 17875 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-10 1300-1805 on 9620 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-10 2055-2230 on 9700 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-16 2230-1100 on 17780 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-16 1100-1605 on 9700 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-16 0300-0900 on 15190 DOF 100 kW / 015 deg to EaAs Kazakh CNR-17 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/additional-unregistered-frequencies-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) China National Radio-1 on unscheduled frequency on June 5: 1600-1700 on 15505 unknown tx / unknown to UNID Chinese, fair/good // frequency 11925 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg to EaAs Chinese, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/china-national-radio-1-on-unscheduled.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. Videos about historic TI4NRH Just found this Spanish video from around 2007 about Amando Céspedes Marín (TI4NRH founder). At the beginning it shows the house with the antenna and then the business that replaced the antenna. Most of the first half of the video is about his photo/video business. The last half concentrates on radio. At one point they talk with his 80 year old son who shows an original handmade coil from the station. Amando Céspedes Marín - Benemérito de Costa Rica Reportaje del programa 7 Días del canal 7 sobre la vida del Benemérito Amando Céspedes Marín, pionero en activid... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T0z1qQqI6Q This second video has a few pictures of him and his house at the beginning. The rest of it is photos and video that he took in the 1920s and 1930s. Don Amando el Fotografo y su legado para Heredia 1921 Heredia de 1921, visto a travez del lente del Fotógrafo Amando Céspedes Marín, el video corresponde a finales de... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXu-7k9Lql0 Life is just a leap of faith. Spread your arms and hold your breath Always trust your cape. - Guy Clark [tagline] (Don Moore --- donmooredxer@yahoo.com http://www.donmooredxer.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. And here is another Costa Rican radio story: In 1978, I had recorded a weak station giving a sign-off announcement and playing the Costa Rican anthem on 1546 kHz. No listed station matched the garbled slogan and frequency, so my recording went to the pile of unresolved recordings. Many years passed, and I forgot about this mystery, Around 8 years ago, Henrik Klemetz visited me in Seattle and I thought it might be fun to try again on some of my old mysteries. He listened, believed the slogan to be Radio Gama, but what next? The was never a Costa Rican station with that slogan. Henrik sent my recording to a Berny Solano in Costa Rica. Bernie does a radio based podcast named "Mundo Sorprendente". Bernie gave the recording to some Costa Rican radio aficionados, and one of them immediately recognized the voice. Wow! It belonged to a self taught radio genius named Edgar Jara. The story is that Edgar had constructed - in his house - a complete radio station by hand. Apparently the transmitter and all other equipment were lovingly built by Edgar. Shortly thereafter, relatives of the now deceased Edgar gathered at the Mundo Sorprendente studio to talk about the special Edgar Jara and receive the news that his home brew transmitter for the AM band had been received in the United States! All were proud of the rather unique accomplishment of Edgar. I continue to be amazed that the mystery was resolved some 35 years later; El espíritu de radio vive siempre! (Chuck Hutton, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CRIMEA [non?]. UKRAINE == On Monday, May 29, "Radio Krim Reality" changes the format of broadcasting to the peninsula. Now radio programs in Russian and Ukrainian languages will appear on the website of "Krim.Realii" from 7:00 to 10:00 on weekdays. This was reported by the journalist of "Radio Krim. Reality" Ekaterina Nekrecha during the Lviv Media Forum. At the same time, at 8:35 and 18:30 the esters [sic; ethers?] can be heard on the average AM waves - the frequency is 549 kHz, in the FM band - at the frequency of 100.7 MHz. ""Radio Krim Reality. "From May 29 we will be on air with our listeners already at 3:00 a day, from 7 to 10 am From 7:00 to 8:30 it will be programs in Ukrainian, with 8:30 am - 10:00 am - programs in Russian every half hour is news, this is the next stage of preparation for round-the-clock broadcasting in the FM band. This summer, Radio Krim.Realii can be heard on the territory of the peninsula at a frequency of 105.9 MHz. Already now all our programs are available 24 hours a day on the channel "Reality Reality" on YouTube, "the press service of Radio Krim Reality quotes the words of the head Joint project "Radio Krim.Realii" and "Radio Crimean communities" by Alexander Yankovsky. The license for broadcasting "Radio Krim.Realii" in the FM-band at a frequency of 105.9 on the territory of Crimea was received by the public organization "Radio of the Crimean communities". Recall, since May 29, the format of cooperation between Radio Liberty and Radio Era will also be changed: only the evening program block will remain on air every weekday and the Radivo project every Saturday (Source: Media Detector Portal). (from http://proradio.org.ua/news/2017may.php via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** CUBA. 13740, CRI (via Quivicán relay) 1500. News, current events, M and W in discussion, China & USA. Armchair level signal, but with almost no modulation at all. June 1. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11635-AM, June 2 at 1830, BST-1 caradio memory stops here, for 5-digit YL Spanish spy numbers --- and NO interruptions by digital blaaps, just voice numbers, and very little pauses between groups (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 14680 harmonic, RHC. While checking for 14670 CHU, found this 2 X 7340 harmonic of R. Havana Cuba. Poor to fair and fady. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, 3-4 June 2017 [sometime during] 2245-0010 UT Micro-DXpedition, Perseus SDR, 313 foot BOG at 185 , near Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** CUBA. 15230. RHC. Junio 4. 1407-1423 UT. Servicio en esperanto. Informaciones sobre la revista Le Monde Diplo y su reciente edición en esperanto, a las 1410 noticias de la Asociación Cubana de Esperanto y sobre el servicio de CRI en el mismo idioma. A las 1420 música hasta las 1425, salida abrupta del aire. SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Philco IC- 18R, ANT: Telescópica; QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) New/unknown for Esperanto, Sundays 1400 on 15230 --- for real or a mistake? (gh, ibid.) ** EAST TURKISTAN. [Re 17-22:] "EAST TURKISTAN, for which Dongfang subs": I fear here are two different stories messed together. One are the temporary shortwave transmissions of two CNR programs due to extensive repairs on a transmission facility in Beijing, affecting their mediumwave frequencies as well as various other CNR shortwave outlets. It turned out, as reproduced in DXLD 17-20, that the Dongfang facility is being used for these shortwave substitutes (I think Ivo had in the meantime a slightly different version, quoting them all as being 100 kW). The other story is that CRI German service advised that some of its shortwave frequencies, all from Hutubi (Urumqi), would be off for a few days and had indeed been off. Thus all the HFCC excerpts and random mentions of other outlets being on or off or probably coming from elsewhere. I don't think that Dongfang was involved in substituting for Hutubi, if any took place at all (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 5, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CHINA, Reception of China Domestic Service PBS Xinjiang on June 6 1030-1230 9705 URU 100 kW / 247 deg EaAs Kyrgyz, as scheduled in A-17 1030-1230 11975 URU 100 kW / 247 deg EaAs Kyrgyz, not registered 7295! But 7295 kHz used for winter B-seasons and 11975 for summer A-seasons http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-china-domestic-service-pbs.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, June 7 at 1419, CRI English fading S8-S5, no doubt Urumqi site aimed toward Europe and US, but seldom very audible any more. Simultaneous CRI English scheduled via Bamako, Mali site also on 17630, but aimed east with one fifth the power seldom audible here even as echo; and Ivo Ivanov says as of June 6, Bamako languages had been replaced by CRI in Chinese and music during this and other scheduled hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. EGYPT Reception of Radio Cairo on various frequencies in 31mb June 4: 1800-2100, 9325.0 ABS 250 kW 241 deg to WeAF Hausa, S=9+20dB, even Frequency at 1945 UT, but close-down at 20 UT. 1900-2000, 9570.0 ABS 200 kW 325 deg to WeEUR German, as scheduled A17 9569.998, empty carrier at 1954 UT, and 3 spurs, buzz at 50 / 100 / and 300 Hertz spike peaks. 1900-2000, 9684.7 ABS 250 kW 005 deg to EaEUR Russian, instead of 9685 rather 10 kHz up, measured 9694.618 odd fq, probably of 9685 kHz R Cairo RUSSIAN service ! S=9+20dB, but distorted audio, Russian lang could be recognized. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. ERITREAN RADIO STATION RADIO ERENA PROVIDES A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS --- Sophie Baggott 7 June 2017 https://www.opendemocracy.net/sophie-baggott/radio-erena-wins-one-world-media-award-delivering-independent-news-to-eritreans-wor-0 About the author --- Sophie Baggott is the UK Bureau Intern for Reporters Without Borders (RSF). She is also currently researching press freedom for a MA dissertation at Cardiff Journalism School. Broadcasting from Paris, Fathi Osman's Radio Erena challenges the government's monopoly on truth and champions those who gave their lives for freedom of expression. Fathi Osman receives his award. Photo credit: Rebecca Vincent. Last night turned out to mark a double-celebration for Eritrean journalist Fathi Osman. While the father-of-four nearly let his 51st birthday slip by unnoticed, he certainly couldn’t play down his radio station’s spectacular win at One World Media Awards in London’s BAFTA building. Radio Erena (‘Our Eritrea’) broadcasts from Paris, where Fathi now lives with his wife and children, having fled the dictatorship five years ago. The station was founded in 2009 by the well-known exiled Eritrean journalist Biniam Simon, with support from Reporters Without Borders. The goal? To offer a lifeline of independent news, information and entertainment for Eritreans both in their homeland and worldwide. As Fathi held out his hand to shake mine, he noticed his fingers were stained inky blue. “Ah, you can tell I’m a writer,” he observed with a smile. Currently Radio Erena’s Assistant Project Manager, in the past Fathi worked variously as a journalist and diplomat before he left the Eritrean embassy in Riyadh to seek safety in France. “I had developed ideas that the government did not accept,” he explained, “and you know, with these kinds of conflicts, in the end you will meet trouble.” Fathi’s family was among more than 4,000 Eritreans who flee each month. And is it any wonder, given the UN June 2016 report that the regime has been responsible for crimes against humanity since 1991? Known globally as a predator of press freedom, President Isaias Afewerki has led Eritrea to be ranked consistently as the very lowest of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index, though in 2017 the regime came second-last as North Korea deteriorated even further. Afewerki’s purges in September 2001 ended Eritrea’s free press – by now, seven of the 11 journalists arrested at that point have died in detention. This year at least 15 journalists are believed to be detained without charge or trial. Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean citizen who had returned to Eritrea to open Setit – the first independent newspaper there, has not once talked to a lawyer in 16 years of imprisonment. His fate is unclear. Far from having deterred the four journalists based in Radio Erena’s newsroom (as well as their 25 or so correspondents worldwide), these appalling abuses have driven them to pour every effort into remedying the crackdown. The station broadcasts in Tigrinya and Arabic by satellite and short wave – and is available online or via a mobile phone app. Radio Erena at work. Credit: Isabel/RSF Africa. “Within the whole of Eritrea there’s only one radio station, one newspaper,” Fathi explained. “That means the ‘truth’ is dominated by the government. Radio Erena is working to counter that. We do everything, from exposing news that the government doesn’t want people to know, to hosting shows for singers and writers – and raising awareness of human rights is very important to us.” Fathi was overjoyed to discover the extent of their programmes’ impact while he was in Geneva to hear the UN report of the Eritrean regime’s crimes against humanity. He described how “many from the Eritrean community showed up and I found out that many listeners had learned about their rights from Radio Erena. We felt then that there was something tangible in our work.” One World Media Awards celebrate the most outstanding press coverage of the developing world, recognising journalists whose work boosts cultural understanding while promoting global equality and justice. “I think the Special Award is going to boost our station,” Fathi said, “as it’s an acknowledgement of the credibility and professionalism of Radio Erena.” At the One World Media Awards. Photo: Rebecca Vincent. The journalist added: “We’ve been planning to expand but are having problems with funding – it runs out this summer. Our plans have to be short-term, but we really want to recruit more people who speak Tigrinya as well as broadcast some programmes in English. The plans are all there, but of course we need to put these to work through funds.” Along with their two daughters and two sons, Fathi and his wife have settled happily into life in Paris. “To begin with, every refugee has tension – being unable to do anything, anxiety,” he said, “but when one gets a job, life is positive and one adapts.” Could he ever imagine a return to Eritrea? “I always encourage my colleagues by saying that journalists should go back home if things were to change for the better,” Fathi replied. “We could have a big media corporation – with a newspaper and a radio station, maybe even a TV station. This is ambitious, but it’s good to dream. To dream that things might change in Eritrea, to have democracy.” On reaching adulthood Fathi went abroad to learn, earn money, and start a family. But in his mid-20s he returned to Eritrea. “The assumption was that our country was growing,” he said of the time around Eritrea’s 1991 reinstatement of independence. “I was young, so I thought I could grow with my country. We felt we could make an African ‘Singapore’ out of Eritrea. That was a very famous idea in the early 1990s. We were a hard-working, big community, and it gave us hope that things could be better.” Fathi continued: “It was a huge disappointment, dismay, that the revolution did not realise the dream of Eritrea. I once wrote an article about the advantage of being late, of gaining our independence late. I thought it gave us the chance to see other African countries getting into trouble so we would not repeat the mistakes of others. “Now it is not the mistakes of others but mistakes of our own. They’re different, Martian, horrible mistakes: violation of human rights, making the country a big jail, not allowing people to move with their families. In 26 years we’ve created a monster.” At Radio Erena. Photo: Isabel, RSF Africa. Fathi’s book 'Eritrea: From A Dream of Independence to the Nightmare of Dictatorship' (not yet translated into English) explores how the country ended up in its present situation – a state where the President could say in 2014: “Those who think there will be democracy in this country can think so in another world.” As we talk in a Piccadilly café, Fathi mourns people he knew who had simply vanished overnight. One old friend, Abdu Heggi, is still missing. “After Eritrea’s independence, he worked for the Ministry of Information,” Fathi said. “But three months ago, at 3 am, he had a knock at the door and disappeared.” The journalist spoke of how widespread such abuses are. “Everyone is touched by it,” he said. “Many families have lost someone to prison, execution or forced disappearance.” This reality escalates the importance of their radio station’s broadcasts. “Radio Erena is the voice of the voiceless,” Fathi said. “By this we mean mainly those who have been in prison since 2001. We want this award to be for the people who gave their lives for the freedom of expression in the country – to draw the attention of the world to their plight. “Radio Erena is the voice of the voiceless." “That means we are asking the international community to intervene and help release these people. To put more pressure on Eritrea to release them.” Learn more about Radio Erena’s work at http://www.erena.org or contact Reporters Without Borders at http://www.rsf.org (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) SECRETLAND Good signal of BaBcoCk Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL, June 6 1700-1730 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1730-1800 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri 1700-1800 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat 1700-1800 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/good-signal-of-babcock-dimtse-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. No signal of Voice of Adal via MBR Issoudun, June 3: 1500-1558 on 15205*ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic/Tigrinya Sat *from 1548UT 15205 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Holy Quran R.Riyadh http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/no-signal-of-voice-of-adal-via-mbr.html Radio Voice of Adal via MBR Issoudun on June 7: 1500-1530 on 15205 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed/Sat* 1530-1558 on 15205*ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Wed Sat* *but no signal from Radio Voice of Adal on Sat June 3, cancelled? http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-voice-of-adal-via-mbr-issoudun-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6090.002, Radio Amhara played typical HoA music at 0350 UT on June 3, S=8-9 signal at fade-out time here in southern Germany. Well ahead of co-channel Caribbean Beacon underneath signal. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa via TDF Issoudun on June 1 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/2017/06/reception-of-sagalee-qeerroo-bilisummaa_1.html Reception of Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa via TDF Issoudun on June 6 1630-1700 on 17840 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Tue/Thu/Fri via Alyx & Yeyi Transmission are jammed by Ethiopia with very strong white noise digital jamming: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/sagalee-qeerroo-bilisummaa-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via TDF Issoudun on June 2: 1600-1630 17870 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Mon/Fri via Alyx&Yeyi Transmission are jammed by Ethiopia with strong white noise digital jamming: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_2.html Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Issoudun, June 3 1600-1630 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Tue/Sat + jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_3.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on June 2: 1700-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, strong Transmission are jammed by Ethiopia with very weak white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Europe Music Radio in banda tropicale +++ 4915.0, 2133-... 21/5 ? EDMR Europe Music Radio - pirate Songs, 25331 CG (segnalata anche su 4970 kHz da Giovanni Carboni IZ5PQT ndr) (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, via Giampiero Bernardini, playdx blog via DXLD) What does EDMR mean? (gh, DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATAS, 4915, Europe Music R (p)_QTH?, 2110-..., 04/6, música pop'; 25241. 12255, Reflections Europe_IRL, 1813-..., 04/6, inglês, programas de propaganda religiosa; 35443. // 6295 com sinal muito pobre e ruidoso. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 6220.01, PIRATE, Laser Hot Hits, 0044 Pop music at tune-in. 0046 M announcer talk between songs. 0050 jingle. Short canned ID by M at 0053 and next song. Had a band of noise on the low side which ruined reception. Otherwise the best it’s been heard in a long time. 27 May. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** FRANCE [non]. De: "Atlantic 2000 International" Para: "Listeners" Enviado: 07/06/2017 11:50:02 Asunto: Atlantic 2000 on the air this weekend Atlantic 2000 will be on the air this weekend, with our 35th anniversary show: - Saturday 10th of June, from 0800 to 0900 UT on 6070 kHz [GERMANY] - Sunday 11th of June, from 1900 to 2000 UT on 6070 kHz + streaming at the same time on our website: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr Only detailed reception reports will be confirmed by a special anniversary eQSL. Reports to: atlantic2000international@gmail.com Good listening! -- Visit our website: http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr (via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) ** FRANCE. Reception of Radio France International in English, May 30 0600-0700 on 11905 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English, very good: Upcoming frequency changes of Radio France International from June 4 all: ISS 500 kW 0800-0900 21580 / 150 deg CeAf French till June 3 0800-0900 17620 / 150 deg CeAf French June 4-Sep.2 0800-0900 21580 / 150 deg CeAf French from Sep.3 1200-1230 17815 / 198 deg WeAf Mandingo Mon-Fri till June 3 1200-1230 15275 / 198 deg WeAf Mandingo Mon-Fri June 4-Sep.2 1200-1230 17815 / 198 deg WeAf Mandingo Mon-Fri from Sep.3 1200-1300 15300 / 200 deg NWAf French till June 3 1200-1300 13740 / 200 deg NWAf French June 4-Sep.2 1200-1300 15300 / 200 deg NWAf French from Sep.3 1200-1300 17620 / 185 deg WCAf French till June 3 1200-1300 15300 / 185 deg WCAf French June 4-Sep.2 1200-1300 17620 / 185 deg WCAf French from Sep.3 1600-1700 17615 / 170 deg WCAf Hausa till June 3 1600-1700 15670 / 170 deg WCAf Hausa June 4-Sep.2 1600-1700 17615 / 170 deg WCAf Hausa from Sep.3 1900-1930 17660 / 155 deg SoAf Portuguese till June 3 1900-1930 15360 / 155 deg SoAf Portuguese June 4-Sep.2 1900-1930 17660 / 155 deg SoAf Portuguese from Sep.3 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-france-international.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) Frequency changes of Radio France Int in French from June 4 0800-0900 NF 17620 ISS 500 kW / 150 deg to CeAf, good signal, ex 21580 1200-1300 NF 13740 ISS 500 kW / 200 deg to NWAf, weak signal, ex 15300 1200-1300 NF 15300 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WCAf, fair signal, ex 17620 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/frequency-changes-of-radio-france-int.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. Reception of Radio Al-Mukhtar via MBR Issoudun on May 30: 1500-1558 15205*ISS 100 kW / 125 deg EaAf Arabic Tue, problem in Issoudun# * co-ch same 15205 RIY 500 kW / 320 deg WeEu Holy Quran R.Riyadh from 1552 # drop by drop audio, interrupting of the audio signal for the first 20 minutes! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-al-mukhtar-via-mbr.html (DX RE MIX NEWS from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Deutsche Welle (DW) station schedule: http://www.dw.com/downloads/38101396/a17webkw.pdf or Can be found at http://www.dw.com/en/dw-radio-programs/a-1777509 (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** GERMANY. HISTORY OF NORDDEICH RADIO https://www.norddeichradio.info/index.php (Peter Kruse, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Coastal station, all in German, includes 7-minute clip (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on June 2: 0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German, weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_2.html Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst in AM mode (ex CUSB) on June 3 2002-2030 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir CeEu German, strong QRM CRI Arabic 6185 --- The best frequency for all transmissions will be old previous frequency 5905 kHz No signal of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on June 5-6: 0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode 1200-1230 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode 2000-2030 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode * or on alt. 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/no-signal-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. New SW schedule of Radio der Dokumenta 14 until June 16: 0600-0800 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir CeEu English ex 10-12 Apr 8-27 1500-1800 15560*KLL 001 kW / non-dir CeEu English ex 15-17 Apr 8-27 * QRM 15-16 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf Juba Arabic R.Tamazuj & Dabanga: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/new-shortwave-schedule-of-radio-der.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15560, Jun 2, 0740 Ruru Radio (?) with interview in English about Greek musical instruments. Also noted in the evening hours with programming in Indonesian. Ivo Ivanov suggested in his report that this is Documenta 14 but I only heard IDs for Ruru Radio which apparently is an Indonesian broadcaster. 3-4 (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) [and non]. Reception of Radio der Dokumenta 14 on June 5: 0732&0756 15560 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu English, poor to weak from 0759 15560 XIA 500 kW / 292 deg to CeAs Chinese China Radio Int http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-der-dokumenta-14-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak signal of Radio der Dokumenta 14, June 8 1500-1800 15560*KLL 001 kW / non-dir CeEu Eng/Ara Radio der Dokumenta 14 *15-16 QRM 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic R.Tamazuj/R.Dabanga http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-signal-of-radio-der-dokumenta-14.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 5920, HCJB Germany, Weenermoor, 0510-0525, 04-06, German, comments, religious songs. // 7365. 24322. (Méndez) 6085, Radio Mi Amigo, Kall Krekel, 04-06, *0653-0710, 04-06, pop songs, English, commens, ID “Radio Mi Amigo”. 14321. (Méndez) 6150, Europa 24, Dattlen, 0645-0717, 04-06, German, comments, pop songs. 14321. (Méndez) 7310, Radio Mi Amigo, Kall Krekel, *1000-1015, 04-06, English, “Welcome to Radio Mi Amigo International”, pop songs, English, comments. 24322. (Méndez) 7365, HCJB Germany, Weeenermoor, 1830-1842, 03-06, African songs, Portuguese, comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Free Radio Skybird now on 6070 --- Hi All, Apologies for the slightly delayed notification, but Free Radio Skybird is currently on Channel 292 6070 kHz until 1900 GMT, and this is the programme that should have been broadcast last Sunday. Very interesting selection of music at the moment, and coming in very well here in north west England. Posted by: (Alan Gale, 1822 UT June 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. 15209.980, INDIA, AIR Arabic HQ prayer program, usual odd frequency signal of Goa Panaji site, observed at S=9 level on remote SDR unit at New Delhi India, 0439 UT on June 3. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420/9935 kHz, June 6-7 1815-1930 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 & off 1930-2045 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu tx#3 is off air, 2045-0730 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3, BACK 1715-2005 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek & dead air 2005-2012 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu dead air, tx#1 & 2013-0730 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#1, BACK * including news in Arabic 0652 & in Serbian 0655 UT. From 0708 frequency announcement: 9420 and 9935 to WeEu/ENAm, 11645 to NoAf. But frequency 11645 is not active from beginning of summer A-17. From 0730 live broadcast from Greek Parliament and off 0755 UT. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420_7.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. Guatemala FM update - Why Guatemala FM is so messed up! For some weeks now, I have been in dialogue via email with Jorge López-Bachiller Fernánez, an independent radio consultant in Guatemala that works mostly with the SIT (license authority). If you are following developments of the WTFDA FM db and also this thread, you will know I have been on a mission to get technical data from the government of Guatemala (SIT) for FM radio stations. A couple months ago I was put in contact with Jorge. After learning of my *mission*, he took it upon himself to research why I was not getting the information I requested from the SIT. In mid-April, after I had emailed the SIT directly regarding fm radio stations, I received a complete list of all licensed FM radio stations in Guatemala, listed by frequency, starting from 88.1 and going up the dial. However, I already had that information. I emailed them again, asking for more technical data for FM's. A couple weeks ago, I receive another PDF document, this time it shows all the kilowatts assigned to each FM licensed in Guatemala. That was okay, because the information we had entered into the WTFDA FM db was kind of dated (old?), so that was really an update. Entering that information in the DB is currently in progress. Jorge checked in with me on Monday this week to see what information I was still needing. He told me he was going to be in meeting most of the week with one of the high ranking officials at the SIT, Harold Rafael Cancinos Arbizu. If I told him what I was needing, maybe he could persuade Harold work with me in getting what I need for the WTFDA FM db. In the meantime, I located Harold's email address from the list of contacts I have for the SIT. I sent Harold an email on Wednesday, basically asking the same information that I have been requesting all along. Today (June 2nd), Jorge emailed me and asked if I could send the two PDF documents to him so that he could show them to Harold. Late this afternoon, I get an email from Harold, informing me that what I have NOW is ALL that the SIT has about each station. One of the things I had noticed about the Guatemala FM's is their reference to a Título de Usufructo de Frecuencia (TUF) for each station, which contained Order numbers and Register numbers for each station. I realized those had to be the Licenses and how do I get to see what one looks like. Guatemala FM's are a *hard nut to crack*, so to speak. Harold explained to me the way a Guatemala license works. Initially the potential broadcaster receives an Order number from the SIT for their request to broadcast. Once approved they are issued a Registry number. Both numbers appear on the document. The SIT agrees to what city they broadcast from, frequency on the FM radio dial, and what the MAXIMUM allowed kilowatts or watts for the station. That's it!!! The station is left up to decide on broadcast equipment, antenna/tower location and height, and studio location. They just CANNOT exceed the maximum kilowatts for their station. The only way the SIT ever finds out the technical data on a station is IF the station gives the information to them. As a standard procedure, the SIT does NOT request the technical data from each radio station. And FM dxers have wondered what is going on in Guatemala with FM radio stations. SO - want to see what these TUF's look like? I've attached a sample copy, along with sample FM licenses from other Central American countries for comparison purposes. BTW, Guatemala is about 60% complete (as can be) in the WTFDA FM db. We really need dxers that can hear Guatemala FM stations to share their news about any changes in programming and formats. Attached Files Attached Files pdf Guatemala Sample broadcast license.pdf (319.9 KB, 3 views) pdf Costa Rica FM license TIJV 88.7 457-2003.pdf (184.9 KB, 3 views) pdf El Salvador FM license YSTA 103.3 T-0090-2014.pdf (3.03 MB 1 view) pdf Honduras FM license HRAG 88.1 AS377-04.pdf (54.6 KB, 0 views) pdf Panamá FM license HOSC 107.9 anno 10961 rtv.pdf (108.8 KB, 1 view) [can be accessed thru original post:] http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11314-Central-American-FM-news-in-the-WTFDA-FM-database&p=43620#post43620 Last edited by Jim Thomas; 06-04-2017 at 10:44 AM. (Jim Thomas, Springfield MO, originaly June 2, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Guatemala FM's are 100% complete in the WTFDA FM database, as of this morning (Monday 6-05-17). That went quicker than expected. Just a note about using Latitude/Longitude for many of the Guatemala FM's. As funny as this may sound, for unknown radio station transmitter locations, the LAT/LONG will take you to the City Park center, rather than city center. Many city centers would have left the DXer/user wondering if the radio tower was really in that location. With acknowledgement that you have arrived at the City Park tells you its an estimate distance, not really where the transmit antenna is really located. An FYI regarding transmitter locations in Cd. Guatemala - all of those are actually confirmed where the transmitter/antenna is located. If a dxer receives a radio station that is licensed to broadcast in Cd. Guatemala, they can reliably use the Lat/Long coordinates for plotting distance from their listening post to the tower (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, June 5, ibid.) Guatemala FM dx I've did the research. You can see my latest Guatemala FM research comments here... [truncated] http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.p...3620#post43620 So I make this request. For anyone that is within distance to enjoy Sporadic E on FM from Guatemala, I am making a request. I would like to know when you can verify station names and formats. It appears the SIT (GT license authority) does NOT monitor names of licensed radio stations or their formats; the SIT does NOT monitor what type of transmitter each FM radio station uses, what type of antenna they are using, or where it is located (latitude & longitude). All the SIT dictates is City of license/service area, frequency on FM dial, and maximum kilowatts (or watts) allowed. They leave everything else up to the radio station owner and do not require them to report any technical data to the SIT. Sounds crazy, but it`s true. The radio station owner does NOT have to report to the SIT when they decide to change station names or formats. They do NOT have to report technical changes (transmitter power/antenna height/antenna location), as long as they continue to serve the assigned city/service area and they do NOT exceed their authorized effective radiated power or change frequencies. Any of those changes require a new application / modification to license. This can also mean a radio station may be operating on LESS power than they are authorized to operate with. Any notes regarding Guatemala FM radio stations in the WTFDA FM database are only as good as the information the SIT has provided us with - Call letters, station owner name, city of license & service area, kilowatts (watts) assigned to the station. The rest is a best guess'timate. Latitude & longitude is city center UNLESS we can actually locate the station. The SIT told us most stations towers are an average 30 meters, which is on par with what most of the radio stations in Central America are. We use the HAAT calculator courtesy the FCC plus a 30 meter stick and it gives us an average for the station. The Guatemala FM listings are still a work in progress. I posted this in FM Dx because I didn't know how many FM dxers that can hear Guatemala would see the thread in Radioemisoras forum. But we need your help to keep the Guatemala listings current and up to date. If you have any news updates for Guatemala FM's, you can send them to the email address for Mexico updates (found on the WTFDA FM db). Last edited by Jim Thomas; 06-05-2017 at 11:31 AM. Reason: Update on information (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, Making FM Dxing more fun than a barrel of monkeys! ibid.) No wonder it's chaos - they could really learn something from their counterparts in Honduras on how to manage it. I don't even think I see a trace of a national association of major broadcasters (Raymie Humbert, AZ, June 3, ibid.) I can try; GTM is optimum Es distance from my QTH. My bugaboo is getting info on any and all 87.5/87.7/87.9 stations! Of course, they are not licensed the way the 88-108 are. Attached: From the evening of June 2, 2017: familiar? cd Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version. Name: image.jpg Views: 8 Size: 1.47 MB ID: 20454 (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, ibid.) The Radio scene in Guatemala is very complicated; there is a national association of broadcssters http://www.camaraderadiodifusiongt.org and they are very active fighting with the illegal radios sometimes undercover as "Radios Comunitarias". A couple of years ago I read in a Guatemalan newspaper than every week were closed down several illegal stations, many of them running by churches, local government, even government agencies, and others (Humberto Molina, San Salvador, El Salvador, June 3, ibid.) Last summer heard a Guatemalan actually use call letters. First time I've ever heard this. Not yet in the database. Radio Coatan Attached Files File Type: mp3 89-3_TGCT_TOH_Jul12_16.mp3 (588.8 KB, 3 views) (Randy KW4RZ Zerr, Fort Walton Beach, Florida panhandle EM60, June 4, ibid.) Radio Coatán is in the WTFDA FM db now. The Huehuetenango station was previously a Stereo Visión affiliate. Can't confirm WHEN they changed, but it also looks likes the station is under new ownership. They changed calls and city of license, but stayed in the *Huehue* department. http://www.radiocoatan.com/ Last edited by (Jim Thomas; 06-05-2017 at 08:39 AM. Reason: Corrections, ibid.) I believe that every licensed GTM radio station *does* announce call letters, but dunno how often. In 2000 I had R Exitos 90.9 announce "T G [fade] C" (fade = D). I may have caught the tail end of Fabuestereo 88.1's calls ("....FB") once. We could access any live stream, and with patience, find out how often they do announce. cd (Chris Dunne, FL, ibid.) Surprisingly, the SIT came through and the Guatemala listings in the WTFDA FM database were completed, in the wee hours of early this morning. Everything is as UP-TO-DATE as can possibly be. We still need to know when you are aware of radio station name changes or format changes (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, June 5, ibid.) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ-Conacri, 9650 R. Guinée, Sonfonia, 1201-..., 02/6, francês e líng. vernácula, música pop' africana, texto; 45444. Sinal mais fraco do que o habitual, e ausência de sinal, nalguns dias. Good DX and 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Imphal launches website, mobile app Source: The Sangai Express Imphal, June 02 2017: All India Radio, Imphal has become the first radio station in the country to launch an official website and a mobile application. The website and mobile app were formally launched by Chief Minister N Biren Singh at AIR, Imphal. The function was also attended by Dilip Mayengbam, Director in-Charge, AIR, Imphal, RP Joshi, Deputy Director General, AIR, Imphal and Parliamentary Secretary L Sushindro and was conducted by AIR Chief Regional News Unit (Imphal), A Ibomcha Sharma. Speaking at the programme, N Biren said, "Radio reaches places where there is no access to newspapers and televisions. As such, it is important to invite experts who can discuss issues happening in the State in a way that sentiments of various communities are not hurt". Dilip Mayengbam said that the website and mobile app will allow the people of Manipur particularly those living outside the State to have access to AIR, Imphal news and its other programmes. Those who have missed the news and programmes, the same can be directly downloaded. He also said that AIR, Imphal has allotted 15 minutes for the Chief Minister to reach out to the masses. People can visit http://www.airimphal.in or download the mobile app AIRNEWSImphal to avail the services. [truncated? URL:] http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=7..030617.jun17 ----- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) I find it hard to believe that Imphal nor any other Indian station had a website until now! Seems like Imphal used to be on SW, but none listed now (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. Assalam-O-Alaikum and Hello Dxers --- Today, Voice of Indonesia announced the Question of the International Quiz. Listen Voice of Indonesia and Take part Quiz and visit to Indonesia. Good Luck (Abid Hussain Sajid, Pakistani Dxer, June 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. Project Amelia Earhart --- Recreating Amelia Earhart's around-the-world flight on its 80th anniversary. Thanks to news from Steven Greenyer, we have news of Project Amelia Earhart to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the aviatrix’s around the world flight. Brian Lloyd has a powerful radio system aboard the Spirit. The radio communicates on High Frequency (HF) shortwave using Single Sideband (SSB), and anyone can tune in to these transmissions who has the proper type of radio receiver. Listen for WB6RQN, that’s Brian’s Ham radio callsign. Ham radio operators around the world are invited to communicate with Brian while he is on the air in international airspace using the Ham bands. Ham Radio Frequencies of Operation for Spirit Flights HF Frequencies for Ham Radio SSB Voice QSOs and DX: Ham QSO activity may occur at any time while the airplane is in International airspace, USA, or some other areas. Ham operation may happen while Brian is not busy with flight operations. There may be unexpected interruptions during a QSO. Please be especially courteous and patient, because his first priority is to pilot the plane. kHz SSB Description Area 14210.0 USB Voice QSO & DX (if split 14215.0) Worldwide 14346.0 USB Voice QSO & DX Worldwide 18117.5 USB Voice QSO & DX (if split 18122.5) Worldwide 7130.0 LSB Voice QSO & DX Worldwide 7185.5 USB Voice QSO & DX Worldwide Simplex or Split? Most of the time, WB6RQN will use simplex, listening and transmitting on the same HF frequency. But, sometimes Brian may ask calling stations to transmit “UP 5” split. When using UP 5 split, your transmit frequency must be exactly 5 kHz above WB6RQN. The plane’s HF radio is channelized, and it does not have an S-meter (June NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) No further details about timespan for this (gh) ** IRAN. 9810, V. of the Islamic Rep. of Iran. Fairly strong signal but extremely weak modulation with vocal song at 1922 tune-in. 1923 English ID announcement by M barely readable. 2 June. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) For the last couple of nights here I have been able to pick up VoIRI opening at 0050 UT on 5950 via Sirjan for their broadcast in Tajik (0050-0220 UT to Central Asia). I heard them in the early hours of 05 June 2017 and confirmed the station by its interval signal. SINO 2532 on my PL880 with no external wire in use. SWLDX gives a parallel frequency of 7280 at the same time but I have yet to try that. Not a bad catch for 5950 though I think. Regards, (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 7460, MOLDOVA, R. Payam e-Doost (relay) 0228 signal already on with tone going off and on. 0230 program start with usual trumpet and percussion fanfare and dramatic music with opening by W. 0231 voice-over apparent program intro. By M, then different M with mention of Payam e-Doost, and into program with M host. Good signal and a little QRN. 26 May (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Reception of Radio Payem e-Doost via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on June 7 1800-1845 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Persian good signal with echo http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-radio-payem-e-doost-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. LOG: 15004.500 kHz LSB, ITALCABLE, SRC-FSK O=3, SYNC CLOCK: (Multipsk) "SYNCHRONIZATIONS LOG", RAI : 04/06/17 - 08:50:00 (=08.50 CEST = 06.50z) ~ 15 MHz / ~ 860 km (roger, germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they have decided to move slightly away and quit blocking WWV directly? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) ** JAPAN. Errors on the radio --- For the first time in probably 50 years, Radio Japan does not have a printed timetable. Earlier in the schedules there were errors regarding the transfer in different languages. He wrote to them about it - no answer. Now there is no timetable - there is no problem (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 13720, NHK World/R Japan, 1655. Wanted to hear sign-on for a time (IF one), missed it again maybe by seconds. ID by M in Japanese, after a time, going into program featuring American jazz. VG. May 28. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) direct, not a relay (HFCC) 11695, NHK World (Presumed) 1015. Always hoping to return to the days when I had VG reception of Japan (English) on 31 M, THIS 25 M broadcast rarely good, today being no exception. Poor to Imagination Level, May 31. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe not Japan as nothing is scheduled here at that hour; but NHK non-direxional via Singapore in English at 1100-1130 (gh, DXLD) [and non]. 9750, NHK World/R Japan, 1340. W in Japanese in huge collision with PBS (China) via Hohhot. 1440 recheck had them VG without the China QRM. June 1. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. 4950, May 25 -1746*, Der Ramadan ist sicher der Grund warum der Sender auf 4950 kHz von Radio Kashmir seit wenigen Tagen wieder nachmittags bis 1740 UT gesendet hat. Heute hat man es schon bis 1746 UT geschafft; die kommenden Tage lohnt auch abends ein Ohr auf die QRG! (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. THE STREETS OF PYONGYANG --- Watch this incredible, rare video of the streets of North Korea's capital city North Korea is a notoriously secretive place that is often hostile to outsiders, especially Western journalists. Which means that getting an unfiltered, unvarnished look at everyday life inside the Hermit Kingdom is incredibly rare. Most of what the outside world gets to see is carefully crafted regime propaganda or the occasional heavily edited, stylized documentary. That's what makes this short video by Finnish journalist Mika Mäkeläinen so fascinating. Mäkeläinen is the Asia correspondent for Finland's Yle Uutiset news program and had visited the county to cover the recent "Day of the Sun" celebrations marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, North Korea's founder (and the current leader's grandfather). The video is roughly 12 minutes of raw footage he captured on April 18 as he was traveling in minibus from downtown Pyongyang, the country's capital, toward the airport. Here is the link to the article and video: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/watch-this-incredible-rare-video-of-thestreets-of-north-koreas-capital-city.html Also take a look at Mika's Facebook site where you can find lots of interesting stuff, though in Finnish. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/Mikareport/ (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9685, TAIWAN (Tamsui), Wind from Japan/Il bonue ue baram at 1530. Monologue with M in (listed) Korean. Good; fading with time. May 28. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. BTW - On June 4, noted Shiokaze has made a bad frequency choice for their 1300-1400 broadcast. Heard now on 7215, which has considerable QRM from CRI (China), also scheduled for the same time period, so poor Shiokaze reception (Ron Howard, California, June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) JAPAN, Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze on June 1: 1600-1700 NF 6090*YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu, ex 7215 * co-ch same 6090 GDR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Amharic Radio Amhara Updated summer A-17 schedule of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze by languages http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/frequency-changes-of-jsr-shiokaze-sea.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 9100, June 1 at 1217, weak talk at S3. Aoki shows jammed Taiwan`s Sound of Hope could be here between 21 and 16 UT, plus ChiCom jamming likely using CNR1 programming; but Echo of Hope, South to North Korea is also listed on 9100 at 1755-2400 only. However, as of May 26, Ron Howard was reporting definite IDs from Echo of Hope/VOH during this hour on 9100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, June 1, noted VOH on 9100, with their usual strong signal and only a faint trace of Sound of Hope very far underneath. Daily I usually check about four frequencies of SOH. Have noted for a long time now it's extremely rare that China bothers to jam them with CNR1. Have not kept a detailed log, but seems to happen only a few times a month. Otherwise SOH frequencies are clear (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. Echo of Hope - VOH, on June 1, with the best frequencies today being 4885 // 6350 (best in USB) // 9100. Heard at 0945, on 3985 // 5995 (ex 6003) // 6250 and all were jammed. Also heard at that time in the clear on 4885 // 6350 (best in USB) (ex 6348) and // 9100. 4885, good reception at 1015, with singing station jingle and "V O H" ID; there are several versions of the jingle, not always with the same frequencies. 5920, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed), 0944, June 1. In Korean and remains un-jammed; still here at 1226; off the air here yesterday. On ex 6135, only white noise jamming today. 5920, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed), 1001, June 3. In Korean with some music. So is this now their regular/permanent frequency - ex: 6135? June 2, at 1033, with fair reception; no jamming 5920, Voice of Freedom (clandestine) (presumed), on June 6, first day of assume North Korea jamming here with white noise and pulsating sound; while on ex 6135, still just white noise jamming. My audio at http://goo.gl/BvIuGD with first minute clear reception on June 1, at 1126 UT and second minute with jamming on June 6, at 1108 UT (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KOREA's 5920, Voice of Freedom - nothing heard except ONLY jamming on 5908 to 5928 kHz fq range at 1425 UT June 7. Echo of Hope - VOH. What is happening? June 07 checked measurement on remote Okayama Japan SDR unit, 1120-1200 UT on June 7 3479.987 kHz 1130 UT, ditter jammer 3477.8, and some 80 Hertz distance peaks hopping, and whistle jamming on odd 3478.989, 3479.538, and 3480.087 kHz. 3909.965 and accompanied scratching noise jamming 3912 center, 1124 UT 3985.013 kHz and jammer on 3985.001 kHz at 1146 UT. 4449.991 kHz - another jamming? peak on 4449.918 kHz, 1136 UT. 5995.028 kHz, and jammer still on 6003 kHz channel at 1144 UT. 6249.994 kHz at 1115 UT. 6350.031 kHz and jammer on 6348v kHz, at 1142 UT. 6519.972 kHz but jammier on 6518v kHz, 1140 UT. 6600even kHz frequency at 1139 UT, 9100even kHz at 1157 UT, June 7. 3480{heavy}, 3912 4450 4557 6518 6600 kHz, 3985 6003 6250 6348 kHz, all were jammed. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 7, dxldygv ia DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wolfie, Per Facebook page (WRTH) posting by a Korean DXer, on June 7, Voice of Freedom was heard on 5940 kHz, ex 5920. So yesterday was the first day of N. Korea jamming of 5920 and already VOF has moved away from the jamming. Seems they will be much more active in changing frequencies than say Shiokaze, which changes frequencies only occasionally and often stays in place, to be daily jammed (Ron Howard, California, June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Plus 3930 kHz to all the frequencies given above. First days it was clear, but now the jamming has been started here too. 73, (Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, June 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. Amigo diexista, por favor, llene la encuesta de satisfacción para que KBS siga en la onda corta. Por favor, fijarse en la pregunta 12 y marcar la opción 1. Pueden responderla en el siguiente enlace: http://world.kbs.co.kr/special/survey/2017/ (Claudio Galaz, Chile, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Survey of the World Radio KBS --- World Radio KBS conducts a survey of its listeners, whose goal is improving the quality of our programs. To listeners, including 25 monitors, Questionnaires were sent by regular mail. We kindly ask them to fill out and not later than the middle of August to send us by usual or e-mail, scanned or photographed each filled page. In addition, within June 5 to July 5, the survey is conducted on our website online. Address Site: http://world.kbs.co.kr/russian/ The questionnaires are anonymous, and all the answers are used exclusively for statistical purposes. Respondents selected by lot, will receive memorable prizes. To participate in the draw, write in The end of the questionnaire e-mail address. We invite you to participate in the survey! http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_notice_view.htm?No=11893 (via Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 7350even, MOLDOVA, Radyoya Denge Kurdistane via Grigoriopol Maiac Pridnestrovie broadcast center, morning singer and string instrument program towards Kurdish area around Turkey, Syria, Iraq, S=9+20dB noted in Germany, at 0424 UT on June 3. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As I commented with another log of this, Ivo said it was FRANCE site, so do you have definite info it`s changed as they might have done? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry no chance, I have no way to >>distinguish<< Issoudun or Grigoriopol Maiac, with the pure truth. Both outlets are nearly on zero even frequency. Otherwise, Ivo may check Sofia Kostinbrod on the local frequency harmonic outlet. In my log I put/selected only the HFCC location entry on notice paper. But Aoki list show Grigoriopol instead, I think the Nagoya people took over the Ivo information? 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, June 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later he decides it`s 90% likely to be FRANCE: see next DXLD (gh) Radyoya Denge Kurdistan, via SPC-NURTS Sofia, Dimitar Todorov Radio, Kostinbrod, S=6-7 signal into southern Germany at 1456 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably refers to 11600 kHz (gh, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Ministry of Information, Radio Kuwait in English on June 2: 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, good signal 1830&2050 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, nx bulletin 2100-2107 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic, and off air: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/ministry-of-information-radio-kuwait-in.html Radio Kuwait in English and unscheduled in Arabic on June 5 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, good signal 1830&2050 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, news bulletin 1930-1950 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu R Kuwait & R Bahrain 2100-2156 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic & off 2156 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/ministry-of-information-radio-kuwait-in_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) what do you mean by ``& R. Bahrain``? GCC exchange program? (gh, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15540, June 6 at 1924, R. Kuwait in English outro for `This Day in History` with long produxion credit list, then music. On BST-1 caradio fighting some internal blob even tho the car is parked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. Enclosed also two screenshots of R Laos on 6130 signing off at 1630 UT. The other shows the drift at sign on just before 2200 UT. Also note the strange spurious signal some 20 Hz below nominal frequency. Laos is easily heard now when the Chinese is closed for a a week or two due to maintenance (Christoph Ratzer? SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) 6130, May 17, 1530. Da der starke Sender aus Lhasa, Tibet im 49 Meterband derzeit wegen Wartungsarbeiten nicht in Betrieb ist kann man einen seltenen Gast bei us hören: Den lokalen Rundfunk aus Laos. Die ersten sichtbaren Signale tauchen gegen 1530 UT auf, Audio ist gegen 16 UT schwach bis zum Sendeschluss um ca. 1633 UT zu hören. Bei uns zu empfangen nach 22 UT auf freier Frequenz 6130 mit einem Programm in Hmong. Im Winter würde es sicher gehen, aber dann sendet ja Lhasa wieder… Die Adresse stimmt, steht auch so auf der Webseite: Bamboo Airport Road, PO Box 310, Vientiane, Laos, Phone (856-21) 243250 (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) Thanks for the excellent recording at your place. I checked on May 23 at 2200 and the station was there but not that strong. At that time on 6129.949 which corresponds to your measurement of the drifting transmitter at the same time. /TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. Reception of World Christian Broadcast/Madagascar World Voice, June 5: 1800-1846 on 9570 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian tx#1 KNLS, New Life Station 1845-1858 on 9570 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu and 12 mins open carrier / dead air 1900-1946 on 9820 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian tx#2 KNLS, New Life Station 1945-1958 on 9820 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu and 12 mins open carrier / dead air http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-world-christian.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Speaking of mistakes, and how is it with the messages on the radio New Life from Madagascar, where they give two different indices [postal codes?] in St. Petersburg with the same PO Box 47, or has it already disappeared - they also wrote about it and ... silence (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** MALI [and non]. CHINA, CRI with two different programs on 17630 Bamako and 17630 Urumqi, June 6: All broadcasts via Bamako in various langs are replaced with CRI in Chinese/Music 1400-1457 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf Chinese/Music, instead of English 1400-1457 17630 URU 500 kW / 308 deg EaEu English, as schdeuled in CRI A-17 1500-1557 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf Chinese/Music, instead of English 1600-1657 15125 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CEAf Chinese/Music, instead of Arabic: 1700-1757 15125 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg SoAf Swahili or Chinese, BUT NO SIGNAL 1800-1827 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg WCAf Chinese/Music, instead of Hausa 1830-1927 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf Chinese/Music, instead of Arabic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SVyuhC9GvI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-jliivyLA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkeFghK4LBM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81H5l1cdRY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUE5sdTZvQ&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VacvJUMyw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWnwpXeoDA4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUgIXXwCXE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZtpCodEhok&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZtpCodEhok&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXyUPFpc-s&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7-9t1Vhks&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_sbeM_TNA&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/cri-with-two-different-programs-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See EAST TURKISTAN: I heard 17630 with CRI English, June 7 at 1419, so not MALI (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CRI Bamako relay was back to its normal languages schedule on June 8, instead of Chinese June 5 1400-1457 17630 URU 500 kW / 308 deg EaEu English as scheduled CRI A17 1400-1457 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf English 1500-1557 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf English 1600-1657 15125 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CEAf Arabic 1700-1757 15125 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg SoAf Swahili 1800-1827 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg WCAf Hausa 1830-1927 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg CeAf Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2017/06/cri-bamako-relay-was-back-to-its-normal.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, 0802, XEROK back dominating channel, IDs for “800… internacional. Radio Cañón …en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico… [50?] mil watts de potencia.” 7/5 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1560, 0616, XEINFO, Mexico DF with Spanish talk often. ID as “15-60 AM” with callsign, 0625 22/5 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Tecnoradio sera demandada El Jueves 1 de junio de 2017 14:12, "'Carlos J. V.' escribió: Entrevista a María Elena Estavillo, Comisionada del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. https://www.mixcloud.com/FormulaFinanciera/entrevista-a-mar%C3%ADa-elena-estavillo-30-05-17/ Enviado por: "Carlos J. V." (via Juan Franco Crespo, DXLD) ** MEXICO. LAS RAZONES POR LAS QUE RADIO CENTRO MANIOBRA EN LA BANDA DE AM --- 03/06/2017 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/las-razones-por-las-que-radio-centro-maniobra-en-la-banda-de-am/ La empresa de radio que se cataloga como la más pública de México por ser la única que cotiza en el mercado de valores no ha hecho público los motivos que la llevaron a poner fin a la existencia de una de sus estaciones, a cambiar a otras de posición en el cuadrante de AM y a meter a otras más en la misma frecuencia pero a distinto horario. Y además de todo eso, a provocar que la emisora de uno de sus socios comerciales retransmita simultáneamente a través de una señal que antes fue de su propiedad, al tiempo que de lleno lanzó una más a la FM vía un canal digital de los que tiene multiplexados en esa banda. Resultado de imagen para grupo radio centro [logo captions] Ese es el extraño entramado de frecuencias y conceptos de comunicación que ha venido realizando el Grupo Radio Centro (GRC) desde hace diez días en la banda de Amplitud de Modulada con sus concesiones sin explicar más fondo la razón de esas decisiones a sus inversionistas, pues la compañía no ha informado aún a la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) sobre una acción que pronto repercutirá en sus estados financieros. Pero sobre todo, no informó con tiempo de estas modificaciones a los escuchas afectados, que no son pocos, pues al cierre de marzo del 2017 cerca de 507,000 oyentes seguían esas estaciones ahora objeto de los cambios. Resultado de imagen para grupo radio centro Desde el domingo 14 de mayo los radioescuchas comenzaron advertir desde las redes sociales sobre salidas del aire de estaciones y recepción de una estación por la señal donde antes llegaba otra, un hecho que todavía genera confusión y polémica, incluso entre los analistas del sector que escuchan los noticieros de este grupo radiofónico. Por un lado, La 69, que desde el 2001 ocupó el lugar de la desaparecida Ondas del Lago en los 690 KHz, también desapareció ese domingo y en su sitio, GRC colocó la señal de El Fonógrafo, que venía de la frecuencia de los 1150 KHz. Y por primera vez en su historia, el grupo redefinió la programación de la que fue su primera estación, con la que entró a este negocio: Radio Centro 1030, en la que coló la música del recuerdo transmitida por El Fonógrafo, por lo que ahora las dos estaciones transmiten simultáneamente por las mismas frecuencias con un horario definido para cada una. Resultado de imagen para grupo radio centro el fonografo Radio Centro también modificó las transmisiones de Radio Red AM y de Formato 21, y éstas tuvieron un alcance a Radio Red FM; ahora los dos conceptos de comunicación transmiten a través del 790 y los 1110 de AM sus contenidos noticiosos. Aparte, la emisora de los 1440 ahora transmite la misma programación en la señal de los 1560 KHz. La primera de esas frecuencias está concesionada a Radio Centro, pero los contenidos los origina el Grupo Siete, a su vez titular de la señal del 92.1 de FM por donde por más de 15 años GRC transmitió a Universal Stereo. Imagen relacionada Grupo Siete y Grupo Radio Centro por años han formalizado acuerdos comerciales, pero no se ha desvelado qué trato permitió a Quiéreme 1440 llegar al 1560, el lugar que un día fue de La Consentida y luego de Radio Monitor del periodista José Gutiérrez Vivó, quien la cedió a un tercero en 2007. Tampoco está claro en manos de qué empresa quedó la titularidad de la señal de los 1150 KHz, por donde transmitía El Fonógrafo. Radio Centro no ha respondido a consultas sobre el tema y personas cercanas a la industria han dicho que representantes del Grupo Siete se han venido presentando en los últimos días en el IFT para abordar asuntos de titularidad de concesiones. Desde el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) sostienen de manera oficial que el Grupo Radio Centro realizó esta serie de cambios motivado por razones de carácter técnico: “Hace algunos días Radio Centro notificó al Instituto que, por circunstancias técnicas con sus antenas, tendría que interrumpir transmisiones en esas frecuencias”, respondió a botepronto la oficina de prensa del IFT (El Economista via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [Re 17-22:] It's kinda funny they decided not to pay even though in the Chetumal case Tecnoradio didn't even place a bid... (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, June 1, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) One of Mazatlán's ratings leaders may be headed for a format change. The SuRadito column at RadioNotas says XHMZT-FM "Bengala" 93.1, Grupo Siete's only station in all of western Mexico, could be going adult contemporary. Grupo Siete doesn't have any stations in this format at this time (Raymie, June 2, ibid.) The hits keep coming — hits of the wrong kind. http://www.animalpolitico.com/2017/06/atacan-locutora-ometepec-guerrero/ A presenter for Radio y Televisión de Guerrero in Ometepec (XEGRM) was attacked with bullets when she left the station today. Marcela de Jesús Natalia suffered her wounds around 9:00 this morning. She initially was transported by ambulance to a local hospital but was later sent by air to Acapulco due to the severity of her injuries. She has worked for RTG for 12 years and has been a morning host for the past seven (Raymie, June 4, ibid.) The IFT decided to renew some concessions, and by some, I mean 145 http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/ift-acuerda-someter-consulta-publica-la-metodologia-de-separacion-contable-aplicable-los-agentes-0 in 28 states (sorry, Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche and Colima). They also did the following: -Cleared XHCIP for an 11.3 sub for the SPR — the first time Una Voz con Todos has been approved for an IPN transmitter. -Modified a concession for the most esoteric of reasons: to add a municipality that didn't exist until last year. Puerto Morelos became Quintana Roo's 11th municipality last year, carved out of Benito Juárez (the municipality home to Cancún), and so the concession now includes both municipalities. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie, June 6, ibid.) ** MEXICO. After a few hours writing my latest log report, I check FM and find a Mexican by Es on 90.7, June 1 at 1738, ad with a .mx website --- bad news for my lunch break? But nothing further by 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. V of Mongolia (tentative) - 12034.9 at 1050 6/2, off frequency from sked 12035, very weak, music, very little audio, off 1100. R. Taiwan - 12030 at 1100, 6/2 could see carrier come on waterfall at 1055 while trying to copy Mongolia, sign-on 1100 with OM announcer, unsure of language (sked in Russian), signal improving by 1130, SINPO 13211 (Chris, KC5IIE, Krug, Tulsa, OK, Anan10E, 40m loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. From May 1 to June 1 no signal of Radio Medi 1 on shortwave 9575 kHz 0000-2400 on 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg to NoAf Arabic/French, still no signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/from-may-1-to-june-1-no-signal-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9575, Medi 1, Nador, out of air for more than two weeks (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, June 4, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sangena ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985, R. Myanmar. Was surprised to find a signal here at 2301. Nothing else is currently scheduled there at that time. W program host in language mixed with M singing in an almost talking tone and cadence and also some traditional SE Asian instrumental music. Gradually faded to inaudibility in about half an hour and practically gone by 0000 as it should as morning progressed there. Checked a web receiver in Khimki, Russia and a decent signal there with the same programming. Myanmar “long path” is very rare here, and especially so, being so close to the solstice. Audio recording at https://app.box.com/s/svyqgzllt4j9uynzi30dijucs0gjo4zv (includes both reception here and in Khimki Russia with clips of reception here being weaker, of course). 2 June. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) 5985, R. Myanmar. Signal already on with 1 kHz tone at 2345. 2255 tone off. Sounded like it started with music at 2300:06, and W announcer about 40 seconds later. More music and W again at 2302, then M. Wasn’t quite as good as at home yesterday. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, 3-4 June 2017 2245-0010 UT Micro-DXpedition, Perseus SDR, 313 foot BOG at 185 , near Dunlo, PA, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) ** MYANMAR [and non]. Russia - Myanmar - China on 7345 kHz. - - - - - Ron wrote: ``. . . . . Have to try to also remember to check on 7345 kHz, as CNR1 is now off the air there, which should leave Thazin Radio with a much better chance of being heard before 1200 (CRI signs on then), so only Radio Sakha (Russia) QRM to contend with (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Hi Glenn, Very interesting to compare my reception June 1 with DFS's reception in Japan: http://goo.gl/Yeu1dF RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk with very decent signal, going off the air after their IS (Jew's harp) and time pips at 1200. MYANMAR. 7345, Thazin Radio in the clear after 1200; very weak with music program and in vernacular; after 1203, had to listen in LSB. CHINA. 7345-USB, V26, noted at 1203, with Chinese numbers; mixing with weaker Myanmar; off at 1220*, with Thazin Radio continuing. My audio: http://goo.gl/6PkgJX So there was no CRI at 1200. Clearly the best time period for reception of Thazin Radio is post-1200, as Radio Sakha totally blocks Myanmar (Ron, listening in San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thazin Radio via Pyin Oo Lwin. 6165, at 1246, on June 4. Indigenous chanting/singing; in vernacular. Weak, but reception is now possible with China off the air here. 7345, at 1238, on June 6. In vernacular; indigenous music and with EZL music. My audio at http://goo.gl/IdgQvQ Weak, but now possible with China off the air and after R. Sakha signed off at 1200. On June 4 (Sunday) Thazin was clearly off the air here at 1239, but back on the next day (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Dutch Pirate Studio 52 via SPL Secretbrod is on air: 1200-1500 on 11715, [audio-]videos will be added later today June 3 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No signal detected on East coast USA at 1315 UT (Stephen Wood, Harwich, MA, ibid.) 11715, June 3, 1330, Studio 52 via Bulgaria with nice pop music introduced in Dutch. 3-4 (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, Sweden, SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) 3-4 means the O of SIO, overall merit (gh) 11715 kHz at 1450 UT June 3, only EMPTY carrier on air, S=9+5dB strength signal in southern Germany. 73 wb df5sx Short program 'Studio 52' ID at 1500 UT, Sofia Bulgaria TX switch off at 1501:43 UT. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Dutch Pirate Studio 52 via SPL Secretbrod, June 3 1200-1448 11715 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu Dutch/English 1st Sat, powerful & 1448-1456 11715 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu open carrier / dead air and then 1456-1501 11715 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu Dutch/English 1st Sat, powerful: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-dutch-pirate-studio-52-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. SECRETLAND, Reception of Mighty KBC Radio via SPL Secretbrod on June 3: 1500-1512 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Sat + 2nd hx 18800 from 1512 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu open carrier/dead air, then from 1515 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu again the start of program from 1530 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu NO SIGNAL, TRANSMITTER 0FF! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-mighty-kbc-radio-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.962, CANADA, CKZN St. John`s, pop music program at 0346 UT, fair S=6 signal across Atlantic into southern Germany. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. Wellington Access Radio Frequency Change: 106.1 FM Launch The change of the Wellington Access Radio frequency from 783 AM to 106.1 FM is happening over the next month. The signal 106.1 FM is launching broadcast over Easter weekend, and we will continue to broadcast on 783 AM for the following four weeks. This is to ensure we inform listeners of the frequency change, and to confirm that the new signal is working properly. During this time, we will be running radio notices alerting people to the changeover on both 783 AM and 106.1 FM.Over the next month, we’ll be doing a publicity campaign to inform the Wellington Region about the signal change. It is also a great chance to let people know about the station who may not have tuned in before. We’ll be speaking to the local media, and running adverts in local papers, as well as a poster and flyer runs around Wellington, the Hutt Valley, and Porirua. (Wellington Access Radio Newsletter April 2017, http://www.accessradio.org.nz/newsletter.html via June NZ DX Times via DXLD) Wellington Access Radio and Samoan Capital radio have ceased operations on 783. According to the WAR website (accessradio.org.nz), 106.1 FM became their prime frequency at Easter and simulcasting on 783 AM was to continue for 4 weeks, which would mean 783 went dark mid-May. Thanks to David Ricquish for this news, and to sleuth Paul Rawdon who found that the 783 AM licence was cancelled on 16 May [Possible DX targets are the 600 kW Voice Of The Strait from China (scheduled to close at 1900 UT), Aussies 8AL Alice Springs and 6VA Albany, and Voice of Vietnam (scheduled to 1700. Maybe the high- powered Iranian or 50 kW from COPE Barcelona! Bryan Clark] A clear channel in New Zealand - see Bryan’s column on page 19. One piece of recent news is that 783 kHz formerly owned by Access Radio and used by Samoan Community Radio, has gone silent as they have moved to FM. So we have a clear channel! In the early evening 780 will be clearer - look for KKOH in Reno, Nevada. In our summer months, if you use the League’s SDR, look for KNOM in Nome, Alaska. WBBM is another possibility in Chicago, Illinois, but not on the League SDR as the aerial doesn’t point in the right direction. I have heard all three in New Zealand, and they just got a bit easier. Very much later at night it may be possible to hear the only two Aussies on 783 - 6VA in Albany and 8AL in Alice Springs. I have verified both from New Zealand, although interestingly, neither was on that frequency (792 and 801 respectively). In the mornings before 5 am you may hear the Vietnamese station in Can Tho. It is possible you may hear one of the Philippines outlets and a bit later perhaps it may be the Chinese station in Beiding [sic]. There are lots of possibilities and a lot of fun can be had - just like it was 30+ years ago (June NZ DX Times via DXLD) MIKE SMITH, Opunake has been checking the newly vacant 783 channel, and noted 6VA with pops and local ads and the Chinese Voice of The Strait swapping dominance on his west EWE from 1015 UT on 31 May. Reports have been sent to both. Following Mike’s lead I also monitored 783 overnight on 31 May. The Chinese station was first noted at 1103 and then confirmed each hour thereafter until appearing to go off air at 1602 UT. This was on my East EWE which largely suppresses signals from the West. The SDR displayed one or more carriers on 783 from 0955 through till 1900 (Bryan Clark = I?, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, June 1 at 0522, no signal from RNZI; must be another of their Thursday maintenance downtimes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, *1800-1815, 03-06, English, id. “Voice of Nigeria”, news, comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sangena ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, PIRATE, VORW (Voice of the Report of the Week), 0102 continuous chatter by M about fast food restaurants including Krispy Kreme. 0107 said that that was the “review of the latest uploads” and mentioned “VORW radio show”, then continued talk about Radio Shack and shortwave listening. 0112 sound of airplane going overhead, and again very loudly at 0116 (must have been recording the show at an airport). 0142 another ID. Still going at 0144 reading letters. Fair at best and noisy. 27 May. 6950.28, PIRATE, He Man Radio. 0102 radio drama by M with instrumental music. 0105-0107 song “One Chance”. 0119 canned “He Man R.” repeating jingle, then song “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In”. 1031 same type jingle ID as heard at 0119. Deadair at 0132, and then going off and on, and gone. Came back on at 0137. Strong. 27 May. 6870-USB, PIRATE, The Bangalore Poacher, 0042 continuous pieces of soundbites and ads mostly in Indian-accented English with effect of occasional words rapidly repeated. 0048 CW ID as “This is The Bangalore Poacher”. 0053 two short melodies repeated like an IS, then “Airhead” by Thomas Dolby until 0058. 0058 what sounded like a few words from Statler & Waldorf from The Muppet Show, and ending with George Zeller saying “"It was really about the worst station I ever heard on shortwave. In fact it was so bad that it was actually entertaining in that respect", and off the air. Good signal and 100% copy. Youtube video of reception can be found using this link https://youtu.be/pzxdAM34qDQ 28 May. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924.4, PIRATE, Recycle R. 2316 closing ID, “Glory Glory, We Adore Thee”, then SSTV. Weak but SSTV fairly strong. Looked like he was back on 6899.98 by 2356, which is the frequency where he’s been heard before. 6880-USB, PIRATE, Clever Name Radio. 2318 end of music and ID with e- mail, deadair, then canned network ID and e-mail address, and canned ID jingle. Strong. 6930-USB, PIRATE, WRRI (R. Random Int.) “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama at 2357, deadair, and into “Safety Dance” at 0000. 0006 “Rock the Casbah”. Fairly good signal. Fady with some QRN. Had moved to 9945 while I was driving home. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, 3-4 June 2017 2245-0010 UT Micro-DXpedition, Perseus SDR, 313 foot BOG at 185 , near Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) Viz.: 9945-USB, PIRATE, WRRI. Found out from HF Underground this had turned up here and did indeed hear music at 0035 but couldn’t recognize the song. 0037 into REM song and faded badly in 2 minutes. 0045 able to hear ID by YL “WRRI ??, WRRI, R. Random Int.” and immediately into R. Australia’s “Waltzing Matilda” IS, then off. 6925.28, PIRATE. Ion Radio. Surprised to find this pirate on the air in the early morning with pop/rock music when I tuned in at 1223. 1225 apparent comedy skit ending with live M voice ID sounding like “You’ve been listening to Ion R. ionradioshortwave@gmail.com.” Then “Beautiful Sunday” by Daniel Boone and “Love is in the Air by John Paul Young, “Ion Radio” Morse code ID at 1233, “Magic” by Pilot, e-mail address in code at 1240, “Thunderstuck” by AC/DC, and several Blues songs. 1254 e-mail in code again, and ended with SSTV scan. Poor with quick QSB and a lot of local QRM. Youtube video of reception can be found: https://youtu.be/7rYHWGQFDhA 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945.0-AM, June 2 at 0152, S6 signal with undermodulated music vs storm crashes from SW Texas/E New Mexico. 6945-USB, June 2 at 0202, robotic ``--something-- Radio, 6945`` ID, music, 0213 check off, 0220 back again with S8 music, 0222 bluesy. Not necessarily same station but various reports of Clever Name Radio earlier, including this late one posted at 0209 from a Californian: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35244.msg131761.html#msg131761 6925-AM, June 3 at 0210, JBA carrier here from some pirate, but too much storm noise from two regions in northern Texas, not a bit of lighting in Oklahoma. A few other logs here as unID: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35267.0.html 6940-USB, June 3 at 0210, pirate music here until 0217 long announcement; too weak vs S9+10 storm noise from TX, but at times I imagine the voice could be Dick Weed of Radio Free, What-ever. What do HF Undergrounders say? Yes, RFW per lots of logs here as early as 2245 June 2: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35261.0.html 6940-USB, June 5 at 2343, raucous pirate music at S8, stops abruptly at 2346* I leave a receiver on this, and it resumes at 2351:30, mostly percussion and chatter; 2352 brief announcement missed; 2356 unexpected brief CW and off again. A few other logs of this as unID: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,35338.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7585, 0456, YHWH anti-Christian pirate noted regularly but at poor level on this new freq since 17/5. On 18/5 closed at 0509 with “Good Night folks” (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) 7585, UNITED STATES [sic] (Pirate), YHWH, 0230. Usual guy, Yahweh or the highway lecture. Still on recheck at 0500, spooky music to close at 0502. May 30. 7585, UNITED STATES [sic]. (Pirate) YHWH, 0510. Usual guy, Yahweh or the highway lecture. Creepy music song at 0548 and X at 0551 in mid- sentence, with transmitter coming back on and off several times as if it wasn't supposed to be off yet. Signal Fair at best. June 1. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585, June 1 at 0523, JBA carrier, presumed Station YHWH which Walt Salmaniw has been reporting running this late on this frequency lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH, 0515. At tune-in, lecture on the Commandments of Yahweh. Tonight, excellent signal. Monitored with "Tomato Stake" antenna (9' helical/vertically polarized), RS SW- 2000629 receiver. June 2. Really good recepton tonight. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick in Arizona Barton, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585, UNITED STATES [sic] (Pirate), YHWH, 0515. At tune-in, lecture on the Commandments of Yahweh. Tonight, excellent on RS SW-2000629, 9' "Tomato Stake" antenna (helically wound wire, vertically polarized). June 2. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7585-AM, June 2 at 0611, JBA carrier, then a trace of Station YHWH modulation, S7 vs S9 storm crashes. Latest I`ve ever heard this one to be on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking tonight, Joshua is on the now usual 7585. Modulation continues to be very reduced, almost to the point that he's readable with difficulty only, despite a strong signal. There's definitely problems with his transmitter. All this to 0452 UT, as I type this. Off tonight at 0502 UT, mentioning 7:30 PM California time tomorrow, so look for Joshua starting at 0230 UT. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, UT June 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH Pirate - excellent as we speak --- Hi Rick and all, Yahweh is doing okay here in Central AZ tonight too. I guess he has decided to stick to 7585 kHz. A lot of fading, but a solid S9 with his weak audio. 73 (Art KA5DWI/7 Dewey AZ, Jackson, 0351 UT June 3, ABDX via DXLD) Running about S8 right now (0356 UT) in Tucson, AZ. That is the "S" part. The "R" part [readability on scale of one to five] is somewhere south of 4 (Bob Coomler, W7SWLTucson, AZ, ibid.) Light copy here in Iowa – (Jerry WWØE, Rappel, 0419 UT June 3, ibid.) 7585, USA [sic] (Pirate). YHWH. 0315. Caught in progress. Voice was recognizable, but reception tonight poor. Still there on subsequent rechex, but not at 0455. June 4. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: desertmoon's log: You just missed the sign off which was much abbreviated, and without the Days of Hard Life by Lace, at 0453. Reception was quite good into Victoria, as well. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, June 4, ibid.) YHWH, 7585, No show at 0445 UT --- Checking the usual frequency. Conditions are unusually quiet and strong to the south, but I'm hearing nothing from YHWH on his usual 41 meter channels. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, UT June 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Got to the dials at 0405 UT tonight, and once again, no sign of YHWH. That's 2 nights that I fail to have heard YHWH. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, June 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.3, KIEL Loyal, talking about ALASKA: q.v. ** OKLAHOMA. 97.1, June 6 at 0325 UT, checking for Es here during opening across North America, no, but fading out and in, coverage of women`s baseball game in 15th inning, mentions 52 mph pitches (or is it softball?), Kelsey Arnold a player, 0329 as Women`s College World Series involving the Oklahoma Sooners, and a player named Méndez. So this is obviously the Tulsa-market station per WTFDA FM Database: [KYAL-FM, 97.1, MUSKOGEE OK, 100.0 kW H&V, 600.0 m HAAT, 35-24-48, 95- 21-55, THE SPORTS ANIMAL, SPORTS]. 237 km/147 statute miles 99.5, June 7 at 1701 UT during another bandscan for Es DX, soprano with ``Star Spangled Banner``, then ``Tulsa`s only classic country, Big Country 99.5``, i.e.: [KXBL, 99.5, HENRYETTA OK, 100.0 kW H&V, 299.0 m HAAT, 35-50-02, 96-07-28, HD, 4CE1, 99 COUNTRY, Country 99.5 Tulsa, Country, BIG COUNTRY 99.5, CLASSIC COUNTRY]. 201 km/125 st mi. Surely a regular noonday tradition on this station and at far too few other USA stations. If I were programming one, there would be at least one `SSB` play every day (even without a sign-on/off), and I would be collecting countless different renditions, probably possible a different one for every day of the year! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, June 6 at 1914 UT, on caradio at a western Enid parking lot, weak Spanish definitely here when no sporadic E is in, so I am sure it is this OKC translator: [K243BJ, //KRXO-HD3, 96.5, OKLAHOMA CITY OK, 0.25 kW H&V, 302.0 m HAAT Horizontal only [but I am on the vertical car antenna], 35-24-54, 97-30-32, Spanish, 3F48, Exitos 96.5 FM!, Exitos 96.5 FM, Foreign Language, EXITOS 96.5, OLDIES]. 108 km/67 st mi apparently to downtown Good going, holding its own against the two full-power OK 96.5s in Tulsa and Elk City, KECO normally slightly atop here (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. On 9540 (via EiBi and elsewhere - yet unconfirmed) English to E Africa / June 1. 0326 Alice Cooper “School's out for Summer"; 0329 - Carlos Santana/Rob Thomas “Smooth"; 0338 - White Stripes, etc. Two male announcers, indeed speaking in animated “DJ-speak” English, unable to copy any details. The playlist being so westernized, coupled to my unfamiliarity with Oman’s foreign service, compels me to wonder aloud if this is instead another broadcaster. Certainly some Gulf States are way more westernized than others; however, Oman, I’d've thought to be one state less likely to push western pop music, even to a foreign or expat audience. Perhaps you've logged this transmission and would comment. That’s it for now. Hopefully Enid will miss any infamous heavy weather this spring. Best regards, (Robert McEntee, Austin, TX, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Oman does play lots of western pop music in its English hours. Really a simulcast of a domestic FM frequency evidently for expats, visitors. I`m seldom monitoring during the 03-04 UT hour and haven`t heard that lately. The other English hour at 14-15 UT on 15140 is seldom listenable if detectable (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) see unID 15140 ** PANAMA. 1560, 0525, UNID LATIN with religious format – English & Spanish contemporary Christian vocals, under XEINFO. European DXers have been hearing Adventist Radio Panamá here – if only!? 29/5 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PANAMA [and non]. RPC TV 4, Panamá, June 1, 2017 Here may have been my best reception yet of RPC Canal 4, Cd. de Panamá. I am still awaiting a new power inserter set for my TV antenna --- so this was via an FM6! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3zNpo_e9A cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, June 2, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Interesting... that's a very clear video. I suppose that's a possible catch for me too. I'm about 2,200 miles from it, and the power (according to dxinfocentre.com) is good enough for possible double hop (crazymonkey, Akron OH, ibid.) Andrew, although I've caught RPC 4* before, it was never so well (and even consistent) as June 1. Using FM6 & indoor amp, no less! As to the powers, I would say, beware of some info. TVN Canal 2 has had info of power ranging from 500 to 850-or-so kW. I sincerely question that; whenever Panamá arrives here, it's TVN on 3 (from Colón) and RPC 4. Ch 2 is almost without fail either a horrible mishmash of nothing at all. The only 2 I got yesterday was a poor TA Dom Rep (two clouds?). I do believe I caught ch 2 Panamá as TVMax once (sister to TVN). I'm awaiting a part for my preamp on the TV antenna, which has yet to arrive. [*Also received was RPC Radio, news/talk, on 90.9 with RDS. My semi local WLFE may be having issues.] cd (Chris Dunne, FL, ibid.) OK, thanks, Christopher. This helps me know what to look for. Whenever southern e-skip fires up here, double-hop can appear more often than people realize. There's nothing in the way, except the pesky Cubans. I'll be on the lookout. My double-hop scorecard includes Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Venezuela since beginning DX in 2015 (Andrew, Akron OH, ibid.) Congrats on your TVDX reception of RPC analog TV channel 4, HOH-21, Panama City, Republic of Panama. For an optimum signal, aim your FM-6 at 178 degrees (GACTVDX, Easton PA, ibid.) It was around 180. Panamá is due south of my QTH (leaping over Cuba of course). cd (Dunne, ibid.) CD, I told you the other day what ASEP (Panamá license authority) says the ERP for TVN 2 Cd. de Panamá is....843.080 kw, yet you doubt it....hmmm. Here is the direct link to the TVN 2 license documentation that is posted on the ASEP website... http://www.asep.gob.pa/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=252 Second line, last item - Potencia efectiva (vatios). I hope you don't think they are lying. That would mean ALL of their license documents could be wrong. BTW, the ASEP works very closely with the FCC with licensing, documentation, and enforcement. I think its possible that the reason you have trouble getting their signal is there are three (x3) stations assigned to channel 2 and you are probably getting all three at the same time when skip is coming from Panamá. Stations in Veraguas, Panamá, and Chiríqui.... Veraguas, 8.740 kw (TVN) Cd. de Panamá, 843.080 kw (TVN) Chiríqui, 11.938 kw (TVN) Panamá isn't that big of a footprint (slightly smaller than Florida in square miles), so just as we're accustomed to getting stations from two or three states at the same time on FM Es, couldn't it be entirely possible you are getting two or three stations on channel two at the same time and it makes it a mish-mash, as you call it? And I suppose you know there are three separate channel 4 transmitters for RPC. I wonder how a person knows which one they are receiving? Volcán Baru, 30.480 kw (RPC) Veraguas, 32.517 kw (RPC) Las Cumbres (Cd. de Panamá), 211 watts (RPC repeater) If you want to check the documents for other TV stations in Panamá, you can go here and type in the channel number and then *Buscar* (search). When you see the station you are interested in, click on the link under Sitio de Transmisión and it will take you to that page.... http://www.asep.gob.pa/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=252 Last edited by Jim Thomas; 06-02-2017 at 06:16 PM. (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, Making FM DXing more fun than a barrel of monkeys! ibid.) Jim, I know we were kinda joking about the TVN 2 on the Log the other day. I would think a 843 kW lowband signal would either dominate during a Panamá opening here --- or, nearby 2's in Costa Rica & Colombia would have issues. Is the transmitter maybe in a valley? HAAT might be the bugaboo. If Panamá comes back, I'll try to dwell on 2 a bit more. I have a Broksonic 9" TV that mutes audio until a good enough signal is there. To pull any audio out, I need another source. Good news: my sister-in- law found my spare Teknika TVC-22 at our Public Storage --- so, I can record audio better now. Maybe I'll be able to squeeze out some TVN-2 audio. All I'd have to do is switch between 2 and 3 for parallel. As well as RPC 4 came out, I would think that 2 would at least generate something. (But then again I had nothing on TV above 4 except FM.) Seriously though; 2 was almost absent during this. TA [Tele- Antillas, Dominican Republic] was the only visible signal, and IT stunk. I'll look at your links. cd (Chris Dunne, ibid.) I'm having trouble making the math in that document work. It says: Potencia Maxima (of the transmitting equipment): 18000, presumably 18,000 watts. This figure is consistent with the listed Larcan TTS30ML transmitter which is rated at 30 kW. Ganancia (of the transmitting antenna): 14.49dBd, which is a ratio of 28.12. If I work those numbers I get an ERP of 506 kW. Google doesn't return any hits for that antenna. (Thompson 456-553) It says "panel of two dipoles" for which a gain of 14.49dBd seems rather high. The gain of the WSMV analog transmitting antenna was pretty close to 6dB. Actually, the ERP would be somewhat lower as I didn't count transmission line (and multiplexer) losses. The ASEP document does show a line loss. What this suggests to me is the TVN 2 antenna is significantly directional. The FCC establishes limits to how directional a directional transmitting antenna can be -- but of course these limits don't apply outside the U.S. and many other countries are far more liberal about directional antennas. That, and while tracking down some FM information in Panama we definitely saw stations with antennas far more directional than would be permitted in the U.S.. So... - I would believe a very high ERP figure for this station. - I would believe 843 kW except that that the figures on that ASEP form aren't consistent. - If it is that powerful it's only that powerful in one direction. Cerro Azul is located northeast of Panama City, so if this station is intended to serve the capital it's going to be directional *away* from the U.S. (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Know what? That's another possibility. I just said in an email to Jim that it's also possible that they are *authorized* 843 kW, but possibly not using all of it. If the 843 were directional, I'd say *southwest* is the only way to go with it! Let's get a TV DXpedition to the Galapagos "muy rápido." cd (Chris Dunne, FL, ibid.) I just figured out the math; kinda: If you assume the Larcan transmitter is operated at maximum rated power of 30kw instead of the 18kw indicated in the document, you get an ERP of 843.6 kW. I would imagine the difference between that figure and the 843080 in the document is the transmission line loss. I'm not understanding why the 18 kW figure appears in the document if they have to operate at 30 kW to achieve the specified ERP (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) Chris, this reminds me of a conversation you and I had a few years ago about ch 2 Panamá, and what looked like it may have been the tvn logo. A soccer match if I recall (mike, TVDXing since 7/27/09, South Louisiana, ibid.) Looking at the entire list of transmitters on the ASEP site --- TVN has three transmitters on channel 2. Of course there's the monster we're discussing. There are also a 12 kW transmitter on Volcán Baru which seems to serve the cities of David and Chiriquí (and would be directional south) and a 9 kW transmitter on Cerro Atalaya (which seems to serve Santiago and may be non-directional or directional west). They have one transmitter on channel 3. 74 kW at Cerro Santa Rita, it would indeed seem to be intended to serve Colon and if directional, favors the west. There is another station listed on channel 3, Telemetro 13 with 168 kW. I'm not entirely sure what it's intended to reach and may be non-directional (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN, EM66, June 3, ibid.) The TVN 3 in Colón is an old friend, seen "muchas veces," including during the opening the other day. Any other 3 in Panamá, not seen here. cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, June 3, ibid.) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Sorry for the non-radio related posting, but I just watched a National Geographic program about witchcraft in PNG, and Mt Hagen was mentioned. Sanguma is what they call witchcraft there, and the program is called Uncensored with Michael Ware: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/uncensored-with-michael-ware/ A very disturbing program. Mt Hagen is the location of Radio Western Highlands on 3375, although I don't think they've been active for years. Kind of puts things into perspective when thinking about QSL cards from these countries! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No apology necessary. Radio should be a means for us to understand the world better. That`s why we are NOT strict about ``OT`` material here! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1152-1213*, June 3. Unusual to find a YL DJ; in Pidgin; playing pop songs; 1212 OM DJ in English; went off in mid-song; poor. As it's Saturday, they do not have the NBC news at ToH. June 2, with 1203*. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands[non-log]. June 3, not on the air. 3365, NBC Milne Bay, 1046, June 3. The weakest PNG today, with 3260 & 3325 being much stronger; playing music. 3260, NBC Madang, 1204, June 6. End of NBC news in English; "NBC Radio" promo; DJ in English till suddenly off the air at 1206*. June 4 off suddenly at 1203*. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands[non-log]. June 6, continues silent. 3365, NBC Milne Bay, 1158-1203*, June 6. A Kenny Rogers song; 1200 frequencies given; NBC news in English; unreadable; off in mid-news. June 4, went off suddenly at 1203* (just after 3260 went off) (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 1410, 0540, R Coporación first noted 8/5 with folk music on measured 1409.828. Fairly regular since but yet to extract an ident. Update: Henrik Klemetz has listened to my audio clip and confirms it is from Radio Corporacion Wayra at Juliaca, Peru (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PERU. 4747.5, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, may have gone silent; not heard in last fortnight /rlw / (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro - Drake R8 NRD 525 - Noise reducing Antenna, dxsf 1981-2017, June 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4775a, 1140, Radio Tarma fair with Spanish news reports, station promo, time checks, folk music, ident at 1154. QRM from ‘sweeper’ 26/5. Freq 4774.905 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC and AOR7030+ receivers, EWEs to North, Central & South America, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PERU. 4810. R. LOGOS. Junio 3. 2250-2300 UT. Música. SINPO: 44343 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660, ANT: Hilo de 60 metros de largo; QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4955. R. CULTURAL AMAUTA. Junio 3. 2331-2341 UT. Espacio de avisos en quechua y aimara sobre reuniones en diversas iglesias presbiterianas, bautistas y asambleas de Dios de la zona de Huanta, con música de fondo, luego de reuniones civiles. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660, ANT: Hilo de 60 metros de largo; QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Junio 3. 2304-2318 UT. Espacio musical, luego a las 2310 identificación de la emisora como: “Red Radio Integridad”, pequeño devocional, invitación a una conferencia a realizarse en una iglesia bautista de Lima. A las 2312, espacio musical con himnos protestantes hasta las 2317 cuando se da una identificación corta y un mensaje de la Asociación Evangelista Billy Graham. SINPO: 55555. // 700. RED RADIO INTEGRIDAD. SINFO: 44444 con leve QRM de LV3 de Córdoba, Argentina. 5980. R. CHASKI. Junio 4. 1200-1210 UT. Identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad”, luego avisos de día Domingo y el devocional “Alimento para el Alma” producido por Radio Transmundial. Luego espacio musical. SINPO: 54555 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL 660, ANT: Hilo de 60 metros de largo; QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, June 5 at 2333, JJBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 2334:11.5. Last catch was six days ago, May 30 until 2333:34.5*, so this is 37 seconds later, averaging 6.2 seconds later per noctem, well in line with the previous recession rate when sign-off was after 0100. Extremely weak signal fading in and out of the noise level makes it hard to be as precise as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. MOLDOVA {RUSSIA}, Radio Vesti FM operating 24 hrs on MW 1413 kHz, Grigoriopol Maiac already more than month has two intermodulated spurs on approx. 1395.5 and 1430.5 kHz. In a dark part of the day whistling with Iran(?) on 1395 kHz and with Italy, Sawa (Djibouti heard regulary here in deep night) and Ukraine. When I tuned on Ukraine at 1600-2000 UT in Russian on usual receiver, strong whistle there was, so on Sony ICF2001D RUI was clear on 1431.1 kHz. That's remind me on 60s when in Sofia there was a secret transmitter operating on MW 809.1 kHz (maybe this .1) to jam Radio Skopje Macedonia with whistle, later closed (Rumen Pankov, BULGARIA, May 25, BCDX June 5 via DXLD) See also LANGUAGE LESSONS ** PRIDNESTROVYE. 15105, 16.05.17, 1651-1656, MOLDOVA, TWR, Kishinev relay, Somali talk, song. At 1656 ID, Web address. 45544. Oddly neither shortwave.info nor EIBI mentions this transmission. Only the good swskeds includes it! (Antonello Napolitano in Taranto (Italy). RX: KENWOOD R-1000. ANT: inverted "V"+20m wire, May DX Fanzine via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 15130, June 3 at 1452 heavy beat rock music with flutter, S6-S4 until cutoff at 1456:10* without any announcements; how rude! HFCC shows it`s RRI in Romanian via Galbeni to France at ``1300-1500`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. How our letters disappear in the post of Russia: Adventist World Radio. For some reason, Dr. Adrian M. Peterson`s envelopes reach only to MPSO-South 111976 Vnukovo Airport (Place of Postal Container Exchange-South) - then there they stick the label RETURN f. 20 - and take and send back to the US their AWR envelopes directly back to Indianapolis Indiana USA !!! (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, Russia, Rus-DX 4 June via DXLD) See also MUSEA ** RUSSIA. MW Broadcasting in Russia --- 18 operating medium-wave stations in Russia, 2 in Moscow, 3 in St. Petersburg, the rest in the Far East. List of all stations that have worked and continue to work in the medium-wave range. http://vcfm.ru/radio/radio.php?band=am (from https://vk.com/vcfm2014 via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. The new transmission of KCR. --- Dear friends, next weekend KCR will be on air from Friday to Sunday with so many beautiful music from all over the world and a new collaboration with Artem's World Music from Russia with a beautiful program in Spanish on Cuba's music and an overview of the radios that you can hear On the island. We look forward to numerous with your E-Mail reports and more. Cari amici, il prossimo weekend saremo ancora in onda dal venerdi alla domenica con tanta bella musica da ogni parte del mondo e una nuova collaborazione con Artem's World Music dalla Russia con una bella trasmissione in lingua Spagnola sulla musica di Cuba e una panoramica interessante sulle Radio che si possono ascoltare sull' isola. Vi apettiamo numerosi con le vostre sempre gradite E-Mail e i vostri rapporti di ascolto. Jasmine and "The KCR Team" (via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) ?? NO further info 6915, 3/6 1650, Key Channel R. - Italian, music, sufficient (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Robert Scaglione, Sicilia, shortwave yg via DXLD) Evidently Europirate ** RUSSIA [non]. TV IN BREAKAWAY UKRAINE HAS A DISTINCT SOVIET TINT TO IT --- By Jack Losh, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/tv-in-breakaway-ukraine-has-a-distinct-soviet-tint-to-it/2017/06/04/d01be0d6-4097-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_print.html Carrying plastic bags stuffed with cuddly toys, the rebel leader enters an apartment to greet its new occupants -- a young family whose former home had supposedly fallen into disrepair. Alexander Zakharchenko, who governs the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, hands over the gifts, plus keys and deeds to the simple apartment. He walks around, nodding in approval at the pristine appliances and furnishings. While a news crew films the choreographed event, mother of four Elena Korkunova says she had written a letter to Zakharchenko requesting help. Her husband, Alexei, hastily adds: "We're very thankful to receive the apartment so quickly. . . . Now it'll be our family nest." Ending the piece, a correspondent for the local Pervy Respublikansky channel describes how Zakharchenko "personally assessed the apartment's layout and quality of renovation . . . and wished them health and happiness." This unsubtle report is not a one-time thing. Ukrainian separatists are taking the media back to a Soviet-era standard as their breakaway statelets recycle old propaganda, resort to stereotypes and resuscitate the cult of Joseph Stalin. Such broadcasts hold clues about Moscow's strategy in Donbas, a volatile region where Ukrainian government troops have been fighting Russian-backed separatists since 2014. State-sanctioned portrayals of militant rebel rulers as responsible civilian officials suggest the Kremlin wants these hard-line proxies to be in charge for some time. As the conflict enters its fourth year, this does not bode well for peace. "Russia wants to look as if it's a constructive player in negotiations but has not decisively shown which option it wants to take," said Donald Jensen, an expert on Russia and resident fellow at Johns Hopkins University. "Messaging is key, and changes depending on circumstances." By the 1980s, television had become a key component of Soviet mass- media culture, and today it remains the main news source for Russians and Ukrainians. In 2014, when Moscow began installing new governing structures in Ukraine's rebel strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk, local media operations were also overhauled. Eastern Ukraine's war-racked landscape of coal mines, factories and steel mills is a Soviet time warp in which communist nostalgia and heavy industry have a bearing on the identity of many. The legacy of the former Soviet Union looms large in the collective subconscious. So news is staged to highlight the state's wisdom and generosity -- as it was under Soviet control. Core political messages, reinforcing a narrative favorable to ruling elites, are worked out ahead of transmission. Novorossiya TV, another separatist outlet, recently aired a documentary about the origins of the war. Replete with Soviet imagery and dogma, it pits the united, hard-working Slavic citizens of Russkiy Mir (Russian World) against degenerate individualism and the imperialist West. "Today, Donbas has become the flash point of the geopolitical dispute between the West and the East," the presenter says. "Our city is practically on the front line. We are being murdered so that Russian people . . . remain in the chains of consumer society." Lambasting Western influences, the film splices McDonald's ads with Soviet military parades; footage of Wall Street with productive factory lines -- hackneyed, perhaps, but aimed at harnessing disenchantment in a region once held high by Soviet authorities, now war-damaged and economically stagnant. Although it refers to recent Hollywood movies and is promoted through social media, the message of the film is as old as the hammer and sickle. Low-budget history programs are a mainstay of these separatist outlets. One presenter, Yakov Dzhugashvili, is Stalin's great- grandson. He venerates the late dictator and espouses his "duty to expose anti-Stalinist, anti-Soviet lies." Dzhugashvili mentions neither the Great Terror nor the gulags, instead hailing Stalin as "an example of those who serve others." A local history buff hosts another slow-paced show, using model tanks and soldiers to demonstrate the World War II heroics of a unit known as Panfilov's 28 Guardsmen, whose story became a cherished Soviet legend -- though one that was debunked by the publication of a secret memo in 2015. These productions are lo-fi and indulge in questionable readings of history. But their message is potent: Your ancestors fought the fascists; you must continue that struggle today. They are, in a sense, weaponizing the past. "Propaganda about fascists is a very effective trope and has had an effect on Russian public opinion," said Kristin Roth-Ey, a lecturer in Russian history at University College London who specializes in Soviet culture and media. "This is not mindless atavism -- they know it works." Likewise, limited content and frequent reruns echo the Soviet Union's restricted TV schedules. Such repetition creates "dominant symbols" that help construct -- or exploit -- a population's "cultural memory," said Kateryna Khinkulova, a specialist on the region's media. The presentation of Ukraine's separatist leaders is far more "Soviet" than that of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. Luhansk's ruler, Igor Plotnitsky, is regularly filmed presiding over his ministerial council, publicly berating them while flanked by his People's Republic flag, with its sun rays, wheat sheaves and red star. Russian television has its share of Putin scolding his aides, but he also projects a personality Russians can more easily associate with. "Putin himself is a form of entertainment, a consumable product," Roth-Ey said. "Think of pictures showing Putin bare-chested. Making [Leonid] Brezhnev or [Nikita] Khrushchev sex symbols would have been unthinkable in a Soviet context." The Soviet Union was renowned for its sports parades and elaborate gymnastic displays. Socialist realism promoted heroic images of the human body -- from the vitality of the Komsomol youth movement to the team spirit of athletes. Though their presentations are smaller in scale, Donetsk separatists are drawn to similar ideals. A news report in March featured a gathering of youngsters jogging through the city, urging sobriety and waving separatist and communist flags -- a time-honored tactic of reinforcing patriotism with physical purity. Back in vogue, too, is the shock worker -- an uber-productive laborer of the Soviet Union. War has ravaged the economy in eastern Ukraine, but separatist-controlled farms and industrial plants regularly trumpet their efficiency and ability to surpass quotas. If local news outlets are to be believed, rebel authorities are providing pensioners with thousands of tons of free coal and farming vast quantities of food -- even to the extent of producing Donetsk mozzarella. These stories are designed to boost morale by creating the illusions of self-sufficiency and resurgent industry. In reality, the breakaway east could not function without Moscow's support. (Russia has even pledged to supply this region with electricity after Kiev cut off power because of unpaid bills). Nostalgia for Russia's lost era borders on self-caricature. In Donbas, it has become a "weird pastiche of historical memory," said Alexander Clarkson, a lecturer in European studies at King's College London. "The Putin media machine picks out bits of Soviet or czarist memory that it finds useful to its agenda at any one moment, then amplifies it using modern media techniques to overwhelm the audience." Read more [linked in original]: Ukraine turns a blind eye to ultra-rightist militia War in Ukraine helps smugglers in the black market get richer Ukrainian rebel leaders divided by bitter purge (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15284.970, BSKSA Swahili service from Riyadh, S=8 signal sidelobe into Delhi remote unit. Endless male talk at 0441 UT on June 3. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. U.K. (non), Reception of FEBA Radio/Radio Sama via BaBcoCk Moosbrunn, June 2 0800-0830 on 15260 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg to N/ME Arabic, very strong: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-feba-radioradio-sama-via.html Reception of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Dhabayya on June 2 1200-1230 on 15215 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan, weak/fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-feba-radio-via-babcock_2.html Reception of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Tashkent on June 2: 1430-1500 on 9500 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Hindi Wed-Sun, fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-feba-radio-via-babcock_88.html Reception of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Yerevan on June 2: 1730-1800 on 7510 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Silte, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-feba-radio-via-babcock_66.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) U.K.(non) Upcoming frequency change of Sadaye Zindagi via BaBcoCk from July 1: 0230-0300 6125 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari FEBA Radio till June 30 0230-0300 9895 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari FEBA Radio from July 01 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/upcoming-frequency-change-of-sadaye.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Al-Dhabayya on June 8 1600-1630 on 11655 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Afar, weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/feba-radio-via-babcock-al-dhabayya-on.html FEBA Radio/Radio Sama via BaBcoCk Woofferton, June 8: 1700-1830 on 15260 WOF 250 kW / 105 deg to N/ME Arabic, very good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2017/06/feba-radioradio-sama-via-babcock.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. 5950, June 4 at 0030, surprised to hear this weak S6 WRMI-14 frequency opening Radio Eslovaquia Internacional (while English continues at same time from RSI on much better 5850 & 11580). WRMI transmission sked grid does now show REI in Spanish at 0030-0100 on 5950, while the program sked grid below it still shows a bunch of DX programs including four repeats of Wavescan which have really been replaced by this. DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS has been duly updated: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC,1204*, June 2. Just caught their sudden cut off mid-song. 5020, Wantok FM relay via SIBC,1209-1235+, on June 6 with extended broadcast; past their occasionally heard sign off time of about 1200*; playing pop hit songs (Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger," The Coasters - "Get An Ugly Girl To Marry You," Neil Sedaka - "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do," etc.). As recently noted, they are no longer giving any specific IDs for "Wantok FM," as they formerly did, but instead now have frequent, brief generic spots with no IDs. June 4 (Sunday), 1208-1241+, with the usual Sun. religious (Christian) non-stop songs in English ("On The Wings of A Dove," etc.); with no IDs (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AMERICA. LATIN FREQUENCY OFFSETS reported by Arctic Radio Club members 1039.994, HJAL Radio Tropical, Barranquilla on 20.3 at 0258. (Jan Edh) 1140.239, OCY4C RPP, Pilcomayo on 17.3 at 0000. (Jan Edh) 1270.029, HJAR La Cariñosa, Cartagna on 24.3 at 0130.(Jan Edh) 1319.942, OAU7W Radio Tv Peru Juliaca on 16.3 at 2359. (Jan Edh) 1439.989, HJNZ Colmundo, Medellín on 19.3 at 0458 (Thomas Nilsson) 1439.992, HCDF1 Radio Panorama, Ibarra, “Radio Panorama desde Ibarra para el mundo” on 23.3 at 0358. (SIM with thanks to Fredrik Douren) 1469.993, HJTB Ondas del Ibagué with Radio María ID on 21.3. (Thomas Nilsson) 1509.720, OCV4J Radio Tarma, Tarma on 16.3 at 2359. (Jan Edh) 1509.726, OAX4J Radio Tarma, Tarma. On 24.3 at 0000. (Jan Edh) [With my WinRadio SDR it is possible to measure carriers to this level and sometimes be able to identify an elusive Latin as a result -BC] (via Bryan Clark, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) COLOMBIA, PERU, ECUADOR ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, June 1 at 1218, Brother Scare on strong new frequency, S9+10 running 10 seconds behind much weaker 9330 WBCQ. Not synchro with 7570 WRMI or 9980 WWCR, so whence, maybe WHRI. I remonitor around hourtop when BS is giving contact info, but finally at 1301 interrupting during the ramshorn blow, very quick lo-fi legal ID by Dave as ``WWRB, Manchester, Tennessee``. O yeah, this is an old WWRBS frequency, reactivated after a long absence. Same deal an hour later when the ID fires at 1401:30. Is this accounted for at http://www.wwrb.org/ ? Of course not: but still lists the defunct Ugandan service weekends on 15240. 9370 has remained registered available for WRB at 13-24, 100 kW at 45 degrees; true total span as yet unknown. Still on at 1738 check but much weaker than 9980. Just what we need! No doubt a welcome infusion of cash into WWRB. As a new month has started, there could be more additions/deletions to TOM scheduling on otherstations. Is this now listed at http://overcomerministry.org/radio-schedule/ ? Of course not! Still shows, however, defunct WRMI frequencies like 6915; god, is BS incompetent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WWRB U S A. 9329.869 unstable fq, wandered down to x.863 at 1150 UT on June 2, WBCQ TOM BS sermon, S=8 signal in remote central Florida-US post. SB mode audio sideband visible. Also heard TOM BS sermon on 9369.988 kHz measured exact fq, WWRB S=9+20dB signal in central Florida remote SDR installation, at 1154 UT on June 2. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, June 3 at 0226, Brother Hysterical via WRMI has dredged up yet again his rant of more than a year ago against yours truly, asserting that he doesn`t give a damn what Mr Glenn Hauser thinks; refers to a date May 13, as I had merely reported the fact that some of his frequencies were not appearing as scheduled; and also goes ballistic about the issue of whether Napoleon ever ruled Michigan, which was something Harold Frodge brought up, not me. Whoopee! Here we go again. In his extremely repetitive scheduling, could be this will now be appearing regularly at approx :25 past various hours. But this time he interrupts himself at 0228.5 to talk about imminent Pentecost, but instead of June 4, the 2017 date he has been running into the ground, he mentions live services we are invited to, the weekend of June 10- 11-12! I looked it up and the last year when Pentecost was on June 12 was 2011!! That should surely confuse his already clueless psychophants. 9370, June 4 at 0024, WWRBS is still on day frequency instead of 3185, and again about 10 seconds behind 9330 WBCQ; with a live-sounding worship(?) service which are usually during the previous hour at 7 pm ET. Maybe expanded for UT Pentecost. BS is making some rudely critical remarx to his congregation of psychophants (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. vs. TURKEY, Radio Exterior de España vs. TRT Voice of Turkey on June 3 1400-1800 15520 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg N/ME Spanish Sa/Su R. Exterior de España 1630-1720 15520 EMR 500 kW / 095 deg WeAs English Daily TRT Voice of Turkey: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/radio-exterior-de-espana-vs-trt-voice.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Turkey was on 15520 first Open carrier/dead air, probably from Radio Exterior de España, June 1 1100&1730 on 15520 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg to N/ME, good with fading & continues http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/open-carrierdead-air-probably-from.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. {once in 1976-1978 TWR Puttalam Sri Lanka erected older mediumwave gear origin from Heusweiler Saarland Germany, wb.} (BCDX June 5 via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Hi Glenn, I hope this finds you and yours well. Yesterday I installed a small dipole yesterday and did some listening here last night, Thurs. UT. Sudan assumed on 9600 0335 / June 1 - Female presenter conversing with male via telephone in African dialect. (My first logging of Sudan here in CenTex BTW) This particular transmission was certainly not Arabic - Juban or otherwise, corroborating your assertion, Glenn, that this hour/dialect is indeed for a non-Arabic speaking populace, as you noted of South Sudan. (Terrible times there right now.) (Robert McEntee, Austin TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 9600 at 0330 is not really transmitted from either Sudan, but from Vatican. The only SW from Sudan (north) is Omdurman on 7205 (barely modulated), and sometimes on 9505. Nothing directly from South Sudan (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** SWAZILAND. 6130, Mar [May?] 26, TWR Swaziland ist gegen 1830 UT vom Sender Mpangela Ranch auf 6130 kHz sehr gut zu hören. Gesendet wird in der Sprache Umbundu, eine in Zentralangola, besonders in den Provinzen Huambo, Bié und Benguela, beheimatete Bantusprache, die von ca. 35 % der Bevölkerung Angolas gesprochen wird. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Salzburg, Austria, SW Bulletein June 4 via DXLD) ** SYRIA [non]. [Re 17-22]: A new Clandestine Syrian station testing on MW --- Aha! So we have also their provider of the satellite transmission. It's a company in Bahrain, using Eutelsat capacity. http://noorsat.com/page/about-noorsat At least one more detail that is not in the mud (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The above prompted Wolfie to run a very long retrospective, some of it from DXLD, of Radio Free Syria, supposedly US-supported, on 13650 via Germany circa 2004y, in BC-DX #1302, accessible via (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 16250, 0655, Sound of Hope, fair in mandarin, 20/5 (Phil van de Paverd, Coopers Beach, New Zealand, R-71E, AOR 7030+, WinradioGR31DDC, Flag antennae N/NE, NE, 200 M, longwire up in the trees, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. 15775even, CHINA, CNR word program jamming, meant against SOH Sound of Hope clandestine Taiwan channel usually on 15775.093 kHz, at 0446 UT on June 3, S=8 signal noted in remote Delhi SDR unit. ONLY, SOH TAIWAN on air at 1300 UT: 15775.090 kHz exact fq (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc, June 3, BCDX June 5 via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 15527, CLANDESTINE, (TADZHIKISTAN) V. of Tibet. Weak at 1302 with Tibetan talk by M sounding like a phone-in report with W studio announcer once or twice, then went off at 1305 at the exact same time 15522 came on. 2 June. 73 and Good DX!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. CHINA, Reception of PBS Xizang on temporary frequency 15680 kHz, June 2: 0903 & 1355 15680 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg EaAs Chinese, weak/fair signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-pbs-xizang-on-temporary.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LINgshi site is far eastward from Tibet border in China proper, much closer to Beijing than Lhasa (gh) 15680even, PBS Xizang Chinese service of Lingshi #725 broadcast center, marked in Aoki Nagoya Japan database as May 16 - June 15 only?, S=8 signal noted in New Delhi remote unit, at 0442 UT on June 3. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. See SPAIN [and non], 15520 collision [WORLD OF RADIO 1881] ** UKRAINE. On June 1, a meeting was held at the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting with the participation of representatives of the radio group, the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, the Ukrainian State Radio Frequency Center and the RRT Concern, the public, at which the prospects for the deployment of experimental digital broadcasting in the DAB + standard were discussed in Ukraine. The territory chosen for the experiment can be Kiev. Positive, said the head of the inter-branch association "Radio Committee" Ekaterina Myasnikova, is the fact that such a meeting and conversation with the industry occur before such an important step for the television and radio information field is implemented, and not after. Therefore, during the meeting, both the advantages that digital radio can give and the risks associated with the introduction of new technology were expressed. Digital radio can be interesting considering the completeness of FM frequencies, it will free up the radio frequency resource and will require less funds for network maintenance and broadcasting than it is with the distribution of an analog signal. The interest in the project was expressed by the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, according to the law on public broadcasting in Ukraine, has no less than three radio channels to say. It is extremely difficult to accomplish this task within the FM range, so the development of new technologies can contribute to solving this issue. Member of the National Council Oleg Chernysh said that today the regulatory body is studying the technical side of the case: where to place the transmitters, what capacity they should be, which should be the contours of that experimental territory and so on. After the information is developed, the National Council represents its market. The regulator is open to the region's proposals and hopes for good cooperation with the broadcasters and the public (Source: National Council website). (from http://proradio.org.ua/news/2017jun.php via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) See also CRIMEA ** U K. One Love Manchester coverage from the BBC is on 9885 kHz until 2100 GMT beamed towards central Europe from Woofferton. Also relayed on 13660 until 2000 & 9915 until 2100. Beamed towards East Europe / North Africa (Martin, 1910 UT June 5, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Re BBC World Service Facebook: Short wave coverage of the concert is available here: West Africa 1800-2000 GMT – 13660 kHz & 15400 kHz 2000-2100 GMT – 9915 kHz & 12095 kHz 1800-2100 GMT – 11810 kHz East Africa 1800-2000 GMT – 3255 kHz, 6190 kHz, 7445 kHz, 9410 kHz 2000-2100 GMT – 7230 kHz Asia South 1800-2100 GMT – 5920 kHz Middle East 1800-1900 GMT – 6195 kHz 1900-2100 GMT – 9885 kHZ (Good reception of Woofferton 9885 and 13660 here in Reading) 73, (Alan Pennington, 1937 UT June 5, ibid.) That was on very short notice, all over now (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9885 kHz Woofferton, here in southern Germany, S=9+55dB tremendous signal, 20 kHz wide music sound signal at 1935 UT. 73 wolfgang ps. also live concert in German TV RBB Berlin Babelsberg program. (Wolfgang Büschel, 1947 UT June 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBC WS relay live One Love Manchester, June 4 2025&2055 on 5920*SLA 250 kW / 010 deg to SoAs English 2025&2055 on 7230#MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to EaAf English 2025&2055 on 9885 WOF 250 kW / 105 deg to N/ME English 2025&2055 on 9915 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg to WeAf English 2025&2055 on 11810 ASC 125 kW / 065 deg to WCAf English 2025&2055 on 12095 ASC 125 kW / 027 deg to WeAf English * co-ch same 5920 WNM 001 kW / 145 deg to SEEu German HCJB # co-ch same 7230 XIA 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/bbc-ws-relay-live-one-love-manchester.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Frequency changes of BBC in Urdu from May 29: 1500-1600 NF 9410 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to SoAs, ex 12075 // frequency 7485 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to SoAs, add.freq // frequency 9445 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu A-17 // frequency 11910 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu A-17 1500-1700 on 9410 SLA 250 kW / 320 deg to CeAs del BBCWS Additional frequencies of BBC to No.Korea, but inactive 1500-1900 on 5895 TAC 100 kW / 068 deg to NEAs English 1500-1900 on 9940 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg to NEAs English 1500-1630 on 9540 SNG 250 kW / 025 deg to NEAs DELETED 1500-1630 on 9940 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg to NEAs DELETED 1730-1900 on 9540 SNG 250 kW / 025 deg to NEAs DELETED 1730-1900 on 9940 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg to NEAs DELETED Additional frequencies of BBC to Somalia, all inactive: 1600-1700 on 9585 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to EaAf English 1600-1700 on 15700 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg to EaAf English 1600-1700 on 17545 WOF 250 kW / 126 deg to EaAf English 1700-1800 on 9585 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to EaAf English 1700-1800 on 11625 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf English 1700-1800 on 17545 WOF 250 kW / 126 deg to EaAf English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/frequency-changes-of-bbc-in-urdu-from.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) ** U K. RADIO CAROLINE AM FREQUENCY ANNOUNCED http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html We can now announce that our AM frequency will be 648 kHz with a power of 1000 watts. This is ERP or simply the power radiated by the aerial. A transmitter was imported from the Continent a few days ago and is now being modified to suit the frequency. There are further hurdles, but as you can see progress is being made (via Mike Terry, June 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) AM LICENCE - A KILOWATT ON 648 --- We are pleased to announce that Ofcom have informed us that our application for an AM licence has been approved and that a licence will be awarded. This is the end of – or a further step in – a process started by Bob Lawrence in 2010 and enthusiastically supported by Tracey Crouch MP. We thank them both and further thank the many other people who have helped along the way. The basis of our application was that our traditional heartland was Essex and Suffolk, where the signal from our ships made first landfall and that we wished to entertain on AM, an audience that we have not been able to serve in this way since 1990. We said that this audience may hear music radio of a style they remember and in some cases presented by the same people they remember. That in essence is what we intend to do (via Mike Terry, MWCircle yg via DXLD) It`s taken Radio Caroline 53 years to get an AM licence and it was perceived as a threat to the BBC for many years. Ironically 648 kHz was best known, for transmitting the BBC World Service in English around the clock on 648 kHz from September 1982 until March 2011 from the Orfordness transmitting station on the Suffolk coast (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGST) I still have my BBC 648 coffee mug ... (Kim Elliott, DC, ibid.) Brilliant; maybe Caroline can produce their version (Mike Terry, ibid.) The 648 kHz channel was 647 pre-1978, and at the time Caroline was first broadcasting off the Essex coast in the 1960s, this frequency was occupied by the BBC Third Programme, broadcasting very different music in addition to serious talks and discussions. Before FM became widespread in the 1950s, the Third was restricted to evening broadcasts after 1900 or so. Its 150 kW transmitter at Daventry, Northants had an inductor incorporated into its lattice steel construction, about two-thirds up the mast, and some top-capacitance elements at the top. This was done to restrict skywave signals, as the transmitter was intended to cover most of England and Wales. I remember stereo demonstrations which were broadcast on this frequency on Saturday mornings in the 1950s. The Daventry transmitter was used for one audio channel and the BBCtv AM sound channel, broadcasting in Band I (41-68 MHz), for the other. 647 kHz (or 464 metres as it was then) was not well received in South Somerset, where I lived then, and the line timebase of our Bush TV interfered with MW on our pre-war Vidor mains superhet. The half-hour broadcasts consisted of music and special effects, like a train approaching and then travelling away from the listener. This transmitter was also used for Test Match Special cricket commentaries. Does anyone else remember these? Regards, (Ian Brooks, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Radio Caroline has reportedly brought a transmitter into the UK in the last few days and is modifying it for its newly assigned 648 kHz (1 kW allocation). I assume that they will be rushing to get 648 kHz on air before the 50th anniversary of Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. 73 (Steve Whitt, June 5, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1881) ** U S A. 6604-USB, June 2 at 0615, New York Radio (WSY70 the listed callsign, never announced), at least is on the air unlike 6754 Trenton, but NYR is full of ``missing`` VOLMET for Bermuda, Nassau, Orlando, Atlanta, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: VOLMET New York --- "New York: Missing." Yes, I also noticed the "missing" VOLMET weather, but this gave me a good opportunity to make a current list of the forecasts and observations that are broadcast. TAFs are Terminal Forecasts, METARs are current weather observations. Here is the hourly schedule: :00 TAF: DET, CLE, CIN METAR: DET, *CLE, *CIN, IND, PIT :05 TAF: BGR, BDL, CLT METAR: *BGR, *BDL, *ORF, *CLT :10 TAF: JFK, EWR, BOS METAR: JFK, EWR, BOS, BWI, IAD :15 TAF: BDA, MIA, ATL METAR: BDA, MIA, NAS, MCO, ATL :30 TAF: ORD, MKE, MSP METAR: DET, BOS, *ORD, *MKE, *MSP :35 TAF: IND, STL, PIT METAR: IND, *STL, *PIT, *ACY :40 TAF: BWI, PHL, IAD METAR: BWI, *PHL, IAD, JFK, EWR :45 TAF: NAS, MCO METAR: BDA, MIA, NAS, MCO, ATL, *TPA, *PBI An asterisk indicates that the weather for this city is broadcast only once each hour. Years ago, weather for the same cities was broadcast each half-hour, but as the list has been expanded to include more cities, this has changed (Mike Cooper, GA, June 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) :20-:30 and :50-:60 cedes to Gander on same frequencies (gh) ** U S A. WHITE HOUSE EYES BANNON ALLY FOR TOP BROADCASTING POST - POLITICO http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/michael-pack-candidate-broadcasting-board-of-governors-239022 Sent from my iPhone (via David Cole, OK, June 1, DXLD) Viz.: Bannon and Pack, a former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive, are mutual admirers and worked on two documentaries together. | Getty [caption] With sweeping new powers, the position would oversee public media reaching 100 countries. By Hadas Gold, 06/01/2017 11:04 AM EDT Updated 06/01/2017 03:35 PM EDT The Trump administration’s leading candidate to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a position that with recent changes would give the appointee unilateral power over the United States’ government messaging abroad reaching millions, is a conservative documentarian with ties to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. Michael Pack, the leading contender for the post, is president and CEO of the Claremont Institute and publisher of its Claremont Review of Books, a California-based conservative institute that has been called the “academic home of Trumpism” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Pack, a former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive, and Bannon are mutual admirers and have worked on two documentaries together. Pack has appeared on Bannon’s radio show and wrote an op-ed in March praising Bannon as a pioneer in conservative documentary filmmaking. Should he be appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate, Pack would be the first CEO of the BBG without a board as a firewall because of a little-noticed provision in last December's National Defense Authorization Act that disbanded the bipartisan board that controls the BBG. “The White House could theoretically use the BBG for any kind of messaging,” one senior government official with direct knowledge of the situation said. “People are generally worried about what might happen next because it would change the nature of BBG from having a CEO and a board and a track record for protecting independence to what might come next." A White House spokesperson declined to comment on Pack, but said the administration has "no announcement at this time." Pack declined to comment through a Claremont Institute spokesperson. The BBG controls Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting and the Middle East Broadcast Network, which constitutes the largest public diplomacy program by the U.S. government, reaching an audience of 278 million by broadcasting in 100 countries and 61 languages. The state-funded media network was originally created to counter the propaganda arms of Nazi Germany. Today, it operates as a series of independent journalistic organizations. It was Voice of America that recorded and published video of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bodyguards beating up protesters in Northwest Washington last month. Though the position of CEO of the BBG is relatively new, the agency has traditionally been rooted in journalistic ideals and independent of the White House or State Department. Current CEO John Lansing is the former president of Scripps Networks, and the first CEO of the BBG was Andy Lack, who now heads NBC News. Before 2015, the day-to-day operations of the BBG were overseen by the board. The recent changes in BBG management are “a really big deal because the board of governors really represents the firewall. And the firewall is a legally mandated firewall which prevents the government from interfering with the editorial independence of the BBG,“ the senior official said. "Once President Trump appoints Pack or anyone else and when or if they’re confirmed by the Senate, then the entire board of governors goes away.” Under the new arrangement, the board of governors will be replaced by an advisory panel. Once confirmed, the new CEO could hire his or her own directors for the five networks under BBG and theoretically push whatever message he or she chose without the board’s approval. WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 18: Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Bannon return to the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump April 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. The president was returning from a trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin where he visited Snap-on tools. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch- Pool/Getty Images) TRUMP WHITE HOUSE GRANTS WAIVERS OF ETHICS RULES --- By Josh Gerstein A Republican government official familiar with the agency’s work told POLITICO in December that abolishing the board will make the BBG susceptible to the influence of Trump’s allies. “There’s some fear among the folks here that the firewall will get diminished and attacked and this could fall victim to propaganda,” the Republican official said in December. “They will hire the person they want; the current CEO does not stand a chance. This will pop up on Steve Bannon’s radar quickly. They are going to put a friendly person in that job.” Pack has extensive experience in broadcasting, having previously served as senior vice president for television programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and as director of WORLDNET, the U.S. Information Agency’s global satellite network, now part of Voice of America. For many years, he ran his own production company, called Manifold Productions, creating dozens of films that aired mainly on PBS. Pack worked with Bannon on two documentaries, one about the Iraq War and the other about a Jewish immigrant from Poland who created the nuclear submarine. It was in The Claremont Review of Books last year that Michael Anton, now director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, wrote under a pseudonym an essay called “The Flight 93 Election" that the Intercept called “the intellectual source code of Trumpism.” In it, Anton argued that Trump’s candidacy represented the last chance to save a hard-line conservative vision for America against liberal opponents and moderate Republicans — charging the “cockpit” of American democracy in the same way the passengers of Flight 93 did on Sept. 11, 2001, sacrificing themselves to prevent greater damage. Pack previously defended the institute, telling The New York Times “The Claremont Institute stands for deep, serious thinking about American founding principles … we are not simply in the partisan fight.” Pack is clearly in tune with Bannon, who has publicly praised Pack, calling him “one of the greatest filmmakers in America today.” In a recent column for The Federalist, Pack praised Bannon’s experience in documentary films, writing that having a documentarian in the White House would hopefully break the liberal “stranglehold” on the documentary industry. “Documentaries provide an important way of understanding our politics, history, and culture. Viewers, and the nation, are better served by a diversity of views,” Pack wrote. Tara Palmeri contributed to this report (Politico.com via DXLD) As reported. I don't vouch for the outcome of this prediction. I'll be retired and out of the building before any such CEO enters the building (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I posted this on one of the FB groups. It shouldn't surprise anyone. It does raise anew the question of Bannon's status in the White House. With the horrendous reputation of the BBG, this would seem to be the perfect way to send Bannon packing while claiming he would be playing an allegedly crucial role in a dysfunctional agency. It is difficult to say the least to imagine someone like Bannon wanting to walk into such a run down, depressing building as the one BBG/VOA are located in, on a daily basis. Would be quite a demotion from being in the White House (Dan Robinson, ex-VOA White House correspondent, ibid.) Certainly a fitting fate for Bannon -- although ideologically, we're more likely to see Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, Ann Coulter or Tila Tequila in this post! (And where is Joe Adamov when we need him??) (Greg Hardison, CA, ibid.) Er, it`s not Bannon himself, but an ally of his, this is about (gh) Ironic that this guy has such a CPB/PBS pedigree, given the Trumpers' desires to completely disband public broadcasting in the U.S (Greg Hardison, ibid.) ** U S A. Letters === VOA SHOULD COME CLEAN ON MANDARIN SERVICE https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/voa-should-come-clean-on-mandarin-service-1496603701 In my 11 years of experience at VOA, I am unaware of anything like this having happened before. Guo Wengui during his April 19 Voice of America interview. Photo: Voice of America/YouTube [caption] June 4, 2017 3:15 p.m. ET As a former director of the Voice of America, I was surprised at the current VOA director's May 26 letter upbraiding the performance of her Mandarin language service chief. Amanda Bennett said that Sasha Gong didn't uphold "the journalistic principles . . . [that] apply universally to all VOA services." This accusation was made in respect to a live VOA interview with expatriate Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui who had some explosive revelations to make on how Chinese businesses are suborned into supporting the Chinese government's spying on its own citizens. In my day, such an interview would have been considered a coup. What went wrong? As far as I am aware, no one has raised any journalistic concerns regarding the content of the interview. Nor does it appear that the broadcast took place without permission, as it was monitored live by several senior members of VOA management. Nonetheless, the broadcast was abruptly terminated at an hour and 16 minutes into what was to be a three-hour interview. What must the Chinese audience have thought of this? In my 11 years of experience at VOA, I am unaware of anything like this having happened before. It is equally strange that five members of the Mandarin service have been suspended, pending an investigation. My Feb. 18 article on VOA mentions a particularly egregious violation of journalistic standards at its Ukrainian service from last October. There have been others, as amply documented at BBG Watch. None of these reported instances has resulted in personnel suspensions or investigations. Why the draconian action regarding the five Mandarin service members? Any investigation ought also to go to VOA's management to make sure these questions are adequately answered. Robert R. Reilly, Vienna, Va. (WSJ via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. TOUR OF VOA GREENVILLE --- VOA SITE B, GREENVILLE, NC By Paul Thurst, on April 30th, 2017 10 comments I took a brief vacation last week along the coast of North Carolina. It was relaxing and fun to be sure. I was also aware of and slightly curious about the Voice Of America shortwave site, a slight distance inland in Grimesland, NC. Thus, I made arrangements visit the facility on my way home. Chief Engineer, Macon Dail, was gracious enough to give us the guided tour. The facility is an engineering marvel. The scale and complexity is enormous. The entire facility is scrupulously maintained. Many of the transmitters and other equipment have been upgraded to make them more functional. I tried to take meaningful pictures, but in many cases, they simply do not do justice. . . http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2017/04/voa-site-b-greenville-nc/ This was mentioned in DXLD already but here is a direct link. Also other interesting blogposts from him above and below it (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. VOA Radiogram, 3-4 June, this weekend is mostly MFSK32, with some MFSK16. And some Amharic text. It just so happens that Ethiopia has shut down its Internet during school exams. http://voaradiogram.net/post/161364977677/voa-radiogram-3-4-june-2017-hypersonic-digital (Kim Elliott, June 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: VOA Radiogram is a Voice of America program experimenting with digital text and images via shortwave broadcasting. It is produced and presented by Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott. VOA Radiogram, 3-4 June 2017: Hypersonic digital modes Images received by Tarmo in Estonia, 27 May 2017, 1600-1630 UT, 17580 This weekend, VOA Radiogram will add a new transmission, Sunday, 0600- 0630 UT, 7730 kHz via WRMI Florida. See the schedule below. In that schedule, the three WRMI broadcasts will be the schedule for the successor to VOA Radiogram starting the weekend of June 24-25. I have yet to decide on a name for the successor to VOA Radiogram. Your ideas and suggestions are welcome! See the voaradiogram.net website for this news about Roger in Germany decoding text from the fourth(!) audio harmonic. This weekend’s VOA Radiogram is, as usual, mostly in MFSK32, with some MFSK16. There is also some text in Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia. You will need the UTF-8 character set for the Amharic to display correctly. In Fldigi, UTF-8 is the default character set, but you can check to make sure via Configure > Colors & Fonts. In TIVAR, UTF-8 is the only available character set. Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 218, 3-4 June 2017, all in MFSK32 except where noted: 1:49 Program preview 3:03 Hypersonic space plane* 7:30 India opens longest bridge in its northeast* 14:37 Ethiopia cuts off internet during exams * ** 20:24 MFSK16: WSPR from Canadian C3 voyage 24:40 MFSK32: Image* and closing announcements * with image ** use UTF-8 character set for Amharic Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 1500-1530 UT on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with the minute of MFSK at about 1530. If you are outside of Europe, listen via http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UT (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. The minute of MFSK is at about 0130. On 9400 kHz, Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/ Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit http://ibcradio.webs.com/ Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule below: WEDNESDAY 1855 UT 6070 KHZ TO EUROPE 1955 UT 1584 KHZ TO EUROPE THURSDAY 0255 UT 1584 KHZ TO EUROPE FRIDAY 0125 UT 9955 KHZ TO CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA SATURDAY 0155 UT 11580 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA 2025 UT 1584 KHZ TO SOUTH EUROPE SUNDAY 0055 UT 7730 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA 1055 UT 6070 KHZ TO EUROPE (via DXLD) LOG: VOA Radiogram #218 via WRMI 7730 kHz O = 2 (06.00-06.30z) SYSTEM D, weak audio, MFSK-32: text: 50% ok, RSID was not decoded, did not work. MFSK-16: text: 75% ok (dipol, IC-R75, Germany, Southern part of Saxony Anhalt) Local sunrise was at 0313z. Now it is 0630z, end of radiogram #218 (roger thayer, germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On my old computer with Windows XP SP3 I only saw cryptic characters, although I have an additional installation for East Asian fonts. But Ethiopia must obviously be somewhere else .... ;-) On my Windows7-PC the stickmen fonts were immediately visible. Here the results, even enlarged, for older persons with bad glasses: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-06-03.htm#Amharic (roger, ibid.) ** U S A. [Re 17-22:]. >> USA BBG/VOA, "I got the word that all shortwave will be eliminated in the new budget": No such hints at all in the related document, instead mentions of antenna repairs at Greenville, Tinian and Tinang: https://www.bbg.gov/wp-content/media/2017/05/FY2018Budget_CBJ_05-23-17.pdf Now the really wild speculation: Is this budget justification to be considered the conception of the old Lansing leadership, now obsolete with the new leader already chosen, this Bannon buddy from the TV business (specifically PBS, how ironic) who could ask what's the point with this legacy shortwave stuff, so let's get rid of it once and for all? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, June 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Deleted frequencies of Voice of America in Oromo/Amharic/Tigrinya 1730-1800 on 11720 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon-Fri 1730-1800 on 13860 UDO 250 kW / 276 deg to EaAf Oromo Mon-Fri 1800-1900 on 11720 LAM 100 kW / 132 deg to EaAf Amharic Daily 1800-1900 on 13860 WOF 300 kW / 122 deg to EaAf Amharic Daily 1900-1930 on 11720 LAM 100 kW / 132 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1900-1930 on 13860 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot. bg/2017/06/frequency-change- of-voa-radio-ashna.html (DX RE MIX NEWS # 011 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, June 4, 2017 via DXLD) ** U S A. VOA News now relayed by WRMI: q.v. below ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: 5850, WRMI, 1030. GH - W.o.R. Interesting report on PRC government push to censor a negative report about them and their inbeded [sic] corruption, which was to air over VoA. Armchair reception. May 31. Assume language English unless stated otherwise. Equipment was RS SW-2000629, 20’ wire. Listening from my patio without car or lake. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Fair signal of HLR relays on 6190 CUSB, June 3 World of Radio #1880: 0630-0700 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/fair-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-6190-cusb.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: confirmed Friday June 2 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.12v-CUSB, fair. Next shortwave airings: 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 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 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 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tnx to Gary Drew, we have a new webcasting affiliate: [non]. World Of Radio on Laser Soul Hits --- Hi Glenn, It's been a long time since I contacted you. I am pleased to announce Laser Soul Hits now has World of Radio in the schedule every night (on rotation) from midnight - 6 am BST / 2300-0500 UT approx. This is included in the documentary and pirate and offshore radio archive slot in that 6 hour block. Laser Soul Hits is part of Laser Hot Hits http://lasersoulhits.bravesites.com/listenlive It is totally online 24 hours a day 7 days per week. 2 streams 192k and 64k. Please spread the word. http://web-radio.co.uk:8026/index.html Best 73, Hope to hear from you soon, Go tell a friend, tell 'em Laser is back. Regards, (Gary Drew (worldwide), May 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1880, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WOR 1880 will be added tomorrow and your regular time is now just past 23 UT on Saturday night and Sunday night. The rest of the week it will rotate between 2300-0500. That's going to be set in stone from this coming Saturday. From now on your latest programme will be added every Friday. Best Regards Gary http://lasersoulhits.bravesites.com/listenlive https://www.fmdab.eu/eu-offshore-am-station-laser-soul-hits Sent from my iPhone, Gary Drew, June 1`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) World of radio is now regular at just after 2300 UT Sunday and Monday on Laser Soul Hits. UK late Saturday night and Sunday night at midnight. [therefore, he really means UT Saturday and Sunday ---gh] http://lasersoulhits.bravesites.com/listenlive The rest of the week from Monday to Friday it will rotate anytime from 2300 to 0500 UT as part of the offshore pirate radio documentary and sponsored programme slot. As soon as the latest WOR is released it should be added asap. Laser Soul Hits is broadcasting 24 hours a day. Sent from my iPhone Posted by: (Gary Drew, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: confirmed Saturday June 3 at 2230 on WBCQ, 9330.08-CUSB, good. Also confirmed on new webcast from Laser Soul Hits, after 2300 UT Saturday June 3 via http://lasersoulhits.bravesites.com/listenlive Also confirmed at 0200 UT Sunday June 4 on WRMI 11580, good. Next: 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 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 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9485, HLR, Goehren, 1030-1100, 04-06, English, ID “Hamburger LokalRadio”, Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Weak signal of HLR relays on 9485CUSB, June 4 PCJ Media Network Plus 1000-1030 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun World of Radio#1880 1030-1100 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun Radio Tropicana 1100-1200 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Spanish Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/weak-signal-of-hlr-relays-on-9485-khz.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday June 4 at 0333 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about CHU, so ~8 minutes into show which would have started circa 0325. Also confirmed at 1030 UT June 4 on HLR 9485- CUSB, Germany, by Ivo as weak in Bulgaria. Also confirmed Sunday June 4 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.08v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed here UT Monday June 5 starting at 0302 on Area 51 webcast and presumably WBCQ 5129.82-AM. Also confirmed UT Monday June 5 at 0345 the 0330 airing on WRMI 9955. First checked webcast which has changed URL for the 9955 stream to: http://wrmi.listen.creek.fm/stream Also confirmed Monday June 5 at 2341, the 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330.12v-CUSB, fair to good. Also confirmed UT Tuesday June 6 after 0030 on the WRMI System D webcast at its new URL (formerly System B for 9955) of http://67.239.246.10:8000/listen.pls which during this hour is feeding the 7730 transmitter. This also applies to other light-blue blox on 11580, 15770, 5850, depending on the time, but not all the time on any of them. Next WORs: 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 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1880 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday June 6 after 2130 on WRMI 9455 // weaker 15770, and also on System D webcast. Also confirmed Tue June 6 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.1v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed Wednesday June 7 at 1328 the 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, good S9 with no jamming. Also confirmed Wed June 7 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490, poor in summer noise level; also confirmed Wed June 7 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.1-CUSB, good. WORLD OF RADIO 1881 contents: Alaska, Argentina non, Bangladesh, Bougainville, Brasil, Canada, China, Cuba, East Turkistan, France non, Germany, Indonesia, International Waters, Italy, Korea North and non, Mali, Myanmar, North America, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Solomon Islands, South Carolina non, Spain, Turkey, UK and non, USA, Yemen non WORLD OF RADIO 1881 ready for first SW airing June 8: Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW 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 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 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 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. Dear Mr. Hauser, My name is Collin Parks and I am the President of the Board of Directors for KRFP Radio Free Moscow. We are a progressive independent radio station operating in the town of Moscow in Northern Idaho. We are proud to be the only Pacifica- affiliated station in the area for most of our fourteen year history. We are currently undergoing a massive fundraising campaign to boost our signal and reach more people than ever before in our deeply conservative wing of the nation. If successful, we could bring our uniquely progressive programming to more than double our current audience and expand our signal range well beyond our present reach. That lineup includes World of Radio as well as other local and syndicated programs dedicated to the values of peace, justice, democracy, human rights, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and freedom of expression. We would like to know if you would be willing to produce a promotional spot encouraging our listeners to contribute to this campaign. Our listeners adore your programming and would love to hear from you. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, (- Collin Parks, KRFP, via DXLD) This is Glenn Hauser, proud that World of Radio has been heard on Radio Free Moscow since it began in October, 2004, Sunday mornings at 6 Pacific, now 13 hours Universal time, in the company of so much great programming and music, from Idaho! I urge you to support KRFP`s campaign to go full power. We need all the progressive independent radio we can get, in this age of constant assaults on the media. Help community radio grow on the Palouse by calling your pledge now to 208, 892-9300, or online via http://www.radiofreemoscow.org From Glenn, good listening on shortwave --- and KRFP! (GH promo recorded for KRFP fundraiser the week of June 11-17) KRFP is on 90.3 ** U S A. 5129.64, 0055-0105 26.5, WBCQ, Monticello, Maine. English religious talk - poor modulation, best in USB, but heterodyne, 32331 5129.84, 0235-0245 1.6, WBCQ, Monticello, Maine. English religious talk - better modulation, no heterodyne 25222 (Anker Petersen, my recent loggings on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, wbradio yg via DXLD) I`ve found it to be quite stable around 5129.83, never caught it lately on .64 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGST) Tonight's AWWW --- At 2345 [UT June 2] during Fred Flintstone, the WBCQ 7490 transmitter went down. Signal had been at 20 over. Was down for approximately two minutes and came back up. Signal was down to slightly under S9 and audio was distorted. At 2353 the transmitter went down again. There was an attempt to start it at 2357 but it didn't actually come up until 0000. AWWW started on time. Allan said there had been a power blip and the transmitter didn't recover on its own. He was going through all the circuits and banging on things and finally got it to stay up. Phone rang before he completely finished the transmitter story. First call started out about tubes, metal tubes vs. glass tubes and the merits and qualities of each but quickly morphed into a discussion of Allan's college days in Maine, how he built an FM station for the college and then a TV station and how after first semester in school he was hired by the college to maintain the stations he'd built while able to finish his education for free since he was a college employee. This morphed into Allan teaching a couple classes at the college and then the discussion morphed back to tubes. Mr. Transistor, Norm, called them and their conversation quickly shifted to tubes, both metal and glass again and then morphed into discussion about lightning. Announced at 0102 that he was going to read the email and another phone call came through. After the phone call was Robert's report on station news. Behavior Night ran episode number 400 earlier that evening and Dead Frog Radio is leaving the air and will return in a year when the programmer is out of prison. Reading of email starts again at 0115 but another phone call at 0118. Email starts again at 0128. Allan reads the Free Radio Report sent in by Larry Will and while reading reporters names ponders if Glenn Hauser does anything beside listening to pirates and Allan Weiner. Taken to task by two callers this evening about a comment last week that all Democrats were perverts. Explained that he was merely joking. Off the air at 0147 with a signal strength better than 20 over (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, UT June 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My pirate monitoring is minuscule compared to some other guys like Joe Filipkowski who seem to spend all their time doing that (gh, DXLD) 7490.060, WBCQ talk on Genesis, at 0419 UT [June 3], S=8 signal across Atlantic into Germany receiving post. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, UT Thursday June 1 at 0200, I`m checking WRMI Oldies channel since on May 31, Richard Langley in NB was hearing VOA News ending circa 0215 on this frequency! But not tonight. After Argentina finished, back to music past 0200; 0204 commercial for cheap flightgs via an 800 number, 0205 more music, Beatles` ``Penny Lane`` et al., past 0215. It seems that 9395 is open for who knows what, with no specific full 24/7 schedule published on the WRMI website (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ARGENTINA [non] I noticed that too --- 9395, WRMI with RAE programming, English interview of YL living in London talking about how it is different than Argentina with an OM in the studio on "Argentines Around the World" Mention of "Audio Now" audio on demand phone number at 0156 and then into English news headlines read by YL. "RAE to the world via WRMI" ID and sked at 0158 YL had a VERY 'Italian' sounding accent! Music to ToH and WRMI ID. Then into Zydeco music and other eclectic oldies like Elvis. ID and into VoA news at 0210. Then into more oldies including Simon and Gar- funkle, "Do the Hustle" etc. (Not ALL oldies are good!) and occasional PSA 'ad'. Gotta say, "Brother Jeff" is doing a good job with this frequency --- a nice mix of international talk and oldies is hard to beat! 4+4+54+4+ with occasional fade revealing my local noise which wasn't much of a challenge for this signal. 0145-0240 31/May, HQ-150 +randomwire --Zichi MI -- One can never be too rich, too thin or have too many radios. D<-- and I'm still not with stupid! --> R (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Again, last night (2 June UT). Noticed it ending at about 0210 UT. VOA News is typically only five minutes long, so when it's broadcast by WRMI, I guess it can start (inconsistently) anytime after the start of the hour (-- Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395, UT Saturday June 3 at 0203, instead of Oldies, WRMI is running Ask WWCR, instead of Viva Miami, the one about NASB meeting discussing DRM, etc. So there will be no VOA 5-minute news inserted this quarter- hour as others have reported more than once. 0224 recheck ``greatest music of all time on 9395 and 9455 kHz, WRMI``. So the second frequency has been added, except during this hour it`s BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA News appeared later in the hour last night. Started just before 0245 UT running until about 0250. The bulletin was identical to that available for the hour on the VOA News website. Seems VOA News can show up at anytime during at least this hour on 9395 kHz (-- Richard Langley, June 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395, UT Sunday June 4 at 2228 tune-in, WRMI Oldies channel with VOA News outro. It seems WRMI is throwing these 5-minute newscasts on at random times, also reported varying during the 02-03 UT hour. Presumably the latest hourly edition from the VOA stream, and maybe at many other spots during the 24h. Not a bad idea, since VOA makes itself so hard to hear on SW otherwise; and next FY budget could do away with its own SW altogether. But we`d rather have them at reliable times such as hourtops or hourbottoms (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UT) 11580 kHz Schedule From my recording last Sunday evening: 2015 Holy Gospel 2030 VOA Radiogram 2100 Radio Slovakia in English 2130 Walking in Power 2200 World Music 2300 Wavescan 2330 VOA Radiogram (repeat) 0000 Radio Slovakia in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia in English (repeat) 0100 At [sic] WWCR (another repeat of the NASB episode) 0115 Made in Italy 0130 Evangelical Outreach 0200 Wavescan (repeat) 0230 Radio Prague in English (-- Richard Langley, June 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395 // 9455, Monday June 5 at 1314, VOA News until 1315 back to WRMI ID and Oldies. So I missed it again, presumably 5 minutes from 1310, but start times vary widely. A good way to get some credible American news on WRMI without cost (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105 & 9930, June 2 at 2010, two-thirds of WTWWs are off, leaving only 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5829.986, WTWW, English phone-in program, but audio MUCH BUZZY, on screen two x 120 Hertz distance apart heavy strings visible, either sidebands. Noted at 0415 UT on June 3. Talk on Worldwide Extension Studies, and WTWW presenter forecasts in the past. Noted on remote unit in central Florida-US [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12105 & 9930 & 9475 & 5830, June 4 at 1840, all three WTWWs are OFF (Glenn Hauser, OK, , WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5810, June 5 at 0535, WEWN Spanish is OFF; while 11520 English is on as usual (and propagating in summer nightmiddle better than in winter). 12050, June 5 at 1427, however, WEWN Spanish is on. Altho only two frequencies at any one time, one Spanish, one English, I was told that different transmitters are used for hi and low bands. 12050, June 5 at 2355, WEWN Spanish QSY announcement, off at 2355.5, and 5810 comes up about 0.5 minute later, much stronger now with Salve Regina. Even if two different transmitters, takes a while to make the antenna switch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17815, June 5 at 1924, WHRI with gospel huxter musing that he will still have SW ``if they take internet away from us``. Not BS, and not // other TOM stations, but TOM was scheduled this hour M-F on 21610, which this frequency replaced a few weeks ago, altho the WHR schedule still shows 21.610! http://lesea.com/whr/whr-iframe-page/?search=Angel1 Might have been TOM anyway but separate programming from the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Unscheduled broadcast of Brother HySTAIRical 11-12 UT via WWCR-1 100 kW / 046 deg to WEu on June 7 --- New additional broadcast of Brother HySTAIRical via WWCR-1 is scheduled in A17: 1000-1100 on 15795 Mo-Fr, but today continues also 1100-1200 on 15795 instead of vary lang as follows 1100-1115 on 15795 instead of English Daily in A17 1115-1130 on 15795 instead of Arabic Mo-Fr in A17 1130-1145 on 15795 instead of Russian Mo-Fr in A17 1145-1200 on 15795 instead of English Daily in A17 from 1200 on 15825 WWCR-1 religious programming, as scheduled A17 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/unscheduled-broadcast-of-brother.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair to good signal of WWCR-1 World Wide Christian Radio Nashville, June 8 1114&1129 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg WeEu Arabic/Russian Mon-Fri, insread of: 1100-1200 on 15795 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu Brother HySTAIRical TOM, June 7 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-wwcr-1-world-wide.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185, June 2 at 0157, WWRB reactivated on 90m with Brother Scare, // but not synch with 7570 WRMI. This goes with resumed daytime frequency 9370 heard earlier June 1; like previous operation these two likely adding up to 24/7 blather from brother. He`s currently obsessed with some event on June 4. 3185 is registered 24h available for WWRB, but no doubt used at night only, exact switchover times with 9370 as yet unknown, but the latter not supposed to start until 1300 despite my hearing it as early as 1218 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Started June 1 WWRB Morrison reactivated on 90mb & 31mb with Brother HySTAIRical TOM: 0100-1100 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English, last on air in B-15 1100-0100 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English, last on air in B-15 Exact switchover times from 3185 kHz to 9370 kHz & from 9370 kHz to 3185 kHz were published in http://overcomerministry.org/radio-schedule but nothing mentioned in http://www.wwrb.org HFCC shows 24 hrs on 3185 and 1300-2400 on 9370, in B15 was: 0000-1300 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English, Brother HySTAIRical 1300-2400 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English, Brother HySTAIRical http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/wwrb-reactivated-on-90mb-31mb-with.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, June 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Toll Brothers outline plans for Scituate's `proving grounds' - News - Scituate Mariner - Scituate, MA http://scituate.wickedlocal.com/news/20170421/toll-brothers-outline-plans-for-scituates-proving-grounds (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Scituate, world famous to us as the site of ex-SW station WRUL/WNYW, will become a built-to-order retirement community. ``Shortwave station`` mentioned once in passing in this long story (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Recently, my lovely wife and I had the opportunity to accompany our older daughter and her family (her husband and their "almost" 3-year old daughter) on a quick - emphasis on "quick" - getaway to their property in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, for an extended Memorial Day weekend. I carried my CCrane Skywave and a couple of replacement sets of new batteries with me. This was going to be a bare-bones, impromptu mini-DXpedition for me! I have attached my bandscan log file. There was one station log (KONO 860, San Antonio, TX) that I want to emphasize. The NRC AM Radio Log, 37th Edition, shows this station as "CBS Sports Radio 860." Well, they have dropped that format/network and are now "The Big 86" and play "The Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's." They have a web stream of their FM at http://www.kono1011.com/ I don't know if any DX'er has already sent this in as an official update to the NRC AM Log, so Wayne Heinen, here 'ya go!! Like I said, this was a bare-bones effort, so my log looks pretty bleak. The next time my wife and I make the trip to Horseshoe Bay, I'll be better-equipped! 73 and Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Houston TX, June 6, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. 880, KRVN, Lexington NE; 12N MDT-3:34 PM CDT, 29-May; Normal programming suspended due to Memorial Holiday. Clark Howard Show to 3 PM CDT, then The Working Ranch Show (a 1000 lb. cow produces an average of 4 tons of manure a year). ToH & BoH Fox News; ad for Jaeger Farm bulls (not just semen, the whole bull). (Harold Frodge, CO/NE, MARE Tipsheet June 2 via DXLD) His favorite station each year on trip from Michigan to New Mexico and back (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. IN WISCONSIN, WHA CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF BROADCASTING June 3, 2017 7:32 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday Maureen McCollum From Wisconsin Public Radio WHA and Wisconsin Public Radio helped set the template for what became NPR. This year marks the station's centennial. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the oldest radio stations in this country celebrates its 100th birthday this year, Wisconsin Public Radio on WHAA. WHA AM helped develop the framework for the public radio system we're familiar with today. So we asked WPR's Maureen McCollum to tell us about her station's legacy. . . As heard on NPR Weekend Edition Saturday June 3 via KOSU: Rush transcript and link to 5:12 of audio: http://www.npr.org/2017/06/03/531347355/celebrating-a-wisconsin-radio-station-s-100-years (via gh, DXLD) Never mentions original callsign 9XM! Now 970 kHz (gh) ** U S A. I imagine some of the people on the list are wondering what became of KEVA. Has the tower been taken down and is the building being used for something else? It is so sad to see a local station close down like that. 73, (Kit, W5KAT, CO, ABDX via DXLD) [1240 kHz, 1/1 kW, Evanston WY, where Michael used to work; still in NRC AM Log 2016-2017 as if active] KEVA's building is still sitting there. Basically abandoned. Tower is still up. Everything is as we left it. License finally got deleted a few weeks ago, as I think someone posted here. Ownership of the building and land is still a fuzzy area. From what I can tell, the people who "bought" the building and land and equipment "bought" it through a property tax auction since the property tax had not been paid. The reason I say "bought" is because I don't believe that is the case. I believe they have a tax lien against it. But the ownership still belongs to the original owners, Carol Carroll and Becky Smith. The people who "bought" it through the property tax stuff, they haven't tried to take it over or do anything with it or anything like that. It's just sitting there. I drive by and check on it every once in a while. No broken windows, the roof is not falling in. This is a small town where we don't really have problems with transients or squatters, so I don't think anyone's been in there since I was last in there; that was back in 2015, I think. There is a tuff shed out front where most of all the old equipment was piled in, and that thing had its front door open forever. We're not sure how or why, and there's nothing in there worth stealing. But I did get a call from the sheriff's department at 4:30 am one day saying I was still listed as the contact for stuff like that. I was asleep and didn't hear the phone, just the voice mail. So I think he tried to close the door but it didn't stay. As far as I could tell, there's nothing missing from it. The door is closed now, and I'm not sure if it was the owner's son that went up and closed it, or someone else, maybe one of the deputies that got it shut and to stay shut. No news otherwise, and I don't know if anything will ever come of it all. Sad (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) That is sad; thanks for the update, Michael. The saving grace here, I guess, is that if there were ever to be another FCC filing window for new AM facilities, it would be fairly easy to relicense something on 1240 in Evanston, since it's still a fully-spaced full-time available channel. I don't see that happening for a long time, though, if ever (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) Well, we do have an idiot in town that claims the FCC is giving the license to him. Wait....wha? Yeah. He's a nut case. I mean he is OUT THERE. Want a good laugh? Here's his facebook page with links to his blog and so forth. https://www.facebook.com/ayrewolf1 (Michael n Wyo, ibid.) http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=73816 (Dennis Gibson, CA, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) Wow, Cool! Thanks, Dennis. Had no idea there actually was a letter sent. Not sure if the house in Kemmerer is still hers or if her son lives there or something like that. If I know Carol, even if she DID get word of it, she told him to throw it away. She really just wanted the place to go away and never think about it again. I guess she got her wish (MJR n WYO, ibid.) ** U S A. 1630 kHz, June 3 at 0610 UT, open carrier/dead air from KKGM TX, atop KCJJ Iowa City, ``The Mighty 1630`` ID by the latter at 0614 UT. Checking since Mark Sills, Dallas, informed me June 2 at 1603 UT that his 1630 station had been putting out a `loud roar for a couple of days with feedback``. He tried calling them, but no answer or disconnected. At 1609 UT he followed up, that he had reached someone at a sibling station who said it was the phone company`s fault, as they were unable to contact the transmitter to turn it off. I say, you`d think that after a few days, they should have managed to physically enter the transmitter site if that was the only way to control it! 1630, June 4 at 0611 UT, KKGM Fort Worth TX (street address in Dallas; QSL address in Lexington KY per NRC AM Log), is still diffusing dead air, atop KCJJ Iowa making a SAH of about 7 Hz with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1630, June 8 at 0608 UT check, gospel music, presumed KKGM TX back in whack after days of dead air, still with SAH of about 7 Hz from KCJJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Correxion to this sporadic E FM DX log, May 30 UT: ``101.5, at 1816, 855-773-8634 for RPFunding.com, AETNA, CNS Health, 904-AC number, Virginia College ad, ``V1015.iheart.com``; 1818 RDS finally lox in: V_101.5__ and then with music info: / THROWBAC / BACK- HIP; 1823, ``All new V101.5`, Throwback, `Hip-Hoppin` R&B``. No fit for any FL station, so search for any such 101.5 finds: [WMXV, 101.5, ST. JOSEPH TN, 2.85 kW H&V, 147.6 m HAAT, 34-55-47, 87- 31-44, V 101.5, URBAN AC] An itty-bitty town about 2 miles from the AL border near Florence, so site could be in AL. Radio-locator.com indeed does show it well into Alabama, closer to Florence. St Joseph itself anyway: 949 km/only 590 st mi`` Your V-101.5 is more likely Brunswick, GA. Jacksonville market, 904 Area Code (Dave Bright, Sent from my iPhone, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Tnx, Dave. O, I should have pursued the AC rather than the slogan. Who would expect more than one ``V101.5``? It all depends on punxuation. In the Slogan field of the WTFDA DB (but not the other fields!), WSOL has a hyphen: V-101.5, while searching on V 101.5 with a space and no hyphen leads only to WMXV. V101.5 with no space or hyphen leads nowhere. WSOL should be required to utter ``V hyphen 101.5``! [WSOL-FM 101.5 BRUNSWICK GA 100.0 kW H&V, 446.0 m HAAT, 30-49-16, 81- 44-14, HD, 15A7 - 'KCDR', V101.5 - Song/Artist, V101.5 - Song/Artist, Rhythm and Blues, V-101.5, CLASSIC HIP-HOP] 1622 km/1008 st mi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 92.3, June 1 at 1830 UT on caradio, mixture of Radio Oklahoma Network and Woodward ads, marginal signal from 10.5 kW H&V, 368 m HAAT, KMZE (why so low powered?), AND equally poor marginal signal but this time by sporadic E, KTAR ID in passing; 1833 ``News station, KTAR`` --- Es map earlier showed activity from the west, and this is: [KTAR-FM 92.3 GLENDALE AZ, 98.0 kW, 545.0 m HAAT, 33-19-58, 112-03-48, HD, KTAR NEWS ON 92.3 & KTAR.COM, NEWS/TALK] per WTFDA FM Database; 1342 km/834 statute miles. Nothing else detected in this opening (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UT June 6 the 6-m maps are showing Es DX paths into Oklahoma and MUFs into FM, so I start DXing from the porch: 88.1, at 0040 UT, interview about terrorism, soon evident as part of `The World`, and RDS shows: WRJA___, but also has some CCI besides the Okies. At 0058, still/again with same stable RDS ID as The World is outroducing. This is it per WTFDA FM Database: [WRJA-FM, 88.1, SUMTER SC, 98.0 kW H&V, 305 m HAAT, 33-52-52, 80-16-14, 8276, WRJA, PS} South Carolina ETV, Public, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO, NEWS/TALK] 1617 km/1005 st mi 90.1, at 0047, Es talk CCI to KUCO OK 92.9, at 0048, singing ID as ``Eagle 92.9``, and RDS as _EAGLE__ This is: [WEGX, 92.9, DILLON SC, 100.0 kW H&V, 492.9 m HAAT, 34-22-04, 79- 19-21, 5FEB, TODAY'S COUNTRY WEGX EAGLE 92.9, - Country, EAGLE 92.9 COUNTRY] 1691 km/1051 st mi 93.1, at 0050, ``Hot 95-5 and 93-1`` non-ID twice, CCI from baseball. It`s: [WCHZ-FM, //W238AU, 93.1, WARRENTON GA, 4.1 kW H&V, 122.0 m HAAT, 33-29-59, 82-37-09, 5ABF, HOT 95.5/93.1, CLASSIC HIP-HOP] 1427 km/887 st mi 97.1, at 0100, algo by Es briefly squeezed against local 96.9 94.1, at 0102, Es rock, vs over-modulation spikes from local KLGB-LP 94.3, also ruining 94.5, now playing nothing but raucous gospel rock 97.9, at 0104, rock briefly vs 98.1 OKC; 0107 different music CCI But MUF drops out next few minutes and I quit for now. Finishing writing this report at 0300, I see the MUF is again heavy into FM (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Sporadic E FM DX opening, June 7, monitored on porch as usual with PL-880 and DX-398, all times UT, distances city-to-city, not site: 89.9, at 1616, public radio talk show // 90.1 over KUCO but not synch; 1617 pause for PRI plug, and this show is `Here & Now`; promo NPR ATC at 4, and more promos with tags only giving the time, not the station. Judging from below DX, the PTA leads to likely this: [WJWJ-FM, 89.9, BEAUFORT SC, 47.0 kW H&V, 334.0 m HAAT, 32-42-42, 80-40-54, 8CEC, WJWJ, WJWJ 89.9, www.SCETV.org, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO, NEWS/TALK, RDS currently turned off] 1638 km/1018 st mi. Beaufort is near the southern tip of SC hear Hilton Head Island, and Savannah GA. (There is no public radio in Georgia on 89.9.) 96.3, at 1622, ad for John Ford(?) phone 706-4000, then weather forecast from ``NBC-26``, and ``96---something FM`` fade during ID, soul music. NBC 26 no doubt refers to virtual channel of some TV station. Searching on that leads to top two, Green Bay WI, and Augusta GA-Aiken SC, surely the latter tho there could be others. W9WI.com TV listings are all by RF channel, so can`t search easily on virtuals. If one can do this at rabbitears.info, I`m not aware of it. Seems both should enable sorts by virtual channels as well as RF channels. Anyhow, the 96.3 near Augusta is: [WKSP, 96.3, AIKEN SC, 17.5 kW H&V, 258.0 m HAAT, 33-41-06, 81-55-36, HD, 17F3 - 'KDAH', WKSP - Song/Artist, WKSP - Song/Artist, 96.3 KISS FM, URBAN AC] 1505 km/935 st mi At 1624-1629, bandscanning has few openings for Es, as OK morning tropo is still up, e.g. Tulsa on 97.1, 99.5, Elk City on 96.5. 88.1, June 7 at 1630, `Here & Now` same as on 91.7 KOSU but not synch (KOSU has a delay to match its HD). 1631 Promo for `Fresh Air`, ``this evening``, and `The World` also this evening; and `Q` on PRI ``this evening at 9``; 1633 finally ``For South Carolina Public Radio I`m --- ``. So this one is: [WRJA-FM, 88.1, SUMTER SC, 98.0 kW H&V, 305.0 m HAAT, 33-52-52, 80-16-14, 8276, WRJA, PS} South Carolina ETV, Public, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO, NEWS/TALK] 1617 km/1005 st mi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Good Story about WGBH and WBUR in today's Boston Globe And Scott Fybush gets a mention :) http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/03/well-mannered-public-radio-airwaves-war/4tmVpry89f7ZN1RFwNwjJO/story.html (Keith, Hingham MA, June 4, WTFDA gg via DXLD) ** U S A. The federal dollars spent on public broadcasting are well worth it --- George F. Will's poor analysis of public broadcasting, "Where's the public newspaper?" [op-ed, June 4], applied an extremely narrow view of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's value and benefits. I would be interested in hearing Mr. Will's thoughts comparing the ethical and journalistic standards and substantive coverage of the "PBS NewsHour" or NPR's "Morning Edition" with "Hannity" or "The Rush Limbaugh Show." He could consider comparing the quality and value of a program such as "Sesame Street" with the alternatives available to children or providing us his thoughts on Howard Stern vs. creative programming such as "This American Life" or "Snap Judgment." When he is driving through rural America, does he tune in to Mr. Limbaugh's show or look for "Here and Now"? Although there is a fair case to be made for cutting government funding to public broadcasting, Mr. Will seems to be wasting his time criticizing the spending of $12 billion over 50 years, or $240 million per year. If he is that concerned about every tiny fraction of every percentage point of government outlays, he could highlight much larger inefficiencies in government spending over the same period of time. Was the money spent in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan well spent, or could we save taxpayer money in the future by organizing our military more efficiently? Considering Mr. Will's deep concern for the fractions of pennies on the dollar spent in the U.S. budget, I look forward to this important analysis. Nicholas Reinhold, New York (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. May 2, 2017 --- Q&A with Thomas Hazlett --- Professor Thomas Hazlett talked about his book, THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM, ABOUT THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF U.S. COMMUNICATIONS POLICY. https://www.c-span.org/video/?427920-1/qa-thomas-hazlett (via gh, DXLD) transcript and one-hour video, recommended (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Released: 06/01/2017. FCC ANNOUNCES OPENING OF FIRST AUCTION FILING WINDOW FOR AM BROADCASTERS SEEKING NEW FM TRANSLATORS; THE FIRST OF TWO NEW FM CROSS-SERVICE TRANSLATOR AUCTION FILING WINDOWS OPENS JULY 26, 2017. FCC Announces First AM Revitalization New Translator Auction Filing Window to Open July 26, 2017. (FCC No. 17-67). MB. News Media Contact: Neil Grace at (202) 418-0506. Action by: the Commission FCC-17-67A1.docx FCC-17-67A1.pdf (via Mike Bugaj, June 1, WTFDA gg via DXLD) July 26th --- I honestly don’t see how the FCC thinks the FM band can support any additional translators. All this will accomplish is to make the FM band less viable as a broadcast medium. You’ll end up with users experiencing interference more quickly as they travel—driving the exodus to digital (streaming) media. This is the problem with AM now (along with a lot of RF pollution and EMI). I’m not talking about the impact to DX — I know that neither listeners nor regulators care about that aspect. But even for the intended audience of the FM band — this is bad news. In metro areas, like Birmingham, the band is completely filled with signals now. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL 35114, June 1, ibid.) Sure it can, and they have a decent audience also, far bigger than the AMs they are retransmitting (Rick Shaftan, Atlantic Media and Research, OBX NC, ibid.) "Far bigger". If that's truly the case, then they would be shutting down the AM and saving on the electricity & maintenance. Canada has a few of these AM/FM duo-stations in urban centres to overcome urban RFI, but the rest of the AM's moved completely to FM with full facilities, and then they shut off their AM. With the TV repack going on, the best move for the FCC would've been for the AM's to move to 76-88 MHz and simulcast for a few years, and then shut the AM's off once most people had 76-88 coverage on their tuners. wrh (William Hepburn, Grimsby ON, ibid.) Agreed. Adding another 60 analog FM channels is a win for everyone, even DXers (Steve W., K3PHL, near Allentown, PA, ibid.) Rick, I understand the benefit that translators can provide to existing AM stations. Frankly, the FCC should have given priority access to translators, along with more flexibility in their locations years ago when audience erosion became apparent to all. But packing more and more signals into 20 MHz of spectrum is guaranteed to increase interference. Especially in fringe or even suburban areas. How does this benefit the service as a whole? If I were the owner of a full-power FM station, I’d be worried about the impact of nearby translators degrading my signal in fringe areas of my coverage. This negatively impacts listenership, and hurts revenue. It’s almost like saying, “Let’s fix AM by breaking FM.” What sense does that make? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, AL, ibid.) William, That idea resembles common sense. Don’t know if you’ve been watching the news lately, but common sense is very much out of favor in America these days — especially in Washington. The answers to saving AM are not hard to figure out. 1.) Move these stations to an expanded FM band as William suggests. or 2.) Greatly “thin the herd” on AM, and aggressively go after Part 15 manufacturers who produce EMI levels that make AM radio listening impossible (Les Rayburn, director, High Noon Media Services, Alabaster, AL 35007-8536, ibid.) Unfortunately for terrestrial radio, I believe this is all a response to a demographic crisis as much or more so than a noise / coverage / interference problem on the AM band. A large amount AM listeners are dying off and/or getting beyond the "money demos" as they age past 55. At the same time, listeners *entering" the money demos at 18 spend far less time with radio than those who are aging out. So, to me, we're targeting a smaller amount of listenership with more stations signing on where they listen. If we're not there already, soon there will just be too many signals chasing too few hours of listenership. Adding 76-88 is a great idea technically to me. But I would imagine the rollout would be similar to HD Radio, with radio manufacturers and industry chasing listeners that don't care. In the end, I think we'll see devaluation of FM properties and some of these translators going off the air or shuffling around chasing listeners (Bryce Foster, KG6VSW, ibid.) Excellent points, Bryce. I’d like to see the broadcast industry look at other forms of declining media, and glean some lessons from their response to a declining audience. The phrase “Content is king” is off- repeated in digital media circles, but it’s a cliché with a lot of truth. AM would be much better served by running towards its audience, rather than away from it. The 55+ crowd is one of the fastest growing segments of the American population. What do those listeners want? Age appropriate content, and local coverage. A one or two person staff with a NextDoor social media account could generate a ton of local content that would be very attractive to their audience. Partner with the TV News operation (one of the few forms of local media left) and simulcast the 6 & 11 newscasts. FM stations could likewise target their core audiences with better content. But the days of running a low-cost or no-cost satellite feed of programming are coming to a close. More local content, of real interest to listeners are what is needed to attract a wider audience for terrestrial radio. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, ibid.) I poll this stuff. AM is dead (Rick Shaftan, Atlantic Media and Research, OBX NC, ibid.) Broadcast has been copying other dying media - like newspapers - it's called ignore the obvious and keep on doing what you've always done, the way you've already done it. The majority of people under some age (40? 50?) likely don't even know what AM radio is, much less listen to it. While some 30's and 40's folks still listen to FM, I doubt the same can be said for those younger than that. And that's less about the electrical and atmospheric noise than it is about the noise that many AM stations have been broadcasting for many years now. AM is simply being sequentially migrated. When the cost of maintaining AM stations escalates further, they'll petition the FCC to let them run only on the translator as an originating service, and the FCC will let them. AM is in a prolonged death spiral - maybe one AM in most markets crack the top 20 in ratings. Not sustainable (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), ibid.) ** VANUATU [non-log]. 3944.2, R. Vanuatu, with a weekend check here (Saturday - June 3), but as usual no trace of them at 1008 nor at 1041 (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 11750, June 1 at 0523, poor S4-S6 in African language. HFCC shows this semihour is VR Hausa southward from SMG, for all those Catholic Hausans. [non]. 11700, June 4 at 1439, S Asian songs and talk around S7. HFCC shows Vatican Radio daily 1430 in Hindi via RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES, followed by 1450 Tamil, 1510 Malayalam, and Saturdays only 1530-1600 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Waiting for Vatican Reform by Marco Tosatti 6 . 7 . 17 [Web Exclusives] Pope Francis raised great expectations when, on April 13, 2013, one month after being elected to Peter’s See, he created a council of cardinals (then eight, now nine) to study and implement a great reform of the Curia and the Church. Reform was his mandate. During the discussions that took place prior to his election, many cardinals had called for a deep reform, especially of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. Its power was too great, they said, not least in its influence over the pope. Since the formation of the council of cardinals (now often referred to as “the C9”), eighteen meetings have been held, many lively debates have taken place, and ambitious projects have been drawn up. But four years on, the results remain unimpressive. Not to say disappointing. . . [excerpt from long article, only mention of shortwave:] Another of the C9’s tasks is more complex: the restructuring of the Vatican’s media operations. Monsignor Dario Viganò is the mastermind of this reform, which involves several different structures inside the Vatican. During the last C9 meeting, Viganò explained the merging of Vatican Radio and Vatican Television Center, the plan for the radio frequencies, the policy for renewing the Social Network, and the future of the Vatican Printing Library. There are problems here, too. Many have criticized the decision to abolish the short-wave system. Some African bishops protested, because the short-wave is one of the few reliable methods of reaching the faithful in their countries. It remains one of the only ways to reach Catholics in countries under oppressive regimes. This Vatican decision comes at a moment when the BBC and the Japanese NHK are working to strengthen their short-wave systems, even asking the Vatican’s permission to use its Santa Maria di Galeria aerial antennas. . . https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/06/waiting-for-vatican-reform (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. Hace aproximadamente un mes o tal vez un poquito más, conversaba con mi amigo y colega radioaficionado Raúl Sutherland (YV6DYL) sobre nuestras emisoras de Amplitud Modulada y como cosa curiosa uno o dos días después recibo a través de su grupo de whatsApp una noticia lamentable para todos nosotros los diexistas venezolanos. Con voz triste, Raúl, a través de un audio nos decía que Radio Bolívar, 1010 había sido asaltada por un grupo de malandros y ladrones que dejaron practicamente desmantelada. Los días fueron pasando y de Radio Bolívar 1010, no se sabía más nada hasta que de nuevo se hizo presente Raúl para informarnos que definitivamente Radio Bolívar 1010 desaparece en Venezuela porque había sufrido otro robo y la emisora quedó sin nada, anulada del todo. Pero para hacer esta historia más interesante pero triste a la vez, quiero compartir con todos Uds. los audios mediante los cuales el colega Radioaficionado Raúl Sutherland informaba de la situación por la que atravesaba una emisora histórica como Radio Bolívar 1010, una emisora que identificaba con su nombre el Estado Venezolano desde donde transmitía. Escuche los audios en la sección Radio DX de mi página de facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Sintoniadx/ (Noticias vía José Elías Díaz Gómez, desde Venezuela, via Conexión Digital 4 June via DXLD) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS US. 1620, 0535, WDHP with BBC World Service over Cubans, 10/5 TK (Tony King, June NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. Glenn - I’ve included a minute of Mp3 which perhaps you can ID as Yemen, and not extended Ramad/zan coverage from Iran, if you care to. I’m uncertain. It doesn’t sound very Ramadan-ish, no Qur`an etc., if that is any indication. The tenor perhaps suggests normality and “stability” as the show progresses - just a guess it’s pro-Saudi content and some "happy talk” for a target country being ravaged by the broadcasting country. YEMEN - [non]. Saudi Arabia - un-id, assumed Yemen Radio Sana’a via Riyadh on 11860, June 6, 00:10 > fading to hash by 1:20, Arabic - Male and female announcers with musical interludes - (R. McEntee, Central Texas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Robert, I can`t recognize anything specific in your clip but see no reason why it would not be Yemen via Saudi. What was the UT of it? Not everyone does Qur`an all the time during Ramadan; and I believe this station did very little of it anywhen. At the outset for the first few months, I did correlate a brief Qur`an break with slightly changing local sundown times, but they quit doing even that. 73, (Glenn, ibid.) Glenn, Being unable to positively ID it myself, and intending to avoid more flawed reporting, I thought you might be able to recognize and determine if it were either Iran or Yemen from past experience or previous reporting etc. No reason it wouldn’t be SA/Yemen at this hour, and should be according to EiBi, but not the 4/24 HFCC SF sched. UT 00:10 > best - rm (McEntee, ibid.) Robert, I don`t have any reports or schedules showing Iran on 11860, so I`m not sure why you would suspect that. (They are on 11865 from 0230 in Arabic/Al Quds.) They might be suspected of directly blocking the Yemen/Saudi broadcast, but have not been known to play such games either. And there was no co-channel interference in this case. As for the time, it was unclear whether you were referring to minutes and seconds within the clip, or UT hours and minutes of actual reception. 73, (Glenn to Robert, ibid.) 11860, June 5 at 2358, ME music at S2, presumably Republic of Yemen Radio, which has not had a usable signal at any hour here since last winter. Keeps going with same thru 0000 hourtop without timesignal or announcement. Altho the Saudis aren`t saying, common assumption that most of this 24-hour service is from a spare transmitter at Jeddah, but there are audio overlaps indicating a site switch at certain times, such as just before 1800. So what is the other one? Nothing definite has come out in the two or three years this has been in service since the Yemeni government was ousted and the civil war enraged. Another info source not often cited is ITU Monitoring. Large pdf files are posted and updated with rough reports in frequency order, so I consult the current April+ file, and the one before that. Here is what they show for this 11860.000 (always cited as exact, so I am removing the frequency field to save space here). The first and second entries are the monitoring site country and location. Then day/month, UT, field strength dB, ID if any (always misspelling Sana`a), country if any, type of transmission BC for broadcast omitted here, occupied bandwidth, mode of transmission, bearing from the transmitter at the receive site, and accuracy of the bearing (A being best). Coordinates (presumed rather than confirmed? Quite a variety of them, I haven`t traced; perhaps someone else will). Final number if any refers to a column which may be questionable, and comments if any. It`s all much clearer in the original table, once consulting the key to table at the top. I`ve condensed, not leaving blank spaces for fields unfilled. Note the first entry, from Baldock, UK, which is slightly NE of London. The 122-degree azimuth from Baldock, crosses thru the middle of Yemen itself, only along the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, which includes Jeddah, and certainly not Riyadh or the UAE, but this is the only entry guessing(?) that the site at the time monitored was UAE. An earlier entry below is the only one that specifies Jeddah transmitter site. I`m afraid a lot of this info is speculation: Another one from France says EGYpt! And one from Russia says ERItrea --- of course these could possibly be totally different stations, but also on 11860. http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/RegMon/PDFfiles/354.pdf April-June 2017, updated 30 May: G BALDOCK 0604 1650 R. SANNA UAE A3E 122 B F RAMBOUILLET 1904 0600 2400 23.0 ARS 10K0E A3E 046 E 23 24 N 26 D 3 F RAMBOUILLET 2004 0000 0600 23.0 ARS 10K0E A3E 046 E 23 24 N 26 D 3 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/RegMon/PDFfiles/353.pdf G BALDOCK 0101 1656 R. SANNA UAE A3E 122 B G BALDOCK 2202 0340 RADIO SANNA ARS A3E 107 C JEDDAH TX SITE INS MSPA-SAMARINDA 0603 0246 0249 28.8 RADIO SANNA ARS 6K37E A3E 295 A INS MSPA-SAMARINDA 0603 1240 1245 44.9 RADIO SANNA ARS 7K80E A3E 293 A F RAMBOUILLET 1403 0900 2320 33.0 EGY 10K0E A3E 029 E 10 30 N 28 D 3 F RAMBOUILLET 1503 0330 0700 30.0 10K0E A3E 108 A 9 RUS NOVOSIBIRSK 1603 0210 0240 26.0 ARS 2K70 A3E 039 E 10 21 N 32 242 A RUS SAMARA 1603 0500 0510 76.0 ARS 2K95 A3E 045 E 30 27 N 53 189 B RUS SMOLENSK 1603 0605 0705 48.0 ARS 1K32 A3E 046 E 53 24 N 36 154 B RUS BELGOROD 1603 0650 0656 36.1 ARS 9K20 A3E 160 A RUS ARKHANGELSK 1603 0705 0709 55.9 Radio Sanna ARS BC 2K88 A3E 046 E 03 24 N 53 172 B RUS MOROZOVSK 1603 0715 0730 62.0 ARS 6K00 A3E 046 E 35 26 N 50 168 C RUS BELGOROD 1603 1246 1250 28.8 ERI 7K80 A3E 176 A I ROMA 3003 0738 0743 40.0 10K0 A3E 110 B There could be lots of other gems about unIDs or incomplete IDs in the ITU files if one sift thru them (Glenn Hauser, OK, , WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1820, June 4 at 0613, JBA AM carrier with trace of music. Not overload as still there with R75 preamps 1 and 2 switched off. Could be 2 x 910 harmonic from algo. OR, 2780 minus 960, i.e. mix of my two locals, 2 x 1390 KCRC minus KGWA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 5050, UnID English Christian hymns with mention of southern gospel ministries also mentioned 1630am, transmission came to an abrupt end at 0255. 0252-0255* 5/13 (Mike Vitale, MI, MARE Tipsheet June 2 via DXLD) Mike notes that AIR Gahauti is listed in Hindi at this time/freq but it's not likely them! One of the US broadcasters squatting here? -kvz (Ken Zichi, ed., ibid.) Should have checked DXLD where we`ve logged it for a bimonth --- not squatting, but WWRB is legally here, its summer frequency replacing 3215/3195 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. There's that really strong OC again on 7597.424 kHz. Wonder who that might be? Noticed it last week. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, UT June 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This was last reported in Feb and Dec. I hear it too. Suspect it could be a RTTY station idling. Continuous monitoring might catch bursts of that rarely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then, yes, RTTY UNIDENTIFIED. 9517.4-USB, June 6 at 0004, Spanish INTRUDERS 2-way at S3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. This morning 5-6 UT, 9535 kHz TDF ISS with Arabic service of RTA Algier, had an annoying dit signal/bubble like jamming underneath. Seemingly an opposition muslim organization of the Sahel zone region in performance jamming??? Discover surprized me. wb (Wolfang Büschel, June 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC on 9535 earlier; maybe got mixed up and put jammer on frequency? (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. NUMBERS STATION, E11 Oblique in "heart" of 31mb June 5 0745-0747 on 9610 unknown secret tx site to Eu English USB: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/reception-of-e11-oblique-in-heart-of_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15140, June 4 at 0033, S4 carrier with trace of music, about the only signal on 19m besides Cubans. Suspect it`s Radio Sultanate of Oman, registered 1400-2200 only, but well-known to forget to change to a subsequent night frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15505 kHz, Chinese program, S=9, test of CRI Mali Bamako relay? at 1615 UT June 2. It`s \\ CNR1 program, light music / singer / string music, heard also in Doha Qatar SDR remote unit, at 1620-1630 UT on: 11925 9810 9710 7365 7230 6175 6125 6080 6030 6000 and 4800 kHz. 73 wb df5sx 1635 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Betreff: Log: 15560, UNID, Ar, 1635...UC, 01.06.17, S=5 O=2/3 Rauschen, Fading. Mit Gruss, (Herbert Meixner, A-3160 Traisen, Austria, NRD 535DG, MiniWhip, A-DX, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Hallo Herbert, Du hörst ja das Gras wachsen, 15560 kHz ist heute eher schwach aufzunehmen. Heute \\ 15560 S=7 Signal und 15620 kHz gehört: 16-17 UT VoA Somali Programm, in wrth2017update BOT 15620 kHz S=9+15dB 17-18 UT KWT 15620 kHz, Umschaltung BOT / KWT um 16.58:59 UT und 12055 SMG Santa Maria di Galeria 16-18 UT gelistet, S=9+20dB. Meine 15560 kHz Erklärung: das ist eine Intermodulation die sich am Sendeplatz von Vatican Radio in SMG Santa Maria di Galeria bildet, dabei moduliert sich das VoA Somali Programm von 12055 kHz Kanal auf ein Mischsignal im 19 Meterband auf 15560 kHz zusammen. Etwas knifflich und signalmischungs-mäßig für eine Intermodulation unüblich. Das Signal ist auf 15560 kHz eher schwach, und konnte heute nur bei den 4 besten SDR / Antennen remotes im Perseus Netz in Liverpool, DARC Amberg-nur Port8015, Westungarn und in Doha Qatar gehört werden. Von 16-17 UT sendet SMG auf 15550 kHz (Radio Dabanga endet eigentlich um 16 UT, SMG sendet aber weiter in Somali oder Swahili?) und 15570 kHz Vatican Radio andere eigene Programme Richtung Ostafrica in 130 bzw. 150 Grad Azimuth. In der Mitten bildet sich das 15560 kHz Intermodulationssignal. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Eben kam ein Hinweis auf die VoA. Keine ID. Thema ist Somalia. Mit Gruss, (Herbert, ibid.) VATICAN STATE, 15560 kHz UNID signal 16-17 UT on June 1st and 2nd, but matter cleared up today, is an intermodulation on the 130-150 degrees azimuth dipols at Santa Maria di Galeria site, of fundamentals by 250 kW power on 15550 and 15570 kHz. Today \\ 15560 S=7 signal and 15620 kHz traced: 16-17 UT VoA Somali program, in wrth2017update BOT 15620 kHz S=9+15dB signal strength 17-18 UT KWT 15620 kHz, location change BOT / KWT at 1658:59 UT and 12055 SMG Santa Maria di Galeria 16-18 UT listed, S=9+20dB signal. 15560 kHz VoA Somali intermodulation: rather weak S=7 signal heard on 4 best SDR / antenna remotes in Perseus Net in Liverpool, DARC AmbergBavaria-only Port8015, Western Hungary and in Doha Qatar could be heard. From 16-17 UT via SMG relay on 15550 kHz (Radio Dabanga end at 16 UT, but SMG still on air at 1630 UT ?in Somali or Swahili?) and 15570 kHz Vatican Radio programme direction East Africa in 130 / 150 degrees azimuth. In the Middle the 15560 kHz Intermodulations signal appears in 19mb, contain with 12055-audio signal. 73 (wb df5sx, ibid.) I don`t quite follow how this is intermodulation --- two frequencies 15570 and 15550 would produce mixing products on 15530 and 15590, not 15560 halfway between them. Intramodulation? 73, (Glenn to wb, via DXLD) Probably is Radio der Dokumenta 14 in various languages, including English and Greek. Weak signal 1500-1800 on 15560 on June 1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/06/new-shortwave-schedule-of-radio-der.html (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Glenn, I have no real conclusive explanation for that mixup signal what happened. Makes me very surprised. 15560 kHz signal midst between the two SMG 15550/15570 250 kW powers, appeared only on June 1 and 2, reported first by Herbert Meixner in Austria, and could be realized/then discovered also by Y.T., first checked the UNID program content, and realized // VoA Somali 16-17 UT of 15620 kHz first half from BOT relay, 2nd half by IBB/BBG Kuwait relay. WRTH Update showed // SMG 12055 kHz, only two VoA SW channels in use. But nothing occurred from SMG on Saturday June 3rd anymore. But instead I heard just before 17 UT the VERY TINY special DOCUMENTA art festival radio, special event radio of mini broadcaster Kall Germany, 1 kW radio, heard only on long distance in remote Madrid and in Doha Qatar, but not in central Europe posts. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1881: Thanks for still doing such consistently excellent work on the DXLD etc. Best regards, (Robert McEntee, Austin, central Texas, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PayPal: not necessarily in US funds; or by check or MO in US funds on a US bank to World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. Thanks for producing a great, informative program (Kevin DeReus, Otley, Iowa) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ AOKI DATABASE CONTINUES ACTIVE. Easy and fast! See daily update here: http://ndxc.16mb.com/bi/nxa17.txt Good logs, (José Ronaldo Xavier, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) RUS-DX --- ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NEWSLETTER In June and July, the release of the bulletin is possible not only on Sunday, but also on other days. These two months will be difficult for the editor, but I'll try not to close the newsletter. Perhaps the format of the bulletin will change slightly and some sections temporarily will have to close. Doctors promise me two months of inconvenience. I wish all readers health and new successes in the DX hobby! (Editor Anatoly Klepov, Rus-DX 4 June via DXLD) dlya zdoroviya! (gh) MUSEA +++++ NEW SECTION OF THE BULLETIN RUS-DX Years go by. Much goes down in history. Much is forgotten. I propose that he will share his thoughts and materials on the development of the DX movement in the country. We are opening a new section - History DX. Materials will be published not in chronological order, but as they become available (Editor Anatoly Klepov, Rus-DX 4 June via DXLD) LIBRARY SOVIET RADIO http://www.sovietradio.ru/ The site contains books, articles from old publications and printed materials, independently translated into electronic form by their senders (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, Rus-DX 4 June via DXLD) Book review: Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee, who forwards this review of book on domestic radio history in Russia: RUSSIA IN THE MICROPHONE AGE: A HISTORY OF SOVIET RADIO, 1919-1970 Stephen Lovell. Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 272 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19- 872526-8. Reviewed by Noah Arceneaux (School of Media and Journalism Studies, San Diego State University) Published on Jhistory (May, 2017) Commissioned by Robert A. Rabe http://swling.com/blog/2017/05/book-review-a-history-of-soviet-radio/ (from https://vk.com/dxing via RusDX 4 June via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ NO SUCH MACEDONIAN By the way, now and today in the programmes of Bulgarian National Radio when are included talks from people speaking in other languages than Bulgarian, always there is a translation into Bulgarian but when is speaking someone in Macedonian there is not translation as boycott - for Bulgarian authorities there is not such language like Macedonian (Rumen Pankov, BULGARIA, May 25, BCDX June 5 via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ DOWNEAST MAINE OVER MEMORIAL DAY My wife and I visited Lubec, in ‘downeast’ Maine, over the Memorial Day holiday for a combination birding and radio expedition. Birding was good but DX was better! Just starting thru the wav files and have ‘the page’ up for my unorthodox way of logging: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_qh9.php Seems we hit an ‘opening’ on May 29 after the sun burped and produced some amazing conditions towards Brazil and southern Africa. Check out 657, 756 and 828 — 2 x South Africa and 1 x Malawi! I always assume EVERYthing has been heard before in Newfoundland but I’m not sure any of these have been heard in the U.S. Usual 160’ DKAZ was facing 100 deg. - a little south from where I put it in November when Europe/ME are more of a target. Things went well with the remote Rt antenna until the final morning when ‘somebody’ chewed thru my CAT5 control line out by the back-end of the antenna. My prime suspect is the owner’s ‘pet’ porcupine who I had surprised more than once when driving in or coming outside the house. I can’t imagine that CAT5 tastes good so this guy must hold a grudge. ;-) Looking forward to moving thru more wav files but I suspect the DX gods have given about all they’re going to on this round (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, June 2, NRC-AM via DXLD) Great report, Bill, and one that goes along with the recent zillions- of-Brazilians report from Allen Willie in NL. I do believe that many of your catches are All Time New Ones at USA locations. Even in PEI, NS, and NL they wouldn't be daily logs. As I've noted in previous years, mostly from DXing at sites in Orleans, MA and also at Granite Pier - Rockport, MA, spring can be a particularly good time for deeper Africa and Brazil. Most of the action is right around sunset, some aurora needs to be in the mix, and the DX doesn't go very far inland at all: much less penetration than typical autumn / winter European stations. Fortaleza, Brazil 760 was an S-9 regular on the pier in Rockport, MA but barely even moved the meter / cracked the noise floor 15 miles inland at Billerica, MA. I really need to get back over to Orleans soon before T-storms become too frequent and widespread. The analogous spring / summer DXpedition activity out West is the Down Under / South Pacific Islands scene, as popularized by Gary DeBock's activities at the Rockworks coastal cliffs in Oregon. Hanging up your headphones May to August is something a lot of DXers do but reports like yours Bill and, on the "left" coast, Gary's Aussies / Zedders feeding frenzies should indicate that DX is a year round hobby (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, IRCA via DXLD) Thanks for your comments, Mark, and let me add my congratulations to Bill for his outstanding African catches at Quoddy House. Bill has also been a leader in summer Trans-Equatorial DX here on the left coast, with annual DKAZ setups at both Grayland and San Souci (near Florence, Oregon) every July. He has come away with some awesome Pacific Island DX recordings, and typically posts every DX recording for all to enjoy. Beverage and DKAZ antenna setups are out of the question at Rockwork 4-- otherwise I'm sure that Bill would have joined one of our wild "Cliffhanger DXpedition" groups by now (and maybe come away with a slight Kiwi English accent). (Gary DeBock, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See UKRAINE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ALASKA; AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; CHINA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also CANADA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ATSC 3.0 MARE Tom Doerr passes along the following link from Consumers Reports about the NEW television format that is about to make over the air tuners obsolete. No, you're not suffering déjà vu all over again from 2009; the FCC is getting ready to approve yet ANOTHER incompatible format: ATSC 3.0 which has the 'advantage' of being simpler to 'monetize', so broadcasters can do video on demand and pay-per-view stuff. The article author has clearly 'drunk the Kool-Aide' so to speak, but this is a decent summary of what is to come. (Ken Zichi, ed., MARE Tipsheet June 2 via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ RADIOSHACK HAS ESSENTIALLY SHUT ALL ITS STORES http://www.twice.com/news/retail/radioshack-has-essentially-shut-all-its-stores/65149 Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, 7 June, IRCA via DXLD) Closed more than 1,000 locations over Memorial Day weekend 5/30/2017 11:30:00 AM Eastern By: Alan Wolf Only 70 company showrooms remain, from a peak of more than 7,300. Once an iconic fixture of the American landscape, RadioShack will now exist mostly as a website. Updated! General Wireless Operations (GWO), which runs the RadioShack chain and website, has pulled the plug on most of its remaining stores. The company said it shuttered most of its 1,000-plus locations over Memorial Day weekend, leaving only 70 company-owned and 425 independent franchised stores nationwide. RadioShack operated more than 7,400 stores at its peak in 2004, according to TWICE’s Top 100 CE Retailers reports (see chart, below). GWO, a unit of hedge fund Standard General, which bought RadioShack out of bankruptcy two years ago, said it will now consolidate operations around its RadioShack.com website. According to a follow-up report in USA Today, the remaining stores are concentrated in New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. The decision follows a second bankruptcy filing in March, when GWO announced plans to sell about 365 stores to Sprint after the carrier pulled out of a co-leasing deal. It said it would then evaluate its remaining locations. See: RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy, Again “We cannot thank you, the RadioShack family, enough for sharing in the journey throughout the years,” the company said in a statement that also welcomed shoppers to a final liquidation sale. “We have heard countless stories and truly appreciate the millions of employees and customers that have made RadioShack their neighborhood convenience electronics store for the past century.” As part of the fire sale, GWO is also auctioning off various corporate memorabilia from its headquarters archives in Fort Worth, Texas, ranging from Realistic-brand transistor radios and original, unused TRS-80 personal computers, to commemorative watches and framed art. Owner General Wireless Operations is selling off anything that’s not nailed down, including original TRS-80 PCs (above) and a framed portrait of George H.W. Bush (below). The company has also been selling off store fixtures, shelving and office supplies, contributing to the showrooms’ ignoble end. Retail store supplies were also up for grabs, as touted on RadioShack's Twitter feed. In its heyday, the 96-year-old gadget chain, named after the radio cabin on old steamer ships, became an iconic fixture on the American landscape, with the retailer once boasting 1 million store visits a day. Related: The RadioShack Saga RadioShack also served as a cultural touchstone as consumers migrated from calculators to home computers; from CB radios to mobile phones; and from eight-track tape decks to satellite dishes – all while providing personalized, local service and arcane accessories on a mass scale in a business model that became unsustainable in a low-margin digital world (via DXLD) KIWA STILL DOING RECEIVER MODS? I just picked up a pristine Sony ICF-SW 1 receiver with the case and all the accessories. Of course, it has the presumed problem with capacitors which I know Craig used to repair/install. Does anyone know whether he still offers this service? *His new website only talks about filters of various sorts. He has also not answered my query from yesterday so far. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walt, I've been emailing Craig back and forth recently, but sometimes it's a week or two until I hear back from him. He's been going through some rehab from a medical issue that requires him to make numerous visits to the Mayo Clinic (where his wife works). Craig's doing well, but between his significant commercial & government contracts and the time that his rehab takes, he is spread very thin. I'm sure he'll get back to you eventually. Craig has at least two Kiwa sites now. The original one for hobbyists is still offering the SW1 capacitor upgrade: http://kiwa.com/SW1.html http://kiwa-electronics.com site is the one primarily for low pass, high pass, and bandpass filters. I think he mentioned a 3rd site in the works which would be for other customers. 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, IRCA via DXLD) FCC IMPOSES $55,000 FINE FOR INAPPROPRIATE USE OF EAS TONES By Dan Kirkpatrick, CommLawBlog, June 5, 2017 Continuing its historical hard line on misuse of EAS tones, the FCC announced on May 30 that it had settled an investigation with WTLV, a TEGNA-owned television station in Jacksonville, Florida regarding unauthorized EAS tones appearing in an ad for the Jacksonville Jaguars (the local NFL team). As part of the settlement, TEGNA entered into a Consent Decree in which it agreed to pay a $55,000 fine and to comply with various reporting conditions over the next few years. The Commission has long taken misuse of EAS tones very seriously, based largely on the theory that if the tones appear when there is in fact no emergency, it may create a “boy who cried wolf” scenario where viewers or listeners will ignore the tones when there is in fact an emergency. In addition, false EAS tones may cause serious problems to the entire EAS system by triggering “downstream” stations in the system to automatically broadcast their own EAS alerts. Depending on the formatting of the alerts, this can result in a very large number of false alerts or can even cause parts of the system to “lock up,” rendering stations unable to provide a genuine alert if necessary. As a result, the Commission has made very clear to broadcasters and other programmers that they should under no circumstances use the EAS tones outside of genuine emergencies triggering the EAS system. Source: http://tinyurl.com/y7ma5lwu (via Neal McLain, June 6, WTFDA gg via DXLD) The FCC news release says "...simulated EAS tones..." -- presumably they did not come from an actual EAS box and likely would not have triggered downstream equipment. It's still an EXTREMELY serious violation. Because while downstream equipment may be smart enough to know there was no real emergency, it is not reasonable to expect *humans* to know. Honestly, I think $55,000 for the intentional airing of a fake EAS alert is way too little. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) In my experience with EAS equipment at CATV headends, the EAS equipment does indeed respond to EAS tones, genuine or "simulated". The headend equipment responds to the cadence and the waveform of the tones. It doesn't know whether it's listening to actual EAS tones or a tape recording of an actual tones. Yes, it is an extremely serious violation. The $55,000 fine is probably just for a first offense. If the offending station is familiar with the FCC's enforcement reputation it will pay that $55,000 immediately. It would NOT want to find out what the second offense fine would be (Neal McLain, ibid.) RADIO BOCA TEMPRANILLO http://radiobocawines.com/ This is not a joke - check out this website where it says: Tune yourself into the latest broadcast of a 100% Spanish wine. This delicious Tempranillo is a mouth full of big Spanish fruit. Juicy ripe strawberry, succulent dark cherries and an exciting hint of cassis will have you talking non stop. RADIO BOCA… a WINE you can GET DOWN with! (Hans, thanks for a really interesting tip of a "radio wine". /TN) (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) RADIO VON DAMALS -- "THE ROMANCE OF THE RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE A short film about communication to and from New Zealand. Circa 1939: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBFwTtS4Pl0 Dieser Film und vieles mehr zum Thema Radio auf den Seiten von http://glowbugs.conus.info/ (Mit Gruss, Herbert Meixner via A-DX via SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) PETER MOTT'S KIWI SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO I have mentioned Peter's Kiwi SDR in several of my posts. It has been available to NZRDXL members only until now. However, the trial period is now over and it is available to all and sundry. The web address is: http://kiwidxer.blogspot.se/2016/12/peter-motts-kiwi-software-defined-radio.html For other Kiwi SDRs go to http://sdr.hu (from http://kiwisdr.northlandradio.nz via SW Bulletin June 4 via DXLD) A LITTLE LEVITY Why Are We Giving Away Our Nationally Advertised GFX-100 INDOOR TV ``DISH'' ANTENNAS for only $5 https://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/dish.html I linked this ad here a long time ago, but I was unable to locate it. I was able to find it online again --- this version has wry commentary, which matches it well. I give those folks points for the wording of the ad....pretty convincing! From 1990 (Chris Dunne, FL, June 2, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ WHO NEEDS A RADIO TO HEAR METEORS? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/why-you-can-hear-and-see-meteors-same-time Mystery Solved --- Planetary Science, Physics WHY YOU CAN HEAR AND SEE METEORS AT THE SAME TIME Radio waves may explain the mysterious phenomenon By Thomas Sumner 7:00am, May 30, 2017 OTHERWORLDLY SOUNDS --- Falling meteors can be seen and heard at the same time because of sounds generated by radio waves blasted from the falling space rocks, researchers propose. [caption] Magazine issue: Vol. 191 No. 11, June 10, 2017, p. 5 For centuries, skywatchers have reported seeing and simultaneously hearing meteors whizzing overhead, which doesn’t make sense given that light travels roughly 800,000 times as fast as sound. Now scientists say they have a potential explanation for the paradox. The sound waves aren’t coming from the meteor itself, atmospheric scientists Michael Kelley of Cornell University and Colin Price of Tel Aviv University propose April 16 in Geophysical Research Letters. As the leading edge of the falling space rock vaporizes, it becomes electrically charged. The charged head produces an electric field, which yields an electric current that blasts radio waves toward the ground. As a type of electromagnetic radiation, radio waves travel at the speed of light and can interact with metal objects near the ground, generating a whistling sound that people can hear. Just 0.1 percent of the radio wave energy needs to be converted into sound for the noise to be audible as the meteor zips by, the researchers estimate. This same process could explain mysterious noises heard during the aurora borealis, or northern lights (SN: 8/9/14, p. 32). Like meteors, auroras have been known to emit radio wave bursts (Science News June 10, 2017 via Will Martin, DXLD) WTFK?? METEOR SCATTER DX ON FM OR SOME OTHER MODE? UNID 93.3 Meteor Scatter DX --- I posted a brief recording of an UNID meteor scatter signal recorded this morning on 93.3 FM here in Alabama. Two signals can be heard during the same ping. The first is playing Cindy Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, but the second is ID’ing a web site that sounds like call letters. If anyone can make it out, I’d be grateful for the assist. You can download the MP3 at: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11379-UNID-93-3-Meteor-Scatter 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, June 2, WTFDA gg via DXLD) WKYQ Paducah KY (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), June 3, ibid.) Russ — My sincere thanks. I’m still getting accustomed to pulling out ID’s on FM. That’s one mystery solved, but in the process you’ve created another. WKYQ in Paducah, KY is roughly 285 miles from me. That’s too close for meteor scatter — the physics simply don’t work out. It’s unlikely to be e-skip either. The ionization would have to be intense to produce skip that close, and the MUF would have needed to be very high. No evidence of that either. So what is the likely mode of propagation? Airplane scatter? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, ibid.) I'm not convinced it's too short for meteor scatter. I have a few MS receptions under 300 miles. Airplane scatter, maybe troposcatter maybe but it sounds more like meteor to me (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) I concur. I have logged 92.9 WBUF Buffalo, NY (313 miles) more than once and 95.3 WJPA Washington, PA (256 miles) from here near Allentown, PA. Meteor scatter caused by an ionized trail can cause a reflection in any direction; even from a direction opposite the straight line between you and the received station. The reflection could have come from an ionized fragment 180 degrees opposite your station and the signal bounces back to you in the direction of the original transmitter. I have had great success with dipoles over the years receiving MS at around 300 miles or fewer. Your clip has all the earmarks of a specific type of meteor scatter. That being an initial burst of station A, followed by a pause and finally a burn fade reception of station B. Nice catch (Steve W., K3PHL, near Allentown, PA, ibid.) Thanks for the additional insight Steve. I’m always excited to get a new station, especially via meteor scatter mode. A high-angle reflection like this is especially gratifying. What would an aircraft reflection sound like? How would it differ from meteor scatter? And how rare are these types of receptions? The new meteor scatter portion of the shack is set up to look for meteors in an unattended fashion. The antenna is semi-locked (Armstrong-rotor) to the NNE. This is a heavy flight path area locally with lots of airplanes transiting the beam of the FM-6 at altitudes between 1,000 feet locally to 30-35,000 feet for large jetliners. 73, (Les Rayburn, ibid.) I remember reading somewhere about regular meteor scatter vs. "backscatter" meteor scatter, which is the shorter variety. [Maybe it should be called "meteor backscatter"]. Anyways, you probably could never be able to differentiate between the two. /wrh/ (William Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) Airplane scatter is somewhat fluttery - not the usual single or possibly double peaks of meteor scatter. It may peak 3-4 times, and may not fade out totally. Troposcatter tends to be sporadic over a longer period of time (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) Les, Determining airplane scatter as a reception mode is nearly impossible. However: When I lived in Northeast Philadelphia, I would regularly hear what I thought was troposcatter from 95.3 WKHK in Virginia (about 250 miles) followed about 20-30 seconds later by a translator in southern New Jersey at roughly the same azimuth. 95.3 was mostly an open channel under normal conditions. This fadeup and fadedown of one station followed by the other 20-30 seconds later would repeat several times an hour and then happen less often, rarely to never in the overnight hours after midnight. Checking the azimuth to both stations put the path with a couple degrees of Philadelphia International Airport. I therefore tentatively concluded based on azimuth and frequency of occurrences that this was airplane scatter from descending jets on a common runway approach to Phila International (Steve, K3PHL, near Allentown, PA, ibid.) I'm less than 2 miles from a small airport, and only about 20 from PHL. On occasion I've actually seen and/or heard the aircraft responsible for the scatter. Otherwise though, Steve is right (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) Meteor Scatter distances (was UNID 93.3 Meteor Scatter DX) I've had what I've presumed to be meteor scatter from as far out as CO and WY, from Burnt River, in the 1300-1400 mile range. But these are the exception. Most of what I've logged as MS is in the 400-1200 mile range. I use words like 'presumed' and 'logged as" because I have no way of truly knowing if it was indeed a genuine meteor particle or some other cause such as airplane scatter or pixie dust. Though I am fairly comfortable with considering these Ms and counting them as such. I've also had plenty of loggings under 400 miles. These fall into two categories: (1) I consider anything 300 miles or more to be MS, with the caveats expressed above. So I've logged places as close-flung as Grand Rapids and Interlochen and Newberry MI, Montreal QC, Athens OH, and Pittsburgh PA where I've put it down as MS because the signal emerged suddenly or was - as MS tends to be - rather unstable in nature. These are all stations I can get somewhat often by troposcatter. But in my judgement these were not TrS. These are all in the 300-400 mile range. (2) More uncertain, to me, are burst-like loggings closer in of stations that are fairly regular troposcatter visitors. I've IDed two definitively as Lightning Scatter (104.9 Brockville ON and 106.9 Muskegon MI) because they coincided perfectly with lightning and because they were rapid-fire. But bursts with London ON on 97.5, Timmins ON on 99.3, Buffalo NY on 107.7 and 106.5 -- were unquestionably bursts. I have had some MS fade-ups or fade-downs, and some are far enough away to be obvious as MS. The trouble is when the signal is from easy tropo range. I'm actually trying to null Buffalo and London signals in order to work with a mostly empty channel. So is it just a very sudden uncharacteristic TrS flare-up, backscatter, or Airplane Scatter, or a meteor traveling very low in the atmosphere -- I haven't a clue. I have MP3 clips of a lot of these loggings and could post them with the above comments on WTFDA Forums if anyone wants to discuss, offer wisdom, and such. It's interesting (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, June 3, ibid.) Thanks to all for this enlightening discussion. As a newcomer to FM DXing, it’s quite an education for me. If you don’t mind posting some of the loggings that you believe to be Lightning Scatter I’d love to hear those, along with Ms bursts. At 285 miles, the Paducah reception would represent a truly high angle reflection—and must be near the theoretical limits of meteor scatter propagation. I have a couple of good books on the topic, including: Studies of meteor-burst propagation at 49 and 74 megacycles1956 Meteor Burst Communications: Theory and Practice Meteor Burst Communications (Telecommunications Library) In a quick review of the literature I have on hand this morning, it appears that receptions at this short distance are rare indeed. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114 EM63nf, ibid.) I'll often get patterns like this via TrS. 88.3 is a classic. Syracuse NY NPR followed by Warsaw NY Family Life and then nothing for the next ten minutes-plus. Sometimes I get stations alternating like this but with wider geographic range --- something from MI, then northwest PA, then Rochester NY then Ottawa ON. Often west to east. The 88.3 example is east followed by slightly to the west. Not sure if it always goes this direction or west to east. I will pay more attention out of curiosity. Lightning scatter logs are way in the past, not recorded. But will soon post some Ms clips to show varying nature of reception and also distances; may take a while to dig up the clips I want. From observation, I would agree with the relative rarity described (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, ibid.) FM NOISE FLOOR AND ANOTHER SHORT RANGE MS RECEPTION I think something significant and transformative has occurred with my hobby in the past few days. We live in an HOA neighborhood situated on the end of a cul-de-sac surrounded by small garden homes, only 25-30 feet away on all sides, with one exception. That single exception is on the North side of our house, which borders a small area of wetlands, protected from development, and owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. Two weeks ago, we decided to expand the property fence in our back yard, to encompass the entire piece of land that we own—and eliminate the border that we had with this area. We’re talking an expansion of maybe 45 feet in total. Once that was completed, I decided to move my 2nd antenna, an FM-6 mounted about six feet high that I use for meteor scatter recordings into this area. My hope was to move further from my own house, and that of my neighbors possibly avoiding some of the broadband noise. My hopes were exceeded beyond all measure. Recordings showed that this new area has a significantly lower noise floor — at least 10 db and perhaps even more so with the antenna pointed towards the NNE (looking directly into the wetlands, and away from nearby houses.) Unattended recordings are now being made using two receivers, both feed by the FM-6. A Sony XDR-F1HD and a Yamaha T-85. Last night, I parked one on 93.3 and the other on 91.1 (two of my quietest channels here.) Both channels have produced MS loggings in the past—but nothing like this. Each recording now is a near constant stream of brief Ms pings, over a dozen or more per hour. In the past, I’d be lucky to get a dozen detectable pings per night. Furthering the excitement have been two receptions in two days. Both from very short distances, and both either meteor shower pings or something very similar. Last night, I caught a legal ID for WDNS 93.3 in Bowling Green, KY “D93” at 261 miles. http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11379-UNID-93-3-Meteor-Scatter According to all the scientific literature I can find, Meteor Scatter may not explain this propagation mode. It’s just too short a distance for the geometry to work out. But something interesting is going on. This all really points out the importance of finding low-noise areas within our backyards for siting antennas. Something that FM DX’ers may not give enough consideration too. I’m now considering moving my primary DX antenna (a Korner 9.2) to this area of the yard just to see what impact that might have on my DXing overall. Wondering if other DX’ers have investigated the noise floors in their own area — and what experiences you may have had. Also, any thoughts on these two short distance MS loggings? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, June 5, ibid.) A one word comment about the short distance, Les - - "backscatter" (the shorter form of MS). The more common form of MS is called "forward scatter". Bill H. (William Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) William, I’m going to need to do a review of the literature I have on hand to better understand that term as it applies here. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve worked enough VHF/UHF DX in quiet locations to have experienced it before! :-) Can you provide a quick explanation until I can do some reading? 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, ibid.) Les, I don't know why you *assume* the distances are TOO SHORT for meteor scatter propagation? Did someone establish a KNOWN FACT that meteor scatter reception can only occur at a minimum distance > maximum distance, thus making anything less than the minimum distance via some other mode??? I've been on a meteor scatter DXing mission for the past 25 years. When I was in Colorado, I lived in an area that was close to perfect for MS, but the radio dial was getting very clogged. I hear its even worse now than when I left in 2010. In the west you don't have to contend with tropo days and even tropospheric scatter only happens randomly. When I retire, I am moving to New Mexico, hopefully near Socorro which is near the National Radio Free Zone (radio astronomy research). I hope to have a yagi array set up near the ground, with a 5-6 degree angle, mounted to a manual rotatable mount. Anyway, when I was MS DXing in Colorado, during major meteor showers, I would sometimes hang out on 90.3, as it was a relatively open channel. I would get occasional fade ups from KCSP Casper WY at 185 miles. Typical MS visitors on 90.3 were KLUH Poplar Bluff MO, WMAV Oxford MS, WHLA La Crosse WI, WMAH Biloxi MS, WBLV Twin Lake MI. Some of these run RDS and it was easy to see they had returned multiple times. I was running the Conrad box with the Esslinger software. Anyway, when I was DXing MS in real-time (actually applies even to my recorded events), there were times when KCSP was in a fade pattern (signal somewhat present), and a meteor burn/train would happen and suddenly KCSP's signal was elevated for the length of the meteor burn. That's at 185 miles. You have to take in consideration the curvature of the earth and at what point, the FM signal enters the outer edges of the ionosphere, where meteor scatter/burns/pings occur. Typically meteor scatter comes in at a higher angle, thus the reason you want a slight tilt to the antenna, to capture as much of the signal as possible. If a 100 kW radio station can cover a distance of 80-90 miles on the surface of the Earth, do we know if the signal has even entered the ionosphere inside that coverage area? At what distance does it reach the ionosphere? I suppose there is research for that, I haven't come across it yet. Some things to ponder (Jim Thomas, ibid.) I'm inclined to agree with Jim. Although my dial became meteor- unfriendly many years back, I used to get receptions in that 250-300 mile range, and once below 250, and that was with the antenna mounted - as it still is - up underneath the peaked roof of my attached garage, certainly not an ideal MS setup. Nor is my location near a major NE city. No two meteors will approach at the same height and/or speed, so there are lots of variables. I'd never heard of backscatter meteor reception until Bill brought it up earlier in this topic, so I can't comment on that aspect, and since it's impossible to tell which is who, I wouldn't, anyway. This reminds me of a discussion here years back about the demarcation between 1x and 2x Es, with one group of members suggesting a rather narrow and finite distance. Again, when you have a reception within a certain range, you have no way of knowing if it's 1x or 2x, so it can't be proven and in theory it could be either. Ultimately, I stopped thinking about that and just let whatever came in come in (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, June 5, ibid.) Jim, I’ve been active in weak signal VHF/UHF amateur work for the past seven years, and the majority of my contacts were on 2 Meter (144 MHz) Meteor Scatter. I’ve tried to learn as much as possible about propagation on the bands above 50 MHz. To say I’m not an expert is an understatement but I have read not only the amateur articles and books on the subject, but a number of scientific tomes. My understanding is that minimum distances for forward meteor scatter have been established by studies commissioned by the military and commercial industry. Meteor scatter communications are used for all number of practical purposes, such as the recording of snowfall measurements in remote areas. I should have mentioned that my FM-6 is mounted on a short pole, and tilted upwards at 10 degrees. I believe that Jim may have suggested this. Thrilled to see the unattended monitoring part of the shack work as it should — and also to discover an area of my property where a lower noise floor is accessible. That will certainly change my DXing in the future. Sorry to take up the bandwidth for a topic that has been explored in the past. I realize that it’s hardly news, only new to me. :-) 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, AL, ibid.) Les, You probably have experienced aircraft scatter on 2M and thought it was meteor scatter. Run a slow waterfall display on FM carriers and watch the Doppler shifts. Also I often experience lightning ionization scatter on distant 432 MHz paths. Dex (Dexter McIntyre, W4DEX, June 5, ibid.) Back in the 1970's with an Finco FM-6 yagi at 20' in Santa María, California, I use to hear occasional MS bursts from 91.1 XETRA-FM Rosarito Beach BCN, Mexico at 240 air miles. Sometimes I would be listening to the station with a fair signal by Tropo and have an occasional meteor burst really boost the signal for a second or two. I also use to hear a station out of Las Vegas, NV on 92.3 at 300 miles. This one was pretty common by MS. Perhaps short range MS is Meteor Backscatter. Just throwing in my two cents. Thanks (Steven Wiseblood/AB5GP, Harlingen TX, ibid.) OUR SUN’S 11-YEAR MAGNETIC CYCLE DESTINED TO DISAPPEAR ARRL June 1, 2017 http://www.arrl.org/news/our-sun-s-11-year-magnetic-cycle-destined-to-disappear The Sun’s 11-year magnetic cycle appears to be ending, but that won’t happen anytime soon. In a paper submitted on May 26 to the journal Solar Physics, two solar scientists are reinterpreting earlier evidence to hypothesize that the Sun’s rotation rate and magnetic field are in a transitional phase that could lead to lengthening solar cycles, with the cycle ultimately disappearing altogether between 800 million and 2.4 billion years from now. Travis S. Metcalfe and Jennifer van Saders propose the scenario in their paper “Magnetic Evolution and the Disappearance of Sun-like Activity Cycles.” “After decades of effort, the solar activity cycle is exceptionally well characterized, but it remains poorly understood,” the authors say in the paper’s abstract. “Pioneering work at the Mount Wilson Observatory demonstrated that other Sun-like stars also show regular activity cycles and suggested two possible relationships between the rotation rate and the length of the cycle. Neither of these relationships correctly describe the properties of the Sun, a peculiarity that demands explanation.” The authors cite stellar evidence for the shutdown of “magnetic braking” in stars similar to our Sun. “The new picture of rotational and magnetic evolution provides a framework for understanding some observational features of stellar activity cycles that have until now been mysterious,” they said. Metcalfe explained their observations through a recent Forbes magazine article. “Our previous discoveries identified an unexpected transition in the rotation and magnetism of middle-aged stars,” Metcalfe is quoted in the article, “The Sun’s Magnetic Dynamo Is Weakening” by Bruce Dorminey. “We now have direct evidence that the stellar dynamo — the mechanism inside stars that sustains their magnetic fields — actually shuts down during this transition.” In their paper, the authors said that future observations with the Las Cumbres Observatory global telescope network “promise to probe the onset and duration of the magnetic transition that drives the evolution and eventual disappearance of Sun-like activity cycles.” A 2016 paper Travis co-authored — “Stellar Evidence that the Solar Dynamo May Be in Transition,” published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, concluded, “The Sun still exhibits a dipole component to its global field, particularly near magnetic minimum, but the solar analogs also suggest a gradual concentration of the field into smaller spatial scales, leading to weakened magnetic braking,” Metcalfe is listed on the paper as being associated with the Space Science Institute and the White Dwarf Research Corp, both in Boulder, Colorado. Van Saders is listed as being associated with the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, California, and the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University in New Jersey. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 Jun 05 0605 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 29 May - 04 June 2017 Solar activity was at very low levels on 29-30 May and again on 04 June. Low levels were reached from 31 May-03 June due to flare activity from Region 2661 (N06, L=211, class/area Dao/200 on 02 June). The largest flare of the period was a C8/Sn at 02/1757 UTC. Other activity included an approximate 28 degree filament eruption centered near S11E19 observed lifting off in H-alpha imagery beginning at 30/1300 UTC. An associated faint, narrow CME was observed off the southeast limb beginning at 30/2334 UTC. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. The period began under the continued influence of the 23 May CME. Total field reached a maximum of 17 nT at 29/0900 UTC followed by a decrease to around 8 nT by 29/1600 UTC. The Bz component deflected south to a maximum of -13 nT at 29/1230 UTC. Solar wind increased from approximately 350 km/s at the beginning of the period to a maximum of 561 km/s at 30/0940 UTC and slowly declined thereafter. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active conditions on 29-30 May. A return to near nominal solar wind conditions followed on 31 May-02 June. Quiet conditions were observed on 31 May and 02 June with quiet to unsettled levels observed on 01 June. At approximately 03/0615 UTC, total field, solar wind speed, density, and temperature began to increase due to the possible arrival of the 30 May CME combined with a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Total field increased to 14 nT at 03/1125 UTC while the Bz component deflected south to -13 nT. Solar wind speed increased to near 500 km/s at 03/1825 UTC before slowly recovering by the end of the period. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 03 June followed by quiet conditions on 04 June. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 05 JUNE - 01 JULY 2017 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels from 05-12 June as Region 2661 transits across the visible disk. Very low levels are expected from 13 June-01 July. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels likely from 16-26 June due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly quiet with unsettled to active levels expected on 14-19 June and G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on 16 June due to recurrent CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 Jun 05 0605 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 2017-06-05 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 Jun 05 78 5 2 2017 Jun 06 78 5 2 2017 Jun 07 78 5 2 2017 Jun 08 78 5 2 2017 Jun 09 78 5 2 2017 Jun 10 78 5 2 2017 Jun 11 78 5 2 2017 Jun 12 80 5 2 2017 Jun 13 78 5 2 2017 Jun 14 78 10 3 2017 Jun 15 78 12 4 2017 Jun 16 78 25 5 2017 Jun 17 78 10 3 2017 Jun 18 78 8 3 2017 Jun 19 78 8 3 2017 Jun 20 78 5 2 2017 Jun 21 78 5 2 2017 Jun 22 78 5 2 2017 Jun 23 78 5 2 2017 Jun 24 78 5 2 2017 Jun 25 78 5 2 2017 Jun 26 78 5 2 2017 Jun 27 80 5 2 2017 Jun 28 80 5 2 2017 Jun 29 80 5 2 2017 Jun 30 80 5 2 2017 Jul 01 80 5 2 (via WORLD OF RADIO 1881, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JUNE 8, 2017 Keith, Space Weather Services Australia makes a global HF propagation forecast of normal thru June 10 at all latitude bands. Space weather South Africa thru June 10 sees magnetic conditions quiet, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. China`s Space Environment Prediction Center foresees solar flux no higher than 75 thru July 4. Planetary A index peaking at 16 on June 13, and 15 on June 16. Per Met Office UK thru June 11: Solar activity expected to remain low or very low, with a continued chance of common-class flare activity. Geomagnetic activity mainly quiet with a slight chance of Unsettled intervals. F K Janda in Prague says the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on June 9, 20 - 21, 27 - 28 quiet to active on June 10, 12 - 13, 23, 25 active to disturbed on June 11, (15 -) 16, 24 quiet to unsettled June 14, 18, 22, 26 mostly quiet on June 17, 19 From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field expected to be mostly quiet with unsettled to active levels June 14-19 and G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on June 16 with A and K indices peaking at 25 and 5. Lowest As ans Ks of 5 and 2 thru June 13 and again from the 20th. Solar flux 78 except for a spike to 80 on June 12, and June 27 onwards. William Hepburn`s VHF UHF maps show extreme tropospheric ducting increasing off the west coast of Mexico from June 9 to 13. As always, off the west coast of Africa around Cabo Verde, all week. Off the coast of Angola, June 9 to 13. Across the central Mediterranean June 10-12 and western Mediterranean June 10 and 11. All around the Arabian peninsula as far as India, all week. Between South Korea and China June 11. And in North America, look for sporadic E FM DX thru the rest of June (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ AVOID LIST-LOGGING Several MAREs this week were snookered into believing the internet 'lists' that imply stations are out there that either aren't still where they were, or that are FAR more likely to be something else that is either buried deep in other lists, or haven't yet been updated to reflect current use. It is an easy mistake to make! Keep in mind that 'lists' are only good suggestions as to what MIGHT be on the air. Real edited sources like MARE's TipSheet Glenn Hauser's World of Radio. ODXAs publications, and a handful of others are better, but even edited sources make mistakes! (We are human after all.) So what to do? Don't believe lists. Check everything -- if what you're hearing just doesn't make 'sense' it probably isn't what you are thinking! Is Korea from Korea aimed at India coming in S9+30 dB in Michigan on 31 metres? Probably not them! The only way to know for sure? Wait for something identifiable! LISTEN to what you are receiving. "ChinaDrive" is not likely to be carried by Korea. The Voice of America won't programme "Romanian Tourism" and Iran won't be carrying recipes for Sweet and Sour Pork. If the station announcer says "This is Radio Romania, broadcasting from Bucharest" in English, the "list" that says this is Saudi Arabia carrying the Koran is not to be trusted. Report it as RRI not BSKSA, and if it USED to be BSKSA you might want to comment about the change. In short, don't 'listlog'! In time this will all become 'second nature' but mistakes are FAR too easy to make if you listlog! And we have ALL been fooled. If all else fails, don't be afraid to report something as UnID (Unidentified) or (t) or (p) (Tentative or Presumed) so we know you didn't hear an ID or other identifiable detail. No, you don't HAVE to hear someone say "This is Radio Outer Slobavia" to be sure of what you are hearing. If you are listening to Music USA, you can be pretty sure you've got the VoA, and if you are hearing the unmistakable dulcet tones of Brother Swear, you've got the Overcomer Ministry, but details about IDs and REAL programme details are always a plus. But the REAL bottom line? Don't be so afraid of making a mistake that you don't report! Remember what I said up there? We're all human, and mistakes are to be expected at times. It is after all, one of the most effective learning techniques! So report. Even if you flub up, we'll catch it before you get embarrassed -- or at least you'll be able to say 'see, the MARE editors were fooled' if we miss it too! ;) (Ken Zichi, ed., MARE Tipsheet June 2 via DXLD) WHY I’M LAUNCHING TRUMPILEAKS --- A LETTER FROM MICHAEL MOORE Friends, I need one of you to help me. It might get dangerous. It may get us in trouble. But we’re running out of time. We must act. It’s our patriotic duty. From the time you opened this letter to the time you get to the bottom of it, there’s a decent chance that our President will have violated the constitution, obstructed justice, lied to the American people, encouraged or supported acts of violence, or committed some horrible mistake that would’ve ended any other politician's career (or sent you or I to jail). And just like all the times he’s done so in the past, he will get away with it. Donald Trump thinks he’s above the law. He acts like he’s the above the law. He’s STATED that he’s above the law. And by firing Sally Yates, Preet Bharara and James Comey (3 federal officials with SOME authority to hold him accountable) he’s taken the first few steps to make it official. And yet, we keep hearing the same reaction to President Trump that we heard with candidate Trump after every new revelation or screw up - “He’s toast!” “He can’t survive this!” “He’s finished!” Make no mistake - Donald J. Trump has NO intention of leaving the White House until January 20, 2025. How old will you be in 2025? That's how long he plans to be your president. How much damage will have been done to the country and the world by then? And that is why we must act. . . https://michaelmoore.com/WhyImLaunchingTrumpiLeaks/ https://michaelmoore.com/TrumpiLeaks (via DXLD) CHRISTIANITY VS. SECULAR HUMANISM ON SHORTWAVE: A RECENT EXAMPLE As we well know, there is a lot of preaching on shortwave. And we've discussed here before the paucity of moderate, intellectual, or more liberal views in religious programming. Last year, I pointed out one program on shortwave that stems the tide: the BBC WS program "Heart and Soul." Christians and atheists and agnostics alike might find the recent episode "Good without God" of interest. Famous U.S. evangelical pastor Tony Campolo and his now secular humanist and former Christian son, Bart, discuss their lives with and without God. If you missed the broadcast, you can listen to it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05402ym It's also available as a podcast. (-- Richard Langley, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###