** AUSTRALIA. Radio Australia continues to be totally missing whenever the known
frequencies are checked: Aug 10 at 2140, no 17840 or 15240 while NZ is JBA on
15720. Aug 11 at 0552, no signals on 17840, 15240. Aug 11 at 1325, no signals
on 9580, 12085, 12065.
On 11 August 2016 at 01:34, I asked the mostly
dormant ARDXC members discussion list: ``Does anyone have any info about what
has happened???``
One reply came: ``On RA website, ways to listen,
twitter feed shows off air for maintenance 08.15 till 1500 AEST/PNG Time. John
Smith Brisbane``
Copied exactly from his screenshot:
#raonair
@radioaustralia #RAOnAir
Reminder: There will be a shortwave outage today
between 08.15-15.00 AEST/PNG time due to maintenance #RAOnAir
KennyBee
#No2EU Retweeted [same]
``Today`` date not shown, but those times =
2215-0500 UT, and RA remains MISSING far beyond those times (gh)
Harald
Kuhl, Germany, posted this to the BDXC-UK yg:
``-----Original
Message-----
From: Harald Kuhl
Sent: Thursday, 11 August 2016 4:05
AM
To: Reception Advice reception.advice@abc.net.au
Subject:
Radio Australia shortwave?
Hi there, I cannot find your program on 9580
kHz, when are you back?
Regards Harald Kuhl
[Reply]:
Gesendet:
Donnerstag, 11. August 2016 um 01:38 Uhr
Von: "Reception Advice" <Advice.Reception@abc.net.au>
An:
"'Harald Kuhl'"
Betreff: RE: Radio Australia shortwave?
Dear Harald,
Thank you for your email regarding the ABC Radio Australia shortwave
transmission service. We are currently investigating this issue. Can you please
let me know where you are located?
Kind Regards
Robyn
ABC
ABC
Reception Advice
Communications Networks
They are "investigating this
issue". Could this mean they want to find out if listeners still care about
shortwave? We should all write to them and ask what happens to their shortwave
transmissions. Especially if one lives in their target area. 73
Harald``.
Lacking any RA to listen to, I hear this relevant item on NPR
Morning Edition, about Australia`s shocking treatment of refugees on
Nauru:
CLAIMS PROBED OF BRUTAL CONDITIONS FOR REFUGEES ON ISLAND OF
NAURU
7:18 August 11, 2016 5:04 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition
Steve
Inskeep talks to Anna Neistat of Amnesty International about recently released
reports detailing the condition of refugee detention centers on the Pacific
island nation of Nauru. [with 7:18 audio link]
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7255-, Aug 11 at 0601, no
signal from VON Hausa. When on, this is the biggest signal by far on the 41 mb
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, Aug 11
at 0556, JBA signal with music, no doubt SIBC again extending transmission on
day frequency beyond 0500; as also heard Aug 9 at 0614 by Walt Salmaniw (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1837
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 10 at 2105 check on WBCQ webcast, but JBA
at 2127 check on 7490. Also confirmed Wed Aug 10 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.85-CUSB,
fair.
WORLD OF RADIO 1838 ready for first airings August 11:
Thu
1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Thu 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
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 [to be
pre-empted]
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. 1480, Aug 11 at
0640 UT, S Asian vocal music, It`s KBXD Dallas, which newsmark reported to
radioinsight (via Artie Bigley) had reactivated Aug 8 with this new stunting
format, ex-C&W music; had been off the air for about a sesquimonth. Now
dominating frequency, no way I could listen to KQAM Wichita if I wanted to, so
KBXD on 50 kW day power? 0700 UT ToH ID as ``This is KBXD, 1480, Dallas``, same
slightly Spanish(?) accent as was heard before the latest music flip (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. Voice of Vietnam
has sent schedules indicating changes in English to North America, which are NOT
confirmed: (gh)
The editor of weekly electronic bulletin RUS DX, Moscow,
Russia, Mr. Anatoly Klepov, writes in Forum DENEB, Russia for some changes in
the schedule of Voice of Vietnam in English:
0000-0027 & 0100-0127 on
6175 WHRI (ex 0100-0127 & 0230-0257 on 12005 Woofferton);
new 1100-1127
& 1500-1527 on 7285 Vietnam;
new 2130-2157 on 7280 & 9730 Vietnam.
The other broadcasts are unchanged (Translated by Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria,
Aug 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1838, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
How early the frequency
in the 49 m is starting. Usually this has been down in early November after
daylight saving time and more evening of
darkness can help the 49 m band
(Richard Lemke, Alberta, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Relay sites not specified
below, but 6175 in B-seasons has been Woofferton at 0100 & 0230; WHRI still
at 0330. Current WHR schedule shows Angel 2 at 0330 on 6175 with VOV, but still
with other services before 0300 on 9605, 7315.
Correxions: 105.5 is of
course MHz, not kHz; 12020 is really 12019 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1838,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Vietnam FREQUENCY LIST
30 minute
[ENGLISH] program – From August, 2016
Areas of coverage UTC Airtime
Frequencies
Western Europe
17:00 9625 khz
Europe, Central
Asia
19:00 7280 khz, 9730 khz
21:30 7280 khz, 9730 khz
20:30 7280
khz, 9730 khz
Africa, Middle East
20:30 7220 khz, 9550 khz
Indonesia
23:30 9840 khz, 12020 khz
Eastern America
0:00
6175 khz
1:00 6175 khz
Central America-Caribbean
3:30 6175 khz
Hanoi
10:00 105.5 khz
Indonesia
10:00 9840 khz, 12020 khz
Laos, Thailand, Cambodia
11:00 7285 khz
Japan, Guangzhou
11:30 9840 khz, 12020 khz
Indonesia
12:30 9840 khz, 12020 khz
Japan, Guangzhou
13:30 9840 khz, 12020 khz
Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia, Indonesia
15:00 9840 khz, 12020 khz, 7285 khz
Europe,
Central Asia
16:00 7280 khz, 9730 khz
Africa, Middle East
16:00
7220 khz, 9550 khz
Hanoi
16:00 105.5 khz
(via Richard Lemke,
Alberta, Aug 10, reformatted by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dropping
12005 for 6175 did not happen at the very beginning of August; was still being
reported on 12005.
The printed sked, without a specific date other than
August 2016 does show 0000 & 0130 UT with correct Hanoi time conversion 0700
& 0830 for 6175, but nothing heard on 6175 at 0013 UT August 11. 12005 is as
usual occupied at this hour by a weak Cairo noise blob. So will VOV still be on
12005 Woofferton at 0100? or 6175 at 0100 WHRI or Woofferton? (Glenn Hauser,
WORLD OF RADIO 1838, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It appears that VOV is totally
confused about this, failed to coordinate it with relay sites, or at best has
jumped the gun with this announcement. Further monitoring here early UT August
11:
At 0201, nothing on 6175, weak signal on 12005; away from device
noise on the porch with the PL-880, I get a carrier about 6173.9 which is surely
Radio Tawantinsuyo, Perú! 12005 has something with music. This would be amid the
0130-0230 Vietnamese language broadcast via WOF. At 0232, on the R75, no 6175,
and JBA algo on 12005.
The early change to 49m may well have been
spurred by deteriorating reception on 12005, over the night trans-Atlantic path.
What VOV really needs is an interim channel, say 9 MHz band from Woofferton in
Aug-Sept-Oct. Not checked, but 6175 should have come up as usual from WHRI at
0300, including 0330 English. This WHRI transmitter VOV has been using is not
available before 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
And,
according to a wrong announcement from the French service: "from Sept 1, 9625
will no longer be used for the 2100 broadcast"
9625 (from Moosbrunn) is used
at 1830 (in French at this time), not at 2100 (Jean-Michel Aubier, France,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1549 UT August
11
