DX LISTENING DIGEST 6-108, July 24, 2006
	Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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** AFRICA. Hi Glenn, the Africalist database has been updated 
yesterday: http://www.africalist.de.ms 
73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

Viz.: http://africa.coolfreepage.com/africalist/ 
Archivo: http://africa.coolfreepage.com/africalist/africalist.pdf 
73 (José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ALASKA. 3230 kHz, WNJI929: 1800, SSB, Alaskan bush stns 23 July 06 

Many HF stations throughout remote areas of Alaska are using the same 
callsign: WNJI929. Most of these "camps" are transient, often staffed 
by biologists, law enforcement, geologists, support crews etc.
Communications doctrine was very confusing at first when I tuned 
across this net. With many using the same callsign of WNJI929. They 
are using their location "Clear Creek" or "Sparse Ridge" as the actual 
ident. Plenty of casual net chatter and personal discussion. Other 
listed frequencies for this activity are: 4461, 4561 and 5196 kHz. 
3230 is the main channel for these remote camps (Attu Bosch, Alaska, 
July 23, UDXF yg via DXLD)

** ALBANIA. See GREECE

** ALGERIA [non]. 7150, R. Algiers via U.K., 2250-2259*, July 18, 
Arabic, OM and YL with talks over vocal music. Chanting/drums followed 
by OM with sign-off announcements, frequency schedule, more 
chants/drums then pips at sign-off. Fair. // 9710-fair/poor (Scott 
Barbour, NH, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looks like it`s here to 
stay (gh, DXLD)

** ARGENTINA. 2540 kHz, Radio Provincia (2 por 1270 / armónico) sinpo 
24332, Buenos Aires, OM "en provincia ...", OM ID "por AM 1270 Buenos 
Aires Radio", 26 junio,  primera vez escuchada en este salto del 
armónico / me sorprendió escucharla en los 120 m (Héctor Álvaro 
Gutiérrez, Lima, Perú, Conexión Digital July 23 via DXLD)

** ARGENTINA. 530 kHz, 18/7 0337, La Voz de las Madres, Buenos Aires - 
Argentina. QSA: 3; ID: "AM 530 La Voz de las Madres, la primera de la 
izquierda, Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo". "A nosotros nos 
preocupa que estén secuestrando radios... el secuestro es un delito" 
(Eve de Bonafini) refieren, entre otras, a la usurpación de la 
frecuencia 1110 kHz de la ex-Radio Argentina. 0405 programa "Pedacito 
de Cielo". QRM: R. República, San Justo (530) anunciando que "...Desde 
el primero de abril ocupó la frecuencia 530 La Voz de las Madres..." 
en alusión a la interferencia que ello les ocasiona.

6214.1, 15/7 1746, R. Baluarte, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones. QSA: 3, 
mensaje cristiano en portugués "Lucas 18-10" Saludos! (Rubén Guillermo 
Margenet, Casilla de Correo 950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, ARGENTINA, July 
23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See BOLIVIA for intro

** ARGENTINA [and non]. Re: ``TDP has this listed as a Harris SW-100 
of 1977 so something must have "occurred" to make it non-tunable.`` 

Could it be that they ordered the transmitter without certain parts as 
a cost-cutting measure? This is the case with the Telefunken S4001 at 
Berlin-Britz, used for 6005 kHz. This rig is not frequency-agile like 
its "brothers" at Jülich, because it lacks the parts needed for quick 
retuning. Hereby it is not nailed to 6005 for all times, but it would 
be almost a modification of the transmitter to change the frequency. 
(Actually they did this with the old 6005 transmitter from 1950, now 
on air with DLF programming on 6190.) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 23, 
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

General Pacheco is (or at least was earlier) also a location of 
coastal station General Pacheco Radio. I used to contact them in 
1970's/80's on shortwave when my ship was carrying Argentine cargoes. 
73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, July 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING 
DIGEST) Still 

** AUSTRALIA. The Aboriginal Resource and Development Services (ARDS), 
has reactivated its HF operation from its facility at Humpty Doo, near 
Darwin. Upgraded transmission equipment is now in use, on 5050, 
running 24 hours with test broadcasts.

Coverage is mainly for the Yolngu peoples of north-east Arnhem Land,
augmenting local coverage from Darwin on 1520 kHz, several VHF 
services in remote districts, and via Australia-wide free-to-air 
satellite.

Signal strength observed here in Melbourne is very good in the night-
time period from around 0900 until 2200. Regards from Melbourne! (Bob 
Padula, July 19, shortwaves yg via DXLD)

** AUSTRALIA. Penta Marine radio Communications, VZX, located at 
Firefly NSW will cease voice services on 30 September according to 
their web site. http://www.pentacomstat.com.au

The note advises that a limited service shall continue to that date
"for those members who retained their membership for the last year"

Penta Comstat is a private HF Radio Communications System
for yachts and pleasure craft and has operated for over 25 years.

SailMail services are to continue according to the notice.

Most traffic through this station has been with yachts, etc.,
in NSW and Queensland coastal waters and adjacent Pacific areas.

Weather forecasts broadcast covered these areas. However the 
establishment during 2002 of the Bureau of Meteorology stations, 
particularly VMC with comprehensive free to air weather information 
and coastal reports coupled with the availability of mobile telephone
services along the coast would probably have a bearing on the 
viability of the Penta service.

Last evening, VKT307, Mersey Radio, Devonport, TAS, was monitored on 
4483 kHz working yachts as far away as Vanuatu with similar traffic to 
that often heard through Penta Radio (Allen Fountain, Australia, July 
15, UDXF via DXLD)

** AUSTRALIA. Radio 2 Sydney --- Driving to work this morning at 7:30 
am Sydney time Monday. Radio 2, Sydney, 1611, was dead air for the 
whole trip (about an hour) Technical probs? or financial/corporate? 73 
de (Jem Cullen, http://www.qsl.net/vk2jem July 24, ARDXC via DXLD)

G'day Jem, no problems with Radio 2 1620 in Brisbane. Cheers (John 
Smith, ibid.)

Radio 2 gone dark on the Aurora platform --- G'day list, Re Radio 2, 
both channels on the Aurora platform have gone dark - the money has 
run out. It is a mystery to me how the transmitters around the country 
are getting a px feed if the feed is dead !! (Cheers, Chris Martin, 
ibid.)

** AUSTRALIA, 2325 kHz, 1311- July 20, VL8T Tennant Creek. Very good 
reception with a call-in car show. Nothing on 2310 Alice Springs, nor 
2485 Katherine (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, 
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

And the 6080 NT Service relay is still there; bad QRM from VOA to 
Africa at 2000 (Chris Hambly, Victoria, July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BELARUS. 11930, 0400- July 20, Belarussian Radio. After open 
carrier, jingle at 0359:30, interval signal once at 0400 and ID, not 
Radio Belarus or Belaruskaya Radio. I thought they said Radio 
Stalitsa, but it sounds in fact more like 'Radio Fax' or the like. S7 
to S8 signal. They mentioned the evacuation of Belarusian citizens 
from Lebanon! Time check at 0412 and ID. I'm sure they're saying 
'Radio Fact' (probably as opposed to Radio Fax). (Walt Salmaniw, 
Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. Hola a todos, Desde el 14 al 18 de julio me fui a 
descansar nuevamente a las Sierras de Córdoba, unos 40 kilómetros más 
hacia el norte de Bialet Massé donde yo había estado en junio pasado, 
exactamente elegí Huerta Grande que es una pequeña localidad 
urbanísticamente unida a La Falda, en el centro del Valle de Punilla. 
Muchos prefieren el mar... pero yo no lo cambio por el verde, el 
clima, las montañas y - en suma - el paisaje incomparable que alegra 
la vida e incita a disfrutar... también de la radio!

Los horarios más adecuados para escuchar bandas tropicales han sido 
desde las 0900 a las 1200 y de las 2100 a la 0100 UT. Mi mayor empeño 
fue tratar de sacar el mejor provecho en los 60 y 90 metros. La 
siguiente es la nómina de captaciones realizadas durante mi estadía en 
Huerta Grande. [see also ARGENTINA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, EQUATORIAL 
GUINEA, PERU]

4409.9, 16/7 2330, R. Eco, Reyes, Dep. Beni. QSA: 3 "Amigos, ésta es 
Radio Eco de Reyes, exactamente son las 19 horas, 7 de la noche 30 
minutos, estamos transmitiendo en 4410, banda internacional de 65 
metros onda corta, directamente desde la capital de la Provincia 
Ballivián, Reyes", programa "Música de Recuerdos". 17/7 2330, programa 
"El Mejicano". 18/7 0100 ID: "Desde la capital de la Provincia 
Ballivián, Reyes, en el Departamento del Beni, República de Bolivia, 
transmite Radio Eco 4410 kHz, banda internacional de 65 metros, onda 
corta". S. off 0107 anunciando continuar por FM.

4545.2, 17/7 2240, R. Virgen de Remedios, Tupiza. QSA:5 !!! Comentario 
sobre el martirio, la persecución religiosa a los católicos y la 
eliminación de imágenes en España. Nunca antes escuchada con tan 
nítida señal (SINFO = 55444).

4716.8, 15/7 1120, R. Yura, Yura. QSA: 3. Comentario sobre la Asamblea 
Nacional Constituyente. 16/7 0102 ID + slogan: "La Voz de los Aires 
del Sudoeste Potosino" QSA: 4! Saludos y complacencias musicales. 1255 
"Les hemos presentado el sector de los avisos, hasta la próxima" QSA: 
3. 2344 con bellas canciones típicas, QSA: 5 !!! (SINFO = 55444).

4763.2, 16/7 1200, R. Chicha, Tocla. QSA: 2 ID: "Están en sintonía de 
Radio Chicha... hacia todo el país".

4781.5, 17/7 1111, R. Tacana, Tumupasa. QSA: 2 "Aquí comienza el 
informativo Tacana con Adolfo González".

4796.4, 17/7 1130, R. Malku, Uyuni. QSA: 4! Top de la hora. "Bolivia 
en Contacto, el noticiero nacional que une al país". 1205 noticias de 
la erupción del volcán Tumuragua.

6079.8, 18/7 2156, R. San Gabriel, La Paz. QSA: 3 en quechua o aymará. 
QRM: R. Novas de Paz (6080). Saludos! (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, 
Casilla de Correo 950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, ARGENTINA, July 23, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. Rádio Nacional da Amazônia with surprisingly loud signal 
and beautiful slow bossa music by female upon compositions by Vinícius 
de Moraes and Erasmo and Roberto Carlos... "22 minutos para as 3 da 
tarde..." followed by futebol transmission from Maracaná stadium. RNA 
is a regular here most of the time with little fading around our noon 
and // 6185 after sunset, improving with every hour (Raúl Saavedra, 
Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably 11780

** BRAZIL. BRASIL – Já faz pelo menos uns dois meses que a programação 
que é irradiada em 4975 kHz é da Rádio Mundial, de São Paulo (SP). 
Pelo jeito, o Grupo CBS, detentor da freqüência, desistiu de fazer uma 
mescla com a programação da Rádio Iguatemi neste canal. A emissora foi 
ouvida, em Veranópolis (RS), pelo colunista, em 22 de julho, às 2000. 
A estação apresentou a seguinte identificação: ``FM Mundial, 
acreditando na vida!``

BRASIL – A Rádio Guarujá, de Florianópolis (SC), voltou a ser captada, 
em ondas curtas, pela freqüência de 5980 kHz. Primeiramente, em 
Altamira do Paraná (PR), pelo Reinaldo Gomes, em 18 de julho, entre 
1420 e 2200. Ele ouviu os segmentos: Repórter Guarujá Edição Nacional, 
Conexão Guarujá, Vanguarda Esportiva e Guarujá Esportes. Segundo ele, 
a emissora apresentou um excelente sinal. Em Veranópolis (RS), o 
colunista captou a emissora, também com excelente sinal, em 22 de 
julho, às 2024, quando emitia o jogo do campeonato brasileiro entre 
Figueirense e Grêmio

BRASIL – O Diário Oficial da União publicou portaria que dá a pessoas 
portadoras de necessidades especiais o acesso a todo o conteúdo da 
programação da radiodifusão brasileira. Elas terão à sua disposição 
recursos como dublagem, áudio-descrição, legenda oculta e janela com 
intérprete da Língua Brasileira de Sinais. As empresas terão um prazo 
de 11 anos para se adaptar, mas daqui a dois anos pelo menos uma hora 
da programação já deve estar acessível. As informações são do site 
http://www.rets.org.br. A dica é do Paulo Roberto e Souza, de Tefé 
(AM). (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX July 23 via DXLD)

** BULGARIA. Radio Sofia in English with poor signal at a very unusual 
time, 1740, for 25m in Tiquicia on 11500 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, 
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. It`s not Larry Adler! I should have known this would be 
adding to RCI`s CanCon. The harmonica player heard filling brief 
breaks on RCI for the last few months is Claude Garden. Bill 
Westenhaver sent the inlay cards from the CD used for this: titled 
``Tender Harmonica stories``. There are 11 tracks:

 1, 1:24 Badinerie, 7th movement, BWV 1067, J S Bach
 2, 2:37 Siciliana, Pergolesi
 3, 4:34 Sonata in C, 1st movement, KV 545, Mozart
 4, 4:53 Sonata, Donizetti
 5, 4:15 Andante Con Variationi, Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 37, 2nd   
         movement, Beethoven
 6, 3:21 3rd Romance, Op. 94, Schumann
 7, 5:19 Six Romanian Folk Dances, Bartók
 8, 3:22 Alexandra, Claude Garden-Jardin
 9, 3:16 Portobello, Claude Garden-Jardin
10, 4:33 Danou`s Lullaby, Claude Garden-Jardin
11, 5:13 Romanian Rhapsody, Enesco
   43:01 TOTAL

From the Intermede Ambiance Music Collection, Montreal, INT-CD-111
from 1991. Other musicians and instruments are: Muriel Dupin, harp; 
Hélène Mercier, piano; Jean-Charles Guinaud, piano; Daniel Beaussier, 
oboe; Corrine Morris, `cello; Claude Garden plays a Hering harmonica
(via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 105.5, K-Rock, Charlottetown PEI, testing --- On the 5 p.m. 
[ADT = 20 UT] news on Ocean 100.3 [which IDs several times per hour as 
CHTN-FM, kind of nice for FM DXers] it was announced that Ocean's rock 
sister station has begun testing on 105.5. Regular programming is to 
begin mid next week.

K-Rock, like CHTN's flip to FM, was approved back in the spring. But 
the CRTC required Newcap to apply for a different frequency than 
originally sought. On July 11 the CRTC approved 105.5 with the same 
parameters as CHTN. This represents a pretty significant reduction 
in power and height from that originally sought.

The reduced power, reduced height, rather directional pattern won't be 
a problem on PEI. But very little signal will make it to NS. By 
contrast, NS FM stations CKTO, CKTY and CJFX kick lots of signal on to 
central and eastern PEI, while all the commercial Moncton NB FM 
stations kick lots of signal into western PEI. According to the 
contour maps I've reviewed, CKEC-FM, yet to take to the air, will kick 
lots of signal on to PEI too.

Darn problem is my car stereo only has 4 presets for FM! (Phil Rafuse, 
PEI, Listening to K-Rock 105.5 as I type this, July 21, ABDX via DXLD)

[later:] The call letters for K-Rock 105.5 are: CKQK. See, it pays to 
listen to a test broadcast! Oh, the music! Reminds me of back in the 
80s when I worked at 700 CFXU. I ordinarily didn't rock THAT hard, 
being more of a classic rock/new wave guy holding down afternoon drive  
along with newsanchor Anna DeMello. Fellow jock [actually jockess] 
Shauna MacKinnon [who is at 96.5 CKUL Halifax NS I believe] played a 
similar genre of music to yours truly. I was always way too rusty and 
stumbly on early mornings - like an old tube radio - which is why they 
put me on afternoon drive.

But K-Rock's music reminds me of the music played by CFXU legends 
Steve Engyel and "Fleabag". Those dudes rocked hard. They had a 
running bet as to who could knock the station off the air the most 
times in a month.

But we always got 700 CFXU back on pronto. Unlike 1410 CIGO 35 miles 
to the east, which was sometimes off for two weeks at a time when its 
transmitter took a hissy fit.

And we never had a tube explosion either - as we didn't have CJFX's 
1964 10 KW RCA that couldn't go above 85% modulation. Not to mention 
the Big X's 1947 back up transmitter, a Marconi that had to be run at 
1 KW for at least a half hour before it was "dialed up" to 5000 watts.  
And, how that Marconi did sputter! Of course, we didn't have the 
killer coverage of the Big X either.  

Just like 1050 CHUM, there was sometimes drifting in the CFXU parking 
lot. But we never heard WPOP in our headphones - unlike the poor guys 
and gals at CIGO. But now, they're all on FM - CIGO [The Hawk] on 
101.5, CJFX [X-FM] on 98.9 and 102.5, and CFXU [The Fox] on 92.5.

Oh the memories... Phil, In a land where sadly AM radio and dinosaurs 
dwell together. Look what happened to CHNS! http://www.chnsradio.com/ 
I must try tuning in 960 before it goes dark. They promised the CRTC 
an AC station. But MBS went for classic rock. Another oldies station 
bites the dust. Soon, another AM station goes dark (Phil Rafuse, 
ibid.)

** CHILE. 820, 18/7 0530, Cadena Portales-Corporación (no figura en el 
WRTH'06) ID: "Desde Iquique a Valdivia, tres emisoras Portales-
Corporación"; "Están sintonizando Cadena de emisoras Portales-
Corporación en la Quinta Región, Radio Corporación de San Felipe 96.1 
FM y en la Octava Región, Radio Portales de Lota 1530 AM unidas para 
...." QSA: 3/2 Saludos! (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Casilla de Correo 
950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, ARGENTINA, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CHINESE AIRSPACE --- The International Air Transport 
Association (IATA) has obtained China`s approval to implement a new 
route for international traffic, which reduces flight times between 
China and Europe by an average of 30 minutes. Officially known as Y-1, 
it is often referred to as IATA-1, reflecting IATA`s rôle in achieving 
this in coöperation with the Chinese government. Initially, 110 
flights a week could, potentially, benefit form IATA-1. Y-1, combined 
with Y-2, provides airlines with more route options when flying 
between Asia and Europe, allowing airlines better to optimise 
routings. IATA-1 will result in US$30 million in savings on the 
airlines` fuel bill.

Currently, only 30% of Chinese airspace is available for civil 
aviation. This has resulted in a shortage of international air routes 
over China, as well as restrictive flight planning policy when 
airlines plan their flight path. The insufficient airspace allocated 
for civil aviation has also resulted in air traffic delays at cities 
in the golden triangle, which is bounded by Beijing, Shanghai and 
Guangzhou. IATA-1 is an alternative to L888, which is currently used 
by few flights between Asia and Europe. As L888 is just north of the 
Himalayas, airlines using this route need to be specially retrofitted 
with additional oxygen equipment for the high terrain, as rapid 
descent may not be possible. Y2 together with Y1 (IATA-1) do not 
require similar special equipment (David Smith, Airband News, July 
Radiouser [UK] via DXLD)

** CHINA. 3900, 1337- July 20, Radio Hulun Buir. Don't recall seeing 
many loggings from this station. S5 signal strength with EZL vocals. 
Listed in the ILG as only 2000w, although DBS shows 7.5 kw. Sounds 
more like the former (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, 
BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

6950, 2108- July 20, CNR 1. Mandarin programming at strong levels and 
parallel to Radio Free Asia jammer on 7105. Interesting how despite 
the middle of summer and daylight path all the way (Shijiazhuang is at 
sunrise), reception is so strong. I suspect this is largely in part 
due to solar minimum. Don't mistake this one for an exotic pirate! 

9600, 2112- July 20, CRI English broadcast at fair to good levels from 
listed Kashi and 500 kW to Europe, but heard pretty well here. 
Parallels heard include 7190 (fair), and 9800 (poor). 7285 is fair 
also in English but a different program feed than the first two? 
Program ID's as 'China Drive on CRI' at 2138. Seems to be a local 
program for English speakers in China (?).(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, 
Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 11765, TAIWAN to China. Sound of Hope. 7/22/06, 
1605­1700 in Mandarin. M and W with talk buried under Chinese Opera 
jamming. Signal came up from 1612 to 1619, just long enough for an ID 
at 1615. Poor under jammer. 

11700, TAIWAN. Ming Hui Radio (Tan Sui). (Presumed) 7/22/06, 1515­1600 
in Mandarin Chinese. Pop, long talk by M, alternating short sections 
by M&W with musical bridges, long talk by M, music, talk over music, 
probable ID, time pips, off. Chinese opera jamming increased in volume 
and intrusivness as hour went on until signal was barely audible at 
the end. Jamming went off in time to clearly hear time pips! Good to 
very poor. Also heard 7/23/06 Fair. 

Ming Hui Radio: 1500­1600 11700 via Tan Shui, Taiwan. After hearing 
Ming Hui Radio today (7/22/06), I attempted to research that station 
with little luck. Ming Hui Radio is listed in the DX press as a 
religious and a political / targeted broadcast by the Falun Gong 
religious group. The Falun Gong are banned in China. Both they, and 
human rights groups such as Amnesty International, report that their 
members are persecuted and frequently die in police custody. The Falun 
Gong are blamed or credited (depending on your point of view) with 
intercepting and interjecting their programming and the ``9 
commentaries on the communist party`` on Chinese satellite television 
in 2004. The Falun Gong deny this.

Ming Hui Radio is listed in the Targeted broadcast of the WRTH A 06 
addition and ILG list, but there is no specific information on this 
station at Clandestine Radio.com or Clandestine Radio Watch (my 
favorite sources for clandestine / targeted broadcast information.)  
According to Clandestine Radio.com, the World Falun Gong does 
broadcast a program via KWHR at 1500­1600 on 9330 (at the same time at 
Ming Hui Radio), which was not audible here (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, 
Equipment: R-75, Sat 800, Sangean 909; 110' random wire, Eavesdropper, 
NASWA Flashsheet July 23 via DXLD)

** COLOMBIA. 6010.2, 18/7 0435, La Voz de Tu Conciencia, Puerto 
Lleras. QSA: 3, mensaje y música religiosa, 0458 tango "Blancas 
Margaritas", luego programa "Nociones de la Historia" con profecías 
menores. QRM: R. Inconfidência (6010) Saludos! (Rubén Guillermo 
Margenet, Casilla de Correo 950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, ARGENTINA, July 
23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Referring to recent postings, R. Rebelde was heard in 
Copenhagen signing on at 03 UT on 6120 this Sunday morning, July 23. 
Signal good. 73, (Erik Køie, Denmark, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I wonder if this could be classified as its own external service, 
alongside RHC whose mandate is external only (Glenn Hauser, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, 18/7 2130, R. Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial, 
Bata. QSA: 2 muy deficiente modulación, música autóctona y mensajes 
muy dificiles de entender (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Casilla de Correo 
950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, ARGENTINA, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ERITREA [non]. RUSSIA, 15260, 1622- July 20, Voice of Eritrea, 
listed in ILG as Thursdays only in presumed Tigrinya with impassioned 
talk by a male. Fair to good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen 
Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. JAPAN, 6120, 1422- July 20, ?RFI. Unlisted French 
transmission with mostly African news at excellent strength. Many 
mentions of 'we are all Nigerian', Morocco, Cape Town, etc. Radio du 
Monde mentioned at 1440, so I suspect this is RFI, but my ILG lists 
RFI in Vietnamese at this time from Yamata. Transmitter location sure 
fits. Off in mid-sentence at 1455 with no announcement (Walt Salmaniw, 
Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 
Wrong program feed?

** FRANCE [non]. RUSSIA, 7220.43, 1444- July 20, Radio France 
International. English program on this off-frequency. ILG lists Chita 
in the Russian Far East as the site with 500 kW to Asia. Some adjacent 
splatter. Wonder if this is a punch-up error since being so far off 
frequency is a rarity for Russian transmitters. USB to avoid het. 
Otherwise very good reception. ID for RFI at 1449 on 90.3! (Walt 
Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING 
DIGEST) At last we have this confirmed, apparently the only frequency 
carrying the 1400 English broadcast, once so easily heard in NAm (gh)

** GABON. Definitely, Africa #1 shows the best signal here after 1700 
on 15475. Social and sports commentaries mixed with West Africa pop 
music. SINPO 45544 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

** GERMANY. See ARGENTINA

** GREECE. 7450, RS Makedonia (Avlida) 7/23/06, 0250. Very strong 
level and non-stop Greek music. Not shown at this hour (Gerry Dexter, 
WI, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 

So no ID heard. How about Albanian music? If it was really Greece, R. 
Tirana has a big problem on its new frequency; this was UT Sunday when 
Tirana should have been on (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** HUNGARY. Desaparese Revista del Diexismo !!! Acabo de escuchar el 
espacio de ayer domingo de "Correo del Aire" con Sergio Pérez de Radio 
Budapest en donde manisfestó entre otras cosas que desaparecía por el 
momento el programa diexista quincenal "Revista del Diexismo" con 
László Garay y que sólo dos personas quedaban en la plantilla del 
departamento en español de esa radio. Triste noticia para la comunidad 
diexista mundial que gustábamos de dicho espacio. 73 (Dino Bloise, 
FLORIDA, EEUU, July 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

En el programa "Correo del Aire" de Radio Budapest, Sergio Pérez nos 
informa por los problemas económicos que está pasando la emisora.
Podemos escuchar entre otras frases:

"Quedan fuera de la programación algunos espacios importantes, entre 
ellos Revista del Diexismo"
"Se les ha dicho que esto es transitorio, pero este cuento lo hemos 
escuchado muchas veces y nunca se ha recuperado al personal y, mucho 
menos los programas"
"Por el momento han quedado 2 personas en plantilla"

Pueden escuchar el audio de este programa en:
http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/au_archivos/Correo_del_Aire_de_Radio_Budapest_23_07_2006.mp3
¡Otra emisora que se nos va! Un cordial saludo (José Bueno, Córdoba - 
España, July 24, Noticias DX via DXLD)

** INDIA. Who am I? I've been SWLing and DXing for nearly fifty years, 
although I had a long hiatus between 1988-2006. Now I've acquired a 
Collins 390A, which I need to dig out signals in my very poor 
location: Midwestern U.S. (doubleclick onfiltered = Mendota, 
Illinois). I'm running an EWE, a homebrew sloper, and I just put a DX-
1 Pro on the roof (with mixed results.) I've been mostly listening on 
higher bands - 25, 31 meters - to keep current on world events.

But today there was some skip - I logged AIR Nagpur on 1566 kHz! That 
is a very big deal in my location. This has me interested in MW and 
trop bands again. In addition to the 390A, I have an Etón E1XM, and I 
gave my ten year old son an Etón E10. Now he's got the bug, too.

BTW, as a demonstration of the awesome sensitivity of the Collins, the 
E1 yielded nothing on 1566 kHz while the 390A dug out a listenable 
bulletin of news - with the same antenna. And the E1, as you know, is 
a good rig.

I would say antenna theory and experimentation are my current 
interests - I'm doing trial and error with different grounding setups 
this week, with very interesting results. I'm trying to work out 
switchable ground radials for different bands - I'll let you know how 
that goes. Complicated!

When I get frustrated with bad reception here, I log into Kelly's 
Rommele DX site and pretend I have 7 EWE's of my own in the Swedish 
countryside. Regards, (Adam Brower, SW Bulletin July 23 via DXLD)

India to Illinois on MW is extraordinarily rare, even with a megawatt. 
How about details of time, date, program details, ID method? There 
would be only very small grayline windows around SR/SS at solstice 
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Look what you missed: India 1566 --- Hi Kaz, Thought you might be 
interested in this item, as I would be in your comments. I am 
inquiring to find out full details of date, time, program material, 
etc. 73, (Glenn Hauser to Neil Kazaross, IL, via DXLD)

I hope you can dig out more info. There's an awful lot of daylight 
along that transpolar path this time of year. I can see where this 
bears watching since there's really nothing strong on 1566 since the 
Swiss closed down (I've logged that). I could see where this high 
power could be possible and I get mid eastern high band openings with 
Kuwait 1548 and Farda 1575 and of course Saudi 1521 a few times a 
season, but certainly not in mid summer. 73 (Kurious KAZ, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

Hi Glenn... Thomas at SWB asked me to forward details of my catch to 
you. I was experimenting with groundings on my homebrew antenna on 
June 21st at around 2030. Receiver is Collins 390A, antenna is en end-
fed sloper, 9:1 balun. I had changed the ground to include the shield 
and ran upstairs. I had been looking for Brazilians around 1570 the 
night before and just left it there. When I tuned down from there I 
heard a very thready but audible YL reading a news bulletin in 
distinctly Indian-accented English. At first I thought it might be
a Guyana station, but she very plainly said "this is All India Radio" 
at the end of the news (2035 or so.) Vocal music followed (m & f "call 
and response") for around three minutes before it faded. There was a 
short fade up a minute later, then nothing. Nothing since, either.
I later verified the catch at dxtuners.com. Since I`m smack in the 
middle of this continent, this is certainly the best skip I`ve ever 
logged. I think I'll leave that ground just the way it is! Regards,
(Adam Brower, IL, UT July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Nagpur is right smack dab in the center of India, which is probably 
why it was chosen for a 1000 kW transmitter site, capable of covering 
most of the country from approx. 79 E, 21 N. 2035 CDT = 0135 UT, or 
0705 IST, i.e. close to SR at the transmitter and SS at the receiver. 
Perhaps someone will check out the grayline at that time on Summer 
Solstice to see what the path looks like in those terms (Glenn Hauser, 
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

The bearing to Nagpur is about 13 degrees. I wonder just how much of 
this transpolar path is in daylight at this time of the year!! Looking 
for Brazilians around 1570 ?!?!.. we do that in Newfoundland, but not 
Illinois. 73 from an admittadely skeptical KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

How about long path?? Plenty of darkness there, I suppose (Glenn to 
KAZ via IRCA, DXLD)

HLAZ, 1566, Jeju [a.k.a. Cheju], S Korea is a regular virtually all 
year long on the West Coast. I heard them in June when I DXed in Utah. 
I believe they have been heard in Oklahoma. I think they would be more 
likely heard in Illinois than India. Finally, I have had signal traces 
(no audio) of 1566 here in Maryland. The time cited would rule out 
HLAZ since that is late morning in Korea. Hearing Brazilians in 
Illinois on 1570 has me intrigued as all, given that 1570 is a crowded 
channel nowadays (Bill Harms, Elkridge, Maryland, IRCA via DXLD)

I recall even back in the GPN [Gordon P. Nelson] days of long ago, 
some discussion of paths not necessarily taking a straight line along 
(over) the earth's surface but rather bending in an arc. I now think 
it's possible that a signal could follow an arc along a grayline path. 
The time of day sounds possible for this to happen, but I am not 
nearly an expert in this. MW DXers have limited options to determine 
the direction from which a signal arrives, but I have heard reports of 
hams with directional LF antennas reporting signals coming from 
unexpected directions, not from the GCP (compass) path. And in July 
the sun is already noticeably moving away from its northern-most 
solstice approach to 23 degrees north. [misunderstanding of date of 
reception: see below]

I spent some time listening to Nagpur 1566 when I spent some time in 
Tamil Nadu and Kerala states a few years ago. The limited details he 
posted seem pretty valid to me, as far as it goes. I always thought 
this one was directional towards the north and northwest, perhaps to 
reach New Delhi and maybe Pakistan, and where I was (to the south) 
would have been off the back end, as it was never really strong for me 
in Madras. If so, then the ERP towards NAm is even greater than just
power alone would indicate. But here I am just speculating.

India can be somewhat secretive about details of their radio 
infrastructure. Maybe someone can find their site on Google and do a 
tower count, but I have no idea where exactly to start looking. Some 
fellow in Europe posted the coords of the VLF DHO38 site, on a LF 
list, and upon zooming in, (in maps.google.com) you could see the
red/white banding on the towers. This may be a similar case.

One of the big problems with understanding this kind of mechanism is 
the random haphazard nature of data collection. If more people had 
systems such as Nick Hall-Patch uses, to log and record carrier levels 
daily, we might find that receptions of unexpected signals could well 
happen more often than anyone expects. Remember the number of times
the Chinese FS station in Xinjiang was heard (1525 kHz) in the 
northeast US, probably a half dozen times in my own experience. The 
problem is that if propagation happens only a couple percent of the 
time, and DXers are listening to the correct frequency only a couple 
percentage of the time, the probability of success is the product of 
those numbers, which is a very small number. An automated signal 
logging receiver would then make the probability equal to only the 
propagation condition, as I see it.

So in short, yes, I believe it could happen, but very infrequently
(Bob Foxworth, Tampa FL, sent 0923 edt July 24, IRCA via DXLD)

Bob: I don't know about the LF data you mentioned, but there's been a 
bit of work on 160 meters by people with handfuls of Beverages. Tom 
Rauch (W8JI) and Bill Tippett (W4 something or another) come to mind 
first. Also Carl Luteschweig (present or former CQ Propagation editor, 
name badly mangled no doubt), K9 something or another. It seems to be 
frequent that signals coming over the pole or hitting the auroral 
zones are badly skewed. High latitude east coast to Europe paths show 
the signals arriving from (more or less) easterly directions rather 
than the expected NE or NNE.

But I have my doubts in this case. The reception was at 2035 CDT. 
Geoclock shows me that sunrise at Nagpur was 0544 local time (0014 
GMT, 1914 CDT). [misunderstanding of date of reception: see below]
That's 1 hour and 21 minutes before the reception. I have heard many 
TA's and TP's an hour or two after the relevant sunrise, but that 
happens with powerful signals (like Korea 1566 or West Germany 1586) 
and what was an S9+30 signal was then an S8 signal so long after 
sunrise. There's just no way to escape that D layer attenuation at the 
sunrise side of the path.

I'm also thinking about the part of the reception where he talked 
about Brazil on 1570. That ain't gonna happen anywhere in NA except 
Newfoundland. Frankly, I wonder if this guy is doing some wishful 
thinking. As for the "details", I couldn't even call them details. For 
all that was described, it could have been a test of the supposed-to-
be-on-the-air-soon Benin 1566 superpower transmitter.

As for the part about limited options for MW direction finding, I'd 
say MW DXers are more loop-friendly than any other group and most 
understand that you can do decent DF'ing on TA / TP paths. I continue 
to see 160 meter hams that don't believe this is possible because 
"skywave propagation scrambles things too much". It's the 160 meter 
crowd that is usually optionless in my mind (Chuck Hutton, WA, ibid.)

I am not questioning his catch, just want to add that Iran is as 
strong as AIR on 1566 here in Finland (Mauno Ritola, ABDX via DXLD)

I don`t know who I had, but I had a monster heterodyne on 1566 and a 
little very muffled audio. It was unusual to have that happen here in 
Arizona (Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Exactly when?? (gh)

Tnx for everyone`s comments about this. I find it a fascinating 
discussion. Just one point. Bob Foxworth apparently got the impression 
it just happened in July. Actually the date was June 21, UT June 22, 
right at solstice. 73, (Glenn, IRCA via DXLD) 

I thought it was July too, since the first message to the IRCA list 
yesterday said "reception today" and was dated July 23 at the bottom. 
I'm mentioning this because the sunrise / sunset times I gave were for 
July 23. For June 23, the times are: Nagpur sunrise = 1903 CDT, and 
Chicago sunset = 2030 CDT. In other words, there's even more path in 
daylight (Chuck Hutton, WA, ibid.)

Glenn, you are right, and I had indeed thought this was a very recent 
log. As we know, this June date now makes my skew hypothesis somewhat 
more _unlikely_ as daylight would then illuminate a lot more of the 
path.

As for the possibility of true long-path, I would not want to even 
speculate on that. I'd think the number of hops would just create too 
much attenuation.

I gather that the Illinois DXer does not have any audio recording. I 
say this because Mauno Ritola is reporting that Iran is about equal to 
Nagpur at his Finland QTH. I would not want to rule out this 
possibility as well, and an audio recording would help ID this.

I appreciate Chuck Hutton's valuable input as well. It would be 
interesting to rent one of the W8JI beverages and camp out on 1566 
with a continuous level recorder running. One big mystery (Bob 
Foxworth, ibid.)

I find it interesting that in many cases, not just this one, that the 
really fantastic DX claims go unrecorded, even with today's technology 
that allows you to record for days at a crack with minimal equipment. 
Hmmmmm .... (John K9RZZ, Milwaukee, ibid.) And how often the details 
are non-existent, too... (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.) 

The dating style I use in DX Listening Digest, and highly recommend 
for use elsewhere:

Date always goes next to the time in the body of the item. NOT in the 
credit line, as so many DXers format their reports, inexplicably.

If there is a date in the credit line, it refers to the date of the 
report, or the date of the publication quoted, which is likely to be 
later, sometimes much later, than the date of reception. Lacking a 
date of reception, we may have nothing to go on but the date of report 
or publication, but in this case (India 1566) the date was included in 
the body of the report, once he sent the details. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 
ibid.)

** INDONESIA. 2960, 1318- July 20, RPDT Manggarai. A real treat and a 
regular on the DXpedition circuit with female announcer taking calls 
in Bahasa Indonesia. Giggling. S5 signal a good hour after local 
sunrise. Some ham type interference. Not heard the following 3 
mornings.

3345.04, 1337- July 22, RRI Ternate. Powerful reception with very 
powerful modulation, and a female announcer repeatedly saying 'Don't 
Forget', which I think is the title of the song which they then aired 
(a local artist) --- yes, just as I type this you can hear 'Don't 
forget' in a song otherwise in Bahasa Indonesian. Pretty close to a 5-
5-5 signal. Sounds like a live recording from an auditorium since 
there's a hollowness to the broadcast. Also a male announcer, but the 
female does most of the talking. Ternate mentioned a number of times 
at 1359. Still booming in. No news or ID at 1400, only a continuation 
of the same broadcast (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, 
BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9525.98, V. of Indonesia, 1035-1114, 22 July, Chinese 
language programming. 1059 usual correspondence English announcement 
by M, live W announcer including ID and address. Xylophone music at 
1100 with same W voice-over. Decent strength and clear. Quite a bit 
off frequency.

Both 4869.94 Wamena and 4870.90 Sorong were on this morning at 
1031 23 July (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via DXLD)

** IRAN [non]. See LITHUANIA

** ISRAEL. Kol Israel with English service on 11590 at 1743, unusual 
time for good propagation on 25 m here with news bulletin, tennis news 
and the usual weather forecast by female Peggy Bishop (?) before 
closing, time pips for 1745, followed by Italian service. Fair signal 
with static noise. SINPO 45333 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via 
DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1745 is Romanian (gh) see also LEBANON

** KOREA NORTH. Coming through loud and clear in May:

3970, Kwangwong PS at 2225 UT, SINPO 44434
3920, North Pyongyang PS at 2235 UT, SINPO 44334
4015, Kwanghong PS at 2245 UT, SINPO 44434 (Simon Rudd, Manchester UK, 
LM&S broadcast matters, July Radiouser [UK] via DXLD)

These identities are at variance with references, which do not agree 
with each other, either:

PWBR `2006` has nothing on 4015, but 24h on
3920, North Pyongyang PS, Sinuiju
3970v, Kangwong PS, Wonsan
PS means Provincial Station, or Pangsong

WRTH 2006 has nothing on 4015;
3920, Hyesan
3970, Wonsan

HFCC A-06 & EiBi A-06: none of these are listed

ILG: lists only 3970 as Pyongyang, but inactive or temporarily closed

S. Aoki`s list shows power as only 5 kW, all 1234567 = daily:
3920 KCBS Pyongyang 2000-1800 Korean 5 ND Hyesan KRE 12802E4104 KCBS 
3970 KCBS Pyongyang 2000-1800 Korean 5 ND Wonsan KRE 12725E3905 KCBS 
3970 PYONGYANG BS   1800-2000 Korean 5 ND Wonsan KRE 12725E3905 PBS 
and nothing on 4015, so is anyone else hearing anything on 4015? 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAIWAN, 9485, 1321- July 20. Shiokaze program, 
superb reception at S9 + 20 in Japanese today [Thu] with lists of 
names over piano. Very weak cochannel, but barely audible so not a 
problem. This went on until 1326:20 and then into their canned ID and 
information for Shiokaze. Many mentions of Shiokaze, and Tokyo, tampa 
and kHz. No mentions of email or www that I could hear. Off precisely 
at 1330. See below for their English broadcast on July 21st  (Walt 
Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

9485, 1300- July 21 [Friday], Shiokaze program. Superb reception this 
morning in English. CNR was audible before the start of the program, 
but not a problem (here at least) once the program started. 
Fascinating start to the program with their description of the purpose 
of the program. By 1303:45 went into the list of the abducted citizens 
starting in 1914 birth year. I rechecked at 1324 and the years were up 
to 1979. The same information as at the beginning was repeated at the 
end of the program. When giving the internet information, he says 
'dot toe' for dot. Ends with 'thank you for listening. See you next 
time.' Off at 1329:50 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, 
BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9785, 2029- July 21, Shiokaze program. I haven't seen anyone report 
their morning transmission. Not in English today [UT Fri, local Sat] 
(but was local last night) at fair level. I believe in Japanese at 
only fair level with identical Shiokaze sign-on (Walt Salmaniw, 
Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15110, 17.7 0450, A small curiosity tip: Radio Kuwait with 
language lesson where they very fast repeated a lot of phrases type 
"Do you mind if I smoke", "Do you smoke", "Do you have a cigarette", 
"Do you have a match"... Slightly absurd, you can say, but perhaps 
they still smoke like chimneys in Kuwait? AHK (Anders Hultqvist, 
Sweden, SW Bulletin July 23, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for 
DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** LATVIA. Radio Tatras International cease the relays from Kuldiga 
Latvia 1350 AM (50 kw) since July 7. 2006. Till this time Radio Tatras 
International (owner Jan Telensky) not paid to broadcasting company 
LVRTC (owner of 1350 AM transmitter facility in Latvia) about 
programme relay on 1350 AM. This make doubt the Radio Tatras 
International have the financial ability to commence broadcasts in DRM 
(J. Hofstadt, Germany? with a .de address, July 24, MWC via DXLD)

Identical message posted on HCDX by: Charlie Prince RADIO JOYSTICK 
Postfach 10 08 12 45408 Muelheim an der Ruhr ALLEMAGNE (gh, DXLD)

This is from a spam E-mail apparently originating in Latvia. 
Apparently someone has sent it out unsolicited to people whose E-mail 
addresses appear on Anorak websites. Eric Chilvers of RTI thinks it's 
from someone angry that RTI has put its 51% stake in KrebsTV up for 
sale. Whether the allegation about non-payment is true I don't know. I 
do know that Eric told me several months ago that they were planning 
to pull out of Latvia (Andy Sennitt, ibid.)

** LEBANON [and non]. VOICE OF LEBANON RESURRECTED 
   From a report in today's Guardian:

Info war goes personal with voicemail and text message [sic]
Clancy Chassay in Tyre, Monday July 24, 2006

The Israeli forces have also resurrected the old Voice of Lebanon
radio station, once operated by Israel's military ally the South
Lebanon Army before it was defeated by Hizbullah in 2000. Previously
funded by Israel, frequency 103.7 is once again broadcasting the
Israeli line. "Why do those people blame Israel for defending itself
against terrorism?" the commentator asks in Arabic. "Why should we let
terrorists bomb our homes?"  Full report (Registration required):
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1827575,00.html
(via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD)

"Good evening and shalom (peace) from Jerusalem" is how Kol Israel 
closes its radio broadcast full of terrible news from yet another 
Middle East war. Let us next tune our receiver to the frequency of 
7540 kHz..." Extensive article 
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/me060724 
(Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) & see LITHUANIA below

Sounds of destruction and hate: Listening to the Lebanon-Israel 
conflict on shortwave and Web radio 
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/me060724
(via Mauno Ritola, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD)

Good article, but overlooks the 0330-0345 UT English broadcast from 
Israel on 11590 13720, 17600; Iran`s Lithuania relay on 7540 has been 
missing again lately and some other English broadcasts are also on SW, 
such as 0130-0230 on 7235, 9495; and Syria`s English hours must be 
given in local rather than UT of 2005 & 2110 (Glenn Hauser, response 
posted to the above article at Media Network, via DXLD)

Sheldon Harvey has published a special edition of his Radio HF 
Internet Newsletter with links relating to the current conflict. For a 
copy, or to subscribe free, contact info @ radiohf.ca (Glenn Hauser, 
July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA [and non]. July 24 at 1403 found the African music jammer on 
17635, right next to ANO on 17630; still at 1443 recheck and 
presumably running until the usual 1530*. Perhaps Sawt al-Amel was on 
17635 earlier this date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LITHUANIA. [IRAN non]. Again no IRIB relay from Sitkunai tonight on 
7540, for at least the fourth day in a row. When had it been heard for 
the last time before last Friday? Indeed cancelled, and if so, why? 
Can't help but suspect a political background here (Kai Ludwig, July 
24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

Sitkunai, yes - missed also 11555 kHz Italian relay at 0630 UT on Sun 
and Mon. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, July 24, ibid.)

** MADAGASCAR. 5010, Radio Madagasikara, 1908-1918, escuchada con 
sorprendente señal el 22 de julio en idioma vernacular a locutor en 
conversación distendida con invitado en programa musical; se 
identifica como "Radio Madagasikara", muchas referencias a Madagascar, 
SINPO 44433. Archivos de audio: 
http://valenciadx.multiply.com/music/item/158 
(José Miguel Romero, EA5-1022, Sacañet (Castellón), España, SANGEAN 
ATS 909, Antena Hilo de 7 metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 15295, 1624- July 20, Voice of Malaysia. Fair to mostly 
good reception in the clear in Arabic. I recall years ago that this 
was quite a DX catch. They must have been running much lower power 
then, and were slightly off frequency. Bang on now with listed 200 kW 
according to ILG (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, 
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALDIVE ISLANDS. A VIBRANT MEDIA [sic] UNDER PRESSURE: AN 
INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF PRESS FREEDOM IN THE MALDIVES --- 19 July 

From 3 to 7 May 2006, the International Press Freedom Mission - an
independent group of international organisations working to promote
international standards on press freedom and freedom of expression -
undertook a fact-finding mission to the Maldives.

The Mission meet with high officials of the government, including the 
Attorney General and the Information Minister, media community 
(including journalists working in opposition, pro-government and
government-owned media), civil society, detained journalists, the 
Human Rights Commission and diplomats.

The Mission found clear examples of harassment, intimidation and 
attacks against media practitioners and dissenting voices in the 
country. However, the Mission also observed the opening up of the 
freedom of expression space and a growth in independent media over the
past 18 months. . . http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18305
(via Mike Cooper, DXLD)

** MONACO. 3AC8, MONACO RADIO
DATE: 23-07-2006     TIME: 1730-1735 UT
FREQUENCY: 8728 KHz  SIGNAL: GOOD
MODULATION: USB      PROGRAM: WEATHER FORECAST
LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD CLIP http://francec58.multiply.com/music/item/152
# posted by SWL STATION I0-5639 @ 18:08 (Francesco Ceccone, Italy, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST) Nice with music IS, multilingual IDs, SSB offtuned

** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. Hi to you all in Free Radio, In September 
this year, it will be 29 years since the KIWI Radio - New Zealand
saga started (Sept 6th 1977)

We are looking for some stations to relay a "Special' Programme for 
us. We will supply either as a CDA or MP3 format . ( If you are on 
Broadband etc, we may be able to send it to you via Email - if your 
servers mailbox is big enough )

More info can be gotton from us direct at: kiwi@... [truncated]
All replies will be treated as 'Private & Confidential' 
Looking forward to your replies (Graham J Barclay, graham@... 
[truncated] SOUNDWAVE FM, (Broadcasting since Oct 3rd 1997), P O Box 
3103, Onekawa, Napier 4142, New Zealand, Ph: 0064-6-845-3888, Cell: 
025-206-7191 (NZ Daytime Only) http://www.soundwavefm.co.nz (via 
Enrique A. Wembagher, condig list via DXLD)

** NIGER. Dear Glenn, I have been monitoring La Voix du Sahel in Niger 
for several days and always at 1900 UT when they have an hour in 
French. Clear IDs at the start of the news. On July 20th they were 
heard on 9704.1 kHz. On June 21st and 22nd they had moved to 9705.02 
kHz. Greetings from a very hot Sweden (Christer Brunström, Halmstad, 
Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9704.1, 20.7 1905, La Voix du Sahel, Niamey med nyheter på franska, 
lite lokal musik och ett hälsoprogram. 2-3 CB

9705.02, 21.7 1900, La Voix du Sahel noterad på denna frekvens den 21 
och 22 juli. Sedan följde nyheter på franska. 2-3 CB (Christer 
Brunström, SW Bulletin via DXLD)

I wonder if when they are around 9704 they are trying to zero-beat 
Ethiopia to get rid of the het; or just random variation. Please 
confirm whether Sahel has English news as scheduled per WRTH, Sunday 
at 2000 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Same here tonight, noted at 1900-1912 UT: Niamey NGR 9704.98 kHz
but ETH at same time on 9704.18 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, July 23, 
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Actually had some audio from Niger here on 9705 but was unable to 
check for possible English at 2000 due to WYFR sign on in presumed 
Arabic at 2000 via Jülich (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, July 23, ibid.)

Same in Copenhagen. WYFR/Arabic too strong here (Erik Køie, ibid.)

NGR still underneath IBB Biblis to 2000 UT in Serbian, but weak at my 
location, Biblis its only 130 km north of Stuttgart. But WYFR starts 
at 2000 UT and is stronger than Biblis.

9705 2000-2100 39,40 JUL  100 115 Arabic  YFR DTK

Niger program from 2000 UT contains only Sahel area music, 
guitar/song, but not English news, at least missed on Sunday.

I guess English news only at 2000 UT on Saturdays. 73 wb (Wolfgang 
Büschel, Germany, ibid.) WRTH says only on Sundays; did anyone hear 
English on Saturday? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

Re 6-104, ´´NIGER has not been a country header in a single issue of 
DXLD this year, leading us to believe that 5020 has also been inactive 
--- but now could be back too!´´: 

Just took a look into WRTH 1995: It shows 5020 0430-0700 and 1700 (Sat 
1630)-2300, 9705 0700-1400 and Saturdays til 1630. So obviously 5020 
and 9705 used to be a day/night frequency pair, run by the very same 
transmitter. By the way, one could speculate if it is really the 100 
kW Siemens rig or probably instead the rather new (*1989) 20 kW 
Radioindustry Zagreb they just fired up on 9705 again (Kai Ludwig, 
Germany, July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn, I have read with interest the reports of Niger being back on 
9705 as I lived about 1 km from their transmitters from 1999 to 2002.

The Niamey HF and MF station is at Goudel on the north-west side of 
Niamey. The correct co-ordinates are 2 03 19 E, 13 31 55 N. On Google 
earth you will see a rectangle with denser vegatation and a large 
parabolic antenna at the far end. There are 2 pairs of masts which I 
have not managed to identify on Google.

I have heard the French/African transmission on 9705 from 2200 to 2300 
UT on 22 July but it did not seem to be the Voix du Sahel. The signal 
was weak with severe interference but the modulation was very good and 
the announcer's accent was not Niger French and the familiar interval 
tune was absent. From 2245 it was zero-beat with India. Maybe Afrique 
No. 1 on an unusual frequency?

During my time in Niger I heard 7155 and 5020 sicken and die. Towards 
the end of my time 9705 was often so weak that you could hear the 
interference under the transmission from my home just across the 
fields from the station.

It would be good to have it back on air for those folks in Niger who 
have a choice of HF or nothing during daylight hours (John Staniforth, 
UK, July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I had assumed the country in Spanish is pronounced Niger, but I see 
that my script for Radio Enlace has been changed to Níger (gh, DXLD)

** NIGERIA. VON is always very poor around 1700 to 1800 but tends to 
improve after 2000. But a recheck today Sunday 23 at 2010 just showed 
a barely audible signal with much static noise (Raúl Saavedra, Costa 
Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably 15120

** OKLAHOMA. A discussion among the managers of KOSU, KCCU, KGOU and 
OETA about public radio and television is on this week`s Oklahoma 
Forum, aired on OETA Sunday at 1800-1825 UT --- and repeated on KGOU 
plus webcast, Monday July 24 at 1600-1625 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, in 
advance on dxldyg, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Re KUSH & KALV: Glenn, I monitor this list from time to 
time, and I don`t make any comments hardly at all but it appears that 
you are misunderstanding what is going on with these stations. First, 
let`s get the pirate mindset clear, because that`s not what they are. 

Like Scott Fybush is trying to explain to you, the licensee failed to 
file the renewal application on time, therefore someone on staff 
deletes the license. If the licensee has a good Communications 
Attorney, he/or she will be allowed to operate despite on the FCC 
digest you see things like ``DKUSH`` or the letter D in front of the 
call sign. I know of several, as a matter of fact, about 75 licensees 
going through this process right now. Until the licensee gets a 
``Cease and Desist`` order from the commission, the licensee is allow 
continuing to operate. 

I personally have a problem with people ignoring or forgetting about 
renewal time. The commission sends you a notification in the mail and 
alerts you, plus since you can renew on line, and the process being so 
simple, it frustrates me that the commission allows this to go on. 
Licensees should be fined for being late!   

To all on this list, a Radio Station is not a toy or hobby, it`s a 
business and should be treated as business. If you are a good business 
person, you must keep up with all local, state, and federal laws that 
pertain to the type business you operate. So please don`t refer to 
these as people being pirates. They are not intentionally breaking the 
law; they one are just ignorant about the rules of the business they 
are in, or just to caught up in making ends meet (especially in a 
small business) and  these things just get overlooked. A good manager 
must keep good records of rules and laws, especially if you deal with 
the feds! Hey Scott Fybush, thanks for jumping in and setting things 
straight here! Good Job! (Scott Bailey, NRC-AM via DXLD)

Yes, I understand all this. But ``deletion`` has an air of finality 
about it! What happens is more like a ``suspension`` and the FCC 
should call it that instead. If a callsign is really ``deleted``, for 
instance, it ought to be up for grabs immediately. Ditto for the 
frequency. But since when has anything the FCC does made sense? (Glenn 
Hauser, DXLD)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 4890, 1352- July 21, NBC Karai Service, National 
programming from Port Moresby with EZL (ABBA) music. After an early 
start at after 4:00 am, it's nice to lean back, close your eyes and be 
serenaded by PNG! 3 minutes to 12 time check, and end of program 
(actual time was on 1356, --- clocks run a little fast in PNG ;-). 
Sign-off with all the MW and SW frequencies, followed by the NA at 
1400. They always leave the open carrier on.

3290, 1332- July 22, Radio Central. Fair to good reception on past 
their normal sign-off at 1200. EZL western music. Only other 90 meter 
PNGs audible were 3305 Radio Western (poor), 3315 Radio Manus (good) 
and 3385 Radio East New Britain (fair to good). (Walt Salmaniw, 
Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 6089.1, R. Universal, Cuzco, 15/07/06, 1103, Español, 
Noticias "Universal Noticias", "...desde la capital arqueológica del 
Perú" (chequeada la página web de la emisora; no figura esta 
frecuencia). Audible gracias a la ausencia de R. Esperanza en 6090, 
33333 (Miguel Castellino, Mendoza, Argentina, Conexión Digital July 23 
via DXLD) New station, nominal 6090 as recently reported here. 
Possible in NAm from *1100 with Anguilla gone by then (gh)

** PERU. 4746.9, 16/7 0100, R. Huanta 2000, Huanta. QSA: 4! S.off con 
Himno Nacional. 2340 ID: "Estás escuchando... escuchando (repite) 
Radio Huanta 2000" (vf) [variable frequency?]

4775, 17/7 1100, R. Tarma, Tarma. QSA: 4! S-on "Dios salve María llena 
de gracia..." Full ID "...Transmite Radio Tarma, desde Tarma, Perú, 
América del Sur", "El Demoledor" programa periodístico por cuyo 
contenido la emisora anuncia no hacerse responsable "Un periodista 
verdadero no necesita de mentiras", "Somos la mejor alternativa en 
información".

4790.2, 17/7 1115, R. Visión, Chiclayo. QSA: 3. Insufrible cantante 
interpreta temas religiosos de alabanza al monótono ritmo de su 
guitarra, luego continuaron mensajes de curación.

4826.5, 15/7 1059, R. Sicuani, Sicuani. QSA: 3 "Radio Sicuani presenta 
la voz de las provincias altas al ritmo de la noticia... 5 de la 
mañana 59 minutos... Lucho Mamanni les acompaña en el informativo más 
importante de la mañana".

4855.3, 15/7 1130, R. La Hora, Cusco. QSA: 2 "Resumen de Noticias". 
17/7 1157, QSA: 3. "Nuestra señal se escucha en todo el país 
integrando la costa, tierra y selva, Radio la Hora llegando más allá 
de nuestras fronteras".

4950, 16/7 0230, R. Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado. QSA: 2/3. 1219 
programa religioso, mensaje refiriendo a la repartición de peces y 
panes, 1221 "Padre nuestro..."

4955, 16/7 1222, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta. QSA: 2/3 en quechua. 
Mensajes a particulares y anuncios en general.

5039.2, 17/7 1210, R. Libertad, Junín. QSA: 2 "Actualidad 
Informativa", varias ID.

5460.1, 18/7 0116, R. Bolívar, Bolívar. QSA: 3. El locutor pregunta 
"¿La Radio que escuchas?" y un joven oyente responde "Radio Bolívar, 
la primera y mejor". Programa de complacencias musicales y saludos.

5486.7, 17/7 2245 Tent. R. Reina de la Selva, Chachapoyas. QSA: 2, 
anuncios mencionando Chachapoyas, cumbias peruanas. Saludos! (Rubén 
Guillermo Margenet, Casilla de Correo 950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, 
ARGENTINA, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** POLAND. Received by registered P-mail from R. Polonia a package 
today: my prizes in their podcast competition to identify some 
language clips. 1) a 16-cm-long streamlined flashlight with PR logo, 
including battery cells; 2) a see-thru ballpoint pen with R. Polonia 
logo; 3) a miniature scan-tuning mono FM radio with belt clip, 
including battery, earbuds with cord doubling as antenna (I already 
got it to stop on non-local KOSU 91.7 Stillwater and plan to leave it 
there); 4) a small stuffed animal, perhaps bovine, with Polskie Radio 
logo on chest, a key ring attached, and two labels attached, one in 
Polish I need to translate, but its name appears to be Sandy and it 
was made in China; the other UPC: 5 904073 065605. Thank you, R. 
Polonia! (Glenn Hauser, OK, July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PUERTO RICO. AFRTS, 6458.5 kHz, QSL for 5th email followup on Nov. 
2002 email report. F/D card, v/s Robert Winkler. Email address: 
Robert.Winkler "at" dodmedia.osd.mil Postal Address: Department of 
Defense, MNC DET AFRTS-DMC, 23755 Z St, Bldg. 2730, Riverside, CA 
92518-2017 (Dan Srebnick, Aberdeen, NJ USA, Drake R8B 130' inverted L, 
HCDX via DXLD) 

** SLOVAKIA. Noticia vía R. Eslovaquia Internacional: 
http://www.slovakradio.sk/inetportal/rsi/core.php?page=showSprava&id=2899&lang=6 

El ministro de Cultura también abordó el tema de las transmisiones en 
onda corta hacia el exterior. En este sentido prometió su apoyo para 
hacer que en el futuro éstas sean restablecidas. ``Estoy convencido de 
la importancia que tienen las transmisiones de la Radio Nacional 
Eslovaca al exterior. El Estado debería financiar las emisiones por 
onda corta. Le he pedido a la directora de la Radio Nacional Eslovaca 
que tome medidas cautelares que impidan la perdida de las frecuencias 
asignadas a Eslovaquia para estas transmisiones``, añadió Èaploviè 
[sic]. (via José Miguel Romero, dxldyg via DXLD)

That final name appears in the original starting with a hooked C, and 
ending with a hooked c, which somehow become e-graves! On MS Word I 
had to go to the Courier New Baltic font to find those letters to make 
the name appear correctly: Èaploviè --- however, by the time you see 
this, having been converted to plain text, the hooked Cs will probably 
be ruined again. The name should be respelt Chaplovich to avoid this. 
The names Madaric and Gasparovic below probably also have a hooked c, 
but the source did not even try to display it. BTW, MSW, Slovakia is 
not on the Baltic, and the Slavic country which is, Poland, uses 
``cz`` instead (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

RADIO SLOVAKIA INTERNATIONAL COULD RETURN TO SHORTWAVE

Radio Slovakia International (RSI) reports that Culture Minister Marek 
Madaric, speaking at a news conference in Bratislava on Thursday after 
meeting President Ivan Gasparovic, has given notice of a return to 
state contributions for the public media. “This could be done via a 
contract between the public media and parliament,” he said. According 
to Madaric, the contract would define the state media’s role, 
programme orientation and funding. He also spoke about restoring RSI 
to shortwave although no timescale was mentioned.
Read the full report 
http://www.slovakradio.sk/inetportal/rsi/core.php?page=showSprava&id=2895&lang=2
(July 23rd, 2006, 11:48 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) 
Viz.: 

MADARIC FAVOURS RETURN TO STATE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PUBLIC MEDIA

Culture Minister Marek Madaric, speaking at a news conference in 
Bratislava on Thursday after meeting President Ivan Gasparovic has 
given notice of a return to state contributions for the public media. 
"This could be done via a contract between the public media and 
parliament," he said. According to Madaric, the contract would define 
the state media's role, programme orientation and funding. He also 
spoke about restoring RSI to shortwave although no timescale was 
mentioned. Television licence fees are set to supplement special-
purpose state transfers, which, for example, would pay for the 
introduction of digital television and radio. "State-owned Slovak 
Television should become the leader in the digitalisation process," 
said Madaric. Special audits would check up on task fulfillment and 
whether money received from the state was being used appropriately, 
added Madaric.

According to the minister, changes should also be made when it comes 
to the make-up of both the STV and State Radio (SRo) Councils, in 
order that this is determined according to professional principles. 
"According to current laws, people who have experience in the media 
can't become Council members," said Madaric. In addition, changes in 
the law should also affect the appointment of the heads of public 
media, in order to prevent a repetition of a recent case when the post 
of Radio head remained empty for several months because the Council 
couldn't agree on who to appoint. Madaric also wants to bring back a 
special government council for media policy. "The influence of the 
media on the public is so great that we should pay appropriate 
attention to this fact," he said. Gasparovic, for his part, proposes 
shortening the terms of office of both the STV and SRo Councils from 
the current six years to four years or less. "It would be better if 
the Councils were changed even up to several times during one 
electoral term," he said (via DXLD)

Andy Sennitt comments: Restoring RSI to shortwave is easy in theory. 
But the station made half of its producers redundant at the end of 
June, and others left out of sheer disgust at the situation. It’s 
possible that, if the government acts quickly, some of them may be 
enticed to return, but since ``no timescale was mentioned`` there 
could be a lot of political dithering over the details of the state 
contributions. The problem for RSI is that the issues to be considered 
are far broader in scope that simply international broadcasting. 
Madaric wants to see changes in the way the public broadcasters are 
governed, and that requires changes in the media law. Unless a special 
emergency arrangement can be found to provide funding for RSI while 
the debate goes on, it’s likely to be quite a while - maybe sometime 
in 2007 - before shortwave broadcasts resume (Media Network blog July 
23 via DXLD)

Eslovaquia. Gestiones para que regrese a la Onda Corta.

Saludos cordiales, quiero compartir el mensaje que he recibido por 
parte de la redactora jefa de la sección en español de Radio 
Eslovaquia Internacional; parece ser que hay tímidos movimientos para 
intentar que esta emisora regrese a la onda corta. Me envía el correo 
electrónico del Ministro de Cultura, promotor de estas gestiones:
73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, July 24, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
      
De: "Ladislava Hudzovicova" hudzovicova @ slovakradio.sk 
Asunto:  Re: Felíz día de tu santo.    
Fecha:  Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:02:59 +0200   

Hola José, inmensas gracias por tu respaldo continuo... hoy en la 
reunión hablamos de las reales esperanzas de la vuelta de ondas 
cortas. El pasado viernes el ministro de cultura se dirigió al 
presidente con la solicitud de mantener las frecuencias de las ondas 
cortas para nuestras transmisiones. Te mando la dirección del 
ministro, si quieres contribuir de persona.
Ministerkultury @ culture.gov.sk  Calurosos saludos desde la 
calidísima Bratislava, Ladia (via JMR2, ibid.)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.87, 1404- July 20, SIBS; BBCWS at 1404 with 
ID at fair to good level, and international news. Lots of adjacent 
splatter, all the way from CNR on 5030.

5019.88, 1403- July 21, SIBS. Particularly strong signal this morning 
with BBCWS english news. Sure wish they had local programming 
overnight. They sign-off comparatively early then relay the BBCWS 
overnight (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg 
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA, 15475 [sic], 0341- July 20, Sri Lanka Broadcasting 
Corporation. Wonderfully warm programming. Very old fashioned with 
wooly audio, and wishing everyone a good Thursday morning. Greetings 
to listeners in Bangalore, and also Dubai. Exclusively western music, 
including 'I believe in music, I believe in love'. S5 to S6 signal 
with some obvious deep fades, but perfectly listenable, even if 
over 13000 km to Ekala! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte 
Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I assume you meant 15745, 
as currently scheduled, tho I think SLBC once used 15475 too (gh)

** SYRIA. Radio Damasco --- A mí me inquieta saber si soy el único que 
recibe de Radio Damasco, literalmente sólo su portadora en 12085 // 
9330 en su transmisión en español de las 2215. Esto por cuanto nadie 
parece comentar esto, habiendo otros que dicen escucharla con muy 
buena señal. Pues eso es cierto pero, y el sonido? Saludos (Raúl 
Saavedra, Costa Rica, July 24, condig list via DXLD)

9330 = 25/6/2006 2329, SYR, R. DAMASCO, ADRA, SS NX. E, MX ARABE 54444
Os equipamentos utilizados para a escuta foram: Yaesu FT-757-GX, DGY - 
G3308-F, Transglobe, Antena direcional e V invertido. 73´s e boas 
escutas para todos (Saulo PY7EG, Recife, Pernambuco, July 24, 
radioescutas yg via DXLD)

9330, 2153- July 20, Radio Damascus. Fair to good reception with 
Arabic music. Parallel to weaker 12085. About an S7 signal. I still 
remember driving across northern B.C. in our VW Westfalia listening to 
the same station on my Phillips D777 SW car radio at very good levels, 
thinking I must the only listener in this part of the world! The 
transmitter cut for almost a minute at 2157, then came back. 12085 is 
marred somewhat by CODAR interference (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen 
Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. VOT Spanish service with great signal as seldom heard 
before this Sunday 23 on 13720 with Turkish/Spanish dictionary. News 
followed before ending service at 1724, followed by IS. Good 
conditions this time as 21 m is commonly noisy (Raúl Saavedra, Costa 
Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. The BBC Prom Player is a bit of a mess. Many of the concerts 
are broken up into parts 1 and 2, with the break arbitrarily somewhere 
in the middle of a piece, and furthermore, the parts overlap, so to 
hear a full concert you have to figure out the timings, and fast 
forward. Furthermore2, the lengths of the parts as given do not match 
the length of the files as displayed on the player, the second part 
often including a lot of other programming which went out afterwards. 
Too much automation in this and too little human management (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The VOA Greenville A site appears to be shut down. I live 
near there and there is only one car there in the daytime and the 
place is empty on the weekends. I did stop at the B site and it is 
hopping. However they wouldn`t let me in. After 911 it takes an act of 
a Republican lobbyist to get in the place! 73 (Glenn Widerski, NC, 
July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. It seems WRMI has made another unexpected change. Checking 
the webcast around 2245 UT Sunday July 23, something in Spanish, 
strangely with a lot of fading, was on, instead of WORLD OF RADIO 
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn: We had a lightning strike last week that blew a breaker panel 
and messed up several other things, including the Internet audio -- 
thus the up and down audio levels and some distortion. We're trying to 
find the problem and correct it ASAP.

I DID say that our program schedule is dynamic! We sold the Sunday 
2230 UT half-hour at the last minute on Friday night. And I have two 
other program changes that have just taken place over the weekend. 
Here's the latest:

New program: "Tierra de Gracia." WRMI coloca dentro de su programación 
semanal una media-hora con amenos comentarios y entrevistas sobre la 
amplia geografía venezolana, su gente, sus costumbres, sus personajes, 
sus tradiciones y su diversidad musical. La conducción de este nuevo 
espacio estará a cargo del periodista Jesús Manuel Gambús, un 
profesional de amplia trayectoria en el medio audiovisual venezolano 
moldeado en los departamentos de información y producción de 
Venevisión, Venezolana de Televisión, Radio Capital, Radio Rumbos, 
Radio Continente, Circuito FM Center, Kyss FM, entre otros. Esta nueva 
producción acercará más a sus oyentes a uno de los países que se ha 
dado en llamar "el mejor secreto guardado del Caribe." Se transmite de 
2230-2300 UT domingo en 9955 kHz. [en vez de WORLD OF RADIO]

New program: "Monitor DX" vuelve a la onda corta. Este popular 
programa diexista se transmitía en años anteriores vía Radio Trans 
Mundial en Bonaire. Ahora "Monitor DX" regresa, producido de nuevo por 
el conocido diexista argentino Daniel Camporini, y ahora transmitido 
por WRMI. A través de "Monitor DX," se recorren las historias de 
radio, grandes y pequeñas. No solo la de las emisoras, también las 
quienes participaron en ellas y de quienes las escucharon, todos en 
conjunto han hecho y hacen, día a día, la historia de la 
radiodifusión. Historia en la cual nosotros también tenemos nuestra 
pequeña porción de responsabilidad. Horario de transmisión a través de 
WRMI: 2345-0000 UT sábado en 9955 kHz. [en vez de una emisión de 
Aventura DXista]

Revised schedule for Radio Prague relays, to begin later this week: 
0430-0500 UT daily in Spanish on 9955 kHz
0900-0930 UT daily in English on 9955 kHz
0930-1000 UT daily in Spanish on 9955 kHz [ex-1300]
1400-1430 UT daily in English on 7385 kHz
(Jeff White, WRMI, July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Con la transmisión de "Monitor DX" esta emisora se coloca en un sitial 
preferido en la comunidad Diexista internacional, siendo ella la que 
más programas dedicados a nuestro pasatiempo emite en sus ondas. Bien 
por Jeff !!! (Dino Bloise, FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. LPFM 89.5 Rantoul, Illinois

Once again the World Free Fall Convention is taking place in Rantoul, 
Illinois. Also once again, they're running a low power FM station on 
89.5 FM from about 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. [1300-0300 UT], playing a variety 
of rock music and poorly modulated event announcements. I checked the 
range on this again, and it's still the same, roughly five miles. 
However, there is a slight change in things this year, I believe they 
are streaming on the web. The web page for the event has a webcam page 
with provision for streaming of "Manifest Radio". Yesterday afternoon 
they were streaming NPR on there, but the page indicated that one of 
their tech people had been stranded in Portland, Oregon with some of 
the gear. A check a few minutes ago showed that this individual 
finally arrived in Rantoul, but as the radio station isn't on until 
morning, I have no idea if they'll have the web stream up and running 
at sign-on time.  More information can be found at:
http://www.freefall.com http://www.freefall.com/webcam/webcam.php 
(Curtis Sadowski, Paxton, Illinois, 0622 UT July 23, WTFDA via DXLD)

They're up and running, though the audio stream leaves much to be 
desired. Oddly enough, the music is distorted on the feed, but the 
announcements are clear, the exact opposite of what's going out on the 
radio (Curtis Sadowski @Rantoul, Illinois, 1632 UT July 23, ibid.) 

Falls July 21 thru 30 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

** U S A. Re: KTRS LOSES TWO TOWERS IN STORM 
    
The TV News pictures of these are fascinating. Four towers in a row. 
Two standing, two on the ground. But the two fallen ones do NOT look 
like metal frames, but instead look completely limp and almost like 
red & white lines painted on the ground, or a piece of macramé that 
had been suspended by the tip and then just let fall.

I did notice that KTRS was off-air soon after the storm passed thru, 
and was listening to call-ins from individuals making damage reports 
on KMOX (1120) instead, but in later days KTRS was back and had many
more interesting individual call-ins but KMOX went back to Rush 
Limbaugh & regular programming. (This was referred to by some of the 
callers & on-air hosts in the KTRS call-ins, too.)

My power was off about 46 hours from Wednesday night during the storm 
to Friday afternoon about 5 PM; I'm inside the city of St. Louis. I 
lost my outside wire antennas when a big branch from a neighbor's tree 
snapped off and landed across my back yard. That also brought down my 
power wire from the alley but did not snap it; it tore loose the 
strain relief wire from the house. So I have power going thru a head-
height wire which I told the power company to consider the lowest 
possible priority for repair; many other people still need actual line
restorations and are far worse off than I.

An interesting side note: I was wandering thru a local mall Friday, 
having gotten a ride out to there with the neighbors, and stopped in a 
Radio Shack. Overheard some customers asking for "D" batteries, and 
the clerk said that they were completely out and that "No one in the 
entire St. Louis area has any "D" batteries." I noticed that the local 
Walgreen's was also out of "D" cells today when I was in there.

I was blessed during the outage in that there were 4 houses on my 
street still with power, and one was owned by part of the family that 
has sort of adopted me since my wife died, so I had a place to stay in 
air conditioning and sleep on a pallet on the floor. Many people here 
were in far worse conditions and remain so even now. 73, (Will Martin, 
St Louis MO, July 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[More:] Reasonable TV news coverage from all three locals (KTVI on 2, 
KSDK on 5, & KMOV on 4) and some from KPLR on 11 most of they days at 
first, and extended newscasts later on. But it got ridiculously 
repetitive instead of hard news from the power company about just 
exactly what was being worked on just where, which is what we really 
needed. Always showed large-scale maps that didn't give any real info 
and even those were only on the screen a few seconds at a time. Far 
too much referral of viewers to the stations' web sites for real data, 
and most people without power couldn't do that!

Every news story seemed to leave out important data or specific
aspects. For example, they'd announce that the county was giving out 
MREs to county residents. But no specifics on-air as to just *where* 
the giveaways were (they'd say "Firehouses" but not which ones and 
tell people to call a number or go to a website) and no data as to who 
was eligible to get these (income limits? how many MREs given per 
person? Could you get them for everyone in your house by just saying 
how many people you were requesting them for? Or did you need to prove 
residence and poverty/level of need with some sort of welfare ID?).  
No such details ever mentioned.

I've just today begun to look at the newspapers for those days and 
still haven't seen any greater level of detail in the info provided 
there. In the city, the repairs for my area seemed to be being done in 
substations or on feeder circuits -- we did not see trucks in the 
alleys, and power outages varied from parts of blocks to parts of 
blocks. (On my street, we had four houses with power, and were really 
lucky that one of those was Lisa's where we all moved into.) When 
power came up, it was by parts of blocks or sides of streets. No 
details were ever publicized as to just where these circuits ran so 
we'd know why this spot was down and that spot was up (Will Martin, to 
gh, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Subject: Letter to Editor - Storm Coverage
Re: Storm & Power-Outage Coverage by the Media

Dear Sirs: I was really disappointed in the actual content of the 
local TV news and newspaper reporting of the storm and power outage 
situation. While the TV news stations devoted a lot of time to the 
subject, the content was so inadequate and repetitive that it failed 
to be really helpful. I have scanned Thursday through Sunday's 
newspaper coverage of the storm and power outage and I must say that 
it appears totally inadequate, at least from my point of view as a 
resiident of South City. What we really needed during this period was 
a DETAILED survey of the city, with full-page maps showing which 
streets and individual blocks had power and which did not.

We needed information from Ameren as to just why certain circuits were
down, and why the outage was so spotty, so that we'd have some idea
as to what repair efforts were in progress that would affect this or 
that household or business.

Neither the newspaper nor the TV news gave us adequate information.
The P-D printed tiny colored maps showing the entire region, similar 
to the ones the TV would show for only a few seconds at a time, which 
were of no use whatsoever, and devoted full pages, especially in 
Sunday's edition, to large photos which were of little value except to 
the individuals who appeared in them. Instead, they should have been 
using those full pages to print detailed maps of the city (and of 
other municipalities on other pages), with indications of what 
circuits fed which areas and why the ones that were out had failed, 
with info as to when each one was predicted to be repaired.

I recall that, a couple years ago, the TV weather people were proudly
proclaiming that they had computer software that could show the 
weather conditions and events in specific block-by-block displays. 
They should have used that capability to map the power outages block-
by-block, and shown THAT on the screen, scanning through the various 
regions, while the announcer spoke in voice-over mode telling standard 
speeches we heard over and over about food spoilage or shelter 
accessibility.

Here in South City, outages were so variable that nothing made obvious
sense. We had had tree trimming by Ameren crews several months ago
through our alleys; that probably saved many of our specific areas 
from losing lines and poles in the alleys. But we still were out of 
power, so obviously the problems were further up the distribution 
chain. But no one ever told us just what those problems exactly were.

Here on my street, we had four houses with power among all the others 
that were out. I was personally fantastically lucky that one of those 
four was the home of a family friend, so I and others could stay 
there. Other outages around us were equally odd -- a number of houses 
on a block would be up, while an apartment house in the same block was 
down. The Walgreens at Grand & Bates stayed up all along, while other 
businesses and homes next to it or across the street were out for 
days, even though no lines were actually down around them. We need the 
news media to explain just what caused these anomalies, and it 
certainly would help if these explanations came during the event, not 
long after it is over.

I certainly hope that this never happens again, but I also hope that 
the local media incorporate some "lessons learned" from this event and 
aim to provide more detailed information, and hopefully some technical 
detail addressed to that part of the audience who have the expertise 
to understand those aspects and explain them to their neighbors and 
friends. A suggestion for the TV news producers is to not just go to 
Ameren for news conferences, but to send a team to "shadow" Ameren 
repair crews doing the various levels of repair, inside a substation 
and out along the major lines, in addition to just having a few shots 
of a crew cutting away tree branches in a neighborhood. Show just what 
they have to do to get power restored to an entire neighborhood, not 
just at one location.

Lastly, we need to get the news media to recognize that internet web 
sites are NOT adequate substitutes for live TV and printed newspapers. 
Without power, computers are doorstops. Many public-access computer 
facilities for people without computers at home were also out -- I 
never did see or hear any references to what public libraries were 
open, for example. It is NOT adequate to say that supplies are 
available but people should go to a website to find out where they 
are; even giving a phone number to call isn't good enough. The TV 
stations have a duty to put this data on the screen, and leave it up 
long enough for people to read it, get a pen & paper, and copy it 
down. And it should be in a font large enough to be read on the 
display of a small portable TV, too! Thank you (William Martin, St. 
Louis, MO 63111, to southnews, cc to DXLD)

** U S A. Glenn, You should quote the relevant STA rule to the guy who 
whined about KTRS' 1250 watt operation. The Fuzzy Confusion Commission  
will almost always grant non-DA STA for 1/4 power after antenna 
damage. If we can cobble together a DA pattern (for example 1460 
Kirkland's after they had a disastrous fire which killed the building 
but not the towers) we do so, but if we can't (710 Black Canyon City 
is the latest example, as the vandals didn't leave us enough towers to 
do anything useful) we ask for and almost always get 1/4 of the 
authorized power non-DA, conditioned on no significant interference 
complaints.

This is only the latest example I've seen (and sometimes commented on 
to you, which you've been gracious enough to publish) of DX'ers not 
paying attention to the actual FCC (or Industry Canada or COFETEL-
formerly SCT or other national or ITU rules/regulations/policies) 
before they ventilate their concerns. It's certainly true that there 
are a lot of unwritten policies by the national and international 
regulators, as well as (in common-law countries) unpublished 
precedents. But most telecommunications regulatory behavior is pretty 
well predicted by written material that is not difficult to access.  
If it weren't, the less clever lawyers would all go broke!

The US rule that is applicable is 73.1680(b)(1).  See:

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple;c=ecfr;cc=ecfr;sid=747d07d625b381cc680f07e1a5f0c136;idno=47;region=DIV1;q1=Emergency%20Antenna;rgn=div8;view=text;node=47%3A4.0.1.1.2.8.1.48

The relevant rules and policies of many countries are available on the 
Internet. I will admit that while I don't have much trouble 
translating the ones in Spanish and Portuguese, and maybe even French, 
some of them do require a good dictionary, And some (Russian, for 
example) are more than I can manage, but Babelfish is amazing (Ben 
Dawson, WA, July 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

St. Louis Business Journal --- KSDK/SLBJ

The St. Louis Business Journal reported that Wednesday night's severe
thunderstorm caused an electrical fire at Clear Channel Radio's 
Debaliviere Place back site tower for area radio stations KSLZ and 
KMJM.

The storm also caused the east wall of the Switzer Building on 
Laclede's Landing to blow over. Developer Pete Rothschild, who owns 
the building, told the Business Journal that the planned $12 million 
redevelopment of the building is now slated to be finished in fall 
2007, rather than June 2007.
http://ksdk.com/money/business_article.aspx?storyid=100775
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) 

WTFK?? KMJM is 1360 per NRC AM Log; KSLZ is 107.7 per FCC FMQuery. 
Pronounced duh-BAH-luh-ver, and IIRC it`s luh-KLEED rather than luh-
KLED (Glenn Hauser, ex-St. Louis, 1963-1965y, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. Re 6-107: For many years, I have always [and correctly] 
referred to Disney World as "Walt Hitler World." Bottom line is that 
The Frozen One proudly and single-handedly destroyed Central Florida 
forever. As a result of his genocidal actions, he should squirm while 
thawing in hell as a result. I well recall moving from Fort 
Lauderdale, as a kid, in early 1971. Within a year, Orange-Osceola 
began the morph to a horrid and rotting mush of tourist destiny that 
required prefab homes to the horizon, vast concrete roads and 
impossible traffic. Disney made Hitler look like Mary Poppins. Sieg 
Heil. The hills are alive with the Sound of Muzik! (Terry L. Krüger, 
FL, July 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. NAB & 3rd adjacent LPFMs
Re: http://www.nab.org/xert/corpcomm/pressrel/mixdown.mp3

It is interesting that:

- They appear to have started with the receiver with the worst 
possible selectivity.  (a Walkman)
- They appear to have chosen the worst possible combination of formats 
- with low average modulation levels, classical stations are far more
susceptible to interference than any other format.
- It doesn't say which FM stations are involved or where the receiver 
is located.  Was the classical station 40 miles away and the rock 
station next door?  
- What's with the first set of recordings?  That's NOT analog
adjacent-channel interference.  Either the rock station is running 
IBOC, or the classical station is so weak as to be almost completely
inaudible.
- If the NAB is worried about 3rd-adjacent LPFM signals causing
interference, why are they simultaneously petitioning for a rules 
change that would allow AM stations to have FM translators?  (thus 
presumably creating more translators - which are allowed not only on 
3rd adjacents but on *2nd*-adjacents -- and can run more than twice 
the power of LPFMs) -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  
EM66 http://www.w9wi.com July 24, WTFDA via DXLD)

There have been FM translators of AM stations in Alaska for years. We 
did have some trouble licensing one a few years ago, and had to come 
up with the actual grant orders and CP copies of previous grants as 
precedent, and the CP appeared forthwith. Regards (Ben Dawson, WA, 
July 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Alaska being a special case for many reasons, primarily isolation and 
low population density (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

** U S A. INTERESTING JOB OPENINGS AT THE FCC 

I noticed that the FCC is currently advertising for Telecommunications 
Specialists based in the Enforcement Bureau, Spectrum Enforcement 
Division, High Frequency Direction Finding Center in Columbia, MD. The 
announcement says that they are filling 2 vacancies. The job entails 
remote control operation of their nationwide network of radio 
direction finding equipment. Sounds like a fun job for a radio 
enthusiast (Patrick Griffith, Westminster CO, July 22, IRCA via DXLD)

** VANUATU. Julio 8, 1034 UT, R. Vanuatu (tentativo), 3945 kHz. SINPO 
35232 a 35333. Música de tipo polinésico y locutor. La señal fue 
mejorando a lo largo del tiempo. La seguí hasta 1130 donde aún 
transmitían música. También en este caso es la primera vez que escucho 
esta estación. Según el WRTH 2006 esta frecuencia estaría inactiva. 
Glenn Hauser me comentó que ha sido reportada muchas veces y que 
aparentemente alternan sus dos frecuencias 3945 y 7260 diariamente. 
Sin embargo la volví a escuchar al día siguiente a eso de las 0900 en 
la misma frecuencia con SINPO 35232-35333, esta vez con música
internacional, baladas, Bee Gees, etc. A las 0930 un programa 
aparentemente religioso en inglés.

Una cosa interesante es que aunque el idioma [no] era inglés, se 
parecían escuchar varias palabras inglesas. Por lo que pude averiguar, 
el idioma hablado en las islas, llamado Bislama, es una lengua 
relativamente moderna construída con elementos de varias lenguas 
locales y del inglés. Esto explicaría la aparición de esas palabras 
inglesas (Captaciones de Moisés Knochen efectuadas en los últimos días 
en la localidad de Cuchilla Alta, Uruguay. Receptor Sony ICF-7600DS 
con antena exterior de 15 metros conectada directamente a la 
telescópica, Conexión Digital July 23 via DXLD)

** VIETNAM. 4739.71, 1347- July 20, Radio Son La 1, Usual distorted 
signal with some days much worse than others, and today is pretty bad. 
Local language it seems rather than Vietnamese. Fair to good only. 
(Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. Has ZNBC already quit SW? No longer heard on 4910 the last 
few days, checked around 1900 (Chris Hambly, Victoria, UT July 23, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 11735, 1628- July 20, Radio Zanzibar. Very nice 
reception in Swahili, with 'Zanzibar' heard in presumed ID at 1630. 
Lovely African EZL music. ``Salaam eh leykum`` at 1630:40. Checked 
after 1700 and found a mess of cochannels (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, 
Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

11735, 1756- July 21, Radio Zanzibar. Strong S9 to S9+ reception with 
mild transmitter hum, but otherwise excellent modulation. Great audio! 
A real pleasure to listen to and an example of what broadcasters 
should strive for! Tanzania-Zanzibar mentioned at 1759 then IS 
(drums), time pips, and then into English (from Swahili). 'The time is 
9:00', and into news. When I rechecked at 1815 they were no longer in 
English. Some splash noted from VOA via Morocco, so LSB best (Walt 
Salmaniw, Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING 
DIGEST) I would like to be able to listen to their complete English 
newscast so clearly, and doubt I would tune away (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

UNIDENTIFIED. Have been doing a little listening this weekend.  
Conditions seem poor and very noisy. 4994.13, Definitely someone here 
at 1028 22 July with talk by M and W. Just too weak and apparently 
went off shortly after tune-in.

4994.05, Found this on again 23 July with what sounded like W 
announcer, music bridge, then M at 1028, and then going off at 1029*. 
Coincidentally heard at the exact same time as yesterday. Too weak to 
get any clues. What is this?? Spur, image?? (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via 
DXLD)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5039.88, 1025 23 July, sounded like canned announcement 
by W. Much too weak but definitely there. Thought this might be 
Libertad de Junín, but they've been reported a little lower. Who 
then?? (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via DXLD)

UNIDENTIFIED [non]. I would be very grateful if you could help me. On 
21st of July, 2006 from 2100 till 2130 UT at the frequency of 9505 kHz 
I listened to Persian language program of the station which identified 
itself as "Radio Baghdad". They broadcasted songs in Persian and 
Spanish. I'd like to send a reception report to this station but I 
can't find their coordinates. I would be very grateful to you for the 
information about and the leads to that station. Thank you in advance. 
Best, (Andy Martynyuk, Moscow, Russia, July 23, dxing.info via DXLD)

Andy, Sorry, there is no R. Baghdad now, not on SW. What you heard 
must have been Radio Farda, the US-sponsored service to Iran. 
According to EiBi listings at 
http://www.susi-und-strolch.de/eibi/dx/freq-a06.txt
this frequency is transmitted via Lampertheim, Germany. And the 
programming you describe is typical of R. Farda

9505 1900-2130 USA Radio Farda FS IRN /D-L

At the bottom of this page is a contact form tho they expect it to be 
filled out in Persian... http://www.radiofarda.org/
Regards, (Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma, USA, ibid.)

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PUBLICATIONS
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EiBi update 

Hi, after several weeks without updates, the shortwave schedules on 
http://www.eibi.de.vu/ have finally been updated again. The reason for 
the long gap was my job which took me on an expedition to Morocco (in 
the actual meaning - NOT a DXpedition ;) ) during and after which I 
had hardly any time left for anything. Now back to normal. Almost: 
There will be another 2-3 weeks without updating, starting the 
upcoming week, because of holiday. Offline! All the best, (Eike 
Bierwirth, 04317 Leipzig, DL, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

More rare QSLs on eBay 
    
Hi Glenn. The same lister I have emailed you about before has a couple 
more rare QSLs, one for W3XJ, the audio channel for early TV station 
W3XK from 1931. Looks like the audio was on 1604 kHz and the video was 
in the 2000-2300 kHz range...
http://cgi.ebay.com/QSL-Television-station-W3XK-Wheaton-MD-1931_W0QQitemZ150014820767QQihZ005QQcategoryZ38031QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
Here's another QSL for VE9EK, an amateur AM station from Quebec that 
operated on 1195 kHz in 1933....
http://cgi.ebay.com/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150012685116
 
The seller has a good number of EKKO stamps for sale as well. I don't 
know who this person is, but they seem to have a good bunch of 
interesting radio/TV material. Thanks again! (Eric Loy, Champaign IL, 
July 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Since none of these could ever be `mine` in the sense that they 
represented my own DX accomplishments, I would be just as satisfied to 
save their images free as to buy the originals (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

PROPAGATION
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