DX LISTENING DIGEST 6-167, November 8, 2006 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2006 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1335 Fri 2130 WWCR 15825 Sat 1530 WRMI 7385 Sat 1700 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] 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 ** ARGENTINA. RAE, reducción de horarios y frecuencias???? 15345, R. Nacional de Argentina, 2200-2215, escuchada el 7 de noviembre en español con sintonía y locutor anunciando emitir el segundo programa de la RAE a las 2200 UT por 11710 y 15345; esta escucha ha sido realizada con receptor Ten-Tec RX 320, SINPO 45454. Consultando la web de la RAE veo que todavía no ha sido actualizado las emisiones para el período B-06, pero si es verdad lo que anuncia el locutor. estaríamos ante una reducción de horarios y frecuencias de esta emisora, ya que en el período A-06 por ejemplo para esta hora anunciaban tres frecuencias, la de 6060, 11710 y 15345, también que había al menos tres emisiones en español, a las 0600-0900, 0900-1100 y 1900-2100. Sin embargo ahora parece que sólo hay dos. ¿Alguien puede confirmar esta circunstancia? Atentamente (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Nov 8 at 1444 heard talk in unID language on 17610, with QRM from continuous falling chirps (similar to the rising chirps against Greece on 17525 at same time). PWBR ``2007``, just in, claims this is AWR in Arabic (checkerboard) to EAf, but doesn`t sound like Arabic to me! For correct info, went to http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/awr.htm where this is listed as Afar, 7 days a week. BTW, a lot of the B-06 schedules archived at bclnews.it from DXLD and other sources are incomplete so far, but not AWR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17610 1430-1500 zone 48 MOS 300 kW 145 deg Aar language AUT AWR Afar language, http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aar ISO language code is Aar http://www.answers.com/topic/afar-language (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [and non]. RTBF TO LAUNCH DRM TEST TRANSMISSIONS TOMORROW RTBF International, the external service of the French-speaking community in Belgium, will launch test transmissions in DRM mode tomorrow. The station recently invested in two new DRM-capable transmitters. The broadcasts, at 1000-1200 UT, will be on 5925 kHz. (Source: Radiovisie.be) (November 6th, 2006, 16:07 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) 5925 DRM, RTBF Wavre has tests towards NAm in DRM mode from today Nov 7. Noted here in Stuttgart today at 1000-1300 UT approx. Beam towards North America. New DRM equipment from Thales TSW 2100D with 100 kW of power. Thanks to Klaus Schneider, giving the technical details, and correcting the previous wrong info about RTBF DRM mode transmission planned via Junglinster LUX site. Further DRM mode broadcasts heard by yours truly in the 1200-1400 UT slot. AOR 7030, 20 kHz IF out, 12 meters longwire, decode software DREAM v1.6.28 [see DIGITAL BROADCASTING below] VRT - RVI frequencies in B-06 (29/10/2006 - 25/03/2007) [ANALOG:] 0700-0800 13685 0800-0900 9790 1800-1000 5960 1900-2000 6040 (Herbert Meixner, Austria, wwdxc BC-DX Nov 7 via DXLD) From St. Petersburg 13685 0657-0756 27,28,37 S.P 400 kW 215 deg [From Skelton UK] 9790 0800-0900 27,28,37-39 SKN 250 kW 180 deg and two registrations for 5960, one to WEu and another to the Balkans, NE/ME: 5960 1800-1900 27,28,37-39 MSK 250 kW 230 deg 5960 1800-1900 27,28,37-39 SKN 250 kW 120 deg 5960 1900-2000 27,28,37-39 SKN 250 kW 180 deg (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re my report under CUBA of DRM-sounding noise centred at 5925 much earlier in the morning: Nov 8 at 0637, none of this but instead RFI in analog French with IDs in passing. Issoudun is scheduled there from 04 to 07. Coincidentally? Per Wolfgang Büschel, RTBF Wavre Belgium has just started DRM to North America on 5920-5930 but at a later hour, 10-13, which is certainly daring scheduling. Does RTBF really believe a DRM signal can make it to NAm at midday on 50 m, even in winter, when analog will not? Altho updated Nov 8, the DRM schedule at http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC fails to show anything on 5925! Ditto the DRM schedule at http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/dossiers/drm_schedule.html also allegedly updated Nov 8. Don`t the compilers read the Media Network blog?? BTW, that gives time as 10-12 and doesn`t say it`s for NAm, but Wolfie says it`s aimed at NAm; what is the azimuth, exactly? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not necessarily since the original source (at least I assume that this is the original report) http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1548 just speaks about "using a curtain antenna directed towards North America". During the last years of VRT shortwave transmissions from Wavre they ran some transmissions for Europe through curtains built decades ago and originally designed to serve overseas target areas. This was kind of an engineering experiment, but it worked quite good. Perhaps we just have a rerun of this old practice here. DRM schedules fail to show anything on 5925! --- Probably because the referenced drmrx.org posting described it as a one-off on Nov 7 only? By the way, to my knowledge both URLs contain the very same data, compiled by Klaus Schneider (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wavre DRM test. They use the NAm antenna for these tests; that DOES NOT IMPLY, these tests are meant for NAm target. The staff at Wavre are due to test the new Thomson TX equipment and DRM encoding PC features. So they puff and blow their digital towards the Atlantic Ocean. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTBF on 5925 kHz http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1548 RTBF, the Belgian public broadcaster in French, will conduct a test transmission on November 7, 2006 in DRM from 1000-1200 UT on 5925 kHz. This coincides with a press release about RTBF's plans regarding its future plans for digital radio, including podcasts, DAB and DRM. The transmission is originating from the transmitter site in Wavre and will be using a curtain antenna directed towards North America (Ludo Maes, TDPradio - http://www.tdpradio.com DRMstereo - http://www.drmstereo.com (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5680.8, Radio LV del Campesino? (presumido), Sipe sipe, 0735-0810 Nov. 06. Música y locución en vernacular. Son al dar la hora en español. "Faltan 10 minutos para las 4 de la mañana.`` Tema musical Alegre sucreñita. Mencionan direcciones y números telefónicos en Oruro (Rafael Rodríguez R., escuchas realizadas durante el fin de semana pasado, en la localidad de Fomeque, Cundinamarca (90 Km al Suroriente de Bogotá), Colombia, hechas a través el mi Sony ICF 2010 con una antena de hilo largo 30 metros, Nov 7, condig list via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. 720, CHTN off the air --- CHTN-AM has been off the air for a few hours - I believe they have gone dark today as the three months was up November 3, 2006. I was listening to 720 Greenland on the car radio, and then again on my Zenith Trans-symphony. WOR is an easy catch as is CKAC. Tonight I will try for WGN (Phil Rafuse, PEI, 2150 UT Nov 8, ABDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. One may still hear the harmonica fill music at times on RCI, such as 1630 UT Nov 7 in the middle of the only Sounds Like Canada hour from CBC that RCI still carries, on 17820, also 13655, 9515. I believe I have also heard Claude Garden`s harmonica music on RCI1 webcasts (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. So what do Ontarians think about the "new" RCI? Figuring this group is largely Canadian, I figure I'd pose the question here regarding the new RCI, with its new mandate of serving the immigrant and prospective immigrant communities. Is this a proper activity for an international broadcaster? Or is this a mandate that should better be carried out by a different governmental entity or broadcaster? From the perspective of this American who has close ties to Canada, I'm intrigued by the change... my own (admittedly) limited listening so far leaves me feeling like the program is "watery" -- like Radio Japan's programming -- avoiding key issues of domestic importance and global relevance. I am probably not RCI's target demographic, however, as I tend to listen to the domestic CBC programming mwore than RCI's, anyway. So what do others think? (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Nov 7, ODXA via DXLD) For those of us concerned with the larger picture, all this stuff about new immigrants to Canada gets old fast. It`s far too specialized for a world audience, meriting maybe half an hour a week. RCI programming has gone off the deep end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. For some reason, CBC's website is experiencing technical difficulties. All queries are redirected to basic page offering news headlines, accompanied with this note: "CBC.ca is experiencing technical difficulties, and we're currently working to restore the site to normal. Until that happens, in an effort to offer a basic level of service, we are providing this scaled-back version of the site, featuring today's top news stories. We're sorry for any inconvenience, and we hope to have the site back to normal soon." (Ricky Leong, Calgary AB, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The CBC Website is slowly returning to normal as of 9:30 AM Eastern Time [1430 UT], but the audio streams still don't seem to be working (Sandy Finlayson, USA, Nov 7 swprograms via DXLD) Audio still not working at 1712: checked CBC Radio 1 St. John`s, Vancouver, and CBC Radio 2 mp3 (gh, DXLD) The official launch of the "RCI Viva" website was today; that might have precipitated the outages Ricky L and Sandy F referred to... See http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2006/07/c9629.html (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Nov 7, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) Dan Say wrote:``Oh,wait! That only applies to TV drama, not to radio, Mansbridge and other so-called news, nor Country Canada. at http://www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/journal/?p=128 7 November 2006 dark [filesystem] days at CBC.ca Filed under: Workplace -- jdunn @ 6:20 pm It's been a rough 48 hours for those of us at CBC.ca Operations. As you can see from the posted notice, a failure of the primary storage device hosting most of the site's content has knocked out most of the website. Tod Maffin has posted a reasonably complete explanation on Inside The CBC, and I'm thankful for that. At the time of writing, the main volume containing the site content is still offline and fscking with no known ETA. Originally I wasn't going to say anything more about the outage, because Tod's given an adequate update in his entry, and any speculation about the root cause of the outage (whether technical or managerial), and how soon it might be before we can restore service is just that -- speculation. But some of the comments that have been posted on the above entry are just astounding and prompted me to write. While I am happy that many technical geeks are amongst our most enthusiastic audience members, I find the glib attitude of many of them with respect to operating the site to be very disturbing and upsetting. For example, a poster named Matt writes: That is a terrible network design - storing all the files on a single NAS (or even on the same cluster). A site such as CBC.ca should have multi-mirrored servers at different locations each providing access if one cluster goes kaput. You`d think with the 150(!) union employees running cbc.ca they`d have one light bulb smart enough to figure this out. It's very easy to be an armchair sysadmin and wave a magic wand to make redundancy and extra storage devices appear out of thin air. The trouble is that many of us who work in CBC.ca Operations have been saying many of these things for years, but for a variety of reasons (one of which is money, of course) nothing has been done. Comments like this denigrate the integrity and dedication of all of the folks that work at CBC.ca and make it sound like nobody knows what they're doing. I have but one plea for everyone, both internal and external to CBC.ca: instead of pointing fingers and engaging in "what if" or "should have" discussions, let's all work together to a) recover from this failure and restore service to Canadians, and b) build the proper infrastructure with the right redundancy, capacity, etc. to ensure something like this never happens again. ----------------- dozens of rude comments referred to above at http://www.insidethecbc.com/platforms/website/websiteupdate/ (alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Well, streaming is back on UT Thursday at 0105 for Ideas, 2006y Massey Lexures in progress from Atlantic zone http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/ And also for Dead Dog in the City via Winnipeg at 0230 (gh, DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. R. Centrafrique again popped up on 7220 this morning, Nov 07. Frequency was clear as soon as co/channel RL left at 0559, then at 0608 Bangui appeared with French news already in progress, at least 2 mentions of "Radio Centrafrique" (rather than Centrafricaine), item on "produits agricoles" to 0613 when they continued in French although I am not quite sure whether there wasn't any vernacular, fading but still audible 0640, then lost as adjacent DW 7210 and RJ 7230 produced too much splatter. I presume that settles the dispute, this is not RFI Hausa! (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here`s the previous missing item: Hi Glenn, Re 7220. I'm still not convinced this is RFI rather than Bangui. Checked again this morning, Nov 04, and found them opening abruptly in midsentence at 0605. I definitely heard French, program consisted of news and on-the-spot reports to 0615 then into vernacular? fading out but still audible past 0645. Does anyone actually hear RFI Hausa here? Will keep my ears open in next few days (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 15540, CRI Beijing via Santiago relay. English, feature on European retailer selling Chinese goods. 1330 UT on Oct 31, 43443 (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Algarve cliff coast, Portugal, wwdxc BC-DX Oct 29-Nov 4 via DXLD) Yet the next day, as reported in 6-163, I still heard this on the A-06 frequency 17625. They must be confused about which one to use (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. Hi folks, Until this morning I thought I might have had an opportunity to visit China and (perhaps) see for myself one of Radio Beijing's SW transmitter sites, but it's not to be. The story is as follows:- Upon my return to Sydney this week I received a letter & parcel saying that I had won first prize in the 'Get to Know CRI' Quiz. My thoughts were that the winner of the highest prize (1st prize) was a 7 day trip to China. Here's me getting all excited and a little confused. Unfortunately as I discovered today, first prize is not the top prize. The top prize is above the first prize, so my first prize is really second prize & 2nd prize effectively becomes 3rd prize... Still I'm very grateful for the beautiful gift. Then, later today in our early evening I'm greeted on the telephone by Radio Taiwan International who gave me a call as a result of recently being awarded listener of the month where I was interviewed about my visit to Taiwan earlier in the year. All this after a day of doing shopping in many of Sydney's small Chinese stores & supermarkets. Some days it's just all China, though as far as I know I'm not 'Made in China' - be it the R.O.C or the P.R.C (yet).... :-P For the record I guess my interview will appear on a future edition of RTI's - 'We've Got Mail!' program. Does anyone know who won the CRI quiz - a DXer??? I haven't seen it announced on the CRI website as yet. Evening all. ZaiJyen (Goodbye in Mandarin) (Ian Baxter, Nov 8, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9820, Guangxi Foreign BC Station (presumed), Nov 8, 1455- 1535, QRM from AIR-Panaji (1500*), after 1500 certainly sounded like listed Vietnamese programming, weak. Mixing again with AIR at *1530. EiBi lists Xian here with CBR/CNR-2 from 1230-1600 UT, but they do not list English from 1300-1400 UT, for "English Evening" (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GOA ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake against Sound of Hope, poor with flutter at 1634 Nov 7 on 10400 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chinese talk with severe echo from two unsynchronized transmitters (or, who knows, one transmitter broadcasting such an audio mixture), Nov 8 at 1420 on 9605. This is no accident as it is obviously to jam the BBC Mandarin service via Yamata, Japan scheduled on 9605 at 1100- 1530. Similar situation on 9680, mixed with Taiwan, Indonesia. Why does the BBC put up with this? Why is there no diplomatic or economic action taken against China in retaliation for such gross abuse of the spectrum and for the human right of the Chinese people to hear news from abroad? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5587.9, RADIO JUVENTUD? (presumido), Pasto. 2247-2335 Nov. 04. Música colombiana, Bambucos y pasillos, luego de las 2300 música instrumental internacional, para luego de las 2330 volver con música colombiana. No hay anuncios ni identificaciones (Rafael Rodríguez R., escuchas realizadas durante el fin de semana pasado, en la localidad de Fomeque, Cundinamarca (90 Km al Suroriente de Bogotá), Colombia, hechas a través el mi Sony ICF 2010 con una antena de hilo largo 30 metros, Nov 7, condig list via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. Tue Nov 7 at 0709 MCW spy letter transmission started on 5930. I was already tuned to the area because I was trying to figure out the kind of noise I was hearing from 5920 to 5930, like a swarm of bees, different pitch than the usual DRM, but perhaps it was a DRM variant. Caused QRM to 5930 and 5920. Nothing, however, on the current DRM schedules on 5925, nor on 5920 at this hour. Which is not conclusive, since we know these schedules are not inclusive. [Later:] Aha, maybe it was Belgium, q.v. testing DRM earlier than scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Nov 7 at 0702 on 6060, announcer introducing Teatro de la Opera. Must be R. Musical Nacional CMBF relay via RHC, of variable duration, which is never in published schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Saludos: Aqui va nuestro horario B-06, el cual implementaremos en los próximos dias. Pudiera tener algún cambio menor, pero en esencia este es la versión "definitiva"... Ya empezamos, afortunadamente, a hacer uso del nuevo campo de antenas del Centro Transmisor de Bauta, en donde contamos con Cortinas de Dipolos HR 4, 4, 0,8 de alta ganancia, capaces de operar desde 5.8 a 22 megaHertz (cada antena tiene "dos cortinas", una para las frecuencias bajas hasta 12 MHz y la otra para las frecuencias altas hasta 22 MHz.) Tenemos también trabajando los 6 nuevos transmisores de 100 kW de potencia, altamente eficientes desde el punto de vista del uso de la energia eléctrica, pues emplean el sistema de modulación por pasos de pulsos ( PSM ) con rotación aleatoria de las fuentes de alimentación individuales para igualar su utilizacion. Además, ya acabamos de instalar el enlace desde los estudios por medio de un cable de fibra óptica, lo que hace que la calidad del audio y la fiabilidad del enlace hayan experimentado una gran mejoría. En espera de acuse de recibo, atentamente Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich, Radio Habana Cuba Radio Habana Cuba Período B-06 Horarios (frecuencias, potencia de transmisor, horarios, acimut de la antena y área de cobertura primaria) [as provided, not in strict time or frequency order, some azimuths missing, cleaned up somewhat by gh and accentuated] 6180 100 11-13 010 Costa Este de América del Norte (Costa Atlántica) 15370 100 13-15 010 Costa Este de América del Norte (Costa Atlántica) [suspect this is a typo for present frequency 13750 --- gh, WOR 1335] 9600 100 11-13 340 Centro de América del Norte 13680 100 13-15 340 Centro de América del Norte 9550 100 11-15 160 Cono Sur y Centro de Sur América 11760 100 11-15 Omnidireccional Norte, Centro, Sur América y el Caribe 11805 100 11-15 130 Sur América Este y Centro 12000 100 11-15 010 Costa Este de América del Norte (Costa Atlántica) 6000 250 11-14 Omnidireccional Norte, Centro América y el Caribe 15230 250 11-15 160 Sur América Este y Centro y Cono Sur 5965 100 2130-05 Omnidireccional, Norte, Centro América y el Caribe 6060 100 00-07 010 Norte América Costa Este (Costa Atlántica ) 6180 100 2230-07 340 Norte América Centro 9550 100 21-05 130 Sur América Este 9550 100 05-07 315 Norte América Costa del Pacífico 9600 100 00-05 160 Sur América Costa Este (Atlántico) Cono Sur 11760 100 20-22 Omnidireccional Norte, Centro América y el Caribe 11760 100 00-07 Omnidireccional Norte, Centro América y el Caribe 6000 250 2230-05 010 Norte América Costa Este (Costa Atlántica) 6000 250 05-07 315 Norte América Costa del Pacífico 11875 250 23-05 170 Sur América Costa Oeste (Pacífico) Cono Sur 15230 250 21-05 160 Sur América Costa Este Atlántico Cono Sur 6140 50 00-05 Norte, Centro América y el Caribe 9505 50 20-23 Caribe 11800 100 20-23 Caribe 15340 50 21-00 130 Sur América Costa Este y Centro (Arnaldo Coro A., CO2KK, Nov 7, condig list via WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DXLD) The RHC B-06 schedule distributed by Arnie Coro contains an entry which I suspect is a transposition typo: ``15370`` at 13-15 UT in Spanish. Nov 8 at 1424 check I am still hearing Fidel on the original frequency (which does not appear in the new schedule), 13750. And that was added only a few weeks ago. On 15370 there is a weak signal from something else, probably VOA Russian via Morocco. Also, since I happened to tune across RHC 11760 just as they were signing off the morning broadcast, I copied the moldie oldie frequency info they keep giving incorrectly in Spanish, at 1457 Nov 8: to resume at ``7 pm Hora Normal de Cuba en 15230, 11705, 11760, 9550, 6000`` That means 0000 UT. However, the new schedule distributed by Arnie Coro shows Spanish transmissions resume already at 2100-2300 on 9550 and 11800. And from 0000 on many frequencies, the correct list being 15230, 11875, 11760, 9600, 6180, 6140, 6060, 6000 and 5965! I assume all these are just meaningless numbers to the studio producers, so why bother to update them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) B-06 Radio Habana Cuba, horario sujeto a variaciones, puede enviarlo a HCDX All broadcasts from Radio Habana Cuba between 1100 and 1500 are in Spanish --- All broadcasts between 05 and 07 are in English. Now here are the other languages that we broadcast at different times: [this time with kW power but no azimuths; gh removed all the clutter] Esperanto (only Sundays) 11760 100 1500-1530 and 1930-2000 9600 100 2330-0000 (2400 ) 6140 50 2330-0000 (2400 ) 6000 250 0700-0730 Portuguese 11800 100 2000-2030 15340 50 2200-2230 and 2300-2330 15230 250 2300-0000 (2400) Kreyol (Creole) 5965 100 2130-2200 and 2230-2300 and 2330-0000 (2400) 9505 50 2130-2200 and 2230-2300 9550 100 0100-0130 Guarani 15340 50 2230-2300 and 2330-0000 (2400) Quechua 15340 50 0000-0030 Arabic 11800 100 2030-2100 French 11760 100 2000-2030 and 2130-2200 9550 100 0000-0030 and 0030-0100 and 0130-0200 5965 100 2200-2230 and 2300-2330 English 6000 100 0100-0700 6060 100 0100-0700 6180 100 0100-0700 9505 50 2030-2130 9550 100 2300-0000 (2400) and 0500-0700 11760 100 2030-2130 and 0500-0700 Spanish All frequencies 1100-1500 And then starting 2100 as follows 5965 100 0000-0500 6000 100 0000-0100 6060 100 0000-0100 6140 50 0000-0500 6180 100 0000-0100 9550 100 2100-2300 9600 100 0000-0500 11760 100 0000-0500 11800 100 2100-2300 11875 250 0000-0500 15230 250 0000-0500 The languages that Radio Habana Cuba is broadcasting are 9 at this moment: Spanish English French Portuguese Arabic Kreyol (Creole) Quechua Guarani Esperanto -- The Esperanto broadcasts are on the air once a week. Other languages are on the air on a daily basis (Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich, Consultant-Advisor to the Director General, Radio Habana Cuba, ICRT, via José Miguel Romero, Noticias DX via DXLD) ** CUBA. Cuba FMs to employ RDS & IBOC --- I was just reading on the Minister of Communications website for Cuba this evening that in 2007 they plan to go nationwide with the use of RDS & IBOC. I understand that they have already been using RDS with some of their larger networks from La Habana. I presume the rollout with IBOC will begin with the La Habana stations and their networks. So I suppose even Fidel is interested in HD quality fm sound! :-) And I know a few guys that will welcome the extended use of RDS for DXing! (Jim Thomas - wdx0fbu, Milliken, CO - 40 mi N of Denver, Honing the fine art of meteor scatter dx! 40.22.830'N 104.59.500'W Nov 6, WTFDA via DXLD) But IBOC from Cuba on MW? O, no! If this be completely implemented, jamming foreign stations will be much more effective (gh, DXLD) Just how do they expect to do it? More correctly, how does iBiquity plan to circumvent the ban on trade with Cuba. They barely can sell medical supplies to Cuba, let alone radio gear (Craig Healy, Providence, RI, WTFDA via DXLD) My guess is they (Cuba), are cozying up with some other country as a go-between to get the technology (perhaps a South American country, like Uruguay). The website didn't allude to how they will accomplish it, but I'm sure there are one or two sympathetic nations that would help them out. I'm not sure of other countries that are *black-listed* with the US that might be *friends* with Cuba - but then, I'm trying to stay clear of politics here and just share a bit of radio news that's within DXing distance (Jim Thomas - wdx0fbu Milliken, CO - 40 mi N of Denver, ibid.) That's another reason why I was wondering whether it was IBOC or another HD technology - something that works better, is in use in lots of countries and is more easily available. IBOC ? DRM ?? Something else ?? I really wasn't aware that any other country was even pursuing IBOC (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, ibid.) Brazil is, on MW and FM (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) I'm not sure it's that simple. I believe the iBiquity business model requires an ongoing yearly payment. Funneling through a third party would still attract the attention of the US government. iBiquity itself could end up in hot water if the are perceived as allowing this. Given the Cuban disregard for any allocation cooperation at all, I'd think it would create a huge mess, especially on AM. There are people who have advocated the 24 hour use of IBOC to prove the damaging effects at night. Fidel/Raúl may give them that proof - without a way to shut it off. I also don't see how some of the antiquated transmitters they have could be retrofitted with the IBOC exciters. The politics I'm mentioning are only in the context of treaties and business practices. No flag waving of any kind intended. Hmmm (Craig Healy, Providence, RI, ibid.) I'm not convinced they're talking about IBOC. What I found on the Ministry of Information website says: "Ello garantizará mayor calidad, confiabilidad e incremento de nuevos servicios de valor añadido como la transmisión de datos RDS y DARC en la banda de FM." I'm having trouble finding a definition of "DARC" - in Spain, digital radio is called "DAB" (as it is in most of Europe). I would strongly suspect Cuba would use the Eureka system, for which it could easily acquire equipment from European or Asian suppliers without dealing with U.S. export restrictions. Also note that it says "...en la banda de FM."; whatever they mean by DARC, they don't plan to use it on their large AM transmitters. The page seems to be touting a transmission modernization plan, which includes: - Improving and modernizing the TV transmission centers. - Expansion of Canal Educativo to cover the entire country. (this may involve new low-band VHF transmitters) - Reorganizing AM stations to provide a more efficient use of the technology. - Further development of FM service. (more Es targets!) - Installation of automation and remote control equipment for transmitter sites. - Expansion of the coverage of the country's national, provincial, and local radio and TV networks, especially on the Isla de la Juventud. The original I'm looking at is on http://www.mic.gov.cu/HThemEmp.aspx?5 OK, I've used up my limited Spanish (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66, ibid.) It may well be the DRM used on shortwave. They have expanded the use to include VHF. That would be a Good Thing. It appears to be a much more robust and spectrum-friendly technology than IBOC. If Cuba does do heavy integration of the Digital Radio Mondial as used in Europe, it may open the door for digital DX in this hemisphere. Ironic that Cuba should show us the way (Craig Healy, Providence, RI, ibid.) ** CUBA. Three carriers of Radio Rebelde 1180 --- While hunting for KOFI [Montana], I noticed tonight 11/6 that Radio Rebelde has at least three carriers because of the echos heard. I heard one loud station and two other weaker stations which following within one second. So much for being in sync. Can a DXer closer to Cuba confirm or refute this? (Bill Harms, Elkrdige, Maryland, Nov 6, mwdx yg via DXLD) In this case, I am sure the dentrocubanos want them to be unsynchronized, to discourage people from axually listening to 1180, since the real purpose of transmitters there is to jam Radio Martí (gh, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005 UNID ! station in Spanish and some vernacular in between, and some occasional government jamming signal in between. Continuous playing very fast rap/pop music and some Spanish announcement in between. Noted around 1700-2000 UT onwards. After listening each afternoon/night between 29th and Nov 3rd, I realized that Radio Nacional de Bata produces such strange program content like an European pirate station. It`s 'disastrous' in our ears. Sinpo 34443 on Oct 29th and also the following nights. Bata news at 1934-1938 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Algarve cliff coast, Portugal, wwdxc BC-DX Oct 29-Nov 4 via DXLD) ** FRANCE [non]. RFI English, 15160 via South Africa, fair with flutter, discussing colonialism with French accent at 1634 Nov 7. Nothing audible on // 15605 direct from France in the skirts of that awful buzz from KTBN 15590 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Cf BELGIUM [and non] --- Regular programming I understand? Reportedly their Berlin frequency carried yesterday RFI Musique instead. I did not get a notice so far about the situation today (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did not listen long, but I believe there was talk besides the ID, not music (gh, DXLD) The RFI strike continued on Tuesday, though some newscasts aired. Agence France Presse reported union workers met Tuesday and agreed to continue the strike until a meeting scheduled for 1400 UTC Wednesday. One union (FO) announced plans for a 24-hour work stoppage beginning Wednesday at 2300 UTC. Officials of RFI declined to comment to AFP (Mike Cooper, Nov 7, DXLD) ** GOA. Re 6-166, CHINA [and CHINA above]: Checking out report of China being heard in Tulsa OK on 9820, Nov 7 at 1357, I tuned in to hear a man talking, definitely not in Mandarin, right across hourtop. 1405 some music I would classify as South Asian, not Chinese. This was only a poor signal with heavy flutter, but modulation seemed to be OK. Possibly at times there was another station underneath. At 1417 more SAs music, no CCI audible. 1430 missed hourbottom as I was tuned to REE 17595 which does run an automatic timesignal then. At 1449, 9820 had chanting going up and down, up and down only a few notes. Off promptly at 1500. Altho I could not get a definite ID nor be sure of the language, I believe this is AIR Sinhala service as scheduled, via Goa, which I have also heard a number of times before, rather than anything from China on 9820. There were no commercials, jingles, English bits or over-production typical of CNR now. However, perhaps things are different earlier in the 1300 hour, and of course conditions can vary widely from one day to the next. Goa is close to a transpolar signal from here. See also my Nov 1 log in 6-163 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 06 November follow. Solar flux 84 and mid-latitude A-index 3. The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 07 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) Hi Glenn, Thanks for listening in to 9820. Seems like another interesting frequency. If I have a chance I will tune in to the 1400+ UTC time period, to see if CBR/CNR-2 is gone by then and taken over by another station(s). Checking out something like this makes DX’ing fun. Thanks again for your feedback (Ron Howard, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another check of 9820, Nov 8 at 1414: going from S. Asian talk to music, flutter, perhaps some weak co-channel under. The main 9820 signal dumped off the air for a few seconds several times, but so briefly I could not be sure there was anything else on frequency. I then checked the listed // for AIR Sinhala service, 15050, and indeed it was also audible and // but better on 9820. So that clinches what I am hearing on 9820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9820, AIR Panaji, Nov 8, *1530-1535, suddenly on with AIR ID, YL with ``The news at nine`` in English. Probably them at 1455-1500* with chanting/singing. Both segments had QRM from assume Guangxi. Thanks to Glenn for the tip (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. John, Did you hear and confirm the English UT Mon at 0030- 0130? I forgot to check (Glenn to John Babbis, via DXLD) Glenn: I did only reception checks at 0000, 0100, and 0200 UT Monday and they started at 0000 with news. If George showed up for his opening at 0030, I missed him. Usually, the disc-jockey type music just keeps on going for the whole hour with no introductions by him. We'll have to keep a closer watch on what he does at 0030-0130 this coming week. All of Voice of Greece's web sites with the program summary in Greek and English seem to be down. The only Greek version needs the Winzip or Winrar (paying sites to install in your computer). Voice of Greece usually mails me a printed copy in Greek. This is the VOG web site. http://www.voiceofgreecegr/program.asp Regards, (John Babbis, MD, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ENGLISH PROGRAMMING ON THE VOICE OF GREECE To: The Program Director of The Voice of Greece Dear Zenobia Surible: Zhnobia Suriblh [copying the original Greek spelling to MS Word came out this way. Why does it convert lower-case etas to h`s?? --- gh] When The Voice of Greece directs its broadcasts to the Americas in the evening hours, I am sure that many first-generation, as well as newly- immigrant Greeks, would be grateful if you could increase the English- language content of your programs; especially at the beginning hour of the program. What I have in mind is a scenario encompassing the following: Continue the pre-opening announcement: "This is Athens, you are listening to The Voice of Greece; Edo Athena, E Phoni Tis Elladas" At 0000 UTC, make the following announcement: "This is The Voice of Greece broadcasting from Athens on short-wave radio from 0000 to 0300 UTC on the frequencies of 7475 and 9420 MegaHertz to North America, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean; and on 12105 MegaHertz to South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Panama Zone, and Africa. in the 41, 31, and 25 meter bands. We are also on the Internet in live audio at http://www.ert.gr Following the news in English and Greek, we will continue with (Sunday) Greeks Everywhere in English with Katerina Thanasoula (Monday) A Musical Broadcast in English with George Frantzeakakis (Tuesday) Tourism in Athens in English (Wednesday) Tourism in Thessaloniki in English (Thursday) Tourism in a Greek village in English (Friday) Tourism on a Greek island in English (Saturday) The Mailman-ERA 5 radio mail followed by Sports Roundup" Here is the news in English.... News in Greek.... English features" Regards, (John Babbis, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, via DXLD) ** HAWAII. SPECIAL REPORT: DXING IN OAHU AFTER THE QUAKE --- By Dale Park Following are loggings made in the aftermath of the 6.7-Richter scale earthquake that struck Hawaii October 15 at 7:08 am (1308 ELT) [1708 UT], followed a few minutes later by a 5.8 aftershock. Fortunately, the quakes only caused isolated damage to Oahu, but it was the island- wide blackout that occurred about 7:11 that riled everybody. The failure that occurred when the earthquake hit triggered a shutdown of Hawaiian Electric’s three power plants a few minutes later (and three minutes before the aftershock). The power failure at my home lasted until 11:20 PM (10/16 0520 ELT [0920 UT]), 16 hours later. Blackouts also occurred on the Big Island and Maui, but most of those islands` power was restored within a few hours. Initially the stations in Honolulu that stayed on were KSSK AM 590 and FM 92.3 and KUCD-FM 101.9, followed later by KRTR 650 and KKNE 940. KHNR 870 came on later only to go off again, but sister station KHUI-FM 99.5 remained on in the afternoon. Listening equipment: Sangean ATS-818CS, Terk AM1000 loop, lots of candles. Station News During/After the Quake (Times in ELT [add 4 hours for UT; however, if the quake had happened in Nov 5, hours would be added. The absurdity of timing events in HI to the clock in NY never escapes me but the Hawaiians seem to have no trouble going along with it -- gh]): 590, KSSK HI Honolulu. 10/15 1341. Station finally broke into a pre- taped interview to begin live coverage of the island-wide power failure. Station is designated as the main information station for state Civil Defense and has its own emergency generator. Programming was relayed on sister stations KSSK-FM 92.3 and KUCD-FM 101.9. Also noted on, but with automated music, were KRTR 650 and KKNE 940; both switched to live broadcast during the 1500 hour. (DP-HI) 620, KIPA(SX) HI Kalaoa. 10/15 1512. Synchro of KIPA 620 Hilo. Noted on with man saying due to the earthquake station was running off generator power from their transmitter site (in Hilo) and that they would have to go off; soon they went back to ABC Radio satellite standards. Surprised this relay would be on, as it`s located by the Keahole airport about 25 miles from the epicenter. (DP-HI) 870, KHNR HI Honolulu. 10/15 1637. Noted back on the air with earthquake and blackout news // KGMZ-FM 107.9, but were off the air in the afternoon and most of the evening. The transmitter is supposed to be on Molokai, but since stations on Maui also went off the air, it’s hard to tell whether they`re there or have moved to Oahu. (DP-HI) 1460, KHRA HI Honolulu. Still off the air after the blackout as of 10/25; spokeswoman says they are trying to fix the problem. (DP-HI) (Dale Park, HI, NRC E DX News Nov 6 via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR, 9425 with news in English at 1540 Nov 8, G signal, clear modulation and good enunciation, but some flutter. This is the 9 pm English news on the domestic service at 1530-1545 UT on a great many AIR frequencies, but this one from what used to be called Bangalore at 18 degrees is best here. YL newscaster reporting on US elexions referred to the ``two chambers of parliament`` and mentioned ``parliament`` again later. It seems the World`s Largest Democracy has only a dim understanding of the system in the World`s Oldest Democracy. Perhaps ``Congress`` is a dirty word there, or construed as partisan? Just for that, ignorant Americans should refer to India as having provinces rather than states (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GOA ** INDONESIA. Re 6-166, RRI Biak reactivated: Yes. Nov. 4 at 0830 UT on 4920 kHz (Sei-ichi Hasegawa, Japan, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Voice of Indonesia: Hi Glenn, While still at Don's yesterday we monitored this using the 4-30 MHz Log periodic pointed at downtown Jakarta. Voice of Indonesia 9525 kHz 1853 UT in German. S/off announcement, freq, times, addresses, etc., to 1902 when an English ID was followed by programming in French. Signal was Excellent. 1903 UT noticed TWR Swaziland s/on with IS well under VoI. 2000 UT killed by someone s/on on 9520 and then CRI on 9525. Did manage to hear the English s/on announcement at 2002 but could [not] bear to listen any further due to all the splatter. We did notice English IDs at times during the previous language segments. Nothing noted on 15149v at this time. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI, 9525, not checked until 1627 Nov 7, and it was a big open carrier, not much hum, covering something much weaker with talk. Previously Suara Indonesia had been heard with Arabic during this hour on 9525, at least at the start of it (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525, VOI, Nov 8, at 1547 continuous loop (music & English ID). 9680, RRI Jakarta, Nov 8 (Wed.), 1001-1021, KGRE program #5307, idioms: ``Train of thought`` and ``Ships that pass in the night``, pop songs by Veronicas (young Aussies who are identical twins), WYFR not heard at all (what happened to them, not that I am complaining?). Fair (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Winter B-06 Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI/IRIB): [does this differ from previously published versions???] ALBANIAN 0630-0727 13810 15235 1830-1927 6100 7165 2030-2127 6100 9740 ARABIC 0230-0427 7350 13790 13800 0330-0427 7250 9505 "V. of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" 0430-0527 13790 13800 0530-1427 13790 13800 15545 1430-1627 15545 1630-0227 6065 ARMENIAN 0300-0327 7295 0930-0957 9695 15260 1630-1727 6185 7230 AZERI 0330-0527 9865 1430-1657 6200 BENGALI 0030-0127 5905 6185 0830-0927 11705 1430-1527 5910 7295 7330 BOSNIAN 0530-0627 13760 15235 1730-1827 5945 7295 2130-2227 5950 9710 CHINESE 1200-1257 9895 11670 13645 15150 2330-0027 7130 7325 9635 DARI 0300-0627 9875 13740 0830-1427 9940 13720 1430-1457 9940 ENGLISH 0130-0227 6120 7160 "Voice of Justice" 1030-1127 15460 17660 1530-1627 6160 7330 1930-2027 6010 *6250 7320 9855 11695 GERMAN 0730-0827 15085 17590 1730-1827 6200 *6250 7185 FRENCH 0630-0727 13710 15425 1830-1927 *6250 6180 7380 9565 HAUSA 0600-0657 15435 17810 1830-1927 5950 7335 HEBREW 0430-0457 9820 11925 1200-1227 13740 15390 HINDI 0230-0257 13725 15165 1430-1527 7360 9710 ITALIAN 0630-0727 *7545 13620 15085 1930-1957 5910 7380 JAPANESE 1300-1327 9510 9640 2100-2127 6145 7185 KAZAKH 0130-0227 7135 7265 1300-1357 9660 11745 KURDISH 0330-0427 3945 6145 Sorrani dialect 1330-1427 5990 Kirmanji dialect 1430-1527 5990 Sorrani dialect 1530-1627 5990 Kirmanji dialect MALAY 1230-1327 15200 17570 2230-2327 5945 7255 PASHTO 0230-0327 6095 6140 0730-0827 11990 15440 1230-1327 6175 7170 11870 1430-1527 3945 1630-1727 6005 6015 RUSSIAN 0300-0327 6040 7125 0500-0527 12025 15530 17680 17780 1430-1527 *6250 7165 9575 9735 1700-1757 3985 7170 1800-1857 6035 7305 1930-2027 3985 7205 SPANISH 0030-0227 9680 0530-0627 13710 15320 2030-2127 7130 7350 SWAHILI 0330-0427 13640 15260 0830-0927 15240 17660 1730-1827 6130 7345 TAJIK 0100-0227 5955 6175 1600-1727 5945 5955 TURKISH 0430-0557 12060 13750 1600-1727 7125 7310 URDU 0130-0227 3945 6010 6190 1330-1427 6175 9835 12005 1530-1727 3945 1730-1757 6005 6130 7225 UZBEK 0230-0257 6040 6175 1500-1557 5945 7215 VARIOUS 1500-2057 #7410 DRM 2100-0457 #7440 DRM * via Sitkunai, Lithuania # not yet active (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 7 via DXLD) So DRM will be direct from IRAN? (gh) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. GROUP FOR MISSING JAPANESE 'DISTURBED' BY GOVERNMENT RADIO PLAN 11/06/2006 08:38:23 AM EST Japan Economic Newswire TOKYO, Nov. 6_(Kyodo) _ A private group that runs a radio broadcast service in hopes of finding missing Japanese in North Korea on Monday criticized the government's plan to order Japan Broadcasting Corp., the country's public broadcaster better known as NHK, to feature the abduction issue in its shortwave radio broadcasts. "To be honest with you, we're disturbed" by the government's move, Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea, said at a news conference in Tokyo. "We are grateful if it means support for Shiokaze, but nothing has been explained to us...It has even been misunderstood that we requested (such a government order)," he added. Shiokaze refers to the shortwave radio service Araki's group is running and which was launched in October 2005 to call on North Koreans to provide information on Japanese nationals abducted to the communist country or others missing in a bid to rescue them. Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga plans to ask the Radio Regulatory Council, a ministry panel, on Tuesday to discuss whether NHK should emphasize the abduction issue in its shortwave radio service aimed at overseas listeners. The ministry's plan has come in for criticism over its implications for freedom of the press, and on Monday the Japan Congress of Journalists, an association of journalists working in Japan, issued a statement protesting at the move. The group called on the panel not to grant a broadcast order to NHK, saying, "Ordering specific and individual (broadcast) subjects violates the freedom of expression and the press guaranteed under the Constitution." It also asked the public broadcaster to maintain independence from government interference. Article 33 of the Broadcast Law stipulates that the communications minister can order NHK to conduct international broadcasting by designating broadcast matters, but critics say ordering the broadcast of specific subjects, such as the abductions, could infringe on NHK's editorial rights. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, known for his firm stance on North Korea, recently instructed his Cabinet members to take measures to resolve the abduction issue and has defended the plan. Copyright (c) 2006 Kyodo News International, Inc. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Can anyone confirm whether in B-06 Shiokaze is still running at 1300- 1330 on 9485, and the other broadcast? (gh, DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. R. Vilnius, 9825, English to NAm at 0030, terrible reception. I can`t hear if they have another transmission. With very bad propagation, fade, QRN and co-channel/adjacent QRM, it`s been very tough to locate and confirm frequencies (Bob Thomas, Bridgeport CT, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Last B-season the other English from Vilnius was at 2330 on 7325; now also have 7325 and 9735 available after 0100 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** MALAYSIA. 7295, Traxx FM (RTM), Nov 8, 1553-1604, DJ Lady Kay with her Wed. program ``Whatever Latin``, with pop songs, IDs for Traxx FM, address given (``Traxx FM, P.O. Box 11272 ...``), ToH 2 pips, into news, weak. They have completely changed the look of their website: http://www.traxxfm.net/index.php but ``listen live`` did not work for me (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 11960, 1530 UT 11/07/06. Initially in French. At 1600, drums followed by local dialect. Clear ID calling 'Radio Mali' by male several times at 1622 followed by what looks like world news in local dialect with words like Saddam, Beirut etc. Very good signal in south India (Manikant Lodaya, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. XEOI Radio Mil interferencia Radio Suecia Deseo saber si alguno de los amigos ha escuchado a Radio Suecia principalmente aquí en Norteamérica en los 6010 kHz entre las 2300 y las 0300 UT, ya que aquí en la Cd. de México ha desaparecido la intensa interferencia de Radio Suecia sobre Radio Mil. Solo se escucha un ruido de fondo. Hace un año y medio solicitamos al representante de R. Suecia en la reunión de la HFCC reconsideraran el empleo de los 6010 kHz ya que, este causaba a XEOI Radio Mil una importante interferencia en la tarde noche de México. Definitivamente cuando uno trata con emisoras serias y respetuosas hemos podido a través de los años obtener respuestas positivas en caso de interferencia en los 6010 kHz; así ha sido el caso de la RAI, BBC, Radio Nederland, incluso Radio República. Lamentablemente existen aún emisoras como la irónicamente llamada "La Voz de Tu Conciencia" que no conocen el respeto aún a pesar del supuesto mensaje cristiano y de paz que presumen emitir, y que ha causado a Radio Mil un gran perjuicio con su interferencia.En espera de sus comentarios, (Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, Nov 7, to gh, various lists, and to Conciencia, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Julian, No lo he probado pero se permanece en el horario B-06 solo entre las 02 y 04 via Canadá en sueco e ingles: 0200-0230 NAM daily 6010sa-268 0230-0300 NAM daily 6010sa-268 0300-0330 NAM daily 6010sa-277 0330-0400 NAM daily 6010sa-277 No parece haber nada más en la frecuencia desde el Hemisferio Occidental por parte de emisoras mayores. 73, (Glenn Hauser to JSDB, ibid.) Gracias Glenn: hoy probé la frecuencia 6010 kHz entre las 0100 y 0300 y como lo mencioné solo escucho un fuerte ruido de fondo; anteriormente se podía escuchar claramente le emisión tanto en sueco como en inglés de R. Suecia que tapaba totalmente a R. Mil aquí en la Cd. de México. Quizá cambiaron un poco la dirección de las antenas. De nuevo gracias, (Julián Santiago, condig list via DXLD) ** MYANMAR [and non]. Once again this B-season, we can forget about hearing Myanma Radio`s English broadcast at 1430 on 5986v. Nov 8 at 1429 I was hearing what seemed like Japanese, 1430 RCI theme and into Chinese. This is on the RCI schedule http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/B06_SW.pdf as RCI in Mandarin on 5985, but no sites are shown, while the companion technical schedule showing site as Yamata, Japan http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/RCI-TECH-B06-en.pdf lists this transmission as in French! In any event, would-be listeners of Burma, both here and no doubt in Asia are out of luck. All I could detect was a very weak het on the high side of RCI 5985. Yangon only has a total of 4 SW frequencies, one each on the 60, 49, 41 and 31m bands, and you would think that other broadcasters could afford to avoid them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still at Don's on Monday Nov 6 I noted Myanmar at 1425 on 5985.8 with great signals but went down from there. I wasted time chasing them while Don and Nigel were chasing as many as 86 hets and audio from Asian MW stations. Anyway, back to Myanmar. Not the usual programming today as the local music went past 1430 without any announcement and 1445 there was a brief English commentary again without the usual news. They did get back to pop music by 1447 but I only stuck around to 1454 as they were very weak and suffered from presumed RCI. I have to go over that tape to see what else I can hear. Definite Myanmar ID tho at 1445. 73 (Mick Delmage, AB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. New Shortwave Transmitter Roundabout in Huizen From Jonathan Marks` Critical Distance Blog: So there I am, driving along the Randweg, a road on the southern side of the my home town, Huizen, in the Netherlands. I came up to a roundabout that has been recently renovated and what did I see? A half-size replica of the world's first rotatable shortwave transmitting tower....slap bang in the middle of a new roundabout. Full story and picture: http://criticaldistance.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-shortwave-transmitter-roundabout_07.html More pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanmarks/sets/72157594365399020/ (via Mike Barraclough, monitoringmonthly yg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI B06 Rev Schd wef 8th Nov, 2006, all daily UTC kHz Target Azi kHz Target Azi 0559-1058 9870 AM All Pacific 0 9890 DRM All Pacific 0 1059-1258 13840 AM NW Pac 325 9890 DRM All Pacific 0 1259-1750 5950 AM All Pacific 0 7145 DRM All Pacific 0 1751-1850 9870 AM NE Pac 35 11675 DRM NE Pac 35 1851-1950 11675 AM All Pacific 0 15720 DRM All Pacific 0 1951-2150 17675 AM All Pacific 0 11675 DRM NW Pac 325 2151-0558 15720 AM All Pacific 0 17675 DRM All Pacific 0 NW Pac 325 also designated for Bougainville/PNG/Timor when on 13840 NW Pac 325 also designated for Vanuatu/Solomon Is. when on 11675 NE Pac 35 also designated for Fiji/Samoa/Cook Is. on 9870 (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, reformatted by gh for DXLD) Radio New Zealand International revises shortwave schedule Radio New Zealand International advises that is has made some changes to its B06 shortwave schedule, which are effective immediately. The new schedule is available on this page. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php (November 8th, 2006, 13:37 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. Onda Media --- 620, RADIO NICARAGUA. Managua. 0450-0602 Nov. 06. Música folclórica y entre cada canción "Radio Nicaragua", cada cierto tiempo con reportes sobre la elecciones presidenciales desde diferentes lugares como Jinotega o Chinandega. A las 0537 "...11 de la noche 37 minutos le damos la bienvenida a Francisco Cáceres que va a estar hasta mañana en los controles de Radio Nicaragua..." "...Nicaragua 620 uniendo la nación..." (Rafael Rodríguez R., escuchas realizadas durante el fin de semana pasado, en la localidad de Fomeque, Cundinamarca (90 Km al Suroriente de Bogotá), Colombia, hechas a través el mi Sony ICF 2010 con una antena de hilo largo 30 metros, Nov 7, condig list via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. I have received inquiries from the UK and from NZ as to whether KFXY-1640, Enid, despite its identity with Fox Sports Network, also carries programs from ESPN, which has been heard mentioned on 1640 from somewhere. I have pointed out that its sister station KCRC- 1390 is an ESPN affiliate, and there could be cross-promotion between them, or even some crossover in networks accessed. However, I detest listening to sports-talk myself, whatever the network. But to help answer this question, and since it would be of some interest if my local X-bander is being heard in far regions of the world, I forced myself to listen between 0620 and 0645 UT Nov 8 to 1640. No mention of either network was ever heard, but the programming frequently mentioned was Sporting News Radio, as well as the Todd Wright Tonight Show; at one point referred to WQAM Miami being an affiliate of this. Perhaps one may now research which network if either is involved with SNR or TWTS. Local non-IDs mention ``1640 The Score`` in connexion with communities in its groundwave coverage area such as Kingfisher and Okarche (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. From a 35-page pdf document, more than you ever wanted to know about Wantok Radio Light, PROGRESS REPORT FOR 2005 & 2006, Mr. Pawa Warena, Managing Director http://www.missionaryradio.info/_downloadz/download.php?filename=wrl_update_2005_2006.pdf Mostly about setting up FM repeaters around the country, support from various Stateside churches and radio stations, pious platitudes, these few items concerning SW: 2.1.1 What is still to be completed in the SW Project Security Fence --- Security Fence for the Shortwave Station is a must and since the shortwave site is quite big it will cost us over K90,000.00 (US$ 27,000.00.) to erect a solid secure fence. The station is located in one of the city’s notorious settlement area and must be fenced immediately. WRL does not want to start the fence and put in sections at a time due to the definite possibility of it being ripped out by settlers for their conveniences. Thank God that so far we have had no major problems of theft and destruction to property in the past twelve months apart from the barbed wires being cut and a tension wire knocked loose. The first phase of the shortwave project will be fully completed when the fence is completed. We definitely will appreciate a partner to assist us to complete the security fence. Frequency Change --- The second phase of the shortwave project is to change the current frequency 7120 kHz to a higher frequency before 2008. WRL had researched the international frequency databases and requested the government for the frequency 7325 kHz to be assigned to WRL. A formal application to the PNG Telecommunication Authority was made in November 2005. No response has come through and a follow up letter was sent in June 2006. Improve Night Time Coverage --- The final phase is to improve night time coverage. WRL is being requested to improve the night time coverage to cater for the 87% of the population living in the rural areas where most of the FM stations do not reach. This may require an additional station. PNGCBN sees this as a priority and also wants to improve this by the year 2008. There has been a great excitement in PNG when WRL began receiving reports internationally on the reception of our signal around world. Listed below are some countries we’ve received letters indicating they were able to receive our signal: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia (Bali, West Java), Italy, Japan, Mariana Islands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States of America (Alaska, Pennsylvania, Montana, New York Colorado, Missouri, California, Washington, Ohio). We continue to receive letters from around the world and it is our prayer that what we send out into the airwaves will not come back void but will accomplish God’s purpose in peoples lives. 8.1 Complete Shortwave Project by 2008 Before the year 2008 ends the shortwave project should be completed. The site will be securely fenced. The frequency 7120 kHz will be changed to new frequency. A second frequency will be secured to improve the night time coverage. Application for the second frequency will be submitted in July 2006 (via Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 7325: If WRL starting using it now in B-06, during nighttime hours it would collide with transmissions from China, Taiwan, India, Cyprus, at least (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4990.9, RADIO ANCASH. Huaraz, Perú. 0910-0945 Nov. 06. Música folclórica, y anuncios políticos por las elecciones regionales. "...es Radio Ancash operando en simultáneo con la onda corta..." Anuncios de Comercial Don Juan, Bazar Aguilar. La programación es presentada en español y quechua. Luego de las 0940 con programa esotérico: Cristales y Vida. No reportaba esta emisora desde Enero del 2005. 5602.6, RADIO LV DE LOS ANDES, El Higuerón, Perú. 2225-2246 Nov. 04. Música peruana, enviando saludos a diferentes lugares; luego con sorpresa dando acuse de recibo de mi reporte enviado; luego con saludos musicales para mí. "...Radio La Voz de los Andes, una voz de cultura y progreso para los pueblos; Radio La Voz de los Andes es la radio nueva, la radio que ya está en tu corazón..." (Rafael Rodríguez R., escuchas realizadas durante el fin de semana pasado, en la localidad de Fomeque, Cundinamarca (90 Km al Suroriente de Bogotá), Colombia, hechas a través el mi Sony ICF 2010 con una antena de hilo largo 30 metros, Nov 7, condig list via DXLD) ** PORTUGAL. Re 6-166, St. Helena, Life on the Ocean Waves --- Hello Glenn, Nothing to to do with Portuguese people who run out of Portuguese territories in Africa. This march was one of the musical items used through radio stations, related to the Armed Forces troops during the 1974 revolution, mostly before the radio statements from the troops` HQ. I was a teen-ager then but all those moments still live in my memory. Greetings from Portugal (José Turner, Nov 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7200, R. Rossii (Yakutsk), Nov 7, 0845-0902, poor audio (warble) as heard by others, went from poor to very poor, // 5935 (poor/QRM) // 6075 (good), Russian pop songs, 0858 chimes, sound effects (baby crying, etc), ID for R. Rossii, 5 + 1 pips, bells ringing (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. Re 6-166: The recent St. Helena broadcast generated a lot of excitement and actually got people to turn on their receivers. Therefore the broadcast, IMO, was a success. Maybe the hobby even added some new listeners/DXers because of R. St. Helena. The hobby isn't dead. Just stale at times. 73, (Kraig Krist, KG4LAC, VA, Nov 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also PORTUGAL Hi Glenn, I too took pages of notes from 1800-0110 s/off. You mentioned the Japan segment signing off at 2129, but I noted that announcement at 2146:30 which was followed by three instrumental tunes to the 2200:55 Sign-On for Europe with the Anthem. 73 (Mick Delmage, Alberta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Greetings from the grape fields of southern California. Yes, I recorded Radio St. Helena from 2305 until about 0115. The signal sounded kinda muffled and muddy here. It could have been due to a narrow filter on my receiver though. I know lots of people had good signal levels, but not here. With the pre-amp on, the highest signal I saw was S-3. I gave them a SINPO rating of 31133. I was using a Kenwood TS-480SAT transceiver with a 2.5 Kc bandwidth. The antenna is a 40 meter dipole at about 12 feet off the ground. It keeps the slugs warm in the winter. Looking forward to next year. 73, (John WB9AUJ Vodenik, Delano, CA, Nov 6, swl at qth.net via DXLD) ** SERBIA. Re 6-166: Aha, so the transmitter site was indeed ready but got no feed from Belgrade. One has to wonder if either the audio circuit failed or instead simply nobody produced programs, not being aware that transmissions were to resume? The interval signal is played out locally at the Bijeljina/Jabanusa station. This became obvious when in 1999 the microwave link to the station was disrupted by purposeful air-raids: Afterwards the actual programmes went on air via telephone feeds but the preceding IS still in full quality. Later there were also occasions of Jabanusa running the IS for a while but then cutting off when they finally got no feed of programming that was simply not produced as a result of some organizational trouble. Anyway it is apparently worth to keep an ear on 6100. Unfortunately I had no time to do so tonight (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Por cierto, también anuncian emitir por 6100 en el servicio en inglés, francés e italiano; el resto de los servicios no los he chequeado pero me imagino que también. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Noticias DX via DXLD) International Radio Serbia heard on 6100 in French 2140 tune in November 8th, under CRI but faded up, CRI off 2157 when clear identification and schedule of French broadcast heard, fair strength (Mike Barraclough, England, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) INTERNATIONAL RADIO OF SERBIA STOPS FM IN BELGRADE Branko Pekic writes: The International Radio of Serbia (formerly Radio Yugoslavia) has stopped broadcasting its programmes on FM in Belgrade, but the international service is still broadcast on shortwave and on the Internet in 12 languages, including Serbian. The YU Radio domestic program was founded in 1991, but was not awarded a broadcasting licence as it was in state ownership. Editor-in-Chief and Director Milena Jokic has appealed to the Serbian Government to resolve the status of the International Radio of Serbia. The Ministry of Culture has launched an initiative for drafting the law on the Serbian World Service - the International Radio, which will be in line with the European standards and laws (November 8th, 2006, 17:47 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) So SW is just a substitute for local FM? (gh, DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. FEBA B06 - Changes wef 3rd Nov, 2006 To Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran [ARM = Armavir, RUSSIA] 1530-1600 smtwtfs PASHTO 7250 41 ARM (ex 9495) 1600-1630 smtwtfs DARI 7250 41 ARM (ex 9495) 1630-1645 smtwtfs HAZARAGI 7250 41 ARM (ex 9495) 1645-1700 smtwtfs UZBEK 7250 41 ARM (ex 9495) (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Cambios en REE --- Acabo de recibir la confirmación de Antonio Buitrago desde Radio Exterior de España del recorte en las transmisiones del programa diexista "Amigos de la Onda Corta". Se ha suprimido la emisión dirigida hacia África los sábados a las 1800 UT por los 17755 kHz; y también la del domingo, a las 1600 dirigida hacia Oriente Próximo y Medio en los 21610 kHz. También me comunica que anteriormente el programa tenía dos versiones; de 25 minutos y de 30 minutos. Ahora sólo se produce el espacio "Amigos de la Onda Corta" con una duración única de 25 minutos. Así quedan los horarios y frecuencias por donde se emite el programa Amigos de la Onda Corta de Radio Exterior de España: Sábado 0700 UT [¿0705?] Para Europa: 9710, 11920 y 12035 kHz Para América del Sur: 5965 kHz Para Australia: 17770 y 21610 kHz Domingos 0100 UT [¿0105 como antes? gh] Para América del norte: 6055 y 9535 kHz Para América Central: 9535 kHz Para América del Sur: 6125, 9620, 9765 y 11945 kHz También se puede escuchar en directo a través de la web: http://www.rtve.es/rne/ree/ Y si lo desea, cualquier día y a cualquier hora en: http://es.geocities.com/programasdx/amigosondacorta.htm Un cordial saludo (José Bueno, Córdoba - España, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. Anyone hearing Apintie these days?, signal heard playing pops on 4th Nov at 0545 and then into unknown language, fair signal but no ID. Any other suggestions welcome. Best regards (David Norrie, Auckland, New Zealand, AOR 7030, HCDX via DXLD) David, Yes, heard R. Apintie couple of times during past week. Around 07 UT, 4990 kHz. Playing songs. Some English. Positive ID. Usually severe QRN. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, VA, ibid.) 4990.2, RADIO APINTIE. Paramaribo, Surinam. 0310-0330 Nov. 06. Música moderna en inglés, parece estar retrasmitiendo una emisora de FM. Varias menciones de "Radio Apintie" acompañados de lo que parece ser un slogan pero en lengua vernacular (Rafael Rodríguez R., escuchas realizadas durante el fin de semana pasado, en la localidad de Fomeque, Cundinamarca (90 Km al Suroriente de Bogotá), Colombia, hechas a través el mi Sony ICF 2010 con una antena de hilo largo 30 metros, Nov 7, condig list via DXLD) See PERU 4990.9 ** SWEDEN [non]. QRM to R. Mil on 6010: see MEXICO [and non] ** SYRIA. R. Damasco sin emisiones internacionales en SW??? SIRIA. El pasado fin de semana pude observar que Radio Damasco sólo estaba emitiendo en árabe, concretamente el 5 de Noviembre estuve en 9330 desde las 0000 hasta las 0030 en que hubo cierre de emisión, la emisión fue en árabe; por otra parte en 12085 no conseguí captar nada. Me he permitido rescatar un Log de Moisés Knochen en Condiglist: ``0012 UT - 9330 kHz // 12085 kHz R. Damasco (tentativo) árabe, sonido opaco, zumbido de fondo de alta frecuencia`` ¿Estaríamos pues ante la posible eliminación de las emisiones internacionales de Radio Damasco en Onda Corta?, un tema a verificar en los próximos días. Atentamente (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At writing I am checking Damascus' English program at 2005-2205 UT, also listening to "Voice of People" (= R. Damascus) on the Hotbird digital satellite. They started late, at 20.08 UT, and announced 9330 kHz short wave only. This one is heard strongly here (S9+50-60dB) with a fairly good modulation. No trace of 13610 or 12085 being on the air. (Erik Køie, Copenhagen, ibid.) Gracias Erik, desde Valencia no se capta nada en 9330 en estos momentos; estamos bajo un fuerte temporal y las condiciones de escucha no son buenas. 73 (José Miguel Romero2, ibid.) ** TAJIKISTAN. Presumed TJK heard on both 1160.963 and 2nd harmonic 2321.926 kHz at 1230. Thanks to Victor Rutkovsky's tip. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Nov 8, harmonics yg via DXLD) ** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 9725, lucked out again Nov 8 as Defunct Gene Scott, Costa Rica, was nowhere to be heard, during English broadcast at 1418; unfortunately, signal was too poor to make out much of what was being said, aimed toward Australia. Also in clear after 1500 for VOA in Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Re mixing product on 20050: Intermodulation product of VOT on 21140 kHz. Hi Glenn, here is another report about VoTurkey-mixture. See attachment and report on the homepage of DARC-MS Intruder Watch http://www.iarums-r1.org Regards, (Uli, DJ9KR, Bihlmayer, Nov 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Short Performance of ``Voice of Turkey`` on 21140 kHz The good contacts of the German DARC-MONITORING SYSTEM Intruder Watch with the German telecoms. authorities ``Bundesnetzagentur`` (BnetzA) and Chief Engineers and Technicians of the HFBC Frequency Management of Turkish Radio-Television Corporation had quick results in removing the Voice of Turkey off 21140 kHz. Here is the full story: On October 23, 2006 and the following days Wolf Hadel DK2OM and I found a BC station on 21140 kHz in the 15-m-band. The program lasted only one hour from 09.30 to 10.30 UTC. The signal strength maximum was S8 with a 3-element beam antenna ``Fritzel FB-33``, and the signal was coming from south-east direction. The program language was Romanian. Sometimes Wolf and I could hear a second BC program “under” the Romanian voice. Which BC station was it, and how did the signal on 21140 kHz build up? Was the BC station transmitting on groundwave, or was it a harmonic or spurious radiation? As there were two different programs audible at the same time the signal possibly was an intermodulation product. First I listened on 10570, ``half`` of the frequency of the intruding BC. No signal heard! A 3rd harmonic was impossible, because you can`t divide 21140 kHz by 3. So I went looking for the same program lower or higher in frequency around 21140 kHz. And on 9560 kHz I found the fundamental with a signal of S 9 + 20 dB! At full hour I waited patiently for the station announcement: At 1000 UT the announcer came with the ID in 10 languages, included English: ``This is the Voice of Turkey`` (VOT). Later Google search engine was a big help to me: Soon I found the transmitting schedule of VOT when hitting http://www.trt.net.tr/voiceofturkey/high.htm I looked for transmissions which were at the same time from the same transmitter site as 9560 kHz, which was indicated as Çakirlar. There were only two frequencies active: 11955 kHz (0800–1700) and 15350 kHz (0800–1500). Intermodulation Products 3rd Order always follow the same ``knitting pattern``: Take Frequency 1, multiply by 2 and subtract Frequency 2. The result is Frequency 3, the IM-product. The result matched for the frequency 15350 kHz: 15350 kHz x 2 minus 9560 kHz = 21140 kHz On October 25 I informed the German telecoms. BnetzA and Voice of Turkey. BNEtzA Konstanz is the official ``input bureau`` of German Bandwatch, and cooperation is excellent. Also, with the HFBC Management Bureau of Turkish Radio-Television, there is a good partnership because earlier we had solved problems with their transmitter. So I sent my complaint to Mr [sic] Sedef Somaltin and Mr Kiymet Erdal by fax and email. Already the next day I received their answer by email: ``26 October 2006, Dear Mr Bihlmayer, I contacted with the responsible people in TX in Emirler. The two transmissions, namely 15350 kHz (Turkish between 07–14 UT) and 9560 kHz (Romanian between 0930 and 1030) are transmitted from Emirler Site. They could not locate the problem yet, however from today 26 October on they will change the transmitters of both of these programs. Could you please monitor and inform us it the problem is solved or not? Thank you for your cooperation in advance. Sincerely, Sedef Somaltin, Chief Engineer HFBC Frequency Management, Turkish Radio-Television Corporation – TRT`` [SEDEF SOMALTIN is a woman, as we have had to point out long ago in DXLD. She got an engineering degree in 1992. Here is a small photo of her: http://www.w4uvh.net/sedef.jpg And so is KIYMET ERDAL, below who identifies herself as a Miss. The i in her name is not dotted --- gh] Already on October 27 the interference on 21140 kHz had ceased, and I thanked my ``partners`` at Voice of Turkey for the quick action. In his last letter Mr Erdal wrote to me: ``30 October 2006, Dear Mr Bihlmayer, Thank you for your monitoring reports. We have contacted the colleagues from the transmitters, they have checked and made some adjustments on the TX with the transmissions on 15350 kHz. They have informed us now that the output of the TX is o.k. Could you please monitor again and inform us abut the results? Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Kiymet ERDAL, HFBC Frequency Management International Technical Relations, Turkish Radio-Television Corporation – TRT http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/frekanstsr.aspx Very often I am asked: Can you show positive results of IARU MONITORING SYSTEM Intruder Watch of Region 1? Of course I can: Here is one! But… - There must be someone to monitor the frequencies regularly with patience - There must be someone who understands foreign languages - There must be someone who knows the right people at the right place - There must be someone to write a ``Report of Infringement`` and send it off When do you join your national Intruder Watch? Reported 7 November 2006 by Ulrich Bihlmayer DJ9KR / DL0IW, Coordinator of DARC MONITORING SYSTEM Intruder Watch (``Bandwatch``) and Vice Coordinator of IARU Region 1 MONITORING SYSTEM Intruder Watch (via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. --- In open_dx yahoogroup, Aleksandr Egorov wrote: Hello! To avoid QRM with R. Sweden 2100-2200 and RCI 0000-0100 via a 500-kW transmitter in Hörby, RUI will replace 5840 kHz with 5830 kHz for the transmission to Europe 2100-0100 from November 8. All the best! (Alexander Yehorov, Kyïv, UKRAINE (My translation - Sergei Nikishin, Moscow, Russia, Nov 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Re the reception of BBCWS on 9440, I wondered about this so I looked up the Worldservice website and found it listed there 0500-0700 as "Temporary Frequency due to engineering works". No clue as to the usual frequency or transmission not in operation. It is there as I write Nov 7th but well down on parallel 9410 here in Melbourne Australia. How long it will be used is apparently a secret! (Morrison Hoyle, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS in English, Nov 7 at 1409 check on 5975 was audible, but with co-channel QRM underneath; nothing on 6040. But at 1523 check, 6040 was there, and no 5975. I suppose 6040 is another of those temporary frequencies from unknown site, like 9440 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6040 --- Only a single hour operation. 5965 co-channel - due of BEI 500 kW 55deg and TRT EMR 500kW 90deg.?? Ex-5965 1500-1600 BBC Singapore 250kW 13deg English SE AS HR 4/2/0.75 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBCWS in English, 5975 via Thailand, Nov 8 at 1426 has some co-channel QRM causing SAH. Possibilities are Vietnam home service and KBSWR Korea South, either of which would make 5975 no good for BBC in EAs. Better signal with B-B-C chimes, on 6135, Nov 8 at 1428, and then into Vietnamese. This is via Singapore aimed 13 degrees, and thus onward toward NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. VT Communications (VTC) was recently awarded a contract to broadcast a significant number of analogue and digital shortwave programmes for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The cornerstone of VT Communications' ability to deliver this contract is the introduction of new broadcast equipment at its UK transmitting stations to facilitate Deutsche Welle's analogue and digital broadcasts. As the result of VT Communications' commitment to providing state-of- the-art solutions for broadcasters, the first step in the re- engineered infrastructure was achieved at Woofferton in mid-October, with a new 250 kW short wave transmitter entering service for the first time. The transmitter was supplied by Riz Transmitters Co, from Zagreb in Croatia, with responsibility for the installation and commissioning shared between Riz and VT Communications' staff. Work has already commenced both on site at Woofferton and in Zagreb for two more transmitters, with more to follow, one at Woofferton and one at Skelton. The first pair is scheduled for installation late 2006 through early 2007 (VT Communications Bulletin November/December 2006 via Mike Barraclough, WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DXLD) ** U K. RADIO 3 'COMMITTED TO LIVE MUSIC' --- 6 November 2006 The station celebrated its 60th birthday earlier this year http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6121044.stm BBC Radio 3 has played down fears over planned schedule changes, saying its commitment to live music "remains as strong as it has been". A spokeswoman admitted there would be fewer concerts broadcast live, but that the proportion of live and pre-recorded concerts would increase overall. Newspaper reports have suggested more shows would play concert excerpts. The station will next month announce details of significant schedule changes due to be introduced from February. The spokeswoman said that the current 2pm to 4pm Afternoon Performance slot would be extended by an hour. "We are freeing up the afternoon schedule to enable us to cover more classical music." Coverage would range from big concerts to solo instrumental recitals, she said. Live broadcasts would continue to feature in the schedule, while other concerts would be played as little as 24 hours after the event, she added. "We are continuing to broadcast concerts in their entirety. Radio 3's commitment to live music playing throughout the UK remains as strong as it has been." 'Different feel' Sarah Spilsbury, co-ordinator of campaign group Friends of Radio 3, said that some listeners preferred concerts broadcast live. "If you have a presenter that is actually there on the site describing what is going on in the moment, that gives more of a sense of occasion than having the introductions from the studio," she said. "Some people do like to feel [the concert] is actually happening now; it's exciting, anything could happen because it's live. It's quite a different feel when you know it happened yesterday." (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Nov 7 at 1626 in Spanish, WRMI with Cuban exile program on 9955, and no jamming audible! However, there was a lo het, probably with KHBN Palau, also shown in FCC B-06 as on the air at this time; I wonder which is further off-frequency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The Power Hour keeps showing up on new SW frequencies. Nov 8 at 1425 I found it on 5850, good signal but usual somewhat distorted and lo-fi audio. WEWN is on this frequency earlier, but obviously not now. Same program // on WWCR 7465 at 1436 check, but 5850 is a few words ahead of 7465. However, at 1450 found 5850 to be synchronized with 12180 and at 1500 confirmed that 5850 is a new frequency for WWRB, with ID insert by Dave Frantz. 5850 WWRB does not appear on any schedule I can find, including FCC B-06 version 1 (in A-06 there never appeared a version 2) and PWBR `2007`. The website http://www.wwrb.org/ has obviously not been updated in months (years?). BTW, KAIJ 9340 was on the air at 1438 but with something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KFBK GLITCH SENDS POLITICAL SPOT TO STATIONS VIA EAS Did CLEAR CHANNEL Talk KFBK-A/SACRAMENTO send out a political commercial as an EAS test? Noncommercial KDVS/DAVIS, CA is complaining that KFBK sent out its required monthly EAS test MONDAY at 10:02a PT but failed to stop the test at its normal conclusion and instead forced stations receiving the activation to air a commercial for Republican U.S. Senate candidate DICK MOUNTJOY. KFBK Station Manager JEFF HOLDEN told the SACRAMENTO BEE that the problem was "operator error" and said that the signal that ends the test "didn't fire properly." Stations in 17 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA counties aired the EAS test, although HOLDEN said that there's no way to know how many aired the spot as well, assuming that some stations have people monitoring the test and may have cut it off as soon as it was clear that a mistake was made. KDVS GM EDWARD MARTINET told the BEE that he is skeptical of KFBK's explanation, charging that "it would have to be some amazingly egregious negligence to not notice it for two minutes." (allaccess.com Via Brock Whaley, GA For: DXLD) ** VATICAN. Nov 8 at 1455 found S Asian talk and music on 11850. Brand new PWBR ``2007`` shows nothing at all! Kept listening and talk kept going past 1500, good signal, into music again at 1502. At 1529 recheck, Vatican Radio IS and ID, into English and announcing schedule but which I did not try to copy. It seems bclnews.it does not yet have any schedule from VR either. This is however, the Vatican Radio transmission to South Asia at 1415-1600 from Santa Maria di Galeria, 500 kW at 98 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5915, Vatican Radio, 0030-0110 Nov 2. Noted a program of comments by man and woman in Hindi language. During news, breakaways to the Pope preaching in Italian language. At 0059, Vatican/Italian interval signal music. Found a parallel program on 7335 where the signal was poor. Signal on 5915 was good; not listed in any of my current reference materials or in EiBi's A06 schedule for Vatican Radio (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, HCDX via DXLD) New B-06 entry, \\ 7335; and was ex-9650 in summer. 5915 0015-0200 41 SMG 250 kW 86 deg in HI/TA/MA/E, CVA-VAT (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 5915 Vatican also missing from PWBR `2007` (gh) ** VIETNAM. VIETNAM TO TRY AMERICANS AS TERRORISTS IN ALLEGED RADIO PLOT Vietnam will try three naturalized US citizens on terrorism charges over an alleged plot to use radio transmitters to take over state airwaves and call for an uprising against the communist government, a judge said today. Vietnamese-born Thuong Nguyen ``Cuc`` Foshee and Le Van Binh, both of Florida, and Huynh Bich Lien ``Linda`` of California, are scheduled to stand trial in the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Friday along with four Vietnamese nationals. ``They are charged with terrorism,`` said Bui Hoang Danh, the court’s chief judge. ``It means that they may face sentences of at least 12 years imprisonment or even death sentences.`` The defendants are accused of bringing 14 radio transmitters and five generators into Vietnam in early 2005, allegedly planning to electronically seize control of the Voice of Vietnam Radio and call for an uprising against the government, according to Nhan Dan, the official Communist Party newspaper. Danh would not elaborate on how the alleged radio jamming could be interpreted as a deadly act, but the Nhan Dan article briefly mentioned that the alleged plot also involved plans to ``jam and disturb`` aviation radio communication. The defendants rented a house in Cambodia and opened a phony charity organization in order to train in broadcasting skills, Danh was quoted as saying by the Vietnam News Agency. (Source: afp) (November 7th, 2006, 10:09 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ PUBLIC DIPLOMACY COUNCIL FORUM ON INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING to be held THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006 JACK MORTON AUDITORIUM, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 805 21ST STREET, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20052 8:30-8:45 Welcoming Remarks 8:45-9:15 ``Scene setter on International Broadcasting`` speech by McKinney H. Russell, President, Public Diplomacy Council 9:30-11:00 Panel I ``The State of U.S. Government-Funded International Broadcasting.`` PANELISTS: Sanford Ungar, President, Goucher College; former Director of VOA Salama Nematt, Correspondent, An Nahar newspaper Paul Blackburn, retired Senior Foreign Service Officer and former Public Affairs Officer, Beijing Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman, Broadcasting Board of Governors MODERATOR: Karl "Rick" Inderfurth, Elliot School, GWU; former Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia 11:20-12:45 Panel II ``Whither International Broadcasting? Future Trends and Techniques`` PANELISTS: Adam Clayton Powell III, Director, Integrated Media Systems Center and Visiting Professor of Journalism, USC Graham Mytton, former Head, BBC World Service Research Myrna Whitworth, former Acting Director and Dir. of Programming, VOA Mark Helmke, Staff Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee MODERATOR: Robert Coonrod, former president and CEO, CPB and deputy director, VOA 12:45 Concluding Comments Audience Limited – Register On-Line via http://www.publicdiplomacycouncil.org Registration Is Now Open Any questions? Contact us at pdi410 @ gwu.edu or (202) 994-0389. William P. Kiehl, Executive Director, The Public Diplomacy Council tel.: (202) 994-0389 office e-mail: pdi410 @ gwu.edu; personal e- mail: wpkiehl @ earthlink.net websites: http://www.publicdiplomacycouncil.org and http://www.pdi.gwu.edu (Nov NASB Newsletter via WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ DX PROGRAMME LIST UPDATED The Guide to DX Programmes has now been updated for the B06 (winter) season on the club web site. See the Articles index page at: http://www.bdxc.org.uk Any additions or amendments appreciated (Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK, Nov 7 via DXLD) LISTADO EMISIONES EN ESPAÑOL, B-06 PDF Saludos cordiales, en la siguiente dirección pueden bajarse un listado preliminar de emisiones en español de las siguientes emisoras; está ordenado por horas y el archivo es en formato pdf. BBC, CVC, EWTN, HCJB, KBS World Radio, Kol Israel, RAI, Radio Austria Int., Radio Canadá, Radio Bulgaria, Radio Cairo, Radio Eslovaquia, REE, Radio Habana Cuba, Radio Japón, Radio Int de China, R.N. Saharaui, Radio Nederland, Radio del Pacífico, Radio Praga, Radio República, Radio Rumanía, Radio Serbia, Radio Taiwán, Radio Vaticano, Voz de Rusia, VOA, VOIRI, Voz de Corea, Voz de Indonesia, Voz de Turquía, WEWN, WRMI, WWCR, WYFR. http://es.geocities.com/jmromero782004/EB06.pdf (José Miguel Romero, Spain, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FMLIST for FM DXers worldwide --- Interested in FM radio - FM DXing - Sporadic E - Tropo - TEP reception? Why not join the FMLIST project! FMLIST is a non-commercial, hobby-made database of FM radio stations, currently covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. We are extending our coverage to world-wide data and seek: - Data sources for FM radio from all around the world - Collaborators as country editors and news reporters from all over the world - FM DXers to make use of the data for logs, bandscans and analysis FMLIST includes map, log and bandscan features, data is available online, in PDF files and RDSDX format. Have a look at http://www.fmlist.org or get in touch with us at fmlist @ lorenzsoft.de (please do not reply via the list!) 73, (Uli Onken DK2GO (FMLIST Editor-in-chief) and Günter Lorenz (FMLIST Database Administrator) HCDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING ++++++++++++++++++++ DRM: see also BELGIUM; CUBA; NEW ZEALAND Further DRM mode broadcasts heard by yours truly in the 1200-1400 UT slot. AOR 7030, 20 kHz IF out, 12 meters longwire, decode software DREAM v1.6.28 5925 RTBF Wavre 24 to 27 dB SNR signal noise ratio 5990 LUX 21 to 25 dB 6095 LUX 24 to 27 dB 9870 NZL 7 dB, AM QRM on adjacent, DRM not fetchable 7320 BBC 24 to 27 dB 13620 Kuwait 08 to 14 dB but easily to decode, children`s choir in Arabic. 15440 DWL 25 to 27 dB 9470 BBC 23 dB 12060 DWL Moscow 11 to 14 dB, not tolerable, many dropouts 15605 RNW nil - skips over my head. 9655 DWL WER 07 dB, DRM not fetchable, due of dead skip zone 7145 NZL 05 dB nil from the antipode. 7275 Radio Sweden in German, FLE 23 dB (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ VIDEO TAPE ON THE WAY OUT? We need to buy one or two VHS video tapes per week, it seems, to keep up with everything, but it`s harder and harder to find at major retailers. Walgreens was discounting TDK, Sony or Maxell to 99 cents each roughly every other week, but two or three weeks just went by until one of those showed up again. Meanwhile, we checked out what a Walmart Supercenter had to offer: incredibly, just two options, a 10- pack of RCA at $8.90 or so, and Durabrand, a house brand made in Korea (South?), for 94 cents each. There used to be all kinds of choices of 3, 4, 5-packs, etc. At least the Durabrand seems to be OK, so far. In order to minimize consumption, we prefer not to buy 10 at a time; it`s too tempting to record other than essential stuff (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SOLAR FLARE PRODUCES RADIO SHOCK WAVE (Nov 6, 2006 [REVISED Nov 7, 2006 17:14 ET]) – A solar flare from an emerging sunspot Monday, November 6, between 1740 and 1748 UTC, produced a fast-moving radio shock wave. ``It sounded like a freight train,`` says Thomas Ashcraft, who recorded the burst at his radio observatory in New Mexico and maintains a Web site on audible solar phenomena http://www.heliotown.com/Radio_Sun_Introduction.html Ashcraft says the C8.8 solar X-ray flare caused a moderate-to-strong - - and especially fast -- Type II radio burst event, traveling from the sun at 2230 km per second! His stereo recording of the November 6 event provides solar radio noise on 18.7 MHz in one channel and on 22.2 MHz in the other http://www.heliotown.com/Snov6_06_1747ut1822.mp3 SpaceWeather.com reports the sunspot, hidden just behind the sun`s eastern limb, has been erupting and hurling clouds of magnetized gas high above the solar surface for the past thee days. Given its position on the solar sphere, the flare did not significantly raise the K index, a measure of solar storm activity based on perturbations of Earth`s magnetic field. The K Index has remained at or below 1 since November 5. That could change once the sun`s rotation turns the sunspot earthward to provide a direct view of the active region. The resulting stormy space weather could adversely affect HF radio propagation. Link to this story http://www.arrl.org/?artid=6934 (via Mike Terry, John Norfolk, dxldyg) The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to unsettled at middle latitudes, while active to major storm conditions were observed at high latitudes. A minor storm period was observed early in the summary period at high latitudes. The period began under the waning influence of a coronal hole high speed stream. Solar wind speed at ACE was decreasing from 600 km/s while the IMF Bz was generally fluctuating between +/- 5 nT. As a result, the geomagnetic field was at unsettled to minor storm levels through midday on 30 October at high latitudes with quiet to unsettled levels at middle latitudes. Thereafter, and through midday on 03 November, solar wind speed gradually decreased to a low of approximately 325 km/s midday on the 3rd and the IMF Bz did not vary much beyond +/- 3 nT. As a result, the geomagnetic field was at mostly quiet levels. By midday on 03 November, a very pronounced crossing of a solar sector boundary was observed. Wind speed and density both increased. As a result, quiet to unsettled levels were observed at middle latitudes, with minor to major storm periods at high latitudes on 03 November. By 04 November, wind speed had increased to about 450 km/s and the IMF Bz was fluctuating between +/- 7 nT. Only an isolated active period was observed at high latitudes. By the end of the period, wind speed had gradually declined to around 400 km/s. Several prolonged periods of southward Bz resulted in minor storm periods at high latitudes on 05 November. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 08 NOVEMBER - 04 DECEMBER Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels with a slight chance for an isolated M-flare. No greater than 10 MeV proton events are expected. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 10 – 23 November and 26 – 30 November. The geomagnetic field is expected to be mostly quiet to unsettled for the majority of the forecast period. Recurrent coronal hole high speed wind streams are expected to rotate into geoeffective positions on 09 – 11 November, 17 November, and again on 24 – 25 November. Unsettled to minor storm periods are possible on 09 – 11 November and 24 – 25 November, while unsettled to active levels are expected on 17 November. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2006 Nov 07 2124 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # Product description and SEC contact on the Web # http://www.sec.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2006 Nov 07 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2006 Nov 08 90 5 2 2006 Nov 09 90 20 4 2006 Nov 10 90 15 3 2006 Nov 11 85 10 3 2006 Nov 12 85 8 3 2006 Nov 13 80 8 3 2006 Nov 14 80 5 2 2006 Nov 15 80 5 2 2006 Nov 16 80 10 3 2006 Nov 17 80 15 3 2006 Nov 18 80 10 3 2006 Nov 19 80 5 2 2006 Nov 20 80 5 2 2006 Nov 21 75 5 2 2006 Nov 22 75 5 2 2006 Nov 23 75 8 3 2006 Nov 24 80 12 3 2006 Nov 25 80 20 4 2006 Nov 26 80 8 3 2006 Nov 27 80 5 2 2006 Nov 28 80 5 2 2006 Nov 29 80 5 2 2006 Nov 30 80 8 3 2006 Dec 01 80 8 3 2006 Dec 02 80 5 2 2006 Dec 03 80 5 2 2006 Dec 04 80 10 3 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via WORLD OF RADIO 1335, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOW `BOUT THEM DEMS Hi Glen[n], Well the 12+ year reign of the arrogant and corrupt Republican controlled Congress and their catering to the wealthy on the backs of the middle class and poor is finally over. Also the 6- year reign of terror of the Bush Administration against the yearly U.S. budget and the bullying of the rest of the world is over!!! Hopefully this will end the FCC's prostitution of itself to the BPL crowd and to corporate America in general. They need to get back to protecting and managing the airwaves for "all" Americans. As a 100% disabled veteran I took personal offense to the way Bush and company prosecuted the "War On Terror". Through callousness and gross incompetence they have maximized the opportunity of getting our brave service men and women maimed and killed. During the past three years approximately 35,000 newly wounded and disabled veterans have entered the grossly underfunded V.A. health care system, with no appreciable increase in the V.A's budget. --... ...--, (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA, Grid Square EL97AW, Nov 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###