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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1389 **flexible times Thu 0700 WRMI 9955** Thu 1530 WRMI 7385 Thu 1600 KAIJ 9480 [off air in Dec but webcasting] Fri 0030 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0730 WRMI 9955** Fri 1200 KAIJ 5755 [off air in Dec but webcasting] Fri 1200 WRMI 9955** Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 [not expected 7465] Fri 2330 WBCQ 5110-CLSB [NEW from Dec 21] Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160 Sat 2230 WRMI 9955 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1200 WRMI 9955 [new] Sun 1615 WRMI 7385 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1130 WRMI 9955** Tue 1630 WRMI 7385 Wed 0830 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD, which seems to be coming out less frequently? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ARGENTINA. ARGENTINA CAMBIO EL HORARIO A PARTIR DE AYER!!!!! A partir de ayer domingo, a la medianoche se adelantaron una hora todos los relojes del país. El nuevo huso horario quedó establecido a través de la Ley 26.350, publicada ayer en el Boletín Oficial. Allí se establece como hora oficial durante el período invernal, la del huso horario tres horas al Oeste del meridiano de Greenwich y para el período estival, dos horas al Oeste del meridiano, en todo el territorio nacional. La medida fue tomada por el Gobierno en el marco de un plan de utilización más eficiente de la energía. Una manera de prevenir colapsos en el sistema durante el verano cuando se intensifica, por ejemplo, el uso de equipos de aire acondicionado. Esta vez, el adelantamiento de la hora se va a iniciar a la cero hora del domingo 30 de diciembre y se va a extender hasta la cero hora del domingo 16 de marzo de 2008. El Gobierno va a fijar anualmente la fecha de iniciación y de terminación del período estival que corresponda (Arnaldo Slaen, Buenos Aires, Dec 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So Argentina has suddenly switched to UT -2 on Dec 30, a last-minute decision? (gh, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Glen[n], With good 25 meter conditions I tuned over to 11710 at 0158 to listen to RAE's program in English at 0200. Heard OM in Spanish with ID into national anthem followed by Radio Nacional IDs, then into radio público news, all in Spanish. Not sure if this was for New Years day or has the English service disappeared? I have not heard any news to this effect only some unsubstantiated rumors several months ago. Would hate to lose last source of English news from South America. Happy New Year to you and all the readers of DXLD (Steve Wood, South Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8B, 140 foot dipole, UT Jan 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sure hope it was just a holiday aberration; those who can hear it please check the 1800 English broadcast on 15345v. Note the local time just shifted from UT -3 to UT -2 but this hasn`t affected RAE timings before, has it? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. In addition to what Glenn mentioned, I also did my usual globetrot around the world on New Year's Eve from the comfort of my own listening post armed with a Grundig Satellit 800 and Drake SPR-4. Radio Australia on 9580 had a country-wide phone-in program in progress at 1230 asking listeners' what how they were celebrating the New Year. They did a countdown at 1259 then into usual revelry. In a few previous years Australia has stayed with normal programming (Mark Coady, Editor, Your Reports/Listening In Magazine, Co-Moderator, ODXA Yahoogroup, Ontario DX Association, Bridgenorth, ON, Jan 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Radio Australia, Shepparton; 1300-1315 31 December, 2007. Just happened to tune in right after I awoke to hear the ringing in of 2008, while on my TV, NBC's Today Show was showing Sydney Harbour fireworks live for a measly few seconds (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. VL8K, ABC NT Service (Katherine). 2485. 1238-1308 8 Dec 07. Received a very nice personal full data letter, station stickers, and station literature in 28 days for an English report, 3 IRCs, $2 (returned), an applause card, and a local postcard. There must be very good postal service between Australia and the US, and the NT staff must really be keen on responding. The verification letter was only in transit 8 days. V/S Theresa Regan, Administration Officer. I mailed the report to: ABC Northwest Territories HF Services, ABC Radio 8DDD Darwin, Administrative Center NT Shortwave Service, Box 9994, GPO Darwin NT 0800, Australia. The reply came from: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Business Services, GPO Box 9994, Darwin NT 0801, Australia (Joe Wood, Greenback TN, E1, DX 390, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Re 7-138: Some video clips/promos for the History Channel series on history of radio, `Thanks for Listening`` are here: http://www.historychannel.com.au/thanksforlistening/video.aspx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA [and non]. Tuning around for something to monitor at UT +1 yearchange, Dec 31 at 2250, found Ö1 on 5945 with runup, but before 2300 I switched to better signal on // 6155, where there was a countdown, full strike of some clock, and then --- what else --- ``On the Beautiful Blue Danube``, no doubt by the VPO, but it had not finished when transmission cut off abruptly at 2308* which is precisely the time 6155 normally closes, per Aoki. Just this once, couldn`t they have made an exception? BTW, once it was off, I could hear lite DentroCuban jamming, a prélude to the fierce full force pending at 0000 when Radio República comes onto the frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BENIN. ORTB, 5025, on late for NYE beyond normal listed 2300* Unfortunately, it was for naught, as all it did was QRM Cuba with a fast SAH and some audio, Dec 31 at 2340 and still Jan 1 at 0023, 0038 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Mosoj Chaski (Cochabamba), 0049­0140, 12/29/07, in Quechua. Mostly talk by a woman, with short folk style songs, talk by a man through ToH (no ID discernible), back to woman and folk songs, 0125 "Mosoj Chaskis Cochabamba", another song, then a long talk by the female announcer. Music and talk by the female announcer, 0159 brief talk by the male announcer ("Cochabamba" mentioned), 0200 off. Poor signal strength, but clear conditions (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, R-75, Eton E1, Grundig Sat 800 & G4000; 110` random wire, Eavesdropper, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.46, Radio Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte, 1015-1040, Dec 29, Spanish talk. Bolivian music at 1036. "Pio Doce" jingle at 1037. Very good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5996.4, R. Loyola, 0945, Dec 29. Looking for this one, and found a definite signal here, but extremely weak and suffering from QRM on both sides. Nothing heard on Dec 30, but a late Sunday sign-on is typical of LA stations. WYFR-6000 opened at 0959; they were there on earlier checks as well, but went off at some point; PWBR shows them off at 0945-1000, which may be the best time to try for Loyola (Jerry Berg, Lexington, MA, Drake R8 & Eton E1-XM receiver; 19, 41 & 90 mb dipoles, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 1000-1020, Dec 29, talk in Quechua and Spanish. Ad string. Sounds of cows. Many mentions of Santa Cruz. Bolivian music. Strong signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6080.15, Rádio Novas de Paz, Curitiba, 0845-0900, Dec 29, Brazilian ballads. Portuguese talk. Fair, but some adjacent channel splatter. // 9514.98-very weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030 normally runs until 2400, but NYE Dec 31 it was on later; Jan 1 at 0001 in French with RTB`s resolutions to serve the public, 0003 choral hilife singing group; still on at 0023 and 0038 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5030.05, Radio Burkina; 0140-0220 1 January, 2008. On past normal sign-off for New Year's and absolutely blasting in with nice highlife vocals, many listener calls and super-sexy female jock "Bonjour, bonjour" replies, along with occasional male co-host. Into the Akon hip-hop/reggae "Don't Matter" big hit at 0207, segued to West African pop. Great listening! Even Rebelde down on 5025 couldn't touch this big signal from my proximity. Nice! (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CBC North Quebec, 9625, Jan 1 at 0104 with local ID and address in Montreal, 0105 part two of Dispatches. Fair signal but no QRM and less than full modulation was adequate for comprehension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. The 12/30 International Radio report from CKUT starts with an interview at Sackville with John, an engineer explaining how things work there, how juggling transmitters and antennas becomes necessary if one sender is down, etc., for the first 19 minutes: http://secure.ckut.ca/128/20071230.10.30-11.00.mp3 Get it before it disappears (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More webcast linx: see INTERNATIONAL ** CANADA [and non]. Re 7-161, CHIN 1540 --- Thanks Fred and Glenn for the comments and information. So, if Dr. Love is associated with the "Black World", and interested in Caribbean cricket, then it seems it could have been he spinning the Black Gospel and reggae via CHIN and not someone via ZNS on 1540 Sunday morning my time. If I could have heard more of what he was saying I would probably have realised which station it was. But being only 1 KHZ apart from a high power Euro station doesn't help! Today (Dec. 31) reception was not so good - but the language of the station on top of at least one other on 1540 was definitely Italian (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. DX TEST – 960, CFFX, ON, Kingston TIME: Early morning of Tuesday January 15 (Monday night). MODE OF OPERATION: CFFX will test using its 10,000-watt daytime directional pattern [basically keeping it out of the US, favoring S QC and S ON, but not beyond Toronto to the SW --- gh] PROGRAMMING: Regular adult contemporary programming. Special test material will consists of three hourly voice announcements followed by special test material lasting several minutes. These will air roughly at the top of the hour, at approximately 0000, 0100 and 0200 EST, give or take a few minutes depending on the program log. [0500, 0600, 0700 UT] CONTEXT: CFFX is completing its move to 104.3 on the FM band this morning, and 960 is scheduled to sign off for good at 0600 EST [1100 UT]. As part of the transition, the AM has simulcast the FM for the past three months. This test marks the final phase of the transition, and the test content will also air on 104.3. This is your last chance to log CFFX on 960, so if it takes two alarm clocks to wake you, well, you've been warned! We will issue QSLs, but I am not yet 100 percent sure who will handle the reports. Either the station, or me, or both of us. Regardless, we will definitely want audio recordings if at all possible, and we want reports sent via e-mail if at all possible. Snail-mail reports only when accompanied by SASE will be acknowledged. The QSL will be the same, regardless. We'll update the QSL situation soon (Saul Chernos, Ont., Dec 30, NRC-AM via DXLD) What is the special test material? Morse code/tones? That will be needed for the signal to be heard coast to coast. I see their day pattern has a big lobe to the West, so with morse code/sweep tones/etc, this is possible. I plan to get the rest of the beverage back up within the next couple of days, so I should to ready to go. Hoping the conditions will be decent too (Patrick Martin, OR, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) I am intentionally being vague. I would like to offer some element of surprise here. There will be content that has proven punching-through capability, and it will air at roughly the top of the hour for three consecutive hours, and last a few minutes each time. I have you west- coasters in mind for this one, and am hoping it will be heard in Europe. I do wonder if DXers Down Under have been trying foir our tests - are these test notices being posted on the international lists? (Saul Chernos, ibid.) They can certainly know about them if they read DXLD; but there is little incentive, since the tests rarely improve their already superior chances to hear NAm stations (gh, DXLD) I should give some background as far as QSLs and CFFX are concerned. The station is doing us a favour. The station had received an e-mail from someone else, and the engineer was sitting on it, when I contacted him, by chance, by telephone. The engineer was extremely friendly, and explained that he had the request on file, but has been VERY busy overseeing the transition of 960 to 104.3. He was concerned about the number of reports he'd receive adding to an already very difficult workload. I explained that our BCB test committee could handle the responses, if he wished, and also supply test material. He took us up on this, and has been very nice to deal with. Soon afterwards, he expressed the desire to see the reports and respond. We talked a bit about the report's he'd had from Europe, and my guess is that he appreciated hearing from us DXers because he cared about his signal. Anyhow, we'll get him the cards, or whatever it is that a BCB TC volunteer is designing (I've seen a mock-up, very nice) as we speak. The only experience I've had with QSLing a DX test in this cyber-age was last year's MT DX test on 750. It came via e-mail, as an attachment, and is treasured in my DX files. I don't collect QSLs anymore (used to) but I landed this one simply as a matter of course after seeking to confirm music and other test content that I'd heard. The eQSL sure looks real to me, and has found it's way into my age-old QSL paper file. Anyhow, I really want to respect the CE's original wishes, and his clearly stated concerns. I want to make this as easy on him as possible, simply as a matter of respect. We're finalizing details on how the QSLing will be done, but my plan is to ask that reports be sent to BOTH of us, so that if he wants out and/or gets busy, I can take over, and so that I can double-check for any reports that might appear suspect. Folks, we're dealing in this case with an engineer who is doing us a favour at the very moment he will be busy ... a scant few hours after the test, he will be turning off 960 and relying solely on his FM to carry the station forward. Anyhow, I need to work out some QSL logistics with the test committee. This is new territory for me. If there's something any of you feel should be done, and it isn't being done, then don't just complain -- offer some kind of help - big or small, your time, technical advice/help, actual resources, whatever - to help get it done. I'm not the list moderator, but I do ask that we move the discussion to something more useful. I'm curious -- who has previously heard CFFX, and where? (Saul Chernos, Ont., The NRC AM mailing list via DXLD) Regarding QSLs for the CFFX test, anyone who receives and reports the test correctly, and wants a paper QSL card will get one. I don't care if you have a computer or not. My goal is to try to accommodate everyone within reason. Some folks want paper, others are OK with cyber. Either way is OK by me. Regarding return postage, I'm not sure if the actual paper QSLs are going to be mailed from Canada or the U.S., but since U.S. currency is good in either country, sending a green stamp should take care of it if the replies come from Canada. Finally, please let's all try to stay civil toward each other. This has long been a hobby of ladies and gentlemen who treated each other with mutual respect. As long as we continue to do this, our hobby will be around (at least in some form) long after we are gone. Thanks for my time on the soapbox. I'll be happy to respond to any questions you may have about the upcoming CFFX test or any other BTC topic (Jim Pogue, KH2AR/WPE9HLJ/KG6DX1A, IRCA/NRC Joint Broadcast Test Coordinator, Memphis, Tennessee USA, IRCA via DXLD) ** CATALUNYA. ACLARACION DE SILVERI GOMEZ: Radio Barretina new pirata Catalana relay at irregular times RADIO L'ARBOC FM 106.8 MHz http://www.radiobaixpenedes.cat/ their WEB has also real audio. radio @ arboc.altanet.org Address: Carrer Major 37, 3 , ES-43720 L'ARBOC DEL PENEDES, TARRAGONA. http://www.arbocenc.org/ to know more about the area. 6308.00, 27/12 1540, R. Barretina, Cat, relay local FM, rock, pop. 1700 news 24222 6308.00, 29/12 1035, R. Barretina, Cat, relay local FM, interview, promos, dance 24222 email radiobarretina @ hotmail.com Salu2 ! Silveri Gomez --- Message organized by (Dario Monferini (Play- dx) for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 4904.97, Radiodiffusion Nationale; 2240-2300* 29 December, 2007. Huge, local signal with nice Central African highlife vocals, French lady at 2241. Snappy instrumental, horn-heavy anthem from 2259, immediately off (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RNT, 4905 was on late NYE, Dec 31 at 2334 with speech in Arabic? Long pause during which I could enjoy CODAR unobstructed; after a minute announcer called ``alo?`` and then talked on phone in French to someone with gunfire(?) in background. No, he said the explosions were ``feux d`artifice``. Next check at 0014 Jan 1, 4905 was off. Brian Alexander says it went off at 0006 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4904.97, RNT, 2315-0006*, Dec 31-Jan 1, On late for New Year's. Normal sign off time is 2228. Heard with French talk. Afro-pop music. Sign off with National Anthem. Very good signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. VOICE OF JINLING - Jiangsu PBS: SW Service of V. of Jinling is extended for 30 minutes at 1155 to 1430 UT (ex 1155-1400) on 5860 kHz. It is blocked until 1400 by Radio Farda. 5860 VOICE OF JINLING Nanjing 50 kW de S. Aoki NDXC-HQ (via Seiichi Hasegawa, Dec 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. (NON?) 6280 kHz, at 2225 UT December 29th, sounded very much like Firedrake music, reasonable reception, but what might their target be? (Roger Chambers, Utica, New York, SONY ICF 2010 with long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The answer is in Aoki, Friday and Saturday only, Sound of Hope. The asterisk means jammed: 6280*Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH 2200-2300 .....67 Chinese 300 325 Tanshui TWN 12129E2513 SOH b07 6280*Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH 2300-2400 .....67 Chinese 300 325 Tanshui TWN 12129E2513 SOH b07 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9520, PBS Nei Menggu, 2320, 01/01/08, Mandarin. F with Mandarin-language commentary, rather abrupt canned ID at 2330 ("Nei Menggu Renmin Guangbo Diantai"), then a presumed newscast followed by a couple of ads with phone numbers and sound effects. Audio seemed rather low relative to signal strength. Fair. R Netherlands in Dutch via Sackville listed on 9520 from 2300-2400, but missing (or not audible?). Mongolian service on 9750 also noted with fair to good signal and much better audio, though both faded rapidly after 2335 (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9810, CNR-2, China Business Radio, 1200-1210, Dec 29, time pips at 1200 and English "This is China Business Radio" ID followed by Chinese talk. Fair. weaker on // 6065, 6090, 7315, 7375 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. MUF was really down Jan 1 at 0045, not much propagating on 25m, but good signal on 11640 with Blue Danube version, la-la-la singalong, 0046 Chinese announcement. Believe this was CNR-1, as jammer to CBS Taiwan, beaming 310 degrees into Mainland, per Aoki. Neither registered in HFCC, as the ChiCom are ashamed to admit what they are doing, and Taiwan perhaps pretends there is no such service but that doesn`t keep it from being jammed to the point that no sign of CBS was audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. CRI: See LUXEMBOURG ** COLOMBIA. Buena propagación en esta mañana temprano de Año Nuevo en la banda de 49 metros, coincidiendo, además, que varias emisoras internacionales no transmitían, dejando las frecuencias despejadas para las emisoras domésticas, algunas de las cuales, como La Voz del Guaviare, tenían programa extendido durante toda la noche de Año Viejo. 5919, Marfil Estereo, Lomalinda, 0815-0840, 01-01, canciones latinoamericanas. 44444. (Méndez) 6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, 0828-0850, 01-01, el Sr. Martin Stendal con su programación religiosa habitual. Señal fuerte (últimamente, cuando lograba escucharla, estaba entrando débil a muy débil), y sin interferencia de Alemania en 6005, que hoy estaba fuera del aire. 35333. (Méndez) 6035, La Voz del Guaviare, San José del Guaviare, 0820-0905, 01-01, programa especial fin de año con canciones ininterrumpidas, cumbia, merengue y otras canciones latinoamericanas. 34333 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Feliz Año 2008, escuchas realizadas en casco urbano de Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 6009.95, LV de tu Conciencia, 0719, Dec 30. Light vocals and instrumentals, brief English religious message, then quick "This is the Voice of Your Conscience" ID in English by a woman. More music, full Spanish ID at 0739, then Spanish talk. Brazil deep in the background (Jerry Berg, Lexington, MA, Drake R8 & Eton E1-XM receiver; 19, 41 & 90 mb dipoles, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) Off-frequency again. Last time I logged it around this time mixing with XEOI they were within 2.5 Hz of each other, I thought both therefore almost right on 6010.00 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Para finalizar el año estuve monitoreando aquì en Manzanillo, Colima, Mèxico (Costa oeste) la frecuencia de los 6010. Los dìas 28 y 29 fueron realmente felices; no se percibiò mayor interferencia en los 6010 kHz, dejando libre a XEOI Radio Mil quien la utiliza desde hace más de 50 años. Lamentablemente desde ayer por la tarde (tiempo del centro de Mèxico) por la noche, madrugada y primeras horas del dìa 31 hubo una muy fuerte interferencia la cual tapaba totalmente a Radio Mil, tratándose de "La Voz de Tu Conciencia" misma que llegò hasta con un SINPO de 4. Habìa yo ya creìdo lo que Rafael Rodrìguez de Colombia habìa informado hace unos dìas que LVTC estarìa fuera del aire de las 04 a las 14 horas del dìa siguiente para evitar interferir a Radio Mil, todo parecìa ser asì; lamentablemente ya ayer volviò la interferencia como ha sido habitual los ùltiimos cinco años. Esto lo ratifica tambièn mi amigo Manuel Mèndez desde España. Ojalà que con el advenimiento del nuevo año los Srs. de "La Voz de Tu Conciencia" escuchen a la propia y cumplan su palabra; ojalà finalmente este 2008 sea un buen año y respeten y cumplan lo prometido. Saludos y un magnìfico 2008 (Juliàn Santiago Dìez de Bonilla, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** CROATIA. 6165, Voice of Croatia-Croatian Radio, 0700-0704, Dec 31, three minute English news program followed by IDs and schedule. Into Croatian at 0704 and local music. // 9470-via Germany. Both frequencies with fair reception (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re: Information about Cuban AM stations? ``Radio Rebelde 770 kHz: What is the location of the transmitter? The location is not listed in the WRTH nor Cuban websites.`` I cannot guarantee any of my information is correct, but I am certain it is more accurate than any other source due to my own field monitoring from Florida and a small circle of trusted reporters in the Caribbean. For 770 Rebelde, my list states Pilón, Granma. ``Radio Reloj 1020 kHz: There is no Radio Reloj transmitter listed here. Radio Reloj only told me that their programming is being relayed by a local station, but which one, Radio Guamá in Bahía Honda or Radio Cadena Habana?`` That is not necessarily true, though I cannot confirm the transmitter is 100% dedicated Reloj 24/7. A Reloj signal is here and has been since 2003, emitting from somewhere in eastern Cuba. So this is hardly news. It is possible it initially appeared in response to the brief Radio Martí tests on 1020 (presumed via the Turks & Caicos), along with the jammer. Reloj audio is certainly not Radio Cadena Habana, which is audible here daytime (poorly), as well as nights. ``I have heard what sounded like Radio Progreso also on 1180 kHz, although only Rebelde should be on that frequency. Any chance of an unlisted station here?`` Why should only Rebelde be on that frequency? Is there a reason you know about that I don't? Is it something Arnaldo Coro Antich is telling you that you should not believe? Progreso 1180 is, according to my list, from Mayarí Arriba, Guantánamo. ``I have been unsuccessful in getting an email response from Radio Progreso to any of my reports (640 & 900 AM). The only email address that I have found is progreso @ ceniai.inf.cu but despite several emails, I never got a reply. Would anyone have alternative email addresses for the station? (Mika Mäkeläinen, Site Admin, McLean, VA, USA, Dec 27, dxing.info via DXLD)`` Just ask Arnie. I'm sure he'll assist all of you DXers (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Another 530 development, S FL listeners enjoy third week of R. Enciclopedia, QTH Havana. 530 switched nets from R. Rebelde to Enciclopedia around 14 Dec. Format might be described as EZ Listening Eclectic, or the Melachrino Strings Do Cryptic. Enjoyable, in any event, instrumentals, rhumbas lapse into Last Tango Theme, 70s sounding covers with whole lotta wahwah guitars prefigure Hugo Winterhalter's Canadian Sunset. YL announcer soothing. Enci last heard here on, 1260, ca. Oct '05. 1260 off air since. 530 well heard day and night, doesn't get shot up at sunset as do 640 Progreso, etc. http://www.radioenciclopedia.cu (pv zecchino manasota key fl Jan 1, IRCA via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command, 5890 // 5940, Jan 1 at 0031 mixing with subversive music on VOA Spanish service, and still at 0109 recheck. Third frequency 9885 was not audible at first and barely audible at second check. Why doesn`t the USA jam RHC with some of our spare transmitter capacity? It would only be fair. Have a real happy 49th (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC, 9550 // 9600, the latter with hefty het from XEYU, Jan 1 at 0100 with 8 pm timecheck, programa gigante de fin del año, which would be on until 0400 UT or local midnight, as the announcer was still confused about DST/ST/UT time conversion. Semi-retired announcer Manolo de la Rosa joined in for the occasion. Would this be a nice non-political, musical celebration? Of course not! Into year-in-review news starting with the 5-yearly general elexions in Cuba. And if I had stayed tuned a few minutes longer, I am certain I would have heard for the millionth time about Posada Carriles and the Cinco Presos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Wires, or feedlines, were apparently crossed again Sunday morning Dec 30: at 1426, I found that the Aló, Presidente program from Venezuela was on 13760 which normally carries the regular RHC service. 13760 was // 13750, and weak 13680, 11670 which were an echo apart, as well as 11875 under WEWN. 17750 inaudible if on, under WYFR. RHC itself was still going with separate program on 11760, 11805, 12000, 15370 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. Denmark reactivated on SW? But hurry - FROM DXLD 7-161 Dec 30: ``Next Sunday December 30th, FRS-Holland will take to the airwaves with another 4 hour seasonal broadcast. We will be on 6220 kHz 0800- 1200 UT. In addition we are on 5815 kHz 1000-1400 and 2000-2400 UT`` The frequency 5815 kHz is believed to be via WMR - Denmark. You have less than 2 hours to log this SW country/transmitter site. Nothing at all audible on 49m at the moment here in oz - as to be expected Regards (Ian Baxter, 2243 UT Dec 30, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) But, but, WMR was a legal licensed station, altho short-lived --- and FRSH is not. How could this be? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 5815, well-chosen frequency, clear channel, but barely audible, 2350Z, with a transmission in English, Brit accented. Problem is the noisy reception, too. I didn't awake to hear if I had any luck with the 6220 transmission, but I doubt about any chances (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Dec 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also EUROPE ** ECUADOR. 4909.22, Radio Chaskis, Otavalo, 1131-1145, Dec 29, Presumed with Spanish talk. Short music breaks. Poor in noise (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional; 0128-0139 1 January, 2008. Presumed the one, fairly weak but alone save for local noise, with definite West African highlife, apparently on overnight for New Year's (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I noticed a carrier still there on 5005 after 0000 Jan 1, and figured that was it, but not enough audio to mess with vs WWV (gh, DXLD) R. Nacional, Bata Equatorial Guinea (presumed) 5005 kc/s, 0505-0515 UT January 1, 2008. SIO 444 through CW interference. Talk by man with low audio in unidentified language, high life type music and children chanting. Antenna 120-11 meter dipole and Icom IC-746 Pro (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7110, UNIDENTIFIED; 2030-2101* 31 December, 2007. Tune-in to nonstop, rather elevator music instrumentals with Irish-like flutes and cheesy synth keyboards until 2050, when a man in (maybe) Russian or something Slavic-related spoke briefly, then back to the instrumentals. Male and female from 2056, just across the top of hour with no interval signal or time sounders, into brief group male anthem-like vocal, immediately off. Very good, though slightly hollow East Euro audio. Who's this? [Later:] 7110, ETHIOPIA, Radio Ethiopia; 2003-2102* 1 January, 2008. Scrub my unidentified "Slavic" from yesterday. It is not so, it's this one. Tune in at 2003 with very nice indigenous vocals, presumed Amharic male announcer, instrumentals (more Arab/Mid-east sounding) until 2055 male, brief fill (same instrumental as before, potted up), then male and female (just as yesterday) from 2056, clear "Yeh Radio Ethiopia..." ID by different male (seemingly a canned closing) at 2058, into the same male choir anthem as noted yesterday, from 2059- 2100, open carrier until 2102*. Very good copy, amazingly this was even audible on the DX-399 portable with whip on the porch! Listed as 2000 closing in PWBR-08 and WRTH-07, but obviously right now it's 2100 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. There is a weak to fair signal on 5815 at 1130 (Dec. 30) with lots fading. Pop music and announcements in German. A frequency sched is being announced at 1135 but too quickly for me to copy. English ID followed as RTSH. There's no trace of any signal on 6220. And similarly on or about 6205 - no trace of Radio Arctica at this time (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also DENMARK ** EUROPE. 6220.05, ITALY Mystery Radio; 0113-0126 1 January, 2008. Huge signal with techno, female canned "Mystery Radio" and back to techno (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. These minutes the 558 kHz transmitter on the Santahamina island east of Helsinki will go dark, if the plug has not already been pulled. So no mediumwave transmitter will be in everyday use in Finland anymore. No chance to follow this here because co-channel Switzerland dominates too much, also when I tried during dusk. Updates from Finland about this? Here is a photo of the transmitter site: http://hopealehmus.dyndns.org:8080/radio/Santahamina/P1040722.JPG (Kai Ludwig, Germany, 2203 UT Dec 31, dxldyg via DXLD) YLE Finland no longer in the MW band --- YLE Helsinki 558 kHz signed off transmission on 31st December 2007 at 2200 UT (midnight Finnish local time) with short station announcement. After that I heard an unidentified Near East station on 558 kHz. It may have been Iran. YLE Finland has now closed all SW-, MW- and LW- transmissions. At the moment Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat 1602 kHz is the only MW station in Finland. In summertime you can also hear Radio Hami AM 1584 kHz from various places. Happy New Year 2008 and Good DX to all of you! 73's (Hannu Romppainen, Finland, Jan 1, MWC via DXLD) ** GABON. Africa No. 1 on 9580 on December 30th at 2117 in French had a woman playing French love ballads and taking listeners' calls with many wishes of "Bonne Année" (Mark Coady, Editor, Your Reports/ Listening In Magazine, Co-Moderator, ODXA Yahoogroup, Ontario DX Association, Bridgenorth, ON, Jan 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) You mean Dec 31? (gh, DXLD) ** GABON. RTV Gabonaise, Moyabi, 4777, 0517-0527 UT January 1, 2008. SIO 544 through CODAR interference. Singing by man, lots of talk by man and woman in French, multiple mentions of Gabon. Antenna 120-11 meter dipole and Icom IC-746 Pro (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. If it`s Deutsche Welle, it can`t be Germany. Dec 31 at 2310 on 6075 via Rampisham and/or Sines per Aoki, feature in German about immigrants and how those speaking various native languages are learning German. Heard the same thing exactly two hours later on 9545 Ascension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 8734-USB, Olympia Radio; 1808-1840 31 December, 2007. Clear and fair, and steadily improving with female voice mirror, "This is Olympia ("O-lim-PEE-uh") Radio, call live on 7, 806, 1272, 1640 and 2217" followed by the same female text in Greek. Finally into ship/shore traffic patches from 1840. Recheck an hour or so later, very strong and back to the loop. Nice to hear an Old School voice mirror after all these years (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX- 399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4780 kHz, Radio Cultural Coatán, San Sebastian, at 1158 UT January 1, 2008. ID, with time check of “seis de la mañana y dos minutos,” male announcer over lively light orchestral background, into more traditional guitar and accordion nasal vocal ballads, and talk, at 1231 with further ID over Kenny G. style soprano sax jazz, then into religious program, brief talk and guitar accompanied hymn. Tune out 1235 UT. This is near gray line, with a very strong signal at times, our local sunrise at approximately 1229, similar to sunrise in Guatemala. Very pleasant listening despite CODAR, SINPO 32323, at times even stronger (Roger Chambers, Utica, New York, SONY ICF 2010 with long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. An extraordinary early broadcast: 4810.06, AIR Bhopal, 2345- 0115, Dec 28/29, two men reporting in English/Hindi from Cricket match in Melbourne in very early morning broadcast, 24312 - best at the end // 4910 and 5040. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9910, AIR, Aligarh; *2258-2310 31 December, 2007. Carrier, into interval signal from 2258, Hindi ID and Hindi female briefly from 2300, followed by male then Hindi vocals through tune-out. Alone but weak, and no listed parallel found or at least audible. Presumed site (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526.0, Voice of Indonesia, with continuing transmitter problems. 1555-1611, Dec 29, loop of Gamelan music and English IDs, into Arabic programming and reciting from the Qur'an. Re-checked at 1624 and they were not on the air. Dec 30, 0755-0801*, mixing badly with CTN on 9525.0 (in local language – 0800*), Gamelan music and English IDs, suddenly off at 0801 before they could start their English segment and still off by 0806. After 1000 briefly heard again, but did not stay on the air for long (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Suara Indonesia, 9526, in Indonesian until 1501 Jan 1, but open carrier stays on; didn`t keep on it to see how long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. Hi Glen[n], Some great 2-Es in Australia from Indonesia on FM. INDONESIA - [WEST PAPUA] 90.1 RRI-FM (there are two transmitters located in W. Papua) Heard nicely via 2-Es here in Bombala NSW (200 km south of Canberra ACT) and lasted 1/2 hour with talkback program in Indonesian dialect. Strong and clear on peaks. Only the second time I've ever heard Indonesia on FM. Noted Ch E4 on 62.26, Ch A2 Philippines 55.25, China 49.75 & Thailand 48.26 on the Icom R-7100 also. Thanks to Todd Emslie for the alert to that region (namely China which was first in). 1445-1515 AEDST (Australian Eastern DST) 31/12/07 (Geoff Wolfe, Bombala NSW Australia, 0531 UT Dec 31, Sony ST-SA5ES tuner, 12 Element FM yagi, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UT time of logging 0345-0415, so presumably also UT Dec 31 ** INTERNATIONAL. NEW YEAR'S EVE ABROAD, VIA RADIO. Shortwave and internet radio is a great way to see in the new year over the world's time zones, starting with New Zealand at 1000 UT and ending with Hawaii at 1000 UT the next day. Keep in mind, however, that the Western new year is not such a big deal in some countries, whose cultures have their own new year's days, some more ancient than a measly 2008 years. I'm not collecting audio from the 31 December/1 January broadcasts the way I did in years (decades) past for my defunct VOA program Communications World. But I did manage the catch two this year. At 2300 UT, the lady on Radio Nacional de España was not quite as comical as in previous years in using onomatopoeia to describe the sounds in Madrid at the stroke of midnight. But it is still one of the most festive new year's to be heard on the radio (or internet radio). Just after midnight, RNE's party-of-the-air was introduced thus: "Bienvenidos. Bienvenidos a todos al club más exclusivo. El mejor lugar para pasar esta noche vieja. El Club 2008 de Radio Nacional de España." Listen to mp3 audio via http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=3038 At midnight UT (GMT), perhaps one of the best vicarious new year's eve parties via radio was from BBC Radio Scotland. The music party was going on when I logged on at 2330 UT, and it (though not I) continued until 0100. At the midnight hour, they used the sound of Big Ben in London to strike the midnight hour, with the BBC Radio Scotland hosts speaking over it. At a few minutes past midnight, "Auld Lang Syne" on accordion, with live audience singing, from the homeland of that poem. Listen to mp3 audio via http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=3038 (Kim Andrew Elliott, Posted: 01 Jan 2008, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. For internet audio junkies I've got a page on my website at http://www.ve3sre.com/streaming3.html with streaming audio links to WRN, CBC/Radio Canada, Canadian campus/community stations, a good chunk of the NPR stations, Pacifica, BBC, ABC (Australia), RNZ, RTE and SABC. I have links to Toronto area AM stations here: http://www.ve3sre.com/radio.html#torontoam and Toronto area FM stations: http://www.ve3sre.com/radio2.html#torontofm Obviously the lists are pretty hard to keep up-to-date but I do what I can (hey, it's only a hobby!). But I hope some of you find the lists useful. 73 – (Bob Chandler, VE3SRE bob @ ve3sre.com ODXA yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. Cari amici di PLAYDX, considerando la cattiva qualita` della frequenza serale di 5910 kHz abbiamo deciso di sostituirla con la frequenza di 5890 kHz 49 metri. Vi preghiamo a controllare e di comunicarci la qualita` d'ascolto su questa nuova frequenza. Ringraziandoti anticipatamente ti salutiamo dall'Iran. Ali 1930-2000 VOIRI EU 5890 Sirjan - 7380 Kamalabad VOIRI - Radio Televisione della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran, Servizio oltre frontiera, Redazione Italiana - P.O. Box 19395/6767 - Teheran - Iran. Web: http://italian.irib.ir/ Email: italianradio @ irib.ir (via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg, http://www.bclnews.it/italia/italiaB07.htm BCLNEWS.IT, the only italian updated DX web site!!! Click on http://www.bclnews.it Jan 1 via DXLD) V. of Justice, 7160, 0144 Jan 1, M&W alternating with news in English, mostly about Iraq, casualty count, US politics, Pakistan. 0150 segment tentatively called ``Iran`s Parliamentary Spoxeman Remarx``. Sounds like they are obsessed with the US occupation of Iraq. Good, clear audio, and impressive signal, unlike // 6120 barely audible, QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7310.91 odd, IRIB Tehran in Turkish at 1600-1730 UT via Kamalabad 500 kW 298 degrees, S=7 signal in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6972.1, Galei Zahal (Tel Aviv). 0625. Boxing Day (12/26), 2007. Hebrew. YL with telephone interviews. S7/Fair (Joe Wood, Greenback TN, E1, DX 390, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 6974.65, Galei Zahal; 2018-2025 31 December, 2007. Good with Mel Tormé or similar English ballad, Hebrew male jock, back to vocals. On 6974.36 at 2122 check the previous day, also with mostly English oldies (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 7690-USB, Mossad; 2236-2244 31 December, 2007. Long alpha strings by mechanical female, clear and fair (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC- R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel, 9390 at 1730z continuing past 1845, much better than // 9345. Some interference from 9385 (WWRB). I don't see 9390 listed at Israel Radio dot org (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, Dec 31, Drake R8B, T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And this frequency (9390) is being heard from at least 1400 in Hebrew, and is co-channel with Deewa Radio (VOA) until 1500. The frequency is registered with the HFCC from 1600 at 250 kW 330degrees so there seems to be a lack of further coordination by operating it from an earlier time (Noel R. Green (NW England), Jan 1, ibid.) Israel did continue their English broadcasts, at least at 10.30 UT Jan. 1st on both 13855 and 15760. 73, (Erik Køie, at the moment in the Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. Italian Radio Relay Service - Short wave Schedule Our frequencies schedule until March 30, 2008, is online at : http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/IRRS-SW_B07.html Good listening and Good DX !!! (via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) Viz.: Freq. (KHz) Time UTC Days ITU Zones Power & Modulation Antenna Language 7285 1800-2000 Fri, (Sat) Sun 18-19,27-30,37-39 150 kW A3 Europe, MEast, N Africa English (1)(5) 9510 0900-1300 Sun 18-19,27-30,37-39 150 kW A3 Europe, MEast, N Africa German, English (1) 15750 1300-1330 Sun 30-31,40-43 150 kW A3 Far East English (2) 9825 1500-1800 Daily 38-40,46-48,52,53,57 150 kW A3 Africa English, Arabic (3) (1) To Europe, Middle East and North Africa (2) To India (3) to Africa (5) Currently testing on Saturdays (as above via DXLD) Via SLOVAKIA, as we know but IRRS will never admit. 9825 is the Miraya FM service for Sudan (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. /SINGAPORE No chance to get NHK direct at 1500 UT - 9750 Yamata was just above threshold -, but noted NHK Singapore Kranji relay 12045 kHz well on S=5-6 level, scheduled 1500-1700 UT in Japanese. Deep fading, Dec 31. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non non]. This year, NHK cut back SW coverage of their NY Eve special to only two SW frequencies, for Asia. But I could hear one of them, 9750 at 1432 Dec 31 with mix of pop music, live audience response and talk, story-telling? in Japanese only. Unlike the last few years, however, they actually stayed on the air and acknowledged the arrival of 2008 at midnight local, 1500 UT when there was a countdown, brief celebration and fireworx sounds. No gongs heard until almost 1505; reception was only fair but peaked at 1515 during drumming, and still audible tho weak at 1538. I also heard R. Japan in English on 9875 closing at 1427 giving frequency for next broadcast at 2200, 13640. To find out the frequencies for the 1400 broadcast you have to listen to the end of the 1310 broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** KAZAKHSTAN [and non]. Re 7-160, Almaty 200 kW on 7490 at 18-19 with WYFR: this has already been moved to Yerevan with 300 kW instead, but I`m not sure exactly when (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Explains of course the quite strong signal. And still there is the question if the Kazakh shortwave facilities are on their way out and just linger around a bit longer now, thanks to Family Radio (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** KOREA SOUTH. US FORCES TV CHANNEL TO BE BANNED IN SOUTH KOREA Korea’s broadcasting regulator has decided to ban local cable TV operators from relaying American Forces Network Korea’s English- language television broadcasts. The planned ban, however, will be enforced after a months-long grace period, in consideration of the inconvenience it will cause Korean viewers of the AFN-K channel, the Korean Broadcasting Commission said. Under the plan, Korean TV viewers will not be able to watch AFN-K starting early this year or in the second half of this year, depending on the circumstances of cable service providers. The American Forces Network Korea was launched in 1945, providing some of the most popular shows made in the United States as well as live breaking news and sporting events, reports Korea.net. (Source: Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) (January 1st, 2008 - 15:08 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 4759.97, ELWA, Monrovia, 2305-0007*, Dec 31-Jan 1, On late for New Year's. Normal sign off time is 2300. Was also on late Christmas eve with sign off around 2400 on Dec 24. Heard with English religious talk. Contemporary religious music. Local religious music. Closing announcements at 0002. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions & CODAR QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. Reception Report to KBC Radio On SW Check this out!! Radio Administration has just informed us that they refuse to authorize us to use the frequency of 6235 kHz; they say the frequency is too close to some protected frequency of 6225 kHz. The Mighty KBC will move to 6265 kHz starting the first of January 2008. Please forward this message to your DX-Friends and your DX-CLUB! KBC import/export Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede Holland Tel ++31 318 552491 Fax ++31 318 437801 info @ k-po.com report and a short recording of your transmission. Kind regards. Paz y Dx (via Ignacio Sotomayor, Sta.Mª la Real de Nieva, Segovia, Castilla, España (41º04'03.62''N-4º24'35.68''W), DXLD) = 7-161 LITHUANIA, 6265, KBC Radio, 2215-2220, escuchada el 1 de enero en inglés a locutor con programa musical, música rock y pop rock, cuñas de ID, SINPO 45554. Nueva frecuencia de esta emisora vía Lituania ex 6235. En su página web no anuncian los cambios. Algún programa especial? La emisión terminó a las 2230 UT (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Sangean ATS 909, Antena Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As previously announced, 6235 was denied by the admin, and also they have started daily broadcasts; but of only one semi-hour? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. CRI relays via Marnach 1440 to stop? --- Of course not! The enclosed message has just been posted the German-language A-DX list: "It appears that there will be a surprise on 1440 on New Year's Day at 1900 UT. News came from BCE [the transmitter operator], I don't know more yet but would like to give away this hint anyway." In their recent circular about leaving Berlin 97.2 the German service of CRI still referred to 1900-2100 on 1440. So it will be indeed a surprise if 1440 will carry something else than CRI as of tomorrow. (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Dec 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Am Neujahrstag um 1900 UTC scheint es auf 1440 eine Überraschung zu geben. Mehr weiss ich auch noch nicht, wollte es aber schon mal angedeutet haben. News kam von der BCE (Broadcasting Center Europe) Mal abwarten (Joé Leyder, Luxembourg, ADX via Ludwig, ibid.) It turns out that just the middleman between CRI and RTL has changed. WRN is apparently no longer involved here, instead the CRI relay is now preceeded by an opener with Chinese music and a German-only announcement "This program is presented by Radio 86 in cooperation with RTL Luxembourg and China Radio International. For further informations please visit our homepage, www.radio86.com. Thank you for listening!" The feed from Beijing started late, resulting in some fill music being played out, presumably from the Kirchberg main control room. The distribution was quite unstable, frequently cutting off, resulting in more fill music for five minutes (ca 1903-1908). The origin of this "Radio 86" website appears to be a Chinese outpost in Finland: http://www.futuvision.com It is my impression that the BCE informers were only aware of WRN being replaced by Radio 86. Anyway the first comments about this "surprise", posted within minutes to the A-DX list, are quite disappointed. I will later post two audio files to the "Station Sounds" file section. [Later:] Also French is still on 1440, from the same unstable feed as German before and preceded by a "Radio 86" announcement in French. So no doubt the schedule remained unchanged. Btw, the Marnach transmitter switches to another antenna pattern for French; after the German program the carrier had been cut and after some seconds the signal came back at noticeably lower level. Just thought I should check out if CRI is still relayed by WRN at all: Yes, German 2000-2100 via WRN Deutsch was on as always, with a program about a pop star from "the island province of Taiwan" and a trailer plugging FM 97.2 at Berlin. Played by mistake? But in the closing announcement 97.2 was mentioned as well. Another mistake or indeed a last-minute reprieve? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. Observing UT, 5995 might`ve been a yearchange option at 0000, a bit more exotic than the snubby BBC; checked at 2255 Dec 31 and was in call-in thru hourtop, 2317 singing with thumb piano accompaniment, but blocked at 2325 by OC from Sackville, 2328:30 RCI IS & ID, 2329:30 into R. Praga relay in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, RM-Nouakchott (tentative), 0848-0909 30 Dec. Clear with M in Arabic yakking about Islam, Islamic-influenced W/NAf music, apparently into local language after 0900 with phone call at 0909. 4845 heard earlier (0400, & past 0800) quite well, so perhaps 41M has *0830? Presumed CNR2 *0900 didn't help (Dan Sheedy, CA, R75/120' random (& how!) wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Altho R. Mauritanie usually runs to 0100 or even all night, not so NYE: no sign of 4845 Dec 31 at 2340 or later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Hola Glenn: escucho a XEOI, 0015 hoy [UT Dec 31] con ruido de fondo no tan claro como ayer. Tambièn informa mi amigo Manuel Mèndez que nuevamente escucha a LVTC sobre Radio Mil; quizà lo de salir del aire por la noche de Colombia ya no es más un hecho. Leyendo las experiencias del Sr. Klemetz cuando visitò Radio Mil y luego que enviò un informe de recepciòn no me extraña; no existìa una polìtica y menos una atenciòn clara al escucha. Fuè precisamente esto lo que motivò el que nos invitaran a tener mayor atenciòn al respecto, y asi lo hicimos durante años hasta que llegò el problema con LVTC. Yo me encarguè de esto desde 1997 asì que el reporte que enviò el Sr. Klemetz no me llegò a mi, ya que yo iniciè el proyecto cinco años despuès. Por cierto en todo este año no se han contestado informes para Radio Mil; tengo que conversar con los directivos para reactivar esto, espero a mediados de enero reiniciar. Finalmente son muy pocos los informes pero los tengo en buen resguardo. XEYU saliò sùbitamente del aire a las 2310 UT; se escuchaba con un SINPO de 5. Saludos, (Juliàn Santiago D. de B., Dec 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just in time to avoid Vatican (gh, DXLD) Estimado Glenn: desde ayer por la tarde la interferencia de LVTC sobre Radio Mil fuè muy intensa tapandola totalmente. En cuanto a XEYU Radio UNAM, ha estado muy fluctuante. Durante el dìa a las 10 (Central) se escuchaba muy baja; fuè subiendo, luego desapareciò y en estos momentos 15:00 [2109 UT] se escucha de maravilla. Feliz Año 2008 (Juliàn Santiago Díez de Bonilla, Dec 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also COLOMBIA ** MEXICO. After a period of weakened signals, XEYU, Radio UNAM, was back at fair-good level on 9599.2, Dec 31 at 1434 with classical guitar; 1538 even better signal with harp music. Usually news/talk during these hours, but not on NYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 4800 0338-0405+, 0805-0900+ 30 Dec. Mostly segued C'mas holiday style instrumentals ("Joy to the World", "Silent Night", "In Excelsis Deo"), M in unID language, all wrapped in CODAR with a bow. Possibly R. Buenas Nuevas, but couldn't even be sure of language. Folks in the mid-West or on the East Coast maybe heard it better? (Dan Sheedy, CA R75/120' random wire covered in reindeer droppings, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? 4800.0, possibly XERTA, at 0747, Dec 30, heard very weak signal, with CODAR QRM, playing Christmas music, no announcements noted and only heard for brief time, as also reported by Dan Sheedy and Dave Valko. R. Buenas Nuevas (Guatemala) of course is usually around 4799.8. After the last two antenna changes that XERTA did, I was not able to heard them at all on 4810, so this is encouraging if it's them. Needs better conditions to get more details (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4800.0, checked late Dec 31, but nothing heard until 0011 Jan 1, music and talk in uncertain language, quite poor signal having a battle with CODAR. 0041 undermodulated YL talk I could almost conclude was Spanish. Believed to be XERTA, ex-4810 after months of silence, at least away from the hash next to 4810. Must be counting on Guatemala never coming back on 4800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4800.0, XERTA/Radio Transcontinental de America, 1248-1315+, 1/1/08. Continuous light Spanish-language music. No IDs or announcements heard, but audio is // to (though ahead of) the live audio feed on their website. Had not been audible when I scanned past this frequency around 1230. Fair to good with CODAR QRM (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5770, Myanmar Defense Forces BC (presumed) via Taunggyi, 1525-1529*, Dec 29, in vernacular, pop Asian song, brief sign-off announcement, usual indigenous instrumental music played for a few seconds at sign-off, poor (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2582 presumed, USB, Canada, St Johns, NF, VON. 11/9/2007 2240. Weather forecasts for Labrador including snow flurries (Long Beach Island (NJ) DXpedition 6 – 11/9-11/07, DX Worldwide, IRCA DX Monitor Jan 5 via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. CANADA. 6160, CKZN, 2212, 01/01/08, English. Roundup of world news, followed by a summary of regional weather forecasts. A few moments of dead air, then a standby message followed by several minutes of muzak (technical difficulties!), finally rejoining CBC programming already underway. Poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. New Year - Unfortunately was not able to catch the New Year in New Zealand as transmission on 9765 ended at 1057 and 13840 inaudible here at 1100 (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, Dec 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Propagation condition on 2006/2007 eve was much, much better. Also NZ decreased Rangitaiki output power from 100 to 50 Kw this year! Listen to 5 seconds recording on 9765, and remaining time of 13840 kHz Dec 31, 2007. Eton E1 Radio bare-footed telescopic. Unfortunately ute dittering QRM from nearby 13839.50 kHz. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 to all of you. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, ibid.) Bell bird IS, time signal, Auld Lang Syne by tenor, choral refrain, 12:01 timechek, RNZ news saying Auckland was first major city in world to welcome NY (strange, I heard later that Sydney claimed that honour) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, *0800-0810, Dec 31, abruptly on at 0800 mid-sentence with vernacular talk. IDs. Very good. Strong (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 4770, 0529-0538 UT January 1, 2008. SIO 444. News features about Nigeria in English, lots of talk by man with multiple mentions of corruption, crime, central bank and Nigeria. Antenna 120-11 meter dipole and Icom IC-746 Pro (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE. 6700 AM, The Crystal Ship, 2250, 01/01/08. Vintage WWII-era audio and music, a bit different than the Poet's usual programming. Nice audio and S9+ signal, strong even compared to usual solid reception of TCS. // 3430 also weakly audible. Good (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KOCO 5/DT 7 in OKC, the ABC affiliate, has thrown in the towel on noon news. Had been head-to-head competition with 4 and 9 weekdays, but rejiggering sked in 2008y to move in a soap opera during the noon hour [1800 UT]. 4 remains with a full hour of midday news, and 9 with a semihour. Also gone from 5 is the 2-hour Saturday morning news at 10 am, replaced by kidvid, and encroached upon by sports. They do now have 2 hours of local news starting at 5 am daily – not sure if this is an increase as never paid any attention before to that part of their schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Nueva Peruana ??? El sábado 29 y domingo 30 desde alrededor 2330 a 0230 UT estuve sintonizando una emisora peruana que se identificaba como Radio Superior; transmitia en los 4523.5 kHzm enviando saludos por año nuevo en un programa llamado: Superfiesta. Muy difícil obtener más datos por los muchos ruidos propios de la banda y además de los ruidos eléctricos que abundan durante esta época del año. El lugar de donde transmiten fue dificil de captar por el acento del locutor pero termina en " - - - bamarca..." "...escucha a Radio Superior en banda de onda corta, banda que llega a todo el Perú, Radio Superior 4523 kilociclos... " En los últimos años hay referencia de dos emisoras llamadas Radio Superior, a saber en 5300 kHz desde el Distrito de Bolívar; y desde Naranjos en 6237v kHz. Ojalá algún colega diexista peruano pueda brindarnos más datos sobre esta emisora. Sea el momento para desearles a todos los colegas un feliz año 2008, que la propagación nos colme de buenas e interesantes escuchas. Buen DX (Rafael Rodriguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Dec 31, playdxyg via DXLD) Excelente noticia!!! Anoche, 31 de diciembre, había una relativa buena propagacion para el Peru. Sin embargo, nada llegaba en esta QRG. De todas maneras, ahora en enero estaré viajando a distintos puntos del país por vacaciones así que seguramente realizaré intentos más alentadores desde zonas rurales. 73 y buen comienzo de año!!!! (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Jan 1, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4790.2: R. Visión, Chiclayo, Spanish, 31/12 0249. Música cristã, pastor entrevistando os fiéis por bênçãos recebidas, ‘tenga fé en Dios, cual es su nombre, sanado por Dios’, aplausos, time checking, ‘campaña en la ciudad de Chiclayo, mensaje de la Palabra de Dios por el Pastor Francisco Córdova Rodríguez, fundador de la Iglesia La Cosecha (?), las bendiciones de Dios. ID: ‘Radio Visión, escuchan el programa La Voz de la Salvación, desde la ciudad de Chiclayo, Perú, Iglesia Pentecostal La Cosecha, con usteds, Pastor Francisco Córdova Rodriguez’, mensagem do Pastor sobre 1 Aos Corintios, 7:25, 35443 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo-SP, Brasil, Sony ICF2001D, Ant Horiz. 22 m (simples, sem acessórios). 73, e um feliz ano novo a todos, http://www.radioways.cjb.net http://www.ondascurtas.com http://www.dxclube.com.br DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not portuñol? (gh) ** PERU. 4834.93, Radio Marañón, Jaen, 1120-1131, Dec 29, Spanish talk. ID at 1122. Short music breaks. Poor to fair signal with CODAR QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. FEBC, Manila/Bocaue, 9430, very good big signal in Chinese, and no jamming on this station! Jan 1 at 1505 with singing, ``Happy New Year``. 345 degrees but plenty of it reached OK (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. 9450 kHz, Polish Radio in English with now quite reliable signal, 1301 UT January 1, 2008, very nice program on Polish composer Karol Szymanowski and other cultural features. “People do not get information from books anymore, it is from movies and internet,” was one idea. Then a short feature on Artur Rubinstein, celebrating 120th anniversary of his birth. Various snippets of classical pieces, including Grieg’s piano concerto. Very fine quality cultural programming (Roger Chambers, Utica, New York, SONY ICF 2010 with long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. December 31, 2007, Moldova, 7370 kHz, I tuned in at 1449 and listened until 1513. An English language program read by a male announcer. SINPO=4,5,4,3,4. The program called the "Information and Analytic Program" was interesting. I got a solid ID at 1513 with frequencies, times, and days of the week. The announcer wishes us listeners a nice holiday. NRD-545 and the HVU-8 antenna (a vertical ham band antenna 32 feet above the ground). A happy New Year to you, and the best of DX in 2008! (John Davis, Johnstown OH, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi John, Wonder what you heard from this at 1449 until 1500? I thought they started at 1500 with English. Or did you mean 1459-? Regards, (Glenn to John, via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. REPORT: VOICE OF RUSSIA WILL ADD TWO DIALECTS OF KURDISH. "The Russian government has decided to launch the Kurdish department of Voice of Russia in both Kirmanji and Sorani Kurdish language dialects, Shorish Khalid, Representative of PUK in Russia announced. ... Voice of Russia is a state run channel, launched since 1929, and transmits its programs in 31 languages." PUKmedia, 25 December 2007. VOR was formerly Radio Moscow. (kimandrewelliott.com Posted: 01 Jan 2008 via DXLD) Starting when? Time? Frequencies? (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 0355-0425, Dec 30, Russian programming, ToH 5 + 1 pips, many "programa Radio Rossii" IDs, into radio drama, poor-fair; parallel with 5935 via Magadan, poor-fair mixing with WWCR; 7200 via Yakutsk, fair-poor with the pulsating warble; 7320 via Magadan, weak. Re-checked at 0717 to only hear 6075 with classical music (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075, R. Rossii (presumed) via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, on extended schedule, 1437-1447, Dec 31, nice Russian music and ballads, fair to good; parallel with 5935 via Magadan, also fair to good and in the clear; 7200 and 7320 not heard. They usually sign-off at 1400 (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, Kigali, 2200-2257, Dec 31, Tentative. On late for New Year's? French/vernacular talk. Variety of Afro-pop, local choral music, African folk music. Fair signal but completely covered by Spain's sign on at 2257 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 4790, BSKSA (Jeddah). 0455. Christmas (12/25), 2007. Arabic. OM with fast paced prayers. Heavy sweeper QRM. Poor. Thanks to Richard D. for catching a typo in my BSKSA log. The freq should be 4790 NOT 4780 (Joe Wood, Greenback TN, E1, DX 390, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 30 via DXLD) ** SCOTLAND. NYE on BBC R. Scotland: see INTERNATIONAL ** SERBIA [non]. 7115, RSI *0029-0101 29 Dec. Guitar IS, anthem and W in presumed Serbian with "Radio Serbia, 7-1-1-5 kHz..", into Serbian program to carillon/guitar (IS?) at 0058. Weak but readable when "frying bacon" (jammer?) is off (shows up 7105-7125 in 2-3 minute bursts); after 0100 English is sked, but signal mashed by fryer (Dan Sheedy, CA R75/120' random noise-attacting wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. Re 7-161: They have no particular reason to broadcast Italian to NAm, but they know well there is no more broadcast to NAm in Italian on shortwave (Roberto Scalgione, Sicily, Dec 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From Italy or Switzerland. But is there Italian to NAm, from Vatican? q.v. Finally I could check myself for the strangely inappropriate Italian service to North America from Belgrade, Jan 1 at 0130 on 7115, theme and ID as Radio Internazionale di Serbia. Program would be 30 minutes of Serbian music, but interspersed with announcements by W in Italian. At times slow CW QRM from novice ham on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA. [real] 7239.96, International Radio Serbia via Stubline 10 kW unit noted surprisingly strong in Serbian around 1430 UT, some phone-in interviews on New Year, But signal disappeared around 1455 UT, when Lhasa, Tibet, took over the channel with sweet soft Chinese songs. [Bosnia] S=8 signal of IRS via Bijeljina Bosnia noted with an estimated 125/250 kW output signal around 0200-0230 UT on Jan 1st. Never heard such strong IRS signal, since disappearance in mid 2006y (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIERRA LEONE. 9L, SIERRA LEONE (Update). Norbert, 9L1FZ, is currently active and can usually be found on 20 meters (14165 kHz) SSB. He informs OPDX that he will announce a QSL Manager very soon. He also tells OPDX that he can be active on all bands up to 30 MHz, from home, mobile, portable and maritime mobile. Modes of activity will be SSB, CW (please only if needed for specific diploma etc., as he is in the process of relearning after 30 years and is very slow) and all digital modes which can be covered by SCS PTC, including Pactor 3 and robust packet. Norbert adds, "I can operate crossband and duplex, as there are 4 transceivers and antennas available (remote transmitter available). I am not very active and not operating in contests but can spend a couple of hours on the radio if some folks need this rare country (don't think that there are more than 10 licences and more than 3 OMs active over here)." There is a possibility he may activate Banana Island (AF-037). (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 839, Dec 31, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 9810, BBC Kranji relay lost contact to English/Arabic feeder in 1600-1630 UT slot. An endless recording loop announcement in English as well as cello music in between heard continuously. S=8 at 1620 UT, Dec 31 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE, 6055, with interesting discussion of NY observations in Spain, Dec 31 at 2313 in French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also INTERNATIONAL ** SUDAN [non]. 9825, R. Miraya (tentative), 1502-1600+ 29,30 Dec. CNR-1 closing at 1500 prevented hearing complete sign-on but had Sudan / Darfur news items/phone reports (and mention of Miraya) to 1510, music bridge with canned echo announcement, into Arabic. Possibly back to English at 1545, but signal deteriorating. Did notice 4+1 pips both days at 1500, 1600 (same pitch for all 5 with last one a bit longer) (Dan Sheedy, CA R75/120' wire of dubious parentage, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. SRS --- needs more research. RUSSIA FOREIGN RELAY VIA SHORT WAVE TRANSMITTERS OF RUSSIA AND COUNTRIES OF CIS. 28/10/2007 - 29/03/2008 Moscow / RUS 9840 1500-1700 200 kW SRS - Sudan Radio Service But heard on 7330 kHz instead on Jan 1st in 1650-1659 UT. Clear ID at 1658 UT, S=9+30 dB powerhouse today, no transmission break in between from 1659 till 1700 UT usual Voice of Russia chimes, into La Voix de Russie ID at 1700 UT. 9840 didn't checked before yet (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7540, Radio Free Asia, 2347, 01/01/08, presumed Mandarin. Male announcer talking with a guest on the phone, weakly audible under heavy firedrake jamming. Wiped out a bit before 0000 by WEWN firing up with a hymn. Poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. New Dynamic English with good signal Dec 29 at 1507 on 15460. At first I thought this was one of those services to Sudan, but it`s just VOA Special English, scheduled this hour via Thailand at 166 degrees, presumably for Indonesia rather than Australia? No, CIRAF targets are SE Asia, Indonesia, Australia, NZ, but not New Guinea. Why are we teaching English to the Aussies and Enzedders in the nightmiddle? They are entitled to Border Crossings instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 6120 / 6165, Voice of Turkey; 2128-2147 30 December, 2007. Old Turkish torch vocals, Turkish male announcer. 6165 clear and fair, 6120 just slightly weaker (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, R Uganda, Kampala, *0205-0225, Dec 27, Vernacular, New s/on time, Afropop, 34333. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. [original in red] Attention! The Lviv transmitter sw/on on January 1. 0000-0500 to NAm on 7440 including English at 01-02 & 04-05 (from http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=162 UT Dec 31 via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So the high-power NAm service is back with the New Year, after some 3 months` absence, and not on the expected B-07 channel of 7530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUI reactivated on 7440 with the hi-power Lviv transmitter, now that a new fiscal year has begun, Jan 1 at 0010 in Ukrainian talk, theme music. Includes English to NAm at 0100-0200 and 0400-0500, which has been off SW for two sesquimonths. 0116 recheck in English, music for NY, G signal, better modulation than neighboring Tirana 7425. 0121 into Close-up program with several topix including one genius in one hundred is Ukrainian, and new female premier elected. Glad this is back, since music quality is better here than on their webcast. Last we heard in Sept, were planning to use 7530 upon comeback in B-07, but not so. The imminent return was emblazoned in red on their website checked Dec 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. "4 at Forty" Monday 31 December 2007 2100-2245 UT (Radio 4 FM) Eddie Mair presents a celebration of 40 years of Radio 4 and its gradual transformation from a rather old-fashioned service to a cornerstone of British radio. Guests include Liz Forgan, Miranda Sawyer, Sarfraz Manzoor, Jeremy Hardy and Ian Peacock. Four controllers discuss the pleasures and pains of running one of the world's leading speech radio networks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/5bt25/ Online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 5915, RTA Algiers relay via RMP 500 kW 160 degrees, S=9+10 dB on Dec 31, totally distorted HQ prayer audio feed in 2100-2300 UT slot (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. This year was particularly poor as there was nothing from the South Pacific like the rousing New Year's parties from the SIBC in Honiara or the NBC in Port Moresby in previous years. Also missing were the chimes of Big Ben at midnight UTC. Since the BBC schedules in Listening In showed nothing audible in our area, I didn't even try this year (Mark Coady, Editor, Your Reports/Listening In Magazine, Co-Moderator, ODXA Yahoogroup, Ontario DX Association, Bridgenorth, ON, Jan 1, ODXA yg via DXLD) I didn`t either, but there is always WWV (or CHU) for the ``official`` Instant Of Change at 0000, and for me again at 0600 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I heard the full strike of Big Ben on 7105 via Cyprus beginning at 0000. A very Happy New Year to one and all! (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WIMA 1150 KHZ LIMA, OHIO DX TEST Date: Saturday morning (late Friday night), Jan. 5, 2008. Time: 2 - 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time, 0700 - 0730 UT. 1,000 watts using non-directional antenna pattern. Programming will consist of special voice announcements by our own Fred Vobbe of NRC's DX Audio Service, music by the Ohio State Marching Band, Morse code and 1,000 Hz tones. Reception reports may be sent to WIMA Radio, Attn: Lima Engineering, 667 West Market St., Lima, OH 45801. E-mail reception reports may also be submitted to limaengineering @ clearchannel.com No eQSL service is being offered for this test. Recordings on disk in .mp3 or .wav format will be accepted as proof of reception. More information is available at http://www.667westmarket.com/engineering/wima/test/dxtest.html This great and historic station has long been DXer friendly, having previously tested in 1992 and 2005. NOTE: All requests for verifications must be accompanied by return postage in order to receive a reply. Many thanks to WIMA Director of Engineering Mark Gierhart for agreeing to conduct this test, and to Fred Vobbe for his help in putting the test program together (IRCA DX Monitor Jan 5, but published Dec 31, via DXLD) ** U S A. BOXING MATCHES RECENTLY ON KDKA Hi Glenn and Happy New Year! This article is from FightNews.com: NEWS FLASH Minto-Polley on the radio! By Brady Crytzer Sunday evening's heavyweight bout between rising star Brian "The Beast" Minto and Byron "The Bear" Polley can be heard live on the radio. It is broadcasted by KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh. KDKA is the World's oldest radio station and Pittsburgh's number 1 station for news and talk. It can be heard by visiting http://www.kdkaradio.com/ and will begin at 5 p.m. ET. The USBA lightweight title bout between Verquan Kimbrough and Oisin Fagan will be on the broadcast as well. Sunday, December 30 2007 Not many clear channel powers broadcasting local boxing cards these days. Take care! (Eric Loy, Champaign IL, Dec 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Come to think of it, hardly any boxing on free TV any more either, just premium channels like HBO. Short may it live (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WBT Time Machine --- Debuting Saturday December 29 from 9pm to 12m [UT Sundays 0200-0500] it’s the WBT Time Machine. Each Saturday evening Boomer Von Cannon will take us back through time. Each segment will examine an era or theme through sound and music. Shows will include historic audio and classic WBT moments from our 85-year history. Our first show will be dedicated to the late Rockin’ Ray Gooding. The show will be live and local including listener interaction and promises to embrace our total medium through imagination, and entertainment. Special thanks to Boomer, Ed Nixon, Blair Trosper for putting this new project together. And a special version of the WBT Time Machine on Monday December 31 from 9pm to 12m where Boomer will play selected highlights of Rockin' Ray Gooding's last Sunday Night Hall of Fame (WBT http://www.wbt.com/page.cfm;jsessionid=7830f2578419dae8fc453521a562c6f49537TR?ID=51 illustrated via Doug Smith, TN, Dec 30, WTFDA-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. TV Pirate in Chicago? Hi Everyone, Yesterday I took a trip to Chicago to visit family and noticed something a little odd. Driving up the Dan Ryan Expressway (which is the automotive equivalent of being in the chariot race from 'Ben Hur') I received distorted Spanish language audio on 87.7 MHz. OK, I recalled something about an LPTV on ch. 6 in Chicago, so I didn't pay too much attention at the time, having to devote most of my attention to the driving at hand. Today I checked Doug's list and found that there is no Chicago LPTV on 6, there is actually a construction permit for a low power DTV station on that channel. The only thing that makes sense is that Chicago has a TV pirate. The audio I heard sounded like part of a TV show, not a radio broadcast. I did an analog scan from Elmwood Park using my Insignia analog/digital portable TV, but I didn't get anything in on channel 6 from there (Curtis Sadowski, Paxton, Illinois, Dec 30, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. Text of a My Space Bulletin issued by "Stephen Colbert" ""The Daily Show & The Colbert Report return The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be back -- without their writing staffs -- with new episodes starting January 7th. "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence." -- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert"" (via Clara Listensprechen, Jan 1, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 7365, FEBA, 1358, 01/01/08, listed Urdu. Test tones, followed by interval signal, then a brief talk by an announcer in presumed Urdu before some subcontinental-flavored music, then more talk, followed by another tune. Poor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Cf SERBIA: There is Italian from Vatican, if DRM counts, per Bernie O`Shea`s sked in DXLD archived at bclnews.it: America Programmes 1200 Italian 11630* 1210 Italian 11630* 1230 Music 11630* 1235 Music 11630* Going to the original (?), http://www.radiovaticana.org/it1/sched_ame.asp --- It shows day of week variations which Bernie overlooked: if I interpret correctly, Italian is Sun 1200-1230 and Mon-Sat 1210-1235 before the unlingual music start till hourtop, DRM to target areas PQ. What`s that? Sectors, not Québec. No link to their coverage map, and I`m not going to waste time hunting for it, especially since HFCC, Eibi and Aoki do NOT show any such broadcast on 11630, nor on 11625 which VR does use but nowhere near this time period. Is it on the current online DRM skeds? No! So is it a phantom of VR`s imagination? Not even sure what relay site it might have been. Wait! The VR sked page above is dated Oct 20, so it`s A-07 info still displaying on Dec 31! Or is it? 12-13 is winter timing. A clue on a separate page still displaying, but even older, dated 5 Sep 2006! There was such a transmission then, an hour (and a year) earlier in summer at 1100+ and on 13770 to NAm. Checking HFCC A-07, the transmission did exist then at 1100-1200 and on 13770 direct from SMG, CVA, but apparently, no longer. ADDX schedules by language for B-07 do show 12-13 on 13770, but not HFCC. Would it be too much to ask for Vatican Radio to keep its own online schedules up to date? Of course! So is this broadcast on the air, or not?? If not, Serbia indeed has a monopoly on Italian to North America on SW, not including WYFR whose emissions to Europe from Okeechobee are easily heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I dropped two words, but they was in my mind --- "They have no particular reason to broadcast Italian to NAm, but they know well there is no more "not religious" broadcast to NAm in Italian on shortwave (Roberto Scalgione, Sicily, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA. Sintonizada YVTO en los 5000 kHz, a las 1427 UT 30/12, con SINPO de 35333. Pude escuchar lo siguiente al captarla: "(...)Al oír el tono serán las 9 horas, cincuenta y siete minutos, cero segundos". Efectivamente, YVTO registra el atraso de media hora que comenzó a regir en Venezuela desde el pasado 9 de diciembre, a partir de las 3 am. 73s y buen DX (Adán González, Catia La Mar, Estado Vargas, VENEZUELA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Announcements in local time of UT minus 3 sesquihours confirmed (gh) 5000, Observatorio Naval Cagigal; 2244-2250 31 December, 2007. Alone and big on the channel at this greyline with the usual format of male, "Observatorio Naval Cagigal, Caracas, Venezuela" (X 2), followed by minute announcements atop time sounders (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, JRC NRD-535, ICOM IC-R75, RadioShack DX-399, Hammarlund HQ-180A, dipole, interior longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. 6060 kHz, Radio Nacional de Venezuela, tuned in at 1105 UT January 1, SINPO 44444, with English translation of woman speaking in Spanish on Venezuelan progress. Spanish ID, then English announcement, into very nice folk music (rolling plucked guitar of the Llanos), a program in Spanish of “La palabra de hoy,” then into English over a Spanish speaker on the current FARC situation with hostages in Colombia, and talk (only in Spanish) on how 2007 had been “un año de desarollo económico, social, y cultural.” ID, web address and e-mail, off at 1157. As usual, I find their spoken Spanish to very good and a pleasure to listen to, perhaps the cleanest diction of Spanish heard on the radio of Standard Latin American Spanish (Roger Chambers, Utica, New York, SONY ICF 2010 with long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. Hi Glenn, This New Years Eve will certainly find some stations on with extended schedules. Last year I enjoyed hearing Radio Zambia/R. One, on 5915, with a special New Years Eve program. Was fun to hear their bubbly DJ with many "Happy New Year Zambia". For the past month they have had fair to good reception, so I hope that New Years Eve is the same again (Ron Howard, Dec 30, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz: - - - - Ron reported: ** ZAMBIA. R. Zambia/R. One, 5915, 0113-0136, Jan 1, 2007, extended schedule, DJ in vernacular, playing high-life music, many "Happy New Year Zambia" and IDs ("Radio Zambia" and also many for "Radio One"), fair-good (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5915, Radio Zambia, Lusaka, 0033-0045, Jan 1, extended schedule for New Year's with vernacular talk. Local African music. Hi-life music. Covered by Vatican Radio at their 0039 sign on, but still audible underneath. Good signal prior to 0039. Also heard with a poor to fair signal after Vatican Radio signed off at 0159 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZNBC, 5915, reported to be running late on holidays, so I checked Dec 31: before 2300 blocked by Algeria via UK. At 2331 poor in too much splatter from WBOH 5920 even in LSB and synch-LSB, yelling and hilife. 0001 Jan 1 kid group singing, 0037 check apparently off; 0040 heard some audio again but Brian Alexander says that was Vatican. Somewhat better reception from Voice Africa, 4965 at 0004 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 December follow. Solar flux 77 and mid-latitude A-index 2. The mid-latitude K-index at 0000 UTC on 01 January was 2 (10 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SWPC via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 13650, CVC Makeni Ranch, just 35 kilometers west of Lusaka, S=8 signal at 1605 UT, ID at 1558 UT, male voice in English, into English news at 1600 from CVC news room. Dec 31 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4800: see MEXICO UNIDENTIFIED. 5900 kHz numbers transmission 12/31, Spanish, 0832 female: "1-5-5-5-1 * 4-7-8-2-1 * 1-4-7-0-5 * 2-4-5-5-1 * 9-6-6-7-8 * 8-8-1-7-5 * 3-7-1-5-6 * 5-0-5-7-3 * 0-6-3-3-9" and so it comes until 0842 when female repeated three times "final, final, final". Carrier kept on many minutes later but recheck at 0852 was off . Presumed this is the same female voice I heard on 9240 kHz at 1021, 08/21. Happy new year for all of DXLD group and long live SW and Tropical Band! (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP, Brasil (23 33 S, 46 51 W), Sony ICF SW40, dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5954.1, the unknown transmitter which was carrying R. República for a while, was not on the air around 2230 check Dec 31, but back on the air at 2333 with nothing but music, mostly instrumental. No jamming at all, and no need for it, as no sign of RR programming until abruptly off at 2359* Also checked 15710 for DentroCuban Jamming Command, but it was already off by 2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Trying to get an ID on something. At 2024 UT, I have a station on 6985 (AM) in an unidentified language, sounding somewhat Eastern European. Signal is about S9. Male announcer speaking to another male via telephone, somewhat involved conversation. Periodic breaks for Christmas music, such as a dance remix of jingle bells. I monitor this area for pirates pretty regularly, and have never heard this station before. Fading suggests long path to my location in Massachusetts. An individual on the StarChat channel #pirateradio who is located in Greece noted this is also strong there. 2008 Passport lists nothing for this frequency. Can anyone help ID this? (Damon Cassell, location unknown, Jan 1, HCDX via DXLD) Passport may not know, but a quick search of DX Listening Digest finds this: Israel Radio, this hour in Russian, // 9345. http://israelradio.org/sw.htm 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) http://www.bclnews.it/b07schedules/kol.htm (Roberto Scaglione, ibid.) I've just been informed this is Kol Israel -- is listed on the Kol site now. Never heard it here before, though (Cassell, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ I`ve subscribed to MONITORING TIMES for some time and it just dawned on me that your Global Forum is more helpful than all the rest combined. Thanks for all the excellent work you do and please know that it makes everything I do with SWL a lot more enjoyable. PS: I LOVE your dry sense of humor and I`ll never forget ``every preacher on earth can ask you for money…`` Ha!! Shall we start calling you ``Rev.`` Glen??? (Jan R. Schrader, Republic MO, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ THE DEATH OF HIGH FIDELITY --- IN THE AGE OF MP3S, SOUND QUALITY IS WORSE THAN EVER --- ROBERT LEVINE, Posted Dec 26, 2007 1:27 PM http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidel%5City [URL sic] It`s real long but exceptional in telling why music today sounds like noise and crap (Kevin Gilbert, AZ Redding, ABDX via DXLD) CHANNELS 5 AND 6 TO FM? I have always believed that reassigning TV channels 5 and 6 (76 - 88 MHz) to FM would make a lot of sense. There are radios on the market at present that cover 76 - 108 MHz as one FM band as Japan uses the 76 - 88 segment (in addition to part of our current FM band) for FM broadcasting at present. Here in Calgary AB the FM band is almost full at present, and of course the situation is much worse in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. FM cannot expand above 108 MHz as these frequencies are used for aeronautical navigation beacons and the like. And the idea of two separate FM bands does not make much sense to me. What I don't agree with is the reassigning of the TV channels 51 and above to other services (i.e. cellular telephone) via spectrum auctions that seem to be nothing more than a huge money making operation for the FCC/ Industry Canada. There was even a silly proposal to do away with over the air television broadcasting entirely in Canada - I am sure that the cable/DBS people would love this but it is hardly in the public interest. 73, (Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, Calgary AB, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) As I mentioned in the current "FMedia!" newsletter (p. 8), the Association of Maximum Service Television (formerly "Telecasters") has requested of the FCC that they continue FM protections of Channel 6 TV and possible Channel 5 spectrum. It does not want to turn those allotments over to FM after the February 2009 DTV transition. I do not know if the AMST presented that as a formal petition (Bruce Elving, WTFDA via DXLD) POTENTIAL FM BAND EXPANSION Doug Smith replies to quotations from Saul Chernos, Ont., Dec 31: ``I understand there was a recent rulemaking (date ???) to the FCC to reassign Channels 5 and 6 for low-power FM. I further understand that there has been no action thus far.`` I'm not aware of any such rulemaking. I think if the FCC were planning on acting on something like that, they would have addressed it concurrently with their recent LPFM rulemaking. In fact, while many alternatives for making more LPFMs possible were discussed, the expansion of the FM band was not considered at all. I would certainly believe one or more petitions have been filed asking for such a rulemaking. I don't think such a rulemaking would stand much chance of success. Existing commercial stations won't stand for anything that would create more stations (even if they are non-commercial). ``A colleague of mine in Canada, who some of you may know (long-time DXer Wayne Plunkett) also does radio consulting and is running into a very crowded FM band in some Canadian markets. He's eager to explore the idea of expanding the FM band downwards to encompass spectrum space currently covered by 5 and 6.`` I think you would find such stations would have a VERY hard time achieving financial success. Eureka-147 operations would probably be a better idea - the regulatory framework already exists to authorize them, (in Canada) and the equipment is already available. (I fully understand Eureka-147 is not doing very well in the marketplace in Canada. For the above reasons I believe a 76-88 MHz analog FM service would do even worse.) ``Interestingly, there is an article in the December 1945 Radio Craft describing the then just approved by the FCC reallocation of a large quantity of spectrum, including the moving of the FM band up to 88-106 Mcs. The author of this article speculates that FM might soon encompass down to 78 Mcs. but does not indicate how this additional 10 Mcs. will be compensated for in the TV band. Now some 65 years later, we're wondering the same thing under very different current circumstances.`` This is to be honest the first I've ever heard of a 1945 proposal to assign more than 18 MHz to FM. From what I've read in a number of sources - especially QST - all involved were pretty well convinced the *amount* of spectrum to be assigned for FM - 18 MHz, plus 2 MHz for fax broadcasting - was correct. The only question was *which* 18 MHz to assign. http://members.aol.com/jeff560/chronofm.html scroll down to May 21, 1945 and June 4, 1945. Obviously, Alternative 3 is pretty close to what actually happened. ``So, the point of all this - would a proposal to extend the FM band be viable and have any chance of success? Your comments may influence lobbying efforts with broadcasting industry bigwigs and federal government officials in Canada in 2008.`` Unfortunately, no. Not in the U.S.. -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, WTFDA via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: see VATICAN ++++++++++++++++++++ WQEW 1560 - IBOC That station is already spilling over into adjacent channels, I have never heard a more compressed sounding signal, very obnoxious. That has to be the worst sounding AM station I've ever heard, I can't imagine what it will sound like now in glorious iBlock, it's almost impossible to phase out here, there goes three more DX channels (Bob Young, NRC-AM via DXLD) And to think, used to be classical WQXR! (gh) This is definitely going to be an interesting one to watch if it goes HD, since there's some combination of high-on-the-dial frequency and tower configuration that seems to send most (nearly all?) of its signal up as skywave, with very little groundwave. It's frequently an easier afternoon catch up here in Rochester, 350 miles away, than it is in parts of NYC itself. I imagine the same is true up Bob's way (and even more so out on the Cape!) This has interesting implications for adjacent-channel stations - there could easily be serious interference during critical hours (and even closer to midday than that) for stations like WNTN 1550 and WNSH 1570 in MA, WFTU 1570 and WLIM 1580 in eastern Long Island, maybe even 1540 in Albany and 1550 in Pittston PA. WDZK 1550 in Connecticut will be affected as well, but that's co-owned with WQEW, so that's an internal issue for Disney to figure out. Perhaps Barry McLarnon, if he's reading this, might chime in with some input about the impact WQEW IBOC via skywave might have on two Canadian Class A signals that would seem to be at the right distance for problems to arise - 1570 Laval QC and 1580 Oshawa ON? s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, ibid.) Now that Nighttime IBOC has been around awhile Tell us how it's affecting you on the NRC's IBOC Poll! Check out the New IBOC Poll at http://www.nrcdxas.org [tagline] Iboc over WQEW will be delayed. A new transmitter was installed recently and our CE is having trouble getting full output into the old towers - he needs to correct the analog before jumping into the Iboc. No timetable (Bob Galerstein WB2VGD, Monroe, NY, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ IMO POSTS ITS 2008 METEOR CALENDAR What better way to wish all of you a happy New Year than to let you know that the IMO has posted its annual meteor shower calendar: http://www.imo.net/calendar/2008 Happy trails (Saul Chernos, Ont., Dec 31, AMFMTVDX mailing list, via DXLD) Starting with the Quadrantids coming right up (gh, DXLD) ###