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mercoledì 14 aprile 2010

New Domestic Broadcasting Survey 2010 available

The 53 years old DSWCI which counts experienced DX-ers in 33 countries all over the world as members, has just issued

the 12^th Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey, edited by Anker Petersen. This survey is divided into three parts:

Part 1: The 38^th edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestines.

Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience.

Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear.

This new Survey is based upon many official sources and DX-bulletins. A10 schedules are included when available.

In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period May 2009 – March 2010, if each of the 900 station frequencies is on the air. ACTIVE stations are marked with an A ("Regular"), B ("Irregular") or C ("Sporadic") in the list. D means "Likely inactive".

A unique feature is the right column called "Last log". It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2010 when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3.

Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.

Three sample extracts from the DBS-12 are shown the next page. Reviews can be found on www.dswci.org

All buyers of DBS-12 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as "Tropical Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar data from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 are available at www.dswci.org/tbm to anybody.

The 28 pages A-4 size DBS-12 is available by e-mail as pdf-format (about 365 KB). A limited number is also available printed on paper. Since the clandestines are not included any longer above 5700 kHz, the prices have been reduced.

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Anker Petersen and Bent Nielsen Samples from Domestic Broadcasting Survey 12:

B 3815 0,2 GRL KNR, Tasiilaq (USB) ¤ 1500-1615v 2100-2212v Greenlandic, exc. Danish nx 1530 2200 MAR10

B 3900 7,5 CHN Hulun Buir PBS, Hailar, Nei 2130-0700 (Tu-0210) 0900-1440 C

Menggu MAR10

B 3905 10 PNG R New Ireland, Kavieng Kundu (Provincial) Service: 2000v-2200 0730-1200v Tok Pisin, ID:

"Maus bilong Mai Mau" MAR10

A 3912 - XXX Voice of the People, via 1100-2100 Korean // 6518 6600, ID: "Inmin-e sori pangsong-imnida",

Goyang, South Korea to KRE, d -3912.6. Operated by the Korean Armed Forces. Jammed

e.g. by Voice of Korea External Service MAR10

A 3915 100 SNG BBC, via Kranji FS: 2100-2400 E. Broker: VTC MAR10

C 3920 - KRE KCBS, Hyesan 2000-1800 Korean // 2850 6100 9665 JUL09

A 3925 50 J R Nikkei, Nagara, Chiba, Tokyo HS 1: 2040-1330v (Fr-1500v, Sa-1230v, Su-1200v) Japanese // 6055

9595, ID: "Nikkei Radio - sha Tampa-hoso" (Nikkei R Corp. SW Brc) FEB10

C 3925 10 J R Nikkei, Nemuro HS 1: 2040-2300 0800-1330 (Fr-1500, Sa-1415, Su-1200) Japanese PPPPP

A 3930 - XXX R Voice of Kurdistan, ¤ S/on varies with Martial music as early as 0245, 0300-0400 1245-

Sulaimaniya, Northern Iraq 1430 Kurdish, ID: "Era Radyo Dengi Kurdistana", 0400-0430 Farsi,

ID:"Im Radyo Sedaye Kordestane" to Iran. Produced by the Kurdistan

Democratic Party of Iran, Sweden, d 3910-3940. Jammed MAR10

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤

B 4825 5 B R Educadora, Bragança, PA 0830v-0230v P, d - 4825,3 FEB10

D 4826,5 15 PRU R Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco 1000v-2300 S, 2300-0300v S/Quechoa, rlg, sl:"La Voz de Canchis" JUL09

B 4828 100 ZWE Voice of Zimbabwe,Guineafowl, FS: 1530-0430 Shona/ Ndebele/E, E ID: "This is the Voice of

Gweru Zimbabwe", (= 5975). Some days off the air FEB10

A 4830 10 MNG Mongoliin R, Altay HS 1: 2200-1600 Mongolian, ID: "Ullaanbaataraas yaridz baina", to

SW Mongolia, ck 4895 7260 MAR10

C 4830,9 - RUS Voice of Russia, Tbilisskaya ¤ Spurious signal of 1089 MW Tbilisskaya RadioKanal Sodruzhestov

in Ru to ME, intermodulated by 5920 Tbilisskaye 2000-2200 (5920 -

1089 = 4831) MAR10

C 4834,9 0,5 BOL R Virgen de los Remedios, 1000-1100 2100-0100v S catholic px // FM, ID: "Radio Virgen de los

Tupiza, Potosi Remedios, onda corta y FM, la voz católica en su casa, con la cadena

Radio Católica Mundial" SEP09

A 4835 50 AUS VL8A, Alice Springs, NT 2130-0830 E, Northern Territory Sce, incl. CAAMA R and ABC px,

(= 2310) MAR10

B 4835 10 IND AIR Gangtok, Sikkim North Eastern Sce: 0100-0400 1030-1600v (SE: 0015-0430 1030-

1730) Nepali, exc. 1030-1100 and Fr 1430 Hindi, 1100-1130 Lepcha,

1130-1200 Limboo, 1200-1230 Sikkimese, Sa 1430 E, (= 6085) FEB10

C 4835 100 PAK R Pakistan, Islamabad ¤ [Apr-Aug] Current Affairs: 0200-0400 1300-1800 Urdu/E; but Nov-

Mar FS: 1345-1445 Pashto, 1445-1545 Dari // 6235 JUN09

B 4835,4 1 PRU R Marañon, Jaén, Cajamarca W 1000-0300(Sa -0200), Su 1100-1800 S, some days Off MAR10

A 4840 50 IND AIR Mumbai, Maharashtra Western Sce: 2355-0400 1230-1730 (SE: 2315-0430 1045-1830) E/

Hindi/Marathi/Sindhi, E nx 1430, ID: "Akashvani Mumbai", (= 7240) MAR10

A 4840 100 USA WWCR, Nashville, TN ¤ FS: 0100-1300 (Jun-Oct: 0700-1200(Sep-Oct -1300) E Rlg, ck 5070 MAR10

A 6973 10 ISR Galei Tzahal, Lod, Tel Aviv ¤ 24 h Hebrew // 15785. Operated by Israel Defence Forces. ID:

"Galei Tzahal, Shidure Tsva Hagana Le'Yisrael" MAR10

B 7105 50 CHN Nei Menggu PBS, Hohhot, Nei 2150-1605 (Tu not 0600-0850) C, ID: "Nei Menggu Renmin Guangbo

Menggu Diantai" // 7420 9520, spurs noted on 7085 7095 7115 and 7125 FEB10

B 7105 20 MDG R Nasionaly Malagasy, 0500-1500 F/Malagasy // 6135, (= 5010)

Ambohidrano MAR10

A 7110 100 ETH R Ethiopia, Geja Jewe, Addis 0300-2100 Amharic/Oromo/Tigre/ Somali/ Afar-Hararie Agnuak /

Ababa Nuer, MF 1400-1500 E // 5990 9704.2 , d - 7100,1 MAR10

D 7120 250 TCD Rdif. Nat. Tchadienne, Gredia, (SS 0730-)1000-1800; sometimes also 0427-0730 1800-2000 F/A/Vn,

N'Djaména alt. fq 4905 or 6165 SEP09

A 7125 50 GUI R Conakry, Sonfonia, Conakry 0555(Su 0800)-2400 F/Vn, F ID: "Ici Conakry", "Radio Guinée" MAR10

B 7130 10 MLA RTM Kuching-Stapok, Sarawak Sarawak FM: 2200-1600 Malay, relays nx from Kuala Lumpur on the

hour, W Schools px: 0100-0300, d – 7130,5; ck 5030 AUG09

B 7140 5 RUS R Rossii & NVK "Sakha", ¤ R Rossii Dubl 2: 0200-0300 0500-0910 1100-1600 Ru. Regional px

Yakutsk, Respublika Sakha "Sakha": 2000-0200 0300-0500 0910-1100 Ru/Yakutian // 6150(ID)

7200 7345 MAR10

B 7145 100 SOM R Hargeisa, Hargeisa, 1500-1900 Somali, r -1958*

Somaliland OCT09

A 7175 100 ERI Voice of the Broad Masses, Px 2: 0355v-0430 0930-1030 1700-2000v A, 0430-0500 1530-1600

Asmara Amharic, 0500-0600 1400-1500 Afar, 1500-1530 Saho/Bilen, 1600-

1700 Oromo. A ID: "Huna Asmara, Idha'at Sawt al-Jamahir

al-Iritriyyah", d 7165-7180 and 8000 to avoid Ethiopian jammer MAR10

B 7185,8 50 BRM Myanma R, Yangon, Yegu Main px: 0030-0200 1300-1530 Bamar, 0200-0245 (SS –0300) E,

ck 5985(ID), ex 7200 MAR10

C 7195 10 UGA R Uganda, Kampala Red Channel: 0600-1300 E/Swahili/Vn. (= 4976) AUG09

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

BOTSWANA VOA Relay 12080 0410 English 333 April 10 YL and OM with comments.

CHINA CPBS 11960 0415 Chinese 333 April 10 Two OMs with ongoing comments.

CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 6110 0450 Spanish 444 April 10 OM with comments also a second OM with RHC ID then a YL with comments.

GREECE Foni Tis Helladas 9420 0421 Greek 333 April 10 Two OMs with comments. YL with folk music. OM with comments 0425. //7450[444].

NEW ZEALAND RNZI 13730 0359 English 433 April 10 Children with choir Rap music. OM with RNZI ID then an OM newscast and weather reports.

RUSSIA Radio Rossii 12070 0412 Russian 333 April 10 YL and OM with comments.

SOUTH AFRICA BBCWS Relay 7310 0440 English 433 April 10 Two YLs with how children are treated in Africa. //7255[444]via Ascension, 6190[232]via SoAfrica and 6005[232]via Ascension.

TUNISIA RTV Tunisienne 7275 0445 Arabic 333 April 10 YL choir music. YL ancr 0446.

.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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martedì 13 aprile 2010

Glenn Hauser logs April 12-13, 2010

** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon, the ID never heard on the air, missing from 6090, April 13 at 0615, instead NIGERIA, q.v.; and also missing from day frequency 11775 at 1319 and 1409 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 7325, RCI Spanish service giving postal address, mixing about equally with CRI in Japanese, also aimed USward, April 13 at 1243. This is an old story, same thing happening all last summer, as RCI doggedly keeps using this frequency, which is increasingly useless the further west from its official target of the NE quadrant of the conterminous USA, 277 degrees from Sackville. After this A-10 reminder, I promise not to keep reporting it, as RCI obviously does not consider it a problem and the audience would be minuscule even if it were QRM-free.

The collision applies to the entire trihour from 1105 to 1405 in Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, as CRI Japanese service runs 1000-1357, 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua-Youbu #831 transmitter site, per Aoki. AIR Mumbai has apparently thought better of adding to the clash after 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 4800 definitely in Chinese, April 13 at 1234, interfering with CODAR, which is CNR1, 100 kW non-direxional from Geermu per Aoki, nothing from AIR Hyderabad audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 13: at 1250, nothing on 8400, but at 1252 good on 10420, and suspicious weak open carrier on 11500. At 1417 fair on 10420, still nothing on 8400. Nor anything in the 9.3`s at either time or in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. As previously reported, RHC`s new 12020 to S America collides with RDPI Portugal on 12020 also to S America after 2300, but the latter is M-F only. No problem of course Sunday April 11, so checked again Monday April 12 at 2330: propagation poor, but RHC heard only on other new 12030 (with clicking jamspur now on the hi side), not on 12020 where a weak not // signal was audible, presumably Portugal again in the clear. At 0015 April 13, could make 12020 // much stronger RDPI on 9715. So where has RHC gone from 12020? As yet unknown.

9735, April 13 at 1255 pulse jamming at the rate of 136 per minute against nothing but an open carrier, i.e. Taiwan about to resume with its second hour in Japanese, hardly worth jamming. But this could be a tipoff to something more pertinent to the Cuban Commies on 9735 at some completely different hour; or it could be a rogue jamspur.

OTOH, 9805, extra extended frequency of R. Martí, April 13 at 1419 was jamfree, but colliding with R. Free Asia, in Vietnamese via SAIPAN.

13880, the RHC leapfrog of 13680 over 13780, two very strong signals, doing well April 13 at 1317, at peaks as strong as the Russian on 13870, VOR, 145 degrees from St. Pete, but Cuba with more fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 5980, April 13 at 1248 fair carrier with continuous tone, leading up to something at hourtop. 1300 undermodulated Chinese talk starts, soon revealed at 1301 as Deutsche Welle with ID, sounder. Listed via Vladivostok at 240 degrees oppositely from US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. AIR with news in English, April 13 at 1231 on weak 4920 mixing with music presumably from TIBET; news // but an echo apart on weaker 5010, Chennai and T`m respectively;

At 1235 on 4820 music with SAH, one of which would be Kolkata, the other Lhasa, plus SSB QRM. Local sunrise April 13 in Enid was 1201 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, RRI Makassar in heavy mix with China (or Bangladesh?), April 13 at 1233 but Indonesian talk atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI was missing April 11, back on but propped-out carrier only April 12; April 13 at 1302 fairly good signal strength, but with flutter, undermodulated under heavy hum, and adding the accent and pitch of Mr. Banjarmasin, copy was too poor to stay with for yet another Exotic Indonesia excursion on Tuesdays. YL in Jak did news headlines at 1304-1306 which were much more readable but yawn, about the president signing letters about this and that; 1306 back to Banjarmasin and I give up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. In A-seasons with 15410 absent, it`s harder to find a decent signal for Radio Farda`s great music mix, but audible April 13 at 1403 with song in Farsi, 1407 ID in passing, this hour only via Wertachtal, GERMANY on 13580; abandoned by R. Prague (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 5890, VOA Korean via TINIAN, April 13 at 1247 with noise jamming plus wavering het I had not noticed before.

Looked for Shiokaze on new 6135 as Ron Howard discovered, but too far into daytime absorption here at 1410. Would block longpath from Madagascar if it were still audible either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, April 13 at 0622 still in the clear with a string of Carole King songs, album cuts, after intro in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9860, Arabic music and then talk about Hollandia, good signal April 12 at 2120. It`s the new A-10 frequency for RN via RWANDA during this hour at 325 degrees, tho missing from Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 6090, in absence of Anguilla, April 13 at 0615 African language distorted with hum, long pause leaving the hum unimpeded, resumed talk at 0616, no doubt R. Nigeria, Kaduna, presumably in Hausa, which when AIA is on can be heard as an undercurrent, and slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell had resumed modulating, at 2027 UT check April 12 on caradio, sports talk with the studio announcer somewhat overmodulated/distorted (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. KFXY 1640 Enid may have changed format to ``The New Faith 1640`` with southern gospel music --- but that doesn`t mean an even more important religion, baseball can`t bump off the praise whenever there is a game.

Monday afternoon April 12 at 1840 UT, I am hearing Royals baseball vs Tigers at Detroit! And frequent commercial breaks including local ones for the KC area, such as Edward Jones in Prairie Village. What good does that do us in Enid, with half a dozen of those right around here??

Next check at 2026, still Royals game. It was about over so after the post-game wrapup, and I could not care less who won, at 2046 slogan as ``The sports authority for Edmond, 1640 The Score`` and already mixing with gospel music as it immediately converted to ``The New Faith 1640``. Edmond is a northern suburb of OKC well within coverage.

There are bound to be night games too, so DXers may still hear either format and either slogan, depending, on 1640. But apparently still not sports talk any more, just live games and associated chatter.

While I was at it, scanned the MW band to find what other stations were audible on the Royals network, no IDs heard but easily presumed:

1550, KKLE Winfield KS (tho CCI KYAL Sapulpa OK is also sports)
1510, KNNS Larned KS, barely audible in KOKC splash, but // 1640
(was surprised to get this, as not usually audible daytimes)
1150, KSAL Salina KS
1130, KLEY Wellington KS, sibling station to 1550 KKLE Winfield
860, KKOW Pittsburg KS
690, KGGF Coffeyville KS
580, WIBW Topeka KS

and some 8 seconds delayed, 610, KCSP Kansas City, which I assume is the originating station. Is that so it will be less obvious that the same game is on 580 WIBW? It`s also incredible that 690 and 860 in essentially the same market with huge coverage overlap are both carrying Royals. Axually, 580 alone would suffice to cover this entire area in KS, MO and OK, not to mention NE and IA.

I also ran across more silly ball games on the dial; they all sound alike to me, so in the parked car I employed the handy portable I always keep in the vehicle, and checked for parallels.

Cardinals were also playing, on:
1390, KCRC Enid OK [we are so lucky to have access to both!]
1230, WBBZ Ponca City OK

Rangers on:
710, KGNC Amarillo TX
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAKISTAN [and non]. Something colliding on 15540, April 13 at 1310, the stronger signal slightly off to the hi side, producing a wavering whine, one talk, one music.

At 1328, S. Asian music on the hi side is atop the talk on the lo side, and the lower one goes off at 1329, while the hi side makes an announcement, and then a brief riff which sounds hymnic.

Still trying to figure out what the remaining signal is at 1350, a bit of music sounds HOA, later Chinesish, 1355 SEAsish, now with heavy flutter. 1400 a brief tone and off.

Eibi shows 15540 with R. Pakistan in Tamil at 1300-1330. Aoki has nothing at all in this hour. The other one must be something new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, with a bit of music April 13 at 1237, but more than a semihour after LSR, and soon losing out to SSB QRhaM. Has to be R. New Ireland, as RRI Merauke is inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PORTUGAL. See CUBA [and non], 12020

** RUSSIA. R. Rossii with jazz on 7320, April 13 1244, squeezed between 7325 RCI/CRI, see CANADA [and non], and 7315 WHRI with country gospel music; but // 7200, which had a co-channel SAH, and QRhaM with a QSO between a 4 and a 9. 7200 is Yakutsk, 7320 is Magadan per Aoki, nowhere near Irkutsk per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820, BSKSA with Qur`an, April 12 at 2130, good for lullaby napping as I could barely understand a word of it, so no risk of inadvertent conversion; also found on // 11915 still going at 2157. These are 320 and 295 degrees respectively from R. Riyadh`s HQS, or at least they were in B-09 per Aoki; but not really intended for the Americas.

17705 at 1401 April 13, weak signal in Arabic with stingers, mentioning Saudi; R. Riyadh program 1 is new here at 12-15, 310 degrees to Europe; probably ex-21640 as also noted by Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SEYCHELLES [non]. 11985, April 12 at 2159, Arabic-sounding song and talk mentioning ``Idha`at`` and ``Akbar`` in a .com website; had clix on low side, probably spur from Cuban 11930 jamming, and after 2200 bothered by RCI from 11990. Also heard a few words of French, 2203.5 into music.

This is FEBA via ASCENSION; Eibi says the language is Pulaar daily at 2145-2215; Aoki says Hassinya at 2145-2200 Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri and nothing later or on other days. HFCC says Pulaar daily 2145-2215 at 27 degrees. Pulaar is spoken in Senegal/Gambia and vicinity, related to Fulani/Fulfulde, not to be confused with Pular; while Hassinya presumably refers to Western Sahara (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. BBCWS` only remaining SW broadcast in English to the entire Western Hemisphere, M-F 1215-1300 via WHRI 9410, still exists, April 13 at 1251 with Robin Lustig interviewing someone, but considerable co-channel QRM in Chinese and SAH caused by CNR and incidentally jamming Fu Hsing, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR-4 off the air again from 9980 another afternoon, April 12 at 2118 and in the following hour, but seemed to be back at 2330 tho just barely audible as were WWCR-2 on 9350 and WTWW 9479 since propagation had dropped out.

The M-F program schedule shows:
2000 WW Country Radio
2100 Truth House
2200 Challenge Ministries
2300 Unshackled
2330 Thru the Bible
0000 Golden Age of Radio to 0200*

I would assume that Truth House and Challenge Ministries are paid programming so strange to be silent then, rather than during WWCR, Unshackled or GAOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Checking the M-F ``A Fondo`` hour jointly produced by R. Martí and VOA, UT Tue-Sat 00-01: April 13 at 0010, all jammed, but audible on 11970, 9885, 7365, 6030. Forgot to check 11775, the fifth frequency heard four nights earlier.

Suspect Lavwadlamerik has quietly cancelled the extra Creole broadcasts started ASAP after the Haitian earthquake in January, but when? VOA took forever to add the new schedule to the A-Z website, and now that it has, some of the frequencies shown are missing.

As Of April 13, VOA A-Z language schedule still shows: Creole - NEW!
0000-0100 UTC 5835 7590
0100-0200 UTC 5835 7465
1130-1230 UTC 6135 9505 M-F
1630-1830 UTC 15390 17565
1830-2000 UTC 15390
2000-2200 UTC 11905 13725
2200-2300 UTC 7590 11905
2300-0000 UTC 5835 7590

But April 13 at 0015, nothing on 5835 and 7590. Need to check the earlier channels, as may revert to original afternoon timing of 2100-2130 only, nothing later.

April 13 at 1757 and 1835, nothing on 15390 or 17565, so the midday show has probably contracted to original 1630-1700. Or less? I am beginning to wonder if *any* VOA Creole SW broadcasts remain on the air; need to check all above times and frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, WWRB presumed running all-night as normally heard both late and early with Biblical readings/dramatizations, but April 13 at 0627 it`s missing; 1226 it`s on vs SAH de CHINA, could be both of them at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, WRMI, April 13 at 1321 with screaming preacher in English vs DentroCuban pulse jamming. The latest WRMI program grid we have, dated March 23, showed various English religious programs at 1300-1315 M-F including Gospel King on Tuesdays, but then at 1315 French for Haiti, Radio des Nations-Unies, which this was definitely not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15540 at 1300-1400: see PAKISTAN [and non] ###

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2010 Apr 12 2053 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# SIDC Weekly bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic activity             #
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
WEEK 484 from 2010 Apr 05

SOLAR ACTIVITY
--------------
Solar activity was rather low during the week. A halo CME occurred
on April 8, in conjunction with a B3.7 flare, which peaked at 0325 UT.
The source region was NOAA AR 1060, at that time about 20 degrees East
of the central meridian. A southward EUV coronal wave was observed.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
--------------------
Geomagnetic activity was dominated from April 5 to 6 by a major
geomagnetic storm (Kp=6), with brief periods of severe storm
conditions (Kp=7) on April 5. Geomagnetic conditions were still
at active levels (Kp=4) on April 7. The source of such disturbances is
a halo CME, which occurred on April 3. A strong interplanetary shock
was observed by the ACE spacecraft at 0756 UT on April 5. In addition,
a fast solar wind stream linked to a coronal hole quickly followed the
arrival of the shock and maintained at active levels an already disturbed
situation. Conditions returned to quiet levels on April 8.
A weak interplanetary shock was observed by the ACE spacecraft on April 11
at 1215 UT, in relation with the halo CME of April 8. A brief period of active
conditions (K=4) was observed at Dourbes station on that day between
18 and 21 UT, while planetary conditions remained at quiet levels.

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DAILY INDICES
DATE           RC   EISN 10CM   Ak   BKG    M   X
2010 Apr 05   ///    026   79   050   A4.1   0   0
2010 Apr 06   ///    019   78   039   A3.1   0   0
2010 Apr 07   ///    017   76   024   A3.2   0   0
2010 Apr 08   037    021   76   015   A4.1   0   0
2010 Apr 09   012    007   76   008   A3.5   0   0
2010 Apr 10   011    007   75   003   A4.4   0   0
2010 Apr 11   ///    000   75   018   A2.7   0   0
# RC   : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
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lunedì 12 aprile 2010

Glenn Hauser logs April 11-12, 2010

** CUBA. Another secret unscheduled time for En Contacto, RHC`s Spanish DX program, in progress UT Monday April 12 at 0551 with Manolo acknowledging mail from Lima, Puebla, on 6150, 6120, 5040.

12025 with lite jamming pulses, April 12 at 1314 against nothing, but bothering RHC on 12030! May be spur from 11845, DCJC lower on the band, or possibly mixing out of the 12030 transmitter itself.

Before 1400 there was no R. Martí on 11930 and no jamming either; at 1423 heavy jamming with pulse spurs out to 11910-11955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKESTAN/EAST TURKISTAN [depending on your spell check]. During G3-storm-disturbed propagation conditions, April 12 at 1341, nothing much audible on the SW bands beyond single-hop, southerly or trans-equatorial signals, but one trans-polar was making it on 13670, Chinese singing/opera, fair with flutter, and splash from Cuba 13680; 1355 to Chinese talk, 1357 off. Aoki shows CRI in Chinese via Urümqi, 500 kW due west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa at unusual hour of 0526 April 12, closing one gospel huxter with a 6-digit PO box in ZIP 74170, which is Tulsa, brief pause, no ID, and YL opening another show. Fair with slow fading. Also in: NIGERIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. Altho VOI`s English hour was missing from 9525.9 April 11 during the 13 UT hour when propagation was good, its off-frequency carrier was just barely detectable at 1339 April 12, when propagation was very disturbed.

At this time hi-latitude signals from Asia below 12 MHz were absent or greatly attenuated, as were signals from Europe above 12 MHz; K-index at 12 UT was 2 and a strong G3 geomag storm was in progress, per WWV on 5000 at 1318 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 13840, good signal April 12 at 0533 two YLs with news in French frequently mentioning Japon, which is fitting since this is NHK, at 0530-0600.

13710, April 12 at 0534 news in French, voice sounds very much like R. Japan on 13840, but not //, and soon ID with jingle for La Voix de l`Amerique, i.e. VOA via Madagascar at 0530-0600 M-F; BTW, the second half of this French hour at 0600-0630 on 13710 switches to Botswana; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. After hearing Equatorial Guinea 15190 on nightpath, I checked 15120, and there was VON at 0529 April 12, modulation somewhat distorted, ending Today in History, plugging listening via http://www.voiceofnigeria.com? Not sure of the .com.

No, going there, that site`s footer admits it is not the radio station, instead refers to http://www.voiceofnigeria.org Some drumming, fair with fades, signal quite similar to 15190, stronger than Australia 15160 which often is the SSOB or OSOB at this hour.

BTW, VON`s language and frequency schedule is in flux; Thorsten Hallmann, Alan Roe and Tony Rogers are trying to sort it out, as reported in the dxldyg and upcoming DXLD 10-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 13775, VOR finally propagating with good signal on the only frequency retained for English to NAm at 04-06, 50 degrees from Vladivostok; good modulation too, YL in story narrative with music and war SFX. Scheduled is ``Timelines``. But at next check 0558 right before sign-off, was fading out and becoming JBA! Apparently the G3 magstorm had hit the path in the meantime. This could be avoided by using a relay to the south!

At 0545 I caught the propagation report on WWVH 10000. K index was 7! at 0300, and G3 storms were raging (not a word used by the SWPC). At first I thought that K7 must be mistaken, since hi-latitude path from DVR was obviously funxioning well; after 0300 until 0545 SW reception seemed generally enhanced rather than outwiped, e.g. Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria too, qq.vv. on 15 MHz.

But later found mid-latitude K-index at 0300 indeed shown as 7 on 3-hourly e-mail Geophysical Alert from WWV, subsiding to only 4 at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TINIAN. 15635, April 12 at 0532, fair signal in Chinese, probably RFA scheduled at 03-07, rather than ChiCom jamming due to current propagation favoring Pacific over Asia. Nothing else to or from China audible on 19m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Checking new WORLD OF RADIO time on WWCR-4, Sundays 2330 on 9980: April 11 at 2333, audible enough to confirm but very poor signal, down from normal blast earlier in daytimes. Strangely, WWCR-2 on 9350 was MUCH stronger. Published azimuths for these are 90 and 85 degrees respectively, both of which should be ideal for OK off-the-back westward.

Furthermore, WTWW on 9479, just a few myriameters further, was stronger still. So at this moment was the MUF somewhere in the middle of the 31m band, advantaging the lower channels? And/or 9980 not running full 100 kW power? I hope at further more favorable skip distances, 9980 was still inbooming. BTW, Rick Barton in AZ says 15825 is excellent there, more than double the distance to Enid, for the Friday 2030 WOR airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13380, April 12 at 0539, extremely strong S9+25 carrier, not local since also had slight fading, and shortly began sending digital data bursts. This is like we have also heard on 11435, probably from CUBA, e.g. DXLD 9-082 under UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Radio Ukraine International off SW

Hi Glenn! From April 12, RUI's shortwave transmitters in Kharkiv and Lviv have been switched off. Also the same was done with all mediumwave transmitters of UR1 channel. Only transmitter on 657 kHz in Chernivtsi with RUI's Romanian service and UR3 operates in the night. Also the UR1 transmitter on 207 kHz in Brovary (Kiev) is active from 0230 to 2100. Best regards (Alexander Yegorov, Kiev, Ukraine, April 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This means RUI is off the SW air completely, including the 0000-0100 UT English to North America which was high power from Lviv on 7440. All the other frequencies Kharkiv. Is this permanent, or another temporary shortage of funding? (gh, DXLD)

domenica 11 aprile 2010

Glenn Hauser logs April 11, 2010

** CHINA. Firedrake April 11: at 1258 JBA on 13970; at 1317 poor on 8400. Not heard anywhere else such as 9365, 10420, 10440 as the day before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [and non]. 9690, AIR GOS tuning up early April 11 at 1319-1320* open carrier with signature big hum always upon this transmitter. The sesquihour does not officially start until 1330. It QRMs something, per Aoki, IBB`s Deewa Radio via Sri Lanka to Afghanistan at 1300-1400. How can Bengaluru and nearby Irana Wila possibly have been scheduled on the same frequency at the same time? Must be quite a clash in Asia. AIR has been on 9690 for ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. A day of rest for VOI, no signal on 9526v, Sunday April 11 at 1309 and later chex during the hour when there was still Chinese all over the band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** POLAND [non]. Looking for PRES English coverage the day after the president`s plane crash, but nothing audible on 11675, April 11 at 1246, just a weak carrier/het where the 300 kW relay via AUSTRIA used to be reliable, making me wonder if it was even on air today? // 11980 via Woofferton UK had some JBA talk. Others report PRES was on the ball with that devastating news 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 15170, REE via COSTA RICA, Sunday April 11 at 1249 with Antonio Buitrago talking about a contest at Radio Internacional de China, (but don`t call them RIC), thus confirming the new summer time of Amigos de la Onda Corta at 1230 Sundays on this and numerous other frequencies direct and relayed. Was already over by 1255 check, since its only other airing is 0605-0630 Saturdays on 5965, 11890, 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SURINAME. 4990, a weak carrier with some music at 0546 April 11, and axually a bit stronger than adjacent 4985 RBC, very unusual. Must be Radio Apintie, which rarely makes an appearance here, with its low power and southward aim, and I`ve yet to attain a good definite ID log on it. David Hodgson, TN, was getting it better hearing multiple IDs within the hour around 0625 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 13635, April 11 at 1258 play-by-play in Turkish with crowd roaring, 1300 to studio announcement, a bit of music, and cut off the air at 1300:45*. This is 310 degrees from Emirler. It seems the only next frequency in Turkish is 9840, not an option here with WHRI, Voice of Vietnam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4050, something odd at 0540 April 11: ticks exactly every second, rather like WWV during minutes when no tone is added, but no marker at TOM (top of minutes). Could it be a HIFER conveying some local weather info? No, at 0542 YL says ``We`re The Mouth, 1350 AM``, which is the slogan of KWMO here on its usual third harmonic; followed by dead air with no tix, as the automation fails for all to hear.

Clearly the station is now going for the harmonic DX audience who would find this interesting, not ordinary Washingtonians who would quickly retune to some station that has not lost its ongoing program modulation.

Night power on 1350 is legally only 84 watts. ``The Mouth`` goes with its NRC-listed talk format, tho most of the nighttime we hear KWMO playing C&W music. Must have quite a split personality, when funxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Sunday April 11 at 1306 in Spanish with report on ILLW = Fin de Semana Internacional de los Faros, coming in August, i.e. Frecuencia al Día as scheduled, and not jammed. After 1400, Radio Prague in English also fairly audible, the only current reliable 7-day-per-week time for RP via WRMI, contrary to some published schedules with outdated info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. DXing with Cumbre deconfirmed at another of its imaginary times per WHR online schedule: Sunday at 1330 on 11785. WHRI not even on the 11785 air April 11, just the hefty Chinese signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. El Hugazo misses another opportunity to extend his pontifications from mere Venezuela to the world courtesy of Cuba: no show for ``Aló, Presidente`` on any of the nominal frequencies at 1620 check Sunday April 11: 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010, 11690 as still shown in the latest RHC online sked starting at 1400.

RHC itself, however, could be heard in // on 11690, 11730, 11760, on new 12030, and JBA on new 15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 3630-CLSB, April 11 at 0548, a leisurely ragchew between at least two hams who never bothered to ID for 5-10 minutes, nor observe the `over` protocol, during numerous exchanges. Talking about playing guitar and misc. other topix. What caught my attention was that they had weak reduced carriers along with their SSB, but not enough to obviate the need for BFO.

Upon closer listening with the BFO slightly off-tuned, I could tell the carriers only came on when they were talking/modulating, rather than constantly as with e.g. WBCQ. One of them mentioned ``peakage at 600, pulled it down``, perhaps referring to the carrier injexion level; but why? Or was it simply defective AM or defective SSB. This area also bears full-AM hams at times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

WTWW on air 9479khz

Hola ..

segnale debole ma comprensibile su 9479khz 13,43utc WTWW-USA...ciaoo e buoni DX!

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Log Roberto Pavanello

   225   10/4 21.30 Polskie R. - Varsavia Polacco NX incidente aereo buono
1657   10/4 23.10 R. Napoleon - Dutch ID e MX buono
4885   10/4 23.05 R. Clube do Parà - Belem PP MX buono
5815    5/4 08.45 R. Tina - EE ID e MX buono
5835   11/4 08.30 R. Thunderbirf - EE ID e MX buono
5995    9/4 21.00 R. Mali - Bamako FF NX buono
6240   11/4 08.40 R. Victoria - EE ID e MX buono
6295   11/4 08.50 R. Devalon - EE ID e NX pirate buono
6299    5/4 08.55 Magic AM - EE ID e MX buono
7570    7/4 19.30 R. Thailand - Bangkok EE NX tutto OK!!!!! buono
10000   10/4 22.35 Observatorio Nacional - Rio de Janeiro PP ID e pip pip buono
11765   10/4 22.45 R. Deus es Amor - Curitiba PP ID e annunci buono
11780   10/4 22.40 R. Nac. Amazonas - Brasilia PP NX suff.
15345    7/4 19.15 R.A.E. - Buenos Aires IT tanghi suff.

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Tips Girolla da Buccinasco

data utc Khz Call

11/04/2010 0031     4717            R Yatun Ayllu , Yura                BOL suff px mx loc
11/04/2010 0026     4409,9         R Eco , Reyes                       BOL suff px loc
11/04/2010 0021     4699,4         R San Miguel                         BOL suff px locale
11/04/2010 0017     4747            R Huanta 2000                        PRU suff px locale
11/04/2010 0010     4925,2         R Educacao Rural ,Tefè            B suff px religioso
11/04/2010 0007     4985            R Brasil Central, Goiania          B suff px mx //11815khz
11/04/2010 0003     5110            WBCQ Monticello,Maine           USA Buono px mx +ID    usb mode
04/04/2010 0045     4699,4         R San Miguel ,Riberalta         BOL suff - px mx
04/04/2010 0036     4747            R Huanta 2000 , Huanta           PRU suff    , px mx
04/04/2010 0007     6035            La Voz del Guaviare,San Josè del Guaviare CLM suff    -px mx

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Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF
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-Lat. 45°25'0"N Long. 9°7'0"E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-

Sunny weather, just right for oldies.

Hi guys,
Just to let you know that WR International is at it again on air this morning @ 12257Khz until 12:00 UK time. Until 08:00 BST a computer playout system is in use, live output is from 08:00 BST until 12:00 BST.

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Happy listening if you choose to, have a good day.

Dave

WR International

Glenn Hauser logs April 10-11, 2010

** CHINA. See RUSSIA for 9890 clash, 9900; CUBA [and non] for jamming on 9810; MALI

** CUBA. Two new frequencies of RHC confirmed, 9525 // synchronized 12020 in Spanish allegedly to South America but fine in the North, at 2305 April 10 and an echo apart from 12030 to Central America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9810 still with heavy noise from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, April 10 at 2304 when Radio República used to appear. During this hour, CRI`s Mongolian service may be too far away to suffer, but at 00-02 the innocent victim will be VOR in Spanish via Guiana French. See RUSSIA [non].

Meanwhile, Radio República is really on 9490 via RMI via Sackville, VG signal at 2306 talking about the hunger-strikes by political prisoners inside Cuba; it`s way over jamming which is at the pulse-level rather than wall-of-noise level. RR at 23-02 was originally M-F, but now Saturdays, and shall we make it daily including Sundays too?

Again, no sign of anything on 9780, at 0225 check April 11, when Radio República had allegedly been heard elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 9187-9212, over-the-horizon radar pulses, presumed from here April 10 at 2309 with typical 25-kHz bandwidth; yes, propagation from that worldpart is good again, Voice of Greece also in on 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. 7295, at 2311 April 10 CRI in Chinese via Bamako, either undermodulated or under a zero-beat amateur carrier to spoil it; or both. This area is a favorite of hams for AM instead of SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 18057.9, after a dry spell this week, the third harmonic of Radio Victoria, Lima is audible again, April 10 at 2222 with bits of Spanish peaking/peeking thru the not too bad noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This item in previous report had the azimuths swapped. Please replace with corrected version:

** RUSSIA [non]. CUBA is still negligently jamming 9810, which was abandoned three months ago by Radio República, despite the fact that in A-10 Voz de Rusia is trying to broadcast Spanish to Latin America on that very same frequency, via GUIANA FRENCH. April 10 at 0101 I can hear VOR`s news in Spanish under the noise, and it`s // and synchronized with much stronger 9735, which is unjammed. Yes, during the 01-02 hour only, VOR is using both 9810 and 9735 via GUF, at 195 and 320 degrees respectively. Meanwhile, they can`t spare a minute of airtime on this or neighboring transmitter and 320 degree antenna USward for English, which would really inboom vs our struggles to hear 9890 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. 9965 at 2256 April 10, open carrier but it`s motorboating, obviously unstable with BFO on, which seems to be all too common a problem in the CIS, like 5920 Pet/Kam. 2259 some ``Russian tones`` and 2300 with hum as loud as the fitful modulation which sounds rather like Portuguese. Yes, per EiBi it`s VOR to Brasil at 23-24, followed by Spanish, via ARMENIA, probably not a good idea to pick as a relay site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR English to North America finally semi-audible on the only frequency they deign to provide, 9890 direct from ``Armavir`` = Krasnodar, April 10 at 2228, apparently an interview between W&M, but very low key and his low-pitched voice is no match for the assertive higher-pitched ChiCom co-channel!

This is a semihour before we have CubaRM and VOA to contend with adjacently from 9885, but now we have a direct clash from China. Aoki says 9890 bears CNR1 at 1955-2300 from Lingshi 725 site, 100 kW at 286 degrees. No problem way over here in CNAm? Wrong! It`s slightly weaker than VOR at first, but gaining, making both of them unusable. It`s also // clear 9900, Beijing 572 site, says Aoki.

The program grid at http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule/ shows Saturdays at 2230+ VOR airs Timelines, but the sked is still dated to expire March 27 before the timeshift! Is it really the current sked, just forgot to change the dates? Apparently, as Rich Cuff forwards one he received by e-mail showing current A-10 dates and same program at this hour.

Anne Fanelli in NY says it was the unmistakable Estelle Winters at 2255, good reception, where apparently China was not a problem. But how was it five minutes later?

I checked again just before 2300. By 2257 the Greenville carrier was on with its own problems: see USA. At 2259 I could still make out the VOR IS mixing with Chinese announcement but wideband splash from VOA`s rap music after 2300 blew away VOR, even tho the ChiCom CCI was supposed to be over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Conditions are finally getting back to normal after the disturbances early in the week. Maybe even better than normal, as I have REE inbooming on 17595, April 10 at 2217 UT, some 3.5 hours after local sunset at Noblejas, // also strong 15110. Furthermore, weaker // on 17755 also audible. Per Aoki, 17755 at 161 degrees and 17595 at 248 degrees run as late as 2200 only on weekends. But they were still on; did not pay much attention to programming but it was a remote interview with some hum on the feed, same on all frequencies; not live sports which might explain the extension unless it was post-game. 17595 is 248 degrees, not even USward. Also very strong via Costa Rica on 17850, 340 degrees. It and 15110 direct at 302 degrees which are USward, are both scheduled until 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 9935, something in Spanish, April 10 at 2229, immediately mentioning 21 de mayo de 2011, so it`s only Fámily Radio predicting the end of the world. How will Harold weasel out of that one, if he survive that long? A good time to go camping.

9935 is too weak to be Okeechobee and not // 15130. How do the French Guianans feel about broadcasting such nonsense from their country? Ha, they have no say, and I bet not even one percent know what`s going out at 215 degrees from Montsinéry, now more world-famous than Devil`s Island, on a par with Kourou.

6985, April 10 at 2310, in French, must be WYFR as scheduled, 355 degrees, but only fair signal and much weaker than Spanish on 6915 at 160 degrees, both 100 kW. This does not compute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, WBCQ is on with another weekend special from Area 51, = Area 93. At first I thought two stations were mixing, but that was the way the music was presented on the modulation, soon clearing up to one thing at a time, and of course, exact SSB tuning is critical with music. Nothing audible on 15420 or 5110, and not // 7415. At 2250 a ``legal ID`` on 9330 for WBCQ. Recheck at 2313, with Radio TimTron WorldWide giving his mission statement, now // 7415 and weaker // 5110-CUSB has also become audible. I had checked the Area 51 blog on Friday but nothing then about additional frequencies this weekend; short notice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. While monitoring VOR on 9890, see RUSSIA, I was dreading VOA upcoming on 9885. At 2257 its open carrier is on --- no, there is some weak modulation already, from Radio Martí as quickly confirmed by // 6030. 2259 VOA YDD sign-on in English, but mixing with R. Martí frequency announcement in Spanish.

If RM is still in the mod mix after 2300 it`s buried under VOA`s ``De Capital a Capital``, right into rap music, with widebland splash blowing away Russia on 9890. Did not keep listening long enough to tell whether the DentroCuban Jamming Command also hit it, but why bother blocking this apolitical program? Indeed, that does not usually stop them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. By 2300 April 10, WWCR-4 on 9980, which blasts in all day, is beginning to fade down as Unshackled #2682 is starting on Saturday. I hope this does not bode ill for reception of WORLD OF RADIO #1507, at its new time of 2330 Sunday. Hmm, that other show is 1175 episodes ahead of me. Must buckle down and get busy.

7465, April 10 at 2314, WWCR-1 ending The Victory Hour (would you believe quarter-hour?), with squeal quite audible on this transmitter, not to be confused with some sirens in Enid arriving via compression waves at the very same time. Next show opens with a Bible citation not even bothering to identify itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. I have been noticing this for a week or two, but haven`t logged it. Since it`s pervasive, about time to outpoint another intruder in the 31m SWBC band: centered on 9871, some sort of loud utility noise at 2258 April 10, heavily QRMing a broadcaster on 9870 but the latter went off a minute later, presumably BSKSA to Europe as scheduled but also USward. 9871 is also there at many other times, likely to mar VBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Auistralia-Shepparton-RA 15515 0322 English 433 April 10 Two OMs with comments on Football. //15240[333]Shepparton.

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 17735 0310 Tamil 333 April 10 OM with comments and also interviewing an OM 0312.

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 15785 0319 English 333 April 10 YL and OM with comments.

CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 12030 2240 Spanish 444 April 5 OM giving a speech with Cuba mentioned often. People clapping hands 2258. OM with RHC ID 2259. RHC IS 2259.YL with Musica 2302.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 17810 0259 Japanese 433 April 10 YL with ID, Time Pips 0300. OM with comments 0302. YL with vocal music 0316. //15195[333], 15325[444], 5960[444]via Canada, 17560[333].

KOREA, North Voice of Korea-VOK 15180 0336 French 333 Spril 10 YL with comments and vocal choir music. //13760[433] and 11735[333].

RUSSIA, Petropavlovsk Voice of Russia-VOR 15425 0327 English 444 April 10 YL with comments on Prime Minister Churchil of ww2. YL with piano music. YL with VOR ID 0331. //7350[333]via Vatican State. Mackenzie-CA.

SAIPAN Radio Free Asia-RFA 17615 0312 Chinese 333 April 10 YL and OM with comments. Also an OM heard in the background possible via China Jammer.

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Glenn Hauser logs April 9-10, 2010

** CANADA. 9650, KBS World Radio due a further refund from RCI, April 10 at 1454-1459* once again playing RCI IS, French and English ID loop instead of lost Korean service as scheduled 14-15. I believe I had heard Korean normally sometime earlier in the hour as I tuned past (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 10: at 1315, good on 8400, fair on 10420 and poor on 10440, the latter two being unusual landing spots. None others found from 11 up to 18 MHz. But at 1321, FD best of all on 9365 against nothing co-audible, and so strong it bothered WTJC on 9370.

HFCC has nothing currently at this time on 9365, but Aoki shows Sound of Hope = Xi Wang Zhi Sheng could be there 24 hours with 1 kW from Taiwan, thus provoking the ChiCom jamming, probably 500 kW from a suitable internal skip distance to prevent hundreds of megaChinese from being corrupted by harmless Falun Gong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5970, new RHC frequency, already on air at 2145 April 9 in Spanish, fairly good signal. Is this on the brand-new schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm --- of course not! Shows 5970 only at 01-05 in English, 07-11 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. As I was finding RHC on unscheduled 5970 at 2145 April 9, also audible weaker on 6030 was Radio Martí, and no jamming audible. This is now starting at 1800, and we wonder how good a signal it can get into Cuba at midday, jamming or not.

Also confirmed RM`s new 9460 with good signal at 0256 check April 10, no jamming audible. It`s on the sked now as ``temporary`` at 01-04.

Saturday April 10 at 1339, R. Martí with ``Arte Latino`` show about ``Olbga de Cuba`` and her singing career in exile, 9805 with heavy jamming, 11845 VG over jamming. Closing produxion credits already at 1352 and on to next show, ``Enfoque a América Latina`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, on his blog bandscanning for easily-heard Spanish-language broadcasts,
http://sintoniadx.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!956BF69EACAB477D!3372.entry
includes Radio República on 9780 sometime in the 02-03 and 03-04 hours. That`s a new unlisted frequency and unknown to me, so I check for it April 10 at 0256 --- nothing there, tho propagation is poor on 31m. However, Vatican English via Sackville is audible on 9610. About the only signal making it weakly from Europe is China via Spain on 9690.

JEDG says he heard "La Voz de los Cubanos Libres`` on 9780, dates not noted, but he scans only on local Mondays-Fridays, and will check for it again. I don`t recall RR using that specific slogan, so unless he heard an axual RR ID, possibly this was some other hitherto unknown exile clandestine. Per HFCC, only Yemen and CNR China are registered on 9780 during parts of this bihour. Others please be on the lookout for this! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 4920, April 10 at 1234, weak signal with talk, from intonation sounds like English, ergo AIR news on the hour via Chennai, and also similar but unseemed // on 5010 via T`m. Several other weak signals on 60m from AIR frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 6165, April 10 at 1255, poor signal in S Asian singing. I will confidently list-log this as AIR Sindhi service via Delhi-Khampur site, 250 kW at 65 degrees in B-09, rather than VOV-4 Hmong service, 50 kW, ND from Hanoi-Xuan Mai site in A-10, both per Aoki.

While Aoki has only B-09 India info so far, these instances also check with latest A-10 info as in http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm which however lax azimuths (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 15050, April 10 at 1448 fluttery signal peaking at S9+10 but absolutely no modulation; went off somewhere around 1500. This can only be the AIR Sinhala service as scheduled 1300-1500, 250 kW from Delhi-Khampur site at 174 degrees, so longpath? Preceded by Tamil at 1115-1215. Is it unmodulated too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4870, weak music at 1234 April 10, presumably RRI Wamena; while 4750 Makassar was much stronger atop CCI (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 10 at 1332, VOI English with daily Miscellany segment, but despite good modulation this time, her accent was so heavy that I could barely understand a word. One of her last may have been ``oxycontin`` before cut to open carrier with hum at 1334, and still the case at 1338 when I upgave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA [and non]. 6175 in Chinese April 10 at 1252 with constant audible het on low side. Aoki has CNR1 from Beijing 572 site, 100 kW, 37 degrees USward, while VOM Kajang in Indonesian, 100 kW non-direxional. Ron Howard confirms this date that VOM is in fact on 6174.40, so must be a 600 Hz het, assuming CNR1 be spot on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Radio Educación, 6185, does it again tnx to eclectic late-night music format when you never know what to expect: April 10 at 0555 traditional bluegrass lovesongs with wonderful harmony (in English!); 0603 full ID for MW and SW; 0605 on to a couple of contrasting Linda Ronstadt songs, ``You`re No Good`` and ``When Will I Be Loved``. No CCI, and strong enough to overcome ACI from CRI/Sackville 6190 before that QRTed at 0559 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, April 10 at 1434 UT in open carrier; still/again the case three and four hours later. Clearly this station has close to zero listeners, not including anyone in its own management or engineering (ha, ha), let alone anyone around Blackwell who would care enough to tell them that they are forgetting to modulate. Meanwhile sibling station KOKP 1020 Perry is nominal with sportstalk (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. More futile attempts to hear Voice of Russia`s only listed frequency in English to North America before 0200, 9890: UT April 10 at 0100 the DentroCuban Jamming Command and VOA Spanish have just evacuated 9885, but that`s no help, as on 9890 there is still only a trace of a carrier. If really 500 kW, it`s dissipating long before here, perhaps keeping the ionosphere warm at the first reflexion point (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. CUBA is still negligently jamming 9810, which was abandoned three months ago by Radio República, despite the fact that in A-10 Voz de Rusia is trying to broadcast Spanish to Latin America on that very same frequency, via GUIANA FRENCH. April 10 at 0101 I can hear VOR`s news in Spanish under the noise, and it`s // and synchronized with much stronger 9735, which is unjammed. Yes, during the 01-02 hour only, VOR is using both 9810 and 9735 via GUF, at 320 and 195 degrees respectively. Meanwhile, they can`t spare a minute of airtime on this or neighboring transmitter and 320 degree antenna USward in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 5940 with coloratura soprano, April 10 at 1245, poor signal but in the clear and well-modulated, unlike // 5920 Pet/Kam motorboating itself; 1248 Russian interview.

5940 is registered with HFCC A-10 as R. Rossii from Okhotsk site, 17-13 UT; but more realistically, Aoki says it`s Magadan at 02-13 and 1700-1910.

At 1254 found Russian talk on 7200 // 5940 but an echo apart, shortly back to coloratura. Could not hear any QRM on 7200; tho Korea North is also here, Aoki says that finishes around 1250; nor Myanmar which may use 7200 only in its mornings. All of them plus Sudan have no business on this borderline channel between ham and broadcast bands.

R. Rossii on 7200 is Yakutsk at 1900-1500, Aoki and HFCC agree, but not on other details: HFCC says 250 kW at 45 degrees, while Aoki says 100 kW non-direxional. WRTH says 250 kW but thinx azimuths are too technical, never worth publishing, just like ex-PWBR.

At 1256 April 10, 7220 in Russian not // 7200; that turns out to be VIETNAM, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. VOA news at 1304 April 10 on 7575, report from DXer Dan Robinson at the White House (who since March 1 has been promoted from Capitol Hill correspondent --- congrats!), good signal and 1305 into Jazz America, theme this week Billie Holliday, née Eleanora Fagin (sp?). VG signal and I think I`ll take her over Martha Garvin on 7490, see WWCR. 7575 is 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, on the air during this hour only on Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR-3, 7490, Saturday April 10 at 1314 still with Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories, contrary to published schedule; she was doing hymns in alfabetical order by title, A-B-C. This signal is so strong that it desensitizes the receiver roughly plus/minus 35 kHz, between 7455 and 7525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, WINB at 1318 UT Saturday April 10 with that eruptive preacher who takes long pauses, as if steam is building up over and over until he blows, then screams at ever-increasing level; he mentioned pentecostal.

Even tho dated March 14, as if it were actualized because of the start of DST, the WINB program schedule still shows a 5-hour difference between ET and UT, instead of the correct 4 hours, so which are we to believe? How can they be so ignorant? What I was hearing must have been either:
08:00A / Sat-1300...Apostolic Asssembly [sic!] or
09:00A / Sat-1400...Terry Blalock
Second harmonic 18530 was not expected to propagate, and did not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO chex April 10: at 1341, just barely audible on WRMI 9955, as I was mentioning WOR is sometimes jammed --- but it was not this time; glad to be proven wrong, temporarily.

1630 Sat airing on 12160 confirmed on WWCR-2 webcast until 1700, did not get stuck into looping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Believe I have not heard KJES once since A-10 began, e.g. no sign of it on 11715 at 1345 check April 10, and nothing else on frequency either. Also zilch on 15385 at 1837. So is KJES totally off the air again? FCC schedule shows it is supposed to be, with azimuths:
11715, 13-14 70 toward OK; 14-15 350; 15-16 150
15385, 18-19 270, 19-20 100
7555, 01-02 335, 02-0230 20 --- So is anyone hearing them anywhere, anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX L LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15420-CUSB, WBCQ, is on early Saturdays only for the Brother Scare Sabbath: April 10 at 1358 tuned in to ID loop I had not heard before, not Allan Weiner`s voice, ``You`re listening to WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, the United States of America, The Planet`` and then a riff of band music. I was trying to count the number of notes but only heard it twice, maybe 22 to 25, so is this the WBCQ interval signal now?

Then to longtime produced ID with Allan`s voice, singing jingle ID, and 1400 join BS in progress, but immediately interrupted for a quick legal ID only as if that were necessary. 1403-1404 dumped off the air. Even then, no co-channel QRM audible, due to poor extracontinental propagation, but BBC Seychelles is now scheduled at 13-17, alternating English, Somali and Swahili on westward beams, depending on the hour and the day.

BTW, one column in HFCC shows the mode, D for analog and N for DRM, but WBCQ is one of few entries as T, which must mean USB, even tho there is no T anywhere in the words ``upper sideband`` (there is no N in ``digital`` either, but it`s from French = numérique; I don`t remember how they get D for ``analog``). I have not searched the entire register, but T is also listed for WJHR 15550, and WBCQ 9330 --- but not WBCQ on 5110; or 17495, which surely would be if really in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 18980, WYFR Spanish poor at 1445 April 10, // 15130. WYFR is now the sole worldwide occupant of this peculiar SWBC band, as IBB is no longer listed on 19010 from Kuwait. WYFR: 18930 at 1600-2200, 18980 at 1400-2145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 9610, April 10 at 0256 in English, must be VR as scheduled from 0250 via Sackville, as I was scanning the band to find what few signals were still making it, unlike alleged Radio República on 9780 --- see CUBA [non].

I see that VR in Spanish and French until 0250 are via BONAIRE, so it should be interesting to monitor how well they switch sites, without overlap? SAC is unsuitable for French at 0230 since it`s too close to Québec; Bonaire no doubt inbooms there aimed 350 degrees, while English to follow is 240 degrees from SAC across the USA. And VR Spanish via Bonaire 0100-0230 emanates at 170 degrees for CIRAF 12-15, i.e. all of S America, including the Southern Cone, an area abandoned by R. Nederland itself, except Patagonia = CIRAF 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM. As I was hearing R. Rossii on 5920, 5940, 7200, see RUSSIA, also found non // W&W Russian talk at 1256 April 10 on 7220, but 1257 to open carrier. Per Aoki it`s VOV in Russian, 100 kW, 27 degrees from Hanoi-Sontay so also USward, at 1230-1300 and also 1130-1200 (plus Chinese on same at 1200-1230, 1300-1330). Do not see also INDIA 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Somalia Islamists al-Shabab ban BBC transmissions

The Somali Islamist movement al-Shabab has banned the BBC and closed down transmitters broadcasting the Somali language service inside the country. Al-Shabab accused the BBC of fighting against Islam and supporting the transitional federal government, which the rebels are fighting to overthrow. The group said the BBC had been broadcasting the agenda of crusaders and colonialists against Muslims. The BBC said it was strictly impartial and spoke to all sides in the conflict. The BBC has been broadcasting its services in Somali, Arabic and English across the country on a series of FM frequencies for at least a decade, and surveys suggest it is one of the most widely listened-to news services in Somalia.

'Strict standards'

Al-Shabab ordered all of the BBC's transmitters to be shut down.

A statement by al-Shabab demanded that any organisation transmitting the BBC, or the Washington-based Voice of America, should cancel their contracts.

Al-Shabab and its allies control most of southern and central Somalia and all but a few districts of the capital, Mogadishu.

They have been fighting to establish an Islamist administration of their own in place of the current government.

The BBC's broadcasts have been taken off the FM bandwidth, but are still available on shortwave and the internet.

In response to the statement, the head of BBC Africa, Jerry Timmins, said the organisation spoke to all sides in the conflict, including al-Shabab, adhered to strict standards of impartiality and editorial independence and rejected any suggestion otherwise.

Radio Gloria International this Sunday

Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 11th of April 2010

At 09.00 to 1000 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.

M.V.Baltic. Information:

MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Summer 2010

1st Sunday – MV Baltic Radio

2nd Sunday – Radio Gloria International ( New Time Slot )

3rd Sunday – European Music Radio (April )

We wish you good listening and good reception!

73s

Tom

Ascolti

Alcuni ascolti milanesi.

Cuba, 11770, Radio Habana, 2136, Apr 04, political talk. Spanish. Fair to poor. (D'Amico)

Gabon, 9580, Africa no. 1, 2123, Apr 04, modern songs, frequent interruptions of the carrier. French. Good. (D'Amico)

USA, 9330, WBCQ Kennebunk (tentative), 2133, Apr 04, religious songs, talk; only USB; special Easter transmission? English. Fair. (D'Amico)

USA, 9525, WHRI Cypress, 2127, Apr 04, ID as "this is CWR", religious songs. English. Very good. (D'Amico)

73, Michele

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