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Thanks, Glenn FIRST SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1335 Wed 2300 on WBCQ 7415 Thu 0000 on WBCQ 18910-CLSB Fri 2130 on WWCR 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 WORLD OF RADIO SUMMARIES, new one added normally by 0600 UT Fridays: http://www.worldofradio.com/wor2006.html DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS Nov 7: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** AFRICA. TWR Africa B06 schedules are now available : TWR-Swaziland http://www.twrafrica.org/Library/download-twr-swaziland.ZIP TWR South Africa http://www.twrafrica.org/Library/download-twr-south-africa.ZIP TWR SW to East Africa [from?] http://www.twrafrica.org/Library/download-twr-east-africa.ZIP Regds (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Radio Argentina on 15345 at 1800 coming well into south India. It`s been ages since I've listened to the station. The announcement of frequency and time in English and probably Spanish is nearly 4 to 5 min. In an hour`s program that`s a bit too much. Anyway, it`s nice to hear Radio Argentina (Manikant Lodaya, South India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 7185, Bangladesh Betar at 1231 Nov 5, woman after 1230 sign-on talking about Voice of Islam, a program they air. Switched to male announcer. Chinese station predominating. Very poor, mostly under QRM (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 7360, Radio Minsk at 2001 Nov 4, man with ``You are listening to Minsk``, into news. Poor here and // 7390 and 7420 (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030, Radio Burkina Nov 4 at 2159, two men in French, mention ``Republique Burkina``. 2200 African drums, 2201 fanfare, greetings and news headlines. Good (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5030, Radio Burkina Faso, 2342-2350, escuchada el 4 de noviembre en francés a locutor con comentarios, ``Radio Nacional ...Burkina...``, comentarios, ``Music African ..``, segmento musical, SINPO 34433 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. Re the strange azimuth shown on the RCI schedule for the 0100-0200 UT relay via Sweden: it`s supposed to be 95 degrees: 5840 0100 0200 30S,39-41,49 HB 350 95 S RCI TER (via Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. AIRWAVES CANADA! - CANADIAN RADIO STATIONS http://www.toronto.hm/radio.html from a server in the Heard and McDonald Islands (.hm), links to most Canadian broadcasters on FM and what's left of them on AM. 73 (Mike Brooker, Toronto, ON, Nov 5, MWDX yg via DXLD) But does NOT include most CBC stations! (gh, DXLD) ** CHILE [and non]. CVC La Voz, 17680, Miami via Calera de Tango, normally super signal here, Nov 6 at 2240 marred by QRDRM, from RNZI 17670-17680. On 17680 and even side-tuning higher, the DRM roar could still be heard. Of course, it was no loss as CVC was running a preacher. Even when running AM, it was not a good idea for RNZI to be only 5 kHz from CVC. Can`t find a clear frequency on the sparsely- populated 16m band? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9820, China Business Radio fair at 1408, 10/30/06, in Mandarin [listed]. Asian vocals in a European style; announcements 10/30; heard again on 11/4 at 1325 with a nice variety of vocal and instrumental music; none of the 41 meter frequencies heard. Fair. Thanks to Ron Howard for help in identifying CBR (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Xi`an is listed on 9820 at 08-16, but so is AIR Goa at 1245-1545, mostly Sinhala service, which I used to hear and per http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm it is still running: 9820 250 Panaji 1300-1500 Sinhala (Sri Lanka), 1530-1545 English Another clue to telling them apart is the modulation distortion Panaji may still suffer (gh, DXLD) Heard China Business Radio/CNR-2, on Oct 31, with "English Evening" at 1305 UTC on all the following frequencies: 6065, 6155, 7130, 7245, 7315, 7335, 7375 and also 9820, which was the weakest, but clearly they were all parallel. No QRM noted on 9820. Most of the frequencies were fair. Have checked since Oct 31 and several times found 9820 parallel to the others, so ``English Evening`` is fairly regular, at least at my QTH (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Saludos cordiales, Firedrake Jammer escuchadas este fin de semana: 7445 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 14:50 7545 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 14:52 9335 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 17:03 9450 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 14:53 10400 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 12:06 y 14:55 11720 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 16.10 11765 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 16:11 17560 5/11 Firedrake Jamming, 12:05 (José Miguel Romero, Sacañet (Castellón), España, Sangean ATS 909, Antena hilo de siete metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR [non]. SUDÁFRICA, 11890, Radio Okapi, 1612-1617, escuchada el 5 de noviembre en francés a locutores con boletín de noticias en referencias al Congo, conexión con corresponsal, ID “Radio Okapi, reportaje por locutora, anuncian web y cuña de la emisora, SINPO 45544. 11890, Radio Okapi, 1617-1620, escuchada el 5 de noviembre a locutor y locutora en idioma vernacular con comentarios, referencias al Congo, SINPO 45544 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. The DentroCuban Jamming Command continues to demonstrate its contempt for any other occupant of the SW spectrum (and for the Cuban taxpayer, wasting kilowatts for nothing). Nov 6 at 2242, strong pulse jamming on 15330, seemingly from multiple transmitters, even tho R. Martí closes on this frequency much earlier. Also accompanied by weaker spurs with the same rate of pulsing around 15380 and 15260- 15280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4919, Radio Quito, 0443, 10/31/06. Very good but had not been noted in several days so I wonder if they qualify as regular yet. (Dexter-WI, NASWA Flashsheeet via DXLD) As I mentioned earlier, last report of this we saw was only a couple of days in first week in October; seems irregular (gh, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. East Africa, Bata, S8 and almost completely readable at 0903 Nov 4, preacher from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho holding forth; at 0922, usual "HQ" ID with radioafrica @ myway.com e- mail address and a P.O. Box 960 postal address (couldn't get location). Some carrier dropouts, signal a bit fadey, and audio a little tinny, and truly terrible audio during the IDs -- the weakest part of the broadcast. Better at 1100. Always interesting to hear this in the morning (Jerry Berg, Pemaquid Peninsula DXpedition 2006, Chamberlain, Maine, Eton E1-XM, multi-band dipole and 600 foot wire "on the rocks", NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Re 6-165, DTK schedule: Hi Glenn, in a hurry, "RHU" could be the Toronto-based Radio Xoriyo. EFD and ELD -- well, Ethiopia-something it seems. Yes, no airtime exchange between RNW and Deutsche Welle anymore since Oct 29, certainly because DW cancelled shortwave to North America, thus no longer needed airtime at Bonaire. And Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft transmissions were just engineering experiments, this is no broadcaster but a scientific research organization, cf. http://www.fraunhofer.de (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Dearest John, greetings from Athens. I just wanted to let you know that my show is being moved one hour earlier that usual. So it airs from 4-5 pm, Greek time every Saturday. I do not know why you were listening to different things. I will ask. Filika, (Katerina Thanasoula, VOG, Nov 6 to John Babbis, via DXLD) So that`s 1400-1500 UT, the SAME absolute real time as in summer (gh) Since 17525 is directed to Australia, Middle East, and Africa at an azimuth of 105 degrees instead of 15630 at 285 degrees as previously, there is even less likelihood that we will be able to hear this clearly in this area. This was sent to me by Glenn Hauser and confirms what you sent me. It looks as though there will be no repeat of your show at 0200-0300 UT Sunday like it was during the summer season; am I correct? "It's All Greek To Me" [is presumably the program at] 0030-0130 Mon English Eu 7475 9420 (John Babbis to Katerina, via DXLD) Re: We also need someone to check and reconfirm that 3 to 5-minute English newscast from the Macedonian station (gh, DXLD) I DID hear it sometime last week at 1257-1300 on 9935. 73, (Erik Koie, Cph, Denmark, dxldyg via DXLD) By `last week` I assume you mean after B-06 started, right? (gh, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA [and non]. For a second night in a row, I have noticed Radio Cultural Coatán 4780, Guatemala is remaining on the air after 0300 with VG signal, thus clashing with the opening of Radio Djibouti at the same hour. Maybe for the proximity of Guatemala to Tiquicia that supposed 1 kW tend to overdrive the most powerful HOA station (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND. The Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV will end the SW relays of its main newscasts by the end of the year. Since the 1970s, RÚV had leased SW capacities at the Gufunes Telecommunications Centre in Reykjavík to serve Icelandic ships, and expatriates in Europe and North America. I was told from Iceland that they are unchanged since 2005, that would be to Eu: 1215-1300 on 13865, 1755-1825 on 12115; to NAm: 1410-1440 & 1835-1905 on 13865, 2300-2335 on 12115 (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12115, ICELAND, INBS Nov 3 at 2331 signing off, just caught final bit of music. Left carrier on. Good. 13865 ICELAND, INBS Nov 4 at 1838, man in Icelandic. Fair, QRM (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Reactivated on RRI-Biak on 4920 kHz at +0830 to 1015 KOed Lhasa. First noted on Oct 4, Jayapura News at 0930 // -Serui on 4605 (A. Ishida, NDXC-HQ, controler: S. Hasegawa, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Log date should be Nov 4? (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 15150, Voz de Indonesia, 1704-1715, escuchada el 5 de noviembre en español con sintonía y locutor con ID ``Voz de Indonesia, las noticias``, boletín de noticias, ``Amables oyentes, hasta aquí las noticias de La Voz de Indonesia en Jakarta``, segmento musical, reportaje sobre instrumento musical y lectura de cartas, minutos después la señal se pierde, SINPO 34333. 9525, Voz de Indonesia, 1715-1800, escuchada el 5 de Noviembre en español a locutor con reportaje sobre instrumento indonesio, programa ``Música popular de Indonesia``, lectura de cartas de los oyentes, entre otras una del miembro del Club S 500 de Valencia, Emilio Sauquillo Dobon, fechada en Julio del 2006, ID ``La Voz de Indonesia en Jakarta``, SINPO 33443 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI, 9525, still running 6:24 loop of gamelan orchestra music and English IDs, at 1539 Nov 6. What a waste, when they could axually be transmitting English programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 7545, Kol Israel, 1951-2005, escuchada el 4 de noviembre en hebreo con acto festivo y concierto en directo, emitiendo en paralelo con Galei Zahal en 6973, locuor con comentarios en off [?]; a las 2000 tonos horarios, locutora con ID, titulares y noticias en inglés. A partir de las 2000 Galei Zahal con transmisión propia en hebreo, SINPO 45444 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So KI and GZ were in parallel for a while, which could cause further confusion about which is which (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS World shortwave has undergone some drastic slimming for the B06 period. And some frequency choices are questionable. What is the point of selecting 7275 for an English language transmission to Europe at 1900 when this frequency is in use by Radio Exterior de España? The French, German and English transmissions via Skelton on 3955 will probably be audible all right in most of Europe. But what about Africa? On the KBS schedule I cannot spot any transmissions in French or English specifically intended for Africa. The Spanish transmissions will be audible in the local evening in Latin America, and in Spain for just half an hour in the wee hours of their local morning. Coming out as a winner is of course the KBS World internet service, which in my mind is decidedly class 1A. (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I guess the ROK has conceded influence in Africa to VOK. 7275 is a traditional non-direxional `general service` frequency, and it is still between 07 and 16, then 305 toward Europe at 16-23 (gh, DXLD) ** LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS. Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) has been working on taking a serious group of Indian amateurs to work from the ``second most wanted entity`` Lakshadweep, for some years now and the latest application was made in February 2006. The WPC, after getting all required permissions from the various authorities like the Indian Navy, the Island Administration, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Defence, gave formal permission to Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI) to go to Lakshadweep during the whole of December 2006. . . http://www.arsi.info/vu7/ (via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. 1600, KZGX, MN, Watertown 11/05 0730 EST [1230 UT] Good signals with lady singing. Have heard this the last week or so and finally ID'd it. KZGX is no longer in Spanish but in Hmong language. This is a language from Laos. This should be easy to spot as it is very different from anything else on the frequency I have ever heard. 73 and Best of DX (Shawn Axelrod, VE4DX1SMA, ODXA via DXLD) 100%? ** LIBYA. 5A, LIBYA (Topband Activity). An international team of operators will activate Libya between November 15-29th, using the callsign 5A7A (See OPDX 765 and 774). Rudi, DK7PE, one of the 5A7A operators, announced this past week the following frequency combination will be used during their 160m operations: * During JA openings - TX frequency will be 1821 kHz (QSX 1825). * After the JA window is closed they may change to 1824.5 (QSX up 5) for North America in case 1821 is covered there with QRM. They will use a TITANEX V160E vertical for transmitting, but their major challenge will be the reception side. They expect a beverage not to perform very well over the high conducting soil directly on the beach, let alone the space limitations. Therefore, they will use a Pre-Amp/FES (KD9SV) in connection with a Pennant receiving antenna and also with a K9AY system. Rudi states that he will also bring his well proved Coax loop with him. For more info and updates, visit: http://5a7a.gmxhome.de (KB8NW/OPDX/BARF80 Nov 6 via Dave Raycroft, ODXA via DXLD) ** MALI. 11960, Presumed RTM, Bamako, man talking in African-sounding language at 1520 Nov 4, N African-type stringed music with female vocalizing or contemporaneous talking. Into French c. 1535, sounded like news, back to African language 1558, more music. Never caught an ID. Very good at 1730, talk; gone at 1810 re-check (listed 1800*). (Jerry Berg, Pemaquid Peninsula DXpedition 2006, Chamberlain, Maine, Eton E1-XM, multi-band dipole and 600 foot wire "on the rocks", NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. Mongolia/North Korea --- During B06 Pyongyang will use 12015 in the UT afternoon and evening for transmissions beamed to Western Europe, killing the Voice of Mongolia in English at 1500 and 2000 (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. DRM QRM to CHILE: q.v. ** OMAN. 15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman Nov 4 at 1400, bells, woman ``This is the Sultanate of Oman. The time is 6:00 pm.`` Good (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn, Radio Oman used to come loud and clear in this new season. Today absolutely no signal on 15140 at 14 UT 11/06/06. No other station on frequency (Manikant Lodaya, South India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. 9525, W. GERMANY, Radio Polonia relay Nov 4 at 1305, man with news, 1306 ID. Very severe QRM from Voice of Indonesia; had to use narrow bandwidth and PBT to pull the signal out. Poor (Harold Sellers, Shadow Lake DX Camp, ONT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. WORRYING DEVELOPMENTS AT POLSKIE RADIO http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID6064790,00.html Gist, broadcast-related: The Polish government initiated a campaign called Lustracja ("examination") which is said to target former supporters of the Jaruzelski regime. Apparently this campaign is also used to get rid of unwanted people at Polskie Radio. Aleksander Opalski, an outstanding journalist of Radio Polonia's German service, has been fired, Kaczynski-friendly editors are now responsible for a current events magazine on Jedynka (PR first program), a programme with a critical stand on nationalism on "the youth program" (presumably referring to Radio BIS) had been taken off. A Polish journalist says there is a hunt for witches under way [the German "Hexenjagd" is hard to translate into English], Polskie Radio staff says the manners became vulgar, "it was not much worse under the Communists" (via Kai Ludwig, DXLD) Easy: we have ``witch-hunt`` (gh) ** SAINT HELENA. Here`s a roundup of reports on R. St. Helena Day. Believe it or not, there were even more I didn`t get to from various mailing lists. My own full report is at the very bottom of this section, in case you want to skip to it first (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Saint Helena imminent --- In case anyone needs reminding, it`s almost time as I post this at 1734 UT Saturday November 4: RSH will transmit on 11092.5 kHz in Upper Side Band mode on Saturday, 04. November 2006 at: 1800-1930 UT to New Zealand (via short path) 2000-2130 UT to JAPAN (via short path) 2200-2330 UT to Europe 2330 (Sat.) - 0100 (Sunday) UT to North America Don`t assume only the ones aimed your way will be audible. More details at: http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/ (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reasonably audible up here in western Canada, near Edmonton, Alberta. Heard from pre 1800 testing, etc. Better signal beaming long path here (approx. west) with the log periodic. Also pretty decent on the home brew K9AY loop (Don VE6JY Moman, HCDX via DXLD) R. St. Helena, 11092.5 at 1800 with time pips, anthem, ID's etc. First song "Rockin` All Over the World". Gave phone, fax and e-mail numbers at 1808 and then an introduction to St. Helena. First phone call from South Africa aired at 1820. Doing not too bad so should be very good when beaming to NAm. Icom IC7800 and 3-30 MHz Log Periodic. In the group with Nigel Pimblett and Don Moman and the Moman antenna farm. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11092.5 (perhaps off slightly on my Icom R71a) at 1800 with time pips, anthem and sign-on with frequency and ID followed by "Rockin' All Over the World". At 1808 they gave phone, fax and e-mail number. The governor gave his greetings at 1811. Nice signal until 1850 when they weakened to threshold levels until they swung the beam at 1958 for the Japan broadcast. After that we had very good to excellent copy to the end at 0100. At 0100 it seemed they were moving the beam around again causing the same distortion and loss of signal that they had experienced early in the North American transmission. Stayed around to hear a few instrumental tunes and this ID at 0108, "Throwing out one thousand watts of power across 47 square miles and they are free on one-five-four-eight kilohertz". Nothing heard after that. All logs made on my Icom R71a with various beverage, K9AY and Log periodic antenna. The complete St. Helena broadcast except for the poorer last 1 1/2 hours of the NZ transmission was recorded using a 4- 30 MHz Log Periodic antenna and an Icom IC-7800. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta from the Don Moman antenna farm near Lamont, Alberta, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio St Helena audible here with very weak signal from 1800 sign on - -- currently beamed to New Zealand. Hopefully it will be much stronger for the 2200 European transmission later (Dave Kenny, Caversham, UK, A0R7030 + 80 ft long wire, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Dear friends, At exactly 1800, I heard time pips and a local anthem on 11092.5 kHz USB here in Denmark. Shortly after a man (Robert Kipp?) and a woman (the Manager of Radio St. Helena, Ms. Laura Lawrence?) gave ID for Radio St. Helena Revival Broadcast. Pop songs and announcements. This is their broadcast towards New Zealand, so the reception in Denmark is just SINPO 25232 on my AOR AR7030 PLUS with 28-metre longwire. Here in Europe it might be better at 2200-2330 UT. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, HCDX via DXLD) No sign here in Sydney Australia, from 1800 UT, 5 am local thru to local sunrise --- nothing (John Wright, HCDX via DXLD) No sign of St Helena 11092.5 usb here at my location in New Zealand. 1920 UT. Regards (John Durham, HCDX via DXLD) 11092.50-USB, Radio Saint Helena, Jamestown, 1800 UT+, November 04, English, transmission to New Zealand sign-on, ¿anthem?, identification by male in English as: "...listening to Radio Saint Helena...", announcement by female, song, announcement by female at 1805 with identifications, other announcement by male, 25442 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 03 November follow. Solar flux 87 and mid-latitude A-index 8. The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 04 November was 2 (11 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) Radio St. Helena heard here right at 1800 sign-on, on 11092.5. Very, very weak. Surprised since they are beaming due south to New Zealand. Using the R8 today and the 200' W-E wire. Playing "Let it Be" at 1908 (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO ST. HELENA DAY. DATE: 04-10-2004. TIME: 1820-1840 UT. FREQUENCY: 11092.5 kHz USB. SIGNAL: VERY POOR WITH QRN. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH. PROGRAM: ID. INTERVIEW, BEATLES IN ITALY. ALSO LISTENED FROM DARIO MONFERINI (MILANO) AND GIAMPIERO BERNARDINI (PESCIA). The audio clip is available on http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/ 73's (Francesco Cecconi, Italy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11092.5, S. Helena, 4/11 1835. Talks and songs, fair, going better and better. Just now in Pescia (Pistoia - Tuscany) Rx RX321 + wire 30 m Ciao (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, HCDX via DXLD) Reception here in the north island of New Zealand not great but could discern and identify many of the songs and two IDs heard (1841 and 1929). The spoken dialogue was tricky to make out. I was fortunate enough to be at Bryan Clark's rural (and electrically quiet) property at Mangawhai 100 km or so north of Auckland. At 1830 "Waltzing Matilda" was played and the Beatles numbers "Get back" at 1839 and "Hello goodbye" at 1849. An Irish song made famous for my generation by Thin Lizzy "Whiskey in the Jar" was played at 1931. At 1855 fellow NZ Dxer Peter Grenfell's voice was heard in what could have been a pre-recorded message. "Kare Kare Ana", an NZ iconic song was played at 1853. Generally poor signal but fortunate to hear what we did. Heard on AOR 7030 and AOR7030 plus sloper (David Norrie and Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New Zealand, HCDX via DXLD) Congrats to those who received it. Sony ICF6800W 40m Long wire, Christchurch NZ, produced not a cracker on either the NZ or Japan broadcast. Rgds (Ron Killick, ChCh NZ, HCDX via DXLD) My listening went from 1839 to 1945. It was QRK 3 at best, improving to the end. Got most of the music titles to write the RR. They played several from The Beatles. Only problem, the local TV set was on and very near my listening post, since wife hooked in on a movie. And the Degen received moderate QRN from it in this part of the spectrum. Signal went down past 2000. Look forward to the QSL. They never verified my 1997 report. Also recorded some mp3 tracks with my Creative Zen Nano, nice piece of mp3 recorder. 73 (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, rx: DEGEN 1103 + 25 m of randomwire + mlb, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) For those of you who wonder why I use the Winradio 313e, or are thinking about getting an SDR [software defined radio], here is Chuck Rippel's comments today on receiving the Radio St. Helena special broadcast. Chuck is primarily a long-time SWBC DXer and the famed rebuilder of R-390As (John Bryant, OK, IRCA via DXLD) Definitely improved levels since 1845. Can actually follow music and near to understanding female announcer. The voice audio is a bit flat. The WinRadio G313 with 2.18 software is really pulling audio out. Surprised at its better results by an order of magnitude than the R8B. Ah, there is "Let it Be." Not the Beatles, though. Followed by definite ID by OM "This is Radio St. Helena" then frequency and mailing address. Be interesting to listen on our Command's gear. We have 12 db fixed azimuth LPA @200' that faces 180 degrees -Chuck- (Rippel via Bryant, ibid.) No sign of St Helena 11092.5 usb here at my location in New Zealand. 1920. Regards (John Durham, HCDX via DXLD) Positive ID in NJ at 1911. Very weak but in the clear (Daniel Srebnick, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes. With QRK 3 for Buenos Aires (Arnaldo Slaen, 1913 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio St. Helena, Starting to make it thru to East Coast of North America. Barely bobbing the needle on 11092.5 at 1925 on 11-04-06. Getting better at 1938 with audio becoming understandable. Signal now bobbing S-4 to S-5 on the signal meter. Email, ID and music. Kenwood R-5000 with 200 foot longwire 20 feet overhead and buried 200 foot counterpoise grounding system. Radio St. Helena, 11092.55U --- finally an excellent signal S-7 to S-9 at 2021 with music and announcements (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, ODXA via DXLD) Hope everyone had luck with St. Helena this morning. I tuned in around 1925 and it was a nice S-4 signal, then when they switched from the NZ to Japan bearing at ~1930 when they played a piece of music, the signal slowly came up to S-7 and was superb. Cheers (Craig Edwards, Nhulunbuy (Gove), Northern Territory, Australia, HCDX via DXLD) Hola a todos, Ya llegó hasta el círculo polar ártico; comenzó a notarse a eso de las 1930; se presenta con señal débil - SINPO 24332 - en un Sony ICF2001D con hilo exterior, 7 metros de largo. Supongo que mejorará más tarde cuando orienten las antenas hacia acá (Henrik Klemetz, condig list via DXLD) Hi all, Radio St Helena heard here in Montreal at 1930 UT with a weak signal but with clear reception (Gilles Létourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just playing what seems to be filler music after 1930, getting ready for the 2000 broadcast to Japan, with an occasional ID tossed in. (Steve Lare, MI, 1945, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Coming thru into Southern California just barely at 1941z (DAN DANKERT - N6PEQ, Tustin, California, ODXA via DXLD) Coming in here in central Illinois, real weak at 1945 UT (Ron Trotto, Waggoner, IL, ODXA via DXLD) ``All you need is love`` van the Beatles om 1945z. SINPO 24442 op de 70 meter 270 graden minibev en SINPO 14441 op de 400 meter 055 graden beverage. Andere antennes op dit moment helaas nog niet beschikbaar. Groeten, (Cornel van Ravenswaaij, Netherlands, 1949 UT Nov 4, BDX via DXLD) Heh, heh, eindelijk St Helena weer eens gehoord :-) De laatste keer was op 26-10-1997 ! gr, (Ary Boender, ibid.) Reception much improved in NJ for the 2000 broadcast to Japan. Loud audio, seems to be centered on 11092.52 kHz (Dan Srebnick, 2005 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) QTH: 45 miles north of NYC. Started to come in at about 2015 UT. Still very weak. Man and woman's voice and some undiscernible music. It has improved only slightly now at 2045. Rig R-390A to 30 meter dipole up 30 feet (Karl Zuk, N2KZ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pretty neat. At 2016 I heard the announcer reading my e-mail which I had just sent to them to tell them that the signal was being heard here in the Montreal region! Ain't technology wonderful? (Sheldon Harvey, QC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Glenn. I am actually hearing the Radio St. Helena transmission being beamed to Japan on short-path here in Montreal. I tuned in to 11092.5 at 2000 and, sure enough, a signal popped up. It wasn't all that strong at the beginning, but it is getting much better as it goes along. It is now 2016 and I have just heard the announcer reading my e-mail which I just sent to them to tell them that the signal is being heard here in the Montreal region! I'm certainly pleased with this! (Sheldon Harvey, DX LISTENING DIGEST) When I heard the transmission to Japan making here into Montreal a little after 2000, I sent an e-mail to Radio St. Helena. The e- mail address is: radio.sthelena @ helanta.sh At 2016, just minutes after sending out the e-mail, I actually heard the guy at the station reading my e-mail on the air! I mentioned that I am President of CIDX and that many of our members will be listening to their transmissions today. Pretty neat. I just now checked my inbox and I actually have a response from the station. Here it is: Hi Sheldon. Good to hear from you. We are hoping it will get better for you later in the evening. Please stay in tune and enjoy the show Derek ZD7CTO (via Sheldon Harvey, dxldyg via DXLD) I thought I heard you in Montreal acknowledged at 2126; or maybe it was Gilles (gh, DXLD) Here too in Montreal, signal much improved since the 2000 UT broadcast to Japan very clear audio. I think that it should be very good for the European and North American broadcasts (Gilles Létourneau, Montreal, Canada, 2026 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Guys: Very Nice Reception of RADIO ST. HELENA here in London, Ontario at 2020 UT on 11092.5 USB. Tuned in at 1956 to Instrumental Music til 2000. Trumpet fanfare at 2000 into an Anthem (Instrumental). ID as Radio St. Helena and gave frequency as 11092.5 kHz. Said "Good Morning Japan", and into vocal music. Governor of St. Helena "Michael ???Field" spoke about the Island at 2005-09. Said population was 4000 and was discovered in 1502. Mentioned Napolean Bonaparte. Talked about the ship that comes to St. Helena every 3 weeks. Mentioned that this broadcast USED TO BE an annual event, and hoped it could again be!! Mentioned the Japan Shortwave Club. Said the Transmitter was 1500 watts but they were only using 1000 Watts. Mentioned the QSL Card and gave address as RSH, Box 24 Jamestown, St. Helena Island (Postal code unreadable). Mentioned a listener in CANADA at 2016 believe it was Sheldon Harvey of Montreal (CIDX Radio Club). Into more music and talk. Great signal at 2030, getting Stronger all the time!!! (Robert S. Ross VA3SW, London, Ontario, CANADA N6A5K1, ODXA via DXLD) 11092.5 kHz, Radio St. Helena. St. Helena Is. 4 Nov, 2006 at 2020-2045 UT in English. SINPO 35454. Talking of woman and man and rock music. Reception Amateur Radio Receiver: IC-706MK2GM. Antenna: 145/435 Dual Band Gland plane (JG3GCI Yasuhiro Kubo (Kobe-city, JAPAN), Japan Short Wave Club Member, Japan Amateur Radio League Member, Kanto DX'er circle Member, HCDX via DXLD) St. Helena finally coming in at 2033 with "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" (I think that was the song; I don't listen to that stuff!) with YL announcer. Getting better as time goes on (John Cereghin, Smyrna DE, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11092.5 USB, clear and fair here, 2039+, Elton John "Crocodile Rock" and English M&W stepping atop the songs. "Locomotion" 2044, etc. Carrier-only noted 1740-1808 on initial check, 4 November, resurrected test with the new ham transmitter (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11092.5, Nov 4, 2040- Saint Helena: R Saint Helena. As I guessed this will not be any difficult to hear even before any "target transmission". Still nearly missed this because was in sleep when was checking Scandinavian Weekend Radio frequencies whole last night. Male and female announcers and light music from RSH until now. Not too strong signal or voice yet. Some RTTY-type QRM? Wishing to come better later. SINPO 23432 AHE, Rovaniemi Finland (ALPO HEINONEN, Finland, HCDX via DXLD) St Helena is coming in nicely on 11092 at 2045 UT with pops like "Do The Locomotion" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go". Signal has been improving since it showed up about 2015 and will probably improve all the more when they swing the beam to North America (John Cereghin, Smyrna DE, IRCA via DXLD) Solar-terrestrial indices for 04 November follow. Solar flux 86 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 6. The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 04 November was 2 (10 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) Nothing at all was audible at 1800 except a ute on 11090. Had other things to do, so did not check again until 2038. By then RSH was audible with phone number, acknowledging reports from various places in Europe, North America, Japan, India. Several recognizable names. Figured reception would improve as time went on but it remained rather marginal. Could only make out occasional words and recognize some of the music played. Best results here on the ATS-909 with E-W longwire, tho I was also getting it on the ICF SW07 with its loop inside the south window. I stopped at 2130; will try again later on the European and North American services. I did get a QSL from one of their early broadcasts. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Mr Kipp and Radio St Helena, Thank you for all your trouble in bringing RSH back onto shortwave. Now that you have the equipment, I hope you will start regular shortwave broadcasting, not just once a year. It has been my pleasure to publicize this event as widely as possible on World of Radio, DX Listening Digest and Monitoring Times. I have been listening on 11092.5 USB. Nothing was audible at first at 1800 UT, but from 2038 to 2130 I was getting some reception, altho marginal, using an ATS-909 and a 100-foot E-W longwire. This is not a formal reception report, so I will just note a couple of items: at 2056 you acknowledged reports from Dan Srebnick in New Jersey, and Robert Ross in London, Ontario, among others. I`m about to turn off the computer and all the other noise-producers in the house and resume listening after 2300, when I hope reception will have improved. If you acknowledge this on the air, please do so during the North American segment. Best wishes, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, OK, USA, to RSH via DXLD) Re: report from Oklahoma --- Many thanks for your report. We are glad you are enjoying the show, Best Wishes from all at Radio St Helena http://www.sthelena.se (Derek ZD7CTO, to gh, via DXLD) 11092, R SH heard from 1800 till 2300, not continuously. SINPO about 15331 to max 25432 or S0 to S5 max, with medium local QRN from possibly ADSL lines. More info later (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My reception at 2030 was 9+10 dB! Correct frequency 11092.43. Why 43? because I have the same records played by them and to listen well, the frequency on the display of my R-71 must be on 11092.43 NOT 50!!! Ciao a tutti (Serginho NUZZI, (Catania - Sicily)_,_._,_ playdx yg via DXLD) Here in Lakeland on the central peninsula of Florida at 2102 UT Saturday November 4, 2006, R. St. Helena is booming in on 11092.52 kc. SIO is 555 Playing 1960's R&B music interspersed with various announcements. I'm using my Icom IC-718 and a ladderline fed 40-10 meter doublet up at 50 feet. --... ...--, (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA dxldyg via DXLD) Getting stronger here in upstate NY using the R8B and the A/D DX sloper. S4-S5 signal, can make out a male voice with female voice at times, short music selections and the reading of e-mails and messages from listeners. Can't make out every word, but the program has at least become discernible. SINPO 25242 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, 2128 UT dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio St. Helena being heard poorly here in Central New York on 11092.5 kHz USB, reading e-mails, mostly male announcers, "Can-Can" music, and orchestrated "Stairway to Heaven." Heard a "Good evening, Africa" but not able to understand many details at present SINPO 32222, music is fair, voice barely readable at times. Later: moments later, about 2205, they announced it and gave greetings to the DX campers in Shadow Lake!! (Roger Chambers, Utica, NY, SONY ICF 2010 with Random long wire, 2159 UT, ODXA via DXLD) RSH very nice here in PA. RSH on 11092.55 doing quite nicely with instrumental of Led Zepplin's "Stairway" and a few other rock instrumentals. Peaking around S-7 to S-8 and in the clear at 2158. 2200 with anthem and formal opening announcements. Very nice signal and mod. Kenwood R-5000 with 200 foot longwire and buried 200 foot counterpoise grounding system (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, USA, ODXA via DXLD) R. St. Helena, 2125z-0003z Sat Nov 04, 11092.5 USB --- Lots of e-mail reports from excited DXers all over the world (including one from Glenn Hauser at 2341z). Here in central Texas RSH was barely audible when I first tuned in (music playing "Can Can") at 2125z, then slowly (very slowly) improving to mostly intelligible by 2230z. Eclectic music selection ranging from Iron Butterfly to Celine Dion, folk/country to rock n roll. Announcements from the island's governor (male) and a tourism official (female). Best reception for me came at 2328z as the beam was swinging toward N Am, before the transmitter (as explained later, at 2342z) began oscillating from the feedback caused by the close spacing to the MW tower. Final beam heading was 345, just about dead-on to southern Greenland. At this bearing, reception was about the same as when the beam was aimed toward Europe. Reception in the snow belt probably better than farther south. All in all, a very successful test. PS! Saint Huh lean uh. I never knew (Jerry Lenamon, Waco Texas, Drake R8B with T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) En Madrid sur, la recepción ha sido muy variable. Hacia las 2100, hacia Japón llegaba bajito y parcialmente entendible. Entre 2100-2350, hacia Europa, dificil recepción, con mucho ruido. Entre 2350-0100 hacia NY, ha desaparecido el ruido y ha sido una verdadera delicia poder seguirla. Buena calidad de audio y agradable música. Saludos. (Juan Antonio Arranz, playdx yg via DXLD) It's peaked up - very useable signal here at the moment in North West London, around S5 on a half size G5RV at 30ft - also using an AOR7030+ (Stuart, M1SMH, 2135 UT, BDXCUK via DXLD) 2150 UT: Radio St Helena - signal now much improved on 11092.5 kHz "Stairway to Heaven" now playing. Even audible on Sony 7600GR with just its telescopic aerial. Good signal still from Radio St Helena on 11092.5 USB. Signal improved after switch to target North America at 2330. Scheduled until 0100. Emails to the station bring a quick friendly response from Derek ZD7CTO (who's also a part-time fireman - apparently they also commemorate Guy Fawkes night with fireworks & bonfires down on St Helena on 5th Nov) (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030+ / Datong Active / longwire, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Making a very nice copy here in Southern Alberta as early as 2200+ --- just imagine what the signal is going to be like at 2300+ (Edward Kusalik, ODXA via DXLD) Ore 2300 UT, 11092.48 con R-5000 e semplice RF System DX-One, segnale sufficiente (Alessandro Groppazzi, Trieste, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) First thing heard in Tiquicia was a female voice until 2318. Well, I was about to get the better signal when they did that change. Only really identifiable thing came at 2338, among spare words like Radio Santa Helena Day was the song "Just When I Needed You Most" by Randy Van Warmer. Too much noise (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Apparently the tech problem at 2330 was interaction with the MW antenna. Said now beamed at about 345 degrees to eliminate the problem (which would put the signal far to the north in North America, say to Greenland and Alaska). (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello DXers, I can just make out music followed by unintelligible talk on St. Helena's frequency in USB mode at 2330 UT (Rich Brock, Bridgewater, PA USA, HCDX via DXLD) Saludos amigos y colegas: Escuchada después de varios años sin operaciones a Radio S. Helena. Hace un momento está emitiendo para Norteamérica y aquí mis detalles: Fecha: Nov 4, 2006. TIME: 2330-2355 UT. Frecuencia: 11092.5 KHz USB. Señal: De regular a buena. SIO 353. Idioma: Inglés. Detalles: ID, varios anuncios sobre la emision especial, etc. 73 (Dino Bloise, FLORIDA, EEUU, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO ST. HELENA DAY --- 2 NEW CLIPS with better audio quality availables on http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/ 73's (Francesco Cecconi, 2335 UT, HCDX via DXLD) Yeah -- when I rejoined 'em around 2335 (after tearing myself away to run my 6 pm CW traffic net :-)), I thought their transmitter might be going south. Their frequency seemed to be wavering, but then they settled down on 11092.54 (on my TS-570) for the remainder of the broadcast. The announcers seemed a bit tired by the end -- with good reason! -- but it was great fun for us listeners (I very much miss BBC Calling the Falklands, when I could hear it). BTW, what's the best way to conceal a "green stamp" in an envelope? Conditions here in the Buffalo area were very good once RSH faded in. 73 till the next time de (Anne Fanelli in Elma, NY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. St. Helena Day, 11092.5 usb, Nov 4, 2006 at 2342, Pop music, call telephone from U.S.A. DXer, brief English ID by male announcer at 2344 UT, music SINPO 12322. I have attached an audio clip in WMA format of 2'25" 8299 KB) Enjoy what ever you are listening! RX: SONY SW7600G. ANT: VHF outdoor at 250 degrees. 73 (from Treviso, Italy, Nino Marabello, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2344-0014. Tuned in just in time to hear my name mentioned by Robert Kipp along with Jerry Berg, Adrian Peterson and Arnie Coro followed by some music. Usual blend of greetings to listeners, music and brief talks including an interview with the Captain of the RMS St. Helena. Nice to have this one back. A very special thank you to Robert Kipp for the creativity, imagination and the implementation of restoring this favorite of many back to the shortwave bands. Fair signal on my E1 from an outdoor garden area atop my son`s apartment building in Georgetown (Rich D'Angelo, PA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Just logged for the first time Radio St Helena's yearly broadcast on 11092 USB. Taped a full ID at 2359 giving frequency and power. Sounded like 1000 watts. A bit noisy and hard to dig out but definitely audible and verifiable. Anyone else wants to try for it, they should be on to No America until 0100. Using a Kenwood R-600 to a tuned 150' longwire. 73's (Tom Kraft, Billings, Mt USA,, amfmtvdx [non] at qth.net via DXLD) Solar-terrestrial indices for 04 November follow. Solar flux 86 and mid-latitude A-index 6. The mid-latitude K-index at 0000 UTC on 05 November was 1 (08 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) St. Helena, 11092.45U, Radio St. Helena, 0012-0100, Noted a few persons in English comments answering email reception reports from around the world. In between comments music presented. Signal was fair here in Central Florida (Chuck Bolland, November 5, 2006, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, all and all that was pretty interesting. With no outdoor antenna, their signal never got very strong for me, but I was able to hear an ID at 2300 during their transmission to Europe. And once they switched to North America, they became strong enough that I could follow a good portion of the broadcast. From 2330 to 0030 I could copy them about half the time; after 0030 local noise caused enough interference that I couldn't make out much. By any measure this has to have been a very successful effort and I think these folks deserve our thanks for a job well done (Greg Shoom, VE3LXL, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ODXA via DXLD) Radio St. Helena getting much better at 0018 with signal peaks of s-9 with interview with the captain of the RMS St. Helena ship. Then on to music "Harper Valley PTA". Only broadcast that I did not hear was the one to New Zealand. Japan was OK, Europe was better, North America is excellent (Steve Price, Johnstown, PA, ODXA via DXLD) November 5, 2006, best reception yet at my QTH of St Helena Island, Radio St Helena, 11092 USB at 0017 UT, low to fair signal with clear modulation, playing music "Harper Valley PTA" (Rich Brock, Bridgewater, PA, HCDX via DXLD) Excellent signal here in Helena, MT at 0035 UT using an Icom IC-718 with a Hustler 5BTV Vertical antenna (Terry Palmersheim, KC7LDP, HCDX via DXLD) The final segment to North America was stronger here, with QSB and QRN. There was never a full signal that would be casually listened to by a SWL. Did anyone else feel that the audio was muddy and muffled? It didn't seem to be very compressed with good "punch." I heard the entire broadcast and all the segments with some reception. The portion sent to Japan was the worst reception. I think the NA portion was stronger, in part, to changing propagation due to time of day here in the states. Many thanks to all in St. Helena for providing the broadcast. Will it return next year? 73 de (N2KZ Karl, QTH 50 miles north of NYC, Rig: R-390A with 30 meter dipole, Zuk, HCDX via DXLD) 11092.52, Radio St. Helena, 1857-0100*, steadily improving signal with no QRM and signal from unusable at 1857 to a solid S7 (with the Drake preamp on) after 2350. Lots of announcements, greetings to DXers, music, interviews. At 2330, there was a grinding sound when the antenna was steered toward NA. The signal went way down and then recovered. The station announced that the MW tower was interfering with the NA trajectory, so it had to be changed during the beginning of the NA segment at 2330. Emails were read and a couple of phone calls aired as well. Address for reception reports is: Radio St. Helena PO Box 24 Jamestown St. Helena Island STHL 1ZZ South Atlantic Ocean "Greenstamps" or 3 IRCs were requested (Srebnick, NJ, Nov 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio St. Helena verry good on 11092.50, 1830 music from the Beatles. 1840 Talks about the island St-Helena. 1855 About Australia and NZ. 1900 full ID. 1930 again music from the Beatles. SINPO 44333 To Japan. 2020 Country music, 2035 good morning to Japan, 2110 signal better now; 2217 About Napoleon Bonaparte. SINPO 43333 To Europe and N. America. 2330 The history of St. Helena, music Peter Gabriél SINPO 45444, end of the program 0100 with county music program. Was in usb, verry nice music. RX; AOR 7030 and EKD 300 +EZ 100 NRD 535, antenna Longwire 100m (Maurits Van Driessche from Belgium, HCDX via DXLD) El día de ayer sábado cuando leí la información de Radio Santa Helena enviada por el colega Dario Monferini, me entró la curiosidad para tratar de captar esta emisora que tenía algunos años que no transmitía. Las horas fueron pasando hasta que llegó el momento de la recepción y la verdad es que me asombró el reporte del colega Arnaldo Slaen cuando decía que la estaba sintonizando con señal bastante regular; inmediatamente comenzaron los reportes desde diferentes partes del mundo por los colegas diexistas: Dario Monferini, Francesco Ceccone, Henrik Klemetz, Dino Bloise, etc, etc. Mientras tanto en mi cuarto de radio, yo estaba sin escuchar ni un murmullo de la señal de Radio Santa Helena, ni con el Yaesu FT-890 ni con el Degen 1103. El tiempo seguía pasando y los colegas seguían reportando la señal de Radio Santa Helena y yo no escuchaba nada. Faltando como 15 minutos para que finalizara la emisión para Norteamerica, que estaba pautada desde las 2330 hasta las 0100 UT, se me ocurrió sacar a mi Degen 1103 al patio de mi casa para ver si podía tener la oportunidad de escuchar a Radio Santa Helena. Ya ubicado en el patio, acomodé una pequeña butaca de playa y me senté con mi Degen 1103 y un grabadorcito de cinta, sintonicé los 11092 kHz en ssb y con la sintonía fina comencé a buscar la señal hasta que por fiiiiiiiiiinnnnnn, allí estaba la señal de Radio Santa Helena. La verdad fue que me sentí muy bien cuando a través de los audífonos escuchaba esta emisión especial con mi radio Degen 1103 y con su antena telescópica. Ahora sólo queda enviar el respectivo informe de recepción para recibir esta preciada QSL. Quiero de nuevo hacer llegar mis felicitaciones a todos los que la escucharon porque sus comentarios me motivaron a buscarla hasta el último momento cuando fué que la pude escuchar. Una satisfacción más que he tenido con este pequeño pero cumplidor radio de nombre: Degen 1103. Lo que pude comprobar fue que en mi cuarto de radio hay demasiada interferencia y ruidos producidos tal vez por la computadora, teléfono, impresora, fuentes de poder, modem de banda ancha y otros equipos; tengo que hacer algo porque parece que mis antenas han perdido efectividad. Veré que hago ahora. Un abrazo para todos. atte: (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, playdx yg via DXLD) 0107 UT, it's still on the air (Roberto Scaglione http://www.bclnews.it http://www.fmdx.it DX LISTENING DIGEST) For one more minute, maybe. They played some more music after 0100 and messed with the antenna, rotation which gave them problems at 2330 (gh) Dopo un altro brano musicale ha chiuso (definitivamente?) alle 0110 UTC. Buonanotte (Scaglione, playdx yg via DXLD) Thank You --- Radio St Helena has just completed its 2006 Revival broadcast. We would like to thank you for your support to this project and for bearing with us during the evening. With all going well...we will be here next year. We hope that you have enjoyed the broadcast and will join us in the future. You can visit our web site http://www.sthelena.se Best wishes. You have been sent this email since you have participated in our worldwide transmission. Your email is being used this once for a thankyou purpose. It will not be forward to any other agency. (Derek ZD7CTO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by the Cable & Wireless St. Helena e-mail security system 0107 UT Nov 5, to gh, via DXLD) Same or similar message reported by many others (gh) No, I didn't email a reception report or other communiqué to St. Helena tonight -- I can't run my computer and my radio at the same time. However, during the last hour of its broadcast, I heard the OM say profuse "thank you very much" to what sounded like a Who's Who of DX-dom. I'll wager that a good time was had by all. I do have to wonder about all the cover music they were running, I have to admit. I recognized many a tune but not the artist, with a couple of exceptions -- Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, and The Supremes. I have to give adequate credit to whomever it was that did the cover for "Harper Valley PTA" because it was enough like Jeannie C. Riley to pass. Just something that made me go "HMMMM!" (Clara Listensprechen, shortwavebasics yg via DXLD) I heard nothing here (Wayne Bastow, Wyoming, NSW, Australia 33 23' 44.29" South, 151 21' 11.99" East 2200 UT Nov 4, ARDXC via DXLD) Sadly nothing here either (Jem Cullen, 2229 UT Nov 4, ibid.) We have 4 hours and 41 minutes of Radio St. Helena 2006 day broadcasting, audio clips are available on http://www.bclnews.it/sthelena (Roberto Scaglione, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception in Sweden this special evening. Transmission beamed to New Zealand (180 degrees) at 1800 was very well heard in Sweden on various locations. I have checked with persons and different places. Best reception was in southernmost Sweden. In Norrköping good with various local disturbances. A recorded message from The Governor - Mr Michael Clancey - was heard followed by several well-known tunes - Waltzing Matilda - The Beatles etc. Some prerecorded messages was heard. I had the opportunity to speak to both Mr Robert Kipp and Mr Anthony Leo (former Station Manager) and wished them success in the very early minutes of the broadcast. At the end of the programme promotion was made by The Postmistress for the new stamp release. Transmission beamed to Japan had almost the same good quality as the first transmission. A recorded message from the Japan Shortwave Club was heard. Interview with Mr Ohtaki (made at the DSWCI meeting in May 2006). Just before 2100 - Mr Michael Martineau spoke about the Napoleon Museum at Longwood. Reception in Irkutsk - Robert Ross in Canada - in Netherlands also good reception - as well as in Portugal. Short part of Rolling Stones. Good reception in Germany - Wolfsburg as well as in Vietnam. A greeting was send to Sweden and Lennart Deimert and Jan Tuner - cofounders of R St Helena Day in the early 90ies!! Later on call from Athens. Reception in South Americas. This broadcast ended at 2147. Tony Leo started the Europe-transmission after the traditional "Life on the Ocean Waves". Then Robert Kipp with some greetings from Japan - Finland - Netherlands - Norway - USA - Japan etc. John Ekwall made a telephone call to the station. Very good signal in Germany. A list of listeners from the Scandinavian were mentioned by Tony Leo. Robert had a greeting in German. Tony Leo greeted Danish Shortwave Clubs International. Made a check with receivers around the world - best next to southern Sweden was Rochester in NY-state at 2240. A German CW was heard then greetings to German DX-clubs - Harald Kuhl. Also heard in Ecuador. A thank to Andrew Weir shipping for the logistics to made this event possible. Announcement in French "Ici Radio St Helena (not Radio Saint Helene as expected) followed. Celine Dion in French then. Interview with the French Consul on the island - Michel Martineau - the curator of the Napoleon Museum on the Longwood Plateau. Members of DSWCI were mentioned - among others Anker Petersen - Bent Nielsein - Erik Koie - Tor-Henrik Ekblom etc... Shakira sung then after greeting to Japan. Beverly Francis - St Helena's Postmistress - about St Helena stamps. A greeting from Frankfurt Main Club in German (30 years this year). Presenters during the first halfhour was Tony Leo - then Ralph Peters followed by Laura Lawrence. Robert Kipp said goodbye after this 90 min transmission and hope that everyone had enjoyed this "R St Helena Revival Day 2006". Antenna moved for the North America - so signal now much poorer in Sweden at 2329 but 2 min later back in good signal strength and started with Peter Gabriel. Governor Clancey with his speech. Sorry readers - must end here this long evening after almost 5 hours listening to R St Helena. Time 0043 in Sweden (from http://www.sthelena.se/radioproject/update_nov04.htm via DXLD) I heard the station briefly here at 1810 when reception was fair and at 2230 when reception was good. However I would like to endorse the point Glenn Hauser made in DXLD 6-163: "Now that they are all set up at considerable trouble and expense, what`s the point of doing only one broadcast a year? They might as well run 11092.5 every weekend, or even every evening, even if it`s only duplicating local RSH programming. They might be more amenable to this if an external QSL manager would take that workload off." To hear this station I have to be at home on a specified evening, put to one side any domestic circumstances and tape any domestic radio and television I might want to listen to. The broadcast is in USB, it's on an out of band frequency and it's beamed at me using a Yagi. Is this broadcast DX'ing or is it a variation of ham radio DXpeditions except that I can't transmit but can get my report acknowledged immediately by the other side by using email? Indeed their website says that the project "resembles a high power amateur radio station". If the propagation collapses tough, wait another year. I would like to hear domestic RSH programming, not greetings to well known DXers and publicity for DX clubs. And what's the attraction of listening to music in USB? What I enjoy in the DXing part of my listening is largely hearing domestic stations with local programming not specifically beamed at me. There were some examples, if I remember correctly, some years ago of Dxers helping local community shortwave radio stations with their equipment thus giving local listeners a much needed service and giving Dxers a challenging DX target. In my opinion this would be more worthwhile than this yearly St. Helena broadcast (Mike Barraclough, England, Nov 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) They could do both without detracting from the annual special. Remember Radio RSA and their NY Eve call-ins, which were a big event for several years, yet they also had daily well-heard broadcasts (gh) Saint Helena. From 1800 to 2400 UT on November 4, from 0000 to 0100 and from 0800 to 0930 UT on November 5 on 11092.5 kHz will be aired the special annual broadcast of Radio Saint Helena (Rumen Pankov, R. Sofia DX Nov 3 via John Norfolk, dxldyg via DXLD) Sunday 0800-0930? Where did he get that? Did anyone else know about it or hear it then? Might have made it better to Au/NZ then (gh, DXLD) Because of interference and noise at home, I decided to drive up to the usual remote listening site for the R. St. Helena Day Revival. RX: JRC NRD-535D. ANT: 44' Dipole (cut for 11092 khz!!!) 15 -195 , 394' BOG at 95 , and 315' BOG at 50 QTH: Pennsylvania State Game Lands #26 Duration: 1800-2240 UTC Solar Indices: S.F. = 86 A Index = 6 K Index = 2 No storms. 11092.5U, R. St. Helena 1804-2232. I'll spare the details. Nothing at 1800 on the African (394') BOG, but very slight audio on the Dipole when I finished getting it up at 1804. Finally slightly readable by 1900, and quite good by 2000. Even better during their European beam later. Heard back at home also (Dave Valko, 4-5 Nov, HCDX via DXLD) Radio Santa Helena complete report on 4 Nov 2006 http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/13 11092.5, Radio Santa Helena 1820 with songs 1841 OM talking. Good evening, this is RSH, 11092 KHz, asking for QSL card RSH again,... 166 and have good reception condition. YL talking than, about contract or construction, development 1844 with an old song by YL singer. 1909 'Let it Be' YL, giving a tel number 654..4502. ID at 1911:45 heard as 'Radio Tanzania' ,'22????', a short speech. Short gap, 1918 with a pop song, 1922 a mention of Sanchez, followed by a speech and a hymn ???? OM with freqs and thank you for listening. Transmission did not stop however: Still on 1939 with music program, 1942 with ID, 11092.5 kHz asking for QSL card with address and hymn at 1944. Hymn music at 2000, 2004 with pop songs, OM with Mike Transis and Catalina (?) with 2009 with a pop song. Thanking for the Japan SW Club. [Same time (2000+2345) had also to look at the Greek song contest in TV and radio ....] At 2012 there was a mention to Danish SW Club and interview with Anker Peterson I think, mentioning also R Japan. 2015 with canned ID, 2018 IS clip of RSH ... 2058 DX talks on Japan, 2118 with refs to Belgium 424 music from Carmen and reading letters 2143 heard a message from Alpo Heinonen (SWR) 2159 a rock song passing 2100 with 2205 a hymn /anthem and ID 2204 OM mentioning Belgium, Tanzania, Portugal, reading letters 2319 German talks, 2324 some music, Guten Morgen , "antennas to N America" 2328:00 with music, man showing goodbye for the end of transmission to Europe Signal level: 15322 at 1820+ 25433 at 2000 S5!! 15331 at 2200 25432 at 2245 44443 at 2319 S7!!! Audio will be uploaded shortly. I am expecting to receive the ADSL modem (Zach Liangas, 4 Nov, Retziki, THS, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1935-0100* UT on 11092.5 USB November 4th and 5th, 2006. Reception ranged from barely heard to fair. Best reception from 0000 until close at 0100. Songs, interviews, listener emails. Closed with male announcer talking about 2007 being the double anniversary. Big double anniversary celebration. Also, ``We are now closing our transmission to North America. Goodbye from R. St. Helena``. Whole time I listened I didn`t hear anything about the weather or boat races. Reminded me of a pirate broadcast. However, interesting DX. 73 (Kraig Krist, KG4LAC, Manassas, VA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Glenn, R. St. Helena, noted in my location, between 2015-2110 UT, with songs, statements from several people connected to the project, and many e-mails from listeners around the world. Most touching, at least to me, was the rendition of "Life on the Ocean Waves" which brings me back the memorys of the April 25th 1974 and freedom to Portuguese people!! Reception was weak most of time, with fair signal, no QRM, but strong QRN, and mostly a huge local noise ruining all!!! Even so, I think I'll get a QSL with the (lousy!!)recording I have!!! Greetings from Portugal (José Turner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ? I had never associated Life on the Ocean Waves with Portugal; something to do with refugee voyages from Africa? (gh, DXLD) 11092.5 USB, Radio S. Helena, 1800-2140, 04-11. 1800-1930 transmisión dirigida a New Zealand, señal débil en este primer tramo. Múltiples identificaciones, música, comentario sobre historia y geografía de la Isla de St. Helena. SINPO 24222. 2000-2130, transmisión dirigida a Japón, excelente señal durante toda la transmisión. Múltiples identificaciones. "Good Evening from Radio St. Helena, Good Mornig to Japan. Historia y geografía de la Isla. "Thank you to the Japan DX Club, greetings to every single member of the Japan DX Club". Leyendo e-mails enviados durante el programa. SINPO 44444. 2200-2331, transmisión dirigida a Europa. Excelente señal. Múltiples identificaciones, dirección para enviar informes de recepción. "Special Thanks to the Danish Short Wave Club International and his Chairman Anker Petersen". Leyendo e-mails enviados durante el programa, e-mails desde Japón, Moscú, Alemania, Finlandia, Holanda, Luxemburgo, Portugal, Ontario DX Association. SINPO 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Escuchas realizadas en Friol, 7º 48' 05'' W, 43º 02' 05'' N, Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Antena de cable, 10 metros, orientada WSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SANTA HELENA, 11092.5U, Radio Santa Helena, Jamestown, 2000-2030, November 04, English, Special transmission for Saint Helena´s Day for Japan, sign-on, music, ¿anthem?, identification by male as: "from Radio Santa Helena. Frequency...", other ID, pops, many IDs. Other at 2025 as: "This is Radio Santa Helena". Song by Eric Clapton, 34333 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I can honestly say, I noticed no difference in signal strength from 5:30 PM local (2130 UT) through 7:15 PM local (0015 UT). Their schedule said the North American service would begin at 2330, but I noticed absolutely no change in signal strength or readability at that time. My local sunset close to 2130 UT, so I had a darkness path during all of my monitoring. Regards, (Brock Whaley, Lilburn, GA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glad that I also receive a e-mail thank you from Derek, just as a kind of confirmation that I was listening their transmission. Suppose it happened the same with many colleagues who got a poor signal like me most of the time. Many thanks for your report. We are glad you are enjoying the show Best Wishes from all at Radio St Helena www.sthelena.se Derek ZD7CTO original message: Hi there in the middle of the Atlantic! Greetings from Costa Rica. Sorry to say I have not been so lucky getting here the best of your signal. But I can testify you played "Just When I Needed You Most" by Randy Van Warmer at 2338 and the rest has been just sporadic words with salutations. Try to make your best efforts to go on the air at least once per month. Too much sweat your hearts out deserves better consideration. 73s and keep healthy for more good work. Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica. The best time I got was after 2330 when they went into some technical difficulties, turning their antenna most northerly to Alaska, but that screwed up at least for me. And I seemed to hear just after the Randy Van Warmer song, greetings for GH and also Arnie Coro, after 2340. The T2FD antenna was a flop this time, as I got slightly better reception as I changed to a short Inverted V, which enhanced reception but not diminished the same natural noise from the T2FD. Well, after all, you can ask a 7600GR to make the job of a Drake of a Tentec professional table top receiver. It would be like asking a Hyundai to match a Hummer, right? (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Nov 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, (you can pass this along if you wish ...whatever, being this email has a audio attachment; did not post up to Yahoo Groups). A short 1 min MP3 file is attached the best I received the 1 KW Radio St. Helena broadcast yesterday. I have nasty local noise to have to deal with here. Signal was fair to poor in general for me and by the time they moved the antenna to North America at 2330 UT, It appeared the band was starting to drop out. But I did hear the sign off (very weak) at 0100 and there was about a minute of music after. The audio was muffled to my ears too, not as good of as in past years. But of course was very interesting, and yes, let`s hope they do this more than only once a year. Enjoy 73, (David Zantow N9EWO, Janesville, WI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aqui no Brasil, embora perfeitamente sintonizável, o sinal esteve muitfraco por todo o tempo, mesmo quando a transmissão estava voltada para a América do NOrte depois das 2330 UT. O sinal por aqui não passou de 2-3 (S) e o ruído infelizmente estava bastante grande por causa de massas polares que em conflito sobre o Sudeste Brasileiro, bagunçaram, bastante o tempo por aqui. Estática alta e muito ruído atmosférico. Acompanhei boa parte da transmissão, gravei longos trechos, mas nada de muita qualidade. Bom saber que o sinal chegou a S 5 por aí; aqui isso seria impossível. Gostaria que antena ominidirecional fosse usada, já que em banda lateral, a possibilidade de alcance é bastante alto. Mesmo saudosista, acho que R Sta Helena serviria como um Farol do Atlântico Sul, por isso, não relacionaria estas transmissões para a Ásia. Uma transmissão com audiência desfocada seria mais promissora. Minha opinião. Não vou mandar nenhum tipo de reporte ou registro porque nem da última transmissão de anos atrás, me mandaram resposta de e-mail ou QSL. E eu mandei IRC para obter resposta... Forte 73 aos nossos irmãos europeus, (Denis Zoqbi, Brasil, radioescutas via DXLD) Audio de +33 minutos de Radio Santa Helena en su programa para Europa a las 2200 UT del 4 de Noviembre 2006 por 11092.50 kHz. http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/au_archivos/11092.50_kHz_4-11-06_2200utc_R.Sta.Helena.mp3 Receptor: JRC NRD-535 Antena: PBX-100 Lugar: Casco urbano Ciudad: Córdoba Al suroeste de España (José Bueno, Córdoba - España, dxldyg via DXLD) I still have a long face. Not a skerrick here from St. Helena. There was a 20 db over 9 local noise level during the entire time here in the northern Tasmania. It is so damn frustrating reading that they were heard in Europe, America and even Japan but I have yet to cite any reports from Australia. Methinks the MUF was just above 10 MHz. Today (November 6th) was unusually quiet on 11092.5 at 2000. It isn't fair and I deliberately refrained from using any dxtuners sites (Robin L. Harwood, VK7RH 'Spotlight on Swling' - Amateur Radio Magazine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) St. Helena not heard at this location - not a hint of it. Regards, (Adrian Verry, West Coast, North Island, New Zealand, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and now for the recriminations] As always, during some very special broadcasts the DX-mailing lists are filled with detailed logs of reception. Just the same with this R St Helena broadcast. A weak mind with poor reception/no reception at all can easily build up a reception report from these mailings. And if someone puts a recording of the whole transmission online, even better. There's gone the thrill of trying to log a station with sufficient program details by yourself. Well, good for RSH, they'll get more reports - more IRC's - more Greenstamps. But how about the real reception? The broadcast was a great, hard work of Robert and all the sponsors and the staff of RSH. Thank you (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jari, That is exactly why I omit certain details from my posts. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, ibid.) Jari - you are a good DX-friend of mine - so don't take this personally - but you're sounding like a voice from the 70'ies or 80'ies - when you would spend endless amount of time writing a detailed reception report to a radio station in order to prove you actually heard the station and get a QSL confirming your reception of the station. Sorry, but that is history. Today you've got so many ways of "cheating". Exactly as you have described - programme details and recordings of exotic and rare "DX- stations" are widely available on the internet. You can also listen to several stations streaming on the internet. You can utilize DX-Tuner. You can easily travel to far away counties and send reception reports to the stations in that particular area. Etc. - etc. So obviously the idea of QSL'ing in the old sense is completely dead. I think. If you bother sending out reception reports and the stations bother responding with a QSL, that's nice - and a nice souvenir but of course it doesn't really prove anything. I don't know whether 90, 95 or even 99 percent of the people sending out reception reports are honest people - or we've got more Giovanni Bellabarba's among us ... But DX'ing is still a great hobby. I think that neither Giovanni Bellabarba nor the lack of "real" QSLs can take that away from us. Trying to catch distant stations is - for me - still very exiting. And - I too enjoyed the transmission from Radio St. Helena yesterday from s/on 1800 UT and for most of the evening here. Reception was quite good - armchair listening at times :-) Best 73s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Stig, no problem, comments are always welcome. I agree with you, there are lot of ways to "cheat" if someone wants to. My comment was about this particular RSH transmission. Why should we make the (possible) cheating even easier by putting details or even audiofiles available in the net. Oldfashioned, heh, I guess I am. But I don't think the received QSL from some station is a word of God. It's just a souvenir, reminding you of that particular listening moment. It proves nothing as you say. You know you've heard the station, if there a QSL or not. Sometimes there are pleasant verifications, in which you can clearly see that your report has been checked detail by detail and then verified. Some years ago I got a QSL-letter from a station, saying my report was correct except in one detail. The newsreader name was Michael Burden, not Michael Burton as I had written. I don't remember the exact name but that above shows how small the error was. That kind of thing shows that some (small) stations still check the details. Or an Indonesian station with minute-by-minute explanation of my details, what type of songs were played and what was said, (correct) program titles etc. Nowadays I'm sending out only a handful of reception reports (mostly e-mail) per year. But as you say, the thrill of listening to DX- stations is here and stays, with or without QSL's. Kind regards and best 73, (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jari and Stig: Just to enter the fray here... Like Jari, I have precious little time to send reception reports these days and am highly selective in what I can send. So, what I do is record every logging I make, whether on my home rig or on a DX Tuner receiver. I probably have over 400 recordings (software files using Total Recorder) since Feb 2004 - as far as I'm concerned, these recording are better than any QSL card to prove what was heard and from what location and receiver settings - they just don't have the card "collector" value. On the other hand, I really enjoy going back and listening to these recordings anytime I want. I'm not going to make the mistake I did back in the late 70's and dump all my audio tapes of rare DX stations! The down side of this is that I get lazy and don't log program details since most often I don't send a report - so if I decide to send a report I have to re-listen to the recording to recreate a written report. I also need a better log system for my recordings - Shortwave Log would be a good solution. If folks feel they have to "cheat" to get a QSL, they only hurt themselves - I for one see no pleasure in receiving an "unearned" QSL. Of course the other downside is that such people can give our hobby a bad name if they continually send "bogus" reports. On RSH Day I made recordings from both DX Tuner (Sweden) for clarity and enjoyment, and from my own receiver in California for "DX" purposes. I will send RSH recordings from both sites which I think provides them very useful comparative information. The difference is 5,000+ miles vs. 8,000+ miles, not a big deal from a DX perspective for a 1 KW broadcaster, but again useful for comparative purposes. My 2 cents worth; all in all it was a fun day and Robert Kipp should be profusely thanked for the effort to put this event together! (Bruce W. Churchill, Senior Project Manager, Emergency & Transportation Operations Division, http://www.delcan.com Systems Business, National Operations, La Mirada, CA 90638, DX LISTENING DIGEST) With due respect, I have to agree with Mr. Jari Savolainen about his way of "hearing and confirming" stations heard when DXing. Very frequently, I see postings from some folks at the reflectors where I participate; colleagues posting three to ten stations at the same time, on the same day and same hours. Then I figure these colleagues, file reception reports and send them in the hope to get some more QSL cards to ad to their collection. Other colleagues for a change, uses a different approach. Many of them are not even interested in getting QSL cards at all. These people are more interested in first of all, listening to a good short wave station, the program it airs, the current daily news without any commercial ads or interruption, cultural affairs or music. Among them, there might some, that listen to a few stations and they stick to them on a daily basis. In this last category we must not forget, that there are folks, working as monitors for these short wave stations. There are also some friends that are constantly proving and testing the proficiency of their radios and antennas as their main interest. These groups, file complete and good (as it should always be) reception reports, sends QSK cards but not necessary waits for a response. It is very important to mention that, many short wave stations around the world are very aware of the various groups that exist; the cheating ones and the honest and serious ones where I am sure Mr. Jari Savolainen falls. A final analogy. CB radio has been seriously affected in this part of the world; the other day I turned on my old CB Radio just to hear for a while. There, I still heard a few of the old and serious folks; fighting and struggling to do things the right in order to preserve CB radio to the best. Let's do the same for short wave radio (Luigi Pérez Díaz, PR, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I heard St Helena on 11092.5 kHz from South India with better reception on my SONY ICF-77 with narrow mode. Really enjoyable broadcast. Only broadcast to Japan was audible. My name for the e-mail report was read on the air. Incidentally I forgot to record the show. If any one posts the recordings I would like to hear it again (T. R. Rajeesh, Kerala, INDIA, World DX Club Member, HCDX via DXLD) I took 5 pages of notes on the RSH broadcast, and did not even hear it from one end to the other. Including music titles where possible, names of people called or mentioned, etc. Rather than a minute-by- minute rundown, I will just mention some important points, especially if not mentioned much by anyone else. Tuned in at 1801 UT (did I really say it started at 1830 on WOR 1334?), on the FRG-7 hooked up to the E-W longwire of 75-100 feet, my usual main receiver. Nothing at all heard on 11092.5, but trouble from a ute on 11090. Other things to do, so did not try again until 2038: Now the 11090 QRM was less of a problem, and some music could be made out on 11092.5. At 2040 I switched to the ICF-SW07, which uses only the Sony loop hanging in the south window, and that was enough to get it better, with USB and synch detexion available. Even better: the DX- 398 hooked up to the longwire. Now I could tune in 40-Hz steps, but frequently I would be toggling back and forth, as the signal`s best audio seemed to be somewhere in between the steps. The Japan segment was concluding at 2129. I took another break, and resumed at 2300 for the last of the European segment. This too wrapped up about 2327, said about to aim at North America, and altho signal was the best yet now, I was hoping to notice a definite improvement. Around 2330 the audio went into some kind of oscillation. At first I thought it might be a problem with a CD player. AT 2331:30 ID with address, but music breaking up, and dead air for a while. By 2336 programming was resumed with a greeting from the governor, Michael ---, who said population is 4000, area about 47 square miles, discovered by Portuguese in 1502y, and the mandatory mention of Napoleon`s exile; future plans of airport and hoped-for tourism to improve economy. RMS Saint Helena calls about every three weeks. Hopes RSH Day will be an annual event. At 2342 acknowledged ``very nice`` e-mail from gh and hoped I was having good reception. Explaining the problem around 2330. It had started raining; and as the beam antenna was rotating toward NAm, the signal reflected off the 1548 kHz MW tower about 10 meters away, so they had to back off to only 345 degrees. (Is this something like a VSWR problem?) Shortly after 0000 UT Nov 5, I noticed that the signal was weakening. Perhaps the MUF was falling as it was midnight there. 0009 faded down further. By 0030 it had faded up again to good level. At 0039 explained the 2330 problem again, solved by turning the antenna in different direxion. Later said they had received 330 e-mails, plus phone calls, faxes, 20 people had been in and out of the studio helping out during the 7 hours. 2007 will be the 40th anniversary of RSH, and the 10th anniversary of the SW broadcasts. 0058 closed with a C&W tune, but I thought the lyrix were about SH. 0100 goodbye, fanfare and march, Over the Ocean Waves? But the music was cut off. 0103 resumed fragments of music, presumably trouble-shooting the antenna/rotation problem, still heard at 0107 but then gone. The people, reception locations, or entities I heard mentioned, times omitted: Portugal; Oregon; Dan Srebnick, NJ; Robert Ross, Ont.; Tokyo; Chris Brand, UK; Kerala, South India; Anker Petersen, DSWCI; Montreal; HCJB; WRTH; French; German; Lars, Denmark; Glenn Hauser; Richard D`Angelo, WDXC, NASWA; Adrian Peterson, AWR; Arnie Coro; Robert Phillips, Los Angeles; NZ DX clubs; Portland UK; Silverio Gómez, Catalunya; Andy, 7th grader, new SWL in MA who wanted to hear his name; VE9WGS; Walt Salmaniw (couldn`t pronounce his name), BC; Dan Hochfelder, NJ; Todd Roberts, Hilton Head Island SC, near another St. Helena island!; Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica; Ralf, DL7DO, Berlin; Tony Ward, VE3NO, Canada; João Costa, Portugal; Bruce Churchill, CA phone call. It was a real treat to hear Radio Saint Helena again, and thanks to everyone who made it possible. Now how about turning on the SW transmitter now and then when there is local programming, especially news? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. Re 6-165: INTERNATIONAL RADIO SERBIA RESUMES ON SW I fear they did not made it on air. All I can hear on 6100 right now is CRI via Kashi (until 1900 in English, then in Russian) and underneath what appears to be IRIB in Albanian. No trace of a third transmitter, like Bijeljina-Jabanusa, adding to this mess which can be heard only by tuning to the USB to escape the 6090...6100 Junglinster signal (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Serbia's Interval signal heard at 2059 UT, but nothing followed !! Only IRIB in Albanian (// 9740) and CRI in Arabic (// 6185) at 2100 UT (JM Aubier, France, ibid.) ** SLOVAKIA. ESLOVAQUIA. 11600, Radio Eslovaquia Int., 1530-1600, escuchada el 5 de noviembre en español con sintonía, ID, horarios y frecuencias, locutora con la lectura de cartas de los oyentes, anuncia restablecimiento de envío de tarjetas QSL; también a un nuevo corresponsal, Santiago Cuadrado Soto, estudiante español con beca en Bratislava, también el regreso de un programa los sábados por María Mangová, aunque sigue trabajando en la televisión eslovaca, SINPO 45554 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7230, Radio Slovakia International, *0057-0127*, 11/4/06, in English. IS followed by ID and broadcast schedule prior to opening at 0100. News followed by Friday program of Slovakia Today hosted by Pete Miller. Talked about being glad to be broadcasting on shortwave and encouraged, ``letters, cards and e-mails`` to the station supporting its shortwave broadcasts. Fair to good but // 9440 was poor (Rich D'Angelo, PA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 7230, R. Slovakia Int'l, 0058, 10/30/06 in English. Slovak Radio's return to the airwaves. Thanks to listeners for their support, and lots of emails/letters read, many of which seemed to date from before they left shortwave. Good (M. Schiefelbein, MO, ibid.) In the 40m hamband! No pretense here of serving Iceland, either, as this is registered for CIRAF zones 7-10, i.e. Atlantic Canada, USA except western third, Mexico. How do they get away with this? (gh, DXLD) ** SYRIA [non]. Clandestine: Alquds Radio --- I picked up that radio station on 6/11/06 around 1800 UT on 702; it was kind of surprise for as I used to hear them only on the northern coast of Egypt. Now they are in the clear here in Cairo with some QRM from Turkey, YL with a promo about a program called "with eve", music, giving phone numbers for listeners to call in, YL calling the show and a long conversation about marriage!!! They are not as patriotic as they used to be!? The last time I picked that station in June 2006 their program schedule on MW used to be around 0600 to 1400 UT only and 24/7 on FM (tent.). Sounds like they extended their transmission on the MW; maybe increase in power as well. I picked them up as well during last Ramadan (October 2006 ) around 2100 UT but I thought that was an extended schedule only for Ramadan, but sounds like I was wrong. All the best from Cairo, Egypt (Tarek Zeidan, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Saludos cordiales, Glenn, en el último informe DX publica para Radio Taiwán en español: TAIWÁN: Radio Taiwán Internacional, vía Alemania a las 20:00 en 5975; las demás, vía Florida: a las 23:00 en 9690 y 11720; 02:00 en 15215 y 17845; 04:00 en 6120; 06:00 en 5950. [as posted at Radio Enlace] Sin embargo el pasado 28 de Octubre en DXLD publiqué el siguiente mensaje: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/message/14804 DX LISTENING DIGEST 6-160, October 27, 2006 Se publica para Radio Taiwan: Spanish 0200-0300 daily SAm 15215, 17845 WYFR 100 0400-0500 daily CAm 6120 WYFR 100 0600-0700 daily CAm 5950 WYFR 100 2000-2100 daily Eu 5975 Nauen 100 2300-2400 daily SAm 9690, 11720 WYFR 100 Sin embargo en la web de Radio Taiwan en español anuncian: http://spanish.rti.org.tw/Others/Frequencies.aspx Invierno (Las frecuencias de invierno entran en vigencia a partir del 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2006 hasta el 26 DE MARZO DE 2007.) Spanish 0200-0300 daily SAm 15215, 11825 WYFR 100 0400-0500 daily CAm 11740 WYFR 100 0600-0700 daily CAm 5950 WYFR 100 2000-2100 daily Eu 6120 Nauen 100 2300-2400 daily SAm 9690, 11720 WYFR 100 Le puedo confirmar que Radio Taiwan en español a las 2000 UT transmite por 6120. Atentamente 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The T-Systems sked in 6-165 also shows 6120 at 2000. I guess A-06 info got mislabeled as B-06 (gh) ** UKRAINE [and non]. Re 6-165: There are even two transmitter plants at Brovary near Kiev, an older one with 4 x 100 kW transmitters and a newer one with 5 x 200 kW. Longwave 207 and I think also various mediumwave transmitters are there, too. All shortwave transmitters at Brovary went dark years ago, when RUI was no longer able to pay for them, but presumably were kept in operational condition until today. The reported 5970 would be kind of a revival of 4940 which originated from Brovary, too, until it vanished about ten years ago. I immediately checked 5970 after reading this item after 2200, only to find Pori with a relay of YLE's Radio Peili. This transmission closed at 2228, YLE IS and open carrier, finally off at 2230, revealing nothing but another very faint carrier, detectable only with the BFO. So probably but not necessarily no UR1 on 5970 at this time (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Surprised to hear BBCWS in English on 6040, Nov 6 at 1516 // 6195 Singapore; not audible on 5975 Thailand, so maybe an unexpected move from there? 6040 still heard at 1542 check, getting rather late here. Not // BBCWS 21470 Ascension with separate stream to Africa. I think I would have noticed 6040 in the past week if it had been there; cannot find it in any schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS 9440: Glen[n], Am hearing this in New Zealand from 0500 UT in English // 9410. Strength 9++. Signal last few days had hum modulation but that has been fixed. Any idea of transmitter location? Regards, (Adrian Verry, West Coast, North Island, NEW ZEALAND, Nov 6, DX LISENING DIGEST) Adrian, No, does not seem to be on http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/bbc.htm and they have been moving around. I heard them after 1500 on another not scheduled frequency, 6040 (Thailand, ex-5975??) (Glenn to Adrian, via DXLD) Thanks Glen, Transmitter had that old "Eastern European" quality but was OK last evening (Adrian Verry, ibid.) ** U S A. New York Radio, VOLMET, 10051 USB, Nov 6 at 1545, had conditions from Nassau and other places that were not ``missing``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The FCC B-06 schedule has three entries for a non-existent station, KTMI in Oregon, which has a CP, but no word as to whether it is actually under construxion: 9820 0700 1100 KTMI 50 309 35 1234567 291006 250307 9845 0200 0400 KTMI 50 130 10 1234567 291006 250307 11570 0100 0500 KTMI 50 70 3 1234567 291006 250307 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. SOME ADVERTISERS SHUN AIR AMERICA, A LONELY VOICE FROM TALK RADIO`S LEFT --- By MARIA ASPAN November 6, 2006 When the liberal talk radio network Air America filed for bankruptcy protection last month, some analysts blamed a lack of listener interest in progressive talk radio. Now, it seems that a lack of major advertising dollars are responsible. In a memo dated Oct. 25, ABC Radio Networks instructed affiliated stations that broadcast syndicated programs from Air America to black out all ads from Hewlett-Packard, which had purchased advertising time on ABC but did not wish to air on any Air America affiliates. The memo listed almost 90 advertisers that it said were taking part in blackouts of Air America, including Microsoft, Wal- Mart, Visa, Exxon Mobil, Cingular, McDonalds, the United States Postal Service and the Navy. The memo was released by a progressive radio talk show host, Peter B. Collins, and is posted online at http://fair.org the site of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, a left-of-center media watchdog. Mr. Collins`s show, independently syndicated, is not affiliated with Air America. Radio advertising blackouts, which are not unusual, gained wider use by major advertisers faced with shock jock programs like Howard Sterns show in the years before he moved to satellite radio. But the advertisers` avoidance of Air America`s liberal programming seems pointed when contrasted with the commercial success of right-wing talk radio programs like those of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. According to Mr. Collins, boycotting liberal programming makes little economic sense for companies buying ad time on networks like ABC. If you really want to target your audience, he said, you don`t go to network radio, you buy individual stations or programs. Companies that advertise on network radio, Mr. Collins said, are trying to generate impressions across a very large audience, adding, ``They`re the least discriminating``. In an e-mail statement, ABC said advertisers requests to black out ads during specific programs were not uncommon and it makes its best effort to comply with such requests. Hewlett-Packard said it did not comment on specific purchases, but avoids inappropriate or controversial programming environments. The Web site Spending Liberally, which monitors advertisers on the Fox News Channel, lists H-P, Wal-Mart, Visa, Microsoft and McDonalds among sponsors of Fox talk shows, including Mr. Hannity`s and Bill Oreilly`s. Air America filed for Chapter 11 on Oct. 13 after having lost more than $40 million since it began in 2004. The network, which did not return voice-mail messages left on Friday, says it is carried on 92 affiliates nationwide and reaches 2.4 million listeners a week (NY Times via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. RADIO HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED And The Winners Are... Two of CBS NEWS' greatest talents, two longtime NYC broadcasters and a much admired radio executive make up the NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME Class of 2006, announced today by THE MUSEUM OF BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS in CHICAGO. http://www.museum.tv/rhofsection.php?page=308 Noted MBC Pres. BRUCE DUMONT, "This year's inductees join JACK BENNY, EDWARD R. MURROW and ORSON WELLES in AMERICA's only NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME, and they will be enshrined for future generations to acknowledge, both on-site at the new MBC and online as well." This years' inductees were WPLJ/NEW YORK PD/morning man SCOTT SHANNON, WNEW/NEW YORK's the late WILLIAM B. WILLIAMS, Pres. of ABC RADIO JOHN HARE, CBS newsnam CHRISTOPHER GLENN and the late DOUGLAS EDWARDS, who was with CBS from 1942 to 1988. radioandrecords.com (via Brock Whaley, GA, DXLD) ** U S A. RE: WVKO falls Tuesday --- Glenn, The C.E. on WSNY, who is responsible for dropping the towers, tells me this about Tuesday [Nov 7]: Weather permitting, yes (Ron Gaier, Columbus Radio Group, Nov 6, via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. OFF THE AIR: IU STUDENT STATION MAY LOSE SPOT ON DIAL http://www.post-trib.com/entertainment/123090,OffTheAir.article The FCC won't let me be WE SAY: WIUX should be allowed to keep its FM frequency IDS Editorial Board --- Published Monday, November 6, 2006 In January, WIUX student radio finally moved to an FM frequency after nearly four decades of attempts. But there was barely any time to break out the Keystone before the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would allow WYGB, a country music station, to take control of WIUX's 100.3 FM frequency because of its higher broadcasting priority. Regardless of what you think of country music (there are some very strong opinions among the editorial board), there are many other stations that can be picked up in Bloomington that broadcast only country. There are few stations besides WIUX, though, that broadcast rock, jazz, hip-hop, funk, punk, ska, techno/rpm and local music. Nor are there many other stations that offer such diversity as news, sports, interviews, sex advice and creative writing shows. Nowhere else on your dial would you be able to find programming like "The Bananaphonetics Show," "Butt on Door" or "Forty Minutes to Locate Canada." But it's not just its unique programming that makes WIUX such a diamond in the rough. Part of the beauty of the station is that it is student-run. DJs don't have to answer to "The Man," and the freedom of the station is not compromised by ties to massive media conglomerates. What's more, it gives students interested in the field a unique opportunity to learn the ropes and test out their creative juices before they enter the radio job market. Even so, moving off of an FM frequency does not spell the end for WIUX. The station managed to survive for nearly 40 years as an AM station, and if the FCC has its way, the station will most likely continue much the same as it has in previous years. But honestly, who listens to AM radio anymore? While AM does have a few devotees, we remain fairly confident that significantly more IU students and members of the Bloomington community have their radio dials set to FM than AM. By switching back to AM, WIUX risks losing advertisers and backers. In addition, the station might lose a good portion of its accidental audience, who, unaware of its existence, stumble upon it while flipping between "SexyBack" and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk." So how does the FCC justify this injustice? WIUX is a Low Power FM station, and it is the organization's policy to allow Low Power stations to be kicked off the airwaves if construction of a new station would cause interference with the signal. WIUX has apparently gotten in the way of "Korn Country," a station broadcast out of Columbus, Ind. If the FCC intends to suppress the values of individualism and creativity within the IU community, as well as undermine the years of hard work that the station's staff and supporters put in to obtain their prided FM frequency, then it's on the right path. However, the organization has a duty to serve us, and allowing WIUX to lose its FM frequency would not complete that task. We are confident that this is not the FCC's intent and hope that it will reconsider. Info on petitioning the FCC is available at http://wiux.org/new/public-comment (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) A sad and unfair situation, but IU should have known the terms of LPFM licensing in the first place. BTW, how can an LPFM have ``advertisers``?? (gh, DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 7425 ALGERIA. The National Radio of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, as per ID, 1855, 11/2/06 in Arabic. Noted at fair level Nov. 2 as early as 1855 on this new (?) freq., and again Nov. 5 at 2158, loud with local music (similar to Mauritania`s) to past the hour, then ID by male and news headlines, all related to W. Sahara. Their website still lists 7460, obviously not updated (Victor C. Jaar, QU, Galaxy R530, longwire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ In memory of Rocky (Rod Scribner, Pittston ME, with a donation) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: see CHILE ++++++++++++++++++++ PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ NEW GENEVA PLAN ADDITIONS http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/publications/brific-ter/files/ge75/2006/GE75_114.pdf Nothing of special interest added (Olle Alm, Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Various new MW transmitters from Europe as far as Japan, Guam and Indonesia, but mostly Russia (gh) ###