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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1382 Tue 1130 WRMI 9955 Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 0830 WRMI 9955 Thu 0000 WBCQ 17495-CUSB Thu 1600 KAIJ 9480 [usually new edition not yet aired] 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 ** AFRICA [and non]. Hi Glenn. Just to reminisce a bit --- when I was a teenager back in the 80's, it was one of my favorite times of the year to come home from school, sit down at my desk in front of the upstairs window, watching the snow fall with good DX on the radio. Other than being in a new house a few hundred feet down from my old homestead, there is one big difference. The big difference is shortwave on 60 meters. All I have is a het from Bata and an ok copy of Kaduna. I remember the wonderful days of long ago of just scanning 60 meters and hearing all the African stations, exotic music, and thrill of what I was going to hear. It was just an amazing experience that nobody can understand except for us short wave radio buffs. I could list all those countries, but we all know who they were. All of us have those special memories from days gone by. Just to add to these depressing thoughts, I do believe a different kind of disaster is happening to medium wave as we continue thru the digital age. thanks for allowing me to go back twenty some years. I am sure many others can certainly relate to this (Stephen J. Price, Johnstown, PA, Nov 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Stephen, I feel your pain and loss. Back in the 80's we used to revel over an early opening to Africa with tons of stations coming through. Then in the early evening there would be lots of Colombians and Venezuelan stations. Then in the morning there would be lots of South Pacific stations. DXing ain't what it used to be. But, then again, nothing is. Just last weekend, at the Shadow Lake Radio Camp, Harold Sellers and I were talking about how we have become more program listeners than DXers. We still like the chase but have become more interested in the message coming through the medium. Shortwave programming usually provides you with something no other media does and at times when we can't, or don't want to, be streaming on line (Mark Coady, ODXA yg via DXLD) Yes!!!!!! Early opening to Africa that could start around 3 pm local time [ET], then after they all signed off, except for Mauritania, then we could get some Chinese, Venezuelans, Colombians, CARACOL, other Latins and the list goes on. by 7 pm, I could go over to 90 meters and get the South Africans. If I decided to stay up late on the weekends, I would be treated with Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and a few others signing on very late local time. You knew you were going to have a good night when Uganda would come in with such an early sign off and it was a treat to hear Sierra Leone. I loved the ID's on all those stations and the excellent music all over the tropical bands. Heck, I could go on and on but will stop here. Great times (Steve Price, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. 2310, VL8A Alice Springs, 1140-1218 Nov 12. Program of pop vocals hosted by a woman announcer with "ABC Darwin Center" ID at 1149. Country music from 1200. Very poor at tuning in but rapidly improving to fair by 1200. // 2325 VL8T Tennant Creek and 2485 VL8K Katherine (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Re 7-138, CRI via Cuba 9570 QRM to RA 9580, 9590 --- We've been down the path with CRI - no joy at all. Need a big failure at the Cuba transmitter end, I reckon :( (Nigel Holmes, R. Australia, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) With the signal being so strong here, it`s sort of half understandable that 9580 *may* get some interference but I really get ticked when their transmitter is 20 kHz away and make a mess of 9590 too. I hope you can find a way to get through to someone. Nice neighbours! It would be great if 9580 could stay on the air one more hour to 1500 UT in the clear of CRI. 9580 is always a little bit stronger here in Peterborough, Ont. (Andy Reid, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, 1415-1600* 17-11, Bangladesh Betar, Khabirpur, Bengali/English. Back on the air after one day closed during severe cyclone! Bengali talks and songs, 1530 news in English about the cyclone, strongest around 1415! QRM Qinghai PBS (QSA 3), 43433, deteriorating to 23232 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dhaka 4750 kHz is off the air again since the evening of 18th November 2007. It had resumed transmission after the cyclone. Khulna (558 kHz) and Barisal (1287) were the two other stations directly in the line of the cyclone. Khulna is now loud and clear but I have not been able to check on Barisal. Here is my monitoring of the Bangladesh Betar MW frequencies from Kolkata with ICOM R75 and 25 m Long wire 18th November 2007 evening (1700-1710 UT) and on 19th November morning (0100-0110 UT) 558 kHz Khulna 630 kHz Dhaka 693 kHz Dhaka 1080 kHz Rajsahi 1053 kHz Rangpur 873 kHz Chittagong 19th November 2007 morning (0100-0110 UT) 963 kHz Sylhet 846 kHz Bogra 19th November 2007 evening (1400 UT) 999 kHz Thakurgaon (Supratik Sanatani, athena_eye @ vsnl.com Kolkata, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. Updated B-07 of TDP stations: TDP Radio in DRM: 0000-0100 on 9790 SAC 070 kW / 227 deg to NoAm Daily 0800-0900 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Mon 0900-1000 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Tue 1000-1100 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Wed 1100-1200 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Thu 1200-1300 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Fri 1300-1400 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sat 1400-1500 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sun 1500-1600 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Daily Moj Them Radio in Hmong: 0100-0130 on 15260 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to Asia Mon/Wed/Fri Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish: 0500-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Daily 1500-2100 on 7540 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Daily Que Huong Radio in Vietnamese: 1200-1300 on 15680 DB 100 kW / 117 deg to Asia Mon-Sat Tensae Ethiopia Voice of Unity in Amharic: 1500-1600 on 11900 ARM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Daily Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church/Holy Synod Radio in Amharic: 1600-1700 on 9445 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Mon Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia in Somali: 1600-1700 on 9445 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Sat Andenet Le Democracy in Anharic: 1600-1700 on 9445 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Wed/Fri/Sun Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front (EPPF) in Amharic: 1600-1700 on 9445 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Thu [wasn`t this one canceled? --- gh] Voice of Delina in Tigrigna: [really on despite WHRA at 1800?] 1700-1730 on 7335 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Mon-Fri Radio Democracy Shorayee in Persian 1700-1800 on 7470 RUS or TDF transmitter to WeAs Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun Suab Xaa Moo Zoo in Hmong 2330-2400 on 11655 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to Asia Daily (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL - Melhorou muito a recepção da Rádio Novo Tempo, de Campo Grande (MS), na freqüência de 4895 kHz. Ao que parece, a emissora andou revitalizando seu parque transmissor. Em 15 de novembro, foi captada, pelo colunista, em Porto Alegre (RS), às 0307, quando irradiava prédica sobre o batismo (Célio Romais, Panoarma, @tividade DX Nov 18 via DXLD) 4894.9, Radio Novo Tempo, 0131-0218 Nov 13, 2007. Portuguese talks with ID and some religious in nature. Program of religious vocals until 0200 when nice formal ID was noted. A man began preaching. Poor to fair (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) 4895v, R. Novo Tempo, 0224, 11/13/07. Poor with Portuguese talk; two clear Campo Grande IDs at 0246 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, ibid.) 4894.9, Radio Novo Tempo (tentative), 0323, 11/13/07, in Portuguese. Talk by man, Brazilian pop: 0303 recheck; woman (probably intro), man with long talk, then the woman's turn. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R-75, Eton E1, Sat 800, Sangean 909; 110' random wire, Eavesdropper, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL - A Rádio Transmundial, de Santa Maria (RS), foi captada, em Porto Alegre (RS), pelo colunista, em 15 de novembro, às 0326, pela freqüência de 5965 kHz. Ia ao ar o programa Mulheres de Esperança. A emissora transmite, em tal canal, entre 0300 e 1000. Sofria, naquele momento, interferência da REE (Célio Romais, Panoarma, @tividade DX Nov 18 via DXLD) ! So 3-way clash tho all we hear here after 0400 are Cariari and Santa Maria di Galeria (gh, OK, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6160, CKZU (Vancouver, BC) (Tentative), 2205­2259 11/16/07, in English. CBC's "News at Six", program ads, "As it Happens", fading down after 2255, obliterated by RNW IS on 6165 which started at 2259. Fair. Generic CBC programming, so CKZN (St. John`s, NF) is somewhat possible. It seem less likely it was CKZN since the propagation path was about right for the West Coast of Canada, but not the Maritimes via DX Toolbox prediction (Taylor-WI) 6160, CKZN (St. John`s, NF) (Presumed), 1150­1210, 11/17/07, in English. OM interviewing YL about living in isolated communities (esp. children), 1155 program promos, 1200 "This is CBC Radio 1", news (mostly Canadian). There is a slight possibly this was CKZU (Vancouver, BC), but DX Toolbox was indicating propagation forecast from the Maritimes was fairly robust, but not at all from the West of Canada. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R-75, Eton E1, Sat 800, Sangean 909; 110' random wire, Eavesdropper, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) If that`s what DX Toolbox says, I would not rely on it. The 2205 log is certainly CKZN, not CKZU, which would not have World At Six and AIH until 0200+ UT, and as a rule, at that hour halfway between them, the eastern station on full darkness path would have the advantage over the western station (tho this time of year that is less certain). Likewise at 1200 UT, the western station would have the propagational advantage, tho none of the programming cited then can be tied to a timezone (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CKOV 630 [Kelowna BC] is now gone --- Hi everyone, I just got an e mail from Dan Sys in BC and he reports CKOV 630 is now gone to FM, as on Saturday 11/17. I just checked and no sign of it, and I normally hear it. Also the LPRT at Squamish BC, CBRU 1270 is likely gone. I have not heard it for the past several nights. They were // CBU and get out quite decent for 200w at night, but they also had the CP for FM. 73, (Patrick Martin, OR, Nov 18, NRC-AM et al., via DXLD) I was going through my QSLs of BC stations tonight and nearly 1/2 of the stations are now gone to FM. Since it only has been one every once in while, I never really kept track. A few like Fort McMurray and Kitimat, both on 1230; I never logged due to a local. Some that are gone include, the latest CKOV-630, CBRU-1270, also going back, CKPG- 550, CJCI-620, both Prince George, CFNL 590 Fort Nelson, CKNL Fort St. John, 570 Cranbrook, CJAT 610 Trail, CKQR 760 Castlegar, 850 CFVR Abbottsford, CJVI-900 Victoria, CKAL-1050-Kelowna, 1200/1220-CKDA Victoria, CHWK 1270 Chilliwack, CKEG-1350 Nanaimo, CKPQ Parksville, CHUB-1570 Nanaimo, and on and on. I had no idea how many were gone (Pat Martin, OR, IRCA via DXLD) Hey Pat, have you checked this site out. http://www.geocities.com/xkit/canam.htm It lists many of the Canadian stations that have moved to FM starting back in '76. Not entirely accurate, but it really surprised me when I went thru it (Mike in St Isidore, AB Stonebridge, ibid.) Pat, Bill in Vic BC, I don't know for sure about the rest of them but AM 900 CKMO is alive and well with a 10 kW heartbeat so you might try to snag that one when it gets dark. I think the hardware is still owned by Rogers but the programs originate at the campus of Camosun College here in Victoria. You'll hear educational discussions or international music from around the world (Bill Kral, BC, IRCA via DXLD) Here, I don't have to wait until dark. 900 Victoria is heard good 24/7, as well as CFAX, CKBD, CISL, CBU, etc. I am only 160 air miles South of Victoria and 200 from the Lower Mainland (Vancouver). I have most of the BC and AB stations. Only a few are missing (ex the LPRTs), mainly a few GYers in Eastern BC and AB. I have been an avid Canadian DXer for many years. 73, (Patrick Martin, ibid.) ** CANADA. For at least the past week CFBN-1280, the former Pearson airport TIS CFYZ that re-launched as all-business news CFBN ("Biz 1280" "the sound of money"), noted silent. They've been broadcasting that classic format of open carrier. CFBN's website is still operational http://www.cfbnnews.com/ so I don't think the GTAA (Greater Toronto Airports Authority) pulled the plug on the station. 73 (Mike Brooker, Toronto, ON, Nov 19, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Marfil Estéreo, Puerto Lleras, 0403, 11/18. LA vocal groups. Fair. PWBR now shows this as sister outlet Conciencia (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, NRD 515, NRD 545, eton E-1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) Marfil Estéreo, 5910.0, free of co- or adjacent-channel broadcast QRM at 2350 Nov 19 with nice lively ballads, 2353 timecheck for 6:52, only one sesquiminute off this time, and ID; another ID voice-over music at 2400. There was however, more often than not, some lite pulsing ute QRM on the high side, somewhat evitable. NOT IDing as LV de tu Conciencia on this frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. New 3985, 0240-0400, HRV, 15-11, Glas Hrvatske, Deanovec. Croatian announcement, non-stop pop music, but also English news 0300- 0315 and Spanish news including news about reëlection of Danish Premier Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Ex 3984.8, 55555 // e.g. 1134 MW and via Juelich 7285. There was a spurious signal on 3943.75 (45441) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command, and R. República, were both on 6135 at 2355 check Nov 18, so presumably this starts at 2200; at 2409 recheck they had all moved to 6155 and 6135 was clear for a het to be heard, probably involving the off-frequency Bolivian. Also checked 5955, Nov 18 at 2357 before Sackville 5960 came on, and definitely occupied by DCJC grinding, but with BFO no trace now of a carrier on 5954.1, as previously bringing us R. República from secret site. The RR signal was so weak in the first place, that I expect the DCJC first heard about it from Arnie Coro passing on DX news of it from us or other monitors. Sorry, but such are the drawbacks of a free press. RR wants to broadcast as much as possible but will not publish its own full schedule so people, let alone jammers, may not easily find it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [and non]. From the Radio Prague "Mailbag" --- "Another week has gone by and it's time again to browse through your letters and e-mails. Welcome to Mailbox. First though, we have one technical announcement to make: Radio Prague has added some temporary frequencies to our winter broadcast schedule list. On top of the frequencies announced earlier, in November and December you can also listen to us in central and western parts of North America at 0200 UTC on 5995 kHz. If any listeners catch those broadcasts, we'd really appreciate your reception reports." 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sackville, 268 degrees. Also 0400-0430 on 5990 from same (gh, DXLD) Additional transmission of Radio Prague via VT Communications: 0100-0127 on 11665 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm in Spanish 0200-0227 on 5995 SAC 250 kW / 268 deg to NoAm in English 1100-1127 on 17515 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf in French (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) The R. Prague 02 UT 5995 kHz broadcast is just about useless here due to severe QRM from R. Habana Cuba on 6000. November 20, 2007 *0200 R. Prague broadcast began with News and a report on 18 years since the end of Communism. Unfortunately, around 0213 UT RHC QRM totally wiped out R. Prague. Even without the RHC QRM, R. Prague's signal was only fair to poor. Is this direct from the Czech Republic or via Sackville? 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Prague, 7345, Nov 19 at 2327 giving complete transmission schedule in English, arranged by target area, and followed at 2330 by English, while the 2300-2327 broadcast is scheduled in French. So maybe the language of the 3-minute schedule summary between broadcasts matches the transmission which follows rather than the one which precedes, despite the fact that relays such as WRMI (and WRN?) wind up broadcasting 3 minutes of irrelevant French after 27 minutes of English. Then I checked 6000 at 2330 and found R. Praga in Spanish via Sackville as usual colliding with RHC in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DEUTSCHES REICH [and non]. THAT'S CRAZY! --- We've all heard them on the HF bands. The preachers who are anything but mainstream religion --- more hate and bigotry than love. The shameless hucksters - do adults really buy that useless garbage? The conspiracy theorists from the lunatic fringe. There is a bit of an irresistible urge to listen for a short while, like looking at a car wreck. Do adults really think like that? Let's have some fun here. What was the strangest, craziest, most bizarre thing you've heard? This is NOT to be a free-range attack on religion, or liberal vs. conservative slamming each other. If it's in a church in your neighborhood, or a mainstream political view, don't attack it here, or its adherents on ODXA. Use some sense. I'm talking about the out-in-left-field tin-foil-hat crowd we've heard that's ducking the black helicopters (Dan Malloy, KA1RDZ, Nov 18, ODXA yg via DXLD) Rush Limbaugh (Kevin Redding, AZ, ibid.) A very solemn memorial service for "Lord Haw Haw", heard on a very right wing religious program on WRNO about 25 years ago, which also said some very nice things about the Klan. The "preacher" was so serious that it wasn't funny; it was indeed like watching a very old train wreck replayed. Rush Limbaugh is good for a giggle though ;) I actually enjoy listening to old propaganda, Tokyo Rose, Hanoi Hannah, and such. Parts of history. Kinda miss Radio Tirana's rants about the yankee imperialists and social revisionists as well. Nowadays propaganda is too subtle, with the exception of Fox news ;) (Dan Murray, Brampton, Ontario, ibid.) I used to listen to the conspiracy nuts on a regular basis. In 1994, if my increasingly feeble memory serves me right, I did an entire column in DX Ontario, as it was then known, on the kooks on WWCR, World Wide Conspiracy Radio. At the time I found them harmless, and amusing more than anything. My attitude changed in April 1995, when Tim McVeigh and company blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh or his accomplice, were apparently fans of William Cooper. A number of shows seemed to disappear after that; perhaps contributors took a second look at what they were supporting. William Cooper was always fascinating to listen to. Setting aside some of his ideas, and tinfoil helmet conspiracies, he could be quite interesting, especially when relating his Vietnam War experiences, or talking about his family. Often he would play classic audio clips, commercials etc. Then he would toss in something truly wacky. My favourite tinfoil helmet moment was when he alleged that the US Military, NASA or perhaps both, were going to ignite the planet Jupiter to create a second Sun. The reason escapes me. Perhaps I was picking myself off the floor when he gave the reason. He also believed that life on earth was going to be wiped out when a comet collided with Jupiter a few years back. Presumably we dodged that bullet. Unfortunately for him, Cooper didn't, dying in some sort of shootout with law enforcement. My other favourite moment in conspiracy broadcasting, was the show that railed against foreign investment and such, but didn't see the irony of being sponsored by Swiss-American Trading. It`s funny, and sometimes scary out on the fringe. Was watching a program on History Television tonite called "Dogfights" about aerial battles from the earliest days to the present. This particular episode dealt with Korean War pilots, one of whom was America's first ace of the conflict. He said that he landed safely after a mission in which he shot down a North Korean plane. He tuned into shortwave and heard "Pyongyang Sally" call him by name, congratulate him on his latest victory, then announce they would shoot him down and hang him from the Han River bridge. I had never heard of Pyongyang Sally. Mr Google doesn't seem to have too much on her either. Anyone know any more about her? [tagline:] To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. - Clive Cussler (Fred Waterer, Ont., http://www.doghousecharlie.com ibid.) Check out Fred`s radio page at the above site --- lots of photos, QSLs, memorabilia (gh, DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.07v, R. Amanecer Internacional, Santo Domingo, 0405-0453, Nov 19, religious singing, OM with time checks, several short singing jingles (assume a station jingle), fair-poor, seemed to be running late, past their more regular 0400*. Noted with slightly higher frequency from my last reception (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. R. Cairo, 6290, Nov 18 at 2354 check, found good modulation and strength in Arabic music, but heavy SAH of maybe 15 to 20 Hz! 0000 is the nominal transition time between the ABS and ABZ sites on this frequency, and obviously both transmitters were on and overlapping. Egyptians vs Egyptians! 6290, Nov 20 at 0001 still had two carriers from two Radio Cairo sites colliding with heavy SAH; 0003 only the distorted one was left with Arabic talk and music alternating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7210, Radio Fana, 0347-0402 Nov 12, 2007, man and woman talking in Amharic language with Horn of Africa vocals by a man at 0358. Fair signal and //5970 which was poor until AWR-Moosbrunn opened at 0400 with Arabic program. Next night, Nov 13, 5970 was booming in around 0345 but 7210 was only poor to fair (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. I checked 15660 18 Nov at 1431 and I couldn't detect much interference. Signal quality was mostly fair. WHRA 15665 is not heard in this region. It could be MEY or TRM (DO they have spare transmitters at that time?), considering the signal strength I can get in Hong Kong. [15660 established as Rwanda --- gh] There were rather strong noise interference on 15640-15645 and even stronger 11645-11655, that means CRI on 11650 were affected as well. (Yogesh, Hong Kong, Nov 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DWL Amharic jammed again by ETH today Nov 19. 1400-1457 UT 11645 KIG like bubble, motorboat, pips, and whistle buoy howl jamming. 15640 IRA different crunch, rasp scratches, chirp noise on 15633-15647 kHz. 15660 KIG Jamming Free 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was no trace of WHRI on 15665 today (19th) so maybe that is a weekend transmission only - same as the one on 13650? As Wolfgang wrote earlier - the jamming noise affecting the D.Welle at 1400+ today was something different on both 11645 and 15645. A carrier came onto 15645 before the noise started so maybe that was the jammer, and the noise spread across 15640? My own comment about the sound - written before I saw Wolfgang`s - was a 'pulsing, oscillating, squeaking noise'! 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England), Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re ETHIOPIA jamming VOA Amharic, 7-138: Chris, you appear to describe what I - and I think others - have been hearing of SOME of the jamming signals from ETH. But those affecting D. Welle 15640 and 11645 are of "noise", sounding something like DRM. I could also hear 9320 at sign-on, but only just at very weak strength, at 1800 on the 18th. I stayed with it for about five minutes but didn't hear the jamming described - maybe due to lack of propagation. And 9850 11675 11905 and 13870 were all inaudible, as was any jamming that might have been present. 73 from (Noel R. Green (NW England), Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHRA was gone again from 15665, Monday Nov 19 at 1427, so it must be a Sat/Sun thing only, and no longer QRMing DW`s new Amharic frequency via Rwanda, 15660 --- and there was no jamming audible on it this time either. DW`s other frequency, 15645 via Sri Lanka, did have noise jamming on it and no DW audible at 1447. At first I thought 15660 might have some co-channel audio again, but could not detect any at 1447 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Before the longwave frequency shift in 1978, 164 kHz was the standard allocation and, for a while, Allouis (France Inter) was deliberately offset to 163.840 kHz (163840 Hz can be cleanly divided by one decade and 14 binary divisions to create a 1 Hz reference with great accuracy). So the carrier signal itself served as a high accuracy frequency standard all over France. In addition a phase shift "kick" was applied to the carrier to provide a 1 pps timing pulse, that could only be heard by listening to the carrier in CW mode. It was a one per second "tick" lasting just a few ms. Now with GPS timing all of this is unnecessary but in the 1960's and 1970's it was cool stuff that took advantage of the "happy accident" of being on that 164 channel (Bob Foxworth, Tampa FL, Nov 16, UDXF via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle from Nov. 15: 0800-1000 NF 9885 BON 250 kW / 230 deg to AUS/NZ in German, ex 9785 1330-1430 NF 13855 MOS 100 kW / 095 deg to WAs in Dari/Pashto, ex 15620 WOF 1330-1500 NF 9380 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to WAs in Dari/Pashto/Pashto, addit 1400-1500 NF 15660 KIG 250 kW / non-dir to EAf in Amharic, additional 1400-1500 NF 17790 SIN 090 kW / 095 deg to EAf in DRM mode, additional (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ALEMANHA - A programação em inglês da DW realiza mais um concurso entre seus ouvintes, valendo tocadores de MP3 e receptor de ondas curtas. A questão é a seguinte: em 1998, foi instituída a Corte Permanente de Juízes de Direitos Humanos na Europa. Onde ela está situada? Estrasburgo, Haia ou Bruxelas? As respostas devem ser enviadas para: DW, English Service, 53110, Bonn, Alemanha. E-mail: newslink @ dwworld.de A dica é do monitor da emissora, Leônidas dos Santos Nascimento, de São João Evangelista (MG). (Célio Romais, Panoarma, @tividade DX Nov 18 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Some DTK T-Systems Media Broadcasts changes: Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN) from Nov. 9 1600-1700 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Amharic Wed, ex 11780 1630-1700 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Amharic Thu-Tue, ex 11780 1700-1730 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Tigrinya Daily, ex 11780 1730-1800 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Amharic Daily, ex 11780 1800-1900 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Somali Fri/Sun, ex 11780 1800-1830 NF 9730*NAU 100 kW / 142 deg EaAf Somali Sat, ex 11780 * co-channel Voice of Vietnam to WEu in English/ Russian/ Vietnamese/ German/ French (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) See also SOUTH CAROLINA; SRI LANKA [nons] ** GUATEMALA. 4052.5, Radio Verdad (Chiquimula) (Probable), 0343, 11/13/07, in Spanish. Ballad with male announcer. Good. Also 130­0205, 11/17/07. Hymns on an organ, including ``Oh come all ye faithful``, and John McCutchon's version of "Jingle Bells" on a hammered duclimer, banjo, and fiddle (this is the first Christmas music of the season for me). I never expected to hear a US folk version of a seasonal snow song from Guatemala! One can never know what will be on shortwave. Armchair copy (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R-75, Eton E1, Sat 800, Sangean 909; 110' random wire, Eavesdropper, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4800, All India Radio ­ Hyderabad, 0057-0132 Nov 12, 2007, nice selection of Hindi vocals with sitar and flute music hosted by a woman announcer. Talk program with a woman announcer interviewing a man at 0101. Program continued until time pips at 0130 followed by ID and news. Poor to fair with moderate QRM from CODAR (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) Among several other AIR 60 m logs ** INDIA [non]. INDIA`S SECULAR CREDENTIALS WON`T BE DENTED BY PAKISTAN RADIO PROPAGANDA: BITTA November 19th, 2007 - 4:21 pm ICT by admin http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/india-s-secular-credentials-wont-be-dented-by-pakistan-radio-propaganda-bitta_1005716.html New Delhi, Nov. 19 (ANI): Former Youth Congress president and Chairman of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF), Maninder Singh Bitta, has said that Pakistan would do well to set its own house in order, rather than using its propagandist machinery to cast aspersions on happenings in India. In an interview to ANI, Bitta said that the anti-India propaganda being broadcast by Pakistan Radio through its Punjabi Durbar programme, was a direct interference in India`s internal affairs, which should be stopped forthwith. Such programmes would not affect India`s secular credentials or its international image, he added. Pakistan should first tackle its own matters. There is no need of interfering in our internal matters. If there is any problem in our country, our government will sort them out, Bitta said. When asked whether Pakistan is indulging in a double face act vis-à- vis India, Bitta said there were key elements in Pakistani society that were spearheading a campaign to destabilise India, and this was not a new phenomenon, but something that was happening for decades. Pakistan has always raised the issue of Kashmir in wrong manner. They tried to reactivate Khalistan in Punjab (1980s). Pakistan is responsible for the killings of thousands of innocent civilians and security forces in India. They are responsible for the killing of Indira Gandhi (1984) and Sardar Beant Singh (1995). The ISI has always tried to create problems and controversies in our border states (Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Kashmir). It is responsible for promoting the concept of Khalistan, not the people of Punjab. Bitta also accused the Pakistanis of trying to spread an atmosphere of divisiveness in Indian society, notably among the rural folk who were more than keen to meet up with their brethren across the border, but were often dissuaded and discouraged by wanton acts of terror and violence. Hindu and Sikh communities in India have very cordial relations. Pakistan always tries to divide these two communities through its terror tactics. But the brotherhood between Hindu and Sikh people has always strengthened. Hindus, Sikhs and Punjabis are one. All these controversies are the planned tactics of Pakistan through their terrorists like Paramjeet Singh and Wadhawa Singh Babber. But they have failed in their ill motives, Bitta claimed. Responding to the charge that there is no value for democracy in India, Bitta said: There is no better democracy anywhere in the world than in India. Pakistan is not having any democracy. Dictators like Mushraff rule that state. In India, there was an emergency (1975), but for very short span of time and due to some specific conditions. You have seen the fates of Ayub Khan (1969) and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (1978- 79). In India, people have the right to raise their voices against the government unlike in Pakistan. We are a great democratic nation. When asked whether Pakistan can do anything to disturb India during its emergency, the AIATF leader replied in the affirmative. Yes! Pakistan has already started creating trouble in Jammu and Kashmir. In Punjab, they had triggered blast at the in Srinagar Cinema. To divert the mind of Pakistani people from the upcoming elections in January, Mushraff can do anything, he said. He further said that India would do well to be cautious about its security, and urged the country`s intelligence agencies to divert their attention from spying on opposition leaders. He ruled out Pakistan Radio propaganda having any impact on India. No, there would not be any effect of that propaganda. All the people of India, whether it's Hindu or Muslim or Sikh, each and everyone is ready to face Pakistan's tactics to avoid creating a division among them, he said. (ANI) (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Nov 19, DXLD) ** INDIA. ALL INDIA RADIO TRANSMISSION CENTRE ATTACKED IN MANIPUR 19 Nov 2007, 1702 hrs IST, PTI http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/All_India_Radio_transmission_centre_attacked_in_Manipur/articleshow/2553276.cms IMPHAL: Suspected militants attacked an All India Radio transmission centre in Manipur and exchanged fire with CRPF* personnel guarding the facility but there was no casualty, officials said on Monday. The militants lobbed a 'lethod bomb' and fired at the CRPF personnel at interior Mayang Imphal area late Sunday night. The security men also returned the fire. However, no casualty was reported, the officials said. The unexploded bomb was recovered from the site of the security post and was later defused by experts. In another incident, militants fired at a convoy of Assam Rifles personnel on Sunday at Ishika Pat under Lamlai police station in Imphal East district. The AR men also retaliated, but there was no casualty. * Central Reserve Police Force (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) Same?: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2553276,prtpage-1.cms (via Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 4750, (Sulawesi). RRI ­ Makassar, 2125-2204 Nov 12, 2007. some music but mainly talks by a man and a woman. Middle Eastern sounding vocals at 2156 until presumed Jakarta news at 2200 read by a man. Very poor at tune in but building nicely but getting muddy by top of the hour. Noted again on Nov 13 around 1155 with music prior to Jakarta news at 1200 with fair signal (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500- foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) Always fun to hear 60m Indos in NAm afternoon (gh, DXLD) ** IRAN [and non]. Hi, When searching for VOIRI English programme, aiming to listen to an interview with yours truly in the Mailbag program, I didn't find them on the scheduled 6265 kHz via Sitkunai, but on 6225 kHz via unknown transmitter (maybe Sitkunai as well?). Not too good reception, so I changed to their own scheduled frequencies from Iran, i e 6010 kHz. I believe that they are transmitting all the package, French, German and English (19.30-20.27) on 6225 kHz, but I haven't been able to check it yet! 73 from (Björn Fransson, DX-ing on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea of Sweden, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Björn, see http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/ and click to red coloured line NEW SHORTWAVE SCHEDULE B07 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Download / click The current B07 shortwave schedule text/zip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< IRAN/LITHUANIA Sitkunai puzzles me too, yes -- I've to check it soon. 1530-1728 on 5815 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEu Radio Racja in Belarussian (not 6225) Here are the Sitkunai LTU transmissions: 7325 2200-2400 4,8,9 SIT 100 310 LTU LRT 2300 Lit, 2330 En 7325 0100-0300 4,8,9 SIT 100 310 LTU LRT 0100 Lit, 0130 En 9710 0800-1500 27,28 SIT 100 259 LTU LRT 0800 Lit, 0830 En also IRIB Tehran relay via Sitkunai txion center 0630-0728 UT 7545 Italian. 6225 noted IRIB Tehran in Spanish at 2030-2128 UT, via Sitkunai-LTU. Other IRIB relays, Italian at 0630-0728 UT on 7545 kHz; Russian at 1430-1528 UT on 6225 (x6250). 6265 (x6255) German 1730, French 1830, English 1930-2028 UT. R Raja [Racja] Belarussian 1530-1730 UT 5815 (x6225) kHz <<<<< !!!! IRIB Russian 1430 UT 6225 Sitkunai-LTU, 7165/7165.08 QRM, 9735 English 1930 UT 6265 Sitkunai-LTU, 6010, 9855. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxld yg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just a note : 6265 isn't a new frequency for the French transmission It is heard since October 28 (although 6250 - not 6255 - was announced) (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) See also LITHUANIA ** KOREA NORTH. KCBS, 9665, mostly-noise transmitter audible here not only mornings but evenings, such as 2315 UT Nov 19; bits of audio mixed in. I can`t imagine why the Korcoms keep this piece of garbage on the air 22 hours a day. Does not even serve a jamming purpose as nothing else in Korean on 9665 or neighbors, per Aoki/NDXC. China does use 9665 several hours in external and domestic services (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. 6335, IRAQ. Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, 0418-0502 Nov 13, 2007. noted with lively Kurdish music and vocals. Kurdish talk by woman announcer. Program of short music segments and talks. At 0439 some nice vocal selections mixed with longer talks. Music fanfare and ID at 0500 followed by another man with news. Fair with RTTY QRM requiring LSB (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. USA, updated winter B-07 for IBB via KWT 250 kW / 070 deg: 0030-0100 VOA Special English 7405 0030-0230 ASH Pashto/Dari 9335 0100-0300 RFA Tibetan 7470 0230-0430 AFG Pashto/Dari 9335 12140 0300-0400 RFE Kazakh 9680 0300-0400 RFE Uzbek 12015 0430-0530 AFG Pashto 12140 17530 19010 0530-0600 AFG Dari 12140 17530 19010 0600-0700 AFG Dari/Pashto 12140 19010 0600-0700 RFA Tibetan 17715 0700-0730 AFG Pashto 12140 17530 19010 0730-1030 AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari 12140 17530 19010 0830-1400 FAR Persian 5860 1030-1130 AFG Pashto 12140 19010 1100-1400 RFA Tibetan 11590 1130-1330 AFG Dari/Pashto 9335 12140 1330-1430 AFG Dari 9335 1400-1500 VOA Tibetan 7255 1430-1500 VOA Burmese 12120 1430-1530 ASH Pashto/Dari 9335 1430-1500 ASH Pashto 11840 1500-1600 RFA Tibetan 7470 11500 1530-1730 ASH Pashto/Dari 9335 1600-1800 RFE Turkmen 5820 1730-1830 ASH Pashto/Dari 9335 1800-2030 ASH Dari/Pashto/Dari 7595 1830-2030 ASH Pashto/Dari 5750 2030-2130 VOA English 7595 2100-2200 RFE Russian 7425 2130-0030 VOA English 7405 2300-2400 RFA Tibetan 7550 AFG=Radio Free Afghanistan ASH=Radio Ashna FAR=Radio Farda RFA=Radio Free Asia RFE=Radio Liberty VOA=Voice of America (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio (presumed), 1115-1133, 1154-1210 18 Nov. Tnx Ron Howard's tip found this clear with SEAs music (lots of plucked-string instrumentals) and M/W in (presumed) Lao, recheck at 1154 had phone interview/listener yak, bell/synthesizer at 1159 and bell rung slowly 7x, announcement and anthem, into news (items on Bangladesh & Pakistan) possible commentary on news at 1205 with several "pathet/ pathat Lao" mentions. Tried to // Xam Neua-4677.8 (DBS listed as // 6130 at 1200-1230 with LNR news) but couldn't pull enuf audio to be positive (Dan Sheedy, CA, R75/PAR EF102040, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. ELWA is testing its new ELCOR 5 kW shortwave on 4760. Last week they were on Monday to Saturday from 1600 to 2130, times varied on different days. Now off for technical work, but should be back on later this week; also probable are tests on 6070. Morning hours may follow soon. Presently testing at 2 kW with higher power possible later. Reports appreciated. 73 and God Bless. (John Stanley, (Here at ELWA for the moment doing installation and tests), Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, John; please keep us informed. John is or was with HCJB for many years (gh, DXLD) New 4760.05, 1900-2300* 15-11, ELWA, Monrovia reactivated! English. Continuous African hymns, 34343 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. Re UNIDENTIFIED 5815, q.v. --- Thanks Eike, surprise, surprise, -- should read now: Here are the Sitkunai LTU transmissions: 7325 2200-2400 4,8,9 SIT 100 310 LTU LRT 2300 Lit, 2330 En 7325 0100-0300 4,8,9 SIT 100 310 LTU LRT 0100 Lit, 0130 En 9710 0800-1500 27,28 SIT 100 259 LTU LRT 0800 Lit, 0830 En also IRIB Tehran relay via Sitkunai txion center 0630-0728 7545 Italian 6225 noted seemingly IRIB Tehran in Spanish at 2030-2128 UT, via Sitkunai Lithuania? Other IRIB relays, Italian at 0630-0728 UT on 7545 kHz; Russian at 1430-1528 UT on 6250. 6265 (x6255) Ge 1730, Fr 1830, En 1920-2028 UT. R Raja [Racja] Belarussian 1530-1730 UT 5815 (x6225) kHz <<<<<<<<< !!!! 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re IRAN [non]. Sorry, Sitkunai made a lot of changes in past 3 weeks. IRIB Sitkunai French service heard tonight Nov 19th on 6265 kHz after the German service. according the following table: LITHUANIA/IRAN Hopefully this is the actual Sitkunai schedule. 7325 0100-0200 SIT 100 310 R Vilnius Lit/En 7545 0630-0728 SIT 100 259 IRIB Italian \\ 13620 15085 9555 0600-1600 SIT 100 079 registered entry, but never used 9710 0800-0900 SIT 100 259 R Vilnius Lit/En 9710 0900-1500 SIT 100 259 registered entry, but never used 12060 0900-1200 SIT 100 259 registered entry, but never used 6225 1430-1528 SIT 100 079 IRIB Russian \\ 7165 9735 5815 1530-1728 SIT 100 079 Radio Racja in Belarussian 6265 1730-1928 SIT 100 259 IRIB German / French 6225 1930-2028 SIT 100 310 IRIB English \\ 6010 7320 6225 2030-2128 SIT 100 259 IRIB Spanish \\ 7130 7350 7325 2300-2400 SIT 100 310 R Vilnius Lit/En (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. Re 7-138: Ciao Glenn, about "broken French" from Luxembourg, it was DRM, digital not analog. DRM is pretty stupid: all or nothing! So as you get some fading you lose all audio at once. The log, if I remember well, was about DRM receptions only. Have a nice week (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 4810.1, Radio Transcontinental de América ­ XERTA, 0435- 0502, Nov 12, 2007, usable audio from a woman announcer with Spanish talk, ID and introducing music features. Weak signal only audible in LSB with growling hash on channel and CODAR QRM to contend with. Awful reception (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) First report I`ve seen of this reactivated after 2 or 3 months off to replace antenna, move site again? But any reception in the week following? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) see also REVILLAGIGEDO ** MEXICO [and non]. Nice feature on On The Media, November 16, 2007 The X Factor --- For over 50 years, outlaw American radio broadcasters exploited a legal loophole and aired powerful pirate radio from the Mexican side of the border. So called `border blasters' - or `X stations' - were true innovators whose influence continues to be felt today. OTM's Jamie York tells the story. http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2007/11/16/segments/89005 (via dxldyg via DXLD) ** MIDWAY ISLAND. KH4, MIDWAY ISLAND. Pete Leary, KC0END, who has a Tech-Plus license and is on the island with no equipment, states, "...plans in the works to get a ham group out here next summer or fall if it gets approved." However, Pete also mentions, "....since this is a national monument and wildlife refuge, a compatibility study has to be done to determine the effect on birds (they'll fly into the antennas)." For the complete story, visit the "DX World of Ham Radio" Web page at: http://hamspirit.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/kh4-midway-island-summerautumn-2008-possibility/ (KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80 Nov 19 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 7260 — Mongolian Radio, 2nd program, 0842, comments in Russian by female voice about corruption in various Mongolian political parties, month of Mongolian-Russian friendship, performance of Russian/Soviet songs on Mongolian stages, etc. 34433. At 0855 returned to the frequency, but Russian announcer has already passed the mike to Mongolian speaker. Audio recording 1 (527 kB, in Russian) http://www.dxsignal.ru/audio/Kad07/Kad07_MongolianR_7260_0842UTC.wav Audio recording 2 (178 kB, time signal and IDs in Mongolian at 0900) http://www.dxsignal.ru/audio/Kad07/Kad07_MongolianR_7260_0900UTC.wav (Dmitri Mezin, Mini DX Pedition to Kadyshevo, Tatarstan: http://www.dxsignal.ru/read/kad_2007e.htm 5 November 2007 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice Of Nigeria (VON), 1815-1830 Nov 14 2007. Deep fades, audio always sounds like one ear resting on an outboard motor, but clear ID, English news/commentary. Poor, but for VON this time and frequency, that's an improvement here. Still going after 1830. Sat 800 with AOR LA380. Also: 1815-1845, 11/15/07. Usual QRM/QRN but good audibility today. News / features, surprise du jour was a PSA by Bill Clinton about HIV testing and treatment at 1843 followed by "Voice of Nigeria, Lagos" ID at 1844. SSB-USB needed to get above the noise and the competition on either side of the frequency. Fair/Good (Bill Tilford, Chicago, IL, Sat 800 with AOR380 active antenna, S350 with whip, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 6089.81, R. Nigeria (presumed), 0558-0627, Nov 19, in assume Hausa, high-life music and songs, news, series of ads, into program of indigenous music and chanting/singing, fair-poor. Dan Sheedy and I both observed the muddy audio and noted a buzz on the signal (perhaps from their transmitter?). Nice to have this in the clear for a change (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Ref 7-137, API-3 Transmitter Radio Pakistan Islamabad Hi Glenn, November 16, 2007. Today Radio Pakistan Islamabad Transmitter API-3 was again heard at 7445 kHz for the Radio Pakistan Hindi Service from 1100 to 1145 UT. Same day API-4 was heard at 4835 for the R. Pak News and Current Affairs Channel from 1300 to 1800 UT. We may understand that using API-4 for the External services w.e.f. 28-10-2007 was a temporary arrangement or some technical error. Noel may also note that API-3 is back for its scheduled job for the external services with its awful howl and worthless audio (Aslam Javaid, Lahore, Pakistan, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA ** PERU. 5014.3, R. Altura, Cerro de Pasco, 1038-1054 18 Nov. Nice OA vocals, promo for event on 25 Nov. in Cerro de Pasco, with coverage "en Radio Altura, Cerro de Pasco..", into program "Lucha Musical(?)" with OA- style trip-hop [spoken/sung words, flutes/guitar back], repeat of event promo and "productos agricolas en Cerro de Pasco" (produce report?), list of local events. Recheck at 1102 had religious program sounding like R. Vision's style of evangelism (Dan Sheedy, CA, R75/PAR EF102040, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** REVILLAGIGEDO. 6E, REVILLAGIGEDO (Update). As this bulletin was being written, OPDX was informed by Tony, XE1GRR, Pilot Station for 6E4LM DXpedition, that on November 17th at 0200z, the team was leaving the port of Manzanillo, on board the ship "Manzanillo" and was heading towards Clarion Island (IOTA NA-115). From Tony's press release, the team expects to arrive on Tuesday, November 20th at 1400z and expects to start passing out 6E4LM QSOs around 1500-1600z. They will remain on Clarion Island approximately 24 hours. While operating, the ship will continue on to Socorro Island to drop off food and fuel before returning to Clarion on Wednesday, November 21st. They will leave Clarion Island around 1400z and expect to arrive on Socorro Island on Thursday, November 22nd (approx. at 1400-1500z). The team will remain on Socorro Island for approx. 30 days, airing the callsigns 6E4LM, XF4YK and XF4YW. To read unedited updates and news, visit the DXpeditions Web page at: http://www.6e4lm.xedx.org (KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80 Nov 19 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Frequency change of Radio Romania International in Romanian to NAm: 0100-0257 NF 5910 TIG 250 kW / 307 deg, ex 6040 to avoid Vatican Radio \\ 9640 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) Just like my previous log 2+ hours earlier on 6115, RRI, Nov 18 at 2356 closing English with e-mail address, IS, accompanied by its own roaringly defective transmitter. I assume this will go away in a few months once RRI gets all its new transmitters installed and operational, so enjoy it while you can (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also KOREA NORTH ** SEYCHELLES [non]. Frequency changes for FEBA Radio: 0200-0300 NF 9885 NVS 250 kW / 195 deg to SoAs, ex 9875 in Urdu 1200-1230 NF 15180 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs, ex 15205 in Tibetan (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. R. Slovakia International, November 18, 2007 *1930-1957* 7345 "Sunday Newsreel" and "Mailbag". SIO 353. November 19, 2007 *0100-0127* 7230 with same, as far as I could tell, programming as 1930 UT broadcast. SIO 131. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) An example of Europeans doing better winters in North America on their `afternoon` Euro service than on their evening `NAm` service once the MUF has fallen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA. SOMALI MAYOR ORDERS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP TO SHUT DOWN The Associated Press Monday, November 19, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8389208 MOGADISHU, Somalia: The mayor of Somalia's capital has ordered the country's oldest human rights group to shut down, the group's chairman said Monday. Sudan Ali Ahmed said his group was accused of spreading "exaggerated and false information" about the country's fragile government. Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Dheere ordered Elman Human Rights, an independent Somali group, to close its offices on Oct. 8, Ahmed said, adding he had waited more than a month to go public as he tried and failed to reach senior government officials. The Associated Press obtained a copy of a letter from Dheere in which he orders Elman officials "to stop your ongoing business ... for security reasons." Dheere could not immediately be reached for comment as his cell phone want unanswered. Others government officials were also not immediately available for comment. "I'm a wanted person," Ahmed said by phone from an undisclosed location in Mogadishu. "Government soldiers are searching for me everywhere. I stay in different places in the capital. The world should stand up and intervene to save Somali people from their own government that abuses the basic rights of its citizens." Elman Human Rights has 116 staffers who work across the country. The group has tracked the killings of civilians during Mogadishu's near daily violence this year and has also reported on violations in recent years. Several human rights groups have accused the government, insurgents and Ethiopian troops of committing abuses. Ethiopia came to the aid of Somalia's fragile government in December to rout an Islamic group called the Council of Islamic Courts. The Islamic group's fighters then threatened an Iraq-style insurgency, and thousands of Mogadishu residents have been killed this year in the capital's near daily round of gunbattles, grenade and mortar attacks. In a separate development, the four local radio stations left broadcasting in Mogadishu said on Monday that they would go off the air for 24 hours in solidarity with other radio stations closed by the government, to "pressure the government to allow them back on air," they said in a statement. The broadcasters are Voice of the Democracy, Voice of the Quran, Somaliweyn and HornAfrik. Last week, the government shut three private radio stations for allegedly airing inflammatory broadcasts and ordered all media houses in the country to seek registration or face closure. Somalia has not had a functioning government since a group of warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, then turned their heavily armed supporters on each other. __ Associated Press writer Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu contributed to this report. MOGADISHU BROADCASTERS GO SILENT TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-19-voa27.cfm 19 November 2007 Broadcasters in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have gone off the air for 24 hours to protest a government crackdown on independent media. The four local radio stations still operating went silent Monday. Their directors say they want to show solidarity with three other stations the government shut down last week. Authorities have accused Radio Simba, Radio Banadir and Radio Shabelle of making inflammatory and anti-government broadcasts. The government has also ordered all Somali media houses to register with the government or face closure. Media advocacy groups like Reporters Without Borders have strongly criticized the moves, saying the government is trying to censor unwelcome news. The closed stations have reported regularly on the violence in Mogadishu between insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing the Somali interim government. The fighting over the past 11 months has killed thousands, and prompted hundreds of thousands more to flee the Somali capital. SOMALIA: MOGADISHU RADIO STATIONS BEGIN OFF-AIR STRIKE Mon. November 19, 2007 01:09 pm.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah http://somalinet.com/news/world/Somalia/13710 (SomaliNet) The independent privately owned radio FM stations operating in the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Monday announced to stop broadcasting for 24 hours in protest of the media purge after three of the main broadcasters were shut down by the transitional government. The off air strike started on later today at about 3:00 pm local time, according to the mangers of the FM stations who had meeting in Radio Banadir headquarter north of Mogadishu. The media officials said they had media the decision after the government troops shut down Shabelle, Simba and Banadir radio stations for their journalist work. The move came as the government officials in Banadir province demanded the off air radios to make apologize for their wrong doings against the national security as the government claimed. More than ten FM broadcasters operate in Mogadishu, the most volatile city in Somalia as the most popular stations seen by the current government as giving propaganda to the insurgent groups (all via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Stair/The Overcomer Ministries (TOM) from Nov. 8 via DTK 2000-2200 on 6170 NAU 125 kW / 275 deg to WeEu in English, cancelled (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** SPAIN. We had Radio Waves, the not-really-DX program on REE, on the schedule as UT Wed 0024v on 6055, but Wolfgang Büschel found an English program schedule as of last March which showed it Monday on Eu/Af service, so repeated UT Tue to NAm. Checking it out UT Tue Nov 20, interminable sillyballgame report was airing instead, but RW finally started at 0032, and yes, they are still just playing music, loosely related to radio. This time: Popa Chubby, blues singer who had just appeared in Madrid on European tour, with ``Real Thing``, which the host said was more anti-TV than pro-radio. After some searching, I found a Youtube version from Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPpSRB__sl8 Doesn`t do anything for me, but there you are. Assume this is a repeat of the Saturday/UT Sunday show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. IBC Tamil Radio from Nov. 22 via DTK: 0000-0100 NF 6045 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to SoAs in Tamil, ex 6175 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie, 0235-0305, Nov 12, 2007, man announcer with mainly Dutch but some English talk hosting pop music program with one song from an "American Idol". ID at 0300 during top of the hour talk segment before returning to music program. Poor to fair (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7245 — Channel Ovozi Tojik (Tajikistan), 0847, national pop music, 45444. Checked again and found news in English in progress at 0903, but SINPO deteriorated to 43433 because of interference from China Business Radio that appears here at 0900. Audio recording (160 kB, at 0904) http://www.dxsignal.ru/audio/Kad07/Kad07_OvoziTojik_7245_0904UTC.wav (Dmitri Mezin, Mini DX Pedition to Kadyshevo, Tatarstan: http://www.dxsignal.ru/read/kad_2007e.htm 5 November 2007 via DXLD) ** TURKEY [and non]. V. of Turkey, English to NAm on 5960 is not working too well; Nov 19 at 2345 Turkish music badly squeezed between the Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command, grinding on 5955 against non- detectable R. República from secret site --- have they moved? And RHC Creole on 5965 with some splatter. I get better reception on the 1330 to Eu on 12035; 0400 to NAm on 6020 also no good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, Radio Uganda, 2105-2145* Nov 12, 2007. nice tribal group male vocals in English with drums. Man announcer hosting program with talks in local language. Running past nominal 2100 closedown but pulled plug suddenly at 2145. Fair to good with some CODAR QRM (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX- 340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) ** U K [non]. WORLD SERVICE 24 HOURS ON AM TO SALT LAKE CITY -- NO DIGITAL RADIO REQUIRED. "KCPW is bringing round the clock news from BBC World Service to Salt Lake City. We're turning our 1010 AM signal to 24-hour news and information from the BBC. You don't even need to buy a new radio to hear this expansion of news and information from KCPW. Help us raise the $33,000 in start-up costs for this new service, and you could win a trip to London to tour the BBC studios." KCPW, 18 November 2007. http://www.kcpw.org/index (via kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) If my information is up to date, the station has 50,000 watts during the day, but only 194 watts at night. Posted: 19 Nov 2007 (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) But it has 42,000 watts during ``critical hours``, whatever that mean in this case, per NRC AM Log 2007-2008 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. Where 250-kilowatt transmitters used to tell America's story, dogs will do their business (updated). West Chester Township trustees "moved to advertise a request for qualifications for architects for exterior renovations for the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting [in former VOA Bethany transmitter building]. ... The repairs could cost $1.5 million to $2 million, for which local and state officials are seeking grants." http://www.middletownjournal.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/11/18/HJN111907restoration.html (Middletown Journal, 19 November 2007. Posted: 19 Nov 2007 via kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) U S A [non]. IBB via KUWAIT: q.v. ** U S A. ESTADOS UNIDOS - A redação em língua espanhola da Voz da América já está enviando aos ouvintes o seu tradicional calendário válido para 2008. Os pedidos devem ser feitos à Voz da América, 330 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20237, Estados Unidos. A dica é do Leonardo Santiago, de Mérida, na Venezuela. Também pode ser solicitado pelo endereço eletrônico da apresentadora Mercedes Antezana (Célio Romais, Panoarma, @tividade DX Nov 18 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Re AFN audio cutting out --- I saw a recent logging of AFN on 7811 and I would like to add my observation. I too have noticed and have become annoyed at AFN's audio cutting out to dead silence every so often. However, I have also found that not to be true on parallel transmissions on 5446.5 USB. I found the 7811 audio holds solid on hotter audio feed, with some programs having little to no audio silences. It is as though some sort of audio squelch or input voice (VOX) signal threshold is triggering audio on or off. Also, I found other AFN frequencies also being cut off perhaps from a common audio processing source. I have not tried to see if they all cut in and out at the same time. But, 5446.5 does not follow that pattern and holds steady on every program segment and AFN PSA. Has anyone notified AFN seeking a QSL? I have not (Pete Costello, still in NJ, Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I can no longer say I never hear a US SW station, government or private, playing the Star Spangled Banner. Ran across it on WTJC 9370, Mon Nov 19 at 2320, choral version, and including second verse, ``O Thus Be It E`er``, because that asserts ``In God is our trust`` until 2323 and immediately into some ordinary hymn. Certainly an odd time to be playing the NA, maybe just a fluke and not repeatable, but check again at this time of day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. LOCAL LOW POWER AM STATIONS OFFER GENERALLY NO USEFUL CONTENT --- Posted at 3:07PM on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in am. Wednesday, November 7, 2007. The work hour commute in the Washington, D.C. metro area is typically miserable. Fortunately I don't have to make this trip but once every couple of weeks. Today I amused myself in the endless slow moving metropolitan parking lot by picking out all of the low power AM stations that seem to have popped up suddenly in the past five years or so. It is truly amazing that many of these stations endlessly play out of date, incorrect , useless, or just plain superfluous information; for example: National Weather Service robot-delivery that has the weather report right but the time off by an hour, National Park Service radio advertising events from a month ago, Arlington County/City radio alerting us to traffic disruptions from last month, Maryland State Police telling us "traffic is slow" as if we needed a radio station to tell us that. Useless CIA station in an endless station ID loop. Your taxpayer dollars at work. Here are the logs: Morning drive: Rockville, 1259, 1630. Weather Radio WXM42 162.475 MHz Hagerstown weather being relayed on a local government station. At 1300 (8am local time) the station IDs "The current time is 9am eastern time." Signal good. Langley, 1321, 1700. Arlington County radio with West Nile Virus mosquito control and emergency preparedness tips in English and Spanish. Signal good. Langley, 1326, 1670. National Park service information station, describing events at the FDR Memorial. At 1328, detailing special events and tours from October 2, 19, and 20th. Signal fair. Langley, 1330, 1660. Traffic information. ID "KFC 70." Signal fair. Langley, 1330, 1640. endless ID loop "This is KJI955 transmitting on 1640 kilohertz." A previous report in World of Radio #4035 says this station originates at CIA Headquarters in Langley. Signal fair. Langley, 1333, 1630. Another local station relaying Weather Radio, this one relaying KHB36 on 162.55 MHz. Signal good. Langley, 1334, 1620. TIS mentioning virginiadot.org. Signal poor. Rosslyn, 1340, 1680. Weather station with music from a broadcaster underneath. Broke in with City of Fairfax ID at 1351. Signal poor. Arlington, 1344, 530. National Airport info. Signal fair. Arlington, 1345, 1700. October road closings. Signal fair. Evening drive: Arlington, 2120, 1700. Arlington County emergency preparedness messages. Signal good. Arlington, 2120, 1680. "1680 AM Radio" Fairfax Virginia, and into National Weather service relay. Signal fair. Arlington, 2120, 1670. National Park Service, loop about memorial tours. Same loop as this morning. Signal excellent. Arlington, 2125, 1640. "This is KJI955 transmitting on 1640 kilohertz" endless loop continues. Signal fair. Langley, 2130, 1630. National Weather Service relay. Signal good. Potomac, 2145, 1630. WNBY570 Maryland State Highway Administration radio, with police tiips such as "Mobile users call #77." Signal poor. Potomac, 2145, 1640. KJI955 loop, signal good. Potomac, 2145, 1700. Arlington County. Signal good. Potomac/Rockville, 2150, 590. "This is WPBJ 590 in the I-270 corridor and WPDD 1070 in the US-29 corridor." Montgomery County Maryland radio. "Traffic is slow on I-495 and I-270" DUH. Also, report of a power outage in Bethesda. Rockville, 2156, 1660. "1660 NIH Radio." KFC70 station ID. National Institute of Health bethesda campus parking info. Signal good. Rockville, 2210, 1630. National Weather Service relay. Very low modulation, good signal (Larry Will, RFMA Nov 8 via DXLD) ** U S A. FCC MEDIA CONSOLIDATION HEARING AUDIO The FCC held a hearing on Media Consolidation Friday, November 9th at Town Hall in Seattle. The 800 seat hall was packed. The marathon hearing began at 4 pm PT and went until 1 am, as more than 200 people lined up to mostly tell the FCC that further media consolidation is not in the public interest. The complete, un-anchored audio of the hearing is available here: http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/deepmedia/fcc07audio_video Pacifica aired the hearings live until 10:30 pm with breakaways for interviews and listener call-ins. The page also has links to these recordings, as well as video clips and an episode of Bill Moyers` Journal that included coverage of the hearings. People can provide written comments on the FCC proposal to allow corporations to own metro daily newspapers plus television and radio stations in the same market until Tues., Dec. 11th. Go to http://www.stopbigmedia.com to use their public comment utility. On Nov. 13th, Commissioner Kevin Martin announced a plan to eliminate cross-ownership rules in the nation's largest 20 markets. He has scheduled a Commission vote for Tues., Dec. 18th (Leigh Robartes, KRFP-LP, Radio Free Moscow, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. REQUEST FOR KMBH RECORDS BLOCKED November 2, 2007 - 11:17PM By ALLEN ESSEX/VALLEY MORNING STAR HARLINGEN — RGV Educational Broadcasting Inc., which operates KMBH television and radio, refused Friday to release financial information to a Valley Morning Star reporter unless he agreed to reveal confidential sources. KMBH, which was founded under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville, is the local Public Broadcasting System [sic] affiliate and receives funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Financial statements filed by the station with the CPB, as well as its biennial audits, must be available to the public per KMBH’s agreement with the CPB. On Friday, KMBH Business Manager Dianna Alcalde called reporter Bruce Lee Smith, who covers entertainment and broadcasting news for the Star’s Rio Living section, to tell him the information he requested on Monday was ready to pick up. But when Smith arrived at the television studio, he learned KMBH officials had conditioned the release of the financial documents on Smith’s disclosure of confidential sources who provided background information to him about the station’s finances and operations. A receptionist told Smith that he must sign a letter agreeing to turn over the names of his sources before the station would release the documents. Smith requested a copy of the letter to show his editors but the receptionist said she could give him a copy only if he signed it. A CPB official in Washington, D.C., told Smith the station is required to promptly give any member of the public information about a station’s use of federal grant funds anytime it is requested, he said. Smith attended the station’s advertised public meeting on Monday, but was only allowed to observe an election of board members. No explanation was given for the absences of some longtime board members. “I started asking questions on Monday,” Smith said. “They wouldn’t answer any questions (about use of federal grant funds). (The RGV Educational Broadcasting Inc. board) said I had to submit my questions in writing.” The Monday meeting was held in a small boardroom at the station’s Tennessee Avenue building and two extra chairs were placed in the room for Smith and another Star reporter. No seating was provided in the room for members of the public who may have wished to attend the meeting, and no other residents were present. The two reporters were required to identify themselves at the front counter before the meeting and, once inside, to sign their names on a pad of paper and identify their employers. Such requirements are not allowed under the Texas Open Government Act or the federal Freedom of Information Act. Smith said station officials on Tuesday posted financial documents on the KMBH Website, “but they are partially illegible,” he said. Later Friday after he tried to obtain the financial documents that the station told him would be available, Smith learned that KMBH filed a police complaint alleging that he engaged in disorderly conduct while he was at the station office. The complaint states, in part: “Deborah Lee Ratliff (receptionist) contacted the Harlingen Police Department to report a disturbance. … Ratliff stated that when she requested (Smith) to sign a document for the release of the information, (he) became upset and began yelling and became very irate, causing a scene. Ratliff felt she was verbally abused in an obviously offensive manner and contacted (police).” Smith said that while waiting in the KMBH lobby, he was trying to talk to a Star editor on his cellular phone, but had a bad connection. He also wanted the receptionist to hear him behind a glass enclosure. “I spoke firmly and clearly to make no mistake that what I was requesting was public information,” he said. “I had to raise my voice. I did not use any abusive language.” The receptionist told Smith he could wait for Monsignor Briseño, but no definite time was given for his return. No police officers contacted Smith or newspaper management Friday. RGV Educational Broadcasting board chairman George E. Borrego said Friday, “I know that the financial records are ready.” However, Borrego said he was not aware of any conditions attached to the release of the documents or any letter that Smith would be required to sign. “Not having been there, I can’t comment on that,” he said (Valley Morning Star via DXLD) ** VATICAN CITY [non]. Frequency change of Vatican Radio in Fr/En/Sp to NAm: 0230-0400 NF 6040 SAC 100 kW / 240 deg, ex 6100 to avoid Radio República (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 19 via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI via Cuba, 13680, Nov 19 carrier was already on air at 2255 with squealing the only `modulation`, worst when tuning to the edge of the signal. 2317 recheck was in ``Contacto con los Diexistas`` mailbag, from Japan, Cuba, then explained SINPO; and UTC as the same as ``Tiempo Civil`` or ``GTM`` as I`ve heard them do before, ending segment at 2320 with a gmail address, I think just rnv@gmail.com? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6300, no sign of LV de la RASD, Nov 18 at 2353 --- off earlier, moved or silent again? Since I didn`t hear R. Nacional de la RASD the day before at all a few minutes before 2400, checked 6300 earlier Nov 19 at 2333 and it was there; tried to hear Spanish, but brain would not lock into Spanish mode, and decided it must be Hassania, rather than Hassania-accented Spanish. At 2401 recheck, however, definitely in Spanish ending ``Opinión`` commentary saying that Spain should be part of the solution to the conflict. 0002 sign-off, anthem played by off-key band to 0003 Nov 20 and carrier stayed on a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. CVC 13650 seems to be on air with normal programming (whatever that is) of pop style songs, and offers of cuddly toys if you write to them at an address in Australia at 1645 on Nov. 19. I assume this is the Zambia outlet as I don't hear the two Darwin frequencies of 13635 and 13685 currently. 13650 is poor strength and going down. There was no trace of WHRI on 15665 today (19th) so maybe that is a weekend transmission only - same as the one on 13650? 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England), Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. What a pleasure to still have RT Zanzibar around. On the 18th crashing in for more than two hours, until sign off, all of it heard at a fantastic level, producing a great mp3 of the final 30 minutes, with East African/ Arabic sounding music, female announcer, anthem at sign off. We should cherish every moment they're around.... (Dan Robinson, DC, ex-Nairobi, Nov 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. 11735, +1900-2100v* (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe (presumed), 0324-0353, Nov 19, non-stop high-life music and songs, mostly fair, above average reception, not // to 3396 (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Re 7-138, 5815: Aoki lists Radio Racja from Poland in Belorussian via Sitkunai, 1530-1730, 5815. Also via Warszawa on 6105 1830-2130. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also LITHUANIA 1530-1728 on 5815 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEu Radio Racja in Belarussian (not 6225) 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6030, IRAN. Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (tentative), 0452-0511 Nov 12, 2007, possibly the one blocking both the Canadian and the Central African Republic station with instrumental music to 0458 when a woman began talking in possible Farsi. Apparent news by a man and woman at 0500 with numerous mentions of Iran (Rich D`Angelo, French Creek State Park, PA, DXpedition No. 28, Ten-Tec RX-340 and an Etón E1, 500-foot wire essentially north and 250-foot wire south for the RX-340 and a 40-foot wire essentially southeast for the E1, NASWA Flashsheet Nov 18 via DXLD) Previously reported here as ETHIOPIA (gh, DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ DREAM RECEPTION. LISTEN AND DREAM Thursday nights, starting at midnight Greenwich Mean Time into Friday, there`s an hour with the Goddess Irena 1 Music Show in the first half hour and World Of Radio by Glenn Hauser, in the second. This time of day is often when WBCQ`s 7415 Kc transmitter is sometimes still loud enough to be heard on a cat`s whisker. It`s so fun to hear shows with such different and ordinary and good purposes, side by side. For anyone who`s never heard these shows and wastes time staring at the computer at this time instead of putting their head between antenna and ground, they`re fighting for the wrong appliance`s attention. "If you take the high road and I take the low road then I`ll get to Scotland before Ye", that about says it. Irena and Glenn both pack their shows like they`re in the Sardines in a can business, and I don`t know about you, but I`m running for the mayonnaise and bread over this one, and back quick, at least if my Radio has amplifiers. (This sentence has a digression to the fact that if you`re listening on a cat`s whisker, you don`t eat a while before it or you may find your heart beats drowning out the sounds in the headphones). It`s bad enough that bending the headphones cord run between one`s knees sounds like a log jam, Yeah! I often dream of how nice it would be if many of WBCQ`s hosts and hostesses could visit each other`s shows like how WNEW TV`s hosts and hostesses and even guests used to do endlessly and wonderfully in the good old days of live shows and recorded shows made in the same care. Alas, many of WBCQ`s hosts don`t have that kind of money. Still if I could dream of the completely unaffordable trip meet between the above two shows it would also be fun to dream of other good meets. Could you imagine Goddess Irena meeting at air, mr. Kracker of "Slack", or maybe Irena meeting James Donohue of the "Alternative Transportation Show"? Another fun meeting would be Marcie meeting Sir John "Scratchy". I, had met both in person and Marcie is just like she is on the air or the telephone (Don`t call, write!) and John is not. I could just imagine Marcie folding her arms then saying something good anyway. John`s mouth open, thinking. Marcie`s about like that. Now it`s your turn to dream (Frederic Jodry, KA2PYQ, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ THE EIBI B07 SKEDS ARE HERE! http://www.eibi.de.vu/ http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/dx/bc-b07.txt (Steve Lare, MI, 1511 UT Nov 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wow, that was fast, Steve! Just a moment after I uploaded the files :) As usual, available in two versions, sorted by time and by frequency. Formats are ASCII text file, PDF, and MS Word document. Look into the readme file which is linked on the main page for abbreviations that you will meet in the data files. Any comments and corrections are always very welcome. The links are: (Main Page:) http://www.eibi.de.vu/ (Direct link, time-sorted version:) http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/dx/bc-b07.txt (Direct link, frequency-sorted version:) http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/dx/freq-b07.txt Have fun, and a good winter season!! (Or summer for those downunder) 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Mainz, Germany, Nov 19, ibid.) Eike Bierwirth's newly-redesigned website is now up and running as of today (Nov. 19); has B07 schedules listed in text, PDF or Word format (in time or frequency order), and also includes a CSV database... see it all at http://www.eibi.de.vu (Joe Hanlon, NJ, 1837 UT Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NATIONAL ANTHEM AUDIO FILES Go to http://www.national-anthems.net for mp3 and Windows media audio of anthems from around the world. These are all high-quality orchestra recordings, not the cheesy synth versions (Bruce Conti - Nashua NH, realdx yg via DXLD) EL MUNDO DE LA RADIO pending Hola gente!!!! Con un profesional de la publicidad y el marketing, quien se desempeña en un importante multimedio de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, vamos a lanzar en breve un portal comercial dedicado a la radio. El dominio registrado es elmundodela radio.com Christian Bravo de Laguna, mi socio en este proyecto, es el webmaster y obviamente, se encarga de los otros campos en los cuales se especializó. Yo aportaré informaciones, escribiré artículos y crearé vínculos académicos y comerciales. Contendrá informaciones y novedades y apuntará fundamentalmente a empresarios de medios pequeños y estudiantes de comunicación. Hemos buscado un segmento de interesados en la radio en particular aunque la dinámica de los acontecimientos nos puede llevar a modificar los parámetros iniciales de trabajo. Hasta tanto la página web se inaugure (estimamos que para mediados de diciembre), hemos abierto un blog en elpais.es Los invitamos a visitarlo en: http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/elmundodelaradio/posts y, por supuesto, a integrarse al mismo con sus valiosas opiniones, sugerencias, comentarios y críticas. Saludos (Arnaldo Slaen, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ TSWA, etc. Re 7-121, USA [and non] --- Our Portuguese member, Fernando Ferreira, has sent me an interesting article about the broadcasts in small languages by international religious broadcasters, in this case Trans World Radio (TWR) broadcasting in Xitshwa to Mozambique. Fernando writes: Xitshwa, Tshwa, Tswa, Shitshwa, Kitshwa, Sheetshwa is the same language. I was born in that area (Inhambane Province) in Mozambique, but Tswa is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe too. Please refer to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tsc (via Anker Petersen, DSWCI DX Window Nov 14 via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ RADIO CLOX Re 7-137: I have a cheap digital, don't even recall what brand, bought at Office Depot years ago I think. It never picked up WWVB despite placing in a couple of locations in the room. Then recently while rearranging things a bit, I placed it near the PC and radios on the desk and suddenly the indicator appeared (and is steadily on for a few hours every day), and it's always spot on time now. Maybe it's getting enhanced signals by being next to the antennae or power cords? (Terry L Krueger Clearwater, Florida USA 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) These things must be incredibly inefficient receivers. VLF may have continental coverage, but you really need a very large antenna to match the wavelength. Can you imagine a radio clock that comes with several hundred meters of wire? Or even with a loop resonant at 60 kHz, if there is such a thing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also FRANCE CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ENCUENTRO CLUB DX CUBA "AMIGOS DE LA ONDA CORTA" Saludos colegas, El próximo domingo 18 de noviembre se celebrará en la ciudad de Holguín el encuentro del Club DX "Amigos de la Onda Corta" correspondiente al mes en curso. Sus integrantes invitan a todos los interesados a participar. Será en el parque Calixto García, frente a la Biblioteca Alex Urquiola a las 9:30 am (Ing. Yandys Cervantes Rodríguez, WebMaster. Sede Universitaria Municipal. Buey Arriba. Granma, Cuba, Noticias DX via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ GRAYLAND ACRES FOR TP DXER Hello, For those interested in property in the Grayland area this 2.41 acres with beach access could be yours for $48,000. Lot size is 169 x 605 & 30 x 193. Link below. My wife and I spent a couple hours Thursday looking at houses in the Grayland area. As for what you can have on your land, I saw shipping containers to pickup campers on tilts. Probably would set up a tent and any antenna of your choice? http://www.bbusby.mywindermere.com/lid18408420 (Dennis Vroomski, Vancouver WA, IRCA via DXLD) Man, that's incredibly cheap for ocean front. You couldn't get that for 10 times that price in most places in BC, especially on Vancouver Island! (Walt Salmaniw, Vancouver Island, ibid.) Walt, It really surprise me how much land is available between the highway and the beach front. Many lots that people have bought and have not built on yet (Dennis, ibid.) Yeah, this looks too good to be true. I wonder what is the issue with the land (Bill Harms, MD, ibid.) The description says "it will need its own driveway", which may or may not involve right-of-way negotiations in addition to the actual construction. It also doesn't say anything about water and electricity. Sewer or septic systems would also need to be considered. All things a buyer would need to find out in advance (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) Exactly Bruce. It could end up costing you many times more than you paid for it if the land had those problems (Bill Harms, ibid.) Bill, One thing you have to be careful with on the coast are pieces of property you can buy cheap, but for one reason or another you can't build on them, or if you can, you are really restricted on the size of a house. Before anyone buys a piece of property, they should take a trip to city hall to find out. Flood insurance, and a lot of factors. 73, (Patrick Martin, ibid.) Yea - the issue with land on the Oregon and Washington State coast is... It ain't located on the British Columbia coast where the average Canadian (and mis-guided American) will gladly pay 10 times more than it's worth. I find it immensely fascinating that I can stand in someone`s front yard on Dallas Road in Victoria (yea, I guess that is trespass...) and with my pair of trusty Pentax binoculars peer across 18 miles to water to Port Angeles where water front houses are 1/3 the price of the houses in Victoria (Colin Newell - Editor/Creator coffeecrew.com | dxer.ca Web-Design / E-Commerce / Writing Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, ibid.) But what if you don`t want to build on or develop it but just use it as an occasional beverage DXpedition site, BYO everything. Worth 48K? (Glenn Hauser, landlocked OK, DXLD) EXCITING DXPEDITION REPORTS ON DXING.INFO A bunch of new and exciting DXpedition reports have been posted recently on DXing.info: - Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) on the Western Coast of Canada, location of a historic DXpedition, check out the stunningly long log and report at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/haida_gwaii_09_2007.dx - another historic first: four months of semi-automated AM monitoring using SDRs in a remote location. Check out the KAX report on SDR DXing in the Finnish Lapland at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/kax_2006-2007.dx - Lemmenjoki, Finland: LEM239 was a more traditional manned dxpedition, but armed with SDRs, the recently published log is loooong... and growing, now online at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/lem239log.dx - Grayland WA, USA: another tradition continues, most recently John Bryant's DXpedition at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/grayland_2007_10.dx - and as far as exotic locations go, you can hardly beat John's earlier DXing location, be sure not to miss his report from Easter Island at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/easter_island_2007.dx 73 (Mika Mäkeläinen, DC, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mika, hi all, An addition to Mika's info: another DXpedition report has just been added to the site dxsignal.ru. See it at the following location: http://www.dxsignal.ru/read/kad_2007e.htm It is a mini DX pedition (just several hours spent in the outskirts of the city); nevertheless, we had some interesting catches. We'd appreciate any help in solving our UNIDs (they are mainly Chinese MW stations). Mika, you're welcome to add a link to our KAD-2007 page from dxing.info! (Dmitry Mezin and Alexey Kulinchenko, Kazan, Russia, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: BELGIUM; ETHIOPIA; GERMANY; LUXEMBOURG ++++++++++++++++++++ PVZ`s LATEST ANTI-IBLOC SCREED Right - For several years, engineers and other broadcast personnel privately expressed concerns about both elements of undue influence, deception and coercion, exerted against them to install and/or never speak disparagingly of St. HD the iBLOC. In short, install HD or face eternal blackballing, pretend it doesn't jam, make believe HD audio doesn't sound harsh or cause listener fatigue, and always sing high praises to it. Engineers finally cannot stomach any more of this coercive, putrid, rancid sham. If HD were half so good as its sleazy promoters claim, the thing would have sold itself. Instead, consumers smell this steam- dog dump a mile out, and skirt it. Many radio personnel have stood up to HD's spineless disingenuous bullies, and are coming forward to describe the unsavory tactics and questionable individuals who seem pathologically obsessed with using HD to loot the public trust. Some state plainly, beyond jamming, what most offends about HD is deception, nothing about HD is on the level. HD promoters blat fanciful tales of its virtues and vehemently deny obvious interference. They bristle at routine questions. Rather than provide straightforward answers, they answer tersely, with silence, lies, and threats. Suspects interrogated evince the same behavior. Why trust them? How can we? There is no consumer interest in HD. Marketing surveys indicate that as more people learn about HD, the more they reject it. The HD gang, too clever by half, made the classic perp's mistake. They overestimated their cunning and presumed citizens to be stupid, feckless dumbbells who enjoy surrendering wealth and liberty to BigKorpseorate greaszeballs (paul vincent zecchino, pvz, manalog key, fl, nrcam via dxld) USE TV CHANNELS 5 AND 6 FOR DFM? The following link is to Radio World where a proposal to expand the FM band down to 82 or even 76 MHz is discussed. http://www.radioworld.com/pages/s.0100/t.9703.html (via Allan Dunn, K1UCY, WTFDA via DXLD) This kind of thing seems to come up from time to time. I used to write it off as impossible due to continuing use of channels 2-6 for DTV. I still think DTV will continue to use these channels to some degree for quite a while to come. However, I no longer think DTV would preclude the use of 54-88 MHz for radio. I do wonder whether analog FM is the right thing to do here. IMHO this is the right place to put "IBOC" digital (or better yet, Eureka-147 digital). There is only one market (Butte, Montana) in which both channels 5 and 6 will be used for permanent DTV operation. There are few other markets (if any!) in which more than one low-band channel will be used. We could allot 54-88 MHz for digital radio provided protection is given to DTV assignments. I would suggest 18 MHz (3 TV channels) would be available *everywhere*. That's almost enough to give every FM station an "IBOC" channel on which they could operate without interfering with anyone (and on which they could immediately begin operation in full digital mode, probably fixing the IBOC coverage issues). Again, better yet, run Eureka up here. That would provide enough subchannels to give *AM* stations a full-coverage, full-fidelity digital channel as well. In all three cases (analog, IBOC, Eureka) receiver designs already exist - and in all three cases modification of the RF frequency- determining circuits would have to happen - so I don't think there would be much difference in time to deployment (Doug Smith, TN, WTFDA via DXLD) That part of the FM band would be vulnerable to e-skip, from a station's point of view not always a good place to be... or so it strikes me. From a DXer point of view, bring it on! (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ CHINESE OTH RADAR INTRUDING ON HAMBANDS Nov. 18th, 2007 - bad news! Dear friends, the Chinese OTH radar is now interfering 7 MHz in Europe. I found it this evening (6990 - 7060 kHz). You can hear a rough sounding noise, the sonagram shows selective fading, typical for ionospheric reflections. The systems works with 43 pulses/sec. Reliable bearings are showing China. L9CC from China is also very strong on 7056.8 kHz this evening. PSE see my measurements on: http://www.iarums-r1.org Latest Intruder ... and look under "Soundfiles" If you can hear it, inform your national PTTs for further complaints. (DK2OM via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) I would have thought it had been heard in R1 long ago, as when it first appeared, reports & bearings were coming from R2 (west coast NA). That path is a bit more polar than to EU and in general, it is easier to work EU from around here than NA. Maybe 40m is that bad in EU that BY7RADAR is often "lost in the noise"? Ouch! ;^( Watch out - I see from cluster spots that when ZC4RADAR [Cyprus] is heard on 30m, some folks in EU now think it is BY7RADAR. Hainan is QRV on 80, 40, 30 & 20m, but has only been found on 30 & 20m on just a few occasions. BY7RADAR has also been heard using a number of pulse rates, as well as CODAR. As they can do pretty much anything, other than ID by bearing, occupied bandwidth is the most consistent trait to look for. Anyway, since MIL is apparently above the RR, there really is no basis to complain about harmful interference caused to the amateur service by the boys in Hainan, as what they are doing is no different than what the chaps in Akrotiri have been up to all these years. The precedent set by all the countries with OTHR has probably become an insurmountable hurdle should our country take notice of complaints (which it consistently does not, even when coming from Hong Kong), as it is essentially "do as we say, not do as we do" & that will _never_ work with China. 73, (VR2BrettGraham/QRT, Hong Kong, ibid.) DX TUNERS Kelly Lindman of Sweden ran DX Tuners as a for-fee system, but took the network off-line about 6 months ago when the workload became too much. Several weeks ago he offered to bring it back if the sysops of each radio site would take on the administration tasks of running the network. He's invited former subscribers back (over 8000 at present) and closed the membership for now, although he plans to open it back up some time later in the year. While he no longer is charging a fee, he's allowing individual radio owners to solicit contributions if they wish. AFAIK, there is nothing else like it in the world - it was a very unique creation. I run the Pennsylvania DX node (Icom R-75) - stop by and tune some time, (Brett Saylor, Nov 17, NRC-AM via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ MORE LONG-HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES 96.7, 0022 13/11 Nice Radio, Kingstown, OM em conversa telefônica c/ ouvintes, EE 43343 99.9, 0026 13/11 WE FM, Kingstown, OM, nxs, EE 45344 103.7, 0027 13/11 Hitz FM, Kingstown, mx caribenha, OM, EE 45333 107.5, 0031 13/11 NBC, Kingstown, mx caribenha, EE 35233 90.7, 0109 13/11 NBC, Kingstown, mx caribenha, EE // 107.5 MHz 34333 96.7, 0018 14/11 Nice Radio, Kingstown, OM/OM, talks, EE 43343 99.9, 0114 14/11 WE FM, Kingstown, OM, nxs, EE 43333 103.7, 0115 14/11 Hitz FM, Kingstown, OM, mx caribenha, EE 35333 107.5, 0118 14/11 NBC, Kingstown, OM, nxs, EE 35233 GUADELOUPE 97.0, 0034 13/11 RFO (R. Guadeloupe), Basse-Terre, OM/OM, talks, FF 45333 102.6, 0046 13/11 NRJ Antilles, Basse-Terre, mx, FF 35233 97.0, 0022 14/11 RFO (R. Guadeloupe), Basse-Terre, mx caribenha, YL/OM, talks, FF 45333 UNID 96.7, 0022 13/11 Unid, mx pop EE, OM, idioma?? 43343 MARTINIQUE 94.0, 0024 13/11 RFO (R. Martnique), Trinité, mx caribenha, FF 34333 101.4, 0039 13/11 Unid, Fort de France, OM, nxs, FF 23332 94.3, 0117 13/11 RFO (R. Martinique), Morne-Rouge, YL/OM, talks, FF 45333 SAINT LUCIA 101.1, 0041 13/11 R. Caribbean International, Castries, mx caribenha, EE 23332 101.1, 0040 14/11 Radio Caribbean International, Castries, mx caribenha, EE 33233 (RUBENS FERRAZ PEDROSO, BANDEIRANTES-PR, BRASIL, SONY 7600G, LONGWIRE 12 METROS, @tividade DX Nov 18 via DXLD) A longwire isn`t exactly the ideal antenna for FM DX, making this even more remarkable (gh) ###