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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. 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. Hallo luisteraars, Zojuist naar Radio Sohl zitten luisteren op 6700 kHz! Zoals bekend komen deze uitzendingen van de Bagram base. Groeten, (Ton Timmerman, Netherlands, 1956 UT May 8, BDX via DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 11665, 0325-0400, UAE, 06-05, R. Solh, via Dhabbaya, Pashto ann, Afhghan songs, 45444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) Totally blocked here by CVC Chile, but with I=5 no trace of it there. The 12-18 UT broadcast on 17700 has not been making it at all recently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. Hey Glenn, today very good reception --- LRA36 on 15476 kHz, time beginning 1905 UT with female local news in Spanish. At 1910 nice pop music in Spanish. I was missing Radio Arcángel, and now it is back; the audio is super and the signal is strong, 34333, best with LW25m. Also good with the ala1530, clear 100m LW. Minimum with the Kaz antenna (normal to 12 MHz best). RX NRD545. Gr (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, May 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ¡CAPTADA RADIO ARCANGEL SAN GABRIEL! Estimados colegas, he cazado el DX que nunca esperaba. Aprovechando un comunicado de un colega belga sobre su escucha de Radio [Nacional] Arcángel San Gabriel 15476 y que era de las 1910 UT y dado que eran las 1955 UT, me he puesto a buscarla como quien juega a la lotería, sabiendo que no te va a tocar, pero te hace ilusión. Mi sorpresa es que a las 1958 escucho una canción de Gloria Estefan y, al terminar, se identifica como Radio Arcángel San Gabriel. SINPO 25232. Receptor: Sony ICF SW 7600 GR con antena de hilo de la Sangean ATS 909 (Desde Córdoba (España) y creo que con la suerte del novato, saludos cordiales, Jorge Trinado, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was tied up preparing WOR 1358, but stepped outside briefly with the DX-398 portable shortly after I posted Maurits` tip, and on that was able to detect a carrier on 15476, so probably would have been audible here too on the big rig. No go 24 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hurry, hurry! I can't consider myself so fortunate DXer. Go to 15476 and hear by yourself that strong signal LRA 36 is now booming. Heard here by Tiquicia as never before. 35343. I turned on ICF 7600 and I couldn't believe my ears. After a couple of songs, came this female announcer with ID and temp. of -1.5 C. Go before is 2100. 73s. [Later:] LRA 36 was not so folkish today Tuesday May 8, with their musical selections, rather more pop-oriented. After playing Mexican group Maná's "Mariposa de Amor", 2051z, came this lady with sort of tip for rational [sic] living about forgiveness. One more song and at 2055 our Antarctic Lady of the Airwaves gave a weather forecast for tomorrow. Strange that today they sounded highly animated and not so through-musically. Kind of institutional male announcer ended transmission by 2059, somehow in a more formal way not heard before. Let's wait till tomorrow for another LRA 36 day. This has been a one- of-a-kind that smells like upgraded power. Coincidentally I can't attribute this to propagation, while the 15820 LSB feeder for Radio Continental/Radio 10, was hardly listenable by 2100. 73. (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.) Solar-terrestrial indices for 08 May follow. Solar flux 73 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 17. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 08 May was 2 (18 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) Felicidades Raúl, no sabes cuánto me alegro de esa captación; lamentablemente aquí en Valencia no tenemos ninguna posibilidad de poder escucharla, ¿qué la vamos a hacer? Disfrútalo, cordialmente (José Miguel Romero, Spain, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. I had my "once a year" log of RAE last night from 0251 to past 0316, first in English and then into French on 11710v. I actually had to tune to 11711 to get the most readable signal! RAE certainly has the longest ID/IS I've ever heard! They actually didn't begin the French program until 0304 -- the IS/ID sequence began at 0254 with a choral anthem and piano accompaniment in there as well (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, May 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. HCJB Kununurra --- A couple of brief pics of the masts/antennas at this site on the UTUBE site; you'll have to sit through 6 minutes of still pics video for just a couple of pics of the towers though. But if you enjoy Australian scenery you might enjoy the video. Find it here at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRrRMThmO8k (Ian Baxter, [SW Station TXer Site Archive] via DXLD) HCJB glimpses around 2:25, 4:00 and 5:45. See also ECUADOR (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BELARUS. BIELORRUSIA, 11930, Belaruskoje Radio 1, 0633-0645, escuchada el 5 de Mayo en bielorruso a locutora con comentarios y música pop melódica, SINPO 34333 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As per sked in 7-054 ** BELARUS [non]. 6105, *1930-2130*, CLANDESTINE, 05-05, Belaruskaje Radyjo Racyja, via Warszawa, Poland, Belarusian news and political comments, Belarusian songs, 55544 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. On 1467 kHz: see MONACO [non] ** CANADA. DRM transmitter amok again --- Last night (UT Tuesday 0550) I found the CRI relay on 6190 had heavy DRM interference, extending to 6185 and 6195. It was a mixture of AM and DRM, as the CRI analog signal could still be recognized, barely. Both went off at the same time 0559, allowing e.g. Mexico on 6185 to be audible once again. This appears to be the same type of problem you previously had later in the morning on the 15240 Sweden relay we discussed some months ago. Regards, (Glenn Hauser, OK, to RCI Master Control, May 8, via WORLD OF RADIO 1358, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greetings Mr. Hauser, Thank-you for the information. I will have this evening's technician monitor the feeds closely from that transmitter to ensure it runs smoothly tonight. Regards, (Suzanne Gaudet, Sackville Master Control, May 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. Re: Do Canadians care about CHU? I've heard (but I don't actually have any references for this) that in some parts of the U.S. it is easier for people to pick up CHU than it is to get WWV. I suppose it is possible; after all the reverse is true for me (it's a lot easier for me to get WWV here in Toronto than it is to get CHU). I don't know if it would actually do any good for Americans to send their comments on this to the FCC, but it should be obvious that the FCC will be more concerned with what Americans think than they will be with what Canadians think (Greg Shoom, Canada, May 7, ODXA yg via DXLD) That's very much the case for daylight hours here in Eastern Pennsylvania. It has typically been tough here for CHU in the local evenings as it is hemmed in by broadcasters (Richard Cuff, ibid.) WHRI interference to CHU Recently WHRI has begun operations on 7335 kHz, a frequency which has been used 24/7 by CHU, the Dominion Observatory time/frequency standard station in Ottawa. CHU is registered and coordinated with ITU, HFCC and other regulatory bodies and has used 7335 for many, many years (at least since I began listening to shortwave radio in 1966). When CHU began operations, the frequency range above 7300 kHz was off- limits to international broadcasters. Despite many complaints from listeners to CHU in the U.S. and Canada and the existence of many alternate clear frequencies in the 41-meter international broadcast band, WHRI continues to use 7335. I urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to vacate 7335 in the interest of being a good neighbor to our neighbor to the north (Anne Fanelli, FCC Licensee WI2G, Elma, New York 14059, sent WHRI, cc to FCC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Anne, Thank you for your letter of support. We are going through all the required channel with authorities in Canada and the FCC in the US to get this matter resolved. But it is only with strong support from our listeners, directly to WHRI, will have a better impact. Thank you, Raymond Pelletier, Frequency and Time, Institute for National Measurement Standards, National Research Council Canada (via Anne Fanelli, DXLD) Hopefully, one voice (along with many others) will encourage the evangelistic juggernaut to bestir itself. 73 de (Anne Fanelli in Elma NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I checked CHU at 7335 at 0600. WHRI completely drowned out CHU. It seems that the folks at LeSEA Broadcasting think that no one could possibly be up at 0600 GMT (0100 CDT) and during the early morning and overnight hours in North America to complain very much about the interference to CHU. And where this signal is beamed to they really don't care (Richard Lewis, Grundig G4000A, Helical Antenna, Forest, MS, May 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 3. CANADIA 2056: Head for outer space this morning aboard Canadia 2056, the lone Canadian government spacecraft, sent to support an American space armada fighting hostile aliens. This week, the Fleet answers a distress call from an alien ship, and Favreau tries to figure out what the Canadia can do to help the aliens. Meanwhile, Anderson and Skip are getting to know each other a little better - but the Captain has a problem with their relationship. Canadia 2056, this morning at 11:30 (noon NT) on CBC Radio One (CBC Hotsheet for Friday May 11 via DXLD) Quite a satire on American politix and culture, among other things. Catch this series before it`s over at Mayend? First airing on AT/NT feed at 1430 UT Fridays + 1/2/3/4 hours (gh, DXLD) ** CHAD. RNT émetteur OC sur 7313 kHz variable --- RNW Flevoland in Dutch distortion from Chad station on 7309 to 7315 kHz. Noted a very good signal today May 8th around 0430 til 0500 UT, when the bells of R Netherlands started. Sent a report to Ehard Goddijn and Andy Sennitt at RNW already. - - - RNW Flevoland in Dutch distortion of - supposed to be - Chad station on 7309 to 7315 kHz. Dear Sirs, since about April 27th, an Unidentified African shortwave station in French language in distorted audio quality disturbs the outlets of 7310 kHz AFS Channel Africa Meyerton 0400-0500 UT French 7310 kHz HOL RNW Flevoland 0458-0558 UT Dutch 7310 kHz POR DWL Sines 0559-0629 UT English According of the colleagues of DWL monitoring and direction finding station Bockhacken the UNID station appears around 0426 UT and observation in central Europe lasts til behind 0715 UT. Measured bearing of the disturbed signal is 165 degrees from Cologne, and the station originate seemingly from Chad. regards de Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx Stuttgart Germany (via WORLD OF RADIO 1358, DXLD) Dear Wolfgang, Thanks for the info on the UNID-signal on 7313 kHz. This morning May 8, 2007 I noted here in Hilversum the IS of RNT on 7313 kHz at 0425 UT, following by anthem? announcements in French and African music; all very distorted. It was the same type of programme I used to hear on 6165 kHz; now nothing more heard from RNT on 6165 kHz. So I think the unID is TCHAD as Bockhacken measured it at 165 degrees. 73's, (Ehard Goddijn, Radio Netherlands via Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Dear Andy, Een e-mail adres naar RNT Tchad lijkt te werken en de fax helemaal niet. Groeten, (Ehard to Andy Sennitt, ibid.) Hi Glenn, So now we know what it is, the next problem is to contact them and ask them to fix it :-( 73, (Andy Sennitt, RN, ibid.) Good morning, Wolfgang! Thanks for the audio clip. I heard them mentioning what believed to be "Tchad" once (2'24"), but although this may help, it cannot fully guarantee an ID. Ehard Goddijn's comment "It was the same type of programme I used to hear on 6165 kHz now nothing more heard from RNT on 6165 kHz" coincides with what I thought, even if reception here was typically disturbed by co-channel Croatia. But apart from all that --- can't they "see" what's going on with their signal? I'm convinced a station doesn't exactly need monitoring to ascertain whether the audio from its transmitter is in proper shape. Knowledge, instrumentation & ability to use it should do, true? 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was heavy T-storm QRN, May 8 at 0545 check, but with BFO on I could still hear this mess in the 7310-7315 area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) May 10 did not tune in until 0620, and found no sign of the extremely distorted RNT transmitter around 7312v; fixed, or faded out by then? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Jamming on 17705: see INDIA [and non] ** CHINA [non]. Dear OM, Sound of Hope broadcasts two programs now. 1st program is news and news commentary on official program at 1100- 1700 and 2200-2400, and unofficial on 9200, 10300, 15150 kHz via Taiwan. 2nd program is entertainment program on 13970, 18160 kHz via Taiwan. These programs are carried on Eutelsat W5. Cf. http://www.lyngsat.com/ew5.html de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, May 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrakes: 18160, missing at 0900-0929 & 1258 & 1331, May 8, have they moved? Checked around, but could not find them. For the past week 18160 had been the strongest Firedrake. From 0910-0929 did hear 9200(good) // 10300(fair) // 15150(weak), at 1331 also noted // to 13970 (poor), presumably all against Sound of Hope (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, Quick message to say that I receive the Chinese Firedrake on 15150 every morning here around 1200-1500 UT. Tried to listen to 18160 but I don`t receive it (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal Canada, May 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake check on SOH frequencies, May 10 at 1448: poor but audible on 18160, good on 15150, fair on 13970, not heard on 10300 or 9200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [non?]. Re 7-054: If it was 6134.82 it was probably the Bolivian, Radio Santa Cruz. If it was Radio Líder, Colombia, it should have been 6139.82. Reactivated? Which? 73, (Glenn Hauser, HCDX via DXLD) Here is Maurits van Driessche`s reply about his log on 6134.82; I think he says he was going by the music and did not get an ID: Beste Herman, wat betrefd de I.D s als je dagelijks uitluisterd naar de ontvanger en zelf s nachts uiren .....aan de radio zit zoals ik. Dan begin je stillaan de freqentie s vanbuiten tekennen. Ook zit ik, de dag nadien of de zelfde moment temailen naar vrienden uit L-Amerika voor de 100% bevestiging, zo mail ik veel naar G. Hauser, A. Slaen e.v.a. Natuirlijk hoor ik veel ID s en soms helemaal niet, dan ga ik tewerk op de muziek, de taal en namen zoals F. Castro =Cuba enz. Als ik niet zeker ben mail ik, geen antwoord of ik ben niet zeker, word de log opzij gelegd tot een volgende keer. Of je het nu geloofd of niet Herman, vroeger zette ik al eens meer een I.D en dan kreeg ik reaktie, waarom zet je zoveel I.D s. Zo ik heb de pen in twee gebroken, en ik behou het bij zoals ik het nu doe. Herman als je eens in Zele passeerd mag je altijd eens afkomen gezellig babbelen onder elkaar, en zo zie je ook eens mijn antennes. Zo ik hou het hierbij, en ik hoop Herman dat je met deze geholpen bent als info. Mvg (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, BDX via DXLD) [Later:] Hey Glenn, the number 4 from 6134.82 kHz must by number 9. I look now on my paper and yes it is 100% 6139.82 kHz Gr (Maurits from Belgium, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, I still haven`t heard Líder back on 6140v, around 0500-0600 chex; has anyone? (gh, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. (relay), 5930, Radio Exterior De España, 1000-1300. Noted Opening ID at 0955 May 8. On the hour (1000 UT), a period of news in the Spanish language. Signal was good. The schedule in WRTH says this broadcast is on until 1300; I didn't listen that long (Chuck Bolland, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SPAIN [non] ** CUBA. You are listening to the mid week edition of Dxers Unlimited, coming to you via short wave and also from 05 to 07 UT via our Internet streaming audio that can be picked up from our website http://rhc.cu --- YES, just type rhc.cu on your browser input and you will be opening up our website in Spanish, then click on the loudspeaker ICON, and start listening to our streaming audio amigos!!! We will soon have it available full time from 01 to 07 UT, as another audio channel is about to become available here (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited May 8, HCDX via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. 0130-0200 Heard VOA under Radio Habana Cuba. News in Special English and other Special English Programming Under DX Mailbag on RHC. (Richard Lewis, Forest MS, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, VOA is currently scheduled on 6000 from Greenville. One can only wonder whether VOA doesn`t know about Habana, or deliberately is throwing away a frequency to annoy them (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA. 9505, Radio Rebelde, 1000-1400 May 9. With opening ID at 1000 followed by news and comments in Spanish. Checked 5025 and wasn't exactly in sync with 9505. Both were steady and good (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. NOT --- From the R. Prague website http://www.radio.cz/en/article/90565 "Another letter we received this week came from the linguist Dr Eva Horova, who wrote to us from the Czech Republic about the name we use for the country, i.e. "the Czech Republic." According to Dr. Horova, most states have a political and a geographical name. For instance, my country's political name - "the Republic of Ireland" - is usually shortened to one word - "Ireland". Dr. Horova wrote to remind us that officially, the geographical name for the Czech Republic is the word Czechia and she asked us why we never use it here at Radio Prague. Well you are right Dr. Horova in saying that the official geographic name of the country is Czechia. We haven't yet started using it here because, for one reason or another, the name has never caught on in English. In fact, we did a report on this very topic a couple of years ago http://www.radio.cz/en/article/46283 and discovered that the Czech Tourist Authority in London had itself actually stopped using "Czechia" and reverted to "the Czech Republic" because British people simply had not taken to the name. It seems that although "the Czech Republic" is a bit of a mouthful, we won't be using "Czechia" for the foreseeable future. It's a fascinating subject though and we'd certainly be interested in hearing what you - the listeners - think would be a suitable one-word equivalent for "the Czech Republic! Do you like "Czechia" or do you have any other suggestions? Incidentally, "Czechia" is probably also the only official geographic name of a country which is rejected by the Microsoft Word spell check. Maybe someone should send Bill Gates a memo as well!" 73, (via Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, dxldyg via DXLD) If R. Prague won`t take the lead on this, who will? (gh, DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. TV2 Dominican Republic > Florida --- HIJB TV2 Santo Domingo, DR is in with a fair picture, Tele Antillas logo in the upper right and good audio coming through at times (Randolph Zerr, KW4RZ, grid EM60qk, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 2337 UT May 7, WTFDA via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. Dress code at HCJB? The 11/06 issue of Radio Journal from Germany has an artikel on the first Protestant missionary station`s 75th anniversary, with a group photo of the 14 German staff in Quito. Nine of them are women and not one of them is wearing pants! Hemlines vary greatly from kissing the grass, to just below the knee, but never any higher, god forbid (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Transmission failures --- On May 3 Radio Kairo failed to get German on air at all; instead there was only an open carrier on 9900 for 60 minutes. The following program at 2000 again went on air with the usual audio "quality". Bei Radio Kairo gab es, zufällig nach einer kl. A-DX Disku über die "gute" Modulation auf 9990 kHz, am 3.5.(DO) einen kompletten Programmausfall. Nur der leere Träger trug 60 Minuten Luft dahin. Das nachfolgende Programm, ab 2000 utc war dann wieder in gewohnt "guter" Modulation zu hören. Am FR war dann auf 9990 kHz wieder normaler Betrieb. 73, (Paul Gager, Austria, May 8, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, DXLD) ** ERITREA. BC on 7090 - Asmara Eritrea ? move from 7100 kHz An UNID BC station on 7090 kHz noted yesterday, May 8th, around 1616- 1652 UT on the 40 mb for ham operators. Music seems to be Horn of Africa ... Maybe QSY of "Voice of the Broad Masses" radio from Asmara Selae Daro ERI, from 7100 to 7090 kHz? (from Uli Bihlmayer DJ9KR, Ham Radio Intruder Bandwatch, May 8 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Schedule ? 4-9, 14-19 UT. 2nd program on 7175 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No improvement for avoiding hamband! (gh, DXLD) Yes, there it is also today. Attached the ID recorded at 1700, phonetically something like "Yih Demtsi Hafash Ertra", but who can pick up the frequencies announced? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, it's Eritrea on 7090. On 9 May closed down at 1800 with National Anthem sung by cheerish choir. 7175 signed off at the same time with same anthem. Radio Bana used the same N/A version at their sign-off earlier, nowadays I guess they're using the "Radio Bana song" (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Re: ``GERMANY [Clandestine to Eritrea] On its web- site, the Voice of Democratic Eritrea International shows schedule as 15315 kHz Thur 1700-1800. Can anyone confirm this? (Finn Krone, Denmark, wwdxc BC-DX May 2 via DXLD) 15315 1700-1800 38E,39S,48 JUL 100 kW 125 deg 5=Thur in DTK schedule table, marked with * star, as new entry. 15315 1700-1759 38E,39S,48 125deg 5=Thur 010507-281007 JUL 100 ELF * (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)`` Yes, is on air as scheduled Thursday from 1700 UT. Juelich transmitter was already on air at 1659 UT, but program of EPPF started late at 1701:30 UT, only S=2-3 poor here at my post, due too close to the transmitter site of 360 kilometers only away in the skip zone. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, May 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA/ETHIOPIA [nons]. 15135, *0900-0930, UAE, Sunday 06-05, UNMEE R, via Dhabbaya, Oromo/Tigrinya, talks with translations from English of various statements, music from the Horn of Africa, 0915 change of language and ID "Radio UNMEE" twice, website, 33333, QRM R China Int. in Bahasa Indonesia via Kunming AP-DNK 15135, 0930-0950, UAE, Sunday 06-05, UNMEE R, via Dhabbaya, Amharic/E, ID, website and talks, 33333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Re: ``A new program was added to the TDP schedule website http://www.airtime.be/schedule.html --- "EPPF Radio 1600-1700 15260 ...t... Amharic". EPPF = Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front; website: http://www.eppf.net/EppfRadio.htm (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, May 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thursday`` Saludos cordiales Glenn, desde Valencia no se capta nada en 15260 a las 1600 UT. 73 JM (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Thursday May 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. Once again SWR is audible at 0834 UT on 11720 playing old time rock and roll. There`s a lot of noise and fading on the signal though. Signal peaks at about 2-3 S points (Russ Cummings, Hull, England, Icom R71E 60' long wire, Saturday May 5, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** GREECE. 792 location? Excuse me if I missed it, but I don`t think I have seen anything from you about the new 792 kHz ERT frequency. We are wondering whether it is the ex-VOA transmitter at Kavalla, or at some other location? Surely you could get some idea of its bearing from your place? Tnx, (Glenn to Zacharias Liangas, via DXLD) Generally as you know I am not involved with Greek radio ... :} Doing check with my radio, 792 has nearly same power strength with 1044 and 1179 though the ferrite bar on Degen radio shows 3 different bearings. Asked a person last week on ERA 3 and told me that 792 comes still from Kavalla (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, May 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1044 and 1179 being local Thessaloniki transmitters (gh, DXLD) ** GREECE. Well over a month ago you were observing Olympia Radio broadcasts and had an incomplete A-07 schedule. Anything further on that? Are they still going? 73, (Glenn to Noel Green & Wolfgang Büschel, May 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn, As far as I'm aware Olympia Radio is not on air with programmes of VoG any more. I think they stopped around the time when the new A-07 frequency schedules began. I hear only the three Avlis senders on air currently. It's a shame really, because when they "closed" they'd ironed out whatever was causing the signal to drop- out, and the signal was quite good at times. But the VoG appears to be reaching Europe okay - it's further afield that they now lack the ability to cover well. 73 from (Noel Green, NW England, ibid.) Olympia Radio Pyrgos tests of V of Greece relay ended in week Apr 2nd ... 6th. Never heard since then. Only three units at Avlis site are in use now. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) ** HUNGARY. Re: Sobre la situación de Radio Budapest --- Supongo que tendrán mucha tensión y una campaña de protesta puede ser interpretado como que es espoleada por algún miembro de la redacción y, por tanto, podrían tomarse represalias. Querrán esperar a que ocurra algo para que entonces protestemos. Saludos (Jorge Trinado, Spain, May 7, Noticias DX via DXLD) Saludos Jorge, las órdenes son de dirección. Sergio comenta que no se mal interpreten; parece ser que todo está decidido y las listas de despidos ya están confeccionadas, la cuestión es ponerlo en práctica (José Miguel Romero2, ibid.) Saludos José Miguel: Pues me parece que la dirección tiene capacidad de actuación en su ámbito, pero no sobre los radioescuchas. Si todo está decidido sería cuestión de madurar si es conveniente protestar. Si es por no poner en peligro puestos de trabajo es prudente que esperemos, pero si está todo decidido creo que tenemos todo el derecho a protestar (y conste que no soy nada beligerante) pero me molesta que se nos pretenda cercenar el derecho a la libre expresión. Un cordial saludo (Jorge Trinado, ibid.) ** INDIA. A las 1320 AIR-Bangalore, 17705; según Glenn Hauser pudiera ser jamming por parte de los chinos, puesto que la transmisión de AIR normalmente debería haber acabado a 1315 UTC. En todo caso lo digo porque no esta muy claro si es uno u otro por el momento, mañana comprobaremos de nuevo. 17705.0, 1320 IND AIR-Bangalore Com+Mx 07/05 Chi 45444. Saludos cordiales, (Tomás Méndez, Spain, May 7, visite la Web de ADXB en http://www.mundodx.net Rx: Grundig Sat 700, Sony ICF SW7600GR, Icom IC-R2, playdx yg via DXLD) 17705 All India Radio, chino. Emisión mas allá de las 1315 UT Saludos cordiales. 17705, All India Radio, 1305-1320+, escuchada el 8 de Mayo en Chino, cuñas publicitarias, locutora con titulares separado de segmento musical a forma de sintonía, locutora con invitado en entrevista, SINPO 34333. Según el WRTH éste servicio termina a las 1315 y se emite en paralelo por 11840 y 15795, desde Valencia no se captó señal alguna por esas frecuencias, también se observó que ésta emisión se prolongaba mas allá de las 1315. Este servicio se cortó bruscamente a las 1329 UT; no se aprecia jammer china (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Are you really sure this signal came from All India Radio? We had already discussed the question earlier this week. Regards, (Jürgen Fenn, Germany, HCDX via DXLD) 17705 1130-1315 BGL 500 kw 58 deg Chinese IND AIR Both 15795 and 17705 AIR channels checked at various times between 1130 and 1330 UT. N o t h i n g of AIR heard here in Europe today. B u t : in between 1300 and 1330 UT heard another kind of CHN mainland jamming, normal CNR China National Radio program relay of talks and comments, instead of Firedrake music. Seems like a graduation of jamming in face of the Olympics in 2008? Take 2 - 3 receivers in parallel and listen 15 Minutes on the channels given below. Between 1300 and 1330 UT heard loud and clear top identical CNR relay of - for example - 11660 CNR Lingshi or 9845 CNR Beijing: 17705 against AIR most probably via Kashi powerful site. 15330 against BBC RMP Mandarin, similar powerful. 15285 against BBC Kranji SNG. 15265 against TWN ? 13855 against BBC CYP mandarin very powerful. 12040 against VoA Tinang Mandarin. 11990 against VoA Tinian Mandarin. 11965 against VoA Tinang Mandarin. 11915 against BBC NakhornPathom Mandarin. 11785 against VoA UdornThani Mandarin. 11665 against ? TWN ? earlier is IBB Tinang channel. 9605 against BBC Yamata, Mandarin a.s.o. a.s.o. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Audio 17705 NO ID en Chino. ¿Taiwan?, ¿China? Saludos cordiales, respecto al dilema que supone de que emisora se trata, ésta que está emitiendo en 17705, he conseguido realizar una grabación con la intención de ver si de una vez por todas conseguimos salir de dudas. Lo que sí parece claro que no se trata de All India Radio. Audio 17705 NO ID, 13:05, Chino. http://jmromero782004.podomatic.com/# (José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17705, Chinese word/comment jamming at 1300-1330 UT is much, much stronger here in Alemania than your MP3 recording level, most probably coming from western China like Kashi or Urumchi site. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** INDIA. All India Radio has installed 2 more DRM transmitters: New DRM transmitter at Nangli, Delhi (replacing the old txer) Thomson TSW 2100D Power : 100 kw Operating frequency : 666 kHz Txer came in March 2007 but was installed in late April 2007, tested on 6th May for 30 minutes in DRM mode with power output of 2 kW. New DRM transmitter at Kingsway Camp, Delhi Hitachi TS 1102 (RF exciter & DRM modulator supplied by Thomson) Power : 10 kw Operating freqs : 26100 kHz, 3315 kHz Installation started from 3rd May. Photos of txer's available at : http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/ (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dx_india via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. In connection with the DRM ABU AIR Showcase Project Digital Radio Transmission Workshop, the following tests in DRM is scheduled on SW. 9 May 2007 6100 150 kw 0230-0730 UT AIR Khampur (Delhi) 9 May 2007 15650 90 kW 0403-0600 UT DWelle, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka 10 May 2007 26100 500 W 0230-0730 UT AIR Kingsway (Delhi) 11 May 2007 26100 500 W 0230-0730 UT AIR Kingsway (Delhi) 11-12 May 3315 2 kW Evening & Night AIR Kingsway (Delhi) There are tests on 666 kHz also on 9 & 10 May with 100 kw at 0230-0730 UTC from AIR Nagli (Delhi). (Jose Jacob, At DRM ABU AIR Showcase Project, Digital Radio Transmission Workshop & field Measurements, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) Dear Friends, According to the DW Monitoring department, today (10-5- 2007) were also DW operating the test transmission at 0903-1028 UT in 17570 kHz. But they also said that it's a test transmission in New Delhi. 73's (Jaisakthivel, Radio World, Chennai, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Scheduled today as DW test for 9th May was cxld [cancelled] at last moment. Regds (Alokesh Gupta, May 10, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Home to some of the oldest inhabited parts of the world, India is itself a very new country, having gained independence in 1947. Second in population only to China, India’s 1.1 billion inhabitants represent nearly one-fifth of the people on earth (little wonder that China and India, at 2.4 billion people together, have been getting a lot of “market attention” lately). Within India one can find extreme wealth and crushing poverty, brilliant scholars amidst high illiteracy, glorious architecture and endless slums. Indian media is rapidly becoming quite competitive, with increasing numbers of private broadcasters competing for market space. Despite a large number of domestic radio broadcasters, only All India Radio is permitted to broadcast news; it also serves as India’s voice to the rest of the world. All India Radio (AIR): http://allindiaradio.org All India Radio is one of the world’s largest broadcasters, serving a potential audience of well over one billion listeners, so it’s surprising to see such a slim English-language website (especially as English is a major official language in India). The AIR website is broadly divided into three sections: a graphic with text at the top of the page; a horizontal line with six headings below that; and a series of links to news items (and job ads!) further below. Following this is an advertising graphic and a simple counter to track website visits. The top block includes the links About Us, Audio Programs, News, Information, Live Audio, Links, Important Broadcast, and Radio on Demand. While this shows great promise for the online listener, the Audio Programs, Live Audio, and Important Broadcast links all say “currently not available” (clearly the broadcast wasn’t that important!). If you’re thinking, “I’ll just use Radio on Demand”, you are in for a surprise, as it provides instructions on how to request songs via telephone to be played on various domestic AIR stations – internet listeners need not apply. Foreign listeners seeking Indian news via internet audio should click News, which opens a new page, http://www.newsonair.com : this is an excellent resource. The second section of the AIR site has three and a half useful links. First, AIR Stations provides a full list of contact information for AIR’s domestic stations, complete with postal, email, and telephone information. Frequency Schedule is split into regions, and provides times, frequencies, and languages used for AIR’s domestic and foreign broadcasts. Reception Report provides you with a comprehensive online form for reporting your listening experience, and includes a check-box to request a QSL (remember, a report and a request are two different things). Tying everything together is a Radio Guide, which is --- under construction. We’ll see how things change in the coming year (Paul E. Guise, Manitoba, Click!, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. TWR India A07 Changes --- From 24th April TWR India broadcasts will be moved from 12035 kHz to 11730 kHz - 0115-0130 UT Please note following changes coming into effect on 2nd May 2007 : From Novosibirsk add 1245-1300 Wednesday Kashmiri From Novosibirsk add 1245-1300 Thursday Hindi From Irkutsk change 1400-1415 Saturday Kashmiri replaced by Oriya (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? 1245-1300 on 9445, 1400-1415 on 9415. The schedule so far had no entry between 0115 and 0130 on 12035: http://www.bclnews.it/a07schedules/twrindia.htm Do the times change (if yes, does that override the changes scheduled for 29th April?) or do you mean the 0045-0115 block? (Eike Bierwirth, ibid.) 12035 0100-0130 IRK 250 kW 224 degr RUS TWR but Kunming China on co-channel 11730 ??? 11730 0030-0130 KUN 100kW 225degr CHN CRI RTC (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** INDONESIA. 11785, VOI, 0849-0900, May 8, English segment, pop music, news in brief, light QRM from sporadic open carrier (a few spoken Chinese words, so assume China). 9525 not on the air today and 15150 had Firedrake (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Ciao! Sito consigliato dagli amici del NZDX TIMES, in caso di cattiva propagazione. http://marijuanaradio.com/ Vi farà sognare di essere in un posto esotico, ed ascoltare cose esotiche (Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) AFAIK, this is ``radio`` without a transmitter, but loads of weekly programs mp3able (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. CAT AND MOUSE --- THE BATTLE AGAINST INTERNET CENSORSHIP Sigrid Deters 10-05-2007 [translated by Sennitt] In 2006 Amnesty International published a report on the role of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google in China, and launched a campaign against Internet censorship. The website Irrepressible Info offers Internet users various ways of taking action against censorship. Internet censorship is becoming ever more sophisticated. Iran and China in particular use refined techniques to maintain close control over Internet traffic. Not uncommonly, Western companies such as CISCO, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft cooperate with this form of censorship. At the same time, there's an ever-increasing amount of software and methods used in an effort to circumvent the censorship. . . http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/070510cat (Media Network via DXLD) ** IRAN. Updated A-07 for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI/IRIB) ALBANIAN 0630-0727 13810 15235 1830-1927 9545 9570 2030-2127 9535 11830 ARABIC 0230-0427 7375 9685 0330-0427 9610 11875 "V. of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" [not V. of the Palestinian Islamic Revolution? -gh] 0430-0527 13790 13800 0530-1427 13790 13800 15150 1430-1627 15150 1630-0227 6025 ARMENIAN 0300-0327 7255 12025 0930-0957 9695 15260 1630-1727 7230 9780 AZERI 0330-0527 13710 1430-1657 6200 BENGALI 0030-0127 5950 7135 0830-0927 11705 1430-1527 6130 9520 12090 BOSNIAN 0530-0627 13750 15235 1730-1827 7295 9860 2130-2227 7305 9810 CHINESE 1200-1257 13735 15190 17535 17635 2330-0027 11820 11975 13715 DARI 0300-0627 11910 13740 0830-1427 9940 13720 1430-1457 9940 ENGLISH 0130-0227 7235 9495 "Voice of Justice" 1030-1127 15600 17660 1530-1627 7370 9635 1930-2027 6205 6255 7205 9800 9925 GERMAN 0730-0827 15085 15430 1730-1827 6255 9905 15085 FRENCH 0630-0727 13710 15430 1830-1927 6255 9905 13755 15085 HAUSA 0600-0657 17810 17870 1830-1927 7170 9925 HEBREW 0430-0457 9610 11875 1200-1227 13685 15260 HINDI 0230-0257 15165 17635 1430-1527 11695 13805 ITALIAN 0630-0727 11515 13770 15085 1930-1957 5910 7360 JAPANESE 1300-1327 13755 15555 2100-2127 9670 11990 KAZAKH 0130-0227 7270 9795 1300-1357 11665 13765 KURDISH 0330-0427 7255 Sorrani dialect 1330-1427 5990 Sorrani dialect 1430-1627 5990 Kirmanji dialect MALAY 1230-1327 15200 17555 2230-2327 5945 7310 PASHTO 0230-0327 7130 9605 0730-0827 11990 15440 1230-1327 6175 9790 11730 1430-1527 3945 1630-1727 6000 7195 RUSSIAN 0300-0327 9650 11925 0500-0527 9855 13750 17595 17655 1430-1527 7165 9300 9580 9900 1700-1757 3985 7175 1800-1857 6205 7235 1930-2027 3985 7175 SPANISH 0030-0227 9655 9905 0230-0327 9905 0530-0627 15530 17785 2030-2127 6255 7300 9800 SWAHILI 0330-0427 15265 15340 0830-0927 15240 17660 1730-1827 7275 9655 TAJIK 0100-0227 6175 7285 1600-1727 5945 5955 TURKISH 0430-0557 11685 13640 1600-1727 7165 9870 URDU 0130-0227 7105 9480 9845 1330-1427 6000 9665 11695 1530-1727 3945 1730-1757 6175 7220 UZBEK 0230-0257 9740 11945 1500-1557 5945 9680 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 8 via DXLD) ** IRAN. Best known in the western world as the latest axis-of-evil member with nuclear ambitions, Iran (as a part of the Persian Empire) has a centuries-old reputation for excellence in poetry, science, and other touchstones of modern society. Thanks to Persia, we have modern arithmetic and algebra, passports, highways, and ice cream! Iran’s nearly 70 million people are scattered around the perimeter of the large, mountainous country (which is roughly the same size as Québec). Despite an increasing level of government control over electronic media, Iran is well served by international broadcasters via satellite receivers (which are illegal, but generally overlooked) and the internet, which is both affordable and readily accessible; the public broadcaster, IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), is also responsible for the external service. Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRIB): http://www.irib.ir/worldservice or http://english.irib.ir The first link given above leads to a very clean, modern page which provides links to IRIB in 27 different languages, as well as several streams of live internet radio and “Live TV” (although this wasn’t working for me). The live audio streams may change at different times of day, as a lovely “Music” stream was there one day and gone the next. Audio is in Real Media format. Clicking on English opens the second URL given above, “Voice of Justice”, which is visually a bit more chaotic than the main page. Across the top are links to Home, About Us, and Contact Us (email only). The left side of the page has wide variety of headings and featurettes, including Local Press, Photo Gallery, and Iran’s Traditional Music (complete with numerous audio clips). Most important for us is a link marked Frequency & Timetable, which also includes target areas and three internet-/satellite-only broadcasts. On the right side of the page are more featurettes, while the centre consists of news items, Commentaries, Economic, Social, and Medical items, and the titillating US Exclusive section. IRIB’s content is not typical western fare, so it will appeal to some users more than others. For a less politically charged approach, take the time to discover the excellent musical and cultural offerings – IRIB provides numerous audio streams over the internet (Paul E. Guise, Manitoba, Click!, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Born in 1948, the modern state of Israel is a challenge to define. Despite being seen as a Jewish homeland, and with a predominantly Jewish population of 6.9 million people, Israel is also home to nearly 4 million Palestinians (most of whom are Islamic) through the captured territories of Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has 22 000 km2 of land, which, when combined with nearly 6 000 km2 of Palestinian land, is still smaller than the area of Vancouver Island (at 32 000 km2). The various print and electronic media have a reputation for balanced coverage domestically, although military minders often control foreign journalists’ movements. The Israel Broadcasting Authority provides public radio and television broadcasts, and runs the external radio service. Kol Israel (The Voice of Israel): http://www.iba.org.il or http://reka.iba.org.il The first address given above is for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and appears to be almost entirely in Hebrew. Clicking on English News on the right side of the page will take you to the English page of the Reka Network of Kol Radio International. On the left side of this page are links to other languages as well as audio versions (in Windows Media format), followed by archives, frequencies, weather, and a program guide. I found the internet audio caused several new windows to appear before I could listen to anything, and the frequencies page loaded and then disappeared completely – your results may vary. The middle of the page lists about twenty news stories, while the right hand side has links for Broadcasts LIVE, History, About Us, and The Team, as well as numerous links to external media. I found that sometimes these links worked, sometimes they simply reloaded the main Reka page, and a few times they caused my browser window to spontaneously close. It appears the Kol website needs work to be broadly compatible with a variety of computing platforms (Paul E. Guise, Manitoba, Click!, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. IBA MAY CLOSE ITS WASHINGTON BUREAU http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1178431601081 Full article at URL above. "The Israel Broadcasting Authority is seriously considering closing its Washington bureau. The move has been spurred by an urgent need to cut down on costs. "Regardless of what the final decision will be, Yaron Dekel, the IBA's Washington bureau chief, is winding up his period of tenure in the US, and is expected to return to Israel in August. According to a spokesman for the IBA, Dekel will continue working for the IBA in Israel..." (Doni Rosenzweig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Fifty-seven million Italians can’t be wrong – or can they? Love it or hate it, Italy stirs up passionate debate unlike any other country. Italophlies point to the brilliance of da Vinci, Michelangelo, or Fellini, the incomparable Italian supercar industry, and the stunning vistas throughout the nation. Dissenters point to the policies of Mussolini, the unreliability of said cars and the staggering corruption throughout the nation. I’ll choose to view the debate with Rossini on the stereo and espresso in hand (but made on a Swiss machine). Italy is well covered by print and/or electronic media, although control of these media outlets is quite centralized and subject to political and corporate influence. R.A.I. International serves listeners (and viewers) in North America. R.A.I. International: http://www.raiinternational.rai.it The URL given above will lead you to the Italian language homepage, from which you should select English from near the top-left corner (unless you prefer Spanish, the only other option). The English language page provides a relatively clean, uncluttered look when compared to the original Italian version. On the left of the page are buttons for the various broadcast regions (Americas, Australia and Oceania, Africa, Asia, and Europe), along with a direct link to RAI International Canada and “Satelradio”, which links to an Italian- language page. The main body of the webpage has headings for TV, Radio, RAI International Productions, and Web. We’ll click on Radio for now, and then return to look at Web. The first heading under Radio is Shortwave (click it!), which leads to a map of the world, divided into broadcast zones. Clicking on the eastern North America area opens up a new page with shortwave frequencies and broadcast times for the region, but this information is only given in Italian – luckily, it’s not too hard to decipher. Going back to the Radio heading, we find a similar option for Medium Wave (of limited use to most listeners in Canada), then a link to Web Channels – this opens an English-language “Satelradio” page, which focuses on satellite reception, although clicking on the accompanying icon leads to a different page, focusing on online audio. Perhaps one of these links has been incorrectly assigned. The Web section of the main page has information on how to subscribe to satellite or cable broadcasts (not web broadcasts, however), a link to Italica, the “website of Italian language and culture of Rai International”, Contact Us information, and an FAQ section. To find web audio, however, my suggestion is to click on the text RADIO above the fancy TV/Radio/RAI/etc. graphics, which will take you to a straightforward radio page with obvious links to “LIVE RADIO” and “Multilingual news”. Oddly, the fancy graphical heading for Radio on the main page doesn’t lead anywhere – it’s just a graphic (Paul E. Guise, Manitoba, Click!, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9485, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Taiwan, *1300- 1330, May 8 (Tue.), piano IS, in mostly English, YL with sign-on announcements, "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan", did not give frequencies or schedule, but says they change frequency and time to avoid jamming, OM with list of organizations and individuals involved with human rights issues for No. Korea, segment of recorded messages for abductees (family members, US Ambassador in Japan, Japanese Cabinet member, etc.), some messages in other languages followed by English translations, song in Japanese regarding COMJAN, 1326 sign-off announcements, again with no frequencies or times. Many IDs "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan". Mostly fair. John Wilkins and I have monitored this for several weeks now and find their language rotation seems to be totally random. If you want to hear English, you have to check every day (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shiokaze, barely audible typical piano music heard here May 9 at 1312 on 9485, language unknown, but soon losing out to growing strength of KAIJ 9480, probably aided by sporadic E. Even when that does not happen, Shiokaze tough to hear here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. Transmission failures: A few days ago KBS German 2000-2100 via Skelton on 3955 suffered from repeated transmitter break-downs. "Oddity: Merlin has apologized for these breaks even before any listeners complaints reached KBS. Odd, because this rarely happens. The apologies, not the transmission failures." Bei KBSWR war nach zweieinhalb Jahren am MO ,lt. Ansage, zum Letztenmal die interessante Sendung "Das Geschichtsportal" zu hören. Im Mai sollen noch, auch lt. Ansage, einige ältere Programme durch neue frische Angebote ersetzt werden. KBSWR täglich in Deutsch auf analoger KW(Wenn alles klappt) 2000-2100 utc via UK 3955 khz (in Ortssender-Qualität in A.) Vor ein paar Tagen war leider zum wiederholten Male ein kurzer Senderausfall auf 3955 kHz zu bekritteln. Kurios -- Merlin hat sich bei KBSWR für den letzten Senderausfall vor ein paar Tagen noch vor(!) Beschwerden der Hörer, in Seoul entschuldigt. Kurios deshalb, weil dies (angeblich) normalerweise extrem selten bis gar nicht passiert. Ich meine nicht die Senderausfälle:-) 73, (Paul Gager, Austria, May 8, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, DXLD) ** LIBYA [and non]. The 17 MHZ band is a mess today (May 9) at 1300- 1400 between 17620 and 17640 KHZ. Libya in Arabic on 17620 (V of Africa ID including Ozma word - see WRTH p 457); co-channel presumed RFI in French - both equal level. Libya 17625 same as 17620 and co-ch CRI Chile Amal 17627.5 - not very strong, and disappeared before 1400. Africa #1 17630 fair to good Unidentified at 1345 on 17635 poor strength Libya, Voice of Africa in Swahili was audible on 17600 at fair level but low audio and // 17725 (this is registered from May 5 with HFCC instead of 21695). So Libya had four transmitters on air simultaneously at same strength - but from where? 17620 and 17625 went off after clock chimes and Arabic announcement at 1400. Whatever was using 17635 also went at 1400. The Afro-pops was stationary on 17660, and no trace today of the wide- band noise jammer (Noel R. Green (NW England), May 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO [non]. RADIO ZONE 80 TESTING 1467 kHz FROM COL DE LA MADONE TILL 1600 UT Bonjour! Depuis ce matin, mercredi 9 mai, il y a une nouvelle station sur AM 1467 kHz depuis le Col de la Madone. Ce sont des tests, je sais pas jusqu'à quand ? Emission la journée seulement, fin à 1600 TU. C'est une station musicale (années 80) de la BELGIQUE. Son ZONE 80. Il est prévu d'avoir un programme local sur la Côte d'Azur ! Envoyer les rapports d'écoute sur http://www.zone80.be Radio Zone 80 from Belgium is testing from Col de la Madone on 1467 kHz. S/off 1600 UT from 9 May. More details will follow. Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, France other info from web page http://www.zone80.be Contacts --- GJM Médias SCRL RPM Liège - Avenue Rogier, 14 B-4000 LIEGE Téléphone: +32 (0)4 231 00 80 Fax: +32 (0)4 368 70 00 http://www.zone80.be/index.php?option=com_dfcontact&Itemid=126 to send reports (via Dario Monferini, PLAYDX editor via dxldyg via DXLD) Bonjour à la liste PLAYDX: Alors j'ai quelques infos de plus sur Zone 80, sur 1467 kHz. Les émissions commencent le matin à 07h00 soit 05h00 TU, et finissent vers 18h20 soit 16h20 TU. C'est un relais direct de la station belge en // avec le stream Internet http://www.zone80.be Vers 08h00, j'ai envoyé un email à la station, via le web http://www.zone80.be demandant des autocollants. Je m'attendais à recevoir une lettre par courrier postal et surprise vers 10h30, un coursier est venu m'apporter une enveloppe avec le logo d'un hôtel près de l'aéroport. Intrigué j'ouvre l'enveloppe. C'est un courrier d'un représentant de la station qui était de passage pour le lancement des émissions à Monaco. Il a été informé de mon email et avant de prendre l'avion pour la Belgique, il m'a envoyé les autocollants demandés. Un service 5 ***** !!!!!!!!!!!! A bientôt, 73's (Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, Côte d'Azur, France, May 10, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Re 7-054, the frequency was missing from the last line of the RNZI DRM schedule, as I discovered when trying to read it for WOR 1358: it`s 7145 at 0659-1158 as well as the following block at top of list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Not sure if this is news, as I don`t often check it, but on the DX-398, RDS from KOMA 92.5 is now, 2040 UT May 10, displaying title, artist and year of the oldie being played, alternating with IDs. Very few US stations are doing this yet, right? I have to run portable outside rather than next to the computer, which puts out enough VHF hash to keep the RDS from locking in on this strong signal (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Actually, in most cities, almost all of the big companies are doing this now on their stations (Jeff Lehmann, Hanson, MA, WTFDA via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Re 7-054, Univisión: It's not especially well-written, but the KUOK entry on Wikipedia gets the facts basically right - the nominal "primary" KUOK signal is full-power KUOK(TV) on 35 in Woodward, with KCHM-LP 36 in OKC serving as the signal that most in OKC get over the air, hence the "Univisión 36" branding on the air. The other LPTVs (KWDW-LP 48, KOKT-LP 20, KUTU-LP 25 and, until the end of the month when it changes networks, KUOK-CA 11) filling out the network in OKC, Tulsa and Ardmore. s (Scott Fybusy, NY, May 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) s, Tnx for the quick clarification. Why Woodward rather than OKC should be their `primary` signal was confusing. Speaking of Woodward, looking at FCC info, I see that OU, which has a CP for 88.1 there with 100 kW, but a null toward 125 degrees, presumably to protect Moore 88.1, now has applied to go on 88.3 instead, 75 kW non-direxional, and from a different site, both SW of Woodward. Hope the tornados don`t get it. Currently the Family Radio translator on 88.3 in Enid is unheard (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. "OKLAHOMA OUTRAGE," DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ATHEISTS TOPIC OF ABC PROGRAM This Friday, May 11, 2007 ~ Kagin, Smalkowski Family WHAT: A special two-hour ABC Network program scheduled to air this Friday, May 11 will discuss prejudice against Atheists in America, particularly in the city of Hardesty, Oklahoma, where Nicole Smalkowski was expelled from public school on false charges when she refused to stand in a circle on the auditorium floor with the girls’ basketball team and recite the “Lord’s Prayer." Her father Chuck Smalkowski was falsely indicted on criminal charges, all because of prejudice against their assertion of their rights as Atheists. American Atheists participated in Chuck’s criminal trial that resulted in three “Not Guilty” verdicts by a jury. Edwin Kagin, National Legal Director for American Atheists, persuaded the jury to swear to believe an Atheist under oath over a Christian if the facts so warranted. Following the verdict, American Atheists and the Smalkowski family filed a lawsuit for civil rights violations by state actors, under color of state law, in the Federal Court of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Smalkowskis, Edwin Kagin, and Richard Dawkins share a nine minute segment of this program that was recorded in ABC’s studios in New York City, and on location in Hardesty and Guymon, Oklahoma. Richard Rice, a Christian, who has agreed to serve as Oklahoma local counsel in the lawsuit, was interviewed on camera in Oklahoma. The four days of filming, condensed to nine minutes, will of necessity omit many things and one or more of the persons filmed may be cut. WHO: American Atheists members Nichole Smalkowski and Chuck Smalkowski and Edwin Kagin, National Legal Director for American Atheists. WHEN: Friday, May 11, 2007 for two hours, starting at 9:00 pm (EDT). WHERE: 20-20 show on ABC television, thought to be titled “Religion in America.” MORE INFO: http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/smalko1.htm http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/smalko3.htm http://www.atheists.org/legal/Smalkowski/Entry%20of%20Appearance%20Kagin%20filed%2024%20Aug%202006.pdf (AMERICAN ATHEISTS is a nationwide movement that defends civil rights for Atheists; works for the total separation of church and state; and addresses issues of First Amendment public policy.) (American Atheists Media Alert http://www.atheists.org May 10 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA [and non]. Transmission failures --- During the last week Radio Romania International and Radio Bulgaria suffered from transmitter failures as well: Von kürzeren Senderausfällen waren in der vorigen Woche auch Radio Sofia und Radio Rumänien International betroffen. Wobei bei RRI die Mittagssendung auf 9515 khz einmal in 444=SIO zu hören ist und ein andermal 60 Minuten lang überhaupt kein Signal auf der QRG ist. 73, (Paul Gager, Austria, May 8, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, DXLD) ** SAINT HELENA. 11092.5, Radio St. Helena, recibida carta con bonito sello de la isla conteniendo carta de agradecimiento así como datos e historia de las transmisiones de esta emisora y tarjeta QSL con datos completos, v/s Laura Lawrence, Station Manager. Tardaron en responder 6 meses y con el informe de recepción se acompañaron 3 US $ (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, May 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. R. St. Helena test transmission May 17th Received the following email on Thursday, May 10, 2007. "Dear Friends, Radio St Helena is going to be running a TEST TRANSMISSION on our SW equipment on Thursday 17th May 2007 at 1500 GMT. We hope you will be able to tune into 11092.5 Kilohertz USB. If you receive us, we would greatly appreciate an e-mail to confirm your reception to this address asap. This test transmission cannot be QSL'd. Thank you and best regards Laura Lawrence (Miss) Radio Station Manager, Radio St Helena Pounceys Tel/Fax: +290 4542 station.manager@helanta.sh R.S.H - 40 years - 25th December 1967-2007" 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, May 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA. Dragan Lekic en DXLD nos informa de que Radio Serbia ha cambiado su sintonía; en efecto en el servicio en español así se aprecia. Sin embargo en el boletín sonoro anuncian emitir en español de 15:00 a 15:30 y de 20:00 a 20:30, por 7240 kHz. Por otra parte en su página web publican emitir de 1400 a 1430 por 7240 y de 1900 a 1930 UT en la misma frecuencia. Desde Valencia sigue sin captarse por onda corta (José Miguel Romero, May 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Quiúbole José, Lo que puedo colegir por esa frecuencia de Radio Serbia 7240, al transmitir en español es que hipotéticamente buscan llegarle a España. Si vos no los escuchás, pienso que deberían de dejarse "de agarrados", por no decir que de mezquinos, y moverse a los 31 o 25m, que considero se propagan mejor en el verano, así de repente hasta los latinos salimos pringados con su señal en ese horario de 2000 a 2030. 73. (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.) Raúl, eso está claro, pero hay que ver en que situación se encuentra el transmisor, creo que con hacer el esfuerzo de emitir es para tenerselo en cuenta, confiemos que con el tiempo mejore su situación técnica, hace ya años que se les está informando de su situación, vease boletines del Club S500 por ejemplo, ni siquiera han respondido jmas a un E-mail (José Miguel Romero, Spain, ibid.) Dear Glenn & DXers, As Ruslan from Belarus correctly told you, new interval signal of the International R Serbia is from Serbian national anthem "Bože pravde" (God of Justice). Since anthem is originated from time when Serbia was a kingdom, authorities changed some text in it, to be a republican anthem. The old tune was totally Yugoslavian. They took it from a chorus poem "Jugoslavijo", which was written immediately after the WWII, and has a revolutionary character. Ref: ---- Serbian national anthem "Bože pravde" (God of Justice) [mp3, 128kbps-44kHz-stereo, 1.4MB]: http://www.parlament.sr.gov.yu/images/Boze_pravde_instrumental.mp3 Yugoslavian revolutionary poem "Jugoslavijo" - chorus [mp3, 56kbps-22kHz-mono, 672KB]: http://www.slobodnajugoslavija.com/korisnici/vedo/media/Kor-%20Jugoslavijo.mp3 Best regards! (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, Serbia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Correct UT for Spanish is 1400 and 1900 (gh, DXLD) ** SIERRA LEONE [non]. Tnx, Glenn. 9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension, 0743-0758* May 10, OM & YL in African language (assume news), 0757 drums, sign-off announcement by YL in English, goes something like: This is CTN with news and information from Freetown, Sierra Leone and mentions Media for Freedom and a UN agency, more drums and off, mostly fair. Also thanks to tip from Jerry Berg. Article at http://www.hirondelle.org/hirondelle.nsf/caefd9edd48f5826c12564cf004f793d/cc0d97c86736504ec1257281007445ec?OpenDocument (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Cotton Tree News launches an independent daily radio news service for Sierra Leone (14 Feb, 2007) COTTON TREE NEWS (CTN) launches a daily radio news package from the studios of Radio Mount Aureol at Fourah Bay College. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 14 February 2007 --- A newly created CTN team of journalists will produce - starting from Monday, 19 February 2007, - a daily service of live news and information broadcasts. The sequences will run simultaneously on Radio Mount Aureol and UN Radio Sierra Leone. They will be also fed by satellite to leading community radio stations throughout the country. News in English, Krio, Limba, Mende and Temne will be heard on short wave for listeners out of range of FM transmitters. In addition, news bulletins and programmes will be posted on an interactive website. CTN will cover the whole country and its correspondents will file daily reports from the provinces. Programmes are to reflect the election process and explain the mechanics of registration and voting to the public. Radio journalists are determined to provide up-to-the minute coverage of the 28 July elections day and the elections results. The work of government ministries, the United Nations and non-governmental organisations are further subjects to be aired in CTN output. Public access programmes are planned to feature regularly. Within six months the studios will produce six hours of daily broadcasts in the five main languages of Sierra Leone. The CTN studies and newsroom at Mount Aureol are equipped with state- of-the-art broadcast technology. The production and editorial staff in Freetown and the provinces receive professional training. Journalists from other radio stations will be invited to take part in training seminars. CTN is an independent radio production studio. It respects the media laws and institutions of Sierra Leone and its news and programmes are not subject to outside control. Directed by Fondation Hirondelle, Media for Peace and Human Dignity, COTTON TREE NEWS is funded by DFID, the European Commission, Irish Aid and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For all additional questions: Anne Bennett, project co-ordinator in Sierra Leone, +232 76 53 63 94 Dario Baroni, FH vice director, +41 21 654 20 20 Jean-Marie Etter, FH President, +41 79 287 36 46 http://www.hirondelle.org (via DXLD) But whence the name? Logo has a tree drawing, but unsure if it`s like our cottonwood trees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non]. Clandestina para Somalia 11640, Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia, 1650-1700, escuchada el 8 de mayo en somalí con emisión de música folklórica local, SINPO 45444. 15455, Mustaqbal Radio, 0603-0618, escuchada el 5 de mayo en somalí a locutor y locutora con comentarios, segmento musical, referencias a Ogadenia, SINPO 45444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Checking again the following Thursday, May 10 at 2105, for La Bañera de Ulises on REE as scheduled --- no, on 15110 a different program began ``Actualidad ---`` something, a roundtable discussion from the studio, and also on 15345, barely parallelable buried under Morocco in Arabic. Must be ``La actualidad al debate`` as scheduled Thursdays at 1305, but yes, LBU still shows during the Thursday 2100 hour at http://www.rtve.es/archivos/70-2721-FICHERO/Progra_01.pdf --- would it be too much to ask for the programs axually broadcast to match those on the published schedule? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also COSTA RICA ** SUDAN [non]. 15470, *1400-1430*, CLANDESTINE, Thursday 10-05, Southern Sudan Interactive R. Instructions, via Armavir, RUS, English ID, language lesson, 34343 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. TAIWAN/U.K. Skelton relays 6185 RTI German / 6045 RTI French 1900-2000 UT. What's going on with their signal? RTI suffered audio feeder cuts very often after earthquake on Dec 27, 2006. Similar happened on May 9/10th via their relays at VTMC Skelton Cumbria. Nobody takes care at the very terrible disturbed RTI feeder signal in VTMC control room in Bush House, London. Similar cuts via French Issoudun transmitter site result in a repeat of older RTI touristic reserve programs... Dietrich Hommel wrote in A-DX ng on May 9th "Chinese Jamming against RTI?" "Heute war ab 19 UTC auf 6185 kHz nur ein "gepflegtes Jamming" statt des Deutschprogrammes aus Taiwan zu hoeren. Wundern wuerde es mich nicht, wenn die chinesischen Kommunisten die Stimme aus Taiwan unhoerbar machen wollen." WB: Dietrich, Was ist gepflegtes Jamming? Auf 6185 habe ich in A07 noch nie Jamming - auch nicht aus China - gehoert. In den vergangenen Wochen hat sich dort auch 6185 Voice of the Revolution of Tigray, Mek'ele, Tigrinya (ex9650) angesiedelt. Vielleicht hast Du bei guter Ausbreitung "Jamming" aus dem Bereich ETH/ERI aufgenommen. [later] So, jetzt habe ich mir das "chinesische Jamming" mal angehoert. Ich hoere keine weiteres Nutzsignal auf beiden Kanaelen aus U.K. - wie z.B. jetzt die DWL auf 6075 kHz - , also ist das schlicht und einfach das aus Taiwan heran gefuehrte Unterseekabel Signal. Die Probleme mit der gestoerten Kommunikation per ISDN und Internet mit Taiwan nach dem schweren Erdbeben am 27. Dezember hat ja RTI schon selbst ausreichend diskutiert und selbst seinerzeit mit einer Grafik belegt (73 wb, wwdxc BC-DX May 9/10 via dxldyg via DXLD) Transmission failures --- At least the playout of Radio Taiwan in German for the transmission via Issoudun 2100-2200 on 3965 works out, unless it's just old stuff, like reported in the enclosed message: On Tue (May 8) 3965 obviously carried the program from May 6. Guten Morgen! 8.5.(DIE) --- Radio Taiwan International in Deutsch auf 3965 khz am MO mit SO-Programm. Ab 2101 utc (Programmbeginn ist um 2100 utc - hörbar wird es aber immer erst ab 2101 utc) wurde am MO irrtümlich das Programm vom Vortag (SO 6.5.) auf 3965khz übertragen. Zweimal Kochstudio mit gebrannten Nudeln und Meeresfrüchten bzw. auf taiwanesische Art - das war leicht zu merken. Auch das Sende-Datum wurde mit 6.5. angegeben. 73, (Paul Gager, Austria, May 8, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, DXLD) ** U K. THE BBC IS BEING RUINED BY WOMEN, SAYS PATRICK MOORE Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent From The Times May 8, 2007 Sir Patrick Moore has identified an alien species that threatens to destroy intelligent life --- the women who have taken over the BBC... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1760061.ece (via Brock Whaley, HI, DXLD) GWYNETH WILLIAMS APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH NETWORKS & NEWS FOR BBC WORLD SERVICE http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?p=7930 [illustrated] Gwyneth Williams has been appointed Director of BBC World Service’s English Networks and News. She will be responsible for all the BBC’s international radio programmes in English and for the nine streams that deliver that output to its 42 million listeners around the globe. She is currently Head of Radio Current Affairs and Editor of the BBC Reith Lectures. She will join in June, taking over from Phil Harding who is retiring from the BBC after 38 years with the corporation. BBC World Service Director Nigel Chapman said: “Gwyneth brings a wealth of experience in radio journalism to this very important global role. She has the energy and credibility to head up our English language proposition, ensuring it makes maximum possible impact across all available platforms with original, creative programmes and news services always underpinned by the BBC’s core values of independence, trust and creativity. A distinguished programme maker in her own right, she is well placed to understand and meet the challenges of a highly competitive media world.” Gwyneth Williams said: “I am delighted and honoured to take up this challenging job at the World Service. My early years here were formative, and I have since always stood for quality journalism. Globalisation presents us with a huge challenge which I am confident my colleagues will rise to meet. At a time when much broadcast journalism around the world is dumbing down, the World Service stands as a beacon of how things should be done. I am proud once more to be part of this team.” (Source: BBC World Service Publicity)( May 10th, 2007 - 12:06 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) In every press release, someone must be ``delighted``. Gee, I thought WS *was* being dumbed down; maybe less so than Radio 1? (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Re: Switching off AM signal --- I could be wrong, but I am pretty confident that 198 kHz long wave will be with us for quite a long time yet. It apparently functions also as a sort of 'MSF' for various functions, including the switching on and off of pensioners` heating systems in extremely cold weather to give extra heat at reduced night time rates during the day. I still maintain that it would also be used as the National Emergency Channel, in the event of nuclear attack, or some such other major event, though some dispute this, it may also have some other 'defence' applications. I think it will be maintained, at least as a 'front' for other purposes, I know I have been challenged on this thinking in the past, but I still hold on to it. Many thanks, Mike, for giving me the opportunity to comment on this (Ken Fletcher-0645UTC= 0745UTC+1/ //5th May 2007>>> Wirral (CH43), BDXC-UK via DXLD) Thanks Ken. The time switching function of the inaudible signal piggy- backed on 198 though is not limited to pensioners: it switches my Economy 7 meter in my Eastbourne flat on and off as well, as far as I know! (Mark Savage, moderator, ibid.) ** U S A. VOA ANNOUNCES NEW HEAD OF TIBETAN SERVICE http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?p=7920 [illustrated] The Voice of America has appointed Losang Gyatso as the new chief of its Tibetan Service. Beginning May 29, Gyatso will oversee the service’s daily radio and weekly television news and information programmes. Gyatso will replace John Buescher, PhD who will be retiring after 16 years of service. With a background in media, advertising, and management, Gyatso is currently the director of the Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art in Boulder, Colorado, a cultural organization that exhibits work of young Tibetan artists around the world. Previously, he served as the Senior Vice President for Lintas New York (now Lowe Worldwide) where he directed a staff of media professionals in creating marketing communications for television, radio, and print. At Lintas Delhi (now Lowe Lintas Delhi), Gyatso was the executive creative director overseeing a department of writers, art directors and producers. Multitalented, Gyatso played the role of Lord Chamberlain Phala in the Martin Scorsese directed film, “Kundun”, on the life of the 14th Dalai Lama and is also an acclaimed contemporary Tibetan visual artist. VOA’s Tibetan Service began broadcasting in March 1991. Inside Tibet programmes are received via shortwave radio and direct-to-dish satellite television and radio as well as streamed on the web at http://www.VOANews.com/tibetan (Source: Voice of America)( May 9th, 2007 - 9:44 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** U S A. PRAISE FOR AMERICA'S ARAB-LANGUAGE TV On a recent trip to the Middle East, I met with Israeli and Arab leaders, inside and outside of government. I was pleased to hear their praise for Al-Hurra, America's Arabic-language television network. I was told consistently that Al-Hurra is filling a void in the Middle East by providing accurate information about America, and by addressing issues absent on other Arab news stations including free speech, human rights, women empowerment, and government accountability -- all building blocks for freedom and democracy. I am struck that the views expressed to me could be so different from those presented by Joel Mowbray on your editorial page ("Mad TV," May 3). Although we acknowledge that our coverage on the second day of the Tehran Holocaust conference in December 2006 should not have aired, it was an error and not indicative of an editorial position. When one examines the totality of Al-Hurra's coverage over the past five months, one would find that in the days following the Holocaust conference Al-Hurra presented the condemnation of the conference by countries such as Israel, Britain, Italy, Germany and the United States. Al-Hurra also carried a unique report on members of the Washington, D.C., Muslim community visiting the Holocaust Museum and expressing solidarity with the victims as well as an in-depth interview with Sara Bloomfield, the museum director. Also, Al-Hurra provided live coverage of President Bush's remarks on Holocaust Remembrance Day, as well as Prime Minster Olmert's comments from Israel. One of the more poignant stories that Al-Hurra has recently covered is the ceremony on April 16 at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles honoring Tunisian Arab Khaled Abdel Wahab, credited with saving the lives of 24 Jews who lived in Tunisia during the Holocaust. His daughter Faiza accepted the award by saying, "I have the honor to celebrate my father . . . he saved several members from the violence of the Nazis by hiding them in his farm." She was joined by Nadia Bijaoui, whose family was saved from the Nazis by Faiza's father. The story of Khaled Abdel Wahab is documented in the book "Among the Righteous" by Al-Hurra host and Washington Institute Executive Director Robert Satloff. Al-Hurra remains committed to covering corruption and human-rights abuses. Recently, we covered the sentencing of well-known Syrian human-rights activist Anwar al-Bunni and the torture of Egyptian prisoners as well as the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. In addition, Al-Hurra provided live coverage of the State Department's release of its annual report on Human Rights and Democracy as well as hearings before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the promotion of human rights in U.S. foreign policy. We have learned from our errors and have instituted improved editorial controls. For example, an assignment desk was established in early March that monitors and flags material as it is received from the field. Al-Hurra continues to recruit, hire and train language- qualified journalists to improve and strengthen the overall quality of our editorial product. Joaquín Blaya, Chairman, Middle East Committee Broadcasting Board of Governors, Washington (Letter to Wall Street Journal, May 8, via David Cole, OK, and Mike Cooper, GA, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. CHU vs WHRI on 7335: see CANADA [and non] ** U S A. WBCQ finally confirmed still on 18910-CLSB, May 9 around 1920 with monotonous preacher (not the one who screams and pauses on weekends), a few hours before WORLD OF RADIO scheduled Wednesday at 2300 when I can never pick it up. WBCQ supposedly plans to go back to 17495 within a few weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WEWN`s squealing transmitter was being employed May 9 at 1322 in Spanish on 13615. It`s not too bad yet, compared to CRI via Cuba on 13740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. I have heard WYFR on the new Wertachtal Frequency 9610 between 1900 and 2100 h in English. In which languages are the other new frequencies? (Peter Kruse, Germany, May 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1900 UT: Italian & Arabic (to be confirmed) on 9495, Arabic on 7180, French on 13780 and on 11610 and English on 9610 2000 UT: English on 9610, Arabic on 9735, French on 5975, Arabic on 11610 2100 UT: French on 9720, Arabic on 5915, English on 9610, Arabic on 11610 2200 UT: Arabic on 7115, English on 9620 and French on 9720 Regards (JM Aubier, France, ibid.) 13630 500 1600-1700 English, 1700-1900 ? 15650 500 1600-1659 English 15705 500 1600-1659 English (Kruse, ibid.) ** U S A. WIBW Signed on from Topeka, KS on May 8, 1927 and is celebrating its 80th anniversary today. I found a small blurb about midway down their news Web page: http://www.580wibw.com/news.shtml 73, de (Nate Bargmann, Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) linx to podcasts re --- one with video I won`t attempt to copy, and for those who do not have Quicktime, To hear this story in a 6.3 MB mp3 audio file click here http://web.mac.com/jdradio/iWeb/wibw80thpodcast.mp3 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) One of the speakers speculates on what the call letters mean: Where Industry Brings Wealth? Way In the Back Woods? It may have been simply from an alfabetical sequence. I can think of some other old stations in the WI`s: WIBA, WIBC, WIBG --- hmm, period (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. KGLP Gallup NM, afraid to stream: http://www.kglp.org/streaming.html Also linx to an article about the problem. Wonder how many US public radio stations are suspending streaming currently? We have several KGLP programs on MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn -- KGLP is the first one I've seen since the current issue arose (Kevin A. Kelly, publicradiofan.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. This is a little off topic, but still radio related. Just listened to a old radio show on WBBM-780 Chicago. Show was with Jack Benny, and originally broadcast on 14 March 1937 on NBC radio. Guest star on this show was Fred Allen and plot was their long standing feud. What makes this interesting (to me) is that at the end of the program, they played the NBC chimes and came an with an air check from KFI. "This is KFI, Los Angeles, Bulova time is 14 seconds till 9 PM" Can anyone remember when KFI was a NBC affiliate? (Willis Monk, Old Fart, TN, 0130 [EDT?] 09 May 2007, IRCA via DXLD) Yes. I started listening in 1954 in New Mexico, and KFI was associated in my mind with NBC from the outset, when radio networks still did sitcoms. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn. I remember the first time I ever heard KFI. I was in north Texas, in 1957. Didn't send for QSLs till 1960. This also shows you`re older than me:) 73's (Willis, ibid.) Hi, Willis, I don't know what year KFI began its affiliation with the NBC network, but it switched to ABC Entertainment in 1975. In the late 50s and 60s, there were lots of NBC affiliates on the lower part of the AM band audible from the West Coast. 580 KMJ Fresno, 600 KOGO, San Diego; 620 KTAR, Phoenix; 630, KOH, Reno (if memory serves); 640 KFI, Los Angeles; 670 WMAQ, Chicago (audible nightly prior to KBOI's frequency switch in '67), and KNBR 680 in San Francisco. -- (Rick Lewis, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) In Corvallis, Oregon, in the '40s, KFI was the primary night-time NBC affiliate we would hear for NBC network programs. It would put in a more consistent signal into the Willamette Valley than KPO-680, KIRO- 710 or even KGW-620. My parents (and I, as a result) listened to "The Richfield Reporter" every night at 10 p.m. PST/PDT to keep up with world news. I remember KFI's winter month smudge pot reports to warn the orange growers when a freeze was due (John Callarman, Krum TX a.k.a. Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon, ibid.) Hello Group, My QSL letter from KFI (Earle C. Anthony. Inc.) August 2, 1967 from C.W. Mason chief engineer has NBC affiliate at the bottom on the letter. Also 640 kc clear channel. Sent them a report of their sign-off at midnight on 7-31-67. Thank me for the report and return postage. Those were the days (Dennis Vroomski, Vancouver, WA, ibid.) I just thought it was interesting that that 'When Radio Was..." producer would leave the air check in with the Jack Benny show. Don't know when KFI started with NBC, but was NBC affiliate in 1937 and still was when I got a QSL from them in 1964. Along with the QSL came with a stamp with their call on it. The stamp a ECCO type and was for collectors. 73's (Willis Monk, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) EKKO – and as I`ve said before, KFI was the only station ever to send me one (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hauser Named To NPR Board NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO names DAILYME founder and CEO EDUARDO HAUSER to its Board of Directors. HAUSER, who has been appointed to a three-year term, previously served in executive positions at AOL, VENEVISION, and the CISNEROS GROUP before founding DAILYME, a soon-to-be-launched news portal, in 2005 (allaccess.com via Brock Whaley, HI, DXLD) But what are his credentials in non-commercial media? (gh, DXLD) ** URUGUAY [non]. 2209 GMT May 7, USA [non], 9620 kHz, WYFR Family Radio via Wertachtal relay. Same biblical program of previous entry. Phone call of a listener, with OM host commenting about II Peter, chapter 1, verse 5 (Christian Diemoz, Italy, Degen DE1103 + DE31 Internal loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1358, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Re 7-054: Prezado Glenn, Obrigado pelo contato. Já adicionei o link em http://www.romais.jor.br Não sei ainda se a Rádio Aparecida e a Canção Nova vão entrar em cadeia com a Rádio Vaticano, além da chamada Rede Católica de Rádios. É interessante notar que a RV trocou 9605 por 9610 kHz já faz duas temporadas radiais, mas tanto o boletim impresso quando o site do Programa Brasileiro continuam mencionando a freqüência antiga. Aliás, nos últimos dias tem excelente sintonia no Sul do Brasil, nesta freqüência, tanto com o programa em português quanto em espanhol. 73s, (Célio Romais, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9610 now via Canada, 0030- 0230 (gh) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ARGELIA, 6300, Radio Nacional Saharaui, 1708- 1730, escuchada el 8 de Mayo en español a locutor con noticias y segmento musical, en internet comenzó a las 1700 UT pero en Onda Corta no se escuchó hasta las 1708, SINPO 34333 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1358, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. Zimbabwe is introducing power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6638993.stm Might affect their SW transmitters (for broadcast and jamming use). (Chris Greenway, UK, May 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Says power remains at 17-21 LOCAL = 15-19 UT, which still means SWRA listeners don`t have to resort to cells (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4865.38, 2030-2040, ???, 09-05 UNID spurious with German folkmusic, 35444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, DXLD) {too early for Radio Logos, Bolivia, barely?} UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 7312v extremely distorted spur has finally been identified as: CHAD, q.v. UNIDENTIFIED. Re 7-054, 17670 at 1135-1300+: Maybe the technician at Delhi site checked the tx/antenna for the 1500 UT transmission ? (wb) 17670 1300-1357 MDC 250 kW 60 deg Vietnamese MDG AWR 17670 1500-1730 DEL 250 245 Swahili/Hindi IND AIR 17670 1730-1945 DEL 250 245 GOS-IV English IND AIR (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also reported in 7-047, q.v., by José Miguel Romero, Spain (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. THE (Mysterious, Intriguing, Annoying, Repetitious) NUMBERS STATIONS Beginner’s Classroom columns have covered many radio topics, from receivers to antennae, from shortwave to longwave, from types of legal broadcasting to pirates and clandestine stations. This month, however, we will delve into one of the most elusive and mysterious topics for well over 50 years in the radio hobby – the broadcasting of what we call (for lack of better understanding) the “Numbers Stations”. I’m sure most shortwave listeners and DXers have heard at least a couple of these “numbers stations”. These are stations that usually broadcast in the high frequency spectrum (usually out of the regular SW and ham bands), do not identify themselves, and their messages are usually series of numbers, letters, or phonetic letters such as those used by ham radio operators. The stations mostly utilize female voices, but there are also some male and children announcers in the mix. These transmissions may be in almost any language, but the top three heard seem to be Spanish, English and German. Stations usually broadcast about 15 to 30 minutes per transmission, repeating the same series of numbers or letters, normally in groups of four or five characters at a time. This is where the knowledge ends and a raft of speculation begins. Who are these “secret” broadcasters who have a penchant for 5-group numbers/letters? No one really knows for sure. Most radio hobbyists (as well as other groups) postulate that the numbers/letters series are actually a type of code sent by spies, drug-smugglers or military operatives. Some of these numbers stations have been given nicknames, such as “Atención!” (Of Cuban origin) and the “Lincolnshire Poacher” (believed to be from England), and have become famous over the years. Some have actually traced the source of some numbers stations to the states of Florida and Virginia, along with a number of countries in Central & South America, and Europe. Where can you listen to these mysterious transmissions? Although they can be heard on almost any shortwave frequency outside the regular SW and Amateur bands, there are some good areas that can be monitored. My favourite areas to check are between 5200 – 5800 kHz, 6200 – 6800 kHz, and 8000 – 9000 kHz. According to the Havana Moon web page http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/SW-numbers.html 11468, 6577 and 3927 kHz are frequencies used by some English and Spanish numbers groups. As well, there is a website located at http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page51.html which is called the “Ultimate Numbers Stations Frequency List”. The site contains a by-frequency list of a variety of numbers stations heard. There is a 4-disk CD set of numbers stations broadcasts that appears to be available as well. Called The Comet Project, this compilation from Irdial-Disks record label of England has been deigned a cult sensation by Wikipedia.com. There are conflicting reports on the Internet as to obtaining the CDs. The Comet Project website http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm lists the four-disk set at 4.60 British Pound for North American buyers. However, the Irdial Internet Archive has mp3 recordings that can be listened to and/or downloaded. The website is called the Recording of Shortwave Numbers Stations, and is located at http://www.archive.org/details/ird059 The boxed set also seems to be sold by people on Amazon.com, but at the ridiculous price of about $100 US. There are a number of websites that are dedicated to numbers stations and their clandestine activities. Three good sites I found were the Numbers Stations explanation at the Universal Radio http://www.dxing.com Chris Smolinski’s “Spy Numbers Stations on Shortwave” site http://www.spynumbers.com/ and Simon Mason’s “Shortwave Espionage” page at http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page30.html It should be noted here that according to the Wikipedia, it is illegal for people in the UK to listen to numbers stations, in accordance with the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949 – but I wouldn’t worry too much; it is believed that being charged with listening to a station that the government officially states does not exist would be next to impossible. Next time you hear “five – two – six – nine – zero”, or “cinco – tres – siete – ocho” or “Alpha – Charlie – Foxtrot – Tango” on the high frequencies, you will have entered the fascinating/confusing/secretive world of the Numbers Stations. Be patient --- and you will certainly be rewarded! Until June, 73, keep smiling and keep listening (J O E Robinson, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ STEVE WALDEE`S MUSINGS ON SHORTWAVE FOUND AGAIN This time under different URL, than in 7-050: What's LEFT of Shortwave Radio? Mostly pessimistic overview, with a few optimistic observations http://home.earthlink.net/~haggisizing/srw-swl/sw-remnants.htm Also a new bio of his early days as a listener: http://home.earthlink.net/~haggisizing/srw-swl/biog.htm (Glenn Hauser, May 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BDXC 'MIDDLE & NEAR EAST ON SHORTWAVE' UPDATED The BDXC file 'Middle & Near East on Shortwave' has been updated May 2007. http://www.bdxc.org.uk/ Click on 'Articles Index Page' Be certain to check out all the other useful information on the site as well! (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, May 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ AN OLD WIRELESS COMPANY HEEDS THE NEW WAVE From the Sydney Morning Herald, By Graeme Philipson, May 8, 2007 A once household name in Australian electronics is getting back to business thanks to a franchise network. LET us take a short walk through a part of Australia's technology history. Australia doesn't have too many technology companies that are nearly 100 years old but it does have one. In 1909 German company Telefunken formed a subsidiary in Australia to market a new-fangled technology called radio. Four years later the company merged with the Australian subsidiary of the British-based Marconi company to form Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, better known as AWA. Over the course of the 20th century AWA became one of the best-known corporate names in Australia. Its brand names, such as Radiola and Deep Image, were not far behind. . . http://www.smh.com.au/news/perspectives/an-old-wireless-company-heeds-the-new-wave/2007/05/07/1178390224389.html (via Craig Seager, ARDXC via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ DRM: see CANADA; INDIA; NEW ZEALAND IBOC There's no more contentious issue than IBOC in the MW DX community right now, nor none more important to be discussed. Aside from the claims (often bogus, IMHO) that the discussions are getting too insulting and therefore should be terminated, we often see the argument that there's no point in discussing it because IBOC is going to happen regardless, and there's nothing we can do about it. Let's just bury our heads in the sand, and pop them up in a few years, in the hope that IBOC will have just quietly gone away. In the meantime, we can whistle in the dark, and fill the mailing list with more innocuous and inane crap. This kind of defeatist attitude is misguided, and dangerous. The truth is, this is not a done deal yet, especially when it comes to AM IBOC. Consider the following: 1. IBOC is a voluntary standard. The FCC has rolled over and done the bidding of the radio broadcast heavyweights, but they aren't likely to take the additional step of making it a mandatory standard anytime in the foreseeable future, since there is no spectrum to be freed up for auction. 2. Only about 4% of U.S. AM stations are currently running IBOC, and the majority of those are owned by businesses that are also iBiquity investors, and therefore have a vested interest in seeing the spread of this technology. 3. Canada and other countries in the Americas have not agreed to amend the international agreements on AM broadcasting to allow hybrid IBOC operation at night. Canada in particular has serious misgivings about this system, despite the claims that you may have heard that we have already adopted, or are about to adopt, the IBOC system. This isn't even true of the FM system. 4. Those of us who have contacts in the broadcast industry can vouch for the fact that many broadcast professionals continue to have serious misgivings about IBOC. However, most won't go on the record with these concerns, since it could be a career-threatening move. As we are frequently reminded, radio broadcasting is a business. Broadcasters aren't likely to continue a practice that is having a negative impact on their bottom line. With hybrid IBOC, though, the assessment is a bit complicated. For a particular station, IBOC may be a plus if new listeners are attracted by the noise-free digital audio (but so far, there are very few signs of this happening), and at the same time, few listeners with analog receivers are bothered by digital noise (jury's still out on this one). On the other hand, IBOC operation by other stations, especially those on 1st adjacent channels, can be a strong negative. Whether they run IBOC or not, if stations perceive a net loss in listenership due to IBOC interference, they'll be motivated to take action. In the short term, the action would be to lodge interference complaints against the offending stations; in the longer run, it could result in collective action to abandon the hybrid AM IBOC system altogether. The key here is for radio listeners to let stations know when they experience interference. The catch is that the interference is noise- like, so most listeners will probably be inclined to put it down to a local reception problem rather than interference from another station. So, they may just give up, rather than contact the station being interfered with. The folks on this mailing list, however, are more enlightened, and know how to recognize IBOC interference when they encounter it. So, it is doubly important for us to not ignore IBOC, but to complain loudly when we encounter legitimate instances of interference. Obviously, such complaints will carry much more weight if you're in the nominal groundwave coverage area of the station being interfered with, or in the nighttime skywave coverage area of one of the Class A stations that is still interested in such listeners. It should be equally obvious that you should not identify yourself as a DX'er when you make your complaint. As the "green" folks are fond of saying these days, you CAN make a difference. Do your part to help clean up the AM radio environment! (Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) WHAT CONSTITUTES MATERIAL DEGRADATION TO A DTV SIGNAL? Below we have the full text (the Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) in the FCC proceeding to ensure that all cable customers receive programming after the DTV transition occurs. The question of whether the FCC should move from a subjective to an objective measure for what constitutes material degradation of an incoming DTV signal by a cable system is also launched. As Commissioner Copps put it, "The only issue is how to measure it." And what a giant issue it is. Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-71A1.doc Comments from the Commissioners: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-71A2.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-71A3.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-71A4.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-71A5.doc (CGC Communicator May 8 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ ARNIE CORO’S DXERS UNLIMITED’S HF PLUS LOW BAND VHF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST And now amigos, as always at the end of the program, when I am here in Havana, ready to copy: Solar activity is now again at very low levels, and if no new sunspots show up, we will have several days of solar flux at baseline levels, and possible ZERO sunspot count. More, many more sporadic E skip events are coming up during the next several weeks, and I expect this spring-summer sporadic E season to peak during the second and third weeks of June. [Earlier:] Hi amigos radioaficionados. Welcome to the mid week edition of Dxers Unlimited, that is reaching you when the Sun is taking yet another break, as solar activity took a downward trend after sunspot active region 953 just turned around and disappeared from Earth view. So expect very low solar activity for the next several days, as the rather extended tail end of solar cycle 23 continues. By the way, some scientists are now saying that the actual end of this cycle will not happen during 2007, and that the months of really minimum solar activity will be from February to June of 2008. Really bad news for amateur radio operators around the world amigos, as this means that the HF propagation conditions won’t recover until well into 2008. QSL on the air, QSL on the air to the many Dxers Unlimited listeners that have sent Sporadic E skip propagation reports during the past week. Sure, those reports do help to give a very good idea on how the current sporadic E season is developing. According to a fast track analysis of the reports, best times for monitoring the 10 and 6 meters bands and the low band VHF TV band are from 7 AM to 11 AM local time, with a second propagation window from about 3 PM to 8 PM local time, although I have received several sporadic E reports telling me that TV stations operating on channels 2, 3 and 5 in the deep South of the USA were seeing in Ontario, Canada as late as 10 pm local time. And this of course is a confirmation of the well known fact that sporadic E clouds may appear at any time of the day, although they do have a rather definite pattern of morning and local afternoon event been more frequent. Sí, amigos, yes, my friends, oui, mes amis. The spring-summer sporadic E season is now in full swing for our enjoyment, and I expect to have the opportunity of saying HI ON THE AIR to many Dxers Unlimited listeners that are also radio amateurs and enjoy the use of 10 meters and 6 meters during the solar cycle independent Sporadic E season. AND for those of you not familiar with this unique propagation mode, let me add that after about half a century of enjoying sporadic E propagation, it continues to fascinate me like the very first day I saw an American TV station from Chicago, WBBM Channel 2 and a few minutes later another station from Oklahoma on the same channel on my home RCA 17 inch black and white TV set one day in early May of 1957. From that very same day, I have been a fan of TV Dxing second to none amigos!!! (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited May 8, HCDX via DXLD) The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels the majority of the summary period. Early on 30 April, active levels were observed at the middle latitudes, while high latitudes observed periods of minor storm conditions early on 30 April and again midday on 01 May. ACE solar wind data indicated wind velocities of near 675 km/s early on 30 April as a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream remained in a geoeffective position. By late on 30 April, wind speeds began a slow, gradual decay as the coronal hole moved out of a geoeffective position. The summary period ended with wind velocities near 280 km/s. The Bz component of the IMF field generally did not vary much beyond +/- 3 nT with the exception of a brief period of +/- 6 nT early in the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 09 MAY - 04 JUNE 2007 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels during 25 May - 03 June. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels through 18 May. A recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream is expected to disturb the field during 19 - 20 May with unsettled to active levels likely. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected during 2l - 23 May. Another round of coronal hole effects are expected during 24 - 27 May with unsettled to minor storm conditions possible. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected for the remainder of the forecast period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 May 08 1824 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # Product description and SEC contact on the Web # http://www.sec.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2007 May 08 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2007 May 09 70 8 3 2007 May 10 70 5 2 2007 May 11 70 5 2 2007 May 12 70 5 2 2007 May 13 70 5 2 2007 May 14 70 5 2 2007 May 15 70 5 2 2007 May 16 70 5 2 2007 May 17 70 5 2 2007 May 18 70 5 2 2007 May 19 70 10 3 2007 May 20 70 15 4 2007 May 21 75 8 3 2007 May 22 80 5 2 2007 May 23 85 5 2 2007 May 24 85 15 4 2007 May 25 85 25 5 2007 May 26 85 20 5 2007 May 27 85 20 5 2007 May 28 85 8 3 2007 May 29 85 5 2 2007 May 30 85 5 2 2007 May 31 80 5 2 2007 Jun 01 80 5 2 2007 Jun 02 80 8 3 2007 Jun 03 75 15 3 2007 Jun 04 75 5 2 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via WORLD OF RADIO 1358, DXLD) CZECH PROPAGATION INTERESTED GROUP SOLAR & GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST --- SOLAR-ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD MAY 11 - 17, 2007 Activity level: very low to low Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 68-85 f.u. Flares: weak (0-10/day) Relative sunspot number: in the range 11-40 Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at) asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague) ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period May 11 to May 17, 2007 quiet: May 11, 12, 16 and 17 quiet to unsettled: May 13 unsettled: May 14 and 15 active: 0 minor storm: 0 major storm: 0 severe storm: 0 Geomagnetic activity summary: geomagnetic field was quiet from May 3 to 6 and 9, unsettled on May 7 and 8. RWC Prague, Geophysical Institute Prague, Geomagnetic Dept, Czech Republic e-mail: geom(at)ig.cas.cz ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period of one solar rotation unsettled to active: May (12,) 14-15, 19-20, 24-28, Jun 3-4 active to disturbed: May 19-20, 24-26, (27,) Jun 3 quiet: May 10-11, 13, (16-18, 21,) 22-23, 29-31, Jun 1, (2) Survey: quiet on May 2, 4-6, 9 mostly quiet May 3 quiet to active May 8 quiet to disturbed May 7 Notice: Days in brackets refer to a lower probability of possible solar activity enhancements depending on previous developments on the sun. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interested Group (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ###