DX LISTENING DIGEST 6-162, October 30, 2006 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2006 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRING OF WORLD OF RADIO 1333 Wed 1030 WWCR1 9985 FIRST SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1334 Wed 2300 WBCQ 7415 Thu 0000 WBCQ 18910-CLSB Fri 2130 WWCR1 15825 Latest edition of this schedule version, including standard timeshifts, and AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: www.obriensweb.com/wor.xml DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS October 31 by John Norfolk: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. R. Solh has made its usual B-season switch from 17700 to 15265, good with Afghan music at 1337 Oct 29, and at 1422 talking about football. 15265 is 85 degrees, 500 kW from Rampisham, UK at 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. KNLS`s new frequency, 6915, just barely audible Oct 29 at 1220; at least the intonation sounded like the KNLS English announcer. Marred by ``running water`` utility QRM bursts. // 6150 was even worse presumably colliding with Singapore. Maybe 6915 will make it on a better day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. After 1600 I noted splatter through the lower parts of the 49 and 41 metre bands. I'm not absolutely sure about the culprit, but it appeared to be Cërrik, since the splatter could be detected about +/- 30 kHz around 5970 and 7155, i.e. CRI German via Cërrik, booming in with very strong signals here. (9555 clash: see UK) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Drita, Since the frequency changes, I've monitored 7105 from 0730 and there is no real change. Signal strength varies but in general, reception is good here at my location and no interference. Sunday Oct. 29th I tuned new 6110 at 2130 UT and found a good strength signal from Shijak - but not so good audio levels. They were varying up and down depending what was being broadcast, and on even who was speaking. There was some side-splash from Radio Romania on 6115 from 2130 until they went off at 2157. And after 2200 there were two stations using 6115 - one of them in Japanese. I'll try to find out what these are. 6105 was not totally clear but whatever was using the frequency was quite weak and causing no problems. Average signal strength was about 10dB over S9 on my meter and average SINPO 44534. And by tuning slightly lower in frequency I could improve reception even more. This is a good start I think - more monitoring tonight and during the week should tell us just how successful we've been in choosing frequencies. More anon. Greetings from Blackpool (Noel Green, via Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, DXLD) ** ALBANIA. Drita Çiço of R. Tirana would be very interested in reports of their North American service on the new B-06 schedule. Albanian 0000-0130 daily on 7425 (barely audible here at 0030 Oct 31.) English 0245-0300 & 0330-0400 on 6115, 7465 (except UT Mondays). You might also evaluate the audio quality while you are at it. If you post your observations to the dxldyg I will be sure to forward them. (Glenn, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7425 was barely audible here at 0030 Oct 31; at 0230, both 7465 and 6115 were inaudible, but only the strongest, lowest-latitude signals were making it directly from Europe, such as Spain on 6055. At 0355, could barely detect some signals on 6115, 7465 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 30 October follow. Solar flux 76 and mid-latitude A-index 10. The mid-latitude K-index at 0000 UTC on 31 October was 1 (05 nT). The mid-latitude K-index at 0300 UTC on 31 October was 2 (13 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. LTA, Argentine Army feeder, on 13363.6 SSB, Sunday Oct 29 at 2346 with silly ballgame, enthusiastic announcer; could have been same game but different coverage as on R. Nacional, 15345 AM. 2347 LTA paused for a brief commercial. I don`t really care which station it was relaying at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13363.55-LSB: At this moment the feeder is active relaying Radio Continental 73 (Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, 1503 UT Oct 29, DX LISENING DIGEST) 13363.58 --- Dear Friends: The feeder is on the air relaying Radio Continental at this moment the program is El Publicitario, 0042 UT Oct 30. 73, (Nicolás Eramo, dxldyg via DXLD) After 0100 UT Radio Continental continued on the air and the program was "El Duende de la Noche" 73 (Nicolás, ibid.) A mixed bag here in New Zealand 0100 UT - Spanish, presumably Radio Continental and American English, presumably AFN Guam both competing and very difficult to resolve on the R-1000 (Adrian Verry, Turakina, Nth. Island, HCDX via DXLD) Adrian, Isn`t Argentina on LSB (at least some of the time), and Guam on USB? 73, (Glenn, ibid.) Yes of course! Thanks for pointing that out (Adrian, ibid.) Radio Continental Argentina 13363.50, 2230 Oct 28 About Argentina and Cuba. Signal good and audio also, best in LSB. SINPO 33333; AOR7030, antenna 30m. +100m. longwire Gr (Maurits from Belgium Driessche, HCDX via DXLD) Hi all, I hear Radio Continental Argentina on Sunday morning at 0915 on 13363.50 best in lsb (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, ibid.) 13363.6 LSB relaying R Continental with ID at 2119 , mentioning Argentina . Many talks quite fast at 2121 Oct 28, 14331 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA [non]. Checking Vienna`s relay via Sackville, now an hour later and on 13675, the same frequency carrying CRI in English before 1600: From 1600 Oct 30, Ö in German, 1605-1620 in English, 1620 back to German, 1624 pause for Donau IS, also at 1645 and back to English which was rudely cut off in progress at 1659* Apparently they are clueless back in the studio that the only transmitter for this service in faraway Sackville, has to go off one minute before the hour. Matches the Monday-only schedule for this at http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/roi.htm Monday: America West: 1600-1605: News in German 1605-1620: Report from Austria (English) 1620-1625: Regional radio-News in German 1625-1630: Wissen aktuell - in German 1630-1635: News in German 1635-1640: Wissen aktuell - in German 1640-1645: Regional radio-News in German 1645-1700: Report from Austria (English) But the English segment times vary, on other days of the week; why make it so complex? Viz.: Tue-Fri America West: 1600-1605: News in German 1605-1610: Wissen aktuell - in German 1610-1615: Regional radio-News in German 1615-1630: Report from Austria (English) 1630-1700: Repeat Sat & Sun America West: 1601-1605: Regional radio-News in German 1605-1630: Report from Austria - The Week in Review (English) 1630-1700: Repeat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4936.83, 0944-1008 Oct 30. This turned out to be R. San Miguel. Talk program with M and W hosts, canned announcement at 0957 with many animal SFX. 0958 nice campesino song. W at 1001 mentioning educación and nacionales. 1004 canned ads when I returned 3 minutes later. Definite mention of ?? de Dios (certainly sounded like madre de Dios). 1005 intro for programm "?? San Miguel" then live M starting with TC, nice canned ID by M at 1008. Fair to good signal. Too bad this wasn't Madre de Dios (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, HCDX via DXLD) Jumps around; WRTH 2006 shows it on 4904 (gh, DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030, R. Burkina, Ouagadougou - reactivated! -, 1733- ..., 28 Oct, French, sports, report on a bike tour; 55333, QRM de China till 1732*. 7230, R. Burkina, Ouagadougou - reactivated! - 1516- ..., 28 Oct, African pops; 23422; rated 15331 at 1155 on 29 Oct (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. The new RCI pdf schedule does not make this clear, but altho Maple Leaf Mailbag now occupies what had been the first hour of CBC`s Sunday Edition, time-shifted now to 1400+ UT on 9515, 13655, 17820, the first hour of Sunday Edition is not lost to SW listeners, instead the final hour; for at 1511 on 9515, 13655 and 17820, Michael Enright was welcoming us to the first hour of the show, as RCI was taking the Central timezone feed instead of the Eastern. Maple Leaf Mailbag was already starting at 1404 Oct 29 giving address for the show. Rechecked at 1429, Bill Westenhaver was on, trying to convey the new RCI frequency schedule with frequent interruptions by the hosts. Bill mentioned that he is on the French equivalent, Courrier Mondiale, every week. One could also hear Hour I of The Sunday Edition, starting at 1411 on the CBCNQ service, 9625, usual marginal signal, with a SAH, but no other sound audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I listened to the Maple Leaf Mailbag last night. I find it funny they insist on the air that the first hour of their new daily magazine won't be on shortwave. It will also be interesting to see how they're going to put news on the air -- or if they'll have any news at all. The editor in chief of the English section stated on the Mailbag that the new daily program will shift away from news and current affairs toward culture and society (Ricky Leong, Calgary, Oct 29, swprograms via DXLD) It appears there will be some news & current affairs, or at least that's what was said in the interview on Friday, but you're right, Ricky, it really seems to be an emphasis on Canadian culture and lifestyle (Rich Cuff, PA, ibid.) As of Oct 30 at 1650 UT, RCI still hasn`t posted its new B-06 schedules at http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/horaires.shtml and I am also wondering about RCI-1 webcast programming for purposes of updating MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR --- all I can do for the moment is delete previous entries which are bound to be outdated. [they were posted within an hour or so; see below] We were sent the B-06 schedule in PDF, however, but it is not (yet?) totally correct as to when CBC programs are running and when RCI programs replace them. Monday Oct 30 the 14-17 UT transmission did not contain The Links for the first two hours, but instead as in A-06, the final 2/3 of The Current, and all of Sounds Like Canada, from CBC, as I found out when I tuned in at 1419 on 9515, 13655 and new 17820, which as usual in the B-seasons no longer has that collision with DW on 17800. But the ax still hangs over these two programs, in case RCI has simply not got around to starting its new Link magazines on the first weekday of the new season. The harmonica fill-music has survived the seasonal transition, too, heard at 1430 for less than a minute, then a promo for a new sesquimonth contest, see http://doingmypart.coop [as below] The news at 1500, however was from RCI, not CBC. I really don`t see why they bother. 1506 back to SLC. At 1547 for a semiminute 13655 dumped off the air just as there was an interesting discussion with a Montrealer who says he runs into some of the 100,000 Haitians there frequently and speaks Creole with them, without too much problem. I quickly switched to 17820. 13655 dumped off the air again, this time for a full minute, at 1552. 1604 concluding ``CBC National Radio News``, 1605 harmonica, 1606 final hour of SLC. Meanwhile, I was checking what was happening on CBC NQ 9625. At 1501 there was CBC News while RCI frequencies were running RCI News. At 1522 all were // with SLC. Earlier, while scanning the 19 mb at 1443 I heard something other than English on 15240, scheduled as the R. Sweden relay. Swedish? Certainly not. Lappish? No, but something close --- Inuktituk, mentioning Inuit! Yes, it was // 9625, and Sackville was running the NQ Service on 15240 instead of R. Sweden, which of course has just shifted one UT hour later [see SWEDEN]. The DST/ST time changes for R. Sweden via Sackville never go smoothly. This continued on 15240 until 1459* with of course a much better signal than we get on 9625, tho there was splash from the neighboring Sackville transmitter on 15230 relaying CRI, another bad idea. At 1442, I had found a roughly equal collision of CRI in English via Sackville, and RHC in Spanish on 15230. Awful unlistenable mix, but hey, commies vs commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Here are some details of the contest promoted on RCI, but forget about it if you are not a Canadian citizen! ``Conditions: Participants must be Canadian citizens and between the age of 18 and 30 when they register for the contest. The contest ends November 30, 2006. The two grand prize winners and ten finalists will be announced during International Development Week in February 2007. For complete contest rules, click here. http://doingmypart.coop/rules.php Prizes --- Two grand prizes --- The two participants whose entries are judged as best by the jury will win a one-week familiarization trip, in the Spring of 2007, to a developing country where Développement international Desjardins (DID) experts in technical support and investment are working. A $15,000 value!`` DID sponsored a previous contest promoted on RCI, but almost all the winners were in Québec, so publicizing it around the world on shortwave was pointless and fruitless. There is also an RCI staff member named Desjardins, any relation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re your mention of a DesJardins staff name. It is of no significance. DesJardins is the term for the largest credit union in Canada, centred in Quebec, with a few branches and offices outside. It is very important in every community in Quebec More background, in English, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouvement_Desjardins and the epoynym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Desjardins_%28co-operator%29 (Dan Say, BC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. Looking thru the RCI B-06 technical schedule, I spot something very strange for the 0100-0157 English broadcast: 7 DAYS HBY 5840 350 283 HR 4/4/0.5 39-41 7 DAYS NAU 5970 250 90 HR 4/4/0.5 40,41 A 283 degree beam, N of westward, at this hour of the night, when the targets are CIRAF zones 39-41, i.e. from Turkey to Bangladesh?? Supposed to be 83 degrees, maybe? I have not searched the schedule thoroughly for any more such anomalies; can anyone find some? http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/RCI-TECH-B06-en.pdf Also the RCI skeds are effective until March 25. RCI may be in for a rude awakening when the N American clox are reset an hour later for DST starting March 11. RCI normally causes its broadcasts to the USA to shift time accordingly on the DST-start date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I note that the postings of the new RCI sked in English list only those broadcasts specifically directed to the Americas. In the past, there were a few transmissions from Sackville directed to Europe that were hearable here in the Central US during our afternoons (such as the 15325 kHz one). Are there any such now? 73, (Will Martin, swprograms via DXLD) As you can see in the technical schedule at http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/RCI-TECH-B06-en.pdf the 18-19 broadcast to Africa is now on three Sackville frequencies, 13650, 15365 and 17740, so these should provide good coverage to much of NAm off the back; and those too close to Sackville may get Wertachtal off the back on 11875. The 21-22 to Europe is on Sackville 9770, which I heard quite well today. But on both these transmissions, all you will hear are Link, Blink or Mailbag (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SWEDEN ** CANADA. Around 0615 Oct 29, no sign of CHU on 3330 or 7335, but at 1432 both 14670 and 7335 were audible. It certainly seems that one or another CHU frequency is off the air at times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. CVC observations: see U S A [non] ** CHINA [non]. Collision: CRI starts another B-season on 15230, despite RHC on the same, Commies vs Commies! Oct 29 at 1337, CRI in English via Sackville way over RHC in Spanish; however, at 1408 during CRI`s second hour in English, could not detect any RHC underneath; off by then, earlier than before? New 11885 VG with CRI in English via Sackville, Oct 29 at 1347 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. CRI still feeds its programs in telephone quality to Russia, tho apparently now with audio processing before it goes into the phone-grade circuit. This noted around 2100 Oct 29 on long- established 7215 via Samara. Probably it's still the case with CRI's Issoudun and Noblejas transmissions, too? After 2330 I noted down that I heard CRI on 6175 and // 7250, with audio on the latter one being delayed although it is supposed to be Urumqi and 6175 Albania instead. Trouble is, I did not note down the language and can't remember anymore . . . (Oct 29) (CRI 5905 see under Russia) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. VOA in Vietnamese giving DGS a run for his money, on 9725 at 1504 Oct 30, as in schedule below at 15-16. Site is Saipan, and since Cahuita is off-frequency, there was a lo het too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Startled, but only briefly, to hear some English on RHC Spanish frequencies; it was just a feature on H. G. Wells` War of the Worlds, with clips of vintage broadcast, during Spanish DX program Sundays at 1335-1350; Oct 29 at 1342 on 12000, 11760, 9550, but 11805 was not on until later. At 1427 stamp show was on 11805 and the others. See also VENEZUELA [non]. RHC Sunday-only Esperanto reconfirmed on 11760 at 1506 Oct 29, VG signal for 1500-1530 broadcast on this frequency only. The incompetent DentroCuban engineers have found yet another way to pollute the SW spectrum. Oct 29 at 2348, innocently trying to scan the 13 MHz band for anything new in B-06, I found a huge ringing sound extending all the way from 13615 to 13760 or so and seeming to peak about 13665 at 20 over S9, but almost as strong for a large swath on either side. It was accompanied from one end to another by weaker audio from R. Nacional de Venezuela relay, nominally 13680, so it was that transmitter which went totally haywire, // 15250 which was OK. This lasted the rest of the hour, making reception of anything else in some 150 kHz impossible, except 13650, CRI in Portuguese, also via Cuba, which could still be heard, but not strong enough to override the noise completely. Confirming that Cuba has gone back to UT -5, Oct 30 at 1405, Manolo de la Rosa on RHC 11760 gave a time check for 9:05 am in Habana, as well as mentioning that Despertar con Cuba now begins at 1100 UT = 6 am local. Kudos to RHC for keeping its SW scheduling on UT the yearound! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. R. Martí is back on 5745 for B-06, just like it was in B-05, which was 11-14 via Greenville. But has the frequency grid at http://www.martinoticias.com/frequencies.htm been updated to show this? Of course not! 5745 noted at 1223 Oct 29 with preacher, as the US government (state) promotes a certain church (Catholic, no doubt). Lite jamming as the DentroCuban Jamming Command already caught up with it, // 5980; 6030 already off at this hour. At 1352 recheck, 5745 was still on, but much weaker. 15330 is another reactivated frequency for R. Martí, and the DCJC had not found it, or if they had, jamming inaudible against this monster signal, Oct 29 at 1409 with speech about re-dedication of TV Martí and all the wonderful things it will bring to the oppressed Cuban people. This was // 11930 with the usual jamming audible underneath. At 1423 the spurious jamming clix were audible on 12030, and at 1428 around 11880. 13820 had been the highest R. Martí frequency during the A-season; Oct 29 at 1428 there was only an open carrier, or two of them with SAH, and jamming, same after 1431. Schedule may have changed, or dropped in favor of 15330? At 2344 UT Oct 29, R. Martí had left reactivated 15330, but still heavy jamming upon it. 13820 was back on with RM at 2350 check, well over jamming. Rapidly clicking spurs from jammers against Martí continue to be found some 50-65 kHz away. Oct 30 at 1550 there were some around 15381- 15382, originating from 15330. None, however, found on the low side around 15280 to match as sometimes happens. I still haven`t figured out R. Martí`s new frequency schedule, but some observations Oct 30: At 2152 heavy jamming against nothing on 15330, which must have closed earlier. I believe it runs from 14 to 20 now. Also lite clix around 15480, presumably spurious from there, altho in this case 150 kHz away. Canada blocked mirror 15180. At 2159 jamming on 9565, but no Martí or jamming on 9515 before or after 2200, which had been a new frequency I found a few days ago in A-06; that schedule, not including 9515, still appearing at http://www.martinoticias.com/frequencies.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Checking R. República Oct 30: at 2214, 6135 via Rampisham was coming in well, and no sign of jamming, which is strange since this is the same frequency as in A-06; 2215 ID and went on to give their schedule on (WRMI) 9955, but not these relays. At 0030 check the next frequency via UK was 7205, audible there somewhat atop jamming. Will they also still be on 7110 after 0200? Their website has not been updated, http://www.radiorepublica.org/ since it still shows the old A-06 frequency 7160 for the M-F 2300-0400 Tu-Sa broadcast via RMI via Germany, which is really on the new frequency we have been discussing, 5970, starting Oct 30. At 0030 heard RR ID clear of any jamming, but much stronger signal from RHC on 5965 was disturbing it. We can hope that in parts (most?) of Cuba, 5965 will be skipping over and not a problem. Jamming was still on ex-5910, against nothing, where RR might as well have stayed, as there was also nothing on 5905 or 5915. Once the jamming starts on 5970 it should be fun for the stations on 5965, 5975. Rechecked at 0230, 7110 was indeed still going, some audio but mostly jamming. 5970 was audible without jamming but had weakened further relative to RHC 5965, and jamming was still running on 5910 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECH REPUBLIC [and non]. R. Prague`s secret relay via Sackville, not showing on their B-06 schedule, has changed not only frequency but time. It had been at 1400 on 15350, but now heard at 1500 on 15160, same good signal as before. Oct 29 at 1408, nothing on 15160, but at 1504, ending preview of Insight Central Europe and 1504:30 starting news. ICE is on their Saturday program schedule, so this transmission is still running programming a day late. Meanwhile, the new direct frequency to NAm at 1400, 13580, checked at 1405 Oct 29 was very poor, with CODAR QRM and video buzz, a local problem I suffer from the neighbors` TV set. Would 15 MHz be better? Maybe on good days, but cf FINLAND which was on but inaudible. Also checked WRMI 7385 at 1406, but no longer R. Prague relay in English, something in Spanish. That relay is now scheduled daily at 1500-1530 on 7385 (and daily 1000-1030 on 9955). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Prague`s new 13580 for English to NAm at 1400, good here Oct 29 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not here but fortunately they continue the secret Sackville relay now at 15 on 15160 (gh, DXLD) Checking again R. Prague`s new 13580 to NAm in English at 1400, barely in time Oct 30 at 1429 IS and IDs, only fair with CODAR and local video hash. The Sackville relay at 1500 is incomparably better, on 15160, concluding this date at 1427-1429* with their transmission schedule in French! Wouldn`t it be more helpful to announce the English schedule in an English broadcast? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. Nice copy of 4780 from sign on to now at 0415 (which is really late for propagation) and ETHIOPIA on 9704 (Steve Price, OUT Oct 30, Johnstown, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. From bad to worse: La Voz de los Andes continues to run the ``Albert Einstein`` ID at 1359:30, unchanged. During the entirety of A-06 one of the two frequencies given was wrong, ``11760`` instead of 11690, and 9745 correct. Now with B-06, monitored Oct 29 on new 11960 instead of 9745, BOTH frequencies are wrong. I expect this will continue at least thru March. HCJB does it again! Another erroneous frequency announcement recording at 2359:30 Oct 29 on excellent 11700 in Spanish had a brief quote from Aristotle(?) and then frequencies as 11720 and 21455. HCJB on 11700 is aimed both 157 and 330 degrees with 50 kW each from Pifo, and those tuning to 11720 would actually hear rival WYFR in Spanish at 140 degrees, and quite a bit weaker here. 11720 was in fact the HCJB frequency for this 23-01 transmission in A-06. How long will it take them to fix this? Don`t hold your breath, judging from the 7 months of wrong announcements in the mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ECUADOR [non]. HCJB via Jülich: See GERMANY ** EGYPT [and non]. Just as expected, R. Cairo has decided to bury itself under WYFR again this winter B-06, on 11885 for English to North America at 2300-2430. Oct 29 at 2355 I found WYFR in Portuguese, and only a trace at best of anything at all underneath it. I assume Cairo is there according to tentative B-06 schedule; certainly no longer on 11950. The WYFR transmission is supposedly aimed at Brazil but at 20 over S9 here in the opposite direxion is a good demonstration of how easily collateral damage can be caused, whatever the theory may be about serving specific forward target areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. EGITO – No primeiro dia de emissão na freqüência de 9360 kHz, em 29 de outubro, a programação em português da Rádio Cairo teve apenas sintonia razoável, por volta de 2245. A potência do sinal era boa, mas a locução chegava abafada. Apenas era audível quando estava em frente aos microfones o locutor Aiman. No primeiro dia de emissão na freqüência de 9360 kHz, em 29 de outubro, a programação em espanhol da Rádio El Cairo teve sintonia de razoável a boa. Talvez pelo horário já adiantado, por volta de 0139, a programação era perfeitamente compreendida, ao contrário da emissão em português. Em dado momento, o locutor informou: ``Rádio El Cairo apresenta Música de América Latina`` (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 29 via DXLD) ** EGYPT. Haven't they heard of audio processing in Egypt? I often have a very difficult time hearing the audio on Radio Cairo (Alan Furst, Round Rock TX, DX LISTENING DIGEEST) As do we all (gh) ** FINLAND. 15400, the traditional frequency of YLE Radio, was notable by its absence on the first day of B-06, checked during the 1200 and 1300 hours, altho it is still supposedly scheduled at 13-15. Further cutbacks? No, must have been propagation, lack thereof. Joe Hanlon in NJ was still hearing 15400, as well as 13715 until 14 and it`s still published in their new B-06 program booklet, pdf at http://www.yle.fi/rfinland/RF_esite_syksy06_WEB.pdf Taajuudet kohdealueittain 29.10. – 31.12.2006 Ajat Suomen normaaliaikaa (UTC +2h) POHJOIS-EUROOPPA: 558 kHz 00.00–24.00, 963 kHz 00.00–24.00, 6120 kHz 07.00–23.00. KESKI-, LÄNSI- JA ETELÄ-EUROOPPA: 11755 kHz 08.00 – 21.00, 6120 kHz 08.00–13.00 ja 19.00–23.00, 9560 kHz 09.00–11.00, 9630 kHz 16.00–20.00 (ruotsiksi), 5970 kHz 0000-0030. ITÄ-EUROOPPA: 6120 kHz 07.00–09.00, 7195 kHz 16.00–18.00. KAAKKOIS-EUROOPPA, LÄHI-ITÄ JA ITÄ-AFRIKKA: 6130 kHz ja 9815 kHz 05.50-06.30, 6120 kHz 07.00-09.00, 9815 kHz ja 11865 kHz 07.00-08.00, 21800 kHz 14.00-15.00, 9610 kHz 19.00-20.00, 7175 kHz 21.00-21.50. ITÄ- JA ETELÄ-AASIA: 15490 kHz 11.30–13.00, 15330 kHz 13.00–14.00 lauantaisin ja sunnuntaisin myös 17780 kHz 09.30–11.00. Sunnuntaisin 13695 kHz 14.00–15.00 ruotsiksi. Lisäksi päivittäin eteläiseen Keski-Aasiaan (mm. Intia) suunnattu lähetys 9660 kHz 17.00-18.00. AUSTRALIA: 9560 kHz 09.00–11.00, 15490 kHz 11.30–13.00, 15330 kHz 13.00–14.00. Lauantaisin ja sunnuntaisin myös 17780 kHz 09.30–11.00. Sunnuntaisin 13695 kHz 14.00–15.00 ruotsiksi. POHJOIS-AMERIKKA: 15400 kHz 15.00–17.00, 13715 kHz 15.00–16.00, 12000 kHz 18.00–19.00. ETELÄ-AMERIKKA: 21800 kHz 13.00-14.00, 17730 kHz 18.00-19.00. Note that the times are local UT+2, and this expires Dec 31 when SW from Finland is to become nothing but history. Needs to be translated and time-converted. Also, there is NO mention of Nuntii Latini any more, according to PDF find funxion, nor do I see it with my eyes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YLE Radio Finland, Oct 29 at 13-14 audible on 13715 and 15400; after 1400 on 15400 only. Did not hear any Latin (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I checked 15400 several times during this period and it was inaudible. Nuntii Latini no longer mentioned in their schedule booklet (gh, DXLD) YLE was audible on 15400 Oct 30 at 1420 check in Finnish, unlike the day before. This used to be a remarkably reliable hi-latitude signal, but even it is not always making it thru the auroral zone now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. The début of Radio Polonia via Fontbonne got screwed up. Carrier on 7270 on at 1628, at 1629 sharp audio cut-on into some classical music, followed by Radio Polonia IS. But finally the IS was replaced in a very slow crossfade by fill music which continued until audio cut-off at 1700 (carrier down a few seconds later). What went wrong here? I'm not sure who actually played the fill music, but it is possible that it already originated from Polskie Radio. Faint passages of the music got chopped up by a noise gate. This 7270 transmission clashes with co-channel Voice of Russia, aiming at Africa, and probably even a third transmission added to the mess, too. Here in Germany Fontbonne mostly overrode them, but rather prominent SAH emerged during fades. Anyway this was the first shortwave transmission with non-TWR programming from Fontbonne after how many years? (The DRM experiments with RMC programming taken aside here.) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today Radio Polonia in German via Fontbonne (1630-1700 on 7270) finally made it on air. However, the co-channel interference was quite prominent this time, enough to speak about a collision that needs to be resolved (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. Some lip-kazoo music made me pause on 9865, Oct 29 at 0602, then some talk in French. This is listed as RFI via Ascension at 27 degrees. Split-second drop-outs in audio occurred a few times each minute. 15275 Ascension is the new frequency for English at 1200-1230, so checked it Oct 29 at 1225; only RFI Musique to be heard, and seemed to be // 15515 Guiana French, tho I did not check that with a second receiver. No announcements heard, so can`t be sure it was supposed to be English, but these two would not normally be //. Another strike in progress? (After 1600, Joe Hanlon was hearing normal English programming on 11615, 15160.) At 1336 recheck, 15515 was gone. This had been the morning 1330-1400 French broadcast to the Americas, which also contained a Creole segment on Sundays, to be cancelled as from now. Seems they cancelled the entire broadcast. Of course I was checking 6120 at 1400, where RFI has been appearing the past few weeks tho unscheduled, in English instead of Vietnamese via Japan. But now Oct 29 with B-06, that transmission has vanished, and the Singapore carrier going off at 1401 exposed nothing. I checked 7220, previously scheduled for this via Chita, Russia, and there was a weak signal from something, but unseemed English. CRI is now scheduled there. It may be a while before we discover the replacement for 6120, if any, since RFI refuses to publish an accurate, up-to-date schedule of its own transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But see below RFI English at 1600 Oct 29 with normal programming, on 11615 (Issoudun) and 15160 (South Africa); later in the hour Club 9516 with Da-vid Pa-ge, but instead of mailbag was a discussion of the immigration problem (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. R. France Int'l B06 English to Africa [it`s not always clear whether the date span refers only to the immediately preceding frequency or more than that --- gh] 0400-0430 7315 du 29.10.06 au 25.03.07, 9805 du 29.10.06 au 25.03.07, 11700 0500-0530 9825 du 27.03.05 au 04.09.05 [sic; why are last year`s dates here?] 11995, 15160 du 29.10.06 au 25.03.07, 13680 du 29.10.06 au 25.03.07 0600-0630 15160, 17800 0700-0800 15605 1200-1230 17815, 21620 1400-1500 15615, 7180, 9580, 15615 du 29.10.06 au 25.03.07 1600-1700 7170, 17605, 15605, 15605 1700-1730 7170, 17605, 15605, 15605 (R. France Int'l website, via Daniel Sampson, Prime Time Shortwave, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This apparently comes from the right-hand column at http://www.rfi.fr/langues/statiques/rfi_anglais.asp And not from the text on the left which is extremely outdated. But this info is not fully updated either. Note the 2005 dates for 9825! The 1200 broadcast is supposed to be on 15275 now via Ascension rather than 17815, and I did hear RFI on 15275 tho not positive yet it`s in English. The 1400 broadcast has always been for Asia, not Africa, and is still headed as such on this page. These entries do give us some new frequencies to try to confirm in the absence of 6120. But why is 15615 shown twice? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** GABON. ANO, 9580, G signal Oct 30 at 2228 in French; noticed it has a lite ``generator whine``, the same as heard on its harmonic 19160, but which was not making it thru today or recently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. See LIBYA [non] ** GERMANY. DRM on 9650-9660, Oct 29 at 1348. Per http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC this is ``1200-1359 daily 9655 300 degrees, Europe 200 kW, DW D various Wertachtal Germany`` Before 1300 that is likely to mar our reception of BBCWS via Furman on 9660 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also POLAND [non] ** GERMANY [non]. Network Europe, Oct 29 at 0606, VG on 7240, but from which of the ten or so coöperating stations credited at the end 0629? DW ID soon followed, 0630 into another language, Hausa scheduled. This is 150 degrees from Sines, Portugal. Confirmed Oct 30 that one of DW`s better programs, A World of Music, is still airing Mondays at 2130-2200, but the Rwanda relay frequency, also onward toward us, has changed to 11690. The RTTY on the low side is still there but unlike Jordan, this signal is strong enough to overcome it, at least by side-tuning upwards. The other airing, which was at 0530 UT Tuesdays, has vanished with the second half of that transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DW gone for NA --- Hi Glenn, You may have already mentioned this on one of the shows and I missed same but in case you haven't, I just got the DW Winter 2006/7 schedule from their web site. Unless I'm missing something the only target to North America is 2300-2330 UT DRM 9800 [via CANADA] Tried to hear them Sunday afternoon on 9830 and the signal was strong here in Ohio but some sort of interference made it almost unlistenable. 9735 at the same time was marginal. [Later:] Hi again Glenn, Ironically when I went out and got the mail today there was a letter from DW indicating that as of October 29 there will be no more analog transmissions to North America. They say most North American listeners listen via the Internet, which may or may not be the case but in their view that's the situation. So yet another shortwave station becomes on-line only for us. For many, like me, who only have dial-up and can't get broadband at any price yet another station is history. Actually I do still try to get their African service but at least two of those frequencies have radio teletype on them. Here is the link to the German web page they've created to discuss this, in German. http://www.dw-world.de/nordamerika (Dale Rothert, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. HCJB German via T-Systems is back on 3955 at Jülich where a conical monopole for 75 metres is available. 1600-1700, first half hour still in Lower German, at sign on with rather weak signal here (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. English preacher about Jehovah on 11695, Oct 29 at 1425. Not sure which program but listed as Wertachtal aimed eastward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Apodimos: Since the 1400-1500 UT Saturday airing of "Greeks Everywhere" did not make it on 15630, it stood to reason that there would be no repeat show at 0200-0300 UT Sunday on 7475 and 9420. But, we were treated to a full hour of delightful rebetika music instead! My thanks to your Program Director for putting this on as a replacement (John Babbis, MD, to ERA, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Not much making it thru from Europe on 7 MHz at this time, 0623 Oct 29, but 7475 had a F-P signal with Greek music. Nothing audible on 15630 at 1410 check, but 9420 was fair. That`s because 17525 is now running until 1550 at 105 degrees, then 15630 from 1600 at 285 degrees, while 9420 operates before and after these times at 323 degrees, more favorable for NAm. At 1417, heard 17525 with phone interview, QRM from some spurts of chirps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 October follow. Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 14. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 29 October was 4 (55 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) No ``It`s All Greek to Me`` music show presented in English, as previously scheduled, and occasionally actually appearing, UT Monday at 0000. Brought up webcast at 0007 Oct 30 and heard world news in Greek, 0010 into a show with a woman speaking expressively, only in Greek, backed up by music. VOG, 15630, now not starting until 1600, Oct 30 at 1607 in Greek music; only fair, but better than 17525 was earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. Radio Polonia's Oct 29 début via Montsinéry: Carriers on 9640 and 11940 on more or less simultaneously at 2029, audio appeared on 9640 first. Again classical music, crossfade into Radio Polonia IS which broke off with a stutter as if the playout had crashed. Some silence, then at 2031 finally fade-in into already running program in German, welcome to listeners pointing out that ``from today we are using new shortwave transmitters, in some cases also on new frequencies, and we eagerly await your observations``. Well, the related postings to the A-DX mailing list so far were really enthusiastic, aside from the audio failure on the 7270 transmission (``what a pity, since it's a usable transmitter at last``). At 2034 and 2035 two further audio breaks occurred. The modulation was just excellent. Signal strengths: 11940 was rather weak but 9640 quite listenable, still not a powerhouse but this got compensated to some extent by the absolutely clear frequency, as opposed to the clutter on 49/41 metres. Interestingly a posting from Sandro Blatter indicates that it was in Switzerland the other way round, i.e. 11940 the stronger signal. Programming wrapped up at 2055 but carrier on 11940 stayed on until 2059. One could suggest that they may now abandon the practice of some programs running 5 minutes short to allow switching/retuning of the Leszczynka transmitters, but, but, Kashi signed on 9640 for CRI in Spanish from 2100 already at 2057 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also POLAND [and non]! ** GUINEA. 7125, R. Guinée / R. Conakry, Sonfonya, still no trace of it (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Oct 27-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. Radio Budapest with their Sunday special ``Gruß und Kuß`` in German noted at 1550 on 6025 and 7275 with Bohemian brass band music (``jaja, aus Böhmen kommt die Musik``). Apparently the Jászberény staff did listen to cut off 7275 at about 1558 in the right moment, since they did it carefully just when the last song had been faded down (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted 3975 with an open carrier in the 2000...2100 period Oct 29. Probably no broadcasts are scheduled for it during this period, so it was no failure (especially since 6025 had modulation) but just burning power (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Budapest`s little-known early NAm service in Hungarian is now at 22-23 UT on 6140, and that was coming in well at 2213 check Oct 30 next to R. República 6135 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND. 207 kHz, RÚV, Eiðar, putting the best signal I ever heard from them on this fq, 2207-2216, 28 Oct, news (tentatively); 43342, QRM de Germany, not Morocco! At the same time, RÚV Gufuskálar 189 rated 53453, adjacent QRM only (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Re AIR 90 mb to 60 mb changes --- Shimla & Bhopal noted on new 4965 & 4810. Gangtok will change by eve (IST), possibly on 4835. Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Oct 29, dx_india via DXLD) Yes, same noted here in Sri Lanka this morning, and also a healthy spurious on 4725 from Chennai 4920. Will look for Gangtok. Hope this is only for the winter season and they will go back to 90 m.b. Compared to many years ago the 90m.b. is so empty now. We heard numerous Latins, Guyana, SW Africa, S Africa, LM radio from Mozambique, many Nigerians and also a dozen or so PNG stations, not to forget many Indonesians, Africans... Those were the days (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, ibid.) So how would it be better for DX on 90m if there were more Indians back on that band? And why would they go up in winter, down in summer? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) As expected Gangtok noted on 4835 (instead of 4845) - sign on at 1030 UT, right now songs in limbu lang with fair reception. Regds (Alokesh Gupta, 1102 UT Oct 29, ibid.) Delhi still noted on 3365 at 1230 UT - running commentary of India vs Australia one day cricket match. 1254, AIR Delhi changed to 5015. 3365 went off the air after I called up; these guys need a reminder even to change the freq's !! Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, ibid.) Dear friends, Here are the changes to All India Radio SW for the B-2006 season Home Services 4810, Bhopal 50 kW 0025-0215, 1130-1742 (ex 3315) 4835, Gangtok 10 kW 0100-0400, 1000-1600 (Sun 1615) (ex 3390) 4965, Shimla 50 kW 0025-0215, 1300-1730 (Sat, Sun 1741) (ex 3223) 5015, Delhi 50 kW 1220-1840 (ex 3365) External Services 13710, Bangalore 500 kW 1000-1100 English, 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu (ex 13695) 15235, Bangalore 500 kW 1000-1100 English (ex 15410) 15235, Panaji 250 kW 1115-1200 Thai (ex 15410) Delete 7250 Panaji 250 kW 0130-0230 Nepali (This came into effect some time back) Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, Camp : Kochi, Kerala, Oct 29, dx_india via DXLD) Yes. Checked these on 29 Oct 1330/1400. 4810, Bhopal weak under Armenia 4835, Gangtok weakish on clear channel 4965, Shimla under VOR 5015, Delhi mixing with Turkmenistan. And 90 meterband gets more empty of afternoon/evening stations :-( (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3 out of 4 bad frequency choices. Does AIR pay any attention to who is already on the frequencies? (gh, DXLD) 5015 AIR, (which site?), 1609-1640, 29 Oct, Vernacular, folk songs; talks 1630, English, sports, advertisements; 34343, QRM de unID BC station (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Delhi, ex-3365; see above ** INDONESIA [and non]. 9524.97, RRI Jakarta 1059 28 Oct, pleasant song, W in SE Asian language, 1030 Gamelan music, M voice-over with RRI Web site and e-mail address. More canned announcements. Nice signal, clear, good audio, but a little fady. 9680.04 also pretty good (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via DXLD) 9680, RRI Jakarta, returned again Oct 29 (Sun.), after being off for about 4 days; 0947-1022, very poor at tune-in, with strong WYFR (start of their B06 schedule) in Portuguese. At ToH WYFR into French and RRI in Bahasa Indonesian with program of EZ listening ballads. KGRE again preempted (last heard Sept 13). From 1005 onward, RRI improved up to fair and WYFR dropped way down (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, RX340 + T2FD antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Suara Indonesia, 9525, VG at 1349 Oct 29; no trace of new R. Polonia relay via Germany. It was just the reverse for Joe Hanlon in NJ. Out here, we won`t be hearing RP unless VOI disappears, which it is likely to do periodically. But today VOI ran long, NA not concluding until 1403:45 and carrier off a few seconds later. See POLAND [non] Suara Indonesia, 9525, Oct 30: first checked at 1421, open carrier with hum, also at 1451, 1501, 1521. However at next check 1532, the gamelan orchestra with English ID loop had started, as heard a few days earlier. This is almost as nice as listening to China`s Firedrake, tho more repetitive. I noted when the music paused for a couple seconds and started over initially with solo drumming: at 1537:59 and at 1544:23. That computes to a loop lasting 6:24 (or maybe 3:12 if I missed a restart in the middle). Sure enough, another restart at 1557:10, i.e. 12:47 later, give or take a second. This kept running past 1600, but at 1601:30 opened Arabic service, and that continued on into the hour. Since 9525 is aimed 30 degrees on schedule until 1400, and there is no reduction in signal when it is prolonged, one might ask, why is VOI broadcasting Arabic toward Japan and North America? Answer: when they make the switch at 1600 to the proper frequency for Arabic, 15150, that is aimed 318 degrees, and poorly heard here if at all. 9680 is a horrible mixture of stations colliding, as it has been for years and years, with RRI slightly atop at the moment I checked, Oct 30 at 1449 in Indonesian, other talk in Chinese; meanwhile nearby frequencies such as 9670 were empty. At 1503 recheck, 9680 was vacant. During the 1400 hour, and no doubt earlier, it is a battle between Taiwan and China, with Indonesia the collateral victim. There`s nothing in HFCC but Indonesia at this hour, but ILG A-06 had CBS Taipei at 11-18 in Mandarin to China on 9680, so bound to provoke intense jamming. PWBR `2006` showed 9680 as R. Taiwan International, Huwei, 100 kW and jammed at the same hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. Re 6-160, CVC, Correction : Arabic 1200-1500 15715 Middle East (Via Juelich) 1500-1700 11830 Middle East (Via Juelich) Russian 1200-1500 13830 Russia (Via Juelich) 1500-1700 11705 Russia (Via Juelich) Regds (Alokesh Gupta, India, dxldyg via DXLD) i.e. the last four entries were below English, missing languages (gh, DXLD) Add to B06 : English 0430-0730 15515 To India DRM 1000-1100 9760 To UK 1800-2000 17860 To Brazil Regds (Alokesh Gupta, ODXA via DXLD) DRM in what languages? (gh) ** IRAN [and non]. Glenn: attached please find the B06 Spanish schedule which I have just received from IRIB in Teheran. In the message they request reception reports. 73, (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGETS) Viz.:P Saludos desde Irán y la nueva tabla de frecuencias EN EL NOMBRE DE DIOS Estimados oyentes, Reciban un cordial saludo desde la ciudad de Teherán. Le informamos que adjuntamos a este presente, nueva tabla de frecuencias que será aplicada desde el 29 del mes de octubre. Esperando sus informes de recepción, nos despedimos hasta el próximo contacto. Atentamente, La Redacción Española, La Voz Exterior de la R.I.I. FRECUENCIAS LA TABLA DE LAS FRECUENCIAS, ONDAS CORTAS: 2030-2130 ESPAÑA 41 M 7130 KHZ 41 M 7350 KHZ 0030-0130 AMÉRICA CENTRAL Y AMÉRICA DEL SUR 41 M 7225 KHZ 31 M 9680 KHZ 0230-0330 AMÉRICA DEL SUR 41 M 7225 KHZ 0130-0230 AMÉRICA DEL SUR 31 M 9680 KHZ 41 M 7225 KHZ 0530-0630 EUROPA 19 M 15320 KHZ 22 M 13710 KHZ 2030-2130 EUROPA 6250 (via Knochen, ibid.) Last one via LITHUANIA, a secret from listeners? ** IRAN [non]. 6250 [via LITHUANIA], VOIRI, 2023 Oct 30 in English, S7 but 314x2 QRM Zamaneh 6240 [sic; should be 6245]. After 2030 with program in Spanish, 2104 co ch QRM with P`yongyang (Zacharias Liangas, THS Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also LITHUANIA ** IRAN [non]. As noted yesterday, CVC A Sua Voz, Miami via Chile in Portuguese to Brasil, on new 15410 is ruining our reception of what would be one of R. Farda`s best outlets for its wonderful mix of Iranian and western music, as noted at 1549 Oct 30. However, at this time, R. Farda was gaining over CVC, unlike an hour earlier. Meanwhile, nearby frequencies go vacant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? 9330, R. Farda, 2029 with pop songs, ID at 2030 with news, S5 34333 29 Oct (Zacharias Liangas, THS Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Farda should be on 9335; if really on 9330, bad news for poor Damascus (gh, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 6985, Galei zahal 2107, Oct 29, offtune in that freq playing rock songs, and talks in Hebrew. Signal was S7 max, 34323 with some selective fading. At 2204 signal shifted to its standard frequency 6973 kHz (Zacharias Liangas, Retziki THS Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Israel Radio, not Galei Zahal, is now scheduled on 6985 all evening until 2200, the last hour in Russian. See schedule in UT +2 at http://www.iba.org.il/doc/shortwaves.pdf (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ISRAEL. Kol Israel in Hebrew (i.e. Reshet Bet) confirmed at 2345 on 7545 with a call-in, discussing whatever matter concerning Germania. (Oct 29) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. In late 2004 Roberto Scaglione discovered that RAI offered various properties for sale, and amongst them was also the Prato Smeraldo station. So could it be that they now plan to shut down the shortwave facilities in order to sell off the site? And what did happen to the shut-down Santa Palomba mediumwave station (846 kHz), does it still exist or has it been demolished in the meantime? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's still there, they switch on transmitters (Thompson - 2 x 300 Kw, 2 x 600 Kw) one time a month or so on dummy load. I think they'll make some low power DRM tests in the next future... but Santa Palomba's "future" is still uncertain (Roberto Scaglione http://www.bclnews.it Sicily, ibid.) On 11800, Arabic mentioning Roma, with that typical Rai squealing transmitter, at 1434 Oct 30. Trouble is, the sked at http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/rai.htm shows this is supposed to be on 11825 to NW Af, tho there is another Arabic at 1330 on 11800 to NEAf. I suspect the 1330 time is incorrect, and both are supposed to be at 1430. Did not check 11825 since I did not know about it until looked up later, but probably not audible due to ACI, and the SE beam on 11800 is more favorable here directly off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I confirm, it's a typo in RAI original schedule in English. Italian schedule has correct time and frequencies. Sorry (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, ibid.) ** JAPAN. I supposed NHK Warido had changed its longtime direct frequency to NAm in Japanese, 9535, since nothing heard at 1500 Oct 30, unlike 9505 in English; however, 9535 was going when rechecked at 1521, so came on late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN, 774, JOUB Akita (NHK-2) - This is my first Trans Pacific MW reception. Oct 25, at 1020, start of an English lesson: ``Welcome to Eikaiwa Jokyu [the name of the program]. Koushi no SHIMOZAKI MINORU desu [I am the teacher of this class and my name is SHIMOZAKI MINORU]. Here with me today is my wonderful partner Ann", "Hello everyone, my name is Ann Slater``, into a dialogue about ``What to do if you brake [sic] down on the highway with an overheated engine``, fair. Many thanks to IWATA Gaku (JAPAN PREMIUM) for the translation (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS WORLD B-06 in English: 0800-0900 English 1 Europe 9640 0800-0900 English 1 Southeast Asia 9570 1200-1300 English 1 North America 9650 via Sackville 1300-1400 English 1 Southeast Asia 9570 9770x [what means x? gh] 1430-1500 English 2 Europe 9770 (DRM) 1900-2000 English 1 Europe 7275 2200-2230 English 2 Europe 3955 via Skelton 0200-0300 English 1 North America 9560 via Sackville 0200-0300 English 1 South America 15575 No English to Middle East & Africa given. No English non-directional given (KBS web site via John Norfolk, dxldyg, DXLD) I have compared the complete B06 schedule on the KBS web site with the A06 schedule (which I still have on paper) and it seems there has been quite a reduction in output - something like a 40% cut in frequency hours overall. English has come off rather better than many of the other languages; e.g. Russian to Europe for is down from 4 hours on SW in A06 to just 1 hour per day for B06 on new 738 kHz, the WRN channel via Moscow. French and German to Europe are cut from two hours to one. Spanish to Europe is down to just 30 minutes (it was two and a half hours). Having said that, some of the transmissions which have been dropped were direct broadcasts from Korea to Europe which were probably barely audible. There have been similar reductions to other target areas. The full schedule is at http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_time.htm (Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) AVISO --- Modificación en las frecuencias del Servicio en Español de KBS World Radio desde el domingo 29 de octubre. Las horas están dadas según UT. Hacia América del Sur, transmitimos de 1100 a 1200 por los 11795 vía Sackville, Canadá y sumamos la nueva frecuencia de 15575 de 0100 a 0200 [ex-11810] Para Europa, seguirá funcionado la frecuencia de los 6045, de 0600 a 0630, que se transmite vía Sackville, Canadá. Gracias a todos los amigos oyentes por su continuo interés y apoyo a KBS World Radio. Estamos trabajando para mejorar la recepción y pronto tendremos más novedades (Cecila Song, KBSWR via Rubén Guillermo Margenet, ARGENTINA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KBS WR, 6045 via Sackville to Europe, Oct 29 at 0612 had an Argentine talking about Cuba`s R. Taíno. I guess this was Rubén Guillermo Margenet`s DX segment. BTW, this transmission was previously announced as being at ``1500``, which would be Korean time, not UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1188 kHz, HLKX, Inchon, received beautiful full color photo post card QSL of the HLKX transmitter site in 18d for CD report. V/S: Karen Chase-EE Secretary. Mentioned they rarely get reports from the US. Most come from Europe. Not a new verie, but I wanted the nice QSL card to add to the collection. HLKX is fairly common here in the Fall. Address: FEBC, MPO Box 88, Seoul 121-707, Korea. 1566, HLAZ, Cheju Island, received beautiful full color post card QSL of HLAZ transmitter site in 18d for CD report, sent at same time as HLKX. Same V/S: Karen Chase-EE Secretary. Again, I had this one QSL'd from the 70s, but I wanted their new QSL card and boy aren't the two nice ones. Address: FEBC, MPO Box 88, Seoul 121-707, Korea (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, HCDX via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. V. of Mesopotamia, 11530 via Moldova, underneath WYFR in Portuguese Oct 29 at 1343, but WYFR was about to close and off by 1345, clearing VOM. WYFR scheduled on 11530 now at 05-08 and 12-14, rounded off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Grossissimi problemi per la trasmissione in italiano della WYFR delle 0700 UT; il canale è occupato dalle 0500 alle 1500 da Denge Mezopotamya. L'emittente americana non è ascoltabile (almeno da me) neanche in sottofondo. Speriamo abbiano cambiato frequenza all'ultimo minuto (Roberto Scaglione, http://www.bclnews.it http://www.fmdx.it bclnews.it Oct 29 via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio has shifted one UT hour later on WHRI 11785, Sunday Oct 29 at 1410 during the 1400 hour; 11785 had English preaching before 1400 and after 1500. Presumably the same on Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [non]. V. of Africa is back on 17725 via FRANCE, for the 1400-1600 English broadcast; Oct 30 at 1511 big hum, and eventually decided they were speaking English. Seemed to be putting brief phonecalls on the air from western admirers of The Leader of the Revolution; is it his birthday or something? I suppose his admiration extends to unbirthdays as well. Scheduled on 17725 at 153 degrees from Issoudun and 21695 at 140. Could not confirm if 21695 is really on, as 13m conditions were poor, only weak signals and nothing north of Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [and non]. Hilife music to jam (or distract) from Sawt al- Amal, Oct 29 at 1233 on 17660; still the same at 1417; nothing else against SAA noticeable; 17630 ANO had an even better signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re ``At 1200 V of Africa in English started on 17625, 17660, 17670, with the frequency of 17660 being perfectly synchronized with the Afropop station.`` I think RFI use to run frequencies via both Issoudun and Moyabi when they still used the latter site? It appears to be an educated guess that thus the Issoudun and Moyabi carriers are still locked to the same reference (probably GPS), so this observation certainly fits to Moyabi as origin of the Afropop transmissions. All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct 30 at 1447, Afropop music coming in well on 17660, and again at 1512 check. I suppose it is still running until 1530, regardless of Sawt al-Amal`s schedule ending at 1400. Similar signal to ANO Gabon on 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA [and non]. 6250 is no good choice for the IRIB relays also for another reason [besides P`yongyang on 6250]: After 2000 Oct 29 I noted a much stronger signal on 6245, presumably Radio Zamaneh on unchanged frequency, making the quite weak (apparently skipping) 6250 absolutely unlistenable (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 4845, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, never logged on this outlet so early, 1546-1607, Arabic, talks, news 1600; 35343 and improving. I doubt 7245 is regular as the signal should be perceived through the adj. DRM QRM (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, Oct 27-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RADIO WARS IN OAXACA CITY First of all, links to the story of NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will who was killed Friday in Oaxaca City, Mexico by paramilitaries who attacked a roadblock set up by supporters of the Teachers Strike. Ongoing coverage here, including a link to Radio APPO (Did not work when I tried it.) http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/index.html This is a link to the video Brad Will took of his own murder: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3664350201077731285&q=brad+will+video _ The ongoing radio wars have been documented by Free Speech Radio News with reference to frequencies and what is apparently interference to studio-transmitter links that took occupied stations off the air. There were strange happenings Thursday where almost all local stations went off the air to be replaced by a single government-supported station on 99.1, which Shannon Young reported as a pirate, probably because that frequency has not been used by a licensed station in Oaxaca City. This is reported, complete with airchecks, in the Friday, Oct. 27 Free Speech Radio News (link is below). The NYC Independent Media Center reports that as of Sunday, Radio APPO, a station linked to the movement, is back on the air. Links to radio coverage that mentions Oaxaca City airwaves: Fri., Oct. 27 http://www.fsrn.org/news/20061027_news.html (feature story about 15:00 into sound file) Thu., Oct 26 http://www.fsrn.org/news/20061026_news.html (headlines story about 3:00 into sound file) Friday, Oct. 6 http://www.fsrn.org/news/20061006_news.html *Tensions Continues in Oaxaca as the Popular Movement Take Another Radio Station *(feature about midway through sound file) Also this report from the radio program Flashpoints on Oct. 6 talks about the interference caused to the signals of the stations controlled by the movement allied with the teachers' union. http://flashpoints.net/index.html#2006-10-06 Report is about 5 min. into sound file. Other radio reports from Oaxaca that don't necessarily mention the local Oaxaca radio situation have appeared frequently in these news outlets. TV stations have also been taken over in the last month, but I don't have any links handy about that (Leigh Robartes, ID, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOLDOVA. Radio Station Pridnestrovye heard on new 6235 1702 October 30th with English commentary about South Ossetia, into German at 1720, very good signal on clear channel (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth Garden City, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONACO [non]. SHORT WAVE TRANSMISSIONS FROM MONACO (FONTBONNE) 0700-1100 UTC: 6175 kHz 10 kW (DRM Mode) : RMC Infos French 0745-0920 UTC (Sun): 0800-0920 UTC (M-F): } 9800 kHz 100 kW TransWorld Radio English 0815-0850 UTC (Sat): 0930-0945 (M-Sat): } 6230 7160 kHz 100 kW TransWorld Radio German 0930-1015 (Sun): 1400-1430 (Sun): } 6230 7160 kHz 100 kW TransWorld Radio German 1430-1500: [daily] 1630-1700: [daily] 7270 kHz 100 kW Radio Polonia German (Christian Ghibaudo, Nice, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. RN is back on its `summer` frequencies via Madagascar to South Asia at 14-16, and better audible here than the winter ones. Oct 29 at 1512, fair on 12080, but VP on 15595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [and non]. At 1600 Flevo replaced for RNW in Dutch 5955 (extremely strong here) by 6035 (another antenna, thus weaker signal). Tbilisskaya, the transmitter plant in southern Russia known as either Krasnodar or Armavir (it's located 120 km east of Krasnodar, closer but not really close to Armavir), is supposed to take over on 5955 from 1600 but had no modulation; only an open carrier made it on air. This could be RNW's first use of Tbilisskaya after a decade. Back in the nineties they used some 60 metre (!) frequency from there for a time, aiming at Africa if I recall correctly (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today RNW in Dutch made it on air via Tbilisskaya on 5955, noted after 1620 with a delay of almost a second behind 6035. RNW must run a dedicated feed with an Optimod (or other multiband compressor) for these relays via CIS facilities, or were such units installed at the transmitter sites only for this single customer? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Found a big open carrier on 7145, Oct 29 at 0624, standing out amid more than the usual SSB QRM, caused by ham contesters, off at 0626. Could have been just a ham, but quite a signal. RNZI is now scheduled on 7140-7150 much later, only at 1259- 1750 and in DRM, which indeed I heard at 1434. At 1227 Oct 29, RNZI analog audible on 9890, but suffering from WEWN 9885. Bad choice for us. RNZI DRM only 20 kHz away on 9865-9875. At 1352, RNZI analog audible on its new overnight frequency 5950. In the clear but poor signal and weakening as the sun rises higher here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) B06 schedule observations, RNZI, Rangitaiki: 5950, 1548-1633, 29 Oct, English, talks, news 1600, extensive weather forecast; Natl. R. program "Aoteaoroa" (tentative), weather again 1630, then gone at recheck 1641 at which time there as heavy adjacent QRM; 55433. 9890, 1014-1220, 29 Oct, English, music, talks... news 1100, 1200; 42542, adjacent QRM de RNW 9895. According to their B06 sched., 9890 is used 0659-1058. 15720 evenings, no signal (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. EMISORAS DE ONDA CORTA DE CUSCO PERU QSL MANAGER Estimados amigos, cordiales DX. Soy el lc- [Licenciado?] Carlos Gamarra Moscoso, director de frecuencias de Radio la Hora, Cusco, Perú, para informarles que estamos en condiciones de ayudar y colaborar a los DX del mundo, como intermediarios para conseguir cartas QSLes de las emisoras de Cusco por onda corta. Lo hacemos sin fines de lucro mas sólo de colaboración. Tengo la autorización de los gerentes de R. la Hora en 60m; Radio Onda Imperial; R. Wilcamayu en 3l m; Radio Universal en 6090 khz; Radio Cusco; Radio Tawantinsuyo. Escriban a Carlos Gamarra Moscoso, av. Garcilaso 411, Distrito de Wanchaq, Cusco, Perú. Cordiales 73 (Gamarra, Oct 28, via bclnews.it via DXLD) ** POLAND [non]. New R. Polonia relay via Germany was gangbusters! Oct 29 at 1300 on 9525; there is a mailbag in the second half hour on Sundays. No QRM from Indonesia audible here (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only Indonesia audible here! (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Radio Polonia via T-Systems --- I wanted to record the debut of Radio Polonia on T-Systems transmitters (I have to admit that I yesterday did not care about Leszczynka anymore), but bad luck, the PC crashed just at 1129. Some new equipment really seems to be required here. Anyway the difference in audio quality is quite obvious, with an unwanted side-effect: The reverb in their studio is now, with those lots of multiband compression, rather prominent, unlike the Leszczynka transmissions where no compression was used at all. 5965 from Wertachtal came on at about 1128, starting with some last seconds of other, unrelated audio, then into Radio Polonia IS. The signal was weaker than 6075 (where DW was one more time talking about cutting back shortwave), I'm not sure if only by the 7 db difference between 500 and 100 kW. Nauen on 7285 was mostly skipping over me of course but could be heard with a faint signal, too, suffering from the extremely strong DRM signal around 7275 which still produced a hiss on 7285. This 7275 outlet replaces the ex-SWR channel 7265 (which hereby is like 6030 no longer a German frequency, too); it goes out from Wertachtal with 200 kW, two times the power of Radio Polonia on 5965 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) First ever broadcast of Radio Polonia via DTK, open carrier at 1129 on both 5965 and 7285 kHz, interval signal, followed by Polish broadcast at 1131 - usual Sunday religious programme. Very good on 7285, good on 5965 (weak utility interference). Good audio. So it's the end of shortwave via groundwave for me (I live 30 km NW from Leszczynka). (Wojtek Zaremba, Legionowo, Poland with Degen DE1103 and telecopic antenna, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Polonia`s new relay via French Guiana back to Europe in Polish at 22-23 collides with BBC via Furman to Caribbean at the same hour on the same frequency, 9660! This BBC transmission was on 13765 during A- 06, and it seems the only reason they picked 9660 was that they are also using it from WHRI in the mornings. A better reason was needed. Was there no coördination between these two, or did they figure there would be no problem, since one is to Caribbean and the other to Europe? BBCWS was well atop RP here, but annoying and totally unnecessary QRM underneath. At first I was not sure what it was, nor the language; some nasalisation made it possibly French until it came in a bit more clearly around 2230, when BBC was promoting an upcoming item about the `tiny` Emirate of Dubai (well, it`s about 2428 square miles, not so tiny). The collision situation is bound to be even worse in the Caribbean target area of BBC. And Stephen Luce in Houston tells me they were about equal strength there. In the previous hour, however, 9660 was in the clear for BBC, interrupted at 2159 for a WHR ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Hi, Glenn-- Whoops. Big clash on 9660 at 2200 UT between BBCWS via WHRI and Radio Polonia in Polish via French Guiana. Pretty much at equally decent strength here in Houston, has to make the frequency totally useless in the Caribbean target area for the Beeb. The earlier 2100-2200 hour on 9660 does fine, however. All rather ironic; Poland used to be the hardest Eastern European to hear in Texas. Now it may have done a 180 and put itself in the "pest" category with the new transmitter contracts! I would think there are a number of other 31 meter choices for BBC/WHRI, but for now I'll stick to 5975 at 22 UT via Montsinéry of all things, another irony...!! (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FRANCE; GUIANA FRENCH; INDONESIA; MONACO ** ROMANIA. RRI, 15105, still in English at 1300, Oct 29 at 1338 with poor modulation, and some kind of noise marring reception, seemingly out of the same transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted RRI in English after 2330 on 6015 and 6115 with hissing background noises, somewhat different on either frequency but in both cases making them unlistenable. 6015 is supposed to be Galbeni but 6115 Tiganeshti instead, if so the problem would not even be limited to either transmitter site. Wouldn't this be a more urgent matter to care about than doing symbolic DRM transmissions? (Oct 29) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Looking again for my previous unID on 6005, Oct 29 at 1353, heard some instrumental religious music, 1357 open carrier, Japanese announcement mentioning kirohertsu, and at 1358:30, VOR IS! This is Komsomolsk/Amure 250 kW at 215 degrees toward Japan, off the back toward us. I am still wondering what this religious programming they are running is (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Voice of Russia in German noted at 1610 on 6145 and 7290 with commentary on Georgia and Abkhazia. Identical modulation, so apparently from the same site in the Moscow area (Lesnoy, Taldom, Kurovskaya, please mark the applicable one). (RNW 5955: see Netherlands; 7270 clash: see France) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Re 6-161, Radio Rossii --- 5940 and 7320 should be the Arman transmitters west of Magadan, as recently discussed here. A likely suspect for 5920 would be Yelizovo, although it is supposed to be on 6075 now instead. Yelizovo is the transmitter plant on the Kamchatka peninsula with the three letter abbr. P.K, also used by VOR, DW and RNW (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Stumbled over Deutsche Welle in German, talking about SBG (// powerhouse Sines on 6075), at 2320 on 5900: It's Novosibirsk, apparently the old site rather than the newer high power plant at Oyash, if the power is indeed 200 kW. Next to it was Russian on 5905, apparently CRI. (Oct 29) (5955 see Netherlands) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. On 30 Oct at 1504 noted on 11092.5-USB a station with female DJ playing Kenny Rodgers (I guess) songs. A fady and not too strong signal, but getting better later. Was still on at 1530. RSH testing or someone fooling around? Hmm, yep. At 1600 Radio St Helena ID. Getting better all the time (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still on (1604 UT), well received also here in south Italy. Clear ID at 1606 (Roberto Scaglione http://www.bclnews.it ibid.) RADIO ST. HELENA TEST TRANSMISSION, 30-10-2006 1640-1650 UT, 11092.5 KHz USB; POOR SIGNAL WITH QRN in ENGLISH. Audio clip available on http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/ 73's (Francesco Cecconi, Italy, HCDX via DXLD) JBA, couldn`t make out any ID, mostly music (gh) Thanks for this Log! I`ve received Radio St. Helena in Germany too, O=2, sign off at ~1649 UT. 73! (Dietmar Birkhahn QTH: Lindlar, 30km in the east of Cologne, http://www.wellenforum.de dxldyg via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA, 15435, Oct 29 at 1503 with Qur`an, long pauses, fairly big hum, but not a buzz; also flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BSKSA 15435 at 1532 in Arabic with first program // 15425. I don't recall this freq before. Weak but signal didn't act like spur. 73 (Liz Cameron, Detroit, MI NRD 525 10m longwire, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I believe 15425 is new, not spur, 295 degrees while 15435 is 320 degrees, both at 15-18 with first program. Strange I noticed only 15435 (gh, DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. RSI confirmed back on SW; Oct 29 at 08 in German on 5915, 6055; at 14 in Russian on 13710. Will have to wait until 0100 to check out English (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7230 to NAm in the HAM BAND! And 9440 to SAm (gh, DXLD) R. Slovakia International, October 29, 2006 *1930–1957* UT, 7345 kHz. Talk on return to shortwave by a very heavy accented female. Music. Pete Miller and Catalina with the 5000th Edition of "Slovakia Today" in English featuring celebration of return to shortwave and listener letters. SIO 252 RSI, October 30, 2006 *0100–0127* UT, 7230 kHz. Same program as 1930 UT broadcast. SIO 443. QRM from SSB transmissions on and around 7230 kHz. Feels like an old friend has returned! 73, (Kraig Krist, KG4LAC, VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. ESPANHA – De acordo com o esquema de emissões para o novo período radial, a transmissão em sefardi da REE para a América do Sul ocorre nas terças-feiras, entre 0115 e 0145, pela freqüência de 11795 kHz. Já os minutos noticiosos em catalão, galego e basco ocorrem de segundas a sextas-feiras, entre 1340 e 1355, em 21570 kHz (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 29 via DXLD) ** SPAIN [and non]. REE in Spanish Oct 29 at 1339 on 15125 // 15170. But 15125 is far too close to much stronger WYFR in Spanish on 15130. These are both Cariari, Costa Rica relays, 110 degrees on 15125, and 340 on 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Found REE in French after 2320 (Oct 29) on 5970, once again wondering how many listeners this program may have between midnight and 1 AM in the target area (i.e. France). Also confirmed them in Spanish after 0900 on powerhouse 13720, even stronger 15585 and with weak signals on three 13 metres frequencies: 21540, 21570, 21610 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) O o, 5970 must have been collided the next day with R. República from Germany, unnecessarily on 5970 instead of 5910; see CUBA [non] Heard classical music at 0232 UT Oct 31 on 6055, so that must be ``Nuestra Música``, successor to ``Nuestro Sello``, Tue-Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Network Europe, Sunday Oct 29 at 1344, fair on 11550. This would be R. Sweden aimed east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Radio Sweden is from 1600 on 5850 where it gets severely creamed by a co-channel ARQ signal. Probably the situation is better in the Middle East which appears to be the primary target area for this transmission. I think Deutsche Telekom abandoned this frequency years ago due to this utility signal (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RCI English at 2100 Oct 29 via Hörby on 5850 was very weak here, in fact unlistenable. It did not help anymore that the frequency was clear, since the persistent utility signal appears to be on this frequency only during daytime (at least I never noted it later in the evening). (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [and non]. Just to keep straight when 15240 is Sackville and when it is Hörby now, the B-06 schedule shows: Sackville 272 degrees at 1400-1415 M-F, 1400-1430 Sa/Su in Swedish, 1430-1500 daily in English, 1545-1600 daily in Swedish. (That is, when they don`t put CBC Northern on at 1430 instead; see CANADA.) All other 15240 transmissions between 13 and 1530 come from Hörby at 290 or 305 degrees for North America, in Swedish u.o.s., namely: M-F 1300-1315 290, 1315-1330 305; Sa/Su 1300-1330 stays on 290 degrees thruout. Daily 1330-1400 English 305, daily 1500-1530 Swedish 305. This is from the version posted at http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/sweden.htm which I think we also published some time ago. Note that the ma for Madagascar relay notation is missing from some of the 7420 entries in Swedish, which are obviously Mad from their 40-degree azimuth toward S Asia. In this area, one can usually guess whether 15240 is Sweden or Sackville, based on strength and steadiness of signal, but not always. Oct 30 at 1508 Swedish was not so strong with fading, so Hörby, and mentioned the words ``Radio Sweden`` in English during talk in Swedish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Glad to find VOT`s new 12035 in the clear during English at 1330, checked Oct 29 at 1341; fair signal with fading, not as good as 15450 used to be, but maybe it will pick up in winter. // 11735 beamed in the other direxion, checked at 1348, was much weaker, ACI from WYFR 11740 and something co-channel too. Rechecked at 1423, 12035 with VOT IS, separable from clix on the low side, presumably spur from Cuban jammer on 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. RUI's 5840 frequency suffers from interference. At 2120 Oct 29 I noted CW on 5843, not a real problem when knowing the trick to tune to the low side. But no trick could help at 2100 when some other unID broadcasting station came on 5840, too (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Two clashes of transmissions from the UK just 20 kHz apart, noted at 1615: RCI in Russian on 9555 was very strong here but suffered from a not much weaker co-channel, probably CRI via Cërrik. And an apparent BBC transmission on 9575 clashed with co-channel Nador, a well-known signal one would think (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I just downloaded Prime Time Shortwave updated for B-06 and found out BBCWS remains on 9410 Cyprus after 0400 for ME, while 11750 is out, contrary to what they say. No surprise to receive a clear signal from Seychelles for new 11665 // 12095, which seems no more from Wofferton (EiBi) as PST mentions Cyprus. Right? 73s (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here`s the version put together by Alan Roe, pertinent entries: 0330-0600 eAF 11665se 0400-0500 eAF 12095cy (gh, DXLD) BBCWS African stream is behaving even better on 9750 Seychelles this Monday 30, while I`m listening at 0333z with a brief bulletin mentioning an airplane crash in Abuja, Nigeria. // 11665 coming not so strong as yesterday. After 0400 // 7120 // 7160 poor and nothing on 12095. 0400 arrives and 9410 went off the air and only Radio Habana in Spanish was heard on 11760. No trace of the Beeb from Cyprus for ME. Only 6195 was heard for EU (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS showing up on some new frequencies such as 11665 at 1600 Oct 29 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s Rampisham, 169 degrees at 16-18 (gh, DXLD) 5975 may have been abandoned for NAm, but BBC WS is still using it for other worldparts, and now audible in the morning here at 1425 Oct 30 interviewing a Nigerian // 9740 and 6195 Singapore. 5975 is Thailand at 12-15 at 25 degrees which means it carries on to NAm. 17885, BBCWS with Focus on Africa, giving a +44 phone number, better here via South Africa, than on // 17830 via Ascension, neither aimed this way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Collision with R. Polonia on 9660: see POLAND [non] ** U S A [and non]. New frequencies from VOA WW English at 1530 Oct 29 include 11820 and 12150 (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not sure about 11820 but 12150 is Sri Lanka, and not new? (gh, DXLD) Checking Radio Australia at 0400 this Sunday Oct. 29 on 12080, I was surprised to hear VOA Africa service co-channeled in the bottom, supposedly the Botswana relay, per EiBi. A first one for me. (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Collision: on 12080 at 0558 Oct 29, VOAnews.com promo, SAH of about 6 Hz with R. Australia. The latter would be 10 kW Brandon which has been on this frequency for a long time. Latest VOA schedule http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_e.cfm does NOT show VOA on 12080 at this time, but only in the evening from Botswana. Collision: VOA has been on 6180 from somewhere, and continues to be, tho not in the current schedule above! Oct 29 at 0615 playing Cindy Lauper`s classic ``Girls Just Want to Have Fun``, roughly equal level to RN Amazônia. Brazilian stations, even 250 kW ones, are not in HFCC, so they do not exist. [Later: 6180 above may not have been VOA; only heard music, and BBCWS in French to Africa, due south from Rampisham is now scheduled at 0600-0630. I was relying on regular A-06 reception of VOA on 6180, which was at 05-07 via Morocco in English, but not any more. There`s still a collision with Brasília] Collision: just as I expected, in B-06 CRI is STILL usurping VOA`s longtime frequency to Asia, 9760; Oct 29 at 1228 CRI English was way over VOA here; however, at 1348 heard only jazz interview from VOA, no CRI. 11655 with VOA in English, News Now, ending Wordmasters feature at 1424 UT Sunday Oct 29. This 14-15 transmission is via Lampertheim, Germany, 105 degrees, presumably mainly for Talk to/from America on weekdays 11975 with tone test at 1507-1510 Oct 29. I suspect this was Greenville in preparation for new broadcast in English to Africa at 18-20, and which should give VG reception here off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOA Special English hour, Oct 30 at 1605 after news going into ``New Dynamic English``; more news to follow on half hour. This is São Tomé at 126 degrees; F-G here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just tuned in to 15580, strong signal with rock music, at 2149 Oct 30 when it cut off abruptly and did not return in the next few minutes. Presumably VOA Greenville, which is supposed to be the 15580 site during the 21-22 hour only during the music shows, rather than Botswana or Morocco earlier in the day. Perhaps they will manage to stay on until 2200 in coming days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ, 7415 on late(?) UT Sun Oct 29 at 0607 playing ``Old Time Rock `n` Roll`` by Bob Seeger, then two hosts conversing, Tom & Darryl. WBCQ, 18910-CLSB, inbooming but distorted Sunday Oct 29 as early as 1415 with music and talk mixing in background as if off-mike. According to http://www.zappahead.net/wbcq/main.php?fn=sked&freq=18910 this is The Zeph Report, 14-18, and this frequency is active in the mornings only on Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WYFR signals can be so strong here that they overload the FRG-7 and appear on mixing products which may exist only inside the receiver, even tho switched to max attenuation. Oct 29 at 0600 9645 had WYFR opening in Spanish, which would be leapfrog 9715 over 9680. Also a big het on 9645, source unknown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KURDISTAN [non] ** U S A [non]. CVC La Voz, Spanish on 17680 via Chile, Oct 29 at 1232 with TC for 9:32 in Argentina, and in their honor played a traditional tango with various instrumental variations, not just bandoneón. Collision: CVC A Sua Voz, Portuguese on new 15410, Oct 29 at 1332, SAH mixing with African language, i.e. Hausa, from DW Rwanda, 310 degrees toward us. CVC announcer was giving their full frequency schedule, both in Brasília time (BTW, they start DST of UT-2 a week later on Nov 5, to add to the confusion), and in UT, but hard to copy due to the QRM. I think he said 15410 is on at 13-23, 11745 at 23-07, 6170 at 07- 10, so the latter conflicting with R. Cultura São Paulo remains; PWBR ``2006`` shows RCSP opening at 08 during DST. This also conflicts with one version of the published CVC B-06 schedule showing 6050 instead: 0700-1000 6050 Brazil 1000-2300 15410 Brazil 2300-0700 11745 Brazil As for the collision on 15410, the 45 degree beam from Chile across Brazil is likely to go right on to Hausa-land in Nigeria and vicinity, and Rwanda is not that far from Brasil, either. Is there really no audible collision in the respective target areas? Then at 1419 and 1503 rechecks, CVC was still suffering heavy CCI on 15410, but now it`s Radio Farda, which would be via Woofferton until 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also IRAN [non] ESTADOS UNIDOS VIA CHILE - Rádio DX é um programa que fala do mundo das ondas curtas. Vai ao ar pela Rádio CVC, em língua portuguesa, todas as sextas-feiras, às 1400, em 15410 kHz. É repetido, aos sábados, às 1100 UT, em 15410 kHz. Também aos domingos, às 0100, em 11745 kHz. Ainda, nas segundas-feiras universais, às 0000 UT, em 11745 kHz (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 29 via DXLD) ** U S A. Spanish preacher on 9265, Oct 29 at 1230, on WINB as scheduled, 242 degrees, apparently for Mexico; signal only fair even tho aimed this way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KAIJ, 9340, not heard before 1400 Oct 29, but VG signal when checked at 1413 with some talk show mentioning The Cajun Contractor for post-Katrina work. Not so strong in the next hour. Not heard the morning of Oct 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KJES, 11715, on standard time schedule now, Oct 30 at 1555 in English, as always, witnessing their monomania; 1559 cut to ID by kid, and a bit of WEWN-like choral music cathedrally reverberating. 1600 to kid ID in Spanish, then man praying in Spanish with heavy gringo accent, so it must run until 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Huge signal with religious talk in English on 9450, Oct 30 at 1609, could not be anything but a new frequency for WEWN. Yes, here is the B-06 schedule at http://www.ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm Effective October 26 2006 - March 25, 2007 Horario vigente el 29 octubre 2006 al 25 marzo 2007 EST NAm English LAm Spanish Eu/Af English UT 7 PM 5810 11870/7540 5810 0000 8 PM 5810 11870/7540 5810 0100 9 PM 5810 11870/7540 5810 0200 10 PM 5810 11870/7540 5810 0300 11 PM 5850 11870/7540 5810 0400 12 AM 5850 11870/7540 7570 0500 1 AM 5850 11870/7540 7570 0600 2 AM 5850 11870/7540 7570 0700 3 AM 5850 11870/7540 OFF AIR 0800 4 AM 5850 11870/7540 OFF AIR 0900 5 AM 5850 11870/7540 OFF AIR 1000 6 AM 5850 11870/7540 OFF AIR 1100 7 AM 5850 11870/7540 OFF AIR 1200 8 AM 9955 13615/9885 OFF AIR 1300 9 AM 9955 15745/9885 OFF AIR 1400 10 AM 9955 15745/9885 OFF AIR 1500 11 AM 9450 15745/9885 15785 1600 12 PM 9450 15745/9885 15785 1700 1 PM 9450 15745/9885 15785 1800 2 PM 9450 15745/9885 15785 1900 3 PM 9450 15745/9885 17595 2000 4 PM 9450 15745/9885 17595 2100 5 PM 9975 15745/9885 7560 2200 6 PM 9975 15745/7540 7560 2300 *= * Secondary service to Europe during this time - signal strength marginal [sic, but no frequencies are now *ed!] Frequencies are subject to change. Changes will be announced in advance at the beginning of the hour as early as possible. Contact Glen Tapley, Frequency Manager, at 205-795-5779 or gtapley @ ewtn.com After running all day on 9450, WEWN at 2155 Oct 30 announced it was about to shift to 9975. At 2157, I found it up on 9975, but WWCR was still there too, a big collision of about 10 Hz during Pastor Pete Peters; then WWCR QSY announcement to 9985 and off at 2158:30 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. THE THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR has a new website: http://www.jeffersonhour.org/page/index/ The Oct 30 edition on KVPR mentioned this, and that Clay Jenkinson will appear on The Colber Repor along with two other Jefferson portrayers, already taped. Jenkinson also discusses his admiration for Colbert, Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann (who he fears has gone too far lately). TTJH is one of my must-listens on the radio each week; see several entries in MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR or link to affiliates at the website (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV still going on 11705 during the 1200 hour Oct 29, via Cuba. I doubt that B-06 will coincide with any changes in this. Looking for the Sunday-only ``Aló, Presidente``, Oct 29 at 1429, nothing on 11875, but 13750 had it, after splitting away earlier from the main RHC stream. At 1506, 11875 had come on, echo apart from 13750; and 11670 was also on, an echo apart from 13750. Music and talk, but no sign of Hugo Chávez Frías himself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hello Glenn. As I was scanning the 60 meter band on 10- 28-06, I came across a bubble jammer on 4878.1 at 0312. It abruptly ended at 0335. There was no audio or broadcast underneath, beside, or around it. Perhaps the bubble jammer was propagating to me and not the intended broadcast. It was zero beat at 4878.11. Any idea who this may be and who they may be trying to jam? (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, No, that is quite unusual. Maybe a fluke, or a spur. Sure it was a bubble jammer and not some utility sound? Let me know if you hear it again. Did you mean Friday night local time or Saturday night? (Glenn to Steve, via DXLD) Glenn, this was about one hour ago Sat evening. It definitely sounded exactly like a bubble jammer. The woo-woo kind that Baghdad used to use on Tehran in the 80's. it was not the irritating buzz, nnnnneeerrrrraaaaallllll, or "sweep" "sweep" that passes over the 60 mb that I do believe everyone is talking about being CODAR or something. That abortion sweeps around 4780 to 4830. I have been hearing that for a few years back home here in PA and when I lived in VA. This bubble sounded just like something out of the 80's. We had a severe thunder-SNOW storm this afternoon. It was lightning and thundering like the dead of summer but blowing snow sideways like the dead of January. Sooooo, I got the radio on this evening and did some late DX'ing. It also was my intention to get things ready for St Helena next Sat (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is Iranian jammer against clandestine Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, which may be anywhere in the 4820-4900 range. The parallel program is around 3970 but not in synchro (very long delay, at times even minutes) either way. At least some Iranian jammers seem to have a habit to be about 100 Hz above their target station. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, HCDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Noted around 1630 some AM station on 5990 behind the DRM hiss from Junglinster [LUXEMBOURG]. Too much interference to find out more than that it was apparently Russian, but presumably still enough to ruin the decoding of the Junglinster signal (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6215 Asian?? Noted a carrier here at 0800, then was getting talk by W in Asian-sounding lang at 0807. Weak. Who would this be?? 29 Oct (Dave Valko, PA, HCDX via DXLD) See 6-161 KOREA SOUTH, numbers station? Not that Dave himself will ever see this (gh) There's nothing broadcast wise registered at this time on 6215 that I can find. But I saw a recent report about a North Korean numbers station operating on this frequency - and a female speaker too. If you can ID the language that might be it. 73. (Noel (NW England), ibid.) I heard it on 6215 at 1600 several times this year. The same pattern: folk song, followed by reading of 2-, 3-, or 4-digit numbers (varied from day to day), with obligatory "Gamsa-hamnida" ("Thank you") at the end. But I presumed the station was North-Korean. ___ 73! (Sergey Nikishin, Moscow, Russia, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. More 2-way SSB in Spanish inside a SWBC band: 9632, Oct 20 at 1502; one side was weaker than the other, but I don`t have time to try to make out any clues as to provenance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. That ear-splitting high-pitched noise centered on 17450 was very strong Oct 29 at 1418, extending from 17410 to 17490 with multiple carrier peaks every few kHz. What is it? Next day, absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Glenn, I just want to tell you I enjoy seeing your daily log postings on the Yahoo sites, especially the comments (Alan Furst, Round Rock TX) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ MUNSTER DX Una Sonrisa DX Saludos a todos, rompamos un poco la seriedad de esta lista con unas notas de humor.... http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=-4925292831470244677&q=DX Que ustedes lo rian bien (ADXB, Noticias DX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ DRM: see FRANCE; GERMANY; INTERNATIONAL; ITALY; KOREA SOUTH; MAURITANIA; MONACO; NEW ZEALAND; POLAND; ROMANIA; UNIDENTIFIED 5990 HD RADIO STATION TO 'BREAK ALL THE RULES' To view this article on delawareonline.com, go to: http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006610300365 The following is a short message from Allan Loudell: Greetings from the First State! I thought you might be interested in this article from today's Wilmington (DE) NEWS-JOURNAL, about the new alternative format we're putting on-the-air on one of our H.D. channels, which breaks the formatic mode (somewhat!). Of course, some of the critics say it isn't going to work. But I must say our company is trying to think outside the box with terrestrial radio! Regards, (Allan Loudell, News Anchor--Reporter—Interviewer, 1150 A.M. WDEL Radio & wdel.com, Delmarva Broadcasting Co., Wilmington, Delaware, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ MORE LONG HAUL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FM DX, CARIBBEAN TO SOUTHERN BRASIL ESCUTAS DE RUBENS FERRAZ PEDROSO, BANDEIRANTES-PR, BRASIL SONY ICF SW 7600G. FIO DE 9 METROS ACOPLADO A UMA PEQUENA BOBINA COLOCADA NA ANTENNA TELESCÓPICA DO RECEPTOR. Olá amigos! Ao voltar de uma pizzaria, cheguei pouco depois das 0030 horas UT; por 14 minutos ouvi algumas poucas FMs caribenhas. Nada de novo. Depois os sinais sumiram, voltando a serem ouvidos depois das 0200. A Rádio Santa Lúcia, 97.3 MHz, é quem chegava com melhor sinal. Pouco depois das 0300 UT, os sinais das FMs caribenhas finalmente se foram não sendo mais ouvidos por aqui. Continuei ouvindo a faixa de FM para quem sabe ouvir algo de interessante. Para minha surpresa vários sinais de FMs do estado de São Paulo, nunca ouvidas antes por aqui. A propagação estava bem favorável a escuta de FMs paulistas. Vou ver se a tarde a propagação está boa como está durante a noite. Seguem as escutas. MARTINICA 94.0, 0044 28/10 RFO, Trinité, OPM/OM, talks, FF 44333 94.3, 0058 28/10 RFO, Morne-Rouge, OM/OM, talks, FF 33233 SANTA LÚCIA 97.3, 0054 28/10 R. Saint Lucia, Castries, OM, mx, EE 33333 97.3, 0229 28/10 R. Saint Lucia, Castries, OM, nxs, retx da BBC, EE 45344 96.5, 0237 28/10 R. Caribbean International, Castries, mx caribenha, OM, EE 35233 SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES 90.7, 0055 28/10 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation), Kingstown, OM, nxs, EE 33333 107.5, 0241 28/10 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation), Kingstown, mx caribenha, EE 35233 90.7, 0308 29/10 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation), Kingstown, mx caribenha, EE // 107.5 MHz 34333 ANTIGUA 91.9, 0235 28/10 Hitz FM, Saint John’s, mx caribenha, YL, EE 33333 GUADELOUPE 106.6, 0248 28/10 RCI, Point-à-Pitre, mx caribenha, FF 35233 UNID 105.9, 0253 28/10 Unid (Turks & Caicos??), OM, relg, EE – 105 FM, 105.9 MHz, Itambaracá (cidade vizinha a Bandeirantes) estava for a do ar, o que possibilitou a escuta mais uma vez dessa FM 35233 (@tividade DX Oct via DXLD) ###