The Federal Government is undertaking a review of Australian broadcasting services in the Asia-Pacific region. There’s a lot at stake, especially since the ABC let go of its shortwave radio service, in January last year. The Chinese are now instead providing some of that shortwave radio, and there are fears more generally about reduced access to independent information in the Pacific. Guests in this discussion include Alexander Rheeney, Papua New Guinean journalist, currently co-editor of the Samoa Observer, Jemima Garrett, former Radio Australia journalist, specialising in the Pacific, and Tess Newton Cain, Consultant on Pacific issues to business, government and NGOs and Adjunct associate professor, University of QLD. (26”)
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/extra/16th-july-2018/9993932 (via John Figliozzi, FL, Podding Along, Nov 16, WOR iog via DXLD)

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nt-country-hour/labor-commits-funding-to-restore-abc-shortwave-radio-nt/10511472?fbclid=IwAR3kQ6T_rriCI0fuTfPpe0RaOb-HvqUJT_adG1YP2N-cyK_9qYtwWGNYPfc (via Tim Gaynor, Nov 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD) viz.:

Labor commits $2 million to resurrect ABC shortwave radio
On NT Country Hour with Matt Brann
Download Labor to restore shortwave (3.53 MB)  

If elected next year, Federal Labor says it will provide the ABC with $2 million in funding to help re-establish shortwave radio services across the Northern Territory.

The ABC controversially switched off its shortwave service in January 2017, and defended the decision by saying it would "only affect a very, very small amount of people" and save taxpayers up to $1.9 million.

The decision was heavily criticised by industry groups such as the NT Cattlemen's Association (NTCA) and the NT Seafood Council.

NTCA president Chris Nott welcomed today's announcement by Labor and said the ABC's decision was short-sighted.

"What people take for granted in the cities is a luxury for those of us in the bush," Mr Nott said.

"We rely on the HF shortwave radio transmitters because we don't have mobile and data coverage for AM and FM radio stations.

"The ABC can expand its modern day platforms all it likes but the truth is we don't all have access to it and the ABC did not care at all about the impact of its decision."

Federal Member for Solomon Luke Gosling, said the axing of shortwave had angered a lot of people and community groups.

"Many thousands will benefit from this [bringing back shortwave]," he told the Country Hour.

"I was lobbied by a really large cross-section of the community that spends time in remote areas and when shortwave was cut there was a lot of angst, so it will be a good thing to bring it back to keep people on the land and waters connected."

Duration: 7min 42sec
Broadcast: Mon 19 Nov 2018, 2:00pm
Full episode 1hr  
Northern Territory Country Hour
(also via Artie Bigley; Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957,
DXLD)

Pledge to bring shortwave back to NT | Katherine Times
http://www.katherinetimes.com.au › News › Local News 16 hours ago -
The ALP has pledged to re-establish shortwave radio services across
the NT. [by] Chris McLennan  

https://www.katherinetimes.com.au/story/5765393/pledge-to-bring-shortwave-back-to-nt/

Local News  
The short wave radio transmitter at Katherine. [caption]

The ALP has pledged to re-establish shortwave radio services across the NT.

Labor MPs Stephen Jones, Malarndirri McCarthy and Warren Snowdon today said a Labor Government would provide the ABC with $2 million in funding to help re-establish shortwave radio services.

Katherine’s shortwave transmitter, opposite the Stuart Highway just north of the town, was switched off back in January last year.

At the time, critics slammed the move saying it would risk lives in the outback.

ABC said the decision only impacted a small number of people.

ABC management said the majority of people affected by the loss of shortwave radio, such as those living in remote Indigenous communities and on homesteads, would be able to access "the full amount of ABC services" through satellite links.

Long-haul truckers, fisherfolk, station owners and workers said they were worried and still need the shortwave services for communication, particularly at times of emergency.

Australians living in remote areas already face significant communications challenges and the loss of access to ABC services from shortwave radio cuts people off from emergency broadcasts as well as being an important connection to the rest of Australia, the federal Labor MPs said today.

They said organisations like the NT Government, NT Cattlemen’s Association, Northern Territory Seafood Council representing commercial and tourist fishing businesses, Amateur Fisherman Association, Indigenous Rangers, long haul transport drivers and the Toyota Land Cruiser Club representing Grey Nomads have raised concerns about the loss of these services.

In January 2017, Opposition leader Bill Shorten wrote to then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull asking him to work with the ABC to restore the shortwave.

Labor believes that it was premature to cut ABC shortwave radio services and that if the ABC had not been under intense budget constraints, this decision would never have been made.

Labor’s funding commitment of $2 million to restore ABC shortwave services is in addition to Labor’s commitment to reverse the Government’s $83.7 million cut to the ABC (Katherine Times via Artie Bigley, Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD)

Good signal of Reach Beyond Australia in 25 mb, Nov 17
1115-1130 on 11865 KNX 100 kW / 335 deg to SEAs Rohingya/English:  
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-signal-of-reach-beyond-australia_18.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The Rohingya are being genocided by the Myanmarianese for being Moslems; would they be better off as Christians?? Is that one of RBA`s selling points? How many of them, refuged in Bangladesh, would be listening to such a station from Australia? (gh, DXLD)

Fairfax shareholders have voted to approve the the proposed merger with Nine Entertainment, but former head of Fairfax-owned real estate site Domain Antony Catalano says he will take the matter to court.

The Fairfax board said it could not consider Mr Catalano’s 11th-hour bid to prevent the merger. In a letter late on Sunday, Mr Catalano sought to have the shareholder meeting to be adjourned for a fortnight so his late proposal could be heard. . .
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/11/18/fairfax-nine-merger-approval/ (via Tim Gaynor, NSW, WOR iog via DXLD)

The only Austrian program transmitted from MOS any more. It`s beginning to be somewhat audible here, but not as good as it used to be, including some classical music around 0630. There was also a brief English newscast at the end, deleted (gh, DXLD)

6035, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Thimphu, Dzongkha, 18/11 0125. Traditional songs in a sequence. 34543. **Tx to South Asia.

In March 2017 I sent a reception report to Bhutan Broadcasting Service (listened here in São Bernardo SP, via Icom IC-R8500 + AOR LA400 Loop Antenna) and after 12 days arrived here an eQSL + E-Letter. Amazing!!!! (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)

5952.4, Radio Pio XII, Siglo XX, 2325-2346, 16-11, Spanish, comments. Very weak, audible on LSB. 14311. (Méndez)

6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 2220-2236, 15-11, Spanish, comments, male and female. Very weak. No interference from Aparecida at this time. 14311 (Manuel Mendez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 5 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Bastante interferencia por las tormentas. Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., Mérida, Yucatán, Nov 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

800, PJB, Trans World Radio, Bonaire; 0245, 11/15; Spanish religious talk; mentioned TWR. Mixing with CKLW(presumed). // web feed https://www.twr.org/bonaire-en-vivo which is several seconds behind (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

4862.2, Radio Alvorada, Londrina, 2129-2136, 16-11, “A Voz do Brasil”. Very weak. 15321. (Méndez)

4875.2, Radiodifusora Roraima, Boavista, 2128-2137, 16-11, Portuguese, soccer, live matches. 15321. (Méndez)

4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, 0622-0640, 16-11, Brazilian songs, program “Clube da Madrugada”. 35433. (Méndez)

4985, Radio Brasil Central, Goiânia, 2224-2237, 15-11, Brazilian songs, comments. Interference from teletype stations. 13221. Also 2115-2120, 16-11, “A Voz do Brasil”. 15321. (Méndez)

6010, Radio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 0729-0745, 16-11, Brazilian songs. Very weak. 15311. (Méndez)

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília, 2104-2110, 16-11, program "A Voz do Brasil". Good signal. 44444. Nothing on 11780. (Méndez)

9564.8, Super Radio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 2143-2155, 15-11, Portuguese, religious comments, “Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor”. 25322. (Méndez)

9818.5, Radio 9 de Julio, São Paulo, 2102-2110, 16-11, “A Voz do Brasil”. 33433. (Méndez)

10000, Time Signal Station Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 0930-0945, 16-11, time signals, female voice announcements, “Observatório Nacional, 7 horas, 32 minutos, 40 segundos”. 24322. (Méndez)

11815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiânia, 2100-2107, 16-11, “ A Voz do Brasil”. 22322 (Manuel Mendez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 5 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Other two frequencies, 9645 and 11925 have been inactive for many months, and WRTH 2018 had all three as double-daggered. Is 6090 at least slightly off-frequency, like all ZY stations are required to be? Mark doesn`t split frequencies on his receivers which ought to be capable of that. Heard no doubt in absence of Anguilla, more often than not. But beware of IRAN, which is also on 6090, 500 kW in Spanish at 0020-0320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6180, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília DF, PP, OM: talk, Brazilian song, ID: "Radio Nacional da Amazonia". Program "Roda de samba". 35543. Again, the authentic signal from RNA. Recently we experimented* a QRM [spur] from Radio Marumby 6080 kHz on this frequency (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Nov 15 but time missing

*RG`s English (and I think, German) is good but this is an interesting example of a false cognate: in Portuguese, it seems there is no verb corresponding to our ``experience``, so ``experimentar`` means either/both to experience, or/and to experiment, which are really quite different concepts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 2104-2110, 16-11, program "A Voz do Brasil". Good signal. 44444. Nothing on 11780 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6180, 2125-2140 16.11, R Nacional da Amazônia, Brasilia, DF, Portuguese conversation about Brazilian issues - Reactivated! 33333. Best in LSB due to Arab QRM on 6185, Best 73, (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) CRI via ALBANIA

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia at 2207 in Portuguese with a male DJ with excited talk and into a mix of ranchero-like male vocals, Brazilian ballads, and Brasopops – Very Good with slight fading Nov 16 – At one time this would have often been // 11780 but since its reactivation the Brazilians have settled on only use one frequency at a time (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia at 0001, Portuguese, man and woman with news headlines, 0003 into music and later DJ talking to woman on phone, between 0001 and 0009 there were a couple of transmission breaks where transmitter was off for 30 to 60 seconds. Nothing on 11780 this evening. - Excellent, Nov 17 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked on a back-country road. CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 active whip antenna on car roof, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6180, 19 Nov, 1838, RNA in Portuguese. YL interviews a man. The signal is weak, but with constant audio (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia, 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET, Antenna Delta Loop 8.5 meters, https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See CUBA 6180 [WORLD OF RADIO 1957]

** BRAZIL
9664.739, Voz Missionaria, 0653 UT.
5939.759, Voz Missionaria, poor tiny S=4-5, 0705 UT.  
9564.932, SRDA Brasil relig 0643 UT.
4885.023, R Clube do Para, 0708 UT.

Nov 19 morning SHORT report, from Greece, Germany, Belgium, U.K., NJ, NY, MI states, Alberta-CAN too, 0615 to 0715 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

PIRATE STATION: 11324.99 kHz, Radio GBA, 19/11 1942. Sequence of international oldies. 35553 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, in MI-state, Alberta Canada, Brisbane Queensland, Australia, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

SECRETBROD, BVBroadcasting Dardasha 7 via SPL Secretbrod, Nov 15  
1745-1800 on  5995 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic, weak to fair
1931-1946 on  5900 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic, weak to fair
1945-2000 on  9400 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to NoAf Arabic, weak to fair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRmJZdvT_gM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmk6HeeiWM&feature=youtu.be
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

See results from listeners at @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram (Kim Elliott, Nov 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.:

Shortwave Radiogram transmits digital text and images on an analog shortwave broadcast transmitter. The program is produced and presented by Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott.

Shortwave Radiogram, 16-18 November 2018: Waterfall graphics to Earth and beyond

The Mighty KBC’s new frequency of 11600 kHz, Saturdays at 1300-1400 UT from Bulgaria, reached across the Atlantic last weekend. That included the minute of MFSK64 at 1330 (see below). If you are in North America, try it this weekend.

Unfortunately, the Shortwave Radiogram frequency of 9400 kHz at 1400-1430, also from Bulgaria, was less successful last weekend reaching the United States and Canada. It is, nevertheless, worth a try this weekend.

Videos of last weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram (program 73) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 2030-2100) and by Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1400-1430). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.

As of this weekend, our broadcast at the inconvenient (at least for North Americans) time of 0800-0830 UT moves to Sunday, from Monday, and thus might be slightly less inconvenient. North Americans who prefer not to wake up in the middle of the night can use Audacity’s timer record feature. Or just leave your radio and Fldigi on all night and look at your results in the morning. Europeans should note that winter gray-line (grey-line) propagation may allow reception of the this Sunday 0800-0830 UTC broadcast. Frequencies are 5850 and 7730 kHz from WRMI Florida [WORLD OF RADIO 1957]

Winter propagation is allowing reception of Shortwave Radiogram broadcasts in areas where they were not heard during the summer, but the signal might not be sufficient for a good decode of our usual MFSK modes. To improve the chances of a successful decode, we will transmit some of this weekend’s content in the robust Olivia 64-2000, 32-2000, and 16-2000 modes.

A few notes about Olivia: 1) For best decode, turn squelch (SQL) off. 2) The RSID should direct Fldigi to the correct Olivia modes, but if manual mode selection is necessary, Olivia 32-2000 and 16-2000 will require using the custom menu under the Olivia op mode. 3) Keep in mind that the text will not begin to print until a few seconds after you hear the tones.

Another interesting feature in this weekend’s unusual program is a waterfall graphic created by Merkouris, SV2HWM, in Greece. It’s a replica of the message sent to outer space in 1974 by the Arecibo radio telescope. This can be seen in the Fldigi waterfall or on an SDR spectrum display (zoom in). To see as much of it as possible in Fldigi: Configure > UI > Waterfall > FFT Processing > Increase waterfall height > Save, then close and restart Fldigi.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 74, 16-18 November 2018, in modes as noted:

     1:41  MFSK32: Program preview
     3:07  Olivia 64-2000: Earth’s dust clouds***
     6:11  Olivia 32-2000: Earth’s dust clouds***
     8:42  Olivia 16-2000: Earth’s dust clouds***
    11:43  MFSK64: Image from previous story*
    14:27  Arecibo radio telescope message to space**
    20:31  This week’s images
    27:41  MFSK32: Closing announcements

    * with image(s)
    ** with waterfall graphic and image
    *** for best Olivia decode turn off squelch (SQL)

    Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net
    And visit http://swradiogram.net
    Twitter: @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram
(visit during the weekend to see listeners’ results)
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(via DXLD)

http://blog.fagstein.com/2018/11/13/corus-asks-crtc-to-shut-down-44-global-tv-transmitters/ (via Andy Reid, Ont., Nov 14, DXLD) Re DTV

[and non]. 4870, Nov 19 at 1355, the RIS9 CW marker allegedly from PLA Beijing is quite stronger than last time, but a JBA weaker carrier is slightly lower, presumably AIR Nepali service from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7445, CNR1 at 2226 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with a man and woman with excited news reporting followed by a number of promos to 1+1 time pips at 2230 and a fanfare and more news – Very Good Nov 15.

11660, CNR1 at 1319 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a telephone interview between two men then a number of promos from 1327 to 1+1 time pips at 1330 and a fanfare and into a woman with excited news reporting – Fair Nov 16 – At first I thought this might be the legitimate VOA via Tinang, Philippines but the dead give-aways were the promos and the 1+1 time pips at 1330. Anything broadcasted in Mandarin to China needs more than cursory monitoring to reveal if it is the legitimate broadcaster or a CNR feed used to jam them.

9450, CNR1 at 2249 // 7445 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news coverage – Fair Nov 16 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)

6135, CRI (Xian). 1455+ 16 Nov. "Roundtable" in English // 5995, 15700. Weak with CCI from the NK jamming (v. KOREA SOUTH but apparently inactive?).

11765, CNR1. 1544+ 16 Nov. Jammer thumping away v. unheard SOH.

11805, CNR1. 1540+ 16 Nov. Echo jamming v. unheard RFA (Kuwait).  (Dan
Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

Mark has concluded this is CNR3 instead of CNR1, but CNR1 has a variety of programming including music part of the time, not all-news. EiBi shows jamming from CNR1 or Firedrake; and all agree 12-13 is the only hour there are anythings on 11555. In Aoki/NDXC * means CNR1 or CNR2 but no mention of CNR3 as jamming. CNR2 is China Business Radio a.k.a. Voice of the Economy, per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

5910, CUBA, CRI at 0258 with OC to 0305 then a man with “CRI News” joined in progress – Poor to Fair Nov 17 – Not only does this hurt any chances to hear Alcaraván Radio from Colombia (see above logging) but RHC can't even get their customer on the air at the right time. As seen from the mix up with the English program on 5040 // 9710 [sic], can RHC become any more incompetent? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

But no sign of Colombia now for many weeks even when frequency be clear. It was about +0.3 kHz off, so if you hear a het on the 5910.0 stations, go for it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

13780, Nov 13 at 1351, RHC new frequency is on, but off at 1510 check; sked 12-15.

13700, Nov 13 at 1351, this RHC is not on yet, but is on at 1510, along with the spur parasites I measured yesterday plus & minus 28+ kHz. This one is sked 14-16, so the two 22m channels are not wrong today except for the spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[re 9720 RHC to Africa moved two hours earlier, 2100-2300] Are these changes really in effect? French heard this Tuesday on 9720 at 2300 as previously indicated (not at 2100) (Jean-Michel Aubier, France Nov 13, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9720, Nov 13 at 2309, RHC is S9+30 but JBM suptorted in French; at 2357 now sounds like Kriyol, and Nov 14 at 0000 into English becoming // 5040. However by 0055, 9720 is off, while 5040 is musicking.

Arnie`s original B-18 schedule had 9720 at 23-01, in French, Portuguese, 0000 English, but amended Nov 12 to move all that two hours earlier, i.e. 21-23 with English at 22-23, and as I previously reported confirmed end of English hour at 2257 Nov 12. But for the time being, running English both at 22-23 & 00-, it seems, transitionally or confusedly. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

15140, tune-in at 1956:30 Nov 14, RHC VG signal in Kriyol, but modulation and/or carrier cuts off and on; 2000 into distorted English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5040, Nov 15 at 0004, this RHC is dead air; 0012 starts to fade up modulation to just barely, unsure of language. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

5025, Nov 16 at 0637, R. Rebelde music is S9+10/20 but overmodulated and distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. I check MW //s which sound OK except for QRM: 1620, and 1180 multi-site jammers to Radio Martí, also with diehard IBOC noise from far-right mouthpiece 1170 KFAQ-HD Tulsa.

6100, Nov 16 at 0630, RHC English is absent from this, but still on: 6165 poor, 6060 VG, 6000 VG but undermod. 5040 also VG at 0638 check. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9720, RHC at 0011 with Spanish instead of expected English. Same on 5040 - Excellent, Nov 17 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked on a back-country road. CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 active whip antenna on car roof, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Hi Glenn, a couple of items this time. RHC-6150 is 'funny' since it's not listed in their B-18 Schedule & doesn't appear to be a "leap-frog/hop-toad" from anything -- 6150, RHC. 1319-50+ 16 Nov. Weak (// 11760) with ACI from CNR2-6155. Presumed 1400*, as unheard after that. NF? not on any RHC schedule I can find -- 11950 is listed 12-14 so perhaps this is an 'extra' frequency, just in case? (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Lots of weird idiosyncrasies to report with RHC forgetting to plug CRI programming into their scheduled time slot and forgetting that English NOT Spanish is supposed to be aired on 5040 // 9710 [sic] from midnight to 0100.

5040, RHC at 0053 // 9710 [sic; 9720?] in Spanish with Latin American male and female ballads to IS at 0058 and a woman with “Esta es Radio Havana Cuba” ID – Fair Nov 17 – English was missing at this hour tonight. So, what else is new with RHC and its seeming incompetence?

6000, RHC at 0353 with Cuban jazz piano instrumentals and a man with talk about a lifetime achievement award won by the artists the other items dealing with the arts – Good signal low level audio Nov 17.

13780, RHC at 1259 with Latin American instrumentals and a woman with ID “Esta es Radio Havana Cuba” and a man with a slogan then another man with a slogan at 1300 and a woman with news – Fair Nov 17 –

Another unannounced frequency. RHC has a long history of this and seems to have a complete disdain for the HFCC conferences and other broadcasters (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

It`s ``announced`` in Arnie`s new B-18 sked which he says is sufficiently sent to ITU, never mind HFCC (gh, DXLD)

6150, Nov 17 at 1353, RHC Spanish on new unlisted frequency, S9/S9+10. No other frequencies heard now on 49mb; during A-season they were on 6000, 6100v in mornings. The Nov 12 revised B-18 sked showed 6000 dropped, but had not added 6150. Something`s always wrong at RHC. First reported yesterday by Dan Sheedy [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

 6000 kHz RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, 250 kW,
          12-14 UT, nothing heard so far today Nov 17.
          nor on (2nd scheduled) 9600 kHz entry muddle.

 9535.004 RHC Bejucal S=8-9 in NY, Detroit MI, and Alberta CAN
          at 1315 UT Nov 17.

 9640.004 RHC Bejucal SP, S=8 at 1320 UT.  

11760even RHC Bauta, S=9+25dB at 1325 UT in MI state.  

11950even RHC Bauta in Spanish, S=9+30dB at 1328 UT.  

13780.008 RHC Bejucal, S=8 at 1330 UT.  

(13845 WWCR only S=6-7 at skip zone in MI state.)  

15230even RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet,
          also strong in Belgium and Germany SDR's.
          {despite scheduled on 15140 kHz ?}

13700even RHC Bauta Spanish 14-16 UT scheduled,
          towards western USA, CA, WA, TX, AZ etc.
          S=9+35dB in Alberta, Detroit Michigan states.

 9570even CRI Beijing English sce, S=9+20dB at 1357 UT.
          via Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet site 13-14 UT.

15700even CRI Beijing English sce, S=9+35dB at 1424 UT.
          via Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet site 14-15 UT.
73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6100, Nov 18 at 0647, this RHC English is off and so is 5040, leaving only 6000, 6060 and 6165 to choose from, still overkill. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6100 kHz channel was always empty / OFF air, when checked this Nov 18 morning.

Only on air 6000QUI, 6060.005BAU, 6165evenBAU, -- and 5025 kHz Radio Rebelde Bauta program at 0803 UT S=9+20dB noted in Detroit MI remote SDR unit.

Also no / nothing heard from 0801:15 UT, when usually RHC Esperanto Sunday-only 0800-0830 UT starts.

6000even RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, 250 kW, 06-08 UT, S=9+30dB till s-off about approx. 0802 UT

6060.005 RHC Bauta in English till 0801 UT, S=9 signal.

6165even RHC Bauta in English till approx. 0802 UT, when heard the RHC interval signal and followed by opening annmt of Esperanto program at 0801:15 UT, S=9+15dB in MI state. \\ also few seconds of same Esperanto feed on 6000 kHz.

Still all 49 meterband RHC channels empty when checked at 0822 again [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6150even. RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, 250 kW, 12-14 UT (ex 12-15 UT B-18 requested under 6000 kHz), heard today Nov 18 on S=9+25dB level in Detroit MI-state USA. Spanish news heard by professional newsreader at 1202 UT. 10 kHz wide range signal. -- Nothing on requested (2nd schedule) 9600 kHz entry muddle.

{compared 5980even USA R Marti Greenville-B site, S=9+45dB POWERHOUSE, 1205 UT, 10 kHz wide range signal. 5970even USA EWTN Birmingham S=9+15dB, 1206 UT 10 kHz widerange, modern religious youthgroup song.}

 9535.003, RHC Bejucal S=7-8 in NY, Detroit MI, at 1211 Sunday Nov 18.  

{9570even, CRI Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, in Cantonese  
language, S=9+35dB at 1214 UT, on Sunday Nov 18.}

9640.003, RHC Bejucal Spanish, S=7-8 at 1213 UT.

11760even, RHC Bauta Spanish, S=9+15dB at 1217 UT in MI state.

11950even, RHC Bauta in Spanish, S=9+25dB at 1218 UT.

13780.012, RHC Bejucal in Spanish, S=4 threshold backlobe signal level
at 1220 UT.  

15230even, RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, only S=4 threshold on local skip zone in MI-state USA, also readable S=9 or -76dBm in Belgium and Germany SDR's {despite B-18 scheduled on 15140 instead ?}

[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Hello, I've got ANOTHER failure RHC Arnie Coro .xlsx file by e-mail of today Nov 18, see wrong French and Creole column entries. in line #2, column #248. I've tried to transform to older .xls Office 2003 format, in Excel and also in OpenOffice software. I'll stop all editing RHC schedule files now, - for a while.

Only real monitoring of RHC transmissions by Y.T. show the present operational file in their 3 transmission centres.

In 14-15 UT on Sunday Nov 18 monitored  
15230even QUI S=9+25dB (not 15140 kHz)
13700even BAU S=9+25dB at 14.50 UT, {11950 kHz til 14 UT}
13780.010 Bejucal site S=9+10dB at 14.53 UT.
vy73 wolfie (Bueschel, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

2200-0500, 13740 BAU 100kW 160deg SoAM Spanish, not on air 23-24 UT Nov 18.

2200-0600, 9535 BEJ 100  230 CeAM  Spanish  
9535.002 RHC Bejucal in Sp at 2305 UT S=8-9 in Detroit MI state.

2200-2400, 9640 BEJ 050  110 Antill Spanish  
9640.003 RHC Bejucal, S=6-7 backlobe in MI-state. 2317 UT

2300-2330  9720 BAU 100  130 SoAF French  
9720.008 RHC Bauta in French language, S=9+15dB in Detroit MI-state at
2316 UT Sunday Nov 18.

2300-2400 11700 QVC 250  160 SoAM Portuguese  
11700even RHC Quivican, S=9 at 2325 UT here in Germany remote SDR

2200-0300 11760 BAU 100  n-d NoCeAM  Spanish  
11760even RHC Bauta, non-dir fountain like antenna, speedy Cuban mx at
2319 UT, Spanish program. S=9+5dB signal.

2200-0600 11840 QVC 250  170 Chile  Spanish  
11840even RHC Quivican San Felipe TITAN outlet, 250 kW, S=9 in Detroit
MI state at 2320 UT.

2200-2400 15370 BAU 100  010 NY / MA / WeEUR Spanish language  
15370even tentatively sidelobe of RHC Bauta at 23.25 UT S=4 very poor
threshold noisy signal [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3
Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 18, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

No, RHC nothing this morning on 5040 kHz, and nor 6165 kHz channels. 5025even, R Rebelde broadband 20.6 kHz wide signal, S=9+40dB. Nov 19 morning SHORT report, from Greece, Germany, Belgium, U.K., NJ, NY, MI states, Alberta-CAN too, 0615 to 0715 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5040, Nov 19 at 0649 check, no RHC English here; supposed to be on until 0700; may well have been off earlier instead of Spanish.

6165, Nov 19 at 0653, no RHC English here either, the AWOL 49m frequency this time, retaining 6100, 6060 and 6000 at roughly equal modulation levels for a change. All these are supposed to last until 0800. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

15140, Nov 19 at 1511, RHC is on today and VG // 15230, which are the two SSOB, hardly any other ones from anywhere.

9720, Nov 19 circa 2245, RHC is not on air, but at 2304 it is, S9+20 of dead air, no French, no English. At 2307 a few words of Spanish cut on --- no, that`s not right, so back to dead air. I leave a receiver running here and occasionally hear sounds of fading, but no modulation at all. Still listening after 0020 Nov 20, but the carrier has gone off somewhen. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

5040, Nov 20 at 0220, this RHC is again/still AWOL. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I`m here because Manuel Méndez, Spain, reported RNA Brasil as rarely active on 6180 a few hours earlier, at 2104-2110 Nov 16, instead of on 11780. And Harold Sellers, BC, also had 6180 RNA at 0001-0009 Nov 17, with some carrier breaks. But it`s totally off by the time I intune, and nothing on 11780 either, despite habitual sked until 0300* (or maybe -0200* during their DST?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7180.04, 0545-0550 17.11, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, Asmara, Arabic talk - nearly faded out, 15211. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD)

Following our 38th Anniversary broadcasts on August 26th & September 2nd, FRS will take to the air with a full regular broadcast on Sunday November 18th.

Programmes will commence at 0852 UT/09:52 CET and will last four hours. Close down will be at 1300 UT/14:00 CET after which the complete programmes will see a full repeat until just after 1700 UT/ 18:00 CET.

Attention: in the morning/ early afternoon programmes will be aired at 7700//9300 kHz. During the second run starting just after 1300 UT/14:00 CET, the 31 mb frequency could be changed into 93xx kHz (will be announced later, also listen to FRS Magazine/ FRS goes DX for updated info).

Tune in next Sunday --- the best in music, many interesting (radio) related items and DX news. It will be worth while to tune in! Reports but moreover: personal comments are more than welcome. P.O.Box 2702 in 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands or by e-mail: frs@frsholland.nl

http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/122-frs-holland-on-air-on-november-18th.html (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

HOLLAND, FRS Holland, 7679.9, 0753- pop songs, tuning music, at 0758
identification "FRS Holland", English, "It's nine o'clock, ten o'clock
in Central Europe", "This is the Free Radio Service Holland". This is
FRS Magazine". In parallel with 9300.7
SINPO 7679.9 25422  
SINPO 9300.7 15311
(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable
antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Strong signal from FRS Holland on 7700 kHz from 0920 tune-in this morning with Peter Verburggen. It`s not audible here at the moment on 9300 probably due to the longer skip (but it may propagate further afield). 73s (Dave Kenny, Nov 18, bdxc-news iog via DXLD)

HOLLAND, FRS Holland now on air on 9333.7 instead of 9300 and in parallel with 7700. Pop songs and comments in English, ID "FRS Holland". Fair signal here in Lugo and with fading at this moment. 35312.

http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/124-31-mb-frequencies.html "Due to the fact our 9300 signal was badly influenced by DATA this morning, we decided to make a move to 9335 kHz. In the afternoon at 1305 UT/14:05 CET FRS' programmes will be repeated on 7700//9335 or 9213. So please watch our 31 mb channel as we do not know yet which one we will use this afternoon. Programmes will close down at approx. 1710 UT/18:10 CET." (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Very weak signal on 7699.9 & 9333.7 at 1240 UT, Nov. 18  
(Ivo Ivanov, ibid.)

I had weak carriers on both here in the USA around 1220z, 9333.7 was stronger but splatter from WBCQ 9330 made it impossible to hear any audio (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, Westminster, MD USA http://www.blackcatsystems.com 1246 UT Nov 18, ibid.)

HOLLAND, Reception of Free Radio Service Holland FRSH, Nov 18
from 1305 on 7699.9 unknown kW / unknown to Eu English, weak/fair
from 1305 on 9213.2 unknown kW / unknown to Eu English, JBA  
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-free-radio-service-holland.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Just because it has Holland in its name doesn`t mean a pirate really transmit from The Netherlands. Why does everyone accept this; how do they know? If so, specify its true location (gh, DXLD)

During this morning's 0630 RFI English broadcast, at the end of the French press summary, the host reminded listeners that "our morning broadcasts are going to be coming to an end very shortly, this Sunday will be our last." "Apparently, we're going to become podcasters as opposed to broadcasters," replied Michael Fitzpatrick. "Tune in next week and you won't hear us, but we'll still be there." (Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, WOR iog)

Except, new relay of RFI English at 00-01 via WRMI 5950. Do they even know about this at the English service?? Unknown how the WRN sked will change, from having RFI English at 06-07 which has also been via WRMI (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)

I guess WRN will be repeating the remaining RFI English program at 1400 in all of its existing time slots. In the B18 schedule, WRN to North America and Africa have RFI hours at 0600, 1000 and 1600. WRN to Europe has RFI at 0700, 1200 and 2000. However, there will only be RFI English programs Monday through Friday. I wonder what WRN will do with these time slots on the weekends (Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 14, ibid.)

[Glenn: Note that I just sent you page from RFI web site that
discusses the changes. -mc]  viz.:

http://en.rfi.fr/culture/20181110-quiz-back

The Sound Kitchen Podcast
The quiz is back!  
By Susan Owensby Released on 10-11-2018 Modified 10-11-2018 to 12:26

This week, Sound Kitchen producer Alain Bleu joins me in the kitchen. You'll hear the answer to the question about the Berlin marathon, hear some great music and of course, there's the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo above and enjoy!

Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen.

Big news for RFI English: On 18 November, RFI English morning broadcasts will come to an end.

There's an all-new Paris Live programme starting on 19 November. You can hear it on-the-air, and of course, on our website, rfienglish.com, Monday through Friday at 14h00 universal time, 3pm Paris time.

And you can always join us on rfienglish.com, where we are boosting our content to meet your demands for news, special features, analysis, interviews, podcasts and more.

What does this mean for The Sound Kitchen? The Sound Kitchen will no longer be heard on our FMs. It will be available here on our website, rfienglish.com, as it always has been, as well as on The Sound Kitchen Facebook page. It will be posted on Saturdays, as it always has been. The format will not change: you'll hear the winner's names announced and the week's quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, "On This Day", quirky facts and news, interviews and great music, so be sure and go to the RFI English website every Saturday for The Sound Kitchen.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 11830 kHz on the 25m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day - until 17 November.

[11830, is that correct?? Not sked for B-18 --- gh]  

We've had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is "aimed" (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know ... and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI and WRN. In Paris, you can hear us on World Radio Paris on DAB+. These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us we have no way of knowing --- so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

Did you know there is an RFI English newsletter? On the very top of our homepage, there's a little tab that says "Newsletters". Click on it and fill out the form, and every day you'll receive the latest from the RFI English website.

We want to hear from you. We have a phone number you can call to leave us a message, so we can hear your voice. Just call, give your name, your country, and a short message - something like "I love RFI", because of course you do - and we can put you on-the-air. The number to call is: + 33 1 84 22 95 82.

RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write her so that I know what is going on, too. N.B. You do not need to send her your quiz answers!

We've made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven't yet asked to join the group, go here and fill out the questionnaire !!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click "decline").

Are you interested in forming an official RFI Club, or transforming your existing club into an official RFI Club? Here's how:

This week's quiz: On 22 September, I asked you about the Berlin marathon, held on 16 September. You were to send in the name, nationality and the running time of the man who won, the name and the running time of the man who came in second, and the running time of the previous world record setter which was set four years ago by Dennis Kimetto.

The answers are: The winner of the Berlin marathon was Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, and his running time was 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds. Amos Kipruto, also from Kenya, placed second. He was nearly five minutes behind Kipchoge - usually in these marathons we're talking a matter of seconds, maybe a minute or two --- but five minutes shows you just how fast Kipchoge is. Kipruto's time was 2 hours, 6 minutes, and 23 seconds.

What was the world record time, broken by Eliud Kipchoge? 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 57 seconds, set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in 2014.

The winners are: Mrs Lutfunnesha Begum, a member of the RFI International DX Radio Listeners Club in Murshidabad, India; Jobayada Aktar Jai from the Nilshagor RFI Fan Club in Nilphamari, Bangladesh; Muhammad Rashid, a member of the RFI Pak France International Listeners Club in Sahiwal, Pakistan; Mrs Permi Devi from Rajasthan, India and Mr Li Ming from Maanchan City in China.

Congratulations, winners!  

Here's the music you heard on this week's program: "Jam Session", written by Norman Shrdlu; Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Flight of the Bumblebee" and "Les baricades misterieuses" by François Couperin, arranged by Thomas Ades.

Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr

This week's question --- You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 10 December to enter this week's quiz; the winners will be announced on the 15 December program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one,your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:  
english.service@rfi.fr

or

Susan Owensby  
RFI - The Sound Kitchen
80, rue Camille Desmoulins
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
France

or

By text: You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country's international access code, or " + ", then 33 6 31 12 96 82. Don't forget to include your mailing address in your text - and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here: To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)

Will RFI still be heard in English at 06-07 next week, during WRN relay? Evidently the only English hour then produced will be M-F at 1400, and anything else will have to repeat that, per Mike Cooper. Presumably continuing at 00-01 UT on 5950, not on WRN then.

5950, Nov 16 at 0633, world news headlines with undercurrent of annoying rumblenoise, to make them sound more urgent, ID as `Paris Live` on Radio France Internationale. Via WRN via WRMI. This English service is almost done for, unless WRN keep replaying an old 1400 live broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5950, USA, Radio France International via WRMI at 0015 in English, item from India, time check and “Paris Live” ID followed by another report from India. - Fair, occasional RTTY and DRM noise bursts, Nov 17 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked on a back-country road. CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 active whip antenna on car roof, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5950, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0559, WRMI with Zanotti ID, 0600 WRN ID and opening Radio France International in English dated November 18, headlines, so this is really a new (almost?) live show, the last one the English sexion will be allowed to produce in the morning, so what will occupy this hour from tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

RFI: This morning was the first edition of a new "Paris Live" program on RFI English at 1400. The program has new jingles. The show included no newscast, no sports news summary and no press reviews. (Previously, the early morning broadcast had a French press review and the 1400 program included an African press review.) The bulk of the program was RFI hosts interviewing reporters. The first story was on protests in France over a gasoline price hike, the second was on a meeting involving the French president. The only sports coverage was a Q&A with another reporter about a tennis match. Content was less Afro-centric than in the past. Mention was made at the end of the program about the abolishment of the morning broadcasts and "plans to extend our digital presence." Web editor David Rogue (sp?) said RFI english was moving to provide a new digital content and presentation. He said there would be more content and new use of video technology. He said morning programs had been closed down and moved to online, though a check of the RFI English home page at this moment only finds a link to listen to portions of the 1400 broadcast. I wonder if some RFI English personnel have been laid off, but there is no easy way to tell at this moment (Mike Cooper, Nov 19, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD)

5950, Nov 19 at 0650, what`s on instead of RFI English hour via WRN via WRMI? Kelka shows in French, presumably also RFI which also occupies the following bihour now in otherlangs. 0659.5 interrupted for WRMI Ian ID, 0700 into RFI Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Also cancelled from SW Issoudun are Portuguese transmissions
1700-1730 on 15485 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf  
1900-1930 on  9775 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf
(Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WOR iog via DXLD)

7440, WEST GERMANY, Channel 292 presumed the one at 2235 in French with two men with talk with mentions of “Etats Unis” and a folk song at 2241 - Poor and noisy Nov 16 – This one, whose main frequency is 6070, has been reported to be testing on this frequency from 0400 to 2400 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)

Was this offer courtesy of the syndicated comic strip? https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/about

About Frank and Ernest Comic Strips - GoComics  

Frank and Ernest, created by Bob Thaves, chronicles the antics of two "everyman" characters who are anything but ordinary! They appear in different settings, time periods - even manifest as things and creatures other than people. The variety in the strip extends to their observations about a wide ...

Frank and Ernest by Thaves for November 18, 2018 - View the daily comic strip for Frank and Ernest by cartoonist Thaves created November 18, 2018 available on https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2018/11/18 (Greg Hardison, CA, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

If only it were. This F&E appears to be totally unrelated, by a
Jehovah`s Witness breakaway sect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_and_Ernest_(broadcast)  

Much more detail at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Bible_Students_Association (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)

For this year
https://www.ndr.de/info/sendungen/Gruss-an-Bord,grussanbord306.html gives so far no confirmation that shortwave relays have again been booked. But at least Media Broadcast already made plannings, with the frequencies to be used in the two blocks

1900-2100 and 2100-2300 being  
for Nauen 125 kW / 250° = 6080/6145 kHz,
for Nauen 125 kW / 130° = 9740/9720 kHz, 
for Issoudun 250 kW / 148° = 9800/9830 kHz, 
for Issoudun 250 kW / 195° = 11650/9590 kHz, 
for Moosbrunn 100 kW / 115° = 9570/9650 kHz and 
for Gavar 100 kW / 305° = 6030/6155 kHz.

The frequency switch at 2100 uses the caesura by news which are followed by a religious service, probably live. The greeting parts are prepared in advance, assembled from two semi-public recording sessions (on 9 Dec at Leer, on 16 Dec at Hamburg) and further studio read-outs.

On Sun, Nov 20, *2016* at 02:43 AM, Kai Ludwig wrote:  

The Christmas Eve seafarer transmission of Norddeutscher Rundfunk will this year involve a sixth transmitter at a new site, Gavar (Armenia). It will beam back to Europe itself, to replace the closed mediumwave transmitters.

Actually this is a year late, since NDR had closed down mediumwave already on 13 Jan 2015. But the start of the whole thing in 2012 was already a year late as well, with German-language radio from Deutsche Welle gone since 30 Oct 2011.

Details for this year are as follows. Transmission will run from 1900 to 2300, where two frequencies are given they are for 1900-2100 and 2100-2300, respectively.

    Nauen: 6125 / 5930, 125 kW, 250°; to western Europe, northern
                                      Atlantic and Carribean
    9740 / 9765, 125 kW, 130°; to Indian Ocean
 
    Moosbrunn:
    9790 / 9650, 100 kW, 115°; to southern/southeastern Asia and
                                      Australia
 
    Issoudun:
    9800 / 9590, 250 kW, 156°; to eastern/southern Africa and Indian
                                      Ocean
    11650 / 9830, 250 kW, 195°; to western Africa, southern Atlantic
                                      and South America
 
    Gavar:
    6145, 100 kW, 305°; to the whole of Europe

All transmissions through dipole walls, all powers above 100 kW are dictated by the equipment (500 kW transmitters at Nauen and Issoudun, of which the Telefunken ones at Nauen can be run at 25 percent but the Thomson-CSF ones at Issoudun not lower than at half power).

Network source should be NDR Info Spezial, if you want to refer to http://www.ndr.de/radio/index.html

Perhaps I now shatter a romantic illusion, but this is not live, with the exception of news at 1900 and 2100 and, maybe, the also included church service. The greetings will be recorded in the presence of an audience in two sessions on Dec 4 and 11, respectively.

By the way, anyone knowing a programme that until 1990 had been broadcast, it seems, once a month? "Seeleute-Gruß- und Wunschsendung", that was the title at least on paper. It run in the local wee hours of Monday (local time), 2305-0100 UT (during DST one UT hour earlier) on 177 and 6115 kHz, originating from Rostock and indeed done live there. I don't know if anyone abroad, even overseas, knew about these broadcasts and wrote to Rostock, which very likely would have yielded a QSL. Kai Ludwig [*2016*] (via Kai Ludwig, Nov 17, 2018, WOR iog via DXLD)

Late night (local) 16 November, at 0430Z, there was no trace of AFRTS - 1340 at the Base, only multiple weak stations in Spanish from various directions. Not on the air at this hour ??

In the morning (local) at 1130Z, in the south end of the channel between Cuba and Haïti, they were on the air and quite strong on the exact GPS derived bearing approx. 80 miles over water from our location with a morning broadcast of NPR. Kenwood TH-F6A with onboard ferrite rod antenna (Brian Miller, Nov 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

However, Australian DX News had a couple of October logs showing AIR Delhi (Kingsway) is now off-frequency to the minus side, rather than plus as it had been in 2017 when Wamena was active on the minus side.

``4869.94 R. Sedaye Kashmir, Delhi (Kingsway). Lively Kashmiri songs at 1455, fair signal, 4/10. (Wagner). Indian Clandestine broadcast to Pakistan in Dogri via AIR Delhi 1500-1530. Weak signal, 20/10 (Shepherd)``

Current sked per Aoki/NDXC has Kingsway 100 kW ND in Nepali at 1330- 1430, and same for 1430-1530 Voice of Kashmir. However, I`ve measured my signal twice at 4869.904, not 4869.94 as they reported, so it`s still possible these are two different stations.

4869.907, Nov 15 at 1253 & 1315, no signal around 4870 yet, but VP carrier on and measured here at 1324; by 1327 I can almost imagine hearing the AIR IS before the Nepali hour. Since there is no signal earlier, surely not RRI Wamena, Indonesia reactivated, even tho the off-frequency signifies where it last was in 2017.

But besides the Australian logs in Oct of AIR Delhi on ``4869.94`` for the Kashmiri service after 1430, current EiBi has Delhi considerably offset-plus, on 4870.3! for Nepali at 1330-1430, Clandestine Radio Sedaye Kashmir at 1430-1530, and also at 0230-0330, first 40 minutes in Kashmiri, spoken by 5 megaIndians and 100 kiloPakistanis. And last 20 minutes from 0310 & 1510 in DO which means Dogri (sometimes includes Kangri dialect), spoken in N India by 4 mega and also abbr`d [doi,dgo,him], per EiBi`s readme.txt language roster (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

It can be selected by MW / FM /SW /DRM etc.
http://prasarbharati.gov.in/stationsmap.php  

Thanks to Alokesh Gupta for the info. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Nov 19, dx_india yg via DXLD)

Leaving SW only checked, the map fails to display a number of cities known to host active AIR transmitters! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

Ja, Fehler in deren  HTML.
Mit Blick in die Quelltexte & Pattern Matching kann man aber
herausfinden, das Raagam  auf Port :8009  spielt.
Player:   ===>     http://raagam.airbengaluru.com/
Auflistung siehe unten.

====>
http://117.198.99.236:9000/
"RFmondial DRM MultimediaPlayer Hybrid Edition v5.0.66
Der Player holt sich das Audio von hier:  
ws://117.198.99.236:9000/audio-1/audiostream.mp4?preferedNumChannels=0

Störungsfreier DRM-Empfang mit Journaline......  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amruthavarshini FM http://104.237.4.164:8000/autodj

Vividh Bharati http://104.237.4.164:8003/autodj

Rainbow Bengaluru http://104.237.4.164:8006/autodj

Raagam http://104.237.4.164:8009/autodj

Primary http://104.237.4.164:8012/autodj (via roger, WOR iog via DXLD)

"......Forty-four years ago today, a group of scientists gathered at the Arecibo Observatory amidst the tropical forests of Puerto Rico to attempt humankind’s first communication with intelligent life beyond our own planet. Their three-minute radio message — a series of exactly 1,679 binary digits (a multiple of two prime numbers) which could be arranged in a grid 73 rows by 23 columns—was aimed at a cluster of stars 25,000 light years away from earth...."

https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2018/44th-anniversary-of-arecibo-message-4639345804836864-2xa.gif (via roger, WOR iog via DXLD)

Payam-e-Doost and Sedaye Mardom, no longer on shortwave, appear to be still on Hotbird. At least https://www.lyngsat.com/Hotbird-13B.html says that they are carried by "Site - 1" (aha) on 11.200 GHz v, as the channels with SID 4728 and 4735 which, according to: https://de.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=942 are labelled "Bahai Radio" and "S. Ghaemmaghami", respectively.

Nine years ago the Usingen mux on 11.054 GHz h was amongst the targets of Iranian uplink jamming. Would anyone have imagined IRIB as customer of Media Broadcast Satellite back then? I just spotted that the unthinkable became reality earlier this year: https://de.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=239

A really clever move: Anyone considering uplink jamming against Al Alam would have to pay the political price to jam Deutsche Welle as well. Which should either make Al Alam untouchable or make things really interesting (Kai Ludwig, Nov 14, 2018, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re this item from *2017*:

``U.K.(non) R. Ranginkaman, Payem e-Doost & TWR via BAB Grigoriopol on
May 26
Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow
1600-1630 on  7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi + BBC English*
Mon/Fri * including BBC English teaching program "Beta Speaking", but
only on Friday
Today again no signal of Sedoye Mardo / Voice of Men via BaBcoCk
Grigoriopol
1700-1730 on  7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri,
cancelled and  
the frequency 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs was deleted in HFCC
Database, Radio Payem e-Doost`` (Observer via KL, WOR iog)

I've tended to ignore announcements from European pirates and special event stations about upcoming broadcasts at that hour, because I figured I'd never hear them in North America. But now I think it would be well worth checking for those stations, especially when the magnetic field is quiet and the solar wind speed is relatively low (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, Ten Tec RX-340, SAL-12 antenna, Nov 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)

JAPAN. 6110, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (Yamata). *1600+ 15 Nov. Piano into English opening ID/info & their Thursday English program of news bulletins (one from 28 October). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7245-AM, Sat Nov 17 at 1355, Korean, Shiokaze ID in passing at S9/S9+10, well over any CCI except the Navy Amateur Radio Club ham net NCS on 7245-LSB, who seem determined to ignore the broadcaster. Rick Barton, AZ, reported to the WOR iog on Nov 15:

``7245, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1300 with woman in heavily accented English talking about Japan, North Korea. Station mixing with Co-Channel CNR, DPRK Jammer, and some amateur radio traffic - Good Nov 15 Barton-AZ`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

4885, Nov 19 at 1358, Korean song at S9-S7, much better signal than usual from Echo of Hope, listed as 10 kW ND, 1400 a few words of English I think, and different music. So I check some other frequencies:

6135, Nov 19 at 1402, wall-of-noise KN jamming with a carrier amid it

5995, Nov 19 at 1403, EOH in Korean over WON jamming; 100 kW ND

5920, Nov 19 at 1404, Voice of Freedom, song with orchestra, no jamming; 10 kW from same site as the others per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Unfortunately, there is not internet relay of the multilingual programme on 93.3 MHz. This channel is the source of the foreign language programmes in English, Farsi, Filipino and Urdu that are also relayed on short wave (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 14 November 2018, DXLD)

6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, 0720-0733, 16-11, religious songs and comments in English. Strong interference on 6045. 32332 (Manuel Mendez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 5 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KBS Woofferton

Is this really branded as a KNLS (ALASKA) program?? So far only Russian, Chinese and one of the English programs have been also via Madagascar. No Portuguese from KNLS direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

11965. Nov 16, 2018. 2102-2115, WCBC-Programa "A Palavra Alegre", Mahajanga, em Português. Locutor lê versículos bíblicos sob fundo musical; 2105 Locução masculina: ID do programa, website e trecho musical; Uma canção cristã em espanhol; 2113 Locução masculina e a missão máxima da mulher, por Rômulo e tem uma conversa com a locutora do programa. Recepção excelente neste início de noite em Cabedelo, 55555 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

http://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=1664647

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Bernama) - The government will not take into account the political affiliation of any parties when evaluating applications for TV and radio broadcasting licences in the country, "Support from any political party is not necessary and is not taken into account in evaluating an application," said the Communications and Multimedia Ministry in a written reply at the Dewan Rakyat today.

In answering a question from Wong Shu Qi (PH-Kluang) on whether the government would restrict the ownership of mainstream media channels among political parties, the ministry said the main factors considered when approving a broadcast licensing application was the sustainability of the business model.

The applicant's abilities in terms of management, finance, technical expertise as well as having content that could benefit Malaysians in general, was also taken into account.

"This means that any eligible party may apply for an individual license under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998," he said. According to the ministry, individuals or groups not eligible to apply for individual licenses are foreign companies, an individual or a sole proprietor, a partnership and any person or class of persons determined by the Minister.

He said as of Sept 30, there were 56 Content Application Service Provider Individual Licence holders, and of the total, 35 licensees were allowed to provide television broadcasting services through various platforms such as satellite, free to air,Internet protocol (IPTV) and digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB). A further 21 licensees were approved to provide terrestrial radio services. -- BERNAMA (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)

Time to check in after my annual Border Inn DXpedition (US 6/50 at the Nevada-Utah border).

Atmospheric conditions this year were pretty good. After two years of heavy auroras, it was nice to have good northern reception again. Unfortunately, the weather was not good this year. Thanks to remnants of tropical storm Rita, it started raining right after I put the first 5 wires up on Thursday afternoon, and continued almost nonstop until Sunday afternoon. The weather took 3 of my 4 northern wires out of commission multiple times (northern wires have to cross the highway, and the extra-strength duct tape which worked so well the past 5 years was no match for all that rain). I also wasn’t able to move a wire toward central Mexico on the third night as I usually do. When I finally got one in place for the fourth night, I came back after a nap to find it had already been run over (and parked on!) by a tractor and construction trailer, water truck, and bulldozer, that had suddenly appeared on a Sunday afternoon to work on a gravel pile that had sat undisturbed for 5 years. I hastily repaired the Mexican wire (since the motor was left running on the bulldozer, this necessitated a major detour, which really hurt its directionality) and made the best of it. All in all, it was a successful outing despite the setbacks. I was able to haul in several east coast clears that are almost never heard this far west anymore (new catches included WOR, CFZM, CJAD, WGY, CHAM, KDKA, WBZ, WBBR, WHAM, WFME) and several graveyard targets in Montana and North Dakota.

TP conditions were surprisingly good (and began much earlier in the morning than usual), but the signals always faded around the top of the hour. So far, I have found 56 new catches in this year’s recordings, bringing my totals to 1513 stations in only 23 nights of DXing from 2002-2018. 17 of the 56 were GY catches, bringing my Border Inn GY total to 210. I also added 2 new countries (North Korea and China, #14 and 15), a new US state (MA, #37), Mexican state (TLAX, #22 plus DF), and Canadian province (QC, #6).

High school football night was outstanding, despite most of the west Texas teams having a bye. I’ve already identified 127 games, including 10 games on 1400 kHz alone. Now I just need several more months to finish reviewing the recordings! I’m also getting up to speed as GYDXA editor (web site will be updated soon), and am helping finish the IRCA Mexican list. My research leads me to believe up to 60% of Mexican stations have finished moving to FM and turned off their AM. I listen to web streams all summer long for my Border Inn preparations, and check station web sites and Facebook pages to see when the AM references disappear. Almost every Mexican station is doing some kind of rebranding with the migration, so there are tons of slogan changes to process. Back to work, I guess! Wishing everyone a productive season. 73 Tim

BORDER INN DXPEDITION By Tim Hall

Loggings from the Beverage site at the Border Inn, US 6/50 at the
Nevada/Utah border, October 4-8 2018. This preliminary report is based
on a partial review of recordings in the first 30 days after returning
home.
Receiver: Perseus SDR-IQ v4.1.
Antennas: Beverages on Ground, some terminated with resistors, as
follows (only #1 and #5 were up all four nights):  
1. NNW/SSE (~337°/157°) 715 ft unterminated.
2. NNE (~17°) 1130 ft terminated.
3. NE (~45°) 1160 ft terminated.
4. ENE (~70°) 1200 ft terminated.
5. EESE (~105°) 1260 ft terminated.
6. SESE (~125°) 1180 ft terminated.
7. ESSE (~150°) 1300 ft terminated.
8. SSSE/NNNW (~168°/348°) 980 ft unterminated

[gh excerpted here *only* his Mexican and unID Mexican logs, among many others, such as Cuba, Bonaire, Venezuela, Argentina]

540 MEXICO XESURF R. Zión, Tijuana, BCN OCT 6 1258 – Under XETX with Spanish contemporary Christian music, male announcer, “Estás escuchando 540 AM,” into adult choral version of Mexican anthem followed by ID. Relog.

540 MEXICO XETX Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. OCT 8 0403 – ID by man, usual “La ranchera de Paquimé” slogan, also mentioned “una estación de Grupo BM.” Relog.

540 MEXICO XEHS La Mejor FM, Los Mochis, SIN. OCT 8 1115 – Still running La Mejor grupera format/branding from MVS network (which is now also heard on a number of U.S. stations, a la 1400 KSUN). Relog.

560 MEXICO XEGIK La Acerera 88.1, Villa Frontera, Coah. OCT 8 0355 – Local ads for Monclova. Relog.

610 MEXICO XEGS La GS, Guasave, Sin. OCT 5 0500 – Faded up over KNML with ID “desde 1948, en el aire, la primera estación radiodifusora que le dió voz al corazón agrícola de México, Guasave, Sinaloa, XEGS-AM en los 610 kHz, 50 mil watts, cubriendo todo el pais, Chávez Radio, G-S, la superestación.” 50 kW! No wonder they’re being heard all over the western half of the U.S. nowadays. Heard an almost every wire with lots of IDs and Grupo Chávez Radio mentions. Relog.

620 unID OCT 6 1058 – Children’s choral version of Mexican anthem under KTAR, KEXB, KIGS mix. Probably unneeded XENK, but the antenna was aimed more at XEGH (not 100% sure they are still active on AM).

630 MEXICO XEPBGJ R. Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jal. OCT 5 0401 – Fighting through KFXD, KPLY Fox Sports echo with familiar 6-note doorbell theme (C-E-G, G-C-E, with G being the highest note and C the lowest). Relog.

630 MEXICO XEFB La FB, Monterrey, NL (presumed) OCT 5 0501 – Instrumental version of Mexican anthem as logged last year. This (SESE) wire was aimed roughly at Monterrey. Relog.

640 MEXICO XEJUA La Caliente, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 8 0400 – End of Mexican national hour, ID “XEJUA 640 AM, la caliente, una estación de Multimedios Radio.” At one point they gave a multi-station ID which included FM 99.9 in Cuauhtémoc which also runs the “La Caliente” programming. Relog.

650 MEXICO XETNT Radio 65, Los Mochis, Sin. OCT 5 0601 – Under CKOM with “Grupo Chávez Radio” slogan followed by children’s choral version of Mexican national anthem. Relog.

690 MEXICO XEWW Rosarito, BCN OCT 6 1300 – Over CBU with male talking in Asian language, followed by children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

690 MEXICO XEMA La Mejor 107.9, Fresnillo, Zac. OCT 7 0259 – Way under KTSM with AM/FM ID by male announcer. Relog.

700 MEXICO XEGD La Poderosa de Parral, Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. OCT 8 0229 – Full ID, mentioned 50kW. Relog.

710 MEXICO XEDP La Ranchera de Cuahatémoc, Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. OCT 5 0359 – Way under KGNC, Rebelde and Guamá, still running slightly below frequency and using slogan “La ranchera de Cuauhtémoc.” Relog.

720 MEXICO XEDE La Caliente, Saltillo, Coah. OCT 6 1058 – Faded up over KDWN with promo for the station’s social media pages, and “La caliente 105.7 FM” slogan. Adult choral version of the Mexican national anthem followed a few minutes after the top of the hour. Relog.

720 unID OCT 5 0458 – Adult choral version of Mexican national anthem way under KDWN and KFIR on SESE wire. Probably unneeded XEDE, but too weak to tell if it was the same version of the anthem I heard on XEDE.

730 MEXICO XEX, W Deportes, México, DF OCT 5 0359 – Under XESOS with Mexican government PSA, “W Deportes” slogan. Relog.

730 MEXICO XESOS La Ranchera 97.3, Agua Prieta, Son. OCT 8 0402 – “La ranchera 97.3” slogans and Mexican government PSA’s. Usually on top of channel. Relog.

740 MEXICO XEQN R.Fórmula, Torreón, Coah. OCT 5 0459 – Faded up over KCBS with children’s choral version of Mexican anthem and back to R. Fórmula programming (Estilo de Vida program with “I Dream of Jeannie” theme). Relog.

760 MEXICO XEABC, ABC Radio 760, San Sebastian Chimalpa, Mex. OCT 6 1100 – Quick “ABC Radio 760” slogan by female announcer, into children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

760 MEXICO XENY R.Geny, Nogales, Son. OCT 6 1057 – Wide variety of U.S. and Mexican music, finally gave a nice full ID at 1103. Still “Radio Geny.” On top of channel on SESE wire. Relog.

790 MEXICO XESU La Dinámica 105.9, Mexicali ,BCN OCT 6 1300 – Way under KBET and KFPT with high (children’s?) choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

790 MEXICO XENT R.Fórmula La Paz, La Paz, BCS OCT 6 1059 – Children’s choral version of Mexican national anthem (from network feed), and usual Radio Fórmula programming (“Estilo de Vida” program with usual “I Dream of Jeannie” theme). Slogan is still “Grupo Fórmula La Paz 790 AM, abriendo la conversación.” Relog.

800 MEXICO XESPN Cadena 800 AM, Tijuana, BCN OCT 6 1258 – Mexican government PSA’s, ID for 1500 XEDF, promos for many R.Fórmula programs including a sports program called “ESPN Radio Fórmula” which airs at 3 p.m. Central time 7 days a week. This station belongs to other networks besides R.Fórmula. Relog.

800 MEXICO XEROK R.Cañon, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 0358 – Spanish religious programming with local El Paso phone numbers and ID. Still uses “Radio Cañon” slogan. Relog.

820 MEXICO XEABCA Canal 820 AM, Mexicali, BCN OCT 6 0502 – “Canal 820 AM, ABC Radio.” Relog.

820 MEXICO XEBM Ke Buena 105.7 FM y 820 AM, San Luis Potosí, SLP (presumed) OCT 5 0504 – Long children’s choral version of Mexican anthem faded up (in progress) under WBAP, on SESE wire which was aimed directly at SLP. I’ve monitored the web streams of all the surviving stations on 820, and this is the only one that plays this version of the anthem. New, SLP #2.

830 unID OCT 5 0501 – Slightly uptempo adult choral version of Mexican anthem faded up over KFLT. This doesn’t match the version I heard on XEITE (slow choral) or XELN (children’s choral) last year.

860 MEXICO XEMO La Poderosa, Tijuana, BCN OCT 8 0359 – Mexican anthem (from Mexican national hour), ID by female announcer, “XEMO, la poderosa 860, música de recuerdo.” Relog.

860 MEXICO XEZOL Radio Noticias 860, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 7 0259 – Call letter ID by male announcer, mentioned Grupo Mega Radio. Relog.

900 MEXICO XEW, W Radio, México, DF OCT 7 0300 – “La voz de la América Latina, W Radio.” Relog.

900 MEXICO XEOK R. Disney, Monterrey, NL OCT 6 1102 – Tentative with Mexican anthem way under XEW, which had run its anthem a few minutes earlier. I believe (but am still trying to prove) that XEW and XEOK are the only two Mexican stations left on 900 AM. XEOK is believed to have changed format to R. Disney along with 90.9 FM XHOK (which flipped to Disney on July 8th, 2018), and indeed my SESE wire (aimed at Monterrey) was picking up the vacuous kiddie pop music typically heard on R. Disney under XEW. (In Mexico, the Disney format is very similar to the old U.S. format, but with songs in English and Spanish.)

940 MEXICO XEMMM 940 Oldies, Mexicali, BCN OCT 5 0558 – “940 oldies” slogan by male announcer. Relog.

940 MEXICO XERLA R. Surcalifornia, Santa Rosalia, BCS OCT 5 0459 – Faded up over XEQ and KIXZ with usual automated ID’s: “Radio Surcalifornia, la mejor música para tus oídos.” Relog.

940 MEXICO XEQ La Ke Buena 940 AM, México, DF OCT 5 0458 – Suprema Corte program, “La ke buena 940 AM” slogan and jingles, adult choral version of Mexican anthem, and ID and mention of 50 kW. Relog.

950 MEXICO XEKAM R.Fórmula, Tijuana, BCN OCT 6 0157 – Under KCAP off back end of NE wire with “Fórmula Financiera” program from R.Fórmula. Relog.

960 unID OCT 5 0502 – On SESE (Eastern Mexico) wire I had about 15 seconds worth of the Mexican anthem, a high (children’s?) choral version, barely audible under KGKL and KKNT. Probably unneeded XEK.

970 MEXICO XEJ R.México Noticias, Cd. Juárez ,Chih. OCT 5 0459 – “Radio México Noticias 970.” Still airs quite a bit of music despite the slogan. Power is still 1 kW. Relog.

970 MEXICO XERFR R.Fórmula, México, DF OCT 5 0459 – Under XEJ with children’s choral version of Mexican anthem into R.Fórmula program “Estilo de Vida” with usual “I Dream of Jeannie” theme, all parallel 1370 XEMON. New, DF #22, Mexico #192.

980 MEXICO XEFQ Cananea, Son. OCT 6 1158 – Anthem, full ID and usual “La FQ” slogans. Note this station runs its morning anthem at 5 a.m. local time, not 6 a.m. Relog.

990 MEXICO XECL Rocola 990, Mexicali, BCN OCT 5 0215 – Usual “Rocola 990” slogan. OCT 6 0211 – High school football (in English) Imperial Tigers @Calexico Bulldogs. Relog.

1000 MEXICO XEFV La Rancherita, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 0402 – “La rancherita, recorder es vivir.” Relog.

1000 MEXICO XEOY Mil AM, México, DF OCT 5 0500 – Tentative with uptempo adult choral version of the Mexican anthem that I have heard XEOY run in the morning. Relog.

1000 MEXICO XENLT R.Fórmula, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. OCT 5 0500 – Briefly barely audible under XEFV, XEOY and KOMO with Radio Fórmula Estilo de Vida program (“I Dream of Jeannie” theme, etc.). Relog.

1030 MEXICO XESDD La Tremenda, Puerto Nuevo, BCN OCT 5 0458 – Under KTWO with ad for Lorca Restorante Español in Tijuana. Relog.

1040 MEXICO XESAG R.Lobo Bajio, Salamanca, Gto. OCT 6 0500 – “Radio Lobo Bajio” slogan, children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

1040 MEXICO XEBBB Esne Radio, Zapopan, Jal. (tentative) OCT 5 0456 – Male announcer with Esne Radio Spanish Catholic programming parallel 1670 KHPY. This gets tricky, because Martin Foltz recently showed me that the Esne Radio web site now shows that the Guadalajara affiliate has changed from 880 XEAAA to 1040 XEBBB. This would mean that XEBBB would be parallel 1040 KURS around the clock, except for Sunday nights when XEBBB would presumably break away for the Mexican national hour (as XEAAA did) instead of running the few hours of English programming that the other Esne Radio outlets air on Sunday nights. As this reception came from the SESE (Central/Northern Mexico) wire (which was also bringing in 1070 XESP), I would tend to think I had XEBBB instead of tiny KURS (which has been heard here before on wires aimed closer to San Diego). Either way, it’s a relog.

1050 MEXICO XED La Gran D, Mexicali, BCN OCT 6 0156 – Regional Mexican music under CJNB. Full ID by male announcer mentioned 10 kW. Relog.

1050 MEXICO XEG La Ranchera de Monterrey, Monterrey, NL OCT 5 0400 – Full ID and “La ranchera de Monterrey” slogan, then back to music. Relog.

1060 unID OCT 6 1100 – Very weak signal with children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Probably unneeded XEEP, but the antenna was aimed more at needed XERDO.

1070 MEXICO XESP Rock and Soul 91.9, Guadalajara, Jal. OCT 5 0458 – Children’s choral version of national anthem (full version ~4:40) followed by full FM/AM ID including studio address. Relog.

1080 MEXICO XETUL R.Mexiquense, Tultitlan, Mex. OCT 6 1104 – Way under KRLD with Himno Estatal del Estado de México. Relog.

1090 MEXICO XEWL Romántica 1090, Nuevo Laredo, Tamps. OCT 5 0059 – Daytimer signing off with high choral version of national anthem. New, Tamps #7, Mexico #187.

1100 MEXICO XETGO R. Cañon, Tlatenango, Zac. OCT 6 1102 – Faded up under KWWN and KFNX with children’s choral version of Mexican anthem, and very clear “Radio Cañon” slogan by male announcer. Relog.

1110 MEXICO XEWR Cristo Rey Radio, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 0400 – Slow adult choral version of Mexican anthem followed by male announcer thanking listeners for their support of Cristo Rey Radio. They have been running the anthem at this unusual time for years. Relog.

1110 unID OCT 8 1100 – Children’s choral version of the Mexican anthem way under KFAB and KBND. Garbled ID at 1101:30 sounded a bit like XERED but the anthem doesn’t seem to match the anthem I have heard from XERED in the past.

1120 MEXICO XEPOP R. Fórmula, Puebla, Pue. OCT 5 0500 – Faded up nicely, level with KPNW, for R. Fórmula program “Estilo de Vida” program with “I Dream of Jeannie” theme. OCT 6 1059 – Children’s version of Mexican national anthem, in sync with R.Fórmula outlets 740 XEQN, 790 XENT and 1460 XEYC. New, Pue #6.

1130 MEXICO XEHN Toño, Nogales, Son. OCT 6 1100 – Faded up over CKWX and KSDO with usual slogan “Toño, nunca sabes lo que va a poner.” Relog.

1140 MEXICO XEMR R.Esperanza 1140 AM, Monterrey, NL OCT 5 0359 – Female announcer describing a local church, slogan “Esperanza Monterrey.” Relog.

1150 unID OCT 5 0602 – Classical music on SSSE wire. Surely XEUAS overnight classical music program, but they rarely ID overnight.

1160 MEXICO XEQIN La Voz del Valle, San Quintin, BCN OCT 6 1306 – Fading up under KSL with long children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

1220 MEXICO XEB La B Grande, México, DF OCT 6 0131 – “Mexico de Hoy” program, chimes, ID. Relog.

1240 MEXICO XEWG Bengala, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 0500 – Nice ID including call letters, Grupo Siete Comunicaciones, and Bengala 1240 slogan. This station is very good about ID’ing. About 665 miles. Relog.

1260 unID OCT 5 0502 – Children’s choral version of Mexican anthem.

1270 MEXICO XEGL La Verdad Radio, Navojoa, Son. OCT 6 0205 – Under KTFI and KVGH with ad including Mexican web site address, slogan “GL, La Verdad radio.” Station was bought by the La Verdad newspaper a few years back, and is operated as an extension of the newspaper. Relog.

1280 unID OCT 5 0500 – Two stations with Mexican national anthems. One had an adult choral version, then another had a children’s choral version a minute or two later.

1300 MEXICO XEP Fiesta Mexicana, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 0116 – Older Mexican music, slogan (and jingles) have changed from “La Mexicana” to “Fiesta Mexicana.” Relog.

1300 MEXICO XEXW La Bestia Grupera, Nogales, Son. OCT 5 0119 – Faded up over XEP with Larsa Noticias newscast, slogan “la bestia grupera, dejando huella.” New, Son #24, Mexico #191.

1310 MEXICO XEHIT La 1310 AM, San Andres Cholula, Pue. OCT 5 0459 – Mixing with KNPT and KFKA. Older Mexican tunes, children’s choral version of Mexican national anthem, ID by female announcer “La 1310 AM, los mejores momentos, XEHIT, 5 mil wats de potencia,” followed by studio address and another “1310 AM, los mejores momentos.” New, Pue #5, Mexico #188.

1350 unID OCT 6 1103 – Very weak under KABQ and KDZA on SESE wire with high choral version of Mexican anthem.

1370 MEXICO XEMON R. Fórmula, Monterrey, NL (presumed) OCT 5 0458 – Children’s choral version of Mexican anthem and into R. Fórmula program “Estilo de Vida” with usual “I Dream of Jeannie” theme, all parallel 970 XERFR. Failed to insert an ID before or after the anthem. This could also be Nogales, but the antenna in question was aimed at Monterrey. Relog.

1410 MEXICO XEBS Bandolera 1410, México, DF OCT 5 0505 – Usual “Bandolera 1410” slogan. Relog.

1420 MEXICO XEF Activa 1420, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 8 1244 – “XEF, Activa 1420, en comunicación mas (impacto?).” Relog.

1430 MEXICO XETT R. Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Tlax. OCT 5 0457 – Poor-fair under KYKN with Himno Estatal de Tlaxcala, followed by Mexican national anthem. New, Tlaxcala #1, Mexico #190. (Note: This is the only AM station left in Tlaxcala state, now that 810 XEHT has finished migrating to FM. With 1430 XEOX having recently finished their move to FM, XETT is suddenly a realistic target for DX’ers in western states).

1440 MEXICO XEABCJ, ABC Radio 1440, Tonalá, Jal. OCT 5 0503 – Faded up with high choral version of Mexican national anthem as logged last year. Relog.

1460 MEXICO XEYC R.Fórmula, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 5 1000 – R.Fórmula programming, into Estilo de Vida program with “I Dream of Jeannie” theme. This station was originally on 1460, but moved to 1030 many years ago, then moved back to 1460 earlier this year. New, Chih #30, Mexico #189.

1460 unID OCT 6 0101 – Male choral version of Mexican anthem on NE wire. Sounded very similar to the one used by 1350 XELBL, like a bunch of guys sitting in a bar singing out loud. I’d have to guess this was XECB off the back end of the wire, but I don’t know why they would be running an anthem at this hour.

1470 MEXICO XERCN, RCN 1470, Tijuana, BCN OCT 6 0157 – Mexican government PSA’s and “RCN 1470” slogan. Relog.

1470 MEXICO XEAI R.Fórmula, México, DF OCT 5 0459 – R.Fórmula sounder and children’s choral version of Mexican anthem as typically used by R.Fórmula stations. Relog.

1480 MEXICO XETKR, TKR 1480, Monterrey, NL OCT 5 0500 – “TKR 1480 la más fuerte” followed by children’s choral version of Mexican anthem. Relog.

1500 MEXICO XEDF R. Fórmula, México, DF OCT 5 0457 – Over KSTP and KSJX with R. Fórmula promos, ID, “XEDF, cincuenta mil wats, Avenida Universidad 1273, Colonia Del Valles, Ciudad de México... Grupo Fórmula, abriendo la conversación.” A few more announcements, then the children’s choral version of the Mexican anthem typically used by R.Fórmula stations, ending at midnight CDT. Relog.

1510 MEXICO XEQI Opus 1510 AM, Escobedo, NL OCT 5 0500 – Fighting through KGA and KOAZ with classical music followed by slightly uptempo instrumental version of the Mexican anthem as logged last year. Relog.

1530 MEXICO XEUR Éxtasis Digital, México, DF OCT 8 1058 – Mixing with KFBK. Children’s choral version of Mexican anthem already in progress. Soon lost to KFBK and KGBT. Relog.

1560 MEXICO XEJPV R. Deportiva 1560 AM/Romance 99.3, Cd. Juárez, Chih. OCT 8 1058 – Single-verse children’s choral version of the Mexican national anthem (as opposed to XECHZ which generally runs the full 4:40 version). They appear to still be running romantic music overnight instead of sports. (Last year they were relaying an FM station in Guadalajara overnight). Relog.

1590 MEXICO XEVOZ Arroba FM, México, DF OCT 8 1058 – Children’s choral version of Mexican anthem way under KVGB, KDAV and KLIV. XEVOZ is the only Mexican station left on 1590. Relog.

1610 MEXICO XEUACH R. Chapingo, Texcoco, Mex. OCT 8 1057 – Faded up nicely with announcements by male and female announcers, interspersed with a variety of music from tropical to ranchera. Short bit of silly music just before 1101, followed by a 5-note keyboard theme. Female announcer gave a call letter ID at 1101:18. This station is slated to move to 1130 as XECHAP, and Wikipedia claims that they took the 1610 silent in September 2018 to prepare for the move to 1130, but this is not the case. Relog

(via NRC IDXD, NRC DX News Nov 26, published Nov 18, via DXLD)

First on the Mexico Beat: All 32 Public Radio and TV Applications in the PABF Era

There are 32 pending applications for radio and TV stations filed from the last three PABFs, according to a document obtained in a transparency request from the IFT.

Permit Discontinuities Ahoy

That number is kind of higher than it really should be. A number of these scream "we lost our permit and we want it back".

These applications include the following:

    Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México - Toluca FM
    Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua - Chihuahua FM
    Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexiquense - Toluca FM, Atlacomulco
      FM, Tultitlán AM
    Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro - Saltillo AM
    Gobierno de Querétaro - Jalpan de Serra AM
    Universidad Veracruzana - Xalapa AM
    Gobierno de Nuevo León - FMs at Monterrey, Linares, and Doctor
       Arroyo
    Instituto Campechano - San Francisco de Campeche FM
    Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas - Tampico FM

13 of the 32 applications would not produce, in the common sense, new radio stations.

The Tepic MX Group

Of the 19 applications that remain, a tangly MX group appears in Tepic, Nayarit. There are three applications for one FM frequency, filed by (in order) the SPR, the municipality, and the state government. They are the last unadjudicated applications from the 2016 PABF.

The SPR should win this application — the only pending application filed by the SPR! As a federal agency, it can preempt other applicants. You might recall the case in Saltillo where the Coahuila state government's TV station bid only went through because the SPR pulled out, or the university station in Sinaloa where the IFT commissioners told them to reapply.

Once, Once

Another five applications correspond to new digital television stations by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, at Acapulco, Tehuacán, Guamúchil/Guasave, Orizaba/Córdoba, and Puebla. It's worth noting that of the five stations, only one city has an operating SPR transmitter and two more have unbuilt concessions for the same.

State Network Dreams

That leaves us with eleven applications to dissect. Five correspond to a radio network for the state of Chihuahua, which would have partial coverage with transmitters at Lerdo, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Creel, Guachochi, and Manuel Ojinaga. Another is for the single-concession state network that has been discussed several times already this year.

Another two, though, correspond to a state network plan that has not yet been reported. Durango's state government has filed for stations in Durango and Santiago Papasquiaro. While Durango already has one public radio station in XHHD, a radio station in Papasquiaro would be just the second station in the entire region (XHSRD-FM is the other). Durango is one of just a handful of states without its own state broadcast outlet. In fact, Baja California would be the last state without a state-owned media system if both Durango and Chihuahua's plans go through.

The Rest

That leaves a handful of applications that don't fall into any of these categories. They are:

Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, TDT, Gómez Palacio —*UJED would become the second university to own and operate more than one TV concession. Additionally, this would be the first Durango-centric TV station to operate in the Comarca Lagunera. Just one other station even has its stick in Gómez Palacio — the Canal Once repeater.

Universidad Pedagógica del Estado de Sinaloa, FM, Culiacán

Universidad (Autónoma) de Occidente, TDT, Culiacán — The UAdeO famously filed for a TV station in the 2016 PABF and lost to the SPR on preemption grounds. While the application lists Universidad de Occidente, it predates the university receiving autonomy this year.

This list is dated October 31. If a public concession was awarded on October 22, it won't be seen here (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Nov 13, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)

There's a new callsign in town. It's XHIMA-FM 100.5, the social station to be owned by Fundación Educacional de Medios in Colima. And guess who signed for the concession... José Antonio Aguilar Arellano! http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/97639_181113103802_137.pdf (Raymie, Nov 13, ibid.)

First on the Mexico Beat: Sifting Through 505 Social Applications in the 2018 PABF

Don't say radio's dead. The IFT received a whopping 505 applications for social radio stations in the two filing windows of the 2018 PABF. Thanks to a transparency request, we now know that number and information about the applicants, the states, and the services they seek to offer. It's kind of dizzying.

By the Numbers

Those 505 applications break down into two filing windows. In the first filing window of the year, the IFT took applications for 89 AM, 69 FM and 7 TDT stations, as well as one unspecified service, for a total of 166. The second window included 137 AM, 180 FM, 12 TDT and 10 unspecified applications for a total of 339.

Of the 505, 52 were for community radio stations. Notably, not a single one was for an indigenous radio station. By chance, El Heraldo de México put out an article today noting these stations aren't being helped by the poor adherence to the 1% rule by which federal agencies must give Article 90 reserved stations (community and indigenous) one percent of their annual advertising budget — just 33 of the government's 299 agencies met the requirement last year.

Some features stand out here, notably the surprise early window where AM stations outnumbered FM. There's a reason.

Serial Filers

That's because there were some extremely interested parties. The top nine applicants, with at least 10 applications to their name apiece, accounted for 225 filings, nearly half of the untyped social total. Seven of them put in applications for 15 or more stations.

The leaders are all unfamiliar names. Radio Rural Mexicana had 49. Comunicación Agrícola 35. Incluye Radio put up 29. Tied at 28 were Radio Desarrollo Rural and Red Radio Agrícola. Ventana Radiofónica made 19 applications, while Todos Radio had 17. Michoacán Te Escucha had 12 (even more counting the obviously related "Guanajuato Te Escucha"'s 9), and Frecuencias Sociales (the only existing concessionaire in this list) had another 10.

Radio Rural Mexicana filed for 31 AM and 18 FM stations in 22 states. Comunicación Agrícola put in applications for 20 AM and 15 FM outlets in 23 states.

Big MX Groups

Some application areas attracted five or more bidders:

    -AM at Aguascalientes (five applicants, all of them in the top
       nine)
    -FM at Campeche (six applicants, including two in the top nine and
       two known wolves)
    -FM at Manzanillo (five applicants, including two of the top nine
       and a known wolf)
    -AM at Monterrey (eight applicants, including three of the top
       nine, one known wolf, and Radio María)
    -AM at Querétaro (six applicants, including four of the top nine)
    -AM at Cozumel (five applicants, including three of the top nine
       and La Verdad Radio y TV, which has been hunting Quintana Roo
       stations for years)
    -FM at San Luis Potosí (12 total applicants!)
    -FM at Culiacán (seven total applicants)
    -FM at Mazatlán (10 total applicants)
    -FM at Ciudad Obregón (seven total applicants)
    -FM at Hermosillo (12 total applicants)
    -FM at Villahermosa (10 total applicants)
    -FM at Coatzacoalcos (10 total applicants)
    -FM at Mérida (11 total applicants)
    -FM at Valladolid, Yuc. (6 total applicants)
    -FM at Fresnillo, Zac. (6 total applicants)

Some Familiar Names

A few notable applicants appear outside of the top list. Here they are:

-Fundación Educacional de Medios —*With nine stations, this second arm of the Arellano-Wertz-Bush network in Mexico adds to the Frecuencias Sociales total.

-Lilia Guadalupe Martínez González — Listed as the 25% owner of Grupo M Radio (Organización Radiofónica del Norte), her applications for FMs in Monclova and Torreón are classic wolf material.

-Enlace Social Akumal — Four more stations in Quintana Roo, and this time not in Akumal. Acustik? Again?

-Javier Alexander González Slim — Speaking of Acustik, this guy's eight applications sure are curious. A bid backed by his Yantra Informativo Fusión, A.C., for the social FM in Playa del Carmen got denied earlier this year. His Grupo Informativo Fusión Peninsular also applied for a station — yes, an S.A. de C.V. filing for a social station.

-Fundación Radiodifusoras Capital Jalisco — Five more applications from Capital Media's social wolf department.

-Enrique Rodolfo Gutiérrez Hernández — We just talked about the pirate 103.9 in Paraíso, Tabasco. Here's the social application to make it legal.

-Centro Universitario Didaskalos, A.C. —*This Toluca-based private school filed for TDTs in Toluca and Cancún (Benito Juárez) and an AM in Morelia.

-Medios de Comunicación por la Verdad, A.C. —*They want to serve the whole state with an FM in Mérida, two AM frequencies in Progreso and in Valladolid, and a TDT in Mérida.

-Martha Morales Reséndiz - The owner of religious wolf XHMRT-FM Tampico continues in the Huasteca, filing for an FM at Ciudad Valles.

-Raúl Alfredo Pinzón Galván - Jalpan de Serra, Qro. I'm officially one degree of Facebook group separation from a 2018 PABF filer.

-Michoacán Te Escucha, A.C. - Filing for three TDTs at Mérida, Playa del Carmen and Chetumal — wait, that's not Michoacán. They did file for five radio stations in that state, but last I checked, Villagrán, Guanajuato, and San Luis Potosí were not there, either.

Noteworthy Community Filings

These are filings whose applicants' names I've seen before or are otherwise big:

-Radio Voz La Voz del Valle de Oaxaca - San Jacinto Amilpas, Oax. An operating pirate in the RRCI network. RRCI has a high proportion of pirates and only earlier this year did two of its member stations get cleared for concessions.

-Asociación Cívica, Cultural y de Relaciones Humanas, A.C. - Tlapa de Comonfort, Gro. This applicant had once aspired to be on FM in Chilpancingo.

-Comunicación y Cultura del Occidente de México, A.C. - Guadalajara. No reserved band frequencies are open in GDL, and 102.3 and 103.9 appear to be reciprocity reserved.

-Radio Cultural de Villa del Carbón, A.C. - Zacapu, Mich. (AM). Their name is taken from a town in the State of Mexico and their only station greenlit is in Querétaro. Now they want into another state, and on AM.

-La Jacalera, A.C. - La Huerta, Jal. (AM). Member of the ORC.

-Radio Coral, A.C. - Petatlán, Gro. Another ORC member.

-Echais 88, A.C. - La Piedad, Mich. The owner of XHECH-FM in Purépero sets its sights on expansion (Raymie, Nov 15, ibid.)

A year ago this week, I was the first to point out that XEZT and XEEG had failed to pay up for their second-wave migration frequencies.

Today, 95.5 finds life again as Grupo ACIR's XEHIT 1310 begins testing on the frequency. The callsign is a new duplication: XHHIT-FM/Pue (Raymie, Nov 15, ibid.)

A proposed reform to the organic law of the federal public administration is starting to raise alarm bells over the future of Mexico's public broadcasting services.

Already passed by the Chamber of Deputies, the change of note in the Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal would give the Secretariat of Government (SEGOB) the competency of "providing the digital public broadcasting service nationwide".
https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columna/irene-levy/cartera/diputados-dan-golpe-de-estado-la-radiodifusion-publica-de-mexico

The concern is that SEGOB is political in nature and public broadcasting would be subject to increased political pressure.

Currently, federal public broadcasting in Mexico is scattered. There are two autonomous or semi-autonomous organizations, the SPR and IMER. Canal 22 and Radio Educación belong to the Secretariat of Culture. Canal Once belongs to the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, part of the Secretaría de Educación Pública (Raymie, Nov 16, ibid.)

Another IFT-4 station is off to the races as XHPAMM-FM 91.3 Amatepec, State of Mexico, brings that state its only new commercial radio station from the auction. It's "La Inigualable", https://www.facebook.com/Lainigualable91.3/ the first legal radio service in the town, owned by former federal deputy Guillermina Casique Vences. Operation seems to have begun on or around October 3.

Also on the air as of November 12 XHEDI-FM 106.1 "Estéreo Uno" in Oaxaca.
http://www.bbmnoticias.com/index.php/local/item/3321-arranca-nueva-estacion-de-radio-estereo-uno-106-1-fm-transmisiones-en-oaxaca Notably, its relation with the FM Radios group includes programs that will originate at Estéreo Uno and go out over the other stations in the state (such as XHEJU, XHDCA, XHVMT, etc.)

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Other news comes from the world of commercial radio. After launching a month ago tomorrow, the Aristegui Noticias on Grupo Radio Centro project is expanding finally outside of the three major cities. GRC stations in (at least) Cancún (XHCCQ) https://twitter.com/radio_malpica/status/1063142147019456512 and Torreón (XHETOR), https://twitter.com/JuanJoseRojas/status/1061987429253402624 as well as MG Radio's XHOB in San Luis Potosí, https://twitter.com/radiofmslp/status/1063632051184689152 have been announced to carry the program (Raymie, Nov 17, ibid.)

Radio Boomtowns: Los Cabos

I wanted to start a little series on places with four or more new stations awarded in the last two to three years. Unfortunately, nobody responded to the interviews I sent new station owners.

30 years ago today, Guillermo Salas Peyró, who had helped to open some of the first hotels in southern Baja California Sur and also knew a thing or two about radio, gave one more gift to Los Cabos.

Los Cabos had been rapidly developing. The National Tourism Fund had begun orchestrating the development of the region, and with the 1984 opening of an airport in the area, the need for a robust communications system was becoming apparent fast. Salas Peyró, luckily, had been legendary in the radio business. Decades earlier, he had founded Núcleo Radio Mil, one of the country’s leading broadcasters. It was that experience he’d draw on when he built and signed on XHSJS-FM 96.3 “Cabo Mil” on November 18, 1988.

Cabo Mil would be alone in Los Cabos through about 1995, and it would be the region’s lone FM station for 23 years. Competition finally came from the dominant radio broadcaster in the state, Promomedios California, when XESJC-AM 660 “Radio Los Cabos” came on the air in the mid-90s. (Ironically, Aero California, the airline co-owned with Promomedios by Raul Aréchiga Espinoza, never served Los Cabos.)

After years of little change, Los Cabos radio suddenly had an eventful 2011. On February 23, the Federal Telecommunications Commission approved XESJC’s migration to FM as XHESJC-FM 93.1 On September 12, Cofetel then approved an application filed in 2008 by the Baja California Sur state government for a chain of radio stations on 99.1 MHz throughout the state.

But that 2011 pales in comparison to the last two years of activity in southern Baja California Sur radio. In the IFT-4 radio station auction, only one of two stations was awarded. Compañía Periodística Sudcaliforniana earned XHPSJC-FM 89.1 at a cost of 28 million pesos. It signed on September 3, 2018, marking the first new commercial radio operator in the market in 23 years.

Then 2018 came along, and it was a busy 2018 for Los Cabos radio. It started on February 14, 2018, when Luis Roberto Márquez Pizano, the “El Boy” of Radioactivo and Pirata FM days past, won a social station, XHMPJ-FM 91.5, out of two applications from the 2015 PABF. (This blog was in the unusual situation of being the first to report the news, even to Márquez Pizano himself.) On April 11, XHSCAN-FM 107.9, owned by Corazón de las Californias, A.C., was given the green light to build the second community station in the state. A social wolf completed, for now, the activity, when Radio Agricultores del Valle de Sinaloa (Promomedios Sinaloa) was approved for XHABO-FM 101.5 in June (Raymie, Nov 18, ibid.)

Analyzing the Distribution of TV Stations by Channel

Late last week, the IFT put out expanded versions of the TV concession renewals. They're boring, huge files that include by-locality breakdowns of the concession fee. But they included one thing not previously available: post-repack allotments for the remaining TV stations in Mexico.

We can now analyze the distribution of stations per channel in the post-repack environment.

VHF

23 TV stations have been authorized in high-VHF. (The total transmitting is just seven thanks to unbuilt SPR and other stations, including a number of awards this year.) Notably, assignments have been hard to come by on the even-numbered channels. XHMTA/12, XHUS/8, and XHROSL/10 are the only three to date. (Including the Valanci social TDT for Tuxtla Gutiérrez, which lacks a known callsign, and XHAMO which is to move to 30, there are three 7s, two 9s, eight 11s and seven 13s.) Worth noting only four of these are commercial stations.

UHF

Channels 14-20 were so heavily used by land mobile in Mexico (until recent moves to clear those services to allow for more intensive broadcasting use of the 470-512 MHz sub-band) that they didn't see much use in analog or digital. In fact, channels 16 and 18 never saw analog use by a main station, and XHTC/16 was famously changed to 28 before signing on. UHF channels 21 through 36 have an average of 38 stations per channel; excluding the 25 Telemax stations juicing the total on 14, the average is 17.5 between 470 and 512 MHz, brought up a bit by the 24 stations on channel 20.

The relative disuse of these channels meant that 14-20 were common destinations for displaced television stations. For instance, 11 of the 17 stations on channel 19 were repacked there, with a twelfth having been planned to avoid repacking, two from IFT-6, and three other stations rounding out the total.

The most-used channel is 27, with 52 stations, thanks to a series of Canal 28 Nuevo León repeaters. Official totals should change considerably when the state network's common concession conversion is completed, as that will remove 14 from the total. Channel 22 is also crowded, with 50 authorized stations. The least-used channel between 21 and 36 is 28, with just 30 authorized stations.

Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie, Nov 19, ibid.)

5985, 1445-1450 18.11, Myanma R,, Yegu, Bamar conversation, local musical interlude, 35333, Best 73, (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD)

This Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of The Happy Station Show.

For the 90th Anniversary we won’t just be revisiting old programs, but we will also be listening to some of the major events that have taken place since the program began with Eddie Startz on November 18th 1928.

Per Wiki:  

The Happy Station Show is the world's oldest international radio programme still being broadcast, having originated in 1928 on shortwave radio, and the second oldest radio show still on the air behind only the Grand Ole Opry which began three years earlier. Happy Station's run has been interrupted twice - from 1940 until 1946 due to World War II and again from 1995 when it was cancelled until its revival in 2009 (on PCJ Radio International). (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD)

Spain came on around 1856 with the OC. VON was pretty good starting around 1815 today! (Chris Lobdell, MA, Nov 17, NASWA yg via DXLD)

9689.909, Nov 17 at 2004 talk in the clear from VON Hausa, no sign of REE Spain 9690.00 to het it, presumed AWOL again today. However, an hour earlier, John Figliozzi informed the WOR iog [as above]: (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7254.939, V of Nigeria Abuja, Hausa 0615 UT, English at 0734 UT.

7335even, FRANCE, R Nigeria Kaduna, TDF ISS relay Hausa 0618 UT. Nov 19 morning SHORT report, from Greece, Germany, Belgium, U.K., NJ, NY, MI states, Alberta-CAN too, 0615 to 0715 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This article from Nigerian newspaper The Sun reports that shortwave frequencies of Radio Biafra, closed in 2015, have been taken over by FRCN Radio Nigeria Hausa broadcasts. Unclear if these shortwave transmissions are from Nigerian sites or leased relays abroad. Frequencies mentioned are 7235, 7315, 13840 and 17525. http://sunnewsonline.com/frcn-takes-over-radio-biafra/ (Kim Elliott, KD9XB/3, Nov 14, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.:

FRCN takes over Radio Biafra

¦ As FG allocates IPOB broadcast frequencies to Radio Nigeria stations
  in Kaduna, Bayelsa, Enugu, Ibadan
¦ You can't stop our broadcast – IPOB 10th November 2018

A highly placed source told Saturday Sun that other broadcast frequencies seized from Radio Biafra will be allocated for the use of Radio Nigeria stations in Bayelsa, Enugu, and Ibadan.

Ade Alade, Abuja and Vincent Kalu [caption]

Three years after the Nigerian security apparatus coordinated by the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Babagana Monguno successfully shut down all the broadcast frequencies of Radio Biafra operated by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) the federal government has deployed four of the shortwave bands for the use of Radio Nigeria, Hausa service, Kaduna, which went off air over 30 years ago.

The radio station returned to the airwave two weeks ago after the NSA office released four broadcast frequencies harvested from IPOB” for the use of the federal government owned radio station, which now broadcasts in Hausa language 12 hours daily. The four shortwave bands include 7315khz on 41 meter band, 13840khz on 22 meter band, 17525khz on 16 meter band and 7235khz on 41 meter band.

READ ALSO: Kanu accuses South East govs, Ohanaeze of stopping FG, IPOB parley

A highly placed source in the nation’s security circle told Saturday Sun that other broadcast frequencies seized from Radio Biafra will soon be allocated for the use of Radio Nigeria stations in Bayelsa, Enugu, and Ibadan. “The harvesting and shutting down of Radio Biafra broadcast bands were made possible after our security system penetrated IPOB foreign partners and network in October 2015 following cred- ible intelligence on the modus operandi of operators of Radio Biafra. Having achieved that feat, the government feels the same technical backbone can be deployed for the use of a national goal. This explains why IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu can only address his people now through Facebook,” the source added.

A top official in the Federal Ministry of Information and another at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) headquarters in Abuja who confirmed the development yesterday however said they only knew that the broadcast bands were released for the use of Radio Nigeria by the NSA’s office but could not say whether they were seized from IPOB.

In a reaction to the development, IPOB detailed how the federal government made frantic efforts to frustrate its broadcast stations. “It is on record that Nigerian government and her agency Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation tried all they could to stop Radio Biafra from broadcasting from London but failed. They went as far as putting pressure on the British government to close out studios in London, that too failed. They purchased Satlink an Israeli company that provided us satellite services. They did this through a company in the United States. As soon as the company assumed control of Satlink, they terminated our contract. We moved to another supplier and have been with this supplier for five years now. One important thing to understand is this, the federal government of Nigeria never successfully shut down any Radio Biafra frequency since inception.

“That is a fact. They repeatedly tried and repeatedly failed because Almighty Elohim Chukwu Okike Abiama is in control of IPOB and its activities. “Our contract expired with our service providers and we stopped the service hence any changes in frequency. We are not aware that Nigerian government moved their beloved Hausa Service to the frequency once occupied by Radio Biafra. Hausa Fulani radio service is meant for Hausa Fulani not Biafra.

“We have our own Radio Nigeria Hausa Service run by Radio Biafra. Biafra radio and television services have come to stay which this Nigerian Government headed by the Fulani caliphate cabal cannot stop. Anybody thinking of stopping Radio Biafra and Biafra Television is hallucinating. Our media platforms must continue to disseminate undiluted and accurate information to the people of Biafra and Nigeria until the end of time. Biafra freedom is important and sacrosanct to the people of Biafra especially IPOB members worldwide, therefore we are fully determined to fund the running of Radio Biafra and Biafra television till Biafra sovereignty is restored,” the response signed by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful stated (via DXLD)

Now, here is something interesting -- unclear from this whether we can expect use of SW from other cities in Nigeria...."A highly placed source in the nation’s security circle told Saturday Sun that other broadcast frequencies seized from Radio Biafra will soon be allocated for the use of Radio Nigeria stations in Bayelsa, Enugu, and Ibadan." http://sunnewsonline.com/frcn-takes-over-radio-biafra/ (Dan Robinson, Nov 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD)

7235 and 13840 are R Nigeria Kaduna relays via France. 7315 is R. Dandal Kura. These have nothing to do with R. Biafra! 17525 unknown. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

"...the federal government has deployed four of the shortwave bands for the use of Radio Nigeria, Hausa service, Kaduna, which went off air over 30 years ago."

- Highly concentrated bullshit as we are used to from Nigerian media regarding radio issues in their own country (even on VON itself). 73 (thorsten hallmann, germany, WORiog via DXLD)

Apparently "7315" is 7335 and "17525" is 17690.

At a glance not a single one of the frequencies used for Radio Nigeria Kaduna now have been used for the Radio Biafra transmissions via Issoudun, arranged by the same broker [RMI], in 2015. But that's no problem: The quoted officials have no knowledge of such technical details, so they could be told this fairytale to make them pay for the airtime.

Is it a clever approach to make the relay possible while FRCN Kaduna is cash-starved? Or is it a cynical game with Africans, a practice of cultural imperialism? I'm undecided (Kai Ludwig, Germany, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The Electric Circus. Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2144, 6955 usb. Marching band music, ID, "Welcome to the Electric Circus" at 2246. Computer IDs, "the electric circus shortwave at gmail dot com" and a welcome by "Captain Spaulding." Lots of heavy metal hair band music, such as Twisted Sister and W.A.SP. Killer signal s9/s15 (Will-MD)

Man Cave Radio. Monday, November 12, 2018, 0047, 6935.2 am. Music, "Beer Drinkers and Hell raisers" by ZZ Top. Beer commercial at 0050, and into music by AC/DC. Fair to good, s5/s7 (Will-MD)

Old time radio. Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2021 UTC, 6770 am. A classic radio show occasionally creeping out from the noise floor. Fair signal at best (Will-MD)

Pirate Radio Boo. Sunday, November 11, 2018, 0000, 6925 usb. Song with rude lyrics to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" with female vocals. Into more traditional music. SSTV at 0020 "This is Pirate Radio Boo" and into heavy metal music. Another SSTV at 0028. s9. (Will-MD)

Unid. Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2011, 6925 usb. Appears to be a World War II documentary. Off with music at 2013. s7/s9 and steady, good, bothered by a het from Yeti Radio on 6927 (Will-MD)

Unid. Sunday, November 11, 2018, 2032, 6927 am. Smooth jazz music, highly variable signal from the noise floor to s5. Rock music at 2034. Possibly Yeti Radio based on recent logs and their signal and sound footprint (Will-MD)

Unid. Sunday, November 11, 2018, 2152, 6935 usb. Very old 78 RPM music, military/marching/patriotic theme. Very good signal, s15/s20. Still going at 2227, but the signal is slowly weakening, now is s5 (Will-MD)

Yeti Radio. Saturday, November 10, 2018, 2017, 6927 AM. Heavy metal music by Judas Priest with a fair signal, s5. ID per HFU logs (Will-MD)

Yeti Radio. Friday, November 16, 2018, 2114, 6927 am. Yeti Radio on with an SSTV transmission. Variable signal with substantial fading, up to about an s5 (Will-MD)

Zodiac Radio. Sunday, November 11, 2018, 2148 UTC, 6925.3 am. On with Zodiac Radio ID and into music. s7/s9, very good, low-fi audio (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland, radio@zappahead.net Icom IC-R75, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil

Weeks ago, Super Typhoon Yutu devastated the Northern Mariana Islands, which are home to tens of thousands of Americans. Mainland outlets paid little attention. . . .
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/super-typhoon-yutu-mainstream-media-missed-northern-mariana-islands/575692/

Sadly, there was probably more coverage about Yutu in DXLD than in the US news media (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Encompass Financial Services, with web presence at http://www.encompassfinancialservices.net/ is a Tennessee-based company that has nothing to with Encompass (without addition), cf. https://www.encompass.tv/company/

Such things exist even within one and the same business. In Germany two supermarket chains operate as Netto, now even in overlapping areas since one of them has swallowed a competitor. They see no problem in this situation because one chain has a small "Markendiscount" in its logo and the other one a dog. Some industry observer ridicules them by referring in his blog always to "Netto (ohne Hund)" and "Netto (mit Hund)", respectively (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Finally at 1604 UT on November 6th the 702 mystery station built up its strength enough to push KCBS and its hum down into the noise, and I was able to get a good recording of a totally unfamiliar language
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/3y5qkg7yu8o49lc4ab520bfiw006kqrg

Fortunately a couple of awesome Finnish DXers (Mauno and Mika) on Real DX identified the language as Arabic, coming from the BBC Arabic Service transmitter in A'Seela, Oman (at 8,425 miles, or 13,559 km). Even considering the 800 kW transmitter, this was pretty stunning DX for a 5 inch FSL antenna set up near the beach in Poipu, Hawaii.

Checking John Bryant's records from his 2007 Easter Island DXpedition, I see that John received the 750 kW station 1413-BBC from A'Seela, Oman during his trip, but not this station. Considering the strength and reliability of 702-BBC into Hawaii, my guess is that it could put somewhat of a signal into the west coast in deep winter, especially on the ocean coast when propagation is still in play around 1600 UT. At least one DXer that I know will be looking for it :-)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/l61xhqoq9ki7b6kl9bz41yunangvr6ap (Gary DeBock (DXing at Poipu, Hawaii from November 3-8), 13 Nov, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) See also DX-PEDITIONS

It`s the signature off-frequency of this station (gh, DXLD)

Shortwave Archive: 1979 Radio Moscow Mailbag Studio Recordings.

If you’ve been a shortwave radio listener since the Cold War, you no doubt remember Radio Moscow‘s Mailbag program with Joe Adamov.

Tom Gavaras, a new contributor at the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, recently shared a series of seven Radio Moscow studio recordings and noted:

These recordings were originally provided to me on reel-to-reel tape directly from Radio Moscow (which I dubbed to a cassette). At that time, I was program director at St. Cloud State University’s radio station KVSC-FM (St. Cloud, MN) and aired Moscow Mailbag once a week during the afternoon news block programming. Transcription shows from other shortwave stations were played on other weekday slots at the same time.

Here’s the first studio recording:
https://ia801503.us.archive.org/6/items/RadioMoscowMoscowMailbag19791/RadioMoscowMoscowMailbag1979_1.mp3
https://swling.com/blog/2018/11/shortwave-archive-1979-radio-moscow-mailbag-studio-recordings/ (via RusDX Nov 18 via DXLD)

In July 2001, representatives of the relevant committee of the Government of the Leningrad Region addressed us with a regular request. In this case, the request was somewhat unusual - about the possibility of organizing one-time broadcasts in the range of short waves to the countries of North America during the upcoming visit of the delegation of representatives of the authorities of our region.

On the organizational side, there were no special obstacles to the preparation of such a broadcast, since for several years short radio broadcasting from Radio Gardarika, supervised by the Government of the Leningrad Region, was carried out from St. Petersburg, however, it was conducted mainly in the countries of central and western Europe.

Of course, due to the long-range propagation of the HF signal in the ranges of 41 or 49 meters, it was sometimes taken even in Japan or New Zealand, but there was practically no experience in the direction of the North American continent.

Due to the geographical location of the powerful broadcasting facility in the village of Krasny Bor, Tosnensky District (“Radio Center No. 11”), the HF-band technical equipment was initially designed to provide broadcasting to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the USSR, as well as, partly Latin American countries (since the azimuth of the “???” [SGD] antennas for the countries of northwestern Europe “coincided” with the direction to South America).

For the same “geographical” reason, broadcasting from Red Bor to North America was almost never carried out, since the track in this case passes far beyond the Arctic Circle with frequent violations of the passage of radio waves.

Therefore, before the start of one-time broadcasting sessions, it was decided to conduct several tests in order to select the optimal frequencies and check the quality of transmission.

In this, we were assisted by our volunteer radio amateurs from the United States and Canada (given, among other things, advice on the selection of meso-protected frequencies on the east coast), the RMS remote monitoring service employees (who put the “Radio Studio - Nevskaya Volna” test frequencies on automatic radio monitoring in Washington, Dallas, Ottawa and even in New Delhi - for a change), the radio-frequency department specialists in Moscow, who at the time were preparing seasonal schedules for Russian broadcasting, and whom we, in turn, helped more than once with adjustment of the frequency schedules of the radio station "Voice of Russia".

Our final test schedule was as follows:
July 30, 1400-1500 UT 15605 kHz  
July 31, 0200-0300 UT 7400 kHz, 1400-1500 17690 kHz
August 1, 0200-0300 UT 9940 kHz, 1400-1500 17690 kHz
August 2 and 3, 0200-0300 UT 9940 kHz

The broadcast used 200 kW transmitters "Sneg-MU" and "Middle Eastern" antennas "??? 4/4 ???" [RAD] and "??? 4/2 ???" with a reverse of 327 degrees and an additional rotation of the radiation pattern in the horizontal plane minus 15 degrees [slew].

The reports on the admission of test broadcasts were confirmed by QSL cards, and this experiment was remembered by the international cooperation of people who are not indifferent to shortwave broadcasting.

The application contains several recorded short sound files of the RMS system about the reception of Radio Studio - Neva Wave in Canada, the USA and India. https://vk.com/spbctv?w=wall-171176221_1162 (via Rus-DX Nov 18 via DXLD)

17660, SBC at 1420 in French with a woman with talk – Poor with deep fading Nov 17 – I guess if it weren't for the Saudis this band would be abandoned like 11 and 13 meters.

17895, SBA at 1309 in Arabic with a man with talk then Middle Eastern vocals at 1311 – Barely audible to Poor with deep fades Nov 17 –

This and 17705 (also Saudi) were it for this band this morning and both had signals that barely rose above the noise floor. And there was zilch on 13 meters (21450 to 21850). And the 11 meter band (25600 to 26100) hasn't been used for daylight propagation on a widespread basis for decades which is too bad because it allows for low power transmitters to get through with little or no interference. During solar maximum it can outperform a lot of other bands. I remember listening to HCJB, back in the 80s, when they used a 100 watt transmitter into a cubical quad beam – an antenna design loved by amateur radio operators and first designed and built by HCJB engineers (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9555, Nov 17 at 1840, ME song poor S4-S5, 1842 announcement. Presumed SBC as longly scheduled for program 1 at 1755-2300, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 11820

Long path. In the UT +11 zone, sunset is approximately 07 (gh, DXLD)

5020, (tentative): Solomon Islands BC, Honiara, English, 15/11 0705. OM: Talk. 15421 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)

5020, SIBC, Honiara, 0658-0725, 16-11, English, songs, comments. Fair carrier, very weak audio. 15321 (Manuel Mendez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 5 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LP

After several months without heard it, now on air: 7120, Radio Hargeisa, Hargeisa, 1815-1825, 16-11, East African songs, vernacular comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Yes. Hearing it too. 44444. Thanks, (Ed Sylvester, Saudi Arabia? 1901 UT Nov 16, ibid.)

7120, SOMALIA, Radio Hargeisa at 0330 in listed Somali with marching band anthem and Islamic Call to Prayer noted at 0333 – Barely audible Nov 17 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7120, Radio Hargeisa, Hargeisa, 1645-1655, 18-11, vernacular comments. Ham interference. 22332 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9690, REE, EE service, News including discussion of fighting in Gaza complete with audio clips of bombs falling & lots of talk re Hamas & Israel's response. News also re the fires in California, then a jazz music show with an artist born in Detroit & raised in PA who is popular in Spain, whose name I missed as the 'phone rang. (Dang work is getting in the way of my fun time ;) ) Pretty good 'smooth' jazz! Time pips, into French at BoH. Starting to fade by 2335. 44+444, 2305-2335 14/Nov with a Radio Shack travel portable & whip antenna in my RF noisy office, so this will take a rusty razor blade & pencil lead to receive. ;) (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)

9690, Wed Nov 14 at 2300, REE timesignal and Spanish ID, opening English service with news, then about a jazz festival. By 2330 jazz faded out for BoH TS, and opening French. English is M/W/F only, while French is M-F. Good signal here, not on 11940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9690, REE at 2300 with time pips and a man with a “Radio Exterior de España” ID and Alison Hughes adding “English Language Service” and Alison Hughes with a report on the Brexit negotiations with the EU in Brussels – Poor to Fair Nov 14 [Wed] (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)

Again, a nice signal last night (14-15 November, UTC) on 9690 kHz here
in NB. Being a Wednesday evening in NA (14 November), the language
line-up (in UT) was:  
pre 2300 - Spanish
2300 - English
2330 - French
0000 - Portuguese
post 0030 - Spanish
That's the M,W,F evening foreign language sked. No English on T,Th but
French and Portuguese at these times are aired M-F. Do we know the
confirmed schedule yet for the other foreign languages?

There was a nice jazz program in the English segment following the news last night. If not already there, REE should be added to Alan Roe's Music on Shortwave guide (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD)

9690, Nov 16 at 2103, no signal from REE North American service (nor NIGERIA which may have just closed); yet REE is audible on the other three: 12030 poor, 11940 fair, 11685 JBA carrier. Up to their old trix, vanishing from one or two frequencies; when 9690 would have been here best by far (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Spain came on around 1856 with the OC. VON was pretty good starting around 1815 today! (Chris Lobdell, MA, Nov 17, NASWA yg via DXLD)

Dear Radio Mi Amigo International friend, It is with great pleasure that we announce that 2 well-known, former offshore radio DJs, will be joining Radio Mi Amigo International this weekend!

As a newsletter subscriber you'll get all the news first! Read all about it in these 2 extra edition Radio Mi Amigo Newsletters (English and Dutch, November, 15 2018 - Attached: 2 Pdf's)

Thank you for your interest in our station, we love to have you with us, see our website: http://www.radiomiamigo.international for our new program schedule. Best regards, Your Radio Mi Amigo International crew (RMAI Newsletter via Manuel Mendez, Nov 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.:

It is with pride and great pleasure that we can now confirm that former RNI -onboard- Dutch DJ/Newsreader 'Hans ten Hooge' (real name: Hans Hogendoorn) will join Radio Mi Amigo International's crew.

Hans is a fantastic addition to our team of former offshore radio presenters, and not just for his great work on the MEBO II. For many years he was also a very well-known shortwave presenter for 'Radio Netherlands World Service', for which he also created all imaging.

Hans_HogendoornFurthermore, Hans' unique and very recognizable voice is still widely known in the Netherlands, as for some 20+ years he was the station voice for NOS radio, the Dutch national public broadcasting organization ('the Dutch BBC'), where he can still be heard in imaging and promos.

Apart from being a great broadcaster, Hans also is one of the nicest guys in the business, who loves radio and has fond memories of the offshore radio days, same as we all do here, at 'Europe's Best Oldies Station'.

We expect his first shows to start in mid November, at which time we'll publish a special edition of our Newsletterwith more information and details about Hans Hogendoorn joining Radio Mi Amigo International. Stay Tuned! (via DXLD) WTFK?!

No signal noted this afternoon (13 November) just before 1800 UT using the U. Twente SDR receiver. But TWR, still announcing as coming from Swaziland, came up on the neighbouring frequency of 9500 kHz in English just after 1800 with a good signal (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD)

Today nothing from Voice of of Africa 1600-1900 on 9505, but at same
time Radio Omdurman is with good signal on 7205 in Arabic  
(Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, 1812 UT, ibid.)

Yes, looks like they are on 7205 kHz with Arabic home service (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1813 UT, ibid.)

Yes, it sounds like them audible here in NW England on 7205 at 1825. The signal is fair strength but not good enough to overcome the local noise. I could hear a female voice chanting or singing until 1830, and now a male voice followed by a female voice and music - but the language I cannot identify with certainty but I think I hear some Arabic words. Thanks to Richard and Mauno (Noel R. Green, 1839 UT, ibid.)

Noted using the U. Twente SDR receiver today (14 November), that Voice of Africa came up spot on 9505 kHz shortly after 1600 with an S9 signal. African language, perhaps Swahili, with clear "Voice of Africa" English ID (-- Richard Langley, ibid.)

Reception of Voice of Africa Sudan Radio on Nov 15:  
from 1700 on  9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Swahili, fair
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-voice-of-africa-sudan.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, 1635-1720, 18-11, East African songs, vernacular comments. at 1700 English, "African now", "The African continent", "You are listening to the Voice of Africa, from Sudan", "The Voice of Africa". "Drop us a line, PO Box 572, Omdurmán, Sudan." Voice of Africa comes to you from Sudan Radio". "Hello listeners of Voice of Africa, Sudan Radio". 25433.

Also on air Sudan Radio, 7205, 1646-1659, 18-11 with Arabic comments, but at 1659 eclipsed by China Radio on the same frequency. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Reception of Voice of Africa Sudan Radio in English Nov 18  
1723&1759 on  9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf English, good to fair
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-voice-of-africa-sudan_18.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Strange, as TWR French is no longer aired on weekdays since the beginning if the B18 season (only on Saturday and Sunday 1935-1950 on 9940) (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Nov 15, ibid.)

ESWATINI, Reception of Trans World Radio Africa, Nov.16  
1905-1935 on  9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf Lingala
1935-1950 on  9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg to CeAf French
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-trans-world-radio-africa_17.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Really? As I wrote earlier, French is no longer on weekdays, only Saturdays and Sundays (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, WOR iog via DXLD)

"Radio Nord Revival QSL --- Dear Manuel Méndez, Many thanks for your reception report. We are happy to confirm that you heard our special event broadcast on October 26, 2018 at 1657 - 1755 SNT.

You heard our SW transmitter operating on 6035 kHz in the 49 metre band with a power of 500 watts. Great to be able to hear us in Spain, nice catch! All the best from the staff of Radio Nord Revival. We hope to be back again soon. QSL manager" (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD)

[and non]. 9940, Nov 18 at 1414, R. Thailand in English, S4-S6 poor with flutter and really unreadable despite no QRM.

9940, Nov 18 at 1431 now some otherlang, which per HFCC is FEBC in Uighur, 100 kW, 323 degrees from Bocaue, PHILIPPINES at 1430-1500.

Q: will Christian Uighurs be less persecuted and brainwashed by the ChiCom than Moslem Uighurs in East Turkistan? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

TAJIKISTAN, Fair signal of Voice of Tibet 41mb Nov 16
2300-2330 on  7496 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2330-2400 on  7484 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/fair-signal-of-voice-of-tibet-in-41mb.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 16, ibid.)

12035.022, Nov 13 at 1330, VOT English VP but almost on-frequency today rather than 700 Hz above. Also close-in are 15350 Turkish before 1400 and 11815 after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6125, Voice of Turkey at 0359 with IS to time pips at 0400 and a man with ID, sked, web platforms, and contact info then another man with program highlights and into news at 0402 – Fair Nov 17 – Listed // 7240 was not heard (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This one like most TRT frequencies sometimes jumps way off to 6125.7 or so, sometimes not (gh, DXLD)

15350, Voice of Turkey at 1318 in Turkish with folk and pop vocals – Very Good Nov 17 – While their other language services play some folk and pop vocals it is the Turkish service where you get to hear a far wide variety of their music and it's really good music! (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Yes, but they also have some lengthy talkshows (gh, DXLD)

Voice of Turkey on odd EMR freqs  
11795.7/13565.7/7245.7/12035.7 kHz on Nov 18 instead of -- Nov 17:
0930-1055 11795.7 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Farsi, instead of 11795.0
1100-1125 13655.7 500 kW / 062 deg CeAs Uzbek, instead of 13655.0
1200-1225  7245.7 250 kW / 300 deg SEEu Bulgarian, instead of 7245
1330-1425 12035.7 500 kW / 305 deg WeEu English, instead of 12035
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/voice-of-turkey-on-odd.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9700.022, TRT Emirler, Turk, talk on Pres Trump USA, S=9+35dB. Nov 19 morning SHORT report, from Greece, Germany, Belgium, U.K., NJ, NY, MI states, Alberta-CAN too, 0615 to 0715 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Not the last role in the refusal of listeners from wire broadcasting is obviously played by the cost of the service. So, according to the publication, if in the fall of 2011 the monthly fee was just over 7 hryvnia per month, then from May 1 of this year it increased to 26 hryvnia per month.

In 2012, the number of radio points throughout Ukraine reached 2 million, now the wired radio subscribers are just over 500 thousand, and the number of settlements covered by the network is 5 thousand. About 100 thousand users refuse the service annually. Aware of the rate of refusal of citizens from radio outlets, the National Broadcasting Council decides to replace the wired broadcasting technology with low-power FM broadcasting to provide them with small settlements in the country (via Rus-DX Nov 18 via DXLD)

“introduced the first BBC TV news bulletin broadcast in July 1954”

also:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/richard-baker-obituary-68wxngp0h (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, Nov 17, DXLD) obit

Doctor Digital has never understood the draw of podcasts. As far as he`s concerned, the main benefit of headphones is blocking out people talking on his commute.

But the BBC certainly thinks podcasts are the future. It noted that only three per cent of under-35s used the BBC iPlayer Radio app, and so has dumped it for BBC Sounds http://bbc.co.uk/sounds which combines live radio and catch-up programming with podcasts and featured tracks.

Programmes can be downloaded for listening offline, and it retains the iPlayer Radio app`s pleasing interface, based around a big rotating dial. Yet like most post-Netflix apps, it`s focused less on the radio schedule than personalised recommendations based on algorithms and curated playlists. It`s certainly a streamlined way of listening to the BBC`s ever-expanding output. However, some may find this limiting.

Apple remains the name to beat, with a vast collection that includes the BBC among many other creators, although the iPhone app, Podcasts, feels increasingly out of date. It`s under pressure from Spotify, which has started featuring podcasts alongside music, while Overcast allows you to speed up whatever podcasted conversation you`re listening to without distorting the audio. JONATHAN HOLMES (via Mike Cooper, GA, Nov 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

We were told that the auto-play is automatically turned on, but can be turned off by the user. (I find all this very annoying. No algorithm is going to correctly guess what I'd like to hear and I shouldn't have to turn off a feature I don't want every time I listen to a program on demand.) Supposedly, improvements are to be made to Sounds, but the emphasis on "tailoring" programs to the listener and the de-emphasis on live radio programming suggests these improvements will continue to be negatives, in my opinion. (Mike Cooper, Nov 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Some of the federal government in the USA is operating under a "Continuing Resolution" for budget purposes until at least December 7th. Since Congress didn't get the budget for FY2019 for departments other than Defense, Labor, Health & Human Services, and Education as well as the related agencies in those bills, the rest of the government is under a continuation of last year's budget. It means we have to stick to last year's funding as well as last year's operating program. That's why the proposal to shut down the WWV/WWVH/WWVB group hasn't gone anywhere because the budget bill containing it is stuck in limbo until further notice.

This also means that if anything breaks at the three stations they've got to get permission in an appropriations bill from Congress to fix it, if costs more than what was available under last year's budget.

Discontinuing the weather broadcasts also needs to await a new budget as the stopgap funding measure doesn't let old programs get terminated. These stopgap funding measures routinely trip up the DoD by forcing it to spend money on things that should've gone away but for the lack of a new budget's new spending authorities. That's possibly the case here too (Stephen Kellat, alpaca herder, WOR iog via DXLD)

Voice of America’s Africa division launched newscasts in Lingala on November 12, 2018, bringing to 46 the total number of languages in which the agency broadcasts around the world. Lingala is spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as parts of Central Africa Republic and Angola.

For 64 million people who speak Lingala, VOA will be the first international broadcaster to reach them in their own language. Lingala is understood by 80 percent of the DRC population, twice the number of people who understand French.

The new broadcasts will be added to the French to Africa language service offerings and will include 15 minutes of radio content (Monday through Friday) focusing on news from Africa division reporting and from Lingala reporters on the ground, as well as on public health-related issues like Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

The launch of the Lingala broadcasts is designed to boost efforts to promote democracy, transparency, and the rule of law ahead of December presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

About Voice of America [boilerplate]

VOA reaches a weekly global audience of 237 million people in more than 40 languages in nearly 100 countries. VOA programs are delivered on multiple platforms, including radio, television, web and mobile via a network of more than 2,200 media outlets worldwide. VOA’s seasoned journalists are experts on topics trending in the United States and around the world. The Voice of America is funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency (VOA PR via Hansjoerg Biener, Nov 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD)

WTFK, and time(s)?? Not exactly. Searching EiBi schedules finds *one*
LINgala broadcast already.
9940          1905-1935       SWZ Trans World Radio        LIN COD
In its heydey, didn`t R. Moscow have Lingala? And how about Belgium?
Why not CRI today? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)  

I haven't found an entry of Lingala in Radio Moscow's external services schedules back till WRTH 1988. The older versions of WRTH are still in my California residence so I can't check them from Germany. But Radio Moscow used to broadcast in other exotic African languages like Bambara, Fulani and Zulu (and Afrikaans). Sounds you not often heard or hear on shortwave.

Why does CRI not have a Lingala broadcast? A good question. Especially because that country is increasing its influence on that continent.

I found two entries of stations broadcasting in Lingala in the WRTH 1988: Radio Cairo at 1830-1915 GMT (now UT) on 15255 kHz listed operating with "100/250" kW - no specific site listed. At that time Radio Cairo was audible with a good sound quality, nowadays SW usage is just a waste of energy.

Trans World Radio Swaziland daily from 1945-2015 on 9550 kHz till 5 March 1988 and on 7200 kHz from 6 March 1988.

In the still actual WRTH 2018: Radio Cairo doesn't broadcast anymore in the Lingala language. Trans World Radio still broadcasts in Lingala from Swaziland/Eswatini as it is called now: 1905-1935 daily on 9940 kHz.

I found no other regular broadcaster (excluding clandestines) that has a Lingala service. Although their are numerous religious stations (or branches of religious organizations) that broadcast in the most exotic languages and dialects we often haven't heard of, only TWR Africa broadcasts in Lingala. 73, Manfred Reiff, Germany, Nov 15, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Manfred, I'm not sure about a Lingala b'acast but AWR in some other neat African languages. I also remember R Moscow having a Marathi b'cast to India in the 80s. 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, ibid.)

Hi Liz, you are right! AWR, TWR, IBRA Radio and other religious stations (or organizations) used and use dozens and dozens of exotic languages spoken in Africa and Asia as you can read in the WRTH sections. I can remember that some of them also broadcasted in regional languages spoken on the Pacific islands. May be this information is wrong - it's decades ago...

During the 1980s Radio Moscow broadcasted in more than 60 languages including Afrikaans, Bambara, Zulu, Malagasy, Ndebele, Shona and Fulani for Africa and Assamese, Gujurati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi (as you said) Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu for Asia.

According to estimations the former USSR used more than 100 SW transmitters throughout the entire country plus facilities of so-called "republican stations". Here in Central Europe we could listen even to broadcasts targeted to other parts of the world.

Most international broadcasters never used these languages. I don't know if there are studies available about "How many listeners listened to these language services?". But during the Cold War it wasn't "suitable" to ask such a question. 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, ibid.)

15730, USA, VOA at 1930 in French with a woman with ID and opening announcements and off at 1932 only to suddenly on come again at 1934 with a woman interviewing a man in studio – Poor at first under VOA Botswana OC but rising to Good at 1934 Nov 17 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

0729 UT Saturday  HLR    6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1200 UT Saturday  Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW
1531 UT Saturday  HLR    9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
1700 UT Saturday  WRN    5950 via WRMI to WNW
2030vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
0400vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
1130 UT Sunday    HLR    7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday    WRMI   9955 to SSE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI   5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE

WORLD OF RADIO 1956 monitoring: confirmed Saturday November 17 at 1226 check the 1200 on Unique Radio via WINB 9265V, fair, just as I am talking about WINB DRM on 7325, 13690. Barely confirmed Sat Nov 17 at 1531 when I can detect the WOR theme on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB via UTwente SDR, amid splash from 9490 CRI East Turkistan. HLR signal is no better toward 1556, but less ACI.

Next:
1700 UT Saturday  WRN    5950 via WRMI to WNW [still unconfirmed]
2030vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
0400vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
1130 UT Sunday    HLR    7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday    WRMI   9955 to SSE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI   5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

GERMANY, World of Radio via HLR on 6190 kHz CUSB, Nov.17
0731-0800 on  6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, fair
Wrong frequency announcement:...HLR on 7265, instead of 6190 kHz!
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_18.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Confirmed here UT Sunday November 18 at 0428 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, about
5 minutes in, so started circa 0423; good S9+20. Next:
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday    WRMI   9955 to SSE
0230 UT Monday    WRMI   5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE, NEW 5010 to SSE*

*For a brief while, WRMI skedgrid showed 5010, 160 degrees at 0100-0500 duplicating System C on 9955, which would have affected WOR at 0430 UT Monday and 0200 UT Tuesday --- but as of 1643 UT Nov 18, neither XMTR 3 nor 14 is shown on 5010 during those hours, no hours at all on #3. At this time Jeff is logged in with his portrait, accompanied by Anonymous: Iguana, Alligator, Blobfish [not Blowfish], Grizzly, Wolverine (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DXLD)

WORLD OF RADIO 1956 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265CUSB, Nov.18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOR3wu2UdBI&feature=youtu.be 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, fair/good``

Also confirmed here Sunday November 18 at 2130 on WRMI, 7780, fair. Also confirmed UT Monday November 19 at 0230 on 5950 very poor, and 9395, JBA; always preceded at 0229 by long outdated `Sunpower Radio` ID claiming to be on 5850, 7455 and 9395!

WOR 1956 also confirmed UT Mon Nov 19 starting at 0401:40 on Area 51 webcast but WBCQ 5130v inaudible. Also confirmed after 0430 UT Mon Nov 19 on WRMI webcast; and 9955 was poorly audible around 0415.

WORLD OF RADIO 1957 contents: Australia, Brasil, China, Cuba, France and non, Japan/Korea North non, Nigeria and non, Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, Spain, Sudan, Tajikistan/Tibet non, USA, unidentified; contests; what is DX? and the propagation outlook

WOR 1957 ready for first airings UT Tuesday November 20: confirmed at 0030 on WRMI 7730, fair-good; and 0200 on WRMI 9955 JBA, confirmed on webcast. Next:

2030 UT Tuesday   WRMI   7780 to NE
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI   5950 to WNW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI   9955 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ   7490v to WSW
0729 UT Saturday  HLR    6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1200 UT Saturday  Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW
1531 UT Saturday  HLR    9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
1700 UT Saturday  WRN    5950 via WRMI to WNW [unconfirmed]
2030vUT Saturday  WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
0400vUT Sunday    WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
1130 UT Sunday    HLR    7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday    WRMI   7780 to NE
2230 UT Sunday    WRMI   9955 to SSE [Nov 25: canceled]
0230 UT Monday    WRMI   5950 to WNW, NEW 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday    WBCQ   5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday    WRMI   9955 to SSE

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The story that did mostly decode was about Berlin's Teufelsberg 'listening station' set up by the US to eavesdrop & disrupt Soviet communications during the cold war. The photos that did come in included "A woman walks past an art installation of 3200 giant poppy flowers made of artificial silk to commemorate the end of WWI on Koenigsplatz Square in Munich & art from WWI soldier & art student Otto Schubert: 7780.jpg ^from 2330 ^from 0800^Painting from 2330

33+3+43 2250-2302 & again from 2330-2400. There was a pretty significant fade from 2340-2350 but it recovered a bit toward the end (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 16 via DXLD) Date missing but probably Sunday Nov 11 (gh)

Then SW Radiogram #73 in much better than 2330, with 100% copy of the text at both MFSK 32 & MFSK 64. Stories today were about Listening station near Berlin to become a museum; New Caledonia votes to stay with France; 5850A.jpg [visible in the WOR iog] ^listening station ^Orange areas voted yes to New Caledonian independence, 46% of voters

Am I perverted because the ‘listening station’ looks a bit lewd to me? I mean, really. Korean officer purged for listening to RFA & some very NICE quality photos that all decoded properly: 5850B.jpg ^Zoo Miami’s new baby ^Painting from WWI soldier & hippopotamus art student Otto Schubert

Then AWR Wavescan (Yea! Far more 'useful & interesting' than the business growth radio which SHOULD have been far more useful & interesting than it actually was!) with edition NWS #507 including a neat item about KDKA's Cleveland relay & use of SW during the 1920s. Also on the programme were DX reports from Japan & the Philippines & mention that REE is back in English & other foreign languages on SW as of B-18. Then fill music to round out the half hour until ToH ID by Ian McFarland & carrier off in the middle of that! 4+554+4+ pretty much throughout -- great reception tonight! *0655-0900* 12/Nov (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)

9395, Sat Nov 17 at 2304, `Voice of the Report of the Week` is on this WRMI, John musing how he is having to reduce SW broadcasts in December due to lack of sufficient funding, but how he will always promote the SW medium. Major cut will be broadcasts on 4840, which he says served N American listeners better than any, but apparently too expensive. He never mentions which *stations* go with which frequencies, but we know of course 4840 is WWCR --- and I was unaware he was even on there, not for very long? Says VORW will continue on 5850, 5950, 7730, 7780, 9395, 9955, all WRMIs, which ought to suffice. 4840 is on the Nov WWCR sked with VORW Sat at 7-8 pm CST = UT Sun 00-01, for one more week. Only from ``John`` as usual suppressing his surname, which I suppose he would not want me to mention.

9955, Sat Nov 17 at 2316, surprised to hear WRMI in Luso Portuguese --- it`s Frank & Ernest as now scheduled for a quarter-hour. More F&E: see GERMANY 11800.

5950, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0229, WRMI again fires the off-the-wall ``Sonpower Radio`` canned ID just before R. Tirana relay; strange (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

7730 & 5850, UT Monday Nov 19 at 0700 and still 0721 no signals from WRMI. Kim Elliott of `SW Radiogram` had said his show was moved from Mondays at 0800 to UT Sundays, 24 hours earlier and less inconvenient? in North America. This presumably also applies to `Broad Spectrum Radio`, beepery from OK in the hour preceding it from 0700. And the WRMI skedgrid now specifies Sundays-only for these at 0700-0900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5950, Nov 18 at 1408, WRMI is VP in `Wavescan`, so now confirmed for 1400 Sundays, and also on the System G sked carved out of mostly-Oldies elsewhen; meanwhile 9395 is BSing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dear VORW Radio Listeners, It has been some time since the last newsletter has been sent out, this newsletter outlines schedule changes!

If you haven't listened to the radio show recently I welcome you back! Tune in to hear a mixture of thoughtful commentary and discussion on current events, philosophical issues, motivational subjects or random topics entirely! Broadcasts also feature listener-requested music of all genres and information about the songs.

Changing listening habits have led to a full revision of how this show is broadcast, declining shortwave listenership and fewer listener donations have led to several cutbacks and discontinuations. Digital content on SoundCloud has expanded. Nonetheless, a full shortwave service to North and South America will continue indefinitely.

    Thursday:
    5 AM Eastern - 1000 UTC - 5950 kHz to Western North America
    4 PM Eastern - 2100 UTC - 7780 kHz to Europe & North America
    6 PM Eastern - 2300 UTC - 9955 kHz to South America
    7 PM Eastern - 0000 UTC - 7730 kHz to Western North America
    8 PM Eastern - 0100 UTC - 5850, 7780, 9395 to N America & Europe

    Friday:
    5 PM Eastern - 2200 UTC - 9955 kHz to South America
    9 PM Eastern - 0200 UTC - 5130 kHz to North America

    Saturday:
    6 PM Eastern - 2300 UTC - 9395 kHz to North America
    8 PM Eastern - 0100 UTC - 4840 kHz to North America
                              (Likely to Discontinue Dec. 01)
    Sunday:
    5 PM Eastern - 2200 UTC - 7570 kHz to North America

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7490+, Nov 13 at 2030, fair WBCQ is on with ancient recordings, like `Marion`s Attic` or `Behaviour Night`. But this must be `Pirate Joe Extravaganzo`, since Tuesday is the only weekday 7490 is on from *2000 instead of *2100; generally unpropagable in warmer months this far into the sunshine. J. P. Ferraro`s other show does better, `Shortwave Saturday Night` now rescheduled to 0200-0500 UT Sunday.

9330.232, Nov 14 at 1542, this WBCQ, all-BS-all-the-time (besides the AWWW hour), and it seems whenever I tune across him, he`s instructing people how to phone TOM answering machine. This once I pause long enough to measure how far up WBCQ has drifted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5129.362, Nov 17 at 0202, WBCQ JBA carrier is way lower than usual 5129.83v (or sometimes above 5130), still on air after 7490+ has closed following AWWW trimulcast; 9330.1v also still on with JBA carrier. Nothing sked on 5130 UT Sat except 01-02 AWWW; maybe a special booking or just not quite turned off yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

WBCQ [7490?], `Allan Weiner Worldwide` UT Sat Nov 17 at 01-02 as monitored by John H Carver, Jr, Indiana:

``Tonight's show started about a minute late as the previous show ran over. Allan and Angela in the studio in FLA. Comment from Allan that it was 46 in FLA. Opening comments skirt political things but mostly about young people in general and the young man that interviewed them last week for the BBC about the superstation and pirate radio. Also talk about film making when Allan was a child using an eight mm camera compared to what young people can do today with cellphones. Then on to social media. Angela insists that all the young people using social media are incapable of being social without a cellphone. Touches on several things including anti war, congress, how both sides need to get along and work together.

Announces that the Falling Star Radio Network will rise again. Will hopefully counteract all the right wing ultra conservative radio stations. Will be run by Allan and Pirate Joe and broadcast on 3265. Will try for a 24/7 schedule. Special rates for broadcasters similar to the pirate rates on 5130. Hoping to start broadcasting after the first of the year but says that he and TimTron have to give the transmitter a going-over to make sure it can handle 24 hours a day. Asking for suggestions from listeners. Will not be streamed. Will be radio only.

No phone calls or emails this evening, just the closing prayer at the end. Show was off the air at 0200 and 7490 was off the air right after that. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[and non]. 7490+, Nov 17 at 2311, WBCQ off-frequency-plus with VP signal now has a het from somestation really on 7490.0 --- nothing scheduled now, but in previous seasons, BBC has been here from an Asian site. Otherwise WBCQ lux out with no CCI despite being off- frequency, which if fixed would at least avoid hets. At 0015 Nov 18, WBCQ in clear again as I measure it on 7490.165V --- the exact frequency wavers very slightly.

WWCR timeshares 7490 in mornings, but I see WHRI is also registered 47 degrees at 0430-0600, never heard so far, but watch out during that sesquihour from assuming algo be WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

5129.356V, Nov 18 at 0019, WBCQ poor with music, and still on the much lower off-frequency than before. 22 hours earlier I had measured it on .362. We have recently heard it on three distinct spots around 5130v, so are these three transmitters, or one which keeps being readjusted? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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5085, Nov 15 at 1254, WTWW-2 with classic rock music, S9+30 past sunrise, after all-night? Plus and minus usual spur carriers 5072.1 & 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Test transmission of WTWW-3 We Transmit World Wide on Nov.15  
from 1200 on 15810 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm English, fair/good
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/11/test-transmission-of-wtww-3-we-transmit.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, Nov 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

We had not heard 15810 anywhen for many weeks, nor this time; how long was it on and with what programming?

5085, Nov 17 at 1400, WTWW-2 with song, still on air, after all-nighter since circa *0200?

9475-, Sat Nov 17 at 2002, WTWW-1 in dead air, finally 2005:46 mod cuts on amid ham net relay via QSO show deviating from SFAW. Altho 2-way contacts are heard, no sign of SW reception, so either from VHF or webfeed.

5085, UT Sun Nov 18 at 0643, WTWW-2 is off and still off after 1400, unlike last night when it was on late, very late with rock music; very flexible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

``Hi, Glenn and all. There was a power outage at the KVOH transmitter site on Saturday [Nov 10], related to the nearby SoCal fires. English on Saturdays is now scheduled 1600-2000, with Wavescan 1600-1630. I've just returned from Israel and am fighting off a bout of flu. The website schedules for both KVOH and the Voice of Hope - Middle East will be updated soon.

http://www.voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf English on that station is now 2000-2200 UT on Fridays (1287 kHz). Voice of Hope - Africa remains unchanged - no seasonal adjustments. Ray Robinson, Voice of Hope World Radio Network, Americas/Africa/Middle East`` (Glenn Hauser, Nov 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I wonder just how many of their customers realize they have been hoodwinked and sold a useless bill of goods when you consider how much of their audience have cheap receivers that don't decode SSB. Then again, maybe they're just interested in the tax deduction generated by business expenses. Another interesting tidbit is that I can't find any information on them on the net. There's no website but plenty of loggings and recordings by DXers and SWLs. Maybe they are just happy hoodwinking who they have already and don't actively seek broadcasting partners? It must be nice to have a business that is thriving so well that no advertising is required or wanted (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1957, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

It would pay to read every line of a WRTH. The 2018 does show a website for WJHR, or some related station: http://calvaryscall.org/whbr-radio but that goes nowhere, nor searching anything about Calvary Baptist Church in Milton FL.

WRTH also asserts that instead of licensed 50 kW, that`s just a future-plan, really only 250 watts run at 1 kW PEP! That I could believe.

As for lack of advertising, a ``business`` ``hoodwinking customers``, that is all n/a since it exists only as a post-mortem tribute to dead gospel huxter John Hill, and allegedly plays no other preacher, only stuff from his tape library (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

3215 kHz, WWCR, Nashville TN, English, 18/11 0113. OM: preaching. Christian program. 25442 (RG). Tx w/46º Az to USA and Canada. (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)

NO, 3215 before 0200 UT is WWRB, after 0200 WWCR -- as registered starting Nov 5 with our timeshift. WWRB back on 90m, ex-60m (gh)

3215, WWCR, at 0545, with man, woman, and religious lecture about Yahweh (not pronounced the same way as by YHWH's guy, BTW). Religious monologue over top of "brother stair", who could be heard underneath, as though he were sermonizing in the next room. Mixing product? Closed without warning a little after 0600 - VG. Nov 13 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Log, English used unless otherwise stated. Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

La emisora funciona en el 96.5 MHZ de la FM, transmite las 24 horas y se llama Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Radio FM, contó la zuliana a la prensa local. Asimismo, agregó que se escucha en Toledo, Oregon y Rossford.

Parra es fundadora de Nuestra Gente Community Projects, una organización que tramitó el permiso desde abril de 2013 ante la Federal Communications Commission, que le dio el anciado documento el pasado 31 de diciembre.

“Para nosotros es un honor, porque esto (la emisora) es para el servicio de nuestra comunidad latina en Toledo”, manifestó Parra a La Prensa, periódico hispano de Ohio, al que indicó que aún falta reunir el dinero para la compra de los equipos. En total se requieren $30,000 para cubrir los costos de lo necesario para arrancar la transmición [sic].

El siguiente paso de Parra es encontrar el lugar para colocar la antena, y piensa que pueda ser en sur de Toledo; para ello buscará financiamiento de fundaciones, cuyo apoyo hizo posible obtener el permiso, además de conciertos de músicos cristianos que aportaron su grano de arena, contó Parra.

“La esperanza es que la comunidad latina valore este esfuerzo y se involucre”, comentó la locutora, quien asegura que como comunidad deben tener su voz propia por medio de una estación de radio, televisión y un periódico.

Parra comenzó su carrera en medios del estado Zulia. Tuvo la oportunidad de trabajar para Radio Reloj, Popular, Metrópolis. En la televisión tuvo un programa en el Canal, entre otros.

Luego de radicarse en Estados Unidos, Parra se ha involucrado en el servicio de la comunidad latina, a la que ha ayudado con jornadas de salud de despistaje de SIDA, diabetes, cáncer, con el apoyo de clínicas patrocinantes de su programa radial (tomada de Noticia al Día) (via Conexion Digital Nov 18 via DXLD)

So *what station is it??** WTFDA FMDB shows 96.5 in Tolido is WVZC-LP, 100 watts, 26m HAAT, Spanish variety format, so on the air already? Apparently, but evidently most carrying R Guadalupe network (gh, DXLD)

TA JBA MW carrier search, Nov 15 at 0642- UT: 585, 612, 621, 693(2), 711, 729, 774(2), 837, 846, 855, 882, 909, 936, 999, 1026, 1098, 1125, 1179, 1215, 1314 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

At first I thought that the music was filler while the Saudis tried to fix a break in their normal program feed. But the Saudis were there all along and it was them during the transmission breaks and brief bits of open carrier and they had the Islamic Call to Prayer in progress with a poor signal when the carrier was finally cut at 1859. There were no announcements during the test so it will be interesting to see if anyone owns up to it (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

IRRS Milano probably via SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod Bulgaria relay site? R. Warra Wangeelaa on Saturdays in Oromo language, 1500-1530 UT too. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)