DX LISTENING DIGEST 9-076, October 13, 2009 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2009 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1482, October 14-21, 2009 Wed 0700 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1830 SHR 3935 Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? Thu 0530 WRMI 9955 Thu 1200 WRMI 9955 Thu 1900 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? Fri 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51 Fri 0100 WRMI 9955 Fri 1130 WRMI 9955 Fri 1430 WRMI 9955 Fri 1900 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? Fri 2028 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 0800 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [2, 4, 5 Sats] Sat 1330 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sat 1830 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1130 SHR 5835 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 0500 WRMI 9955 Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Tue 1900 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? Wed 0700 WRMI 9955 [or new 1483 starting here?] Wed 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1830 SHR 3935 Wed 1900 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? 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 or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org 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://podcast.worldofradio.org or http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org ** ABKHAZIA [non]. Re 9-075: Abjasia y Osetia rechazan planes de Radio Liberty de emitir en esas regiones Abjasia y Osetia del Sur rechazaron los planes de la emisora estadounidense Radio Libertad de transmitir su programación en ruso a los territorios de esas regiones separatistas georgianas. La dirección de Radio Svoboda, la versión rusa de Radio Libertad, anunció hoy que a partir del 2 de noviembre próximo emitirá desde su sede en la capital checa, Praga, un programa diario de una hora en ruso a ambas regiones secesionistas. Ese programa estará a cargo de dos redacciones de Radio Svoboda, la georgiana y la rusa, y contará con la colaboración de periodistas de Abjasia, Osetia del Sur, Georgia y Rusia, indicó un directivo de la emisora, según la agencia oficial rusa Itar-Tass. Las autoridades tanto abjasas como surosetas declararon en respuesta que ningún representante de la emisora les ha avisado de esos planes ni les ha solicitado permiso oficial para ello. "Tal intento de transmisión pirata al territorio de Abjasia será ilegal, con todas las consecuencias que de ello se deducen", afirmó Kristián Bzhania, el portavoz del presidente abjaso, Serguéi Bagapsh. El funcionario advirtió de que la región adoptará "duras medidas, en particular técnicas, hasta apagar la señal de radio", como se hacía en la Unión Soviética durante la Guerra Fría para frustrar las transmisiones de las emisoras occidentales. "Tenemos la posibilidad de hacerlo, y toda esa aventura tramada por Georgia junto con Radio Libertad será agua de borrajas", aseguró Bzhania a Itar-Tass. En la capital suroseta, Tsjinvali, el presidente del Comité de Información y Comunicaciones de la región, Gueorgui Kabísov, criticó a la emisora por "anunciar detalles y fechas de sus transmisiones sin acordarlo previamente con las autoridades de Osetia del Sur". "Representantes de la emisora no se han dirigido a nuestro comité para obtener licencia, por ello el funcionamiento de esa radio en territorio de Osetia del Sur no es posible", aseguró el funcionario a la agencia oficial rusa. Radio Libertad es considerada en ambas regiones separatistas como un órgano oficial de propaganda de EEUU, que respalda la integridad territorial de Georgia y ha apoyado a este país del Cáucaso en su conflicto armado con Rusia de agosto de 2008, tras el cual Moscú reconoció la independencia de Osetia del Sur y Abjasia (EFE via ADN.es Oct 7 via Arnaldo Slaen, dxldyg via DXLD) Very strong reaxion against RL inaugurating broadcasts in Russian specifically for A&O, like not accrediting correspondents. As if any country had any right to prevent any other country from broadcasting to them on shortwave! No luck finding an English version of this (gh, DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 13625, R. Tirana, Tuesday Oct 13 at 1446 in mailbag from listeners in India, Ian Cattermole in New Zealand; 1448 announceress outlines the program schedule. Some of these may be titles, others general topix, so the capitalization may not fit: Monday, Albania in the Week; cultural events; sports Tuesday, foreign personalities, mailbag Wednesday, Albania under the --- process, reforms, EU, music by Albanian artists Thursday, Albanian economy, Focus on Albania Friday, regional development, Kosovo, analysis and opinion, --- File, the Albanian language Saturday, week review, Albanian folk music At 1451 went into music today as always to upwrap the semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN ISLANDS. (INDIA) 4760, 1515-, AIR Port Blair, Oct 12. Fair reception at this time, and used to positively ID their MW transmitter on 684, which was armchair copy at times at my DX shack on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) this morning. A real thrill to receive them on MW! (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. 684 kHz: 12 Oct, Chinese on first go at 1345, then noted cochannel at 1347. Back and forth confirmed this to be AIR Andaman Islands. A pile-up at 1414, but became obvious at 1415 and clearly // to 4760. They continued to improve and by 1505 were at good level. At 1521, they dominated the frequency completely and I`d consider them to be `9` level, much better than the SW //. Peaked around 1523. What joy! Second time I`ve heard them in Masset, but a HD failure the last time caused me to lose all the audio! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii = Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) One of many, many, MW logs on a periodic DXpedition to island home (gh, DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. Caribeacon, 6090 off the air again Oct 9 but did not notice until 0556 when no other carriers were audible around 6090, not even Brasil or Nigeria; were they off too? CB 11775 on the air as usual at next check 1343 with PMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Oct 8, 2009, 2038-2103 UT; Noting signal weak but trying to gain strength, switched to USB, and checking 1 kHz above and below, tone clearly pointed to this frequency. Just barely heard at times: talk by OM 2057, song at 2059, and signal off at 2103. Encouraging that first time heard here in S CT on a DX-440 without external antenna; will have to monitor over next few days (Konnie Rychalsky, CT, HCDX via DXLD) see also UNIDENTIFIED ** ARGENTINA. 15345.15, R. Nacional, 0030-0100, Oct. 12. Relay of LRA14; pips; ID “Radio Nacional Santa Fe”; music show of LA ballads; // 6060 (poor under Cuba); 0100 starts mixing with assume DW on 15345.0 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. CADA VEZ MÁS CERCA DE LA VENEZUELA DE CHÁVEZ La Verdad - Nailibeth Parra Carvajal - Maracaibo - 11/10/2009 00:01 11 Cualquier parecido a la realidad es mera coincidencia. En estos momentos varios gobiernos en América Latina intentan modificar las leyes que rigen a los medios de comunicación. El líder de la propuesta sin duda es el presidente Hugo Chávez, quien en su intento por controlar la prensa nacional ha aprobado –y aplaudido- el cierre de un canal de televisión y de 32 estaciones de radio. Ahora es Argentina, que en el poder de la peronista Cristina Fernández de Kirchner logró avanzar con su proyecto de ley de Medios Audiovisuales, que a todas luces busca regular los contenidos que difunden la radio y la televisión. . . Fuente: http://www.laverdad.com/detnotic.php?CodNotic=21559 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Yiddish music. http://www.radiojai.com.ar/OnLine/ Der stream fuer die lfd. Sendungen ist mir bekannt. Ich habe mich nicht richtig ausgedrueckt. Ich wollte auf die 7 verschiedenen Musikrichtungen des Senders hinweisen. Aus diesem Archiv koennen alle Musikrichtungen abgerufen werden. Ist einfacher und schneller als nach den einzelnen streams zu suchen, die ja auch jeder Flashplayer irgendwo hat. Fuer Liebhaber juedischer Musik eine kleine Fundgrube. Aber auch fuer alle Anderen eine Bereicherung. Ich denke, diese Musikkanaele werden nicht ueber Flash, sondern ueber ActiveX-Komponenten aufgerufen, die Stream-URLs sind aber durchaus verfuegbar: Infantil Hebreo Oriental Jasidica Idish Ladino Klezmer Uebrigens ein sehr interessanter Fund, ich habe den Sender weder bei Reciva, noch bei vTuner gefunden (Gerd Opalka u. Wolfgang Thiele, A-DX Oct 3 via BC-DX Oct 10 via DXLD) ** ARMENIA [and non]. ARMENIAN RADIO VOICE OF JUSTICE HAS "LITTLE EFFECT" IN AZERBAIJAN - IWPR | Text of report by London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting website, on 9 October Armenians and Azeris have looked with distrust over the front lines around Nagorny Karabakh for 15 years, but one small group of Armenians is trying to change that. Since 1997, they have broadcast for half an hour, four times a week, what they call Voice of Justice, an Azeri-language radio station intended to let Azeris know what they are thinking. Karabakh, which has declared unilateral independence from Azerbaijan, once had a significant Azeri population but they fled during the war for control of the region. The station output appears to be having little effect, however. Officials in Baku have said the broadcasts are just propaganda, while refugees tracked down by IWPR said they would not listen to them, and called the carefully-crafted reports biased. "We are just trying to show the Azeris that a new war would bring only harm to our peoples. Despite the fact that the policies of Azerbaijan are today preventing a solution to the conflict, we are convinced that the final word will belong to our peoples," said Mikael Hajian, director of the station. Hajian is a linguist who studied in Baku and speaks Azeri like a native. "Azeri is a beautiful language, with many of its own characteristics, and it is very similar to Armenian," he said. The station staff is mainly made up of Armenians who fled Azerbaijan during or before the conflict. They prepare reports every day, and try to remain up to date. On one occasion, they heard an Azeri child on Radio Liberty asking that his contemporaries in Karabakh also speak out against war. "Our radio station quickly made a series of programmes in which Karabakh children said 'no' to war, and told all about their experiences and the horrors they had seen," Hajian said, adding the station was careful to be unbiased in its reports. "You will never hear a bad word about the Azeris. We sometimes criticise [Azerbaijan president Ilham][brackets as published] Aliev and the current authorities, but never the people. If a journalist has prepared material that has a negative feel, I make sure to remove it, and I am proud of this," he said. The station is a rare link between the two countries that have had no diplomatic relations since the end of the Soviet Union. Clashes between Armenians and Azeris over the control of Nagorny Karabakh started even before the fall of communism, shooting over the front line remains a danger for local residents, and relations between the peoples are poisoned to this day. A peace process, chaired by Russia, France and the United States has failed to make much progress since the war ended with a ceasefire in 1994, and hundreds of thousands of refugees are still in limbo. The station transmitter is not powerful enough to be heard in Baku, but officials in the Azerbaijan capital said they took it seriously as a source of Armenian propaganda. "The Armenian Voice of Justice is not the only one. There are also radio channels being broadcast from Iran and propagandising separatist ideas against Azerbaijan. It was to fight such broadcasts that President Ilham Aliev issued the decree Strengthening Azerbaijan's TV and Radio Space. The communications ministry conducts this work, they even get specific money for this," said Togrul Mamedov, assistant to the chairman of Azerbaijan's television and radio council. The station's broadcasts are not aimed at officials, however, so IWPR journalists in the Azerbaijan capital contacted some refugees in the west of the country to see if the Armenians' message was getting through. Two refugees had never listened to it, and the one who had was not impressed. "Once, a couple of years ago, I listened to a report by this radio station, which apparently is called Voice of Justice. I really did not like the content of the broadcasts, since it appeared from their words that Azeris were falsifying the history of Karabakh," said Kerim Kerimli, a journalist and a refugee from Shusha. "I did not listen to it again." Source: Institute for War and Peace Reporting website, London, in English 09 Oct 09 (via BBCM via DXLD) WTFK!?!?! ** ASIA [non]. Andrew Janitschek of Radio Free Asia highlighted that RFA QSL cards can now verify six specific transmitter sites they use (rather than just two they did at first). These are Biblis, Kuwait, Saipan, Lampertheim, Tinian and Sri Lanka. However other sites are still verified as just `Asia` or even more vaguely, `Other`. They seem rather keen to verify listener reports promptly and issue new QSL designs every couple of months now. They have an automated online report at http://techweb.rfa.org/form/dx.html or you can email reports to qsl @ rfa.org (Alan Pennington, report on EDXC Conference Dublin 2009, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, 1300-, Radio Symban (non), Oct 11. A no show for 3 mornings running, so I don't think they're on the air. Last reported a few months ago, I think. Well heard when I was in Masset in early August (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Up before sunrise, DXing from my car at a site overlooking Kalamalka Lake in Vernon, BC. Minus 6 degrees Celsius outside the car but a beautiful morning. Eton E-1 and Sony AN-1 mounted on car roof. 2325, ABC Northern Territory Service, Tennant Creek, at 1326 with music and announcer, 1330 ABC News with lead item about attack in Pakistan. // 2310 Alice Springs was weak and 2485 Katherine was even weaker. Poor, Oct 10 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, BC, Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All three VL8s doing well Oct 12 at 1243 in // English discussion as I was on 2325 and heard a promo/ID for ``783, ABC Alice Springs``; this time it was somewhat stronger than 2310, and weakest on 2485. Do they ever announce the SW callsigns and frequencies, or are they turned on and forgotten? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. RAI (Shepparton) on 11660, Oct 9 at 1325. Chinese service, with ID in English. No trace of co-scheduled CRI in English. No CNR jamming, but none listed (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I believe RA is one station so far escaping ChiCom jamming of Chinese broadcasts; why? RAI? It`s just Radio Australia (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Here ya go, effective sked from R Australia. Latest RA operational schedule - A09 ver 1.2, Daylight Saving commences. Latest RAOS (for Daylight saving) is attached. My assistant did most of the work. Lives in the usual repository. Another is due end of October for B-period revisions including commencement of a Burmese frequency from Darwin and a frequency change at Shepparton (Nigel Holmes-AUS, ABC RA, via ARDXC Oct 5 via BC-DX via DXLD)) RADIO AUSTRALIA Summer schedule A-09 V1.2, Oct 3 - Oct 24, DST changes included. [updated the WRTH May pdf schedule, wb.] [Why should there be any DST changes in broadcasts for abroad?? Or did they merely adjust the local time column, omitted here --- gh] 5995, 6020, 6080, 7240, 9475, 9500, 9560, 9580, 9590, 9630, 9660, 9710, 9785, 11550, 11650, 11660, 11695, 11745, 11760, 11825, 11840, 11880, 11945, 11980, 12080, 13630, 13690, 15160, 15180, 15230, 15240, 15290, 15335, 15415, 15515, 15560, 17715, 17750, 17775, 17795, 21725 Chinese Days Area kHz 1300-1430 daily EAs 11760tsh, 11825drw 1300-1430 daily As 9475shp, 11660shp English Days Area kHz 0000-0200 daily As 17665drw(x17775drw) 0000-0200 daily Pac 17715shp 0000-0800 daily Pac 15240shp 0030-0400 daily As 15415shp 0200-0500 daily Pac 15515shp, 21725shp 0430-0500 daily As 15415shp 0500-0800 daily Pac 15160shp 0500-0900 daily As 13630shp 0530-0600 daily As 15415shp 0600-0630 .....ss As 15180drw, 15290tnn, 15415shp 0630-0700 daily As 15415shp 0700-0900 daily Pac 9710shp 0700-1300 daily Pac 11945shp 0700-1300 daily As 9475shp 0800-0900 daily Pac 5995brn 0800-1400 daily Pac 9580shp 0800-1600 daily Pac 9590shp 1100-1200 daily Pac 5995brn, 12080brn+ 1100-1400 daily Pac 6020shp, 9560shp 1200-1400 daily Pac 5995brn+ 1400-1700 daily Pac 7240shp 1400-1800 daily Pac 5995shp 1400-2000 daily Pac 6080shp 1430-1700 daily As 11660shp 1430-1900 daily As 9475shp 1600-2000 daily Pac 9710shp 1700-2000 daily Pac 9580shp 1700-2100 daily Pac 11880shp 1800-2000 daily Pac 7240shp 1900-2200 daily As 9500shp 2000-2100 .....ss Pac 6080shp, 7240shp, 12080brn 2000-2200 daily Pac 11650shp, 11660shp 2100-2200 daily As 11695shp 2100-2200 daily Pac 9660brn, 12080brn 2100-2300 daily Pac 13630shp, 15515shp 2200-0000 daily Pac 15560shp (ex17785shp) 2200-2300 daily Pac 9660brn*, 12080brn* 2200-2330 daily As 15240tnn 2200-2400 daily As 11840drw (12010drw B-09) 2200-2400 daily Pac 15230shp 2300-0200 daily Pac 17795shp 2300-0700 daily Pac 13690shp 2300-0800 daily Pac 9660brn 2300-0900 daily Pac 12080brn 2330-0000 daily As 15415shp 2330-0700 daily As 17750shp Indonesian Days Area kHz 0000-0030 daily As 15180drw, 15335pao, 15415shp 0400-0430 daily As 11550tnn, 15180drw, 15415shp 0500-0530 daily As 11745tnn, 15180drw, 15415shp 0600-0630 mtwtf.. As 15180drw, 15290tnn, 15415shp 2200-2330 daily As 9785drw(9630drw B-09), 11550tnn, 11695shp, 15415shp Tok Pisin Days Area kHz 0900-1100 daily Pac 5995brn, 6020shp, 9710shp, 12080brn 2000-2100 mtwtf.. Pac 6080shp, 7240shp, 12080brn planned Burmese/English 1600-1700 11980drw Key: + DRM; * Relay of BBC World Service (ABC RA, Nigel Holmes, via ARDXC and also ADDX Andreas Volk, Oct 5 via BC-DX Oct 10 via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. RADIO AUSTRIA ÚLTIMO PROGRAMA!!!!!! A partir de Octubre 2009 el noticiero de Austria ya no existe. Queremos agradecer a nuestro público que estaba con nosotros durante todos estos años: Gracias por habernos escuchado, gracias por su interés en Austria y hasta siempre! Adios amigos. NOTICIERO DE AUSTRIA Ultimo programa --- Escuchar Länge: 4:50 min http://oe1.orf.at/konsole/otoninfo?id=113495 Estimados oyentes, amigos de Radio Austria Internacional: Desde hace más de 40 años se han venido emitiendo programas en español desde Viena a través de las ondas cortas. A comienzos de 1970, cuando la mayoría de nuestros oyentes de hoy día no habría nacido todavía, fui invitado a formar parte de un equipo de dos redactores con el objetivo de informar sobre Austria. El servicio de onda corta de aquel entonces se hallaba en una pequeña barraca, también en alemán la llamaban así, frente al edificio de la calle Argentina donde hemos estado transmitiendo en los últimos 9 años, creo que ya son. Eramos dos equipos: el mío con una compañera argentina, el otro era de periodistas españoles y un redactor austríaco que hablaba con un fuerte acento local. Hacíamos programas de entre 13 y 14 minutos de duración, sin música, compuestos a su vez de noticias, comentario y actualidades, generalmente culturales. El programa se fue agrandando también todavía desde la barraca, y se decidió formar una redacción propiamente dicha de los entre idiomas extranjeros en que emitíamos: español, francés e inglés, y posiblemente, que no me acuerdo exactamente, ya tuviéramos una redacción de esperanto. Quién era quién en Radio Austria Internacional Se formó la redacción integrada por Carlos Arturo del Castillo, quien falleció el año pasado, Jaime Carbonell, que sigue tan alegre como siempre aunque alguito más canoso, Erica Klügler, quien usó su nombre de soltera mientras que la mayoría de nosotros empleábamos seudónimos, no para escondernos, sino buscando apellidos que se comprendieran mejor en las emisiones por onda corta. Incorporamos, allá por 1975, también un programa musical con Carlos Orlando Rengifo, músico y cantante lírico mozartiano. Se mudó a los estudios de la Televisión de ORF El gran cambio organizativo se produjo un poco después, en 1976, cuando el servicio de onda corta, que en la redacción de lengua española fuimos los primeros en llamar Radio Austria Internacional, se mudó al edifico de la Televisión, donde tuvimos los estudios a la sazón más modernos de Europa, todo nuevecito. Nuestros compañeros fueron cambiando también, algunos saliendo al extranjero, otros por razones profesionales diferentes, de modo que contratamos a Ana Ramos de Madrid, que hoy día trabaja en EFE, si no me equivoco. El cantante Orlando Montes de Oca sustituyó a Rengifo hacia 1985, cuando lo conocí en los teatros de Viena donde desplegaba su magnífica voz de tenor. Entre él y yo entrevistamos a cuantos artistas de lengua hispana se acercaban o vivían en Viena, que actuaban en pequeños o grandes teatros, sin hacer realmente distinciones por la fama. Entrevistamos, eso sí, reiteradas veces, a Plácido Domingo, Teresa Berganza, José Carreras, Alfredo Kraus, Francisco Araiza y a un cantante a la sazón desconocido que actuaba en Bregenz y otros pequeños teatros: Rolando Villazón. Cuando éste se hizo realmente famoso, en Salzburgo, en 2005, cantando con Anna Netrebko, ya no tuvimos espacio radiofónico para entrevistarlo. Más compañeros Maiken Mayo estuvo con nosotros durante algunos años, y cuando regresó a su casa en Argentina se incorporaron Julieta Quintana, quien actualmente trabaja en la televisión austríaca, y también Isabel Miró quien haría durante años el Buzón Internacional con Jaime Carbonell. Juan Ricardo Olivares trabajó con nosotros desde 1988; desafortunadamente falleció también el año pasado. También tuvimos el placer de poder trabajar con Francisco Eguiagaray, después de haber estado él con Televisión española y EFE. Falleció hace ya varios años. En la última fase, hacia 2000, cuando habíamos regresado a la calle Argentina, en el distrito nr. 4 de Viena, en la casa de la radio, cerca de la Embajada española, tras 25 años de permanencia en los estudios del Küniglberg, en el edificio de la televisión, trabajaron con nosotros también Santiago Lasheras, en noticias, Rubén Jiménez, en entrevistas, de tipo científico y deportivo, Lucía Castelló, con sus programas musicales, ella misma también una gran artista, pianista y cantante de ópera. Eramos un grupo de profesionales y amigos, y nos solíamos reunir después del trabajo, para discutir de lo hecho, pero sobre todo de lo que íbamos a hacer en los días y semanas siguientes. Sin embargo, el Estado austríaco empezó a ahorrar, la ORF, Radio Televisión austríaca, ya no tenía el monopolio de radio y se enfrentaba, igual que hoy, a una competencia cada vez más dura. Así el Parlamento aprobó una nueva ley de radiodifusión en que sólo se declaró “opcional” la emisión de programas por onda corta, y, lógicamente, también satélite e internet. Llegado el momento, la dirección de nuestra institución decidió ir reduciendo personal para ahorrar costes. Creo que fue en 2005 que se redujo el programa de media hora diaria a 5 minutos en días laborales. Y esto es el final. ¡Gracias por habernos escuchado, gracias por su interés en Austria, y hasta siempre, les dice desde Viena, el 30 de septiembre de 2009, su amigo y servidor Manuel Aletrino. Desde luego, también es un seudónimo. ¡Adiós, amigos! (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) So ORF have canceled what little Spanish was left, 5 minutes M-F. This is a transcript of the broadcast of Sept 30 I also listened to. Too bad ``Manuel Aletrino`` did not reveal his true identity upon closing down (gh) Viz.: La única razón por la que el programa de R Austria ha durado hasta ahora ha sido porque precisamente en septiembre llegaba la jubilación ya anunciada de Aletrino (Jan Brugge), una bonita razón de estado para continuar o cancelar un programa. Aunque desde luego el programa de 5 minutos no era precisamente algo que promocionara adecuadamente la imagen de Austria en el exterior. Feliz retiro, Manuel Aletrino y hasta siempre ORF, Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, QTH: El Prat de Llobregat-Barcelona España, noticias dx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** BELARUS. 7140, 0230-, Belarussian Radio, Oct 11. Is this who's on 7140 these days? They came in at fair strength at my QCI cottage location with Russian (or possibly BR) programming (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. LISTENING IN ~ RADIO STATION BELARUS with Darren Rozier listeningin @ bdxc.org.uk Radio Station Belarus is one of the more recent broadcasters to start up English transmissions. I seem to remember the 1998 edition of WRTH not mentioning any English broadcasts. Then, about five years ago, I got a copy of Clive Woodyear’s Radio Listener’s guide and it told me that RSB (as I shall now refer to it) was broadcasting for something like three days a week on 1170 kHz. Now 1170 is a hard one to get here, mainly because around five commercial stations use this frequency in the UK. It was one of three original frequencies selected for ILR in the mid 70s, the others being 1152 and 1548. Our local station, Radio Orwell, used it. Now it’s one of the Gold stations and, if I’ve got any hope of catching even the faintest whisper of RSB on this frequency, I have to carefully null out Gold, only to get some other audio in the mix as well, such as Magic via Stockton-on-Tees. When I was on holiday in Austria at the tail end of last year 1170 wasn’t bad. You could just about hear what was being said. Thankfully RSB can also be heard on shortwave, and a lot better than it’s been heard of late, although the modulation still isn’t all that great. Also, RSB have expanded their English service to two hours each night between 2000 and 2200 UT. I listened on 7255 kHz. I found there was less QRM and sideband splatter after 2100 and you could understand a lot more that was being said after this time. Having said all this, I have to say that I didn’t find RSB to be the most interesting station on the dial. Most programmes (RSB call programmes "projects") focused on very superficial political stories and financial reports, but in all fairness I did only listen for three days and not for the entire two hours of each broadcast so I may have missed a few bits. Here are my findings: Monday 07/09/09. 2000 UTC. 7255 kHz. 44534, CRI underneath signal. Man telling us to "listen to RSB" (is he asking us or telling us?) NEWS. 1. Co-operation with Europe 2. Relationship between Belarus and Slovakia developing at a good pace. Belarus are using Slovakia’s economy as an example of how theirs should be run. 3. A business delegation from Belarus is going to Serbia at the end of September. 4. An event is taking place tying Belarus with Armenia. The Armenians have an interest in Belarusian tractors. A contract is expected to be signed so that products can be exported to Armenia. 5. 400 children from Chernobyl are going on rehabilitation 8. Celebrations in the town of Smorgon is where the written language of Belarus originated from. Having looked on the internet, the celebrations happened the day before on Sunday 6th September. SPORT. Belarus lost to Croatia in a World Cup qualifier. They’re next due to face Ukraine. Ad for picking up Belarusian TV by satellite (this was run often in the programmes I heard). 2011: Times and frequencies - again, a frequent advert extolling Belarus’s ancient history and rich culture. I was invited to check out the political policies of the country. 2014: Minsk (the capital city of Belarus) is one of the cleanest and greenest cities in Europe. 2016: Music Box - a regular feature found throughout the two hour broadcast. It’s a way of saying "now it’s time for some music". It’s quite a good way of breaking up the broadcast. It’s a bit like how BBC Local Radio does it - a block of speech and then a bit of music. The tunes are almost oriental in sound. I suspect that most of it is Belarusian folk music. Not a bad listen. 2020: International Review -. The modulation was so bad I could hardly hear a word. The "Republican Centre of Technology" was also mentioned. 2033: Times and frequencies again. The presenter said that RSB broadcasts in Belarusian, German, Russian, Polish and English. 2035: Charity appeal - Similar to the ones we’re used to here in Blighty. The story was of a woman who wanted to see the world, but she was losing her sight. The only thing for her to do was to go to a hospital in Russia. Two lots of numbers were given out and a website. "Your contribution will help one more child to see the world". 2037: Music Box. 2040: Civil Society with Kate Cross (obviously an indigenous Belarusian name!) 1. A conference was held in Minsk last week. Experts came from a number of international organisations. NGOs were involved. They were also looking at HIV and how it’s dealt with in the European region (is this the EU, because Belarus is inside the continent of Europe?) 2. Faith organisations are getting together There was an interview with an Indian-sounding lady in which it was said that religion plays a very important part in culture. There was also talk of gender equality. There’s a US and Central Asian religious partnership with working groups. The last part of this feature was all off mike and I couldn’t hear a word. 2056: Music Box - Belarusian soul sung in English! 2100: ID saying RSB was your trustworthy guide to politics etc. Signal improved and CRI signal underneath disappeared. SINPO 55544. [caption] Station staff. Dmitry Zanevsky, Arseniy Yakovenko (Sport, Magic Box); Kate Cross; Natalia Sitko Victoria Bondarenko; Inna Zhybul (Green world, Simple things); Vladislav Sychevich; Catherine Art http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/vedradio.asp [the full page has 35 of them, all in English! --- gh] NEWS. Included President Alexander Lukashenko congratulating the president of Brazil and the privatisation of Belarusian businesses. 2113: Belarusian (international) TV was launched only a few years ago. It targets mainly Belarusian and Russian speaking viewers. The programmes include "Good Morning Belarus" and "Movie Time". It’s available in Europe, the USA, North Africa and other regions (I didn’t hear them all). 2115: Music Box. 2120: Cultural Programme - Talk of the tribes in Belarus in early history. They came from different parts of Eurasia. Belarus has a very complex language which is hard to understand. The Slavs eventually settled in the region and interacted with the indigenous Baltic people. 2135: Music Box. 2140: Music Gallery - This edition was dedicated to a top Belarusian composer (I didn’t catch his name) who wrote a lullaby and moved to America. He was born in Belarus in the 1960s and joined a Belarusian band in America in the 80s. He was involved with a popular Russian-speaking station in New York. Some of his songs were very lively Eastern European sounding tunes. He went back to Belarus after 11 years and started composing songs again. 2150: I began getting sideband splatter from a station that had just signed on. It was long tones being given out on 7260 kHz. In short, I thought this was mainly a cultural transmission for the ultra-intelligent. When I could understand what was being said (and I could understand much better after 2100) I found it difficult to understand the actual content of what was being said. There was some interesting music though and, at this stage, I was hoping for something a little more light-hearted during the week. Tuesday 08/09/09. 2100 UT. 7255 kHz. 44544 (Just after 2100 CRI was no longer underneath the signal and all sideband splatter disappeared.) NEWS. 1. President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela visits Belarus and looks round a car plant. 2. President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia to visit Belarus at the end of September. 3. Alternative energy resources. 4. Belarus is looking at increasing medical experts to Moldova. 5. The Technica company now manufactures five different types of inbuilt ovens. Features include a timer! 6. A journalistic ethics code is being discussed for Belarus looking at more openness and honesty. 7. Piece on immigration. 8. Nicolai Koracha? performing an opera in Kishinev (the Russian name for Chisinau) in Moldova. SPORT. 1. A player has been dismissed in a match against Bulgaria. 2. Bronze medal in Japan. 2113: The same "welcome to Belarus" ad that I heard yesterday. 2116: Music Box - Lots of twangs and whistles in this song. Sounded very oriental. The singer had a very deep voice. It sounded like a song I heard on yesterday’s broadcast. 2120: Continuation of the Belarusian teaching programme. Belarusian phrases followed by the sound of a ticking clock. You were expected to reply in Belarusian to what was said. You were only given two or three seconds to do so before being told "that’s right…" I got it all right without moving my lips. Result! The sentences to translate included "his works are loved by both children and adults" - quite advanced - and 20 minutes in length. I think only the most patient non-Belarusian language students would have stuck it out through this part of the broadcast. 2140: IS, followed by "Slavonic Bazaar". There was some soothing music and I fell asleep! Sunday 13/09/09. 2000 UT. 7255 kHz. 33333 This broadcast started off with a flowery RSB IS (the IS is normally very inviting, like you’re about to be treated to an interesting story or a fairytale). The muffled and slightly crunchy modulation suggests to me that the transmitters are ailing and in need of some TLC. NEWS. 1. President Lukashenko state visit of President Chávez. 2. Production of Belarusian machinery and talk of short range missiles 3. Belarus-Slovak relations. 4. Belarus – Hungary partnership to get people jobs. 5. British scientists and the reclassification of some plants. This was my fourth listen to RSB’s 10 minute news block and I had to come to the conclusion that it consisted of an array of rather dull and uninteresting stories. But, on reflection, I don’t think the stories are necessarily dull. They’re just not presented in a manner which arouses interest. 2011: Cultural News - This had two presenters: one so muffled you couldn’t understand a word and another who you could just about understand. Radio broadcasting was mentioned, as were other things I couldn’t quite make out. 2014: Adverts, times and frequencies etc. 2017: Music Box. 2020: Believe it or Not - A Belarusian folk stories programme, and probably the most interesting show I’d heard so far. The strap line was "unreal stories for real people". The story was about a tanner fighting with a goldsmith and the King settling the dispute by asking both parties to make him something spectacular. Sadly I didn’t catch the end of this fairytale/adult-oriented folk story as the modulation was rather muffled and there was a spate of propagation disturbance. I might have just been unfortunate in not listening to more interesting output from RSB, or you may think that what I’ve written is interesting. If so, check out RSB between 2000 and 2200 every night and see what you can find. 1170, 7210, 7255 and 7390 kHz. A 2007 QSL card of the Berezina River in the Byarezinsky Reserve. RSB’s website: http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/ asks for comments on the programmes and suggestions of how to make them more interesting. Maybe we could drop them a line or two. 4 Krasnaya St., Minsk, Belarus, 220807 Email: radiostation-belarus @ tvr.by Email me at the above address and tell me what you think - and definitely tell me of any programmes you hear on RSB that keep your ears glued to the radio. Until next time, 73s and happy listening. Darren (Oct BDXC-UK Communicatoin via DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. Talk about a small world. This morning as I was getting ready to take the dogs out for a walk my phone started ringing. To my surprise it was a call from someone that I had never met but had listened to many times on Belgium Radio International and Radio South Africa. Who is that? David Monson. It was so surprising as for a moment I thought someone was playing a joke on me. The other funny thing is that he also lives in Taipei and have been here for 10 years and lives in Beitou on the way to Danshui which is about 20 minutes by subway. Talk about a small world. Does anyone else remember him or is it only me? (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, of course. He was another of our favorite SW broadcasters of years gone by. I assume you will get him on HS in due course. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) We talk about what seemed like an hour and this weekend were gonna meet up to hang out for a bit and record some stuff (Keith Perron, ibid.) ** BIAFRA [non]. After barely a month on 17520 via WHRI, V. of Biafra International found back on 15665 which it had used during most of the summer, Oct 9 at 1915 check and heard immediate ID by The Orator. This lower frequency is somewhat more reliable here, but what about Biafraland, where the audience is not even given the correct current frequency on website or in announcements? VOBI is Fridays only at 19- 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4700.000, Radio San Miguel, 1001, comments by a man, into ads or similar. Transmitter now seems to be "spot on" frequency, and with a very strong signal today. OCT 5 and 6 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4700.00, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0934-0950, Oct 9, sign on at approximately 0934 with Spanish talk. Spanish ballads. Very weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BOLIVIA. 6155.26, Radio Fides, La Paz, 0950-1000, Oct 9, Spanish talk. Bolivian music. ID. Fair signal at tune-in but poor after 1000 due to adjacent channel splatter (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 5990, Radio Senado, *0928-0950, Oct 9, sign on with lite jazz music. Opening Portuguese ID announcements at 0932. Rooster crow at 0933 & Portuguese talk. Some local folk music. Very good. Strong (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 6135.06, 2300 22 Sept, R. Aparecida, Brazil. Full ID including ``onda media`` and ``onda tropical`` wavelengths then jingle. Strangely had time pips at 2302! Portuguese, SIO 242 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Observatorio Nacional --- Hi Glenn, I have an update on my previous logging of Observatório Nacional, in a letter received from Ricardo José de Carvalho, Head, Time Service Division, Observatório Nacional, Brasil. He writes (accent marks are missing [but gh replaces them as always]): ``We are glad of receiving your message about the radio reception of our 10 MHz broadcast time signal. The signal is generated by the Time Service Division DSHO (Divisão Serviço da Hora) of the National Observatory (ON) located in Rio de Janeiro - RJ - BRASIL that was founded in 1827. The DSHO are part of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology and is the Brazilian Primary Laboratory of Time and Frequency by delegation of the Brazilian National Meteorology Institute INMETRO (National Institute of Meteorology, Standardization and Industrial Quality). We've started the transmission of that broadcast radio time signal in November, 2008. The specifications of our transmitter are: a) maker: Redifon Telecommunications Limited, London SW.18, England b) model: HF TRANSMITTER REDIFON G453 c) power: 1 kW d) QRG: 10 MHz e) kind of modulation: A3H f) kind of antenna: horizontal dipole - 1/2 wavelength g) QRA: PPE h) QRD: Longitude = 43 13 27,5 W Latitude = 22 53 44,6 S Height = 37 m i) Contents of the transmission: the transmission consists of the Brazilian legal time (=UTC - 3 hours) announced by a lady voice starting with "Observatório Nacional" followed by the current time (hh:mm:ss) each ten seconds and with a beep for each second with a 1 kHz modulation during 5 ms and a long beep with 1 kHz modulation during 200 ms at the 58th, 59th and 60th seconds.`` [good, matching what I had logged --- gh] I sent my reception report in Portuguese and Spanish + one US dollar. Official address on letter: Observatório Nacional, Rua General José Cristino, 77 - CEP 20921-400, Rua General Bruce, 586 - CEP 20921-030 - São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil. 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, Oct 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6660, CHU harmonic, 0215 Oct 11. Second harmonic of their 90 meter transmitter. Fair strength (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Ian Baxter in Australia has been tracking down views of shortwave transmitter sites around the world, using Google’s Street View feature. Three that he’s found in Canada are: CKZU Vancouver – Steveston (SW masts seen) http://maps. google.com/ maps?f=q& source=s_ q&hl=en&geocode= &q=49+08+ 21%09-123+ 11+44&sll= 40.190918, 29.158202& sspn=0.007376, 0.013454& ie=UTF8&hq= &hnear=&ll= 49.139327, -123.193817& spn=0.025269, 0.086517& z=14&layer= c&cbll=49. 139244,-123. 193894&panoid= JD4lzZCe9_ dh0wy54Dke7A& cbp=12,252. 16,,0,2.05 CFRX Clarkson (actually only the CFRB masts can be seen here) http://maps. google.com/ maps?f=q& source=s_ q&hl=en&geocode= &q=43+30+ 23%09-79+ 38+01&sll= 49.13927, -123.193903& sspn=0.025269, 0.053816& ie=UTF8&hq= &hnear=2014- 2300+Royal+ Windsor+Dr, +Mississauga, +Peel+Regional+ Municipality, +Ontario, +Canada&ll= 43.50676, -79.632297& spn=0.014007, 0.043259& z=15&layer= c&cbll=43. 505271,-79. 622192&panoid= OOIfTj4-z4Fk- g2_9EWgiQ& cbp=12,262. 45,,1,-7. 28 CHNX Halifax http://maps. google.com/ maps?f=q& source=s_ q&hl=en&geocode= &q=44+40+ 30%09-63+ 39+29&sll= 43.505271, -79.622192& sspn=0.014007, 0.043259& ie=UTF8&hq= &hnear=98+ Tremont+Dr, +Halifax, +Halifax+ County,+Nova+ Scotia,+Canada& ll=44.677549, -63.661523& spn=0.006866, 0.021629& z=16&layer= c&cbll=44. 677493,-63. 661411&panoid= jKqXwErgaV3oZeLW 4VORbg&cbp= 12,160.01, ,0,-1.34 Ian would like to hear from anyone who can locate any further Street View images of the current or former Canadian SW station transmitter sites. Contact him via http://sites.google.com/site/shortwavesites/ Thanks (Harold Sellers, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD) Have fun patching the URLs together, if necessary (gh) ** CANADA. KTOK 1000 IBOC remains off, we hope permanently, allowing CBW 990 Winnipeg to reach as far as Oklahoma City unimpeded when propagation is favorable. Oct 11 at 0505 starting CBC Overnight with The Strand, Weekend from BBCWS; after news, at 0605 opening R. Netherlands, but then to Network Europe. XET Monterrey was no problem as it`s direxional south at night. However, it can still be a problem when propagation from the north is degraded. The two are in almost opposite direxions from here, so difficult to null one or the other without a unidirexional antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CFOK-1370 Westlock AB has applied to the CRTC to move to FM (97.9 MHz, 27 kW, 93.7 meters). If this trend continues soon AM in Alberta will be limited to the Edmonton and Calgary markets; in fact the signal of CFOK in Edmonton is reasonably good at present, at least during the day. Coverage of Edmonton will be pretty well lost with this conversion. Westlock, Alberta Application No. 2009-0976-5 Application by Newcap Inc. to convert the radio programming undertaking CFOK Westlock from the AM to the FM band. The new station would operate on frequency 97.9 MHz (channel 250B) with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 27,000 watts (maximum ERP of 48,000 watts with an effective height of the antenna above average terrain of 93.7 metres). The applicant proposes a Classic Hits format. The applicant is requesting permission to simulcast the programming of the new FM station on CFOK for a period of three months from the date of implementation of the new station. The applicant is also requesting, pursuant to sections 9(1)(e) and 24(1) of the Broadcasting Act, the revocation of the licence of CFOK effective at the end of the simulcast period. 73, (Deane McIntyre, VE6BPO, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 4904.97, RNT, 2035-2230*, Oct 9, French talk. Local tribal music. Afro-pops. One minute of local drums at 2200 followed by French talk. Sign off with National Anthem at 2229. Weak/poor at tune-in, steadily improving in strength, but with the always present CODAR QRM. Fair to good level by sign off. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) Help with UNID 4905 kHz please. October 10 2100z 4905 kHz heard OM in African-accented French giving long introduction to songs with artist's bio. Mostly African dialect songs but also Nana Mouskouri song "Alleluia" in French. This DJ's show ended at 2133z followed by YL who gave ID in French but I missed it under heavy 1 sweep per second interference (OTOH radar perhaps?) [CODAR! gh] After ID into African rhythms with new OM DJ with much heavier accent. Heard snippets of "Service National" and "ORTV" (Oh-Air-Tay-Vay) [sic] and several references to the "republic". Into news in French at 2200z where I learned it is International Day for Mental Health. Statement to that effect by the minister of health. End of news at 2218z after story about electoral financing reform. Never got a clear ID and the pulsing interference was starting to drill into my brain. Is this possibly Mali? Could not find it listed for that frequency. Thanks for any help (Jon Huneault, Nova Scotia, Canada, VE1FTL, Lowe HF150/PR150 and 16x64 "Kaz" squashed delta, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Soon got multiple replies: CHAD ** CHINA. 6035, Yunnan PBS, 1451, Oct 09, Vietnamese sandwiched between CRI 6040 and CNR-1 6030, to 1501:31 carrier off. Aoki still mentions 1415 close down which is obviously wrong, schedule in WRTH A09 update appears to be correct. No trace of co-channel Bhutan. 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CNR-1 Echo Jammer on 6085, Oct 9 at 1208. Mashup of at least three co-channels, all swapping for dominance. I recognized CNR-1, and the other two may have been WYFR in Spanish and VOR in Russian. CNR-1 again on 6150 at 1214, a full second ahead of // 6085. Found another // on 7305 at 1225, and more //'s on 7345 and 7365. CNR-1 again on 9845 at 1309, with DRM signal in background. China must be jamming VOA in Chinese via Tinang. The DRM is 9845-9850-9855. Nothing in my schedules for 9850 other than Radio Prague via Woofferton (and that only appears on the HFCC list.) More CNR-1 jamming on 9985 at 1320, again targeting VOA. Still after VOA (via Thailand) on 11785 at 1337. Could hear YL on VOA speaking in Chinese about Michael Jackson, followed by him yelping "hoo" and a medley of his hits. Can't let the Chinese hear that. CNR also jamming VOA on 11805 at 1340. Still after VOA on 11975 at 1415. Can't let US talk to the Tibetans, now can they? Now this is World Economic Stimulus. Poor Sinophile VOA still struggling to be heard on 12040 at 1420, but China is countering with CNR-1 and Firedrake (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CRI (Nanning) on 7440, Oct 9 at 1230. Fair signal in moderate QRN, but very nice vocal song in Chinese (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake (Beijing) on 13625, Oct 5 at 1945. Fair signal of the war drums and squeaky violin, but buried in heavy band noise. No trace of jammed Radio Free Asia. Should the US Government really be taunting the country that keeps them out of bankruptcy and total collapse? (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hrmph. It`s the ChiCom who are doing the taunting with Firedrake, numerous other `coincidental` frequency blockages, e.g. CRI 9760. See AUSTRALIA (gh) JAMMERS: 8400 Crash & Bang Chinese Music Jammer; 2211, 7-Oct; weak. 9000 Crash & Bang CC Music Jammer; 2211, 7-Oct; weak (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Some eschew the Firedrake monicker Firedrake Oct 8 circa 1130 and 1352: poor on both 8400, 9000. Oct 9 at 1329 during drumming passage, JBA on 9000 but very poor on 8400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, 17855, Firedrake jamming music at 0845 UT Oct 10 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Oct 10 at 1318: very poor on 8400, JBA on 9000. 5075 at 1305 Oct 10, weak talk vying with ute beeps on hi side. Has to be V. of Pujiang, Shanghai, the only broadcaster on 5075. Firedrake Oct 12 at 1352: 8400 JBA with Spanish 2-way SSB QRM on lo side; also JBA on 9000. Has been a few weeks since I`ve heard any of the higher OOB channels on 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17 or 18 MHz ranges; I assume FD and Sound of Hope are still there, just not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake scan, 0120-0144, Oct. 12. Both against SOH, on 13970 (strong) // 17470 (strong). No hint of SOH. Prominent CNR-1 echo jamming on 15150 (vs VOA), 15385 (vs VOA), 17640 (vs RFA) and 17765 (vs VOA). Firedrake scan, 0219-0245, Oct. 13. 13970 // 14970, both good and not // with 14430 // 15150 // 17470; all good and all against SOH. Finally found some non-parallel FD to measure and found their separation to be 5:20 out of sync (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Oct 13 at 1456, just barely audible on 9000, 8400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAIWAN ** COLOMBIA. 5910.061, Marfil Estéreo, 0817, Spanish pop vocals, talk by man with local time check, ID, into traditional Andean music. Fair to good. OCT 6 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. JOURNALIST TO LEAVE COLOMBIA AFTER MURDER ATTEMPT --- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOGOTA -- A Colombian radio journalist famed for broadcasting relatives' messages to kidnap victims says he's leaving the country because of an apparent attempt on his life. Herbin Hoyos says he's leaving Monday for Europe. He tells The Associated Press that military intelligence caught wind of the attempt on Thursday as it was in progress and alerted him so he could flee an appearance in Bogotá. The alleged attempt by FARC guerrillas on the life of the host of "Voices of Kidnapping" was first made public Saturday by President Álvaro Uribe. It comes as the FARC is said to be about to release a soldier it has held for nearly 12 years. Hoyos will lead a motorcycle caravan from Madrid to Rome next month to raise awareness about kidnappings in Colombia. Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1277864.html This news item is referred to in more detail by most of the Spanish language press on October 12, and also by the pro-guerrilla Anncol news agency, which is based in Stockholm, and run by Colombian political exiles and thus indirectly supported by Swedish tax payers. Anncol says this is a plot by the Colombian government. The http://www.anncol.eu web site now openly admits that their editorial offices are in Stockholm, their web page conspicuously showing official Venezuelan support of their activities: an official Venezuela web radio site, the government run YVKE Mundial and Venezolana de Televisión (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Adjunto enlace a la noticia sobre el intento de atentado al periodista Herbin Hoyos, famoso y galardonado en todo el mundo por su programa " Las voces del secuestro de Radio Caracol" http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/america-latina/story/564132.html Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, QTH: El Prat de Llobregat-Barcelona, España, noticias dx yg via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. "Real" Radio Kahuzi QSL --- Hi Everyone, Had a totally unexpected surprise in my mailbox yesterday: a printed Radio Kahuzi QSL, as a follow-up to the e-mail QSL I received some months back. Sent two full-data cards-- one a full-color postcard showing Bukavu, the second being a full-data "hand-made" card from the Radio Kahuzi Club "utilizing dried banana bark." Also sent their schedule. One more surprise: the QSL was mailed from Bradenton, Florida, which is very close to my hometown of Tampa. Snail mail address on the envelope: BESI/ Radio Kahuzi, P.O. Box 110173, Bradenton, FL 34211. I'm not "big" on QSL'ing these days but am very happy with this one (David Sharp, NSW Australia, Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. 3984.81, at 2200 11 Sept, V. of Croatia, English news, 9/11 remembrance services in US, SIO 454 (Alan Pennington, England, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Hmm, 11/9 just won`t do in this sense (gh, DXLD) ** CROATIA [non]. 7375, Croatia Radio via Wertachtal, 0200, Oct. 12. In English; “Croatia Today”; news; good reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Calendario 2010 --- A los amigos y oyentes de Radio Habana Cuba en América y el resto del mundo les informamos que ya pueden solicitar el calendario de bolsillo de 2010 escribiendo al apartado postal 6240 de nuestra emisora, en La Habana, Cuba, o enviando mensajes electrónicos a la siguiente dirección: radiohc.enet.cu [sic] El calendario, que es una pequeña obra de arte, está ilustrado con un retrato del héroe y mártir ecuatoriano Eloy Alfaro salido del pincel del Pintor de Iberoamérica Oswaldo Guayasamín. El retrato del Viejo Luchador, gran amigo de Cuba, figura en el mural pintado por Guayasamín en 1980 para la sede del Consejo Provincial de Pichincha, en Quito. El almanaque fue impreso en España por la organización No gubernamental Cultura y Cooperación Internacional, y será presentado el 24 de Octubre de 2009 en la nueva sede de la Sociedad Cultural José Martí, en La Habana. En el calendario están marcadas tres fechas: el 28 de Enero, muerte de Alfaro y nacimiento de Martí; 25 de Junio, natalicio del estadista ecuatoriano, y 24 de Octubre, fecha que en 1890 marca el momento en que ambos libertadores se conocieron en la ciudad de Nueva York Radio Habana Cuba (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** CUBA. 6060 kHz, Radio Habana Cuba. Oct 4 at 0720-0802. SINPO 34433. Talk in Esperanto till 0730, then ID in English and news. Talk about Cuban technology and Cuban contemporary music followed. News again at 0801 (Iwao Nagatani, Japan, Japan Premium via DXLD) ** CUBA. Another day, another anomaly to report at RHC. Oct 8 at 0547, 6140 was off the air, so impossible to tell whether it would have been in English or Spanish. 6120 was on in Spanish as well as 6000, whilst 6060 and 6010 were in English. 11760 now with light squeal degrading it, Oct 9 at 1343, Entre Cubanos program, fascinating interview with 82-year-old former Cubana de Aviación pilot, José Antonio de C. Domínguez, who flew hundreds of times each to México, Miami, New York and Madrid, starting with DC3s, both pre- and post-revolution (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Will someone answer the phone at RHC? Checking some of RHC's frequencies tonight between 0405 and 0415 GMT tonight there's the sound of a telephone ringing on all of them. 6000 is the strongest where it's as loud as the English broadcast; the two Spanish frequencies (6060 and 6140) the telephone ring is much softer but noticeable. Come on guys, you have a listener, at least pick up the phone! Very strange, can't think of any reason why a ringing phone should be in the audio chain (especially this long). Open mic? Last telephone ring update before I call it a night, now faintly on 5900 kHz transmitting Morse code spy numbers at 0505 GMT. Not technically RHC since it's for a slightly undercover audience but same transmit site I'm sure (Travers DeVine, UT Oct 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I too heard the phone ringing on R Havana. (Oct 10 - 09 ) as early as 0100 UT and was still going strong at 0345. No idea what the programming was at the time . I was only listening to the phone ringing on 6000 (Jerry Coatsworth -- Merlin, Ontario, Canada, NRD - 525 with a 50 foot wire on roof, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC anomalies were especially rich on Oct 10: At 0539, found 6000 in English // 6010, 6060, 6140 instead of Spanish. Normally, 6000 switches from English to Spanish at 0500. ``Travers DeVine``, circa Maryland had reported phone-ringing sounds on RHC frequencies as early as 0405, and I soon heard them too: At 0541 on 6140 during English discussion of baseball, phone ringing mixed in, but not on // English channels as above; then also became audible on 6000. Meanwhile 6120 in Spanish without phone ringing. BTW, 6000 and 6010 when both in English were an echo apart as usual, from two different transmitter sites, while 6140 and 6010 were synchronized, from same site. At 0547 also heard phone ringing on 5898! That`s the spy-numbers frequency which runs open carrier for long periods (not 5900 as you might assume without measuring it). So this had no RHC audio, just phone ringing and some hum. And the ringing was synchronized with that on RHC frequencies, so further clincher they are at same site! At 0549, 6000 had switched to Spanish, signal was stronger, and no phone ringing. 6140 still in English with ringing. At 0604, 6060 had phone ringing audible under English talk, and this transmitter also with a squeal. I quit for the night. Next check at 1300, no phone ringing audible on 5965 or 6180, so it must have been `answered` sometime in the night. Now RHC entertains us with a different messup: Oct 10 at 1325 I find RHC (all Spanish at this hour of course) on 11811.2. Is 11800 off frequency? No, it`s there too, and an echo apart. 11811.2 turns out to be a spur from 11760, and in next few minutes found numerous other spurs at multiples of approx. 51.2 kHz from 11760! They all had the same tone on them plus RHC audio, not as I first thought making a het with victims, thus making them easier to spot. Found on all these frequencies: I did not measure each one, but calculated them later, and the further ones may be a fraxion of a kHz off depending on what the spur differential was exactly: 11708.8 11657.6 11606.4 11555.2 11504.0 - this one especially strong 11452.8 11401.6 11350.4 11299.2 11248.0 11196.8 11145.6 – the lowest detectable Going upward: 11811.2 - where first discovered 11862.4 - blown away by WYFR 11865, but het detectable 11913.6 11964.8 12016.0 12067.2 12118.4 12169.6 12220.8 12272.0 12323.2 – highest detectable when I finished at 1405. So RHC has attained a new level of efficiency, providing 24 frequencies for the price of one! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC 49mb channels were nominal for a change, checked at 0633 Oct 11: English 6140, 6060, 6010; Spanish 6120, 6000; however, 6060 had some squealing. At least, no phone-ringing involved now! But the RHC 11760 transmitter, which I monitored with at least 23 spurs at 51.2 kHz intervals, around 1325 Oct 10, was STILL doing this when next checked at 0614 Oct 11! And nightmiddle propagation was cooperating, while 25m is often dead from Cuba by then. I measured the closest one on 11707.8, so the offset had changed slightly to 52.2 kHz. Still accompanied by the same pitch tone on each of them, making them easy to spot even tho some are quite weak, audible on all these frequencies, which however were not measured individually but computed later: 11707.8 11655.6 11603.2 11551.0 11498.8 11446.6 11394.4 11342.2 And on the hi side: 11812.2 11864.4 11916.6 11968.8 12021.0 12073.2 And these were STILL polluting the spectrum almost 24 hours after first noticed, Oct 11 at 1314. Lacking a sharp carrier, it`s hard to measure precise frequencies, but rocking back and forth for minimum noise, I put the closest one on 11708.6, i.e. 51.4 kHz offset; this time I also measured a lower one on 11452.9, which would mean 51.18 kHz separation, so that`s the margin of error, but very close to the 51.2 kHz peaks I had first observed yesterday. So using that figure, the lowest I could hear was around 11196.8, the highest 12323.2. This poor old transmitter is now running 22 hours a day, 0000-2200 per RHC website schedule, and obviously needs some serious maintenance. But then they all do, for one reason or another (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The ringing phone noise on 6000 kHz over my friend Ed Newman is hilarious. (0140 UT Monday 10/12). Why are they on in Spanish on 6220 as well right now? Can't find it listed anywhere. Cheers (Sean Welsh, East Gary, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Again, huh? 6220 as I have reported a number of times is a leapfrog mixing product, of the 6060 transmitter over 6140, another 80 kHz higher (Glenn to Sean, via DXLD) As soon as I sent that, I found mention of 6220 within a previous post of yours. The ringing phone is actually louder than Prof. Coro CO2KK now (Sean Welsh, 0152 UT Oct 12, ibid.) RHC anomaly check Oct 12 at 0530: ops normal on 49m, English service but in music on 6140, 6060, 6010; Spanish on 6120, 6000. 11760 Spanish JBA and so the constellation of spurs were inaudible. No phones ringing to be heard, or squeals noted. But: 5898, Oct 12 at 0536, spy number/letter transmitter surely as powerful as any RHC broadcast outlet, 250 kW, with phone ringing every few sex along with huge hum. 0540 briefly overridden by huger multi-tone data burst, then resumes ringing. A theory: that`s one way of ``calling up`` the spy info, and it finally answered. The ringing sound is like what you hear out of your phone earpiece, not what you hear coming out of the phone`s ringer (electronic anyway these days, not mechanical), so no open mikes need to be involved. Could be crossed wires in the exchange, or wires too close, so that the ringing circuit, always running on standby to be switched into a connexion which needs to be ringing, gets into the line from spy-central to transmitters. For the third day in a row, the RHC 11760 transmitter is putting out multiple spurs: Oct 12 at 1353 sufficiently modulated to be taken as intentional, tho with hum, on 11811.2 playing Guantanamera, and 11708.8. The further ones weakening progressively with same tone mixed in, again detectable down to 11197 and up to 12221, roughly, every 51.2 kHz. Some had really big clashes such as 12016 with the resident RTTY. At 1446, found 13780 still with squeal but not 13680 or the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC phone still ringing, monitored on 13680, Oct 12 at 1430. Weird. Who's waging this psychological warfare, and why now? (Terry Wilson, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Anomaly chex Oct 13: at 0619, found 6140 in Spanish this time, // 6120 and 6000; English on 6060, 6010. No phone ringing sounds audible on any of them. However: 5800.0, the spy cut-numbers (i.e. 10 letters substituting for digits) Morse code sending tones with full carrier, at 0620 Oct 13 did have phone ringing audible underneath. For the fourth day in a row, the ailing 11760 transmitter is putting out a panoply of spurs, but this time it and they are constantly cutting on and off the air, making as many as 24 useless transmissions! The closest two as usual are strongest with enough modulation to listen to, 11811.2 and 11708.8. Started checking at 1349 and again playing favorite tune Guantanamera at 1353. Quick scan found them as high as 12220.8, but not so many audible on the low side. At 1443 and 1455, still the same story cutting on and off and on and off. At 1454, the one on 11862.4 was causing a nasty noise against WYFR Spanish 11865.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Telephone ringing on 10715, Oct 13 at 1605, which is otherwise an empty carrier. Brief digital data mode at 1609. Telephone all over RHC's 49m freqs local evening last (Terry Wilson, MI, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is this telephone being heard over all RHC frequencies? Is it only a phone ringing? I mean no other programming? The only thing which it could be is that RHC is having trouble with its microwave link to the transmitter site and they are feeding it by phone line. Taking into consideration how advanced (sarcastic) the Cuban telephone system is, it may be some bad connection. Or someone insane is feeding the transmitters. It's Cuba; you just never know (Keith Perron, ex-Cuba, ibid.) ** CUBA. RHC - EL MUNDO DE LA FILATELIA 11 OCTUBRE 2009 Saludos amigos, El Mundo de la Filatelia de Radio Habana Cuba emitido 11 octubre 2009, recuerden que son solo los domingos, lo escuché a las 1410, 1640, también a las 1940: http://www.box.net/shared/56nq6t5cji Y para los que deseen escuchar el Mundo de la Filatelia del 4 de octubre 2009: http://www.box.net/shared/d2b8n3a069 73 de Yimber Gaviría, Colombia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12000, at 2212 16 Sept, RHC, OM with political talk, Spanish, // 6000, SIO 354 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Anomalous, since RHC ordinarily did not use this frequency at this hour, but instead HCJB. RHC also quit using 12000 in the morning before that date. But if it was // 6000, must have been RHC, not HCJB, and therefore in this case a second harmonic; but a harmonic would hardly reach that signal level trans-Atlantically. So who knows? Maybe on this date, RHC put a fundamental transmitter back on 12000. Had HCJB closed down the 12000 transmission by then too? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RHC on 11760, Oct 9 at 1332. YL in Spanish with ID. Co-channel interference is BBC (Al Seela, Oman) in English, with OM's statement "BBC" emerging from the mash at 1332. RHC again on 12000 at 1417, with some goofy pseudo-Broadway showtune pop song in Spanish. Is this the source of that horrible empty carrier I've been finding on 12000 for years? Cuba can't afford that (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Are you sure 12000 was RHC by // 11760 or others? 12000 had been off for a few months apparently replaced by 11800. Musical programming does not fit either, even in Spanish, as that`s the time for Voces de la Revolución, hoary old speeches by hoary old Fidel. Russia is on 12000 until 1400, then normally heard is CVC Darwin in Chinese, also unlikely for music in Spanish. Some receivers like my FRG-7 (Wadley loop drawback?) put their own weak carriers at even MHz (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) AOKI still lists RHC on 12000 from 1100 to 1500, and that's what I went by. I heard CVC from Darwin on another frequency, and the propagation and content of that were very different from what I heard on 12000. I'll double check it tomorrow; until then, please revise to UNIDENTIFIED. And I'll check if my other radios hear an empty carrier at 12000. Thanks for the feedback (Terry Wilson, ibid.) 12000 is the only frequency for CVC`s Chinese service via Darwin at 1400, per Aoki, so any other frequency would of course sound different, e.g. English on 13635 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Must have been CVC, which is very strong today on 12000 at 1410, with OM speaking Chinese followed by a song in English, so a Spanish song yesterday is possible. ADDX and ILG still list RHC on 12000 as well as AOKI. Looking on the scope on DReaM, I've got a big spike on 12001, a medium one on 12000, and a small one on 11999, though the spacing isn't exact. They're on all my radios, and I suspect local QRM. I can either go around unplugging every electric device in the house or wait for the next power outage (Terry Wilson, ibid.) Well, then, they are all outdated. Is no one paying attention to what we report in DXLD? Why do I bother? (gh) ** CUBA [and non]. U S A. Big empty carrier from ended Radio Martí broadcast on 9805, Oct 9 at 1301. Stop wasting my tax dollars. Is this your idea of economic stimulus? Someone turned it off at 1303. No trace of requisite nasty Cuban jammer. Either it wasn't on or they know how to turn this transmitter off at the correct time (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Martí on 11930, Oct 9 at 1355. YL speaking Spanish. Martí is not in my schedules at this time, or are we in B09 already? Huge band noise gusts blowing up, rising from dead silence to deafening, the kind of noise I hear when nasty cold fronts are approaching. Checking the NAm radar map, there is a nasty storm front, but it's south of here, on a line from Virginia to Texas. YL off at 1357, with no music or ID that I noticed, but the expensive empty carrier continued. Tell-tale Cuban jamming began at 1359, followed by Marti ID at 1400, meaning I am listening to a signal originating very close to the other side of that storm. Did any Cubans catch the non-jammed YL? Would they be able to admit if they did? (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Who is that Cuban station on 530 that plays elevator music all night long? Is that a private station? Do they have private stations in Cuba? Thanks (Louis Johnson, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Enciclopedia. There are no private stations in Cuba! But some of the government nets have surprisingly good musical programming. Enciclopedia is on many MW frequencies, but this one was put on the air last year(?) to block Radio Marti which was then using 530 occasionally. I believe at first it was some other network on 530. Doesn`t really matter as its real purpose is to jam (Glenn to Louis, ibid.) ** CUBA [and non]. Glenn, Today as I was making my habitual bandscan, I passed over WGHB-1250 Farmville/Greenville, NC. What to my surprise, WZBO-1260 Eden, NC was off the air. In the meantime at 1340 EDT or @ 0440 UT [sic, must mean 1740 UT], I heard Radio Enciclopedia clearly on 1260. These y're Cubans are a plague on poor old Cholly. Perhaps I can some medications that will block the Cubans of'n mah raddio dahl! Quite seriously, I used to hear the same effect from Bermuda. Some type of oceanic refraction zone effect. I DO NOT expect to hear anymore of that. NOT 100% certain, though. As to your rendition, somewhere in the chain ASCII characters get befuddled. As to the sweet young lad, that Hugo Fidel-Castro-Ruiz-Raul-Roa- Castro-Chavez: Using only clear text, if'n ye know what ah mean, a wanna-be emperor! BTW: Radio Venezuela National and NOT La Voz de Venezuela. As my journalistic sea-daddy Mark Twain might of them, the three of them are hustlers or huxters. Always with the best of my wishes. Cholly (Cuban-plagued) (Charles A. Taylor, Grifton NC, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRTH 2009 has a R Enciclopedia on 1260 at Arroyo Arenas (gh, DXLD) 1390 CMFA1 & 1120 CMBF2 --- Fellow DXers: This evening at 2210 October 9, 2009, I heard Radio Agramonte on 1390. Last evening at 1340 [sic] October 8, 2009, I heard Radio Enciclopedia on 1260. I assign callsigns in sequential order about the net feed (master) station's callsign. I already have CMFA logged. I do not have CMBQ logged; but I have a whole passel of Radio Enciclopedia stations logged. Some of them come from locations unknown. I cannot have two or more CMBQ stations. It make my logbook a nasty dither! Ergo/therefore & jest becuz, My logbook lists CMBQ1, CMBQ2, CMBQ3, CMBQ4, CMBQ5, CMBQ6, CMBQ7, CMBQ8!! Would somebody advise me of some form of medicine that would innoculate me against them dod-dern Cuban stations (Cholly (Cuba) Taylor, NC, ibid.) ** CUBA. Radio and TV via satellite: see INTERNATIONAL VACUUM ** CYPRUS. A hefty broadband signal with few buzz peaks noted at 0924 UT Oct 7th in range 15202.40 - 15226.81 kHz. \\ to CRI Kunming, 500 kW in English on 15210 kHz 9-11 UT, S=7. Buzz left when checked at 1010 UT. [see also UNIDENTIFIED 17460-] Eton E1 showed the peaks independent of the CRI Kunming signal, I guess BUZZ was a pause signal from British Cyprus radar tentatively (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 7 via DXLD) ** CZECHIA [and non]. Radio Prague has been the most proactive adopter of Internet technologies to extend its platform reach; the latest edition of each of Radio Prague’s daily, weekly, and monthly programs is generally available for on-demand listening or download, and you can listen to each day’s English language broadcast as a single program as well. A week’s worth of programs is available in that form as well. If you’d like to try your luck at some of Radio Prague’s other languages – Russian, German, Czech, French, or Spanish – those programs are also archived for one week. One of the interesting tools that Radio Prague uses to organize its content is RSS – Really Simple Syndication – you might know its less formal synonym of news feed. Radio Prague offers 12 different thematic topics for which news feeds are provided: Business, Culture, Current affairs, Czechs abroad, European Union, Foreign policy, History, Nature, Science, Society, Sport, and Travel. Most of these feeds are updated several times per week; some (specifically Current Affairs) are updated more than once per day most days. Each update consists of a short summary, with a transcript and audio file available as well. RSS feeds are maintained for current and former Radio Prague programs (such as “Insight Central Europe”); some of the audio in those feeds dates back several years. One of the interesting areas is “From The Archives”, part of each Thursday’s (Friday UT for most evening listening in the USA) program. Radio Prague has an English language audio archive that dates back to the early 1930s – even before regular English language broadcasts were scheduled. These weekly segments are themselves archived; you can listen back to segments of “From The Archives” that have been produced since November 2007. The segment that aired on September 24th, “Radio Prague Goes Back On Air”, dates from 1990, when Radio Prague went back on the air following the Velvet Revolution after a few weeks of silence as the Communist regime and its Radio Prague staff were cut. Another popular Radio Prague segment is “Letter From Prague”; audio from this weekly program is available dating back to 2002, which is pretty impressive considering the work that was required to develop the web site code and catalogue the audio for online listening. “Letter From Prague” continues to air in the Sunday (UT Monday for most releases targeting the USA) programming block. The current shortwave schedule, good only until the end of October, includes the following air times and frequencies for English targeting North America: 2130 – 2157 UT, 11600 kHz [quite good in OK usually – gh] 2230 – 2257 UT, 7345, 9415 kHz 0000 – 0027 UT, 7345, 9440 kHz 0100 – 0127 UT, 6200, 7345 kHz 0300 – 0327 UT, 7345, 9870 kHz 0330 – 0357 UT, 6080 kHz [via CANADA --- BUT CANCELED some time ago] I’ll update the times and frequencies once the new schedule is available. In addition to these, WRMI is listed for two relays targeting South America and the Caribbean in English, at 0900 and 1400, both on 9955 kHz; I am not sure these are on the air, as Radio Prague tweaked its relay utilization a few months ago. Hope you are able to enjoy good radio, whether it’s online or over real live shortwave; see you next month! 73 DE (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) ?? The 1400 broadcast is on the NW antenna and well heard in OK, and as we have pointed out before, there are several additional relay times for R. Prague (Spanish as well as English) on WRMI as time- fillers, subject to replacement by paid programming, and these never appear on RP`s own schedules. Furthermore, the 1400 broadcast is still a repeat of the previous day`s programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO PRAGUE: SUPPORT NEEDED TO PREVENT SHORTWAVE CLOSING I have just heard from Jonathan Murphy who writes in part: I have been in Prague this past week and met David Vaughan, the former head of the English Section. It has just been announced that the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is looking for Radio Prague to end all shortwave transmissions from the Czech Republic at the end of 2009. This would be an irreversible step. Radio Prague is the only customer at Litomysl and this would result in the closing and dismantling of that transmitter site. David has written a letter which he would like to be as widely circulated as possible: 12th October 2009, Dear Friends of Radio Prague, You are probably not yet aware that the future of Radio Prague – the international service of Czech Radio – is under serious threat. The station began shortwave broadcasts in 1936 and, with the exception of the period of the wartime German occupation, has been broadcasting to the world ever since. Like most international public service broadcasters, Radio Prague is state financed. It is paid for through the state budget, via the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Radio Prague is facing a 20% cut in its budget for 2010. At first glance, this figure does not seem like a mortal blow, but its impact will be devastating. The Foreign Ministry has stated explicitly that it considers shortwave to be an anachronistic means of broadcasting and has called on Radio Prague to terminate its shortwave broadcasts entirely from January 2010. As a result the transmitter in Litomysl (east of Prague), will almost certainly be dismantled. Radio Prague will continue primarily as a website. The saving to the state budget will be tiny. In order to save around half a million euro, Radio Prague will end as a shortwave broadcaster after more than 70 years. In the course of my time as a BBC correspondent and than as editor-in- chief at Radio Prague (until 2006), when I was also active in the European Broadcasting Union, I followed developments in international broadcasting closely. During that period a number of international broadcasters abandoned their roots in radio – nearly always at the bidding of bureaucrats rather than those involved in the stations themselves. Almost without exception the outcome, sooner or later, was the demise of the station altogether. There are several reasons for this. One helpful parallel is to compare the position with that of a newspaper with a long and rich tradition, which stops appearing in paper form, and maintains only a web presence. Although the worldwide trend towards digitalization is clear, this does not mean that it is wise to throw out overnight all the advantages of producing a "traditional" newspaper. In the case of radio, the risks are still more evident, because public service broadcasting is a very specific medium with a distinct tradition and audience, and at its core is the spoken word. In the seven decades of its existence, Radio Prague has built up a huge base of know-how and an impressive reputation internationally: Its role in the events of 1968, when Radio Prague journalists defied the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is legendary. Radio Prague has built on this tradition in the two decades since the fall of communism, transforming itself into a thriving modern broadcaster. There can be little doubt that it has a far larger audience than any other Czech radio station, but unfortunately these listeners are scattered around the world and do not form a strong domestic lobby. Shortwave broadcasts are in decline, but they have to be seen as part of a broader mosaic. Today's international broadcasters have long been aware of the need to broadcast on a number of different platforms: shortwave, medium wave, FM, satellite, internet and others. The more forward-looking among them have learned to be flexible and innovatory. In this respect, the modern transformation at Radio Prague began over fifteen years ago when it was one of the first international broadcasters to set up its own website. That was back in 1994. This was quickly followed by its daily email news service and other innovations, including its enthusiastic commitment to satellite broadcasting. At the same time it has modernized the way that radio is produced; its journalists today take it for granted that they are working in a multi-media environment, where the spoken word is reinforced by text and image. And Radio Prague has learnt to be extremely cost effective, broadcasting around the world in six languages for the equivalent of less than three million euro a year. In order for this to continue, it is absolutely crucial for Radio Prague not to forget its core activity. The station's current success is built on its status and tradition as a radio broadcaster. If it forgets its identity as radio, it will inevitably lose its way, desperately trying to compete in a field that is not its own. The news of the latest cuts puts the staff and management of Radio Prague in a difficult position. It will not be easy for them to launch a campaign to save the shortwave broadcasts, as they could find themselves facing the alternative of having to cut jobs instead. Given that the amount of money needed to save the shortwave broadcasts is so small, I am convinced that the cause is worth fighting for and that it does not have to be a case of pitching jobs against shortwave. If the decision-makers in the government and at the ministry can be made to understand what is at stake, I am sure that the money can be found. That is why I am writing this letter – to encourage listeners around the world to rally behind Radio Prague at this difficult time. With warmest regards, David Vaughan Radio Prague needs to get listeners support at this time. Their address is: Radio Prague Vinohradská 12 120 99 Prague 2 Czech Republic Tel: (+420) 221 552 933 Fax: (+420) 221 552 903 E-mail: cr @ radio.cz Listeners should also contact The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic: Ministerstvo zahranicních vecí Loretánské námestí 5 118 00 Praha 1, the Czech Republic tel: +420 224 181 111 e-mail: podatelna @ mzv.cz Listeners should contact the Czech Embassies and representatives in their own country. A List of Czech Embassies can be found at http://www.mzv.cz/jnp/en/diplomatic_missions/czech_missions_abroad/index.html (via Mike Barraclough, Oct 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.07, Radio Amanecer, 0250-0303*, Oct 9, Spanish religious talk. Religious music. ID. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. 6025.07, Radio Amanecer, 1035-1050, Oct 9, Spanish talk. IDs. Fair but with slight distortion. 6025.08, Radio Amanecer, *1027-1105, Oct 10, sign on with religious music. Spanish talk at 1029. IDs. Poor to fair with some adjacent channel splatter. Audio not very clear with distortion in audio. Distortion just got worse & worse during this time period (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) Are they going to keep on airing these programs just on Saturdays only? Radio Marti is there with a very strong signal. Or I wonder if this could be a relay? Please kindly tell (Luigi, San Juan, HCDX via DXLD) ?? Martí is on 6030, close but not `there`. Why would Amanecer be a relay?? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 6025.04, 0200-, Radio Amanecer, Oct 11. Very good reception in Spanish on a particular goodly SW evening in Masset (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 3810.000, HD2IOA, 0935, weak but clear with pips and male time checks on the minute. OCT 6 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3810-LSB, 11 Oct, 0528-0530, HD2IOA, Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada, Guayaquil - new time format? voice every 2 seconds? suff Rfspace sdr-IQ + wellbrook la5030 – (Leonardo Bolli, Matelica (MC) - Italy, RadioBlog: http://appuntidx.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean two minutes? (gh, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. HCJB on 6050, Oct 9 at 1203. Wooden flutes at 1201 tell me this is probably HCJB. Fair in band noise, with problematic intermittent strong local QRM (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. Immediately after the HCJB Portuguese and Kulina service close down from Pifo Nov 15, hopes to use same frequency 11920 for 2-hour relays via CVC Chile, because of all the ``pre-tuned`` radios that are in the field. Depending on transmitter time availability, may start at *0000 UT, per Esther (Allen Graham, DX Partyline 1505 UT Oct 13 via WRMI, notes by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Instead of current *2245 Kulina, 2300 Portuguese. I assume it`s mostly the Kulina tribe who have the fix-tuned radios, as what modern Brazilian would be satisfied with a radio which only gets the Word of God, and from one single station? It is rather patronizing to assume the Kulina would be satisfied either, but evangelism is all about being patronizing, literally! However, planned for B-09 at other dayparts are other users for 11920, which might contaminate the Kulina if they could understand Spanish, Indonesian, French or Tibetan, from: Spain via Spain, BBC via Singapore, CRI via Albania or IBB via Philippines. Or, depending on the bandwidth of the receivers, they might get adjacent secular Brazilians on 11915, 11925 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROGRAMA ESPECIAL DE DESPEDIDA DE HCJB LA VOZ DE LOS ANDES DESDE PIFO Un reciente comunicado oficial de La Voz de Los Andes llegó a miles de hogares con la ingrata noticia del cierre definitivo de su planta transmisora. La información fue emitida a través de las frecuencias 9745 Khz con antenas dirigidas a México, 12000 Khz para Argentina, 11960 Khz hacia Cuba, 11625 Khz al norte y sur de América, 11690 Khz hacia Sudamérica y mediante varias fuentes por Internet. Antes de entrar en detalles de las causas que obligaron al cierre, el anunciante comenzó aludiendo a la ubicación del complejo parque de antenas en la llanura oriental de la ciudad de Quito, lugar conocido con el nombre de Pifo. «Actualmente, en esta misma llanura - a escasa distancia - se está construyendo el nuevo aeropuerto internacional de Quito, razón por la cual HCJB debe desmantelar las torres y antenas de transmisión para no interferir con su funcionamiento», dijo el vocero. Son casi 45 hectáreas de verdes y onduladas praderas desde donde se divisa un paisaje espectacular con el volcán nevado Cotopaxi, allí la planta de Pifo - inaugurada en 1953 - llegó a tener 48 torres de acero que alcanzaban hasta 127 metros y sostenían antenas tipo cortina para transmisiones en onda corta. Los programas se emitían desde los estudios en Quito por enlace de micro-onda a la planta de Pifo a través de una antena reflector instalada en el cerro Pichincha. «Debido a razones de estrategias internas de reorientación misionera y de limitaciones presupuestarias - continuó diciendo el informe - no será posible levantar una infraestructura similar que llevó años construirla. Por tales motivos, le comunicamos estimada amiga y amigo del continente que la señal de onda corta de HCJB se apagará de forma definitiva el 30 de Septiembre de 2009». «Gracias por habernos acompañado durante todos los años que hemos estado al aire a través de la onda corta. Que la gracia de Dios le acompañe. HCJB, le dice hasta siempre», terminó expresando el mensaje de La Voz de Los Andes por las bandas de 25 y 31 metros. El pasado 30 de septiembre de 2009 HCJB La Voz de Los Andes desde su salón auditorio Larson de Quito emitió el programa especial del cierre de su planta transmisora de onda corta en Pifo. No se pierda esta posibilidad de escuchar a los mismos protagonistas, directivos, ingenieros, productores, locutores y oyentes dando testimonio de sus experiencias durante los 56 años de transmisiones desde Pifo. Los distintos servicios de idiomas, en un esfuerzo conjunto y ¡En español!, se hacen presentes en este programa especial de despedida. ProgramasDX lo tiene archivado en tres segmentos con una calidad de recepción óptima como registro sonoro histórico a disposición de los interesados con sólo hacer clik en la página Programas DX del Ayer: http://programasdx.com/delayer.htm O directamente en la página de Podomatic: http://programasdx5.podomatic.com/ Ruben Guillermo Margenet, Rosario, Argentina (via José Bueno, Oct 13, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. APARECE LA "LISTA CORRUPTA" DE RETIRO DE CONCESIÓN DE FRECUENCIAS DE RADIO Un gran número de emisoras y estaciones de televisión, por cable, o de señal regional abierta, forman parte del proceso de retiro de las concesiones que se están dando por el Estado ecuatoriano, luego de una investigación de la Contraloría General del Estado, y que el Consejo Nacional de Radio y Televisión (CONARTEL) debe proceder en los siguientes días. Esta lista, conocida entre el ámbito de la comunicación social como la "lista corrupta", pone en evidencia los motivos por los cuales se dará el retiro de los contratos de concesión. Por considerar de alta importancia para el país, ponemos a disposición de los lectores del periódico electrónico Ecuadorinmediato.com, este documento de ayuda-memoria, que nos fuera entregado por el CONARTEL. . . [long listings; skimming thru I don`t recognize any current SW stations, let alone HCJB or VozAndes amongst them --- gh] FUENTE: DOCUMENTO AYUDA MEMORIA CONARTEL. http://www.ecuadorinmediato.com/Noticias/news_user_view/ecuador_aparece_la_quotlista_corrupta_quot_de_retiro_de_concesion_de_frecuencias_de_radio--82704 (Enviada por Henrik Klemetz, Suecia via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** EGYPT. 7535, at 0236 22 Aug, R. Cairo in English, slight interference and continuous noise, SIO 434 (Scott Caldwell, Cheshire, ATS909, E1, DX10, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 7540, at 0158 19 Sept, R. Cairo ending Spanish into English program, ID, music, SIO 454 (Alan Roe, England, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) IIRC, Cairo started A09 on 7535, but since it collided with Romania before 0200, Cairo shifted to 7540 long before 22 Aug. However, as I also reported recently, Cairo announcer was still saying 7535 even tho on 7540. Question is whether Cairo sometimes axually still appears on 7535 by mistake, after 0200 when it does not really matter, or reporter was just going by the erroneous announcement, altho the receivers specified should not be confused about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12170, at 1640 22 Aug, R. Cairo (V of Africa), news, Afghanistan elexions, English, SIO 323 (Ian Cheetham, Derbyshire, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 12170, at 1700 22 Aug, R. Cairo (V of Africa), contest, language lesson, English, SIO 332 (Alan Roe, ibid.) Radio Cairo (Abu Zaabal) on 15255, Oct 9 at 1506. Extremely good signal of OM singing Koran, though expectedly undermodulated. Absurdly good propagation on 19m at current time for points eastward, with Vatican Radio and BBC Rampisham both sounding like local MW (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 15255 with continuous tone Oct 13 as early as 1442, over some other station in unID language; 1459 check, just open carrier. Finally after 1500, instead of tone, a timesignal 28 seconds late, so why bother, and then ID ``Ju Flet Qahira``, i.e. the Albanian service opening from R. Cairo, and now the other station is off so Cairo in clear for its undermodulation. Uplooked later in Aoki, the victim before 1500 is YFR via Nauen, in Bengali (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6090, Amhara Regional, 0350, 10/11/09. Weak but easily heard with local music through Caribbean Beacon. 6110, R. Fana, 0341, 10/11/09. Good signal with pulsing music reaching S6 on peaks. 7110, R. Ethiopia, 0343, 10/11/09. Weak signal with local music. Weaker than Fana at the same time (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8B, Wellbrook 1.1 M Loop, Par SWL Random Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, R. Fana, Addis Ababa, at 0310 UTC, Oct 10, in Amharic. Long HOA instrumental, rising up pretty well over the background noise. Very low-voiced male with Fana ID. Overall, music came through much better than talk of announcer (Icom R75, Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6890, Radio Fana, *0257-0310, Oct 10, sign on with IS. Opening ID announcements at 0300 & vernacular talk. Very weak. Stronger on // 6110 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ETHIOPIA. 7110, R. Ethiopia, Addis Ababa-Gedja; 1420 Oct 12, E. African folk vocal music with guitars, // 9705. 7165, R. Ethiopia, Geja Jawe; 1414 talk by M in Amharic, 1422 Oct 12, E. African vocal music. 9705, R. Ethiopia, Addis Ababa-Gedja; 1417 Oct 11, M in Amharic, folk- vocal music, // 7110 F-Good, but low MODULATION. 73's de (Steve/AB5GP C. Wiseblood, Brownsville TX, (2 miles from Boca Chica Beach, GULF of MEXICO), Radio Shack DX-399, 150' center fed LW, dxld yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Re 9-072: ``WR INTERNATIONAL Up and running --- Just to let you know that WR International is on air as usual this morning at 12257 kHz until 12:00 UK time. Until 08:00 BST a computer playout system is in use, live output is from 08:00 BST until 12:00 BST. [0700-1100 UT]. Happy listening if you choose to, have a good day (Dave, WR International, Sept 19, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)`` I used to hear WRI regularly in 1980 while living in Sweden on this frequency and was surprised to learn that they are still broadcasting on Saturday mornings. Can anyone hear them? Reception may be difficult in the UK because of the long skip distance on 12 MHz, but worth trying, especially further afield (Dave Kenny, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Hello! NETHERLANDS, Cupid Radio, being heard since 1335 UT, on 15070 kHz. Fair/good signals. Nice music selection (for an Old Timer like me!!) (Pedro Turner/ CT2KET, Gondomar, Portugal, 1353 UT Sunday Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) EURO-PIRATE. 15070.54, Cupid Radio, 1434-1450+, Oct 11, pop music by Billy Joel & others. IDs. 150 watts. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** FIJI. Looking for K4M, the Midway Island DXpedition supposed to be getting underway now after some setbax, found nothing on publicized 7078 or 3799, but instead a strange accent with a strange callsign, 3D2MJ, on 7095.0-LSB, Oct 13 at 0612. Was calling CQ40, listening on [7]185. Tuned to 7078 again briefly and when I got back he was already concluding a contact, but said the other ham`s voice was distorted so he was shifting listening frequency on 7187. I listened for a few more minutes, and 3D2MJ never mentioned his location; how rude. So I uplook him later on qrz.com and find, what else, a Pole in Fiji: ``3D2MJ, Jacek, SP5EAQ, Viti Levu Island (IOTA OC-016), Fiji Lookups: 11979 QSL: VIA SP5EAQ Click for more detail... Last Update: 2009-08-21 22:32:56 Latitude: -21.779905 (21 46' 47'' S) Longitude: 174.781494 (174 46' 53'' E) Grid Square: RG78jf Explore on GridMap SP5EAQ and SP5DRH will be active from Viti Levu Island (IOTA OC-016), Fiji starting 2009, 1st October for four weeks as 3D2MJ and 3D2KJ They will be active on all bands with focus on low bands. QSL via home calls`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Gospel for Asia (Issoudon) on 15390, Oct 9 at 1512. Fair signal of YL speaking perhaps scheduled Magahi, followed by Oriental- sounding song. Jingles, OM announcement and presumably on into Mundari service at 1515 (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. Africa No. Un reception has improved lately, F-G on 9580, Oct 13 at 0600 with timesignal one second late, so why bother? ANO ID, French news, first about Burkina Faso elexion. One of the better signals on 31m then (Glenn Hauser, OK,, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Just discovered that NDR Hamburg Moorfleet MW 972 kHz has spurs. The same carrier with sidebands appear 45dB weaker at 965.194 and 978.812 kHz (Jurgen Bartels, Germany, mwdx Oct 4 via BC-DX Oct 10 via DXLD) I can confirm the spurs, 50 km to the south of Juergen's QTH. But with my Drake R8, as you know, the frequency resolution is only 10 Hz (Juergen Haenssler, Germany, mwdx Oct 4, ibid.) ** GERMANY. EMR relay this Sunday Date 18th of October 2009 Time 0900 to 1000 UT Channel 6140 khz Programmes: 0900 Tom Taylor programme 0930 Mike Taylor (Mail Box programme) EMR Internet radio service on Sunday and Monday Programme repeats are at the following times: 0900 - 1200 - 1500 - 1800 and 2000 UT Please visit http://www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). Please send all reception reports to: studio @ emr.org.uk Good Listening, 73s (Tom Taylor, HCDX via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6190, at 0818 13 Sept, DLF Berlin, carrier but no mod until 0905, weather forecast in German, SIO 444 (Dave Gascoyne, England Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Deutsche Welle (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) on 13840, Oct 9 at 1439. News about Nobama in Urdu (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW B-09 ENGLISCHES PROGRAMM Gültig: 25.10.09 - 27.03.10 Winterhalbjahr 2009/2010 Senderichtung Sprache Zeit(UTC) Frequ. Band Sendeland /kHz /m ITU Station OST+SUEDOST- ENGLISCH 0000-0100 7265 41 CLN TRINCOMALEE ASIEN 9785 31 CLN TRINCOMALEE 15640 19 RUS PETROPAVLOVSK ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUEDASIEN ENGLISCH 0300-0400 1548 MW CLN TRINCOMALEE 11695 25 CLN TRINCOMALEE 17800 16 RUS TCHITA ------------------------------------------------------------------ AFRIKA ENGLISCH 0400-0500 5905 49 POR SINES 5945 49 POR SINES 6180 49 RRW KIGALI 15600 19 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ WEST- und ENGLISCH 0500-0530 6130 49 POR SINES SUEDAFRIKA 6180 49 RRW KIGALI 9755 31 RRW KIGALI 12045 19 RRW KIGALI 15600 19 UAE DHABAYYA ------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTAFRIKA ENGLISCH 0600-0630 5945 49 G WOOFFERTON 7240 41 POR SINES 12045 25 RRW KIGALI ------------------------------------------------------------------ OSTASIEN ENGLISCH 0900-1000 17710 16 CLN TRINCOMALEE 21780 13 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUEDASIEN ENGLISCH 1600-1700 1548 MW CLN TRINCOMALEE 5965 49 CLN TRINCOMALEE 9560 31 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ OST- und ENGLISCH 1900-1930 9735 31 RRW KIGALI SUEDAFRIKA 11690 25 AFS MEYERTON 13780 22 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ ZENTRAL- und ENGLISCH 2000-2100 9690 31 G WOOFFERTON SUEDAFRIKA 9735 31 RRW KIGALI 13780 22 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ WESTAFRIKA ENGLISCH 2100-2200 7280 41 POR SINES 9545 31 CLN TRINCOMALEE 11690 25 RRW KIGALI 13780 22 CLN TRINCOMALEE ------------------------------------------------------------------ (From the complete DW B-09 schedule in all languages, including FM and satellite, also removed here; via Alokesh Gupta, Oct 7, dxldyg via DXLD) In general, Kigali, Sines and Meyerton are best in N America Hello, as you can see they dropped the Arabic section on the shortwave band. I guess this is one of the worst news ever for Arabic SWL/DXers :( Wanna bet who's next ???? in Arabic language we still have : KBS - South Korea NHK - Japan CRI - China RRI - Indonesia VOK - North Korea RBB - Bangladesh AIR - India (suppose that one will vanish soon) from Asia BBC Radio Sweden REE - Spain (guess that'll vanish soon as well) Radio Romania VOR - Russia in Europe and of course RCI - Canada from North America. I recall the days of the 80s when almost every radio station had an Arabic section; even RAE - Argentina tested that for some time. Radio Praha, Radio Afghanistan, Radio Polonia, Radio Peace and Progress; and the list goes on and on. Is it, I'm getting old, or usage of SW is shrinking ??? hmmmmm, I guess both :( All the best, guys (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg - Denmark, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) Tarek: Is it confirmed that DW will be finishing its Arabic on SW? According to the schedule, it looks like the broadcasts will continue. I think you missed RNW and RFI on your list of European stations. Other stations from the non-Arab world are IRIB and TRT. But you are right Arabic SW is down. But international Arabic TV is up big time. Not sure if that's of any comfort, though. 73 (Sergei S., IL, ibid.) ?? Sked shows Arabic not on SW, but only on ultra-SW, i.e. FM frequencies in several but hardly *all* ME cities, notably Cairo absent, as SW obviously reached (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) > Is it confirmed that DW will be finishing its Arabic on SW? Let's say that this appears to be correct and is not just an omission. And for Persian the evening transmission has been expanded to one hour, but at the same time the morning broadcast will or has already (together with the expansion in the evening) be taken off shortwave. Perhaps it will also become (or always was?) a mere replay of the previous evening's programme, I doubt that they will bother to produce new stuff at this time in the early morning. Note also the DRM schedule, which is the complete schedule for the joint DW/BBC project, no matter who books certain transmitter hours. No Kvitsøy anymore. Will the shortwave transmitters there permanently shut down, or perhaps even the complete site, including the 1314 kHz gear? And they will make another attempt to run 6075 in the evening via Al- Dhabbaya, no matter that in last winter the results were disastrous and soon Sines had been thrown in instead. But perhaps this time they will answer listeners complaints with an explanation that Central Europe is no longer targeted on shortwave (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Hello Sergei, as you can see here http://www.bclnews.it/b09schedules/dw.htm the Arabic transmission will be only on FM and satellite, no more SW band, also DW announced that they will stop transmitting on SW band starting B09 in one of the programmes of DW in Arabic. Yes, right you are about The Netherlands, but not RFI as Radio Monte Carlo is well received on MW 1233 in most of the Arab world, SW broadcast of Radio Monte Carlo is not really well followed in the Arab world. Iran and TRT from the Middle East as you said. I always forget the Middle east :) thanx for the tip, all the best my friend (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg - Denmark, ibid.) Another remarkable detail about DW Arabic: DW is not the first big boy to abandon shortwave for Arabic, since as well known US international broadcasting with its Radio Sawa did this already in spring 2004. However, Radio Sawa is still on mediumwave, even new transmission facilities for this purpose have been built in Djibouti, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and on Cyprus. Contrary DW will cancel mediumwave for Arabic, too. At present they are 2000-2100 on 1350 from Armenia, but this relay is no longer shown for B09 as well. The papers about DW's strategy I have seen did not really indicate this step, they only mentioned vaguely a "regionalization" for Arabic, whatever this may mean. The same is announced for English and Russian. So don't be surprised if these language services will be next (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** GREECE. R. Makedonias, 9935 at 1630z (off at 1652), via Avlis 100 kW at 285 . Still twilight in Greece so all daylight path, over 6000 miles. At 1630 I no signal on 9420 but audible by 1655 (Jerry Lenamon, Waco Texas, Eton E-1, Wellbrook 330s, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn: No signs of life from 9420 on Voice of Greece tonight, 7475 is 55555 (John Babbis, MD, 0019 UT Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But it was back next nights (gh) ** GREENLAND. KNR, Simiutaq - On January 13, I sent tentative reception reports by mail to the address given in 2009 WRTH. No reply. On May 21, I sent an e-mail follow-up with copies of the reports to the e-mail address in WRTH: info @ knr.gl The next day I received an e-mail reply from Anja Lindelof at anl @ knr.gl She confirmed that I had been receiving Greenland on 570 and 720 kHz, specific frequencies and dates. She also mentioned that reports are rarely received for these frequencies. Most reports they receive are for 3815 kHz shortwave running 200 watts USB. She pointed out that the Greenlandic language is "very similar to the language of Canadian Inuit: Inuktitut" (as heard on the Northern Service of the CBC). (Jerry Osborne VO1GO, Elliott's Cove NL; Kenwood TS570D, 80-m dipole looking north and south, NRC IDXD Oct 9 via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. Last night, I had a taste of Greenland on 720 kHz for the first time of this new DX season: http://www.quebecdx.com/greenland_720a.mp3 (10-10-2009 22:28 UTC) (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, Canada, Oct 11, mwdx yg via DXLD) On 10-Oct 0500 UT I got KNR on 570 very strong, never seen it that strong before. 650 kHz wasn't enhanced http://dx.3sdesign.de/temp/570-KNR-091010.mp3 (Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany, Winradio G305 & Perseus Dual-feed 30x4m EWE pointing 320 , ibid.) Enjoy – while you can. Greenland is most likely going to leave Medium Wave in 2010. The decision hasn’t been taken yet – but is likely to be taken within the next 3-4 months. Best 73s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark, ibid.) Thx for the info here. So Greenland will be then relying on a network of FM transmitters for each village rather than also having strongish lowband AMers to cover their vast country? 73 KAZ surprised Greenland would leave AM (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) Brent Taylor`s recording of IS on 720 from PEI (see DX-PEDITIONS): http://www.vy2hf.com/pb/audio/720_20091009_0829Z.MP3 (via Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. Autoridades de Guatemala desmantelaron días pasados dos radioemisoras que operaban clandestinamente en los departamentos de Escuintla y Retalhuleu, y detuvieron a una mujer que dirigía un programa religioso. “Una radioemisora pirata operaba en el interior de la iglesia evangélica El Buen Pastor, ubicada en Escuintla”, afirmó el vocero de la Policía Nacional Civil, Dónald González. Agregó que en esa sede religiosa funcionaba la radiodifusora clandestina La voz de Jesucristo, que interfería la frecuencia de otras emisoras plenamente establecidas. En Retalhuleu, en el interior de un templo donde operaba la iglesia Evangelio completo, las autoridades no hallaron personas pero sí decomisaron el equipo para generar señales radiofónicas. En la mayoría de departamentos de Guatemala operan radioemisoras clandestinas de corte religioso que, generalmente, interfieren las frecuencias de otras que tienen transmisiones a nivel nacional (Prensa Libre via Conexión Digital Oct 11 via DXLD) WTFK?! Prob`ly not SW (gh) ** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Conakry, 2000-2127*, Oct 9, French and vernacular talk. Some local African music. Abrupt sign off. Fair signal with good modulation for a change. 7125, Radio Conakry, 1910-1940+, Oct 11, Afro-pop music. French talk. Weak but readable. Gone at 2015 check but back at 2100 check with French talk & Afro-pop music at 2100-2135+ with a good signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** INDIA. 5990, All India Radio, 0100 Oct 11, Music and talk in a language I don't recognize, but did catch ID given in English. Fair strength for a half hour or so before fading (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aoki says it`s in Sindhi language, via Aligarh (gh) ** INDIA. 7270, AIR Chennai, 1138-1150, Oct 6, vernacular. Hindi music with W announcer between selections; fair & improving (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. AIR on 9870, Oct 9 at 1317. Fluttery, with usual music. Co-channel interference must be CRI (Xi`an) in English, but AIR successfully jams it and I can't copy a word. AIR again on 13710 at 1433, but CRI (Kashi) in English wins this time and completely buries them (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR (Bangalore) on 9425, Oct 8 at 1405. Music sting then OM with much to say. Weak signal isn't bad, but QRM/N sure is. Found again on 9870 at 1457. Fair signal in moderate noise, with usual nice music selection. Co-channel botherment from Saudi Arabia noticed just prior to 1600. Arabic music sounds bad mixed simultaneously with the AIR jukebox (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But 9425 and 9870 are two different AIR nets (gh) ** INDIA. AIR Aligarh extremely distorted blob from 9470 transmitter, still going Oct 8 at 1353 check covering 9480-9500, but at least just far enough away not to bother Radio Australia 9475 this time. But it`s fixed! Oct 9 at 1319, normally modulated on 9470 very much like Bengaluru on // 9425, just a reverb apart. Both signals rather weak today with flutter; 9870 as usual better with VBS. Let`s hope 9470 transmitter will STAY fixed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Oct 9, the AIR Aligarh blob had been fixed, and ops were normal on 9470, but it was too good to be true. Next day Oct 10 checking just after sign-on at 1320: the blob again! Covering 9480-9490 at least, extremely distorted FMy but // clear 9425 Bengaluru, playing rustic wind instrument. And nothing on 9470. It was proven the day before that this transmitter is capable of operating correctly, but AIR allows it to go haywire yet again. Looking for the AIR Aligarh blob from the malfunxioning 9470 transmitter, Oct 11 at 1325: nothing on 9470, but not much on 9425 Bengaluru either, so propagation unfavorable. Then I do find a filthy FMy blob centered about 9348, bothering KTWR 9340 from its *1327 with IS and opening Santali per Aoki. I could not match the 9348 blob `modulation` to other likely culprits, WTJC 9370 or WWRB 9385, and Aligarh has previously appeared even lower than this, so likely it by elimination. By 1332, 9425 was just barely audible with flutter, but not enough to make a match, and still nothing on 9470. The AIR Aligarh extremely distorted blob was centered on 9475 Oct 12 at 1327, i.e. right on top of R. Australia in Chinese, also detectable; blob spread from 9470 to 9490, still peaking at 9475 at 1456 check. 9425, AIR Bengaluru, clear // distorted 9475v, Oct 12 at 1430 with Akashvani ID, 5+1 timesignal but one second late compared to WWV! I wonder how it would compare to ATA. Right into news in English about Pakistan releasing Mumbai terrorist (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9415 the center frequency for the AIR Aligarh blob, Oct 13 at 1336, and correct frequency 9470 absent. However, 9415 distorted modulation was not // 9425 AIR Bengaluru, supposedly carrying same network. Fortunately, 9415 was not wide enough to bother 9425 itself. At first considered it could be something else, but no // found from 9370, 9385 or anything on 31m; besides, the intonation still sounded Hindi. 1340 it had quite slow talk with long pauses, as if dictation or maybe language lesson. Not rechecked until 1457 when considerably weaker as was 9425, but at 1501 they were again // in music. Are 9470-or- whatever and 9425 ever intentionally carrying separate programming? Meanwhile, 9690 also audible, which I had not heard in a long time, at 1346 with GOS of AIR ID by YL; poor signal, weaker than 9425 and much weaker than 9870. Aoki says 9690 is 500 kW, 108 degrees from Bangaluru at 1330-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) & see ANDAMAN ** INDONESIA. 4750, RRI Makassar, nice S9+10 signal, no co-channel this time, 1315 Oct 9, Indonesian music and talk; best SW broadcast signal below 5 MHz. I should take time to pause and listen for content, but I am drawn to bandscan as much as possible upon upwaking. [and non]. 4925, RRI Jambi, Oct 12 at 1249 peaking S9+10 in Indonesian mentioning ``berita2`` and ``warta berita`` (news), a sure tipoff as to language. Then to some choral music, with something similar on Makassar 4750 but not // as soon one was talking and one was musicking. The two about same signal level, but 4925 has CODAR QRM. Both still audible at 1326 but weakening. 3325, where it`s always a question whether PNG or RRI Palangkaraya, Oct 12 at 1255 the best extracontinental signal on 90m so I stick with it a while. 3335 and 3385 PNG also audible, the latter still at 1326. On 3325, W&M dialog, rather dramatically expressed. Sure sounds Indonesian rather than Tok-Pisin, and not English; I did not pick up any Indonesian keywords, but did catch a reduplication which is more likely Indonesian than TP. YL kept giggling right thru hourtop with no discernible ID, finally 1302 into song. 1319 back to phone calls and more giggling, 1324 music. RRI Makassar, 4750 had good signal Oct 13 around 1300, but soon distracted by the mess on 4800; see UNIDENTIFIED. Not much from Jambi 4925 today. 4750 still audible with Indonesian talk at 1355; and music still detectable as late as 1429 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.89, Voice of Indonesia, *1004-1033, Oct 9, abruptly on with presumed English news in progress. Very poor. Modulation too weak to even ID the language, but English is listed for this time period (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) VOI, 9525.9, Oct 9 at 1324 with ID, URL to access streaming, three frequencies, two of which are always imaginary and none of which is ``9525.9`` or even 9526; modulation this time at fair level, but nowhere near what it should be on an S9+20 signal. 1325 starting Indonesian Wonders about some restaurant dish, sounding like babarji; but too much accent and flutter noise to follow content, anyway accompanied by nice flutish music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.89, Voice of Indonesia, *1003-1020, Oct 10, abrupt sign on with English news in progress. ID. Good signal strength but modulation too weak to make out many program details (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 9525.9, VOI check for another Tuesday excursion to Banjarmasin in the Exotic Indonesia series: Oct 13 at 1344 did hear the Banj guy introducing cultural talk given by YL starting with some geographical facts; but very undermodulated and unworthy of spending any more time straining to comprehend. After the China clash, next check at 1502 in the clear again, but modulation JBA and could not be sure it was really English as scheduled. Would it be too much to ask for decent modulation to accompany the 250 kW carrier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI mit neuer Webseite, http://www.voi.co.id/ (Christian Milling-SUI, A-DX Oct 7 via BC-DX via DXLD) The broadcast schedule link from it goes nowhere except to an empty calendar. There is also a `dignity forum` but it is empty too. If you keep talking about dignity, does that make you more dignified? But beware, each page autolaunches a player, with German going at 1845 Oct 11 check. Nice wood-grain wallpaper, tho, unseems teak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. L'ONA CURTA AMB MUSICA Nº 50 10/09 Us envio els meus llistats de programes que espero siguin del vostre interès. Cordials salutacions. Rafael Martínez, Barcelona. L'ONA CURTA AMB MUSICA Nº 50 10/09 DISSABTE 0000 MYSTERY R. -IRREGULAR DIL A DIU, RELAY OCASIONAL D'ALTRES RR.LL- 6220 0000 PLAYBACK INTL -HORARI IRREGULAR- 6870v 0000 R. AMICA -HORARI IRREGULAR- 7550 0800 R. JOYSTICK VIA IRRS (1er DISSABTE DE MES) 9510 0800 R. CITY VIA IRRS (3er DISSABTE DE MES) 9510 0840 IRRS "39 DOWNING STREET" 9510 (EXCEPTE 1er I 3er DISS DE MES) 1030 BBC WS AF "CHARLIE GILLETT'S WORLD OF MUSIC" 15400 1740 CHINA R. INTL "ESPERANTO KONCERTO" 11650 (REP 1940 7265 9745, 2240 7315 9860) 1805 VOICE OF NIGERIA "AFRICAN SAFARI" 15120 1900 VOA AFRIQUE "DECOUVERTE MUSICAL" (REP DIU 2000) 17550 1930 VOA AFRIQUE "REGGAE HIP HOP" 17550 1930 VOICE OF NIGERIA "TIME FOR HIGHLIFE" 15120 2000 VOA AFRICA "MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA" 17895, 15580 2010 RFI AFRIQUE "MUSIQUES DU MONDE" 9790 2200 WWCR "BLUEGRASS RADIO" 5070 DIUMENGE 0000 PLAYBACK INTL -HORARI IRREGULAR- 6870v 0000 R. AMICA -HORARI IRREGULAR- 7550 0900 MV BALTIC RADIO -1er DIUMENGE DE MES- 6140 0900 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. -3er DIUMENGE DE MES- 6140 0900 R. GLORIA INTL -4rt DIUMENGE DE MES- 6140 1133 RFI AFRIQUE "L'EPOPEE DES MUSIQUES NOIRES" 17525, 17620 1705 VOICE OF NIGERIA "MUSIC HERITAGE" 15120 1900 VOA AFRIQUE "SOUL USA" 17550 2000 VOA AFRICA "MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA" 17895, 15580 DILLUNS 1633 RFI AFRIQUE "COULEURS TROPICALES" (DILLUNS A DIVENDRES) 15300 1905 RTBF "CLASSIC 21 BLUES" (1er DILLUNS DE MES) 9970 2000 VOA AFRICA "AFRICAN BEAT" (DILLUNS A DIVENDRES) 17895, 15580 2105 VOA "AMERICAN GOLD" 15580 DIMARTS 1715 RTBF "LE MONDE EST UN VILLAGE" (DIMARTS A DIVENDRES) 9970 2105 VOA "ROOTS & BRANCHES" 15580 DIMECRES 1830 R.TAIPEI INTL "JADE BELLS & BAMBOO PIPES" 6155 2105 VOA "CLASSIC ROCK SHOW" 15580 DIJOUS 1940 RFI AFRIQUE "MUSIQUES DU MONDE" 9790 2000 WWCR "ROCK THE UNIVERSE" 15825 2000 VOA AFRIQUE "AFRO MUSIC" 15730, 17550 DIVENDRES 1930 VOICE OF NIGERIA "NIGERIAN POPULAR MUSIC" 15120 1940 RFI AFRIQUE "MUSIQUES DU MONDE" 9790 2000 VOA AFRIQUE "MUSIQUE DE LA CARAIBE" 15730, 17550 DIES I HORES UTC. LA SELECCIO DE PROGRAMES ES TOTALMENT PERSONAL I SUBJECTIVA. A MES DE LES FREQUENCIES RECOMANADES, ELS GRANS SERVEIS INTERNACIONALS COM LA VOA, BBC O RFI FAN SERVIR ALTRES FREQUENCIES EN PARALLEL. MOLTES EMETEN VIA SATELLIT I ALGUNS DELS PROGRAMES ES PODEN ESCOLTAR ALS WEBS D'AQUESTES EMISSORES EN DIRECTE O EN PODCAST. PER A MES INFORMACIO CONSULTEU LLISTATS, REVISTES, INTERNET, ETC. (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) all-caps sic ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Re 9-075: NTDTV jammed by satellite from China: > This reminds me of BBC that shut down its Kazakh service partially > due to heavy Chinese jamming. BBC wasn't even targeting PRC but > rather Kazakhstan. That didn't help (Sergei S.) If I recall correct it is Uzbek that became a target of Chinese jamming, too. > Keith, sometimes you sound like an idealistic guy from the > end of 1980s... But would this be wrong? At present I'm quite irritated by all the old officials praising what is now officially called "the peaceful revolution", as if the events twenty years ago would qualify as such ("implosion" would be a quite good term for them). Nobody cares about the idealistic people from those days anymore. And I have to agree with Keith's comment that nobody seems to care, something that is not specific to China. One of the worst dictatorships on Earth qualifies as an esteemed ally against Russia: http://www.rsf.org/Gas-contracts-but-no-press-freedom.html (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. CUBA ON SATELLITE Now that the leaves are thinning out, I was able to get signals yesterday on my most eastern satellite, Hispasat at 30 W (any further east and my dish will crash into my chimney). I can now get the Cuban TV stations 24/7 including 2 Tele Rebelde, 4 Educativo, 6 Cubavisión, 15 Educativo-2, and cable channels Cubavisión Internacional, Señal ACN, and an ICRT feed channel "Contribución" (which normally has a COI-ICRT test pattern) + lots of Cuban radio stations. (For some reason, 21 Multivisión & 27 Canal Habana are scrambled). I can confirm that 2/4/6/15 Havana all now use color-bar test patterns with NO IDs on them. Also on this sat I saw some TV from other countries... SPAIN - TPA Andalusia, Galicia, 3 Cat, Canal Vasco, Canal Catala ... in 576P DVB-S format. CANARY ISLANDS - C Canarias COLOMBIA - Tele Caribe, Zoom, RCI ARGENTINA - Canal 6 Córdoba, Canal Luz + many Arab repeats + TV Martí. Also, a surprise on Intelsat 3 (43 W).... XEPM-2 Ciudad Juárez has appeared there. This one in addition to XHP-3 Puebla, XHTPZ-24 Tampico, CDC León (ch ?), and unID Chihuahua station. BTW, XHP-3 has cb test pattern with calls - so would be a good MS target for those in range. This "satellite DXing" certainly fills in the void during the Es/Tropo lulls. Dish is a rotatable 39". Ku only for now (will try C band on same dish next spring) (William R Hepburn, Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.4 -79 33 34.5, http://dxinfocentre.com/hepburn/ Oct 9, WTFDA via DXLD) Perhaps I should come over to your place with my chainsaw and trim any trees that interfere with your line of sight to satellites (-John L., ibid.) That would work; except the forest behind me is protected as part of a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve (Niagara Escarpment). I can only take down trees that threaten my property. I guess they could all be considered threatening (; (Bill H., ibid.) Don't expect to get anything with a 39 inch dish. The minimum dish for C-Band reception is 7.5-feet, and even those are skittish when it comes to DVB-S2 reception (Jeff Kitsko, Unity Township, ibid.) That's what people say, Jeff (although most quote 6 feet); but I have seem several reports in forums of success with 39" with the stronger C-band signals. Digital signals just need to get over the cliff effect whereas in the old days, the analog sigs were full of sparklies. I'm not looking for a whole bunch, it'll be just my own personal challenge to see 1 or 2 (William R Hepburn, Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.4 -79 33 34.5, http://dxinfocentre.com/hepburn/ ibid.) And as a FTA satellite user also, I have been told the biggest problem with a smaller dish is the focal point for weaker signals. The large dish can focus the signal energy, whereas a smaller dish sees too much of the sky and stronger signals from adjacent satellites 'get in the way' of the satellite you're attempting to focus on. This sometimes is problematic even for Ku band frequencies, where a weaker signal gets interference from a stronger signal from an adjacent satellite and the satellite tuner can't do anything with the weak signal (Jim Thomas, Colorado, ibid.) I find with 39" on Ku I have no trouble separating 2 degrees. I guess with C-band's larger wavelengths it will likely be more of a problem though (on the other hand, aiming should be less fussy). wrh (Bill Hepburn, ibid.) Just drive over to the nearest Home Depot, buy a 10' section of 2" diameter steel conduit, and use it as a mast to raise your dish. Then even during the Summer you should be able to look right over those leaves! I don't think you'll find any Ku signals further to the east. As far as I can tell, none of the Ku sats in that part of the Clarke Belt have footprints over North America. A couple of the Intelsat birds ARE receivable on C-band from those azimuths, but your tree problem would seem to rule out the 10' dish you'd probably need. (Also, your C-band feedhorn must be circularly polarized for those sats. But not a big deal.) It's interesting that Tele Rebelde runs a lot of American movies. From the channel's name, one should expect a lot of propaganda. But that seems mostly to be on the other Cuban channels, which are usually very boring except for an occasional music show. I really enjoy Hispasat. It's maybe my favorite from among all the foreign birds. Great Spanish music -- especially on TPA (which is from Asturias, BTW, not Andalusia), TV Galicia and Canal Canarias. And some good music fare on the radio side of this satellite as well! (TV Martí is boring most of the time, with political talk shows. And once in a while it's scrambled. I guess that's when they're carrying an American baseball game!) I agree with Jeff Kitsko that you'll need a much bigger dish for C- band. And while we're on the subject of satellite reception, it may be worth mentioning that this week is quite a valuable time for deciding where to site a new dish. That's because it's the period of the semi-annual solar outage -- when the Sun tracks the Clarke Belt. So if you're wondering whether your QTH can receive a particular satellite, all you need is to calculate that bird's "outage time" for your geographical coordinates, which you may do via this URL: http://www.satellite-calculations.com/SUNcalc/SUNcalc.htm Then if you have a sunny day, just look around your property during the outage time of the satellite you want to receive. Any spot in your yard (or on your roof) that's fully illuminated by the Sun during that 6 or 7 minute interval will have a clear path up to the satellite in question. 73, (Jim Brown, Arlington VA, W5DRP [sic], ibid.) That is interesting. I hope nobody thinks I used a satellite dish to make my pictures of XEPM-2, XHP-3, and XHLGT-2 (cdc)... (Danny Oglethorpe, Shreveport, LA, ibid.) FTA satellite service On the topic William H. brought up. There are something in excess of 400 FTA Ku (and an almost as large number C-band) "feeds" services out there with modest gear. For those folks who are now missing their "local" ABC-CBS-FOX-NBC (etc.) there are FTA satellite alternatives along with hundreds of other programming choices. The expert in this area - and I hope this is his current email address which will send you to an incredibly useful site - is Mike Kohl as globalcm @ mhtc.net If this proves to be 'old' let me know and will locate a more recent one. PS - There are "free come take them down and away" 6-7-8' C-band dishes all over the USA (and Canada) - abandoned. Tens of thousands in fact. Ask Tim Alderman on this site about same! (He lived it - knows more about it than anyone I know.) http://www.global-cm.net/mission.html is where you want to go for FTA satellite info. Mike is a prince of a fellow, one of the most devoted and honest peiple I have ever known. If Mike says it is "so" - it is "so." (Bob Cooper in NZ, ibid.) Mike does a two hour call-in show every Friday evening on the Skyscanner Radio Network from 8 to 10 pm CDT [UT Sat 0100-0300] at http://67.212.189.10:8842/rfd2 Put the url into Winamp. Tonight's show was abbreviated because Ralf, his co-host in New Orleans, had some CNN feeds to do. 73, (Jeff Kadet, IL, Oct 9, ibid.) ** IRAN. [Re 9-075, which frequency is Iran on?] VOITIRI, 7375 at 0245 Arabic, 444, Oct 7, OM interviewing an OM. YL with comments 0246 (Stewart MacKenzie, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He previously reported same at 0329; but Croatia via German is supposed to be on 7375 all evening, and Iran in Arabic on 7350. Is anyone else hearing Arabic on 7375?? It should be hard to confuse Croatian with Arabic (gh, DXLD) Voice of the Islamic Republic (Sirjan) on 15150, Oct 9 at 1452. Fair signal with gusty band noise. YL speaking Arabic followed by nice song by OM vocalist (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9495, 0216-, Voice of Justice, Oct 12. Good to very good level in English, and even better on 7235 (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. USA. Radio Farda (via Lampertheim) on 15410, Oct 9 at 1519. Very strong with Indo-Pak pop song (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6973, 0235-, Galei Zahal, Oct 11. Excellent reception with Hebrew and music program. Not so well heard on other nights (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15785.74, Galei Zahal Hebrew service, weak signal at 0900 UT Oct 10, S=3 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. AFN RADIO SIGNAL IN NAPLES RESUMES Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Saturday, October 10, 2009 After five months of dead air on the radio, American Forces Network has resumed broadcasting in Naples, Italy. The radio signal went silent April 27 when AFN ended a long-standing contract to broadcast from a tower at the monastery atop Collina dei Camaldoli, Naples’ highest point. But the network ran into bureaucratic red tape after Italian environmental officials deemed the site was too “hot” with electromagnetic field emissions to warrant approval for new transmitters. After negotiations with Italian officials, and tests on the AFN transmitters, results showed the AFN transmitters are below emission limits set by the Italian government. The transmitters will piggyback off an existing Italian radio and television station broadcast tower. AFN radio is the only fully English-speaking station in Naples. Base residents can listen to 106 FM on the television’s program guide channel, and those with AFN decoders off base can listen to 106 FM on channel 182, and 107 FM on channel 183. Source: Stars -n- Stripes http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65288 (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Oct 10, DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. Re 9-075, another copy of the IRRS B-09 schedule via Arnaldo Slaen reminds me to mention, one new broadcast, never specified what, but suspect it is the long awaited morning service from Miraya FM, from and for Sudan, to go with the evening one at 15- 18 on 15650, with identical parameters except for frequency: 9835 0300-0600 daily 37-40,46-48,52,53,57 150 kW A3 Africa Engl, Arab(3) But since Miraya is so specialized for Sudan, why are all those additional CIRAF zones specified --- i.e. the whole of Africa plus Mideast from Turkey to Afghanistan? Perhaps to obscure the fact that the transmissions are axually on a 160 degree azimuth from ``Milan``, i.e. Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia. Also one must wonder if the 5990 broadcast shifted to 0530-0630 Mon- Thu will still be occupied by convicted and about to be sentenced sex offending evangelist Tony Alamo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. 3925, R. Nikkei, 1211, 10/9/09. Classical music program was fair [Moog? gh]; also heard 10/10/09, 1210 with jazz peaking at S8. Big het on 3945, and lesser hets on 3976 & 3995 heard at the same time. No het from 3987 heard (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8B, Wellbrook 1.1 M Loop, Par SWL Random Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Those `hets` being Indonesian carriers except 3945 Vanuatu (gh) ** JAPAN [and non]. NHK on 6010, Oct 9 at 1151. While wondering what I was hearing, an OM immediately said "Japan, NHK, this is the service in Russian," or something very similar, in English. Multilingual announcements and back to Russian content, followed by Japanese song. Off abruptly and midsentence at 1158. EiBi/AOKI/ILGRadio all say this is transmitting from Japan, but it sounds as strong and clear as a local Sackville broadcast to me. Heard NHK in English from Sackville on 6120 at 1210. Okay, that's more clear and even stronger. Heard NHK English again on 13630 (via Rampisham) at 1423. 1423? I thought their broadcasts were 20 minutes and off. Nice signal, bothered by big het from empty carrier on 13625, where I show nothing listed. NHK off midsentence again at 1429. Empty carrier decided to be RHC in English at 1430 (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have also noted VG signals from NHK on 6010, but it`s 35 degrees direct from Yamata, intended for E Siberia, and coincidentally USward. No, most NHK English broadcasts are still 30 minutes, except when it`s too early in their morning to bother with news, at 2200 and 0000 UT (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** JAPAN. This column has documented the erosion of radio programming from NHK, Radio Japan’s parent organization, over the years; nowadays, the only programming produced is a 10-minute English newscast (updated two to three times per day), a weekday magazine program (“Radio Japan Focus”) and two weekend programs – “Pop Up Japan”, a Saturday program about popular music in Japan and youth culture, along with “World Interactive”, a Sunday cultural program featuring listener contact and embedded cultural features. All of these can be heard online; the news is also available via podcast. Shortwave air times to North America: 0500-0530, 6110 kHz 1200-1230, 6120 kHz 1400-1430, 11705 kHz 0000-0020, 6145 kHz (previous day’s programming). An interesting development for those with broadband internet connectivity is the availability of live streaming video from NHK TV – that’s really where much of NHK’s international broadcasting is being spent nowadays. Much like on radio, the focus is heavily on news, with 15 to 30 minutes each hour devoted to a news analysis program called, unoriginally, “Newsline”. It doesn’t appear that any TV programming is available for streaming on-demand (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. RADIO JAPAN/NHK RELAY STATION [N American pirate]: 10/8, 2104-2129:19*, 6924.7/AM; Relay of current Radio Japan program in English. Off without pirate ID. SIO=3+54- w/QSB (PSE QSL Frodge-MI) 10/8, 2119-2130, 6925/AM; SINPO 45444 Rebroadcast? of NHK program on animal rescue and pet adoption in Japan. NHK Radio Japan ID at sign off. Very strong signal (Ragnar Daneskjold, ibid.) 10/9, 2118-2129:24*, 6924.66/AM; English feature on food safety. RJ/NHK close at s/off. SIO=343, QRM from on 6930v (PSE QSL, Harold Frodge, MI, Free Radio Weekly via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. 12085, ABI special transmission heard today, Oct 8, at 1300 UT. Carrier already there at 1259 UT, opened 1300 UT with one playing of the same IS that can be found at the 2rd URL shown below (IS link takes a while to load). Weak signal overall, somewhat better on a few grudging "peaks," but would not have been identifiable except for the IS match. Virtually all talking by man in Asian language, occasional musical bridges and single repeats of the IS, a few words by a woman here and there. Off at 1330 UT. I guess it was RN via the Philippines that was also on channel, but they were even weaker, and not a problem. Tnx Dan F. and Wolfie for the info on this one (Jerry Berg, MA-USA, DXplorer Oct 8 via BC-DX via DXLD) Re: 12085-ABI. Slightly better today, Oct 9, during first 10 minutes, then about the same (Jerry Berg-MA-USA, DXplorer Oct 9, ibid.) In Tokyo the reception was good to fair on both days. No QRM. RNW Tinang seemed to be skipped [today]. The programs were: "Details of the foundation of Asian Broadcasting Institute in 1978". "Looking back the days of Radio War in Taiwan Strait" with many recordings of the clandestine stations on both sides. "30 Years of Radio War in Korean Peninsula" with recordings of the plot stations from South and North. Station identifications were given in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English at the beginning and ending. Reception report should be addressed to sw @ abiweb.jp within October (Takahito Akabayashi, Japan, Oct 9, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 10 via DXLD) ABI broadcast --- 12085, Tashkent, Asian Broadcasting Institute 30th anniversary, 1300 to about 1325 fade. Poor reception, man talking in Asian language, presumed Japanese. If not for the distinctive IS, same as heard on website, it would have been merely an unidentified (Don Jensen, Kenosha WI, Oct 8, NASWA yg via DXLD) Re: UZBEKISTAN 12085 kHz, 1300-1330 UT Oct 9th, Tashkent transmitter relay. The Asian Broadcasting Institute celebrates the 30th anniversary this year. We will have the special shortwave broadcasting in commemoration of this. Date: October 8, 2009 (re-broadcast on October 9) Time: 1300-1330 UT Frequency: 12085 kHz Language: Japanese. Tiny S=3-4 signal here in southern Germany. Just above local noise of electric fence charger, and threshold signal from Tashkent site. 65 degrees azimuth, which is right approx. 90 degrees at dead angle towards Europe, [312 degrees]. Though fair propagation today at same time slot, like Firedrake music jammer 12040 kHz at S=9+20dB level, or EWTN WEWN 12160 kHz, S=9+15dB. Noted also vailed radio station "Radio Free Chosun" in Korean via same transmitter unit before 1300 UT. No co-channel QRM of RNW Tinang-PHL noted here so far. E-mail address given at 1310 UT in Japanese by male announcer. 1312:15 short MORSE code signal and Chinese ID. 1314:30 short piece of ?KRE's? "Internationale" hymn recording given. 1329:20 Interval signal. 1330:45 TX Tashkent OFF. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rather nice signal here on 12085 1300-1330 Oct 9. Some trouble from RNW Dutch (just before 1330 also RNW English) but with suitable antenna ABI was overriding RNW well (Jari, Finland, Savolainen, ibid.) ** JORDAN. 9830, RJ, Al Karanah, at 1909 in Arabic, Oct 11. M & W with lots of laughter in their discussion with each other. Strong signal, but right on top of equally strong digital utility (Icom R75, Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Voice of Korea (Kujang) on 12015, Oct 5 1940. Fair signal with strong QRM from perhaps RTTY and bacon-fry noise. OM and YL in scheduled Arabic plus musical segments. Found again from Kujang on 13760, Oct 5 at 1949. Very strong signal with minimal band noise with song in Spanish. Voice of Korea (Kujang) on 9335, Oct 8 at 1350. YL with news in English. Fair signal, but pretty bad QRN. OM with ID, schedule and sign-off at 1356, but somewhat poor copy. Open carrier until sign-on of French service at 1400 (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) D.P.R., 15245.23 \\ 13760.00, Pyongyang in Korean martial men`s chorus. Speech at 0910 UT Oct 10, S=9+15dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE - 5910, Shiokaze *1400-1430* Oct 10. Noted in Korean today with man/woman talks. VG signal (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. R. Free Asia, 5810: see U S A [non] ** KOREA SOUTH. 6095, clear frequency with very weak B-B-C- note chimes, Oct 13 at 1256. Thought it might be interesting site, and it is per Aoki: Kimjae, Korea South, 250 kW at 290 degrees, about to start BBCWS Chinese service and no doubt promptly to be *jammed into oblivion, but not just yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. Tuned in KBSWR via CANADA, 6045 amid Spanish broadcast at 0631 UT Sunday Oct 11, to hear the conclusion of what was billed as the first contribution by Yimber (Gaviría, Cali, Colombia) to the Antena de la Amistad show. Unlike the clip of Radio del Sur which immediately followed, his audio was defective, breaking up, but that did not seem to bother KBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, at 1848 4 Sept, V. of Mesopotamia via Moldova, superb music! SIO 353 (SRC, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) SRC initials missing from this month`s contributor list, but in the 12/08 edition it was Steve Calver in Herts (gh) ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait (Sulaibiyah) on 15110, Oct 9 at 1445. Very nice signal, with minutes of the sound of burbling water and twittering birds, followed by OM mentioning Allah and rather nice song by YL. No Western pop songs? This is Radio Kuwait? (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 4412.787, Lao National Radio - Sam Neua, 1017, Lao, brief talk by a woman, into nice local music. Low modulation. OCT 5 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 7145, LNR Vientiane, 2329, Oct 07, carrier came on, into presumed Vietnamese, male reading news? to 2348 then songs to 2357 tune-out. Threshold signal, just about audible in SAM mode, fortunately usual hams kept fairly quiet. Regular s/off is at 0029 after listed Khmer as monitored Oct 04 /05 /06. Was wondering whether this language block would still be on the air as I cannot remember seeing this reported anywhere lately, but it definitely is! 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7145, 1334-, Lao National Radio External Service, Oct 11. Fair level with English news by a YL. Best of the 3 mornings I tuned. Gone by 1400. My antennae at my QCI are more geared toward MW trans-Pacific DX and not SW (2 Beverages and a large diameter ALA 100), but reception is still possible on decent propagation mornings on SW (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7145, LNR, 1340, Oct. 13. In English with news; item about number of people who are blind, etc.; 1357 “We have come to the end of our local news”; ID; “We have now come to our International News”; ID; 1400* (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio missing from usual 13-14 UT Sunday slot Oct 11 via WHRI 11785. Transmitter not on air, allowing thru instead ChiCom CNR1 jammer and VOA Chinese via Thailand, just like on weekdays. Come to think of it, I did not notice HLR Saturday Oct 10 either, or the previous weekend? The World Harvest Radio website http://www.whr.org is inaccessible to investigate whether it`s still on their schedule. The HLR`s own website http://www.h-lr.com/ audio archive stops after October 1, maybe a clue it is finished, but then still says: ``Xov tooj cua Hmoob Lostsuas hais lus tawm rau huab cua nyob rau sab teb chaws America nyob rau ntawm 11785 kHz raws cov sij hawm nram qab no. Nco ntsoov txhua txhua hnub van xaum thiab van thiv (Sunday and Saturday) yog hais tib lub sij hawm lawm xwb.`` Strangely enough, there`s no Hmong in Google`s language translation facility! It`s interesting to see the states specified next, evidently where hmost of the Hmong reside, not just Hminnesota: ``North America Saturday [and Sunday] Broadcasting Schedule 9:00-10:00 AM Eastern Time (MI, FL, NC, SC, GA, RI, PA, MA) 8:00- 9:00 AM Central Time (Arkansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) 7:00- 8:00 AM Mountain Time (Colorado, Utah, Montana) 6:00- 7:00 AM Pacific time (California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington)`` BTW, part of FL is on Central Time, and part of OR is on Mountain Time, but let`s not go there and maybe the Hmong don`t either. Also of interest: http://www.h-lr.com/hlr/aboutus/aboutus.htm but nothing about the current absence (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hmong Lao Radio still listed on 11785 Sat/Sun 13-14 UT when checked a few moments ago (Andy Sennitt, Netherlands 1731 UT Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) However, TDP lists a different schedule for A09: Tues/Sun 0100-0200 UT on 15260. Is this an additional transmission to the one on 11785? (Andy Sennitt, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That one is via Taiwan, so really for Laos, and has been on a long time too, tho the days of week may have changed. If TDP does not list the others, the WHRI ones are apparently brokered by VTC as mentioned in the aboutus. Yes, I get WHR sked when checked again an hour later; searching on Hmong one also sees: Angel 4 0000-0030 8:00 PM- 8:30 PM Fri Hmong World Christian Radio Gia Tou Lee 15710 Angel 6 1400-1430 10:00 AM-10:30 AM Sat Hmong World Christian Radio Gia Tou Lee 11785 Angel 4 is PALAU, registered during the 00 hour on UT Saturdays only. So wonder if the 1400 Sat broadcast of HWCR is still on (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [and non]. While 5810 is still holding up from the west as late as 1500 [see USA [non]], it`s also peak time for highest frequency openings from the east: Oct 12 at 1506, 21695 in surprisingly well, muffled and lo-fi but good S9+8 signal level in discussion of aid by Western agencies to Africa, 1510 ID as Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, for the moment a bit better than // 17725. Only other signals on 13m were Spain on 21610 and 21570, about equal to Libya in strength but much better in modulation during music at 1508. Looked for VOA around 1432 Oct 13 when Saudi Arabia was audible on 21460, 21505, but not heard; however by 1513, 21695 had ascended to S9+10 level with undermodulated music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 5964.93, Klasik Nasional FM 1310-1328 Oct 5. Vocal music, YL announcer. Fair signal but QRM from RHC on 5965. 6049.63, Asyik FM(presumed), 1258-1317 Oct 5. Vocal music past ToH; YL in language at 1304, then more vocals, some in English, at 1307 to 1317 tuneout. Fair/good. SARAWAK - 7270.01 Limbang FM? 1341-1402 Oct 5. Vocal music, M announcer; heard a "Limbang FM ...MHz" jingle at 1357, but at ToH after the 2 pips, the announcement was "Warta berita...Wai FM" so still not sure of the Wai/Limbang schedule. Good signal (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 7270, SARAWAK, RTM Kuching-Stapok; 1248 Oct 12, holy qur'an recitations. Fair-Good. 7295, RTM Kuala Lumpur, Kajang-TraxxFM; Oct 12, 1240 pop/disco music, 1244 M&W in EG w/anmts. Good signal (Steve/AB5GP C. Wiseblood, Brownsville TX, (2 miles from Boca Chica Beach, GULF of MEXICO), Radio Shack DX-399, 150' center fed LW, dxld yg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. MALAYSIA'S DIGITAL RADIO PLANS Read the full story here ..... http://www.adoimagazine.com/newhome/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4997&catid=21&Itemid=2 Excerpts .... As RTM moves forward, their future plans for radio are not less than impressive. The government radio stations have not only started planning for the dawn of digital radio but its implementation is also underway. “There are two areas when talking about digital radio; the station and the transmission. So far at RTM, we have developed our digital radio infrastructure since 1995, with digital radio studios set up throughout the country.” He added, “The next step will be the transmission phase, which is divided into two categories, DRM (digital radio mondiale) and DAB + (digital audio broadcast plus). For DRM, basically it is a secondary transmission, with DAB+ being the primary transmission, thus those who want to replace FM should use DAB+.” For short wave the use of DRM is best. With DRM, one can use analog and digital but DAB+ can only be used for digital transmissions. “In most of our radio stations, we use FM except in Kajang and Kuching where we have DRM and also for Suara Malaysia and Suara Islam stations, short wave transmission is used. However for Suara Islam and Suara Malaysia we have introduced Internet protocol.” Datuk Ibrahim goes on to explain that it was in the year 2008 that the DRM trial run was carried out in Kajang and MCMC has reported good transmission on DRM is received all over the country including Sarawak. “Our ultimate goal is for all major stations to be equipped with DAB+. DRM will be mainly for areas which need their own transmitter, such as rural areas surrounded by hills and mountains.” It is with this encouraging start that RTM hopes to implement digital radio along with digital TV in 2012. The only obstacle to this plan is the issue of cost as for listeners to enjoy digital transmission, they need to be equipped with a digital radio set. At the moment, digital radio is not yet available in Malaysia thus cost cannot be calculated. However, taking the America as a reference point, a digital radio set costs US$100 (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD; also via Yimber Gaviría, Colombia, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6104.781, XEQM Candela FM, 0914, weak with Spanish ballads, best in LSB to escape weak carrier (and resulting het) on high side. Thought this might be possible since CFRX (6070) was also good -- to the point of still being audible after cochannel VOK signed on at 0900. OCT 8 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950, NRD-535D etc., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was starting to get bits of Spanish conversation again from RASA Mérida, XEQM, 6104.8, Oct 9 at 0558, but blocked from *0559:30 by BBC Ascension in French, which thinx it owns 6105.0 for a semihour; XEQM still succeeded in hetting it. Then at 1337 XEQM also poking thru the ACI and CCI with some Spanish, but I was distracted by classical music on 6045, meaning XEXQ was back? Unfortunately, not; see RUSSIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See LANGUAGE LESSONS 6104.75v, XEQM, Candela FM, Mérida, 1030-1115, Oct 10, local music, Spanish ballads. Spanish talk. Phone talk. Mentions of Mérida. In the clear with a fair to good signal. Frequency slowly drifting downward. Was on 6104.76 at 1030, 6104.75 by 1055, and 6104.74 by 1115 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** MEXICO. There has been a lot of off-season sporadic E the last few days, surging into the FM band and even channel 7, plus double-hopping lowband TV from Venezuela [q.v.] and Colombia into northeast America, but all I got here, once I belatedly resumed monitoring open channel 2 again, was: 2257 UT Oct 12 on analog channel 2, fade-in with ad for some event in Mérida and Cancún, so likely often-seen XHY Mérida. There were more DX signal peaks into channel 2 the next few hours, but nothing identifiable among CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MIDWAY ISLANDS. KH4, MIDWAY ISLANDS (OC-030). On Saturday, October 10th, the following press release was sent out from Tom, N4XP: "The entire team is in Honolulu. On Thursday when the first members were to depart to Midway we were informed of a problem with the plane involving an oil leak. We were assured it was fixable. Friday several test flights were made that determined that the repairs were unsuccessful. We are frantically searching for alternative means. We discovered yesterday that there are no available planes on the island that are either certified to fly to Midway or large enough for us. We are negotiating with a company in California for a jet as well. The plane we originally chartered is about to take off on a test flight to determine if the repairs made overnight were successful. The team is not giving up and exploring ALL options to make this happen. Fish and Wildlife is being very supportive of our efforts but in no way will they extend the end date of our operation beyond the 19th due to the return of migratory species that have already begun to return early. We will update this website in 5 or 6 hours when the plane returns and is checked out. We are as frustrated as you." On Sunday, just before going to print, a statement on the KH4 Web page states, "(0400z) We have just learned our aircraft is in the air testing repairs made in the past 24 hours. We are anxiously waiting the results." For more details, updates, online log, frequencies and bios, go to: http://www.midway2009.com QSL via online QSL Service, direct (Midway 2009, Box 333, Bethlehem, GA 30620-9989 USA) or LoTW. See the above Web page for complete details. The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster DX Bulletin No. 929, October 12, 2009 Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) The team has safely arrived on Midway Atoll at 0700 UT 12 OCTOBER. At daybreak we start assembling our antennas and stations and will rush to put our stations on the air. (above site checked at 0130 UT Oct 13 via gh, DXLD) No luck hearing anything on 3799, 7078 or 14200, Midway frequencies on website, at several chex thru Oct 14. O see these spots instead from http://www.dxwatch.com/dxped/k4m/ some of which must not be SSB: K4M spotted frequencies on last 30 minutes: 80m: 3509 - 4 spots 80m: 3790 - 3 spots 40m: 7000 - 1 spots 40m: 7004 - 10 spots 30m: 10103 - 1 spots 30m: 10104 - 2 spots 20m: 14200 - 8 spot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. 9665, at 1530 15 Sept, V. of Mongolia, sign-on in English, QRM from N Korea and CRI, SIO 422 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Yep, a 3-way collision; CRI is Pashtu via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, sez Aoki. What Aoki doesn`t show is that NK is usually somewhat off frequency enough to audibly het (gh) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, 10/10 1028, Voice of Mongolia, em Chinese, desde Ulaanbaatar, com 250 kW, mx tradicional, às 1029 UT ID por OM e YL e fim da tx, 1030 inicio do px em inglês, 35443, sinal mais baixo e com menor propagação apesar da lista Aoki informar que a tx em inglês é com a mesma potência e azimute, introdução por YL e curta mx Mongol, 25332 (Jorge Freitas, Blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/75006 Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil, HCDX via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. Radiodiffusion-Television Marocaine (Nador) on 15345, Oct 5 at 1957. Weak signal with vocal music. Huge QRM and N making for overall nastiness (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15341.00, Still Arabic service of RTM Nador site on odd channel. S=7 at 0905 UT Oct 10 (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.00, Myanma Radio, 1325, Oct. 13. Back on their normal frequency again (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non?]. Dear FRS Friends, New tests upcoming Sunday Last week we announced tests within 39 metres for Sunday October 4th and 11th. Last Sunday the first tests went out on 7600 kHz (0800-1000/ 1200-1300 UT) and on 7685 kHz (1300-1400 UT). Response was overwhelming with so far approx. 50 reports sent by eMail. These reports came from some 16 countries within and outside Europe including the USA,Canada & Chile (South America). Next series of tests on 39 metres will be radiated upcoming Sunday October 11th; FRS-Holland will be carrying out tests on 7600 kHz and 7685 kHz. 7685 replaces 7635 which had to be cancelled last Sunday. 7635 won't be use and is replaced by 7685 kHz. This Sunday will see 4 hour of tests in two blocks of two hours: 0800- 1000 UT and a repeat between 1200-1400. During each 2 hour morning block we will use two different frequencies: 7600 (0800-0900 + 1200- 1300) and 7685 (0900-1000 + 1300-1400 UT). Peter V. will be reading out some of the mail FRS received so far. Of course we remain understandably curious about reception on each frequency. What is the best frequency choice, is there much difference between 7600 and 7685, is there much difference in reception between the morning and afternoon hours? Questions on which we would like to have your answer. Propagation conditions could differ from last Sunday, that makes things extra interesting. If you have sent a reception report for last Sunday's tests, please write in again. You can compare both Sundays as far as propagation is concerned telling us what Sunday was the best. We'd love to hear from you, either by mail or via P O Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands. A nice QSL card is waiting for you. Keep an eye on 7600 kHz and 7685 kHz. Looking back to Sunday October 4th: Once again, we are very pleased with the reports we got so far. We haven't looked yet in our POBox but most likely we will receive a bunch of letters. Thanks to all who responded on last Sunday's tests! Unfortunately we were not able to test on 7635 although it was announced. Instead we tested on 7685 during the final hour between 1300-1400 UT. Conditions last Sunday weren't as good as the previous week but still satisfactory. There was more noise, fading and cracks. Reception varied from poor to very good. And: reception in southern regions was better compared with northern. For instance in North Germany and Southern Scandinavia reception was fair at its best while in France, Southern Britain and Southern Germany reception was good (at least: in many cases). This could be result of the direction in which the inverted V (almost horizontal) dipole antenna is hanging. We cannot rotate the antenna that much, at the most approx. 35 degrees. But also on one and the same reception location reception varied. The first 15 minutes were ruled by a high amount of noise but at approx. 0815 UT the signal became significantly better because of a decreasing noise level. Between 0900-0940 the signal was less strong but towards 1000 signal strength was peaking. Especially in the afternoon there was much difference in reception quality among the various reception locations. All in all we are quite satisfied with the results. If propagation remains the same or becomes even a bit better, we hope to achieve at least the same results as last Sunday. Let's wait and see. FRS News #34 out now The latest edition of FRS News is out. In this 4 page edition (in colour!) the latest FRS News, we look back at the highly successful December 2008 broadcast, Mailbox 2702, Fact File and a story on Radio Europe Int. (History of European SW Free Radio). If you would like to obtain a copy, send two euro/ 3 US dollars to our Herten maildrop. Perhaps you could combine this with sending in a snailmail report to our Herten maildrop. A hard copy of our quality QSL is preferable above a E-QSL card. But: that's up to you. More news in the upcoming weeks. WE will certainly keep you up-to-date with FRS- Holland developments. 73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format.... FRS-Holland P O Box 2702 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands e-mail: < frs.holland @ hccnet . nl> e-mail: < frs @ frsholland . nl> (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRS Tests Schedule adjustments Dear FRS Friends, Yesterday we already informed about the upcoming tests within 39 metres for Sunday October 11th. What we didn't know yesterday is that the two announced channels will (most likely) run at the same time in parallel. A smaller spare rig will be operational with an experimental vertical antenna on both frequencies. The main goal remains testing 7600 & 7685 with the same (main) transmitter as last week and the same antenna as well which is an inverted V dipole. So, we go for comparing frequencies and not comparing antennas. But it is of course a welcome bonus that we can run a second rig with another type of aerial as well. We have no idea how the vertical antenna will perform, we weren't able to do any serious testing prior to tomorrow's tests. An important factor remain the band conditions which today are quite unstable, much noise and cracks. Schedule Sunday October 11th 2009 FRS-Holland Tests 39 metres 7.6 MHz Time (UT) Frequency Antenna Transmitter 0800-0900 7600 kHz Inverted V dipole Main rig (higher power) 0800-0900 7685 kHz Vertical antenna Spare rig (lower power) 0900-1000 7685 kHz Inverted V dipole Main rig (higher power) 0900-1000 7600 kHz Vertical antenna Spare rig (lower power) 1200-1300 7600 kHz Inverted V dipole Main rig (higher power) 1200-1300 7685 kHz Vertical antenna Spare rig (lower power) 1300-1400 7685 kHz Inverted V dipole Main rig (higher power) 1300-1400 7600 kHz Vertical antenna Spare rig (lower power) 73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format.... FRS-Holland P O Box 2702 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands e-mail: < frs.holland @ hccnet.nl> e-mail: < frs @ frsholland.nl> (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, 1741 UT Oct 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7600.32, 0925-1000* PIRATE, Sunday 11.10, FRS-Holland English test, talk on propagation, mentioned internet, pop songs, requests reception reports 35323 // 7685.05 (35323). Best 73, (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Hi FRS Friends, For those who missed the tests today or would like to give a listen in a better audio quality: from 1600 to 1800 UT/ 18.00-20.00 CEST, FRS-Holland will be on the internet with the two hours of testing which were aired on 7600 & 7685 kHz earlier today. Surf to: http://nednl.net:8000/frsh We wish all of you pleasant listening! 73s, Peter V. (on behalf of the FRS Team) Oct 11 via GRDXC via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Just a reminder that my guest this week on HS DX series is Bob Zanotti (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And where can I find 'HS DX series'? 73, (Erik in CPH Køie, Copenhagen, Denmark, ibid.) If you`re outside the Americas, listening to SW won't work, but you can tune to the live web stream at http://www.wrmi.net times are: Thursday 0100 UT 1500 UT 0700 UT [that`s Friday! gh] Or Saturday 0900 UT http://www.worldfm.co.nz (Keith Perron, ibid.) Keith, I'm afraid your SW listings don't work for a large chunk of North America. Maybe even for most of NA. Hopefully, reception is better for listeners in South America. And WRMI's web stream is not industrial strength so to speak. Please get in touch with WBCQ, WWCR and WHRA. Hopefully, those stations can donate some airtime for your wonderful radio project, as they've done many times before. 73! (Sergei S., IL, ibid.) See USA: WBCQ vs WRMI I have good reception of WRMI M-F between 14 and 16 when 9955 is aimed NW, including Happy Station Thu at 1500. Have you ever tried to listen during this period, Sergei? The web stream works fine too (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Continued under USA, WRMI vs WBCQ, etc. ** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 6159.96, CKZN (presumed), 0201, Oct. 13. CBC news heard under Vancouver, which for some reason did not carry the news, just had non-stop EZL music till 0205 and started their “As It Happens” show. 0301 both stations carrying the same news, causing an echo; some QRM from assume Russia (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, RNZI, Friday Oct 9 at 1329 announcing a road closure due to weather, DST timecheck for 2:30, and into program of award-winning Maori traditional music. English-speaking announcer throws in Maori phrases as if we were bilingual on this RNZ domestic program relayed, but nice and exotic from an overseas standpoint. This show featured cuts from the album ``Ancient Maori Music``, including ``Creation of the World``, ``Call of the Whales``. At 1336 program was referred to as ``your morning music fix``. Schedule grid shows it as Waiata. Found the program page including those on the playlist and already the content of next week`s show starting Oct 11: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/waiata But it shows the wrong time, Saturday 4:30 am, so is the Sunday time wrong too?! Which raises the question, why doesn`t RNZI broadcast specifically in Maori-only during certain hours? Or maybe it does? But then, any modern Maori and probably most of the old-timers also speak Enzedenglish. The 24/7 program grid at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php has the word Maori nowhere on it, tho it does specify French, Hindi, Niuean, Samoan, Tongan! Altho EiBi`s comprehensive language list at http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/readme.txt includes COK for Cook Islands Maori, and MAO for NZ Maori, those abbrs appear nowhere in the entire schedule at http://www.eibispace.de/dx/bc-a09.txt RNZI leavens its English with Maori program titles such as Tagata o te Moana but apparently the show is actually in English? It`s UT Sat at 1308-1330, Sun 1308-1400, 1815-1900. Others, suspected to be Maori, but are they Maori-only? M-F 1735-1740 Waatea News; UT Sat 1708-1800 Te Ahi Kaa. The redesigned website also no longer shows the Maori name of RNZI which used to be prominently displayed, and I can`t remember how it went. Fortunately, WRTH 2009 quotes the Maori ID on page 451: ``Te reo irirangi o Aotearoa, o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa``. But it shows no specific times for any languages but English. From Oct 25, RNZI will be on 7440-AM instead of 6170 for the 1330 programs (and DRM still taking a break). On Oct 9, I was not hearing any het from DZRM 6170.4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RADIO NZ WIELDS A SHARP AXE Radio New Zealand has made swinging cuts in the face of rising overheads and a Government budget freeze. Measures announced by chief executive Peter Cavanagh this week include leaving some vacancies ... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10602561&ref=emailfriend (via Dale Park, HI, DXLD) No mention of SW/external service anyway but which of course depends on the DS for much programming (gh) ** NICARAGUA. NUEVO HOSTIGAMIENTO A RADIO CORPORACIÓN El director de Radio Corporación, Fabio Gadea Mantilla (dcha.), confirmó el nuevo hostigamiento que enfrenta la emisora fundada en 1965 y que ha sobrevivido a la censura somocista y orteguista. (LA PRENSA/ Archivo/A. Montano) [caption] por Arlen Cerda Radio Corporación es víctima de un nuevo “hostigamiento” político, esta vez de la Alcaldía Municipal de Tipitapa, que le ha enviado una notificación extrajudicial para pagar los supuestos impuestos pendientes sobre el terreno donde la radioemisora tiene instalada su antena de transmisión. El director de la radio, Fabio Gadea Mantilla, confirmó a LA PRENSA que la Alcaldía les ha “amenazado” con una multa de mil a un millón de córdobas si no pagan los Impuestos sobre Bienes Inmuebles de los últimos cinco o siete años, que Gadea sostiene han cumplido. [. . .] “ES POR LAS VIÑETAS DE LA CORPORACIÓN” Gadea Mantilla atribuyó estas amenazas a represalias por las viñetas que todos los días transmite Radio Corporación, como parte de una “campaña cívica”. En la primera de las viñetas se escucha cómo el Procurador General de la República, Hernán Estrada, hizo una amenaza directa contra los medios de comunicación en noviembre del año pasado, cuando dijo que “el Gobierno ha actuado con suma prudencia... bastaría un llamado del Jefe del Estado y líder político del Frente Sandinista, Comandante Daniel Ortega, a su militancia y no quedaría piedra sobre piedra sobre ningún medio de comunicación”. [more . . .] Fuente: La Prensa http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2009/octubre/08/noticias/politica/353468.shtml (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) Encontré la dirección de Radio Corporación - Nicaragua, están en: http://www.radio-corporacion.com/principal.php (Yimber, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. 4769.95, at 2225 22 Sept, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, instrumental version of ``Sealed with a Kiss``. Still very low modulation level. S- meter shows S9, but can hardly hear audio, SIO 353 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 4770, R. Nigeria, Kaduna had not been heard in quite a while, but audible Oct 10 at 0552 with show choral lite music, bonker on the hi side, evitable by tuning to lo side, and not much CODAR. Just before 0600 went to announcement, timesignal seemed about right, and more talk, I think in English but too poor to be sure. Signal averaged S9, fluxuating S6 to S9+10, better than Perú 4790, but quite undermodulated. Kaduna could be quite listenable if they would modulate adequately (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate: CRYSTAL SHIP tcsshortwave @ gmail.com 10/6, 2155-2305, 5385.5/AM; SINPO 35434 Starting off with Yohoho & a bottle of Rum, and a clip from TCS theme song. Program started 2204 with USSR National Anthem into an extended Doors set. 22:33 TCS ID in English & Spanish with email addy given by E-YL. (I think I just made up an acronym) Signal faded out at 2305 with local sunset (Ragnar Daneskjold, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) 10/6, 2229, 5385.5/AM; decent signal here tonight, noise moderate without spikes, audio stable but a bit on the fuzzy side, Doors music, 2232 You are tuned to the Crystal Ship the true voice of the blue states of America, female email address, 2239 Don't Fear the Reaper, the right way, the wrong way, and, my way, 2249 Female ID with 100 watts output then Spanish, Pink Floyd, 2258 Money, Pink Floyd, LOL... Emergency Broadcast System announcement, My Generation, The Who Fair (Mike Rohde, OH, ibid.) 10/6, 2238-2325+, 5385.4/AM; good-s7, no static, song: Don`t Fear The Reaper, Bugs Bunny sound clip about Martians, sound clip from movie Caine Mutiny (Bogart`s voice), IDs in English & Spanish, sed official voice of the blue states republic, Pink Floyd tunes: Money (begins with clocks chiming) & Lunatic, spoof song about Rush Limburger, German patriotic song (I think it's called Zum Deutschen Eck), G.W. Bush rap song about money, faded around 2325 (Bill Hassig, IL, ibid.) 10/7, 2312-2320, 5386.0/AM; 45344, 2312 Love is Blind, 2318 You are listening to the Crystal Ship, This IS Pirate Radio, Bar Room Blitz, 2320 BIG fade can just barely hear you. 2326 totally gone here (Mike Rohde, OH, ibid.) [Ballroom Blitz?] (ed.) It seems they have kept to the 5385v area in further broadcasts notified on short notice via their mailing list, as received by Will Martin, such as Sunday evening Oct 11 (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. USA. 6925, 0152-, WTCR, Pirate, Oct 11. Excellent reception of pirate WTCR from my northern location near Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands with strong signal and ID (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, at 1422 6 Sept, R. Sultanate of Oman, English with Arabic accent, SIO 353 (Steve Calver, England, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) I always look for R. Sultanate of Oman on 15140 when bandscanning between 14 and 15, and usually can`t hear any trace of it. But on Oct 12 at 1435 weak YL in English, presumably news on the half-hour, undermodulated and suffering from WYFR 15130 splash. 1438 started mixing with music, and 1440 just music, Western-sounding song of some sort. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman audible for the second day in a row, Oct 13 at 1440 presumably just after news in English, giving website ending in oman.om, then PSA for hotlines about something in Muscat, several numbers including 924-666-02. 1441 into popsong by YL in English. Sounds like quite a modern station; only poor signal suffering from splash de WYFR 15130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. VOA BOOSTS BROADCASTS ACROSS PAKISTAN ON AM AND FM Washington, D.C., October 13, 2009 - The Voice of America (VOA) is expanding its reach across Pakistan. A new arrangement with Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) now allows VOA to broadcast Pashto language programs on medium-wave (AM) radio and Urdu broadcasts on FM stations for the first time. "We're delighted Pakistan's Cabinet has ratified our agreement with PBC," said VOA Director Danforth W. Austin. "This arrangement will allow millions of people in all parts of Pakistan to listen to the VOA's popular news and information programs." VOA's Deewa Radio, a Pashto language service for people in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, is now available on medium wave (AM) at 540 kHz from a transmitter in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. From 1800 to 2200 daily, Deewa Radio's AM signal will broadcast news and current affairs programming plus call-in shows on politics, literature and poetry. Deewa, which began in 2006, continues to broadcast nine hours of radio programming daily on shortwave, FM (transmitters located in Afghanistan) and Internet http://www.VOANews.com/Deewa/ For the first time, VOA’s Urdu language program Radio Aap Ki Dunyaa (Your World) http://www.VOANews.com/Urdu will be heard on the FM band. A 30-minute morning program at 0900 and a 30-minute evening program at 1800 will air on 11 FM stations across Pakistan, including Islamabad and Lahore. VOA's audience is strong in Pakistan, with almost 12 percent of the population listening to or watching Urdu programs. Beyond the Headlines is a 30-minute television program that airs on Geo News, Pakistan's leading cable and satellite TV news channel. (VOA Press Release via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, dxldyg via DXLD) ** PALAU. World Harvest Radio, T8WH, 9930. Full data `WHRI 20 years of Shortwave Ministry to the World` QSL card received in 9 months. Hawaii transmitter site printed on card crossed out with ``T8WH Palau`` written in biro. No return postage (Dave Kenny, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Tacky, but at least accurate now as they have found out at HQ about the change. Biro? Wikipedia says that`s British for ballpoint pen, named for its inventor, László Bíró, so don`t forget the Hungarian accents. Hmmm, this bit of trivia is far more interesting than the Palau QSL (gh, DXLD) See also LAOS [non] ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3345, PNG, R. Northern Popendetta, 0958-1030, Oct 5, Tok Pisin/English. W & M announcers in Tok Pisin; "conch shell" horn blast at 1001 into NBC news relay, presumably still in Tok Pisin- too weak/noisy to tell for sure; soundbites; brief anthem-like mx at 1018; definite English interview near BoH; poor; // 3335 R. East Sepik-poor/fair at best, as was // 3260 R. Madang (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4790.008, Radio Visión, 0710+, fair to good with church sermon by man, occasional response by crowd. Into testimony or similar by woman at 0740. OCT 5 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD- 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, 4790 - 8/10 Radio Visión, Lambayeque, Perú, OM S talking - sermon? This station has been at fair/weak level here on Anglesey the last few mornings 0600-0730 (Mark Davies, Isle of Anglesey, North WALES, ibid.) Lambayeque being the departamento Chiclayo inhabits (gh) ** PHILIPPINES. Re 9-075: 6170.4, PBS relay of DZRM R. Magasin (tentative) heard here 10/3 with thanks to Ron Howard for tip to try LSB [sic; USB?].`` Hi Glenn, Bruce and I have been monitoring this PBS relay of R. Magasin for some time now, during the time period before RNZI signs on at 1259, on 6170.0. The strongest QRM for me is CNR-1 on 6175, so I indeed do use LSB. Probably the best reception I have had for PBS here was when CNR-1 was recently off the air for maintenance. Their absence made a big difference! (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15285, 0215-, Radio Filipinas, Oct 12. Fair to good level in English talking about the typhoons that have hit them lately. // 15510 fair, and nothing heard on 11880 (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9400, FEBC Iba, 1209-1231, Oct 6, Mandarin. M announcer with lengthy religious talk; gospel music at 1229; ID over music at 1230 followed by M & W banter; good (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. CVA via RVA in B09 --- Sun, 11 Oct 2009 For the first time Vatican Radio (CVA) is going to use regularly - Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) transmitter in the Philippines to India in B09 schedule period for their second morning transmission at 0200- 0320. Earlier this service was relayed via Russian transmitter and at present it is coming from Santa Maria. This should improve reception in South Asia. This service comprising Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and in English (repeat of 0040-0200 transmissions) at 0200-0320 can be heard on 15460 kHz in B09 i.e. effective 25th October 2009. RVA via CVA in B09 --- Mon, 12 Oct 2009 --- In Exchange Radio Veritas Asia will use Santa Maria transmitter of Vatican Radio in B09 in Urdu at 1430-1457 on 9585 kHz and Filipino to the ME at 1500-1553 on 11715 w.e.f. 25 October 2009 (Alok Dasgupta via http://dxasia.info/news/ via Alokesh Gupta, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Radio Veritas Asia SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE 25 October 2009 to 28 March 2010 Bengali 0030–0057 11945 1400–1427 11870 Burmese 2330–2357 9720 1130–1157 15450 Filipino 2300-2327 9720 1500-1553 11715 [via VATICAN, as above!] Hindi 0030–0057 11710 1330–1400 11870 Hmong 1200–1227 11935 Kachin 2330–2357 9645 1230–1257 15225 Karen 0000–0027 11935 1200–1230 15225 Mandarin 2100–2257 6115 1000–1157 9615 Russian 0130-0230 17830 1500–1600 9570 Sinhala 0000–0027 11730 9865 1330–1400 9520 Tamil 0030–0057 11935 1400–1430 9520 Telugu 0100–0127 15530 1430–1457 9520 Urdu 0100–0127 15280 17860 1430-1457 9585 [via VATICAN as above!] Vietnamese 2330–2357 9670 0130–0230 15530 1030–1127 11850 1300–1327 11850 Zomi-Chin 0130–0157 15520 73 from (Ashik Eqbal Tokon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. Polish Radio on B09 Frequency Early??? 9525, GERMANY, Polish Radio External Service at 1200 with “News from Poland” hosted by Mikhail Kubicki (Fair with het on 9525.8 – possibly Indonesia?) – Oct 12 – this should be their B09 frequency at 1300 but from reports in Glenn Hauser’s DXLD they seem to have moved off of 9425 early - ed (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA yg via DXLD) Not sure what you mean; PR has been on 9525 all A-09 for English at 12-13, and of course the het is Indonesia, which is in the clear between 13 and 14 for its own English. But big changes in sites are coming for PRES relays in B-09. English tentatively: 13-14 11675 via Moosbrunn, Austria 11860 via Woofferton, UK 18-19 6130 via Woofferton, UK DRM 6125-6135 9650 via Dhabayya, UAE (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUNTLAND. Re 9-075: VOA SOMALI PERMITTED TO RESUME OPERATIONS IN PUNTLAND --- The following press release was issued today by the Government of Puntland State of Somalia: The Ministry of Information and Telecommunication of the Government of Puntland State of Somalia has permitted the Voice of America’s Somali Service broadcasts to resume operations effective today, 9 October 2009. The decision came after discussions between the Puntland Government and various officers of the US State Department, including the Somalia Political Officer at the US Embassy in Kenya and the VOA Director in Washington, DC. His Excellency, the President of Puntland State, granted the VOA Somali Service to resume its news broadcasting operations in Puntland today as a good gesture to US Ambassador to Kenya HE Michael E. Renneberger’s participation at the Puntland Diaspora Forum Conference to be held in the US State of nnesota, 10 – 12 October 2009. On 1st October 2009, FM radio stations in Puntland that re-broadcast daily VOA Somali Service programs were ordered to halt the broadcasts after elements at the VOA Somali Service headquarters in Washington failed to objectively and accurately report about Puntland affairs. This temporary ban, however, did not impact the VOA’s other programming and the FM radio stations continue to re-broadcast VOA English-language programs in Puntland. Most recently, an individual of questionable character, who falsely claimed that an office representing an armed religious cult was opened in the Puntland capital city of Garowe, was interviewed by the VOA Somali Service. That particular individual is currently in Puntland jail awaiting trial for his irresponsible conduct and baseless allegations. The Puntland Government views such controversial interviews with questionable characters as intended to incite instability by publicizing false and inflammatory remarks. The Puntland Government is committed to maintaining the systems of law and order in its territory and has been ensured by US Government officials of a pending review of the VOA Somali Service editorial personnel and policy (October 9th, 2009 - 15:56 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) That`ll teach `em ** ROMANIA. 11980, 2055 UT Oct 8 Radio Romania International with closing announcements in English giving address to write in or email, fair signal with deep fades even with sync engaged. Is this a new transmission as I cannot find any listing for it anywhere? Best wishes from Australia! (Michael Stevenson, Eton E1 & 15 metre wire with balun, GRDXC via DXLD) The 2030-2100 transmission is supposed to be on 9690, 9765, 11810, 11940 per EiBi (gh, DXLD) Radio Romania (Galbeni) on 11920, Oct 9 at 1342. Nice signal with moderate band static, with YL speaking Romanian, then pseudo-rap pop song, which sounded like it might have been off the Killer Instinct soundtrack CD which was packaged with the SNES game in the 90s. OM announcements after that, and pop songs continued. Heard some co- channel talk, but nothing co-scheduled in my frequency lists (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6150, 0305-, RRI, Oct 12. Absolutely superb reception with English to WCNA. RRI should serve as a technical example to other broadcasters on how to do things right! No // noted (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Re 9-075: ``RRI English in B-09, NORTH AMERICA 2130-2200 6115 9755 2300-2400 6015 9610 0100-0200 6145 9800 0400-0500 We 6130 7310 [what's 'We'? Surely not Wednesdays only]`` Western North America at 337 degrees, instead of 310 degrees to E USA (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) O, right ** RUSSIA. 9465, YFR Irkutsk, 1240-1300*, Oct 6, listed Cebuano. M announcer at tune/in; various announcers and music bits at 1254; WYFR contact info at 1256; WYFR filler music & ID at 1258; brief M at 1300* then seamlessly into presumed RFE/R. Liberty-Udon Thani; so much so that one would swear both were via the same transmitter; fair (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. IBRA Radio True Light (Petropavlovsk, Kamchatsky) on 7205, Oct 9 at 1220. OM in Russian with multipath echo, unless this is the IBRA Echo Jammer. Bothered by hams. Get Russia out of 41m! (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. VOR (Moscow) on 13855, Oct 9 at 1441. Very good signal, with OM speaking Turkish. Even better signal on 13870 with OM's and YL angrily arguing in Russian about Nobama on a call-in show (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Indians may have been saved [for one day] from the horrible Aligarh blob covering 20 kHz or more as of Oct 9 (see INDIA), but now they are plied with DRM noise falling neatly between the two AIR National Channels 9425 and restored 9470: i.e., 9440-9445-9450, the VOR service via Irkutsk also roaring lightly into the opposite worldside, OK, Oct 9 at 1328. I suspect the frequency band was originally chosen so Indians tuning between AIR and AIR could not help but notice the noise. But how many DRM receivers of any kind can possibly be funxioning there to resolve the noise, otherwise sheerly annoying? Doesn`t matter; VOR has bought into the DRM myth, as have the authorities in India. 6045 with classical music at 1337 Oct 9, especially after just hearing a bit of Mexico on 6104.8, made me suspect XEXQ San Luís Potosí had finally reactivated --- until I heard a Chinese tonal announcement one minute later. Therefore, VOR as scheduled via Vladivostok. One must search for SLP before that starts at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Voice of Russia, relay stations - Last winter I heard no fewer than five relay stations re-broadcasting the Voice of Russia, World Service, most of them in English. On a tip from someone in your column, I sent e-mail reports to 1323 and 1548 kHz at letters @ ruvr.ru It was suggested by Voice of Russia that I send future reports to world @ ruvr.ru and I did. Within no more than nine days, I received e-mails stating that each of my reports had been received and were correct. Each time, a QSL card was promised and for each report a full data QSL arrived promptly by mail. Stations confirmed were: 1323 Machenbrunn, Germany; 1548 Kishinev, Moldova; 1215 Bolshakovo, Kaliningrad; 1431 Dresden, Germany; 1575 Magdeburg, Germany (Jerry Osborne VO1GO, Elliott's Cove NL; Kenwood TS570D, 80-m dipole looking north and south, NRC IDXD Oct 9 via DXLD) ** SAIPAN. USA [sic]. Far East Broadcasting Company (Marpi, Saipan) on 9465, Oct 8 at 1425. OM and YL in scheduled Russian, with music segments. Weak in band noise (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME [and non]. 9600, as I tuned in at 0530 Oct 10 heard heavy SAH and mix of VOA YDD and R. Bulgaria theme, then opening in German. It was the tail of VOA Hausa overlapping which then went off; and I could still hear the mystery het from around 9600.4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Surprise English program from Saudi Arabia (presumed): 17560 kHz: I tuned in at 1625 expecting an Arabic broadcast; but instead there was an English program about Islam, Allah, and Moses. Good readable reception, but noisy at times. Still going at 1650. I didn't catch an ID during this time. Hopefully this will be a regular English broadcast? (Bruce Fisher, MA; Palstar R30CC; 100 ft. longwire, Oct 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There is English on the domestic service at 1600-2100, so I fear this was a misfeed, but hope it keep up. I believe it can be heard on webstream anyway. No 17560 heard at 1605 Oct 14 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 9675, BSKSA, Riyadh, at 1835 UT in Turkish, Oct. 11. M with commentary, quoted items being translated from Arabic, snippets of mideastern vocal music. Pretty strong for this time of day (Icom R75, Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BSKSA making it thru on 13m for first time in a long time, Oct 13 at 1432, Qur`an very poor on 21460 and // much better but fluttery 17895. At same time, 21505 also poor with different program in Arabic, enough level to be above the still clearly audible buzz, no doubt the same transmitter that switches to buzz 15435 at 1500. Only other 13m signals at this time were Spain on 21540, 21570, 21610, all JBA. See also LIBYA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. 11985, at 2145 4 Sept, FEBA via Ascension, music, talk in presumed Hassaniya, 2200 Arabic and French announcement, including website http://www.ennour.net Vernacular talk until 2215*, SIO 454 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, 1038-1100 Oct 8, Noted SIBC right on their assigned frequency this morning with a male in Pidgin comments. Being rather late already, the signal was very poor at my location (Chuck Bolland, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5019.8, SIBC presumed this morning 8 Oct. from 1240 tune/in and still audible at 1310 but on its way out. Weak to fair at times, with English programming, man and woman talking and seems BBC relay (Don Jensen, Kenosha WI, Oct 8, NASWA yg via DXLD)) SIBC noted back on 5020, huge signal with ID and news 1100 9/10 (Craig (via mobile phone from Hervey Bay, Qld) Seager, ARDXC via DXLD) 5019.95, SIBC, 1215, 10/9/09. Presumed the very weak station with extended talk by YL. Just too weak for details (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8B, Wellbrook 1.1 M Loop, Par SWL Random Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See if you can // it within a couple seconds to BBC, 5875, 6195, 9740 etc. (gh) Up before sunrise, DXing from my car at a site overlooking Kalamalka Lake in Vernon, BC. Minus 6 degrees Celsius outside the car but a beautiful morning. Eton E-1 and Sony AN-1 mounted on car roof. 5020, SIBC at 1240 with BBC programming, a discussion of political regimes, 1256 “World sports from the BBC”, 1300 BBC news. Heard past 1330. Poor through noise and a period of CW QRM, improved slightly to poor-fair at 1300+. Oct 10 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, BC, Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, SIBC, on reactivated frequency, Oct 10 at 1302 with BBCWS news in English, running about 2 words behind Singapore 9740; poor with Cuba-5025 splash. That`s all one needs for a definite ID of this, but rather unsatisfying; one must listen before 1205 to hear genuine Solomonic programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, SIBC, 1005-1015 Oct 11, Noted a female in comments, probably pidgin language. Some English words heard during the comments. Heard a few place names such as "Fuji" mentioned. This is possibly the news. At 1010 an ID in English, "...This is the National Service of SIBC, Radio ..." Missed the last of the ID due to a couple of crashes. However, the signal was fair during the period. I noticed that SIBC was at the same level as Radio Rebelde from Cuba on 5025. It seemed rather strange since Cuba is only 100 [sic] miles from my location and SIBC is on the other side of the earth? (Chuck Bolland, Watkins Johnson HF1000, 26.37N 081.05W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020.0, 1340-, SIBC, Oct 11. As others have reported, they're now right on frequency with a BBCWS relay in English at good level. Not so well heard last 2 mornings in Masset (Walter Salmaniw, QCI, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7145, 1813-, Radio Hargeisa, Oct 11. A presumed logging at poor to fair level, the same day when also heard by Vlad Titarev in Ukraine. Off by 1900, as there wasn't anyone there when rechecked at 1903. Marred by CODAR interference (yes, even in the ham bands). Thanks to Glenn Hauser for reminding WCNA listeners a while back of the possibility of hearing this one in our mornings (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Great, altho was thinking of closer to sign-on time, 1500? (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. QSL: Sud Africa, RTE, Meyerton, 6225 kHz, Lettera QSL in 66 giorni. No RP. Nuovo QTH: P. O. Box 234 - Meyerton 1960. Nuovo v/s: Sikander Hoosen - HF Coverage Planning - Operations & Maintenance (Luca Botto Fiora, Italy, Oct 9, playdx yg via DXLD) ex-Kathy Otto ret ** SOUTH AFRICA. UK (non): BBC WS, 7385 at 1500z 10 Oct via Meyerton, South Africa with 500 kW at 5 . // 17830. I assume this is via the long path, about 16000 miles, with about 2000 miles at each end in daylight and about 12000 miles dark in the middle (Jerry Lenamon, Waco Texas, Eton E-1, Wellbrook 330s, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) While I make no claim to be absolutely consistent, when an item like this is strictly about DX propagation, not program content, language not even mentioned, I am inclined to put it under the transmitter site country rather than the originating country [non] (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 3320, R. Sonder Grense, 0348, 10/11/09. Fair to good signal noted with classical music (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8B, Wellbrook 1.1 M Loop, Par SWL Random Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE, 11680, Oct 9 at 0547, surprised to find here, as it is scheduled only at 2300-0200. Noblejas probably forgot to change to correct frequency before firing up transmitter again! Perhaps should have been on 11895 or 12035, often audible here, but I did not think to check for them. Now 11680 is badly QRMed by RNZI DRM 11670-11675- 11680. No doubt about ID as REE was announcing its address in Castilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 9770.2, 11 Oct 0114, Sri Lanka BC presumed, off frequency, QRM from V of Turkey 9770, not usable even if signal fair. RX used: SDR-IQ, Drake R8, Icom R71E, ANT: T2FD, QTH: Milano, Italia, 73 (Giampiero Bernardini, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15745, 0215-, SLBC, Oct 12. Poor to fair reception at this time, and ruined by the splatter from the strong Russian speaker on 15755 (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. SLBC RESUMES ITS TRANSMISSIONS ON WANNI SERVICE Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 07:07 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Oct1255354668RA.html Oct 12, Colombo: The Wanni service of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, which has been suspended temporarily due to the war in the North in the past, resumed its service again. SLBC confirmed that the Wanni service had commenced a testing transmission this morning. SLBC is transmitting its services to the Wanni region from Irattaperiyakulam in Vavuniya. The Wanni service suspended its broadcasting in 2002 due to the heavy fighting between Sri Lanka Army and the LTTE. According to the SLBC sources the service will transmit its programs in both Sinhala and Tamil languages (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Oct 12, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? Unlikely to be SW, but shouldn`t it have been imperative to keep the service going despite the heavy fighting?? (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 5995, 0325 12 Sept, Affia Darfur (Hello Darfur) via Nauen, GERMANY, Arabic news reports, ID, off at 0330, SIO 454 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 9800, 11/10 1919, SRI LANKA, Affia Darfur/Hello Darfur, AA, desde Irana Wila, com 250 kW, YL parece entrevistar uma mulher, as 1920 UTC ID e início de nx por OM, 45333 (Jorge Freitas-B) 11635, 11/10 1817-1830, BOTSWANA, Radio Sawa (Affia Darfur/Hello Darfur), AA, desde Selebi-Phikwe, com 100 kW, OM e YL Talk o que parece ser nx, as 1820 UTC menção a Obama, após 1829 UTC diversas menções a Darfur, as 1830 UTC mx árabe, fim da tx as 1830 UTC, 23332 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil, HCDX via DXLD) See also UNIDENTIFIED [non] 9860 ** SUDAN [non]. SLOVAK REPUBLIC. Miraya FM (via Rimaksvá Sobota,) Oct 9 at 1546. Very strong and very garbled (sounding like that ERTU overmodulation from Egypt) with OM's talking in Arabic followed by pop song. Distorted English ID at 1551, followed by announcements in English and back to Arabic and more pop songs. Pips leading to 1600 were many seconds late compared with Fort Collins (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also ITALY [non] ** SURINAME. 4990.000, Radio Apintie, TENTATIVE, 0805, threshold signal, talk by a man with occasional a cappella singing. Could not verify the language as Dutch but it was very guttural, which tends to rule out Spanish and it's too early for the Chinese station, which normally dominates later. Very "warm and fuzzy" (or "Happy Station") sounding type program. Also, I think 0800+ roughly coincides with Paramaribo sunrise. Gone at 0900 recheck. If indeed Apintie, it would be my second log here. OCT 6 (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950 and NRD-535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4990, R. Apintie. Dem Hinweis von Christoph folgend, habe ich heute morgen gegen 0515 UT auf 4990 kHz gedreht. Der eigentliche Traeger war recht deutlich vernehmbar. Nach kurzem Hinhoeren dachte ich erst, der Traeger waere voellig unmoduliert, weil gar nichts in die Kopfhoerer drang. Nach ca. 10...15 Minuten schwappten gelegentlich leise Musikfetzen herueber. Fuer eine verwertbare Aufnahme war das Signal viel zu schwach. Eben nur was fuer die Kopfhoehrer (Thomas Lindenthal- D, A-DX Oct 6, via BC-DX via DXLD) Seemed unmodulated carrier at first, then made out some music, but still too weak even with headphones, says he (gh) Viel Erfolg, und fuer alle die nebenan bei NET-RADIO nicht mitlesen gab Wolfgang Thiele diese Tip: "Hallo allerseits, Radio Apintie aus Surinam hoeren wir auch als Livestream (mp3, 24 kb/s): (daneben auch Streams in anderen Formaten) Homepage: Die Musik ist Geschmackssache, aber die Ansagen bzw. Werbespots finde ich faszinierend: Niederlaendisch mit einer Satzmelodie, die an Portugiesisch erinnert." Danke dafuer, hoert sich fuer 24 kb/s gar nicht uebel an (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, OE2CRM Oct 6, ibid.) Hi Glenn, 4990, R Apintie, Paramaribo, Suriname 10/10/09 --- Following a heads up from Noel in Blackpool (following a report in DXLD), monitored 4990, carrier at 2028 onwards, and weak music audio at 0440. Moving the meter to S1. 73's (Mark Davies, (2W0MTD), Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, (Not England as previously reported. Hi), Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. I normally find TWR rather boring to log, but they do have a nice chime IS, Oct 12 at 1452 on 9635 atop Chile and/or Vietnam making SAH; between each three iterations every 35-40 sex, inserted ID in English as ``Trans World Radio, Swaziland``. 1455 already opening in some obscure language, per Aoki Malagasy at 53 degrees, except on Sundays when it`s French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. QSL CARD FROM HBG PRANGINS SWITZERLAND --- HBG, the Swiss time signal station (frequency 75 kHz) confirm with QSL card and letter in 10 dd. V/S Christian Schlunegger. Address: Federal Office of Metrology METAS Lindenweg 50 3003 Bern-Wabern Switzerland This station will be off air in 2011. The picture is available here: http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/7798575.html 73's (Francesco Cecconi, Italy, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Sound of Hope (Taipei) on 7280, Oct 8 at 1236. Another jabberwocky kiddy symphony. Must be a regular feature at this time (heard similar program with same closing ID Oct 2.) Only minor botherment by hams this time, and no RNZI DRM running late on 7285. Found either SOH or CNR1 jamming on 9450 at 1413. Vocal music followed by OM and YL and back to music, with some multipath echo. Fair, with QRN static. Improved reception with sudden vanishment of static, implying QRM, not QRN (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) How do you conclude what you heard on 7280 was SOH rather than CNR1 jamming? (gh, DXLD) See also UNIDENTIFIED 7420 Hi Terry, Please see comments under China in DXLD 9-073 and also the following logs. Thanks, (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Viz.: CHINA. 7280, CNR-1 echo jamming, 1241, Oct. 3. Strong jamming by CNR-1 programming and was unable to hear anything underneath them; // 5030. 7420, CNR-1 echo jamming, 1243, Oct. 3. // 5030; heard weak station underneath playing Chinese music. Must have been the BBC (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Oct 13 is another occasion RTI Japanese service is outputting spurs from 9735, at 1347, same slightly variable pitch on CRI 9730 and BBC 9740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But not Oct 14 ** TAIWAN [non]. Someone found it odd to hear RTI on 6915 in Chinese via WYFR. But I notice it`s in the B-09 schedule at 03-04 only, so that part is already in effect. Checked at 0343 Oct 10 and there it is, Chinese on 6915. Aoki says this only started on Sept 21, at 355 degrees, toward Toronto? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** TAIWAN [and non]. Radio Taiwan Intl. B09 (Oct 25, 2009 - Mar 28, 2010) UTC Days Area kHz Site kW Mandarin 0000-0200 daily NEm 860 WBGR N/A 0000-0300 daily CHN 9660 TWN 100 0300-0400 daily NEm 6915 WYFR 100 0400-0500 daily NwA 5950 WYFR 100 0400-0600 daily CHN 11885 TWN 100 0400-0600 daily CHN 15245 TWN 100 0400-0600 daily CHN 11640 TWN 100 0400-0700 daily Scarmento 1210 KEBR N/A [sic] 0500-0600 daily SeA 15290 TWN 250 1000-1100 daily CHN 1422 TWN 50 1000-1200 daily CHN 6085 TWN 300 1000-1200 daily CHN 1503 TWN 600 1000-1200 daily CHN 9780 TWN 100 1000-1400 daily CHN 6150 TWN 100 1000-1700 daily CHN 11665 TWN 300 1000-1700 daily CHN 603 TWN 500 1000-1700 daily CHN 7385 TWN 100 1000-1700 daily CHN 1008 TWN 600 1100-1300 daily CHN 11710 TWN 300 1100-1700 daily CHN 9680 TWN 100 1300-1330 daily CHN 1503 TWN 600 1300-1400 daily SeA 15265 TWN 250 1300-1400 daily CHN 9780 TWN 100 1300-1500 daily CHN 6085 TWN 300 1300-1500 daily SeA 7445 TWN 100 1400-1500 Daily CHN 7270 TWN 300 1300-1600 daily CHN 1098 TWN 300 1400-1800 daily CHN 6075 TWN 100 1400-1800 daily CHN 6145 TWN 100 1500-1700 daily CHN 7365 TWN 300 2200-2400 daily CHN 11710 TWN 300 2200-2400 daily CHN 11885 TWN 100 2200-2400 daily CHN 6105 TWN 100 2200-2400 daily SeA 11635 TWN 100 2200-2400 daily CHN 6150 TWN 100 2300-2400 daily CHN 9685 TWN 100 2300-2400 daily CHN 9660 TWN 100 2300-2400 daily CHN 7270 TWN 100 Hokkein 0500-0600 Daily CHN 1422 TWN 50 0500-0600 Daily CHN 1008 TWN 600 1000-1100 Daily CHN 15465 TWN 100 1200-1300 Daily SeA 11715 TWN 250/100 1200-1300 Daily CHN 1206 TWN 250/100 1300-1400 Daily CHN 11625 TWN 100 Hakka 0230-0300 daily NwA 15440 WYFR 100 0230-0300 daily NEm 860 WYFR N/A 0400-0500 daily CHN 1008 TWN 600 0400-0600 daily SeA 15290 TWN 250 0430-0500 daily SeA 15320 TWN 100 0730-0800 daily NwA 1210 WYFR N/A 1030-1100 daily SeA 15270,11625 TWN 100 1200-1300 daily CHN 6085 TWN 300 1200-1300 daily CHN 9780 TWN 100 1230-1300 daily NeA 6105,11915 TWN 100/250 1530-1600 daily SeA 11550 TWN 100 1600-1700 daily CHN 1098 TWN 300 1600-1700 daily CHN 1503 TWN 600 Cantonese 0200-0230 daily NwA 15440 WYFR 100 0200-0230 daily NEm 860 WYFR N/A [sic; 860 = WBGR Baltimore] 0400-0430 daily SeA 15320 TWN 100 0700-0730 daily NwA 1210 WYFR N/A 1000-1030 daily SeA 15270,11625 TWN 100 1200-1230 daily CHN 11915,6105 TWN 250/100 1500-1530 daily SeA 11550 TWN 250 English 0100-0200 daily Sas 11875 TWN 250 0200-0300 daily NEm 5950 WYFR 100 0200-0300 daily CNm 9680 WYFR 100 0200-0300 daily NeA 5950/9680 WYFR 100 0300-0400 daily NwA 5950 WYFR 100 0300-0400 daily SeA 15320 TWN 100 0500-0600 daily NwA 5950 WYFR 100 1100-1200 daily SeA 11715,7445 TWN 250/100 1100-1200 Thur SeA 1206 TWN 100 1400-1500 Thur SeA 1206 TWN 100 1600-1700 daily CHN,SAs 11550 TWN 100 1600-1700 daily SAs 9785 Issodum 500 [sic --- Issoudun] 1700-1800 daily Rus 11850 (from 2009/10/25-2010/02/27) 15690kHz (from 2010/02/28-2010/03/27)Issodum 500 1800-1900 daily Weu,ENG 3965 Issodum 250 French 1900-1959 daily Eu 3985 Skelton 250 1900-2000 daily Africa/wAfrica 9365 (from 2009/10/25-2010/02/27) 11875 (from 2010/02/28-2010/03/27)Issodum 250 Spanish 0200-0300 daily SAm 7570 WYFR 100 0400-0500 daily CAm 6890 WYFR 100 0600-0700 daily NwA 5950 WYFR 100 2000-2100 daily WEu 3965 Issodum 250 2300-2400 daily SAm 11885 WYFR 100 0200-0300 daily SAm 9840 Montsinery 500 German 1900-2000 daily Eu 3955 Skelton 250 2100-2200 daily Weu 3965 Issoudun 250 Russian 1100-1200 daily NeA 11985 TWN 100 1400-1430 daily Moscow 738 Moscow N/V 1400-1500 daily CRu 15225 Issoudun 500 1700-1800 daily Moscow 6120 (from 2009/10/25-2010/02/27) 9840 (from 2010/02/28-2010/03/27)Issoudun 500 Japanese 0800-0900 daily NeA 11605 TWN 250 1100-1200 daily NeA 9735 TWN 250 1300-1400 daily NeA 9735 TWN 250 Vietnamese 0000-0100 daily SeA 11655 TWN 100 0900-1000 daily SeA 15270 TWN 100 1100-1200 daily CHN,TWN 1422 TWN 50 1300-1400 daily CHN,TWN 1206 TWN 100 1400-1500 daily SeA 11550 TWN 250 Thai 1300-1500 daily CHN,TWN 1422 TWN 50 1400-1500 daily SeA 11635 TWN 100 1500-1600 daily SeA 1503 TWN 600 2200-2300 daily SeA 1503 TWN 600 2200-2400 daily SeA 7445 TWN 100 2300-2400 daily SeA 1422 TWN 50 2300-2400 daily SeA 7555 TWN 100 Indonesian 0300-0500 daily CHN,TWN 1422 TWN 50 1000-1100 daily SeA 11520 TWN 100 1000-1100 daily SeA 11550 TWN 250 1200-1300 daily TWN 1422 TWN 50 1200-1300 daily SeA 11625 TWN 100 1400-1500 daily SeA 11875 TWN 250 Code for Area and Countries CAm-Central America CHN-China California RUS-Russia NAm-North America CRu-Central Russia NEm-North East America TWN-Taiwan CNm-Central North America Af-Africa NwA-North West America Eu-Europe ME-Middle East Weu-West Eurpoe SAm-South America ENG-English SAs-South Asia SeA- South East Asia RELAYED VIA: WYFR, USA; Skelton UK; Issoudum, Montsinery, France [sic] AM KEBAR AM 1210 kHz, Sacramento CA, USA Mandarin: 2000-2300, Cantonese/Hakka: 2300-2400, local time WBGR 860 EST DST Mandarin A 2000-2100, Mandarin B 2100-2200, Cantonese/Hakka 2200-2400 (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) RTI always makes a mess of their schedule, full of mistaxes, contradixions, unaligned. KEBAR? As we point out season after season there could not possibly be such a callsign in the USA. It`s KEBR, city of license axually Rocklin CA. WBGR, where`s that? Baltimore MD, why don`t they reveal. Both are Family Radio stations, which explains the connexion. Per NRC AM Log, WBGR runs 2500 watts day, only 66 watts at night when the RTI relays are scheduled. Big help, compared to WYFR on SW with 100 kW all over NAm. If they could work out more deals, RTI could be heard all over NAm on FR AM/FM satellites or translators, even Enid, but at the expense of 24/7 gospel huxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. TAJIKISTAN DROPS RUSSIAN AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE October 07, 2009 http://www.rferl.org/content/Tajikistan_Drops_Russian_As_Official_Language/1846118.html DUSHANBE -- A new law on official languages has gone into effect in Tajikistan that removes Russian as the "language for interethnic communication," RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. The law was adopted by the Tajik parliament last week and signed by President Emomali Rahmon on October 6. The new law states that all official papers and education in the country should be conducted only in the Tajik language. However, the law also says that all minority ethnic groups in the country have the right to choose in which language they want their children to be educated. Tajikistan's largest minority is Uzbeks, who make up some 15 percent of the population. Ethnic Russians and Kyrgyz each make up about 1 percent of the population (via Dale Park, HI, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 15275, Radio Thailand, 0015 Oct 11. Good signal briefly before quickly fading out by 0030 (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Likewise: 15275, R. Thailand, 0005, 10/11/09. OM & YL presenting English news; Signal was S7 with fading. Headlines ended at 0012. Local time and ID at 0015. Into longer news stories. Signal peaked around 0015 and completely faded away by 0029 (Jerry Strawman, Des Moines, IA, Drake R8B, Wellbrook 1.1 M Loop, Par SWL Random Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TINIAN. USA. VOA (via Tinian Island) on 7225, Oct 8 at 1322. Mixed Chinese and English, perhaps language lesson. No jamming, but bothered by hams. VOA again (via Tinang) on 7575, Oct 8 at 1338. Quake news. This English broadcast from the Philippines seems reliable and reliably weak. QRM/N building to intolerable levels as sun rose (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. RTT Tunis (Sfax) on 12005, Oct 5 at 1929. Fair signal with moderate band noise of OMs, followed by orchestral music with vocal soloists. Bothered by big het from mystery carrier on 12000, which was very strong and completely empty as usual (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. RE 9-074 (V of Turkey webstreaming) --- I too looked at TRT website and could not find any links for live streaming. But, in DXLD 8-118 I saw my post: Direct links for VOT live streaming [all are WMA / 48 kbps / 44 kHz/ mono]: TSR (VOT TURKISH): mms://212.156.63.102/RDTSR VOT WORLD: mms://212.156.63.102/RDVOT VOT EAST: mms://212.156.63.102/RDVOT2 VOT WEST: mms://212.156.63.102/RDTSR2 I've just tried them now (around 1530z, Oct. 09, 2009, Friday): TSR (VOT TURKISH): Turkish music VOT WORLD: Turkish music (different from the first one) VOT EAST: NOT WORKING!!! VOT WEST: YL talking (in Azeri, I think) 73 (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meanwhile I was also getting correct live stream again via http://www.trt.net.tr/Canli/anasayfa.aspx?kanal=RDVOT during the 1830 English broadcast Tue Oct 6 for Live from Turkey 1855 which is the VOT World link on the right, but really forwards to http://www.trt.net.tr/Canli/anasayfa.aspx?kanal=rdvot&slv=0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES ** TURKEY. 9785, VOT, Emirler, at 1900 UT in English, Oct 11. Male announcer with ID. Program about Istanbul composer, including recordings of his music. String of multilingual IDs starting at seven after. Good to strong (Icom R75, Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. 7440, 0234-, Radio Ukraine International, Oct 11. Excellent level with a Ukrainian cultural music program. Best of the 3 nights I monitored while there. 7490, 1815-, Radio Ukraine International, Oct 11. Not beamed our way at all, but there with a Ukrainian mailbag program (for many years hosted by a fellow named Oleksandr Dikiy who has quite a distinctive voice). Fair level. In English when rechecked at 1900. 7530, 0217-, RUI, Oct 12. Another frequency heard at fair to good level, this time in // to 7440. The latter is beamed to North America, while I think this one is aimed at Russia. Possibly northward, and the reason I heard it, over the Pole. In Ukrainian with music. 5970, 0237-, First Channel of Ukrainian National Radio, Oct 12. Good reception with International news and into weather (12 degrees in Kyiv) at 0240. Every bit as strong as 7440 and 7530 (RUI), and still going strong after 0300. Not often heard in these parts. Reminds me of the old Soviet Union days when I often heard the 2nd program (Promin) on 4940 (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Radio Ukraine International Winter B09 Tentative Broadcasting Schedule (25 October 2009 - 28 March 2010) Time UTC; Frequency; Transmitter Site; Power; Azimuth; Target Area 0000-0500; 7440; Lviv; 600; 303; Northeastern America 0100-0600; 5830; Kharkiv; 100; 055; Russia 0600-0900; 7440; Kharkiv; 100; 290; Western Europe 0900-1400; 9950; Kharkiv; 100; 277; Western Europe 1400-1800; 5830; Kharkiv; 100; 055; Russia 1800-2100; 7510; Kharkiv; 100; 290; Western Europe 2100-0100; 5830; Kharkiv; 100; 290; Western Europe Transmission schedules in various languages are as follows: ENGLISH (one hour long): 2000 on 7510 kHz 2200 on 5830 kHz 0100 & 0400 on 7440 kHz 0600 on 7440 kHz 1000 & 1200 on 9950 kHz GERMAN (one hour long): 1800 on 7510 kHz 2100 & 0000 on 5830 kHz UKRAINIAN programmes are transmitted on all frequencies and at all times except for the time reserved for English and German programmes, as shown above. Romanian (half an hour long): 1800, 2030 & 2200 on 657 kHz (via Chernivtsi 25 kW). NOTE: This schedule is subject to changes. (Alexander Egorov, Kiev, Ukraine / "MEDIA_DX"_ via RusDX 11 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** U S S R. Bizarre Joe Adamov clip --- I've been listening to the new BBC Radio 4 series 1989 Day-By-Day which started on Monday last. It`s a day by day account of events surrounding the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989. Friday's episode features a bizarre clip of Joe Adamov. TASS reported that "10 foot aliens" had visited Voronezh. Nice to hear Joe again, as he comments on the report. He seems quite amused by the subject matter. Joe is on about the 2:40 mark in the 4 minute clip. The daily programs are well worth a listen. The first episode will be available for a few more hours, or there is an "omnibus" edition featuring all of the week's 4 minute programs. 9th October (Friday) edition with Joe Adamov here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n3m16 Week 1 Omnibus edition here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4d4f (Fred Waterer, Ont., Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See U K ** U K. New H2G2 series on Radio 4 --- Book at Bedtime presents the first of ten 15-minute segments from an abridged reading of Eoin Colfer's "And Another Thing," the estate-authorized sixth volume of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Trilogy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4z16 (Terry Wilson, MI, Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM; U S S R Radio 4 is experimenting with changing some of their "listen again" policies -- such that all the episodes of multi-part series are kept available until the series ends. They did this with the Jordan River documentary of a few weeks ago, stating it was a trial. This would be a good series in which to implement the policy. I believe Newshour is doing something similar on the World Service (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** U K. Cartoons from the BBC staff journal Ariel are at the cartoonist and journalist Everard Davy`s website, and always offer some light relief: http://everarddavy.com/ariel/ (Chrissy Brand, Webwatch, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** UNITED KINGDOM [non]. BBC (via Kranji, Singapore) on 9740, Oct 9 at 1257. Recognized BBC jingle and could make out English, but weak signal in strong band noise made for impossible copy (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. B-09 VTC registrations, 'to publish' version. Callsign sorted. no BBC entries, no DWL entries, no RMI Republica entries, maybe some more vailed transmissions to AF/AS??? missed? freq stti spti days callsite pwr azi lang target 15445 0100-0200 ......s AWR Taipei 100 250 Vietnamese SE AS 11880 1300-1400 smtwtfs DVB Palau 100 270 Burmese SE AS 5885 0030-0100 smtwtfs FEB Erevan 100 125 Tamil S AS 5890 1730-1800 smtwtfs FEB Meyerton 250 19 Silte C AF 6125 0200-0230 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 45 Pashto SW AS 6125 0230-0300 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 45 Dari ME 6140 0130-0200 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 105 Telegu S AS 6180 1700-1730 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 215 Somali E AF 7230 1400-1500 smtwtfs FEB Novosibirsk 250 195 Urdu S AS 7335 0200-0300 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 70 Urdu S AS 7370 0015-0100 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Bangla S AS 7370 1430-1500 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Hindi S AS 7370 1500-1530 smtwtfs FEB Tashkent 100 131 Bangla S AS 9550 1900-2027 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Arabic ME 9595 1700-1730 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Orominya E AF 9595 1730-1757 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Tigrinya E AF 9850 1630-1700 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 230 Tigrinya/AmhaE AF 11875 1600-1630 smtwtfs FEB Kigali 250 30 Afar E AF 11985 2145-2215 .mt.tf. FEB Ascension 250 27 Pulaar W AF 12045 1400-1430 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 110 Telegu S AS 12045 1430-1500 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 70 Punjabi S AS 15215 1200-1230 smtwtfs FEB Dhabayya 250 85 Tibetan S AS 15250 1830-1845 smtwtfs FEB Ascension 250 70 French C AF 1251 1530-1545 smtwtfs HCJ Duchanbe 100 0 Unknown C AS 1251 1545-1600 sm..... HCJ Duchanbe 100 0 Hazaragi C AS 1251 1545-1600 ..twtfs HCJ Duchanbe 100 0 Uzbek C AS 1251 1600-1615 smtwtfs HCJ Duchanbe 100 0 Turkmen C AS 12025 2100-2145 smtwtfs HCJ Sackville 250 73 Arabic N AF 15360 0700-1100 smtwtfs HRT Singapore 100 135 Croatian OC 7445 1900-2030 smtwtfs IBR Rampisham 250 160 Non-Specific W AF 9615 1730-1800 smtwtfs IBR Woofferton 250 114 Arabic ME 9635 1800-1900 smtwtfs IBR Woofferton 300 140 Arabic C AF 9635 1900-1915 smtwtfs IBR Woofferton 300 140 Arabic C AF 9635 1915-1930 smtwtfs IBR Woofferton 300 140 Arabic C AF 11785 1730-1800 smtwtfs IBR Skelton 300 140 Swahili C AF 11975 1730-1800 smtwtfs IBR Meyerton 100 15 Somali E AF 3955 2000-2100 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 106 German EUR 3955 2100-2200 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 175 French EUR 3955 2200-2230 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 250 106 English EUR 5935 1900-2000 smtwtfs KBS Rampisham 500 168 Arabic N AF 6045 0700-0800 smtwtfs KBS Skelton 300 110 Korean EUR 7235 1800-1900 smtwtfs KBS Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 9760 1100-1130 ......s KBS Woofferton 250 105 English W EUR 5920 0000-0020 smtwtfs NHK Skelton 300 140 English EUR 5955 0230-0300 smtwtfs NHK Erevan 100 125 Persian ME 5975 0500-0530 smtwtfs NHK Rampisham 500 140 English EUR 6035 0400-0430 smtwtfs NHK Erevan 100 222 Arabic ME 7225 2200-2300 smtwtfs NHK Dhabayya 500 285 Japanese ME NAF 9575 1700-1900 smtwtfs NHK Dhabayya 500 285 Japanese ME NAF 9640 0945-1030 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 140 Indonesian SE AS 9760 1100-1130 .....f. NHK Woofferton 250 105 English EUR 9760 1130-1200 .....f. NHK Woofferton 250 105 Russian W EUR 11740 0800-0900 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Japanese SE AS 11740 0900-1000 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Japanese SE AS 11740 1030-1100 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Burmese SE AS 11740 1130-1200 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Thai SE AS 11740 1230-1300 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Vietnamese SE AS 11740 1300-1330 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 1 Chinese SE AS 11780 1400-1430 smtwtfs NHK Rampisham 500 62 English EUR 11860 0200-0300 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 340 Japanese SE AS 12045 1500-1700 smtwtfs NHK Singapore 250 315 Japanese SW AS 9760 1130-1200 ......s RNZ Woofferton 250 105 English [DRM] W EUR 5965 1800-1815 .mtwtf. TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Specific E AF 5965 1800-1830 s.....s TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Specific E AF 5965 1815-1845 .mtwtf. TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Specific E AF 5965 1830-1845 s...... TWR Dhabayya 250 225 Non-Specific E AF 9745 1730-1800 .....f. TWR Dhabayya 250 215 Non-Specific E AF 13765 1300-1315 .....fs TWR Kigali 250 30 Afar E AF [VTC = grabbag for various clandestine, religious clients] 3955 1755-1855 smtwtfs VTC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 3955 1900-2000 smtwtfs VTC Skelton 250 106 German W EUR 3985 1900-2000 smtwtfs VTC Skelton 250 175 French W EUR 6040 2330-2345 smtwtfs VTC Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Specific S AS 6040 2345-2400 ...wt.. VTC Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Specific S AS 6040 2345-2400 smt..fs VTC Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Specific S AS 6140 0000-0130 smtwtfs VTC Dhabayya 250 85 Non-Specific S AS 7260 1900-1930 ....t.. VTC Skelton 250 175 French N AF 9780 1600-1630 smtwtfs VTC Taipei 250 45 Japanese FE 9810 1333-1357 smtwtfs VTC Taipei 100 2 Japanese FE 9820 1600-1615 ....tfs VTC Dhabayya 250 100 Non-Specific S AS 9820 1600-1615 smtw... VTC Dhabayya 250 100 Non-Specific S AS 9820 1615-1630 ....tfs VTC Dhabayya 250 120 Non-Specific S AS 9820 1615-1630 smtw... VTC Dhabayya 250 70 Non-Specific S AS 9820 1701-1731 smtwtfs VTC Taipei 100 2 Korean FE 9885 1730-1800 smtwt.s VTC Dhabayya 250 215 Somali E AF 9965 1530-1600 smtwtfs VTC Palau 100 345 Korean FE 17680 0830-0930 smtwtfs VTC Dhabayya 250 225 Somali E AF 3230 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 5 English S AF 3955 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 76 Portuguese S AF 6045 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 225 Amharic E AF 6045 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 6090 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Rampisham 500 95 Czech C EUR 6100 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 335 Portuguese S AF 7240 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 110 Turkish SE EUR 9430 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 110 Turkish SE EUR 9495 1500-1600 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 105 English W AF 9530 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Rampisham 500 105 Arabic ME 9660 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Skelton 300 140 Arabic N AF 9660 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 250 19 Swahili E AF 9685 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 260 Hausa W AF 9855 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 105 Marathi S AS 9885 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 210 English W AF 9895 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 230 English AF 11665 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 Yoruba WC AF 11740 1600-1700 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 English S AS 11875 1800-1900 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 Igbo W AF 12015 1500-1600 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 English S AS 15195 2000-2100 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 English C AF 15195 2100-2200 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 65 English C AF 15520 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 90 Hindi S AS 17660 1830-1930 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 85 French W AF 17735 1300-1400 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Kannada S AS 17810 1300-1400 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Telegu S AS 17810 1400-1500 smtwtfs YFR Dhabayya 250 100 Tamil S AS 21680 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Ascension 250 85 English E AF (VTC via ADDX Andreas Volk-D, Oct 13 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. B-09 BBC via VTC FMO registrations, 'to publish' version. freq stti spti days callsite pwr azi lang target 198 0100-0600 smtwtfs BBC Droitwich 500 0 English NW EUR 594 0400-0430 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0400-0600 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 Ukrainian UKR 594 0430-1006 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0600-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 Russian UKR 594 0700-0706 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0706-0730 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0730-0733 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0733-0800 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0800-0806 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0806-0900 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0900-0906 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 0906-1000 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1000-1006 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1006-1100 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1006-1500 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1100-1106 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1106-1200 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1200-1206 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1206-1230 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1230-1233 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1233-1300 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1300-1306 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1306-1400 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1400-1406 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1406-1430 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1430-1433 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1433-1500 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1500-1506 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1500-1530 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1506-1530 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1530-1600 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1530-1600 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1600-1606 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1600-1700 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 Russian UKR 594 1606-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 Russian UKR 594 1700-1706 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1700-1730 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1706-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1730-1800 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1800-1806 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1801-2200 s.....s BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1806-1830 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1830-1833 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1833-1900 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 1900-2000 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 Ukrainian UKR 594 2000-2006 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 2006-2030 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 2030-2035 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 2035-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 594 2100-2200 .mtwtf. BBC Kiev 50 0 Russian UKR 594 2200-0400 smtwtfs BBC Kiev 50 0 English UKR 639 0300-0330 .mtwtfs BBC Cyprus 500 180 English N AF 639 0300-0330 s...... BBC Cyprus 500 180 English N AF 639 0330-0330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 500 180 Arabic ME 639 0330-0506 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 500 180 Arabic ME 639 0330-2300 s.....s BBC Cyprus 500 180 Arabic ME 639 1200-2300 ..twtf. BBC Cyprus 500 180 Arabic ME 639 1230-2300 .m..... BBC Cyprus 500 180 Arabic ME 648 0000-2400 smtwtfs BBC Orfordness 500 131 English W EUR 666 0100-0105 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0105-0130 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0130-0200 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0200-0205 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0200-0230 s.....s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0205-0230 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0230-0330 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0330-0400 ......s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0330-0700 s...... BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0330-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0400-0500 ......s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0500-0506 ......s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0506-0700 ......s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0700-0730 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0730-0900 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0900-0915 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0915-0930 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 0930-1000 .mtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 0930-1000 s...... BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1000-1006 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1006-1100 .mtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1006-1100 s...... BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1100-1115 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1115-1130 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1130-1200 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1300-1306 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1300-1315 s.....s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1306-1400 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1315-1330 s.....s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1330-1600 s.....s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 English RUSS 666 1400-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1600-2005 s...... BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 666 1600-2100 ......s BBC Ekaterinburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 675 0000-2400 smtwtfs BBC Hong Kong 1 0 English S CHN 702 1500-2100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 315 Arabic ME 720 0300-2200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 500 110 Arabic ME 1251 0200-0230 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 0230-0330 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Farsi C AS 1251 0330-0400 s.....s BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Farsi C AS 1251 0330-0400 .mtwtf. BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Russian C AS 1251 0930-1000 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 1000-1030 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Tajik CAS 1251 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Uzbek C AS 1251 1400-1445 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 1445-1500 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Uzbek C AS 1251 1700-1800 s.....s BBC Duchanbe 100 0 English C AS 1251 1700-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Russian C AS 1251 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 1830-1900 smtwt.s BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Dari C AS 1251 1830-1900 .....f. BBC Duchanbe 100 0 Tajik CAS 1260 0100-0105 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0100-0105 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0105-0130 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0105-0130 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0130-0200 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0130-0200 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0200-0205 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0200-0205 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0200-0230 s.....s BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0200-0230 s.....s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0205-0230 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0205-0230 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0230-0330 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0230-0330 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0330-0400 ......s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0330-0400 ......s BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0330-0700 s...... BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0330-0700 s...... BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0330-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0330-0700 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0400-0500 ......s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0400-0500 ......s BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0500-0506 ......s BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0500-0506 ......s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0506-0700 ......s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0506-0700 ......s BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0700-0730 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0700-0730 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0730-0900 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0730-0900 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0900-0915 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0900-0915 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0915-0930 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 0915-0930 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 0930-1000 s...... BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0930-1000 .mtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0930-1000 s...... BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 0930-1000 .mtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1000-1006 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1000-1006 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1006-1100 .mtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1006-1100 .mtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1006-1100 s...... BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1006-1100 s...... BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1100-1115 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1100-1115 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1115-1130 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1115-1130 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1130-1200 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1130-1200 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1300-1306 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1300-1306 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1300-1315 s.....s BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1300-1315 s.....s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1306-1400 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1306-1400 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1315-1330 s.....s BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1315-1330 s.....s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1330-1600 s.....s BBC Moscow 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1330-1600 s.....s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 English RUSS 1260 1400-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1400-2100 .mtwtf. BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1600-2005 s...... BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1600-2005 s...... BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1260 1600-2100 ......s BBC Moscow 10 0 Russian C AS 1260 1600-2100 ......s BBC St Petersburg 10 0 Russian RUSS 1296 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Orfordness 35 96 English W EUR 1296 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Orfordness 35 96 English W EUR 1296 1700-2300 smtwtfs BBC Orfordness 35 96 English W EUR 1323 0200-0730 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 200 150 English ME 1323 0200-2300 s.....s BBC Cyprus 200 150 English ME 1323 0900-2300 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 200 150 English ME 1413 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 35 Dari SW AS 1413 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Hindi S AS 1413 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Urdu S AS 1413 0200-0230 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 English S AS 1413 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 350 Farsi ME 1413 0300-0400 s...... BBC A'Seela 800 350 English ME 1413 0300-0400 .mtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 350 English ME 1413 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 English S AS 1413 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Hindi S AS 1413 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Urdu S AS 1413 1530-1600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 English S AS 1413 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 350 Farsi ME 1413 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Hindi S AS 1413 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 English S AS 1413 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Dari SW AS 1413 1830-1900 ....t.. BBC A'Seela 800 80 Dari SW AS 1413 1830-1900 smtw.fs BBC A'Seela 800 80 Pashto SW AS 1413 1900-2100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 800 350 English ME 1503 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Taipei 600 247 Vietnamese SE AS 3255 0300-0600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 3255 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 3255 1800-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 3380 0430-0530 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 100 76 Portuguese S AF 3380 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 100 76 Portuguese S AF 3915 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 English SE AS 3915 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 1 English SE AS 3915 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 English SE AS 3995 0600-0800 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 100 120 English W EUR 3995 1600-1900 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 100 120 English W EUR 5790 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Arabic ME 5790 0500-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 5790 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 172 English W EUR 5790 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 195 Arabic N AF 5790 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 125 Arabic ME 5845 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Bengali S AS 5845 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Hindi S AS 5845 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Duchanbe 200 135 Nepali S AS 5875 0000-0030 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Burmese SE AS 5875 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SW AS 5875 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SW AS 5875 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SW AS 5875 0200-0230 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SW AS 5875 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SW AS 5875 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Pashto SW AS 5875 0500-0700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 62 English RUSS 5875 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5875 1300-1600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 5875 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 Farsi ME 5875 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Farsi W EUR 5875 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SW AS 5875 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SW AS 5875 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 62 English RUSS 5875 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 190 Portuguese W AF 5875 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5875 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 English FE 5875 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5875 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 5895 1830-1900 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 100 5 Krwanda/KrundE AF 5905 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 170 Arabic ME 5905 0600-1400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 170 Arabic ME 5905 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 5910 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English W AF 5920 1500-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 5920 1700-1830 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 5940 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 64 English C AS 5940 0200-0300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 64 English C AS 5940 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 5945 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 English W AS 5955 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 120 Sinhala S AS 5955 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English C AS 5955 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesian SE AS 5960 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Hindi S AS 5965 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 75 Russian RUSS 5965 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 English FE 5965 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 English FE 5970 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 English FE 5970 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 85 English S AS 5970 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 85 English S AS 5975 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 Swahili E AF 5975 0530-0600 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 160 Hausa W AF 5975 1400-1700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 5975 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 English S AS 5975 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 5975 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 English S AS 5980 0430-0500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 70 French C AF 5985 0200-0230 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 Pashto SW AS 5985 0230-0430 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 95 Farsi ME 5990 1600-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1700-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 5990 1700-1830 s.....s BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 6005 0200-0300 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 6005 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 114 English S AF 6005 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 6005 0500-0700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 6005 1700-1746 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 6005 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 300 Somali E AF 6005 1830-2100 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 6005 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 English S AF 6010 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 64 Azeri C AS 6020 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Mandarin CHN 6030 1400-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 6030 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 64 Azeri C AS 6030 1800-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 6055 0600-0630 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French W AF 6065 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali S AS 6065 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Hindi S AS 6065 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 Urdu S AS 6075 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesian SE AS 6080 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 160 Indonesian SE AS 6085 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Armavir 500 110 Hindi S AS 6085 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Armavir 500 110 Urdu S AS 6085 0300-0315 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 500 80 Azeri C AS 6090 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 335 Farsi ME 6090 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SW AS 6090 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Pashto SW AS 6095 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 290 Mandarin CHN 6095 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 Mandarin CHN 6105 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 175 English E AF 6105 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Burmese SE AS 6110 0400-0600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 140 Arabic N AF 6110 0400-0700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Arabic N AF 6110 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic N AF 6115 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 Urdu SW AS 6115 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Pashto SW AS 6125 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali E AF 6130 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 62 Russian RUSS 6135 0530-0600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 6135 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 Vietnamese SE AS 6135 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 120 Tamil S AS 6135 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 250 32 Portuguese S AF 6135 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Vladivostok 250 240 English FE 6135 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 English FE 6145 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English W AF 6145 0430-0530 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 250 32 Portuguese S AF 6155 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 170 Arabic ME 6155 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 170 Arabic ME 6155 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali S AS 6155 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Hindi S AS 6165 0230-0430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 Farsi ME 6170 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 285 Mandarin CHN 6170 2330-2400 smtwtfs BBC Kimjae 250 285 English FE 6175 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 50 Urdu S AS 6180 0600-0630 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 160 French N AF 6180 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Armavir 200 104 Uzbek C AS 6180 1630-1633 s...... BBC Armavir 200 104 Russian C AS 6180 1630-1700 ......s BBC Armavir 200 104 Russian C AS 6180 1633-1700 s...... BBC Armavir 200 104 Russian C AS 6180 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 Dari SW AS 6180 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 Dari SW AS 6180 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 250 314 Greek SE EUR 6190 0300-0600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 6190 0600-1400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 6190 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF 6190 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 6190 1800-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 6195 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 1 English SE AS 6195 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Pashto SW AS 6195 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Dari SW AS 6195 0200-0300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 101 English ME 6195 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 English W AS 6195 0900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 0 English SE AS 6195 0900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 90 English SE AS 6195 0900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 1 English SE AS 6195 1100-1200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 1 English SE AS 6195 1100-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 90 English SE AS 6195 1200-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 1 English SE AS 6195 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Dari W EUR 6195 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 110 Pashto W EUR 6195 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Pashto SW AS 6195 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 305 Arabic ME 6195 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 English SE AS 6195 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 90 English SE AS 6195 2200-2400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 1 English SE AS 6195 2300-0100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 90 English SE AS 7205 0430-0530 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 102 Portuguese S AF 7205 0530-0600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 7205 0600-0630 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 70 French C AF 7205 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi S AS 7205 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu S AS 7205 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 Tamil S AS 7205 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Bengali S AS 7210 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 300 314 Greek SE EUR 7225 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Bengali S AS 7230 1746-1800 smtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 5 Swahili E AF 7230 1746-1800 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili E AF 7230 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 76 French S AF 7235 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 20 Swahili E AF 7235 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesian SE AS 7255 0300-0500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 7255 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 7255 0630-0700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 160 Hausa W AF 7260 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 Hindi S AS 7260 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English W AS 7260 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 335 Portuguese S AF 7265 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 37 Russian RUSS 7280 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Armavir 300 110 Pashto SW AS 7315 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 Vietnamese SE AS 7325 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 500 70 Urdu S AS 7325 0400-0700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic N AF 7325 1500-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 7325 1700-1830 s.....s BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 7325 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 60 Mandarin CHN 7335 0300-0315 .mtwtf. BBC Dhabayya 250 345 Azeri CAU 7345 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 Sinhala S AS 7350 0600-0630 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 190 French N AF 7355 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 7355 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 320 English S AS 7355 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 7360 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 English W AS 7375 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 Urdu SW AS 7375 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 Swahili E AF 7375 0430-0500 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 French C AF 7375 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7375 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 7375 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 173 Arabic ME 7375 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7385 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 7390 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7390 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 7390 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesian SE AS 7390 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 359 English RUSS 7395 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 Indonesian SE AS 7395 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Burmese SE AS 7395 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 275 English S AS 7400 0230-0330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 335 Farsi ME 7400 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Azeri C AS 7410 0300-0315 .mtwtf. BBC Moosbrunn 300 95 Azeri C AS 7415 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 40 Mandarin CHN 7425 0500-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 Dari SW AS 7425 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SW AS 7425 1600-1800 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 62 Russian RUSS 7425 1700-1830 s.....s BBC Rampisham 250 62 Russian RUSS 7435 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Dari SW AS 7435 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Pashto SW AS 7435 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Dari SW AS 7435 0200-0230 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SW AS 7435 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SW AS 7435 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Pashto SW AS 7435 0330-0430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 Farsi ME 7445 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 7445 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 335 English W AF 7445 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Skelton 300 180 Portuguese W AF 7445 2100-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 330 English W AF 7535 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 20 Mandarin CHN 7550 1330-1500 s...... BBC Tashkent 100 131 Bengali S AS 7550 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SW AS 7550 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SW AS 7590 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Erevan 300 100 Urdu S AS 9410 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 255 English S AS 9410 0000-0200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 9410 0200-0300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 9410 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 50 English C AS 9410 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 English W AS 9410 0430-0500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 English W AS 9410 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 90 English W AS 9410 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 9410 1200-1300 .mtwtf. BBC Furman 250 182 Spanish CARIB 9410 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 9410 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 9410 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9410 1530-1615 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 280 Swahili E AF 9410 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 280 Swahili E AF 9410 1530-1700 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9410 1615-1700 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9410 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9410 1700-1746 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9410 1746-1800 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 9410 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 295 Somali E AF 9410 1830-2100 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 9440 0330-0430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Bengali S AS 9440 0500-0530 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 255 Arabic ME 9440 0630-0700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 9450 0500-0600 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 9465 2200-2330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 55 Mandarin CHN 9495 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Uzbek C AS 9505 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 70 Hindi S AS 9505 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 97 Urdu SW AS 9505 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Urdu S AS 9505 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Pashto SW AS 9505 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SW AS 9505 1730-1800 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Pashto SW AS 9505 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SW AS 9505 1830-1900 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Dari SW AS 9510 0000-0030 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Burmese SE AS 9510 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali S AS 9510 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Hindi S AS 9510 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Bengali S AS 9510 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 150 Indonesian SE AS 9545 1000-1500 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 114 English W EUR 9580 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Burmese SE AS 9580 1430-1445 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 Vietnamese SE AS 9595 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 70 Nepali S AS 9605 1000-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 9605 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 9605 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 Mandarin FE 9605 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 270 Tamil S AS 9605 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 340 Bengali S AS 9605 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Hindi S AS 9610 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 9615 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Azeri C AS 9615 1630-1700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Sinhala S AS 9625 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 64 English C AS 9625 1500-1600 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 9670 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 160 Indonesian SE AS 9670 1830-1900 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 185 Krwanda/KrundE AF 9675 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 French N AF 9685 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 320 Uzbek C AS 9730 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Singapore 100 330 Burmese SE AS 9730 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 Indonesian SE AS 9740 0900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 135 English SE AS 9740 0900-1100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 13 English SE AS 9740 1100-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 135 English SE AS 9740 1100-1600 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 13 English SE AS 9740 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 English S AS 9740 2200-2300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 135 English SE AS 9740 2300-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 13 English SE AS 9740 2300-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 125 135 English SE AS 9750 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 85 Azeri C AS 9760 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 185 Arabic ME 9760 2215-2245 s....fs BBC Cyprus 250 315 Greek SE EUR 9790 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Erevan 300 100 Urdu S AS 9810 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 77 Pashto SW AS 9810 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 95 Farsi ME 9815 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali E AF 9855 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 9860 0600-1400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 9860 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF 9915 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 9915 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 101 Arabic ME 9915 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic N AF 9915 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic N AF 9915 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 9915 1600-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic N AF 9915 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Moosbrunn 300 115 Arabic ME 9915 1700-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic N AF 9915 2100-2300 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 11680 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic N AF 11680 0800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic N AF 11680 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 250 168 Arabic N AF 11685 1345-1430 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 Burmese SE AS 11720 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 7 Swahili E AF 11730 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 50 Uzbek C AS 11730 1500-1600 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 62 Russian RUSS 11740 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu S AS 11740 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Singapore 250 340 Burmese SE AS 11750 0000-0030 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Burmese SE AS 11750 0030-0100 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali S AS 11750 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 340 English S AS 11750 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 140 English SE AS 11750 0630-0700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 Hausa W AF 11760 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 100 Hindi S AS 11760 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 English W AS 11760 0700-1400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 320 English ME 11760 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 90 English W AS 11765 0500-0700 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 335 English W AF 11765 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 11785 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 11795 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 82 Uzbek C AS 11810 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 11810 2000-2100 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 11820 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 11820 0600-0800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 101 Arabic ME 11820 1430-1746 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 20 Swahili E AF 11835 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 64 English C AS 11845 0500-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 359 Russian RUSS 11850 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 315 Urdu S AS 11855 2030-2100 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 100 Portuguese S AF 11860 1200-1300 .mtwtf. BBC Montsinery 250 305 Spanish CARIB 11860 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 300 Somali E AF 11860 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 11860 1530-1615 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 11860 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 11860 1530-1700 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 11860 1615-1700 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 11860 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KrundE AF 11860 1746-1800 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 Swahili E AF 11865 0500-0530 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 187 Arabic ME 11865 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 275 Hindi S AS 11865 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 French W C AF 11865 1830-1900 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 187 Krwanda/KrundE AF 11890 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 11895 0900-1000 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 45 English FE 11895 1000-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 11895 1300-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 Mandarin FE 11895 1700-1730 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 185 Arabic ME 11915 1330-1400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali S AS 11915 1400-1500 s...... BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali S AS 11915 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Nepali S AS 11920 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 Indonesian SE AS 11925 0500-0600 ......s BBC Meyerton 250 7 Krwanda/KrundE AF 11925 0530-0600 s...... BBC Meyerton 250 7 Krwanda/KrundE AF 11945 0330-0500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 11945 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 280 English E AF 11950 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 77 Dari SW AS 11955 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 275 English S AS 11955 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Urdu SW AS 11955 2300-2400 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 English SE AS 11965 1545-1615 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 Tamil S AS 11995 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 320 Hindi S AS 11995 0130-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 330 Bengali S AS 11995 0330-0430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Bengali S AS 12005 1600-1630 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 92 Azeri C AS 12015 0400-0430 smtwtfs BBC Dhabayya 250 210 Somali E AF 12015 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 English W C AF 12035 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 177 English N AF 12065 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 97 Hindi S AS 12080 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 117 Indonesian ME 12080 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 90 Indonesian SE AS 12095 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English C AS 12095 0500-0700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 359 English RUSS 12095 0700-0730 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French W AF 12095 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Kyrgyz C AS 12095 1500-1700 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 95 English EUR 12095 1700-1900 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 177 English N AF 12095 1900-2100 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 177 English N AF 12095 2100-2300 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 13605 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 81 Pashto SW AS 13660 0400-0500 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 270 Arabic ME 13660 0600-0800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 121 Arabic ME 13675 0100-0130 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi S AS 13725 0000-0100 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 13750 1400-1500 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 62 Russian RUSS 13775 0600-0700 .mtwtf. BBC Cyprus 250 7 Russian RUSS 13790 0330-0430 .mt.... BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Bengali S AS 13820 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 English W C AF 13820 0830-0900 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Dari SW AS 13820 0900-0930 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Pashto SW AS 13820 0930-1030 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Dari SW AS 13820 1030-1130 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 35 Pashto SW AS 13820 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 English W C AF 13820 1800-2000 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 250 165 English N AF 13820 2000-2100 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 English NAF 13845 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 325 Kyrgyz C AS 13865 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 57 Uzbek C AS 15105 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 15105 1500-1530 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 7 English E AF 15105 1530-1615 s...... BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili E AF 15105 1530-1630 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 7 Swahili E AF 15105 1530-1700 ......s BBC Meyerton 500 7 English E AF 15105 1615-1700 s...... BBC Meyerton 500 7 English E AF 15105 1630-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Meyerton 500 7 Krwanda/KrundE AF 15105 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 Hausa W AF 15150 1400-1500 .mtwtf. BBC Rampisham 250 47 Russian RUSS 15180 0800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 280 Arabic N AF 15180 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Woofferton 300 70 Kyrgyz C AS 15180 1500-1600 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 180 Arabic N AF 15250 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Moosbrunn 300 95 Pashto W AS 15310 0200-0300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 15310 0300-0600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 15310 0600-1200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 15310 1200-1400 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 15335 0000-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 100 13 English SE AS 15345 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Irkutsk 250 224 Hindi S AS 15360 0000-0200 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 40 English FE 15360 0400-0600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 20 English C AS 15400 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 15400 0800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 15400 1000-1130 s.....s BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 15400 1100-1130 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 15400 1500-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 15400 2000-2100 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 English W AF 15420 0500-0530 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 15420 0500-0600 .mtwtf. BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 15420 0500-0600 ......s BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KrundE AF 15420 0530-0600 s...... BBC Seychelles 250 270 Krwanda/KrundE AF 15420 0600-0800 s.....s BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 15420 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 15420 1400-1700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 175 English E AF 15420 1700-1900 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 250 5 English E AF 15425 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Sines 250 170 French N AF 15490 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 295 Somali E AF 15510 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Novosibirsk 250 195 Urdu S AS 15575 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 English W AS 15575 0800-1300 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 97 English W AS 15575 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Skelton 300 90 English EUR 15670 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 Hindi S AS 15790 0500-0600 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 270 Arabic ME 15790 0600-0800 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 180 Arabic ME 15790 0830-0900 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SW AS 15790 0900-0930 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SW AS 15790 0930-1030 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Dari SW AS 15790 1030-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 300 81 Pashto SW AS 15790 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 180 Arabic ME 17615 0100-0200 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 13 English SE AS 17640 0500-0700 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 177 English N AF 17640 0800-1300 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 270 English E AF 17640 1300-1400 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 114 English S AF 17640 1400-1700 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 114 English S AF 17640 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 French W C AF 17695 0700-0730 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 320 French C AF 17710 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Singapore 250 315 Hindi S AS 17760 0230-0300 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Dari SW AS 17760 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 300 Pashto SW AS 17760 0900-1000 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 25 English FE 17780 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali E AF 17780 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French W AF 17780 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 17790 0300-0600 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 290 English S AS 17790 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 280 English S AS 17790 0700-1200 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 17790 1200-1300 smtwtfs BBC A'Seela 250 63 English S AS 17790 1300-1330 smtwtfs BBC Rampisham 500 76 Uzbek C AS 17825 0300-0330 smtwtfs BBC Nakhon Sawan 250 305 Urdu S AS 17830 0700-0800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 500 328 English W AF 17830 0800-1000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 17830 1000-1100 s.....s BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 17830 1100-1700 .mtwtf. BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 17830 1100-1700 s.....s BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 17830 1700-1800 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 English W C AF 17850 1400-1500 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 160 Somali E AF 17885 0430-0500 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 French E AF 17885 1800-1830 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 27 French W AF 17885 1930-2000 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 55 Hausa W AF 21470 0800-1400 smtwtfs BBC Seychelles 250 240 English S AF 21595 1100-1130 smtwtfs BBC Cyprus 250 150 Somali E AF 21630 1200-1230 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 85 French C AF 21630 1345-1415 smtwtfs BBC Ascension 250 65 Hausa W AF (VTC via ADDX Andreas Volk-D, Oct 13 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. VOA (via Tinang) on 6140, Oct 9 at 1211. Fair signal in strong yet muffled QRN, but good copy of Environment Report in English. VOA in Korean on 7225 at 1223, via Tinian. Found better signal in English (via Udon Thani, Thailand) on 7575 at 1233. Found // from Thailand on 9510 at 1250, but weaker and much more band noise. Very good signal of English service from Tinang on 9760 at 1259, continuing through 1300. Later, very strong signal of announced "VOA Uzbek" (via Irana Wila, Sri Lanka) on 15450 at 1523. Excellent reception of English service (via Biblis) on 15530 at 1539, with Elton John singing his Ode to Dead Blondes. // to weaker and gusty 15580 via Botswana (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also PAKISTAN ** U S A [non]. Usually hear VOA English on 7575, which is Thailand at 14-16, but Oct 12 at 1457 nothing audible, instead 7545 which is Tinang, PHILIPPINES, outro to VOA Editorial, previewing plenty of frequencies following hour for Border Crossings, but could not copy all of them due fades. 7545 has some ute digital QRM on lo side mixed with SSB voice. After an open carrier a few minutes earlier, at 1500 found VOA English also on 7520, which is supposed to be Tinang too with 2 x 250 kW at 200 and 270 degrees. Announcer gave wrong timecheck as 1400, then news. This was an echo apart from 7545 despite being same site. One last check of 50m at 1503 Oct 12 to see if anything is still making it from Asia: yes, peaking S9, Korean on 5810, which is almost Asia, TINIAN, RFA just starting a 4-hour midnight broadcast to Juche victims huddled under the covers secretly monitoring the Outside World with their earbuds or barely audible pillow speakers, instead of getting some much-needed sleep in their miserable lives as slaves of The Dear Leader. Or so RFA hopes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Squeal is building up again on the WWCR-2 transmitter. Oct 8 at 1130 I tuned in 5935 during one of the pregnant pauses by PMS, and heard nothing but squealing, which does not need any intentional modulation to set it off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110.15 AM+USB, 2215 13 Sept, Free Radio Network via WBCQ – free radio logs, recordings, SIO 353; also at 2235 R. Free Speech via WBCQ, with Bill O`Right, PO Box 1, Belfast NY 14711 address. ``Back after 10-year absence``. 2310, R. Jamba International. SIO 353 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U S A. TWIAR International is much the same as our regular This Week in Amateur Radio program. The main difference is that TWIAR International is not intended for amateur radio frequencies due to the airing of music and commercial content that is not allowed on amateur radio. The flagship station for TWIAR International is WBCQ, broadcasting on 7415 Mhz [sic]. TWIAR International airs Sundays at 4:00 PM Eastern Time [2000 UT, 2100 from Nov] on WBCQ. TWIAR International LISTEN [to lo mp3 version of #245] http://www.twiar.org/programs/twiari/twiari245lo.mp3 (via Yimber Gaviría, Colombia, Oct 7, DXLD) ** U S A. [Continued from NETHERLANDS [non]] Does anyone know how clear WBCQ is in the US compared to WRMI? Thanks (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Keith: At my QTH, they sometimes boom in; oftentimes there is a squealing sound from their 100 kW transmitter. I assume they at some point would fix their problem. I can monitor the channel for any improvements if need be, 73's (Noble West, Clinton TN, ibid.) It is not 100 kW and it does not squeal (gh, DXLD) Keith: I don't think WRMI is heard clearly anywhere in the world since it's being jammed by Cubans. As someone living near PRC you should know what I'm talking about. Besides, the station isn't targeting Canada. (A common trick used by WYFR, WRNO, etc. for US coverage.) WBCQ provides a generally good and reliable service in the Midwest on 7415. But in the winters the signal tends to skip us starting at around 7 if not 6 pm [CST]. This early skipping usually begins in the end of Nov. and continues to early Jan. Summers are great, though. I find WBCQ's other frequencies to be of little value. Well, 5110 can be helpful when 7415 skips but it's still not as good as 7415. 73! (Sergei S., near Chicago IL, ibid.) Sergei, Your comments are full of incorrect info about WRMI. 1) It is not always jammed by Cuba. 2) Part of the time, clearly specified on the color-coded schedule grid in the dxldyg files, WRMI uses a 317 degree antenna aimed right across the USA, and the CIRAF targets are officially 2 and 3, which means W and C Canada! We discussed this recently when WRMI was asking for reception reports on that. It is quite strong here while on that antenna, (except in evening when MUF drops), but not on the other antenna when aimed at Cuba / Caribbean / S America. Yet that too can sometimes be heard if there does not happen to be any jamming. WBCQ azimuth is 245 degrees nominally on 7415, and I believe the other three frequencies as well. These cross directly over the USA on their way to Mexico. It all depends on your skip distance and the time of day. 7415 is good here in the late afternoon and evenings. 15420 is solid signal all day when in use, and 9330 can be good too in the afternoons. WBCQ would be a good addition for Happy Station broadcasts, but don`t expect to cover all of NAm well on one frequency at one time. As for `squealing`, I have never heard any of that on WBCQ (i.e. an internal transmitter defect like WWCR, WEWN, RHC, etc.). (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Glenn: Thank you for your important corrections. I listened to recent WRMI tests towards NA. The signal was stronger than usual but reception was marred with Cuban jamming again. Note a perfect choice for this part of the US. Maybe someone should come up with schedule of Cuban jamming on 9955. A few weeks ago I asked participants of this forum to write in if they get a good, reliable reception of WRMI on 9955. I didn't get a single response. WRMI used to have a better luck with 7385. I remember your suggestion for WRMI not to put any anti-Castro broadcasters there not to attract jamming. But even back then WBCQ 7415 was a much better choice for the Midwest coverage. I'm not sure if WBCQ 7415 provides a reliable signal to the west from Colorado. It seems like Allan rarely gets calls from that area during his weekly Allan Weiner Worldwide. The calls are mostly coming from the East coast, Midwest, Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Texas. If Keith wants to get a better taste of the station I'd suggest he listens to WBCQ's anniversary special from this September: http://radionewyorkinternational.com/wbcq/aww/2009-0911%20Allan%20Weiner%20Worldwide%20-%2011th%20Anniversary.mp3 73! (Sergei S., ibid.) In my experience WBCQ is usually much more accessible then WRMI but because of technical reasons (WRMI beams south most of the time, they get Cuban jamming, etc.). When 9955 beams north and the Cubans give jamming a break (rare it seems), they can have a pretty good signal. From my central Maryland home WBCQ's 7415 is very clear late afternoon and early evening with the signal slowly tapering off as it gets darker. 15420 and 9330 give me good signals also when they are actually on, those operate a pretty limited schedule. 5110 seems to be the illusive WBCQ frequency I never receive too clearly, usually just barely audible at any time. I'm probably in its skip zone but I don't recall many people getting it clearly (Travers DeVine, ibid.) I have good reception of WRMI M-F between 14 and 16 when 9955 is aimed NW, including Happy Station Thu at 1500. Have you ever tried to listen during this period, Sergei? The web stream works fine too (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I'm usually at work during that time. But somehow I'll try to check it out. Thanks for a tip! Just heard the World of Radio from about 2220 to 2230 UT on 7415. It carried the news of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod selling KFUO. Pretty good reception but not perfect. From 2230 WoR should be on WRMI 9955 (that's what their schedule says). But I hear nothing except for white-noise jamming. Not even sure if WRMI's transmitter is on. Or is that a DRM test? ;) Jeff White is a great guy. His station is doing a lot of public service broadcasting. I wish WRMI could be heard better in the Midwest and elsewhere. 73! (Sergei S., IL, ibid.) What schedule is that, exactly? I don`t recall WOR ever being on WRMI at that time, 2230 UT Monday and am not aware of any such schedule. They aren`t even on the 9955 air at that hour, but if they were it would be WRN relay (Glenn, ibid.) WRMI.net main page displays station's current program (if any), frequency and UT time/date under "Today on WRMI" sign. When I checked WRMI at around 2230 it displayed "World of Radio", current UT time and frequency 9955. But as I mentioned nothing was heard on 9955 except for usual Cuban jamming. I didn't check WRMI online stream. I guess it`s a software issue. 73! (Sergei S., ibid.) ** U S A [and non]. WRMI B09 SCHEDULE: Effective October 25, 2009-March 28, 2010 Freq Start End Zones Azimuth Days 9955 0000 1500 10-16 160 1234567 9955 1500 1700 2, 3 317 1234567 9955 1700 2400 10-13 160 1234567 [as I explained before, azimuth varies otherwise as needed --- gh] Relay Transmissions via Germany for B09 Season: Freq Start End Zones Azimuth Day 11805 1600-1630 47-48 135 1 34 9650 1600-1700 41 90 7 9660 1730-1800 47-48 140 6 [Ethiopian clandestines; hunt elsewhere for which be which] Some of the WRMI QSL cards available for reception reports from our listeners. Algunas de las tarjetas QSL disponibles para informes de recepción de nuestros oyentes. Technical Information: WRMI Transmitter Site: Hialeah, Florida, USA Primary Transmitter Power: 50,000 watts Auxiliary Transmitter Power: 5,000 watts Primary Target Areas: North, Central and South America and Caribbean Antenna Azimuth to North America: 317 degrees (toward Vancouver, BC) Antenna Azimuth to Latin America: 160 degrees (Barranquilla, Colombia) Station Licensee: Radio Miami International, Inc. URL: http://www.wrmi.net/ (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** U S A. 9370, WTJC with hymn and unusually strong signal for the nightmiddle when it is sometimes JBA or inaudible, 0523 Oct 10, S9+22, bringing with it spurs circa 9340 and 9400. O o, on 9340 I could also hear WYFR Arabic // also strong 9355, which means *this* spur could have been dentro-receiver FRG7 overload; and I really could not hear them on YB-400 or DX-398 with lesser antennas onclipped. BTW at this time 25m was bearing only a few S Hemisphere signals, 11725, 11690, while 31m was open to Europe, e.g. Greece 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11520, WEWN in English at 0624 Oct 11, axually propagating and strong enough to bring along with it the dirty spurs 10 kHz above and below, bothering WYFR on 11530 and same sound on 11510 with BFO on. 11520 is currently scheduled 0000-0900 to Africa. WEWN, 12160 in English, Oct 12 at 1447 with heavy CODAR QRM, worst I have heard it on a major SWBC station. Must have been at least two CODARS mixed in, and hard to believe 40 watts could do that to 250 kW, which is the power FCC says WEWN is now running. Catholix vs CODAR! At this time at least weak CODAR swishes could be heard all the way between 12100 and 12330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Has been quite a while since I snared the spurs from KVOH, but not to be outdone by RHC or AIR, they succeeded Oct 12 at 1514 when fundamental 17775 was VG at S9+20 level in Spanish preaching from Pedro, and could also hear // audio in distortion but mostly big hum, centered on 17630 vs CRI English via Mali, and 17920 vs nothing but potentially harmful to aero comms. Checked for more spurs further out at 145 kHz intervals, but none audible. One might have been weakly on 17485, but if there, overcome by too much Brother Scare via Jülich. More could show up later in day if fundamental build up stronger than only 20 over 9. Previously the spurs had been 1 kHz closer to or further from fundamental, so the exact offset varies somewhat, why? WTFDA monitors report some off- season sporadic E lately up into VHF, which would explain this signal reaudiblizing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 7420, WYFR Family Radio, Okeechobee FL; 2204, 7-Oct; Arabic program with English net address. SIO=4+33+ significantly QRMing 7415 WBCQ. These anuses apparently don't care where they set up shop (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Now2, at least this is not really from Florida, an adjacency which the FCC might have disallowed, but via Wertachtal, GERMANY, 500 kW at 210 degrees, so virtually sidebeam toward you, but still enough QRM in ENAm as others have complained e.g., TS for 2200 shows like WORLD OF RADIO on Mondays, QSO on Tuesdays. Can`t say 7420 is a problem by the time you get to Oklahoma, tho (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 11 METER BAND SHORTWAVE STATIONS Hi All, I have noticed several stations from USA, IRRS Italy, etc. mentioned in the 11 meter band in EIBI. Are these stations actually audible outside USA particularly in South, SE Asia, AUS, NZL, PHL? If so, are these SSB broadcasts? Any one QSLed them so far? Thanks & 73s, (Harjot Singh, Punjab, for GRDXC, via DXLD) I don`t see anything in EiBi about IRRS on 11 meters. The US stations are narrowband FM, intended for internal local groundwave use as remote-pickup stations, or feeding undelayed audio to the remote announcers for cuing purposes. Very low power, but sporadic E openings make them audible around North America sometimes (and F2 even further if the sunspots ever build up.) Hearing them in Asia on the other worldside would be quite a feat, even when F2 MUF is up. I believe some of them have QSLed. Search on the call letters or frequencies in DX Listening Digest and you will find reports of them over the years (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Thanks for the detailed info on 11 meter band. Actually the EiBi (I think it is outdated) I have mentions Radio Maria on 26000 which I thought was via IRRS. Yes, you are right, the way the sunspots are there is no possibility of 11 mb signals reaching Asia. However, some years back (I don`t remember the exact year) some stations like RFI, DW were heard in the 11 mb. Not only this, we could hear various Latin Americans, Africans also in the "tropical bands". The Latin Americans used to come in one by one early in the morning (our local time) which was very exciting but nowadays there is no chance at all. Although this may sound funny and not a possibility but let's hope today's NASA experiment on the moon results in some sunspots on the sun. This is like hoping against hope but still. Thanks & 73s, (Harjot Singh Brar, Punjab, India, ibid.) Altho there is no chance of moon impacts causing sunspots, I think there should be a chance of hearing Latin American and African stations on tropical bands in your early morning. The lack of 11m ionospheric propagation does not correlate with what happens on 60m; indeed there is a negative correlation and the lower frequencies should be doing better now. IF we ever have a sunspot peak again like the last few 11-year cycles, there could be some limited use of 11m by major SW broadcasters. I believe R. Maria is not outdated, reported in Europe from time to time this summer tnx to sporadic E, tho it`s intended for local groundwave coverage too, and supposedly a precursor to DRM testing. Nothing to do with IRRS (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. Subject: AWR B09, from ADDX Andreas Volk B09 - AWR Broadcast Schedule (2009-10-25 to 2010-03-28) All Regions. Version 01/2009-10-08/pub AWR Frequency Management Office, Sandwiesenstr. 35, 64665 Alsbach, Germany. Phone: +49 6257 9440969 Fax: +49 6257 9440985 E-mail: dedio @ awr.org SiteStartStop Language Service Area kHz kW Days SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin Ce/No-China 17880 100 daily SDA 0000 0030 Burmese Myanmar 17635 100 daily SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin NE-China 12035 100 daily SDA 0030 0100 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 17635 100 daily SDA 0100 0200 Mandarin So-China 17635 100 daily TAI 0100 0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 100 7 MOS 0200 0230 Urdu Pakistan 5970 300 daily MOS 0230 0300 Panjabi Pakistan 5970 300 daily MDC 0230 0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 50 daily WER 0300 0330 Oromo So-Ethiopia 7370 250 daily WER 0300 0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 7315 250 daily SDA 0300 0330 Russian Ea-Russia 17635 100 daily MOS 0330 0430 Farsi Iran 6090 300 daily WER 0330 0400 Amharic Ethiopia 7315 250 daily WER 0400 0430 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 7425 250 daily MOS 0430 0500 French Morocco, Algeria 6045 300 daily WER 0500 0600 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6025 100 daily [whew, one hour, 06-07 with no AWR anywhere! --- gh] WER 0700 0800 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11975 100 daily WER 0800 0830 French Morocco, Algeria 12010 100 daily WER 0800 0830 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 11975 100 daily WER 0830 0900 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 12010 100 daily [whew, another hour, 09-10, with no AWR anywhere! --- gh] SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin Ce/No-China 11995 100 daily SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin So-China 15260 100 daily NAU 1000 1100 Italian Italy 9610 100 1 SDA 1030 1100 Ilocano Philippines 11870 100 1 SDA 1030 1100 Cebuano Philippines 11870 100 67 SDA 1030 1100 Tagalog Philippines 11870 100 23 SDA 1030 1100 Mongolian No-China, Mongolia 11730 100 daily SDA 1030 1100 Ilonggo Philippines 11870 100 45 SDA 1100 1130 Indonesian We-Indonesia 15495 100 daily SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin Ce/No-China 11825 100 daily SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin So-China 12120 100 daily SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin NoEa-China 11730 100 daily SDA 1130 1200 English Indonesia, Malaysia 15260 100 1357 SDA 1130 1200 Sundanese Indonesia, Malaysia 15260 100 246 WER 1200 1230 English NoEa-India, Bangladesh 15495 250 daily SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin NoEa-China 11855 100 daily SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin So-China 12120 100 daily SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin Ce/No-China 11825 100 daily SDA 1200 1300 Korean Korea 9800 100 daily WER 1230 1300 Bangla NoEa-India, Bangladesh 15495 250 daily SDA 1300 1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15660 100 daily MDC 1300 1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 250 daily SDA 1300 1330 Japanese Japan 11980 100 daily NAU 1300 1330 Uighur We-China 11720 250 17 NAU 1300 1330 Mandarin We-China 11720 250 23456 SDA 1300 1400 Mandarin Ce/No-China 9615 100 daily SDA 1300 1330 Japanese We-Japan 11935 100 daily NAU 1330 1500 Mandarin We-China 11725 250 daily SDA 1330 1400 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11935 100 13 SDA 1330 1400 Lao Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11935 100 57 SDA 1330 1400 Russian Ea-Russia 9655 100 daily SDA 1330 1400 Thai Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11935 100 246 SDA 1330 1400 English Bangladesh 15660 100 23567 SDA 1330 1400 Assamese NoEa-India 15660 100 14 MOS 1400 1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 300 daily SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin So-China 9635 100 daily SDA 1400 1430 Chin Myanmar 11940 100 daily SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin Ce/No-China 9810 100 daily SDA 1400 1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15255 100 daily MOS 1430 1500 Afar DJI, NoEa-ETH, SOM 17610 300 daily SDA 1430 1500 Burmese Myanmar 11770 100 daily MDC 1430 1528 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 50 daily SDA 1430 1500 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 11940 100 daily SDA 1500 1530 Telugu So-India 11655 100 daily WER 1500 1530 Nepali Nepal 11675 250 daily SDA 1500 1530 Tamil So-India 11685 100 daily SDA 1500 1530 Mizo NoEa-India 15495 100 daily WER 1500 1530 Panjabi No-India 11860 250 daily SDA 1500 1530 English So-India 15255 100 daily MOS 1500 1530 Turkish Turkey 11780 300 daily WER 1530 1600 English Nepal, Tibet 11675 250 daily SDA 1530 1600 Kannada So-India 11690 100 daily SDA 1530 1600 Malayalam So-India 11955 100 daily ISS 1530 1600 Hindi No-India 11905 250 daily SDA 1530 1600 Hindi Ce-India 12105 100 daily SDA 1530 1600 Marathi Ce-India 15495 100 daily MOS 1600 1630 Urdu Pakistan 11910 300 daily SDA 1600 1630 English So-India 11690 100 daily SDA 1600 1630 English Ce-India 9585 100 daily SDA 1600 1630 Urdu No-India 9840 100 daily SDA 1630 1700 English No-India 9840 100 daily MOS 1630 1730 Farsi Iran 9830 300 daily ISS 1630 1700 Somali Somalia 17575 250 daily MEY 1700 1730 Kiswahili TZA, KEN, UGA 11925 250 daily WER 1700 1730 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 9445 250 daily WER 1730 1800 Oromo So-Ethiopia 11795 250 daily MEY 1730 1800 Masai Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda 11925 250 daily WER 1730 1800 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 9595 100 daily MEY 1800 1830 English BOT, So-AF, ZWE 3345 100 daily MEY 1800 1830 English Ea-Africa 11830 250 daily MOS 1800 1830 Juba Arabic So-Sudan 9515 300 3 MOS 1800 1830 Moru So-Sudan 9515 300 1 MOS 1800 1830 Dinka So-Sudan 9515 300 5 MOS 1800 1830 Bari So-Sudan 9515 300 2 MOS 1800 1830 Zande So-Sudan 9515 300 6 MOS 1800 1830 Col English So-Sudan 9515 300 4 MOS 1800 1830 Acholi So-Sudan 9515 300 7 MEY 1800 1830 English SoWe-Africa 3215 100 daily MOS 1830 1900 Arabic Libya 9605 300 daily MEY 1900 1930 Fulfulde CME, GHA, SEN 15240 250 daily MOS 1900 1930 Hausa Nigeria 9625 300 daily WER 1900 1930 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11760 100 daily NAU 1900 2000 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11955 100 daily MEY 1930 2000 Ibo Ea-Nigeria 11750 250 daily MOS 1930 2000 French Ce-Africa 9625 300 daily WER 1930 2000 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 11760 100 daily WER 2000 2030 French Morocco, Algeria 9805 100 daily MEY 2000 2030 French Cameroon, Niger 11845 250 daily MOS 2000 2030 Dyula BFA, CTI, MLI 9770 300 daily MEY 2030 2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11845 250 daily MOS 2030 2100 French We-Africa 9805 300 daily SDA 2100 2200 Korean Korea 5985 100 daily SDA 2100 2200 Mandarin Ce/No-China 9720 100 daily SDA 2100 2130 Japanese Japan 11980 100 daily SDA 2100 2130 Japanese We-Japan 11960 100 daily MOS 2100 2130 English We-Africa 9830 300 daily SDA 2130 2200 English We-Japan, So-China 9625 100 daily SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin Ce/No-China 11895 100 daily SDA 2200 2230 Sundanese We-Indonesia 11850 100 1357 SDA 2200 2230 Indonesian We-Indonesia 11965 100 daily SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin NoEa-China 11685 100 daily SDA 2200 2230 English We-Indonesia 11850 100 246 SDA 2230 2300 English We-Indonesia 15320 100 daily SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin Ce/No-China 15370 100 daily SDA 2300 2400 Vietnamese Vietnam 15320 100 daily SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin NoEa-China 11700 100 daily Site: JUL Juelich NAU Nauen ISS Issoudun MDC Madagascar SDA Agat MEY Meyerton TAI Taipei MOS Moosbrunn WER Wertachtal Days: 1 Sunday 2 Monday 3 Tuesday 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday 7 Saturday (AWR, via ADDX Andreas Volk-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** U S A. A very interesting reception happened to me on Sept 16 of this year. I used to reside in Bristol CT. I had the FM radio on and I`m hearing an ESPN transmission on 98.1. It was a super signal. Knowing that there are only a handful of FM stations that carry ESPN, I wasn`t sure about the location. After checking all of my sources, I finally went on the internet. It seems that ESPN has launched an experimental FM station in Bristol on 98.1 with the call letters of WX4ESPN. It used 134 watts of power. The report has been sent. I`ll see what happens (Sam Barto, Thomaston CT, who eschews e-mail, QSL Report, Oct NASWA Journal, via DXLD) But what is there to experiment about on FM these days? First vanity experimental call-letters I have seen, really? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WCAA 105.9 FM La Kalle, is about to launch its new frequency 96.3 at 8 pm EST [sic] (00 UT) tonight [Oct 6]. http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=9486&schid=9497 The New York Times announced the sale of WQXR in a deal with Univisión and WNYC on July 14, 2009. On September 8, the FCC approved WNYC's application to operate WQXR at 105.9. WQXR was founded by John Hogan. In the late 1920s, he launched a radio station originally called W2XR: the '2' meant that the station was non-commercial and the 'XR' stood for 'Experimental Radio.' (“Rebel in Radio: The Story of WQXR by Elliott Sanger.”) (Via: Dino Bloise, Frecuencia Al Día, Miami, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WQXR Newark and New York City --- WQXR's 96.3 frequency was sold to the highest bidder by the New York Times who wanted to go out of the radio station business - I heard this mentioned on WQXR a few days after the switch to 105.9 MHz. I suppose that the highest bidder was the owner of 105.9 MHz, so WQXR went to 105.9 MHz. The WNYC programs on the 93.9 HD2 channel were called "500 Years of New Music." Those moved to WQXR 105.9 HD2, same title (identified as Q2 on DXLD 9-075 of 10/8/09). The WQXR main program (105.9 HD1) is now also heard on WNYC 93.9 HD2 channel with a delay of around a 1/2 minute or so. The WNYC HD3 channel continues to be the AM WNYC-820 kHz program. The 96.3 is now the same Latin music & some rap that was on 105.9. I saw X 96 or 96 X on the RDS but that's not shown on radio-locator.com. WCAA (from 105.9) is the call now listed on radio-locator.com for 105.9. Also listed: 6 kW at 415/429 meters. When I checked on 10/13, the coverage maps shown on radio-locator.com are reversed - showing the signal estimates for each station`s former frequency. I already noticed that the WQXR 105.9 signal isn't reaching to the west of NYC anywhere near as well as 96.3 as it's got only 615 Watts at 416/430 meters. (So they both must be at the same approx. 1400 foot level on the Empire State Bldg.) WQXR will be having difficulty in all directions so some folks in the new fringes may need to try to receive WNYC HD2. In western NJ we can also hear full time classical music from WWFM (89.1 etc.), WNUW 97.5HD2 and part time mornings from WPRB 103.3 Princeton and WRTI (90.1 etc.) Philadelphia (Wells Perkins in NJ, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. LOW POWER RADIO TRIUMPHS OVER BIG BROADCASTERS IN WASHINGTON NEWS ALERT October 8, 2009 Contact: Cory Fischer-Hoffman Campaign Director, Prometheus Radio Project 610-761-5414 coryfh @ prometheusradio.org Local Community Radio Act Sweeps House Subcommittee in 15 to 1 vote The Local Community Radio Act was passed out of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet this morning in a sweeping 15 to 1 vote. The Act would allow for the creation of hundreds of new, low power FM (LPFM) radio stations that would broadcast community news and local perspectives to neighborhoods across the country. “All I can say is, it's about time,” said Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), a co-sponsor of the bill. “It was absurd and ridiculous that broadcasters went to such great lengths to block the public from having some small measure of access to the airwaves, and disgraceful that we had to spend more two million dollars to prove what the FCC already had shown—that LPFM would not interfere with full power stations.” Big broadcasters have historically opposed the Local Community Radio Act, claiming that LPFM could cause interference to full power stations, a concern later disproven by a Congressionally mandated study. But with unanimous FCC support, strong bipartisan co- sponsorship, and grassroots momentum, even industry news is now predicting a win. “We do not expect that there is any stopping it at this point,” the Radio Business Reportcommented this morning. “The bill still has a long way to go in the legislative process, but I am optimistic that by the end of the year the Local Community Radio Act will be signed into law,” said Congressman Doyle (D-PA), lead co- sponsor of the bill with Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE). The bill gained the support of former doubters of LPFM, including Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), a former lead co-sponsor of anti-LPFM legislation and ranking Republican on the subcommittee, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), the only former broadcaster in Congress, and Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), who called for the study of LPFM interference in 2000. “Today’s vote signals a policy shift towards more local and diverse media,” said Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Campaign Director for the Prometheus Radio Project. “We need to use this momentum to push for full passage of the Local Community Radio Act so groups working tirelessly to have a voice in their communities can start building stations.” Hundreds of groups—including schools, churches, and emergency responders—were denied licenses in 2000 after Congress blocked the FCC from handing them out in crowded media markets. Advocates point to the successes of existing low power FM stations to prove their value to communities. “When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf, low power radio was the only source of emergency information in a number of counties. Residents in East Texas tuned their battery- operated radios to KZQX-LP while they waited a week for power to be restored,” said Andalusia Knoll, Community Station Director at the Prometheus Radio Project. “In Louisiana, OKOCZ-LP has proven essential to the cultural survival of Zydeco music, which is rarely heard on the airwaves. And low power station WRYR hosts public debate about the environmental impacts of development on the Chesapeake Bay.” “Congress should act swiftly to pass LPFM and support the families, workers, and places of worship that serve as the anchors in our communities,” said Joel Kelsey, Policy Analyst at Consumers Union. Nancy Zirkin of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights added, “In an era of mass media consolidation, we in the civil rights community believe that it is critical to promote diverse ownership and diverse viewpoints over the public airwaves, and we look forward to the passage of this bill into law.” The Local Community Radio Act is now poised to move to the full Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by longtime LPFM supporter Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). The Prometheus Radio Project is a Philadelphia based non-profit that advocates for greater public access to the airwaves through the licensing of low power radio stations. http://www.prometheusradio.org (via Benn Kobb, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ** U S A. KRND 1630 [Wyoming]. I see they have a CP granted about 1 year ago to go from 10 kW Day / 1 kW Night Non Directional to 10 kW Day, 3 tower directional and 1 kW, night 3 tower directional, with an all due north and south pattern both day and night. I wonder if they've already built this out or if not, when they will and when it'll get fired up? -- Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr., IRCA via DXLD) They sound the same as usual here in IL. Often mixed with Iowa at night and often overriding them on sunset skip prior to switching to 1 kW. One wonders why they want to change patterns and go thru the expense of two added towers plus engineering?? 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) Towers for 1630 are about 135 feet and a lot cheaper then stations on lower dial spots, the ground system won`t be too bad; they`re probably trying to cover the outskirts of Fort Collins too (Paul Walker, ibid.) Even so a regular DX catch in Europe, La Grande (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. I may have missed the news but WCNZ seems to be IDing as "The Avenue" but still giving WMYR & WCNZ callsigns at top of hour. Also I think was promoting a new website but I couldn't catch the url due to noise. Not sure if it was this though. http://www.avenue1410and1660.com 73 (Steve Whitt, UK, Oct 12, mwcircle yg via DXLD) Florida ** U S A. 1670 kHz: October 9, 2009, 1700-1711 UT, Various types of music (rock, polka, etc.) played. OM with long speech on benefits of IBOC HD radio. 1708 OM "WD2XXM Frederick" (this is in Maryland). Gone at 1711. Now hearing Fairfax County, VA TIS on 1670. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, VA, USA, 1746 UT Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Living in Frederick, I hear this station on and off. In the past it broadcast that HD Radio loop, oldies music and my personal favorite, tones! When doing tones the analog signal will have one tone, when the HD Radio kicks in it'll have a different tone. Compelling! It's just an experimental license for IBOC to test. The testing is done from the WWFD AM-820 site in Frederick and is allowed up to 4,000 watts. Originally the license was for AM-650 but because of complaints from WMAL [630!] moved to AM-1670 (Travers DeVine, MD, ibid.) I have heard them numerous times in the past, but not much lately. I had assumed they were off. Below are some audio clips I made over five years ago. http://bill.dxclipjoint.com/top_of_hour/Frederick%20MD/001670-20040503-wd2xxm-1740.mp3 http://bill.dxclipjoint.com/top_of_hour/Frederick%20MD/001670-20040503-wd2xxm-1758.mp3 http://bill.dxclipjoint.com/top_of_hour/Frederick%20MD/001670-20040503-wd2xxm-1748.mp3 (Bill Harms, MD, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Re 9-075: 6125.000, SODRE, 0921, thanks Bryan Clark tip. Very weak, with Spanish talk by man, one mention of "Montevideo" but I don't know if it was in tandem with an ID. Into nice ballads. Readable on brief peaks but mainly in the mush. Had a carrier here day prior but no audio. One to watch as the frequency is clear here. Haven't logged anything from Uruguay in probably over 25-years (at which point they were also QSL'ed). (David Sharp, NSW Australia, FT-950, NRD-535D etc., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 3945, R. Vanuatu, 1201, Oct. 13. “11:00”, “Radio Vanuatu, Voice of the . . . ” (possibly “people”?); religious music; religious sermon given with background music; probably in Bislama; sign off announcement; Anthem; 1219*; Idaho ham weather net also on this frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 4004.93 AM+USB mode, at 2235 20 Sept, VR, John Dunne`s `Holy Sonnet`. English, SIO 433 (Alan Pennington, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) New relay exchanges with R. Veritas Asia: see PHILIPPINES [and non] ** VENEZUELA. Hi Guys: What a great day for DXing today!! The afternoon started off with some DOUBLE HOP E-Skip TV DX to VENEZUELA!!! Yes, I said VENEZUELA!! Had Channel 4 Venevisión in for over an hour from 1618 to almost 1800 EDT!! Got some nice photos of the reception which is over 2000 Miles!!! This is the 2nd station I have received from Venezuela on TV. I logged a Channel 2 from there several years back via F2 Skip under different Solar Conditions. Today`s reception was via DOUBLE HOP E-SKIP!! A few guys up this way in Ontario and Western New York also logged this and a few Colombian Stations as well. I was only able to see 4 Venevisión, but it's a NEW STATION for the TV Log!! 73......ROB (Robert S. Ross VA3SW, London, Ontario CANADA, Oct 9, IRCA via DXLD) 4, YVXD, Venevisión, Maracaibo, VENEZUELA, Oct/10/09, 1618 EDT [2018 UT] Spanish. Fair-good. Spanish soap opera called "Tomasa Tequero" at 1618 EDT Tune In. Ads at 1822. One was for COLGATE TOOTH PASTE. "SUPER SABADO" on Screen at 1623. Bug in Upper Left Corner of Screen. Round Wreath with a BIG V in the Center of the wreath, extending upward and out of the wreath. Venevision Logo on Screen at 1641. Same logo as the bug. Ads at 1641. Promo for a music show. Variety show at 1642 showed two different names for it, "Super Sábado Sensacional" and "Un Espos Para Estela". NEW STN, DOUBLE HOP Es, 2297 Miles (ROSS, ONT., WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) Great, and I remain envious missing all this double-hop in OK. Maybe next summer I will be better equipped. Or the skip areas favorabler. Certainly possible now, but I sure hope you are sure about this, since Venevisión shows are syndicated all over Latin America, notably México, including the V-wreath logo. I assume they never really transmit a call-letter ID such as listed YVXD? BTW, the skip was not `to` Venezuela, but FROM Venezuela. I`m pretty sure the signal proceeds from the transmitter to the receiver, rather than vice versa, but lots of confused DXers express this backwards, also with radio, SW. Of course the reciprocal path should also be opening, but that would have to be observed at the otherend (gh) Reference reception from Venezuela-Panamá and possibly Colombia. I checked the ham radio prop reports simultaneous to the reception by Jeff and others and came to a quick conclusion; TV DXers have an edge; a brilliant edge. Reception from SAm in October seems unusual but perhaps it is not; until now, loaded with USA analog signals, we would never have known what lay beneath the KPRC-WTHS/WEAR/WWL/etc. strong first hop signals. Now we do. Someone - not me - should create a listing that shows the date, time, location of the receptor and the stations received from northern SAm and CAm. There MUST be a pattern here - something that begs identity. Such as when there is a first hop from Venezuela to say the Gulf of Mexico and a second hop from the Gulf Coast to Ontario/NY/New England. Is the first hop hitting "the ground" at all or is it "Es cloud to Es cloud" with no intermediate reception zone (such as along the Gulf Coast and/or Florida)? The hams on six meters obviously are not able to deal with the detail here whereas TV DXers are; and we could/should be making a MAJOR contribution to the understanding of Es - what makes it happen, where it happens, when it occurs. We need some statistical data and someplace out there is someone with the skills to go back to say April-May this year and put it all down for reference and future study (Bob Cooper in New Zealand, ibid.) And perhaps a second question - might it matter whether the point on the earth where that hop occurs is over water or land ? If that's the case, I would expect the skip points to be all over the Gulf (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) My wife and I were out to Denny's and Kohl's until around 5 pm when we returned and I found a bunch of calls from Jeff R. I knew something was up. He called up again and we worked the opening over the phone. I had four loggings on FM and each one mentioned Ft. Walton Beach. There was 92.1, 93.3, 94.5 and Sunny 94.1 WSOS. But TV was more interesting. At 5:13 pm logged Caracol ch 4 with Futureworld (that old Fox cartoon series) and then we went to ch 3. There was soccer and another which we found was TVN in Panamá. TVN had that round logo on the LR. They went into news at 6 pm. [all EDT = UT -4] The soccer game came up once in a while and I noticed the ref was on the field walking and the letters "FVF" were right behind him. Jeff looked it up and it's the name of a Venezuelan soccer league and they were playing Paraguay that afternoon, if I remember correctly. This was seen on a Zenith 13" B/W TV with a D-100. Without the D-100 I would not have seen much of anything. I don't know how you guys (Jeff, Bill, etc.) get such good quality, color pics out of these openings on TVs without preamps. I can't. Are you guys doing anything special? Or just lucky. BTW, try to find a good CRT Color TV around nowadays. You can't. I don't see them at garage sales anymore. Enfield had its first electronics recycling day at the Public Works department yesterday from 9 [am] to 1 pm. The line of cars was around a half mile long and I waited in line at least 20 minutes to just toss a monitor. Everyone and their brother was tossing analog TVs. Some were very nice. -- (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, ibid.) I used a couple of calculation web sites to answer this identical question out of my own curiosity. My reception of "alleged" YVXD-4 Maracaibo had a mid-point over the Atlantic Ocean precisely 55 miles northeast of San Salvador island. I use the term "alleged" because all FOUR of the Venevisión transmitters on channel 4 have zero offsets, but Maracaibo at 331 kW has a 7 dB power advantage over the next most powerful station and is quite close to the Caribbean coast. There was no doubt that it was Venevision, however, as the pix and audio were ghost free, in color with ads and promos for Venevisión and a signal quality better at times than semi-local WGRZ-2 back before 6/12/09. The two Colombians from RCN on 2 and 3 would be to the southwest, maybe ON San Salvador or to the SW of it (Rick Lucas, Rochester, NY, ibid.) Are they REALLY all zero offset or simply not specified in lists? (gh) No tower preamp on VHF here (tried it once and got major FM overload playing havoc with TV & everything else). Just a distribution amp in the shack which gives a wee extra kick. I do stack frames for a better picture. It always bugs me how a single frame will look worse than live TV - 20 frames evens it out to more what the human eyes sees on the TV. Over 20 looks better than live TV - but then there's a time limitation - the frames aren't consecutive and there is a 1/2 second delay between each frame. So over 20 frames is too long for a quick ID or motion. Both of my pix used 20 stacked frames (using AstroVideo capture software). The colour bursts were short-lived. Mostly b & w. Definitely stronger than any of the summer 2ES stuff though (William R Hepburn, Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.4 -79 33 34.5, http://dxinfocentre.com/hepburn/ ibid.) What I would do to enhance the picture was to tape the DX on the VCR and set the camera up and run the tape and snap the picture while tape was running. This worked most times (Roy Barstow, Cape Cod, ibid.) Here are some more Venezuelan TVDX photos taken by someone in Ohio: http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?s=1bd963325c84eaab59c84fa11f0c58d9&p=10191 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) As the 'old timer' here I would remind/recall that in November 1975 (?) there was a HUGE Es opening that allowed Hawaiian six meter guys to work the east coast of the USA (Es - NOT F2!) - Triple Hop for several hours. And that way-way back in 1958 or so - again I am not checking records- Es in March which included channel 13 Tucson + getting into far northern California. Off Season is NOT unusual but now we are rid of the domestic "pestests" it will be far more enticing! (Bob Cooper in New Zealand, WTFDA via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. Aló, Presidente check, Sunday Oct 11 at 1550, by when it`s usually underway if at all via CUBA. Nothing on 13750 or the other four frequencies. Still it might pop up later if Hugo get going (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. When it’s quiet on the radio --- browse the websites Things are somewhat quiet on the shortwave front these days, as schedules are still a month away from the seasonal changes, and the sunspot cycle has kept propagation generally iffy. However, broadcasters haven’t necessarily been standing still – many continue to tweak their Internet websites as they adapt to an increasingly online audience. One of the recent trends has been the adoption of software systems that help to automate this updating process, as the tools used to create programming – scripts, synopses, and schedules – are also becoming the tools to publish this content. One of the apparent consequences of this is that broadcaster websites are becoming a bit more Spartan – background collateral and reference information seems shallower than it used to be for broadcasters like the BBC World Service, yet the online availability of past programming is increasing. Aided by the Internet Wayback Machine, the definitive archive of old web content, here’s a random sampling of recent changes in broadcaster websites, particularly when it comes to the availability of programming for live and on-demand listening or download. The Voice of Vietnam website appears to have been recently updated, with a list of past news stories and archived audio. However, all of the archived audio I sampled was in Vietnamese, not in English, even though the list of stories available as archived audio appears in English. My notes from a couple years back state that Voice of Vietnam programming was available for on-demand listening via the VOV website, but I haven’t yet been able to locate any stash of English language programming on the VOV website. Check for yourself at http://vovnews.vn 73 DE (Richard Cuff, Easy Listening, Oct NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 9635, V. of Vietnam Hanoi, 1151-1201, Oct 6, listed Vietnamese. M & W announcers with talk and music bits; IS snippet at ToH followed by M announcer & co-channel Spanish talk, presumably CVC- Chile; poor (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Vietnam (Sontay) on 7220, Oct 8 at 1318. Fair signal of YL in Chinese, but quite a bit of QRM/N (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR, 11735, 1715-, Radio Tanzania-Zanzibar, Oct 11. Someone has to give up this frequency between 1700 and 1800. A real pile up between the excellent and powerful modulation from Radio Romania International and Zanzibar, both cochannel during this hour, and both at very good levels. RRI is in English, while Zanzibar is in ?Swahili? Mailbag from RRI at 1737. On recheck at 1810, Zanzibar was in the clear, but not in English (perhaps this is Mon-Fri only?) (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In B-09, hardly anyone plans to use 11735 during Zanzibar hours; I think RRI doesn`t run 11735 in B-seasons anyway, but there will still be the Brasilian (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 910 kHz, what`s the source of the constant het here a couple hundred Hz above or below, as I was hearing on the caradio between 04 and 05 UT Oct 11? Would not be a trans-Atlantic on 909.0. Nothing listed in the appropriate range at http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt where all the offsets are too close to 910.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TX UNID EM 2860 kHz. Boa noite, há 1 hora (agora é 0202 UT de 13/10) estou na audição de emissora transmitindo mx em SS, em 2860 kHz, que não se identifica. Música latino-americana (argentina/andina). SINPO: 45433. Propus a hipótese de ser harmônico de 1430 kHz. A tx em 1430 kHz que chega aqui é outra. Alguém tem alguma idéia? O receptor usado é um Yaesu FRG-100. 73s (Renato Dutra Pereira Filho, Rio Grande - RS, RADIOESCUTAS yg via DXLD) Investiga a possibilidade de ser um espúrio de uma uruguaia ou argentina. Você está bem perto deles por ai.... mais perto do Uruguai do que eu de Taubaté. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 4750, 1120, Oct 6, vernacular. Two announcers with talk in unID language; barely audible under noise floor; would like to think it's either Bangladesh Betar or RRI Makassar but whenever I log anything here, usually during my local winter, it's been CNR (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Never heard this before in morningly scans of 60m, but Oct 13 at 1300 a US MW station on 4800, cutting on and off intermittently, more off than on, but when cut on was quite distorted, and cutons did not seem to correlate with modulation level. Most likely harmonic, but 4800 could be an even multiple of all these: 600, 800, 960, 1200 and 1600! 960? That`s local KGWA x 5. So I first rule that out and the other two locals on 1390 and 1640; it could be some other mix and not an harmonic. At 1306 I think I detect it // in mixture on 1600, but not nearby KUSHing. Not audible on 3200. 4800 spur at S9+15 QRMs CODAR and another very weak broadcast signal, possibly XERTA at QRP. Kept listening for next semihour and it was extremely frustrating with only bits and pieces of audio. At 1314 did clearly mention ``the Dallas-Fort Worth area`` --- but the 1600 station there, KRVA is in, what else, Vietnamese, as just reconfirmed. In case it`s still Texan, at 1322 checked for // on 1200, but not // presumed remnant of WOAI. 1323 ad or PSA for cancer screening. 1326 soul music; 1332 ad with dialog. Enough of that, missing other good DX. 1356 recheck, still audible cutting on and off; 1359 wrapping up show giving today`s date. Naturally was not cut on when any legal hourtop ID might have been given. 1428, one more check, still cutting on and off. There is a loose connexion in the transmitter or antenna somewhere, causing this harmonic, or external mixing spur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not there 10/14 UNIDENTIFIED. At 0727 Numbers station on 4909 USB YL dictating "148 calling zero zero". 73's (Mark Davies, (2W0MTD), Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, (Not England as previously reported. Hi), Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. OTH radar pulsing presumed at 1346 Oct 8, covering 6530- 6580, neatly bookended by the Juche jamming noise against S Korean clandestine V of the People on 6518 and 6600. Lots more OTHR audible at: 6430-6480, 6965-7040 oops extending into hamband, NB intruder watchers; 7345-7360, 7660-7710, 6790-6830, 6890-6940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. ACARS jamming? 6660.5 USB, Oct 10 at 1316. What sounds like hams speaking Spanish along with a second-by-second time signal, bothering ACARS on 6661. The FAA can't be happy about that (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not fair to blame hams (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. Anyone ID the Arabic-sounding station on 7080.2 around 0100 UT? Male voice, no music for the 10 minutes I heard it occasionally fade in. Also heard by my friend at same time in the Netherlands (Andy O`Brien, NY, UT Oct 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time to calculate leapfrogs (gh) Hi Andy, do you have any audio file for that? Maybe I can help (Tarek Zeidan, Denmark, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 7345, R. Prague in French, Oct 13 at 0604, making slow SAH. It seemed like the other station was in French too, but the only thing listed is Yakutsk, and that site was certainly incoming well on 7200; not knowing 7345 could be this until researched later, I did not attempt to //. Still clashing after 0630 when Prag went into German. Aoki shows Yakutsk long hours on 7345, 19-15 at 310 degrees, R. Sakha/R. Rossii. BTW, R. Prague is facing extinxion by yearend so that could open a lot of frequency-hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7420, Oct 8 at 1329. Probably either BBC (via Nakhan Sawan) in Chinese or more likely CNR1 Jammer. Found again on 9605 at 1435 (when BBC would be via Kranji, Singapore.) OM and YL in Chinese with multipath echo (Terry Wilson, MI, Ten-Tec RX-320D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9830, Oct 9 at 1304. Sounds like RTTY. What's that doing in 31m? Is this the one that interferes with Radio Cairo? (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, except it`s Jordan victimized in the afternoon and after 2200 Turkey in English. Some utes remain from when this was really outside the 31m broadcast band (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) see also JORDAN UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 9860 at 1915 UT Oct 11. Woman speaking in Arabic or very similar language. Format sounded like news from international broadcaster, but could not recognize bridge music. VOA/IBB? Fair to good (Icom R75, Mike Bryant, KY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aoki says: 9860 Affia Darfur/Hello Darfur 1900-1930 1234567 Arabic 250 150 Wertachtal D 01041E 4805N IBB/SAW a09 (Glenn, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 12080.00, UNID transmitter site, test tone of approx. 800 Hertz at 0905 to sign-off 0914 UT Oct 10, S=9+10Db (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Big empty carrier on 15385, Oct 5 1959. Must be KJES (Vado) with music from KBS (via Rampisham) bleeding through. YL with very uncertain-sounding announcement in Spanish and then both off at 2000 (Terry Wilson, MI, Eton E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I have a question; I was home from work today and thought that I would try to catch LRA 36. At 1802z I heard a station come on frequency (15476). The signal was very weak through-out the time that I was able to hear it, in fact it was so weak most times I could not tell what language was spoken, but I could tell when the speaker was a female or male and when music was being played. I did not hear a station ID or any type of identifying remarks. As I have been looking at other loggings I notice that most if not all state that the LRA 36 was heard no earlier than an hour later than my time today. Did any one else hear it today (10/09/09) at this time 1802z to 1851z fade out. Should I enter this in my logs as a probable or an unidentified? Thanks for any comments (Tom, NASWA yg via DXLD) I think you already know the answer. If you are left with enough uncertainty that you feel you need to ask others what THEY think you heard, you have an unidentified. But keep after it!! (Don Jensen, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 15755, 0214-, Oct 12. Being in Masset prevents me from having a lot of up to date information available, so I'll need to ask who this station is. It's in Russian and was incredibly strong. It's religious, so presumably one of the Protestant churches beaming to Russian. Just about pegged my meter! (Walter Salmaniw, Masset, QCI, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I fear it is only VOR scheduled in Russian via Irkutsk. Do they have a Russian language version of Christian Message from Moscow? Or have they sold out some time to the Protestants? Please check further. Aoki: 15755 VOICE OF RUSSIA 0200-0300 1234567 Russian 100 125 Irkutsk RUS 10418E 5218N VORWS a09 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Yes, it must have been VoR Russian. The service carries some religious programming (Russian Orthodox). But selling air time to Protestants is highly unlikely. VoR Russian used to post its program schedule online. Now I can't find it. But I see a prominent link to the news that Tina Kandelaki, a Russian Georgian TV host, got naked for a magazine photo session. The site is hopeless (Sergei S., IL, ibid.) VOR itself might not sell time to Protestants, but GTRK has no compunxion about pandering to Protestants, witness numerous relays of FEBA, TWR, YFR, etc., etc. If the frequency were no longer needed by VOR it could have been overturned to the foreign gospel huxters. And didn`t we have a discussion a while ago about how modern Orthodox programming could be mistaken for Protestant? Or Catholic. And the Christian Message from Moscow program, which I have not listened to closely: could it be rather non-denominational? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I'm not sure if it's up to GTRKs to sell airtime in Russia, including slots on SW transmitters. Kai probably knows much better who sells it and how. At any rate, it's not as easy as it used to be. The Christian Message from Moscow is the Russian Orthodox program. 73! (Sergei S., ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 15895-15925, OTH radar pulses, presumed Oct 12 at 1445; at 1512 also 17515-17545, both fortunately clear of SWBC victims (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17460-17485, OTH radar pulses, presumed, Oct 13 at 1435, rather strong, likely from somewhere in Europe along with many other 16m signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25 kHz wide signal is typical for British OHR Cyprus (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just a contribution to your efforts. Hope to send to you more later. I very much appreciate y our contributions to the world of DX. You are a one-man operation. There is nobody like you! Tell us more about your self via DXLD if you feel comfortable in doing so. Cholly (Charles A. Taylor, NC, with a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Tnx. Several interviews with me have been published. You can find linx to them toward the bottom of the long list of linx at the top of http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio Several interviews with me have been broadcast. They are linked toward the bottom of http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ "El esperanto tiene un carácter igualitario esencialmente distinto al carácter imperial del inglés" Entrevista con la Asociación Izquierda y Esperanto Aida M. Pereda | Lumpen | 7-10-2009 a las 23:23 | 183 lecturas http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/esperanto-tiene-caracter-igualitario-esencialmente-distinto-caracter-i Muchas son las revoluciones que se han intentado lograr a lo largo de los años. Todavía queda pendiente una reflexión profunda sobre la necesidad de un idioma común de entendimiento, desligado de intereses políticos y nacionales. Izquierda y Esperanto, en esta entrevista, analizan el significado real del esperanto, tras 150 años de historia. . . http://lumpen00.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-esperanto-tiene-un-caracter.html Fuente: Kaosenlared.net http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/103663/esperanto-tiene-caracter-igualitario-esencialmente-distinto-caracter-i (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) Discussion of how Esperanto is more egalitarian than English. Mentions how China approves of it; Cuba only mentioned once in passing. It seems hyping Esperanto falls to the Commies by default (gh, DXLD) EL HABLA DE LA PENÍSULA DE YUCATÁN Sr. Hauser: Esto aunque es un poco fuera de lo que es el DX creo que le ayudaría un poco a comprender el habla de esta región (pese a que no estoy muy instruído en el tema). Quería comentarle que no es el maya que tiene acento español, sino al revés, el español que tiene influencia maya; por ejemplo, ver http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Español_yucateco el cual es hablado principalmente en la zona rural y las clases bajas de las zonas urbanas; sin embargo, esta forma de hablar se refleja cuando se comunican en español con los demás aunque este estilo no es tan marcado entre los que nacimos en familias hispanohablantes. De igual forma durante la época del dominio español, los indígenas conservaron su apellidos aborígenes, de ahí que las familias mayahablantes (principalmente aborígenes o indomestizos) conserven su apellidos originales de su dialecto mientras que las familiar que directa o indirectamente descendemos de españoles (principalmente criollos, euromestizos o afromestizos) llevamos los apellidos "occidentales". Los apellidos mayas son principlamente monosilábicos y bisilábicos (por ejemplo: Pech, Canché, Cauich, Xool) y llaman mucho la atención de quienes visitan la zona. Las poblaciones rurales también llevan nombres mayas que a veces son difíciles de pronunciar hasta para los hispanohabalantes de aquí, pese a que estamos familiarizados con ellos (por ejemplo: Dzibichaltún) y nos hace gracia cuando alguna persona que no es de aquí trata de pronunciarlos, lo cual sucede siempre en los noticieros televisivos nacionales, aunque existe una pronunciación exacta en maya, en español existe una pronunciación aproximada que es la que leemos en letras de nuestro alfabeto latino ya que el actual maya carece de alfabeto con grafías propias. El habla del yucateco (o como dicen algunos, yucatanense) se ve influenciado por la fuerte presencia de vocablos de origen maya y la entonación del idioma maya hace que parezca en ocasiones que el habla tenga un tono gracioso y hasta parezca ridículo para quienes desconocen la cultura autóctona (experiencias propias). En la actualidad existe un interés del gobierno en sus diferentes niveles por tratar de dar más difusión al habla maya (yo sólo hablo español) y por ciertos sectores de la población también de ahí que se haya reflejado en la presencia de segmentos informativos por radio y TV en dicho dialecto de igual forma se ha reflejado en la música con la aparición de diversos géneros tales como música tropical (cumbia y salsa, que he tenido la oportunidad de mandarle los registros de audio de mis recepciones), jarana y hasta música electrónica (como es el caso de uno denonimado "Mestiza Mix" o "Jarana Mix") que combina los ritmos modernos de actualidad con la música tradicional de los bailes regionales típicos de aquí. No me extrañaría que uno de estos ritmos modernos les hayan sido llamado la atención en una de sus recepciones de señal. Espero que la información que le envío le haya sido de utilidad. Atentamente: (Ing. Civ. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, very interesting; says what we hear on Yucatán stations is Spanish with a Maya accent rather than Maya with a Spanish accent; o, that`s too oversimplified; read or translate it all above (gh) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Priest Pond PEI DX clips now on Web The 2009 Priest Pond DX-pedition is now history, and I have, after many many hours of editing and writing, finally got my best MP3 files up on my personal web site for your information and/or enjoyment. The address is: http://www.vy2hf.com/ppaudiofiles.html There are about 65 clips, including Greenland 570, Japan, Tadjikistan, Manx Radio (UK), Estonia, Greenland 720 interval signal, Israel 1287, BBC Merseyside, possible Greek pirate on 1720, KOMO Seattle, KNX Los Angeles, two from Vancouver, several from Calgary, etc. I also have some UNIDs and tentatives that I would appreciate some assistance with. Particularly my 1116 dawn catch (possible English TP?), my 1205.97, and my 1566 grabs (weak audio but maybe ID-able by a good ear with Asian DX experience). It is also possible I have mistaken Farsi for Urdu, or mis-identified one of the plethora of Arabic broadcasts. Please let me know what you think, and any ID suggestions or corrections would be very much appreciated. 73 (Brent Taylor, VY2HF, Stratford, PEI, Canada FN86, NRC-AM via DXLD) Brent, Thanks for posting the clips from the Priest Pond dx-pedition. What kind of receivers were you using? How would you compare the Priest Pond location with the NF location? (Dave Marthouse N2AAM, ibid.) I personally had an Icom R75 with Kiwa mods. Niel Wolfish had an AOR 7030, Bruce Conti had an SDR IQ, Chris Black had a Perseus SDR, and Phil had his Palstar R30. All of the recordings on my site were made by me with the R75. Antennas were a full size flag, a delta loop, a 1000' Beverage and a EWE. I have not DXed from Newfoundland seriously, so Bruce will have to comment on that. They would have a better shot at Brazil, but the rest would be fairly similar I think. 73 (Brent, VY2HF Sent from my iPod, ibid.) From having DXed lots in NF and from reading the loggings so far, I think things are reasonably similar for TA's but NF is closer to them and therefore a bit better. Of note is very good British local reception in NF. I am talking about listening to Brit locals that are less than a kW with traffic reports at 5:15 PM UK time in November. This is likely due to the UK being an easy 2 hops to NF. Priest Pond seems like it has real promise for TP's due to all that water to the north. NF is further from US QRM, but the situation in PEI and Canada in general has been nicely improved by the loss of some many Canadian AMers. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) The Beverage was good. I brought some poles from home for the 2nd day so Bruce could raise it from it's initial BoG config. That helped. With poor weather forecast for night 3 Bruce took it down early. The Beverage was not the best for the TP stuff in the a.m. of course. But it worked well in the late afternoons for low angle TAs. Once it got dark the playing field seemed to level out (Brent Taylor, ibid.) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ EDXC DUBLIN CONFERENCE REPORT Dear DX -- Friends all over the World! Please look at : http://www.edxc.org and you will find the Travel Report from EDXC Dublin Conference 2009, with all the beautiful pictures. The report was written by Anker Petersen from Denmark. Wishing you a pleasant reading, I remain, With very best regards (T i b o r S z i l a g y i, EDXC Secretary General, E --- Mail: tiszi2035 @ yahoo.com Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EUROPEAN DX COUNCIL 2010 Dr Ufuk Geçim, head of the German section of V. of Turkey spoke to delegates (in German) and said she hoped to welcome us to Ankara for the 2010 EDXC Conference (tentative dates 30 Sept-3 Oct 2010, but to be confirmed) (Alan Pennington, report on EDXC Conference Dublin 2009, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) MUSEA +++++ YE OLDE HURDY-GURDY MUSEUM of vintage radio, in Howth, near Dublin Site of a Marconi experimental tower; includes a pair of 1927 Andia speakers, disguised in the form of earthenware parrot ornaments so as not to be as intrusive in the late-1920s sitting-room! The museum has a website, http://ei5em.110mb.com/museum.html where you can view a slide show of the museum and also download a booklet about the museum and its history (from a 3-page illustrated article, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ DID YOU GET THIS ID? Check out my new web site. I got it up at last. This will show you what I had received over the years in the hobby. http://web.me.com/nomorework/DID_YOU_GET_THIS_ID/WELCOME.html I hope you like it 73s (Tom Yingling, WTFDA via DXLD) Lots and lots of TV IDs, some obviously analog DX, but others must have been gathered elsewhere, including station logos on trux, etc. Can`t figure out any organization to it, and not all shots are completely and correctly labeled, but just run the slideshows. Last I heard, he was in Maryland (gh, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ EARLY AMATEUR TELEVISION RECEPTION BBC Radio 4 has broadcast an item in their Making History show about the reception during the 1930's of USA TV transmissions in the UK by pioneering Radio Amateurs such as Douglas Walters G5CV Could a well-known 'radio ham' have picked up television signals from America in 1930, more than three decades before the Telstar satellite enabled regular transmissions across the Atlantic? That's the assertion of BBC Radio 4 Making History listener Geoff Gilham who discovered a letter to The Times from a Douglas Walters [G5CV] that claimed just that. With help from Iain Baird at the National Media Museum in Bradford and Giles Read G1MFG from the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), Making History's Dylan Winter pieced together the early history of TV and showed that Walters, a journalist with the Daily Herald, was one of several amateurs who helped shape the future of television. The 1920's and 1930's was a period in which many individuals and commercial organisations were playing around with television. There were problems providing sound and pictures at the same time and in viewing images too. However, early TV signals used both the Short Wave and Medium Wave radio bands and this meant that they could be picked up over considerable distances (particularly at night). The scientific reasons were little understood at the time, but it explains Walters success in picking up test transmissions from New York. The Making History show was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 15:00 BST on Tuesday October 6 and can now to heard on the web at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n0z4l The MP3 Podcast can be downloaded from http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mhistory/ The item on TV starts 12:30 minutes into the show. Early Television - Douglas Walters G5CV http://www.earlytelevision.org/g5cv.html Vintage video of BBC Televison received in New York http://www.southgatearc.org/news/september2009/bbc_television_received_in_new_york.htm Southgate http://www.southgatearc.org/news/october2009/bbc_radio4_early_amateur_television_reception.htm (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) I believe these early TV experiments with mechanical scanning were on the 2 MHz range (gh, DXLD) (also via Fred Waterer, dlxdyg via DXLD) I must admit the item started very well with Iain Baird, but then seemed to get 'lost' up Snowdon when actually instead of explaining how the 1930 US TV transmissions may have been picked up in Wales, the gentlemen first admitted the equipment they had taken on the train up the mountain wouldn't be any use for reception of the 1930's system of TV (no surprise there), then seemingly justified it by saying how clever their stuff was, anyway! What a put-down of history (Rog Parsons. BDXC 782. (Hinckley, Leics), BDXC-UK via DXLD) Also available as a downloadable mp3 (for how long?) from their podcast feed on this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mhistory/ (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UK INCREDIBLE RADIO TALES Richard Dillman, Transmitter Wrangler at KWMR and Chief Operator at Coastal Marine Station KSM, did a special episode of "Incredible Radio Tales" for KWMR during their fund drive. For those who were unable to catch it live it is posted on-line for downloading. It's a big file so it will take some time to download but it's available at the URL below. The show deals with everything from the strange sounds you can hear on radio to the KPH operator who was torpedoed twice during WWII. Enjoy. Message from "RD" forwarded by Bill Ruck, ruck (at) lns.com http://www.radiomarine.org/IRT/ LOUDNESS CONTROL to keep commercials soft if the preceding programming was soft, is in the works: http://tinyurl.com/Anti-Loudness SMART METERS Last week, the CGC Communicator presented three stories on San Diego Gas & Electric's new "Smart Meter" program. We failed to include the URL to the fascinating SDG&E technical slide show dated August 2009, so here it is: http://tinyurl.com/SDG-Etutorial (all: CGC Communicator Oct 12 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) RADIO WAVES THAT CAN 'SEE' PEOPLE THROUGH WALLS IANS 12 October 2009 Washington http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Radio-waves-that-can-see-people-through-walls/articleshow/5114562.cms Engineers have developed a wireless network of radio transmitters that can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people. It also might help retail marketing and border control. The method uses radio tomographic imaging (RTI), which can "see", locate and track moving people or objects in an area surrounded by inexpensive radio transceivers that send and receive signals. People don't need to wear radio-transmitting ID tags. RTI is different and much cheaper than radar, in which radar or radio signals are bounced off targets and the returning echoes or reflections provide the target's location and speed. RTI instead measures "shadows" in radio waves created when they pass through a moving person or object. "By showing the locations of people within a building during hostage situations, fires or other emergencies, radio tomography can help law enforcement and emergency responders to know where they should focus their attention," say study authors Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari of the University of Utah (U-U). Both researchers are in the U-U department of electrical and computer engineering - Patwari as an assistant professor and Wilson as a doctoral student. The study involved placing a wireless network of 28 low cost radio transceivers - called nodes - around a square-shaped portion of the atrium and a similar part of the lawn, says an U-U release (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? Hope not HF, probably SHF OTH RADAR SMOLENSK 10 KHZ WIDE Re: IARU Region 1 reports that the Russian over-the-horizon radar is active daily on 14440 kHz and is producing splatter plus and minus 110 kHz. The upper part of the amateur 20m band is affected, too. The location of the ABM2-radar is in the area of Smolensk. The German PTT has been informed. More information is available on their website http://www.iaru-r1.org (GB2RS News http://www.rsgb.org/news/0002.php via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) I'm curious how do they know it's a _Russian_ radar located _near Smolensk_? QTH info is often difficult to get even for VoR'sfrequencies (Sergei S., IL, ibid.) That's not a problem; Federal Network Agency even have close ties and collaboration with China's Measuring Center. -- according to usage of ultra-modern Wullenweber/ CDAA antenna gear, like at http://www.ccrmradio.be/index.php?page=stations-des-controle-europeennes BNA - Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur, Germany) Konstanz Zur Allmannshoehe 27 47 41'16.71"N 09 11'59.44"E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=47%C2%B041%2716.71%22N++09%C2%B011%2759.44%22E&sll=47.716388,9.175858&sspn=0.010871,0.027874&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Zur+Allmannsh%C3%B6he+27,+78464+Konstanz,+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg&ll=47.688347,9.200411&spn=0.00136,0.003484&t=h&z=19 or Finnish direction finding Jokela measuring station [now Jokioinen location ?] 60 34'02.19"N 24 59'44.38"E / 60 34'03.13"N 25 00'03.13"E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=60%C2%B034%2703.13%22N+25%C2%B000%2703.13%22E&sll=60.567197,25.001407&sspn=0.003828,0.013937&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=60.567536,25.000869&spn=0.003828,0.013937&t=h&z=17 AUT_Seyring Wullenweber / CDAA direction finding measuring antenna 48 19'40.78"N 16 28'42.12"E UK__Baldock monitoring station 51 59'58.25"N 00 07'45.66"W F__ANFR Rambouillet 48 32'58.14"N 01 47'36.47"E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=48%C2%B032%2758.14%22N++01%C2%B047%2736.47%22E&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.064233,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=48.549483,1.793464&spn=0.005156,0.013937&t=h&z=17 LE CENTRE DE CONTROLE INTERNATIONAL DE RAMBOUILLET (CCI) http://www.anfr.fr/index.php?cat=spectre&page=contro#4 Implantation des antennes de réception au CCI - ANFR see reception antennas at page 12 and 13 on - figure #5 http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&ved=0CBUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itu.int%2FITU-D%2Fhrd%2Ftc%2FITU-EC-Project%2FDOCS%2FF%2FAteliers%2FAtelier6_Ressources%2520Rares%2FConferences%2FDoc%25203.3%2520Presentation%2520de%2520la%2520DTCS.doc&ei=JPrRSoLxH4_0_Ab3vKHZAg&rct=j&q=ANFR+CCI++RAMBOUILLET&usg=AFQjCNH6KHiPACB4z0rqI29X6PsMjuk88w HNG_Tarnock monitoring control center 47 22'39.76"N 18 52'29.16"E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=47%C2%B022%2739.76%22N++18%C2%B052%2729.16%22E&sll=48.549483,1.793464&sspn=0.005156,0.013937&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=47.377711,18.874767&spn=0.005275,0.013937&t=h&z=17 ESP_El Casar 40 41'43.95"N 03 25'04.14"W http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=40%C2%B041%2743.95%22N++03%C2%B025%2704.14%22W&sll=40.703498,-3.423473&sspn=0.094478,0.222988&g=El+Casar&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=40.695542,-3.417817&spn=0.002953,0.006968&t=h&z=18 CENTRO DE MEDICIONES RADIOELECTRICAS http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1247426 BEL_EBU Jurbise monitoring and measurement center Receiving and Measuring Station (CEM) at Jurbise CEMA Centre d'Ecoutes et de Mesures, Jurbise 50 32'38.20"N 03 55'48.77"E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=50%C2%B032%2738.20%22N++03%C2%B055%2748.77%22E&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.808164,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=&ll=50.543944,3.930214&spn=0.005134,0.013937&t=h&z=17 http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_283-gressmann.pdf --- you may narrow a signal origin by CROSS BEARING to approx. 20 to 40 kilometers range. Wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) CCRANE Free Catalog - PDF & Audio format, October 2009-May 2009 URL: https://www.ccrane.com/ssl/catalog.aspx Free Catalog download https://www.ccrane.com/instruction-manuals/ccrane-catalog.pdf Catalog 20F Tape 1 Side A https://www.ccrane.com/audio/Catalog-20F-Tape1-Side-A.mp3 Catalog 20F Tape 1 Side B https://www.ccrane.com/audio/Catalog-20F-Tape1-Side-B.mp3 Catalog 20F Tape 2 Side A https://www.ccrane.com/audio/Catalog-20F-Tape2-Side-A.mp3 Catalog 20F Tape 3 Side B https://www.ccrane.com/audio/Catalog-20F-Tape2-Side-B.mp3 (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; CHINA; GERMANY; MALAYSIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW ZEALAND; POLAND; RUSSIA; SPAIN; TAIWAN; UK; USA WRMI; USA 11m PROPAGATION +++++++++++ HOW OUR WEATHER LEAKS INTO SPACE Interesting article from the 'New Scientist' - implications for Sporadic E? Very interesting - about how weather on earth could be affecting the state of the ionosphere. This must have links with the causes of Sporadic E. Good DX. Nick, Whitchurch, Hampshire Article posits a link between stratospheric warming and ionospheric activity. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427281.600-phantom-storms-how-our-weather-leaks-into-space.html?full=true&print=true (Skywaveslist via Curtis Sadowski, IL, Oct 10, WTFDA via DXLD) SPORADIC E DOUBLE HOP TVDX FROM SOUTH AMERICA See discussion under VENEZUELA [and non] TRANS-EQUATORIAL PROPAGATION SEASON BEGINS, CARIBE TO SOUTHERN BRASIL Amigos, finalmente ao menos uma FM caribenha foi ouvida por aqui. A ouvi depois das 0300 horas UT. A temporada de TEP 2009/2010 já começou aqui para minha alegria. O que acontece algumas vezes é as caribenhas começarem a chegar por aqui um pouco mais tarde (depois das 0300 horas UT). Depois os seus sinais começam a chegar mais cedo, entre 0000 e 0200 horas UT. A FM ouvida nos 96.7 MHz pareceu-me ser do Caribe, mas acho que devo ter ouvido a Antares FM (Arapongas/PR). O sinal não chegava muito bem por aqui para me permitir identificá-la. SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES 107.5 NBC, Kingstown, EE, 0311, 12/10, OM/OM, talks 45333 RFP UNID 96.7 Unid (Antares FM - pareceu-me ser caribenha - Nice FM), 0321, 12/10, mx (caribenha??) 45333 RFP 73! (Rubens Ferraz Pedroso (SWL1033B). Bandeirantes/ PR, Engenheiro Agrônomo. Membro do DXCB e do DX Clube do Paraná. Receptor: Sony ICF SW 7600G. Antena: RC3-FM, dxclubepr yg via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet levels at all latitudes during 05 - 10 October. Activity increased to quiet to unsettled levels on 11 October. A geomagnetic sudden impulse (SI) occurred at 11/0042 UTC (09 nT, as measured by the Boulder USGS magnetometer). ACE solar wind observations indicated the unsettled conditions and SI on 11 October were associated with the onset of a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS). The CH HSS commenced early on 11 October. Velocities increased to a peak of 463 km/sec at 11/1901 UTC. IMF changes associated with the onset of the CH HSS included increased Bt (peak 16 nT at 11/0558 UTC) and intermittent periods of southward Bz (minimum - 10 nT at 11/0636 UTC). FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 14 OCT - 09 NOV 2009 Solar activity is expected to be very low. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal levels through the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels on 14 October. Activity is expected to increase to quiet to unsettled levels during 15 - 16 October due to a coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS). Quiet conditions are expected during 17 - 23 October. Another round of quiet to unsettled conditions are expected during 24 - 25 October due to a recurrent CH HSS. Quiet conditions are expected during the remainder of the period :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2009 Oct 13 2021 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2009 Oct 13 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2009 Oct 14 70 5 2 2009 Oct 15 70 7 3 2009 Oct 16 72 7 3 2009 Oct 17 72 5 2 2009 Oct 18 72 5 2 2009 Oct 19 72 5 2 2009 Oct 20 72 5 2 2009 Oct 21 72 5 2 2009 Oct 22 72 5 2 2009 Oct 23 72 5 2 2009 Oct 24 72 8 3 2009 Oct 25 72 8 3 2009 Oct 26 72 5 2 2009 Oct 27 72 5 2 2009 Oct 28 72 5 2 2009 Oct 29 72 5 2 2009 Oct 30 72 5 2 2009 Oct 31 70 5 2 2009 Nov 01 70 5 2 2009 Nov 02 69 5 2 2009 Nov 03 69 5 2 2009 Nov 04 69 5 2 2009 Nov 05 69 5 2 2009 Nov 06 70 5 2 2009 Nov 07 70 5 2 2009 Nov 08 70 5 2 2009 Nov 09 70 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1482, DXLD) ###