DX LISTENING DIGEST 17-46, November 14, 2017 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2017 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1904 contents: Argentina non, Australia, Biafra non, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Korea North non, Kurdistan non, México, Nigeria, North America, Norway, Oklahoma non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Philippines, Romania, South Carolina, Tibet non, Turkey, UK, USA; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1904, November 14-21, 2017 [NOTE: the 9330 broadcasts at 0030 have been inaudible here; not clear if low-powered, off the air, and/or due to propagation. Continue to be on the list hoping they reappear --- gh] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 9455 11580 [all confirmed] Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 [confirmed]; 15770 [off the air, post-Irma] Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 9455 [both confirmed] Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 [confirmed] Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 Tue 2030 WRMI 9455 11580 7780 [or 1905?] 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. Dari vs Persian vs Farsi: See LANGUAGE LESSONS abottom ** ANGOLA. 4949.726, Rádio Nacional, 2330 UT Nov 11 in Portuguese with African music and talk. IDs also heard with Very Good signal. Hung in very well past 0300 UT. Started playing western pop music like Nickleback Tina Turner and others past 0015 (I wish they would stay with Africa tunes). Time pips and News at 0200. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, 2043-2052*, 14-11, Latin American songs, Spanish, comments, closed at about 2052. Very weak, only audible on USB (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 6 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 1660, LRI232, R Ciudade [sic], Nogoya (ER14) - ?: Calle Urquiza 1115, Nogoya, Entre Rios. Power 5 kW day and 0.25 kW night. W: http://facebook.com/A-M-1660-Radio-Ciudad-de-Nogoyá-262402490918239/ E: radioam1660@gmail.com (Argentina en AM y FM via Nov Medium Wave News via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 11580, Nov 9 circa 1430, RAE relay hour in Spanish is still here via WRMI, no timeshift, preceded by French at 1300 M-F. But perusing the WRMI skedgrids, I see that two RAE relays have changed time: English Tue-Sat at 0200 instead of 0100, on 9395; and Portuguese M-F at 1200 instead of 1100 on 9955 (also on 9455?). The others remain at the same UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RAE 1200-1230 UT Nov 13, when checked RHC, also RAE in Portuguese on both 9455 and 9955 kHz same px on air on RMI Okeechobee. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASCENSION. 11770, Nov 13 at 0721, BBCWS with an English interview, poor-fair, same on // 12095. Both are Ascension this hour only, 125 kW at 65 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 5045, Ozy Radio at 1505 UT Nov 11 with talk about Remembrance Day followed by rock music. Waltzing Matilda IS and ID at 1539. Fair. Also noted Nov 12 at 1535 with Bee Gees "More Than A Woman". 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5045, Ozy Radio, on Nov 13, heard with the strongest signal ever noted here, but unfortunately on a day when there was very heavy OTH radar; 1133 & 1255. Without the OTH radar, believe the news would have been fairly readable, as the Ozy signal was that strong (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) When I checked in South Korea, Hiroshima / Tokyo, and Brisbane units to listen UNID 6087v kHz small domestic station, noted also: AUSTRALIA, 5044.9955, Ozy Radio, Mount Razorback - AUS, S=9+10dB signal heard in remote unit at Brisbane, Queensland at 1030 UT on Nov 14. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5045, Nov 14 at 1246, VP carrier, JBA, presumed Ozy Radio, which is currently active and well heard much later by Ron Howard in California, Mick Delmage in Alberta. Sunrise here is 1308 UT, heading toward latest approx. 1345 by early January (while earliest sunset of approx. 2315 will be reached by early December) (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: Papua New Guinea - minister wants to bring back short wave [q.v.] Craig Allen (owner and operator of Ozy Radio on 5045 kHz) posted the following on WRTH Facebook page, regarding the news story of more SW stations wanted in PNG: "Maybe they can lease my 4835 khz shortwave licence off me. I will put it at Boigu Island" [Queensland, Australia - Ron] Boigu Island is less than 5 miles away from PNG (Ron Howard, San Francisco, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Reception of Reach Beyond Australia in English, Nov 6 1115-1130 on 15575 KNX 100 kW / 315 deg to SEAs English Mon-Wed/Fri 1245-1300 on 11865 KNX 100 kW / 320 deg to SoAs English Daily 1315-1330 on 11865 KNX 100 kW / 320 deg to SoAs English Mon/Wed/Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-reach-beyond-australia-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1041 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. ZNS is using a two tower array with about 110 k watts going south and a null to the north to protect 1540 in Albany, NY. From time to time they will go non-d at half power. On a regular basis they have a .5 mv signal into Inagua, the southernmost island in the Bahamas. On any given day they get a fair copy during the day on the north coast of the Dominican Republic (Jerry Kiefer, Orlando, Nov 13, IRCA via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11530, Sunday November 12 at 1921 tune-in, good new signal in English, but some deep fades, YL giving long phone number, +234-810-617-7870, ID as ``Radio Biafra, broadcasting from London``, schedule 6-7 am on 7240 and 11530, 8-9 pm on 11530 [UT +1; = 05-06 & 19-20 UT]; bit of hilife music, 1922 same announcement in language, presumed Igbo/Ibo, still pronounces frequencies in English; 1925 English ID again and schedule; 1926 music; 1927 switch to OM in language, mentions I-phones, music. 1927 mentions Jesus Christ; 1933 I start to record. She gives her name as host of morning and evening broadcasts, asks for text messages to above of how listeners are receiving us on any of ``these numbers``. Stay tuned for important announcement; 1940 music, and 1941 the message by the OM in English, gives his name, but with a very heavy accent hard to understand (starting at 4:08 into my 8-minute recording). He and the Indigenous People of Biafra have decided to dismiss and remove the director of Radio Biafra and IPOB. Gives his long name which includes Nnamdi. Reasons include something he did ``leading to death of many innocent young people``; and ``turning IPOB into a money-making machine`` along with his father; cites sums in millions of dollars and pounds sterling. If anyone can copy the exact wording of the entire announcement, please do so. Listen: http://www.w4uvh.net/biafra_11530_20171112_1933.mp3 This is again brokered by Radio Miami International. Latest HFCC of November 10 shows: 7240 0500 0600 46S,47N,47SW,52NW ISS 100 170 0 216 1234567 291017 240318 D Mul F RMI TDF 1258 NIG-Ten 11530 0500 0600 46 RMI 100 87 0 902 1234567 121117 250318 D Eng USA RMI FCC 16567 11530 1900 2000 46 RMI 100 87 0 902 1234567 121117 250318 D Eng USA RMI FCC 16568 So this is via WRMI itself at both times, while 7240 is France. Biafra really applies only to CIRAF 46-SE, while entire 46 encompasses all of Nigeria, indeed all of west Africa south of Algeria and Morocco. No other real programming yet, just repetitions of the schedule, etc. In DXLD 17-43, I picked out these from HFCC as of Oct 25: ``RMI is also registered for a number of transmissions via Issoudun, France toward Africa, not all of them current or known: 7240 at 05-06, multilingual, {170 degrees to 46S,47N,47SW,52NW} 9610 at 19-20, English, {207 degrees to 46W [not Nigeria]} 11795 at 19-20, multilingual {169 degrees to 46S,47N,47SW,52NW} 13740 at 0730-0830, Hausa 15440 at 0730-0830, Hausa 15450 at 1730-1800, Oromo 17765 at 1600-1700, Hausa`` As in DXLD 17-44, Ivo erroneously assumed these registered transmissions would be for something else: ``Winter B-17 inactive clandestine transmissions via WRMI broker Radio Niger Delta Voice of Peace 0500-0600 on 7240 ISS 100 kW / 170 deg to WeAf English 1900-2000 on 11795 ISS 100 kW / 170 deg to WeAf English`` 11530 has obviously replaced 11795, and is now registered as from WRMI itself, not Issoudun. And also evidently replacing this drawn from the same HFCC Oct 25: ``Here`s one new entry: 9840 at 06-08 on 87 degrees to Africa. 9840 has been associated with WHRI which still has it at 12-24`` Radio Biafra had been silent for some months, but had an entry a year ago in the WRTH 2017 on page 515 --- when it was at 18-21 on 15325 via Bulgaria. It`s the same organisation, IPOB, and the L.P. Dir. Was Nnamdi Kanu. Website given in WRTH is http://www.radiobiafra.co --- yes, .co as in Colombia, not .com! It`s rather cluttered, but has current dates on some audio clips. And some rather alarming headlines, such as ``Nigeria is a Failed State``. Elexions are coming up on 18 November, in Anambra State, probably explaining why this is back on air now. One of the scrolling stories is about ``Nnamdi Kanu missing after military invaded his home, killing everyone in sight``. Is this a different Nnamdi than the one mentioned on air???? Has there been a coup at IPOB? They have hopes of joining Catalonia and Kurdistan in independence. Good luck with that! The Broadcasts tab on the website gets a 502 ``bad gateway`` error (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Biafra, 11530 AM, 1926 UT 12 Nov 2017 --- I stumbled upon this while checking out the 25 meter band. Clear ID by a man in English, then into another language. Very strong signal, SIO 555. I wonder who is relaying this? 1932 An ID by a YL, announced 7240 and 11530 as the frequencies from 6 AM to 7 AM, and 11530 from 8 PM to 9 PM, and said broadcasting from London. They also gave a number for text messages (Chris Smolinski, Westminster, MD USA, Black Cat Systems http://www.blackcatsystems.com, HCDX via DXLD) Datestamped 1935 UT Nov 12, but not delivered thru HCDX until almost Nov 14! So he had not had a chance to see my ASAP report of hearing it at the same time (gh, DXLD) After discovering R. Biafra on its first day of reactivation, Nov 12 around 1930 via WRMI 11530, I`m looking for the other announced broadcast, 0500-0600 on WRMI 11530, and on Issoudun 7240: Nov 13 at 0529, JBA carriers on both. It`s normal for WRMI to be almost gone from other 25m 11580 this late. And one wonders how well 11530 could propagate into Nigeria from the nightmiddle in FL. (Also there is a huge 10-MHz gap for the 1900 broadcast between 11530 and WRMI`s existing service to the same area on 21525; which works better, or not at all?) However, Ivo Ivanov in B`lgariya says, ``But morning transmission of Radio Biafra on Nov 13 was 0500-0600 on 11530 via RMI, not on 7240 via ISS``. So what was the JBA carrier I had on 7240? Day frequency of AIR Mumbai? Certainly not RRI Ambon, Indonesia in English, another wacko entry in HFCC. Or a Western Hemisphere ham could have been AMing on 7240 just to confuse us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA, Radio Biafra was back on shortwave via WRMI from Nov 12 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/radio-biafra-was-back-on-shortwave-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) viz.: Radio Biafra again on SW via WRMI/TDF from Nov 12: 0500-0600 on 7240 ISS 100 kW / 170 deg to WeAf English txTDF 0500-0600 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English tx07? 1900-2000 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English tx10? ??????????? ?? Observer (via DXLD) 11530, Mon Nov 13 at 1933, another check of the new/revived/fake? Radio Biafra via WRMI. Reception is better today, VG S9+10, and stronger than 11580 WRMI which aims northeast, while 11530 presumably aims east (nominally 44 and 87 degrees: no slewing possible); and seems a duplicate of yesterday`s broadcast, with repeated info on schedule; YL announcer sometimes slips again on ``11530``, leaving out the zero or stumbling over it; identifies herself, name sounds something like ``Ifomo Kurafo``. ``Special announcement`` again at 1937 by OM. 1944 YL makes an announcement in language, Igbo? No doubt that it`s WRMI, since a partial BZ ID plays, cut off the air just before 2000. But as of Nov 14, the WRMI skedgrid via http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs ``updated November 9`` still does not show these Biafra broadcasts on 11530! (After the fact, it does show `Broad Spectrum Radio` at 07-08 Monday on 5850 & 7730.) 11530 is already in use for brief broadcasts from two transmitters: #3 at 22-24, 160 degrees to S America; and #10 also 160, but --- blank = extremely brief, no entries during the 24 hours. Only certain transmitters can be connected to each antenna. The only overt use of the Africa beam 87 degrees is #7 on 21525 at 14-21, which apparently continues. A number of other transmitters were idle during the two Biafra blox: at 05-06, #3, 7, 8, 10 and 14; at 19-20, #2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. I was too busy recording WOR 1904 between 19 and 20 Nov 14 to check whether Biafra was again airing, the same stuff? that day on 11530. But Richard Langley, NB, was covering this! ``Recorded 11530 kHz this afternoon using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Nothing heard. I would have expected a broadcast from WRMI beamed to Nigeria would provide at least some signal into Europe. Also, I do not see the Biafra program on the current WRMI grid. Furthermore, 11530 kHz transmitted by either transmitter 3 or 10 has used an antenna with a beam azimuth of 160 , i.e., to South America. Unless they can connect to a different antenna, how do they hope to get a signal to Africa on 11530 kHz?`` Other comments have come in earlier about this: altho he could not hear the 7240 broadcast on Nov 12, Ivo Ivanov in Bulgaria does report it on Nov 14, and evaluates the others as of Nov 13: ```Updated schedule of Radio Biafra, Nov 14: 0500-0558 on 7240 ISS 100 kW / 170 deg to WeAf English, very good 0500-0600 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English, weak/fair 1900-2000 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English, very poor`` BTW, Even HFCC has finally replaced ``YFR`` with ``RMI`` for Okeechobee site! Let us all do so, RIP YFR. Antonello Napolitano, Taranto, Italia of DX Fanzine, replies Nov 14: ``Hi Glenn, It seems that Radio Biafra over WRMI is a "black" clandestine station. According to a friend of mine from Nigeria who belongs to Igbo ethnic group and supports IPOB, the news you heard over Radio Biafra that Nnamdi Kandi has been removed is a fake news. She sent me this long comment by a Biafra militant. As you can see it is said that the true Radio Biafra is from London and Radio Biafra International --- which is available at http://www.radiobiafrainternational.co/ is a fake station. Let me say, I am a little bit confused because as you reported the station you heard claimed to be broadcasting from London and they said: "People of Biafra have decided to dismiss and remove the director of Radio Biafra and IPOB". According to Biafra militants that is not true, so we have to assume that a propaganda war is progressing in Nigeria. (Sorry for capital letters but I am including here just the original wording without editing). Quoted: [sic] ATTENTION PLEASE: BIAFRANS SHOULD DISREGARD THIS FAKE NEWS GOING ROUND THE SOCIAL MEDIA, ALLEGING THAT OUR GREAT LEADER MAZI NNAMDI KANU HAS BEING SACK , THIS FAKE NEWS FROM PIT OF HELL SAID THAT IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN RADIO BIAFRA WHICH RADIO? THE FAKE RADIO BIAFRA international ,BIAFRA HAS ONLY ONE TRUE RADIO WHICH IS RADIO BIAFRA LONDON OTHER ONES ARE FAKE AND ANY NEWS NOT FROM RADIO BIAFRA LONDON IS FAKE AS SIMPLE AS THAT, I WANT TO MAKE IT ABUNDANT CLEAR HERE TO ALL MY FELLOW BIAFRANS, OUR LEADER MAZI NNAMDI HAS NEVER BEING SACKED OR REPLACED BY ANY BODY, THEY SAID ONE IMBECILE WITH THE NAME EZENWACHUKWU UKWUDILI HAS REPLACED HIM, HAHAHAHA VERY PATHETIC, ONE WILL ASK WHERE IS THIS FOOL WITH THE NAME SINCE WHEN ARE FIGHTING FOR THIS COURSE , NOBODY KNOWS. IPOB IS STILL UNDER THE MENTORSHIP AND COMMAND OF OUR GREAT LEADER MAZI NNAMDI KANU TILL TOMORROW, WE WILL FIGHT WITH HIM TILL OUR LAST BREATH, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT ARMY TOOK HIM AWAY, ON 14 SEPTEMBER WHEN THEY INVADED HIS HOME TOWN AND KILL 28 BIAFRANS THERE, SINCE THEN WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM OUR LEADER, WE ARE TELLING THE NIGERIA MILITARY TO RELEASE OUR LEADER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. MEANWHILE WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE FORE FRONT IN SPREADING THIS FAKE NEWS IS THE FAKE RADIO BIAFRA international (RBi) OWNED BY SACKED IPOB DOS , CLIFFORD IROANYA AND THEIR DEVILISH PARTNERS IN CRIME ,THEIR ARE ALSO BEHIND THE LYING MEDIA BODY KNOWN AS "SOLDIERS OF JUSTICE (SOJ). WE ASK EVERY REAL BIAFRAN TO REMAIN RESOLUTE BECAUSE AT THE END LIGHT OVERTAKE DARKNESS,NEVERTHELESS THE BROWN ENVELOPE MEDIA PERSONEL BEHIND DAILY POST NEWS HAS JOINED THESE SHENANIGANS SET OF PEOPLE TO TARNISH THE GOOD IMAGE OF IPOB UNDER OUR GREAT LEADER MAZI NNAMDI KANU,BUT AT THE END WE ALWAYS WIN, WE MUST CONTINUE`` end quote (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Regarding the websites, I did not hear the 11530 station announce either website; merely looked up Radio Biafra in the WRTH 2017 and referred to what is there. Kai Ludwig replies further, too late to include on WOR 1904: `` > http://www.radiobiafrainternational.co/ Would be worth to check if the stream there is // 11530/7240 when on air. > Let me say I am a little bit confused because as you reported > the station you heard claimed to be broadcasting from London Of course. All variants of related articles, such as http://www.thebiafratelegraph.co/2017/11/revealed-lai-mohammed-hires-uk-media.html advise the followers to make sure that they listen to "Radio Biafra broadcasting from London or through London". So it's no surprise whatsoever that a faked Radio Biafra will insert pronounced announcements that they are "broadcasting from London". The whole stunt is no surprise as well, considering how the RMI- brokered transmissions of Radio Biafra via Issoudun came to an end two years ago. Kai`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Further chex of 11530 at 19-20: Nov 15, fill music instead! Nov 16, off the air. Back Nov 17; added 9580. Details already in dxldyg; next issue of DXLD (gh) Hi Glenn, A few days ago I heard a brief discussion on our local Talk Radio 702 (on FM 92.7 of course in Johannesburg!) and a guest on the programme pointed out that .co is now being used instead of .com and, I presumed, is intended to replace .com I'm not sure how accurate this is or how it will affect Colombia and its own .co; perhaps one of the computer wizzards in the dxld group can confirm or correct this for us (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5935.0, Nov 11 at 2253, JBA carrier a few minutes before WWCR blast, again raising the question whether it`s R. Yura, no definite logs lately, or just Tibet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still waiting for anyone to reconfirm whether Yura on or not ** BOTSWANA [and non]. VOA Botswana 909, tonight's DX goodie --- Moepeng Hill, BOTSWANA - VOA relay, 600 kW coming in this afternoon on 909. Man "This is the Voice of America, Washington, DC signing off.", marching-band rendition of Yankee Doodle. Fair signal, first time heard here at the house. Logged years ago at an Orleans, MA beach site. 9 NOV 2017 at 2100 UT / 4 p.m. EST. https://app.box.com/s/724khhz6khcx72b0if8x1n39iztwc5ji No UK interference and minimal WABK slop at the time ... so go get 'em! (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41 41.59' N / 70 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq) Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/ Antenna: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 9m vert. by 20m horiz (peak 90 deg., null 270 deg.) See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Wow! Weak, but definitely there word-for-word as you described. Great catch, Mark! (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX 2223 UT Nov 10, nrc-am gg via DXLD) A bit of aurora in the mix helped to take usual BBC Five Live, Romania, Middle East stuff etc. out of the 909 mix and it also helped to keep Bangor, ME, WABK 910 down to something just a bit pestier than groundwave level rather than at its much stronger normal skip strength. There was something else on 910 bumping around under WAEI, likely Venezuela. I think that, at least here in eastern MA (+ RI, NH, ME, QC, NB, NS, PEI, NL), DXers have a good shot at both the 909 Botswana VOA sign-off at 2100 UT and the 1530 São Tomé VOA sign-off an hour later at 2200. Incidentally, São Tomé was reasonably good at 0300 UT sign-on last night, about equal to WCKY. DXers in eastern Long Island, along the NJ shore, Delmarva, Outer Banks NC, and eastern side of FL should also have a shot at some of this African action. For those not right on the water, some combination of altitude and serious antenna directivity may help. Some deep Afro DX might even get to the Great Lakes area though that's a tougher route (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth MA, 2251 UT, ibid.) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1141-1203*, Nov 8. Discussion in Pidgin; pop songs; almost no RRI QRM today, so reception above the norm. BTW - NBC Madang, on 3260; noted NBC news in English at 1204; at 1207, after the news, went straight to indigenous, repetitive singing (not the usual pop songs); poor. NBC Madang cut off at 1210* (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Radiodifusora Acreana, Río Branco, 0610-0716, 12-11, Brazilian songs, male, Portuguese, comments, ID "AM 1400 kHz, ondas curtas 4885 kHz, Radiodidusora Acreana, unha [sic] emissora da Rede Pública de Comunicação do Acre", 35433. No Rádio Clube on air (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 6 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL: 9665, ZYE890 Radio Voz Missionária (tentative); 2201-2210+, 11/9; Series of Portuguese spots mentioning Brasil, Amazônia & Rádio Nacional several times; nothing preachy till 2207+. Need LSB to minimize hiss QRM & freq drifty, 9664.89-9665.00, up from tune-in, then back down (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -- ---, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 15190, The Word via IRRS; 1520-1531:02*, 11/5; English discussion of religion & Christianity; referred to religion as “the opium [sic] of the people” & “Faith alone is not enough.” (not exactly fundamentalist views); 1528 spots for The Word, Sentec, IRRS & Nexus. SIO=2+43 with co-ch QRM that disappeared at s/off, so maybe studio bleed (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 11-12 Nov 2017 Shortwave Radiogram this weekend is all MFSK32, with five images. It also includes some text in Dari (aka Farsi, Persian), which is interesting for its right-to-left printout. Fldigi from w1hkj.com (free) will transform the strange noises from your radio into text and images, even if you tune in using a cheap portable. Details and schedule .... http://swradiogram.net/post/167341672822/shortwave-radiogram-11-12-november-2017-dari (Kim Elliott, Nov 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is another color correction by re-combination of the 3 basic colors. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2017-11-11.htm#Hal_Fi You do not need a corresponding audio, the corrupted image is sufficient. No trial and error is needed; this method is simple, comprehensible and always leads to the goal. In this way, one could also repair larger images that have similar defect patterns due to defective media (roger, germany, Nov 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA. 918 kHz, RNK Phnom Penh habe ich wiederholt mit 5- minuetigen Nachrichten in English und Frensch auf MW 918 kHz zwischen 1200 und 1210 UT gehoert. Empfang trotz der hohen Sendeleistung hier nicht beruehmt, co-channel Radio Thailand und starker Ortssender auf 927v kHz, der auch noch den 900 kHz Kanal zumuellt. 918, RNK National Radio of Kampuchea from Phnom Penh. After two weeks observation I can confirm that there are regular news broadcasts in English and French, from 1200 to 1210 UT (5 minutes each) on 918 kHz. However there were a couple of days, where the foreign news broadcast wasn't present. Maybe public holiday, or the announcer was sick... At the beginning of the English News broadcast two times were announced: 1 pm (= 1300 local, 0600 UT) and 7 pm (= 1900 local, 1200 UT). The 0600 UT broadcast has to be checked, I cannot confirm it yet. Here is a recording of today, November 10, 2017: (Uwe Volk, Thailand, CBG border location, via wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 10) [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CANADA. CHED-630 changes Night Pattern (may be temporary) CHED-630 Edmonton AB has evidently changed their Night Directional Pattern, with more power to the South, West and East (see pix following the last page). This may be temporary since there has been no mention of it by Industry Canada or the CRTC, and tower work has been observed at the transmitter site. Much stronger signals have been reported at night by DXers in Vancouver, Ontario and the US Southwest (11/13 via Jon Pearkins, IRCA DX Monitor Nov 18, published Nov 14, via DXLD) ** CANADA. CJCS is off --- Thanks to a tip from Dan Goldfarb re a posting on Facebook, CJCS 1240 Stratford ON has left the air. It was not heard this morning [Nov. 9th] at 6 AM. The station is now 107 1 The Juice. a (Andy Reid, Ont., Nov 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. INTERNATIONAL RADIO REPORT 30TH ANNIVERSARY BROADCAST November 19, 2017 Good afternoon. We can hardly believe it but our 30th anniversary edition of the International Radio Report on CKUT-FM in Montreal will be coming up on Sunday, November 19, 2017 with a special 1-hour edition. Here is the text of a special notice we have begun circulating regarding the program's history and the upcoming special anniversary program. I would appreciate you letting your readers/listeners, etc. know of this upcoming event/broadcast through your various outlets. Thanks. NOTICE: 30th Anniversary edition of The International Radio Report on CKUT-FM 90.3 MHz in Montreal Sunday, November 19, 2017 from 10:30 am to 11:30 AM Eastern (1530 to 1630 UT) The International Radio Report, is a radio program conceived by Sheldon Harvey and submitted to CKUT's first station manager Ms. Susan Elrington as a proposal in the fall of 1987. CKUT obtained its FM broadcasting license in 1987 and began broadcasting regular programming, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in November 1987. The program proposal was approved and the International Radio Report, a weekly 30-minute program about the medium of radio, first aired on Thursday afternoons from 2:30 to 3 PM, beginning in mid-November 1987 when CKUT first went on the air. The program eventually moved to Sunday mornings from 10:30 to 11:00 AM. It has aired every week for the past 30 years on CKUT. The program, originally hosted and produced by Sheldon Harvey and William Westenhaver, initially dealt exclusively with the world of international radio broadcasting, or shortwave radio, featuring information on radio broadcasts from around the world that could be listened to on shortwave radio. Over the years the scope of the program evolved and expanded to also include information and developments in local and national radio broadcasting, campus/community radio, pirate and clandestine radio and, eventually, Internet and digital radio. The program also covers developments in radio equipment, radio technology, and more. Throughout its 30 years on the air, the program has had a few other hosts and producers. Sheldon Harvey and William Westenhaver took a break for several years, but the program continued with hosts Janice Laws and Steve Karlock. Eventually Steve left and Sheldon returned to co-host with Janice. Then Janice left and was replaced by David Asselin. Today the show continues with co-hosts Sheldon Harvey and David Asselin. Over the years numerous guests have appeared on the program, including personalities from local and international radio stations, members of various shortwave and amateur radio clubs and organizations, representatives of Industry Canada and the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and other radio related organizations. The program has developed a dedicated local audience, as well as many listeners from around the world tuning in via CKUT's webpage live- stream. There is also a very active Facebook group with over 365 members from around the world. The International Radio Report will be celebrating its 30th anniversary broadcast on Sunday, November 19th with a special one-hour edition of the program from 10:30 to 11:30 am. Sheldon and David will have an array of special in-studio guests, plus some samplings of past historic broadcasts, including a clip from the very first edition in November 1987. We will also pay tribute to past hosts and guests and have a round-table discussion on the evolution of radio over the last 30 years and what the future holds for the medium. We invite you to tune in to this special 1-hour edition of the International Radio Report, live from 10:30 to 11:30 AM, on Sunday, November 19, 2017 on CKUT-FM 90.3 in Montreal and online, live- streaming, on www.ckut.ca. The broadcast will then be available on the CKUT archives. (Sheldon Harvey, Radio H.F. http://www.radiohf.ca Enjoy birds and birdwatching? http://www.birdprotectionquebec.org Nov 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 12120, Nov 8 at 1400, CNR1 theme music. Only jammer audible vs VOA Chinese this hour only via Philippines; also vs persistent RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7435, Nov 10 at 1408, Russian from CRI vs pulse jamming from Cuba against no Radio Martí, Commies vs Commies! Aoki/NDXC shows site Shijiazhuang, 500 kW, 37 degrees toward DVR, thus also USward; yet also shows CRI Nepali, westward from Kunming. And, even more Commies, Vietnam HS program 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035, PBS Yunnan (Voice of Shangri-la), 1130, Nov 13. Nice English & Chinese ID - "S W liu(6) ling(0) san(3) wu(5). Yunnan Radio and Television International, the Voice Shangri-la"; 1201*. No BBS/Bhutan here today (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9630, Nov 12 at 2316, Vietnamese? atop R. Aparecida, making a fast SAH with it, indicating the ZY is almost on- frequency! No, it`s Cantonese, this hour only from CRI per NDXC, 500 kW, 161 degrees from Jinhua 831 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11885, Nov 13 at 0002, CRI English with amazingly good signal for a broadcast listed at 0000-0157, 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an. Maybe long path? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9455. Nov 14, 2017 at 1910-1920, China National Radio 1. Firedragon: All continuous songs, mainly treble violins and drums, blocking RFA transmission, as usual (DXer: Jose Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, Longwire, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 6010, Voz de tu Conciencia, 0840 UT Nov 12 in Spanish with music and talk. Several mentions of Conciencia. Poor but in the clear. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Usually slightly off-frequency, and seldom reported with definite ID; sibling station Alcaraván Radio on 5910.3v even less lately (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 6060, Nov 9 at 0705, RHC English is still on here, but no other frequencies as they struggle to get their act together for the new schedule until 0800 effective Nov 12. 6000 is off, but 6100 is on and now it`s in Spanish! 5040, 6145 and 6165 are all off. BTW, what will become of Esperanto which has been at 0700 UT Sundays on one 49m frequency or another? Arnie`s sked shows delayed until 0800-0830, on 6100. Also Sunday 1600-1630 ex-1500 on 11760; Sunday 2330 on 15730, Esperanto replaces French. AND, now a fourth Esperanto on the sked: 0000-0030 on 5040, presumably meaning UT Monday, and would pre-empt the first half of English. But all of these will need to be confirmed! 17730, Nov 9 at 1511, RHC has just come on with open carrier, then some modulation. 17580 which had been on, is now off. Hardly any other station on 16m at this hour, no KVOH, maybe traces of BSKSA. WWV reports K-index at 1500 was 3, with G1 minor storms past and future. 9570, Nov 10 at 1414, S9+20 open carrier, got to be CRI relay transmitter, still on after 1400* but this does not prevent the modulated CRI English relay to be underway from another transmitter on next frequency from *1400, 15700, S9+30. Maybe a trace of modulation on 9570, not enough to make a match. 11880, Nov 9 at 2252, RHC on with English translation of hoary old FCR speech; was not on a few minutes earlier, as English on this frequency has already moved to 0000 UT from 2300 --- but apparently studio is feeding English out during the 22 UT hour: didn`t get the message? Somewhat distorted, on to 2253 guitar and piano music, feature about El Morro castle. 11880 is to be replaced by 9720 officially from Nov 12: French 23, English 00. 15140, Nov 10 at 2040 on caradio, big open carrier/dead air instead of English at shifted hour later from RHC, which on some previous days they successfully modulated; something`s always wrong at RHC. Meanwhile 15370 in French is OK. 6000, Nov 11 at 0700, this RHC is in Spanish and suptorted, while 6060 and 6100 continue in English, the former with ZY off-frequency het. Will RHC get its act together by tomorrow for English extended 0700 until 0800 on 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165, and all Spanish frequencies off after 0600, as per Arnie`s own sked? Of course not! Something`s always wrong at RHC. It`s Nov 12, time for the delayed B-17 schedule to go into effect at RHC, so what do we find?? 11880, Nov 12 at 2307, open carrier/dead air on this A-17 frequency, which has already been heard with French during this hour instead of English. 11880 still OC/DA at 2330. 11880 off at 0001 Nov 13 check, [non] No sign of its replacement 9720 yet, but at 2315 there is algo VP on 9720. Aoki shows CRI in Japanese via Xi`an during this hour. A bit stronger at 2334, soft flute music. 9720 off after 0000, no RHC or anything else. 15730, Nov 12 at 2307 and later, no signal here. Supposed to be on at 2330-0130, starting with Esperanto on Sundays only instead of French. Still absent after 2330. Or not propagating? No sign of Esperanto on any of the other frequencies now or after 0000. 15370, Nov 12 at 2330 has a VP signal, RHC which is scheduled until 2400; winter fadeouts getting early. Can barely match it to // 11840 and also very weak 15230 with `Mundo de la Filatelia` which is just another excuse to blah-blah-blah about The Revolution, now at 58th anniversary. Also JBA on 13740, but blasting in on 5040. `En Contacto` DX program starts at 2343:20. After 0001 Nov 13, other RHCs checked: 11840 is VP; 11760 & 11670 seem off; 9535 audible; 6060 ZY het. At 0035, 11840 is a JBA carrier; at 0136, 7340 is VP, and 5040 is still VG in Spanish. English is now supposed to start at 0200 instead of 0100. At 0204, nothing on 6165 or 6145, but 6000 is on with weakish signal and weaker modulation. Altho the sked versions in DXLD 17-45 show 6165 reactivated in English after 0200, another B-17 version received by Ken Zichi in the MARE Tipsheet shows 6145 instead. As long as this transmitter is inoperative, it hardly matters which. After 0200, NO RHC frequencies are audible on 9 or 11 MHz bands. Still no 6145 or 6165 at 0413 Nov 13 check. What`s going on after 0700 Nov 13? At 0735, RHC music on 6100 and weaker 6060; neither 6165 nor 6145; 6000 and 5040 are off. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Guess what: now Wolfgang Büschel has received an update from Arnie Coro that the new sked will not go into effect until Nov 14/UT 15! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 11670 15432 approx., Nov 13 at 1520, extremely distorted blob around here, first suspected Saudi Arabia which used to go haywire on 15435. Trace of its carrier is detectable vs the blob; scheduled to start Call of Islam at 1450 (Allah`ll get `em for that?). Soon obvious from modulation match that this is once again the RHC 15370 transmitter, which sounds OK on fundamental, but blasting out spurblobs approx. every 62 kHz above and below, which I then find around: 15308, 15246, 15184, 15122. But the further ones unseem at 62 kHz steps, more like 15059, 14997, 14935; and not so many audible above: circa 15499, 15561, 15623, 15687, weakening the further out but there should be NONE of these infesting the band. Something`s always wrong --- very wrong --- at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC Cuba check at 1200-1235 (1327) UT, Mon Nov 13 --- [part of] Full B-17 schedule of R. Habana Cuba 1200-1400 11670 BAU 100 340 WNAm Spanish 1200-1400 13670 BEJ 50 135 SoAm Spanish 1200-1400 17580 BAU 100 160 SoAm Spanish 1200-1400 17730 BAU 100 130 SoAm Spanish 1200-1500 11950 BAU 100 010 ENAm Spanish 1200-1500 11840 QVC 250 305 WNAm Spanish 1200-1600 9535 BEJ 100 230 CeAm Spanish 1200-1600 11760 BAU 100 n-d NCAm Spanish 1300-1500 11650 BEJ 50 110 Antilles Spanish 1300-1600 15230 QVC 250 160 SoAm Spanish 1400-1500 17580 BAU 100 160 SoAm Spanish 1400-1500 17730 BAU 100 130 SoAm Spanish 1400-1600 15370 BAU 100 315 WNAm Spanish 1500-1600 17730 BAU 100 130 SoAm Spanish RHC Spanish, Interval Signal heard at tune in 1201.24 UT end, into RHC introductory music piece at 1201:43 UT on 11760 kHz S=8 in Detroit MI, S=9 in Liverpool England 1220 UT, QRM underneath heard CRI Kunming co-ch. S=5 or -94dBm in dark covered Alberta-CAN, S=9+5dB fade-in Alberta-CAN at 1326 UT, S=7 or -86dBm in NJ-US east coast. Grayline between DC and MI. (to compare TOM BS via RMI 11580 S=9+20dB at same time) 9535 kHz S=7 -88dB weak in MI-US S=4 -102dBm in Alberta-CAN S=8 -75dBm in NJ-US east coast 9570 kHz CRI Cantonese via Quivican TITAN site, 250 kW S=9+35dB in NJ-US S=9+25dB in Detroit-MI S=8 in Alberta-CAN, S=9 at 1327 UT. well modulated today !, but superpower 34 kHz !!! wideband signal, much talk about Vietnam. Cantonese language program, accented like Vietnamese language, reminds me little of Vietnamese. 13670 kHz S=8 in Detroit-MI S=5-6 -91dBm in NJ east coast USA. nothing noted so far on 'dark' Alberta time zone. but there heard adjacent 13665 CRI Cerrik from Albania S=7, latter ALB relay signal S=9+15dB heard in NJ-USA state. After 13 UT was totally off air fq. 17580 kHz poor S=4-5 -93dBm, propagate at 1200 UT to Detroit-US, but lost later on further checks. Back at 1315 UT check S=9+20dB proper signal. 20kHz wideband Nothing heard in NJ nor in WA/Vancouver Isl remotes. Fade-in S=6 in Alberta around 1322 UT. 15230 kHz not on air at 1200 UT, scheduled later from 1300 UT though, but was properly on air, when checked at 1232 UT again, S=9+15dB or -62dBm in Detroit-MI. S=9 -72dBm strength in NJ east coast USA. S=9 in Liverpool England and Belgium western EUR. Fade-in S=6-7 in Alberta around 1320 UT. Nothing of RHC heard on these channels between 12 and 13 UT: 11670 11840 11950, nor 17730 kHz 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof Arnaldo Coro Antich" Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 3:00 PM Subject: INFO ABOUT B 17 RHC SCHEDULE, NOT TO BECOME EFFECTIVE UNTIL 14/15 NOVEMBER UTC DAYS Dear amigo Wolfie, We will be starting to use the new B17 schedule effective November 14/15 UTC days. Saw your use of the remote SDR receivers and how well they pickup the back of the curtain array signals. Take a look at the schedule I sent to you recently and you will then see that some of the signals heard by the SDR receivers in North America are coming from minute back lobes radiated by the HR 4, 4, 0,8 curtain arrays. Also some of our stations use simple dipole antennas to broadcast within a 1000 to 2000 kM range omnidirectional. 73 and DX (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, Nov 13, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) In the MARE Tipsheet dated 10 Nov, presumably editor Ken Zichi displays a jpg of the new RHC English-only schedule he received directly, dated November-April, more or less like other versions, except shows 6145 instead of 6165, at 02-08 to ``Chicago``. 6145 had replaced 6165 some months ago during A-17, and then went missing from both frequencies. Eventually by Nov 15 we would find that 6165 is really reactivated, not 6145. Something`s always wrong at RHC. [and non]. 5040, Nov 14 at 0005, now this RHC hour is in English. It`s now the UT day that Arnie postponed effectiveness of his new schedule to, not checked again until 0714: 6165 has finally been reactivated, and not 6145 as per one of his versions --- but it`s in Spanish instead of English! Also on air now are 6100 and 6060 in Spanish, all of which are supposed to be English at 0600-0800. And 6000 too, but it`s off the air. 11650, Nov 14 at 1409, RHC new morning frequency in Spanish is on, but with Asian CCI from CRI, Commies vis Commies, just as I expected, if Arnie had checked HFCC which he boycotts, or NDXC/Aoki: 11-13 English from Urumqi, 12-14 Esperanto from Beijing, 14-15 Amoy from Kunming. And it`s weaker than // 11760, 11840, and also new 11950. 17580 is on, Nov 14 at 1420, but not 17730. At 1434, none of the 6 MHz frequencies, but 9535 is still on. 11840 is now a morning frequency, at 1437, and just like in the evening, accompanied by weak but clearly audible spurs plus and minus 10 kHz on 11830 and 11850. 11830 has a SAH, however: per Aoki/NDXC that would be RFE/RL in Tajik via Lampertheim, GERMANY from 1400. 15505, Nov 14 at 1413, here we go again: as I am belatedly checking for Bangladesh, instead get a huge dirty RHC spurblob close to here out of the broken 15370 transmitter which itself sounds OK, and then find many other blobs of the same ilk, at first spaced about 67.5 kHz apart, but without specific carriers impossible to pin down beyond a range of up to 5 kHz each: approx.: 15437, 15571, 15636, 15703 (too close to China relay), 15771? And on minus side: 15303, 15238, 15171, 15104, 15037, 14972. Most of which are capable of causing interference to legitimate stations on the 19m band. However, at 1503 recheck, the spurs are unheard, while 15370 is still on. They did something. This is at least the third morning recently I have caught such spuriosity out of RHC. In previous report I forgot to utter, ``something`s always wrong at RHC``. So let me try to atone for that: something`s always wrong at RHC. There`s always something wrong at RHC. Always, *somethings* wrong at RHC! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15370 is also on in afternoons when I do not hear the spurs; different transmitter? Nov 14 at 2125 in French (strange accent I first thought could be Creole), but // 15140 in French also still on an hour later than A-17. 15140 has its problems now: distorted and splattering out to plus and minus 20 kHz. There`s always something wrong at RHC. 9720, Nov 14 at 2257, open carrier from RHC new frequency heard for first time; VG S9+45; 2300 sharp, a minute+ of piano jazz, 2301:20 IS and theme, live French ID sign-on can give us temp of 29, but not any frequencies or times! 9720 is supposed to follow at 0000 in English, both ex-11880 and ex-one hour earlier in A17 (but during the 2+week transition period, new times and old frequency were sometimes heard). Fortunately, I check 9720 just in time again to confirm it in English, at 0057 UT November 15 --- and it`s off! Quick survey of other frequencies finds English music wrapping up on 6060 instead! Since it matches the English really on 5040. Is this a mistake, or did Arnie change his mind again? Something`s always wrong at RHC. O, I was not just in time: Richard Langley says, ``RHC noted this evening here in NB with English on 9720 kHz with abrupt sign-off in mid-sentence at about 0055 UT ``. Well, then, English was additionally on 6060 during at least part of that hour. At 01-02 there is now supposed to be a one-hour hiatus in English, during what would be considered prime time in half of North America, and a quick survey mid-hour indeed finds no English frequencies on, but Spanish now on 6060; instead extending English far into the night (if they can pull it off accurately; not yet), until 0800. 6000 & 6165, Nov 15 at 0217 check are indeed on in English now but very undermodulated compared to e.g. 6060 and 5040 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7375, Nov 8 at 2158, DentroCuban Jamming Command has found this new R. Martí frequency, while it`s only an open carrier warmup for this one-hour segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13820, UNITED STATES, Radio Martí, November 6, 2017, 1633–1645 in Spanish from Greenville, NC. SIO 454. Good signal with some minor QSB and QRN. M with monologue, Music with Female vocals. Sounds like a religious program with many references to the Lord. Exhortations. QSB deepening as day progresses, No QRM or jamming. More music with male vocals (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, U. S. A., Equipment in use: ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, TECSUN PL-380, TECSUN PL-660. Antennas: whips on PL-380, PL-660, and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet; NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Violating Separation of Church & State (gh) ** CUBA. DTV: 5TH DIGITAL TELEVISION FORUM ENDS IN CUBA http://plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=20757&SEO=5th-digital-television-forum-ends-in-cuba Havana, Nov 8 (Prensa Latina) The 5th Digital Television Forum ends today after several debates about new technologies and the ''analog blackout'' in Cuba. According to the Deputy Minister of Communications, Ana Julia Marin, the transition could happen by the year 2023. By then it is expected that the coverage of this technology in the country should be around 100 percent because at present the signal only covers 60 percent, she added. The official said that the country is preparing a partial analog blackout to give continuity to the digital television program, which will be reinforced in the next five years. The action will eliminate a single channel of the old spectrum and for that, an area with good reception and the most appropriate technological conditions will be chosen to measure the impact of the test, Marin explained. A report from the Business Group of Information Technology and Communications (GEIC) broadcast at the Digital Television Forum, explained that the signal broadcasting entities are located in the main urban centers and therefore, the service is available for 70 percent of the Cuban population. This coverage is possible thanks to 108 broadcasting entities installed since 2013 when the digitalization project began. Of these entities, 98 emit the standard signal, and 10 do so in high definition, the GEIC added. Until last September more than 1.5 million decoder boxes were sold to the population, as well as more than 230,000 hybrid TVs, capable of capturing the digital signal, the report added. sgl/lrp/rc/bhq/clau/gdc (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** ERITREA [and non]. Reception of Dimtsi Hafash VOBME 1 and VOBME 2 on Nov 14 VOBME 1 Dimtsi Hafash 1400-1500 on 7140.0 ASM 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Tigrinya, weak/fair VOBME 2 Dimtsi Hafash 1400-1500 on 7181.6 ASM 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Amharic, very good: 1500-1700 both frequencies with strong white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-dimtsi-hafash-vobme-1-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE [and non]. Nuovo monitoraggio della X Band a cura del DXer portoghese Carlos Goncalves. Questa volta da notare diverse broadcasting da Canada e USA https://playdxblog.blogspot.it/2017/11/canada-e-usa-sulla-x-band-monitoraggio.html (via Giampiero Bernardini, Italy, DXLD) Yes, but far more logs, an incredible amount as in all his reports, of mostly unID pirates mainly from Greece, Balkans, Holland. But our Enidian, 1640 KZLS, never (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 9735, R France International with English s/on, ID and into News in English including an item re the request for Oscar Pistorius to be re-sentenced to a longer jail term. This is the ONLY hour of English direct from France from what I can tell. They do use a relay of WRMI on 9455 and 15770 but that is rare (once a week?) and I never seem to catch it anymore! 2+3532 with a ‘roar’ jammer. USB helped -- the jammer may be meant for 9730 which is a Sound of Hope channel -- hard to tell but it seemed centered lower. Fading up to S=3+ O=3+ occasionally. 0600-0615 3/Nov SPR-4 +randomwire (Ken Vito Zichi, Pt Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Nov 10 via DXLD) Some odd remnants of once longer RFI relay blox remained on the WRMI non-9955 sked grids for some time, mostly RFI Musique fill, but they are all gone now (gh) ** FRANCE. FRANCE TO INTRODUCE DAB+ RADIO TRANSMISSIONS -- Radio Today French regulator, Le Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA) has outlined its commitment to the success of DAB+ in France. Addressing over 200 delegates at the WorldDAB General Assembly in Paris, Nicolas Curien, Board Member in charge of radio at the CSA, described the measures being put in place to accelerate the roll-out of DAB+ in new cities and highways across the country. Licences in Lyon and Strasbourg will be issued by the end of November 2017, while DAB+ services in the Hauts de France region will start in March or April next year. The CSA also announced it is accelerating the schedule for local and regional deployment – with plans for two successive calls, each covering 15 large, densely populated areas. The first is scheduled for the first half of 2018 and the second for the first half of 2019. The CSA is also investigating the possibility of a call for applications in 2018 for two national multiplexes, for which spectrum has already been set aside. Nicolas Curien said: “I have two pieces of good news: the first is that the responses to the CSA’s public consultation have been numerous and extremely encouraging. The second is that there is no bad news: DAB+ technology will finally be able to take off significantly in mainland France by the end of 2020. The plan that I like to call ‘nodes and arcs’ is on the way to becoming reality.” More of the article here: https://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/11/france-to-introduce-dab-radio-transmissions/ (via Mike Terry, Nov 11, dxldyg via DXLD) [non]. Hello, DAB+ is already here on the Côte d’Azur. Since April 2014, from our neighbour MONACO, with 2 multiplex on 8A and 12B, with 18 stations, in 5 languages. And since June 2014, from Nice, with 3 multiplex on 9D, 11A and 11C with 27 stations. Unfortunately, NO Radio France’s stations and National Private Network such as RTL, RMC, Europe 1, NRJ and so on (Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, France, bdxc-uk yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. SHORTWAVESERVICE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW 25 NOVEMBER Dear shortwave friends, on this day, exact 10 years ago, we've got our first licence for legally broadcasting from Kall-Krekel. Since then we are on the air on 6005 kHz. What started as a little hobby project in 2007 is now a company with 5 transmitters on the air. Thanks to all who supported us during that time. We are proud to be the pioneers of privately run shortwave transmitters in Germany. On November 25th we'll air a special birthday show. We would appreciate your comments on 10 years broadcasting from Kall-Krekel or greetings via Facebook, mail (info@shortwaveservice.com) or via phone: +49 2251 146085, either text or spoken word. Frequencies and times will be announced the next weeks. Have a good reception and enjoy our programs. (shortwaveservice.com Facebook page, 5 November) Website: http://www.shortwaveservice.com/index.php/de/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Shortwaveservice/ Posted by: (Alan Pennington, Nov 8, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. NDR Hamburg program "Greeting on board" Dec 24, 2017 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/ndr-hamburg-greeting-on-board-via-mbr.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Good signal of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on Nov 8 1103-1133 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Mon-Fri 1133-1140 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Tue-Fri 1100-1200 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/good-signal-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on Nov 11 1128-1158 on 9910 TWR 200 kW / 350 deg to EaAs Japanese/English Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/good-signal-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio_11.html Good signal of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on Nov 11 1230-1300 on 11695 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/good-signal-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio_36.html Weak signal of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on Nov 11 1317-1345 on 7510 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg to EaAs English Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/weak-signal-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good signal of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia, Nov 14: 1102-1157 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Sun 1103-1125 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Mon-Fri 1125-1140 on 11965 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg to SEAs English Tue-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/very-good-signal-of-ktwr-trans-world_14.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KTWR Guam --- Beautiful picture of the radio station and a bit of information about it (in English): http://www.twr.asia/about/guam - Rebecca Philaw responds to TWR-Asia reports: https://www.twr.org/global-staff/philyaw - Lorraine Stavropoulos responds to TWR-Africa reports: https://www.twr.org/global-staff/stavropoulos - Kalman Dobos answers TWR-Europe: https://www.twr.org/global-staff/dobos (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via Rus-DX 12 Nov via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. General Conference --- Dear Dave Frost: Before I have time to reply you two previous mails, I invite you to listen to Radio Verdad tonight (03:30 h. UTC up to 05:00 h.). We are holding our General Conferences at the Holiness Friends Churches. We'll trasmit over regular Radio Verdad short wave 4055 KHz, Probably by Radio Verdad Internet (mixlr), and Radio Verdad TV Live (through Facebook). We are NOT transmitting over Radio Verdad Transmundial yet (we are still installing a new motherboard, after some difficulties that we had last week). I hope you can check on our signal. May God be with you (Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Verdad, 2321 UT Nov 8, cc to DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Nov 9 at 0708, S9 open carrier, as TGAV must have left it on an hour after sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Not a bad week around here. 9445, AIR, 1743 UT Nov 6 with Interval Signal and sign on in English at 1745. Fair improving to Good by News at 1800. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair signal of All India Radio on strange frequency Nov 6: 0700-0800 11731 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to CeAs Nepali, instead of 11730 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/fair-signal-of-all-india-radio-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1041 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDIA. November 12 is Public Service Broadcasting Day (Jan Prasaran Divas) in India. Historically it commemorates the day Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio. On that day, in 1947, his address, via AIR, was specifically directed to more than 200,000 refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp (East Punjab) and was broadcast live from the studios of Broadcasting House, at New Delhi. In past years, on Nov 12, I would hear the regional stations of AIR (Shillong, etc.) giving the lead news story of the day to it being Public Service Broadcasting Day (Jan Prasaran Divas) and telling about Mahatma Gandhi's AIR broadcast (Ron Howard, San Francisco, Nov 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. See JAPAN [non] ** ITALY. Reception of time signal station ItalCable on Nov 10: 0806 & 0830 on 10000 unknown tx / unknown to WeEu Italian, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-time-signal-station.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 11580, Tuesday November 14 at 2309, WRMI in Italian but sprinkled with English, interview about ``chewing gum``, i.e. goma di masticare, on `Made in Italy` program, refers to http://www.chewingreen.com [Note: only one G], which exists about the only gum made in Italy, of course, from natural ingredients. Next topic: ``baked potato``. Sounds like a fun show even if an infomercial. WRMI sked now has it Tue & Thu at 2300 on 11580, alternating with `Viva Miami` (still Spanish about Sudáfrica), M/W/F. Aoki tries to keep up with individual programs on WRMI, showing instead FG Radio on Tue & Thu. If that has run out of new episodes, maybe it`s getting outphased: check again Wednesday at 1400 on 9955 before WORLD OF RADIO. Strange as it may seem, WRMI has become a major world SW broadcaster in the Italian language with some other shows too! You would not know this from the ADDX language search site http://www.addx.de/Hfpdat/plaene.php which ignores all these WRMI Italprograms in favor of three hours a day from China, one hour from Romania, one from Iran, one from Cairo if it exist, half an hour from Turkey, one Argentine hour via WRMI, and miscellaneous from Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. SHF Geo-stationary Satellites: (Frequencies in GHz) For Satellite logs: Manhattan DJ-1997 FTA receiver, +96" movable dish Radio: 58 W, Intel 21, 4.160-H (GHz)/26590 Msps, NHK Radio 3 (Left channel) and NHK Radio 4 (Right Channel) with English service // 6155 on both. At BoH, into Russian on R3 and French on R4. I looked here because the web schedule for NHK said this was available ‘in North America’ and I’d never tried looking further East than the 78 W Simón Bolívar satellite. This bird is technically called an ‘Atlantic’ satellite, but son of a pup, this is easily received in MI – just that THIS is the only transponder seen. I imagine there ARE other transponders, but they are 'aimed' elsewhere? 51% and steady, NHK also has Radio 1 (Japanese 24/7) and 2 other various languages, as well as NHK Radio 5 also in various languages on this transponder. QPSK/MPEG2, 0515-0535 4/Nov. Television: 58 W, Intel 21, 4.160-H (GHz)/26590 Msps, NHK World, SD625, with NHK in English 576i SD (That is the PAL standard, but this is receivable on an NTSC set because of the set-top box) with a programme about Japanese cuisine. 51% and steady, on the same transponder as the radio signals and the // HD signal. SID 0011. The TV is // to the signal on 103 SES-3 but that bird does not carry NHK radio. QPSK/MPEG-2, 0535-0538 4/Nov 58 W, Intel 21, 4.160-H (GHz)/26590 Msps, NHK World, HD60 with 1080i HD signal, service ID 0021. Show ‘Dive into Ukiyoe’ (2 episodes back to back actually) with an Anglo speaker (a blond blue eyed dude dressed in a kimono -- is that what they call it when a man wears it? -- no less) who was talking about Mt Fuji in Japanese culture and art, in English. He described this as a ‘traditional Japanese Humour style’ which was rather droll -- but not bad! Not as good as ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on traditional Japanese instruments which I’ve seen on NHK World before, but still .... :) 51% and steady, this signal on the same transponder as radio and SD, but sent in QPSK/h.264, 0538-0550 UT 4/Nov (Ken Vito Zichi, Pt Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Nov 10 via DXLD) ** JAPAN. Hi, radio.chibo.net found a note on radionikkei.jp that some Radio Nikkei shortwave frequencies will be temporarily off air for maintenance in Nov/Dec 2017 as follows (TNX XYZ!): Radio Nikkei 1: 3925 every Monday to Friday in December 9595 every Monday to Friday in November 3925 from Nemuro (1650-2400, 0700-0800 LT / 0750-1500, 2200-2300 UT): every Monday to Friday in November [so the main 3925 outlet from Chiba is not affected!] Radio Nikkei 2: 3945 every Monday to Friday in November and December at 0800-1900 LT (2300-1000 UT) 9760 every Monday to Friday in November and December at 0800-1700 LT (2300-0800 UT) Operations on 6 MHz and on the weekends continue as usual. http://www.radionikkei.jp/news/tenken171112.html 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why does maintenance eat up so many hours? (gh) ** KOREA NORTH. KOREA D.P.R., 3219.881 kHz in Hiroshima Japan S=9+10dB um 1435 UT Nov 10, shrill opera symphonic female singer, KCBS Pyongyang DPR Korea. 3249.995, Pyongyang BS S=9+20dB 1449 UT. Much BUZZ distorted modulation tones summary, on PC visible 10 x 50 Hertz distance apart strings. 3319.996, Pyongyang BS, S=9+20dB at 1604 UT in Hiroshima Jpn, 2130- 1930 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH [and non]. Some KOR / KRE logs of Nov 10. Taken in Korea, Japan, Australia, Finland: 2850.009 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, S=7 in Hiroshima. 2134 UT. ?tiny 5kW? 3219.884 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, S=9+10dB in Hiroshima. 1435 UT. 3249.995 KRE Pyongyang BS, S=9+20dB, 1444 UT, much BUZZ distorted 10 x 50 Hertz distance apart signal strings visible. QRM by UNID Korean sce like FM network on adjacent. 3254.985 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, scheduled 0528-2332 UT, \\ 3480 3910 3930 4450 6520 6600 kHz see below. radioplay in Korean heard at 1602 UT on Nov 10. 3319.996 KRE Pyongyang BS, 2130-1930, 1604 UT, S=9+20dB in Hiroshima. 3324.998 INS RRI Palangka Raya, 1606 UT, S=7-8 in Brisbane QSL. 3479.987 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1607 UT, S=9+35dB, + KRE jamming 3909.964 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1608 UT, S=9+25dB, + KRE jamming 3920 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, - no nothing nil signal -, 2138 UT 3929.990 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1609 UT, S=9+25dB, + KRE jamming 3959.034 KRE Pyongyang BS, 2130-1930, 2130 UT 3985.012 KOR EoH Hwaesong, 1838 UT, S=9+15dB 4449.928 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1610 UT, S=9+25dB, + KRE jamming 4885 KOR EoH Seoul, - no nothing nil signal -, 1841 UT 5920even KOR Voice of Freedom, Hwaesong, 1842 UT, S=9+10dB 5940 KOR Voice of Freedom, Hwaesong - no nothing nil signal, 1843 5995.031 KOR EoH Hwaesong, 1844 UT, S=9+5dB 6015even KOR KBS Hwaesong, 1845 UT, S=9+15dB 6045 KOR Voice of Freedom, Hwaesong - no nothing nil signal, 1846 6135 KOR Voice of Freedom, Hwaesong - no nothing nil signal, 1848 but jamming noise heard still from Kanggye-KRE at S=8. 6250even KOR EoH Seoul, 1850 UT, S=9, jamming KRE 6251.3 kHz. 6350.032 KOR EoH Hwaesong, 1851 UT, S=9+5dB + KRE jamming 6400 KRE Pyongyang BS, Kanggye, - no nothing nil signal - 2130 UT 6519.972 KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1611 UT, S=8 + KRE jamming 6600even KOR VoP Kyonggi-do Koyang, 1612 UT, S=9 + KRE jamming 9099.994 KOR EoH Seoul, 1850 UT, S=8. 9665 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, Kanggye, - no nothing nil signal - 2135 11680 KRE KCBS Pyongyang, Kanggye, - no nothing nil signal - 2140 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UNKNOWN transmission like a Radio Pyaon was observed on Nov 8 1300-1400 on 9980 unknown tx / unknown to NEAs Korean, good: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/unknown-like-radio-pyaon-was-observed.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What`s that; did he mean to write Pyongyang? Blocked in NAm by WWCR (gh, ibid.) UNKNOWN, On Nov .9 no signal of new clandestine program Radio PyaOn or similar: 1300-1400 on 9980 unknown tx / unknown to NEAs Korean, weak dead air 1300-1305 On air from Nov.7 according to IBB Monitoring with duration 1200-1400 UT Nov.7/8 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/on-nov9-no-signal-of-new-clandestine.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1041 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. JAPAN/KOREA NHK Yamata Korean nominal 6090 kHz at 1100 and 1200 UT, S=9+30dB in Tokyo remote SDR installation, but nearby small domestic station puzzled me: exact 6087.497 kHz heard at 1120 UT and also 1250 UT. Is that an 'intelligent' jamming of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il regime from Pyongyang? any help appreciated. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looks like an open carrier, at least I can't get any audio. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1314 UT< ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH. KOREA's, 5830 kHz Korean heavy jamming heard around 2240 UT during daylight path Korea to SE Asia. Only few observation in short, two remote SDR were open tonight for remote access in South Korea and Cambodian/Thai border location in SE Asia. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8, dxldyg via DXLD) Aoki says it`s N Korean jamming, 250 kW from Kujang, but nothing else on frequency to target (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1138+, Nov 8. Only the VOF carrier (no audio at all), as well as the usual North Korean jamming here. Former VOF ex-frequencies today: 5940 - Clear frequency. 6020 - Only Vietnam. 6045 - Clear frequency. 6135 - Still with white noise N. Korea jamming, even though VOF has not been here for a long time now (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH. On Nov 13, again found their programming out of sync from the normal timing, for this one hour program that is repeated every hour; instead of the usual bell/gong being rung slowly three times at 1203, today was at 1210; OTH radar QRM (not N. Korea jamming!). 5920, Voice of Freedom. On Nov 13, at 1203, almost fair, even with the usual light North Korea jamming (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Some infor from Rumen Pankov Bulgaria, Kurdistan folk radio 6155 / 7320 kHz: ARMENIA/CHINA, On 7 November 2017 at 1950 UT ID in Kurdish, "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" - Dendzhi Kurdistana. Was confirmed on MW 1395 \\ SW 6155 and 7320 kHz. But from 1957 UT on 6155 kHz under CRI in Russian (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8 via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Checked Nov 8, "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" via CJSC Yerevan Gavar on 7320 kHz seemingly program end at 2000 UT. At 2010 UT noted only on 6155 kHz in remote units in Doha Qatar S=7 and Moscow Russia S=9+25dB south-north directional lobe strength. Only low signal strength of CRI Russian from bcast center Beijing China noted. "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" signal well ahead of weaker CRI co-channel signal. (wb) btw. the 'decade long lasting' service of Kurdish Radio via Grigoriopol Maiac Moldova relay in Pridnestrovie was technical- and modulationwise MUCH MUCH BETTER than CJSC Yerevan Gavar technical standards. wb. good night (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, ibid.) 1395 = Armenia 7520even fq. "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" via CJSC Yerevan Gavar, empty carrier then late on air at 0505 UT, S=7-8 strength noted here in southern Germany. Nov 8 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Strong signal of MOI Radio Kuwait Holy Qur'an, Nov 13 1354-1600 on 11629.8#KBD 250 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/strong-signal-of-moi-radio-kuwait-holy.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 15155, Sunday November 12 at 1831, children`s chorus song in English, mentions Jesus; fair S9-S6, second SSOB below incomparable blaster 15710 WHRIBS, i.e. stronger than Spain 15500, 15580 VOA (and no Cuba at the moment). 1835 mentions ``New life program from Adventist World Radio, the Voice of Hope``; recheck at 1857 until 1858* cut off air mid-song. HFCC shows this is daily 1830- 1900 [sic], 125 kW, 325 degrees from Talata to CIRAFs 48SW,52E,53NW, i.e. no further than E Africa, but carrying on all the way to deep North America. Would have been a nice spot for Wavescan, but AWR grants that only a single airtime on the one station it owns, KSDA, and relies on connexions with WRMI, KVOH for most broadcasts, reserving most of the time it buys on sites like MDC for its own more important overtly religious broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. YUCATÁN RADIO PROJECT I'm on a journey to see how many Yucatán Peninsula (YP) stations have been logged. To say they're rarer than the proverbial hen's teeth, is an understatement. So far I have found 20 of the 50-odd YP stations logged somewhere from 10 states, Ontario and Finland. Have you personally heard any? I never did including the 4 years I lived in S FL (1972-1976), though there were far less YP stations on then. My friend Ron Schatz in Miami heard XEZ-600 but I never could (30 miles north of him) even using similar equipment (R388 vs R390A). Tim Hall has logged 5 on his FL travels early this century but none from his annual treks to the NV/UT border (I met him there 2 years ago: Perseus, multiple beverages).... no YP. Hauser, a prolific Mexican DXer has only 1 that I know of – XEA-1370. Says he DOESN'T keep a log! When done, I'm planning to write an article with my findings. I have seen the coverage maps for all of the more recent YP stations: all radiate from NNW to ENE. A couple of the interior stations are omnidirectional, but none seem to throw their signal either due West or due South. Bottom line, compared to, say Florida stations, most YP stations DON'T "get out well". Despite being on or near WATER! I'm no engineer but the whole area is bedrocked in Limestone, a lousy conductor. I wonder how much of a factor that is? (Ron Schiller, rschiller28@gmail.com, NRC since '51 (off and on), Writer-"From the Archives" in DX News, St George UT, IRCA DX Monitor Nov 18, published Nov 14, via DXLD) That`s not exactly what I said. I do keep logs, in original notebooks, and on the web; just not an all-time list of stations heard. Here are our exchanges about this: (gh) Glenn - I consider you to be one of the foremost authorities on Latin American DXing so I'm asking for any insight you can give on the topic of AM in Mexico's Yucatán. I first encountered it while living in S FL in the 70s. Altho only 700 miles or so over water from there, I could NOT hear anything of the 3 Mexican states: CAM, QR, & YUC. Ron Schatz in nearby Miami (he with an R388 & I with an R 390A) DID log XEZ-600 in Mérida. More recently I had the good fortune to join Tim Hall on his annual central NV trek to a remote motel where he strings multiple beverages & DXes from his car with a Perseus & huge capacity laptop. He logged quite a few Mexican stations this year (over 4 nites in Oct) but none of 3 Yucatán states, tho he logged stations from 19 other Mex states. It got me curious & I start digging around and asking others their experiences. So far I've heard of 13 loggings from 9 stations being logged from the 3 Yucatán states from 6 DXers. I found YOUR logging of XEA-1370 amongst them. How many stations have you logged from the 3 Yucatán states? Mind you, this encompasses over 50 years of DXing! At any given time there seem to be 15-20 total Yucatán AMs, tho FM is taking more & more. Of course, most are low power, tho one Canadian DXer (Charles Reh) has logged two of them (but as he says, none the past 43 years!) Any help appreciated, Glenn. I'm putting an article together about it and will give credit where credit is due. Enjoy you many reports in the NRC bulletins! 73, (Ron Schiller, NRC, Editor "From the Archives", St George, UT, Nov 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron, I really wish I could help on this, but unlike most DXers, I don`t keep a loggings roster. Long ago I decided that I`d rather spend my time DXing than bookkeeping. I don`t really remember hearing XEA, and don`t find it searching my archives back to 2000 or so (but XEABCA recently, not quite the same!) If it`s handy could you give me the XEA log and where you found it. I did take a look at the three states` listings on pp 39-44 of the latest IRCA Mexican log, and I must say that none of the calls look familiar. Likely some of those have gone to FM only by now. The peninsula does seem to be sort of a dead zone for MW DX. I know I have heard a number of FM stations in the Mérida area, as that has been good for sporadic E; probably more FMs than AMs. You should be sure to include Terry Krueger in Clearwater. I know he reports some of those stations. 73, (Glenn to Ron, via DXLD) Glenn - Thanks for replying! Dead zone is a good description of the Yuc! Your XEA-1370 was I believe on 10,22,73. I keep copies of bulletin sheets where my musings or loggings appear & I believe it is there that I saw your XEA. Btw, the only logging so far I've found of XEA! I'm going thru Terry K's logs on his website (found 4 stations there) and will contact him after finishing (logs from 2010 to present). So far the count is 10 different stations logged by 8 different DXers with Terry's 4 and David Gleason's 4 (from PHX) being most so far. If I find any more of yours, I'll let you know. As you know, most of the YP stations are low power but being by water I'd think they'd "get out" better. I know I tried mightily in the 70s from SE FL with no luck at all. I remember Schatz hearing XEZ-600 in Mérida (he DXed with an R388 & I with an R390A) probably 30 miles apart, but no luck for me. Kreuger has also reported XEZ. Connelly caught a pair in MA, Conti likewise from PEI Exped, & Charles Reh (ON) two --- but like Charles said, none in the last 43 years! Truly a dead zone! 73, (Ron to Glenn, ibid.) Glenn: Thank you for forwarding my note to James Niven [and Michael Beu]. He responded and has two YP loggings made on the same day from Padre Island, TX. I'm about half way thru the DX Newses I have going back to 2010, and your logging of XEA-1370, is your ONLY YP log (of your MANY Mexicans) that I've found. I read with your interest of your multiple loggings of the Villahermosa, TAB station's 3rd harmonic on 2970. TAB is the Mexican state just west of Campeche; looks on a map like it should be part of the Yucatan. Rarer than CAM, QR or YUC with a larger population! (Much may well be indigenous, and TAB is more oil than tourists, apparently.) Latest totals: 34 logs from 17 stations by 15 DXers in 9 states & Ontario. Furthest Conti-NH at just under 2000 miles. 8 of the 17 stations are still I believe active. Nov 11. Many thanks again! 73, (Ron, Nov 10, ibid.) ** MEXICO. Info from Tetsuya Hirahara, visiting México City September 2017: 690, XEN, R Centro y El Fonógrafo, 100 kW. 1110, XERED R RED y Formato 21 mention two different output power, 100 and 200 kW in a consecutive ID. All Grupo Fórmula stations identify only with the callsigns. Other news: The following Grupo Radio Centro is still off the air: 790 XERC, 1030 XEQR and 1150 XEJP. It seems that soon they will return but GRC has not given a date (Héctor García Bojorge via Mauno Ritola, Nov Medium Wave News via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Mexican FM migration --- Update on my attempt to find out the status of every Mexican AM station (through Facebook chats, webstream monitoring, sending messages via the "contact us" section of web pages, etc.): Out of roughly 952 stations, my research leads me to believe that there are... 374 (39.3%) stations I'm pretty confident are still active on AM. 12 (1.3%) that I think may still be active on AM but I need more evidence. 31 (3.3%) that I think are off AM but I need more evidence. 535 (56.2%) that I'm pretty confident have left AM. So, probably almost 60% of Mexican AM stations are gone. All the info I've gathered has been sent to Neil Kazaross for the upcoming IRCA Mexican List (Tim Hall, CA, Nov 7, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- To the list of Imagen Televisión's infrastructure partners we can now add XHTIX-FM (Radiológico) in Cuernavaca. An authorization, approved in October 2016 but not placed in the RPC until a year later and only at my insistence (aka a transparency request) was the full document put up, reveals XHCTCU was moved fairly quickly from the MVS facilities to XHTIX's site after going on air (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Nov 10, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) One more station will be clearing the Article 90 reserved band. XHFW-FM is to move to 88.5 MHz. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift170517259canx.pdf It joins sister XHTW, which was assigned 94.9, as moving down from 106-108 MHz in Tampico (Raymie, Nov 12, ibid.) It was time for the IFT-6 winners to pony up today, and pony up all of them have. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/se-acredita-el-pago-total-de-las-contraprestaciones-por-32-canales-de-television-radiodifundida Every bidder showed up, and here are a couple of specific stories: El Economista has a full story https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Francisco-Aguirre-vuelve-a-la-TV-tras-medio-siglo-de-espera-20171113-0092.html on the Aguirre family's return to television after 45 years and a failed attempt to launch a TV network. For the privilege, he paid nearly 426 million pesos, or more than $22 million. One of the bigger winners by station count, Multimedios, made its payment on Thursday, http://www.milenio.com/negocios/grupo_multimedios-licitacion_tv-ifetel_0_1066093386.html according to a story in Milenio (which is MM's newspaper). The total cost for the Mexico City, Durango, Guadalajara, Juárez, Monclova and Puebla stations was 647 million pesos, or more than $33.8 million. Last edited by Raymie; 11-14-2017 at 12:18 AM (Raymie, originally Nov 13, ibid.) Broadcasting wasn't the main focus of this IFT Pleno meeting, http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-pleno-del-ift-emitio-las-actas-de-fallo-favor-de-5-participantes-ganadores-de-la-licitacion-de but repacking and station moves showed up on the agenda nonetheless. The highlight is that XHGUA-FM 106.9 Guaymas (Sonora state network) will be moving to clear the Article 90 reserved band...and if you've been following me, you might know where they're headed. That's right, 94.7. (It's in the title of the resolution this time.) This is the first public station to be moved and it is also the only transmitter in this state network above 106 MHz. XHTJB and XHLNA were also given their repacking papers (Raymie, Nov 15, ibid.) I found several more Article 90 reserved band clears, so I've updated my list to reflect that. Of the 130 stations with permits/concessions that are still valid that were around in 2016 on 106-108 MHz (which excludes many recent community awards)... -6 are existing community/indigenous stations that do not need to move. All six, coincidentally, are on 107.9. (XHTM is excluded as its permit is marked as not renewed by the IFT, and it probably would have gone here, too.) -22 stations so far have been told to move. The reserved band is totally clear now in Tampico as XHEOLA was given its marching orders. A few other stations have also been identified. -40 stations will not be moving at all because there is no place to put them at the same technical parameters. -The fate of 62 stations was unknown. Also excluded, though it existed on the March 31, 2016 tables, was XHIXH (canceled at state government request). The 68 stations remaining are commercial, public, and social untyped. All of these can be moved. We know more about commercial stations here because of the recent wave of renewal activity around them. Only this week, in fact, was XHGUA added to the list becoming the first public A90 clear. Some of the 68 stations obviously cannot move. XHUAR Juárez, for instance, has a high ERP and is on the border. Others, especially at Class A-type ERPs, are move bait if there is room available. XHUAEM Cuernavaca broadcasts with 203 watts. XHAPU in Hidalgo has 250 watts. These transmitters could very well find new homes, that is if Central Mexico's clogged dial doesn't impede them. There are several untyped social stations that would be eligible for a move. The Article 90 reserved band applies only to the community and indigenous subtypes of social stations. Examples of stations with potentially confusing fates are XHTLAN Mazatlán (private university), XHPAT Pátzcuaro (owned by a person as a social station), and XHCSM (social untyped owned by an A.C.). (Raymie, Nov 17, ibid.) Oh DDear! XEDD-AM/XHDD-FM has a sleepy little history. It got its concession on September 12, 1969 and was owned by Adalberto Javier Pezino González. This station on a high frequency of 1560 kHz was one of just two duking it out for the listeners of Montemorelos, Nuevo León, which today has a population of more than 50,000. (The name on the books is Ojo de Agua, with a transmitter site due north of Montemorelos.) Only two years earlier did XERN "Radio Naranjera" come to air. XEDD moved to 800 in the 90s, a time when many AMs found lower frequencies, and its concession was transferred to Audio Publicidad, S.A. de C.V. By this time, there were two FM stations also in the area: XHLOS-FM 97.7, part of the Nuevo León state network, and XHMSN- FM 100.1, the lone commercial FM station in the orange capital of Mexico. Like many stations, XEDD became an AM-FM migrant. In May 2013, it became XHDD-FM 92.9 and was now one of two commercial FM stations in the region alongside XHERN-FM 100.9. XHMSN had bolted town by then, relocating to a hill in Cadereyta. Why do such a thing? Because who wants to broadcast to the 50,000 people of Montemorelos when you can take a crack at the four million in Mexico's third-largest metro, all the while saying you're trying to replicate your AM service area? In this light, XHDD's technical modification will almost certainly mean the end of XHDD as we've known it for 48 years. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift120717432.pdf It's a two-parter, and so we start kind of looking backwards. XHDD will have the first FM shadow to operate in Nuevo León. This facility will operate at the existing transmitter site, at a lower power and antenna height, turning it into a 250-watt booster. However, it's the new stick that will truly be special. It's on La Peña in Guadalupe, Nuevo León, from a new 100-meter tower. And it broadcasts with a whopping 100,000 watts — the first new 100 kW station authorized in the country since XHEMA-FM conducted its upgrade in 2013 for the exact same reason (AM service area replication). Why raise your power and move your stick more than 50 km? This is why. http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing&p=44950#post44950 (Note: The Ojo de Agua on this map is not the one where XHDD's been all these years. It's on the edge of the signal contour due north of Montemorelos) That signal contour increases XHDD's value tremendously. It also should make every current XHDD employee very nervous as to the station's future in Montemorelos. It's sayonara Montemorelos (except for a shadow), hello Monterrey (Raymie, Nov 17, ibid.) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, Nov 8 at 2151, S4-S6 song, is it Spanish? Yes, I make out the repeated word ``trabajando``. So it`s XEPPM, on air much earlier than allegedly, and no CCI, altho CRI Arabic via Albania is scheduled 2000-2200 toward SSW; only other competitor in the 18-24 UT period is CRI Mongolian via Xi`an at 2300-2400. How about the 00-06 period? No more Vatican, just 0400-0430 AWR Turkish via Austria; discounting the totally fantastic RRI Manokwari, 0100-0500, 1 kW in English that Indonesia keeps registering! HFCC really needs to clean out such nonsense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOLDOVA. MOLDAVA [sic], Radio Moldova Actualitatsi on 873 and 1494 kHz is now is on the air at 0430-2000(2100 on Mondays). The programmes of Radio Free Europe are now on Mondays only with so called "Pridnestrovskie dialogi" (Transnistrian Dialogs) at 1915-1945 in Russian and at 2030-2100 in Moldovan. The schedule has been checked carefully over a ten day period to confirm this information (Rumen Pankov via Dave Kenny/BDXC; times are UTC as effective from 29 October; this report updates the information about RFE programmes on RMA given last month - Tony Rogers), Nov Medium Wave News via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1212-1225, Nov 13. English language lesson program "Say It In English" starts and ends with same theme music; today Tom's Aunt Jennifer and Kate go to the cinema to see "Monsters From Outer Space"; Aunt Jennifer takes the wrong bus and calls Tom to come and pick her up; the Monday and Wednesday tales continue and are fairly readable (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6089.89v, Nov 11 at 2246, S8-S9, off-frequency but little modulation; 2250 louder during wailing music but suptorted, and as I listen, varies up to 6089.93. Meant to recheck around hourtop, but not until 2308 when it`s off. Off-frequency minus, distortion, and timing all point to FRCN Kaduna, more often reported in its mornings; anyhow with no Anguillan in the way. But now there is a JBA carrier on 6090.0, probably CNR2, 100 kW southward from Golmud (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Fair to weak signal Voice of Nigeria on Nov 14 0600-0700 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Hausa 0700-0730 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf French 0730-0800 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf Fulfulde 0800-0900 on 7254.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/fair-to-weak-signal-voice-of-nigeria-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, as of Nov 9, no sign of Station YHWH, which had been regular evenings, during bandscans; last report I had was Oct 14 at 0200 by Rick Barton, AZ. Last log of mine was Oct 11 at 0220. And nothing that recent in HF Underground (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Nov 9 at 2249, pirate music at S9. Only one other log of this here and also unID: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38618.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Nov 10 at 2158, Unidentified, JBA talk for a bit; I`m not even positive it`s USB only, but no carrier detectable. No logs of this today on HF Underground, altho plenty of pirate 6945s previous days, primarily Clever Name Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Nov 11 at 2243, pirate music at S9+20; 2247 mentions WBCN, faux-caller on the air with request played twice, for the Funk Soul Brother, ``Right about Now``, beeps, and very repetitive song. 2304 synthyl with quick announcement I miss, but reminds me of Clever Name Radio; and apparently off. Many logs here agree it was C.N.R., including refs to WBCN and off at same time: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38653.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Nov 12 at 2324, S9 pirate music. Yes, it`s Clever Name Radio yet again, per these: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38689.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. 153 kHz, NRK P1 Rock Radio, 0420 UT Nov 12 tune in with pop songs. Eagles "One of these Nights", Elton John "Goodbye Yellowbrick Road" with little to no breaks until 0455 with weather by female in Norwegian. Three tones IS at 0500 and announcement by male. Fair. The only LW station heard this night. They also hung in for hours. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listed 100 kW (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** NORWAY. R. Northern Star 1611 kHz --- Audible tonight (14/11 1955 UT) Weak but occasionally rising above the noise. Oldies with frequent IDs. Clear channel tonight. Carrier plus USB. 73s. (Nick. Buxton. Sony ICF2001D & loops. Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2. Rank. BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1331.2v, Nov 9 at 1428 UT, after hearing big het on KCKM Monahans TX a bit earlier, I set out to measure the spurs out of nearby local KCRC 1390. Other signals I could measure to three decimal places if they were stable, but these keep wavering, and even two decimal places would be pointless. This one goes from 1331.1 to 1331.3 or so and back in a short period, with clear CBS Sports Radio modulation // 1390, QRMing KNSS 1330.0. Sometimes the fundamental is slightly off, causing slightly different het pitches on either side, but not today. Match to this is about 1448.8v. These are second-order spurs, considerably weaker than first- orders at half the displacement, circa 1360.6v and 1419.3v; all hetting whatever legit stations are on the even frequencies. Any time of night, or at least during SRS and SSS, DXers afar should seek these out. 1419.61 & 1360.39 approx., Nov 9 at 2258, the KCRC 1390 wavering spurs measured about here at the moment with sportstalk. It`s 1 kW U3 = three-towers-in-a-row direxional same day and night; somewhat oval with more to the west than elsewhere. https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/map-display#appid=313548%26antsysid=20877%26call=KCRC%26freq=1390%26contour=0.5%26city=ENID%26state=OK%26fileno=BL--%26.map FCC says ``KCRC's first license was granted 08-19-1926`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. 7730 // 5850, Monday Nov 13 at 0734, I`m still awake and find WRMI is surprisingly broadcasting James Branum with `Broad Spectrum Radio`, both S9+30! Skedgrid still shows `Your Weekend Show` at 0700-0800 Mondays (while Argentina relay in English is Tue- Sat only). It`s way past my bedtime but I keep listening. He`s talking about relief aid to Puerto Rico in the form of AM-FM-SW radios, batteries and fans. 0742 on to next subject, memorial tribute to friend and used-bookstore owner Kelly Anthony Hayes who was murdered Sept 14 in Oklahoma City. But he did a lot of other things during his life, including serving as a judge in Garfield County 1981-1986. Store was 30 Penn Books. 0754 starts to wrap up, ``see you next week``, mentions WBCQ and WRMI, for at 0756 he mixes old music piece with CW and MFSK16 beeps, but listeners on Channel 292 will only hear the music due to German broadcast restrixions. On 7730 this runs until 0759:30 switch to a Zanotti ID, 0800 then another canned ID by Biermann, and switch to Brother MoleStair. Then I check 5850 and find instead `Happy Station` is starting, but I have to QRT. Also surprised that James has given us no advance warning of his reactivated BSR broadcasts, so we don`t know the time scheduled on WBCQ, or if there are other times than the middle of the night on WRMI. Later checking http://broadspectrumradio.com we find out all about it: ``BSR International Radio Magazine Show – November 2017 Our first shortwave broadcast since January! The show will air at the following days and times: For Eastern North America, the Caribbean, Central America and beyond: Listen via WBCQ, 7490 kHz. Saturday November 12, 2017, 04-05:00 UTC (Friday Nov. 11th, 22-23:00 CST) [WBCQ sked still shows Financial Survival, UT Tue-Sat at 0400!] For Western North America, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and Oceania: Listen via WRMI, 7730 kHz. Monday November 13, 2017, 07-8:00 UTC (01- 2:00 CST) For Most of North America, Alaska and far Eastern Russia: Listen via WRMI, 5850 kHz. Monday November 13, 2017, 07-8:00 UTC (01-2:00 CST) For Europe (as far east as Russia), the Middle East, North Africa and Atlantic Canada: Listen via Channel 292, 6070 khz. Saturday November 18, 16-17:00 UTC (10-11:00 CST)`` Sidebar on the home page has sked for his Part 15 neighborhood stations now active in NW OKC (and unheard here, of course): ``Soñador Radio – Low Power AM/FM/Internet Radio Broadcasting under the provisions of Part 15 of the FCC Rules at 1610 khz AM and 88.7 MHz. FM in the Montague-Soñador Neighborhood. Soñador Radio Schedule Local Time Program Times below are Oklahoma time. CDT: -5, CST: -6 Before 05:00 TBD 05:00 The Best of of The BSR Magazine Show . . . (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 24, Nov 10 at 2115 UT I notice that KOKH, the Fox affiliate in OKC, has changed its 25.3 subchannel from Weather, to: Stadium! More stupid sports. Must have been in the last few days. Rabbitears.info already has it, and seems to be across-the-board pickup by far-right Sinclair-owned stations in many markets. Confess that I seldom checked Weather (not even sure which of the three such networks it was), as not much local coverage, and since I have TWC available on cable. But now there is absolutely no reason to watch 25.3 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. PNG - SW coming to all 22 provinces Thanks to "The SWLing Post" and Hiroyuki Komatsubara for the alert about the following story in the Post-Courier. http://postcourier.com.pg/basil-revive-radio-station/ " 'I want to go short wave and we want to bring back to all the provinces capital in Papua New Guinea through National Broadcasting Corporation so that people in the mountains can have excess to communication,' Mr Basil said." A most encouraging article, stating they want SW stations in each of the 22 provinces: Central, Simbu (Chimbu), Eastern Highlands, East New Britain, East Sepik, Enga, Gulf, Madang, Manus, Milne Bay, Morobe, New Ireland, Oro (Northern), Autonomous Region Bougainville, Southern Highlands, Western (Fly), Western Highlands, West New Britain, Sandaun (West Sepik), National Capital District, Hela and Jiwaka. The last two are new as of May, 2012 (Ron Howard, CA, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good news! I remember the booming NBC signal on 4890. Let’s hope it comes back. Sent from my iPhone (Edward Sylvester, Saudi Arabia, dxldyg via DXLD) Here`s the whole story from above link: National News November 6, 2017 BASIL TO REVIVE RADIO STATION Minister for Communication, Information Technology and Energy Sam Basil wants all 22 provinces to have short wave frequency radio stations. He said this during the Central Province assembly induction program last week Friday in Port Moresby. “My role as the minister is to make sure that we go back to all the 22 provinces to make sure that we revive the radio stations,” Mr Basil said. He said most of the radio stations currently using frequency modulation (FM) face the problem of signal loose in the rural settings as it is only powered by repeater and could not be able to penetrate when it meets obstacles. “This is to ensure that people are kept informed and in tuned with the government of the day,” Mr Basil said. He said to achieve this he will need the assistance of each local PMs of the 22 provinces. “We will also require the support of the provincial government and administration for my department to roll out the program because I believe that the past decision made by previous government that transfers the provincial radio assets back to the provinces, the National Broadcasting Corporation and Department of Communication took the step back because there’s no funding to make sure we maintain those asset. “I want to go short wave and we want to bring back to all the provinces capital in Papua New Guinea through National Broadcasting Corporation so that people in the mountains can have excess [sic] to communication,” Mr Basil said (via, gh, also via Mike Cooper, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) see also AUSTRALIA ** PERU. 5980, Nov 11 at 2252-2257, no signal from R. Chaski, Turkey or anything before *2257:06 ROMANIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. On the national holiday of Poland (11 November), Polskie Radio started a new DAB+ and internet channel, Polskie Radio Chopin. The new channel is dedicated to the musical legacy the famous Polish composer and his contemporaries. press release in Polish: https://www.polskieradio.pl/5/3/Artykul/1918182,W-Swieto-Niepodleglosci-ruszylo-Polskie-Radio-Chopin radio player: http://player.polskieradio.pl/ (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 14 November 2017, DXLD) ** POLAND. Radio Magazine “Radio” 11/2017 ------------------------ In Russian. News broadcast. Section leads V. Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia ftp://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2017/11/16.pdf On November 11, the radio station Radio Chopin (Radio Chopin), a digital channel of the Polish Radio, is set up to target classical music lovers around the world and received its name in honor of the great composer of the Romantic era. -------------------------------------------------- --------- This is stated in the message of the Polish Radio. The launch of a new radio station, part of the Polish public broadcasting system, will be timed to coincide with the 99th anniversary of the restoration of Poland's independence on 11 November 1918. "The anniversary of the restoration of Poland's independence deserves to be celebrated in a special way," said Polish Radio spokeswoman Malgorzata Kachmarchik. Programs "Radio Chopin" can be listened to all over the world - they will be available through the Internet, on the digital terrestrial platform of the DAB + standard, and also for satellite reception. According to Malgorzata Malashko, director of the 2nd channel of the Polish Radio, the new radio station starts its work on the days when the second channel celebrates its 80th anniversary. She added that the new station will be addressed to music lovers, as well as all those who would like to learn more information about classical music. The air of the station will also broadcast works by Chopin, performed both on modern instruments and on instruments that were used during the life of the composer. Arthur Schcklener, director of the Warsaw-based Friederik Chopin Institute, welcomes the initiative of the Polish Radio. According to him, in the era of new media it is very important to communicate with the audience using the latest opportunities. The digital Radio Chopin once on air for a short period - the Polish radio launched this project on September 28, 2015 for the time of the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw. Now, starting from November 11, the radio station will broadcast on the air on an ongoing basis (mediasat.info) (via Rus-DX 12 Nov via DXLD) ** PUERTO RICO. WNYC HELPS PUERTO RICO Courtesy Poynter 20 October 2017 These WNYC engineers brought 300 pounds of radio equipment from Alaska to help a Puerto Rico station [caption] About a week after Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico, Laura Walker listened in to WNYC for news of an island still without power. It reminded Walker, WNYC's president and CEO, of how essential radio is when the power's out. She saw it herself after 9/11 took down WNYC's transmitter at the top of the World Trade Center, after 2003's blackout and after Hurricane Sandy. Of the five public radio stations in Puerto Rico, only one was operating, and it was at half power. What could her station do to help? The answer sat thousands of miles away in Alaska. There, several years ago, a public media collaborative built two Radio To Go kits to help them keep broadcasting. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting heard about CoastAlaska's kits. They got one to New York. And that's where WNYC stepped in. They could add engineers and expertise and get everything to the island. And it wasn't just because the station knew what loss of power meant. The region is home to a huge number of Puerto Ricans. "It’s really just about helping family here," Walker said. They had the people, the equipment and the experience. Now, they just had to get there. WIPR's transmitter site was devastated during Hurricane Maria. (Photo courtesy WNYC) When radio is king On Sept. 11, 2001, WNYC's FM transmitter sat atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The station stayed on the air thanks to the AM transmitter, but it was in jeopardy, too. Walker remembers walking home that night across the Brooklyn Bridge. About 10 minutes after she got home, she got the call that the AM transmitter was down, too. She called NPR. "And I said, 'Can you help us? We need your mobile satellite unit.'" When they got back on the air, they featured news and live call-ins. People needed to talk, said Steve Shultis, WNYC's chief technology officer. At some point, he remembers, the station started playing classical music at night, “just because we felt the public really needed it.” CoastAlaska's five member stations haven't been through a major disaster. But they're ready for one. The tsunami that hit Southeast Asia in 2004 made them stop and think, said Mollie Kabler, executive director. "It’s pretty remote. There are no roads to any of our communities," she said. "That could be us if it happened." CoastAlaska got a grant and built two Radio to Go kits capable of running off a car battery if needed. They're designed to travel by commercial jets, ferry or even fishing boat. More and more newsrooms are now digital and living across platforms. But when the power behind those platforms goes out? Puerto Rico's GFR Media couldn't print after the hurricane and people couldn't read the news online, so a radio station that managed to stay on read the news. It's not about the technology, Shultis said, it's about the ability to get people information when they need it. "There are those catastrophic electric, mechanical failures that can still happen, and there really, radio is king," he said. "It’s the airwaves." There and back again CPB asked Kabler where she bought their kits. We built them, she said, then offered to send them to Puerto Rico. She even got Alaska Airlines to cover the cost of getting them to New York. Shultis learned of the plan at the end of September, and he reached out to two WNYC employees he thought could handle the task. "They both immediately said yes." Dannie Raghunath works for WNYC full-time, and Peter Polanco works part-time. Polanco was familiar with the work itself. After Hurricane Sandy took out the station's AM transmitter, Polanco spent 11 months getting that site up and running again. The engineers found it wasn't that hard to get on the island. But it was much tougher to get off again. The earliest return flight they could get back was Oct. 16. Go ahead and book them, Shultis said. Surely something would come through before then. It didn't. Hotels also all had waiting lists, and finding the two a place to stay was equally tricky. The men finally flew in last Thursday with seven pieces of equipment weighing 300 pounds. WNYC added 300 feet of transmission line to connect the transmitter to the antennae. Their primary mission was to get WIPR back on the air. Their secondary mission was to provide a third-party assessment of the damage to two other transmission sites on the island, one just outside of San Juan and another about three hours to the west. By Sunday night, WIPR was up and running through an antenna at the top of the station's San Juan building. The two engineers flew back into New York on Monday. Still, pretty much everyone views this as just the beginning. Short-term solutions Public radio stations in Alaska got equipment to a station in New York, which took that equipment to a station in San Juan and got them on the air again. Behind the scenes, the Latino Public Radio Consortium helped connect the equipment with the engineers with the stations and people on the ground. All of that is a short-term solution, said Magaly Rivera, Latin Public Radio Consortium's executive director. Next, she said, the remaining stations need complete assessments on the damage to their transmission sites and equipment, as well as what the hurricane has done to those news operations and newsroom staffs, who are dealing with the hurricane's devastation, too. This is typically fundraising season for Puerto Rico public radio stations, and that's not happening now either. LPRC launched a Go Fund Me to raise cash to help the stations get back on the air again. Earlier this month, several broadcaster groups announced they'd be sending 10,000 battery operated radios to Puerto Rico. And Radio Ambulante is holding a benefit show for Puerto Rico later this month. CoastAlaska just got a second kit to WMFE in Orlando, and that station plans to get it to a station in Mayagüez, Kabler said. WNYC isn't done yet, either. In addition to continued coverage, Walker said, they're planning to send a reporter and producer to Puerto Rico for a year to cover the island's recovery. "It is really about the longevity," she said, "and staying and reporting." https://youtu.be/O158QvGJ96g (via Nov Medium Wave News via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. RRI Bucarest German program missed/break on 7345 recently? {recently refurbishing work happened at RadioCom Tsiganeshti site} Seit Tagen vermisse ick RRI in Deutsch ab 0700 UT auf 7345 kHz? Im Internet Noxon Radio ist das deutschsprachige Programm aus Bukarest ab 0700 UT aber zu hoeren (Paul Gager-AUT, via wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 7) RRI Bucarest 0500 UT Romanian 6145drm mode S=9+20dB 7220am mode S=9+20dB 10 kHz wideband 0530 UT Russian 5940drm mode S=9 sidelobe, start Sender 05.27:58 UT, DRM mode start at 05.28:10 UT QRM S=6 Brazil 5939.791 kHz 7330 am mode S=9+10dB 10 kHz wideband 0610 UT French 6040drm mode S=9+25dB powerful, 7360 am mode S=9+40dB powerhouse, 10 kHz wideband 11790 S=9+10 to North Africa. 13730 S=6 to North Africa. 0635 UT English 7345 am mode S=9+30dB powerhouse, 10 kHz wideband 9770drm mode S=9+25dB powerful, 10 kHz wideband 15450 S=3-4 backlobe to SoEaAS/ AUS / NZL ! 17780 S=3-4 backlobe to SoEaAS/ AUS / NZL ! 0705 UT Germann on 8 Nov 2017 7345 am mode S=9+25dB powerful, 10 kHz wideband 9770drm mode S=9+20dB powerful, 10 kHz wideband Arbeiterstreik im Kfz Werk Dacia in Pitesti. Steuergesetzbuch Aenderung. Lohnsteuersenkung von 16 nach 10% herunter im Jahr 2018. Starke Regenfaelle in allen rumaenischen Landen, maximal +16 cC Temp, nachts minus3 Grad. Die Techniker in Ziganeschti sind zu laessig, wollen um 0657 bis 0700 UT nicht die Frequenz 9770 hinunter ins 49 Meterband wechseln. Dies, die Nutzung des 49 und 41 mband waere die beste Loesung um diese Tageszeit im Winter, wobei 6 MHz in AM mode senden sollte. Dies wuerde Dir im nahen Burgenland sehr beim Empfang helfen (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 8 via DXLD) 9620, RRI at 2340 UT Nov 6 in English with their language program followed with "How to preserve vegetables" program. Sign Off at 2355 then IS. Very Good for a frequency directed to Japan. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 11-13 at the Doman Antenna farm, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA100 loop and beverages. Log Periodic antennas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5980, Nov 9 at 2245, checking for any JBA carrier this early from R. Chaski, Perú, during one-hour gap of 5980 usage by major broadcasters, and just before Urubamba sunset: nothing. At 2300 there is a poor AM open carrier, that or RRI? 2302 changes to DRM noise, so RRI, and late switching. They are getting more and more slipshod in operations, uncertain whether to run this hour in AM or DRM, or both; perhaps leading up to abolition of SW as they were expecting to happen in the near future. Propagation from SAm is subnormal too, e.g.. 5952.45 Bolivia is a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, Nov 11 at *2257:06, RRI open carrier on in AM, no IS, S9, converts to DRM noise a few sex before 2300, and presumably modulating that in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Device of the Ostankino Tower + photo -------------------------------------------------- ------- http://ostankino50.tass.ru/ustroystvo-ostankinskoy-bashni/ Secrets of the Ostankino Tower: it was built up for the sake of secret special communication. According to the initial plan, she had to stand in a very different place. Miracle wonderful - Ostankino Tower marks a round date: exactly half a century of "work experience". The then Soviet leadership decided to put the highest building in the country into operation in time for the 50th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. This was one of the most significant gifts for Soviet citizens. Today we publish some little-known facts from the history of the famous skyscraper. Initially, the construction of a tall tower was offered to other places in the capital. At first the variant with Cheryomushki was considered, then this needle-shaped structure of half a kilometer height was wanted to "stuck" on the arrow of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal (not far from the place where the monument to Peter the Great now stands). There were also proposals to put the tower at the Kaluga outpost and even in the very center of the city - on the site of the Christ the Savior Cathedral demolished in the 1930s. Only in July 1959 the final version was approved: the tower to stand in Ostankino, next to the Sheremetevs' manor palace. In the summer of 1960, they began preparations for construction work, and on September 27 the first cubic meters of concrete were laid in the future foundation. The command "Rise!". For the construction of the concrete trunk of the tower (it reaches 385 m) without using scaffolding, specialists of Promstalkonstruktsiya Institute designed a special self-climbing formwork unit, capable of "climbing" the top as building height is increased. One step of this original design ensured the construction of a fragment of a monolithic body of a tower measuring 5.25 m vertically. Before using such a miracle of technology in Ostankino, he was tested on a smaller scale facility - when building a factory pipe at one of the enterprises in the suburbs. One in return for fifteen. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Great October, November 4, 1967, the transmitters mounted on the Ostankino Tower were installed, providing transmissions in the radius of 120 kilometers around Moscow of four television channels and three broadcasting programs. At the same time, the work stopped - unnecessary, - 14 relay stations in the Moscow region and the transmitting station of the Moscow TV center on Shabolovka. A cube is not a toy. When the Ostankino "needle" was erected, its builders took care of their successors, who would have to monitor the technical condition of all elements of the unique high-rise structure in the future. In particular, from the same concrete that was placed in the body of the trunk of the tower, the test concrete cubes were prudently manufactured. They were subsequently conveniently used in laboratory conditions to perform strength tests. Such tests, conducted by specialists repeatedly, showed that with the choice of building material the creators of the tower were not mistaken: over the years, this concrete only became stronger. Prehistoric mobile phone. During the first years of its existence the tower managed to grow up! - During the Soviet era, the very fact of this "physiological process" tried to advertise less, since the extension of the Ostankino "needle" was associated with "ensuring the work of the highest state and party organs of the USSR." The fact is that the television tower was expanded so that a new system of government radio-telephone communication could function. In the late 1960s, the Altai system was used for mobile communications in Moscow. Its main receiving and transmitting station was located on the upper tier of a high-rise building near Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. However, weakly strong "Altai" poorly served its privileged subscribers even within the city, besides it hopelessly "gloated" in tunnels and near powerful power lines. Naturally, it was very annoying then VIP-users, and therefore a few years later was developed a much more powerful system - "Caucasus". The previous transmitters, mounted on a Stalin high-rise, were no longer suitable for new "mobile phones", it was required to place the receiving and transmitting equipment somewhere higher. That's when they decided to use the television tower in Ostankino, slightly extending it to accommodate the broadcasters at the maximum "sky-high" level. In 1973, the top of the 533-meter "needle" was removed and replaced in a more dimensional design. Thanks to this, the height of the Ostankino beauty increased by as much as 7 meters. A complicated technical operation was carried out very quickly, for it used not yet dismantled cranes, with which a few years earlier the metal upper part of the miraculous high-rise was mounted. So the majority of Muscovites did not even pay attention to "changes in the top". And the newspapers did not write about this report. Only in the guidebooks was indicated henceforth another height of the TV tower - 540 meters. Favorite target of Zeus. The existence of such a high artificial structure became a "bait" for thunderclouds. According to experts' calculations, over 1500 lightning strikes struck the Ostankino Tower in 50 years. Alexander Dobrovolsky http://www.mk.ru/moscow/2017/11/03/tayny-ostankinskoy-bashni-ee-nadstroili-radi-sekretnoy-specsvyazi.html https://vk.com/club59176345 (via Rus-DX 12 Nov via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. RT AGREES TO REGISTER AS AN AGENT OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT --- By Devlin Barrett and David Filipov, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rt-agrees-to-register-as-an-agent-of-the-russian-government/2017/11/09/bd62f9a2-c558-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_print.html RT, a Moscow-headquartered website and television channel that the U.S. government says is a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin, will register with U.S. authorities as a foreign agent, its editor said Thursday. The registration follows a months-long back-and-forth between RT and the Justice Department over whether it was required by U.S. law to register as an agent of the Russian government. "The American Justice Department has left us with no choice,'' RT's editor in chief Margarita Simonyan said in a statement posted on the organization's website. "Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized. In short, in this situation the company would not be able to work. Between those consequences and registering as a foreign agent, we are forced to choose registration.'' She added: "We will continue to work and continue to fight this as long as it's possible.'' Formerly known as Russia Today, RT disputes that it is an agent of the Russian government, arguing that it offers alternatives to mainstream news coverage. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the network and website push relentlessly anti-American propaganda at the behest of the Russian government. [Facebook temporarily blocked RT] The Russian Embassy in Washington suggested Thursday that U.S.-based news organizations with reporters in Moscow could face retaliation. In a statement, the embassy said RT was given "an ultimatum to register as a foreign agent by Nov. 13'' and if the company doesn't comply, the U.S. government is "threatening to start arresting staff'' and freezing bank accounts. The embassy warned that restrictions on the activities of Russian media "would inevitably entail immediate and reciprocal measures.'' Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about the controversy at a foreign policy event last month. In response to a question from Simonyan, Putin said, "As soon as we see any efforts to limit our mass media, we will reciprocate immediately." Russian news media reported in October that the upper house of the Russian parliament had drawn up a blacklist of at least five U.S. media outlets whose activities in Russia could be restricted in response. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. A January assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies described RT America TV as "a Kremlin-financed channel operated from within the United States, (which) has substantially expanded its repertoire of programming that highlights criticism of alleged US shortcomings in democracy and civil liberties.'' The assessment also said RT America "has positioned itself as a domestic US channel and has deliberately sought to obscure any legal ties to the Russian government,'' but behind the scenes, "The Kremlin staffs RT and closely supervises RT's coverage, recruiting people who can convey Russian strategic messaging because of their ideological beliefs.'' The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), passed in the run-up to World War II as a means of exposing pro-Nazi propagandists in the United States, requires that Americans working on behalf of foreign governments register as such with the government. The requirements are enforced by the Justice Department, but some critics, including the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), have said the department has a poor track record of making firms and individuals follow the law. The issue of Russian propaganda in the United States has become a hot topic in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, as lawmakers and intelligence officials have pointed to thousands of social media accounts directed from Russia that posed as Americans voicing their opinions on domestic political issues. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia sought to interfere with the U.S. election to help Donald Trump get elected. As RT's work has come under greater scrutiny from the Justice Department, the company has accused the United States of trying to infringe on the rights of a free press. Other foreign news organizations operating in the United States have filed under FARA with little observable impact on their business. Read more: Twitter bans Russian government-owned news sites RT and Sputnik from buying ads Putin says Olympic disqualifications are sign of U.S. meddling in Russia's elections (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RUSSIA SAYS IT WILL RETALIATE AFTER RT WAS `FORCED' TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT --- By David Filipov, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-plans-new-restrictions-on-us-media-working-in-russia/2017/11/10/2174d81a-c5fa-11e7-a441-3a768c8586f1_print.html MOSCOW -- Russia plans new measures to restrict U.S. media organizations working here after a Russian English-language television channel said it was pressured into registering as a foreign agent in the United States, a senior legislator said Friday. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said lawmakers will take up changes to the Russian law on foreign agents to extend it to the news media. Until now, that law has been applied only to nongovernmental organizations that receive financing from abroad and engage in what the government determines to be "political activity." The law has been criticized as a way for the Russian government to marginalize civil society institutions. U.S. intelligence agencies said in January that RT and the news agency Sputnik, along with a network of "quasi-government trolls," interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on behalf of the Russian government by pushing anti-American propaganda, claims that RT denies. [RT agrees to register as an agent of the Russian government] Volodin's address to the Duma, the lower house of parliament, signaled that the government now plans to treat U.S. media organizations in Russia as agents of the United States seeking to meddle in Russian affairs. The Duma is obliged to give its laws two preliminary approvals before passing them, which Volodin said could happen next week. After that, the law would move to Russia's upper house, which supported retaliating to the restrictions on RT at a hearing this week. "All actions of American media outlets indicate that their policy and positions are totally unfriendly and that this interference is absolutely undisguised," Volodin said. "Since such decisions are being made on U.S. territory in relation to our TV channels, it will be right for us to respond to these actions." The current Russian law does not restrict activity but requires organizations to place the "foreign agent" label on all their documents. It was not clear how this label would apply to U.S. media groups, how it could affect their work or how many outlets would be affected. Pyotr Tolstoy, a deputy speaker of the State Duma, suggested that one possibility is that media outlets affected by the new law could be required to include a statement identifying themselves as foreign agents on their social media pages. RT's registration as a foreign agent follows a months-long back-and-forth with the Justice Department over whether it was required by U.S. law to register as an agent of the Russian government. "The American Justice Department has left us with no choice,'' RT's editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan, said in a statement posted on the organization's website Thursday. "Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized. In short, in this situation the company would not be able to work. Between those consequences and registering as a foreign agent, we are forced to choose registration.'' [Putin says Olympic disqualifications are sign of U.S. meddling in Russia's elections] She added, "We will continue to work and continue to fight this as long as it's possible.'' RT, previously known as Russia Today, disputes that it is an agent of the Kremlin, arguing that it merely offers alternatives to mainstream news coverage. "Reciprocal measures will be put in place to ensure the same restrictions as the Americans are now trying to impose on Russian media outlets," Tolstoy said. Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled that he would sign such a law last month, when he told a conference of foreign policy scholars that Russia would respond immediately and reciprocally to "any efforts to limit our mass media." Russian news media reported in October that the upper house of the Russian parliament had drawn up a blacklist of at least five U.S. media outlets whose activities in Russia could be restricted in response. This month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow was preparing "a surprise" in response to pressure on Russian media outlets in the United States. Asked by a Russian television talk show host Thursday whether "The Washington Post and the New York Times should pack their suitcases," she said: "Hold on, not all at once -- we'll unpack our surprise bit by bit." A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment to The Post on Thursday. U.S. intelligence agencies in January described RT America TV as "a Kremlin-financed channel operated from within the United States, [which] has substantially expanded its repertoire of programming that highlights criticism of alleged U.S. shortcomings in democracy and civil liberties.'' The assessment also said RT America "has positioned itself as a domestic U.S. channel and has deliberately sought to obscure any legal ties to the Russian government,'' but behind the scenes, "the Kremlin staffs RT and closely supervises RT's coverage, recruiting people who can convey Russian strategic messaging because of their ideological beliefs.'' [Russian prosecutors begin searching for foreign agents among civic groups] The Russian law on foreign agents in recent years has been used on nongovernmental groups that do not toe the Kremlin party line. Memorial, one of Russia's oldest human rights groups, which for three decades has sought to expose Soviet mass killings and arrests, and the Levada Center, an independent polling agency, were registered as foreign agents by Russia's Ministry of Justice. The organizations have disputed the decision. Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report. Read more: Twitter bans Russian government-owned news sites RT and Sputnik from buying ads Amid Russian investigation, Twitter is making all of its ads public Kremlin: Attempts to tie U.S. investigations to Russia `baseless' and `ludicrous' (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RUSSIA WARNS OF CRACKDOWN ON U.S. MEDIA, INCLUDING CNN Coverage of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on the state-run RT network, which has agreed to be designated as a foreign agent in the United States despite objections from its leadership. RT, via YouTube [caption] By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM November 10, 2017 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/media/russia-rt-cnn-crackdown.html In the latest round of tit-for-tat sparring between the United States and Russia, the authorities in Moscow warned on Friday of a coming crackdown on American media outlets that operate in Russia, including CNN. The move was explicitly intended as retaliation for an apparent American censure of RT, the state-run news organization formerly known as Russia Today, which American intelligence sources have accused of being used as a propaganda outlet. Officials in President Vladimir V. Putin's government said CNN, along with the federally funded Voice of America and Radio Liberty, might be designated as foreign agents, essentially identifying them as hostile intelligence outfits. In the United States, the designation of foreign agent is typically assigned to foreign lobbying groups. Russia's suggestion that it might assign the label to foreign news organizations like CNN -- potentially restricting their distribution and operation -- was likely to raise alarm bells among press freedom groups. On Thursday, RT agreed to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent in the United States, despite vehement objections from the network's leadership. Representatives of RT have denied that the Russian authorities dictate its coverage. In addition, the Russian authorities had previously warned that any American censure of RT would be met with a response. Tensions in the international media sphere are rising at a time when ties between the Russian authorities and the Trump campaign are the subject of an investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. During the 2016 presidential campaign, RT frequently portrayed the United States as a nation in disarray, often in sensational YouTube videos that racked up millions of views. The RT network was cited in an intelligence dossier about potential foreign intrusions in the election. In retaliation, Russian officials said CNN, along with Voice of America and Radio Liberty, might be designated as foreign agents. Al Drago for The New York Times [caption] On Friday, President Trump and Mr. Putin both attended the Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam. The men did not hold formal talks, but they shook hands and exchanged greetings before posing for a photograph at the forum's gala dinner. It remained unclear on Friday whether Russia's talk of a crackdown posed an imminent threat to the operations of American news outlets there, or was saber rattling. Some Russian officials see CNN's international network as a useful vehicle to reach foreign audiences. The American authorities have not publicly acknowledged a request that RT register as a foreign agent. But in a defiant statement on Thursday, RT's editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan, denounced the Justice Department and said her network would register to avoid a freezing of its bank accounts and disclosure of personal information about employees. "The demand is discriminative; it contradicts both the democracy and freedom of speech principles," Ms. Simonyan wrote on RT's website. "It deprives us of fair competition with other international channels, which are not registered as foreign agents." Ms. Simonyan said she planned to sue the Justice Department over the matter. During the presidential race, RT's American cable network attracted about eight million viewers a week, and it assigned reporters to cover the major party conventions and campaign rallies. Among its on-air personalities were American TV veterans like Larry King and Ed Schultz. RT had particular influence on YouTube, where its 2.2 million subscribers rivaled the totals for major American news outlets. The Russian minister of communications, Nikolai Nikoforov, said this week that the treatment of RT in the United States was the result of an undeserved animosity toward Russian interests. "It is yet another manifestation of the general anti-Russian hysteria" in the United States, Mr. Nikoforov told journalists, "rather than of a constructive legal dialogue." The Justice Department and CNN declined to comment. Amanda Bennett, the director of Voice of America, said in a statement: "The Voice of America is an independent news source required by law to be accurate, objective and comprehensive. We will not speculate on any steps foreign governments might take with regard to our journalistic work." Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) RUSSIA'S RT AMERICA REGISTERS AS 'FOREIGN AGENT' IN U.S. Jack Stubbs, Ginger Gibson 4 Min Read #World News November 13, 2017 / 5:37 PM / Updated 2 hours ago http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-media-restrictions-rt/russias-rt-america-registers-as-foreign-agent-in-u-s-idUSKBN1DD25B MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed television station RT America registered Monday with the U.S. Department of Justice as a "foreign agent" in the United States, the outlet's editor in chief said and the Department of Justice confirmed later in the day. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT, meets with journalists, with the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour seen in the background, in Moscow, Russia, October 17, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov [caption] U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is "Russia's state-run propaganda machine" and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump. After that report, the Department of Justice insisted that RT America comply with registration requirements under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Under the act, RT will be required to disclose financial information. Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations of election meddling and said it views the actions against RT as an unfriendly act. But RT's editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan, said on Monday that it would comply with the demand in order to avoid further legal action by the U.S. government. "Between a criminal case and registration, we chose the latter. We congratulate American freedom of speech and all those who still believe in it," Simonyan said on Twitter. The Department of Justice confirmed that it received a registration from T&R Productions LLC, which has operated studios for RT, hired and paid U.S.-based employees and produced English-language programming. "Americans have a right to know who is acting in the United States to influence the U.S. government or public on behalf of foreign principals," said acting Assistant Attorney General Dana Boente. In October, Twitter announced it would no longer allow advertisements from RT and another Kremlin-backed news organization, citing intelligence that the television station participated in efforts to influence the election. FARA requires foreign governments, political parties and the lobbyists and public relations firms they hire in the United States to register with the Department of Justice. FARA was first passed in 1938 in the lead up to World War Two in an effort to combat German propaganda efforts. Foreign government-owned news organizations, including China Daily, the English-language newspaper owned by China's government, register under FARA. The law applies to companies that are owned or controlled by foreign governments. The United States and Russia are engaged in a back-and-forth over "foreign agent" registration. Russia's parliament warned on Friday that some U.S. and other foreign media could also be declared "foreign agents" in response to the actions against RT, requiring them to regularly declare full details of their funds, financing and staffing. U.S. government-sponsored Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), CNN and Germany's Deutsche Welle could all be affected by the retaliatory measures, a senior Russian lawmaker said earlier on Monday. While traveling in Asia, Trump touted the relationship between himself and Russia and posted on Twitter that improved relations with the country would "a good thing, not a bad thing." Reporting by Jack Stubbs in Moscow and Ginger Gibson in Washington; Editing by Grant McCool and Lisa Shumaker (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9695.039, Nov 10 at 1411, VP talk off-frequency. NDXC/Aoki shows BSKSA in Pashto, 1358-1558, 500 kW, 55 degrees from Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11745, S=9+15dB signal in remote SDR at Doha Qatar. When checked 25 mb today Nov 13 at 0647 UT, came across a TEST TONE of exact 1004 Hertz, was opening procedure of Jeddah bcast center outlet of "Al-Azm Radio" which program start regular at 0700 UT. Test tone lasted til 0659:36 UT, start of a {national?} hymn, sung by a male voice chorus, very low modulation though. 0700:15 UT station announcement. 0700:45 UT HQ prayer start. Little QRM by adjacent CRI English service from Cerrik Albania relay site on 11750 kHz til 0658 UT, latter S=9 strength, CRI service towards NoEaAF, Red Sea, LBY, EGY, SDN, JOR, ISR. 11860 kHz, Republic of Yemen Radio, total different signal, fluttery at S=6-7 strength in Qatar, so seemingly an unit at Riyadh site was in use at this time til 0858 UT? 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In Jeddah for the week, if anybody needs me to check anything. Came equipped with a Drake SW-8 and a portable BCB loop (Palomar). 73, Thanks, (Ed Sylvester, Nov 13, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. Two strong BBCWS English Kranji site outlets at 2300 UT, 3915 kHz S=9+25dB, 5890 kHz late request in HFCC #16532. Again towards Thailand, China and SoEaAS 250 kW 13degr S=9+35dB powerhouse, after closure of BBC relay in northern Thailand. Both outlets proper 11 kHz wideband block, superb morning service to all SoEAsia Only few observation in short, two remote SDR were open tonight for remote access in South Korea and Cambodian/Thai border location in SE Asia. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 8, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC (presumed), 1218-1235+, on Nov 14. Decent level carrier (dead air, with no audio), during this extend transmission. A shame they didn't carry the Wantok FM audio feed, seeing as the transmitter was on anyway! Hiroyuki Komatsubara, in Japan, at 1300, noted the same carrier (dead air) (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Thanks very much to Bryan Clark (NZ), for the following additional info provided today (Nov 14): "Interesting Ron - yesterday I checked 9545 at 0120 UT and while there was a decent carrier, no audio was apparent either. Bryan" (Ron Howard, ibid.) To demonstrate the importance of a good (actually great) antenna - monitoring Don Moman's Edmonton Perseus site last night (circa 0800) and presumably using his West-facing Beverage, Ozy Radio on 5045 and SIBC on 5020 were both coming in at S4, almost armchair levels. This is the best I've heard any low-powered (1 KW or less) Aussie from any NoAm site. Signal actually went to S4+ by end of my recording at 0933. Ozy R. was tuned at 0835 with end of news pgm by woman and into lots of pop music selections with man announcer giving info on singers and the occasional short "This is Ozy Radio" ID. News by woman again at 0902.5 and 0929.5 that included weather and sports. SIBC was then noted after 0933 also with S4, almost S4+ signals on 5020 (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7780 WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (p); 1930, 11/11; Bro. HyStairical the Overfondler was quoting Henry Kissinger, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” & pronouced aphrodisiac, “Afro-dis- tika”. (That sounds like a disease that would make an old man have an overcoming desire to fondle girls) SIO=354 (Frodge-DXP) 9955, WRMI Radio Miami Int`l (presumed); 2143, 11/10; Bro. HyStairical the Overfondler said there will be 15 days of total darkness in November. S7-8 with buzz-pulse jammer. 11580, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l; 1737, 11/11; Bro. HyStairical the Overfondler said, “You peanut brains, don’t challenge me.” SIO=454 15825, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 2005-2013+, 11/10; Snake oil huxter peddling “magnetic water” & “magnetic mattresses”. For diabetes, drink 8 glasses a day of magnetic water & sleep on a magnetic mattress. For heart disease, wear a domino-sized magnet in your pocket with the north pole pointed at your heart. (People who buy this are probably Bro. Stair contributors.) SIO=354 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, M.A.R.E. DXpedition, Brighton MI, Drake R8B + 500’ unterminated, dog-leg E-W/N-S bev, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11825, Nov 12 at 1333 via WRMI, Brother Scare is deciding on 2018 broadcast contracts in next 8-10 days; may go off at the end of year, he says, according to God`s will, no doubt depending on the amount of millions of $$$ he can now raise from psychophants; Or extend it ``just a little while longer``. (The Last Days are always just around the corner!!) While he lays ``the groundwork for my final demise`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA. Hi Glenn, just in case you have not noticed, for what it's worth... -----Original-Nachricht----- Betreff: [A-DX] Bro Stair... Datum: 2017-11-12 T22:44:30+0100 Von: "Christoph Ratzer" Es gibt sie noch, die guten Nachrichten. Gerade auf Facebook gefunden: (according to Craig Halpert) "Today's revelation from Bro Stair; it was announced today that the Bro Stair broadcasts will come to a end in December. He asks everyone to pray that the Lord call him home in the next six to eight days as he makes arrangements for his final placement. This is of course subject to change if some kind benefactor will donate $1 Million or maybe $10 Million so he may go on a little longer. According to Stair he hasn't reserved any transmitter time for 2018. Stair has really been hitting his pending demise in the last week; maybe he's on to something?“ 73 Christoph -- http://ratzer.at http://remotedx.wordpress.com (via Kai Ludwig, Nov 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** SYRIA. Syrian Radio was heard on 783 kHz (Tartus) from tune-in at 0100 UT on 13 October with Arabic programming through until 0200 when the Interval Signal was heard, followed by the Syrian National Anthem; Same as http://www.intervalsignals.net/Files/syr-ortas_main_061008.m3u ID and announcement with a list of frequencies mentioning of "megahertz" and "kilohertz" several times. Arabic songs followed with further announcements, some Qur'an, and further content in Arabic until the anthem was repeated at 0300. Reception then faded with Spain dominant for several minutes until Syria returned on top with a programme in presumed Hebrew then in progress, consisting mainly of Western pop tunes and some comment (observation by Tony Rogers using online SDR in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, Nov Medium Wave News via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Good signal of SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng on Nov 8: 0600-0700 on 11530 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/good-signal-of-soh-xi-wang-zhi-sheng-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. Re: Rodney's Logs from Plymouth, Minnesota > 6200Khz 1254 5 NOV - VOICE OF JINLING (CHINA). SINPO = 25322. Chinese, Whenever I see this station logged, especially with I=5, I wonder about Xizang PBS from Tibet, which is supposedly on the same frequency at the same time... at least acc. to NDXC at http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/cnrb17.htm which has a note "CNR1" for 6200, indicating another possible (full-time?) relay of this ubiquitous program. Do the loggers check the potential // freqs to rule out Xizang? Without further info about an ID, I'd place my bets on Xizang rather than Jinling being heard alone on this channel. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Wiesbaden, Germany, Nov 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Eike, Here in California, almost daily I check 6200. Before 1230, normally I hear Xizang PBS (Tibet) with a very decent signal, as it's in the clear before Voice of Jinling signs on. VOJ always has a very distinctive double sign on, that is they briefly start, then go off the air and then finally back on to stay. My audio of their double sign on at https://goo.gl/RRM7m7 Once VOJ is broadcasting after about 1230, they are always many times stronger than Tibet. Most days I find only an extremely weak Tibet underneath VOJ. One of my recent strong reception of VOJ, which is typical reception for me, is at http://goo.gl/9eY1GV with Tibet barely being heard at times underneath VOJ. So if my reception is any indication of what Rodney was hearing on 6200, he would indeed have been hearing Voice of Jinling. At his QTH, he probably was not able to hear much, if any, QRM from Tibet (Ron Howard, ibid.) hi Eike, this is a rather detective work. The question puzzled me. http://www.sat-address.com/en/Stations/Voice-of-Jinling-Radio/?filter=Radio facts to compare: - he can easily tell the difference between Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese pronunciation accent ? - to strengthen the path of radio signal spread via the Arctic. There is not much difference of true north azimuth signal via Arctic - does the monitor easily state the start of Nanjing site bcast at 1240 UT? - he can hear Lhasa Tibetan at 1254 UT also on parallels 6025, 6110, 6130 and 7385 kHz to compare the program content? - he can hear at 1254 UT also Chinese program from same Lhasa Tibet site on 6050, 7240 and 7450 kHz? re 6200 Voice of Jinling, see last item of 1240-1500 UT on page http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/cnrb17.htm more facts, not much difference though: Lhasa Baiding site 11727 kilometers at 3.5 degrees azimuth to Minnesota, via Tuva, Krasnoyarsk Russia, Siberia, Noril`sk, Arctic, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Churchill, North West territories. Nanjing site 10874 kilometers at 22 degrees azimuth to Minnesota, via Heilongjang, Okhotsk, Prudhoe Bay, Yukon, Winnipeg. Nanjing tx area has been rebuilt in 2008 year, in G.E in July 2014 visible bcast center radio tower location is midst in big super city. 73, wb df5sx ps. If I don't forget it, I'll soon be listening to this frequency as a onitor in the remote SDRs in Alberta and/or Michigan, and monitor the other Lhasa Tibet frequencies also (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid., Nov 11) Yes, V of Jinling stronger almost everywhere else except India has Xizang. Xizang sounds more like 10 than 50 kW. I wonder, what that CNR1 means? Not in Mr. Aoki's general list. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1236 UT Nov 11, ibid.) CHINA That`s an easy task to monitor 6200 kHz this morning. 6200.000 exact fq BOTH OUTLETS FROM NANJING and LHASA BAIDING TIBET. (not even an Hertz difference on fq in between both signals from China) Voice of Jinling full ID at 1243:40 UT. Nice violine/cello orchestra music selection, excellent audio quality! 1251 UT French chanson performer from the 40ties ? Music program til 1300:10 UT, Mandarin station ID at S=9+35dB level in Hiroshima Japan. 1301:37 UT female Mandarin voice, short news read ? 1302:22 UT Guitar and smooth pop music heard. Fine music selection. 1318 UT still female Mandarin reader of Voice of Jinling in progress. - - - Before 1225 UT I heard only Lhasa Baiding Tibetan on this channel, S=8-9 -77dBm fluttery in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, on VE6JY remote unit best connect via port:8014, rather tiny on port :8023. \\ 6025 S=8, 6130.0 underneath much stronger 6129.980 LNR from Vientiane Laos S=8 From approx. 1225 UT (when I tuned-in again) noted much stronger music station on air, Voice of Jinling, and Lhasa Tibetan underneath, both. In Detroit-MI and NY-US nil signal on 6200 kHz, lower than threshold, only string visible on screen. At 1236 UT Edmonton Alberta Canada signal approx S=9+5dB of Jinling progroam. At South Korea remote SDR S=9+35dB powerful Jinling program. At Hiroshima Japan SDR S=9+25dB Jinling px. Azimuth of Nanjing antenna: at Nanjing Google Earth show 123 meter distance length between the 4 SW masts, Azimuth transverse to the direction are mainlobe at 161 and 341 degrees. 73 wb df5sx (Büschel, ibid.) Ron & Wolfgang, Thanks a lot for sharing your observations. The situation in Europe is so different from the one in western NAm, it's easy to be a little too skeptical. I stand corrected! Keep up the good work, everybody. 73, (Eike, ibid.) 6200 kHz Nov 12, both Lhasa Tibet and Voice of Jinling Nanjing monitored JPG 149KB Save MP3 6200kHz_in_JPN_12.25_12.28UT_Lhasa_Nanjing_122647_122721_Switch_on.mp3 239KB Save Today Sunday Nov 12 noted on Japan remote SDR: noted S=8 signal from tune-in 1210 UT from PBS Lhasa Tibet, hefty splatter of BBCWS Kranji Singapore signal on adjacent 6195 kHz. at 1226:47 - 1226:58 UT Nanjing signal came on air for 11 seconds only, switched OFF again for 23 seconds left Lhasa signal alone on air, at 1227:21 UT Nanjing signal came on air for continuous broadcast. S=9+20dB in Hiroshima Japan. Both Lhasa and Nanjing signals marked with red points on screenshot below. on attached recording to be heard: 0.00 - 0.42 Lhasa Tibetan 0.43 - 0.54 Nanjing Mandarin 0.55 - 1.17 pause, only Lhasa Tibetan on channel, then Nanjing S=9+20dB full power on air, excellent audio. Lhasa underneath though. vy 73 wolfie df5sx (Büschel, Nov 12, ibid.) Thanks Wolfie. Very nice audio clip! I was also listening at the same time as you today (Nov 12). Before 1226, Tibet was noted on 6200 and clearly // 4920. Yes, the Voice of Jinling's unique double sign on also heard just as you report. VOJ at 1228 with series of commercial announcements; 1231 song by Perry Como ("And I Love You So"); 1234 VOJ announcer in Chinese IDing the singer and song title; VOJ fair, with Tibet extremely weak underneath. As I have reported in the past, VOJ is a very cosmopolitan station, as they often play traditional older French songs, as well as easy listening older songs in English. Very enjoyable listening, as they have a decent signal (Ron Howard, San Francisco, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued, re 6200 Voice of Jinling, Nanjing, see last item of 1240- 1500 UT on China National Radio page more facts, not much difference though (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews Nov 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 9315, Nov 13 at 1513, S9-S7 in tonal Asian language, several US references. HFCC shows IBB, 1500-1600, 250 kW, 288 degrees from Tinian in Bod = Tibetan. HFCC never cares which IBB station, but Aoki/NDXC says Radio Free Asia. No jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. New B-17 frequencies of Voice of Tibet in 31mb Nov 8: 1300-1305 on 9895 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 25mb B-16 1305-1320 on 9898 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 25mb B-16 1320-1335 on 9895 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 31mb B-16 1335-1400 on 9898 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 31mb B-16 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/new-b-17-frequencies-of-voice-of-tibet.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet, Nov 13 1230-1233 NF 11603 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15533 1233-1240 NF 11603 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15525 1240-1300 NF 11603 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15517 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet on Nov 14: 1200-1208 NF 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11505 1208-1230 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11512 1335-1400 NF 9903 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9898 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** TURKEY [and non]. 1259-1650 on 7355*RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to All Pacific English, good --- * and co-ch Turkish Civil Defense Network on same 7355 kHz USB mode! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-radio-new-zealand-pacific.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5980, Nov 8 at 2154, song poor at S6-S8, presumably TRT in Turkish, now scheduled 17-22 at 310 degrees from Emirler toward Europe and US. That leaves a 22-23 window before Romania for possible Perú on 5980. At 13+ degrees S, Urubamba sunset varies little and is close enough, currently 2252 UT per https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/@8349992 5980, Nov 10 at 2155, VOT Turkish is poor at S5-S8; but at 2210 it`s *still* on and slightly stronger, S6-S9. More dozey sloppyration at Emirler; supposed to close by 2200 and no more Turkish until 0100 on 6000. I was checking 5980, of course, whether any sign of R. Chaski could be heard during open hour before Romania at 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Test tone noted on 648 kHz at 1045 UT. 73's John, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-525 + Wellbrook ALA1530LF Posted by: (John Hoad nov 11, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) Carrier back on 648 kHz at 1141, then continuous oldies. No announcements heard yet. 73s. (Nick, Buxton, Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2, UK, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Caroline 648 testing --- A test signal with continuous music and announcements reported today. Reception reports on Facebook from the UK, Holland, Belgium, France and Austria. Some reports from mainland Europe refer to a co-channel Romanian or Slovenian station. I think this is at a lower power than the permitted 1 KW. Much excitement in anorak circles! Mike Posted by: (Mike Terry, Nov 11, dxldyg via DXLD) Good, steady signal in North Ferriby at 0800 UT tune-in, S7-S8. In contrast, Radio Norfolk on 855 kHz is about the same, but with more fading; the 873 kHz relay from West Lynn is slightly weaker again with fading (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 18m long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, Nov 11, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Very good signal now at 1730 UT tune in with some slow deep fading and the Slovenian station now making an appearance in the fade outs. It`s very reminiscent of what reception used to be like from the Mi Amigo back in the 70's in this part of the world. Again in contrast Radio Norfolk swamped by a Spanish station on 855 and 873 kHz at this location. Happy days, just great to have Caroline back on an AM frequency, well done to all concerned. Doesn't this just take you back? (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 18m long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, 1741 UT Nov 12, BDXC yg via DXLD) Just returned from a flying visit to East Yorkshire (Hedon nr. Hull) and was pleasantly surprised at the good signal strength from Radio Caroline's test transmissions on 648 kHz. Using just the Sony ICF2001D's internal ferrite aerial it was audible well, lighting 7 LEDs on the signal strength meter. Radio Caroline ID heard around 1200 UT, along with requests for reports. Using a small loop as well, it sounded like a local. Even an old Bush TR130 (Germaninum transistor) portable on the window still gave good reception on its own aerial. (The same sets that had "Radio Caroline" on the bandspread dial around 199 metres) Thanks to John in Faversham for the tip-off yesterday. 73's (Nick, Buxton, Rank, Nov 12, ibid.) Members, This has been the most discussed development in Western European radio history which I have witnessed since the end of the Cold War. Tests are now underway bringing Radio Caroline to listeners in Suffolk on 648 kHz. The community station is supposed to be serving exactly that, the Suffolk locality. Much discussion revolved around the supposed construction of a new site at Stonham Aspal near Stowmarket in Suffolk. This now appears to have been abandoned as a plan. The conclusion of many (and most importantly Mike Brown) is that in fact using the reserve monopole at Orfordness. Well done to the station for renewing service on 648 kHz from Ordfordness. This transmission site of course served for many years as a launch for BBC World Service to reach deep into West Europe. The 1 kW transmitter is fed into the mast at 52 06 11N 01 34 27E or 52.102935, 1.574189. Due to its position right next to the North Sea, Radio Caroline is once again being heard over a surprisingly large part of North West Europe. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Nov 12, mwmasts yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) Indeed many reports from mainland Europe. I wonder if it will stay omnidirectional though (Mike Terry, ibid.) Radio Caroline tests are said to be running until tomorrow (presumably overnight) according to Pat Edison on air. It will be interesting to see what skywave reception is like. (Remember they want reception reports via their website: http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#am_reception.html 73 (Steve Whitt, Nov 12, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Hi, Coming in with an excellent signal here in Hemel Hempstead. I am listening on a Tecsun PL 310 - internal aerial. Good to hear all the continuous oldies on the AM band. Not heard a jingle yet! 73's (John Williams, 1445 UT, ibid.) Just posted on station website: AM Test Transmissions Radio Caroline is now testing on 648 AM. Taking in to account the power that we are allowed, reception at this moment seems good. These are engineering tests and will only continue for a short while, but we would appreciate reception reports. Full tests and full programming will commence in due course and will be announced here, along with tips on how to get the best AM signal. For now, dust off your Medium Wave radio in preparation. Reception Reports Radio Caroline Radio Caroline (Mike Terry, 1401 UT Nov 12, ibid.) Re: Radio Caroline --- Nothing more than QRM as far as I am concerned. 73 (/Andrew Brade, UK, Nov 12, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Great to have a decent music station on AM again. I still miss Arrow on 675 (Stuart Satnipper, ibid.) Pat Edison just said on the main stream that the tests will stop at midday today (Monday) pending further developments leading eventually to the official start. He told me yesterday in an email that they had over 500 reception reports. Posted by: (Mike Terry, Nov 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) Test finished at 1203 UT Monday 13 Nov. Fair signal in NW Scotland. Slightly weaker than Wrexham (2 kW) here on same aerial. SINPO 25343. 73, Alan, AOR 7030plus, 340 unterminated Beverage. Posted by: (Alan Pennington, BDXC yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon starting around 1715 UT, I used the Twente SDR receiver to record the 648 kHz signal. The non-stop pop recordings were only interrupted near the top of the hour with a brief ID and announcement about the test. Reception wan't too bad initially but interference from Radio Murski Val, a reportedly 10 kW station in Slovenia, gradually increased with approaching nightfall. Perhaps a directional antenna would have helped -- even a portable receiver able to null the Slovenian station (-- Richard Langley, Nov 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Transmitter site? Application states a site near Stowmarket/Debenham in Suffolk. Some are suggesting perhaps the old BBC Orfordness (Orford Ness) site is being used. That site does include an omni-directional mast radiator for 648 kHz, which was used in the BBC days when the highly-directional array was down for maintenance (Richard Langley, Nov 14, ibid.) Mike and other members, I observed the rules re publication carefully on this one. Courtesy of the Mediumwave Circle Facebook Group I am pleased to relay some wonderful technical stuff re the reserve mast at Orfordness which has produced such exceptional results during the Radio Caroline test. Andy J Linton works for BW Broadcast servicing their Irish clients. I am delighted to pass on his expert nugget re the tower which he has allowed me to do. "It’s a 60m grounded tower, shunt fed at the top, with the skirt wires pulled out to a diamond shape. The angle of these wires is adjusted to achieve 50R-J0, which it does present at 648 kHz - so there’s no atu needed. In addition there are vertical wires running down the outside of the tower to increase its electrical width and preclude any resistance across the tower section flanges. It’s a variation of the ‘Marconi’ antenna." 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Nov 14, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** U K. Re: Is amateur radio still relevant? There is a bit more to the Click item on G8BBC in the full program, which can still be downloaded as a podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvpcc The item begins at about the 20 minute and 48 seconds mark. "Click" is one of the podcasts that I listen to every week. The show also goes out 8 times each week on the various online and radio and satellite distributions including twice on shortwave. I'm working on updating my table of "Click" broadcast times for the different geographic regions and will come back with it when it's finished. – (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Winter B-17 registered frequencies of BBC EaAf Service BUT all inactive http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/winter-b-17-registered-frequencies-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1041 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 9485, Wed Nov 8 at 2143, unknown language talk and bits of singing, S5, OOFSOB [One Of Few Stations On Band], during degraded propagation. HFCC shows this M-F 2130 semihour is VOA in Bambara via BOTSWANA. So what are the other B-17 frequencies for this? 5885 São Tomé, 12075 Botswana, 15120 Ascension. This language keeps jumping back and forth to Greenville, but not this season. As I searched entire HFCC file on Bam language, found only one other station emitting it: Saudi Arabia, 1600-1800 on 15470, 17650, 17710. Bambara is centered in Mali, but closely related to mutually intelligible Mandingo, which is diffused only by RFI. Per Wikipedia, special alfabets for both of them were developed, but mostly use Latin letters now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15580, Wed Nov 8 at 2148, gospel-country song, violating Separation of Church and State, segué to another, VG S9+25. VOA must be back to Greenville during this hour: yes, 250 kW at 94 degrees. One of VOA`s dispensable pop-music shows, but hope on Friday it will still carry `Music Time in Africa`. In fact, HFCC shows this is currently the *only* English hour from VOA Greenville! Everything else is Martí, VOA Portuguese, French, or Vatican relays in Spanish, violating Separation of Church and State. There`s more VOA news from Okeechobee than from Greenville. 15580, Nov 10 at 2139, yes, the only VOA Greenville English frequency- hour surviving, is carrying `Music Time in Africa` on Friday, but hyper Heather Maxwell announcement about featuring ``urban`` African music in connexion with some award show tomorrow in Lagos. Deep-six that. Retuned at 2159 I catch her sign-off with alleged broadcast times for show --- she *still* omits *this very one*. On FM (not further explained): Sat at [time missed] and 20 UT. On SW: Friday 09, 15; Saturday 09, 15, 20 and 22. If any/all of those exist, they are less audible back here. Best chance probably 15580 Botswana at 15 & 20; 15 also on 17895 São Tomé, a time when I am too busy with other stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] 11850, Sat Nov 11 at 2048, YL says ``Take Care of Yourself``, and then interviewing someone. Seems to be a language lesson, for French? Scheduled is VOA via Botswana; schedules contradict about this semihour, whether it`s in French or Hausa depending on day of week. 15580, Sat Nov 11 at 2047, VOA is JBA, too weak to tell if it`s really `Music Time in Africa` as Heather claims to be on during this hour when 15580 is Botswanic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes: 15580, BOTSWANA, VOA at 2023 with a woman hosting “Music Time in Africa” with hip hop vocals - Fair Nov 11 [Sat] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) São Tomé e Príncipe: 6080, VoA via STP (per HFCC), and in quiet environs this is a STELLAR signal. Abruptly on with African accented OM giving ID and ‘tease’ for “DayBreak Africa” and then into VoA News. The audio was a bit ‘rough’ with missing actualities after the announcer cued things, and words cutting in and out for no apparent reason, but that stopped happening when ‘DayBreak’ started. “International Edition” started at BoH with Tx [talx? Transmissions?\ re the Social Media testimony in Congress and Cheese making, and into the “music feature with ’Sad Songs’ featuring the music of Elton John. At 0357 into an “editorial” about the Sahel and counter-terrorism efforts (we’re against terrorism officially, in case you were wondering). Into News at ToH without the technical issues from last hour. NO apparent break today -- perhaps last Sunday they just hadn’t started the B-17 schedule? They were working on Washington time instead of UTC perhaps? Who knows! 4+4+4+4+4+ after 0400 when a ‘buzz pulse’ jammer appeared WEAKLY under the signal -- I=5 before then. Who’s jamming VoA or was something else the target? *0300-0405 3/Nov, SPR-4 +randomwire (Ken Vito Zichi, Pt Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Nov 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) Also good here after 0300 Nov 15. The weak jamming has been there a long time, presumed spurious out of the 6030 pileup (gh, ibid.) ** U S A. NEW WORLD OF RADIO AFFILIATE --- Hello, I am writing to you on behalf of licensed non-commercial LPFM radio station WCSQ-LP 105.9 FM (Cobleskill, NY). We are interested in potentially adding Glenn Hauser's World of Radio to our broadcast schedule and would like to inquire about further details. Thanks! Sincerely, (Michael Nevradakis, GM/PD, WCSQ-LP, Radio Cobleskill 105.9 FM) I agreed and reply came later: (gh) Dear Glenn, good morning. Apologies for the delayed response. Our station, WCSQ 105.9 FM (Radio Cobleskill 105.9 FM, Cobleskill, NY), has finalized its new broadcast schedule, and we have scheduled World of Radio for Monday at 11:30 pm [ET], right after "Destinies - The Voice of Science Fiction." Please feel free to add the show date/time to your website. Finally, please feel free to add/follow our social media accounts: facebook.com/radiocobleskill and twitter.com/radiocobleskill Thanks! Best, Michael Nevradakis. GM/PD, WCSQ-LP, Radio Cobleskill, 105.9 FM, Cobleskill, NY I do hope that the listeners enjoy the program, it's one of three radio- and media-related programs in our lineup. As an aside, I'm very familiar with DXing, somewhat in practice (mostly the mainstream broadcast bands) but also having interacted with DXers who have contacted my Greek radio site over the years http://www.media.net.gr and more recently, what is likely the first and only academic paper written on DXing and the DXing community, published in the Journal of Radio and Audio Studies in 2012 and based on my own experience interacting with members of the community. Would be happy to send you more details if you're interested, and I do look forward to your promo if you can get one prepared. Thanks! Best, Michael (via WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. B-17 shortwave schedule of World of Radio, Nov 5: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/winter-b-17-shortwave-schedule-of-world.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you are up confirming, monitoring the 1030 UT Wednesday broadcast of WOR on WRMI 5850, could you also check whether it`s still audible/on // 9455? Thanks, (Glenn, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 5850 WoR wed: 5850 2300-1400 2,3 RMI 100 315 0 805 Yes, WoR came on air exact start at 1030:06 UT Wed, end stop at 1059:00 UT, followed by WRMI advert by Andy Sennitt Holland voice. 10.30 UT checked first at remote Alberta CAN, but log-periodic outlet of max. 13dB was NOT THAT strong as expected ... and I switched to Michigan remote at S=9+5dB signal and a rest of background noise from the rx equipment. and recorded at the second #18 on recording. Listen to enclosed recording. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DOJYj_yHcP5DrAIEQY80RghMZBeHtcIGXsB5wztJDAo/edit?hl=en&pref=2&pli=1#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit?pref=2&pli=1# TX #12, 5850 kHz Antenna direction 315 degr 805 LPH18/36.5/32.2/16.7/1.4/13.2/200 log-periodic only 13 dB increase. towards Texas, Kalifornia, Vancouver, Alberta, Alaska, Pacific, Japan, Korea, Taiwan direction. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wolfie, Tnx, but my question was whether anyone could hear it on 9455? I did happen to wake up at 1039 and heard 5850 below the MUF, altho judging from the fading was getting close. Absolutely no signal on 9455. (nor 9955, 9395) (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday November 8 at 2200, on WBCQ, 7490, VG S9+30 at new shifted time with an hour less of daytime absorption. Not confirmed UT Thursday November 9 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, beyond a JBA carrier. Is it QRP? Nearby US stations 9265 WINB and 9370 WWRB are good. But WBCQ may find itself on the wrong side of the auroral zone. Aurora has been visible at Mount Washington NH. Next: Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: [dxld] How is WOR on 9330? On 11/7/2017 7:37 PM, Glenn Hauser wghauser@yahoo.com [dxld] wrote: ``Like the last couple nights since the time switch to 0030 UT, WOR via WBCQ on 9330v-CUSB, is barely audible/detectable here. How is it elsewhere, anywhere with good signal? Glenn`` Glenn. Listened as requested. There was so much noise I couldn't tell if they were on the air or not. Tried 7490 at the time and I THINK it was on the air but there was so much noise couldn't tell for sure. Went back to 9330 for a while and after ten minutes still couldn't tell if they were there or not. Sorry (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, Nov 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: confirmed Thursday November 9 at 2230 on WRMI, 5850, VG S9+25. Also confirmed UT Friday November 10 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330.0v-CUSB, but JBA, much weaker than 9265, 9370, 7490, like previous nights, still auroral conditions, or QRP? Next: Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE Fully updated complete WOR schedule, including new affiliate WCSQ-LP 105.9 Cobleskill NY, http://radiocobleskill.org/ plus other FM, AM, webcasters, satellite: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9329.966, WBCQ program of Glenn Hauser's WOR section, noted Friday Nov 10 around 0037 UT, S=6-7 or -88dBm in Detroit-MI remote, S=9 in NJ-US. {heard my own WOR contribution on AIR Kashmiri-Himalaya item ... wb.} (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX 12 Nov via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: not confirmed UT Saturday November 11 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, not even a carrier vs local noise level; however, at 0100 I can detect JBA TB2 --- Terry Blalock The Blaster, so it was probably on for WOR, like all week extremely weak signal now at shifted later time. At 0030, by comparison, 9370 WWRB, 9265 WINB, and 7490 WBCQ were all well heard. WOR again not confirmed Sat Nov 11 at 1531 the Hamburger Lokalradio airing on 7265-CUSB; probably on but as usual, via UTwente SDR nothing but S Asian music audible poorly from CRI via East Turkistan; nor at 1558 during CRI pause; and at 1600 CRI Russian cuts on with VG signal now aimed toward Europe. Next: [As we get into lowest midday solar angle, possible skywave propagation on 160m beyond St Louis-area groundwave: try 1860 in central and eastern North America] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring; as usual, altho not heard at UTwente, the Sat Nov 11 at 1531 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB skips on to England as Alan Gale tells me: ``Hi Glen[n], A much better signal on 7265 kHz today at 1530 GMT, Programme 1903 was heard right the way through this time, even to the last word; usually China comes on and flattens the last minute or so. Just a pity that it now clashes with KBC since the clock changes``. I suggested that the first broadcast on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, now circa 2030 UT Saturday, might be audible by skywave now beyond the St Louis area. Checked here at 2047, I do have a JBA carrier altho local noise sources are not off. Also confirmed Sat Nov 11 at 2230 on WBCQ, 9330.013v-CUSB, did not come on until *2229; JBA S2-S4 and still much weaker than 9350 WWCR S9+20, 9370 WWRB S9+30, 9395 WRMI S9+10/20, 9265 WINB S8-S9+10. By 2241 check on the other rx, 9330+ is now R3, S5-6. Also confirmed Sat Nov 11 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, S9-S7; also confirmed but faded way down, UT Sun Nov 12 after 0200 on WRMI 11580. Also confirmed UT Sun Nov 12 at 0428 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, about 7 minutes in so started circa 0421. Next: Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: per Ivo Ivanov: ``GERMANY. Reception of World of Radio via HLR 9485-CUSB on Nov 12: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr.html 1131-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, fair/good 0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Sat Nov 11 - NO SIGNAL`` NOT confirmed, UT Monday Nov 13 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB --- no signal detectable, (while 9370 WWRB is VG, but 9265 WINB is VP). Confirmed UT Mon Nov 13 at 0400 on Area 51 webcast, but inaudible at 0413 check on WBCQ 5130v. Confirmed after 0430 UT Monday Nov 13 on WRMI 9955, good S9+10 this time, no jamming, while other weeks it`s been JBA. Next: Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: Confirmed UT Tue Nov 14 at 0030 on 7730, good. NOT confirmed simultaneously UT Tue Nov 14 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, being inaudible (but this time the other USAs on 9 MHz band are JBA); while 7490 is still propagating OK. WORLD OF RADIO 1904 contents: Argentina non, Australia, Biafra non, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Korea North non, Kurdistan non, México, Nigeria, North America, Norway, Oklahoma non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Philippines, Romania, South Carolina, Tibet non, Turkey, UK, USA WORLD OF RADIO 1904 monitoring: This week I manage to get it finished an hour earlier, in time for first airing on three frequencies instead of one: Tuesday November 14 at 2030 on WRMI. I tune in 7780 at 2029 and find Brother Scare still running, but at 2030 sharp, cuts him off, no ID, and cuts on yours truly starting 1904. Jeff doesn`t tell us about WOR schedule changes, altho any additions or improvements are always welcome! This means that there could be other WOR airings carved out of TOM times as yet undiscovered. I cannot legitimately ask anyone to monitor hours and hours of BS in case there are more WORs, but if anyone *happens* to hear an airing inserted anywhere else not on the published schedule, please let me know, like Harold Frodge did after discovering 7780 on October 31! Comparing the three 2030 frequencies as received here: 7780 to NE, S8- S6 with noise and some uteblaaps; 9455, S9-S7, less fading than: 11580, S9-S7 slightly less modulation than 9455. Wolfgang Büschel also checked these out via remote receivers: ``re 2030 UT WRMI. In Alberta remote only weak signal 11580 heard, on 9455 only China jamming tsching, baeng, music instruments against IBB Saipan Agingan Point MRA. 7780 NIL nothing in Alberta western Canada. In Michigan all three: 7780 S=9+5dB, 9455 S=4, and 11580 kHz S=9+10dB WoR on air. 73, wolfie df5sx`` Also confirmed here Tue Nov 14 at 2130 on WRMI 9455 only: it`s good but with CCI underneath now audible, i.e. the ChiCom jamming. Again not confirmed, UT Wed Nov 15 at 0030 on WBCQ: no signal detectable on 9330v-CUSB (9265 WINB is poor; 9370 WWRB, 9395 WRMI, and 7490 WBCQ are still good). Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490 to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Transmitters changes of WRMI Okeechobee from Nov.9 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/transmitters-changes-of-wrmi-okeechobee.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Radio Taiwan International 0000-0100 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish tx#3, ex tx#10 Family Radio 0100-0200 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish tx#3, ex tx#10 New entry 0500-0600 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English tx??, inactive 1900-2000 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to WeAf English tx??, inactive (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD) See BIAFRA [non]! ** U S A. 9955 // 11580, Sunday Nov 12 at 2313, I find WRMI with AWR Wavescan on both these frequencies --- and at 2329, also wrapping up WS on 5850, while already finished on the first two. So the playback on 5850 is running a semi-minute behind. Latest info we had for DX/SWL/MEDIA programs was: 2230-2300 WRMI: WAVESCAN 5850 2300-2330 WRMI: WAVESCAN 11580 9395 9955 So now moving 5850 half an hour later. I don`t think it was on 9395, but not sure if I checked it. Revise to: 2300-2330 WRMI: WAVESCAN 11580 9955; 5850 delayed 30 seconds. WRMI sked grid still shows WS on 5850 at 2230 Sunday. 2300 on 5850 is occupied by Radio Tirana in English Mon-Sat, so the slot would have been unaccounted for on Sunday. WS could have been played twice in a row? 9955 not noted any jamming during WS but heavy at 2342 during the `Michael Mendez Show`. The major jammed block should now be UT Tue-Sat 0015-0100 during Noticiero and Radio Libertad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More WRMI: See BIAFRA [non]! ** U S A. WRMI: see also ARGENTINA [non]; ITALY [non] ** USofA. 7490, WBCQ, Monticello ME with English Brother I-Swear-I- didn't-fondle-her with talx about "God's love waxing cold" and taking calls, including a caller who called him a false prophet which caused him to call the person 'Satan' followed by another who promised to send him money, which sparked him to say "some believe and some believe not. That doesn't impact our belief." The show mentioned Barak [sic] Obama had just won his second term, so apparently this is a 5 year old re-run. I do believe we need to call and ask him how he feels about Xmas music. I bet he'd have some choice comments! Into a financial snake- oil show at ToH which made much of the fact that the market was down today. 33+4+43 on the weakish side meaning my local noise caused issues. 0340-0405 10/Nov, SPR-4 +randomwire (Ken Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 10 via DXLD) 7490, UT Sat Nov 11 at 0101, WBCQ is playing The Planet IS & ID loop as if it were just signing on; 0101.6 now ``William Tell Overture`` theme for `Allan Weiner Worldwide` but soon clear it`s Timtron substituting, with his interjexions and even singing along; opening with his signature belch at 0105. Originates from his home studio in Skowhegan, 175 miles from Monticello, and he`s not sure whether 5130 is also on tonight --- It was at start as I could barely detect the WTO. Nothing on 3265v. He starts musing about how the federal government is not doing enough to help the Puerto Rico Americans, nor the Veterans. Unlike when AW is doing AWWW, TT inserts some music breaks. Most of the time there are also noise glitches every 3 or 4 seconds, heard only on 7490 so not QRN from here or elsewhere. They do not disturb the carrier. I check a few more times during the hour. At 0131, AW has been on the phone, from the road, on the way back to DeLand of Fla for the winter along with GF Angela, snowbirds; then music break, something about a ``good news week``; at 0133 they agree 5130 is not on, nor 3265 --- but may we assume that 3265 is all fixed up and ready to use if time can be sold? If not operational, we may have to wait till another spring when AW goes back to Maine. Due to VP reception of 9330 now during its very limited schedule, I would suggest that everything on it be flipped to 3265 for the winter! It also would help to put 5130 programming there. At 0152, Timtron is implying he`s about to wrap it up after one hour, but John Carver files his monitoring report on this: ``Tonight's show started about a minute late after running station promos at the top of the hour. TimTron is the host this evening from his home. Rant from the Left this time about lack of aid to Puerto Rico and our treatment of returning war vets, then into a Billy Joel song about Vietnam. References to Ken Burns special on Vietnam and then another Vietnam themed song. He said Allan was away on assignment. Tim said he was not set up to receive email at his home but people could send their emails to Allan via the regular address and Allan might read them next week on his show. Then Allan called on the telephone. Thanked any vets that might be listening for their service to their country. Allan did his antiwar rant and hoped that someday there would be no vets. Allan said that he and Angela were on their way to Fla and that next week`s show should be from the studio down there. Allan was off the phone at 0132 and Tim played another Vietnam war song. 3265 is off the air again this evening and will be off most of the time until the airtime on the transmitter is sold as it's just too expensive to run the transmitter without being paid for it. Talk again of expanding 5130 to five or six days a week. Then into some non war music. Allan was back on the phone at 0203 to talk about Area 51. They want to run it twelve hours a day, seven days a week from noon to midnight every day if they can raise the funding. I have no idea if anyone will be able to hear 5130 that early in the day. I know I can't from my location. Allan said it will require some transmitter modifications. Allan off the phone at 0206 after Angela requested some more Snoopy songs. After almost twenty-five minutes of music, show was off the air at 0234. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5130: TimTron is live for at least the first hour this evening which just started. He is continuing the Vietnam thing he started last night on AWWW. Playing another Billy Joel Vietnam song now (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, 0007 UT Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, Nov 8 at 2141, no signal from WTWW --- and all other possible frequencies for all three transmitters are also silent: 5830, 5085, 9930, 12105. 5085, and spurs 5072, 5098, UT Sun Nov 12 at 0204, WTWW=2. Ted with his ham commercials, and 0205 starting `Theater Organ from the Ozarx` a UT hour later than in A-season. Was on somewhat before 0200 with rock music. Still no activity Saturday afternoon from WTWW-2 on 9930. 9475, Nov 13 at 1515, S9+20 of dead air from WTWW-1 instead of PPPP on SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12050, Nov 8 at 2146, WEWN Spanish is on, and how: VG S9+40, while 15610 English is VP as usual. Spanish had been AWOL from any frequency. 5970, Nov 9 at 0704, new WEWN Spanish is on again, good, ex-5810; while 11520 English is JBA carrier. 5970, Nov 10 at 0142, WEWN Spanish active here, S9+20. They have picked a pretty clear frequency; BBC English via Oman at 00-02 is no problem over here, and Aoki-listed R. Itatiaia, Brasil is long gone. WEWN still VG at 1402. 15610 and 12065, Sunday Nov 12 at 1448, no trace of WEWN English on either frequency, while Spanish is still on 5970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio on Nov 14 0000-0900 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg WeAf English, very good/very poor 0900-1200 9470 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg SEAs English, inactive at present 1200-1500 12065 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg SEAs English, no signal on Nov 14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-wewn-1-global-catholic_14.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] Reception of People Broadcasting Station Xinjiang on Nov 10: 0945&1101 on 9470 URU 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Kazakh, weak to fair NO SIGNAL on 9470 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs Eng WEWN-1 0900-1200 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-people-broadcasting.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1042 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555-USB, Nov 14 at 2123, WJHR barely audible gospel huxter, with het QRM, but maybe from local devices. Seldom heard any more, especially when I am apt to check around *1402. So is it sporadically on the air, or sporadically propagating? Everything that can be said, no doubt already has been said multiple times from the recordings of dead John Hill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Nov 9 at 1510, still no signal from KVOH, if it has really come on by *1500. At least Cuba is propagating on 16m. 17775, Fri Nov 10 at 2206, JBA carrier is the OSOB: must be KVOH, again not turned off by 2200* as now scheduled, and when other days it`s been inblasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re KVOH, 17775: nothing on air Nov 11 nor 12, 1700 and 2000 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX Topnews, dxldyg via DXLD) 17775, Tue Nov 14 at 2127, KVOH is still on with musicalabanza, S9+30, presumably until 2200+v*; OSOB but soon to be joined at 2130 by Japan via WHRI on 17540, prolonged from A-17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6115, Nov 8 at 0246, WWCR is still on here an hour later than before, S9+40 gospel huxter with conspiracy nonsense and says this is his new frequency from last night; it`s Pastor Butch on `Call to Decision` from GCN, mentioned during a lengthy adstring. Yet WWCR is also on 3215 with BS, which had been the next frequency after 0100 via WWCR-1. Current WWCR transmitter sked shows this 02-03 segment only on 6115 is now from WWCR-4, preceded by 7520 and followed by 5890; while WWCR-1 does start 3215 at 0200 moving from 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, UT Sun Nov 12 at 0049, WWRB with usual far-right conspiracy talkshow, so has made the seasonal shift down from 5050 in A-17, unlike last weekend. Next check at 0200 already off, so expected QSY to 3195 like in B-16, but never shows while BS continues on 3185. WWCR does cut on 3215 just after *0200. Apparently WWRB won`t need 3195 unless it has something to emit after 0200. 3215, UT Mon Nov 13 at 0136, no signal from WWRB, which was heard last night. Could be only one hour circa 0000-0100? Nothing on 3185 or 3195 either, but 9370 presumed the VP carrier still with BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1904, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 700, KHSE, TX, Wylie – 11/8 2230 [EST = 0330 UT Nov 9] noted with Adult Contemporary music, repeating this legal ID between songs: “You are listening to KHSE 700 AM Wylie/Dallas/Fort Worth and K281CS 104.1 McKinney/Lucas/Garland/Plano/Frisco/Richardson/Dallas/Fort Worth”, followed by information on leasing the station or buying air time on the station and contact information, before playing another musical selection. A poor to very poor, but readable, signal was noted under WLW (Paul Snider, Welland ON Canada, Elad FDM-S2 software- defined receiver, Pixel RF Pro-1B loop, MFJ-1020C as a tuner, EDXR, IRCA DX Monitor Nov 18, published Nov 14, via DXLD) This could be on day power/pattern (Eric Bueneman, ed., ibid.) ** U S A. Miami "Trifecta" --- Glenn, The last of the three-station frequency/community of license changes by the Actualidad Media group has now been implemented. The Boynton Beach station, call letters WLVJ, is now on the air (as of last Monday) on its new frequency of 1020 kHz. The previous two changes, replacement of 990 in Miami by 1040, and replacement of 1020 in Kendall by 990, have been in operation since last January. This three station frequency change (although from the FCC's standpoint each change was a change in community of license) is, so far as we are aware, the only situation like this ever to have taken place in the US. The result is far better coverage of the Miami urbanized area by the three, including particularly 50 kW day (5 kW night) operation in Miami on 1040 kHz with a far more desirable antenna pattern than had previously been the case for the 5 kW day and night operation on 990 kHz. Steve Lockwood of our office presented a nice paper on this project at the IEEE-BTS symposium in Orlando last month. These changes all took place without any requirements for rule waivers by FCC, since the result was superior service and reduced interference. The project was performed (with much on-the-ground engineering by the client!) by the dTR/H&D Joint Venture, a partnership of duTreil, Lundin & Rackley and Hatfield & Dawson. The Joint Venture normally performs projects outside the US, but in this case we teamed up for folks who had been long term clients of both of our firms (Ben Dawson, Hatfield-Dawson, Nov 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Nov 9 at 1404 UT, full ID for KLEY on AM 1130 and also translator call on 100.3, into Kansas news; from Wellington KS, remains on air and reaching here by groundwave, easily with presumed KWKH nulled during political rather than sports-talk (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1369.715, TENNESSEE, WXCT, Chattanooga. 2213 November 7, 2017. Another take on the big het here. Better audio squeaking through with pieces of what seems to bre rock, riding the gray line, pointing NNW. The alert out to my Florida compadres, all hearing it, and David Crawford in Titusville nailing the culprit as this one, parallel their alt98.com website (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, Nov 9 at 1412 UT, KYND Cypress TX is *still* stunting with loop about buying time, and audible this late under KOKC making usual slow SAH. Even the ChiCom no longer think it would be worth the cost. 1520, Nov 9 at 2257 UT, KYND Cypress TX stunting about programming on this 25 kW station is audible now pre-sunset, as has also been heard post-sunrise, about the same under KOKC. They have had no takers for a long time, but somehow manage to pay the electric (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hello, DX-midAMerica reports:- SD, Aberdeen, KKAA, 1560 goes silent (web site is Family Radio which is of course live. BD) Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** U S A. ABANDONED RADIO STATIONS - 1 Surprisingly, there are numerous abandoned radio broadcasting stations that can be seen, and explored, in many different countries around the world. The owners of these various abandoned radio broadcasting stations have simply closed their station and walked away from it, leaving it just as it was. These many abandoned radio stations are currently in various stages of decay and deterioration; you can see them on the internet, and if you live nearby, perhaps you can visit one or two of them, and explore them and photograph them. From the internet, we list several of these abandoned radio stations in the United States, AM mediumwave and FM, and we take them in alphabetic order of the state in which they are located. First up is Alabama, and we view an abandoned radio station somewhere in the vicinity of the large country town of Cullman, which is located approximately half way between Huntsville and Birmingham. The visitor to this abandoned radio station, who does not seem to be identified, likewise asked that the callsign and location of this station not be identified either. The abandoned radio station in Vincent was a community radio station with compact studios, offices and transmitter all at the same two storey site. This station is in plain view of many commercial businesses though its surrounding land area is completely overgrown, so much so that it is difficult to gain access to the building itself. At the time of the visit, the front door was wide open, and the entryway revealed rotten wood and wet carpet, together with the stench of mould. Apparently this building was a private house that had been converted into a radio station somewhere around the middle of last century. Old style music records were strewn around the floor, the station callsign could still be read on the wall, the interior corridor was unsafe to traverse, and it seemed like a fire had burned out the transmitter many years ago. The date on the fire extinguisher inspection card showed September 25, 1992. At the back of the building was a spiraling staircase that led to the top floor wherein was a kitchenette. The flooring above the fire damaged area below had collapsed long ago. The view of the station property from this second floor location showed everything abandoned, overgrown and uncared for. We leave this unidentified site in Alabama, and we move on to Florida, to what was mediumwave station WGGG with 100 watts on 1230 kHz in Gainesville, a university city in the northern area of the state. Radio station WGGG was built back in 1946, with the production studios in the center of the building, completely surrounded by a corridor in an endeavor to reduce unwanted noise from the railway line across the street, and from aircraft at the nearby airport. Station WGGG, changed ownership many times, and it was sold in 1984 to new owners, who transferred the facility to another location, and abandoned the historic building at 1230 Waldo Road. As would be expected, the building has been seriously vandalized over the years. The third state we visit in our program today is Illinois, and in the regional city of Clinton lies the abandoned facility that was at one time station WHOW with 1 kW on 1520 kHz. The town of Clinton is located in the very center of the state of Illinois and it was named for a governor of the state of New York back in the early 1800s, not for a president of the United States in more recent time. In 1972, the studios for mediumwave WHOW were transferred from their downtown location into what became known as the Old Red Barn on the outskirts of the small city. As the years went by, the station was never modernized nor upgraded, and it was finally closed and abandoned as was in 2002. As would be expected, the clock on the wall is no longer functioning. The fourth state we visit is Montana, where station KPRK was inaugurated on January 9, 1947 with 1 kW on 1340 kHz. This station was located in a very ornate building on the edge of Livingston that is to this day listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Surprisingly, recent photos of this abandoned mediumwave station KPRK show that the building has not been vandalized and it appears to be still in its earlier pristine condition. Next we go to New York state. In 1948, mediumwave station WIBX was transferred from its original location at the U-bend of the Mohawk River at the end of Schuyler Street Utica in to a new location on Clark Mills Road. At the same time, the station underwent a frequency change from 1230 kHz to 950 kHz, and the studios were transferred from the downtown First National Bank Building into the newly constructed station building. As time went by, additional radio stations were incorporated into this same building until a total of five radio stations were squeezed into this overcrowded facility. In 2003, all five stations were moved into a new facility on River Road Marcy, and the building on Clark Mills Road was abandoned. However, to their credit, it should be stated that the interior of the building was cleaned out, and to this day, it still gives the same impression. In Tulsa Oklahoma, radio station KOME with 5 kW on 1300 kHz was abandoned towards the end of last century and likewise, this building was also cleaned out before the owners vacated it. There is not much to be seen here, just empty rooms, and very little vandalism. Surprisingly, we could go on, and mention so many other abandoned radio broadcasting stations in the United States. In Shamokin Pennsylvania, the transmitter facility for mediumwave station WISL was installed in an out of town junk yard, and the four towers still stand to this day. Junk in the transmitter building is piled high in cardboard boxes. Also in Pennsylvania was FM station WCHR 94.5 MHz at Yardley, just across the Delaware River from Trenton New Jersey. This isolated station building was abandoned some twenty years ago, and overgrowth now reaches to the side of the building. Then in Washington state, we visit in our program today another abandoned radio station, mediumwave KXXR-KSVY at Opportunity. The studios and offices were located at 44th Ave and South Havana St in Spokane, and the 1550 kHz transmitter was installed in a trailer at East Thorpe Road and Dishman Mica Road at Chester. The radio station trailer in its swampy venue was abandoned in 1996 and for many years the electronic equipment was still visible in the dilapidated trailer, though the antenna towers were removed some time back. The last abandoned radio station we visit in our program today is out of order alphabetically, and its story is a little different also. The studios and offices for station WCOP AM-FM in Boston were previously located in a building in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. The studios have since gone, and that part of the building is empty. However, the building still houses two active mediumwave transmitters: Spanish language WWDJ Boston with 5 kW on 1150 kHz and ethnic station WAZN Watertown with 1400 watts day and 3400 watts at night on 1470 kHz (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan Nov 12 via DXLD) ** U S A. PUBLIC RADIO RETHINKS ITS APPROACH TO JOURNALISM By Meg Dalton and Corey Hutchins, November 7, 2017, 2126 words see original for embedded linx: https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/npr-corporation-public-broadcasting-collaboration.php INSIDE THE KRCC NEWSROOM, in a converted house on a college campus in downtown Colorado Springs, station manager Tammy Terwelp says her newsroom is about to double in size, and adds, “I’ll probably never be able to say that again in my career.” The bolstering of KRCC’s news staff is part of a larger regional project called the Mountain West Journalism Collaborative, which is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and spread across six local stations in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. The goal for these small- to medium-sized public-radio newsrooms is to weave local news from the different stations into regional broadcasts the stations can share. The project will focus on coverage of land use, water, growth, and the rural-urban divide, says Tom Michael, general manager of Idaho’s Boise State Public Radio, which will function as the hub for the collaborative. This collaboration in the Rockies, set to crank out coverage by the beginning of 2018, is an example of how the CPB continues to build connections among local stations while filling gaps in community news coverage in an age of newspaper retrenchment. And it tracks a larger trend of increased public radio collaboration around regional “hubs” outside the nation’s coastal media bubbles. Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act (on this day in 1967) and spurred CPB’s creation, public radio is rethinking how it does journalism — with an eye toward more robust, coordinated local coverage. WITH A REGIONAL FOCUS, the Mountain West project will aggressively pitch its segments to NPR for national exposure, Michael says. Other participating stations include KUER in Salt Lake City, Yellowstone Public Radio in Billings, Montana, and Wyoming Public Media. The regional project is backed by a $475,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The local stations will use a chunk of the cash to hire a managing editor who will oversee the project, then split the rest to fund half the salaries of new reporter positions at individual stations like at KRCC. The two-year grant will pay the new managing editor’s entire salary for the first year and half of the salaries for new local reporters at participating stations. The funding decreases in the second year, so individual stations will need to step up their fundraising to keep those positions. The six-station project in the Mountain West is one of five similar CPB efforts across the country, funded with a total of $3.3 million. While the Mountain West collaboration will be the first of its kind for some of the participating local stations, the collaborative network model isn’t new for CPB. The nonprofit, which has a budget of $445 million in federal funds, started building regional projects from among its local newsrooms nearly a decade ago. Last year it funded eight of them, from Alaska to the Great Lakes to New England, with $4.4 million. “Part of our mission—and, really, the mission of the stations—is to serve those communities with the information they need in order to live their life successfully in those communities and be good citizens,” says Kathy Merritt, senior vice president of journalism at the CPB. “Radio and public media really is filling that role, and we see other media kind of falling out of that role.” CPB “is absolutely driving” the effort, Michael says, which is designed in part to develop bigger, more impactful local stories. “They think it serves the country better to have more local journalists,” he says. “They also want people working together. And it drives them nuts when they’re funding three different stations in one market.” As for the kinds of national attention-getting broadcasts these stations hope to create together, “We’ll be looking for those big regional stories in a region that has been passed over many times by the national media,” says Michael de Yoanna, the news director for KUNC in Greeley, Colorado, another participating station. KRCC’s Terwelp says it’s valuable for stations to have “really, really good content that’s not from parachute reporters. The people live in the cities that they’re reporting on, and of course that always gives a more honest perspective of what’s going on,” says Terwelp. Broader regional newscasts will also be new for the station’s listeners where its signal carries 20,000 square miles, she says. “KRCC has been kind of on an island.” We don’t want to create something so big because we’re not going to be be able to pay for it in five years. So forever more we want to have this arrangement. That’s why we wanted to keep the cost really low. … After the CPB funding everything else we should be able to fund ourselves. FOR YEARS, SIMILAR regional collaborations (beyond those backed by the CPB) have popped up around the nation. Some have achieved more success than others. The Northwest News Network, for instance, is the grandmother of public media collaboratives; it predates the recent crop of CPB-funded hubs by about 20 years. The project started as a partnership between radio stations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Idaho left a few years ago, but the partnership remains robust. “I would say that these collaboratives are tricky to run because it requires a lot of trust, and an alignment in interests,” says Steve Bass, chairman of the Northwest News Network. “It also requires ability to give up some control for greater benefit.” Northwest News Network now comprises seven primary partners across Washington and Oregon, with a few smaller stations kicking in on occasion. The network is a nonprofit; its employees and editor are on the payroll of individual stations. Participating stations get access to editorial content from the collaborative’s dedicated reporters, as well as from reporters at the member stations, all for a relatively small contribution. “It’s not just about the work of four or five reporters we have,” says Bass, who is also the president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting. “It’s about the significant news presence all across the region.” He likens the network to a force multiplier. That’s something the Rocky Mountain West collaborative wants to emulate, with long-term survival for the project well after the two- year CPB grant runs out. Sustainability after the two-year seed money hasn’t always worked out at other CPB-funded collaborations. Alisa Barba, who served as editor of two well-known CPB-funded collaborations, recently offered advice from her own experiences at Fronteras and then Inside Energy. Fronteras “continues in two locations, with only informal editorial collaboration and occasional content sharing between the original partners,“ she noted at Current. Inside Energy is “looking at the end of its CPB funding in December 2017, and will be disbanded as a standalone brand and website.” Barba’s advice? The importance of a regional editor “at the core with vision and influence” can’t be understated, and a digital strategy among the participants should be well thought out. As the Mountain West Journalism Collaborative gears up, Boise State Public Radio’s Michael says the participants have “all learned a lesson of sustainability.” “We don’t want to create something so big because we’re not going to be be able to pay for it in five years,” says Michael. “So forever more we want to have this arrangement. That’s why we wanted to keep the cost really low. … After the CPB funding everything else we should be able to fund ourselves.” For budget reasons, the project won’t have its own website and social media presence. Instead, the Mountain West Journalism Collaborative will appear to audiences more like a series from each of the individual stations. “Our desire was not to create a heavy promotional or technical infrastructure or create much overhead,” Micheal says. “We are mostly medium-sized to small stations, so with an eye on future sustainability, we really wanted to focus the partnership on bare- bones content, so that in many years to come we are all still contributing a bit to the salary of a managing editor and not much more.” Since the late 1990s, collaboration between NPR and its member stations has rested on five bureau chiefs who regularly correspond with dozens of member stations within their territories. The relationship was transactional; the goal now is to make it collaborative. BUT THE COLLABORATIVE MODEL isn’t unique to local public media. NPR is considering its own network of regional hubs around the country — a sort of NATO for public radio, as Bruce Auster, NPR’s collaborative coverage senior editor, describes it. The model aims to coordinate coverage of local member stations by “hubs,” and expand the national network’s ability to cover important stories across the country. A hub might, for example, work together on a thematic investigation across coverage areas, drawing on each station’s knowledge to produce more comprehensive local reporting. Since the late 1990s, collaboration between NPR and its member stations has rested on five bureau chiefs who regularly correspond with dozens of member stations within their territories. The relationship was transactional; the goal now is to make it collaborative. “We are looking to help connect the 264 member stations better to each other and to NPR,” says NPR executive editor Edith Chapin. The new collaborative model is a big cultural shift for NPR. For years, the network received complaints from member stations for the way it did — or didn’t — work with them, namely after incidents in which reporters parachuted into a member station’s community without so much as a text or email. At a 2015 conference, NPR’s leadership even apologized for the once-tenuous relationship. Since then, NPR and member stations have made progress in how they work together, and they view the hub model as the next step. NPR hopes these hubs will augment regional collaborative rollouts and existing partnerships like those from CPB, not compete with them. Collaboratives like the new Mountain West Journalism Collaborative and existing Northwest News Network should help, not hurt, NPR as it pilots its new model, and vice versa. For example, NPR’s forthcoming hub model could enable All Things Considered or Morning Edition to more easily pick up local content. With streamlined communication between local and national, NPR hopes to provide a richer understanding of what’s happening in the country. “If NPR’s effort ends up being competitive with Northwest News Network, that’s a huge failure on all our parts,” Bass says. “That’s something NPR needs to figure out: how will it work with collaborative structures?” But implementing the model is not without its challenges. The depth of resources and the quality of talent vary widely across member station newsrooms. NPR will need to address those inherent disparities as it works with member stations, and member stations themselves will need to “have a frank assessment of the talent their reporters have and also be able to trust other stations’ reporters,” according to Vincent Duffy, news director at Michigan Radio. There’s a trust gap between NPR and member stations, but also among the member stations themselves. NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network will take three years to finish, says Chapin. In her role, she will focus on big-picture concerns for the hub model, overseeing the strategy and execution from its current pilot phase to eventual roll-out. Though the network is still in the conceptual phase, NPR has settled on possible locations for its first hubs: California, Texas, and a cluster of three southern States — Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The southern NPR hub would address a lack of personnel and financial resources currently afflicting the statewide public media level in that region. Texas and California are already equipped with robust public media ecosystems, and the NPR pilot would build upon existing collaborative efforts. For example, in Texas, Hurricane Harvey coverage provided a good stress test for a hub approach since the storm struck multiple parts of the state simultaneously, Chapin says. The state’s existing collaborative vis-à-vis Texas Standard tackled Harvey in a comprehensive, nuanced way. At this point, there are no hard-and-fast rules for how the hubs will work. It’s an iterative process, one that will formalize as NPR explores different models. There will be a managing editor at each hub who will facilitate communication among the stations, and also with NPR. There may also be “specialist editors,” or a journalist spearheading beat-specific coverage, and data reporters. The specifics will mirror the needs of each hub. “This is not a box we’re shipping out to someone,” Chapin says. “Ideally these pilots will do things slightly different so we can learn.” Has America ever needed a media watchdog more than now? Help us by joining CJR today. Meg Dalton and Corey Hutchins are contributors to CJR. Meg Dalton is a CJR Delacorte Fellow. Corey Hutchins is CJR’s correspondent based in Colorado, where he is also a journalist for The Colorado Independent. A former alt-weekly reporter in South Carolina, he was twice named journalist of the year in the weekly division by the SC Press Association. Hutchins worked on the State Integrity Investigation at the Center for Public Integrity and he has contributed to Slate, The Nation, The Washington Post, and others (via Indiana Radio Watch via John Carver, DXLD) Not mentioned above is StateImpact Oklahoma, a collaborative among our public radio stations: https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/ ``StateImpact Oklahoma is a collaboration of KGOU, KOSU, KWGS and KCCU. Joe Wertz and Emily Wendler travel the state to report on the environment, education and the energy industry — and the intersection of government and everyday Oklahomans. Read our reports and hear our stories on NPR member stations`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. In Jeddah for the week, if anybody needs me to check anything. Came equipped with a Drake SW-8 and a portable BCB loop (Palomar). 73, Thanks, (Ed Sylvester, Sa’udi Arabia, Nov 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ed, Please check 11860 Yemen service at various times of day and night, and decide whether it is an extremely strong local groundwave signal, or not; is there any propagational fading? Evaluate whether it is similar to other BSKSA signals from Riyadh, or not? One time when there has been a regular site switch has been between 1750 and 1800 UT. Compare it to 11745 when both are on the air (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Will do, Thanks, (Ed, ibid.) Reception of Republic of Yemen Radio, Nov 13 0300-0900 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic 0900-1800 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/reception-of-republic-of-yemen-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1470, Nov 10 at 1351 UT, Spanish dialog, one voice childish, loops NE/SW. Unless there has been a more recent and closer flipper, among US SS stations in the NRC AM Log, most likely appears to be KMNQ Brooklyn Park MN (Minneapolis), ``La Raza``, 5/5 kW U4. It`s not quite too late for Mexico either, as XERF is still audible on 1570; two or three unlikely stations near the bearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4876.65-USB, Nov 10 at 0708, 2-way in American English, regarding fishing? Something weighed 9996 pounds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Transmission in DRM mode on Nov 13: 0900-1000 on 5910, Radio Andernach in German??? http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/11/unidentified-transmission-in-drm-mode.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, November 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I checked in South Korea, Hiroshima / Tokyo, and Brisbane units to listen UNID 6087v kHz small domestic station JAPAN/KOREA NHK Yamata Korean nominal 6090 kHz at 1100 and 1200 UT, S=9+30dB in Tokyo remote SDR installation, but nearby small domestic station puzzled me: exact 6087.497 kHz heard at 1120 UT and also 1250 UT. Is that an 'intelligent' jamming of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il regime from Pyongyang? Any help appreciated. 73 wolfy (Büschel, Nov 14, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6135, Nov 10 at 1404, very poor talk, intonation reminds me of Jeff White, but surely not. Is Voice of Freedom clandestine from South to North Korea back on this frequency today? Maybe trace of noise jamming. As of Nov 8, Ron Howard said VOF carrier-only was on 5920 and not on 6135 for a long time. Otherwise, how about long-path from Madagascar, which also has not been reported in a long time?! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6250, Nov 10 at 0701, JBA carrier, probably not Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, too late; if it were on, the prime time to hear it would be around 0500/0600. It was widely heard for a few nights in July testing all-night, not since, except maybe for this: ``6250, Oct 28, 1915, R Nacional de Guinea Equatorial, Malabo (presumed), Spanish talk, CWQRM (AP-DNK) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, SW Bulletin Nov 6 via DXLD)`` Korean radio war of Echo of Hope vs Echo of Unification are also on 6250 but certainly not in Spanish. There are also scads of Europirates in this range (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "VK5EEE" Date: 8 Nov 2017 13:46 Subject: [INTRUDER ALERT] 10100 FM? To: "Australasian ham band intruder watch" , "intruderalert@iaru-r1.org" Can anyone identify what sounds like a quasi FM broadcast signal on 10100 kHz? Since before 1330 UT and still going, cannot identify the language, not intelligible. Broadcast service is intruder in 30m, sounds like some transmitter has gone wrong or a very strong inter- modulation product? S9+ in Australia QRA PF95 -- -- Join us at 30cw.net -- CW News: https://t.me/cwnews 73 es 77 de Lou VK5EEE INTRUDERALERT mailing list Posted by: (Tim Bucknall, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) In previous years(decade) we had an intermodulation close to 10100 kHz, mostly in northern summer season (caused by TRT Emirler Turkey two fundamentals 9785 and 9460 kHz mixture here in Europe, but Turkey moved down to 9410 kHz now in B-17 season, so intermod with 9785 kHz would be approx. 10160 kHz now). re 10100 kHz intermodulation mixture: I bet this could be in B-17 season IRIB Sirjan at 90 degrees, 500 kW, 1420-1520z (1418 to 1523z) as 9700 kHz Bengali language service, - as 9900 kHz Hindi language service. re 10100 I'll check it tomorrow too. 73 (wolfie df5sx, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 11670, Nov 13 at 0720, S9+10 almost steady open carrier. It`s an RHC frequency earlier, but unbelievable to be so strong now, equivalent to NZ 11725, as 11580 WRMI is JBA carrier; no 11520 from WEWN. The North American MUF is clearly between 10 and 11 MHz, as 9955 WRMI remains unusually strong. 9330, Nov 13 at 0723, also has S9 of dead air, and we know that is a Cuban spy numbers frequency, not WBCQ at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11989-12011 approx., Nov 11 at 1353, OTH radar clicking, QRMing weak broadcast signals on 11995, 12005. Fortunately I have not heard much OTHR lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1904: Hi Glenn, Just a word of thanks for all that you do for the hobby. The info on DXLD each week is not only a treasure trove of the happenings on HF, but also there are the cultural references, e.g., the name of the flute that is played on The Voice of The Tigray Revolution (in the most recent DXLD). I looked it up on Wikipedia with interest, having wondered what the instrument was called. Also, the great detail found in Raymie's Mexico Beat is always an interesting read. Discussions on the future of the AM BC band in the USA are always of great interest to me. In spite of electrical noise being a problem at home, a coaxial loop mitigates this interference to the point of making the 1.6-7.5 MHz part of the spectrum usable again. The difficulty with my reception of WA0RCR on 1860 kHz has been more of propagation and cloud static than of local noise. It will improve as the season progresses. Once again, thanks for your labor of love. 73, (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, who also sent a generous check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Note from William Eareckson: quote Thank you for your excellent production and dedication to the shortwave listening community over the years. 73 Bill~KD0NPT (with contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Sir: Just a quick note to thank you for your continuing efforts to produce DX Listening Digest. It is remarkable that you provide the information time after time and distribute your research. Best regards, (Joe Turner, MI, via Martin Schoech, Clandestine Radio Watch, DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ EiBi B17 English Extracts As of November 5, 2017 in the Schedules section of http://www.kg4lac.com 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Nov 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ DARI OR FARSI? AFGHANISTAN'S LONG-SIMMERING LANGUAGE DISPUTE Frud Bezhan 7 November 2017 From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of one of its local-language Facebook pages to BBC Dari, prompting a backlash from many Afghan Persian speakers who despise the word officially used to describe their language. Many Persian speakers in Afghanistan prefer and use the name Farsi, the official language in Iran. They say the term Dari has been forced on them by the dominant Pashtun ethnic group as an attempt to distance Afghans from their cultural, linguistic, and historical ties to the Persian-speaking world, which includes Iran and Tajikistan. Language has long been a sore point in Afghanistan, where it has exposed unresolved tensions among the country's ethnic and linguistic groups. Same Language "Dari is not the Afghan dialect of Farsi," says Partaw Naderi, a prominent Afghan poet and minority-rights activist. "Dari is the name of a language that is also known as Farsi." Naderi says historical documents prove that the word Dari, along with Parsi, dates as far back as the sixth century, when it was used to describe the Persian language. After the language adopted the Arabic script centuries later, it fell out of use and was replaced by the term Farsi. Naderi says he prefers to use the word "Farsi-Dari" to describe the Persian language, calling it a solution to the current standoff. Any change would require a constitutional amendment. Naderi says that while the Persian spoken in Afghanistan and neighboring Iran have distinct accents and variations in vocabulary and usage, the language is the same. There are dozens of regional variations of Persian inside Iran and Afghanistan, Naderi says. Dari became an official language in Afghanistan in the country's 1964 constitution. Two earlier constitutions in the 20th century had labeled it Farsi. ... 'Plot To Divide' Mina Baktash, head of the BBC's Afghan service, said on November 4 that there were "absolutely no political and cultural reasons behind our decision" and added that the term Dari was the official name of the language in Afghanistan. But that has not ended the criticism of the BBC. The Private Arman-e Melli daily newspaper accused the BBC of a "plot to divide Dari from the Persian language." "The people in Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan speak Dari, which is the Persian language," said an editorial published on November 5. ... Full text: https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-dari-farsi-persian-language-dispute/28840560.html (via Shortwave Radiogram Nov 12 via roger, dxldyg via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Fwd: WALTER SALMANIW SHARED LW BAND FROM 13H57 Steve McDonald, VE7SL has allowed me to share some LW logs heard in Masset last month. Some pretty exotic results, too! Thanks, Steve! Walt Salmaniw Walt - I finally found some time to go over your recording and spent several hours listening over the past couple of days. I was unable to catch anything new from Alaska and it seems that almost everything in the way of NDBs up there, has pretty much been heard down here. There have been a couple over the years that had very low ERP and were never heard down this way and they were even very hard to hear by one of the NDB guys on a couple of trips to Alaska with his Perseus, but these have been decommissioned now. One that was on our group's 'decommissioned' list was GLA in Gulkana, thought to be gone now for almost two years but was heard on your recording, very weakly, and looks like another candidate for low ERP now either because of poor maintenance or antenna problems. It will be good to put it back on the 'target' list! Same story for DA in Dawson City; we will put it back on the list as well. 10 09 17 1357 437 OG Okha, Russia 10 09 17 1357 316 MAJ Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands 10 09 17 1357 320 AI Aitutaki, Cook Islands, 10 09 17 1357 352 RG Rarotonga, Cook Islands 10 09 17 1357 255 MD Menado, Indonesia 10 09 17 1357 343 ML Minami Tori Shima, Japan 10 09 17 1357 380 YU Hualien, Taiwan 10 09 17 1357 248 GLA Gulkana, Alaska 10 09 17 1357 214 DA Dawson, Yukon Territory YU, MD have never been logged in BC so these are 'firsts' for you. The others have been heard here before. Both of these are pretty difficult to hear other than from a nice quiet spot near the Pacific Ocean; well done, especially in the strong likelihood that they are less than 100W output. Yes, should be a minute each of a 270 deg W/NW BOG, due N Beverage, NE/SW ALA 100, and a 240 deg DKAZ. If your list of antennas follows the same order on the recording, then ANT #1 was the big winner far almost all of these catches, including all of the signals from Alaska. The next best one for Alaska and the Pacific was #3 and in fact, MD from Indonesia, was better on #3 than on #1 and had an amazingly good signal. I noted ML on #1 as 'very loud'. Two of the usually easily heard beacons from Hawaii (LLD and PNA) were heard with booming signals but interestingly, there was not even a hint of the several other ones out there. I have heard some of these others here before but I certainly would have expected to easily hear them judging by the strength of the other two. I checked dozens of other frequencies that known beacons from eastern Russia and the far east (China etc.) are known to be active and logged in California but was unable to squeeze out any more for you. Do you recall the propagation conditions for that morning by chance? It was fun and I look forward to doing this in the future should you have the opportunity. It was very handy to have a sample of all four antennas without having to run a different file to compare signals and one minute seemed just about right for the most part...of course two or three minutes per antenna might allow some room for a short fade-up which would be missed in the shorter time span. I will forward your log for uploading to the NDB database and as before, they will appear under your name at Haida Gwaii. Cheers, Steve WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://qsl.net/ve7sl/ VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to Nanowaves": http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca/ (via Walt Salmaniw, IRCA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ROMANIA; UNIDENTIFIED 5910 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See FRANCE; POLAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See CUBA; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 Nov 13 0513 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 06 - 12 November 2017 Solar activity was very low throughout the period under a spotless disk. The only activity was an eruptive filament observed in the NE quadrant beginning at 10/0630 UTC in SDO/AIA 304 imagery. An associated CME was observed off the eastern limb in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery beginning at 10/0824 UTC, however subsequent analysis showed no Earth-directed component. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 06-07 Nov and reached high levels on 08-12 Nov. The largest flux of the period was 25,349 pfu observed at 11/1435 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to G2 (Moderate) storm levels over the period. The period began with solar wind speeds between 285-355 km/s and total field around 4 nT. At approximately 07/0300 UTC, phi angle switched from a negative solar sector to positive. 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From Spaceweather South Africa thru November 18: magnetic conditions unsettled, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. {still waiting for the last two factors ever to be otherwise} From Met Office UK, thru Nov 19: Solar activity expected to remain low or very low. Geomagnetic Activity: quiet to unsettled. From F K Janda of the Czech Propagation Interest]ed[ group, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to active on November 17, 30, December 4, 6 mostly quiet on November 18, December 1 quiet on November 19, 24 - 28, December 2 - 3 quiet to unsettled on November 20, 23, 29 active to disturbed on November 21 - 22, December 5 From the Space Environment Predixion Center, China, the planetary A index peaking at 19 on November 21, rising from 2 on December 3 to 29 the next day. Solar flux up to 79 from November 19 to 24th, down to 72 by December 5. From the Space Weather Predixion Center, Colorado, solar flux peaking at 75 from November 20 to 27, dropping to 68 by December 5. In the geomagnetic field, G1 minor storm levels November 20-22 with A and K indices reaching 20 and 5; G2 moderate levels likely December 4-6, peaking at 40 and 6 on December 5. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 on November 24 to 28 and December 1 to 3. RSGB says the annual Leonid meteor shower, active throughout November, peaks Friday night and Saturday morning, 17 and 18 November, reaching a zenith hourly rate of 15; one of the larger showers of the year. So park on an open FM frequency and wait for meteor burst DX (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ALAN GUEBERT, FARM AND FOOD FILE One columnist always worth reading via the Enid Eagle is Alan Guebert`s Farm and Food File. Nov 12 titled `Willful Ignorance`. Not interested in agriculture? If you eat, you should be. 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