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Thanks, Glenn NEXT AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1223: Sat 0000 on Studio X, Momigno, Italy 1584 Sat 0900 on WRN1 to Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, webcast Sat 0955 on WNQM, Nashville, 1300 Sat 1130 on WWCR 5070 Sat 1930 on WPKN Bridgeport, 89.5, webcast http://www.wpkn.org Sat 2130 on WWCR 12160 Sat 2130 on WBCQ 17495-CUSB Sat 2200 on DKOS usually, http://www.live365.com/stations/steve_cole Sun 0030 on WBCQ 9330-CLSB [ex-0130!] Sun 0330 on WWCR 5070 Sun 0730 on WWCR 3210 Sun 1100 on WRN1 to North America, webcast; also KSFC 91.9 Spokane WA, and WDWN 89.1 Auburn NY; maybe KTRU 91.7 Houston TX, each with webcasts Sun 2000 on Studio X, Momigno, Italy 1584 Sun 2100 on RNI webcast, http://www.11L-rni.com Sun 2330 on WBCQ 9330-CLSB [NEW] Mon 0430 on WSUI 910, webcast http://wsui.uiowa.edu [last week`s 1222] Mon 0515 on WBCQ 7415, webcast http://wbcq.us Tue 0400 on SIUE Web Radio http://www.siue.edu/WEBRADIO/ Wed 1030 on WWCR 9475 WRN ONDEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also for CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL]: Check http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html WORLD OF RADIO 1223 (high version): (stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1223h.ram (download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1223h.rm (summary) http://www.worldofradio.com/wor1223.html [soon] WORLD OF RADIO 1223 (low version): (stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1223.ram (download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1223.rm ** AFGHANISTAN. This just might be the first website ever of an Afghanistan radio station: http://www.arman.fm/ The first commercial Afghanistan radio, Arman FM 98.1 publishes quite professional website, with audio clips etc. Check out the Afghanistan Top 40. The only western artists seem to be three sexy ladies ... 73 de (Pentti Lintujarvi, Finland, March 9, hard-core-dx via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2310, VL8A, 1015 Mar 11, Fair reception today with weak parallels on 2325 and 2485. Usual music format with nice selections of jazz, rock and blues tunes. Promo mentioning "ABC and Territory Radio". Alice Springs was coming in fairly well this morning considering the limitations of my antenna, a 40m Delta Loop. I will probably construct a decent lower HF band antenna this fall after the summer noise level drops (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4903.7, R San Miguel, 0925 Mar 11, Regional music, Live ID by announcer at 0930, then into ads. Good audio, some downward frequency drift, fair signal strength (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Bolivian state media reorganized Bolivian President Carlos Mesa Gisbert has instructed a team of professionals with setting up a national communications system, which replaces Unicom, the communications unit created by former president Gonzalo Sánchez De Lozada. Hinting at the manipulation and use for propaganda that existed during the previous adiministrations, President Mesa explained that it is important to set up a state information and communication system that will serve the needs of society, but that this requires a change of direction and the adequate use of the media for educational, information, and entertainment purposes. Bolivia has a range of private television channels with Empresa Nacional Televisión operated by the government (AIB, Vol. 7 # 1 via Gayle Van Horn/Freq Manager, Monitoring Times, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. RCI's New Schedule --- Thanks to Glenn Hauser's March 5 DX Digest we now know that the plan for the RCI's evening schedule is to re-run the World at Six for the first half hour and then RCI's weekly programs. I wonder will it be an updated version of the World at Six, broadcast to Canada's west coast or just a rebroadcast of the Eastern Time zone version? One hopes the latter (Sandy Finlayson, March 8, swprograms via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, CFVP: I tried 6030 again Monday, Mar 1 from 0745 and found Marti absent, as expected, but the jammer again present. This is the second Monday in a row where I have found this, so it looks like there is no longer a "Monday morning window" when the frequency is clear (Jerry Berg, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** CANADA. Hi Glenn: With respect to Sheldon Harvey's report on CFAV, 4-044: I heard this station on February 29, 2004 at 0035 UT. At 0044, they clearly gave the call letters "CFAV" in the station ID which appeared to be every 15 minutes during my listening period. Rather tough copy with QRM from WFLA in Penn Yan, NY and WPEP in Taunton, MA. I called the station (450) 680-1570 and spoke to "Margo". She gave her title as "Jack of All Trades"! She said they are running 10 kW now and have been on regular programming for about 2 weeks. She said the Station President's name is Gilles LaJoie (John L. Sgrulletta, NY, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) They also continue to be about 65 Hz off frequency, which turns 1570 into mud here. The standards in Canada call for an error of no more than 10 Hz in carrier frequency (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. FMakings – Selected Industry Canada Applications and/or Rulemakings: ON Niagara Falls CFLZ 105.1 30000 h,v; d-a, Class B, with a directional signal toward Buffalo NY. It is jointly owned with CKEY 101.1 Fort Erie, which is selling advertising in Buffalo with another broadcaster. The CRTC is concerned that CFLZ will become a defacto Buffalo station (March FMedia! via DXLD) ** CANADA. Standard vs. Corus at CRTC --- CRTC gives Corus Entertainment a slap on the wrist for the way it operates two southern Ontario radio stations, CKDK-FM and CING-FM. Based on the evidence before it, the Commission is concerned that Corus appears to have been operating CKDK-FM Woodstock and CING-FM Hamilton so as to expressly target the audiences in the markets of London and Toronto, respectively. The Commission considers that, if CKDK-FM and CING-FM are effectively serving London and Toronto rather than Woodstock and Hamilton --- Please see http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Letters/2004/lb040311.htm (via Ricky Leong, QC, DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. La Voz de tu Conciencia, 6010.21, March 7 0353-0400+ --- Good, strong with 0354 ID. Religious music program with children`s chorus, local ballads. Spanish talk. 0400 covered by some kind of wide-band noise spread from 6005 to 6015 that wiped out everything in this frequency range (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBC DRM from Sackville (gh) ** COLOMBIA. Hola Glenn, Saludos desde Catia La Mar, VENEZUELA. Reactivada luego de varias semanas, La Nueva 730 AM, estación de la Cadena Melodía de Colombia. Captada el 10/03, a las 0348 UT, con SINPO 32432, en la frecuencia de 6139.78 kHz. Baladas en español, Julio Iglesias "Me olvidé de vivir", promoción del primer lugar de Melodía FM 96.9 en Bogotá, comentario sobre paro de la empresa de transporte Transmilenio. Ausencia notable de la recurrente sección "Concierto en Melodía". Aparte de la supresión de la mención Melodía en casi todos los jingles, el corte musical de la estación es más adulto, es decir, dirigido a una audiencia mayor de 35 años (Adán González, Catia La Mar, VENEZUELA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Esta mañana a través de la frecuencia 6140 kHz, como a las 1200 UT pude escuchar las siguientes identificaciones: ``Están escuchando: Cundinamarca al dia, el noticiero líder del departamento.`` ``Melodía FM estereo 96.9, líder en música, líder en noticias, líder en opinión, Melodía FM estéreo, la radio positiva que cree en Colombia, primer lugar de sintonía, gracias Bogotá por escucharnos, felicitaciones por saber distinguir.`` Atte: (José Elías, Venezuela, March 11, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 6035, LV del Guaviare, 0955 Mar 10, Good signal strength but slop from R Martí and the Cuban jammer covered the lower sideband. Ballads, canned ID at 1000, then ad block (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [non]. HRT, Croatian Radio, A-04, via DTK 100 kW Jülich: 9925 2200 0300 55,59,60 202 230 218 1234567 280304 311004 9925 2300 0259 6 - 10 112 300 216 1234567 280304 311004 9925 0100 0459 2 - 10 119 325 216 1234567 280304 311004 12110 0400 0659 55,59,60 202 230 218 1234567 280304 311004 12110 0600 1000 58,59,60 208 270 218 1234567 280304 311004 (DTK via Alokesh Gupta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12110 is new vs A-03 (gh) ** CUBA. RHC 9820 low or no show, English to North America (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 0100-0700? ** CUBA. RHC: Radio HUM Cuba --- Glenn: Tuned through the 31M band tonight, stopping to marvel at a veritable "beacon of hum": yep, RHC at 9600 (03-11-04, 0325), desecrating their own great Leader and Teacher, whose 4-hour ramble to the economic ministers' conference in Habana recently was being played from a recording that I naturally assumed was faulty from the overpowering mains intrusion. Under the noise, Fidel seemed very tired and weak, but he managed to croak out a few jibes at America which even my attenuated Spanish vocabulary aided me in intuiting; in particular, he drew appreciative audience chuckles when he mentioned our national deficit and that the United States' economy was allegedly now a "third world" one. Much amusement all around; the effect slightly spoiled because the 120 Hz hum was louder than either Castro's speech, or the guffaws. But when I tuned a bit further down the dial, I found the same broadcast on 9550 a minute or so later, WITH NO HUM. Both transmissions had exceptionally low modulation, making me wonder if the transmitters in this supposedly deficit-free land of prosperity are running on energy extracted directly from Fidel's endless rants, which after 45+ years must add up to more than Mozart's entire lifetime. So, here we have proof that the problem with Cuban transmissions seems to be in the links and lashups to the individual rigs, abetted by the most abysmal maintenance and quality control lapses apparent on the international broadcast scene (Steve Waldee - retired radio station CE, San Jose, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Earlier: Radio Rebelde Splatter --- Glenn: Hey, Fidel, mi mal amigo: tell your old buddy Arnie to put in a reasonable and practical lowpass filter on R. Rebelde so that it does not cover up the Solomon Islands station at 5019. In fact, your 5025 signal is splattering all the way down to 5013, meaning that you are burning precious sugar cane for no good reason at all, merely to transmit high frequency partials that practically no shortwave receiver can reproduce. What a pain in the tuchis: for months, Cuban radio stations were so faintly modulated that we could hardly make sense of what was being programmed. Now you have gone to the other extreme, and are clattering all over your fellow third-worlders with dirty hob-nailed boots. Is it too much to ask for Cuban broadcasters to act responsibly? (Don't bother to answer...) (Steve Waldee - disgruntled former broadcast audio consultant, San Jose, CA, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Si amigos, we are working hard here to improve the quality and reliability of Cuba's broadcasting service on short wave, AM, FM and Television. RadioCuba, the totally state owned company that is in charge of the transmitters is now well advanced into the installation of new AM, FM and TV transmitters all along the Cuban archipelago. At the Isle of Youth, Radio Caribe is now with a new 5 kiloWatt AM transmitter operating on 1220 kiloHertz and RadioCuba engineers also installed an FM transmitter there operating on 101.7 megHertz with 3 kiloWatts effective radiated power, more than enough to cover the Isle of Youth and the adjacent Cayo Largo tourist resort. At the same time, the Cuban Broadcast Institute implemented a modernization plan at the Radio Caribe studios using digital technology. The Radio Caribe studios are linked to the FM transmitter using a digital UHF link, and soon the analog UHF link to the AM site will be replaced by a new digital one too. Similar projects are in progress all along the Cuban archipelago, like for example in Matanzas province, east of Havana, where the old Radio Rebelde 30 kiloWatt Tesla transmitter that I helped to install in 1963 was replaced by a new solid state 25 kiloWatt transmitter capable of up to 140 percent positive peak modulation. Radio Rebelde's Matanzas relay is operating on 620 kiloHertz, while at the same site, a new Radio Reloj network also solid state transmitter is running 5 kiloWatts on 860 kiloHertz, improving the coverage of that news and information broadcast service. Cuba's fourth national TV network transmitters are now also being installed and it is expected that the fourth national TV program service will soon be on the air (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited March 9 via Bob Chandler, VE3SRE, ODXA via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. Re 4-044: FROM "LA NUEVA CUBA" MARCH 5, 2004 By Ares Spinoza, Washington Why not do everyone a favor, including both sides in this internecine battle, and put Radio Martí out of its (and our) misery by killing it once and for all. It's been nothing but a political football for the Cuban exile community since its inception -- and an exceptionally expensive and wasteful one at that (John Figliozzi, NY, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 3280/4870, R. María: I found their programming in // via LV del Napo 3279.53 and newly reactivated Voz del Upano 4869.94 at 0330 Mar 1. I checked them later and found Napo breaking away and going into their own programming at 0858, while Upano stayed with Maria (probably until 1000). No sign of Upano at all on the morning of Saturday, Mar 6, 0800-1000+ checks, but they were back on Sunday Mar 7, with Napo starting to break away from María at 0950, for the first 5 minutes giving Napo IDs and atenciones but returning to the María programming for brief music bridges (Jerry Berg, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** EUSKADI [non]. Spain --- New Book about Radio Euskadi February 29, 2004 Article originally posted at: http://www.berria.info/english/ikusi.php?id=283 The voice of Basque resistance The news reports filed by Gerardo Bujanda, nicknamed Jon de Igeldo, have been collected and published Ainara Gorostitzu – DONOSTIA (San Sebastian) "Ladies and Gentlemen, listeners of the radio station of the Basque Government in exile. Our undercover reporter in Donostia is none other than Gerardo Bujanda, the current Chairman of the Gipuzkoa Executive Committee of the EAJ." In 1977 Iñaki Anasagasti would have loved to have announced this piece of news. From 1965 onwards news about the Basque Country was broadcast from somewhere near Caracas over the radio waves of Radio Euzkadi. From Euzkadi (the Basque Country). Jon de Igeldo, who was in actual fact Gerardo Bujanda, sent news about Donostia by letter to Venezuela. It was then broadcast back to the Basque Country. Gerardo Bujanda (born Donostia 1919) filed news reports about Donostia between 1968 and 1974. Under the pseudonym Jon de Igeldo he reported, among other things, on the creation and consolidation of the Ikastolas (Basque-medium schools), the Governors’ visits, the Aberri Eguna celebrations, the punishments, the persecution, Franco’s visits to Donostia, the imprisonment of priests, the Burgos trial, the homily of Añoveros (the one-time Bishop of Bilbo), the first years of ETA. (…) Iñaki Anasagasti, EAJ member of the Spanish Parliament, was on the Radio Euzkadi team and hung on to all the news items. They have now been gathered together in the book entitled `Jon de Igeldo` Corresponsal Clandestino de Radio Euzkadi published by the Sabino Arana Cultural Association and Radio Euskadi (via A. Sennitt, Holland, Feb 28, 2004 for CRW via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re 4-044: infoRadio, Berlin at 7265 (03-09-04, 0240-0245), broadcasting the news in German complete with handovers from male to female newsreaders, stingers, etc. --- No longer RBB Inforadio as overnight relay on 7265, instead since January now MDR Info, see http://www.swr.de/contra/schema-werktag.html (and past DXLD's for previous coverage). Regarding the stingers etc.: They are one of the reasons why I rely on Deutschlandfunk instead. And concerning the output on 7265: Yes, 20 kW, and the transmitter is the very same than was once used by Radio Bremen on 6190, relocated to Rohrdorf when the old Radio Bremen transmitter site was closed. Pictures of the Rohrdorf station see at the bottom of http://www.ukwtv.de/sender-tabelle/extern/heinz/BWU.htm (By the way, the Ravensburg station also pictured there was in the past another transmitter of what was then Südwestfunk and only later transferred to the postal office for Deutschlandfunk transmissions.) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [non]. VOG via Delano again on the wrong frequency, 9670 instead of 9690, March 10 at 1403 check, and still so just before closing at 1459. Once again opened 9690 for All India Radio, news in English, but poor this date. Is this really a mistake? Yes, next day March 11, VOG was back on 9690 as scheduled: 9690 1200 1500 ERT ERA5 VAR DL 03 075 But there is no DL-03 scheduled on 9670 at any time. However, another Delano transmitter is scheduled at a conflicting time, so I wonder if the two get swapped by mistake, with BBC showing up on 9690 for half an hour when VOG is on 9670 for three hours? I haven`t checked before 1330. If not, both programs on the same frequency would be quite a mess: 9670 1300 1330 BBC BBCS SPAN DL 07 125 12345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. R. Verdad, 4052.47, March 5 0550-0601* -- tune-in to religious music; 0555 English sign-off announcements with ``Radio Truth`` ID and address followed by Spanish announcements, 0556 NA. Good (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. Glenn: On 03-10-04 I was able to hear, for the first time, R. Luz y Vida at exactly 3250.58, from San Luis, Honduras ID given at 0302. I am not usually getting good tropical band Latin American reception at this hour; it was a surprise. The signal was quite good, and the audio consisted of a male announcer giving what sounded like prayers, followed at 0304 by a few seconds of organ music, and then more of the same. Receiver used was an Icom R-75; antenna was my new "asymmetrical horizontal delta loop", augmented by three new ground rods and improved balun and coax (which seem to be paying off for the sweat-equity invested.) Best, (Steve Waldee, retired radio station chief engineer, San José, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3250, San Luis Pajon, R. Luz y Vida, 0252 3/7. Fair with QRN. Announcer Don Moore with program note, QTH, frequency announcement and "HRPC" ID into (syndicated) religious program featuring "Monica Richards." (Jim Clar, NY, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. RRI Surabaya (tentative), 3985.02. At 1055 I tuned in to very sentimental sounding instrumental music, with Indonesian tinged style and female announcer; at 1059 the deep-throated gong was struck, and then an ID was given, which I could not *quite* discern; then what seemed to be the start of a news program with first a man, then -- after four ascending notes of a chime -- a woman. Presumably RRI Surabaya, assumed from the evidence of the tell-tale gong. Good quality reception on my NE-SW 107M dipole (Steve Waldee - retired radio CE, San Jose, CA, 10 March, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [and non]. IRRS-Shortwave / NEXUS-International Broadcasting Association (Milan, Italy): --------- A04 tentative schedule effective 28 March 2004-31 Oct. 2004, valid until further notice: 13840 - 0800-1200 UT Sat & Sun ITU zones: 18-19,27-30,37-39 20 kW DSB 5775 - 1900-2030 UT daily excl. Fri 18-19,27-30,37-39 20 kW DSB 5775 - 1900-2030 UT Friday ITU zones: 18-19,27-30,37-39 100 kW DSB Live audio at http://mp3.nexus.org Schedules also available at http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules Alfredo E. Cotroneo, CEO, NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association PO Box 11028, 20110, Milano, Italy email: info@nexus.org Ph: +39-335-214-614 (try first)/+39-02-266-6971 Fax: +39-02-706-38151 Regds, (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. CWR next Sunday on AWR Next Sunday, 14 March, inside STUDIO DX on AWR at 10 UT on 11730 kHz, we invite to listen to Chris Ise of Crazy Wave Radio with a lot of news and tapes about free radio scene. Good listening, STUDIO DX ogni domenica: ore 10 UT su AWR, 11730 kHz ore 11 UT su Radio Studio X, 1584 kHz AM stereo http://www.studiodx.webport.it Buon ascolto, Stefano Mannelli (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** JORDAN. R. Jordan English at 1600 and 1700 on 11690 improving on AM side, still sparring with RTTY (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Glenn: The "Korean National Democratic Front" station now seems to be transmitting on 5950, a new frequency as far as I can tell after checking with all of my resources. At 0930 to 0940 I heard choral and vocal music -- probably jingoistic -- in parallel to the KNDF transmission on 4450. The signal quality was very wobbly and muddy, as usual for that station; furthermore, heavy co-channel interference was heard from what might be Radio Rossii, judging from the hectoring tone of the male announcer in what sounded very much like stentorian Russian. And yet a third station faded up and down, unintelligibly, in this melange. The Russian station was best heard with my 107M NE-SW dipole; the Korean jumble with my large horizontal loop. Rx: R75. Best, (Steve Waldee, San José, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS 0200 English to NAm on 9560 doesn`t propagate well to my area (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sackville too close; frequency too high (gh) ** KUWAIT. Haven`t been able to hear R. Kuwait English to North America 1800-2100 for several weeks. Splash from 11985; also 11995 splash from RFI (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Madagascar Radio Netherlands relay now back on (Updated and edited, just received from Andy Sennitt, Radio Netherlands; he had learnt that the relay was back in operation after just announcing it was off! -- met) On Sunday 7 March, another cyclone passed over Madagascar, followed by a second one later in the week. As far as we know, there has been no damage to our relay station, and none of our colleagues were injured. However, power supplies on the island were restricted, and for that reason the following transmissions from Madagascar had been temporarily suspended are now operating normally again. The cyclone that caused the problems is still active in the region, so there's a small chance that the island could be affected yet again, but we are keeping our fingers crossed. Remarkably, the only "damage" to the station was that a satellite dish was blown out of alignment, and this has now been fixed (Andy Sennitt, Media Network, March 11, via Mike Terry, UK, DXLD) ** MEXICO. Let me clarify my remark about the XERMX closure story coming from an anonymous source: the actual announcement about the impending shutdown was attributed by name to the latest RMI director at a staff meeting in February. And it`s still going March 10, 9705.0 in fact the best I have heard in some time at 1400 with no QRM, no IBB and no het; modulation fair with slight distortion. Live Antena Radio program with time check on the hour, phone numbers, apparent call-in with the topic being the 1954 CIA overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala, mentioned again at 1433. Rechecked before 1500, the het was back, Ethiopia? Mostly music from XERMX thereafter past 1600 tho weakening. Entirely different 24 hours later on March 11: Before and after 1400, except for a pause at 1359, when Spanish could be heard, 9705 was obliterated by VOA Saipan in Cantonese 1300-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1223, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO [and non or non non]. Re: ``yes, Col de la Madone and Fontbonne are on the French soil (city of Peille) but the ground soil BELONGS to Monaco`` I understand that quite a lot of property in France is owned by Monaco, but I have no idea about the legal status in these cases. And the story of the French "peripherical stations" is somewhat complicated anyway. Best regards, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Glenn: Radio Reading Service (tentative): snatches of male voice singing and then speaking, under slightly buzzy QRM that became worse in heavily filtered ECSS mode; better in AM detection. No other station found at this frequency of 3935.09 except ZLXA, Levin, New Zealand: so tentative claim here, subject to verification or corroboration, though I did check to make sure it was not related to any local BCB stations. 03-10-04, 1040 to 1050Z. Better signal with 107M dipole than other antennas. Signal improved by end of logging period; one could almost get a syllable or two of the speech, and discern the transitions from talking to music, which might have had a rather lush instrumental quality, like "beautiful [elevator] music". Rx: R75 (Steve Waldee, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI A'04 --- Radio New Zealand International, The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific Our direct broadcasts can be heard on short-wave as follows: 28 Mar 2004 - 30 Oct 2004 UTC kHz band Target Azimuth Days 0459-0705 9615 31 All Pacific 0 Daily 0706-1059 9885 31 All Pacific 0 Daily 1100-1259 9885 31 NW Pacific, Bougainville, Timor, Asia 325 Daily 1300-1850 6095 49 All Pacific 0 Daily 1851-1950 9885 31 NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 35 Daily 1951-2050 11725 25 All Pacific 0 Daily 2051-0458 15720 19 All Pacific 0 Daily Internet We broadcast our breakfast sessions via the Internet and also have several news bulletins and programmes available as audio files. See the Audio Links page for details. World Radio Network The WRN programme is distributed via direct-to-home satellites, cable systems, FM and AM rebroadcasts and the Internet. Korero Pacifica - Recorded in RNZI's Wellington studios, this 15 minute programme includes a news bulletin covering the Pacific region including Fiji, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Samoa and New Zealand, followed by a short current affairs feature. In New Zealand, WRN is available on cable in some northern parts of the North Island. Our WRN programme is available from the WRN Sound Store as a RealAudio file. WRN North America (English) Korero Pacifica - Mon - Fri 1700 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sat 0600 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sun 0630 UTC WRN South America (English) Korero Pacifica - Mon - Fri 1700 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sat 0500 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sun 0000 UTC WRN Europe (English) Korero Pacifica - Mon - Fri 1700 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sat 0430 UTC, 1500 UTC Dateline Pacific - Sun 0900 UTC Rebroadcasters The following Pacific stations rebroadcast parts of our programme: Cook Islands - Cook Islands Broadcasting, KC FM Fiji Islands - ZFM Classic Kiribati - Radio Kiribati, Niue, Radio Sunshine Samoa - Radio 2AP,Magic 98 FM, American Samoa, KSBS FM Tonga - Radio Tonga, Vava'u FM Tonga Vanuatu - Radio Vanuatu,Tudei FM Solomon Islands - Solomon Islands Broadcasting Norfolk Island - Norfolk Island Broadcasting Stations in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Australia also make use of our material. If you rebroadcast part of our programme, and you are not listed here, please let us know so that we can include you. (From : RNZI Website) Regds, (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, WORLD OF RADIO 1223, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KFOR-TV, channel 4, OKC, is plugging its Forewarn Forecast Channel, one of four channels on KFOR-DT, which is on 4.2, all weather all the time, and available to all cable operators. We can only long for this replacing the trashing of the NBC schedule whenever it gets windy in storm season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Attorney fires back at KXOK 3/11/04 By Robert Barron Staff Writer http://www.enidnews.com/story.php?story_id=57570&c=29&PHPSESSID=441afbe41b167dba8d60c5991c247f51 An attorney for a minister whose series was carried locally on KXOK television took issue recently with statements made by the station's owner. The two sides are at odds over a contract to broadcast the minister's show on the Enid station. Attorney Ken McKenna of Los Angeles represents Dr. Gene Scott and said Scott has never been a part of a contract between University Network, KXOK and the station's owner, Rex Faulkner. "The history of Mr. Faulkner's relationship with University Network is simple. Mr. Faulkner came to California and requested University Network provide programming for his station. He never met Dr. Scott and has never had an agreement with him," McKenna said. Faulkner agrees he never has met Scott but said he dealt extensively with "his people," even traveling to Los Angeles at their request. A contract was signed between Faulkner and University Net-work, the network that carries Scott's television program. The contract for the program was written by Faulkner, McKenna said. Faulkner sent Scott, by certified mail, a complaint with two summonses related to a contract dispute between the two parties, McKenna said. The complaint contends Scott and University Network owe Faulkner about $150,000 after terminating the contract, but McKenna said there is no basis for the debt. The contract was terminated due to alleged repeated material breaches by Faulkner, McKenna said. The contract called for KXOK to carry University Network programming 24 hours a day, McKenna said, with the exception KXOK would be able to use the time from 7 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. daily for other programming. McKenna said the station regularly inserted commercials during the religious programming regardless of the timing. University Network notified Faulkner of the violation repeatedly, he said. The violations continued and the contract was terminated, McKenna said. Faulkner disagreed. "I have never received one correspondence from Scott or his people concerning any problems whatsoever with our broadcasts," said Faulkner, also an attorney. Whatever concerns the network had were dealt with appropriately, he said. "To this date I have not spoken with Dr. Scott, although I flew to Los Angeles at his request," Faulkner said. "I still did not meet him." McKenna said Scott does not own any part of the University Network, which has headquarters in Glendale, Calif. "We lived up to our terms of the agreement," Faulkner said. "I've never said one word to the man, either by telephone or in person. Dr. Craig Lamp is the individual who has always spoken on Dr. Scott's behalf." Faulkner said he still wonders why payment was stopped for airing Scott's television program (Enid Eagle March 11 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Call Letters Assigned or Changed: OK Enid 96.9 KQOB (ex- KQBL), still ``96-9 Bob``. FMakings --- selected FCC applications and/or Rulemakings: OK Lahoma KXLS 95.7 29500 h,v; 308m, to better serve Enid. Requires reclassifying KWEN 95.5 Tulsa from a C to a C0 (FMedia, March, via DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. Radio Nacional del Paraguay, luego de casi una semana sin rastros de vida, vuelta a escuchar en los 9736.83 kHz, a las 0241 UTC, con la transmisión del partido Deportivo Cristal-Olympia, desde el Estadio Nacional de Lima, en el marco de la Copa Libertadores. SINPO 32432. Severa interferencia de los 9740 kHz, hasta las 0400. Inusual cierre de la estación a las 0451. 10/03/2004. Si RNP planea reactivar su frecuencia de onda corta, debería gestionar ante los organismos competentes a escala internacional la desocupación de dicho canal, ya que hay demasiado QRM, tanto en 9735, con en los canales aledaños. 73's y buen DX (Adán González, Catia La Mar, VENEZUELA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Great signals from Radio Nacional on 9736.9 at 0150-0205 announcing "Nacional las 2200 horas" with sport news Copa Libertadores from Lima, Perú with a GGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL of Olimpia team ..... good modulation like to be in the studios.... (Dario Monferini, Milano, March 10, PLAYDX ITALY, RX: JRC 525 + 30 meters outdoor wire (at 7 floor), WORLD OF RADIO 1223, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. RADIO NACIONAL PODRÁ SER ESCUCHADA EN LA WEB Articulo aparecido en el diario ABC en el día de hoy. http://www.abc.com.py/articulos.php?fec=2004-03-11&pid=98738 Esta mañana, Radio Nacional del Paraguay y la empresa Telecel firmarán un acuerdo que posibilitará a la citada emisora emitir su señal por internet. Telecel además dotará a Radio Nacional del Paraguay un equipo para sus coberturas presidenciales, nacionales e internacionales. El director de Radio Nacional del Paraguay, Flaviano Díaz. [caption?] Flaviano Díaz, director de la citada emisora, nos adelantó que en semanas más será rehabilitada la planta transmisora que poseen en Capiatá. Para el acto se espera la presencia del presidente Nicanor Duarte Frutos, además de otras autoridades nacionales y extranjeras. En la planta transmisora, los funcionarios de la radio han hecho varias reformas. A simple vista se observan las oficinas recién pintadas, el corte del césped y la recuperación de las demás instalaciones ubicadas en el predio. "Vamos a habilitar un museo aquí, con los objetos que pertenecieron a la radio", indicó Díaz. El público podrá admirar los aparatos que utilizó Radio Nacional del Paraguay, que nació en el Parque Caballero hace 60 años. Varios cambios han sido implementados en la planta transmisora de Radio Nacional del Paraguay. Según Díaz, los trabajos de reforma de la AM y FM concluyeron, así como la recuperación de la onda corta, que funciona en la banda de 31 metros. La administración de la radio adquirió válvulas norteamericanas para potenciar las ondas de la emisora, tanto para las frecuencias de AM (920) y FM. El objetivo es recuperar gran parte de su potencia perdida y aumentar la cobertura a nivel país. La planta transmisora, que consta de 47 hectáreas, está ubicada en el Km. 21 de la Ruta I. La nueva administración prepara varios proyectos a realizarse en el citado predio, como festivales populares. Además de estas actividades, Radio Nacional del Paraguay también tiene entre sus planes reflotar el teatro popular. Para este año tiene la intención de realizar presentaciones de teatro en vivo en el predio de su local (via Levi P. Iversen, Paraguay, March 11, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. "LA REVELACIÓN DE LA VOZ DE LA LIBERTAD" Una versión simplificada del artículo titulado "ASOMBROSA REPERCUSIÓN CAUSÓ EMISORA PARAGUAYA" (que aún no he publicado), será emitida el próximo sábado 13 de marzo a través de mi Informe N 150 en el programa "Antena de la Amistad" de KBS Radio Corea Internacional. Como se recordará, el diexista finlandés Jim Solatie desde Lemmenjoki había captado una señal no identificada en 1190 Khz que movilizó a varios colegas de la Lista de Conexión Digital hasta lograrse su identidad. Fue una experiencia típica de alto diexismo basada en la emotiva colaboración de los colegas participantes que supieron demostrar cómo la pasión por la radio a grandes distancias puede apoyarse en los recursos de la computación y el Internet. Este es el esquema de Radio Corea Internacional (horarios UT, frecuencias y áreas de destino): 1000-1100 15210 Europa 1000-1100 9580, 9760 (*) Sudamérica 2000-2100 9515 Europa 0100-0200 11810 Europa 0700-0800 13670 Europa (*) vía Sackville-Canadá (El programa se transmite a los 10' de comenzada cada emisión, después de las noticias.) En real audio por Internet entrando a http://rki.kbs.co.kr en los siguientes horarios UT y canales: 2000-2100 - CH1 2100-2200 - CH2 0100-0200 - CH1 1300-1400 - CH2 También en audio por demanda entrando en http://rki.kbs.co.kr (click en Select Language/Spanish, luego Antena-Buzón y elegir la fecha Marzo 13). El programa se carga uno o dos días después de su emisión. Están disponibles los siete (7) últimos programas emitidos. Un cordial saludo y hasta la próxima (Informe_N 150_de_Antena_de_la_Amistad-KBS, Rubén Guillermo Margenet, S2000WAJ Rosario, ARGENTINA, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. R. La Poderosa, 6536.09, March 7 0050-0113+ --- 0052, 0056, 0057 many IDs; Spanish pops. OA music, Spanish announcements. Poor- fair with occasional ute QRM. Radio Perú, San Ignacio, 5637.24, March 7 0250-0303* --- Spanish pops, OA music; 0302-0303 canned ID announcements and off. Weak-poor (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5014.38 kHz, Radio Altura, Cerro de Pasco 10/3 2000 UT, 2004. Latest (1) Recordings: http://www.malm-ecuador.com Quito 10/Mar/2004 20:15 Amigos DXistas! 5-6 days ago Radio Altura, Cerro de Pasco moved from 5009.70v kHz to this frequency. I get the name after some days but with unknown QTH. This evening I get an ID and ads from Cerro de Pasco. You are very welcome to visit http://www.malm-ecuador.com and listen to my recording of Radio Altura. I have the last days also received mails from Robert Wilkner and Charles B, both from USA, regarding an unID on this frequency. 73s (Björn Malm, Quito, Ecuador, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. RRI English improving 0100 on 9510 and 11740; 0300 fair shot on 6040; Spanish station on 9515 (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBC Delano (gh) ** RUSSIA. Glenn: Voice of Russia, 15595 via the Petropavlovsk transmitter, provided me with a signal here in San José, California, that was no less than 40 dB above S9, so that the program "Musical Tales", heard from 0230 to 0249, on 03-11-04, was about as good as hearing a local bay area MW broadcast station. And to my surprise, someone had decided to remove the "telephone filter" so that there was some musical realism and bass to enhance this amusing program about the initial shock, horror, disgust, and distaste of critics, musicians, and audiences to the greatest works of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. Aside from the fact that I was in complete bliss for twenty minutes, I wish I hadn't heard this: I learned I've mispronounced Mussorgsky for no less than fifty years. It's MUSS-orgsky. Of course I got a kick out of Carl Watts' pronunciation of the name of the great 19th century German music critic and enemy of Tchaikovsky and Wagner, Eduard Hanslick. GANZ- lick. You win a few, you lose a few. As if to prove that perfection in life is fleeting, a few minutes after the end of the show, during the filler leading to the TOH, everything at the studio went to pieces, with dead air, clicks & pops, cut-ins, a repetition of the cue-start of a recording, and then a gain rise that drove everything into about 500% distortion. I bailed at that point. Best, (Steve Waldee - retired classical music announcer and radio CE, San Jose, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some strange things about Russian pronunciation: As I recall, Carl Watts is really Karl Yegorov, and thus a genuine Russian subject to native language influences. For reasons I never been able to fathom, foreign names starting with H (e.g. German and English where the H is pronounced), transform in Russian to a hard G-, even tho Russian has a much closer sound, KH, represented by the single letter X, which is equivalent to the Spanish J, the German CH, etc. I wouldn`t be so sure that you (and I) have been mis-stressing Mussorgsky. Stressed syllables in Russian have a falling rather than rising intonation, which can throw you, making the stress appear to fall on an adjacent syllable, to the English ear unaccustomed to this. My circa 1950 Merriam Webster New Collegiate Dictionary, my favorite as long as I don`t need any neologisms, has a handy Biographical Names section (as well as a Pronouncing Gazetteer), which shows the stress on the second syllable both in the original and in the Anglicization. The falling intonation can also make Russian sound `sad` to our ears. Try speaking English that way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I know -- generally -- what you are talking about. Vladimir Horowitz used to tell stories about his friend Rachmaninoff, who considered Horowitz to be a German because of his ties to Berlin. He called him Gorowitz, with a very hard G, which amused VH enormously. Karl (Carl) whatever said -- as closely as I can recreate -- "MISS ergsky" with the MISS half way between "miss" and "muss" in English. And the "ergsky" was just thrown away and de-emphasized with such consistency that I had to practice it several times to say it that way. I will have to listen to VOR more frequently to see if other announcers say it that way. Back when I was a radio announcer, and ever tried to pronounce things in a native fashion, I would be taken to task by managers and program directors and told not to do that. They wanted the "normal" pronunciations that everybody used, rather in the fashion of the old Anglicization of "Don Jew-an" instead of Don Juan. (THAT drives me crazy!) Now, how Yegorov can turn into Watts interests me. I would have guessed that he was an old defector or something like that -- maybe the son of defectors -- but his pronunciation of English does have a unique accent compared, say, to Vladimir Pozner's. So I would have guessed that he was a talented linguist who grew up in Russia, unlike VP. Most of the VOR English hosts sound a little bit like my old colleague Victor Ledin, who was born in the Middle East to Russian emigrés, and who somehow landed out here at Berkeley and has worked in classical radio, eventually ending up as a classical music record producer. Ledin is completely Americanized, but both he and his wife Marina have a tendency to focus the resonance of their mouths upward and foreward to the nasal cavities. Watts, on the other hand, does not; he is a "chest speaker". I sometimes wonder if I hear a trace of German in his accent. He definitely does NOT sound like a Muscovite to me (a presumptuous claim since I can't speak Russian nor have studied any Slavic languages.) SRW (Steve Waldee, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {4-046} ** SOUTH AFRICA. Glenn: It's a good evening for propagation to my reception terminus in San José, CA. R. Sondergrense from Meyerton is coming in well on 3320 (0318Z, 03-10-04) and to confirm it, I went to the station's website at http://www.rsg.co.za/weet/weet_index.htm and pressed the "hoor" button. The web stream is a few seconds behind the live air signal. Antenna is an elevated horizontal loop with a total of about 200 feet of wire, thru a balun into an R-75 receiver. This is my second logging of Sondergrense in the 90M band, the previous one being months ago: so reception seems to be improving over our bleak winter experience. Unfortunately at 0322 all heck broke loose and some pretty grotesque noise wiped out the entire band: yep, my wife booted up one of the piano lab computers, an old rarely-used noisy Pentium 1 "broadband RF generator". Shortwave can wait... Best, (Steve Waldee, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Have listened some to REE`s coverage of the bombings in Madrid, but my main news about it came from BBCWS at 1405. To hear how REE reports it in English, a reminder that it`s at 0000-0100 on 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EUSKADI ** SUDAN [non?]. See UNIDENTIFIED 4750 ** SWEDEN. RADIO SWEDEN--Coming up on Radio Sweden: Thursday: "GreenScan" Friday: Our weekly review Saturday: "Sweden Today" Sunday: "Sounds Nordic" repeat (SCDX/MediaScan March 10 via DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. English to NAm 0230 and 0330 fair and/or just barely audible (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9495 via Sackville, too close/too high (gh) ** U A E. Dubai, 0330 English to NAm, no show for quite some time on 13675, 15400, 12005 (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. More than 5,000 people marched through the capital of Ukraine on March 9 in defense of media freedoms after the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was pulled off the air in the former Soviet republic. The protesters were led by three major opposition parties, including Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, Yulia Timoshenko's bloc and the Socialist party. The United States and the European Union have called on Ukraine last week to resume broadcasting Ukraine's privately-owned radio station Kontinent, which transmitted RFE/RL programs for a few days before being closed down (AFP via SCDX/ MediaScan March 10 via DXLD) ** U K [non]. The Connection: "Alistair Cooke Signs Off" Didn't see anyone mention this... You might be interested in this hour-long show on Cooke featuring his biographer Nick Clarke of BBC Radio 4. I heard it on air this past weekend on the local National Public Radio station; audio is archived at http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/03/20040305_b_main.asp (Saul Broudy, swprograms via DXLD) BBCWS: HOW SHOULD THEY MUSE ABOUT THE USA NOW THAT ALASTAIR COOKE IS RETIRING? With "Letter From America" coming to an end, the BBCWS will lack a view about the USA from someone living here who also has British roots and can understand and articulate the cultural differences between us and the UK. Hopefully the BBC will consider a similar kind of program as a replacement -- perhaps "From our Own USA Correspondent" with rotating essays, for now, from the BBC correspondents based here. Perhaps they will allow us listeners to compare & contrast the correspondents, their perspectives, and their presentation -- and then name a permanent replacement. At least that's my suggestion (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, swprograms via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. United Methodist Church (Radio Africa), A-04 via DTK 100 kW Julich: 13810 0400 0559 46,47,52,53 302 160 217 1234567 280304 311004 15435 0600 0800 37,46 304 190 217 1234567 280304 311004 13820 or 15715 1700 1859 38,48,53 106 145 217 1234567 280304 311004 15715 or 17550 1700 1859 46,47,52,53 303 160 216 1234567 280304 311004 (DTK via Alokesh Gupta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. From the complete FCC A-04 schedule below, we pull out a few stations of interest and leave them also in the overall schedule: 5835 2200 1800 KIMF 50 135 10,11 280304 311004 11885 1600 2300 KIMF 50 135 10,11 280304 311004 [this is the new station in New Mexico, still not on the air, and do not necessarily expect it to show up March 28! Note the two-hour overlap giving them some leeway in when to switch from 5835 to 11885] 11910 2300 0100 WWBS 50 30 3,4,9 17 280304 311004 [this is Macon GA, which has actually been off the air for a year or so since Mr. Josey died; apparently some chance it will return] 9465 0300 0900 WMLK 50 53 27,28,39 280304 311004 9465 1600 2200 WMLK 50 53 27,28,39 234567 280304 311004 9955 0300 0900 WMLK 125 53 27,28,39 280304 311004 15265 1600 2200 WMLK 250 57 27,28,39 280304 311004 [Note that 15265 is once again registered as it has been for several years without any activity, awaiting the 250 kW transmitter; and note new 9955 for the 250 at half power, but this will conflict with WRMI, which has the option of using the same 0000-1000, tho most of this time actually uses 7385:] 9955 0000 0600 WRMI 50 160 12-16 280304 311004 9955 0600 1000 WRMI 50 160 14-16 280304 311004 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Schedule: Final Summer '04 Version 0 Dates: March 28, 2004 - October 31, 2004 A04fcc02.TXT 04-MAR-2004 FCC [edited by gh: dates are 280304 to 301004 or 311004 u.o.s. days are 1234567 u.o.s. WSHB closed down March 1, but is still registered in case it may come back with a new owner. Stations may not necessarily use the entire span available on a given frequency] Freq. Start Stop Call Pow Azm Target Zones Days Stdate Spdate ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3210 0000 1000 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 280304 030404 3210 0000 0900 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 040404 310504 3210 0000 0900 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010904 311004 3210 0100 0900 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010604 310804 5050 2200 0500 WWRB 50 340 3,4,23,24,44 040404 311004 5050 2300 0600 WWRB 50 340 3,4,23,24,44 280304 040404 5070 0000 1200 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 010604 310804 5070 2300 1200 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 040404 310504 5070 2300 1200 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 010904 311004 5070 2300 1300 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 280304 030404 5085 2200 0500 WWRB 50 45 5,9,17-21 040404 311004 5085 2300 0600 WWRB 50 45 5,9,17-21 280304 040404 5105 2100 1200 WBCQ 50 245 10,11 5745 2000 1000 WHRI 100 42 4,5,9,17,27 5755 0100 1300 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 280304 040404 5755 0100 1200 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 010904 311004 5755 0100 1200 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 040404 010604 5755 0200 1200 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 010604 010904 5770 0200 1000 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010604 310804 5770 0300 1200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 040404 310504 5770 0300 1200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010904 311004 5770 0400 1300 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 280304 030404 5825 0000 1000 WEWN 500 285 10 5825 0000 1000 WEWN 500 20 4,5,9,28 5835 2200 1800 KIMF 50 135 10,11 5850 1045 1245 WYFR 100 315 2 5920 0000 2400 WBOH 50 170 11,12 5935 0100 1200 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 040404 310504 5935 0100 1300 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 280304 030404 5935 0100 1200 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 010904 311004 5935 0200 1200 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 010604 310804 5950 0300 0945 WYFR 100 285 10 5950 0945 1300 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 5950 2145 0300 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 5985 0445 0700 WYFR 100 315 2 5985 2000 0445 WYFR 50 181 11 6015 1045 1245 WYFR 100 315 2 6065 2245 0445 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 6085 0945 1400 WYFR 100 181 11 6085 1400 1945 WYFR 100 181 11 6095 1000 1200 WSHB 250 173 11,12N 167 6095 1000 1200 WSHB 250 25 4,9 167 6095 1200 1300 WSHB 250 25 4,9 167 6095 1200 1300 WSHB 250 173 11,12N 167 6175 0900 1100 WYFR 100 160 15 6855 0300 0600 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 6890 2200 0500 WWRB 50 90 27,28,37-39 040404 311004 6890 2300 0600 WWRB 50 90 27,28,37-39 280304 040404 7315 0000 1000 WHRI 100 157 10,11 7355 0300 0800 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 7355 1100 1400 WYFR 100 222 12 7355 2200 0300 WRNO 50 20 3-5,9-11,27 7385 0000 1200 WRMI 50 317 2,3 7385 1400 1600 WRMI 50 160 10-13 7385 2300 2400 WRMI 50 317 2,3 7395 1500 2200 WRNO 50 20 3-5,9 7395 2200 1500 WRNO 50 20 3-5,9-11,27 7415 1400 1600 WBCQ 50 245 10,11 7415 1900 1000 WBCQ 50 245 10,11 7425 0000 1200 WEWN 500 220 10,11 7455 1100 1515 KTWR 100 320 42-44 7465 1100 1500 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010604 310804 7465 1200 1500 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010904 311004 7465 1200 1500 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 040404 310504 7465 1300 1600 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 280304 030404 7465 2200 0300 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010904 311004 7465 2200 0300 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 040404 310504 7465 2200 0400 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 280304 030404 7465 2200 0200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010604 310804 7490 0400 2200 WJIE 50 55 9 7490 2200 2400 WJIE 50 55 9,27 7505 0000 1500 KTBN 100 70 3-5,9 7520 0100 0200 WYFR 100 142 13 7520 0500 0800 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 7520 1000 1400 WEWN 500 285 10 7520 1000 1400 WEWN 500 20 4,5,9,28 7535 0000 0100 WSHB 250 25 4,9 7535 0000 0100 WSHB 250 173 11,12N 7535 0100 0300 WSHB 500 315 2-4 7535 0300 0400 WSHB 500 42 27-29,37 7535 0400 0600 WSHB 500 25 4,9,27-29 7555 0100 0200 KJES 50 335 2,3 7555 0200 0230 KJES 50 20 3,4 7580 0600 0900 WEWN 500 40 27,28 7580 2200 2300 WHRA 250 60 27,28,38-40 7580 2300 0500 WHRA 250 45 27-29,39,40 9320 1000 1200 WINB 50 242 10,11 050404 311004 9320 1100 1300 WINB 50 242 10,11 280304 040404 9320 1200 2200 WWRB 50 45 4,9,17-21 040404 311004 9320 1300 2300 WWRB 50 45 4,9,17-21 280304 040404 9320 2300 0500 WINB 50 242 10,11 280304 040404 9320 2300 0400 WINB 50 242 10,11 050404 311004 9330 1200 0500 WBCQ 50 245 10,11 9355 0300 0800 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 9355 1100 1200 WYFR 100 160 15 9355 1200 1500 WEWN 500 220 10,11 9355 2200 2400 WEWN 500 220 10,11 9370 0000 2400 WTJC 50 40 4,9 9385 1700 1800 KSDA 100 300 38E,39 010904 311004 9430 0000 0200 WSHB 500 167 11W,12,14 9430 0200 0300 WSHB 500 245 10,11 9430 1300 1400 WSHB 500 315 2-4 167 9430 1400 1445 KTWR 100 278 49 9450 0300 0400 WSHB 500 25 4,9,27-29 9450 0400 0500 WSHB 500 72 46-48,52,53 9450 0500 0600 WSHB 500 102 52,53,57 9450 0600 0800 WSHB 500 72 46-48,52,53 9455 0900 1000 WSHB 500 137 11W,12,13W,14 167 9455 1000 1100 WSHB 500 152 11W,12,13W,14 167 9455 1100 1200 WSHB 500 167 11W,12,14 167 9455 1200 1300 WSHB 500 167 11W,12,14 167 9465 0300 0900 WMLK 50 53 27,28,39 9465 1215 1300 KTWR 100 345 45 9465 1400 1900 KFBS 100 323 30-33,42-44 9465 1600 2200 WMLK 50 53 27,28,39 234567 9475 0900 1000 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 040404 310504 9475 0900 1000 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010904 311004 9475 0900 1000 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010604 310804 9475 1500 2200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 040404 310504 9475 1500 2200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010604 310804 9475 1500 2200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 010904 311004 9475 1600 2200 WWCR 100 90 9,11,47,52,53 280304 030404 9475 2200 2400 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 280304 030404 9475 2200 2400 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010904 311004 9475 2200 2400 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 040404 310504 9475 2200 0100 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010604 310804 9495 1000 1300 WHRI 100 157 10,11 9495 1700 2400 WHRI 100 157 10,11 9505 0000 0445 WYFR 100 315 2 9505 1045 1200 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 9540 1430 1500 KTWR 100 345 44,45 9550 0800 1200 WYFR 100 160 14 9605 0800 1100 WYFR 100 142 15 9605 1100 1400 WYFR 100 222 11 9615 1400 1500 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 290804 311004 9615 1400 1500 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 280304 250404 9615 1500 1600 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 250704 311004 9615 1500 1600 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 280304 250404 9615 1600 1700 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,50 280304 250404 9615 1700 1800 KNLS 100 330 22-26,32-35 250704 311004 9625 0845 1045 WYFR 100 140 13 9635 1100 1200 KTWR 100 285 49 9670 1200 1300 KSDA 100 330 44NE,45NW 010904 311004 9675 1400 1430 KTWR 100 345 44,45 123467 9680 0145 0700 WYFR 100 315 2 9715 0300 1145 WYFR 50 285 10 9740 2000 2100 KSDA 100 315 44NE,45NW 010904 311004 9745 1000 1100 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 280304 030404 [ex 9475, still used at all other times as above, or a typo??????] 9755 0945 1145 WYFR 100 285 10 9795 1000 1100 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 260904 311004 9795 1100 1200 KNLS 100 300 22-26,32-35 9795 1200 1300 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 260904 311004 9795 1300 1400 KNLS 100 270 24-26,34,35,44,45,50,51 290804 311004 9845 0700 0800 WSHB 500 245 10,11,59,60 9845 0800 0900 WSHB 500 245 10,11,59,60 167 9850 1000 1500 WHRI 100 42 4,5,9,17 9860 0800 1000 WSHB 500 42 27-29,37 167 9865 0930 1015 KTWR 100 315 42-44 9865 1015 1100 KTWR 100 315 42-44 9880 1400 1500 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 9880 2000 2100 KSDA 100 330 44NE,45NW 010904 311004 9910 0915 1100 KTWR 100 320 42-44 9920 1330 1400 KTWR 100 293 41,49 9920 1500 1600 KTWR 100 345 44,45 9930 0445 0900 WYFR 100 87 46 9930 1000 1230 KWHR 100 300 43-45 9930 1230 1600 KWHR 100 285 41,43,44,49 9930 1600 1800 KWHR 100 300 41,43,44,49 9955 0000 0600 WRMI 50 160 12-16 9955 0300 0900 WMLK 125 53 27,28,39 9955 0600 1000 WRMI 50 160 14-16 9955 0800 1600 KHBN 50 280 41,49 9955 1000 1400 WRMI 50 160 10-13 9955 1400 1600 WEWN 500 20 4,5,9 9955 1400 1600 WEWN 500 285 10 9955 1600 2100 WRMI 50 160 10,11 9955 2100 2400 WRMI 50 160 10-13 9955 2200 2400 KHBN 50 280 41,49 9965 0600 1700 KHBN 80 318 43,44 9965 2200 2400 KHBN 80 318 43,44 9975 0100 0800 KVOH 50 100 10,11 9975 1200 1300 KTWR 100 285 49 9975 1300 1500 KVOH 50 100 10,11 9975 1300 1330 KTWR 100 315 42-44 9975 1330 1400 KTWR 100 285 43,44 9975 1400 1500 KTWR 100 285 43,44 9975 1500 1615 KTWR 100 315 42-440 9975 2200 2400 WEWN 500 285 10 9975 2200 2400 WEWN 500 20 4,5,9 9985 0400 0800 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 9985 0700 1600 KHBN 50 345 44,45 9985 1200 1500 WWCR 100 40 4,9 010904 311004 9985 1200 1500 WWCR 100 40 4,9 040404 310504 9985 1200 1500 WWCR 100 40 4,9 010604 310804 9985 1300 1600 WWCR 100 40 4,9 280304 030404 9985 2100 2400 KHBN 50 345 44,45 11530 0345 0900 WYFR 100 87 37,46 11530 1500 2200 WEWN 500 220 10,11 11560 1000 1030 KSDA 100 315 43,44 010904 311004 11560 1100 1200 KSDA 100 330 32S,33S,43N,44N 010904 311004 11560 1700 1730 KSDA 100 300 38E,39 010904 311004 11560 1730 1800 KSDA 100 300 38E,39 010904 311004 11565 0500 1600 KWHR 100 225 51,55,56,58-60 11565 2000 2200 KWHR 100 225 51,55,56,58-60 11565 2045 2300 WYFR 100 44 28 11580 0500 0800 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 11580 0845 0930 KTWR 100 315 43,44 11580 1000 1600 KFBS 100 294 42-44 11650 0900 1100 KFBS 100 341 30-33,40-45 11650 1100 1400 KFBS 100 323 30-33,42-45 11670 1200 1230 KTWR 100 293 42-44 11670 1300 1400 WSHB 500 245 10,11 167 11690 2115 2200 KTWR 100 345 45 11705 1300 1330 KSDA 100 315 45 010904 311004 11705 1330 1400 KSDA 100 270 49E 010904 311004 11715 1300 1400 KJES 50 70 3,4,9 11715 1400 1500 KJES 50 350 2,3 11715 1500 1600 KJES 50 150 10 11720 1230 1330 KTWR 100 278 49 11730 0500 1000 WHRA 250 90 37,38,46-48,52 11740 0145 0600 WYFR 100 222 11 11740 2145 2400 WYFR 100 315 2 11765 0800 0900 KNLS 100 270 24-26,34,35,44,45,50,51 11765 0900 1000 KNLS 100 300 22-26,32-35 11765 1000 1100 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 280304 260904 11765 1200 1300 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 280304 260904 11765 1600 1700 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,50 250404 250704 11770 0800 1100 WYFR 100 142 13 11770 2300 2400 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 11830 1245 1700 WYFR 100 315 2 11840 0745 0930 KTWR 100 165 51,55,56,58-60 12345 11840 0815 0930 KTWR 100 165 51,55,56,58-60 67 11850 2100 2130 KSDA 100 315 45 010904 311004 11850 2130 2200 KSDA 100 315 45 010904 311004 11850 2200 2230 KSDA 100 255 54W 010904 311004 11850 2230 2300 KSDA 100 255 54W 010904 311004 11850 2300 2400 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 11855 0800 1200 WYFR 100 160 16 11855 2000 0500 WYFR 100 222 11 11865 1245 1700 WYFR 100 315 2 11870 1300 1400 KNLS 100 270 24-26,34,35,44,45,50,51 280304 290804 11870 1400 1500 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 250404 290804 11870 1500 1600 KNLS 100 285 43,44,49,54 250404 250704 11875 0700 1200 WEWN 500 155 12-15 11885 1600 2300 KIMF 50 135 10,11 11895 1500 1530 KSDA 100 285 41NE 010904 311004 11895 1530 1600 KSDA 100 285 41 010904 311004 11895 2100 2200 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 11900 1030 1100 KSDA 100 315 43,44 14 010904 311004 11900 1030 1100 KSDA 100 315 43,44 23567 010904 311004 11900 1200 1300 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 11910 2300 0100 WWBS 50 30 3,4,9 17 11930 1000 1030 KSDA 100 270 50 010904 311004 11930 1030 1100 KSDA 100 270 50 010904 311004 11930 1400 1430 KSDA 100 285 49NW 010904 311004 11930 1430 1500 KSDA 100 285 49NW 010904 311004 11970 0945 1300 WYFR 100 151 15 11970 1300 1500 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 11975 1100 1200 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 11975 1500 1530 KSDA 100 270 41S 010904 311004 11975 1530 1600 KSDA 100 270 41S 010904 311004 11975 1600 1630 KSDA 100 300 41N 010904 311004 11975 1630 1700 KSDA 100 300 41N 010904 311004 11980 1300 1330 KSDA 100 345 45 010904 311004 11980 1330 1400 KSDA 100 345 45 010904 311004 11980 2100 2130 KSDA 100 345 45 010904 311004 11980 2130 2200 KSDA 100 345 45 010904 311004 12000 1430 1500 KSDA 100 285 49NW 010904 311004 12075 1330 1400 KTWR 100 285 49 12090 2230 2330 KFBS 100 276 49 12105 1100 1500 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 12105 1500 1600 KTWR 100 278 41,48,49 12105 1700 1800 KNLS 100 330 20-26,29-35 280304 250704 12120 1200 1330 KFBS 100 278 43S,44S,49 12120 2200 2300 KSDA 100 330 32S,33S,43N,44N 010904 311004 12120 2300 2400 KSDA 100 330 32S,33S,43N,44N 010904 311004 12130 0845 0915 KTWR 100 305 43,44 12130 0915 1600 KTWR 100 305 42-44 12160 1000 1600 KHBN 80 270 41,49,50,54 12160 1500 2400 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 010604 310804 12160 1500 2300 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 010904 311004 12160 1500 2300 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 040404 310504 12160 1600 2300 WWCR 100 40 4,9,27-29 280304 030404 12170 1200 2200 WWRB 50 90 27,28,37-39 040404 311004 12170 1300 2300 WWRB 50 90 27,28,37-39 280304 040404 [really 12172 --- why not say so?] 13570 0800 0900 WYFR 100 87 46 13570 1200 2300 WINB 50 242 10,11 050404 311004 13570 1300 2300 WINB 50 242 10,11 280304 040404 13595 0000 2400 WJIE 50 270 41,44 13615 1200 1400 WEWN 500 155 12-15 13615 1600 2200 WEWN 500 20 4,5,9 13615 1600 2200 WEWN 500 285 10 13615 2200 0700 WEWN 500 155 12-16 13690 2145 2215 KTWR 100 305 42-44 13695 1200 1500 WYFR 100 355 4,5,9 13715 2230 2300 KTWR 100 278 49 13760 1500 2400 WHRI 100 42 4,5,9,17,27 13770 2200 2300 WSHB 500 57 27-29,37 13770 2300 2400 WSHB 500 72 46-48,52,53 13815 1200 0100 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 040404 010604 13815 1200 0100 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 010904 311004 13815 1200 0200 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 010604 010904 13815 1300 0100 KAIJ 100 320 2,3,34,35,45 280304 040404 13835 2000 2200 WSHB 500 87 46-48,52,53 13840 1100 1600 KHBN 50 270 41,49,50,54 13845 1200 0100 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 040404 310504 13845 1200 0200 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 010604 310804 13845 1200 0100 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 010904 311004 13845 1300 0100 WWCR 100 85 36-38,46-48,57 280304 030404 15105 1300 1700 WHRI 100 157 10,11 15130 1145 1945 WYFR 50 285 10 15130 1945 2200 WYFR 100 355 4 15130 2200 0145 WYFR 100 142 13 15145 1200 1300 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 15155 1945 2400 WYFR 50 285 10 15195 1500 1530 KSDA 100 300 41NW 010904 311004 15195 1530 1600 KSDA 100 285 41 010904 311004 15200 0900 0915 KTWR 100 248 54 12567 15200 0900 0915 KTWR 100 248 54 34 15200 0900 1200 KTWR 100 248 54 15200 0915 1000 KTWR 100 248 54 15200 1000 1030 KTWR 100 248 54 15205 0730 0900 KTWR 100 278 49,50,54 67 15205 0740 0900 KTWR 100 278 49,50,54 12345 15215 2100 2200 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 15215 2200 2300 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 15215 2300 0400 WYFR 100 160 16 15215 2300 2400 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 15235 1600 1700 KSDA 100 285 41 010904 311004 15255 2300 0500 WYFR 100 151 15 15265 1600 2200 WMLK 250 57 27,28,39 15275 1100 1200 KTWR 100 255 49,54 15275 1300 1330 KSDA 100 285 41NE 010904 311004 15275 1330 1400 KSDA 100 285 41NE 14 010904 311004 15275 1330 1400 KSDA 100 285 41NE 23567 010904 311004 15285 2200 2300 WSHB 500 137 11W,12,13W,14 15285 2300 2400 WSHB 500 167 11W,12,14 15320 2200 2230 KSDA 100 255 54 010904 311004 15320 2230 2300 KSDA 100 255 54 010904 311004 15320 2300 2400 KSDA 100 270 49E 010904 311004 15330 0930 1100 KTWR 100 255 54 15380 1400 1430 KSDA 100 270 41S 010904 311004 15385 1800 1900 KJES 50 270 55,58,59 15385 1900 2000 KJES 50 100 11 15420 1400 2300 WRNO 50 20 3-5,9-11,27 15435 1100 1130 KSDA 100 255 54W 010904 311004 15435 1130 1200 KSDA 100 255 54W 010904 311004 15440 2145 0300 WYFR 100 285 10 15510 0000 0030 KSDA 100 285 49NW 010904 311004 15510 0030 0100 KSDA 100 285 49NW 010904 311004 15510 1000 1100 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 15520 0100 0200 KSDA 100 300 43S,44S 010904 311004 15575 1500 1530 KSDA 100 285 41S 010904 311004 15575 1530 1600 KSDA 100 285 41S 010904 311004 15580 0830 1200 KFBS 100 242 49S,51W,54 15590 0000 0200 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 15590 1400 0100 KTBN 100 70 3-5,9 15600 1845 2300 WYFR 100 44 27,28 15615 1000 1100 KSDA 100 315 43N,44N 010904 311004 15665 1800 2200 WSHB 500 25 4,9,27-29 15685 1700 2000 WEWN 500 40 27-29 15695 2000 2245 WYFR 100 44 27,28,39 15725 0700 1600 KHBN 50 270 41,49,50,54 15725 1200 2300 WRMI 50 317 2,3 15745 0700 1600 KHBN 100 270 41,49,50,54 15745 1400 2200 WEWN 500 155 12-15 15745 2200 2400 WEWN 500 85 46 15770 1600 1700 WYFR 100 44 27,28 15770 2100 2245 WYFR 100 87 47,52,57 15825 1000 2200 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010904 311004 15825 1000 2200 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 010604 310804 15825 1000 2200 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 040404 310504 15825 1100 2200 WWCR 100 46 4,9,27,28,37-39 280304 030404 17495 1200 2300 WBCQ 50 245 10,11 17510 0000 0400 KWHR 100 300 43-45 17510 2200 2400 KWHR 100 285 41,43,44,49 17525 1700 1900 WYFR 100 87 46 17540 0000 0100 KTWR 100 293 43,44 17540 1600 1800 WSHB 500 87 46-48,52,53 17540 1800 2000 WSHB 500 102 52,53,57 17560 1300 1500 WHRA 250 60 27,28,39,40 17595 2000 2200 WEWN 500 85 46 17650 1500 2300 WHRA 250 90 46-48,52,53,57 17725 2000 0145 WYFR 100 140 13 17750 1145 1700 WYFR 100 285 10 17750 1700 2045 WYFR 100 44 27,28 17750 2245 0300 WYFR 100 160 15 17775 1500 0100 KVOH 50 100 10-12 17780 0400 1000 KWHR 100 300 43-45 17795 1700 2145 WYFR 100 285 10 17805 2245 0100 WYFR 100 142 15 17845 1900 2245 WYFR 100 87 37,46 17845 2300 0300 WYFR 100 160 14 18930 1545 2245 WYFR 100 44 27,28 18980 1545 2145 WYFR 100 44 27,28 21455 1545 2000 WYFR 100 44 27 21525 1545 2100 WYFR 100 87 47,52,57 21670 1545 1845 WYFR 100 44 27,28 (via Jim Moats, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. From time to time I check 13089-USB around 2230 to see if the two USCG weather broadcasts are still clashing. Yes, March 9 at 2229 NMN was in progress, non-robotic now, Atlantic weather; joined at *2233 by NMC Perfect Paul with Pacific weather {in progress!}. At least with two different voices it`s easier to tell them apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stop The FCC! This Web site is a petition dealing with the anger people are feeling toward corporate control of our airwaves. This might also have something to do with the campaign against IBOC. I recommend that you at least look at it; feel free to sign the petition. http://www.stopfcc.com/ 73 and good DX from (Eric, Amateur Radio Station N0UIH, IRCA via DXLD) If you appreciate irony and hypocrisy, check this out: http://beradio.com/ar/radio_currents_57/index.htm#gregg The good senator from NH is apparently a mouthpiece for the NAB, helping fight the good fight against LPFM. The points made in his letter to the FCC chairman come from the NAB comments submitted to the FCC several months ago, claiming that the FCC-commissioned MITRE study on 3rd-adjacent FM interference was "severely flawed". Here's the one that jumps out at me: "The MITRE study disregarded accepted scientific methods. MITRE used just six radio receivers in its tests when the FCC had earlier indicated that 21 receivers was a statistically insignificant amount." That's a pretty strong argument, I must admit. So how come the NAB didn't raise the same point concerning IBOC? They accepted the claim that neither AM nor FM IBOC caused significant interference to analog service, based upon test results for a grand total of *four* receivers. Even that tiny sample of receivers showed some significant problems, which were conveniently ignored. So, apparently "accepted scientific methods" only need to be applied in certain cases, when it's convenient to support your case. And so it goes... (Barry McLarnon VE3JF Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. Dear Mr Devault, as a NAB board member, you should be interested in some input about IBOC, particularly at night, from the point of view of enthusiastic AM listeners. We are almost universally apprehensive that if this is allowed, it will trash what is left of the AM band (after it has already been crammed full of several times as many stations as it can really handle without harmful interference). Those who have monitored IBOC tests in the daytime, let alone at night, have found that first adjacent channels are ruined by the digital noise, and even second adjacent or more if one is too close to the IBOC station. This would reduce AM to essentially a local medium, with range less than FM, typically. Here in Oklahoma, where there has been very little IBOC testing so far, we can still hear what were once called clear channel stations from many different states, any night. There are multiple reasons for doing so, from hearing talk or music shows not availble locally, to ball games not available locally, to news from our hometowns while we are far away, etc., etc. For the entire history of AM radio, anyone with a cheap radio has been able to hear stations from many other states, with good old analog transmission. It would be tragic if this were made impossible. There is no demand from consumers for IBOC, and there is no good reason to implement it. (Except for station owners who are deluding themselves that this will improve their market share, rather than providing better programming.) I could go on and on, but I`m sure you get the idea of our point of view. If you like, you may read many more opinions about this, which I have published in my almost daily journal DX Listening Digest. Please let me have your reaction and would very much appreciate your keeping me informed of the `progress` of the IBOC/nighttime idea at NAB. Sincerely, (Glenn Hauser, World of Radio, to George Devault, WKPT et al., via DXLD) Glenn: Unfortunately, the NAB IBOC Committee, the NAB Radio Board, and the NAB Joint Board have voted in favor of nighttime AM IBOC. There were lots of demo tapes (actually a CD) played in the meetings. My position voiced both in the IBOC Committee Meetings and the board meetings was that if all AM stations were limited to 5 kHz analog fidelity versus 10 kHz, the amount of interference eliminated would likely more than offset the amount of interference added by IBOC. This was (perhaps properly) viewed as too controversial a move with the engineering community. (Of course AM stations going IBOC have to limit their analog fidelity to 5 kHz.) Don't get me wrong. I love hi-fi AM and have several hi-fi AM radio that I cherish, but the average AM receiver today passes about 2.7 kHz of audio. If analog fidelity were limited to 5 kH, analog adjacent channel interference would effectively be eliminated, and the receiver manufacturers might actually start broadening the bandwidth of their AM receivers instead of making them steadily narrower. Best regards, (George DeVault, Our AM stations are: WMEV, WKPT, WOPI, and WKTP, Kingsport TN, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. A decent proposal? --- The latest proposals by the US Congress to introduce much tougher decency laws for broadcasters, and impose huge fines on those who break them, might at first glance seem a good thing. A majority of people would surely welcome a situation where we are less likely to encounter profanity and not suffer embarrassment while listening to the radio and watching TV with friends and family. However, one thing seems to have been overlooked in the rush to draft the legislation: much of broadcasting these days is global: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/indec040311.html (Andy Sennitt, Media Network newsletter March 11 via DXLD) ** U S A. ARBITER OF AIRWAVES DECENCY ADJUSTS WITH THE TIMES By ANNE MARIE SQUEO The Associated Press 3/11/04 8:25 AM The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- David Solomon, chief of enforcement for the Federal Communications Commission, faced a delicate dilemma of grammar and propriety: Could the "f-word" not be indecent? The word had been uttered during a live broadcast of the 2003 Golden Globe Awards ceremony by the rock singer known as Bono. Mr. Solomon determined that, under current federal law and court rulings, the answer would hinge on whether the word had been used in its literal meaning or as figurative slang. Put another way, was it a verb, an adjective or an adverb? Last October, Mr. Solomon, a 49-year-old attorney known as "the law professor" at the agency, found that the remark by the lead singer for the band U2 may have been "crude and offensive," but that broadcast decency standards hadn't been violated. In the context of Bono's full statement, made as he accepted a globe for Best Original Song for the movie "Gangs of New York," the words "This is really, really f-ing brilliant," were an "exclamative" adjective protected under principles of free speech. Mr. Solomon's ruling raised an even-larger firestorm than Bono's original statement. The FCC received 234 complaints about Bono's on- air expletive; Mr. Solomon's ruling drew 237,215 letters to the agency. Critics screamed that the FCC was out of touch with public sentiment, and now the commission is expected to reverse the ruling. Mr. Solomon's role as the nation's primary arbiter of broadcast propriety is placing him at the center of an escalating cultural war . . . http://wizzer.advance.net/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0054_BC_WSJ--DecencyChief&&news&newsflash-financial (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. HOUSE PASSES BROADCAST DECENCY BILL Thursday, March 11, 2004 By Liza Porteus WASHINGTON — In the wake of the so-called "wardrobe malfunction" during this year's Super Bowl, federal lawmakers passed a measure Thursday to hit TV and radio broadcasters with heftier penalties for violating decency rules. Before the bill passed with overwhelming support, House lawmakers debated the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 (search), which increases the penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters for allowing obscene, indecent and profane language on the air. "I think it's imperative that we get this bill to the president's desk as fast as we can," said Rep. Fred Upton (search), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. . . Other highlights of the bill: --Raises maximum fine against a broadcast license-holder from $27,500 to $500,000. --Increases maximum fine against a performer from $11,000 to $500,000 and allows the Federal Communications Commission to impose the penalty after the first offense. Under current rules, the FCC must wait for a second offense. --Orders FCC to act on indecency complaints within 180 days after they are received. --Mandates FCC to consider revoking license of any broadcaster found with three indecency violations. --Exempts affiliates from indecency fines if the program was supplied by the network and the individual stations did not have a chance to review it in advance or, if in the case of a live broadcast, had no reason to suspect it could be indecent. --Expresses the sense of Congress that broadcasters should set aside an hour in prime time to air family-friendly programming. . . http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,113951,00.html (via Bill Smith, W5USM, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. TRANSMEDIA on expansion drive --- Harare Herald - Harare, Zimbabwe ... According to statistics from Transmedia, FM radio transmission in the country covers 60 percent while the remaining 40 percent is covered by shortwave. ... http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?id=29859&pubdate=2004-03-11 (Google News Alert via Larry Nebron, DXLD) Also on aid from China, Iran UNIDENTIFIED. Re 3330: I listened to your recording made around 1000 UT. Definitely Slavic, probably Russian or something very close. I could make out a few words, such as ``sorok`` (forty), and ``chelovyek`` (person) more than once. Did not sound like a broadcast (programming) to me, but a utility transmission (possibly weather), or two-way communication (due to the pauses, altho rather brief). No doubt someone who speaks Russian could make a lot more out of it. At 1000 UT on 3 MHz, it certainly would not be coming from anywhere in Europe, more likely Far East (Glenn Hauser to Steve Waldee, via DXLD) One Mystery Solved -- I forgot one other source of info on this, the Dx Handbook from radioascolto.org Yes, you may likely be right about this: on 3330 I find a listing that says "RWZ72 Moskow Meteo ITA2 50". And 'meteo' is Italian for weather forecast: so you nailed it! What a strange phenomenon is propagation... Best, (Steve Waldee, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But surely not from Moscow at midday on 3 MHz! There may be another one much further east, like beyond the terminator at 1000. Possibly in mid-winter a signal northward from Moscow would be mostly in darkness, but we`re almost to the equinox. It`s a LONG way from Moscow to Magadan. How far have away have you ever been able to hear at local noon on 3 MHz band? (Glenn to Steve via DXLD) Never any other time; but it did come in for more than a half hour. So it wasn't just one of those fleeting, momentary things. I think your speculation that it might be from somewhere like Magadan is very likely. I get them like this, with amazing clarity and consistency, for long periods of time; and then -- maybe the next day -- nothing. Last night I listened to one of the Siberian Radio Rossii feeds for about an hour, while doing other things, and the quality (though 'telephone-like'), was similar to a local BC band station! So Magadan very well might have its own "meteo" and it hasn't been logged yet by SWL'ers who contribute to the various lists. I don't think there are quite as many rabid DX'ers here in the bay area and west coast as elsewhere since SW is frankly so frustrating here. Too many Oriental stations and not enough Europeans; and not much programming that one might enjoy. So it is appealing only to the taxonomist types like me, or perhaps Guy Atkins. This transmission may very well have been missed -- it could be an anomaly like the TIS stations that people log from across the country, once and uniquely. That is a very good question. Since "it doesn't work" I haven't TRIED to hear DX at noon, in that frequency region. So even if it might be able to occur, I haven't been there to observe it. I would think that the more likely scenario is the listener, in night-time, who is used to scanning the band, picking up a rare, unlikely propagation or ducting event from a daylight region. Now that I've proposed that as an hypothesis, I think we do need at least ONE example --- and I can't offer any! So it's in the realm of "Coast To Coast AM" pseudo-science at this point: call me "The Richard C. Hoagland of Shortwave Listeners" if you like!! I am joking, of course, but the only way we could take the investigation further would be for a listener fluent in the language to hear it, and to try to identify some geographical clues. (But what of a "network program"? The Russians seem to like to put on standardized wide-area broadcasts, stemming from the Soviet days of those "wired loudspeakers" on closed-circuit feeds in every apartment and hotel room, like the mandatory visor screen in Winston Smith's abode. Could they produce a 'national weather service' such as our televised Weather Channel -- isn't it from somewhere like Atlanta? -- and then feed it to the hinterlands? If so, they'd be talking about weather all over the Motherland, and people would have to stay tuned to find out about their own region every once in a while: again, this might be intuited from the actual content of the program.) Nothing last night/this morning. Idle thought about day propagation In 1981 when I was CE of KKHI in San Francisco (1550) we rec'd from Finland a cassette tape of our 11 pm to 12 midnight program "Music of the Spheres", sounding pretty much like I would have expected, but quite intelligible. I just looked on my globe and while SF and Finland are not exactly opposite, it is very evident that the Finnish listener would have recorded the show very much in daylight; furthermore, it was NOT winter. So, if a near-trop band signal can propagate in daytime to be rec'd in Finland, is there an orthogonal relationship: i. e. would a Finnish signal, transmitted in the middle of the day at that exact frequency (with an appropriate antenna) have been received at night in SF? I presume so, controlling for transmission angle, etc... Could this possibly be an example that could tend to corroborate a Moscow weather station transmitting at noon and being picked up in the middle of the night in San José, under anomalous ionospheric conditions? (Steve Waldee, ibid.) Neither Steve nor I could find anything helpful at the WUN website (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) None of the other pages returned by either Google nor Yahoo search, containing key words including weather, meteo, weather radio, 3330, etc., had anything relevant; the only specific references to the frequency 3330 -- there were lots of them -- were always to CHU. I am wondering if (1) there has been a recent change. The Irkutsk DXers page -- http://www.irkutsk.com/radio/meteo.htm -- has a list of the "meteo" stations in Russia; there is nothing specified for 3330 but there are stations in Magadan, Yakutsk, etc., that would be good candidates *if* one of them recently switched to 3330. In fact, other than the reference to the "Moskow meteo" at 3330 in the radioascolta.org list, I can't find a specific listing of that station anywhere at that frequency (Steve Waldee, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. With respect to Chuck Bolland's report on 4499.97 kHz, 4-044: I tuned this station at roughly the same time March 10 UT but the signal was much stronger than what Chuck reported. I did not stay with it, thinking possibly China was there (although now that I look at it, I'm sure that path is long gone by 0100 UT) so I didn't copy the programming. Therefore your harmonic theory looks good and Latin America doesn't based on Chuck's versus my reception. I have heard harmonic of WTOP but can't recall if it was on 4500 kHz --- plus they aren't classical (John L. Sgrulletta, NY, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So I checked the 2003-2004 NRC AM Log, which shows formats, all the listings on 1500: no classical shown, not surprising. Of course, something primarily ethnic, nostalgia or gospel might momentarily have something that sounds classical. No Canadians at all on 1500. Cuba has a classical music network, one of the finer things about that country, but none shown by WRTH 2004 on 1500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re Tony Rogers' loggings of "Radio Peace" on 4750 kHz, Andy Sennitt makes this suggestion: Maybe it's this one: http://www.persecutionproject.org/resources/radios/radios.htm "Last year Persecution Project in partnership with Educational Media Corp's Global Endeavor Ministry helped establish RADIO PEACE - Sudan's première Christian radio station. Today Radio Peace is providing daily broadcasts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ including music, news, evangelistic and discipleship programming in seven indigenous languages. Until recently radical Islamist propaganda dominated the Sudanese air waves. Now, with the establishment of Radio Peace, the Light of the Gospel is penetrating all parts of Sudan." Also this from http://www.missionvisionnetwork.org Nov 2003 (Tony Rogers first reported the station in Dec 2003). "After 14 months of planning and four trips to Southern Sudan by EMC President and Manager Pete Stover, "Radio Peace," a regional shortwave station, is now covering the southern third of the country with Christian programming four hours per day in six languages. Our Kenyan technician Livingstone Kiniaru did a wonderful job climbing 40 foot creosote telephone poles to hang the 200 foot horizontal antenna. God provided every tool, including improvised ones, to do the job. We trained two local Sudanese operators during our 10-day stay to operate and maintain the 6 kva generators, operate the 1kw transmitter, and the audio equipment for playing back programming CDs. Mike Taylor (EMC board member) and Jerry Logan (EMC board member) contributed hard work and valuable "workarounds." We were all healthy the entire 10 days on- site as we camped in the bush amidst heavy day and night winds and high temperatures near 100 degrees. One gratifying moment occured after we left. We were able to monitor the station 500 miles away in Nairobi. It was a weak signal with fading and noise, but we didn't expect to hear it at all since the range of the transmitter and antenna was purposely limited to 350 miles. It meant that the local operators we trained did their job without us and that the signal was likely penetrating hundreds of miles into the focus area with a clear and usable signal as planned. Next phase: acquiring 10-thousand radios to needy potential listeners in the next 3-6 months and moving the shipping container studio so that local/regional programming can be produced and presented. Pray for the programming broadcast by "Radio Peace" to bring hope to the persecuted Christians and the truth of the gospel to the persecutors." (Andy Sennitt, HCDX via BDXC-UK via WORLD OF RADIO 1223, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 5700.19 --- Glenn: I am hearing what can only be described as 'frantic ranting' by two people: a lower pitched and a higher pitched voice, presumably a man and a woman, at 0900 on 03-10- 04 -- it could be some kind of intense religious chanting -- and have been following this for several minutes trying to identify it. I see that there is a 100 to 150 w station in San Ignacio, Peru on this frequency but when last reported was on the air only about 4 hours, and then not at this time of day. A very irritating periodic and odd ute signal is superimposed, consisting of brief data bursts coinciding with simultaneous tones in a consistent periodicity; but luckily my auto-notch filter is taking out the worst of this. The speech disappears *completely* when I switch to my long dipole (107M, NW-SE) but is heard reasonably well (though unintelligibly) with my large horizontal loop antenna. Rx: Icom R-75 (Steve Waldee, San José, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LANGUAGE LESSONS --- see RUSSIA PROPAGATION +++++++++++ PROPAGATION NEWS FROM RSGB Solar data for the period from the 1st to the 7th of March, compiled by Neil Clarke, G0CAS. http://www.g0cas.demon.co.uk/main.htm Solar activity was very low to low, although on the 6th activity Increased to moderate when an M1/SF solar flare occurred. The solar flux declined to 90 on the 3rd but recovered to 106 by the 7th. The average was 101. The 90-day solar flux average on the 7th was 111, that was down one unit on last week. X-ray flux levels remained more or less steady and averaged B2.1 units. Once again, due to a recurring coronal hole, the geomagnetic field started at `active` levels although by the 5th had declined to quiet levels. The quietest day was the 6th with an Ap index of 5 units. The average was Ap 11 units. The ACE spacecraft saw solar wind speeds decline from 750 kilometres per second to 300 by the 7th. Particle densities remained low throughout at between 1 and 5 particles per cubic centimetre. The Bz fluctuated between minus and plus 7 nanoTeslas. Coronal holes and good HF conditions just don`t take place at the same time. HF band conditions gradually improved as the week went on as the coronal hole rotated out of view. Conditions were reasonable for the ARRL International SSB contest taking place last weekend. Saying that, 10 metres was well down compared with previous years. What little VHF auroral activity that was reported was from high-latitude stations, particularly in Scandinavia. And finally the solar forecast. This week the slightly more active side of the sun is expected to be looking our way. Solar activity should be mostly low but could increase from midweek when the return of an active region is due to take place. The solar flux should increase and by next weekend be around the 120s. Geomagnetic activity should be quiet at first but then increase towards next weekend due to a recurring coronal hole. MUFs during daylight hours at equal latitudes should be around 26 MHz for the south and 23 MHz for the north. The darkness hour lows should be around 10 MHz. Paths this week to the East Coast of North America should have a maximum usable frequency, with a 50 per cent success rate, of around 25 MHz. The optimum working frequency, with a 90 per cent success rate, should be about 19 MHz. The best time to try this path should be between 1200 and 1800 UT. The RSGB propagation news is also available in a Saturday update, posted every Saturday evening and for more on propagation generally, see http://www.rsgb.org/society/psc.htm (Radio Society of Great Britain GB2RS Main News script for March 14 posted March 10 on uk.radio.amateur by G4RGA via John Norfolk, DXLD) ###