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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1377 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 DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD, which seems to be coming out less frequently? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. One more day, again Oct 12 at 1346, R. Solh, 17700 via Rampisham UK, playing skipping/sticking music CD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Radio Solh, 17700 via Rampisham UK, once again with skipping/sticking CD during music at 1347 Oct 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13750, Oct 12 at 1302 check was again in Albanian instead of English. Switched to English sometime between 1314 and 1315 for tail end of press review about nuclear power, electricity shortage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Tirana blown away by RHC again on 13750: see CUBA 13750, Radio Tirana; 1300-1320 14 October, 2007. English news by man till 1314, then into features. Co-channel from Radio Habana Cuba in Spanish (see 13760), which is reportedly a spur from 13680 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No spur; see my report, CUBA (gh, DXLD) Monitored R. Tirana 0145 broadcast UT Sunday Oct 14. 7425 carrier was already on at 0140, but 6120 not until 0142. Both started IS at 0143 but not at exactly same time. As always, sign-on at 0145 gave full schedule of English broadcasts to Eu & NAm, effective until 10/27, and still gives wrong frequency for 0145, ex-6115, and wrong frequency for 0230, 7625 typo instead of 7425. Also says these two are Mon-Sat, while they are really Tue-Sun UT. This took a full three minutes of this brief transmission. 0148 program preview, and a few news items. Contrary to some other reviews, I think the RT announcers do put some effort into speaking expressively; it`s just that much of the content sounds like government press releases. 0151 a feature about something happening at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for the Day of Columbus, apparently involving an Albanian; then something about songs, but there were brief music bridges, not the songs themselves; 0155 something about the Albanian language mentioning a bible quotation. I listened closely, but really could not follow the details of these, as despite good interference-free reception, some words could not be understood. 0157 ending the broadcast with theme, no formal sign-off, and carriers off at 0158, 6120 lasting about a semi-minute longer than 7425. So the body of the 0145 broadcast is only nine minutes long. Wrapped up this monitoring session at 0227 by checking R. Tirana again, when 7425 was on the air a bit before 6115 with IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA; GERMANY ** ARGENTINA. 13363.5, LS4 Radio Continental, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2105+, October 13, Spanish, transmission football match Argentina vs Chile from River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires city, LSB mode, 34433 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASIA [non]. It's many years since I went for QSLs, so I can't say for certain, but I assume that these RFA QSLs don't specify the transmitter site used. RFA has (or used to have) a deliberate policy of not identifying sites, to avoid any embarrassment to the host countries. To me, this would partially devalue any QSL received (Chris Greenway, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Assuming QSLs really have any intrinsic value. We have had several reports in or via DXLD that RFA has started specifying transmitter sites on request, as long as they are IBB sites, but still not the others. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. 4910, VL8T-Tennant Creek, 0933-0941, Oct 12, on late (scheduled for 0830*), ABC news ("just in", former Vice President Al Gore named for Nobel Peace Prize), weather, folk songs and ballads, fair, 4835 not running late (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4910, ABC, VL8T-Tennant Creek, 1110-1130+, Oct 12, On the air at this odd time with English announcements, pop music. News at 1130. Fair to good. Very weak on // 2310, 2485. Still here at 1220 check (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct 12 at 1215 found a signal in English on 4910 where normally there is none: must be VL8T, Tennant Creek NT, once again having failed to shift to 120m at scheduled 0830. Aussie dialog, 1218 music, 1230 news; still audible at recheck 1319, and weaker at 1325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZORES. I remember a logging I made of the Azores Islands when they were using 4865 kHz. Two of us sent reports to the station, I got my QSL back but the other person - who actually phoned me to say they were being heard didn't. He had to grovel somewhat to get the station verified. They were on air to cover the Portuguese elections and from what I was told, it was the first time they had been heard in New Zealand during the evening (Paul, Christchurch NZ, HCDX via DXLD) I assume this was a long time ago (gh) ** BOLIVIA. 4734, R. Universitaria Cobija, 10/10 2336, Spanish male voice: studio and external speaking (maybe about political celebration) "...el presidente de la república Ivo Moralez Alva [sic].., R. Universitaria en esta transmisión..." 23232. 73 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu (area rural)-SP, Brasil (23 33 S, 46 51 W), Sony ICF SW40, dipolo 18m e 32m, http://www.freewebs.com/audiodx/ HCDX via DXLD) First report in three months; after its brief original appearance, went inactive, last reported July 15 in 7-088 when it was on 4732. Per Wikipedia, correct full name of Bolpres is Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Discussion of frequency measurement: see RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM Noisy and barely audible here in Tiquicia, not as Lúcio reported but on 4732, with local popular music, at 2344 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Sony ICF7600GR + T2FD, Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4732.06, Radio Universitaria, Cobija, 0040-0120, Oct 13, Spanish pop music. Some Bolivian style pop music. Talk. ID. Poor to fair in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SISTEMA UNIVERSITARIO DE RADIO Y TELEVISION Foto: Equipos del Sistema Radio y Television UAP La Radio Universitaria ha remodelado y mejorado sus instalaciones, con su señal en Frecuencia Modulada y Onda Corta. La universidad Amázonica de Pando en los últimos meses ha mejorado en cuanto a equipamiento y las instalaciones en el sistema de Radio y Televisión Universitaria; de la misma manera estamos mejorando la atención a la población de Cobija http://www.uap.edu.bo/uap//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=9 (via Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, DXLD) 4732.04, Radio Universitaria, Cobija, 2345-0000, October 12, romantic songs in Spanish non stop, 24332/3 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4732.04, Radio Universitaria de Cobija; 0125-0201 13 October, 2007. Presumed the one, two Spanish-speaking men with apparent sports coverage until 0156, then Spanish rock vocal, 0200 reverbing male with likely ID but unable to pull it. Clear and pretty good, but local line noise a problem (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Friday October 12th: 4732. Radio Universitaria, Cobija, Pando seems back on the air at 2300 GMT with excellent signal, minus the RTTY so far. Thanks "heads up" by Ron Howard!!! 4716. Radio Yura, Yura was not noted 0l00 and then again 1000 to 1100. 12 Oct. Silent as I type at 2325. 4875.9, R. Estambul seems to be silent for the last week (Bob Wilkner, Florida, NRD 535D, HCDX via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6165.04, 2230-2340 05-10, R. Logos, Santa Cruz (presumed). All talking in Spanish by various persons until a song began at 2333, best after Chad and Vietnam [qq.vv.] signed off: 24232 adjacent QRM from 6165 and 6175 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 9624.85, Radio Fides, La Paz, 2002-2012, October 13, Spanish, transmission from "Centenario" Stadium, Montevideo, Uruguay: football match Uruguay vs Bolivia, South American World Cup Qualifier Games, 24432 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. No awful spurs from Russia Oct 12 on the 15 MHz band, but instead I found R. Bulgaria 15700 transmitter at 1327 producing over- modulation spike spurs out to 15680-15720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 4877.49, Radio Canada International, Sackville, 0205-0220, Oct 12, Surprisingly good signal in Spanish. Sub-harmonic of 9754.98. ½ x 9754.98 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. Radio Canada Internal, 6100, Oct 14 from before 0200 until 0204 in Chinese was in collision with R. República and jamming --- see CUBA [non], which just changed from 6155. Then RCI switched to 6075 for Spanish from 0205, with ``Reflejo Boreal`` show opening with birdsong, then news. 6075 had CCI from DW which used to beam to NAm on 6075, but now back toward Europe from Rampisham and/or Sines, per August schedule revision: GERMAN 6075 0200-0359 500 RAMPISHAM 105 EUR GERMAN 6075 0200-0400 250 SINES 040 EUR If you insist on shifting all your programming 5 minutes late for no good reason, you are bound to run into such conflicts with other stations who manage their frequencies to change at hourtop, more or less. But then, Radio República is a veiled station, not appearing in HFCC, so one can pretend it`s not there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1609.94, CHHA Toronto ON; 2230-2242+, 2-Oct; Voces Latinas; Anuncios y deportivo; fair peaks. Used to be closer to 1609.90 here (Harold Frodge, MI, MARE Tipsheeet via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. Re CKMW-1570 to move to FM? I wonder what station (I presume FM) is the "U.S. radio operator“ purporting to be a Canadian broadcaster" I'm pretty sure the station in question is KAOC 105.1 Cavalier, North Dakota. That said, looking at their website pretty much the only reference to Canada I see is the slogan "Borderland Country". The temps in the weather forecast are F, not C, and the news stories are all Stateside. Of course, what KAOC is saying on the air and what they're saying on their website may well be two different things. What their salespeople are saying to advertisers in Winkler may be yet something else. -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, NRC-AM via DXLD) WTOR (COL = Buffalo or Rochester NY???) is showing as: "WTOR 770 AM Toronto" on the http://www.birach.com/ website. I've only heard this station once or twice, so I can't say they they are presenting themselves as a Canadian broadcaster, but certainly that is their target audience. 73 de (Joe, KJ8O, Miller, MI, ibid.) The station IDs as "WTOR Youngston(NY) -Toronto". I've heard it on their webstream (Paul Walker, SC, ibid.) As Paul says, the city of license is Youngstown, New York. Sure doesn't have much audience in the States! http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapgen/gif?lon=-78.948056&lat=43.218056&iwd=750&iht=750&mark=-78.948056,43.218056,bluestar,WTOR_YOUNGSTOWN_NY&on=water,miscell,counties,places,CITIES,&off=streets,GRID,shorelin&ht=0.5&wid=0.5 (plots their tower site & shows where Youngstown is) http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1139649-95449.pdf (shows their directional pattern. Of course on that frequency the null towards NYC is necessary, but if you look at your Rand McNally you note what large city is in that forward lobe! - hint, look at their call letters!) – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) TOH ID's as "WTOR Youngstown-Toronto". Brokered ethnic format, mostly Hindi, Punjabi and other South Asian languages. They put a passable signal into my midtown Toronto location, but out in the 905 (Brampton, Malton), home to much of their Indian immigrant audience, they could get hammered by WJR-760 and WBBM-780 IBOC hiss during sunrise and sunset skip hours. 73 (Mike Brooker, Toronto, ON, ibid.) ** CHAD. 6165, 2215-2230* 05-10, Rdif. Nationale Tchadienne, N'Djaména French news, reports, 2225 Afropop, ID, closing announcement, ID again and a March as National Anthem 44444 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Then VIETNAM, BOLIVIA, q.v. ** CHINA. AUTORIDADES CHINAS RETIRAN 2.000 ANUNCIOS ERÓTICOS Y CIERRAN 7 EMISORAS RADIO http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/autoridades_chinas_retiran_anuncios_eroticos_1919960.htm (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DXLD) Seems to me that in view of the overpopulation problem, the ChiCom ought to encourage all types of sexual activity that do not result in procreation. The more talk, the less axion? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Saludos Glenn, quizás sea una buena alternativa para contener la superpoblación; le adjunto un mensaje de un compañero valenciano al respecto: Hace poco me escribió un amigo mío destinado en China, que habían prohibido la publicidad de los sostenes --- para que no se entretengan con tonterías, y trabajen más. Los chinos no se andan por las ramas. Atentamente (José Miguel Romero, ibid.) [Banned advertising for bras so the Chinese will not entertain themselves with nonsense, but work harder. The Chinese don`t beat around the bush.] ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 12 at 2010, 2014 on 13625, 11740, 11700, none very strong, but atop whatever it`s jamming, which according to EiBi is in all three cases R. Free Asia in Chinese via Tinian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050, Guangxi FBS, 1225-1249, Oct 14, EZL Chinese ballads and traditional songs and music, in Chinese (listed as Cantonese), // to 9820 (weaker), they have a website < http://www.gxradio.com/foreignradio/index.asp The audio streaming for their SW programs did not work for me (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6065, CNR-2/CBR, 1300-1311, Oct 14, 5+1 pips, ID "China Business Radio", into "This is English Evening on China Business Radio", presents highlights from past programs (t4heir usual weekend format), mostly in English with some Chinese, fair, // 6155, 7245, 7315 & 7375 (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9750, PBS Nei Menggu (presumed), 1309-1326, Oct 13, assume with Mongolian programming, distinctive indigenous singing (no music), phone conversations, exceptionally good reception. The usual problem here with strong QRM from NHK was no problem at all today, as NHK was very weak (noted // 11815). PBS heard // 7270. Am grateful to Mark Schiefelbein for the timely tip! (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. Ydun in Chinese garden --- Just as I tuned across 15260 via Canada, CRI`s Listeners` Garden had Ydun Ritz, Denmark, introducing herself, and interviewed for a couple of minutes at 1335 UT Saturday. Seems she is visiting China as a 60th birthday gift from her family. Said she has listened to CRI since the 1970s, especially now to China Horizons and Listeners Garden; CRI has better coverage now and is more open. Has entered many CRI contests but never won top prize. This should repeat for the rest of the UT day Saturday Oct 13 at the same minutes past the hour (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Back in Denmark again after a great trip to Beijing. In fact, I was not prepared for an interview, when visiting CRI (which I did on October 8th). So I'm sure, talking a load of crap! But they gave me a very warm welcome, and it was nice to see the station and some of the faces (Ydun Ritz, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. What's Happening on 17 Meters. 1645 Z Oct 13, 18106. Spanish broadcasting in the 17 meter ham band!! (Richard Zolla, N8NKN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I already explained this in detail recently in DXLD. It`s a spur from REE Costa Rica 17850, with one matching around 17595 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Viz.: Oct 13 made further chex of the spurs REE Cariari 17850 is outputting, causing complaints from `17 m` hams. As outpointed in DXLD 7-123, on Saturdays only this frequency runs as late as 2300, while 17595 direct from Spain stops at 2100. Tuned in at 2024 to find 17595 direct, not in synch with satellite- delayed 17850, but 17595 with het from the spur, matching 18106, which was in synch with 17850. Rechecked at 2204, when the direct 17595 signal had gone, I could compare the spurs more directly: these are very strange; each seems to consist of at least two carriers beating against each other, producing a slightly varying het depending on modulation, but of the same pitch on both. The 18106 signal was somewhat stronger than 17594, contrary to the day before. Meanwhile, the modulation on 17850 itself sounded normal, which is to say, undermodulated and somewhat muffled, but with no distortion or splatter in the immediate area. Whenever checked, they were talking about silly ball games, this being a Saturday evening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC mixing product on 6300 was actually better than its computed source, 6060, since 6300 was in the clear and 6060 had heavy ACI de Spain 6055, WYFR 6065. Furthermore, Oct 14 at 0126, only Spanish was heard on 6300, tho it leapfrogs strong RHC English transmitter on 6180 to get to 6300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Heavy Cuban jamming against VOA Spanish, Oct 14 at 0119 on its temporary frequency 6110, planned to be used for a sesquimonth only until Octend; recheck at 0140, during the mailbag show Club de Oyentes, clear of jamming once the Cuban show was over. R. Tirana plans to occupy 6110 from B-07 for its NAm service in Albanian and English 0000-0145, and later, so let`s hope the dentroCubans quickly shift their anti-VOA jamming elsewhere, if VOA Spanish still exist. Tentative frequencies for that at 0030-0200 are 5940, 9480, 9885, 11840. Radio República, 6155, presumably via Rampisham UK, very good at 0120 Oct 14, and hardly any jamming audible. 0159 their QSY announcement was actually coördinated with the frequency change to 6100, which then happened in less than a semiminute, but RR still doesn`t know that this is the 49 meter band, not the 41! Then 6100 collided with RCI for 4 minutes; see CANADA. RR played music during that period as if they were vamping until the collision would end. And residual jamming could be heard on 6155 once RR had left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Sunday Oct 14 I made the following monitoring notes: At 1319, very strong 13750 was on, instead of usual 13680, during RHC music, no trace of Tirana underneath. 1320 program is ``Correo Internacional`` with full addresses for pen pals, starting with a Romanian in Colombia, Marius Draganescu, mariusdx @ hotmail.com and then other E- and P-mail addresses. During this talk segment I could barely distinguish another station underneath, which must have been Tirana until 1329. RHC has shown up on 13750 before on another Sunday despite Tirana. There is no obvious reason for this, except that the Sunday-only show Aló, Presidente messes up the overall schedule, even tho it doesn`t start until 1400! When first tuned at 1319, I noted that 13760 RHC was not on either, but it was audible, much weaker, aside 13750, at 1322. At 1403 found the Aló, Presidente service on weakish 13680, 11875, 11670. Recheck at 1503 they were saying that the show officially starts at 11 am Sundays (1500 UT), even tho the frequencies always start coming up an hour earlier with RHC fill programming. This week it`s from Santa Clara celebrating the 40th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara; not sure if Hugo was there or whether he has anything directly to do with this event. [Yes, he was there, per Yandys] At this hour, A,P was in // not only on 17750-under WYFR, 13750, 11875, 11670, and weak 9550, but also on 11760 which at 1500 on Sundays is supposed to carry the weekly RHC Esperanto semihour. Not on the air: 15190, which was reported recently with Esperanto, nor 15370; nor 13680, 13760 altho they had been in the previous hour. 11670, at least, was an echo-reverb apart from some of the others, different site and/or feed routing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surprisingly, the RHC transmission schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm has already been updated, now dated Oct 2007-March 2008! It is as always, confusingly laid out. It does still show Esperanto Sunday on 11760 at 1500 (plus 1930). For A,P on Sundays at 1400 (no end time), it lists 13680 to CAm, 11670 to Caribbean, 11875 & 17750 to SAm, 13750 to NAm. Strangely it shows English at 23-24 on 9550 is for Rio de Janeiro, while 9505 is for Caribbean. It still shows no English at 2030-2130 tho this continues to be heard on 11760, 9505! 6000 is listed for Spanish at 00-05, PLUS English at 01-07. Make up your mind! BTW, nothing here about testing on 60m which Arnie mentioned a few weeks ago, to be on 5055 and another frequency below 5 MHz, nor have I seen any reports of those being heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13760, Radio Habana Cuba; 1300-1340 14 October, 2007. Spanish, parallel 6000, 6180, 9550, 11760, 11805, 12000 and 13750 (a possible spur from 13680). But oddly, no trace of 13680 if indeed a spur. Regardless, this thing -- despite being at fair level at best -- messes up potential Voice of Korea, P'yongyang in English at 1300 on 13760 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Terry, I was also monitoring this; see my report just posted. I`m sure 13750 RHC is no spur. It is a frequency they have used in past and at certain other times, but for some reason they fire it up on Sundays and blow away Tirana (Glenn to Terry, via DXLD) Anyhow, VOK 13760 at 1300 is 325 degrees to Europe, not NAm; Commies vs Commies! (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. Radio Habana, 2100 to 2200 UT, Saturday Oct. 13 in Spanish on 13760 // 11800 (clashing with Bulgaria Spanish) and 9550. Nothing heard on listed 11705. Very good signal on 13760. Continued after 2200 with some fading. Almost gone by 2250 with North Korea Spanish coming in. Spanish off at 2300 and into Portuguese, with poor reception. Glenn, I see that you refer to this frequency back on Sept. 11 and 12. I suppose that it replaces 11705. At 0000 UT no sign of Cuba (faded out maybe) on 13760; only North Korea Spanish. Still nothing on 11705 (Bernie O'Shea, Ottawa, Ontario, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. CMCA, Radio Ciudad de La Habana, transmite desde el 5to piso del Edificio "N", en El Vedado, por las frecuencias de 820 KHz de AM y los 94.9 de FM, las 24 horas, los 7 días de la semana, un total de 44 programas. Somos un equipo de profesionales de la radio, compuestos fundamentalmente por jóvenes, comprometidos en comunicar la realidad actual de la Ciudad de La Habana, divulgar lo mejor de nuestra cultura, y participar en la educación del pueblo capitalino. Desde la década de los 90, el estilo de la emisora se ha mantenido centrado en un público joven, ofreciendo opciones musicales, estéticas y artísticas apropiadas para este destinatario; de ahí que muchos nos llamen "la radio joven de la capital cubana". Nuestra programación incluye espacios informativos, como la revista "Buenos Días Ciudad" y nuestro noticiero estelar "Diario Hablado"; programas de variedades, musicales monotemáticos, dramatizados, discotecas, recitales y espacios de participación, entre otros. Para reportes de recepción ver sección PARA DIEXISTAS en: http://www.radiociudad.islagrande.cu/diexistas.html (via Ing. Yandys Cervantes Rodríguez, WebMaster. Sede Universitaria Municipal. Buey Arriba. Granma, Oct 13, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) That reception report form page also promises info about Cuban radio frequencies (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA. Dear fellow DXers, I am delighted to tell you that the correct name of the wonderful Cuban singer that I have been looking for since 18 Sept is LIUBA MARIA HEVIA. I was just informed today of her name by a 100%, totally reliable source. Please listen out for her on Radio Havana --- and, also, please let the station know that you are listening to her. Maybe they will play her more often!!! Trust me, she has such a captivating and unique voice, that, if you can remember the early days of Joan Baëz, Joni Mitchell, and Judy Collins, you all will think that she is "three in one"!!! And, look out, Carly Simon!!! All the best to everyone, and 73 (Larry Cohen, WA2TVN, Utica, NY USA, Oct 13, ODXA yg via DXLD) Liuba = Russian name ** DENMARK. Not a DX catch here, but nice to hear them briefly :-) 12 Oct at 1540 when passing 1062 noted an interval signal with DR 1062 kHz ID's. At 1544 time announcements (like from the dial-up "time- lady") and at 1545 into sea weather information. Later temperatures in the main capitals of Europe and navigational warnings. Audio off around 1615 and transmitter was switched off at 1625. Dominant background station was Czech Country Radio with Italy and others popping up at times (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) These limited transmissions of weather broadcasts are all that remain of MW from Denmark (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.99, Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, 0135-0200, Oct 12, Tentative with Spanish religious talk. Spanish religious music. Poor with strong CODAR QRM & weak co-channel QRM possibly from Brazil's Radio Difusora (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [and non]. About ongoing mediawar between Eritrea and Ethiopia: Re DXLD 7-122. 7214.98, VOBME-2, Asmara, 0403, Oct 13. Vernacular HOA talk in the clear, moved up and down between this NF and regular 7175 (where heard opening 0355) to dodge Ethiopian jamming which, by the way, had wrongly landed on 7220 bothering RL there (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. Hi! In your October 4 Issue you mention that: "ETHIOPIA. 5990.0 kHz - 2013 UT - 2/10 - Radio Ethiopia, Gedja. Almost continuous indigenous instrumental music with short Amharic comments between songs // 7110 kHz. Final ID at 2053. S/off with anthem at 2100." I would like to add that there was no music broadcast on Friday October 12, just discussion. Anthem at 2100. On Wednesday October 10 only music with short comments. (5990 Gedja) Bests, (Juha Raikka, Turku, Finland, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 6220.14, ITALY, Mystery Radio; 2353-0002 13 October, 2007. The usual dance/techno-pop, female canned "Myssssstery Radio" at 0000, back to music. Clear and fair. Seemingly weekends only these days (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. 6170, 1050-1325 Sat 06-10, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat Finnish and English talks by DJ's Miki and TrickyTrev, pop songs 35343 11720, 1205-1215, Sat 06-10, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat Finnish and English 101 JukeBox Classics with TrickyTrev, including oldie "Tutti-Frutti" 35343 At 1325 it had moved to 11690 and was covered by R Jordan while 11720 was clear! (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Once again, no advance reminder of this monthly broadcast was received here (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. DW Russian service well heard here far off the back from Rampisham, on 6115, Oct 14 at 0115, ID as Nemetskaya Volna. So it`s a good thing that Tirana at 0145 shifted long ago to 6120 tho their announcements still say 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. VOG, Hellenes Around the World, interviews in English, fair on 7475 at 0224 UT Sunday Oct 14; also was on the air during the 1300 UT hour UT Sat Oct 13 on 15630, unusable due to spurs from RUSSIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST) ** GREECE. New 4855.59, 0050-0115, 07-10, 3rd Harmonic of unID Greek Pirate on 1618.32 kHz. Greek announcement, Greek folksongs, 24212. I was looking for R La Hora, Peru! (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Doesn`t fit: 3 x 1618.32 = 4854.96 (gh, DXLD) ** GRENADA. Glenn, el motivo de mi correo es que el día de hoy estoy escuchando en la frecuencia 540 kHz una señal bastante aceptable con música, noticias y algunas promociones, pero la verdad es que no logro identificar nada; podrías escuchar estos sonidos y decirme de qué emisora se trata. Yo pensé que podría tratarse de Klasic Radio de Grenada, pero Klasic está en los 535 kHz y allí no oigo nada, en cambio en los 540 oigo esta señal con audio aceptable. Espero algún comentario de tu parte. Muchas gracias de antemano (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hola José, En realidad es Grenada sin duda, como dicen en los primeros segundos del audio más corto, y también más adelante. Ya informamos recientemente en DXLD que se ha cambiado de 535 a 540. En el segundo, todavía dicen `5-35`! 73, (Glenn to José, via DXLD) ** HAWAII. Dr. Richard Wood dies at 67 --- Report by Bruce Conti for BADX: http://www.naswa.net/badx/wood.htm (via Paul Swearingen, NRC DX News Oct 15 via DXLD) with map OBIT ** HUNGARY [and non]. Budapest, 6140, 306 degrees in Hungarian to NAm, Oct 14 at 0217 mixing at about equal level with Habana in Spanish, SAH of about 130/minute or slightly over 2 Hz. Perhaps Budapest imagine there is no QRM for this 0130-0230 broadcast, since Habana refuses to participate in HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. See UNIDENTIFIED 4805 ** INDONESIA. 9524.96, Voice of Indonesia, 1133-1150, Oct 13, Chinese programming. English ID announcement at 1136 with address & e-mail address then back to Chinese talk. Local music. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI, 9525, VG signal during scheduled Korean hour, Sunday Oct 14 around 1305 already playing music; what happened to the news? At 1350 recheck, oh no, another screwed up station (like e.g. TAIWAN) with no human paying enough attention to do anything about it. Four syllables of music were stuck in a loop, along with some piano notes, so smoothly repeating that it almost seemed deliberate. Still the same at rechex 1356, past hourtop at 1401, and at 1405, when I tentatively transcribed the syllables as ``lu-vun-ha-ri`` --- does that make any sense in Korean or Indonesian? Finally at 1412 rerecheck, this had stopped, and open carrier with hum was running instead of scheduled Indonesian language, and as usual during this hour, Russian from CRI audible underneath. One explanation for the four syllables could be: that was the last audio received from a satellite feed which failed, and the satellite receiver is programmed to keep repeating them until something else comes down; rather than go to dead air, or switch to internal backup audio, or alternate program feed, or courtesy apology (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9680, RRI Jakarta. For about 9 weeks before Ramadan this was off the air, but was on during Ramadan. Not heard Oct 14 (post-Ramadan), when checking between 0900-1017. So they really only intended to broadcast during Ramadan? (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Voice of Justice - 0130 UT, 9495 kHz. I noticed that during the first 15 minutes of this UT morning's broadcast to North America [Oct 12], there was a strong signal on top of the Voice of Justice. It was a slow "whoop-whoop" oscillating at about 2 cycles ("whoops") per second. The signal was centered on 9495 kHz. It did not drown out VOJ, but it did make it almost impossible to understand the announcer. At 0145, the interfering signal stopped (Jeff Imel, Muncie, IN - Icom IC- 703 and 90 foot long vertical wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ha! Sounds like Iran`s own jamming as e.g. on 15645 at 1500; mixup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) more on that: UNIDENTIFIED ** IRAN. 3985, VOIRI, Kamalabad, 0115-0135*, Oct 12, talk in unidentified language. Local music. Kor`an. National Anthem at 0130 followed by Kor`an, talk & off at 0135. Poor to fair with occasional ham QRM. 7375.91, VOIRI, Kamalabad, 0258-0325, Oct 12, Kor`an, local music. Talk in unidentified language. Fair to good but must use ECSS-USB to avoid Costa Rica's University Network on 7375.08 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. I noted a very clean R Pakistan 9300 kHz outlet in Russian language at 1415-1445 UT on Oct 12/13. Seemingly the Pakistani overhauled a transmitter or just have got a NEW UNIT? (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you listened after 1430 it would probably be IRIB in Russian via Lithuania, sched at 1430-1530 and completely dominating the frequency here. But if you heard Russian before 1430 then it should have been PAK, but that transmitter has been in a dreadful state for some time. I don't know about anything new as yet. And one of the high power (250 kW) units was very faulty for a while earlier this year but it's better now - but still a bit buzzy at times (Noel Green, England, ibid.) Sorry, that's wrong. Noel Green told me recently, that IRIB Tehran via Sitkunai also uses 9300 kHz too. That's new for me. And Muslim world news of IRIB could be easily confused with Kabul news. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also PAKISTAN ** ISRAEL. 15785, Galei Zahal, 1635-1705, escuchada el 10 de octubre en hebreo, emisión de música melódica, cuñas publicitarias, cuña de ID “Galei Zahal, Kol Israel”, al menos eso me a parecido escuchar y no recuerdo una identificación así de esta emisora, locutor con boletín de noticias, se aprecia una deficiencia en la modulación, SINPO 44343. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This one needs to be measured every time it is logged, as frequency varies widely. Was it really on 15785.0 at this time? (gh, DXLD) Since Kol Israel was quite strong on 15760, Oct 13 at 1353, I checked the much weaker Galei Zahal just above it. It was just a bit above 15785, on 15785.1 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non?]. Just as if you hear Persian on SW you know it`s not Iran, if you hear Italian, you know it`s not Italy. Oct 12 at 1222 a M&W discussion in Italian on 15595. This is Vatican Radio, scheduled daily at 1200-1230, 250 kW, 107 degrees from Santa Maria di Galeria. Or in the interest of country diversity should we now consider the extra-territorial SMG as Italy proper, since there are also SW emissions from inside Vatican City proper. The ADDX by-language schedule at http://www.addx.de/Hfpdat/plaene.php dated 2 Sept needs to be revised since it still shows Rai and NHK in Italian. Others still using this language: CRI, WYFR, IRIB, AWR, RRI, VOT, VOR, Tirana, Serbia, Cairo, SANTEC, TWR, RAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Don`t you believe that NHK Warido, R. Japan no longer broadcasts in Japanese to NAm, as their official publicity states. Oct 14 at 0209, I found a strong signal via Sackville on 5960 in Japanese with news, 0214 sports news, 0215 ID. The only difference is that the three-hour Japanese broadcast at 0200-0500 has changed from 240 to 227 degrees, a 13-degree shift, so instead of CIRAF zones 6-8, it`s now officially to zones 8, 10 and 11, i.e. previously to the 48 USA; now to Mexico & CAm, but unavoidably crossing ENAm on the way, and no less audible in CNAm either (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [non]. CLANDESTINE: 5102, V. of Jammu Kashmir Freedom, Oct 01, *1300-1307, 44433, Kashmiri, 1300 sign on with opening music, ID, Kor`an, Opening announce, Talk. 5102, V. of Jammu Kashmir Freedom, Oct 06, *1259-1310, 45444, Kashmiri, 1259 sign on with opening music, ID, Kor`an, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9485, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Taiwan, 1312-1330, Oct 14 (Sun.), in English, YL with very specific details about the abductees and their abductions, OM with IDs: "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan", 1326 sign-off announcement, gives e-mail address, mailing address and phone numbers. Mostly fair, with some QRM from 9480. After Shiokaze ended, Radio Free Chosun (presumed) immediately started with orchestra music and into programming in Korean (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. 3951.04v, 0325-0340, Clandestine, 07-10, R. Voice of Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. Kurdish talk mentioning Iran and Iraq, jammed; jumped to 3923.04 and later to 3905.04 and then 3930.04, all followed by the Iranian jammers a few seconds later 43433 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. I did learn during my recent trip to Taiwan that the IBB MW site in Kuwait (not sure if just one frequency or both) that the transmission complex intentionally changes the radiation pattern to reach different regions in the area & that either one antenna or the site is capable of 10 different radiation patterns from the existing fixed directional antenna system. Perhaps someone in the group knows more & can comment further or some folks have some listening observations. Regards (Ian Baxter, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio via WHRI 11785, Sunday Oct 14 at 1357 with a pan-flute(?) or whistle melody which I suspect was mimicking actual intelligence recognizable to one who understood this tonal language; right? Like talking drums actually convey messages in African tonal languages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. 9290 Relays this weekend Sat October 13th Latvia Today 1000-1100 UT Radio Casablanca 1100-1200 UT Sun October 14th Latvia Today 1500-1600 UT Good listening (Tom Taylor, DX LISTENING DIGEST) & in advance on yg Yury Dymbovskiy, Riga, Latvia / "open_dx" Yesterday (on October 6) at the frequency of 9290 kHz into 0806 of [Ulbroki] was accepted relaying China Of radio Of international on English. In 0807 they were switched to the beginning of the transfer Of Latvia of today. It is interesting, indeed China Of radio Of international is relayed not of the Latvia, but of Lithuania (sic via Rus DX Oct 14 via DXLD) ** LIBYA. Glenn - You mentioned Voice of Africa (Libya/France[?]) on WOR #1377. I happened to tune it in English 10/04/2007 after the 1500 UT hour on 21695 (only) here in New Jersey. I'd rather listen to Channel Africa on 17770 at that time (Wells Perkins (a bit west of the Statue of Liberty), Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. KBC 6255 --- "I need your lovin' every day... I need your lovin' every day..." on and on sung by vocal group. Suddenly "You're listening to the Wolfman Jack show" followed by a fragment of the instrumental "The Magnificent Seven" unto an ID of KBC giving postal and e-mail addresses in The Netherlands. Next an ad mentioning electronic equipment at sale with KBC. Male announcer inviting to listen "next week" (?) at the same time. Transmissions closed down by 2259. All this was heard from 2255 on 6255 this Fri. 12. Same time I logged this one last August, Sat 4. So, fine job for those 100 kW with clear S=2 signal on a clear channel, an achieve I'd guess they won't get in the middle of a crowded band flanked by super powers. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Sony ICF7600GR + T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just last issue we had schedule still showing this as Sat + UT Sun, so they are adding other days now? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see IRAN 6255, KBC Radio, UT Sun Oct 14 at 0123, as soon as I tuned in, ID saying they were on 1386; maybe so, but that`s beside the point for us. Accent purely American, not Dutch or Lithuanian. Then hard rock of some sort. They think we are hurting for this kind of music so need it from a Dutch ex-pirate via SW from Lithuania?? This is the weekly NAm service hour. Had some ute QRM on low side, but good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6184.96, Radio Educación, Mexico City, 0735-0745, Oct 13, Spanish announcements. Local music. Very good. // 1060 - weak under KYW-Philadelphia, PA (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 12 Oct at 1335 noted a strong carrier with not too strong audio on 5770. Usual Myanmar Defense Forces BC Unit, Taunggyi type of programming. Signed off at 1531 after a brief announcement by male voice. As no ID was recognized (anyone ever had a reliable ID from this one?), consider this one as tentative. They've been unheard here for weeks, maybe for months (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5770, Myanmar Defense Forces (tentative) via Taunggyi, 1513-1532*, Oct 13. Thanks to the tip from Jari Savolainen, tuned in to hear pop music, OM talking about Myanmar in vernacular for about 10 minutes, more pop songs, brief selection of indigenous instrumental music followed by OM with sign-off announcement, same indigenous music again till off the air. Same format and language as I heard here in late 2006. Believe this has been off for quite some time now, so is nice to hear them again. Poor at tune-in but quickly improving to fair by sign-off. Thanks again to Jari (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) & tnx to the SLORC crackdown (gh, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate, 6850.9, MAC Radio, 1735-1800, Oct 13, pop music. IDs. Yahoo.com e-mail address. Good. Pirate, 6875.1, The Crystal Ship, 1430-1450, Oct 13, pop music. IDs. Mentioned they were running 150 watts. Very good. Pirate, 6925, Lazer Hot Hits, 1433-1450, Oct 13, pop music. ID. Merlin, Ontario mail drop. Poor to Fair. Pirate, 6925, Undercover Radio, 1545-1600, Oct 13, IDs, Mail.com e- mail address. Merlin, Ontario mail drop. Dr. Benway radio-drama. Poor to Fair. Pirate, 6925 USB, Radio Jamba International, 1928, Oct 13, ID, fake ads. Talk about liquid heroin. Fair. Pirate, 6925 USB, WBNY, *1538-1540*, Oct 14, Short transmission about Commander Bunny. "WBNY" jingles. Fair. Pirate, 6925 USB, WMR, 1915-1923*, Oct 14, "WMR-We Monkey Radio" IDs. Short songs. Fair-good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Re 7-123: Hi dear Noel, checked 9380 UT on 1330-1530 UT slot. Tiny S=5 signal, clear audio - seems a newer transmitter - , no distortion or spurs appeared today Oct 12. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked 9380 from Oct 11 to 13, but never could be heard any distortion nearby, sorry (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See IRAN [non] ** PAKISTAN. Radio Pakistan Shortwave Transmitters Hi Glenn, Presently the following transmitters of Radio Pakistan (PBC) are on air, which have been monitored by me recently in October: API-3 Islamabad 100 KW 1968 International Broadcasts API-4 Islamabad 100 KW 1974 News & Current Affairs API-5 Islamabad 250 KW 1972 International Broadcasts API-6 Islamabad 250 KW 1972 International Broadcast API-8 Islamabad 100 KW 1979 Domestic Broadcast APP-2 Rawalpindi 10 KW 1962 Domestic Broadcast [should be APR-2? - gh] APP-2 Peshawar 10 KW 1960 Domestic Broadcast APQ-2 Quetta 10 KW 1962 Domestic Broadcast The rest are either dismantled, dysfunctional or there is no information about their usage. Regards (Aslam Javaid, Lahore, Pakistan, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. A new shortwave station has opened in Palau (David Ricquish, NZ, Radio Heritage News, Oct, via DXLD) ??? Have heard nothing about Palau. Probably confused with Pohnpei - Micronesia. Nothing new about Palau found by searching on http://www.radioheritage.net Others have imagined PMA 4755.25v is on Yap; I don`t understand how this got all confused (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Wantok Radio Light. Oct. 8 at 0846-0905. SINPO 34333. "Back to the bible" in English was heard till 0856, then ID. News at 0900 (Iwao Nagatani, Japan, Japan Premium via DXLD) 7325, Wantok R. Light, Oct 06, 0800-0812, 35433, English, Talk and music, ID at 0801 (Kouji Hashimoto, ibid.) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. More shortwave stations are planned in Papua New Guinea (David Ricquish, NZ, Radio Heritage News, Oct, via DXLD) NBC or gospel-huxters? (gh, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 9615, Radio Veritas Asia, Palauig, 1135-1155*, Oct 12, religious talk in unidentified language with English translations. Lite instrumental music. English ID at 1155 sign off. Fair. 11730, Radio Veritas Asia, Palauig, *1157-1210, Oct 12, Sign on with instrumental music, English ID & into unidentified language at 1158. Lite music. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 13745 was still a mystery here, Oct 12 at 1255 tune-in, man speaking slowly, deliberately with great expression, apparently reading poetry or a classic story. Went right thru hourtop with no break. Finally at 1311 music, 1317 started another program with theme, woman announcer; 1319 brief Russian actuality with voice-over translation in still uncertain language. I don`t hear anything to indicate this is Christian, nor recognizable jingles from major broadcasters. Since this was Friday, I was alert for TWR as still on the schedules from Rwanda in Afar at 1300-1315 only, and previously heard, but no sign of it now. Then checking Aoki as of Oct 11, the answer: 13745 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1200-1400 1234567 Pashto/Dari 250 105 Krasnodar This was probably an S07 change, as it is still missing from other listings; ADDX dated 2 Sept shows this transmission in Dari, not Pashto, on 12015 and 15510 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Checking the 15.6-MHz area again Oct 12 for VOR spurs of the last few days: none heard, but 15550, believed to be the problem transmitter the day before, was still missing from Hindi service, just 15605 at 1325. VOR in Russian at 1325 on 15540, weaker than // 15660 tho both are listed as Moskva site, 250 kW. 15540 is 190 degrees and 15660 is 100 degrees, the latter, closer to off-the-back for us. However, my spearch was not in vain: see BULGARIA. Wolfgang Büschel is hearing Russian spurs further afield from the 15660 transmitter, where I did not check today, wandering in the 15.0+ and 16.2+ MHz areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re: [dxld] VERY BAD distortion on 15592 to 15672 kHz / VoRUS in ham band 7080 kHz Re: bad 7080 outlet. VERY BAD distortion on 15592 to 15672 kHz. Bad pairs 15064/16256 kHz at 1400 UT, wandering to 15069/16248. On Ham Radio segment 7080; and 6968 kHz. POSITIVE matter: for the first time after long decline of sound quality, I noted Tatar Radio via Samara at 0800-0900 UT on 11925 kHz today Oct 12 with surprisingly HIGH audio quality. No buzz, no distortion, Russian at 0815 UT S=8 signal level. All feeder, tx, and antenna problems now hopefully solved? # # # # The faulty transmitter / and antenna influence electromagnetic interferences occur at RC-1 Lesnoy Moscow transmitter site. Mikhail from St. P. sent me this e-mail recently: (...) thank your for your info. Just had a phone talk with of the technicians from Lesnoy transmitting center (Radio Center No. 1) about all of these problems (including 7310 kHz spurs). Let's hope they will fix them before their first midday transmission...(...) Mikhail (via wwdxc BC-DX Oct 12) http://topnews.wwdxc.de NOTHING distorted signal observed today of the VOR Urdu service in 15592 to 15672 range anymore, today Oct 12. But I noted the same spurious signal of VOR in English language at 1400-1500 UT again, as on Oct 11. Whether a spurious of nominal 15605 channel [latter which is two S steps stronger than] or 15660 kHz, both from Moscow transmitter sites. 15605 S=9+40 db 15660 S=9+10 dB in southern Germany location. At 1500:00 UT 15660 kHz was signing-off and at same time the spurious on 15057 kHz disappeared. The spur wandered from 15081-center at 1400 UT, to 15057-center at 1435 UT, and kept that channel til 1500 UT signing off. 1400 UT 15081 (15073 to 15088 kHz range) 1410 UT 15071 (15063 to 15077) 1425 UT 15062 (15054 to 15069) 1435 UT 15057 (15051 to 15063) Nothing noted on symmetrical upper side of the nominal signal! 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550, seemingly from Lesnoy Moscow, causes again some distortion on the 19 mb on range 15510 to 15677 kHz, minor distortion on the lower side, but much stronger on upper side with two S=9+30 dB heavily distorted peaks on 15620 and 15630 kHz, latter covered Voice of Greece co-channel totally. Checked again at 1400-1430 UT slot, Oct 13 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct. 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR is still way out of whack, putting out big dirty spurs over portions of the 15 MHz band, interfering with many other stations and even itself! Sat Oct 13 at 1340, found Greece`s English hour on 15630, Hellenes Around the World, unlistenable due to the QRM. VOR in Hindi on 15605 also had the QRM, which peaked roughly 15615-15630, but the spikes were also audible above that and below including 15550, which is the nominal frequency of the offending transmitter, ironically, with the same programming as 15605. On 15550 itself, no carrier audible, just the spur`s extremely distorted modulation. Also QRMed VOA in Russian on 15565, and even the much stronger RDPI on 15560. At 1359 the VOR transmitters went into IS, but not synchronized with 15605. That frequency had switched program feeds and at 1400 played NA as opening to English service, while the spurs continued, now having switched to Urdu which to the Oklahoman is indistinguishable from Hindi. At 1401 NA could also be heard weakly on 15660, the // during this hour for English, but these were not exactly synchronized, 15660 running a few words ahead of 15605 once they started talking. Meanwhile I looked for the further spurs Wolfgang Büschel reported the day before in the 16.2+ MHz area. There was a continuous buzzing motorboating sound at 16220-16250 or so, peaking at 16235, but nothing resembling program modulation, so I could not correlate this with any of the VOR 15 MHz channels. Nor was there a matching sound in the 15.0-15.1 MHz range. Quit listening for a while, but quick recheck at 1446 found the 15 MHz spurs gone with 15605 in the clear; there was a weak non-distorted signal on 15550, language unknown. Apparently in the meantime the malfunxioning transmitter was taken off the air, or possibly knocked back into whack. Per Aoki, it is scheduled from 3718E, 5545N for a07: 15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1200-1300 1234567 Urdu 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR 15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1300-1400 1234567 Hindi 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR 15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1400-1500 1234567 Urdu 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR This situation, with daily variations has been going on for most of a week, and the Russian transmission authorities have been notified of it. Why in the world don`t they close down the bad transmitter until and unless they can repair it? Keeping it on the air certainly does VOR no good as no one would deliberately listen to it, the programming is duplicated on other frequencies, and while on the air it interferes with numerous other stations, even other VOR transmissions! Not to mention wasting 500+ kW of electricity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tonight 7310, which is supposed to be operated from 1800 with one of the problematic Lesnoy transmitters, has no obvious issues; good modulation (away from the VOR studio audio which is of course not a transmitter issue) and no obvious splatter or spurs. 7195 with VOR in French is slightly distorted and had before 1800 some scratchy spikes on the low side, audible within at least 50 kHz. However, these spikes were not related to the program audio, so could have another origin as well (Cerrik on 7155 appears to be another possible culprit). 9795, which was perfectly in synch with 7195, thus apparently co-located, did not show any problems. After 1800 it became impossible to check out 7195 further because the band became too congested. This 7195 and the presumably co-located 9795 could be further Lesnoy outlets, unless they are operated from Taldom or Kurovskaya (if the latter site is still on air at all) instead. VOR German via Samara (until 1800 on 12010) had no buzz or other transmission-related audio issues tonight. Btw, the mentioned German 1800-1900 on 7320 is not VOR but Universelles Leben / Radio Santec, apparently nowhere listed and probably a rather new transmission, presumably booked directly via Radioagenstvo-M and not as slot on VOR's German service as they do since the mid-nineties or so. Decent audio, unlike the muffled VOR stuff. [Later:] Unfortunately I was distracted and did not note in detail what happened around 1900. No closing announcement caught for the 7320 transmission, so I have to add now that it needs another check if German 1800-1900 on 7320 (perhaps on Saturdays only?) is really Radio Santec. There appeared to be an overlap of two independent carriers at 1900, so 7320 until 1900 seems to originate from another site than Samara (maybe even outside the CIS, but it was apparently no Media&Broadcast or VTC or TDF or Digita). At 1900 Family Radio in German via Samara on 7320 started, and this transmission is indeed plagued by loud hum, sounding as if 100 Hz is a prominent but not the only component. 100 Hz hum now also on 7310 (presumed Lesnoy) with VOR in English. I'm quite sure that it was clean while VOR German was on air before 1900, so it must be the audio input but not the transmitter itself if it's still the same unit. What I heard in passing of the change-over on 7320 points at the audio input as possible source of the bad hum as well, but this needs more monitoring to be sure (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Moscow Lesnoy site: similar spurious intermodulation on the lower side on Ham Radio band 7050 and 7080 occur since Autumn S-07 portion of the VoRussia schedule started on first week Sept 2007. IARU bandwatch groups reported to Dutch and German frequency spectrum authorities many times. Moscow Taldom site: Today Oct 13 nothing; no spurs of 15660 (v15060 and v16248) observed, so I guess the Moscow Taldom site engineer solved the minor problem. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello all, As noted by Wolfgang and others, heard a lot of spurs interfering with my listening of Voice of Russia on 15605 at 1400 UT. Heard the interference 2 days ago, on 11 Oct and again today 13 Oct. 2007. It was quite strong here, Voice of Russia was S9 on 15605 at 1400 and the interference was stronger making it almost impossible to listen to the broadcast. Hope they fix it soon (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lesnoy (?) 15550 still broken --- Same problem with 15550 (VOR via some "MSK" site, understood to be Lesnoy, from 1200) today: Only a very faint carrier and an extremely distorted modulation, splattering around a wide area. This frequency is listed as 500 kW, so perhaps the problem is related to the operation of a transmitter pair? 15605, to start at 1300, mentioned as problematic during the last days and probably another 2 x 250 kW pair from Lesnoy (unless it's Taldom or Kurovskaya instead), was at 1200 already on. Clean carrier, possible modulation problems not turning out while running open carrier of course, and indeed it gets interfered by lots of 15550 splatter. Btw, the German 1800-1900 on 7320 is just another Family Radio transmission, via Tbilisskaya, switching over to Samara at 1900 for another play-out. Apparently Family Radio stepped up their transmissions via CIS facilities as well, in addition to their many bookings in Germany (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Didn't check 15.6 MHz today Oct 14, due of an outstanding INDIAN SUMMER day in Stuttgart, which helped my wife and y.t. to an extensive walk outside. 7080: distortion FREE on Oct 13 and 14. (mixture 7310/7195) 7050 - except 18-19 UT - : but noted a tiny 10% power signal on 7050 kHz again, before 1800 UT, and after 1900. 10% signal strength, compared to superpower signal previously. 7340/7195 kHz intermodulation, but in 1800-1900 UT slot Moscow -7340- is OFF, and joins the airwaves at 1900 UT again {Between 1800 and 1900 UT CRI China Radio uses 7340.} 73 wolfgang df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sunday Oct 14 at 1324, did not hear any spurs in the 15.6 MHz area, tho fundamental signals from Russia were much weaker than the day before, e.g. 15605. (However, 15550 was still acting up when Kai Ludwig checked earlier at 1200) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Weak signal on 7300, Oct 14 at 0133, heavy frequency- flutter as confirmed with BFO --- a lot like what you hear when there are extreme auroral conditions causing Doppler effect in ionosphere, but in this case I think the transmitter was defective. Aoki lists as Serpukhov, VOR, in Spanish; I thought it was Spanish before looking it up, but couldn`t be sure: 7300 VOICE OF RUSSIA 0100-0200 1234567 Spanish 250 270 Serpukhov RUS 05015E 5317N, VOR a07 --- Have others noted this problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA. Radio Slovakia International has announced that funds are secured until March 2008, but nevertheless, listeners’ support is solicited for the A-08 season (Rumen Pankov, R. Bulgaria DX program Oct 12 via DXLD) ** SPAIN. I´m hearing at this time (1850 UT) a relay of Onda Cero Radio on SW! 4394.5 kHz USB. I suspect it comes from military transmitter directed to Spanish soldiers abroad (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, Spain, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauricio, thanks for a tip. At 1943 noted them with sports (España- Dinamarca etc.). Local noise here, but can hear the signal. Is this live relay? To me it seems they passed the 2000 UT TOH without any ID, or did I miss it? (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) Yes it is! they are still running now (14 Sep, 1030 UT). When broadcasting a football match our networks don´t stop for T.O.H. news or formal IDs. But between the two parts of the match they usually have local ad breaks as in this case. The local ID heard was for the Madrid AM station "Onda Cero Madrid, 954 Onda Media" (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, Spain, ibid.) Hi Jari, Yes it was live match from Danmark, final result 3 to 1 for Spain (sorry Anker). Next Euro 2008 Qualifying Group F will be November 17 : Spain - Sweden & November 21 Spain - Northern Ireland. may be better to control again this frequency (Dario Monferini, Italy, ibid.) ESPAÑA, 4394.5 USB, Onda Cero Radio, 0950-1648, 14-10. Fuerte señal, en paralelo con la red de Onda Cero FM, concretamente en Lugo 94.9 MHz FM. Extrañísima transmisión en esta frecuencia tan baja de onda corta, en banda lateral superior (USB). Señal estable durante todo el día, SINPO 45444. Aquí en Lugo se escucha muy fuerte, incluso con la antena telescópica del receptor. Informativos cada hora, identificaciones: "Noticias en Onda Cero", "Onda Certo, tu radio", "Te mereces esta radio, Onda Cero Radio, tu radio". Programas "Te doy mi palabra", "Gente Viajera", "Radioestadio". A las 1457, hasta las 1500 desconexión para espacio de emisoras locales; en ese momento transmiten por 4394.5 la programación de Onda Cero Madrid, mientras que en Onda Cero Lugo, 94.9 FM, la programación local de Lugo. Informaba primeramente de esta transmsión Mauricio Molano en Hard-Core y decía que podía tratarse de una trasmisión "feeder" para el ejército español en el exterior. Habrá que estar atentos los próximos días, a ver si sigue ésta la misma frecuencia en esta emisora, o aparecen nuevas emisoras, parecido a lo que ocurre en Argentina [q.v.] con 15820 y 13363.5 LSB. Resulta extraño que el Gobierno español haya elegido a Onda Cero para enviar la señal al ejército, cuando tiene su radio pública, y por otra parte, que escogiera esta frecuencia tan baja, por lo menos durante el día, que no creo pueda llegar muy lejos. El transmisor por la fuerza con la que llega, a pleno día, no debe de estar muy lejos, tal vez en el centro de España (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, escucha realizada en casco urbano de Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G, Antena de cable, 8 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos cordiales, hoy 14 de octubre se está escuchando desde Valencia en España desde las 1815, la extraña retransmisión en 4395 USB de Onda Cero; se aprecia con la emisión nacional en paralelo por Onda Cero Valencia en 101.2 de la FM. Probable emisión pirata con destino a pescadores faenando en la zona norte de España. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Via South Africa. 15650, Southern Sudan Interactive Radio Instruction, via Meyerton, 1402-1429*, Oct 13, Thanks to Glenn Hauser tip in DXLD. Tune-in to English language lesson. Lesson on reading & writing numbers. Good signal. Scheduled for Tues, Thur, Sat only (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Largest member of the Nordic countries (at nine million inhabitants), Sweden is one of the tiny [sic] giants that make up northern Europe. Best known for ABBA, IKEA, and similar ACRONYMS, Sweden is seen globally as a model of effective social democratic governance. Standards of living are on par with the best in the world, as are life expectancies, with high taxes providing a comprehensive social safety net for all. Despite decades of neutrality, Sweden’s current government is pushing for the country’s entry into NATO; time will tell if the people provide their support in this matter. Sveriges Radio is the domestic public broadcaster that operates Radio Sweden International. Radio Sweden International: http://www.radiosweden.org/ The layout of the Radio Sweden International website is not a big surprise – major links to Times and Frequencies and Programs on the left side, news headlines (and a few other items) in the middle, and other links on the right. Below the major links, there are graphic links to features and the SR Atlas (in Swedish), English-language Voices on the Air, and contact information. Below the news items is a brief article about the Network Europe partnership (with link), followed by About SR International and Radio Sweden. Links on the right are primarily used for listening to online audio – in addition to podcasts and streaming audio, Radio Sweden makes available an impressive 30 day archive of audio material. Even if you go on vacation, you can catch up with your favourite programs several weeks later! Further down the right side are simple text links to a variety of news categories (e.g. National, Business, Environment, Culture), which lead to in-depth news stories. I didn’t have time to explore the website in great detail, but everything I saw appeared to be well thought out. One tiny issue – occasionally a link will take you to an item in Swedish. Either click Back or break out your English-Swedish dictionary (Paul E. Guise, MB, Click! Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9745, Voice of Han (presumed), *0855-0951, Oct 14, open carrier on at 0854, into Chinese programming, orchestra music with singing, ToH drums and musical fanfare, EZL ballads, mostly two YL having a conversation, mostly fair, no jamming, best in LSB to get away from NHK & PBS Nei Menggu battling it out on 9750. Believe this is VOH's new reduced SW schedule (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9280, Oct 14 at 1302 caught my ear as I tuned by, since the modulation was cutting on and off quite regularly at the rate of four times per second. Yet another case of no human oversight to a SW transmission, in this case YFR relay with 100 kW going to waste. Still the same when rechecked at 1331 during a hymn and at 1410 during talk. Sked per NDXC/Aoki from 12017E 2343N for A07: 9280 FAMILY RADIO 1100-1600 1234567 Chinese 100 335 Yunlin TWN WYFR 9280 FAMILY RADIO 2100-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 335 Yunlin TWN WYFR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. Gorgeous vistas, friendly people, fantastic food; tidal waves, terrorist attacks, and frequent coups (and/or attempts); Thailand is simultaneously calming and ever changing. The constitutional monarchy of almost 65 million people is currently run by Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont (yep, another coup), but it has been ruled by King Adulyadej since 1946. The military and/or government largely controls Thailand’s various media; sometimes this equates to ownership, but often private media outlets participate in their own pre-emptive censorship. That said, the media enjoys considerable freedom in most subject areas. National Broadcasting Services of Thailand, a unit of the government’s Public Relations Department, operates Radio Thailand. Radio Thailand: http://www.hsk9.com/ The Radio Thailand front page is a simple affair, with the words “Radio Thailand”, followed by a World Services button, followed by a clock, set to Bangkok time (note: it appears to use Flash and Java, so may not work on some machines). Click on the button and you’re led to the main page, which has seven links on the left side and three more at the bottom. No news items, no stock reports, just a simple picture (and some spinning/twisting/dancing logos). The left side links include About Us, with a brief history of the station; Schedule, seemingly up-to-date; Staff, giving the names, rank, and photos of three individuals; Producers, giving the same information for three other individuals (two “German” and one “French” – perhaps the language of the programming they produce?); Unseen, which leads to two links to… nothing (Thai humour?); Discover, which also leads to nothing; and Webboard, which links to a Radio Thailand forum (that seems to be rarely used). At the bottom of the page is a link to the government’s Public Relation Department, an icon to mail the webmaster, and a link for Live!! Radio Thailand. The subsequent page is in Thai, but has obvious links to nine different audio streams, one of which is Shortwave. Audio is available in Real Media, Windows Media, and Quicktime formats; for the most fun, you can play all three at the same time (completely out of sync)! (Paul E. Guise, MB, Click! Oct ODXA Listening In via DXLD) ** TURKEY [non]. Re 7-123: I meant to add to my remarx about Live from Turkey, that just before I tuned that in, it so happened that BBCWS had a much more balanced report from Turkey on the US congressional resolution about the Armenian genocide and Turkish reaxion to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Turkey calling Congress. Full-page ads in newspapers distributed on Capitol Hill detail Turkey's official objection to legislation that would condemn the killings of Armenians in the 1910s as genocide. http://www.turkishembassy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=612&Itemid=338 (Turkish Embassy website. Posted: 12 Oct, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. RUI totally inaudible on 7440, Oct 14 during the 01 and 02 UT hours, making me wonder if they were off the air, or moved somewhere without notice. Greece 7475 and Albania 7425 were making it through, but from lower latitudes. Looked for signs of it on 5820, the NAm frequency they once planned to use, but no sign of it there either, in the splash from WEWN 5810, which extended from 5780 to 5840. We previously warned RUI away from any WEWN area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Shortly after first posting the above, I listened to WWORD on RUI webcast at 0518 UT Oct 14, and was reminded that Olex said the Lviv hi-power transmitter to NAm could be discontinued in mid-October if financing could not be found to continue it. That`s 7440 --- so maybe that is what has happened. But will we at least get a 100 kW unit on some frequency? Please check further (Glenn, Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On October 11 transfer RUI in the North America from L'vov to 7440 kHz 2300-0400 they cease. Reason is traditional - shortage of finances (Alexander Yegorov, Kiev, the Ukraine / " open_dx" via Rus-DX Oct 14 via DXLD) Still no answers at the RUI schedule page, not updated since Sept 20 and still showing 7440: http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=162 There is another frequency on air at the time, 5830 for Russia, which might be redirected here, but no good next to WEWN! (Glenn Hauser, Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. I sampled BBC on XM yesterday for about 8 hours. I first tuned in at 1430 UT. They were doing a play by play broadcast of a football match between England and Estonia from Wembly Stadium. After the match was over, every time I tuned in I heard some broadcast that might be described as news, analysis, or in depth reporting on a single topic story. I also heard promos for the Sunday call-in show where they take phone calls from listeners all over the world, Have Your Say. I think that could be classified as a broadly based program stream but it has been a long time since I have heard really broad based programming like the old comedy shows with Spike Milligan or Max Bygraves on any BBC feed. The closest thing they have for comedy these days is the word game "My Word" which I have heard on PRI relay in the USA. [and those are very old shows, aren`t they? -- gh] Does the lack of comedy on BBC reflect the general mood of British society which is being over run by middle eastern hordes or is it due to the mistaken belief that Brit humor does not travel well? Many PBS TV stations prove daily that British TV comedy shows have a devoted niche audience in the USA. Why not comedy on the radio? I am at a handicap to know what the BBC News channel on Sirius contains as I have never been a Sirius subscriber. I do remember, however, that BBC on Saturday always carried sports on shortwave. Did the Sirius BBC channel ever do football matches masquerading as news? I think the convergence of BBC to a news-oriented service is best demonstrated by the need to ask if the service on XM is the news feed or the broad stream. They are becoming indistinguishable. My guess is that the stream on XM is the broad stream only because I heard the football match yesterday on XM (Joe Buch, DE, Oct 14, swprograms via DXLD) ** U S A. Radio Martí, 13820, very strong and jamming barely audible under, as usually the case here midway to Cuba on the beam from Delano, Oct 12 at 2008. Only one problem: audio cutting out continuously, making it unlistenable. Still the same at 2012 and 2021 rechex. Isn`t anybody paying attention at Delano? Why should they care? They are short, losing their jobs (if not FIGMO, having to move to another IBB facility) after DL closes down in two weeks (assuming that HR 3598 goes nowhere?). If no one on duty can be persuaded to actually monitor the incoming or outgoing audio, why isn`t there an automatic monitoring system to ring an alarm when this happen? Why isn`t there a backup program feed available on a moment`s notice, such as plain old dial-up phone line, which could be switched to manually if not automatically? Checked 11930 Martí via Greenville, and no breakups, so the problem is somewhere between Miami/Washington and Delano. Rechecked at 2126, 13820 was still breaking up every few seconds, quite an improvement, but not good enough for my government`s work coming out of my pocket. One is always suspicious of a station whose own employees do not want to listen to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KVOH, missing Oct 12, was back Oct 13 on 17775 at 2026 check, quite strong but no spurs audible, unlike REE 17850; see COSTA RICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ, 7415, UT Sun Oct 14 at 0225 with correct EDT timecheck of 10:25 and giving detailed propagation info from Spaceweather.com, including an aurora watch as a CME had just happened; trouble is, that was July 16. Perhaps the Lost Discs Radio Show should avoid including such perishable info if it is going to engage in reruns a trimonth later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. CVC La Voz, Miami, via Chile 17680, Sunday Oct 14 at 1328 was playing Waltz of the Flowers, quite an improvement from their usual drek, altho anything less war-horse would be beyond them, but I knew it would not be treated with any respect and continued to completion. Sure enough, cut off at 1328:30 for the over-produced echoey and non-classical closing of the weekly token cultural show, El Mundo del Arte, and quickly back to gospel rock (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Como de costume, a Rádio CVC não vai mudar a grade de programação para se enquadrar à nossa hora de verão, visto que a mudança se deu somente no Sudeste,Sul e Centro-Oeste do Brasil. Nas regiões Nordeste e Norte não houve alteração.Portanto, os programas RADIODX na sua primeira apresentação às sextas, será às 16h, hora de Brasília (18h UT), JORNAL MUNDIAL de segunda a sexta às 13h, hora de Brasília (15h UT) e SEM LIMITES de segunda a sábado às 8h, hora de Brasília (10h UT). É o que há (Luiz Chaine, Brasil, Oct 14, radioescutas yg via DXLD) É; DST in parts of Brazil just started today Oct 14 per timeanddate.com (gh) ** U S A. ACTIONS: 640, KFI, CA, Los Angeles - CP granted to build a new 675’ tower to replace the one toppled by a light aircraft almost three years ago. The new tower will feature a hexagonal “top hat” fifty feet in diameter to compensate for the ‘lost’ 75 feet difference in comparison to the original tower. Facilities will remain U1 50000/50000. Only a month ago they were granted an extension of their Special Temporary Authority (STA) to operate U1 25000/25000 from their auxiliary tower (Bill Hale, AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 1 via DXLD) ** U S A. Re 7-123: ‘LANDMARK MOVES’ JOLT LOCAL RADIO --- Emmis’ decision to shift highly rated WIBC to FM expected to reverberate through market Sat. October 13 - 2007 --- Anthony Schoettle - IBJ staff The local radio market’s biggest shake-up in more than a decade has almost every commercial station in central Indiana scrambling to attract the thousands of listeners and millions of advertising dollars suddenly up for grabs. Emmis Communications Corp. said Oct. 8 it will move WIBCAM [sic] 1070 programming to the FM frequency previously occupied by WNOU-FM 93.1, which it will kill. Industry experts said the fallout will continue to rain down throughout the fourth quarter and well into 2008. “There’s lots of intrigue here,” said Tom Taylor, executive editor of Radio-Info.com and a longtime radio industry expert. . . http://cms.ibj.com/ASPXPages/6iframes/FrontEndArticlesDetailPage.aspx?ArticleID=05805&NoFrame=1 (Indianapolis Business Journal via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) More about this: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14291931/detail.html?rss=ind&psp=news (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. See CUBA ** VIETNAM. 6165.0, 2230-2300* 05-10, Dai Tieng Noi Vietnam, Xuan Mai. H'Mong talk mentioning Viet Nam twice, 2240 native songs, closing announcement mentioning Viet Nam, audible when Tchad signs off, QRM weaker Bolivia 33333 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, on the AOR AR7030 with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) & see BOLIVIA; CHAD ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Radio Zambia; 0227-0252 13 October, 2007. Nothing on the channel at 0210, but big open carrier upon recheck at 0227, finally into fish eagle interval signal from 0242, vocal anthem 0250 followed by mumbly non-English male. Big carrier but very low, nearly unusable modulation (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Re 7-123, 2370 signal: Glenn and Patrick: Our local Spanish stations are 1340 KXEQ, 1550 KXTO and 1590 KQLO. Comparison of these signals to the signal on 2370 kHz and KQLO matched. You are correct Glenn. Patrick, would you please delete this logging from the tips report. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. The two signals on this frequency I heard were KKOH (780) and KQLO (1590). According to theory, mixing actions have the two original signals, the sum of the two, and the difference of the two. That would give you four frequencies out: 780, 810, 1590, and 2370 kHz. To prove this was a mixing action and not a harmonic relationship I checked the 2nd harmonic of 1590 (3180) and it was clean. Yes, this was a mixing action that I got, all right. So the next thing to determine was where this mixing action was occurring. So I flipped the antenna switch over to the EWE four- direction antenna and I got the 2370 signal on 30 (Faintly) and 120 (Best) and nothing on the 240 or 300 directions. So it looks like it is not the antennas or the receiver, it must be something external. KQLO's transmitter is roughly 170 at 20.2 miles from my house according to Google Earth. And KKOH is 120 at 9,000 feet away. It could be anywhere between these two locations. However I think this has something to do with KKOH since the KKOH splatter began several months ago and now this. My next several days off from work I will drive over to their antennas and fire up the spectrum analyzer and look around. I got a feeling this is a result of KKOH changing things in the transmitter to incorporate the AM IBOC HD signal. I’ll put this one down in the books as lesson learned and try to clean some of this egg off my face. Thanks Glenn for your very kind advice. And thanks Patrick for being patient with me. Respectfully, (Art Hernandez, IRCA member, ARS-KB4VTA, ATC USN Ret., DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very good! Ha, I missed 1590 as a possible source, since it is licensed to Sun Valley NV, a suburb between and north of Reno & Sparx, not in the NRC-AM log as a Reno station. Is 1450 KHIT not Spanish? NRC AM Log shows it as ``SS:SPT ESPN``, and yes, SS does mean Spanish, but this would seem to be self-contradictory, unless ESPN has a Spanish sports network, and/or it`s part-time Spanish, which seems unlikely (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4805: Re 7-123: ``and my opinion: are AIR playing western music? (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably not (gh)`` Surely AIR plays western music. I've noted some AIR domestic stations during local Indian evening have every now and then program of western pop-music hosted usually by female DJ in English. Mainly playing oldies, but western pop anyway (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR Shillong comes to mind as one that indeed does play "western music" (pop, classical, jazz, etc.) on a regular basis (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Viz., - - - - Ron reported: INDIA. 4970, AIR-Shillong, 1602-1630*, March 24, 2007, OM DJ in English, with pop songs (Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), sign-off with: "This is the North Eastern Service of All India Radio broadcasting from Shillong on 60.... meters, 4970 kHz", fair (Ron Howard, Shanghai, China, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, on Jan 28, 2007, … 1600 into English, 1602-1629 non-stop classical western music (Vivaldi), BoH AIR ID, poor-fair (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, RX340, with T2FD antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, Mar 7, 2006, 1430-1445 in English, woman DJ with request program of "western music"; their request line had not been working recently but now listeners can call in from 4:30 to 5:30 on Thursday; played songs by Enrique Iglesias, Mariah Carey with "I Don't Wanna Cry", etc; several local IDs; fair-poor (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, RX340, with T2FD antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I Copied this from the Spooks mailing list; is anyone hearing this? Or know anything about it? This came in on Friday 10/12/07, About 3:40pm local time, (MDT) to the spooks list. (Paul Armani, CO, Oct 13, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: 6855: Since Cuba/V2A went off at around 2142z, several of us have been hearing what sounds like violin playing, with a YL singing. This has been going on for almost an hour now. No sure what to make of it, or if it is numbers related, but it might bear further monitoring. I noted this immediately after V2a sign off. Someone on #wunclub thinks it could be theremin music, and I like that theory. It's somewhere between a voice and a violin. It is at S1 with occasional peaks up to S2 here; pretty weak, and easier to copy in USB mode (Damon - near Boston, Spooks via Armani, ibid.) If it were after October 27, I would say WYFR. In the B-seasons, WYFR uses 6855 in our afternoons, and is scheduled to do so again in B-07, 44 degrees toward Europe, English 2000-2200, Portuguese 2200-2245, oblivious of the number station on 6855. WYFR also uses and will continue to use 6855 at other dayparts. Possibly they are trying 6855 a bit before B-07 starts? Then there are pirates. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ABDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 15476: Strange station; receiving station at 1500 UT on 15476, Sri Lanka or Hindi ?? Please help with ID. Thanks, (Robert Jansen in Holland, Oct 12, HCDX via DXLD) Strange indeed. Argentine Antarctica's LRA36 is usually here, although I'm not so sure they are on at 1500 UT (Elmer Escoto, San Pedro Sula, HONDURAS, ibid.) Hi, I`m sure I was listening on 15476. I tuned up to 15480 and that was empty, later CNR 1 Beijing, on 15480. I think it was a pirate station or so on 15476. Trying for over a week now to receive LRA 36 in Holland, no luck so far. Thanks anyway for your mail, hahaha my first mail ever from Honduras! (Robert Jansen, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. JAMMING, 15645. Bubble Jamming noted since past week daily. Noted this Near East jamming already from 1436 UT onwards today Oct 13. UNID program target. IRN, IRQ, Kurdistan target?? Program lasts 1500-1600 UT. Glenn told the DX press about an unID bubble jamming some days ago. Reminds me of coming B07 Kol Israel, Persian on 15640 kHz. But that guess is WRONG. Most interesting, 4-four different bubble sounds noted on 15645 kHz, covering 15639.5 to 15650.5 range. My Etón E1 showed me a bouquet of ?carrier? tones on 15641.75 15642.20 15645.8 15647 15649 kHz. S=7 signal 4 Jammer type, very professional - bassy Diesel engine, - whistle oscillating, - high pitch bubbler, - acoustical feedback[in German: Rueckkopplung] pitch. And in 1545 to 1600 UT slot, I noted an unID program underneath. Like Near East language. But not VoA Persian 11520, 11780, neither IBB Farda 15410, 17510. Program ends exact at 1600 UT, and the jammer bubbler signing-off at 1601:03 UT. IBB RMS in Yerevan shows 545, 15:24:34, 75.00, 15644.00 546, 15:24:35, 75.00, 15645.00 547, 15:24:35, 53.00, 15646.00 Kuwait RMS monitoring shows high signal level. 545, 15:02:57, 82.00, 15644.00 546, 15:02:57, 122.00, 15645.00 547, 15:02:57, 112.00, 15646.00 Still a PUZZLE, new Near East clandestine station program? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15795, Another unID buzz - but not usual DRM like - noted on 15795 kHz at 1430 UT, Oct 13. Covers 15775 to 15817 kHz, powerful signal on 15789 to 15806 kHz of S=9+10 dB level. Is that GUF DRM? (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could be an extension of this as I reported in 7-123: FRANCE. Noticed DRM on new frequencies, 15790-15795-15800, Oct 10 at 1403. Found the source right away in http://www.drm.org/livebroadcast/livebroadcast.php and what luck, it`s only for two days! 0700-1500 10/10-10/11 15795 - Moscow 150 RFI French Issoudun That would be for the DRM symposium being held in Moscow, a late addition to special broadcasts previously publicized from Woofferton and Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked Oct 13 at 1713, that transmission had been removed from http://www.drm.org/livebroadcast/livebroadcast.php And does not appear either (if it ever did) in http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tnx fer ur sw work & DX Pgm list (Wells Perkins (a bit west of the Statue of Liberty), Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ MIDWEST FALL DX GTG NOV 9-11 2007 Location: Route 66 Historic Inn, 1710 W Elm, Lebanon MO 65536 Near exit 127, I –44 Old Highway 66, Phone 417 532 6843. Low Rates ($33/night), cable TV, close to many eating places. Lebanon is located on 1-44 50 miles NE of Springfield, 55 miles SW of Rolla, and about 155 miles SW of St Louis. A good DX location, local radio stations include KBNN 750, KLWT 1230, KJEL 103.7 and KCLQ 107.9, plus non- commercial KTTK 90.7, plus several FM translators. Local boy Talk Show Host Jim Bohannon got his start on KLWT 1230 as a teenager. Also part 15 station KLEB, Oldies 107.1 may be on the air in Motel (if I can get it going). This is the same weekend as the ARRL Midwest Amateur Radio Convention at Cowan Convention Center about 2 miles East on E Elm Street Old Highway 66. This is a convention of the ARRL Midwest Division which includes the states of MO, KS, NE and IA. Other attractions are the Route 66 Museum and Bennett Springs State Park Located 11 miles NW. A possible tour of AM KBNN, FM KJEL if I can arrange it but Manager Mike Edwards may be busy with ARRL Convention. Other features include a DX Logging contest and DX quiz. For more information contact John Tudenham, 2824 Missouri, Joplin MO 64804, HOME Phone 417 524 8058, Cell phone 417 438 4749, E mail – w0jrp @ earthlink.net (John Tudenham, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ++++++++++++++++++++ SOVIET WOODPECKER OTH RADAR The final item on the Oct Whole World on the Radio Dial, DX program from R. Ukraine International, is about the Woodpecker OTH radar and Ukraine`s involvement in it, site Chernobyl to be close to plenty of nuclear-generated electricity, but went down and dismantled following disaster. However, another site is Komsomolsk/Amure, DVR, and Olex played a new recording of what he thinks was OTH coming from there in the 11100- 11300 kHz range. See previous item about show being available on demand (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PERSEUS SDR John Rose: WOW! Jaw dropping! Incredible! Impressive even!!! You just gotta check out this new radio from Italy. http://www.cqdx.it/woodbox/Perseus_uk.html The links on this page, hidden in plain sight, are also interesting. For instance, the third word in the opening paragraph, under the first group of pictures, links to the manufacturer's site that also provides lots of info. Down the page there is a link to a PDF of the block diagram that is mind boggling. It's a lot easier to read if you blow it up to about 150%. Karl Racenis has said that he would agree it is a 'digital radio' when it samples the signal directly off the air. The price is reasonable. The 'buy it' button says the price is 799 euros or about USD $1100, including VAT (value added tax) of 20%. Click on the button and the Non EU price is 666 Euros or a bit less than USD $900. At this price/performance level, it is hard to beat (MARE Tipsheet Oct 12 via DXLD) COPING WITH RADIOS SUCH AS THE ICF SW40 Following some logs posted by Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec on HCDX showing Djibouti on 4779, VOA Botswana on 4929, and earlier, R. Universitaria, BOLIVIA [q.v.] on 4734, I replied: (gh, DXLD) Beware of going by the frequency readout on this receiver (and many others of its type). It has no BFO, or SSB capability, so you can`t be sure where the carrier is. The readout goes in 1-kHz steps, according to reviews I have read. Djibouti is always reported on 4780, and VOA Botswana is surely on 4930.0, not 4929 unless something is very wrong there. Universitaria Bolivia is reported by everyone else close to 4732, not 4734 as Lucio had it (and news of its reactivation was welcome!). It`s easy to be misled by reading the dial where the station `sounds best`, especially if you are tuning a bit to one side to avoid interference. What needs to be reported is the true carrier frequency of stations, not necessarily what the readout says. A poor substitute for a BFO would be, if adjacent interference allows, to tune up and down to decide where the `middle` of the signal is. 73, (Glenn Hauser, HCDX via DXLD) Entao, suponho o que eu deva fazer é o seguinte: eu escuto algo, meus ouvidos dizem que o melhor é 4734, mas aí eu olho para o log do Brian Alexander, PA por exemplo e penso "Não, o certo é 4732 porque ele escreveu isso, entao eu tenho que escrever 4732 porque ele tem um radio de 8 dígitos e eu não. Agora eu só faço um log novo a medida que consultar os logs dos outros e ver a marca do radio deles, aí sim eu direi: é 4734 ou 4732 depende do que os OUTROS tem ou deixam de ter. É assim que vc quer que alguem com um radio como o meu faça? Eu não escondo os meus erros nem o modelo do meu radio, SW40, quem vê esta informaçao saberá que estou sujeito a certos erros ou NAO, pois estarei sujeito tambem a certos ACERTOS. O que voce disse é obvio: ``What needs to be reported is the true carrier frequency of stations, not necessarily what the readout says`` Mas exposto o problema acima o que vc sujere? Fazer logs baseado nas informaçoes dos outros? Se eu fizer isso eu não teria achado a R. Universitaria porque NINGUEM tinha feito um log recente dela, nem com 5 nem com 8 dígitos (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, SP, Brasil, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lucio, PLEASE don`t take offense about this. It is a continuing problem involving many other listeners and their radios, which is why I thought it was important to mention on the HCDX list. There really is no solution except using a different receiver with more accurate frequency readout. All I can suggest is that you assume a station is on its nominal or previously reported frequency (e.g. 4732, 4780, 4930) unless you have evidence to the contrary. It is certainly more important to spread the news of a new or reactivated station like that than to have the frequency just right! You are to be commended for including your receiver, since that allows us to figure out the likely reason for the errors. Of course, especially with small stations like Universitaria it`s always possible the frequency really did vary by 2 kHz, but unfortunately with the SW- 40 you can`t really be sure about that. You could have said: ``this station has been reported before on 4732, but on my SW-40 without a BFO, it sounded best on 4734.`` By saying it was on 4734 without any qualification like that, you are reporting info with a greater degree of accuracy than your receiver really allows. 73, (Glenn to Lúcio, via DXLD) Olá Glen[n], Obrigado pelas informações e isto que vc descreveu deverá acontecer um dia e irei adotar.: ``You could have said: this station has been reported before on 4732, but on my SW-40 without a BFO, it sounded best on 4734.`` Eu procuro sòmente informar esta "frequencia fora do que já foi ouvido/reported" quando realmente não tem interferência e provoca então menos chance de confusão. Você sabe, baséia-se muito pelo "apito" que as 3 freqüências oferecem (up, middle, down); então a do meio será a que menos ou nada apita. 73 (Lúcio, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ Quite a newsworthy development has occurred on the nighttime IBOC scene since our last column, and we were taken off-guard by how quickly it happened. Just 2½ weeks after nighttime IBOC became officially sanctioned, ABC Citadel, the country’s third largest radio group, suspended its use at night on all its AM stations equipped with it. The story broke after news of a leaked October 1 memo from Citadel’s Director of Engineering Martin Stabbert appeared on the website Radio-Info.com. According to a 10/3 article that appeared in RW Online http://www.radioworld.com/pages/s.0121/t.8847.html the memo pointed to (in its own words) “lackluster performance, the limited benefit and various reports of significant interference” as reasons for the decision. Some cautions: Citadel’s action does not spell the end of IBOC at its stations (AM daytime and FM IBOC continue), this is only a suspension (i.e. a temporary halt) of nighttime IBOC, and the company plans to work with IBOC developer iBiquity to find answers to the problems. What it does expose that hasn’t been publicly shown before is some genuine apprehension among broadcasters about issues surrounding nighttime use of this technology. This story is far from over, and we will do our best to keep on top of it. In the meantime, some big Citadel players are on the sideline at night-- KABC, KGO, WABC, WJR, WLS and others. From my outpost in the east part of the Vast Westland, I am noticing a lot less IBUZZ on the lower clear channel frequencies than was true a couple of weeks ago (Bill Dvorak, Madison WI, DDXD- West FROM THE VAST WESTLAND, NRC DX News Oct 15 via DXLD) LITTLE SUPPORT AT WRC FOR SHORTWAVE BROADCAST EXPANSION FOR DRM What's Brewin: Let the Spectrum Games Begin By Bob Brewin, GovernmentExecutive.com October 15 Article on WRC which starts October 22 includes: The Beeb vs. the Navy Shortwave broadcasters such as the BBC and Defense users such as the Navy will battle at the WRC over spectrum used for high-frequency communications in the 4 to 10 MHz bands, Russell (associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) said. The broadcasters want to use this band to replace their scratchy and noisy analog broadcasts with a new digital service that will provide near FM-radio quality. But the Navy wants to use HF bands - underutilized since the demise of Morse code - to support the broadcast of data over new IP-based services at far less cost than sending data by satellite. Russell said that except for the European Union, countries are heading into the WRC aligned with the U.S. position to not allow an expansion of shortwave broadcasting in the HF band. Full article: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=38276&dcn=todaysnews (via Mike Barraclough, UK, Oct 13, dxldyg via DXLD) DRM: UNID 15795 PROPAGATION +++++++++++ The Sun continues to be at a standstill, with many days, one after the other without a single sunspot, and consequently, the daytime maximum useable frequency curve stays below 20 megaHertz and even lower. According to my good friend Ángel González Coroás, Cuba's number one sunspots expert, we very probably will see more sunspots by the end of next year. Ángel says that the forecasts for cycle 23's final months were basically wrong, and that it is now, from July to December of 2007 that the solar cycle is going trough its period of minimum activity. And he adds that the rise in the number of sunspots will be starting to significant by July of 2008, but not earlier. And now amigos as always at the end of the show, here is ARNIE CORO'S DXERS UNLIMITED'S HF AND LOW BAND VHF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST Solar activity is expected to continue at very, very low levels, and the geomagnetic field will be also very quiet for the next few days. Ionospheric absorption will be at a minimum. Expect daytime maximum useable frequencies on the best North -South circuits not to exceed 21 megaHertz, but Transequatorial propagation may provide nice openings on the 10 and 6 meter bands from South America to the Caribbean, Mexico and Southern United States, and from Africa to the Mediterranean region (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Oct 13, HCDX via DXLD) MORE ASIAN CARRIERS, TRANSPOLAR MW TO FLORIDA A shrunken Auroral Oval and low A index numbers keep the big Japanese stations putting in carriers. 747, 693 and 774 all had good carriers. I believe that 774 could be heard over most of US. If these conditions hold up another day or so I may be able to get some audio out of one of those big three. They peaked just about LSR today. R8, Homebrew receivers, 23" spiral loop, Comdel line amp (Ray Moore, FT Myers, FL, Oct 12, NRC-AM via DXLD) Not a trace here near Chicago on the 355 degree Phased BOGs. I tried from 1158 to 1210 (LSR was 1200 today) and not a trace. I also checked 1566 and 1575 and nothing. However, if I drive around to my western BOGs I can usually dig up some TP carrier or two. 774 is made more useless with WBBM IBOC, but was rather useless anyhow, although I did get Spain there a couple years back 73 KAZ, thinking it won't be easy to get Japan here due to AU oval (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) ###