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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRING OF WORLD OF RADIO Extra 77 Wed 0730 WRMI 9955 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1375 Thu 0600 WRMI 9955 Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Thu 2330 WBCQ 7415 [ex-Wed 2200] Fri 0630 WRMI 9955 Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755 Fri 1100 WRMI 9955 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 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 9/24/07] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies to 0500] Mon 0830 WRMI 9955 Tue 1030 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 7385 Wed 0730 WRMI 9955 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB 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 ** ALBANIA. ALBANIAN ASSEMBLY ELECTS NEW MEDIA COUNCIL CHIEF, MEMBERS | Text of report in English by Albanian news agency ATA ["Mesila Dode Is Elected Chairwoman of NRTC" - ATA headline] Tirana, 24 September (ATA) - The parliament elected on Monday (24 September) afternoon Mesila Doda as chairwoman of the National Radio and Television Council. Doda, elected with 72 votes in favour, 37 against, 3 abstentions, will succeed Ledio Bianku to this post. Also, the parliament approved the appointment of three new members to NRTC, Artan Zeneli (88 votes pro), Gent Ibrahimi (85 votes pro), Sami Neza (85 votes pro). At today's plenary session, parliament approved 4 members of Steering Council of Albanian Radio and Television, Robert Rakipllari, with 83 votes pro, Petrit Ymeri, 62 votes pro and Lorenc Vangjeli with 65 votes pro. Source: ATA news agency, Tirana, in English 1910 gmt 24 Sep 07 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. The website I had previously bookmarked for LRA36 no longer works: http://www.fcapital.com.ar/esperanza/pagina_otras.htm But I googled this current one, http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/lra36.htm which of course does not say anything about the antenna, but does mention they are also on FM 97.6 at 1100-1500 UT, so I suppose that is a conceivable time when they might also turn on the SW transmitter. Why not? A number of photos included. And a link to some words by the announcer. Apparently radio is considered ladies` work there. I located the page by finding the house, which looks just like all the others, at the upper left of the aerial view at http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/BAE/vista_aerea_BAE.htm Here`s another unID house which has some antennas by it, and it seems the house itself is guyed to keep it from blowing away: http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/fotos/BaseEsperanza/pages/Ventisca2_jpg.htm The house in the center has a radio tower behind it: http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/fotos/BaseEsperanza/pages/Vista%20base4_JPG.htm Four radio(?) towers are visible in this one. I think the longer building toward the top is the school, which had a fire a few months ago: http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/fotos/BaseEsperanza/pages/Vista%20base5_JPG.htm Another shot with tower in the background with some kind of antennas (or weather instruments?) on it: http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/fotos/BaseEsperanza/pages/turistas_grupo_jpg.htm This map http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/antartico/B_esp_ubic.htm shows BE and all the other Argentine bases on the peninsula; only one of them is due S of Esperanza; most of them run roughly to the southwest, so an azimuth around 225 would be expected in that case, besides being too close for 15 MHz skip zone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hoy de tarde encendí brevemente la DE-1103 para ver si estaba LRA36 en 15476 kHz, y pude comprobar que sí se recibía y bastante bien. A eso de las 1900 UT con identificación y luego un tema de Shakira. La escucha la realicé en el interior de mi casa y apenas con antena telescópica, obteniendo sin embargo señales que variaban de SIO 252 a 454, eso si, con el fading profundo que caracteriza la recepción de esta emisora. 73 (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept 25, condiglist yg via DXLD) Antarctica on 15476 starting at 1900 25/9 with time signal, and nice Spanish music and info, at 1912 ID (female) Gr. (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, HCDX via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. 9870, Radio Austria International, Moosbrunn; 0115-0145 September 25, 2007. "Report From Austria" English world news features program, nicely produced. Brief Spanish segment from 0130, then German. Back to English cycle from 0140. Very strong and clean signal (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS [non]. RADIO RACJA AUDIOCLIP. DATE: 24-09-2007. TIME: 1700 UT. FREQUENCY: 6225 KHz. SIGNAL: SUFF WITH QRN. LANGUAGE: BELARUSSIAN. PROGRAM: MUSIC, ID. NEWS. The audioclip is available at http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/ 73's (Francesco Cecconi, Italy, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** BENIN. BENIN RADIO PROJECT MAKES PROGRESS http://www.mnnonline.org/article/10383 Posted: 24 September, 2007 Benin (TWR/MNN) ¯ Trans World Radio's engineering team is making progress in readying the new transmitting facility in Benin, West Africa. The transmitter and an air conditioning unit are on-site. Two additional containers with power generators and essential antenna parts are in transit and due to arrive in Africa in the coming weeks. According to TWR, the team signed the license agreement last year, and TWR-Africa has persevered through several subsequent challenges regarding the transmitter project, including delays in ordering and receiving equipment and seeking out program producers. Construction of the highpower medium wave (AM) station in Benin is making steady progress. Missionaries, including the Cox and Kennedy families, have been working hard to get the station operational. Paul Cox, a broadcast engineer, is overseeing the installation of the transmitter and other technical aspects. Programming is scheduled to begin airing in December. Pray that the project goes smoothly so that the team can proclaim the gospel to the region soon (MNN via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) 1566 kHz ** BRAZIL. Prezado Glenn, Não tenho mais conseguido captar a Rádio Cultura AM, de São Paulo (SP), em 9353v. Acho que o transmissor foi desligado. 73s, (Célio Romais, RGS, Sept 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He had been hearing it there during most of August (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Escuta (25-09-2007): Rádio Clube do Pará, Belém, 4885 kHz, 0800-0815 UT, identificação ZYG 362, RBA Rede Brasil Amazônia, locutor Amauri Silveira, programa Acorda Pará, "fique na nossa fique na Clube", SINPO 54444 (Antonio Schuler, Recife (Brasil), Grundig Yacht Boy 80, dxclubePR yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. RADIOBRÁS VAI TESTAR PADRÃO EUROPEU DE RÁDIO DIGITAL SULRÁDIO - CONSULTORIA EM RADIODIFUSÃO ATUALIDADES Informação: AESP Associação das Emissoras de Rádio e Televisão do Estado de São Paulo - - 25/09/2007 Site Rádio Agência - Notícias Na última quinta-feira, dia 20, o Ministério das Comunicações encaminhou à Anatel (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações) pedido de autorização para que a Radiobrás possa realizar testes no sistema de rádio digital em ondas médias, desenvolvido pelo consórcio europeu Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). O sistema escolhido para a realização dos testes possui transmissão para radiofusão em ondas médias e curtas, em freqüencias abaixo de 30 megahertz (MHz). A autorização é para testar o sistema na Rádio Nacional de Brasília, que opera na freqüência 980 quilohertz (KHz). Segundo a Radiobrás, os testes devem durar cerca de 20 dias, tempo considerado suficiente para obter os resultados desejados. Os equipamentos, importados, já estão sendo instalados e a realização dos testes ficará a cargo da Radiobrás e da Universidade de Brasília %u2013 [sic] UnB. Com os testes, pretende-se observar as vantagens e desvantagens do padrão europeu de rádio digital para que se possa estabelecer um melhor panorama sobre os sistemas existentes e fornecer subsídios para a escolha do padrão a se adotado no Brasil. Fonte: Ministério das Comunicações Por: Redação 10h04 @ 24.09.2007 (via Célio Romais, RGS, DXLD) ** BURMA [and non]. EXILE MYANMAR RADIO STATION SENDS NEWS TO PRO- DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS AT HOME © AP 24.09.2007 17:49:21 (live-PR.com) - http://www.live-pr.com/en/exile-myanmar-radio-station-sends-news-r1048158288.htm OSLO, Norway (AP) - From a warehouse-like building in Norway's capital, a tiny broadcast network called the Democratic Voice of Burma is struggling to provide news and encouragement to countrymen rising up against the military dictatorship at home. Secret recordings of red-clad monks and other protesters marching Monday in the pouring rain in Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, flashed across computer screens at the network's plain but tidy office. Chief Editor Aye Chan Naing said strict control of the news media in Myanmar, also known as Burma, means the first news its citizens often get of what is going on in their own country comes through the station's shortwave radio, satellite TV and Internet services. «There is no other way for the people of Burma to get news,» he told The Associated Press on Monday, claiming that broadcasts reach as many as 5 million people in the Southeast Asian nation of 54 million. Exiled pro-democracy student activists, including Naing, founded the radio station in 1992, a year after Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for her peaceful pro- democracy campaign. Suu Kyi's party won a 1990 general election, but was not allowed to take office by the military, which has been in power since 1962. She has been detained for about 12 of the past 18 years. The pro-democracy radio station, funded by grants from government and free speech groups from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United States, was founded in Oslo because of Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize, Naing said. To support the growing protests at home, the station's staff of 10 activists have doubled their shortwave radio broadcasts to seven hours per day, and have stepped up TV transmissions. But Naing said they are quickly running out of money. «We're almost broke,» said Naing. «We lost some cameras in Burma. Some were confiscated by the authorities.» He said other cameras and equipment were damaged. Just the same, he expressed determination. «Depending what happens in Burma, we may extend to 24 hours,» he said. Norwegian Aid Minister Erik Solheim this weekend said he would promptly consider any application for additional funding. Naing said he plans to apply as soon as possible. The network sends news, appeals from leading opposition figures and information about planned protests, said Naing. He said the media is so strictly controlled in Myanmar that almost anything they transmit is news to the people there. Last year, the network transmitted TV footage of Suu Kyi's 1991 Nobel Prize awards ceremony, which she did not attend for fear of being barred from returning home. «It was a 15-year-old story, but it was still news in Burma,» Naing said at the downtown office, decorated with pictures of Suu Kyi and lapel buttons saying «Free Suu. The station's reporters in Burma, often using tiny hidden cameras, provide the world an often unique glimpse of what is going on there. «We have 30-40 people on the ground, all undercover journalists,» he said. «All of the journalists shooting now were brought to a secret location in Thailand for training. He declined to say how they get images and news out of Myanmar, although he said, despite strict military restrictions, the Internet is crucial. Sometimes, TV footage is sent one frame at a time to get it through. Working openly, he said, brings the risk of arrest, or confiscation of cameras and equipment. Naing, 42, was a dentistry student when he fled Myanmar in 1988, spending three years in Thailand, learning journalism there. After stops in Germany and Sweden, he ended up in Oslo in 1992. He said he hopes someday to return to a democratic Myanmar, with the freedom to criticize whatever government is in power. On the Net http://www.dvb.no (via Artie Bigley, Mike Cooper, DXLD) See MYANMAR A similar story focusing on DVB was on NBC ``Nightly`` News Sept 25. I could not find it by searching on ``Democratic Voice of Burma`` but it was among the videos for that date`s show: http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=8877f1e8-c7f5-4f10-ac2e-e4bf93fc131a&p=News_Editors%20Picks&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/&fg= following a semiminute commercial (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL - 2007-08 SEASON LAUNCH CNW Group Portfolio E-Mail CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Transmitted by CNW Group on : September 20, 2007 15:07 MONTREAL, Sept. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - Radio Canada International (RCI) is proud today to present the highlights of its 2007-08 season. The CBC International Service is diversifying more and more to better reflect Canada's multicultural reality to people at home and abroad. RCI produces daily and weekly programs in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Arabic and Portuguese. It also airs a range of programs produced by CBC/Radio-Canada. Every week and every month, RCI puts together short reports or interviews on a variety of topics to be broadcast on its many partner stations in French, English, Spanish, Russian and Mandarin. "Thanks to all the new things it is offering on the air and on its website, RCI is demonstrating more than ever the significant role it plays for new Canadians and for Canadians living inside or outside the country," says Sylvain Lafrance, CBC/Radio-Canada' s Executive Vice- President of French Services. "Increasingly, RCI is a place where all the cultures making up today's society can meet and share their experiences. " A SUCCESS STORY: RCI VIVA ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Since going online in November 2006, the new Web service RCI viva has met with tremendous success among Web users. Targeting both recent and aspiring immigrants, the website http://www.RCInet.ca features Web radio in eight languages, as well as free podcasts to subscribe to. Immigrants also find great practical advice, programs that shed light on life in Canada, and forums for sharing stories, voicing opinions and getting involved in their new country. CYBERSERIES: J'ADOPTE UN PAYS ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - On August 24, RCI began airing an innovative video documentary series packaged as a Web reality show. J'adopte un pays follows the lives of Patrick and Valéria, a Brazilian couple that has moved to Canada. One episode will be presented each week till January 2008. With immigration now a hot topic in our country, RCI hopes this series will spark an enlightening and rewarding discussion. Web users from around the globe have already left comments and questions on the site about the couple's adventures. People can also exchange thoughts with Hector Vilar, the anchor-producer of the cyberseries and RCI's radio magazine in Portuguese. In addition, the television show C'est ça la vie, which debuts in October on Radio-Canada, will air one episode a week. Now broadcast in French and Portuguese, the cyberseries will soon be offered in English as Embracing Canada. COMPETITIONS: DIGITAL DIVERSITY AND GENERATION DX2 ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Last spring, RCI launched Digital Diversity (Métissé Serré), a competition of short films and podcasts about immigration that attracted a record number of entries. The finalists, 60 shorts in English and 60 in French, went online on September 17, along with a handful of podcasts. The Internet public is invited to drop by http://www.RCInet.ca/digitaldiversity to evaluate the entries and pick a winner. The shorts are being shown not only online, but also at many festivals and events across Canada and abroad. This fall, Digital Diversity will spin off a competition for high school students called Generation DX2. Participants can submit short films, audio files or photo stories on a topic of their choice related to cultural diversity. Winners of the jury prize will be chosen by Joyce Quansah (Montreal), Daniel Grant (Toronto) and Kush Uppal (Vancouver) on the English side and by the young actors Rosalee Jacques (Planète prise 2) and Mathieu Pichette (Les pieds dans la marge), along with a member of the public, on the French side. NEW: TAM-TAM CANADA AIRING IN WESTERN CANADA ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Since September 3, one of RCI's flagship shows, the magazine Tam-tam Canada hosted by Raymond Desmarteau, has been airing on Première Chaîne in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Weekdays at noon, listeners can tune in to an entertaining and enlightening production that spotlights cultural shocks, their repercussions and the exploits and achievements marking the lives of new immigrants to Canada and our friends abroad. RCI has been broadcasting around the world since 1945. Its mandate is to introduce foreign listeners to Canadian values and to keep them informed of news and activities in our country. At the same time, RCI serves as a resource for new immigrants who have come to Canada. Don't miss the many programs produced and broadcast by RCI on RCI viva and on Sirius Satellite Radio. Drop by the website http://www.RCInet.ca regularly to check out daily programming, RCI's range of activities, and the many services it offers to citizens. RCI wishes to thank several partners who have been instrumental in its Digital Diversity and Generation DX2 competitions: Telus, Sony, La Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec and VIA Rail Canada, as well as the Ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles du Québec, the Ministère de l'Education, du Loisir et des Sports du Québec and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. RCI is also grateful to Berlitz Canada Inc. for its part in the project J'adopte un pays. -30- /For further information: Noémie Sirois, Project Leader, RCI - Radio Communications, Radio-Canada, (514) 597-5012, siroisno @ montreal.radio-canada.ca ----- CNW Group Ltd is pleased to offer a personalized e-mail service providing you with news and information from Canada's foremost public and private companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. This free service lets you select the companies you are most interested in tracking and delivers their news releases directly to your personal e-mail address (via John Hyde, Sept 20, ODXA yg via DXLD) I'm not trying to be a wise guy or anything, but I read this release completely through three times and still don't know what it means. Lots of stuff about videos, films and podcasts; but not a thing about radio. I mean, it is RADIO Canada International, isn't it? I'm all for multimedia and multiple platforms. I just think an entity with "Radio" in its name ought to at least mention something about the medium in its "season launch" (John Figliozzi, NY, ODXA yg via DXLD) And even internationally, RCI is dumbing down. No one is listening to Viva despite what they say. I'll bet LaFrance wants to close RCI down. It's funded by Defence, Foreign Affairs and run out of the Radio- Canada building in Montreal with one transmitter in Sherbrooke and quid-pro-quo sharing of transmitters in six other countries (Day Say, BC, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ??? I assume he means multiple transmitters in Sackville, not one in Sherbrooke (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6039.92V, China Radio International (presumed relay site, or is it French Guiana or domestic for which I would then have to apologize for my upcoming comments about the RCI transmitter); 1045- 1055 September 24, 2007. RCI's transmitters really suck; so I guess they will be going off the air next when the last one craps out? Noted a huge signal with CRI programming in English here, but the transmitter varied 6039.48-6039.93-ish, mostly settling around 6039.92 by tune-out. Into Chinese at 1100 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, it`s Sackville. See also CHINA ** CANADA. Changes to CBC Radio 2 --- CBC Radio 2 will be adjusting its schedule early next month. Here are the details: [all local time] Bill Richardson will host Saturday Afternoon at the Opera (Saturdays 1:00-6:00 pm) and Sunday Afternoon in Concert (Sundays 1:00-5:00 pm) Patti Schmidt will host a new music and ideas program called Inside the Music. It will be a highly produced show that features one-off and limited series documentaries about music (Sundays 12:00-1:00 pm). Andre Alexis and Skylarking move to Sundays at 5:00 pm. Pianist Gregory Charles hosts a new show called In The Key of Charles. He is a well-known personality in Quebec as a broadcaster, choral director, and performer, and he will be hosting the show sitting at his piano. (Sundays 10:00 am-12:00 pm) Canada Live will no longer have a national host. The nine regional hosts will host the show when it comes from their locations. More hourly newscasts will be added to the schedule. National news and regional weather forecasts will air at 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 12:00, 15:00, 16:00, and 17:00. The newscasts will expand to 5 minutes in length. Jowi Taylor will host Nightstream, the overnight music program. The Sunday schedule on Radio One will change as follows: o Inside the Music (8-9 pm) o In The Key of Charles (9-11 pm) o Tonic (11 pm-1 am) The following programs will be cancelled: Symphony Hall, The Singer and The Song, and Fuse will be moved off of Radio Two Comments: http://www.insidethecbc.com/newr2#comments (Inside the CBC blog Sept 21 via DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC RADIO TAGLINES NOT EVERYONE’S FAVOURITES In case you’ve missed it, CBC Radio is using a new series of taglines to promote its regional programming. But the phrases like Totally Toronto and Very Vancouver aren’t ringing well with some people. (Montreal bucks the alliteration trend with So Montreal. I guess Mostly Montreal wasn’t quite right.) On this blog, the taglines have received a bit of heat from listeners: I have a problem with CBC Montreal always using that nauseating phrase, “So Montreal.” The word “Montreal” is not an adjective. I wish they would stop using it as such. After a week of “Totally Toronto” and I want to take a hammer to my radio and smash it! Like, that’s so, like, really annoying to, like, listen to all the time! Like totally!! Wow, I feel sorry for you Toronto people. I thought “So Montreal” was annoying. “Totally Toronto” is not only using a noun as an adjective, it’s unnecessarily alliterative too! I imagine it must be totally annoying to keep hearing that phrase. Why don’t they just come up with original (and grammatically correct) slogans for the different CBC regional stations? A letter to the Hamilton Spectator newspaper says: For the last 10 days CBC Radio 1 from Toronto has been constantly playing the tag line “Totally Toronto.” If CBC Radio 1 out of Toronto is “Totally Toronto” it clearly has nothing to do with the Greater Hamilton area. Hmmm… good point. (There are worse taglines, for the record. When I was a 20-year-old reporter for KBS Radio in the Kootenays, the network’s tagline was “It’s great to be in the Kootenays.” We had to say that every time we answered the phone.) So, if you were picking a tagline for your own local CBC station, what would it say? Comments: http://www.insidethecbc.com/taglines#comments (Inside the CBC blog via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, CFVP, 0504, 9/17/07. Country music heard faintly in the noise, song "Death and Taxes (and Me Loving You)" heard, in // to web feed at http://www.classiccountryam1060.com ID heard at 0524 as Classic Country AM 1060. Fading in and out of intelligibility, mostly out. Made more difficult to hear by VOA sign-on on 6035 at 0528. First time heard, last Canadian regional needed. Been trying for this one for >20 years. Heard on the E1 (Ralph Brandi, Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Elad FDM77, Drake R8, Etón E1, 300' mini-Beverage antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** CANADA. There is a very odd sound on 1610 - a garbled one. I'm not sure whether it is due to CHHA, 1610 in Montreal, or aliens from Mars. CHHA has a new transmitter site and has applied for 10 kW day. It is possible they are making do with an old 1 kW transmitter until hopefully gaining approval and then firing up a more modern 10 kWer, running 1 kW at night. Things like off frequency etc. would be the job of IC [Industry Canada]. It is confusing, so I'll explain - the CRTC covers licensing and various programming type matters, IC covers technical. So, if you don't meet your Cancon [Canadian content for music - usually 35% minimum] you will suffer the wrath of the CRTC. If you fail to switch to night power and pattern, the wrath of IC. When 630 CFCY ended life as an AM station as a 10 kW pirate station, both the CRTC and IC got involved. Operation without a license and operation with an open carrier. Cute (Phil Rafuse, PEI, ABDX via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. República Centroafricana. La emisora I.C.D.I. tiene actualmente programas emitidos en onda corta en francés y en lenguas habladas en esa porción del África. Emplea la frecuencia de 6030 kilohercios para sus programas que se inician: a las 0500 para concluir a las 0800 horas y a las 1600 para terminar a las 1900 horas. Rumen Pankov Versión en español: Mijail Mijailov (R. Bulgaria Espacio Diexista Sept 23 via DXLD) I`ll be extremely surprised if this was from any source but DXLD, since we reported exactly the same info recently and no one else did; copied without credit. DX news on this program, also in English, often resonates with recently published DX bulletins, never attributed (gh, DXLD) ** CHILE. NEW DX PROGRAM ON RADIO ESPERANZA, 6090 Dear Mr. Hauser, Greetings from Chile. I write to you this mail to communicate the information of a new DX-programme that "Comisión de Radioescuchas de FEDERACHI" is going to have, and that will be broadcasted by Radio Esperanza, Chilean radio from Temuco in 6090 kHz. This information is for you and for your digest. I send to you the official communicate from Mr. Héctor Frías, Chief of the Comisión, and a translation of the communicate. Spanish version: "Amigos Radioescuchas; Desde Santiago, les envío un afectuoso Saludo. El próximo viernes 28 de septiembre a las 1710 UTC saldrá al aire el primer programa DX de la "Comisión de Radioescuchas de FEDERACHI, a través de la Radio Esperanza de Temuco, 6090 kcs. El Programa lo hemos denominado "Esperanza DX". Los editores serán Luis Valderas y Hector Frias, con la participación activa de los colaboradores habituales de el boletín "Escuchas del mundo" y la locución estará a cargo de Hector Pino P., el programa será en vivo, desde los estudios y planta transmisora de Esperanza, ubicados en la ciudad de Temuco, Chile. Esperamos contar con su audiencia y por cierto que todas las colaboraciones serán bienvenidas. FICHA TECNICA NOMBRE: ESPERANZA DX DIA: VIERNES (PRIMER Y ULTIMO VIERNES / MES) FRECUENCIA: 6090 KCS. HORARIO CHILE 1310 CE.- HORARIO UTC: 1710.- POTENCIA: 100 KW CORREO ELECTRONICO: radioescuchas @ federachi.cl Atte, Hector Frias, Jefe comisión de Radioescuchas, FEDERACHI CHILE" English version: "Dear radiolisteners, Greetings from Santiago. The next Friday, September 28, at 1710 UT, will be on air the first DX programme of the "Comisión de Radioescuchas de FEDERACHI", on the waves of Radio Esperanza, station of the Chilean city of Temuco, 6090 kHz. The programme was named "Esperanza DX". The editors are Luis Valderas and Héctor Frías, with the active participation of all the collaborators of the bulletin "Escuchas del Mundo". The programme will be announced by Mr. Héctor Pino P. The programme will be on live from the studios and broadcasting site of Radio Esperanza, located in the city of Temuco, Chile. We expect have your listening. All the collaborations will be welcomed. TECHNICAL DATA NAME: Esperanza DX DAY OF BROADCAST: First and last Fridays of the month FREQUENCY: 6090 kHz CHILE TIME: 13:10 UTC TIME: 1710 POWER: 100 KW E-MAIL OF CONTACT: radioescuchas @ federachi.cl Mr. Héctor Frías, Chief of the Commision of Radiolisteners, FEDERACHI Chile." Best wishes, (Eduardo Peñailillo Barra, Santiago, Chile, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Eduardo, Thanks for the news, and good luck with that. However, I am very surprised to see the power as 100 kW. WRTH and PWBR list it as 10 kW, but judging from reports it may be running even less than that. What do you think? Me sorprende mucho ver la potencia de 100 kW. Según WRTH y PWBR cuentan con 10 kW; y por informes escasos, puede ser aun menos. ¿Qué piensan? Además la hora de verano en vigor desde el 14 de octubre. Entonces la hora del programa ¿será de 1710 TU o 1610? 73, (Glenn to Eduardo, cc to Héctor Frías, via DXLD) Algunos de nuestros colaboradores han estado en Radio Esperanza, pero creo que él es el indicado para aclarar si efectivamente son 100 kW (que yo dudo) o se equivocó al pasar la información. Saludos, (Eduardo Peñailillo Barra, Chile, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: el horario de TX será siempre 1310 CHILE, es decir 1710 UT. En el sigueinte período será sin duda 1610 UT. En conversaciones previas sostenidas directamente en la Radio Esperanza, se nos comentó que la potencia eran 100 kW por la potencia con que se reportan algunas escuchas es curioso que tenga tanta potencia. Pero la informacion de los 100 kw es información de la fuente oficial. Nosotros en todo Chile la escuchamos 5.9+30db y más inclusive, particularmente hoy, Sergio Carrazana la escucha an Rapel 5.9 más 30 y Luis Valderas, 120 kilómetros más al norte la escucha con mucho ruido de fondo y con señal no superior a 4. Tú la logras sintonizar desde USA? Emisión 1300-2000 UT, 6090. Atte, (Héctor Frías, Chile, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hector, Gracias por la respuesta. No, es imposible tan lejos, funcionando solo durante el día, aun con 100 kW. ¿Nunca funciona de noche? Sería posible, aunque un gran obstáculo Anguilla entre 22 y 10 horas TU. A veces no está, dejando el canal más libre. 73, (Glenn to Héctor, ibid.) Glenn; tienes razón y además creemos que no pone totalmente la potencia disponible que tiene. En Chile y hasta Panamá tenenos reportes de escuchas sin dificultad. El próximo año subirán la antena de cortina hacia el punto más alto de la región y ahí mejorará el ángulo de reflexión de la transmisión. Atte, (Héctor Frías, ibid.) ¿Ya cuentan con antena de cortina? Debe ser de bastante ganancia, y a qué azimut, N/S? (Glenn to Héctor, ibid.) Está orientada Norte Sur; es decir los irradiantes están Este Oeste. Pero informes técnicos nos indican que la señal propagará mejor en zonas costeras del Norte y Centro América. Tenemos buenos reportes en Panamá. Nuestros cinco minutos serán cada 15 días el primer y último viernes de cada mes; el segundo boletín del mes coincidirá con el Escuchas del Mundo editado para internet. Aquí un pequeño audio de como escuchamos habitualmente la Radio Esperanza en los 6090; en zonas costeras aun mejor la señal. Averiguaremos bien los de los 10 kW. Atte, (Hector Frías, ibid.) Pero solo hay 7 (8?) días entre el último y el primer viernes. Quiere decir el último y segundo viernes? Pero a veces habría 3 semanas así entre programas cuando haya 5 viernes en un solo mes. Mejor publicar las fechas precisas? O talvez, siempre cada 15 (14) días, o sea dos semanas, sin respecto a cual viernes sea en los meses a seguir? Solo es que quiero publicar la información que no puede confundirse. Certainly a strong signal on the clip, tho somewhat distorted and lo- fi. On Sept 12 at 1910 was La Otra Música, from México. File name contains 6089, not 6090 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. And holy crap, is not http://www.chinabroadcast.cn landing page the most awful site? Let's try to cram everything about everything that mostly has nothing to do about anything radio on one page and stack it in the most unusable format possible. Silly ChiComs; what else to expect from the largest exporters of lead-based products on the planet. I suppose there is a better sub page out there but this is what the WRTH and PWBR list (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? That page only lets you choose which language you want to go on to (gh, DXLD) See also CANADA ** CHINA. Dear OM, CNR-1 on 4750 kHz confirmed that I received in the evening (Local Time, 0900 UT) of Sep 23. The transmitter site of 4750 kHz confirmed that there was it in the near Hailar in Nei Menggu when monitoring of Kantou Bureau of Terecommunications-Miura monitoring center in Tokyo observed it in DEURAS - H (Detect Unlicensed Radio Stations-HF, sub st. Sendai, Nagoya, Nagano, Hiroshima, Matuyama, Osaka). 4750 kHz 320 degrees, 122E14, 48N05 http://www.kanto-bt.go.jp/re/system/index.html http://www.kanto-bt.go.jp/re/kokusai/index.html (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Illustrates their monitoring equipment ** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2 via Chengdu, 1056-1135, Sept 24, Chinese programming, traditional Chinese music, pop songs, ToH 5+1 pips, into their distinctive canned program ID, which consists of a musical fanfare, followed by OM & YL with ID in Chinese (giving frequencies for both 954 kHz. AM and 5900 kHz. short-wave [old ID and is out of date]) and ending with ID in English: "This is the Voice of Golden Bridge", known as their "Life, Travel and City Service" program. This ID is the only English heard. Fair reception, // 7225 (weak). No sign of R. Nac. de Venezuela via Cuba, which usually dominates after their sign-on at about 1100 (schedule change?). Good to hear Sichuan free from QRM. [Later:] Hi Glenn, Sept 25, again heard R. Nac. de Venezuela via Cuba signing-on at 1100, covering Sichuan PBS-2. No change in schedule, maybe just one day event (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Re: "But 1557 is also used by SOH at certain weekend times. Are the Chicom really bothering to jam FR too? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)" Dear OM, thank you. At what times during the weekend 1557 kHz should carry SOH? Or have they stopped those relays and the Chinese don't bother to ID the transmission? A week ago on Saturday I heard only Family R. in Chinese between 1700-1900. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7300, CHINA / RUSSIA. Firedrake jamming, 1233-1240, 9/22/07 with Chinese ­ probable Mandarin under. At 1240, Firedrake disappeared, and Voice of Russia, 1240­1245, in Mandarin came up with a man talking. Mistake on the Firedrake's frequency? No one else of interest to the Chinese are on at or near this frequency at this time (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R75, E1, Sat. 800; Eavesdropper, Flextenna, 110' random wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Sound of Hope has been reported on 7300 (gh, DXLD) Firedrake, against Sound of Hope, Sept 24 at 1308 check was audible on 10300 and on 18180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. PASTOR MELISSA SCOTT NEWS ON TIRWR Glenn, During her Sunday Morning service and festival yesterday, Pastor Melissa Scott talked about her surprise visit to TIRWR in Costa Rica. She met with the management there, and talks about some other use for the towers in the future. Here is a direct link to where she talks about this in her festival: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=533262844623585316#17m47s 73, (Chaz Lambrusco, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Above link plays less than 4 pertinent minutes of a very long file. Says SW will probably be phased out in a few years as it`s hard to get replacement parts, but the towers in CR can still be used for something else! If we are smart, we can figure out what that means. Hmmm, how about a new FM station with much more limited range compared to SW (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Possible upcoming frequency changes for North America: expect a possible comeback of 9820 kiloHertz during the B07 broadcast season, but we first must study very well how the frequency of optimum traffic curve moves up or down before taking the decision to move up to 9820 kiloHertz. We are now operating from 0500 to 0700 our English language service to the Pacific Coast of North America on 6000 kiloHertz, using the four by four array of dipoles, a beautiful curtain array capable of up to 19 dB gain over a single half wave dipole. As usual during any frequency changes, our engineering department will appreciate very much signal reports about our new to the Pacific Coast of North America frequency, 6000 kiloHertz from 0500 to 0700 UT, and our 6060 kiloHertz frequency to Eastern North America from 0500 to 0700 hours UT, we are also using now 6180 Kilohertz to Central North America from 01 to 07 hours UT. Please send your reports to arnie@... [truncated by yg] and I will relay them immediately to our Engineering staff (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Sept 25, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. Caught part of RHC`s Spanish DX program Sunday Sept 23 at 1343 on 11760, et al. – they were reading Iván López Alegría`s report on the Mexican DX Encuentro, about their visit to XERTA, but strangely both Malena and Manolo pronounced it like a word, ``Xerta`` = certa. I rather doubt the station itself ever does this, but then I`ve hardly ever heard a clear ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 530 etc. I was checking for Air Martí on 530 kc/s this local Friday, September 21 at 1800 local or 2200 GMT (and once again, no trace of Air Martí today or for that matter the past several weeks here [see U S A]). But, after the Rebelde canned ID just after 2159 GMT, Rebelde abruptly dumped into the cool Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión interval signal at 2159:30 (a sure sign something great about to happen). The announcer then claimed Fidel was coming up with a discussion on the current world economics. And sure enough, just after 2200, an interview of sorts with a male host asking questions to Don Fido. The Don sounded about as close to death as possible; squeaking, gasping, long pauses, and slurring badly. Of course, no way of telling if this was really live or recorded. Progreso network (640 kc/s here) and Rebelde (530, 1180, 5025 here) picked up the ICRT feed. Musical Nacional (590 here) and Reloj (950 here) networks, as usual, didn't bother. I have to wonder if -- when El Gordo finally croaks -- Reloj will actually break from their steadfast format. Only RHC's 6000 transmitter carried Fido's ramble. The only other active RHC channel located here was 9550, which was airing regular RHC Spanish programming. The interview came to an abrupt end at 2304 GMT, with an announcer rambling about it all (leading me to believe it was a recently-recorded interview and indeed confirmed in the press the next day). 990/1000/1020/1030/1070/1090, Radio Guamá, various locations, Pinar del Río; 0538-0550 September 23, 2007. The strongest being 990 and 1070, with all others poor, 1090 in fact barely there and for a moment I could have sworn hearing a Reloj outlet there, but sitting on the channel for a few additional minutes didn't turn up anything (and no Reloj listed, unless an overnight relay from another one). Oddly, 1020 was a split second delayed audio compared to the others. 1100, Radio Cadena Habana, unknown city, La Habana; 1643-1646 September 23, 2007. Presumed the one, weak, Spanish female every 30 or so seconds, breaking into the wobble audio (still). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio República is cancelling its transmissions via T- Systems (weekdays 2300-0400 UT on 5910 kHz) after the Sept. 28/29 broadcast -- further funding cuts they say. I have no idea if this affects the transmissions that are presumably from the UK. The weekend broadcasts on WRMI remain the same (Jeff White, RMI, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good news for Colombia para Cristo. Someone tell Russ in Hamilton this weekend (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. A number of finance investors have left the race for Media&Broadcast. Only two interested parties remain by now: The Australian investment bank Macquarie and TDF. Also for sale is Deutsche Funkturm, the subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom which owns the antenna carriers, i.e. towers, masts or just small rooftop installations, http://www.dfmg.de TDF is especially interested in purchasing both Media&Broadcast and Deutsche Funkturm as a bundle. Deutsche Telekom will not sell Media&Broadcast for less than the intended price and keep the company if no interested party is willing to pay what Deutsche Telekom wants. http://www.satundkabel.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24903&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Glenn: The "Greek In Style" program in English was back on Voice of Greece at 2305 UT Sunday to 0005 UT Monday, heard in this area on 7475 and 9420, with Angeliki Timms announcing Greek songs of the 1970s (John Babbis, MD, Sept 24, DX LI STENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 10320 USB, HAWAI'I, AFRTS, Lualualei, O'ahu; 0526-0533 September 23, 2007. Net feed (ESPN Radio?) with sports highlights, into net ad for Mercedes and others at 0530, mention of "Motorsports Radio" shortly thereafter. Nothing audible on 6350U. Clear and good (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Re: AIR has changed frequency for its Vividh Bharati Service from 10330 to 9870 kHz and transmitter site to SPT, Bangalore 500 kW from HPT, Khampur (Delhi), 250 kW. Consequently, following changes have been made in the A07 Schedule in UT: ...`` I wondered what happened. I always enjoyed listening to them, especially in summer eves when the MUF usually permitted nearly local level audio. But even before they disappeared, the signal (for a few months) has been much weaker for some reason. I wonder if this neat old frequency is completely unused by AIR now? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Terry, Didn`t you see the whole item in DXLD 7-115? Vividh Bharati Service 0025-0435 9870 B'lore (ex 10330 Delhi) Vividh Bharati Service 0900-1200 9870 B'lore (ex 10330 Delhi) Vividh Bharati Service 1245-1740 9870 B'lore (ex 10330 Delhi) Russian 1615-1715 10330 Delhi (ex 9875 Delhi) ... (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Sept 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So it looks like as of Wednesday the Russian broadcast will be all that`s on 10330. Earlier this year they switched 10330 site from Bangalore to Delhi. It was much better and coincidentally aimed toward NAm when it was B'lore. Before that, you may recall, they experimented with multiple sites at same time on 10330 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well then, the site switch(es) earlier this year no doubt coincides with the great signal drop I've experienced (to the point it's not something I listen(ed) to any more). I wonder why they didn't at least retain 10330 with the move to Delhi. I suspect 9870 will be more challenging (Terry Krueger, ibid.) ** INDIA. Not much was making it on 16m, Sept 24 at 1308; checking for Solh via UK on 17700, I instead hear something in Chinese on 17705. Per EiBi this is AIR: 17705 1145-1315 IND All India Radio M FE b It`s 500 kW, 58 degrees from Bangalore. No jamming audible tho the signal was weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 3985 NF, VoIRI, Kalamabad; 0038-0114 September 25, 2007. Good level with continuous Qur`an recitals in presumed Farsi, until 0102 when the signal suddenly dropped but seemed to be the same station with male talk 0102-0106, pieces of apparent Qur`an poetry through tune-out. Maybe a special broadcast for Ramadan? Tip per Anker Peterson via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD 7-115 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. From various posts in the A-DX list: Rai International announced in its German news today that the shortwave transmissions will be terminated as of Oct 1. Attempts will be made to reach the announcer for a clarification, especially in regard of some slim hopes that they will at least continue on Hotbird (one mixed channel, obviously in practice just one of the outgoing audio feeds primarily meant for the Prato Smeraldo shortwave site, is available there). Re Notturno Italiano: This is widely believed to be a domestic service, but I don't think so. Notturno Italiano is listed amongst the mediumwave transmissions of RAI International, also including a widely unknown one in Arabic 1330-1345: http://www.international.rai.it/radio/ondemedie/index.shtml Radio Uno, which otherwise is carried on these mediumwave outlets, has its own overnight programming, cf. their program schedule: http://www.radio.rai.it/radio1/palinsesto.cfm Perhaps an insider of Italian broadcasting can shed some light on this matter? To me it seems that Radio Uno is limited to 0400-2200 (summer) on mediumwave but 24/7 on FM while Notturno Italiano aims at audiences abroad, is produced by RAI International and will thus presumably go away as well if it is indeed a complete wind-up of the radio department of RAI International that will happen (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Sept 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lamentablemente, desde Italia me han confirmado que la RAI ha anunciado oficialmente que cerrará todos sus transmisores de onda corta el próximo 30 de septiembre. ¡¡¡¡Descanse en Paz la Rai Internacional!!!! Un saludo (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, AER http://aer-dx.org/ Sept 25, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** JAPAN. R. Nikkei, 6055, Mon Sept 24 at 1300 with apparent English lessons, mostly in Japanese discussing English expressions. May be the same program I heard previously with bits of English mixed in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Voice of Korea coming in weak with muffled sound in English on 9990 // 11545 1600-1650 UT. Great Korean folk music on Friday Sept. 21 at end of broadcast. On Sept. 25, English numbers station interfered on 11545 from 1633 to 1647 UT (Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 13620 DRM, Radio Kuwait, 1257, 9/17/07. Arabic music, ID at 1300, news brief, music at 1303, into apparent radio drama with SFX of sheep bleating in background. S/N 14-17 dB for 11 kbps stream, 99% intelligible, only a few dropouts (Ralph Brandi, Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Elad FDM77, Drake R8, Etón E1, 300' mini- Beverage antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. Expecting Hmong World Christian Radio via WHRI, 11785, as has been happening the last few Sundays, and Saturdays, after Hmong Lao Radio ends at 1400, but Sept 23 at 1435 check, this frequency was in WHRI gospel-rock fill music in English, so either HWCR was only a semihour, or it`s off the 1400 timeslot. It`s still missing from the WHR online program schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. LÍBIA VIA FRANÇA [sic] – A Voice of África é a emissora oficial da Líbia. Está presente, nas ondas curtas, em diversos horários e freqüências, usando os transmissores franceses de Issoudun. A estação, também conhecida como Radio Jamahiriya, tem chegado, com som local, no Sul do Brasil, em 11835 kHz, em boa parte da tarde. Conforme o EiBi, a estação emite, nesta freqüência, entre 1600 e 1800, em francês, e das 1800 às 2000, em hausa. Após, permanece no ar em 11835 kHz, emitindo em árabe. Em 23 de setembro, por exemplo, permanecia no ar, apresentando músicas, notícias e discursos políticos, sempre em árabe. Às 2220, um locutor apresentou um noticiário em francês. A estação deixa os 11835 kHz exatamente às 2300. Anuncia, constantemente, o site http://voiceofafrica.com.ly e o e-mail info @ voiceofafrica.com.ly (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Sept 23 via DXLD) ** LIBYA. 17870, Voice of Africa; *1400-1600 September 23, 2007. Carrier abruptly up and seconds later into African highlife vocal fragment, accented English female with ID, talk by same female and a man between Afro music fills about Gaddafi. Signal picked up after 1430 with pretty much the same fare continuing, babble at 1504 by another man about "... the blessings of Allah on Africa..." News at 1533 by female regarding the African Union, People's Congress, etc. Nothing here at 1601 recheck, so presume off around 1600. No parallels found (21695 reported). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But if you had tried 24 hours later on a weekday, as I did, you would have found this blocked by TDF DRM from GUF 17870-17875-17880 (gh, DXLD) ** MALI [and non]. Mauritania is a regular on 4845, especially during Ramadan, as Sept 25 at 0605 with Qur`an. But this time with a weaker sidekick doing same thing but not, of course, //, on 4835.6. That would be ORTM Bamako on its never precise frequency. Since I seldom hear it, suspect it is irregular but more likely to be active now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. MAURITÂNIA – O Ramadã foi o mês em que Maomé recebeu revelações do anjo Gabriel as quais, reunidas mais tarde, formaram o Corão. Em 2007, o Ramadã vai de 13 de setembro a 12 de outubro. Nesta época, muitas emissoras pertencentes a países muçulmanos estendem suas transmissões de rádio além do período habitual. Uma destas é a Rádio Mauritânia, que emite em 4845 kHz. Em Porto Alegre (RS), o colunista acompanhou a emissora, em 22 de setembro, às 0251, quando seu transmissor já deveria estar desligado. Naquele momento, a emissão, em árabe, apresentava uma entrevista (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Sept 23 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. At least on Sundays we can hear classical music rather than news/talk during the 1300 UT hour from XEYU: Sept 23 at 1335 on 9599+, Mendelssohn`s ``Midsummer Night`s Dream`` incidental music, imperfect for the first day of autumn. F-G reception, little QRM. Also Tue Sept 25 at 1303 with headlines quoted from and attributed to major DF newspapers, interrupted by drumming, then into Noticias del Día for 25 September, from Radio Unam. Does this mean they are no longer recording it the night before as exposed in some Mexican publication? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA ** MYANMAR [and non]. ONE OF THE LAST GREAT SHORTWAVE EVENTS? "Several prominent show business personalities and celebrities of Myanmar also echoed their support of the protests via shortwave radio and called on the public to join the growing protest." AHN, 24 September 2007. "Two leading Burmese actors, comedian Zaganar and heart-throb movie star Kyaw Thu, came to Shwedagon yesterday to bring food and water to the monks, witnesses said. Both men had spoken on shortwave radio urging people to support the protests." AFP, 25 September 2007. "Win Min, a Myanmar analyst who teaches at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, said prominent Myanmar actors and celebrities had spoken on shortwave radio to throw their support behind the rallies and to urge the public to join." AFP, 24 September 2007. "From a warehouse-like building in Norway's capital, a tiny broadcast network called the Democratic Voice of Burma is struggling to provide news and encouragement to countrymen rising up against the military dictatorship at home." AP, 24 September 2007. Posted: 24 Sep 2007 http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/index.php?id=2363 (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) see above for linx to four stories See also BURMA [and non] ** NEW ZEALAND. 6224 USB, unID marine weather (ZLM or one of the several others?); 0555-0605 September 23, 2007. Fair with NZ-accented female weather, references to several NZ towns. NZ-accented male from 0558, possible a different station up then, with similar weather. Unable to pull any IDs (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Voice of Nigeria 15120 comes in strong in Madrid but the announcer also does sound a bit muffled (Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Reply to Questions of Mr. Wolfgang Buschel. Hi Glenn! 1332 kHz Medium Wave PBC Lahore Channel 3, Reference (7-114). Mr. Wolfgang Buschel has asked about the location of New Medium Wave transmitter for the Frequency of 1332 kHz, PBC Lahore Channel 3. I have been told that the transmitter is housed in the same site where the Medium wave Transmitter for the 630 and 1080 kHz are installed. In 1996 I had visited the medium wave transmitter site for 630 and 1080 khz which was in the southeastern suburbs of Lahore on Multan Road. I have learnt that the transmitter site has been shifted from there. I am trying to confirm from Radio Pakistan authorities at Lahore but have not been able to talk to the concerned Engineer so far. From the photographs of the transmitter & antenna on http://www.waniewski.de it appears that the medium wave transmitter site is no longer on Multan Road site in South East Lahore. The new transmitter for 1332 kHz is digital manufactured by telefunken. The photographs of the antenna and transmitter can be seen at the link: http://www.waniewski.de/id372.htm Mr. Claus Schlot And Mr. Bernd Waniewski, German Engineers, helped in installation of antenna. In the meantime Mr. Waniewski can also be contacted for information about exact location of new transmitter for 1332 Lahore at the following e-mail bernd @ waniewski.de He might be able to tell about the exact location. On my part I will visit the site once the exact location is confirmed by Radio Pakistan Lahore Engineers. In the next e-mail I will provide some info about 1000 kW medium Wave transmitter of Radio Pakistan Islamabad for 585 kHz. Regards (Aslam Javaid, 136/H Model Town, Lahore, Pakistan, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 7220, Radio Pakistan (Probable), 1157­1211, 9/22/07, in Chitral. Talk by OM, S. Asian music, 1200 short announcement by OM mentioning something close to Pakistan, YL, 1206 more S. Asian music, obliterated by ham QRM 1211-1213, OM & YL talk, 1219 mu. br. [mushy? Musical? break? bridge?], YL, (fading) 1223 Mu. Br., YL, 1225 f/out. Fair ­ poor. Jim Ronda reports 1223 when modern Asian-style music and vocals was heard; brief announcement at 1227 and then off. Poor. (See Voice of Vietnam below [heard next, in Russian].) Language note: Citral (pron. "chetrar"). Wikipedia says it is the language of the Khowar people of the Northwest Frontier province of Pakistan ­ where Osama Bin Laden may be hiding. DX Toolbox shows the evening greyline going through the area about 1200 (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R75, E1, Sat. 800; Eavesdropper, Flextenna, 110' random wire, and Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** PALAU. 9965, KHBN, 1248, 9/23/07, in Mandarin. M talking in soothing Mandarin over muzak, audio oddly pinched-sounding like the hi/lo ends were cut off. Good signal (Mark Schiefelbein, Springfield, MO. Kenwood R-5000; Wellbrook 330S loop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** PERU. Saludos cordiales queridos colegas diexistas. Espero que se encuentren muy bien. Gracias a la onda corta, hace ya algunos años, en una de mis tantas trasnochadas rastreando las bandas tropicales me enconte con una emisora que si mal no recuerdo era la Voz de la Selva, esa emisora estaba transmitiendo musica peruana y bastantes tecnocumbias peruanas, desde ese momento las cumbias y tecnocumbias se han convertido para mi en algo emocionante, interesante, agradable y espectacular, ahora me lo paso buscando este tipo de ritmos para mi colección de tecnocumbias y cumbias. Ahhhh otra cosa, me he dado cuenta que como la mujer peruana para bailar la tecnocumbia no hay, ademas son muy bonitas y hermosas, una muestra de esto está en el Grupo Los Ecos, que fue precisamente uno de los escuchados en la banda tropical de 60 metros, la bailarina de este grupo musical peruano se llama Celeste, les invito a verla y apreciar su belleza --- pero eso sí, vean el video hasta el final, es lo mejor. Quien se atreve a bailar tecnocumbia con esta muchacha, yo me atrevería pero quedaría molidooooooooooooooo y casi muerto jajajajajajaajajajajaajajaja. Espero comentarios. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GsbfpCGb7c Un abrazo para todos (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Shoots up her dress; is this allowed on Youtube? (gh, DXLD) ** POLAND. Polish radio history website: http://historiaradia.neostrada.pl/Polskie%20Radio%20Warszawa.html Warsaw Fort Mokotov MW of 1926year, 1415 kHz = 212 m. 1.8 kW tx site. 52 11 39.66 N 20 59 46.47 E across the Gwardia stadium. http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.19435&lon=20.996242&z=16.4&r=0&src=ggl LW Warsaw Raszynie 224 kHz, 1339.3m, 120 kW during German Nazi occupation called Sender Weichsel - in Polish: "Vistula". At present on LW 198 kHz. 52 04 24.18 N 20 52 57.54 E http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.073383&lon=20.88265&z=16.8&r=0&src=ggl Ex German Reichspost Reichssender south of Breslau-Wroclaw west of Rothsorben-Zorawina in Schlesien, 950 kHz 100 kW: 50 59 11.85 N 17 01 11.34 E The transmitter Zorawina is a facility for FM (in earlier days also for MW) - transmission at Zorawina, then Rothsorben or Rothbach, south of Wroclaw (then Breslau) 17 degr 01' E and 50 degr59' N. It was established in 1932 as "Reichssender Breslau" and used as an antenna tower, a 140 metre tall free-standing lattice tower built of wood, in which a wire antenna was hung up. On the top of the tower there was an octangular ring of bronze with a diameter of 10.6 metres for electrical lengthening the antenna. In 1940 a second transmission aerial was built. It was an arrangement of 3 T-antennas mounted on three 49.9 metre tall guyed masts, which formed a triangle with equal side length. This antenna was as the wood tower in use until the shutdown of the facility on February 7, 1945. After 1945 transmission was resumed by the Polish Broadcasting Company under use of the wood tower as antenna tower. In 1976 a 260 metre tall mast radiator was built and the frequency of the transmitter, which was changed to 1206 kHz in 1965, was increased to 200 kilowatts afer its completion. The wood tower remained afterwards as backup antenna until its demolition in fall 1990. It was after the blasting of the wooden radio tower of Transmitter Ismaning on March 16th, 1983 until its demolition the tallest wooden structure on earth! In 1997 the mediumwave transmitter was shut-down. Meanwhile the guys of the mast, which were divided by insulators were replaced by guys without insulators as it is only used for FM- and TV-transmissions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_Z%C3%B3rawina (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Sept 21 via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. 15725 DRM, Deutsche Welle, 1307, 9/17/07. News in German, talk about McDonnell Douglas MD80 in connection with airplane crash in Phuket, Thailand, talk about German peacekeeping troops in Congo, into sports report at 1325. Audio about 90% intelligible, 14-16 dB S/N for 18.08 kbps, getting better as morning progresses with few dropouts by 1325 (Ralph Brandi, Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Elad FDM77, Drake R8, Etón E1, 300' mini-Beverage antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** PRIDNESTROYE. Hi Glenn. Seems to me that Radio PMR is on some weekdays; off on others, and to make matters more confusing, they announce they're broadcasting on 5960 kHz at the start of the transmission and at the end say 6230 kHz, which means it is canned announcement that nobody bothers to revise. Heard them today on 5965 with a good signal in English Sept. 25 s/on 1600 and s/off at 1620 with long commentary opposing Kosovo independence. On Fridays, the English service continues til' 1640 UT. There are no weekend broadcasts. They appeared off air on Thursday Sept. 20 but back on the next day. Transmitter problems? (Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. GTRK Adygeya shortwave schedule --- The state tele-radio company of the Republic Of Adygeya (GTRK Adygeya), Russia broadcasts on 7325 kHz according to following timetable (UT): Mon 1700-1800 in Adygeyan, Turkish and Arabic Fri 1700-1800 in Adygeyan Sun 1800-1900 in Adygeyan According to the representative of the radio-company, they have received reports from Finland, Italy, South Africa and other countries (Mikhail Timofeyev, Saint Petersburg, Russia via Open_DX via DXing the Finnish Way Sept 22 via DXLD)) ** RWANDA. RUANDA – País africano devastado pela guerra civil no início da década de 1990, Ruanda também está presente nas ondas curtas. A Rádio Rwanda emite pela freqüência de 6055 kHz, da capital Kigali, em alguns horários, em francês e outras línguas locais. No Sul do Brasil, o sinal da emissora pode ser monitorado, por volta de 0430, em que pese entrar em choque com a emissão em espanhol da REE para a América do Norte. Em 20 de setembro, o colunista ouviu a emissora, às 0435, quando um apresentador, em idioma desconhecido, fazia um provável chamamento à população (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Sept 23 via DXLD) ** SYRIA. 12085, R. Damascus, 2020, 9/18/07. Typical Arabic vocals with percussive instrument accompaniment. Better audio modulation than usual but still way short. S2-3 carrier (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA. JRC NRD-545; Wellbrook 330S Loop, Alpha Delta Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 12085, R. Damascus, 1835, 9/20/07. Fair-poor with Kor`an chanting; into songs with instrumental accompaniment; short anthem and announcement by woman and into German program as scheduled; increasing to fair level by 1848; ID at 1850 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** SYRIA. Siria: B-07 sólo por 9330 http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_Spanish/Theme_Espacio_diexista/Material/070923.htm Siria. Según anuncio difundido por Radio damasco, en la nueva temporada de radio se empleará una frecuencia única para las emisiones para el exterior, posiblemente la de 9330, debido al escaso interés de los oyentes de esa emisora. Radio Damasco emite en turco, iwrit [? -- by elimination this must be Hebrew, MW only -- gh], ruso, inglés, alemán, francés y español. En programa en idioma español se inicia a las 2205 para concluir a las 2330 horas. Se utilizan las frecuencias de 9330 y 12085 kilohercios. Rumen Pankov. Versión en español: Mijail Mijailov (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) "...debido al escaso interés de los oyentes en esta emisora..." Caray, ¿pues qué más querían...? ¡Habrá alguien capaz de soportar una emisión entera de Damasco, escuchando más el molesto zumbido en ambas frecuencias que la modulación? (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.) Despite scheduling, has been usually on only one frequency anyway. This of course contradicts an earlier report on R. Bulgaria, as just refound in the German version of Sept 4: Syrien – Radio Damaskus hat nun auch seinen zweiten Kurzwellen-Sender wieder in Betrieb genommen. Programme in Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch und Spanisch sind zwischen 18.10 Uhr und 23.00 Uhr auf 9330 und 12085 kHz zu empfangen. Autor: Rumen Pankow == Übersetzt von Petar Georgiew (via gh, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Just to be sure, checked RUI again UT Sept 25 at 0227 and yes, it is still on 7440, not audible on 5820 --- or 5830, the European frequency, which per WWORD quoted in DXLD 7-111 is indeed from a separate satellite feed without the English hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. French on 6105, Sept 25 at 0615 with African news, new jingle and soon IDed as BBC Afrique. Had not noticed this one before, perhaps because it`s only a semihour daily at 0600, via Ascension at 27 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST) ** U S A. TIME TO STOP WASTING U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLARS The Broadcasting Board of Governors has informed AFGE Local 1812 that it intends to appeal the "binding arbitration" decision concerning the non-U.S. citizen grievance. This is just more of the same from the successor of the United States Information Agency that through appeals and other delay tactics in the Hartman case cost U.S. taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars (remember many of those officials involved in that case are still with the Agency). The insidious part of all this is that those responsible for being good stewards of the taxpayers' money - money collected from U.S. citizens - are using that money to fight against the interests and rights of U.S. citizens. After all it isn't coming out of the Agency officials' pockets so what do they care. We are sick and tired of these government officials using our money against our best interests. AFGE Local 1812 encourages all to write their Senators and Representative and demand that the BBG stop wasting U.S. taxpayer money and negotiate a remedy of this arbitration with the Union as soon as possible. If you need information on how to contact your Senators and Representative just stop by or call the AFGE Local 1812 office (AFGE Local 1812 via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Updated A-07 of Adventist World Radio (AWR) 0000-0200 Mandarin NE-China 12025 SDA 0000-0200 Mandarin C/N-China 15300 SDA 0000-0030 Burmese Myanmar 15510 SDA 0030-0100 Karen Myanmar, Thailand 15510 SDA 0100-0200 Mandarin S-China 15520 SDA 0100-0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 TAI Sat 0200-0230 Urdu Pakistan 7320 MOS 0230-0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 MDC 0230-0300 Pushto Pakistan 7115 MOS Sun-Thu 0230-0300 Panjabi Pakistan 7115 MOS Fri/Sat 0300-0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 9815 WER 0300-0330 Russian E-Russia 17645 SDA 0300-0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 9545 WER 0330-0400 Farsi Iran 9895 MOS 0330-0400 Amharic Ethiopia 9815 WER 0400-0430 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 9695 MOS 0430-0500 French Morocco, Algeria 9770 MOS 0500-0600 Bulgarian Bulgaria 5965 WER 0700-0800 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11980 JUL 0800-0830 French Morocco, Algeria 15260 JUL 0800-0830 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 11980 JUL 0830-0900 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 15260 JUL 0900-1000 Italian Italy 9790 JUL Sun 1000-1100 Mandarin C/N-China 15615 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin S-China 15510 SDA 1030-1100 Ilonggo Philippines 11930 SDA Wed/Thu 1030-1100 Cebuano Philippines 11930 SDA Fri/Sat 1030-1100 Ilocano Philippines 11930 SDA Sun 1030-1100 Mongolian N-China,Mongolia 11780 SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 11930 SDA Mon/Tue 1100-1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15435 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin NE-China 11775 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin S-China 11975 SDA 1130-1200 English Indonesia,Malaysia 15435 SDA 1200-1300 Mandarin NE-China 9670 SDA 1200-1300 Mandarin S-China 9720 SDA 1200-1230 English NE-India,Bangladesh 15435 WER 1200-1300 Korean Korea 9880 SDA 1200-1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 SDA 1230-1300 Bangla NE-India,Bangladesh 15435 WER 1300-1330 Japanese Japan 11975 SDA 1300-1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 MDC 1300-1330 Mandarin W-China 15320 WER Mon-Fri 1300-1330 Uighur W-China 15320 WER Sat/Sun 1300-1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15275 SDA 1300-1400 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 SDA 1300-1330 Japanese W-Japan 9805 SDA 1330-1400 Khmer Cambodia,Vietnam,Laos 11880 SDA Sun/Wed 1330-1400 English Bangladesh 15275 SDA Mon/Tue/Thu-Sat 1330-1400 Assamese NE-India 15275 SDA Sun/Wed 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 15320 WER 1330-1400 Russian E-Russia 11845 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 SDA 1400-1430 Chin Myanmar 9385 SDA 1400-1500 Mandarin S-China 9695 SDA 1400-1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 12130 SDA 1400-1430 Urdu Pakistan 15400 MOS 1430-1500 Karen Myanmar, Thailand 9725 SDA 1430-1500 Burmese Myanmar 11885 SDA 1430-1500 Afar NE-Ethiopia, Somalia 17610 MOS 1500-1530 Tamil S-India 9600 SDA 1500-1530 Telugu S-India 6035 SDA 1500-1530 English S-India 11640 SDA 1500-1530 Mizo NE-India 11895 SDA 1500-1530 Nepali Nepal 15225 WER 1500-1530 Panjabi N-India 15160 WER 1500-1530 Turkish Turkey 15595 MOS 1530-1628 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 MDC 1530-1600 Hindi N-India 15160 WER 1530-1600 Marathi C-India 11895 SDA 1530-1600 Malayalam S-India 9600 SDA 1530-1600 Hindi C-India 9525 SDA 1530-1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15225 WER 1530-1600 Kannada S-India 11640 SDA 1600-1630 Urdu N-India 6155 SDA 1600-1630 English C-India 11805 SDA 1600-1630 English S-India 11640 SDA 1600-1630 Urdu Pakistan 15195 MOS 1630-1700 English N-India 6155 SDA 1630-1700 Somali Somalia 17575 WER 1630-1700 Farsi Iran 15360 MOS 1700-1730 Kiswahili Tanzania, Uganda 9600 MEY 1700-1730 Tagalog ME 9980 SDA Mon/Tue 1700-1730 Cebuano ME 9980 SDA Fri/Sat 1700-1730 Ilocano ME 9980 SDA Sun 1700-1730 Ilonggo ME 9980 SDA Wed/Thu 1700-1730 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 15265 MOS 1700-1730 Hindi ME 11640 SDA 1730-1800 Tamil ME 11640 SDA 1730-1800 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 11780 JUL 1730-1800 English ME 9980 SDA 1730-1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 17575 WER 1730-1800 Masai Tanzania, Kenya 9600 MEY 1800-1830 Bari S-Sudan 15315 MOS Mon 1800-1830 Dinka S-Sudan 15315 MOS Thu 1800-1830 Juba Arabic S-Sudan 15315 MOS Tue/Sat 1800-1830 Moru S-Sudan 15315 MOS Sun 1800-1830 Col English S-Sudan 15315 MOS Wed 1800-1830 Zande S-Sudan 15315 MOS Fri 1800-1830 English E-Africa 9610 MEY 1800-1830 English Botswana, Zimbabwe 3345 MEY 1800-1830 English SW-Africa 3215 MEY 1830-1900 Arabic Libya 11955 MOS 1900-1930 Fulfulde Cameroon, Ghana 15205 JUL 1900-2000 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 15260 JUL 1900-1930 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11730 JUL 1900-1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 MOS 1930-2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 11955 MOS 1930-2000 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 11730 JUL 2000-2030 Farsi Iran 9770 WER 2000-2030 Dyula Burkina Faso, Mali 11955 MOS 2000-2030 French C-Africa 15260 JUL 2000-2030 French Morocco, Algeria 11730 JUL 2000-2030 English C-Africa 15235 JUL 2000-2030 French Cameroon, Niger 11755 JUL 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11885 JUL 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 JUL 2030-2100 Mandarin Morocco, Algeria 9565 JUL 2030-2100 French W-Africa 11955 MOS 2100-2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 JUL 2100-2130 Japanese Japan 11980 SDA 2100-2200 Korean Korea 11790 SDA 2100-2130 Japanese W-Japan 11850 SDA 2100-2130 English W-Africa 11955 MOS 2130-2200 English W-Japan, S-China 11850 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15215 SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 11850 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin NE-China 12120 SDA 2230-2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin NE-China 12120 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin C/N-China 15370 SDA 2300-2400 Vietnamese S-Vietnam 15320 SDA (DX Mix News Bulgaria, Sept 25 via DXLD) ** U S A. 9265, WMLK, 1712, 9/20/07. ID, invitation to visit if you're Christian and passing by Bethel, mention of Assemblies of Yahweh; signal weak, S2 or 3, and noisy most of the time, but occasionally there was a "swoop" sound, then the audio would be strong and clear for a few seconds before going back to being noisy. Transmitter problem? This station is usually in the skip zone for me (Ralph Brandi, Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Elad FDM77, Drake R8, Etón E1, 300' mini-Beverage antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** U S A. 9329.71, WBCQ, 1717, 9/20/07. Christian cover of Kiss' "I Want To Rock 'n' Roll All Night" as "I Love The Lord With All My Might", followed by other such adaptations (Wings "Live and Let Die", "China Grove", Billy Joel's "You May Be Right", The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" as "Look In The Sky, You'll Find Him", "Spirit In The Sky", Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" as "Walk His Way", pretty funny stuff), program "The Apologetic Radio Show" hosted by Rod Hembree within "The Good Friends Network" program, joking about "we got through the show and didn't even try to sell you some gold" before offering a QSL card that will "make you the envy of the DX world" (Ralph Brandi, Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Elad FDM77, Drake R8, Etón E1, 300' mini-Beverage antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** U S A. WCXH 780 kHz Monticello, ME DX Test Date: Monday morning (late Sunday night), Oct. 29, 2007. Time: 4–5 a.m. Eastern Time, 0800–0900 UT. 5,000 watts using non-directional antenna pattern. Programming will consist of special voice announcements, march and other special music, Morse code and sweep tones. Reception reports may be sent to Mr. Allan H. Weiner. WCXH Radio, 274 Britton Rd., Monticello, ME 04760-3110. 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 the legendary Allan Weiner for agreeing to conduct this test (Jim Pogue – KH2AR @ comcast.net http://www.dxtests.info IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. PENNSYLVANIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD RETIRES BROADCASTING AIRCRAFT The Pennsylvania Air National Guard 193rd Special Operations Wing has retired commando Solo II, its 1963 aircraft which operated a flying radio and television station over Haiti, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo and other world hotspots. The plane was put to rest yesterday in a ceremony at Fort Indiantown Gap and is now on permanent display at the gap for public viewing. The EC-130E aircraft, the military’s only airborne broadcasting system, was used for psychological operations. It logged nearly 12,000 flying hours with the wing, including nearly 2,700 combat flying hours. Last year, the aircraft was replaced by Commando Solo III, an upgraded broadcast system based on the EC-130J. (Source: PennLive) Related story: US Air Force expands fleet of Commando Solo aircraft http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?p=2790 (September 24th, 2007 - 8:31 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** U S A. Question about WYFR Shortwave --- I'm not much up on shortwave broadcasting, just good ole AM and FM.... Do any pictures exist online of the WYFR towers/property/transmitting equipment and studio for Family Radio's WYFR Shortwave in Okeechobee, FL or its previous life in Scituate, Massachusetts? -- Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr., SC, IRCA & ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Glenn, I'm hearing a BRAND NEW TIS today. The call letters aren't even on the FCC site today. This is the loop announcement I heard at 2:00 PM EDT today on 1650 kHz. ``You are listening to WQHM-521, AM 1650, broadcasting from the city of Columbus Communication Emergency Radio vehicle`` (Artie Bigley, Columbus OH, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Info from FCC ULS Database: File Number 0003133965 Service COMM/PRIV Status PW Pending Code Y Licensee Name City of Columbus Support Services 220 Greenlawn Ave Columbus OH 43223 Phone: 614 645 7710 10 WATTS, 1.65 MHz, emission 6K00A3E (FCC via Artie Bigley, Columbus OH, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Shakeup at KUOW Seattle: http://crosscut.com/mudville/7258/And+now+the+rest+of+the+KUOW+story/ (via Northwest Broadcasters via DXLD) ** U S A. IS IT A DOC ON WATER NEEDS OR A PAID-FOR LOBBYING TOOL? OPPONENTS SAY KNME FUNDERS GOT FRIENDLY TREATMENT Originally published in Current, Sept. 24, 2007 By Katy June-Friesen Opponents of a big New Mexico water pipeline project say a half-hour documentary by Albuquerque’s KNME-TV amounts to a lobbying tool for its underwriters, a state agency and the Navajo Nation. "The Water Haulers," a half-hour doc that debuted Jan. 13 as part of the station’s In Focus public affairs series, favors the 270-mile pipeline project as a way to bring running water to the estimated 70,000 people on the Navajo reservation who have none. . . http://www.current.org/news/news0717water.shtml (Current via DXLD) Available online at http://www.knmetv.org/water ** U S A. Re 7-112, When did WTIC-TV start up on channel 3? Yes, 1957y, but URL for the CT broadcasting history timeline was missing. Vot: http://www.wwuh.org/history/CTtimeline.htm More evidence that people aren`t really reading DXLD, since no one asked me about this; I just noticed when I went back thru the issue to pull out items for WOR 1375 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Note new call on WTWP, heard here for the first time. 1500, WWWT Washington DC; Jim Bohannon Show, with Jim reflecting that he was presenting his show from Washington for the first time in 23 years, saying it was a “pleasure to be on 3WT”. The station was weak by 0500, but an FM frequency was given out in addition to 1500 AM. F 0407 22/9 AB It seems they began on 20th September (Thursday) according to http://www.3wtradio.com/ 1500 sounds quite different now! In the background was the Venezuelan NA at 0400 presumably belonging to R. 2000. 73 (Andrew Brade, Holme UK, MWC via DXLD) Jimbo`s studio has been in Arlington VA for a long time, so I doubt this means he has moved into the borders of DC; just that his show has not been on a DC outlet until now, which has been a shameful situation. I guess the YV NA will now be heard at 0430 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) And see VENEZUELA below ** URUGUAY. Se adelantará la hora legal uruguaya a partir de la hora 0200 local (0500 UTC) del próximo domingo 7 de octubre, pasando de UTC-3 a UTC-2. A partir de la misma hora del segundo domingo de marzo (día 9 de ese mes) se retrasarán los relojes 60 minutos, volviendo a UTC-3. -- Uruguay will change from UTC-3 to UTC-2 on next Oct 7, 0500 UTC. We will return to UTC-3 on Mar 9, 2008 (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. EVEN CHAVEZ CONFUSED ABOUT TIMEZONE CHANGE CARACAS (Reuters, 9/19) - President Hugo Chávez [hereafter: Chavez] wants Venezuelan clocks turned back half an hour and he wants it done in record time -- next Monday. "I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead, let them call me whatever they want," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "I'm not to blame. I received a recommendation and said I liked the idea." The shift will allow children to wake up for school in daylight instead of before sunrise, Chavez said. That may seem reasonable to many Venezuelans but ordering the change with little notice and scant public education has raised questions over how much thought was given to the plan. It also highlights how the anti-U.S. president's governing style can sometimes be eccentric, improvised and rushed in his self-styled revolution to turn one of the world's biggest oil exporters into a socialist state. Chavez himself has not had time to get to grips with the practicalities of the clock shift. In his live show, he called on his brother, the education minister, so that the two men could explain the measure. But they mistakenly told Venezuelans to move their clocks forward at midnight Sunday, when the policy is to move them back. Chavez dismissed criticism that moving the time only a half hour was quirky, questioning why the world had to follow a scheme of hourly divisions that he said was dictated by the imperial United States. The change will put Venezuela on its own time zone, shared by no other country. Several countries have adopted times that put them half an hour ahead or behind neighbors, and Nepal's official time is just 15 minutes ahead of that of India. Venezuelan businesses are now scrambling to call in technicians to reprogram their computers for the time change. Most countries advertise in the media any planned changes in clock times for months before the implementation date. But Chavez's government has only aired slots promoting the idea in principle without educating people on how to do it. "I'd like them to explain it to me so that I can understand what the new time is. I don't get it at all," said Esperanza Alcala, a 46-year-old office cleaning worker. TIME FOR CHANGE Since first announcing last month that Venezuela would shift from four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time to four and a half hours, Chavez, his brother and other senior officials have given varying dates for the change. This week, Chavez plumped for Monday, but his science and technology minister then said coordination with international organization might postpone the move until January. Venezuelans could be forgiven for not taking the government at its word. In a year of change when Chavez is overhauling the constitution and nationalizing swathes of the economy, some other attention- grabbing proposals have come to nothing. Most notably, Chavez announced that Venezuela was immediately withdrawing from the International Monetary Fund. Venezuela's debt then plunged and four months later the country remains an IMF member. Still, for Chavez, the clock move is simpler than people think. It is a one-off change and he notes that Venezuela does not follow many other countries in regularly moving clocks an hour forward for summer and back for winter. "It's something that's done around the world each year and several times a year and here we are just doing it once in a century." (via Dave Alpert, CA, Sept 23, DXLD) YVTO UT -3 sesquihours now? Can anyone confirm whether Venezuela is now on UT -4:30, by monitoring YVTO 5000, lacking any other active SW station? I don`t think RNV CI via Cuba gives timechex. Or by monitoring a MW station? Rather than taking the easy way by webcasts. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 0431 UT Sept 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, the change has been delayed! --- Saludos Glenn, le adjunto respuesta de José Elías en Venezuela al respecto; le he preguntado y me comenta que todavía no se cambiado la hora: Saludos José Miguel. El cambio de horario no se ha realizado; fue suspendido motivado a los inconvenientes que se presentaron con los organismos internacionales que rigen la materia. Aparentemente para octubre o finales de año es cuando se hará el cambio luego de que se hayan cumplido todas las formalidades del caso. Eso de cambiar la hora así por así no es cualquier cosa. Recibe un abrazo; todavía seguimos con nuestro horario normal -4 (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, via José Miguel Romero2, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A las 1800 UT he escuchado la señal del Observatorio Naval Juan Manuel Cagigal en su frecuencia de 5000 kHz con señal muy débil. Creo que está influyendo igualmente, las malísimas condiciones de propagación y el ruido intenso que tengo a esta hora en la banda de 60 metros. Un abrazo (José Elías, Sept 25, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. "VIVE" SERÁ EL CANAL PIONERO EN VENEZUELA PARA USO EDUCATIVO DE TV DIGITAL Por: Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN) Caracas, 19 Sep. ABN (Rosa Raydán).- La estación televisiva venezolana Vive TV, será pionera en el país en el aprovechamiento de la tecnología de la televisión digital para el uso educativo. “Estamos trabajando en que la televisión digital, que tanto se ha utilizado en todo el mundo para la comercialización y los objetivos privados, se pueda convertir en una herramienta educativa”, aseguró este miércoles la presidenta de Vive TV, Blanca Eekhout. Eekhout explicó que la transición a la TV digital es una de las metas para el año 2008, y para alcanzarlas ya el personal de la planta televisiva está siendo formada. A juicio de Eekhout, este modelo de trasmisión tendrá muchas ventajas para tener y complementar la información, así como para la interacción del público. En tal sentido, Eekhout dijo que desde ya las informaciones que podrán ser difundidas a través de la TV digital en un futuro cercano, están disponibles al público a través de la página web del canal, por ejemplo, las guías de uso social de los programas. “Un poco para que las experiencias positivas se multipliquen, para que las organizaciones sociales puedan conectarse a nivel nacional y para que la producción de contenidos a nivel de la televisión digital pueda estar enriquecida”, aseveró. Eekhout sostuvo que una de las ventajas del nuevo sistema será que los programas podrán estar traducidos a idiomas originarios. “Que sirva para abrirte al mundo y no para que estés hipnotizado en la pantalla”, destacó (via Adán González, Catia La Mar, DXLD) WTFK? ** VENEZUELA. CHÁVEZ DIVIDE A LOS CANALES DE TV - 09/23/2007 - El Nuevo Herald Publicado el domingo 23 de septiembre del 2007 CASTO OCANDO El Nuevo Herald Andre Penner / ASSOCIATED PRESS El enfrentamiento que mantiene el gobierno del presidente de Hugo Chávez con los canales privados de televisión en Venezuela, ha generado dos estilos contrapuestos, que están definiendo el camino futuro que podrían tomar los medios privados en el país petrolero, como respuesta a la creciente tendencia hegemónica del comandante bolivariano. Mientras un sector de medios de comunicación está manteniendo una línea de franca combatividad, con una orientación editorial mordaz y opositora que critica sistemáticamente la gestión chavista, otros medios privados están mostrando una mayor cautela a la hora de presentar su oferta informativa y de entretenimiento, una realidad que fue visible esta semana en Miami en el marco de la Conferencia de las Américas, patrocinada por The Miami Herald Media Company. . . http://www.elnuevoherald.com/213/story/94618.html (via Óscar de Céspedes, FL, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. No sign of R. Nacional de Venezuela via Cuba, which usually dominates after their sign-on at about 1100 (schedule change?). Good to hear Sichuan 6060 free from QRM Sept 24. [Later:] Hi Glenn, Sept 25, again heard R. Nac. de Venezuela via Cuba signing-on at 1100, covering Sichuan PBS-2. No change in schedule, maybe just one day event (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ARGELIA, 6300, Radio Nacional Saharaui, 1812- 1825, escuchada el 25 de septiembre en árabe con emisión de música folklórica local, acompañada de ese sonido característico que hacen las mujeres con la boca; la música tiene un ritmo cansino y repetitivo, música con instrumentos de cuerda, locutor con identificación en árabe, comentarios, SINPO 45433 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A- 108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. At press time it appears that the 1181 signal is no longer being heard. Ed.-WI (Bill Dvorak, Domestic DX Digest-West, NRC DX News Oct 1 via DXLD) Hi Bill, Not sure when `press time` was for your Oct 1 DDXD-W, but altho I have not checked it every single night lately, I don`t think 1181 is gone. In fact I know it isn`t, because I just checked at 0228 UT Sept 26 (let`s see, that would be 2228 EDT Sept 25) and it`s there as usual tho pretty weak. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. U S A, 2460 harmonic, 0832-0843, 9/18/07, English. Presumed harmonic of easy-listening oldies with a real "smoky" sound to them. YL at 0840 re "Music of your life" concert promo. Fair/choppy, gone at 0900 re-check (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH. R8, R75, NIR10, MLB1, 200' Beverages, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 2 x 1230, no doubt, a few hundred stations there (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 5011.30 kHz. Glenn, I did a search on WOR and no results. I was wondering if you knew who is broadcasting right now between 2345 and 0030 UT Sept 23rd on 5011.30 kHz. Program is broadcasting music. The language might be Portuguese? (Chuck Bolland, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry, rings no bells here (gh, DXLD) Hi Chuck and Glenn, For what it's worth, some years ago Escuelas Radiofónicas Populares / ERPE, Riobamba, Ecuador was noted around 5010.3 - 5011.3 (v). (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DXLD) But unseems in either LADX list. Could also be Dominican Republic, tho surely not in Portuguese, and usually varies on low side (gh, DXLD) No luck here in Tiquicia at 2345, but at 0057 a weak signal amidst the statical noises, gave me the same impression as Chuck pointed out, sounding like Portuguese. Seems to be centered on 5010.3. We'll have to wait for that hand from our Brazilian colleagues. 73s (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, UT Sept 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6210, NO ID, 1805-1810, escuchada el 25 de septiembre en idioma sin identificar, se aprecia locutor con invitado, muy mala modulación, la emisión se corta bruscamente, intuyo sea La Voz de Turquía en turco, prolongación accidental en su servicio de 1600 a 1800 UT, SINPO 24232. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Re 7-113 and 7-114, 12055. 1327, 9/15/07. Checks on Sep 22 1258-1400 and Sep 23 1210-1400 & 1519-1530 I heard IDs as "Radiokompaniya Golos Rossii" with news & reports, classical music, Russian songs, talk & interviews on culture also mentioning Jesus Christ and Christian. On 1359 I heard signature tunes of Voice of Russia before WYFR signal. As per EiBi, 1600+ was Voice of Russia in English and 1700+ Radiokompaniya Golos Rossii Radiokanal Sodruzhhestvo in Russian (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ DXLD fan mail Hello Glenn, As a broadcast engineer, I find DX Listening Digest to be very informative and entertaining, even to someone who does not currently own a shortwave receiver. I especially appreciate your comments about IBOC in DXLD #7-115... >> If this IBOCh system had existed and was promoted back in the >> 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s I suspect the FCC engineering people on >> staff at that time would have quickly and completely squelched the >> entire idea, probably even calling it ridiculous. Bravo! For years I enjoyed DXing on my car radio, and until IBOC came along, the greatest obstacle was the clutter of 10-watt municipal stations (which are completely useless) and the new signals that have appeared on frequencies that were once "clear channels." Recently I noticed that KRLD occupies everything from 1060 to 1100, even spilling into 1110 a little. Also I can no longer listen to WLW because there is a station in a Dallas suburb that recently dropped in on 700 kHz. Worse still, the station broadcasts Islamic prayer chants every morning, which at this point in America's history, I find to be in very bad taste. As I said in a letter to my US Senator, I recall listening to anti-American propaganda during the Vietnam war, but the broadcasts came from Moscow, not Dallas! Keep up the good work! (Andrew K. Dart, CSTE, Duncanville, TX, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Andrew. For the record, the IBOCh comment you quote was not from me, altho I agree with it, but from Richard Howard. As for 700, I agree that it should have remained a real clear channel, but we do have freedom of religion, and recitations from the Qur`an are not, per se, anti-American. It is Ramadan, after all. That would be KHSE, licensed to Wylie TX with an address in Dallas, an ``Asian`` format per NRC 2007-2008 AM Log (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: BRAZIL; KUWAIT; LIBYA; PORTUGAL ++++++++++++++++++++ IBOCh AT NIGHT One very active list which has had a lot of good comments about this subject is IRCA. If I weren`t overwhelmed, I would have quoted a lot of them in DXLD. You can go thru them yourself, if you like, via: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=irca Or more conveniently archived, and sortable by date or thread: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/archive/irca/maillist.html (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBAL contact information GOOD NEWS! My contact at WBAL said he would accept reception reports of IBOC interference to WBAL. In fact, he is very interested in hearing from you, even "DX" reception. You can even consider sending him a message of support even if you don't hear WBAL. His contact information follows: (Please use the phone number judiciously as he has a job to do.) Go forth and conquer! Kerry Plackmeyer Assistant Chief Engineer WBAL-AM 1090 WIYY-FM 97.9 WIYY HD2, WIYY HD3 3800 Hooper Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21211 410-338-6552 Voice 410-218-0181 Cell 410-366-4166 Fax kplackmeyer @ hearst.com He told me that they will set up a spectrum analyzer in Columbia, Maryland for the next week and see what is going on (Bill Harms, Elkridge, Maryland, Sept 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BEST BUY: CONSUMERS BAFFLED BY HDTV By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com senior writer September 24 2007: 2:06 PM EDT No. 1 electronics seller says 90% of consumers in survey are confused about high-definition televisions, while 50% underestimate cost of buying, installing them. . . http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/24/news/companies/bestbuy_hdtveducation/?postversion=2007092413 (via Curtis Sadowski, WTFDA via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ KWZ-30 SUCCESSOR I just checked the Kneisner + Doering web page and noted a subtle change regarding the KWZ-30/2. On the page that describes the receiver it used to state that they had hoped to release the KWZ-30/2 in 2006, now it says "There will be a successor to the KWZ-30. The release date is still unknown." http://kd-elektronik.com/index_e.html (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, Sept 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CAR RADIO ANTENNAS [Re 7-114:] ``Aside from GM's experiment with in-glass antennas in the '70s and early '80s, the automotive world has gone back to fender mounted whip antennas. As Liz points out, there is some (unintentional I'm sure) directivity on FM, but the various vehicles I've been in over the years seemed quite omni-directional on AM.`` Really? Tell that to my 2004 Chevy Impala and 2007 Hyundai Sonata (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So what kind of direxionality do they have? Are they mounted vertically? (My old Civic has the antenna at an angle from the roof, which seems quite confusing as to direxionality on AM as well as FM.) Glenn I never could tell any difference (direction). Most of my car listening is XM these days though. All local radio sucks (Terry Krueger, ibid.) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ LA DX LIST MOVING Mark Mohrmann's LA DX site is moving to a new home. See: http://www.sover.net/~hackmohr/sw.htm New site is: http://home.tele2.it/MCDXT/LASWLOGS.htm Note that in Mark's message the new site is shown with a .html extension which does not work. It is .htm (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, Sept 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Italian group revived and started updating it last year so now it`s more convenient to host it directly. And page down after the frequency lists for huge list of reference linx (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) RADIOTIME.COM Re 7-115, the list of CNN Radio affiliates --- I would not necessarily recognize out of date info in this list, so I looked at other categories --- CLASSICAL! There are only 16 entries, including several from outside the US, but the last one is WTMI Miami --- which abandoned classical several years ago and no longer exists under those calls. O, the audio link does work as WTMI has morphed into online- only Beethoven.com --- which existed before and is a syndicated service to a number of other stations. So much for radiotime.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radiotime.com Web site You mentioned this site's use of CST. Equally bizarre is the site's listing for radio in the Turks & Caicos, which it says broadcasts in Turkish. The site lists a number of stations in Turkey which it says I might also like (Mike Cooper, Sep 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ OUR EXCLUSIVE AND NOT COPYRIGHTED HF PLUS LOW BAND VHF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST This past week has been nothing but absolutely terrible for HF propagation, with a totally blank Sun, with ZERO sunspot count day in and day out, but fortunately no geomagnetic disturbances of any significance. For this weekend, expect very poor conditions for the HF bands, but rather good for Long Wave and AM broadcast band DXing. Average solar flux for this week was about 67, and you can expect continuing solar flux between 65 and 70 through the weekend (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Sept 25, ODXA via DXLD) The geomagnetic field was quiet during 17 - 19 September. Activity increased to quiet to active levels during the rest of the period. ACE real-time solar wind measurements indicated the increased activity was due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed wind stream. The high-speed stream commenced around 20/0900 UTC. Velocities gradually increased to a peak of 728 km/sec at 23/0836 UTC, then gradually declined during the rest of the summary period. IMF changes associated with the onset of the high-speed stream included a solar sector boundary crossing (Away (+) to Toward (-)) at around 20/1400 UTC, a peak total field intensity of 13.1 nT at 20/1336 UTC, and a minimum southward Bz reading of -9.1 nT at 20/1330 UTC. The proton density increase associated with the onset of the high-speed stream reached a peak of 20.4 p/cc at 20/2002 UTC. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 26 SEPT - 22 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 26 September - 10 October and 21 - 22 October. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels during 26 - 27 September. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to minor storm levels during 28 - 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. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active levels during 03 - 04 October due to another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Quiet conditions are expected during 05 - 16 October. An increase to quiet to unsettled levels is expected during 17 - 19 October. A further increase to unsettled to active levels is forecast for 20 October as another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream affects the field. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during the remainder of the period as the high-speed stream subsides. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 Sep 25 1854 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 25 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2007 Sep 26 66 5 2 2007 Sep 27 67 8 3 2007 Sep 28 67 15 4 2007 Sep 29 67 25 5 2007 Sep 30 67 12 3 2007 Oct 01 67 5 2 2007 Oct 02 67 8 3 2007 Oct 03 68 15 4 2007 Oct 04 68 10 3 2007 Oct 05 68 5 2 2007 Oct 06 68 5 2 2007 Oct 07 68 5 2 2007 Oct 08 68 5 2 2007 Oct 09 67 5 2 2007 Oct 10 67 5 2 2007 Oct 11 67 5 2 2007 Oct 12 67 5 2 2007 Oct 13 67 5 2 2007 Oct 14 67 5 2 2007 Oct 15 67 5 2 2007 Oct 16 67 5 2 2007 Oct 17 67 10 3 2007 Oct 18 67 10 3 2007 Oct 19 67 10 3 2007 Oct 20 67 15 4 2007 Oct 21 67 10 3 2007 Oct 22 67 8 3 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via DXLD) The first one I can recall without any SF = 70 (gh, DXLD) ###