· 6 years ago · Oct 04, 2019, 09:36 PM
1DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-38, September 19, 2019
2 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
3 edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com
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16
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20
21WORLD OF RADIO 2000 contents: Antarctica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba,
22Denmark, France, Isle of Man and non, Myanmar, Norway, USA, Vietnam;
23an interview with me by Charles VanSant, WRRS Cincinnati; and the
24propagation outlook
25
26For broadcasts Friday September 13 to Thursday September 19
27(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2000.m3u
28(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2000.mp3
29Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
30
31WORLD OF RADIO 2001 contents: Antarctica, Armenia, Brazil, Canada,
32Cuba, Hawaii, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, México, Myanmar,
33Norway, Oklahoma, Russia, Sikkim, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey,
34USA, Vanuatu; and the propagation outlook.
35
36WOR 2001 is available as of 0330 UT Friday September 27 for broadcasts
37thru October 3:
38(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2001.m3u
39(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2001.mp3
40Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
41Also linx to podcast services.
42
43The shortwave broadcasts should be:
44
452200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
460130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, and NEW 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
470629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
481000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [alt weeks, Sept 28] ND
491430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
501930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
512100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [canceled]
520300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND
531030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
542130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
550130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
560230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
570300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
580330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
590930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
601130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
611816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
620100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
630800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
642100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
650100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
66
67Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
68http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
69
70WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS:
71Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club.
72http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor
73
74MORE PODCAST ALTERNATIVES, tnx to Keith Weston:
75https://blog.keithweston.com/2018/11/22/world-of-radio-podcast/
76
77feedburner:
78http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio
79
80tunein.com:
81http://bit.ly/tuneinwor
82
83itunes:
84https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861
85
86AND via Google Play Music:
87http://bit.ly/worldofradio
88
89DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:
90Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of
91them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,
92inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to
93manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues:
94http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser
95
96IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! WOR IO GROUP: Effective Feb 4, 2018, DXLD yg
97archive and members have been migrated to this group:
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102
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106The change was necessary due to increasing outages, long delays in
107posts appearing, and search failures at the yg.
108
109Why wait for DXLD issues? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in
110DXLD later, is posted at our io group without delay.
111
112[Ed. note: apology for lateness of this issue: I am struggling to keep
113up with the huge flow of info; finished ASAP! September 28]
114
115** AFGHANISTAN. Weak/fair signal of Radio Afghanistan Ext.Sce,
116September 13
1171530-1616 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs English/Urdu and off air:
1181616-1730 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Ur/Ara/Rus are not on air
119https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/weakfair-signal-of-radio-afghanistan.html
120(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
121
122** ALBANIA. Re:
123Fllake ant#1 8-mast 033degr, north-easterly
124Fllake ant#2 4-mast 330degr, north-westerly,
125Fllake ant#3 1215 kHz single mast, southwesterly, RT, VoA and DWL
126Fllake ant#4 8-mast 003degr, north-westerly,
127Fllake ant#5 1458 kHz single mast, southeasterly, RT, CRI and DWL
128
129[why aren't single masts non-direxional?? gh]
130
131Hi dear Glenn, misunderstanding, not expressed deliberately. Means not
132azimuth direction for transmission, mean only location direction on
133the local Fllake compound area: see enclosed picture, correction of
1342016 action. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
135
136** ANGOLA. 4949.7v, NOTHING FROM R Nacional Mulenvos Angola today Sept
13713 (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked AIR outlets at 17-18 UT on Sept 13 on
138remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha Qatar, and Akitakata Japan, WOR iog
139via DXLD)
140
141I'm hearing a het [carrier] this evening on 4949.73, so I believe
142Angola is on the air now (-- Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, Maryland, USA,
1432314 UT Sept 13, HCDX via DXLD)
144
145Thanks. Yes Arthur, it's correct now when checked at 2345 UT Sept 13,
1464949.732 kHz Angola little unstable 2 - 3 Hz hopping, weak and tiny
147S=3-4 on threshold signal level, could only trace some Portuguese
148typical spoke shred at 0008 UT on remote SDR in Athens Greece,
149Northern Italy, Switzerland and England units. Nothing heard otherwise
150on Doha Qatar nor in Delhi India units.
151
152KiwiNet http://kiwi.twrafrica.org:8073/
153KiwiSDR at TWR Africa, South Africa, carrier visible, hardly heard
154nothing, even when AGC switch off, and manual gain set at 95dB going.
15573 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.)
156
157** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon/University Network at 1630. Not
158heard on earlier checks. PMS (Pastor Melissa Scott) monologue and some
159revival gospel music breaks. Strong signal, but odd whine in
160background that sounds like a teakettle whistle - Very Good Sept 8.
161
16211775, the Caribbean Beacon at 1720. Not heard on earlier checks. PMS
163(Pastor Melissa Scott) lecture in progress. Filler music, then to Dr.
164Gene Scott (DGS) at 2019. Went on thru the 2100 hour, with the odd
165teapot whistling sound more pronounced - Very Good Sept 15 (Rick
166Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig
167Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor
168shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD)
169
170Which I have been calling ``squeal`` as also on WWCR-1. Both of these
171logs were on Sundays (gh, DXLD)
172
173** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base
174Esperanza, 1620-1755, 13-09 [Friday], extremely weak audio, strong
175carrier, best on USB, songs. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs
176in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
177
178LRA-36 --- Huge signal from LRA-36 on [Tue] 17 September at 1715 with
179non-stop music, unlike other recent days, back to Argentine music
180rather than oldies R&R and Rolling Stones as heard the previous week
181via Pardinho SDR and measured today as 15475.98 (Dan Robinson, WOR iog
182via DXLD)
183
184[WOR] LRA36 special Sat Sept 21
185LRA 36 RADIO NACIONAL ARCÁNGEL SAN GABRIEL Emisión especial
186
187Este sábado 21 de septiembre LRA 36 realizará una transmisión especial
188desde la Base Esperanza, Antártida Argentina. De 10 a 1115 hora
189argentina (13 a 1415 UTC) por 15476 khz banda de 19 metros.
190
191Los informes de recepción deben ser enviados a lra36@hotmail.com y, de
192ser correctos, serán verificados con una QSL electrónica especial.
193
194La llegada de la primavera es una muy buena razón, así como la
195cercanía de los 40 años de la emisora que se cumplen el próximo 20 de
196octubre.
197
198La transmisión especial estará a cargo de las locutoras de LRA36 para
199esta temporada: Sabrina Alanis, Beatriz Costilla y Karina Muñoz
200mientras que la operación técnica es de José Calpanchay.
201
202Agradecemos difundir este mensaje. Pueden enviar también al email sus
203saludos, comentarios y sugerencias para ser leídos durante el
204programa. Gracias! (Adrian Korol, RAE, Sept 17, WORLD OF RADIO 2000,
205DX LISTENING DIGEST)
206
207As news arrived of this September 21st broadcast, LRA-36 was again
208putting in excellent signals heard via Pardinho on 18 September. At
209about 1830 UT, I heard was sounded like a local ad but also multiple
210IDs, including one ID in English (never heard this before!). There
211followed an extended discussion program with two women in the studio
212discussing a range of topics about Argentina, and mention of Buenos
213Aires. Signal had the usual fading setting in by around 1845 UT (Dan
214Robinson, Sept 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
215
216Re: ``I often check for trace of LRA36 here, and finally today for
217first time in a long time detected a JBA carrier on 15475.971 at 1811
218UT. Glenn, Enid``
219
220Clearly, either something at LRA 36 or the ionosphere has changed. 20
221years ago, they were a relatively easy catch. I do remember a special
222broadcast to the Americas in our late afternoon/early evening one
223Saturday which was quite well heard here on the west coast. So what's
224changed? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO
2252000, DXLD)
226
227Perhaps the power of the station is not the same. I believe that many
228domestic stations are on air with less power to reduce costs. Here the
229conditions for LRA 36 and other domestic and tropical stations were
230better years ago. This is my opinion. Best 73,s (Manuel Méndez,
231Lugo, Spain, ibid.)
232
23315475.971, Sept 18 at 1811, JBA carrier measured from LRA36, Radio
234Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. I frequently seek this
235but first detexion in a long time.
236
237Adrian Korol of RAE has notified me in Spanish that LRA36 will make a
238special broadcast, Sat Sept 21 at 1300-1415 UT for the first day of
239spring, and ahead of station`s 40th anniversary on Oct 20. Special
240e-QSLs are offered for correct reports to lra36@hotmail.com
241Also invites greetings, comments and suggestions to same address ahead
242of the program to be read during it. He does not mention remote
243receivers, so I guess those are acceptable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
244RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
245
246Sondersendung von LRA36 Radio Nacional San Gabriel (aus der
247Antarktis)
248
249----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -----
250Von: RAEDeutsch <raedeutsch@yahoo.com.ar>
251Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 00:02:27 MESZ
252
253Liebe Freunde, am Samstag, den 21. September 2019 wird vom
254argentinischen Antarktisstützpunkt "Base Esperanza" aus eine
255Sondersendung von LRA36 Radio Nacional San Gabriel ausgestrahlt, und
256zwar von 13.00 bis 14.15 Uhr UTC auf 15476 kHz im 19 m Band.
257
258Empfangsberichte sind an lra36@hotmail.com zu senden. Die richtigen
259Empfangsberichte werden mit einer Sonder-E-QSL-Karte bestätigt.
260
261(Die Station begeht übrigens am 20. Oktober ihr 40-jähriges
262Jubiläum!)
263
264Für diese Sondersendung zuständig sind die Ansagerinnen von LRA36
265Sabrina Alanis, Beatriz Costilla und Karina Muñoz, die José Calpanchay
266in der Technik unterstützen wird.
267
26873+55
269Rayén Braun
270Deutsche Redaktion
271(via Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, DXLD)
272
273** ARGENTINA [non]. USA/ARGENTINA WRMI rebroadcast of RAE Buenos
274Aires services,
275
276? new German QRG 9395 kHz, ex 7780 kHz ? at 2200 Mon-Fri UT days.
277
278RAE broadcasts via WRMI FL-USA at present.
2790100-0130 9395 Tue-Sat English NoAM East Coast
2800800-0900 5950 Tue-Sat Japanese NoAM West Coast, Asia Direction
2810900-1000 5950 Tue-Sat Chinese NoAM West Coast, Asia
2821100-1200 9955 Mon-Fri Portuguese Ce&SoAM (Latin America)
283?1300-1330 15770 Mon-Wed French NoAM EaCoast, EUR, ME, NoAF?
2842100-2200 9395 Mon-Fri Italian NoAM East Coast Direction
2852200-2300 5010 Mon-Fri Spanish Ce&SoAM (Latin America)
2862200-2300 9395 Mon-Fri German NoAMcan East Coast ex7780
2872330-0000 7780 Mon-Fri French NoAM, European Direction.
288
289Bernd Seiser, Michael Bethge, and Y.T. wb, all from Germany, we
290checked these WRMI FL-USA channels 7780, 9395, and 9955 kHz on UT days
291Sept 12 and Sept 13 in 21-00 UT slot.
292
293Never heard RAE German re-transmission, correct:
294only Italian 9395 at 2100 UT,
295Spanish 5010 at 2200 UT,
296and French 7780 at 2330-0000 UT.
297
298on WRMI 7780 and 9395 kHz in 22-23 UT slot heard only English pop/rock
299music relay endless over and over again, mostly Beetles records.
300
3017780 kHz 23 UT US pastor ROARER screeching madman with screech voice
302on Sept 13. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) Blalock
303
304** ASCENSION. 17800, Sept 13 at 1358, JBA signal where I seldom hear
305anything on morning bandscans. Listed as DW in Hausa daily at
3061300-1357; indeed off at 1424 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
307DIGEST)
308
309** AUSTRALIA. 5055, 4KZ – Innisfail (Queensland) (Presumed), 1200,
3109/14/19 in English. Contemporary music, 1201 male announcer with few
311English words audible into a number of what sounded like commercials,
312then more music, faded out to a het between 1204–1208. Just barely
313audible before (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus,
314Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+& HF+ Discovery, Tecsun PL 880, and various
315other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA
316Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD)
317
318** AUSTRALIA. Weak signal of Reach Beyond Australia in 25mb, Sept.16
3191200-1230 on 11875 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg to SoAs English Daily and
3201315-1330 on 11750 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg to SoAs English Mo/We/Fr
321https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/weak-signal-of-reach-beyond-australia.html
322(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
323
324** AUSTRALIA. AIB RESPONDS TO AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY MEDIA FREEDOM
325ENQUIRY
326
327The Association for International Broadcasting has responded to the
328Australian parliamentary enquiry into law enforcement & intelligence
329powers on media freedom.
330
331Working with Doughty Street Chambers, the AIB has highlighted issues
332surrounding Australia’s legislation and the way it has been framed to
333potentially prevent or restrict journalists from covering stories of
334significant public interest. Following the raids on the ABC and on
335journalists working for NewsCorp publications and associated
336international outcry, the Australian Parliament has convened this
337inquiry.
338
339The AIB is also making a submission to the separate Australian Senate
340inquiry into press freedom.
341Read the PCJIS submission here. [from July, already seen?]
342https://aib.org.uk/Media-Freedom/AIB-submission-PJCIS-260719.pdf
343
344Separately, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is holding a special
345meeting on media briefing during the United Nations General Assembly
346Ministerial Week, on Wednesday 25 September.
347
348The Association for International Broadcasting will be bringing its
349Members, and the wider industry, together on 7 November for an
350important media freedom meeting. The event, held with the support of
351Al Jazeera Media Network, will take place at Doughty Street Chambers
352in London. More information from the AIB Secretariat (AIB media
353industry briefing | September 2019 via DXLD)
354
355** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNS[3], 0020 to 0023 om with marine warnings for
356boaters to remain in port. 13 September. First noted sporadic
357operation after the storm (4, 5, 6 Sept ?) at the time seemed very low
358power. This a local station on my car radio ……rlw (Bob Wilkner, Drake
359R8, 0042 UT 13 Sept, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NASWA iog via
360DXLD)
361
362** BAHAMAS. Regarding WOR 1999, ZLS Stella Maris on 526 is, I believe,
363long ago silent. I've not heard it for several years from anywhere in
364Florida, nor have I seen any other Floridians log it. Have you seen
365recent logs from elsewhere?
366
367810, ZNS3, Freeport - the report you received that it was off for
368"several days" (back on September 8) is incorrect. They actually
369returned to the air within 24 hours of Hurricane Dorian's passage,
370sometime on September 5th.
371
372Cockburn Town - pronounced Coh-burn by most locals. Like Bruce
373Cockburn, the Canadian folk/rock singer-songwriter (Terry Krueger, FL,
374WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
375
376Terry, tnx for info. Wonder about the other beacons. A quick search
377finds nothing since this in 2013y! NRC IDXD:
378
379``*** PAN-AMERICAN DX *** 526 | BAHAMAS | ZLS beacon, Stella Maris,
380MAR 22 0200 - ZLS code ID's. [Connelly*Y- MA]`` (Glenn to Terry, via
381DXLD)
382
383Glenn, Not sure about the other two BAH NDB channels. Some of the Cuba
384NDB channels continue, and as you heard, the Cayman NDBs are still
385active. I could hear these from the barrier islands DX sites (Ft.
386DeSoto and Honeymoon Island) when living in my former location.
387(Terry Krueger, ex-Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
388
389ZNS-1 and ZNS-3 --- I'm in Miami for the week and ZNS-3 (Freeport on
390Grand Bahama) on 810 kHz is coming in with a fair signal here this
391afternoon (15 September) at about 19:45 UTC on the PL-880 with its
392built-in ferrite loop in the hotel despite the RFI. They just had a
393public service announcement about making sure that appliances, etc.
394are turned off in preparation for being reconnected to the power grid
395and to make sure that any generators are not inadvertently connected
396to the grid -- which, of course, could electrocute linesmen when they
397are working on the lines Other than that, non-stop praise music. No ID
398or news at 2000 UT. Web streaming seems to be down, understandably.
399ZNS-1 (Nassau) on 1540 kHz is quite weak here in the hotel; not really
400listenable with the RFI at the moment. But it is streaming. Nothing
401heard on 1240 kHz where ZNS-2 should presumably be. More later (--
402Richard Langley, Sept 15, WOR iog via DXLD)
403
404** BAHAMAS. ZNS-1 Freeport and Hurricane Dorian --- After a few days
405of absence from the 810 kHz medium wave due to hurricane damage, as of
406this morning ZNS-1 is back on the air on 810 kHz. Heard with decent
407signal in Miami. They are relaying the national channel from Nassau
4081540 kHz, local programming not restored yet (Ivan NO2CW Miami, Sept
4098, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
410
411If still Dorian-related, both 810 & 1540 will be parallel to
412http://www.znsbahamas.com
413
414Good to know 810 is back. There are three FM stations in Freeport, one
415co-owned but separate programming (Power 104.5); there's also Mix
416102.1 & Dove 103.7.
417
418I was only able to hear three other 810's in ZNS3's absence (Radio
419Progreso, WGY, and new-to-me Radio Rey XERI Reynosa).Anything of
420emergency nature that Bahamas needs, will gladly be received! cd
421(Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines, ibid.)
422
423** BAHAMAS. Re: [WOR] ZNS-1 and ZNS-3 --- Monitored ZNS-3, "The
424Light," Freeport, Bahamas, yesterday (16 September) here in Miami
425starting at 1600 UT when they relayed the news program from ZNS-1,
426Radio Bahamas, for a few minutes (with a low modulation problem)
427before giving the "Mid-day Report" of local news (post-hurricane
428restoration news) for Grand Bahama, Bimini, other islands and Abaco.
429At about 1613, back to religious music. Various post-hurricane-related
430public service announcements between musical selections over the
431remainder of the hour. At 1700, ZNS-3 rejoined ZNS-1 for the "One
432O'Clock Report" news program. Better modulation for this airing. News
433was followed by sports, weather, and community announcements. At about
4341718, back to ZNS-3's religious music. ZNS-3 also IDs as "ZNS-810-AM."
435(-- Richard Langley, FL, Sept 17, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000,
436DXLD)
437
438May I point out that the ZNS stations are per WRTH ``Government,
439Commercial`` --- therefore the very religious format on ZNS3 is a
440violation of Separation of Church and State. Yes, I know, but it ought
441to apply everywhere (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
442
443** BANGLADESH. 4750even, S=9+25dB but unclean audio modulation sound.
4441710 UT OVERMODULATED distorted audio feed between broadcast house and
445transmission broadcast center at Dhaka? (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked
446AIR outlets at 17-18 UT on Sept 13 on remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha
447Qatar, and Akitakata Japan, WOR iog via DXLD)
448
449** BERMUDA. Glenn, SW club in Bermuda
450http://bernews.com/2019/09/local-shortwave-listeners-club-planned/
451(Artie Bigley, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD) Viz.:
452
453LOCAL SHORTWAVE LISTENERS CLUB PLANNED
454September 17, 2019 | 0 Comments
455
456In this Internet era with its proliferation of online radio stations,
457you could be forgiven for perhaps thinking shortwave buffs had gone
458the way of fans of Morse telegraphy and rotary dial telephones.
459
460Nothing could be further from the truth.
461
462There’s still a thriving worldwide community of enthusiasts who listen
463to shortwave stations and private ham operators the old fashioned way
464— on radio sets.
465
466Because radio waves in the shortwave band can be bounced off the
467ionosphere, they can be be reflected back to Earth at great
468distances.
469
470By way of contrast radio waves of higher frequencies travel in
471straight lines, and are limited in terms of the distance they can be
472received by the visual horizon.
473
474Radios which picked up stations on the shortwave band went on sale in
475Bermuda decades before the first local commercial broadcaster signed
476on in 1946.
477
478The sets allowed listeners on this isolated island to open a window on
479the wider world for the very first time.
480
481And there are still Bermuda residents who enjoy sweeping the radio
482dial across the shortwave band to tune in far-flung stations and hams
483from around the world.
484
485In fact a Bermuda Radio Shortwave Listening Club is now in the
486planning stages.
487
488“The idea is to allow all those young and older listeners of the
489shortwave band to share information and experiences to keep this hobby
490alive,” said a spokesperson for club organisers. “Shortwave listening
491is still alive and well in Bermuda and there’s still lots of local
492activity on the bands.”
493
494For further information please contact wendan3001@gmail.com
495
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503(via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
504
505** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1133+, Sept 17. The Rolling Stones - "Miss You"
506and then playing mostly R&B songs (Boyz II Men - "Misty Blue," etc.);
507after 1140, mixing with FM99 (PBS Yunnan); later noted 1158* cut off.
508Any reception here in which I can ID some of the songs, I consider
509good reception!
510
5116035, BBS, 1049-1140, Sept 18. Recently with unusually good reception;
512pop songs; news in English, but unreadable (1101-1109), with musical
513bridges of their often heard theme music; more pop songs (Elvis
514Presley - "Can't Help Falling In Love," Beatles - "Hey Jude," etc.);
515heard at a level making IDs easy; nice listening until QRM started at
516*1140, with the start up of FM99 relay, via PBS Yunnan. My audio of
517the Beatles song at
518http://bit.ly/2mosQix
519Certainly this reception was one of their best! (Ron Howard, Asilomar
520State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
521
522** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cotapachi, Cochabamba, received
523email confirmation QSL letter in 19 days, for a reception report sent
524via email to: radiomosojchaski@hotmail.com (Manuel Méndez, Lugo,
525Spain, WOR iog via DXLD)
526
527** BONAIRE. 800, Sept 15 at 0144, without really trying in
528tune-across, Spanish mention of rtm.org and Bible talk in strange
529accent, i.e. PJB, TWR. Dominant on the E-W longwire, where`s KQCV OKC?
530It still dominates on the DX-398 except when nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK,
531DX LISTENING DIGEST)
532
533I monitored TWR, Bonaire, 800 kHz, here in the hotel in Miami on 17
534September at about 0200 UT with a good signal for their Spanish
535programming on their northern beam (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via
536DXLD)
537
538** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. Hi Ron and Group. Here is a short audio
539clip from 1300 UT this morning of NBC PNG on 3325 kHz. Ron Howard is
540correct about the marble mouth announcer and bad audio. The Newscast
541began at 1301:30. The political program I heard at 1230 was
542understandable to at least know it was English. The signal was fading
543by 1320 UT here as the sun had been up for an hour by then. This
544should get better in October. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park AB, Rx
545Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD)
546
547Wow - thank you Mick and Ron, - this IS a very interesting frequency
548(3325) to take note of daily (wish I could but too sleepy a lot!). It
549looks like PNG is extending their time past 1300 UT now, or
550occasionally, if the VOI-OC permits, hi! I listened for a bit this
551morning (on my Benmar Navigator 555A) briefly to 3325 and 3320 at
552around 1215z (12 Sept.) and I could hear just barely audio on 3325
553from "somebody."
554
5553320 and 2850 KRE were not in so well, either, at dawn this morning
556here in Keeler, Calif. as compared to on "good" mornings. I'll have to
557make it a point to get up earlier as October approaches to see if
558propagation improves, as hoped. Thanks and 73- (Steve McGreevy --
559N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD)
560
561Some pretty good reception this past week. Must be getting close to
562Equinox!
563
5643325, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NBC at 1220 UT tune in Sept 12 with political
565talk in English. Into local music at 1253 and News Roundup at 1301:30.
566Good but fading after 1318 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx:
567Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD)
568
569Hi Glenn, Sept 15, found NBC Bougainville (3325), has reverted back to
570their former schedule, so today no longer with the greatly extended
571broadcast; heard from 1040, with the usual Sunday religious
572programming of preaching (Pidgin) and songs; 1156, ID ("NBC
573Bougainville"); cut off at 1201*, leaving the frequency clear for
574reception of the VOI carrier (no audio), which was what you were
575hearing. Later after 1300, did hear very faint VOI audio, but
576unusable.
577
578BTW - NBC Madang (3260), cut off today at 1209*, just after "This is
579NBC" ID; heavy QRN (static) today. My audio (ID at 1:09) at
580http://bit.ly/2kBg4Nc
581(Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD)
582
583** BRAZIL. 6925-LSB. Sep 18, 2019. 2043-2110, Ham [sic] Radio- "Rodada
584Chapeu de Couro". Brazilian hams [sic] of many cities of Brazil,
585mainly northeast region, in nice conversation between them.
586Interesting to hear! Excellent reception, 55555 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo
587Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_
588Tecsun S-2000, Antenna (s)_ Longwire, WOR iog via DXLD)
589
590** BRAZIL. ``Under such circumstances, how do you know this is Pará
591instead of the other ZY on 4885, Rdif. Acreana? Pará is supposedly 24h
592per WRTH while Acreana is not? Glenn``
593
594Recorded 4885 kHz overnight on 12/13 September here in NB. The signal
595started to fade in around 2140 UT with very faint audio. Comes up to a
596listenable (fair) level about an hour later. Stayed that way for most
597of the night. Was Radio Clube do Pará. No evidence of another
598co-channel station. Mostly talk programming. Full IDs heard about once
599per hour, but not every hour, and not right on the hour but typically
600a few (up to 10 or so) minutes later. The IDs mention the call signs
601and frequencies of all the stations in the Grupo RBA de Comunicação
602(Radio Clube do Pará, Radio Clube de Marabá, Radio Clube de
603Paragominas, Radio Clube de Maracanã, and Radio Clube do Tapajós (I
604think)). Started to fade out as sunrise approached and completely
605faded out by about 0800 UT. But faded back up to a listenable level
606around 0900 shortly before the recorder ran out its battery.
607
608``Radio Clube do Tapajós (I think)`` Correction. This station is no
609longer mentioned in the IDs as it was at least a couple of years ago.
610So dropped from Grupo RBA? (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD)
611
6124885. Sep 17, 2019. 0116-0126, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém-PA, in
613Portuguese. Sport program with news and comments about football by man
614announcer; ID. Fair reception this night, 35433 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo
615Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_
616XHDATA D-808, Antenna (s)_ Telescopic, WOR iog via DXLD)
617
618R. Clube do Pará:
619https://www.radioclubedopara.com.br/radio/
620https://www.radioclubedopara.com.br/
621\\ 4885.024 kHz at 0710 UT on Sept 15. S=5 in NJ-US eastern state
622remote SDR (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD)
623
624** BRAZIL. 4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, 0410-0630, 17-09,
625Portuguese, soccer comments, Brazilian songs, other comments, ID
626“Radio Clube”. 35433. (Méndez)
627
6284774.9, Radio Congonhas, Congonhas, 0359-0437, 17-09, Brazilian songs,
629Portuguese, comments. Very weak. At 0437 eclipsed by TWR Africa,
630Swaziland. 15321. (Méndez)
631
6324905, Radio Relogio Federal, Rio de Janeiro, 0629-0640, 17-09,
633Portuguese, comments. Very weak. 15311. (Méndez)
634
6354985, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 0402-4050, 17-09, Brazilian
636songs, Portuguese, comments. Strong teletype stations QRM. 21321.
637
6386010, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0445-0457, 17-09, Brazilian
639songs. Very weak. 15311. (Méndez)
640
6419515, Radio Marumby, Curitiba, 1935-1950, 16-09, Portuguese, religious
642comments. 15321.
643
6449550.1, Radio Boa Vontade, Porto Alegre, 2015-2028, 16-09, Portuguese,
645religious comments. // 11895.1. 13311. (Méndez)
646
6479630.4, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2024-2035, 16-09, Portuguese,
648religious comments, ID “Radio Aparecida”. 34433. (Méndez)
649
6509664.9, Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, 1937-1950, 16-09, Portuguese,
651religious comments. 15321. (Méndez)
652
65311815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 2010-2018, 16-09, Brazilian
654songs, Portuguese, comments, ID “Radio Brasil Central”. 32432. QRM on
65511810. (Méndez)
656
65711895.1, Radio Boa Vontade, Porto Alegre, 2013-2021, 16-09,
658Portuguese, religious comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain,
659Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via
660DXLD)
661
662** BRAZIL. 5939.6, Voz Missionária – Camboriú, 0046, 9/11/19 in
663Portuguese. Program of nice mellow Brasilian instrumental and vocal
664music with man announcer. Poor. // 9664.8, fair. Not often I hear both
665outlets at once (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus,
666Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+& HF+ Discovery, Tecsun PL 880, and various
667other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA
668Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD)
669
670** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, IRRS with unknown music program via SPL
671Secretbrod September 14
6721500-1530 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Music Sat, good signal
673instead of
674at same time 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat Radio Warra
675Wangeelaati
676Something`s always wrong at SPL Secretbrod transmitting station, again
677wrong program
678https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/irrs-with-unknown-music-program-via-spl.html
679(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
680
681** CAMBODIA [non]. UZBEKISTAN {not Tajikistan though, wb}, 12150 kHz,
682Not Heard, Voice of Khmer Chas Srok, via Dushanbe ? {wb. - rather RED
683FMO, RRTM Telecom Tashkent Uzbekistan broadcast center}.
684
685Re: Nothing heard between 1130 and 1200 UT on Sundays, as has been the
686case for a long time now. However, it still appears in the EiBi list
687and other frequency lists that source their data from Eibi. 11 Aug
688(Rob Wagner-Vic-AUS VK3BVW, Sept "ADXNews" magazine of ARDXC;
689direct and via dxld Sept 10, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
690
691** CANADA [and non]. 300 kHz, Sept 16 at 0622 UT, dash and YIV, 500
692watt ND beacon from Island Lake, Manitoba. Believe this be a new one
693for me. Wikipedia: ``Island Lake is a small community in east central
694Manitoba, Canada. The community is on several islands in Island Lake,
695which is the 6th largest lake in the province. The community is
696located 297 kilometers (185 mi) east from Thompson, Manitoba and 610
697kilometers northeast of Winnipeg`` near the Ontario border. That makes
698it 1965 km = 1221 miles from me. Bill Hepburn had reported that this
699one was to be retained beyond 2026y rather than decommissioned.
700
701218 kHz, Sept 16 at 0626 UT, dash and RL, 975 watt ND beacon from Red
702Lake, Ontario.
703
704332 kHz, Sept 16 at 0628 UT, dash and QT, 1000 watt ND beacon from
705Thunder Bay, Ontario. Same time and frequency, IC, 400 watts from
706Wichita, Kansas, but different pitches. Also two more from USA, q.v.
707
708346 kHz, Sept 16 at 0630 UT, dash and YXL, 500 watt ND beacon from
709Sioux Lookout, Ontario (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
710
711** CANADA. Just to inform you that CJRS 1650, Montreal QC, changed
712format and call sign. It is now CKZW with a religious format Thanks
713again for maintaining such a great list. (glorenz FMlist.org via
714Sylvain Naud, Goldfarb mwmasts 1 Sep via Sept BDXC-UK Communication
715via DXLD)
716
717** CHAD [non]. GREAT BRITAIN. R. Ndarason International via Woofferton
718(Tent.), 12050, Sep 13, 1850, Believed R. Ndarason in Kanuri with man
719talking but with Gregorian chant music in background from WEWN EWTN
720Vandiver, AL USA, interesting juxtaposition as both can be distinctly
721heard, 32322.
722
723USA. WEWN, EWTN Vandiver, AL, 12050, Sep 13, 1850, SS with Gregorian
724chant, then man and woman talk mixing wth Radio Ndarason International
725via Woofferton Great Britain in Kanuri; interesting juxtaposition as
726both can be distinctly heard; 32323. Equipment used for these
727loggings: ***Icom R-75***, antenna 28m longwire with 9:1 Balun. 73,
728(Bob Butterfield, Columbia MD, WOR iog via DXLD)
729
730** CHILE. 3495-AM. RCW - Radio Compañía Worldwide. Septiembre 17.
7310230-0259 UT. Programa de humor, luego saludos a los oyentes y espacio
732de música del recuerdo. SINPO: 45444.
733
7346985-AM. RCW - Radio Compañía Worldwide. Septiembre 16, 1740-1851 UT.
735Programa acerca de las emisiones de onda corta desde España y hacia
736España durante la Guerra Fría, especialmente del papel de Radio
737Exterior de España, el Centro de transmisiones en Pals usados por
738Radio Liberty y de las emisiones realizadas por el Partido Comunista
739de España. A las 1800, se emite el programa: “Frecuencia al Día”,
740luego el programa “En Contacto” de Radio Habana Cuba con informaciones
741diexistas. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111;
742Antena: Hilo largo de 70 metros; Lugar de escucha:
743Barraza Bajo, 4° Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
744
745** CHINA [and non]. Excerpting CNR1 jammer logs and their targets:
746
7476080, 2010 Chinese Firedrake jammer for R Free Asia (CC px) 444 24/08
748FB
7499180, 1635 Sound of Hope, Taiwan. Mandarin talk [Poss China jammer –
750ed] 151 21/08 AB
7519215, 1727 Sound of Hope, Taiwan (pres). OM with CC talk [as above –
752ed] 322 04/08 WG
7539255, 1723 Sound of Hope, Taiwan. OM with CC talk, CC [as above – ed]
754444 14/08 WG
7559355, 1745 Chinese Firedrake jammer for R Free Asia (CC px) 433 21/08
756FB
75711410, 0550 CNR 1 jammer, China. Jamming Sound of Hope 252 24/08 FB
75811825, 1000 CNR 1 jammer, China. ID, jamming VOA Chinese px 242 30/07
759FB
76015555, 2337 CNR 1 jammer, China. Over R Free Asia, anns, ads, mx, CC
761555 10/08 VEH*
76215940, 0855 CNR 1 jammer, China. Jamming Sound of Hope // 16100 343
76311/08 FB
76416250, 0847 Sound of Hope. OM & YL with CC talk, CC [Poss jammer – ed]
765322 26/08 WG
76621690, 0620 CNR 1 jammer, China. Jamming R Free Asia (Tibetan px) 353
76717/08 FB
76821695, 0948 VO America. OM with CC anns, station jingle mx, YL anns CC
769322 26/08 WG
77021695, 1045 CNR 1, China. Multi-site? Jammer for VOA Philippines?
771322 27/08 RJH
772
773AB Alexander Beryozkin, Ozertitzy, Leningradskaya obl, Russia
774FB Franck Baste, St Bonnet de Rochefort, France
775RJH John Hammett, Barnstable, Devon
776VEH* Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, USA
777WG Will Grocott, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warks
778(Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
779
7807270, CNR 1 in Chinese, Domestic broadcast, September 9, 2019,
7811428–1436. SIO 545, OM announcer with various items, advertisements.
782Time pips at bottom of hour. Moderate QRN, slow QSB. This is likely
783intended to jam other broadcasts on this frequency including “Voice of
784China” clandestine broadcast. YL commentator follows and alternates
785with OM (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Equipment in use: WiNRADiO
786G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP
787Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra
788installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA
789Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD)
790
7919680, CNR 1 1200. W in Chinese, and Firedragon can also be heard
792underneath. Somebody really doesn't want RTI via Tamsui District heard
793in the PRC - Very Good Sept 11
794
7956105, Firedrake/Firedragon at 1130. Crash-boom-bang. RTI via the ROC
796should be broadcasting here now in Chinese - Very Good Sept 11 (Rick
797Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig
798Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor
799shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD)
800
8016180, CNR 1 in Chinese, September 13, 2019, 1506–1512. SIO 444. CNR in
802Mandarin domestic broadcast. OM and YL announcers / news readers.
803Advertisements. This broadcast is likely intended to cover-up or jam
804RTI on the same frequency. Standard CNR domestic format with talk,
805advertisements, MX clips, etc. News items include reports of the
806unrest in Hong Kong (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Equipment in use:
807WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B,
808SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and
809Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all
810others, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD)
811
8129215, Sept 14 at 1225, VP music and then Chinese // 11785, 9660 and
813best 9680, i.e. CNR1 jammers. Then I search out more WOOB:
81410820, Sept 14 at 1230, JBA Chinese
81510960, Sept 14 at 1231, JBA carrier
81611170, Sept 14 at 1232, JBA Chinese
81711440 & 11460 & 11540, Sept 14 at 1233, JBA carriers
81813530, Sept 14 at 1237, JBA carrier with flutter; and no others in the
81912s, 13s, 14s or higher.
820
821All the WOOB ones correlate with SOH/CNR1 jamming in Aoki/NDXC and
822EiBi, except unlisted 11170, new to both of them.
823
824Re my CNR1 jammer log on unlisted 11170, Wolfgang Bueschel reminds
825that he found Sound of Hope nearby during his exhaustive survey: ``my
826trace action of 05 - 12 July, 73 wb: 11170.091 S=6 1414 UT 2150-1700
827SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng Chi 1-7 0607 UT<<<<<<`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
828LISTENING DIGEST)
829
830Hello Wolfie de SPMcGreevy: Between perhaps 1400 to 1600 UT, I hear
831here in the California Desert (northern Mojave Des.) a big mixture of
832perhaps 3 or 4 CNR-1 transmitters all on 9660 kHz (also splashing
833badly upon KRE 9665) with an amazing-sounding "multi-echo" of what I
834ascertain is at least three of four individual transmitters. I think
835they are jamming Taiwan.
836
837This has been daily in my local mornings here for the past three
838months-plus, as noted here in Keeler, California on my Drake SSR-1
839receiver and also as I take walks out into the desert from the small
840town here out of the "noise zone" of the town's AC-grid. On my walks I
841carry my Sony ICF-SW7600GR portable receiver and its whip antenna
842monitoring this "amazing frequency, as such." All these multi CNR-1
843signals on 9660 kHz are quite strong. I assume these multiple CNR-1
844transmitters are attempting to mass-jam TAIWAN. Do you have any
845insight into this (or other SW-DXers?) 73 de (SPMcGreevy - Keeler, CA,
846USA. -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Sept 14, WOR iog via DXLD)
847
8489155, Sept 17 at 1329, Chinese VP from CNR1 jammer; none audible in
849the 10s; 11460 & 11785 both JBA carriers at 1333; none in the 12s or
85013s; but 13855 is S3 in Chinese at 1351, CRI in Chinese this hour only
851via Kashgar, East Turkistan, land of Uighur brainwashing (Glenn
852Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
853
854** CHINA. 13640, Sept 14 at 2237, JBA talk of interest only because
855hardly anything else is audible on band --- listed as CRI Japanese
856bihour from Jinhua site, so probably aimed thisaway beyond (Glenn
857Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
858
859** CHINA [non]. 9580, Sept 15 at 0120, CRI English via CUBA is
860splashing upon 9570, CRI English via ALBANIA, lessened by LSB tuning.
861Commies vs Commies vs Commies! Maybe not such a good idea to run them
862only 10 kHz apart, altho not synchronized with an extra satellite hop
863to reach Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
864
865** CHINA [and non]. Log of Sept 19, checked some Asian target outlets
866at 0000-0130 UT range on remote SDRs in Hiroshima, Akitakata, Tokyo
867Japan.
868
869Highest fq of Taiwan SoH Chinese language 'veiled purpose' service
870today.
87121799.693 TWN SOH at 23.50 UT Tuesday Sep 17, S=6 strength in Japan
87221799.706 TWN SOH at 00.27 UT Thursdays [sic] Sep 17, S=8
873strength
874in Japan
87521800even CHN CNR jamming at S=8-9 strength noted from 01.00 UT.
876
87714369.883 TWN SOH Chinese, S=8 at 00.30 UT.
87814560even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=8 in JPN, against
879co-channel TWN SOH Chinese, at 00.31 UT.
88014600.187 TWN SOH Chinese, poor S=4-5 at 00.41 UT.
88114640.108 TWN SOH Chinese, S=7 at 00.33 UT.
88214690.104 TWN SOH Chinese, S=7 at 00.34 UT.
88314774.932 TWN SOH Chinese, underneath at 00.35 UT, hit of co-channel
88414775even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+20dB in JPN, 8 kHz wideband
88514799.892 TWN SOH Chinese, S=7-8 at 00.37 UT.
88614850even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+20dB in JPN, many echo
887repeats heard and ahead of co-channel TWN SOH Chinese at 0038 UT.
88814980even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+20dB in JPN, 20 kHz
889wideband, heard and ahead of co-channel TWN SOH Chinese at 00.44 UT.
890
89115320even PHL VoA Chinese program via US IBB BBG relay facility on
892Tinang in Philippines. NOT JAMMED at this hour. S=9+10dB 00.47UT
89315340even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+5dB in JPN, 8 kHz wideband,
894heard and ahead of co-channel
89515340.003 TWN SOH Chinese at 00.49 UT.
896
89715565even both signals on this channel
89815565even THA US VoA Chinese program from SoEaAS US relay site at
899Udorn Thani in northeastern Thailand, but underneath -
900covered by co-channel at 00.54 UT on Sept 19
90115565even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+25dB in JPN, 20 kHz
902wideband and next door adjacent
90315570even CHN CNR11 in Tibetan language via CNR Baoji-Sifangshan
904#724 site at S=9+15dB channel on remote SDR's Japan.
90515940even CHN CNR1 jamming signal against TWN SOH services, noted
906at 01.23 UT, S=8 signal strength.
90715969.860 TWN SOH Chinese, poor tiny S=4-5 signal at 01.22 UT.
90816100even CHN CNR jamming against TWN SOH services, noted at 01.21
909UT 35.8 N 97.6 E seems likely coming from Golmud/Geermu #916 site.
910S=9+20dB at 20 kHz wide audioblock noted on SDRs in Japan.
91116300even CHN CNR1 jamming signal against TWN SOH services, noted
912at 0120 UT seems likely coming from one of three sites close to Baoji
913Xinjiezhen #722 / Baoji Sifangshan #724 / or Xianyang #594 sites ?
914see direction finding comment below. S=9+20dB at 20 kHz wide audioblock
915noted on SDRs in Japan.
91616680even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=8-9 in JPN, against co-
917channel TWN SOH Chinese at 01.16 UT. 10.4 kHz wideband audio block.
91816789.848 TWN SOH Chinese, S=4 poor at 00.10 UT. unstable fq 5 Hz
919up+down
92016979.926 TWN SOH Chinese, S=6-7 at 00.13 UT.
92117150.021 TWN SOH Chinese, S=6-7 at 00.14 UT.
92217440.242 TWN SOH Chinese, S=7 at 00.08 UT Sept 19.
92317489.997 CHN CRI Beijing #572 Doudian site, Cantonese language sce,
924S=8 at 00.009 UT.
92517550even CHN CNR1 Beijing #572 Doudian site, S=8 in Akitakata
926Japan, hit heavily at 00.16 UT on Sept 19 by 20 kHz wideband CNR
927jamming from 17560 kHz adjacent channel.
92817560even CHN CNR1 jamming signal of S=9+15dB in JPN, against co-
929channe l7560 underneath, PHL VoA Tinang Chinese lower strength at
93000.19 UT.
93117625even CHN CNR2 Bussiness sce in Chinese, S=7-8 at 00.03 in Tokyo
932
93317770 DRM mode from CHN CNR1 at Dongfang, Hainan Island bcast
934center. 3E8 call sign read, S=9+25dB level at 01.05 and 01.55 UT.
935
93618180.319 TWN SOH Chinese, S=8-9 at 00.21 UT.
93718899.685 TWN SOH Chinese, S=6-7 at 00.23 UT.
938
939Checked also on KiwiNet SW worldwide at Khabarovsk Siberia, Pakistan,
940Delhi India and Hong Kong SDR units and used TDoA Extension for
941directing finding service too.
942
94316100even CHN CNR jamming against TWN SOH services, noted at 01.33
944UT; 35.8 N 97.6 E seems likely coming from Golmud/Geermu #916 site.
945S=9+20dB at 20 kHz wide audioblock noted on SDRs in Japan.
946
94716300even CHN CNR jamming against TWN SOH services, noted at
94801.29 UT 33.6 N 103.2 E seems likely coming from one of three sites
949close to Baoji Xinjiezhen #722 / Baoji Sifangshan #724 / or Xianyang
950#594 sites ? S S=9+20dB at 20 kHz wide audioblock noted on SDRs in
951Japan.
952
95317770 DRM mode from CHN Dongfang, Hainan Island bcast center.
954S=9+25dB Narrowed at TDoA Kiwi direction finding at
95523.0 N 107.4 E location at 01.55 UT.
956
957TDoA Help. [see RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM]
958(Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 19, DXLD)
959
960** CHINA [non]. see ZAMBIA!
961
962** COLOMBIA. Colombian AM networks --- Are there any members from
963Colombia here? Checking network streams, it looks to me that some of
964them have stopped regional programming altogether. For example W Radio
965has regional page like
966https://www.wradio.com.co/emisora/cucuta/informacion/1177.aspx
967but the audio is always from Bogotá. Or do I miss something? Thanks,
968(Mauno Ritola, Finland, Sept 11, condiglista yg via DXLD) No ans?
969
970** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1741-1759*, 16-09,
971vernacular comments. Very weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain,
972Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via
973DXLD)
974
975** CUBA. 11880, CRI (via - site) at 1500. News & commentary with M and
976W in English. Signal good, but the audio was undermodulated -
977Fair/Good Sept 3.
978
97911880, China Radio International (via Quivican) 1500. Monitored on
980portable, stock whip. M, W in current events discussion. Very strong
981S-9+ carrier, but modulation way below where it should be for such a
982strong AM carrier - Very Good Sept 13 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs,
983Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS
984SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good
985Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD)
986
987** CUBA. 11860.4, Sept 13 at 1323, lite Cuban noise jamming overlaid
988several times a minute by a very rapid series of beeps, all same
989pitch, too fast and too many to count, as heard tuned to 11860.0-USB,
990and then located frequency of beeper which is inaudible in AM mode,
991i.e. not modulated but just CW-like.
992
993Also at 1325 I hear exactly the same thing happening on 11930.4. Radio
994Martí does not start either frequency until 1400. Occasional beepery
995of different spans, combinations and speeds, has been heard previously
996out of Cuban jammers, intriguing; could Arnie explain? Ha. And is this
997something ``wrong`` or not? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
998
999** CUBA. BCST spur --- IRCA, If anyone is near their radios listen on
100014.050 to 14.060 in AM mode and tell me if you hear an extremely
1001distorted AM BCST station. I think it is Radio Havana Cuba. Steve NG0G
1002-- (Stephen Hawkins NG0G, 73 49 111 01001001, time? Sept 13, IRCA iog
1003via DXLD)
1004
1005Steve, nothing on the west coast at 1433 UT, although the MUF stinks
1006(Walt in Victoria BC Salmaninw, Sept 14, ibid.)
1007
1008Walt, I set the receive bandwidth on my radio to about 14k and I could
1009understand them. It was Radio Havana Cuba. They are gone now. This is
1010the 2nd time they have done this in the last couple of weeks. The
1011first time the signal was very fat and I thought it was a local AM
1012station with a problem (Steve, ibid.)
1013
1014As in my SW logs, RHC sporadically emits spurs out of the 13700 -AM
1015transmitter, at multiples of 65-75 kHz. the closer ones can be very
1016strong, quite weaker above 14 MHz. Most of the time they can be copied
1017much more clearly in the FM mode than AM, and with a constant F# tone.
101873, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Viz.!
1019
102013554, 13485, 13630, 13775, 13840 approx., Sept 13 at 1327, strong FM
1021spurblobs out of RHC 13700-AM transmitter, each about 10 kHz wide, at
1022intervals of approx. 70-75 kHz which may vary slightly over time. AND
1023yes, all with F# above middle C constant tone, just like original
1024outbreak years ago, but tuned in FM mode, modulation is quite
1025readable, while 13700 source sounds fine in AM.
1026
1027By 1348 I search for further outliers and detect at least the F# tone
1028circa: 13990, 14060, 13844, 13410 - which was a trace around 13415
1029earlier. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
1030RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1031
103215140, Sept 13 at 2013, RHC in Portuguese; and 15370 in French. Wires
1033crossed? Supposed to be vice versa, per Aoki/NDXC and EiBi. RHC`s own
1034website is still displaying B-18 schedule!
1035http://www.radiohc.cu/fr/interesantes/frecuencias
1036which does not include either language on either or any frequency
1037during this semihour! Something`s always wrong at RHC. [more below]
1038
10396100, Sept 14 at 0525, RHC English is S9+20 of dead air; at least it
1040is usually strongest now, while 6000 is JBM and 6165 JBA carrier.
1041Something`s always wrong at RHC.
1042
104312000, Sept 14 at 1234, RHC fair here and better than // fundamental
10446000. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
1045
104613700, Sept 14 at 1305, RHC fails to provide an F# FM service today,
1047just this and 13740 on AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
1048Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1049
10506100 kHz, RHC - NOT ON AIR -, scheduled Esperanto special on Sundays
1051only 0700-0730 (Wolfgang Bueschel, Sept 15, WOR iog via DXLD)
1052
105313557, 13627, 13767, 13848 approx. centers, Sept 15 at 1333, barely
1054detectable FM spurblobs with F# tone from RHC 13700-AM, as RHC fails
1055to provide a useful FM service today; something`s always wrong at RHC.
1056The one around 13627 is somewhat readable, and I notice that
1057the F# tone is also JB audible on 13700-AM, but not on 13740-AM, at
10581336 as `En Contacto` is underway. Hey Arnie, this would be a great
1059topic for you to discuss/explain in English and/or Spanish, rather
1060than boring QSLs-on-the-air, etc., of possible interest to only one
1061listener. At 1426 recheck, traces of FM but no mod around 13771,
106213629, as blobs shift. BTW, 13700 & FM constellation came on air late,
1063still unthere at first check 1306 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
1064DIGEST)
1065
106613557, 13629, 13770, 13841, trace 13912 approx., Sept 16 at 1358, FM
1067spurblobs out of 13700-AM, RHC; but today these are rather weak, with
1068F# tone but very little or no program modulation; and the one on 13629
1069produces more mod in AM than FM, as RHC fails again to provide decent
1070FM service; roughly 70-73 kHz intervals above and below. Something`s
1071always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX
1072LISTENING DIGEST)
1073
10749630 & 9650, Sept 16 at 1410, buzzblobs equally on both sides of 9640
1075RHC, which I conclude is producing them; matching and above line- and
1076other band noise levels. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
1077
1078Comparing the two RHC 19mb frequencies, Sept 16 at 2026: 15370 in
1079Spanish song, not // 15140 in other music vamping. At 2030, 15140 goes
1080into Portuguese but chops off at 2032.6* during This Day in
1081History; and 15370 continues, in choking Arabic. The foreign languages
1082don`t dare announce what times and frequencies they are on, since, you
1083never know when and where they will upshow. 15140 was supposed to stop
1084at 2030 after French, altho last check Sept 13 it was in Portuguese
1085before 2030.
1086
1087Another check Sept 17 at 2008: 15140 OK in proper French; 15370 in
1088proper Portuguese but undermodulated with crackle on the modulation
1089and carrier. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
1090LISTENING DIGEST)
1091
109213566, 13632, 13768, weaker 13837 approx., Sept 18 at 1407, RHC-FM
1093blobs with F# tone, multiples of about 66-69 kHz out of RHC-AM 13700,
1094but weaker than usual; and next order beyond circa 13500 & 13900 not
1095detected. Recheck at 1447, the tone is still audible about 13769. So
1096far that makes Sept 15, 16, and 18 in play; none on Sept 14, 17; and
109719 when 13700 itself was AWOL at 1358. Something`s always wrong at RHC
1098(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1099
110015140, Sept 18 at 1413, RHC is S9 but JBM, while 15230 with more
1101modulation is only S3. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
1102OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1103
110415370. Sep 18, 2019. 1959-2015, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta, in
1105Portuguese. IS; 2000 ID and website by man voice; September 18, "Date
1106to Remember" by man; Woman voice; 2004 News by man announcer; 2006
1107Abrupt sign-off and no returns carrier and modulation till 2015, time
1108of this log. Poor reception with fades, 35422 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo
1109Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_
1110Tecsun S-2000, Antenna (s)_ Longwire, WOR iog via DXLD)
1111
1112** CUBA. Unscheduled on 15120 kHz? Hearing what sounds like CRI
1113on 15120? I`m not sure what language it`s in but it sounds like
1114they`re doing language lessons. Could be Spanish and Chinese? Nothing
1115on Eibi says something should be here at this hour (Paul Laramie, WY
1116Walker, 0036 UT Sept 19, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
1117
1118Cuban relay of CRI Spanish has been active at 00-01 UT on 15120, which
1119had been scheduled in B-18 but continued; also on 5990 (Glenn Hauser,
1120ibid.)
1121
112215120, Sept 20 at 0004, S5-S7 of dead air, no doubt the CRI Spanish
1123relay as also on 5990 and even modulating. // 15120 was scheduled in
1124B-18, and has kept showing up in A-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
1125DIGEST)
1126
1127** CUBA [non]. From the Isle of Music, September 22-28: This week we
1128listen to a variety of new and recent releases. The broadcasts take
1129place:
1130
11311. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most
1132of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania)
1133with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia,
1134Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
1135
1136If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can
1137listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands
1138during the broadcast at
1139http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am
1140
11412. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New
1142UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in
1143the US).
1144
1145If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a
1146live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
1147http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
1148
11493 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and
1150Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach,
1151Germany.
1152
1153If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can
1154listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands
1155during the broadcast at
1156http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
1157
1158Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, September 22 and 24:
1159
1160Episode 131, Adventures in Electronic Music, presents some great
1161moments in the evolution of electronic music.
1162The transmissions take place:
1163
11641. Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The
1165Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe
1166If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a
1167live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490)
1168http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7
1169
11702. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach,
1171Germany for Europe.
1172If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can
1173listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands
1174during the broadcast at
1175http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am
1176
1177Thanks for all you do for radio! (William "Bill" Tilford,
1178Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, DXLD via WOR iog)
1179
1180** CZECHOSLOVAKIA. ACABO DE RECIBIR ESTE MENSAJE DE PRAGA; QUIZÁ LE
1181INTERESE A SERGIO PÀMIES AL QUE RUEGO LE HAGAN LLEGAR EL MISMO
1182
1183Teresa Pàmies, la exiliada republicana que trabajó en Radio Praga en
1184los años 50 | Radio Prague International
1185
1186En los años 50, una exiliada republicana de la Guerra Civil española
1187estuvo viviendo en Checoslovaquia. Mucho de...
1188https://www.radio.cz/es/rubrica/panorama/teresa-pamies-la-exiliada-republicana-que-trabajo-en-radio-praga-en-los-anos-50
1189CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO, Spain, DXLD)
1190
1191** DENMARK. Last chance to hear WMR on 5840 and 15805 kHz --- In a
1192completely unexpected move the Danish authorities has withdrawn the
1193permission to use out of band frequencies (on a non interference
1194basis) for World Music Radio (WMR). This means that WMR will be
1195ceasing operations on 5840 and 15805 kHz tomorrow Sunday September
119615th 2009 at 2200 UT. WMR may return to shortwave – using frequencies
1197inside the official SW bands – but this may take several months.
1198
1199Meanwhile WMR continues being available via internet streaming at
1200http://www.wmr.dk – and hopefully also soon on medium wave 927 kHz in
1201Copenhagen.
1202
1203Reception reports may be sent to wmr@wmr.dk - or to World Music Radio,
1204PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers SØ, Denmark (please enclose return
1205postage). Best 73s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Sept 14, Hard-Core-DX
1206mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
1207
1208WMR today was received with 'good' signal on 1100 + of S1-7 maximum
1209(-120 to -90 dbm over -130dBm noise level) sometimes with more than 1
1210minute of S7 levels. At 1200 with signals not more than S5 with
1211possible stop of content at 1230 - some buzz only - that returned back
1212to music around 1250 with nice music that varies between Afro and
1213Arabic styles amongst other different kinds. Many IDs during the
1214program . Listening for about hour with some gaps while processing
1215some texts and doing house works (Zacharias Liangas
1216https://www.facebook.com/zachliang
1217https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages), DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1218
1219Hi Glen[n]: I received my first SWBC QSL in years via US mail today.
1220World Music Radio verified a May 2004 report on 5815 kHz for a 7 kW
1221transmission from Karup, Denmark. It was interestingly mailed from
1222Andorra, site of the recent EDXC meeting. 73, (Dan Srebnick, Aberdeen,
1223NJ, Sept 18, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1224
1225Dan, I guess after a decade and a half, World Music Radio ("WMR")
1226decided to empty out the "in" basket while traveling to the European
1227DX Council Conference in Andorra. I received two date/frequency QSL
1228verification cards from WMR today. One for a May 19, 2002 reception
1229and the second card for a September 5, 2004 report. Fifteen plus years
1230of waiting makes for perhaps my longest wait time from a reception
1231report (no follow ups). Like Dan's QSL cards mine were also postmarked
1232from Andorra.
1233
1234Recently, the station announced it had to close down its shortwave
1235operations because the Danish authorities withdrew permission to use
1236their current out-of-band frequencies of 5,840 kHz and 15,805 kHz.
123773, (Rich D'Angelo, NASWA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
1238
1239Re: Last chance to hear WMR on 5840 and 15805 kHz --- I just checked
1240Radio Oz Viola's Facebook page but there's no announcement on there as
1241yet but this is obviously going to affect them as well as they use
12425825 kHz.
1243
1244Last post was on Sept 12: "Sorry ?... We have no broadcast in the
1245weekend '14 - 15/9 2019 ', due to family party, so we hope to 'see
1246you' next weekend on the frequency." (Paul Watson, Sept 14, bdxc-news
1247iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
1248
1249Radio OZ-Viola has updated his Facebook page. He said: "Unfortunately,
1250our good friend and colleague had to stop his broadcasts on 5840 and
125115805 kHz. since he cannot get his licenses renewed from the
1252authorities.
1253
1254The same can happen for us when we try to renew ours in a few months."
1255Jan who runs OZ-Viola said in the comments section that the Danish
1256authorities had issued him and WMR with a temporary 'trial frequency'
1257which had to be renewed annually.
1258
1259He usually operates on weekend afternoons and some weekday evenings.
1260You can check his Facebook page for latest updates of when he will be
1261on air.
1262https://www.facebook.com/groups/1575652522537756/
1263(Paul Watson, Sept 16, ibid.)
1264
1265Radio OZ-Viola has a broadcast tomorrow ("Midnight Jazz"), Wednesday
126618 September, on 5825 2000-2200 UT (2200-0000 CEST) according to Jan
1267Sorenson on their Facebook group (Alan Pennington, Sept 17, bdxc-news
1268iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
1269
1270Mauno Ritola: I don't understand this. Why can't those frequencies be
1271used on NIB basis for your low power stations, if hundred times
1272stronger stations can do it? (WRTH FB, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, ibid.)
1273
12745840, World Music Radio, Randers, 0501-0540, 14-09, pop songs in
1275English, Latin American songs, identification: "WMR, World Music
1276Radio". 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun
1277S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
1278
1279Re: WMR off air. re: 5840 kHz --- Ja gut, in der heutigen Zeit gibt es
1280ja genuegend freie / und nachbarlich freie Frequenzen wenn man
1281flexibel arbeitet.
1282
1283Aber fuer einen kleinen Hobby-Bastler ist das keine kleine Uebung
1284{und kostet auch Geld}, wie sehr leicht ein Fq-Wechsel bei einem
1285Grosssender zu handhaben ist, den Sender und die Antenne wieder auf
1286ein gutes Matching der Abstrahlung bei kleinster Leistung
1287hinzubiegen.
1288
1289Wenn ich mir das so ueberlege, hat bestimmt die NATO Marine (in DEN
1290gibt es auch ein Kommando und die Funkstation Stevnsfort, probably:
1291
1292<https:\\goo.gl/maps/Ukihxg5wKQcG9SCE9>
1293<https:\\goo.gl/maps/Mvj8Xhg5wYs7cY2N9>
1294<https:\\goo.gl/maps/8CHN1DxHuLpkuvfS6>
1295
1296eine Beschwerde bei der ITU oder daenische Funkverwaltung losgelassen,
1297weil bei 5.6 bis 5.9 MHz (!) eine Menge STANAG* digitale Marine
1298Funkstationen der NATO herum funken. Und ein Hobby
1299Stationseindringling nicht geduldet wird. Die Militaers duerfen alles.
1300* STANAG, SITOR, PACTOR modes, ALE USB.
1301
1302Aus dem March 2014 archive: ITU monitoring shows on their lists
1303
13045850 kHz STANAG #4285 G1D mode, 2400 Baud, originate located -
1305probably - between Haslev and Copenhagen, Denmark. Digital data block
1306covers 5848.5 to 5851.6 kHz today. DEN__NATO__Marine_Stevnsfort,
1307STANAG radio
1308
13093 masts at 55 16 07.25 N 12 24 15.44 E --- more 12 masts destroyed
1310already in April 2014, acc Google Earth image.
1311<https:\\binged.it/2LwH0YR>
1312<https:\\goo.gl/maps/ApVxCwn91kqvrrr8A>
1313
1314Re: Danish Marine Service on 5850 kHz.
1315WRMI is now using 5850 and 7455 at 23-11 UT.
1316(Erik Koie-DEN, dxld March 9, 2014)
1317
1318Dear DX-friends, With the help from our utility expert Bent Nielsen, I
1319am pretty sure, that the transmitter Noel and Wolfgang heard on 5850
1320kHz, is from Stevnsfort (the former Stevns Fortress during the Cold
1321War).
1322
1323It is located at the coastline east of Haslev Denmark and built into
1324the cliff with an excellent view towards all ships approaching from
1325the Baltic Sea. Stevnsfort is now a "Cold War museum", which I visited
1326last August together with Kaj Bredahl Jorgensen.
1327
1328But I noted, that there still are some shortwave antennas, so this may
1329be the OVG relay in accordance to STANAG (Standard NATO Agreement) No.
13304285 dealing with Characteristics of 1200/2400/3600 bit/s single tone
1331MODEMs for HF radio links. No doubt used for contact with Danish
1332marine vessels in the Baltic Sea. (Anker Petersen-DEN, March 6,
13332014)(via BC-DX 18 Sept 2019 via DXLD)
1334
1335** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, 0348-0500*, 14-09, Saturday’s
1336German program, female, male, comments, at 0400 time signals and
1337program in Spanish, religious and cultural comments, Andean music and
1338other songs in Spanish, “Asi termina el programa de hoy,
1339agredeciéndoles...”, anthem and close at 0500. 0400-0458 strong QRM
1340from Algeria on the same frequency. 214321 [sic] (Manuel Méndez, Lugo,
1341Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog
1342via DXLD)
1343
1344** ECUADOR [non]. Russia / Germany --- Received QSL from Voice of the
1345Andes for the reception on August 24th I want to say that the
1346reception in Russian is disgusting, but in Chechen it’s wonderful
1347(Alexander Golovikhin, Tolyatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" QSL World,
1348Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD)
1349
1350** EGYPT. JOURNALIST MAHMOUD HUSSEIN MARKS 1,000 DAYS IN EGYPTIAN
1351JAIL
1352
135319 September marks the 1,000th day that Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud
1354Hussein has spent behind bars after being detained by Egyptian
1355authorities while visiting his family in December 2016.
1356
1357Al Jazeera Media Network has renewed its call for the immediate
1358release of Mahmoud Hussein. On 23 May 2019, a court in Egypt rejected
1359the appeal by the prosecutor for the continued detention of Mahmoud
1360and ordered his release from prison. However, in defiance of the court
1361order, the authorities opened a new investigation against him with
1362unspecified charges. The Network strongly condemns the Egyptian
1363authorities’ decision to return Mahmoud Hussein to Tora prison despite
1364the court ruling that he should be released. Mahmoud is being detained
1365by the Egyptian government in flagrant violation of international law
1366and an infringement of his fundamental rights.
1367
1368The Association for International Broadcasting joins with Al Jazeera
1369and other media organisations in calling on the Egyptian authorities
1370to release Mahmoud Hussein immediately.
1371
1372More on this story here.
1373https://aib.org.uk/journalist-mahmoud-hussein-marks-1000-days-in-egyptian-jail/
1374(AIB media industry briefing | September 2019 via DXLD)
1375
1376** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata,
13770550-0605, 17-09, songs, at 0601 Spanish, news. Very weak today. 15311
1378(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable
1379antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
1380
1381** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod,
1382September 13
13831700-1730 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Daily
13841730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya, not Arabic Fri
13851730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Thu/Sat-Mon
1386https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-dimtse-radio-erena-via-spl.html
1387(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1388
1389** EUROPE. Spaceshuttle on air today 17th September --- Transmission
1390starts on 9290 kHz perhaps around 14 or 15 UT today (+warming time)-
1391rpts welcome…. spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com Best greetings from Radio
1392Spaceshuttle (Dick Spacewalker, 1351 UT Sept 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1393
1394Zero signal at 1400 & 1430 UT, Sept 17 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.)
1395
1396** FRANCE. There will be a special transmission via TDF Issoudun for
1397the sailing race Mini Transat between 22-29 September at 1500-1600
1398daily on the following frequencies: 13730 kHz AM & 15300 kHz DRM
1399
1400There will be a second leg in early November.
1401https://www.minitransat.fr/en?fbclid=IwAR0qdngU8YJheUCo6KKA6tULpA4CeeeACoxg7ZQC9Y1JNI
1402GfLMyn6QY6zk (Mauno Ritola, WRTH Facebook Page via Sept ADXN via WORLD
1403OF RADIO 2000, DXLD) Did anyone hear this? (gh)
1404
1405** FRANCE [non]. 17660.018, Sept 14 at 1253, French S9+10 and somewhat
1406undermodulated, some deep fades to S6;; off-frequency makes me think
1407of Sa`udi like just-logged 15380.059 Qur`an, and SRI/SBA do have
1408French on 17660 --- but not until 1355.
1409
1410At 1200-1300 it`s RFI via MADAGASCAR, which explains the good signal
1411being T-E rather than T-A. Fluent W&M conversation about African
1412affairs, chopped off abruptly at 1300*. Only a trace of Saudi on
141317705, making RFI the SSOB and virtually the OSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK,
1414DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1415
1416** GERMANY 100 YEARS OF RADIO EVENTS IN GERMANY.
1417100 Years of Radio is a project by Foerderverein 'Sender Koenigs
1418Wusterhausen' e.V. to commemorate the birth of German radio
1419broadcasting in Rundfunkstadt Koenigs Wusterhausen'.
1420
1421100 Years of Radio Events in 2020
1422
1423Jan 5th - New Year Concert of the Town of Koenigs Wusterhausen.
1424Feb 9th - World Radio Day - 'Listening to the radio like 100 years
1425 ago'.
1426Mar 7th - 'Radio' Reading in the town library of Koenigs Wusterhausen
1427Apr 4th - 35.000 m above Koenigs Wusterhausen - Project
1428 'Stratosphere Flight'.
1429May 8th - 75 Years reopening of the Transmission Station Tegel,
1430 Hour of Commemoration at the Senderhaus #2.
1431Jun 7th - The Sound of Koenigs Wusterhausen - Premiere.
1432Jul 6th - 10th - #radioferien - Event Week for Children on Holiday
1433 in the Region.
1434Aug 7th - 8th - Bergfunk Openair -
1435 Radio from the festival in Koenigs Wusterhausen.
1436Sep 5th - Town Festival Koenigs Wusterhausen.
1437Sep 13th - Open monument day - 100 Jahre history of the Funkerberg.
1438Oct 10th - Live Radio Play in the Senderhaus.
1439Nov - Is there a Future for Radio Discussion at the
1440 Museum for Communication Berlin
1441Dec 22th - Commemorative Event
1442 '100 Years of Radio Broadcasting from Koenigs Wusterhausen'
1443
1444The clock is ticking:
1445<https:\\100jahrerundfunk.de/>
1446
1447countdown at this time:
1448110days02hours43minutes23sec
1449
1450<https:\\100jahrerundfunk.de/english/>
1451
1452100 Years of Radio from Koenigs Wusterhausen.
1453
1454On December 22nd 1920, something remarkable happened in Koenigs
1455Wusterhausen. For months, engineers have attempted to transmit speech
1456and music using an arc converter in Senderhaus 1 of the Funkerberg
1457(the Koenigs Wusterhausen radio tower). On that Wednesday, they
1458finally succeeded - at 2 pm in the afternoon, the radio transmitter
1459went online.
1460
1461"Hello, hello, this is Koenigs Wusterhausen on Wave 2700", those were
1462the first words of the first radio broadcast from Germany. That
1463broadcast is considered the dawn of radio in Germany.
1464
1465A hundred years later, remarkable events are taking place at the
1466Funkerberg again.
1467
1468100 years of broadcasting are celebrated for the duration of the year.
1469A hundred years of broadcast can be experienced in the Sender- und
1470Funktechnikmuseum (museum of radio and broadcasting technology).
1471
1472The museum's own radio station, welle370, demonstrates medium wave
1473broadcasting on a monthly basis. And each month, the Funkerberg hosts
1474a unique radio-themed event
1475
1476<http://100jahrerundfunk.de/hoehepunkte/>
1477
1478Much has changed in the last 100 years in radio broadcasting. But the
1479fundamentals have remained the same: the transmission of speech and
1480music for the listener. Everything else is left to the imagination of
1481the audience - to this day, that is the magic of radio broadcasting.
1482
1483'Radio from the birthplace of broadcasting' - with this motto, we are
1484inviting stations from around the world to broadcast from the cradle
1485of radio transmission. For this purpose, we will provide a small
1486studio setup, to allow radio program production and transmission to
1487the home studio via internet at any time. Recording can be done with a
1488small amount of studio guests in the room showing the 250.000 watt
1489medium wave transmitter, or with an audience of up to 120 people in
1490the historic Kultursaal hall.
1491
1492The history of radio broadcasting is a history of communication. The
1493Museum fuer Kommunikation Berlin (Berlin museum of communication) is
1494honoring our theme of "100 years of broadcasting" with a special
1495exhibition:
1496
1497The Museum for Communication Berlin will open the exhibition "100
1498years of radio broadcasting" in September 2020. The exhibition looks
1499at the receivers (and under their hood), presents creators,
1500significant locations of radio history and the radio content that
1501people have been listening to since 1920. It documents a democratic
1502medium and the fractures and disruption that it experienced and
1503survived. The visitors are asked to participate: what does radio mean
1504for you?
1505
1506In September 2021 the exhibition will be shown at the Museum for
1507Communication Frankfurt (via Paul Gager-AUT, BrDXC-UK newsgroup Sept
150811-12 via BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
1509
1510** GERMANY. Welcome to Listening Post for September 2019.
1511
1512This month I present a short survey of programming over a four-hour
1513period from 1800 to 2200 UT on the evening of Tuesday 13 August. This
1514time I have decided to look for a couple of programmes in each hour to
1515highlight. I should add that this whole block was also recorded and
1516reviewed in the days following, which allowed me to listen to more
1517than one programme in each hour.
1518
15191800 UT I start with programmes being relayed via Channel 292 on 6070
1520kHz. In fact, I am a regular listener to the two and half hour block
1521of programmes transmitted on Tuesdays from 1800 to 2030 which provides
1522three great programmes back-to-back.
1523
1524Starting at 1800 was Here We Go! from Radio Ohne Namen, which was a
1525re-run of episode 104 of this excellent programme of 1930s and 1940s
1526German jazz and big band music. As I understand it, there are no new
1527episodes of this programme currently being produced, but there are at
1528least 130 episodes which have been produced (episode 130 was scheduled
1529to first air at the end of October 2018). However, there are many
1530reasons why I have not heard each episode (not least of which would be
1531poor propagation at times, or just having non-radio things to do), and
1532I’m sure this applies to other regular listeners also, so reruns of
1533old programmes are welcome for that reason alone. Besides, it is great
1534music which stands repeated listening.
1535
1536Various editions of Here We Go! are broadcast via Channel 292, 6070
1537kHz, on Tuesdays at 1800, and Mondays and Fridays at 1400.
1538
15391900 UT, Second up on the 6070 kHz block, at 1900, is the always
1540enjoyable From the Isle of Music with Bill Tilford. In today’s
1541programme there was an interview (in Spanish, as most interviews are
1542in this programme) with Denis Martínez (leader of the Timba band Denis
1543y su Swing, pictured right with Bill Tilford), along with, of course,
1544some of the band’s great music. Another excellent programme, and don’t
1545be put off by the Spanish interviews – there’s plenty of the fabulous
1546Cuban music to be heard here. By-the-by, the episode on 20 August was
1547non-stop Cuban music for the whole hour including an astonishing a
1548cappella performance of Hotel California by a group called Vocal
1549Sampling (check it out on You Tube!). The music played in this
1550programme is not always that with which you would immediately
1551associate with Cuba, but always well worth a listen.
1552
1553FTIOM is broadcast Sundays at 1500 UT on 9400 via Bulgaria, Tuesdays
1554at 0000 on 7490 via WBCQ, and Tuesdays at 1900/Saturdays at 1200 on
15556070 kHz via Rohrbach.
1556
15572000 UT --- Last in the 6070 block is Bill Tilford again with Uncle
1558Bill’s Melting Pot, and a curious mix of songs featuring music with
1559"Flat Earth" in their title, in honour of the new "Worlds Last Chance"
1560programmes via WBCQ (over which UBMP is also heard). First up was a
1561fantastic ten-minute jazz track by the group Fareed Haque & The Flat
1562Earth Ensemble from the album Flat Planet, called Big Bhangra. A
1563completely new group to me, and from their website at
1564http://www.fareed.com
1565I find this description of their music:
1566
1567“The musical mission of Flat Earth Ensemble is to incorporate the
1568charismatic dance and folk music of his Punjabi roots in India and
1569Pakistan with the traditions of American jazz and funk.”
1570
1571Bill finished the show with another great jazz track from Flat Planet
1572called The Chant. It would have been so easy to have ridiculed or
1573denigrated the organisation behind "Worlds Last Chance", but with UBMP
1574being transmitted via WBCQ, Bill cleverly avoided that and found some
1575great tracks to play. It must take a lot of work to seek out such a
1576variety and diverse selection of music each week and astonishingly, we
1577are now up to episode 125 of this series, i.e. it has been running for
1578two years (although the early episodes were only via WBCQ and thus a
1579little difficult to pick up here in UK), so my thanks go to Bill for
1580this excellent programme.
1581
1582Although outside of my self-imposed parameters for this month’s column
1583– I must also mention the previous week’s edition of UBMP (that I
1584heard on 6 August) which featured a fantastic selection of music from
1585Japan spanning over 80 years. The vintage Japanese recordings were
1586especially enjoyable. Coincidentally, the Japanese service of NHK R
1587Japan which I listened to from tune-in on 11 August at 1840 UT on
158811945 via Issoudun were also playing similar vintage Japanese
1589recordings, probably from the 1930s.
1590
1591UBMP is broadcast Sundays at 2200 UT on 7490 kHz via WBCQ and Tuesdays
1592at 2000 UT on 6070 kHz via Rohrbach (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Sept
1593BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
1594
1595** GERMANY. Crusader Radio on C292 6070 & 7440 kHz this weekend
1596
1597Hi All, I just noticed that German relay station Channel 292 have
1598added a new station to their schedule, starting with a 2300-2400 UT
1599broadcast on 7440 kHz this evening (Saturday 14th), and again tomorrow
1600Sunday 15th from 1600 to 1700 UT on 6070 kHz. The station is called
1601'Crusader Radio'.
1602
1603I hadn't heard of this station before, but their website shows that it
1604is a religious broadcaster, and will be on for the next four Sundays
1605at 1600 UT.
1606
1607They will also QSL with 'proper' cards or e-reports, and details can
1608be found here:
1609http://www.crusaderradio.co.uk/qsl.htm
1610
1611Tonight's 7440 kHz broadcast is not shown for any other weeks (yet),
1612but might at least offer some of the more distant listeners a chance
1613to catch them. Their programmes all seem to be in English judging by
1614their website details (Alan Gale, England, WOR iog via DXLD)
1615
1616** GERMANY. New schedule of Shortwave Radio for Europe, September 16:
16171400-2200 on 6160 WIS 001 kW / non-dir to NWEu English, ex 16-22 UT
16181600-2300 on 3975 WIS 001 kW / non-dir to NWEu English, unchanged
1619https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-schedule-of-shortwave-radio-for.html"
1620(Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD)
1621
1622It seems to me that this radio station tries to utilise that days are
1623becoming shorter and nights are becoming longer here in Europe. I'm
1624speculating if this schedule remains permanent or it will be modified
1625when the B19 broadcasting season will start (Tibor Gaal. Budapest,
1626Hungary, ibid.)
1627
1628** GREECE. 9420, Sept 15 at 0130, great Greek music from ERT,
1629S9+10/20. But it will be off 24 hours later on UT Mondays (Glenn
1630Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1631
1632** GUAM. 17650.042, KSDA AWR Agat Guam in Chinese 00-01 UT, heard in
1633Japan, S=9+15dB strength at 0006 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc
1634BC-DX TopNews Sept 19, DXLD)
1635
1636** HAWAII. License cancelled: 9-19-19: KKON-790 Kealakekua, Hawaii
1637(Dennis Gibson, CA, Sept 20, IRCA iog via DXLD)
1638
1639Another one bites the dust! I am glad I heard & QSL'd this rarity
1640years ago. It was one of my toughest Hawaiians both QSLing & hearing.
164173, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.)
1642
1643KKON had been on [off??] the air for years if memory serves me. I'm
1644sure somebody else will pick up the allocation soon. ms (Mike Sanburn,
1645ibid.)
1646
1647You can’t just pick it up; you have to apply for it during the next
1648open window. Who knows when that will be. And building an AM in Hawaii
1649is troublesome. This frequency is gone (Paul B Walker, WY, ibid.)
1650
1651It was first licensed on February 13, 1970 with 1 kW. A license to
1652increase to 5 kW was granted on April 11, 1973.
1653http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=75498
1654(Dennis Gibson, Sept 20, ibid.)
1655
1656I recall back in 1986/1989/1990 when I was living in Hawaii (on the
1657Hilo/Puna side) that 790 KKON had a very poor groundwave across the
1658Big Island eastward due to the mountains and very low-ground
1659conductivity - measured in Sept. 1986 in the area with Dean Manley
1660(KH6B and CE for 1060 KAHU with 900 watts to a 1/5 wave tower) around
1661the "new" 1060 KAHU at just 0.3 mmhos! Their skywave was quite good in
1662Hilo at night but often clobbered by Mainland signals. I could NOT
1663hear them at Point Reyes Bev. sites beginning back in 1982 to 1985 (at
1664least 20 DXpeditions made there) when otherwise a lot of Oahu and
1665outer island stations were easy with huge signals (like 830 KIKI/650
1666KORL/1040 KPOI, etc.)
1667
1668On Kauai and on the other islands KKON did have a remarkably good
1669daytime signal across the water - even on Kauai on the sides of the
1670Island facing KKON. Their sister 92.1 station (co-located on the 790
1671KKON tower) had a remarkable "tropo" signal also on Kauai back in '86
1672but slopped by the HNL 92.3 station. -- 73 - (Stephen P. McGreevy -
1673N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.)
1674
1675Actually, it was off the air for a few months last year but I don’t
1676remember the details. I am not surprised (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA,
1677ibid.)
1678
1679** INDIA. All India Radio - QSL-card (9445 kHz / 2150 UT /
168011-06-2019); QSL theme: cave drawing of a bull, Bhimbetka; Departure
1681unknown (missed the postmark), arrival 12-09-2019; A month ago, I
1682received a QSL card for the February report; two reports for April
1683apparently remain unanswered (since confirmation came in June). I sent
1684a letter to the Russian edition of AIR with a request to clarify this
1685question - why did there happen such a break in the QSL mailing list
1686this year? By the way, for the first time in four years, the card is
1687filled in a different handwriting - did the employee change? ...
1688Blog:
1689http://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2017/06/all-india-radio.html
1690(Konstantin Barsenokov, St. Petersburg, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL
1691World, Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD)
1692
1693** INDIA. Welcome to Listening Post for September 2019.
1694
1695This month I present a short survey of programming over a four-hour
1696period from 1800 to 2200 UT on the evening of Tuesday 13 August. This
1697time I have decided to look for a couple of programmes in each hour to
1698highlight. I should add that this whole block was also recorded and
1699reviewed in the days following, which allowed me to listen to more
1700than one programme in each hour. 2100 UT:
1701
1702All India Radio has good reception at 2100 on 9445 with a short news
1703bulletin and a commentary titled “Pakistan Faces Isolation”.
1704Commentaries about, or against, Pakistan often feature in the AIR
1705schedules. Today’s commentary, following the escalation in tensions
1706between India and Pakistan, starts:
1707
1708“Pakistan’s efforts at internationalising the Kashmiri issue has run
1709into rough weather. Even its steadfast friends China and Saudi Arabia
1710have been lukewarm over Islamabad’s sudden move to get other countries
1711on-board over Kashmir [#] both countries have asked Pakistan to
1712exercise restraint.”
1713
1714It would have been good to hear Pakistan’s take on this, but
1715unfortunately the shortwave broadcasts of the external service of
1716Pakistan Broadcasting Corp have been missing for some time.
1717
1718This was followed by a feature on Indian Maestros, today featuring a
1719profile of Carnatic classical vocalist Maharajapuram Santhanama in the
1720series Great Maestros. I am sorry that this music is not really to my
1721taste, so I fast forward to 2130 and special programme called
1722Forgotten heroes of the Indian freedom struggle. From the All India
1723Radio World Service facebook page, I find:
1724
1725“Professor Salil Mishra, Department of History Ambedkar University,
1726Delhi recounts the story of those heroes and fighters of the Indian
1727freedom struggle, who fought hard for it.... expecting nothing in
1728return but their country's freedom. A humble tribute to these unsung
1729heroes.”
1730
1731The ten-minute talk discusses three groups of people who contributed
1732towards India’s freedom in 1947, starting with some 8000 Indian
1733migrants to USA and Canada who returned to India during World War I
1734with the aim of mobilising local people into an uprising against
1735British rule whilst Britain was pre-occupied with the global war.
1736However, the uprising failed as they underestimated the strength and
1737capacity of British rule, and they failed to get enough people to
1738follow the rebellion.
1739
1740Professor Salil Mishra summed up his talk as follows:
1741
1742“It is important for us to highlight that the struggle for Indian
1743freedom was fought by an enormously large number of Indians: some of
1744them fought from within India, some of them fought from outside of
1745India, some fought while being in the British Army, some fought from
1746outside, but all of them put up such pressure, and such heroic
1747pressure that all this cumulatively resulted in India’s freedom in
17481947.”
1749
1750An interesting programme presenting a side to the end of British rule
1751in India that was unfamiliar to me.
1752
1753Finally in this hour was a folk music programme, Melange – 20 minutes
1754of the latest film hit songs. I love the film music output from AIR,
1755which features heavily in all language services, as well as in the
1756Vividh Bharati service.
1757
1758I also had a fair signal lock (with occasional drop-outs) on 7550 kHz
1759in DRM with two channels. Channel 1 is in parallel to 9445, whilst
1760Channel 2 is relaying the Vividh Bharati service with film music
1761throughout this hour.
1762
1763By the way, Great Maestros is currently being broadcast twice a week
1764on Tuesdays at 1400, 1920, 2110 and 2340 and Fridays at 1415, 1815,
17652130 and 2315 (with different programmes on Tuesdays and Fridays).
1766Vividh Bharati is currently on 7550 kHz DRM Channel 2 at 1745-1945 and
17672045-2230 UT.
1768
1769I’m always eager to hear from you if you have any comments about
1770anything that you have listened to on the shortwaves – please
1771write! Until next month, good SWL & DX - (Alan Roe, Listening Post,
1772Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
1773
1774** INDIA [and non]. Details of AIR SW TX shut down very recently (2).
1775re
1776https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm
1777
1778checked AIR outlets at 17-18 UT on Sept 13 on remote SDRs in Delhi
1779India, Doha Qatar, and Akitakata Japan.
1780
17814760even IND NOTHING ON AIR, at this hour. 1713 UT.
17824799.998 1/2 IND AIR Hyderabad S=9+15dB at 1715 UT, and co-channel
17834800even CHN QRM CNR1 program from Geermu site, equal on 4800even
1784
17854810.008 IND AIR Bhopal at 1716 UT, S=9+30dB, as usual best AIR India
1786domestic transmission sound. Excellent technicians work.
1787
17884835even IND AIR Gangtok, NOT ON AIR at 1717 UT.
1789
17904910.004 IND AIR Jaipur, S=9+20dB at 17.19 UT.
1791
17924920 - two outlet strings visible on this channel. 18 Hertz apart
1793distance at 1731 UT on Sept 13.
17944919.982 CHN Lhasa Baiding Tibet in Tibetan {noted on this odd
1795channel} at 1751 UT, when AIR Chennai is already OFF air, and
17964920even IND AIR Chennai in Tamil language scheduled, equal signal
1797power level, S=9+20dB at 1731 UT.
1798
17994949.996 IND AIR Srinagar Kashmir, S=9+5dB low modulation at 1733
1800
18015009.998 IND AIR Thiruvananthapuram. S=8 only, not as strong as
1802usual, 1736 UT on Sept 13 in Delhi India.
1803
18045040.004 IND AIR Jeypore, S=9+15dB in Delhi, 1738 UT on Sept 13.
180573 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD)
1806
1807Details of AIR SW TX shut down very recently (3) re
1808https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm
1809
1810Checked AIR outlets at 08-11 UT on Saturday Sept 14 on remote SDRs in
1811Delhi India, Doha Qatar, Brisbane Queensland and Tokyo + Akitakata
1812Japan.
1813
181417895 IND AIR Bangalore, not on air at 1014 UT on Sept 14.
1815
181617510.002 IND AIR Bangalore - at 0842 UT carrier already on air.
1817South Asian flute+string instrument interval signal theme of AIR start
1818at 0843:15 UT, S=8-9 signal in Doha Qatar SDR. Followed the scheduled
1819Indonesian service at 0845-0945 UT. \\ on:
1820
182115769.969 IND AIR Goa Panaji, Indonesian, S=8-9 in Doha Qatar 0847
1822UT, S=6-7 in Tokyo at 10.0 UT English SE Asian service 10-11 UT.
1823
182415410DRM IND AIR Bangalore, DRM digital mode block visible to FE,
1825S=7 strong in Tokyo and Hiroshima Japan.
1826
182713695.002 IND AIR Bangalore, at 1018 UT, S=6-7 in Brisbane Queensland
1828and S=9+10dB in Tokyo Japan.
1829
183013605.002 IND AIR Bangalore, at 1036 UT, S=8 in Brisbane Queensland
1831and S=9+5dB in Tokyo Japan.
1832
18339949.808 IND AIR Delhi Kingsway in Urdu, S=8 in Brisbane at 1029 UT,
1834S=8-9 locally at SDR Delhi at 0910 UT. Nothing in Qatar.
1835
18369865.001 IND AIR Bangalore in Hindi, subcontinental typical mx
1837program, 09.15 UT on Sept 14. S=7-8 in Doha Qatar SDR. S=9+10dB in
1838Delhi and same at SDR in Brisbane Queensland-AUS.
1839
18409620v two stations co-channel and 12 Hertz apart distance at 0918 and
18411040 UT on Sept 14. Bad audio mixture in Qatar, India, Japan and in
1842Queensland Australia too.
1843
18449620.009 IND AIR Aligarh noted poor in Doha Qatar at 0918 UT,
1845S=9+10dB in Delhi, 16 kHz wideband audio in peaks, and underneath CNR2
1846Beijing in Tokyo and Akitakata Japan.
18479619.997 CHN CNR2 Beijing in Chinese, S=9+10dB level in Tokyo.
1848
18499380even IND AIR Aligarh, weak in Doha Qatar, S=7 in Brisbane
1850Queensland-AUS at 1032 UT, S=4 poor and week in Japan.
1851
18527290, 7295, 6110, 6085 kHz AIR OFF air at 0925 UT. see table
1853https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm
1854
18557325.005 IND AIR Jaipur in Hindi, strong carrier, but low modulation
1856though, S=9+15dB in Delhi at 0924 UT.
1857
18587380even IND AIR Chennai, Tamil sce, at 0920 UT in Delhi at S=9+10dB
1859signal level.
1860
18617420v two stations co-channel and 18 Hertz apart distance at 0921 UT
18627419.986 CHN PBS Nei Menggu, NMRB from tx site #839 at Hohhot,
1863Chinese sce, at 0923 UT, and
18647420.004 IND AIR Hyderabad in Telugu language at 0921 UT, on SDRunit
1865in Delhi fair S=8-9 signal.
1866
18677430.001 IND AIR Bhopal, from that broadcast center as always
1868excellent audio at 0922 UT Indian modern pop mx singer in Hindi? at
1869S=9+25dB signal level.
1870
18716000.002 IND AIR Radio Kashmir, Leh Ladakh, noisy 49 mb at S=7 level
1872in Delhi SDR unit. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD)
1873
1874** INDIA. 9620, AIR via Aligarh in Sindhi at 1400 UT Sept 15 with News
1875followed by music and talk (very distorted). Very Good. 73 (Mick
1876Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100
1877loop, WOR iog via DXLD)
1878
1879** INDIA. Re DXLD 19-36: "Regional SW stations of All India Radio
1880. . . . This means that time is running out for those who want to
1881verify or just get the chance of listening to the AIR regional short
1882wave stations.
1883
1884In this context, it becomes important to note, that DX experts like
1885Ron Howard (USA) and Manuel Mendéz (Spain) reported extended
1886transmissions of several AIR regional stations in August. AIR Bhopal
1887(4810 kHz), Jaipur (4910 kHz) and Jeypore (5040 kHz) were observed
1888with cricket well past midnight IST. Normal close down would have been
1889about 1740 UT, but in August there was reception until past 1900. The
1890program extensions were related to the "India tour of West Indies
18912019" (3 August-3 September). Those who do not want to overlook such
1892opportunities should keep an eye on
1893https://www.icc-cricket.com/mens-schedule/calendar
1894
1895However, the next series of tests against South Africa (2-6, 10-14 and
189619-23 October) and Bangladesh (14-18 and 22-26 November) will take
1897place in India. So the cricket reports may fit better into their
1898official transmission times (Dr Hansjoerg Biener. 4 September 2019, DX
1899LISTENING DIGEST)"
1900
1901Hi Dr. Biener, Sept 15, on 5040, heard AIR Jeypore, at 1222, with
1902indigenous chanting; 1230-1235, relay of the Delhi news in English;
19031329-1345, announcers in anticipation of today's cricket match between
1904India and South Africa to be held in Dharamsala (India), with
1905discussion about cricket, but there was no actual coverage of the
1906game, as it was not played due to rain; 1345-1355, usual news in
1907Hindi; nice subcontinent music/singing. My local sunrise was at 1349
1908UT, while Jeypore's sunset was at 1232 UT, which worked out well for
1909this reception, even with the QRN (static). Suddenly went off the air
1910for about a minute at both 1346 & 1417. Yes, while I can, I'm enjoying
1911the remaining AIR stations that are presently on SW! Who knows how
1912long they will remain broadcasting? My brief audio at
1913http://bit.ly/2kNVNnB
1914(Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD)
1915
1916Re: [WOR] AIR Jeypore - no cricket match today due to rain in
1917Dharamsala --- Hi Glenn, The next scheduled cricket match between
1918India and South Africa, is set for Sept 18 (Wednesday) and coverage
1919should start about 1330 UT, via AIR Jeypore (5040). Match to be held
1920in Mohali (India), which has no rain in the forecast (Ron Howard,
1921California, Sept 17, WOR iog via DXLD)
1922
19235040, AIR Jeypore, 1326-1355, Sept 18. "Namaste," followed by brief
1924National Anthem; coverage in both English and Hindi of the India vs
1925South Africa cricket match; news break in Hindi (1345-1355). My audio
1926at
1927http://bit.ly/2mllVXf
1928(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
1929wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
1930
1931** INDIA. Live streaming of many All India Radio stations are now
1932available State wise in the following official site. Click on Live
1933Radio (on top right side) in
1934http://prasarbharati.gov.in/
1935Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur
1936Radio, Hyderabad, India, Sept 16, dx-india yg via DXLD)
1937
1938** INDIA. HD RADIO TRIAL SET TO BEGIN IN INDIA --- DAVIDE MORO
1939
1940Joe D’Angelo, senior vice president of broadcast radio at Xperi,
1941announced during the Xperi HD Radio market update held on the Nautel
1942booth at IBC that HD Radio tests for FM will begin in New Delhi
1943shortly.
1944
1945Joe D’Angelo announced plans for HD Radio tests in India during a
1946speech on the Nautel booth at IBC.
1947
1948“We worked with Nautel to get the authorization required to install a
1949test station in Delhi,” D’Angelo said. “We expect to start on-air
1950trialing within a couple of weeks and continue into next year.”
1951
1952Full story at :
1953https://www.radioworld.com/show-news/ibc/hd-radio-trial-set-to-begin-in-india
1954(via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Sept 19, dx_india yg via DXLD) WTFK?
1955
1956playing catch-up to DRM ? which is making inroads in India (gh)
1957
1958** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SSBC: See SUDAN SOUTH
1959
1960** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. CHINESE ASTRONOMERS SPOTTED MYSTERIOUS
1961SIGNALS FROM THE DEPTHS OF SPACE
1962
1963Chinese astronomers working on the world's largest spherical radio
1964telescope have recorded mysterious radio signals coming from a source
19653 billion light-years distant from Earth. On Monday, September 9,
1966according to Xinhua.
1967
1968It is noted that we are talking about repeated fast radio bursts.
1969“The signals were received at the world's largest spherical radio
1970telescope with a five-hundred-meter aperture, they were carefully
1971checked and processed,” the agency quotes a statement by experts from
1972the Chinese Astronomical Observatories at the PRC Academy of
1973Sciences.
1974
1975Fast radio bursts are radio pulses lasting several milliseconds. Until
1976now, scientists have no valid explanation of their nature.
1977Earlier in September, specialists from the Sun's X-ray Astronomy
1978Laboratory of the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of
1979Sciences reported that this summer there was not a single flash on the
1980Sun that could have an impact on the Earth.
1981
1982https://iz.ru/919397/2019-09-09/astronomy-zafiksirovali-neizvestnyi-radiosignal-iz-kosmosa?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fyandex.ru%2Fnews
1983(via Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD) WTFK???
1984
1985** IRAN. 11659.970, Sept 15 at 0124, VIRI IS, 0126 suptorted Spanish
1986during trihour starting at 2350 from Sirjan. If Iran can`t keep its SW
1987frequencies accurate, how can we expect them to enrich Uranium
1988properly? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1989
1990** IRAN [and non]. COLLISION: 7230. Sep 11, 2019. 0049-0102, Collision
1991between CNR1, Xian-Xianyang-CHN, in Chinese and VOIRI-Pars Today,
1992Sirjan-IRN, in Spanish (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign
1993PR7036SWL, Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000 & XHDATA D-808, Antenna (s)_
1994Longwire & Telescopic, Cabedelo, Brazil, WOR iog via DXLD)
1995
1996** IRAN. 7230. IRIB. Septiembre 15. 0000-0015 UT. Servicio en español.
1997Noticias de HispanTV, especialmente sobre Irán, Medio Oriente, España,
1998América Latina destacando el acuerdo militar entre Israel y Ecuador.
1999SINPO: 44444 con interferencia de una emisora china.
2000
20017230. IRIB. Septiembre 17. 0021-0100 UT. Noticiero de HispanTV con
2002informaciones sobre Panamá y colaboración del gobierno de Ecuador con
2003Israel. A las 0025 se emite el segmento: “La posición de la mujer en
2004Occidente” acerca de las enfermedades sexuales y el aumento en las
2005cantidades de abortos como consecuencias de la revolución sexual.
2006Desde las 0038, se emite el programa: “Foro Abierto” acerca de la
2007modificación de la Constitución de Perú debido a la duración de los
2008cargos democráticos, conjuntamente a las discusiones sobre el tema.
2009
20107270. IRIB. Septiembre 18. 2320-2330 UT. Servicio en Francés.
2011Presentación de la emisora, luego lectura del Sagrado Corán y luego
2012noticias. SINPO: 33433 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena:
2013Hilo largo de 70 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, 4° Región,
2014Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
2015
201611870. IRIB. Septiembre 13. 2100-2120 UT. Servicio en español..
2017Programa “Conversando con nuestros oyentes”, luego entrevista y a las
20182118, avisos de la emisora. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor:
2019TECSUN PLL 660; Antena: Hilo largo de 30 metros; Lugar de escucha:
2020Ovalle, Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
2021
202211870. IRIB. Septiembre 15. 2020-2120 UT. Servicio en español..
2023Presentación de la emisora, lectura del Sagrado Corán, Hora de
2024Teheran, Noticias de HispanTV acerca de Irán, Israel, Ataque de los
2025drones de Yemen a Arabia Saudí, Novedades acerca del movimiento
2026Ansarolá de Yemen, Colombia, migrantes en Italia, entre otros. A las
20272050, avisos de la emisora y luego entrevista. Desde las 2100,
2028sección: “Claves para la vida” y a las 2108, se emite un estudio del
2029Sagrado Corán. A las 2118, avisos de la emisora, junto a horarios y
2030frecuencias del servicio. SINPO: 45343.
2031
203211870. IRIB. Septiembre 19. 2020-2120 UT. Servicio en español..
2033Presentación de la emisora, hora de Teheran, himno nacional y noticias
2034de HispanTV sobre América Latina, especialmente de la censura en
2035Honduras. A las 2050 programa sobre el cine iraní con tema en los
2036inmigrantes afganos y filmes que tratan aquello. A las 2100 se emite
2037un programa sobre los derechos humanos de los migrantes en Estados
2038Unidos. Desde las 2115, se emite el programa: “Claves de la vida”,
2039luego de avisos de frecuencias y horarios de la emisión en español.
2040SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO V-111; Antena: Hilo
2041largo de 70 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, 4° Región, Chile,
2042HCDX via DXLD)
2043
2044** IRELAND. Re: [WOR] RTÉ update --- see masts and tables:
2045https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave
2046http://www.wabweb.net/radio/listen/LWMWeu78.pdf
2047MW 23 Nov 1978 new plan start.
20481979 Geneva World Administrative Radio Conference
2049
2050But LW fq channel spacing much later
2051
2052ITU channel spacing move 2 kHz downwards on longwave {in order to
2053divide fq by 9 } happened in 3 steps between 1985 and 1987
205473 wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD)
2055
2056--- But by then, most RTE listeners in the longwave area have long
2057since gone from life expectancy to Internet reception and satellite
2058reception. ---
2059
2060And what would be a good idea to speed up this migration (or just
2061resignation)? Switching off the transmitter for as long as possible
2062with maintenance being the official reason. Which, they apparently
2063concluded, is a period of five weeks.
2064
2065By the way, it was in 2016 when RTÉ left shortwave. It really speaks
2066volumes how they still announced it three years later (Kai Ludwig,
2067ibid.)
2068
2069Re: [WOR] RTÉ update --- The "Atlantic 252" (Ireland) and Algeria
2070clash has been ongoing for a VERY long time: I recorded this segment
2071on a Sangean ATS-808 portable and a small loop antenna back in May
20721996 when overseas in England (and I took a train and bus to Hastings
2073for two nights, and I recorded this segment). I thought it was a poor
2074frequency-choice of Atlantic 252 and (now RTE) to be on 252 kHz with
2075this clash "problem!"
2076
2077https://archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91/252_Atlantic-252_IRL_over_Algeria_recin_Hastings_eSussex_UK_May96_SPMcG.mp3
2078
2079And the 252 kHz LW Ireland/Algeria clash Feb. 1996 in Swansea, Wales:
2080https://archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91/252_Atlantic_252_and_Algeria_mixing_recin_Swansea_Wales_16Feb96_SPMcGreevy.mp3
2081
2082I hope they finally "fix" this... SpM 73 (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS -
2083www.auroralchorus.com Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD0
2084
2085A big RTÉ update: From 15:10 in this programme.
2086https://www.rte.ie/player/series/prime-time/SI0000000825?epguid=IH000368215
2087
2088At 35:30 therein also a short mention of longwave, one the
2089"campaigners" will not like (someone from the ruling party, chattering
2090about choices to be made by RTÉ, is being asked about some of his
2091colleagues who "went bananas" over the plans to close this "obsolete
2092transmitter").
2093
2094This programme revealed a bombshell news: "Prime Time understands that
2095RTÉ is considering the future of Lyric FM", their classic and fine
2096arts station. A written quotation and some reaction here:
2097https://www.thejournal.ie/lyric-fm-fears-rte-shakeup-4808894-Sep2019/
2098(Kai Ludwig, Sept 13, WOR iog via DXLD)
2099
2100** ISLE OF MAN [and non]. http://radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html
2101
2102We’re climbing 'aboard the Love Ship’ next weekend 21st/22nd September
2103for another fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast LIVE from Ross
2104Revenge.
2105
2106Live from the River Blackwater --- Grant Benson
2107
2108We’ve got so many great hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s (with perhaps a
2109cheeky nod to the 90s) - and we just can’t wait to play them for you!
2110
2111Special guest for this broadcast is former Caroline and Voice of Peace
2112presenter Grant Benson. Our broadcast sponsor this month is the
2113Speakeasy Bar Epping, Essex and our web shop competition is sponsored
2114by Century Printing in Stalham, Norfolk.
2115
2116Listen on 648 AM in the South and South-East, on 1368 AM via Manx
2117Radio in the North and North-West, online here, on your mobile, on
2118smart speakers – so many ways to listen!
2119
2120We would love to hear from you – please send your emails direct to the
2121Ross studios at memories@radiocaroline.co.uk during the broadcast (via
2122Mike Terry, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
2123
2124** JAPAN. Typhoon No. 15 (Faxai) attacked Tokyo Bay area with 60 m/s
2125severe wind on September 8 [= 134.2162 mph; conversion factor 2.237
2126--- gh]. Especially Chiba prefecture, at the eastern side of Tokyo
2127Bay, was severely damaged.
2128
2129The transmission from Kisarazu transmitter site of Nippon Broadcasting
2130System Inc. (1242 kHz 100 kW), located in Chiba prefecture, was
2131influenced. The power supply from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
2132to the site was stopped at around 1800 hrs on September 8. They
2133suddenly switched on their own power plant and continued to transmit,
2134but at around 2300 hrs [JST? = 1400 UT] the power plant broke down,
2135and the transmission was interrupted for a while. They were obliged to
2136use the reserve transmitter (1 kW) at Adachi transmitter site in
2137Tokyo.
2138
2139100 kW transmission was resumed at 1325 hrs on September 10, when they
2140repaired their own power plant. The power supply from TEPCO was
2141restored on September 12.
2142
2143FM transmission on 93.0 MHz from Tokyo Sky Tree was not affected.
2144
2145After the typhoon, Radio Nikkei announced they have been transmitting
2146the 1st program (regularly 6055 kHz 50 kW) from Nagara transmitter
2147site, also located in Chiba prefecture, with reduced power, due to the
2148trouble of the transmitter. They do not announce whether the trouble
2149was caused directly by the typhoon (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan,
2150(via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 14 via WOR iog via DXLD)
2151
21526115, Radio Nikkei Program Two at 0930. Japanese pop music program, M
2153announcer with IDs in English. Went off at 1000 as the 3945
2154transmitter came on - Very Good Sept 10 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs,
2155Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS
2156SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good
2157Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD)
2158
2159** JAPAN. 774, JOUB Akita quite fair audio on peaks and minimal 780
2160KKOH splash at 1325 Sept 15. Peaking to S4 on my DX-200 with Tecsun
2161AN-200 loop. I found their xmtr. site single-mast with a small cap.
2162hat (thanks to a spreadsheet sent to me from Wolfgang in Germany)
2163located about 20 km at about 350 deg. azimuth from central Akita
2164(39-57-02N/ 139-56-10E) on Google Earth next to an agriculture
2165“polder” type area. NO wonder they get out so well - Japan’s #1 MW
2166signal here. 774 JOUB "Akita" mast is ~350 deg. bearing in azimuth
2167from central Akita (by ~20 km - near Northward). The coords posted
2168above take you right to it. Nice to hear quite enhanced MW and low-SW
2169TP conditions this morning! 73 - (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS,
2170R-1000/Benmar Nav. 555A/DX-200 -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR
2171iog via DXLD)
2172
2173Without investigating the topography around Akita, it seems odd that
2174it should be our #1 NHK over here as it is on the *west* coast, not
2175east, near the northern tip of Honshu (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
2176DIGEST)
2177
2178** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH. [WOR] Korean Peninsula (KOR/KRE): Enhanced
2179propagation at dawn this morning [and non]
2180
2181SOUTH KOREA (KOR):
2182
2183972, HLCA Dangjin (KBS) fair audio on brief peaks between 1310-1325
2184(15 September) listening period with a lady speaking in Korean and
2185brief bits of music, some nice flute type.
2186
21871566, HLAZ (Cheju Do Isl.) deep QSB in Japanese (on Japan pattern) -
2188brief fade-ups to S4. A bit of nice Gregorian type singing! Some 1560
2189XEJPV splash but less than a few days ago. I put the DX-200 into
2190USB-mode via its BFO and recorded HLAZ’s carrier past their ~1344 UT
2191pattern change - it dropped by about 10dB but still in until tune-out
2192at 1350. At 1346, 1560 KNZR Bakersfield popped up to strong signal
2193atop XEJPV (Cd. Juarez, CHIH) upon day pattern switch just a couple of
2194minutes after 1566 HLAZ’s pattern change.
2195
2196NORTH KOREA (KRE):
2197
21982850, KCBS with talk in Korean and then piano music - quite strong
2199this morning at about 1310 on the Benmar Nav. 555
2200
22013320, KPBS also quite strong this morning - a tad weaker than 2850,
2202with 5 kHz het from the presumed 3325 VOI open-carrier and no PNG
2203noted - 1315.
2204
22054450: Jammer mixture including the interesting sounding semi-musical
2206stepped-tone jamming of KOR’s V. of the People very strong at 1340
2207(near sunrise here). I tuned them in on my Kenwood R-1000 and recorded
2208this with a wide-filter bandpass - S9+20 peaks on a 15m long end-fed
2209wire (my “quiet wire”). Nice to hear quite enhanced MW and low-SW TP
2210conditions this morning! 73 - (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS, R-1000/Benmar
2211Nav. 555A/DX-200 -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Sept 15, WOR iog via
2212DXLD) See also JAPAN
2213
2214** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6070, (ex-6040), JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at
22151300. Long monologue with W in Japanese and over piano music soundbed.
2216All of the familiar sounds and piano music after 1300 and closing at
22171400. (Reopening at 1405). We still are not hearing the DPRK beeper
2218jammer here. Propagation? Or the No-Ko jammer engineers haven't caught
2219up with them yet. I still recall a quip from Ron Howard once,
2220suggesting the engineers were out for Summer vacation - HI - Good Sept
22213
2222
22236070, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1355. Verified on with man in
2224Korean over soundbed of piano music (and still no jamming heard here)
2225- Very Good Sept 8
2226
22276070, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1300. Verified on with woman in
2228Korean over soundbed of piano music (and still no jamming heard here)
2229- Very Good September 11. Went on thru BoH with usual music and
2230sounds. Note that we checked the channel a bit before the hour and
2231heard no beeper jammer awaiting - Fair Sept 11
2232
22335980, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1315 (in progress at tune-in).
2234No CCI from below the Southern Cross. W in accented English, usual
2235monologue, music, effects. Noted weaker // in progress on 6070 - Good
2236Sept 12 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated,
2237equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various
2238outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb,
2239WOR iog via DXLD)
2240
2241Ron, Thanks for the answer. "Also the jamming of 6135 is normally on
2242all the time, even though there is no station there now to jam. It is
2243a leftover from years ago, when Voice of Freedom was on 6135, but of
2244course VOF left that frequency years ago. N. Korea for some reason
2245never turned off the jamming there, but instead has other jamming
2246transmitters now for VOF (5920 kHz.)."
2247
2248This is typical in socialist or other authoritarian countries where
2249the state is dominating everything. Ineffectiveness is built into
2250their systems and the above-quoted part of your report is a nice
2251example to this. They install a new jamming station rather than retune
2252one of theirs; this is really typical and reminds me of our former
2253socialist system.
2254
2255These systems are concentrating not on the quality but the quantity
2256side of something. It doesn't matter if this is telecommunication or
2257the metallurgical industry. The ineffectiveness, and the belief in
2258overcentralisation is coded into these systems. On one part there are
2259a lot of goods/things in something but on the other part there are
2260other goods/things which are not available at all or only available
2261over the counter (this is one form of black market).
2262
2263The degree of ineffectiveness is changing from country to country and
2264it is dependent upon the human factor too. In the case of North Korea
2265this part of the system works relatively well while the Cubanese
2266telecom system with its human factor deteriorated severely as we can
2267read almost daily in the example of Radio Habana, Cuba (Tibor Gaal.
2268Budapest, Hungary, Sept 18, WOR iog via DXLD)
2269
2270** KOREA SOUTH. 15575. KBS. Septiembre 19. 0215-0300 UT. Via Kimjae.
2271Programa “Corea a Diario” acerca de una niña que ganó un concurso de
2272astronomía, luego se habla de youtubers que se encuentran en la
2273tercera edad, reclamo de un pasante coreano en Polonia acerca de un
2274producto que utiliza la bandera del sol naciente de Japón. Luego
2275espacio musical y el espacio: “Literatura en Audio: Barí, la princesa
2276abandonada” acerca de los sucesos acerca de la muerte de una de las
2277hermanas de la protagonista. A las 0233, se vuelve al programa “Corea
2278a diario” acerca de la llegada del primer piano llegado a una zona
2279coreana, los tipos de entregas a domicilios y las aplicaciones
2280móviles. Desde las 0239, se emite la canción: Cheer Up de TWICE. A las
22810241, Programa: “Coreano en dramas” acerca de la frase: “estoy
2282decepcionado” y desde las 0245: Programa “Al son de Corea” con
2283canciones tradicionales acerca del Otoño y de alusiones a las
2284estaciones del año. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TIVDIO
2285V-111; Antena: Hilo largo de 70 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza
2286Bajo, 4° Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
2287
2288** KUWAIT. Unscheduled Radio Kuwait in Farsi on 17760, September 12:
22890945-1000 17760 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Persian, unscheduled &
22901000-1200 17760 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino as scheduled.
2291Something`s always wrong at Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah station
2292https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-radio-kuwait-in-farsi-on.html
2293(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2294
2295Unscheduled broadcast of MOI R Kuwait on 15530v, Sept 18
22960500-0800 on 15529.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English as scheduled
2297in A-19
22980800-0817 on 15529.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Farsi, unscheduled
2299from 08UT
2300Something`s always wrong at Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah transmitting
2301station!
2302https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-broadscast-of-radio-kuwait.html
2303(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 17-18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2304
2305** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010.219, Kyrgyz Birinchi Radio, Bishkek at 1712 UT,
2306S=9+10dB (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked AIR outlets at 17-18 UT on Sept
230713 on remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha Qatar, and Akitakata Japan, WOR
2308iog via DXLD)
2309
2310Heard at 0035 UT on Sept 14, 4010.184 kHz, Kyrgyz Radio from Bishkek,
2311but reception suffer heavily by European thunderstorm scratch noise
2312level tonight (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR IOG via DXLD)
2313
2314** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, seems to be out of air the
2315last days (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800,
2316cable antenna, 8 meters, Sept 17, WOR iog via DXLD)
2317
2318** MADAGASCAR. 5009.926, Radio Madagasikara, Antananarivo, Malagasy,
2319S=6 in Japan at 1742 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked AIR outlets at
232017-18 UT on Sept 13 on remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha Qatar, and
2321Akitakata Japan, WOR iog via DXLD) compared to
2322
2323[non] 5009.998, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram. S=8 only, not as strong
2324as usual 1736 UT on Sept 13 in Delhi India. [selected SDR options,
2325span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX
2326TopNews Sept 13 via BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
2327
2328** MADAGASCAR. 11965, Sept 16 at 2024 tuning across MWV hour in
2329English, I hear two words: ``vomiting, diarrhea`` ---- and keep right
2330on tuning! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2331
2332** MALAYSIA. RTM Wai FM --- A new e-QSL card was received from RTM Wai
2333FM for the report of September 11, 2019. Moreover, as I understood
2334from the answer of the P&K Team, Radio Televisyen Malaysia will no
2335longer send paper originals of QSL cards.
2336http://freerutube.info/2019/09/13/e-qsl-rtm-wai-fm-malajziya-sentyabr-2019-goda/
2337(Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World,
2338Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD)
2339
2340** MALAYSIA. Hi Glenn, Tomorrow, Sept 16, is "Malaysia Day"
2341(commemorating the establishment of the Malaysian federation on the
2342same date in 1963), so for the fun of it, I will be looking for any
2343new activity. Probably a waste of time, but hope springs eternal! Will
2344be checking ex: 5965 (Radio Klasik, formerly Klasik Nasional), 6050
2345(Asyik FM), 7295 (Traxx FM) and 9835 (Sarawak FM). The only active
2346station that I'm aware of is Wai FM, on 11665, so will of course give
2347a listen there for anything special. Long gone are the days that RTM
2348had a nice selection of active stations on SW.
2349
2350Sept 16 - RTM with a perfect score today for Malaysia Day. Zero
2351stations on SW. Yes, even the often heard Wai FM (11665) was off the
2352air for this their national holiday. From 1101+, nothing on 5965 nor
23537295. PBS Xinjiang heard on 9835 till 1157, after that, nothing heard
2354and Tibet as usual on 6050. Had hoped Wai FM would be on, but no such
2355luck (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD)
2356
2357** MALI. 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, back after three or four days out
2358of air, 1530, 13-09, French, comments, id. "Radio Mali", African
2359songs. 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, WOR iog via
2360DXLD)
2361
23625995, Radio Mali, Bamako, back after three or four days out of air,
2363*1800-1840, 13-09, tuning music, French, ID “Vous ecoutez L’Office de
2364Radiodifusion Television du Mali emettant de Bamako...”, Vernacular
2365comments, African songs. 34433. (Méndez)
2366
23679635, Radio Mali, Bamako, back after three or four days out of air,
23681530-1550, 13-09, French, comments, ID "Radio Mali", African songs.
236944444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable
2370antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
2371
2372Huge signal today from Mali 5995 kHz noted from 2200 through 2330 when
2373they remained on, Sunday night, with what sounded like some sort of
2374drama play. USB with narrow bandwidth helped when 6000 [CUBA] became
2375active but Mali was still going strong as of 2334. Nice to hear this
2376with what seemed like perfect modulation (Dan Robinson, Sept 15, WOR
2377iog via DXLD)
2378
2379** MEXICO [and non]. Reading Meeting Report --- A lucky thirteen
2380members met on 27th July at Reading International Solidarity Centre
2381(RISC): Mike Barraclough, Chris Gibbs, Chris Greenway, Ian Kelly,
2382Keith Knight, Dave Kenny, Chris Morgan, Mark Palmer, Alan Pennington,
2383Alan Roe, Jon Ryland, Edwin Southwell & Klaus Werner.
2384
2385MEXICAN “BORDER BLASTERS”
2386
2387was Mike’s first topic - these licensed high power Mexican medium wave
2388stations transmitted from close to the Mexican / US border, targeting
2389a US audience. They first appeared in the early 1930s and flourished
2390for half a century.
2391
2392Mike bought along the book “Border Radio” by Gene Fowler and Bill
2393Crawford (first published in 1987). Hardback editions of the book
2394included a flexi-disc. A map from the book showed two groups of
2395“border blasters” in Mexico: one group near the border with Texas, and
2396a group close to the border with California.
2397
2398In the USA the Radio Act of 1927 and the more far-reaching 1934
2399Communications Act, which included the setting up the FCC, was
2400bringing some order to the chaotic airwaves in the early days of US
2401radio. In 1926 the NBC was formed, consolidating earlier efforts to
2402organise US radio broadcasting into networks made by ‘phone company
2403AT&T and by three receiver manufacturers (RCA, Westinghouse and
2404General Electric).
2405
2406NBC was happy to make profits from boosting sales of receivers, rather
2407than from broadcasting itself. Stations were reluctant to carry direct
2408advertising and in 1924 more than 400 of the 526 radio stations
2409refused to accept sponsors. NBC also censored advertising or music
2410aired, e.g. saxophone music was banned by some stations. Fowler &
2411Crawford’s book is subtitled “Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics and
2412other amazing broadcasters of the American Airwaves”, giving an
2413indication of the type of entrepreneurs, programming and advertisers
2414who would soon take advantage of less regulation and higher
2415permissible power south of the border in Mexico.
2416
2417Mexico had been ignored by the USA and Canada when frequencies were
2418being allocated in North America (USA had 90 clear channels, Canada 6,
2419but Mexico none). The Mexican authorities were therefore happy to
2420licence these high power “border blasters” on Mexican territory, to
2421the consternation of some north of their border.
2422
2423The first “border blaster” was XED in Reynosa, Tamaulipas (managed by
2424the International Broadcasting Company (IBC) formed by four Texans and
2425a Mexican) which began broadcasts in Autumn 1930 on 960 kc/s as “Voice
2426of Two Republics”. It was the most powerful station in Mexico at the
2427time using 10 kilowatts, with permission to increase to 50 kilowatts.
2428XED received reports from all over the USA for its inaugural 100 hour
2429broadcast, benefiting from skywave reception.
2430
2431Left: XED Reynosa QSL card from January 1931 (UV201.com) A controlling
2432interest in XED was acquired by Houston showman Will Horwitz. The
2433station aired music by artists such as Jimmie Rodgers “the father of
2434country music”, a friend of Horwitz, which helped popularise country
2435music. XED also broadcast minstrel-style duo Honeyboy & Saffafras:
2436https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbOdpyr8YNc
2437
2438XED had studios on both sides of the US-Mexico border and transmitters
2439in Mexico. Their power was increased to fifty kilowatts. But the
2440station ran a promotion selling lottery tickets for Tamaulipas’s state
2441lottery, generating lots of mail to their US offices. A US order
2442stopping mail to IBC and XED was made in November 1931 and Horwitz,
2443his wife and two employees were arrested and subsequently found guilty
2444of using the US Mail to promote an illegal lottery. Horwitz and two
2445others were handed 18-month prison terms, his wife was given six
2446months’ probation.
2447
2448American quack “Dr” John Romulus Brinkley used another “border
2449blaster” to promote his sexual rejuvenation treatment which used
2450implants from male goats. The FRC had cancelled the licence for his
2451station in Milford, Kansas (KFKB) in 1930 as it carried adverts for
2452Brinkley’s goat gland procedure. So Brinkley relocated to the border
2453town of Del Rio (Texas) and built a station, XER, across the border in
2454Villa Acuña, Mexico (“the Sunshine Station between the Nations”),
2455launching in October 1931 on 735 kHz with 75 kW from two 300’
2456towers.
2457
2458The station was fed by a broadcast quality ‘phone line from studios in
2459the Roswell hotel, Del Rio. Brinkley also moved his “hospital” to the
2460Texan border town. On air daily from “sunset to sunrise”, reports to
2461XER came from every state and fifteen other countries, but caused
2462interference to US stations. In 1933, XER was closed by the Mexican
2463authorities and Brinkley fined for “non-compliant programmes”.
2464
2465left: XER transmitter site Villa Acuña
2466http://www.theradiohistorian.org/xer/ xer.html
2467
2468Brinkley then hired time on other stations, before using XER’s old
2469transmitter site to launch XERA on 840kHz in 1935. Now with a combined
2470power of 520-kilowatts and a directional aerial, including a third
2471tower, XERA claimed an e.r.p. of 1 megawatt: “the world’s most
2472powerful broadcasting station”. On 840 kHz, XERA interfered with WWL
2473New Orleans and KOA Denver. As well as Brinkley’s medical programmes,
2474XERA aired others not permitted on US stations. “Soon, the schedule
2475was filled with astrologists, numerologists, fortune tellers, mining
2476stock swindles and radio lotteries - and the money poured in through
2477the mails from American listeners who happily paid for their services.
2478The typical fee was a dollar, and there were so many one-dollar
2479envelopes flowing into the post office that the city gained the
2480nickname of ‘Dollar Rio’.”
2481http://www.theradiohistorian.org/xer/xer.html
2482
2483Other XERA programmes included hillbilly and Mexican music. The
2484Original Carter Family were paid $75 each per week for two daily shows
2485which gave them national recognition and made them big country music
2486stars. The Carter Family shows were also later aired on other stations
2487e.g. “1050 clear channel XED” [XEG --- gh] Monterrey, IDing on this
24884-minute recording with promotion of Mexican tourism at the end:
2489https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJjjYpJ_ug
2490and a show from 1939 on this 32-minute recording
2491https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DisI6oG1Wk .
2492
2493The US Communications Act of 1934 (the “Brinkley Act”) had outlawed
2494the cross-border transport of programmes, so the ‘phone line between
2495XERA’s Del Rio studios and their Villa Acuña transmitter site was
2496closed. But Brinkley was not to be thwarted, smuggling transcription
2497discs across the border instead, to be broadcast from the transmitter
2498site. One estimate says Brinkley earned $12 million between 1933 and
24991938 from his hospital and radio station.
2500
2501The 1937 Havana Agreement resulted in the North American Radio
2502Broadcast Agreement (NARBA), allocating some clear channels to Mexican
2503stations. When ratified in 1939, XERA’s power was reduced to 180
2504kilowatts and a new Mexican channel plan drawn up, which excluded
2505XERA.
2506
2507On 19 June 1941, Mexican president Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the
2508expropriation of XERA because of “undue influence by foreign
2509elements”, and because it had transmitted “news broadcasts unsuitable
2510for the new world”. Brinkley flew to Mexico City in an attempt to sway
2511the Mexican authorities. On his return trip to Del Rio after
2512confronting firm opposition, he suffered a heart attack which left him
2513in a deteriorated state of health. His medical credentials had also
2514been exposed in an article “Modern Medical Charlatans”. Declared
2515bankrupt in January 1941, he suffered another heart attack and died in
2516May 1942, aged 56.
2517
2518Crazy Water Crystals were a white residue left after the Crazy Water
2519Company had evaporated the waters from its well in Texas. Dissolved in
2520tap water, it was said to aid the treatment of a huge variety of
2521intestinal disorders and other ailments. The Crazy Water Crystals
2522radio shows aired between 1935 and 1940, playing country and bluegrass
2523music as well as promoting their product. In 1940, the Federal Trade
2524Commission ordered the company to cease and desist from
2525misrepresentations of their crystals as it was no more than a
2526cathartic or laxative. See their full ruling here:
2527http://www.museumofquackery.com/ephemera/crazy.htm
2528Mike played an extract from one of their shows:
2529https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wki0SGr-z4I
2530
2531Sam Morris styled himself as the “Voice of Temperance” in the years
2532following repeal of the US Prohibition legislation in 1933,
2533broadcasting about the evils of alcohol from Del Rio, Texas over
2534Brinkley’s stations. We heard part of his “Ravages of Rum” broadcast
2535on XEPN Piedras Negras 885 kHz from 1936:
2536https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.recovery.aa/KZHZ8lGwqG0
2537(Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
2538
2539Hi Glenn, The websites where the illustrations are next to them on my
2540printed copy. The first link is to the site`s homepage. The January
25411931 QSL card is on this page along with one from 1930.
2542http://uv201.com/Misc_Pages/letterheads_7.htm
2543Both sites have a lot more on early radio.
2544
2545If you want links to each image the XER QSL card in the article is
2546http://uv201.com/Misc_Pages/Misc_Images/letterheads/xed_31.jpg
2547
2548and the XER transmitter site is
2549http://www.theradiohistorian.org/xer/xer_bldg.jpg
2550(Mike Barraclough, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2551
2552** MEXICO. 540, Sept 13 at 1147, ``La Ranchera de Paquimé, 540 AM``
2553and FM [90.5 listed], canned ID they emit every few minutes from XETX,
2554Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, near the frontera, and heard
2555immediately upon tune-in, WSW separable from earlier southerly Spanish
2556talk, probably XEWA SLP, unseemed religious like KDFT Ferris TX. IRCA
2557Mexican Log says both these XEs are staying on AM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
2558DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2559
2560** MEXICO. 580, Sept 13 at 1149, romantic song in Spanish from SSW,
2561and no WIBW unless that`s causing a SAH. 1200 ID as ``La Rancherita
2562del Aire``, which is Piedras Negras, Coahuila, with new official calls
2563XELRDA to match its slogan, altho it`s really rebranded XEMU which
2564lost the frequency and then bought it back, still llamando itself
2565``XEMU`` tho I heard neither call this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
2566LISTENING DIGEST)
2567
2568** MEXICO. XESS-620 flips to new Unánimo Deportes network -- This is
2569a new network, not to be confused with Univisión Deportes Radio. What
2570are everyone else's nearby ESPN Deportes affiliates running now? 73
2571(Tim Hall, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, Sept 16, ABDX yg via
2572DXLD)
2573
2574** MEXICO. 790-, Sept 14 at 1215, low audible het looping SW about the
2575same as KFYO Lubbock ID, presumed XENT, La Paz BCS, as in MW Offsets:
2576790 789.9586 MEX XENT-AM Radio Fórmula (La Paz) 2018-11-01
2577790 789.9993 USA KFYO (Lubbock, TX) 2018-08-29
2578I.e. 40.7 Hz apart. No other station anywhere is listed that far below
2579790. Nominally 10000/750 watts but IRCA Mexican Log says ``night power
2580seems much higher than 750``, and is staying on AM.
2581
2582I also had a definite ID of XENT on 790-, April 11, 2018, after the
2583frequency had been reported at 789.96 by John Wilkins, CO (Glenn
2584Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2585
2586** MEXICO. 870, Sept 14 at 1208, XETAR in sign-on routine, starting
2587late? Or just protracted in multilanguages, but several IDs heard (not
2588XERTA as I mistyped in previous report about KFJZ, USA). In Spanish,
2589mentions that they will be on air for 12 hours, ``iniciando doce horas
2590de transmisión``, i.e. still a daytimer which perhaps WWL/listeners
2591appreciate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2592
2593** MEXICO. Glenn, 1972 XERMX pennant --- I would like this if I could
2594afford it as it`s a most wanted pennant and in very good condition for
2595its age:
2596https://www.ebay.com/itm/QSL-pennant-XERMX-Radio-Mexico-Mexico-City-Mexico-/303277083235?nma=true&si=yt1H6QOFChz7DE70OLp2zqlY6GM%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
2597QSL-pennant: XERMX Radio Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico | eBay
2598(Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD)
2599
2600Winning bid was $26. I do believe I have one of those, NFS (gh, DXLD)
2601
2602** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- Sept 13-19 [NO posts
2603during an 11-day hiatus; more next week]
2604
2605** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12014.991, Voice of Korea in Russian, S=6-7
2606signal strength in Akitakata Hiroshima Japan SDR remote access unit.
2607
260812014.876, Voice of Mongolia, Ulan Bataar in Mongolian/Chinese at 1430
2609UT S=7-8 signal strength in Akitakata Hiroshima Japan SDR
2610remote access unit. wb. Sept 17 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz
2611RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept
261217, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD) What time was VOK, same? 115 Hz apart (gh)
2613
2614** MYANMAR [and non]. 5914.983, MMR, MR from new capital Nay Pyi Taw
2615via their non-directional ant, S=3-4 tiny, hit heavily by adjacent
2616co-channel transmission on 5915even ZAMBIA program Sept 14 at 0045 UT
2617ahead at S=7-8 level, buzzy muffled mod here in Europe, hard to
2618understand some African accented English presenter. My quality
2619statement about the buzzy muffled audio was completely correct. btw.
2620To mention is on MMR, compared to the installation time of the new
2621radio transmitters of BBEF Beijing in Myanmar some 8 years ago, the SW
2622service of Myanmar Radio, Thazin Radio, a.s.o. is very limited in
2623power and schedule time these days. Nothing heard anymore of former
26246030, 6165, 7200, 9490 kHz MMR channels. 73 wolfie df5sx wwdxc
2625(Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD)
2626
2627Thazin Radio - - - The following posted to WRTH Facebook:
2628
2629Mauno Ritola, posted on Sept 16: "Wolfgang Büschel reports Myanmar
26306030, 6165, 7200 and 9590 kHz off the air. Does anyone have a contact
2631to ask, if these have been closed for good or if they are off just
2632temporarily? Thanks."
2633
2634Jordan C. J Heyburn, posted Sept 16: "Is 5985 kHz affected as well?"
2635
2636Mauno Ritola, posted on Sept 16: "No, I think these are all Thazin
2637Radio frequencies"
2638
2639I posted this on Sept 17: "Hi Mauno - Here is the response I received
2640to an inquiry I sent to Thazin Radio:
2641
2642"Dear Ron Howard - I received your letter today [Sept 16].Thank you
2643for your attention in our broadcasting. You said that all frequencies
2644were silent. ***Yesterday broadcasting stopped temporary because of
2645the supply of electricity went off.*** Now, we are broadcasting on
2646these frequencies; 7345 kHz, 6165 kHz and 9590 kHz respectively. The
2647next time, you can advice to our broadcasting. Thank you. Regards:
2648Thazin FM, Myanmar, thazinradio6 @ gmail.com "
2649
2650BTW - The 7200 kHz frequency I believe would be Myanmar Radio, not
2651Thazin Radio's. Ron" [WORLD OF RADIO 2000]
2652
2653Mauno Ritola, posted on Sept 17: "Thanks, Ron. Yes, 9590 kHz can be
2654heard now at 0830" and he also posted: "Yes, 7200 kHz is Myanma Radio.
2655Something weak there now at 0840. But he doesn't mention 6030 kHz, is
2656that off? As you have such a good contact, could you please try to get
2657the times for each frequency?" (Ron Howard, Sept 17, WOR iog via
2658DXLD)
2659
2660Log of Myanmar Radio and Thazin Radio on shortwave channels, traced on
2661Sept 17 at 1300-1315 UT on remote units in Delhi India.
2662
26635914.983, MR from new capital Nay Pyi Taw. S=7-8 signal.
2664
26655984.996, seldom odd fq from Yengu Yangoon site, former capital of
2666British empire era, MR Yangoon at S=9+20dB level at 1258 Sept 17.
2667
26686165, NOTHING heard so far from Thazin R Pyin Oo Lwin site.
2669
26707200, NOTHING heard so far from MR Yangoon site.
2671
26727345, NOTHING heard so far from Thazin R Pyin Oo Lwin site. [selected
2673SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx,
2674wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 17, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
2675
2676btw. To mentions is on MMR, compared to the installation time of the
2677new radio transmitters of BBEF Beijing in Myanmar some 8 years ago,
2678the SW service of Myanmar Radio, Thazin Radio, a.s.o.
2679is very limited in power and schedule time these days.
2680Nothing heard anymore of former 6030, 6165irreg, 7200, 9460 kHz
2681MMR channels. 73 wolfie df5sx (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept
268214, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
2683
26845985, Myanmar Radio, 1150-1202+, Sept 18. Live sports coverage (TV
2685audio feed) of the football/soccer match between Myanmar (under 16)
2686and Thailand (U16); sound of the crowd in the background; held at
2687Thuwanna Stadium, Thingangyun, Myanmar; preempted regular programming;
2688during half time, music played at 1220; mostly fair. My audio at
2689http://bit.ly/2kRBhT4
2690
2691Youtube with full coverage of the game, in Thai -
2692https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dng2fK1FcRI
2693(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
2694wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
2695
2696** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC (via Nauen)
2697at 0000 with opening music and a man with ID of “Rocking over the
2698ocean and all over Europe we are the Mighty KBC” followed by singing
2699IDs and general silliness and into DJ Dave Mason with oldies music and
2700KBC Imports ads – Very Good Sept 15 – Nice to see that the boys
2701manning the transmitter at Nauen were on time this week (Mark Coady,
2702Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II
2703and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta
2704DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD)
2705
2706** NEW ZEALAND. Radio Masts - Inspection & Consultancy Services Ltd
2707A selection of NZ MW mast photos …
2708http://theconsultants.co.nz/how-we-do-it/radio-masts/
2709(Paul, Christchurch NZ, Rawdon, Sept 18, mwmasts iog via DXLD)
2710
2711** NIGERIA, Voice of Nigeria, 11770, Sep 13, 1850, English with woman
2712talk, drums, carrier off at 1859 but seems to be back on in another
2713language at 1900 (Hausa?) at lower signal level with man and woman
2714with possible news items; 34333 with low modulation. Equipment used
2715for these loggings: ***Icom R-75***, antenna 28m longwire with 9:1
2716Balun. 73, (Bob Butterfield, Columbia MD, WOR iog via DXLD)
2717
27187254.941, Today Sept 15 at 0727 UT a nice S=8 signal from V of Nigeria
2719in vernacular from Abuja site, noted next to Radio Vaticano Santa
2720Maria di Galeria Suns in Romanian on 7250even. vy73 wb df5sx
2721(Wolfgang Bueschel, Sept 15, WOR iog via DXLD)
2722
2723Fair signal of Voice of Nigeria in 25mb, Sept. 15
27241630-1900 on 11769.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English:
2725https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/fair-signal-of-voice-of-nigeria-in-25mb.html
2726(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2727
2728** NORTH AMERICA. 7470 (Pirate), western USA, YHWH at 0300. Good with
2729SW-2000629 and window frame antenna (I had checked earlier for Josiah
2730when a very sudden cloud-to-ground lightning storm hit and I had to
2731cut all of my outside longwire antenna leads). Station cut in right at
27320300, then went down into the static at 0305. Nothing heard after that
2733- Good Sept 5
2734
27357470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH at 0235. Good and in progress at
2736tune-in, heard on my usual outdoor long wire and SW-2000269 rx.
2737"Josiah" and usual monologue. A reported new frequency [7480?] didn't
2738last long. At 0402 the creepy Days of Hard Life song over some OTHR
2739radar pulses, short talk and off at 0406 - Good Sept 9 (Rick Barton,
2740Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig
2741Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor
2742shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD)
2743
2744** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH heard in Desert Hot Springs --- OK, I give
2745it a "2-2" or SIO of 232 as I have some difficulty hearing
2746this at 0250. Thanks to Rick Barton in AZ for his alerts and
2747transmission information, I finally can put this in the log. My
2748antenna for SWL is not the most robust, but thanks to noise reduction
2749and noise blanking and turning up the volume a little, I can hear
2750enough of it that I am reasonably sure of it. On 7470 AM. Thanks
2751again, Rick and anyone else involved. 73 de (Joe KJ8O Miller, UT Sept
275212, ABDX yg via DXLD)
2753
2754** NORTH AMERICA. Free radio logs for week ending September 13, 2019
2755
2756Unid. Monday, September 9, 2019, 0147, 6950 usb. Music, "*u*k All The
2757Perfect People" by Chip Taylor. SSTV at 0149 and off. (Will-MD)
2758
2759Unid. Monday, September 9, 2019, 0155, 6913 usb. A bit of Bob Marley's
2760"Jammin' with a really nice signal, s7/s9, and off. (Will-MD)
2761
2762Unid. Monday, September 9, 2019, 0309, 6925 usb. Red Hot Chili
2763Peppers, "Give It Away Now" and multiple SSTVs and off at 0312. s3/s5
2764with some fading. Occasional heavy burbly utility QRM. (Will-MD)
2765
2766Radio Boogie International. Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 0111, 6925
2767usb. Radio Boogie International (WREC Relay). Music, "Hypnotized" by
2768Fleetwood Mac. 0115, "You're listening to Radio Boogie
2769International..." into more music. s3/s5, fair/good. (Will-MD)
2770
2771Yeah Man Radio. Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 2310, 6925 am. Jazzy pop
2772music, "Shake Dance" and "Maputo" by The Crusaders. Yeah Man Radio ID
2773at 2321, some talk to the listeners, and back into more music from The
2774Crusaders. Fair to good signal, s7/s9. (Will-MD)
2775
2776Radio Comedy Club International. Friday, September 13, 2019, 2315,
27776925 am. ID at 2321. Comedy and spoke word bits. Fair to good signal,
2778s7/s9, with occasional fisherman voices co-channel and occasional loud
2779utility bursts a few KHz lower than 6925 (Larry Will, Mount Airy
2780Maryland, radio@zappahead.net IC-R75, G5RV, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2781
2782** NORTH AMERICA. 6913-USB, PIRATE (No. Am.) UnIdentified, 0134,
27839/9/19. Program of rock music segued. The Op. moved the frequency up
2784and down the band to 6950 (all USB), then back finally settling back
2785on 6913, up to 6955 then up and down settling back on 6913 repeated
2786YHF numbers recording and off. 0148 popped back on 6100 [sic; did you
2787mean 6900? gh], with music and Cuban numbers, sound effects, then slid
2788back to 6913 with Cuban numbers, music, switched to AM and back to
2789USB, very difficult to understand talk, 0200 music and more talk. Slid
2790through the military ute which was idling at 6942 several times, which
2791was unwise. Annoying listening to bounce frequencies like this. Fair
2792signal when it finally settled (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin.
2793Equipment: Perseus, Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+& HF+ Discovery, Tecsun PL
2794880, and various other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire,
2795W6LVP loop, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD) See also UNID 6080
2796
2797** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 15110.030, RFA Burmese service likely via
2798IBB BBG Saipan, S=8 at 00.46 UT heard in remote SDR in Hiroshima
2799Japan. But unfortunately distorted Burmese audio quality, like bad
2800satellite feed quality towards Marianas (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx,
2801wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 19, DXLD)fs
2802
2803** NORWAY. NRK to close LW 153 kHz but to upgrade Norway's last MW
2804station.
2805
2806Norway's last LW station (Ingøy, 153 kHz) to close in October. The one
2807remaining MW station (Longyearbyen 1485 kHz, Svalbard) proposed
2808upgraded to 3 kW.
2809
2810Full report in Norwegian:
2811http://www.radionytt.no/r19165.php?fbclid=IwAR3R4HOU9mQxXjUN3UINwNBpeMecVjsZ2lbZ1RbsuGA6I5WBz64aTGnAKo0
2812(Bjarne Mjelde on DXing.info Facebook Group, 18 Sept)
2813
2814Google translation from Norwegian:
2815Although not many people are aware of this, NRK still has broadcasts
2816on both long and medium wave. However, today NRK has a very limited
2817service over radio on AM. Only the long-wave transmitter at Ingøy in
2818Finnmark is still in operation, in addition to a medium-wave
2819transmitter in Longyearbyen on Svalbard. Here NRK P1 is distributed
2820with extended weather reports, among other things aimed at shipping.
2821
2822NRK has now considered the need to continue broadcasting on AM,
2823according to a letter the State channel has sent to the Ministry of
2824Culture. NRK considers the utility of the broadcasts from Ingøy to be
2825limited. The service is, according to NRK, in low use. In April 2018,
2826stakeholders were given the opportunity to comment on the closing of
2827this transmitter. No one has reported any objections to the
2828termination of the service.
2829
2830The coastal fishing fleet and other smaller vessels normally stay
2831within the 50 kilometer limit and thus have the possibility of
2832receiving DAB as well as weather over VHF. NRK's DAB network has now
2833been developed and covers 50 km from the coast, NRK writes.
2834
2835Seagoing vessels normally have the possibility of receiving radio and
2836weather via satellite. NRK is available with weather forecasts for
2837both Thor 5 and Sirius 4. With this in mind, NRK will close the
2838broadcasts on the long wave from Ingøy in October 2019
2839
2840NRK has a MW transmitter on AM [1485 kHz] in Longyearbyen at 1000
2841Watts. Feedback from the Governor and the population shows that this
2842consignment is still used, especially at leisure and trapping cabins
2843in parts of Svalbard. In addition, additional reception technology is
2844desirable for emergency preparedness.
2845
2846Today's facility is approaching 50 years and must be replaced if it is
2847to continue. NRK will therefore renew and upgrade the AM plant (from
28481000watt to 3000watt) on Svalbard and continue it as Norway's last AM
2849station, the letter from NRK to the Ministry of Culture states.
2850
2851NRK has previously broadcast radio broadcasts at AM, including from
2852Kløfta, Kvitsøy, Fredrikstad and Vigra. These were previously closed
2853down due to low usage, as well as the introduction of alternative
2854reception technologies that are more cost-effective and user-friendly.
2855Public broadcasters such as the BBC, DR and SR have in recent years
2856also reduced their offerings on AM. Swedish Radio has put down all its
2857services over AM.
2858
2859Source: Ministry of Culture (via Alan Pennington, Sept 18, bdxc-news
2860iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
2861
2862** OKLAHOMA. 640, Sept 15 at 1308 UT and still 1315 UT, dead air from
2863KWPN Moore, but too much signal to let KFI thru this late; at least
2864Okies may still hear stupid sportstalk in English now on sibling 930
2865WKY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2866
2867The OKC media market is very short on sports stations. Critically
2868short. We only have KWPN-640, WKY-930 as noted, KGHM-1340 ("The Game"
2869because, see, GHM is kinda like "game"), KREF-1400, KEBC-1560 ("The
2870Franchise 2"), WWLS-FM-98.1 (see WKY), KINB-105.3 ("The Pro" because,
2871see, INB ...), KRXO-FM-107.7 ("The Franchise"). And this doesn't
2872include the translators for the AMers (ignore the WKY thing). Really,
2873very short on sports. -- (Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net |
2874Travel by Train! IRCA iog via DXLD)
2875
2876** OKLAHOMA. Re Radio Calvario: My previous OK City log should have
2877been 87.9, not 89.7 (Harold Frodge, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now he`s
2878logged another FM pirate on 87.9, in Provo UT --- see U S A
2879
2880** OKLAHOMA. Level 2 tropo blob over central to eastern OK, Sept 14 at
28811408+ UT provides a bunch of Bad DTV signals on RF: 8, 10, 11, 12, 21,
288222, 26, 30, 35, 36, mostly correlating with Tulsa market, and some
2883decodes:
288420, KQCW-HD 19-1
288528, Ion 44-1
288631, OETA-DT 3-1 [seldom seen Eufaula KOET, with all 4 channels]
288734, KMYT-TV 41-1
2888But none higher, not even 45, whence KOTV must have repacked by now.
2889
2890Also, RF 16 KOCM-DT, Daystar Norman is Bad, failing to decode due to
2891DX QRM, which now must be KWHB Tulsa, 26 kW repacked from 47; altho
2892there are 7 other low-power Okies on 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
2893LISTENING DIGEST)
2894
2895** PERU. 4747.20, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho 0000 to
28960025 fighting CODAR en español, weak. 13 September. Note first
2897discovered by Steve Reinstein in NU …rlw (Bob Wilkner, Drake R8, 0042
2898UT 13 Sept, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NASWA iog via DXLD) When,
2899you mean many years ago? (gh)
2900
2901** PERU. 4774.9, Radio Tarma, Tarma, received email confirmation
2902letter, two PDF files with information of the station and a mp3 file
2903with identification of the station in 17 days for a reception report
2904sent to:
2905gerenciageneral@grupomonteverde.com
2906(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD)
2907
2908** PERU. I'm hearing a weak station on 4940 kHz right now (2305 UT)
2909with music. SAL-12 antenna favors a southerly direction. Could it be
2910Radio San Antonio, making one of its occasional appearances?
2911
2912Language is definitely Spanish, but I haven't yet been able to pick
2913out an ID. Lots of QRN! Station seems to have dropped off the air at
29140000 hours. I'll have to check the recording to see if I can find an
2915ID (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Ten Tec RX340, SAL-12
2916antenna, Sept 14, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
2917
2918DBS #20 by Anker Petersen has this comment:
2919``4940 PRU R San Antonio, Villa Atalaya, Ucayali, last heard JUL15``
292073 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) Meaning year 2015 not July 15
2921
2922From 2019:
29234939.964 May22 2224 R San Antonio, Atalaya, quiet religious songs and
2924music, weak signal. (TN)
2925
2926You can listen to Karel Honzik’s recording here:
2927http://dx-kh.cz/2019/05/15/radio-san-antonio-4940-khz-peru/
2928/(TN) TN, Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden
2929
29304940 May29 Radio Brazil Central?? Checking the possible reactivation
2931of Radio San Antonio acc. to information from Karel Honzik via RealDX
2932at BCLNews. I find to my surprise that it is the frequency of Radio
2933Brasil Central from Goiânia. I do not have any records of this station
2934operating on this frequency since the Brazilian stations in tropical
2935band transmit with a spacing of 5 kHz (e.g. 4885, 4895, 4845 khz,
2936etc.). Despite the low audio, songs and talks in Portuguese and
2937mentioning the ABC Agencia Brasil Central and with TC UTC-3. (Rafael
2938Rodriguez via WRTH FB). (SW Bulletin June 2 via DXLD)(via gh, HCDX)
2939
2940R San Antonio, Atalaya was heard reactivated in Spanish in May 2019 at
29412225 UT on 4940 kHz (Anker Petersen, HCDX via DXLD)
2942
2943Thanks. I think it's San Antonio, but I haven't been able to hear any
2944ID in the recording, which spanned the last 48 minutes before they
2945went off. Regards, (Art Delibert, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2946
2947** PERU. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Septiembre 14. 2350-2359 UT. Rezo del
2948Rosario en español. SINPO:44433 con interferencia de Radio Progreso de
2949Cuba y desvenecimiento propio de la banda de 60 metros. (Claudio
2950Galaz, Receptor: TECSUN PLL 660; Antena: Hilo largo de 70 metros;
2951Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, 4° Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
2952
2953** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Septiembre 14. 2320-2335 UT. Música de
2954himnos cristianos, luego ID: “Red Radio Integridad”, luego reflexiones
2955de un texto bíblico e ID a las 2335 y hora local de Perú. SINPO: 44444
2956con interferencia de Tv Martí en la misma frecuencia. (Claudio Galaz,
2957Receptor: TECSUN PLL 660; Antena: Hilo largo de 70 metros; Lugar de
2958escucha: Barraza Bajo, 4° Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD)
2959
2960** PHILIPPINES. Weak & poor signal of FEBC Radio Teos, September 15
29611500-1530 on 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian Daily &
29621530-1600 on 9920 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Ukr/Rus Sunday:
2963from 1546 on 9920 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to CeAs - test tone for
29641600-1700 on 9920 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to CeAs Uzbek R. Liberty
2965Wrong time&freq: 19-20 MST on 11650, not 18-19 MST on 9920 kHz!
2966https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/weak-signal-of-febc-radio-teos.html
2967(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2968
2969** PUERTO RICO. Medium Wave bandscan --- This survey of the AM
2970broadcast band was done in December 2018 from a ship off the coast of
2971Puerto Rico:
2972https://youtu.be/5C_5lWvJHuE
2973(Ivan NO2CW, Sept 17, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
2974
2975** ROMANIA. Betreff: Re: Zukunft von AM Aussendungen in Romania.
2976
2977Sehr geehrter Herr Biener, vielen Dank fuer die Info und fuer Ihre
2978Anteilnahme. Die Nachricht koennen wir Ihnen bestaetigen, die Gefahr
2979ist vorerst gebannt:
2980
2981Den Vorstoss, die Kurz- und Mittelwellensendungen wegen finanzieller
2982Knappheit einzustellen, hat der Verwaltungsrat des Hoerfunks
2983abgelehnt; zugleich hat er das Leitungsgremium und den Intendanten
2984aufgefordert, die notwendigen finanziellen Mittel durch Sparmassnahmen
2985in anderen Bereichen zu sichern bzw. alternative Finanzierungsquellen
2986aufzufinden.
2987
2988Mehr wissen wir zurzeit auch nicht, die Kurzwellenausstrahlungen gehen
2989derweil weiter, wir danken Ihnen fuer das Interesse und werden Ihnen
2990Bescheid sagen, wenn das Thema wieder einmal aufgerollt werden
2991sollte.
2992
2993Mit freundlichen Gruessen im Namen der gesamten Redaktion
2994Sorin Georgescu
2995
2996automatic translation:
2997Subject: Re: Future of AM emissions from Romania.
2998
2999Dear Mr. Biener, Thank you for the info and for your concern.
3000The message we can confirm, the danger is banned for the time being:
3001
3002The proposal to suspend short and medium wave broadcasts due to
3003financial shortages has been rejected by the Board of Directors of the
3004Radio. At the same time, he called on the governing body and the
3005directors to secure the necessary financial means through austerity
3006measures in other areas or to find alternative sources of financing.
3007
3008At the moment we do not know any more, the shortwave broadcasts
3009continue, thank you for the interest and will let you know if the
3010topic should be rolled up again.
3011
3012With kind regards on behalf of the entire editorial team
3013Sorin Georgescu (RRI Bucharest, Deutsche Redaktion <germ -at-
3014rri.ro> via Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
3015Sept 9, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
3016
3017** ROMANIA. 5980. Sep 17, 2019. 0028-0040, Radio Romania
3018International, Galbeni, in Romanian. Man talks; 0035 Woman talks and a
3019song. Barely audible reception with interference by Radio TV Martí in
3020spanish, 23411. Parallel log on 7420kHz, Galbeni, 35433.
3021
30226040. Sep 17, 2019. 0041-0057, Radio Romania International,
3023Tsiganeshti, in English. ID and sked RRI in English this time and
3024repeat the same thins a few times; 0046 A song and woman talks; 0055
3025Sked in English, website and IS. Fair reception, 45433.
3026
30276040. Sep 17, 2019. 0147-0157, Radio Romania International,
3028Tsiganeshti, in French. Woman announcer in conversation with a man; ID
3029and man voice. Fair reception, 35433.
3030
30316080. Sep 17, 2019. 0210-0220, Radio Romania International, Galbeni,
3032in Spanish. Man voice; 0213 Program "Pro Memory; 0220 A folk song by
3033female singer; 0225 ID and a program "Horizonte Cultural Rumano".Good
3034reception, 45544 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL,
3035Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808, Antenna (s)_ Telescopic,
3036WOR iog via DXLD)
3037
303813650, RRI at 2027 with IS to opening music and 2030 and a man with
3039ID, target areas, web platforms, and satellite reception info and a
3040woman with news at 2031 – Good Sept 17 – No // frequencies were noted
3041(11850 is still listed to Eastern North America) so I must assume the
3042North American service is still down to one transmitter as a cost
3043saving measure (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario with a Ten-Tec Argonaut II
3044and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta
3045DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD)
3046
3047** RUSSIA. Update Russia Today --- received email from Russia Today as
3048follows: Dear Jon, thank you very much for the feedback but as you
3049already know only have podcast and no station on shortwave, thank you,
3050etc., etc. (Jon Collins, Birmingham, UK, Sept 13, DX LISTENING
3051DIGEST)
3052
3053** RUSSIA. Received September 9 at 0508 UT a test broadcast in DRM
3054format from Komsomolsk-on-Amur at a frequency of 12025 kHz via Kiwi Rx
3055in Japan. Screen video:
3056https://www.dropbox.com/s/450wv5oip4wme7s/Komsomolsk_DRM_20190909_0508z_web.wmv?dl=0.
3057There was no trace of this signal in Novosibirsk. Bulgarian colleagues
3058published a schedule of these tests:
3059
3060Changes of Mystery Russian DRM transmissions eff. from September 5
30612000-0300 on 12025 K / A 100 kW / 034 deg to FERu Russian DRM, ex
30622000-1000UT
30630300-1000 on 15735 K / A 100 kW / 034 deg to FERu Russian DRM, ex
3064alternative
30652000-1000 on 11615 K / A 250 kW / 034 deg to FERu PROPAGATION TEST,
3066unchanged
3067
3068https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/changes-of-russian-drm-transmissions.html
3069Apparently, this schedule is changing, because my admission data does
3070not match this publication (Yuri, Novosibirsk, Russia /
3071"deneb-radio-dx", Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD)
3072
3073** SAUDI ARABIA. 15380.059, Sept 14 at 1250, VP Qur`an, SRI/SBA Riyadh
3074as scheduled at 06-09 & 12-13 per EiBi; more precisely as 0545-0857 &
30751155-1357 per Aoki. One of few stations on band beyond Cuba, and much
3076better than 15450 Turkey English toward Europe & North America which
3077has been a total loss all summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
3078DIGEST)
3079
3080** SRI LANKA. Anyone that needs Sri Lanka, the English program of AWR
3081in English is booming into Alberta at 1600 UT, 9580 kHz Sept 14. 73
3082(Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) expanding:
3083
30849580, AWR at 1600 UT Sept 14 in English with song "Flee As A Bird" by
3085Esther Synthia Murali. AWR India ID at 1602 then Native Studies.
3086Excellent. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant:
3087Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD)
3088
3089** SRI LANKA. 11835. Sep 16, 2019. 1734-1756, Sri Lanka BC-Thendral
3090FM, Trincomalee-CLN, in Tamil language. Man announcer presents a
3091musical program dedicated to listener´s solicitations, in conversation
3092by phone; It´s an interesting program; 1756 Abrupt ends program this
3093time. Fair reception, 35533 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign
3094PR7036SWL, Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_ XHDATA D-808, Antenna (s)_
3095Telescopic, WOR iog via DXLD)
3096
3097** SUDAN. The Director-General of Sudan Radio and Television
3098Corporation has been sacked. The country's Prime Minister, Abdallah
3099Hamdok, issued a decree removing Mohamed Ahmed Issawi from the top
3100role in the broadcaster. In his place, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim
3101al-Bazi'i has been appointed. AIB (AIB media industry briefing |
3102September 2019 via DXLD) nfi
3103
3104** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 0413-0420, 14-09, Arabic,
3105comments. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun
3106S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
3107
3108** SUDAN SOUTH. [Re 19-37, Chinese involvement] Be careful, because
3109aid does not necessarily mean real aid. A lot of times the word 'aid'
3110covers loans with very low interest with an abnormally long grace
3111period before starting to pay it back to the lender (usually the
3112lender is an international organization or a state). I also thought
3113that aid means aid, but I had to realise that it is not always (Tibor
3114Gaal, Hungary, Sept 17, WOR iog via DXLD)
3115
3116** SUDAN SOUTH. SSBC (and it has been SSBC for YEARS -- at least 2016
3117-- I don't know why the 'formerly' is in there!) has some interesting
3118stuff -- I hope the Chinese influence doesn't make them too 'polished'
3119as some of the charm of this station is the way it provides a REAL
3120glance into what life is like there! Here's a look at a recent log of
3121reception from them on Ku-band satellite in North America:
3122[illustrated in the WOR iog]
3123
312497°W Galaxy-19 12.146-V/22000 Msps with many streams of video, all
3125in 480i SD using QPSK modulation and MPEG-2 compression:
3126Svc ID Lang ID Notes
31270814 EE/Arbc South Sudan BC News show w/local time
3128The same transponder carries broadcasts from Sudan as well -- although
3129that is most all in Arabic, 73 (//Ken Zichi, MI, WOR iog via DXLD)
3130
3131** SWITZERLAND. [WOR] Re United Nations Radio, Switzerland
3132
3133In the DXLD 19-36 under MUSEA Glenn Hauser wrote:
3134"I recall that in my early DXing years, 1960s, there were still UN
3135broadcasts from Switzerland on the fixed bands (gh, DXLD)"
3136
3137Yes. For decades UNR rented airtime from Prangins utility station for
3138their Russian program. Very short broadcasts, some 10 minutes long. At
3139times on weekdays, at times only on Fridays via single SSB
3140transmitter. Frequencies varied during years, some used were 7443 and
314114500. I think these transmissions ceased somewhere early 1990's. I've
3142got a QSL from UN Geneve office (1981 on 14500 kHz). Prangins near
3143Geneve was quite large utility station that once had the antennas and
3144transmitters t.ex. for time signal station HBG (75 kHz) and HF
3145maritime coast station Bern Radio HEB. I think the site is nowadays
3146mostly deserted, maybe some transmitters/antennas mothballed for
3147emergency use? 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, Sept 16, WOR iog via
3148DXLD)
3149
3150I remember those transmissions, well I actually remember seeing the
3151schedules in the WRTVH and trying to listen to them, but never
3152actually hearing them :) (Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems,
3153Westminster, MD USA, http://www.blackcatsystems.com ibid.)
3154
3155** TAJIKISTAN. 4765even, yes, real Yangi Yul Tjk R1 is back on even
3156fq, S=8 not as strong as usually, likely a reserve 15 kW unit is now
3157on air. 1714 UT on Sept 13 (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked AIR outlets at
315817-18 UT on Sept 13 on remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha Qatar, and
3159Akitakata Japan, WOR iog via DXLD)
3160
3161** THAILAND [and non]. S. AZ Saturday TPs 9/14 1575 VOA huge ---
3162Noticed a huge het [carrier] on 1575 around 1228 UT but couldn't get
3163any audio. Then at 1230 there was the VOA sign-on "Yankee Doodle"
3164music jingle, a man in English with "from Washington this is VOA news"
3165then switched to foreign language program. Huge signal, "medium"
3166level, something I've never experienced before, nothing else on the
3167band approaching this level though lots of 9 kHz hets, and with 972
3168Korea at very poor/poor audio level and 774 Japan at very poor audio
3169level. VOA continued at very good level to 1300 when program switched
3170to female reading the news in slow English. Signal gradually faded
3171down, mostly gone at 1311. Apparently very unusual propagation toward
3172Thailand this morning. 1566 HLAZ occasionally at very poor audio
3173level, though its het [carrier] lasted at least 30 minutes after
3174sunrise and was still good at 1340 though no audio heard. No other
3175hets noted that late (Steve AA7U Ratzlaff, near Sahuarita, AZ, Elad
3176DUOr standalone; 140' west DKAZ + FLG100 preamp, IRCA iog via DXLD)
3177
3178** THAILAND. VOA / IBB Thailand - e-QSLs (monitoring of three
3179frequencies 12-09-2019); The answer came again from Salvador Galang
3180(bgalang [at] usagm.gov), who kindly confirmed three reports on
3181receiving different e-QSLs. To the question of whether it is better to
3182send the report - directly to his mail or to manager_philippines [at]
3183bbg.gov, Salvador answered: “Just continue using the
3184manager_philippines [at] usagm.gov e-mail address” (another domain).
3185Blog: https://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2016/07/voice-of-america.html
3186(Konstantin Barsenokov, St. Petersburg, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL
3187World, Rus-DX Sept 15 via DXLD)
3188
3189** THAILAND. 15590, Radio Thailand at 0103 UT Sept 12 still relaying
3190English Media Thailand FM 88 when not supposed to be in English. Fair.
319173 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook
3192ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD)
3193
3194** TIBET [and non]. 4820even, PBS Xizang in Chinese language from
3195Lhasa Baiding Tibet site, S=8-9 signal in Akitakata Japan, classical
3196music symphonic orchestra program at 1745 UT on Sept 13.
3197
31984905.001, PBS Xizang in Tibetan language from Lhasa Baiding Tibet
3199site, S=9+30dB powerful signal in Delhi, India SDR unit, at 1718 UT
3200Sept 13.
3201
32024920, two outlet strings visible on this channel. 18 Hertz apart
3203distance at 1731 UT on Sept 13.
3204
32054919.982, CHINA, Lhasa Baiding Tibet in Tibetan {noted on this odd
3206channel} at 1751 UT, when AIR Chennai is already OFF air, and
3207
32084920even, AIR Chennai in Tamil language scheduled, equal signal power
3209level, S=9+20dB at 1731 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, checked AIR outlets at
321017-18 UT on Sept 13 on remote SDRs in Delhi India, Doha Qatar, and
3211Akitakata Japan, WOR iog via DXLD)
3212
3213** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet,
3214September 15
32151230-1235 NF 9899 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9875
32161235-1242 NF 9889 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9866
32171242-1305 NF 9876 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9899
32181305-1311 NF 9889 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9886
3219https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html
3220(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3221
3222** TURKEY. Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Greek on SW Sept 12
32231400-1425 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Italian, as scheduled A-19 &
32241426-1433 9610 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Greek sce, unscheduled on SW
3225Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station
3226https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unscheduled-trt-voice-of-turkey-in.html
3227(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3228
3229Voice of Turkey, Russian, odd frequency 11965.7, Sept 14
32301300-1355 on 11965.7 EMR 500 kW / 020 deg to EaEu Russian, instead of
3231nominal. Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler
3232transmitting station!!
3233https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/voice-of-turkey-in-russian-on-odd.html
3234(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3235
3236Voice of Turkey in Turkish odd frequency 11675.7 Sept 17
32370600-1157 on 11675.7 EMR 500 kW / 150 deg to WeAs Turkish, instead of
3238nominal. Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler
3239transmitting station!
3240https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd.html
3241(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3242
3243** U K. Watching on kiwiwebsdr.dxer.ca --- Interesting that there is a
32441 Hz SAH on 1215 that is showing up as signal cancellation with a
3245period of 1 second (Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. Canada, Drake R8 -
3246Flags - VACTROL's - Phasers, Sept 13, IRCA iog via DXLD)
3247
3248Most interestingly, Absolute Radio has (at least) one of their many
3249transmitters not fully-synched, and I noted an about 1 Hz SAH on their
3250cluster during my two-week stay in Iceland in December 2016, and this
3251was the same strange SAH of about 1 Hz as also noted in eastern Europe
3252and St. Petersburg, Russia 10 years ago in early to mid-September
32532009. It makes the 1215 Absolute Radio cluster sound "swirly" as a
3254result. This is what I recorded with a barefoot Sony ICF-SW7600GR on
3255Hrisey (island) north, Iceland:
3256https://archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91/1215-Absolute_Radio_UK_recin_Hrisey_Iceland_13Dec2016_0256z.mp3
3257
3258The SAH is noticeable at about 1:38 elapsed time into this recording,
3259particularly, and throughout it to the end at times! Perhaps this is
3260what is creating the 1 Hz SAH on the WCNA? (I'm too far south for much
3261TA reception so far this late Summer). Thanks for this neat report! --
326273 - (Stephen P. McGreevy - N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.)
3263
3264Thanks for those clips, Stephen. You have an amazing array of
3265recordings. Sure wish I was as organized as you! 73, (Walt Salmaniw,
3266ibid.)
3267
3268Yes, looks like there is a lonely carrier 0.8 Hz above nominal. Best
3269regards, (Mauno Ritola, Sept 16, IRCA iog via DXLD)
3270
3271** U S A. 326 kHz, Sept 16 at 0620 UT, MA, 400 watt ND beacon from
3272Midland TX. I was tuned to 324.
3273
3274347 kHz, Sept 16 at 0631 UT, AFK, 25 watt ND beacon from Nebraska
3275City, NE. Also logged four from CANADA, q.v.
3276
3277353 kHz, Sept 18 at 0648 UT, ND beacon LI, which is 400 watts from
3278Little Rock, Arkansas; I was tuned to 351 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
3279LISTENING DIGEST)
3280
3281** U S A. 15730, Sept 16 at 2026, VOA French with pronounced
3282long/short path echo, off by 2030. Also detected Sept 17 at 2007.
3283Haven`t heard any like this in a long time, as propagation in general
3284is so degraded against anything coming the long way around.
3285Calculating the delay as I have no way of measuring it: Grimesland NC
3286is only 1860 km from here short path, so would be 38215 km long path,
3287using 40075 km as the equatorial circumference of Earth. At speed of
3288light, SP takes only 0.006 second to get here, while LP takes .1275
3289second, so .1215 is the difference or about one eighth of a second.
3290The azimuth toward Africa is 94 degrees, so the bulk of the 250 kW
3291signal is radiating very close to opposite of here where we are almost
3292due west. Normally we get only a fraxion off the back of the beam,
3293while the LP peters out long before reaching here from the west. For
3294this to happen of course, it also takes a frequency/band which will
3295propagate both day and night. And the closer the source, the longer
3296the LP echo delay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3297
3298VOA BETHANY: See MUSEA
3299
3300** U S A. Heard you use the USAGM release about Lansing -- there have
3301been two very interesting pieces -- see Daily Caller and a commentary
3302Laura Flanders appearing on Common Dreams.
3303
3304Also, below is a link to Twitter posts by David Folkenflik, the NPR
3305media reporter. It's notable to say the least that no one at NPR has
3306chosen to do any investigative piece following up on the Daily Caller
3307article.
3308
3309You might also check out some of the comments left on these pieces
3310(including my own [as dxace1]) -- they say a lot about what Americans
3311think about USAGM (as well as NPR, for those on the right).
3312
3313https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/11/npr-chief-dump-stocks-sec-probe/#disqus_thread
3314https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/15/voice-america-npr-new-ceo-lansings-glass-house
3315https://twitter.com/kara_frame/status/1172887229410267136
3316(Dan Robinson, Sept 16, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3317
3318NPR’S INCOMING CHIEF DUMPED $10M IN STOCK AMID SEC PROBE WHILE AT
3319PRIOR JOB, RECORDS SHOW. IT COULD SIGNAL INSIDER TRADING, EXPERTS SAY
3320
3321John Lansing, USAGM's chief executive, speaks on a radio show.
3322(Screenshot/USAGM.GOV) [caption]
3323
3324Luke Rosiak Investigative Reporter September 11, 2019 8:46 PM ET
3325
3326John Lansing is a former Obama appointee who was named president and
3327CEO of NPR on Thursday.
3328
3329He was previously head of cable TV company Scripps Networks, where he
3330sold $10 million in stock after the company became the target of an
3331SEC probe that was not known to the public.
3332
3333Experts say the behavior could have constituted insider trading.
3334NPR’s current chief was a Scripps board member.
3335
3336NPR’s newly named chief left a previous job after dumping $10 million
3337in stocks after a federal investigation against the company was
3338launched, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News
3339Foundation. Experts said he likely knew of the probe and that his
3340behavior could amount to insider trading.
3341
3342From 2004 to 2013, John Lansing was the president of Scripps Networks,
3343a cable TV conglomerate. NPR’s current chief and board member, Jarl
3344Mohn, was on the board of Scripps during the investigation and stock
3345sales.
3346
3347In 2015, former President Barack Obama appointed Lansing to lead the
3348$750 million-a-year Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which
3349oversees government-run media including Voice of America and radio
3350operations in Cuba. Lansing, who was named NPR’s president and CEO
3351Sept. 5, ran the BBG into the current administration after President
3352Donald Trump’s nominee was blocked.
3353
3354Scripps was the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
3355probe that was opened on May 2, 2012, according to records obtained by
3356Probes Reporter. The records do not explain the nature of the
3357potential misconduct by Scripps executives being investigated.
3358Complaints lodged are not made public.
3359
3360But five days after the probe began, on May 7, Lansing appeared to
3361sell all of his 18,527 existing shares of stock in the company,
3362according to SEC filings. He still possessed stock options giving him
3363the ability to buy stock at less than half price, and on the same day,
3364he exercised options to obtain another 46,543 shares and sold all of
3365them as well, the filings show.
3366
3367It is unusual for a corporate executive to dump shares of his company
3368so aggressively, and it can signal insider trading when it comes after
3369a negative development that is not known publicly, two former SEC
3370officials, Marina Baranovsky and Peter Haller, told the DCNF.
3371
3372Just over three months later, on Aug. 13, 2012, Lansing exercised
3373options granting him 79,158 additional shares and sold them all the
3374same day, SEC records show.
3375
3376On Dec. 21, 2012, Lansing became entitled to 30,426 more shares and
3377sold all of them within five days. In all, in 2012 Lansing sold $10
3378million in stock, the SEC records show. The former SEC officials say
3379Lansing, but not the public, would have known the company was under
3380federal investigation.
3381
3382Also on Dec. 21, 2012, Lansing’s employment contract was modified.
3383Previously, he would receive severance benefits triggered by “good
3384reason termination” if the board took adverse action against him in
3385the absence of severe misconduct. Under the modification, he’d get the
3386same “termination” severance if he retired, as long as he gave 90 days
3387notice.
3388
3389In early 2013, Lansing received 6,485 shares through vesting and sold
3390all of them on March 19 for $420,000.
3391
3392In September 2013, Scripps announced that “John F. Lansing is retiring
3393after nine years as head of the company’s Scripps Networks operating
3394division. He will continue his association with the company on a
3395consulting basis for an extended period of time.”
3396
3397His last day of full service would be Oct. 1, and he would receive
3398severance and accelerated vesting of stock options under “good cause
3399termination.” His “termination payments” amounted to nearly $13
3400million, including $4.1 million in “cash severance” plus stock
3401benefits, SEC records show.
3402
3403The severance would be paid even though Lansing’s original employment
3404agreement was set to expire on its own two months later in December
3405when he would still be working at Scripps anyway as a consultant.
3406
3407His separation agreement also acknowledged that Lansing would take a
3408new job in the cable industry, meaning it was not a retirement.
3409
3410“He gets paid more than they originally agreed, plus he gets a
3411consulting gig afterwards? It almost looks like a payoff, but the
3412question is what were they being paid off for?” Baranovsky, a former
3413SEC senior risk analyst and a financial industry regulatory compliance
3414consultant, told the DCNF.
3415
3416There was one potential advantage to the board of having Lansing sign
3417papers to end his contract a few weeks early in exchange for a hefty
3418payout. The deal required Lansing to sign confidentiality clauses, a
3419“release of claims” and a “false claims representation” in which
3420Lansing was required to assert that he knew of no wrongdoing by anyone
3421in the company.
3422
3423“Executive certifies that to the best of his knowledge, information
3424and belief, no member of management or any other employee (including
3425himself) who has a significant role in the Company’s internal control
3426over financial reporting has committed any fraud,” it said.
3427
3428Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott ring the NYSE opening bell in honor of
3429HGTV’s 20th Anniversary in 2014. (Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)
3430Red flags
3431
3432“This type of behavior definitely raises several red flags” about
3433potential insider trading, Baranovsky said. “The timing of selling of
3434the shares is very curious. It definitely seems like a panic sell.”
3435
3436She said Lansing would have known of an SEC investigation. “SEC
3437investigation letters are usually sent to the company’s senior
3438management with immediate notification of General Counsel, as well as
3439the Board of Directors,” she said.
3440
3441Baranovsky also said the board had a duty to conserve shareholders’
3442money: “What was their reason for compensating these guys in such a
3443lavish way?”
3444
3445Scripps Networks Interactive was spun off of newspaper company E.W.
3446Scripps in 2008 in order to sell the TV networks to a different
3447company, since the Scripps patriarch prohibited the parent company
3448from selling its newspapers. But other companies that explored
3449acquiring the new firm during Lansing’s term as president, such as
3450Disney, did not move forward.
3451
3452Haller, a former SEC official and former senior counsel on the House
3453Financial Services Committee, told the DCNF that “the sale of all
3454shares in a rapid manner just days after learning about an SEC probe
3455of his company deserves close scrutiny. I also expect the board to
3456have concerns when the CEO is dumping shares as fast as he gets
3457them.”
3458
3459He noted that top executives often use “10b5-1 plans,” drafted by the
3460general counsel, that say in advance what strategy will be used to buy
3461and sell shares, insulating them from charges that their trades were
3462the result of recent events known only to insiders. “It’s hard to
3463imagine a 10b5-1 plan that scheduled sales of all shares upon receipt
3464— urgency would raise questions,” he said.
3465
3466Lansing did not respond to questions submitted to him through his
3467government agency.
3468
3469The swamp
3470
3471After a short stint as president and CEO of the Cable Television and
3472Marketing Association, the Obama administration in August 2015 named
3473Lansing as CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, whose previous
3474executive, Andy Lack, stepped down to become chairman of NBC News.
3475
3476The New York Times reported at the time that the government
3477broadcasting agency had been criticized for not effectively
3478counteracting propaganda from Russia and the Islamic State.
3479
3480“The day-to-day running of international broadcasting operations was
3481overseen by a nine-member board that had become known more for its
3482dysfunction than for managing broadcast programs that reach more than
3483215 million people around the world every week,” the Times said.
3484
3485“Now, with Mr. Lansing in charge, the feeling at the agency is that
3486the broadcasting board will be better positioned to continue its
3487overhaul and more forcefully engage international rivals like China
3488and Russia in the high-stakes information war,” the Times said.
3489
3490Lansing seemed to both burrow into entrenched Washington and benefit
3491from its dysfunction. (RELATED: Toxic Culture At Voice Of America
3492Exposed In Discrimination Lawsuit)
3493
3494He led a revamping that renamed the Broadcasting Board of Governors to
3495the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Organizational changes meant that
3496while no Senate confirmation had been required for Lansing to take the
3497top role under the Obama administration, it would be required for his
3498successor in the Trump administration.
3499
3500Trump nominated Michael Pack to lead the agency, but then-Sen. Bob
3501Corker, a Tennessee Republican who was often at odds with Trump,
3502blocked the nomination and pushed legislation that limited Trump’s
3503control over the agency.
3504
3505Corker departed the Senate, but Lansing remained at his post — an
3506Obama holdover with a questionable past, heading a leading information
3507agency that has been criticized for liberal bias.
3508
3509Lansing’s chief strategy officer, Haroon Ullah, pleaded guilty in June
3510to stealing more than $40,000 from the agency. A faction of past and
3511current employees created a blog dedicated to problems at the agency
3512and is highly critical of Lansing.
3513
3514The SEC investigation was closed on March 20, 2013, records show.
3515
3516The investigation was begun under the director of the SEC’s Division
3517of Enforcement, Robert Khuzami. There is no public indication of
3518sanctions against the company from the investigation itself or of the
3519SEC investigating potential insider trading relating to executives
3520dumping stocks.
3521
3522Khuzami would later be tied to much more aggressive tactics when it
3523came to Trump associates. By 2018, Khuzami was the deputy U.S.
3524attorney in the Southern District of New York during the raid of the
3525office of Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey
3526Berman had recused himself because he was appointed by Trump, leaving
3527Khuazmi the next highest-ranking person.
3528
3529Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former attorney, exits
3530the United States Court house after his sentencing, in the Manhattan
3531borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 12, 2018.
3532REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton [caption]
3533
3534Scripps Networks Interactive owned TV channels like HGTV and the Food
3535Network. In March 2018, Discovery Inc., which owns the Discovery
3536Channel, acquired it for $12 billion.
3537
3538The SEC investigation began on May 2, 2012, but SEC investigations are
3539preceded by a 60-day preliminary investigation period during which it
3540is called a “Matter Under Inquiry.” Companies would generally be aware
3541of the SEC’s interest in a matter at this stage, the former SEC
3542officials said.
3543
3544On March 29, 2012, during this period, Scripps said it would begin a
3545search to replace its general counsel, A.B. Cruz, the executive who
3546signed SEC forms. On Nov. 14, 2012, it said in a press release that
3547Cruz was resigning from the company to work as deputy director of
3548maritime operations at a Navy base.
3549
3550He left Scripps on Dec. 14, 2012. He later went on to serve as an
3551executive at USAA, a Fortune 100 military-oriented financial
3552institution.
3553
3554An SEC filing shows Cruz received a full severance payout of $2.2
3555million and accelerated stock vesting worth millions more — even
3556though according to his contract, if he resigned, he should have
3557received no severance and should have forfeited unvested stock and
3558options awards.
3559
3560Cruz’s contract would have expired on Dec. 31, so Scripp’s board
3561appeared to pay millions of dollars to terminate Cruz two weeks before
3562it would have ended without penalty. However, as with Lansing, the
3563golden parachute came with strings, including an identical “release of
3564claims.”
3565
3566The company’s next annual filing says, “Cruz was separated from the
3567Company effective December 14, 2012, pursuant to which, among other
3568things, we paid him the severance benefits due under his employment
3569agreement in the event of termination without Cause and provided for
3570full vesting of his equity awards. In consideration for such benefits,
3571Mr. Cruz was required to sign a Release of Claims, and remains
3572obligated to comply with the non-compete, non-solicit, non-disparage
3573and non-disclosure provisions of his original employment agreement.”
3574
3575Baranovsky said that the boards of publicly traded companies normally
3576seek to avoid the turmoil of multiple executives leaving in rapid
3577succession and that the departure of both the president and general
3578counsel was another sign of trouble.
3579
3580Cruz did not return a request for comment.
3581
3582NPR did not respond to questions about the Scripps connection between
3583Mohn and Lansing or about the Scripps issues (via DXLD)
3584
3585** U S A. FROM VOICE OF AMERICA TO NPR: NEW CEO LANSING'S GLASS HOUSE
3586by Laura Flanders --- 18 Comments
3587Published on Sunday, September 15, 2019 by Common Dreams
3588
3589John Lansing, now CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), talked about the
3590operations of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the agency
3591that oversees United States government-supported, civilian
3592international news media such as Voice of America, Radio Free
3593Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Marti, and Alhurra. He explained how he
3594planned to reshape U.S. media operations to better fit the current
3595media environment, including how to address propaganda by countries
3596such as Russia and China and stateless actors such as ISIL. (C-SPAN
3597January 6, 2016)
3598
3599I don’t know about you, but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a
3600guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to
3601notice the sound of shattering.
3602
3603Which brings me to National Public Radio. When the ubiquitous news and
3604public affairs network announced the appointment of a new CEO, it
3605noted that John Lansing made his mark in his current job with
3606“stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference.”
3607
3608This had me picking through the shards when they went on to explain
3609that Lansing comes to NPR from the United States Agency for Global
3610Media, a federally-funded organization whose express mission is to
3611interfere in journalism by doing it, in such as way as to promote
3612American policy values all across the world.
3613
3614NPR’s new CEO story came with a picture of Lansing in his capacity as
3615CEO of USAGM, testifying in Congress about the scourge of Russian
3616media meddling. “The Russian government and other authoritarian
3617regimes engage in far-reaching, malign influence campaigns,” he said.
3618
3619The high dudgeon ill-suited a man who, as he spoke, oversaw an empire
3620of federally-funded influence campaigns with origins in Cold War US
3621psy-ops: The Voice of America, Radio y Televisión Martí, and Radio
3622Free Europe, as well as Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Radio
3623Persia. According to Yasha Levine at Pando, when Lansing took the
3624reins of this holding company, which was then called the Broadcasting
3625Board of Governors, it had a budget of $721 million, reported directly
3626to the Secretary of State, and was managed by a revolving crew of
3627neocon and military think tank experts, including Ryan Crocker, former
3628ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
3629
3630Recently, Lansing has been under criticism after scandals involving
3631fake news and fleecing at Radio Martí—scandals he says he took action
3632on. But it’s not the scandals, it’s the routine at the US media agency
3633that makes Lansing’s stone-throwing so obnoxious. The propaganda past
3634in Latin America, Cuba, Africa, and Cold War Europe is clear. In the
3635Obama/Clinton years, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe actively
3636ginned up support for war against Putin’s Russia. Now, as the
3637Intercept reported just last month, VOA Persia has become a Trump
3638channel to vilify Iran.
3639
3640Lansing’s not the first NPR director to come from VOA. Nor is he, of
3641course, the first stale, pale male heading up an organization that
3642claims it wants to move into the 21st Century. But jeez. The hypocrisy
3643is hard to take. What next? A Morning Edition report on kettles being
3644black?
3645
3646Laura Flanders
3647
3648Laura Flanders is a best-selling author and broadcaster who hosts the
3649The Laura Flanders Show, where she interviews forward thinking people
3650about the key questions of our time. The LF Show airs weekly on
3651KCET/LinkTV, FreeSpeech TV, and in English & Spanish in teleSUR.
3652Flanders is also a contributing writer to The Nation and Yes! Magazine
3653(“Commonomics”) and a regular guest on MSNBC. She is the author of six
3654books, including The New York Times best-seller, BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a
3655Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back
3656Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Press, 2007). The Laura
3657Flanders Show first aired on Air America Radio 2004-2008. You can find
3658all her archives and more at Lauraflanders.com or via Twitter
3659@GRITlaura
3660
3661Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
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3663RADIO 2000, DXLD)
3664
3665Comment by dxace1 1d:
3666
3667Flanders is the first (besides myself and a few other outside
3668observers) to point out the unseemly swinging door between the USAGM
3669(formerly called the Broadcasting Board of Governors or BBG) and NPR.
3670It is, indeed, quite strange and has escaped any thorough examination
3671by ANY major media organization.
3672
3673The most striking example involved the late Ken Tomlinson, who at one
3674point headed both the CPB and BBG.
3675
3676Here is Wikipedia quoting from the New York Times: "…there was an
3677inquiry concerning possible misuse of federal money by Tomlinson.
3678Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said on 15
3679November 2005 “that they had uncovered evidence that its former
3680chairman had repeatedly broken federal law and the organization’s own
3681regulations in a campaign to combat what he saw as liberal bias”.
3682"U.S. State Department investigators determined in 2006 that he had
3683“used his office to run a ‘horse racing operation’,” that he
3684“improperly put a friend on the payroll”, that he “repeatedly used
3685government employees to perform personal errands”, and that he “billed
3686the government for more days of work than the rules permit”.
3687
3688It is interesting to say the least that Lansing, who headed a federal
3689agency that has become more and more enmeshed with U.S. national
3690security policy and strategy, is now being put in charge of NPR. And
3691one also has to note the apparent absence of desire on the part of
3692anyone at NPR to report, in an investigative fashion, on the origins
3693of that decision as well as the string of scandals at USAGM under
3694Lansing’s leadership.
3695
3696Anyone interested in this other side of the story should go to
3697http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/
3698which covered numerous scandals at the agency. dxace1 (Dan Robinson,
3699WORLD OF RADIO 2000, ibid.)
3700
3701tommy_slothrop 1d:
3702
3703You’re wrong – the changes in Smith Mundt did not end a “ban” on
3704government broadcasting to Americans. This is an unfortunate
3705misunderstanding of the changes to the law. Programming produced by
3706USAGM and its numerous media entities, including the so-called
3707“grantee” broadcasters such as RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia, can still
3708not be deliberately produced to target Americans. On the other hand,
3709and this is where things get a bit complicated, changes to the law did
3710loosen restrictions on the extent to which materials could be
3711distributed in the U.S. AND – the management of USAGM, specifically
3712Voice of America, was once promoting the notion that VOA programming
3713could have an impact on reducing the threat of domestic terrorism
3714through distribution in areas where heavy diaspora populations exist
3715(i.e. Michigan, and others). This was a patently dishonest way for the
3716agency to promote itself, and secure ongoing congressional funding,
3717while continuing to maintain that its main purpose was to broadcast to
3718overseas audiences (via DXLD)
3719
3720** U S A. TRUMP'S CHOICE FOR BROADCASTING CHIEF ON SENATE HOT SEAT
3721By Susan Crabtree - RCP Staff September 19, 2019
3722
3723https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/19/trumps_choice_for_broadcasting_chief_on_senate_hot_seat__141294.html
3724
3725Vimeo
3726https://assets.realclear.com/images/48/488919_6_.jpg
3727
3728It’s taken nearly 16 months and two senators’ retirements for
3729documentary filmmaker Michael Pack to hit the hot seat and answer
3730senators’ questions about his plans to lead the nation’s
3731taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation.
3732
3733But the painful waiting in the wings may not stop when Thursday’s
3734hearing is over.
3735
3736Pack could face new confirmation hurdles if Democratic senators and
3737Obama-appointed officials in the organization continue to throw up
3738roadblocks.
3739
3740Early last summer President Trump nominated Pack to head the U.S.
3741Agency for Global Media, the umbrella entity for the federal
3742government’s radio and television service best known for its flagship
3743Voice of America multimedia news shows.
3744
3745Previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors before it was
3746rebranded last year, the USAGM was originally founded to counter
3747propaganda from repressive regimes by providing a more independent,
3748reliable source of news promoting “freedom and democracy” around the
3749world, according to the agency’s website.
3750
3751The first sentence of the VOA charter, which dates to 1948, also
3752unequivocally states that “the long-range interests of the United
3753States are served by communicating directly back with the peoples of
3754the world by radio.”
3755
3756But critics argue that the agency, which has a $680 million annual
3757budget, has lost its mission in a shifting global media and foreign
3758policy environment and is in desperate need of reform after a recent
3759spate of management scandals.
3760
3761Anti-Trump Republicans and Democratic forces on Capitol Hill kept
3762Pack’s nomination on ice for months last year. Now-retired GOP Sens.
3763Bob Corker, who chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeff
3764Flake, who sat on that panel, worked with Sen. Bob Menendez, a New
3765Jersey Democrat, to stymie any progress and prevent Pack’s
3766confirmation.
3767
3768Corker and Menendez, with Flake’s help, also led a failed effort to
3769pass a bill designed to undermine the power of the USAGM post and
3770hamstring Pack’s ability to fire Obama holdovers if and when he takes
3771the helm.
3772
3773The committee now has a more Trump-friendly chairman in Sen. James
3774Risch of Idaho, but other nominees and priorities managed to push
3775Pack’s confirmation hearing into the fall.
3776
3777On Thursday, the former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive
3778who most recently headed the conservative Claremont Institute (and
3779still serves as a senior fellow there) will field long-awaited
3780questions from the Foreign Relations panel.
3781
3782While Pack’s nomination likely will have little trouble passing out of
3783the GOP-controlled committee, Menendez and other Democrats are
3784expected to strenuously oppose Pack during his hearing. They also
3785could prevent the nomination from seeing the light of the day on the
3786Senate floor. Any one senator can place a “hold” on a nomination, a
3787parliamentary move that chamber rules allow to prevent a motion from
3788reaching a floor vote.
3789
3790Menendez’s office did not respond to a Wednesday RealClearPolitics
3791inquiry into whether the senator planned to try to block or further
3792delay Pack’s confirmation.
3793
3794If confirmed, Pack would replace the outgoing CEO, John Lansing, whom
3795Obama appointed to the board in 2015. Early this month National Public
3796Radio announced that Lansing will become its CEO.
3797
3798As soon as Pack’s name started circulating in the press as a possible
3799Trump nominee to head the communications agency, critics on the left
3800started mobilizing against him. Citing his ties to former White House
3801adviser Steve Bannon — the two worked together on two documentaries —
3802the critics openly worried that Pack would turn the Voice of America
3803into a megaphone for the Trump administration.
3804
3805In 2017, Pack wrote an article for the Federalist praising Bannon,
3806arguing that he could help break liberals' “monopoly” on
3807documentaries. He also took a shot at film schools in American
3808universities, describing them as dedicated to liberal “indoctrination
3809and grooming.”
3810
3811“I have some bad news for this documentary establishment,” he wrote,
3812“Trump, with Bannon’s help, campaigned against political correctness
3813and self-dealing elites. And they won.”
3814
3815Supporters now say that Pack wouldn’t be beholden to Bannon in any
3816way, especially considering the latter’s exile from Trump world, a
3817banishment that seems to have stayed largely intact despite some
3818recent kind words from the president about his former close adviser.
3819
3820But those assurances haven’t stopped the stream of negative stories
3821warning that Pack would turn the USAGM and its various media outlets
3822into state-run Trump TV and radio. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow early last
3823year warned that a re-tooled VOA led by a Trump appointee could become
3824a “state-run media operation” devoted to promoting the president’s
3825policies abroad.
3826
3827Conservative critics, including a VOA director during the George W.
3828Bush administration, say the status quo is just as unacceptable.
3829
3830These detractors argue that the USAGM has lost its way, and VOA
3831coverage now reflects the same anti-Trump bias you would find in the
3832New York Times, Washington Post or CNN, only in this case it’s
3833taxpayer-funded and directed at an international audience. Its
3834airwaves are dominated by stories covering liberal priorities such as
3835climate change, LGBT issues and pro-immigrant causes, the critics
3836say.
3837
3838“The Trump agenda keeps getting slammed left and right,” a government
3839official told RealClearPolitics. “Why is the VOA acting like it’s part
3840of the resistance and opposition to Trump? That is not part of the
3841VOA’s charter or mission.”
3842
3843Case in point: The lead story on the VOA’s website Wednesday carried
3844this headline, alongside a photo of seemingly distraught or angry
3845woman in a hijab: “Polarized Politics Deepens Divide Over Who Is a
3846‘Real’ American?”
3847
3848“The promise of the American dream, where all immigrants can
3849assimilate into a diverse cultural melting pot, is complicated by
3850questions of loyalty, legality and racism,” the subhead reads.
3851
3852After Trump’s State of the Union address last year, the VOA’s coverage
3853featured a large photo of a “Dreamer” immigrant with her hand over her
3854mouth, accompanied by the headline: “Trump Promotes Immigration
3855Reforms; Democrats Reject His Policy as ‘Heartless.’”
3856
3857Pack’s more than year-long confirmation delay has partisan tensions
3858within the USAGM boiling over as critics argue that top officials at
3859the agency are hiring or promoting more anti-Trump officials in order
3860to undermine Pack should he become the CEO.
3861
3862“They’re in a hiring rampage of like-minded friends – it’s a frenzy of
3863activity,” one administration source told RCP. “They’re trying to put
3864a straitjacket around Pack so he can’t really make the changes he
3865wants when he gets there.”
3866
3867Pack, through a Claremont Institute spokeswoman, declined to comment
3868“out of respect for the hearing and the confirmation process.”
3869
3870Conservative critics of the VOA’s coverage blame VOA Chairman Amanda
3871Bennett, who they argue has wrongly focused too closely on expanding a
3872domestic U.S. audience despite the agency’s mission to counter
3873propaganda in Russia, China, Iran and other U.S. adversaries.
3874
3875Bennett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Wall Street Journal
3876reporter and former top editor at the Oregonian and columnist at the
3877Washington Post. She is married to Donald Graham, the former owner and
3878publisher of the Post and the son of legendary publisher Kay Graham.
3879She was appointed VOA director by President Obama in April 2016.
3880
3881Last fall, Bennett stoked additional partisan turmoil over the future
3882of the USAGM and VOA by penning an op-ed taking Trump to task for
3883suggesting in a tweet that the United States should create its own
3884"worldwide network to show the World we really are – GREAT!"
3885
3886Bennett placed the op-ed in the Washington Post. In the piece she
3887claimed that the 77-year-old VOA is a powerful force for good in the
3888world because it provides news and coverage of Washington and
3889international events free from any administration's meddling.
3890
3891"We export the First Amendment," she argued.
3892
3893"We cover the toll of the opioid crisis and how people combat it," she
3894wrote. "We show troops massed near the U.S. border and migrants
3895throwing rocks. We interviewed people both shocked and elated by
3896Trump's election. We cover killings by white supremacists and marches
3897by #MeToo protesters."
3898
3899"Our audiences see a country strong enough to criticize itself — a
3900nation struggling openly with its problems," she said.
3901
3902Bennett didn’t touch on a series of recent scandals at the USAGM under
3903her and Lansing’s leadership.
3904
3905Haroon Ullah, the former chief strategy officer for the agency, who
3906worked closely with Lansing, pleaded guilty on June 27 in federal
3907court to stealing nearly $40,000 in government property during his
3908tenure. He faces sentencing Oct. 11.
3909
3910In another recent scandal, Tomas Regalado Jr., a reporter for TV
3911Marti, which broadcasts into Cuba, and a cameraman were recently
3912suspended after being accused of faking a mortar attack on Regalado
3913while broadcasting from Nicaragua last year.
3914
3915Last fall, the VOA fired 15 of its employees in Africa after
3916discovering that they were accepting bribes passed to them by a
3917Nigerian official.
3918
3919Also last year, three VOA employees were suspended and threatened with
3920firing for conducting an interview with a controversial Chinese
3921dissident. The chief of VOA's China division, one of those suspended,
3922said VOA leadership in Washington was caving to pressure from the
3923Chinese government.
3924
3925A three-month House Foreign Affairs Committee investigation, released
3926late last year, uncovered new evidence of a series of USAGM management
3927failures.
3928
3929The report cited “insufficient management” for the allowing the VOA
3930and Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty (RFE/RL) to run Facebook ads
3931that illegally targeted audiences in the United States.
3932
3933A late-November report by Stanford University's Hoover Institution
3934cited concerns about Chinese officials' influence on American
3935institutions, including specific details about its "charm offensive
3936and tougher tactics" on VOA and Radio Free Asia employees working in
3937China, including details about the Chinese officials meeting annually
3938with leaders of VOA’s Mandarin service to express their opinions about
3939the content disseminated by the outlet.
3940
3941The report cited what it called a "pattern" by the VOA Mandarin
3942Service of avoiding stories that could be perceived to be too tough on
3943China and detailed activities by Chinese security officials it said
3944amount to "a campaign of intimidation against some VOA and RFA
3945staffers and their family members."
3946
3947Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics' White House/national political
3948correspondent (via David Cole, LA, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
3949
3950** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1999 monitoring: confirmed first
3951SWBC, Friday Sept 13 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9-S6 vs Cuban pulse
3952jamming already; but no upcut.
3953
3954Confirmed at new time and frequencies, UT Saturday Sept 14 at 0130 on
3955WRMI 5850 to the NW, S9+20/30 interrupting Bible quotation, ex-24
3956hours later; and also now on // 5010 to south, and still on 7780 to
3957NE, both JBA here in HNL. At 0159 on 5850, my last few words
3958overridden by music fill overlap!
3959
3960GERMANY, 6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goheren, *0600-0700, 14-09,
3961English, program “Media Network Plus” and at 0630 Glenn Hauser’s
3962“World of Radio”. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol,
3963Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
3964
3965Confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria:
3966``GERMANY World of Radio#1999 via Hamburger Lokalradio, September 14
3967https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1999-via-hamburger.html
3968https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzK6WF0H6Xg&feature=youtu.be
3969https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi4NKTVFcTo&feature=youtu.be
39700630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, weak to fair``
3971
3972Alan Gale, England reports: ``Hi Glenn, Nothing at all heard here on
39739485 today. The Romanian station was spanning the full 10 kHz from
39749485 to 9495, but I could just about see a carrier on 9485. A search
3975of the usual webSDRs showed nothing but splatter, but this one in
3976Mala, Sweden did reveal you briefly at around 1455 UT, so at least I
3977can confirm that the broadcast was actually on there today:
3978http://aspliden.mooo.com:8073/
3979Alan``
3980
3981Confirmed via http://oh5ae.dyndns.org:8073/ SDR in Finland, not at
39821445, but audible by 1452 Sat Sept 14 with huge splash from 9490
3983Romania. Not heard on UTwente SDR.
3984
3985Via OH5 I also check 7265 and 6190 in case HLR jumbled frequencies as
3986Ivo suggested. At 1450, 7265 has something with music; 6190 Chinese,
3987et al.? So neither of those would really be better for us at 1430.
3988Next:
3989
39902100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE
39910300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND
39921030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
39932130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
39940130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
39950230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
39960300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
39970330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
39980930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW ND
39991130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
40001816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND
40010100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
40020800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
40032100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [canceled?]
40042100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
40050100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
4006
4007WORLD OF RADIO 1999 monitoring: confirmed Sat Sept
400814 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, S8-S9 after 2059 IS/ID loop, upcut joining
4009WOR missing my first eight words, at ``1999---``.
4010
4011Confirmed UT Sunday Sept 15 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 15
4012minutes into so started circa 0313; VG S9+10 with some storm crashes
4013from Iowa.
4014
4015Also confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``GERMANY, World of Radio
4016#1999 via Hamburger Lokalradio on Sept.15
4017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56ZWQLFmCE&feature=youtu.be
4018https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1999-via-hamburger_15.html
40191031-1100 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, very weak``
4020
4021Next:
40222130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
40230130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
40240230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
40250300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
40260330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
40270930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW ND
40281130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
40291816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND
40300100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
40310800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
40322100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [canceled?]
40332100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
40340100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
4035(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4036
4037GERMANY, World of Radio#1998 via Hamburger Lokalradio, September 8
40381031-1100 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal
4039Very low frequency for this slot 09-12 UT, probably is needed change
4040
40410600-0900 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190
40420900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190
40431200-1500 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 9485
40440900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sun, ex now 7265
4045
4046That way there will be no QRM from Radio Romania Int 1200-1500UT 9490
40471200-1300 9490 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter
40481300-1500 9490 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter
4049https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1998-via-hamburger_8.html
4050(Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WOR iog via DXLD)
4051
4052WORLD OF RADIO 1999 monitoring: confirmed Sunday September 15 at 2130
4053on WRMI 7780, JBA vs HNL.
4054
4055Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 16 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, poor, // much
4056better S9+10 on 9395.
4057
4058Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 16 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, poor after
4059`Everglades` ID.
4060
4061Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 16 from 0303.6 on Area 51 webcast; JBA
4062in HNL at 0326 check on WBCQ 5130.37v.
4063
4064Also confirmed UT Monday Sept 16 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, but 9955 is
4065JBA carrier vs Cuban pulse jamming at 0327. Next:
4066
40671816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
40680100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
40690800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
40702100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [canceled?]
40712100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
40720100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
4073
4074WORLD OF RADIO 1999 monitoring: I missed it, but confirmed by Mark
4075Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, ODXA: ``7780, USA, WRMI at 0102 with Glenn
4076Hauser's “World of Radio” - Fair to Good at first but largely lost to
4077deep fading by 0111 Sept 17 – The bands pretty well died off at this
4078time with absolutely nothing from WRMI or any of the other North
4079American broadcasters and there were only a few weak transmissions on
4080the 80 meter ham band around 3755``.
4081
4082Next we shall hear if WOR has really been canceled Wed at 2100 on WRMI
40839955; last week it was replaced by `RFPI` in French, but the websked
4084still shows WOR. Also:
4085
40862100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
40870100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
4088
4089WORLD OF RADIO 1999 monitoring: NOT confirmed, Wed Sept 18 at 2100 on
4090WRMI 9955; for the second week in a row, RFPI in French instead, alto
4091websked still shows WOR as of Sept 20.
4092
4093Confirmed Wed Sept 18 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, so also on JBA carrier
40947490+v.
4095
4096Also confirmed UT Thu Sept 19 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9+10 including
4097high local line noise level.
4098
4099WORLD OF RADIO 2000 contents: Antarctica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba,
4100Denmark, France, Isle of Man and non, Myanmar, Norway, USA, Vietnam;
4101an interview with me by Charles VanSant, WRRS Cincinnati; and the
4102propagation outlook
4103
4104SW airings start Friday Sept 20:
4105
41062200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE
41070130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, NEW 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
41080629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
41091000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [alt weeks, Sept 28] ND
41101430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
41111930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
41122100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE
41130300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND
41141030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
41152130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
41160130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE
41170230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
41180300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
41190330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
41200930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
41211130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND
41221816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW
41230100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
41240800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND
41252100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
41260100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
4127
4128WOR 2000 is available online as of 0020 UT Friday September 20
4129(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2000.m3u
4130(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2000.mp3
4131
4132Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
4133Also linx to podcast services.
4134
4135Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
4136http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
4137(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4138
4139Updated summer A19 shortwave schedule of Glenn Hauser World of Radio.
4140On Fri Sept.20 will be aired Edition #2000
4141
4142https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/updated-summer-a19-shortwave-schedule.html
4143(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4144
4145WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI:
4146
4147** U S A. 5800.009 kHz WRMI special reserve unit parked here, #14 or
4148even #15 at WRMI Florida broadcast center. S=8-9 carrier and some weak
4149WRMI intermodulation underneath at 0722 UT in NJ-US state (Wolfgang
4150Bueschel, Sept 15, WOR iog via DXLD)
4151
41529455, Tue Sept 17 at 2125, S9/+10 of dead air, WRMI-8 must not have
4153turned off after scheduled APS Radio music at 1900-2100 M-F. 9395 &
41549955 are modulating OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4155
4156WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ:
4157
4158Your link for the WBCQ Super Station program you put in doesn't give
4159me much encouragement for the station (Mark Taylor, DX LISTENING
4160DIGEST) The WLC audio-video
4161
4162** U S A. 7490.2, WBCQ, ME, Monticello with 'Allan and Angela
4163Worldwide' with the two of them talking about death and preserving the
4164head, a la "Futurama", etc. The usual strange 'stream of consciousness
4165stuff! Also huxtering for someone to buy air time on 6160 for
4166$35/hour. MARE needs to produce a half hour programme methinks! Also
4167much discussion of tuning up the new Ampigon transmitter [sic], etc.
4168They were being fascinatingly weird! 4+4544 at the start, but
4169weakening by tune out. 0000-0030 7/Sep SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4
4170+randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston, MI, MARE Tipsheet Sept
417113 via DXLD)
4172
4173(7490v), UT Sat Sept 14 from 0000, WBCQ webcast with WTO opening of
4174AAAWWW, but turns out to be TimTron subhosting, apparently on short
4175notice as AW & AW are away at her family`s gathering in Ass-Houlton.
4176Messes with cart machine trying to get it to eject or insert. He thinx
4177they are ``quadricasting`` on 5 frequencies, but checking 6160v, finds
4178it off the air; plays a tune while he goes out to try to fix it. Later
4179says it may need a new driver tube. Also says 9330 is on but
4180``piss-weak``. Punxuated by belches here and there.
4181
4182By now some guy named Jason has joined him to co-host. Who`s he? Never
4183heard his last name. He is also live-streaming video of this via his
4184phone on FB, but never says where to find it! Tim wants to take phone
4185calls to the usual 207-538-9180, but finds out it won`t work since
4186that number is still set to forward to AW`s cellphone, and he doesn`t
4187know how to change that. So Jason prompts TT to recall his adventures
4188in radio in Maine, having known him for almost 20 years. Rest of show
4189is about the various stations Tim has built and/or worked for until
4190losing jobs. Jason sounds like a DJ, and they do talk about the
4191domestic side of WBCQ, WXME, ``all-rock, AOR``, so maybe he works at
4192that station.
4193
4194Meanwhile by 0015 I have checked for the SW frequencies vs my hi local
4195line noise level: 9330v JBA carrier, 7490.2v best; 6160v JBA carrier;
41965130.3v second best; and 3265- as usual inaudible.
4197
4198Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Show starts on time this evening but
4199with TimTron as host. Says he was up there because of some problems
4200with the superstation but never gives any details. He also stated that
42016160 was down till he had a chance to fix it. He moved off mic and
4202worked on a cart machine for a few minutes and then played some
4203music.
4204
4205While the music was playing he ran out and restarted 6160. After the
4206music finished Jason wandered into the studio and was co-host to Tim.
4207Allan and Angela are off visiting with Angela's parents. No phone
4208calls this evening as Tim can't remember the control codes to stop the
4209phone from forwarding all calls to Allan's phone. Long talk between
4210the two of them about how Tim got started working for radio stations
4211in Maine before WBCQ existed. 6160 did not make it through the hour
4212and was down again. Program was off the air at 0102. John, Mid-North
4213Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4214
4215Re our AAAWWW reports for Sept 14, John Carver explains: ``Glenn.
4216Jason works for WBCQ. At present time he's working with the FM
4217station, I believe. He's been associated with the station for years
4218and pops up now and then on the SW. Tim usually refers to him as Jay
4219of Son. I have no idea what his last name is.`` And at 2306 UT Sat
4220Sept 14, John says ``TimTron is doing his Area 51 show live from the
4221station tonight and Jason is sitting in with him again. John`` (Glenn
4222Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4223
4224Larry Will explains further on the WOR iogroup Sept 16 about the Jason
4225we heard on WBCQ:
4226
4227``Jason Hill runs WBCQ 94.7 "KIXX-FM" (country format) and WXME 780 //
4228W252DW 98.3. WXME has a talk format in the daytime and runs an album
4229rock format at night. Jason's been working with WBCQ for over 20
4230years. At one point he was a board operator and did a show called
4231"Squad 51" on WBCQ shortwave c. 2004 in the early days of the
42325100/5105/5110/5130 service.
4233
4234The Timtron show we ran on Saturday at 2300 on Area 51 was actually a
4235rebroadcast from 26 January 2013 which, non-coincidentally, was
4236Timtron at Monticello with Jason as a guest. Lw`` (Glenn Hauser, DX
4237LISTENING DIGEST)
4238
4239Glenn, WBCQ UPDATE --- Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ:
4240We are a working on the Superstation. Tuning. Fixing. Burning up those
4241kilowatts. Tom, Timtron, Jason, John, Robert, Jeff, Rich, Terrie,
4242Angela and me. All doing our best to make it all happen. Tune in
4243tonight-5130/7490khz. Best in shortwave radio. Dad and Angela. The
4244best (Twit, Sept 14 via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
4245
4246Propagation must be pretty decent tonight, as WBCQ on 7490.188 is
4247coming in quite well tonight with a strange live religious service,
4248with lots of hooting and hollering. Is that Brother Scare that I hear?
4249All this at 0238 UT. Normally only at threshold here with the old
4250transmitter/antenna system (Walt in Victoria, BC, Salmaniw, Sept 16,
4251WOR iog via DXLD) Probably, 01-03 UT Monday and other nights when
4252nothing else is scheduled, but still not shown on websked (gh, DXLD)
4253
4254Glenn, WBCQ Superstation: Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ 9h9 hours ago:
4255Superstation work continues on the transmitter. Driver issues holding
4256us up. Pray these demons begone. Very disappointed. Our crew doing its
4257best. Your prayers are requested so free speech radio WBCQ will
4258prevail. It’s all with you beloved listeners and supporters. All need
4259heroes (twit via Artie Bigley, 2056 UT Sept 16, DXLD)
4260
4261WBCQ UPDATE -- Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ 1h1 hour ago:
4262Voice Of The Report Of The Week on tonight at 8pm on 7490khz. Worth a
4263listen to stay informed. Shortwave-the last alternative radio on the
4264planet. Support us. http://wbcq.com for more info. All working on the
4265Superstation. Driver design issues. On air soon. Everywhere.
4266(Twit Sept 19 via Artie Bigley, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
4267
4268OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW:
4269
4270** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Sept 15 at 0100, WTWW-2 with rock music, not
4271`Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` as claimed on far-outdated website; not
4272checked this week whether at 2330 Sat when it has also been missing
4273(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4274
4275** U S A. According to a programme schedule of 1 September 2019, KVOH
4276(17775 kHz) now has the following schedule:
42771400-1905 Monday
42781400-2100 Tuesday
42791400-1900 Wednesday
42801400-2100 Thursday
42811400-1900 Friday
42821500-2000 Saturday
4283The Saturday programmes are in English, all other programmes are in
4284Spanish.
4285http://www.voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf
4286(via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 12 September 2019, DXLD)
4287
4288Really, the s/on/off times vary (gh):
4289
429017775, Sept 17 at 2121, praise music in Spanish at S9/+10, so KVOH is
4291running overtime, supposed to close SW at 2100 Tue & Thu per own sked
4292revised Sept. 1;
4293http://voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf
4294It`s the OSOB & SSOB, not even Kuwait on 17550, unless that`t the JBA
4295carrier circa 17550.6 rather than something local (Glenn Hauser, OK,
4296DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4297
4298KVOH: 17774.993 kHz scheduled 14-19 UT Mon-Fri in Spanish, traced as
4299follows:
4300S=8 in NJ-US east coast SDR at 1407 UT,
4301S=8 in Detroit MI state SDR at 1409 UT,
4302S=4 or -105dBm weak on short distance at Edmonton-Alb-CAN at 1410.
4303(Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 17, BC-DX 18 Sept
4304via DXLD)
4305
4306** U S A. 550 kHz observations mid-day between KAFY Bakersfield, CA
4307and KFYI Phoenix, AZ --- I have a restored Sierra Electric selective
4308volt-meter obtained in 2015 from EPD Labs in Tonopah, NV, and restored
4309with new tubes and a cleaning of switches and pots.
4310
4311Right now at 1440 PDT/2144z (12 Sept. 2019), KAFY Bakersfield and KFYI
4312Phoenix exhibit about a 0.2 Hz beat (i.e. every 5 seconds or so) +/- 2
4313dB SAH between a moderately-strong KAFY Bakersfield and a far-weaker
4314KFYI Phoenix, AZ.
4315
4316This reception is obtained by using my 5m tall pipe-vertical with a
4317cap. umbrella and decent earthing system of 4 ground-rods into moist
4318alkaline soil here in Keeler, CA (originally built for 160m
4319operations). To be sure, the ground-conductivity of my location here
4320is quite good. As evening approaches and the D-layer absorption
4321lessens, I see ever-greater amounts of this SAH, and by night it is
4322very deep and overlaid by DX from other signals when the attenuator is
4323increased by 10 or 20 dB. This makes a good indicator of D-layer
4324absorption at any time by day here.
4325
4326Correction - I meant "KUZZ" for the Bakersfield station calls (not
4327KAFY) - once they WERE KAFY in the 70s, and I was astounded as a kid
4328when I could hear them fine on my sister's car radio in Vacaville, CA
4329and even more northward thanks to the flat-land (good) ground-wave
4330signal coverage up into the Sacramento Valley, in 1979. 73 - (Steve
4331McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD)
4332
4333** U S A. 660, KTNN, Window Rock AZ; 9:43 AM...3:18 PM MDT [1543-2118
4334UT], 9/10; "6-60 AM & 101.5 FM, KTNN Window Rock-Tohatchi, the Voice
4335of the Navajo Nation"; Lotsa C&W including one in Dine'; ads/PSAs in
4336English & Dine'; "Rodeo News" in Dine' with EE intro & outro; 2-4
4337Dine' chants every hour including one almost every hour right after
4338ToH news -- heard one including lyrics to I've Been Everywhere;
4339frequent IDs. Logged twice in MI (Harold Frodge, visiting UT/AZ, DX
4340LISTENING DIGEST)
4341
4342** U S A. 840, Sept 13 at 1204 UT, Spanish from N/S, ID in passing as
4343``Radio Aleluia``, fade by 1206. That`s KVJY Pharr TX in the RGV as
4344now listed in the NRC AM Log, religious format. --- I thought this was
4345the unlikely station being relayed by XEPRS 1090 BCN, but it wasn`t
4346religious. What is the status of that deal?
4347
4348IRCA Mexican Log as of Sept 1 explains under 1090 XEPRS: ``// KPAV
4349[sic, typo?] 104.9 FM Alamo TX. No longer // XEPE 1700 AM. Ads and
4350announcers in English and Spanish. With no lessee, owner is relaying a
4351relative`s FM station. Mentions 840 AM on air (and on `About` page of
4352FB), but KJAV-FM is reportedly no longer // KVJY 840 AM`` (Glenn
4353Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4354
4355** U S A [and non]. 870, Sept 13 at 1155 UT, screaming gospel huxter,
4356a mental case, in Spanish, --- ``¡¡¡Cristo viene!!!`` from N/S,
4357presumed KFJZ Fort Worth TX, but I would like to get an ID. Last time
4358he finished before 1200 but there was no legal ID before going right
4359into next infomercial. Today I clench my teeth (and eardrums?), and
4360keep listening. Keeps on right across ToH; at 1203 says he`s going to
4361terminate in 5 minutes --- but still going at 1208 when XETAR finally
4362gets started with XE NA from Chihuahua, barely audible from SW. And
4363*still* predicating by fade-out 1215, never hearing any local
4364references or contact info, but it was a sermon recorded in a
4365``noche``. All along there has been a medium SAH with WWL, which
4366despite easterliness, outlasts KFJZ. Could someone in The Metroplex
4367confirm whether KFJZ now be 100% Spanish, brokered miscellany? And
4368what slogan do they ever ID?
4369
4370870, Sept 14 at 1158 UT, must be KFJZ Fort Worth again, gospel huxter
4371in Spanish from the south giving phone 214-723-4520, i.e. Dallas area
4372code. Then a song/hymn with a tropical beat frequently reüttering
4373``victoria`` and ``gloria``. By 1208, XETAR is on and in again from
4374the SW, separable as KFJZ is fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
4375DIGEST)
4376
4377** U S A. 880, Sept 14 at 1203 UT, strong music east/west vs ~6 Hz SAH
4378with KRVN from the north, not Arkansas, but soon ID in English as
4379``KHAC Tse Bonito``, and KWIM, and KTBA, ``exalting the name of Jesus
4380across the nations``, i.e. AZ/NM reses. KHAC had been notable for
4381suppressed LSB, carrier plus USB only, so I recheck it both on the
4382DX-398 and R-75, finding that now it is DSB like almost all other
4383``AM`` stations, equally modulating on both sidebands!
4384
4385Now I am wondering why I am not simulhearing as good or better signal
4386from 50/50 kW neighbor 660 KTNN? Because KHAC is obviously on 10 kW ND
4387day power instead of 430 watts night, both non-direxional; despite
4388official FCC Sept sunrise not until 1300 UT! (Oct: 1315 UT); while
4389KTNN would still be direxional away from us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
4390LISTENING DIGEST)
4391
4392** U S A. 1030 kHz, KCTA Corpus Christi, TX. Sept/17/19, 0658
4393EDT, GOOD, EE. WBZ appeared off air?? Spot for Business with 361
4394Area Code. Female with ID as “Stay connected with KCTA by watching us
4395on facebook @ KCTA Radio and following us on Twitter. - you’re
4396listening to KCTA Corpus Christi - Know Christ The Answer”. Into USA
4397Radio News. RELOG 50 kW Days. RECEIVER is ELAD FDM-S2 SDR. ANTENNA is
4398WELLBROOK ALA-1530 LNP Imperium Loop. 73 (ROB VA3SW Robert Ross,
4399London, Ontario CANADA, odxa iog via DXLD)
4400
4401I don`t recall that slogan before; a back-formation? (gh, DXLD)
4402
4403** U S A. 1280, Sept 15 at 1317 UT, my semi-local KSOK Arkansas City
4404KS seems to be off; instead two weak signals: one from NE/SW with
4405gospel huxter, not its musical format; 1319 another fades up from
4406NW/SE with income-tax ad. 1329 first one into Lord`s Prayer and
4407benedixion, outro as a Lutheran program, 1330 KSOK ID! and into music.
4408So KSOK must be on power greatly reduced from 1 kW ND; axually I had
4409already noticed it weak yesterday.
4410
4411As for the perpendicular signal, could be much-wanted KPRV Poteau OK,
4412or maybe WODT New Orleans, or KWHI Brenham TX. KBNO Denver might be
4413more likely except it`s listed Spanish.
4414
44151280 also has hiss from adjacent IBOC: I suspect de 1270, KRXO
4416Claremore OK, but NRC AM Log unshows it as I, rather KFLC 50 kW
4417Benbrook (Metroplex) TX, which is still in Spanish but can`t be from
4418defunct ESPN-D.
4419
44201280, Sept 16 at 1645 UT, KSOK Arkansas City KS is still weak, QRP
4421with music; nearing midday, only one GW signal from its direxion.
4422Could be on night power of 100 watts, instead of 1000 day, 500 watts
4423PSRA. It`s only 106 km = 66 statute miles city-to-city (Glenn Hauser,
4424Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later: KSOK goes silent: next DXLD]
4425
4426** U S A. 1590, Sept 17 at 0632 UT I find a strong dominant signal
4427with promo for Dave Ramsey on ``Smart Talk 1590, WCGO and 95-9 FM``,
44280634 UT back to C2CAM. WCGO CoL is Evanston but tries to attach itself
4429to Chicago as the name implies. It`s U2 10/2.5 kW, with night pattern
4430aimed only NE! So for it to inboom here to the SW, it`s got to be on
4431day pattern ND and maybe day power too. Recheck next night, Sept 18 at
44320350 UT, plug a website with chicago in it, but not as dominant,
4433losing to some Spanish from the south, see UNID.
4434
4435NRC AM Log gives WCGO slogan ``The Talker`` instead and no FM. Per
4436WTFDA FMDB, 95.9 is, you guessed it, a mere 250-watt translator,
4437W240EH in Evanston, ``Chicago`s Smart Talk``. At least 1590 still gets
4438top billing as heard. And would you believe there is *another* 95.9
4439translator licensed to Evanston, W240DE relaying WKTA-1330. It is
4440however, only 80 watts, located 7 minutes, 1 second further north; 10
4441minutes, 29 seconds further west (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
44422000, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4443
4444** U S A. 1590, Sept 19 at 0549 UT, Spanish music looping SSE, 0551
4445hymn ``El Señor es mi Pastor``. 0558 station address of ``15-90 AM``
4446in Pasadena, phone 713-586-13##, and tent. Radio Aleluya name, the
4447details correlating with KMIC, 5/5 kW U4. Supposedly beams into the
4448Gulf at night, but here we are oppositeward; swiveling the DX-398 on
4449my wrist-mount at 0559 also catch an ad from WCGO Evanston/Chicago,
4450which at night supposedly beams only to its northeast.
4451
4452Why isn`t KMIC flooded? AM transmitter sites like swamps. Let`s see,
4453is the KMIC call a legacy of Radio Disney? Can we come up with a good
4454gospel slogan? Something better than ``Manantial Iesus Cristus``. This
4455DF is close but not the same as the due-south Spanish I previously had
4456from suspected KDAE Sinton/Corpus Christi. And certainly not KDAV
4457Lubbock to the SW, which Tim Hall thinx has also flipped to Spanish
4458based on an 806-AC phone number recorded by Paul Walker, WY (Glenn
4459Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4460
4461** U S A. I have 3 short recordings of my mystery 1590, 2 are better
4462then the others and all have station liners/slogans in them. All were
4463made Sunday night local time at my Laramie, WY QTH. This doesn’t match
4464WNTS, doesn’t appear to match the KVTR stream listed on
4465radio-locator.com and the Chihuahua AM 1590 is gone. This also isn’t
4466KELP as they are English religious. Any idea who? Audio clip #1:
4467https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0snm-xpngE1RjRCZHNXYk1EZF9XdG92cW1TRzhYWnFHRThZ/view?usp=drivesdk
4468(Paul Walker, WY, Sept 16, nrc-am gg via DXLD)
4469
4470Thanks to Tim Hall, we think this is a format change for KDAV Lubbock,
4471TX. He heard a partial phone number and if you fill it out, it comes
4472back to Lubbock TX (Walker, ibid.)
4473
4474806-823?-5807. 806 is the AC for Lubbock area, and the full number if
4475correct is in Silverton TX, NE of Lubbock about same distance from
4476Amarillo. Spanish from KDAV would not fit my unID Spanish which was
4477due south from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4478
4479** U S A. 1690, Sept 18 at 0553, ``KDMT, Denver`s Money Talk, 16-90
4480AM``. I was thinking one of these Denver x-banders, or 1650? was
4481changing ownership and format, but can`t find it now (Glenn Hauser,
4482OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sale still not finished (Walker)
4483
4484** U S A. 87.9, Radio Free Provo [sic], Provo UT; 8:02 PM, 9/11 &
448511:36 AM-12:20 PM 9/12 MDT [UT -6]; Noon ID as "You're listening to
4486Free Radio Provo" [sic]; totally weird assortment of tunes including;
4487punk rock with the words "butter" & "Parkay" overdubbed; 2 folksy
4488tunes which may have been titled, The Take It Easy Trailer Park &
4489Andrew is Dead; an SS rap with a "revolucionario" intro; chant over an
4490instrumental hum; another punk rock with a Cockney intro, etc. (Harold
4491Frodge, visiting Provo/Orem UT, WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DX LISTENING
4492DIGEST)
4493
4494** U S A. 88.1, Sept 13 at 1342 UT, KWOU Woodward is inbooming for
4495StarDate, so tropo is up; after breakfast to DTV bandscan; some Bad
4496signals on the few open UHF channels, but I always check down to VHF
44976, knowing that 5-4-3-2 would be pointless for DTV tropo around
4498here.
4499
4500And indeed at 1440 UT I *do* finally have a Bad signal on 6! This has
4501to be KBSD Ensign KS = Dodge City, which managed to keep its old NTSC
4502channel -- and there are *no* other RF6 stations in Kansas, Oklahoma,
4503Missouri or Arkansas (but 17 across TX, LD or LP including
4504Franken-FMs, no full powers).
4505
4506Bill Hepburn`s tropo map predicted for 15 UT shows Level 5 Good
4507enhancement from Woodward thru here up into central Missouri, but
4508Dodge City is outside any of that.
4509
4510RF 13, KETA OKC is also Bad, not decoding, blocked by some other DX,
4511despite antennas aimed toward it. That could also be caused by Garden
4512City, KUPK, but there are other 13 full-powers in Pittsburg & Topeka
4513KS. A glimpse of the CCI shows a Home Depot ad circa 1438 (Glenn
4514Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4515
4516{KUPK, BTW is one of the cutest callsigns, probably with slide visuals
4517as it`s a satellite of KAKE Wichita, thus a Kup-Kake -- gh}
4518
4519** U S A. [WOR] Country Music, radio on PBS --- There is a
4520considerable radio element to Ken Burns` new multi-part documentary on
4521country music now airing on PBS; not just WSM. I see in OK, there will
4522be a marathon replay of episodes Sunday morning/afternoon/evening on
4523OETA. Check local listings.
4524
4525Great archive of B&W still photos; also many multichrome interviews
4526with close-ups of talking heads --- and *everyone* has blue-gray
4527iriseyes!!! Incredible. Did the the colorist get carried away; or
4528something about the lighting for the studio interviews? (Glenn Hauser,
4529Sept 17, WOR iog via DXLD)
4530
4531Re: [WOR] Country Music radio on PBS --- Wow. I have been watching, on
4532our local PBS station WQED in Pittsburgh, that Ken Burns special on
4533"Country Music" all week. To me, it is incredible.
4534
4535Many of the sounds and comments bring back memories. I have not been a
4536fan of Country Music over the years, mostly because when the recording
4537executives started getting into it in a big way to make it sound more
4538modern. That to me is when the record producers, wanting to keep up
4539with Rock n Roll because it was killing country record sales, decided
4540that country music needed a fuller sound. Aggh. I did not like that.
4541
4542Today I don't particularly care for modern country music. So I don't
4543listen to it. Or would spend anything to go see a live show. Oh well,
4544that`s just me. I am thoroughly enjoying the Ken Burns film on Country
4545Music. To me, it is better than anything that he has done (Chuck
4546Gessner, PA, Sept 19, WOR iog via DXLD)
4547
4548Not a big CM fan ever, but a great series I must hearsee. Credit roll
4549at end of each two hour ep is long, must be 5 minutes, with
4550uninterrupted tunes --- except, like commercial nets, PBS insists on
4551overriding both video and audio for promos! Horrible! BTW, about the
4552blue-gray eyes of all the talking heads --- well, all except Charley
4553Pride (gh, DXLD)
4554
4555** U S A. DTV RF 45, Sept 19 at 1445 UT, morning tropo check finds a
4556Bad signal still way upband, and Hepburn map forecast a level-2
4557connexion between Wichita and here, not from Tulsa whence KOTV had
4558seemed to be repacked; but KSNW Wichita ``3`` apparently has not gone
4559to 15 yet where it will collide with KTBO OKC. Few other Bad DX
4560signals but one on RF 31 which also implies Wichita, KDCU Univisión.
4561FCC TV Query now shows KSNW a CP for 15, still LIC for 45. How much
4562longer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4563
4564** U S A. Sutro Tower antenna information page and website
4565
4566I used to live in Marin County until 1996, and when I worked in SF's
4567Financial District in 1995 and 1996 doing IT before I bailed outta
4568there for the desert, I always looked at Sutro Tower from where I
4569worked and wondered what was actually on that big massive and (I
4570think) ugly tower atop Twin Peaks...
4571
4572When I was constructing early ELF-VLF radio receivers in 1990-1991
4573(predecessors to my WR-3), I would bicycle and hike to ridges in Marin
4574County that had direct views of Sutro Tower, and my units -- often in
4575plastic enclosures -- received bad "QRM" from strong NTSC
4576video-carriers on VHF and UHF via Sutro Tower back in the analogue TV
4577days. If I put my body or a bit of terrain (or a even an Oak tree)
4578between myself and Sutro Tower (and the various FM/TV transmitters
4579atop San Bruno Mountain to the south), the noise and hash/buzz would
4580be rid of in my early unshielded test/prototype units!
4581
4582I recently found this site:
4583https://sutrotower.com/about-the-tower/
4584
4585That particular link goes to the page of a diagram of the Tower
4586showing where the various TV and FM antennas are located (including
4587back-up antennas (aux. antennas) - assumably as of 2019. This might be
4588of interest to FM/TV DXers here in WOR/DXLD. 73 - (Steve McGreevy
4589N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD)
4590
4591Thanks, Steve. I'm not an FM/TV DXer, but this is certainly of
4592interest to me. This morning (Sept 12), after listening to NBC
4593Bougainville, I drove from Monterey/Asilomar State Beach, to my condo
4594here in San Francisco (two hour drive). Just this afternoon I did in
4595fact see the Sutro Tower, as my place here in the city is about three
4596miles away. It really is a very distinctive landmark! Thanks again for
4597posting (Ron Howard, ibid.)
4598
4599** VIETNAM. 8812-USB, Ho Chi Minh Radio, 1337-1358*, Sept 17. Am
4600familiar with the coastal station here that very briefly gives marine
4601coastal conditions, but today heard a program with a completely
4602different format; on the air for a much longer period of time (over 20
4603minutes) and even played some nice Vietnamese songs. My audio (one
4604minute of music, five of talk in Vietnamese) at
4605http://bit.ly/2mmiLTf
4606(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
4607wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD)
4608
4609[The media magazine you monitor with your mind, WORLD OF RADIO 2000]
4610{unusually, second half of 2000 is first part of Charlie VanSant`s
4611interview with me for his Monitor show on WRRS, Cincinnati}
4612
4613** VIETNAM. 12020.0, Sept 14 at 1235, carrier here, not 12019 --- can
4614VOV finally have fixed this long-standing off-frequency? EiBi still
4615shows 12019 including English at 1230, but no trace of a signal there,
4616nor is anything else scheduled on 12019 or 12020. Aoki/NDXC already
4617shows 12020, but has never been attentive to variants: almost
4618everylisting ends in -0 or -5 whether true or not, except V of Tibet`s
4619constantly changing 1-kHz steps around via Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser,
4620OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4621
462212018.722 kHz, odd frequency on Sept 17 at 1335 UT VoV Son Tay in
4623English, noted in remote SDR in Akitakata Hiroshima Japan unit, S=9
4624strong at 57degr azimuth northeastwards to China, Koreas, Japan, FE
4625Russia, and Alaska-USA / Western Canada.
4626
462712018.722 at 1425 UT S=8-9 in Japanese at Japanese SDR unit. [selected
4628SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx,
4629wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 17, BC-DX 18 Sept via DXLD)
4630
4631** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Sept 15 at 0117, VOV via WHRI in Vietnamese,
4632not English as had been, while Viet was registered at 0130 when
4633English has been running. Seems you can never depend on WHRI to play
4634which language in which segment of the bihour relay (Glenn Hauser, OK,
4635DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4636
4637** YEMEN [and non]. Re: [WOR] Radio becomes new battlefield in Yemen:
4638Jerusalem Post
4639
4640"There is Hayat FM on 104.7 MHz in Amman [JORDAN]. Is this a mixup?"
4641
4642We shall be careful with these types of comparisons on the basis of
4643the name - especially on FM. My best example is the Kiss FM or Love
4644FM. These exist in the UK, Turkey and Nairobi too. While the genre of
4645the stations are obvious but the entity owning the station or the
4646brand can be different. Maybe this is the same with this Hayat FM in
4647Amman, I suspect Mauno is talking about the Jordanian capital's
4648station (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 13, WOR iog via DXLD)
4649
4650Hi Tibor, I know that, but also on the same frequency in Jordan and
4651Yemen? That would be quite a coincidence! (Mauno Ritola, ibid.)
4652
4653Hi Mauno, This is a good point. The article titled "Stations attacked
4654and threatened by Houthi rebels in attempt to influence largely
4655illiterate listenership" says about Hayat the following:
4656
4657``As a result, most radio stations in Yemen have gone off air. Those
4658that stayed in business began taking orders from Houthi strongmen.
4659
4660This was the case, for example, with Hayat FM, one of Yemen's most
4661prominent radio stations, which aired on 104.7 FM. Last month, in a
4662sudden turn of events, the station was renamed "Voice of the People"
4663and began airing on 107.0 FM. The change took place after Houthis
4664stormed the station's headquarters and took its workers hostage. No
4665one was allowed to enter or leave the building for over a week,
4666according to several sources on the ground.
4667...
4668Indeed, most stations seeking to continue broadcasting independent
4669content have been forced to relocate to areas outside of Houthi
4670control, including to other Arab capitals such as Riyadh, Cairo, and
4671Abu Dhabi.``
4672
4673Source:
4674Stations attacked and threatened by Houthi rebels in attempt to
4675influence largely illiterate listenership
4676Joshua Holmes 08/25/2019 (25 August 2019)
4677
4678https://themedialine.org/by-region/radio-becomes-new-battlefield-in-yemen-war/
4679
4680It is possible that the former Yemeni Hayat FM's staff moved to Amman
4681and remade the station. But I have doubts if they could retain the
4682same frequency in Amman as the Yemeni was, frequency portability does
4683not exist in the world like phone number portability exists within a
4684country and not worldwide.
4685
4686I confess I don't know the meaning of Hayat FM, and the above quoted
4687article's error is also that they mention Hayat FM, but not mentioning
4688the original name of the station after Hayat was renamed. "Voice of
4689the People" name is too general to know what can be the original
4690Arabic name. I'm sure that the Yemeni station's name is not in
4691English's "Voice of the People". It is an Arabic word(s).
4692
4693I think it were a good idea to see in former WRTHs if Hayat existed in
4694the past on the same frequency in Amman or it is a new station.
4695(Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, ibid.)
4696
4697http://178.32.62.172:9400/index.html?sid=1
4698http://178.32.62.172:9400/stream
4699Listing Status: Stream is currently up and private (not listed)
4700Stream Status: Stream is up (MP3 @ 64 kbps, 44.1 kHz) with 3 of
47019999 listeners (2 unique)
4702Listener Peak: 6
4703Avg. Play Time: 2 minutes 11 seconds
4704Stream Name: stream100
4705Stream Genre(s): sawtalshaab1
4706Stream Website: http://www.sawtalshaab.com
4707
4708[Arabic script next few lines in original may not survive]
4709
4710صوت الشعب - sawt alshaeb - Voice of the People
4711
4712https://www.facebook.com/sawtalshaabfm
4713https://t.me/sawtalshaabnews
4714اذاعة صوت الشعب
4715639 members
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4718FM 91.1- FM 97.1 - FM 107.1 - FM 98.1- FM 93.1
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4720https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/14258240_1671197389861995_1535725012289859089_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_oc=AQk7rNGg1BfzHwb6VOh3G_1EJ5ysdYLdmgxxLq0D8qLCpEz6DieH4TRw4673uyARYyGvCR1Jv_NL2Ep654kwp3Ye&_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-1.xx&oh=c9eaabdfd639ba509aae0a8fdef393c4&oe=5DF2B32F
4721
4722https://tinyurl.com/y3xxqxhn
4723(roger, germany, ibid.)
4724
4725I'd guess Hayat means somewhat "Life". The Yemeni Hayat FM Facebook
4726site before it turned into Peoples Voice
4727https://www.facebook.com/hayatfmyemen/
472873, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.)
4729
4730Thank you (and Bernd Trutenau via a private message), there really
4731were two stations by the same name and on the same frequency, but it
4732two different countries. However, the Yemeni station has probably
4733closed a few years ago and the latest update on their Facebook page is
47343 years old:
4735https://www.facebook.com/hayatfmyemen/
4736The Voice of the People started on the frequency mentioned in the
4737article at least a year ago. 73, (Mauno, ibid.)
4738
4739Re: [WOR] Radio becomes new battlefield in Yemen: Jerusalem Post --- I
4740just got info that the station was destroyed by Houthi rebels already
47413 years ago (Mauno Ritola, WOR iog via DXLD)
4742
4743** ZAMBIA [and non]. MYANMAR, 5914.983, MMR, MR from new capital Nay
4744Pyi Taw via their non-directional ant, S=3-4 tiny, hit heavily by
4745adjacent co-channel transmission on 5915even ZAMBIA program Sept 14 at
47460045 UT ahead at S=7-8 level, buzzy muffled mod here in Europe, hard
4747to understand some African accented English presenter. My quality
4748statement about the buzzy muffled audio was completely correct 73
4749wolfie df5sx wwdxc (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD)
4750
47515915, Zambia NBC, Radio 1, Lusaka, 2018-2033, 16-09, vernacular,
4752comments. 15321. Also 0402-0412*, 17-09, vernacular, comments. At 0412
4753signal cut off abruptly. 25432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in
4754Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
4755
47565915, R. One/ZNBC1, 0246-0335, Sept 17. Above average reception, even
4757with heavy QRN (static); African pop music; 0251-0254, call of the
4758African Fish Eagle IS; 0302, GOtv commercial announcement; 0303-0325,
4759with religious songs and hymns ("Rock of Ages," etc.); later at 0422
4760check, found off the air at a time they would normally be
4761broadcasting; still seems to be on the air rather erratically. My
4762brief audio of the IS at
4763http://bit.ly/2kiVZuI
4764
4765Have been interested to read online about the relationship between
4766ZNBC and China. Per
4767http://bit.ly/2lSUxja (Sept 16, 2019):
4768
4769"The Zambian government has deported a Chinese media executive over
4770“derogatory and abusive language”, a spokesman said.
4771
4772Yi Jian is the chief executive officer of ***TopStar Communications
4773Company Limited, which is a joint venture between Beijing-based
4774Star Times and the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
4775(ZNBC).***
4776
4777Mr Yi was deported on Thursday under a warrant signed by Interior
4778Minister Stephen Kampyongo."
4779
4780Additional information from
4781http://bit.ly/2kNl1T3 (May 7, 2019)
4782
4783"StarTimes, which has close links to China's government, controls 60
4784percent of the joint venture, called TopStar, with Zambia's national
4785broadcaster, ZNBC, owning the other 40 percent.
4786
4787The venture is bankrolled by a $232 million (€205 million) loan taken
4788by TopStar from China's state-owned Exim Bank.
4789
4790When ZNBC lacked the $40,000 start capital it needed to establish
4791TopStar, StarTimes lent ZNBC the money.
4792
4793***Fast forward to 2019, and media watchdogs and local media owners
4794are now gravely concerned about China's perceived influence
4795in Zambia's media landscape."*** (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
4796CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
4797
4798Ron, These news don't mention that these Chinese-African media
4799cooperations are not radio-related. They are about the introduction
4800and operating digital terrestrial television broadcast. When some
4801sub-saharan African countries had to switch off analogue terrestrial
4802television broadcasts they turned to China for aid in order to start
4803digital terrestrial television broadcasting.
4804
4805In these countries a Chinese company, Star Company (the company's name
4806is changing from country to country, but the STAR remains the same)
4807supplied the decoders and set-top boxes plus it operates the digital
4808terrestrial TV multiplexes in a joint venture with the African
4809country's state broadcaster. In our case with ZNBC.
4810
4811Usually these countries aren't in a good financial shape plus the
4812Chinese are also not saints when we talk about money matters. But
4813these African countries expected that the Chinese will be better than
4814a coloniser and will not loot them on the basis that it is also a
4815developing country. This was false expectation in my opinion.
4816
4817Chinese are never willing to give aid to them; the Chinese packed a
4818lot of loans onto the neck of these countries via the EXIM Bank of
4819China, then it tries to influence them toward the Chinese political
4820agenda.
4821
4822Current sub-Saharan African leaders were not against that, since the
4823Chinese haven't conditioned the loans to anything except when the
4824country defaults it shall hand over the project to Chinese state-owned
4825companies. Most of these agreements are secret and it can be used for
4826corruption.
4827
4828Corruption by the Chinese state-owned companies (e.g. false
4829accounting, supplying sub-standard goods or non-existing goods and
4830services, employing mainly or just Chinese workers on the African
4831projects, or talking in derogatory and racist terms knowing that
4832Africans are sensitive to it due to Africa's colonisation past) who
4833are the executors of these contracts, corruption kickbacks for the
4834African government officials, so, everything went right until
4835something happened.
4836
4837When Pakistan almost bankrupted from Chinese loans it turned to the
4838IMF to give loans - more accurately: pay back the loans into the
4839Chinese's pocket. The IMF's point of view was not known, but now, as
4840in a good drama, someone appeared on the stage. A very erratic man,
4841called Donald (TRUMP) appeared saying that the U.S. money cannot be
4842paid to the Chinese. It means if the IMF pays out, it shall not be
4843paid from American's membership fee and American contributions.
4844
4845This dramatic intervention surprised the financial community - and
4846most of them were the Chinese expecting that at least the IMF/World
4847Bank would return the money to them. Mr. Trump made it clear that when
4848Chinese gave the loans they gave it accepting the possibility of
4849default, so, consequently the risk is on the Chinese and not on the
4850shoulders of the United States of America.
4851
4852Since then Chinese froze the loans as well as their grandiose
4853"One-Belt One-Road" project. Nowadays more and more African countries
4854have hardships with their finances while the independent, influential
4855African and international press set a light on some of these shady
4856Chinese projects. These leaders's shoes became too tight to wear. Now
4857they want to put up another shoe.
4858
4859This has consequences on the media scene too. Not only in Zambia but
4860also in Tanzania. Tanzanian government forced the Chinese Star Media
4861company to pay taxes and dividends to the Tanzanian government and
4862Tanzania reviewed the taxation and accounting of the joint venture
4863between this StarTimes with the Tanzanian Broadcasting Corporation
4864(TBC) which joint venture operates also the digital terrestrial TV
4865multiplexes in Tanzania.
4866
4867In the past there were rumours also that Zambia defaulted on its loans
4868to the Chinese and it had to hand over the whole ZNBC to China which
4869Zambian officials denied from time to time (Tibor Gaal, Budapest,
4870Hungary, WOR iog via DXLD)
4871
4872Hi Tibor, Thanks for your feedback. Appreciate hearing from you. There
4873are many online articles dealing with this issue that make for good
4874reading. Here are a few:
4875
4876Oct 30, 2018 - "ZNBC won’t change names, but it’s on lease to Chinese"
4877-
4878http://bit.ly/2lZJZP7
4879
4880Sept 11, 2018 - "China is taking over Zambia's national assets but the
4881nightmare is just starting for Africa" -
4882http://bit.ly/2mmbOS9
4883
4884"There has been credible reports of talks between the Zambian
4885government and China on handing over the country’s national
4886electricity company, ZESCO to the Chinese due to the inability of
4887Zambia to meet its loan repayment promises.
4888
4889This is expected as China is already in control of the country’s
4890broadcasting company, ZNBC. There are also fears the main
4891airport in Lusaka could be the next target. Obliviously, Zambia is in
4892trouble. And for other African beneficiaries of Chinese loans,
4893this is just China warming up." (via Ron Howard, ibid.)
4894
4895Ron, Thanks for the articles. I am not a good forecaster in political
4896events, but, I think that we can expect more turbulences in these
4897countries. The "demographic dividend" phenomena (overpopulation in
4898other terms) disadvantageously affects Sub-saharan Africans; in the
4899meantime their governments cannot provide the increased number of
4900youths with any job opportunities, and when the youths realise that
4901their future is just to pay the debt, their anger will turn against
4902somebody. I see the warning signals already. I expect more conflicts,
4903riots, uprisings or similar things going to happen in the future. This
4904will affect the radio scene too sooner or later like in the Arabic
4905uprising at the beginning of this decade. Keep listening if it is
4906possible!!! (Tibor Gall, ibid.)
4907
4908** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 6015, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole,
49090402-0440, 14-09, Swahili, comments. 25322. (Méndez)
4910
491111735, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 1754-, 13-09, Swahili,
4912comments, at 1800 time signals, English, ID and news. Very weak. 14311
4913(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable
4914antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
4915
4916** ZIMBABWE [non]. VOA Studio 7 special broadcast for Mugabe funeral
4917-- VOA Studio 7 will have a special shortwave transmission covering
4918the funeral of former president Mugabe on 14th and 15th September as
4919follows:
49201000-1030 & 1100-1300 9520 kHz
49211000-1300 17820 kHz
4922(via Mauno Ritola on WRTH - World Radio TV Handbook Facebook group via
4923Alan Pennington, Sept 14, bdxc-news iog via DXLD)
4924
4925UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Sept 13 at
49261141-1146, before LSR of 1212 UT: all from NW on the altazimuth
4927wrist-mounted DX-398, i.e. Japan, Korea, etc.: 747, 774, 828, 972,
49281134, 1242, 1566. 1134 and 1242 harbor 100 kW private Japan stations;
49291134 also 500 kW in Korea S, but 1242 only 10 kW there. 972 slightly
4930stronger than the rest (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4931
4932UNIDENTIFIED. 569.94 approx., Sept 16 at 0636 UT, LAH against 570.0
4933stations. Nothing listed at mwoffsets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
4934DIGEST)
4935
4936UNIDENTIFIED. 927 kHz --- Very weak signal, 70's pop (10cc) on 927 kHz
4937at the moment (2015 UT 17/9). Presenter chat between records. Too weak
4938to follow speech but sounds English. Occasional peaks when it rises
4939out of the noise. 73s. (Nick. Buxton. Sony ICF2001D & loops. Rank.
4940Sept 17. bdxc-news iog via DXLD)
4941
4942UNIDENTIFIED. 1590, Sept 18 at 0351 UT, as I just remonitored WCGO
4943from the NE, Spanish music upfades, romantic, then tropical. I get a
4944pretty sharp DF as due south/north, which per NRC AM Log points to
4945KDAE Sinton TX (Corpus Christi), Radio Aleluya, U4 1000/500 with
4946virtually no signal to the north. Other SS in TX is KMIC Houston, U2
49475000/5000, Radio Libertad, at night Gulfward. Both listed as
4948Spanish/Religious. Of course, fade down if there were any ToH ID, then
4949back up while WCGO is in network news in English. One more
4950possibility, XEVOZ in CDMX, which is somewhat west of south, but 20/10
4951kW with POP E/S format per IRCA Mexican Log. The only Mexican left on
49521590. Fred Cantú`s final 2015y roster still had four (Glenn Hauser,
4953OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4954
4955UNIDENTIFIED. 3325, Sept 14 at 1222, JBA carrier detectable, despite
4956my high local line noise level registering S9+20 on this band, so must
4957be good propagation. Ron Howard has been reporting NBC Bougainville,
4958pre-independence referendum, on an extended schedule way past 1200*;
4959but it could also be VOI via RRI Palangkaraya. Perhaps he will have
4960noted which or both were on today. Also have a JBA carrier on 2850, no
4961doubt the only 105-m band station, KCBS Korea North.
4962
49633325, Sept 15 circa 1250, JBA carrier again, from Bougainville or
4964Indonesia? Ron Howard says he was not monitoring yesterday (Glenn
4965Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4966
4967UNIDENTIFIED. 6080 USB, 0058, 9/11/19. End of a Motown song, brief
4968pause into the start of a monologue introduction to another Motown
4969song which was cut off at exactly 0000. A thunder storm came in right
4970then, so I wasn’t able to stay on the frequency. Not sure if this was
4971a pirate or not, although being in USB and music content would lead me
4972to believe it was a pirate in the 49 Meter band (Mark Taylor, Madison,
4973Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus, Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+& HF+ Discovery,
4974Tecsun PL 880, and various other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’
4975long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD)
4976
4977UNIDENTIFIED. 9200, Sept 15 at 0118, S9-S6 of open carrier, mystery
4978continues altho I have not bothered to rereport it for some weeks.
4979Possibly an RTTY station QRX for rare beepery? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
4980LISTENING DIGEST)
4981
4982UNIDENTIFIED. 11307, UNKNOWN. Another odd, out of bander at 1213 UT,
4983Chinese, maybe the Xi Wang station [or jammer – Ed.] but this freq not
4984listed. Occasional QRM from aviation freq 11308 when active. YL
4985speaker (Jack Widner, PO Box 176, Edinboro, PA 16412. Equipment:
4986Tecsun PL880 with about 30 feet of antenna strung from a tree to the
4987whip antenna, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 15 via DXLD) date?
4988
4989UNIDENTIFIED. CHINA, Chinese music vs empty channel, September 16
49901300-1600 on 11870 unknown kW / unknown to ???? Music, fair:
4991https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/china-chinese-music-vs-empty-channel-in.html
4992(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4993
4994UNIDENTIFIED. 14325-USB, Sept 14 at 1241, checking Hurricane Watch Net
4995for more to come; at first nothing, then a very weak K2? contacting an
4996ON4 Belgium and DJ4CH in Germany; closest to weather discussion was
4997remark that ``iron ore in the ground around here draws lightning``.
4998Seems plausible, but true? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4999
5000UNIDENTIFIED. 15253.50-USB, Sept 13 at 2012, S4, 2-way in Spanish,
5001with crackle. Why am I the only one ever reporting such INTRUDERS into
5002our SWBC bands? Does no one else care? Of course, as more and more
5003broadcasters evacuate, such bands are more and more tempting to invade
5004(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5005
5006~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5007
5008UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
5009++++++++++++++++++++++++
5010
5011ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 2000:
5012
5013Thanks to Gerald T Pollard, Raleigh NC, for a generous quarterly check
5014for the autumnal equinox to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK
501573702.
5016
5017TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY:
5018
5019Mr Hauser, please accept this modest gift for the great work you do
5020with WOR. I`m a long-time amateur radio operator and shortwave
5021listener, and for years I`ve enjoyed (and learned a lot from) your
5022programs.
5023
5024I do have a question: I notice that you normally don`t mention
5025anything about ``numbers`` stations. I try to follow a few of the
5026voice stations (E07A, E06, E11), and sometimes record them. I was
5027wondering if you would like me to send in a few details (times,
5028frequencies, etc.) about these stations, for possible inclusion in
5029your programs. Just curious.
5030
5031Again, thank you for your sustained contributions to the great hobby
5032of shortwave listening. Respectfully, (John P. Lutz, N9JL, Shorewood
5033IL, with a check to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702)
5034
5035Numbers stations: it is true that I seldom publish or mention them;
5036one specialty that is predictable yet unknowable. Rick Barton and Ivo
5037Ivanov report a lot of them, seen at least in the WOR iog. If you have
5038something unusual in a ## log, like mixiup with RHC programmming, that
5039would be of more interest (gh)
5040
5041Congratulations, Glenn, on 2000 (!) releases of WOR and for your
5042fabulous WOR/DXLD efforts acknowledged by this donation, again. Deep
5043thanks for all for your manyfold "gifts" to the radio-DXing community,
5044worldwide! (Steve McGreevy with a donation via PayPal to woradio at
5045yahoo.com)
5046
5047Congratulations on the 2,000th episode of World of Radio! I appreciate
5048it and you very much. All the best, (Scott Gamble, with a generous
5049contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com)
5050
5051Dear Glenn, congratulations on the upcoming anniversary number 2000
5052WORLD OF RADIO. I wish you all the very best and good health! (Anatoly
5053Klepov, Moscow, Russia, Bulletin “RUS-DX”)
5054
5055BTW, enjoyed hearing the train passing behind the house on the last
5056audio edition! (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1999
5057
5058PUBLICATIONS
5059++++++++++++
5060
5061IRCA SLOGANS LIST (SEPTEMBER 2019)
5062
5063The 2019 Slogans List includes radio slogans from the US and Canada
5064(over 4600) as gleaned from various DX publications and monitoring.
5065The 2019 IRCA Slogans List is posted on the IRCA website for all to
5066download. The link is:
5067https://www.ircaonline.org/editor_upload/File/2019_IRCA_slogans.pdf
5068
5069For those preferring a hard copy, one can be ordered from the IRCA.
5070Prices: IRCA/NRC members – $4.00 (US), $5.00 (Canada) $7.00 (México),
5071$7.50 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA members – add $1.00.
5072
5073To order from the IRCA, send the correct amount (in US funds payable
5074to Phil Bytheway) to: IRCA Bookstore, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA
507598117-2334. Or, order through PayPal to Email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com
5076(Phil Bytheway). Please state club affiliation when ordering.
5077(Phil Bytheway, IRCA Bookstore/Goodie Factory, nrc-am via DXLD)
5078
507945 pages pdf in frequency, then state order. Compiled by Kraig W Krist
5080(gh)
5081
5082RADIO STATIONS IN THE UK & IRELAND NEW 27TH EDITION
5083
5084The new edition of BDXC’s ever-popular Radio Stations in the UK &
5085Ireland is now available. This comprehensive 72-page directory of UK
5086mediumwave and FM radio stations covers all BBC, commercial, and
5087community radio stations as well as low power AM/FM services operating
5088with long-term licences. It is a must for anyone interested in UK &
5089Irish radio. Features include:
5090
5091* Station listings by both frequency and name *
5092* Community Radio and Low Power AM/FM services *
5093* Frequencies cross-reference to show parallel channels *
5094* Transmitter sites & powers, web sites, DAB station listings *
5095* Separate section covers RTE and independent stations in Ireland *
5096
5097PRICE per copy: UK £4.50 Europe: £7.00 or 9 Euro;
5098Rest of World £8.00 or $11 US dollars
5099SPECIAL OFFER: Two copies only £7.50 (UK) ; £11 or €14 (Europe)
5100(UK cheque/Postal Orders payable to “British DX Club”. Paypal, cash or
5101IRCs also welcome)
5102
5103Please send all orders to:
5104British DX Club, 19 Park Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6PF
5105Paypal to bdxc@bdxc.org.uk Enquiries to andrew@bdxc.org.uk
5106
5107Payment by bank transfer is also welcome to Account 99704401
5108Sort code 090154 International transfers to
5109BIC ABBYGB2LXX IBAN GB24ABBY09015499704401
5110(Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
5111
5112LISTENING TO NON-DIRECTIONAL BEACONS (NDB'S) ON LW
5113
5114I also asked: "Can anyone give me any information on where to obtain
5115the latest frequency listings and news about NDB's on LW? In
5116particular, it would be useful to know what publications are available
5117and what clubs/groups are still active nowadays". Alan Gale, Mike
5118Watling, Franck Baste, Alan Pennington, David Harris and Ross Bradshaw
5119all kindly responded:
5120
5121Alan Gale was the first to respond: "My first port of call would be
5122the NDB List website, which contains all the info on the NDB List
5123group and the various publications available, such as Michael Oexner's
5124"European NDB Handbook", and for online listings (of what's been heard
5125rather than all the NDBs out there), the REU-RNA-RWW Database is a
5126good place to check. There are also links to many other useful
5127information sources:
5128https://ndblist.info/beacons.htm and
5129https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/reu
5130
5131Of course I may be a bit biased as I run the Group and website, but if
5132you'd like to join us you've be very welcome, we're a very friendly
5133bunch, and even run monthly 'co-ordinated listening events' and have
5134an awards scheme. You can find out more from the links above, and you
5135will also find links there to our other groups which cover Navtex,
5136DGPS and DSC DXing as well".
5137
5138Mike Watling is also a user of Michael Oexner's guide and Mike writes:
5139"My "RF" activity is now almost exclusively geared to NDBs. The bible
5140I use is Michael Oexner's European NDB Handbook. It's not the cheapest
5141but I use it daily. Also, a guy called Robert Connolly in Northern
5142Ireland produces a lower-key list which I've used in the past. For
5143day-to-day chat I use the IOgroups NdbList. You may well have met some
5144or all of these ... they keep me on track".
5145
5146Mike added "A bit of info regarding equipment. I have recently bought
5147an Elad FDMDuo-R receiver to use as an SDR stand-alone set for NDB
5148use. Early days yet ... it has pluses and minuses wrt the 7030. I went
5149for this set due to the absence of traditional radios with knob on. As
5150a "techie" type, I do a fair bit building antennas and the like. For
5151NDB use I fully recommend pa0rdt`s MiniWhip, home-built or bought.
5152Loop antennas perform brilliantly on this band and give much scope for
5153experimentation. In my view, the Rolls Royce of these is Andrew Iken`s
5154ALA1530 from Welbrook Comms".
5155
5156Frank Baste also recommends the sources mentioned above by Alan: "For
5157me the best website is the REU NDB Database:
5158https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/reu/ and there is also a publication
5159called "The Global NDB Handbook", with further details of the 2019
5160Edition available by refering to
5161https://www.ndblist.info/beacons/NDBpublications2019.pdf
5162For details of the The NDB list, go to:
5163https://groups.io/g/ndblist
5164
5165Alan Pennington says: "Although I don't listen to non-directional
5166beacons (NDBs) myself, I did notice the NDB List website
5167https://www.ndblist.info/
5168is still active, also with links to four different groups.io groups on
5169their home page. Also there is a list of recent publications for sale:
5170https://www.ndblist.info/beacons/NDBpublications2019.pdf
5171including the Global NDB Handbook 2019 (CD or download only) listing
517216700+ NDBs worldwide. Plus also a European only NDB handbook (also
5173available in printed form). There's a sample page at same link above".
5174
5175David Harris comments: "Radio User magazine has regular features on
5176this subject written by Robert Connolly, email: gi7ivx@btinternet.com
5177
5178In the July 2019 edition he mentioned that he is publishing,
5179"Non-Directional Beacons of Europe 2019/20". This will be a pdf only
5180publication. Contact Robert for more details".
5181
5182Ross Bradshaw adds "Robert Connolly writes about these and the ones
5183heard in his column in Radio User magazine. Contact Radio User
5184magazine for more information" (Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
5185
5186There is another online reference nobody mentioned, maybe because it
5187skews toward North America, which I always check first, more
5188user-friendly, with just enough info rather than too much:
5189http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
5190(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5191
5192HOW TO FIND OLD AMATEUR RADIO CALL SIGNS
5193
5194Many times, persons doing research about their ancestors know that a
5195relative was a ham radio operator, and they are interested in learning
5196the call sign held by that person. Depending on the year when the
5197person was licensed, this can sometimes be a very difficult process.
5198However, in some cases, it is possible to find this information
5199online. Here’s how.
5200http://w0is.com/oldcallsigns/oldcalls.html
5201(via Brian Jeffrey, Carp, Ontario, Sept Radio HF Internet Newsletter,
5202via DXLD)
5203
5204WORLD OF HOROLOGY
5205+++++++++++++++++
5206
5207See GERMANY 100 Years of Radio Events in Germany
5208
5209DX-PEDITIONS
5210++++++++++++
5211
5212GRAYLAND DXPEDITION - SEP. 7 - 11, 2019
5213
5214Following the IRCA convention in Seattle a group of DXers visited the
5215Breakwater Inn & Cottages in Grayland, WA and an adjacent property
5216called Casa Sea Esta.
5217
5218The DXers present in Grayland for all or part of the time included:
5219Nigel Pimblett, Hiroo Nakagawa, Chuck Hutton, Bruce Portzer, Nick
5220Hall-Patch, Guy Atkins, Tom Rothlisberger, Brett Saylor as a
5221first-time west coast DXer, and myself.
5222
5223Highlights included some TA carriers on Saturday night and a ton of DU
5224reception, particularly Aussies, on Sep. 9 and 10.
5225
5226I have begun to go through my own wav files with hints from others
5227present and what I have so far is available here:
5228http://realmonitor.com/grayland20/
5229
5230The page is a change from my ‘old’ format to include a ’sticky’ header
5231for the table that will follow you down the page so you don’t loose
5232track of dates & times.
5233
5234I believe Tom will have his own webpage and I believe Chuck is trying
5235to gather a collection of loggings and audio samples.
5236
5237Not only is it not as much fun drinking alone but without the hints
5238shared amongst the group - with more to come I hope - there would be a
5239lot of DX left behind.
5240
5241One note on antennas: Nick Hall-Patch, as usual, was trying something
5242‘new’ - a 2-element terminated delta array with a Wellbrook phaser.
5243I’ll let him expound on his findings more fully but suffice it to say
5244that those of us using the go-to 160’ DKAZ may be rethinking things
5245for coastal DXing.
5246
5247(Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Sept 16, nrc-am gg via DXLD)
5248
5249RE - DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-37: DX-PEDITIONS: AT HOME VS. DX-PEDITION
5250
5251Hi Glenn, Interesting comments made in DXLD 19-37, regarding
5252"DX-PEDITIONS: AT HOME VS. DX-PEDITION." Was rather surprised to read
5253the negative comments made about DX-peditions. Implying that somehow
5254it was not "fair." Seemed that the general consensus was better to
5255stay home and tough-it-out with local interference. I know that this
5256was regarding MW reception, but thought it rather strange to want to
5257endure less than ideal listening conditions, rather than to try
5258something different.
5259
5260For over a decade now, I have done all my SWLing at the beach, while
5261in my car. The level of RFI at home discouraged me from listening
5262there. Years ago I had a wonderful receiver (Ten-Tec RX-340) and
5263decent antenna (T2FD), but I felt I was not getting the best results
5264that I should have from my fine setup. Problem was local RFI. By
5265chance, one day I listened to SW at my local beach (Asilomar State
5266Beach, Calif.) while in my car. Used a small portable (Etón E5), with
5267no external antenna and was shocked to find I had better reception
5268there than I had at home with the Ten-Tec. Invested in a Etón E1 and
5269100 feet of wire for an external antenna, and have been listening
5270there happily ever since. Believe that if I had to endure SWLing from
5271home, I would have dropped out of the hobby a long time ago.
5272
5273Am very fortunate that the beach is an easy drive from my home, a
5274distance of about 3 miles. Keep my radio in the car so I don't have to
5275carry it back and forth. My long wire antenna is strung along a wooden
5276fence next to where I park and am able to just leave it there all the
5277time, as no one bothers it and it is out of the way. So it only takes
5278a minute for me to park, connect the antenna and I'm
5279listening, just that quickly. Very easy.
5280
5281Yes, of course I realize that most people are not as fortunate as I am
5282regarding access to a beach, but believe that most people do in fact
5283have access to some type of location that is away from home RFI. Any
5284local park, golf course or place that has a minimum of homes could
5285possibly be a location to check out for quiet reception.
5286
5287Anyway, DX-peditions are for me the only way to go, on a daily basis.
5288Has given me many years of enjoyable (mostly quiet) listening! Just my
5289opinion (Ron Howard, CA, Sept 19, WOR iog via DXLD)
5290
5291I side with Ron here. 3 miles distance is hardly DX-pedition
5292perdition. I've been known to take a Sangean down to a local parking
5293lot a mile away for a different perspective. Of course in Suburbia,
5294even the picnic table in the back yard offers relief from Digi-TV's
5295and other computerized stuff. JMHO (Paul S. in CT -- FN31nl, ibid.)
5296
5297Ditto for me. I’m lucky I have a large property at home in NB and can
5298go 40 metres away from the house and have very little RFI. And that’s
5299how I do my recordings. One of these days, I’ll string up an antenna,
5300cover the coax with ferrite and perhaps get decent reception indoors.
5301But until then, winter and summer, I‘ll hike out to the back of the
5302cleared area to DX (— Richard Langley, ibid.)
5303
5304DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA; U S A
5305++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5306
5307DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See NORWAY; PUBLICATIONS: UK
5308++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5309
5310DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: 1280
5311+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5312
5313DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CHINA; FRANCE; INDIA; RUSSIA
5314++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5315
5316MUSEA
5317+++++
5318
5319See GERMANY: 100 Years of Radio Events in Germany.
5320
5321THE BDXC GUIDE TO RADIO MUSEUMS IN THE UK AND IRELAND
5322
5323has recently been updated on the club web site at
5324http://www.bdxc.org.uk/museums.html
5325If you spot any updates to the guide, please do let us know
5326(Sept BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
5327
5328NATIONAL VOA MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING PLANS ANNIVERSARY PARTY
5329Bethany Relay Station approaches 75 years - Joe Molter ⋅ 5 days ago
5330
5331https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/national-voa-museum-of-broadcasting-plans-anniversary-party
5332
5333The author is president of the West Chester Amateur Radio Association
5334(WCARA), a division of the National Voice of America Museum of
5335Broadcasting dedicated to advancing the amateur radio hobby. He’s also
5336a volunteer-at-large at the museum. His call sign is N81DA. [sic]
5337
5338Her six massive transmitters may be quiet, but she is far from
5339silent.
5340
5341Amateur radio operators routinely talk to the world from station
5342WC8VOA in West Chester, Ohio, located about 25 miles north of
5343Cincinnati. This former VOA relay station is now the National VOA
5344Museum of Broadcasting with collections from the Gray History of
5345Wireless Museum; Powel Crosley Jr., and Cincinnati radio and TV
5346broadcasting history; and the Voice of America. Next week the museum
5347celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Bethany Station Saturday, Sept.
534821, with a fundraiser to make the first floor of the museum accessible
5349for people for all abilities.
5350
5351The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting is open every
5352weekend from 1 to 4 p.m. [EDT = 18-20 UT]. Tours are given
5353continuously on weekend afternoons by knowledgeable docents. It houses
5354the Bethany station’s last control room and one of the remaining 250
5355kW Collins shortwave transmitters.
5356
5357You can sit at the massive audio console that controlled the six
5358shortwave transmitters and literally take a tour inside one of the
5359Collins transmitters. You can view the massive switch gear, built
5360during World War II, which changed Bethany’s 24 rhombic antennas to
5361its six transmitters.
5362
5363At one time Bethany Station covered a square mile of property that was
5364once farmland. Today the museum sits on 14 acres and the antennas are
5365gone, but with surrounding park acreage, you get a sense of the
5366massive scale the site covered with towers and the miles of
5367transmission lines and antenna wire.
5368
5369The museum houses a large collection of radios from the early part of
5370the twentieth century, including names such as Hallicrafters,
5371National, Drake and Collins. A large collection of Drake amateur radio
5372products is always a must-see by visiting radio enthusiasts and ham
5373radio operators.
5374
5375Drake radios were produced nearby in Miamisburg, Ohio. An area
5376dedicated to the Crosley Corp. shows off many of the Crosley brothers’
5377radio, TV and household products that were manufactured in Cincinnati.
5378Crosley contributed heavily to the war effort during World War II,
5379with the production of tens of thousands of portable radios for the
5380U.S. Army and millions of proximity fuses for antiaircraft ordinance.
5381
5382Not only did Crosley develop radios, but content as well, with its
5383on-air radio station WLW, which still broadcasts today on 700 AM. WLW
5384transmits from its original site and the large Blaw-Knox tower can be
5385seen from the VOA museum. The museum contains the original 50 W AM
5386transmitter that WLW started with in 1922.
5387
5388VOA Bethany, National VOA Museum of Broadcasting, Andrew Albrecht
5389Bethany VOA Towers at Sunset. Photo Andrew Albrecht [caption]
5390
5391WLW was the only U.S. station allowed to operate at 500,000 watts of
5392power during the 1930s. The collection includes a bright red Crosley
5393Hot Shot sports car, too. Crosley Corp. developed a number of vehicles
5394during the late 1930s and resumed production after World War II until
5395shutting down in 1952.
5396
5397An additional area of the museum houses artifacts and memorabilia from
5398the early era of Cincinnati radio and TV broadcasting. The Cincinnati
5399Media Heritage section includes many of the celebrities who got their
5400start at WLW and other local broadcasting outlets. These WLW radio
5401stars — many of whom transitioned from radio to TV—include Rod Serling
5402of “Twilight Zone” fame; sisters Rosemary and Betty Clooney; Eddie
5403Albert; Doris Day; The Mills Brothers; and Ruth Lyons.
5404
5405Housed in three of Bethany’s old transmitter vaults, the history of
5406broadcasting section showcases the talent and equipment that made
5407Cincinnati an early nursery for radio and television entertainment.
5408Artifacts include equipment from a 1930s radio station; a 1950s AM
5409station, including disc jockey’s audio console and turntables; and a
54101,000 W transmitter. A very early and massive RCA Victor color
5411television camera is on display, along with other television and video
5412equipment.
5413
5414Our amateur radio station is operated under FCC license WC8VOA and is
5415manned by the West Chester Amateur Radio Association. The station has
5416seven operating positions equipped with modern and vintage amateur
5417radio gear. Antennas cover the radio spectrum from two meters down to
5418160 meters. The former VOA receiving satellite dish has been converted
5419to 10 GHz transmit and receive capabilities for EME (Earth Moon Earth)
5420bounce. Signals are sent to the moon and the dish used as a passive
5421satellite to communicate with other amateur radio operators.
5422
5423The club participates in radio contests, portable operations and local
5424STEM events. It averages some 6,000 contacts per year, covering modes
5425of voice and digital and CW. The club also operates two FM repeaters
5426on two meters and 440 MHz.
5427
5428Operators are in the shack every weekend and hold an open house every
5429Wednesday night for radio enthusiasts and those interested in
5430obtaining a ham radio license. Our WC8VOA call sign is recognized by
5431many of our fellow radio amateurs around the world. We have made
5432contacts from all seven continents and hundreds of countries.
5433
5434Radio is still an important part of our lives; whether it is listening
5435to AM, FM or satellite services, radio remains a viable source of our
5436news and entertainment.
5437
5438Voice of America broadcasts were never intended for Americans. They
5439were targeted to people living in oppressed countries where media was
5440censored with the intention to change people’s minds by providing
5441sourced and accurate news. In fact, the VOA Charter (Public Law
544294-350), which was passed in 1976, dating from the Pres. Gerald Ford
5443administration, states that VOA news will be” accurate, objective, and
5444comprehensive.” It will also “represent America, not any single
5445segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and
5446comprehensive projection of significant American thought and
5447institutions.” Lastly, the VOA is mandated to “present the policies of
5448the United States clearly and effectively and will also present
5449responsible discussions and opinion on these policies.”
5450
5451VOA news and feature stories are still broadcast and transmitted today
5452to more than 275 million people weekly in 40+ languages in nearly 100
5453countries. VOA programs are delivered on multiple platforms, including
5454radio, television, web and mobile via a network of more than 3,000
5455media outlets worldwide.
5456
5457Broadcasts have aired continually for more than 75 years, along with
5458sister stations of Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty; Radio Free Asia;
5459and Radio Marti.
5460
5461Here is the crux of the matter for all of us at the VOA museum: Once
5462Bethany Station began operation during mid-World War II, an infuriated
5463Adolf Hitler was quoted as saying on one of his radio broadcasts to
5464never listen to those “Cincinnati Liars.” We’re proud to be part of
5465the VOA heritage we are entrusted with and even more proud to be
5466related to those “liars” from Cincinnati.
5467
5468VOA Bethany, National VOA Museum of Broadcasting
5469VOA Bethany in Fog [caption]
5470
5471But while we’re proud of our heritage, I must be honest. The museum is
5472housed in an aging, uninsulated, 75-year-old building that constantly
5473needs repairs. We receive no federal funding and this is our big
5474fundraising push for the year. Our workforce of docents, conservators
5475and maintenance crews are all unpaid volunteers. And many of our
5476volunteers come from our local radio club, the West Chester Amateur
5477Radio Association.
5478
5479Please help us out with a donation; better yet, plan a long weekend
5480vacation and come on out to West Chester for our Sept. 21 fundraiser!
5481We include a friendly community of shortwave radio aficionados always
5482eager to make more friends. We’ll have on hand auction and silent
5483auction items; dinner-by-the-bite; museum tours; and a table-to-table
5484Trivial Pursuit game, all with the relaxing strains of jazz in the
5485background.
5486
5487For information on the museum and how you can help with donations,
5488visit our website. Please purchase tickets or donate today. If you’re
5489interested in our amateur radio group, additional information is at
5490West Chester Amateur Radio Association website.
5491https://wc8voa.org/
5492(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
5493
5494MUSEA / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
5495+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5496
5497Almost ALL USSR radios (1924-2000)
5498-------------------------------------------------- ---------
5499https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KrAiYpitGw
5500(Anton Yakunin, Volgograd, Russia / https://vk.com/club3877182)
5501
550280-minute! slide show of stills of radio receivers, with contemporary
5503music track (gh)
5504
5505RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
5506+++++++++++++++++++++
5507
5508MW/LW FREQUENCY CHANGES NO BIG DEAL
5509
5510Glenn, Most all that blather about the purported possible frequency
5511change for RTE is really ill-informed and ignorant. Frequency changes
5512can get ITU acquiescence of one sort or another pretty quickly if
5513other cochannel (and sometimes adjacent channel) allocations are
5514unused, and changing the frequency of a single omnidirectional
5515vertical monopole a few kHz is a trivial exercise.
5516
5517Retuning the transmitter by a modest amount is not a big deal either,
5518but sometimes just a bit more of an effort than the antenna. I
5519recently retuned one frequency of a diplexed antenna in the Middle
5520East in a couple of days, filters and matching networks and all, and
5521my colleague had the 100 kW box retuned in about the same time - and
5522it wasn't a trivial frequency change 12xx to somewhere in the 1400s.
5523
5524I've retuned some very complicated Russian antennas in a few days,
5525too. A multiple element DA can be a much more complex problem, of
5526course, but there are plenty of examples of changes to them as well.
5527
5528And more than a few MF and LF operations in Europe and elsewhere are
5529using facilities that are not in strict compliance with the ITU
5530allocations for them. It ain't exactly the wild west, but a lot of
5531countries, including some that would surprise you, play pretty fast
5532and loose with the strict interpretation of the GE-75 agreement.
5533Regards, (Ben Dawson, WA, Hatfield-Dawson, Sept 18, DX LISTENING
5534DIGEST)
5535
5536TEMPORARY AMBC ANTENNAS
5537
5538"What I've Been Up To" MARE Paul Dobosz checks in with a missive
5539to explain why we aren't seeing logs. [;) Paul -- I hope that isn't
5540too subtle!] Seriously, I'm pretty darn impressed! Paul says:
5541
5542An "AM broadcast station in Norfolk, VA whose tower will be demolished
5543this weekend (because it is aging and becoming unsound structurally is
5544replacing) the entire 540 ft tall tower is the antenna for an AM radio
5545station (which also) supports their sister station's FM antenna
5546mounted at the top of the tower. [sic]
5547
5548"Rather than have the AM station off the air for 4 months during the
5549demolish and rebuild period the station will be using a smaller (50'
5550tall) temporary antenna shown in the
5551picture:"
5552
5553"The antenna was custom manufactured by a company near Seattle, WA and
5554designed by me. This is the first commercial use of my design but
5555there are additional sales pending. The company selling the antenna is
5556one of my current consulting clients. See
5557http://www.theradiosource.com/products/antenna-hpr0990.htm
5558
5559Paul continues: "There are really three elements that were used
5560together to get the efficiency of the antenna to the point where
5561something that short was viable. The most obvious is the top loading
5562which is very visible with the 6 spokes. The second is about a third
5563of the way up the antenna which is a variable spaced loading coil
5564assembly that minimizes loss and shunt capacitance while providing
5565some inductive loading. ...
5566
5567The third element is a variable ratio broadband transmission line
5568transformer matching network at the base of the antenna to maximize
5569current and power transfer to the antenna. The combination of all
5570three allows the antenna to radiate like an antenna nearly twice its
5571physical height."
5572
5573Pretty darn cool, Paul! Paul also reports buying a 'new' radio, so
5574I'll wager we may see some logs from him soon too! --kvz (Ken Zichi,
5575ed., MARE Tipsheet Sept 13 via DXLD) WHICH station in VA?
5576
5577TDoA HELP [continued from CHINA]
5578
5579See the Kiwi forum for more information. If you are getting errors
5580check these common problems:
5581
5582* Not zoomed-in far enough. The TDoA process will run out of memory or
5583have problems plotting the maps.
5584
5585* Not all Kiwis used for sampling have good reception of target
5586signal. Open a connection to each Kiwi by double clicking on its
5587marker to check the reception or by clicking on the speaker icon in
5588the sampling station list.
5589
5590* Don't use Kiwis that are spaced too far apart (i.e. many thousands
5591of km).
5592
5593* Use minimum IQ-mode passband. Just enough to capture the signal. Use
5594the "p" and "P" keys to narrow/widen the passband. For AM broadcast
5595signals try a narrow passband that only passes the carrier.
5596
5597Once you configure this extension, and click the "Submit" button,
5598information is sent to the kiwisdr.com server. The server then records
559930 seconds of IQ data from the two to six sampling Kiwis specified.
5600The frequency and passband of this Kiwi will be used for all
5601recording. So make sure it is set correctly before proceeding. Always
5602use the minimum necessary passband and make sure it is symmetrical
5603about the carrier. The current mode (e.g. AM) is ignored as all
5604recording is automatically done in IQ mode.
5605
5606After sampling, the TDoA process will be run on the server. After it
5607finishes a result map will appear.
5608
5609Additional maps may be viewed with the TDoA result menu. You can pan
5610and zoom the resulting maps and click submit again after making any
5611changes. Or use the rerun button to get new maps without resampling.
5612The checkboxes exclude stations during a rerun.
5613
5614To begin zoom into the general area of interest on the Kiwi map (note
5615the "quick zoom" menu). Click on the desired blue Kiwi sampling
5616stations. If they are not responding or have had no recent GPS
5617solutions an error message will appear.
5618
5619Important: the position and zooming of the Kiwi map determines the
5620same for the resulting TDoA maps. Double click on the blue markers (or
5621speaker icon) to open that Kiwi in a new tab to check if it is
5622receiving the target signal well. You can also manually edit the
5623sampling station list (white fields).
5624
5625You can click on the green map markers to set the frequency/passband
5626of some well-known reference stations. The known locations of these
5627stations will be shown in the result maps so you can see how well it
5628agrees with the TDoA solution. Practice with VLF/LF references
5629stations as their ground-wave signals usually give good results.
5630
5631Start with only two sampling stations and check the quality of the
5632solution before adding more.
5633
5634Of course you need three or more stations to generate a localized
5635solution (via Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 19,
5636DXLD)
5637
5638PROPAGATION
5639+++++++++++
5640
5641**LOCO** SPORADIC E TO DA KEYS SEP. 7, 2019
5642
5643I saw that there was gonna be some decent tropo this past weekend, so
5644I decided to drive down to Veterans Park on Little Duck Key, FL (mile
5645marker 39.8 of US 1).
5646
5647My car radio is broken, and only strong signals come in; therefore, I
5648was unable to check along the way. Well! Had I known that there was
5649going to be Es to kill the tropo, I am sure I would have not driven as
5650far! (When I stopped and checked preliminary "rod antenna" signals, I
5651had Spanish on 93.9 and 95.3, figuring new Cubans. Ha!)
5652
5653Among the catches:
5654
565589.1 Blast Centro, Panamá
565689.1 Suite FM, Maracaibo, Venezuela
565789.5 RNV, Coro, VEN
565890.5 Super Q, Panamá
565990.9 RPC R, Panamá
566091.0? unID but likely R Vida, Colombia, heard at home last year on
5661 91.0
566291.1 Super Q//90.5
566393.1 unID but REL_TALK on RDS, thinking R Hogar, Panamá
566494.9 see below!
566595.1 Visión Global, Panamá, but no ID---strictly //stream
566699.2 [sic] CARACOL R, Bucaramanga, Colombia---none listed on 99.1 or
5667 99.3
5668100.5 unID but believed to be Clásicos FM, Maracaibo VEN, playing
5669 train wreck of Tiffany then Rolling Stones
5670103.7 Play FM, Panamá
5671
5672I hope to put my unID's together for a YouTube. TV was wild as well,
5673up to ch 6 with Venevisión, believed to be Barquisimeto VEN.
5674
5675Click below:
5676https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIf83607fw
5677
5678Florida Keys FM DX: Líder 94.9 (read below)
5679
5680CHRISTOPHER DUNNE 138 subscribers --- Here is not only reception of
5681Líder 94.9 Barquisimeto, Venezuela, from Veterans Park at Little Duck
5682Key, Florida---but also the RDS "LIDER949".
5683
5684Distance per Free Map Tools = over 1,270 miles.
5685
5686Another blessing --- E-skip in September. This was on a very hot
5687afternoon of September 7, 2019. The park has reopened, after about 18
5688months, due to damage from Hurricane Irma in September 2017. NOTE: The
5689antenna was nowhere near power lines. That could be dangerous. The
5690angle looks like it's close (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, Sept 8-9,
5691WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
5692
5693Great Asian TP MW opening this morning (20 Sept.) at 1125 for a
5694half-hour into the eastern, California desert --- Stephen P. McGreevy
5695
5696I actually managed to arise early (not easy these days) and thought to
5697get out to the radio-room in my shop building here in Keeler, CA -
5698southern Owens Valley, and first checked 972 HLCA (KBS) - South Korea
5699- I noted a HUGE signal peaking up to S9(!!) on my DX-200 with a
5700Tecsun Loop at 1125, and over the next 10 minutes faded up and down
5701but never out between S2 to S8, even overwhelming the 970 mixture
5702(generally 970 Portland, OR dominates here at that time). During this
5703amazing signal peaking I could easily hear their audio with a big 2
5704kHz het on my original GE SuperRadio out on another workbench out of
5705the radio room, and the het was loud on even a small, insensitive
5706portable radio. I spent the most time on 972 recording this amazing
5707signal peak - I think the strongest I have ever noted HLCA here.
5708
5709Scanning the MW band with the SuperRadio, the band was full of hets
5710similar to being on a beach! Others noted on the DX-200/AN-200 loop:
5711
57121206 China (presumed) in either Mandarin or another Chinese dialect
5713peaking S2 and fair audio and minimal 1200/1210 slop - 1135.
5714
5715774 JOUB Akita (NHK-2) not very strong at about 1140 but in there in
5716Japanese but it did not sound like the usual EE language lessons I
5717catch after 1200.
5718
5719828 JOBB Osaka weak audio // 774 as usual.
5720
5721819 (KRE?) notable 1 kHz het on 820 XEABC Mexicali - I don't think
5722this station is running their full listed 500 kW or else directional
5723with reduced ERP to the NE. I noted that during my November 2010 Oahu
5724DXpedition that 819 Pyongyang was a similar strength signal overall to
5725820 WBAP Texas - shifting the loop orientation favored one or the
5726other and the whopping 1 kHz het.
5727
57281566 HLAZ FEBC Cheju Do Isl., KOR peaked up to S3 at the TOH at 1200
5729but not impressive.
5730
5731Upon a re-check of these at 1300 as dawn broke, everything was much
5732weaker. Glad I arose earlier than usual!
5733
5734On Thursday afternoon (19 Sept.), I rolled out an approx. 200m NW
5735short-BOG and terminated it with a 3-foot ground-rod into moist
5736alkaline soil next to the Owens dry lakebed and a horse pasture about
57372 km NW of Keeler for future local DXpeditions coming (good spot for
5738low-hum ELF "natural-radio" listening, too). I was too groggy this
5739morning to drive out there, however! -- 73 - Stephen P. McGreevy -
5740N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com IRCA iog via DXLD)
5741
5742I have to say I'm impressed. 'Good to read about some really good DX
5743happening here in California (Mike Sanburn, KG6LJU, Sept 20, ibid.)
5744
5745THANKS, Mike! Well it is now the equinox and TP DX at this
5746solar-minimum period should be even better than in autumn 2018, which
5747I thought was pretty great! My fave DX is TP and I sure miss doing it
5748out at Pt. Reyes in the 80s... -- 73 (Stephen P. McGreevy - N6NKS -
5749www.auroralchorus.com ibid.)
5750
5751Thanks for the TP-DX report from Keeler, CA, Stephen!
5752
5753972-HLCA is usually the strongest TP signal here as well, often fading
5754in around 0230 PDT local (0930 UT) and then drifting in and out of
5755audio until around 1300 UT, when it is usually around S9 until Asian
5756propagation collapses. The station is a "Big Gun" favorite for testing
5757out the 5" Frequent Flyer FSL's in between trips to Hawaii.
5758
5759819-KCBS (in Pyongyang) had monster signals for me as well during a
5760Kona, Hawaii trip in December of 2017, with overpowering girl group
5761songs rocking the Kona motel beach a few hours after sunset
5762https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/gj2deffl7mjuzqr5tocsro100sfhqll9
5763
5764It can occasionally manage fairly strong audio here in Puyallup, WA as
5765well, although a semi-local on 820 has a tendency to cover it up.
5766Considering the quality of its programming, maybe that's not such a
5767bad thing? :-) 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), ibid.)
5768
5769:Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
5770:Issued: 2019 Sep 16 0139 UTC
5771# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
5772Center
5773# Product description and SWPC contact on the Web
5774# https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services
5775#
5776# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
5777#
5778Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 09 - 15 September 2019
5779
5780Solar activity was at very low levels. No spots were observed on the
5781visible disk. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available
5782coronagraph imagery.
5783
5784No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
5785
5786The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was
5787moderate to high levels throughout the summary period due to
5788influence from multiple CH HSSs. A maximum flux of 8,450 pfu was
5789observed at 09/1745 UTC.
5790
5791Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. An
5792isolated period of active was observed on 09 Sep in response to a
5793positive polarity CH HSS increasing solar wind speeds to ~525 km/s.
5794Isolated unsettled conditions, associated with further enhancements
5795from multiple positive polarity CH HSSs, were observed on 12-15 Sep.
5796Quiet conditions were observed over the remainder of the summary
5797period.
5798
5799Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
580016 September - 12 October 2019
5801
5802Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels over the outlook
5803period.
5804
5805No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
5806
5807The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
5808expected to reach high levels on 16-19 Sep and 27 Sep - 12 Oct.
5809Moderate levels are expected from 20-26 Sep. All enhancements in
5810electron flux are due to elevated wind speeds from multiple,
5811recurrent, CH HSSs.
5812
5813Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to G2
5814(Moderate) storm levels. G2 conditions are likely on 27-28 Sep; G1
5815(Minor) conditions are likely on 29 Sep; active conditions are
5816likely on 30 Sep and 02 Oct; unsettled conditions are likely on
581716-18 Sep, 23 Sep, 26 Sep, 01 Oct, 03 Oct, 06 Oct, 10 Oct and 12
5818Oct. All enhancements in geomagnetic active are in response to the
5819anticipated influence of multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. The remainder
5820of the outlook period is expected to be mostly quiet under nominal
5821solar wind conditions.
5822
5823:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
5824:Issued: 2019 Sep 16 0139 UTC
5825# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
5826Center
5827# Product description and SWPC contact on the Web
5828# https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services
5829#
5830# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
5831# Issued 2019-09-16
5832#
5833# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
5834# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
58352019 Sep 16 68 6 3
58362019 Sep 17 68 8 3
58372019 Sep 18 68 10 3
58382019 Sep 19 68 5 2
58392019 Sep 20 68 5 2
58402019 Sep 21 68 5 2
58412019 Sep 22 68 5 2
58422019 Sep 23 69 8 3
58432019 Sep 24 69 5 2
58442019 Sep 25 69 5 2
58452019 Sep 26 69 10 3
58462019 Sep 27 69 35 6
58472019 Sep 28 69 45 6
58482019 Sep 29 69 20 5
58492019 Sep 30 69 10 4
58502019 Oct 01 69 8 3
58512019 Oct 02 69 10 4
58522019 Oct 03 69 8 3
58532019 Oct 04 69 5 2
58542019 Oct 05 69 5 2
58552019 Oct 06 69 12 3
58562019 Oct 07 70 5 2
58572019 Oct 08 68 5 2
58582019 Oct 09 68 5 2
58592019 Oct 10 68 8 3
58602019 Oct 11 68 5 2
58612019 Oct 12 68 8 3
5862(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 2000, DXLD) ###