DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-29, July 20, 2011
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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WORLD OF RADIO 1574 headlines:
*Anomalies from Andaman, Australia, Cyprus, Greece, Guatemala, India,
Ireland, Korea North, Madagascar, Malaysia, Netherlands, Romania, Sao
Tome, Serbia non, Tibet non
*More news about Belarus, Belgium and non, Canada, China, Indonesia,
Italy non, Libya, Mongolia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Sudan non,
Taiwan, Uganda, UK, USA
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1574, July 21-27, 2011
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [jammed, inaudible except on webcast]
Thu 1500 WRMI 9955
Thu 2100 WRMI 9955
Thu 2100 WTWW 9479
Thu 2130 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0330 WWRB 5051 [confirmed but not on webcast]
Fri 0500 WRMI 9955 [NEW; jammed but audible]
Fri 1430 WRMI 9955
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WRMI 9955
Sun 0400 WTWW 5755
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1530 WRMI 9955
Sun 1730 WRMI 9955
Mon 0300 WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Mon 1130 WRMI 9955
Mon 1530 WRMI 9955
Mon 2130 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 2130 WBCQ 7415 [canceled? But still on July 20]
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** ALASKA. 11870, 1254-, KNLS, Jul 9. Creation moment, then drums, and
sign-off announcements thanking the listener for listening, and
inviting them to listen again tomorrow. Followed by a vocal piece.
Very good reception.
9920, 1305-, KNLS, Jul 10. Is KNLS being jammed? There's a pulse noise
at 9920.77 making the Mandarin programming difficult, but audible
using LSB. Reception is only fair. If China is jamming KNLS, I was
unaware. [It`s a utility band, really --- gh]
9920, 1517-, KNLS, Jul 10. Perfect reception with S9+20 signal
strength with their final English program for the day. Excellent
strong modulation (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte
Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100
magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and
NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11870, KNLS Anchor Point, Jul 11 1008 - Good reception in English with
a report on travel, and travel websites.
9655, KNLS Anchor Point, Jul 11 1710 - Very strong reception of
Russian broadcast (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one
aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG
measured about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As
well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle
elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus
SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 13735, Radio Tirana; *1845-1853+, 19-July; Tinkle tune IS
noted at 1843; on with ID and complete SW sked; 1847 News from
Albania, with weather at end to commentary at 1852; all in English.
SIO=3+53- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-
tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my
receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Tirana, Shijak transmitter site, 13735 kHz, 2000 July 19, 33333,
English program start at 2000 with station ID and frequency info,
followed by newscast by man in English. Song by female artist at 2009.
Fair signal with static S-7 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina,
U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot longwire - 40 feet high,
shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS [and non]. Re 11-28: ``INDIA. At least in
the last two days AIR Port Blair has been off 4760 kHz which made me
thrilled hoping I could get Leh, but only Swaziland. What a
disappointment having waited for this situation! (Victor Goonetilleke,
Sri Lanka, 4S7VK, DXplorer July 4 via BC-DX 11 July via WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DXLD)``
Info by Jose Jacob: Enquiry with AIR Port Blair shows that currently
they are running at low power on SW (4760 & 7390 [daytime]) and that
some maintenance work is in progress there. By the way their MW Tower
fell down last year and they were on low power on 684 kHz also with
temporary arrangement. The station is not currently heard by me on MW
or SW. No luck with AIR Leh also on 4760 currently. 73 (Jose Jacob,
VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road,
Hyderabad 500082, India, July 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ANGOLA. 4949.8 RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 2158-2203, 09/7, talks,
music, TS, [unreadable] talks, possibly newscast; 35332, but extremely
low modulation level (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Argentina 1600-1700 AM [X-band]
Echo de menos una lista actualizada de las emisoras argentinas de la
banda X. Trato de identificar una en 1700 y acudo a Conexión Digital,
las últimas ocho ediciones, y no encuentro nada. Miro el sitio llamado
Amplitud Modulada y no figura ninguna en 1700. Pregunto a Google y me
sale con una AM1700 Radio Manantial de Vida, de La Plata. Pero ?es un
dato reciente? ?Hay más? ?Por qué no ofrecen ese servicio a título
permanente y regular en Conexión Digital? (Henrik Klemetz, Suecia,
July 20, condiglist yg via DXLD)
Para ayudar a financiar la edición bimensual de nuestra revista en
papel, Conexion GRA, editamos una lista completa y actualizadísima de
onda media de la Argentina con datos completísimos de cada emisora.
Promocionamos la misma en cada edición semanal de Conexión Digital.
Desafortunadamente tenemos muy pocos pedidos de la misma. Acá va un
segmento de lo que hay en la X Band actualizado a la fecha con los
datos del autor y su QTH para encargar Listado completo. 73
1600 a [SL] RADIO ARMONÍA
1600 a [SL] RADIO METROPOLITANA
1600 c [SL] RADIO BELGRANO
1610 a [SL] RADIO GUABIYÚ
1610 a [SL] RADIO LUZ DEL MUNDO
1610 a [SL] RADIO BUENAS NUEVAS
1610 c [SL] RADIO MARANATA
1610 b [SL] RADIO FÓSIL
1620 a [SL] RADIO SENTIR
1620 a [SL] RADIO VIDA ("Red de Vida")
1620 a [SL] RADIO ITALIA
1620 a (A) RADIO AM 1620
1630 a [SL] AM RESTAURACIÓN
1630 a [SL] RADIO SUPER SPORT
1630 c (A) [FP]
1640 b [SL] RADIO NUEVA BOLIVIA
1640 a [SL] HOSANNA AM 1640
1640 a [SL] RADIO BONAERGES
1650 a [SL] AM FÉNIX
1650 a LRI-227 ANTARES AM 1650
1660 a [SL] AM REVIVIR
1670 a [SL] RADIO BETHEL
1680 a [SL] RADIO HOSANNA TROPICAL
1690 a [SL] RADIO CRISTO LA SOLUCIÓN
1700 a (A) AM 1700 (Fantástico)
1710 a [SL] AM 1710 URQUIZA
Abreviaturas utilizadas:
[FP] Futuro Plan (Adjudicación)
[a] Emisora con emisiones regulares
[b] Emisora con emisiones irregulares o activa de forma esporádica
[c] Emisora reportada inactiva
(A) Emisora autorizada aún sin señal distintiva
[SL] Emisora Sin Licencia legalmente adjudicada
Nota:
Se agradece el envío de cualquier dato que tienda a actualizar,
modificar o suprimir la información suministrada en el presente
listado. Comentarios, consultas y sugerencias que quiera formular
relacionadas con este trabajo, deberá ser dirijida a la siguiente
dirección:
Marcelo A. Cornachioni
Alvarez Thomas 248
(B1832DNF) Lomas de Zamora
Buenos Aires
Argentina
(via Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.)
Henrik, El GRA mantiene actualizada una lista de emisoras de Onda
Media de la Argentina que ofrecemos a modo de servicio al oyente de
AM. Dado que no nos fue posible mantener actualizada nuestra Página
Web -solo el Blog- es que no pudimos hasta ahora publicar la nómina de
estaciones en la X-Band Argentina. Sin embargo, por este medio, a vos
te ofrecemos esta información que nos gustaría compartir con el resto
de nuestros amigos:
*X-BAND ARGENTINA:* *Actualizació n: 20-06-2011*
1600 KHz / Radio Emanuel [*]
QTH: Yatay 628, (B1804CMH) Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4232-7070 +
DG: Jorge A. Baragiotta
1600 KHz / Radio Armonía
QTH: Wenceslao Paunero 2915, (B1678DSG) Caseros, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4716-6495, 4716-2279 +
E-mail: armoniaam1600 @ arnet.com.ar +
Web: http://www.am1600armonia.com.ar +
DG: Carlos Héctor Lavoro +
1600 KHz / Radio Metropolitana / “La Radio”
QTH: Robertson 1249, 1º Piso "3", (B1838AIE) Luis Guillón, Buenos
Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4296-3396 +
E-mail: am1600 @ netmetro.com.ar +
Web: http://www.netmetro.com.ar +
DG: Germán Rubido +
Cxs: FM Metro / 96.9 MHz +
Obs: Ex Radio Ciudadana. Ex 1300, 940, 1530 KHz. +
1600 KHz / AM 1600 Región Centro
QTH: Montes de Oca, Santa Fe.
OP: Federación de Entidades Mutualistas de la Provincia de Santa Fe y
Mutual Edukar +
DG: Matías Torres +
1610 KHz / Radio Éxitos [*]
QTH: Madrid 3440, (B1712NMF) Castelar, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4692-3303 + / Oy: 4656-6356 +
E-mail: info @ am1610.com.ar +
Web: http://www.am1610.com.ar +
DG: Hernán A. Zabala +
Obs: Ex Radio Shopping (Moreno). Ex Radio Popular. Ex 1540 KHz.
1610 KHz / Radio Guabiyú
QTH: Soberanía Nacional 2945, (B1757KHY) Gregorio de Laferrere, Buenos
Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4457-3674, 4457-8712 +
E-mail: oyentes @ guabiyu1610.com.ar +
Web: http://www.guabiyu1610.com.ar +
DG: Nelson Vicente Scaramuzzino +
Obs: Tmp 1590 KHz
1610 KHz / Radio Luz del Mundo
QTH: Catamarca 2560, (B1847CXH) Rafael Calzada, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4219-1150 +
E-mail: radioluzdelmundo @ hotmail.com +
Web: http://www.radioluzdelmundo.com.ar (-)
OP: Ministerio Quíntuple El Amor de Dios +
DG: Jorge Antonio Daniel +
Potencia: 0.05 Kw
1610 KHz / Radio Buenas Nuevas
QTH: Dr. Luis Tozzini 40, (X6120DDB) Laboulaye, Córdoba. +
Tel: (03385) 42-6664 +
E-mail: radiobuenanuevas @ gmail.com +
Web: http://www.radiobuenasnuevas.com.ar +
DG: Pedro Saavedra +
Potencia: 0.5 Kw +
1610 KHz / Radio Maranata [*]
QTH: Hipólito Yrigoyen s/n esq. Andresito, (N3370) Puerto Iguazú,
Misiones. +
Tel: (03757) 42-2713, 42-2557 +
E-mail: icn.futuro @ hotmail.com
OP: Iglesia Evangélica Misionera Camino Nuevo +
DG: Hugo Eidinger +
Cxs: FM Futuro / 101.7 MHz + // Radio Baluarte (SW 6215 KHz) +
1610 KHz / Radio Fósil
QTH: Gral. José Gervasio Artigas 253, (S2013ALA) Rosario, Santa Fe. +
Tel: (0341) 455-4827 + // Oy: (0341) 15-654-3458 +
DG: Alfredo José Angeletti +
Web: http://www.radiofosil.com.ar +
Obs: Activa sólo durante los días Domingos desde las 2200 UTC +
Potencia: 0.2 Kw +
1620 KHz / Radio AM 16-20
QTH: Hipólito Yrigoyen 2629, (B7600DPG) Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (0223) 494-1428 +
E-mail: am1620 @ 1620laradio.com +
Web: http://www.1620laradio.com +
P: La Prensa S.A. +
OP: Difusora Austral S.A. +
Obs: Adjudicada por Decreto 1577/99
Potencia: 10/1 Kw
1620 KHz / Radio Sentir
QTH: Merlo, Buenos Aires.
Tel: (0220) 470-4265 +
DG: Daniel Barrientos - Estela Sánchez +
1620 KHz / Radio Vida / (Red de Vida)
QTH: Mariano Alegre 23, (B1842FSA) Monte Grande, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4281-4094 +
E-mail: contacte @ radiovidaam.com +
Web: http://www.radiovidaam.com +
OP: Iglesia Evangélica y Misionera “Paz y Esperanza” +
DG: Rolf Ricardo Bucj +
Cxs: FM 104.9 MHz [*]
Obs: Ex 1240 KHz. Ex QTH: Carlos Pellegrini 1251 (Monte Grande).
Potencia: 1 Kw
1620 KHz / Radio Italia
QTH: Gral. Martín Miguel de Güemes 5025, (B1603CUE) Villa Martelli,
Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4709-1172 +
E-mail: radioitalia.am @ gmail.com +
Web: http://www.amitalia.com.ar +
OP: It-Ar Producciones S.R.L. +
DG: Juan Berardis +
Obs: Tmp 540 KHz / Ex R. Eurolatina (1230 KHz).
1630 KHz / Radio Restauración
QTH: Av. Gral. Pedro Díaz 1460, (B1686IQH) Hurlingham, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4662-6387 +
E-mail: amrestauracion @ hotmail.com + // restauracionam @ hotmail.com
+
Web: http://www.radiorestauracion.com.ar +
OP: Iglesia Cristiana Evangélica “Piedra Viva” +
DG: Osvaldo Adrián Silva, Silvia Ferrara de Silva +
1630 KHz / AM Súper Sport
QTH: Bombero Ariño 1150, (B1834IAX) Temperley, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 5290-0075, 5290-0076 + // 4264-1152 (+)
E-mail: lasuper @ lasupersport.com.ar +
Web: http://www.lasupersport.com.ar +
OP: Orlando Tomás Giambuzzi
1640 KHz / Radio Nueva Bolivia -[irr]-
QTH: Av. Int. Francisco Rabanal 1465, PA, (C1437FPB) CA Buenos Aires.
+
Tel: (011) 4919-3659 + / 4919-2994 +
E-mail: radioboliviafm @ hotmail.com +
Web: http://www.radiobolivia.net +
DG: Jorge Luis Zelaya +
Obs: Ex Radio Bolivia. Tmp 1510 KHz.
1640 KHz / Hosanna AM 1640
QTH: Zufriategui 871, (B1765CKQ) Isidro Casanova, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4467-2468 +
E-mail: hosannaam1640 @ hotmail.com +
Web: http://www.radiohosannaam1640.com +
OP: Iglesia Pentecostal “Cristo El Rey” +
DG: Graciela Diez
1640 KHz / Radio Bonaerges [*]
QTH: Av. Santa Catalina 5330, (N3300PPO) Posadas, Misiones. +
Tel: (03752) 45-4425, 47-1304 +
OP: Iglesia Jesucristo La Roca Viva +
DG: Jorge Eidinger +
Cxs: FM 102.3 MHz +
1650 KHz / Radio Renacer [*]
QTH: Av. Hudson -Calle 893- Nº 1844, (B1879KWU) Quilmes oeste, Buenos
Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4212-8972 +
DG: Lorena Bravo
Obs: Ex 1560 KHz
1650 KHz / RDB - Radio de la Bendición [*]
QTH: Carlos Pellegrini -Calle 312- Nº 3048, (B1879DKX) Quilmes oeste,
Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4200-4416, 4280-3932 +
E-mail: info @ radiordb.com.ar +
Web: http://www.radiordb.com.ar +
DG: Raúl Darío Surmüller +
Cxs: FM 95.3 MHz +
1650 KHz / LRI-227 / Antares AM 1650 / “La Radio de la Familia”
QTH: Cjal. Manuel Martitegui 598, Fátima, (B1629JGL) Pilar, Buenos
Aires. +
Tel: (02322) 49-9899 +
OP: Radio Familia S.A. +
DG: Norberto Eugenio Chindemi +
Potencia: 1/0.5 Kw
1650 KHz / AM Fénix
QTH: Coronel Suárez 554, (B1834GHL) Temperley, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4244-1843 +
E-mail: amradiofenix @ hotmail.com +
Web: http://amfenix.webcindario.com +
Web: http://www.amfenix.ya.st +
DG: Juan Ignacio Grassini y Roberto José Cignoli +
Obs: Ex Radio Cóndor. Ex 1630 y Tmp 1520 KHz.
1660 KHz / AM Revivir
QTH-: Juan Sebastian Bach 3687, (B1765KKM) Isidro Casanova, Buenos
Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4694-6470 +
E-mail: radio @ radiorevivir.com + // ljrevivir @ hotmail.com +
Web: http://www.radiorevivir.com +
OP: Iglesia “Esposa de Jesús” +
DG: José Ramón Triulcio +
Obs: Ex 1260, 1650, 1680 KHz +
1660 KHz / Radio Esperanza [*]
QTH: Alejandro Volta e/ Vesalio y Dubalia, (B1763) Virrey Del Pino,
Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (02202) 49-3745 +
Cxs: FM 88.3 MHz +
1670 KHz / Radio Central [*]
QTH: Rawson 53, (C1182ABA) CA Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4983-6947, 4958-6831 +
E-mail: internet @ basilio.org +
Web: http://www.radiobasilio.com +
OP: Escuela Científica Basilio +
DG: Hilario Fernández +
Obs: Nuevo nombre: Radio Basilio ?
1670v KHz / Radio Bethel
QTH: Benito Pérez Galdós 688, Villa Fiorito, (B1821EON) Banfield,
Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4267-5194 +
OP: Iglesia Asamblea de Dios +
Obs: Ex 1640 KHz. / Anteriormente Radio Ciudad de Bánfield (1470 KHz)
y luego Radio Contemporánea (1530 KHz) +
Cxs: Frecuencia variable
1680 KHz / Radio Hosanna Tropical
QTH: Reconquista 27, (B1804CFA) Ezeiza, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4232-0321, 4389-1905 +
E-mail: canaanchanel @ hotmail.com (-)
Web: http://www.radiohosanna1660.com.ar (-)
OP: Centro Cristiano Internacional Nueva Jerusalem +
DG: Víctor Zabaleta Alcázar +
Obs: Ex Hosanna AM 1660. Ex 1660 KHz.
1680 KHz / Radio Jetro [*]
QTH: Magallanes 3136, (B1824PYB) Lanús Oeste, Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4267-1031 +
OP: Iglesia Jesucristo La Roca Viva +
DG: Viera Huberuk de Podpokrowny +
1690 KHz / AM 1690 Cristo la Solución
QTH: Av. Brig. Gral. Juan Manuel de Rosas 4357, (B1754FVB) San Justo,
Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4484-4517, 4484-7617 +
E-mail: contacto @ cristolasolucionsj.com.ar +
Web: http://www.cristolasolucionsj.com.ar +
OP: Ministerio "Cristo la Solución" (San Justo) +
DG: Alfredo Dimiro +
Cxs: FM 90.7 MHz [*]
Potencia: 1/0.25 Kw
Obs: Ex Radio Apocalipsis II. Ex QTH: Monseñor Bufano 3386, San Justo.
+
1700 KHz / Radio Cristiana Príncipe con Dios [*]
QTH: Salta 4198, (Banfield Oeste) Buenos Aires.
Tel: (011) 4693-4570
DG: Delia A. Parodi
1700 KHz / AM 1700
QTH: Montevideo 418, 12º Piso, (C1019ABJ) CA Buenos Aires. (+)
Tel: (011) 4373-4228 (+)
Fax: (011) 4373-4329 (+)
QTH (TXR): Tigre, Buenos Aires. +
OP: BMG Industrias del Disco S.A. +
DG: Oscar Kirovsky (+)
Cxs. Rtxn de Fantástico FM / 91.9 MHz (CA Buenos Aires) +
Obs: Adjudicada por Decreto 1577/99 -(Categoría V)-
1710 KHz / AM 1710 Urquiza
QTH: Av Triunvirato 4671, (C1431FBJ) CA Buenos Aires. +
Tel: (011) 4521-3931 +
E-mail: mensajes @ am1710.com +
Web: http://www.am1710.com +
OP: Grupo Educativo ESBA, Escuela Superior de Buenos Aires (Sede Villa
Urquiza, CF) +
DG: Marina Estela Palacios +
Cxs: Radio Milagros / FM 94.5 MHz + // C5C, TV Canal 5 Urquiza
Comunitario +
Obs: Ex AM 1700 (1700 KHz). Ex AM 1710, Radio Estudio ESBA. +
Potencia: 0.3 Kw +
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
*Abreviaturas utilizadas** :*
Cxs: Comentarios
DG: Director General o Propietario
FP: Futuro Plan
ID: Identificación
Obs: Observaciones
OP: Operada por ...
Oy: Teléfono/s para oyentes
P: Permisionario de la licencia distinto al DG
QTH: Dirección postal de la emisora
QTH (TXR): Ubicación del transmisor
Rpt: Reportada en xxx KHz
Rtxn: Retransmisión de una emisora o programación
Tel: Teléfono/s de la emisora
[i] Irregular
[R] Relay
[*] Emisora reportada inactiva
[+] Dato correcto y confirmado
(+) Dato posiblemente correcto
(?) Dato no confirmado
(=) Dato anteriormente correcto que se ha modificado
(-) Web o E-mail inactivo
(x) Web aún sin activar o en construcción
============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= =======
(Marcelo A. Cornachioni, *GRA*, ibid.)
** ASIA [non]. Frequency changes of Radio Free Asia:
Korean
2100-2200 NF 12070 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs, ex 12075
Tibetan
0100-0300 NF 7530 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 9365
1000-1100 NF 13775 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs, ex 15330
1100-1200 NF 11640 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs, ex 17815
1200-1300 NF 13840 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 17545
1300-1400 NF 11520 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 12025
1500-1600 NF 7530 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 11590
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 17 via DXLD)
Updated summer A-11 of Radio Free Asia:
Burmese
0030-0130 on 13820 15625 17835
1230-1330 on 7390 9335 13675
1330-1400 on 7390 9335 12140
1400-1430 on 7390 9335
1630-1730 on 9945
Cantonese
1400-1500 on 6025 7365
2200-2300 on 9720 11785
Chinese
0300-0600 on 13760 15120 15615 15635 17615 17855 21550 21580
0600-0700 on 13760 15120 15615 15635 17615 17855 21550
1500-1600 on 9455 9905 11540 11965 12005 13640 13675
1600-1700 on 5855 9455 9905 11540 11870 12005 13675
1700-1800 on 5855 7280 9355 9455 9540 9905 11870 13800
1800-1900 on 5855 7280 7355 9355 9455 9540 9690 11540 13800
1900-2000 on 1098 5855 7260 7355 7435 9355 9455 9875 9905
11785 13800
2000-2100 on 1098 5855 6140 7260 7355 7435 9355 9455 9905
11785
2100-2200 on 1098 5855 6140 7355 7435 9455 9905
2300-2400 on 7540 9535 11760 11785 15430 15585
Khmer
1230-1330 on 12140 15145
2230-2330 on 5840 13740
Korean
1500-1700 on 1350 5895 7210 7455
1700-1800 on 1350 5895 9975
1800-1900 on 1350 5895 7465
2100-2200 on 1350 7460 9385 12070
Lao
0000-0100 on 15545 15690
1100-1200 on 9355 15145
Tibetan
0100-0300 on 7530 9885 11695 15225 17730
0600-0700 on 17510 17765 21500 21690
1000-1100 on 13775 15435 21530
1100-1200 on 7470 11640 13830 15670
1200-1300 on 7470 11605 13830 13840 15670
1300-1400 on 7470 11520 11605 13830 15670
1500-1600 on 7530 9370 11585 11795
2200-2300 on 5865 7505 9880
2300-2400 on 5860 7505 9805 9875
Uyghur
0100-0200 on 9350 9490 11895 11945 17640
1600-1700 on 9370 9530 9555 11750
Vietnamese
1400-1430 on 1503 7520 9465 9715 11605 11680 12140
1430-1500 on 7520 9715 9805 11605 11680 12140
2300-2330 on 1359
2330-2400 on 1359 7520 11605 13740 15560
0000-0030 on 7445 11605 13740 15560
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 18 via DXLD)
[Annotations to parts of the above by Wolfgang Büschel, adding sites,
or noting changes:]
Burmese
0030-0130 13820IRA 15625(ex13865TIN) 17835SAI
Chinese
1700-1800 5855 7280 9355 9455 9540 9905 11870 13800(ex13625TJK)
1800-1900 5855 7280 7355 9355 9455 9540 9690 11540
13800(ex13625TJK)
1900-2000 1098 5855 7260 7355 7435 9355 9455 9875 9905
11785 13800(ex13625TJK)
Korean
1500-1700 1350# 5895TIN 7210IRK 7455TIN
1700-1800 1350# 5895TIN 9975IRA
1800-1900 1350# 5895TIN 7465TIN
2100-2200 1350# 7460MNG 9385TIN 12070(ex12075SAI)
{# 1350MNG replaced by 648 kHz Razdolnoe-RUS, half way between
Ussuriysk and Vladivostok, Russian FE. 648 kHz 1000 kW 230 degr
Srednyaya Zarya MW directional antenna, 25 masts at 2 kms length.
loc 43 32 06.30 N 131 55 07.30 E, wb.}
Tibetan
0100-0300 7530(ex9365KWT) 9885TJK 11695UAE 15225TIN 17730MNG
0600-0700 17510TJK 17765KWT 21500(vary21770TIN)? 21690UAE
1000-1100 13775(ex17750KWT) 15435TIN 21530TIN
1100-1200 7470MNG vary11640/17850?(ex17750KWT) 13830TJK 15670UAE
1200-1300 7470MNG 11605TIN 13830TJK vary13840/19000?(ex11590KWT)
15670TJK
1300-1400 7470MNG
vary 11520?/rather12025?/15230?/19000?(ex11590KWT)
11605TIN 13830TJK 15670TJK
1500-1600 vary 7530?/12070?(ex11590KWT) 9370TJK 11585TIN 11795UAE
2200-2300 5865KWT 7505TJK 9880SAI (del7470MNG)
2300-2400 5860KWT 7505KWT 9805UAE 9875TJK (del7470MNG)
(Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See TIBET
[non] 19000
** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, 1151-, Radio Symban, Jul 9. Actually measured a
little low, on 2368.488 kHz with Greek music. Fair to almost good
level. Precious little else heard around this time from the tropical
bands. Stronger past 1200 to good level, with nice ID at 1215 UT. A
lot more talk in Greek than I'm used to with the same male announcer.
Checked again the following morning (July 10) at 1201 and wow, what a
fantastic signal! Very strong with plenty of Greek announcements and
music. Great modulation too. Continues at very strong levels at 1324.
Difficult to believe that they're only 1 kW or less! (Walt Salmaniw,
Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a
30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual
were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
2368.5, Radio Symban, Jul 11 0753 - Surprising, but there they were,
already at good level so early during our night. Symban was heard at
best ever levels (often very good, near armchair levels) during this
visit to Haida Gwaii. Usual Greek music, but plenty of Greek talk as
well (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC
overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ,
while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured
about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used
a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated
about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell
Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2368.5, Radio Symban, 1248-1302, July 14. Songs in Greek; approaching
fair reception; MP3 audio with 2 minutes of Greek songs
http://www.box.net/shared/o2inntc1772rmpz59eho
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
2368.5, Radio Symban, 1250, July 19. Continues to be approaching fair
reception with Greek songs; 1301-1306 series of ads(?) or
announcements of some type.
July 20 from 1231 to 1311. Hard to think of this anymore as a
low powered station, with such decent reception. MP3 Audio at
http://www.box.net/shared/26dm8er1ag0pu4mz6f4f
with ID at 00:23 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K ABC Katherine NT, 1218, July 19. Fair; jazz;
BoH news, sports and weather; 1240 start of “Tony Delroy’s Nightlife”;
IDs and promos for ABC Darwin 105.7; // 2310 VL8A Alice Springs NT
and 2325 VL8T Tennant Creek NT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4910, VL8T Tennant Creek, NT, Jul 11, 0813 - Poor to fair reception.
Also noted VL8A, Alice Springs at the same time at same level, on 4835
kHz. Scheduled to switch to 90m [you mean 120: they do have alternate
frequencies on 90m, never? used --- gh] at 0830, but didn't check that
(Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC
overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ,
while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured
about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used
a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated
about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell
Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15415, July 20 at 0550, RA with ``what is a dingo?``
quiz for immediate responses from Asia, not // much stronger 15160 /
15240 on the Pacific service.
9710, surprised to hear RA English on here, July 20 at 1140, since
it`s supposedly scheduled only at 07-11 and 16-20 via Shep. Has live
broadcast of British parliament all-day debate over Murdoch; sounds
just like Question Time, constantly with rude noise interruptions. Is
// 9590, 9580, 9475, and instead of 9560, weakly on 9570, but prior to
CRI Cuban carrier on 9570, I think this may be a 9590/9580 mixing
product in the receiver if not the transmitter.
Per HFCC, including current info for ABC via
http://hfcc.org/data/a11/index.phtml
9560 is supposed to take over the 353 degree beam from 9710 at 1100,
so did they just miss the switch or is this a deliberate change?
9710 remained on: 1159 cut away from House of Commons, as ACI from
9715 Bonaire started, but by sidetuning, 9710- remained listenable for
1200 RA news, 1205 `Asia-Pacific` rather than back to London. Got some
more shut-eye, and at next check 1341, 9710 was *still* going with
promo for `Saturday Night Country`, then YL DJ talking about the UK
situation, and still nothing audible on 9560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, o
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello Glenn, Thanks for the note. I'm looking into this one. QSY is
automated at Shepp. so it could be possible for this to happen. We
will be watching the QSY 9710/9560 tonight (with manual intervention
if it fails) so should have an explanation tomorrow. I'll let you know
what I discover. Kind regards, (Nigel Holmes, RA, via DXLD)
9560, July 21 at 1213, RA is back here instead of 9710; Nigel Holmes
of RA says the automation may have failed to make the switch yesterday
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello Glenn, I was prowling around Andy Sennitt's RNW blog and noted
the link to your website so thought I'd have a look.
I was reading the one of the digests where you wrote at length about
the impact of Cyclone Yasi on FNQ and thought I might correct a minor
error there. The transmitter I used was indeed the "brand new"
Continental a 418G and it was programmed to run 9710 into the JR
rhombic (day) and 6080 into J6/005 (night). I dropped 13690/JR to PNG
and mounted 13630/AR to Pacific on the standby tx. The other two
Continentals are third-hand (AWR->CVC->RA) and are a 418E & 418F.
Kind regards, (Nigel Holmes, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Nigel, I think the article you saw must have been one of the AWR
Wavescan scripts by Adrian Peterson. I did not write it. In DXLD,
credits always follow the item/article in ( ). Sometimes also at the
top if it has a title. I`ll be interested to see what the story was
with the 9710 extension. Fortunately looks like no one else was on it
except maybe China domestic? Might have been a problem in your target
(Glenn to Nigel, via DXLD)
** AZORES. AÇORES, 1503, AFN, Base Aérea das Lajes, Terceira, 2245-
2256, 07/7, English, c&w menu as it only too often the case with them;
33432, QRM de E (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. 7280, presumed Belaruskaye Radio, Grodno, 0211-0229, July
11, listed Belarussian. W announcer with Russian sounding talk between
folksy/ballad type music; poor and wiped out by R. Farda-Wertachtal
s/on at 0229; very tentative // 7235 buried under noise (Scott R.
Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m
dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11930, Radio Belarus International (Minsk), 0359-0409, 7/14/2011,
Belarusian. Announcements by woman at 0359 mixing with low side
interference from Radio Japan via Bonaire. Pips on the hour. News by
man and woman plus field reporters. Poor to moderate signal strength
with fading. In the clear after Bonaire sign-off at 0400. Made on
Tecsun PL-380 with whip antenna (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, Cumbre DX
yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
11930, Radio Belarus, Jul 11, 0407 - This summer, compared to the last
few years has not resulted in any propagation from this station.
Tonight, at Rose Spit, it`s just barely there. Normally, in Masset,
it`s always propagated extremely well. In Victoria, I`m lucky to see
a trace on the Perseus waterfall (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida
Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs
employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central
Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length, while the latter
was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about
50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR
7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. More Photos of the Radio Belarus Transmitter site ---
After consulting with Wolfgang Bueschel about what kind of the towers
were in the pictures I put on #1848 (towers, not the TV or MW masts);
it became quite clear that ( as W.B. put it ): 'Only a former
transmission engineer from the Tx site near Kalodzicy can tell you the
true station purpose in that era.' But now thanks to Wolfgang, we can
add to our collections some of the photos of the Radio Belarus
Shortwave transmission masts (with minimal doubt about it!), located
more northerly from Kalodzicy (exact coordinates are 53 58 21.34N and
27 46 49.52E)
[RBL SW site]
[Kolodishchi3]
[Kolodishchi4]
(Lev Lytovchenko, Canada, July 16, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** BELGIUM. Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal to close
The Flemish government has reached agreement on a new strategy for VRT
for the next five years. The Flemish public broadcaster will launch a
full national TV network aimed at teens. Currently two services share
the second channel - Ketnet (mainly for children) up to 2000, and from
2000 Canvas (with news, science, history and sport). From 2013, these
will become two separate networks, and Ketnet will expand to show
programmes aimed at teenagers after 2000. Canvas will also be
available for more hours per day, providing an improved service to
seniors who are not so eager to stay up for late night programmes.
Rival commercial channels are not happy about VRT’s plan to enter the
youth market. Peter Quaghebeur, general manager of the Femish Media
Society (VMMa) which represents the commercial broadcasters, said:
“VRT has no need for a third channel. They already have a market share
of more than forty percent.”
The advent of a third television channel for VRT has been mooted for
some time. “We have already protested against it from the beginning,
but the Flemish government clearly did not take into account the
concerns of the commercial broadcasters,” says Mr Quaghebeur. There
are already two commercial networks aimed at teens.
Besides the third television channel, VRT is also getting a bigger
budget. From 2012 the VRT will receive 293.4 million euros a year.
This is 18 million euros more than at present.
Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (RVi), the Flemish Worldwide service,
will disappear, but as an alternative Radio 1 and Radio 2 will be
broadcast worldwide via satellite, and all radio channels will also be
available worldwide via the Internet. It’s not yet clear exactly when
RVi will close.
(Sources: RS/RadioWereld.NL)(July 18th, 2011 - 11:32 UTC by Andy
Sennitt, Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
4 Comments on “Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal to close”
#1 ruud on Jul 18th, 2011 at 14:36
The question is, will they close 927 AM.
#2 Will Fallon on Jul 18th, 2011 at 17:11
A better question might be, will anybody even notice?
#3 Jonathan Marks on Jul 18th, 2011 at 17:48
The press release from VRT says they will also develop a plan to
inform non-Dutch speakers (presumably living in Flanders) about
Flemish current affairs and culture. They have already been
experimenting with this for years since RVI English closed.
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english
#4 Jonathan Marks on Jul 18th, 2011 at 17:58
I see the English version of the page is different. It says the expat
service will launch at the end of the year.
http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/110716_VRT_third_channel
(MN blog comments via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
?? For SWLs, RVi has been gone for a few years. All that was left was
MW 927, per WRTH, mostly carrying domestic service relays (Glenn
Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
** BELGIUM [non]. FRENCH GUIANA, 17755, 2123-, TDP Radio Disco Palace,
Jul 10. Precious few DRM broadcasts anymore. Found this one with its
same monotonous disco music. Big question is: why? I would think that
varying the music genres would pique more interest than this stuff!
100% copy with SNR of 28.9 dB. A/K indices are not very favourable
today with fairly high A index (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii
(Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BERMUDA. 7/18 Es Bermuda > SC
7/18 Es - Canadian ch 2-6 in/out all morning. [presumably EDT = UT -4]
1300 ZBM-89.1 BM Hamilton - ID (883)
1300 ZFB-94.9 BM Hamilton - Power 95 FM (883)
I was trying for TX as Pat Dyer was receiving local 94.3, but instead
got Bermuda on the back of the antenna. Maybe TX DXers could get
double hop to Bermuda? There's lots of skip clouds out there now (Fred
Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, 33.21756N 79.95798W, KJ4BUG Grid FM03AF,
WTFDA via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.46, Radio Pio Doce, 0025-0205, July 16, Spanish talk.
Bolivian music. “Pio Doce” song at 0100. Poor to fair. QRM at 0146
when a strong Okeechobee carrier came on the air on 5950. Very
difficult copy after 0146 due to Okeechobee on the low side and Radio
República on the high side (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
Thanks to Ron Howard and Brian Alexander at NASWA for this tip:
5952.46, Radio Pio Doce at 0036 July 20 in a local dialect (Aymara and
Quechua listed) with local vocal music and a man and woman with
possible religious talk and into a man with brief excited talk with
crowd responses from 0040 then an interview of a woman by a man at
0043 and back to local vocals at 0046 and a man and woman with talk
with mention of “Radio Pio” at 0051 then a child with talk from 0055
then time pips at 0100 and into local instrumental music with a woman
with definite ID - Poor – best heard in LSB on an Alinco DX R8T and a
loaded inverted vee dipole (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3,
cumbredx yg via DXLD)
5952.38, Radio Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte, 0207-0220*, July 20 with some
Bolivian music; suddenly off in mid-song without the usual full sign
off format; poor, but the signal was improving (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, *0857-0925, July 14, sign on
with choral music and Spanish talk. Flute IS at 0858:25, followed by
opening Spanish ID announcements at 0859. Santa Cruz song at 0900.
Ads, jingles. Bolivian music. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening
Digest)
** BRAZIL. I always get excited when I can hear at least, some of the
Brazilians big guns around mid-Summer. Here's a sample from last night
where I could hear São Paulo's ZYK694, Rádio Globo on 1100 kHz after
phasing out semi-local WTAM, Cleveland. Distance is 8200 km / 5095
Miles:
http://www.quebecdx.com/mp3/brazil_radioglobo_1100a.mp3
With the exception of ZYJ458 1220 (R. Globo, Rio de Janeiro) and
ZYK522 1000 (R. Record, São Paulo), I wonder if there are other fairly
"reachable" Brazilian DX targets from the North East? (Sylvain Naud,
Portneuf, QC, http://www.quebecdx.com July 19, IRCA via DXLD) NE of
what? Québec is in SE Canada, hi. Or did you mean NE Brasil (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 13/07/11 - Secretaria atualiza dados de outorga de
radiodifusão --- Olá pessoal, O PY3FF Rafael Haag, via twitter,
compartilha esta notícia interessante e fonte de dados de emissoras BR
http://www.mc.gov.br/radiodifusao/dados-de-outorga
http://www.mc.gov.br/noticias-do-site/23587-130711-secretaria-atualiza-dados-de-outorga-de-radiodifusao
(Huelbe Garcia, Brasil, 20 July, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
Updated government info about broadcasting license grants (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 3375.4, RADIO MUNICIPAL. São Gabriel de Cachoeira, Brasil.
2318-2340 julio 16. Anuncios comerciales. " ..a Rádio Municipal de São
Gabriel de Cachoeira informa..." comunicado (Rafael Rodríguez R.,
Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, -Equipo Winradio G303I, Antena Dipolo de 12
metros, más en http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/ condiglist yg via
DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4915.03, Radio Daqui, 0925-0935, July 14, Portuguese
religious music. Portuguese announcements. // 6080.02. Both
frequencies weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** BRAZIL. 4845.2, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2231-2251, 08/7,
songs; 44343, CODAR QRM. Sometimes R. Cultura leaves an empty carrier,
on the occasions the audio seems to be fed via a poor telephone line.
5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2119-2132, 12/7, interview in
program Amigo da Terra, songs; 25331, \\ 6135 (useless here due to
QRM), 9629.9 (useless due to their extremely low modulation level) &
11855 (fair).
5035.03, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2219-2240, 11/7, talks, infos,
ballads; 24321, QRM de R. Aparecida on 5035.
5990, R. Senado, Parque do Rodeador DF, 2143-2205*, 12/7, long,
exalted speech by a lady senator, ID+fqs+closing announcement prior to
2200 when they're supposed to s/off, but A Voz do Brasil was fed and
remained on till 2205; 55433.
9629.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2118-2129, 12/7, unreadable, too
weak modulation; 34433, adj. QRM. As in many similar circumstances
this is reflecting their carrier. Parallel to 5035, 6135, 11855.
11915, R. Gaúcha, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2153-2158, 17/7, foot/ball match
report; 22431, QRM de ARS. One's able to get some of their signal by
using either L or USB, otherwise the ARS signal ruins reception
completely.
15190, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2217-2235, 07/7, A Voz do
Brasil; 34443, QRM de Family R in Portuguese, also very strong, but
separable thanks to using different Beverage antennae (Carlos
Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6010.01, Radio Inconfidência, 0045-0100, July 21, local Brazilian
ballads. Portuguese talk. Poor. Weak with adjacent channel splatter.
// 15189.98 - very weak but in the clear after WYFR 0045 sign off
(Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** CANADA. 1610, CHHA, ON, Toronto, with classical music & Spanish
announcements, mention of Radio Canada at :58 but they kept cutting
out during announcements! Annoying! 253+43, 2041-2101 10/Jul
1650, CINA, ON, Mississauga, with Indian “pop” music & announcement
block in Hindi & English at :08 both mentioning Canada with local ads
and in English mentioning this station is for “people who are proud to
be South Asian” & SID for “CINA Radio” (with CINA pronounced “See-
na”), into more Hindi pop music. Kinda fadey but peaking at 35443+,
1905-1910 10/Jul
1690, CHTO, ON, Toronto, with MoTown pops to ToH, then into Greek news
without anything resembling an ID, read by an OM at ToH. 2+4+443+ but
occasional deep fades. 1950-2005 10/Jul. Greek music at recheck 2027
and English (with Greek accent) announcer taking a call and talking
about Serbian Canadians until :37 when they went back into Slavic
language/Greek? and mention of Toronto, by YL at :38. Echo ID of
station name (not call) that I couldn’t really catch! 2027-2041 10/Jul
(Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued July 18 via
DXLD)
** CANADA. 6924.66, Radio True North, Jul 11, 0352 - Pirate
broadcaster at very good level playing, Sweet Dreams (are Made of
This) by the Eurythmics. Remarkably stronger than I`ve heard them in
past weeks, and continuing to boom in at great levels (S9+20) in
Victoria. Alternate frequency occasionally 6305 (Walt Salmaniw, Rose
Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only
DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was
more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length,
while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active
antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers
used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNIDENTIFIED
** CANADA. 6030, CFVP, Calgary, Jul 11, 0447 - Obviously back on the
air with C&W music at good/very good level. 'AM 1060' ID at 0449
(Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC
overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ,
while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured
about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used
a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated
about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell
Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UT Monday
without CubaRM
6030, Calgary - CFVP relaying CKMX (AM 1060). Monday (UT) with no R.
Martí and no Cuban jamming; nice to finally find the jamming off, but
now with QRM from Radio Oromiya [see ETHIOPIA] from their *0323 to
their fading out by 0420; Calgary weaker than last Monday; 0320 to
0435, July 18; coverage of the Calgary Stampede’s Rangeland Derby; C&W
songs (Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John”, Del Reeves “Girl On The Billboard”,
etc.) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. CHADE, 6165, Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, Gredia,
2221-2229*, 07/7, French, news bulletin, pops, announcements and
national anthem at closure; 54433, overmodulated, adj. QRM de CRI in
Portuguese on 6175 via some Euro relay.
6165 ditto, 1348-1438, 10/7, [unreadable] talks, vernacular at 1430;
15331, but improving (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6165, RNT, *0428, July 20 on with IS; then National Anthem; in French
with African Hi-Life music; mixing with Zambia; 0442 tune out (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), 1230-1247, July 14. Multi-
language IDs (“FM 96.4 Beibu Bay Radio”); in Vietnamese; “Road to
health”; multi-language series of “Hello B-B-R”; MP3 audio
http://www.box.net/shared/erv3hzr9oe5km68q77hi
Fair; now in the clear without Ozy Radio QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR RTC registrations [believed to be new, or at least new
site specifications in HFCC]
Chengdu Chinese
6060 1000-1515 43S CDU 50 358 0 141 Zho
6060 2155-0135 43S CDU 50 358 0 141 Zho
7225 1000-1515 43S CDU 50 0 0 925 Zho
7225 2155-0135 43S CDU 50 0 0 925 Zho
Hailar Chinese
3900 0900-1440 33SW HLR 10 0 0 925 Zho
3900 2130-0700 33SW HLR 10 0 0 925 Zho
4750 2000-1730 33SW HLR 10 0 0 925 Zho
6080 0935-1440 33SW HLR 10 0 0 925 Zho
6080 2150-0530 33SW HLR 10 0 0 925 Zho
Lanzhou ?Tibetan?
3990 0350-0650 43N LAN 50 0 0 925 Bod?
3990 1020-1310 43N LAN 50 0 0 925 Bod?
3990 2250-0100 43N LAN 50 0 0 925 Bod?
Nanjing Chinese
5860 1400-1800 44S NJG 100 161 201 Zho
(ITU registrations July 8 via BC-DX 17 July via DXLD)
** CHINA. 9705, Voice of Pujiang-Shanghai, 1254, 7/13/11. Poor at
tune-in with woman speaking in Mandarin; song at 1257; chime-like TS
and announcement by woman at 1300 and back to talk by a male voice;
still audible with talk at 1315. Thanks to Ron Howard, Glenn Hauser,
and Mauno Ritola for help with this log (Jim Ronda, Tulsa, OK, NRD-
545; R-75 + PAR-SWL, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
** CHINA. 11765, 1410-, CRI, Jul 9. No sign of KNLS, but instead CRI
in English with several sites with slight delay (as opposed to
long/short path echo). Good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida
Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree
large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my
Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15600, July 18 until 1327* a bit of Chinese music, not Firedrake and
off. Scheduled as CRI via Kunming in Malay at 1230-1327.
13590, July 20 at 1149, glib announcers in English and music I at
first assumed were from CVC Zambia, but 1154 ID as CRI `Beyond
Beijing`, 1155 into Chinese Studio, ``I want to learn Chinese; it can
be fun!``. This buffer often gets cut off before finished as
transmitter switching requires. Must be frustrating for students.
Lusaka is registered here all the way from 06 to 20 UT, 100 kW, 315
degrees aimed at Michigan, but no sign of it now; while CRI is 500 kW,
193 degrees from Beijing site, way off-target here but still easily
listenable; not much else propagating above 12 MHz this early except
lo-latitude Guiana French, Cuba and close-hop Canada (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7990, CHINA, Firedrake, 7/12, 1000 UT, alone on
the band, and mixing with a co-channel "bonker" station (73 and "goood
listening" from El Mirage, AZ ! Rick Barton, Drake R-8; Palomar Loop,
outdoor slinky; Hammarlund HQ-180A, HQ-200; 75' Inverted L, Random
wire, ABDX via DXLD)
11500, "Firedrake" music station, July 16, 1130. Fair. only one other
than a // on 14700.
13800, Firedragon music jammer 7/18, 1730, good with usual. Couldn`t
find any others at this session.
16100, Firedrake music station 7/19, 1330. Fair with powerhouse // on
nearby 15970. Also heard //s on 7990, 13920, 14700.
12279, "Firedrake" 7/21, 1030. VG, and only one heard during this
bandscan. 73 and Good Listening.......! (Rick Barton, El Mirage,
Arizona, Hammarlund HQ-180A, HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor slinky, 70'
inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Probably typo: 12270
Firedrake July 15, all //:
11500, fair at 1227
12175, good at 1228. New frequency never reported before in DXLD, but
12180 has been, against SOH jumparound. In 11-21, we had it April 18
on 12180, and at that time Aoki was listing it on 12175 i.a., via
Tajikistan. Current Aoki only shows 12165 and 12190 for SOH and not
during this semihour. They are flexible. 12175 used to be the only
SWBC frequency from Iceland, long ago. And the dirty spur from Brasil
11765 used to show up around 12175.
12600, very good at 1230
14700, very good at 1231
14970, very good at 1232
15670, good at 1246, even atop CNR1 jamming; at 1235 the FD was NOT on
16100, fair-good at 1235
Firedrake July 16 found some anomalies; first time group before 1301:
11500, fair at 1257; no 12`s at this time
11980, fair at 1258; no 10-9-8-7`s at this time. 11980 is an unusual
frequency reminding us to search for FD just as thoroly inband as
outband. This lasted past 1300 until about 1300:15, when switched to a
few words of Chinese, and a bit of other music until 1300:20*. Then
another very weak signal from algo was uncovered.
Why would FD be on 11980? HFCC condensed shows:
11980 1200 1300 49,54W KUN 150 177 270311 301011 Eng CHN CRI RTC
11980 1200 1300 18 WOF 125 45 080711 301011 13650 Eng G PRW BAB
Possibly a switching error at Kunming, putting FD on instead of CRI
English?? Tough luck for Poland. Note also the second entry effective
8 July: there must have been some change, possibly insignificant,
since Poland`s English was already on 11980 for A-11. Aoki does not
have anything additional on 11980 until 1300 accounting for jamming.
13920, very good at 1250
14700, very good at 1251. While listening to this one, noted a quick
break at 1251:47, and then a change in the music. This rough edit
seems to be a standard feature of the current playbacks, often heard
before on any frequency.
14970, fair at 1252
15970, good at 1252
16100, very poor at 1255, providing BFO for some SSB 2-way, presumed
maritime; this happens very rarely: FD QRMing utilities despite all
the out-of-band frequencies employed by SOH and FD.
Second time group, 13-14 UT:
11500, fair at 1345
12980, good at 1343
13920, very good at 1342
14700, very good at 1341
14970, good at 1340
15430, fair at 1328 until 1330:05*! Normally this *starts at 1330, vs
V. of Tibet via UAE; has its schedule changed? Nothing heard after
1330.
16100, poor at 1338; no ute QRM now
BTW, S. Handler`s article about Firedrake, updating and expanding the
one in July NASWA Journal, appears in the latest DXLD:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1128.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, A couple of interesting Firedrakes today, 15230 and 15700.
Got a late start this morning.
11500 Fair 1328 and 1349
12180 Fair 1328
12980 Fair 1349
13920 Good 1329 and 1350
14700 Good 1329, 1350 and 1426
14970 Good 1329, 1348 and 1423
15230 Fair 1358
15275 Fair 1348 and Weak 1426
15700 Fair-Good 1424
15545 Good 1330 s/off shortly thereafter
16100 Fair 1328 and 1348
(S. Handler, IL, July 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake July 17:
16100, JBA at 0454; only one audible during the ChiCom noon hour
11500, good at 1250; rough break in music for several sex at 1251;
good at 1335
11980, at 1247 very poor in English, must be CRI Kunming as scheduled,
// 9760; no Firedrake here unlike 24 hours earlier until 1300*
12980, good at 1252, good at 1335
13920, good at 1333; none in the 14`s now
14700, very good at 1254
15275, poor at 1359
15430, very good at 1329-1330 like 24 hours earlier. Might have been
something underneath, but not during 1330-1330:25* open carrier or
afterwards
15520, very good at 1358; not on earlier in hour
15670, FD poor under CNR1 jamming at 1255; 1331 now it`s over the CCI
from CNR1; and at 1358 good over CNR1 (with victim far underneath)
Firedrake July 18, first during ChiCom post-noon hour:
15970, JBA with flutter at 0524
16100, very poor with flutter at 0527
16980, JBA with flutter at 0527
Before 1300:
11500, fair at 1253
12980, fair at 1254
13130, good at 1256
14700, fair-good at 1257
15545, poor at 1258
15900, poor at 1259
16100, good at 1259
After 1300: since 15430 had been heard past two days until 1330* I
tuned here to try to catch it coming on. Certainly not on during first
few minutes of semihour, but it turned out that the signal was not
strong enough on second receiver with indoor antenna to catch my
attention whenever it oncame. At 1327 check it was already on, until
1330* off immediately
15545, very poor-poor at 1327, vs carrier on 15542
1330-1400:
16100, poor-fair at 1331, fair at 1359
15970, good at 1331, 1358
15900, fair at 1331, poor at 1358
15520, fair at 1358; down from 15545 vs V of Tibet earlier
13830, poor-very poor at 1333; none in the 12`s or 14`s now
12980, poor at 1356, not earlier in semihour
11500, poor at 1336
Firedrake July 19, first at midday in China:
16100, fair at 0516: only one heard 12-18 MHz
Before 1200 UT:
7990, trying to detect here under TADIL-A bonker at 1158, but not
11500, fair at 1158
12270, fair at 1158
12980, JBA at 1158 [not 1258 as typoed in original report, of course]
14700, poor at 1159
14970, poor at 1158
Before 1300 UT:
11500, poor at 1257
12980, poor at 1257
13920, poor at 1255
14700, fair at 1255
14970, poor at 1255
15900, good-very good at 1254
16100, very good at 1253
16980, good at 1253
After 1300 UT:
11500, very poor at 1329
13920, very poor at 1327
14700, poor at 1326
15430, unlike previous two days, no FD here before 1330; see CYPRUS
15545, fair at 1324
15970, good at 1325; no 15900 now
16100, very good at 1326
Firedrake July 20, before 1200:
11500, JBA with flutter at 1146
12600, very poor with flutter at 1147, no others audible up to 18 MHz
Before 1400:
16980, poor with heavy flutter at 1331
16100, fair at 1328
15970, poor with flutter at 1331
15430, poor at 1329-1330* -- it`s back
13920, fair at 1332; none in the 14`s or 12`s
13130, good at 1333
11500, fair at 1335
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Two new Firedrake frequencies this morning July 20th
15520, Fair 1341 previously unheard frequency in the A11 season
17575, Weak 1416 s/on. Unusual to catch a sign on especially for a
previously unheard frequency in the A11 period. Fair at 1427
Today's Firedrake monitoring - July 20, 2011
11500, Weak 1156 nothing lower
12270, Fair 1157
12600, Fair 1156
13130, Weak 1340
13920, Fair 1340
14700, JBA 1426 and 1455
15520, Fair 1341
15670, Weak 1341 also with CNR1 Mandarin audio jamming RA
15795, Weak s/on 1416 then fair 1427
15970, Weak 1342, 1428, JBA 1458
16100, Fair 1342
16980, Fair 1343
Nothing Higher (S. Handler, IL, July 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I had 15520 on July 18; see above. The ones 15.5-15.6 jump around so
much, that sooner or later could occupy every 5-kHz step therein (gh)
Firedrake July 21; propagation quite poor. OSOB on 16m was Chile
17680:
16980, JBA at 1236
16100, JBA at 1236
15900, poor at 1233
14700, poor at 1230, seems to be mixing with algo, Sound of Hope?
13130, very poor at 1232
12980, fair with flutter at 1233
11500, fair at 1233
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 11605, CHINA/N MARIANAS, China broadcasting CNR-
1’s Mandarin broadcast as a jamming tool against Radio Free Asia in
Tibetan (via Tinian per HFCC), 1240-1242, 7/5. China on top-Fair, RFA
underneath-Poor. Same heard 1248 on 7/12. China on top and RFA
underneath. (Handler-IL)
11665, CHINA/TAIWAN, Radio Taiwan International, 1125, 6/30, in
Mandarin being jammed by another Mandarin broadcast possibly but
unconfirmed China’s CNR-1. On July 2 at 1222-1245 Mandarin with heard
two female presenters talking, music, and also male and female
presenters talking. Good. On 7/6 1210-1215 China using CNR-1’s
Mandarin broadcast to jam Radio Taiwan International’s Mandarin
broadcast. China on top-Good with Taiwan underneath-Fair. (Handler-IL)
11785, CHINA/THAILAND, 1205-1207, 7/5. China broadcasting CNR-1’s
Mandarin broadcast as a jamming tool against the VOA in Mandarin (via
Udorn per HFCC) China on top-Fair, VOA underneath-Poor. (Handler-IL)
11805, N MARIANAS/CHINA. VOA (via Saipan per HFCC), 1323-1325, 7/12,
in Mandarin. VOA on top (Good) being jammed by CNR-1 in Mandarin
underneath (Fair). (Handler-IL)
11825, PHILLIPINES. China broadcasting CNR-1’s Mandarin broadcast as a
jamming tool against the VOA in Mandarin via Tinang, 1210-1212, 7/5.
VOA on top-Fair with China underneath-Poor. (Handler-IL)
11990, CHINA/N MARIANAS. China broadcasting CNR-1’s Mandarin broadcast
as a jamming tool against the VOA in Mandarin (via Saipan per HFCC),
1206-1219, 7/5. VOA on top-Fair. China underneath-Poor. Also 6/30
with VOA 1128 via Saipan in Mandarin being jammed by CNR-1 also in
Mandarin. Jamming on this freq is every day. 6/30. Also on 7/8 CNR-1
Mandarin was being used to jam VOA’s Mandarin Broadcast from 1130-1153
(Handler-IL)
12040, PHILLIPINES/CHINA. China broadcasting CNR-1’s Mandarin
broadcast as a jamming tool against the VOA in Mandarin (via Tinang
per HFCC), 1221-1224, 7/5. VOA on top-Good with China underneath-Poor.
(Handler-IL)
13830, CHINA. Using the broadcast of CNR-1 in Mandarin to jam the
broadcast of Radio Free Asia in Tibetan, 1144, 6/30. This jamming can
be heard almost every day and sometimes CNR-1 is joined in its jamming
by Firedrake. (Handler-IL)
14700, TAIWAN. Sound of Hope, 1537, 7/3, in Mandarin. In the clear
with no jamming. Weak (Handler-IL)
15115. N MARIANAS/CHINA. China broadcasting CNR-1s Mandarin broadcast
to jam the VOA’s Mandarin broadcast, 1306, 7/4. Also 7/10 at 1302 VOA
(via Saipan per HFCC) ton top with female presenter speaking Mandarin
(Good) being jammed by CNR-1 in Mandarin underneath with male
presenter (Fair) (Handler-IL)
15330, CHINA. Using CNR-1 Mandarin broadcast as a jamming tool, 1305,
7/4. The only user scheduled on this frequency at this time is the BBC
in Uzbek. Also the same heard at 1307 on 7/12. CNR-1 heard on top with
station (unid) playing a song underneath. (Handler-IL)
15480, CHINA. China National Radio CNR-1 in Mandarin, 1220-1245, 7/6.
This frequency is an excellent source to use to compare to the
Mandarin audio being used to jam VOA, RFA, AIR and other stations.
(Handler-IL)
15670, CHINA. Using the Mandarin broadcast of CNR-1 and also using
Firedrake’s musical jammer, jamming the broadcast of Radio Free Asia
in Tibetan, 1129-1200, 6/30. At 1159:55 Firedrake music stopped and
was immediately followed by a series of time pips and at 1200 CNR-1
audio in Mandarin broadcast by the Firedrake transmitter. On 7/6 1220-
1223 China using the Mandarin program of CNR-1 to jam the Tibetan
broadcast of Radio Free Asia. Only CNR-1 was being used today, not
Firedrake. (Handler-IL)
15795, INDIA/CHINA. All India Radio, 1252, 7/2, in Mandarin. Male
singer, being jammed by China ’s CNR-1 also in Mandarin with female
presenter talking. Fair. CNR-1’s Mandarin program again being used as
a jammer again heard 7/4 at 1307 jamming AIR’s Mandarin program. I am
not sure of China is intentionally targeting AIR or looking for the
Sound of Hope which is scheduled to use this frequency in about 53
minutes. (Handler-IL)
17705, INDIA. All India Radio, 1148, 6/20, in Mandarin being jammed by
China ’s use of CNR-1’s Mandarin Broadcast. Fair (S. Handler, IL,
Icom IC-7200, Sony ICF-7600GR and dipole antennas, NASWA Flashsheet
via DXLD)
17855, July 15 at 0515, R. Free Asia, Chinese via SAIPAN is usually in
the clear, but this time mixed with another signal in Chinese plus
SAH, no doubt ChiCom CNR1 jamming also propagating.
17735, July 15 at 0515, Chinese, tried to // second station on 17855
but not for sure; likely also CNR1 jam, since not in HFCC, but this
is: 17735 0400 0600 42,43W UDO 250 324 1234567 Tibetan THA IBB IBB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN
** COLOMBIA. 5910, R. Alcaraván, Puerto Lleras, 0006-0020, July 13,
Spanish. Ballads and indigenous music with brief announcer between
selections; solid "Alcaraván" at 0018; fair (Scott R. Barbour Jr.
Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6070, 0134-0211, Voz de la Resistencia (FARC
clandestine), 21/07, Spanish, two OM long parallel talk looks like a
translation from some language to Spanish with frequent words such as
"Libre", "Comunismo" or "Estalinismo, 0147 patriotic music, 0148'45 OM
talk again, 0202'38 march music, etc. - almost good-fair at the
beginning with distorted audio, then fair-poor due to downward
propagation, local noise and BLR on the same channel 73! (Mikhail
Timofeyev, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Drake R8A and 30 meters long
wire, HCDX via DXLD) So UT Thursday, not just Sundays (gh, DXLD)
** CONGO DR. CONGO-Kinshasa, 5066.3, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1848-
1901*, 10/7, [unreadable] talks, some music at 1858 and abrupt
closure; 15331 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO DR [non]. 11690, Radio Okapi via Meyerton, 0448-0459*, July
20, in French and vernacular, many singing "Okapi" jingles, fair (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 28490-USB, July 15 at 2044, TI4CF making many quick
contacts including Spain, Italy, USA, default language English but
Spanish when appropriate; keeps changing fonetix for his call. Few
other signals on band, one from Arizona. Presumably TI was working
multi-hop Es to Europe rather than F2. Looked him up in qrz.com:
TI4CF
CARLOS FONSECA
P.O.BOX 4300
SAN JOSE 1000
Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) and see CUBA [non]
** CROATIA. 3984.917, Croatian Radio, Deanovec, observed at 0304 UT
July 17, S=9+10dB level (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17
via DXLD)
** CUBA. 9240, CUBA (reported), Spanish Female 5-digit number station.
7/20, 1015, in progress to BOH, then pause, heading numbers given
(88880), then more five figure groups to close at 1040 (Rick Barton,
El Mirage, Arizona, Hammarlund HQ-180A, HQ-200, Drake R-8, outdoor
slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via DXLD)
** CUBA. 13880, July 16 at 1332, RHC leapfrog mixing product weak but
clear, of very strong 13680 over 13780 another 100 kHz higher; time
check as 9:30 am, close enough for Commie government work, and news
headlines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. JAILED CUBAN DISSIDENT LISTENED DAILY TO VOA-RADIO
MARTI SHOW “A FONDO” [gh tires of putting in missing accents]
Washington, D.C. — July 15, 2011 — One of Cuba's most prominent
dissidents, Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, says the joint Voice of America
- Radio Marti program A Fondo kept him informed about news events
during his long incarceration in a Cuban Jail.
Ferrer, who had been serving a 25 year sentence in connection with his
effort to bring about constitutional changes in Cuba, was released
from prison in March.
Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia [caption]
In an interview with VOA, the Cuban dissident called the hour-long A
Fondo, a “very good” show. He said “the particular stories, the news
selected for A Fondo, is what gives the show its quality, very
professional. I listened to the show in prison on a daily basis.”
The director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Carlos Garcia-Perez,
who oversees Radio and TV Martí, says “Mr. Ferrer’s comments are
further proof of the great risks undertaken by thousands of Cubans who
seek fair and unbiased information from outside the island, as well as
the important role of Radio Marti and the VOA in fulfilling that
need."
VOA Executive Editor and Acting Director Steve Redisch says it is
“always encouraging to hear that our programs are having an impact,
and A Fondo is a great example of Voice of America and Radio Marti
working together to produce a show that is relevant for our audiences
throughout Latin America and the Carribean.”
A Fondo, is a Spanish language news magazine and interview program
focusing on regional and world news. It airs on VOA from 8 to 9,
weekday evenings and on Radio Marti from 4 to 5 in the morning.
Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, is best known as one of the organizers of
the Christian Liberation Movement's Varela Project, an effort to
collect signatures for a referendum on constitutional change in Cuba.
He was sentenced to prison in 2003 during the so called Black Spring
when the government arrested dozens of activists on the island.
He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International
while in Las Tunas prison and chose to remain in Cuba following his
March release.
For more on VOA Spanish language programs visit
http://www.voanews.com/spanish/news
For more on Radio and TV Marti visit
http://www.martinoticias.com/noticias
Voice of America and Radio and TV Martí are funded by the U.S.
government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. For
information about VOA in English or any of our language services visit
http://www.voanews.com
Media inquiries can be made to Kyle King in Washington at kking @
voanews.com (VOA press release July 15 via DXLD)
** CUBA [non]. CANADA (non) [sic]. New [sic] schedule of Radio
República in Spanish:
2300-2400 on 9490 SAC 100 kW / 227 deg to Cuba Sat/Sun
0000-0200 on 9490 SAC 100 kW / 227 deg to Cuba Sun/Mon
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 17 via DXLD) As ya in DXLD
** CUBA [non]. 5954.29, 2335-2350, CLANDESTINE, 13.07, R República,
via ELCOR, Guápiles, Costa Rica. Spanish interview and music, 32332
(Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres longwire here
in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, 20 July, playdx yg via
DXLD) Was the I=2 due to Cuban jamming or something else? (gh, DXLD)
See also NETHERLANDS [non], 5955 QRM
** CYPRUS [and non]. BBC Cyprus Zygi - damage ?
Hi dear Dave, do you have any information at hand, that BBC broadcasts
moved from Cyprus to U.K. or different Babcock TX sites recently now?
73 - kind regards de (Wolfy DF5SX Büschel, to David Porter, G4OYX,
Woofferton, July 15, via dxldyg via DXLD)
Hi Wolfy, Yes you are correct in thinking that CYP is mostly off the
air due to the lack of mains electricity on the site.
Ladies Mile MF is operating at 150 kW on 1323 kc/s.
Zygi has only two HF transmissions a day running thro' it at present
with the rest of its commitment being covered in the UK, in Al
Dhabbya, Meyerton and Seychelles at Babcock operated stations.
The power station operated by the Cypriot authorities has been totally
destroyed, so we are unsure when there will be a full resumption of HF
from Zygi. However the CYP authorities are looking to obtain two
floating power stations and restore the country's generating capacity.
All is OK at Zygi apart from broken windows and doors. No doubt the
BBC etc will issue a press release sometime. It will be interesting to
see the audibility differences at the targets between the CYP and
other outputs! 73 (Dave Porter, to Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1574,
ibid.)
And here are the "n o t Zygi Cyprus" anymore registrations of BBC
schedule from July 12:
5875 0600 0800 WOF 1234567 English
5875 1900 2000 NAK 1234567 English
5925 1800 1830 SEY 1234567 Somali
6040 0300 0400 RMP 1234567 Arabic
6155 1700 1730 NAK 1234567 Dari
6155 1730 1800 NAK 1234567 Pashto
6155 1800 1830 SNG 1234567 Dari
6155 1830 1900 NAK 1234567 Dari
6195 0200 0400 RMP 1234567 English
6195 0300 0400 SKN 1234567 English
6195 0900 1100 NAK 1234567 English
7375 0400 0500 RMP 1234567 Arabic
7375 1900 2100 SKN 1234567 Arabic
7395 0000 0100 RMP 1234567 English
7395 0100 0200 RMP 1234567 English
7445 0200 0230 RMP 1234567 Pashto
7445 0230 0300 RMP 1234567 Dari
9440 0300 0400 RMP 1234567 Arabic
9480 0130 0200 WOF 1234567 Urdu
9500 0230 0330 WOF 1234567 Farsi
9565 0330 0430 RMP 1234567 Farsi
9605 1700 1730 RMP 1234567 Hindi
9795 1800 1900 RMP 1234567 Dari
9860 1545 1615 SNG 1234567 Tamil
9895 0200 0230 DHA 1234567 Pashto
9895 0230 0300 DHA 1234567 Dari
9895 0300 0330 RMP 1234567 Pashto
9915 0300 0400 WOF 1234567 Arabic
9915 1800 2100 RMP 1234567 Arabic
11740 0400 0500 WOF 1234567 Arabic
11755 0500 0600 RMP 1234567 English
11760 0700 1400 SLA 1234567 English
11820 0400 0700 SLA 1234567 Arabic
11820 0600 0700 RMP 1234567 Arabic
11820 1700 1800 RMP 1234567 Arabic
11845 1800 1830 RMP 1234567 Somali
11855 0300 0330 RMP 1234567 Pashto
11855 0330 0430 DHA 1234567 Farsi
11865 1830 1900 RMP 23456 Krwanda/Kr
11945 0400 0600 SEY 1234567 English
12015 0400 0429 RMP 1234567 Somali
12035 0300 0500 SKN 1234567 English
12095 0300 0600 SKN 1234567 English
12095 0400 0600 RMP 1234567 English
12095 0600 0700 SLA 1234567 English
12095 1700 1900 WOF 1234567 English
12095 1900 2100 CYP 167 English only Fr/Sa/Su
12095 1900 2100 SLA 2345 English
13660 0400 0700 SKN 1234567 Arabic
13660 1400 1500 NAK 1234567 Dari
13660 1500 1600 RMP 1234567 Pashto
15180 0700 0800 RMP 1234567 Arabic
15420 0500 0700 SEY 1234567 English
15420 1500 1800 SEY 1234567 English
15420 1800 1900 WOF 1234567 English
15430 0600 0629 RMP 1234567 French
15470 1400 1500 SNG 1234567 Hindi
15470 1500 1600 SNG 1234567 Urdu
15530 1100 1130 DHA 1234567 Somali
15575 0700 1100 RMP 1234567 English
15575 0700 1100 SKN 1234567 English
15575 1100 1400 NAK 1234567 English
15690 1545 1615 NAK 1234567 Tamil
15790 0500 0700 WOF 1234567 Arabic
15790 1630 1700 WOF 23456 Krwanda/Kr
17640 0500 0700 WOF 1234567 English
17640 0700 1316:SEY:1234567 English
17680 1400 1500 RMP 1234567 Somali
17695 1300 1330 NAK 1234567 Uzbek
17780 1100 1130 DHA 1234567 Somali
21470 0800 1400 SEY 1234567 English
21590 1300 1330 DHA 1234567 Uzbek
21660 0900 1100 NAK 1234567 English
an maybe also
9605 BBC 1700 1730 Hindi smtwtfs SoAs 250 090 from Aug 1
(Wolfgang Büschel, July 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re: BBC Cyprus Zygi - damage ?
Concerning the shortwave transmissions that remain at Zygi it must be
noted that the Greek Fri-Sun only is in fact a programme from the
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. When has this slot changed the last
time, beyond mere frequency changes? In 1990 it was in place already
the way it still is, three transmitters 2245-2315, staying at the same
UT time in summer which clearly indicates that it is just a legacy
broadcast, presumably of > the same kind than widely seen on IBB and
DW facilities.
[No, it`s 2215-2245 Fri-Sat-Sun, currently 5925, 7220, 9760 --- gh]
Below the cover provided by other sites for Zygi at present, perhaps
not fully complete or correct to the last detail because I have no
intention to waste even more time on it. Remarkable is the site switch
on 6155 for just 30 minutes from Thailand to Singapore and back,
perhaps dictated by some engineering reason.
Rampisham:
0000-0200 7395; English
0200-0300 6195; English
0200-0400 7445; Pashto/Dari
0300-0330 9895, 11855; Pashto
0300-0400 6040, 9440; Arabic
0300-0400 6195; Englisch
0330-0430 9565; Persian
0400-0429 12015; Somali
0400-0500 7375; Arabic
0400-0600 12095; English
0600-0629 15430; French
0700-0800 15180; Arabic
0700-1100 15575; English
1400-1500 17680; Somali
1500-1600 13660; Pashto
1700-1800 11820; Arabic
1800-1830 11845; Somali
1800-1900 9795; Dari
1830-1900 Mon-Fri 11865; Rwanda/Burundi sce.
Skelton
0300-0400 6195; English, synch with RMP
0300-0500 12035; English
0300-0600 12095; English, as of 0400 synch with RMP
0400-0700 13660; Arabic
0700-1100 15575; English, synch with RMP
1900-2100 7375; English
Woofferton
0130-0200 9480; Urdu
0230-0330 9500; Persian
0300-0400 9915; Arabic
0400-0500 11740; Arabic
0500-0700 15790; Arabic
0500-0700 17640; English
1630-1700 Mon-Fri 15790; Rwanda/Burundi sce.
1700-1900 12095; English
Al-Dhabbaya
0200-0300 9895; Pashto/Dari
0330-0430 11855; Persian
1100-1130 15530, 17780; Somali
1300-1330: 21590; Uzbek
Seychelles
0500-0700 15420; English
Nakhon Sawan
1100-1400 15575; English
1300-1330 17695; Uzbek
1400-1500 13660; Dari
1545-1615 15690; Tamil
1700-1800 6155; Dari/Pashto
1830-1900 6155; Pashto
1900-2000 5875; English
Singapore
1400-1600 15470; Hindi, Urdu
1545-1615 9860; Tamil
1800-1830 6155; Dari
And a nice if not already kitschy view of the station [Zygi sunset]:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4986210
``Ladies Mile MF is operating at 150 kW on 1323 kc/s.``
That would be a slight reduction, but not necessarily new or related
to the lack of power. How old is this transmitter actually?
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 15, via Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
If this given location name is right, the Ladies Mile location is n o
t at Zygi site, but rather 32 kilometers southwestwards on the 500 kW
high power station at Limassol at
CYP BBC Zakaki / Ladies Mile 639 kHz / 720 kHz 500 kW
34 37'10.86"N 33 00'07.32"E 8 masts visible
so, seems as alternative solution an old reserve 150 kW unit at
Limassol is on regular service now.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/41101746.jpg
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/41101746?source=wapi&referrer=www.panoramio.com
http://v3.cache7.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/40195855.jpg?redirect_counter=1
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/43291377.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/30581230.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/28153514.jpg
- - - -
CYP BBC Zygi 1323 kHz 200kW 150deg BBC V-group radiator
34 43'18.35"N 33 19'41.09"E
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/37101172.jpg
http://v4.cache5.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/37101172.jpg?redirect_counter=1
http://v1.lscache2.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/23600826.jpg
Zygi power station
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/24858965.jpg
73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 16380-16405, July 19 at 1326, weak OTH radar pulses,
presumed from here. Also 15420-15445 at 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319, 1247-, AFRTS, Jul 9. Something strange here. I
went looking for Diego Garcia. An hour ago, there was no one there,
but now there's someone there in USB plus carrier. Nothing on the
lower side. Signal improved. It is in English. NPR programming
interviewing someone with piano playing in the background. Not // to
excellent reception from Guam on 5765U with a consumer program (Walt
Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’
BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. La Rosa de Tokio para este fin de semana:
Entrevista a Teo Veras
La Rosa de Tokyo es un programa dedicado a difundir el apasionante
mundo de la radio y del diexismo que se transmite semanalmente desde
los estudios de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires.
En el programa de este fin de semana --- que en días sucesivos puede
escucharse en http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm ---
escucharemos una interesantisima entrevista realizada a Teo Veras,
prestigioso comunicador radial dominicano autor del libro "Las
Comunicaciones en América y República Dominicana: origen y
desarrollo".
Puede ser escuchada los días sábados de 1200 UT a 1300 Tiempo
Universal Coordinado (09:00 a 10-00 hora LU) por los 1270 kHz y en
Internet por http://www.amprovincia.com.ar/
Además, una extensa red de emisoras de frecuencia modulada de toda la
República Argentina retransmite en forma semanal nuestro programa en
diferentes días y horarios.
La Rosa de Tokyo también sale por onda corta gracias a las facilidades
brindadas por WRMI Radio Miami Internacional, http://www.wrmi.net/
También puede ser escuchada en cualquier momento entrando en la página
ProgramasDX y haciendo "click" en
http://programasdx.com/larosadetokio.htm
Desde este vínculo también podrán acceder al archivo que recaba
ediciones anteriores del programa.
La Rosa de Tokyo es producida y conducida por Omar José Somma y
Arnaldo Leonel Slaen y cuenta con la colaboración habitual de Rubén
Guillermo Margenet (Slaen, July 16, noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Video clip of HIJB-2 from this morning
Here's a clip of Channel 2 in the Dominican Republic as seen from
Navarino, NY (just south of Syracuse) this morning at 10:45 EDT [1445
UT July 14].
The stylized "TA" logo at the top right sharpens up nicely 33 seconds
in. At 3:00, there is a brief headlines update, with the top story
being the death of the brother of Dominican narco trafficker, Orlando
Florian Feliz. At the end, she says they'll be back with more news at
12:35, and mentions, "su emisora de las Antillas."
Things get pretty garbled after that. If you can spot any clues to
what the other station(s) are that are inferring, please pass them on.
After 5 minutes or so, there's not much, except a Quaker Oats ad.
As my family and workmates would tell you, I'm pretty excited about
this catch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7mm5cToYE
(Richard McVicar, AB2FN, On the outskirts of Navarino, New York, WTFDA
via DXLD)
Around 1610 UT today [July 15]. Their logo can be seen at the
beginning of the clip. This was the positive offset station on Ch A2;
the warbler on zero offset was quite weak, not causing much CCI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlY9sh2V8c
(Mr Hugh Hoover, Portugal, ibid.)
A wonderful clip, Hugh! You must have quite a set-up to be able to
stabilize the signals so well (Richard McVicar, AB2FN, On the
outskirts of Navarino, New York, ibid.)
Hi, thanks. I'm basically reducing the IF bandwidth, applying local
sync and using dscaler noise reduction software. See here:
http://dx.3sdesign.de/ Look on the left side about halfway down,
"Improving Video" and "TV card mods" (Hugh Hoover, ibid.)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17540 // weaker 17505, July 15 at 0520 CRI English
about quotas on rare earth exports. 173 and 269 degrees respectively
via Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315, R Cairo, English, The Holy Koran and its Meaning with
reciting Koran in Arabic, then explanation/translation into English.
Now please sit down, because what I’m about to type will shock anyone
who has monitored Cairo in the last 25 years. The modulation was
clean. Not just ‘not as mushy as usual’ but actually pretty clean.
That is until :13 when they had pips (leading up to 0213:30!) and went
into the anthem [sic] and news read by a YL. THAT was just as mushy as
usual (well, maybe a LITTLE better than usual) and there was a lot of
thumping like the microphone wasn’t isolated from the table well
and/or she was puffing air into the mic. Disappointing after such a
good start! Into vocal music at :25. But for a bit of splatter/HF het
from 9305 (also Egypt but in Arabic) this would have been perfect.
54544/54543 during mush modulation 0204-0230 9/Jul (Ken Zichi, Port
Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued July 18 via DXLD)
Radio Cairo, Abu Zaabal transmitter site, 15270 kHz. 2020 UT, 33333,
Arabic type music and talk with woman in English at 2025. For unknown
reasons they gave TOH/BOH time pips at 2027. Transmitter off at 2029,
Fair signal low modulation. S-7 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North
Carolina, U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot longwire - 40 feet high,
shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
** ERITREA. 9820.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, *0256-0320,
July 16, sign on with ID. Vernacular talk at 0300. Some Horn of
Africa. Very weak. Also very weak on // 9730.03. // 7174.99 - fair to
good but occasional ham QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
ERITREIA, 7170, Voice of the Broad Masses, Selai Dairo, 1706-1732,
13/7, vernacular, music, talks; off at 1800 after a program in Arabic,
and closed with the national anthem; 25432.
7165 ditto, 1721-1746, 07/7, vernacular, chanting, talks; off at 1800;
35433.
7175 ditto, 1751-1802*, 16/7, Arabic, talks, national anthem at
closure; 45343. If listened to carefully, the anthem does reveal the
name of the country (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. ETIÓPIA, 9705, R. Ethiopia, Geja Dera, 1120-1225, 08/7,
Vernacular, local songs, talks, jingle at noon [sic], news (presumed);
35443; deteriorating after 1200.
9705 ditto???, 1207-1305, 18/7, English, feature on national parks,
music, chimes prior to vernacular announcement & program at 1300;
34443, some QRM de NIGER [q.v.] until 1225. I was unable to follow the
program from top to bottom, and no particular reference to Ethiopia
was heard, so can't say this was ETH for sure, but the vernacular at
1300 did sound like those aired by R. Ethiopia. Their foreign service
is usually on 9560v (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya, *0323-0420, July 18. Best ever
grayline reception; Monday (UT) clear of R. Martí and Cuban jamming;
QRM from Calgary; on with repetitive xylophone sounding IS till 0329;
announcer in language that sounded similar to French; played a lot of
music; 0400 seemed to be OM and YL with news and back to music; had
faded down to unusable by 0420; certainly the clearest and longest
reception I have had to date (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6110, Radio Fana, *0256-0322, Jul 17. IS with man
announcer in Amharic (?) language with several IDs, music fanfare
followed by a woman announcer with news. Horn of Africa music after
the news. Fair (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA
19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX
Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA
Flashsheet via DXLD)
** GERMANY. I just uploaded some [20] photos from a visit to the
Lampertheim station nine
years ago. At this time the shortwave transmitters at Holzkirchen were
still operational and remote-controlled from Lampertheim.
Noteworthy is also the huge C-band dish for picking up feeds from 27.5
deg. West. I understand that meanwhile the C-band is no longer
protected for satellite reception in Germany. If so they could not
even do anything if some terrestrial microwave link disrupts the
signal (and the Media Broadcast teleport at Usingen could not either
when, as an example, they this way loose the CRI feed they relay to
Hotbird as feed for Pori 963 kHz). Compared to the C-band monster the
Hotbird dishes, simply screwed onto the building, looked almost like
toys.
At this time Lampertheim transmitted not only BBG programming but also
something for what is now Media Broadcast, some missionary stuff
around 9.4 MHz they picked up from Hotbird if I recall correctly. This
was an old "Programmauslagerung" as done when Jülich ran out of
capacity. But no further cases of such third-party use of Lampertheim
or Biblis followed afterwards, actually no surprise in light of the
very limited antenna facilities there.
Of note is here the 120 degrees capability at Lampertheim, added after
1990 for transmissions into the collapsing Yugoslavia and giving the
station at least a single opportunity to beam transmissions into any
other direction than the former Soviet Union. Meanwhile it is used
also for transmissions to Africa, such as Radio Sawa at present (Kai
Ludwig, Germany, July 19, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** GERMANY [and non]. A11 Media Broadcast July 12, 2011
FREQ BTIM ETIM BRC RLY PWR AZI TARGET DAYS BDATE EDATE
===== ==== ==== === === === === ================ ======= ====== ======
5930 0000 0057 YFR GUF 500 215 12,14 31 1234567 130611 291011
5930 1700 1900 IBB WER 250 45 28E,29W 1234567 270311 291011
5940 0030 0230 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 270311 291011
5945 0700 0730 BVB WER 100 300 27,28N 1 270311 291011
5945 0700 0745 BVB WER 100 300 27,28N 7 270311 291011
5945 1100 1115 MWA WER 250 ND 27,28 1 270311 291011
5955 0558 0800 RNW NAU 500 210 27,28 1234567 270311 291011
5955 0800 1000 RNW NAU 500 210 27,28 17 020711 291011
5955 0800 1000 RNW WER 500 ND 27,28 23456 270311 291011
5955 1000 1459 RNW NAU 500 210 18S,27,28 1 020711 240711
5955 1000 1459 RNW NAU 500 210 18S,27,28 234567 020711 240711
5955 1459 1657 RNW NAU 500 210 27,28 1234567 020711 291011
6040 1600 1630 IBB WER 250 135 28E 1234567 270311 291011
6040 1630 1930 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 270311 291011
6045 0900 1000 HLR WER 100 ND 27E,28 1 270311 291011
6055 1030 1100 EMG WER 125 ND 27,28 17 270311 291011
6060 1500 1700 IBB WER 125 60 28E,29W 1234567 270311 291011
6065 0300 0330 AWR WER 250 135 48 1234567 270311 301011
6065 0400 0430 AWR WER 100 120 28E 1234567 270311 301011
6095 0230 0330 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 290311 291011
6105 0645 0750 TWR NAU 100 285 27 1 270311 301011
6105 0700 0750 TWR NAU 100 285 27 23456 270311 301011
6105 0715 0750 TWR NAU 100 285 27 7 270311 301011
6105 1700 1800 IBB WER 250 60 28E,29W 1234567 270311 291011
6115 2000 2200 YFR WER 250 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 291011
6120 0759 1000 RNW WER 500 255 27S,37N 23456 270311 291011
6125 1959 2200 RNW NAU 500 225 27S,28SW,37N 1234567 300511 040911
6130 1800 1815 BVB NAU 100 69 28,29 56 270311 291011
6130 1800 1830 BVB NAU 100 69 28,29 3 270311 291011
6130 1800 1900 BVB NAU 100 69 28,29 1 270311 291011
6130 1815 1845 BVB NAU 100 69 28,29 7 270311 291011
6140 0900 1000 MVB WER 100 ND 27,28 1 270311 291011
6140 1300 1400 MVB NAU 100 126 28 1 270311 291011
7215 1400 1430 TWR WER 100 60 28-30 2 270311 301011
7215 1400 1430 TWR WER 100 60 28-30 3456 270311 301011
7215 1400 1500 TWR WER 100 60 28-30 17 270311 301011
7230 1900 1930 FEB WER 250 105 39N 1234567 090711 291011
7280 0230 0400 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 270311 291011
7310 0300 0330 BVB WER 125 120 39S 1234567 270311 291011
7360 2200 0057 YFR GUF 500 170 12,13,15 1234567 130611 291011
7375 0100 0300 HRT WER 100 315 2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 1234567 070911 291011
7375 0300 0500 HRT WER 100 325 2,3,6,7W,10 1234567 070911 291011
7375 2200 0300 HRT WER 100 240 11,12,13,14,15,16
1234567 070911 291011
7375 2300 0100 HRT WER 100 300 6,7,8,9,10 1234567 070911 291011
7405 0030 0100 BVB WER 250 90 41 1234567 270311 291011
7420 2200 2300 YFR WER 250 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 291011
9430 1800 1900 BVB NAU 250 125 39,40 7 270311 291011
9430 1815 1845 BVB NAU 250 125 39,40 1 270311 291011
9440 1529 1600 TWR WER 100 105 28 7 270311 301011
9440 1529 1600 TWR WER 100 90 29S,39N 23456 270311 301011
9445 0030 0130 GFA WER 250 90 40E,41NW 1234567 270311 291011
9470 1900 2100 AWR WER 250 120 38E,39 1234567 040711 291011
9505 0300 0330 AWR WER 250 135 48 1234567 270311 301011
9515 1930 2000 PAB NAU 250 150 37,38 1 180711 291011
9515 1930 2030 PAB NAU 250 150 37,38 7 270311 291011
9520 2330 0030 GFA WER 250 75 41NE,43S,49N 1234567 270311 291011
9585 1800 1900 CHW NAU 100 90 28E,29 7 270311 291011
9590 1900 2000 YFR WER 250 150 37E,38 1234567 270311 291011
9595 1159 1600 RNW WER 250 300 27 1234567 020711 240711
9595 2000 2100 YFR NAU 500 180 46E,47,52N 1234567 270311 291011
9600 1900 1930 IBB WER 250 150 47,48 1234567 040711 291011
9610 0530 0600 RMI WER 100 180 46SE 23456 110611 291011
9610 1900 2200 YFR WER 500 180 46,47,52 1234567 090611 291011
9620 1159 1600 RNW NAU 500 11 18 1234567 020711 240711
9620 2200 2300 NHK WER 500 135 38,39,40 1234567 060411 291011
9655 1400 1500 TOM MOS 100 275 18,27,28 1234567 080711 291011
9675 1630 1700 IBB WER 250 150 47,48 23456 270311 291011
9715 2100 2200 YFR NAU 500 180 46E,47,52N 1234567 270311 291011
9735 0200 0500 VOR GUF 250 320 6-8,10,11 1234567 270311 301011
9735 0500 0515 BVB WER 250 105 39,40 6 270311 291011
9740 0659 0800 RNW WER 250 300 27 1234567 300511 040911
9740 1600 1700 IBB WER 250 60 19,29,30 1234567 270311 291011
9760 1630 1800 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 270311 291011
9765 1900 1930 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
9765 1930 2000 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
9765 2000 2030 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
9780 1700 1800 IBB NAU 250 90 40E,41NW 1234567 070711 291011
9790 0900 1000 AWR NAU 100 180 28W 1 270311 301011
9805 1900 2000 IBB WER 250 60 29,30 1234567 270311 291011
9810 0000 0200 VOR GUF 250 195 12,14,16 1234567 270311 301011
9810 2030 2100 IBB NAU 250 190 46,47 23456 260411 291011
9815 0300 0330 IBB NAU 250 160 47,48 1234567 270311 291011
9815 0330 0400 AWR WER 250 135 48 1234567 270311 301011
9815 1800 1830 IBB WER 250 150 47,48 1234567 270311 291011
9830 1600 1630 AWR WER 100 120 28E 1234567 270311 301011
9830 2000 2030 AWR WER 100 180 46E,47W 1234567 090611 301011
9895 0459 0557 RNW WER 500 120 28S 1234567 270311 291011
9895 0559 0659 RNW NAU 500 220 27S,28SW,37N 1234567 270311 291011
9895 0800 1000 RNW NAU 500 220 27S,28SW 17 270311 291011
9895 1000 1459 RNW NAU 500 220 27S,28SW,37N 1 270311 240711
9895 1000 1459 RNW NAU 500 220 27S,28SW,37N 234567 020711 240711
9895 1459 1559 RNW NAU 500 220 27S,28SW,37N 1234567 270311 291011
9895 2059 2127 RNW NAU 250 320 17 1234567 300511 040911
9925 0100 0300 HRT WER 100 315 2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 1234567 100511 060911
9925 0300 0500 HRT NAU 100 325 2,3,6,7W,10 1234567 100511 060911
9925 1800 1900 YFR WER 500 165 57 1234567 270311 291011
9925 2200 0300 HRT WER 100 240 11,12,13,14,15,16
1234567 100511 060911
9925 2300 0100 HRT NAU 100 300 6,7,8,9,10 1234567 100511 060911
9935 2200 2300 YFR GUF 500 215 12,14 31 1234567 270311 291011
9935 2300 2357 YFR GUF 500 215 12,14 31 1234567 130611 291011
11605 2200 2400 VOR GUF 250 180 12,13,15 1234567 270311 301011
11645 1400 1500 IBB WER 250 105 39N,40 1234567 270311 291011
11670 1730 1800 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
11695 1500 1530 EMG WER 250 60 29,30 7 270311 291011
11755 2030 2100 AWR WER 100 180 46SE,47W 1234567 270311 301011
11810 0500 0530 BVB NAU 125 185 37,38,46N,47N 1234567 090611 291011
11810 1500 1600 IBB WER 250 90 29SE 1234567 270311 291011
11840 1900 2000 YFR NAU 500 205 37,46 1234567 080611 291011
11855 1800 1815 BVB NAU 100 105 39,40 7 270311 291011
11855 1800 1830 BVB NAU 100 105 39,40 246 050711 291011
11855 1800 1900 BVB NAU 100 105 39,40 35 270311 291011
11855 1830 1900 BVB NAU 100 105 39,40 1 270311 291011
11885 1700 1759 YFR ISS 250 110 39 1234567 270311 291011
11905 1730 1800 IBB NAU 250 140 48 23456 090611 291011
11905 1800 1900 IBB NAU 250 140 48 1234567 090611 291011
11925 1800 1900 IBB WER 250 150 48 1234567 090611 291011
11925 1900 1930 IBB WER 250 150 48 23456 090611 291011
11940 1500 1530 IBB WER 250 75 30S 1234567 270311 291011
11945 1930 2000 RMI WER 100 180 46SE 1234567 080611 291011
11955 1800 1900 YFR WER 250 150 37E,38 1234567 270311 291011
11960 1730 1800 BVB WER 100 120 39,40 17 170711 291011
11975 1830 1900 LWF ISS 500 167 46S,47SE 1234567 270311 291011
11980 0700 0800 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
11980 0800 0830 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
11995 1600 1630 RMI WER 500 135 47E,48 1 150611 291011
12010 0800 0830 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
12010 0830 0900 AWR WER 100 210 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
12015 1630 1700 IBB WER 250 150 47,48 23456 180711 291011
12050 0400 0600 AWR WER 250 120 38E,39 1234567 040711 291011
12080 1500 1600 IBB WER 250 180 46,47,52,53,57 1234567 270311 291011
12140 1530 1730 BVB WER 100 105 39,40 1234567 270311 291011
13570 1500 1600 IBB WER 250 90 39N,40W 1234567 270311 291011
13580 1700 1720 BVB ISS 250 115 39,40 2356 270311 291011
13580 1700 1735 BVB ISS 250 115 39,40 4 270311 291011
13590 1530 1815 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 1 270311 291011
13590 1545 1600 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 24 270311 291011
13590 1545 1615 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 6 270311 291011
13590 1545 1620 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 3 270311 291011
13590 1545 1645 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 5 270311 291011
13590 1545 1700 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 7 090411 291011
13590 1700 1800 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 3 270311 291011
13600 1615 1700 BVB NAU 100 130 39,40 246 040711 291011
13600 1700 1730 BVB NAU 125 130 39S 1234567 270311 291011
13615 1400 1500 IBB WER 250 75 30S 1234567 020611 291011
13615 1600 1700 YFR NAU 500 95 40 1234567 020711 291011
13620 0527 0557 PNW NAU 500 156 47,48W 1234567 180711 301011
13630 1532 1547 BVB ISS 250 91 39,40 1 300511 291011
13645 1600 1700 YFR WER 250 120 39 1234567 240511 291011
13700 0959 1459 RNW WER 500 240 27S,28SW,37N 1234567 020711 240711
13700 1159 1459 RNW WER 500 120 28S,37W 1234567 020711 240711
13700 1459 1557 RNW WER 500 120 28S,39W 1234567 270311 291011
13700 1459 1657 RNW WER 500 240 27S,28SW,37N 1234567 300511 040911
13710 1100 1130 EMG NAU 250 30 19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26
7 270311 291011
13720 1630 1730 BVB WER 100 150 47,48 1234567 240511 291011
13730 0459 0557 PNW WER 250 150 47,48W 1234567 180711 301011
13730 1400 1500 YFR WER 250 75 30S,40N 1234567 270311 291011
13740 1500 1515 BVB WER 250 90 41,49NW 1 040711 291011
13740 1700 1800 YFR NAU 500 95 40 1234567 070711 291011
13740 1900 1930 BVB WER 125 180 37,38,46N,47N 1234567 080611 291011
13745 1600 1700 IBB WER 250 90 29SE 1234567 280411 291011
13750 1800 1900 YFR WER 500 180 46SE 1234567 270311 291011
13790 1500 1558 YFR ISS 500 85 41SE 1234567 270311 291011
13810 1500 1600 TOM NAU 100 130 28,29W,38E,39 1234567 080711 291011
13810 1600 1800 BVB ISS 100 131 38S,39S,47,48 25 270311 291011
13810 1600 1830 BVB ISS 100 131 38S,39S,47,48 16 270311 291011
13810 1630 1800 BVB ISS 100 131 38S,39S,47,48 34 270311 291011
13810 1630 1830 BVB ISS 100 131 38S,39S,47,48 7 270311 291011
13830 1630 1700 IBB NAU 250 150 47,48 23456 040711 291011
13830 1700 1758 SBO ISS 100 126 38E,39S,48 14 270311 291011
13840 1700 1800 YFR WER 100 180 37,38 1234567 270311 291011
13870 1730 1800 IBB NAU 250 140 48 23456 270311 291011
13870 1800 1900 IBB NAU 250 140 48 1234567 270311 291011
13870 1900 1930 IBB NAU 250 140 48 23456 270311 291011
15110 1530 1600 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 270311 291011
15155 1730 1800 AWR WER 250 135 48 1234567 090611 291011
15160 1600 1700 YFR NAU 500 140 48 1234567 270311 291011
15205 1400 1430 PAB NAU 100 95 41 1 080711 291011
15205 1415 1430 PAB NAU 100 95 41 234567 080711 291011
15205 1430 1445 PAB ISS 250 83 41 1 270311 291011
15205 1900 1930 AWR NAU 100 200 46S 1234567 270311 301011
15205 1930 2000 AWR WER 250 180 46SE,47W 1234567 270311 301011
15215 1530 1629 GFA ISS 250 86 40E,41NW 1234567 270311 291011
15255 1500 1529 AWR ISS 250 90 41N 1234567 300511 301011
15255 1530 1600 AWR ISS 250 75 41N 1234567 300511 301011
15260 1900 2000 AWR NAU 100 215 37,38W 1234567 270311 301011
15275 1515 1530 BVB ISS 100 90 40,41 7 090411 291011
15275 1530 1559 BVB ISS 100 90 40,41 456 270311 291011
15320 1300 1330 AWR WER 250 75 42,43W 17 270311 291011
15320 1300 1330 AWR WER 250 75 42,43W 23456 270311 291011
15320 1330 1500 AWR WER 250 75 42,43W 1234567 270311 291011
15350 1230 1500 GFA WER 250 90 41 1234567 240511 291011
15360 1500 1530 AWR NAU 250 85 41N 1234567 270311 301011
15360 1530 1559 AWR ISS 250 80 41N 1234567 270311 301011
15380 1430 1630 IBB WER 250 105 40 1234567 240511 291011
15380 1700 1800 IBB WER 250 105 39N,40 1234567 070711 291011
15390 1330 1530 GFA WER 250 90 41NE,43S,49N 1234567 270311 291011
15410 1700 1715 ABA ISS 250 140 48SW 7 030711 291011
15445 1700 1900 NHK WER 250 135 38,39,40 1234567 240511 291011
15495 1500 1559 YFR ISS 500 85 41E 1234567 270311 291011
15495 1759 1957 RNW WER 500 150 48SW,52E,53W 1234567 270311 291011
15565 1400 1459 YFR ISS 500 83 41E 17 250611 291011
15565 1400 1500 YFR NAU 500 90 41E 23456 250611 291011
15565 1500 1600 IBB WER 250 90 29SE 1234567 260511 291011
15650 1400 1700 IBB WER 250 75 30S 1234567 270311 291011
15670 1400 1559 YFR ISS 500 85 41 1234567 020711 240711
15670 1400 1600 YFR NAU 500 95 41 1234567 260711 291011
15680 1230 1330 IBB WER 250 90 40 1234567 240511 291011
15690 1400 1459 YFR ISS 500 90 41S 1234567 270311 291011
15710 1659 1727 RNW WER 500 180 47,52N 1234567 270311 291011
15715 0400 0900 IBB WER 250 90 40E,41NW 1234567 270311 291011
15720 1529 1627 PNW WER 500 150 47,48W 1234567 180711 301011
15720 1659 1727 RNW NAU 500 155 47E,48,52E,53 1234567 270311 291011
15750 1600 1700 YFR WER 500 150 47,48 1234567 180711 291011
17485 1500 1600 TOM WER 100 165 38 1234567 080711 291011
17495 1345 1415 BVB NAU 250 95 41 1st Sun 250611 291011
17495 1415 1500 BVB NAU 250 95 41 1 250611 291011
17495 1430 1500 BVB NAU 250 95 41 7 250611 291011
17535 0900 1000 BVB WER 100 135 38,39 6 270311 291011
17535 1200 1230 AWR WER 250 90 41NE 1234567 270311 301011
17535 1230 1300 AWR WER 250 90 41NE 1234567 270311 301011
17575 1630 1700 AWR ISS 250 130 48 1234567 300511 301011
17580 1300 1500 YFR WER 500 90 41E 1234567 090711 291011
17750 1400 1500 IBB WER 250 120 39N,40 1234567 280611 291011
17800 1400 1559 YFR ISS 500 90 41S 1234567 020711 240711
17800 1400 1600 YFR WER 500 90 41S 1234567 260711 291011
Data from
http://www.media-broadcast.com/en/radio/analogue-radio-networks/short-wave.html
Reformatted by Dan Ferguson, for:
NASWA - North America Shortwave Association; http://www.naswa.net
NASWA Combined Schedules lists at http://www.hfskeds.com/skeds/
General SWBC discussion group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shortwave-radio
SWL chatroom: #swl on StarChat.net (via Dan Ferguson, July 16, NASWA
yg, tidied up by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GHANA [non]. AUSTRIA, "Coverage map" QSL came in today from AWR
Ghana (via Austria). Power and xmtr QTH weren't filled in. (16 July)
73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, HCDX via DXLD) WTFK?
** GREECE. 9420, 1402-, Voice of Greece, Jul 9. A difficult channel.
Checked for RUI, but nothing heard. Instead, presumably VOG in Greek,
but really marred by a ute right on frequency with hash above and
below the frequency, so no escaping them. Good otherwise (Walt
Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’
BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. I've just heard Radio Filia's French programme this
Thursday July 14 at 0930-1000 UT (1230-1300 local time in Greece). At
the end, they said that from July 15th, new times will be in effect.
French will be at "1030 local time" (so should be at 0730 UT). Nothing
heard about the other transmissions. Regards (Jean Michel Aubier,
France, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 14 via DXLD)
15650, noted Voice of Greece in Greek at 09-10 UT July 16 on 15650 kHz
instead of regular 15630 kHz, // 9420 kHz. The Asian immigrants
program on Saturdays only heard on 11645 kHz, like "Bangladesh
Community Program" or "Filipino Community Program".
VoGRC Avlis stopped at 0959:45 UT today, for usual 10-11 UT break,
and was followed co-channel by DWL interval signal of DWL German
service via Trincomalee Ceylon relay towards South East Asia and
Pacific. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 14/16,
ibid.))
ERT V Of Greece widely received today 20 kHz up, on new 15650 kHz (ex
15630). At least at 0800 til 1000, then 1100-2300 UT? {maybe also
0300-0800 UT ?} Co-channel QRM noted at 1000 UT by DWL Pacific
service, but followed by ERT 55 minutes break.
15650 0600 0657 37,38S,38NW,46 SIN 250 140 Deu POR DWL
15650 1000 1100 49S,50S,54 TRM 250 120 Deu CLN DWL
15650 1100 1157 54 TIN 250 256 Indones USA RNW
15650 1400 1700 30S WER 250 75 Turkmen D IBB
73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, July 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear Wolfy: Same 15650 kHz. and noisy here at 2034 UT; wonder if it is
an engineer error? (John Babbis, MD, July 16, via Büschel, DXLD)
John, as you predicted yesterday: Re 15650 fault. Was apparently an
engineer fault on the Avlis TX site at 0300-2300 UT July 16.
Is back on 15630 kHz as usual on July 17. vy73 de (Wolfy, ibid.)
15650, July 16 at 2147, Greek music from VOG on wrong frequency;
supposed to be on 15630 except at 23-03 for 15650. Seems they were on
15650 by mistake all day, back to 15630 next day, per Wolfgang
Büschel, and as also noted here July 17 at 0455, 1331 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Good evening Demetri: They are asleep at the switch again. ERA5 was
supposed to leave 15630 kHz, at 2250 UT and go to 15650 at 2300
Checking at 2315 and 0015 UT it is still on 15630/7475/9420. Regards,
(John Babbis to Demetri Vafeas, Greece, UT 19-20 July, cc to DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
15630, July 20 at 0136, fair signal with Greek music. As John Babbis
pointed out, VOG is again on the wrong frequency, staying here instead
of switching to 15650 at 2300. ERA axually registers both most of the
day in HFCC, so they are covered but never using more than one at a
time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Anybody having info about the new sched. of Filia's morning
broadcasts on 11645? Can't find any info (in English) on their web
site. Vy 73, (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, July 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
New schedule of international languages on 11645 kHz now. On 9420 /
15630 kHz Greek service at usual this morning. 11645 kHz channel,
totally reshuffled schedule? But July 18 at 0900 UT heard undoubtedly
SERBIAN language section and at 0940 UT men`s voice in Arabic
language! vy73 de Wolfy (Büschel, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello Erik, I checked this morning at 04-11 UT all VoGRC / R Filia
channels as well as .asp WEB LIVE RADIO streams from Athens.
But un-discovered the "English portion" of these 13 languages program
unfortunately. See my report to John Babbis (92 years old) Greek
national in Wash. DC of July 19 - see below!
We had some discussions yesterday before, because I discovered Serbian
and Arabic segment on 11645 kHz recently and I asked John to LOOK OUT
the Greek websites and translate that NEW retimed R Filia program
schedule and translate it further into English.
As Jean-Michel Aubier from France told me earlier last week, the VoGRC
/ R Filia re-timed also French morning service, starts as from July
15! vy73 wolfy df5sx
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
Dear John, please read the ERT websites in Greek language and
translate the new schedule of international languages on 11645 kHz
now. On 9420 / 15630 kHz Greek service at usual this morning.
11645 kHz channel, totally reshuffled schedule? But July 18 at 0900 UT
heard undoubtedly SERBIAN language section and at 0940 UT mens voice
in Arabic language ! vy73 de Wolfy
Good afternoon Wolfy: Where is VOG web site? I looked at
voiceofgreece.gr? I see nothing about new schedule of international
languages on 11645 kHz. Can you send me that link so that I can look
at it? Regards, John Babbis, July 18, via WB
Good morning, kalimera, dear John,
> Where is VOG web site? I looked at voiceofgreece.gr? I see nothing
about new schedule of international languages on 11645 kHz.
SAME ME ! --- nothing available on website http://www.ert.gr/
click to RADIOFONO, right side column, 3rd row from top
click to FILIA
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/index.asp?id=18
or direct to
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/liveradio/filia.asp
listen to ONLINE WEB LIVE RADIO // 11645 kHz
for example at 05.00 UT Bulgarian section.
S=9+5 dB strength, increasing S=9+30dB at 0540 UT
R Filia WEB LIVE RADIO 27 seconds later than shortwave signal.
11645 kHz
0500 UT Bulgarian
0530 UT Albanian
0550 UT ID in Greek, frequencies and schedule
0551-0552 UT news in Albanian, 0552 UT 11645 kHz left the air.
17705 kHz
0553:35 TX on at 17705 kHz channel.
At 0554 UT still R Filia WEB LIVE RADIO 27 seconds later than
shortwave signal on 17705 kHz. 0600:26 UT time pips end.
Followed with Filia ID in Spanish at 0601, till 0605 UT Spanish,
but at 0606 check program in Greek too, in // 9420, 15630 kHz.
Signal increasing S=8 at 0620 UT. 17705 kHz in Greek to Africa 0553
till 0802:14 UT TX off.
11645 kHz started again at 0805 UT with R Filia in Turkish, S=9+25dB.
Followed by Russian at 0830-0900 UT.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
V of Greece 0400-0450 UT Greek program, heard in Germany
7475 S=9+30dB strength
9420 S=9+20dB
15630 S=5
on VoGRC WEB LIVE RADIO 13 seconds later than shortwave signal.
click to RADIOFONO, left side column, 4th row from top
click to
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/liveradio/voiceofGreece.asp
0457 UT Identification in Greek,
0458-0500 UT played GREEK NATIONAL ANTHEM.
0500-0600 UT
9420 S=9+20dB, increasing S=9+30dB at 0540 UT
15630 S=7 at 0520, increasing S=9+20dB at 0540 UT
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/liveradio/voiceofGreece.asp
from 0458 UT VoGRC WEB LIVE RADIO 27 seconds later than shortwave
signal.
0600-0800 UT
9420 S=9+30dB
15630 S=9+20dB
17705 S=8
Interval signal 0750 UT, followed by station identification.
0750:40 UT news bulletin in Greek started, till 0754:15 UT.
ID and IS at 0754:50 UT.
Greek talk till 0759:50 UT.
9420/15630 kHz TX off at 0800 UT.
17705 kHz TX off but later at 0802:14 UT.
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/liveradio/voiceofGreece.asp
0000-0450 7475 Greek daily Eu,Af,Am
0000-0450 9420 Greek daily Eu,Am
0300-0800 15630 Greek daily Eu
0500-0800 9420 Greek daily Eu
0500-0530 11645 Bulgarian mtwtf.. Eu
0530-0553 11645 Albanian mtwtf.. Eu
TX frequency change move
0554-0559 17705 Albanian mtwtf.. Af
0600-0605 17705 Spanish daily Af (late switch by
mistake?)
0606-0750 17705 Greek daily Af
0800-1000 9420//15630 Greek m.wtf.. Eu
0800-0830 11645 Turkish mtwtf.. Eu also Tue
0830-0900 11645 Russian mtwtf.. Eu also Tue
0900-0930 11645 Serbian m.wtf.. Eu off Tue
0930-1000 11645 Arabic m.wtf.. Eu off Tue
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
R Filia changed the language sequence as of July 15, 2011.
11645 kHz // MW 666 kHz.
R Filia WEB LIVE RADIO 27 seconds later than shortwave.
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radio/liveradio/filia.asp
0500 Bulgarian, 0530 Albanian, 0600 Spanish, 0630 German, 0700
Russian, 0730 French, 0800 Turkish, 0830 Polish, 0900 Serbian, 0930
Arabic, 1000 Romanian, -- but couldn't find English section time table
yet. 73 wolfy (all via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Differs on weekends
** GREECE. Here are two exclusively rare photographs of the Voice
of Greece transmitter site near Avlis. An aerial view was taken by
Athanaspoulos, another photo was semi-panoramic: it was taken by
Tasos. My thanks go to them for their enthusiasm.
[Avlis, Voice of Greece.22]
[Avlis, Voice of Greece. 33]
(Lev Lytovchenko, Canada, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** GREECE. Greek Public Radio to face severe cuts closing radio
stations, mediumwave transmitters and reducing staff. [BUT NOT SW!]
Severe cuts for the Greek Radio are included in the new business plan
of the Greek public broadcaster ERT, according to reports last week.
The cuts are expected to lead radio stations to ceasing operation,
selling land, but also drastically reducing the number of employees.
Specifically, the business plan of ERT suggests merging 19 regional
radio stations into 13, which is estimated to save about 1.5 million
euros. Though, this suggestion, according to Eleftherotypia "has
caused strong opposition by regional members of the Parliament who do
not accept this. This is why this move has stalled for now, as it
requires a political decision and such period ... the government would
avoid any inner conflict." At the same time there are scenarios of
giving the regional radio stations to the municipalities, a solution
that had also been proposed in the past but didn't take place.
Apart from the merger of regional radio stations, the ERA appears to
be moving towards reducing the cost of emissions, leaving bands that
are proved to be unpopular, according to the same reports. It has been
proposed to abolish a range of frequencies in the mediumwave (MW),
which consume large amounts of energy.
**** However, abolishing the "Voice of Greece" (ERA5) has been ruled
out, given the great response from the Greek communities living abroad
and the ocean-going shipping. ****
Finally "there is a plan to sell property, particularly expensive land
near broadcast centers in the possession of ERT SA. Leakages and
reports estimate that this piece of ERT property amounts to 300
billion euros", announced the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists
(POESY).
These cuts are expected to accompany measures also taken on greek
public TV, such as closing a digital channel.
The reforms being planned have already caused the reaction of
employees who are going on strike and say they will appeal to
international organizations and any remedy in order to prevent the
violation of their labor rights. "The government, instead of promoting
by every means to convert the ERT stations into public bodies,
eliminating their dependency on the government, prefers to continue
with the downgrading of information for the benefit of private
broadcasters who (except in promotion of business activities of their
owners) tend to play official government propagandists." The Board of
POESY requires the abandonment of any plan of shutting down stations
or reducing redundancies of ERT in the center and the periphery and
requires signing a new Collective Labor Agreement.
Source: Eleftherotypia, To Vima, Poesy
http://www.thegreekradio.com/node/2788
(via paokara66, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, 0559-, Radio Verdad, Jul 10. About as well as I've
ever heard them with sign-off announcement in Spanish, then presumably
Chiquimula [sic]. No English tonight, though. Gave address, frequency,
etc. Then into NA (quite a long choral anthem) to 0605. Transmitter
was still on at 0608 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4055, Radio Verdad, Jul 11, 0442 - No sign of them this night, but
back as usual the following night to 0606 sign-off. Very nice
reception of late (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one
aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG
measured about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As
well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle
elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus
SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
They sign off about 2 hours earlier on UT Mondays (gh, DXLD)
Estimado Sr. Hauser: Le informo que 14 de julio en Mérida, Yucatán,
capté a Radio Verdad (Guatemala) en 4055 kHz con buena señal e
identificación a las 0300 UT anunciándose en 4.05 MHz. Le envío enlace
a archivo de audio.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SN1EMK07
Atte: (Ing. Civ. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., July 19, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
4055+, July 20 at 1125, R. Truth in English mentioning Chiquimula;
1127 into Chinese! with some musical background, still at 1131. Signal
surged briefly to S9+8 at 1128, sunrise enhancement. Theirs: 1138;
Mine: 1129. Frequency very slightly high compared with BFO to JOZ+
6055. Never heard R. Verdad in Chinese before. This 700-watt regional
station acts like a trans-oceanic broadcaster, which it can be for the
DXers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, Rdif Nationale, 2210-2257*, July 14, French talk.
Wide variety of Afro-pop music, hi-life music and rustic tribal music.
Abrupt sign off. Fair.
7125, Radio Conakry, 0552-0610, July 20, African hi-life music. Local
Afro-pop music. French announcements. Local chants. Fair (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** HAWAII. 10000 at 0544, and 15000 at 0545 July 16: following one of
the feature announcements, and then the propagation info, WWVH
inserted about 4 seconds of tone during otherwise atonal minutes
before announcing the next minute`s time; bad editing? Occasionally
noted before. One expects perfexion from NIST! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR Lucknow is noted today 15 July 2011 on 4884 instead of
4880 from sign on at 0025. It is scheduled till 0430. 73 (Jose Jacob,
VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road,
Hyderabad 500082, India, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
Thanks for the tip Jose, checked at 0147z, on 4884.0. Regards,
(Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, UT July 18, dx_india yg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1574, DXLD) See also ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS
** INDIA. AIR Employees to go on strike --- Some employees of AIR &
Doordarshan TV have announced to go on Relay Hunger strike from 19 to
21 July 2011 to press their demands. So watch out for any
interruptions on All India Radio stations on these days. 73 (Jose
Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road,
Hyderabad 500082, India, July 18, dx_india yg via DXLD)
Delhi on 5053 --- No major interruptions noted on AIR stations
although some staff is on a Relay Hunger strike. Last night at around
1630 UT (19 Jul 2011) an AIR station was noted on 5053 kHz. Delhi 5015
kHz was missing at that time. Other AIR stations were noted on regular
frequencies.
Today (and on some other days) 5990 was noted with Urdu Service
instead of Sindhi signing off at 0100 UT. 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS,
National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad
500082, India, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, ibid.)
5015, AIR Delhi (Kingsway) – presumed. Is it really possible? Heard a
clean audio from assume AIR. The terrible hum is gone? For some time
now they have been unlistenable due to a horribly strong hum. Seems
that is completely gone; just nice audio now. I am presuming AIR heard
on July 20 at 1346 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3344.970, 1318-, RRI Ternate, Jul 10. Despite being
Sunday, there was an English broadcast after 1300. A travel program as
they were talking about various islands and facilities. Fair level, as
dawn occurred some time ago. A call in show, as they accepted several
calls, all in English (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750, 1233-, RRI Makassar, Jul 9. A messy
frequency for sure with several cochannels. The dominant station is
centered around 4750.011 and is presumably Makassar. There may be
another station mixed in around this frequency. There's also another
measuring 4749.962. Listened a little more carefully, and it seems
that Makassar is the station on the low side, whereas the high side,
although stronger, is lower in modulation and is likely Bangladesh
Betar and probably another in the mix. This station had non-stop talk
around 1235 UT (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte
Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100
magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and
NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.975, 1310-, Voice of Indonesia, Jul 9. Very good
reception in English with news headlines, followed by a comment about
the large number of civil servants, followed by a bribery scandal
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg
750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. The availability of internet radio (comment
after reading DXLD 11-28)
I was reading the hot-off-the-press DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-28, July
14, 2011 on a 90 minute train journey a few hours ago on my iPad, and
saw Kraig Krist's insightful (and spot-on) remarks re shortwave being
mainly a vehicle for propaganda. Kraig also mentioned the challenges
of being tied to a PC to listen to internet radio.
The technology is changing fast, in fact as I was reading Kraigs words
I was listening live to AIR Chennai in my earbuds - yes while on the
train in the Australian countryside. If you haven't tried the new
TuneIn radio (OSX and Android devices) you really should have a look.
At least in Australia (i.e. within 3G Cell range which covers the
majority of the population) you can now listen to 50,000 plus radio
station live either at home or on the move. I even now use TuneIn in
the car (via bluetooth) to my car radio. TuneIn feels like a real
radio and also has the added advantage that my stations saved as
favourites also become the presets on my internet radios at home. New
stations are added pretty well instantly, for example the new stream
from Gambia mentioned in today's DXLD is already available and the
recently opened station in Muscat was added on the launch day. With
mobile data rates now being so cheap in Australia I don't hesitate to
listen to world radio while mobile.
Of course not everywhere in the world has the same access to mobile
data, but at least here in Australia internet radio is now totally
portable. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, Australia, July 15, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello, if I also I have a IPAD and I'm using these holiday days via my
3G network operator. I also use it to listen radio via the internet,
but my real hobby is well on the receiver to listen to shortwave or to
take advantage of tropospheric FM propagation. I prefer it. Cordially
(Tomás Méndez, Spain, Enviado desde mi iPad, ibid.)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. It appears that NASA is determined to prevent
us from monitoring a possible repeat of the extraordinary daytime MW
DX opening two years ago in April, when an STS landing occurred in the
morning well after sunrise all the way across the CONUS --- our theory
being that passing thru the ionosphere near us disrupted the D-layer
normally blocking propagation via the higher E-layer, which funxions
at night for distant `skywave` propagation (or somehow enhancing the
E-layer itself), producing night-like daytime reception in OK of MW
stations in CO, WY, NE, SD and ND.
The final STS 135 mission schedule at
http://www.nasa.gov/tvschedule/pdf/tvsked_revi.pdf
shows as of July 20:
orb event MET CDT EDT UTC
197 DEORBIT PREPARATIONS BEGIN 12/ 13:25 11:54 PM 12:54 AM 04:54
THURSDAY JULY 21:
198 PAYLOAD BAY DOOR CLOSING 12/ 14:45 01:14 AM 02:14 AM 06:14
200 ATLANTIS DEORBIT BURN 12/ 17:25 03:54 AM 04:54 AM 08:54
200 MILA C-BAND RADAR ACQUISITION OF ATLANTIS
12/ 18:16 04:45 AM 05:45 AM 09:45
200 KSC LANDING KSC 12/ 18:29 04:58 AM 05:58 AM 09:58
This means that like several previous ones, landing path will be in
the dark before sunrise, so any such effects would be obscured with MW
propagation in nighttime mode anyway.
This page shows landing paths:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/news/landing.html
coming in over Central America and/or Mexico in the night. If delayed
one orbit, coming in from further up over Mexico, but not USA. If
further delays should be necessary or even a change in landing site to
CA or NM, because of ground weather, all this will be different. So as
usual, keep alert for any changes in the original plans (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And so it went, nominal (gh)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Does anybody know anything about the currect
situation about World Space? Here in Copenhagen I still can receive 5
programs from Afristar: WRN 1 and 2, Esperance, NPR, RFI and BBC
World. I actually thought that everything had been discontinued.
73, (Erik Køie, Denmark, July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
AFAIK, the company was bought back by his original owner, Mr. Samara,
through one of his other company in the US, Yazmi LLC. That was for
$5.5m after a more substantial offering by Liberty Media expired.
I really don't know who's paying for the uplink now. Perhaps I can ask
one of their past business partner in Italy. 73s (Andy Lawendel,
Italy, ibid.)
Thanks indeed, Andrea, for the reply! Wonder if they have a web site
for more info? Vy 73 from a rainy Copenhagen @ 16 C (Erik Køie, ibid.)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. July 19 PCJ Media Network Plus 30
min edition now available at
http://www.facebook.com/l/eAQD-lejFAQAq5Sq6yxHweTtzMIUv-23yFeg1-wI-aSK6RA/www.pcjmedia.com/medianetworkplus
We begin on WRN July 30th (Keith Perron) (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via
DXLD)
The August 6th edition of Media Network Plus weekly edition will look
at jamming from China and from the former USSR. The monthly edition of
Media Network Plus will have Jan Hoek the DG of Radio Netherlands and
Nigel Holmes of Radio Australia. July 30th (Keith Perron, ibid.)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. VOA Zimbabwe Programs on Intelsat 10
See ZIMBABWE [non]
** IRAN. 4884.954, Iranian government security authority jammers
against - tentatively - Voice of Iranian Kurdistan - program noted
here parking a bubble jammer at 0310 UT July 17. VoIK not heard at
this time slot (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via
DXLD)
** IRAN [non]. 17755, poor July 18 at 1306, lofi audio with hum during
conversation; maybe bad phone connexion. 1312 music without hum, 1316
Farda ID in passing. Is 100 kW, 77 degrees via Lampertheim, GERMANY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Summer A-11 of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Part 2 of 2: Persian
Radio Farda
0030-0100 on 1314 1575 5860 5940 7585
0100-0130 on 1314 1575 5860 5940 7295 7585
0130-0200 on 1314 1575 5860 5940 7295 7585 9805
0200-0230 on 1575 5860 7295 7585 9805
0230-0300 on 1575 5860 7280 7585 9805 15690
0300-0330 on 1575 5860 5885 7280 9805 15690
0330-0400 on 1575 5860 5885 7280 9805 11635 15690
0400-0430 on 1575 5860 5885 11635 13810 13860 15690
0430-0530 on 1575 5860 5885 11635 13810 13860 15690 17880
0530-0600 on 1575 5885 7220 11635 13810 13860 15690 17880
0600-0630 on 1575 5885 7220 11635 13810 13860 15690 17845
17880
0630-0800 on 1575 5885 7220 11635 13860 15690 17810 17845
17880
0800-0830 on 1575 5885 7220 13860 15690 17810 17845
0830-0930 on 1575 5885 7220 13860 15690 17695 17810 17845
0930-1000 on 1575 5885 13860 15610 15690 17695 17845
1000-1130 on 1575 5885 7435 13860 15610 15690 17695
1130-1200 on 1575 5885 7435 13860 15690 17695
1200-1330 on 1575 7435 13860 15690 17695 17755
1330-1400 on 1575 7435 13860 15680 15690 17695 17755
1400-1430 on 1314 1575 11520 13860 15680 17695
1430-1500 on 1314 1575 11520 13860 15555 15680 17695
1500-1530 on 1314 1575 11520 15555 15680 17695
1530-1600 on 1314 1575 7585 11520 15110 15555 15680 17695
1600-1630 on 1314 1575 7585 11520 15110 15555 15680
1630-1700 on 1314 1575 7585 9760 11520 15110 15555 15680
1700-1730 on 1314 1575 7585 9760 11520 15110 15680
1730-1830 on 1314 1575 5830 7585 9760
1830-2130 on 1314 1575 5830 7585
2130-0030 on 1314 1575 7585
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 18 via DXLD)
** IRELAND. Irish Music Radio e-QSL received from Tony at the station.
Heard 5 July 2011 from 0210 to 0235 UT on 6930 kHz AM. e-QSL lists
power at 60 W. In SSB mode, this seems possible across the Atlantic
with darkness, but in AM mode? If this is indeed the case, Glenn, then
my European QRP has been reduced! Hope all is well as I write this.
73's, (Ed Insinger, NJ, July 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. [Re 11-28:] 14 July, 2148 - 9235 kHz, GALEI ZAHAL - Lod
(Israele), Ebraico, tk OM/YLs. Segnale buono-sufficiente. 6977 era
spenta, 15850 accesa. Notata anche il 15 luglio a vari orari diurni
(Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia,
bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
Galei Zahal has been found last Friday 16 and Saturday 17th (at least)
on 9235 replacing the 6977 kHz. On 16-7 at ca 1900 with talks in
Hebrew then a song and signal 45xx4 being in // 15850. Tested with
PL200 and DE1102 (Zach Liangas on Fourka Chalkidiki, Greece, Standard
rig: ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9235.004 (ex-6973), 0810 UT July 16. Ganz schwach ueber der Grasnarbe
zur Zeit das Hebraeisch Programm vom Israel Armeesender Galei Zahal,
in \\ 15850.004 kHz. Das 32 mb Signal wird heute Nachmittag dann hier
in Europa staerker einfallen.
Der Aussendung dieses schwachen 5 kW Stimmchens ist bestimmt auch eine
psychologisch stabilisierende Wirkung zur Bindung der Agenten in NoAF,
NE und ME zuzuschreiben? Oder welchen Zweck erfuellt dieser Service?
(Wolfgang Büschel, July 16, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via DXLD)
15850, July 20 at 0137, poor signal with fluttery music, must be Galei
Zahal. So I check their other, new, frequency which I have not yet
heard: 9235 --- this one is now audible but very poor with music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. IRRS-Shortwave new daily broadcast to Asia and
Australia --- Hello There from IRRS-Shortwave in Milan, Italy,
Effective today, June [sic] 18, 2011, we are adding another daily
broadcast to Middle East, Asia and Australia from 1300 to 1400 UT on
15610 kHz. All our broadcasts can also be heard online at:
http://mp3.nexus.org or
http://www.egradio.org
You can find our updated frequency schedule at:
http://www.nexus.org/schedules/
We welcome your comments and reception reports for these new
broadcasts at: reports (at) nexus (dot) org Thanks, and stay tuned!
73s, (Ron Norton, NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association,
http://www.nexus.org July 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Also via ROMANIA? Frequency schedule page shows it`s 300 kW in
English, unlike the other SW frequencies with 150 kW. I`ll bet it`s a
preacher, but they never say what their new programming is, and it`s
not yet on the day-by-day programming schedule pages as of July 19.
Does Tiganeshti have a spare 300 kW transmitter during this hour? Yes,
per EiBi, only two of the three are in use for RRI: 1300-1330 on 17600
and 15435; 1330-1400 on 11835 and 15140. In each case one of the
frequencies would be 2-3 kHz off to the low side; see ROMANIA.
So on July 19 I tune 15610 in at 1258, and guess what, Brother Scare
is already on, past 1301 with no sign-on or ID from IRRS/NEXUS-
IBA/EGR, talking about being on 5 satellites, etc. Not // WWCR 9980,
until I found a music bit starting on 15610 about 72 seconds after it
started on 9980 (The BS from BS is so generic and repetitive that it`s
hard to make a match on that at such a long delay.) By 1358, 15610 has
declined to JBA with flutter. At 1359 another voice is heard, and a
`news` cast starts before 1400, about Republicans until off at 1401*
Or by then, was it WEWN instead? HFCC and FCC show they start 15610 at
1500, but WEWN website, EiBi, Aoki all show from 1400. I was alert for
any Queen of Heaven mix before 1400 but heard none. BTW, July 19 Aoki
already lists the 13-14 IRRS on 15610 as Overcomer via Rimavská
Sobota, Slovakia. I don`t think so. A certain downunderite also
believes the Slovakia story.
True to form, BS is all mixed up about his own schedule, with this
flashing red on the Overcomer homepage:
``New Shortwave 300,000 watt starting July 18 at 18:00 UTC 15.610``
It`s still not on the less-than useful SW frequency schedule with non-
specific local times at
ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.htm
l
1800 would be Pakistan time for 1300 UT. Just what the Pakis need!
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
June 18? Or July 18? Not shown at http://www.nexus.org/schedules/
I find it interesting that each of the coverage maps at
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Shortwave/maps/index.html
has been generated from [a very old version of] VOACAP using an
antenna with a constant 17 dB gain in all directions. That entry in
the antenna database of VOACAP was put there to facilitate station
planning. Since no such antenna exists, I assume IRRS does not have
one, so the maps would seem to me not to really provide any reasonable
picture of actual coverage. df (Dan Ferguson, ex-VOA, ODXA yg via
DXLD)
Shown here :
http://www.nexus.org/schedules/IRRS-SW_A11.html
Log from Japan: I can hear them on 15610 kHz. SINPO 25332. Religious
talk - Hironori Takeuchi. Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, ibid.)
And I failed to note that not all (any?) of the transmissions are from
Milan, anyway. df (Ferguson, ibid.)
** JAPAN. 40, JJY, Jul 11, 0527 - Quite easy to hear this Japanese LW
time signal station with time pips. Nothing else besides the pips
audible. Fair level. Also heard them during the day. WWVB on 60 kHz by
comparison always very strong (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii
(Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs
employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central
Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length, while the latter
was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about
50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR
7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KASHMIR. 4950.00, *0030-0040, INDIA, 11.07, R Kashmir, Srinagar.
Vernacular ann[ouncer/ouncement?], Vande Mataram hymn, ann, native
folksongs. New sign on time, 34232, QRM Angola (Anker Petersen, on my
AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark,
via Dario Monferini, 20 July, playdx yg via DXLD) See also ANDAMAN
** KAZAKHSTAN. This weekend, 9 and 10 July, managed to take some
photos of the antenna field, which is located 20 km from Almaty on
route A350, Almaty - Taldykorgan. Its coordinates are N 43 ? 30 '14'',
E 77 ? 0' 20'' well seen on Google Maps.
It is situated near the village of Bayserke Ili region, which until
2000 called Dmitrievka in WRTH 2010, by the way, he remained
Dmitrievka. I remember before encountered in this publication name
Nikolaevka but this village is located 15 kilometers to the north,
hence information was not accurate.
A few photos I have posted on the DF-site (unfortunately original
photo resolution 12MP here can fill in):
http://dxing.ru/fotoalbom/mesta.html
On one of the images are clearly visible under the mast structure,
from which there were only walls. Hence the question is brewing,
whether it is used-Broadcasting Center at this time? I have not yet
had the time and possibility is to check ...
I wonder, what are / were an antenna strung between the short masts
(of pipes) that are visible in the foreground?
By the way, about a kilometer to the southeast of the field are seen
as soon as the mast with antennas. Here they are:
http://imageshost.ru/photo/859364/id728674.html
May belong to other entities, and therefore are separated? There is a
small airport nearby, where you learn to fly and jump to the
parachute, may their antenna?
It will be interesting to know the views of knowledgeable people.
PS: In the same section HH-portal posted pictures of last year the
station antennas ADD RJH66, located on the territory of Kyrgyzstan,
near the border with Kazakhstan (Dmitry Puzanov, Kazakhstan /
"open_dx" [via machine translation], RusDX 17 July via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. Voice of Korea is using shortwave feeders on 3560 and
4405 this evening. They were previously in daily use, but I haven't
heard them for a while. As I write (1505 UT) English is running on
3560 and Russian on 4405 kHz (Martyn tokyoscoop, July 16, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. KOREA D.P.R., 11679.844, heavily wandering around
x.820 .... to x.860 kHz, today main power stability problem on the
peoples republic? KCBS Pyongyang Kanggye, shrill ladies singer chorus,
S=6-7, at 0228 UT July 17.
// 9665.310, violin music at 0240 UT July 17, noted on remote SDR unit
at Tokyo-JPN.
11735.123, heavily wandering around x.104 .... to x.140 kHz, Voice of
Korea from Kujang in Spanish, soldiers chorus, S=7 at 0231 UT, July
17, 0232 UT report on patriotas corea, poetas, hombres cultura, la
literatura.
9729.966, Voice of Korea from Kujang in Chinese, piano music at 0245
UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN, 5985, 1330-, Shiokaze, Jul 9. Sign-on in
presumed Korean at this time, and quite heavily jammed by a grinding /
bubble jammer. Still good to very good reception, though. Also a 900
Hz tone. The following day, in Japanese, I don't hear the jammer, but
the tones (there are 2) around 900 Hz high are still present.
Excellent reception. The tone on the high side is most likely Myanma
Radio now that I think about it! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii
(Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. RADIO BROADCASTER HOPES TO CONTRIBUTE TO GRADUAL
CHANGE IN NORTH KOREA
Deutsche Welle talks to 'Open Radio for North Korea' founder Tae Keung
Ha about the importance of outside broadcasters for the people of
North Korea. The North Korean regime suppresses all forms of free
information within the country. "Open Radio for North Korea"
broadcasts international news via shortwave and FM from neighboring
South Korea for the North. World in Progress talked to the radio
station's founder, Tae Keung Ha, about the role of outside
broadcasters for the people of North Korea.
More at : http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15235363,00.html
(via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, July 19, cumbredx yg via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH. Updates to ITU Reference Tables
BROADCAST.TXT REFERENCE TABLE
07-JUL-2011: add: MND, MND Radio (KOR)
Reference Table Freq. Management Org.
07-JUL-2011: add: MND, MND Radio
Global HF Transmitter Site Table
07-JUL-2011: add: CHC ChunCheon, KOR, 37N56 127E46
(Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So
what new station/service is on SW from that site?? (gh, DXLD)
** KURDISTAN [non]. via Ukraine, 11530, Voice of Mesopotamia, 0402-
0435, July 16, tune-in to National Anthem. Local Kurdish music at
0404. Indigenous vocals. Fair to good at tune-in but slowly
deteriorated to a weak level by 0437 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
Listening Digest)
** KUWAIT. 7430, VOA, Umm Al-Rimam, 0047-0102, July 13, English. Book
review program in slow English; cut off at 0057 mid-sentence; carrier
back at 0059; crash start at 0100 with news re Karzai brother
assassination; referring listeners to VOA website for more news; fair
at best with fluttery het of sorts on frequency (Scott R. Barbour Jr.
Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17840, July 19 at 1249, South-Asian sounding song, but 1250 Arabic
announcement and current rock song in English by some American female
star; I can never remember which is which, and could not care less.
Warbly carrier with BFO, compared e.g. to France on 17850. This is R.
Sawa until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET
[non] 19000
** KUWAIT. 21540, July 19 at 1246 fair signal in Arabic, breaking into
S Asian-sounding song; can`t hear Spain mixing. At 1332 Kuwait is
stronger with Arabic music, drama. 13m conditions improving slightly,
with solar flux up to 102 July 18, but K-index 3 at 1500 July 19
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. 9355, July 20 at 1157-1158* good signal, ``You have
been listening to Radio Free Asia``, then Lao-sounding music until
off. If they are going to bother to insert a closing ID in English,
why not add the language it has been? Scheduled Lao at 11-12, 100 kW,
285 degrees via SAIPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, July 17 at 1401, V. of Africa from the Great
Jamahiriyah ID at start of English bihour; not heard this well, S9+10
peaks, for several weeks, usually just a JBA carrier. So any new news
of Libya? Ha! First dekaminute presents nice hilife music with cora;
1411 YL starts talking about the Jamahiriyah but her accent is so
heavy I will not employ the concentration necessary to try to decode
her blab. 1425 back to the perpetual program introduced by riff from
Beethoven`s Ninth, OM with part 1 of ``solution of the problem of
democracy``. Yawn! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 5010, R. Madagasikara. Rather surprised to find them
with full carrier and both sidebands being present (double sideband
AM); for a long time this frequency was normally in USB + carrier
mode, until July 1 when they started broadcasting here in LSB +
carrier mode. Almost fair from 1326 to 1336, July 16; light AIR QRM.
Recently have been hearing them daily with a nice signal and // to
a weaker 6135.28, which continues as always with double sideband AM
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Malagasy, 5010.00, Radio Madagasikara, 0027-0035 July 17, Heard a
Interval Signal barely followed by comments from a person, possibly a
female. The signal was being squeezed by noise and such. Later a male
talks as the signal improves from a threshold to a fair level. At 0040
flute type music briefly over talking. Signal remained fair (Chuck
Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Chuck - In double sideband AM? (Ron Howard, ibid.)
5010, R. Madagasikara, 1353-1404, July 20. Kids singing; many “Radio
Madagasikara” IDs; hearing them with full carrier and both sidebands
being present (double sideband AM), BUT the LSB in somewhat stronger
than the USB; so I guess it should be called “unbalanced double side
band AM”; thanks to j-Peace for providing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdXJUQkfghk
with the first 15 seconds in LSB, then switching to USB and later back
to LSB again. My receptions had both LSB and USB almost equal, with
LSB only slightly better.
Would welcome comments as to the significance of this unbalanced LSB-
USB situation. J-Peace speculates “two transmitters, however, I think
they are using a broken transmitter”. Is this likely? Thanks for any
ideas! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 6050.0. It was back in June 2006 that Malaysia moved from
6025v up to 6049.6. All this time they have always been on 6049.6
(very slight variation) until today. I thought I was seeing things,
but it’s true. It’s now 6050.0. Is this a new transmitter or have they
finally, after 5 years, adjusted the old one? Heard the R. Suara Islam
program from 1409 to 1500, July 20. Almost non-stop reciting from the
Qur’an. Had to stay with it till ID’ed finally at 1500 and into the
Kuala Lumpur news; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
We`ll miss that het, as we always knew it meant Malaysia, even if we
could hear nothing else (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
9835, 1345-, Radio TV Malaysia, Sarawak FM, Jul 12. Strong reception
from this Kajang 100 kW transmitter, but suffers from severe adjacent
splatter. Vietnam is on 9840 in English at good level, but I don't
think they're the culprits. Rather, I think it's from 9845 jamming the
VOA with their own CNR1 programs (also on 9830). No sign at all from
direct Sarawak on 5030. Empty channel when checked these past 4
mornings (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC,
270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic
loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sarawak FM. Glenn astutely noted in WOR 1573 that the best chance to
hear Malaysia in NAm is on 9835. Heard July 14 from 1332 to 1444. Pop
songs; 1400 pips (1+1); business news; 1430 promo for upcoming movie
“Johnny English Reborn”, a parody of James Bond movies; sound bite
from the trailer; fair with light adjacent QRM. For those not familiar
with what the language sounds like,
http://www.box.net/shared/q3tgob4e42a1qhg1hta2
contains an MP3 audio clip with about 6 minutes of fairly decent
reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 4845, Radio Mauretanie [sic], 0728-0735, 17-July-2011,
in Arabic. Male announcer with news discussion, local music at 0732,
excellent signal (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100
Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
7245, July 19 at 0540, IGIM is already on earlier than usual with
chants, stronger than Vatican 7250. I had not heard on this frequency
for some time, perhaps signing on later than I sign off, as reported
by others. 0625 still on, now with Arabish talk in normal tone of
voice.
In the NASWA Flashsheet, Ed Wlodarski in NJ had reported Mauritania
back on 4845, excellent signal July 17 at 0728-0735. That frequency
had been off for many months. If past performance be any guide, their
usage of both and switchover times will be highly irregular.
7245, July 20 at 0600, IGIM is on today with chanting. Nothing of
course on night frequency 4845, where it was reported recently from NJ
around 0730. Altho Nouakchott stix way out into the Atlantic,
longitude 16 west, so really ought to be on UT-1 timezone, UT is
observed, de-facto yearound DST, and per gaisma.com today`s sunrise is
0638 UT; at latitude 18 north there is a one-hour variation during the
year, to be 0739 in six months. So now, much of a signal at 0730 on
60m is unlikely, an hour after local sunrise. What else could he have
been hearing on 4845 with an ``excellent signal in Arabic``, 17 July
at 0728-0735? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7245, ORTM, *0552:30-0610, July 20, abrupt sign on with local chants.
Very good signal (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** MEXICO. Bits of analog sporadic E TV DX, July 15 UT:
1330 on 2, Spanish from the south, fade out
1438 on 2, Azteca 7 promo, large 7 on screen briefly; but could have
been carried on sister network Azteca 13?
1502 on 3, weak video from WSW, probably XHBC Mexicali; traces on 5
1515 on 2, signals building, CCI peaking SSW to S
1518 on 2, net-7 show `en vivo` from beach, UR bug is now a clear big
7, CDT clock and temp LR
1519 on 2, mixing with net-4 `f` bug LL
1520 on 3, net 5 toons
1523 on 4, MUF up to here now, net-5 toons atop
Continued from last report, Es in progress, July 15, UT:
1555 on 2, Kaplan College ad in English; south, surely XHRIO; it`s one
of those online `colleges` with no particular campus; about fraud
lawsuits see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan_College
1603 game show, `Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader`? Yes, on XHRIO
sked today too at 11 am; formerly weekly primetime show must be
daytime M-F stripped now, only reruns?
1603 on 2, net-13 dominating, YL fashion show; CCI to above
1616 on 4, snow-free, ads and promos, net-13
1617 on 5, net-5 toons, plus/minus offset
1617 on 2, soccer amid the CCI
1659 on 4, net-13 with ALEGRIA program bug in LR
1702 on 4, net-13 peaking SW with novela
1703 on 2, novela, UR bug with `canal` under a cloud(?), and 11:04
clock = MDT/CST. Probably XEPM Ciudad Juárez, Tu Canal
1703 on 3, net 2, CCI, bécalos on crawler, novela
1705 on 5, net-13, but NOT // net-13 on 4; 5 has cooking show seen
previously from XHAQ Mexicali, so delayed in UT-7 zone?
Text scroll DX on channel 5: mixing with net-13 signal peaking roughly
from SW I have been seeing as ghost three lines of black text at top
of screen scrolling upward, 1705-1725+ UT July 15. Can`t make out any
words, whether Spanish or English. Any ideas about this? Like teletext
maybe, but on open channel. No, nothing like that on local cable to
radiate. Some translator/LP does this on 5? Tijuana/Mexicali also in
on 6, 3. CiJz on 2.
[Later:] This is still going on continuously at 1745 UT. The A-13
station on 5 this is mixing with is XHAQ Mexicali. When that fades in
strongest, the text disappears, so I am pretty sure it is from a
separate signal. Still hard to make out, but I suspect it`s an ID roll
of relayers with a lot of `words` starting with X- at the left, blank
in the middle, matched with other info at the right side. Now the
entire opening seems to be diminishing as often happens by 1800. [This
part posted immediately to four lists, but no replies]
1714 on 5, adstring including Lotería Mexicana [used to be called
Lotería Nacional], net-13 at 1716
1722 on 6, video now below the MUF, looks gringo, WSW, so XETV Tijuana
1722 on 3, now has signature almost-zero CCI between XHBC and XHTJB
1738 on 5, in upper LEFT: AZTECA on one line and below it in much
smaller type: BAJA CALIFORNIA. Ergo XHAQ Mexicali. Had not seen such a
localized net-13 bug before
1748 opening starts to fade down as MUF descends
1801 on 2, net-7 YL talk show from S, call-in number on screen; bug in
LR of large 7 and to its right 32C, under that 1:05 clock = CDT.
Not monitoring for next few hours but:
2337 on 2, fade-in Spanish video from S/SSW
2348 on 2, Televisa promo
UT July 16:
0025 on 2, net-2
0210 on 2, from south, apparently movie, dark
0418 on 2, movie dubbed in Spanish
0331 on 2, novela amid CCI; also CCI on 3
0331 on 4, brief video from algo, SW
Starting monitoring ch 2 for Es July 17 around 1430 UT; around 1505
signals from south start to show.
1512 on 2, net-7 with Monterrey vs Independiente fútbol; bug in UR has
large 7 and underneath it 27 [degrees] and 10:13 clock; has 10-kHz CCI
talking about Veracruz. Very likely XHTAU Tampico and XHFM Veracruz,
offset zero and plus respectively per
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV2.pdf
1513 on 2, Fox News grafix and bug LL; 1516 Toyota ad in English, amid
CCI. No doubt XHRIO Matamoros. Can`t // it to local KOKH-24 since `Fox
News Sunday` was on earlier here. Map above shows XHRIO is 2+ offset
1516 on 3, CCI between novela and algo
1518 on 3, net-5 with movie/drama film
1519 on 5, promo for televisa.com/lafuerzadeldestino on net-2, ads,
snow-free for a bit
1525 on 5, toons with net-2 bug, unusual, a Sunday-morning thing?
1525 on 6, different toons, no bug, or traces of one UR, maybe the
low-contrast Galavision one?
1541 on 4, net-13 movie about skating (roller or ice?), 1542 ads
1556 on 2, net-5 Harrison Ford movie with him driving. In addition to
net-5 bug UR, has another bug LL, a 2 in a circle with two additional
curved lines at the top of the circle. No call letters. Which net-5
relay on 2 does this?? Don`t find a logo match on
http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html
At 1556, to right of the LL bug, briefly adds text ``Estás Viendo ---
`` but ruined by CCI surge
1558 on 3, same dubbed net-5 movie // 2 but without the 2 bug LL
1607 on 2, soccer from net-2
1610 on 4, diarrhea ad, 1611 program promo reviving the net-13 bug UR
briefly, but off during the ads
1615 on 4, net-5 movie
1620 on 3, net-5 movie fades in; MUF has been falling
1620 on 4, talento program promo, can`t make out bug UR
1625 on 2, toon fades in briefly, again at 1631
1635 on 2, toon title Phineas Ferb (?); can`t make out bug UR
1639 on 2, Spanish speech about violencia fades in, or is it a church
sermon, referring to `nuestro señor`; mostly no signals now
A bit more sporadic E TVDX continued from last report, UT July 17:
1655 on 4, explosive sounds tho not much video; perhaps more of the
Harrison Ford movie seen earlier
1842 on 2 and 3, CCI from S/SSW; then on 3, net-2, post-game football
interview.
2126 on 3, KFC ad in Spanish; weak CCI on 2, 3, 4 and 5 to 2230 or so
July 18, another big opening also into FM, from turn-on and tune-in
1423 UT:
1423 on 5, Azteca noticias from WSW, Azteca 13 bug in UR, `AM` program
bug in LR along with 8:26 clock, i.e. one hour fast for XHAQ Mexicali
in the UT-7/PDT zone
1424 on 3, from WSW, Notivisa with distinctive N logo, this one with
correct clock 7:25 in LR; snow free at times from XHBC Mexicali. I
switch to FM:
1427 on 90.7, ``Cuarenta Principales`` jingle, 7:27 TC ``en 40
Principales, 90.7`` them mentions Mexicali, temps in C and F, now
27/81, hi to be 43/109 (almost like Enid has been). XHMOE, 100 kW is
in for some time at further chex: 1506, English rock, 1507 YL with
Galería Fashion Cards ad, http://www.galerias.com.mx then DJs
chatting, 1522 8:22 TC, song. That URL leads to an image blog under
construxion, while the national mall chain with the Fashion Cards is
at http://www.galeriasmx.com/index.asp and I don`t see one in Mexicali
1429 on 92.3 algo in Spanish; 1442 IFE PSA, then Gilberto Marín with
self-help talkshow, plugging his upcoming monthly workshops starting
with ``Taller de la mujer y su auto-estima`` to lick crying, on Sat 23
July, reservations at 565-6235; offices are at La Placita; more of
them on 13 Aug, 10 Sept, 15 Oct, some for kids, others for couples.
1452 ad in Spanish for a breakfast buffet at a steakhouse, back to
Gilberto. Here`s his blog in Mexicali,
http://radioterapia.over-blog.com/
so, per Cantú:
XHMMF La Poderosa Mexicali, B.C. 21,900
altho it`s only one fifth as powerful as 90.7!
[non] 1429 on 92.7, Spanish music, and Fiesta 92.7 ID, ad in gringo
Spanish by a doctor of The Prostate Treatment Center, Wichita, so KANR
again pretending to be a DX Mexican. This 12 kW signal makes more of
an impression here than on the Wichita-market outlet on the other side
of KOMA, 100 kW 92.3 which is really further in Newton.
1431 on 95.1, CCI to Wichita, Spanish ID missed, ``La`` algo
1449 on 91.5, Spanish CCI to KJZZ [see USA], more likely XHJC, Exa FM,
Mexicali with 14568 watts than the only other 91.5 in western Mexico,
XHSOA, R. Sonora, Caborca with 1510 watts. Yes: at 1451 ad for a
Shakira appearance in Mexicali
1503 on 87.75, drama, movie? In English with `urban` accents; but CCI
from something else in English. One is surely XETV ch 6 Tijuana, but
the other? 1537 urban movie is still in as MUF almost falls below FM
1541, 3 and 5 Mexicali are still in
1555, rotate to SSW for peak of heavy CCI on channels 2-5
1600 on 6, net 5 with Smurfs, CCI
1600 on 5, net 5 with Smurfs much better than // 6; same audio also on
// 3
1636 on 88.1, KWOU Woodward overridden by Spanish ads for an
embotelladora, PSA from gobierno de Michoacán extolling it with slogan
``Michoacán trabaja``, best economic situation in the region; then
``Los 40, 88.1`` jingle. Is XHZN in Zamora, heard a few times
previously this season; 1659 ad for a maquinaria store in Durango,
mentioned twice, but there is no 88.1 anywhere near Durango, so maybe
it is just the name or address of one in Zamora
1700 on 5, animated bug in LR looks like a heart, in novela, then net-
2 bug, mixing with Smurfs still from net 5
1701 on 88.1, Los Cuarenta again, abrupt moodchange to ``Ave María``
song introduced as ``La Hora de Leche[?]``, but only lasts about a
minute, outro as sponsored by Agencia Ford de Zamora. After switch to
XHRE below, XHZN regains at 1706 with music, RDS: XHZN-FM
1702, 88.1 CCI takes over from above, ``88.1 FM y 920 AM, --- XERE``
and mentions Acir group; 920 is XERE in Celaya, Guanajuato,
simulcasting XHRE 88.1, per WRTH 2011.
1809 on 4, now more WSW, peaks SSW, Salud es Belleza ad
1810 on 5, net 5 animated, not kidtoon
1813 on 5, Se Vale gameshow from net-2; 1819 snow free briefly
1836 on 2, net-13, novela? Briefly atop CCI
Opening continues on TV, mostly weaker CCI channels 2-5 past 1836 as I
am busy with lunch and compiling this report, not paying full
attention.
Following the Es opening into FM July 18 past 1836 still on TV,
occasional chex showed some signals the rest of the UT day, mostly ch
2.
UT July 19:
0125 on 2, net-4 talk show with f bug LL; also has smaller f bug in UR
0215 on 2, Televisa promo, unknown which net
0353 on 3, net-5 with lucha libre (wrestling); also CCI on 2
0403 on 2, promo mentioning Monterrey, so maybe XEFB; 0407 local
newscast, unfamiliar round bug in UR: not XEFB per Oglethorpe
1403 on 2, turn on to find Es in progress mentioning Veracruz; also
some weaker signals up to ch 5. During following sesquihour, mostly
just CCI on 2 peaking SSW.
1547 on 3, net-5 with Smurfs; algo on 4, CCI; MUF is building
1548 on 5, net-2 with HOY variety morning show, 10:48 clock
1549 on 4, net-13 with grafic of a large 6, game show?
1552 on 5, Televisa Música promo, then shots of pope
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Yucatan FM bounces in --- Hello Glenn, Odd night tonight with a spotty
E-opening on FM and some light tropo as well. Miami was slipping in
with WFEZ on 93.1 at about 7 pm local time tonight (Tuesday) then I
was starting to get some Spanish on 95.7, 93.7 and 97.3. Popping over
to my favorite fishing hole on 96.9 some very loud Spanish at about 8
after the hour, a young lady with "Cadena Rasa Noticias...informado
Yucatan" a few more words then completely gone. Looking it up we find
the Google hit for Merida, Yucatan's XHUL about 1320 miles away!
Estado #5 from here, and second XH on 96.9 (XHCPH in Chihuahua being
the other). Take care! (Eric Loy, Catlin IL, July 19, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Es opening of July 19 continued from last report, UT:
1632 on 3 from WSW, grafic at bottom shows towns including San Luís
Río Colorado, so must be in XHBC Mexicali coverage area; then Baja
California Turismo ad. 1635 on 3, bug lower right I have seen several
times from XHBC has a leaf on a stem, hard-to-read slogan partly in
script on two lines, and cut off by overscanned TV screen corner, so
look up the website: it is; DE TODO UN POCO which means A Little Bit
of Everything, M-F at 8 am PDT.
1741 on 3, the almost-zero-beat video CCI from WSW is growing, and at
1747 briefly overcoming XHBC is XHTJB Tijuana, with ONCE NOTICIAS in
lower right, YL with map showing all of Mexico, hurricane in Atlantic.
1753 on 3, novela from net 2 in UR, Televisa oval logo in UL. CCI
indicates this is still XHBC.
Kept an eye on channel 2, most of early UT July 20, and some signs of
activity, but things really start hopping at:
0235 on 2, net-13
0237 on 4, net-2 novela
0314 on 2-5, lots of CCI
Then start monitoring 88.1 FM for signs of skip over KWOU.
0358 on 88.1, finally some soul music fades in over KWOU jazz, back
out again
0358 on 5, 10:58 bug in LR, so from CDT zone, plus temp
0400 around here: see U S A
0419 on 5, WSW, net-13 novela, so XHAQ Mexicali
0419 on 6, English, show for fat ladies; CW bug LR, so XETV Tijuana
0419 on 3, usual almost-zero CCI between XHBC and XHTJB
0424 on 3, audio mix of Spanish, YL introducing concert acts with lots
of audience noise; and much lower modulated, something in English!
0429 still some English, woman being interviewed; 0430 now both in
Spanish, and 0432 Baja California PSAs atop. The channel 3 map at
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV3.pdf
shows there are a couple of analog ch 3 LP/translators in central CA
and UT, but the closer ones in southern CA, and AZ are DTV. I think
the English must have been from XHTJB: it`s not inconceivable that a
border educational station would have a little English now & then. Per
zap2it/SD Union, the Tuesday show until 9:30 pm is ``Colegio Nacional,
Grandes Pensadores Mexicanos``, unseems what I was getting.
0434 on 4, ads in Spanish for Gatorade; salud-es-belleza/Walmart;
snow-free briefly
0440 on 90.7, briefly a bit of Spanish overcomes the local overload as
I maneouvre the whip on the DX-398. Probably Mexicali
0536 on 3, XHTJB is atop with ONCE NOTICIAS at LR, starting with dust
storm in Phoenix. 0530-0600 UT is their `Noticiario Nocturno` block
Next morning JBA signals from WWCR 15825, 13845, no sporadic E tipoff
today from that direxion, but:
1430 on 2, something infades weakly from SSW; 1435 net-5 toons atop.
Weak CCI next sesquihour, nothing identifiable
1607, weak signals showing on 3, 4 and 5, still 1634, but too weak and
mixed to ID anything.
1648, now all channels 2-6 have growing CCI but nothing dominates;
time to check FM
1651 on 88.1, like TV, CCI mix of at least two stations, one with
music, one with adstring including Soriana department store, Michoacán
government PSA, so XHZN Zamora again
1651 on 88.5, Spanish breaking thru now and then, 1655 mentions ``88
punto 5``. Rest of this opening will have to wait for my next report.
Big sporadic-E FM opening on July 20, UT; I usually report in chrono
order, but this time I am going by frequency first. Assume the
language is Spanish u.o.s. References are Emisoras de FM by Jim
Thomas, 2010y; Cantú`s online http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_fm.htm
presumably current, and FM Atlas XXI of 2010y, which does not list
Mexico by frequency but rather inconveniently by location.
BTW, I would like to encourage other TV/FM DXers, especially when
reporting foreign catches, to include more detail like I do. Each log
is a potential learning experience about language, culture, geography,
broadcasting, commerce, propagation, but if details are just generic
abbrs. crammed into one line, they make rather boring reading. The
most important thing to them may be whether it`s a new or re-log,
definite ID or not, station count number, distance, but what about
other readers? {Admittedly, I ought to say more about distances, but
generally central Mexico is in the 1000-1200 mile range from Enid.}
88.1, at 1651 ad for Soriana department store, 1652 Michoacán
government PSA, so it`s XHZN Zamora, Mich. again
88.5, at 1655, bit of Spanish pokes thru the ACI, ``88 punto 5``
90.5, at 1700, news with 6-note stingers between items, `Noticiero el
Grupo`. Thought it might be XEDA/Imagen, but does not match its
webcast. 1703 some ID and tones while Imagen web has YL with news.
90.5, at 1832, about some event on 21 de julio, political talk, $,
RDS? Now sounds like same on XEDA webcast. At 1855, re-fade-in with
political discussion about PAN y PRI; sounds like same thing in a few
sex on XEDA Imagen webcast I have left running. After this, MUF below
FM
90.5, at 1847, Brazilian romantic song; 1848 sounds like ``Radio
Ben``, but now I think it was Radio UDEM, XHUDEM, Monterrey, then
fadeout, 1854 back with more Brazilian music. EFM puts it in San Pedro
Garza García NL, and UdeM evidently means Universidad de Monterrey
90.7, at 1704, `Noti-Sistema`, but same stingers as on 90.5; news of
Michoacán, Jalisco, huracán. In fact sounds like same news items as
heard a few minutes earlier on 90.5, including something about
diplomata Anthony Wayne. ``Noti-Sistema en Red Nacional``. 1706, full
ID with street address but with fades, ``Avenida --- 2289, Colonia ---
, con 200,000 vatios, Señal 90, XHOY, y la Onda de la Alegría``. Cantú
shows XHOY, Guadlajara, with 49.97 kW. So is the 200 kW the ERP? 1708
``Señal Noventa --- sin límites, hits, clásicos favoritos``, DJ
introducing ``Enola Gay`` song. 1736 instruxions for preparing or
eating chau-mein Tal-Pak(?), ``en Guadalajara, Señal Noventa``, $tereo
ID with echo on right channel
91.5, at 1710, M&W with phone numbers, website, but too much CCI and
fading to copy details. Note that all Mexican stations give phone
numbers as fast as they can. With decent reception, I can understand
fast Spanish quite well, but even in English I would have trouble
remembering them long enough to copy down. Don`t they want everyone to
get them? Or is my digit span failing? (I am not rolling tape on all
this DX: takes enough time to do the DX, compile the reports, without
also having to listen again and again!)
91.5, at 1717, TelMex ad, RDS icon flickers, tries and fails to
display, as usually the case in this unstable opening. Maybe same:
91.5, at 1738, M&W&M talk show about ropa, accesorios, cravatas, RDS
displaying fragments as it fades in and out, including
[underscores here indicate blank space on 8-character RDS display]:
DA_Y_TEN
_NA_TRES
_ZONA_3_
ZONA_H_- at 1740
At 1741, shoe color advice, ``Lo nuevo en 91.5``, seems it`s a program
for hombres titled ``Zona 3``. 1742 gobierno federal PSA and RDS:
MI_RCOL.
INEGI__
At 1743, ``Fábricas de Francia, Shopping Time, Guadalajara`` [as also
heard on 97.9].
The 91.5 station in Gja., not just the program, is in fact called Zona
3, XHGEO. What is the allusion; to gay men, maybe?! Who else would
care about shoe color? Hi
92.7, at 1711, Es signal with PSA ``del estado``. A lot of these
federal or state government PSAs are required on Mexican stations;
finally a real one overriding faux-Mexican KANR KS; at 1744 RDS:
_CLASSIC There are about five possibles in central Mexico per Cantú;
EFM has only four 92.7s in the whole country, none matching classic
93.1, at 1826, Spanish music, RDS? Does not lock in. Heard when 93.3
local cuts off; 1827 M&W DJ, phones 749 11 93 y 94, ``Hits FM``,
dinero electrónico mention. Closest match in EFM and Cantú is Stereo
Hits, XHCTO in Torreón, Coah. Phone number matches for XHCTO
93.3, at 1745, Spanish music while K227AT Enid cuts off the air; also
heard other OK station ads from KKNG
93.5, at 1729, phone number, but then local intermittent 93.3
translator cuts back on, and off and on; again at 1829 some Spanish
93.9, at 1728, YL in Spanish; 1729 two YLs discussing Mexican Air
Force and Army; 1731 mentions Villahermosa, but there is no Tabasco
station on 93.9, so dead lead. Guadalajara and several others here
95.3, at 1746, ``sólo música romántica, Amor 95.3`` with YL DJs. In
EFM we have:
XHSH Mex DF, La Nueva Amor, and
XHNB SLP SLP, Amor
so neither slogan is an exact match. Cantú has them both as just Amor
96.3, at 1719, ``en el centro de Guadalajara``; 1722 classical music;
1732 also but fading; 1746 still classical; 1759 back-announce a flute
sonata, by Marco Antonio Rubio, locutor; fading as full YL ID comes at
1801, XEJB, AM, FM, watts. Here`s the schedule along with AM 630:
http://www.sjrtv.jalisco.gob.mx/JaliscoRadio/programacion.html
EFM has XEJB on 96.3 from Sistema Jalisciense in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco,
variety format. FMA XXI shows it noncommercial with an mc format –
maybe that adds up to variety in EFM terminology. Cantú lists as
Jalisco Radio, in Guadalajara itself. Note the 96.3 channel fits in
with Guadalajara dial sequence 95.5-97.1 etc. I recall this station
from sesquidecades ago with classical. Great music may have been
banned from 96.3 in Albuquerque and New York, but it lives in Jalisco!
Too, XE- calls on FM are rare, indicating it is a very old station
originating on AM
96.5, at 1732, ``Estoy volviendo loco por tu amor`` song, VG in $;
1746 M&M mention Zacatecas. (One must be careful, especially in ads:
every town has streets or something named for every other state). But
in this case there is XHZER, Estéreo ZER, in Zacatecas, Zac.
97.3, at 1720, ads for muebles, ``Shopping Time``
97.7, at 1721, ads, including for Plaza Sendero, in San Luís(?)
(Potosí?). XHSNP, La Caliente is listed in SLP. Plaza Sendero is a
national chain of malls, including in SLP, but there is also a 97.7
and a Sendero in Saltillo, Coah., etc. Still, XHSNP very likely
97.9, at 1726, Fábrica de Francia, Guadalajara mentioned several
times. Gja. station is XETIA, Fórmula Melódica per Cantú
99.3, at 1748, ads in pesos for Suburbia, gran venta, Chevrolet. RDS
icon flickers but no display
99.5, at 1749, romantic music in Spanish; 1750 ``Romance 99.5``. Would
be XHLS Guadalajara, in EFM as ``Romance FM``; Cantú as ``Romance``
101.1 at 1724, ``Exa FM 101.1``, stereo, 12.24 TC, over OK stations;
1733 RDS: EXA FM, ads, $, 1735 Superfarmacia Guadalajara. Is XHMA
101.1 is the highest DX frequency in this opening. I tune up to 108 a
few times, but almost everything above 100 is blocked by locals and/or
overload even if propagating.
Once [``wunce``] FM had faded out, I resumed TV monitoring:
1916 on 6, net-7 UR, talk show
1920 on 6, event ad in English, San Diego 6, CW, so XETV Tijuana, and
of course peaks from WSW; 5 and 3 Mexicali are also in; 1929 and 1938,
XETV has [same?] ads for Kaplan College with three local campi
1952 on 6, XETV still unusually steady
1952 on 3, XHTJB is atop XHBC CCI, with credit roll, then Once logo
2000 WSW signals fade out, still weak CCI on 2 from SSW but soon gone
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.44, (FSM), PMA The Cross, Pohnpei, Jul 11, 0813 -
Good to very good reception this morning. Great time to listen! At
1000 ID'd as, 'It is 9:00, and this is the Cross 88.5 FM' by a child.
Went into a program about the sinfulness of sin (Walt Salmaniw, Rose
Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only
DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was
more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length,
while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active
antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers
used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4755.44, PMA-The Cross Radio. Have just heard from Sylvia Kalau,
station manager. “You may have noticed that our station is off the air
from 12 to 5 PNI [Pohnpei] time. We are having power load shedding and
are on a turn off schedule. Should go back to normal in another week.
Stay tuned! Sylvia”.
In past emails she had commented on the fact they do not have their
own backup power generator. Believe only the middle of their
broadcasting day (0100 to 0600 UT?) would be affected and should not
impact NAm reception much, as we tend to hear them towards the end of
their broadcasting day (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, July 14, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12015, 1527-, Voice of Mongolia, Jul 10. Too
bad that the Voice of Korea is cochannel here marring an otherwise
relatively good signal from Mongolia. Until 1530 Mongolia is in
Japanese, and at the bottom of the hour, there's their IS, followed by
an ID in Mongolian, and then in English. Voice of Korea is in Russian
during this hour. Both are on-frequency. Mostly, Mongolia is over
Korea (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC,
270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic
loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7185.75, Myanma Radio, 1217-1228:09*, July 20. Thanks
to a tip from Victor Goonetilleke (Sri Lanka), heard their extended
broadcast (ex: 1220*). 1219 their usual new signature theme music
(indigenous) as if they were about to sign off, but instead of going
off at 1220, they continued with music; fair. MP3 audio at
http://www.box.net/shared/is9hk7s55ndf8h5vd2s0
Victor heard abrupt 1328* on July 19, closer to their former sign off
time of 1330 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. SRI LANKA, 9800, 1412-, Radio Netherlands
Worldwide, Jul 9. Very good reception in English with the usual great
programming. This time about undercover agents. // 11835 from
Madagascar was fair to good (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12065, PHILIPPINES, Tinang, RNW, Jul 11, 1030 - First time I've noted
Radio Netherlands via 250 kW sender in Tinang, Philippines at very
good level. English program mentioning Africa's newest country, South
Sudan (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC
overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ,
while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured
about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used
a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated
about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell
Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS. DUTCH RADIO/TV TRANSMISSIONS DISRUPTED BY TWO FIRES
On Friday, fire broke out in separate incidents at two major radio/TV
transmission towers at IJsselstein (Lopik) and Hoogersmilde (Drenthe).
The intense heat that developed in the 200 metre high steel mast at
Hoogersmilde proved costly. The mast gave way and collapsed at around
1530 hours with a thundering roar. Fortunately, nobody was injured, as
firefighters had vacated the area shortly before the collapse due to
the heat.
After the Hoogersmilde incident Novec, which owns both towers, decided
to take the IJsselstein site off the air as a precaution. The company
says there has never been a fire at a domestic transmitting station in
the Netherlands and added that two incidents on the same day raise
many questions.
At the moment, parts of the Netherlands can no longer receive
terrestrial FM and television signals, and this affects both
commercial and public stations. Reception at home via cable systems is
not affected. The telecommunication networks also have problems. A
search is now under way to find alternative locations for broadcasting
the public networks, and possibly some commercial stations, on a
temporary basis. It’s possible that some parts of the reception area
could be served as soon as this weekend, said a spokesman.
Novec is investigating the causes of both fires. It’s still unclear
whether there is a connection between the two incidents, but a
spokesman for Broadcast Partners said that isn’t an issue. The mast at
Hoogersmilde will be out of use for a long time, but it’s not yet
known how quickly the Lopik site can be put back into service.
In the meadows around the Hoogersmilde site, in a sparsely populated
area, the remains of the steel structure are still smoldering. An area
within a radius of 300 metres around the tower has been evacuated.
As a consequence of the signal disruption, the mediumwave transmitter
on 747 kHz that normally carries Radio 5 is now carrying the national
news/talk network Radio 1 until further notice. This network is
designated as the one which carries official announcements in the case
of a national emergency, so it has priority (Source: ANP)( July 15th,
2011 - 22:56 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1574, DXLD)
1 Comment on “Dutch radio/TV transmissions disrupted by two fires”
#1 TK Wood on Jul 15th, 2011 at 23:54
BBC has posted the video footage at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14168281
Impressive!
NETHERLANDS - TOWER DISASTERS LEAVE DUTCH RADIO OFF AIR
Radio World 15 July 2011
Video of the Hoogersmilde Tower Collapse from RTV
http://www.rwonline.com/article/tower-disasters-leave-dutch-radio-off-air/23936
Fires hit two large Dutch radio-TV transmission towers on the
afternoon of Friday, 15 July, disabling transmissions from
Lopik/IJsselstein and collapsing the mast at Hoogersmilde.
Transmitters at Lopik/IJsselstein were shut down after a fire broke
out in the transmission facility. There were concerns that it was
caused by a short circuit and the entire facility had to be depowered
so that fire inspectors could determine the cause of the blaze and to
ensure that no further damage was done. Fire officials expected the
facility to remain off the air at least through Saturday.
The Hoogersmilde disaster will have a longer term impact for Dutch
broadcasters. A fire, possibly sparked by lightening, damaged the
tower leading to a partial collapse of the mast. No one was injured in
the collapse, but it is unclear how quickly the transmitting stations
can be put back into use.
Before the collapse of its upper section, the Hoogersmilde tower was
one of the tallest in the Netherlands.
According to Dutch press reports, about 80 percent of the Netherlands
is without over-the-air FM radio due to the twin transmission tower
troubles. Stations are continuing to carry programming online and via
some cable systems, as well as on medium wave from other sites.
Jonathan Marks has more details and links on his blog, "Critical
Distance":
http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com/2011/07/mediumwave-back-up-to-cover-two-fires.html
(via Mike Terry, mwdxyg via DXLD) Viz.:
MEDIUMWAVE BACK-UP TO COVER TWO SERIOUS FIRES IN FM TOWERS IN
NETHERLANDS
Rather spectacular fire this afternoon in the TV/Radio/Mobile mast in
Hoogersmilde in the province of Drente. A fire broke out at 12 hrs UTC
in the top section of the mast which houses antennas, leading to its
total collapse as shown in the video above around 90 minutes later.
No-one was injured. The area around the mast was cleared by the police
but it is farmland and no damage was done to property. A horse was
slightly wounded by some of the flying debris. The video was made by
the local Radio and TV station, RTVDrenthe.
Engineers working in the tower discovered the fire and concluded it
was unsafe to continue. They evacuated the tower and called the
emergency services. Fire fighters were quickly on the scene but it
quickly became obvious that there was little chance of fighting the
fire, since it occurred 80 metres above the ground.
Digitenne (digital terrestrial TV service similar to UK's Freeview)
has been off the air as well as the local repeaters for Sky Radio,
Radio Veronica, BNR, Slam!FM, Q-music and 100procentNL. They are
working on efforts to restore services.
The programmes of Radio 1 (national public radio news network) have
replaced the music programmes on Radio 5 broadcast on 747 kHz AM from
the Flevopolder. FM reception in Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and
parts of the province of Overijssel of both public and commercial
networks has been seriously affected.
But the problems are in fact wider, extending into areas around
Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam which are served by another
transmitter site. Earlier in the day a smaller fire also broke out at
the TV/Radio mast in IJsselstein (Lopik) which means that transmitting
centre is also off the air until further notice while the site is
inspected by the fire departments and police.
Early official statements indicate that the two fires were not
related, but it's too early to draw definite conclusions. The public
FM radio networks of Radio 1, Radio 2, 3FM and Radio 4 have lost
around 75% of their national coverage as a result of these two fires.
Cable and satellite relays of the programmes have been unaffected.
Source. nu.nl, nosnieuws. There are also more photos and video on the
website of RTVDrenthe, which is running a special page instead of its
usual website. I note the BBC site carried these pictures but without
sound...perhaps they realised that people next to the camera were
swearing. I think I would have done the same....
Posted by Jonathan Marks at Friday, July 15, 2011 (via DXLD)
DUTCH FM UPDATE: TEMPORARY TRANSMITTERS ACTIVATED
Some parts of the Netherlands affected by the loss of two main FM
transmitter sites on Friday can already receive some temporary signals
from alternative sites, and more are expected to come into operation
over the weekend. A Radio 1 transmitter on 98.9 MHz has been activated
from the mast in Hilversum.
This YouTube video shows the mast at Smilde collapsing, and the
aftermath [linked]:
In parts of the northern Netherlands, Radio 1, 2, 4 and 3FM are again
audible on FM from emergency transmitters at Tjerkgaast in the
province of Friesland. Q-Music is broadcasting from Tjerkgaast on
100.4 MHz. BNR Nieuwsradio on 89.6 MHz is also being broadcast via an
emergency transmitter in the north of the country.
BNR also has an additional channel in use from Gilze in North Brabant
on 95.4 MHz to improve reception in the southern part of the central
belt. This transmitter was already coordinated for BNR but not
operational until now.
The transmissions of Radio 1 on 747 kHz will continue for as long as
necessary. Radio 5, which is normally carried on this frequency, must
make do with Internet and cable delivery (Source:
MediaMagazine.nl)(July 16th, 2011 - 10:49 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media
Network blog via DXLD)
FM RADIO & TV OFF AIR IN NETHERLANDS AFTER MAST COLLAPSE
The mast at Smilde in North Netherlands has collapsed after a fire
taking FM radio and TV off air. There are also problems at Lopik
possibly another fire but my Dutch is not up to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14168281
http://nos.nl/artikel/256505-zender-lopik-deels-uitgeschakeld.html
Also see it happen on this NOS news bulletin.
http://nos.nl/uitzending/43298-20110715-200000-nos-journaal-2000-uur.html
Rgds, (Gareth Foster, UK, 0925 UT July 16, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
I made out 'air conditioning' and 'cooler' in the interviews. I also
wondered what that helicopter was doing flying by just as it seemed to
happen? These masts don`t seem as substantial as ours for BBC/ITV etc
(Rog Parsons (BDXC 782) Hinckley, Leics., ibid.)
In a word --- wow. 500 M/1640 ft. tower. The mast appeared to be
either tubular or skinned skeletal up to a certain point, then open
skeletal above. I would concur with the assessment that an antenna
fault was not reacted upon and started multiple fires at standing wave
hot spots along the transmission line(s) of the impacted station. If
other stations didn't have similar protections, they too would simply
feed the fire. While it appears the tower is of some age, I just don't
see any reason for the tower to buckle as it did 1000 ft. up without
some sort of external force or influence, such as extreme heat
weakening a leg.
Whether it's one of those European things or a specific reason, this
is an odd installation to be certain with a 100 ft or so base column
being the TX building as well. MM (Mike McCarthy, of McCarthy Radio
Engineering, http://mre.com/ on RT list via Bob Foxworth, July 16,
ABDX via DXLD)
OVERHEATED CABLES THOUGHT TO HAVE CAUSED LOPIK FIRE
The fire in the Lopik transmission tower in IJsselstein yesterday is
thought to have been caused by overheated cables, according to the
director of owner NOVEC in an interview with NOS. “We have concluded
that a number of cables become overheated and partially burned. We now
assume that was the cause, but the experts have yet to confirm it,”
sad Jan Willem Tom. It is hoped to bring the Lopik facility back into
service by the end of the weekend.
NOVEC cannot say anything yet about the cause of the fire and partial
collapse of the tower in Smilde. The police must first complete their
investigation before the company is allowed access to the tower.
However, there is not thought to be a link between the two fires,
merely a bizarre coincidence. “The towers have been there for more
than fifty years, so it’s strange that suddenly there’s a fire in two
of them on the same day. The first thing you think is that there must
be a link between the two fires, but so far we have no evidence to
suggest it,” said the director.
Both masts were undergoing maintenance when the fires broke out.
IJsselstein was under routine maintenance and at Smilde cables were
being replaced. Earlier today a report showed that in 2007 management
was alerted to security and safety risks at the sites. NOVEC has today
carried out checks on all the masts in the Netherlands - some 50 in
total. (Source: Radiofreak.nl)
Meanwhile, NOVEC has received permission to construct a temporary mast
on land belonging to the Ministry of Defence in Assen. The mast will
be around 100 metres high, and should be able to take over “a
substantial part” of the functions of the collapsed mast at Smilde.
Construction of the mast will commence either on Sunday or on Monday
morning (Source: ANP) (July 16th, 2011 - 17:12 UTC by Andy Sennitt,
Media Network blog via DXLD)
1 Comment on “Overheated cables thought to have caused Lopik fire”
#1 ruud on Jul 17th, 2011 at 14:53
Do You Remember the fire in the 540 meter high tower in Moscow????
The Ostankino tower got fire in August 2000 killing 3 people.
Never the exact cause was mentioned, but in the radio world everone
knows that TX powers are increased without replacing the coax cables
between the TX and the antenna, since replacing hundreds of meters
massive cable vertically is a hell of a job, requiring all
transmitters to be switched off. So these cabels get hotter and
hotter, the rest is history. In Lopik the cable replacement already
takes a couple of days, since Friday afternoon, now end of Sunday
afternoon, no signals coming from the Lopik tower.
The Ostankino tower carries about 20 TV stations and 25 radio
channels, including the East Europa FM band. Very efficient (MN blog
comment via DXLD) Further comments may have been added to each item
DUTCH FM UPDATE: LOPIK BACK ON AIR LATE SUNDAY
The Lopik transmitter site which serves a large part of the central
Netherlands is expected to be back in operation late on Sunday
evening. Tests are being carried out on low power prior to the
resumption of full service.
The full technical investigation into the fire in the tower at
Hoogersmilde still cannot begin, as an inspection of the site by the
local council has shown that the area in the immediate vicinity of the
tower is not safe. Apparently there is material within the remains of
the mast that might still fall down.
This means that the occupants of the houses near the foot of the mast
cannot return to their homes. The municipality has asked Alticom, the
owner of the concrete structure, to take steps to improve the
situation on the ground. Alticom must do this in consultation with the
Public Prosecution Service.
Meanwhile, the tactical and technical investigators have already had
discussions with maintenance personnel who were working in the tower
prior to the accident on Friday.
The regional public broadcaster, RTV Drenthe, can now be received in
the southwest of the province on 90.5 FM from a relay station in
Meppel. The construction of the temporary mast in Assen to serve the
north of the country is expected to take until the end of the week to
complete. Mast-owner Novec says that Assen may become a permanent site
for RTV Drenthe and KPN’s digital terrestrial TV service. Furthermore,
the power of the RTV Drenthe transmitter on 99.3 FM in Klazienaveen,
which serves southeast Drenthe, has been temporarily increased.
(Sources: RTV Drenthe, NOS, RadioFreak.nl)(July 17th, 2011 - 19:26 UTC
by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD)
DUTCH FM UPDATE: CLEAN-UP STARTS AT HOOGERSMILDE
The owners of the television/radio tower in Hoogersmilde, Novec and
Alticom, have started cleaning up the debris around the tower that
partially collapsed Friday after a fire. Access to the tower is being
strengthened, so that cranes can get to the mast.
On Tuesday an above-ground tunnel to the tower will be constructed
from sea containers, so the mast can be safely approached for
technical research, said a police spokesperson. According to the
municipality of Midden-Drenthe the area around the tower is still
unsafe. Some remains of the mast are still in danger of falling down.
The debris will be removed to a location where the police can do
further research into the cause of the fire and the collapse of the
mast.
The remains of the Hoogersmilde mast. Photo © ANP [linked]
An area within a radius of 300 metres around the tower will remain off
limits for at least the next few days. In the meantime, people living
near the tower who were evacuated cannot return to their homes.
(Source: ANP)( July 18th, 2011 - 10:43 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media
Network blog via DXLD)
POLITICAL FURY AT DUTCH BROADCASTING “CHAOS”
The Dutch Christian Democrat Party (CDA) is furious about the “chaos”
at the weekend following fires in the transmission towers at Lopik and
Hoogersmilde. CDA MPs Maarten Haverkamp and Ger Koopmans yesterday
evening expressed their indignation in written questions to the
government.
“How can it be that the it takes 160 hours to resume full technical
coverage for [regional public broadcaster] RTV Drenthe? This is
designated as an emergency broadcaster, and what would happen in case
of a real disaster?” they ask. The regional public broadcasters, along
with national network Radio 1, are designated as the stations which
carry official announcements in case of a national or regional
emergency.
There is widespread anxiety at the situation over the weekend, when
hundreds of thousands of radio listeners were duped. Already in 2007,
a report warned against the risk of “serious technical disasters”. “It
appears that many different parties may be working in the towers, and
sometimes even at the same time,” noted Alticom, the organization that
manages the transmission towers, in a four year-old safety report.
(Source: MediaMagazine.nl) (July 18th, 2011 - 12:10 UTC by Andy
Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD)
2 Comments on “Political fury at Dutch broadcasting “chaos””
#1 ruud on Jul 18th, 2011 at 14:34
Actually, the Minister of Economic Affairs, Mr Verhagen is CDA member
and in charge of radio distribution!!!
It is clear the MP’s have not a single conclusion how radio
distribution works. If they want 100% back up each tower needs a
second tower next to the present one. There are already back-up
transmitters and antenna systems, but when the tower collapses it is
just game over.
#2 Andy Foad on Jul 18th, 2011 at 17:12
Might have been quicker to get a feed to Orfordness. At least it would
have been heard well on Holland ;-) (MN blog comments via DXLD)
DUTCH FM UPDATE: LOPIK BACK ON AIR AT REDUCED POWER
The broadcast tower at Lopik (IJsselstein) is now transmitting all
regular services again, but at the moment all are on reduced power.
This is to make sure that no fire can occur again, because it’s still
not clear exactly how the fire started early on Friday.
The fire damage inside the tower is considerable, said Broadcast
Partners Director Robert-Jan Van der Hoeven to RTV Utrecht. For the
last few days reports have been talking about a small fire in the
tower, but the damage is more extensive that first thought. Repairs
have taken longer than predicted, and have been carried out more
slowly in order to inspect everything thoroughly. Mr Van der Hoeven
said that there was always the chance of discovering some additional
damage that wasn’t expected.
Dutch Public Broadcasting (NPO) wants the government to mount an
independent investigation into the problems, and NPO will also start
its own investigation. Residents living near the mast also want to
know the risks to themselves and their property. (July 18th, 2011 -
16:02 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD)
COMPLETE OFFICIAL LIST OF TEMPORARY FM FREQUENCIES
The Dutch Radiocommunications Agency has issued a complete list of the
temporary FM frequencies currently in use following the collapse of
the mast at Hoogersmilde last Friday. This list is updated as of
today, 20 July, but will be revised again when the temporary mast at
Assen is brought into service, hopefully by the end of the week.
In addition, Radio 1 remains on 747 kHz mediumwave in place of Radio 5
until further notice. View the list (PDF):
http://www.agentschaptelecom.nl/binaries/content/assets/agentschaptelecom/Media-en-omroepen/overzicht-radiofrequenties-d.d.-20-juli.pdf
(July 20th, 2011 - 15:07 by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, 0551-, RNZI, Jul 10. Who needs DRM when
analogue comes in so clearly. Fabulous reception in AM mode, and
difficult to tell signal quality compared to DRM on 11675, and without
the hassles. Well perhaps not. I just tuned in the DRM, and it indeed
is FM or even CD quality. Very nice! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida
Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree
large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my
Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7440, RNZI, Jul 11, 1702 - RNZI news at good level. No sign of the
scheduled DRM broadcast on 6170 (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii
(Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs
employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central
Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length, while the latter
was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about
50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR
7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGER. NÍGER, 9705, La Voix du Sahel, Goudel, 2215-2229, 07/7,
vernacular, local songs & music; 45433; weak modulation observed on
08/7, at 2200.
9705 ditto, 1103-1120, 08/7, vernacular, talks; gone at about 1120;
34443, QRM de ETHIOPIA [q.v.] (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2210-2259*, July 14, vernacular talk. Afro-pop
music. Rustic tribal music. Qur`an at 2254. Short flute IS at 2257
followed by National Anthem. Seventeen second test tone at 2259 and
off. Poor to fair. Threshold signal at times. Irregular.
9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2245-2257*, July 20, vernacular talk. Afro-pop
music. Qur`an at 2251. Short flute IS and National Anthem at 2255 to
sign off. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
Listening Digest)
** NIGERIA. 756, R. Oyo (presumed), Ibadan, 2143-2157, 15/7,
vernacular, tribal songs; 14441, QRM de POR+E+D.
6089.9, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 2210-2224, 08/7, vernacular, talks; 55444,
but overmodulated (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. Voice of Nigeria Ikorodu transmitter site. 15120 kHz. 1800
UT July 15, 34433, News about Nigeria and Africa in English read by
woman at 1800. Station ID by woman in English at 1815. Broadcast time
and frequency info at 1816. Fair signal. S-7. Signal started out bad,
but got better as the program progressed. Abruptly off the air in mid-
song at 1850.
Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu transmitter site, 15120 kHz. 1800 UT July
17, 44334, Broadcast start, station ID and newscast by man in English.
Time and station ID by woman in English at 1805, followed by program
about South Sudan. Off the air at 1811. Back on at 1814. Dropped off
the air several times during this broadcast. Good signal. S-9.
Voice of Nigeria Ikorodu transmitter site. 15120 kHz. 1800 UT July 18,
33333. Switch from Arabic to English at 1800 UT. Woman with English ID
and frequency info at TOH, followed by newscast by man with thick
African accent. Fair signal with fading S-6.
Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu transmitter site, 15120 kHz, 0500 UT July
19, 43433, Station ID and website info at 0500, followed by "News
Magazine" - news stories read by woman in English. Military news by
man at 0520. QRM from China on same freq. S-8 (Nick Rumple,
Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot longwire -
40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
I often look for this, but mostly China is way on top if anything at
this hour (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
Also 1815 UT July 19, 44434, Station ID at 1815 followed by African
drum and flute music. Postal and e-mail addresses by woman in English
at 1827. Good signal S-9 (You can easily notice the grey-line effect
on this one, the signal gets stronger with every minute). (Nick
Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot
longwire - 40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DXLD) ?? There is no grayline between you and Nigeria at that
time (gh, DXLD)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6950.17, Captain Morgan Shortwave, 0325-
0340, July 16, blues music. ID. Email address. Strong but
announcements were distorted (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KWTV FIRES MASON DUNN, their longtime chopper pilot, who
refused to keep flying in severe weather after the legal 8 hours and
he was exhausted. Very long 100+ thread, about station`s new news
director, and then about tornado coverage in general:
http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.php?t=26034
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 93.3, K227AT, one of my several DX-blocking local gospel
huxter translators in Enid, noted cutting off the air and on, mostly
off, July 20 at 0541 UT; relays KIMY 93.9 originating in much smaller
town Watonga OK. Has been known to relay DX when the 93.9 input signal
is overridden, but I`d rather have it off for good. A few days ago
when I was trying to DX 93.1, noticed its ACI coming and going
abruptly. It`s still/again off at 1616 UT check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Some resultant logs in MEXICO
** OMAN. 15140, Radio Sultanate Oman, 2154-2200, 12-July-2011, in
Arabic. Female announcer with commentary followed by middle eastern
music at 2155, clock chimes at 2200, followed by station ID by male
announcer then news, fair signal (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten
Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
** PAKISTAN. To send reception reports via eMail the exact eMail
address is: fmcell @ radio.gov.pk
Bye from north of Italy (Dario Gabrielli, cumbredx yg via DXLD)
Re 11-28: Hi Mauno, Yes, when they are on air; those timings are
exactly as heard here - give or take a few seconds! 73 from (Noel
Green, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15265, 1820-, Radio Pakistan, Jul 9. Good reception of their Urdu
service to Europe with local area music. Radio Pakistan heard at 1821
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg
750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RADIO PAKISTAN LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq
Awan launched a completely redesigned and enhanced bilingual website
of Radio Pakistan with mobile streaming‚ video streaming and a You
Tube channel‚ at PBC Headquarters in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The new website‚ with a fresh appearance and format‚ contains many
modules including latest news‚ top news‚ headlines‚ reports‚
multimedia‚ programmes‚ bulletins in text and audio format and
services for mobile phones.
The Director-General of Radio Pakistan, Murtaza Solangi, gave a
comprehensive briefing to the Minister about the latest initiatives of
the organization. He said despite financial and other constraints‚
concerted efforts are being made to equip Radio Pakistan with the
latest technology. He said that during the last three years Radio
Pakistan established community channel FM-93 besides launching current
affairs channels NBS and English Channel FM-94.
He said Radio Pakistan is broadcasting its programmes in 22 languages
fulfilling needs of people from Gilgit to Gwadar. About the launching
of the new website‚ the Director-General said this is the fourth
upgrade during the last three years. All upgrades have been done
through indigenous resources without any additional expenditure.
(Source: Radio Pakistan)( July 20th, 2011 - 10:10 UTC by Andy Sennitt,
Media Network blog via DXLD)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non]. 3385, NBC, Radio East New Britain, Jul
11, 0813 - Very good reception in Tok Pisin, and always a real treat
to monitor.
Other 90 meter stations heard at the same time include: 3364.99 Radio
Milne Bay (good reception), 3325 (either RRI or PNG, but too weak to
tell), 3290 Voice of Guyana at fair/good level with Hindi (?) chants,
3275 Radio Southern Highlands at poor level, and 3260 Radio Madang at
poor/fair level (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one
aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG
measured about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As
well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle
elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus
SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3205, NBC Sandaun (West Sepik) continues to be off the air through
July 18.
3290, NBC Central relay of Radio Gadona 95.5 FM, 1158-1333, July 18.
Fair; well above the norm.
1201-1207: PNG birdcall; news and weather in English; // 3365-NBC
Milne Bay and 3385 NBC-East New Britain.
1207-1255: National program in Tok Pisin with YL telling an
impassioned tale of her dealings with the government regarding a land
issue over which she had to hire a lawyer and go to court in Port
Moresby.
1301-1305: “Good night Papua New Guinea. The News Roundup. I’m Dave …”
with news and weather in English; item about the legal issues dealing
with the health of the Prime Minister, etc.; did not start with the
normal birdcall.
1305-1333 (tuned out): relay of Radio Gadona 95.5 FM; dedications show
of island songs with announcers in Tok Pisin; several “Radio Gadona”
IDs as well as “FM 95.5” and “95.5 FM”. Entertaining programming at an
enjoyable level!
http://www.box.net/shared/stnbj5fh28iylr9cdlp0
contains MP3 audio with IDs and song (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3205, NBC Sandaun (West Sepik) continues to be off the air through
July 20.
3290, NBC Central with relay of Radio Gadona 95.5 FM, 1311-1336, July
19. Another day of good PNG propagation; YL DJ in Tok Pisin playing
variety of songs (Jimmy Cliff “I Can See Clearly Now”, etc.); IDs for
both “Radio Gadona” and “N-B-C Central”; fading down at tune out (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 5960, Radio Fly, Kiunga, Jul 11, 0850 - Very good
reception at tune-in at 0850 UT. Music until 0856, followed by local
news including a foot-bridge closure, baby of the month award, etc.
Into international news at 0902. At 0903: 'That's the news in
general', followed by 'Radio Fly sports' (ID at 0906), and then 'Radio
Fly's news team', and back into music. Still very nice reception at
0922. No sign at all during my 4 days here of their // of 3915.
Besides 3385, the best PNG station by far (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit,
Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two
BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central
Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length, while the latter
was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about
50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR
7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
5960, 0825-, Radio Fly, Jul 12. Heard superbly last night at Rose Spit
(DXing from a vehicle with 2 BOG antenna towards NZ and Australia. 25
km from the nearest power line), so I tried again at the cottage via
timer. Sure enough, they're there again at good level. Much better to
listen at around this time rather than the normal mornings when the
frequency is splattered terribly by adjacent transmitters. No sign of
3915 at all during the past 4 days. Can't be on the air (Walt
Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’
BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light, Jul 11, 0808 - Fair
to good reception with Christian music. Heard a number of nights, in
the 0800 to 0920 times, at decent levels. Unlike the old days, when
they first came on the air on 60 meters, I recall hearing them at
armchair level with a portable and built in whip! Now much more of a
DX catch. English news at 0909, but significant splatter. Reported
over 100 deaths from a Volga River boat tragedy. Weather at 0911, then
main points of news at 0912. NBC National news ID, followed by ?local
programming in Pidgin. Mentioned '7325 in the 41 m band', and Port
Moresby. Bible verse at 0921 (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii
(Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs
employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was more to central
Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length, while the latter
was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active antenna located about
50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR
7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7324.95, 0855-, Wantok Radio Light, Jul 12. Had my remote on tonight
to Wantok Radio Light, as I heard them reasonably well last night at
Rose Spit. Sure enough, they were there at 0855 tune-in with music
past the TOH, then around 0902 went into what sounded like NBC news.
The feed was lost at 0907, and didn't return for the next 15 minutes
of the mp3 file. Sounded like an OC only. Fair to good reception (Walt
Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’
BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop.
Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. EL CHASQUI DX especial visita a RADIO JPJ LIMA, 3360 kHz
EL CHASQUI DX JULIO 2011
CQ, CQ, CQ --- Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los
que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, desde la tierra de los
incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente:
Una nueva radio lanza su voz desde un rincón en Monte de los Olivos,
San Martín de Porres, Lima, Perú.
Después de algunas coordinaciones con Henrik Klemetz con quien me
comprometí a darme un tiempo para visitar la estación ubicada por
radio, partí el día El día 18 de Julio a las 9:00 am con mi esposa en
una expedición del cono este de la ciudad de Lima, Chaclacayo lugar
donde resido, hacia el Cono norte de la ciudad de Lima, casi dos horas
de donde estaba, en una urbanización que consta de cuatro etapas y
todas con las mismas numeraciones; después de un recorrido por la
zona, al tocar dos puertas con la misma dirección, encontrándonos en
el camino con pistas por construir, en medio de maquinaria para
elaboración de pistas y personas que felizmente nos guían llegamos a
Monte de los Olivos segunda etapa, a la altura del paradero doce de la
Avenida los Olivos; una zona bastante lograda frente al Colegio San
Agustín; Eran aproximadamente las 14 horas y esta sería nuestra
tercera puerta con la misma dirección que tocaríamos, pero una gran
sonrisa se esbozó en nuestros rostros al ver que en esa Mz D Lt 9, en
el segundo nivel de un pequeño edificio yacía un gran letrero que
presentaba a Radio JPJ del Perú O.C.T 3360 KHZ.
Preparamos cámara fotográfica, la agenda, lapicero y todo la buen onda
para lograr esta gran entrevista porque como comprenderán no sólo el
auto de había llenado de tierra sino que en nuestro morral estaban
guardadas nuestras energías y en nuestros cuerpos ya se reflejaba un
poco de mareo y cansancio; sin embargo valió la pena.
Cuando bajamos del auto nos encontramos con un señor que salía del
edificio con una amable sonrisa a quien le preguntamos si estaba
funcionado allí la radio y nos contestó que sí, invitándonos a pasar;
él era nada menos que JPJ, para todos el Doctor Jesús Párraga Jiménez,
cirujano dentista; quien es el dueño no sólo de la radio sino de un
gran espíritu solidario ejercido a través de sus policlínicos en las
zonas más necesitadas de su asociación de vivienda en unión con otros
profesionales.
Realizamos una entrevista acompañados de una deliciosa Inca cola,
donde aparte de explicarle que era el DX y como realizábamos nuestros
reportes, conocimos un poco sobre su persona, además pudimos rescatar
los inicios de la radio; es así que nos enteramos que a Jesús, en su
afán de ayudar al Perú le surgió la idea de esta radio a fin de que
mediante ella pueda ayudar a crecer en cultura y lazos familiares en
los rincones más alejados de las ciudades donde llega su señal; todo
después de vivir 7 años en Milán y de quedar viudo ante la muerte de
su esposa en esa ciudad. Es entonces cuando Vuelve a Perú invierte sus
fondos en esta radio y después de 6 años de constancia y gestión ha
obtenido su resolución Nº1040 – 2010 como empresa peruana de
radiodifusión. Es una radio con equipos de elaboración nacional; están
en los inicios de su señal y en busca de personas interesadas en
manejar el perfil informativo y de valores que quiere transmitir para
ocupar las horas en la radio, amigos de Italia que la escuchan han
contratado algunas horas (de 8 -10pm en Perú) para hacer sus saludos,
escuchar la música de su agrado, en fin rescatar momentos familiares y
amicales.
Jesús quedó muy contento al ver los correos impresos alcanzados de
Henrit Klemetz y su paisano Hasse Mattisson así como el correo donde
se me informa el escucha de los dos amigos finlandeses y un checo,
quedo a la expectativa de la próxima visita a Lima de Dario Monferini
en el mes de agosto para conversare in italiano su rostro y su sonrisa
reflejaban la alegría que desde sus inicios su señal llegaba a tantos
lugares del mundo de donde vio los mail que llevamos impresos.
Pudimos ingresar a las instalaciones de la cabina de locución, donde
obtuvimos algunas fotos para el recuerdo y de donde se emite la señal
a la planta de Puente Piedra.
Luego nos despedimos con el firme propósito de seguir visitándonos y
llevar nuevos amigos dxistas a fin de seguir recibiendo comunicación
del mundo nos entregó esta información valiosa: su mail dr_parraga @
hotmail.com o a sus teléfonos (01) 484 8379.
Después de esta aventura que termina casi a 15:15 horas cerramos
nuestra expedición, con un almuerzo en un centro comercial de ese cono
con mi esposa, mi hija quienes me acompañaron.
Espero que este reporte de esta gran experiencia vivida sea de su
agrado. 73's Lima, 19 de Julio del 2011 PFA (via Henrik Klemetz, DXLD)
Original has some photos, doc via http://www.w4uvh.net/Peru3360JPJ.doc
Glenn, Here is an audio sample which you could use on the air if you
wish. This station was in the news in DXLD quite recently. Paco
Arrunátegui believes the manager might be interested in international
feedback. The audio clip is from an streaming transmission I managed
to get a few weeks ago, UT Tuesday 0430:
http://www.w4uvh.net/Peru3360JPJ.mp3
(Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 3329.6, ONDAS DEL HUALLAGA. Huánuco, Perú. 0045-0110 julio
17. Música tropical y folclórica, mencionando Huánuco. "....Yo escucho
Ondas del Huallaga..." las 0102 "...tres frecuencias y una sola
señal... desde Huánuco, ciudad primaveral; transmite Radio Ondas del
Huallaga..." más tarde fuera del aire sin cierre a las 0230*
4775, RADIO TARMA. Tarma, Perú. 0140-0201* julio 17. Música
folclórica, a las 0157 con completo s/off: "... estimados oyentes en
Radio Tarma, empresa individiual de responsabilidad limitada, [so
that`s what EIRL means --- gh] finalizamos nuestras transmisiones
correspondientes a la fecha..." Mencionan la operación en FM, MW y SW,
además de página web en http://www.radiotarma.com y correo-e contacto
en gerenciageneral @ grupomontervede.com
5120.6, ONDAS DEL SURORIENTE. Quillabamba, Perú. 2250-2300 julio 16.
Transmisión de fútbol Copa América. Argentina vs Uruguay"... la
información de Ondas del Suroriente y la gran cadena nacional..."
5460.4, RADIO BOLÍVAR. Bolívar, Perú. 0120-0134* julio 17. Música
tropical y anucnios comerciales, entre canción "...estamos haciendo
historia.. Radio Bolívar" o, "...Radio Bolívar la número 1 en tu
corazón..." siguen más canciones a las 0130 "...cuando te pregunten
qué radio escuchas, responde Radio Bolívar; la primera y la mejor..."
fuera del aire sin cierre a las 0134*
6174, RADIO TAWANTISUYO [sic]. Cusco, Perú. 0025-0035 Julio 17, Música
folclórica. "...desde la cuna del Imperio Inca, la ciudad de Cusco...
Radio Tawantisuyo. .." (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA,
Equipo Winradio G303I, Antena Dipolo de 12 metros, más en
http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/ condiglist yg via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 15190, 1829-, Radio Pilipinas, Jul 9. Very nice
reception except for transmitter hum with ID as 'Radio Pilipinas, the
Voice of the Philippines', and that this was a transmission in
Tagalog. 250 kW from Tinang listed at 283 degrees (Walt Salmaniw,
Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a
30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual
were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 11650, 1514-, FEBC, Jul 10. Radio Teos program in
Russian at very good level with a Russian preacher. 100 kW to Siberia,
so we're getting the back end of the transmission (Walt Salmaniw,
Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a
30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual
were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PUERTO RICO [and non]. PUERTO RICAN STATION DROPS PBS SHOWS
Would prefer to carry them in Spanish
Published on Current.org, July 12, 2011 By Dru Sefton
Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on
July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year.
Puerto Rico TV logo - Canal 6 Puerto Rico TV, which produces and
broadcasts mostly in Spanish, carried only the English versions of PBS
Kids programs. A separate station — Sistema TV (WMTJ), licensed to the
private Ana G. Méndez University System — carries a selection of
general audience PBS programs.
PBS lost WIPR fees amounting to $713,000 a year. The network earlier
lost KCET in Los Angeles on Jan. 1 and two Florida stations as of July
1: Orlando’s WMFE-TV, and Daytona’s WDSC-TV, which shared their
service area with a third station, which continues as a PBS outlet.
Pedro Rua, WIPR’s executive v.p., said WIPR and PBS negotiated for
about a year but could not reach an agreement that would retain the
station as a member.
Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corp., controlled by the territorial
government, has built the station into a production powerhouse that
produces seven hours of programming a day and in addition operates the
only 24-hour news service on the island. Productions include current
affairs, culture, sports, music, talk shows and food shows.
In May WIPR President Ray Cruz announced a move into drama production.
He wants to transform the station into the “premier workshop for
local actors.” The station is also completing a deal to distribute its
the programming on the mainland.
The governor appoints WIPR’s top executives every four years. With an
annual budget of some $19 million, it has about 196 employees and 150
contractors. Its primary channel is branded Puerto Rico TV. Others are
its news channel, Noticias 24/7; Kids TV; V-Me, the pubTV Spanish
channel; and Echo, which airs retro and historic Puerto Rican
programming. It also operates three radio channels.
The children’s channel is “by far” the most successful multicast, Rua
said, “sometimes with bigger numbers than the primary station.” There
is children’s programming on commercial stations, he said, “but it’s
more like, Japanese animation with sword fights. Not really
appropriate.”
The station’s main goal with Kids TV is readying children to learn in
school, Rua said. But many viewers find English-only shows difficult
to understand. A U.S. Census study based on 2005-2009 data said 85
percent of residents on the island reported they “did not speak
English very well.”
Spanish-language versions of PBS Kids programming are available only
to foreign broadcasters but not to WIPR, which is treated as a U.S.
station in program licenses. “We spoke to PBS about this, but they
couldn’t help us,” Rua said.
PBS explained that it only has the English language broadcast rights
for programs, “so there is no way for PBS to preclude producers from
selling their programming in Spanish-speaking markets.” Because each
producer negotiates their own international distribution deals, there
is not one blanket agreement with PBS.
Instead of spending $700,000 on PBS fees, WIPR will use it for local
productions, Rua said. “I can do a lot with that much,” he said. “All
public TV stations are decreasing local programming. But we identified
two years ago that we could be successful in that niche, so we’re
growing that.” (Current via DXLD)
** ROMANIA. [Re 11-28]. 13797.6, R Romania International with English,
Olympic Profiles about a Romanian boxer read by OM. ID by OM at :51.
S/off with sked for next broadcasts (22 & 00 hours) then IS. 11880
then went off, but others continued for another minute; curious.
Unusual frequency -- punch up error or transmitter? //s were on
channel: 11880 34444 & 11940 3443+3 (splatter) 354+44 2049-2056* 8/Jul
(Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued July 18 via
DXLD) Ken would have gotten credit for first monitoring of this if his
report had not been delayed so long (gh)
7333.84v, R. Romania International, 0338-0342*, July 13. In English;
with language lesson and new words; suddenly went off the air; poor.
300 kW tx at Tiganesti continues to be off frequency; higher than
originally heard on July 9 and 10 (7333.73). Thanks to Wolfgang
Bueschel (Germany) for his assistance (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Romania International, Tiganeshti transmitter site, 13798 kHz.
2030 UT July 14, 44444, Newscast read by man in English at 2030,
followed by station ID and website information at 2040. "Traveler's
Guide", about travel and tourism in Romania at 2045. Good Signal. S-9
(R. Romania is on frequency on 11940 kHz with equal strength). (Nick
Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot longwire -
40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
Radio Romania Internacional fuera de frecuencia --- Hola Colegas, A
esta hora RRI por los 11953.2 kHz (nominal 11955); reportan también
otras emisiones de esta emisora fuera de frecuencia a través del DXLD
11-28 de hoy. Las otras frecuencias de esta hora en español sin
problemas (Rafael Rodriguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, 2357 UT July
15, condiglist yg via DXLD)
7383.88, R. Romania Int., ID at 0058, 0100 instrumental music, W with
French ID, program intro, then news by M in French. Strong and off-
frequency (17 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, HCDX via DXLD)
7398.887, RRI Tiganeshti faulty transmitter since July 9, is still in
bad shape today. Noted at 0256 UT July 17. S=9+20dB, ID and internet
address given (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via DXLD)
Radio Romania International, Tiganeshti transmitter site, 9788.50 kHz.
2205 UT July 18, 44333. Still off frequency with English news by woman
at 2205, followed by website info and station ID at 2210. "Song Of The
Day" - music program and contest announcement at 2218. Fair signal S-7
(Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100, 125
foot longwire - 40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
17767.3, July 19 at 0515, RRI VG in French, // weaker 15340.0. Since
there was no het I at first assumed it was on proper 17770 until
measured. One of the Tiganeshti transmitters has been 2-3 kHz low in
frequency on all broadcasts since July 9, first discovered by Ron
Howard, and tracked extensively by Wolfgang Büschel, but this is the
first one I have run across. WB notified the Romanians about it, but
nothing has been done (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
7333.83v, R. Romania International, quick check at 0314 on
July 20 found them still off frequency, even though Wolfy notified
them about ten days ago of all the frequencies he had found that were
not exact. Noticeably drifting a little.
7398.84, RRI, 0205, July 20 in Spanish. Another odd frequency (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ITALY [non]
** ROMANIA. Radio Romania contest --- June 16, 2011
http://www.rri.ro/art.shtml?lang=1&sec=16&art=143712
Dear friends, Radio Romania International invites you to participate
in a new prize-winning contest, this time dedicated to the "2011
George Enescu Festival". This music festival was inaugurated in 1958,
in recognition of the appreciation George Enescu, the best known
Romanian musician of all times, enjoyed worldwide.
The 20th edition of the festival will take place between September 1st
and 25th, in Bucharest and other major cities across Romania. The
festival includes almost 120 concerts and shows, grouped in various
categories: "Great World Orchestras", "Chamber Music Recitals and
Concerts", "Midnight Concerts", "World Music", "Opera and Ballet",
"Music of the 21st Century", and, of course, "Enescu and His
Contemporaries".
As usual, this event attracts some of the best names in symphonic
music worldwide. You can get details on these events in our
broadcasts, as well as on the website http://www.festivalenescu.ro ---
(the English version). The "George Enescu" International Competition
has four sections: piano, violin, cello and composition.
The artistic director of the event is the world famous music manager
Ioan Hollender, who was born in Timishoara, western Romania, who
headed the Vienna Staatsoper, between 1992 and 2010.
In this contest, we grant prizes related to Enescu and Romanian
symphonic music, but also to Romanian culture in general. The contest
is sponsored by "Monitorul Oficial" Publishers, with support from the
"Casa Radio" Record and Publishing House.
A violin virtuoso known all over the world, composer, pianist,
conductor and teacher, George Enescu was born 130 years ago, on 19
August 1881 in Liveni, Botosani county, in north eastern Romania. He
is considered one of the greatest composers of the first half of the
20th century. His work includes three completed symphonies, various
other important pieces for voice and orchestra, chamber music, one
opera ("'Oedip"), solo works and lieder. Such great names as Yehudi
Menuhin and Dinu Lipatti are two of the musicians Enescu had a great
influence on.
In order to qualify for one of our prizes you have to provide correct
and complete answers, in writing, by 30 September 2011, posting date,
to a few questions:
1. When and where was George Enescu born?
2. Name at least three compositions by Enescu.
3. Name at least three prestigious musicians attending this year's
edition of the festival (soloists, conductors or orchestras).
4. Which edition of the "George Enescu" International Festival is
running this year?
Please answer by mail, fax, e-mail, on our Facebook page, or by
filling in the form posted on our website. We would also ask you to
tell us what motivated you to participate in the competition. Our
address is: Radio Romania International, 60-64, G-ral. Berthelot
Street, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania, PO Box 111, code 010171, fax no.
00.40.21.319. 05.62. Our e-mail address is: engl @ rri.ro
We are waiting for your answers by 30 September 2011, posting date.
The winners will be announced in the second half of October 2011 (via
Mike Terry, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** RUSSIA. [INTRUDER ALERT] 7009.0 kHz - A3E --- 16.7.2011 2048 UT,
7009.0 kHz, A3E emission, Music and sometimes voice, IM product? 73
(Peter, HB9CET, Switzerland, INTRUDERALERT mailing list via Wolfgang
Büschel, DXLD)
As usual, Voice of Russia Armavir Krasnodar transmitter site
intermodulation of Mediumwave religious Yevangelskiye Chteniya program
in Russian 1089 kHz 1200 kW plus Shortwave 5920 kHz = 7009 kHz Voice
of Russia in Spanish 2000-2100 UT.
1089 kHz 2000-2100 UT Krasnodar 1200 kW
Evangelical religious programm to CIS-Caucasus
5920 kHz 2000-2200 UT Krasnodar 200 kW Spanish and Portuguese, at 280
degrees to zone 37 EUR, NoWeAF
YEVANGELSKIYE CHTENIYA (Religious)
kHz: 612, 1089. Summer Schedule 2011
Russian Days Area kHz
15.00-16.00 mt.t..s RUS 612msk
20.00-21.00 daily RUS 612msk
20.00-21.00 daily ME 1089arm <<<<<<<<<<<<< [WRTH format info]
When the 5920 kHz transmitter switches on air, even before 2000 UT,
like around 1948 ... 1952 or so, you will hear the intermodulation on
7009 kHz also.
Location coordinates Armavir 45 28 22.60 N 40 06 18.89 E
http://maps.google.de/maps?q=45+28+22.60+N++40+06+18.89+E&hl=de&ll=45.47248,40.107265&spn=0.02215,0.054975&sll=45.436688,40.341007&sspn=0.177308,0.439796&t=f&z=15&ecpose=45.45607342,40.10795974,4192.4,-1.7,24.025,0
Same matter has been discussed on German Bandwatch / Bundesnetzagentur
on August 12, 2010 already. vy73, (Wolfgang DF5SX Büschel, ibid.)
** RUSSIA. 5930, July 21 at 1223, R. Rossii with music, but
transmitter breaking up badly. Same music on much weaker // 5940 not
breaking up. 5930 is Petropavlovsk/Kam (same as winter frequency
6075), and 5940 is Magadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Hi Wolfgang, Here
http://dxing.ru/novosti/21-radioveschanie/1494-izmenenija-v-drm-transljatsijah-golosa-rossii.html
you'll find info about changes in DRM sked of VoR. Best 73 Vadim
Alexeyev, VoR Russian service, DX programme editor (via Wolfgang
Büschel, DXLD) Viz., once Google translated:
Changes in the DRM-broadcast "Voice of Russia"
Starting from July 15, 2011 introduced a new broadcast schedule in the
mode of DRM software to FSI WGD "Voice of Russia" with the filing of
programs in the format of MDI.
On Europe:
- 15545 kHz from Moscow 0800-1200 UTC - new frequency;
- 9850 kHz from Kaliningrad 0800-1300 UTC - frequency was specified
before the start of the season;
- 9715 kHz from Moscow 1300-1900 UTC - 9750 kHz instead of 1300-1800
UTC;
- 6155 kHz from Kaliningrad 1500-1800 UTC - frequency was specified
before the start of the season;
- 9880 kHz from Kaliningrad 1600-2100 UTC - frequency was specified
before the start of the season;
- 6065 kHz from Kaliningrad 1900-2300 UTC - new frequency.
Programs for MDI channels will be filed in the following languages:
0800-0900 - English, Russian, 0900-1000 - English, Russian, 1000-1100
- Russian, German, 1100-1200 - Russian, German, 1200-1300 - English,
Russian, 1300-1400 - English, Russian, 1400 - 1500 - English, Russian,
1500-1600 - German, Serbo-Croatian, 1600-1700 - German, Serbo-
Croatian, 1700-1800 - German, Italian, 1800-1900 - English, French,
1900-2000 - English, French; 2000-2100 - English, French, 2100-2200 -
English, Portuguese, 2200-2300 - English, Russian.
In Asia:
- 9445 kHz from Irkutsk 1200-1600 UTC - frequency was specified
before the start of the season;
- 9405 kHz from Irkutsk 1700-1800 UTC - new frequency.
Programs for MDI channels will be filed in the following languages:
1200-1300 - English, Chinese, 1300-1400 - English, Hindi, 1400-1500 -
English, Urdu, 1500-1600 - English, Hindi, 1700-1800 - English, Hindi.
On 15/07/11, the broadcasts ceased at the following frequencies:
- 7225 kHz from 1400-1600 UTC Krasnodar in Europe, in English;
- 15735 kHz from Komsomolsk-na-Amur in Asia, 0100-0300 UTC in Russian
and 0300-0500 UTC English.
Department for the dissemination of WGD "The Voice of Russia" (via
DXLD) [what is WGD? gh]
Voice of Russia - new DRM schedule --- On July 15, the Voice of Russia
started to broadcast a multiplex of programs in two different
languages (DRM MDI stream): [what is MDI? gh]
To Europe:
– 15545 kHz (Moscow) 0800-1200 UTC (new freq)
– 9850 kHz (Kaliningrad) 0800-1300 UTC
– 9715 kHz (Moscow) 1300-1900 UTC (ex 9750 kHz 1300-1800 UTC)
– 6155 kHz (Kaliningrad) 1500-1800 UTC
– 9880 kHz (Kaliningrad) 1600-2100 UTC
– 6065 kHz (Kaliningrad) 1900-2300 UTC (new freq)
0800-0900 – English, Russian
0900-1000 – English, Russian
1000-1100 – Russian, German
1100-1200 – Russian, German
1200-1300 – English, Russian
1300-1400 – English, Russian
1400-1500 – English, Russian
1500-1600 – German, Serbian
1600-1700 – German, Serbian
1700-1800 – German, Italian
1800-1900 – English, French
1900-2000 – English, French
2000-2100 – English, french
2100-2200 – English, Portuguese
2200-2300 – English, Russian
To Asia:
– 9445 kHz (Irkutsk) 1200-1600 UTC
– 9405 kHz (Irkutsk) 1700-1800 UTC (new freq)
1200-1300 – English, Chinese
1300-1400 – English, Hindi
1400-1500 – English, Urdu
1500-1600 – English, Hindi
1700-1800 – English, Hindi
On the same day, VOR cancelled following DRM broadcasts:
- 7225 kHz (Krasnodar) 1400-1600 UTC to Europe in English
- 15735 kHz (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) to Asia 0100-0300 UTC in Russian and
0300-0500 UTC in English.
Source:
http://dxing.ru/novosti/21-radioveschanie/1494-izmenenija-v-drm-transljatsijah-golosa-rossii.html
(via Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, July 19, dxldyg via DXLD)
** SAO TOME. USA [presumed Non] Voice of America heard booming-in at
tune-in at 2045 on 18 July on 4960 in African language with talk and
music clips before signing off at 2100 with standard Voice of America
ID in English and Yankee Doodle Dandy signature tune. Cannot see this
frequency scheduled at this time, and was much stronger than 4930
Botswana and 4940 São Tomé is normally heard here at 2000 (Alan Roe,
Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
São Tomé have reversed their morning and evening frequencies before,
by mistake? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
VOA back on 4940 19 July - heard with big signal from 2010 tune-in
with English up to 2030, then into Hausa (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK,
ibid.)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
17560 kHz. Riyadh transmitter site 1730 UT July 14, 34433 Non - stop
man chanting in Arabic. Man with short talk in Arabic at 1740,
followed by more chanting. Off at 1753. Fair signal. S-3 (Nick Rumple,
Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot longwire - 40 feet
high, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
[non]. 15250, July 20 at 1151, as usual BSKSA`s only English broadcast
is blocked by China, plus a het which could be additional jamming of
VOA Chinese as scheduled before and after 1200. SA obviously does not
put any priority on PR abroad among English-speaking listeners; we can
hear it on many frequencies in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. Radio Serbia International, Bijeljina transmitter
site, 9685 kHz. 0100 UT [Sunday] July 17, 55555, Interval signal,
station ID and news by man in English at 0100 UT. Station ID 3 times
by woman in English at 0105, followed by political related show by man
in English. Popular music of Serbia at 0111. Extreme huge signal S-9 +
40dB (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, U.S.A., Yaesu FRG-100,
125 foot longwire - 40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
9685, UT Sunday July 17 at 0101, IRS via BOSNIA with news in English
mostly about former Yugoslavia; VG signal but modulation slightly
distorted. Original A-11 schedule has NO English on UT Sundays to NAm,
only Mon-Sat at 0030 and supposed to be off the air at 0100* except
for another semihour in Serbian on UT Wednesdays only. So are they now
doing English at 0100-0130 daily? Or just tardy in turning off the
transmitter.
9685, July 20 at 0113, VG open carrier, must be IRS. I leave it on
until it finally cuts off a few sex before 0133. Not only did IRS stay
on past 0100 in English on UT Sunday when it was not supposed to, but
on the only day of week when it *is* supposed to be on after 0100 for
an additional semihour of Serbian, it was dead air! Who wants to stay
awake all night in Bijeljina, BOSNIA, or Beograd to make sure
everything worx? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.88, SIBC, Jul 11m 1014 - Fair to good
reception with mentions of 'National program'. Usually much stronger,
and was heard at better level on other nights (Walt Salmaniw, Rose
Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only
DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was
more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length,
while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active
antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers
used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALIA [non]. Giovedì 14 luglio 2011, 2125 - 11650 kHz, Musica pop
tipo Eritrea o Etiopia e s/off 2130. Segnale sufficiente-
insufficiente. Ho già notato tale emissione qualche sera fa. Radio
Australia sembrava spenta (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21,
Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
HFCC:
11650 1930 2130 48,52NE,53NW DHA 250 205 1234567 270311 301011 D
Somali UAE BAB BAB
Aoki:
11650 1930-2130 UAE R. Damal (V of Somali People) Som Dhabbaya 1-7
EiBi:
11650 1930-2030 KEN R Damal-V of Somali People SO SOM /UAE
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. New Overcomer relay on 15610: see ITALY [non]
** SPAIN. 6055, REE (Noblejas), 7/17 0030, not much more than a smoky
mumble, what I expected. 6055 is a bad frequency for the mid-summer
months, especially out here, so far away from the east coast. Heard
pips at BOH, and re-check had them fair to good after 0130 in Spanish
(Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Hammarlund HQ-180A, HQ-200, Drake
R-8, outdoor slinky, 70' Inverted-L wire, 100' random wire, ABDX via
DXLD)
[and non]. 11910, July 15 at 1225, REE in Spanish via CHINA, lower-fi
audio than // 11880 via COSTA RICA, but a couple words ahead of CR
21610 direct, July 19 at 1203, REE Spanish very poor but some signal
at least and rather early for band open at all lately. Did not improve
in following hour and weaker // 21540 never bothered KUWAIT,
q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. Radio Pirenaica (Aventura de una radio clandestina)
Tvrip Español --- He encontrado este programa emitido en TV española y
que he procesado para sincronizar el audio con la imágen, pues estaba
desajustado y vuelto a resubir. Es un buen documento histórico. Si hay
una segunda parte en la web, no lo sé. 73 (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay,
condiglist yg via DXLD)
RADIO PIRENAICA (AVENTURA DE UNA RADIO CLANDESTINA) TVRIP ESPAÑOL
«Aquí Radio España Independiente, estación Pirenaica, la única emisora
sin censura de Franco...».
Así iniciaba sus emisiones una radio clandestina que, durante más de
30 años, se enfrentó a la propaganda del régimen franquista, polemizó
con sus medios de comunicación e informó de las luchas obreras,
campesinas y estudiantiles, desde un imaginario emplazamiento
pirenaico. Fue Dolores Ibárruri «Pasionaria», quien bautizó a Radio
España Independiente con el sobrenombre de «Pirenaica», para acortar
psicológicamente la distancia que les separaba de sus oyentes en el
interior del país. Pocos españoles habrá -al menos de la generación
que participó en la contienda y de la que maduró en una dilatada
posguerra- que no escucharan en algún momento esta emisora comunista
que los más ingenuos creían en Los Pirineos, los «enterados» situaban
en Praga y que estuvo realmente en Moscú primero y en Bucarest
después.
Radio España Independiente (REI) nació en los albores de la posguerra
española. El 22 de julio de 1941, sus ondas llegaron a España desde
Moscú por primera vez, y no nos abandonaron hasta el 14 de julio de
1977, día en que su director, Ramón Mendezona (alias Pedro Aldamiz) se
despedía de todos los oyentes. De un plumazo se dejaban atrás 35 años
de emisiones clandestinas esquivando la censura impuesta por el
franquismo a los medios de comunicación.
A pesar de la lejanía física de la emisora, sus responsables crearon
la leyenda de que emitía desde algún punto indeterminado de los
Pirineos. De esa forma, trataban de alimentar la idea de que dentro de
las fronteras seguía encendida la llama de la resistencia a la
dictadura.
Radio Pirenaica se convirtió en un verdadero dolor de cabeza para
Franco, que autorizó el mantenimiento del Servicio de Interferencia
Radiada (una red de estaciones de interferencia controlada por el
almirante Carrero Blanco) para dificultar que la señal llegase a los
receptores. El dinero y el apoyo tecnológico llegaron desde EEUU. La
REI permanecía en alerta y contraatacaba con emisiones volantes desde
Bulgaria o Hungría, subiendo la potencia o cambiando frecuencias.
Pero a pesar de los esfuerzos del gobierno franquista, de los pitidos,
zumbidos y ruidos de fondo, La Pirenaica se convirtió durante años en
el referente de la radio en España.
Muchos sintonizaban por convicción, otros por curiosidad.. ., pero
todos escuchaban, tras la melodía de Suspiros de España, su saludo
diario al oyente, que ha quedado grabado en la memoria de la
generación de posguerra: “Aquí Radio España Independiente, estación
pirenaica, la única emisora española sin censura de Francoâ€?.
Esa radio y los esforzados que la crearon y mantuvieron, jugaron un
papel decisivo en la búsqueda de los caminos de la Libertad: político,
psicológico y periodístico.
Su programación era compleja y variada, aunque buscaban el lenguaje
directo y los vocablos naturales. La jornada comenzaba a las 7 de la
mañana. Los programas se grababan y, tras un control técnico, eran
emitidos a lo largo de todo el día y sin ninguna variación, a menos
que algún acontecimiento realmente importante obligara a ello. La
jomada de la redacción terminaba a las 2 de la tarde con un nuevo
boletín de noticias que abría el programa de sobremesa. Por la tarde,
a partir de las 5 hasta las 10 de la noche, un redactor y un locutor
preparaban las noticias que iban llegando por los telex y redactaban
nuevos boletines informativos.
Tratando de aumentar la potencia y vencer las interferencias
franquistas, se llegaron incluso a inventar «ondas volantes» que
cambiaban constantemente; se llegaron a enviar programas grabados para
ser retransmitidos desde otros países a horas y por ondas imprevistas.
Era una auténtica guerra radiofónica.
Desde el punto de vista del contenido propagandístico, se trataba de
ser cada día más convincente, menos lejano, más informado.
Su periodismo enganchó a varias generaciones de españoles, que
mandaban multitud de cartas de agradecimiento. Hubo meses que la
redacción recibió más de 1.200 cartas de todas las provincias
españolas...; incluso de países extranjeros. La preocupación de los
redactores y locutores se centraba en evitar que pareciese "algo de
fuera" o "de la emigración", sino una emisora que bien podría haber
estado en Madrid, Alicante o Sevilla.
Su parrilla abarcaba programas como "Antena de Burgos" (realizado por
los presos dentro del Penal de Burgos) hasta el atentado en el que
murió Carrero Blanco. Siguieron el proceso de Julián Grimau; la
campaña Pro-amnistía; y el mensaje de Menéndez Pidal con el documento
firmado por 1.161 intelectuales, estudiantes y obreros, exigiendo
libertad de asociación, libertad sindical, derecho de huelga, libertad
de información y expresión.
Además, estuvieron en las minas de Asturias, en las montañas de Cuba
cuando se inicó la Revolución, en el nacimiento de CC.OO, en la
enfermedad senil del Franquismo, en Palomares...
La Pirenaica se despidió de sus oyentes el 14 de julio de 1977,
emitiendo desde Madrid la sesión inaugural de las Cortes
Constituyentes.
En la despedida de Radio España Independiente decía Pedro Aldamiz:
"Expreso mi agradecimiento a todos los que con su ayuda desinteresada
hicieron posible estas 108.360 emisiones. Doy las gracias a los miles
de colaboradores anónimos que con sus crónicas han difundido la verdad
de lo que pasaba en España, y a los camaradas que desde la cárcel de
Burgos, dejándose la vista y arriesgando mucho en el empeño,
aseguraron durante 8 años la emisión semanal de "Antena de Burgos".
Esta aventura es un caso sin parangón en la historia de las emisoras
clandestinas. En la meta ya del largo camino, a la natural tristeza,
que causa abandonar la labor entrañada y entrañable, se une la alegría
de ver a nuestro pueblo reconquistar la libertad".
La gente ha perdido la memoria.
Es como si la consideraran algo ¿inutil? Si me quitas
los recuerdos ¿Que queda de mi?
M. Vazquez Montalban
rar 335MB 50 minutos 550x412 Wmv
Archivo .rar en 4 partes, que se unen con WinRAR
Enlaces de bajada
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pirenaica.part3.rar (100 MB) http://www.multiupl oad.com/GIZ9CGZV LR
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(via Horacio A. Nigro, Uruguay, July 18 condiglist yg via DXLD)
** SRI LANKA. [DRM] 15640, 1424-, BBC/DW, Jul 9. Listed as Hindi with
about 90% copy and SNR around 14 dB. Secondary window shows News
Service Journaline, but without any content. 90 kW listed, but not
useful due to drop outs (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[DRM] 15640, 1433-, BBC, Jul 10. Hindi programming from the BBC at
just about 100% copy. Best I've ever heard them. Lots of English words
added too. 'Luxury, deep sea diving, inspiration', etc. At 1500,
switched to English. At 1507 listened to an item about Sri Lanka and
the two years since the end of the civil war. Also received is the
Journaline News Service, with brief items in English from DW, but also
Hindi from DW-World's Hindi World, and BBCHindi.com (Walt Salmaniw,
Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a
30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual
were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 15745, SLBC, with OM DJ in English doing a “morning
show” with lots of greetings to listeners in places like India,
Pakistan & sometimes with specific places like Mumbai. Playing
listener requests for both familiar pop tunes [like Juice Newton’s The
Sweetest Thing (I’ve ever known) and Beatles` Hard Days Night as well
as some local things like a song called The Fisherman by someone about
whom the announcer said, “I think this is about his only song in
English”. SLBC mentioned at :58 into more music & at :03 (BOY did they
miss the ToH!) into The Gospel of the Kingdom with Kenny Lewis -- they
do a lot of American Bible Thumping on this station. Pretty good at
first, 35543+ at tune in and still 2553+3 at tune out; better than the
last couple of times I’ve tried them. 0225-0305 2/July (Ken Zichi,
Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued July 18 via DXLD)
Got a very nice personal e-mail confirmation from S.N. Dissanayaka
(Technical Assistant) at the SLBC, Sri Lanka for snail mail report of
reception at Assateague Island, MD in May.
Says All Asia Hindi service is on 11905, 7190, and 6005 from 0020-0230
and 0930-1215, and the A-ll Asia English service is on 15745, 9770,
and 6005 from 0130-0300 Mon-Fri, 0130-0330 Sat, and 0130-0500 Sun.
(Seems to be a contradiction on 6005 at 0130. Maybe 6005 changes over
from All Asian Hindi to All Asia English then??) Both services are
beamed to India. Goes on to say they have only one SW station in the
SLBC. There are several types of transmitters;. 300 kW Kukusai, 35 kW
Collins and 10 kW Phillips. Don't know which are used on SW. I'll have
to ask. (17 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, HCDX via DXLD)
** SUDAN. 7200, R. Omdurman, Al Aitahab, *0232-0245, July 11, Arabic.
Carrier into vocal music/chanting; barely audible announcer at 0239
and bits of indigenous music; talk over HoA music at 0242; more
chanting at tune/out; poor-weak (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H.
USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. New schedule of Radio Dabanga in Arabic effective from
July 18
0430-0530 13620 MDC 250 kW / 330 deg EaAf/Sudan, not 13730 0430-0500
0430-0530 15550 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg EaAf/Sudan
0500-0600 13730 WER 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf/Sudan
0530-0600 13620 NAU 500 kW / 155 deg EaAf/Sudan
1530-1630 13730 MDC 250 kW / 330 deg EaAf/Sudan
1530-1630 15720 WER 500 kW / 150 deg EaAf/Sudan
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 18 via DXLD) cf DXLD 11-28
As in previous report, R. Dabanga has expanded schedule since July 18.
On July 19 monitored:
13730, fair at 0523 via Wertachtal, GERMANY, a few sex behind 13620
via Madagascar; S9+10 at peaks. Had not been hearing 13730 when it was
UAE, just some oscillating jamming at times. Now no jamming heard.
Still not hearing the UAE frequency which is now 15550.
13620 at 0523, still has tone jammer; 0527 brief overlap at site
switch from MADAGASCAR to Nauen, GERMANY, and continues audible but
weaker. Tone jammer stops at 0530: ha, they don`t know about the
extended schedule. During the 0529 minute, singing IDs and kHz
announcements. At 0530 I compare 13620 and 13730: now they are only an
echo apart from the two German sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Radio Miraya FM via TDP in English/Arabic:
0300-0600 11560 SMF 250 kW / 180 deg to EaAf, heard every day in BUL
1400-1700 15710 SMF 100 kW / 180 deg to EaAf, maybe cancelled, no
transmission from July 14. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, July 20, WORLD
OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH. Hi Glenn, Ref. DXLD 11-28: the name of the new state
is definitely South Sudan. The first article of the new state's
constitution says: 'South Sudan is a sovereign and independent
Republic, and it shall be known as "The Republic of South Sudan".'
The text of the constitution is at:
http://www.sudantribune.com/IMG/pdf/The_Draft_Transitional_Constitution_of_the_ROSS2-2.pdf
Confusion arose because the new country occupies the territory of the
former autonomous region of Southern Sudan.
Sudan (formally, the Republic of Sudan) continues with no change of
name. It is incorrect to refer to it as North Sudan, though many in
the south are doing so. Regards, (Chris Greenway, UK, July 17, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Re 11-28: South Sudan independence TV coverage
For David and other interested Australian DXers, Southern Sudan TV is
broadcasting in digital live 24x7 via Intelsat 8 KU band 12726
Horizontal Symbol Rate 28066 FC 3/4. The station has an extremely
strong signal right across Australia, also on an adjoining channel is
ERI TV and Dimtsi Hafash Radio from Eritrea. Cheers, (Mark Fahey,
Sydney, Australia, July 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[Re 11-28]. Somebody is still looking for NEW radio country? It looks
like this evening we'll have another one... :-)
cursory viewing WRTH did find this:
693 Juba, 100 kW nothing active on HF from there? ...
(Vlad Titarev, Ukraine, DXplorer July 9, via BC-DX July 17 via DXLD)
New radio country.
JUBA - SSDN Juba, probably MW 693 kHz 100 kW mast
04 51 03.31 N 31 35 19.15 E
SOUTH SUDAN - Rep of: Is the location of this US-supported Radio
Assalam 4740 / 5895 kHz service published somewhere? Google search
failed so far. Nagoya table xls list shows veiled "Nuba Mountains"
location.
2 SW dipole masts at 04 51 03.02 N 31 35 22.55 E
near Juba airport, mast on the left side
UN communication station mast
communication mast at 04 50 36.29 N 31 35 00.32 E
Kadugli 1602 kHz 5 kW
G.E. loc 11 00 15.65 N 29 42 58.57 E
another mast visible some 85 meters southwesterly
telecom mast in the background
(Wolfgang Büschel, July 9, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via DXLD)
The attached photos, courtesy Bruce Churchill, show the shack where
the R. Peace transmitter is/was and the station's antenna. These don't
seem to match any of the antenna photos above (Don Jensen-USA,
DXplorer July 9, ibid.)
Radio Peace is apparently silent on SW. No news reported about its
reactivation from Juba. In 2004 there was a project near Narus to
start official radio station called Voice of New Sudan on shortwave.
They had a 50 kW ELCOR transmitter on 9310 kHz.
They managed to make some tests with about 7 kW for a few days.
Technical problems and the project seemingly was terminated soon. Last
I heard about this transmitter a couple of years ago and it was still
at the place and some staff was trying to keep it somewhat dry and
clean for possible future use. But fear was, after so many years
unused, it couldn't be saved anyway (Jari Savolainen, Finland,
DXplorer July 9, ibid.)
** SUDAN SOUTH. >>> NEW DXCC ENTITY: THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN <<<
On 14 July the UN General Assembly admitted the Republic of South
Sudan as the 193rd member of the United Nations. Consequently, South
Sudan has been added to the DXCC List as a new Entity (the 341st on
the "current" list, thus moving the Honor Roll threshold to 332), by
way of Section II, 1(a) of the DXCC Rules. The DXCC entity code
assigned to Republic of South Sudan is 521.
This is a totally new Entity for all DXers (i.e. the deleted Entity of
Southern Sudan, ST0 has NOT been reinstated, as per DXCC Rules), and
the DXCC Desk will begin immediately accepting QSOs for it, with a
start date of July 14, 2011. "The deadline for the Honor Roll and
annual listings is December 31, so you must submit the new entity to
DXCC by then in order to retain your Honor Roll status," Bill Moore,
NC1L explained. "For Logbook of The World (LoTW), you may submit all
your QSOs with the Republic of South Sudan stations anytime. There is
no need to hold them out of your log or do anything differently from
what you already have been doing. You do not need to assign country
names or identifiers. After we issue certificates to the Republic of
South Sudan license holders, LoTW will make matches and assign the
correct entities automatically. "
The Republic of South Sudan is also the newest addition to the CQ DX
Award Countries List (it is #342, as CQ counts Kosova). Verifications
confirming contacts after July 14, 2011 are acceptable for credit. No
award credit is available for southern Sudan contacts made during the
1980s and 90s. The new addition will be reflected in CQ DX Honor Roll
totals to be compiled near the end of September. South Sudan will
count as a country (entity) multiplier for the CQ DX Marathon, the CQ
World Wide DX Contest and any other CQ contests that use country
multipliers.
As of 14 July, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has not
announced a prefix block for the Republic of South Sudan
SOUTH SUDAN ---> In their latest press release (14 July) the DX
Friends and The Intrepid-DX Group
http://www.dxfriends.com/SouthernSudan2011/
state they "continue to move forward with their plans to activate this
new entity with a multi-national DXpedition team. With our visas in
hand, the teams will soon be making their way towards Africa and
ultimately to Juba, the new capital of this new nation. We will have
five active stations, operating 24 hours a day.
We will be in regular contact with our US, EU and JA Pilot Stations
and we will pay close attention to propagation reports from them. We
ask that you please make contact with the pilot stations only during
the DXpedition and to please refrain from contacting the team members
directly via email. We will announce our call sign once we are in Juba
and ready to become active".
On 15 July MM0NDX (EU Pilot for the DXpedition) released the following
schedule: "The Intrepid DX Group is meeting the DX Friends in Cairo on
July 21st. On July 22nd, they all fly from Cairo to Juba, South Sudan.
On July 23rd, they will meet with the Ministry of Communications to
amend licenses to the new ITU prefix. They expect to be active later
on July 23rd, or July 24th until shut down on August 10th, 2011".
(Both: 425 DX News July 16 via Dave Raycroft, July 15, ODXA yg via
DXLD)
** SWEDEN. Another program in PCJ Archives is up. This one is a studio
copy of Radio Sweden's Saturday Show from 1966. Yes you heard me
right! It's taken directly from the studio tape
http://www.facebook.com/l/nAQAztf1KAQARAKeDOyNXfwpaGA-vZ7sr4eZofwZJML6vgg/www.pcjmedia.com/archives
(Keith Perron)(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** TAIWAN. 9725, July 15 at 1220, YL in Chinese with long strings of 8
tonal syllables between pauses; and more occasionally a few words of
normal speech. Suspect this is a numbers station.
HFCC shows a gap from 12 to 14 on this frequency, but we know how
incomplete it is when concerned with Chinas! Aoki fills this and other
gaps:
9725 0500-0530 TWN XingXing guangbo diantai Chi Kuanyin 1-7
9725 0600-0630 TWN XingXing guangbo diantai Chi Kuanyin 1-7
9725 1200-1230 TWN XingXing guangbo diantai Chi Kuanyin 1-7
9725 1300-1330 TWN XingXing guangbo diantai Chi Kuanyin 1-7
As far as I can tell, this is missing from the WRTH 2011, both Taiwan
sexions, Target sexion, and master frequency list. It`s Star-Star
Broadcasting Station, discussed in DXLD 10-06 under TAIWAN, altho not
at that time on 9725: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1006
A report of it on 9725 at 0622 June 1 was in DXLD 11-23
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. Hi Everyone, From this pm, 9745 kHz, Han Sheng V of
Kuanghua, Kuanyin, 1715 UT, Asian pop music then jingles YL in
Mandarin possible phone in. TWN to mainland China I think I`ve seen
listed. This is what I heard
http://www.box.net/shared/6a1yq86l4cuqe7q8y307
Is this station jammed usually?
(Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Mark, Interesting station! I have never heard any jamming.
Wikipedia indicates “The Voice of Han also broadcasts propaganda
programs to Mainland China on shortwave and mediumwave frequencies
under the callsign ‘Voice of Guanghua’”.
Voice of Han http://www.voh.com.tw/
Voice of Guanghua (a.k.a Kuanghua)
http://www.khmusic.com.tw/
Audio streaming http://www.khmusic.com.tw/program.aspx
along with program guide (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, ibid.)
What the...? Guys, I've just had a listen to the audio file. The
program is definitely that of RTI (Radio Taiwan International) with
Taiwanese accented Mandarin. There's a HUGE RTI musical ID in the
audio at the 34 second mark of the recording - I'm really surprised
that you both missed it; anyway. Mystery for me is: What is an RTI
Mandarin program doing on 9745kHz at that time when VO Kuanghua should
be on? Has this program been heard since? Regards (Ian Baxter, NSW,
0227 UT July 21, ibid.)
Of course, that other horrible thought passed my mind. What if V of
Kuanghua was doing a program at the time about RTI that sampled parts
of RTI programming that included the RTI singing ID? What's the
chances of that? The rest of the recording was however Taiwan accented
Mandarin (Ian, 0324 UT, ibid.)
Hi Ian, Also I was thinking, unlikely they would ever actually relay
anything from RTI, right? I confess I am rather cavalier in listening
to others recordings. Usually I am only paying attention to the
quality of the recording and not the content. With my own recordings I
do study them intently to hear what details I can dig out. That’s why
it was great you actually did listen for content. Nicely done! Not a
problem at all to report it as you have. For myself, I am always
pleased when someone does correct me, as it shows that someone was
really paying attention. Most times when I post logs to dxldyg, I
never know if anyone (other than Glenn) really looks that closely at
them. That is why I like Glenn’s attention to details. He does not
miss much, which is good. Keeps us on our toes. Am sure Mark feels the
same way. We both want the best (most accurate) information out there
with our name on it.
So, a BIG thank you for posting the correction. Never be afraid of my
reaction to be corrected. Really, it's a good thing!! Best regards,
(Ron Howard, CA, July 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 5950, R Taiwan via WYFR-Okechobee, must be in
turmoil. This was strong as ever, but both 49 metres and // 9680 had
BOTH English & Chinese Taiwan feeds, and as a result, neither was
really useable. I hope Taiwan isn’t paying the bill to Brother Camping
until this gets fixed! 5454+1+ is a rather weird SINPO, but the
accurate one! I noticed this same problem in the AM of the 9th, but
this reception was 0240-0245 10/July (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE
Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued July 18 via DXLD)
** TATARSTAN [non]. 15195, *0810-0825, RUSSIA, 13.07, GTRK
"Tatarstan", Kazan, via Samara. Tatar report with musical interludes,
45344 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres longwire
here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, 20 July, playdx yg
via DXLD)
** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, 15542, 1330-, Voice of Tibet, Jul 10. Just
came across this one by accident. Fair to good level. Jamming was not
obvious. Mentions of Tibet and heard, I believe, www.voiceoftibet.? My
sources have them on 15552. Tibetan listed (Walt Salmaniw, Masset,
Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210
degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were
my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST) VOT frequency and jamming keep hopping around (gh)
** TIBET [non]. 19000, nothing audible after 1200 July 20; Wolfgang
Büschel suggests R. Free Asia via Kuwait at 12-14 has been trying this
frequency instead of scheduled lower ones, and Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria,
did hear it July 18 at 1205. Nothing at all is currently scheduled on
this band in HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See ASIA [non]
** UGANDA. [Re 11-28]. 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, 1900-1936, 10/7,
English, news bulletin followed by African pops; 45332 (Carlos
Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
4975.98, 2035-2045, 10.07, UBC R, Kampala. Vernacular ann, Afropop,
talk with a listener on phone, 45333 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR
AR7030PLUS with a 28 metres longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via
Dario Monferini, 20 July, playdx yg via DXLD)
4976, 16/7 0315, R. Uganda - Kampala, Swahili, MX, buono (Roberto
Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
4976, UBC-Kampala, 0326, 7/16/11. Poor at tune-in with Euro-pop
vocals; marginal improvement by 0338 with more traditional African
harmonies; persistent noise and flutter; best in ECSS-USB (Jim Ronda,
Tulsa, OK, NRD-545; R-75 + PAR-SWL, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF
RADIO 1574, DXLD)
** U K [non]. South Africa, 3255, BBC WS relay, Meyerton, 2011/07/11
mon *1401-1408, "World Briefing". Now starts 2 hours before the *1600
listed by HFCC, Aoki and EiBi. A welcome extension and not interfering
with anyone else. Poor at start, but improved rapidly. Good by 1407.
Also: 3255, 2011/07/12 tue 1551-1800 Sport, followed by ID and world
news at 1600. "Focus on Africa" at 1700. Good. As previously reported
for 4th July, at 1559 sudden echo and rapid severe pulsing of the
carrier; quickly back to normal at 1600. Change to another transmitter
at the same site? No noticeable change of signal strength, variable at
around s9+10 / s9+20. Jo'burg sunset 1532 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. Hello Glenn: Not much activity here at present, but
I do have a mystery. July 16 at 2155 UT when listening to BBC WS from
Cyprus on 12095 kHz up came another station which used a section of an
orchestral melody as a signature or interval tune, repeating this tune
segment a few times for 3-4 minutes. Much stronger than BBC heard
beneath. But the station did not come on at 2200 UTC but disappeared.
BBC went on undisturbed. A test of this kind at a weekend seems
strange. 73 from (Ullmar Qvick, Norrköping, Sweden, July 18, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Ullmar, There was a big explosion at the power plant in Cyprus
[q.v.] on July 10, and BBC relay nearby has had to greatly reduce
transmissions, handing many of them off to other relay sites. The
latest HFCC shows:
12095 1900 2100 48,52NE,52S,53W,57N CYP 250 177 67 110711 301011
D 16725 English CYP BBC BAB 18139
12095 1900 2100 48,52NE,52S,53W,57N SLA 250 210 2345 110711 301011
D 13650 English OMA BBC BAB 18143
12095 2100 2300 46S ASC 250 27 1234567 270311 301011
D 10750 English G BBC BAB 3712
So after 2100 it`s Ascension, not Cyprus. And before 2100 it depends
on the day of week (167 vs 2345) whether it will be Cyprus or Oman.
Are you familiar with the Merlin/VTC fill music loop? Perhaps that
was what you heard, as in confusion another BBC relay site came on
air. It`s heard at various times on other sites, such as when South
Africa messes up, and to fill out a couple minutes of the Vietnam
relay via Canada on 6175, e.g. 0527-0529*.
The only other current user of 12095 is FEBC, but not supposed to
start until 2300.
12095 2300 2330 43S,49 BOC 100 293 1234567 230511 301011 D 11500 Mul
PHL FEC FEC 17630 B0001S
73, (Glenn to Ullmar, via DXLD) See also CYPRUS!
12035, July 17 at 0457, about equal mix of BBCWS English, and REE IS
prior to its 05-12 broadcast in Spanish. BBC is 300 kW, 110 degrees
from Skelton at 03-05. Spain needs to crash-start not earlier than
0459; it`s 250 kW, 60 degrees from Noblejas and bound to overlap not
only here but eastward tho CIRAF targets of the two are officially
non-duplicated.
9740, July 19 at 1221, BBCWS via Singapore, fair in Newshour, Robin
Lustig says expanded to next 4 hours today to cover the events at
Westminster (testimony of Rupert Murdoch et al. in the phone-hacking
scandal), but then on to other news. At 1339 had declined to poor (and
nothing better from BBCWS audible anywhere on SW), with seemingly live
testimony by ex-police commissioner Yates, but could not match it to
audio on CSPAN2.
(By the time Murdochs came on, around 1355, CSPAN2 had to switch to
Sen. Tom Coburn, on budget matters as the US Senate always comes
first. But then MSNBC, CNN, and even Fox News were live from London.)
17830, July 20 at 1409, BBC poorly audible, 65 degrees via ASCENSION,
interviewing reporter at House of Commons about ``all-day debate`` in
Parliament on the Murdoch affair; earlier I had heard live broadcast
of that until 1159 on R. Australia [q.v.]. In the meantime looked for
it on any US cable TV network, but unfound. Enough is enough, even for
the BBC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. FRIDAY STRIKE BY BBC JOURNALISTS AFFECTED WORLD SERVICE
OPERATIONS. Posted: 15 Jul 2011
The Guardian, 15 July 2011, Ben Dowell: "The strike by BBC journalists
on Friday leaves the corporation's TV and radio services without star
reporters including Nick Robinson, Robert Peston and Laura Kuenssberg
on one of the biggest days so far in the phone-hacking story following
the resignation of Rebekah Brooks. ... The BBC World Service's
English-language service will be running five-minute news at the top
of the hour and two minutes on the half hour."
BBC press release, 15 July 2011: "World Service – of 27 language
services 21 are operating normally. English, Arabic, Persian, Azeri,
Russian and Turkish language services are running bulletins, summaries
and pre-records in lieu of normal operations. All BBC World Service
online services, apart from Azeri, are being maintained".
journalism.co.uk, 15 July 2011, Joel Gunter: "According to the
[National Union of Journalists], more than 100 people are at risk of
compulsory redundancy at the BBC World Service alone, with staff in
BBC Monitoring, BBC Scotland, BBC Wales, BBC 4, BBC Sport and TV
Current Affairs also potentially at risk."
National Union of Journalists, 14 July 2011: "Ahead of strike action
being taken at the BBC tomorrow, the National Union of Journalists has
called for the Government to re-examine the licence fee deal in light
of revelations made around News International in recent weeks. The
NUJ, whose members will take 24-hour strike action tomorrow against
compulsory redundancies being made at the BBC, has questioned the
influence of Rupert Murdoch on the Government while agreeing the
licence fee deal." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
Hmmm, I did not notice anything lacking in BBCWorldNews (TV) July 15
at 2200 via OETA; but that originates in Washington DC (gh, DXLD)
BBC JOURNALISTS STRIKE TO PROTEST PLANNED JOB CUTS - NYTimes.com
July 15, 2011 By JULIA WERDIGIER
LONDON -- Journalists at the British Broadcasting Corporation walked
off their jobs Friday to protest planned job cuts as a result of lower
government funding. About 3,000 journalists who are members of the
National Union of Journalists took part in the one-day strike, which
caused some disruption to programming.
In a statement on its Web site, the BBC said it was "disappointed"
that the strike went ahead and apologized "to our audience for any
disruption to services." Some programs, including its flagship radio
news program "Today" were cut short and the BBC was forced to run
repeats of old shows in Britain and on the World Service. . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/business/media/bbc-journalists-in-one-day-strike-over-job-cuts.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print
(via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
** U K. BBC RADIO 4 DOCUMENTARY: FUNDS FOR SOFT POWER "MAKE NO
DIFFERENCE WITHOUT CREDIBILITY AND SOME SEMBLANCE OF INDEPENDENCE."
BBC Radio 4, 11 July 2011: "In this two part series, Rajan Datar
examines how organizations in China and the Middle East are flexing
their media muscle and spending billions of dollars to win the hearts
and minds of people around the world. He'll investigate who the key
players are, who the winners will be and why it matters to us. In part
one, Rajan explores the roots of the term Soft Power, and examines how
the Middle East has wholeheartedly embraced the notion that news
brings influence. ...
On the other side of the globe, China's CCTV is fast expanding, and
now has a vast newsroom in London, and operations around the world.
Like France 24, Russia 24, Press TV (Iran), Al Jazeera, and many more,
CCTV is the latest attempt for a nation to make the world see things
through their eyes, and it's backed by serious government fund. But,
as Rajan discovers in part two, those funds make no difference without
credibility and some semblance of independence. ...
Former media superpowers like the BBC World Service are shrinking, and
increasingly wealthy and powerful new ones are vying for their place."
With audio. Second in the series will be available 18 July
(kimandrewelliott.com 13 Jul 2001 via DXLD)
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Soft Power Hard News, Episode 1
I spotted this at Kim Andrew Elliott's blog; looks like an interesting
analysis of media organizations that target global audiences.
"In this two part series, Rajan Datar examines how organizations in
China and the Middle East are flexing their media muscle and spending
billions of dollars to win the hearts and minds of people around the
world. He'll investigate who the key players are, who the winners will
be and why it matters to us."
Rajan Datar is also the host of "Over To You", the audience feedback
program on the BBCWS; it used to be 20 minutes each week but is now
10 minutes each week. Link the BBCR4 documentary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fc5n
(Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, July 14, internetradio via DXLD)
In BBC Radio 4 documentary, Alhurra is described as 1) funded by the
US Defense Department and 2) a failure.
BBC Radio 4, 11 July 2011, "Soft Power Hard News": This audio excerpt
http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/audio/BBC_Radio4_doc_on_USIB.mp3
(mp3, 2 min 8 sec) begins with the assertion that Alhurra is "funded
by the US Department of Defense" (which, of course, it isn't). Later,
Harvard professor and coiner of the term "smart power" Joseph Nye said
"since it's regarded as American government propaganda, they [Nye's
friends in the Middle East] don't watch it. ... I think the fact that
the BBC is viewed and has credibility indicates that there is some
possibility there." Another interviewee said Alhurra "was a complete
failure in the Arab world." He also suggested a continuation of the
VOA Arabic Service would have been "a better vehicle for disseminating
the US point of view." (In part two of the series, which will discuss
BBC World Service, will it be described a "vehicle for disseminating
the British point of view"?)
It is to be expected that Alhurra will have audiences smaller than the
intra-Arab news channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. But wouldn't it be
interesting if audience research from the region were to show that
Alhurra has an audience larger than that of BBC Arabic and the other
Arabic news channels from non-Arab countries? See previous post about
the documentary (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com 14 July via
DXLD)
** U S A [non]. Summer A-11 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Pt 1 of 2
[? What comes after Uzbek?][Farda, altho not alfabetically: see IRAN]
Arabic Radio Free Iraq
0200-0700 on 1593
1500-1530 on 1593
1830-2000 on 1593
2100-2300 on 1593
Azeri
1500-1600 on 12025 15565
Avari/Chechen/Chercassian
0300-0400 on 7290 9480
1500-1600 on 11810 15545
Belarussian
0300-0500 on 612 6105 6120
1500-1700 on 612 6060 7270
1700-1900 on 612 5930 6105
1900-2100 on 612 5995 7475
Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0300-0330 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0430-0530 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0630-0730 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0830-0930 on 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1030-1130 on 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1230-1330 on 999 1296 11550 15090 15680
1400-1430 on 999 1296 11550 15090
Kazakh
0100-0200 on 7215 9750
1300-1400 on 12005 15360
Kyrgyz
1200-1230 on 15165 15265 17730
1500-1530 on 11780 15185
Moldovan
0400-0430 on 5945 Mon-Fri
1500-1530 on 9495 Sat/Sun
1600-1630 on 9850 Mon-Fri
1800-1830 on 6065 Mon-Fri
Pashto Radio Free Afghanistan
0230-0300 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0330-0430 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0530-0630 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0730-0830 on 999 1296 15680 17670 17685
0930-1030 on 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1130-1230 on 999 1296 15090 15680 17685
1330-1400 on 999 1296 11550 15090
Pashto Radio Mashaal
0400-0900 on 621 12130 15715 15740
0900-1000 on 621 12130 15715 15740 15360
1000-1100 on 621 12030 12130 15360
1100-1300 on 621 12130 15320 15360
Russian
0300-0400 on 5925 7435 9845 17825
0400-0500 on 5925 7435 9520 9760
0500-0700 on 9520 9760 11850 17560
0800-1000 on 15130 15460 17730
1200-1300 on 7205 13745 15460 17810
1300-1400 on 7205 11975 13745 15460
1400-1500 on 7205 11730 13745 15460
1500-1600 on 7355 9520 11860 15460
1600-1700 on 9520 9740 9840 11860
1700-1800 on 5990 9520 9840 11805
1700-1800 on 12080 15545 >>>>> Caucasus Echo
1800-1900 on 5990 9520 9840 11805
1900-2000 on 5920 7285 9795 9840
2000-2100 on 7285 9795
Tajik
0100-0200 on 9760 13760
0200-0400 on 9760 15525
1400-1600 on 9790 11975
1600-1700 on 7485 9790
Tatar
0300-0400 on 7390 9635
0500-0600 on 9635
1500-1600 on 9730 15445
1900-2000 on 9805
Turkmen
0200-0300 on 864 9550 15560
0300-0400 on 9550 15560
1400-1500 on 12075 15650
1500-1530 on 9830 15650
1530-1600 on 864 9830 15650
1600-1700 on 7350 15650
1700-1800 on 9485 11860
Uzbek
0200-0300 on 9855 12025 15145
0300-0400 on 12025 15145 17770
1400-1500 on 7555 12005 13615
1600-1700 on 7555 9445 11975
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, July 17 via DXLD)
** U S A. BBG CHAIRMAN SAYS VOA MAY LAUNCH BALOCHI SERVICE
The chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors has said that the
Voice of America (VOA) will put the adding of a Balochi language
service on its agenda. Walter Isaacson was a guest speaker at a
National Press Club luncheon on Friday. In recent years, since the
launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, US interest in
the Balochi language has grown by leaps and bounds.
Read more at Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/voa-balochi#ixzz1SHrfbGEn
(July 16th, 2011 - 16:43 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD) viz.:
The chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency that
operates the Voice of America, has said the VoA will put the adding of
a Balochi language service on its agenda.
Walter Isaacson, celebrated editor, book author and intellectual, who
heads the VoA, was a guest speaker at a National Press Club luncheon
Friday hosted for world-renowned blogger and his old friend Arianna
Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media
Group, and Tim Armstrong, chairman and CEO of AOL.
After the event, to a question from this correspondent, Isaacson said
he will take up the matter of adding Balochi language service in real
earnest. He repeated his promise he will take up the issue of adding
Balochi language as he left the NPC building.
In recent years, since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in
Afghanistan U.S. interest has in Balochi language has grown by leaps
and bounds. At present, VoA broadcasts in 44 languages including Urdu,
Persian and Dari but Balochi is missing though Balochistan is one of
the sexiest geo-strategic territory.
Meanwhile, the pro-independence American Friends of Balochistan has
welcomed Mr. Isaacson's statement and hoped that Balochi will be added
to the VoA broadcasts in the interests of freedom and peace in the
Greater Middle East region. The A.F.B. said Balochi was a critical
language in the context of the Afpak conflict.
However, Isaacson's interest in promoting VoA services is looked upon
with grave suspicions by key players in the so-called Great Game that
is evolving in the region, namely Russia (see video).
Continue reading on Examiner.com VoA to ponder launching Balochi
language service, says Isaacson - Baltimore Foreign Policy |
Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/voa-balochi#ixzz1SJhkmkkV
BBG chairman, pressed, says that he will "take up the issue of adding
Balochi" as a VOA language. Posted: 19 Jul 2011 [as above]
Note that Examiner.com is more "citizen" than "journalism." Balochi is
spoken in adjoining regions of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Advocacy for a VOA Balochi service was first reported here in January
2010 (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. [Re 11-28] REPORT: VOA HORN OF AFRICA CHIEF "WILL
BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER SECTION." Posted: 16 Jul 2011
Addis Voice, 14 July 2011, Abebe Gellaw: "The Voice of America (VOA)
has faced fresh controversy over its decision not to air news coverage
on a high profile public meeting held Sunday at the Sheraton National
Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia. Despite the fact that VOA Horn of
Africa section, including the Amharic service, had sent reporters to
cover the public event that was focused on the future of Ethiopia, the
decision to censor a report on the event was made by senior VOA
bosses, informed sources told Addis Voice. ...
“It appears now that Bereket Simon, an arch enemy of free press, has
become the editor-in-chief of VOA by proxy,” [one participant]said.
According to [him], Ethiopians will petition US Congress to look into
complaints of malpractice and censorship at the VOA that seems to be
willfully bending itself too much to lullaby insolent dictators that
do not understand the rights and liberties of others. ...
VOA has first raised eyebrows among Ethiopians when it decided to
suspend its Horn of Africa chief, David Arnold, who has now been
reinstated, over critical comments he made on a June 23 VOA report,
which was deleted from its website without any explanations, apologies
or corrections. But it has emerged that Mr. Arnold will not serve as
Horn of Africa chief as he will be transferred to another section, our
investigation can reveal."
Abugidainfo.com, 15 July 2011, Ephrem Madebo: "[A]s recently as last
week, the VOA suspended its Horn of Africa chief, Mr. David Arnold;
and this week, in a very dramatic shift of events, the VOA reinstated
Mr. Arnold. I see deeply troubling multiple events here. Why was Mr.
Arnold suspended? Who suspended him? Is the VOA really censoring
itself in defense of a ruthless African dictator? ...
This week, on his written message to Addis Voce, VOA’s acting Director
and Executive Editor, Mr. Steve Redisch said: 'There have been
inaccurate reports about the tone and substance of an official meeting
on June 22 between members of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors
and Ethiopian Communication Affairs Minister Bereket Simon'. Mr.
Redisch, did you say inaccurate reports? Are you telling me that the
report aired on June 23 on VOA Amharic Program and appeared on its
website [eventually removed] was inaccurate? This is either a joke of
the week or a cover up to appease the Ethiopian dictator. You better
tell me which one it is!" See previous post about same subject.
ETHIOPIAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST CONTINUES TO DIG INTO THE VOA HORN OF
AFRICA CONTROVERSY. Posted: 19 Jul 2011
Addis Voice, 18 June 2011, Abebe Gellaw: "In response to a recent
Addis Voice investigative report, VOA embroiled in fresh censorship
row, Voice of America issued a very brief statement Thursday
explaining why VOA skipped coverage of a high profile public meeting
held at the Sheraton in Arlington, Virginia. The event was jointly
organized by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Ginbot 7 and the
Alliance for Liberty Equality and Justice in Ethiopia (ALEJE). 'There
are many news events going on in the Washington area and VOA cannot
cover them all. That is all we will have for you on this matter,'
David Borgida, VOA Director of Public Relations, said in an email. ...
"Meanwhile, Addis Voice has also learnt that the controversial June
23rd VOA report on the visit of three Board of Broadcasting Governors
(BBG) and VOA delegation to Ethiopia contains no factual errors. Mr.
Arnold accurately revealed that Bereket Simon, Meles Zenawi’s close
confidant and Minister of Government Communication Affairs, demanded
the delegation to ban a long list of dissidents and critics from VOA
airwaves. Arnold was suspended in a letter written by BBG Governor
Michael Meehan, a member of the delegation that met with Ethiopian
government officials last month. While the official VOA position on
the report in question is that it contained unacceptable inaccuracies,
it emerged that no single factual error was found in the report."
Addis Voice, 19 July 2011, Abebe Gellaw: Names "in a 42-page document
submitted by the Meles regime to VOA and Board of Broadcasting
Governors (BBG) officials as 'evidence' to support its complaints
against VOA Amharic service." With the list of names.
Nazret.com, 18 July 2011, Alemayehu G. Mariam: "[D]emocracy in East
Africa remains on life support. It suffered a massive stroke in
Ethiopia in May 2010 when dictator Meles Zenawi declared election
victory by 99.6 percent. Since 2005, Zenawi has put that country’s
tiny private independent press on the ventilator and tethered the rule
of law to the heart-lung machine. He put human rights in intensive
care and has managed to anesthetize the population into silence. A
couple of weeks ago, he secretly sought to negotiate a deal with the
Governing Board of the Voice of America (VOA). If the VOA blacklists
and blackballs his critics in the U.S. and banishes them from ever
appearing on VOA broadcasts, the electronic jamming will be lifted."
(kimandrewelliott.coms via DXLD)
Because of the competing demands of numerous factions, international
broadcasting to the Horn of Africa is a minefield. So is reporting
about international broadcasting to the Horn of Africa. More sources,
included at some from outside the Ethiopian exile press, would be
helpful here (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.)
** U S A. FORMER VOA DIRECTOR ARGUES THAT US INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING *IS* A "STRATEGIC ASSET." Posted: 16 Jul 2011
Public Diplomacy Council, 8 July 2011, David Jackson, former VOA
director: An "argument could be made for whether VOA is a 'strategic
asset.' Helle Dale, a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a
staunch believer in the value of Voice of America, recently posted a
comment on Heritage’s The Foundry blog that took the president to task
for, among other things, waiting so long to give an interview to the
Voice of America. '…It would be encouraging,' she noted, 'if the White
House finally realized that it has a strategic asset in U.S.
international broadcasting….'
"Her comment provoked an immediate (and prickly) response from Kim
Andrew Elliott, an audience research analyst at the International
Broadcasting Bureau, a support agency of VOA under the BBG, who wrote
on his own blog: 'When a president considers USIB (U.S. international
broadcasting) to be a "strategic asset," USIB is screwed. How can a
"strategic asset" provide a comprehensive, reliable, and independent
news service, which is the main reason for the audience to tune in?'
The answer to that question is easy: VOA not only can be
'comprehensive, reliable, and independent' and also be a 'strategic
asset,' it has been for nearly seven decades. Just ask the millions of
people in countries around the world who have relied on VOA – and the
country that supported it – as the only source of information they
trusted. ...
"I don’t know of any U.S. president – or any U.S. diplomat, for that
matter – who doesn’t consider that a 'strategic asset.'"
(kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
This interesting essay is recommended reading. David Jackson is
correct that an entity providing "comprehensive, reliable, and
independent" news to countries that do not have such a news service
domestically could be considered a strategic asset. Such an external
news service makes it more difficult for the dictator in charge of
such a target country to engage in pernicious activities.
I was prickled, however, because I don't think this is what Helle Dale
and some of her colleagues at the Heritage Foundation mean by
strategic asset. They want an international broadcasting service whose
content would be "coordinated" by a new strategic communication
superbureaucracy. It would broadcast more of this, less of that, in
line with US policies.
The audience for international broadcasting, which is collectively
smarter than Washington's decision makers and distinguished think tank
fellows, would immediately notice the change of tone. The credibility
of US international broadcasting would disintegrate. The United States
would be left with a strategic asset that has no audience.
Earlier in his essay, Mr. Jackson states that US international is, in
addition to being a strategic asset, A. a tool of American public
diplomacy, and B. An editorially independent news organization. My
view is that international broadcasting and public diplomacy should be
separate and complementary activities. Take this recent example of an
Alhurra reporter asking Secretary of State Clinton a tough question
about Syria. Such a question could only be asked by an independent
journalist, not by a practitioner of public diplomacy. The question
was international broadcasting, the answer was public diplomacy.
Additionally, Reuters recently cited an Alhurra report about South
Sudan establishing diploatic relations with Israel. Would Reuters do
that if it thought Alhurra to be nothing more than an outlet of US
public diplomacy? (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.; for linx see
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=11656 via DXLD)
"AMERICAN WORLD SERVICE" WOULD COMBINE "PROPAGANDA MEDIA " OF USIB
WITH "RESPECTED JOURNALISM" OF NPR AND PBS. Posted: 19 Jul 2011
Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2011, Lee C. Bollinger: "To be
sure, CNN provides one home-grown model of a successful American news
broadcaster with global editorial reach. Along with a small handful of
our national newspapers and wire services, it continues to have
bureaus and correspondents abroad while our three major broadcast
networks largely have withdrawn from the field. When there is major
breaking news either in the US or abroad, CNN and CNN International
have frequently excelled at providing live coverage. But we know that
commercial pressures, as well as loss of domestic audience share to
more explicitly ideological competitors on the right and left, have
caused CNN’s international news coverage to become more reactive and
less committed to sustained, in-depth reporting.
While natural disasters or violent conflicts typically bring out the
best in CNN’s reporting, American viewers and listeners must turn to
our own public broadcasters, NPR and PBS, for day-to-day insight into
important but more routine political and business news stories from
around the world. The ironic fact is that, in addition to NPR’s own
high-quality international coverage, these US public broadcasters are
providing American audiences with the news reporting of the BBC and
the BBC World Service, which comes to us largely courtesy of British
taxpayers. ...
"[F]or reaching global audiences, the US has a series of government-
sponsored broadcasting entities set up primarily during the Cold War
to combat Communist propaganda by communicating the position of the
United States. Voice of America and Radio Free Europe are the
legendary institutions of this group, which also includes Radio Free
Asia, Radio and TV Marti (for Cuba), and Alhurra (for the Middle
East); collectively, these entities receive nearly $750 million in
government funding annually. ...
"[An interesting problem] is why the US would continue to maintain and
fund this dual system of respected journalism in NPR and PBS, on the
one hand, and the international propaganda media, on the other, when
what we — and the world — need more than anything is truly global
journalism capable of reporting the news in an independent, objective,
and professional manner.
"That is why I propose something new, an American World Service: a
media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest-quality
American journalism to the global public forum." (kimandrewelliott.com
via DXLD)
1) Mr. Bollinger is on to something. One element of the UK's success
in international news broadcasting is that it is consolidated into one
organization, BBG Global News, unlike US international broadcasting,
which is dysfunctionally fragmented. The other is that BBC Global News
can tap into the resources of the formidable BBC domestic
organization. Conversely, BBC domestic can make use of BBC Global
journalism and expertise.
2) He sells CNN International short. CNN International is the most
successful single element of US international broadcasting, even
though it is not under the Broadcasting Board of Governors and costs
the US taxpayers nothing. It has the largest audience of any global
English news channel, and it is profitable. Americans would have
access to more world news if CNN International were available on more
US cable systems. (Even better, cable systems should offer all of the
big three global English news channels: CNN International, BBC World
News, and Al Jazeera English.) As for "commercial pressures," keep in
mind that much of BBC's international English-language output is also
commercial, e.g. BBC World News, BBC America, BBC.com, etc.
3) BBC no longer comes to US audiences "largely courtesy of British
taxpayers." That was true when BBC World Service was transmitted on
shortwave to North America. Now, however, public stations pay for the
BBC content. (If Republican efforts to defund public radio stations
succeed, we might be hearing less BBC on the FM band in the United
States.)
4) Mr. Bollinger's description of US international broadcasting as
"propaganda media" is ham-fisted. For all the broad scope of his
proposal, it needs to be researched more thoroughly.
5) In the present deficit-cutting mindset, it may be several years
before Congress is willing to fund any new entity. And, because enough
members of Congress are convinced that public broadcasting has a left-
wing bias, a merger of US public and international broadcasting is
unlikely.
6) In Foreign Service Journal, October 2010, I proposed an
international-domestic partnership. The main commercial US broadcast
news organizations -- ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and NBC -- would
collectively manage US international broadcasting for a fixed period,
say five to ten years, with a renewable contract. The domestic and
international elements would share resources. The excellent journalism
and analysis of US public broadcasting notwithstanding, America's
newsgathering horsepower still belongs to the private networks.
See previous post about Lee Bollinger (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.)
** U S A [non non]. BBG OFFICIAL BRIEFS PD COMMISSION ON EFFORTS TO
REPEAL BAN ON DOMESTIC DISSEMINATION. Posted: 17 Jul 2011
Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 12 July 2011: "BBG
Executive Director Jeff Trimble briefed the Advisory Commission on
Public Diplomacy today about the Board's position on Smith-Mundt,
particularly seeking to repeal the ban on domestic dissemination of
BBG broadcasts. The meeting was held on the Hill and was an excellent
opportunity to discuss the administration-backed amendment to the
Smith-Mundt Act that was recently sent to Congress. In a diverse media
environment, adhering to Smith-Mundt is increasingly difficult.
For example, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, BBG worked
with Sirius satellite radio on a proposal to make VOA Creole products
available on radios to be donated by Sirius to Haitian citizens. This
required Congressional approval as these broadcasts were then also
available to U.S. audiences although they were not targeted to them.
Trimble outlined the Board's view that in a global media environment
where U.S. international broadcasting stories go viral, are picked up
by media competitors and aggregators, and often are played back to the
U.S. public, a new examination of Smith-Mundt is very much in order."
NAFSA, 14 July 2011, Ursula Oaks: "In Dearborn, Michigan, where the
country’s largest concentration of Arab-Americans and a significant
diaspora from the Arab world live, there’s a great demand for Arabic-
language news. Al Jazeera is a readily available option; Alhurra
Television and Radio Sawa, produced by the U.S.-funded Middle East
Broadcasting Networks, are not. In Minneapolis, a Somali-language FM
radio station that serves a community from which many young men have
been recruited to the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabab was turned
away when it inquired about airing Somali-language content from the
Voice of America.
Radio Marti broadcasts from its Miami studios to the island of Cuba –
but it cannot legally be aired on the radio in Florida. What’s going
on? Within the borders of the United States, American citizens have no
legal access, via traditional broadcast and print media, to
programming developed by their own government for non-U.S. audiences.
This is because of the Smith-Mundt Act, otherwise known as th e U.S.
Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, or Public Law 80-
402."
Pundit Wire, 13 July 2011, Dan Whitman: "At a hearing on Capitol Hill
this past Tuesday, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
acted to dismantle a 1985 provision which stated that 'No program
material prepared in the United States Information Agency shall be
distributed within the Unites States' (P.L. 99-93.) ...
No one argued against the measure, and a member of the Commission had
to ask three times what possible arguments there might be against it,
to get ready just in case. What was all the fuss about, and what do we
lose by canning Smith-Mundt? Global information is here to stay, and
anything going up on the internet is and should be available to all.
...
At the hearing July 12, Jeff Trimble, the able administrator of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (a bipartisan group that oversees the
Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other U.S. government
broadcast entities) said convincingly that U.S. government
broadcasters would 'make no particular effort to disseminate in the
United States.' Well, that was the point – and the modern meaning – of
Smith-Mundt.One audience member said, 'Let’s say we trust Jeff Trimble
totally, but don’t want to give carte blanche to all of his
successors.'" See also Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
website. http://www.state.gov/pdcommission/
(kimandfrewelliott.com via DXLD)
First, the internet does not make the domestic dissemination
prohibition unenforceable. On the contrary, it makes it, after all
these years, enforceable, because US international broadcasting and
public diplomacy entities can use IP geoblocking to prevent US
internet from accessing their content. By not imposing such IP blocks,
US agencies are flouting Smith-Mundt.
Second, the Advisory Commission did not "act" to dismantle the
domestic dissemination provision. Unlike the Broadcasting Board of
Governors, which has decision making authority, the Advisory
Commission can only, as its name indicates, advise.
Third, the domestic dissemination prohibition is a nuisance. Repealing
it, however, it not so simple. It must provide a means to stop the
process halfway down a slippery slope. Yes, a Somali-language program
on a Minnesota AM radio station should be able to use VOA content if
it wants to. But, no, future administrations must not purloin the
resources of US international broadcasting and public diplomacy to
rally domestic support for their policy goals. No money should be
spent on domestic dissemination other than very small amounts for the
administrative costs of handling domestic redistribution requests (Kim
Andrew Elliott, ibid.)
** U S A [and non]. USA/DIEGO GARCIA/GUAM/HAWAII/PUERTO RICO
Google Earth imagery. Some high resolution place. VE Update - Google
Earth historical image.
Re AFRTS Antennen, ueberall die gleichen Antennengruppen, ob Florida,
Diego Garcia, Barrigada-Guam, Isabela-Puerto Rico.
Ich kann da nicht erkennen, welches nun eine typische AFRTS SW Antenne
ist, ich glaube die meisten Antennengruppen, auch die 6mast
Gruppenantennen sind auf alle AFRTS Radio Programm Frequenzen
anpassbar, ist ja eh nur SSB mode, die Antennen muessen also nicht
sehr breitbandig sein.
USA Florida US Navy, AFRTS Saddlebunch Keys, 26 Antennen
24 38 50.60 N 81 36 09.54 W
Auf QSLs wird Boca Chica genannt, das liegt aber 11.8 km westlich auf
dem Airport.
"AFRTS Florida broadcasts with a 48 foot inverted cone antenna from
Boca Chica, Florida with 8 kilowatts of power." - das muesste diese 1.
Antenne rechts am Eingang der Station sein:
24 38 36.36 N 81 35 47.58 W
PTR AFRTS Puerto Rico, Isabela 6458.5 kHz "Naval Computer and
Telecommunications Station, Puerto Rico broadcasts with a groundbased,
omnidirectional wire antenna with a 30 foot diameter. The signal is
broadcast at 10 kilowatts from Isabela, Puerto Rico." [no longer on]
PTR VLF navy NAU 40.75 kHz Aguada Puerto Rico
18 23 55.64 N 67 10 38.69 W die QSL sagen aber die Ortschaft
Isabela, 30 foot / 8 m Durchmesser non-dir rundstrahl wire antenna.
die US Navy hat aber 19 km suedwestlich die hohe VLF Antenne in Aguada
installiert.
hier sind 39 Antennen sichtbar.
AFRTS Puerto Rico, Isabela 6458.5 kHz
18 27 45.75 N 67 04 03.27 W sogar ein Schwarz-Weiss Foto aus 1993 in
Google Eearth.
21 Oct 2004 ist das beste image ? oder eher 30 Nov 2006? Aber solch
eine geschilderte 8 m Durchmesserantenne sehe ich nicht, dafuer viele
groessere von 30-40 m Durchmesser.
BIO / DGA Diego Garcia (US Navy), 23 Antennen
07 25 50.62 S 72 26 29.56 E
welches davon die AFRTS Masten sind erklaert sich nicht sofort.
vielleicht 07 25 50.94 S 72 26 22.42 E fuer 60 mb ?
AFRTS antenna in 24 mband
07 26 00.19 S 72 26 16.09 E ist erst vor 6 Jahren aufgebaut worden.
HWA VLF NPM 21.4 kHz - AFRTS Lualualei Hawaii, Pearl Harbour
das sind die hohen 2 Masten rechts
21 25 19.56 N 158 09 16.75 W dazu mindestens weitere 55 Antennen
- auch Gruppen, wenn ich richtig gezaehlt habe. [no longer on air]
GUM AFRTS Barrigada, Guam. 4 tall masts dismantelled in 2006 year?
13 28 41.16 N 144 50 16.29 E
Barrigada ist tuechtig umgebaut worden seit 2006. Die vier hohen
Masten sind verschwunden. Welche Funktion die 4 grossen Masten hatten,
erklaert sich mir nicht.
Fuer eine Ersatz U-Boot VHF Antenne sind die Masten zu kurz, sieht
eher wie ein Blitzableiter fuer die teure Technik im Gebaeude aus.
Muss eine alte Technik gewesen sein, irgendwas mit frueherer LORAN-C
Navigation zu tun, obwohl die alte LORAN Anlage weiter westlich lag?
LW 126 kHz koennte vielleicht von der Mastlaenge her gehen?
dort "Barrigada Guam stillgelegt"
bei 13 27 50.37 N 144 49 32.89 E der alte LORAN Sender auf Yap war
bei 09 32 46 N 138 09 56 E
(Wolfgang Büschel, July 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 17 via DXLD)
Military bases are so full of antennas that it would be hard to sort
out exactly which ones are used for AFRTS relays, especially since
they are in utility bands already (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** U S A. The Thursday 21-22 UT feast of three WORLD OF RADIO
broadcasts confirmed July 14:
WTWW at 2106, altho webcast of WTWW-1 still not working, 9479 VG altho
this transmitter has a squeal on it like at least one each from WWCR,
WEWN, RHC
WRMI at 2105, confirmed on webcast, but inaudible on 9955, not jammed
WBCQ at 2150 check JBA on 7415 in high noise level, loud and clear on
webcast also with new 1573.
WWRB broadcast also confirmed on webcast (lo mod), and on 5051 with
5050 het, 0330+ UT Friday July 15.
New 0500 UT Friday broadcast on WRMI 9955: audible, but still with too
much Cuban pulse jamming and still going this date, unlike others,
past 0531 vs. R. Praga in Spanish. At 1440 could not hear me on 9955,
tho no jamming either.
WORLD OF RADIO 1573 monitoring: Sat 1500 broadcast on WRMI, no jamming
but JBA at 1520 with SAH from YFR Taiwan, confirmed on loud & clear
webcast. Remaining WRMI repeats are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730,
Mon 1130, 1530, 2130, Tue 1530, Wed 1530.
Best remaining chances this weekend on SW: UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5755;
UT Mon 0300 on Area 51 WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Allan Weiner advises that what
had been the usual final repeat, Wed at 2130 has been canceled, but
the first airing Thu at 2130 continues on 7415 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST) However we still heard WOR
1573 on 7415 webcast, Wed July 20 at 2130 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF
RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1574 monitoring: first airing UT Thursday July 21 at
0330 on WRMI confirmed on webcast, just jamming on 9955; tnx a lot,
Arnie! Further WRMI times: Thu 1500, 2100, Fri 0500, 1430, Sat 0800,
1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730.
On WTWW: Thursday 2100 9479, UT Sunday 0400 5755
On WBCQ: Thursday 2130 on 7415, UT Monday 0300 on 5110v-CUSB
On WWRB: UT Friday 0330v on 5051
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Allan Weiner tells me the Wed 2130 repeat on WBCQ 7415 has been
canceled, but WOR 1573 was still there July 20 as heard on webcast
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000.56 and 9969.45, WWCR spurs, 0910-0920, July 14,
threshold signal of WWCR spurs from 9985. 15.56 kHz separation between
each frequency. Thanks to Glenn Hauser tip (Brian Alexander,
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And thank you for
measuring them precisely
15825, Friday July 15 at 2035 check, WWCR is still running
`Unshackled`; sporadic-E enhanced.
BTW, Brian Alexander in PA also heard the WWCR-1 spurs when 9985 was
the fundamental, and he measured them more precisely than I could:
10000.56 and 9969.45, i.e. plus and minus 15.55 or 15.56 kHz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15825, WWCR, 1152, 6/30, in English. Preaching, distorted audio /
modulation. Extremely strong. Possible multiple spurs 15608-15640 kHz
(S. Handler, IL Icom IC-7200, Sony ICF-7600GR and dipole antennas,
NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
9985, July 20 at 0558, surprised to find VG signal with gospel music.
WYFR used to be here before their drastic cutbax to nothing of their
own after 0500. I`ll bet it`s WWCR-1 on wrong frequency, so I quickly
check 3215, and sure `nuff, it`s missing. Back to 30m, and also quick
check of 10000 whether the spur on 10000.6 can be heard, but not
before 9985 which was S9+22 with squeal, cut off at 0559*. Then
retuned again to 3215 and it cut on at *0559:30 amid same music
continuing, without benefit of steel drums or QSY announcement. 9985
is scheduled for 09-11 UT only; a mistake, or propagation test? Too
much noise on 90m to hear the spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3199.45, 3230.55, WWCR Spurs, 0205-0215, July 21, very weak spurs of
3215. Note 15.55 kHz separation between each frequency (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** U S A. News broke on July 14 that Pastor Pete Peters had died July
7, so I made a point of listening to Scriptures for America via WTWW
on July 15: 0527 on 5755, sounded like him; and at 1214 with squealy
transmitter. 1259, Ted Randall interrupts a cowboy song just starting
to announce QSY to ``9480``, and off at 1259:19*, back on 9479 a few
sex later.
After the TOH IRN `news`, from 1305 there was a program dated
``tonight, July 14``, conversation mostly between two guys, one of
whom has a similar voice and accent to PPP, not as extreme, but could
be mistaken for him. Until 1343 reversion to cowboy music fill, they
discussed what had been happening, summarized here:
Pastor Peter John Peters died on July 7. He had been having health
issues, but kept them private, only among close friends and family.
Had not been on the air with new material during June, ``on
sabbatical``, but did attend an event in Branson in early June, driven
there and back by one of his associates.
The Laporte Church of Christ and Scriptures for America deliberately
kept his death secret until after the July 13 funeral, in order to
prevent the media from showing up and bothering the family, and this
was successful, a nice funeral with a totally clear sky for a change.
One of them speaking on the radio Sunday had a hard time not letting
on what had happened. Among the enemies PPP took on were: ADL, JDL,
various police agencies, attorney general, secretary of state
(presumably both meaning state of Colorado), FBI, DOJ, BATF.
It`s ``full steam ahead`` for SFA ministry; ``he left us with over
1000 messages.`` (So it looks like we have another Gene Scott on our
airwaves, outliving his earthly existence on the radio; assuming
funding can be maintained.)
There will be a memorial service live on the radio Tuesday July 19 for
two hours, including call-ins; I never heard a time given, evening?
I then checked the website http://www.sfaw.org but there is still
nothing there about his death. For an idea of what he was about, check
out the latest ``Dragon Slayer`` newsletter from April, including
photos and info about WTWW, including one of him by a transmitter,
presumably WTWW:
http://www.sfaw.org/newsletters/Volume%204%202011%20for%20web.pdf
And rather negative local Fort Collins press about him, DXLD member
Pat Blakely found first:
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110714/UPDATES01/110714025
and
http://www.coloradoan.com/comments/article/20110714/UPDATES01/110714025/Pastor-LaPorte-Church-Christ-dies-preached-virulently-racist-message
An updated version adds (an old) portrait of him:
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107150328
9479, July 16 at 1348 tuning across WTWW, the heirs of Pastor Pete
Peters are discussing the live memorial broadcast Tuesday evening. One
says it will be 3 hours long starting at 7 pm MT, or a little earlier,
``until 9``, which according to my calculations amounts to 2 hours.
Anyhow, from around 0100 UT Wednesday July 20, i.e. right after 5755
comes up.
An updated version of the local Fort Collins newspaper story adds (an
old) portrait of him; see also the comments:
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011107150328
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I've heard Pastor Peters occasionally on private US shortwave station,
most recently WTWW in Lebanon, Tennessee. He was unabashedly racist
and antisemitic (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
5755, July 20 at 0138 past 0151, I belatedly remember that the
memorial service for Pastor Pete Peters was supposed to start at 0100
via WTWW. Phone calls are on air one after another, and never heard
the number given, so must have a full bank and/or set up in advance.
Everyone shared their memories and esteem for the late PPP; some of
the calls were quite distorted.
9479, July 20 at 1339 as I tune across WTWW, hear one of the same YL
callers the night before on 5755 in tribute to the late PPP. According
to http://www.sfawbn.org/schedule.html
13-14 UT M-F is the customary playback time of ``last night`` `Live
from Radio Ranch` at 01-02 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, trying to hear WTWW-3, July 17 at 0458, a JBA signal
beside good BBCWS English 12095. Since no other station in the world
is currently scheduled on 12100 at any time, I suppose it may be WTWW,
just not propagating. Hmmm, or a 2 x 6050 Cubharmonic?
However, WTWW was definitely off the air at 1252, so while hunting
Firedrakes I leave another receiver on 12100 to catch it coming on:
*1256:30 joining Arabic Bible in progress, no sign-on announcement.
12100, July 18 at 1245 check, WTWW is already on in Arabic, unlike
yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12100, WTWW?? 2110 July 17 talks by OM in Spanish with many refs to
Cuba but also some ref to Israel, 22432 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
?? Since Cuba did not exist as a political entity or even island name
in Biblical times, and 12100 is allegedly nothing but verbatim Bible
readings in various languages, this cannot be. Misunderstood a word,
or are they slipping in contemporary stuff? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15420-CUSB, July 16 at 2111, WBCQ is still on the air past
scheduled 2100* this Saturday as it was a biweek ago, with continuous
rock music, but except for canned ID break at 2130, no announcements,
so is not `Radio TimTron Worldwide`. Still on at final check 2209. Was
running S9+18. Maybe a propagation test? Much better here than 7415 if
it were on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, July 20 at 1208, WTJC is out of whack again, distorted
on fundamental and outspurring to 9345/9395 with dirty noise
disrupting other stations including N Korea 9345, peaking closer to
9350, 9390.
9370, WTJC even more out of whack, July 21 at 1340, distorted on
fundamental and scratchy spur field out to 9270 and 9425. Worst peaks
around 9350 and 9390. Disrupting among others, WBCQ on 9330, FEBC on
9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11714.787, KJES, Vado NM, Jul 11, 1309 - Good level with
some deep fades, with the usual children responding to prayer, and
singing as well. Haven't heard them in a while (Walt Salmaniw, Rose
Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC overnight dc only
DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ, while the other was
more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured about 750’ in length,
while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used a PA0RDT active
antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated about 7’. Receivers
used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell Studio quad core laptop,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11714.85, (NM), KJES (Las Cruces, NM area). 7/13, 1445. outstanding
signal this morning and with good audio.
7555, (NM), KJES, 7/14, 0115. Little boy, older male, in Spanish with
religious talk ("dios mio"). very strong and with excellent audio.
11714.85, (NM), KJES (on the strip between El Paso and Las Cruces).
7/14, 1430. "Campfire" music, i.e., religious songs with acoustic
guitar and multiple adolescent singers. Outstanding signal this AM,
with mudulation [sic] up with the carrier; excellent audio (73 and
"goood listening" from El Mirage, AZ ! Rick Barton, Drake R-8; Palomar
Loop, outdoor slinky; Hammarlund HQ-180A, HQ-200; 75' Inverted L,
Random wire, ABDX via DXLD)
** U S A [and non?]. Finding WWV inbooming on 20000, i.e. sporadic E
opening, July 18 at 1407, I look for higher signals. Zero activity on
15 and 12m hambands, no 25950 KOA; but 27455-USB has QSO in Spanish
underneath a Good Ole Boy in English.
28425-USB, July 18 at 1413 the OSSBSOB, Paul, KW7D in Deming (he keeps
spelling it as if we didn`t know), New Mexico calling CQ, then contact
with KC5SNJ/NA168, Lee, also audible more weakly. Never heard his QTH
but QRZ.com shows: KE5SNJ, Lee G Mallahan, Jr, PO BOX 448, Grand Isle,
LA 70358 USA. After their brief repeat contact, KW7D immediately
worked someone else I could not hear.
Before heading to VHF, July 18 at 1416, I checked 11715, KJES, also in
NM, and it was S9+20, not unusual, sufficient modulation in English
catechisms call and repeat. Hey, should look for their second harmonic
when we know the MUF is up, 23430, but nothing audible (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 12050, July 19 at 0533, fair signal in Arabic. Nothing
in HFCC, but Aoki shows AWR via Wertachtal, GERMANY at 05-06 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9585, WYFR? English preacher talking about the
Gospels. Very weak and hard to dig out (there was something on 9585.4
which created a horrible LF Het (or maybe THIS station was off
frequency? -- hard to tell for sure). Into music then ID and email &
postal address info, including a “NEW” PO Box address at 40, and then
into more traditional religious music. Offer of a “postcard” in
response if you send them your address in an email. Full Legal ID at
:44 as WYFR, Okeechobee FL then into the LONG version of “Harold’s
Horns, to s/off at :45. This was very poor reception: 32+442 even with
notches and filters. 0230-0245* 9/Jul --Zichi MI2
Family Radio (non) -- I did a quick scan of WYFR & other Family Radio
outlets at 1605 3/Jul. The ONLY channel heard was 17545 from Ascension
(and that had the ‘soothing voice’ guy who became more prominent after
the rapture that fizzled. As for the other channels, 11830, 18980,
17555, 13695 and 21525 were all completely silent. 17795 had BBC World
service from Ascension which in the past has been buried by WYFR and
the UAE relay 11850 was also silent.
Has brother Harold given up? Is there an issue in with the Florida
transmitter? Was the rapture late and they are now no longer here to
carry on? Is this whole operation really so dependent on Harold C,
that he has a stroke and they all clam up & hide? Inquiring minds want
to know! (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet ``July 20`` issued
July 18 via DXLD) See also TAIWAN [non]
If he had read my log reports or DXLD or listened to WORLD OF RADIO,
he would have known that the Okeechobee schedule was drastically
reduced 17 June, on air with FR only between 2200 and 0500 (gh, DXLD)
USA Family Radio (WYFR) has made drastic cuts in its shortwave
transmissions, reducing its output by several hundred frequency hours
per day. Relays via overseas transmitter sites have been cut back
since early June and cuts to output from Family Radio’s own WYFR
transmitter site at Okeechobee, Florida, took effect from 17 June. The
Okeechobee site is now on the air only from 2200-0500, whereas
previously it operated multiple frequencies per hour continuously
throughout the 24 hours.
Family Radio/WYFR reduced English schedule on SW from 17 June
0000-0100 Am 7360-my 7520-ok
0200-0300 Am 5930-my 5985-ok
0300-0400 Am 11740-ok
0900-1100 As 9465-tw
1100-1200 As 15560-aa
1300-1400 As 11520-tw 12155-tw 13820-aa
1400-1500 As 9365-ta 11560-tw
1500-1600 AfAs 6280-tw 11560-tw 11605-dh 15520-dh 17580-as
1600-1700 AfAs 11850-dh 17545-as
1700-1800 Af 7395-md 17545-as
1800-1900 Af 5905-me 7395-md 13750-we
1900-2000 Af 3230-me 6020-md 7270-me 7395-me 9610-we 9775-dh
2000-2100 Af 6020-md 9610-we 12060-as 15195-as
2100-2200 Af 9610-we 12060-as
2300-0000 Am 11580-ok 15255-ok
The above is based on HFCC registrations and monitoring observations
since 17 June. I estimate that about 70% of Family Radio’s English-
language SW frequencies have been dropped. Some broadcasts are also
relayed on MW via Lesotho (1197 kHz) and Taiwan (1503/1359/1557) but
the Taiwan MW freqs were only carrying music when I checked using
Global tuners (observations 17-21 June) (Dave Kenny, UK, July BDXC-UK
Communication via DXLD)
This observed schedule has probably been overtaken slightly by further
cuts as I see from Family Radio's web site they no longer list 1503 or
1359 kHz from Taiwan so there must have been a reduction to Taiwan
output since I checked (Dave Kenny, July 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
ASCENSION: 12060 Family Radio; 2056-2101+, 19-July; English program to
Harold's horns IS; off briefly and back on at 2100 with Bible reading
by Bro. Henry van Dyke. SIO=353; not // 15195 also via Ascension & not
// 9610 via Germany. (Frodge-MI)
15195, Family Radio; 2056-2100*, 19-July; English feature on adultery
(does that include screwing the flock?); Listener-supported Family
Radio; gave tomorrow's program sked, "Lord willing"; off with Harold's
horns. SIO=454; not // 12060 also via Ascension; may have been // 9610
via Germany, but sig too poor.
GERMANY: 9610, Family Radio; 2101, 19-July; Familyradio.com spot into
Laughing Stock Harold talking about earthquakes. SIO=322 with strong
hiss QRM. LSB cuts out most of it leaving QRM sounding much like a
jammer. May have been there before 2100. (Frodge-MI)
13750, Family Radio; 1835-1843+, 19-July; "Christ-centered, listener-
supported Family Radio"; Sed they'll send me their post card (Is
Laughing Stock Camping on it?); traditional religious music. SIO=353;
no trace of 9770-UAE or 7395-MDG. (Frodge-MI)
6915, WYFR Family Radio, Okeechobee FL; 2356-2401+, 19/20-July;
Spanish religious program; Harold's horns IS at 2358, IDs and more
horniness; new Spanish program at 2400. SIO=3+53- (Harold Frodge,
Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft.
center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. NEWS ALERT: VIETNAM MASSACRE OF HMONG CHRISTIANS; PASTORS
“BEHEADED” --- Thursday, July 14, 2011 (10:31 pm)
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
Vietnamese security forces have reportedly killed Hmong Christians.
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Vietnamese security forces beheaded
pastors and shot to death "many" other Hmong Christians who gathered
to await Christ's return after a false prophecy by an American
preacher, according to a leading advocacy group's leader.
James Jacob Prasch, executive director of Moriel Ministries (MM), said
Thursday, July 14, that the massacre was the horrific aftermath of
shortwave broadcasts by Harold Camping of California-based Family
Radio.
Camping, 89, claimed that Jesus Christ would return to Earth to
"rapture" his followers to heaven on May 21 as mankind had run out of
time.
Following the broadcasts, some 7,000 Hmong Christians attempted to
gather "on a mountain praising God" in late April and early May, but
instead found "police and military police" who slaughtered "many of
them at gunpoint beheading two pastors," Prasch told supporters in an
electronic message to supporters obtained by BosNewsLife.
International rights activists had suggested that dozens of Hmong
Christians may have been killed, but Prasch suggested the real figure
may be higher. "I am told by Hmong pastors that so many were shot dead
that they were buried in mass graves bulldozed over," he added. Others
were reportedly detained. . .
http://www.bosnewslife.com/17610-news-alert-vietnam-massacre-of-hmong-christians-pastors-beheaded
(via Zacharias Liangas, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD)
A comment appended:
Dr. Ken Matto Says: July 15th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Family Radio (FR) must be held accountable for their heresy of date
setting. These Hmong people have been persecuted enough. Family Radio
is still perpetuating Camping’s lies by now setting another date of
October 21. They will no doubt continue to broadcast this through
their mindless minions who have now begun to teach on FR in place of
Camping who is in a nursing home. FR has a strong hatred for churches
and will do what they can to continue destroying them. There should be
no attention paid to their broadcasts. They are almost broke anyway
and mybe they will just fade away. These heresies of Camping have been
going on since he predicted the end in 1994. He has twelve wrong dates
to his discredit and October 21 will be number 13. It is better if the
brethren in Vietnam listen to Far East Broadcasting or Trans World
Radio rather than the ranting of a deluded false prophet and yet so
many in the USA are still clinging to Camping and his deceptions. God
truly has begun to separate the wheat from the tares (via DXLD)
Was Hmong included in their Vietnamese language transmissions? I don't
remember Hmong listed for Family Radio (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It would be nice to have some independent confirmation of this rather
vaguely-sourced story (gh, DXLD)
Hi Glenn, A reserved and rather skeptical analysis by Carlyle A.
Thayer on May 28:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56694663/Thayer-Hmong-Incident-Dien-Bien-Province-Vietnam
His background:
http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/staff/profiles/thayer.html
(Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: HMONG INCIDENT DIEN BIEN PROVINCE, VIETNAM
Carlyle A. Thayer, May 28, 2011 [client name deleted]
Could we have your assessment of the following:
-
Vice-Chairman of Dien Bien People's Committee claimed the Hmong
demonstrators were followers of Vang Chu. What do you think really
sparked this gathering?
The above is important in terms of:
Why hasn't such a large gathering happened before?
Could it happen again?
How do you assess the government's handling of it?
At bottom, doesn't it seem like a purely religious incident, rather
than a political one?
And that any talk of autonomy was simply driven by the Hmong King idea
and hence was religious?
ANSWER:
My bottom line is that it was most likely a millenarian gathering with
little overt political overtones except that if a call for autonomy
was made it would send up a red flag to security authorities. They
would have been concerned about a swift gathering of so many people
without advance warning. I cannot prove a negative and say no Hmong
were killed but I remain unconvinced by Washington reports of large
numbers killed in a brutal manner by a fleet of armed helicopters.
I think some of the references to senior Vietnamese military leaders
is pure embellishment to give these accounts more credibility. I do
not believe the advocacy groups have access to anyone remotely able to
tell them what the Defence Minister of Chief of Staff ordered. I am
skeptical also because of the lack of photos. When Catholics
demonstrate I receive hundreds of photos taken by mobile phones that
have been downloaded.
Professional Background
Carl Thayer was educated at Brown University in the United States. He
holds an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies from Yale and a PhD in
International Relations from The Australian National University (ANU).
He studied Vietnamese language at Yale, Cornell and Southern Illinois
University, Thai language at The University of Missouri at Columbia,
and Lao language at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. [much
more] (via Ron Howard, dxldyg via DXLD)
Skepticism is warranted, as the source Glenn cites boasts itself as
"Central Europe's First Christian News Agency" in its "About Us" page.
Nothing rallies the Christian troops like a sordid tale of
persecution. If a reputable news agency like Reuters, AP or such
hasn't reported this, you might as well chalk it up to the ilk of the
500 Club "news".
A number of Christian publications have something about this story but
none of the mainstream news agencies. As in NONE. And of the Christian
publications I've looked at about this story, they all have cited a
single man as the source of this story: James Jacob Prasch, executive
director of Moriel Ministries.
I smell a skunk, and this sounds like a personal demonization in
progress (Clara Listensprechen, ibid.)
Well, Camping-critiquing Christian Post has also picked up the story
but they also quote toward the end a major news agency, AFP about
Something which happened, altho the truth may have been exaggerated:
The Christian Post > Fri, Jul. 15 2011 11:52 AM EDT
HAROLD CAMPING LINKED TO HUGE 'MASSACRE' OF 100'S OF HMONG CHRISTIANS
By Nicola Menzie | Christian Post Contributor
http://www.christianpost.com/news/harold-camping-linked-to-huge-massacre-of-100s-of-hmong-christians-52351/
Hundreds of Hmong Christians are said to have been gunned down by
security forces in Vietnam after the group had gathered near a
mountain to await the rapture and return of Jesus Christ. The group of
believers apparently learned of the rapture's timing from Family Radio
broadcaster Harold Camping.
Related [linked, sidebar]
Harold Camping Follower Shot Man Over Rapture Belief?
Survey: Majority of Evangelical Leaders Believe in Rapture; Imminent
Return of Jesus
Rapture Preacher Harold Camping's Radio Segment Canceled
Family Radio Affirms Harold Camping's May 21 Prediction in New Post
Harold Camping Still on Leave From Family Radio; Recovering in Nursing
Facility
Harold Camping's Stroke Punishment From God? A Biblical Response
Harold Camping Suffers Mild Stroke; Released From Hospital
Harold Camping Suffers Stroke; Receives Sympathy Tweets
Harold Camping 'Doing Very Well' After Being Hospitalized for Stroke,
Reports Wife
Harold Camping Hospitalized by Stroke; Speech Affected
Harold Camping: Dead Bodies Will Surface from Graves on Oct. 21
Doomsday
----
Pastors among the group were also beheaded, according to a report by
the executive director of Moriel Ministries.
James Jacob Prasch, executive director of Moriel Ministries, regularly
makes mission trips around the world. He said in a report that while
visiting the Hmong Christian community, he learned of the persecution
that occurred in late April and early May.
The group of about 7,000 believers was inspired after listening to
shortwave broadcasts by Harold Camping to head to a mountain top to
worship God and await Christ's return, according to Prasch.
Camping, a California-based preacher, has been insisting for years
through his study of the Bible that he had discovered the date of the
rapture of Christians and the return of Jesus Christ.
That date was supposed to have been May 21, 2011.
Camping, currently recovering from a stroke, later appended his
questionable teachings when on May 22, he and those who took his
Family Radio broadcasts to heart found themselves still here on Earth.
The fallout from Camping's much-criticized teachings among his
American followers is now overshadowed by what has happened to these
Hmong Christians in Vietnam - if Prasch's allegations prove to be
true.
In his report sent to Moriel Ministries, Prasch writes:
“I am told by Hmong pastors that so many were shot dead that they were
buried in mass graves bulldozed over in an episode that I read about
in Britain but did not understand the magnitude of until I got here. I
am now trying to clean up the mess at the request of local Hmong
leaders.”
The report indicates that those who managed to escape being killed or
imprisoned are possibly still in hiding in the jungle.
The Hmongs live in the mountainous and jungle regions of Vietnam.
Hmong Christians are regularly persecuted by the Vietnamese
government, and have been branded as a cult.
Vietnamese officials in the Dien Bien province accused “sabotage
forces” of stoking secessionist demands, and denied reports of a
massacre, according to BosNewsLife.
A spokeswoman from the Foreign Ministry also told the news agency that
“extremists” had been detained and did not mention if anyone had been
killed or injured.
A report published on May 27 on International Christian Concern's
persecution website supports much of what Prasch reported learning
from his visit with the Hmong Christian community.
An article from the Agence France-Presse published on May 29th reports
that Hmong Christian groups had been camped out for a week in the
mountains when they were confronted by security forces.
British-based religious freedom group Christian Solidarity Worldwide
(CSW) told the AFP that Camping's prophecy was key to the gathering's
timing.
The AFP report doesn't make mention of any violence, but says that a
truck “loaded with armed soldiers,” some hidden under tarpaulin, were
in the vicinity of the gathering.
It is unclear how many may have died in this crackdown by security
forces (Christian Post via DXLD)
There's a May 13 story posted by Christian Solidarity Worldwide about
the background to the operations in that area. Paragraph 3 is of
particular interest:
http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=news&id=1008
(Mike Barraclough, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
VIETNAM: CULT FOLLOWERS ENDANGER ETHNIC MINORITY CHRISTIANS
13/05/2011
Thousands of people from the Hmong ethnic group have been following
two cults; as authorities move in and arrest 130 followers, Christians
are at risk of being caught up in the events.
Military disbands doomsday cult followers
Military personnel have been sent to Dien Bien province, north-west
Vietnam, to seal off an area where followers several cult movements
were disbanded by local military and the Vietnam People’s Army last
week. The group of ethnic Hmong had gathered following the teaching of
two cult movements that have been active among the Hmong ethnic group
in recent months. The military detained 130 people and three children
have been confirmed dead. Several thousand cult followers, mostly
women and children, were sent home, but some sources suggest up to
3,000 people remain in the area.
Poor sanitation, outside communication cut off
CSW’s contacts reported that two cult leaders fled into the forest and
were beaten by the military. Journalists and foreign diplomats are
being denied access to the Muong Nhe area and all telephone
communications have been cut. There are concerns for those who remain
in the area due to the lack of access to outsiders, poor sanitary
conditions and the high military presence. Thousands of Hmong have
migrated from other areas of the country, including from as far as the
Central Highland region, to follow the cultic teaching.
Church leaders express concern for local Christians
Church leaders in Vietnam told CSW they are concerned that the Hmong
Protestant Christians who are not cult followers will be caught up in
the trouble. Lending weight to these concerns, a Vietnamese government
website erroneously portrays the cult’s followers as Protestant
Christians. Up to 350,000 Hmong have converted to Protestantism since
the late 1980s after hearing short-wave radio broadcasts in local
languages. The US-based Harold Camping cult, which teaches that the
world will end on 21 May, has gathered a following among the Hmong
after literature was distributed in the Hmong language. In addition,
two men both claiming to be messiah figures have appeared in Muong Nhe
district. Hmong mythological belief suggests that a messiah will
appear and establish a pan-Hmong kingdom.
Religious restrictions create ideal conditions for cult influence
The mountainous north-west region has suffered some of the most severe
abuses and restrictions on religious freedom in Vietnam. While the
general situation has improved in recent years, the cumulative effect
of limitations on religious freedom, such as restricting access to
theological training and preventing a legal version of the Hmong Bible
from being printed, has created conditions where cult teaching spreads
easily... (via DXLD)
Wikipedia has two Strait Times reports linked, both from AFP, and a
Washington Post report sourced from Associated Press, the link for
which is no longer active:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction#Reaction_from_Harold_Camping_believers
It's certainly the case that there is harsh religious repression in
Vietnam. Human Rights Watch released a 46 page report March 30 2011 on
religious repression of Montagnards:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/03/30/vietnam-montagnards-harshly-persecuted
"While this paper focuses on Central Highlands Protestants, serious
issues of freedom of religion affect nearly every other denomination
in Vietnam, particularly those whose followers do not wish to
associate themselves with an officially-registered -religious
organization."
"The government bans any religious activity deemed to oppose "national
interests," harm national solidarity, cause public disorder, or "sow
divisions." While many unregistered religious groups are able to
operate freely in Vietnam, those considered a threat to the party's
authority are sharply repressed on grounds that they pose a threat to
national security and public order."
"When a so-called religion becomes a tool in the hand of evil people,
it should be considered evil and unlawful and should be eliminated.
— Radio Voice of Vietnam."
Found the Associated Press report quoted in the Washington Times
[Mooney]:
http://departout.com/viewtopic.php?t=1821
It's from a forum discussing Harold Camping's teachings which also has
a thread on the latest account of the Hmong repression:
(Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
VIETNAM SAYS ‘EXTREMISTS’ DETAINED AFTER HMONG GATHERING; AREA STILL
OFF LIMITS TO MEDIA --- By Associated Press, Published: May 12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/vietnam-says-extremists-detained-after-hmong-gathering-area-still-off-limits-to-media/2011/05/12/AFo8KwxG_story.html
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam’s government said Thursday it detained
“extremists” after rare unrest involving thousands of ethnic Hmong
belonging to a religious group that assembled to await the arrival of
their God.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga’s statement Thursday is
Vietnam’s first acknowledgment of arrests in the incident. Nga did not
say how many were detained or whether there were deaths or injuries as
has been alleged by overseas Hmong groups.
Officials in northwest Dien Bien province have accused overseas groups
of using the incident to influence some Hmong to call for an
independent state.
Vietnam has not granted foreign journalists or diplomats access to the
area since security forces broke up the gathering in Muong Nhe
district in early May. Nga said the Hmong have all returned home.
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has called for a full investigation and
for journalists and diplomats to be allowed access.
Up to 5,000 Hmong had gathered in the district town to await for God,
expected to take them to the promised land on May 21.
There is a long history of mistrust between the government and many
ethnic hilltribe groups, collectively known as Montagnards. Many anti-
communist hilltribe fighters were allied with the United States during
the Vietnam War, and many Hmong refugees resettled there after the war
(via Erich von Manstein, California, via Barraclough, ibid.)
** U S A [non]. Germany, 9925, Family Radio relay, Wertachtal,
2011/07/09 sat 1828-1833. Still listed as Xhosa (Aoki, EiBi, HFCC),
but the dreaded and unmistakable drone of Harold in English caught my
attention as I was band-scanning. Very poor, almost unreadable but
also unmistakable. Jo'burg sunset 1531 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Family Radio schedules have been updated on Jul 16; but cancelled
languages still remain (J-M Aubier, France, July 16, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 25950/FM, KOA, Denver CO studio feeder; 1658-1703+, 20-July;
"News-Radio 8-50, Colorado's only station with news, weather and
traffic"; Accu-Weather Forecast; Fox News at ToH. Good. Gone at 2003
check (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85
ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver,
in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re 11-28: KBSU 730 selling out, jazz leaving AM
I'm here on a job in Kalispell, MT doing biological fieldwork. There
is a Smooth Jazz station on 1340 AM (KQJZ) and simulcasting with a 70
watt FM translator on 103.5. The AM signal is decent for 1 kW - about
70 miles over mountains and valleys during the day. The AM is mono
(always was), and the FM is also mono but with a stereo pilot. They're
a very decent sounding station. It's really weird how it has gotten so
hard nowadays to find a Smooth Jazz format station in many major
markets where you'd expect the listening demographic, but can stumble
across one in a small town in northern Montana.
There's also KOFI 1180 (50 kW) here that has Newstalk and Oldies mixed
together all day - probably one of the last 50 kW Full-Service format
stations remaining in the nation. Used to be C-QuAM, but now just mono
(they even edited their "1180 AM Stereo... K-O-F-I" jingles by
chopping out the word "stereo". They could have just kept the stereo
on and saved themselves some editing work! (Darwin Long, currently in
Kalispell, MT, July 14, ABDX via DXLD)
Well, for KOFI I guess that confirms they are not going to fix
anything and are mono for good. I wrote to them a few years ago but
never got a response about their AM stereo status and if it was going
to be fixed. At that point they were still playing the "1180 AM
STEREO" jingles. Been about 10 years since I've been up that way. At
that time they still were AM Stereo and sounded great! Listened to
them all the way from just north of Missoula through Glacier National
Park and into Canada. Still good to listen to them. I like the full
service format; reminds me of the good old days when MANY of the 50 kW
big boys did that. I can pick them up here late in the day still,
although it is much less listenable with KSL 1160's I-hash.
On the original topic, I remember KBSU being in stereo and picking it
up in stereo here at night on numerous occasions. I don't think it's
been that long ago they dropped the stereo but I do want to say it's
been at least a year or two (Michael n Wyo Richard, Evanston, ibid.)
KBSU was actually iBOC stereo last I heard them. I don't think
they're running that now, as I can't hear any sidebands at this time
(I'm here in WA state for a week now), nor the last time I was
actually in Boise a year ago.
I am glad I recorded KOFI 1180 in stereo using an SRF-42 in 2003.
Again, what the heck's the cost of continuing stereo? Virtually
nothing except the amp or so power that's drawn to run it (a 25W
lightbulb worth). The exciter shouldn't just quit and 'break down' -
there are no moving parts... except perhaps the fan. I can't imagine a
radio engineer that can't remove four screws and change out a fan
module. I think the "exciter burned out, and we can't afford to
replace it" excuse is just that (then the station goes talk-radio
(more expensive), and adds HD (more expensive). (-Darwin Long, ibid.)
KBSU 730 has been sold to In Impact radio. Right now they are
repeating Michael Jackson's THRILLER; per Bill Hale new call is KINF
(Frank Aden, N7SOK, ID, 0125 UT July 19, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. WBBM-AM 780 ACTS ON TALK, TO SIMULCAST ON FM STARTING AUG. 1
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0715-wbbm-radio-20110715,0,1001334.story
Defending its turf as Chicago's longtime all-news radio station, WBBM-
AM 780 will begin simulcasting on the FM dial Aug. 1, in an apparent
move to blunt expected competition.
No other radio station has announced plans to introduce a news-related
format on FM, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. On
Thursday, WKQX-FM — Q101 — was airing the last hours of its
alternative rock format ahead of an anticipated switch to news/talk.
Last month, Merlin Media, a new company headed by former Tribune Co.
CEO Randy Michaels, agreed to acquire WKQX along with Chicago's WLUP-
FM 97.9 and New York's WRXP-FM from Emmis Communications.
"We've been talking about this for the last several years," said Rod
Zimmerman, CBS Radio Chicago's senior vice president and market
manager. "Certainly in the last month we've been able to zero in on it
a little more, and really have come to the conclusion that this was
the best thing for our cluster moving forward."
WBBM-AM, which has been broadcasting its all-news format since 1968,
is the top-ranked and top-billing station in Chicago. CBS Radio owns
seven stations in the market, including 22nd-ranked WCFS, Fresh 105.9
FM, an adult contemporary music station that will give way to a
growing industry trend — the influx of talk on FM.
"There's a significant number of people that just listen to the FM
dial," Zimmerman said. "We want to have our product accessible to
those people."
The migration of news/talk from the AM to the FM band has picked up
steam over the last several years, with larger and younger audiences
creating a new market for the format. The flagging fortunes of music
stations, which have seen audiences splintered by a host of digital
alternatives, also has played a role in the proliferation of talk on
FM.
"It's a very smart move for them to take a brand that's as powerful
and successful as WBBM-AM, and put it on the FM dial, because the
future of AM is not as solid as the future of FM, and the future of
music is not as solid as the future of talk," said Michael Harrison,
publisher of Talkers Magazine, a leading trade journal.
Several major AM news/talk stations have broadened their audiences in
recent years with an FM simulcast. In 2008, KCBS-AM in San Francisco
began simulcasting its news format on a CBS-owned FM. The combined
stations currently rank second in the market.
News/talk station WSB-AM in Atlanta began simulcasting on FM last
August and saw overall listenership grow by 44 percent. The flagship
media cluster of Cox Broadcasting includes five radio stations, a TV
station and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In the key 25 to 54 demographic, which is most attractive to
advertisers, the simulcast format moved up from sixth to second in the
market over the same time frame, according to Pete Spriggs, the
station's program director.
"When you go to FM, you're really going to where all the traffic is,"
Spriggs said. "You have the ability to pick up the people that don't
even know you exist. It's a brand new product for those people,
especially under the age of 40."
With Merlin set to take over operations at its three new stations
Friday, the disc jockeys at Q101 said their goodbyes on-air Thursday,
playing the fading strains of an alternative music format that
provided the soundtrack for many Generation Xers during the 1990s. The
station is expected to "stunt" beginning Friday — a transitional
musical format — before rolling out the new permanent format.
While not confirming specifics for WKQX, Michaels conceded a head
start to WBBM in any FM news/talk competition.
"I can tell you that we won't be going all news on August 1st,"
Michaels said in an email Thursday.
If WKQX does go news/talk, some industry analysts think the format
will sound very different from WBBM.
"I think Merlin's version of all-news could be something very
different," said talk radio consultant Randall Bloomquist. "It may be
much more personality-oriented, and it will probably aim younger."
Meanwhile WBBM-AM is preparing for the simulcast by beefing up its
production values for the cleaner stereo sound of FM, with the
stations positioned as "WBBM Newsradio 780 and now on 105.9 FM,"
according to Zimmerman.
In addition to news/talk, WBBM-AM is the home of the Chicago Bears,
which means that if the NFL lockout ends in time, the games will also
be broadcast on FM this season.
Zimmerman expects the gains from simulcasting to quickly eclipse the
lost audience from Fresh 105.9.
"It's not going to happen overnight, but over a short period of time,
there should be significant growth," he said (via Kevin Redding, TN,
ABDX via DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. Re 11-28: KXEL Waterloo, IA knocked off air --- DX
alert: KXEL was knocked off the air by a strong thunderstorm. They
say, on their website, http://kxel.com right now, that should be back
Friday (Tom Nyberg, IA, July 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks, Tom, for the tip! Some nice catches tonight on 1540 at sunset
with KXEL off - so far (1) WKVQ Eatonton GA at 2044 EDT/0044 UT with
instrumental Star-Spangled Banner and ID at sign-off, only heard
before on DX test; (2) WBNL Boonville IN at 2101 EDT/0101 UT with Pat
Hughes intro "And now back to Cubs baseball on AM 1540 WBNL Boonville"
fair but clear, 518 miles at 250 watts; and (3) WBTC Uhrichsville OH
at 2115/0115 UT with "News-Talk, Sports-Talk, AM 1540 WBTC" ID into
Cleveland Indians baseball, 207 miles at 5 watts listed night power.
CHIN is dominant with China-related programming, but WBTC and several
others in the mix at 2130 EDT July 14/0130 UT July 15.
The KXEL web site says KXEL has power back and will resume
broadcasting when the transmitter check is complete (David Yocis,
Harpers Ferry, WV (39-12-51 N, 77-48-01 W), Drake R8B, Quantum phaser,
LWs, ibid.)
** U S A. Re 11-28: In RE: 1640 and DFW. Driving through the TX 121
construction on the north end of DFW there indeed was NO 1640.
However, the car radio stopped on a carrier only signal on 1680.
Don't know what that's supposed to be. However, we have a local 1110
and 570 that would add to 1680, but no audio was heard (David R.
Block, TX, July 18, ptsw yg via DXLD)
** U S A. Besides all the Mexican FM DX, see MEXICO, some sporadic E
from this side of the border, July 18, UT:
1434 on 99.1, phone 445-2900, City of Prescott promo, magic991.com
promo for ``local heroes`` every Thursday Morning. KTMG, Prescott AZ,
6 kW per FM Atlas XXI
1447 on 88.1, KCFY mentioned, Christian; i.e., 3 kW from Yuma AZ. I
was axually sidetuned to 87.95 on the DX-398, where best heard vs the
CCI on 88.1. Does this mean it has a wider bandwidth than the others,
or even transmits off-frequency? Or just a strangeness of the receiver
under prevailing DX conditions, relative strengths, antenna
orientation?
1449 on 91.5, KJZZ news break during NPR Morning Edition, but it`s
national, not local Phoenix AZ news, e.g. oysters in Louisiana. Has
CCI in Spanish; see MEXICO
1455 on 99.3, frantic music in Spanish, fading in and out vs Ponca
City; 1500 mentions El Centro, La Tricolor. FMA XXI has 6 kW KMXX
``Mix`` in Imperial but with Spanish format. I do get a Google hit
matching KMXX, El Centro and Radio Tricolor.
1503 on 87.75, drama, movie? In English with `urban` accents; but CCI
from something else in English. One is surely XETV ch 6 Tijuana, but
the other? 1537 urban movie is still in as MUF almost falls below FM
1527 on 97.7, NPR-type news talk, no doubt 6 kW KQVO Calexico CA,
relay of KPBS 89.5 San Diego as heard before, outsticking sorethumbly
midband
1530 on 94.9, national ads including GEICO, then ``94-9 The Outlaw,
the best country, with a Texas attitude``. Not Es DX, but groundwave
50 kW KOLI, Electra-Wichita Falls, included here for slogan reference
During Es opening from NW Mexico, UT July 20: 0358 on 88.7, SRN
``news`` strong and steady, not // local KLVV translator 98.5, so 88.7
is not our semi-local KLVV. 0400 IDs for KJIL et al. Their only 88.7
outlet per website
http://kjil991.com/index.php?page_id=uxt9bg4e&description=Listen_Almost_Anywhere!
is Tribune KS. But FM Atlas shows the only non-translator Kansans on
88.7 are in Dodge City, Oketo and Eureka.
Dodge is the one I ought to be getting if any, the other two far away
in other parts of KS, but KVDC is hi-power 45 kW and would surely
block little Tribune translator which is on the west-central edge
county next to Colorado. Anyway, KVDC would not be on this network
since the KJIL base station on 99.1 is not far away in Copeland.
During daytime-dead conditions July 20 at 1616, 88.7 is again // 98.5
translator, so KLVV. The question remains, why was I hearing KJIL on
88.7?
0401 on 90.5, SRN ``news`` in strong with Es fading during TV opening
from BCN; see MEXICO. RDS icon flashes, but doesn`t stay strong enough
long enough to display; this network always worx in stories on hot-
button topix to far-right religious extremists, often in a
disapproving tone, and with optional cutaways every minute. 0403 back
to gospel rock and fade. KSOS, 100 kW in Las Vegas NV looks like the
best bet: program schedule shows some `News on the Hour` but not from
where, and not exactly at 9 pm PDT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. PIRATING FELONIOUS IN NEW YORK --- June 30, 2011 at 2:02 pm
--- NY Assemblyman George Latimer is continuing to push his bill that
would make operating a pirate radio station in NY a felony, with a
fine of no less than $10,000. The NY State Senate is also considering
a similar bill. Currently, Florida and New Jersey have similar
legislation.
Pirates have been around for years, interrupting the signals of
commercial operators, who have obtained their licenses to broadcast
and paid the associated fees, and interfering with their advertising
revenue. Pirates range from activists and advocates of a variety of
causes, to people simply trying to make money easily. Despite the
negative view, some continue to support pirates, claiming they serve a
valuable public service at the local level.
Bud Williamson of Digital Radio Engineering Inc., a broadcast
engineering company in upstate NY, told The Deal Magazine that piracy
is an issue in large markets other than NY as well. "The broadcasters
have to live up to certain criteria. If you're not going to do that,
you can't be on the air." (via Ragnar Daneskjold, FRW July 16 via Ed
Insinger, DXLD)
** VANUATU. 3945, Radio Vanuatu, Jul 11, 0813 - Didn't hear much from
Vanuatu this time in Masset, compared to Grayland in February, where
they were very well heard. Poor to fair only. Rechecked at 1034 to an
open carrier. Someone still on 7260, but too weak to hear anything
useful (Walt Salmaniw, Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC
overnight dc only DXpedition, two BOGs employed, one aimed at NZ,
while the other was more to central Australia. The NZ BOG measured
about 750’ in length, while the latter was about 800’. As well, I used
a PA0RDT active antenna located about 50’ from my vehicle elevated
about 7’. Receivers used were an AOR 7030+ and a Perseus SDR/Dell
Studio quad core laptop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3945, Radio Vanuatu. Checking sign off times after the National Anthem
July 15 - 1215*
July 16 - 1211*
July 17 - early sign off; sometime before 1200?
July 18 - 1215* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. Vatican Radio, Santa Maria di Galeria transmitter site
7250 kHz, 0525 UT, 33433, Religious radio Dramatized program in
English with peculiar one second echo on everything being said.
Station ID and change to unknown language at 0530. Moderate Signal S-5
(Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, 125 foot
longwire - 40 feet high, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)
I often tune across 7250 around that time, and have not noticed an
echo, but HFCC shows that on Sundays only, which this was not, they
have two transmitters from SMG on 7250 between 0600-0645, a 250 kW at
326 degrees, and a 100 kW at 54 degrees. So it`s possible for VR to
double up; maybe by mistake at this hour, and of course should be
exactly synchronized if doing so (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. Did Harold Camping`s BS lead to Hmongs being massacred?
See U S A [and non]
** VIETNAM. 12019.359, 1303-, Voice of Vietnam, Jul 9. No IS noted
before the TOH, but into the familiar VOV fanfare and into Indonesian
at fair level. Quite markedly off channel. English is scheduled at
1330 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Is), BC, 270
deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large diameter ALA 100 magnetic
loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINAS, 1550, Polisario Front, Rabouni,
ALGERIA, 1252-1300*, 08/7, Arabic, songs; 25443; silent on \\ 6297.15
not only that day but also for quite a number of days now, even for
their first broadcast of the day. Their evening schedule reads 1700-
2300 in Arabic, 2300-2330 in Castilian. E.g.: 2306-2330*, 10/7, 55444
(Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, July 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 6165, Radio 2, at 0427, July 20 with pops songs and DJ in
English; also African Hi-Life music; Chad QRM started 0428; poor with
the two of them mixing together (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. 13590, 0611-, CVC One Africa, Jul 10. Except for
a very broad band of CODAR type interference ruining [sic] between
about 13380 and 13605 kHz, CVC would be quite good with American
accented programming. A bit too much interference to make much out of
the content, though (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
CHINA
13590, CVC One Africa; 1854-1903+, 19-July; English feature on
building friendship; CVC spot at 1858+ into religious rap tune; 1900
troubled youth feature. SIO=353 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake
R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged
by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 6015, RTZ, *0258-0402, July 20. Another grayline
reception; transmitter on at 0254; started with xylophone sounding IS;
0302 Islamic singing/chanting; into monologue; by 0318 was very
impassioned (I am thinking religious?); BoH YL, could have been
news; 0336 brief Islamic chanting; into excited sports coverage;
ToH YL with assume news; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. VOA ZIMBABWE PROGRAMS ON INTELSAT 10
Washington, D.C. — July 19, 2011 —
Voice of America’s popular radio programs to Zimbabwe are now
available “direct to home” on satellite. The free satellite feed on
Intelsat-10 includes the VOA news program, Studio 7, which broadcasts
to Zimbabwe in English, Shona and Ndebele, and Live-Talk, the Zimbabwe
Services’s call-in program.
VOA Africa Division Director Gwen Dillard says home satellite use is
growing around the world and this new service “demonstrates Voice of
America’s commitment to bringing objective and reliable news programs
to our audience on platforms they are comfortable using.” Studio 7 is
also broadcast to Zimbabwe on shortwave, medium wave, mobile and
streamed on the Internet.
In addition to Studio 7, VOA’s popular English to Africa programs, as
well as VOA French to Africa and Portuguese language programs are also
available on the new 24-hour a day satellite feed, which can be
received on virtual channel (VC) 23, throughout Southern Africa.
Studio 7 has been providing Zimbabwe with objective, reliable and
balanced radio news broadcasts since 2003 and has become a valued
information alternative on the airwaves there.
Blessing Zuli, co-host of "LiveTalk" [caption]
The program covers politics, civil society, the economy, health,
sports, music, and the arts, and can be heard evenings Monday through
Friday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. local time, followed by LiveTalk with
hosts Blessing Zulu and Gibbs Dube from 8:30 to 9 p.m. On Saturday and
Sunday, Studio 7 news runs for an hour from 7 to 8 p.m.
Studio 7 broadcasts at 909 on the medium wave band, and on shortwave
on the 4930, 7210 and 12130 kiloHertz frequencies. Listeners in the
Harare region may experience intermittent jamming on 909 medium wave
band.
For more on the VOA’s Intelsat-10 feed, visit
http://www.voanews.com/zimbabwe/news
To see this release online visit http://www.insidevoa.com
For more information about any of VOA’s language services visit
http://www.voanews.com
Media inquiries can be made to Kyle King in Washington at kking @
voanews.com (VOA press release July 19 via DXLD)
3 Comments on “VOA Zimbabwe programmes on Intelsat 10”
#1 Kim Andrew Elliott on Jul 20th, 2011 at 10:58
“Virtual channel 23? is, of course, insufficient information. Here are
the details: Intelsat 10 at 68.5 E. 12602 MHz, vertical polarization,
symbol rate 26.6. FEC or forward error correction is 1/2. The SID, or
virtual channel, is 23. It should be identified as “VOA Southern
Africa.” When VOA Studio 7 programming English, Shona and Ndebele is
not on, the channel transmits other other VOA English, Portuguese, and
French to Africa programming.
Ku-band channels on the same satellite are used by several channels
that are free to home and therefore somewhat popular in Zimbabwe. Many
of the channels are religious, but Press TV is among them. I wonder
how many dish owners in southern Africa listen to radio via satellite.
#2 Andy Sennitt on Jul 20th, 2011 at 11:12
Thanks, Kim. Yes, the same thought struck me. The phrase “on platforms
they are comfortable using” is a strange one to use for Africa,
especially for Zimbabwe.
#3 Kai Ludwig on Jul 20th, 2011 at 12:55
Intelsat calls this beam just “South Africa”, and indeed the footprint
is shown as having its 55 dBW core just over that country, with kind
of a secondary coverage of 55…49 dBW over Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
and Mozambique. North and east of these countries the signal is shown
to drop off very quickly.
Others have already jumped on this platform; the radio channels
relayed here include Channel Africa, Trans World Radio and the CVC
service known from the shortwave transmitter in Zambia (”1 Africa”),
but also Deutsche Welle and IRIB. And what used to be known as
Adventist World Radio is there with its TV service (”Hope Channel”),
in the same way they replaced shortwave radio by satellite TV in
Europe.
The question about the number of satellite dish owners that use it not
only for TV but also for radio is one that applies not only in this
region. I seem to recall that in the early and mid-nineties satellite
radio (Ku-band, as opposed to the S-band systems in North America) has
been praised as the future of international broadcasting, and at least
Deutsche Welle distributed some programs for Europe via satellite
exclusively after taking them off shortwave. But within a few years
all these services had been closed altogether, and they went away
almost unnoticed (MN blog comments via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1710 station lately --- This past week I've been hearing
a 1710 station right at the noise level. It might be Spanish,
definitely isn't English. Except for today the format sounds like a
regular station, with M/F DJs who speak after every song, and the
music has been vocals with a strong beat. And the format has been the
same until today. Today a man began speaking, apparently preaching, at
1310 UT and continued until fadeout at 1330. If Spanish, he spoke
rather slowly, not like commercial fast-paced SS stations. Frequency
is always low, around 60 Hz low. Best on the E/W longwire.
And I haven't heard the Puget Sound Russian station for several weeks
now, and that one was always close to the proper 1710 frequency. I've
been tuning there once the LF beacons and AMBC TPs fade out, around
1230. Peak signal on this 1710 station seems to be around 1305
currently. Anyone else hearing something similar to this? (Steve
Ratzlaff, NE Oregon, July 16, R75, longwires, IRCA via DXLD)
Steve, The Russian 1710 is still there, noted nightly here and on a
rare occasion I do hear a second station behind them, I think may be
SS. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3990 kHz DRM, July 13, 1945 UT. Wer sendet denn da auf
3990 kHz im DRM Mode? Bei mir reichts leider nicht zur Dekodierung,
koennte auch am Sender liegen. 73, (Stephan Schaa, Germany, A-DX July
13 via BC-DX July 17 via DXLD)
Re: 3990 kHz DRM. Gute Frage - sowohl DREAM als auch das alte FhG-
Radio (das sich dekodierungsmaessig manchmal gar nicht so schlecht
schlug) liefern nicht viel mehr als irgendwas mit 13.9 kbps in Mono.
Ob das wirklich stimmt, weiss man nicht. RX: Pappradio.
[later] ... scheint inzwischen off air gegangen zu sein, oder? Ich
tippe ja auf Krasnodar, Russia. (73, Douglas Kaehler-D, A-DX July 13,
ibid.) Was a weak signal read on Perseus receiver browser display,
originate not from Central Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) jammer?
UNIDENTIFIED. 6900.0, July 19 at 0540-0543:40* strong multiple
carriers 1 kHz apart roughly up to plus and minus 5 kHz beating
against each other, seemingly centred here. Back on at 0544 until
0545:35* and not resuming in next few minutes. One suspects HAARP
acting like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6924.7 AM, July 15 at 0525, poor signal, pirate with
country music, lots of T-storm noise hindering; maybe Willie Nelson
until 0536 DJ announcement with ID, maybe W + three letters (surely
not `WEAK`); until 0544 song
``Doctor, doctor, give me the news
I got a bad case of lovin` you[se?]``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
That's Robert Palmer's "Bad Case of Loving You." He did the original,
at least (Nathan Adams, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6924.8 AM, July 21 at 0605 music just above the noise level, on low
side compared to 11925 carrier, presumed Brasil on the hi side; never
any announcements, and 0612 no longer heard, either off or outfaded.
It so happens that this frequency and another unID of mine a while ago
on 6305 match the frequencies just reported by Walt Salmaniw in BC for
the pirate Radio True North, which I think he previously thought to be
coming from the Yukon. Well, almost: he put it on 6924.66, July 11 at
0352 [see CANADA]. My 6305 was July 2 at 0540 as in DXLD 11-27 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7160, 1328-, Jul 12. Who might this be. A Chinese
speaker weakly heard with talk by both a man and a woman. Sounds like
a typical CNR transmission to me. A single tone at the BOH. Nothing
listed in my databases (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen
Charlotte Is), BC, 270 deg 750’ BOG, and a 30/210 degree large
diameter ALA 100 magnetic loop. Receivers as usual were my Perseus
SDR, AOR 7030+, and NRD 535D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9515, July 18 at 0541 repetitive music on guitar, almost
seemed like Merlin, but scheduled here is CRI via Albania in Arabic at
05-07. HFCC also has Oman, surely wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13380.0 AM, July 20 at 0552, S9+20 open carrier, then
multi-tone digital bursts. Search at UDXF yg gets several hits from
February this year, such as this for 13380-USB at a different time:
``It's MFA [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] Sofia using the RFSM8000
software package. There seems to be a misconfiguration in their
system, as you can frequently hear the typical Windows error sound
between the data bursts. Similar activity has been noted around
9052/9053 kHz. BRGDS //Leif Dehio [Germany]``
However, this was so strong I would guess Cuba rather than Bulgaria
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15300, July 19 at 1206, 1000 Hz tone test on yet another
frequency, still at 1230 and 1254 but not at 1323 check. RFI is
scheduled here all the way from 04 to 20 UT, but not heard: poor
propagation or was the tone axually coming from Issoudun? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17461, July 17 around 2125 very strong and steady open
carrier; gone at next check, but back at 2321 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17790, July 18 at 1305, 1000 Hz mystery tone test, fair;
gone before 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 18393.5-USB, July 18 at 1401, Colloquial Spanish 2-way,
one side much stronger than the other; some terms I made out were
``diez pulgadas``, ``puta``, ``kilos``, ``puta madre``, and some
whistling. Poachers or narcotraffickers? Mixing English and metric
units (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Contributions to radio groups have pointed out that THE EPOCH TIMES
website, http://www.theepochtimes.com often has items of interest to
DXers. I’d like to put in a plug for the newspaper itself. Many of
the items in the paper concern New York City, and there are also items
about other areas; one recent issue even had an article about Kansas!
But there are frequent stories about democracy movements, not only
directed at China but other countries as well. Some of these
organizations have shortwave broadcasts which are familiar targets for
DXers. And almost every issue has an article about Falun Gong. The
issue I picked up today not only has a story about Falun Gong but an
item from The Voice of Tibet concerning Tibetans sentenced to prison
in China for celebrating the birthday of the Dalai Lama.
I pick up free copies of THE EPOCH TIMES at a Chinese buffet near my
home, and I suspect they also may be available at other Chinese
restaurants around the country (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village,
Kansas, USA, July 17, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD)
NEW ISSUE OF USC CPD PD MAGAZINE IS DEVOTED TO INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING. Posted: 19 Jul 2011
PD Magazine, Summer 2011, of the University of Southern California
Center on Public Diplomacy, is devoted to international broadcasting.
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=11680
Its contents include: [each article has its own link, before pdf]
Alan Heil, "VOA and BBC at a Crossroads"
Shawn Powers, "R.I.P., Broadcasting"
Philip Seib, "Al Jazeera English in Focus"
Oliver Zollner, "International Broadcasting in the Social Network Era"
Interviews with former members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
James Glassman and Ted Kaufman and current members Michael Meehan and
S. Enders Wimbush
Philip Wang, "Transformation of Radio Taiwan International"
Alex Oliver and Annmaree O'Keefe, "Struggling to be Heard: Australia's
International Broadcasters Fight for a Voice in the Region"
Kim Andrew Elliott, "In International Broadcasting, Even the Static
Must be Credible"
Also available is the pdf version (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
RMRC - Einladung zum Besuch der Deutschen Welle, Funkhaus Bonn.
SIGHTSEEING TOUR, BROADCASTING HOUSE DEUTSCHE WELLE RADIO, BONN.
Hallo Freunde, DXer, Radiofreaks, am Freitag dem 12. August 2011
besucht der RMRC - Rhein-Main-Radioclub die Deutsche Welle in Bonn,
Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 3 ab 14.00 Uhr MESZ mit Fuehrung. (Nach den
Einsparplaenen der Deutschen Welle koennte dieser Besuch der letzte
bei DW-Radio sein.)
Eingeladen sind alle Interessierten. Dauer ca. 2 Stunden,
anschliessend gehen wir noch etwas Essen.
Bitte um Anmeldung bei mir. Besuch fuer RMRC Mitglieder kostenlos,
Nicht-Mitglieder 10 EUR. Wir treffen uns um 14.00 Uhr MESZ am Eingang.
Harald Gabler
RMRC Vorstand
Rhein-Main-Radio-Club, Frankfurt
(Dr. Harald Gabler-D, July 9, A-DX July via BC-DX July 17 via DXLD)
RMRC - INVITATION TO VISIT THE DEUTSCHE WELLE, RADIO BONN Fri 12 Aug
Ortsehen tour, Broadcasting House, German radio wave, Bonn.
Hello friends, DXer, Radio geeks, Friday the 12th August 2011 visited
the RMRC - Rhein-Main Radio Club, the German Welle in Bonn, Kurt-
Schumacher-Strasse 3, from 14.00 BST clock with leadership.
(According to the German Einsparplaenen this wave could visit the
last one at DW-Radio.) We invite all interested parties. Duration: 2
hours then we go eat or something.
Please register with me. RMRC visit for free members, non-Members 10
EUR. We meet at 14.00 BST on clock input.
Harald Gabler, RMRC Board, Rhein-Main-Radio-Club, Frankfurt (Dr.
Harald Gabler D, A-DX July 9 via BC-DX July 17 via Google translation
via DXLD)
It`s unclear why Google translates ``freaks`` as ``geeks`` and
``MESZ`` [UT+2] as ``BST`` [UT+1]! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MOBILE DTV, SOME EARLY OBSERVATIONS
I know someone, either on this forum or in the VUD, wrote a quick
review of the RCA DMT335R Mobile DTV receiver a few months back.
I've had one of these sitting on my desk at work for a few weeks. It
also receives "regular" DTV, about as well as you'd expect from a set
with a 9" telescoping whip antenna. But we didn't have any Mobile DTV
stations in Nashville to test with.
Until last night. I got to stay after work until about 2:30 am
activating the mobile DTV on WSMV. We'd actually run a few earlier
tests, but transmitter issues caused serious glitches on cable &
satellite, and we had to turn it back off. The issues were solved
earlier this week. We expect to be running ATSC-M/H from here on out.
Some rather unscientific tests suggest Mobile DTV is significantly
more reliable than "regular" DTV, but by no means perfect.
I took the little RCA up to a park in Joelton, Tennessee. This is
about 15 miles from our West Nashville tower. Our station is on RF
channel 10 (195 MHz), so the 9" antenna is way too short.
Walking around the park, reception of our Mobile DTV signal is about
97% reliable. It dropped out briefly twice as I walked under a power
line. Our "regular" DTV signal at that location is about 80% reliable.
This park is about 5 miles from a larger tower cluster, housing the
three Sinclair stations (WZTV-RF 15, WUXP-RF 21, WNAB-RF 23), TBN's
WPGD-RF 33, WTVF-RF 5 & 50, among a few others. These "regular" DTV
signals were about 90% reliable.* Our Mobile, despite being more
distant, was more reliable.
I am able to receive our mobile signal at several locations inside my
house, 25 miles from the tower. Reliable reception of the "regular"
DTV signal is not possible with an indoor antenna here (WZTV is the
only "regular" DTV station to deliver reliable indoor-antenna
reception).
Mobile DTV promises to be a useful feature for the DXer. It's not
going to be as reliable as the old snowy analog DX signals were, but
it's looking to be considerably easier to receive than "regular" DTV.
Of course, Mobile DTV will only help on those stations that are using
it!)
* except WTVF on RF-5 which was almost completely non-existent on the
9" antenna -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, July 15,
WTFDA via DXLD
Am I in the minority here in not having any level of awareness that
there's "mobile DTV" vs "regular DTV"? I suppose that could be since
I've only very reluctantly been dragged into the DTV era ;-} (Russ
Edmunds, WB2BJH, 15 mi NW of Philadelphia, ibid.)
I haven't been recently drawn into the DTV area as I have been using
digital since early 2000 when there was only one digital channel on in
KC. However, like Russ, could use an explanation of how mobile TV
works. I have been aware of mobile TV for some time and looked for a
set at Radio Shack and Best Buy but was met with someone knowing even
less than I do (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, currently missing all DX
in Anchorage, AK, ibid.)
Probably not(grin). Mobile DTV is a set of backwards-compatible
enhancements to ATSC "regular" DTV. The intent is to make reception
possible in temporary locations where a proper antenna cannot be
installed (especially, on cell phones). Mobile DTV is broadcast over
the same transmitter, and on the same frequency, as "regular" DTV. It
is fully backwards compatible, any ATSC receiver can receive the
"regular" DTV broadcasts of a station with mobile DTV. Of course you
have to have a special mobile receiver to receive the mobile signal.
To vastly oversimplify, Mobile DTV is one or more subchannels of
fairly low resolution (240i if I recall properly) video/audio
transmitted with massive redundancy, so that reception remains
possible even if a substantial amount of data is lost. There are also
significant battery-saving features.
(For one thing, as I understand it the tuner portion of a mobile
receiver actually turns itself off right after receiving a mobile TV
packet. It knows when the next mobile packet will come along, and
knows how to turn itself back on just in time to receive that packet.)
Again, it's backwards compatible, so a station with Mobile DTV can
still be received just fine on a non-mobile receiver. – (Doug Smith,
W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.)
Here's a list of stations that purports to show the status of Mobile
DTV nationally.
http://www.mdtvsignalmap.com/
(Mike Hunter, W2MHZ, Neshanic Station NJ, ibid.)
I don't trust that site, as there are some definitively wrong entries
in it. I prefer my own site's list.
http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=atscmh
(Trip Ericson, ibid.)
LPTV AND CLASS A TRANSITION RULES SET BY FCC
The FCC yesterday announced its new rules regarding the transition of
low-power and Class A stations to digital. I've parsed the document
and posted some nice bullet points about what's in the document on
RabbitEars.
http://www.rabbitears.info/blog/index.php?post/2011/07/16/LPTV-and-Class-A-Transition-Rule-Set-by-FCC
(Trip Ericson, July 16, WTFDA via DXLD) Viz.:
By Trip Ericson on Saturday, July 16 2011, 11:02 - News - Permalink
Yesterday, the FCC set the new rules that will apply to LPTV and Class
A stations in making a final transition from analog to digital
operations by the end of 2015. While the full document is availabe at
this link, I have decided to break the important points out of the
legalese and try to make them a little more accessible.
According to the document, 60% of low-power stations already hold
permits to transition to digital in one way or another. 2980 flash-
cuts and 1354 companion channels have been granted, out of 7240 low-
power stations total.
September 1, 2015 has been set as the deadline for transition. This
date was chosen for several reasons. First, and most important, is the
hope that the National Broadband Plan will have progressed enough that
low-power stations will not be forced to build twice. The FCC also
noted the preference of a summer transition date to facilitate easier
roof antenna adjustments for viewers and tower work for stations, an
argument that should have been made for the full-power transition's
original February date. Finally, the FCC rejected the arguments of
several Franken FM operators on channel 6 that no hard deadline should
be set.
All existing permits for low-power digital TV conversions have been
automatically extended to September 1, 2015. No extensions are
required between now and the transition date.
The FCC will grant a single extension beyond September 1, 2015 to
March 1, 2016, but all analog broadcasts must cease on the original
expiration date. This means any station not operating digitally by
September 1, 2015 must remain off the air until a digital facility is
constructed. Additionally, any requests for extensions must be filed
by May 1, 2015. After that date, stations must use "tolling" to
receive an extension, a process which is not often used and thus I
will not go into detail here.
No specific consumer education requirements were adopted, but the FCC
does suggest that their 888-CALL-FCC number will make information
available.
Stations operating in the out-of-core channels 52-69 have until
September 1, 2011 to file for displacement into the core, and all
stations must cease operation in that band by December 31, 2011. The
FCC states that if a permit is not granted by that date, stations will
be granted STAs to use the applied-for in-core channel.
The power limit for low-power VHF stations has been increased to 3 kW
ERP, up from the previous rule of 0.3 kW ERP.
All pending applications for new analog stations that were not
modified to specify digital facility have been dismissed.
Stations which have not made their digital transition plans clear by a
date within about 30 days of the September 1, 2015 deadline must file
a notice with the FCC stating their intent. Stations currently
operating on digital companion channels may operate them up until the
deadline, and given that they were listed in this section of the
document, I assume that means they would have to file such notices.
If a station is silent in analog for more than a year, or holds an
unbuilt analog permit that goes unbuilt by the end of the three year
deadline, the presence of an unbuilt flash-cut or digital companion
channel will NOT save the license.
Stations are required to provide notice of impending transitions from
analog to digital. If a station can locally originate such a warning,
then it should do so on-air during period of high viewership.
Otherwise, notice in a local newspaper or, in the case of a
translator, notification on the parent station are both acceptable
options.
Currently-licensed Class A companion channels will be allowed to file
a license modification to specify the companion channel as their new
protected channel. No permit process will be required.
Low-power stations operating under STA are now subject to the 5% fee
regarding ancillary services, joining licensed full- and low-power
broadcasters.
Minor change rules now require new transmitter sites be specified
within 30 miles of existing stations, as is the case with
displacements. If the need for a move of more than 30 miles is
demonstrated, waivers of the rule will be granted. Coverage contours
are still required to overlap.
Low-power stations are now optionally allowed to specify vertical
antenna patterns. Low-power and class A stations are now allowed to
use full-service mask filters without seeking a waiver.
I think that about covers it. Please feel free to either e-mail or
comment with any questions, omissions, or errors that you find.
Comments
1. On Saturday, July 16 2011, 12:27 by w9wi
I'm rather surprised they're allowing this much time. I expected a
drop-dead date late next year or sometime in 2013. Otherwise, I don't
see anything surprising here.
I suppose the "FrankenFM" operators will launch a complaint storm. But
I don't think most of them really believed they'd be allowed to
continue in analog forever. And I suspect many of them are actually
happily surprised they're getting this much time.
2. On Saturday, July 16 2011, 17:45 by re_nelson
>> Otherwise, I don't see anything surprising here.
I think the increase to 3 kW from 0.3 kW is rather noteworthy if not
surprising. A 10 dB upgrade just *might* be enough to encourage some
LPTVs to migrate away from UHF back down to VHF, saving a few dollars
in monthly electric bills (Rabbit Ears via DXLD)
Interesting. Note that DESPITE what their deluded owners had hoped,
the FCC did not exempt Channel 6 "Franken FMs." Buh-bye. PB (Peter
Baskind, J.D., LL.M., N4LI, Grid: EM55, Germantown, TN 38138, 901-
413-4006, WTFDA via DXLD)
I have my doubts that *anyone* -- even their owners -- felt these
stations would be exempted. Except for a literal handful of deluded
fans on Radio-Info. I think many of their owners felt they could make
a few bucks operating these things as radio stations for a few years,
then sell them off & let someone else worry about converting them into
DTV stations. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.)
Interesting: with the website rebuild, if you pull up the original FCC
document the way an ordinary web user would
http://www.fcc.gov/document/rules-digital-lptv-tv-translator-and-class-television-stations
it converts it to HTML, allowing you to read the thing without having
to wade through a balky PDF plugin, wait for the entire Word document
to load & then wait for Word itself, or try to separate the footnotes
from the text in the text version. It's a LOT easier to read than it
would have been in the old website design. I'm impressed (but I still
downloaded the Word version...) – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN
EM66, ibid.)
I hope you're right, Doug. It was pretty obvious that the FCC wants
to get out of the analog business.
Still, the specific person to whom you refer (I suspect) is, I
understand, an owner, at least in-part. And, this gentleman seemed to
think that either a) Santa or the FCC would magically allow his
station special status, or b) Some ingenious lawsuit would convince
the FCC that their clearly proper action was somehow improper. I was
somewhat befuddled by that thinking.
Further, if you read through the filing, you'll note that other
owners, e.g., WLFM, had tried to convince the FCC that a deadline
wasn't necessary. Desperate, perhaps, but they did try to argue it.
So, where does that leave the Franken FMs? Sure, they can continue to
operate for a while. And, sure, they can attempt to sell their
facilities to someone like 3ABN, etc. But perhaps these operators
were too clever. By moving from nice, cushy UHF allocations (my local
6 was on channel 26, between our ABC affiliate and our CBS affiliate)
to the graveyard of DTV, they have managed to devalue their
properties. A low-band DTV can't be worth much, compared to a UHF,
anyway.
And, what of the stations like the one in NYC which seemingly plan to
operate an analog aural transmitter along with their flash-cut DTV?
While I don't fully understand the mechanics -- I know you got into a
colloquy about it on Radio-Info -- it seems that the language of the
Rule might preclude that. The filing calls for "the termination of
all analog low power television facilities." See 2. That seems
pretty comprehensive. The only argument contra would be that the FM
transmitter is not a "television facilit[y]," an argument that opens
up significant other problems.
Perhaps you and I are looking at this too rationally. When you have
skin in the game, you can become taken with your own rhetoric. I see
that a lot. And, so it goes (Peter, N4LI, ibid.)
Well, then there's that guy. Actually, I'd forgotten about him
(though even there, one wonders -- way down inside, did he *really*
think he was going to get to stay analog? Or did he just hope that if
he raised enough hell, Santa would leave enough coal in Julius
Genachowski's stocking to keep WJMF analog?)
> Further, if you read through the filing, you'll note that other
> owners, e.g., WLFM, had tried to convince the FCC that a deadline
> wasn't necessary. Desperate, perhaps, but they did try to argue it.
Oh, I suppose you argue it. You might get lucky!
FWIW, Venture, one of the other filers against a deadline, operates at
least three FrankenFMs, four other channel 6 analog LPTVs, and has
filed to move a fifth analog LPTV from channel 30 to channel 6 in
Pittsburgh.
> So, where does that leave the Franken FMs?
The sensible thing to do is to have a digital application on file,
hopefully including a decent UHF channel. You can sit on it, now that
they've decided no digital conversion permit will expire until 2015.
You may need to play a bit of a game of chicken: will you be able to
talk the FCC into extending that digital permit until March 2016? If
you can, by May 2015, then you don't have to build the digital
facility. You just sell the permit and let someone else worry about
it. If you *can't* get it extended, then you have to either build the
digital yourself or write off the license and just let it expire.
> And, what of the stations like the one in NYC which seemingly plan
to operate an analog aural transmitter along with their flash-cut DTV?
What the NYC station seems to think is that by careful filtering, they
can keep the digital signal out of the upper 500 kHz or so of the
channel, opening up space for the analog aural. It looks to me as if
they're right -- they submitted a paper prepared by a respected
engineer and it all makes sense.
What it didn't address was whether any *receiver* could receive that
signal, with the big honking analog aural signal in the top of the
bandpass. They may be able to narrow down the transmitter bandpass to
5.5 MHz, but they have no control over the bandpass in the
*receivers*.
Literally, the text of the rule reads:
"? 74.731 Purpose and permissible service.
* * * * *
(l) After 11:59 pm local time on September 1, 2015, low power
television, TV translators and Class A television stations may no
longer operate any facility in analog (NTSC) mode."
I suppose they could argue the aural facility is not operating in
"NTSC mode", as it meets the FM broadcasting technical standards.
Seems unlikely any court would buy it, but you never know.
I'm sure we'll have a better handle on this next week!
-- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, WTFDA via DXLD)
You're right to go straight to the Rule.
To be sure, the Rule is poorly-written. Adding "(NTSC)" is unclear.
Does the Rule specifically mean NTSC or does NTSC simply illustrate
what "analog" is intended to mean? Further, is this a distinction
without a difference? NTSC is, of course, a video signal with an
analog aural signal in FM. That "FM" signal, then, is part of the
NTSC package. Or, that's what one would argue on the other side of
the Franken FM argument.
The lawyer in me could argue it either way, and an Administrative Law
Judge might actually rule on it. But I think the stronger argument is
that the intent is clear -- the FCC wants out of analog. 'Cause they
do.
But again, in making this argument, the owners may be, again, too
cute. When arguing the meaning of an administrative rule, victory is
often temporary. If the agency -- in this case, the FCC -- doesn't
like a judge's interpretation, the agency can simply rewrite the rule.
In any event, I think it's obvious... this little experiment
(adventure?) into silliness now has an end point. PB (Peter Baskind,
ibid.)
NORTH AMERICAN DTV QUESTIONS
1. Eventually all LPTVs must transition to digital?
2. When will Canada be all digital; they are in their analog "grace
period" now?
3. When will the VHF band be reallocated to data services? Will every
market lose VHF for dxing?
Bob Indy (Robert Timmerman, 19 July, WTFDA via DXLD)
>1. Eventually all LPTVs must transition to digital?
Yes. Details will be in the August VUD. Bottom line is, LPTVs must
switch to digital or go dark by September 1, 2015. That date was set
late last week, so there's a good reason you haven't heard about it
earlier.
>2. When will Canada be all digital; they are in their analog "grace
period" now?
There is no hard-and-fast deadline in Canada anymore; they changed
their mind. Stations in larger markets must convert or shut down this
fall -- September 31st [sic] if I recall properly but it may be the
end of next month. A fair number of stations are choosing to shut down
rather than convert.
Stations in smaller markets ARE NOT REQUIRED TO GO DIGITAL. Someone
mentioned the Global station on channel 2 in Manitoba earlier this
week -- that station is one of those that IS NOT REQUIRED TO GO
DIGITAL and may continue in analog indefinitely.
>3. When will the VHF band be reallocated to data services? Will every
market lose VHF for DXing?
I think it is unlikely VHF will be reallocated. Telecommunications
interests (mobile broadband & cellular) would like to have *UHF*, and
there is a proceeding open at the FCC that may lead to removing
further channels from the top of the UHF band. The FCC has inquired
into ways to encourage more TV stations to move *to* VHF, in the hope
of freeing more UHF channels for possible removal.
VHF antennas are too big, and there's too much noise (and E-skip!) for
non-broadcasting groups to have much interest. Pretty much the only
other folks interested in VHF, besides television, are hams and a few
folks who think the FM band should be expanded (I don't see much
interest in FM expansion among broadcasters). (Doug Smith, ibid.)
Jeff Kruszka reminds me that it can't possibly be September 31st.
(see your calendar, or the old saying "30 days hath...")
It's August 31st, by which all Canadian stations *in "mandatory
markets"* must convert to digital. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View,
TN EM66, ibid.)
IMPORTANT TV RULE CHANGES
The Commission bills this item as, "Amendment of Parts 73 and 74 of
the Commission's Rules to establish rules for Digital Low Power
Television, Television Translator, and Television Booster Stations and
to amend rules for Digital Class A Television Stations." This is the
Second Report and Order in the series and many topics are being
discussed.
For example, LPTV broadcasting in the 700 MHz band (CH-52 to 69) is to
cease by the end of 2011 and all LPTV stations are to be converted to
digital by September 1, 2015, but more changes yet are on deck.
Download the URL below and read Section I entitled "Introduction" for
an overview.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-11-110A1.doc
(CGC Communicator July 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Subject: [Tvfmdx] NYC IBOCs off
Noticing that many NYC FMs seem to have their IBOC off right now; in
fact the only ones in the commercial dial I'm seeing with it on are
WPLJ, WQHT, and WCBS. Sadly, it makes a difference even down here 61
miles away, so a heads up to anyone still up to the north of me.
-- (Nick Langan, Florence, NJ, My DX page: http://www.wnjl.com/dx/
early July 20, WTFDA via DXLD)
Maybe these guys have figured out this is the biggest dog in radio
since Quad (Rick Shaftan, NJ, ibid.)
They're doing maintenance at Empire tonight. The auxiliary sites that
are used when work is being done on the Empire FM master antenna don't
have IBOC. WPLJ, WQHT and WCBS (the historic WABC-FM, WNBC-FM and
WCBS-FM network O&Os) are not on the main Empire master with everyone
else, but rather on a separate "mini-master" antenna just below it.
If the mini-master is on but the big master (89.9, 92.3, 93.1, 93.9,
96.3, 97.9, 98.7, 99.5, 100.3, 101.9, 102.7, 103.5, 104.3, 105.1,
105.9, 106.7, 107.5) is off, that tells me they're probably actually
working on the combiner on the 85th floor, not the antenna itself.
It's possible that at least some of the difference you're noticing,
Nick, isn't just the lack of IBOC but also a somewhat weaker main-
channel signal from the auxiliary sites. If I'm remembering right, the
auxes for 93.1/93.9/96.3/97.9/103.5/104.3/105.1/105.9/106.7 are at
Four Times Square, putting out signals almost as good as Empire.
98.7/101.9 are in New Jersey near the 94.7 site. 102.7 is in New
Jersey on one of the 1010 WINS towers. 92.3 was on the Viacom building
at 1515 Broadway, and I don't think 99.5 has an aux --- which means if
you check, you're likely to find a much weaker signal on 92.3 than
usual and you might not hear 99.5 on the air at all. s (Scott Fybush,
Rochester NY, ibid.)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also BELGIUM; NEW ZEALAND; RUSSIA;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SRI LANKA; UNIDENTIFIED 3990
9 Comments on “New DRM receivers on show at IBC 2011 - Amsterdam”
#1 anthony on Jul 14th, 2011 at 10:34
When are these radios finally gonna hit UK and European stores though?
That is what I want to know. It’s all right showing off the new
am/fm/dab/drm/drmplus sets every year but we need them on sale! The
DRM Consortium seems to be all show and no go.
#2 Richard Hunt on Jul 14th, 2011 at 11:15
Anything affordable (say, below US $75) and available?
#3 Kim Elliott on Jul 14th, 2011 at 13:21
Hope they have plenty of batteries on hand.
#4 ruud on Jul 14th, 2011 at 15:01
Hope they have plenty of arguments on hand against my attitude to ban
DRM30 from the MW/LW band since this causes interference with analogue
distribution. Maybe they also can give an explanation why in the
development process of DRM30, the focus not was on compatibility.
They missed the idea about transition completely and really believed
that AM broadcasters would flip to DRM, and wait and wait and wait and
wait until all listeners had a DRM receiver. In the meantime going
bankrupt several times.
(And please WDR Germany, switch off DRM 1593, which interferes with
LOW power Channels 1584 and 1602, being the most anti social station
on the band) Yes, I am license holder of 1584 in Holland.
#5 anthony on Jul 14th, 2011 at 16:50
Well Ruud, why don`t you talk to WDR and the DRM Consortium in a
reasonable manner instead of ranting and raving about it? Even if WDR
gives up DRM, other European broadcasters on MW and SW are still using
it and are still doing broadcasts in it.
#6 ruud on Jul 14th, 2011 at 17:25
More and more DRM’s on MW/LW have been switched off, so there is no
future for it. On SW more and more broadcasters also see no future in
it, and are dropping it. DRM is no alternative. Best example in my
eyes is Radio Netherlands, that initially was very enthusiastic about
DRM, but has dropped it for good reasons. And everybody knows that it
causes interference, so there is nothing to discuss. What remains is
the question, why do they leave it on. Convincing others on this is
like discussing why 1+1 = 2.
#7 anthony on Jul 15th, 2011 at 07:21
You’re not quite correct, Ruud, look at the live broadcasts schedule
on http://www.drm.org click on Europe and you will still find a fair
number of DRM broadcasts via MW, LW and SW that you can receive. I
don`t think everybody is giving up on DRM just yet; there are still
those broadcasters who are sticking with it who think it can work.
#8 Nigel Holmes on Jul 15th, 2011 at 08:12
“And everybody knows that it causes interference,” c’mon Ruud - be
fair - any inappropriately assigned broadcast has the potential to
cause adjacent or co-channel interference. The mode is less important.
Australia’s ACMA will look as far afield as 2,000 km when gauging the
interference potential of a MF assignment. Would the German station on
1593 cause you any less grief if was running well-processed 20K0A3E?
Perhaps you need to talk to your spectrum Administration? Must dash
now --- have to throw another vat of C-cells into the Di-Wave 100
#9 ruud on Jul 15th, 2011 at 14:12
DRM causes much more interference then a normal analogue signal. DRM
band spectrum is a block, where AM creates a nice clock. At DRM the
whole 9 kHz is filled with max power, also the mod is 100%, just
on/off, and this causes in the real world much more interference then
analogue.
Yes, I had 1584 up and running when 1593 was analogue, and no
problems. The DRM interference would be acceptable if it was
compatible, and had a future. DRM is no use, only for the investers
and pushers who want their money back. I cannot receive any DRM, I
only hear noise on those channels. No, I will not buy a DRM receiver,
since nobody does. Oh yes, you can push DRM, you can even push a
complete population to become communist or even worse (Media Network
blog comments via DXLD)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
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Video of WWZN Reception
I have had some very welcome feedback from my posting earlier this
week of the reception of WWZN on 1510 kHz. I thought it would be
interesting for members to actually see the DXing "live". I have
uploaded a video on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRteNJAIM4
showing the actual "recording" I made with HDSDR of a portion of the
MF band at 0300 using the scheduling function built-into HDSDR (I was
fast asleep at the time!).
I get the feeling that many members of BDXC are still sceptical of
using receivers and computers at the same time. However this is where
the state of the art in DXing is. There is no reason (beyond bandwidth
constraints) why SDRs cannot be used to record frequency bands and the
raw IQ data made available for everyone to DX in their own time. It's
DXing, Jim, but not as we have known it... Regards (Stuart satnipper,
BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
LPFM AND FM TRANSLATOR NEWS
The FCC has taken steps to implement the Local Community Radio Act to
promote Low Power FMs and resume FM translator application processing.
The floodgates aren't open yet but that day is coming due to
considerable effort by the FCC:
Radio World's overview:
http://radioworld.com/article/fcc-eyes-2012-lpfm-window/23897
http://tinyurl.com/MoreLPFM-Xlator
http://tinyurl.com/MoreLPFM-Xlator2
RBR's overview:
http://tinyurl.com/RBRonLPFM-tranlators
FCC's overview:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-308352A1.doc
FCC's Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (32 pages):
http://tinyurl.com/LPFM-XlatorURL
(CGC Communicator July 19 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD)
POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
IARU R1 PRESIDENT TALKS ABOUT HAM RADIO AND EVEN PLT
Hi folks, please, read here my interview to IARU Region 1 President,
PB2T, for DXCoffee.com:
http://www.dxcoffee.com/eng/2011/07/20/pb2t/
Hans Blondeel Timmermann talks about ham radio, broadcasting and even
PLT/PLA. Cheers, (Chris Diemoz, IX1CKN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
We get a lot of email about solar activity, including some from
non-hams curious about something they read in the news. Some people
mention that in the same week they see articles claiming we're in
for some sort of dangerous solar maximum, but then they read about a
dearth of sunspots. I ran across this at a NASA site, which reminds
me of some of the questions I get:
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=16490
(QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 28 ARLP028, From Tad Cook,
K7RA, Seattle, WA July 15, 2011, To all radio amateurs, via Dave
Raycroft, VA3RJ, ODXA yg via DXLD) Viz.:
Question
What exactly is sunspot hibernation because I am worried. I know it
happend back in the 17th centuary [sic] but what exactly will happen?
AND I have heard many people that dispute "Global Warming" attempt to
use sunspots as a direct mechanism for the heating or cooling of
earth. Isn't that a weak argument? AND The solar flare of June 7, 2011
was really intense. Does this change the prediction by scientists
about how intense the solar maximum will be in 2013?
[Answer]
Predictions about the behavior of the Sun are an endless source of
confusion, as illustrated by these three questions. Individual solar
flares or CMEs happen almost randomly and provide almost no evidence
for predicting future solar activity. In addition, many websites and
even some newspaper articles use solar activity as a means to further
their political objectives.
Many climate science denialists try to blame the Sun for global
warming, ignoring the very precise data we have on the brightness of
the Sun and the energy that falls on the Earth - data that show that
the variations in solar energy output are extremely small. Anyone who
claims that solar activity or "sunspots" are the cause of global
warming is either ignorant or finds it convenient to ignore the data.
In just the last few days there are stories about a gap in solar
activity or "sunspot hibernation". It is interesting that many of the
same people (and websites) who have been warning us about the dangers
of solar activity are now saying that solar activity is winding down.
Even if this is true, it has no direct impact on us. The idea that the
very small decrease in solar energy near sunspot minimum could lead to
an ice age is absurd. The increase in heating due to greenhouse gases
(what climate scientists call a "forcing") is far greater than any
possible decrease from reduced solar energy. The worst danger from
these stories is that they are used to undercut public understanding
of climate science. David Morrison, Astrobiology Senior Scientist,
June 29, 2011 (via DXLD)
VHF DX OPENING MAPS
These maps, automatically updating, show when there is 6m activity
among hams, and also the theoretical (but not necessarily actual) MUF.
They don`t work very well with Mexico where there are so few hams
active on 6m.
http://www.vhfdx.info/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA
(Glenn Hauser, ABDX via DXLD) And linx to other bands, also color-
codes different DX propagation modes, not always correctly (gh)
Geomagnetic field activity began the week at unsettled levels with
some active periods (and some isolated storm periods at high
latitude). This initial activity appears to have been caused by a
combination of effects from a coronal mass ejection (observed on 09
July) and a high speed stream from a coronal hole. Conditions
gradually subsided for 12-14 July as the high speed stream persisted
but weakened; typical activity levels were quiet to unsettled with
isolated active periods and isolated storm periods at high latitude.
Quiet levels prevailed for the remainder of the period from 15-17
July.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 20 JULY - 15 AUGUST 2011
Solar activity is expected to be very low to low for most of the
outlook interval. However, there is a chance that new, rapidly
emerging flux regions could increase activity to moderate levels at
any time during the outlook period. No proton events are expected at
geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at
geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at background or moderate
levels for most of the outlook interval. However, increases to high
levels are expected for 21-24 July, 28-30 July, 1-3 July, and 6-9
August in response to recurrent high speed streams.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be unsettled with a chance
for active periods for 20-22 July due to a favorably positioned
coronal hole. Quiet levels are expected to prevail for 23-26 July.
An increase to unsettled levels is expected for 27 July to 2 August
due to another recurrent coronal hole. Quiet levels are expected for
3 August followed by another increase to unsettled levels for 04-10
August due to recurrence. 11-13 August is expected to be quiet and
an increase to unsettled is expected for 14-15 August, again due to
recurrence.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2011 Jul 19 1731 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 2011-07-19
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2011 Jul 20 100 12 3
2011 Jul 21 96 12 3
2011 Jul 22 94 8 3
2011 Jul 23 92 5 2
2011 Jul 24 92 5 2
2011 Jul 25 90 5 2
2011 Jul 26 90 5 2
2011 Jul 27 90 8 3
2011 Jul 28 90 10 3
2011 Jul 29 90 8 3
2011 Jul 30 90 8 3
2011 Jul 31 90 8 3
2011 Aug 01 90 10 3
2011 Aug 02 90 8 3
2011 Aug 03 95 5 2
2011 Aug 04 95 8 3
2011 Aug 05 95 12 3
2011 Aug 06 95 12 3
2011 Aug 07 95 12 3
2011 Aug 08 98 8 3
2011 Aug 09 100 8 3
2011 Aug 10 100 8 3
2011 Aug 11 100 7 2
2011 Aug 12 100 5 2
2011 Aug 13 100 5 2
2011 Aug 14 100 8 3
2011 Aug 15 100 10 3
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1574, DXLD) ###