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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1317: Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB Fri 2030 WWCR 15825 Sat 0400 WRMI 9955 Sat 0800 WRN 13865 DRM via Bulgaria Sat 1430 WRMI 7385 Sat 1600 WWCR 12160 [or later] Sun 0230 WWCR 5070 [start varies 0225-0235] Sun 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Sun 0530 WRMI 9955 Sun 0630 WWCR 3215 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 Mon 0500 WRMI 9955 Wed 0930 WWCR 9985 Complete schedule including non-SW stations and audio links: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: www.obriensweb.com/wor.xml DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS May 30: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html NETS TO YOU JUNE: http://www.w4uvh.net/nets2you.html ** ALBANIA. 6115/7455, Radio Tirana verified in 23 days with a full data paper card from the Correspondence Section with a "Summer Frequency Guide" from Clara Ruci (Journalist / Translator / Broadcaster). (Rich D'Angelo, PA, DXplorer May 29 via BCDX via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. This is really unidentified, but filed here since we are all eager to hear LRA-36. Monday May 29 at 1915, well after ANO closed, I detected a very faint carrier, which as far as I could tell was on about 15475.6, or somewhere between there and 15475.5. Never could pin it down closer since there did not happen to be any stations to be heard on 7475, 9475, 17475 or 21475 for a quick BFO comparison on the FRG-7 and it was too weak to measure on the YB-400 with indoor antenna. However, LRA-36 is usually reported closer to 15475.9 so this may have been something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I checked 15476 today at 1905 and could hear nothing, however, when checking again at 1925 I could detect a weak carrier (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15475.97, R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel (tent.) 30 May, 2020+. Definitely a signal here with bits of extremely weak audio at times. As I was running an MD on this and not at the radio, I couldn't tell when it signed off. It was off though at 2100 when I returned. Is this a reactivation?? (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) Saludos cordiales Glenn, Ernesto Paulero desde Argentina envia esta información en Sintonía DX: Hoy a las 2000 hasta 2100 UT por los 15476 kHz, LRA 36 Radio Arcang. San Gabriel desde la Antártida Argentina [sic] con buena señal, 55445 aunque no corresponde al horario que ellos dicen operar (via José Miguel Romero, May 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? They supposedly operate exactly then, from 18 to 21. Is there some announced change? (Glenn, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. ABC 11880. 0900 May 30, Crossing TOH with a freedom song by Ziggy Marley, which they don't bother to cut for ID, nor at 0903 when this female announcer went on the air taking some phone calls. Good signal. SIO 353. [this may have been Alice NT relay: see below] Radio Australia is coming strong here in Tiquicia from 0400 onwards on 12080, the best frequency for this changing season, // 15515 // 15415 // 15160 mostly with static noise, and weaker 13670. Overall 4 by 0900 on 9580 till closing at 1400 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 6080, ABC Local Radio via Shepparton Vic., 30 May, 1019- 1113+. While looking for R. San Gabriel, was surprised to find this here instead. "The Louvred Lounge" with host Mac Cocker. Music, ABC news, TCs, short features, and many promos for 105.7 ABC Darwin and 783 ABC Alice Springs. Decent signal and clear. Wondering why this suddenly showed up on this freq, I checked into the ABC Web site and gleaned this info: "The ABC advises that it is in the process of upgrading its Alice Springs, Katherine and Tennant Creek shortwave Local Radio services. This work is being undertaken to provide greater reliability of these services. Each service will be required to be switched off for an extended period while replacement transmitters are installed. The work on the Tennant Creek transmitter has now been completed and the service has recommenced broadcasting. The Alice Springs (Roe Creek) service is now being upgraded and is currently off and the Katherine service will also be turned off for an extended period from Tuesday 30 May. From this date those listeners who usually tune to the Alice Springs and Katherine shortwave services will need to retune to the Tennant Creek service to continue to receive ABC Local Radio. The ABC has also provided an additional service, which will broadcast into the Northern Territory from Shepparton, Victoria on 11880 kHz during the day and 6080 kHz in the evening." See http://www.abc.net.au/reception/news/051006_shortwave_radio_services.htm So apparently I caught the first temporary broadcast from Shepparton by accident (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) Was surprised to get this quick e-mail back from Jo Lindsay at the ABC regarding the temporary relay of the ABC Local Radio NT service: "The Alice Springs (Roe Creek) and Katherine shortwave services are currently off whilst their transmitters are upgraded and replaced. It is expected that the services will off until early August and late September respectively. In the interim ABC Radio Australia has arranged to retransmit the Northern NT ABC Local Radio service from Shepparton on 11880 kHz day and 6080 kHz night frequencies. Depending on their location listeners can tune to this service or to the Tennant Creek shortwave service on 4910 kHz day and 2325 kHz night frequencies." I don't know when the switch-over from 6080 to 11880 occurs. 73's (Dave Valko, May 31, ibid.) 11880, Radio Australia, Shepparton, 34333, English. 1759 UT 5/31 full station ID. News broadcast by announcer Steve Bryant (sp?). Coverage of the earthquake recovery efforts in Indonesia. Other news of the South Pacific. This is always one of my favorite stations. 1830 YL with a station ID, then Vanuatu News. PA (Phil Atchley, Merced CA, swl at qth.net via DXLD) So RA still using frequency local nites (gh) ** AUSTRALIA. HCJB Australia will start Japanese from June 2, 2230- 2300 on Fri & Sat [UT days presumably], on 15525. Japanese began 42 years ago from Quito, but was terminated Dec 31, 2000 except for occasional special broadcasts (Yukiko Suji, JSWC report on HCJB DX Partyline May 27, notes by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you convert to Colorado Springs Protestantism, are you really still Japanese? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6079.96, R. San Gabriel. Already on 24 May at 0847 with campesino music then usual M and W announcers. Not very strong. 6134.8, R. Santa Cruz, 27 May 0856. Must've just caught sign-on with music and canned M with full ID (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. BRASIL – Os testes em ondas curtas e médias da Radiobrás, com o sistema DRM, ainda não aconteceram. Motivo: a Receita Federal não liberou a entrada dos equipamentos no país. O diretor de engenharia da estatal, Osman de Oliveira Melo, informou que, assim que os equipamentos forem liberados, serão feitos testes em ondas médias, acoplando o sistema digital ao transmissor e antena da Rádio Nacional de Brasília (DF) e, depois, na Rádio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (RJ), em ondas médias. A Radiobrás também pretende fazer testes em ondas curtas digitais, enviando por satélite a programação da Rádio Nacional para uma emissora estatal da Guiana Francesa, que já transmite em DRM de alta potência. Assim, a programação da Nacional seria retransmitida, com antena voltada para o Brasil, para que possam ser feitos testes de recepção em alguns pontos do território nacional. As informações são do jornalista José Carlos Sigmaringa, apresentador do programa O Senado é Mais Brasil, transmitido de segundas a sextas- feiras, às 7h, em 5990 kHz, pela Rádio Senado Ondas Curtas. BRASIL – Estão em andamento os testes em ondas curtas digitais, pelo modo DRM, da Faculdade de Tecnologia da Universidade de Brasília. Utilizam a freqüência de 25885 kHz, em 11 metros, com um transmissor de 600 watts. Segundo o professor Lúcio Martins, do Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica da UnB, que coordena os testes, a intenção do consórcio DRM é que essa faixa, de 11 metros, com transmissões de baixa potência, seja uma alternativa para a faixa de FM. Isso se dá em função do DRM não ter criado um sistema de transmissão digital para FM. A baixa potência dos transmissores, segundo ele, é para que não ocorra propagação ionosférica, o que levaria o sinal a grandes distâncias. Resumindo: as transmissões digitais em 11 metros têm que ter um alcance apenas local, sendo uma alternativa ao FM, com as mesmas características de abrangência. Após a realização dos testes, A Faculdade de Tecnologia da UnB pretende realizar um seminário no seu auditório, no mês de junho, para discutir os dois sistemas, o DRM e o IBOC americano que foi rebatizado de HD Radio. Esse seminário deve contar com a participação dos professores e técnicos da UnB e Radiobrás que realizam os testes com o DRM, representantes das emissoras privadas nacionais que testam o sistema IBOC, dirigentes da ANATEL e outras pessoas interessadas. O diretor da Faculdade de Tecnologia da UnB, Humberto Abdala, informou que os resultados do seminário devem ser reunidos em um relatório, com o parecer técnico da instituição à ANATEL, sobre as vantagens e desvantagens de cada um dos sistemas de radiotransmissão digital que estão sendo testados no Brasil. Todas as informações são do jornalista José Carlos Sigmaringa, apresentador do programa O Senado é Mais Brasil, da Rádio Senado Ondas Curtas, transmitido de segundas a sextas-feiras, às 7h, em 5990 kHz. BRASIL – O sinal da Rádio Oito de setembro, de Descalvado (SP), sumiu da freqüência de 2490 kHz, em 120 metros, nos últimos dias. A constatação é do Geraldo de Bem, de Pirassununga (SP). ``Lamentável que tenha saído do ar, pois se trata de umas das poucas emissoras que ainda transmitiam em 120 metros. Com essa ausência sentida, os 120 metros existem mais na teoria do que na prática``, resume. [above items on WORLD OF RADIO 1317] BRASIL – A Rádio Aparecida, de Aparecida do Norte (SP), também integrará a rede de emissoras que vão entrar em cadeia com a Rádio Gaúcha, de Porto Alegre (RS), para a transmissão da Copa do Mundo. É a primeira vez que a emissora do Vale do Paraíba decide retransmitir a emissora do Rio Grande do Sul. Anteriormente, sempre esteve ao lado da Rádio Bandeirantes, de São Paulo (SP). As informações são de Antonio Kosta de Oliveira, apresentador do programa Além Fronteiras, da Rádio Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP). Além da Aparecida, outra emissora brasileira de ondas curtas, a Rádio Guarujá Paulista, de Guarujá (SP), irá retransmitir a cobertura da Copa do Mundo feita pela Gaúcha. BRASIL – A Rádio Brasil, de Campinas (SP), é uma das emissoras brasileiras que possui poucos relatos de sintonia em ondas tropicais. Em Santa Rita do Sapucaí (MG), o Giuseppe Cysneiros captou a emissora, em 27 de maio, às 1539, pela freqüência de 4785 kHz. Na oportunidade, a emissora transmitia o programa Tarde do Chorinho, com apresentação de Carlos Luz. BRASIL – O Grupo CBS de Rádios continua com a bagunça na freqüência de 4975 kHz: nunca se sabe qual emissora ocupa o canal por um bom tempo. Desde Santa Rita do Sapucaí (MG), o Giuseppe Cysneiros informa que, em 27 de maio, ele ouviu a identificação da Rádio Iguatemi. Lembrando que quem sempre estava na freqüência era a Mundial FM (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX May 29 via DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC SHUTS ANOTHER LOW-POWER AM REPEATER http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/features/banff/index.html Attention CBC Banff, Alberta listeners: We're improving the quality of CBC in Banff! As of Thursday, June 1, 2006 the 860 AM transmitter broadcasting Radio One in Banff, Alta. will shut down permanently. The move from AM to FM will drastically improve the quality of radio transmission to our listeners in that area. People living in Banff can now receive Radio One on 96.3 FM (via Rickey Leong, AB, DXLD) ** CANADA. Quirks & Quarks June 3 --- Hello, This Week on Quirks & Quarks we have a special edition: "The Quirks Question Roadshow" - from Edmonton. Ever wonder why we don't see dead birds all over the place? After all, there are billions of them in Canada, and they don't live a long time. So where do they go to die? Why aren't our lawns and gardens littered with bird corpses? Well, that's just one of the many bizarre, offbeat, and everyday questions that you can hear answered this week on the annual Quirks & Quarks Question Roadshow. Find out why we blush, and why our noses run when we go out in the cold; and learn how jackrabbits know when to change colour, and what causes the heat in the core of our planet. All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One - or anytime on our web page: http://cbc.ca/quirks (Bob McDonald, Host, CBC.ca's Quirks newsletter via DXLD) Sat noon local time on CBC Radio 1; 1505-1600 UT on RCI 9515, 13655, 17800 (gh) ** CHINA. Tuning around May 29 at 1324, came upon good signal on 17310, and right away a ZRGD (or if you prefer, CJKT) ID. No doubt to jam Sound of Hope, but no trace of that underneath. Same around 1350 recheck, but gone at 1402, and not found on any of the other 5 frequencies in the 17 - 18 MHz ranges. Perhaps the jamming command was still hunting for the new spot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] TAIWAN/CHINA Sound of Hope, TanShui-TWN, 100 kW 325 deg [jammed by] CNR 1, 17-18 MHz May 15 17350, 0400-1400 18180 May 16 17310, 0413 18160, 1000-1400 17350 May 17 18180, 0400 17330, 0958-1400 18200 May 18 17350, 0400 18180, 0940-1400 17310 May 19 18160, 0415 17310, 0930-1400 18180 May 20 17330, 0900 18180, 1000-1600 17310 May 21 18200 (0800 jst s/on), 0415 17330, 1000-1600 18160 May 22 17350, 0415 18180, 0950-1600 17310 May 23 17310, 0415 18160, 0945-1600 17350 May 24 18180, 0415 17330, 0945-1400 18200 May 25 17350, 0415 18180, 0955-1600 17310 May 26 18160, 0415 17310, 1100-1800 18180 May 27 17330, 0415 18200, 1000 17350 (S. Hasegawa, Japan, via S. Aoki, Japan, NDXC, May 27, via wwdxc BC-DX May 31 via DXLD) Note JST mention under May 21 --- are all the other times still UT? (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. Re 6-080 - Shanghai Sports Radio --- Hi Noel and Glenn, May 29th I scanned the SW frequencies for anything that sounded like a sports program, with sports scores and/or coverage from the games, but so far nothing heard. There are many FM stations here, so thought I would also check there as well. Will continue to scan (Ron Howard, Shanghai, China, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. On 27 Apr got a QSL from Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station for my 28 Jan reception on 4980 and 4330 kHz. Languages were Uighur and Kazakh, respectively. Report was sent on 16 March by snail mail to: Xinjiang People's Broadcasting Station, 84 Tuanjie Lu, Xinjiang, 830044 CHINA. The text is completely in Chinese, with blue "QSL" seal in the upper right corner (open_dx - Ivan Zelenyi, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, Signal via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5809.72, 0330, unID Spanish speaking station, 26/5, talk till 0405 - then music. Still here by 0450 - but weak. Mixing product?? It really sounded like two stations at times. 23332 SHN. I had 300 metres of longwire/beverage pointing towards west - just 2 kilometres from the coastline. And I was using my AOR AR-7030+ Best 73s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, on the island of Rømø in the very southwestern part of Denmark, HCDX via DXLD) Duplicate of previous item, with more details. I say again, surely the Colombian mix of 6010v and 5910v reported numerous times here in DXLD, if only people would read it, or search it when they have an unID. No doubt audio from both LV de tu Conciencia / Alcarabán Radio and Marfil Estéreo / Garita Radio (gh, DXLD) ** CONGO. Télédiffusion du Congo, Brazzaville, 5985 kHz, QSL, letter signed by Gaspard Bemba, Le directeur de l'inspection technique des réseaux et de la qualité des services, Gaspard Bemba after 3 f/ups with 1 IRC in 59 days. Mr. Bemba always includes 1 empty QSL-card which is requested to be filled and sent back. Next response does not contain stamped and signed filled card but new one. Address: Direction Générale de Télédiffusion du Congo, Direction des Mésures de l'Inspection Technique des Réseaux et de la Qualité des Services, B.P. 2912 Brazzaville, Congo. Phone: 00242 810608 (Sergey Kolesov, Kiev, Ukraine, Signal via DXLD) ** CONGO DR [non]. What has become of Radio Okapi lately? I can't tune them on 11690 since almost half a year. Change of frequency? (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA [non]. Re 6-080, echo on 9925 via Germany: It does seem odd that DTK hasn't synchronized the audio. The difference in transmission path distance between Nauen & Wertachtal surely couldn't account for such a severe reverb (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn & Jerry, The HFCC list shows powers of 125 kW (WER has 500 kW senders only?) on 9925 so seemingly there is a reduction in power. Also two azimuths are in use - 240 degrees and 300 degrees - obviously south of west and north of west to cover two service areas. I have no idea how this is done - whether the transmitters are "coupled" or operate independently - but is it likely, despite "power surges", that one of the transmitters would be fed with a delayed feed in these circumstances as an 'echo' would be an obvious consequence of doing so? Or does DTK not realise that SW transmissions cover areas other than those intended? I suggest that Jerry's echo is being caused by some form of dual path propagation, but what that path might be I can only guess. It would be interesting to know for certain. An 'echo' more usually occurs when two sites are in use on just one frequency. A very good example of this currently at my location is the BBC Arabic service on 11680 at 0600-0900 from RMP at 168deg and via CYP 0600-0800 at 101deg. This must be due to satellite delivery delay to one of the senders. Hopefully, listeners in the target areas don't suffer the same effects. But as noticed recently, SKN and WOF on 17640 as heard around 1200/1400 are in synchrony, although some other 'mushy' effects are noticed at my location. And I also recall from times past when RNI used 6020 via Flevo and Madagascar to carry the same evening programme that listeners experienced an echo until synchrony was established. 73 from (Noel R. Green [NE England], ibid.) From 0100 to 0300 only, both Nauen and Wertachtal are in use on 9925, so they could easily have different program feed routing and consequent delays, which however should be easily avoided. Different delays somewhere along the feed route could be due to digital processing of the audio, and/or satellite routing. Does anyone hear any echo on 9925 in the 23-01 period when only the two Wertachtals are in use --- or is it one transmitter split in twain feeding two antennas? Or at 03-05 when only Nauen is in use? Long/short path echoes are rarely strong enough or delayed enough to be such a problem (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. MAY 28, 1719 EDT [2119 UT], 90.3, Radio Progreso, RDS PI 9006, with text "Radio PROGRESO Habana Cuba". Caught by the RDS Decoder in my absence. It was in strong for several minutes at a time, as late as 1924. Country #4 on FM (next likely country would be Bahamas) I was feeling bad that I missed both openings today, but was rewarded with this upon my return home. Nice, after a few hints of it yesterday. Too bad I missed out on other FM and TV from Cuba during this time (Jim Renfrew, Byron NY, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12579, AFN: No response from Marshall C. Bennett for my e-mail report yet, so tried Jennifer Gray gray @ mediacen.navy.mil but it bounced back as undeliverable. Then tried the generic address QSL @ mediacen.navy.mil and got this "auto reply" from Naval Media Center HQ: "Thank you for your interest in the shortwave program! Effective immediately, please update your correspondence addressing to reflect a new address for the shortwave program: QSL @ dodmedia.osd.mil Your email has been forwarded, you need not re-submit this particular correspondence. Please act upon updating your addressing, as previously stated, as soon as possible." 73's (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via DXLD) I tried the QSL @ dodmedia.osd.mil e-mail address for a report on the Barrigada, Guam transmitter and had the same result as the older USN address - no response. I believe the problem is that no one is minding the QSL store at AFN - that is, no new "Jennifer Gray" has appeared to take an interest in SWL reports, therefore they're just going into the bit bucket. I've had the same problem with the Commando Solo psyops group in Pennsylvania and the MARLO group in Bahrain. Unless you find someone in the military who understands SWL reports and takes the time to respond, reports to these services will continue to go unanswered. I suspect JOSN Jennifer Gray may have been promoted by now and likely been sent to a new duty station. Such is the life of a sailor (and soldier, airman, or marine). (Bruce W. Churchill, Senior Project Manager, National Engineering Technology Corporation, 14320 Firestone Blvd., Suite 100, La Mirada, CA 90638, ibid.) See also U S A [and non] ** ECUADOR [and non]. Aventura Diexista nos da una buena noticia. Los colegas y amigos de Aventura Diexista informaron en su programa a traves de HCJB La Voz de Los Andes, que desde la próxima semana, el programa tendrá una duración de 15 minutos. Esta es sin lugar a dudas una buena noticia que nos agrada, ya que podremos disfrutar aún mas de este excelente programa, que de aproximadamente 5 ó 7 minutos de duración se extenderá ahora hasta 15 minutos. En Venezuela lo capto muy bien por los 21455 kHz en USB a las 1845 UT aproximadamente. Otra de las buenas noticias que se dijo hoy en Aventura Diexista, es que el programa será ahora retransmitido por WRMI, Radio Miami Internacional a partir del mes de Junio, segun los colegas Allen Graham y Juan Carlos solo falta por definir los horarios y el dia. Cabe destacar que esto tambien me lo ha corfirmado el querido colega Jeff White. Reciban todos un fuerte abrazo y esperemos que el movimiento diexista siga creciendo a traves de las ondas de WRMI (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Barcelona, Edo Anzoátegui, Venezuela, May 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DX LISTENING DIGEST) However, on Monday May 29, at 1848 check on 21455, I heard WYFR in German. HCJB is not on 21455 during that hour, AFAIK. I think he must have meant 2245 UT Sundays = 1845 Venezuelan time, when it is also on 12000, and has been known to start as early as 2230. While ADX gains, DXPL loses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From next week, DXPL will be reduced to a 15-minute program. AFAIK, times will remain the same as at present. Contributing to that program will be Christer Brunström & Christopher Lewis (Allen Graham, HCJB DXPL May 27, notes by gh for WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: Yes, you can assume that DXPL will stay at the same times. The second half of the half-hour will be Aventura DXista. We may also use them individually as 15-minute fill programs at other times (Jeff White, WRMI, May 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We could hardly call it ``stealth evangelism`` as a 5-year-old phone interview with Clayton & Helen Howard then made abundantly clear on the final half-hour DXPL, that was their only purpose in doing the program (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [and non]. Hello Glenn. Greetings from Quito! I trust you are well today. Thanks for your note to Doug regarding these two discrepancies. After getting back to Quito, I was able to look into this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. As of June 5, 2006, we will move to the listed frequency of 11720 [Spanish 2300-0100 currently on 11700]. I'm not exactly sure why a discrepancy occurred between the Quito and the Pifo facilities, but it was most likely my error. I now know some other areas to check when preparing the information to send to Pifo, and how to check what they input into the system there. In no way to we want to cause problems for Bulgaria. I have also asked our Spanish programming team to review all of the IDs, but especially for the broadcasts from 1100-1500 since there have been several reports of errant frequencies and time checks. Thanks to you and other for having called this to our attention. Thanks again, Glenn. All the best from a rainy Quito (Allen C. Graham, June 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [non]. WHRB Harvard is coming to the end of another ``Orgy`` month. O, how I wish I had the time to listen to many of these hour after hour, straight thru! Here is one, on Friday June 2 lasting only 12 hours, 1200-2400 UT via http://www.whrb.org/index.php --- 8:00 am [EDT] THE UMM KULTHUM ORGY: A VOICE LIKE EGYPT --- Umm Kulthum was born in 1904 and died in 1975. She was unquestionably the most gifted singer and musician of that century in the Middle East. She was continuously popular for over 50 years and her songs are still played nightly on any number of Arabic language radio stations. We explore her life and music (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005: "Son las 6 de la mañana con 22 minutos, usted escucha Radio Nacional en Bata". Tuesday, May 30, 0522. Then into a string of high life songs. Retuned again minutes later... "faltan 14 minutos para las 7 de la mañana en Radio Nacional, escucharon al cantante camerunés... Reflexión para este día: Venid en pos de mí y os haré pescadores de hombres...". SIO 252. First time here for this hour with audible signal tho not so strong, but much static noise (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. R. East Africa, 15190, 0800-0900+ May 20 [Sat], tune-in to US-produced English religious programming. R. East Africa IDs and Cupertino CA address at 0810, 0825 and 0841. 0811 evangelical talk with ``Peoples` Gospel Hour``; surprisingly good signal (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, R. Africa No. 2, so IDing, rather than "R. Africa" or "R. East Africa." I had forgotten about this ID, but I see that the WRTH gives all three station names. Usual English religious programs; at 0944, gal gave RAN2 postal address in Mozambique ("P. O. Box 588 . . . 50100 Mozambique"), plus the info @ panambc.com E-mail address; at 1001 she gave only the Cupertino postal address and panambc E-mail address, followed by man with the same. This was on May 27, a Saturday. Reception was fairly decent, though the IDs were not at the peaks. The QRM on the second ID is from China, which starts up on the frequency just before 1000. There is some interesting stuff on their website http://www.radiopanam.com They trace their history to 1936 (?!), give short bios of personnel, and include an example of a reception report http://www.radiopanam.com/qslreports.htm (which I would call pretty thin). The website also explains at http://www.radiopanam.com/africa.htm that R. Africa is for W. Africa, R. East Africa for C. and E. Africa, and R. Africa No. 2 for southern Africa (which explains the Moz. address). They also show a Radio 4 (FM, Uganda), and a 250 kW SW "Beacon of Hope" for North Africa (with two photos of unidentified sites, at least one of which is Julich). I don't recall ever running across a "Beacon of Hope" ID on the air, tho in 2003 I got a letter from Cupertino that thanked me for a report on "Beacon of Hope India" via Julich-9435, which was a mistake because I never sent them such a report (Jerry Berg, MA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY. Additional transmissions via DTK T- Systems: Voice of Democratic Path of Ethiopian Unity in Amharic to EaAf from May 19: 1900-2000 on 15565 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Fri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ** FRANCE. Deleted language services of Radio France International: Albanian 0600-0627 on 9805 ISS 250 kW / 098 deg Polish 0445-0457 on 6045 ISS 250 kW / 060 deg 1600-1657 on 9805 ISS 250 kW / 060 deg 2100-2157 on 7135 ISS 250 kW / 060 deg Romanian 1500-1557 on 9805 and 11670 both ISS 250 kW / 085 deg 2000-2057 on 7135 and 9805 both ISS 250 kW / 085 deg Serbian 0500-0527 on 7315 and 9805 both ISS 250 kW / 098 deg 1400-1457 on 9805 and 11670 both ISS 250 kW / 098 deg 1900-1957 on 7135 and 9805 both ISS 250 kW / 098 deg (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) Did RFI really "delete" the programmes in Albanian, Polish, Romanian and Serbian (or Serbocroatian)? The related webpages are still up, although some of them are horribly outdated, showing old schedules and even still mentioning "Yugoslavia" as target area. But at least the Polish service pages include an item from today and the gone shortwave frequencies were deleted there as well (in fact leaving no any advice how to tune in there). So I assume that these language services still exist and were just taken off shortwave. I must say that I was surprised anyway about Polish being still on shortwave, a full decade after RFI declared that they will no longer serve Europe via shortwave, leading to the rigorous removal of the German service from shortwave and MW 1278 in autumn 1996 (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Frequency change for Deutsche Welle from May 25: 1430-1700*NF 15705 WER 500 kW / 090 deg, ex 17595 to avoid REE Spanish *1430-1515 Urdu; 1515-1600 Hindi; 1600-1700 English (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. [cf LUXEMBOURG]. It is the very first time I see the R. Luxembourg callsigns. And Germany contains a pile of DMRxx callsigns used for broadcasting but this ITU list only shows call, transmitter site, and kind of station (Mauricio Molano Sánchez, Spain, hcdx May 30 via BCDX via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Additional transmissions via DTK T-Systems: CVC International in English to EaEu from May 22: 1200-1500 on 13830 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg, co-ch RFA Tibetan till 1400 1500-1700 on 13800 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg, co-ch R. International Persian from 1630 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) See also ETHIOPIA [non] ** GERMANY. When visited ch 2 Goettelborner Hoehe site three weeks ago, the chief engineer told us about planned date of replacing this band-1 TV channel by DVB-T in UHF band in Saareland state in late 2007, some 12...16 free TV programs via terrestrial antenna (wb, wwdxc BC-DX May 25 via DXLD) ** GUAM. Frequency changes for KTWR Guam from June 4: 0730-0900 NF 17665 TWR 100 kW / 278 deg, ex 17570 in English 1400-1430 NF 9405 TWR 100 kW / 315 deg, ex 12130 in Bengali/Manipuri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** ICELAND. Hi folks, I just got an E-mail from a friend of mine in Iceland stating that the AFRTS station on 1530 kHz mediumwave (formerly 1485) in Keflavik Iceland is closing down sometime today although he didn't know the exact time of close down. Apparently US President Bush is pulling all remaining US troops out of Iceland. I'm wondering if anyone on this forum is in the local reception area of this station, because I would love to get a recording of perhaps the last hour of the station's broadcast. If anyone reading this post is located in the Keflavik area and is equipped to record MP3 files of the station, please E-mail me at: sam @ speedemessenger.com and I'll let you know just where to upload the MP3 file. Thanks to anyone that can help in advance (Sam Ward, Mississauga, Ontario Canada :( June 1, dxing.info via DXLD) 1 June 2006 --- Thunder 1530, the AFRTS station at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Keflavík on 1530 kHz made its last broadcast today. The U.S. Navy will close down the base later this year (Bernd Trutenau-LTU via MWDX yg via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Often heard in Scotland, Scandinavia, I recall (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 15410, AIR GOS, May 29, 1030-1045, ``Faithfully Yours`` program, reading reception reports from Germany, two from Italy, Richard Parker's report from Penn. and Christopher Lewis's from England. Good (Ron Howard, Shanghai, China, Etón E5, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Am hearing a new Indian regional station, on 3365 at 1750 UT June 1; not in PWBR (Chris Hambly, Victoria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ha! Nor in WRTH 2006, but they both jumped the gun in eliminating this old 90m outlet from Delhi which was supposed to have moved to 60m months ago, and the three others (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Java Earthquake --- I see there's already been a couple of reports on the Amateur Response following the tragic Java Earthquake. Has any HF emergency communications traffic been receivable in the UK ? Java Earthquake - Amateur Radio Response http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2006/java_earthquake.htm Amateur radio volunteers respond following Indonesian earthquake http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2006/indonesian_earthquake.htm 73 (Trevor M5AKA, May 30, monitoring monthly yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. IRAN JAMS SATELLITE BROADCASTS Meysam Salehian 02 May 2006 http://roozonline.com/english/015293.shtml Iran's hardline Sepah-e Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps has launched a new project to use intelligent jamming to block specific satellite channels and broadcasts beamed into Iran. Rials 100 billion were allocated for the project earlier this year and its operations began about two weeks ago through which by the end of the year some 50 to 70 jamming stations in Tehran and some other cities would prevent television sets in Iran to receive satellite- broadcast signals, primarily Persian language broadcasts. Under existing plans, the current 50 jamming stations would be increased to 300. The original program began during the initial years of Mohammad Khatami`s presidency after people poured into the streets following the victory of Iran’s football team in Australia, and subsequently the student protests in June and July of 2003. According to informed sources, the problem with the earlier jamming efforts was that the sweepers that were used could only jam frequencies between 10.8 and 12.8 on the bandwidth [presumably meaning gigaHertz]. This jammed the signals that the state-run radio and television system itself wanted to receive. The new efforts use synthesizers which apparently take care of the problem. Khatami`s administration put obstacles to the Rials 2,000 project of the Passdaran, but not to much avail. Observers conclude that with the new budget and purchases that the guards have made, this may impact the number of foreign-broadcast television viewers inside Iran (Rooz via Mike Barraclough, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Israel Radio in English, S9 May 29 at 1921 with news on 15640, but undermodulated. E.g., DW on 15620 in English was only slightly stronger in signal, but much louder. Much stronger signal and modulation both from Kuwait in Arabic on 15505 and slightly weaker 15495. Nearby Kuwait is getting much better results from its 500 kW units than Israel from its 300(?) kW. Israel modulation was also lower than stronger KJES 15385 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. ISRAELI PRESIDENT GRANTS A TOTAL PARDON TO FOUR MEMBERS OF ARUTZ-7 Israeli President Moshe Katzav has granted a total pardon to four members of Arutz-7 and in effect voided their criminal convictions. Justice Minister Haim Ramon accepted the decision and signed the pardon for Ya'akov Katz (Katzelah), Shlomit Melamed, who is the wife of Rabbi Zalman Melamed, Yoel Tzur and Yair Meir. The four were convicted in 2003 for operating the non-licensed Arutz-7 radio station, which the government since has closed down. The significance of the pardon is that they may bid for future permits to operate a station. (Source: Arutz-7 via Mike Brand) # posted by Andy @ 09:12 May 30 (Media Network blog via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK Warido`s very good signal via Gabon 11970, even tho intended for Europe, May 30 at 0551 was carrying ``technical difficulties`` announcements in English, French and Japanese, inviting us to enjoy the fill music instead, but the announcements kept interrupting it! Seems to me this station has more such failures, down time than most (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Hi All, Just something I noticed on the 50 MHz DX web Cluster from Japan. JE7IDA heard 48250.086 at 0900z on 19 May 2006, Harmonic 5 from North Korea, 5 x 9650.017. V. of Korea in Japanese; he seems to report this infrequently and thought it might be of interest. 73 (David Vitek, Adelaide, South Australia, harmonics yg via DXLD) Oooh, 48250 is he channel E2 video frequency; this could QRM the few TV stations left using it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. 15260, CLANDESTINE (Laos), Hmoob Moj Them (presumed), *0200-0256* May 26, opened with music fanfare, apparent opening announcements into a man and woman talking (news?). Most of the program consisted of talks with brief instrumental music breaks. Closed with music features from 0243 until 0247 when seemingly language lesson prior to closedown. Poor and choppy signal with splatter from WYFR on 15255 (Rich D'Angelo, PA, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) Supposedly scheduled for only half an hour, UT Wed & Fri only. Try again this UT Friday (gh, DXLD) via Bau Jong Taiwan, 100 kW 250 deg. (wb. wwdxc BC-DX May 29 via DXLD) ** LIBYA [and non]. 29 Mayo --- En el día de hoy a las 1200 comienza la emisión de La Voz de África en su emisión musical por la frecuencia de 17680 en su emisión habitual hasta las 1400. También comienzan a las 1200 dos emisiones en paralelo por las frecuencias de 17660 y 17670 de La Voz de África en su emisión en árabe y con un boletín en francés; también se ha podido escuchar otra emisión de esta emisora en 17610 con el servicio en Hausa. Sawt Al-amal se la escucha a las 1203 en la frecuencia de 17660 y una señal de burbuja; templando a 17662 se podía evitar a La Voz de África. Esta situación se ha prolongado hasta las 1300 en que Sawt Al- amal cambia a la frecuencia de 17655; sin embargo a las 1304 cesa la emisión de La Voz de África en 17670 y aparece en 17655 emitiendo en paralelo también en 17660. A las 1306 se inicia la emisión de música afro-pop en 17655 y hasta las 1321 no encuentro a Sawt Al-amal otra vez en 17660. Con esta situación se mantiene hasta las 1400 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LIBYA [non]. V. of Africa, via France, 17725, 1400-1435+ May 20, English with local African hi-life music. Many IDs. 1405 gave sked. 1411 program about human rights, then local geography. 1432 news. // 17850; both poor, weak in high noise level making reception difficult (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [non]. Additional frequencies for LJBC / Voice of Africa: 1600-1758 French 17695 WeNoAf \\ 15660 to NoWeAf and 17870 to NoCeAf 1800-1958 Hausa 11835 to WeNoAf \\ 15660 to WeNoAf (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) Hello DXers, well, about the ID of the great Jamaheria radio - Ouzma as some of the DXers call it, it's like that in Arabic: Idhaat al' jamaheriya al O'uzma No de by all means :) All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Libia/Francia/Gabón/Sawt Al-amal, 30 Mayo A las 1200 comienza emisión en 17680 de La Voz de África en su programa musical. Sawt Al-amal emite en 17670; a las 1300 Sawt Al-amal cambia a la frecuencia de 17665, a las 1311 tras una breve introducción por un locutor en francés se inicia emisión musical en 17665. Sawt Al-amal cambia a la frecuencia de 17670 aproximadamente a las 1330. Esta situación se mantendrá hasta las 1400. La propagación no fue buena y no pude captar ninguna emisión en 17610 y 17620. 31 Mayo: 17665, Idahaat al´jamaheriya al´O´uzma, Mx e ID. 17660 // 17670 Idahaat al´jamaheriya al´O´uzma, árabe. Las condiciones de escucha hoy, tampoco han sido buenas, mucho ruido, sin embargo se aprecian muchas novedades. A las 1200 inicia emisión musical de Idhaat al´jamaheriya al´O´uzma en la nueva frecuencia de 17665, por otra parte La Voz de África en emisión en árabe y en paralelo por las frecuencias de 17660 y 17670; también dos servicios de La Voz de África en Hausa y emitiendo en paralelo por las frecuencias de 17610 y 17725. Tras varios minutos chequeando frecuencias encuentro a Sawt Al-amal emitiendo en 17630 con fuerte colisión con África Nº 1 y una señal de burbuja; más tarde a las 1254 escucho a Sawt Al-amal en 17620. A las 1300 se inicia en 17620 la emisión jammer musical, a las 1306 Sawt Al-amal cambia a 17630 y poco después aparece otra vez la señal de burbuja. A RFI en su emisión en francés hay que templar a 17618 para comprobar que también estaba emitiendo; las emisiones de La Voz de África en árabe han cesado o no se escuchan, tampoco se escuchan las emisiones en Hausa (José Miguel Romero, ibid.) 1 Junio --- En el día de hoy la propagación seguía siendo mala y con mucho ruido; a las 1200 inicia transmisión por segundo día en 17665 La Voz de África en su emisión musical y hasta las 1400. Se aprecia emisión en árabe de La Voz de África en paralelo por las frecuencias de 17660 y 17670, también emisión de La Voz de África en Hausa y emitiendo en paralelo por 17610 y 17725. A Sawt Al-amal no consigo escucharla en ninguna frecuencia en esta primera hora; a las 1306 la escucho en 17695, a las 1312 se inicia emisión jammer musical, a las 1317 se hace presente una señal de burbuja y a las 1322 Sawt Al-amal cambia a la frecuencia de 17690. En esta segunda hora las emisiones de La Voz de África en árabe y en hausa no llegan a escucharse (José Miguel Romero, Spain, ibid.) ** LITHUANIA. Relay schedule for Radio Baltic Waves (RBW) and Radio Baltic Waves International (RBWI), valid from 1 June 2006: Vilnius 612 kHz 100 kW (RBW) 0300-0500 RFE-RL, Belarusian 0500-0600 European Radio for Belarus, Belarusian 0600-0700 Radio Racja, Belarusian* 0700-0900 VOR-Russkoye Mezhdunarodnoye Radio, Russian 0900-1300 VOR-Radiokanal Sodruzhestvo, Russian 1300-1500 VOR-Russkoye Mezhdunarodnoye Radio, Russian 1500-2100 RFE-RL, Belarusian 2100-2200 Radio Polonia, Belarusian Sitkunai 1386 kHz 500 kW (RBWI) 1902-2000 China Radio International, Czech 2000-2100 China Radio International, English* Bubiai 1386 kHz 7 kW (RBWI) 1500-1630 RFE-RL, Russian Giruliai (Klaipeda) 1386 kHz 25 kW (RBWI) 2100-2300 Radio MiAmigo, English (Sun only)* Sitkunai 1557 kHz 150 kW (RBWI) 1600-1700 Radio Polonia, Polish* 1700-1800 Radio Polonia, Belarusian* 1800-2000 China Radio International, Russian 2000-2100 China Radio International, Polish 2100-2200 China Radio International, Chinese All times are UT. Changes are marked *. (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, May 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. Radio Luxembourg callsigns --- Hi all! The 19th edition (July 1958) of the "Alphabetical List of Call Signs" published by the I.T.U. shows four callsigns registered for broadcasting from Junglinster: LXRA, LXRE, LXRF and LXRG. At that moment R. Luxy was broadcasting on 4 frequencies: LW, MW, and 2 on SW. Somebody knows to what frequency corresponds each one of them? (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, Spain, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) I see these Call Signs of Luxembourg for the first time. In 1957-1959 I heard RTL in German often at 1400-1700 UT, even on holiday in Tyrolia Austria. Popular hit parade on Sundays. LW 233 kHz 500 kW seems LXRA MW 1439 kHz 350 kW LXRE SW 6090 kHz 50 kW LXRF SW 15350 kHz 5 kW LXRG, latter towards, Montreal Canada in French. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) There may be other hidden callsigns on record for stations which never actually use them in Europe (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) I checked the 1958 edition of WRTH, but no luck. 73 (Harald Kuhl, HCDX via DXLD) Back in 1951 when almost every SW station had a call sign, I find that "Guide to Broadcasting Stations" issued by 'Wireless World' shows Luxembourg listed with 5 kW on 6090, 9528 and 15350 but only 6090 had the call letters LXA. Post WWII I cannot ever recall hearing call letters announced - SW was always forty-nine point two six metres. Actual pre-WWII recordings of the station (in English) seem to be very rare as it's understood that the station actually destroyed their library of programmes, but quotes seem to suggest that only station name and wavelength were used. I assume that any call letters were purely academic - perhaps allocated by the LUX government/telecoms or ITU? However, as I understand it, LUX was never allocated a long wave frequency until whatever followed the Copenhagen Plan. In 1951 their frequency/wavelength is listed as 233 kHz 1288 metres 150 kW and as "operating on a frequency not allocated to the country in the Copenhagen Plan". (Noel R. Green [NW England], ibid.) See also GERMANY ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI May 29: DRM Broadcasts from NZ Radio New Zealand International The Voice of New Zealand, Broadcasting to the Pacific News About RNZI: http://www.rnzi.com/pages/whatsnew.php#156 DRM Broadcasts from NZ: 29 May, 2006 01:23 UTC We will publish a new schedule later this week to take effect from Sunday 3 June. These changes coincide with the expected start of the RNZI digital [DRM] service to the Pacific Islands. A DRM test schedule can be viewed at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php (via John Norfolk, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: Te Reo Irirangi O Aotearoa, O Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa Accessibility Information --- How to Listen Our direct broadcasts can be heard on short-wave as follows: 29 May 2006 - 03 Jun 2006 UTC kHz Target Azimuth Days 0700-1850 6095 Mode DRM Pacific 0 Test Transmission 1850-0700 13730 Mode DRM Pacific 0 Test Transmission 08 May 2006 - 03 Jun 2006 UTC kHz Target Azimuth Days 0700-1059 7145 All Pacific 0 Daily 1100-1259 9870 NW Pacific, Bougainville, PNG, Asia 325 Daily 1300-1650 7145 All Pacific 0 Daily 1651-1850 7145 Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa 35 Daily 1800-1900 15720 & 7145 Pacific 1851-1950 9630 All Pacific 0 Daily 1951-0659 15720 All Pacific 0 Daily (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) This shows 3 transmitters in use between 18 and 19 UT, on 4 frequencies. I don`t think this is possible. 6095 was doing a good job of covering 6090 to 6100 when checked at 1257 UT May 30 (Glenn, Hauser, OK, dxldyg and DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL TO LAUNCH DRM SERVICE ON 4 JUNE Radio New Zealand International says that it expects to launch its DRM service to the Pacific Islands on 'Sunday 3rd June' [sic]. 3 June is actually Saturday, but we presume that the service will commence on 3 June UTC date, 4 June NZ date. The station says the DRM schedule will be published later this week. In the meantime, the DRM transmitter is on a "test schedule" as follows: 0700-1850 UTC on 6095 kHz 1850-0700 UTC on 13730 kHz The azimuth is 0 degrees. # posted by Andy @ 13:58 UT May 29 (Media Network blog via DXLD) ** NORWAY. RADIO NORWAY, KVITSOY – 1314 kHz --- Na semana que passou, circulou uma nota pelo DXLD (DX Listening Guide [sic], Glenn Hauser) informando de que a partir de 1º de julho próximo a Radio Norway (Radio Noruega) deixará de transmitir pelos conhecidos 1314 kHz (ondas médias). Seguirá o caminho de outras emissoras (poucas por enquanto) que pararam de investir nas tradicionais emissões, trocando-as por outras tecnologias. Para Dxistas que costumam ouvir a Radio Norway nos fins-de-noite e madrugadas brasileiras, abre uma enorme lacuna. A programação noturna da Radio Noruega recebida em São Bernardo é bem elaborada, com música européia intercalada por locução de estúdio. Lembra um pouco o estilo da Radio Jornal do Brasil, 940 kHz da década de 70. Se estas vozes não mais freqüentarem os nossos ouvidos, ficam os files gravados, e na própria mente, além dos (raros) QSLs. A primeira vez que ouvi a Radio Noruega por 1314 kHz foi em Palmas, Santa Catarina, quando numa expedição de rádio no ano de 2000 passamos, Carlos Felipe, Sergio Partamian, Felipe Souto, Guillermo Barrionuevo e eu, alguns dias literalmente em cima do rádio na busca de novidades nas ondas médias (Tempo bom, esse!!!!). Depois, quem esteve no 1º Ilha Comprida DX-Camp, no ano de 2001, pode viver aquela célebre cena de um grupo inteiro de barbados insaciáveis pelo rádio pulando em júbilo ao abrirem os volumes dos seus receptores na barraca de escutas (praia) em plena madrugada, ouvindo ``My life`` por Billy Joel, pela Radio Noruega, 1314 kHz. Inesquecível! Depois disto, tive oportunidade de por duas vezes estar a serviço no norte da Europa, e curiosamente, ao tentar sintonizar lá a Radio Noruega nos fins-de-semana durante o dia por 1314 kHz, esta não foi captada como eu esperava. O WRTH 2006 divulga que por meio desta freqüência a Radio Noruega aplica 1200 kW (1.2 MW!!!), mas de fato no norte da Alemanha os seus sinais só eram recebidos durante a noite. Neste caso, um sinal de bem melhor qualidade do que se recebe aqui, evidentemente pela menor distância geográfica em questão. Mas, os sinais da Radio Noruega ainda tem algumas semanas pelos 1314 kHz. Pelo menos até a madrugada de 30 de junho próximo será possível ouvila, lá pela 1 da madrugada (nosso horário), por pelo menos 1 hora e meia. Para os que aos poucos estão trocando o `DX antena-antena` por Internet para recepção, fica a dica de que alguns serviços da Radio Norway são transmitidos também pela Web. Mas, DXista que se preza, jamais troca o ruído característico do rádio, o fading, os estalos de estática, o sinal fraco que por vezes nos desafia, pela Internet. Com certeza a Internet é um outro foco. Não o do DX. Radio via Internet para DXista é lazer, é fundo de pano enquanto realiza outra atividade no seu computador. DX em ondas médias é no receptor mesmo, e alguns podem atestar a satisfação de ter captado algumas emissoras de ondas médias da Europa depois de algumas boas tentativas. O som da Rádio Noruega ficará como uma boa recordação. Tal como alguns continuam tendo boas recordações da Radio Jornal do Brasil, a Radio Noruega se integra a esta fila de saudosismo. Estimulamos aos nossos amigos que procurem sintonizar a Rádio Noruega nos próximos 30 e poucos dias e se possível, inclusive, tentar obter a sua confirmação. Felizmente a minha eu a tenho! Não foi fácil de obtê-la, mas, a tenho. Tomara que outros ainda a consigam neste tempo que resta. Continuará o desafio de se buscar a Radio Noruega pelas ondas médias por intermédio dos 630 e dos 675 kHz, e também, pelos 153 kHz (ondas longas), potências bem inferiores aos 1200 kW usados nos 1314 kHz. Bem pouco provável de se conseguir ouvir estas outras freqüências, mas, de repente... Um abraço a todos, o desejo de boas escutas e bons QSLs, e até o nosso próximo encontro (RADIO MAGAZINE, Rudolf W. Grimm, @tividade DX May 29 via DXLD) Complete mystery as to why Norway has eluded us here in Australia, well at least South East Australia. On past Dxpeditions and in particular to the Coorong in South Australia, we sat on 1314, but no cigar. At the time we were getting signals from RSI 1179, Ukraine 1413 and even BBC Orfordness on 1296. So propagation-wise, conditions were always favorable. Can only think that the antenna pattern was at its weakest to this part of the world. June 23 - July 3 we are having the big DXfest at Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. I'm absolutely going to go for this. Some may laugh at that but I'm probably one of the furtherest dxers from Norway. So what's one person's nuisance is another man`s DX. LOL. I'm counting down the days to my Asian smorgasbord of DX. Then I have another month in Nhulunbuy before I arrive in Holland. (July 24 - August 19). What a farewell to Australia (Dave Onley, MWC via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. ON OUR OWN NOW --- The only reason there aren`t more reporter jokes than lawyer jokes is probably because not everyone has had to deal with a reporter. How, then, do we explain Brad Edwards? Edwards, 58, died May 15 from a brain aneurysm and complications from a heart infection. His end came frighteningly swift for the friends, colleagues and fans he garnered since starting on a street beat in 1973 on what is now KFOR-TV. Probably anyone who tuned in on Brad`s consumer advocate stories on NewsChannel 4 knew right away what was up with Brad: He was on your side. Whether he was blowing up food in a microwave oven showing that a particular cooking gadget was bogus, or helping an elderly grandmother who got scammed by a fake home improvement guy, Brad`s work clearly benefited someone besides, oh, say a bazillionaire publisher, a preening courtesan news anchor, or some nasty little reporter`s ego. Brad managed to do what others of us in this profession like to think we do --- that is, he has touched and improved the lot of the common human being. ``I`m just an average guy,`` he explained. His record, which includes a 1993 Emmy award, shows just how effective and unaverage he was. His long list of story accomplishments show he`s left the world better off than he found it. How many of us will really be able to say the same? As Edward R. Murrow might have said, ``Good night, Brad, and good luck.`` But without his voice in our corner, we`re the ones who will need the luck (Oklahoma Gazette, May 24 via DXLD) OBIT ** OMAN. Additional frequency for Radio Sultanate of Oman in Arabic to WeEu: 0600-0800 on 17630 THU 100 kW / 315 deg, co-ch Radio Africa No 1 French from 0700; \\ 13640 SEB 100 kW / 220 deg to ME (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. R. Central is back, heard at *2000 UT May 29 on 3290, sign-on in Pidgin. Had been checking for it every couple mornings and not heard until now (Chris Hambly, Victoria, WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, R. New Ireland, May 24. Island music, then a 10-minute series of announcements or ads by M&W announcers; into more music at 1203, occasional YL announcer to 1223 tuneout. They have had quite a good signal of late, but still don't seem to ID very often (John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer May 24 via BCDX via DXLD) ** PERU. 4790 kHz es la nueva frecuencia de Radio Visión (Ex-Imperio) desde Chiclayo, Lamabayeque, Perú. La capté a las 0300 UT (esperando la identificación) con un SINPO 44444, como siempre transmitiendo grabaciones de la Iglesia Pentecostal La Cosecha. Cordiales 73 Amigos DX !! (Alfredo Cañote, DXSPACEMASTER, La Molina, Lima, Perú, May 29, condig list via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) [Later:] 4790 IS THE "MOVED" frequency of RADIO VISION (Ex IMPERIAL) from Chiclayo, Lambayeque, Perú. I heard it today 29 May around 0300 UT with good signal, SINPO 44444, relaying religious recordings from IGLESIA PENTECOSTAL LA COSECHA. They are the NEW owners of the radio station. I talked with Mr Jorge Tesen and he said the all the DXers can write to the radio: http://www.iplacosecha.org/sugerenciasadd.php In the MESSAGE we must indicate: Atencion Sr. Jorge Tesen. 73! Alfredo Es la nueva frecuencia de Radio Visión (Ex-Imperio) desde Chiclayo, Lamabayeque, Perú. La capté a las 0300 UT (esperando la identificación) con un SINPO 44444, como siempre transmitiendo grabaciones de la Iglesia Pentecostal La Cosecha. Ellos son los nuevos duenhos de la radio. Hablé con el Sr. Jorge Tesen y me dijo que todos los dxistas pueden escribir: http://www.iplacosecha.org/sugerenciasadd.php Me indicó que en el MENSAJE escriba : Atención Sr. Jorge Tesen. 73! (Alfredo DXSPACEMASTER Cañote, La Molina, Lima, Perú, May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back to their homepage, I don`t see anything about a radio station, but they supposedly have a video service, funxions not (gh, DXLD) Perù : R. Visión, 4385.8 KHz - Jr. Juan Fanning 457 - Urbanización San Juan - Chiclayo - Perù con e-mail da iplacosecha13@yahoo.es in 11 giorni. v/s Pastor Francisco Cordova Rodríguez. Si 1 IRC (secondo il V/s stanno trasmettendo su 4790 kHz ????) Testo conferma : "Sirva la presente para saludarlo en el nombre del Señor Jesucristo, luego le agradecemos por su carta que nos ha enviado con el nombre de Radio Imperio; le comunicamos que ya no se llama Radio Imperio sino se llama RADIO VISION con estudios de transmición [sic] centrales en Jirón Juan Fanning 457, Urbanización San Juan, Chiclayo, Perú. También le comunicamos que RADIO VISION estará saliendo en los 4790 de la OC. Esperamos nos siga escuchando y esperamos sus cartas en la dirección mencionada. Anticipándoles las gracias, me despido de usted atentamente, PASTOR: FRANCISCO CORDOVA RODRIGUEZ, Jr. Juan Fanning 457, Urbanización San Juan - Chiclayo, Perú (via Roberto Pavanello via Dario Monferini, http://www.playdx.com http://www.bclnews.it via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) 4790.26, R. Visión, 27 May 0930 beautiful campesino music, 0931 easy canned ID by M "... Chiclayo, en los 1350 kilociclos en amplitud modulada, transmite R. Visión". Then intro for "La Voz [de] Salvación" program. Decent strength but audio a little distorted like a variable speed recording when the recorder motor is faulty. I've discovered this is a good time to ID the station as they usually go into "La Voz Salvación" at 0930 daily (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** PERU. A Peru morning! 1590, OAZ4Z, Radio Agricultura, Lima; back to back indigenous Indian music & ID "Radio Agricultura OAZ4Z 15-90 kHz" W/F, 0315-0335 30/5 BDu. What a switch! Yesterday I was hearing Ohio. You can catch the ID at http://www.geocities.com/barry.davies25@btopenworld.com/mypage.html (Barry Davies, UK, MWC via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Re 6-080: To clarify my log: 0954-1000, IS and English only ID's, 1000 into generic type religious program in English, along with religious songs in English. Will tune in again to see if I can confirm their current English schedule (Ron Howard, Shanghai, China, dxldyg via DXLD [sic]) [Later:] 15325, FEBC, May 29, *0950-1029*, on with IS and English only ID loop: "This is FEBC radio, broadcasting from Manila, Philippines", 1000 program "Haven Today" with Charles Morris, religious program and songs, program seems to be produced in Southern Calif., good (Ron Howard, Shanghai, China, Etón E5, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) I really appreciate the efforts of Ron Howard and a few others to customize their posts to follow DXLD style. This helps reduce my workload. No biggie, but let me explain a couple things. Items posted directly to the yg or to me as editor of DXLD are credited with DX LISTENING DIGEST spelt out (even if I know they are duplicate/cross posted elsewhere). Items picked up only from elsewhere are credited with the abbr`d ``via DXLD`` (gh, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. MIXED RECEPTION FOR POLISH CATHOLIC RADIO FORMER FRINGE NETWORK BACKS LEADERS, IS CRITICIZED BY POPE By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Foreign Service, Saturday, May 27 WARSAW, May 26 -- When Poland's fractious Parliament cobbled together a new government in February, lawmakers kept the pact a secret from most of the country's mass media. Then they permitted the initial ceremony to be broadcast exclusively by affiliates of Radio Maryja, a powerful Catholic broadcaster that is blurring the lines here between church and state. Accused of hostility toward Jews, gays and the former communists who ruled the country until recently, the network reaches an estimated audience of some 4 million Poles. Most of them are rural, elderly Catholics who feel left behind by the free-market transformation of the country since the fall of the Iron Curtain. For nearly a decade, Radio Maryja served primarily as a voice for opposition parties and others on the political margins. But it has become the preferred medium of Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, the de facto parliamentary leader. . . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601928_pf.html (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Em mensagem enviada a Rudolf Grimm, de São Bernardo do Campo (SP), Isabel Saraiva informa que a transmissão da RDP Internacional em português para a Venezuela ``tem a ver com o número expressivo de emigrantes portugueses para aquele país, que ocorreu na época do grande fluxo migratório para as Américas``. Conforme Isabel, ``o maior número de portugueses na Venezuela são originários da Ilha da Madeira, ao contrário dos portugueses no Brasil que saíram do Norte de Portugal``. Portanto, a RDP também tem antenas direcionadas para a Venezuela (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX May 28 via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Re 6-080: Hora Lxª de Verão = Hora Universal?! Exma. Senhora: Por dúvida que me foi enviada do estrangeiro após consulta à v/ grelha de programas, voltei tb. a confirmar que o erro na indicação da hora persiste! Em consequência disso mesmo, vide o comentário surgido em http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt i.e. o boletim DX Listening Digest de 28/5, de http://www.worldofradio.com Há anos que noto este erro sem entender a razão de não se corrigir o que induz em lapso qq. ouvinte, tal como parecem inúteis os repetidos alertas que tenho enviado p/ a RDPi ao cuidado de V.Exª, como creio recordar. Felizmente que tal problema, que ocorria tb. na grelha de frequências foi ultrapassado! Melhores cumprimentos (Carlos Gonçalves to Isabel Saraiva of RDPI, cc to DXLD) [later:] This is the RDP reply to the local Summer Time vs. UTC issue, and here's the my translation: "(...) We thank you for drawing your attention to the issue, and regret this is still awaiting correction, but instructions have already been given to remedy that. As far as I am concerned, I shall endeavour to solve the matter, and will be sending a note to the DXLD as soon as I can testify the webpage amendment. (...)" 73, (Carlos, DXLD) Viz.: Caro Senhor, Agradeço a sua chamada de atenção. Lamentamos que este erro esteja ainda por resolver. Já foram dadas indicações para se proceder à respectiva correcção. Da minha parte, ficarei atenta até que o problema se resolva. Logo que confirme a correcção da página, enviarei uma nota para o boletim DX Listening Digest. Cumprimentos, Isabel Saraiva (via Carlos, DXLD) Dear Wolfgang, As promised to Mr. Carlos Gonçalves, I must inform you that RDPi website schedule is already corrected. At the moment, Lisbon time is surely UTC +1. Sorry for the mistake! Thanks for your always useful information (Isabel Saraiva, RDP Internacional, May 31, to Wolfgang Büschel, cc to DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Despite the info obtained from the MCR group stations R. Comercial / R. Club (Português) / "R. Portugal" the other day about having actually registered the "brand" "Rádio Portugal" for its temporary broadcasts* till the end of the World Football Cup in Germany, the RDP has just confirmed to me both "RDPi [internacional] - Rádio Portugal" & "RDP - R. Portugal" were in fact subject to an international registration after all. Consequentely, the RDP Legal Dept. is evaluating the situation so as to put an end to Média Capital Rádio's use of that name albeit temporarily. I hope they succeed and put an end to the abbuse! *) via R. Comercial / RC(P) MW transmitters of Canidelo 783 kHz 10 kW & Belmonte 1035 kHz 100 kW; as also reported in previous messages, Canidelo is to be replaced by new site Avanca 100 kW some time during June, i.e. if everything runs as expected. It's sad that it takes legalities to solve a matter which shouldn't be supposed to trigger off such a mess. RDPi-R. Portugal or simply R. Portugal is known internationally for a very long time, especially the latter name, which dates back from the time when "RDP" was called Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão. Best 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, May 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Frequency changes for Radio Romania International effective from May 21: 0400-0456 NF 11795 TIG 250 kW / 307 deg to NoAm, ex 11820 in English 1300-1356 NF 11845 TIG 250 kW / 307 deg to WeEu, ex 11830 in English 1800-1856 NF 11730 TIG 250 kW / 307 deg to WeEu, ex 11830 in English 2000-2056 NF 9630 GAL 250 kW / 285 deg to WeEu, ex 9755 in Romanian 2000-2056 NF 11810 GAL 250 kW / 285 deg to WeEu, ex 11785 in Romanian (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Frequency change for Voice of Russia WS in Russian to ME from May 18: 1500-1600 NF 13650 S.P 400 kW / 145 deg, ex 13685 to avoid CRI Chinese on 13680 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 12065, Radiostantsiya Tikhiy Okean, 0835-0900 June 1, Noted a brief IS at 0835, then woman in ID and comments. She follows that with news in Russian. Canned ID by a man at 0843. Noted a parallel signal on 9765. Signal on 12065 came on with a poor quality while 9765's signal was good (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAN MARINO. Bonjour, Voici les détails pour la QSL de San Marino: Radio San Marino RTV 102.70 MHz écouté chez Rijeka-Fiume, Croazia, 25 Avril 2006. J'ai envoyé le rapport d'écoute et message avec E-MAIL: ufficiotecnico @ radiotvsanmarino.sm Le V/s est: Fabio Pelliccioni. Réponse avec lettre et 2 Autocollants apres 30 jours. http://www.sanmarinortv.sm/ A bientôt, Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, France (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. ESLOVAQUIA. Desde hoy 30 Mayo cesa la producción de programas en Radio Eslovaquia Int, hasta el día de su cierre definitivo el próximo 30 de Junio sólo se emitirá un breve boletín de noticias y el resto será remplazado por programas grabados anteriormente. José Portuondo de RSI el 30 de Mayo (José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RSI has ceased producing new shows for its last month on SW, just a brief news bulletin and reruns of previously recorded programs; also applies to English? (gh, DXLD) ** SLOVENIA [and non]. Ciao ! il link http://www.playdx.com/foto/slovenia2006/index.html offre varie foto scattate da Pavanello prima e durante il recente viaggio in Slovenia e Croazia in compagnia di Christian Ghibaudo e di Dario Monferini. Alcune foto sono "storiche" .... 32-35 Radio Student Lubiana la prima radio libera dell'Europa Orientale .... 38-44 Radio Capodistria. La foto 43 con la valvola TX 300 kW MW 1169 kHz .... Foto 47 + 53 e 54 Radio Fiume. La storia del viaggio la trovate nel link : http://www.playdx.com/html/slovenia2006/slovenia2006.htm bilingual versione. Hi ! In PLAYDX WEB pages new link : http://www.playdx.com/foto/slovenia2006/index.html showing many photos done during the april travel to Slovenia and Croazia by Roberto Pavanello, together Christian Ghibaudo and Dario Monferini, visiting Radio stations in Lubiana, Koper and Rijeka. The complete story of the travel may be found at link http://www.playdx.com/html/slovenia2006/slovenia2006.htm (Dario Monferini, May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Ran across REE`s weekly Emisión Sefarad, Monday May 29 at 1849 on 17745, good signal tho off the back to the ME, but already doing its despedida, since it started at 1825, mentioning the two repeats for SAm and NAm on UT Tue, cut back to Spanish service before 1855:20* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Glenn, you're right. REE's Nuestro Sello is a carrousel of mostly classic or semi classic Spanish music that I too can define as "señorial". I was tuning on 9535 last Saturday, May 27 before 0300 and they played, among other gems, a version of Offenbach's Barcarolle by mezzo soprano Marta Sandoval backed by the Symphony Orchestra of RTVE. You should hear one of the most recent performers of this majestic music, in potpurri style, Luis Cobos (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. This Summer season in the Northern hemisphere (does CR belong to it?) is giving us back openings for SLBC on 15745 (15748 A- 05) around 0200 with still noisy reception that may improve for the incoming weeks. // 9770 can be heard with the same noisy reception after 0100 when Radio Budapest in Hungarian signs-off. They always handle a good easy listening collection of oldies (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, May 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME [non]. NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Special transmission of R. Boskopoe in Dutch & Tongo from May 12: 1400-1500 on 15540 BON 250 kW / 133 deg Surinam, strong co-ch VOR Turkish (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) RADIO BOSKOPOE RELAYS VIA BONAIRE HAVE NOW ENDED Our Programme Distribution Department has informed me that the shortwave relays of local Surinam station Radio Boskopoe via Bonaire, initiated following the flooding in Surinam, have now ended. The last broadcast was on Sunday. # posted by Andy @ 09:47 UT May 30 (Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. R. Taiwan International, 11550 at 1615z (29 May 06), in English. Not listed in HFCC A06 at this hour (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But in EiBi, 16-17 direct to S Asia. I think this was a recent change (gh, DXLD) A Rádio Taiwan Internacional informa que, devido a problemas técnicos, a programação em espanhol do dia 22 de maio, entre 2300 e 2400, não foi ao ar em 15130 e 17805 kHz. A propósito, como deve se sentir alguém que produz um programa, apresenta normalmente e depois fica sabendo que ninguém ouviu no exato momento em que deveria ser transmitido? (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX May 28 via DXLD) Those are WYFR relay frequencies; well, no doubt the same program had several repeats, tho mostly on WYFR too; perhaps not all was lost. At least RTI notifies listeners of such outages. Can you imagine BBC or numerous other SW stations doing so any more? Or even being able to, so out of touch they are with their transmitter sites? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Does anybody in the SW community know when R. Taiwan International's Pali (Bali) shortwave transmitter site closed and where the SW transmitters went to? (Geoffrey Bacca, May 29, dxing.info via DXLD) ** THAILAND [non]. New schedule of Radio Thailand to NoAm effective June 1: 0200-0230 on 5890 DL 250 kW / 180 deg in English, ex 0300-0330 0230-0330 on 5890 DL 250 kW / 180 deg in Thai, ex 0330-0430 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) Presumably Greenville relays on 5890 remain at 0000-0130 (gh, ibid.) ** TUNISIA. Additional transmission for RTTunisia in Arabic: 1500-1600 on 12005 SFA 500 kW / 110 degrees to ME, strong co-channel VOR Arabic \\ 9720 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 15450, Voice of Turkey, 1230-1245+ May 29. Noted a woman giving news in English. At end of news ID, "That's the news broadcast by the Voice of Turkey". Following a man in English analysis the news. Checked alt freqs and heard a faint parallel on 15535 KHz. Signal on 15450 was armchair quality here in Clewiston (Chuck Bolland, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was also listening around 1310; pretty good here too, but varies a lot day to day (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD) ** U K. Webinar: "News as conversation" --- Interesting item popped up in a Google News alert regarding how "World Have Your Say" is produced. See here: http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/05/28/webinar_news_as_conversation.php (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) ** U K. Radio 4 Feedback on BBCWS programme policy --- This item on this week's Radio 4 Feedback should interest some list members; it will be available on Listen Again at the link below until around 1330 UT Friday. It starts at 12' 20": World Service --- News, news and more news. Is the BBC World Service in danger of becoming boring and depressing? That's the claim of a listener who contacted Feedback to say that in its latest schedule, the World Service has reduced the rich mix of programmes it used to have. Book readings have gone, music programmes are reduced and news programmes predominate. The Director of the English Network at the World Service tells Roger Bolton the reason for these changes. What do you think of them and the reasons for their introduction? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/feedback.shtml (via Mike Barraclough, DXLD) Well, after listening to the Director's response I must say that they have their story down. We have been hearing this from the WS for some time now: "People overall must like what we're doing because our overall listening numbers are up." Personally, I'm not sure that this rather simple sounding syllogism tells the whole story though. Nonetheless, it is what it is and, by now, we should all know that it ain't going to change back. And -- who knows? Maybe that's as it should be. (Unfortunately, I'm not so sure about that either and I don't think I'm alone in that now more passive disquiet.) (John Figliozzi, ibid.) It's always difficult to assess how well one *should* be doing, because that would be speculative: If the BBCWS *hadn't* given up shortwave so quickly and hadn't focused on news, would their audience have reached 175 Million? No one can say (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA, USA, swprograms via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Some IBB changes: Voice of America 0500-0530 NF 9600 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg, ex 6095 SAO in Hausa 0500-0530 NF 11680 SAO 100 kW / non-dir, ex 6035 SAO in Hausa 1800-1830 NF 11720 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg, ex 11955 SAO in Hausa Sat/Sun 2200-2400 NF 11725 PHT 250 kW / 150 deg, ex 17740 PHT in English Radio Liberty 0200-0400 NF 15470 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg, ex 15250 UDO in Russian 0300-0400 NF 9855 LAM 100 kW / 065 deg, ex 11990 KAV in Tatar 0300-0400 NF 17770 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg, ex 15120 UDO in Turkmen 1600-1700 on 11875*KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex BIB 100 kW / 075 deg Uzbek *totally blocked by CRI Russian (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, May 30 via DXLD) ** U S A. WBCQ, 9330, 2135-2200+ May 21: Two different WBCQ English religious programs mixing together. Both in reduced carrier LSB. Apparently a problem in the studio with two different programs coming out of one transmitter. No //s heard. A very weak Syria heard underneath this mess (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Recorded the first half-sesquihour of WBCQ`s SW Overnight --- Free Speech Rock & Roll, and now have listened to it. At the opening, UT Sun May 28 at 0502 on 7415, Allan says no one wants to do the show; TimTron can`t do it, Tom can`t do it, but next week Lee Midwood will be doing it live from his big chair in Texas, with a different call-in number. It has already been reduced from three to two hours long, to end at 0700. There was a lot more talk with two or three callers, than music during this segment. Tell-all dept.: Allan says the problem with Anita McCormick was not only over his ``selling out`` by broadcasting his old friend Bro. Stair, but that she had a crush on him, and he could not reciprocate, being married at the time. Also, sometimes it gets too hot in the studio and Allan takes his pants off. Hmmm, that almost makes me laugh, ha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ notes, May 31, 2006 --- Greetings all, Here are some schedule updates from the Planet. 1. "W.D.C.D. Radio - A Wanton Display of Control and Disruption," Friday at 2230, is on hiatus as of mid-May. This opens up a half hour on Friday afternoons. "The Pab Subgenius Project," running now from 2130 to 2230, may be moved up 30 minutes to accommmodate new programming at 2100. Tim's Real Amateur Radio/Piss and Moan Net show may be displaced if a new client wants an hour here. 2. A new program, "Radio Free Truth," will debut on Sunday, June 4 at 0300 UTC (Saturday, June 3, 11 PM-midnight eastern time). Allan's Space Transmissions promotion is happening this Friday evening on his show; details are at wbcq.com. I've added VOACAP/VOAAREA propagation models for all four WBCQ services to wbcq.com under "Broadcaster Resources." Comments are welcome and appreciated as always. Regards, (Larry Will, WBCQ, May 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice problems in WBCQ transmission --- I am listening to WOR 1317 on WBCQ 7415 kHz at 2209 GMT, your voice sounds markedly high pitched. There must be some software fluke involved, as I assume that the original copy of WOR is recorded digitally, and played that way by the stations involved. Now, at 2212 GMT, this abnormality suddenly ended, and your voice sounds normal. What remarkable technology. :) 73 de (KB9NXD Michael A. Mathis http://www.xnet.com/~mmathis DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Reception of WWCR during the day here on 15825, one megameter away, has improved dramatically the last few weeks. If we had to rely on F2 propagation, forget it --- the MUF is too low and/or we are too close for one-hop propagation off that layer. But the sporadic-E season has been roaring away, most noticed on 6 meters, channels 2-6, and the entire FM band, sometimes even higher into the utility bands, and possibly channel 7 (174-180 MHz), but Es also affects much lower ranges in HF, and almost constantly rather than sporadically as on VHF. Similar observation applies to WWRB on 15250, and WEWN 15220, 15745, all about the same distance and frequency. Those closer than we to any of these 15 MHz stations might have the same results, down to a point, but just how close is too close for Es at 15.5 MHz? (Glenn Hauser, OK, circa 1930 UT May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWCR Summer (A06) Tentative Schedule 1 June 06-31 Aug 06 Transmitter #1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees Freq Time (CDT) Time (UTC) 9985 4:00AM-5:00AM 0900-1000 15825 5:00AM-5:00PM 1000-2200 7465 5:00PM-8:00PM 2200-0100 3215 8:00PM-4:00AM 0100-0900 Transmitter #2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees 13845 7:00AM-9:00PM 1200-0200 5935 9:00PM-7:00AM 0200-1200 Transmitter #3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees 9985 7:00AM-9:00AM 1200-1400 12160 9:00AM-6:00PM 1400-2300 5070 6:00PM-7:00AM 2300-1200 Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees 7465 6:00AM-9:00AM 1100-1400 9985 9:00AM-1:00PM 1400-1800 9975 1:00PM-5:00PM 1800-2200 9985 5:00AM-8:00PM 2200-0100 5765 8:00PM-6:00AM 0100-1100 The June 1 program guide shows no changes in the DX Programs schedules. DX PARTYLINE is still shown as 30 minutes (via John Norfolk, dxldyg via DXLD) `CST` heading above changed to CDT (gh) ** U S A. WRMI 9955 + webcast ran the same episode of Global Crisis Watch UT Tue May 30 at 0400 as it did 168 hours earlier, including the segment about R. Shabelle, Somalia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. DIEGO GARCIA, 12579U, AFN, 29 May, 1004-1229, NPR "Morning Edition". AP news at 1200 followed by "Marine Corp Radio News" at 1205. Fair signal and readable, but dropped off really fast after 1215 apparently as night-time was falling at the transmitter site. Ute QRM from WLO. // 5446.5, 7811, 12133.5 (weak but audible) Key West [sic], 5765 (weak under very strong WWCR) Guam, 7590 (barely in but definitely //) Iceland, and 6350 (best of the bunch) Pearl Harbor. Didn't think Diego Garcia would be in and never expected all to be audible at the same time. 7811 was slightly ahead of 12579, but 6350 was ahead of 7811!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) See D G AFRTS heard on three different frecuencies at 0340 this June 1st with micro-program Travel Corner talking about Tampa. 7813 [FL Key] stronger // 10320 [Hawaii] and weaker Diego Garcia 12579 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, just received the following sad news from one of the few pirates that were well heard on the west coast (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, May 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: BARRY STRANGE --- I have some sad information to tell you all. Barry Strange of KCBM has passed away today at 0600 PST [sic] of Mesothelioma. Barry and I knew each other ever since 1991 when we initially started KCBM on a frequency of 7440 kHz at 50 watts. Since that time we grew into a 150 watt station on 6990 kHz in the 41 meter broadcast band (USB). First and foremost Barry wanted to thank all of you for making his dream of running his own radio station. You guys were the driving force behind KCBM and he and I wanted to sincerely thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I have the most profound and high respect for the HAM operators and the regular listeners that we had. Hopefully soon I will try to get the station back on air and keep it going. Again, thanks for the years of support! Barry - We will all miss you! Ken Holecum, KCBM, THE REAL JOLLY ROGER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA! 73's and thank you! (also via Jim Renfrew, DXLD) OBIT [I am belatedly starting to slug such items this way, to make them searchable --- gh] ** U S A. Umm.... Marfa, we have a problem! http://www.marfatx.com/uploadedfiles/bbs%20page%201%20for%202-2-06.pdf If you build it, they will come? CS Looking up the info at the FCC, the allotment for a new 53 kW station on 93.5 MHz. was recently awarded to an outfit called Matinee Radio, LLC. Alternately, if press releases and websites are to be believed, the radio station you saw in that Marfa newspaper is already operating on that frequency with 100 kW. Someone's got some splainin to do (Curtis Sadowski, IL, May 29, WTFDA via DXLD) That story was one we referenced when first reporting this story in Feb. It`s just a photo of a dish going up with a caption, further confusing, as it acts as if a satellite downlink dish is going to be used as an STL to the site on Brown Mountain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I don't see any grant of a construction permit yet in Marfa - just the application from Matinee Radio LLC which was accepted for filing 1/7/2005 and amended 10/19/2005. Someone's got a LOT of 'splainin to do if they started building the thing (much less turned it on) before getting a valid CP! s (Scott Fybush, May 30, WTFDA via DXLD) It gets better --- while searching out web references to the Marfa station. I found a mention that they applied for a Federal grant to build the station. I found the listing for it on the web at: http://ntiaotiant2.ntia.doc.gov/ptfp/2005info/details.cfm?state=TX&number=05210 I always thought Chicagoans had the corner on finding new and creative ways of pulling cons, but I have to salute the nerve of whoever thought of doing that. CS (Curtis Sadowski, ibid.) That part doesn't bother me very much - the NTIA has a grant program that's been providing lots of $$ for the expansion of the public radio network (including, yes, IBOC), and the Marfa folks *did* win the 93.5 at auction. But even after you win a frequency at auction, you still have to follow all the rules about applying for a CP, which they don't appear to have done. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) KRTS Marfa, TX broadcast MP3. A somewhat large file at 33 Megs (if you've got a dial-up connection, don't bother, unless you've got plenty of time). I think it's conclusive they're actually on the air. http://www.borderblasters.com/blog/archives/2006/3/21/1832066.html#attachments Click on the link that says Todd and JRLIve 3.15.06 KRTS.MP3, it'll then play the entire broadcast, including the station signing on for the day. CS (Sadowski, ibid.) ** U S A. Champaign, IL pirate: I monitored this part of the evening; most of the broadcast was standard pirate fare, off color songs, heavy anarchist political content, exhortations to get into free radio, etc. At the end of the broadcast (right about 12:30 A.M. [0530 UT]), they noted that they plan on being back on the air June 6th, mentioning some reason that I didn't quite understand. I did a slight bit of radio detective work on this station after I finished work for the evening, driving around Champaign checking for their signal on my DX- 398 with the antenna down. OK, I would have preferred trying this on a bicycle with the cheapest most awful $5 transistor radio from the dollar store, but I think I worked out a thing or two regarding the transmission. The strongest signals were in the part of Champaign between Central High and West Park, which is pretty close to downtown. Signal strength around town makes me think that they're running somewhere between five and ten Watts. Small talk between the broadcast participants went on about supporting WRFU-LP 104.5 Urbana; one of the people on air all evening disguised his voice in a way that must have made for some sore vocal cords (he sounded like he took a good hit with the crossbar on his bike), I assume he is a broadcaster on that station. They mentioned the use of the frequency, and why they chose 99.7 (nothing on there locally), and how 90.5 was another good one for the area. They brought up incurring the wrath of the WILL FM 90.9 broadcast director (they mentioned his name only) if they DID try using that one. THAT I can believe. Contact info for Radio Free Arrrgghhh! (I bet I spelled it wrong) is via freeradio @ gmail.com (Curtis Sadowski, Back home at Paxton, Illinois, May 30, WTFDA via DXLD) Interesting report. I suppose the fact there is a 50 kW on the same frequency in Frankfort, IN, doesn't faze them? If they are on enough to be a pest I know someone in Park Ridge who just might be interested, especially if they are scheduling broadcasts in advance and doing it publicly. (Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD, Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology, Indianapolis, ibid.) Hi Phil, That doesn't seem to faze them, nor does that 50 KW one in Hillsboro, Illinois. At Urbana I've had the pirate get wiped out by either or both of them at the same time. I have trouble seeing the logic in promoting a legitimate radio station over a pirate, but I guess that's their business. As for me, I could think of better ways to spend holidays than by broadcasting in a funny voice while drunk (Curtis Sadowski, ibid.) ** U S A. WICD, ch. 15, Champaign, IL has been off in the middle of the night recently, its sister station WICS ch. 20 Springfield remains on. I bet they're doing this to save money; most cable systems in the area get their signal off the WICD-DT broadcast now. That, and I bet they're trying to keep the analog transmitter going until the shut-off date. I think we'll see more of this around the country as the date gets closer (Curtis Sadowski, DX'ing at Rantoul, Illinois, May 31, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. 3 DEAD AT TV TOWER --- POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE --- KCCI.com POSTED: 5:27 pm CDT May 31, 2006 UPDATED: 5:30 pm CDT May 31, 2006 OMAHA, Neb. -- Three people fell off a television tower Wednesday afternoon in eastern Pottawattamie County, officials said, and all three have died. Initial reports listed the three people as critically hurt. A call for help came at 2:43 p.m. The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office said that a caller said three people had fallen from the Iowa Public Television tower, five miles east of Oakland. Bill Hayes, director of engineering at IPTV, said the tower crew was hired to repair strobe lights, which are required by the Federal Aviation Administration to warn airplanes about the tower. At 12:22 p.m. Wednesday, the tower went into low-power mode to protect those working on the tower. Hayes said he believes at this time the crew may have been near the antenna. He said they finished most of the lights on the bottom of the tower and were working on the top. The tower is about 451 meters tall and is a KHIN tower between Oakland and Walnut. Hayes said he was called about the accident around 2:40 p.m. He isn't sure why the three workers fell. The crew works for a Des Moines company called Deter's Tower Service. The company does work on towers throughout the Midwest, including the KETV tower on North 72nd Street in Omaha. In a statement, Hayes said, "I wouldn't say we were friends with them, but we were certainly professional colleagues and they were (generally) one of the first companies we'd call if we needed work done." No information is available yet on the identity of the people. They are all men and their ages are 57, 27 and 19. Video report from KETV-7: http://www.kcci.com/video/9301396/index.html (via Bill Smith, IA, DXLD) MEN WHO DIED IN TOWER FALL IDENTIFIED BY DEREK KRAVITZ AND JASON KUIPER, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS Three men died Wednesday after falling an estimated 1,200 feet from a television tower near Oakland, Iowa. Cpl. Doug Jackson of the Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office said of Wednesday's three TV tower deaths, "We're going to look at everything in a step-by-step process to get a basis of what happened." One of the men, Leo J. Deters, 57, of Norwalk, Iowa, is the owner of Deters Tower Service, the Grimes, Iowa, tower repair company that serviced the Iowa Public Television tower. The other two men were identified as Jason M. Galles, 27, of Des Moines, and Jon R. McWilliams, 19, of Cummings, Iowa. All three men were wearing safety harnesses, said Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker Danker said. . . http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=2180732 (updated story, June 1, tnx Ben Dawson for tip, via DXLD) ** U S A. Re 6-080: KRCN-1060 Longmont CO --- KAZ, the new day site was on the air in July 2005 when I took the photos that are on my web site. Of course I can't confirm that they were at 30 kW. I also noticed that the FCC still shows this as a CP. I can't explain it. (Patrick Griffith, Westminster, CO, IRCA via DXLD) KRCN probably cheating --- I happened to be in Longmont this evening and checked on the KRCN night site. I stopped by before sunset and took some photos that I will add to my web page in the next day or two. The tower is a large, grounded-base, self-supporting cellular telephone tower with a slant-wire Delta feed for the AM transmitter. I returned to the site well after sunset. At 9:10 PM local time (2310 EST [sic = 0310 UT]) the night site was still not on the air. They were still transmitting from the day site and probably still on day power. When I arrived at home 30 miles away they were still very clear on my car radio with the antenna completely removed. So I am certain they were not on night power which is only 111 watts. I guess this explains why they are being heard so widely at night. There is also a problem with the night tower obstruction lighting. The lights come on for about 3 minutes then go dark for about 10 minutes. This is especially interesting since the tower is less than a block from the FAA regional air route traffic control center. (Patrick Griffith, Westminster, CO, http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ May 29, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ** U S A. DJ DAN INGRAM BLURTS F-WORD --- By JOHN MAINELLI May 31, 2006 -- LEGENDARY DJ Dan In gram dropped an F- bomb on alma mater WABC Monday - something that could have gotten him banned for life in the old days. . . http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/66776.htm (via Brock Whaley, DXLD) ** URUGUAY. 3020 harmonic, CW151, R. Ibirapitá, San Gregorio de Polanco, Dpto. de Tacuarembó, (1510 x 2). 1045, May 29, música típica (tango), ad string including "Cooperativa CASH", and "Escritorio Walter Clariget", ID "R. Ibirapitá, una sóla voz...". QRK 3/2 (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Kenwood R600, 25 m randomwire + homemade MLB, condig list via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 7259.53, R. V., 25 May 0957: Here this morning despite it being on 3944.84 the past few weeks at least. Back on 3944.77 the next day 26 May. Why change frequencies twice in 3 days?? (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) ** VATICAN. The summer 06 schedule for Vatican Radio has very few changes compared to last year. I don't know about their number of listeners, but they have a clear schedule which remains rather the same for some years. So a listener can tune in without searching or investigating for new frequencies every six months. The only changes are: 0200-0320 Indian languages and English to Subcontinent on 15560 (ex 17590) from Novosibirsk 180 degr not audible here in Germany this time 0530-0645 Latin Mass, News (only Mo-Fr) in Italian, French and English on 6185 additional frequency to Western Europe ( \\ 4005, 5885, 7250, 9645, 11740, 15595) 340 degr 1200-1230 Italian News on 7250 additional frequency to Western Europe (\\ 5885, 9645, 11740, 15595, 21850) 330 degr 1230-1300 Russian on 13765 of course to Russia (ex 15360) 43 degr 1230-1315 Chinese on 15140 to China (ex 15455) 65 degr 1530-1600 Arabic on 11935 Arabian Peninsula (ex 11625) 113 degr 1840-1900 Rosary on 7360 to Eastern Europe (ex 6185) 55 degr 2315-2400 Vietnamese on 12075 to VTN (ex 7300 from SMG) from Novosibirsk 145 degr 0000-0045 Chinese on 13785 new transmission from Komsomolsk/Amur Russia near the Chinese border but not audible now, perhaps in mid- summer with better conditions, 218 degr All programs from Santa Maria di Galeria if not other mentioned (Udo Krueger-D, May 21, wwdxc BC-DX May 31 via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. R. Tanzania Zanzibar, 11735, 1800-1810 May 21. 1800 time pips and English news. 1810 into unID language. Weak, poor in noisy conditions and bassy audio (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Last night I heard a station supposed to be Virgin Remedios carrying EWTN programs and closing 0058 on 4545.16 kHz. Then a weaker signal with the same kind of religious programming in Spanish came up on 4545.79 kHz. Did they change transmitter or are there in fact two stations? (Gert Nilsson, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, R71+R75 + beverages, May 29, dxing.info via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9688.6 (Madagascar) and 9494.5 (Abkhazia); both carriers there 28 May at 1122 but extremely weak. Will take the opening of all openings to log them here!! (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROPAGATION +++++++++++ The geomagnetic field generally ranged from quiet to unsettled conditions. Solar wind speed ranged from a high of about 525 km/s late on 22 May to a low of about 280 km/s late on 27 May. The Bz component of the IMF field did not vary much beyond +/- 5 nT. The geomagnetic field responded with mostly quiet conditions throughout the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 31 MAY - 26 JUNE 2006 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels. No greater than 10 MeV proton events are expected. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 04 – 06 June and again on 08 – 13 June. The geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly quiet to unsettled for the majority of the forecast period. Recurrent coronal hole high speed wind streams are expected to rotate into geoeffective positions 31 May – 03 June, 07 – 09 June, and again on 14 June. Active to minor storm conditions are expected on 31 May – 03 June and 07 – 09 June while unsettled to active periods are expected on 14 June. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2006 May 30 2124 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # Product description and SEC contact on the Web # http://www.sec.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2006 May 30 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2006 May 31 80 15 3 2006 Jun 01 80 20 4 2006 Jun 02 80 20 4 2006 Jun 03 80 12 3 2006 Jun 04 80 8 3 2006 Jun 05 80 8 3 2006 Jun 06 80 5 2 2006 Jun 07 75 15 3 2006 Jun 08 75 25 5 2006 Jun 09 75 20 4 2006 Jun 10 75 10 3 2006 Jun 11 75 10 3 2006 Jun 12 75 8 3 2006 Jun 13 75 5 2 2006 Jun 14 75 10 3 2006 Jun 15 75 10 3 2006 Jun 16 75 10 3 2006 Jun 17 80 8 3 2006 Jun 18 80 8 3 2006 Jun 19 80 5 2 2006 Jun 20 80 5 2 2006 Jun 21 80 5 2 2006 Jun 22 80 5 2 2006 Jun 23 80 5 2 2006 Jun 24 80 5 2 2006 Jun 25 80 5 2 2006 Jun 26 80 10 3 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via WORLD OF RADIO 1317, DXLD) ###