DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-17, April 23, 2014
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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WORLD OF RADIO 1718:
*DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Armenia, Australia,
Bolivia, Canada, Chad, China and non, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus non,
Ethiopia, Greece, International Internet, Iran and non, Korea North
non, Mongolia and non, Nigeria non, North America, Peru, Philippines,
Sarawak non, Taiwan and non, UK non, USA, Vatican, Vietnam, Zambia,
Zanzibar, unidentified
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1718, April 24-30, 2014
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Thu 2101 WTWW 9475 [confirmed]
Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [off the air]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [confirmed]
Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [confirmed]
Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 [confirmed, with interruptions]
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 [on northwest antenna] NOTE new time
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1719 if ready in time]
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** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 17690, April 17 at 0730, fair signal with talk
in Farsi? Then big echo with double audio for about a minute. Uplooked
later in HFCC, I see it`s IBB overlapping during site switch from
Lampertheim, GERMANY to KUWAIT during multi-hour service alternating
in Prs and Pst, which really means Dari and Pashto. So what is it,
really? Aoki shows R. Azadi (Radio Free Afghanistan) which is on 17690
all the way from 0230 to 1430, starting out with Thailand, and then
Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALASKA. 7355, KNLS, 1200 Apr 22, English, s/on with ID and
repeating music, 1201:30 “This is Alaska calling.” by Lucy Grant. Fair
(Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car, by the
lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World
English Survey and Target Listening, available at
http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 9845v, Before I could measure the field strength, Radio
Tirana's try to reach the Americas at 0130-0200 UT with AN EMPTY
CARRIER only, the signal disappeared at 0143 UT definitely. I guess
the technician on duty in Shijak SW center switched off, due of lost
the feeder line from bcasting center in Tirana downtown to rural
Shijak shortwave transmission site. Scheduled 0130-0200 UT. Logged
April 17 at 0142-0143 UT. Heard a powerful signal in Alberta province
in western Canada (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 17,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE: 9375, Radio Algerienne (presumed); 2153-
2200*, 25-Apr [sic]; M&W in Arabic to 2156 sked in Arabic (Arabic for
kilohertz is "kilohertz"!), then sked in French. Off with pips after a
cappella chorale. Need USB to minimize the B.S. from 9370,
WWRB(presumed). EiBi shows 22*, Aoki 21* (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) date 25 April can`t be correct, as posted on 24 April (gh,
DXLD)
FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne via France, Apr 18 0643-0659*, 35433
Arabic, Talk and kor`an, ID at 0653 and 0655, Frequency announce at
0654, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-
9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGOLA. 4949.75, R. Nacional Angola, 0237-0256, April 17. One of
their better receptions; in Portuguese and playing pop songs. Glenn -
The more I use the CR-1 receiver, the more I like it (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. LU4ZS, Base Marambio, Antártida Argentina. Está en el
aire estos días LU4ZS estación de la Base Marambio en la Antártida
Argentina. Apareció en los últimos días en 10 m: 28320, 28339 y 28340
KHz USB. Según la información recibida, el operador de nombre Juan,
tendría licencia propia con categoría novicio y por lo tanto según
reglamentación argentina debe operar entre 28300 y 28350 kHz. Busca
los logs en los clúster pero estaba saliendo entre las 15 y 19 Z sin
horarios fijos. 73 (Alejandro LU8YD Álvarez, Argentina, April 22,
condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD) Marambio near Esperanza
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza,
1945- 1905 16-21 Apr, px mx + ID, 22222 (Mauro Giroletti, Italy,
playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
Thanks to the tip from Italy, mille grazie to Mauro Giroletti,
footprints this night here in Germany: 15475.976, LRA36, Radio
Nacional Arcángel at 1931 UT on April 21 at MUCH FLUTTERY -85dBm or
S=7 signal. 73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
LRA36 faded out around 2125 UT tonight between Malvinas and Germany.
Seemingly schedule tonight extended til 2200 UT? Slightly moved down 5
Hertz now on 15475.971 kHz. vy 73 wb (Büshcel, ibid.)
Hi Wolfy, April 23 - Finally, after frequently checking 15476 during
the 1400 to 1500 time period (a time frame that in the past I have
heard LRA36 when they were on), had presumed success today. Tuned in
at 1409 to hear a definite open carrier, at a decent level, but no
audio. Continued non-stop listening till tune out at 1530, but never
reached a level of hearing any audio, but was a positive open carrier
on this unique frequency. Thought they might have closed down shortly
after 1500, as they did in past years, but not so. Now with extended
schedule? 24 hr? (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15476, April 23 around 2000 UT, I try the Twente receiver and it is
getting a barely audible signal, presumably LRA36 (and the webfeed
keeps cutting out for me), while I am not hearing even a carrier
myself. [WORLD OF RADIO 1718]
Shortly after WOR 1718 was finished, we heard from Horacio Nigro that
according to the station`s Facebook,
https://www.facebook.com/operador.emisora?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab
since April 22 schedule is now 1830-2130 UT, still M-F only. Its FB
had been inactive since November 29, but now the 2014 Dotación [crew]
is in place, with a new logo.
Ron Howard in California also was getting an unmodulated carrier on
its distinctive frequency, April 23 from tune-in 1409 to 1530 tune-
out, so transmissions beyond the above three hours may be possible, or
they don`t necessarily turn off the transmitter. We can expect that
within a few weeks the novelty will wear off or some technical problem
will silence LRA36 once again. Nothing on Twente 15476 at 1920 April
24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15476, LRA36 1838 UT. Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base
Esperanza, Antártica Argentina. Presentan el programa las locutoras y
con informes meteorológico por parte de locutor. Apertura de
transmisiones 1837 UT, música y contacto telefónico con capitán de la
base, 35433 (CE3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, April 23,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
Estoy en Sierra de la Ventana, a 25 km al oeste de Mar del Plata.
Siguiendo la info de Hugo, acabo de recepcionar con excelente senal a
LRA36 con música argentina de fines de los 60 (por ejemplo Leo Dan) y
anuncios e identificaciones de las locutoras que, por otra parte son
muy simpáticas. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo
Slaen, 1935 UT April 23, ibid.)
Aldito, la señal cuando hay música es muy buena; baja cuando modulan
las chicas; que sí son muy simpáticas. (Me imagino que Chaquita te
tiene contento, tiene de casero a Chicago!!!!) Antes de ayer cerró, a
las 2140 UT. Un abrazo (ce3BBC Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile,
ibid.)
Es cierto! Es lo que advertí respecto a las locutoras. Si además son
lindas ya salgo para la Base Esperanza. Chaca me sorprendió
gratamente, Huguoto. Pero no nos hagamos ilusiones. Enviado desde mi
BlackBerry de Personal (Slaen, 2157 UT April 23, ibid.)
Nice video from LRA36 Nac. Radio Arcángel Antarctica, 15476 khz (v) at
1952 UT, 23-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N8HZkBrVe0
73 (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX via DXLD)
** ARGENTINA. 6060.00, R.A.E. Buenos Aires; 10/04 2245-2302 44444+
news varias y música sueño de los Andes, Siempre Argentina con la
música LA; ID "RAE, Radio difusión Argentina al Exterior", música, ID
"Usted escucha Vientos de Argentina. RAE, La radio pública argentina
al exterior"
La recepción la he efectuado del 26/03 al 16/04 en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Vivo en una casa muy pequeña,
pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un mundo muy grande. Muchos 128´s
PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also in this issue: BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, PERU
15345.3v, RAE, General Pacheco, 18-Apr-14, 2345. Spanish talk, vocals,
tangos, IDs from 2353: "RAE, Radio Argentina al Exterior", "RAE, The
International Service of the Argentine Radio", etc. until transmitter
cut off at 2357:40. Great signal, drifting. 73, (Brandon Jordan,
Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio
G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased
Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop,
Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
15345.10, R. Nacional Argentina, Apr 21 1314-1333, 35433-35333,
Spanish, Talk, ID at 1319.
15345.20V, RAE, Apr 22 1200-1229, 35443-33443, Portuguese, Repetition
of IS and ID, Opening announce, Music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-
R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT,
110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15345.106 wonderful Tango music at 1936 UT, RAE Spanish "Radio
Publica" program. -69dBm or S=9+5dB signal. April 21.
But RAE Spanish much reasonable now 24 Hertz down on 15345.082 kHz
at 2134 UT April 21, and wandered downwards some more 32 Hertz, now on
15345.050 kHz at 2143 UT.
Since 2130 UT now magazine report about Colombian writer Gabriel José
de la Concordia García Márquez in Mexico City. S=9+15dB or -58dBm
signal here in Germany. Jingle "Radio Nacional" at 2135 UT. vy73 wb
(Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Allow me to take this opportunity to complain that 99% of ignorant
gringo newscasters mispronounce his name as ``mar-KEZZ`` instead of
``MAR-kess``, oblivious to accents and absolutely predictable Spanish
orthography and pronunciation if you exert yourself to learn a few
basic rules (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** ARGENTINA [and non]. I made only three rather feeble attempts at
any listening despite plenty of lazy time during 14 nights on board
the “Golden Princess” from Buenos Aires to Valparaíso.
In Buenos Aires, again a quick visit to LRA/Radio Nacional/RAE which
was just a block and a half from my hotel was foiled by being on
Saturday so no one was at work in the English section. The two young
people at reception did some extensive phoning around after figuring
out what I was attempting to say in my butchered Spanish!
The only other radio appearance was spotting LRA10 R. Nacional’s
building on the main street of Ushuaia. Reception with the Tecsun on
open deck was remarkable though tuning around for casual scanning was
a bit tedious. Pretty much every frequency on MW had at least two, and
often three stations fighting for dominance ~0030 UT or 9.30 pm
Argentine time Tuesday evening 4 Mar as the ship approached Puerto
Madryn, or a full day out from Montevideo. One thing threw me:
Argentina wasn’t on summer time as I had expected so the clocks were
the same as in Chile, and an hour behind Uruguay.
I didn’t make any real effort at ID’s… and the only Portuguese-
language outlets noted were a dominant on 720 which would’ve likely
been Porto Alegre and another very mixed on 1010. Two nights later at
much the same time, 1400 had a Brazilian dominating, though on the
Tuesday, 1400 had definitely been a local in Neuquén, Argentina with
multiple ads for businesses.
The only other attempt at MW was just before sunrise (~1030 UT) as the
ship was manœuvering into Puerto Montt – I figured there should be a
chance to hear Tahiti/738 but there was nary a peep or even slight
squeal against a semi-strong signal on 740.
As for shortwave, I might as well have been at home! Chinese
everywhere: 60m was dead, apart from a Brazilian with religious
programming on 4815 plus the usual WWCR/4840 and Cubans. I thought for
sure at least Angola/4950 would be an easy catch, and the same for
Sonder Grense/3320 – but no sign of either. Aparecida on both 6135 and
11855 thundered in, as did AIR’s Vividh Bharati on 9870. So, it’s back
to routine, and waiting for all your contributions for May. 73 (Theo
Donnelly, back in BC, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** ARGENTINA. Falleció Ernesto Paulero!!! Amigos de la radio, con gran
dolor les informo que hoy ha fallecido nuestro gran amigo Ernesto
Paulero. No tengo palabras para continuar...
Comparto mensaje recibido de su esposa en mi cuenta de facebook"
"Hola dino: soy silvia la sra. D ernesto paulero fallecio sta mañana
gracias a dios dejo d sufrir el lo apreciaba muchisimo a ud y a todos
los miembros del grupo hoy me corresponde agradecerles a todos x su
intermedio los momentos felices k vivio c uds y el apoyo y la ayuda"
Descanse en paz! (Dino Bloise, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) obit
Ernesto had provided DX news for Dino`s show. He was active in the
Argentine Conexion Digital group. His surgery had been postponed month
after month after month with various excuses from the hospitals. How
sad, and our condolences too (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1718,
ibid.)
And there followed numerous tributes on the condiglista. In the
previous few days, Ernesto had tried to make several brief posts
asking for help, from which it looked like he was failing. He was gone
before anything could be done. Heartbreaking.
Here`s his Facebook, with a photo of him (left) being interviewed by
Jaime Báguena of Radio Nederland:
https://es-es.facebook.com/ernesto.paulero
Full size; never mind the other two:
https://es-es.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=635354916492785&set=a.149007208460894.24287.100000548462017&type=1&theater
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
Se fue un gran diexista pero deja una "portadora" llena de buenos
momentos. Uno de ellos ocurrió el 27 de abril de 2007. Ese día conocí
personalmente a Ernesto Paulero. Habían llegado de Holanda Alfonso
Montealegre y Jaime Bágunea para celebrar los 60 Años de Radio
Nederland en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Ese día nos reunimos en el
Restaurante Las Margaritas en Villa de Voto; fue una noche
inolvidable. Quedaron imágenes y sonidos para el recuerdo. Una de
ellas es la que adjunto: Jaime Báguena entrevista a Ernesto Paulero.
Que en paz descanses, querido amigo! RGM (Rubén Guillermo Margenet,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
Que gran tristeza tengo en mi corazón al leer la noticia sobre el
fallecimiento del amigo Ernesto Paulero. Que Dios lo tenga en la
gloria y bendiga su alma, así como a sus familiares. El diexismo y los
diexistas siempre lo recordarán por su perseverancia para lograr una
QSL. Lo que recuerdo recientemente fue su trabajo para conseguir algo
de La Voz de La República Islámica de Irán y lo consiguió.
Saludos, amigo Ernesto; ya nos veremos algún día por esos mundos.
Atte. (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
Si algo puedo agregar a esta pequeña acotación es -simplemente-
expresar un profundo deseo: Vivamos todos los días con intensidad sin
dejar pasar oportunidades de compartirlos. Nuestra afición a la radio
nos ha dado mucho más que gratificantes horas de escucha; nos ha unido
en una amistad que trasciende el tiempo. Ernesto se suma a los
queridos colegas que ya no están físicamente pero que ocupan un lugar
en la mente y corazón de quienes tuvimos la suerte de conocerlo... rgm
(Margenet, ibid.)
En esa comida realmente nos cagamos de risa y Ernesto tuvo mucho que
ver en ello. Estuvimos muy bien en invitarlo y el estaba muy contento.
Fuimos con Goyena a buscarlo y luego lo llevamos a su casa y desde que
subió al auto no paramos de embromar y joderlo. Y que bueno es poder
recordar a alguien por tantas cosas buenas. Por este foro se lo
destaco a Ernesto por su entusiasmo, perseverancia, buena
predisposición, ubicación, respeto, compromiso, alegría y un largo
etcetera de actitudes positivas. Lo que dijo Ruben Margenet respecto a
vivir con intensidad cada momento es tan cierto como que el agua calma
la sed (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) obit
** ARMENIA. 33670, 1200 April 19, Voice of Armenia (7 x 4810), Gavar,
distorted audio (Tim Bucknall, G-DE44LS Middleton Top, Derbyshire,
England, UK, 01w34/53n04, Hyundai VDO Car RX, Icom IC-7000, Alinco DJ-
X11e, RTL2832 Dongle, Tecsun PL-380 with modified CB whip, harmonics
yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** ASCENSION [and non]. 21660, BBC, 10-Apr-14, 1530 - English with
news followed by Sports Center. Fair to good via long path. Short
path only at 1617 re-check, fair.
17830, BBC, 11-Apr-14, 1650 - BBCWS English with extreme echo,
excellent. // 21660-poor, 17640-good, 11890 Singapore-poor, 11675
Oman-very poor. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN,
http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ,
Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals,
Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30
Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 3210 kHz - Update 2014-04-23 --- Apparently Vintage FM
on 3210 kHz has been running with 100W for some time. There is a
'possibility`` that today or tomorrow that the power could be
increased to 500 Watts (Ian Baxter, Shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** AUSTRALIA. 15490, April 17 at 0732, HCJB preacher claiming that the
American military is anti-Christian (for not prolonging that as the
one and only recognized religion!). Good signal for the 0730-0830 hour
totally in English on 80 degree beam from Kununurra, a newish antenna?
aimed into the Pacific, across the Solomons, Kiribati, Palmyra, Lake
Chapala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15399.974 kHz, odd frequency footprint. HCA Kununurra in English on
final announcement til 0029 UT sign-off, S=9 or -71dBm strength.
Switched off at 0030:05 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, April 17, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews April 18 via DXLD)
15399.97, HCJB Australia, Kununurra, 19-Apr-14, 0001 - Indonesian
service, contemporary religious vocals. Good, long path. 73, (Brandon
Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC,
WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering
NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared
Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [non]. SINGAPORE/UAE/PALAU. Change to Radio Australia
Shortwave Schedule. There has been a minor change to the Radio
Australia shortwave schedule, affecting a relay service provided by
Babcock Communications at Al Dhabbaya UAE.
Effective 0100 UTC Thursday 17 April 2014. The existing 9610 kHz at
2200-2300 UT transmission is moving to 9900 kHz from 17 April 2014.
The move is necessary to avoid interference from an adjacent channel
service on 9615 kHz. [? probably to avoid CNR1 jamming on 9615 kHz ?
9900 kHz registered now with 500 kW of power, - and shortened by 30
minutes at 2300-2330 UT too, wb.]
ABC (Gary Baxter-AUS, Transmission Planning
Executive, Communications Networks Division; via Andreas Volk-D ADDX
Munich Germany, April 17 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 18 via DXLD)
2325 0830 2130 55 TEN 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
2485 0830 2130 55 KTH 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
4835 0830 2130 55 ALI 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
4835 2130 0830 55 ALI 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
4910 2130 0830 55 TEN 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
5025 2130 0830 55 KTH 50 0 Mul AUS ABC
5940 1300 1700 49,50,51W,54E,55 SHP 100 334 Mul AUS ABC
5995 0800 1400 51,64,65 BRN 25 10 Mul AUS ABC
5995 1400 1800 45,51E,55E,56,60 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
6080 0900 1100 50,51,54 SHP 100 5 Mul AUS ABC
6080 1100 1300 50,51,54 SHP 100 5 Mul AUS ABC
6080 1730 2030 50,51,54 SHP 100 5 Mul AUS ABC
6140 1100 1300 49 SNG 100 13 Eng SNG BAB
6150 0900 1400 45,51E,55E,56,60 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
7410 0700 0900 45,51E,55E,56,60 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
9475 0700 0900 42,43,44,45,51,50 SHP 100 353 Mul AUS ABC
9475 0900 1100 6,7,10,45,51E,56 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
9475 1100 1700 18,27,28,39,40,44 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
9475 1700 1900 18,27,28,39,40,44 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
9540 1600 1630 49 SNG 100 340 Eng SNG BAB
9580 0800 1000 6,7,10,56,60N,62 SHP 100 80 Mul AUS ABC
9580 1000 1500 6,7,10,56,60N,62 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
9580 1700 2100 6,7,10,56,60N,62 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
9660 0000 0800 51,64,65 BRN 25 10 Mul AUS ABC
9660 2100 2400 51,64,65 BRN 25 10 Mul AUS ABC
9710 0700 1100 42,43,44,45,51,50 SHP 100 355 Mul AUS ABC
9710 1800 2000 6,7,10,45,51E,56 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
9820 1700 2030 29,42,43,44,45,51 SHP 100 353 Eng AUS ABC
9850 1500 1700 51E,54E,55E,56 SHP 100 40 Eng AUS ABC
9855 2200 2400 49 DHA 500 90 Eng UAE BAB
9900 2200 2300 54 ex -2330 UT DHA 500 105 Eng UAE BAB ex9610
9965 1300 1430 43E,44W HBN 100 318 Eng USA BAB
11650 2000 2200 6,7,10,45,51E,56 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
11660 1900 2100 6,7,10,51E,56,61 SHP 100 65 Mul AUS ABC
11695 2030 2330 18,27,28,39,40,44 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
11780 0100 0130 49NW SNG 100 340 Mya SNG BAB
11880 1530 2000 6,7,10,51E,56 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
11945 0600 1000 45,56,60,62,63,83 SHP 100 100 Mul AUS ABC
12005 0000 0030 49NW SNG 100 340 Mya SNG BAB
12065 1000 1530 6,7,10,56,60N,62 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
12080 0000 1100 51,56,60,62 BRN 25 80 Mul AUS ABC
12080 1100 1200 51,56,60,62 BRN 25 80 Mul AUS ABC DRM mode
12080 2000 2400 51,56,60,62 BRN 25 80 Mul AUS ABC
12085 1100 1730 18,27,28,39,40,44 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
13630 0500 0800 6,7,10,51E,56,62 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
13630 2100 2300 6,7,10,51E,56,61 SHP 100 65 Mul AUS ABC
15160 0100 0500 6,7,10,56,60-63 SHP 100 65 Mul AUS ABC
15240 0000 0900 6,7,10,45,51E,56 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
15240 2200 2400 6,7,10,45,51E,56 SHP 100 30 Mul AUS ABC
15300 0300 0600 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
15415 0000 0700 42,43,44,45,51,50 SHP 100 355 Mul AUS ABC
15415 2030 2400 42,43,44,45,51,50 SHP 100 355 Mul AUS ABC
15515 2000 2300 6,7,10,51E,56 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
17750 0000 0700 29,42,43,44,50,51 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
17750 2330 2400 29,42,43,44,50,51 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
17795 0000 0300 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
17795 2300 2400 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
17800 0400 0500 54 HBN 100 270 Eng USA BAB
17840 0100 0300 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
17840 0300 0500 42,43,44,45,51,50 SHP 100 50 Mul AUS ABC
17860 0000 0100 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
17860 2100 2400 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 70 Mul AUS ABC
19000 0000 0100 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 65 Mul AUS ABC
19000 2300 2400 6,7,10,51E,56,60 SHP 100 65 Mul AUS ABC
21725 0500 0700 29,42,43,44,50,51 SHP 100 329 Mul AUS ABC
(RA in A-14, ibid.)
A-14 shortwave schedule of Radio Australia
0000-0030 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0000-0030 12005 SNG 250 kW 340 deg to SoEaAS Burmese
0000-0030 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0000-0030 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0000-0030 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0000-0030 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0000-0030 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0000-0030 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0000-0030 19000 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0030-0100 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0030-0100 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0030-0100 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0030-0100 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0030-0100 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0030-0100 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0030-0100 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0030-0100 19000 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0100-0130 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0100-0130 11780 SNG 100 kW 340 deg to SoEaAS Burmese
0100-0130 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0100-0130 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0100-0130 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0100-0130 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0100-0130 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0100-0130 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0100-0130 17840 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0130-0200 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0130-0200 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0130-0200 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0130-0200 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0130-0200 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0130-0200 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0130-0200 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0130-0200 17840 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0200-0300 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0200-0300 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0200-0300 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0200-0300 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0200-0300 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0200-0300 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0200-0300 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0200-0300 17840 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0300-0315 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0300-0315 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC French Mon-Fri
0300-0315 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English Sat/Sun
0300-0315 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0300-0315 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC French Mon-Fri
0300-0315 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English Sat/Sun
0300-0315 15300 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC French Mon-Fri
0300-0315 15300 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English Sat/Sun
0300-0315 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0300-0315 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0300-0315 17840 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaAS English
0315-0400 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0315-0400 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0315-0400 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0315-0400 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0315-0400 15300 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0315-0400 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0315-0400 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0315-0400 17840 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaAS English
0400-0500 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0400-0500 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0400-0500 15160 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
0400-0500 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0400-0500 15300 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0400-0500 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0400-0500 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0400-0500 17800 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS English
0400-0500 17840 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaAS English
0500-0600 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0500-0600 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0500-0600 13630 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0500-0600 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0500-0600 15300 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
0500-0600 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0500-0600 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0500-0600 21725 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0600-0700 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0600-0700 11945 SHP 100 kW 100 deg to SoPAC English
0600-0700 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0600-0700 13630 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0600-0700 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0600-0700 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0600-0700 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0600-0700 21725 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
0700-0800 7410 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0700-0800 9475 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
0700-0800 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0700-0800 9710 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0700-0800 11945 SHP 100 kW 100 deg to SoPAC English
0700-0800 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0700-0800 13630 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to EaPAC English
0700-0800 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0800-0900 5995 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
0800-0900 7410 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0800-0900 9475 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
0800-0900 9580 SHP 100 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0800-0900 9710 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
0800-0900 11945 SHP 100 kW 100 deg to SoPAC English
0800-0900 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0800-0900 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
0900-1000 5995 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC Pidgin
0900-1000 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC Pidgin
0900-1000 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC Pidgin
0900-1000 9475 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC Pidgin
0900-1000 9580 SHP 100 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
0900-1000 9710 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS Pidgin
0900-1000 11945 SHP 100 kW 100 deg to SoPAC English
0900-1000 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC Pidgin
1000-1100 5995 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 5995 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English Sat/Sun
1000-1100 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English Sat/Sun
1000-1100 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English Sat/Sun
1000-1100 9475 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 9475 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English Sat/Sun
1000-1100 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1000-1100 9710 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 9710 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English Sat/Sun
1000-1100 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1000-1100 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC Pidgin Mon-Fri
1000-1100 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English Sat/Sun
1100-1200 5995 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
1100-1200 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
1100-1200 6140 SNG 100 kW 013 deg to SoEaAS English
1100-1200 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1100-1200 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1100-1200 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1100-1200 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1100-1200 12080 BRN 005 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English DRM
DRM mode B, 64 QAM, 10 kHz, 20.5 kBits/sec.
1100-1200 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1200-1300 5995 BRN 005 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
1200-1300 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
1200-1300 6140 SNG 100 kW 013 deg to SoEaAS English
1200-1300 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1200-1300 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1200-1300 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1200-1300 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1200-1300 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1300-1400 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1300-1400 5995 BRN 005 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
1300-1400 6150 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1300-1400 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1300-1400 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1300-1400 9965 HBN 100 kW 318 deg to EaAS English
1300-1400 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1300-1400 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1400-1430 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1400-1430 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1400-1430 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1400-1430 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1400-1430 9965 HBN 100 kW 318 deg to EaAS English
1400-1430 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1400-1430 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1430-1500 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1430-1500 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1430-1500 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1430-1500 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1430-1500 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1430-1500 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1500-1530 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1500-1530 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1500-1530 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1500-1530 9850 SHP 100 kW 040 deg to NoPAC English
1500-1530 12065 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1500-1530 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1530-1600 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1530-1600 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1530-1600 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1530-1600 9850 SHP 100 kW 040 deg to NoPAC English
1530-1600 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1530-1600 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1600-1630 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1600-1630 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1600-1630 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1600-1630 9540 SNG 250 kW 340 deg to SoEaAS English
1600-1630 9850 SHP 100 kW 040 deg to NoPAC English
1600-1630 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1600-1630 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1630-1700 5940 SHP 100 kW 334 deg to SoEaAS English
1630-1700 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1630-1700 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1630-1700 9850 SHP 100 kW 040 deg to NoPAC English
1630-1700 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1630-1700 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1700-1730 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1700-1730 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1700-1730 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1700-1730 9820 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
1700-1730 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1700-1730 12085 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1730-1800 5995 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1730-1800 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
1730-1800 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1730-1800 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1730-1800 9820 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
1730-1800 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1800-1900 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
1800-1900 9475 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
1800-1900 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1800-1900 9710 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1800-1900 9820 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
1800-1900 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
1900-2000 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
1900-2000 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
1900-2000 9710 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
1900-2000 9820 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
1900-2000 11660 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
1900-2000 11880 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2000-2030 6080 SHP 100 kW 005 deg to NoPAC English
2000-2030 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2000-2030 9820 SHP 100 kW 353 deg to EaAS English
2000-2030 11650 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2000-2030 11660 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
2000-2030 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2000-2030 15515 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2030-2100 9580 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2030-2100 11650 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2030-2100 11660 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
2030-2100 11695 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
2030-2100 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2030-2100 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
2030-2100 15515 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2100-2200 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
2100-2200 11650 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2100-2200 11695 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
2100-2200 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2100-2200 13630 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
2100-2200 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
2100-2200 15515 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2100-2200 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2200-2300 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
2200-2300 9855 DHA 500 kW 090 deg to SoEaAS English
2200-2300 9900 DHA 500 kW 105 deg to SoEaAS English ex9610
2200-2300 11695 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
2200-2300 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2200-2300 13630 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
2200-2300 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2200-2300 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
2200-2300 15515 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2200-2300 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2300-2330 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
2300-2330 9855 DHA 500 kW 090 deg to SoEaAS English
2300-2330 11695 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
2300-2330 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2300-2330 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2300-2330 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
2300-2330 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2300-2330 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2300-2330 19000 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
2330-2400 9660 BRN 010 kW 010 deg to NoPAC English
2330-2400 9855 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoEaAS English
2330-2400 12080 BRN 010 kW 080 deg to EaPAC English
2330-2400 15240 SHP 100 kW 030 deg to NoPAC English
2330-2400 15415 SHP 100 kW 355 deg to EaAS English
2330-2400 17750 SHP 100 kW 329 deg to SoEaAS English
2330-2400 17795 SHP 100 kW 050 deg to NoPAC English
2330-2400 17860 SHP 100 kW 070 deg to EaPAC English
2330-2400 19000 SHP 100 kW 065 deg to EaPAC English
(RA PDF file, A14v1.1, April 17, ibid.)
** AUSTRALIA. 12065 // 9580 and much weaker // 12085, Friday April 18
at 1315 tune-in RA to a very interesting interview with anti-nuclear
activist who built up Physicians for Social Responsibility and then
was removed from leadership, she thinks by FBI and CIA conspiracy
influencing the board of directors. Never hear her name! And 1327 cut
off abruptly and rudely before show is over for 3 minutes of RA
promos, 1330 onto next show `Future Tense` subject ``Utopia`s Second
Coming``. PSR guest must have been Dr Helen Caldicott, but what was
the show? RA online program schedule pages refuse to display anything.
This is also not a good Friday for propagation, making RA signals
stand out even more vs northerly attenuations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
AUSTRALIA [non]. Frequency change of Radio Australia:
2200-2330 [sic] NF 9900 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-change-of-radio-australia.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Super Tropical Cyclone
The Wireless Institute of Australia April 20, 2014
It has been a week since Tropical Cyclone Ita with winds of 230 km/h
came ashore near Cooktown in Far North Queensland, and then swept
south before heading out to sea. Initially rated Category 5 when
making landfall late on Friday April the 11th to damage buildings,
down trees and cut infrastructure.
Dale McCarty, VK4DMC, reports that no Wireless Institute Civil
Emergency Network (WICEN) activation occurred to his knowledge,
although 7088 and 3588 kHz were monitored, with hams checking in to
support the welfare of others.
Tropical Cyclone Ita was downgraded to a Category 1, but on its
southward track continued with strong winds and heavy rain, isolating
many areas, and leaving some without electricity.
Sugar cane and banana crops were flattened. The tourism industry faces
cancellations despite pleas that Queensland was still open for
business. The population was prepared, but with Ita rated at Category
5 many took refuge in community shelters.
(deleted - re mobile phones)
ABC Radio in Queensland and RadioTAB (where we prepare the WIA news)
had in place a community service whereby if in any cyclone area where
only the TAB radio service was the one 'on air', ABC had the codes to
enable their cyclone information program to take over the RadioTAB
transmitters.
Radio Australia activated its purpose built shortwave outlet in
Shepparton Victoria to beam the latest cyclone information into
Queensland thousands of kilometres to its north. (Jim Linton VK3PC,
Chairman IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Committee)
http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/display.php?file_id=wianews-2014-04-20
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** AUSTRALIA. VZG420 - 12621.5 kHz - Townsville Radio - Townsville,
QLD (AUS) - QSL --- Captada esta pequeña estación costera privada
australiana durante los últimos días. Entra muy débil por las mañanas;
a eso de las 0730Z es el mejor momento. Si no hay tráfico, emite su
indicativo en morse cada tres minutos. Paul M. Weldon (Director
Técnico) me dice en su respuesta por correo-e que
"Our transmitters are ICOM M710, we run them bare foot at about 120
watts - the antenna on 12mhz is a Aluminium tube Gamma Match dipole
pointing approximately NE so most likely you are receiving it on the
short path via the N Pole. On 6 and 8 MHz the antenna is an inverted V
and on 16 MHz we have another Gamma match aluminium tube dipole. We
provide HF Email services to ships at sea using PACTOR 3; soon we will
move the whole operation over to the new protocol PACTOR 4 for higher
speeds.". Thank you very much! (Mauricio Molano Sánchez, Spain,
http://moladx.blogspot.it/ sábado, 29 de marzo de 2014, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. [Logs apparently concerning search for
Malaysian plane:]
15962, 0445 Canberra Control called “Kiwi 32” re position. DM
15962, 0132 Aussi 254 Female voice called Canberra Control and again
at O140 Z with request for local Time and reported weather 22 C and
cloud at 230. then again at 0145 gave 2nd Weather Forecast. DM
15962, 2138 Aussie 54? to Canberra Control.” Departing for destination
ETA ...?” Fair - good. Not sure if this was a part of the Search and
Rescue for the Malaysian plane. 26/3 JS
15962, 1048 Rescue 932/Canberra Control, m/voice, English with
Japanese accent, req/wx for Pearce AFB West Australia, various
positions, conditions exchanged from 14knots for some areas, gusts to
30 knots for others, 2/4 RP
15962, 0806 Rescue 106/Canberra Control, req phone patch adv stand by
re: working freq, w/freq xxxxxx advised sig report from work freq
broken but readable, short comms continued, 2/4 RP
15962, 2246 AUSSIE 485, RAAF/Canberra Control, mission number 3732,
req SC confirmed SC MPEL 31/3 RP
22686, 0413 Canberra Control radio check with Rescue 794 Good 31/03
ABD [sic --- probably typo for 22868 like the others --- gh]
22868, 0402 Rescue 553 gave a number of figures acknowledged by
Control “Good copy” Fair 31/03 ABD
22868, 0613 Canberra Control to Rescue 933 with request for updated
position. CC was very good but Rescue 933 (strong Asian accent -
Chinese or Japanese plane?) was poor. 27/3 JS
22868, 0540 Rescue 932 (Asian plane) with position rpt to Canberra
Control. Fair. 31/3 JS
27446, 0733 Rescue 105 to Canberra Control with radio check. Followed
by discussion about reaching a debris field. This came about by
Canberra Control on 22868 kHz requesting Rescue 105 to change
frequency due to poor copy. Kind of surprised me that they went to
27 MHz! Fair - good copy. 30/3 JS
RP Roger Pryde, Dunedin, - Sangean ATS 803A, DR49 coms rec. Aerials,
1x30meter E/W LW 1x15meter WWII field telephone connecting cable NE/SW
LW
DM Dallas McKenzie, Buller - Kenwood R1000, Yaesu FRG-7700, PCR1000
(Stand By), Sony SW7600G. Uniden UBCT8, Standard VR120. Long wire E-W
(190 ft). 20ft Whip, Plus Various Commercial whips.
JS Jim Stewart, Auckland - Receivers: (HF) Kenwood R-5000 x2, Sangean
ATS-909. (VHF) Uniden UBCT8, Uniden UBC72xlt. Antennas: Wellbrook ALA
1530 Active Loop, Diamond D-130 discone.
ABD Arthur De Maine, Kakanui – Icom R-71E and Drake R8 coupled to a
25m dipole (April NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar (tentative); 1532-1544:35*, 11-
Apr; W in listed Hindi with English phrases like "Thanks for
listening" & "Thank you very much" & BB pop tunes. 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)
15505, April 20 at 1359, JBA carrier from BB, and near-imagination
level timesignal maybe ending at 1359:35.
15505, April 21 at 1259, BB with JBA carrier but enough to make out
only the timesignal with raised final pitch ending at 1359:41, still
within a variable window always fast of 1400:00. Standard remark
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9455, Bangladesh Betar, Apr 22 1315-1328, 35333, Nepali, Opening
music, Opening announce, Theme music, News and Bangladesh music.
15105, Bangladesh Betar, Apr 22 1229-1240, 34443, English, IS, Time
announce by man, Opening music, ID, Opening announce, Theme music,
News.
15505, Bangladesh Betar, Apr 20 *1358-1412, 35333, Urdu, 1358 sign on
with IS, Announce by woman, Opening music, Opening announce, Theme
music, News.
15505, Bangladesh Betar, Apr 22 1522-1532, 35333, Hindi, News and
Bangladesh music, Theme music at 1522 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-
R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT,
110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15105, Bangladesh Betar, 1229 Apr 22, IS, time pips about 8 seconds
before 1230 and into presumed English program with announcement and
music. Very weak (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening
in my car, by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna.
Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at
http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. Radio Belarus, Minsk-Kalodzicy, 11730.00 kHz. 04/18/2014,
2100 UT, Station ID and newscast by OM in English at TOH. Instrumental
piano music at 2116 UT. Very weak, just above noise level. S < 3
(Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Receiver: Yaesu FRG - 100,
Drake R8, Antenna: 220 ft. Inverted L Longwire, Homebrew 1 Meter
MagLoop, cumbre dx via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA [and non]. 3310, April 20 at 0116, very weak mix of audios
here, presumably R. Mosoj Chaski, and one of my locals: yes --- a
match with 960 KGWA, but not with 1390 KCRC. (2 x 960 + 1390 = 3310).
Neither of the locals playing music I was also hearing on 3310 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3310.00, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba; 12/04 2310-2335, 33333+,
programa news en quechua (lucha contra el crimen) ads Lloyd Aéreo
Boliviano, viaje al Argentina, música y news sobre América Latina;
tratan sobre la situación en Venezuela. ID Mosoj Chaski.
6134.80, R. Santa Cruz, Cochabamba; 7/04 1015-1040, 33333, ID "Por
Radio Santa Cruz"; música, ID "Por más viejo que estés, Radio Santa
Cruz siempre te acompañará"; clases sobre la geografía del
departamento de Oruro.
La recepción la he efectuado del 26/03 al 16/04 en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Vivo en una casa muy pequeña,
pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un mundo muy grande. Muchos 128´s
PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also in this issue: ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PERU
6134.78v, R. Santa Cruz, 0211*, April 16, 17, 18 and 19; no het (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4451.1, 1000 8 ABR - RADIO SANTA ANA (BOLIVIA) in ESPAÑOL
from SANTA ANA DEL YACUMA. SINPO = 32232. Received at Posadas,
Argentina, 1826 KM from transmitter at Santa Ana del Yacuma (Send ZTE
N720 Android 2.2 Froyo -- (Julio César Anzoátegui, Posadas-Misiones,
Argentina, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
Had not seen a report of this for some time, so it`s active, way out
of band = WOOB (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 5580.30, 0010-0020 16.04, R San José, San José de
Chiquitos, Spanish ann, songs, 35333 (Anker Petersen, my latest
loggings on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in
Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4785.00, BRASIL, R. Caiari, Porto Velho; 11/04 1010-1035,
33333, programa avisos y comunicados, música, ID "Muy buenos días,
amigos de Radio Caiari" ads
4925.20, BRASIL, R. Educação Rural, Tefé; 16/04 1034-1055, 22222, ID
"Radio Educação Rural", news. NOTA: mejor lo escuché en USB, demasiado
ruido estático QRN y QRM (imposible seguir escuchándolos, demasiada
estática conforme avanza la hora).
11780.00, BRASIL, R. Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília; 16/04 2240-2305,
44444, news varias, ID "Rádio Nacional da Amazônia", programa Nacional
Informa, news
La recepción la he efectuado del 26/03 al 16/04 en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Vivo en una casa muy pequeña,
pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un mundo muy grande. Muchos 128´s
PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also in this issue: ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, PERU
** BRAZIL. 9664.74 approx., April 18 at 0111, R. Voz Missionária with
music, poor signal much weaker than 11855.24 tonight (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. QSL: Radio 9 de Julho, 9820, lt, st 5 ws. Addr.: Rua Manoel
de Arzão, 85, CEP 02730-030, São Paulo - SP; v/s Pe. José Renato
Ferreira, Diretor (QSL’s de Norbert Reiner, Drosselsangweg 6, 76131
Karlsruhe, Germany, received between 09 September 2013 and 23 April
2014, via Dario Monferini, April 23, playdx yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 11780 // 6180, April 19 at 0541, usual bigsigs from RNA,
but music is very undermodulated on both, obviously an input problem
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11855.226 kHz, ZYE954 Rádio Aparecida, boring Ave Maria
praying over and over again. At 0129 UT April 17. S=9+10dB or -55dBm
strength (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 18 via DXLD)
11855.24 approx., April 18 at 0103, R. Aparecida still on this off-
frequency like 48 hours ago, tho there`s nothing now to het it. Usual
ToH recitation of long list of affiliates all over Brasil ending with
one in Guajará Mirim, Rondônia, and on to `Com a Mãe Aparecida` super-
Catholic show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. SW AIR TIME --- Hello, Our company Space Line Ltd is
based in Bulgaria. Since 2000 we offer air time for broadcasts on
shortwave radio. At the moment we have available shortwave
transmitters and frequencies which we could offer for your own
shortwave radio broadcasts all over the world. We have 100 kW and 200
kW transmitters at our disposal as well as 34 antennas for different
directions. We can transmit in both analog and digital (DRM) mode. If
you are interested in our offer don’t hesitate to contact us – we can
give you more detailed information. You can also visit our website
http://www.spaceline.bg for more information. We look forward to
future business offers and partnerships. Yours faithfully (Dimitar
Todorov, LZ1AX, April 23, via Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, DXLD)
** BURMA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11560, Dem. V. of Burma via Tajikistan,
Apr 16 *1430-1440, 35443, Burmese, 1430 sign on with opening music,
ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17860, V. of Khmer M'Chas Srok:
Apr 20 1154-1200*, 35433 Cambodian, URL announce and mail address
announce at 1158, Music, 1200 sign off.
Apr 22 1147-1200*, 35433, Cambodian, Talk, URL and mail address
announce at 1156, Music, 1200 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX,
IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121;
ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMEROON [non]. FRANCE. 15315, Radio Sawtu Linjilia, Issoudun, 20-
Apr-14, 1833 - presumed this in listed Hausa and/or Fulde. Talks by
man and woman, nice African call/response vocals. Fair. 73, (Brandon
Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC,
WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering
NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared
Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 770, WTOR, NY, Youngstown – 4/15 1130 – noted over
WABC (featuring Don Imus babbling about something) with abrupt sign-on
in the middle of a man talking in a South Asian/Subcontinental
language (not sure if it was Punjabidu, Sinahala-Croatian, Kashmiri or
Low Telugu) about something. The prevailing telephone humbuzz noise
was stronger than the actual intended audio. At 1132 they fired up a
distorted recording of the Star Spangled Banner (although I’m sure
there’s not a single listener to the station that resides in the USA).
(Niel Wolfish, Toronto, Ontario, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
** CANADA. Is CFRX off the air? Dear friends, Is CFRX off the air? I
hope not because I have enjoyed listening to your programs in the
morning before I go to work. However, I have not heard a signal from
it for the past few days. I sent a reception report a few days ago. I
hope you received it. Looking forward to hearing back from you (Bill
Harms, Elkridge, Maryland, April 18 to CFRX, cc to DXLD)
Hi Bill, Yes, CFRX is off again. I was at the site yesterday and the
transmitter is lying on its side waiting for repairs. Seems to be an
on going probably with this newer solid state transmitter acquired a
few years ago. We will all just have to wait until it can be fixed.
The engineer said he was going to the site next Tuesday so hopefully
he will have the time to sort it out. Thanks for your interest (Steve
Canney VA3SC, April 18, Sent from my iPhone, to and via Bill Harms,
WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. On Media Network Plus from PCJ Radio International
via WRMI, Keith mentions something special from STF Radio coming UT
Sunday April 20 at 04-05 UT, but no details! So I will give them, as
provided, but you are allowed to listen to the first half only if
you`ve already heard WORLD OF RADIO at same time on WTWW 5830 (such as
Sat 2330 on WTWW 9930 [which was off the air!]):
Eleven transmitters supposedly adding up to a million watts will
simulcast this hour, per their website http://stfradio.com ---
I asked them for transmitter sites, but no reply, so I insert the most
likely obvious ones: {}
``STF Radio International 1-hour Million-Watt Special
April 20, 2014 0400-0500 UTC
—Frequency List—
5050 (The Americas) Saturday Night {WWRB}
5110 (N+C. America) " {WBCQ}
7490 (N+C. America) " {WBCQ}
7570 (N. America) " {WRMI pre-empting Brother Scare}
7730 (Mex/C. America) " {WRMI}
9925 (N. America) " {MBR}
9955 (Caribbean) " {WRMI}
6025 (EU) Sunday Morning
17630* DRM (EU, alternate program) "
17760 (Asia) Sunday Afternoon
21490 (Pacific Aus/NZ) "
Music
Voice
Digital Mode Text+Images
Internet Hyperlinks
…and more! Spread the word!``
The last four would also probably be MBR Nauen and/or Issoudun (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7570, April 20 at 0359, Zanotti WRMI ID interrupts Brother Scare for
special STF Radio hour from 0400; electronic music with `STF` IDs by
several voices, most of them synthetic, 3-descending note IS, but
morphing into more tones; sweeps up and down, etc.; right into variety
of Radiogram tones at 0402, but only briefly.
Such would continue thruout the hour: brief synthetic announcements,
`grams, and electronic music, the latter which I found quite
enjoyable. I knew this frequency would be best with bigsig from WRMI
northwestward, and it`s about as close to hi-fi as you can get on SW;
hardly any selective fading distortion, either. Too bad it`s otherwise
wasted on BS, rather than WRMI mainstream shows.
0405, finally fuller ID: ``This is Super Time Force Radio
International`` --- ``you are tuned to 7570 kHz in the 41 [sic] meter
band`` --- so each frequency gets a separate playout, otherwise with
same but not-synchronized programming.
This was supposed to be a ``million-watt broadcast`` over 11 different
transmitters, but WWRB and WBCQ frequencies were no-shows: 5050, 5110
and 7490. At 0400 tune-in, Allan Weiner was just signing 7490 off, as
if nothing were happening, and indeed nothing were, at WBCQ.
The higher ones, probably from MBR European sites to the Eastern
Hemisphere, were as expected inaudible: 17630, 17760, 21490. So only
if those were more than 100 kW, would the total really add up to a
megawatt. But also audible on WRMI 9955 and 7730: 9955 a few words
behind 7570; and 7730 only slightly behind 7570.
9925 is audible, a traditional Nauen, GERMANY MBR frequency (which in
May will resume for the summer with KBC Radio 00-02 UT Sundays to
North America, ex-7375). It`s axually better than 9955 WRMI here, and
9925 is synchronized with 6025, poor here in Marti/jamming 6030
splash. 9925 is really the second-best frequency, not synch with 9955.
At 0406: ``This special multi-media program is coming to you direct
from the space-puss [bus?] locked in orbit over region XM 42 of the
planet Earth. This show is for all the tapers, rockers, poppers and
decoders out there. Turn up the bass in your sound system. If
possible, please record this for later analysis. Let us know if you
tuned us in, qsl at stfradio.com --- that`s qsl at stfradio.com``
Indeed I did record the whole hour, from which I copied these
announcements. There was no significant spoken content other than the
announcements. A few times says ``warning: incoming digital mode``,
and radiogram tones, such as at 0437, 0452. We`ll see what they
transmitted, as no doubt roger in Germany [Austria?] copied the whole
thing and will post the results.
roger hasn`t so far, via http://www.rhci-online.de/ but linx these:
Super Time Force Radio Int'l - not all stations play the game with:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Super_Time_Force_logo.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Time_Force
0410: `This music is from the upcoming video game Super Time Force``.
Later: ``Come visit our website stfradio.com``. As of 1448 UT April
20, they have marked out the WBCQ and WWRB frequencies, and say will
respond to reports over the next few days.
0414: ``warning: the following digital mode may be unpleasant to your
ears. You may want to turn down your radio``. 0424 QSL address again.
Long digital portion, 0431 back to music.
That`s as far as I have got in playing back the tape before compiling
this report, but noted at 0459 it`s over on WRMI with another ID and
back to BS on 9955 and 7570, while 7730 goes off, having been extended
an hour after RTI in Spanish until 0400. By 0459, 9925 is already off
the air, typical MBR behavior (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re my log of the STF Radio special April 20 at 04-05 UT on several
frequencies (and it appears a lot of others missed it:) roger now has
put up his report on STF Radio: ``The future of shortwave seems to me
now: A little strange. Advertising for an Xbox game via shortwave -
some things in this world I will never understand. But for airtime
must indeed pay anyone .... Now knowing the shortwave listening
grandfathers what they should buy their grandchildren``:
http://www.rhci-online.de/STF-Radio-Program1__2014-04-20.htm
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Tuned in at 0400 UT. Checking all the frequencies. 7570 from WRMI is
very strong. 6025 (to Europe ?Nauen or Issoudun) is fair. 5050, 5110
and 7490 are no shows on the west coast. 7730 (WRMI to Mexico and C.
America): poor. 9925 (MBR, Nauen) fair/good. 9955 (WRMI to Caribbean):
fair to good. Interesting music. At the beginning MFSK8 with brief ID.
Thanks for the transmission, STF, but disappointed with the no shows.
Perseus SDR with ALA 100 loop antenna (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
in D-06193 Petersberg/Germany ~04.20z:
Super Time Force Radio Int'l - not all stations play the game with:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Super_Time_Force_logo.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Time_Force
5050 kHz nothing
5110 kHz nothing
6025 kHz O=4 , but as "Nauen" too weak, I think. possibly from France
7490 kHz nothing
7570 kHz O=4
7730 kHz O=4-5 best
9925 kHz O=4+ probably from Nauen
9955 kHz O=3-4
17629,8 kHz O=2-3
17760 kHz O=2 but with a different, religious, program
21490 kHz O=1-2 very weak
Nice advertisement for a XBox game, but how many gamers listen to
shortwave. The beach party on KBC was much more entertaining (roger,
Germany, ibid.)
Here in Cairo, only 9955 via WRMI and 9923 via Germany are doing OK:
9925 SIO 433
9955 SIO 343
Sent them an e reception report with a recording. 73 (Tarek Zeidan,
Egypt, Sent from my iPad, ibid.)
Received the "first" North American QSL for STF Radio International,
along with information about the program. Turns out, they're out of
Toronto, ON. Here's the QSL: And here's the message:
Hello Walter, Thank you very much for tuning in the show on all the
different frequencies. Glad to hear that 7570 made it up your way
nice and strong; I think we covered most of Canada pretty well, it was
a priority. :) As for the no-shows:
-5050 (WWRB) didn't get the CD I sent via Canada Post Express ($70 for
next-day, yeah right!)
-WBCQ may have been some confusion about UTC date/time. They aired the
program the next day. :/
-the DRM broadcast on 17630 was replaced with a regular AM shortwave
broadcast of the main program
-the alternate "Music from Toronto" program intended for DRM broadcast
was broadcast on 17760, regular shortwave.
So a bit of a bumpy first outing, but nothing too serious. At STF
Radio HQ in Toronto, we had incredible reception from 9925, 7570/7730
were very strong, and 9955 was doing very well. I suspect that Nauen
9925 + WRMI had their azimuths pointed right at us....I will concede
that Toronto was the center of the universe, but just for that one
hour. ;)
Since you were the first to let us know you could hear us, I am proud
to send you eQSL #001 for STF Radio International Program #1. We will
soon be printing real QSL cards, so please send along a mailing
address if you would like one. Thanks again for listening! Jason/6955,
STF Radio International (via Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DXLD)
** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. I note on http://www.horizon.fm that they now
show 6205 kHz as their shortwave frequency although I have not heard
them anywhere on the bands for a few days. Horizon FM's sister station
http://www.atlantis.fm are putting out my good friend Jerry Wright's
Album Show at 1800 UT tonight; more info at
http://www.Facebook.com/thealbumshow
(John, Sent from my iPad, Hoad, Sunday April 20, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [non]. 17500, R. Ndeke Luka via UK, Apr 22
*1700-1710, 35333-35433, French, 1700 sign on with ID, Talk, SJ at
1704 and 1709 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. Summer A-14 schedules now available on our blog
African stations
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/african-stations.html
(Ivo Ivanov; see PUBLICATIONS)
African skeds compiled by Ivo Ivanov include Chad as if active on
6165. Hasn`t it been off for months? (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Yes, it`s some time since I heard Tchad on 6165. I would not
expect to hear it during the day even if it is on-air, but during our
local evenings I get CRI, and early mornings I get Voice of Turkey,
without (noticeable) interference from Tchad. Regards, (Bill Bingham,
South Africa, April 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, ibid.)
FYI - my last log Oct 6, 2013: CHAD 6164.962 Yes Glenn, 6164.9v RNT
Chad missed a lot of days now, not heard here in Nov/Dec 2013.
My last log: 6164.962, Radio Tchad, Rdif. Nat. Tchadienne, Gredia,
N'Djamena, in mixture of Vernacular/French language, at 0137 UT on Oct
6, S=8-9 broadcast. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 24, 2013) (Wolfgang
Büschel, April 22, 2014, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** CHANNEL ISLANDS. BBC-RADIO 1 - 97.1 MHz - Les Platons (Jersey),
Islas del Canal - QSL --- El único emisor de la BBC-Radio 1 en 97.1
opera desde este centro emisor, enclavado en la isla de Jersey, una de
las Islas del Canal. Éstas son Dependencias de la Corona Británica
pero son parte ni del Reino Unido de la Gran Bretaña, ni de la Unión
Europea. Pude captar su señal durante la "esporádica" del 4 de julio
del 2012, a las 18'00 UT. Ninguno de mis intentos previos por obtener
una QSL de esta escucha resultó fructífero. Anteayer escribí al actual
Head of Spectrum & Investigation, Mr. Alan Boyle. Esta mañana me ha
respondido con una confirmación perfecta y adjuntando la grabación,
que tienen en sus archivos, del momento justo en el que recibí yo la
señal su emisora. Thank you very much!. alan.boyle (a) bbc.co.uk
04JUL2012 - 18'00 UTC - 1157 km (Mauricio Molano Sánchez, Spain,
http://moladx.blogspot.it/ viernes, 11 de abril de 2014, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. EAST JAMMERSTAN: 11555, Crash & Bang Music Jammer;
1814, 11-Apr; C&B lite to 1816 into C&B robusto. Presume against Radio
Free Asia via Marianas--not heard (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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)
14920, CNR 1, APR 17, 0945. M and W in Chinese. Armchair at least...!
Also 12910 (fair).
14980, APR 17, 1130. Two Ms with W in Chinese, fair-poor. Powerful //
14920, 13130 (VG), 12910 (VG). (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake
R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
CNR1 jamming search April 17 before 1300:
12910, April 17 at 1252, poor; none in the 14s
13130, April 17 at 1252, CNR1 jammer, fair
13430, April 17 at 1250, CNR1 jammer, poor vs CODAR
15550, April 17 at 1253, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter & open carrier
15585, April 17 at 1253, CNR1 jammer, poor with VOT het on lo side
16360, April 17 at 1253, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair with flutter; no 17s
CNR1 jamming, April 17 after 1300:
15545, April 17 at 1305, CNR1 jammer, very poor, VOT het on hi side
15585, April 17 at 1305, CNR1 jammer, very poor, VOT het on hi side
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake observations.
April 17 at 0439 on 15210 (vs VOA), 15615 (vs RFA) and 17735 (vs VOA).
April 18 at 0308 on 17495 (vs RFA). At 1450 on 9920 (vs VOA). (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Quick CNR1 jammer survey morning of April 18:
16100, April 18 at 1347, CNR1 jammer, fair, seems only one 12-18 MHz
15580, April 18 at 1423, VOA Music Mix via SÃO TOMÉ has CCI making
fast SAH, and I can barely // it to 16100 which is now up to fair-good
level. Also seems het on lo side of 15580 between that and 15575 KBS,
so V. of Tibet attracted it here; however, Aoki shows VOT on 15577 via
Tajikistan only at 1230-1240, but these segments are constantly
jumbling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17740, April 18 at 1426, CNR1 jammer, fair signal with CCI, i.e. VOA
Tibetan via THAILAND, daily during this hour only.
15785, April 19 at 0532, poor signal with heavy flutter, but smax of a
CNR1 jammer. What does Aoki say? It`s just CRI in Chinese via Xi`an.
Without embargo I go looking for more jammers and find:
17170, April 19 at 0534, JBA broadcast signal here, certainly a known
CNR1 vs SOH frequency.
17575, April 19 at 1257, fair signal with nice Chinese music filling
the hour, which was CRI in Russian, 500 kW, 315 degrees from
Shijiazhuang 723 site per Aoki, nevertheless overshadowing its Cuban
17580 neighbor. Off 1300* without any skazalling.
15195, April 19 at 1301, CNR1 jammer settles down here, after first
blasting distorted spurs above and below maybe 50 kHz range.
15535, April 19 at 1342, poor signal here vs very poor het on 15537,
which fits Aoki for CNR1 jammer vs V. of Tibet via Tajikistan at 1340-
1400.
15540, April 19 until 1345* something here goes off, probably another
CNR1 jammer vs VOT Tajikistan on 15542 until 1340 per Aoki (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11635, CHINA / NORTH KOREA. CNR 1 jammer / Voice of Korea – Kujang,
2234, 4/19/14 both in Mandarin. CNR 1 with man talking. VoK with usual
DPRK operatic music. Either would have been fair. This must be a mess
in Asia. CNR jammer vs Radio Taiwan International in Mandarin via
Paochung (not heard.) (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus,
WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna,
NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
Firedrake and CNR1 jamming search, April 22 before and after 1330:
16360, April 22 at 1332, CNR1 jammer, good, not synch with 12910; none
in the 17s, 18s, 10s
15590, April 22 at 1328, CNR1 jammer, very poor not synch with 12910;
and het on lo side no dooubt from from V. of Tibet, Tajikistan
15265, April 22 at 1330, CNR1 jammer, good, not synch with 12910
15195, April 22 at 1330, CNR1 jammer, fair, not synch with 12910
15115, April 22 at 1330, CNR1 jammer, good, not synch with 12910, and
unlike the others, heavy CCI from victim
14750, April 22 at 1328, CNR1 jammer, very poor, not synch with 12910
13830, April 22 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, poor but also mixed with
Firedrake music; about 2 seconds ahead of 12910
13795, April 22 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, very poor, ahead of 12910
12910, April 22 at 1324, CNR1 jammer, good, first one heard and kept
on second receiver YB-400 to compare to all the others on FRG-7,
finding only 11640 is close to synchronized with 12910
11805, April 22 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, fair with CCI, fast SAH, not
synch with 12910
11785, April 22 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, good about 2 secs ahead of 12910
11640, April 22 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, poor with echo, and the only one
almost synch with 12910, a quick echo apart
11605, April 22 at 1335, CNR1 jammer, poor with CCI, not synch 12910
April 23 check:
9680, April 23 at 1127, Firedrake mixed with CNR1 jammer
12190, April 23 at 1120, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter; none in
the 13s, 14s 15s at this hour with higher bands dead and no later chex
this morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But here`s one:
13830, Chinese Opera Music Jammer, APR 23, 1315. Firedrake on the air
right now covering W in Chinese. Not sure if the woman is RFA Tibetan
service, or CNR1. 73 and Good Listening (Rick Barton, Arizona, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4990, PBS Hunan (presumed) on April 17. Daily I check this
frequency to see how my old friend AIR Itanagar is doing. For several
years now that was the only station that I ever heard here, so was
amazed at 1241 to hear a station in Chinese. Did they refurbish the
old tx or is it a new one? Or was it a one of a kind day of
propagation? About 1300 began to hear a faint station underneath, as
AIR Itanagar started to fade in; 1316 had AIR playing indigenous songs
underneath a stronger talking PBS; last checked at 1410 to hear only
PBS with traditional Chinese singing; no trace of AIR. Needs more
monitoring to tell just what is happening here. Bad news for AIR
Itanagar, after having several years of clear, QRM free reception!
Poor audio at -
https://app.box.com/s/2zhit5wrlihex26t2trp
4990, PBS Hunan (presumed) on April 18 at 1332 with phone
conversations; stronger than have ever heard AIR Itanagar also on
4990; today no AIR QRM. Thanks to Mauno Ritola who informs he heard
"presumed" PBS on April 18 on "4989.97 kHz until their s/off at 1702."
4990, PBS Hunan (presumed). April 21 continues to now dominate this
frequency after 1230; AIR does not have much of a chance for any
decent reception now at my QTH (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CHINA: (Historical) SW Site: 'Changsha' - Radio Hunan
Location of the SW antenna for Radio Hunan - 4990 kHz etc is here:
27.849768 112.950306
6 Masts: Most likely 4 caged dipoles existed here. Now residential
apartments & factories where the antennas once stood as of post 2009 &
pre 2012 per GE imagery (Ian Baxter, NSW, Shortwavesites YG via DXLD)
** CHINA [non]. 9690, April 18 at 0347 check, CRI in English again
during this hour via SPAIN, // but not synchronized 9790 CUBA. So
never mind my WOR 1717 item that Chinese has replaced English at 03-04
on 9690, tho that was certainly the case when I last checked April 14.
Perhaps they are undecided or subject to mixups (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11665, China Radio Int'l; 1455-1501+, 17-Apr; M&W in
Chinese, into rousing vocal similar to North Korean fare. Aoki & EiBi
list English at this time, but none heard. 1500 IS/fanfare, Chinese
announcement, into LL — listed Pashto. SIO= 2+42. Kills any chance for
Malaysia (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)
** CHINA [non]. 1520, April 23 at 1205 UT, KYND Cypress TX is again
vying with KOKC OKC here, CRI news mixing with CBS News; outro only as
``the hourly news`` and 1207 UT into `People in the Know` a long-
running CRI program.
Not expecting to hear it on sibling station 1540, KGBC Galveston, but
with KXEL nulled, April 23 at 1210 UT, there`s an interview with
someone sporting a very American accent about exporting rare earths,
so vital to flat screen TVs and other devices along with magnets, and
// 1520. But 1540 fades out abruptly. KGBC is only 2.5 kW in daytime,
while 1520 is apparently now 25 kW.
No chance of them here at this hour, but KGBC not to confused with
CHIN Toronto or WNWR Philadelphia, both 50 kW stations also relaying
the ChiCom; why is 1540 such a favorite frequency for them? Is it
``lucky``, numerologically? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. Future of Cariari site still unknown. ¿QUE PASARÁ CON
EL CENTRO TRANSMISOR DE RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA -REE- EN CARIARI:::?
Según una fuente extraoficial - se espera una decisión gubernamental
del nuevo Presidente electo Luis Guillermo Solís, para decidir que van
a hacer con los transmisores y antenas de las clausuradas
transmisiones españolas desde territorio Tico. Al parecer, el SINART,
SISTEMA NACIONAL DE RADIO Y TELEVISION, tiene menguado su presupuesto
para emprender la iniciativa de encargarse de ese centro emisor
ubicado en Cariari, que por su privilegiada ubicación geográfica
tendría asegurada la cobertura radial de las Américas y de continentes
distantes.
Estas son, repito, informaciones extraoficiales, porque hasta el sol
de hoy, nada más se sabe de lo que pasará en un futuro. Lo ideal sería
que el nuevo Gobierno Costarricense se encargara de esa inciativa,
mediante un acuerdo con el Gobierno Español -si es que no hay ya uno
previamente suscrito- y pueda transmitir programas para dar a conocer
la cultura y la realidad de éste hermoso país. Desaprovechar esa
oportunidad no tendría precio, considerando que en éste momento
ninguna emisora emite desde este país centroamericano para el mundo, a
través de la radiodifusión en ondas cortas.
Atras quedó el recuerdo de la famosa Radio Reloj desde San José, Radio
Mundial Advenista y Radio Lira Internacional desde Alajuela, Radio
Casino de Puerto Limón, TILRL Radio Noticias del Continente y muchas
más que durante años nos permitían saber de ésta parte del mundo.
Amanecerá, Dios quiera sea una realidad y el nuevo gobierno de Costa
Rica nos sorprenda con buenas noticias!!! Mientras tanto, como dicen
los Ticos, Pura Vida! Amanecerá y Veremos!!! TRADUCTOR DE GOOGLE:
COSTA RICA: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE CENTER OF FOREIGN CARIARI
TRANSMITTER RADIO-REE-IN SPAIN ::: CARIARI?
According to an unofficial source-expected a government decision of
newly elected President Luis Guillermo Solís, to decide what they will
do with transmitters and antennas from decommissioned Spanish
broadcasts Tico territory. Apparently the SINART NATIONAL BROADCAST
SYSTEM, its budget has dwindled to take the initiative to take care of
that issuer center located in Cariari, which by its geographical
location would be assured of radial coverage of the Americas and of
distant continents.
These are, again, unofficial information, because until the sun today,
nothing else is known about what will happen in the future. Ideally
Costaricense the new Government will take care of that initiative,
through an agreement with the Spanish Government, if there is already
a pre-subscribed and can transmit programs to raise awareness of the
culture and the reality of this beautiful country. Squander that
opportunity would be priceless, considering that at this time no
station broadcasting from the Central American country to the world,
via shortwave broadcasting.
Back was the memory of the famous Clock Radio from San Jose, World
Radio and Radio Lira Advenista International from Alajuela, Radio
Casino of Puerto Limón, TILRL Radio News Continent and many more for
years allowed us to know this part of the world. Sun rose, God will
become a reality and the new government of Costa Rica surprise us with
good news! Meanwhile, as the Ticos, Pura Vida! Say. Dawn and see!....
(Santiago San Gil G., Venezuela in Cadena DX page in FB, quoting from
http://www.sinart.go.cr/ and translating into English via Google
Translator, via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay). I cannot access to that
specific item URL, though... HAN), April 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DXLD)
** CUBA. 570, April 19 at 0543, Radio Reloj is audible again, so I
recompare its minutely timesignal to WWV --- this time it matches, so
they have reset following my previous revelation that they were 9
seconds late. Did Arnie clue them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. SOUTH JAMMERSTAN: 13605, Pulse-Buzzer; 2133, 16-Apr; Only AIR
sked on 13605 per Aoki/EiBi, but not at this hour. Raul have a beef
with the Indians--in case they're on? Per Glenn Hauser, Radio Martí
has been using 13605, but not heard. Raul against the Indians makes a
much better story than against Marti--Hindu Imperialists? (Harold
Frodge, Midland MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) Martí only until 2000*
(gh)
9550, April 18 at 0102, still no RHC signal here despite continuing to
claim it on A-14 schedule at
http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias
not only at 11-13, but at 21-05 UT (and we`ve also heard it in the 13-
15 period). Also at 0102, RHC is on 11670, 11760 and 11840 with VG
signals altho same schedule claims 11760 is not used at all after
2030! RHC never gets its act together, and Arnie will blame me, the
messenger, for saying so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5040, April 19 at 0043, for the third(?) day, RHC still hasn`t fixed
the big hum on this frequency, now in French, also some distortion.
5040, April 19 at 0543, RHC is on and no hum noted now, while 5025
Rebelde is off and with it the leapfrogs, which I am pleased to note
so many others are hearing on 5010, 5055.
9550, April 19 at 1253, RHC is off allowing the ChiCom to teach
Chinese to the VietCong without QubaRM, while a couple minutes
earlier, RHC was still on. No recheck whether returned after 1300 as
had been.
9830, April 20 at 1257, RHC is still here despite the heavy RTTY QRM,
as 9550 and 9850 have already gone off. Arnie was talking about moving
to 9820 a week ago, but still hasn`t done it. There is also a weak
signal on 9820, but would be an improvement. After 1302 on 9830 there
is additional CCI from some other broadcaster. Nothing in HFCC, but
Aoki shows 9830 with CNR1, and 9820 with CNR2 and Beibu Bay Radio
before and after 1300. So wherever, it`ll be Commies vs Commies.
12010, Sunday April 20 at 1346, RHC `En Contacto` after Pedro Sedano`s
weekly item from Spain, next segment introduced as `Noticias DX`, and
then talking about TV à la carte in USA, award for V. of Russia
program `Enciclopedia de Rusia`. Sorry, but this is NOT DX News, just
media news, as too many other so-called DX programs misuse our term.
11680, April 20 at 1352, RHC is on wrong frequency instead of 11860,
punched by lysdexic RadioCuba operator? // usual 11760 and 12010. `En
Contacto` is running late so must have started late, only at 1353
handing over to `En Compañía del Doctor`.
5040, April 21 at 0534, RHC English, while 5025 music is not // and
presumably Rebelde as usual. An hour earlier at 0430, Alan Roe in UK
found RHC music on both 5025 and 5040 plus 6060, presumably all from
the Spanish service:
``R Havana Cuba 21 April at 0430 UT on 5025 kHz in place of R Rebelde
with modern Spanish ballads. A good signal and // with 5040 and 6060
kHz. Alan Roe, Teddington, UK``
[Hi Glenn, I should have followed-up my original report to advise that
when I re-checked 5025 kHz at 0605UT on 21 April, R Rebelde
programming had resumed. (And yes the RHC programs were all from the
Spanish service). Alan Roe, Teddington, UK]
9550, April 21 at 1405, RHC is still on 9550 with `Voces de la
Revolución` martial theme prior to hoary old Fidel speeches or of
others. It`s atop CRI Vietnamese and SAHing it, Commies vs Commies.
9830, April 21 at 1405 I check here too for RHC, and can confirm it
only by detecting a weak echo under the RTTY to // 11760. No 9820.
Thus a revised A-14 schedule Arnie distributed is (at least) doubly
don`t-you-believe: it claims 9830 has moved to 9820 at 11-15, and that
9550 finishes at 13.
5040, April 22 at 0121, RHC Spanish has resumed hum on this frequency,
but not on // 6060 checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Frequency change of Radio Habana Cuba from April 22: from 1105 NF
9820 HAB 100 kW / 340 deg to NCAm Spanish, ex 9830. Using SDR receiver
in Austin Texas, USA. Here the video from today. Note: The clock of
SDR is ahead 2 minutes. RHC at 1105 UT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mony4AcyI0Y&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw
RHC at 1200 UT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vB-rYmOu6Y&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-change-of-radio-habana-cuba.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD)
9820, April 22 at 1303 check, RHC has finally moved from 9830, which
was still in use April 21, to 9820, due to the RTTY on 9830 that Arnie
should have known about. Except: the RTTY is gone too and not heard
since in mornings, tho hard to believe that`s permanent; RTTY audible
weakly at 1928 check April 22. At 1303, RHC has CCI with some ChiCom
station already on 9820, poor signal with SAH.
5025, April 23 at 0109, R. Rebelde is off; 5040 RHC is on. At 0615
April 23, both are on, plus The Cuban Four on 49m. At 1114, 5025 is
on.
9820, April 23 at 1127, RHC again here with CCCCI, while ex-9830 has
another Asian signal but no RTTY; RHC also on 9550 with slightly
better signal vs QRM. Both 9820 and 9550 are still on at 1318 with the
QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, Wednesday April 23 at 1308 UT checking for
WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI, instead hear reports about possibility Hitler
escaped to Argentina, torture in Syria; after mentioning website news-
network.eu What`s this? This is this:
http://news-network.eu/frequencies.html
Famagusta Gazette Radio, Weekly at 1300-1315 on WRMI, and WORLD OF
RADIO has been bumped until 1315-1344. The WRMI online program
schedule dated March 30 has not been updated to show this yet (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [non?]. Glenn - Am hearing a sweeping signal from almost
exactly 17600 to almost exactly 17700 kHz. On for about 12 seconds,
typically off for about 4. A couple of complete sweeps per second.
Listen and look at the attached. Does this seem to be your Cyprus OTHR
signal? Covering up RNZ DRM transmission on 17675 kHz!
Attachment(s) from bob.larose@yahoo.com | View attachments on the web
1 of 1 Photo(s)
OTHR 17600 to 17700 kHz 2300 UTC 19 April 2014.jpg
1 of 1 File(s)
OTHR 17600-17700 kHz 2300 UTC 19 April 2014.mp3
(Bob LaRose, San Diego, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Bob, No, what I file under Cyprus (and that is not 100% sure) is
typically only 25 kHz wide, with a faster pulse rate and I think a
lower pitch. And not an on-off pattern like that either. Considering
your location and today`s poor propagation conditions, I would expect
this to be from Asia. China also has OTHRs. I heard somewhere Russia
may be reviving theirs (after all, they`ve given up SW broadcasting).
Perhaps Wolfy can elucidate further (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
Here much detailed tips on Ocean Radar and OTHR signals; please tell
more frequencies, on which you logged these broadband digital signals.
Greetings (Wolfgang df5sx - Stuttgart Germany, ibid.) Viz.:
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 5:04 PM
OT: Wideband 'buzz' on various shortwave frequencies
Over the past few months I've noticed a very strong, wideband (20kHz,
or so) buzz on a number of HF frequencies. It's about S9+40dB here in
Reading. I had assumed it to be something local to me. However, the
other day, something made me switch in the receiver attenuators. The
lower part of the S-meter scale is much more responsive to signal
strength changes and I was able to observe some fading. So it's
propogating! Sure, enough: I was able to hear it on one of the
Nederland-based SDR receivers. So, does anyone hear this and or know
where this is coming from? Yesterday I heard it on 18050 and 11400 kHz
for hours at a time, as far as I can tell (Martin Peters, BDXC-UK via
Büschel, ibid.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 4:15 AM
Subject: Radar, OTHR, CODAR, STANAG, HAARC
listen to Univerity Twente in Netherlands:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
http://www.codar.com/
Digital Codes
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/radar-2012.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/latest.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2014/news1401.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2014/news1402.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2012/news1201.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2012/news1202.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/tips_urls.html
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/actions.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/sound/main.html
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/bw-2010.pps
http://www.airpower.at/news03/0613_stealth/index.html?http&&&www.airpower.at/news03/0613_stealth/stealth4.htm
http://www.iarums-r1.org/bandwacht/diverses/militaer.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/bandwacht/diverses/tiger.pdf
http://www.alaska-info.de/a-z/haarp/alaska_haarp1.html
http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-facility-shuts-down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
CODAR infos
http://www.iarums-r1.org/bandwacht/diverses/buoys.pdf
http://www.iarums-r1.org/bandwacht/diverses/baken.pdf
Please find out Frequencies of digital NATO STANAG signals on ITU
reports
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=terrestrial&rlink=terrestrial-monitoring&lang=en
X7D code
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/docs/monitoring/files/pdffiles/341.pdf
URL broken ?
http://www.oceanologyinternational.com/files/Advances_in_HF_Radar_Technology___A_Martirena_CODAR.pdf
try instead
http://www.edu-doc.com/ebook/hf-kbtx-radar.html
vy73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, ibid.)
I have had luck using the this International Amateur Radio Union
reference about OTHR intruders to ID the various radars.
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/radar-2013.pdf
(Dave Hughes, KC MO, ibid.)
Thanks, Wolfgang. I 'll dig down in your links later. I normally hear
a lot of CODAR here in San Diego, including a lot of 24 hour ground
wave, even at higher frequencies. This sounded quite different (maybe
twice the normal CODAR repetition rate and also the periods of
silence). It still could be just a different brand of CODAR but I was
interested to hear from Glenn if this is what he reports as being from
Cyprus. Propagation - wise that could have been possible because
Kuwait was strong on on 17550.
Wolfgang, I always enjoy your broadcast transmitter-oriented posts!
You are a man after my own heart! 73s (BOB W6ACU LaRose, ibid.)
Bob, I watch the OTH radars quite a bit, especially when I'm in
Masset. I believe/assume that they are from China. They tend to be
quite frequency agile, and vary in width, and usually only last a few
seconds before bouncing to another frequency. Here's a screen capture
from January and March. The first might look a bit like yours. Anyway,
for what it's worth! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.)
Thanks! Very interesting document that I have not seen before! In
looking down the list, the sonagram from Cyprus does still look like
the closest to what I heard but, as Glenn pointed out, the bandwidth I
heard was much wider than what he has heard in the past. Asia would
certainly be the best bet at that time of day but it would certainly
upset the people at Radio New Zealand! If I hear it again I will try
to have the presence of mind to connect to my mini beam so I can try
to get a general bearing on it! (Bob LaRose, W6ACU, San Diego, ibid.)
I have been told by people much more knowledgeable than I am that
Cyprus has more than one waveform of OTHR. I use my time while
commuting on the city bus to go on Twente and I can follow a radar
signal that is very similar to what you have as it goes up and down
the spectrum stopping for about 30 seconds before moving up in
frequency. I goes up from 100 to 400 kHz each time & stops, then moves
up again. I have been told that this is Cyprus OTHR but not the Cyprus
PLUTO 2 system that Glenn referred to. The frequency hopping OTHR I
mentioned is easily seen on an SDR that shows large chunks of spectrum
at one time. I have heard it here in North America too. It sounds like
a "pop,pop,pop," sound on my portables. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas
City MO, ibid.)
** CZECHIA [non]. /SPAIN, 15325, R Praha, via Noblejas, 1725-1730, Mar
31, Russian medicine programme aired via REE, 55555 (Rumen Pankov,
Sofia, Blgaria, DSWCI DX Window April 16 via DXLD)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 3950.00, 1650-1700, CHINA, 19.04, Xinjiang PBS,
Urumqi. Chinese announcement, Chinese pop songs 35333 // 5060 (35343)
and 5960 (32432)
3990.00, 1655-1705, CHINA, 19.04, Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi. Uighur
interview, time signal at 1700 and interview continued, QRM HCJB 3995
34233 // 4980 (35232) 6120 (45333) 7205 (35433)
4500.00, 1700-1710, CHINA, 19.04, Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi. Mongolian talk
with short musical interlude of local orchestra music. 35243 // 6190
(43443) (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings on the AOR AR7030PLUS with
28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini,
playdx yg via DXLD)
** ECUADOR. Ing. Santiago San Gil González INOCAR-RADIO NAVAL 1510 kHz
DE GUAYAQUIL, CONFIRMA INFORME DE RECEPCION CON CARTA DE VERIFICACION.
UN “DX DE LINEA GRIS O GRAYLINE DX-ING”!!!
Hace algunos días les informé de un “DX EN LA LÍNEA GRIS” o “GRAYLINE
DX-ING”, un fenómeno que se presenta en horas de transición - del
día/noche o viceversa de noche/día - y que suele durar pocos minutos,
dependiendo de la zona geográfica donde nos encontremos.
Pues bien, en ese entonces -6/04/2014- en la frecuencia de los 1510
kHz en la Onda Media escuché no una sino dos emisoras ecuatorianas
mezclándose entre sí: Radio Naval de Guayaquil y Radio Monumental de
Quito. Lo interesante es que no habían ningún tipo de interferencias
de estaciones radiales de Colombia ni de Venezuela, país en el que
resido.
Para éste DX de Línea Gris utilicé un receptor análogo marca Yaesu
FRG-7 Musen y una Antena Dipolo en Aluminio Marca HY-GAIN, Modelo 2BDQ
con bobinas en aluminio para 40 y 80 metros; además un cable bajante
Coaxial RG-8. Como dato curioso debo decir que se me olvidó utilizar
una antena de cuadro para onda media de construcción casera, también
conocida como Antena Loop, la cual es muy recomendable su uso para DX
en onda media –MW – entre los 530 y los 1700 kHz.
http://es.scribd.com/doc/78890506/Antenas-Loop
Para ver más detalles, les sugerimos ver en publicaciones anteriores
del grupo “CADENA DX” del Facebook cuyas fechas son: 6 de Abril de
2014 - donde reporto la escucha de las 2 emisoras ecuatorianas y otra
del 9 de Abril de 2014 donde se explica en detalle el GRAYLINE DX-ING.
Escribí a ambas estaciones y Radio Naval confirmo mi informe de
recepción en con una Carta de Verificación –en papel membrete-
perteneciente al Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada Ecuatoriana. El
informe lo remití en la ventana “MENSAJE” de la cuenta del INOCAR en
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/INOCAR/253951094652078?fref=ts
Además remití una copia al correo eléctrónico inocar@inocar.mil.ec que
aparece en su página web. Diez -10- días después recibí ésta
respuesta:
KARINA VILLAMAR TAMAYO
Para Mí
abr 16
CORREO INOCAR-RADINO-021-2014
``Estimado Ingeniero San Gil: Es grato anexar por este medio, el
Oficio No.INOCAR-DIR-2014-0643-OF, mediante el cual, el señor Director
del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada da contestación y agradece su
correo electrónico recibido el 07-abr-14. Atentamente, Ing. Alberto
Naranjo Jaramillo, Adminsitrador de la Radio Naval``
Hace años el Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada Ecuatoriana emitía
una señal con el prefijo HD-2-IOA en la onda corta en los 3810 con 1
kW de potencia, la cual fué confirmada en su debida oportunidad con
Tarjeta QSL. La diferencia entre las emisiones de la HD-2-IOA y Radio
Naval es que ésta última opera como una emisora convencional con usos
horarios (tonos + la hora exacta) a determinados horarios del día;
entre tanto la primera estación antes mencionada, fué exclusivamente
una estación de señal horaria, la cual hoy lamentablemente ya no opera
en la onda corta.
Aún así anímense a buscarla pues sino pudieron confirmar en su debida
oportunidad a la HI-8-IOA [sic], pues nada intenten en los 1510 kHz
donde actualmente emite y ya saben que confirmarán sus reportes. Ahh y
no menosprecien hacer DX en la transición del día/noche o de
noche/día. Además utilicen la información suministrada en el enlace
“GAISMA” http://www.gaisma.com/en/ para calcular la hora exacta de la
transición en su área de residencia y por ende puedan saber en qué
momento preciso es la mejor hora para esperar que se presente un DX de
Linea Gris o GREYLINE DX-ING.
Recuerden, deben haber más DX´s de éste tipo en la banda de Onda Media
de su radio, solo hay que tener en cuenta éste “fenómeno”, que tiene
una lógica: que sí es posible y más si utilizan una Antena de cuadro o
Antena Loop para MW – de la cual les hablaremos en otra oportunidad.
Ya me contarán si lograron captar algo interesante y distante en ésta
banda durante “La Línea Gris”. LES DESEO SUERTE Y UNA BUENA CACERÍA!!!
Ing. Santiago San Gil González, CLUB DIEXISTAS DE LA AMISTAD, BARINAS,
VENEZUELA
http://www.inocar.mil.ec/web/index.php
(all via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** ECUADOR [non]. Akhbar Mufriha (Re: BC-DX 1158)
Hi! Re: ``SWAZILAND/U.K. 7300 both. Akhbar Mufriha (correct name )
has again be heard on April 10 with s/on at 2059 UT and also verified
by my TRaxx intruder list on my radio page on Google site. Language
has the same scheme: First 'Tamazight', then Sahel Arabic.
Although I suspect this is a AWR program (as also Tarek) in Eibi is
mentioned as V of Andes. Which is correct? Look also
The site shows Tachelhit till 2115 UT``
AWR is wrong! HCJB rather has ties with TWR and FEBA. Is registered as
HCJB and brokered by Babcock U.K. via Woofferton tx site in England,
see page #457 in WRTH 2014.
7300 kHz HCJB QUITO 2100-2115 UT daily Tachelhit language
2115-2145 ?Sahel? Arabic via 250kW 170deg Woofferton G HCJB a14
7300 FEBA *1704 UT 13 April with 4 iterations of IS then program in an
African language. [Eibi shows TWR in Yao language] signed off 1734 UT.
Is not on FEBA Africa schedule, but could be of FEBA origin group!
ather TWR Africa service in Yao language via TWR Manzini Swaziland,
see WRTH 2014 handbook page #484
This is again in contrast to the Eibi listing TWR ...
(Zacharias Liangas-GRC, via dxld April 14)
I repeat. Listen to the audio sample. It is here
I can catch the ID as FEBA. But FEBA ID is not the problem, see TWR
and FEBA, both are evangelic sister-organizations,
Maybe the Yao program is produced on the FEBA Yao pastor, but sent-out
via broadcasting service is TWR Africa Manzini Swaziland.
Is not FEBA !
TWR Africa in Yao via TWR Swaziland, see WRTH 2014 handbook page #484,
>", although the SNR was
insufficient to decode any audio. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County,
TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-
IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active
Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions
AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15140, AIR GOS, 1030-1050, 4/18, English. OM with thoughtful analysis
of Good Friday, including full scripture -- almost thought this was a
religious broadcaster until I caught the ID, into news about Ukraine
at 1050, SIO 343 (Mike Nikolich - N9OVQ - Lake Barrington, IL, Perseus
SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530A-2 loop antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
11985 [not 11980 as typoed originally], April 18 at 0101, AIR Sinhala
service via Delhi-Khampur with another failure: dead air tho good
signal with flutter, while // via GOA 11740 tho weaker with flutter,
is musical; by 0105, 11985 is back with unsynchronized music too. I am
also hearing a het on the lo side of 11740, and at 0113 just before it
goes off I discover that AIR is the one off-frequency, about 11740.2.
Aoki and HFCC show no other 11740s on air at this time, unless it`s
CNR2 Lingshi 725 site, China, on past listed 0100*.
11985, April 19 at 0056, AIR is SNAFU again for the Sinhala service
supposed to start here at 0045 via Delhi-Khampur site. Instead I am
hearing a hi-pitched tone, and 0058 AIR IS, 0100 announcement
presumably opening some other service on the wrong program feed,
probably Sindhi supposed to be on 5990.
11740, the putative // for Sinhala, via GOA, is weaker but playing
music before 0100, and on exactly 11740.0 this time.
11985, April 20 at 0106, AIR Delhi-Khampur signal is fair with
flutter, but just barely modulated, seems music, maybe // 11740 GOA,
which is just too weak to be sure.
AIR Sinhala service (or whatever), 11985, which I reconfirm April 22:
at 0059 past 0100 it`s just open carrier/dead air with flutter from
Delhi-Khampur, not even an IS from the wrong Sindhi service! 0113
recheck now 11985 is JBM with flutter, and presumed // 11740 GOA much
weaker. 11985 open carrier with Doppler wobble when BFO engaged, stays
on until 0116:54* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 1377 unID. Man talking, seemed Tagalog, faded up quite
quickly 1326 UT, peaked 1327-29 with woman talking, a commercial?
"some of the best programs"??? (a second listening says it isn't
English after all though), snatches of music, then mumbled down after
1330. Seemed to be pretty close to 1377.000 kHz.
The above, heard April 4th, has turned out to my best catch of the
season. I posted a clip to the RealDX Yahoo group, which found its way
into the hands of an Indonesian DXer via a Finnish DXer.
He reported that the woman said "mari bersama Sulawesi Selatan", and
some words "pemilih", "mencoblos". He thought it was an ad to invite
people participating in general election on April 9.
RRI Tolitoli is the only Indonesian listed, and it is on the island
of Sulawesi. Listed 10 kilowatts. Amazing. A Norwegian DXer who had
visited the Philippines reported that RRI-1377 is very strong there
and posted an example clip. Given that Walt Salmaniw also seems to
have heard it from Haida Gwaii this spring, it's probably one to watch
for on the west coast at least. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC,
IRCA via DXLD)
Nick: Congratulation on the amazing catch (Richard Allen, OK, ibid.)
Excellent catch, Nick! As Pacific NW DXers know, even hearing an
Indonesian (of any power) from the *Pacific coast* is quite an
accomplishment. Hearing a 10 kW Indo from your urban Victoria location
on the Strait is even more impressive.
In 1991 I caught the related, 200-watt outlet RPDT2 Buol Toli Toli.
That station left the airwaves years ago, but I count it (and my
recording) as one of my very best shortwave DX loggings ever. It was a
short-lived outlet, broadcasting on out-of-band ~3654.1 kHz.
Curiously, this was one rare DX catch where the announcer repeated IDs
and the city name over and over --- and over! There was no chance of
misidentifying THIS one! So, congrats on your 1377 kHz DX catch! 73,
(Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.)
I don't think of this as out of season propagation for SE Asia. As
best I know, all of the recent Indonesia catches have been in the
spring. A while back, it was also heard on several DXpeditions in the
summer. It's fall and winter that have not given us any Indonesian
receptions I can recall.
Everyone has their own opinion on propagation, but mine is that this
path (298 degrees) is a bit south of the Japan path and therefore
fairly clear of the auroral zone and not terribly influenced by solar
activity unless all hell breaks loose. The A index was 5 on April 4th
so things were pretty quiet overall (Chuck Hutton, ibid.)
Thanks for all the kind words on the 1377 Indonesian reception. It
was a fine way to finish the season. Perhaps it will become a more
common logging now that we know it's possible. There is an RRI website
for webstreams, but unfortunately, as Chuck Hutton pointed out; it
doesn't work just now; lots of the others do, however. Best wishes,
(Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangka Raya, 1152-1200, Apr 06, popular
song, news reports(?) in Bahasa Indonesia. I have been feeling
accurately and stably this frequency, 34232 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama,
Japan, DSWCI DX Window April 16 via DXLD)
3325, RRI-Palangkaraya, Apr 16 1352-1408, 34443, Indonesian, Music, ID
at 1355 and 1401 and 1402, IS at 1401, Local news from 1401 (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia, Apr 16 1242-1255, 43443,
Japanese, Music, ID at 1253.
9525.88, V. of Indonesia, Apr 20 1200-1220, 43443, Japanese, News, ID
and URL announce at 1212 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9525.878, Voice of Indonesia, 1104-1115 April 19, At tune in, noted a
female in comments. Can't ID the language since the signal is just
under the noise. The WRTH lists Chinese for this hour, but it doesn't
sound like Chinese so far? Signal remain poor during the period (Chuck
Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, 1259 Apr 22, ending Japanese program with
ID and address, dead air until 1302:14 when English on in mid-
sentence, two women discussing Jakarta weather, checked back at 1308
and heard news. Good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia,
Listening in my car, by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active
antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening,
available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Potential rebirth of shortwave discussion
show --- Easter Sunday at 1800 UT (19.00 UK) --- I will be taking part
in a live on air discussion programme about the current state of
shortwave radio and the future of shortwave. This will be broadcast on
The Global Voice internet radio station.
To listen, the direct url is
http://theglobalvoice.info:8000/broadband
The show will also be available for download from program gallery at
http://theglobalvoice.info
Guests should include Jonathan Marks of the former Radio Netherlands
Media Network and Keith Perron from PCJ Radio.
This will be a one hour discussion 'is shortwave radio all but dead?'
part of 'the attitude test' and follows comments made on a recent BBC
world service world business report (Gary Drew, April 19, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
I'm now listening to an MP3 using this link:
http://theglobalvoice.info/fileserve.php?action=download&type=archive&show=attitude&filedate=1397952000&file=attitude-20140420.mp3
Great to hear the old interval signals at the start of the programme,
then a phone in from around the world (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. The Basement Satellite movie
Southgate April 24, 2014
The first screening of the movie The Basement Satellite at the
Canadian International Documentary Film Festival takes place on
Friday, April 25. The film, directed by Hyoung-ju Kim, tells the
struggle of Korean artist Hojun Song DS1SBO to develop a satellite,
OSSI-1, in his basement studio and launch it into space.
Synopsis from Indiewire.com -
In his Mangwon-dong basement art studio, a media artist Hojun Song
DS1SBO dreams of making a satellite and shooting it out to space. He
wants to make his dream real through OSSI (Open Source Satellite
Initiative) movement. He tries to build a DIY satellite, and to sell
10,000 T-shirts for the 100 million Won ($100,000) budget. His
seemingly reckless and utterly ambitious project begins. Would his
dream become real?
Watch Hot Docs Trailers 2014: the Basement satellite - trailer here:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/april/the_basement_satellite_movie.htm#.U1jYo41OXDc
(via Mike Terry, UK, April 24, dxldyg via DXLD)
** IRAN. 35560, 1206 April 19, IRIB (2 x 17780), Kalamabad, Chinese
program, good at peaks (Tim Bucknall, G-DE44LS Middleton Top,
Derbyshire, England, UK, 01w34/53n04, Hyundai VDO Car RX, Icom IC-
7000, Alinco DJ-X11e, RTL2832 Dongle, Tecsun PL-380 with modified CB
whip, harmonics yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7575, R. Ranginkaman, Apr 21 *1600-1611,
35222 Farsi, 1600 sign on with ID, Opening announce, Talk and music
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-
345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Mon and Fri only at 1600-1630 via Pridnestrovye per Ivo, DXLD 14-16
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, ibid.)
** JAPAN [and non]. Oklahoma ULR DX 4/1/14
Considering there isn't much chance of hearing a trans-Pacific medium
wave signal here this time of year, I still listened this morning. I
heard barely audible fragments of the broadcast from 774 JOUB between
1140 and 1159 GMT (LSR at 1216). There were no signals on 567, 594,
693, 747 or 972. My receiver was a modified PL-310 with a 7.5-inch
ferrite loop antenna. From now until late August it is unlikely TP MW
signals will propagate this far inland.
After listening for TP's, I listened for DX signals from North
America. The best DX signal was from XETAR, Guachochi, Chihuahua, on
870 kHz. I was heard signing on at 1300 GMT with the Mexican national
anthem and subsequent announcement. From 1309 there was QRM from
Vietnamese language KFJZ, Ft. Worth TX. I listened on my PL-606 until
1310.
Also, KHAC, Tse Bonito NM, on 880 kHz, with Christian programming in a
native American language, was heard at 1245 on a Sony TRF-T615. I hope
you had a good DX session overnight (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA,
April 1, IRCA via DXLD)
** JAPAN. 9595, April 23 at 1313, R. Nikkei is playing some Bob Dylan,
fair signal; which reminds us: can you imagine any licensed US SW
station doing that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710, Voice of Korea, APR 17, 1545. Vocal music and
piano music, much different than usual praise of the great leader
military march fare. Could have thought this was R Nikkei 1 or 2. VG
(Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750,
random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11635, CHINA / NORTH KOREA. CNR 1 jammer /
Voice of Korea – Kujang, 2234, 4/19/14 both in Mandarin. CNR 1 with
man talking. VoK with usual DPRK operatic music. Either would have
been fair. This must be a mess in Asia. CNR jammer vs Radio Taiwan
International in Mandarin via Paochung (not heard.) (Mark Taylor,
Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5,
Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. North Korean Site --- Hi, I have just found this
photos on FB of North Norean HF Site taken by Mark Fahey
https://scontent-b-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10262031_10151966839222271_1940080944127278896_n.jpg
https://scontent-b-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1.0-9/10001577_10151966839272271_1254426220827722452_n.jpg
https://scontent-b-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10247333_10151966839152271_5722531358271456682_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1384312_10151966839172271_356473996694348308_n.jpg
73 And HK – (Andrea Borgnino, IW0HK, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
The first, third and fourth photos are reminiscent of the US Navy VLF
site at Chollas Heights in San Diego, CA JL (Jerry Lenamon, Waco,
ibid.)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985.0, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata.
Thursday, April 17 surprised to hear English at 1335 with "Today's
News Flash" in progress. Believe a first for Shiokaze - English on
Thursday. Perhaps this new language schedule explains why I did not
hear English last Friday (April 11) as I normally would have in the
past. So expect no English tomorrow! Into “Today’s News on North
Korean Issues”; IDs “This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan";
1400-1430 repeat of the 1330-1400 segment; fair-good.
BTW - On April 15 (Tuesday) Shiokaze was in Chinese as normal (checked
at 1332) and in Korean at 1402; which is their usual language schedule
for Tuesday. That day Myanmar was on 5985.00 (rare!) instead of off
frequency, so there was no trace of a het and no need to listen to
Shiokaze in LSB (as I did on Thursday) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) 21 minutes later on the dxldyg :
KOREA NORTH [non]. Updated languages schedule of Shiokaze Sea Breeze
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon/Wed
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Chinese/Korean Tue
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu, ex Fri
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri, new
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean/Japanese Sat
1330-1430 on 5985 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese/Korean Sun
alternative: 5910/6020/6120/6135/6175
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon/Wed
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Chinese/Korean Tue
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu, ex Fri
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri, new
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean/Japanese Sat
1600-1700 on 6165 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese/Korean Sun
alternative: 5910/6020/6075/6090/6135
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/updated-languages-schedule-of-shiokaze.html
(Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Saturday April 19 at 1350, KBS World Radio`s
so-called North American service is fairly readable, so I stick with
the mailbag, mentioning that return postage is not necessary; will
this be a week for Kevin O`Donovan in Farmington NM? Yes! His DX
Report, a.k.a. Listening Tips, encompasses 1354:18 to 1358:08 and
consists of: NHK English schedule; Serbia not heard on 9685 at 0030
(did he hear me say that recently?); how to listen to KBSWR podcasts;
and verbal rather than numerical SWPC propagation outlook; ``until
next time``, but when? FWIW, this was the third Saturday. Kevin should
not have to use any of his precious minutes to inform KBS listeners
about their own podcasts. Is that other guy, from Maryland (?) still
alternating with more about KBS itself? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Radio Kuwait, Sulaibiyah, 20-Apr-14, 1822 - English
service, ID, frequency announcement and multiple contact details for
submitting reception report followed by pop vocal Amazing by Inna.
Good. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us
WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1,
DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-
SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010, Kyrgyz R., Apr 22 1432-1518, 44443-43443, Kyrgyz,
Talk, ID at 1459 and 1502 as "Kyrgyzstan Radio" (Kouji Hashimoto,
JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 11665, RTM Sarawak (relay Traxx FM) APR 17, 1500. M
taking phone-in requests. VG (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Drake
R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. Below is the new list of intruder signals for Traxx and RTM
Sarawak. The last 10 days RTM sarawak is not heard; RTM is possibly
either stopped or low ionospheric conditions (though TRaxx is heard
properly). Full historical information:
https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/intruder-list-for-traxx-and-s-wak
INTRUDER LIST FOR TRAXX FM A14
[originally lined up in tabular form; not going to try to unwind]
7290 7295 7300
1600 CNR Traxx -
1630 CNR Traxx -
1700 CNR Traxx FEBA Yao 1705
1730 CNR Traxx FEBA Yao <1735
1800 - DRM DRM main S20
1830 - DRM DRM main
1900 - CRI Eng -
1930 - CRI Eng -
2000 CNR
2030 CNR
2100 CNR + Traxx AM S20 CRI Kon
2130 CNR Traxx AM S20
CNR with poor signal
CRI with strong AM Akhbar Muhrifa (V Andes Arabic) strong
Strong DRM (RRomIntl)
Fair signal for Feba Yao
INTRUDER LIST FOR RTM SARAWAK A14
9830 9835 9840
1600 AWR bulg 20 RTM RL Ru/BL
1630 CNR RTM RL Ru/BL
1700 CNR RTM RL Ru/BL
1730 CNR RTM RL Ru/BL
1800 - RTM RL Ru/BL
1830 - RTM RL Ru/BL
1900 - RTM -
1930 - RTM -
2000 RTM -
2030 VOIRI Alb RTM -
2100 VOIRI Alb RTM - CNR
2130 CNR RTM -
-
CNR poor
RTM poor to moderate signals depending on time
Radio Liberty Russian /Byelo with moderate to good signals
VOIRI and AWR with strong signals
(Zacharias Liangas, Greece, April 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALDIVES. 1449, Maldives Broadcasting Corp heard April 13 from 0629
UT tune from Perseus site in Sri Lanka (Victor G's site). Woman
announcer with echo and background instrumental music followed by
radio drama to 0645 UT. Then woman in vernacular (Dhivehi) with
frequent "Maldives Broadcasting Corporation" and many mentions of
"MBC" to 0655 UT - first time I have heard definitive ID on this
channel. This program was preceded and ended with man announcer and
Hindi-sounding instrumental music. Program announcement at 0655 UT in
English by man and woman followed by Hindi (local) music to 0700 UT.
Time pips at 0700 UT followed by woman and short Qur`an reading (local
Noon in Maldives) then into local instrumental and vocal music, woman
announcement to 0705.5 UT. Qur`an reading by man preceded by a blowing
wind sound effect at 0705.5. At 0711 woman followed by man singing /
reading from Qur`an to 0716.5 (woman at 0715, 0716.5) UT. Female vocal
and local inst music 0716.5 to tune out at 0720 UT.
I have heard this station before at local nighttime hours from this
[Sri Lanka] Perseus site (accompanied by usual nighttime MW fading)
but programming was all talk and not very interesting - the
programming at midday local time on Sunday is much more entertaining
and interesting! (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer April 13 via
BCDX April 18 via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 939.87, XEQ, Mexico City, 4/16 1130 – out of romantic music
with “5:30” time check in Spanish followed by woman female lady
announcer reading news items. They seem to be using sound effects for
the news that are similar to the ABC news theme. Fair with the usual
jumblerumblenoise from them being off frequency (Niel Wolfish,
Toronto, Ontario, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) "Female" ladies are the best
kind! (MARE ed., ibid.)
** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, R. Educación (presumed) with Spanish classical
music programme with kids announcing the music. Into Folk music show
at 0450. I'd call this station a 'diamond amidst the flotsam'. I
always enjoy it when it comes in well enough to just kick back &
listen! Programme ended at ToH and dead air until 0502 when the
carrier dropped. Never IDd. 44+54+4 some splatter from V Vietnam [WHRI
6175], 0435-0502* 11/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE
Tipsheet via DXLD)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.55, Cross R., Apr 20 0853-0901, 35433-34433,
English, Music and talk, ID at 0856 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-
R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT,
110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA. Only one transmission of Voice of Mongolia in Japanese is
on the air 1029-1057 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs. All other
are maybe cancelled. The full schedule is here.
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/voice-of-mongolia.html
Video of this program on April 20 via SDR in Sydney:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/mongolia-only-one-transmission-of-voice.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[later:]
Only two broadcasts of Voice of Mongolia in Japanese were on the air
1029-1057 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs. All others maybe canceled
1459-1527 12105 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg EaAs. All others maybe canceled
The full schedule is here. [above]
Videos of those programs on Apr. 20 via SDR in Sydney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-b3kL9Byyg&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtswhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZr2jSF7hdE&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw
(Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. Hi all, just a quick note that we just started
offering the English language broadcast of Voice of Mongolia as a
Podcast. Just go to
http://www.radio360.eu
and click on "Mongolia". The Podcast will be filled with fresh
programs from tomorrow on.
By the way, we also have the English broadcasts from Radio Tirana, RAE
Buenos Aires, RSI Bratislava, Radio Prague, Tajik Radio and some other
international broadcasters including two shows by PCJ Radio. Just like
a tiny version of WRN, but still online & alive. :-)
Hope this is interesting for some of you. All the best, (Daniel
Kähler, April 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575, R. Medi Un, Apr 18 0708-0718, 45444, English and
French, News and talk, ID at 0712 and 0716 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN,
RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121;
ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7345. 19/4 1215 Thazin R. - Yangon Sgaw, music, sufficient
(Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione,
shortwave yg via DXLD)
That`s really early, mid-day in Italy for Myanmar to be propagating
this time of year; He doesn`t mention using a remote receiver. Could
it really be CRI in Serbian via ALBANIA during this hour? Especially
if nothing heard but music (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY: 7375, The Mighty KBC, English and
assorted other languages briefly [besides Dutch?? gh], but mostly
English with Uncle Erik's Giant Juke-Box with his usual mix of
eclectic oldies and obscure études not to mention the odd oscillations
and edifying expositions. Why has that sort of word play gone out of
pop radio these days? I remember it from CKLW's news team and Cousin
Brucie, not to mention Wolfman Jack, but nothing recent! It's a shame!
Also had digital tests from Kim Andrew Elliot & STF Radio
International Not in as well as usual -- it may be time to move to 31
metres! 4443+3+ 0005-0200* 13/April (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston
MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
7375, April 20 at 0125, The Mighty KBC, ``Uncle Eric with 125,000
watts of musical power rockin` over the ocean``. Well it`s past time
to go up a band, as the 125 kW are not enough to overcome the summer
storm noise, but the Croatian-like QSY to 9925 is not scheduled until
May 1, (meaning May 4 here), thru August. BTW, I see in HFCC that MBR
is still registering imaginary HRV on Nauen 9925 in the 00-05 period
daily, plus an imaginary KBC at 05-07 Sundays in addition to 00-02. At
0130 KBC Imports ads in English and Dutch, 0131 Kim Elliott with a
Radiogram minute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The radiogram of KBC surprised with a rather slanted image.
The radiogram of STF radio was a repeat of last week with the
announcement of tomorrow's one hours specials
http://www.rhci-online.de/KBC+STF-Radiogram_2014-04-19.htm
(roger, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 0610-0645, 4/8. Signal (SIO 353)
gradually improving in English with pan-African news until 0620, then
world economic and finally sports news (including an item about Tiger
Woods dropping out of the Masters Tournament), multiple IDs from
announcers and reporters, nice to hear a strong signal from this
country (Mike Nikolich - N9OVQ - Lake Barrington, IL, Perseus SDR with
Wellbrook ALA1530A-2 loop antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
New frequency of Voice of Nigeria in English was noted on April 17:
from 1000 NF 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf, ex 9690. And s/off at
1047. Very weak signal in Sofia, Bulgaria, good signal via SDR
Cisarmajella, Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eWUtl94VH0&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-frequency-of-voice-of-nigeria-in.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I think it's complete nonsense to publish this as "new frequency - ex
..." - it just seems to be one of the very very frequent anomalies:
One day audio from the studio is lost and there's taped English
instead of French or any other service. Next day somebody forgets to
change the frequency. Third day DRM is used off-schedule at Abuja and
may jam AM from Lagos on the same frequency. The four remaining days
of the week the broadcasts are either starting late or are missing at
all. That's just a normal week.
This is interesting to observe, but it's actually no news at all. It's
variations of more or less the same chaos that seems to characterize
Voice of Nigeria since its very early years.
Today April 18, btw, I heard a huge signal with really almost
extremely brilliant modulation until 0558, then audio level dropped
rapidly to the usual modest level or below, signal began to fade out
(or maybe: power reduced?) and the rest of the morning transmission
can be considered as "lost" - nobody in the target area will really
take the effort to follow the programmes with this lousy signal.
If they'd manage to deliver a good signal with fairly good audio on a
clear channel for at least the same one or two of about 7-9 hours of
service to Europe reliably and daily for one week, it would be a good
week for Voice of Nigeria. Maybe then they would reach a few regular
listeners even in Europe or Northern Africa, if programmes were well-
produced and interesting. But those technically "good" periods (even
single "good weeks") are very rare these days, from Lagos at least.
DRM seems to be reliable, but who listens to DRM? 73 (Thorsten
Hallmann, Münster, Germany,
http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist
April 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[later:] Today April 18 with a number of oddities:
9690.0, English taped broadcast observed till 1732+, gone before 1800
recheck, but on 15120 at 1802+, but off not much later. 9690 clear at
that time.
9689.9, English ID "Voice of Nigeria Abuja" caught at 1827, at the end
of musical programme. Off at 1833 recheck.
15120 DRM did not show up in time (still off now at 1836). 73
(Thorsten Hallmann, ibid.)
15120, V. of Nigeria:
Apr 18 0659-0708, 35333, French, 0659 from IS, Opening announce, News.
Apr 20 0741-0753, 35433, French, Afro pop and talk, ID at 0752.
Apr 22 0828-0838, 35333, English, Drums at 0828, Talk, ID at 0830
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-
345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
15120, Voice of Nigeria, DRM, Abuja Lugbe, 20-Apr-14, 1840 - English
service DRM, magazine type talk, Afro-pops, frequent audio drop-outs,
text decode "Audio+Text English, Nigeria, Varied, Voice of Nigeria
<>" 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN,
http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ,
Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals,
Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30
Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 15120-AM, April 21 at 0545, VON opening a music show, fair
signal and good modulation, atop lite CCCCCCI (Chinese language,
Chinese Communist, Co-Channel Interference, or 601 for short), which
Aoki shows on 15120 at 03-07, but also AIR Bengaluru in Hindi until
0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. Martedì 22 aprile 2014, 0530 - 9610 kHz (VR5000DSP),
HAMADA RADIO INTERNATIONAL, Nauen (Germania), Hausa, vivace talk OM.
Segnale molto buono (Luca Botto Fiora, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, G.C.
44? 21' 06.89" N / 09? 13' 30.94" E, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DXLD)
Comes and goes; now registered M-F only 0530-0600 for RMI via Nauen,
due south (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. See UNIDENTIFIED pirate 6925-USB
** NORTH AMERICA. See UNIDENTIFIED 13560.7 pirate [WORLD OF RADIO
1718]
** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH noted at fair strength 0148 April 17 in Alberta
now just above the 20m ham band, 14350 USB (Don VE6JY Moman, Lamont,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5865-AM, "Radio Station YHWH" (religious pirate), *0155-0301*, April
18. Usual format with a repeat program; fair-good. The only
interesting things about this fellow is trying to find the frequency
he will decide to broadcast on (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17490-AM, April 18 at 1811, the Yahweh guy is here with his usual
screed, fair signal; 1825 pause, 1826 strange music, then ``thanks,
this is Radio Station YHWH, signing off the air`` to 1829* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
PIRATE. 17589.984 AM, YHVH [sic], 20-Apr-14, 1802 - typical YHVH
program. Using the SAL-12 loop, I find the deepest null is on the east
pattern, so signal appears to originate from generally west of
Memphis. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us
WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1,
DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-
SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9730-AM, "Radio Station YHWH" (religious pirate), 0218-0308*, April
21. Was not on his usual frequencies, so it took a while to find him;
Dan Sheedy also found him at the same time; usual format, but both Dan
and I noticed was much poorer reception than when he is down on the
lower frequencies (5865, etc.) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
April 22 heard YHWH on 5865-AM, starting with the usual theme music /
song at 0231 and off at 0334. Rather a late starting program for him.
Fair reception (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11800-AM, April 23 at 0113 tuneacross, there`s Station YHWH on yet
another bold new frequency, fair signal with deep fades, no QRM,
immediately recognizable voice about Yahweh being the One True God,
referring to 53-page document (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Good for you Glenn! I was unable to find YHWH last night. Never
thought to check 11800 (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, April 20 at 0104, tonight`s pirate music,
but with constant QRM; seems like an offset SSB transmission, but
never could pin it; pirate a bit clearer tuning LSB. Worse at 0121 ---
could it be two pirates clashing? 0133 still QRM. This thread says it
was Hot Radio at that time:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16694.0.html
I stopped listening then, but Edward Kusalík, Alberta reported to
hfunderground: ``6925-USB Blue Ocean Radio came on after Hot Radio
went off the air (with no sign of change in the signal strength) at
0134, then theme song from 2001 Space Odyssey and open tune with IDs
given by YL for Blue Ocean Radio, then into Hillbilly/Banjo Music at
0142. Me believes that Blue Ocean Radio was the relayer for Hot Radio?
Anyway looks like a another great program from Blue Ocean Radio but
I'm hearing another pirate coming in underneath as I am typing this.
mmmmmmmmm`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate 6925-USB. I never heard a pirate at this hour
before. Easter. Radio Bunny, says its from Lansing, Michigan (Des
Preston, Sent from my iPhone, 1113 UT Sunday April 20, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6150.5, Channel Z Radio verified an
electronic report with a full data “Keep Calm” QSL #266 from Commando
indicating 25 watts, in 8 days. “My latest experiment was to try
broadcasting in the middle of the international 49 meter band, in the
hopes of surprising some casual listeners, or DXers just tuning
around. It’s good to know that you could hear me.
You heard one of the special “Before They Were Famous” programs from
guest DJ Andy Walker. I was very lucky to have Andy do these shows for
Channel Z Radio, as he has been in semi-retirement the past three
years, with only occasional guest appearances on Crazy Wave Radio in
Germany, and now for the third time on Channel Z Radio. “Before They
Were Famous-Part 4” has already been recorded, and will air sometime
very soon … Channel Z has been on the air since November 2004, and
started because of my interest in building homemade shortwave
transmitters.
To date, Channel Z has been heard in 30 states, Canada, England,
France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Newfoundland,
Norway, Poland and Venezuela; all on homebrewed transmitters. This
time I was using my favorite transmitter, the Commando, designed by
Dave Martin of WNKR. The Commando does 25 watts carrier on 43 meters
with a 14 VDC supply. The antenna was a horizontal dipole, cut for
6200 kHz, and was approximately 15 meters above ground” (Rich
D’Angelo, PA, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 1390 harmonix: for the record, my closest local station
KCRC Enid, could always be heard here on second and third harmonix,
2780 and 4170, but in the last few weeks, higher harmonics up to the
eleventh have become audible and pervasive, some of them blocking
legit SW broadcasts. Modulation is extremely distorted on all of them.
I thought it might be some change in my FRG-7 and/or its longwire
antenna, but now think KCRC harmonic suppression may have failed:
5560, 6950, 8340, 9730, 11120, 12510, 13900, 15290 --- and I should
also look for them on 16680, 18070. The tenth multiple, 13900, has
been much more noticeable lately. Fundamental 1390 is also splattering
worse than before, as if a power boost beyond 1 kW, making not only
1400 and 1380 unDXable but for the most part also 1370 and 1410 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Sunday April 20 at 1252 UT, KZLS Enid with `Cowboy
Corner` talk show, again // sibling station KNAH 99.7 Mustang, but
1640 running a few words behind 99.7. Furthermore, I had just been
listening to `Cowboy Corner` a few minutes earlier on 960, KGWA Enid!
So much for market exclusivity; these are competing companies. On KGWA
the subject was Indian, not Cowboy, moving some Kiowa warrior remains
from Huntsville TX prison graveyard to a respected spot at Fort Sill
OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Hi all, nice surprise this morning with my first
reception of KYHN
1650.0, KYHN, Fort Smith AR - 0455 - Talk show, ID at 0500 - (mix with
CJRS) - 08/04. Best 73 (Franck F4LKC Baste, April 8, MWCircle yg via
DXLD)
Nice catch, Franck. Sadly I was not on this morning. Arkansas is not
such a common state to log. What is your QTH OM? What radio and
antenna are you using? Best wishes and 73's (Barry :-) Davies, ibid.)
Hi Barry, my QTH is St Bonnet de Rochefort (30 km North of the city
Clermont Ferrand and 320 km South of Paris), locator: JN16ND. My
receiver: SDR Perseus. My antenna: Wellbrook loop ALA 1530. Best 73
(Franck Baste, ibid.)
Sorry? KYHN transmits from Oklahoma, NOT Arkansas. 73, (Glenn Hauser,
OK, April 11, ibid.)
A correction job for the FCC rather than the MWC? (Barry Davies,
ibid.)
If I understand you correctly Glenn, the city-of-licence is in one
state (AR) and transmission facilities are in another (OK)? If so, it
puts the cat amongst the pigeons when trying to “bag” states. Is it a
common situation? Is there a list of stations so classified? (Andrew
Brade, UK, ibid.)
Google earth confirms the transmitter site is just over the border in
OK (Paul Crankshaw, UK, April 12, ibid.)
It is actually quite common for a US station to be licensed in one
state, with transmitters in another. For example, most of the stations
licensed to New York City actually have their transmitters in New
Jersey. I think 660, 880, 1560, and 1600 are the only exceptions.
KMOX-1120 St. Louis, Missouri actually broadcasts from Illinois, and
WWVA-1170 Wheeling WV has its transmitter site in Ohio. As long as the
transmitter provides the minimum signal strength to the actual
community of license, the FCC permits the transmitter to be located
wherever is convenient.
North American medium wave DX clubs have generally counted stations
based on the official city of license, regardless of transmitter site.
The rule usually (but not uniformly) even applies to non-North
American stations. I believe most North American DXers would say that
logging BBC Radio Wales on 882 counts as hearing Wales, even if the
transmitter site is in England. Shortwave clubs, of course, are a
different story - there actual transmitter site matters, where it is
known.
Of course, this practice developed in the era before the actual
transmitter location of a medium wave station could be quickly and
accurately found online (David Yocis - Washington DC (USA), ibid.)
Re: KYHN 1650 --- I`ve always reported KYHN as an Oklahoma station, so
I`m surprised some still think it`s in Arkansas. I am not aware of any
easy reference list of such cross-state cases, but there are quite a
lot. Whenever counting any station near a state line, best to check it
out. To the extent that this is a technical hobby, surely the
political entity from which a signal starts its journey is what
counts, not some artificial ``city of license``. For that matter,
what`s the difference between counting a remote COL and any remote
program source you may hear, like a network being relayed? It`s
certainly not New York, but the actual transmitter site, wherever it
may be. 73, (Glenn Hauser, April 19, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Glenn, for the past 40 years I have used the NRC Log as the basis for
recording hundreds of my NA logs. Brother, I ain't going to change now
I am just too long in the tooth, hi! Best wishes and 73's (Barry :-)
Davies, Carlisle UK, Lat. 54.9795N, Lon. 02.8745W, PERSEUS, 3.7m x 10m
Flag + FLG100 amp+Mains Filter, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Glen [n], According to FCC list they show KYHN as AR, also the AM
logbook which I am in the process of updating shows it as Fort Smith
Arkansas. Kind Regards (Ray Browell, UK, ibid.)
Ray, So? The FACT remains that the transmitting antenna is undoubtedly
in the state of Oklahoma, not Arkansas. You will discover this if you
check the coordinates and get a map to display by FCC website. Now, if
that does not matter to you, OK, but for some of us (not enough?)
reality counts. Especially if tallying up number of states heard. 73,
(Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
** OKLAHOMA. 89.1, April 19 at 0050 UT and still at 1508 recheck,
local Enid translator K206CA is off! Had been relayer of Oasis
Network, 90.5 KNYD in Tulsa, which is now blocked by a closer station
to Enid. Oops, there it is on 88.9 instead.
FCC shows a CP for one-channel frequency change, but now it`s
accomplished. I had at first assumed the 88.9 signal was still the 25
kW KYLV in OKC, also a gospel huxter. Why move the Enid one? Maybe to
avoid the 100 kW 89.1 in Bartlesville, KWRI? But that`s 100 miles
away. FCC FM Query shows K206CA is still the call on 88.9, but that`ll
have to be changed to a K205## when they get around to it. That does
clear up 89.3 for the newish KIEL in Loyal OK to be heard without ACI;
hard to believe it`s really 75 kW ERP from the still marginal signal,
and which would blow away the 150-watt student station KALU at
Langston University. Maybe KIEL is responsible for shoving Enid away.
88.3, the Family Radio transmitter in Enid, K202BY, remains off the
air now for months but still licensed. So does 93.1, K226BR, which had
horrible technical problems trying to relay 93.9 KIMY Watonga.
While I`m at it, searching FCC FM Query on Enid OK finds a very
strange entry:
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=195703
with a W- callsign! WRML-LP, a CP on 100.9 obviously standing for
Radio Media Limited. Effective Radiated Power: 0.0858 kW from a site
near North Grand and East Chestnut, which I am fairly sure is west of
the Mississippi. Address is a PO Box in Enid, and phone is (580) 554-
0392. I should inquire how they got a W-call; confused with Ohio? No,
it`s not on air yet (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 104.5, April 19 at 0052 UT, ``104-5 KRXO`` ID amid
classic rock, really K283BW, 250-watt translator in OKC making the 65+
miles to my portable PL-880 in Enid on a clear frequency, since
demotion from full power on 107.7. WTFDA FM database shows 0 antenna
heights, but FCC FM Query shows 301.7 meters, so it sure helps to be
almost a kilofoot up on some TV tower (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. 15730, R. Pakistan, Apr 21 *0040-0052, 35333, Urdu, 0040
sign on with Pakistan music, ID and IS at 0044, ID and Opening
announce at 0045, Kor`an (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non]. One night in early March there was only
one Papua New Guinea shortwave station active - 3905, with nothing on
90 metres at all. The next night the tally was up to 2 - 3905 and
3365. So I suggest anyone wanting to QSL PNG on shortwave act sooner
rather than later. The recent absence of Vanuatu from 3945 and Solomon
Islands from 5020 is also a concern (Bryan Clark, NZ, April NZ DX
Times via DXLD)
[non logs]. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun. After a brief reactivation, has not
been heard recently; off the air April 15, 16, 17 and 18.
7324.95, Wantok Radio Light on April 16 at 1418 still with no hint of
a WRL open carrier; same results April 15 at 1409 (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. OAU7Z - 1570 kHz - RADIO CARRÁVIZ - Juliaca (PRU) - QSL
Siete días después del envío del último informe de recepción a esta
emisora, he recibido esta mañana la esperada confirmación. Y, a falta
de una, han sido tres los correos recibidos. El primero con una
confirmación completa (copiando y pegando el texto QSL que sugiero) y
los otros dos con confirmaciones genéricas, enviadas en grupo a varios
radioescuchas cuyos informes estaban sin responder. Los correos vienen
sin firma, pero el propietario de la cuenta de correo es el dueño y
gerente de la emisora, Iván Tito Vizcarra, quién nos dice que "La
emisora esta alquilada desde hace más de 6 años a la Iglesia Dios es
Amor y transmite las 24horas, tiene una antena de 60 metros es decir
la antena es de 1/2 onda el transmisor es de fabricación nacional de
5Kw. ". Por cierto, el nombre de la emisora (Carráviz) es un juego con
el ordén de las sílabas de su apellido: Viz-carra... Carra-viz.
¡Muchas gracias!. carraviz(a)gmail.com 03ENE2014 - 02'38 UTC - 9001 km
(Mauricio Molano Sánchez, Spain, http://moladx.blogspot.it/ miércoles,
9 de abril de 2014, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – ABRIL 2014 --- CQ, CQ, CQ…Aquí Pedro F.
Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX
latinoamericano, todas las horas son UTC, desde la tierra de los
incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente:
679.94, PERÚ, R. RBC Satelital, Lima; 28/03 2335-2350, 44444, mx, ID
"RBC 680 kHz en amplitud modulada, la emisora que pega, pega ja, ja y
que bien pega.." Los Martes a las 11 de la mañana… Universidad de la
vida transmitido en simultáneo a través de Radio San Borja 91.1 FM;
Radio RBC Satelital 680 AM y las siguientes radio emisoras en Lima y
provincias, Radio Calidad de Lunahuana en Cañete; Radio Uno de Yauyos
en Lima; Radio Canta en la ciudad de Canta, Radio A Uno de Cañete,
Radio Pariacaca de Huarochirí; Canal 15 en Huacho; Radio Que Buena en
Barranca, Radio Nueva Max Imperial en Cañete". ID "Radio RBC satelital
presenta.." NOTA: Reportado el 4/12 como Radio Onda Digital (ver
Chasqui DX Diciembre 2013)
4747.20, PERÚ, R. Huanta 2000, Huari, Ayacucho; 29/03 1120-1145,
33333, ads bilingüe (español y quechua), ads Librería San Marcos,
Cooperativa de ahorro; ID "Transmite Radio Huanta 2000 desde la ciudad
de Huanta, la bella esmeralda de los Andes…"
4774.90, PERÚ, R. Tarma, Tarma, Junín; 26/03 0010-0035, 44444,
programa Juez Justo, news sobre el poder judicial, ads, ID "En cadena
con Radio Tarma en onda media y onda corta" ads.
4789.87, PERÚ, R. Visión, Chiclayo, Lambayeque; 10/04 2340-2350,
33333, música pasillos, ID "Radio Visión desde Chiclayo", mx, ID
"Radio Visión…", mx
4810.00, PERÚ, R. Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto; 1/04 1105-1135, 33333,
música religiosa; hablan en dialecto de la selva. ID "La mejor música
la escuchas en Radio Logos". Música, ID "Estás en sintonía de Radio
Logos, en los 4810 kHz Onda Tropical, transmitiendo desde Chazuta,
Perú"; mx, ID "4810 kHz Onda Tropical, Radio Logos, la mejor señal del
Perú"; mx ID "Radio Logos, transmitiendo para ti un mensaje de piedad,
amor, fe y esperanza, desde las altas montañas de la selva peruana".
[WORLD OF RADIO 1718: this item]
4835.00, PERÚ, R. Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba; 7/04 1110-1140,
33333, músicia folklórica huayno por Sonia Morales, ID "Radio Ondas
del Sur Oriente" (dan ID mientras tocan la pieza musical; programa
Amanecer quechua, español (bilingüe).
4985.50, PERÚ, R. Voz Cristiana, Chilca, Huancayo; 7/04 2310-2335,
44444+, ID "Voz Cristiana desde Huancayo, Perú."; música folklórica
con temas cristianos, ads en quechua y español.
5024.92, PERÚ, R. Quillabamba, Cusco; 10/04 2216-2240, 33333, música
folklórica huayno en español, programa bilingüe español y quechua, ads
Centro Médico de Quillabamba, lo mejor para su salud. ID "Por radio
Quillabamba".
5980.00, PERÚ, R. Chaski, Cusco; 14/04 1120-1145, 44444+, música
folklórica huaynos en quechua, ads Mensaje de Defensa Civil indicando
las acciones a seguir en caso de siniestros. ID "Desde Cusco, Perú,
transmite Radio Chaski en los 5980 kHz onda corta, con la palabra de
Dios"
6173.90, PERÚ, R. Tawuantinsuyo, Cusco; 11/04 2206-2235, 44444+,
música folklórica huayno, ads, Está aquí en Cusco la famosa dama
conocedora de la quiromancia Tania de la Flor. Programa bilingüe
español y quechua, ID "Radio Tawuantinsuyo, la voz de la expresión
andina, transmite desde Cusco Perú.."; música criolla, programa
Noticiero Voz Inca, news.
La recepción la he efectuado del 26/03 al 16/04 en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Recuerden que las grabaciones
que adjunto, serán mejor escuchadas con los audífonos. [attached to
the DXLD yg posting]
Vivo en una casa muy pequeña, pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un
mundo muy grande. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima,
Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also in this issue: ARGENTINA,
BOLIVIA, BRAZIL
** PERU. 4774.929, Radio Tarma, 1025-1035 April 19, Noted a weak
station here with typical Peruvian music, with the yelping and
singing. During the interim a male comments in Spanish. Overall the
signal was poor but sometimes fading in to a fair level (Chuck
Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4810.00, Radio Logos, 1035-1045 April 19, With the usual
morning format, heard a steady stream of Peruvian type music mainly
with flutes and drums. Signal was best heard in LSB due to the QRM on
the upper side of the signal. At 1039 a male comments in Spanish
Language. At 1045 he is joined by a female briefly. Unfortunately the
signal is too weak to hear comments clearly. Station remained at a
poor level during the entire period (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N
081W, Excalibur, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Chuck seems to specialize in logs at the edge of audibility; must be
frustrating (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** PERU. [5980 Chaski: see also 14 April log by PFA above]
5980, April 18 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski also vs hashsplash
from 5990 CRI/CUBA. 5980 still JBA in the clear after 0100 until
cutoff at 0108:38.5*, which is 17.5 seconds later than three nights
ago, so the 0108:34* two nights ago was quite the anomaly.
5980, April 19 at 0055, R. Chaski carrier and by 0103 some talk
modulation audible along with weak pulse jamming, presumably Cuban
remnant far off-time for R. Martí; cut at 0108:44* which is 5.5
seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980.026, Radio Chaski, presumed, 1020-1045 April 19, Noted steady
music with mainly Spanish language lyrics. Didn't hear any ID. Signal
was at a poor level most of the listening period (Chuck Bolland,
Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, April 20 at 0102, R. Chaski carrier until 0108:50* which is 6
seconds later than yesterday. However, weaker carrier heard for a few
seconds more: maybe they were turning it down rather than off
abruptly, or could have been a receiver overload mix. I got to the
porch just in time after first lawnmowage of the season. Streetlight
ignited at 0121, and might have been slightly later but for a few
clouds on the sunset horizon.
5980, April 22 at 0058, very poor carrier with some modulation from R.
Chaski, Urubamba, until cutoff at 0109:02*, surpassing another minute
later than ever past nominal 0100* with no reset yet. This is 12
seconds later than a biday ago.
BTW, Pedro F Arrunátegui from much closer Lima included a good clip of
their ID in his latest alternatively spelt Chasqui DX Report, attached
to the DXLD yg. It says: ``desde Cuzco, Perú, transmite Radio Chaski,
en los 5,980 kilociclos onda corta, con la palabra de dios`` to the
accompanying tune of ``What a Friend We Have in Jesus``.
5980, April 23 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier until cutoff at 0109:07.5*,
5.5 seconds later and later than night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R. Teos via Philippines, Apr 21 1501-1516,
45444, Russian, ID at 1501, Chorus music, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto,
JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Dmitry Kutuzov via Glenn Hauser's DX Listening Digest 14-15
points out that the service for Russian seafarers, Radio Station
Atlantika, has been revived on its host station Radio Russia -
Murmansk, after a 10-year hiatus. It can be heard on 657 kHz and 1449
kHz mediumwave and on a live stream from their website at murman.tv at
0910 UT Tuesdays only. The site also has on-demand recordings of RS
Atlantika from the first of their revived editions on 1 April 2014,
along with other on-demand meterial from RR-Murmansk and Mayak-
Murmansk (Dave Kernick, WRTH facebook (15/4-2014) via RusDX April 20
via DXLD)
** RUSSIA. In March 2013 at a frequency 2920 kHz was first reported
short-term work of the operator with the Callsign “Polyarnik” ("Polar
Explorer"). Later he was aired on the frequency 10460 kHz. Direction-
finding equipment of radio monitoring RFC substantiates the far
Eastern Federal district, set in that moment of time only in Primorsky
Krai, really gave bearing in the direction of the Far North and
genuine polar explorers, but it was not possible to determine
accurately the location of the transmitter.
In accordance with the plan of radio-control specialists RFC
substantiates the far Eastern Federal district is underway to find
sources of unauthorized interference in the bands allocated to air
radio services. The focus is on monitoring frequencies 2920 and 6660
kHz, which was recorded work is anonymous operators, illegally using
the radio frequency spectrum (the so-called radiohooligans). In
addition to these frequencies, the work of radiohooligans (especially
in summer) was observed at a frequency of fixed and mobile
communication services 10460 kHz.
By September 2013, radio-frequency center of the far Eastern Federal
district has commissioned dynamical systems STRC in Magadan,
Khabarovsk and Yakutsk. 4 September, when at work "Polyarnik" followed
for four dynamical complex, radiohooligans re-aired. This time its
location was installed immediately during the first session. As it
turned out, "underground radioman" lived in a private house in one of
the villages near Yakutsk. Arrived at the place, specialists of the
Department of radio control branch of the FSUE "RFC substantiates the
far Eastern Federal district" in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in
the specified direction-finding complexes coordinates discovered two
masts with the antennas "triangle". They recorded the fact of the work
of "Polyarnik" on the air and has designed the protocols of events for
radio monitoring.
Based on these materials THE four Sakha Republic was planned and
carried out jointly with law enforcement bodies activity for the
suppression of the source work unresolved radiation. on 20 September
at the address was found and seized radio electronic means P-130 (tank
radio station), its owner, a local resident, was ordered to be in THE
Roskomnadzor. He admitted that he really worked at frequencies 2920
and 10460 kHz and communicated with the same anonymous operators of
Siberia and Western portions of the RA! (Source
http://www.rfs-rf.ru/dfo/press/news/017245 sent Sergey Sosedkin,
Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication # 889,
April 15, 2014, The editor of the current number: Vadim Alekseyev, Via
RusDX April 20 via DXLD) So these are pirates
** RUSSIA. 7325, GTRK Adygeyan Republic R, via Armavir (?), 1700-1900,
Mar 30 and 31, National Anthem, ID and programme in Adygeyan, Arabic
and Turkish (some of talks were in Kurdish after Turkish), 55555 Rumen
Pankov, Sofia, Blgaria, DSWCI DX Window April 16 via DXLD) Still in
April? (DSWCI Ed. Anker Petersen, ibid.)
** RUSSIA. 25900, Radio Zelyonyy Glaz, Moscow, 11-Apr-14, 1314-1600* -
Russian, long AC/DC marathon until 1408, then various pop and rock
songs. Excellent signal S9+10 and better, fading a bit the last 30
minutes. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us
WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1,
DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-
SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fridays only
** RUSSIA. Powerful radio broadcasting on XDV: "Execute not pardon!"
Strange things happen with Russian broadcasting on short, medium and
long waves. It "not executed" and "not favored". Im just no one does.
Although it was the order of the RF Government, signed by the current
President, and adopted standard, and even said something about a
separate Federal program on the radio, and money like first allocated,
but then changed their mind... And the broadcast transmitters, one by
one, as if by themselves off across the country.
The fact that Moscow and Peter is not the whole Russia, I think,
everyone knows. Therefore depart from Moscow at 300 km, turn off as
unnecessary mobile phone and FM-receiver, Wi-Fi laptop or iPhone
(also, not to look for what is not, and in vain not to drain the
battery), and turn on AM radio on short, medium and long waves. Ether
rages. Hear a lot of Russian-speaking stations: from China, Iran,
India, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, North Korea, Thailand, European and
African countries, Venezuela [sic], Australia and even in Canada and
USA [sic]! And here is our! x - almost none. Even the "Mayak" was not
heard.
Rare to catch native "Voice of Russia", yet broadcasts in 32 languages
of the peoples of the world. So remember the state interests, as
reflected in inoveschanie in international air, principles of
organization of radio physics and radio wave propagation, and take in
your hand a pen, will oblakam the tip in the ink to, gathered by the
spirit and taking responsibility, to put in the header missing comma.
Completely this article of Sergey Komarov can be read in the magazine
"Broadcasting. TV and radio broadcasting" No 2, 2014, pp. 39-43. (sic
as ``translated`` via RusDX April 20 via DXLD)
** RWANDA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17870, R. Inyabutatu, Apr 19 *1600-1610,
25332-25232, Kinyarwanda, 1600 sign on with opening music, Opening
announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 17540, R. Impala, Apr 18 *1700-1710,
25322-25332, Kinyarwanda, 1700 sign on with short music, Opening
announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
MADAGASCAR. 17540.018, Radio Impala, Talata-Volondry, 20-Apr-14, 1745-
1757* - presumed, talk in presumed Kinyarwanda, long ballad until
cut-off at 1757:00. Strongest 17m band signal, excellent. 73, (Brandon
Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC,
WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering
NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared
Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAO TOME. 15580, VOA, Pinheira, 20-Apr-14, 1416 - English
broadcast, excellent signal via long path. 73, (Brandon Jordan,
Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio
G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased
Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop,
Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15420, R. Free Sarawak via Philippines,
Apr 16 1221-1232, 45444, Iban and Unknown, Music and talk, ID at 1232
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-
345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
PHILIPPINES. Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak from April 18:
1100-1230 NF 15430 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Iban Mon-Sat, ex 15420
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-change-of-radio-free-sarawak.html
(Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Ivo, The RFS move to 15430 did not last long. April 24 moved back
again to 15420. Heard from 1133 to 1153 and noted 1230* (Ron Howard,
California, ibid.)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17740, April 17 at 0729, poor signal with
undermodulated ME? music. Of the two possibilities in HFCC, I pick
BSKSA in Arabic, 250 kW, 310 degrees toward Europe and USward at 06-
09, rather than CRI in Chinese southward from Xi`an. Spring is
providing higher-band propagation in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.88, SIBC, Apr 20 0839-0853, 35433, Pidgin,
Talk and music, ID at 0849 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15180, R. Hilaac, Apr 21 *1700-1710,
25332, Somali, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce,
Kor`an, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15255, Channel Africa:
Apr 18 0610-0643, 25332-35333, English, Talk and music, ID at 0625.
Apr 22 0630-0656*, 25332-35333, English, Talk and news, Theme music at
0631 and 0651, Music, 0656 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-
R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT,
110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 17660, Amateur R. Mirror Int.(Presumed), Apr 20
*0800-0815, 15431, English, 0800 sign on with talk by man (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, WWCR, Rev E C Fulcher talking about
free will -- abruptly cut off at 0259:30 and dead air until 0300:15
WWCR ID into Brother Scare in mid sentence talking about a mentally
ill guy who police killed in Albuquerque which itself was abruptly cut
off by Bro Scare playing music. At 0302 THAT was abruptly cut off by
the silver toned guy Bro Scare uses to read Bible verses.
[Alexander Scourby --- and lest you assume he devoutly believed that
stuff, remember: he was an ACTOR ---gh].
The production values of this station and the preachers who use it are
just astounding! Then a long rant by Fred Astaire (with horns & the
Maranatha business before hand) about mental health issues and how
that is a harbinger of the coming end times, continuing on with the
rant about wars and Passover I have heard in previous broadcasts. BS
is always good for a half hour of silliness. 4+5554+ 0255-0325 12/Apr
(Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
15190, April 17 at 0732, BS with good signal holding up via R. Africa
Network, via WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9370, April 18 at 0117, WWRB is still on day-frequency with BS, rather
than 3185. HFCC and FCC A-14 registrations show 13-24 on 9385, 00-13
on 3185. The morning switchover time also varies widely.
9690, April 18 at 1435 via WRMI, BS is mentioning he will be on a new
schedule in a few days via World Harvest Radio. (Of course, this may
have been an old recording).
9955, April 18 at 1809, African music, presumably part of the WRMI
fill-music loop, instead of Brother Scare, tho the other frequencies
9690 and 15770 still run him. Not the first time his feed to 9955
transmitter has failed, and we can only hope for more (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9980, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 2110-2120+, 21-Apr; B.S. waxing
about the "Pre-Flood supercivilization", Atlantis; said he paid out
240 K$ to SW broadcasters last month & "God sent it to us...every
single month He sends it to us." (I guess God likes entertainment
too). B.S. said I have a "carnal mind". (Huzzah!) S25 (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)
9370, April 23 at 0555, WWRB is running TOM day frequency at night,
not BS at the moment but a distraught female caller, only poor-fair,
inferior to 9955 WRMI. At 1118 and 1125 I find both 3185 and 9370 are
on during morning pentecostal service, as occasionally WWRB gives BS
two transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 21640, REE, Noblejas, 10-Apr-14, 1535 - Spanish, fair with
echo, long path being slightly better. // 21610 except short path is
dominant, so echo only audible on SAL-12 SW pattern. 73, (Brandon
Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC,
WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering
NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared
Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 9535, April 21 at 0539, REE in the clear --- but only for a
few seconds as I was faked out by one of those pregnant pauses during
Qur`aning, from Algeria via FRANCE. What do you bet this collision
continue the rest of A-14, no one caring at TDF, TDA or RTVE?
11795, UT Tuesday April 22 at 0112, REE is VG, L&C with IS prior to
weekly Sephardic emission; 0125 interview by one of the YL hostesses
who apparently speaks real Ladino, but her OM subject replies in
Castilian, which is a typical pattern. 0128 into a song in judeo-
español. This repeats at 0415 UT Tuesday on 9690 if not 9650 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 15214.873, Seldom reported odd frequency AWR program
from Trincomalee center in Sri Lanka, scheduled 0000-0100 UT in
Chinese. ID and addresses at 0056 UT, April 17. -67dBm signal, very
fluttery into Alberta-CANADA remote SDR post. Final interval flute
music at 0057:45 UT, and Trinco transmitter switched off at 0058:02 UT
(Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 17, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 18 at 0114:52, music starts from SLBC after
carrier-on earlier in this minute, good with heavy flutter; 2+1
mistimesignal ends at 0115:19, sign-on in Hindi pronouncing ``Sri
Lanka Broadcasting Corporation`` in English.
11905, April 22 I am standing by for SLBC to come on, which it does at
*0114:13 with a good but fluttery carrier. Music starts as usual a few
seconds before 0115, about 0114:55 and ever-late 2+1 timesignal ends
at 0115:23, then opening Hindi. Recheck 0122 finds dead air; rerecheck
0127 finds music resumed.
11905, April 23 at 0114, SLBC carrier has just come on with flutter,
but no modulation past 0115 and consequently no entertainment by off-
timesignal today. Music finally starts at 0117:10 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. QSL: Voice of Africa, Khartoum, 9505 e 5 ds. Addr.:
bakhit02bb @ yahoo.com; v/s Mr. Adam Bakhit Bushara, Assistant
director Voice of Africa, wrote in his very kind e-mail that they
intend to transmit a programme life with listeners by phones, mails,
sms etc. (QSL’s de Norbert Reiner, Drosselsangweg 6, 76131 Karlsruhe,
Germany, received between 09 September 2013 and 23 April 2014, via
Dario Monferini, April 23, playdx yg via DXLD)
** SUDAN [non]. VATICAN CITY. 15550, Radio Dabanga, Santa Maria de
Galeria, 10-Apr-14, 1621 - excellent signal, HoA vocals, Radio
Dabanga jingles and off at 1626:55 leaving an extremely weak WJHR talk
on the upper side band. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN,
http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ,
Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals,
Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30
Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. MOLDOVA: 11560, R Miraya FM, 0310 Apr 14, Arabic F,
AM, Mostly music, Announcement in Arabic. According to
shortwaveschedule.com the transmitter is in Moldova. According to the
website radiomiraya.org they serve South Sudan on local FM &
shortwave, sponsored by the UN.
Does the website mention the shortwave frequency? As Glenn H would
say, "of course not!" I'll have to keep an eye on this one. Supposedly
they are in Arabic & English, but no English heard. I'm going to take
this one because listening via the website/internet programming is
parallel with expected net delay. (Jack Amelar, Lowell MI, MARE
Tipsheet via DXLD) [Moldova listed in Aoki & EiBi also. – MARE ed.]
** SWEDEN [non]. UNITED KINGDOM. IBRA Radio Ibrahim, Woofferton, 20-
Apr-14, 1816 - talks by two men in what sounds Arabic but is listed
as Beja, North African instrumental, Radio Ibrahim ID. Fair.
[WTFK???] ? Woofferton 15510 kHz ? ***
5905 IBRA R 0000-0030 1234567 Bengali 100 131 Tashkent UZB BAB
6180 IBRA R 1700-1730 1234567 Somali 250 215 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
7510 IBRA R 1730-1800 1234567 Silte 300 192 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
9390 IBRA R 1500-1530 1234567 Bengali 100 131 Tashkent UZB BAB
9550 IBRA R 1800-1927 1234567 Arabic 250 30 Kigali RRW BAB
9630 IBRA R 1700-1730 1234567 Oromo 250 30 Kigali RRW BAB
9630 IBRA R 1730-1757 1234567 Tigrinya 250 30 Kigali RRW BAB
9820 IBRA R 1630-1700 1234... Tigrinya 250 230 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
9820 IBRA R 1630-1700 ....567 Amharic 250 230 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
11610 IBRA R 1700-1730 1234567 Tigrinya 100 15 Meyerton AFS BAB
11610 IBRA R 1730-1800 1234567 Oromo 100 30 Meyerton AFS BAB
11655 IBRA R 1600-1627 1234567 Afar 250 30 Kigali RRW BAB
12125 IBRA R 1600-1630 1...567 Amharic 300 192 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
12125 IBRA R 1600-1630 .234... Guragena 300 192 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
12125 IBRA R 1630-1700 1234567 Amharic 300 192 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
(R. Ibrahim)
7425 IBRA R 1900-1930 1234567 Arabic 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
9490 IBRA R 1930-2000 1234567 Arabic 300 102 Woofferton G BAB
11785 IBRA R 1730-1800 1234567 Swahili 250 220 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
11875 IBRA R 1900-1930 1234567 Fulfulde 300 182 Woofferton G BAB
11875 IBRA R 1930-1945 1234... Moore 300 182 Woofferton G BAB
11875 IBRA R 1930-1945 ....567 Tamajeq 300 182 Woofferton G BAB
11875 IBRA R 1945-2000 123..67 Jula 300 182 Woofferton G BAB
11875 IBRA R 1945-2000 ...45.. Malinke 300 182 Woofferton G BAB
12045 IBRA R 1700-1730 1234567 Arabic 300 114 Woofferton G BAB
12070 IBRA R 1930-1945 12..... Sara Ngambai 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
12070 IBRA R 1930-1945 ..34... Zaghawa 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
12070 IBRA R 1930-1945 ....567 Shuwa 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
15510 IBRA R 1730-1800 1234567 Arabic 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
15510 IBRA R 1800-1830 1234567 Beja 250 140 Woofferton G BAB ***
15510 IBRA R 1830-1900 1234567 Fur 250 140 Woofferton G BAB
(R. Sadaye Zindagi)
6125 IBRA R 0230-0300 1234567 Dari 250 45 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
6125 IBRA R 0300-0315 1234567 Hazaragi 250 45 Dhabbaya UAE BAB
9390 IBRA R 1500-1530 1234567 Dari 300 100 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
9390 IBRA R 1530-1600 1234567 Pashto 300 100 Yerevan-Gavar ARM BAB
(Voice of Forgiveness)
15260 IBRA R 0800-0830 1234567 Arabic 250 115 Moosbrunn AUT BAB
(Aoki Nagoya list April 13 via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD)
* TAIWAN. Unofficial service of RFA via Taiwan --- Some frequency that
relayed SOH from Apr. 5 relays RFA Chinese. Monitor result of Apr 17:
11580 2330-1400 (11580.158)
12190 0000-1400 (12190.256)
12910 2330-1420 (12910.125)
14920 0000-1400 (14920.210)
14980 0000-1400 (14980.031)
15340 0000-1400 (15340.154)
16300 0000-1330 (16299.894)
16450 0000-1330 (16450.040)
16750 0000-1400 (16750.252)
17300 0000-1330 (17299.985)
18430 0000-1330 (18430.250)
18870 0000-1400 (18870.118)
de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, April 18, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RFA-Chinese via SOH TX in Taiwan, Apr. 19:
11580 2330-1420
12190 off air
12910 2330-1420
14920 0000-1400
14980 0000-1400
15340 2330-1400
16300 0003-1330
16450 0006-1330
16750 0000-1400
17300 0008-1330
18430 0008-1330
18870 0000-1400
de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, April 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Note that all these are up to a quarter-kHz off-frequency, another way
to distinguish them from CNR1 jammers. I believe this happened because
RFA lost access to Taiwan government hi-power transmitters (gh, DXLD)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 10960, SOH, 1212, April 17. Almost fair reception
of ID given in English during the news in Chinese; by 1230 found
blocked by strong program jamming of CNR1 (// 6125) (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
QSL: Sound of Hope, 7200, cd, st 4 ws. Addr.: 6-4, Lane 84, GuoTai
Street, North District, Taichung 404, Taiwan / Republic of China
(QSL’s de Norbert Reiner, Drosselsangweg 6, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany,
received between 09 September 2013 and 23 April 2014, via Dario
Monferini, April 23, playdx yg via DXLD)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 7445, RTI, APR 17, 1200. RTI wrapping up English
broadcast and going to Chinese, making it 15 seconds into Chinese
before CNR1 jamming started up. This is welcome change from when they
were coming on 5 minutes early, wiping out Andrew Ryan's schedule
announcements at the end of English (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona,
Drake R8, Grundig Satellit 750, random wire and Slinky, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 9955, UT Saturday April 19 at 0114, the weekly PCJ
Radio International hour via WRMI-10 is underway with some unusual
humbuzz at first, whence? Interview about how to spot potential
hijackers on your flight, outro as with propagation editor Dan
Hensley, which would seem to be off-topic.
Then Keith mentions something special from STF Radio Sunday April 20
at 04-05 UT, but no details! So I will give them, as provided, but you
are allowed to listen to the first half only if you`ve already heard
WORLD OF RADIO at same time on WTWW 5830 (such as Sat 2330 on WTWW
9930): [see CANADA [non]
Back to Media Network Plus: 0120 on to interview with Dave Marthouse
about what went on at the SWL Winterfest, including Mark Fahey on his
visits to North Korea; and later in the hour Keith is interviewing Dan
Robinson, ex-VOA, which I heard earlier on a secret 9495 prepeat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9955, UT Saturday April 19, as already reported by Glenn, with the
weekly PCJ Radio International hour via WRMI-10; I heard at 0136 Dan
Robinson interview. Glenn's "some unusual humbuzz" was also present; a
noise that almost sounded like a type of jamming? (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Additional broadcast of the Attitude Test --- Hi again, Glen[n], I've
just heard from Keith Perron at PCJ Radio that there will be another
airing of the Attitude Test program discussing shortwave radio which
will be broadcast Saturday [April 26] from 0100 to 0200 UT to the
Caribbean and Latin America on 9955 kHz. Kind regards (Chrissie
Cochrane, Managing Director, The Global Voice,
http://theglobalvoice.info April 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. GVR is also a WOR affiliate (gh)
Glenn, Apparently the PCJ Media podcasts that were regularly posted on
Stitcher are not the fault of Stitcher. See their reply to my inquiry.
(Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
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zamoralar | April 21, 2014 | 23:43 +0000
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What has happened to the podcasts for the PCJ Media The Happy Station?
I have not seen any recent podcasts. Thanks.
time sent: 2014-04-21 16:43:47
mode: android-AT100
version: 3.27
listener since: Feb 04, 2012
listening time: 13h 59m
(cc to DXLD)
On Apr 22, 2014 4:44 PM, "Stitcher"
wrote:
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Kate | April 22, 2014 | 21:44 +0000
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Hi! Just checked and they haven't posted a new episode since March 1.
You may want to contact them and ask if they are continuing the show.
(Larry Zamora, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.05, Tajik R., Apr 20 1236-1318*, 25322-35433,
Tajik, Talk and music and news, ID at 1300, 1318 sign off (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 15590, R. Thailand, Apr 21 0030-0040, 35443, English,
News, ID at 0035 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 17 at 1406, V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR,
usual jump to 15530 at 1407 while no jamming audible (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15543, 19/04 1220-, Voice of Tibet - Oslo, Chinese talk YL. Reports to
Tenzin Paldon, Editor-in-Chief, Voice of Tibet Foundation, Kirkegata
5, 0153 Oslo, Norway. Email: editor @ vot.org http://www.vot.org/ good
RPA (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, Playdx 1616 electronic, April 22 via
DXLD)
** TURKEY. 15520, Voice of Turkey, Emirler, 11-Apr-14, 1722 - English
service, pop Turk vocal by Tugba Ozerk, full ID and English schedule
at 1724, possible NA the transmitter off at 1726. Poor. 73, (Brandon
Jordan, Fayette County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC,
WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering
NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared
Apex Loop, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA. 4975.96, R. Uganda, Apr 15 2057-2120, 35443-35433, English,
Music and news, IS at 2100, ID at 2102 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX,
IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121;
ANT, 110m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. BBC English service via Rwanda not on tonight on 13660.
This is one of my regulars that I hear well when I am out with a
portable radio. Tonight no modulation but strong open carrier.
Rwanda, BBC world service, 13660 0300-0400 UT. no programming but
strong carrier (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, UT April 22, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Additional frequency of BBC from April 23:
0400-0500 on 7360 MEY 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/additional-frequency-of-bbc-from-april.html
(Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BBCWS had been on 7355 Meyerton from 04-05, so is this really just a
frequency change instead of an addition? At my QTH I could always hear
a weak BBCWS signal at the end of the 0400 hour just before the
handoff to a much better signal from Ascension at 0500 (Steve Luce,
Houston, Texas, April 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It is a frequency change, not an addition. No obvious reason because
7355 is now a clear channel in this region.
South Africa. BBC WS relay (not), 7355 Meyerton. Apr 24, 2014
Thursday. 0358-0409 Nothing heard, AWOL. Jo'burg sunrise 0428.
BBC WS relay, 7360 Meyerton. Apr 24, 2014 Thursday. *0400-0409.
Repetitions of “This is the BBC. There are no programs on this channel
at present. Details of all our services are at bbc.com”. Properly on-
air at *0400 with BBC WS ID, time pips and into the world news. Good.
Jo'burg sunrise 0428 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Sony ICF2001D.
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. Archive on 4 --- Shanwick air traffic control featured in
Archive on 4 this evening (Saturday 19th April) at around 2030 BBC
Radio 4 (J Kempster, London E14. April 19, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0414b1m - Atlantic Crossing
73, (swlistener, April 19, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) viz.:
Atlantic Crossing
Duration: 58 minutes
First broadcast: Saturday 19 April 2014
When Christine Finn's in-flight entertainment was accidentally tuned
to cockpit radio on a transatlantic flight, the voice of air traffic
control as they reached Irish airspace seemed to be welcoming her as
well as the pilot.
As a creative archaeologist, she wanted to unravel the connections
between those who fly the Atlantic and those who guide them safely
over, especially when she discovered that datalink - effectively text
messaging - is increasingly being used, so that voice communication is
on the wane.
Listening to archive of transatlantic flights from the first by Alcock
and Brown in 1919, Christine discovered that the west coast of Ireland
looms large in the history. She visited Shannon airport in County
Clare, scene of many departures and reunions and, in the 1950s and 60s
- before the jet engine - a stop-over for most of the popular icons of
the day as their planes re-fuelled after the 3000 mile flight; every
US President since JFK has visited Shannon, and most stars from
Marilyn Monroe to Fred Astaire.
And at the North Atlantic Communications Centre in nearby
Ballygirreen, Christine met the faces behind the voices she heard
coming out of the dark on her own Atlantic Crossing. Producer: Marya
Burgess (with 58 minute audio link) (via swlistener, ibid.)
** U S A. 7615-USB, April 22 at 0107, Civil Air Patrol paramilitary
net, referring to each other as ``sir`` which we don`t even hear on
MARS nets; at least the NCS ``Iowa Cap 4`` does this, so those
replying do too. He`s calling for contacts region by region, starting
with North Central as I tune in, including lots of colorful tactical
calls either heard or called: Starfish 1200, Yellow Brick ##, Oil Well
355; from the Southwest region: Texas Cap 6304, and 2300; at 0111,
Rocky Mountain region: High Plans 5, Star Garnet 4, Blue Mesa 128.
Finally tried for Pacific region, which is evidently a bit too far
away into daytime. See my previous CAP net log in DXLD 14-13 under
Unidentified 7615, which was March 21 at a very different time, 1415
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10051-USB, April 18 at 0029, New York Radio takes over after
"This is Gander Radio out"; airport weather conditions for Chicago,
Milwaukee, etc.; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-
1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Weak, but readable signal from WWV 25 MHz at the moment
(1628 UT 22/4) 100 Hz pulses and OM with time check. 20 MHz audible
also. 73's (Nick Rank, Buxton UK, Sony ICF2001D, long wire and ATU,
BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. BBG MARKS THE LOSS OF DAVID BURKE, BOARD'S FIRST CHAIRMAN
To view this online visit http://www.bbg.gov/?p=18279
(BBG PR April 21, via Clara Listensprechen, dxldyg via DXLD)
BBG GOVERNOR MATT ARMSTRONG VISITS EDWARD R. MURROW TRANSMITTING
STATION --- Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) April 11, 2014
On April 6-7, BBG Governor Matt Armstrong visited the Edward R. Murrow
Transmitting Station outside Greenville, North Carolina. Armstrong
toured the property and met with staff to learn more about the
operations of the facility.
“Meeting with this hard-working and dedicated staff was an honor,”
observed Matt Armstrong. “It was a valuable opportunity to have a up-
close look at the complexities and challenges of operating this
historic transmitting site.”
The visit was an extension of Armstrong’s work as the chair of the
BBG’s Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting. To
learn more about the work of the committee, visit us here
http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2014/02/28/shortwave-committee-request-for-comment/
http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2014/04/11/bbg-governor-matt-armstrong-visits-edward-r-murrow-transmitting-station/
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** U S A. OPINION: THE VOICE OF AMERICA SHOULDN'T BE A WHISPER
Putin's propaganda machine is in high gear, while the U.S. scales back
the VOA. Why? --- By John Lenczowski April 17, 2014 7:00 p.m. ET
Vladimir Putin's action against Ukraine validates the historic
relationship between propaganda and aggression. Having seized control
of major broadcasters, his henchman are censoring websites and telling
Russians in Ukraine that "fascists" in Kiev are planning to round them
up and kill them. Russian provocateurs whip up protests against
Ukraine's government. U.S. correspondents report that Ukrainians and
Russians are being "brainwashed" by Russian disinformation.
All this is designed to motivate Russian armed forces and secure
public support on both sides of the border for Mr. Putin's efforts to
"protect" Russian Ukrainians not only in Crimea but throughout the
country. Moscow has a virtual monopoly on the narrative. The question
is how far must Mr. Putin go before the West, and particularly the
U.S., returns to the airwaves in full force to counter the Kremlin's
propaganda.
Unfortunately, Washington's Broadcasting Board of Governors, founded
in 1995 to oversee the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, has greatly diminished America's capacity to fight the Putin
propaganda machine. Since 2008, the BBG has shut down all shortwave
and most TV broadcasts by the Russian and Ukrainian services of VOA
and RFE/RL. The Putin regime has played a role as well. Just last
week, the Kremlin shut down the last VOA AM broadcasts in Moscow after
a BBG subcontractor failed to renew its contract with a local station.
Reaching modern audiences requires multiple media: Internet, cell
phones, television and radio -- using all frequencies: AM, FM and
shortwave. As outdated as it may sound, radio remains an important
weapon in the fight against oppression. Governments can track
individual citizens' Internet usage, but those citizens can listen to
radio anonymously. Radio broadcasts can be jammed, but consistently
only in urban areas. Meanwhile, shortwave has undergone a
technological revolution. Digital Radio Mondiale makes possible
crystal clear broadcasts of sound, as well as -- with the latest DRM
receivers — text and video, which can be received anonymously and not
easily jammed.
Since the 1940s and '50s, the U.S. government has had two types of
broadcast services "where the free flow of information is either
banned by government authorities or not fully developed" -- the Voice
of America, which explains American life and policy, and the "freedom
broadcasters" like RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia, which supply a
surrogate domestic free press. These are not duplicative missions.
These broadcasts, which Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the most
powerful American weapons in the Cold War, provide local and world
news, editorials, history, alternative political ideas and religious
and cultural programming, all of which face censorship in totalitarian
and harsh authoritarian regimes. Connecting with foreign audiences
tells them that they are not alone and there is hope for political
change.
It was a mistake for the BBG to shut down services that for six
decades the Russian people depended on for outside information.
Whether it was a cost-saving measure or part of the Obama
administration's Russian "reset," the administration seems confused
about these services. Their mission is not to be a government-
sponsored CNN, but rather a strategic instrument of national-security
policy. Fortunately, Congress is exploring reforms to enable these
services to re-emerge as a meaningful element of American power.
To that end, a full-time director of U.S. International Broadcasting
should be appointed by the president with Senate confirmation, and
accountable to the National Security Council. Under that director
should be two separate presidentially appointed directors: one for the
VOA and another for the freedom broadcasters. The two services could
share administrative and technical assets, and be funded according to
national strategic need. Historically, their cost has been relatively
small ($206 million for VOA and $93 million for RFE/RL in 2012) but
their impact immeasurable. When U.S. "hard power" assets are being cut
is no time to cut the most cost-effective assets of soft power.
In international affairs, perceptions count more than reality. Mr.
Putin's Russia and other authoritarian regimes invest huge sums in
propaganda and perception management. Who, then, will give people in
these regimes the facts that will make the manipulation of publics and
armies more difficult? Who will supply the news that only a free press
can? Who will explain the actual goals of U.S. foreign policy?
Al-Jazeera, China Radio International, Russia's state-run press? Or
will it be media run by a government whose people demand that it tell
the truth?
Mr. Lenczowski, founder of The Institute of World Politics, is the
author of "Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy" (Lexington
Books, 2011). (WSJ via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. Hello friends, Last weekend's experiment with the
"mystery mode," MFSK8 as it turned out, was mostly successful. I
reduced the level of the MFSK8 to 8 dB below the level of the MFSK32,
because unattenuated MFSK8 at a piercing audio frequency of 2300 Hz
can be rather painful to listen to.
This weekend, we'll repeat the contact information and schedule in
MFSK8, but we'll move it to 1000 Hz, which is easier on the ear. With
MFSK32 and MFSK8 both at full level, a distorted, other-worldly sound
resulted. So I reduced the MFSK8 to 4 dB under the MFSK32. You can
still hear what sounds like distortion, but it should be harmless.
Probably. I hope.
If you prefer an easy, set-it-and-forget-it decoding experience, just
do the MFSK32 at 1500 Hz. If you want more of a challenge, then run
two instances of Fldigi, or Fldigi and another decoder such as
MultiPSK, or record the program, to see the MFSK8 output. Please
remember that MFSK8 must be precisely tuned (it will likely be
received a few Hz above or below 1000 Hz) for a successful decode.
Please let me know if you think the simultaneous modes are making the
MFSK32 images "noisier." Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program
55, 19-20 April 2014 (content in MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz):
01:39 Program preview
02:57 Survey of US software developers, with image
07:08 Planets that wobble, with image
13:38 Cambodia's draft cybercrime law
16:06 Google buys drone company, with image
21:42 VOA Spanish* news story about El Niño, with image
26:23 Closing announcements
*Use the UTF-8 character set. In Fldigi: Configure > Colors & Fonts
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UT):
Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.
The Mighty KBC, with studios in the Netherlands and transmitter in
Germany, will include a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1130 UTC
(during the new Big Beach Show) on 6095 kHz. And Sunday at about 0130
UTC (Saturday 9:30 pm EDT) on 7375 kHz. Reports to Eric at
themightykbc@gmail.com .
Thank you for your reception reports to VOA Radiogram last weekend. I
will try to answer them before this weekend is over. And, as always, I
look forward to your emails (Kim Andrew Elliott, Producer and
Presenter, VOA Radiogram
radiogram@voanews.com
voaradiogram.net
@VOARadiogram
http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/04/voa-radiogram-mighty-kbc-19-20-april.html
(via Mike Terry, April 18, dxldyg via DXLD)
I believe the level of tones from a human perspective not matter.
No one listens to "QRM" 30 minutes - certainly not with his own ears.
The main thing is: FLDIGI like these sounds. ;-)
http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-04-19.htm
(roger, germany, ibid.)
Once upon a time in a simple normal world, one turned on the
radio/wireless and heard normal speaking and music - it was called
entertainment and required only the qualification of a normal
receiver, aerial and knowledge of wavelength or frequency of the
station whose normal programmes might fill hours of listening
pleasure.
Are we now being used as scientists or their guinea pigs, has the VOA
forgotten what it was set up to do? (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782), Hinckley,
Le10 0NJ, bdxc-uk yg via DXLD)
** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1418,
11-Apr; Usual banter with Laurie; problems on southbound I-5;
CBSSacramento.com spot. Good to near zilch (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. WOR on WRMI 9955 Around 0345 UT at Cairo, Egypt by Mr. DXer
Hello Glenn, Just wanted to let you know how you sound in Cairo ;)
http://soundcloud.com/mr-dxer/wor-on-wrmi-9955-khz-around-3/s-kG3UQ
73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, UT April 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Tnx; mostly readable with fading and a lot of noise (gh, DXLD)
WORLD OF RADIO 1717 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing, Thursday
April 17 at 1230 on WRMI-10, 9955, following gh WRMI ID. Fair-good
signal but no jamming; squeezed by Fax on the hi side, and toward the
end of semihour, open carrier on lo side = Taiwan about to start
Nippon no Kaze.
Altho there may have been an earlier override tuneup I missed, WRMI-10
remained unimpeded by WRMI-11 until WOR finished at 1259, and only
then a quick switch to 11 for Scoreboard on stronger signal.
WORLD OF RADIO 1717 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW, 9475, Thursday
April 17 from 2100:53, usual excellent signal.
Also confirmed on WWRB 5050, UT Friday April 18 starting abruptly at
0327, in fact overlapping and cutting short previous g.h., unusually
with no pause at all. This WOR playback, however, is overmodulated and
distorted, perhaps unattended until over at 0356, and instead of
cutting off the air immediately, carrier still on past 0400. Next:
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Saturday 2330 on WTWW 9930
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (likely previous edition)
UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW 5830
UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1300 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
WORLD OF RADIO 1717 monitoring: WTWW-2 is off the air all day, and
still off Saturday April 19 at 2330 when WOR would have aired on 9930.
Ted Randall says they were working on repairing it, and I found 5085
back on by 0512 check with BS. WTWW-3 was also missing from 12105, but
apparently #3 transmitter cannot easily substitute for one of the
others.
The extra WRMI-14 broadcast on 9495, however, UT Sunday April 20 at
0030 this week did carry the latest 1717 edition. And also confirmed
on WTWW, 5830, UT Sunday at 0401. Next: UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via
WBCQ 5110v-CUSB.
WORLD OF RADIO 1717 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday April 21 at 0300
on Area 51 webcast, and barely audible also on 5110v-CUSB WBCQ. This
low channel will be more and more subject to summer storm noise levels
for months to come; needs more power, or a big fat harmonic, hi. Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955 to the SSE
Wednesday 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955 to the NW
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB to Europe
WORLD OF RADIO 1717 monitoring: routine check Wednesday April 23 at
1308 finds something else on WRMI 9955! See CYPRUS [non]. But after a
gh WRMI ID, WOR at 1315-1344 and followed by a Rudy Espinal WRMI ID at
1344; so that`s a permanent change to 15 minutes later.
WORLD OF RADIO 1718 I hope should be ready for first airing UT
Thursday April 24 at 0330 on WRMI 9955; then 1230 on same; UT Sunday
0030 on 9495. On WTWW: Thursday 2101 on 9475, Saturday 2330 on 9930,
Sunday 0401 on 5830. On WWRB: UT Friday 0330v on 5050. On WBCQ: UT
Monday 0300 on Area 51, 5110v-CUSB. On HLR: Saturday 0630 & 1430 on
7265-CUSB. Full schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast on WRMI-10,
9955, UT Thursday April 24 at 0330; sufficient signal and also on
webcast. Also confirmed at 1230 Thursday April 24, same. 1253 briefly
suppressed by open carrier from WRMI-11 transmitter. Next:
Thursday 2101 on WTWW-1, 9475
UT Friday 0326v on WWRB-1, 5050
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Saturday 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 [may be previous edition]
UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1, 5830
UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ-3, 5110v-CUSB
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI-11, 9955 [NEW TIME]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I had the opportunity to visit the new WRMI Radio Miami
International transmitter site, http://www.wrmi.net former WYFR,
during the day on March 19, a couple weeks before returning to
Michigan. The site is located in Okeechobee County, Florida, roughly
20 miles NNW of the city of Okeechobee. About A few days prior to
arriving, I e-mailed Jeff White if a visit would be permitted. The
reply was absolutely, Facility Manager Terry Elders would be expecting
me. Unlike last winter when I visited the then WYFR site, I made sure
the batteries in the camera were good.
There is no mistake when driving down NW 240th Street where the site
is. Antennas become visible well before arrival. The area is mostly
farm cattle grazing land. Not a lot of neighbors are out here, a good
thing for a high power shortwave transmitter facility. As expected,
the WYFR signs at the drive entrance are replaced with well visible
WRMI signs with the palm tree logo.
Terry was most welcoming; more on that later. He gave me quite an
informative tour of the site. The thing that stuck out most, he was
the only one on site, unlike the previous year when 4 people were on
site during the day. I imagine most the others, some of whom have been
there since the site was a construction permit, retired. Jeff
and his wife are generally there on weekends, a travel trailer is
parked next to the building for Jeff and wife.
Terry and one other were kept on by Family Radio, previous owner of
the site, after the shutdown of WYFR the end of June 2013. The lease
for the property would expire sometime in 2015 and the task was to
dismantle the facility by then. One transmitter had been removed when
they got word to stop as a deal was being worked out. When the site
went back on the air December 1 2013, there were problems with
moisture in the transmitters from non-use during the Florida summer. I
mentioned listing the day they signed on and logging interruptions of
the carrier.
Anybody remember WNYW in the 60s and 70s with transmitters in
Scituate, MA (I do) and prior to that as WRUL in the 40s and 50s
(Before my time)? The 2 transmitters moved from Scituate are still in
use. It was kind of a thrill to be looking at the same transmitters,
although a different location, as I listened to when I first
discovered shortwave listening in the 60s. A good history of WRUL-
WNYW-WYFR is at
http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Stations/WRUL-WYFR.pdf
The facility is truly a testament to the people who built it. Some
transmitters were purchased from Continental, others custom built by
the engineering staff with some components from Continental. Most the
antenna switches, we're talking high power here, were built by the
staff. Outside, about one square mile of rhombic and curtain array
antennas, along with cattle grazing beneath them.
Terry informs they are nearing maximum available transmitter time.
Recent additions include Rick Wiles TruNews, Radio Japan, and Radio
Taiwan. A good possibility of Radio Marti to be added, an antenna
perfectly suited for Cuba is ready. Let's face it, not all programming
is to everybody's taste, but IMO, it is definitely a good thing to
have this site back up running and selling air time
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtF_YVDtCVlNdFlOeUJnM2o1QXdUakFudnN0SWdfUFE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
Programming is arrives at the facility as audio files by the internet.
The control room routes the audio from the main computer to the
designated transmitter at the designated time. In the early days,
programming arrived on reel to reel tape.
Near the end, I mentioned my membership in MARE. Terry left a standing
invitation if ever it works out some MARE members are in the vicinity
at the same time, they should arrange to "Hang out for the day" at the
facility. [Jack has many more pictures than these.]
(Jack Amelar, MI, MARE Tipsheet April 18 via DXLD)
** U S A. 17790, April 17 at 1410, no signal from WRMI which should be
on now with R. Africa Network; Cuba audible on 17580, 17730; 17775
KVOH VG; WRMI BS on 15770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
15025, April 20 at 0112, JBA signal, but occasional fadeups, soon
recognizing BS in mix with some other audio and then matched to two
WRMI frequencies, 7570 and TruNews on 7455, as 15025 is the sum of
them. Both fundamentals are quite strong, and in this case I can`t be
sure whether this mix is transmitter- or receiver-produced; but the
DX-398 is not usually subject to such in this bandarea. Can`t hear it
on the PL-880, however (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
STF RADIO special logs via WRMI, et al.: see CANADA [non]
9955, Wednesday April 23 at 1129, `Antena DX` show from Panamá is
closing one of its three known WRMI transmissions, the others being
Mondays at 1230, UT Fridays 0100. Good signal and no jamming.
Followed at 1130-1144 by `Viva Miami`, with Jeff White previewing (now
past) the Shortwave Shindig and STF Radio Specials. Shindig was
repeated Friday April 18 at 2200, and UT Sunday April 20 at 0300 on
9955. Oops, I said on WOR that would be UT Sat April 19! Jeff also
says WRMI has four QSL cards so far since moving to Okeechobee and
plans to keep adding a new one each month for a while. Fills with some
more info from the local Okeechobee newspaper. See CYPRUS [non], and
separate USA: WORLD OF RADIO report (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ The Planet on odd frequency on April 22 via SDR
Kensigton NH, USA: from 1359 on 9332 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm
English CUSB, instead of 9330. Note: The clock of SDR is ahead 2
minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSz3jhDp9e4&list=UUOkdLTbNeM6g6w8oqkXYtsw
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/wbcq-planet-on-9332-khz.html
73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Not only is their clock off, so are their frequencies! (gh, DXLD)
9330.066, WBCQ at 2300 UT April 22. Signal wanders up and down approx.
40 Hertz. Side band signal portions:
400 Hertz wide signal on lower sideband side
4100 Hertz wide signal on upper sideband flank. -66dBm or S=9+10dB
signal in NY USA. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Glenn, re 9330 / 9332 kHz of Ivo on this matter. He read only -
remotely in USA - the wrong difficult SDR-Console software browser.
Perseus browser visible is much, much more precise and correct than
SDR Console. Perseus shows the precise carrier on low side, but most
of AM audio portion of 4 kHz on upper side flank. At present 1615 UT
April 23 heard in Rochester and KY remote units as
9329.350 (wandered .340 ... .360 though up and down)
And midst on the transmission often a half of seconds also switch off
/ break in TX operation. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9330-, April 23 at 0556, fair signal from WBCQ, only very slightly on
the lo side compared to 3330 and 1330 signals on the FRG-7. Ivo Ivanov
had found it way up to 9332 recently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 18 at 2009, as I tune across note WTWW absent,
but quickly cuts back on amid SFAW, so I have no idea how long it had
been off.
5830, April 23 at 1114, WTWW-1 missing from night frequency tho 5085,
WTWW-2 is on; at 1314, 9475 WTWW-1 day frequency is back with SFAW and
with some hum.
12105, re my UnID, April 23 at 0552-0600+, George McClintock tells me
it was not WTWW-3. Nothing heard when I check after 0500 April 24.
However, he says that plans are to greatly expand the number of
languages and schedule of that transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 12105
** U S A. 7506.6, April 18 at 0115 check, WRNO still missing.
7506.6, April 20 at 0118, WRNO still absent.
7506.6, April 23 at 0110 check, WRNO still off
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Hi Glenn, I wanted to let you know that for the past two
days, WEWN has not been operational on 15610 kHz as I check at 1700
and 2100 UT. Prior to this, I sent an e-mail to Glen Tapley on 4 April
2014, advising him that there was an issue with the transmitter
emanating some sort of internal noise, creating a "whistling" sound.
No response to date regarding the e-mail and I am unsure if they are
attempting to actually troubleshoot the transmitter; hence possibly
why it is off the air. Anyway, since this is the case as of this
writing, I thought it might lend an opportunity for listeners to log
stations otherwise covered by WEWN. 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ,
1811 UT April 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15610, April 21 at 1956, VG signal with tone test: must be WEWN, whose
English frequency has been missing for several days, since before the
Easter holidays, tsk2. But at 2046 recheck it`s gone again.
Propagation very restricted; 15825 WWCR inaudible, 15770 WRMI fair,
15730 VOA OC and later French good, 15550-USB WJHR poor but
sufficient, 15420 WBCQ inaudible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7315, WHRI with Australian DX Report & Pirating with Cumbre
& pretending to cut back to Marie Lamb with DXing with Cumbre (which
is no longer being produced) instead going to classical and other EZL
music at 0226. ID and Peter Sumerall pitch to ask for your free copy
of the Bible and a pitch to rent time saying "This time slot is
available!" giving their phone number at BoH. Into Jesus pop music
with no interruptions to ID and mention they were signing off 7315 and
would return on 6175 and carrier off. 55555 0205-0258* 13/Apr (Kenneth
Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
** U S A. 15550.03 USB, WJHR, Milton, FL. 20-Apr-14, 1424 - preaching.
A highly variable signal level, off frequency and possible slight
drifting make for tough tuning. Poor. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette
County, TN, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e,
RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual
Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-12 Shared Apex Loop, Array
Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. [Re 14-16:] At 9:42 pm Central time I did a loop check on
WMVP 1000 kHz. They are where they should be, slightly east of north
indicating they are xmting from Downers Grove, IL, their normal site
and not from WLS tower which is almost due east. What if they are just
running Non-directional off of one tower at the Downers Grove site?
(Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, April 18, NRC-AM via DXLD)
The WMVP STA is an old one, dating back to when the WMVP site at
Downers Grove was being rebuilt almost a decade ago. More important in
this context, it dates back to a time when WMVP and WLS were still co-
owned by Disney. Since then, WLS (and the rest of the old ABC Radio)
has been sold to Citadel and then Cumulus. WMVP and the ESPN operation
is still owned by Disney.
I do not believe any of the WMVP gear is still in place at the WLS
site. It was only used when there were crews working on the WMVP
towers at Downers Grove; even during construction, they'd switch from
WLS at Tinley Park back to the WMVP site at night once the crews were
off the site. s (Scott Fybush, WTFDA MWDX gg via DXLD)
** U S A. 1060+, April 21 at 1240 UT, YL in condensed Spanish with
details of an attack on Hebron, stuff about Palestina, 1245 UT bit of
Israeli music. Further comments make clear it`s from the Israeli POV,
and not only that but necessarily Messianic, as mentioned in 1252 UT
outro, since KIJN is In Jesus` Name. Program website is algo-
paravivir.org. At first I had hoped this was something other than KIJN
Farwell TX, the 24-hour cheater altho now legal in daytime, which
plays a lot of gospel music in Spanish rather than talk.
Another giveaway is that KIJN is always far enough off-frequency to
the hi side to make a fast SAH with whatever else; roughly east-west
DF, easily separable from 50 kW KRCN Longmont CO with biznews in
English. Searched for an own KIJN website, but best I could find was a
rudimentary old biz one at Angelfire with little detail, let alone a
current schedule.
Initially there was some weak Mexmx under it, which might have been
KXPL El Paso close to the same WSW direxion (and which qualifies as a
border station in the Cantú list), but which is supposed to be
news/talk in the NRC AM Log.
A more intriguing possibility in that log is KRUZ, Van Buren AR (Fort
Smith) 500 watt direxional daytimer, ``Estereo Rumba`` but which had
been silent since February 2012. I`ll bet a live SS station would love
to have that callsign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1150, Sunday April 20 at 1252 UT, local pubaffs show
discussing private animal shelter, how dogs love peanut butter;
website a few times but can`t copy it; phone in 915 area code, which
means El Paso TX, matching eastish/westish DF, so it`s KHRO, 5 kW ND
on day power starting at 1245 UT in April; 1215 UT in May. Prime
format is Oldies per NRC AM Log 2013y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1210, April 19 at 1208 UT, nostalgic music, ``It`s always
sunny here, Sunny 12-10`` non-ID, ``Good Night, Irene``. Considerably
clockwise from KOKK SD. Nothing by that slogan in NRC AM Log 2013, so
a change since last August. Googling leads right to WMPS Memphis TN,
which per NRC Log had been Radio Superhero [!], COL Bartlett TN,
address in Germantown. Per this, flip occurred circa November 11,
initially with Xmas music:
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/86642/sunny-rises-in-memphis/
10 kW daypower good for SRS this late, Enid sunrise being 1153 UT.
Major lobe goes southwest, but evidently enough to the west for us.
WMPS official April sunrise is 1130 UT; May 1100; June 1045. KGYN
Guymon OK not a factor: its April sunrise is 1215 UT; May 1145 UT,
June & July 1130 UT. Since it`s near a state line, I need to be sure
which state the transmitter/antennas inhabit: per coórdinates at FCC,
definitely TN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1210, April 19 at 1212 UT, Dakota News Network with lots of
news and weather about South Dakota, from KOKK, Huron. It`s a real SD
morning on SRS today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1270, April 19 at 1218 UT, discussion about organ, cornea
donation in South Dakota and how Native American feelings differ about
this (like keeping the body whole after death for a good afterlife).
So it`s 5 kW KNWC Sioux Falls. Common KSOO 1140 was in earlier,
unrelogged today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1320, April 19 at 1220 UT, sports scores concerning
University of Sioux Falls, ``News-talk 13-20, 107.9``, so it`s the
erstwhile KELO, (along with KELQ on FM); the fourth SD AM station this
sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KCKM 1330 QSL Cards === From Bob Souza:
"Just a quick note; the QSL Cards are going in the mail this afternoon
for everyone verified as receiving the DX test for KCKM 1330 Monahans,
TX March 22nd. I have been CE for some big power AM's but this one
takes the cake with 42 confirmed reports. And I was told this hobby is
dead. Hah!!" (Paul Walker, April 17, NRC-AM via DXLD)
Today in the mail received KCKM 1330 kHz QSL card, bumper sticker and
business card from Bob Souza, Owner and CE. Again, thanks to all who
were involved with the DX Test (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, April 21,
NRC-AM via DXLD)
1330, KCKM, Monahans, Texas, Glossy QSL card picturing twin oil
pumpjacks at sunset, full data, signed by Bob Souza, Owner and General
Manager. A beauty! For reception of widely-heard DX test of March 22.
Also enclosed bumper sticker and business card (Steve Francis, Alcoa,
Tennessee, ibid.)
KCKM 1330 TX, Monahans, received a very nice QSL card in about a month
for DX Test. A glossy sunset pic with oil rigs. v/s: Bob Souza GM &
Owner. Address: PO Box 990, Monahans TX 79756. MW QSL: 3039, Texas MW
QSL: 75. Also sent a red and white bumper sticker and business card. A
very nice package and the QSL is one of the nicest ones I have seen in
sometime (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.)
KCKM - 1330 kHz - Monahans, TX (USA) - QSL --- La propagación en la
mañana de ayer, día 21 [sic; 22] de marzo, fue pésima. Apenas algún
susurro se dejaba oír en alguna de las frecuencias más habituales.
Contra todo pronóstico, a las 05'15Z, pude captar algunos de los
elementos que compusieron el "DX-test" que realizó esta emisora.
Durante media hora emitió identificaciones en morse, barridos de
frecuencia, efectos de sonido... en fin, un conjunto de cosas que
penetran bien la barrera de los mil ruidos con los que nos podemos
encontrar en la banda. Aunque no conseguí escuchar ninguna de las
identificaciones en morse, envié esta mañana un informe de recepción
tentativo, indicando con toda la precisión de la que he sido capaz,
las horas de inicio de los ruidos y efectos que escuché. Esta tarde,
Bob Souza (General Manager/Program Director) me ha respondido: "Yes,
you caught our test in SPAIN! Easy to identify with your audio
submission. We will send you a QSL card soon." KCKM realizó esta
emisión de prueba con la potencia asignada para el horario diurno, 12
kW. 22MAR2014 - 05'15 UTC - 8361 km (Mauricio Molano Sánchez, Spain,
http://moladx.blogspot.it/ domingo, 23 de marzo de 2014, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
** U S A. 1520 & 1540 CRI relays via Texas: see CHINA [non]
[WORLD OF RADIO 1718]
** U S A. 1700, April 18 at 0132 UT, ``Rockin` The Metroplex with a
totally Tejano sound, Kick-1700``, and back to music in Spanish. VG
dominant signal now, atop the 1700 sportsters, and except for local
1640, stronger than anything else on the X-band, so I believe KKLF
Richardson TX is probably still on day power 10 kW (as others have
concluded) rather than 1 kW night power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. NAB proposes TIS Filter change to 5 kHz
Radio World is reporting that the NAB has voiced opposition to the
FCC's plan to remove the filtering requirement on Travelers
Information Stations (TIS) which limits audio above 3 kHz. The NAB
instead would like to see a compromise of 5 kHz, which allows for
better audio clarity, but still provides some interference protection
to full power stations. Full story is at:
http://www.radioworld.com/article/fcc-seeks-input-on-tis-filter-change/270050
(via Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, EM63, April 23, NRC-AM via DXLD
I'm puzzled as to why 3 kHz isn't good enough. I can't say that I've
heard any TIS stations which were functioning properly which were
difficult to hear. I'd guess this might be an economic issue
relating to the added costs of filtering, in which case a change to 5
kHz won't change anything (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia,
ibid.)
I remember reading a paper from NASA about understandability and
frequency when I was in college (Many Moons ago). I think the numbers
I state are the same as in the paper but could be off but the general
idea is the same.
It was found that the understandability of the average male voice was
not decreased when frequencies above 3000 Hz and below 300 Hz were
filtered out but for the "average woman" it was 400 Hz and 4500 Hz
respectively. The Author of the paper suggested a switchable voice
filter that could be set for male or female Operators / CapComs /
Astronauts. I sometimes wonder if men tending to lose hearing on the
higher end first isn't a survival tactic ;)
This wasn't an issue until the Shuttle for the US and if I recall it
was suggested that the Soviets had been using either a switchable
filter or a wider one since the early days of human space flight.
(Tim Hills, Sioux Falls, SD, ibid.)
I recall something similar from long ago. However I routinely use
audio filtering on my DX recordings in playback mode, and even with a
female voice, I rarely let anything through above 3 kHz, and it's very
readable. I still maintain the issue is economics, not audio
intelligibility. That's just a convenient cover (Russ Edmunds, ibid.)
** U S A. I've been watching 1710 quite closely after logging the NJ
TIS last week. Heard that one even clearer than previously on the
weekend, and also heard what seems to be another TIS. Heard an ID
"...Springfield Armory National Historic Site... located on 1710 on
your AM radio dial...." Haven't seen anything on that one, so if
anyone has any more info on it, that would be appreciated. 73, (Nigel
Pimblett, Dunmore, Alberta, April 8, IRCA mailing list via DXLD)
It's Springfield, MA, congrats! 73, (George Sherman, MN, ibid.)
Logged on HF Underground.
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16258.0.html
(Rob Keeney, Summerville SC, ibid.)
There is a Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Springfield,
MA, but I've also not seen anything about a TIS connected with it.
(Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.)
The Springfield Armory National Historic Site TIS has been on the air
for 3 months or so, it is long (3 minutes) and gives a lot of details
abut the history of the museum and surrounding area. It used to be a
short loop tape about a "special tis" and speculation was everywhere
from Albany NY to some college in Louisiana (Jim Balle, Spfld Ma,
ibid.)
I see the posts re 1710. Is there anyone with a recording they can
post of the 3m loop from Springfield MA??
I have been hearing what sounds like American English on 1710 (that`s
how weak the signal is, only a few words here and there). The funny
thing is, it seems to be there only at 0500 UT / GMT. I even
recorded 0430 and 0530 today, and find there is no trace. Maybe I
should record an hour around that time. 0500 is first light here, so
of course it will be the peak time, but I did hear the TIS thing from
NJ a few times throughout the night some months ago.
What I seem to be hearing is an OM and YL alternating, and sometimes
some kind of music. I don't seem to have found any words of
significance yet. I looked last night for the MA Perseus server, but
it wasn't on (Ken, Scotland, watching closely for QRP stuff on 1710!!,
April 9, ibid.)
Ken, I live about 7 miles from the Springfield Armory and the tis is
on 24 hours a day. I am currently hearing SS music and talk in the
background under the TIS. I don't know how to post a recording. There
are a lot of unlicensed SS stations in the Springfield / Boston /
Hartford area. Maybe you are hearing one of them (Jim Balle, ibid.)
Clips of 1710 in Scotland --- I have a couple of clips, one from
today, 10th April around 0503 UT, while the other is from 7th April,
and is probably too long but there is mention of MA during it as well.
Does it sound like the audio from the Military museum in MA?? The YL
may actually be another station when you hear it.
http://www.dxarchive.com/mw/audio/140410_0503ish_1710_unid_mention_ma.mp3
http://www.dxarchive.com/mw/audio/140407_mon_0500_1710_unid_mention_ma_1.50_minutes.mp3
(Ken, Scotland, April 10, ibid.)
The woman in both clips sounds like she is speaking in Spanish, and
sounds very much like the one of the announcers on pirate Radio
Celestial in Bronx, NY. There are multiple mentions of Massachusetts
between the two clips, and the sound of it would fit a TIS like that,
but I haven't heard that one here yet (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of
Philadelphia, ibid.)
I hear Mass. mentioned twice very clearly. That would not be NJ. The
woman sounds like the voice I hear on the NJ TIS. I'm at Burnt River
and have been trying to ID the new MA TIS and have had two English
stations there but only IDing the NJ one so far. It doesn't help that
my wellbrook flag is directionally away from MA, but we've still got
several feet of slushy snow and I'm not wanting to turn it around as
99% of the DX I'm chasing is west and southwest. I had the TIS that
was testing earlier, using this same antenna, in January / February so
I'm sure it's a matter of time. I do think you've most certainly
logged it, though (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, ibid.)
Log it. I hear Springfield Armory at 2:03-4 in clip 1. I think I hear
it early in clip 2. There's a 2nd English in there I suspect is NJ but
can't prove it. Of course several Mass. mentions. PS I need to turn an
antenna back to the east and catch it from here in IL 73 KAZ (Neil
Kazaross, ibid.)
I'm hearing the two TIS stations fighting it out with Celestial
tonight. Generally the NJ TIS is winning, but I caught a clear "This
is the Springfield Armory National Historic Site" a few minutes ago.
If they can crack through my high noise level, they should be very
widely heard indeed (Barry McLarnon, Ottawa, ON, ibid.)
I finally had a good signal today, or should I say better signal from
1710 kHz. I have clips on this page...
http://www.dxarchive.com/mw/transatlantic_logs_april_2014.html
There are 4 clips from today including a web address from the YL on
another station. But the Springfield Armoury/Armory ID came in around
0500 here in Scotland. These outfits must be running pretty low [sic]
power to be travelling across the Atlantic (Ken, Scotland, April 11,
ibid.)
Ken, that is the TIS loop for the Springfield Armory Museum. I played
the audio clip while my radio was tuned to 1710 and got it to sync up
within 1/2 a second with the radio (Jim Balle, Springfield MA,
http://www.fhu.com ibid.)
** U S A. PROLIFIC BOSTON PIRATE RAIDED
Last Updated on April 17, 2014 at 3:21 pm
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/88389/prolific-boston-pirate-raided/
Touch 106.1 Boston Black FCC Raid Shut Down Mayor Charles Clemons
Boston area pirate "Touch 106.1" was shut down today following a raid
by US marshals.The Boston Globe reports that agents arrived at the
station this morning to search the place and remove anything that
allowed transmission of programs over the airwaves. The station has
been operated by ‘Brother’ Charles Clemons since 2006.
Clemons, a former Boston police officer, put the station into the
public limelight last year when he ran for mayor of Boston. Claiming
to run operate with 100 watts, Touch was considered to be the only
broadcast voice for the black community following the demise of
similar programming on 1090 WILD. Universal Hub states that raid took
place over the air right around 11am.
Clemons was issued a $17,000 fine by the FCC for operating the station
in 2008. Written By Lance Venta (via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
RADIO EQUIPMENT SEIZED FROM THREE ILLEGAL RADIO STATIONS IN GREATER
BOSTON --- April 18, 2014
BOSTON – Warrants were recently unsealed in U.S. District Court
detailing the seizure of radio transmission equipment used by three
pirate radio stations: 100.1 FM, broadcasting from Everett, Mattapan,
and Brockton, with a studio in Dorchester; Touch 106.1 FM,
broadcasting from Boston; and 88.7 FM, broadcasting from Brockton.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2014/April/PirateRadioPR.html
(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
High-level support for air piracy, we have here...
The following appeared on Bostonglobe.com: Headline:
GOVERNOR PATRICK CRITICIZES FEDERAL AGENTS FOR SHUTTING DOWN
UNLICENSED BOSTON RADIO STATION. - The Boston Globe Date: Apr 22, 2014
Governor Deval Patrick and several other politicians of color reacted
swiftly Friday to the closing of TOUCH 106.1 FM, a popular unlicensed
radio station that bills itself as the fabric of the black community.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/18/governor-patrick-criticizes-federal-agents-for-shutting-down-unlicensed-boston-radio-station/NupWrh9AFVgbZPoLBRpKYJ/story.html?s_campaign=8315
(via Greg Hardison, CA, DXLD)
BOSTON PIRATES WORSE THAN FIRST THOUGHT
Radio Ink April 23, 2014
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2782233&spid=24698
The plight of Boston Pirate radio station Touch 106 has generated a
lot of interest from broadcasters. One Boston GM tells Radio Ink the
situation in and around Boston is a lot worse than anyone knows.
There's even a website that keeps track of the Pirate stations, what
happens to them, and what doesn't. Massachusetts Governor Deval
Patrick defended Touch 106, even though he knows it's illegal, after
the feds shut the station down. The Boston GM Radio Ink spoke to says,
"It's odd that Patrick has praised an illegal station operator who,
for years, has been outwardly defiant towards a major government
agency." He says people like Touch 106 owner Charles Clemons become
community martyrs. "And, of course, it's become "monkey see, monkey
do." Once the deed is done once, everyone wants to repeat it. So a
handful of stations have turned into dozens, and their operators have
become heroes."
The GM who spoke to Radio Ink says the FCC has done little to nothing
to prevent these Pirate stations from operating. "There were several
citations and fines; none of which, I believe, were ever paid. There
have been several closures where public safety has been concerned. But
never was the next step taken. No arrests, no jail time, no one
having to post bail, no public embarrassment for the perpetrators.
Just outright defiance. These stations operate without any regard to
technical compliance, many are located in areas not zoned for business
or broadcast operations, and many derive real revenue from a variety
of sources, including, but not limited to, time brokerage and/or
mainstream advertising. Of course, they impact legitimate, legally
operating stations." (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** URUGUAY. The big prize was a lovely envelope of decals and QSLs for
Radio Uruguay 6125 with 500 watts. I’m still hearing this nightly from
0600 UT at weak levels but have yet to see any other DX reports of it
from outside South America (Bryan Clark, NZ, April NZ DX Times via
DXLD)
I made only three rather feeble attempts at any listening despite
plenty of lazy time during 14 nights on board the “Golden Princess”
from Buenos Aires to Valparaíso. While in Montevideo, I called in at
Radiodifusión Nacional Uruguay on the off chance of speaking with
Bryan Clark’s contact (at that time Bryan hadn’t received his QSL) but
it was the Monday of Carnaval so the offices were closed and the
security guard and a staffer who happened by weren’t familiar with the
name I had. 73 (Theo Donnelly, back in BC, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** UZBEKISTAN. 12160, Sunday April 20 at 1305, open carrier with
flutter, stronger than 12150 VOA `Jazz America` via Tinang. 1344
recheck, now 12160 in S Asian language, poor with flutter. HFCC A-14
shows: ``12160 1315 1615 41 TAC 100 131 10 156 1234567 300314 261014 D
Mul UZB NEW RAM 2394`` -- but what is it, really? Aoki sows TWR India
in variety of languages until 1615, but starting at 1315 in Hindi
weekends, Dogri weekdays; and daily in Hindi between 1330 and 1400.
WWCR doesn`t start 12160 until 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VANUATU. 7260v, 0459, Radio Vanuatu reactivated 21/3, fair with
improving signals in English & Pidgin. Pidgin news summary at 0501
followed by Radio Australia relay. Frequency measured as 7259.97. Very
good at 0800 recheck when // 3945 also vgd. Also heard with theme
music and “Good Morning” announcements 1845 22/3 at good level // 3945
fair (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), North Island, New Zealand,
with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America,
100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via
DXLD)
** VATICAN. I logged the Armenian Service of Vatican Radio to Europe
and the Mediterranean on 7335 kHz, from 0208 to 0228 UT on 15 April
2014. I reported this via e-mail to Sergio Salvatori, Frequency
Management, and he replied with this response:
I remind that 7 MHz was one of the band used from SMG to serve North
America in the past; according to propagation calculation software a 7
MHz should work but as we beam to Armenia at 86 the back radiation
should not provide enough power to meet a reliable service.
The "reliable service" being mentioned above refers to the signal
reaching me here in New Jersey, with a readable signal, SINPO=35333.
73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, 1811 UT April 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17585, April 18 at 2001, Lord`s Prayer in Latin, so immediately
suspect a special broadcast from VR as the Catholix consider this
``Good Friday``; yes: part of a `Stations of the Cross` live
broadcast, originally in Italian, with English voice-overs obviously
scripted, not running translation, tho matching closely.
Fleeting possibility it`s WEWN on new frequency, since 15610 has been
mostly missing? It still is. But WEWN are broadcasting the same event
with Spanish translation heard at 2003 on 12050, and at 2006 on 13830,
when another iteration of TLP in Latin, and the YL has a noticeably
Italian accent. Now at Station 11.
Back to 17585: at 2018, ditto, going on from Station 12 to 13. 2022
TLP yet again; they never tire of it and all this repetition every 4
minutes or so should get God`s attention!! Then to final Station 14.
2030 transmitter cuts off, but mistake? As right back on, for anchor
wrapup, finally off at 2036* again abruptly without so much as an ID
or a ``Laudetur Iesus Christus``.
Meanwhile, I have quickly found via Alan Roe`s WOR HITLIST
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
the Special Broadcasts page of Vatican Radio
http://en.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp
which for April 18
http://en.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp?cod=txs_2014_04_18_ing.asp#txs
shows `Way of the Cross` from the Colosseum started at 1915 UT (a.k.a.
9:05 [sic] pm Holy Roman Daylight Shifting Time), with SW frequencies
for Africa, this in English; 15570 in French, 21560 in Portuguese,
neither of which was noticed here.
More Easter special broadcasts are coming up on April 19-20-21 with
linx at the bottom. Next one is `Easter Vigil` from 1820 UT Saturday
on same three plus Chinese to Asia on 13800. Transmitter sites never
specified in case some secret relays occur (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 13800, April 19 at 2032, fair signal with Pope et al. in
Latin, expecting Chinese as scheduled on this special broadcast;
finally hear a few words of that at 2038. 13800 is only fair signal
while // 17585 in English translation to Africa is fair with no
flutter. 15570 in French is very poor with flutter; and 21560 in
Portuguese is JBA. Same event into Spanish on WEWN 13830 running a
second or two behind Vatican direct. 17585 goes off at 2103* after
announcement that would be back tomorrow with more specials including
``Urbi et Orbi`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
VATICAN CITY STATE: Heard Vatican Radio's special live English
broadcast to Africa on 17585 on 4/19/14. Good reception of Saturday
evening Easter Vigil Mass with Pope Francis. I happened to tune in at
2047 UT to hear conclusion of communion, final blessing and
recessional hymn. Service concluded at 2100 UT and transmission ended
at 2104 (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 8294-USB. Vietnam Coastal Stations on April 21:
Hai Phong Radio, *1205 to 1209* (in the past this was broadcasting for
a longer time than the other coastal stations and usually played nice
Vietnamese songs, but not today); nothing heard from 1225 to 1230,
unlike yesterday.
Da Nang Radio, *1235 to 1239*
Ho Chi Minh Radio, *1305-1309* (no English)
All of them just give marine conditions today; all started and ended
with series of tones; many “kilo-mét” (Vietnamese for kilometers); no
other items or commercial announcements given. All the broadcasts
seemed rather abbreviated today! 7906-USB unusable; covered by
pulsating noise.
April 20, heard 8294-USB at 1225 in ENGLISH. Ended with "This is
_________ Radio out" (not the bad accent in English as on Ho Chi Minh
Radio) and then into Vietnamese till 1230* (no tones). I had just
tuned in and was listening hard to confirm in English (it was) and
didn't catch the location, but believe it may have been Hai Phong
Radio. First time I have heard a Vietnam Coastal Station in English
other than via Ho Chi Minh Radio at 1305. Really needs more monitoring
to see what the schedule is, as it was not heard at 1225 the next day.
There are about 16 stations operated by VISHIPEL (Vietnam Maritime
Communication and Electronics LLC) along the coastline of Vietnam to
provide maritime conditions and safety messages (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. UK, 12005, Excellent V Of Vietnam English service
via Woofferton England relay brokered by Babcock. Logged at 0116 UT
Apr 17, when letterbox magazine started reading by sweet young girl.
Nice flute opening music. -48dBm or S=9+30dB on the SDR receiver
scale. Slight high speed CW station QRM on nearby adjacent 12001 to
12002 kHz range (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 17,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non non] 12019.138m, Voice of Vietnam, 1240-1300 April 19, At tune
in, noted a female in English language news comments. Mentions Vietnam
often during comments. At 1250 the news is finished. This is followed
with a program of music and comments in English. Signal was fair but
difficult to copy. "m" means measured to the nearest cycle (Chuck
Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So your other logs to three decimal places, see INDONESIA, PERU, were
not ``m``? (gh, DXLD)
** VIETNAM. 29140, 1245 April 19, V of Vietnam (4 x 7285), Hanoi.
30830 [sic], 1245 April 19, V of Vietnam 4 (5 x 6165), Hanoi 30825
wild Asiatic music (Tim Bucknall, G-DE44LS Middleton Top, Derbyshire,
England, UK, 01w34/53n04, Hyundai VDO Car RX, Icom IC-7000, Alinco DJ-
X11e, RTL2832 Dongle, Tecsun PL-380 with modified CB whip, harmonics
yg via DXLD)
** VIETNAM [non]. 13825, April 18 at 1429, Vietnamese with bits of
classical music, fair signal in the clear, i.e. Radio Free Asia via
SAIPAN during this hour only, and when there is no longer any ACI from
legit stations or jammers on 13820 or 13830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. Radio Free Asia Releases 3rd in Asian Music QSL
Series April 2014
Radio Free Asia's 53rd QSL card release is the third design in the
series "Celebrating Musical Instruments of Asia". This card shows a
dan tranh which is a traditional, Vietnamese stringed instrument. Dan
tranhs are long and narrow having a rounded, or convex, surface. Each
string is supported by a wooden, or bone, bridge in an inverted "V"
position. Dan tranhs are covered with high-gloss lacquer and, in many
cases, ornately designed with mother-of-pearl which was used for our
dan tranh below. The history of the dan tranh dates back hundreds of
years and it is still a popular instrument in Vietnam today. This QSL
is used to confirm all valid reception reports from April 1 -- June
30, 2014. (via Dario, April 17, playdx yg via DXLD)
** VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH. ZBVI, 780 kHz, Roadtown, Tortola, British
Virgin Islands recently installed a tower to replace one that was
damaged when a drunk driver drove into it. Power level and radiation
efficiency have now returned to the point of permitting reception in
the USA. The following is a link to a recent recording:
http://chowdanet.com/markc/dx_audio/zbvi-780_20140410_0100z.mp3
(heard here UTC 10 APR 2014 @ 0100)
A bit of the "Diana" version of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" is
followed by talk by a man, "The views expressed in the previous
broadcast do not necessarily represent the views of the management and
staff of Virgin Islands Broadcasting Limited or the sponsors of this
programme." Then a woman spoke and gave the URL "www.zbviradio.com"
just before co-channel Radio Coro (Venezuela) starting getting the
better of things. An advert for paint followed (Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA. Perseus receiver, dual-feed
SuperLoops 75-255 and 165-345 degrees, April 11, IRCA via DXLD)
ZBVI alternates between 1 kW and 3 kW. They haven't run at 10 kW in
YEARS (Paul Walker, PA, April 15, ibid.)
I think it was about 8 years ago when I logged ZBVI mixed with Coro
and phased WBBM from my coastal WI site with phased BOGs. 73 KAZ (Niel
Kazaross, ibid.)
** VIRGIN ISLANDS US. Sent a report out to WDHP 1620 American Virgin
Islands running overnight music format rather than BBC relay. MW
conditions have been noisy with a lot of solar disturbances probably
the culprit (Bryan Clark, NZ, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** ZAMBIA. Ivo's blog [see PUBLICATIONS]
Summer A-14 schedules now available on our blog
African stations
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/african-stations.html
is still listing Zambia Radio 2 on 6165 as active in A-14 (although
listed as Radio 1). Keep in mind this station has been off-air since
late 2012. To narrow it down a bit, it disappeared sometime between
September 5, 2012, and January 7, 2013. Despite regular checks I have
not heard it since then and it is not there as I write this (Bill
Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Sony ICF2001D. April 18, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR, ZBC Radio at 1930 in Swahili
with a woman presenting lively East African vocals then station theme
music at 1958 and OC to time pips at 2000 and into apparent news –
Fair Apr 14 (Mark Coady, ON, ODXA via WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DXLD)
11735, ZBC; 2040-2105, 4/15. Big signal today (SIO 343) and glad to
see this one's back. I was getting worried. Usual selection of
indigenous music (I love the Hindu influences!) and OM with ZBC ID at
2059, transmission continued past normal 2100 s/off, not sure why
(Mike Nikolich - N9OVQ - Lake Barrington, IL, Perseus SDR with
Wellbrook ALA1530A-2 loop antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DXLD)
TANZANIA: 11735, Radio Tanzania-Zanzibar (tentative); 2049-2101+, 17-
Apr; Long Arabic vocal to announcement at 2058+; peppey promo at 2059+
mentioning Dar es Salaam into Afro-pop music. 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)
UNIDENTIFIED. Hi All, I've been tuning around the LW band for a couple
of hours and I have noted a jammer that affects 2 LW channels, 198 &
207 kHz. I don't have sophisticated direction finding equipment but
the signal seems to come from the east (slightly NE) of my location.
This might, and I repeat “might”, indicate it comes from the
Kaliningrad region. Location: Erstein, 20 km south of Strasbourg,
France. [i.e. on the French side of the Rhein, barely --- gh] Anyone
else heard it? 73s, (Rémy Friess, 1159 UT April 19, BDXC-UK yg via
DXLD)
Nothing unusual at 1215 UT here in Romania. I'm hearing BBC4 on 198
and Deutschlandfunk on 207 kHz (Tudor Vedeanu, Romania, April 19,
MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Just checked again (1221 UT). It's gone now. But it was there for at
least two hours. I guess we should watch these channels. Regards,
(Rémy, ibid.)
Hi, Checked again this morning. It was active again at around 0600. I
just wonder who the target is. I first thought that it might be the
Ukrainian station on 207 kHz, but - to my knowledge - this isn't
active any more. Or has it been reactivated? 73s, (Rémy, April 23,
ibid.)
Hi, no, 207 kHz hasn't been reactivated. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland,
ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. Last night, I heard classical music (orchestral,
operatic and choral) on 1530 kHz at 0342 UT. It continued until 1109
UT when it faded under WCKY. The signal peaked to fair strength at
times. In WCKY's null there was QRM from KQNK until 0500, then XEUS
for a time, and later KCMN. the signal was coming from approximately
170?/350? at my location (36?22'51"N, 97?26'35" W). Does anyone have
an idea about what station it might have been? There never was an ID
or any announcement. Thank you for your help (Richard Allen, near
Perry OK USA, Sent from my iPad, April 18, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO
1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. In Toronto, unable to DX, but couple things
reported to BCB DX logger I have not seen reported on these lists:
1710 = Apr 01 07:42 Visiting a friend in Toledo, Ohio - Gary Siegel -
we are hearing a "Radio Martí" on 1710. Where is this, and why is
nobody reporting it? Did Marathon-1180 move here, perhaps?--Frank
Merrill/IL (Saul Chernos, Ont., IRCA via DXLD)
Glenn Hauser in 2004: " ... [I]f the receiver IF is 450 kHz, here's
how the image works: 1710 x 3 = 5130. 5130 + (2 x 450) = 6030, a
regular R. Marti frequency" (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
(via Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, ibid.)
I'm doubting an image. Those are cause most frequently by strong
signal overload, which would mean a local signal. If it were a
transmitter problem it probably wouldn't get out that far. But it
could be a pirate relaying it (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of
Philadelphia, Grid FN20id, ibid.)
You`d be surprised what cheap radios are capable of doing in the way
of images from SW. But what radio was it? Was there external antenna
to overload it? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, April 22 at 0130 check UT, I can detect a JBA
carrier here, suspected the very weak second harmonic of 1330, KGLD
Tyler TX with 1 kW day power, which I laboriously IDed last year.
Our Enid sunset today was 0111 UT (to attain 0153 UT by Solstice),
while Tyler`s was 0055 UT per gaisma.com. KGLD`s official FCC sunset
in April is 0045 UT (May: 0115 UT; June & July: 0130 UT). And its FCC
sunrises, when DX might also ensue: April: 1200 UT; May: 1130 UT;
June: 1115 UT. (I don`t like putting UT after every time, so
redundant, but do so with MW to remind people subjected to `ELT`.)
BTW, my automatic darkness-sensing streetlight ignited at 0125 UT
April 22 with a burst of RF noise and then slowly faded up; so that`s
14 minutes after sunset with a clear sky. Noise level on 2 MHz also
ramped up, but am not certain that`s the cause (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4785, April 18 at 0106, weak signal sending slow CW,
almost slow enough for me to copy with concentration, but never got
back to it. Maybe MARS? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5730.0-AM, April 20 at 0513, big open carrier, some
fading; could be a broadcast transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6138-6153 approx., April 18 at 0057, rapid pulsing
peaking circa 6147, poor signal, but I am suspicious whenever
something like this appear inside an SWBC band. Maybe OTH radar rather
than Brasil out of order again, as it`s OK on 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-USB, April 19 at 0106, pirate music, 0112 long
pause, no announcement, more music. Still same past 0120 at further
chex; 0122 music cuts on and off a few times, 0123 dead air, 0124
blast of a few incomprehensible words and nothing more heard. Many
other logs of this got no ID either, but amazingly recognized a lot of
the music:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=16667.0
A separate thread was hearing R. Ronin Shortwave, 6925-USB from *0134:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=16669.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9212/CW, Five-letter CW code groups from 0430 to 0630 on
Apr-14 & Apr-15. Solid copy throughout but very slow fading into the
noise observed on both nights consistent with sunrise at the
transmitter? Making me think this is NOT Cuban. I have reported this
before (Marc Kulbacki, Windsor ON, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trasmissione test stazione non identificata --- Salve a
tutti e Buona Pasqua. Sto ascoltando da diverso tempo una trasmissione
test su 9760 kHz da parte di una stazione che non si identifica.
Chiede soltanto di ricevere rapporti di ricezione via email
all'indirizzo: transmissiontest@gmail.com In allegato un piccolo file
audio (Giovanni Lorenzi, -- ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION IT9TZZ, 0843
UT April 20, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
And shortly followed with an automated reply promising a ``QSL
shortly`` --- no, I haven`t got one either. This is BaBcoCk, probably
Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I was scanning between bands from southern Utah when I
picked up at 1335 UT on April 22 a radio broadcast of Asian sounding
conversation between a male and a female on 10560 kHz. I did not get
an ID. Any ideas what it could be? The reception on the 25m band was
exceptional this morning as there was a station on nearly every 5 kHz.
Most of the stations were Asian (John, location unknown, Grundig Sat
750 with 30 feet wire, PTSW YG via DXLD)
The first thing you should anonymously do is hunt around for a legit
or jammer CNR1 frequency and see if it matches. The second thing you
should do is check the Aoki list for 10560 or CNR1s at this time (no
10560, but quite conceivable it could be CNR1 jamming a new Sound of
Hope frequency or even SOH itself). Is it conceivable that receiver
could be producing images from 25m band? Is there anything on 11560?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12105, April 23 at 0552, very poor fluttery signal where
I usually hear nothing: could it be WTWW, on its occasional all-night
broadcast with Yoruba at this time? I am only hearing songs past 0600
with no ID, not Bible readings in any language, which is nominally the
purpose of WTWW-3. Aoki alleges that 05-08 Yoruba is only on Fridays
thru Tuesdays (plus Chinese 08-11 same), but this is Wednesday.
Nothing else, however, is listed on 12105 anywhere near this hour. Ivo
Ivanov occasionally reports 12105 WTWW all night using remote
receivers, while even if on, it`s too high and too close to propagate
to here only one megameter away. Recheck after 1100, no sign of WTWW
now, which if on all night, would be in Russian; just weak Chinese,
presumably KSDA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See USA: not WTWW
UNIDENTIFIED. 13560.7-AM approx., April 18 at 0520 I encounter some
kind of broadcast with unreadable talk, not sure if English, and some
music fading in and out; very poor signal and also vs CODAR. First I
check to be sure it`s not // local KCRC 1390 somehow overloading or
mixing; 0528 a little better with ``Columbia Broadcasting System`` ID
for some program ``every Sunday night``, so it`s old-time-radio, ad
for something about Adam? 0532 for Adler`s Elevator Shoes, making a
man seem two inches taller, as he has every right to appear! 0533
``The 1920`s Radio Network presents: `The Inner Sanctum``` and into
that classic show. By 0535 it`s a little stronger.
Meanwhile I am figuring out possible fundamentals if this be an
harmonic: Not heard on 6780, 4520 or 3390. No longer heard a bit
before next check 0600. So anyhow, appears to be a pirate, probably in
North America, tho legit signals from Europe to Australia are
propagating on the 22m band. Searching freeradiocafe and hfunderground
gets zero hits on 13560; nor do I find any recent logs on that
frequency in DXLD archives (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Could this have been a mixing product of two or more of the four WWCR
transmissions? The program aired sounds like the IRN News / Golden Age
of Radio program which runs several times on WWCR (check the schedule
for transmitter and frequency) as well as on other radio stations (see
http://www.irnusaradio.com/station-finder for the closest one to Enid
OK). Note that they respond via email to a specific request -- the
station list is NOT online. So it may not be a pirate broadcast after
all, but simply a mashup in Nashville (Shawn Fahrer, NY, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
I did not mention that one of the first things I checked for // was
WWCR on 3215. But not //, and WWCR sked shows this hour is currently
occupied by `Worldwide Country Radio`. Nor is it on any of the other
three WWCR transmitters at that time, so WWCR is not involved.
Amid the log I did hear an ID for the 1920s Radio Network, and its
program grid #2
http://www.the1920snetwork.com/grid/index.html
does show `Inner Sanctum` M-F at 1-2 am, presumably EDT, as the
service originates with public radio WHRO in Virginia. It`s online and
available for relay anywhere, but I don`t find any real radio
affiliate list as it`s mainly a streaming service. It so happens there
is only one even MW frequency which could produce a harmonic on 13560,
and that is 1130 x 12, extremely unlikely, less likely than a pirate
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1718, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 28980, 1232 April 19, UNID BC Harmonic (Tim Bucknall, G-
DE44LS Middleton Top, Derbyshire, England, UK, 01w34/53n04, Hyundai
VDO Car RX, Icom IC-7000, Alinco DJ-X11e, RTL2832 Dongle, Tecsun PL-
380 with modified CB whip, harmonics yg via DXLD) 9660 x 3, 7245 x 4,
or 4830 x 6? (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 29670, 1300 April 19, UNID BC Harmonic (3 x 9890?), v
poor Fade in 1300 (Tim Bucknall, G-DE44LS Middleton Top, Derbyshire,
England, UK, 01w34/53n04, Hyundai VDO Car RX, Icom IC-7000, Alinco DJ-
X11e, RTL2832 Dongle, Tecsun PL-380 with modified CB whip, harmonics
yg via DXLD)
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Hi Glenn, here`s ``a little something`` (channeling Pooh Bear) to help
you keep DXLD/WOR rolling along in 2014. Thanks, as always for the
high qualty/relilale DX information you and the rest of the
contributors provide. Cheers from the beach, my friend (Dan Sheedy,
WB6FJD, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702)
Hey Glenn, Just wanted to see if everything is OK since I haven't seen
your posts on the primetimeshortwave group. I also want to say thanks
for all your efforts and I love your humor within some loggings! Best
Regards (Chris Campbell, Columbus Ohio, Sent from Yahoo Mail on
Android, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Chris, Thanks for your concern. I`m fine --- sometimes I don`t have
enough logs accumulated, or am too busy getting ready for and
producing World of Radio, to post a daily or twice-daily log report.
Tnx for the kind words (Glenn to Chris, via DXLD)
[Later:] it appears my almost daily logs are not being delivered to
some list subscribers, perhaps because they treat all yahoomail as
spam! Check the hard-core-dx or swl at qth.net archives and you will
find them; even tho I am not getting them back from those either (gh)
Hello Glenn, Hope that you had a nice Easter, as we did. I see that
you continue to keep quite busy. I have always admired the work load
that you put out. If there is a way that I can help out or you accept
donations, please let me know. I am trying to be more active to occupy
my mind. I have been listening, but not reporting! Thank you for any
help, hoping to hear from you once again (Jerry Ervine, KC5YRE,
Mission, Texas, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
PUBLICATIONS
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WORLD WAR TWO POWER REDUCTION
I'm delving into the history of a little-known FCC mandate to U.S.
Broadcasters, to reduce transmitter operating power during World War
II. The power reduction went into effect in 1942 and was lifted in
1945. Little seems available through normal search engines so I'm
asking readers if they can supply anecdotal or factual references that
might help us flesh out this story. Anything you can add would be
useful! Regards, (Mark Durenberger, CPBE, April 12, IRCA via DXLD)
My recollection based on some long-ago reading was that this applied
to stations primarily along the two coasts, going inland some
distance, and then also to any clears which were further inland but
easily audible at the coasts, and it also applied - particularly on
the Pacific coast to actually going silent overnight. The intent was
to minimize enemy use of these AM radio signals as homing beacons such
as was done in the attack on Pearl Harbor (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of
Philadelphia, Grid FN20id, ibid.)
There was one exception.
WLW in Cincinnati was allowed to increase power to 600 kW under an
experimental license. Running that much power into an 800' half-wave
tower the 700KHz signal was easily heard in England and on the
Continent. England had cut back night time radio to keep the Germans
from using signals for targeting so many times the Brits were getting
their news from TA DX ;) After WWII WLW was limited to its current 50
kW and they ran the station from the exciter for the big Amp.
There were no modulation limiters like stations are required to have
today so they ran close to 100% modulation giving the signal even more
punch and it could regularly be heard in OZ (Tim Hills, Sioux Falls,
SD, ibid.)
I assume this was an FCC ruling and should be available in the FCC
annual report for 1942 or in the codified set of FCC rulings. Any
decent government documents repository should have this. I'd suggest
going to your nearest university library and talking to a government
documents librarian (Dave Hochfelder, Albany, NY, ibid.)
Re: [78-L] World War Two power reduction
The Media History Digital Library
has nearly one million pages of pre-1964 magazines online, all full-
text searchable
available for free viewing and download.
The Library of Congress Packard Campus scanned their run of
*Broadcasting*, which includes an article from November 9, 1942 titled
"FCC Places Industry on Full War Basis"
My quick search found many references to station transmitter standards
during that period.
We have a growing collection of radio publications in the radio/tv
collection
including Radio Year Books from 1938 to 1964.
David Pierce, Director, Media History Digital Library
http://mediahistoryproject.org/
(via Mark Durenberger, IRCA via DXLD)
This was similar to the blackouts on both coasts when air raids were
feared. And in the United Kingdom BBC statuins moved to one or two
frequencies to prevent German planes from zeroing in on specific
locations? When I arrived in England in 1943 there were just two BBC
programs: Home Service and Forces Program. The BBC also had
transmitters at undisclosed locations aimed at continental Europe. Of
course this combining frequencies did not stop the German air raids
(Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, April 12, The NRC AM mailing list
via Russ Edmunds, IRCA via DXLD)
IIRC that was the same principle that drove the old Conelrad system
with multiple stations broadcasting emergency info on 640 and 1240.
I'm not sure, but I believe that Conelrad started as a WWII service.
(Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.)
No, Conelrad was a creature of the Atomic Age after WW II --- CONtrol
of ELectomagnetic RADiation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I think Conelrad started sometime in the early 1950s. I can remember
one or two tests where all US stations did their 640/1240 thing in the
wee hours; don't remember the exact date of the tests but I believe it
was after we moved to Omaha in 1954 (John Sampson, IRCA via DXLD)
I recall a number of them in the period 1953-58 or so. Per various web
sources, Conelrad was created in 1951 by President Truman from
concerns about Russian bombers homing in and also to provide a means
for coordinated emergency broadcasts, and may have been born from the
idea that the Government had no way to provide emergency news after
Pearl Harbor other than through the networks, and while that worked,
it wasn't a controlled, coordinated source (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of
Philadelphia, ibid.)
I do recall back in the late 1950's or early 1960's when WLS would do
the Conelrad test on 640 kcs. In the mid-1960's former IRCA member Ed
Marr and I had the privilege of visiting the WLS transmitter site. The
site was less than three miles from my home back then.
One of the site engineers on duty showed us the 5 kW 640 KCS
transmitter that had been used for Conelrad. It was still usable at
that time but shut down. The engineer opened up the back door of the
transmitter and said "hey, watch this". He used a grounding hook to
draw a three inch long arc from the output coil on the 640 unit which
had its own antenna. The arc produced near perfect audio from RF
coming from the 50 kW transmitter on 890 kcs! (Tom Jasinski, Joliet,
IL, ibid.)
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African stations [see CHAD; ZAMBIA]
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/african-stations.html
All India Radio
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Radio Tirana via Shijak and CRI via Cerrik
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Alyx & Yey
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Radio Australia
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Adventist World Radio
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Belarus
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South Africa
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Clandestine broadcasts
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China domestic services
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China Radio International
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Deutsche Welle
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Radio Cairo
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Greek station Eliniki Radiophonia
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Ethiopian stations
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FEBC Manila
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/febc-manila.html
Radio Pilipinas PBS
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Radio Veritas Asia
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Reach Beyond (former HCJB)
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/reach-beyond-former-hcjb.html
KBS World Radio
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Radio Kuwait
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CIS low-powered stations
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European low-powered stations
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Media Broadcast
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Myanmar
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/myanmar.html
SLBC and PCJ
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NHK World Radio Japan
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Radio Pakistan
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CVC Voice Asia
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/cvc-voice-asia.html
Argentinian stations
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Radio Exterior de Espana
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Radio Free Asia
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Radio Liberty and affiliate stations
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Radio France Internationale
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Cuban stations
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Radio New Zealand International
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Radio Romania International
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NEXUS-IBA
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Radio TV Algerienne
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Radio Taiwan International
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Secretbrod [sic, must be wrong link - gh]
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/international-radio-serbia.html
International Radio Serbia
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Radio Thailand HSK9
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The Overcomer Ministry
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Voice of Turkey
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Trans World Radio
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US private religious stations
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Vatican Radio
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/vatican-radio.html
Voice of America and affiliate stations
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Voice of Indonesia
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/voice-of-indonesia.html
Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran
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Voice of Korea
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Voice of Mongolia
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Voice of Vietnam
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-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria April 18, dxldyg via DLD)
TINY TRAP
+++++++++
Wade Goodwin, sub host of NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, April 19 at
1326 UT, referred to ``the tiny country of Equatorial Guinea`` about
polio outbreak. Area is 10,800 square miles, so slightly larger than
Massachusetts, which Wade must therefore consider a ``tiny state``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF HOROLOGY
+++++++++++++++++
"GUGLIELMO MARCONI WAS A HACKER VICTIM"
Southgate April 20, 2014
As we mark the birth of an Italian inventor on International Marconi
Day, April the 26th, comes the story that one of his early exploits
was hacked and caused him much embarrassment.
A new book, Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, by
Kembrew McLeod published by New York University Press, reminds us of
that occasion involving Guglielmo Marconi.
The book reports that in 1903 a troublemaker took over a demonstration
of wireless telegraphy. Marconi was trying to sell his patented radio
system to send secure and private messages. All were ready for the
display in London.
Then just before a device received a demonstration transmission, the
wireless telegraph came alive announcing the words "Rats Rats Rats".
Then followed a few rhymes, making the whole thing a disaster.
Later, a noted magician Nevil Maskelyne, who was also involved in
wireless telegraphy and a public detractor of Marconi, explained to
reporters that he wanted to show that the device had a fatal security
flaw, and won the day.
International Marconi Day (amateur) stations include Austria, Canada,
France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
The only station in Oceania is by the Hornsby and Districts Amateur
Radio Club VK2IMD. The link to Marconi is that he sent the first
messages from Britain to Australia, which were received in Wahroonga,
near Hornsby in Australia.
These were sent from near Caernarfon in North West Wales, on behalf of
Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his Minister for the Navy,
Sir Joseph Cook, who had just visited the troops in France.
For details of registered stations:
http://g4usb.net/IMD/award-stations/
Jim Linton VK3PC (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
MUSEA
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WORLD WAR 1 HUNSTANTON INTERCEPT STATION
Southgate April 23, 2014
A 1979 BBC documentary highlights the role of amateur radio
enthusiasts in establishing a radio intercept station at Hunstanton in
World War 1
It was the tireless work of amateur radio enthusiasts during World War
I, that initially convinced the Admiralty to establish a radio
intercept station at Hunstanton. Playing an integral role during the
war, technological advances meant that radio operators could pinpoint
signals, thus uncovering the movement of German boats, leading to the
decisive Battle of Jutland in 1916.
Wireless espionage was to play an even more important role during
World War II, with the Secret Intelligence Service setting up the
Radio Security Service, which was staffed by Voluntary Interceptors, a
band of amateur radio enthusiasts scattered across Britain. The
information they collected was interpreted by some of the brightest
minds in the country, who also had a large hand in deceiving German
forces by feeding false intelligence.
This 1979 BBC TV documentary, illustrated with archival film and
interviews with those involved, traces the evolution of civilian
involvement in radio-based intelligence during both world wars and
highlights the key role played by Radio Amateurs.
Watch Wartime Radio: The Secret Listeners
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5108
The "Secret Listeners"
http://www.secretlisteners.org/
Harry Heap G5HF WW2 Activities
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2010/harry_heap_g5hf.htm
More here:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/april/world_war_1_hunstanton_intercept_station.htm#.U1jX8o1OXDc
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
BROADCASTING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE, REGARDLESS OF AEREO LAWSUIT'S OUTCOME
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:01:01 PM UTC-4, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
``you cannot use Aereo to access NYC stations if it believes you're
located in Chicago. Of course, it's hardly impossible to bypass those
restrictions, but then again Slingbox does the same thing.``
Aereo is a brilliant, innovative business idea. I hope they prevail in
court and I applaud them for going up against the broadcast networks
and their greed. So many cord-cutters, especially age 35 and under,
have fast Internet connections but don't see the point in paying
exorbitantly high, and ever increasing cable TV bills. For tech-savvy
consumers, there is less and less of a value proposition in the TV end
of cable TV these days, thanks to new technology. I'm in my early
thirties and very few people I know have cable TV -- most just use
Netflix or Amazon Prime to watch shows on demand. A few of my friends
have even discovered this old-fashioned thing called an "antenna," to
get a decent amount of live TV for free! (wink)
To the typical tech-savvy adult without cable, Aereo has a bunch of
great value propositions. It's mobile, so you can watch live OTA TV on
your iPad or iPhone or laptop without any clunky tuner cards or add-
ons. The DVR feature is amazing and requires no cable company box
rental - it plays from the cloud. It's cheap, which our generation
tends to appreciate. And it's relaying, to each individual user using
their own private username and private Internet connection, something
that is already free: broadcast television. The same as one could pick
up with an antenna and DTV receiver. Just in different form. That's
the way I see it, at least. Isn't OTA TV supposed to be a "public
service"? Broadcasters can still make plenty of money through
advertising, as they did before retransmission fees came around.
They've just gotten used to the pot of gold coming in from cable and
satellite providers, so of course they're whining!
I beta-tested Aereo in early 2012, when it was in New York City only,
and tried to get around the geographic restrictions to access it here
in Richmond, Virginia. To sign up, all I needed was an NYC billing
address, so I changed the billing address on my credit card to my
parents' old Manhattan address (I get E-statements so no mail was
actually sent to that address). The service still worked on an iPhone
or iPad from here in Virginia if I clicked "No" when the browser asked
if I gave permission to share my location with Aereo.
However, around Labor Day 2012, Aereo closed this loophole and will
not allow you to watch if you're physically located outside the DMA
you're signed up for. Surely a good idea from a legal standpoint as
the opposing side's attorneys will undoubtedly question whether Aereo
really does "geo-fence" its signals.
Just my long-winded opinion, but it's exciting to live in this time of
rapid change in the world of technology and business! (Rory Francisco,
Richmond, VA, April 16, WTFDA via DXLD)
But you see, there's a problem - a contradiction there. IF Aereo wins
(and I see no way that they will - as Karl has noted, pigs will fly
North first), the OTA TV will be the direct casualty, so those of us
(I have never been willing to pay for cable when I had to overpay for
the majority of channels I didn't want) who now use OTA TV will lose
it within a countable number of years if Aereo wins. That's good for
TV DX'ers who want to get foreign DX, and it may be good for the glut
of marginal non-major network TV stations who will remain.
But the major group TV station owners and the networks aren't bluffing
when they threaten to go all-cable. That will given cable a boost in
subscribership, but give the networks even more leverage over the
cable owners. And that spells higher prices yet for cable, and real
time live TV won't be available anywhere else until someone comes up
with another new paradigm and promptly gets the tail whipped in court.
(Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), ibid.)
I'm about at the point where I don't need Uverse. Fox streams almost
every program which I see for nothing on the Roku box. CBS and ABC I
don't watch. We watch one or two on NBC and those we can stream on the
net. Same goes for Discovery, A&E, etc. I can watch everything I want
to with Roku and Hulu/Hulu Plus. Local News/weather I can watch
anytime on the Roku box, even news in HD from L.A. and Honolulu. Yes,
I like OTA but sooner or later that's going to be gone also (Mike
Bugaj, Enfield, CT, ibid.)
If things go that way, I'd expect that the days of streaming via
internet by the networks will be outta here just as fast as OTA if not
faster (Russ Edmunds, ibid.)
Well, maybe, but I'm not so sure. The parties threatening to go cable-
only are, for to most part, networks, not stations. Of course, the
networks own a few stations themselves, but most network stations are
independently owned. They carry network programming pursuant to
affiliation agreements.
If, for example, CBS and FOX decide to go cable-only, do they really
think their affiliate stations are just going to turn in their
licenses and go off the air? There are plenty of second-tier networks
that would jump at the chance to grab a former FOX or CBS channel.
Possibilities are endless: Bounce TV, This TV, Ion Television, Retro
Television Network, foreign language, religious, home shopping. To be
sure, these are weak networks, but their weakness stems in large part
from the fact that they're affiliated with weak stations.
It's also possible that some current cable channel could turn itself
into a broadcast network. My pet candidate is CNN. CNN is in an
awkward position right now, caught between MSNBC on the left and FOX
NEWS on the right (and The Blaze even farther to the right). But CNN
is only marginally a news network anyway -- it dropped the moniker
"Cable News Network" ages ago. But it's still a well-established brand
that could transition to broadcast quickly by broadening its
programming lineup.
Furthermore, if CBS and FOX go cable only, they lose all the cushy
perks their affiliates enjoy under the 1992 Cable Act:
- No more mandatory ("must-carry") cable carriage.
- No more "take-it-or-leave-it" retransmission-consent negotiations.
- No more government-mandated geographic monopolies.
- No more mandatory access to the basic-cable tier.
From the cable TV operator's point of view, they become just two more
advertising-supported non-broadcast video feeds competing for channel
space in an already-crowded market.
But their former affiliates will still have those perks.
Of course CBS and FOX could still try to play these same tricks as
cable-only channels, but they would be doing so in the free level-
playing-field market without the big stick of the Cable Act on its
side. The cable companies would have ample reason so play tough if no
other reason than to seek revenge for years of abuse by the broadcast
networks (Neal McLain, ex-cable guy, ibid.)
The network owned stations cover the largest markets, which will make
a big dent, but as for the independents, surely the second and third
tier networks would love to grab those stations - but they carry a
small fraction of the audience, and that means far less revenue
because after all the audience is the driver. I continue to be amazed
at the number of those lower tier networks and have to wonder - even
absent the Aereo issue - how they can survive. There's such a thing as
being too niche.
Similarly, the audience for the programming on those networks will
also serve to drive the leverage for the networks because audience is
just as key for cable. But I also wouldn't in that scenario be
surprised to see one or more networks finding ways to get into the
cable business (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
Agreed. But if one of these second- or third-tier networks could
affiliate with stations with better channel assignments, higher power,
and without competition from CBS and FOX, it would be in a much better
position to grow its advertising base and its audience. And hence, its
revenue.
As non-broadcast networks on existing cable systems, or as franchised
cable systems in competition with existing cable systems? (Neal
McLain, ibid.)
Sure, I don't doubt that the major broadcast networks are serious
about the threat of going cable-only if Aereo prevails in court.
They'll do it but it would be awfully short-sighted since traditional
pay TV, at the $50-100 per month rate, is slowly hemorrhaging
subscribers thanks to new technology (i.e. Netflix). Kind of like the
proverbial horse and buggy industry's reaction to Ford a century ago.
Good news for OTA is, old content is so cheap that there will be
always be a market for OTA TV station owners unless/until the federal
government reallocates that bandwidth for other uses.
BTW, I got this email from Aereo today: "A Message from Aereo's
Founder"... http://bit.ly/1hPeJYI
(Rory Francisco, Richmond, VA, ibid.)
First, while that's the way they would like to see it, the audience is
the driver, and for that you have to have programming. If the most
popular programming leaves OTA, those viewers will be most unlikely to
settle for lesser programming that might replace it with a stronger
signal. TV is all about programming, although as per my earlier
comments, sometimes it amazes me what some people will watch that most
would consider to be unwatchable. Second, either or both (Russ
Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
I agree! But my point is that most programming is produced by
independent production companies, not by the networks themselves.
Independent producers that produce for the OTA market aren't going to
stay with any broadcast network that switches to cable-only (if they
want to sell their products to cable networks, they can do that right
now). They'll sell to whatever OTA networks have the strongest
affiliate base.
For their part, independent broadcast groups (i.e., Sinclair, Belo)
certainly aren't going to just turn in their licenses and go off the
air. They'll switch their affiliations to whatever remaining OTA
networks have the strongest programming lineup. They'll survive just
fine, and within a year or two, Brand X network will be in an OTA
ratings race against Brand Y and Brand Z.
All this raises an interesting question however: what happens to a
broadcast network's O&O stations if the network goes cable-only? Turn
in the licenses and sell them? Switch their affiliations to Brand X?
(Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.)
Aereo Update: Alito Back On The Case
By FHH Law, CommLawBlog, April 16, 2014
In case you ever wondered whether there's such a thing as
"unrecusal" – and, frankly, we hadn't – here's the answer: yes. The
Supreme Court has announced that Justice Alito, who had recused
himself from any participation in any aspect of the Aereo case
(which, we remind you, is set for oral argument next week), is no
longer recused. The Supremes aren't required to explain their
recusals and, it appears, the same is true of unrecusals. Whatever
the reason, with Alito back on board the full nine-member court is
now set to hear the case. That eliminates the possibility of a 4-4
tie among the justices (which would have left the Second Circuit's
decision in place, albeit without any approval by the Court) below.
Source:
http://www.commlawblog.com/2014/04/articles/broadcast/aereo-update-alito-back-on-the-case/index.html
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/pej6lof
(via Neal McLain, April 16, ibid.)
Here's a link to a Yahoo article about it. What I find interesting
about it is you get to actually see one of their tiny antennas.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/why-the-supreme-court-and-you-should-be-for-aereo-in-83522570863.html
(Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, ibid.)
Look at that antenna and tell me you can install a few thousand of
those in the same building as a few dozen racks of computer gear and
still reliably receive VHF DTV stations (as they claim to be doing in
some markets). Heck, I find it hard to believe they can reliably
receive *UHF* stations on that thing. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant
View, TN EM66, ibid.)
I think that's subject to how things shake out. Sure, they can sell
their programs to cable providers now, but if there's more money
selling it to the networks for OTA, that's where they'll go. And if
the networks go to cable themselves, then that may still be where the
money is. The producers are more interested in the money than the
medium. And I suspect that if the option for OTA for many programs
goes away, those who have left cable may well go back - especially if
for what they want to see, it's the only game in town.
But if, let's say, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox, or even 3 of them go to
cable, that's a lot of programming, and once again I come back to the
paucity of programming on commercial TV for the remaining networks.
CW? MyTV? MeTV? Retro TV? Whatever. Those are all still niche
networks, and some of them are vying for the same niche audience -
e.g. old TV shows and old movies. I just don't see those networks
either getting substantially more or better programming, nor do I see
the popular programs moving there.
And if the O & O's were to turn in their licenses (questionable;
moving the 'good stuff' to cable doesn't mean that they abandon the
licenses) that only means Brand X network gets a better signal, and
that doesn't significantly increase viewers (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell,
PA, April 17, ibid.)
Sure, I don't doubt that the major broadcast networks are serious
about the threat of going cable-only if Aereo prevails in court.
They'll do it but it would be awfully short-sighted since traditional
pay TV, at the $50-100 per month rate, is slowly hemorrhaging
subscribers thanks to new technology (i.e. Netflix). Kind of like the
proverbial horse and buggy industry's reaction to Ford a century ago.
Pay-TV's losses of subscribers are due in larger part to the
availability of desirable programs elsewhere, cheaper. If that
scenario disappears, then cable subscribership will increase. That
only doesn't happen if most of those popular major network programs
are available in real time via the web, which may or may not happen.
Again, I just don't see (and rating figures support this) that there's
a sustainable long term audience for old TV and old movies alone to
support two or more networks devoted to them (Russ Edmunds, ibid.)
I think everyone here is writing off OTA TV because of a limited
distribution IPTV service that has questionable legality. I do think
that OTA TV will eventually disappear but not soley because of Aereo.
A larger threat than Aereo is media consolidation and the "wireless"
industry. With Sinclair and Nexstar using legal loopholes to create
virtual duopolies in many markets (including Little Rock-Pine Bluff
where FOUR full power TV stations are under Nexstar control).
Depending on the FCC's final plan for auctions, many of the Nexstar
stations will no doubt be attractive to sell off. What the Aereo
service may usher in is the viability of web IPTV as a replacement for
cable and Satellite Pay TV to distribute local stations either in
"tiered" and/or ala carte plans.
There are other considerations. Sports have migrated to cable with the
exception of the NFL which still uses OTA networks as their primary
home (except for MNF and TNF). CBS, NBC, and FOX now have national
sports networks --- the later with recently introduced Fox Sports 1.
The NCAA Men's national semi-finals in basketball (Final Four) is now
on cable, and of course the BCS has been there a few years already.
I expect OTA in its present form to hang around another decade or so,
but content may migrate to various co-owned cable channels leaving
news and a limited prime-time schedule before bowing out (Fritze
Prentice, Star City AR, ibid.)
And maybe in the end, the big business that will kill Aereo will be
not the big networks & their affiliates, but the cable operators. By
bypassing the retransmission-consent process, Aereo threatens maybe
10% of the revenue of OTA stations. It threatens 30% of the revenue of
cable/IPTV providers. Specifically, the TV leg of the "Triple Play".
(TV, Internet, telephone)
The cable/IPTV providers have a pretty effective option to fight back.
"Net Neutrality" is no more. Which means Comcast can, if it wishes,
throttle back the connection between Aereo and Comcast's subscribers.
If a Comcast subscriber also subscribing to Aereo is going to drop
their $50/month Comcast TV service, maybe Comcast charges Aereo
$50/month to provide an Aereo=> subscriber connection fast enough to
deliver video? If Aereo doesn't pay up, their connection gets
throttled down to, say, 200Kb/s? At which point the TV delivered by
Aereo is standard-definition at best & likely stutters & breaks up
== (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.)
According to USA Today, retransmission fees were 14% of revenue in
2012, and expected to rise to 23% by 2018. [1]
I think it'll be the other way around: Comcast will pay Aereo.
If Aereo prevails at the Supreme Court, the Court will have
effectively overturned significant portions of the Cable Act of 1992
and the Copyright Act of 1976. Consequently, any other competing
company, including CATV companies, could legally emulate Aereo's
"separate antenna/separate data stream" technology for each
subscriber.
But doing so would require getting around Aereo's patents. Moreover,
it would require duplicating Aereo's capital investment in headend
facilities in every DMA. The easiest solution for CATV is simply to
partner with Aereo: get the OTA signals from Aereo, combine them with
video signals from satellite or local sources, and send it out.
At the subscriber's end, the settop box gets the OTA signals from that
subscriber's Aereo stream and seamlessly combines them with everything
else. The subscriber switches channels with the remote, and the actual
source of the signal is invisible to the customer.
Of course, the CATV company would have to provide sufficient bandwidth
to handle everything smoothly, but they're already working on that. By
extending fiber deeper into the network and replacing analog signals
with digital streams they're continuously increasing available
bandwidth.
IMO it's a win-win situation. The CATV company gets OTA signals
without having to pay retransmission-consent fees (and without having
to operate and maintain related headend equipment). The CATV company
would pay Aereo for using its signals, but even a fee of, say $0.25
per subscriber per month, would be a drop in the bucket compared to
the retrans fees it pays now.
For its part, Aereo gets thousands of new customers immediately and a
huge bump in its revenue stream. Of course, all this is theoretical
dreaming on my part. I retired from the CATV industry several years
ago so I no longer have access to industry gossip.
But I have to believe that CATV companies are thinking the same thing.
I think it's significant that the CATV industry is keeping a low
profile as this case winds though the courts. CATV wins either way: if
Aereo wins, CATV has a way to avoid retrans fees; if Aereo loses, CATV
loses a strong competitor.
[1] Yu, Roger. "Retransmission fee race poses questions for TV
viewers." USA TODAY 6:08 p.m. EDT August 2, 2013
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/14/tv-retrans-fees/2512233/
(Neal McLain, ibid.)
Tomorrow (April 22) is Aereo day at the Supreme Court.
This is a complicated legal case. Three Courts of Appeals have
reached conflicting decisions:
- Aereo won in the First (Boston) and Second (New York) Circuits
http://tinyurl.com/mc5zlu4
- Plaintiffs won in the Tenth Circuit (Denver)
http://tinyurl.com/ozs3xul
When two Courts of Appeals reach conflicting decisions, the Supreme
Court has the final say.
CNNMondey published an excellent summary of the case today (April 21)
by Fortune staff writer Roger Parloff, Senior Editor, Legal Affairs:
| Why the Supreme Court might pull the plug on Aereo
|
| FORTUNE -- For two remarkable years the tiny company Aereo,
| which delivers broadcast TV to smartphones, tablets, and PCs,
| has walked through the valley of the shadow of death.
|
| Armies of litigators, hired by the nation's largest media
| giants, have bombarded it with lawsuits, accusing it of
| flagrant copyright infringement. All the while, Aereo has
| protested its innocence. It's been cleverly engineered,
| it insists, to slip through the cracks of the copyright
| regimen the broadcasters are invoking, and --
| superficial appearances notwithstanding -- it is therefore
| operating completely on the up-and-up.
Continued at http://tinyurl.com/lwe3ctj
The author cites the 1968 Supreme Court decision in which it
determined that Cable TV companies were not violating copyright law
by retransmitting broadcast stations. But he seems to have omitted
the underlying reason for the Court's decision: the copyright act in
force in 1968 had not been revised since 1909. For obvious reasons,
the Copyright Act of 1909 did not say anything about television, much
less cable television.
See my comment at the end of this article:
http://tinyurl.com/onx42qh
But things have changed since 1968. Congress revised the copyright act
in 1976 and included very specific language regarding the
retransmission of broadcast signals. The Fortune author emphasizes
this:
| The trouble, from Aereo's perspective, with these favorable
| Supreme Court precedents concerning business models quite
| similar to its own, is that Congress explicitly overturned
| both of these rulings in 1976, and did so in very broad
| terms. It said that henceforth it was bestowing upon
| copyright holders an exclusive right over transmissions of "a
| performance or display" of their work "to the public, by
| means of any device or process, whether the members of the
| public capable of receiving the performance or display
| receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the
| same time or at different times."...
So now it's up to the Supreme Court to decide if Aereo's separate-
antenna/separate stream loophole violates the Copyright Act of 1976
(Neal McLain, ibid.)
I saw pictures of these miracle "antennas" several months ago and
asked if they could actually work. I think we as DXers know the
answer. If they work maybe I will put one up on my tower. Should be a
lot easier to work with than my Channelmaster dish (Dave Pomeroy,
Topeka KS, April 23, ibid.)
Of course, that one tiny antenna by itself does nothing. Only by
having them in an array do they act like one large antenna, and thus
deliver reception. Legally they may be separate, but the physics of it
is that they act like a single large antenna with multiple outputs
(Trip Ericson, April 23, http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.)
If the antennas act collectively then each subscriber does not have
their own antenna and the concept of Aereo is not valid. If I have my
own antenna as Aereo claims then my, and only my" signal should go
away if it is removed from the antenna farm. If it is one big antenna
then it is no different than a cable TV system. Cable systems began by
having big antennas and sending those signals to subscribers (Dave
Pomeroy, ibid.)
Here's a link to a CNET article that provides quite a bit of technical
detail:
http://www.cnet.com/news/inside-the-tech-that-tossed-aereo-through-tvs-legal-hoops/
(Neal McLain, Brazoria, Texas, ibid.)
The question is less "antenna" than "receiver." The specific of
Aereo's claim that it's not "distributing" signals is that each
customer is paying Aereo for his/her own receiver and DVR storage.
We simply don't know enough about what's under the hood at Aereo to
say with any certainty whether that's true or not.
I know, for instance, in the case of Boston that the Aereo system only
delivers the channels that are receivable in the core of the market,
and not any of the channels coming from outlying sites (Worcester
area, southern NH). If the Aereo Boston "headend" is in close
proximity to the Newton/Needham tower farm, it really wouldn't take
much more than one of their glorified paper clips to deliver a usable
signal.
On the other hand, I've also heard (but have not independently
confirmed) that the Aereo stream URLs don't change from customer to
customer. If true, that would give the lie to the "you're using your
own receiver" concept.
I happen to be of the opinion that broadcasters are shooting
themselves in the foot by opposing Aereo. As long as it does only what
it purports to do, Aereo should do no harm to the traditional model of
what broadcasting is. If I'm putting a signal out into the ether
that's intended for general public reception, the old model of
broadcasting says I should be delighted at anything that extends its
potential reach.
If Aereo serves only as an additional "antenna" that carries my signal
- complete with my advertising - into additional in-market homes and
to additional mobile devices, where's the harm?
The problem, of course, is that broadcasters in 2014 have become
dependent on the additional revenue stream of retransmission consent
payments from cable companies. That's somewhat defensible in the cable
universe, because the cable company is making money from selling the
local channels as part of a larger package of other services from
which it benefits. But Aereo's NOT doing that, as best I can tell. It
doesn't sell its own ads around broadcast programming, and it doesn't
distribute cable channels. But it may induce current cable subscribers
to cut the cord, and if a station stands to lose a buck a month (or
more) from each local viewer who drops cable, it stands to reason that
the stations now have a powerful incentive to want as many of their
viewers seeing them via cable or satellite as possible.
One might argue the whole system is now loaded with perverse economic
incentives that have nothing to do with the original goal of providing
broadcast service. I wouldn't disagree. s(Scott Fybush, Rochester NY,
April 23, ibid.)
re: Here's a link to a CNET article that provides quite a bit of
technical detail:
http://www.cnet.com/news/inside-the-tech-that-tossed-aereo-through-tvs-legal-hoops/
"Quite a bit," but still not nearly enough. As with every other
article I've seen that purports to go "inside" Aereo, it still
substitutes "I don't understand what I'm writing about, so I'll just
transcribe the BS I'm being fed by the PR guy" for actual technical
understanding. Or perhaps someone else can explain what "When a
subscriber sits down and clicks to watch NBC, a sleeping Aereo antenna
wakes up and a converter switches the voltage of the antenna to
receive the 6 MHz band that carries NBC" is supposed to actually mean.
It's pretty clear to me that the writer of the article doesn't know.
*IF* Aereo is really doing what it claims to do, I don't see how it
can't be legal. I can absolutely, very legally, connect an antenna at
my home to something like the iView 3500 box that I bought from Amazon
for $40, then connect the output of that box to a drive on my network,
and then stream from my network to a TV in my house or a mobile device
wherever I travel.
If that's what Aereo is doing at its end, then the only difference is
that I'm hiring them to manage that service for me.
But if somewhere along the Aereo food chain, there's any sort of
common RF circuitry or common streaming with other customers, then
it's a different ballgame, at least as far as the regulators go. In
theory, that all should have been clearly established somewhere in
discovery during this legal battle. If it has been, I haven't seen
anyone clearly reporting on it. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.)
OK, lets go at this a bit differently. If they've indeed found a place
in each city where they can receive the clearest signals from all of
the major metro's channels, then again as a DX'er, I can say that
there are places where I can hear all of the major FM's loud and clear
on a very small antenna inside a very small portable, then isn't it
conceivable that in such a location this might be what they're saying
it is?
Further, if I put a batch of receiving antennas too close to one
another, they might degrade the signal as much as assist it. So maybe
they got that figured out, and it may actually enhance the signals a
bit. But if one presumes that one little antenna could indeed get
quality reception from multiple channels simply by being well-located,
then???
But let's face it, the longer term future of TV isn't going to be our
traditional OTA any more than radio is. But I still think Aereo is
going to lose if for no other reason than a win upsets too many
applecarts (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
If I were them, I wouldn't let anyone who might know too much get too
close to any of it either. But let's say I found an advantageous place
locally where I had rock solid signals from all of the major
Philadelphia channels, and I put up a small antenna, and somehow had
the ability to send it back to myself via the internet, that would
work. So while I'm still not convinced, what they claim to be doing
doesn't seem to me to be as implausible as some seem to think. (Again
realizing that we don't know what we don't know) (Russ Edmunds, ibid.)
Agreed on all counts! You've been to my house, Russ, and so have a
fair number of other WTFDA'ers. I'm 4300 feet from Pinnacle Hill here
in Rochester, and I get blasted with signal from If Aereo erected a
panel of their magical paper clips on my roof, it would easily do what
they say it would do. If they're in a spot in Brooklyn with clean line
of sight to Empire, I can imagine it working there, too.
There are some markets that would be a lot more complicated. San
Diego, for instance, has two tower farms at opposite ends of the
market, and almost nobody in town gets clean reception from both. ABC
and CBS are at one (Mt. Soledad, along the coast in La Jolla), while
NBC, Fox, PBS and KUSI (Ind.) come from Mt. Miguel, in eastern San
Diego County near the Mexican border. Other signals, of course, come
from across the border. I don't know if Aereo could provide its
service in San Diego from a single receiver/data center. Seattle might
be problematic, too. Even San Francisco might be challenging - ABC,
CBS, PBS and a few others come from Mount Sutro in the heart of the
city, while NBC and Univision are on Mount San Bruno near SFO airport,
and Telemundo comes from way down near San José (Scott Fybush, ibid.)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; BULGARIA; CANADA; CYPRUS;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ETHIOPIA; INDIA; MALAYSIA; NIGERIA;
RUSSIA
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
PL880 HIDDEN FUNCTIONS
You may not know these features of the tecsun radio Pl880
Posted on February 25, 2014 by hch
http://tecsunradio.cantonmade.com/2014/02/25/pl880-hidden-function-you-may-not-know-these-features-of-the-tecsun-radio-pl880/9365
You may not know these features of the tecsun radio Pl880? So let me
tell you.
Under [ Off ] mode, press the [ AM BW ] key – the first time that
full-screen symbols; second time to display the software version
number (e.g. 8820) ,
The third display software (if 131113)
Under [ Off ] mode, press the number keys [4] – set the low voltage
shutdown (with shuttle regulation)
Under [ FM ] mode, press the number keys [5] – FM de-emphasis time
setting (the United States 75, Europe 50 , we counted 50)
Under [ AM ] mode, press the number keys [6] – Dynamic Noise Reduction
On / Off
Under [ FM ] mode, press the number keys [7] – Line output volume
(Shuttle adjustment)
Under [ Off ] mode, press the number keys [8] – clock seconds display
on / off
Under [ AM ] mode, press the number keys [9] – squelch limit (with a
shuttle regulation, preferably to 00)
Under [ AM ] mode, press [ USB / LSB ] key – synchronous detection
(for example, long press opens synchronous detection USB, LSB short
press switches to synchronous detection)
LSB, this short time and then turn off the synchronous detection by
LSB)
Under [ Off ] mode, press [ VF / VM ] key – Display battery life
MW calibration:
1. MW transferred to any strong station
2. Open the SSB mode (USB / LSB can )
3. Adjust the trimmer until you hear a good jog SSB signal (that is a
good tune zero beat)
4. Press and hold SNOOZE button, you see a return correct value is
displayed.
5. Press the SNOOZE button.
Receive AM (no ferrite antenna) with an external antenna:
1. switch to any one shortwave band (not off frequency)
2. Press USB / NORM (USB mode ON )
3. Press the AM button, and transferred to the frequency you want to
hear
4. Press USB / NORM button (USB Mode Off)
5. Press the FM button (Do not worry frequency)
6. Press the USB / NORM (USB mode ON)
7. Press USB / NORM button (USB mode off), when you listen to this
program does not depend on the medium wave ferrite antenna, but by an
external antenna (via Gregory Reed, TecsunPL-880 yg via DXLD)
Radio World: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CFA?
Les: Several US AM stations have used CFA antennas and also there was
an FCC licensed experimental station in the X band. Domestic DXers
(not me!) would have to tell you more.
A ham has already written an extensive QEX article on the CFA. See the
May-June 2005 issue (Chuck Hutton, IRCA via DXLD)
Great timing. It's currently being discussed by a number of broadcast
engineers on Facebook. Jim Hatfield's (as in Hatfield and Dawson; an
extremely highly respected broadcast engineering company in Seattle)
analysis is at:
http://hatdaw.com/papers/JBH-CFA.pdf
My opinion is anything he says goes. I've read a number of articles
he's written over the years. He's very highly respected in the
broadcast engineering field.
Two more links; the first is the theory and the second is someone's
opinion of the reality:
http://www.crossedfieldantenna.com/pages/nab99cfa.htm
http://www.paulzander.biz/Whats_Wrong_with_Cross_Field_Antenna.pdf
The engineers say there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, ibid.)
Thanks for these links, Dennis. The 160m hams in particular have been
interested in this for quite a while, and came to similar conclusions.
Some think its performance is based on radiating feedlines.
Fortunately for receiving, we really can get away with small antennas.
Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.)
I'm sure the 160 and 75/80 meter hams would have been all over this if
there was anything to it. A half wavelength dipole or inverted V on
1.900 MHz (the middle of the 160 meter band) is 246 feet long. Traps
can be used to shorten the length but the efficiency suffers.
Most city lots have just barely enough room for a half wavelength
dipole or inverted V on 75/80 meters. Physics hasn't changed with
time. Vertical antennas for the AM broadcast band started to be used
in the 1920's. The towers built today are virtually identical. They
are structurally stronger and the feedlines have less loss. How they
work is still the same. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ibid.)
Apparently there was one that worked in Egypt. There were plans to use
one on the Isle of Man longwave station but the station never
materialised (Mike Terry, ibid.)
Those of us of a Certain Age may well recall the CFA of the 60's and
70's - The 'Joystick VFA'. Go search it out on the net, it was very
popular for a while. I suspect that eventually people figured out that
the feed line was the active component of the antenna (Lee Reynolds,
ibid.)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
TRANS-OCEANIC MW DX PROPAGATION, WEST COAST vs EAST COAST
Hi Mark, <<< Up to now I have only logged one TP, the 1053 Korea
jammer heard around dawn at East Harwich, MA about 15 years ago. >>>
For some unknown reason, it really seems like the west coast TP-
chasers have a much easier time receiving TA's (during the best solar
years) than the east coast TA-chasers have receiving TP's. Presumably
the heavy domestic splatter on the east coast has something to do with
this, although the west coast also has its fair share of domestic RF
pollution. During the 2009 and 2010 fall seasons signals from 675-
Radio Maria, 693-BBC, 756-DLF, 1134-Croatia, 1377-France and 1575-
R.Farda showed up here in Puyallup on Ultralight radios and a 9' PVC
box loop. The Victoria DXers (Nick, Walt and Colin) routinely have the
inner edge in the TA propagation, along with Nigel in Alberta.
<<< And Gary, we need you to do your FSL + Ultralight thing here on
the East Coast someday. I think it would be interesting to see what
you could come up with, especially just after local sunset in summer /
early autumn when exotic sub-Saharan Africans and deep South Americans
are more apt to be in the mix (as contrasted with the more typical run
of western Europeans / Mediterranean coast Africans). >>>
Well, Mark, I would certainly love to try this -- although I haven't
yet been able to figure out how to show up at an airport with one of
the new 22-pound FSL antennas without sending TSA into an absolute
panic, having my flight cancelled and sending the entire facility into
a three-hour security lockdown. The alternative of sending the 22
pound beast through the mail (with its 86 relatively fragile ferrite
rods) doesn't sound much more attractive, either. Probably the best
option would be to have one of the Cape DXers receive a large order of
ferrite rods from the Ukraine (assuming that the invading Russians
don't try to re-claim this old Red Army material) and assemble a huge
FSL on-site during an east coast trip -- leaving the antenna for you
guys to use after a DXpedition. Such a project may need to wait for a
while, however.
<<< The sub-equatorial signals, other than a few blasters such as
1220 Brazil, are often down in the mud strength-wire and could use
more gain than what typical small-profile broadband antennas can
deliver. You could clean up if conditions were auroral (to take some
of the domestic pests off the table). Seaside cliff sites around here
aren't too common but Maine does offer some, especially at/near Acadia
National Park. There are also some to be had in the Canadian provinces
of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland-Labrador. >>>
As you know, Mark, one of the big challenges in having a west coast
DXer chase transoceanic DX on the east coast would be the learning
curve involved in memorizing which DX stations are on which
frequencies, which are the routine big guns and which are the nice
catches, and if really lucky, which are the all-time new DX catches
for the entire coast. I've always admired dual-coast DXers like Bill
W. and Chuck H. who can keep this information in their memory banks,
but to be honest my TA-DXing experience has been limited to receiving
the big guns listed above. During any "Cliffhanger DXing" on the east
coast I would certainly need an experienced east coast TA-chaser
alongside to figure out whether the FSL was receiving something good,
bad or ugly.
As for the DXing desirability of the east coast ocean cliffs, there
are still a lot of variables in this all-new science of enhanced
cliff-side transoceanic reception that have yet to be sorted out.
Probably the only way to be certain whether such a discovery will pay
dividends on the east coast will be to try it out at a location that
somewhat resembles "Rockwork 4" or Cape Perpetua on the Oregon coast.
Those two sites have already provided some pretty freakish examples of
transoceanic propagation boosts on Ultralight radios and modest-sized
FSL antennas. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), IRCA via DXLD)
Gary, a few comments on your comments:
Some TA's on the West Coast are not much different distance-wise from
some of the TP's to the West Coast, e.g. about 5000 miles. The Pacific
is rather wider than the Atlantic. Until recently, Europe had many
more high power signals than East Asia. The situation is changing
since we have lost the likes of favourable-northerly-location stations
such as Norway 1314, Sweden 1179, Denmark 1062, Finland 963, Poland
1503, etc. These stations were among the Europeans most likely to get
to the West Coast due to shorter transpolar distances and a greater
opportunity to exploit the expanded auroral "doughnut hole" during low
geomagnetic activity. We also lost Croatia 1134, not as far north as
Norway, but also a serious blaster throughout North America in its
glory days. Ditto for Switzerland 765 / 1566 and Austria 1476.
Meanwhile, as broadcasting contracts within Europe, it expands in
China, India, and other economic "tigers" of Asia.
At least, in the near term, this should mean Europeans will trend
towards more difficult and East Asians towards easier.
Though China to BC/WA and UK to BC/WA aren't that different in
distance, the major difference, of course, is that the TP's have
mostly a water run for those 5000 miles / 8000 km. TA's, depending on
point of origin, are coming across a good chunk of Canadian landmass
so the surface bounce of at least one or two of the skips would lose a
lot more strength compared to TP's bouncing in the open Pacific
somewhere between Alaska and Hawaii. Additionally the TA - West Coast
paths go closer to the polar region, so that also (usually) robs them
of strength. Fewer Euro's benefit from the "doughnut hole" now that
there is literally nothing of significant power from Scandinavia
anymore.
Japan, China, etc. going to the East Coast also traverse the polar
region and are travelling longer-haul routes (greater than 6000 miles)
than UK to Vancouver or Seattle. Those TP to East Coast routes are
substantially over land, knocking the stuffing out the signal with
each ground bounce.
And, yes, domestic stations are more densely packed on the East Coast
than out your way. If a channel doesn't have a US or Canadian blaster
on it (or IBOC / slop therefrom), it has a Cuban. As you know, there
are no interference-mitigating treaties between Cuba and the US, so
(as you may gather from some of my loggings) the band is like a Wild
West Shoot-Up, all along the Gulf from Texas to Florida and the
Atlantic shore from Florida to Maine.
I think the above would take away the "unknown reason" idea about TA
to West Coast success versus the TP to East Coast situation.
As far as you coming east with your cliffside DX gear, it would be
quite interesting.
As you do out there, I think you would want to explore transequatorial
rarities in the April to October period. Summer is often considered
"not the DX season" but if your aim out west is Down Under or, here in
the east, Africa and deep South America then summer is exactly when
you want to be on the job.
I think that out that way you tend to have less summer static than on
this end. T-storms can be a deal-breaker here, especially June to
August. It can be a nice clear night at a beach DXpedition site in MA
but if there's a T-storm anywhere between Cape Hatteras, NC and Cape
Race, NL, your listening experience will not be an easy one. Storms
200 miles or so out over land aren't usually a problem, but 800 miles
on a water route can be a headphone smasher. On the most sensitive
(e.g. Beverage) set-ups, the nearly-constant thunderstorm activity at
the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, about 3000 miles distant, will
register on the S-meter on less-busy frequencies.
It helps to be resident in the area since some nights just aren't
going to be productive because of static. The more opportunities you
have to get out to the shore, the better. This would tend to make a
transcontinental trip to DX during a specific week rather like
gambling. You could spend hundreds of dollars and maybe just go home
with some nice photo's, souvenirs, and memories of great seafood ...
but not much in the DX department. Or you might luck out and bag
African, Brazilian, and Argentine logs that would even make the
Newfoundland and PEI DXpeditioners envious. Most likely the results
would be somewhere in the middle, not too different from what guys
like Bruce Conti, Marc DeLorenzo, Brent Taylor, myself, and other New
England / eastern Canada DXers have reported in recent years.
There should be plenty of reference literature out there to help you
determine what logs are common, semi-rare, and downright "from-outer-
space". Newfoundland and PEI DXpedition reports tend to highlight the
rarer stuff. Items in IDXD and DXWW-E run the gamut from common to
deep-fringe. Anything south of the equator is at least a pretty good
catch regardless of which hemisphere. Anything east of UAE is good.
Central Americans, though not terribly distant, are difficult DX since
few are running the kind of power to compete with Cubans and domestics
on similar bearings / shorter distances. And, of course, anything west
of the Central time zone, whether domestic or foreign, is a good catch
(Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, NRC-AM via DXLD
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 14 - 20 April 2014
Solar activity began the period at low levels but reached moderate
levels toward the end of the period due to a pair of M-class x-ray
flares. The first M-class event was an M1/1n flare (NOAA Scale R1-
minor radio blackout) at 16/1959 UTC from Region 2035 (S15, L=223,
class/area=Ekc/340 on 18 Apr) that had an associated Type-II radio
sweep (estimated speed 1,071 km/s). A subsequent coronal mass ejection
(CME) was observed in SOHO/LASCO coronagraph imagery beginning at
17/0125 UTC that had a partial Earth-directed component with a line-
of-sight speed estimated at 642 km/s, although the bulk of the ejecta
being directed south of the ecliptic plane.
The second M-class event of the period was an M7 flare (NOAA Scale
R2-moderate radio blackout) at 18/1303 UTC from Region 2036 (S15,
L=246, class/area=Dhc/510 on 17 Apr) that had an associated Tenflare
(1,000 sfu), a complex Castelli-U radio burst signature, a Type-II
radio sweep (estimated speed 851 km/s), and a Type-IV radio sweep. A
subsequent Earth-directed, asymmetric-halo CME was observed in
SOHO/LASCO coronagraph imagery beginning at 18/1325 UTC with a line-
of-sight speed estimated at 1,000 km/s.
A pair of very faint CMEs were observed late on 15 Apr and early on
16 Apr but the source regions for these CMEs were difficult to
determine.
Regions 2035 and 2036 were the most productive regions on the disk
this period and were amongst the most magnetically complex regions
on the disk, joining Regions 2034 (N04, L=244, class/area=Ekc/480 on
18 Apr) and 2037 (S09, L=245, class/area=Dai/110 on 17 Apr) as
regions with beta-gamma magnetic configurations.
Late in the period Region 2032 (N12, L=274, class/area=Cso/160 on 15
Apr) produced three low-level C-class flares as it transited the west
limb with numerous subsequent non-Earth-directed CMEs that were narrow
and directed away from Earth.
An energetic particle enhancement was observed following the M7 flare
detailed above. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux exceeded 10 pfu
(NOAA Scale S1-minor solar radiation storm) at 18/1525 UTC and reached
a maximum value of 58 pfu at 19/0105 UTC before beginning to decline.
The decline was interrupted with the passage of an interplanetary (IP)
shock that was observed at the ACE spacecraft at 20/1057 UTC where 10
MeV proton flux values briefly increased from 15 pfu to 30 pfu before
rapidly plummeting below the S1 threshold at 20/1155 UTC. The greater
than 100 MeV proton flux also become enhanced during the M7 flare,
reaching a maximum value of 0.6 pfu, but ultimately remained below
alert levels.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at
normal to moderate levels throughout the period.
Geomagnetic field activity began the period at predominately quiet
levels with isolated periods of unsettled conditions due to a mostly
nominal solar wind environment. Active conditions were observed
early on 19 Apr (0000-0600 UTC) followed by predominately unsettled
conditions due to the likely arrival of one or both of the faint
CMEs from 15/16 Apr. A weak IP shock was observed at the ACE
spacecraft at 19/1754 UTC, presumably due to the arrival of the 16
Apr CME, causing quiet to unsettled conditions late on 19 Apr and
into the early hours of 20 Apr. Another shock was observed at ACE at
20/1057 UTC, likely associated with passage of the 18 Apr CME, which
caused minor geomagnetic storming (NOAA Scale G1-minor) from 1200 to
1500 UTC followed by three periods of active conditions (1800-2359
UTC) to end the period.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 21 APRIL - 17 MAY 2014
Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for
moderate (R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate)) events throughout the period.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be at normal to moderate levels throughout the period.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at active to G1 (Minor)
levels on 21 Apr due to coronal mass ejection (CME) effects,
decreasing to unsettled to active conditons on 22 Apr as CME effects
diminish. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on 23-25 Apr due to
a weak negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS).
Predominately quiet conditions are expected for 26 Apr-13 May
barring any influence from transient features. Isolated unsettled
conditions are possible on 14-15 May due to an unclassified
recurrent solar wind feature with quiet conditions returning for
16-17 May to end the period.
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2014 Apr 21 165 20 5
2014 Apr 22 160 10 4
2014 Apr 23 150 8 3
2014 Apr 24 150 8 3
2014 Apr 25 150 8 3
2014 Apr 26 150 5 2
2014 Apr 27 150 5 2
2014 Apr 28 150 5 2
2014 Apr 29 150 5 2
2014 Apr 30 150 5 2
2014 May 01 150 5 2
2014 May 02 155 5 2
2014 May 03 155 5 2
2014 May 04 155 5 2
2014 May 05 160 5 2
2014 May 06 165 5 2
2014 May 07 160 5 2
2014 May 08 155 5 2
2014 May 09 150 5 2
2014 May 10 155 5 2
2014 May 11 155 5 2
2014 May 12 155 5 2
2014 May 13 155 5 2
2014 May 14 155 10 3
2014 May 15 150 8 3
2014 May 16 150 5 2
2014 May 17 150 5 2
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LYRID METEOR SHOWER
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from ancient Comet
Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower.
Usually the Lyrid meteor shower is mild (10-20 meteors per hour), but
unmapped filaments of dust in the comet's tail sometimes trigger
outbursts ten times stronger. So far this year's shower is trending
toward the usual--that is, mild--but surprises are possible.
Forecasters expect the shower to peak on April 22nd between the hours
of 1000 and 2100 UT. http://spaceweather.com/
METEOR BURST COMMUNICATIONS
The earliest direct observation of interaction between meteors and
radio propagation was reported in 1929 by Hantaro Nagaoka of Japan. In
1931, Greenleaf Pickard noticed that bursts of long distance
propagation occurred at times of major meteor showers. At the same
time, Bell Labs researcher A. M. Skellett was studying ways to improve
night-time radio propagation, and suggested that the oddities many
researchers were seeing were due to meteors. The next year Schafer and
Goodall noted that the atmosphere was disturbed during that year's
Leonid meteor shower, prompting Skellett to postulate that the
mechanism was reflection or scattering from electrons in meteor
trails. In 1944, while researching a radar system that was "pointed
up" to detect the V-2 missiles falling on London, Hay confirmed that
the meteor trails were in fact reflecting radio signals.
In 1946 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found a
direct correlation between enhancements in VHF radio signals and
individual meteors. Studies conducted in the early 1950s by the
National Bureau of Standards and the Stanford Research Institute had
limited success at actually using this as a medium.
The first serious effort to utilize this technique was carried out by
the Canadian Defence Research Board in the early 1950s.Their project,
"JANET", sent bursts of data pre-recorded on magnetic tape from their
radar research station in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to Toronto, a
distance of well over 2,000 km. To burst the data, a 90 MHz "carrier"
signal was monitored for sudden increases in signal strength,
signalling a meteor, which triggered a burst of data. The system was
used operationally starting in 1952, and provided useful
communications until the radar project was shut down around 1960.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications - more
information avavilable
(via Mike Terry, April 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ###