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Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRING OF WORLD OF RADIO Extra 72: Wed 0930 WWCR1 9985 FIRST SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1333 Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: 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 Oct 24, and previewed for B-06: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** ARGENTINA. In several lists was reported one signal on 13363 kHz LSB. I listened to the frequency and I can confirm that is Argentine feeder: 13363.58 LSB, Radio Continental, Buenos Aires, 2230-2255, Oct 23, Spanish, program Competencia, Sports and Soccer comments, ads. Poor modulation; the signal mixed with other stations, 24442 (Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Esto significa que en la QRG podrían escucharse ya otras emisoras locales. Les recomiendo probar los fines de semana, cuando muchas veces el Ejército Argentino toma las transmisiones de FM100 (99,9 MHz), Radio Diez (AM 710 Khz) y como señalaba Nico, LS4 Radio Continental (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, condig list via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. I spoke with Dale, the station manager of ARDS, 5050, who told me the following: they are on 24 hours a day on their backup 400-watt transmitter. Their 1 kW main unit is broken and they are trying to sort out getting it fixed with the American firm that made it. He hoped that they would be back up to a kilowatt in six weeks (Hans Johnson, Oct 12, JihadDX via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Usually Radio Dada Gorgud, the Voice of Azerbaijan on v6110.8 is a strong carrier without practically any audio. 23 Oct at 1647 noted their Arabic program with decent level, but extremely distorted audio. Language changed at 1700, but I had to leave the radio for a moment. Rechecking around 1710, yes it was English with Radio Dada Gorgud IDs. At 1730 started Russian program. I hope they'll get the modulation to work properly someday (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, R. Bangladesh, Shavar, 0000 Aug 27, SIO 433, IS, ``Bangladesh Betar`` ID, pips, announcements, 0002 Islamic prayers, vernacular (Charles Hendry, Amersham, Bucks, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 4750, R. Bangladesh, 1533 28 Sept, news in English, SINPO 24333 (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth, Oct World DX Club Contact via DXLD) 4750, RB, 2357 4 Sept, music, TP [time pips??], talk, prayer, Bengali, SINPO 44343 (Arthur Miller, Llandrindod Wells, ibid.) And on 4753 at 1509 Sept 16, Bangladesh Betar, talk, ID, music, 1530 English, SINPO 33323 (Tomas Burian, Moravia, Czech Republic, ibid.) ** BARBADOS. Em 18/10 (19/10 UT) tive as primeiras escutas do Caribe nesta temporada aqui em São Carlos, S. Paulo. Tal qual a temporada passada, só chegaram as mesmas tres emissoras de Barbados: Voice of Barbados em 92.9, CBC em 94.7 e Hott 95.3 MHz. A propagação abriu às 2335 UT e se prolongou até a 0055 UT, um bom tempo de escuta e com muita música nas tres emissoras. Coloquei os tres audios destas emissoras em: http://scassio.multiply.com/music/item/102 As escutas foram efetuadas com o DEGEN DE 1103 e sua antena telescópica (ESCUTAS DE SAMUEL CÁSSIO MARTINS, SÃO CARLOS SP, BRASIL, @tividade DX via DXLD) FOR MORE T-E FMDX, see PROPAGATION below ** BRAZIL. Prezados amigos, Enquanto a R. Nacional está fora de frequência em 11783 kHz brigando com a Guaíba em 11785 kHz. Vale algumas dicas para ouvir a Guaíba com menos interferência: Detector Sync em modo USB Sintonia por batimento em modo USB Experimente 11786 AM com o filtro Narrow ativado. Para aqueles que utilizam a famosa antena DEGEN DE31 Loop ou similar, procure direcionar a mesma de forma que consiga atenuar o sinal da Nacional e reforce o da Guaíba. Dependendo da região do radioescuta isso também ajuda. Um forte 73 e boas escutas! (PU2LZB RENATO ULIANA, Lat: 23 26' 25,34" S, Long: 46 31' 27,75" W, Grid Locator: GG66rn, Oct 22, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL - A Súper Rádio Alvorada, de Rio Branco (AC), emite, na freqüência de 2460 kHz, entre 1000 e 2200, com uma potência de 1 kW. A estação está localizada na Avenida Ceará, 2150, CEP: 69900-460, Rio Branco (AC). A direção está a cargo de José Severiano. As informações são de Paulo Roberto e Souza, de Tefé (AM). BRASIL - Infelizmente já faz um bom tempo em que a Rádio Clube Paranaense, de Curitiba (PR), não é mais captada em 9725 e 11935 kHz. Pelo visto, a direção da estação paranaense desistiu de consertar os transmissores usados em tais freqüências. BRASIL - A Rádio Integração, de Cruzeiro do Sul (AC), está inativa na freqüência de 4765 kHz, conforme constatação de Paulo Roberto e Souza, de Tefé (AM). BRASIL - A freqüência de 5045 kHz, em que a Rádio Guarujá Paulista, de Guarujá (SP), transmite não tem mais nada a ver com a cidade de Presidente Prudente (SP), antigo local para o qual o canal havia sido concedido. A tramitação para que o canal seja regularizado em Guarujá está em andamento. Conforme o diretor da emissora Orivaldo Rampazo, Presidente Prudente jamais cuidou com carinho do transmissor de ondas tropicais que possuía, tanto é assim que a casa do transmissor e toda a infra-estrutura ``foram destruídas``. (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** CANADA. BEETHOVEN FOR BAFFIN Broadcasting Public Notice CRTC 2006-137, Ottawa, 23 October 2006 The Commission has received the following application. The deadline for submission of interventions/comments is 27 November 2006. [Broadcasting intervention/comments form] Item Applicant and Locality --- 1. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Application No. 2006-1186-5 Application by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to amend the licence of radio programming undertaking CBM-FM Montréal, Quebec. The licensee proposes to add an FM transmitter at Iqaluit to broadcast the programming of its Radio Two service, originating from CBM-FM Montréal, in order to serve the population of Iqaluit. The transmitter would operate on frequency 88.3 MHz (channel 202A) with an effective radiated power of 800 watts (non-directional antenna/antenna height of -37.4 metres). Licensee's address: 181 Queen Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1K9 Fax: 613-288-6257 E-Mail: regulatoryaffairs @ cbc.ca Examination of application: The reception, CBC, Iqaluit, Nunavut (Via Harry van Vugt, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) ** CANADA. RCI French Service Frequency Strip-Tease, Part Two Valid Oct. 29, 2006 to March 25, 2007 As transcribed from "Courrier mondial" Americas from 0000 to 0100 6100 via Sackville No programs specified Americas from 1200 to 1400 UT 6120 via Sackville No programs specified Americas from 1700 to 2100 UT 17835 via Sackville Mo-Fr: Christiane Charette and both hours of RCI's new daily news magazine Sa: Ouvert le Samedi, la Semaine Verte, RCI weekly review Su: Dimanche Magazine, la Semaine Verte, French mailbag Asia from 2300 to 2330 6160 via S. Korea 7195 via S. Korea 12045 via Japan Mo-Fr: third half-hour of daily news magazine Sa: first half-hour of weekly review Su: first half-hour of French mailbag Americas from 2300 to 0000 15180 via Sackville Mo-Fr: Desautel Sa: RCI weekly review Su: French mailbag (Ricky Leong, Calgary, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Radio Canada International, tuned in after 1600 UT Monday Oct. 23 to 7310 and heard RCI in French booming in almost off the signal indicator scale. Off suddenly at 1634. Parallel 17765 was much much weaker. Could they be testing 7310 for possble B-06 use? (Bernie O'Shea, Ottawa, Ontario, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looks that way. Would be a first, Sackville on the 7 MHz band, which they have never used even for relays of other stations (despite wooden CRI registrations inside the hamband). 7310 just barely audible here next day Oct 24 at 1612 check, but it`s a long haul at midday. CHU 7335 inaudible at this time. May be connected with CHU`s problems --- RCI moves into band, CHU has to move out (gh) ** CANADA. Hi, Glenn: Letter from Raymond Pelletier about CHU. Subject: Changes to CHU Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:43:05 -0400 Hello Dino, Thank you for you concern and support for CHU. We are quite prepared to keep CHU in operation, and we will try and make the best case possible to present to all decision makers. You can find detailed information about the changes to CHU, technical information and a history of CHU on our web site at: http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/shortwave_broadcasts_e.html Raymond Pelletier ============================================ Frequency and Time Institute for National Measurement Standards National Research Council Canada M-36, room 1026 1200 Montreal Road Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6 Tel: (613) 993-3430 Fax: (613) 952-1394 raymond.pelletier @ nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Government of Canada ======================================== Fréquence et temps Institut des étalons nationaux de mesure Conseil national de recherches Canada M-36, salle 1026 1200 chemin Montréal Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6 Tél: (613) 993-3430 Télécopieur: (613) 952-1394 raymond.pelletier @ nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Gouvernment du Canada (via Dino Bloise, FL, DXLD) See also CUBA [non] !!! ** CHILE. CVC B-06: see U S A [non] ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake, 10450 against Sound of Hope, was fair at 1334 check Oct 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On 7520, Oct 23 at 1336, heard slowly-enunciated Chinese (standard, I think), but with buzz-saw jamming. Per EiBi, KTWR is getting the treatment: 7520 1100-1500 GUM KTWR Trans World Radio M FE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Last couple of days I've been listening to an unID station on 7935 from around 1625 tune-in until their sign-off at 1700. Language sounds like Central-Asian and the closing music 1700 a bit like Chinese. Haven't been able to get any id so far. Checked some listings and nothing found on 7935. Is this some CNR minorities program or something else? (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This one was reported by Zacharias Liangas some days ago as CNR-6 Minorities. According to schedule it should be Mongolian at 1600-1700 (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) OK, thanks Noel (and Zach). Mongolian fits fine as the language (Jari, ibid.) ** CHINA [and non]. Glenn -- I received this Excel file in my email from CRI, containing their preliminary schedule for English broadcasts in B06. (No sites listed, unfortunately.) Didn't recall seeing this before, and scanned through the last few weeks of WOR and came up empty, so I thought I'd pass it along. --ms (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Mark. We have laboriously removed colon and semicolon clutter, and all the extraneous times in Beijing and local. BTW, wrong EST shown as 4 hours behind UTC, and wrong PST as 7 hours! Some of the time conversions for Delhi, Colombo were also wrong, as UT +4:30 instead of 5:30. Some of the listings are duplicate, e.g. for East and West NAm. Removed wavelengths --- how out of it are they in Beijing if they think anybody cares what the meters are for SW or even MW frequencies, to three decimal places? Removed most of the target cities mentioned except some associated with MW frequencies; FM relays removed. The Brazil broadcast at 1300 (via Chile) on 17625 makes us wonder whether the schedule is not really fully updated, since the B- 06 frequency for that transmission is supposed to be 15540. What is that doing on the page at the bottom mixed in with MW and FM relays, ditto to South Africa on 6100? Some of the entries are out of time order, mostly left as shown (gh) BROADCAST TIMES AND FREQUENCIES FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE SERVICE (Beginning October 29th, 2006) North America (East Coast) 2300-2400 6040 11970 2400-0200 6020 9570 0100-0200 9580 6005 6080 0300-0400 9690 9790 6190 0400-0500 6190 0500-0600 6190 5960 0600-0700 6115 1100-1200 5960 1300-1400 9570 11885 15230 1400-1500 13740 13675 15230 1500-1600 13740 North America (West Coast) 2300-2400 6040 11970 0100-0200 9580 6005 6080 0300-0400 9690 9790 6190 0400-0500 6190 0500-0600 6190 5960 0600-0700 6115 1100-1200 5960 1300-1400 9570 11885 15230 1400-1500 13740 13675 15230 1500-1600 13740 Middle America = Caribbean Sea 2300-2400 5990 Europe 1600-1700 7255 9435 9525 1700-1800 7205 7255 1800-1900 6100 7100 2000-2200 7190 9600 2000-2200 5960 7285 2200-2300 7170 0000-0200 7130 0700-0900 11785 17490 0900-1100 17490 1100-1300 13665 17490 1200-1300 13790 1300-1400 13610 13790 1400-1500 9700 9795 1500-1600 9435 9525 East Asia 2200-2300 5915 2300-0000 6145 0000-0100 9425 0300-0500 9460 0800-1000 9415 1000-1600 5955 0300-0500 Siberia 13620 15120 1000-1100 Siberia 7135 7215 Middle Asia 0400-0600 17725 17855 1200-1300 11690 1300-1500 9765 Southeast Asia 1600-1800 Laos, Vietnam 1080 0000-0200 11650 11885 0600-0800 13645 17710 1000-1200 13720 13590 1200-1300 9730 11980, Manila 1341, Ho Chi Minh City 684 1300-1400 11980 9730 9870, Manila 1341 1400-1500 9870 1500-1600 7325 9870 South Asia 1600-1800 Islamabad 1323 2300-2400 5915 7180 0000-0200 6075 7180 0200-0300 11770 13640 0300-0400 15110 11770 0500-0900 11880 15350 15465 17540 0900-1100 15350 17750 1000-1100 15190 15350 1100-1200 1269 9570 1100-1200 11650 11795 13645 1200-1300 1188 1269 7250 1188 1269 12080 1200-1300 9460 11650 1300-1400 7300 9655 1400-1500 7300 9460 1500-1600 1188 1323 7160 9785 West Asia 1900-2000 7295 9440 2000-2100 7295 9440 0500-0700 17505 0600-0700 15140 11770 The South Pacific 0900-1100 15210 17690 1200-1300 11760 9760 1300-1400 11760 11900 East and South Africa 1400-1600 13685 17630 1600-1800 9570 7150 2000-2130 11640 13630 West and North Africa 1900-2000 9440 7295 2000-2100 9440 7295 0500-0600 7220 0600-0700 11750 0500-0700 17505 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #One hour program is relayed by WUST or New World Radio 1300-1400 Washington D.C 1120 AM 1300-1400 Brazil 17625 [A-06 out of date; see below] 1400-1700 (Mon-Fri) London 558 AM 1500-1700 (Sat-Sun) London 558 AM 2000-2100 Lithuania 1386 AM 2100-2300 Luxemburg 1440 AM 0300-0400 Moscow 738 AM 2200-2230 Melbourne 1341 AM 1500-1800 South Africa Area 6100 0600-0800 Albania 1215 (CRI via M. Schiefelbein, edited and reformatted by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. CVC B-06 schedule confirms that B-06 CRI relays via Chile are: 11-14 on 15540 [13 in English], 21-22 on 17645 (via Hector Frias, CE3FZL, Radioescucchas FEDERACHI, CHILE, Oct 24, DXLD) ** CUBA. Spy letters on MCW, 5800, Monday Oct 23 at 0607, no echo/print-through this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. The rapid clicks which I have decided are spurious from jammers against R. Martí were heard on both 11980 and 11880 at 1416 Oct 23, a nicely matched pair originating at 11930. No victims on either frequency. Furthermore, the 11845 jammers were also putting out spurs 50 kHz above and below on 11795 and 11895, altho it was difficult to separate the ones around 11880 from 11895. At 1525 recheck, the clix were still audible on 11880 & 11980. The offset varies from time to time, up to 60 kHz or more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Radio República B-06: [via GERMANY], 2300-0400 Mon-Fri (and into Tuesday-Saturday) on 7335 (Jeff White, RMI, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeff, 7335! That`s CHU timesignal frequency from Canada. PLEASE get it somewhere else! 73, (Glenn to Jeff White, via DXLD) Glenn: I have just e-mailed T-Systems about 7335 (Jeff White, 1651 UT Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECH REPUBLIC [and non]. Oldrich, Thanks for your reply and good to hear from you. I am still hearing the Sackville relay on 15350 at 1400 quite well. I see that it is still not included on http://www.radio.cz/en/frequencies Nor do I see a B-06 schedule yet for R. Prague. Could you provide one as soon as possible? I assume this particular transmission will have to change time or frequency due to Turkey on 15350 until 1500 in B-06. Best regards, (Glenn to Oldrich Cip, Oct 23, via DXLD) Thanks, Glenn, for letting me know. I have contacted the IT Radio Prague colleagues again. They have been busy but have promised to amend the current A06 schedule and to upload the B06 version as soon as possible. You are right: The present 1400 UT SAC frequency will be replaced by 15160 kHz in the B06 schedule - and I am quite keen to know how this novelty time-slot for Western NA is received over there both now and in B06. Let me also note again that some of the experimental relay services from SAC and RMI are temporary only and will be terminated by the end of 2006. Best, (Oldrich Cip, R. Prague, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. EGITO – Conforme anunciado na edição anterior, a Rádio Cairo estudava a possibilidade de transmitir, em português, entre 2215 e 2330, pela freqüência de 9360 kHz. Pois agora, com a divulgação do novo esquema de emissões da estação, tal canal foi confirmado como o que será usado no período B-06. Inicialmente, a estação egípcia pensava emitir em 7360 kHz, conforme informações do integrante do Departamento Brasileiro, Amal El Disuki. Para o novo período de emissões B-06, a programação em espanhol da Rádio El Cairo será emitida, entre 0045 e 0200, nas freqüências de 7270, 9360 e 9415 kHz (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Voice of Oromia Independence, B-06: 1700-1730 Saturday on 9820 (Jeff White, RMI, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via GERMANY ** FRANCE. RFI abridges German service --- See the enclosed message. Yes, RFI still has a German service although it never appears in WRTH anymore, because they took it off shortwave and Sélestat 1278 kHz a full decade ago. It was also in 1996 when RFI introduced new morning and noon broadcasts in German to get the 106.0 FM frequency in Berlin. Now these additional releases will be limited to Mon-Fri only, interestingly with the start of the B06 season. So much for shortwave being irrelevant for RFI in Europe now. By the way, the RFI website suggests that the other language services recently removed from shortwave (Polish etc.) are still around as well (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:24:00 +0200 Subject: [A-DX] RFI Paris in Deutsch am Wochenende nur noch abends From: Andreas Nitschke Ab dem 29. Oktober 2006 stellt Radio France International die deutschen Sendungen um 8:30 und 12:30 Uhr MEZ am Wochenende ein. Samstags und Sonntags wird auf deutsch nur noch die Abendsendung um 18:00 Uhr MEZ bzw. 18:30 MEZ auf UKW in Sachsen gesendet. Demzufolge gibt es laut http://www.rfi.fr/langues/statiques/rfi_allemand.asp damit am Wochenende keine deutschen Sendungen über die Pariser Mittelwelle 738 khz (nur Morgensendung) und die Mittelwelle 1179 von Antenne Saar (nur Mittagssendung) mehr. Gruesse aus Freiberg /Sachsen von Andreas (A-DX via Ludwig, ibid.) ** FRANCE [non]. Ditto Oct 23 to previous and continuing observations of RFI in English via Japan at 1400 on 6120. Oct 24, best reception yet, quite listenable, no strain. But will it survive into B-06? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. ANO harmonic, 19160, Oct 23 at 1344 weak in French talk; slightly better at 1412 from S2 to peaks at S7. No sign of Chile on 19270 yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Trans World Radio - Guam B06 P. O. Box 8780, Agat, Guam 96928 USA Effective Date: October 29, 2006 Language UTC Days Frequency/mb ---------------------------------------- To China Cantonese 1300-1345 Mon-Fri 9975 / 31 Cantonese 1300-1400 Sat-Sun 9975 / 31 Cantonese 2300-2345 Mon-Fri 12130 / 25 Cantonese 2300-2400 Sat-Sun 12130 / 25 Hakka 0815-0845 Sun-Wed 13730 / 22 Mandarin 0845-0930 Daily 13730 / 22 Mandarin 0930-1100 Daily 9865 / 31 Mandarin 0930-1100 Daily 12130 / 25 Mandarin 0930-1230 Sun-Fri 9910 / 31 Mandarin 0930-1215 Sat 9910 / 31 Mandarin 1030-1100 Daily 11690 / 25 Mandarin 1100-1400 Daily 7485 / 41 Mandarin 1200-1415 Mon-Fri 9355 / 31 Mandarin 1200-1400 Sun 9355 / 31 Mandarin 1200-1330 Sat 9355 / 31 Mandarin 2300-2330 Daily 11760 / 25 Mandarin 2300-2345 Daily 11975 / 25 Swatow 0815-0945 Thu-Sat 13730 / 22 To Japan Japanese 1200-1230 Mon-Fri 9465 / 31 Japanese 1200-1245 Sat-Sun 9465 / 31 Japanese 2200-2230 Mon-Fri 11760 / 25 Japanese 2200-2245 Sat-Sun 11760 / 25 To Korea Korean 1400-1530 Daily 7485 / 41 Korean 1530-1600 Sat 7485 / 41 To South Pacific English 0800-0900 Mon-Fri 11840 / 25 English 0800-0845 Sat 11840 / 25 To SE Asia English 0805-0900 Mon-Fri 15170 / 16 To Indonesia Balinese 0900-0915 Fri-Tue 15200 / 19 Indonesian 1000-1100 Daily 15200 / 19 Javanese 1100-1130 Daily 15275 / 19 Madurese 0915-1000 Daily 15200 / 19 Sundanese 1130-1200 Daily 15275 / 19 Torajanese 0900-0915 Wed-Thu 15200 / 19 To Myanmar Burmese 1200-1300 Daily 9975 / 31 Sgaw Karen 1300-1330 Daily 9585 / 31 To Vietnam Vietnamese 1100-1130 Daily 9635 / 31 Vietnamese 1400-1430 Mon-Fri 9920 / 31 Vietnamese 1400-1500 Sat-Sun 9920 / 31 To Cambodia Khmer 1300-1330 Daily 11695 / 25 To South Asia Kokborok 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 9385 / 31 Kokborok 1245-1300 Sat 9385 / 31 English 1400-1500 Mon-Thu 9975 / 31 English 1400-1430 Fri 9975 / 31 Assamese 1330-1400 Mon-Sat 11800 / 25 Mus/Bengali 1345-1400 Mon-Tue 9450 / 31 Boro 1345-1400 Wed-Sun 9450 / 31 Santhali 1330-1345 Daily 9450 / 31 Manipuri 1400-1415 Sat-Sun 12065 / 25 Mus/Bengali 1400-1430 Mon-Fri 12065 / 25 Mus/Bengali 1415-1430 Sat 12065 / 25 (Reformatted from excel sheet received from George Ross, KTWR via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUYANA. GUIANA – A Rádio Guiana, que emite desde Georgetown, foi captada, em Mairiporã (SP), pelo Sérgio Partamian, em oito de outubro, às 0611, pela freqüência de 3291 kHz. Ele ouviu noticiário em inglês (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) Cf my previous item in Language Lessons: apparently in Portuguese it remains Guiana (gh) ** HUNGARY. Winter B-06 schedule of Radio Budapest English to Eu 1600-1628 Sun 6025 9565 2000-2028 Daily 3975 6025 2200-2228 Daily 6025 English to SoAf 2200-2228 Daily 9535 English to NoAm 0200-0228 Daily 6110 0330-0358 Daily 6035 German to Eu 1300-1358 Sun 6025 7215 1500-1558 Sun 6025 7275 1800-1858 Sun 3975 6025 1830-1858 Mon-Sat 3975 6025 2030-2058 Mon-Sat 3975 6025 French to Eu 1700-1728 Daily 3975 6025 2100-2128 Daily 6025 Hungarian to Eu 0500-1258 Sun 6025 relay Kossuth Radio 0500-1658 Mon-Sat 6025 relay Kossuth Radio 1400-1458 Sun 6025 1900-1958 Daily 3975 6025 2100-2158 Daily 3975 2300-2358 Daily 6025 Hungarian to SoAf 2000-2058 Daily 9620 Hungarian to NoAm 0100-0158 Daily 6110 0230-0328 Daily 5980 2200-2258 Daily 6140 Hungarian to SoAm 2300-2358 Daily 9580 12030 0000-0058 Mon 9580 12030 Hungarian to AUS 1200-1258 Daily 17670 1900-1958 Daily 11755 Italian to Eu 1730-1758 Daily 3975 6025 2130-2158 Daily 6025 Russian to Eu 0400-0428 Daily 3975 6025 1630-1658 Sun 3975 6025 1800-1828 Mon-Sat 3975 6025 2030-2058 Sun 3975 6025 Spanish to Eu/SoAm 0430-0458 Daily 3975 6025 2230-2258 Daily 6025 7150 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 23 via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR opening GOS in English on 9690 at 1330 Oct 23, announcing numerous frequencies, some to Australia, on other bands such as 16, 19 and 21 meters! They must have played the wrong tape, probably the one for the 1000 UT broadcast, because this one is on only 3 frequencies on 9, 11 and 13 MHz. Weak but clear. An hour later when the mailbag should have been on, at 1430, had become inaudible with adjacent QRM. Meanwhile I checked some other AIR frequencies just after 1330. Compared to 9690, 9820 was stronger with music, and 10330 even stronger with talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR 90 mb to 60 mb changes --- Dear friends, Here are details of changes of AIR from 90 meters to 60 meters which is expected to come into effect from the B-2006 season. 3223 50 kw Shimla 0025-0200 1300-1730(Sat, Sun 1741) Replaced by 4965 3315 50 kw Bhopal 0025-0215 1130-1742 To be replaced by 4810 3365 50 kw Delhi (Kingsway) 1220-1841 To be replaced by 5015 3390 10 kw Gangtok 0100-0400 1030-1600(Sun 1630) Replaced by 4845 Note: Last year also the similar information was there but unfortunately it was put on hold at the last minute. Anyway, watch out on the AIR 90 meter frequencies in the coming days. Yours sincerely, 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India, Oct 24, dx_india via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. Suara Indonesia, active on 9525, Oct 23 at 1320 with song, segué to another song at 1327; could not hear anything on 11860 which seems to make it to Europe at this hour; too much Harold Camping adjacent. 9680 at 1329 was going from Qur`an to instrumental music with the usual CCI. Back to 9525: 1350 English ID; 1358 sign-off mixing with CRI music, NA, and VOI carrier on past 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525, VOI, Oct 24, 0814-0900, in English; commentary about Indonesian foreign policy, promo for visiting Indonesia, program ``Getting to Know Indonesia``, canned RRI Overseas Service ID, also IDs for VOI on 9525, 15150 and 11785; from 0824-0856, a special program about the Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan (Eid) and about the Mudik holiday, the tradition of Indonesian Muslims to visit their home village; wishes everyone a ``Happy 1427``; variety of Islamic music and pop/rock songs, news. Fair-good (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525 also active until 1400* (gh) ** IRAN. IRIB ENGLISH RADIO BROADCASTING SCHEDULE (B2006) 1030-1130 15460 Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan & Kashmir 17660 Indian Subcontinent, Pakistan & Kashmir 702 MW Republic of Azerbaijan 765 Pakistan FM 100.7 Tehran 1130-1230 Receivable Only Via Internet and Hotbird Satellite 1530-1630 7330 Indian Subcontinent 6160 Indian Subcontinent 1930-2030 6010 Europe 7320 Europe 9855 South Africa 11695 South Africa 2130-2230 Receivable Only Via Internet and Hotbird Satellite 0030-0130 Receivable Only Via Internet and Hotbird Satellite 0130-0230 7160 North America 6120 North America Please mail your correspondence to IRIB English service, P. O. Box No: 19395-6767, Tehran I.R of Iran E-Mail:: Englishradio @ irib.ir (via Swopan Chakroborty, Kolkata, India, Oct 23, reformatted by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. LITHUANIA. Relay schedule of IRIB (VOIRI) via Sitkunai 100 kW in B06: 0630-0730 Italian on 7545, 1430-1530 Russian on 6250, 1730-1830 German on 6250, 1830-1930 French on 6250, 1930-2030 English, 2030-2130 Spanish. All broadcasts are transmitted with a 259 degrees beam, except for Russian which has a 79 degrees beam (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I assume that means 1930-2130 also on 6250. So much for clearing broadcasters out of the marine band (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. Hi Glen[n]: NHK World B-06 sked was posted this a.m. Despite rumours that NHK was going to suspend English to some part or parts of the Western Hemisphere, there is no evidence that I can see in the B06 sked. Good news - wish some other broadcasters would wake up and realize shortwave is alive and kicking. I don't for a minute believe there is any other media as intimate, free and informative. I sit and watch TV enough as it is, and won't pay a monthly stipend for satellite radio. O.K. Thomas -- Off the Soapbox !! Regards from (Thomas Moyer in Bowmanville. Ont. Canada, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK World`s cutback plans are for a year from now, and I believe they still stand (gh, DXLD) Viz.: R. Japan English B-06 *Starting at 10:00 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) [0100 UT] on Sunday October 29, frequencies for NHK World Radio Japan will change. October 29, 2006-March 25, 2007 English 0000-0015 13650, 17810 Southeast Asia 0000-0100 6145 Canada relay East North America 0100-0200 11860 Singapore relay, 17810 Southeast Asia 0100-0200 11935 Bonaire relay South America 0100-0200 15325 Southwest Asia 0100-0200 17685 Oceania 0100-0200 17825 Central America 0100-0200 17825 North America 0100-0200 17845 Asian Continent 0100-0200 6030 United Kingdom relay, 17560 Middle East & North Africa 0300-0400 21610 Oceania 0500-0600 17810 Southeast Asia 0500-0600 5975 United Kingdom relay Europe 0500-0600 6110 Canada relay West North America 0500-0700 15195 Asian Continent 0500-0700 21755 Oceania 0500-0700 7230 United Kingdom relay Europe 0600-0700 11690 Central America 0600-0700 11690 North America 0600-0700 11715, 11760 Far East Russia 0600-0700 11740 Singapore relay Southeast Asia 0600-0700 17870 Hawaii 1000-1100 17585 United Arab Emirates relay Europe 1000-1100 17720 United Arab Emirates relay Middle East & North Africa 1000-1100 21755 Oceania 1000-1200 11730 Asian Continent 1000-1200 6120 Canada relay East North America 1000-1200 9695 Southeast Asia 1400-1500 11840 Sri Lanka relay Oceania 1400-1600 7200 Southeast Asia 1400-1600 9875 Southwest Asia 1500-1600 6190 Asian Continent 1500-1600 9505 Central America 1500-1600 9505 North America 1700-1800 11970 Europe 1700-1800 15355 Gabon relay South Africa 1700-1800 9535 Central America 1700-1800 9535 North America 2100-2200 11855 Ascension relay Central Africa 2100-2200 17825 North America 2100-2200 21670 Hawaii 2100-2200 6035 Singapore relay Oceania 2100-2200 6090 United Kingdom relay, 6180 United Kingdom relay Europe (English excerpt resorted from PDF file from Radio Japan website, Daniel Sampson, Prime Time Shortwave, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS. VU7, (Update and News) --- Members of the Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) have announced that the VU7LD DXpedition team will be active during the entire month of December. Members of ARSI will be active from Kavaratti Island during this period. An all Indian operator team will be operational on all bands, including the low and WARC bands, and on all modes - SSB, CW and Digital. This will give the amateur radio operators around the world their first chance to work this rare entity after so many years. They also plan to have 8 stations on the air at the start of their operation. However, the ARSI is looking for support and funds. A Web site is now available online with details on how to show your support, up-to-date press releases, list of operators and online logs (when available), at: http://www.arsi.info/vu7/index.html Remember to QSL this operation via W3HNK. The National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR) plans to organize an International Hamfest with approximately 50 multi-national and Indian operators to activate VU7RG from the Laksheedweep Islands group. The activity will take place between December 1-10th from at least three different islands. Islands mentioned are: Agatti, Bangaram and Kadmat. There will be three reliable QSL Managers from each ITU Region: Region 1 - The German DX Foundation (GDXF) Region 2 - Bob Schenck, N2OO Region 3 - The I-House Radio Club The NIAR is also look for support. More details about this operation, hamfest, announced operators and how to support/donate to this operation are available on the VU7RG NIAR Web page at: http://www.vu7.in/ (KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80, Oct 23 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA via DXLD) Old name: Laccadive; two competing DXpeditions? (gh) ** LIBYA [and non]. The Ozma service was out in full force to block Sawt al-Amal, Oct 23 at 1346: parallel music on 17650, 17660 and 17665, but only 17650 had CCI, SAH with Arabic talk, so that must have been the spot for Sawt al-Amal at the moment, and Ozma shortly into talk as well with ID by YL at 1347, then a long list of ``kilohertez`` and at 1349 ``megahertez``, presumably all their network frequencies on AM and FM, but I bet she didn`t mention these on SW. Rechecked at 1414, all three were gone, and WHRA was on 17650. Also hum of Voice of Africa, Swahili via France was audible on 21695 at 1343, as well as stronger hum on 17610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. B-06 relays: see IRAN [non] ** MALDIVE ISLANDS [non]. Minivan Radio B-06: 1600-1700 daily on 11800 (Jeff White, RMI, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via GERMANY ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Re 6-157, 11730: Saludos cordiales Glenn, está en lo cierto. No sé porqué me obcequé en que fue Radio Nacional de Venezuela; durante la transmisión no se identificó, y además terminó bruscamente sin identificación ni sintonía, a pesar de que busqué en EiBi e incluso consulté en último Informe DX donde comentó algunas frecuencias y tras comprobar que ninguna frecuencia correspondía e esta emisora e incluso pude observar que la transmisión no correspondía con de 11670, ni siquiera la locutora era la misma, en fin, me encabezoné de tal manera y pensé que a pesar de todo ello tenía que tratarse de Radio Nacional de Venezuela. Mis disculpas por tan tremendo error. Atentamente (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. HOLANDA - A Seção de Língua Portuguesa da Rádio Nederland foi fechada. A emissora oferece, agora, para seus ouvintes e leitores, um serviço chamado Escritório Brasil. Trabalham no Brasil os profissionais Railda Herrero e Mário de Freitas. Este último pode ser ouvido, agora, na programação em espanhol da Nederland, num perfeito ``portunhol``, como correspondente (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. RNW winter shortwave frequency schedule now online --- Our new winter shortwave frequency schedule, effective on Sunday 29 October, is now available on our website. This has been checked for accuracy by a colleague in our Programme Distribution Department http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/practical/061029schedule (October 23rd, 2006, 14:47 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, analog 7145 audible but rather weak with ham CWQRM, Oct 23 at 1338 with historical reminiscences conversation. I guess this was RNZI Talk, an off-week for alternating Mailbox. 6095 DRM also audible. By 1434, 7145 was JBA. So later I went to http://www.rnzi.com/pages/audio.php and listened to the latest Mailbox audio, which was for Oct 2; wasn`t there a show on Oct 16? 7145 missing again after 1400 Oct 24, no trace of carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Updated B-06 of Radio New Zealand International from Oct. 29: 1751-1850 9870 RAN 100 kW / 035 deg AM to NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 1751-1850 11675 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg DRM to NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 1851-1950 11675 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 1851-1950 15720 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 1951-2150 17675 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 1951-2150 15720 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 2151-0358 15720 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 2151-0358 17675 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 0359-0658 17675 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 0359-0658 15720 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 0659-1058 9890 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 0659-1058 9870 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 1059-1258 13840 RAN 100 kW / 325 deg AM to NW Pacific, Bougainville, PNG, Timor 1059-1258 9870 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific 1259-1750 5950 RAN 100 kW / 000 deg AM to All Pacific 1259-1750 7145 RAN 035 kW / 000 deg DRM to All Pacific (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 23 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. I just heard a WWLS legal ID on 1550 kHz. The station was in with a nearly local-like signal. When did they move from 640? I used to hear them on 640 on occasion under WCRV when they dropped to night power (Adam Myrow, Memphis, TN, Oct 23, NRC-AM via DXLD) I think the switch was made in the last week or two (Paul Walker, NH, ibid.) I haven`t had a chance to monitor since I just saw this item, but per http://www.okcradio.net/ OKC NEWS: KKWD (Wild 97-Dot-9) and 104.9 WWLS-FM (WWLS The Sports Animal, also on AM 640) swapped frequencies today (10.23.06) TULSA NEWS: OKC's WWLS The Sports Animal Simulcast Begins On Tulsa Move-In KYAL-FM (Formerly Country Y97 -- KMMY) (04.03.06) And surely WWLS is still on 640. It runs a small state network, including Sapulpa 1550 KYAL, listed as such in the NRC AM Log. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, ibid.) ** ROMANIA. ROMÊNIA - Aos domingos, a programação em espanhol da Rádio Romênia Internacional leva ao ar o segmento Rincón Diexista. Victoria Sepciu apresenta informações do mundo das ondas curtas, com colaborações de dexistas como Arnaldo Slaen e Dino Bloise (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Very good reception in BUL for Radio Gardarika on Oct.22: 1000-1100 on 12010 (45554) 15640 (55544) (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 23 via DXLD) One-shot, apparently (gh) ** RUSSIA. Winter B-06 for Voice of Russia Russian WS: 0200-0300 603 648 936 972 1503 5995 6195 6250 7150 7260 7350 12010 12030 0300-0400 936 6250 7150 7260 7330 12010 12030 1300-1400 936 999 1143 1431 1548 6170 7260 9800 9885 11630^ 12025 12060* 15460# 1400-1500 558 1251 5905* 5940 6170 7110 7260 9800 9885 11500 11630^ 12055 15460# 1600-1700 1251 1314 6005 7110 9885 1800-1900 603 630 693 1431 1575 5985 7290 2000-2030 612 1215 5940 6170 7230 7285 7290 2030-2100 612 1215 5940 7230 7285 7290 2100-2200 999 1215 7285 ^ till March 3 # from March 4 * DRM mode (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 23 via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA weakly audible on 13m, Oct 23 at 1343 in Arabic on 21640, also two different buzzes on 21505 and 21460, the latter with Qur`an also audible. Then at 1518, absolutely huge buzz overpowering whatever modulation was on 15435. At 1411, R. Riyadh ID in French audible on 21600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM. AIR Gangtok about to move to 4845? see INDIA ** SLOVAKIA. Mensaje recibido de Radio Eslovaquia. Estimados radioyentes, Queridos amigos, Con sincero placer nos permitimos comunicarles que a partir del día 29 de octubre Radio Eslovaquia Internacional volverá a transmitir en la onda corta. En esta ocasión les convocamos para la diaria escucha de nuestras transmisiones de media hora en español, incluidos los sábados y los domingos. La primera transmisión del día podrá ser captada en las frecuencias de 9445 y 11600 kilohercios. Los radioyentes de América del Sur están invitados a escucharnos sólo en la frecuencia de 11600 kilohercios en la onda de 25 ms. Mientras que los de la Europa Occidental en las de 9445 kilohercios y en la onda de 31 ms. Estas señales les llegarán a las 15 y 30 horas de Tiempo Universal Coordinado. La siguiente emisión se efectuará en los países de Europa Occidental y América del Sur por las frecuencias de 9460 y 11610 kilohercios en la longitud de onda de 31 y 25 ms respectivamente a las 2100 horas TUC (Tiempo Universal Coordinado). Los sudamericanos podrán recibirlas también a las 2 y 30 horas TUC por las frecuencias de 7230 y 9440 kilohercios en la longitud de onda de 41 y 31 metros. Siempre durante esta media hora estaremos comunicándonos desde Radio Eslovaquia Internacional, los 7 días de la semana. Les agradecemos a todos los que nos han apoyado durante los pasados 4 meses. José Portuondo José Mas Ladislava Hudzovicova (via José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 24, dxldyg via DXLD) Pues, qué bonito detalle, verdad mi estimado Pepe. He recibido directamente de Laya ese mismo texto que publicas, y me obliga a acotar que hasta en esto se ve la delicadeza y el calor humano con que estos amigos eslovacos nos dispensan, el hecho de tomarse unos segundos para directamente hacernos saber que nos volveremos a encontrar por medio de las ondas. Encuentro que sí conservan las mismas frecuencias, al menos en lo que respecta para América Latina por 9440 a las 0230, la cual resultó ser la más confiable antes de aquella triste despedida. Un abrazo (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.) ** SOMALIA [non]. Radio Waaberi B-06: 1330-1400 Friday on 17550 (Jeff White, RMI, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) via GERMANY; no change ** SPAIN. Nice to hear REE making it well on 13m during Nuestro Sello, classical music show, Oct 23 at 1342, strongest on 21610, then 21570, then 21540, // 17595, Costa Rica 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Radio Exterior de España, English 29 Oct, 2006-24 Mar. 2007 0000-0059 6055 America 2000-2059 11680 Monday-Friday Africa 2000-2059 9680 Monday-Friday Europe 2200-2259 11625 Sunday Africa 2200-2259 6125 Saturday-Sunday Europe (excerpt of English from foreign languages via REE website, Daniel Sampson, Prime Time Shortwave, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. ESPANHA - A Rádio Exterior da Espanha leva ao ar, nos sábados, às 1600, o segmento Corresponsales del Sur. São irradiadas notícias de países que pouco aparecem na mídia, tais como Equador, Nicarágua, El Salvador, com os quais a Espanha mantém cooperação em diversas áreas dos conhecimentos. Na América do Sul pode ser sintonizado, em 11815, 17595, 17715 e 21570 kHz. A apresentação é de Rosalinda Cantizano. ESPANHA - Amigos de la Onda Curta é o programa da Rádio Exterior da Espanha que fala da radiodifusão espanhola, mundial e das ondas curtas. Um dos segmentos é a Ronda de las Emisoras, que apresenta informações de uma estação internacional que transmite em espanhol. A apresentação é de Antonio Buitrago (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Hi all, I found Radio Manresa, Manresa, Spain on 1539 kHz at 0158, Oct 24 with three different canned IDs in Catalan, time beeps at 0200 followed by Noticiero Cadena SER in Spanish of course. "Son las cuatro horas, las tres en Canarias..." . So it was just the IDs that were local. SIO 343. 73 (Johan Berglund, Trollhättan, Sweden, AOR AR7030, K9AY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. It was a hot night for over the pond stuff and quiet conditions. The following from 6:45 P.M. till around 11:45 P.M. [EDT = 2245 UT Oct 23-0345 UT Oct 24] when I ran out of steam [one excerpt]: 1296 kHz, Sudan, Reiba, Arabic music with drums predominant above and under Spain, // 7200 NEW COUNTRY. OLD ROY FROM OLD CAPE COD, R-75, Flag at 63 degrees (Roy Barstow, WTFDA-AM via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 6030, 21/10 1605, R. Maranatha - Bishkek, Tagico talk OM suf (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. V. of Tibet, via Tajikistan, 17557, 1231 22 Sept, OM talk in Tibetan, jammer on 17560, SINPO 33432; also on 17562 at 1102 6 September, jammer at 1107 on 17565, SINPO 35533 (Michael L. Ford, Staffordshire, Oct World DX Club Contact via DXLD) And on 17552, 1145 Sept 17, opening announcements, talk in Chinese, SIO 343 (Tony Rogers, Birmingham, BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Winter B-06 for Radio Ukraine International: 0000-0500 on 5820 SMF 500 kW / 314 deg to NoAmEa 0100-0600 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 055 deg to RUS 0600-0900 on 7440 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 0900-1400 on 9925 KHR 100 kW / 277 deg to WeEu 1400-1800 on 5830 KHR 100 kW / 055 deg to RUS 1800-0100 on 5840 KHR 100 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German 0000-0100 on 5840 1800-1900 on 5840 2100-2200 on 5840 English 0100-0200 on 5820 0400-0500 on 5820 1200-1300 on 9925 2200-2300 on 5840 Ukrainian on all other times & frequencies (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 23 via DXLD) ** U S A. KAIJ, 9975, testing again with non-DGS programming, Oct 23 at 1333 with far-out commercials for such as something called lasemedinc; fair. Could not hear after 1400 but overwhelming QRM from 9985 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. CVC. B-06 Zonas Idioma UTC kHz México, América Central y El Caribe Español 0100-0400 11970 Norte de Sudamérica, América Central Español 0100-0800 11805 0800-1000 6185 1100-0100 17680 Brasil Portugués 1000-2300 15410 2300-0800 11745 0700-0900 6050 Cono Sur Español 0000-1200 6070 1200-0000 9635 Proporcionado por Hector Frías, FEDERACHI (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DXLD; also spreadsheet via Frías, DXLD) See also CHINA [non] Collisions they don`t give a damn about: 6185 with XEPPM Mexico, 6070 with CFRX (if it ever comes back) (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Re: Word to Russia --- Glenn, thanks for the original citation of an intriguing story... http://radiolawendel.blogspot.com/2006/10/dalla-russia-con-livore.html Cheers, (Andy Lawendel, Italy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In Italian. Apparently he also finds this an astounding situation, an American city taken over by immigrants dedicated to gay-bashing. Also has a link to the WtR website; I don`t see anything on that particular page about their anti-gay agenda (gh) ** U S A. Hello Glenn: 10/22/06, 2127 [CDT?], 90.5 KUT TX Austin; noted with "World Music" program, playing songs from Cuba, Africa & the middle east. Seems to go on all Sunday afternoon & evening! (Steven C. Wiseblood, Port Isabel TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. THIRSTY FOR RADIO, TEXANS WAIT OUT DROUGHT Water to the desert --- By Mike Janssen Homespun Texan audacity spawned Marfa Public Radio --- and might also deserve some blame for the station's long-delayed launch. KRTS, the first and only public radio station in the sparsely populated Big Bend area, has had a lot going for it --- buzz in the press, an eager and media-starved audience and blessings from the likes of Dan Rather and Willie Nelson. Yet two years after its founders lassoed a frequency, the station is broadcasting only on a web stream and awaits a construction permit from the FCC. Robert Walker, an Austin-based media investor who won the FM channel in a 2004 FCC auction, blames the long wait mainly on the Mexican government, which he says must also approve the station due to its proximity to the border. But station operators tangled themselves in red tape earlier this year when they began transmitting without FCC approval. Such an error can bring a fine or even get a broadcaster barred from the air for life, though Walker, who has tried to smooth over the gaffe with the commission, expects leniency. A break in the logjam couldn't come soon enough for Marfa residents. No public radio station serves the 20,000 square miles of West Texas that juts along the Rio Grande south of New Mexico. The only stations reaching into town are a nearby country-music outlet and occasionally a signal coming across the Mexican border. The town of 2,100, situated among wide grazing lands and scenic mountain ranges, is more than two hours by car from the nearest airport and seven hours from Austin. Yet it has become surprisingly cosmopolitan despite its isolation. Last weekend, its population more than doubled when tourists poured in for the Chinati Foundation's annual Open House, an exhibition of contemporary art founded in the mid-'80s by minimalist artist Donald Judd. The sculptor acquired a large parcel near Marfa in 1979 for permanent exhibition of his works and those of his contemporaries, attracting thousands of pilgrims from the art world. Out-of-towners fell in love with the little town and swelled a new wave of growth for Marfa. "You still see people in boots, Western hats and jeans," says Kay Burnett, a philanthropist and backer of Marfa Public Radio who lives in nearby Alpine. But New York-style bistros, galleries and bookstores now line the town's wide streets, she says. The newcomers could be Marfa Public Radio's ideal audience when it finally signs on. "People out here have waited 30 years or more for something like this to come," Burnett says. "And we're still waiting." A buyer's "sixth sense" When Walker learned that the FCC would auction a frequency in Marfa in the fall of 2004, he felt "almost a sixth sense that there was something special about it," he says. Walker had never visited Marfa but says the town's mystique is known across Texas. It's not just the unusual name, borrowed from a female servant in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov --- an early settler was reading the book as she arrived in town in the late 1800s. The town also served as the location for Giant, James Dean's last film, and is renowned for the Marfa Lights, an unexplained phenomenon that flickers in the sky to the southeast. Walker's business partners scoffed at his desire for a radio frequency in the middle of nowhere. But the area's remoteness and lack of radio service was part of its charm. Starting a station in Marfa would be another chapter in his diverse career in Texas media, which includes building a Telemundo affiliate in McAllen and starting KGSR-FM in Austin, a commercial station and progenitor of the Triple A format. He now serves on the board of KLRU, Austin's public TV station. "It just became this labor of love," he says. The area's need for a radio station became clear to Walker during his first drive to Marfa, when he was enveloped in a huge snowstorm. A scan of the radio dial turned up no news updates, no weather bulletins. "I didn't know if the roads had closed, if the bridge was out-it was just amazing," he said. "There was no coverage at all." Residents had already sought to bring public radio to the region, anticipating that the commission would eventually open a filing window for noncommercial frequencies. The inclusion of a channel for Marfa in the 2004 auction, however, was a surprise opportunity. Kay Burnett entered the auction, but Walker's Matinee Radio LLC, which he created solely for the purpose, won the channel with a bid of $186,550. She approached Walker a month later and asked him to use the frequency for a public station. Walker had already decided that the area lacked enough consumers and businesses to support a commercial station and agreed to let Marfa Public Radio operate the channel under a local management agreement. His wife, Katy Hackerman, has also become president of Marfa Public Radio. In exchange, Walker gets credit for bringing public radio to a rare unserved region. "It was like bringing water to the desert when they heard there was a possibility of getting public radio out there," Walker says. "You don't see that kind of enthusiasm in our business anymore." Among those who considered bidding for the Marfa channel was Radio Bilingüe, the California-based public radio chain that targets Latino farm workers. In a footnote to the Marfa story, the U.S. Commerce Department announced last month that it had given Radio Bilingüe a planning grant to establish stations in unserved Texas areas. Premature emissions With the FM channel sewed up, Willie Nelson playing a benefit concert and Dan Rather starring at a launch event, Marfa Public Radio's enthusiasm may have boiled over early this year when it began broadcasting a bit on the early side. It transmitted from a temporary tower at 10 percent of its licensed 100,000 watts, according to an article in the local Alpine Avalanche. Radio hobbyists started posting questions on the Web about the mysterious Marfa Public Radio that was broadcasting without FCC permission. Walker ordered the station to shut down as soon as he heard it had started up, he says, and came clean with the FCC. "It was an unfortunate situation, but really more of a miscommunication about what we could and couldn't do," he says. (Tom Michael, g.m. of Marfa Public Radio, declined comment for this article. An FCC official did not return calls.) There is debate over what would-be broadcasters can legally do without construction permits, says John Crigler, a communications attorney with Garvey Schubert Barer in Washington, D.C. Under Crigler's interpretation, a station can begin construction but not transmit a signal. If the licensee begins broadcasting without a CP, the FCC can respond by fining it, impounding equipment and, at worst, permanently barring it from the airwaves. "It's a potentially fatal sin for someone who wants to be a broadcaster," Crigler says. Marfa Public Radio's website, http://marfapublicradio.org makes no mention of the mistake. Instead, the station thanks listeners for their patience "while steel is being purchased and shipped for our new tower." In the meantime, it offers a web stream of locally produced talk, news, music and public affairs. The explanation avoids making "a mountain out of a molehill" over the early spell of over-the-air broadcasting, Walker says. He expects to receive the needed construction permit by the end of the year. The Public Telecommunications Facilities Program announced last year that it would award Marfa Public Radio $476,242 toward building the station, but the station must receive its permit before the grant can go through. In the meantime, the station also received a grant of $45,000 from the Public Radio Exchange to support a showcase of PRX programming. The station will buy NPR shows at a reduced price thanks to a deal with KUT-FM in Austin. (Stewart Vanderwilt, KUT's g.m., sits on the board of Marfa Public Radio.) Even with the grants and discounts, Marfa Public Radio may have to cultivate an enterprising spirit to survive in its small and sparsely populated market. Consultant Tom Livingston, who visited Marfa in 2004 to help gauge potential support for public radio, says the station should cultivate major donors, pursue a sole-service grant from CPB and appeal for support from the Department of Homeland Security or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It could rely on automation and volunteer programmers to help keep costs low, he says. Walker acknowledges that the station will face challenges but intends to help out with his own financial support, even from Austin, many miles outside its signal area. "We want to see the experiment succeed," he says (Current via Mike Janssen, DXLD) Tnx to Mike for sending his story, which does not appear on the Current website. He had contacted us in researching it, as KRTS was covered in previous DXLDs (gh) ** U S A [and non]. Dear GH, I listened to WOR Extra 72. I like Continent of Media. Sometimes better than WOR, only because sometimes there is more coverage on DXing the Middle-East and Africa than I might like. Of course nothing wrong with that. Because of where I live, I don't always have the patience or I do not stay up as late or get up as early as I used to. Because of where I live; gaming has pretty much taken over most of the reservations. And I live about a mile and a half from our casino. So there is quite a bit of interference from the goings on there. But two stories interested me from this week's program. I guess that I do not have an opinion either way about HD radio. I have been interested in hearing it, watching the stations sign on. And I can hear the HD signals on the internet through Bill Sparks` site. And I have noticed, that in hearing the internet streaming of WJMK Chicago, which calls themselves "WJMK HD2 and what's left of WRLL-real oldies1690``, the HD signal sounds like they are broadcasting from a tunnel. The internet signal of WRLL sounds much better. On Satellite radio, the story brought to mind: Last winter, My wife and I were in the Wal-Mart parking lot. And I turned on the car radio. Unfortunately, it has a scan and seek feature which I do not like, because I can not tell where I am on the dial. But I heard a loud signal playing rap and hip-hop, with questionable lyrics. And I thought that a weird FM sun-spot band opening was occurring. But a station ID came on with: "You are in the Hip-Hop Nation." So I asked Linda my wife what frequency the radio was on, and she looked and it was around 88.something. And as soon as we pulled out, the signal went away. Those are some of my comments. I hope you didn't mind my rambling a little bit. Whatever happened to the fellows who use to do the "Spectrum" program? Sincerely, (Mike Dukin, WI, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mike, Tnx for your comments. Did you mean the casino puts out RF that interferes with reception? Your 88.something at Walmart probably came from another car getting a satellite service, fed into its radio by a transmitter on that frequency. As for Spectrum, one of them, Dave Marthouse, now owns a graveyard station in Virginia, WODI, 1230, Brookneal, which as a matter of fact is running DX tests as detailed at http://www.dxtests.info/2006/09/wodi-1230khz-brookneal-va-dx-test.htm 73, (Glenn to Mike, via DXLD) ** U S A. WHY AIR AMERICA MATTERS --- by Thom Hartmann http://mk1.netatlantic.com/t/85996/1344934/351/0/ There are times when doing the profitable thing is also doing the right thing. That's certainly what Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch thought when they lost an average of $90 million a year for about five years before the Fox News Channel became profitable. It's what Reverend Moon believes, as his Washington Times newspaper lost hundreds of millions of dollars and, according to some reports, even today continues to lose money. And its what the people who have made Air America Radio possible - names you probably wouldn't recognize because they've invested millions of their own money but don't seek the limelight - believe. Each of these endeavors hit nail-biting times. In Murdoch's early days building News Corp. (which then helped fund Fox News), as The Hollywood Reporter noted in a 2005 article http://mk1.netatlantic.com/t/85996/1344934/348/0/ --- "[C]orporate expansion and the stock market crash of 1987 conspired to create a financial crisis for Murdoch in 1990, when News Corp. reported revenue of $6.7 billion and saw more than $7 billion in debt come due. With News Corp. shares plummeting from $24 to $8 as a result of the Black Monday crash and Murdoch's buying sprees continuing unabated, creditors became nervous. A refinancing plan was put in place, but at the last minute, one small bank in Pittsburgh refused to go along with the scheme, demanding repayment of a $10 million loan. "That $10 million loan nearly caused the entire collapse of News Corp.: An extraordinary race against time ensued in which Murdoch and his financial advisers struggled to convince the company's 100-plus creditors to agree to a deal by which they would all be paid at the same time. Only at the eleventh hour did the Pittsburgh bank capitulate, to Murdoch's great relief. "The mogul managed to get through the ordeal without parting with substantial blocks of stock, which likely would have forced him to lose control of the company he created (a fate that befell his rival, Turner). At one point, though, Murdoch reportedly did have to sign over as security personal assets, including his New York penthouse." There was, however, a happy ending (for Murdoch), which helped fund the money-losing Fox News Network: "Today, the studio and the Fox owned-and-operated stations are News Corp.'s cash machines." Brit Hume noted, in a 1999 interview with PBS http://mk1.netatlantic.com/t/85996/1344934/349/0/ "This operation loses money. It doesn't lose nearly as much as it did at first, and it's -- well, it's hit all its projections in terms of, you know, turning a profit, but it's - it will lose money now, and we expect for a couple more years. I think it's losing about $80 million to $90 million a year." This is not, of course, to celebrate losing money. It's just a demonstration of the old truism that sometimes "it takes money to make money." And sometimes it takes money to make a difference in the world, as well. While Fox News and The Washington Times have devoted themselves to promoting the interests of America's most wealthy, most of the programming of Air America Radio has been committed to discussions of labor, the middle class, and holding up the founding ideals of this nation. These were best expressed by America's first liberal president, George Washington, when he said: "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." Liberal or conservative, the nation has often moved as its media has moved. Rupert Murdoch's investment in Fox News not only produced profits for him, it changed America. As Richard Morin noted in The Washington Post on May 4, 2006, in an article titled "The Fox News Effect" http://mk1.netatlantic.com/t/85996/1344934/350/0/ "'Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its audience to shift its voting behavior towards the Republican Party, a sizable media persuasion effect,' said Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California at Berkely and Ethan Kaplan of Stockholm University. "In Florida alone, they estimate, the Fox effect may have produced more than 10,000 additional votes for Bush -- clearly a decisive factor in a state he carried by fewer than 600 votes." Similarly, Air America Radio may have had a significant effect in awakening people across the United States to positive liberal alternatives to the conservative vision of Fox and Bush. In a democracy, which depends on a vital and ongoing exchange of free ideas for its survival, this is essential. It's a tragedy that for the lack of an investor the size of Rupert Murdoch Air America is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But its existence and ongoing presence in the marketplace is an essential part of the dialogue that is known as democracy. In a letter about Shay's Rebellion, which some argued was incited by newspapers, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep them to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs, through the channel of public papers, and to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide, whether we should have a government without newspapers, ore newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reading them." Had radio existed in 1783, Jefferson would have probably expressed similar sentiments about it. As Jefferson wrote in 1786 to his close friend Dr. James Currie, "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." But ever since Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1881, leading to an explosion of acquisitions and mergers, and Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, leading to an even more startling concentration of media in a very few hands, freedom of the press in America has become as much a economic as a political issue. This is problematic, because no democracy can survive with only one voice in the media. Back in the years when I often visited Russia, the well-work joke that everybody knew had to do with the names of the two biggest newspapers, Pravda and Ivestia. "Pravda" is a Russian word that translates as "truth" and "Ivestia" means "news." The joke every Russian can recite from memory is: "There`s no news in Pravda, and no truth in Izvestia." As Russians well learned, single-party-news is corrosive to democracy. Jefferson made his comment about newspapers being vital to America just at the time he was being most viciously attacked in the newspapers. The core requisite of democracy is debate. When there's only a single predominant voice in the media, American democracy itself is at greatest risk. Losing the voices of Air America would harm this nation, just as much as would losing the voices of conservative talk radio. We need them all to really be America. Thom Hartmann is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk show carried on the Air America Radio network. His most recent book is "Screwed: The Undeclared War on the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It." (via Park Barton, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. Here`s the latest on native nudity censorship on the cable Travel Channel, as observed during an hour on the Xingu tribe of the Amazon: Frontal genitals are fuzzied up, both M&F, as are asscrax, except for children (age cutoff??). But breasts bouncing around including nipples are fine! Ooops, altho asses were fuzzied in long shots, there was a close-up of some body-painting upon one with no obstruxion. I give up; this makes no sense (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. From RN`s B-06 schedule; see NETHERLANDS: 1659-1757, Madagascar, 11695, 265, 50, V of the People, Zimbabwe (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still re-runs from early 2006? UNIDENTIFIED. Hi all, Was getting a lot of strange sounds on my receiver, so I thought I'd check one of them out.... 645 Unid. 10/23/06 0200/UTC. My Sony ICF-2010 is going nuts as I am on again and off again hearing what sounds like vocal music that is not parallel to either 650 WSM or 640 any of several stations. I should mention that the synch detecter on my Sony is showing a carrier on 645, and I can hearing the change in the audio carrier when I tune up and down from 645 in either USB or LSB. Since I am not as well versed in the TAs and TPs as others, can anyone be kind enough to tell me what I might be hearing here? I'm going back to listening post for a few minutes, but I'll check again in a few minutes. 73 (Joe Miller, KD8DLU, Troy, MI, NRC-AM via DXLD) 645 is not a TA-split frequency; are you sure it wasn`t 648? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 3294.8 at 2255 Sept 9, SIO 241, possibly Greek pirate, harmonic of 1647.4 which was audible when Dutch pirate had gone at 2320. Next harmonic at 4942.2, SIO 141, also audible. Greek/ME music (Nick Rank, Buxton, Derbyshire, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Defunct Gene Scott on 10475, Oct 23 at 1422, weak but steady signal, and this time I barely hear some extremely weak crosstalk. I try to // it to local KCRC 1390 and almost succeed, but am not 100% certain. If this is the case, it would be a mixing product between KCRC and one of the strong SW signals carrying DGS, but I have yet to come up with an equation to explain it. Apparently no one else is hearing 10475, so Enid-only source seems likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5 USB inside the SWBC band, Spanish 2-way conversation Oct 23 1519 until 1523. One of them had so much background noise (engine?) that the vox stayed on when he paused. QRM to 15150, presumably Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Donation, and Muslims evangelizing us. Hi Glenn; In your 11 cubed WOR, you quoted somebody asking how we'd like it if Muslims evangelized us by radio. They don't need to. They've been converting many black prisoners and lulling the mainstream media into thinking Islam is a peaceful religion. They'll get around to spreading their regressive religion by radio soon enough. They need to build up an audience first. Here is my donation for $13.31 (11 cubed) for your show. I've been riding free for too long and since God has blessed me by killing the mortgage monster, I can actually give to help your show now. It's also interesting to note that the number 1331 is the same when typed backwards. 73, (Bruce Atchison, VE6XTC, AB) Well, the Christians (Colson & Co.) are also very busy in the prisons (gh, DXLD) Hi Glenn; I always enjoy the unique items you present on your show. Instead of long lists of frequencies or internal radio station propaganda, you do present some items which inform your audience and really make folks think. Diane Mauer's slogan really does apply to WOR; it really is the media magazine you monitor with your mind. 73, (Bruce Atchison, AB) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ DRM Re 11860: ``Why the hell are they allowed to transmit in the middle a radio-broadcasting band ??? There´s enough QRM made by DRM radio broadcasts. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, Oct 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` I agree with Patrick about this - there is megahertz of empty space available outside of the BC bands. There is another transmission on - I think - 9660 between 0700 and 0730 not shown on the DRM pages. Could it be the same data type of transmission? Both are very strong and seem wideband transmissions and are causing much noise and interference to adjacent stations at my location (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DRM: see NEW ZEALAND; RUSSIA STATIONS UN-LICENSING IBOC?? This is strange --- a couple of posts on rec.radio.shortwave are reporting two Chicago stations have *disappeared* from the Ibiquity list of stations authorized for IBOC. Specifically, the two stations involved are WGN-720 and WZZN-94.7. I can confirm that these stations are NOT on the current Ibiquity list. (I don't know how to manipulate the Google cache to read the previous lists) He didn't check any other states, so we don't know if this has happened only in Chicago, or in other markets as well. Both stations are still listed as "hybrid" in the FCC database. However, a Chicago-area listener says he's not hearing the IBOC sidebands on WGN anymore (he doesn't say anything about the FM station., It's far too early to assume this means stations are giving up on IBOC - it could be a clerical error at Ibiquity paired with WGN transmitter work, or that someone at the stations forgot to renew their patent license --- but maybe, it could be... (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com Oct 23, NRC-AM via DXLD) AFAIK, WGN has had their IBOC off since mid-May. I noticed their absence from the iBiquity list a couple of weeks ago when I checked it, but I have no idea when/if they were on the list. Another notable absence from the list is WCHB-1200, as they were one of the very first AM IBOC stations Dunno when they turned it off, but it's been awhile now. WTIC-1080 seems to have stopped running it after initial tests in the summer too. It would certainly be interesting to know the reasons for these shutdowns. For a few stations, the reasons are known (e.g., listener complaints in the case of WSB-750, and antenna bandwidth problems with WHYN-560), but in most cases it's a mystery. It's perhaps significant that the management of WGN were concerned about AM IBOC's problems, and they filed comments with the FCC recommending that nighttime operation not be authorized. The FCC database is not a reliable indicator of which stations are running IBOC. Quite a few stations known to be running it do not show any record of digital notification, and there also doesn't seem to be any mechanism for "un-notification". Stations are supposed to inform the FCC if they stop running IBOC, but if they are actually doing so, there's no indication of it in the database. I think my page at http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html is the most accurate tracker of who's on, though there are still quite a few question marks! (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ FLAT PANELS DRIVE OLD TVS FROM MARKET By MAY WONG AP Technology Writer October 22, 2006, 7:03 PM EDT REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- The lone conventional television set at Anderson's TV store sat along a side wall like a castoff. Its screen was dark as dozens of other gleaming flat-panel and big-screen models flashed nearby with vivid color images. The staff at the Redwood City store hadn't even bothered to turn on the cathode-ray tube TV until a reporter asked to see it on a recent afternoon. The obvious neglect reflected the wallflower status of today's CRT TVs, as well as the mature technology's doomed future. Experts say the old-fashioned boob tube that catered to generations of Americans will soon be all but extinct. "It's already dead, but it doesn't know it yet," said Jon Paul Belstler, an audio/video consultant at Anderson's. "It's just trying to hang on." Across stores and in homes, sleek LCD and plasma televisions are taking over. In North America, sales of the bulky traditional TVs are in steep decline. By next year, the tube TV will cede its crown of dominance to LCD sets for the first time, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. Sales of CRTs will fall from an estimated 14.4 million units this year to 10.4 million in 2007, while sales of LCD TVs are predicted to rise from 10.9 million units to 17.8 million. By 2010, iSuppli predicts CRTs will account for only 2.1 million of the 44 million televisions sold. The decline comes despite the venerable CRT's bargain prices: $223, on average, compared with $1,007 for LCD or $2,335 for plasma, according to research firm DisplaySearch. But consumers are increasingly enamored with the thin designs and stunningly sharp pictures available with newer sets. And high-end, large-sized CRT TVs are already running close in price to similarly sized LCDs. The solitary tube TV at Anderson's was a 34- inch Sony WEGA HDTV model going for $999. At Amazon.com, you could find special deals for a 32-inch LCD HDTV for the same price. "CRTs are just losing their buzz when you have competing TVs that have technology that's similar to the CRT for almost the same price," iSuppli analyst Riddhi Patel said. LCD prices have fallen precipitously -- about 30 percent annually since 2003, according to DisplaySearch -- narrowing the price gap to CRT TVs. David Barnes, an analyst at DisplaySearch, expects a consumer will be able to find a 32-inch LCD TV for $500 by Christmas 2007. "Sure you could buy a CRT at that point, but why?" Barnes said. Besides, Americans love big TVs if they can handle it in budget and space. The main draw of flat-panel displays is that they can be the size of an oven door or bigger without hogging the depth of, well, an oven. Even models in the 60-inch range are only a few inches thick and can be mounted like paintings. By contrast, the largest CRTs left on the market are 36-inch models that rival washing machines in heft. Anything bigger proved too bulky for consumers' tastes, said Ali Atash, a senior marketing manager at Samsung Electronics Co., which introduced a short-lived 40-inch tube TV years ago. Samsung has since developed slimmer CRT TVs, trying to capitalize on the lingering albeit dwindling demand for conventional sets. With the company's "SlimFit" technology, a 20-inch TV that previously stretched back 24 inches is now only 13 inches deep. Retailers expect little to no demand for CRTs by 2009, partly because of a government-imposed deadline requiring television broadcasts nationwide to switch to all-digital by February of that year. Industry observers predict many consumers will have purchased a digital TV by then. Digital CRT sets sold today are capable of handling high-definition TV, and video experts say CRT technology still represents the gold standard in picture quality with the deepest blacks and best color accuracy. But the performance of LCD and plasma displays have improved dramatically in just the past two years, making the differences in picture quality insignificant to all but discerning videophiles. Major TV makers like Sony Corp. and LG Electronics Co. have been steadily reducing their CRT shipments to focus on what will soon be the larger flat-panel TV market. LG, in fact, had followed Samsung in creating slimmer versions of CRTs two years ago but is no longer pushing the technology. Only two CRT models remain in LG's lineup of 50 televisions this year, spokesman John Taylor said. "We saw the writing on the wall years ago, and flat panels have taken off much faster than a lot of people have expected," Taylor said. At a Video Only store in San Francisco, only about three in 20 TVs currently sold are CRTs, store manager William Arias said. Unlike Anderson's, which now devotes most of its showroom to the CRT's modern-day counterparts, Video Only still keeps about two dozen conventional sets on display. "There are people who aren't ready to spend $1,000 on a TV yet," Arias said. "And lots of people still have big built-in TV cabinets. We tell them, that since saving space isn't an issue, they could still go with a CRT." Circuit City Stores Inc., the nation's second-largest electronics retailer, plans to have very few CRT models in its stores by the end of 2007. No. 1 electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. hasn't declared a blackout on CRTs but is steadily devoting less retail space because more consumers are looking for flat panels. "The CRT has served us well for many many years -- since the early 1930s into the golden age of television and the advent of color in the 60s," said LG's Taylor. "The longevity of that technology is probably second to none in our industry, but time marches on, and flat panels have really captured the enthusiasm of the American public." (AP via Brock Whaley, DXLD) HOW MUCH RADIO HAS CHANGED Unless you want to build a career by moving market to market, I would suggest having a plan, at least a basic one, for leaving the business by the time you are thirty. Radio is a great job to get you through college, go to some concerts and hang around back stage, but I personally do not believe it has the promise that it used to have. Voice-tracking has replaced the need for jocks, and believe me, going in the production room to "track" your show is not being "on the air." It isn't. It can sound good, but the hands on experience of working with the music, talking to listeners, doing a live request show (they used to be done, really!), placing the spots in the break in the order of what sounded good, those days are probably gone for good. If you're new to the business, you really do not know what you are missing if you are only tracking your show. But times have changed and people just want the lastest Justin Timberlake song and they don't care if it`s on their iPod or K-HITS. When I started in radio a long long time ago, the "automation" was a big clunky old machine. Some of you may remember the old Carousel cart machines that when they turned they went in a circle, turning the carts upside down so the tape would shift. When the cart would be trayed in to play, the tape would jam, and boy, it sounded like someone being strangled. Today's computer system is so efficient and sounds so good, that reallly, what do you need jocks for... or you just need a few. Not a good sign for people who want to be "DJ's" - and what is worse, with fewer jobs, that means what jobs remain will have their salaries pounded down so low that you just can't afford to stay in the business. It is just the truth. Management has a budget, a "number" that they will pay for a morning jock, the midday and afternoon shows (note nights and overnights are tracked, no job there... where there used to be!). The morning guy may make in the 30's, the afternoon guy high 20's, when not too long ago, these shifts used to be high paying jobs. So, enjoy radio while you can. It can still be a fun business, but get your education, move to another job where you can make more money, stuff your 401K, buy a house, and live happily ever after. Oh, and if you want to have some real fun, Google "radio station control rooms" and look at the old stations from 30, 40 years ago with the cart machines and turntables... now, fella's (and ladies, if you're reading) those were FUN days! Good luck (Radio 55, Oct 19, radio- info.com Oklahoma board via DXLD) PROXY QSLING I really hadn't considered the possibility that a third party would begin to verify a DX'ers reception reports without a radio station's permission. The examples I have seen on the various lists all appear to have been established with the radio stations' blessings. There was a situation more than half a century ago among the shortwave broadcast band DX'ers involving BBC broadcasts. The BBC responded to the great volume of reception reports with a nice thank-you card that reflected its policy of not verifying reception reports. A group of Newark News Radio Club members on the East Coast volunteered to establish a system where BBC broadcasts would be monitored by other DX'ers, who would in turn verify reports that coincided with what they heard on the various BBC frequencies. As I remember it, the consensus response was that since the "verification" would not be from the station itself, it would not be "countable" and the plan, if I remember even partially correctly, never got off the ground. I do not remember if the DX'ers who presented the plan to NNRC corresponded about it with the BBC. This is the only example I know of in this category. I do have one medium wave QSL in my collection that was obtained under unusual circumstances. It was in 1958 when I edited a shortwave column for the Universal Radio DX Club and one of my regular reporters was an elderly (my age now) DX'er in Habana. In the pre-Castro days when Cuban stations offered a variety of commercial programs, CMCG, Radio Codazos, Habana, broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with a 250 watt signal that was heard all over North America. CMCG stonewalled all the DX reports it received. I asked my reporter, Rafael Rodriguez (I do not know if he were related to the younger RR who was part of Castro's revolution) to visit the station for me. He was able to get the operator, reluctantly, after much discussion, to agree to rubber stamp the back side of the carbon copy of my report as confirmed. To my knowledge, I'm the only DX'er to have a confirmation from this often-heard station. Actually, it's all a moot point with me, since I haven't sent a reception report in 40 years, other than a tape to the Milwaukee stations that conducted a test a couple of years ago. (I wrote to the DX'er who conducted the test that I didn't collect verifications so there was no need to respond to my report; but I didn't expect there would be no QSLs for anyone!) I've collected a lot of taped identifications, though, during the 30 years I lived in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, and here in North Texas, I've concentrated on taping Mexican medium wave station identifications. The Krumudgeon (John Callarman, TX, NRC-AM via DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW YORK PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION RECOGNIZES BPL INTERFERENCE CONCERNS NEWINGTON, CT, Oct 20, 2006 -- The New York Public Service Commission (NYPSC) this week adopted a policy statement on deployment of BPL systems in the Empire State. While asserting that BPL technology "may provide significant benefits to New Yorkers," the commission also has acknowledged that BPL "poses a myriad of both traditional and unique technical and regulatory challenges." The policy statement, issued and effective October 18, says that while most BPL providers, equipment makers and vendors believe the FCC's Part 15 rules address interference issues, that was not the consensus opinion of those who commented to the Commission. "Most parties were uneasy about potential interference problems that could arise with the deployment of BPL technology," the NYPSC policy statement pointed out, citing RF interference as "a major issue." The NYPSC policy affirmed its decision that electric utilities should not be BPL providers. Utility Consolidated Edison still operates a BPL trial system in the Westchester County community of Briarcliff Manor that has been the target of BPL interference complaints from radio amateurs. The policy puts primary responsibility for RFI on the BPL provider, who, under the NYPSC model, would lease access to the electric utility's grid. "The BPL provider is primarily responsible for responding to all customer service and collateral service complaints and issues, including any related to interference produced by BPL equipment," the policy statement says. In his oral comments to the NYPSC, Robert Mayer, director of the New York Office of Telecommunications, characterized the interference issues as "serious and unresolved." Mayer told the Commission that radio interference is "probably one of the most fundamental questions" facing BPL and that it remained unresolved. "It's one of the things that this commission needs to be most vigilant about as these trials are deployed to make an assessment of what interference issues exist," he said. Mayer also predicted an uphill battle for BPL in gaining market share (via John Figliozzi, NY, Oct 23, dxldyg via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ A 'MINOR' LANGUAGE FINDS ITSELF IN THE SPOTLIGHT By Larry Rohter, The New York Times Published: October 23, 2006 http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/23/news/journal.php SÃO PAOLO [sic] --- More people speak Portuguese as their native language than speak French, German, Italian or Japanese. So it can rankle members of that community of 230 million people to find that when they travel elsewhere the rest of the world often views their mother tongue as a "minor" language whose leading novelists, poets and songwriters also tend to be overlooked. But now an effort is being made here in the largest Portuguese- speaking city in the world's largest Portuguese- speaking country to remedy that situation. A "Museum of the Portuguese Language," complete with the latest in multimedia displays and interactive technology, recently opened here and is dedicated to the proposition that Portuguese speakers and their language can benefit from a bit of self- affirmation and self-advertisement. "We hope this museum is the first step to showing ourselves, our culture and its importance to the world," said Antonio Carlos Sartini, the director of the museum, said to be the only one in the world devoted specifically to a language. "A strategy to promote the Portuguese language has always been lacking, but from now on, maybe things can take another path." Inaugurated in March, the museum has become one of the most popular in Brazil, drawing schoolchildren and scholars as well as tourists from Brazil and African countries like Angola and Mozambique. But in the interests of linguistic harmony and unity, it sidesteps one basic issue: whether dominion over the language ultimately rests with the country where it was born or the rambunctious, overgrown former colony where it is most widely spoken. George Bernard Shaw once described the United States and Britain as "two countries divided by a common language." Much the same could be said about Brazil and Portugal, even though any competition is bound to be uneven, since Brazil has more than 185 million people and Portugal has barely 11 million. At issue is not just the contrast between the mellifluous, musical accent with which Brazilians speak the language - "Portuguese with sugar," in the words of the writer Eça de Queiróz - and the clipped, almost guttural sound the language retains in Portugal. There are also some differences in usages so marked that they have traditionally led to misunderstandings and provided fodder for jokes. In Portugal, for example, one of the words used to describe a queue is to Brazilians a derogatory slang term for a homosexual. Other differences can be more innocuous but no less baffling: A word that Portuguese use for a man's suit of clothes, for example, means a fact or piece of information in Brazil. In addition, some purists in Portugal object to the slangy, colorfully casual version of the language that is spoken here and increasingly spread abroad through Brazilian telenovelas, or soap operas. They regard such informality as unworthy of the language of Camões, the 16th-century poet whose seafaring epic "Os Lusíadas" is often compared to Homer and Dante. In 1996, Brazil and Portugal joined with five African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe - to found the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries. Portuguese was recently designated an official language of the African Union as a result of the community's efforts, but leaders think that more can be done and hope Brazil can lead the way. "One of our objectives is to disseminate Portuguese so that it has greater visibility in international organizations," José Tadeu Soares, deputy director general of the community, said by telephone from its headquarters in Lisbon. "But aside from Brazil and Portugal, the other countries have only been independent for 25 or 30 years and don't have the resources to project themselves on the world stage the way Brazil can." Though the community recently granted observer status to China, where the language still enjoys official status in Macao, Portuguese is fading there and in places like Goa, Damao and Diu in India, three other former colonial outposts. But when East Timor obtained its independence from Indonesia in 2002 and joined the community, that inspired an outpouring of sympathy, support, donations and volunteers here and in other Portuguese-speaking countries. "For the Timorese, Portuguese is a way of asserting their identity vis-à-vis Indonesia, and, for that matter, even Australia," said Luiz Fernando Valente, director of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. But, he added, the aspiration of some Portuguese-speakers to see their language gain official status at the United Nations is probably beyond reach. "Portuguese is a global language, spoken on every continent," he said, "but it is not an international language, used in diplomacy and business the way that French is, and I don't know if that problem is solvable." Sartini said that in hopes of disseminating Portuguese language and culture, the museum here plans to send roving exhibitions abroad, beginning next year. Ideally, he said, such displays would visit not only countries that recognize Portuguese as their official language but also those that have Portuguese-speaking communities or minorities, among them the United States. In the United States, the largest and oldest such enclave is found in New England, in the area around Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Providence. But Portuguese-language communities also exist in California's Central Valley, around Fresno, for example, as well as in south Florida, where recent immigrants from Brazil have clustered around Fort Lauderdale, and the Ironbound district of Newark, New Jersey. At a literary festival near here in August, though, the Anglo- Pakistani writer Tariq Ali was quoted in the local press as saying that only three languages are assured of surviving to the end of this century: English, Chinese and Spanish. Even José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate who lives mostly in Spain, has fretted publicly over the possibility of Portuguese being overwhelmed by English and Spanish "in an accelerated process of change." Because of similarities to their own language, Spanish-speakers have sometimes jokingly dismissed Portuguese as simply "Spanish, badly spoken." But because of Brazil's huge size and dynamic economy, cities like Buenos Aires and Santiago are now awash in flyers and billboards of language schools that offer Portuguese courses. "For 850 years, our neighbors next door have been saying that there is no future for Portuguese," Soares said, referring to Spain. "But here we are, still. The dynamic for the language may come from Brazil, but there is no doubt in my mind that Portuguese as a language will remain viable." (via Gerald T. Pollard, DXLD) "George Bernard Shaw once described the United States and Britain as "two countries divided by a common language." Much the same could be said about Brazil and Portugal, even though any competition is bound to be uneven, since Brazil has more than 185 million people and Portugal has barely 11 million." -- Wage the number of inhabitants of GB & the USA/CAN, just to confine ourselves to NAm: is it different? English would have never reached the same status of a lingua franca, just like Latin once was, just Portuguese once was too!, w/o the influence of the USA. "Other differences can be more innocuous but no less baffling: A word that Portuguese use for a man's suit of clothes, for example, means a fact or piece of information in Brazil" -- this is in fact a wrong comparison: standard Port. fato (man's suit) simply derives from facto, from Lat. factum, i.e. "made", "done" -- facto, Lat. factum, is fact, i.e. something that was made, omething concrete. Because of similarities to their own language, Spanish-speakers have sometimes jokingly dismissed Portuguese as simply "Spanish, badly spoken." -- This is really new to me, and could only stem from some "enlightened" Castilian minds, and no wonder, like the German people or any people surrounded by different foreign lands, they fear & don't like all those around theirs, thence the need for trying to dominate others: Portuguese, Basques, Galicians, Catalans and, conversely, French, Dutch, Danish, Poles, Czech, among others. Unlike the Portuguese, the Basques, the Catalans & the Galicians never managed to create their own system of one language-one nation and thence one country. Unlike the Portuguese, the Dutch, the English, the Spanish all showed greed and envy towards Portuguese achievements. History is there to prove it beyond doubt. What other similarly small & sparsely populated country of Europe, or in the whole world, achieved so much in nearly 900 years of history? 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ MORE LONG-HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRAZIL ESCUTAS DE RUBENS FERRAZ PEDROSO, BANDEIRANTES-PR, BRASIL [altho frequency is first, really in date and time order, presumably UT, under each country; unexplained why even MHz frequencies are given to two decimal places; with SW-like SINPO readings] MARTINICA 94.00, 2305 16/10 RFO, Trinité, YL/OM/OM, anúncios, FF 45243 94.00, 2338 17/10 RFO, Trinité, OM, pregação??, mx, FF 34343 94.00, 0026 18/10 RFO, Trinité, OM/OM, talks, FF 45333 94.3, 0037 18/10 RFO, Morne-Rouge, OM, nxs, FF 34333 ANTÍGUA 91.9, 2309 16/10 Hitz FM, St. John’s, mx caribenha, EE 45444 91.1, 2341 16/10 Observer FM, St. John’s, OM/OM, talks, EE 43343 91.1, 2330 17/10 Observer FM, St. John’s, OM, nxs, EE 33333 91.9, 2346 17/10 Hitz FM, St. John’s, mx caribenha, id OM: ``Hitz FM``, EE 44344 91.9, 0030 18/10 Hitz FM, St. John’s, mx caribenha rítmo reggae, EE 45344 91.1, 0035 18/10 Observer FM, St. John’s, mx, OM, EE 33333 GUADELOUPE 89.8, 2314 16/10 R. Haute Tension, Basse-Terre, OM, nxs, FF 45344 92.9, 2323 16/10 R. Madras, OM, anúncios, FF 45344 97.00, 2351 16/10 RFO, Basse-Terre, YL/OM, nxs, FF 33343 89.8, 2353 17/10 R. Haute Tension, Basse-Terre, mx caribenha, FF 44333 97.00, 0023 18/10 RFO, Basse-Terre, OM/OM, talks, FF 44344 89.8, 0034 18/10 R. Haute Tension, Basse-Terre, OM, mx caribenha, FF 45344 UNID 90.7, 2316 16/10 Unid (NBC - Saint Unid (NBC - Saint Vincente & Grenadines ou Barbados Broadcasting Service), OM/OM, talks, EE 90.7, 2316 16/10 Unid (NBC - Saint Vincente & Grenadines ou Barbados Broadcasting Service), OM, nxs, EE 33333 90.7, 2357 17/10 Unid (NBC - Saint Vincente & Grenadines ou Barbados Broadcasting Service), YL, mx caribehha, EE SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES 107.5, 2332 16/10 NBC, Basseterre, mx caribenha, EE 45344 107.5, 2324 17/10 NBC, Basseterre, OM/YL, nxs, EE 33333 107.5, 0047 18/10 NBC, Basseterre, OM, nxs, EE 45333 SANTA LÚCIA 97.3, 0042 16/10 R. St. Lucia, Castries, OM, nxs, 33333 90.1, 2100 17/10 Joy FM, Castries, mx gospel, relg, EE 34333 97.3, 0018 18/10 R. St. Lucia, Castries, OM/OM, talks, EE 43443 (@tividade DX Oct 22 via DXLD) See also BARBADOS ###