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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRING OF WORLD OF RADIO 1373 Wed 0730 WRMI 9955 SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1374 Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 [first airing of each edition] Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB Thu 0600 WRMI 9955 Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Fri 0630 WRMI 9955 Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755 Fri 1100 WRMI 9955 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [irregular; confirmed 8/25/07] Sat 2130 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1500 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular; not 9/3/07] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies to 0500] Mon 0830 WRMI 9955 Tue 1030 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 7385 Wed 0730 WRMI 9955 WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org ** ARGENTINA. HISTORIA DE LA RADIO EN ARGENTINA http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/891733/Historia-de-la-Radio-en-la-Argentina.html (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo Uruguay, Sept 10, Noticias DX yg via DXLD) Starting in 1920y, illustrated; ends with long list of station websites by province (gh, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Book Review By Kenneth D. MacHarg: ``From Parsifal to Perón; Early Radio in Argentina, 1920-1940`` offers insightful, entertaining overview of the early days of radio in Argentina I’m not sure what first drew me to this book—a life-long love of radio and mass media or my nearly 18 years of living and working in Latin America . Whatever it was, reading it was an insightful and entertaining experience. Dr. Robert Claxton’s discourse on the early development of radio in Argentina (1920-1944) is both well-researched as you would expect from an academic and easily readable as it explores the technological and programmatic development of radio services along with the broadcast medium’s on-going relationships with government, education and the business community. There were several impulses that moved radio to an early development in Argentina, including the electrification of the country and a government that was disposed to encourage local broadcasting. Electricity reached many locations in the country in the 1880s and, by 1920, over 40 percent of South America’s telephones could be found in Argentina . Those, along with a strong scientific community and the developments of World War I led to an early interest in radio technology among the military—a development which lapsed over into the educational and commercial areas as well. An eager amateur radio community as well as the development of early spark transmitters in use by 1902 led to further developments. And, then as now, Argentina was a country with a high literacy rate and a resulting interest in other forms of communication. With his unique title, From Parsifal to Perón, Dr. Claxton hints at the roles that radio played in Argentinean cultural and political developments. Parsifal, an opera by Richard Wagner, was the first broadcast by a group of four amateurs who, using a five-watt transmitter and a wire strung between the Coliseo Theater and a nearby house, transmitted the three-hour performance to perhaps fifty crystal sets on August 27, 1920. Some proud Argentineans insist that the transmission was the first broadcast in the world in that it came before similar “first” broadcasts by WWJ or KDKA in the United States. However, as Dr. Claxton says, “Much depends on how one defines the word broadcast.” Dr. Claxton goes on to explore the necessity of marketing receivers, most of them designed and developed in Argentina, to capture the programs of the early radio pioneers and the development of such equipment from ugly boxes with wires and tubes to attractive pieces of furniture that were acceptable in living rooms throughout the country. One very interesting aspect of radio broadcasting in Argentina was that, primarily, it was home-grown. Initially radio stations developed as extensions of newspapers, educational institutions, governmental bodies and agricultural cooperatives. It took several decades for foreign radio station owners to enter the market and by then local styles and personalities had already been established. This stands in sharp contrast to other countries, such as Ecuador , where many early broadcasting initiatives came from foreign individuals and organizations. Quite a number of stations began as cultural or educational ventures that provided a cross-section of programming that could easily be compared to public radio offerings in the United States and elsewhere today. Later, as radio became more expensive to produce and entrepreneurs saw the potential to make money, a tension grew between the ideals of broadcasting in the public interest and radio as a generator of wealth or designed more for more common programming tastes. The book explores fascinating facets of radio programming, including the development of rural and small-town radio stations, the relationship of radio to the development of a national identity and the question of whether radio helped or hindered the development of democracy in Argentina. As a Latin American historian for many years at the University of West Georgia, Dr. Claxton is well-equipped to set the development of broadcasting in Argentina in its proper historical and cultural setting. And, as an aficionado of radio, he explores areas of the development of this media, such as shortwave broadcasting within Argentina and the reception of foreign broadcasts and their influence on Argentinean politics and culture. Along with extensive endnotes and a bibliography to document his research, Dr. Claxton includes a number of appendices listing, among other things, names of Buenos Aires radio dealers and brands, surveys of Argentine radio regulations and adherence to international broadcasting agreements as well as listings of Latin American pioneer radio broadcasters, commercial radio stations in Buenos Aires and in provincial cities, Argentine shortwave broadcasters, and cultural and economic information that affected the development of radio. As the author points out, a definitive history of radio broadcasting in Latin America has not been published in either English or Spanish. His book concerning radio broadcasting in Argentina is a solid and well-done contribution to developing material in this neglected field. ``From Parsifal to Perón, Early Radio in Argentina, 1920-1940``, by Robert Howard Claxton, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2007. May be ordered on-line at http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=CLAXTS07 Kenneth D. MacHarg is the author of From Rio to the Rio Grande, Challenges and Opportunities in Latin America. He served as the director of the English Language Service at international radio station HCJB, The Voice of the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador. Most recently he was professor of Communication and Mass Media at the Evangelical University of the Americas . Now retired, he lives in Carrollton, Georgia (Ken MacHarg, 102 Comly Rich Dr., Carrollton, GA 30117, 678- 796-1601, kdmacharg @ gmail.com Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Station: - HCJB Global Australia. Date :- 05-09-2007. Frequency:- 15405 kHz. (Transmitting from Kununurra in the northwest of Australia). Time: - 0145-0200 UT. Language:- Hindi. Description: - e-QSL. Burnt out bushland at Kununurra. This bushfire destroyed the fibre optic cable linking our studio to our transmitter. This caused our transmission to be off air for two days. Lightning strikes cause many bushfires in the outback (via Mukesh Kumar, dxldyg via DXLD) Annotation on the QSL or did it axually illustrate the fire, cable? Geez, why don`t they have dialup backup, if not satellite? But there`s nothing urgent or timely about HCJB`s message. Do they even attempt to do news? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. This morning I took a listen to Radio Australia on 49 meters. With the solar flux index in the mid 60's range and therefore less D layer absorption Radio Australia was readable on 6020 kc[/s] right up to sign off at 1400 UT. SIO was 454. At 1400 Radio Australia was still audible on 5995 with an SIO of 354. Fadeout occurred at 1420. 73 (Best Wishes), (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF Lakeland, FL, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. AZERBAIJANI RADIO LICENCE APPROVED FOR RFE/RL AND VOA The Azerbaijani National TV and Radio Council approved a radio licence to be used jointly by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) on Friday. The one-year licence for FM broadcast will be subject to annual renewal. Broadcasting from Baku [101.7 MHz], the station carries 67 hours of Radio Liberty Azerbaijani programming per week (which consists of 40 hours of original programming and 27 hours of repeated programming) and about eight hours per week of programming from VOA’s Azerbaijani service (which consists of about four and a half hours of original programming and three and a half hours of repeated programming). The remaining hours feature VOA’s Music Mix programme. Broadcasting Board of Governors Chairman James Glassman said of the licence approval, “We are glad to have a home for VOA and RFE/RL on the airwaves in Baku. We look forward to continuing this fruitful partnership.” (Source: Broadcasting Board of Governors)( September 11th, 2007 - 12:46 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, 0025-0050 fade out 06+07-09, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Sangaygang. Dzongkha announcement, talk, Horn fanfare 33443, QRM Colombia + whistling noise (ANKER PETERSEN, SKOVLUNDE, DINAMARCA, AOR AR7030PLUS, LONGWIRE 28 METROS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. New schedule for Voice of Biafra International in English: 2000-2100 on 15665 HRI 250 kW / 087 deg to WeAf Fri, new transmission 2100-2200 on 7380 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg to WeAf Sat, cancelled (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) Like we said in August (gh) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.4, Radio San Miguel (presumed), 1020-1035 Sept 10. Two males in Spanish Language conversation here. No ID on the half hour as expected while the audio is very weak anyway. At 1032 a female joins the group. Signal was poor (Chuck Bolland, FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Re 7-110: What`s Suvinil? (gh) Hi, Glenn, Parece que os caras falam dentro de uma lata SUVINIL. It sounds like the guys are talking inside a Suvinil can. Suvinil is Brazil´s best known brand of paint. Suvinil can = paint can (George Roberts, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A small thing, but just another example of how your learn more about the world thru SW (or writing/editing about it)! ``Your vinyl?`` Here`s another (gh, DXLD) Suvinil: marca comercial de pintura. Vea: http://www.suvinil.com.br/esp/productos/productos.asp El OM ZY quiso decir: `mala modulación como hablar con la boca dentro de un envase de pintura.` Jamás encontrarás una traducción en el diccionario o en la herramienta de idiomas de Google. Pero sí en el propio buscador de Google. 73 (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, DX LISTENING DIGEST) más/mais: Rádio Globo de SANTOS - 3385 khz Chai, concordo em gênero, numero e grau com suas observações abaixo. Aliás, acho que sómente eu e você , fizemos observação quanto a essa péssima qualidade de áudio da antiga Rádio Guarujá. Olha, o transmissor pode ser até ruim, mas essa má qualidade ( de corneta de quermesse ou parque de diversão) também ocorria na frequência dos 49 metros e da Onda média. Penso que a 'zica' já vinha desde a mesa de áudio da emissora, e os transmissores ruins ou desajustados completavam o 'serviço'... Bem observado... a qualidade do áudio da Rádio Cultura, 3365 Araraquara é um show. Não sei se você sabe, mas até pouco tempo ouví dizer que essa emissora pertencia a uma congregação de freiras. Há uns anos parece que foi comprada pelo Grupo Montoro, proprietário da Morada AM e FM. Os estúdios dessa Rádio Cultura, são muito interessantes. a emissora fica numa avenida rumo à Fonte Luminosa, e bem recuado da via, com um gramado à frente. Os dois estúdios estão à mostra dos transeuntes. Você passa na calçada e vê locutores e operadores em plena atividade. :)) o Parque de antenas (OM e OT) fica logo na saída de Araraquara, na rodovia Comandante João Ribeiro de Barros, sentido Jaú. abs, (EDSON, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL – Doze emissoras da região amazônica se uniram para formar a Rede de Notícia da Amazônia. O objetivo é “levar aos ouvintes informações originais, éticas e comprometidas com a defesa da região”. Fazem parte da rede algumas estações que podem ser captadas em ondas curtas: Rural, de Santarém (PA), Riomar, de Manaus (AM), Educação Rural, de Coari (AM), Alvorada, de Parintins (AM), Educadora, de Bragança (PA), Verdes Florestas, de Cruzeiro do Sul (AC), e Educação Rural, de Tefé (AM). As informações são do biólogo Paulo Roberto e Souza, de Tefé (AM). BRASIL – Conforme monitoria de Édison Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS), estão inativas, no momento, as emissoras Rádio Globo Santos, de Guarujá (SP), em 5045 kHz; e Rádio Guarujá, de Florianópolis (SC), em 5980 kHz. BRASIL – No dia 1º de setembro, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, de Brasília (DF), completou 30 anos no ar. Conforme a gerente da emissora, Sofia Hammoe, a estação surgiu “como uma ferramenta de segurança nacional, na época da ditadura militar”. Acrescenta, no entanto, que, nos dias atuais, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia “é um meio de comunicação, quase que um grande orelhão, para as pessoas se comunicarem”. O programa Ponto de Encontro, apresentado por Sula Sevillis, recebe cerca de 600 cartas todo mês. A Rádio Nacional da Amazônia transmite nas freqüências de 6180 e 11780 kHz. As informações são do site Envolverde. A dica é do biólogo Paulo Roberto e Souza, de Tefé (AM). BRASIL – A Rádio Tupi, de Curitiba (PR), ficou alguns dias sem ser captada na freqüência de 9565 kHz. Em nove de setembro, voltou a ser ouvida, em Porto Alegre (RS), pelo colunista, às 1844, quando irradiava pregação do missionário Davi Miranda, da igreja pentecostal Deus é Amor, com tradução simultânea para o idioma inglês. O áudio, no entanto, estava completamente distorcido. BRASIL – Na Beira da Mata é um tradicional programa de músicas de raiz, levado ao ar, pela Rádio Brasil Central, de Goiânia (GO), desde 1976, em dois horários. Pode ser conferido, entre 5h e 7h e das 16h às 18h, no horário oficial de Brasília, pelas freqüências de 4985 e 11815 kHz. É conduzido por Carlos e João Veloso. Para conhecer um pouco mais do programa, basta acessar o site http://www.nabeiradamata.com.br BRASIL – Atualmente, a Rádio Cultura AM, de São Paulo (SP), está inativa na freqüência de 9615 kHz, em 31 metros. Outra freqüência inativa, em ondas curtas, é a de 4825 kHz, da Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP). [but Cultura on 9353 instead] BRASIL – O programa Encontro DX, que fala do mundo do rádio e das ondas curtas, vai ao ar, nos sábados, entre 2200 e 2230, em 5035, 6135, 9630 e 11855 kHz. A edição de oito de setembro foi irradiada nas últimas freqüências mencionadas. O canal 5035 kHz foi desmembrado da rede para que levasse ao ar uma partida de futebol envolvendo o Guaratinguetá. BRASIL – Em Marília (SP), Ivan Evangelista Júnior ouviu, durante boa parte da tarde de nove de setembro, a Rádio Gazeta, de São Paulo (SP), pela freqüência de 9685 kHz, em 31 metros. De acordo com ele, a programação era apenas musical. “Boa indicação para um final de tarde”, informa (Célio Romais, RS, Panorama, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, Calgary - CFVP relaying CKMX (AM 1060), 0445-0505, Sept 10, the usual clear Monday (Martí and jammer are off), C&W and bluegrass songs, IDs "Proud to be from Southern Alberta, Classic Country AM 1060" and "The pride of Southern Alberta, Classic Country AM 1060", mostly fair, briefly good. Radio ICDI (Central African Republic) still not heard at their *0500. Earlier heard BBC/Ascension Is. in English till 0359:35* (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Re 7-110, TV stations resuming call-letter IDs: That is good news. Although none of those stations will likely be received here (even after my local ATV leaves channel 6), local IDs will help DXers. I only IDed three Canadian TV *stations* this year, which is my all-time worst year for TV IDs from Canada (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport LA, WTFDA via DXLD) Just a cautionary point here - my understanding of the rebranding of the "CH" stations is that the call letters will be used only for local news programming ("CHCH News," "CHEK News," etc.) At all other times, the stations will be known only as "E!" - same logo and much of the same programming as the US cable network of the same name. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, ibid.) I hate to say this, but *local* Canadian TV stations seem to have become more difficult to ID than Mexican TV stations (Danny Shreveport, LA, Oglethorpe, ibid.) I never know which Saskatchewan CTV I am getting on 2, etc. --- many many cases like this. Then here is 'A' and now 'E'. So I am inclined to agree. I have never seen Mexican or other South-Central American TV. U.S. for the most part is easy, especially PBS affiliates. Fox can at times be troublesome (Saul (hereafter using the logo 'S') Chernos, Ont., ibid.) ** CANADA. Has your local station been playing local station 5 second promos by the PromoGit? He is local, so in Vancouver we are getting "690 Radio One, Very Vancouver". Are there "Totally Toronto," "Wonderful Winnipeg", "Catchy Calgary" and such cringe-inducing slogans across Canada? (Dan Say, BC, Sept 10, alt.radio.networks.cbc via DXLD) Yes, Calgary is doing it, but not with that phrase (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA. Imagine Andy Barrie with a calypso or pan background. Even the CBC News wouldn't seem so dull. PLUG PULLED ON BLACK RADIO STATION --- PLANS FOR CARIBBEAN-AFRICAN FM BAND 'SERIOUSLY CRUSHED' BY CBC'S OPPOSITION TO ITS 'PARTICULAR FREQUENCY' --- By BRETT CLARKSON, SUN MEDIA Toronto Sun September 8, 2007 The black community was denied its own 24-hour FM local radio station because of the "selfishness" of the CBC, which "seriously crushed" the Caribbean and African Radio Network's (CARN) plans to build a new station, charged one of the proponents of the would-be station. The network said it is planning a "massive response" to the CBC's "blockade" of CARN's plans to build a new station, and will stage a press conference Monday morning to outline how they plan to get their proposed station on air. "(It's) unfair and very unreasonable," said Delford Blythe, vice president of CARN. "There is no need for the CBC to be objecting to a community -- the largest one left in Toronto without a dedicated station of its own. They have no reason to object on any grounds in this case." The CBC contends the Caribbean and African Radio Network's bid to put a community-oriented station on 98.7 FM was too close on the band to CBC Radio One's 99.1 FM. It was opposed by the CBC because the new station's signal would interfere with Radio One, said CBC spokesman Jeff Keay. "To clarify, we don't oppose them receiving a radio station in Toronto," Keay said. "The only thing we object to is that particular frequency next to our frequency." Keay said both the CRTC and Industry Canada agree with the CBC's position, and that's why CARN's partial licence wasn't extended by the CRTC. In order for Industry Canada, which governs the airwarves, to award the frequency to CARN, the CBC must not object because the two frequencies are so close together. The CRTC had originally awarded CARN a partial licence to operate their station in April 2006, providing they submit another application within three months for a frequency other than 98.7. CARN asked for an extension in July 2006 because, as Blythe said, they still needed co-operation from the CBC. CBC didn't co-operate or provide technical evidence of any signal disruption from the proposed Caribbean station, Blythe said. As a result, the CRTC didn't grant another extension to CARN. http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2007/09/08/pf-4479504.html (via Dan Say, BC, alt.radio.networks.cbc via DXLD) ** CHILE. Geopolitical changes in Chile: 1- The present Tarapacá region from October 9, 2007, will be divided into two regions: the Tarapacá region, and the new Arica y Parinacota region 2- The present Los Lagos region from October 3, 2007, will be divided into two regions: the Los Lagos region, and the new Los Ríos region (capital Valdivia). (Wikipedia via ARC South American News Desk, Sept, edited by Tore B. Vik, Norway, via Tore Larsson, ARC, Sweden, DXLD) ** CHINA. 15510, Sep 10 1210-1300, CNR1. This has been reported by Japanese DXers already for some months. Probably for jamming, but the target is unclear. Also VoR in Dari and a utility transmission on the same frequency (Mauno Ritola, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15510 & 15615 KSDA Chinese at 1000-1100 UT in Mandarin. So, they - SARFT - keep that few hours longer on air ... ??? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) I thought the Chicom don`t bother to jam Christian religious broadcasts in Chinese, and Aoki does not show the earlier KSDA frequencies as jammed (*). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Yes, you are right, no jamming occurred today on KSDA's Mandarin service 15510 and 15665 in 10-11 UT slot. But at 1200-1300 UT noted that CNR1 program as jamming against CBS Taiwan services on 9680 9780 11665, and 15465 kHz. Latter 15465 jamming noted with superpower 4 echos !! Jamming against IBB and AIR services carried the usual Firedrake music jamming type. CNR1 noted also on regular homeland service at same 1200-1300 UT slot: 9630 9845 11590 11630 11710 11775 11785 11805 11825 11840 11925 12040 13610 13700 13830 15375 15480, and 17705 --- and 15510 of course, but underneath of BUZZY Samara co-channel [VOR in Pashto/Dari]. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** CHINA. LISTENING TO TAMIL RADIO THE CHINA WAY ERODE [sic]: Avid radio listener from Perundurai, K. Paramasivan ran out of a cinema hall in the middle of the show and came back after an hour. The reason he did that was to listen to his favourite radio programme. "The one hour programme has been my favourite for over two decades and there has been not a day when I have missed the programme," he says. "It is so wonderfully packed with world news and cultural programmes that it has become a part of parcel of my life.” There are more than 30,000 loyal listeners like Mr. Paramasivan, who religiously tune into short wave (SW) 31.04 m to listen to these voices coming from the across the Himalayas. The programme is from China Radio International’s (CRI) Tamil Division, where the Tamil Service has been on since August 1, 1963. It starts every evening at 7.30 IST with news, news snippets and includes programmes on Chinese culture, stories, music, etc." Listeners like Mr. Paramasivan did not just stop with listening to the Service; they also mailed the broadcasters, participated in the competition and won prizes, which included a trip to China. So much has been the overwhelming response from Tamil listeners that among all the international service in CRI, Tamil Service tops the list for maximum number of listeners’ letters. "Last year CRI received 5.2 lakh letters, of which 3.5 lakh alone where from Tamil listeners for the Tamil Service," says S. Selvam, a listener from Villupuram. These listeners got together and have formed Anaithu Inthiya Cheena Vanoli Neyar Mandram (All-India CRI listeners’ forum). "Every district barring Nilgris has got a listeners’ club," says Mr. Selvam, who is the club’s president. The listeners’ club conducts an annual meet in the State, which is well attended. "We are like a family and use that day to meet other family members," says Mr. Paramasivan. Not only that, the CRI encourages readers to participate in competitions. Every year it selects a winner and sponsors a trip to China. For other listeners who regularly interact with the Service, it sends gifts. Given the popularity of the programme in the State, it appears that through air waves the people of the two countries have established a link much before the Governments agreed to open the Nathu La pass in Sikkim for trade. Source: http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/10/stories/2007091052840500.htm (via Jaisakthivel, Arumbakkam, Chennai-600106, India, dxldlyg via DXLD) Lakh = 100,000 or 10 to the fifth power. This is incredible: so more than two-thirds of all listener correspondence received by CRI comes from the Tamils? So what`s this ``7:30 pm`` broadcast on ``31.04 metres``? Those convert to 1400 UT on 9626 kHz, if you use the proper speed of light: According to Wikipedia, In metric units, c is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second, divided by 31.04. But that is certainly not the CRI Tamil frequency. We must instead use the common rounded-off, but inaccurate 300 Mm/sec conversion factor, to get 9665. Of course this is obvious if you remember that, by the 300 factor, the 31 meter band really starts at exactly nine and two-thirds MegaHertz, and downwards in frequency. According to ADDX A-07 schedules by language, Tamil from CRI: 0200 0300 CHN CRI Beijing 11650 13600 13610 0300 0400 CHN CRI Beijing 13600 13735 1400 1500 CHN CRI Beijing 9665 11685 1500 1600 CHN CRI Beijing 9490 11800 Both Aoki and WRTH A-07 update also show Tamil at 1400-1457. WRTH has 9665 Kunming, and 11685 Kashi; however, Aoki, presumably updated more recently, shows 13600 instead of 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. China R. International, 9800 DRM via Sackville, Canada, *2300-2335 UT September 9, 2007. "News and Reports", "CRI Notebook" and "People in the Know". Slight decoding dropouts. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [non]. Re 7-109, the Galcom banquet: not in Toronto, but Hamilton: http://www.galcom.org/index.php?Content=90&Menu=6&Language=english 2007 Annual Banquet Saturday, September 30, 2007 [sic --- Sept 29 is Saturday; cf earlier] Calvin Christian School 547 West 5th Street Hamilton, ON 5:30 pm [EDT = 2130 UT] R.S.V.P. - September 14, 2006 - (905) 574-4626 Guest Speaker: Mr. Russell Stendal of Columbia From Colombia Para Christo Make plans to come hear Russell speak about the exciting work that he is doing in Colombia. Stay Tuned - More details about this year's banquet to follow ! In 2006, the banquet was held at Calvin Christian School in Hamilton and featured Scott and Brenda Beigle. They shared in regards to their ministry and touching lives and how the [fix-tuned] Galcom radios are a blessing to each person who receives one. Galcom International has a banquet every year and invites the board members, its staff and volunteers, and anyone who wishes to attend. It takes place in Hamilton or the immediate surrounding area. Galcom USA also hosts an Annual donor banquet in Tampa, Flordia in the Spring of each year (via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) [sic] ** CUBA. Ah, another day, another transmission problem. Sept 10 at 1426, I found the very strong RHC transmitter on 13680 also putting out spurious audio, but this time without great distortion or additional noises. First noticed on 13760.0, RHC Spanish audio but under-modulated, and other audio underneath, CRI English, same as relay on 13740. Then same found, but much weaker, on 13720.0. No other such spurs found below 13680 or above 13760. These do not follow the usual leapfrog pattern, so who knows how they come about. Heard on both the FRG-7 with external antenna and the YB-400 with internal antenna. Rechecked at 2125 the situation becomes clearer, as undermodulated RHC Spanish // 9550 is still, or more likely again, on 13760, but only on 13760, no 13680 or any other frequency on the band. So that means 13760 is a new deliberate frequency, and 13720 heard earlier was a leapfrog mixing product over 13740 CRI relay. During the hours RHC is using it, the main other occupant of 13760 is Voice of Korea: Commies vs Commies! Another check, Sept 11 at 1351: 13760 with RHC as before, and also on weaker 13720, a leapfrog over 13740 CRI relay which is only in open- carrier warmup at this time, so nothing but RHC audio on 13720. This time with another receiver I compared audio on 13680, and there was an echo between them, proving that 13760 and 13680 are at two different sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. HISTORIA DE RADIO CARIBE --- Mi primer nombre fue CMBY "La voz de Isla de Pinos" y nací el 15 de diciembre de 1958, en Nueva Gerona. Por aquel entonces me dedicaba básicamente a transmitir musicales y anuncios comerciales. Un taller de reparaciones de autos, en calle 18 entre 39 y 41 fue el sitio elegido en la capital pinera para mi salida al aire. . . http://www.radiocaribe.co.cu/ . . . y me pueden sintonizar en los 1220 kilo Hertz, por onda media durante 24 horas o durante ese mismo tiempo pero por los 101.7 de la frecuencia modulada (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DXLD) ``Let`s keep politix out of this`` --- yeah, right. Above is a typical example of a Cuban radio station website which is full of political propaganda which has nothing in particular to do with the subject at hand. No doubt such OT stuff is mandated from the highest levels of the Commie dictatorship. In fact, I wonder if there is ANY Cuban website which does not mention or at least link to another site about the ``5 Héroes`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO BAYAMO. INFORMACIÓN FACILITADA POR YANDYS CERVANTES RODRIGUEZ. 1140 1 Kw Radio Bayamo, Media Luna. 1150 10 Kw Radio Bayamo, Entronque de Bueycito. 1160 1 Kw Radio Bayamo, Siguanea en Pilón. 95.3 FM 300 W Radio Bayamo, Bayamo. 99.5 FM 1 Kw Radio Bayamo, Bartolomé Masó. 100.5 FM 250 W Radio Bayamo, Buey Arriba. Ing. Yandys Cervantes Rodríguez, WebMaster. Sede Universitaria Municipal. Buey Arriba. Granma (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Poco a poco Mas información para completar el puzzle de las emisoras cubanas en AM 1000 Radio Granma, Manzanillo. ID: http://www.radiogranma.co.cu/identi.wma http://www.radiogranma.co.cu/programacion/programacion.htm 1040 CMBF Radio Musical Nacional, Villa Clara. http://www.cmbfjazz.cu/cmbf/cmbf_radio/pro_trans_hist_cmbf/transmision.htm (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Sept 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So there`s one station/network site that does include a frequency list. No doubt for this service, the trend is away from AM toward FM. The R. Musical station list shows only one AM frequency, 1040 in Villa Clara, all the others FM. WRTH 2007 still has several AM frequencies listed, notably 590, and several in the 1000s. Are all these really gone or changed to other networks? I recall 590 being DX-reported not too long ago with CMBF R. Musical Nacional (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Martí : see U S A Bruce Conti´s list shows that one given frequency may in fact carry different networks. This is true. From what I have noted on clips received from fellow DXers, La W is by no means the only one to be heard on 840 in Europe. Radio Revolución has also been heard with phone number, email address and all. Bruce is listing yet another network outlet on this channel. So it does not surprise me that one might find both Rebelde and Reloj on 670. An aspect which has not been discussed at great length is the fact that the Cubans - at least in the past - used to join together to form a sort of a curtain for one particular region, three, four or even five frequencies, one next to the other, for instance 1030-1070, to carry the same programme. I once thought this was done on purpose, with the idea of screening foreign broadcasters, or perhaps to help listeners find the local service without too much of a problem on receivers which might not be working too well (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, MWC via DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025, R. Amanecer, Santo Domingo (presumed), 0402-0444* Sept 10, non-stop religious singing, fair-poor. No sign-off announcement, off in mid-song. When there is a sign-off, it varies a lot (Sept 7 at 0407*) and as reported by others it's occasionally 24 hours (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Additional frequency for HCJB in Portuguese to Brasil from Sep. 5: 0900-1030 on 6160 QUI 100 kW / 110 deg \\ 9745 100 kW / 110 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) As already reported here ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Radio Mustaqbal in Somali again on air via VT Communications: 0545-0615 on 15215 RMP 500 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Mon-Wed/Sat 0620-0650 on 17590 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Mon/Tue/Sat 0730-0800 on 15420 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Mon-Wed/Sat 0805-0835 on 15200 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Mon/Tue/Sat 1130-1200 on 15160 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Mon-Wed/Sat 1205-1235 on 15140 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to EaAf Mon/Tue/Sat (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) For Ogaden, Somali-speaking area of Ethiopia, not primarily for Somalia itself, if you wonder (gh) ** GERMANY. Additional transmission of Pan American Broadcasting (PAB) via DTK: 1630-1645 on 11655 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Sun to WeAs in English from Sep. 2 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Some Deutsche Welle changes from Aug. 28: 0000-0100 on 13730 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg to EaAs in English, cancelled 0000-0100 on 15280 SNG 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs in Russian, additional (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) ** GREECE. Glenn: Another enjoyable "Greek In Style" program in English on Voice of Greece at 2305 UT Sunday to 0005 UT Monday on the frequencies of 7475 and 9420 in this area. Angeliki Timms was the hostess again with good Greek music featuring famous Greek artists (John Babbis, MD, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And same comment as last week: no English heard after 0200 UT Mon on webcast (gh, DXLD) ** GREENLAND. 3815, Kalaalit Nunaata Radio, Tasulag, 2008 UT, talks, poor, USB, QRM, best KAZ antenna. Gr (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, Sept 11, BDX via DXLD) ** HAITI. Part of the nation is Tortuga (Ile de la Tortue), an island off the northern coast of the country. Its surface is 180 square kilometres, and the number of inhabitants is documented as around 30,000 (with unofficial information saying it to be about twice that number). According to the recent (10-Sep-2007) article, http://www.medialternatif.org/alterpresse/spip.php?article6388 the infrastructure of the island includes broadcast facilities; this information is not to be found in the 2007 edition of the WRTH: 2 radio stations, one with call sign 4VET, Voix Evangélique de La Tortue, on 93.1 FM (relaying most of the programmes of the station 4VEH in the town of Cap-Haïtien, based on the mainland of Haiti); power is 500 watts. The other one, a community radio station, Tortue FM, on 93.1 FM broadcasting from Haut-Palmiste; Director of the station is Mr. Louiston Altès. The article leaves unclear if the two radio stations share the same facilities and air time. Wikipedia carries a separate article on Tortuga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortuga (Dr. Anton J. Kuchelmeister, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 11785, Voice of Indonesia, 1559-1617, Sept 9, after a strong WHRI signed off at 1559, heard usual recorded loop of music and ID ("From Jakarta, you are listening to the Voice of Indonesia"), fair, into programming in Arabic (reciting from Qur'an, etc.) // 9524.96 (strong) (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V. of Indonesia heard on 9525 starting 1510 on 9/8. Strong OC until 1530, then 30 minutes of English IDs over gamelan orchestra. S/on *1600 in Bahasa, then quickly into call to prayers. Started out with good signal, faded after 1630 (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, WA, WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. From the 23rd of July, the stereo channel RUI-2 on the satellite Sirius 2 has been used for relaying two mono programmes of Radio Ukraine International: the left channel carries the previous programme RUI-2, which from 23 to 04 hours is used as a feeder for the Lviv transmitter with transmissions to North America, and the right one carries the programme called RUI-1, which is used as a feeder for the Kharkiv transmitter with transmissions to Europe and Russia round-the-clock. These two channels are almost completely identical, except for 4 hours a day: from 23 to 24 hours the RUI-1 channel carries the German language programme, and RUI-2 – the Ukrainian one; from 0 to 1, from 3 to 4 and from 14 to 15 hours the RUI-1 channel carries the Ukrainian language programme, and RUI-2 – the English one. All other times of the day both channels carry identical programmes, namely, the previous RUI-2. To select left or right channel, you need to use the switch in your satellite tuner, or to disconnect an unnecessary channel from its loudspeaker (Olex Yegorov, Whole World on the Radio Dial, 18 August via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. There's an interesting article just published quoting some of the reception reports received by Radio Northsea International including two from New Zealand, Lindsay Robinson from Invencang heard them on 6210 and Mervyn Branks in Invercargill heard them on 1610 using a 960 foot long antenna and one from William Kilroy in Washington D.C who heard them on 1562: http://www.mediapages.nl/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1707&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 This week`s Pirate Radio Skues included, in its archive hour, Part One of the RNI story, taken from a double LP that was put out narrated by Andy Archer. In this part you hear among other things off air recordings and accounts of the UK Government jamming, the live broadcast of the boarding of the ship by Kees Manders when he threatened to cut the anchor chain and use water cannon on the mast and when the ship was boarded, a fire started in the engine room causing an explosion followed by SOS calls and most of the crew evacuating. It is on the Listen Again menu at the link below, advance the player, starts 1 hour 59:45 in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/local_radio/ Part Two next week (Mike Barraclough, England, Sept 10, dxldydg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 7235 kHz, Voice of Justice, tune in at 0155 UT with an interview (the name not caught) on General Petraeus / US in Iraq. Reception was quite good, SINPO 44444 from my bedside SONY 2010, ID about 0210, as I drifted off to sleep, with s/off at 0230, September 11 (Roger Chambers, Utica, New York, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. More observations on Sunday Sept. 9th --- 9345 and 11590 were already on air at 1627 in Hebrew in // 15760. All changed language at 1630 to Romanian followed by Ladino. The 15 MHz channel was beginning to weaken but the other two were strong, although 9345 was receiving QRM (all evening) on and off from a loud RTTY type signal on the USB. 15760 changed to 13675 at around 1656 (before conclusion of Ladino) and encountered co-channel CNR jamming of RFA until 1700 when RFA et al. moved to 13625. French, Spanish, English and Yiddish all followed as heard by Rumen Pankov and Bernie O`Shea. At 1800-1900 Hebrew was using only 13675 while Amharic/Tigris and Hungarian were using 9345 and 11590. There appeared to be a beam change on 9345 as the signal became less strong. Amharic and Tigris seems to be one inclusive transmission, and the change of language came at 1835 after some musical items. I was interested to hear the Russian programme at 1900 announce as "Govorit Radiostantsiya REQA" (pronounced RYKA). 9400 and 11590 were loud but there was no trace of 15640. At 2000 the Hebrew programme was heard via weak 15615 and very strong 9400. And at 2100+ only 9400 was heard. A check of other traditional frequencies revealed no parallel transmissions (Noel R. Green (NW England), Sept 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 3985.0, 1830-1902*, CLA, 06-09, R. Echo of Hope, via Gimpo, S. Korea. Korean talks, U.S. Jazz songs and western pop songs, 1858 jingle, closing announcement and a hymn 35333. No jammer heard here (ANKER PETERSEN, SKOVLUNDE, DINAMARCA, AOR AR7030PLUS, LONGWIRE 28 METROS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) ** KOREA. 6215, Korean numbers station (presumed), 1607, Sept 9, YL with list of numbers, fair. Probably the same station as reported last year by Jari Savolainen (Finland), Sergey Nikishin (Moscow) and Glenn (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. CORÉIA DO SUL – As emissões, em espanhol, da KBS World Radio, têm regular sintonia, no Sul do Brasil, entre 1100 e 1200, pela freqüência de 11795 kHz, que é via Sackville, no Canadá. Aos sábados, apresenta os segmentos Antena de la Amistad e Buzón. O Antena é apresentado pelo argentino Ramiro Trost e pela diretora do serviço em espanhol, Sonia Cho. Já o Buzón possui a condução de Francisco Bermudez e Cecilia Song (Célio Romais, RS, Panorama, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN. 3930v, 0250-0335 fade out, CLA, 10-09, R Voice of Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. Kurdish ID 0300: "Era Radyo... " after man singing martial song, followed by another martial song by choir, political talks, short instrumental music 45444 until *0255 when strong jammer signed on, then 42442. The station changed frequency to 3940 to 3926 to 3930 to 3920 and the jammer followed quickly after! (ANKER PETERSEN, SKOVLUNDE, DINAMARCA, AOR AR7030PLUS, LONGWIRE 28 METROS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 5470, 2042-2100*, R. Veritas, Sep 11, English. 80's pop ballads with OM giving brief affirmations over music. Several IDs as 'R. Veritas -Your friendly station'. Local TC with 'Good night to our SW friends' and frequency at sign-off. Music cut off at 2100. Fair (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. 17870, *1403-1426, V. of Africa, Sep 10, English. OM with weak signal; unsure if actual sign-on or inaudible prior to 1403, drums and 'V. of Africa from the (Great Jamahirya?)' ID. News items between musical bits through tune-out. Poor/fading (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010, 0245-0324, R. Nacional Malagasy, Sep 10, vernacular. Apparent early sign-on. Several brief bits by various announcers between jazz-like musical bits, passing mentions of Malagasy and Madagascar. Fair/good at tune-in (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. RE: DX LISTENING DIGEST 7-110 ``MALAYSIA. Voice of Malaysia in English, 15290 kHz very strong at 0650 UT, but with distorted modulation (Barry Hartley, NZ, Port Douglas [Qsld.] in the tropical North of Australia, Sept 2, wwdxc BC-DX Sept 9 via DXLD)`` Hi Glenn, Must be a typo. VoM/Suara Malaysia is regularly on 15295 kHz (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALDIVE ISLANDS [non]. GERMANY, Minivan Radio again cancelled transmissions via DTK from Sep. 1: 1600-1700 on 11965 JUL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs in Dhivehi (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) As already in DXLD ** MEXICO. 940 in Mexicali over-modulating --- Hi all, just want you to know that this morning, I was getting 940 oldies in Mexicali unusually well, but the reason why this is, is because they are severely over modulating. Earlier, in the five o'clock hour, I heard Mammy Blue by Los Poptops from 1971, and when I heard the base part of that song, I knew that the station was severely over modulating for some reason, so if you receive 940 oldies in Mexicali unusually well, that is, if they haven't fixed the problem by tonight, that is why. I don't know why this is, if they've installed a faster computer to store their oldies on or what, but it seems as though they're transitioning between songs quicker; for example, this morning just after six, I heard them go from Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul to Suavecito by Malo, with what sounded like a normal transition between songs, whereas in the past, when I could get them, when I would hear them go between songs, it would take from 3 to 5 seconds to go from one song to another, so especially in the San Francisco bay area, see if you can get 940 oldies in Mexicali before they fix this problem of over modulating. I wondered what was going on when they were broadcasting the Mexican national hour last night between 9 and 10 pm Pacific time, with an over modulated signal, but I just thought it was that particular broadcast, which never sounded particularly good, and last night toward the end of it, they featured something from Luciano Pavarotti. This is on my GE Super Radio 2 from Oakland, California, and all this, while Fresno was on the air over their signal (Marty Rimpau, CA, Sept 10, IRCA via DXLD) Its entry from John Callarman`s Mexican list as of last January: 940, BAJA CALIFORNIA. XEMMM, “940-AM Oldies*/Radio ABC” Mexicali. (1,000/100*) 24 hrs*. (Música grupera, noticias.) Prolongación Alfareros No. 253, Centro Civico, 21000. T: (686) 557-31-22, 557-20- 52, 557-20-11 F: 557-19-00. (Promosat)(ORF/Ramsa)(or Radio ABC) MPM- 03/01: XEWV “La Onda 94” MPM-0404: Fiesta Mexicana/Radio Fórmula” WRTH-04-07: “Fiesta Mexicana” XEWV call and “Fiesta Mexicana” slogan moved to 106.7; MPM-12/06 shows neither format nor slogan for XEMMM- 940; California DX’ers hear “940-AM Oldies” slogan; ABC website shows “XEMM”-940 and XEABCA-820 as affiliates. Radio Fórmula display ad in MPM-12/06 still shows XEMMM as affiliate. N 32-37-40 W 115-34-48 (XEWV, 1,000/100) (via DXLD) What do the asterisks mean? Intro says: ``As with frequency, the user is advised to consider carefully which information is likely to be current. Asterisks indicate agreement on listed slogans by * WRTH; * Listener’s reports; * Fred Cantú’s website`` So probably this was supposed to read two stars for reports and three for Fred (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO. A proposito di chiusure --- Tanto per restare in argomento, sulla home page del sito di Monaco Radio: "Monaco Radio Vous informe de l'arrêt de ses activités de radiodiffusion marine à compter du 1er janvier 2008" Adieu... -- (Gianfranco Buonomo, Pontecagnano (SA), Italy, AIR 8BG57 - SWL I856330/SA, Sept 9, playdx yg via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 7185, *0030-0045, 04-09, Myanma R, Yangon, Yegu Bamar announcement with instrumental music, talk, native song 22322, noise QRM + weaker station on 7185 (ANKER PETERSEN, SKOVLUNDE, DINAMARCA, AOR AR7030PLUS, LONGWIRE 28 METROS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. Re 7-110: Glenn, Andy Sennitt of RNW wrote: "Most of the listener mail we get these days is from people who listen via partner stations, WRN, or online. The response from shortwave listeners has dropped off enormously in the past several years." That statement tells you all you need to know about the current status of SW as a viable broadcast medium, especially to developed nations with widespread internet access, satellite radio, etc. The era of SW broadcasting to the developed world is coming to end, and that trend has been clear for about a decade. DRM will not save SW, nor will publicity about SWBC save it. Like steam locomotives and landline telegraphy, it has been rendered obsolete by changing technology. I commend RNW on being clear-headed enough to develop other delivery platforms and for making a real effort to produce interesting, relevant programming. But a lot of other SWBCers need to stop kidding themselves about the future of SW. It's hard to see what's ahead if you're fixated on the rear view mirror (Harry Helms W5HLH, Smithville, TX EL19 http://topsecrettourism.com Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Updated summer A-07 of Radio Pakistan: ASSAMI 0045-0115 9340.4 [including ENGLISH; from 0100?] URDU 0045-0215 11580.0 15480.0 BANGLA 0115-0200 9340.4 HINDI 0215-0300 9340.4 TAMIL 0315-0345 15620.4 GUJARATI 0400-0430 9350.4 PASHTO 0500-0545 6235.4 URDU 0500-0700 11570.0 15100.0 ENGLISH 0730-0830 15100.0 17835.0 URDU 0830-1100 15100.0 17835.0 TAMIL 0945-1015 17480.0 SINHALA 1015-1045 17480.0 ENGLISH 1100-1105 15100.0 17835.0 HINDI 1100-1145 9350.4 CHINESE 1200-1230 9380.0 11570.0 BANGLA 1200-1245 9350.4 NEPALI 1245-1315 9350.4 TURKI 1330-1400 4835.4 URDU 1330-1530 9380.0 11570.0 RUSSIAN 1415-1445 9300.4 DARI 1515-1545 4835.4 ENGLISH 1600-1615 9380.0 11550.4 11570.0 TURKISH 1630-1700 6215.4 URDU 1700-1900 7530.0 9375.0 PERSIAN 1715-1800 6235.4 ARABIC 1815-1900 6235.4 URDU 1915-0045 6235.4 Islamabad program (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, Radio East Sepik, Wewak from 1850 with amusement music and English talks, strong signal but weak audio, best longwire 100 meter and Dierking filter, 11/9. 3355, Radio Simbu, Kundiawa, 1935 11/9 with primitive voices and music, strong signal, poor audio, best with 100 meter longwire +KAZ antenna Gr (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, BDX via DXLD) Het wordt weer vroeger donker, Maurits, we gaan langzaam over naar de wintercondities. Groeten, (Ton Timmerman, Netherlands, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. VOR`s service to Asia in English is again becoming audible here way off the back in the 1400 UT hour, best on 15605, and also // 15660. Per HFCC, both are Moscow site; 15605 is 500 kW at 115 degrees, while 15660 is 250 kW at 100 degrees. Monday Sept 10 until 1458 we were enjoying a program of old Russian 78 rpm records (or 80?), but if there was an outro before the QSY announcement, we didn`t catch it. So what show was it? Going to the website http://www.ruvr.ru and clicking on English in the drop-down, we then find Guide to Programs http://ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&e=122&p= -- which gives a list of programs, but no times or frequencies! Counter-intuitively, you have to go to Frequencies, http://ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&e=152&p= eventually to reach further linx for the programming during each hour to each target area, clicking on Full Schedule (1400 and others no doubt duplicated, also to Eu and ME in this case). So we get to Asia, Monday, and what do we find? The column of times does not line up with the column of program titles. As we go down the page, they are increasingly misaligned. Re-sizing or switching from Firefox to IE does not help either; thus it must be built into their new php webpage. Geez! Starting at the bottom and trying to follow which title goes with which semi-hour segment somewhat higher, we think this must have been: ``Our Homeland``. But is that a musical show? Back to Guide to Programs: ``- Focuses on the old, new and latest history of Russia, its prominent and ordinary citizens, both children and adults, this country’s political, scientific and cultural life of the past and present. The program is an addition to our regular feature THIS IS RUSSIA.`` Nothing musical mentioned there; maybe what we heard was fill afterwards, but there must have been at least 10 minutes of it. Several music shows are on the list; maybe it was Folk Box, from the type of music we were hearing, but no sign of that anywhere nearby on the program schedule. So VOR has this extensively detailed website, but it fails to convey accurate info when we need it. And/or, the programmers fail to follow the published schedule. Furthermore, all the times given are wrong, ignoring news on the hour and half-hour. More problems: we see typos in the program schedule, such as ``03.00- 30.30`` repeated six times except Sunday when the out time is 04.00. Altho the schedule is certainly in UT, this is not specified on the individual target area pages, and the Listen Live spot at the upper right displays times of UT+4 as being current, so that must be local Moscow time! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ST. BRANDON. The 3B7C team is now active from Isle du Sud, St. Brandon (AF-015). It seems the team arrived on the island on September 5th, apparently the boat trip wasn't very pleasant due to high seas, but activity did not start until around 2000z, September 7th. Here are the following suggested frequencies: CW - 1822, 3502, 7002, 10102, 14022, 18072, 21022, 24892 and 28022 SSB - 1842, 3795, 7052, 14145, 18145, 21295, 24945 and 28495 RTTY - 3570, 7035, 10137, 14085, 18100, 21085, 24920 and 28075 PSK - 3580, 7037, 10140, 14071, 18100, 21071, 24920 and 28071 FM - 29580 6m - CW/50102, SSB/50145 and Beacon/50090 The 3B7C team plans to have 12 stations on the air. There will be a station on every band from 160-6 meters with second stations on 80 and 20 meters so they can operate on CW and SSB at the same time. This should be a fun and easy operation to work anywhere. Activity is expected to last until September 24th. The 3B7C Web page is available at: http://www.3b7c.com Update-to-date news is at: http://www.3b7c.com/news.htm Daily log updates are at: http://www.3b7c.com/logsearch/search.php Pilot station for the operation is John, G3WGV, and his E-mail address is: 3b7c @ g3wgv.com QSL via G3NUG, direct (Neville Cheadle, Lower Withers Barns, Middleton on the Hill, Leominster, HR6 0HY, England) or by the Bureau (Bureau cards can be requested via the 3B7C Web page). The QSL Manager for SWLs is Bob Treacher, 93 Elibank Road, Eltham, London SE9 1QJ, ENGLAND (KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80 Sept 10 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) 3B7C Frequencies and Modes 3B7C plans to operate on the following frequencies: MHz CW SSB RTTY FM PSK 1.8 1822 1842 - - - 3.5 3502 3795 3570 - 3580 7 7002 7052 7035 - 7037 10.1 10102 - 10137 - 10140 14 14022 14145 14085 - 14071 18 18072 18145 18100 - 18100 21 21022 21295 21085 - 21071 24.9 24892 24945 24920 - 24920 28 28022 28495 28075 29580 28071 50 50102 50145 - - - 50 50090 Beacon - - - We will operate on the above modes and frequencies. The frequencies are a guide. We will nearly always work split frequency and will regularly announce the frequencies on which we are listening. We will only make contacts on our transmitting frequency during the last few days of the DXpedition if the pile-ups have disappeared. We will also use slow CW toward the end of our expedition, to allow newcomers to Morse Code to make a contact with us. Listen to the operator carefully. Each has been briefed to give the 3B7C callsign at least after every two QSOs and to announce the listening frequencies every five QSO's. We will not work by numbers; we feel that with good ears and equipment this is quite unnecessary (from http://www.3b7c.com/frequencies.htm via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. U.K., Frequency change of FEBA Radio in French to WeCeAf: 1830-1900 NF 11790 RMP 500 kW / 160 deg, ex 15130 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) Like we said (gh) ** SOUTH AMERICA. PIRATE. ARGENTINA. 6398, R. Bosques, 2050 on Sep 9, testing with a relay of AM 1640 "LV de Arturo Zein" (ID heard: "Desde Arturo Zein y ahora con una nueva antena para toda la Gran La Plata, Berazategui. .. ésta es AM 1640, La Voz de Arturo Zein, ahora con más potencia y mucho más alcance... Esta es la Voz de Arturo Zein", "Esta es la 1640, La Voz de Arturo Zein" and then playing music from Uruguay. AM mode, QRK 5. Went off 2115, but rechecks proved positive, but station active during brief minute or so, twice, Then, I gave up. Nice condx at this time, including reception of a couple of Number Stations on 6855 and 6500 in AM mode. 73& DX. Degen DE1103 randomwire 25m long+mlb (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesante escucha. Horacito, tendría que ser desde "Arturo Seguí", que es una pequeña localidad próxima a La Plata. 73 (Arnaldo Salen, condiglist yg via DXLD) Gracias por la corrección! Creo que esta emisora no aparece en el WRTH 07 (Horacio, ibid.) ** UKRAINE. See INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** U K [non]. Frequency change for BBCWS in French to to WeCeAf: 1800-1830 NF 11745 MEY 100 kW / 330 deg, ex 15105 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) ** U K. COMMERCIAL RADIO POCKET BOOK 2007/FLOODS DOCUMENTARY The Commercial Radio Pocket Book 2007 is now available for download as a pdf at: http://www.radiocentre.org/radioCentre/showContent.aspx?pubid=119 A poster on Digital Spy says the free printed version is now being sent out very promptly, it's in a new ring binder format. The Radio Centre also has a 25 minute documentary on local commercial radio coverage of the summer floods streaming online with much broadcast material: http://www.radiocentre.org/radioCentre/showContent.aspx?pubid=131 The Radio Centre Pocket Book says that the UK's smallest commercial radio station is Two Lochs Radio in Gairloch and Loch Ewe which serves a population of 1681. http://www.2lr.co.uk/ Keri Jones of Radio Scilly has been posting much information about the station to Digital Spy. He has now uploaded a video of the Radio Scilly studios and nearly 12 minutes of audio of the station opening to savefile.com. The station commenced broadcasts with William Thomas and the St. Mary's Choral Society with the island's anthem, a fascinating version of Rule Britannia with totally different lyrics, links at: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=17939145&postcount=74 Savefile.com deletes files after 30 days with no downloads; for me using Firefox it says download will start automatically if it doesn't click this link, so far I have always needed to click the link (Mike Barrraclough, England, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U S A. COURT CASE MAY DECIDE IF U.S. CITIZENS HAVE PREFERENCE IN VOA HIRING VOA French Service promotes a Chadian citizen over a U.S. citizen. The American is suing VOA. "If a judge grants the request for class-action status, more than 50 job applicants dating back six years ultimately could be named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit." . . . http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070910/NATION/109100060/1001 Washington Times [Moony], 10 September 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) See also AFGE 1812 http://www.afge1812.org/ (Posted: 10 Sep 2007, ibid.) ** U S A. DODD OPPOSED TO BOTH TV AND RADIO MARTÍ Senator Chris Dodd, candidate for Democratic presidential nomination, would "shut down the 17-year-old TV Martí, a U.S. government-run television station that broadcasts to Cuba" adding that "taxpayers should not spend money on Radio Martí, a companion to the television station that virtually no one in Cuba sees." . . . http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-apdodd0909.artsep09,0,1164776.story (AP, 9 September 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com Sept 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) Radio Martí probably is heard in Cuba by those who have shortwave radios. Any country with controlled domestic media needs an outside source of news about itself. Radio Martí provides this. More economically, so would VOA Spanish transmissions targeted to Cuba (Kim Andrew Elliott, Posted: 09 Sep 2007, ibid.) 1180 ------ FL, Marathon: Another tentative on Radio Martí with post- ID flute theme. Listened several times but could not fish "Radio Martí" through Rebelde and WHAM; however, heard entirety of post-ID, pre-news theme. Drats. From strength of Martí against co-channel QRM, I'd say they must have both 50-kW Continental 317-F's up and allowing at least 25 kW to radiate off back of array. The question is, "why?" (Charles A. Taylor, NC, 0142 UT Sept 11, IRCA via DXLD) Re Ray Moore at Marathon, 7-110: This makes no sense. The distance from turnoff at the US-1 light (near the K-Mart and the yacht basin) to the Martí gates is probably less than a half-mile, probably closer to a quarter-mile. Easily walkable (Terry L Krueger Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Frequency changes of IBB: 0030-0130 NF 7215 MOR 250 kW / 067 deg, ex 11605 VOA R. Ashna, Pashto 0130-0230 NF 7215 MOR 250 kW / 067 deg, ex 12140 VOA R. Ashna in Dari 1500-1530 NF 9885 PHT 125 kW / 315 deg, ex 9695 VOA in Uzbek 1500-1600 NF 7180 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg, ex 11985 Radio Liberty, Tatar 1600-1700 NF 7190 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg, ex 9565 R. Liberty, Russian 1600-1700 NF 9565 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg, ex 7190 Radio Liberty, Tajik (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) see also AZERBAIJAN ** U S A [non]. Some changes of WYFR Family Radio, with kW / degrees: 1100-1200 NF 13850 VLD 200 / 220 to SEAs in Tagalog, ex 13810 1200-1300 NF 13850 VLD 200 / 220 to SEAs in Indonesian, ex 13810 1400-1600 NF 9850 SAM 250 / 117 to SoAs in Punjabi, ex 9735 1600-1700 on 15445 ASC 250 / 100 to SoAf in Portuguese, cancelled 2030-2130 NF 9505 RMP 500 / 168 to WeAf in French, ex 11985 ASC (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Sept 11 via DXLD) ** U S A. DX PROGRAMS Possible Update --- Hi, Glenn! For what it's worth, the 0230 UT Sunday airing of "DXing With Cumbre" on 5850 kHz hasn't been on for at least 3 weeks now. The WHRA signal on 5850 has been perfectly audible, but the programming has always been some sort of religious stuff every week. Because of that and other conflicts, I missed hearing DXw/C for some weeks until I finally remembered to set an alarm & try for it at 0230 UT Monday last night, and it was there, with an early start and even earlier cut-off, but it turned out to be a repeat of the previous week's pre-Labor-Day program, and had little content and some end-time music fill to flesh out the timeslot. I also checked the 0330 UT Monday airing on 7315 kHz and it was there, too, with that same old program (Will Martin, MO, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I see in the "anomaly" file that you caught the WBCQ screw- ups last night regarding the WoR airings. Whoever runs the board at that time must really be out of it, considering how often things get done wrong then (Will Martin, MO, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: WBCQ, UT Monday Sept. 10: before 0330, 9330 again with something else; latest WOR 1373 on 7415 did not start until 0458, following a full play of Extra 76 at 0426 or so, after another late-starting Amos & Andy (gh, http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) It's totally amazing that he [Allan Weiner] was even allowed to go legit after all of his high profile pirate activities. I have no doubt that the FCC only allowed it so that he would stop bothering them as a pirate. Previous pirate activities are normally grounds to deny a license. That rule of thumb was in place to deter anyone who might have thoughts of eventually applying for a license from going the pirate route in the interim. Just to rub it in, Allan did have a weekly program called Radio Newyork International on his licensed shortwave station. And even more ironic, I recall that he got his shortwave station licensed to operate on or near a very popular pirate radio frequency somewhere in the 7 MHz band. So technically he was still running pirate radio with much higher power and an FCC license! He also openly invited former pirate operators to host programs on his SW station. Is the SW station still around? (Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO, Westminster CO http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ IRCA mailing list via DXLD) WBCQ is very much still around, http://www.wbcq.com even has pictures. From a technical and equipment standpoint, the pictures paint a pretty interesting story (Paul B. Walker, ibid.) ** U S A. Just over the state line in NEW YORK, the FCC is opening the promised special application window for a new signal on 1700 in Rockland County. The window will run from Oct. 1 to 5, and it opens at the behest of WRCR (1300 Spring Valley), which has been struggling for years with a night signal that doesn't cover most of the fast-growing parts of the county. WRCR lobbied successfully on the public-safety angle, arguing that Rockland County residents in the evacuation zone of the Indian Point nuclear plant lacked a local source for emergency information. Any applicant for the new 1700 facility must show that it will cover (with a 2 mV/m day signal and an interference-free night signal) at least 50% of the Indian Point evacuation district in Rockland County - but that still offers enough leeway to create a persuasive rimshot day signal into New York City, 30 miles or so to the south. Who will apply in addition to WRCR? And what will happen when the competing applications go to auction? We'll be watching. Some sad news from MASSACHUSETTS just as we go to press early this Monday morning: Paul Sullivan, the former WBZ (1030) evening talk host, lost his battle with brain cancer Sunday night. . . [OBIT] http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2007/070910/nerw.html (Scott Fybush, NE Radio Watch Sept 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) ** U S A. GEORGIA: For many weeks I've noticed a strong S4 nighttime signal here on 1130 kilohertz from WLBA with nonstop Latino music. IDs are in English usually at half past the hour by a woman. Per the FCC database this is a class D station licensed for NDD operation with 10 kW from Gainesville GA, supposedly dropping to 1 kW during critical hours. Because of this station's night signal it's no longer possible to get weak reception of WBBR or KWKH. Has anyone else noticed this WLBA at night? If anyone knows how to contact the FCC monitoring staff, perhaps in Atlanta, the FCC might be made aware of this signal and requested to check mV/m levels at night on 1130 in NE Georgia (Richard Howard, Burnsville NC, Sept 10, DX LI STENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WIGG 1420 KHZ WIGGINS, MS DX TEST Date: Sunday morning (late Saturday night), Nov. 4, 2007. Time: 4:00– 4:30 a.m. Central STANDARD Time, 1000–1030 UT (please note, this will be the morning we change from DST to standard time in most of North America ). 5,000 watts using non-directional antenna pattern. Programming will consist of special voice announcements, Morse code, tones and classic country music. Reception reports may be sent to Mr. Paul A. Turner, WB5TJH, WIGG Radio, 959 N. Magnolia Dr. , Wiggins, MS 39577. No eQSL service is being offered for this test. Recordings on disk in .mp3 or .wav format will be accepted as proof of reception. NOTE: All requests for verifications must be accompanied by return postage in order to receive a reply. Our sincere thanks to Chief Engineer Paul Turner for agreeing to conduct this test. UPDATE ON VERIFICATIONS FOR WMRO 1560 KHZ GALLATIN, TN DX TEST Due to a continuing heavy work load, Scott Bailey at WMRO has agreed to allow the IRCA/NRC Joint Broadcast Test Committee to validate and verify reception reports from his DX Test conducted Jan. 15, 2007. If you heard and reported the test but have as of yet not received a verification, please send a duplicate report to the BTC. A choice of standard postal QSL cards or eQSL cards will be offered for correct reception reports. For a standard postal QSL card, please submit your report via postal service mail along with return postage in the form of U.S. stamps or an SASE. Recordings on disk in .mp3 of .wav format will be accepted as proof of reception. Please, no cassette recordings. Address for postal reports is: Joint IRCA/NRC BTC, WMRO DX Test, P.O. Box 3777, Memphis, TN 38173-0777. Recordings cannot be returned unless accompanied by a CD mailer and sufficient postage. For an eQSL, you may submit your report and/or .mp3 or .wav file via e-mail to KH2AR @ comcast.net Scott added that he will be happy to conduct another DX Test over WMRO with 1,000 watts and a non-directional antenna pattern later this DX season. Details will be announced when a date and time are worked out. Please address any questions to me at the same e-mail address shown above (Jim Pogue – KH2AR @ comcast.net http://www.dxtests.info IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UPDATE ON VERIFICATIONS FOR KEVA 1240 EVANSTON, WY DX TEST On Sept. 11, 2007, I had a very cordial and informative telephone conversation with Michael Richard, organizer of the Oct. 22, 2006 DX Test from KEVA. He apologized profusely for the delay in answering reception reports, and explained that a very busy schedule and the demands of running his own business have left him very little free time. Added to this, his file of reception reports went missing during a studio move at KEVA some time ago. All that said, he is still interested in providing verifications to DXers who heard the test. He promised if listeners will e-mail him, he will verify all correct reports as soon as possible. Although he said he would go on the “honor” system, I think all DXers worth their salt should resubmit their original reports and/or audio files to Michael. The e-mail address for reports is as before: michaelj @ vcn.com The bottom line: resend, and be patient a little longer and the QSLs will arrive. Thanks again to Michael for the great test, and for his patience in dealing with those of us whose hearts still beat a little faster when we check our mailboxes (Jim Pogue – KH2AR @ comcast.net http://www.dxtests.info IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator, Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IBOCh DX QSLs: see DIGITAL BROADCASTING ** U S A. CONFIRMED: WSLA-1560 Heard With WPAD Silent --- As a followup to my tentative report, I can confirm after listening to my recording that it was indeed daytimer WSLA-1560 which I heard this past Friday night, from 10:30 'til well past 11 PM Central [0330-0400+ UT] with sports programming. Lengthy multi-station ID mentioned WSLA- 1560 Slidell, WGSO-990, KFRA-1590, KTIB-640 Thibodaux, a couple of FMers, and WGNO-TV. Don't know if there's a new night-time authorization in effect, or an equipment glitch, but others may want to try while WPAD is still off the air. 73 (J. D. Stephens, Hampton Cove, AL, Sept 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. MIAMI: FCC RAIDS HAITIAN PIRATE RADIO STATION By Nadia Vanderhoof, Thursday, August 30, 2007 Sunday, September 09 2007 @ 06:07 PM PDT http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2007/aug/30/30fcc-raids-haitian-pirate-radio-station/ Jim Davis feels vindicated. JACK-FM, his company's radio station, has won back control of the airwaves from a pirate radio station based in South Florida. After a lengthy investigation, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission raided and shut down the illegal Haitian station that interfered with the 99.7 FM frequency on which JACK-FM sends its music signal. "Apparently we're the only state in the union that allows law enforcement to become involved in the investigation of a pirate radio station," said Davis, vice president and general manager of Vero Beach-based Treasure and Space Coast Radio. "This is a third-degree felony in the state." The pirate broadcasters apparently put a tower on top of a roof that was hidden in a family neighborhood, Davis said. "From what I've been told, it was a very strong transmitter with a few thousand watts." The illegal station, which broadcast in Creole, Spanish and English, was raided on Tuesday night in a residential duplex on Northwest 48th Avenue in Delray Beach. A separate investigation by the sheriff's office also yielded a raid on another pirate radio station later in the day. Ray Carlson, director of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office's Radio Services Division, said his team seized two truckloads of sophisticated radio equipment from the two illegal stations. "We acted on a complaint from a licensed broadcaster who also filed a complaint with the FCC," Carlson said. "At this point, everything has been turned over to the State Attorney's Office." Carlson said no arrests have been made because officers could not determine who owned the house where the station operated. Neighbors said for months they had wondered why their radios would suddenly jam with static when they drove through the area in Delray Beach. "If I got the radio station on, that dies automatically," said neighbor Jesse Jones. Davis said the Haitian-format station had "piggy-backed" on the frequency of 99.7 FM and sold air time to local businesses and dance clubs in the form of commercials. "Really this was a matter of public safety," Davis said. "During hurricane season, this is often the only way the public is informed of emergency situations." Davis originally sent his complaint to the FCC in August 2005. This isn't the first time that pirate station has hijacked a local radio station's airwaves. In January, police shut down a Haitian- format station run out of a western Port St. Lucie broadcasting on 106.1 FM. At the time, station operator Roubens Maignan faced a felony charge of interference with a public or commercial radio station licensed by the FCC. [what were the NAMES of the pirates??? -gh] WPTV contributed to this report (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Yes, the signal of JACK-FM is the ONLY method by which residents of south Florida can obtain information about approaching hurricanes! (Harry Helms, W5HLH, Smithville, TX EL19, ibid.) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6300, 2235-2310, CLA, 03-09, RASD, Rabouni, Algeria, Arabic/Spanish. Now again Spanish 2300-2400*, ex *1700-1800, talks, string music and songs, ID, news - distorted audio 35333 (ANKER PETERSEN, SKOVLUNDE, DINAMARCA, AOR AR7030PLUS, LONGWIRE 28 METROS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. R. Zambia/R. One, 5915, 0228-0255, Sept 10, tuned in to open carrier, *0240:45 Fish Eagle IS, choral anthem, drums, in vernacular, poor-fair (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ``Subjunctively 73, Glenn Hauser, Enid" Wow! You must have a writing background, or else you just paid exceptional attention in English class! Subjunctive -- you not only used it properly; you actually know what it is! Pretty rare these days. Always enjoy your thorough, literate reports! Appreciatively 73, (Fred Schroyer, Waynesburg, PA 15370) Fred, I guess it`s needing to deal with it more in Spanish, etc., which makes me more aware of it in English (Glenn) MUSEA +++++ SHORTWAVE GOLD Hi, I recently found a cassette tape with recordings I made from shortwave back in the 1980's. There is some amazing stuff there. I have transferred it all to mp3 and cleaned it up a little bit. If you are interested there are two options. 1) Two large files (sides A and B) can be had from here: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808534075 2) I have also started a Yahoo group that will host the individual tracks in its files section. It`s free to join just now but I may make it more secure if others want to share their SW memories as well. Please feel free to join to grab the individual tracks. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swgold/ It would be great if the group would take off :-) Thanks for looking (Mike, Sept 10, HCDX via DXLD) Looked at the pdf rundown. All are from 1985-1986y, apparently recorded in UK; unfortunately, WTFK? (gh, DXLD) IRELAND - VINTAGE RADIO MUSEUM BOOKLET UPDATED Tony, EI5EM, has updated and expanded the information booklet about the Vintage Radio Museum in Howth. As well as being a guide to the museum, the booklet is a potted history of the development of wireless technology. It details the 1903 and 1905 experiments carried out in Howth by Lee de Forest and the Marconi Company, and quotes from documents published at the time. A full-page reproduction of the Dublin Penny Journal's report on de Forest's 1903 experiments is reproduced in the booklet. This 22-page booklet is on sale in the museum for a small sum, but it can now be downloaded free from a link at the bottom of the museum website, which is http://ei5em.110mb.com/museum.html (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) RADIO LOGGINGS FROM 9/11/01 PERIOD As part of JefferyGuide's "The 9/11 Area", JefferyGuide is now offering radio loggings from the 9/11/01 period that were logged by myself. You may see these loggings by going to: http://www.angelfire.com/trek/amsguy/911radiolog.html Sincerely, (Dave Jeffery, Sept 10, 2007, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) COMMENTARY ++++++++++ Here`s someone who has tried to quantify what is definite, presumed, tentative, or unID; but how do you come up with the percentages? (gh) Critérios: Identificada: identificação completa e formal: freqüência, nome, cidade Presumida: dados citadados na programação (nome da rádio, diversos comerciais citando nome da cidade, etc.) permitem 90-99% de certeza da emissora Tentativa: 75%-90% de certeza, há dados (alguns comerciais, localidades) mas ainda resta dúvida de identificação Não-id: menos que 75% de certeza, dados não permitem ainda informação para determinar a emissora (HUELBE ARIZON GARCIA, PORTO ALEGRE, RS, @tividade DX Sept 9 via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: CHINA; NETHERLANDS ++++++++++++++++++++ AM HD RADIO AT NIGHT & THE KBRT RECOVERY The September 2007 edition of The Local Oscillator from Crawford Broadcasting is hot off the press. This is Crawford's corporate engineering newsletter and it's filled with interesting material including Cris Alexander's view of the transition to AM HD at night (pages 1-3) and Bill Agresta's update on KBRT's recovery from the devastating Catalina Island wildfire (pages 12-13). Bill introduces us to the "island factor" and gives graphic examples of this bewildering phenomena. http://tinyurl.com/2567qw (CGC Communicator Sept 10, via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) KFYI 550 DX Window Ladies and Gents, ABDX presents a QSL window for 550 KFYI Phoenix HD reception! Clear Channel`s KFYI 550 will be going HD at night on Sept 14. If you hear KFYI between Sept 14 and Sept 28 and THE RECEPTION IS CORRECT, I will handle the requests by email ONLY. I will be working as their QSL manager for this two week period and you will sent an EMAIL ONLY QSL for a correct reception report. Even non reception notes will be appreciated by the Phoenix CCU engineering staff. This is E-MAIL ONLY. No paper QSL requests will be answered. The address to send the e-mail QSL request is big_h00pla @ yahoo.com only. Again, this will be answered by e-mail only. Get your HD radios ready for this historic day and look for KFYI to get your first day of HD QSL. ABDX has announced to the entire world the very first club/group sponsored HD Radio DX test. Now that's cool! (Kevin Redding, Gilbert, AZ, Sept 10, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) This was already announced to the entire world, with Kevin`s permission, August 23 in DXLD 7-101, tho he has apparently changed the E-mail address to be used (gh, DXLD) WOR 710-HD IN NEW YORK CITY WILL BE OFFERING AN HD DX WINDOW FROM SEPTEMBER 14 TO SEPTEMBER 18. WOR 710-HD will be starting nighttime HD operations on September 14. QSL cards will be sent out, but we will accept QSL reports ONLY to hdqsl @ wor710.com and will ONLY respond to requests made from outside the New York Metro area. Please offer brief program details along with times and your location. Please, no audio files. HD-DX should be a challenge. I'm sure you're up for it (Thomas R. Ray, III, CPBE, W2TRR, Vice President, Corporate Director of Engineering, Buckley Broadcasting/WOR-710HD Radio, Chairman, Society of Broadcast Engineers, Chapter 15, New York City, 212-642-4462, phax: 212-764-1573, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) Sept 14 certainly will be interesting, Tom. I look forward to hearing about WLW and WGN's night IBOC blowing WOR away in your western fringe areas. HD DX certainly will be a challenge and it will be a major challenge for anyone to lock into WOR HD at night unless they are near the transmitter. Perhaps listeners/DXers along LI Sound will have a good chance, since WOR and the NYC clears really put a huge signal that way due to sea water conductivity. I wish WOR the best, and note that I think you may not realize how severe the QRM from WLW and WGN's IBOC will be when nighttime skip is at good levels. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaraoss, Barrington IL/Grafton WI, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) PREPARING FOR 9/14 A few thoughts as nighttime IBOC operation looms later this week... Digital transmission has some advantages, but the hybrid digital system is a lousy fit for the AM band. Aside from the cost of conversion for the broadcasters, there are indirect costs associated with damage to analog services, both for the IBOC players and for those staying on the sidelines. The broadcasters have never had a clear idea of these indirect costs, since iBiquity, the NAB, and other IBOC proponents have always downplayed the problems. Now the rubber starts to hit the road, and to understand what they've gotten into, the broadcasters need to get feedback from their audience --- lots of it. Come 9/14, let the interference complaints flow, but keep a few things in mind: It should be obvious, but it bears repeating: you are reporting interference in the context of being a radio listener, not a DX'er. Keep it polite and to the point, and omit the anti-IBOC diatribes. Complaints should go to the station being interfered with, not the station(s) causing the interference. There are a few exceptions, however. If you feel that an IBOC station's own digital emissions have degraded their analog signal quality, you should let them know. Or, if you have reason to believe that their IBOC equipment is malfunctioning, you should contact them, but make sure you're on firm ground before you do so. Keep in mind that interference complaints are more likely to be taken seriously if they affect reception in or near protected contours. The first question to ask yourself is whether the reception is by skywave or groundwave. Only the Class A stations on the "clear" channels have protected skywave service, so complaints about interference to skywave signals will likely fall on deaf ears unless one of those stations is on the receiving end of the interference. If in doubt, you can check a station's class using sites such as fccinfo.com or radio-locator.com. Of course, some of the large market Class A's have little or no interest in skywave service, WOR being a prime example. At the other end of the spectrum are stations such as WSM that still have big skywave audiences, and thus should be more receptive to interference reports. Some folks argue that AM skywave service is going the way of the dodo anyway. Perhaps they're right, but IBOC definitely does not just affect skywave reception. We all need to take a close look at IBOC interference to our local and semi-local stations that are receivable by groundwave at night. The difficulty here is to assess whether your location is in a station's nighttime protected contour, which is defined by something called the Nighttime Interference Free (NIF) contour. NIF contours are based upon calculations, but unfortunately, they are not generally documented anywhere that is accessible to the general public, nor is there any free software available to do the calculations. My advice: don't worry about this arcane stuff. If you get normally get good groundwave reception of a station at night, and it becomes significantly degraded after nighttime IBOC starts, then you should report it to them. Let them decide whether your reception problems merit any action on their part. If you want to get a very rough idea of a station's nighttime groundwave coverage, you can try looking it up on the radio-locator site. The red contour line is an approximation of the 2.5 mV/m contour. Except for the Class A stations, most stations will have a NIF contour that is somewhat smaller than this (in some cases, a LOT smaller). But don't get too hung up on the contours at this point --- if you had decent reception before IBOC, and it goes seriously downhill after nighttime IBOC starts, then it's worthwhile reporting it. Remember also that a recording could be worth a thousand words. A short audio clip of the interference could be a valuable addendum to your interference report. If you're keen, and have some inkling of which local stations might be interfered with, it would be worthwhile to make some recordings this week, so that you have some "before" and "after" comparisons available. The stations themselves should be doing this, but I doubt that many will! Lastly, it should be noted that not all of the current AM IBOC stations (223 at last count) will begin 24/7 IBOC operation on Sept. 14. Some will have issues to sort out with automation, bandwidth of their night array, and so forth (and some of them, fortunately, are daytimers :-). The stations that do not have to change facilities at night are the most likely to keep it rolling through the night on 9/14. So, it will be important to keep track of which stations are actually running it at night, and to that end, I've added a column to the table on my AM IBOC page http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html to show nighttime status. I encourage everyone to report the status of the IBOC stations they can hear, either on these lists or, if you prefer, directly to me. Let the beta test begin! (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) OFFER TO HOST RECORDINGS OF NIGHTTIME IBOC INTERFERENCE To all: I'm offering to host on my website any recordings of IBOC interference that folks may obtain after nighttime IBOC starts. MP3 clips are preferred but .wav files will work, too. (I'll convert the latter over to the former.) If you do send me audio clips (please send to this e-mail address), please provide the following information as well: > Your location; date, time and frequency of recording capture > Distance from your location to the offending station's transmitter site > Distance from your location to the interfered with station's transmitter site. > Equipment description including any interesting settings (LSB, USB, filters, etc.) > Antenna description Perhaps some other information should be captured as well? Regards, (-Pete Jernakoff- Peter.Jernakoff @ USA.dupont.com Wilmington, DE K3KMS (FM29dr) http://www.21centimeter.com ibid.) KAST Astoria going IBOC? I was looking through the new NRC log tonight under IBOC stations and I about fell out of my chair when I noticed that KAST 1370 Astoria listed as IBOC. I would be really surprised as they do not have much of a budget and their transmitter is older. Wishfull thinking? I am going over to KAST tomorrow to present the CE with one of Scott Fybush's calendars, thanking Tom Freel for the great tour of New NW BCers at the 2006 IRCA convention. The cover of Scott's great calendar is the KAST site. KAST was going to have an X Band station on 1700 (KCHT) that never materialized, so who knows, but IBOC in Clatsop County on AM? Also 1570 was supposed to be a 50 KW station, even a CP that was never built. But time will tell. At least the locals are low power here and rather weak, but IBOC in Clatsop County? The West side of Kauai is looking better all of the time. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, IRCA via DXLD) Even you may not be able to hide from it. 73 KAZ, who's postponed a couple very high end receiver purchases until he see what nite IBOC does (Neil Kazaross, WI/IL, ibid.) KAZ, Who knows? But the likelihood of it is probably slim at least now, but KAST may make the move if IBOC catches on. The future may be to move away from the mainland to get rid of the noise permanently. All I can say is Filipinos --- Filipinos, Filipinos. A wonderful morning for Filipinos, the best so far this season (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, Sept 11, ibid.) Pat, if you want to pick up Filipino stations, maybe you should DX from the Philippines. (wink). My son asked me one day, if you want to pick up those stations so badly, why don't you go to where those station broadcast? You know what, he has a point (Bill Harms, MD, ibid.) Bill, With AM band changing so much with IBOC, the noise levels, QRM from more NSP stations, more high power, etc. It has crossed my mind to give it all up, sell the houses, etc., and take my radio and move to the West side of Kauai or maybe Guam. It would be easier to do as I am still on American soil, but I would finally be rid of all the mess. I don't know if I would, but I have sure thought a lot about it in the past year or two. With Bob gone, what is there to keep me? I could be a locksmith anywhere. It is a thought, though. One thing for certain, I would have my dream of being able to DX what I want to hear for the rest of my life. And QSLs QSLs QSLs. Most people would never consider it as they have families, and other commitments I don't have. But it is a thought. 73, (Patrick Martin, ibid.) Kauai is actually better probably than Guam as there is much less QRM. The two locals on Kauai you can be some distance from them. There is better medical on Kauai probably too. But it is wide open to the Pacific there. Better than the other islands. The largest towns are Kapaa and Lihue, both around 5,000. 73, Patrick Patrick Martin I took a copy of Scott Fybush's calendar over to Tom Freel OM [operations manager??] at KAST 1370 this morning. Scott, Tom loved it and if we want a tour in the future, no problem, just give him a call. Always glad to do it. Tom thought the tower sites are really cool. Tom said New Northwest Broadcaster's boss will love it too. I took over a report I had for KKEE 1230 as I never QSL'd the new call and I will be getting an e mail QSL as that is how they handle the QSL requests now. I brought up the subject of HD Radio and I mentioned I saw that KAST AM was going HD. He looked at me and said, well maybe down the road the FM, and New NW BCers want at least one HD in every market they have stations in, however it would be the FM, not the AM. He said can you imagine how hard it would be to get KAST to work with HD? It would too involved and too expensive. As far as FM HD, they are looking into it "down the road" to see if it is going to work out. I was quite pleased to hear that, no AM HD. By the way, if any station shows an interest it ends up on the list. The reason the AM showed may be because it is the main money-maker here. New NW BCers is going to be moving to a new studio site behind City Hall in Warrenton in the next couple of years, though. They were going to move down by the river in Astoria but no one wants their big satellite and STL dishes. So the next time we have an IRCA convention on the coast, we will have a brand new studio set up to show off. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, IRCA via DXLD) DTV AUDIO CHANNELS I just decoded a channel 21.7 (Audio) on WXXI-DT 16 Rochester using the RCA TV. The Humax will not detect this channel. Odd. Weird number too; highest video channel is 21.4. End/WRH. Web Site: http://www.dxinfocentre.com (Bill Hepburn, Ont., WTFDA via DXLD) There's more.. 21.7 Language 1 = WXXI-AM 21.7 Language 2 = WXXI-FM 21.7 Language 3 = weird noise So, more hidden audio channels within 1 subchannel (would that be a sub-subchannel?, hi?) (Wm R Hepburn (Niagara), WTFDA via DXLD) I can explain this one, too :-) At WXXI, we have one studio complex in downtown Rochester, but we provide programming to stations with transmitters in four locations: WXXI-FM 91.5/WXXI-TV 21/WXXI-DT 16, at Pinnacle Hill in Brighton; WXXI 1370, on French Road in Brighton; WRUR-FM 88.5, on the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Rochester (for now - it's moving to Pinnacle soon); and WJSL 90.3 Houghton, on a hilltop about 65 miles south of Rochester. We have permanent studio-transmitter links to Pinnacle Hill (microwave/fiber) and the AM 1370 site (phone line). But we don't have any fixed links to get audio to WRUR or to WJSL. When WJSL became part of the WXXI family a few years ago, it was an over-the-air relay of WXXI-FM. That had two big drawbacks: if trop came up, we'd lose the 91.5 signal from Rochester - and it was impossible to switch in different programming for the Houghton listeners, who wanted to hear some of the news-talk programming on AM 1370 as well. Enter the DTV signal! It's almost always solidly received at Houghton, and by using a bit of its bandwidth for a "hidden" subchannel (my Accurian doesn't see it, for instance), we now have a nice audio pipe down to Houghton on which we can provide whatever programming we want. It simulcasts AM 1370 from 5-8 AM and 4-5:58 PM on weekdays and for a few hours on Saturday morning. At all other times, it simulcasts FM 91.5. The only "WJSL-only" programming is a 60-second announcement that runs at 5:59 PM daily, recorded (unless it's been redone lately) by yours truly. As for WRUR, when we began programming part of its day from WXXI, we were actually simulcasting the AM 1370 signal over the air on 88.5. (It sounded quite good, actually.) When we began providing separate programming to WRUR ("World Cafe" on weekday afternoons, for instance), we needed a way to get that audio over to the WRUR studio on the University of Rochester campus - and again, there was the DTV signal. Unlike the 24/7 feed to WJSL, the feed to WRUR is live only part of the day (usually 5-9 AM, 2-8 PM weekdays), since there's still a lot of WRUR programming that originates from the studio on campus. So one of the languages you're seeing on 21.7 is the WRUR feed, and another is the WJSL feed. The third might have something to do with another "hidden" channel on our DTV, which provides a data stream to fire houses around the region. One more interesting note - when I was in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago for the IRCA convention, I found the highest subchannel number I've seen in use so far: KBYU-DT has an "11.91" subchannel that carries the audio of KBYU-FM, "Classical 89." No, I don't know why it isn't 11.89... s (Scott Fybush, WTFDA via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BE CAUTIOUS OF ELECTRIC LIGHTS AT NIGHT People have enjoyed the benefits of electric lights for about 100 years, yet recent research indicates that electric lights, especially the blue hues, are not good for us at night. If you read only one of the following articles, the second one ("Bright Lights, Big Cancer") is recommended. Does Light Have a Dark Side? (Oct.17, 1998) http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/10_17_98/19981017fob.asp Bright Lights, Big Cancer (Jan. 7, 2006) http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060107/bob9.asp Illuminating Changes (May 20, 2006) http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060520/bob9.asp Light Impacts (May 27,2006) http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060527/bob9.asp (CGC Communicator Sept 10, via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE SOLAR ROTATION unsettled to active: Sep 10-11, 15-17, 22, 25(-26), 30, (31,) Oct 1 active to disturbed: Sep (7, 23), 24, 28(-29) quiet: Sep (8-9,) 12-14, 18-21, (27) Survey: quiet on: Aug 30 mostly quiet on: Aug 29, Sep 4 quiet to unsettled on: Aug 31, Sep 3 quiet to active on: Sep 1 quiet to disturbed - mostly unsettled on: Sep 5 unsettled to active - unsettled to disturbed - mostly active - active to disturbed on: Sep 2 disturbed - 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 e-mail: franta.janda(at)quick.cz (via WORLD OF RADIO 1374, DXLD) The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled during 03-04 September. Activity increased to quiet to active levels during 05-07 September. Activity decreased to quiet levels during 08-09 September. ACE real- time solar wind data indicated two recurrent coronal hole high-speed wind streams affected the field during the period. The first began on 01 September, then subsided on 05 September. Peak velocity associated with this stream was 682 km/sec at 02/2141 UTC, while peak Bt was 10.5 nT at 01/2354 UTC and minimum Bz was -8.9 nT at 02/0001 UTC. The second high-speed stream began on 06 September, then subsided on 09 September. Peak velocity associated with this stream was 579 km/sec at 07/0049 UTC, while peak Bt was 9.7 nT at 06/2115 UTC and minimum Bz was -8.5 nT at 06/2102 UTC. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 12 SEPT - 08 OCT 2007 Solar activity is expected to be very low. 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 24 September - 08 October. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels during 12 - 28 September. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to minor storm levels during 29 - 30 September due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during 01 - 02 October as the stream subsides. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active levels on 03 October due to another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during the rest of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 Sep 04 2124 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 Sep 04 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2007 Sep 05 68 5 2 2007 Sep 06 68 15 4 2007 Sep 07 68 10 3 2007 Sep 08 68 5 2 2007 Sep 09 68 5 2 2007 Sep 10 68 5 2 2007 Sep 11 68 8 3 2007 Sep 12 68 8 3 2007 Sep 13 68 5 2 2007 Sep 14 68 5 2 2007 Sep 15 68 5 2 2007 Sep 16 68 5 2 2007 Sep 17 70 5 2 2007 Sep 18 70 5 2 2007 Sep 19 70 5 2 2007 Sep 20 70 5 2 2007 Sep 21 70 8 3 2007 Sep 22 70 10 3 2007 Sep 23 70 10 3 2007 Sep 24 70 10 3 2007 Sep 25 70 8 3 2007 Sep 26 70 5 2 2007 Sep 27 70 5 2 2007 Sep 28 70 10 3 2007 Sep 29 70 20 5 2007 Sep 30 70 15 4 2007 Oct 01 70 8 3 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 On September the eleventh In the early morning hours The sun was shining brightly on the World Trade Center Towers Passing through the portals Like a flowing mountain stream Were thousands of employees Pursuing the American dream Echoing through the corridors Were sounds of laughter and of greetings While busy elevators Raised them skyward to their meetings Just another routine day Is what seemed to be in store For the clamor of activity Sounded familiar on every floor From several major airports Scheduled flights were in the air Filled with innocent passengers Seemingly without a care Their peace was soon shattered By several knife-wielding men Who were Satan's evildoers Creating havoc once again. Four airliners had been hijacked And diverted from their course Two crashed into the towers With a terrifying force The fireballs that erupted Were like torches out of hell And within a very short time The buildings trembled and then fell Killed were thousands of our countrymen Causing widespread anguish and pain Assuring that our way of life Will never be the same again We remembered Pearl Harbor And our revenge was justified Our Country stood united Honoring the many that had died God Bless our America May freedom never be lost Give us the strength and courage To be victorious at any cost And dear God protect our troops Wherever they may be May our Country stand united And Sustain them with dignity For I fear for our Country's destiny If we now fail to remember Those cowardly, dastardly attacks On the eleventh of September MMC Joseph Early, U.S.N. (Ret.) September 11, 2003 Revised June 2004 (via John Babbis, MD, DXLD) ###