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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1377 Thu 0600 WRMI 9955 Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Thu 2330 WBCQ 7415 [ex-Wed 2200] Fri 0630 WRMI 9955 Fri 1100 KAIJ 5755 [ex-1030] 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 lately] 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 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 ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Hoy 8 de octubre tampoco se aprecia que la emisora Radio Solh vía Reino Unido en 17700 esté activa, chequeada desde las 1200 a 1330 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) However, Solh 17700 was on and coming in fairly well here from at least 1530 past 1600; also audible Oct 9 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13750, Oct 9 *1257 OC, 1302 schedule announcement in English still incorrect, says 0145 on 6115, 7425, 0230 on 6115, 7625, the latter a persistent typo; while the 0145 broadcast shifted to clearer 6120 April 23 (but the 6 MHz frequencies may be off for antenna maintenance shortly if not already). Program summary for Tue, originally Mon or Sun? includes press review, Albania in a Week, Sports Roundup; 1303 into news. Settled into listen to the broadcast with F-G reception, but at 1305 blown away by spurs from 13680 CUBA [q.v.] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Updated B-07 schedule of Radio Tirana: ALBANIAN Daily 0000-0130 on 6110 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg to NoAm 0000-0130 on 7425 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 0730-0900 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / 338 deg to WeEu 0730-0900 on 7105 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu 0901-1000 on 1395 FLA 500 kW / 033 deg to WeEu 0901-1000 on 7105 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu 1500-1630 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / non-dir to WeEu 2130-2300 on 6005 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu 2130-2300 on 7430 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to WeEu ENGLISH Tue-Sun 0130-0145 on 6110 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg to NoAm 0245-0300 on 7425 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 0330-0400 on 6110 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg to NoAm 0430-0500 on 7425 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm ENGLISH Mon-Sat 1530-1600 on 13640 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 1945-2000 on 6135 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to U.K. 1945-2000 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to U.K. 2100-2130 on 7430 SHI 100 kW / 300 deg to U.K. 2100-2130 on 9915 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to NoAm GERMAN Mon-Sat 1900-1930 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / 338 deg to Germany 2031-2100 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to Germany GREEK Mon-Sat 1645-1700 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / non-dir to Greece FRENCH Mon-Sat 1830-1900 on 7430 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to France 2001-2030 on 7465 SHI 100 kW / 310 deg to France ITALIAN Mon-Sat 1830-1900 on 7460 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to Italy 2001-2030 on 6035 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to Italy SERBIAN Mon-Sat 1900-1915 on 6125 SHI 100 kW / non-dir to Serbia 2115-2130 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / 004 deg to Serbia TURKISH Mon-Sat 1630-1645 on 1458 FLA 500 kW / non-dir to Turkey (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 9, via DXLD) ** ALGERIA. HARRIS TO MODERNIZE TDA HIGH-POWER MW STATIONS 10.09.2007 http://www.radioworld.com/pages/c.0021.html *::* Business Digest http://www.radioworld.com/pages/s.0140/t.p0001.html Harris Corp. http://www.broadcast.harris.com/ is deploying two turnkey medium-wave transmission systems for Télédiffusion d'Algérie (TDA) http://www.tda.dz/ the Algerian authority that runs public broadcasting in the country. The stations, at F'kirina in the northeast and Sidi-bel-Abbès in the northwest, are part of a government program to modernize the television and radio infrastructure. The contract is worth US$15 million. The project, to be completed in 2009, includes the design and construction of the two radio transmission stations, the procurement and installation of towers and antenna systems, as well as the delivery and installation of 600 kW DX Series medium-wave AM transmitters. "We are very excited about the new Harris transmitters as they provide us with much lower operating costs, significantly improved coverage and audio quality, and an opportunity to move towards DRM when this is needed," stated TDA Managing Director Abdelmalek Houyou (Radio World International Newsbytes via Ben Dawson, DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. DGS on 6090 much later than scheduled 1000*, heard at 1219 Oct 9, weakening, and not audible at 1235 recheck. By 1253, PMS was VG on daytime frequency 11775. I suspect wide variation in switchover times, nominally 1000 & 2200, is due to a human being having to be present to accomplish that, and I am sure the engineer has better things to do than be tied to the station twice a day, every day at the same times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, 2039-2103* 8 Oct. Pleasant lively LA music, canned W announcer, then long talk by live W in Spanish mentioning Antártida and possibly "la paz". 2045 Spanish LA pop/rock music. 2056 W returned briefly, then another song in Spanish sounding familiar. 2100 M with canned presumed closing ID over music. 2101 fanfare briefly. Dead air, then signal off at exactly 2103:30. Dropped down a bit towards ToH which made it more difficult. Very quick QSB, almost choppy. If it would've stayed steady at a strength equal to its peaks, it would've been much easier. Best signal heard in a very long time (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) 15476, LRA36, RADIO NACIONAL ARCÁNGEL SAN GABRIEL. 1952-2058* [no date]. Con excelente señal, según mi logbook no la escuchaba desde 1999 cuando con la ayuda del colega GIB se realizó una transmisión especial un día sábado fuera de su horario habitual. Presentando música pop en español. "...de Esperanza al mundo un contraste entre la oscuridad del cielo y la belleza natural..." cda [?] tiempo con noticias. "...sintonizan LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel en su frecuencia de 15476 kHz onda corta para el territorio antártico argentino..." (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.5, RADIO PIO XII, Siglo XX. 2335-2310 sept. 28. Programación en vernacular pero con un anuncio especial en español: "...la festividad del Arcángel San Miguel, patrono de Bolivia, a través de la red de comunicaciones Pio XII, la región y el país todos viviremos la festividad del Arcángel San Miguel, se realizarán este sábado 29, música, tradiciones, cultura; compromisos para seguir trabajando por Bolivia..." (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. News from http://www.romais.jor.br --- all times UT BRASIL – Uma tradicional emissora brasileira pode ter dado adeus às ondas curtas. Trata-se da Rádio Clube Paranaense, de Curitiba (PR), que não tem sido mais captada, ultimamente, na única freqüência que ainda mantinha em ondas curtas: 6040 kHz, em 49 metros. A emissora já deixou de emitir em 9725 e 11935 kHz. BRASIL – Conforme monitoria de Édison Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS), a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, de Brasília (DF), tem passado grande parte do tempo fora do ar em 6180 kHz. Quando retorna, o sinal é "fraquíssimo", segundo ele. Algum problema com o transmissor? BRASIL – Nos últimos dias, a Rádio Brasil Central, de Goiânia (GO), não tem sido captada na freqüência de 4985 kHz. Já em 11815 kHz é escutada normalmente. Outra freqüência inativa é a de 4825 kHz da Rádio Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP). BRASIL - A freqüência de 9615 kHz da Rádio Cultura AM, de São Paulo (SP), voltou ao ar em quatro de outubro, conforme constatação de Édison Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS). Ele também tem captado normalmente a freqüência de 17815 kHz, em 16 metros, apesar de considerar a potência, em tal canal, "fraquíssima". BRASIL – Já faz um bom tempo que a Rádio Mundial AM, de São Paulo (SP), tem tido boa sintonia, no Sul do Brasil, em diversos horários, na freqüência de 3325 kHz. Em 25 de setembro, foi captada, pelo colunista, às 2331, quando irradiava o programa Empreendedores do Bem. BRASIL – A Rede de Cidadania nas Ondas do Rádio é um projeto do site Criar Brasil formada por jovens e rádios comunitárias, educativas e comerciais de todo o Brasil para falar sobre temas ligados à cidadania e à juventude. Jovens de todo o país produzem entrevistas e reportagens e divulgam na Rede. Na Rádio Educação Rural, de Tefé (AM), o segmento vai ao ar, nas terças-feiras, às 1130, em 1270 e 4925 kHz. A dica é do biólogo Paulo Roberto e Souza , de Tefé (AM). BRASIL – A Rádio Gazeta, de São Paulo (SP), prossegue sendo a única emissora brasileira que ainda transmite na faixa de 19 metros . Em Porto Alegre (RS), o colunista captou a emissora, em 30 de setembro, às 1819, na freqüência de 15325 kHz. No futuro, a Gazeta poderá ter a companhia da Rádio Inconfidência, de Belo Horizonte (MG), que pretende reativar a freqüência de 15190 kHz (Célio Romais, Brasil, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRASIL – Ao que tudo indica, o ciclo de emissões em ondas curtas da antiga Rádio Guarujá Paulista, que atualmente se identifica como Rádio Globo Santos, de Guarujá (SP), acabou. Desde 23 de setembro, Rudolf Grimm, de São Bernardo do Campo (SP), notou a total ausência do sinal da emissora na última freqüência que ainda estava no ar: 3385 kHz. BRASIL – A Rádio Gazeta, de São Paulo (SP), foi captada, em Porto Alegre (RS), pelo colunista, em 30 de setembro, às 1817, pela freqüência de 15325 kHz. A emissora, naquele instante, levava ao ar músicas brasileiras. Também era captada em 9685 kHz. BRASIL – A Rádio Record, de São Paulo (SP), foi sintonizada, em Porto Alegre (RS), pelo colunista, em 29 de setembro, às 1457, pela recém reativada freqüência de 9505 kHz, em 31 metros. Levava ao ar o encerramento de mais uma edição do programa Estação Record, sob o comando de Wandy Rocha. A qualidade de sintonia era excelente. BRASIL – De acordo com Édison Bocorny Jr., de Novo Hamburgo (RS), a Rádio Globo, de São Paulo (SP), desliga seus transmissores de 9585 e 6120 kHz sempre às 1955. Segundo ele, as freqüências saem do ar repentinamente, sem qualquer aviso, quando os apresentadores estão falando algo (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. Re 7-120? ``75 degrees is NOT adequate azimuthal separation. In fact there is no such thing. You`ve got to synchronize the audio when running two transmitters on the same frequency, as there will normally be enough signal from both at any location to cause an echo otherwise. Duh! (gh)`` Sure it is! The need for azimuthal separation arises from interactivity of the antennas, unrelated to the audio stream, synchronization of which is a function of the control room at the station, and normally, AFAIR, handled very well by Deutsche Welle. The point is/was that going cochannel with the 15 transmission would not work well, based on my rule of thumb [probably stolen from someone else's hand], that one should try to avoid an azimuthal separation of less than 60 . As for already targeting Burma with the 1600-1700 English broadcast, looking at the Aoki list, the parameters of this broadcast show it to be primarily for SAs and points west. The 345 transmission from Trincomalee goes toward western SAs. The 15 beam from TRM still misses Burma with the main lobe unless it's a very wide beam. There's a transmission from Rampisham, some 5700 miles away. Is there already some service into Burma? Probably, but adding TRM at, say, 45 or 60 hits Burma with the main lobe of a signal from a regional transmitter only 1000 miles from Rangoon. So, though the time is a bit late, they get a good signal into a new or newly important target, and don't have to produce a new program to do it. What a deal! Prost! [The kilometerage of other broadcasters may vary.] To have this quickly brought up a complete new service, which would involve recruiting, hiring, training, etc., would indeed be impressive (Dan Ferguson, Dec 7 [sic], dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, they were not handling the audio synchro very well in this case, according to monitors. I was saying and still say that audio must be synchronized because of signal bleedover when running two transmitters on same frequency from same site (or different sites!), no matter what the azimuthal separation in the lobes. It doesn`t take much residual signal from the unwanted transmitter to cause an annoying echo. If they can synchro the audio, fine, pile on the transmitters and save frequency usage. Meanwhile, the existence of a fourth old transmitter at Trinco for such emergencies has been confirmed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see SRI LANKA ** CANADA. Ontario, Newfoundland and the Northwest Territories are all holding elections this month, and if the rumours are to be believed, we may be plunged into a federal election right after. CFRX’s transmitter is still down (so that’s out for Ontario coverage). CKZN in Newfoundland may carry the election results there. And if it hasn’t switched to FM yet, CBA Moncton’s signal carries into Southern Ontario, if you want federal voting results from down east while they are still embargoed in Ontario. But, shhh, I didn’t tell you that. ;-) Voting is October 10 in Ontario, October 9 in Newfoundland and October 1 [sic] in the North West Territories. There is a confidence vote in the House of Commons on the 18th. Stay tuned, as they say. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in a feudal society, it’s your Count that votes (Fred Waterer, Ont., Programming Matters, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** CANADA. Re 7-121, CBC Winnipeg: Hi Glenn: You`re right, CBC 990's transmitter is at Springstein, about 15 miles west of Winnipeg. The transmitter for 89.3 is located on the top of the Richardson Building {32 stories} at the corner of Portage and Main. It is low power 2800 watts. Winnipeg's number one station, CJOB 680, applied to the CRTC to have a FM frequency to use as well as the AM. They said their AM signal couldn't be heard in parts of Winnipeg. The CRTC rejected them, as they wanted to use 100,000 watts. 73's (Doug Copeland, MB, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Must have terrible AM radios there. 50 or even 10 kW within 25 km should be a blowtorch. Furthermore, ground conductivity is good, with 680 and old CKY 580 penetrating far into the USA on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. A new one which just started broadcasting from CAR will be using SW. Listen for Radio Boali on 6035 kHz (Marlin Field, Hillsdale MI, Radio Station Planting, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) ?? a.k.a. Radio ICDI, and it`s on 6030, tho elusive to DXers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Greetings, people – as I write, the radio and television waves have been overwhelmed with news from Burma, where (if you haven’t been living under a rock!) major uprisings by monks and the general population against the dictators of that country have been calling for political change, mainly democracy. You may also know that the Burmese ruling dictators have cracked down on Internet access. So what is stepping in to fill the void for political activists and ordinary Burmese trying to get the scoop on what the rest of the world is saying? Shortwave radio!! I was reading that there’s a bit of scramble on by folks to get shortwave radios, because it’s harder to control radio waves from outside (not that it can’t be done, if you bring a SW radio into North Korea it can be “fixed” so that all you can get is the government radio station). So the trusty little DXer in Burma can fool even the government! In relation to Burma, I was listening to Radio China International’s [sic] international news programme recently, where they feature the top news items unfolding around the world. What was interesting – and I listened to the entire programme – was that NOT ONCE did it mention the events in Burma. Not even the fact that thousands of ordinary were taking to the streets in Burma and they were joined by the same number of Buddhist monks, all denouncing the regime. Why wasn’t RCI [meaning China, not Canada] featuring the Burma protests? I suspect for a couple of reasons: for starters, China has been a supporter of the Burmese (or Myanmar, as the dictators call it) government for ages, since the current regime swept into power decades ago. And they want to stay on good terms with Burma. Second reason – regular Burmese folks want an end to the dictatorship and they want democracy. Remember Tiananmen Square and the protests for democracy there in China? RCI, which is the official public broadcaster, probably didn’t want to run a programme about the popular of one of China’s allies calling for democracy – which the Chinese communist regime, of course, doesn’t have! (Sue Hickey, NL, Oct CIDX Forum via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9820, Guangxi FBS, 2311, 9/27/07, in Vietnamese. F announcer with the news, mentions of Myanmar and many many of Vietnam, and Chinese lessons(!). Some co-channel interference from presumed China Business Radio in Mandarin, but Guangxi was easily on top. // 5050 covered by Brother Stair [WWRB], but in the past has been there if he's off. Fair (Mark Schiefelbein, Springfield MO, Kenwood R- 5000/Wellbrook 330S, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 7 via DXLD) ** CUBA. No thanks to R. Habana Cuba for blowing away the entire 22 meter band when it turned on, late as usual, its 13680 transmitter at 1305 Oct 9. Huge spur noise first noted on 13750 when trying to listen to R. Tirana, and to ID the station on 13745; soon traced to 13680, which was putting out noise continuously thru the entire band, but with peaks at approx 49-50 kHz above and below 13680. They weakened progressively the further from 13680, and I could detect them as far up as 14465 and as far down as 12845, all approximate. Some of the worst-hit areas were: 13581 wiping out Prague in English to North America; 13730, 13780, 13830; inside the 20m hamband at 14325, 14275, 14225, 14125. Around 1315 I also noticed smaller peaks halfway between the 49-50 kHz peaks. At 1328 recheck, 13680 had gone to open carrier, so perhaps the ``engineers`` realized something was wrong, but the noisy spurs persisted, as they did not result from the modulation on 13680 anyway. They must have been tweaking it, since at 1345 the 13680 OC was still on but the spurs had gone away. Modulation resumed at 1406, whew, just in time for RHC`s most important program, Voces de la Revolución, a fragment of a speech by Fidel from the 1990s in Pinar. BTW, much weaker 13760, not a spur, had been on an hour earlier, but was off in the meantime, and now back too, plus its 13720 mixing product with CRI relay 13740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re 7-121, unID singer on RHC: Thank you for your inquiry. The female Cuban singer that I heard on two separate occasions were both during the English broadcast on 6.0 MHz. The fist time was 18th Sept, a few weeks ago, after Dxers UnLimited. Thank you. Larry [Later:] I think the name is Rosa Maria Evia. I got this through some friends who have heard of her; do you know anything about her??? Lovely lovely voice!!!!! Thanks. Larry (Lawrence Cohen, NY, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, I don`t (gh) ** CUBA. 530, Radio Rebelde; 2229-2240 October 2, 2007. ICRT interval signal at tune-in, male briefly, into piano filler, then scripted unidentified man talking about relations with the Dominican Republic, etc. RHC brought up 6000, and this time 9550 in parallel. Of course, Rebelde on 5025 as well (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4815, RADIO EL BUEN PASTOR. Saraguro. 0050-0102 Sept. 28. Con noticias deportivas. Es difícil escuchar programación local de esta emisora que siempre está retransmitiendo programas evangélicos o en cadena con Alas de la HCJB. Y mas aún con identificación "...en la tierra, en el cielo, en el espacio sideral... se escucha una voz amiga, Radio El Buen Pastor, la voz en el hermano..." (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** ERITREA/ETHIOPIA. ERITREA COMPLAINS ABOUT ETHIOPIAN JAMMING Statement on 8 October from the Eritrean Ministry of Information at: http://www.shabait.com/staging/publish/article_007280.html says Ethiopia "is engaged in attempts not only to block the broadcasting of Eritrean media outlets but also web sites". As reported by various DXLD contributors for some weeks now, Eritrea on 7175 is being jammed (Chris (UK) Greenway, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why can`t they just get along? ** ETHIOPIA. Dear OM, R. Fana added frequency, and VORT [V. of Tigray Revolution] confirmed that it broadcasts at three frequencies. Can be heard on 5960, 5980 and 6185 kHz. Ethiopians heard on 5960, 5970, 5980 and 5990 kHz around 1500-2000* hi. de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, Japan, NDXC, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUSKADI [non]. Interesante reportaje en pdf sobre Gerardo Bujanda o más bien conocido como "Jon de Igeldo" en la mítica emisora clandestina Radio Euzkadi que operó en onda corta desde Venezuela durante doce años. [Mostly in Spanish] http://www.euskadi.net/r33-2288/fr/contenidos/informacion/revista_euskaletxeak/es_714/adjuntos/64_16_17_c.pdf 73 (José Miguel Romero, Valencia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. GABÓN. Hoy 8 de Octubre se sigue apreciando inactiva la emisora afro-pop en la frecuencia de 17660, desde las 1200 a 1330 he chequeado esa frecuencia y adyacentes sin resultado. Por otra parte en 17630 África Nº 1 con buena señal; no recuerdo en los últimos meses escuchar esta emisora en esta frecuencia con tan buena señal. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Agree that 17660 was missing, while ANO 17630 was on, from at least 1530 to 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) ** GERMANY [non]. Deutsche Welle: Money Talks DW has long had a business-oriented program among its features. For years it was Marks and Markets, but that title had to be deep-sixed when Germany adopted the European single currency in 1999. Nowadays the business program is Money Talks; it is now a half-hour program, twice as long as its predecessor. It airs half past the hour in even-numbered hours on Wednesdays, with the first airing at 0430 UT and the last on Thursday at 0030 UT. The most recent feedback I have indicates the most reliable way to hear DW via shortwave is via the 2100 UT transmission targeting West Africa, on 11865 and 15205; the 0400 transmission is also likely usable, on 7245. The program is also available on-demand from the DW website as streaming audio or a downloadable podcast. You can visit the program’s website by visiting http://www.dw-world.de then click on under the section DW Radio. You’ll then see the item labeled Politics and Economy with Money Talks listed there. Money Talks normally consists of several individual stories relating to business and the economy, primarily relating to Germany but certainly focusing on Europe. Unlike the BBC’s World Business Report or Business Daily, Money Talks doesn’t try to be global in its coverage --- just European. Anja Kueppers hosts the program; she joined Deutsche Welle in 2005, after completing a Masters of Journalism in Sydney, Australia. A recent program’s topics included product piracy, Angela Merkel’s visit to China, Kosher beer, and the “Digital Bohemian” lifestyle. I found it an entertaining listen, primarily because the topics were ones I probably would not have heard in my regular diet of business- and economy-oriented programming (Rich Cuff, Easy Listening, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. DW sent out this B-07 schedule of broadcasts recommended for NAm reception, even tho not aimed deliberately here (gh) Winter Schedule 2007/2008 28.10.2007 – 29.03.2008 Nordamerika CIRAF: 4 7 8 German 0000 – 0200 UTC 9545 kHz Assencion [sic] 9655 kHz Kigali 0600 – 0800 UTC 15410 kHz Kigali 1000 – 1200 UTC 5905 kHz Bonaire 1800 – 1957 UTC 11725 kHz Kigali English 0500 – 0530 UTC 9755 kHz Kigali 0600 – 0630 UTC 12045 kHz Kigali 2000 – 2057 UTC 9735 kHz Kigali 2100 – 2200 UTC 11690 kHz Kigali 13780 kHz Kigali ends 21.57 [notes with no referents] U.K. = Transmitter station/Senderstandort [sic] (via Chuck Bolland, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At least they are no longer recommending Sri Lanka at 09 on 17 MHz! As on the A-07 schedule they also sent Chuck (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** GHANA [non]. 11955, AWR GHANA. Via Austria. 2101-2129* Sept [?]. Escuchada gracias a la información del amigo Ruben G. Margenet. Presentando el programa: Moment of truth. "... you are listening AWR Ghana, the voice of hope..." (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** GREECE. Glenn: The "Greek In Style" program was on Voice of Greece at 2305 UT Sunday to 0005 UT Monday on the frequencies of 7475 (SINPO 55455) and 9420 (SINPO 35333) in this area. Again, Adrianna was doing the introductions, all in English, with popular songs mainly from Greek films. (John Babbis, MD, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII [and non]. Richard E. Wood's passing away is a great loss to the DXing community and to linguists alike. This came as a surprise to me. Like many other people, I had lost contact with him for many years; all we knew is that he lived in Hawaii. Many of his friends and acquaintances have written about him. I would like to add a few more stories. I first met REW in the early 60` in Haiti; I had invited him and César Objío (from the Dominican Republic) to spend a few days in Port-au- Prince, where I used to live at the time. Right before that, he had spent some time in Curaçao for his Ph.D. dissertation on Papiamentu (the local language in the Netherlands Antilles). He was particularly interested in Creole languages and published many articles on this subject. He was involved (in 1977-78) with Language Problems and Language Planning, a learned socio-linguistic review. His language skills were well known. He was particularly fond of Esperanto, the international language, and had encouraged me when I started learning it. Years later we only used that language in the letters we exchanged and often spent a lot of time over the phone talking about DXing, exclusively in Esperanto. At the time he was a teacher in Long Island, he got engaged and had plans to get married, but his engagement was broken shortly afterwards and, to my knowledge, he never got involved in any serious relationship. Many of his friends have mentioned that he led a rather lonely life and I fully agree. In the early 70`s I invited him again to our house in Quebec City, where I had settled a few years earlier. Shortly after that I bought from him the Galaxy R530 receiver he had purchased in 1967, I think. I am still using that same set three decades later! (Victor C. Jaar, QC, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 7 via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR Vividh Bharati Service, 9870, is supposed to re-open at 1245, but Oct 9 at tune in 1242 it was already going with harp-like instrumental music, 1245 brief announcement and vocal music. What is the point of a semi-sesquihour break at 1200 in the nominal schedule, anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Not only does the 6110 relay of NHK Warido Radio Japan via Sackville at 0500-0530 suffer heavy QRM from the off-frequency Latin Americans, but the 6120 broadcast, which has contracted to 1200- 1230, does as well, as noted Oct 9 at 1220 during discussion of genetic modification. At first I thought the QRM with low het might be in Spanish but after NHK closed at 1229 it was obviously R. Singapore International, Indonesian service as scheduled, with M&W dialog, laughing. Which one is off-frequency, or both? I rarely tried to listen to R. Japan before Oct, when the 6120 relay was at 1000-1200, but the same collision must have existed then with Singapore using 6120 at 0900-1400. Now NHK/Sackville also uses it at 1000-1030 in Spanish, but not in between. R. Japan, English at 1410, fair on 13630, running a few words or a semi-second behind Sackville 11705. 13630 is Rampisham at 62 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. 6335, CLANDESTINE, Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan; 0337-0346 October 6, 2007. Presumed the one with mid-eastern instrumental until unidentified (non-Arabic) male at 0339, then back to music. Clear and fair, but no parallels found (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 11990, R. Kuwait, 1853, 09/26/07, in English. Forgettable American pop songs from the 90s, with breaks for readings from a Muslim philosopher and a Ramadan-related discussion about fasting. Fair (Mark Schiefelbein, Springfield MO, Kenwood R-5000/Wellbrook 330S, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 7 via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio, 1158, 10/07/07. Finally some propagational hope. First log of season. Still using same sequence of programming leading up to 1200. Orchestral prelude at tune-in. Gongs heard at 1200 followed by another orchestral theme. Lao announcements reached fair level on peaks by 1215 tune-out (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, NRD-545; Wellbrook 330S Loop, Alpha Delta Sloper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** LIBYA. Libia: Voz de Africa, sin emisiones en muchos de sus servicios. Saludos cordiales. Desde hace unos días se observa que la emisora afro-pop en 17660 está sin emisión. Tanto ayer cómo hoy observo la ausencia de muchos servicios de La Voz de África: el servicio en suahili de 1200 a 1600 UT por las frecuencias de 17600 y 17715 las encuentro sin emisión. Los servicios en francés y hausa de las 1600 a 1800 UT por las frecuencias de 17695 y 17870 tampoco están emitiendo. Tan sólo encuentro servicio en francés de 1600 a 1800 por 11835 y 15660. Tampoco encuentro servicio en árabe de 1700 a 1900 por 11615. El mismo resultado en 11835 de 1800 a 2000. Así cómo los servicios en árabe de 1900 a 2200 por 9590 y de 2200 a 2400 por 7320. Otro servicio que he encontrado sin emisión es el 1200 a 1600 por 21695. En estos momentos el único servicio que se encuentra activo de la Voz de África es el servicio en francés de 1600 a 1800 por las frecuencias de 11835 y 15660. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5009.63, 2045 06-10-07, RTV Malagasy, Antanarivo - local popular mx, ann, N Anthem, 1 x IS and off X 24333 (Guido Schotmans, Belgium, BDX via DXLD) I think X in his logging format means unknown language (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 9599.3, RADIO UNAM. Ciudad de Méjico, Méjico. 1554-1610 Sept. 28 con música clásica. A las 1600 con identificaciones no entendibles. Luego "...el servicio de extensión educativa y Radio Unam presentan... " mencionan cursos libres en ciencias sociales, nanotecnología y otros. Luego con el tema alcohol y drogas (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) 9599.25, Radio UNAM; 2306-2325 October 2, 2007. Tune-in to unID language mid-eastern vocals (almost Horn of Africa -- but seemingly more Arabic-influenced; Sudan?), Spanish female announcer from 2310, into subcontinental instrumental at 2312, Spanish male announcer at 2317, then Arabic or similar vocals through tune-out. Some type of specialized program segment here at this time, at least this day. Good signal level (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also good here around 2200 Oct 8 with classical music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [non]. I keep checking 6045 at various times hoping for a reappearance of XEXQ, R. Universidad de San Luís Potosí, which has not been heard for a few months now. Oct 9 at 1234 there was a bit of classical music which got my hopes up, but soon followed by announcement in Chinese, which would be Voice of Russia via Vladivostok (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. Dear OM, The ID of PMA - The Cross Radio with "You are listening to The Cross Radio 88.5, xxO'clock" or "You are listening to The Cross Radio 88.5 FM, xxO'clock" in English by female at every hours. In addition, I was able to confirm the announcement of "Hi, This is Nova, You are Listening to 88.5, The Cross Radio, I love you" by the program break, too. The frequency of SW is not announced, FM only (S. Hasegawa, Japan, NDXC, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.25, MICRONESIA (POHNPEI), Pacific Mission Aviation "The Cross" (Tentative), 1232- 10/7/07. Christian pop music, ID at 1241 English "Hi, this Malvia(?) you are listening to Pacific ---- Aviation" followed by OM preaching the Gospel in English, poor to fair (George Herr, CA, WinRadio g303e, R8B and NRD535, 50' wire and AmRad Antennas, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) MICRONESIA (POHNPEI), 4755.25, PMA, 1005-1028 8 Oct, preaching in English by M, then music after 1028. 1100 announcer Melinda with what appeared to be a short ID sounding something like "This is Radio Pohnpei...", then impassioned preaching by M again. Sounded like the same ID again at 1200, but it had faded by then. Would've been about 90% readable when it was peaking at 1115 if not for awful CODAR. Best signal of the last 3 day. [Later:] Got 2 messages from Melinda on Guam today. Both stating that she would be forwarding my reception report and recent observations on to Pohnpei. Hope they reply as quickly!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) Are Nova, Malvia and Melinda one and the same? (gh, DXLD) From my recent Thanksgiving weekend in Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. We stayed at Crystal Cove Resort where I was able to erect a sizable ALA 100 loop, and about 300' of wire oriented about 260 degrees in the horrendously thick bush (took me at least an hour to bushwhack through!). The latter provided the best signal although the ALA wasn't half bad either, and during the first evening and morning, it was my only antenna. TA activity was totally non-existent. DU was the order of the day by far with many Aussie stations logged. I snuck in a new 1 kW SW station from Micronesia too which was well heard, especially this morning! PS: I should add that these were mostly made by listening to SDR-IQ files over the following few days. What great fun! Some call it "driftnet dxing"!! Enjoy! [Walt`s MW logs appear in the dxldyg] 4755.26, MICRONESIA, Pacific Missionary Aviation, The Cross, Oct 8, 1357 - Good reception finally this morning with excellent modulation. No announcement except very briefly at 1400 by same YL. Really difficult to make out what she said despite the good reception, though. Otherwise fairly non-descript EZL music throughout. I'll have to send a clip to the station for verification. Very clear ID at 1500 as, 'You are listening to the Cross, 88.1 (?) FM....'. In fact stronger modulation than the music that preceded or followed (Walt Salmaniw, now safely home in Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I could also hear them on Friday [Oct 5; no time] with clearer signal, please listen to the attached clip. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauno`s clip seems to be saying: ``Hi, this is Angel, and Pharma(?), and you`re listening to 88.5 FM, The Cross, Radio --- I like it!`` Apparently two different young women voices tho they are very much alike (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9405 DRM, FRENCH GUIANA. R. Netherlands, 0200, 10/5/07. One hour every evening. Essentially 100% copy without dropouts. This is really close to FM quality and very enjoyable listening. Excellent (George Herr, CA, WinRadio g303e, R8B and NRD535, 50' wire and AmRad Antennas, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Netherlands -- Flevo future? Glenn, regarding the Radio Netherlands B07 DRM schedule info in DXLD 7-121: I checked the forum that Kai Ludwig referred to, and found links to the purported AM and DRM schedules of RNW for the upcoming season. Stunningly, there is no mention of usage from Flevo after October 28!!! Could RNW be taking a cue from Deutsche Welle and dumping transmissions from the homeland in favor of external sites? Wonder if this is also a money issue? I would have thought Flevo had quite a bit more use left in it, being only 22 years old. Would they really shut it down, or is it headed for a diet of religious broadcasters and expatriate political programs on a lease basis? The DRM from Bonaire is also intriguing. Perhaps the new transmitters really are already in place? In an earlier post (included in DXLD 7- 118) I had noted that for a few days in late September, English to North America on 9845 seemed to be coming from a non-Bonaire site with a weak signal, but the usual blockbuster reception had since returned. It might be my imagination, but the audio on 9845 now seems improved, with a crisper, clearer quality. Could the new units on Bonaire actually be on the air? Seems odd that RNW would refurbish Bonaire while dropping the Flevo transmissions. Wonder what the plans are for the Madagascar facility? The supposed RNW DRM schedule is here: http://pdis.rnw.nl/werkman/drmschedule.php And the AM sked: http://pdis.rnw.nl/werkman/amschedule.php Note that both are a mix of A07 and B07 info. Andy Sennitt, we need info please!!! (Stephen Luce, Houston, TX, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It looks as if this is correct: Flevo will go dark after October 28. I can`t find any plans for it to carry RNW or anything else. RNW will use not only its own sites, Bonaire and Madagascar, but also Sines, Nauen, Skelton, Wertachtal, Dhabbaya, Singapore, Meyerton, Sackville, and even IBB-Tinang, Philippines for an Indonesian broadcast, in exchange for IBB using Madagascar for a Persian broadcast (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 7-121: Why guessing when it's all online (on an URL published in the referenced German discussion anyway): http://pdis.rnw.nl/werkman/amschedule.php In B07 there will be Dutch to Europe via Nauen, Wertachtal, Skelton (on 75 m, maybe a first?), Hörby, Sines, Grigoriopol, an unspecified Moscow area site and Tbilisskaya. English to Africa will also be carried via Meyerton, 1859-1957 on 11805 (100 kW). Talata Volonondry will relay Radio Farda, 0500-0600 on 12015. And indeed no Flevo anymore... An additional thought after we were posting about this matter at the same time: > Would they really shut it down Perhaps it should be added that "they" are the Dutch transmitter operator Nozema, now maybe owned by the telcom company KPN, but right now I prefer going to bed over further digging into this matter. Apparently no corporate website for Nozema exists anymore, http://www.nozema.nl http://www.nozemaservices.nl http://www.nozemaservices.com are mere redirects to http://www.digitenne.nl now, so maybe the whole Nozema is a thing of the past. Maybe the closure of the Flevo shortwave site is related to these developments? One has to admit that the use of the Flevo plant is quite low since RNW cut back its shortwave transmissions in 2003. But this situation persisted for four years now (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, as Kai already pointed out: you may be aware that many large transmitting sites are not owned by the broadcasters (Flevo isn't owned by RNW, like Leszczynka isn't owned by Polish Radio, nor is Hörby by Radio Sweden, etc., etc.). I can recommend to check WRTH which lists all the various transmitter operators separately (pg. 460 in WRTH2007 gives info about the Flevo site owner). (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's indeed a bit more complicated... First, Nozema indeed no longer exists. Their business is now in the responsibility of KPN Broadcast Services. I can't find a web presentation for this unit; http://www.kpnbroadcast.com appears to reflect only KPN's existing activities in this field, i.e. what they already did before purchasing Nozema. A discussion I found suggests that the Nozema website had been eliminated in August. And KPN Broadcast Services is not the sole owner of the Flevo shortwave site. They presumably own the transmitters and the associated gear. But the antenna facilities are in the responsibility of a company called NOVEC which had been founded to make it possible for any transmitter operator to plug his gear into the independently owned antennas. It appears that the Flevo mediumwave site is an excellent example: I understand that the 747 kHz transmitter there is owned and operated by KPN Broadcast Services while 1008 kHz is now in the responsibility of Broadcast Partners (who, btw, attempt to get into the German market, but so far with no success). Of course this would require the diplexer etc. to be in the responsibility of NOVEC as well. I would guess that this is the case with the whole shortwave antenna systems as well, since a constellation with NOVEC owning the towers but not the dipole curtains they carry is beyond my imagination. NOVEC's presentations of the Flevo/Zeewolde AM antenna facilities, teared out of the website frame: http://www.novecbv.nl/inhoud/masten/Paspoort/zeewoldekg.html http://www.novecbv.nl/inhoud/masten/Paspoort/zeewoldemg.html Now it appears that KPN Broadcast Services is to discontinue its shortwave operations at Zeewolde. So far we don't know what led to this end, but it is remarkable especially because the "Bouquet Flevo" was kind of a mainstay of the Digital Radio Mondiale movement here in Europe; the German discussion which broke this news contains some quite shocked comments about the circumstance that it's over. Anyway: I think it still remains to be seen if Flevo has really no future. Another interested party could approach NOVEC to use these antenna facilities, and perhaps KPN would even sell the transmission equipment for little money. But on the other hand, who should step in? CVC maybe, but should Jülich not be enough for them? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, the demise of Flevo is surprising, since I wasn't expecting it; but then again, not. With the privatization of European transmitter operators, there must be considerable price competition for broadcasting clients. RNW is probably saving quite a few Euros with the switch. Wonder what NOZEMA will now do with Flevo; one would think there is quite a bit of mileage left on the mid-80's AEG Telefunken units. But I have the feeling that Flevo will be dismantled and sold off piecemeal with the transmitters winding up elsewhere. Also, looking over the new AM and DRM schedules, I do not see any simultaneous usage of more than two transmitters on Bonaire at any time, in any modulation mix. Wonder if the ABB rig from 1988 is also being taken out of service along with the old Philips units, or perhaps becoming a backup to the new (mystery manufacturer) transmitters? Although Bonaire has been the mainstay of RNW into North America for decades, there was always something special about hearing the station direct from the Netherlands. Now Flevo fades into history along with Lopik and Huizen (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Once again, RNZI analog 9615 missing when checked at 0551 UT Oct 9, tho DRM was buzzing away on 9885-9890-9895, so not a propagation problem. However, at 0557 recheck, 9615 was on and inbooming as usual. According to http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php 9615 is supposed to open at 0459, but I am wondering if this recently updated sked is out of date, and 13730 has been extended an hour. Need to look for that next time 9615 be missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Re DXLD 7-121: ``Crashed all stations almost regulary in range 9349-9384 kHz with broom in times 1555-1617 UTC, from 9380 kHz (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Sept 27, wwdxc BC-DX Oct 6 via DXLD) Sic. Tentative translation: the 9380 R. Pakistan transmitter almost always sweeps away (with spurs) all stations in the 9349-9384 range between 1555 and 1617 UT. Am I right? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` I haven't noticed any spurs coming from the two high power (API-5 & 6) 250 kW transmitters at my location, but I assume that Rumen is hearing a louder signal on 9380 via API-5 in his part of Europe at this time. The frequency is used at 1600-1615 for English News & Commentary directed to the Middle East via 282 degrees. However, it's also on air between 1330 and 1530 with the same power and azimuth, so what happens then? At 1700-1900, 9375 is via API-6 while API-5 moves to 7530 - both via 313 degrees. There are no spurii observed at my location (Noel R. Green, NW England, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN [and non]. Hi Glenn, 9380, 1330-1400 UT. The transmission of Radio Pakistan in Urdu language beamed for Middle East was heard in Lahore. The programme commenced at 1330 UT with recitation from Qur`an, its Urdu translation followed by Naat and Qawwali (Devotional Music). As per SINPO it is rated as 34343. At 1400 the transmission of Adventist World Radio in Chin Language (Myanmar) commenced on neighbouring frequency of 9385 with a very strong signal due to which the Radio Pakistan signal was suppressed, although the transmission of Radio Pakistan ends at 1530 UT. The Islamabad 250 kW transmitter is used for this broadcast and on that day no audio problem was noticed as has been noted for this transmitter in the past. During the transmission the announcer kept on informing that the programme is being broadcast on 7530 kHz (wrong) and 11570. While the correct frequencies as mentioned on frequency schedule are 9380 and 11570 kHz. There is lack of coordination between programme section and engineering section. Regards (Aslam Javaid, 136/H Model Town, Lahore, Pakistan, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4857.5, RADIO LA HORA. Cusco. 2300-2335 Sept. 27. "...fanáticos deportivos, bienvenidos Adalid su programa deportivo, son las 18 horas en todo el país..." Así se inicia el programa del amigo Carlos Gamarra Moscoso presentando la información del Cienciano de Cusco. Menciona transmisión en tres frecuencias. Operando solo en dias laborables de 2300-0030 aprox. 4990.9, RADIO ANCASH. Huaraz, Perú. 2235-2325* sept. 25. Anuncios de Clínica San Cayetano, cerveza Pilsen Callao, celulares Claro. Anuncio en QQ sobre mensajes musicales por celebraciones familiares a través de la radio. También con el 5x1 para pautar pagando un anuncio que saldrá por AM, FM, OC, TV canal 2 y prensa regional. Con cierre variable pero siempre antes de las 0000 UT. 5470.9, RADIO SAN NICOLAS. Rodríguez de Mendoza, Perú. 2329-0030 sept. 25 presentando música pop en español "...somos Radio San Nicolás, tu mejor compañía..." Anuncios de transportes Elada, novedades Carchi. "...amigos del volante, tú eres nuestra meta, responde en primera... Radio San Nicolas..." Llegando con una excelente señal, parecen haber mejorado transmisor y modulación; nunca la había escuchado mejor. También en horario matinal de aprox. 1100-1230 en la noche de 2230-0130v. 6535.8, RD. LV DEL RONDERO. Huancabamba, Perú. 0155-0210 Sept. 29. Enviando saludos a oyentes, incluyendo un saludo para el director de la Radio La Voz de los Andes. Presentado el programa: Buenas noches huancabambinos ausentes (similar nombre al programa de Radio Quito 4819v). Anuncio de Botica Central y Farmacia Huancabamba. 9674.7, RADIO DEL PACIFICO. Lima. Perú. 2110-2140 sept. 28. Comunicación con oyentes a través de la línea telefónica 3327569, presentando el programa El show de la familia. "...la radio número 1 en tu corazon, Radio del Pacífico, no hay otra..." Mencionan el sistema cristiano de medios del que hace parte Radio del Pacífico y Pacífico TV. "..la radio número 1 del pueblo peruano es Radio del Pacífico (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, Colombia, Sony ICF 2010, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** POLAND. POLÔNIA - Ulisses Iarochinski é um jornalista brasileiro que atuou, durante algum tempo, na Rádio Nederland. De origem polonesa, atualmente reside em Cracócia, onde faz doutorado. Lá, produz um interessante programa na WEB, onde mescla notícias e músicas de Brasil e Polônia. É o Rádio Zalas, que pode ser conferido em http://www.ui.jor.br/radio.htm A dica é do Carlos Delgado, de Curitiba (PR). (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL, NEW DX-CORNER IN ITALIAN Dear friends, from Sunday 7th October 2007, Radio Romania International gave rise to its space "DX" with the programme "Onde Radio", broadcast every two Sundays. The programme "Onde Radio" is inserted in the programme "Il Corriere degli ascoltatori" and it's repeated on Wednesday. "Il Corriere degli ascoltatori" is broadcast: from 1400 to 1426 UT on 7170 kHz. From 1600 to 1626 on 9620 kHz and from 1800 to 1826 on 7130. Next number will be on the air Sunday 21st October 2007. You can send the reception report to: Italian Section of "Radio Romania International" P. O. Box 111, Bucarest, ROMANIA. E-mail: ital @ rri.ro We wait for your opinion and suggestions. Very good listening (Alfredo Gallerati - IK7JGI - (Radio Romania Int. DX-Editor), Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ROMÊNIA - Como acontece todos os anos, o próximo dia quatro de novembro será dedicado ao ouvinte. Nesta edição, o tema, na seção em espanhol, será o seguinte: Ocurrencias de la rádio. Todos os ouvintes daquela seção estão convidados a remeter artigos e contribuições para: Sección Espanhola, RRI, Apartado 111, Bucareste, Rumania. E-mail: span @ rri.ro (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. I was very surprised to once again hear V. of Russia today (Oct. 9) on 21790 at 0830 during their English service to the Pacific, listed Irkutsk via 150 degrees. At one period between 0830 and sign off at 0900 the signal reached S9 on my meter. Not bad if that was off the "back" of their antenna. There was no trace of Dushanbe 17495 or the more distant Komsomolsk na Amure 17635. Chinese multi-echo jamming plus Firedrake was also loudly audible on 21705, but I couldn't positively hear VOA via Udorn. When Spain and Saudi Arabia opened up on 21 MHz at 0900 their signals were very poorly heard by comparison. 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Ratchety very dirty spur around 15495-15515, peaking at 15505, Oct 9 at 1324. Soon found the modulation peaks matched VOR on 15605. This is the Hindi service via Moscow site. I could also hear traces of the spur down to 15430, but not on the high side of 15605. By 1345 recheck the spur center had shifted down to 15495. This is the same transmitter with English at 14-15, but by then it was weaker and did not hear the spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos cordiales, hoy 9 de octubre se aprecia un extraño fenómeno entre las frecuencias de 7025 a 7040, Andrea Borgino en BCLNEWS nos informaba que estaba escuchando en 7025 a La Voz de Rusia en paralelo por 7310, este fenómeno también se observa desde Valencia, posteriormente se a ampliado a las frecuencias de 7030, 7035 y 7040, están entrando La Voz de Rusia en sus emisiones de 7310 y 7330. ¿A que se debe esto? 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hora? Claro o distorsionado? Puede ser el mismo transmisor que escuché antes, arriba (gh, DXLD) Fault tx is Mosca 7195 Khz (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, ibid.) Maybe the same one as I heard earlier on 15 MHz? (gh, DXLD) ** SAINT HELENA. Radio St. Helena is celebrating its special DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY year 2007 with a very special Radio St. Helena Day 2007 world-wide shortwave broadcast. The year 2007 marks a DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY for Radio St. Helena : - - the 40 th anniversary of broadcasting for Radio St. Helena, and - - the 10 th shortwave transmission anniversary. Saturday, 15. December 2007 ---------------------------------------- From UTC To UTC Target area -------- -------- ------------- 1730 1815 New Zealand 1815 1900 India 1900 2015 Japan 2015 2145 Europe 2145 2245 North America East 2245 2330 North America West 2330 0015 South America North 0015 0100 South America Central/South RSH will be transmitting on 11092.5 KHz in USB with 1000 Watts and using a 3-element monoband directional antenna. There will be a VERY SPECIAL and beautiful full-colour QSL card issued by Radio St. Helena for this special DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY shortwave transmission. The same procedures as in 2006 for reception reports, return postage, and QSLing will apply for this broadcast in 2007. Watch our web page: http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject for more information. With best greetings and wishes for good listening conditions, Laura Lawrence Station Manager of Radio St. Helena Robert Kipp Special Assistant to Laura Lawrence Jamestown, St. Helena / Langen, Germany 08. October 2007 (via Mark Nicholls, Chief Editor, New Zealand DX Times, New Zealand Radio DX League http://www.radiodx.com/ Oct 10, ripple via DXLD) So much for http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/latest.htm which still has nothing about this as of 2006 UT Oct 9 (gh, DXLD) ** SERBIA [non]. Dear Wolfgang, Glenn & DXers, Several days ago I phoned Belgrade and talked directly to Mr. Graovac, a technical director of the International Radio Serbia. I've asked him several questions, and here are the answers: - International Radio Serbia received resources to repair only one transmitter at Bijeljina, Bosnia station - Bijeljina transmitter will be reactivated at the beginning of December 2007, and this time this is for sure! - Bijeljina will continue to use only 250 kW, because of electric energy savings - When reactivated, Bijeljina will broadcast on 6100 kHz with directional (15 dB gain) and non-directional (6 dB gain) antennas - Intl R Serbia has plans to start broadcasting in DRM mode after the year 2010 Best regards & many 73s! (Dragan Lekic from Subotica, Serbia, Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What a bad idea. They may run in circles and cry "it's our 6100!!"; this frequency is burnt since the DRM signal from Junglinster had been put on 6095. Are there legal issues which nail them to the frequencies always used by Radio Yugoslavia? If yes: Really bad luck, it would literally turn the transmitter site into a cripple. Are there technical issues in regard of the frequency-agility of the transmitter they are going to put in operation? If yes, one would need further details to find out about better solutions that may still be possible (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe with 250 kW, anyway, Bijeljina will degrade DRM reception of Junglinster enough to make the latter move away, if some friendlier solution cannot be reached. I`m afraid that some SW station operators have a ``MW mentality`` wherein it is inconceivable to be frequency-agile. This is a big problem in Latin America especially, where private stations are licensed to one specific frequency per transmitter, so if they play by the rules (like Colombia para Cristo) they are at the mercy of whatever QRM may exist on them. If they do understand the need for frequency-agility, they have to vary like a pirate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA. Radio Slovaquia Int. B-07 New Frequencies October 2007 - March 2008! Frequency SW | from 28th October 2007 to 30th March 2008 Broadcast time Region Language Frequency Band (UTC) (kHz) (m) 0100-0130 North America English 7230 41 South America English 9440 31 0130-0200 North America Slovak 5930 49 South America Slovak 9440 31 0200-0230 North America French 5930 49 South America French 9440 31 0230-0300 South America Spanish 7230 41 South America Spanish 9440 31 0700-0730 Australia English 13715 22 Australia English 15460 19 0730-0800 Australia Slovak 13715 22 Australia Slovak 15460 19 0800-0830 Western Europe German 5915 49 Western Europe German 6055 49 1400-1430 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 9540 31 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 13710 22 1430-1500 Western Europe German 6055 49 Western Europe German 7345 41 1530-1600 Western Europe Spanish 9445 31 Western Europe Spanish 11600 25 1600-1630 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 5915 49 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 6055 49 1630-1700 Western Europe Slovak 5915 49 Western Europe Slovak 6055 49 1700-1730 Western Europe German 5915 49 Western Europe German 6055 49 1730-1800 Western Europe English 5915 49 Western Europe English 6055 49 1800-1830 Western Europe French 5915 49 Western Europe French 6055 49 1830-1900 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 5915 49 Eastern Europe, Asia Russian 9485 31 1900-1930 Western Europe German 5915 49 Western Europe German 7345 41 1930-2000 Western Europe English 5915 49 Western Europe English 7345 41 2000-2030 Western Europe Slovak 5915 49 Western Europe Slovak 7345 41 2030-2100 Western Europe French 5915 49 Western Europe French 7345 41 2100-2130 Western Europe Spanish 9460 31 South America Spanish 11610 25 (via José Miguel Romero2, Spain, Oct 8, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. Re 7-121, BURMA [non]: Hello, yes, DWL has a 'fourth' shortwave transmitter at their disposal on Trinco. DWL Chief Engineer Horst Scholz told me this morning: "An older transmitter has been replaced but not removed in year 2000. This old unit is used as reserve tx unit for three newer existing shortwave operation transmitters." 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: S.g. Herr Scholz, hat die DWL wirklich einen 4. Sender in Trincomalee installiert? Oder ist der 'ersatz-übrig' von der Erstinstallation durch G-G Thiele ? mfg (W. Büschel, Stuttgart, via DXLD) Lieber Herr Bueschel, im Jahr 2000 wurde ein älterer KW-Sender in Trincomalee ersetzt, aber nicht abgebaut und steht seitdem als Ersatzsender für die drei vorhandenen KW-Betriebssender zur Verfügung. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, (Horst Scholz, Deutsche Welle, Chief Engineer, Visit: http://www.dw-world.de Oct 8 via Büschel, ibid.) ** SUDAN. 7200, R. Omdurman, 0333, 10/1/07. Poor with talk in Arabic by man and woman with short flute music bridges between items; some longer vocal selections; ID at 0340 and into what sounded like a political commentary with repeated mentions of Sudan and its neighbors; signal improving to fair by 0345 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa, OK, NRD-545, R-75, E-1 + Eavesdropper, GMDSS-2 vertical, two homebrew FlexTennas, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Southern Sudan Interactive Radio Instruction, 15650 via South Africa, Tue Oct 9 at 1414 spelling English words, including malaria, with mbira(?) music bed, tone cues for learners to speak, ``very good`` encouragement even tho they couldn`t possibly hear the students respond. Then practiced counting numbers from one to ten on fingers. Very elementary. Wrapping up at 1426, said the show named ``The Terbia(sounded like) Market`` airs in the morning on M/W/F, repeated afternoons Tue/Thu/Sat. Credits to several agencies in the hierarchy, including EDC and USAID. 1428 cute jingle with girl choir in English extolling Southern Sudan; 1429:30 to OC and off at 1430* This transmission via Meyerton is in fact scheduled Tue/Thu/Sat 1400- 1430 with 250 kW at 5 degrees, brokered by VT/Merlin. Good reception too in Northern Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAN ISLAND. NA-Ø35, SWAN ISLAND. HQ8R is a special call for NA-Ø35 Iota Island Swan Island. I am running a one man expedition Oct 7 to Nov 8. Going on a Honduran Navy ship and returning by Honduran Air Force plane, on or about Nov 8. I expect to operate all bands, including 60 meters with a Kenwood TS480, R7000, GRV5, various other wire antennas. I will operate with a Honda quiet 1000 watt gasoline generator. I am taking sufficient regular gasoline to operate 4 hours a day for 30 days or a little more time, as gasoline allows. SWAN Island has not been worked since 1974, then one short period (500 QSO’s) in 2001. Swan is really RARE DX and most likely no one will return due to difficulties with transport and Honduran Government permissions. I will do my log by hand and then enter into my laptop leisurely to keep accurate logs. Once I return I will try to upload them on the RCH site (Honduras Radio Club). Once I print the cards (hope many of them) I will mail promptly. Due to costs of processing, 2 green stamps are required. I will mail air mail all the replies. After the expedition, we will post photos and more information on the Club Website. Please bear with me; it is one man operation and I am sure I will reach some limits. Remember I am working with 100 watts from a very privileged location. Hope to hear you on the air. http://www.qrz.com/hq8r ONLY Javier / HR2J will go there and that would be a one man operation! Dates have been changed as well! from 7 October to 8 November! The other guys have quit due transportation problems. http://hamspirit.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/swan-island-hq8r-sept-2328/ (via QRZ? Ham Radio Corner, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) October 3rd, 1930 GMT. I have been told that the ship will not sail [to] the IOTA NA-35, thus cannot go with my equipment. The changing of the guard will take place by air and I am asking for authority to go and return on the plane same day. If granted, will go and reconnoiter and return on the same plane. I can best be ready for when the boat goes and I can mount a desired operation for all the hams who wish to contact NA-35, the least worked island in the Caribbean! I will post information when it is reliable??? There seems to be no reliable information about NA-35 Hi hi. HR2J 10-8 at 1650 GMT. Talked to Phil Parton at Kenwood about loaning or donating a Kenwood 480HX, 200 watt version of my 480SAT; he said he could not donate or loan a radio. I thought a nice 200 watt would give you a better signal from me. Going to Swan tomorrow to see the setup to be followed on a later expedition by boat with supplies to transmit (from http://www.qrz.com/hq8r 0119 UT Oct 9 via DXLD) That`s all the info on the page when checked; perhaps only latest posts are shown (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. RTI, 15600 via WYFR, Mon Oct 8 at 2220-2231 in Generation Y program, YL discussing quite unabashedly, masturbation among teenagers in Taiwan. I wonder if they were embarrassed about this in Oakland? But then the non-Christians in Taiwan must be embarrassed by a lot of what WYFR preaches (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Is it a country or not? Taiwan became a breakaway province of China during the communist revolution of 1949, and has hovered between state and nation-hood ever since. Most countries (and the UN) do not officially recognize Taiwan as a country; perhaps most critically, China does not recognize it either, and has stated unequivocally that it will be reunited. Watch this space. Meanwhile, Taiwan continues to develop as a hightech centre for manufacturing, with China its number one trading partner. Almost 23 million people live on the island, which is about one-third the size of Newfoundland (pop. 0.5 million). Central Broadcasting System (CBS) – Radio Taiwan International broadcasts to “the rest of” China and the rest of the world. Radio Taiwan International (RTI): http://www.rti.org.tw/ or http://english.rti.org.tw/ RTI’s start/splash page is a fancy affair, with beautiful photos (of butterflies, at the moment), a happy RTI jingle, and links to the RTI web pages in eleven different languages. Clicking on English brings us to a comprehensive main page, with many links down the left side, news headlines at the top, and program and feature links below. At the top of the page is a clock that alternates between UT and local Taiwan time (nice touch!), followed by a News Search box. Below these (still in the top right corner) is a Listen Now! Link, providing streaming audio in Windows Media and Real Media formats. A few highlights from the rest of the site, which is well worth a look. A link at the top-left of the page provides access to programs from the past week, in the above formats, so if you missed the latest Jade Bells & Bamboo Pipes, don’t worry, it’s still available. The More about RTI section (left side, middle) has numerous useful links, including schedules and frequencies, online reception report forms, FAQs, and job postings – wanderlust, anyone? Finally, there are several small graphics/links at the bottom of the page, including one to Tales of Dutch Formosa, which is not to be missed – this “Radio Docudrama in Four Episodes” (approx. two hours) gives great insight into the practices of the Dutch East India Company in the early- to mid-seventeenth century (Paul E. Guise, MB, Click! Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Winter B-07 schedule for Voice of Turkey: ALBANIAN 0700-0725 9765 1230-1255 11910 ARABIC 1000-1155 11910 13690 1500-1655 6175 11945 AZERI 0800-0855 11835 15160 1500-1555 5965 BOSNIAN 1430-1455 9525 1900-1925 6055 BULGARIAN 1200-1225 7105 CHINESE 1200-1255 12050 CROATIAN 1700-1725 7155 ENGLISH 0400-0455 6020 7240 1330-1425 11735 12035 1930-2025 6055 2130-2225 7180 2300-2355 5960 FRENCH 2030-2125 6050 7155 GERMAN 1230-1325 17700 1830-1925 7205 GEORGIAN 0800-0855 9840 GREEK 1130-1155 7295 9840 1530-1555 6185 HUNGARIAN 1100-1125 13770 ITALIAN 1730-1755 6185 KAZAKH 1430-1455 9785 KYRGHYZ 1430-1455 9655 MACEDONIAN 0900-0925 11895 PERSIAN 0930-1055 11795 17690 1330-1425 9585 ROMANIAN 1000-1025 9560 RUSSIAN 1400-1455 7215 1800-1855 6135 SPANISH 0200-0255 9865 1730-1825 7160 TATAR 1600-1625 6140 TURKISH 0200-0355 7180 0500-0755 9700 9820 0800-0955 11925 11955 15350 1000-1355 11955 15350 15475 1400-1625 5980 1630-1955 5980 6120 6165 7190 2000-2155 5980 6120 6165 TURKMEN 1500-1525 6065 URDU 1300-1355 11985 UZBEK 1300-1325 11830 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 9 via DXLD) Also direct xls from Sedef Somaltin, TRT, also showing transmitter sites, powers (mostly 500, some 250 kW), never azimuths; also via George Poppin, Wolfgang Büschel, Alokesh Gupta, Rachel Baughn. . . (gh, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Turkey (population, 71 million) is at once European and Asian. Once the centre of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was reborn in the 1920s as a secular state under the rule of Kemal Ataturk. Currently, while formally discussing the nation’s entry to the EU (a decade-long process that’s only just begun), Turkey is also trying to stave off a spill-over from the war in neighbouring Iraq, as both countries have sizeable Kurdish populations who are seeking the establishment of a separate Kurdish state. International broadcaster Voice of Turkey is operated by state broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television (TRT). Voice of Turkey (VOT): http://www.trt.net.tr/ or http://www.trt.net.tr/voiceofturkey/vot.htm While the Voice of Turkey website appears to have a great deal of interesting content, the first (and primary) URL given above leads to Turkish-language content. Entering the …/voiceofturkey/vot.htm URL leads to a single page in English, outlining the history of VOT (one paragraph), the fact that it broadcasts in Turkish around the clock (one paragraph), and that it also broadcasts in 26 other languages on a daily basis. Below this is a button marked Listen Live – VOT, which leads to another page. This new page appears to have options for listening to nine different radio streams (and watching four television streams), but did not work for me in any of my web browsers (Paul E. Guise, MB, Click! Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) Do for me ** UKRAINE. Winter B-07 for Radio Ukraine International: 0000-0500 on 7530 LV 500 kW / 307 deg to NoAm(tent.) 0100-0600 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 055 deg to RUS 0600-0900 on 7440 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 0900-1400 on 9950 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 1400-1800 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 055 deg to RUS 1800-2100 on 5840 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2100-0100 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English 0100-0200 on 7530 LV 500 kW / 307 deg to NoAm(tent.) 0400-0500 on 7530 LV 500 kW / 307 deg to NoAm(tent.) 0600-0700 on 7440 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 0800-0900 on 7440 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 1200-1300 on 9950 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 2000-2100 on 5840 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2200-2300 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German 1800-1900 on 5840 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2100-2200 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 0000-0100 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 9 via DXLD) Re 7-121: New RUI audio archive: See http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=780 It appears a week's worth of audio is archived as individual program segments (Rich Cuff, swprograms via DXLD) I could swear I was just on their site last week and didn't see any evidence of audio on demand. Oh well, at least they've apparently got it now.... :-) – (Ted Schuerzinger, ibid.) ** U K [non]. BBCWS CARIBBEAN --- Something must be going on with BBCWS late afternoon service for the Caribbean. Not detected on 13640 Furman, nor 11675 Greenville as I checked around 2144. Finally, BBCWS made the change of frequency to 5975 Montsinéry at 2300 but seemed to be beaming at low power. Can't blame propagation from Southern hemisphere; altho on different bands RAE 15345 was coming clearly, as well Radio Nacional da Amazônia 11780, at that same time. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS in English, 13640 via WHRI at 21-23 has been replaced by 9525. (Glenn Hauser, Oct 9, ibid.) 9525 confirmed at 2103 UT Oct 9, but rather weak, hard to believe it`s WHRI, and audio feed breaking up badly. WHR website still shows 13640, where nothing heard. And nothing heard on 11675 either by 2105, altho in past it has come up a few minutes late. Don`t yet know if that`s gone or replaced by something else (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {However, 11675 Greenville relay of BBCWS in English was on when rechecked at 2142. Why do they have such a problem starting this on time? It`s supposed to be the same transmitter used on 11720 for Hausa until 2100 weekdays, so a quick change to BBC at 2100 on 11675 is apparently not possible. Perhaps on Sat & Sun there is no such problem and BBC comes up on time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I noticed that BBCWS on 13640 via WHRI was missing at 2100 UT on both Monday and Tuesday, October 8-9. On a hunch I tuned down to 31 meters and found them with a solid signal on 9525. The BBC website now shows this change. Guess 22 meters wasn't holding up, so they made the winter switch a few weeks early. They were still on 13640 last week. 11675 via Greenville still there, although not on until after 2130 today. Seems this happens frequently; wonder if they are a transmitter short and have to wait until VOA Creole is finished on 11895 at 2130, then tuning that unit down to 11675? (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)} ** U K. Net Gains --- Two domestic BBC programs available here in Ontario thanks to that world wide web thingy, are well worth hearing. Viewers of WNED-TV in Buffalo may have seen the television version of Dad’s Army, a 1970s era comedy about the misadventures of a Home Guard unit in a coastal English town in World War II. What you may not know is that there were radio versions of these programs as well, usually based on the television scripts. BBC Radio 7 carries Dad’s Army every Friday, and on demand for a week after. A nice touch in the radio version, each program opens with an introduction in the form of a BBC News bulletin, read by John Snagge, an actual World War II era newsreader. If you have ever seen the film The Dambusters, it ends with Snagge’s actual BBC news report about the attack. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/friday/ God’s Jukebox with Mark LaMarr Shh...! This is Mark’s secret show. Presenting the best music you never knew you loved from the last 70 years, plus live sessions and music competitions, and as little talk as he can contractually get away with! On the show you can hear artists ranging from the Chamber Bros, Sugar Minott and Sonny Burgess to the Deadly Snakes, Sarah Vaughan, Hank Williams and the Cardinals. The music can range from garage, deep soul, punk and country to even some 30s yodelling, 70s dub or 90s indie! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/lamarrsat/ The show airs Saturdays at Midnight UK time, and for 7 days after on demand, and featuring three hours of great music from all eras. LaMarr is both funny and knowledgeable, and also hosts occasional series “Shake Rattle and Roll” and “Mark LaMarr’s Alternative 60s”. Mark also hosts an irreverent Christmas Day program on Radio 2 (Fred Waterer, Programming Matters, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** U K. BBC'S THOMPSON PREPARES TO AXE MORE THAN 2,000 JOBS Ben Bold, Brand Republic, London, 9 October 2007 http://www.brandrepublic.com/MediaAmBulletin/News/743237/BBCs-Thompson-prepares-axe-2000-jobs/ Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, is set to announce more than 2,000 job cuts, 12% of the corporation's workforce. The cuts are in addition to thousands more revealed in 2005. Thompson, according to a report in the Financial Times, is due to disclose the details of his six-year plan on October 18, outlining to staff his vision for the BBC over the next six years. In 2005, Thompson announced 3,780 jobs were to go across the corporation. His latest plans include slashing the BBC's £3bn annual budget by 6% over the next five years. This is in response to a below-inflation licence fee settlement, which left him with £2bn less than he was after for the period. BBC management are believed to have opposed pressure to cut costs by shutting down new services, such as digital channels BBC Three, and instead favour cutting established services. According to the FT, a person familiar with the situation said that the number of job casualties could reach 2,800. The brunt of job losses is predicted to be borne by staff working in factual programming. However, when he addresses staff, Thompson is expected to reassure staff that he will limit the number of job losses by moving people into new roles within the organisation. Thompson's budget-cutting proposals will have to be ratified by the BBC Trust the day before he makes his presentation to the BBC workforce. He will also outline his plans to workers unions Bectu and the National Union of Journalists. The BBC Trust meeting is also set to discuss Will Wyatt's report into the so-called 'Queengate' furore, over misleadingly-edited footage of the Queen for a BBC One documentary. Last week, Peter Fincham, the BBC One controller, fell on his sword over the controversy. According to a report in today's The Daily Telegraph, despite pressure yesterday from MPs demanding his boss Jana Bennett's resignation, Thompson personally intervened to save her job. Last month, Sir Michael Lyons, the BBC Trust chairman, signalled sweeping changes at the corporation by saying that the BBC must make annual savings of 3%, focusing on the quality rather than quantity of programming. The BBC's factual programming is highly lauded and includes programmes 'Planet Earth' and 'Panorama' (It may be that the impact is on TV rather than radio - we must wait to find out!) (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** UNITED NATIONS. ESTADOS UNIDOS - A Rádio das Nações Unidas, em português, produz boletins em MP3 que são disponibilizados, a la carte, no sítio da ONU, para emissoras interessadas. São produzidos pela jornalista Mônica Valéria. Confira em http://www.un.org/radio/por/index.asp (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) ** U S A. Listen for the English broadcast from the VOA facility located at Delano, California, which is slated to close at the end of October: 13740 kHz 0130-0200 Tuesday to Saturday (UT) Email your reception report to: letters @ VOA.gov Good Luck with grabbing this piece of Radio History. 73, (David Ross VA3MJR, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** U S A. VOA PROBABLY CANCELING BUENAS NOCHES, AMÉRICA Mensagem de Mercedes Antezana, da programação em espanhol da Voz da América, recebida por Leônidas dos Santos Nascimento, em São João Evangelista (MG): From: Mercedes Antezana mantezan @ voanews.com Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:56:45 -0400 Subject: Re: !GRACIAS POR EXISTIR! To: Leônidas dos Santos Nascimento Con tanta pena en el corazón por la pérdida de mi hermano, encima el jefe dice en la reunión del viernes que probablemente se corte el programa BUENAS NOCHES AMERICA, porque de acuerdo a los informes no tiene sintonia. Eso es mentira; es el único programa que pueden escuchar completo en nuestros países, ahora mas que nunca, porque es en una hora en que la gente está en sus hogares y no está corriendo al trabajo, pero bueno ya veremos qué hacemos para pelear. Un abrazo gracias BRAZIL. Los quiero mucho. Mercedes (via Célio Romais, Brasil, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It looks as if the powers that be at VOA have decided to cancel the popular evening magazine, which is scheduled as follows: Buenas Noches, América - 0130-0200 UTC Lunes a Viernes (excepto martes) Una revista informativa continental de 30 minutos con noticias nacionales, internacionales y deportivas. There is no obvious link on the VOA Spanish page to get SW frequencies! Instead one must go thru the English site, to reach http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_s.cfm showing: 0030-0200 UTC 6110 9560 9885 It is also not clear whether the transmission will remain on the air with some other program title, or they are actually talking about canceling all or part of the evening broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Introduxion to the original post about this]: Prezados amigos da Lista Radio Escutas: Semana passada recebi um triste e-mail da apresentadora Mercedes Antezana comentando o falecimento do seu irmão; enviei um e-mail de condolência e ela agradeceu e enviou outro e-mail comentando o possível encerramento do programa "Buenas Noches América" da VOA em Espanhol. Comento também que a Mercedes já havia comentado a diminuição no fluxo de cartas para a redação do programa e que era bastante importante que os ouvintes entrassem em contato com a emissora para a comprovação da audiência, parece que a situação pode ser revertida. Atenciosamente, (Leônidas dos Santos Nascimento, São João Evangelista - Minas Gerais, Oct 8, radioescutas via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. ESTADOS UNIDOS VIA CHILE – Para quem aprecia a boa música clássica nas emissões em ondas curtas a dica é acompanhar, em português, pela CVC, o espaço Sem Limites. O jornalista José Antonio Ceschin apresenta músicas, notícias e comentários sobre o mundo das canções clássicas. A Dança Macabra, de Camille Saint-Saëns, é executada sempre, como cortina musical. A primeira edição vai ao ar, entre 2300 e 2400, em 15410 kHz. Uma reprise é transmitida, das 1000 às 1100, em 6110 kHz, sempre de segundas a sextas-feiras. O Sem Limites possui também um boletim eletrônico. A edição do mês de outubro pode ser conferida em http://www.speedyshare.com/952191361.html (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) We knew the Spanish service had a token show of classical music Sundays at 1300-1330 on 17680, but this one in Portuguese appears to be more substantial (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. On 15640, religious talk in unID language at 1317 Oct 9; 1318 cut off the air for a moment. Spelled out URL in English, but fading and could not catch it all, except it included .co which rules out USA; familiar WYFR hymn theme and off at 1358* Per Eibi this is Urdu via Wertachtal beamed due east. Can`t help but wonder how many Pakistanis they manage to convert to Harold Camping`s wacky theology, but that, of course, does not keep them from trying as long as they have plenty of money to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Family Radio Relay Site Information Family Radio, a religious organization from Oakland, California, airs from a number of different transmitter sites. Besides their own transmitter location (WYFR) in Okeechobee, Florida, a number of different languages use locations in Russia, Germany, Taiwan and from the Middle East. For their frequencies and times, check their web site http://www.familyradio.com For reception reports, they can be sent to Family Radio, 290 Hegenberger Road, Oakland, California, 94621 USA (return postage is not needed, but would help) or their e-mail address as: intl @ familyradio.com Below are the transmitter sites, which have been used now and in the past (as complete as I can make it). AFRICA: Ascension, Madagascar, and Meyerton ASIA: Taiwan – Taipei, Tainan(Tanshui), Paochung(Bao-Zhong), Huwei ENGLAND: Rampisham & Skelton GERMANY: Jülich & Wertachtal RUSSIA: Armavir, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Petropavlosk-Kamchatka, Samara, and Vladivostok. RUSSIAN [sic] REPUBLICS: Minsk, Byelorussia Rep; Alma-Ata (Almaty) Kazakh Rep; Dushanbe, Tajikistan Rep; Mykolaiv, Ukraine; and Tashkent, Uzbek Republic. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Abu Dhabi, Dhabbaya Family Radio is an excellent verifier and replies with their own QSL card, and will indicate the transmitter site on the card, if you request it. 73’s (Edward Kusalik, AB, QSL Album, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** U S A. I recently heard a program via WBCQ called ``The Checkerboard Lounge``. They announced an address of 7914 Dodge Road, Suite 210, Omaha NE 68114. I`ve sent two letters there and both have been returned as ``unable to forward``. Hmmm; I also found them on the Internet, listing the same address. Has anyone else heard this program --- classic R&B music --- and know of an address to write other than what I`ve listed above? BTW, if anyone likes classic original R&B music, this is the show to tune in! (Ed Insinger, NJ, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) Suite 210 was probably a maildrop. It would help to know when. Currently scheduled Sunday 2200-2300 on 7415 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. NEWS ALERT from the 1070 WIBC NEWSCENTER: WIBC is moving to the FM dial. Effective Jan. 07, WIBC will begin broadcasting on 93.1 FM. 1070-AM will become an ESPN affiliate, broadcasting only sports, including the Colts, Pacers, Indianapolis 500, and the other local sports that you hear now on WIBC. Between now and Jan. 07, 93.1 FM will broadcast the "93 Days of Christmas," playing only Christmas music. Listen for the latest updates on 1070 WIBC Local and Indiana News at http://www.wibc.com/news/local.aspx For more national news, world news, sports, weather, traffic and business news on-demand, go to http://www.wibc.com (WIBC monthly newsletter via James Bernhardt, DXLD) ?? Actually it`s January 2008, per http://www.wibc.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=76552 I see other stations are doing the 93 days of Xmas nonsense too. 73, (Glenn, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Possible special activation for 6155 "Banda Oriental" Good news on this expected special reactivation! (Pse, see last updated info below) The idea: The plan is coming from the "Primer Museo Viviente de la Radio y las Comunicaciones "Gral. José Artigas", (Radio Museum in Uruguay, created and directed by my friend Antonio Tormo, whom I give also some support to his activities) for the coming week Oct 9-15 to join the "Semana de Sarandí del Yí". ("Sarandí del Yi Week"). Sarandi del Yi is a town at the south of the Departamento de Durazno. Following my idea, last week OM Antonio begun conversations with the owner of "Radio Sarandí del Yi", in that special transmissions could be made during that week, from their SW - 6155 "Banda Oriental". Since a couple of years, "Banda Oriental" had ceased regular one hour daily broadcast with nocturne programs towards the region, which had Uruguayan folk music and horse cross country kind of races called "Raíd Hípico" on some occasions during a few daylight hours. They had said to us that the transmitter was fired on regularly now and then, for maintenance, but we haven't been able to log them. The Museum plans to carry an exhibition on the town and there is a chance that he could be performing some kind of special broadcast thru the MW station as well as the SW. In case these transmissions are confirmed to be carried, we will inform the sked. Those listeners reporting the station should send a reception report with two copies, one to the Museum, the other one to the radio station, in the same envelope. They will be answered with a special "Certificado de Escucha". We hope this idea could be brought to reality. At least to revive "Banda Oriental" for a few days. Last minute info!: I have just received an SMS from Antonio that he's departing from Montevideo to Sarandí del Yi tomorrow (Tue) at 1600 local time. They will be inaugurating the local event on Wed at local night, so this would be the (first?)day of the broadcast. He also added that he contacted the President of the local Council and said this person stayed very interested on the idea of this special broadcast in the 49mb, promising to this event all his support. It remains to learn which will be the exact sked and if more days are expected to occur for the broadcasts. Stay tuned! 73 de (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Horacio, Hope this works out. To be heard beyond the local area, they need to be on the air when the big stations are off 6155 at night. Per Aoki, Austria runs from 0400 to 2208 or so. Spain at 2300-2400. So the best time would be 0000-0400 UT, and I see Banda Oriental used to operate at 0100-0300 anyway. Also maybe before local sunrise when Austria has faded out in America, like 0700-1000. Is Fides, Bolivia active on 6155? If so that needs to be avoided too; per Aoki (and may be out of date), it is off the air 0200-1000. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, Many thanks for the info. Good help! Anyways, I don't know how flexible is their chance to be in front of the microphone. :( I will inform this to Antonio, and hope he could manage it as best as possible (Horacio Nigro, ibid.) ** VATICAN. HV, VATICAN. Special call sign HV5ØVR, VR for “Vatican Radio,” has been authorized for IKØFVC, Francesco, the chief operator and QSL manager for HVØA and HV4NAC, to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Vatican’s Santa Maria di Galeria broadcasting center. Look for this special call sign starting September 27th, including upcoming contests. QSL direct to IWØGPN. LoTW is also being looked into. [Log of the World participation] Secondly from the Vatican, Francesco has been given approval to set up a new station, HV6SP. QSL direct to IKØFVC for this one. Details will follow on particulars of this station. [K1XN & GOLIST] (ICPO Bulletin Sep. 27 - Oct. 05, 2007 via QRZ? Ham Radio Corner, Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Radio Zambia, *0235-0305, 10/4/07. Open carrier until familiar Fish Eagle IS began at 0241. Group singing on National Anthem at 0249. Man with apparent opening ID and announcements but audio was muffled. A segment of drums which was followed by a woman talking and group tribal singing. Poor to fair signal but badly muffled audio (Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing, PA, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Lowe HF-150, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Caro Glenn, Não tenho estado tão ativo no DX; Você saberia algo sobre isto? --- UNID, 4805, 08/10 0040, música pop variada por longo tempo, curta locução por YL em inglês. Acompanhada até seu S/OFF abrupto a 0107 UT. 25332. Grato, grande abraço (Samuel Cássio Martins, São Carlos SP, Brasil, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps the same as this one in 7-121, tho it dates back a month: UNIDENTIFIED. 4805.3, 1820 9 Sept, very faint with static crashes, energetic songs, female announcer, SIO 222 (David Morris, Dorset, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) One guess could be: one of the All India Radio stations off-frequency, as often happens (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Obrigado pela atenção. Quanto a esta emissora em 4805, não me parece ser indiana; ouvi uma seqüencia de música pop ocidental, locutora em ingles e sign off abrupto, enfim, realmente não identificada. A propagação tem sido bastante ruim por aqui; faz tempo não ouço bem as emissoras do Norte do Brasil, portanto nada da Difusora do Amazonas nesta frequencia. Infelizmente não tenho tempo disponível para checar esta frequencia durante a semana. Obrigado, best 73 (Samuel Cássio Martins, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This maybe has nothing to do with these unIDs, but: About a year ago there was a station on about 4805.2 playing at times Czech/Slovak songs and at times also ME/CAs sounding music. The sane station was earlier around 4825 playing program tapes of distict Czech FM-station Radio Koliba. Recently I've also noted a station around 4805.2 during UT evenings, but it has been too weak to identify the type and language of the music (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So a Euro-pirate? But surely not the one heard in Brasil (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9996-SSB, 2-way in Spanish discussing kilos; wonder what that could be about? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time omitted in original post: 1250 UT Oct 9 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 13745, still trying to figure out what the station here is at 1300 next to Tirana 13750, as HFCC still shows TWR Kigali at 1300-1315 on 13745 as funxional only on Fri & Sat, but Tue Oct 9 at 1256 there was talk, tentatively in a Persian-like language mixed with drumming; 1300 singing with reverb, but from 1305 blown away by 13680 spurs from CUBA [q.v.] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15645 with multiple jamming, Oct 8 at 1503. There was some weak talk I could not make out, as an oscillating jammer, rapid high-pitched tone shifts back and forth, was dominating. At 1526 I could hear a second, slower jamming, with lower pitched whoops varying pitch gradually. This continued past 1530 when there may have been a third very low-pitch roar to interfere. Did not recheck until 1635 when everything was gone. There is NOTHING scheduled on this frequency at any time, per current Aoki, EiBi, HFCC listings, and WRTH May update. Searching the DXLD archive, however, we find that exactly a year ago, Deewa Radio, IBB`s Pashto service for Pakistan border areas, was making its first appearance, altho at an earlier hour, on this frequency via Briech, Morocco. It was later changed, in February? And still is not on the Deewa schedule. So what could be the service which is now attracting so much (non- Chinese, non-Cuban type) jamming on this new frequency? Reception was relatively good for a change on this band, e.g. with Israel inbooming on 15760, Greece on 15630, Saudi Arabia on 15435 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kol Israel, Persian alternate 15640 since Sept 16, and also scheduled in B07 at 1500-1630 UT. So, Iranian intelligence services sit on the "starting blocks" for nearby 15645?? Probably. Jammers are always 2-3 kHz off frequency (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking out 15645 again Oct 9 after hearing jamming on it Oct 8: nothing at all audible until 1459 a very weak carrier, and at 1501 oscillating jamming had started, but all weaker than the day before. I heard nothing at all on 15640, so this may well be Israel`s Persian service at 1500-1630 shifted up 5 kHz. Meanwhile, Israel 15760 aimed this way was quite strong. The jamming seemed to be centered right on 15645. Wolfgang Büschel suggests this is Iranian jamming. Strangely, we never hear anything like it on Radio Farda frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Appreciate all your editing efforts. You are to be commended for attempting to keep the DXLD information as accurate as possible. It is so easy for a questionable log to take on a life of its own and get repeated again and again (Ron Howard, CA) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ WHAT TO CALL A COUNTRY WITH MULTIPLE NAMES? DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK Newspeak, Oct 06, 2007 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener Staff Reporter Headlines and newscasts from around the world have proclaimed trouble in Burma – or is it Myanmar? http://www.thestar.com/article/264116 (Toronto Star Oct 8 via Andy Reid, Ont., dxldyg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: ALGERIA; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; SERBIA ++++++++++++++++++++ PROPAGATION +++++++++++ LONG-HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL with SINPO ratings ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 91.9, 0007 01/10 Hitz FM, Saint John's, mx caribenha, OM, EE 35233 GUADELOUPE 97.0, 2349 30/09 RFO, Basse-Terre, mx, OM, nxs, FF 34333 97.0, 2357 01/10 RFO, Basse-Terre, mx caribenha, FF 35333 MARTINIQUE 92.0, 0035 30/09 RFO, Macoubá, mx caribenha, FF // 94.0 e 94.3 MHz 23232 94.0, 2351 30/09 RFO, Trinité, mx caribenha, YL, FF 35233 94.0, 2359 01/10 RFO, Trinité, OM, mx caribenha, FF 35333 94.3, 2355 30/09 RFO, Morne Rouge, mx caribenha, FF // 94.0 e 92.0 MHz 25232 94.3, 0010 01/10 RFO, Morne Rouge, OM, nxs, FF 15231 SAINT KITTS & NEVIS 96.7, 0007 30/09 ZIZ, Basseterre, OM em conversa telefônica c/ ouvintes, EE 35333 96.7, 2350 01/10 ZIZ, Basseterre, mx caribenha, OM, EE 35233 96.9, 0053 01/10 ZIZ, Basseterre, OM/OM, talks, EE // 96.7 MHz SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES 103.7, 0039 30/09 Hitz FM, Kingstown, mx caribenha, OM, EE 35333 103.7, 0006 01/10 Hitz FM, Kingstown, mx caribenha, EE 25232 (RUBENS FERRAZ PEDROSO, BANDEIRANTES-PR, BRASIL, RECEPTOR: SONY ICF SW 7600G, ANTENA: LW DE 12 METROS, @tividade DX Oct 7 via DXLD) The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels during 01 – 02 October. Activity increased to unsettled to active levels during 03 – 04 October. Activity decreased to quiet to unsettled levels on 05 October. Activity decreased to quiet levels during the remainder of the period. ACE solar wind data indicated a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream (HSS) was in progress at the start of the period (peak velocity 572.6 km/sec at 01/0152 UTC), but was gradually decreasing. Velocities continued to decrease through 02 October and eventually reached a minimum of 396.9 km/sec at 02/1959 UTC. Another recurrent coronal hole HSS began on 02 October and ended near the close of the period. The co-rotating interaction region (CIR) that preceded the HSS began late on 02 October and was associated with a gradual increase in velocities (peak 611.1 km/sec at 03/1555 UTC), a minor density increase (peak 8.6 p/cc at 02/2108 UTC); and a period of enhanced IMF Bt and Bz variability. CIR-related IMF changes included a period of increased Bt (peak 8.7 nT at 03/0130 UTC) and Bz fluctuations in the + 7.6 nT to - 6.7 nT range. The HSS began to subside on 04 October and velocities gradually decreased during the remainder of the period. SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK 10 OCTOBER – 05 NOVEMBER 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 on 10 October and again during 21 October – 05 November. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be at quiet levels during through 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 a recurrent coronal hole high- speed stream affects the field. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during 21 – 24 October as the high-speed stream subsides. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to minor storm levels during 25 – 26 October due to another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during the rest of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 Oct 09 1854 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2007 Oct 09 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 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 2007 Oct 23 67 5 2 2007 Oct 24 67 8 3 2007 Oct 25 67 15 4 2007 Oct 26 67 25 5 2007 Oct 27 67 12 4 2007 Oct 28 67 5 2 2007 Oct 29 67 8 3 2007 Oct 30 67 12 3 2007 Oct 31 67 10 3 2007 Nov 01 67 5 2 2007 Nov 02 67 5 2 2007 Nov 03 67 5 2 2007 Nov 04 67 5 2 2007 Nov 05 67 5 2 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via DXLD) ###