Glenn Hauser logs August 30-31, 2016

** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 31 at 0128, same old story from R. Tirana, S6 with IS vs hum, but programming unreadable next semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 4796.01, Aug 31 at 0123, JBA carrier, probably R. Lípez, Uyuni, reactivated. First reported by Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, to the DXLD yg, Aug 30 at 0245-0302 as unID, possibly Peruvian. Not in WRTH 2016. R. Lípez per the DSWCI TBS 2016 was last reported three years ago in August 2013 (and was formerly known as R. Mallku, as still listed in Aoki!). All this is based primarily on the odd frequency, so if anyone can pull a definite ID, that would be nice. It might even have a third name by now. Recheck at 0205, no signal detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 6180, Aug 31 at 0055, RNA is still off; and 11780, Aug 31 at 0112, RNA is still on. 6180 still missing at 0402 Aug 31, so VOA French may have another clear shot at 0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 5909.95, Aug 31 at 0125, music at S8 and occasional Spanish announcements, such as 0127 automated timecheck, typical of Alcaraván Radio, which this surely is, at last reactivated. 0159 announcement about ``tema de la independencia colombiana``. Previously was on hi side of 5910.0. So of course I look for its sibling:

6010.17, Aug 31 at 0130, music at S6, not // 5909.95, but surely La Voz de tu Conciencia has also been reactivated. At 0149 it`s S9 while 5910 is up to S9+15, i.e. consistently weaker than 5910v, which is to be expected since its direxional antenna was installed to minimize QRM to XEOI 6010 México DF, but which no longer matters as a defunct station. Hard to copy but 0202 YL announcement mentions Colombia. 

In the old days, the pair at the same Puerto Lleras site would produce a mixing product around 5810. If these exact frequencies persist, that would land on 5809.73 --- look for a carrier there and maybe some audio from one or the other, if both are still on when WEWN finishes with 5810 around 0500. 

(NHK France of course blox 5910 at 03-05; nothing much else on 6010 except erratic Inconfidência, Brasil, which is also off-frequency, and maybe Bahrain after 0300?). Reverse leapfrog would land on 6110.39 --- watch out for R. Fana, Ethiopia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9965, Aug 31 at 0103, R. Cairo is now humroaring on this frequency which is normally relatively quiet if undermodulated; with useless Cuban pulse jamming underneath. At 0208, only motorboating at S9.

9315, Aug 31 at 0208, R. Cairo in horrible distortion of scheduled English, S8 but at least no spurs!

12085, Aug 31 at 0208, R. Cairo is S1, JBM, seems with Qur`an. Too weak to evaluate modulation quality.

BTW, Richard Langley discovered there is *another* Radio Cairo with much better audio and reception, web relay of the 95.4 FM European service, also in French, via 

http://www.egradio.eg/radio.php?PubPnt=ElBernamegElOrobi&ChnName=6

Details in the next DXLD 16-35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 6190, Aug 31 at 0206, no signal from La Voz Alegre, Spanish service of MWV. Was also missing earlier from 17640 after 1800 Aug 30, so are both transmitters down now? 6150 also AWOL at 0351 during consecutive Spanish hour. 9480 also missing at 0402 during other hour of African Pathways Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Aug 31 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, but already off at 0104 retune in preparation for cutoff which if had not been reset earlier, would have happened about 0105:53.5* per standard slippage rate. Or it could be an anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. 13729.94, Aug 31 at 0116, JBA carrier off-frequency. It`s VOA Radio Ashna, at 0030-0230 alternating Pashto and Dari, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Udorn where they aren`t too careful about frequency accuracy. 15590, R. Thailand`s so-called North American service arrives no better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 9830, Aug 31 at 0102, S5 La Voz de Turquía is once again on wrong frequency instead of 9770, // stronger correct frequency 9870. Still on 9830 at 0129 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Wed Aug 31 at 0105, WBCQ stays on to carry the weekly `Amateur Radio Roundtable`, first with big band music, then Tom and Kathy (sp?) seemingly behind the scenes discussing how the video web streaming is not working via W5KUB.com so everyone should watch on YouTube. (Meanwhile if this were primarily a radio show, already on shortwave, that would be irrelevant.) 0110 finally ready to open the show, mentions is on WBCQ 9330 new frequency as of two weeks ago and now with much better coverage. She interviews someone from ARRL about National Parks on the Air, over 400 entities eligible. Very good, still going at 0207 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9475-, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-1 is S9+50 of dead air; 0000 alive with canned ID and back to SFAW. At 0207, 9475 is off and 5830 is not on, yet?

5085, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-2 is on with S9+50 of C&W music and into QSO show replay, still going at 0207.

12105, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-3 is S9 but poorly audible with end of Russian Bibling hour. At 0106 now it`s dead air as usually the case for an hour until 0200* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1380, Aug 31 at 0142 UT, ``Una señal llena de vida, Vida 13-80`` ID at tune-in, then `Concepto Financiero` -- for Christians, natch. KRCM Shenandoah TX is *still* obviously running 22 kW day power and pattern at night, dominating frequency here, with local KCRC 1390 easily minimized by LSB tuning. (Can you think of a less Hispanic CoL name than Shenandoah?? But address in Pasadena can be taken as Spanish) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, Aug 31 0110 at first thought VOV was gone, but then a JBA carrier, still from Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1349.2, Aug 31 at 0144 UT, JBA carrier, hetting 1350 stations; some station off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1499.17, Aug 31 at 0139 UT, JBA carrier, hetting KSTP 1500. This is not the same as the wobbly spurs about 0.5 kHz above and below 1500 which are also occasionally heard. Logged on the NRD-545, but also had a JBA carrier on about 1499.2, via the R75, Aug 30 at 0600 UT. Which North American station is off-frequency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 0418 UT August 31

Agenda DX 31/08/2016

ANNIVERASRIO EMITTENTI
FRSH, Olanda (pirate) (1980)
Radio Praga, Repubblica Ceca 6055 Khz (1936)

Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2016 [more]

** INDONESIA. 9525.888, Aug 30 at 1306, VOI is S4 with a bit of undermodulated music when it should be an `Exotic Indonesia` Tuesday broadcast in English. Unable to copy anything, as usual, I instead measure its offness as closely as possible (plus/minus 2 Hz?). 

So via the newly updated by Alan Roe WOR HITLIST,

http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm

I look at their website which gives the impression that this is a funxional ``world service`` (maybe it is, on the Internet). Here`s their limited expectation for SW coverage:

``In Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South-East and East Asia it is possible to listen to VOI Audio Service through much of the day using a short wave radio. To find out more about short wave visit our short wave information guide. To find out what frequency you need to tune your radio to, go to our Frequency Charts.``

I was really looking for info about a listener contest with prizes of a free trip to Indonesia, but none found this year, just:

http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/11510-rri-71-anniversary

``In conjunction with RRI's 71st anniversary on September 11, we invite all listeners of Voice of Indonesia who want to convey their wishes to send their greetings to us in the form of audio, video, text or pictures in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Chinese and Arabic languages to voi@voi.co.id or Facebook messenger Voice of Indonesia by September 5, 2016. We'll publish and air your greetings on facebook and our social medias. Thank you`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Aug 30 at 1817 check, no signal from MWV/APR in English, sporadic broadcast gone again. Transmitter keeps breaking down? Propagation OK, as 17885 BBC ASC in French is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAO TOME. 6180, Aug 30 at 0537, VOA French is S9+10 and in the clear, as RNA BRASIL is still AWOL like it was a few hours earlier. IBB should not have picked 6180 during a protracted absence of RNA earlier this year, but may not go away until B-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, Aug 30 at 1300, JBA carrier still, as SIBC has been running later than 1200* lately per Ron Howard: Aug 24 until 1330*; Aug 26 until 1330* with Wantok FM relay; Aug 27 until 1245* with SIBC itself; Sunday Aug 28 with hymns to 1333*; Aug 29 open carrier only from 1208 to 1238, off by 1312, per Ron (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 17830, Aug 30 around 1635, glad to find that BBCWS in English has a sufficient signal for easy listening, as BBC fails to prevent its SW from bleeding into undesirable North America. This is 85 degrees from ASCENSION at 16-17, and also 65 degrees at 17-18, hours when I am seldom SWLing. BTW, Aoki shows these are *jammed by the ChiCom, as they must also bleed into China where English is far too understood; can`t allow that! Jamming of BBCWS English is normally by noise rather than Firedragon or CNR1, and harder to detect abroad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: NOT confirmed Tue Aug 30 at 2130 on 15770, when WRMI is still replaying their digital special which I hoped would be over after HFCC finished. But confirmed Tue Aug 30 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.971v-CUSB, fair. Next:

Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11580, Aug 30 at 1323, WRMI World Music is in Spanish, then song in Chinese. Instead of the same old songs I am hearing some different ones, so maybe this rotation has been refreshed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Aug 30 at 1303, surprised to find WTWW-2 on at this odd hour, Ted with a ``ham-it-forward`` promo, classic rock music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9275, Aug 30 at 1632, 1816 and 1923 chex, no signal from WMLK, which allegedly resumed transmissions Aug 28, per their Facebook, via Richard Langley. Problem was fixing the power supply. I`ve yet to see any real logs of it, and not from me today. Remember: don`t say ``God``, but be sacred, say ``Yahweh``. Even the China radio war vs RFA Saipan is JB audible on 9355 at 1816 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, Tue Aug 30 at 1923 UT, WINB is on, but not at 1816 when I am also looking fruitlessly for WMLK on 9275. So much for WINB`s latest schedule dated Aug 14 claiming that on Mon/Tue/Wed only, The Overcomer is run at 17-19; gone again already? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re trans-Pacific MW carrier search: ``at 1146 UT Aug 29, something on 594 seems to peak N/S --- that can`t be right. Those were on the DX-398``

Now it dawns on me this could well be the megawatt in Chinsurah, INDIA: ``Akashvani Maitree channel on 594 kHz beamed to Bangladesh``

Grayline would work, as sunset in Kolkata is about 1225 UT, and sunrise here 1202 UT. Make that trans-polar! The path goes about 5 degrees from the North Pole, across Cold Bay and The Pas in Canada, 13440 km or 8351 miles to Enid; 74.4 watts per km, or 13.44 meters per watt (if it were strictly along the surface) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, replies: ``Glenn, I don't think any of us on the PNW coast have ever heard [India] 594. Much more likely this time of year are DU stations. Normally in the Fall/Winter, it's a major NHK frequency. Perhaps Patrick Martin [OR] just might have heard your station?``

Well, this was looping too far north for Japan, and certainly for Down Under. Will try to refine the DF if I have another chance (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0014 UT August 31

MIghty KBC Frequency Change

September 4, 2016 is the final use, for now, of 9925 kHz via Nauen, Germany 0000-0200 UTC.

Beginning with the September 11, 2016 broadcast the Mighty KBC will use 6145 kHz via Nauen for the 0000-0200 UT broadcast to North America.

(Kraig, KG4LAC via dxld yg)

Glenn Hauser logs August 29-30, 2016

** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 30 at 0127, R. Tirana is S4 with humroar, but not as loud as usual; unfortunately the IS cannot be heard at all until barely at 0129 under the hum. Usually if anything is audible, it`s the IS. Still no program, just humroar at 0156 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 6180, Aug 30 at 0144, no signal from RNA, but 11780 was active a few minutes earlier as I 25m bandscanned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9580, Aug 30 at 0131, CRI English relay achieves only bits of distorted audio breaking thru the dead air. Wiggle that patchcord! No such problem on 9570 Albanian relay which is S9+20, huge compared to R. Tirana at the other site, S4.

6165, Aug 30 at 0145, RHC English is suptorted, while the only //, 6000 is OK; WTP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9339-9350, Aug 30 at 0134, weak pulsing probably from the 9315.0 R. Cairo transmitter which upon its own frequency is S5, much louder motorboating humroar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 680, Aug 29 at 1207, ``información de Sinaloa``, 6:07 timecheck, opening newscast, i.e. XEORO, Guasave, 1000/500 watts per IRCA Mexican Log 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 515 kHz LSB, Aug 29 at 1156 UT, I`m getting a ham mixing with PN beacon from Ponca City --- but I hear the ham only on the R75 preamp 2, i.e. max gain where I normally run it, but known to be risking overload especially on this part of the band. Goes away at preamp 1 or no preamp. Then at 1209 UT I tune thru the 160m band and find the fundamental for the same ham is 1905-LSB, an N5 discussing lawnmowers. Guess what the difference between 1905 and 515 is? 1390! I.e. my strongest local KCRC, but NO modulation from it whatsoever is audible on 515. Yet must be some kind of internal mixing involving KCRC (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTEING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 29 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.045v-CUSB, fair. Next:

Tue 1100   WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE [pre-empted last two weeks]

Tue 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7570, Aug 29 at 0542, WRMI is not BSing, but instead World Music, songs in Portuguese, Spanish, Middle Eastern, French, and not // music on 7730 & 7780 which are presumably still TOM, but why not on 7570? Not until 0600 sharp does 7570 switch to Brother Hystairical (Glenn Hauser, KO, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, Aug 30 at 0137, WTWW-3 is S9+35 of dead air! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7520, Aug 30 at 0139, three ``shit``s in a row, unbleeped so it`s OK to swear like that on WWCR-4, during `A Call to Decision` with Butch Paugh per sked; then a bunch of Trump clips seemingly to demonstrate his contradicting himself. Gee, I would have guessed the ``decision`` would be about salvation, rather than politix. O yeah, for the far-right religionists, there is no difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, Aug 29 at 1141 UT, Spanish call-in classifieds, for sale items with an AC 830 phone, i.e. the region around San Antonio, so this is KSAH Universal City, which per new NRC AM Log is 10000/890 watts U4, 24 h // KSAH-FM 104.1, ``Ranchero 104.1``. But official sunrise in Aug is not until 1200 UT (September: 1215 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Aug 30 at 0158 UT, dominant signal is talk about football, drops off at 0200 UT before any ID, or ``good night to our listeners to the east``, no doubt KKOB Albuquerque NM, as 0200 UT is official FCC sunset in August (September: 0115 UT). KKOB is reliable in switching night/day antennas of 50/50 kW North Valley transmitter and balloon snatcher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1360, Aug 30 at 0153 UT, YL opening `Messianic Perspective` program with Dr Gary Hedrick; odd time, but maybe it`s only a 5-minuter. I think we can rule out Amarillo or El Dorado KS, as EWTN would not be running such an unCatholic program. No 1360 stations in OK, adjacent, or second-adjacent states on program website listings, so I look for likelies in the NRC Pattern Book and AM Log: A good prospect is KHNC, Johnstown CO, 10/1 kW U4, talk/religion. State-by-state search on program site for affiliates doesn`t find any 1360s

http://www.cjfm.org/stations/colorado/

and in Colorado, KRKS 990 is the only one listed.

However, program guide of KHNC

http://1360am.co/index.php/program-guide/

shows:

6:00pm mst Ahavat Torah (R)

7:00pm mst Alex Jones (R)

So they do run Messianic stuff, and this one could have been crammed into an end-of-hour break during Alex. 10 kW ND day pattern lasts in August until 0200 UT (September: -0115 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search August 29 at 1140 UT: JBA on 774 from NW, so NHK; very weak on 882; at 1146 west on 702 so Australia or NZ, and 666. But something on 594 seems to peak N/S --- that can`t be right. Those were on the DX-398. Then at 1151 I find whether I can hear any of them on the R75 with E-W longwire: yes on 774, 702. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1201 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0350 UT August 30

MRI moves its weekly broadcasts from Wednesdays to Thursdays - schedule for broadcasts of September 1, 2016

Please be advised that  as from September of this year, our weekly broadcasts from Wednesdays move to Thursdays. Here is the schedule for the first Thursday transmissions of MRI on  1 September 2016:  1600-1800 UTC  on 7700 kHz (USB mode), 1815-1915 UTC on 15070 kHz (USB mode)  and 1930-2130 UTC on 9300 kHz (USB Mode).

Our broadcasts include some kind of programmes now sadly missing from most shortwave radio stations:  an old style DX show in English “Italian Short Wave Panorama” (there is also the Italian version called “Panorama Onde Corte”) with lot of recent logs  as well as  a mailbag show (“La Posta degli ascoltatori”) in Italian. Our  station identification  announcements are not only in English and Italian but also in French, German, Romanian, Spanish and Catalan.

For the first time in our history a Facebook page about our station has been introduced. It is called "MRI World" and can be found at this web address: https://www.facebook.com/mriworld - Although it is still  far from being completed  you can leave your comments and suggestions.

MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3-file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our electronic mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com - Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a printed QSL card.

Last but not least,  we need your help! If you use social networks, please post an announcement on Facebook  or send out a tweet the day  before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our  potential audience.

 

We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions.

 

Best 73's

 

Marconi Radio International (MRI)

Agenda DX 30/08/2016

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio Guatapuri, Colombia 740 Khz (1963)
Radio Nacional Tartagal, Argentina 540 Khz (1978)

FESTE NAZIONALI
Festa di Santa Rosa di Lima in Perù

The K7RA Solar Update

Solar activity over the past week (August 18-24) was down compared to the previous week, with average daily sunspot number s declining from 73.9 to 33.9, and average daily solar flux from 89.2 to 79.6. 

Average planetary A index increased from 6.9 to 9.7, while the mid-latitude number rose from 7.4 to 8.7.

The latest prediction (on August 25, 2016) shows expected solar flux at 78 on August 26-29, 80 on August 30-31, 85 on September 1-3, 90 on September 4-10, 88 on September 11-12, 85 on September 13, 80 on September 14-15, then 78 and 75 on September 16-17, 80 on September 18-20, 84 on September 21-22, then 82, 80 and 78 on September 23-25, 75 on September 26-28, 80 and 85 on September 29-30, and 90 on October 1-7.

More at www.arrl.org

Glenn Hauser logs August 28-29, 2016

** EGYPT. 9315.0, Aug 29 at 0111, S9 R. Cairo amazingly is JBM without any motorboating or spurs! 9964.90, Aug 29 at 0117, S9+10 R. Cairo is JBM with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7570, UT Mon Aug 29 from 0100 on WRMI 7570, PCJ Radio International`s `From the Archives of Radio Netherlands, pt 2` starts as scheduled, preëmpting Brother Scare, VG across North America. First docu item dates back to 1950, interviewing Dutch allied soldiers about to go to war in Korea. At 0113, `The Challenge`, from 1996, Eric Beauchemin docu about poverty. 0144, `Earthbeat` interviews Keith in Taiwan about how a crematory there is using the 1000-degree heat all day from its busy ovens to generate electricity, dissatisfying some traditional Taiwanese, tho the corpses being burnt up aren`t directly involved. On to commercials and some music before hourtop, but instead of a second hour of this, WRMI cuts back to Brother Scare at 0200 UT. So now I can watch BrainDead on CBS-TV without recording something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 105.1, UT Monday August 29 at 0055 UT on KOSB 105.1, Perry, yes, Triple Play Sports Radio is still doing an oldies music show Sunday evenings, about to wrap up 2-hour program, and presumably also on 1020 KOKP Perry, 1580 KOKB Blackwell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Aug 29 at 0106, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0105:40.5*, which is 19.5 second later than last timing one trinite ago, Aug 26 until 0105:21*, still averaging 6.5 seconds later per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UGANDA [non]. 15240-, Sunday August 28 at 1611, R. Munansi via WWRB is already in continuous Luganda(?) lo-fi talk, no nice African music today. Listening on the PL-880 portable with whip antenna only, it is adequate at first, but 1623 fades out completely, 1629 up a bit, 1632 better briefly. Really too close to WWRB for solid F2 daytime reception, but some unreliable sporadic E in between can improve it; of no use to Ugandans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: confirmed Sunday August 28 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.957v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Monday Aug 29 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, S9+20. Also confirmed UT Monday Aug 29 from 0301 on Area 51 webcast, and until 0330:30 on WBCQ 5129.860-AM, S9+20. Also confirmed UT Monday Aug 29 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955, S9+10 over pulse jamming: tnx a lot, Arnie! Next:

Mon 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Tue 1100   WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE

Tue 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, Aug 29 at 0119, WTWW-3 must be source of JBA carrier, unknown if modulated or not, while 9475, WTWW-1 is still inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1030, Aug 29 at 0132 UT, dominant signal plugs a Sept 13 event at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarx, but never says where it is. We`re supposed to know this has to be Fayetteville AR, or rather CoL Farmington`s KFAY, 6/1 kW U4. Maybe still on day power? Official FCC sunset in August is 0115 UT (September: 0030 UT). Major lobe both day and night goes southwest, but maybe enough to the west on day pattern. S9+20 before it fades; next PSA from CDC about mosquitoes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0414 UT August 29

Agenda DX 29/08/2016

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
South Coast Radio, Gran Bretagna 945 - 1323 Khz (1983)
RCN Neiva, Colombia 1150 Khz (1943)
Southern Sound, Gran Bretagna 1170 Khz (1985)
Radio San Miguel, Bolivia 4925 Khz (1967)
Deutsche Welle 6075 Khz (1924)

Glenn Hauser logs August 27-28, 2016

** GUINEA. 9650, Aug 27 at 2337, very poor S6 signal and seems undermodulated, in French? presumed still R. Guinée, until carrier cut about 2401:20*. I`ve yet to hear it signing on as early as 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. Correxion: wrong date was on this log. Should be Aug 25, not Aug 24, fixed:

6050.003 to 6050.008, Aug 25 at 1247, two separate measurements of S3-S5 signal here presumed to be Asyik FM. Can`t get it up to 6050.011 where Wolfy put it the other day. Margin of error, or varies slightly? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1157-1170-1183, Aug 27 at 1859 UT, I notice the IBOC from 50/50 kW KFAQ Tulsa is OFF! Come to think of it, may have been off for a while. Used to be a fight at night with KSL 1147-1160-1173 IBOC. Who knows if this be permanent or temporary; new NRC AM Log, deadline early August, still shows KFAQ as ``I``. This reference last updated 27 July 2016: 

http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html

says ``Reported off Feb 2011, but on again as of Oct 2014`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1580, Aug 28 at 0006 UT, KOKB Blackwell must be off. No big signal as there should be this long before sunset, but a mix of weakies, including one with sports talk, but not // 1020 KOKP or 105.1 KOSB. Also in the pileup a musical station. We should check whether Triple Play Sports radio resume a musical sidetrack Sunday at 2300 UT-0100 UT Monday (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Sat Aug 27 at 1841 UT on caradio, I find dead air from KOSU, which continues past hourtop until 1905 UT finally reviving for last minute of NPR news and into `The Dinner Party`. But some or all of the excellent 1 pm CT Sat program `RadioLab` was withheld from KOSU listeners! Unknown whether still on KOSN, KOSR, translators, or HD channels. This happens all too frequently at KOSU, over-relying on fallible automation. It`s too much to ask for a genuine human operator to be overhearing it 24/7, preferably in the studio for quick axion rather than remotely (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sat Aug 27 circa 1750, signal detected here on R-75, presumed WWRB with Radio Munansi, but in next hour on caradio, despite a memory frequency, no hits, so must be quite weak. What about Sunday 1600-1900? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug 27 at 2230 on WBCQ, 9330.049v-CUSB, poor. Also confirmed UT Sunday Aug 28 at 0327 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, good S9+20 but mixing with storm noise level, about 4 minutes into show so started circa 0324 (minus the theme opening nixed). Next:

Sun 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Mon 0030   WRMI 7730 to WNW

Mon 0300v  WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW

Mon 0330   WRMI 9955 to SSE  

Mon 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Tue 1100   WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE

Tue 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Sat Aug 27 at 2344, WBCQ with an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback I recognize from a few weeks ago as he is talking about being into photography as a child, developing his 127 film, etc. This repeat is now officially on the schedule at

http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330

But the Sat 23-24 hour on 9330 was originally some paid program, forget what, but didn`t last long, accounting for earlying the daily WOR playbacks from 2330 to 2230 on Saturdays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13695, Aug 27 at 1757 on BST-1 caradio, memory scan stops on some steel band music, and Morse code frequency ID says 13695, so WRMI. But where`s Brother Scare who is supposed to be on here all day until 2100? Not until 1800 sharp (without any ID), does this switch to the Overcomer theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, Aug 27 at 2353 check, WTWW-3 is OFF; 9475 WTWW-1 is still on, and WTWW-2 is not on either frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9899-9922, Aug 27 at 2338, approx. range of pulsing, seems like OTH radar rather than usual ute in this area; peaks circa 9913 at S2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1555 UT August 28

Studio DX 687 - 28/08/2016

Log Manuel Méndez

ANGOLA, 4959.8, Radio Nacional, Mulenvos, 1900-1925, 23-08, Portuguese, comments. Very weak. 14321.

BRAZIL

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 0801-0820, 26-08, Portuguese, comments, identification: "Radio Nacional da Amazonia", Brazilan songs. 24322.

11925.1, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 1946-1955, 23-08, Portuguese, comments. Interference from Arabia 11930. 12321.

CANARY ISLANDS, 1008, ES Punto Radio Las Palmas, Las Palmas, 2020-2035, 22-08, soccer, live march Valencia vs Las Palmas, Las Palmas advertisements. 12321.

CONGO, 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, *1800-1850*, 26-08, French, news and comments, identification: "Radio Congo", "Tous les auditeurs". 14321.

CONGO REPUBLIC, 5066.4, Radio Tele Candip, Bunia, 1940-1955, 23-08, Vernacular comments. Very weak. 14321.

ETHIOPIA

5950, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Addis Ababa, 1805-1820, 23-08, East African songs, Vernaculars comments. 34433.

6110, Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 1844-1855, 23-08, East African songs, Vernacular comments. 24322.

GERMANY

6150, Europa 24, Datteln, 1820-1858*, 23-08, pop music, German, comments, identification: "Europa 24". 24322.

6180, Deutscher Wetterdiest, 2020-2026*, 26-08, German, male, announcements, female, identification. 34433. 

Also *0604-0629*, 27-08, German, open and close with identification by female, male announcements. Strong interference from Radio Nacional da Amazonia. 21321.

6190, HLR, Gohren, 0640-0650, 27-08, "World of Radio" program. Very weak, barely audible. 14321.

GUATEMALA, 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0510-0604*, 27-08, English, program "Spiritual songs", identification in serveral languaes, anthem and close. 14321.

GUINEA CONAKRY, 9650, Radio Guinea Conakry, 1745-1910, 26-08, African songs, French, comments, at 1800 identification: "Radio Guinée", vernacular comments, at 1900 news, French. 34433.

Also 0732-0754, 27-08, French, Catholic religious program. 34433.

LIBERIA, 6050, ELWA Radio, 0541-0550, 27-08, religious songs, English. 14321.

MALI

9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, *0759-0808, 26-08, tuning music, French, identification "Radio Mali emettan du Bamako...", comments. 14321.

MOROCCO, 171, Midi 1, Nador, 2020-2045, 22-08, French, Arabic, comments. // 9575. 24322.

NIGERIA, 7254.9, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 1835-1850, 16-08, English, comments, identification: "Voice of Nigeria". 24322.

USA, 11580, Paul Walker, The Classic Experience, Okeechobee, 2104-2120, 26-08, pop music, English, identification "The Classic Experience, Paul Walker", "No commercials". 24322.

Manuel Méndez
Lugo, Spain

Logs in Reinante and Lugo
Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X
Cable antenna, 8 meters

Log Roberto Pavanello

 1035 27/8 23.30 Northsound 2 - Aberdeen EE MX buono
 1350 22/8 21.00 I AM R. - EE ID e NX buono
 1350 27/8 03.15 R. Time - IT ID e MX buono
 1368 27/8 23.25 R. Challanger - Villa d' Este EE NX buono
 1584 27/8 23.20 R. Studio X - Momigno IT MX buono
 1593 27/8 23.15 R. Bretagne 5 - Quessoy FF MX suff.
 1602 27/8 23.10 R. Seagull - Harlingen Dutch MX suff.
 1610 27/8 03.20 Caribbean Beacon - Anguilla EE predica suff.
 3330 27/8 03.30 CHU - Ottawa EE/FF ID e pip pip suff.
 6050 27/8 03.35 HCJB - Quito SS predica suff.
 6070 27/8 03.40 CFRB - Toronto EE NX suff.
 6090 27/8 03.25 FRCN - Kaduna Hausa MX afro buono
 6150 28/8 09.20 Europa 24 - Datteln Tedesco ID e MX buono
 6160 27/8 23.00 CKZN - St. John's EE NX suff.
 6230 28/8 08.30 R. Casanova - Dutch ID e MX buono
 6925 27/8 22.30 KCR - IT MX buono
 7700 24/8 17.40 Marconi R. Int. -  IT rapporti d' ascolto suff.
 9790 28/8 09.00 AWR - Firenze IT Studio DX by Roberto Scaglione ottimo
11615 22/8 21.30 Madagascar World Voice - Antananarivo Cinese predica buono


Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Ascolti AM Treviso 28 agosto

5920  28/8  0458 HCJB Deutschland, Weenermoor  Mx Px rel.D 22533

6090  28/8  0459 Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla  Px E 22522

6100  28/8  0501 Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta Px E 25533

6135  28/8  0502 Radio Aparecida, Aparecida Jingle info P 25533

6180  28/8  0503 Rádio Nacional Amazonia, Brasilia Mx Info P 35533

7365  28/8  0505 R. Martì, Greenville Nx Es  35533

7515  28/8  0506 WEWN Catholic R., Birmingham Px rel. Es 25522

9395  28/8  0514 WRMI -TruNews , Okeechobee Px E 35533

9420  28/8  0516 Voice of Greece, Avilis Px Gr 55555         

9790  28/8  0900 AWR Europe, Nauen Px "RVS Magazine - Studio DX 687" It 55555

15160 28/8  0927 KBS World Radio, Kimjae Px K 35533 

15450 28/8 1000 AWR KSDA Guam, Agat Info ID E Px rel. M 25532

17850 28/8 1002 Radio Thailand, Udon Thani Px T 35543

21560 28/8 1003 Radio Vaticana, S. Maria Galeria Px rel. "Angelus" It 25433

73 da N. Marabello

QTH  Treviso, Italia

RX:   SONY ICF SW7600G

Ant.: esterna VHF orizzontale 230° 

Agenda DX 28/08/2016

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio Majarì, Cuba (1968)
Radio Nacional de Perù 6095 Khz
Radio Tacna, Perù 9505 Khz (1940)
CKCQ, British Columbia, Canada (1957)

Glenn Hauser logs August 25-26-27, 2016

** EGYPT. 9290-9300-9306-9312, Aug 27 at 0257, approx. range of motorboating spurs from 9315.0 R. Cairo transmitter, which is S7 , but the spurs are more like S1, the peak being at 9306, but constantly shifting. This time there is nothing on the hi side of 9315. Some poor SSB station is trying to communicate amid this mess on 9300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, Aug 27 at 0256, S8 dead air from VOG, maybe pausing before re-sign-on for 0300 morning broadcast? Not on 9935. Did not get around to rechecking after 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7254.923, Aug 27 at 0557, VON is back on today, but just barely audible drumming (talking drums? What are they saying?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 7489.964 approx., Thu Aug 25 at 2333, WBCQ with `Broad Spectrum Radio`. James Branum had tipped us that this week he would be airing one of his sporadic KG5JST DX Radio Reports:

``Hi Glenn, Passing this on...

http://broadspectrumradio.com/2016/08/25/kg5jst-dx-radio-report-august-25-2016/

15 minute program, with extended written notes online - Airing tonight on WBCQ at 2330 UT [Aug 25, 7490] and in Oklahoma on KTLR 890 am at 11 am CDT/1600 UT [Friday Aug 26].

Also a few BSR programming notes for September and onward:

KTLR - 15 minute Shalom in OKC show (which is magazine format) on Fridays 11-11 am [sic] CDT, then 30 minutes Mennonite radio followed by 30 minutes BSR Magazine on Sundays 8-9 am CDT (1300-1400 UT) [890]

WBCQ - Most weeks will be 30 minute BSR Magazine show at 2330 UT Thursdays [7490]

WINB - Most weeks will be 30 minute Mennonite Radio 0330 UT on Saturdays. [not this week: see my WINB log][9265]

Channel 292 - Right now it is 30 minute BSR Magazine show/30 minute Mennonite Radio, airing at several time slots, but this will probably change soon as I have some longer length programs that are needing to be aired. Times may change soon. [6070, Germany]

Unique Radio 3210 - Starting in September it will be likely be 30 minutes BSR Magazine, 30 Minutes Mennonite Radio, and 2 hours of either music and/or longer-length shows [NSW 3210]

Sonador Radio - 24/7 Micro/Part 15 AM station will start in September airing to Sonador neighborhood of far west Northwest OKC. It possibly will be streaming online as well if I can work out cost of music licensing. The plan is to air a mix of old BSR Programs, music and other content. On Sonador Radio, I haven't picked a frequency yet, as I need to check day and night for ideal frequencies. I'll let you know in the next few days what I end up with. James

-- -- James Matthew Branum

Contact Information

Email: jmb@jmb.bike

Cell/Text: 405.476.5620 Alternate: 405.494.0562

Facebook: jamesmbranum

Web: www.jmb.mx - www.jmbranum.com

Wearer of many hats . . .``

Sonador is in ZIP 73013, really Edmond; some part of it axually in OKC, it seems, ZIP 73012.

On 7490 from 2330 Thu Aug 25, he was going thru his DX logs, mostly but not exclusively SW, as in the script. Some other topic about 2345 so I thought that was over, but before 2400 he was reading some more logs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15120, Fri Aug 26 at 1650, VOA in Luso-Portuguese for weekly 1630 call-in about ANGOLA. 15120 is Greenville, 250 kW, 94 degrees, same parameters as for 2130-2200 M-F Bambara on 15120. Modulation rather distorted and splattering, S9+20 to 30, off at 1700*, why? HFCC shows there is another half-hour of this on Fridays only via GB on 17700. Also the first semihour via VATICAN, violating Separation of Church & State, on 17655. Also on 13630 via SAO TOME on Fri only, but 13630 continues daily 1700-1800 in Portuguese via BOTSWANA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1840 monitoring: confirmed Friday Aug 26 at 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, very good S9+30. Also confirmed Fri Aug 26 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.074v-CUSB. Next:

Sat 0630   HLR  6190-CUSB to SW 

Sat 0700   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND 

Sat 1400   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND

Sat 1430   HLR  7265-CUSB to SW 

Sat 1930v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 

Sat 2230   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Sun 0310v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 

Sun 0830   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND

Sun 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Mon 0030   WRMI 7730 to WNW

Mon 0300v  WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW

Mon 0330   WRMI 9955 to SSE  

Mon 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Tue 1100   WRMI 9955 to SSE

Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE

Tue 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

 

** U S A. 7489.95, UT Sat Aug 27 at 0035, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` in progress about a new campaign to raise $500,000 in the next 6 months with 7 goals, going into quite a bit of detail including ``more Glenn Hauser`` mentioned a couple of times (hmmm), and fortunately now summarized on the website wbcq.com – make that eight:

``WBCQ $500,000 fund drive

WBCQ needs to raise $500,000 to keep going to provide the world`s only truly free speech radio service. Our goals for the funding are:

1. Repair, replace, and upgrade our transmitting equipment

2. Upgrade all our antenna systems for higher power

3. Upgrade studios and computer systems

4. Finish our backup generator system

5. Create a fund to pay for more free speech alternative programming

6. Providing airtime for persons who cannot afford to purchase airtime

7. Create a free radio news service for true, unbiased news for the world

8. Improve the website, streaming, and video services

Much more needs to be done. Shortwave radio is the only true worldwide open voice with no infrastructure required.

Fees for airtime do not cover operation costs at present. We need your help through donations to progress further, survive into the future, and get more voices on the air. Please contribute whatever you can. Thank you and God bless, Allan H. Weiner``

Said was also on 5130 and 3250 --- nothing audible here around 3250, but 5129.87 or so detectable. Later on thru 0100 hourtop, girlfriend Pam ukuleled and sang some songs live (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sat Aug 27 at 0313, WTWW-3 is on with rock music at S9+30, plus the inevitable JBA spur carriers on 5072.1 and 5097.9. You never know when Ted will decide to turn on the transmitter and play DJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9605, Aug 27 at 0254 check, WHRI is still on here with gospel-huxtering in English, rather than on 7315 where Angel 1 is supposed to be after the 01-02 Korea relay, per WHRI`s own schedule. After 0300 same transmitter does come up on 6175 for Vietnam relays, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 9265, UT Sat Aug 27 at 0330, WINB ID and into a rock music show, only S8 and not enough to overcome noise level. This is when Broad Spectrum Radio was supposed to appear according to James Branum (see OKLAHOMA [and non]). WINB online schedule is relatively recently updated, Aug 14, but still out of date. Instead shows Mennonite Radio from BSR on Saturday nights = UT Sunday at 0230 (and BTW, DigiDX UT Sat at 0230). Furthermore, still shows Unique Radio from Aussie Tim at 0300 UT Friday, rather than 1100 UT Saturday, a change Tim has already publicized, starting today, but I snoozed as usual that early. Also shows The Overcomer at 17-19 UT Mon/Tue/Wed only, why? Not on until *1900 Thu & Fri with other programming. Here despite being close to azimuth from Red Lion, WINB is never a bigsig at any hour, third-rate at best, unlike WRMI, WBCQ, WWCR, WTWW, WWRB, WHRI. I guess they must have fitting lowest rates attracting non-religious clients (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 880-USB plus carrier, Aug 27 at 0325 UT, ads for Window Rock, Tse Bonito, football talk in English, i.e. KHAC AZ/NM. Altho KRVN NE can be minimized by nulling, KHAC`s lack of any LSB makes monitoring on USB essential. If one wanted to hear KRVN or anything else on 880, LSB is the way to go, as long as KHAC is obviously running 10 kW ND day power at night instead of 430 watts. Think of how we could double occupancy of the MW band if everystation had to be USB or LSB only! Oh, that would also require switchable receivers, not in common usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 920, UT Sat Aug 27 at 0323 UT, football talk show seems to be called ``The Binge``, or is it station slogan? Anyhow, it`s surely KARN Little Rock AR again, not on its licensed night pattern, circle tangent to southwest, but putting dominant signal here to the WNW. New NRC AM Log says slogan is ``The Sports Animal``. It seems the ``HSFB`` = high-school football season is underway, predominantly on Friday nights encouraging many stations to violate their night power and/or  patterns, to the delight of DX station-counters --- but KARN seems to be doing this all the time, suspected on 5 kW ND. It was once a major LR station, KARK, flagship of the Arkansas Radio Network, and progenitor of channel 4 TV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1290, Aug 27 at 0602 UT, immediately upon tune-in, ID as ``Oldies 1290 and 102.7, WIRL`` --- the slogan given in the new NRC AM Log, starting ``Good Time Oldies ---`` for this Peoria IL station. 102.7 is really translator W274BM. I was looking for WOMP Bellaire OH, off frequency at 1289.71, as KAZ in IL had reported a few hours earlier, but not traced here: that`s listed in NRC AM Log as 1000/33 watts ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, Aug 27 at 0247, VOV in English but now VP signal via Woofferton. Same 250 kW, 282 azimuth as at 0100 when it`s usually better, but reception varies widely from night to night. Still not on 6175 as they think in Hanoi. But

6175, Aug 27 at 0309, VOV in Spanish now here via WHRI, having switched from 12005 Woofferton at 0300. ACI splash from 6180 Brasil. English to follow at 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.60, Aug 27 at 0251, the mostly open carrier with occasional RTTY bursts is now running a continuous loud tone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7692.0-USB, Aug 27 at 0300, colloquial Spanish 2-way discussing vuelos (flights), airports mentioned including Harlingen, Houston, Xalapa; also refers to ``el negrito`` and ``el negro``, casual Mexican racism? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1734 UT August 27

Unique Radio time change on WINB

Welcome to Unique Radio 1647AM & 3210 SW Northwest NSW Australia

We are streaming online in digital stereo. 

Our primary coverage is Tamworth & Northwest NSW but can be listened to elsewhere.

Shortwave (3210KHz) from Halls Creek NSW broadcasts as per scheduled hours (See schedule).

The vertical antenna has now been tuned and should be emitting a better signal. Reports welcomed.

Please feel free to contact Aussie Tim today on our 'contact us' link, thankyou.

1647KHz Tamworth NSW is due to be put on air very soon. New online stream due soon.

Please Note : We are online in crystal clear digital at the links below.

All programs are repeated numerous times on our online streams. Happy listening!

Listen to us @ 5685.cloudrad.io:8462 (64K MP3) or 5628.cloudrad.io:8450 (64K MP3)(Click links for audio and then press 'listen'

International Shortwave

We will be broadcasting from WINB Red Lion Pennsylvania USA on 9265KHz

Aussie Tim's Brekky show

From Saturday August 27th we will be broadcasting from 1100-1200 Hours UTC or 7am EDT OR  6AM  CDT To North America and the Pacific. The change is due to poor propagation in the late evenings in North America. We will interested to know if anyone in New Zealand and Australia can receive these transmissions in their evenings (9PM Eastern Australian time). Reports welcomed.

It is also streamed at Unique Radio and WINB.

We would also like to ask listeners for some interaction including, how they started with shortwave listening, their location, their equipment, a reception report and even song requests (oldies).

We look forward to your participation. 

Regards

http://www.uniqueradio.info/

Aussie Tim (via DXLD)

TOMORROW, SPECIAL BROADCAST TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BBC’S ATLANTIC RELAY STATION ON ASCENSION ISLAND

The BBC’s Atlantic Relay Station on Ascension Island celebrates its 50th anniversary this July. Operated by Babcock since 1997, the station’s unique location in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,600 km from Africa and 2,250 km from South America, makes it an essential link in the overseas relay network operated by Babcock on behalf of the BBC.

Since its launch, the Atlantic Relay Station has been crucial in broadcasting BBC World Service programmes to Africa and South America. The station made its first short wave transmission of BBC programmes on July 3rd, 1966, just days before England won the World Cup football final.

Originally a BBC presenter was based at the site to make live announcements before playing pre-recorded programmes shipped from London. Later the station relayed short wave transmissions fed from the Daventry transmitter in the UK using unadvertised side-band frequencies. In the early 1980s, these were replaced by satellite feeds which provided listeners with studio quality audio for the first time.

The station remains as important as ever, broadcasting over 250 hours of programmes every week, in English, French, Hausa and Somali. Africa currently provides one of the BBC’s largest radio audiences in the world with nearly 66 million listeners every week—many tuning in to transmissions made from this 88 km2 island in the South Atlantic.

To celebrate the station’s 50th anniversary, at midday on Sunday, August 28th, 2016 there will be a special short wave digital broadcast using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). DRM is an international digital radio standard designed by broadcasters in co-operation with transmitter and receiver manufacturers. Both Babcock and the BBC are founding members of the DRM Consortium that is promoting this high quality digital technology to replace analogue radio transmission in the AM and FM bands.

The station remains as important as ever, broadcasting over 250 hours of programmes every week, in English, French, Hausa and Somali.

Neale Bateman, Babcock

Radio Prague celebrates 80th Anniversary with special QSL

On August 31, 1936 Czechoslovak Radio launched its international service on shortwave. The station identified itself as “Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia”. Radio Prague will mark its 80th birthday with a series of special reports and events posted on their website.

Special QSL

Radio Prague will issue a special QSL card to mark its 80th birthday. To obtain it, please send a reception report from their special birthday broadcast on August 31st 2016.

More about 80 years of Radio Prague at :

http://www.radio.cz/en/static/80-years-of-radio-prague

Radio Prague 80th Anniversary Competition

http://www.radio.cz/en/static/competition-2016/

Meanwhile www.shortwaveservice.com has announced special transmissions via Yerevan to commemorate Radio Prague's celebration of 80 years of broadcasting. 

Tune in on Wednesday, 31st of August.

1630-1700 UTC on 9535 kHz towards 65° Russia at 100kW (Russian)*

1800-1900 UTC on 11845 kHz towards 305° Europe at 100kW (German / French)

1930-2030 UTC on 9885 kHz towards 330° Scandinavia at 100kW (Czech / English)

2100-2130 UTC on 9405 kHz towards 280° Southern Europe at 100kW (Spanish)

* tentative

As the broadcasts are shorter than 30 Minutes Shortwave service would like to fill it with your Radio Prague Birthday Greetings. Please leave a message on answering machine +4922517724266 or send a prerecorded file to info@shortwaveservice.com

---

Alokesh Gupta

New Delhi

WBCQ $500,000 fund drive

WBCQ needs to raise $500,000 to keep going to provide the worlds only truly free speech radio service. Our goals for the funding are:

1. Repair, replace, and upgrade our transmitting equipment.
2. Upgrade all our antenna systems for higher power.
3. Upgrade studios and computer systems.
4. Finish our backup generator system.
5. Create a fund to pay for more free speech alternative programming.
6. Providing airtime for persons who cannot afford to purchase airtime.
7. Create a free radio news service for true, unbiased news for the world.
8. Improve the website, streaming, and video services.

Much more needs to be done. Shortwave radio is the only true worldwide open voice with no infrastructure required.

Fees for airtime do not cover operation costs at present. We need your help through donations to progress further, survive into the future, and get more voices on the air.

Please contribute whatever you can.

Thank you and God bless,

Allan H. Weiner

----------

WBCQ is a international shortwave broadcast station located in Monticello, Maine, USA. We broadcast on 7.490 MHz, 9.330 MHz, 5.130 MHz, and 3.250 MHz. We have been bringing access to the airwaves for people like you since 1998.

We have time available on all four of our broadcast services open for your programming at the best rates in the industry. Contact us for more information.

Marconi Radio International's additional Saturday broadcast on 27 August 2016 on 7700 kHz AM

Please be advised that today 27 August 2016 Marconi Radio International will once again be on air, as follows: 1430-1600 UTC on 7700 kHz  AM!.

MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3-file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our electronic mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com - Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a printed QSL card.

 

Last but not least,  we need your help! If you use social networks, please post an announcement on Facebook  or send out a tweet the day  before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our  potential audience.

 

We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions.

 

Best 73's

 

Marconi Radio International (MRI)

Agenda DX 27/08/2016

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio Caibarien, Cuba (1985)
Carribean Radio Lighthouse, Antigua 1160 Khz (1975)
RAI Roma 845 Khz (1924)
NSB, Giappone 3925 Khz (1954)
DYSR, Filippine (1950)
Radio Nacional Argentina 1110 Khz (1920)

Glenn Hauser logs August 24-25-26, 2016

** BANGLADESH. 15505, Aug 26 at 1400:05.5, 5+1 mis-timesignal ending is pretty close from BB, after theme IS, before opening Urdu service. Has been a long time since I had enough very poor signal to perceive this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 6050.003 to 6050.008, Aug 24 at 1247, two separate measurements of S3-S5 signal here presumed to be Asyik FM. Can`t get it up to 6050.011 where Wolfy put it the other day. Margin of error, or varies slightly? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [and non]. 7255-, Aug 25 at 0602, no signal from VON, AWOL; 7285 South Africa is still audible very poorly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Aug 26 at 0104, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until autocutoff at 0105:21*, which is 32.5 seconds later than last clocking 5 days earlier, Aug 21 until 0104:48.5, slippage averaging 6.5 seconds later per noctem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, Aug 25 at 0550, S4 signal with some music and talk, presumed only known occupant, SIBC, again on later than usual 0500*. Someone said the normal schedule is until 0800 before switching to 5020, but I think not, as usually no signal audible after 0500. No doubt they are flexible as to QSY time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1839 monitoring: confirmed Wed Aug 24 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, and then very poor on 7490. Wed Aug 24 at 2330, not audible at first from WBCQ 9330, off or not propagating; but detectable at 2357 on 9330.02, poor.

WORLD OF RADIO 1840: ready for first broadcasts Thu Aug 25: 1130 on WRMI 9955 should have been first but zzz here. Confirmed Thu Aug 25 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, VG. Also confirmed Thu Aug 25 at 2335 on WBCQ 9330.006v-CUSB (this frequency is constantly varying slightly, making measurements hard to pin down). Next:
Fri 0830   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630   HLR  6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 0700   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1400   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1430   HLR  7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 0830   Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sun 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030   WRMI 7730 to WNW
Mon 0300v  WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330   WRMI 9955 to SSE 
Mon 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1100   WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE
Tue 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11580, Aug 26 at 1325, WRMI `World Music` in a string of hymns/praise music, some with Xmas theme. Not so eclectic; but by 1346 something South-Asian, and more past 1359 ID pause (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775, Wednesday Aug 24 at 1900, KVOH quits Spanish and signs off in English, then plays guitar IS alternating with IDs until 1905*. Not checked every day, but some Fridays, Spanish praising has stayed on way later than 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5830, Aug 26 at 0518, no signal from WTWW-1, nor on day frequency 9475. Propagation is degraded, but WWCRs are still audible poorly on 5890 & 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1609 UT August 26

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The new trasmission of KCR

KCRadio will be on air next saturday 27/08/2016 on the KHz 6920 with the following shedule:

UTC: 13'00 to 01'00.

(Friday and sunday probably tests).

You can listen to beautiful songs from Europe, Asia, Africa and south America.

The reception reports are welcomed.

Good listening from "The KCR Team" !!

Caro Amico, KCRadio sarà in onda il prossimo sabato 27/08/2016 con la seguente programmazione:  UTC 13'00 a 01'00.

Venerdi serae domenica mattina potremmo essere in aria con test.

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Glenn Hauser logs August 23-24, 2016

** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 24 at 0132, no signal from R. Tirana here (nor on 7475, but testing that is on the European service earlier instead). A few minutes later I do detect a JBA carrier on 9855-, so it must be on. K index at 0000 was 5 after G1 storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Aug 23 at 1402, CRI relay in English starts off at S9 level but just barely modulated, ho hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Aug 24 at 1815 check, APR via MWV is on today, good signal but deep fading, story of a snit between Jesus and John who got rebuked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 6050, Aug 24 at 1250, poor signal, low modulation? At 1305 it`s S5. Presumably Asyik FM, reactivated Aug 22 as reported by Ron Howard, he suggests leading up to Aug 31 independence day. Wolfgang Büschel measured this one 11 Hz high while Tibet was on 6050.000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 870, Aug 23 at 1203, XETAR in sign-on procedure with slogan ``Cuatro pueblos unidos en una sola voz, La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara`` and immediately into one of those languages. Slightly after sunrise here now, we`ll be able to hear more and more of it in weeks to come (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7254.924, Aug 24 at 0554, VON is already on with a song at S9+30, enough to overcome the S9 computer noise I haven`t turned off yet. 0556 goes to dead air, presumably about to start its cacophonous tuning signal prior to Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 9770 // 9870, Aug 24 at 0134, VOT Spanish is back on correct frequencies this time, instead of 9830 replacing 9770; but very poor. K index at 0000 was 5 after G1 storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 7245-LSB, Wed Aug 24 at 1256, I find an LSB ham net QRMing RNZI which started using this AM frequency at the beginning of this month. NCS making ``last call`` for check-ins, apparently started at 1200. RNZI conveniently goes off at 1258 after QSY announcement to 6170. Most of the signals are weak here from the 9th and 4th call areas, but K9YX has a good signal [Lorenzen, Thomas D, K9YX, Gurnee, IL 60031]; others copied or called include KM4TX and WI4R. Mostly giving local weather conditions, but also praising military service, something-club net, and one mentions ``Tin Can Sailors``. That leads me to search out the net, and the organisation behind it, veterans of destroyer ships starting with WWII (and ever since?)

http://www.destroyers.org/communication%20center/tin_can_sailors_radio_net.htm

``THE TIN CAN SAILORS RADIO NET --- History

In April 1992, a member of Tin Can Sailors wrote an article in the TCS newspaper suggesting that it might be an idea to organize amateur radio operators who were Tin Can Sailors. Bill Plage (W4DQT) in Atlanta, GA responded to the call and contacted some known TCS hams and organized a net. The first session was held August 9, 1992 on its current operating frequency of 14.255 MHz. at 2100Z with Bill as its first Net Control Station (NCS).

The net has gained popularity over the years with a current roster of over 400 TCS hams, although the net is not made up of only USN types. We have as members a former USAF pilot who was shot down over Korea and was pulled from the drink by a destroyer (USS STORMES). "It was the most welcome sight I had ever seen coming towards me and I spent 5 of the most wonderful days of my life on that destroyer. The clean dry sheets were great and the chow was even better," he commented. We also have a former Marine, former Army missile control officer, as well as active duty destroyermen and retired Tin Can Sailors.

Net Schedule

The primary net meets every Sunday at 2000Z on 14.255 MHz.

There are also three Wednesday morning nets. On the East Coast it is on 7.2455 MHz immediately following the Navy Club Net at 0900 Eastern, and on the West Coast on 7.258 (+/- as conditions permit) at 0900 Pacific time. There is a CW net on 7.117 MHz at 1000 Eastern Time.

Any inquiries or requests to have a net number assigned can be addressed to me along with a SASE (Business size Number 10 and two units of postage). We would like a little bio info from the applicant such as destroyers served on and when. There are no dues of the radio net but donations are accepted for stamps, paper, etc., to provide the members with a net roster and ships served on list as well as periodic notifications of ships reunions of members on the net.

These requests can be made to Tom Ryan, N6NPG,

300 N. Peg St., Ridgecrest, CA 93555-3615

e-mail: t.ryan15@verizon.net``

So it appears I was hearing the transition from the Navy Club Net to the Tin Can Sailors at 1300 UT. These were not on 7245.5-LSB, but exactly on 7245.0, probably encouraged to zero-beat the intrusive AM signal from NZ, which of course has every right to be there as long as the ITU and IARU cannot agree to segregate ham from broadcast bands worldwide (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1839 monitoring: NOT confirmed Tue Aug 23 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, instead replaced like last week by WRMI`s radiobeeps test for HFCC. We uncovered advance notice of the special broadcast for last week, but not this week. Maybe *next* week we`ll be back on this only WOR/WRMI broadcast toward Europe. Confirmed Tue Aug 23 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.076-CUSB. Also confirmed Wed Aug 24 at 1315.5 (after gh WRMI ID and a few notes of intrusive music fill), on WRMI 9955, S9 with no jamming. Next: 

Wed 2100   WBCQ 7490v to WSW

Wed 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, Aug 24 at 0135, WTWW-3 is S9+20 of dead air except for some hum. 9475, WTWW-1 with SFAW is S9+40, and so is 5085, WTWW-2 with QSO show repeat. Despite earlier G1 storm and K-index of 5, attenuating Eurosigs, these three are now much stronger than they were 24 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, Aug 24 at 0558 UT, dominating signal is in Spanish looping E/W, rather than WSB in English. Ads with several 1-800 numbers mentioned, and other clues it`s American, not Mexican, clinched at 0559 UT by Univisión América in ID whose call letters I can`t copy, but it is surely Ua affiliate KAMA El Paso TX. Then WSB starts to fade up. Both day and night patterns of 10/1 kW U4 KAMA are supposed to go ONLY due west, so must be out of whack again. See DXLD 15-49 for more about this and a possible STA for 250 watts and U5 = non-direxional at night; I had not logged since December, but several times earlier last year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. UNIDENTIFIED. 17505-17510-17515, Aug 23 at 1959, DRM noise at S9+20 but off at 2000*. No doubt same source as heard a few minutes earlier on Aug 13, but what? On a hunch, I e-mail Jeff White with a cc to Fibber:

Jeff, No doubt you are very busy with HFCC, but would appreciate a quick reply to this if you know the answer. Have been hearing DRM on 17510, today until off at 2000 UT. Also heard August 13 at 1933. Pretty strong. Not in HFCC or any other reference I can find, including DRM`s own schedule {very outdated}. Is this by chance some unpublicized test for HFCC, and if so from where, full schedule details, please? Tnx, (Glenn to Jeff White, 2025 UT Aug 23, via DXLD)

Glenn: It's a special test from Vatican Radio for the HFCC Miami Conference. In fact it was publicized in some places, such as

http://www.facebook.com/nasbshortwave

We were just listening to it here at the hotel in Miami with excellent reception on the new Titus II DRM radio and the Newstar DR111 (Jeff White, 2035 UT Aug 23, via DXLD) Viz.:

``National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters

August 17 at 7:32am ·

SPECIAL DRM BROADCAST FROM VATICAN RADIO

I would like to inform you about a special broadcast on occasion of the next HFCC International Broadcasting Delivery coordination conference in Miami, 22-26 August 2016.

The broadcast is from Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican Radio transmitting site, at 19:30 – 20:00 UTC on 17510 kHz, 250 kW digital, AHR 4/4/.5 at 292°, 16QAM-ModeB-Protection level 0.62 – Bit rate 14560 – SDR On. The broadcast is already on air even if officially it would start on 22 August till 25 August 2016; the content currently broadcast is in French and English but during the "official" period it would be an ad-hoc program with announcement and music.

Best regards. Sergio Salvatori, Vatican Radio`` (via DXLD)

I have been posting about it lately on DRMNA.

http://drmnainfo.blogspot.co.id/2016/08/hfcc-2016-drm-special-from-vatican-radio.html?m=1

Regards, (Christopher for DRMNA ``Fibber,`` Rumbaugh, 2048 UT Aug 23, ibid.)

Repeating my Aug 13 report of this as unID:

UNIDENTIFIED. 17505-17510-17515-DRM, Aug 13 at 1933, DRM noise at S5. 

Nothing in any of the schedules to explain this, and no hits ever on 

17510 in the virtually dormant drmna yg or the DRM Software Forum. Nor 

is anything even on the DRM Consortium`s own sked:

http://www.drm.org/?page_id=151

when configured to show all entries, and sorted by frequency: but many 

of the entries (e.g. NZ) are obviously outdated. Nor is any other 

broadcast mode scheduled on these frequencies at this hour.

Perhaps some secret test leading up to HFCC B-16 conference in Zika-

threatened Miami, Aug 22-26; details:

http://hfcc.org/B16/

and partly restricted to members only:

http://www.hfcc.miami/

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1839 UT August 24