sabato 31 agosto 2013

Glenn Hauser logs August 29-31, 2013

** ANGUILLA. 6090, August 31 at 0553 check, ``Caribbean Beacon`` is off the air. Back on 11775 with usual Asian CCI at 1336 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. Re my previous report of CBKF-1, Gravelbourg, Sask., Aug 30 at 0539 UT, presumed as the only French station on 690:

Glenn, I thought that the CBC French language station in Sask. had moved to FM already. Someone closer will need to confirm this. 73, (Walt Salmaniw (presently in northern Ontario), Aug 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Walt, Hmm, it sure is hard to find any frequency info for SRC-Sask on the web. Possibly CBU (a rarity here) momentarily interviewing someone in French to be translated, or with a heavy Québec accent? Or even EWTN WQNO Nouvelle Orléans doing the same? Await confirmation whether CBKF-1 is still on 690 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)

Local late afternoon, no trace of 690. Other Saskatchewan stations are audible and certainly visible so I'd say 690 isn't on (Don Moman, Lamont AB, 2328 UT Aug 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Hi Barry, As you may have seen, I was hearing québecois on 690 last night, so assumed it must be CBKF1 in Gravelbourg, Sask. It has been suggested that station has already moved to FM. It is still on your lookup listing all Sask stations.
http://topazdesigns.com/ambc/
Do you have anything definite on whether it is still on 690? 73, (Glenn Hauser, Oklahoma to Barry McLarnon, Ont., via DXLD)

As far as I know, the 690 transmitter is still on, and I'm not aware of any plans to move CBKF1 to FM. I'm pretty certain that's who you heard. Cheers, (Barry McLarnon, Ottawa, ON, ibid.)

Recheck later tonite and I do hear French talk there on eastern wires, CBU dominant on most everything else (Don Moman, Lamong AB, 0510 UT Aug 31, ibid.)

Unless a very short clip, I can't imagine CBU either. Sorry for the confusion. I was sure that I had read about them leaving AM sometime in the last year (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, Aug 31, ibid.)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming scan August 31 circa 1255 finds nothing at all 12-18 MHz, except perhaps 13830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9410, August 31 at 1245, weak Chinese instead of noise blob, so CNR5 is apparently back in whack today. Replying to my recent musing that the noise could be irregular jamming against Fu Hsing Broadcasting, Taiwan, Ron Howard replies:

``A few random thoughts - It should be noted that the 9774 frequency never had anything like the 9410 blob/noise, so suspect the blob is not a jamming noise as such from China. If that were the case, then I would expect China to also jam 9774, as that is a long standing frequency also used by Fu Hsing BS and China could easily use the blob/noise there to block them or perhaps even distort the CNR2 audio to block 9774, but as I say, that has never happened before to the best of my knowledge. So I am not positive as to just what the blob/noise is on 9410. If it is a faulty CNR5 transmitter (as I had previously thought), then it certainly malfunctions rather randomly, which does not make a lot of sense! A mystery!!``

I can only point out that the CNR1 (mostly ex-Firedrake) jamming of Sound of Hope also defies logic in that it is mostly turned off during the first quarter to third of each hour letting SOH thru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB at 1250 and 13362-USB at 1253 August 31, no signals from AFN; Ron Howard also reports both missing lately. It`s quite sporadic, but we are always apprehensive that one day it will go off and never come back, like happened to the other AFNs in Hawaii, Iceland, Italy, Key West, Puerto Rico. Guam and Diego Garcia are the only ones left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, August 31 at 1710, YL in south Asian language, fair, mentions Pakistan, pop music. It`s R. Kuwait`s Urdu service at 16-18, aimed eastward until 1800 switch to English northwestward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, August 29 at 2035 UT check on caradio, KEOR is off again. August 30 at 1900, it`s still off. Only KMOX audible August 31 at 1221 altho there is a weak SAH from algo when it`s nulled.

Regarding KEOR`s irregular late sign-on time (when not cheating all-night), Kevin O`Brien writes:

``Critical Hours - whatever that is? Glenn, In your show this week you talked about a station near you apparently coming on late as a daytimer, and it has critical hours license. It is likely following its license with its start time.

Critical hours is a third operational period for AM radio stations, not many have it as an issue, but critical hours are a period of up to 2 hours AFTER sunrise and BEFORE sunset --- that a station operates in its third mode. These are listed as DA-3. Just as some are DA, DA-N or DA-2.

Most appear to be newer stations and those that upgraded facilities.
You can see why this may be needed when there are times that a distant station can be heard for a period of time before sunset at your location. If you can hear something from a location then that location could be bothered from a signal from your location. Hope this helps``

Yes, but FCC ought to specify exactly when the CH are in effect in each case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Re previous report of getting ch RF 42 from Tulsa to decode, but not ch RF 45:

Here is a possible ``why`` --- the KOTV-45 signal would have decoded but is being interfered with by KSNW-45 Wichita. It`s about the same distance, and not unusual for area tropo to be in play both from Tulsa and Wichita. In the NTSC era, two full-power TV stations would never have been assigned on the same channel in cities so close. When there is CCI, we cannot see that; only decoding is prevented. (Except in rare instances where the signals are really equal, there may be a tiling mixture, frozen.)

But that`s not all; there is a low-power 45 in OKC, KOHC-CD with 15 kW, rarely boosted enough to see here, but maybe enough at times to mess up other 45s. Consulting the W9WI.com listings by channel, there are more low-power OK 45s in Lawton, Elk City and Enid!

K45EJ is Licensed with 25 kW analog in Enid as a relay of KSBI-DT 50, and K45EJ (no suffix) is also an Application for 11 kW DTV in Enid. In reality K45EJ has been off the air for YEARS, but still appears on the legal ID slide of KSBI. Do they really not know at OKC HQ that this station has been off the air all this time, or is it a Big Lie to preserve its ``presence``? Like an AM station, would the license have been deleted long ago due to inactivity, if the FCC knew?

KSBI is received well enough on RF 50 direct like the other full-power OKC stations, none of which see any need for an Enid translator either, so I seriously wonder whether KSBI will ever get K45EJ back on the air. I hope not! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PALAU [and non]. 9930, August 31 at 1256, good signal from YL gospel huxter in English, 1259:36 cuts on and off for most of a minute during attempts to play ``Onward Christian Soldiers`` IS, as if T8WH is changing antennas, and indeed it is, from 318 to 345 degrees per Aoki. 318 is across mid-China entering around Amoy on my NGS globe, while 345 runs just west of Koreas.

Between 10 and 14, 9930 is on air Sat & Sun only (plus Quê Me, Vietnamese clandestine Fri 1200-1230, endorsed by some big-name US politicians), so collides with WTWW during the final hour, which cuts on with Brother Scare ex-5085 at *1302:34 (a bit after WTWW-1 5830 had already QSYed to 9479), WTWW 9930 now totally blocking World Harvest Radio. Aoki also shows the Sat 1245 program is `Mission for Christ`, on Angel 3, and at 1300 `Truth for the World` on Angel 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RWANDA [non]. 17870, Saturday August 31 at 1700, strumming & singing music for the first 5 minutes, 1705 announcement could be French, or maybe French-like intonation upon Kinyarwanda, for this is the new monarchist clandestine that Ludo Maes gave advance notice of via the TDP yg, altho his company is now Broadcast Belgium.

Radio Inyabutatu it is called, tho I never caught such an ID, Saturdays only at 1700-1800 on 17870 via unspecified site. Wolfgang Büschel suspects Issoudun, FRANCE is most likely. Still does not appear in latest HFCC as of August 29. I compare it to Issoudun with RFI, 500 kW, 153 degrees on 17850, which ought to be about the same azimuth necessary for 17870: 17850 is quite a bit stronger. 17870 is better than BBC Ascension 17830, and much better than VOA Sri Lanka 17895 (site until 1730 switch to Greenville). About the same as 17745 Sudan Radio Service via Woofferton.

17870 has deep fades, but in the next few minutes improves at stronger peaks, now definitely not French, so presumed Kinyarwanda, mentions Rwanda, and Kigali; 1707 starts interviewing someone on phone.

Bill Bingham in South Africa was hearing it better until 1729: ``Good, varying s9 to s9+20. Which probably fits with Issoudun as source, since we are more or less in the same general direction here in Jo'burg`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5085, August 31 at 0227, dead air from Brother Scare (hey, it rhymes!), back on at next check 0550 via WTWW-2. 5085 BS still going at 1247; 9930 cuts on at *1302:34 blocking another religionist in English from Palau, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. 5820, August 31 at 1249, very poor signal must be BBCWS as now scheduled Saturdays and Mondays only at 12-14, instead of 5875, 5840 or 5980 other days of week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1684 monitoring: Scheduled 0200 UT Saturday airing on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB did not happen, as monitoring webcast, I kept hearing music past 0215. Turned out there was an automation ``hiccup`` which delayed start until 0232. I hope everyone stayed tuned.

Next: maybe Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 or Sunday 0000v on 5085 (tho recently TOM has been on during this time); UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2330/Monday 0000 on 9930/5085 which did happen last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, August 31 at 1240, WBCQ has Chuck Swindoll [no crax about another way to spell that] on `Insight for Living` (presumably part of the Good Friends Radio Network package) preaching about King Solomon. Of interest only because I could also barely make out an echo of his words a few seconds later; print-thru from old reel tape? IIRC, one technique to minimise this was to store tapes tails-out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15610, 13830, 12050, all three WEWN transmitters are still AWOL, August 30 at 2138. Finally resumed by 0554 August 31 with Radio Católica Mundial ID on 7555, much weaker // 11870 and 11520 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 550, August 31 at 1211 UT, skywave is gone from the lowend, groundwave KFRM Salina KS with ``The Food Chain``, promoting ``food sovereignty`` by urban farming (also eating bugs). Host is interviewing family members in different parts of country; sounds rather unspontaneous. His website:
http://metrofarm.com/food-chain-radio/
Only 14 broadcast affiliates are listed:http://metrofarm.com/food-chain-radio-affiliates/
On KFRM it`s 7-8 am CT Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, UT Saturday August 31 after 0505, KGGF is still on with sports talk, not play-by-play but maybe a break in some late game, since still going at 0605 with the K-State Sports Network closing at 0607, local ads, 0608 dead air, no KGGF sign-off or Taps or America the Beautiful. Coffeyville KS station normally stops just after 0500 with Taps, but leaves carrier on all-night. Friday evenings are favorites of DXers who can stand high school football as many stations cheat, but KGGF doesn`t need to and this was obviously collegiate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1070, August 31 at 1219 UT, KNX Los Ángeles remains barely audible after sunrise with KLIO Wichita nulled, already promoting a 2-hour show on Thursday, Oct 3, ``Health Care Uncovered`` on how to get involved in the Affordable Care Act (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Some area tropo the morning of Saturday August 31, UT:
1422 on 28, trace of NTSC video from north, no doubt KWKD-LP Wichita, 8 kW Daystar, as DTVs are also in from there on 45, 26, 20, 19, 12, 10, 8, altho the lower ones not decoding. And on the DTV STB tuner a `bad` signal at the same time on 28, most likely Ion`s megawatt KTPX Okmulgee/Tulsa OK.

1422 on RF 42, KMCI on PSIP ID as 38-1. That`s Lawrence, KS, obviously trying to relate to Kansas City and its airport.

1423 on RF 18, KCPT with ID as KCPT-1 on 19-1, public TV from Kansas City (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

New Rwanda clandestine imminent

A reminder that the new monarchist clandestine, Radio Inyabutatu, is due to start weekly broadcasts today Saturday at 1700-1800 UT on 17870 (via France??). Full details in DXLD 13-35. I am not optimistic about reception here, but should be good further east beyond the skip zone. (via dxld)

Syrian TV, radio switch to war programming

DEBKAfile August 31, 2013, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)

The Information Ministry in Damascus ordered Syrian radio and TV broadcasters Saturday to interrupt regular programsand switch to war status, airing patriotic content and militlary marche
 
(via A. Borgnino)

The Mighty KBC + Radio Joystick

As from the 1st of September 2013 "The Mighty KBC" are moving there Jukebox program between 00:00 to 02:00 UTC to 7375 KHz.

Please email your reception reports to
themightykbc@gmail.com   Thank you!

Radio Joystick is on the air:
1st of September between 1000 to 1100 UTC on 7330KHz.
Contact Radio Joystick:
www.radiojoystick.de

Good Listening!
73s
Tom

Unidentified on 9677.6

AZERBAIJAN    An unidentified station, without a carrier, probably in Azeri
with awful audio and modulation, was observed again on Saturday, August 31:
from 0815 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs (not Voice of Talyshistan)

--
73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Voice of Nigeria on 15120

NIGERIA   Voice of Nigeria is back on the air from Saturday, August 31:
0500-0700 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English
0700-0800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf French
0800-0900 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf EnglishAZERBAIJAN    Unmodulated strong carrier was observed again on Fri, Aug.30:
1300-1600+on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs

--
73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

venerdì 30 agosto 2013

Ascolti AM Treviso banda 19 mt.

 15575 29/8   1259 KBS World R., Kimjae ID Px E 34433
 15825 30/8   1100 WWCR 1, Nashville  ID Px   R 34533
 15345 30/8   1107 Radio Argentina E., General Pacheco Px Jp 13522
 15340 30/8   1230 HCJB Australia, Kununurra ID  Px rel. E 34544

Nino Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
http://acquamarina.blogspot.com

Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2013

** ANGUILLA. 6090, Aug 30 at 0509, DGS service during music break is *still* buried underneath continuous self-imposed noise, 24 hours after first noticed, and also that way earlier Aug 29 on day frequency 11775. Finally at 1306 Aug 30, 11775 is back in whack but with rippling SAH, CCI against PMS from the CNR1 jammer vs AIR in Tibetan via Goa, shortly even worse by comparison (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 9580, 12065, 9475, and with CubaRM, 6150, R. Australia, Friday August 30 at 1250 interview with an INTEL guy who is into steampunk, on `Future Tense` --- what? 1230 Friday is supposed to be `Innovations`, as confirmed on current RA program schedule, with F.T. on Tuesdays at 1230.

But it seems there has been no Innovation since July 12, so apparently FT is a suitable replacement/substitute. In fact, even stranger, this episode is the one not supposed to start until September 1 via Radio National, so RA listeners got it in advance:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/steampunk3a-where-history-and-the-future-collide/4915548
There are audio linx already which I haven`t tried, but no transcript yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, Aug 30 at 1357, BB very poor with tone, 1359 IS, timesignal ending at 1359:57, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11780, Aug 30 at 0057, RNA is back in whack, regular AM instead of extremely distorted and wideband FM, 24 hours earlier. Jorge Freitas, Bahia, says it was OK by 1805 UT Aug 29, and the problem happened after a several-hour blackout in much of Brasil, once the power came back on. Still OK at 0513 Aug 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 690, Aug 30 at 0539 UT, Québecois interview stands out in the mix of other signals with KGGF KS open carrier. First thought is CBF Montréal, but that`s long gone, its replacement anglais. Loops NNW anyway, so this has to be CBKF-1, Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, the CBC = SRC Première Chaîne outlet which NRC Pattern Book 2005 shows with a minor nite lobe in this direxion, otherwise mostly northward. A predominantly French town? Supposed to serve also Swift Current, Moose Jaw, even Regina? Hearing any French on 690 is certainly a rarity here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Quick check of 12-18 MHz, Aug 30 at 1358-1359, finds no Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming or Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11680, Aug 30 at 0058, RHC is absent from this scheduled frequency instead of Spanish or wrong-language French as previously.

5040, Aug 30 at 0508, `Cuba Campesina` type story-telling song from RHC; can this be the English hour as scheduled? No! English talk on the other frequencies, 6060, 6125, 6165, so this must be the Spanish service which is supposed to stop at 0500 on all frequencies.

Meanwhile 6000 English is absent, but there at 0526; seems it often comes up late; now at 0526, 6165 is undermodulated with some hum, and also CCI underneath making rippling fast SAH, so would that be Chad? Remember it`s allegedly a 250 kW transmitter.

The entire Cuban national territory is in a wacky off-timezone, as Aug 30 at almost 1332 UT I heard RHC TC on 15340 as ``las 9:30 en todo el territorio nacional``. They should listen to Reloj Nacional which is no more than a few seconds off. So 15340 is back on today to collide with HCJB Australia. But 13780 is absent at 1358 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 30 at 0059, JBA carrier from R. Chaski on FRG-7, seemed to go off about 0102:49.5* but there remained another carrier until 0103:19.5*, both approximate due to fading. Projected Chaski-cutoff should have been about 0102:45*, 10.5 seconds beyond last check 48 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 13m has good signal from 21540 Kuwait, so ``15m`` should be open for hams around there; but all I hear are a Russian and a Ukrainian, q.v., working mostly US stations in the northeast, frequencies approx. due to weak signals:

21225-USB, Aug 30 at 1347, RN3GL, Mike, about 400 km south of Moscow, working stations in New England, New Jersey. So he`s not too far away from UR4MKY. QRZ.com shows:

RN3GL
Mikhail V. Yuyukin
398036
Lipetsk, ul. Katukova 30-12
Russia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA. 7275, August 30 at 0546, notice that IWT is gone before usual closing just before 0600; I had been dozing to its music around 0535 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UKRAINE. 13m has good signal from 21540 Kuwait, so ``15m`` should be open for hams around there; but all I hear are a Ukrainian and a Russian, q.v., working mostly US stations in the northeast, frequencies approx. due to weak signals:

21255-USB, Aug 30 at 1339, UR4MKY calling CQ; says he is in the eastern part, and fonetik calls easy to copy. QRZ.com shows:

UR4MKY
Taras Kudimov
P.O. Box 207021
94207, Alchevsk
Ukraine

That`s in the easternmost province of Ukraine, Lugans`k. Profile and photos show he`s 21 years old (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1684 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday August 29 after 2100 (by tape while we were out to see `The Butler` movie).

Confirmed on WWRB 5050`s webcast, UT Friday August 30 from 0329. At 0328 I started to hear some false-starts, cue-ups? underneath the preacher, whom Dave then cut off to announce that WOR is coming up, and WWRB has made a number of changes/improvements, notably in internet service. Site is out in the middle of nowhere, so needs own microwave link to get it from Charter Cable headend some 20 miles away, but that was hit by lightning and had to relocate it, now working well. Next WOR airings:

UT Sat 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Sat 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB 1 kW
Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955
UT Sun 0401 on WTWW-1 5830
Maybe 2329v Sat or Sun on WTWW-2, 9930; or 0000v UT Sun or Mon on WTWW-2, 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, 11520, 11870, Aug 30 at 0512, all WEWN frequencies are missing; 12050, 11550, 15610, Aug 30 at 1305, 1357, all WEWN frequencies are still missing. NWS shows there have been *no* storms around Birmingham, just fair skies, so some other reason; mowing around the antennas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Re my EWTN unID on 690: icurapossumhunter2 in SC, a.k.a. KJ4HYD, just posted this to the ABDX yg:

Traveler`s Guide to American Catholic Radio, 15 August 2013, from Catholic Radio Update, a 2-page pdf. It *does* list one 690 EWTN (default network u.o.s.), and there it is:

New Orleans WQNO 690 & 104.9

So EWTN website`s own info is out of date showing two other AM stations there, and confirming my suspicion based on direxion and propagation that it was the 690 in New Orleans, which had been WIST, with Yahoo Sports Radio, as in last year`s NRC AM Log as of August.

Then checking FCC AM Query, 690 in NO is indeed now WQNO, owned by Catholic Community Radio, and calls changed from WIST on 12/19/2012. It`s now 10/5 kW with different direxionality day and night, but they have a CP for 9.1/0.016 kW, which hardly seems an improvement; also a slight change of coordinates along exactly the same longitude but 9 seconds further south in latitude, essentially on the same property (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some quick replies:

WQNO 690 is going non directional; dropping 3 out of their 4 towers. I think their array was damaged by Katrina back when they were a talk station (Paul B Walker, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

And the 5 kW night power would explain why they were totally dominating Birmingham at night (with Montréal nulled) when I was in Iowa City back on August 13-14. According to radio-locator.com, WQNO, ex-WIST, ex-WTIX, should be throwing practically all of its night signal out into the Gulf. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4316-USB, Aug 30 at 0518, YL with marine weather, VG signal strength but horrible modulation: background noise and distortion at modulation peaks. It`s been this way for months if not years; no amateur would allow her rig to be so out of whack, but this is professional? The comprehensive schedule of marine weather broadcasts at
http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Maritime_Weather_Transmissions
shows at this time it is:

``0515 New Orleans, LA (NMG) (NMG-2) U.S. Coast Guard 4316, 8502, 12788 kHz UNITED STATES - Atlantic and Gulf Local Notice to Mariners and weather``

She sounds like a real human, rather than a robot, while a roboYL is giving non-// but similar marine weather on weaker 4369-USB at 0520, citing lots of coördinates in the Atlantic, and with good modulation. BUT that frequency (nor 4368, 4370) is not listed at any time in HFUG list! Searching UDXF yg logs, we find 4369 as a WLO Mobile AL frequency but not reported since last year (Glenn Hauseer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17095-CW, Aug 30 at 1334, CQ DE WHL marker once, then ute bursts, 1337 another ID. A couple logs in UDXF this year from Vincent Lecler, France show this as St. Augustine Radio (Florida) on 17095.1; but what is its purpose? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Aug 30 at 0501-0505 UT during Fox-hole of local KGWA running open carrier only, this time on the SRF-59 I am able to hear *without* nulling KGWA, a station with sports news and scores in English; bearing on it is NNW/SSE. Unknown which network but all-American so can`t be CFAC Calgary which I have DXed before in this window thru KGWA.

Now the guessing begins. Based on last year`s NRC AM Log with format info, most likely is KOVO Provo UT with FSR, and which the old Pattern Book shows with a minor lobe this way. But it`s more NW than NNW. Another one I have yet to ID is KROF in Abbeville LA (Lafayette market), listed as talk format if not sports, 95 watts non-direxional. KNEB Scottsbluff NE direxion also fits with 350 watts, but supposedly C&W format. I can hardly wait to recheck these formats in the new NRC AM Log.

BTW, I have a QSL card from KOVO endorsed ``third harmonic 2880 2/12/1969 at 6:50-7:38 pm MST``, from Glenn K. Shaw, CE. I think that was when I was in Denver. I subsequently reached a policy decision *not* to try to QSL harmonix, since that would encourage them to be suppressed, and indeed never heard that one since. 2880 in Enid is occupied by KGWA`s harmonic (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Segnale / Signal
IN - Insufficiente / Poor
SF - Sufficiente / Fair
BN - Buono / Good
MB - Molto Buono

Sabato 24 agosto 2013
04.20 - 13720 kHz
SUDAN RADIO SERVICE - Dhabbaya (UAE)
Arabo, notizie OM+YL, IDs e canzoni sudanesi.
Segnale insufficiente-buono

***

Domenica 25 agosto 2013
16.20 - 17745 kHz
SUDAN RADIO SERVICE - Woofferton (G)
Arabo, parlato OMs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
*16.30 - 9505 kHz
"RADIO DE LA DIFFUSION AFRIQUENNE"
Così si annuncia la Voix du Sudan in francese.
FF, IDs OM, musica reggae, intervista e...R&B USA???
Segnale molto buono
PL-660 SYNC-USB 100% wiped out R. Australia 9500!!!

***

Martedì 27 agosto 2013
Oggi un po' di ascolti seriali con il VR5000DSP.
08.10 - 15195 TATARSTAN WAVE (RUS), IDs OM+YL. BN
08.16 - 15490 HCJB AUSTRALIA, EE, parlato OM. BN
08.17 - 15525 FEBC (PHL), Mandarino, recitazione. BN/SF
08.25 - 13630 CVC VO ASIA (UZB), parlato YL. SF/IN
08.32 - 11620 AIR GOS (IND), Urdu, parlato OM. SF/IN
08.38 - 11253U RAF VOLMET (G), wx YL-PC. BN/SF
08.42 - 9930 BROTHER STAIR (UNID @06.00). SF/IN
08.54 - 7310 R. 700 (D), Musica leggera locale. SF
09.25 - 15465 FIREDRAKE to R. TAIWAN INT. SF
09.36 - 13740 FIREDRAKE+CNR1 to VOA. SF
10.15 - 17770 R. THAILAND, notizie YL in Thai. BN/SF
10.20 - 17485 FIREDRAKE+CNR1 to VOA. BN/SF
10.25 - 15030 AIR - Modulazione molto bassa o nulla. SF/IN
10.36 - 15344v very tent. RAE Mandarin,  JBA carrier.
10.41 - 15705 KSDA (GUM), Mandarino, tk OM. SF/IN
11.31 - 11860 R. HABANA CUBA, Spagnolo, annuncio OM. IN/SF
-
*16.00 - 11610 kHz
R. AL-SHOROOQ - Kostinbrod (Bulgaria)
Arabo, parlato OMs.
Segnale molto buono
Solo lunedì, martedì e mercoledì.
Secondo i link presenti nel sito hafash.org, potrebbero essere gli stessi
di Radio Assenna e Radio Erena.
-
16.30 - 21630 WHR (USA), EE, IDs OM. SF/IN
17.00 - 15385 ESAT R. + White noise jammer. BN/SF
17.04 - 15235 CHANNEL AFRICA (AFS), EE, nxs. MB
17.14 - 13264U SHANNON VOLMET (IRL), wx YL-PC. SF
17.24 - 11885 PBS XINJIANG (CHN), Musica melodica locale. BN/SF
17.28 - 11750 SRI LANKA BC, Sinhala, tk OM e musica locale. BN
17.33 - 11600 R. LYBIA, Arabo, telefonata OM. MB/BN

***

Mercoledì 28 agosto 2013
08.40 - 9580 kHz
RADIO AUSTRALIA - Shepparton
Inglese, parlato OMs.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Medi 1 9579v spenta, anche il 29 agosto.

***

Giovedì 29 agosto 2013
Di nuovo un po' di ascolti seriali, con il VR5000DSP Yaesu, che chissà
come mai l'hanno fatto con lo chassis *senza* prese d'aria!!! :-0
*17.30 - 15190 R. PILIPINAS, Canzone melodica locale YL. BN
17.32 - 15016U Numbers&Letters OM (not PC!) EE. BN
17.37 - 15390 ESAT R. + white noise jammer. SF/BN
17.42 - 15420 pres. WBCQ (USA) under BBC EE (dominant). SF/IN
17.41 - 15435 BSKSA 1 + strong buzz. MB/BN
17.44 - 15570 Offset carrier under Vatican R. EE to EAf. Jammer? SF/BN
17.48 - 15735 Just open carrier. R. Cairo urdu? BN/SF
17.57 - 13200U Numbers&Letters // 15016U. BN
18.11 - 15345 RAE EE, not 15344v. SF/BN
18.26 - 11735 ZANZIBAR BC spenta.
18.32 - 11175U Numbers&Letters // 15016U + 13200U. SF/BN
19.13 - 13570 WINB (USA), Inglese, parlato OM. SF/IN
19.16 - 13149U GUANZHOU R. (CHN), CC, QSOs YL+OM. SF/IN
19.21 - 12050 Just open carrier. R. Cairo? BN
19.48 - 11734,96 Solo portante bassissima (JBA) s/off 19.59. R.
Transmundial? IN
20.22 - 9835 RTM SARAWAK FM (MLA), annunci stile pubblicità. BN/SF
20.33 - 9390 R. THAILAND, Inglese, nxs OM+YL. BN/SF
20.35 - 9355 FIREDRAKE (RFA in background). BN/MB
20.46 - 7613 Mx rock non stop (già qualche sera fa). IN/SF


***

Luca Botto Fiora
QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova) - Italia

***

Set 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
PL-660 Tecsun
VR5000DSP Yaesu
E5 Etón
-
ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
-
2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
-
3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto 21 metri
Balun 1:1 a choke coassiali (RG174)

-
ACCESSORI
Su antenne HF:
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
-
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC


***

Set 2 (LW-MW)
RICEVITORE
DE1103 Degen
-
ANTENNA
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA

***

REGISTRATORI
Digitali Sony
ICD-B500 (R7 - DE1103)
ICD-BX800 (PL-660)
ICD-BX112 (VR5000 - E5)

***

SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.3 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 6.1.1 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.4 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.3.1 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.1.1 demo (orologio mondiale)
VoaCap On Line (calcoli propagazione HF)

***

DATABASE
Kindle 4 Amazon

Glenn Hauser logs September 30, 2013

** BOLIVIA. 5952.4, Sept 30 at 0049 no signal from Radio Pio Doce, just jamming bleed from 5955; off the air early on Sunday night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 4877 approx., Sept 30 at 0052, spurblob centered about here, apparently accompanying carrier on 4875 from Rdif. Roraima, but not on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 9665.75, Sept 30 at 0110, Voz Missionária, Portuguese talk is even further off-frequency than when it was constantly hetting the deleted Voice of Russia. I could tell it was closer to 9666 than 9665 on the DX-398 before measuring it by counting 40-Hz clix with BFO compared to WWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)

** CHAD. 6165-, Sept 30 at 0050, JBA carrier, surely not RNT which must be off tonight; RHC on by 0101 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 5990, Sept 30 at 0100, CRI English opening as the Cubans have left the transmitter on after the Spanish broadcast which should close by 0057 and usually is off before 0100. Paul James says this will be an abbreviated Beijing Hour due to some national holiday. Still on past 0105 when I quit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)

** CUBA. 6000, Sept 30 at 0101, RHC missing, while this time, English on 6165 has already started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, UT Monday Sept 30 at 0111, ERA3 is playing Dvorak`s New World Symphony, more classical music on Sunday nights here; good here, // quite weaker 7475 which is also undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 11740 // 11985, Sept 30 at 0047, AIR Sinhala service with same music on both frequencies, but presumably out of synch. This time 11740 GOA is considerably stronger than 11985 Khampur, tho still with flutter. Still music at 0103 and //. Seems this semi-hour is mostly music instead of news/talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Since news arrived that 1640 KOAG Enid would soon as of Sept 30 flip to True Oldies, which has been on its sibling station 99.7 KZLS Mustang, I monitor the latter Sept 29 at 2246 UT, and find it has already flipped to: ``Country Legends 99.7, Hank FM``. Altho did not hear legal ID; on the caradio have to be careful not to confuse it with the CCI from Wichita.

(1680 KRJO Monroe LA also just flipped to Country Legends, but no Hank; tried // but music was not the same). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

``Branding: HANK FM
Slogan: Plays Everything Country
First air date: March 25th, 2005
Format: Country music & Classic Country
Owner: Envision Radio Networks
Website:
http://hankfmradio.com

Hank FM is the on-air brand name of several radio stations in the United States and Canada. Stations using the Hank FM brand name typically air a country music & Classic Country format, and promote themselves as less strictly formatted than other country music stations, airing both new country and classic country music. They generally use the slogan (He) Plays Everything Country on their country music "Hank FM" branded radio stations or "Plays Country Legends" on their Classic Country "Hank FM" radio stations.

The format was conceived and is owned by Howard Kroeger - creator of the BOB FM format. Kroeger also provides the voice for HANK. The name may be inspired by legendary country musician Hank Williams. However, one station currently branded as Hank FM is not consistent with the format of the other stations, using the brand name for an adult hits format more similar to the Jack or Bob formats.

Hank FM stations
Kalispell, Montana - KHNK
Glen Rose, Texas - KTFW-FM
Savannah, Georgia - WGCO
See also Hank FM stations in North America
KHNK (Kalispell, MT)
KTFW (Glen Rose, TX)
WANK* (Tallahasse [sic], FL)
WLHK (Indianapolis, IN)``

Ha, now it`s falling into place, as another of Champlin`s properties, KQOB 96.9, hijacked from Enid halfway to OKC market, has been ``Bob`` for several years. Wiki hasn`t yet caught up with OK developments, so how about the WTFDA FM database, searching merely on Hank, finding several others:

KTFW-FM 92.1 GLEN ROSE TX HANK FM CLASSIC COUNTRY
KOME-FM 95.3 MERIDIAN TX 92.1 HANK FM EVERYTHING COUNTRY
KHNK 95.9 COLUMBIA FALLS MT 95.9 HANK FM COUNTRY
WLXO 96.1 STAMPING GROUND KY HANK 96.1 CLASSIC COUNTRY
WLHK 97.1 SHELBYVILLE IN HANK FM COUNTRY
WGCO 98.3 MIDWAY GA HANK FM CLASSIC COUNTRY
WANK 99.9 LAFAYETTE FL 99.9 HANK FM ADULT HITS
CJHK-FM 100.7 BRIDGEWATER NS HANK FM COUNTRY
WDVH-FM 101.7 TRENTON FL 101.7 HANK FM CLASSIC COUNTRY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Sept 30 at 0048, R. Chaski carrier audible in heavy splash from CRI 5990 via CUBA, which tonight runs way late after switch to English at 0100, still going past 0105, but I can yet make out the Chaski cutoff at 0105:34.5* which computes at 6.5 seconds later than last night; maybe margin of error in play (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 9775-10000, Sept 30 at 0107, the modulation spur spikes from 10000 WWV can be heard in clear spots all the way down to 9775, during marine weather segment; perhaps that part is overmodulated worse than the others; at least I keep noticing this problem during it. It`s worse closer to 10000, and can even be heard underneath the very strong 9965 Cairo carrier which has plenty of problems of its own, not including overmodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7506.4, Sept 30 at 0102, WRNO is missing. Never got around to rechecking before 0400; usually it`s on a few minutes before 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

giovedì 29 agosto 2013

Glenn Hauser logs August 29, 2013

** ANGUILLA. 6090, August 29 at 0520, something`s very wrong with PMS audio; she`s still there, but under constant noise level. It`s not the up-or-downlink as // WWCR 5935 is OK, a reverb apart. Same situation on day frequency 11775 at 1230 check, also 1330 and 1403, as compared to 13845 WWCR OK at 1240. Maybe mistuned satellite receiver in The Valley, where no one is paying attention. Don`t they have webcast or phoneline backup if necessary? But it`s the same old PMS/DGS stuff over and over, so who cares? It`s nothing but a vanity project (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 29 at 1358:30, BB goes from tone to IS, poor signal today, but improvement from very poor or JBA. Clear timesignal ends at 1359:58, pretty close to reality! And opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11768-11803, approx. extent of horrible huge FMy signal from out of whack Brasília transmitter, Aug 29 at 0510; can still make out Rádio Nacional ID in Brazuguese. During pauses there is silence, typical of FM. Not the first time this 11780 transmitter has done it. How long will it take them to notice and fix it now? Is no one paying attention in Rodeador Park? // 6180 is OK in normal AM. Fortunately(?) the blob does not reach quite far enough to bother the next Brazilian on 11765, always with much weaker signal. I was expecting this, as first reported several hours earlier by DXLD yg members Gilles Letourneau in Québec, then by Don Moman in Alberta and Jorge Freitas in Bahia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jammer search August 29 before 1300: none found 12-18 MHz around 1240 until:
17450, very poor algo at 1257, likely one of those
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 15340, August 29 at 1324, 1402 chex, today`s missing frequency from RHC, audiblizing in the clear HCJB AUSTRALIA in Malaylam, Urdu respectively since it`s Thursday, per Aoki. RHC 13780 is inbooming but 17580 JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 17490, August 29 at 1244, discussion of Spiderman and the Chinese film industry, same on 17630 but not synchronized; 17490 cuts off at 1257* during disposable Chinese lesson, while 17630 continues. 17490 is CRI Kashgar 308 degrees in English all the way from 0700 to 1257 per Aoki, while 17630 is Ürümqi also 308 degrees at 1200-1457, so schedules overlap during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 15575, August 29 at 1300, KBS WR opening English hour, fair with flutter, but better than almost inaudibility yesterday; pales by comparison to bigsig on 15775, VOA Korean via Tinang, Philippines not even intended for US but aimed here at 21 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, August 29 at 1145 UT, lotsa familiar SRS Mexicans as I am now awakening before LSR of 1200; here I am hearing a nice marimba rendition of ``Sandunga``, looping NE/SW, far enough away from ``The Answer`` in The Metroplex, KSKY. 1146 only ID is ``6-60 AM`` which I already know. A few possibilities as far as DF and NW Mexico; may or may not be same station as definitely IDed at 1158 in a string of local ads/announcements with street addresses and phone numbers, finally mentioning ``aquí en Delicias``, i.e. XEACB in Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 680, August 29 at 1157 UT, ``La Mera Jefa`` ID atop the QRM, i.e. XEORO in Guasave, Sinaloa, 1/0.5 kW per IRCA Log. Would someone idiomatically translate this slogan, also used by other Mexicans? My dixionary doesn`t even have mera, instead meramente which obviously means merely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 760, August 29 at 1144 UT, ``ABC Radio`` ID in passing as I tune in, from ``la plaza ---``? Maybe really mentioned city of license as below, i.e. XEABC is still propagating. IRCA shows 70/5 kW, from Los Reyes de la Paz, Estado de México, but serving as a defacto DF outlet in that huge overcrowded market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 770, August 29 at 1155 UT, amid rock music in English, SID jingle as ``Los Cuarenta`` dominating rather than KKOB pre-sunrise there. Per IRCA Log it`s XEREV in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 5/0.1 kW where it is surely also pre-sunrise, but guess which power they are really using? Short for Los 40 Principales, i.e. Top-40. Is their playlist really that limited, and where do they get it, from the US of A or is there really a US of M Top-40 in English research bureau? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, August 29 at 1202 UT, ``diez mil watts de potencia desde Guachochi, Chihuahua, México``. Nice to be hearing this true daytimer again at sign-on which I think is 7 am local yearound, now that it`s just sunrising here. Mixed with kidchoir music, couple announcers wish `` muy buenos días``, 1204 ID XETAR as part of lengthy-named federal indigenous radio system. Only fair but steady signal vs slight SAH probably from Vietnam-in-The-Metroplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1650, August 29 at 1123 UT, open carrier looping E/W; must be KYHN Sallisaw ``Fort Smith AR``; mixed with at least two others, sports from NE/SW, i.e. KCNZ in Iowa, and Spanish religion from NW/SE, i.e. KBJD Denver. Then at 1126 I hear Osgood from CBS in the mix, about Pres. Obama`s speech yesterday. Maybe that`s really from KYHN undermodulating.

The Spanish 1650 mentions Radio Transmundial (TWR) at 1125 UT, apparently closing a program from them, and at 1130 a definite ID in Spanish as ``16-50 A-M, KBJD``. I am not going to render the pronunciation of each letter as everyone should know at least that much Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 42, Aug 29 at 1413 UT, minor area tropo visiblizes KMYT Tulsa, with My TV on 41.1 and TCN on 41.2, the latter being the ZUUS country music video net, which in OKC is on KOKH RF 24, 25.2 PSIP-labeled instead CMN --- seems there is no standardization about these. Meanwhile, other Tulsans are not strong enough to decode, e.g. KOTV RF 45, why? W9WI.com shows the two sites are within a few seconds of each other; KOTV is higher at 504 vs 381 meters, but KMYT is more powerful at 900 vs 840 kW, virtually insignificant difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 6604-USB, Aug 29 at 0514, New York Radio with Baltimore VOLMET not missing, WSY70 found here after no signals on 2000 and 3485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1684 monitoring: confirmed first airing UT Thursday August 29 at 0331 on WRMI webcast, and presumably 9955. Next:
Thu 2101 on WTWW-1 9479
UT Fri 0326v on WWRB 5050
UT Sat 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Sat 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955
UT Sun 0401 on WTWW-1 5830
Maybe Sat and/or Sun 2330 and/or UT Sun or Mon 0000 on 5085 WTWW-2
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, August 29 at 1137 UT, I am nulling WKY OKC to find another very weak station with Spanish music, except it`s more romantic without all the tubas pumping away on La Indomable. But I have to keep adjusting the DX-398 on my belly to be sure I am still hearing the DX. A real Mexican would be nice, but there are none in the northwest beyond Saltillo, so it`s probably KHJ Los Ángeles, a.k.a. ``La Ranchera`` in latest incarnation. By 1142 something in English is taking over the WKY null position. (But WKY also runs ads in English mixed with Spanish as I heard one at tune-in.) Not only by awakening before latening sunrise, but info from NRC DX News that WKY has got an extension on their STA to run 1 instead of 5 kW at night have spurred me to resume DXing 930 beyond OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 970, August 29 at 0535 UT, program promos mention WDCJ? in QRM; think it must have been fonetikally similar WGTK Louisville KY sending a radiowave this way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. I am deliberately checking this frequency since latest NRC DX News AM Switch reported ``1190, KPHN, MO, Kansas City – Went silent 7/31 pending sale by R. Disney``.

1190, August 29 at 1209 UT playing ``Southern Girl`` C&W from NE/SW, then ``Country Legends --- the all-new 11-90, KGGZ`` so at first I think this is KPHN`s replacement, but FCC AM Query has no KGGZ, instead KQQZ in De Soto MO, i.e. St. Louis market. Site appears to be across the river near Granite City IL, while De Soto is axually about 45 miles south of St Louis. So KPHN, or rather FCC facid 4373 is apparently still silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

TWR Announces Live Call-in Broadcast to Turbulent Syria

Live broadcasts sharing the hope of Christ with war-racked Syria have been launched by TWR. Hope for Syria is a live, 30-minute program in the Syrian Arabic language. It airs daily at 11:56 p.m. Syrian time on 1233 AM.
"The program is aired live to invite listeners to call in and interact with the presenters of the programs," said TWR's Arabic ministry director, whose name is withheld for security reasons. "This is mainly to help people who are in tragedy in Syria to know that we care for them, and they can ask for prayer and find comfort and help by interacting with the program presenter."
This new outreach arose from TWR's partnership with several organizations, including IBRA Media of Sweden, which is sponsoring 50 percent of the airtime for this special initiative. During the next four months, Hope for Syria will spread the message of true peace amid the civil war that reportedly has killed nearly 100,000 people in the Middle Eastern nation.
In addition to the program for Syria, TWR daily broadcasts several hours of Gospel messages in Arabic. Detailed broadcast schedules can be found at www.arabicprograms.org and www.twr.org. An iOS app with high-quality Christian content in Arabic is also available for free download in the iTunes store athttp://goo.gl/2GswX.
TWR's Arabic Ministries department actively seeks ways to help and bless people of Syria who are going through tremendous turmoil.
To help provide hope to people in Syria, visit
www.twr.org/syria.(via dxld)

Ascolti AM Treviso 29/8

21660 29/8   1002 BBC WS via Thailand   Nx  E 14422
 6005 29/8   1057 Radio 700, Kall-Krekel Px D 24422
15515 29/8   1100 AWR KSDA, Agat-Guam  Px rel. M 24422

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
http://acquamarina.blogspot.com

Frequency changes of BBC

U.K.(non)    Frequency changes of BBC:
0000-0100 on  7320 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to SoAs English, additional freq
0100-0200 on  9500 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs English, additional freq
1200-1400 NF  5820 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Mon/Sat, ex 5875
1200-1400 NF  5840 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Tue/Fri, ex 5875
1200-1400 on  5875 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Wed/Sun, ex Daily
1200-1400 NF  5980 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg to EaAs English Thu, ex 5875
1300-1400 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg to EaAf Somali Sat till August 31
1300-1400 on 17830 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg to EaAf Somali Sat till August 31
1300-1400 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali till August 31
1330-1600 on 17780 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Hausa Sat till August 31
1400-1500 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg to EaAf Somali Sun-Fri till Aug.31
1400-1500 on 17830 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg to EaAf Somali Sun-Fri till Aug.31
1400-1500 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali till August 31
1400-1600 on 17830 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Somali Sat till August 31
1500-1600 on 21470 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to EaAf Somali Sat till August 31
1500-1600 on  9735 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs English, additional freq
1600-1700 on  9910 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs English, additional freq
1830-1900 NF  9720 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg to ECAf Kirundi Mon-Fri,ex 15790

--
73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Log Roberto Pavanello

1035 23/8 21.25 Northsound 2 - Aberdeen EE NX locali suff.
 1503 24/8 03.00 BBC R. somerset - Tauntun EE NX suff.
 4885 24/8 02.40 R. Clube do Parà - Belem PP NX buono
 5952.5 24/822.40 R. Pio XII - Siglo XX Aymara MX suff.
 6240 24//8 22.00 R. Frieloo - EE ID e MX buono
 6300 24/8 22.05 R. Odynn - EE ID e MX buono
 6325 24/8 22.10 R. Norton - EE ID e MX buono
11765 23/8 21.00 R. Deus è Amor - Curitiba PP predica buono
11780 23/8 21.15 R. Nac. Amazonas  - Brasilia PP MX suff.
11815 24/8 22.25 R. Brasil Central - Goiania PP calcio suff.
11855 23/8 21.05 R. Aparecida - PP predica suff.
15190 24/8 18.00 R. Pilipinas - Filippino NX buono
15345 23/8 21.10 R.A.E. - Buenos Aires Tedesco meteo buono

Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Ampegon delivers two 100 kW shortwave transmission systems to All India Radio

All India Radio (AIR), India's National Broadcaster and the premier Public Service Broadcaster of the subcontinent, has ordered two 100 kW shortwave transmitters from Ampegon. The new systems will replace existing analogue transmitters with four tubes by modern analogue/digital transmitters having single tube and hence a much better overall efficiency. The transmitters will operate with the new Ampegon control system to optimize DRM performance, an important factor in the growing Indian DRM market.

All India Radio has selected Ampegon as supplier because of the expertise and the reliability of their transmitters well known since decades. AIR is already using many different Ampegon AM/DRM radio transmitters which have been delivered between 1983 and 2012.

The transmitters will be manufactured in Turgi, Switzerland. Factory tests together with AIR engineers are planned for January and shipment for February 2014. Thereafter AIR will install the transmitters at a site near New Delhi. Commissioning together with an Ampegon engineer will start in August 2014. The new transmitters are expected to be on air in October 2014.

They will be partially used for DRM digital broadcasting and partially for analogue transmission. Furthermore AIR has plans to upgrade 36 of the existing AM mediumwave and 4 of the existing AM shortwave transmitters for DRM digital broadcasting.

AIR originates programming in 23 languages and 146 dialects. AIR operates 244 FM transmitters for coverage of 29.4% surface area and 41.6% of the population. AIR also operates mediumwave transmitters which cover 92% surface area and 99% of the population. Further AIR operates 48 shortwave transmitters. 21 of them are 500 kW or 250 kW shortwave transmitters and are used for external international services. 27 of them are 50 or 100 kW shortwave transmitters and are used for local services and for  coverage of neighboring countries.

(Press Release)

---
Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi

mercoledì 28 agosto 2013

Ascolti AM Treviso 28/8

6070 28/8   859 Radio 6150, Rohrbach  Mx D 34433
6095 28/8   902 Transport Radio, Nauen Nx NL 55555
17520 28/8 1058 AWR KSDA, Agat-Guam  Px rel. M 24422
21610 28/8 1100 R. Exterior Espana, Noblejas   Nx  Es 55555
21515 28/8 1106 R. Exter. Espana, Noblejas   Px "El vestuario"  Es 34533

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
http://web.tiscali.it/ondecorte

Glenn Hauser logs August 28, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 28 at 1355, continuous tone from Bangladesh Betar, very poor with flutter. Still tone past 1359 when IS is normally running; 1359:50 finally starts IS, but only part of it is heard before faded out at 1400:11 for opening Urdu, and no timesignal audible in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 6160, August 28 at 0517, Marco Werman`s familiar voice on `The World`, strumming music break. (ACI from 6165 Cuba not so bad during Arnie Coro`s deliberately degraded voice lacking highs as he presents an editorial ``Viewpoint`` on behalf of Castro & Castro.) 0518 PRI ID, so usual CKZN Newfoundland timing for this US radio program via CBC Radio One.

I am still not hearing CKZU Vancouver also on 6160, but closer monitors such as Ron Howard in CA confirm it`s still on, at least sporadically, and via Dan Say, we now have word that its closure was all a CBC HQ mistake by including it on a list of LPRTs to be deleted, moving from AM to FM, or already off. See this thread to the end:
http://www.radiowest.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13777
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming August 28 before 1400:
16100, poor with flutter at 1345; no others 12-19 MHz except the usual 15 MHz inbanders weakly on 15115, 15195, 15265 against VOA, RFA, RTI, which normally were never FD. Until detected these against V of Tibet:
15540, very poor at 1355, het on hi side
15555, very poor at 1355, het on hi side
15570, very poor at 1355, het on lo side
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9410, August 28 before 1300, this is still a noise-blob day for the CNR5 transmitter in Beijing, total loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 11680, August 28 at 0055, surprised to find French here; must be RHC, and yes, // 5040. Per Aoki, 11680 is supposed to be Spanish-only at 2300-0400, tho we`ve often found it missing.

Per
http://www.radiohc.cu/fr/dinteret/frequences.html
this broadcast is supposed to be only on 5040 at 0030-0100. Apparently mixed up program feed lines, not unusual for the incompetents at RHC.

(BTW, the French sked shows an additional webcast-only at 1830-1900; don`t see anything like that for the other languages; SW is completely off the air for siesta at 1500-1900. And it gets 11880 right for the 2200 airing, unlike English at 2300 on ``1880``)

6000, August 28 at 0233, RHC English is undermodulated, much weaker-sounding than // 6165. I was checking for 4XZ, the Israeli military CW station which others (Karl Zuk, Rafael Rodríguez, Rodolfo Tizzi) had heard two nights before around this time with a V marker on 6001 QRMing RHC, but nothing from that now.

15340, August 28 at 1344, HCJB in the clear with no RHC which nominally starts at 1300. Before 1300 it was hardly audible on 6150 under that other Aussie. Now RHC 15230 has fair signal but very undermodulated; 17580 very weak but detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 28 at 0101, R. Chaski is JBA with carrier and traces of modulation until cutoff at 0102:34.5* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. I am still avoiding the porch-with-mosquitoes so this is on the regular FRG-7 with external longwire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5085, August 28 at 0057, WTWW-2 is back here with Brother Scare, instead of 9930 yesterday, which was apparently a test or fluke, failure to switch to night frequency. 5085 still going at 0521 check --- and at 1259 when I notice the audio is way behind 9980 WWCR; just before finally switching to 9930 which comes up at *1300:23 with BS in progress; 1300 is also the time that WTWW-1 switches from 5830 to 9479; and about when WTWW-3 comes on 12105 in Russian Bibling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 5875, Wednesday August 28 at 1303, and also before that hour, BBCWS in English via THAILAND is very poor, but back on original frequency after excursion the day before to 5840 instead. 5875 is supposedly used on Sundays and Wednesdays only, probably confusing would-be listeners more than potential ChiCom jammers. But if you have a rough-tuning cheap analog-dial radio, maybe you won`t notice the difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 529, August 28 at 0509 UT, no signal, no het from beacon LYQ which was active 24 hours earlier from the WWRB SW site in Morrison TN. May be off again for months. I suspect Dave Frantz chose the letters LYQ for non-ID, because in CW, each is made up of `opposite` dits and dahs, confusing to those trying to grasp the language: .-.. / -.-- / --.- It`s customary for beacons to use made-up usually three-letter calls as their legal IDs would be quite cumbersome:
WQHL966 would be: .-- / --.- / .... / .-.. / ----. / -.... / -....
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9359.5-SSB, August 28 at 1248-1254, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, one quite stronger than the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11900.5-SSB, August 28 at 0057, 2-way intruder in colloquial Spanish; weak but certainly stands out within the AM (and unfortunately DRM) 25m broadcast band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Radio Inyabutatu

Starting August 31, 2013, a new radio station will start broadcasting on shortwave. It concerns Radio Inyabutatu.

Radio Inyabutatu will broadcast on Saturdays from 1700-1800 UTC on 17870 kHz in the 16 meter band.

For more information, visit
www.radioinyabutatu.com.

Ascolti AM Treviso 26-27 agosto

15345 26/8   1932 R. Argentina, General Pacheco Sport ID Mx It 24433
3965  26/8   2005 R. Taiwan international, Issoudun Nx Meteo Es  45544
11695 26/8   2100 Radio Australia, Shepparton  Nx E 34433
15580 27/8   502 Voice of America via Botswana  Nx  E 45555
11725 27/8   508 R. New Zealand Inter., Rangitaiki Id  Meteo E 34443

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
http://web.tiscali.it/ondecorte

Glenn Hauser logs August 23-24, 2013

** CUBA [and non]. 15370, August 24 at 0040, open carrier at good level. Can`t be anything but RHC, not turned off after the Quechua service until 0030. Equivalent signal on 15120 from CRI relay, weaker RHC Spanish 15230, yet still the SSOBs with little else propagating on 19m.

15340, August 24 at 1353, RHC Spanish is axually underneath HCJB AUSTRALIA in presumed Hindi as scheduled daily 1330-1400, making SAH of about 5 Hz; unusual propagation, the pair now amounting to the SSOBs and almost the OSOBs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 9590 poor, and stronger // 9800, August 24 at 0045, Chinese orchestral music, i.e. CRI Spanish service at 23-01 via Kashgar to CIRAF 12-14, i.e. South America except SE Brasil and Patagonia. 294 and 269 degrees respectively, so one would expect 9590 to be stronger here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9965.0, August 24 at 0049, R. Cairo is just barely modulated, hum, and flutter, but at least it`s back on frequency, its variance having been repaired from 9963.5 as reported by Ivo Ivanov at 2300 August 20; and from 9963.449 by Wolfgang Büschel at 0010 Aug 22 when it also had ``a fence of spurious signals, each 100 Hertz apart, six on lower and six on upper side flank``. HFCC shows site is Abis; Aoki shows the other one, Abu Zaabal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, August 24 at 0508 UT, daytimer KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is on again in the nightmiddle; I don`t see how this could be accidental, but if KMOX doesn`t care, why should we? Why should the FCC?

0508 alabanza music is heard on the SRF-59, best in KMOX null, but at times strong enough to be heard and with few-Hz SAH under KMOX, unless KEOR be precisely nulled. 0512 break for YL speaking some devotional ``palabras de Victoria``; program promos for other dayparts; local ad mentioning something on 81st Street (typically Tulsa: east-west arteries on the south side all follow the formula (10x + 1); and back to music (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 24 at 0053, R. Chaski, some talk modulation audible, with splash worst during music from 5990 CRI/Cuba. Chaski carrier cuts off at 0102:14.5* which is 22 seconds later than last log 96 hours earlier, i.e. still averaging 5.5 seconds later per day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5085, August 24 at 0533, Brother Scare is again blasting away on WTWW-2, now seemingly regular. Unknown if really straight thru all-night but I would assume so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. Received in the p-mail August 23, envelope from R. Taiwan International, metered, no stamp. Includes a nice but blank QSL card illustrating ``Paiwan and Rukai Settlement: Slate Houses`` (I hope that`s right: font is almost too tiny to read). This must be in reply to e-mail I sent advising them that they were about to lose their N American audience by not replacing defunct WYFR relay; I did not send a formal reception report. Encouraging one is a light-weight RR form.

Also sent Spring and Summer 2013 issues of slick 4-page newsletter Taipeiwave, with several interesting articles based on programming. The spring issue also welcomed newhost, John Barthelette. Two sheets of English program grid and frequency schedules, one expected to be effective 03/31/2013 to 10/27/2013, but superseded by another one 07/1/2013 to 10/27/2013 removing WYFR and updating the frequency schedule, but also removing John already as a program host. He had been doing `The Occidental Tourist` (get it?) on Sundays, co-hosting `We`ve Got Mail` with Shirley Lin on Tuesdays, and `On the Clock` on Thursdays, which was about jobs.

Here`s the current program schedule effective 2013/07/01, in minutes past the hours:

DAILY
00-10, News

SUNDAY:
10, People, Shirley Lin
25, Classic Shorts, Natalie Tso
30, The Occidental Tourist, Shirley Lin
40, On the Line, Carlson Wong

MONDAY-FRIDAY:
10-25, Hear in Taiwan, various

MONDAY:
25, Chinese to Go, Huang Shih-han
30, Soundwaves, Shirley Lin

TUESDAY:
25, We`ve Got Mail, Shirley Lin

WEDNESDAY:
25, Time Traveler, Huang Shih-han
35, Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes, Carlson Wong

THURSDAY:
25, Original Waves, various
40, Eye on China, Natalie Tso
50, Chinese to Go, Huang Shih-han

FRIDAY:
25, Taiwan Today, Natalie Tso
40, Women Making Waves, Paula Chao
50, Ear to the Ground, Andrew Ryan

SATURDAY:
10, Soft Power, various
25, Feast Meets West, Ellen Chu and Andrew Ryan

And the English frequency schedule, reworked here to time order:
SE Asia 0300-0400 15320
SE Asia 1100-1200 7445 1359
Philippines 1100-1200 1359
China 1600-1700 6180
South Asia 1600-1700 15485
Africa 1700-1800 15690
Europe 1800-1900 6155

Lotsa luck hearing any of these (well) in N America. Relay sites not given, but HFCC shows 6155, 15485 and 15690 are FRANCE, as long as they are listed as ``RFI TDF`` with no mention of RTI, banned from HFCC by the ChiCom. BTW, the MW relays on 1210 in Sacramento and 750 in Baltimore have also been deleted.

I am also now the proud owner of a 15-digit ID number in the RTI database, so look forward to more p-mail if not SW signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1683 monitoring: confirmed on time 0200 UT Saturday August 24 from Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB and webcast.

Confirmed on WRMI webcast, Saturday 1500+.
Next: UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1 5830. Also need to confirm whether or not still appearing at 2329v Sat or Sun on 9930; or 0000 UT Sun or Mon on 5085 as previously.

Did anyone in Europe hear Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB today Saturday, including WOR at previous times of 0630 & 1430? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9479, Saturday August 24, 2013 at 1305 listened briefly to passed-away Pastor Pete Peters on SFAW, asserting the date is Saturday, August 24! Neat trick, but archivist must have pulled out recording from the last year when the day of month and week matched, i.e. 2002y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-AM, August 24 at 0537, very poor pirate signal with music, too deep in the noise level, but with BFO on at 0540, his VFO swishes away, and I soon find a new signal on 6940 sounding the same. Situation somewhat clarified by logs on hfunderground.com from BOR --- would that be the op of Blue Ocean Radio?

``Eccentric Shortwave 6925u 0535Z August 24, 2013: Came up on top of RTN playing Doc Watson tunes. RTN since moved to 6940. No ID as of 0550Z. About S1 to S2 on the west coast.`` RTN = Radio True North (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs August 27, 2013

** CHINA. 9410, August 27 at 1215, big noise blob has resumed from Beijing 491 site supposed to be CNR5 service. I am suspecting CNR5 is sacrificed on occasions when evil Fu Hsing BS from Taiwan is detected active on 9410, 11-13 UT, i.e. converting this transmitter to jamming mode. Unlike the Cubans, the ChiCom are surely not so technically incompetent as to let this happen for any other reason. OTOH, the blobnoise is still on at 1343 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [and non], CNR1 jammer bandscan search Aug 27 from 1337 finds none at all in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s. Except maybe inband bits in the lo part of 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11840, August 27 at 0106, RHC Spanish with very lo modulation, no comparison to normal // 11760; // 15230 is also undermodulated and weaker.

6150, August 27 at 1210, RHC is back here on original frequency colliding with stronger R. Australia, despite apparently erroneous excursion to 6125 yesterday, shux. Re-opens 6125 for CNR1, whoopee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 9720, August 27 at 1345, assertive Russian speaker about Christianity with sidekick, fair signal, 1346 into wistful song by YL. It`s KSDA, AWR, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Agat during this semihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 13362-USB, August 27 at 1331, good signal from AFN with news, in fact much better than ever heard on nominal night frequency 5765-USB. NBC Today Show? Not today, maybe before 13; YL anchor eventually IDs as HLN, and is indeed a couple words ahead of CNN Headline News channel as received on cable 63 in Enid. Still in at 1350 with promo break for Navy-Cool (?) career program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 13880, August 27 at 1336, very poor signal with broadcast-intoned talk on AM. Aoki shows VIRI, 0840-1427 in Dari, 250 kW, 84 degrees from Ahwaz. This is as high as you can go on 21m before hitting the SOH/Firedrake/CNR1 band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 5150, August 27 at 1209, very poor signal in Korean, i.e. MND Radio, clandestine for North but no noise jamming audible; couldn`t remember the paired channel, but Aoki shows it`s 6360 during this hour. Originally this new service would jumble its schedule frequently, but apparently not lately. Aoki says 100 kW ND from JongAn site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, August 27 at 1338, JBA carrier from presumed KBS World Radio North American service in English. After a few summer months of usually adequate reception, I fear we are already entering the darkening months not supporting such a night-path MUF, as KBS doggedly stix to this yearound, and won`t consider a relay unlike Spanish at 0100 on 9605 via WHRI, which has a strong reliable signal here altho intended for Latin America. O well, at least we are still on KBS radar unlike RTI`s. Maybe there will still be some sufficient reception days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 650, August 27 at 0614 UT, Radio 65 and 12:14 TC in Spanish, back to music, axually atop WSM without nulling the latter. I.e. XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, a regular here but WSM normally dominant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 27 at 0101, R. Chaski carrier on the FRG-7 is JBA until cutoff 0102:29.5*, which is 15 seconds later than last check 72 hours earlier, averaging 5 seconds later per night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, August 27 at 1216, still no signal from R. Free Sarawak via Taiwan (or Palau?); in fact 19m is almost dead except for a bit o` Cuba and China. We were certainly fortunate to hear RFS on its first day back on the air when it ran until 1321 instead of 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. 9685, August 27 at 0101, still no signal from International Radio Serbia, and still no moaning & groaning that I have noticed about another station abandoning SW to North America; no reply and no explanation from IRS, and Europeans are still hearing it on some services to there via other frequencies, altho seemingly sporadically (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11795, August 27 at 0105, VG open carrier, no doubt REE already on prior to 0115 Sephardic service, UT Tuesdays only for S America on a clear frequency instead of seasonal collision with Brasil 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 11910, August 27 at 1239, REE via CHINA is fair with flutter featuring songs in Asturian language; mentioned ``El Tambor Amarillo`` a couple times, showname? // 11815 via CR had the usual Japanese music CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 5840, Aug 27 at 1208, surprised to find weak but mostly readable signal in English about Turkey, BBCWS? Yes, same on Singapore 6195 at 1211. First checking HFCC, it`s on 5845, not 5840, and not starting until 1400, so no fit there. Then I consult Aoki:

``5840*BBC 1200-1400 ..3..6. English 250 25 Nakhon Sawan THA 1503N 10004E BBC a13 Jun. 28``

This is day 3 = Tuesday. So it`s one of those jumparound transmitters, supposedly to confuse ChiCom jamming (none heard; are they still attacking English broadcasts from BBC et al.?), and nothing on 5875 where BBC used to be and per Aoki still is, same parameters on days 1 and 4 only, since end of June. And 5820 on days 2 and 7, leaving day 5 unaccounted for, at least in this band area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 2000-USB, August 27 at 0541, New York Radio, WSY70 is JBA with VOLMET; at first tune I thought it was off, but once I had zeroed in on exact 5000.00 WWV and tuned down exactly 3 MHz, could detect it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Tuesday August 27 at 0054, WBCQ is already on, sounds like the guy on the phone `Allan Weiner Worldwide` is always talking to, so presumably an unscheduled playback of AWWW, from 0000? Prior to the 0100 `Heart & Soul` show. Nothing on the Area 51 schedule now except on weekends, (and skipping H&S hour UT Sats which is not from A51 but from WBCQ itself); and nothing shown on the WBCQ 5110 web schedule either before 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 5085, August 27 at 0055, I notice this frequency is off from WTWW-2, instead of normal start at 0000. That`s because the transmitter has stayed on day frequency 9930! as discovered at 0104, still inbooming with Brother Scare. And on, and on, this date, still 9930 at 0207, 0522, final 0629 chex, so presumably all-night. This works OK propagationally so far, but what about collisions?

Latest FCC schedule now dated 30 July at
http://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/A13FCC02.TXT
shows 9930 for WTWW only at 12-24 UT, while available (but surely not all used) to ``KHBN`` Palau 24 hours.

HFCC shows no other conflicts, except one I had not noticed before:
9930 2315-2400 Sundays only, IBB Kuwait, 250 kW, 80 degrees in ``Bod``, i.e. a Tibetan dialect --- the same time WORLD OF RADIO used to be on WTWW.

If WTWW stay on 9930 instead of 5085 after 0000, that won`t be an adjacent problem for The Mighty KBC, 9925 via Germany, Sundays at 00-02, since from September it`s moving down to 7375 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 7225, August 27 at 0543, TWR IS, good signal elbowing aside 7230 Channel Africa, which until then was fairly readable in English. This is the quarter-hour Polish service allegedly also on 5910, but I don`t hear the IS there (unless it just ended), only a trace of something under HJDH and causing a rippling fast SAH.

My previous log of this Aug 19, pointing out that 7225 is not aimed at Poland from Austria, but further west at 300 degrees, unlike 5910 at 30 degrees also from Austria, led to a discussion by Kai Ludwig and Wolfgang Büschel, as in DXLD 13-33:

WB: ``Glenn, this TWR Polish 300 degrees outlet is mainly meant to hundred thousands of Polish Nationals speaking people, at present living, and foreign working, studying in all EU, central / western Europe. Despite 300 degrees mainlobe, there is also a minor sidelobe signal of Moosbrunn all over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe too.``

KL: ``I strongly suspect that the azimuth for the 7225 signal is a typo and deleting the second naught will give the actual bearing. The antenna type (4/3 dipole wall) clearly indicates the big rotatable antenna, its low-band side in particular, and no hindrances seem to prevent pointing this antenna at 30 degrees, as listed for the log.-periodic in use on 5910.

It so happened that this morning the time was suitable for me to check it out: 7225 had lots of fading here, obviously being close to the MUF, but was otherwise hardly weaker than 5910 (and unsurprisingly in perfect synch with it). I think this 7225 is meant for the eastern parts of Poland, in accordance with the given target CIRAF 28. Anything else would be hunting for the niche of a niche within a niche.

I noted that these transmissions still start with the old Monte Carlo IS which hardly makes sense in any regard now. Is it is in use on any other distribution platform than shortwave at all? I don't think so.

But still a bit stronger than 5910 was at the same time 6155, with almost local-like reception. When leaving the radio on in the background only the very hard dynamic compression still made the path obvious from which Österreich 1 was coming in. It also confirmed once more a previous experience that dynamic compression disfigures baroque music very quickly. But still I think I'll more often tune into 6155 as morning companion when the time fits, already out of a consideration that at least one person should listen to this alibi transmission.``

But since 7225 comes in so much better here than 5910, I strongly suspect 7225 is really aimed USward. If not, it still has a lot more gain than the LP on 5910. Both M-F with 100 kW. Why is this under USA [non] instead of AUSTRIA? AFAIK, TWR HQ is still in Cary, North Carolina, altho the only ``US`` transmitter they use is KTWR Guam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5371.5-SSB, August 27 at 0535, one of the few discrete ``60 [sic; really 55.57] meter`` ham frequencies authorized in certain countries, ragchew about equipment, QRP rigs, etc., quick ID as KJ5JK? Or -JT? With a much weaker WA0. 0628 now it`s KB5BK? Probably same station who won`t employ fonetix, still chewing about straight keys, etc., with a stronger contact (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 529, Aug 27 at 0549 there`s a het upon 530 Cuba and 530 Vance AFB TIS, which I haven`t heard in ages. Must be 529 ``LYQ`` reactivated, as just tipped by Bruce Conti, Nashua NH log on the mwdx yg:

``529, *WQHL966 TN Morrison* - 8/25 0300 EDT [0700 UT] - Loud het against 530 R. Enciclopedia; repeating LYQ in Morse code. Listed in FCC database as an aviation radio navigation station at Roseanne Airport. New log``

I replied: ``Not new here, but haven`t heard a het of it in months, and presumed was inactive. This is run by Dave Frantz at his WWRB SWBC site (3185, 3215, 5050, 9370), and I think he only turns it on occasionally when needed as navigational backup. 73 Glenn Hauser, OK``

I hear it first on the SRF-59, just the A2 het, can`t make out any ID, but as I rotate the barefoot ultralight, the pitch of the het changes very slightly: because K530AM Vance is a bit higher in frequency than Cuba with which it normally makes a significant SAH. Then I switch to the DX-398 in LSB mode and can barely make out ``LYQ`` IDs. May soon be gone again for months. BTW, K530AM is still warning us about hurricanes hitting here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, August 27 at 0557 UT, ``770 KKOB`` ID, promo Mark Levin show; is clear and dominant E/W signal vs rock music N/S, probably XE if not Metroplex. Usual quandary about whether this is bleed from the main 50 kW KKOB transmitter in Albuquerque`s North Valley which is supposed to protect WABC, maybe out of whack, but not strong enough to be on day pattern; or the co-channel nite-only 230-watt non-direxional fill-in relay in Santa Fe (Glenn Hauser, OK, SRF-59, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UZBEKISTAN. 12160, August 27 at 1328, heavy flutter, very poor signal in S Asian song, announcement, continuing past 1330. Aoki shows it`s TWR ``India`` via Tashkent, on Tuesdays going from Dogri to Hindi. BTW, this service lasts until 1615 weekdays, 1545 weekends in various languages, thus colliding with WWCR after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 17530, August 27 at 1340 the SSOB is VOA Somali, and almost the OSOB with a trace of 17580 Cuba, and nothing tooday from the often well-heard CRI East Turkistan trio 17560, 17640, 17650. Makes for less religion, anyway from SMG site, altho violating Separation of Church and State to do so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [and non]. 7250, August 27 at 0527, presumed Albanian from VR, transmitter on the air early again, promoting this tongue from MW-only status on 1260; 0528 song, 0529 bells; poor signal.

5980, then found VR here too at 0530 ending bells and into ``Laudetur Iesus Christus``, mass show introduced in German, Spanish, French, Polish(?), 0531 into Latin. Better signal than 7250, but // 9645 is best despite het on hi side from R. Bandeirantes, Brasil.

At times 5980 also has CCI from WWCR mixing product, extremely strong 5890 leaping over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, and making a SAH of 3 or 4 Hz.

HFCC shows 5980 VR at 0530-0615, 100 kW, 330 degrees from SMG in Lat for the entire A-13 season, but I have not been hearing it all summer until now; was it really off, or is the sun just starting to rise late enough? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

martedì 27 agosto 2013

Glenn Hauser logs August 25-26, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 6150, August 26 at 1230, RA now in the clear! As RHC has moved to 6125, but that could be accidental. Cuba was on 6150 first, and I could not dissuade RA from 6150 too in A-13. RA also on always best 9580 and 12065, plus audible on weak // 6080, 9475. See also CUBA.

It`s Monday, so `Reah Vision` is discussing the uncertain future for wrestling as an Olympic sport; mid-break at 1241 refers to show being on Radio National, online and podcast, but *no* mention of R. Australia. Does hostess not know she is still on SW, or has been instructed to omit RA references? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 12362-USB, Aug 26 at 1255, marine weather forecasts as far ahead as Aug 29; well-enunciated Oz accent, but can`t catch arcane coastal location headers. This is VMW from Wiluna, Western Australia. A much weaker unreadable signal is on 12365-USB, no doubt its sibling VMC in Charleville, Queensland doing the same thing. See
http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/marine_weather_radio.shtml
as Bill Hepburn`s dxinfocentre still hasn`t added marine weather info outside Canada (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming August 26 before 1300:
14700, fair with flutter at 1259; no time for a full scan this hour but no others encountered (have not heard real FD on 13795 lately).

CNR1 jamming August 26 after 1330:
16600, fair at 1335 with flutter; none in the 17s, 18s
15565 & 15550, poor with hets at 1337
15115, usual heavy collision at 1337
14800, very good at 1338; none in the 13s, 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15370, Aug 26 at 0054, open carrier again from RHC, not turning off the transmitter after Quechua finished at 0030, still on even later than last night. Meanwhile, countless Cubans go hungry while all this energy is wasted, let alone on jamming where mind-control is more important than nutrition.

6000, August 26 at 0457, RHC English frequency is missing. Previously it would have gone off around now to be replaced by 6010, not necessarily the same transmitter. It could still be that they need to switch transmitters for the final bihour. This clears 6005 for BBC; see UK; and 6010 for HJDH. At 0457, I also find that 6125 and 6165 are modulated OK in English, while 6060 still in Spanish is undermodulated. RHC English supposed to stay on 6000 until 0700, and found that back on air at 0531 check.

6125, whoopee! For the first time Aug 26 at 1229 with IS and ID, RHC Spanish is on here, instead of colliding with 6150 R. Australia [q.v.]; now RHC is atop some weaker CCI, no doubt CNR1 which is listed by Aoki and HFCC both from Beijing 572 site at 37 degrees USward, and from Shijiazhuang 723 site at 217 degrees, 100 kW each, Commies vs Commies vs Commies!

So Arnie finally gets away from RA after months of colliding, or is it an accident? With the slipshod RadioCuba operation you never know at first: 6125 is of course in use until 0700 for RHC English, and could be they simply forgot to retune the transmitter for the 1100+ broadcast. What will happen tomorrow?

15340, will Arnie also avoid the other Aussie, HCJB? No! Kununurra was OK until *1302 Aug 26 covered by RHC carrier, with usual opening procedure of cutting on and back off, then on again adding modulation in progress.

13780, RHC is also on today Monday Aug 26 at 1339, unlike yesterday. 17580 is audible fairly at 1334, but still no signal on 17730, the other 16m morning channel which I am concluding has been totally dropped.

Have any of these changes(?) been entered on RHC`s own schedule at
http://www.radiohc.cu/index.php/de-interes/frecuencias.html
? of course not! Yet, the English schedule has removed 6010 athttp://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html
but still hasn`t fixed a slight typo of ``1880`` for English to Africa at 23-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 15630, August 25 at 1956, open carrier, presumably ERT if not EDT; wasn`t paying much attention, but I think a few minutes earlier it was on 15650 with a song in French but Greek announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, August 25 at 1952, big DRM noise must indicate V. of Nigeria is on today, about to close at 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 6005, August 26 at 0458, BaBcoCk music loop is playing; we`re still waiting for anyone to identify it. How about the app that figures out tunes from a few notes? In the clear tnx to temporary absence of Cuba from 6000 (and permanently from 6010). 0500 BBCWS news in English still unimpeded but only fair, 27 degrees from ASCENSION, but // 7355 at 102 degrees is always good for us. Cuba [q.v.] came up on 6000 later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 2000-USB, Aug 26 at 0536, New York Radio is back on its strange medium frequency! Barely audible after missing a few weeks(?) this month. Pays to keep checking, once BFO is tuned to exactly 5000 WWV, minus 3 MHz on the FRG-7.

Furthermore, Pittsburgh is not ``missing``. Then I check the other WSY70 frequencies: nothing audible on 3485, 6604 or 13270, but good on 10051-USB at 0539 when Atlantic City VOLMET is not missing. Seems it`s potluck which of their frequencies will be active at any given time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15670, August 25 at 1955, beeping from the VOA Greenville Radiogram test, as every Sunday at 1930. Stayed tuned for closing voice announcement, but there wasn`t any, altho from 1957 undermodulated music mixed with the tones until cutoff at 1959:48*: to determine whether this would be harmful self-QRM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1683 monitoring: missed checking the past couple weeks the Sun 2330v airing on WTWW-2 9930, but this happened August 25: tune-in just before 2330 to find `Amateur Radio Newsline` running: that`s promising, instead of Brother Scare who has occupied most of the time on this transmitter. 2350 QSY announcement to 5085, but it does not happen. 2351 WOR 1683 starts. Aug 26 0000.4*, 9930 cuts off; retune to 5085, can`t hear it at first vs local noise level, but soon something starts. I have it audible by 0003.8 when WOR playback re-starts, so all is well. Later before 0100 I was hearing Ted Randall greeting listeners, not sure whether live or not. Sometime between then and next check around 0455, BS had resumed on 5085. Day frequency was not on before 1300, but with BS at 1344 check.

BTW, WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE has been updated at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

And so has DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS as of Aug 26:http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5935, August 26 at 0500, underneath DGS can hear a real WWCR ID in crosstalk from // 3215 transmitter, insufficiently isolated next to it (and/or the rhombix insufficiently isolated from each other). Does WWCR ever override DGS channel for legal IDs? Can`t say I have heard any, but it`s one of numerous gospel-huxter broadcasts I avoid as much as possible. DGS and consequently his heiress PMS don`t believe in local IDs, just ``University Network`` on their 24/7 output, so there are never any local IDs either for the so-called ``Caribbean Beacon``, Anguilla on 6090/11775. Like any satellite/cable TV network, legal station IDs are not needed from HQ, but as long as they are also on broadcast outlets, they need to build in ID pauses! And fire them by automation if necessary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dx Re Mix News # 796

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DX RE MIX NEWS # 796                                        August 27, 2013
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Dear Colleagues,
From Saturday, August 24th my shortwave observations no longer published at
SWLDXBulgaria blog. DX REMIX NEWS bulletin also will no longer be published
there. This blog is owned by another person. I do not remember his name and
he-my name. All it ends very sad, after all, we did together. The very last
edition of DX RE MIX NEWS # 800 will be on September 24th, it's my decision
Ivo Ivanov
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AZERBAIJAN   An unidentified station probably in Azeri with awful audio and
modulation (not Voice of Talyshistan), was observed again on Wed, August 21
1100-1300 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs, QRM ROU German 1200-1256.

BOSNIA/SERBIA    International Radio Serbia in appeared on shortwave again
1730-1800 on  6100 BIJ 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Italian on August 22

EGYPT   Radio Cairo on off-frequency, instead of 9965 was noted on Aug.20:
2300-0030 on 9963.5 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm English
0030-0430 on 9963.5 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to NEAm Arabic

EGYPT   Radio Cairo is spreading spurious signals in the 31 mb +/- 45v kHz:
0045-0200 on  9720 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm Spanish on August 23
0200-0330 on  9720 ABZ 250 kW / 330 deg to NoAm English on August 23

ETHIOPIA    Radio Ethiopia is drifting off-frequency on August 21
1600-1800 on  7236.2 GEJ 100 kW / non-dir to ETH English/French
1600-1800 on  9564.5 GEJ 100 kW / non-dir to ETH English/French

GREECE   No shortwave broadcasts from ERT at 0500 UTC on August 20
0400-0807 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek or till 1200
0400-0807 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek or till 1157
0400-0807 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek or till 1200
Also no signal on other frequencies of ERT 7450, 7475, 9935, 15650

GREECE   ERT is still off the air. No signal in the afternoon on August 20:
from 1200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
1200-1657 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
1200-1357 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
1400-1857 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek
from 1700 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek

GREECE   ERT accidentally went on air at 2200 on August 20:
from 2200 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
from 2200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
from 2200 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
from 2310 on  7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to NoAm Greek
from 2300 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek
from 2300 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 226 deg to CeAm Greek
In parallel with ERT mediumwave frequencies: 729, 1260

GREECE   More and more unscheduled wrong frequencies of ERT on August 22:
from 0400 on  7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to NoAm Greek, instead of 11645 to Af
from 0400 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 226 deg to CeAm Greek, instead of 15630 to Eu
from 0400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek

GREECE   No shortwave broadcasts of ERT (or new EDT) on August 25:
0400-0807 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
0400-0807 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek
0400-0807 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
Also no signal on other frequencies of ERT 7450, 7475, 9935, 15650
Unmodulated carriers 0745-0815 on 9420, 11635, 15630 and then started ERT:
0815-1200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
0815-1200 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek, ex till 1157
0815-1200 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
from 1200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
1200-1245 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek , not 9935
from 1247 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek until 1657
from 1200 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek until 1357

GREECE    Only single frequency of ERT is on the air on August 26/27:
1200-2300 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
2300-0400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to NoAm Greek
0400-0800 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek

INDONESIA    Summer A-13 schedule of Voice of Indonesia:
1000-1100 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 135 deg to AUS  English
1100-1200 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Japanese
1300-1400 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English
1400-1500 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Indonesian
1500-1600 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-1700 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic
1700-1800 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Spanish
1800-1900 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German
1900-2000 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English
2000-2100 on  9526vJAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu French

MOLDOVA   No broadcasts of Radio PMR Pridnestrovye on August 20
2300-2400 on  9665 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu English Sun-Thu
2315-2330 on  9665 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu German  Sun-Thu
2330-2345 on  9665 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu French  Sun-Thu
2345-2400 on  9665 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu English Sun-Thu
The regular broadcasts of Voice of Russia World Service started
on the same frequency at 0000UTC on August 21.

MONGOLIA    Summer A-13 for Voice of Mongolia:
0900-0930 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs English
0930-1000 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Mongolian
1000-1030 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Chinese
1030-1100 on 12085 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Japanese
1400-1430 on 12015 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Mongolian
1430-1500 on 12015 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to SoAs Chinese
1500-1530 on 12015 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Japanese
1530-1600 on 12015 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs English

MYANMAR    Summer A-13 SW schedule from Myanmar:
0000-0030 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0030 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0030 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0030 on  6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
0000-0030 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Chin Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0000-0030 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0030-0130 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0130 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0130 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0000-0130 on  6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
0030-0130 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Karen Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0030-0130 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0130-0200 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0130-0200 on  6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs English Thazin Radio General Sce
0130-0200 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0130-0200 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Wa Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0130-0200 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0130-0200 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0200-0230 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0200-0230 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0200-0230 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Wa Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0200-0230 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0200-0230 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0230-0300 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0230-0300 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0230-0300 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio
0230-0300 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Pa-O Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0230-0300 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0230-0300 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0300-0330 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0300-0330 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio
0300-0330 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Pa-O Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0300-0330 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0300-0330 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0330-0430 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0330-0430 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0330-0430 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0430-0530 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0430-0530 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
0430-0530 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Lhao Vo Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0430-0530 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0430-0530 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0530-0630 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
0530-0630 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Po Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0530-0630 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0530-0630 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0630-0700 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs English Thazin Radio General Sce
0630-0700 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Kayah Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0630-0700 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0630-0700 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0700-0730 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio
0700-0730 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Kayah Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0700-0730 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs English Myanmar Radio
0700-0730 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs English Myanmar Radio

0730-0830 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0730-0830 on  9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio
0730-0830 on  9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Shan Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0730-0830 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0730-0830 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0830-0930 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0830-0930 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0830-0930 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

0930-1000 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radioo
0930-1000 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
0930-1000 on  7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Kachin Thazin Radio Regional Sce
0930-1000 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
0930-1000 on  9731 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

1000-1030 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1000-1030 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1000-1030 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1000-1030 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
1000-1030 on  7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Kachin Thazin Radio Regional Sce

1030-1130 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1030-1130 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1030-1130 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1030-1130 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
1030-1130 on  7200 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1030-1130 on  7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Pwo Kayin Thazin Radio Regional Sce

1130-1230 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1130-1230 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1130-1230 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1130-1230 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
1130-1230 on  7200 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1130-1230 on  7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Sgaw Thazin Radio Regional Sce

1230-1330 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1230-1330 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1230-1330 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1230-1330 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
1230-1330 on  7200 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1230-1330 on  7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Mon Thazin Radio Regional Sce

1330-1430 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1330-1430 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1330-1430 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1330-1430 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce

1430-1500 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1430-1500 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1430-1500 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1430-1500 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs English Thazin Radio General Sce

1500-1530 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1500-1530 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
1500-1530 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

1530-1630 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs English Myanmar Radio
1530-1630 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs English Myanmar Radio

2300-2330 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
2300-2330 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
2300-2330 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

2330-2400 on  5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
2330-2400 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
2330-2400 on  5986 YAN 025 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio
2330-2400 on  6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Thazin Radio General Sce
2330-2400 on  6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Chin Thazin Radio Regional Sce
2330-2400 on  7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg to SEAs Burmese Myanmar Radio

SRI LANKA    Monitored schedule of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation/SLBC/
The station is on the air in different days on different weeks of the month
1630-1830 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Sinhala Mon/Tue/Fri/Sat 1st
1630-1830 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Sinhala Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat 2nd
1630-1830 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Sinhala Mon/Tue/Wed/Sat 3rd
1630-1830 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Sinhala Tue/Wed/Thu/Sat 4th
1630-1830 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Sinhala Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat 5th

THAILAND    Summer A-13 schedule of Radio Thailand (HSK9):
0000-0030 on 15275 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to NEAm English
0030-0100 on 15275 UDO 250 kW / 038 deg to NWAm English

0100-0200 on 15275 UDO 250 kW / 038 deg to NWAm Thai
0200-0230 on 15275 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to NEAm English
0230-0330 on 15275 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to NEAm Thai

0530-0600 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 308 deg to WeEu English

1000-1100 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 305 deg to N&ME Thai

1100-1115 on  5875 UDO 250 kW / 144 deg to Vietnamese
1115-1130 on  5875 UDO 250 kW / 144 deg to SEAs Khmer
1130-1145 on  5875 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to SEAs Lao
1145-1200 on  5875 UDO 250 kW / 284 deg to SEAs Burmese

1200-1215 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 154 deg to SEAs Bahasa Malay

1230-1300 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English

1300-1315 on  9795 UDO 250 kW / 054 deg to EaAs Japanese
1315-1330 on  9795 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Mandarin
1330-1400 on  9795 UDO 250 kW / 054 deg to EaAs Thai

1400-1430 on  9950 UDO 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English

1800-1900 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Thai

1900-2000 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 329 deg to WeEu English

2000-2015 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to WeEu German
2030-2045 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to WeEu English
2045-2115 on  9390 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Thai

TIBET(non)    Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet from August 21:
1230-1245 NF 15553 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15557
1245-1300 NF 15558 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15563
1315-1345 NF 15563 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568
1345-1400 NF 15568 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562
1400-1430 NF 15562 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15568

VIETNAM(non)    Summer A-13 SW schedule for Voice of Vietnam:
0000-0058 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Vietnamese

0100-0128 on 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg to NoAm English

0130-0228 on 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg to NoAm Vietnamese

0230-0258 on 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg to NoAm English

0300-0328 on  6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg to CeAm Spanish

0330-0358 on  6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg to CeAm English

0400-0428 on  6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg to CeAm Spanish

0430-0528 on  6175 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg to NWAm Vietnamese

1000-1028 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English
1000-1028 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English

1030-1058 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Khmer
1030-1058 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1030-1058 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian

1100-1128 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1100-1128 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs English
1100-1128 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese
1100-1128 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1100-1128 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese

1130-1158 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Russian
1130-1158 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Thai
1130-1158 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs English
1130-1158 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Russian
1130-1158 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs English

1200-1228 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1200-1228 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs French
1200-1228 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese
1200-1228 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1200-1228 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese

1230-1258 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Russian
1230-1258 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Khmer
1230-1258 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English
1230-1258 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Russian
1230-1258 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English

1300-1328 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1300-1328 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs French
1300-1328 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1300-1328 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
1300-1328 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian

1330-1428 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Lao

1330-1358 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs English
1330-1358 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs English

1400-1428 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese
1400-1428 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese

1430-1458 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Thai
1430-1458 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1430-1458 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian

1500-1528 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs English
1500-1528 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English
1500-1528 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English

1500-1558 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Vietnamese
1500-1558 on  9550 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to NoAf Vietnamese

1530-1558 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Thai

1600-1628 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to N/ME English
1600-1628 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu English
1600-1628 on  9550 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to NoAf English
1600-1628 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English

1630-1658 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to N/ME French
1630-1658 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu Russian
1630-1658 on  9550 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to NoAf French
1630-1658 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Russian

1700-1728 on  9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English

1700-1758 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu Vietnamese
1700-1758 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Vietnamese

1730-1828 on  9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Vietnamese

1800-1828 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu German
1800-1828 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu German

1830-1858 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu French
1830-1858 on  9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu French
1830-1858 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French

1900-1928 on  9890 WOF 250 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Russian

1900-1928 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu English
1900-1928 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English

1930-1958 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu French
1930-1958 on  9430 WOF 250 kW / 182 deg to WeEu German
1930-1958 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French

2000-2028 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to EaEu Russian
2000-2028 on  9430 WOF 250 kW / 182 deg to WeEu German
2000-2028 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Russian

2030-2058 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to N/ME English
2030-2058 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English
2030-2058 on  9550 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to NoAf English
2030-2058 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English

2100-2128 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to N/ME French
2100-2128 on  7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French
2100-2128 on  9550 SON 100 kW / 290 deg to NoAf French
2100-2128 on  9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French
2030-2128 on 11840 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg to SEEu Vietnamese

2200-2228 on  7220 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese
2200-2228 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Thai
2200-2228 on 12000 SON 100 kW / 027 deg to FERu Chinese

2200-2228 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese
2200-2228 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Japanese

2230-2258 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Khmer
2230-2258 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Chinese
2230-2258 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 057 deg to EaAs Chinese

2300-2328 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian
2300-2328 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs Indonesian

2300-2358 on  7285 MET 050 kW / 216 deg to SEAs Lao

2330-2358 on  9840 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English
2330-2358 on 12020 SON 100 kW / 177 deg to SEAs English

USA    WWCR-1 in Russian and Arabic heard with very good signal in Bulgaria
1100-1130 on 15825 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu on Thursday, August 22

USA    New 24 hours schedule of Brother Stair in English via WTWW-2*:
1300-2400 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 1150/1153-2400
0000-1300 on  5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, new broadcasting time
from 0716 NF  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 5085 on Tue, August 27!
*including irregular airings of World of Radio Sat/Sun 2330 and/or Sun 0000