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venerdì 6 gennaio 2012

BBC World Service to run ads on some websites and radio stations

The BBC Trust has approved plans to run advertising on a number ofBBC World Service websites as well as in radio broadcasts for the first time in the corporation's history. BBC World Service has been given the green light to run ads on the Arabic, Russian and Spanish websites, which the trust says will put it "on a par with the BBC's international-facing website BBC.com". The World Service, which has seen its budget slashed by £46m a year resulting in more than 600 job losses, has been asked by the government to generate £3m from commercial activities by 2013/2014. Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News Group, presented two commercial proposals to the BBC Trust, according to minutes for a meeting on 17 November published on Thursday, that aim to go some way to supplement the grant-in-aid the BBC World Service receives from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Plans to launch advertising on BBC.com faced fierce criticism from some sectors of the media industry, nevertheless ads have been running on the website since late 2007. The BBC Trust also rubber stamped a plan to launch a year-long pilot to run ads in World Service English programmes on its Berlin FM station. If successful the pilot could pave the way for widespread advertising on BBC World Service radio services for the first time. "We are adopting a careful and measured approach, with these proposals deliberately contained so we can assess how they work in practice," said a spokesman for the BBC World Service. "While it could make a difference, this would only contribute a small proportion towards our overall funding. "The BBC has a track record of managing commercial activity through BBC World News TV and the international BBC.com website, and the BBC's reputation for providing impartial and independent news will always take precedence over wider commercial goals." The BBC World Service made about £4.6m from activities such as programme co-productions with third parties in the year to the of March 2011, however this is a behind-the-scenes activity users and listeners of the services would not have noticed, unlike advertising.

giovedì 5 gennaio 2012

Log Saverio De Cian 5 dicembre

Buona apertura verso il Venezuela questa mattina, la prima del 2012:
1370 05/01/2012 0330- VEN ?? parlato in S si menziona il Venezuela 21321
1430 05/01/2012 0350- ???? parlato in S, px mx 12221
1290 05/01/2012 0350- VEN YVLF R Puerto Cabello, px mx locale, Id "Puerto Cabello" 23322
1320 05/01/2012 0400- VEN YVWP R Apolo Turmero, mx, Id "Radio Apolo" 22322
1470 05/01/2012 0400- VEN YVSY R Vibración Carúpano, parlato in S e mx, Id "Radio Vibración 14-70 AM" 23322

Buona serata
Saverio De Cian

RX: Perseus
ANT: K9AY
Sedico (Belluno)

Glenn Hauser logs January 5, 2012

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Jan 5 at 1430, as another year of Thursdays starts, during its last known schedule, still no sign of LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 5 before 1500:

11980, good at 1451; no others 18-7 MHz found in the 1448-1453 period.

The only explanation for FD on 11980 is in Aoki: one of the countless 100-watt nuisance Sound of Hope transmitters from Taiwan could be here or anywhere from 11950 to 12100 between 2000 and 1700.

EiBi also shows both SOH and FD at these hours, as ``Mandarin``, which is not correct for FD as there are never any words, spoken or sung (except for occasional switching errors at start or finish). We have heard FD on inband 11980 occasionally before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 5910-, Jan 5 at 0730, open carrier, slightly on the low side, surely Alcaraván Radio HJDH failing to modulate. Probably depends on automation in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. More RFI missing transmissions: Jan 5 at 0425, nothing on 7425 or 9805 scheduled for this English hour. Nor 5865 with Algerian relay. Tnx to Wolfgang Büschel and Jorge Freitas who have monitored many more hours of the RFI schedule, also relays of others via Issoudun, and of France via other sites. Certain hours of RFI French are still heard, but greatly reduced. It appears that all the English frequencies at 04-08 are missing. Kai Ludwig suggests all these abrupt reduxions could be due to transmission contracts with TDF expiring at the end of 2011y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9680, Jan 5 at 1455-1459*, RRI with gamelan music atop China/Taiwan QRM, cut off at 1459 sharp; then in next minute an open carrier on and off a couple times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349.1, Jan 5 at 1525 after missing several days in our mornings, IMM is back to put a nasty het on 15350.0, RVA Tagalog via VATICAN which is stronger with the only modulation audible, helped by off-tuning to hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Jan 5 at 1524, BSKSA in Arabic is not crackling or buzzing, but the carrier is wobbling as obvious with BFO employed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA [non]. Re my previous report of Channel Africa `Rise & Shine` show via WRMI 9955 at 0600-0630, which was not // SENTECH direct on 15255: Bill Bingham in RSA says that is the title of the entire 03-07 UT broadcast in English (M-F). Now I get a connexion to the website about it:http://www.channelafrica.org/portal/site/ChannelAfrica/menuitem.5531a29e85a8b98a4de34de3674daeb9/?vgnextoid=1bbaf3fd97a7c110VgnVCM10000072d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Jan 5 at 0045, middle-C tone again on strong carrier, and this time I know it`s WTWW testing #2 transmitter, as George has asked me to monitor for any spurs. No, none heard, so they have now been suppressed adequately; no het against WWCR 5070, for instance, while previously there was a spur circa 5072, and at plus/minus ~13 kHz intervals up and down. Then transmitter shifted to other frequency, 9990 which was also spur-free until 0048*. George McClintock says there are still a few other minor problems to work out, and Continental engineers are expected around January 15, after which regular service should be ready to start (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11714.8, Jan 5 at 1520 and 1648, still no signal from KJES, perhaps keeping off the air due to FCC NOV on being too far off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1598: first SW airing should be Thursday Jan 5 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; then 2230 on WBCQ 7490. On WWRB 3195: UT Fri 0430v. On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. On WTWW 5755: UT Sun 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6183.0, Jan 5 at 0724, XEPPM 6185 during classical music has QRM from CW beeps 2 kHz lower. I count them at the rate of 50 per minute, so not based on timesignaling, and they seem slightly unevenly spaced, one missing occasionally.

6000.0, Jan 5 at 0728, the same kind of CW beeps are heard here, but not synchronized with 6183. ??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

mercoledì 4 gennaio 2012

Dimmi chi praticAir e ti dirò chi sei...

Che si tratti del 40 o del 75 per cento, o di qualsiasi altra cifra intermedia, l'esodo avvenuto dall'Air al 31 dicembre è il timbro a secco del fallimento di un progetto con la conseguente chiusura della rivista Radiorama, delle scelte sbagliate, e dell'inopportunità di determinati atteggiamenti. Atteggiamenti che la congregazione in questione, con in testa il suo Presidente, non fa nulla per occultare... e per non smentirci, anche oggi l'Avv. Giancarlo Venturi da Roma non manca di donarci la sua perla quotidiana, godibile alla pagina http://air-radiorama.blogspot.com/2012/01/sassolini-nelle-scarpe.html, una perla fin troppo eloquente rispetto a ciò che è oggi l'Air sotto questa gestione.

Il frame del gesto dell'ombrello è infatti tratto dal film I Vitelloni, e il vitellone in questione prende per il culo quelli che lavorano sul serio con il famoso "Lavoratoriiii!" seguito da una sonora pernacchia... Difficilmente il Sig. Presidente dell'Air avrebbe potuto rendere più eloquente il suo pensiero, un perfetto affresco del rispetto che lui e i suoi fedelissimi hanno per i veri appassionati di radio e spesso anche per gli stessi soci che poi, però, scappano a gambe levate.

Radio Rossii ceased regional on shortwave?

It is perhaps a too strong assertion from me but it really looks like Radio Rossii ceased regional programs relayed on shortwaves at the end of 2011. During the first week of January I failed to hear at least one of those transmissions I heard in December. That is why I compiled a detailed list of all regional programs on SW (acc. to WRTH 2012) grafically into a table and started to check specific frequencies. Here are few examples of my results:

Magadan 5940+7320 kHz - no Reg at 2200 UTC (scheduled)

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy 6075 kHz - no Reg at 0610 and 1800 (scheduled)

Krasnoyarsk 6085 kHz - no Reg at 2310 (scheduled)

Arkhangelsk 6160 kHz - no Reg at 0910 and 1410 (heard in December)

Ulan Ude 6195 kHz - no Reg at 2110 and 2210 (scheduled)

Yakutsk 7230 kHz - no Reg at 0810 (heard in December)

There are always relays of Radio Rossii (EUR version or Duble versions for Far East) at those time scheduled for regional programs. I have found out that this year (2012) I have not heard any R.R. regional program on SW yet. Maybe some of our Russian friends are able to confirm or deny it. It is a pity if it is true. (Karel Honzik via HCDX ml)

The point is that we are on traditional New Year holiday here in Russia from Dec 31 till Jan 9. All regional programs will be on the air again starting from Jan 10... (Mikhail Timofeyev)

Glenn Hauser logs January 3-4, 2012

** ALGERIA [non]. Besides many RFI transmissions, see FRANCE, an RTA frequency via Issoudun is also missing: Jan 4 at 0610, nothing on 5865.

See the HFCC schedule at
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B11&broadc=TDA
but note that it mixes in imaginary transmissions by sites inside Algeria, and also includes dates not currently in effect. Removing all the chaff, the remaining current daily schedule is:

5865 0400 0500 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
5865 0500 0600 37S,46              194 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
7295 0500 0600 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
5865 0600 0700 37S,46              194 500 30-Oct-2011 25-Feb-2012
9390 1800 2000 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
7455 1900 2100 37S,46              194 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
9390 1900 2100 37S,46              194 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
7455 2000 2100 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 25-Feb-2012
9390 2000 2100 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
5865 2100 2300 37S,46              194 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012
7455 2100 2200 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 30-Oct-2011 24-Mar-2012

Please confirm whether any of these are still on the air. No point in my checking 9390 at 1800-2100, due to Brother Scare 9385 WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ASCENSION. 11985, Jan 3 at 2149, VTC music loop is playing on poor signal. Must have lost feed from FEBA Pulaar broadcast scheduled daily [except Wed, but this was Tue] 2145-2215 via BaBcoCk for 250 kW, 27 degree transmission from English Bay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 9400, Jan 4 at 0606, good open carrier from R. Bulgaria, kilowasting kilowatts long before the next transmission at 0630 in German. Not on // 7400, however. Both frequencies are supposed to be in Turkish at 0600-0630, and may well be in the opposite direxion, from other Plovdiv transmitters, as we have previously heard that barely audible under the big carrier, but not tonight. Axually, HFCC shows 5900, 7400 and 9400 for 0600-0630 Turkish, but WRTH shows only 5900 and 7400 --- With the single exception of one Bulgarian language broadcast, RB never uses more than two SW frequencies at once, so one of those at 0600 is wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 4 1455-1500: NONE found 7-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [and non]. Many, but not all RFI broadcasts previously scheduled continue to be missing in 2012y. We are trying to find out whether permanent cancellations have been made, or there is some other problem such as industrial action at the transmitter sites, and/or at certain language sections?

21690, Jan 3 at 1831, French is still poorly audible. The 17-20 segment has been scheduled via GUIANA FRENCH. Jorge Freitas, Brasil also heard this Jan 3 until closing at 1959.

17630, the Spanish broadcast at 2100-2130 is still missing Jan 3 at 2116 check, (and Jorge Freitas agrees). Mike Cooper says: ``RFI Spanish programming found on satellite as usual at 2100, nothing heard
on 17630. I don't know of any reason for the frequencies to be missing. No reference to frequency issues seen at RFI Spanish page(s). Review of French news, including AFP in French, turns up nothing mentioning TDF or anything unusual out of French Guyana.``

So are all RFI Spanish broadcasts off? 1000-1030 UT M-F on 7375, 9825, and 1200-1230 on 17610, 15515, all GUF, I have not yet checked. But Mike Cooper reports Jan 4: ``Glenn: Meteo Marine not heard this morning on 13640 at 1130, nor Spanish on 17690 at 1400``

11995, Jan 4 at 0555, no signal from RFI English as scheduled at 05-06, altho the band was about dead, so can`t be sure it`s off.

9765, Jan 4 at 0603, no signal, scheduled for 06-07 English, and the band is certainly open, e.g. Turkey 9820, 9700; Pridnestrovye 9895; Bulgaria 9400, etc., etc.

7220, Jan 4 at 0607, RFI Hausa is still on the air, ex-English by mistake until 0630.

7390, Jan 4 at 0607, RFI French is weakly audible and seems undermodulated; also on 5925 vs heavy splatter from WWCR 5935.

15300 and 17620, Jan 4 at 1410, RFI French are missing, and so is Spanish via GUF on 17690. Ditto next Spanish after 1600 on 17690.

Meanwhile, other DXLD monitors have also been checking out RFI:

Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC: ``Glenn asked whether RFI in English was on at 04 to 08 UT. I checked tonight 4 Jan, and conditions were not very good, and all that was audible was very weak carriers on 9805 between 04 and 05, and 15160 between 06 and 07. Both far too weak to ID, and nothing at all on any of the other frequencies``

Harold Sellers, BC: ``I was also hearing 15160 very weak - but IDable - in the 0600-0700 period tonight, January 4``

That conflicts with wb`s note about 15160 below, and I must point out that R. Australia is also on 15160 in English at 05-08 --- this entry is missing from current HFCC, but in RA`s own schedule
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pdf/frequency_guide.pdf
Should be easy to identify by // 15240, 13690, 13630 if propagating.

Wolfgang Büschel, Germany: ``Cease of RFI? or strike at TDF personnel?

At 0630-0700 UT Jan 4 heard only:
RFI French on 5925 and 7390 kHz.
BUT NOT on air on 7340, 9765, 9790, 11700, nor 15160 kHz.

RFI Hausa   0700-0730 UT 13685, 15315 kHz. Not on 11830 kHz.

RFI English 0700-0757 UT not 11725, not 15615 kHz.

RFI French 0700-0800 UT 9790, 11700 2x 190/204degr, 13695,
15170-MEY relay, 15300 2x 155/190degr, 17850 kHz.

RFI French 0800-0900 UT 13695, 17620, 21580 kHz.

RFI French 0900-1000 UT ceased totally,
nothing on 13695, 15300, 17620, 17850, 21580 kHz.

RFI French 0900-1000 UT ceased totally,
nothing on 13695, 15300, 17620, 17850, 21580 kHz.

RFI French 1000-1100 UT ceased totally,
nothing on 6175, 15300, 17620, 21690GUF kHz.

RFI French 1100-1200 UT ceased totally,
nothing on 6175, 15300, 17620, 21690GUF kHz.
Only 1100-1130 UT French/Laotion was on air via Tainan-TWN relay on odd 15679.980 kHz

RFI French 1200-1300 UT on air 15300, 17660MEY, 21580, 21690GUF kHz.
Missed 6175 kHz, and Spanish 15515 17610 kHz.

All French public radio LW and MW outlets here in Europe are on air
regularly. Seemingly only the technicians at TDF are on - partly - strike? Spanish section missing, but Hausa service was regular on schedule. RFI via Meyerton and Taiwan relays functioning well. vy73 Wolfy``

The original/complete RFI HFCC schedule is here:
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B11&broadc=RFI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALGERIA [non]

** GREECE. 9420, Jan 3 at 2150, VOG is active with classical violin solo, Greek announcement, then some sacred choral music until 2200 news. Wonder if they are taking feed from a different domestic network than usual, or just observing Orthodox Xmas season with less secular music than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9830, RNW Dutch at 06-07 via Wertachtal, GERMANY is missing Jan 4 at 0605, but still VG on BONAIRE 9865 and a couple seconds later on PRIDNESTROVYE 9895. As well as BONAIRE 6165 and VATICAN 5955. I believe I also noticed 9830 absent 24 hours earlier. The latest schedule still shows 9830:
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B11&fmor=RNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA [non]. 9955, Jan 4 at 0615, Channel Africa via WRN via WRMI, program ID as `Rise & Shine`, about residents of town in Sudan war zone having to flee. No signal on 15255 direct unlike 24 hours earlier. Suspect WRN at this hour is playing back earlier live show at 03, 04 or 05 UT, as by 06 (8 am local) everyone should have risen and be shining if not fleeing; but can`t get a connexion to their program info at
http://www.channelafrica.org/portal/site/ChannelAfrica/menuitem.0bf72ee75b8a898a4de34de3674daeb9/
as linked from
http://www.worlddxclub.org.uk/WDXC_links_stations.html
nor even to their plain old homepage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 11995, Jan 4 at 0205 check, RTI Spanish service via GUIANA FRENCH is confirmed for a change, instead of dead air or no signal. Montsinéry may have got the message that something was amiss with this transmission.

Meanwhile, everything remains amiss at WYFR, still running RTI English on 9355 during this hour // 9680 and 5950, instead of scheduled Spanish on 9355. And German instead of Spanish after 0600 on 6875 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Scandinavian Weekend Radio returns 13-14 January

Licensed Finnish station Scandinavian Weekend Radio (SWR), Virrat, Finland returns to the air earlier than expected on Friday 13th January (usually from 2200 UTC) to Saturday 14th January (closing usually at 2200 UTC). They had previously said they were having a winter break and would return in Spring 2012. SWR frequencies are: 11690 alternating with 11720 kHz; 5980 alternating with 6170 kHz (plus locally on 1602 kHz) - see website http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm nearer the date for which frequencies are in use at each hour throughout the 24hr broadcast. Broadcast will also feature some new DJs: "The start to the New year brings new faces to SWR our "Dream Team" of new faces will hit the airwaves on the 14th January. You can have a sneak preview of the new people at www.swradio.net

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2012 Jan 03 1109 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
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WEEK 574 from 2011 Dec 26

SOLAR ACTIVITY
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The last week of the year started with flaring at M-level. An M1.5 flare was observed in NOAA AR 11387 (no Catania number), peaking at 02:27 UT on December 26th. This region also produced an M2.3 flare on the same day with peak time 20:30 UT. Also on December 26, a long duration C5.7 flare at 11:50 UT occurred, associated with a filament activation to the northeast of AR 11384. In the following days NOAA ARs 11387 and 11386 produced several C-flares. Starting from December 28, NOAA AR 11389 became the main source of activity. It produced an M1.9 flare at 13:50 UT and an M2.0 flare at 21:51 on December 29, as well as an M1.2 flare at 03:09 on December 30. The same region produced an M2.4 flare on December 31 at 13:15 UT and an M1.5 flare at 16:26 UT.

A filament in the form of an 'O' was present in the northern hemisphere during the week before. It partially erupted on Dec 24 from 23:29UT. Starting from Dec 25, 06:29 UT the remaining part of the filament rose and was ejected. Based on STEREO A/B COR2 data, the speed of the first ejection was estimated between 400 and 500 km/s. The second ejection was less powerful. Since the filament was located near the central meridian, the CME's were Earth-directed. NOAA AR 11387 produced an M4.0 flare on December 25 at 18:16 UT. This eruption was associated with a CME towards the south-west and a proton flux enhancement which did not reach the >10 Mev threshold. The filament activation on December 26 was followed by a CME observed by STEREOa/b COR2 and SOHO/LASCO coronographs. CACTUS estimates the speed of this earth-directed CME around 470 km/s. More CME's were observed during the past week, but these were not Earth-directed.

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
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Due to the arrivals of (glancing blows from) the CME's observed on December 25 and 26, we expected unsettled to active geomagnetic conditions starting from December 27th late. Throughout the week, however, geomagnetic conditions have remained very quiet, due to a relatively low solar wind speed and positive southward component of the magnetic field. The southern polar coronal hole had a big extension towards the equator, but no clear disturbance of the solar wind was noticed during this week due to this.

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DAILY INDICES
DATE          RC EISN 10CM Ak BKG    M X
2011 Dec 26 ///    072 146 000 B6.5 2 0
2011 Dec 27 ///    076 140 000 B5.5 0 0
2011 Dec 28 ///    072 145 004 B5.7 0 0
2011 Dec 29 ///    075 147 010 B6.5 2 0
2011 Dec 30 ///    063 141 008 B5.6 1 0
2011 Dec 31 ///    061 133 007 B3.8 2 0
2012 Jan 01 ///    048 130 005 B4.4 0 0
# RC : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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NOTICEABLE EVENTS
DAY BEGIN MAX END LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                      Cat NOAA NOTE
26 0213 0227 0236 S21W33 M1.5 1N      VI/1                          1387
26 2012 2030 2036 S21W42 M2.3 SF      III/1                          1387
29 1340 1350 1401        M1.9                                        1389
29 2143 2151 2159 S27E65 M2.0 SF                                      1389
30 0303 0309 0313 S27E64 M1.2 SN                                      1389
31 1309 1315 1319 S25E46 M2.4 SF 150                                  1389
31 1616 1626 1634 S26E42 M1.5 1F                                  2 1389

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ISS

ARISS contact planned with Descartes High School, France

Monday January 9, 2012 at approximately 10:14 UTC, which is 11.14 CEWT, a radio contact is planned with students at Descartes High School, located in Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France.

Amateur radio station F6KRK will call OR4ISS.

The conversation will be conducted in English.

Downlink signals with the astronaut's answers will be audible in Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.

the event will be webcast live in streaming video on http://www.f6krk.org/ARISS/static5/jour-j

Enrico, IZ2NXF

p.s.: in Italia il downlink sara' ricevibile un po' piu' tardi, approssimativamente dalle 11:19 CEWT

Radiorama, un progetto fallito: per colpa di chi?

Tante volte le parole dell'attuale presidente pro tempore dell'Associazione Italiana Radioascolto hanno sbalordito anche me, per toni e contenuti, questa volta sono addirittura riuscite a farmi sorridere. Qualcuno di voi invece si è sentito offeso dall'ultima uscita pubblica attraverso uno dei suoi organi ufficiali, il blog ospitato dal popolare servizio gratuito Blogger. Io no ripeto, non ero più socio da anni e l'unica colpa recente è quella di aver cercato, pagando un regolare abbonamento, di non partecipare alla morte dell'unico prodotto editoriale dedicato al nostro hobby. Così non è andata, l'attuale gestione dell'associazione rimarrà nella storia per aver portato al fallimento questo progetto e chiuso la rivista, cosa ben più grave di qualche foto in stile campagnolo o di qualche migliaio di spam la settimana... Che se ne prendano le responsabilità, almeno questo è dovuto, perchè all'indirizzo http://air-radiorama.blogspot.com/2012/01/con-il-primo-gennaio-le-novita-dellair.html sembra che la colpa sia tutta e solo di generici fattori non meglio definiti. Ciò che ha portato, in tutto o in parte, a questo fallimento è invece ormai scritto per sempre, malgrado qualcuno abbia ben pensato di far scomparire una mailing list con 10 anni di messaggi. La fine era stata ampiamente prevista da molti, sottoscritto compreso, e definire "alcuni soci" il 40% che l'associazione dichiara non aver rinnovato (oltre che le dimissioni del 50% del Consiglio Direttivo) mi sembra alquanto riduttivo, addirittura ridicolo se fosse vera una voce, affidabile ma al momento non verificabile, che parla invece del 75%. Chi questo fallimento l'ha portato, magari suo malgrado, a compimento oggi parla di "bambini viziati", gente che "voleva comodamente a casa Radiorama", di "soci ostili a ogni cambiamento", di "dietrologie", e udite... udite... di "invidiosi", scritto da chi per decenni non ha mai pubblicato le sette lettere in fila che compongono la parola "bclnews" o che pubblica gli orari di Studio DX rinominandola con un generico "rubrica dx" suona come la più scontata delle barzellette. Forse l'illustrissimo presidente e i suoi vecchi (e soprattutto nuovi) collaboratori, avrebbero dovuto più semplicemente ammettere di non essere riusciti, come avvenuto nel bene e nel male per decenni, a tirare avanti la baracca, magari spiegarci come mai Elio Fior si è stancato dalla sera all'indomani mattina senza sentire il bisogno di dirlo lui agli altri soci, e soprattutto rispondere alle innumerevoli domande che sono state poste già dallo scorso mese di giugno. La risposta è stata invece il divieto di esprimersi sui loro organi, il sottoscritto (ma non solo) è stato bannato praticamente da tutto e privato dei diritti accessori acquisiti con l'abbonamento alla rivista, impedendomi anche l'ultimo giorno di fare gli auguri di buon anno agli altri iscritti e di salutare chi stavo lasciando dopo tanti anni di convivenza telematica. Qualora ce ne fosse bisogno, anche questa la dice tutta sulle strategie messe in atto da questa gestione, quella che ha chiuso la rivista Radiorama (qualcuno dice addirittura illegittimamente rispetto a quanto previsto dallo statuto), con in testa l'Avv. Giancarlo Venturi da Roma e il pensionato Fiorenzo Repetto da Savona, affiancati dal socio volontario responsabile di tutte le nuove attività telematiche Ing. Claudio Re da Torino, e da altri soci con cariche che però sconosco. E tutto questo malgrado le indiscutibili competenze, come ci hanno annunciato in pompa magna sono per esempio addirittura riusciti ad aprire un account su Paypal. Per fortuna l'air - NON E' - e - NON RAPPRESENTA - il radioascolto italiano che ha anzi reso ogni giorno più frammentato e individualistico, ma che è ancora oggi protagonista nel mondo grazie a tanti appassionati che lo praticano, e soprattutto che lo amano... dxer storici e nuovi arrivati che brillano per costanza, competenza, passione e volontà, vedi caso nessuno di questi è più presente all'interno di questa ormai sempre più piccola aggregazione, il vero motivo prima o poi lo capiremo, e qualcuno dovrà farsene una ragione...

martedì 3 gennaio 2012

La Radio a scuola di Radio Capodistria

Intercettata per caso, girovagando sulle le onde medie di ritorno a casa in auto, una interessante trasmissione di Radio Capodistria: "La Radio a scuola". E' in onda tutti i martedì dalle ore 14:00 locali nel programma "Il diario di Athena", ascoltabile sui soliti 1170 kHz ed ha come sottotitolo Piccoli giornalisti crescono. Un bambino intervista in modo molto spigliato gli alunni e la loro maestra di una scuola elementare, raccontando in modo simpatico le attività della giornata con brevi intermezzi musicali di buona musica. Un modo intelligente di stimolare e sviluppare l'interesse dei bambini per la radio. Non credo che il nostro "servizio pubblico" faccia altrettanto: di sicuro è molto più bravo a tagliare ed affossare uno dei mezzi di comunicazione più importanti per l'umanità. Ed il nostro caro Guglielmo Marconi si starà rivoltando nella tomba!

--
Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn coax Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website: http://diarioradio.blogspot.com
Skype - Twitter: robybenjy

Glenn Hauser logs January 2-3, 2012

** BOTSWANA [and non]. 15580, Jan 3 at 0629, surprisingly bigsig from VOA African service, with program promos for `Hip-Hop Connection` and then for `South Sudan in Focus` at 1630-1700 on ``9675 on 31m, 121-5 on 24.9 m, and 13870 on 21.6 m`` 121-5??? That`s how the announcer, who obviously knows nothing about SW, pronounced 12150?

The trouble is, none of these are in the B-11 schedule for this `special service for Sudan` in the VOA English listings on page 489 of the 2012 WRTH: instead, 9790 bot, 11905 wer, and 13635 wer, M-F at 1630-1700 --- and the latter are still shown in the latest HFCC. So that promo was hardly helpful to anyone axually trying to hear the service.

At 0630, 15580 continued with VOA`s `International Edition` news, whilst BBC on 15400, also a good sig via SOUTH AFRICA, was concentrating on African news in English. This opening did not affect Nigeria on 15120, which was JBA at 0636. 15440 DW Rwanda in Hausa was also in well at 0637, and CVC 1Africa Zambia was also good at 0632 way up on 17695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [non]. 9725, Jan 3 at 1249, still no sign of Portuguese from possibly reactivated R. Clube Paranaense; just a weak signal in something else, presumably still Iran in Pashto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [and non]. 7220, Jan 3 at 0620, RFI is still in Hausa, so I try to hear English on 9765, but not there, just propagation? Doubt it, as e.g. RNW via further PRIDNESTROVYE is in well on 9895. More RFI frequencies are missing, so I fear there have been unexpected cutbacks for 2012y:

17690, RFI Spanish missing via GUIANA FRENCH at 1403, 1627 for the 1400 and 1600 broadcasts. Will it also be missing at 2100 from 17630?

17620 and 15300 direct from Issoudun also absent at 1403, 1644; 21560 at 1403 with the NHK relay was barely audible, so the site is still funxional. Also need to check 21690 which is scheduled for RFI Issoudun, and at 17-20 from Montsinéry. Nothing on it so far before 17.

No news of any strikes at the moment, and besides, during previous strikes the frequencies stayed on the air with RFI Musique fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, Jan 3 at 1435, VOI in drama with great emotion, gamelan background, fair signal with no QRM during Indonesian hour, while English at 13-14 is still a total loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 9665, Jan 3 at 1420, beautiful harmonious music from soprano and chorus on KCBS, which must mean the DPRK is full of harmony, right? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Jan 3 at 0614, IGIM is still not on unlike the day before. 0646 next check, it is on with YL wailing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, Jan 3 at 1346, gobierno federal PSA with whistling, but didn`t catch from which department; `Noticiero 7-10`, timecheck before 7 am local = MST, negative-C temp, mentioning several Chihuahua cities, so it`s the usual dominator XEDP in Cuauhtémoc, supposedly 7 kW, and occupying the frequency instead of much closer 10 kW KGNC Amarillo, which makes it here on daytime groundwave some 400 km away. A bandscan found little else from Mexico at this hour except XEG-1050 and XERF-1570 --- not even XETNT-650, still occupied by WSM. Today`s Enid LSR is 1343 UT, almost to our yearly latest of 1344 in a few days, when the Sun is closest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 15349.1, Jan 2 at 2147 check, IMM is back on, making ~4 kHz het with RAE 15345v, and off during the following hour. It`s been missing in our mornings, fortunately: no het against RVA/Vatican 15350.0 Jan 2 at 1504, 1539, and Jan 3 at 1316, no het against TRT on 15350.0. Nor is IMM to be found anywhere in the vicinity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Jan 3, VOA is on before 1501 with news, but cuts off the air for a few sex, quite undermodulated with some hum from Tinang #2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA [non]. 9955, Jan 3 at 0618, WRMI is now relaying WRN relaying Channel Africa M-F at 0600-0630; talk about the UN and the Arab Spring; compared to propagating 15255 ChAf direct, but not the same program (or so far out of synch I could not tell); 0621 on 9955 the program brought to you is `Rise & Shine`. 15255 continues past 0630 in English, while WRMI goes on to R. Praga in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5890, well, what do you know! UT Jan 3 at 0120 check, WWCR is NO LONGER on this frequency, colliding with Cuban jamming and VOA Spanish. It`s not due to propagation, as DGS is inbooming on 5935. Someone must have noticed my report last Friday night that WWCR has been colliding with VOA for an hour at 01-02 on 5890, probably since DST went off November 6.

The transmitter schedule, still dated 19 Dec hoping no one will notice it`s changed, now shows instead of 12-01 and 01-12:
Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees
9.980 1200 – 0200 (6:00am – 8:00pm CT)
5.890 0200 – 1200 (8:00pm – 6:00am CT)

But I can`t hear them on 9980, altho WYFR is weakly audible on 9985. Of course, staying on 9 MHz one hour *later* during the winter than in the summer doesn`t make any sense propagationally, but that`s what they get for trying (and failing) to make schedule changes according to DST clox rather than Propagation 101. The WWCR-4 pdf program schedule dated 1 January now shows 9980 with programming until 0200, 5890 from 0200 --- even tho that means an insolated half-hour broadcast on 9980 at 0130-0200 UT Sundays following the hiatus starting at 2100. (And UT Mondays still not opening 5890 until 0400).

Tsk2, if WWCR had treated me civilly and ever asked me, I would have helped them out privately with their frequency management, instead of exposing their mistakes in this instance. (As any competent monitor could have noticed.)

On 5890, VOA still has DentroCuban jamming to cope with, and it`s way underneath the noise, same as 9885. Third frequency 12000, however, is well atop the jamming in `De Capital de Capital` pop music show with announcer ranking female singers. Why is VOA wasting OUR money with this crap instead of meaningful programming in Spanish? Well, at least it is threatening enough to keep some jammers occupied.

9885, 13750 and 15590, VOA Spanish in the mornings, Jan 3 at 1312 remain unjammed, during nonsensically-named `Estudio 45` 1300-1329 show with US news. Modulation on 13750 was rather rough. Gave some temps around the US and below, such as 20 in Acapulco, -12 in Des Moines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, Jan 3 at 0613, 0623 open carrier, presumably WBCQ has not been turned off following `Financial Survival` at 04-05. Maybe to keep the transmitter from freezing; low Wednesday morning in the area is forecast to be -7 F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11714.8, Jan 3 at 1410, 1643, no signal from KJES, this being the deadline for them to reply to the FCC Notice of Violation about being too far off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1550, Jan 3 at 1324 UT as I tune in, a dominant signal as ``News New Mexico on KIVA AM 1550``; trouble is, there wasn`t any news during the following dekaminute as the signal faded in and out vs multiple SAHs from countless QRMers. 1330 promo for Dennis Miller at 1-4 pm on ``KIVA 1550, The Truth``; various ads; 1334 promo for Dr Joy Browne; finally back to a live show at 1335, two guys with local talk, still not news; 1337 lamenting long construxion period disrupting traffic on the main drag in Santa Fe, Cerillos Road.

KIVA is a 10 kW non-direxional daytimer (plus 27 watts at nite), address at 1213 San Pedro NE in Albuquerque. `News New Mexico` is their weekday 6-9 am show ``Hosted by Jim Spence and Michael Swickard`` per their blog, http://1550kiva.blogspot.com/ which is titled The ``Truth``, the quotation marx tacitly admitting that their truth = far-right wingnut opinion, not only Dennis Miller but Michael Savage, Alex Jones.

FCC info at
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=4705
shows January sunrise in ABQ is not until 1415 UT, so is this 27 watts? Hardly! However, per
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=3811
KIVA does have a PSRA starting at 13 UT of: 89 watts! Is this 89 watts? Hardly!

When 1550 was starting up with Program Test Authority, FCC also sent them a letter dated June 25, 2009
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=12836
warning KIVA of intermodulation products on 450, 550, 2100, 2150, 2550, 4100 kHz which had not been demonstrated to be suppressed by at least 80 dB,

Call sign history
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=4705&Callsign=KIVA
shows KIVA since 5/18/09, and this facility had *eight* previous calls dating back past 1994y --- but most of them were not on 1550, I know, since this frequency appeared only a few years ago when the ABQ MW band was reconfigured.

I also know that the calls KIVA have applied to numerous other stations over the years mostly in New Mexico, but also in Yuma AZ. For the uninitiated, they`re desirable because of a SW reference to kivas, the circular religious ceremony pits of the Pueblo Indians and Hopi, which have long since been adopted by the Anglos. For instance, there is a general-purpose sunken class/meeting building at UNM called The Kiva.

NRC AM Log 2011-2012 says KIVA programming is also on KQNM 1100, which is a 250/20 watt station in Milan NM (near Grants, W of ABQ), but I don`t see anything about that on the KIVA blog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17486, approx., Jan 3 at 1402, distorted talk, won`t demodulate on SSB, more like FM, and I then match this spur`s modulation peaks with 17365-USB, WLO in traffic list, off a minute later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Radio Bar-Kulan announces to leave shortwave

Radio Bar-Kulan has announced to drop shortwave transmissions with effect from 1st Jan 2012, per RBK this follows a continuing reduction of audience and the need to expand their FM network within Somalia. Outside of the country RBK is still available on Thaicom 5 satellite and web streaming on the RBK website.

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Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE
New Delhi, India

lunedì 2 gennaio 2012

Scandanavian Weekend Radio to hit the airwaves on 13th & 14th Jan 2012

Scandanavian Weekend Radio will hit the airwaves on 13th/14th Jan 2012, mark your calendar. The start to the New year brings new faces to SWR, have a sneak preview of the new people at http://www.swradio.net/

SWR broadcast dates :

13th-14th January 2012
3rd-4th February 2012
2nd-3rd March 2012

--
Alokesh Gupta,VU3BSE

New Delhi, India

Glenn Hauser logs January 2, 2012

** ANGUILLA. 6090, Jan 2 at 0633, PMS was off, uncovering weak het, presumably between Nigeria and Brasil. I think it was on earlier that evening. And also 11775 was on at later 1430 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [non]. 9725, Jan 2 at 1243, I tune in at exactly the same time as on Dec 27 that Mark Coady, Ontario, reported hearing Portuguese mentioning Paraná, on 9725 --- no, no Portuguese today, only presumed Pashto mentioning Afghanistan and Pakistan, i.e. V. of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the only station now scheduled at this time on 9725. Listened for several more minutes, but tempted to shift to 9720 for Thailand in English. I also posted Mark`s presumed log of R. Clube Paranaense to S American lists, and this reply so far in radioescutas:

``Radio Clube Paranaense sintonizada por 1430 kHz (ondas médias), anunciando em sua identificação '...vem aí uma nova B2, 'RB2' um feliz Natal, a rádio que toca você'. Recepção em São José, Santa Catarina em 30/12 0135 UTC. Provavelmente estejam nos planos o retorno a alguma frequência em ondas curtas. Vamos acompanhar! Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP``

So hearing them on MW, he thinx they probably have plans to resume some SW frequency. The others RCP had, off the air for maybe 8 years, were 6040 and 11935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. UT Monday Jan 2 at 0639, I am about to conclude that the jammers are off during R. Martí`s break, nothing on 7405, but on 6030 I can still hear weak residual pulsing, rather than CFVP.

15380, 13780, etc. Jan 2 at 1435-1454 I find RHC with an anniversary show for its fiftieth year, about its involvement in the Angolan civil war, ending apartheid in South Africa, etc., etc. Of particular interest were clips of long-gone services, such as ``La Voz de Cuba``, RHC-produced overnight programming on MW in the 70s, with its lovely chime interval signal played a few times, including a wow in the tape sending it off-pitch. That was also in English for a while. They admitted its purpose was to block frequencies from counter-revolutionary stations, a task later taken over by R. Rebelde 24-hour programming. Also a clip of ``CMCA, the Friendly Voice of Cuba``; sexta-lingual Radio Juventud for a congress, but no mention of Radio Taíno. Perhaps this heavily politicized retrospective will repeat this afternoon, evening, who knows when (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 7220, Jan 2 at 0611, RFI is finally back in the scheduled language Hausa instead of English! After at least a month in English by mistake at 0600-0630. Our loss. Altho when I intuned there was clip in English, soon voiced-over in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Jan 2 at 0612, good signal from IGIM chanting, on earlier than usual, but transmitter turn-on varies very widely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO [non]. 15349.1, IMM is fortunately absent Jan 2 at 1504, not producing a huge het with RVA via Vatican 15350.0 during this hour. Nor is IMM to be found on former 15341 or 15344. Still off at 1655 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Jan 2 at 1535 during Spe-cial Eng-lish, VOA Tinang-2 transmitter has again descended into just-barely-modulation despite very strong S9+22 signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Jan 2 at 0610 check, RTI via WYFR starts another year still in German instead of Spanish; mixed with Chinese being translated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U A E. 17810, Jan 2 at 1500-1503*, VTC/BaBcoCk music loop fill, presumably overrun after the YFR Telegu & Tamil relays via Dhabayya scheduled at 13-15, 250 kW, 100 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 11890, Jan 2 at 1406 I am again hooked from my bandscanning by tuning across BBCWS Monday starting `Hardtalk`, this time an excellent interview with James Earl Jones; had to keep listening until 1429, meanwhile resentful that BBCWS provides such a choppy signal from Thailand, which only by coincidence is also aimed USward. Audio available clearly for 7 days via:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mhpmr
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, UT Monday Jan 2 at 0215, WRMI with début of new show Blues Radio International, scheduled Mondays 0200-0230 and repeated UT Thursdays 0200-0230. Axually I was only listening to the webcast, presumably simulcast on 9955. WRMI has put up a new program schedule grid in UT-5 with quite a few changes, and more to come:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0
Note that WRMI is NOT really on SW M-F at 1500-2400, just webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Log 1 / 2 gennaio 2012 Ivan Guerini

2020 UTC 15480 01/01/2012 AWR -Arabo - Parlato 2 voci - (via s.Africa) 22222
2030 UTC 9965 01/01/2012 R.Farda - farsi - prlato commento notizie - id - T/S 44434
2033 UTC 9925 01/01/2012 Family R. - eng - letture religiose - 23322
2035 UTC 9915 01/01/2012 BBC - arabo - parlano di Libia - 3 voci 33323
2037 UTC 9895 01/01/2012 WHRI - eng - commento religioso voce masc, 22222
2046 UTC 9855 01/01/2012 R.Cairo - Arab - musiche locali e parlato 33322
2048 UTC 9840 01/01/2012 KBS World R. - arab - parlato 33322
2054 UTC 9815 01/01/2012 VOA - fra - parlato previsioni e auguri x 2012 - 44433
2058 UTC 9805 01/01/2012 AWR - fra - musiche e racconti religiosi - id - (via Austria) 33323

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BC
1615 Utc 4975 02/01/2012 V.Russia - ing - parlato - commenti politici int. 34422
1630 Utc 7300 02/01/2012 Ruvr 2a - ing - parlato racconto - (DRM) 55555
1640 Utc 6040 02/01/2012 Ruvr 1a - ted - parlato - (DRM) 55555
1649 Utc 7245 02/01/2012 RRI - rus - news flash - (DRM) 55555

UTE

02/01/2012 1400 8549.5 CTP Nato Oeiras NAWS DE CTP QSX 4 6 8,12 MHZ AR usb rtty 850/75 5/3
02/01/2012 1410 8437 PBB Marina olandese 02A 04B 06A 08B 12A 16X 22X PBB usb rtty 850/75 5/9
02/01/2012 1425 8819 Tiblisi Volmet Georgia info femminile usb 5/4
02/01/2012 1435 8888,5 Unid parlato (russo??) usb 5/5
02/01/2012 1440 8930 Stockoholm Radio comunicazioni torre - aereo usb 5/5-9
02/01/2012 1524 11253 Raf Volmet info robot femminile usb 4/5
02/01/2012 1528 11297 Rostov Volmet info robot femminile usb 4/4
02/01/2012 1555 4583 DDK2 Meteo Bullettin Sea usb rtty 450/50 5/8
02/01/2012 1625 5000 IBF Time Signal - Torino AM 4/5

DRM

Rx Kenwood R-600 + Kenwood R-5000 + Sdr Elektor Ant. Verticale 13 mt.

Ivan Guerini
# Swl I2 - 5759 #
http://swl-i2-5759.blogspot.com/

WRTH 2012

The 2012 edition of the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) was published in early December 2011. The appearance and format have not changed much over recent years, but the content certainly has. Although the WRTH has been known for decades as the "DXers' Bible", there are several signs in this edition that the publisher will not make the mistake some other publishers made of pretending that shortwave is still the only platform for international broadcasting. In particular, the venerable George Jacobs, who has reached his 50th year writing the annual high frequency (HF) propagation predictions, says "With my experience gained during 50 years of reporting, I do not question, and I strongly agree, that the future for international broadcasting is the continued dramatic rise of the satellite and internet platforms. I believe, however, that HF broadcasting will continue to have an important role to play far into the future, albeit as a complement to these newer platforms." Mr Jacobs knows what he is talking about, as he has been in the international broadcasting business for 65 years, including a period as Chief Engineer at the Voice of America. So perhaps we at RNW are not as stupid as some non-experts have claimed we are in recent years!

Internet:

The WRTH editorial includes the following:
"In view of the rise of the internet as an outlet for international broadcasters, we have decided to include details of languages available on the Internet in the international section."
This a welcome change, as it ensures that stations such as Radio Sweden can still be included, rather than ignored as if it doesn't exist. Having said that, I was surprised that Swissinfo, formerly Swiss Radio International and one of the first international broadcasters to switch off shortwave – also a key partner of RNW - has not been included, even though it is part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.

The WRTH still devotes most of its 672 pages to traditional over-the-air broadcasting, and there is still a shortwave receiver review section. Of course, the bulk of the book is devoted to listing thousands of radio and TV stations worldwide.

TV section:

I note that the amount of space devoted to TV has stayed at around 40 pages for many years, and this distorts the relative importance of different stations and networks. China, for example, is compressed into just over a third of a page, about the same as Denmark.
But of more concern, I could not find any reference to some of the big international satellite TV networks such as China's CCTV News and Iran's Press TV. These networks are international broadcasters, but seem to have fallen into a hole between international radio and domestic TV. Anyone buying the WRTH who doesn't know they exist will be none the wiser.
I would suggest that, for international broadcasting, the editors give serious thought to including these international TV networks in the same section as radio and internet. This would give a better idea of the relative importance of the different platforms. I would argue that, in many cases, the satellite TV services that are not listed reach many more people than some of the radio services from the same country. They certainly cost a bigger proportion of the budget!

A must-have publication:

Small quibbles aside, the WRTH is a must-have publication for all who work in international broadcasting, and those who like to hear or see broadcasts from outside their own country. Some may wonder if a printed book is still needed in an age when so much information can be found on the internet. But anyone who has tried listening to a weak radio signal with the computer switched on close to the receiver will know how much noise a computer can produce. So having access to printed information is still very useful.

The WRTH does have computerised information too – I reviewed the WRTH Bargraph Frequency Guide earlier in 2011, and new editions will be produced in January 2012 and later in the year for the summer schedules. There are also regular updates drawing attention to significant changes to the listings. More information on the WRTH website.

Publisher: Nicholas Hardyman
No. of pages: 672
Publisher's address: WRTH Publications Limited, PO Box 290, Oxford, OX2 7FT, United Kingdom
Order Fax: +44 (0)1865 514405
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Tips DRM e convenzionali Giovanni Lorenzi IT9TZZ

Ascolti DRM di Giovanni Lorenzi – IT9TZZ

NHK JAPAN VIA BABCOK DRM ( SOLO VENERDI ) 30.12.11 1100 9760 kHz E-NX OTTIMO
NHK JAPAN VIA BABCOK DRM ( SOLO VENERDI ) 30.12.11 1130 9760 kHz R-NX OTTIMO
KBS SOUTH KOREA VIA BABCOK DRM ( SOLO SABATO ) 31.12.11 1100 9760 kHz R-NX OTTIMO
TDP RADIO ( SOLO SABATO ) 31.12.11 1230 6015 kHz MX SUFFICIENTE
KBC DRM MIX ARMENIA 31.12.11 1800 7590 kHz E- MX-PARL OTTIMO

Ascolti convenzionali ( AM )

RADIO NEW ZEALAND 31.12.11 1200 15720 kHz E-PARL 35433

Per info tecniche circa l’ascolto delle trasmissioni in DRM con ricevitori convenzionali: tzzlorenzi@tiscali.it

Giovanni Lorenzi - IT9TZZ
QTH: Messina - Italy 38.11 N 15.32 E
Locator JM78SE
RX: Yaesu FRG-7000/Kenwood TS-440
Ant: Longwire 25 m / Dipole
Down converter: home brewing
Website: http://www.webalice.it/it9tzz

domenica 1 gennaio 2012

Ultimi tips del 2011 Roberto Rizzardi

Log Roberto Rizzardi, I-58019 Porto S. Stefano (GR) / 11e06/42n26
Icom IC-R71E, Sangean ATS-909 15 meters outdoor random wire - Indoor self-made single-turn Loop

2011-12-28
kHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks SINPO km
5950 1505 NZL Radio New Zealand Int., Rangitaiki (byp) Talk, pop song, in English 24322 18715 km

2011-12-30
kHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks SINPO km
15349 0914 MRC SNRT, Nador (SNRT/Medi1) Female talk in Arabian QRM from 15350 kHz 42443 1466 km
6030 2312 USA Radio Martí, Greenville (NC) International news, in Spanish//7405 khz QRM from China co-channel 22332 7322 km
7405 2320 USA Radio Martí, Greenville (NC) Talk about Syria, in Spanish//6030 kHz QRM from China co-channel, much noise 22222 7322 km
6000 2350 CUB Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana (3 sites) (ch) Talk in Spanish, Guantanamera song//5040 kHz QRM from China co-channel 32422 8586 km
5040 2355 CUB Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana (3 sites) (ch) Comments, ID, schedule, in Spanish//6000 kHz, @0000utc program in English 35434 8586 km

2011-12-31
kHz UTC ITU Program + Location Details Remarks SINPO km
9765 1045 NZL Radio New Zealand Int., Rangitaiki (byp) Mx program and talk in English 25232 18715 km
15720 1135 NZL Radio New Zealand Int., Rangitaiki (byp) Male and female talk in English 25322 18715 km
15825 1420 USA WWCR, Nashville (WWCR) (TN) Religious songs and talk in English 25322 7962 km
15610 1440 USA WEWN EWTN Catholic R., Birmingham/Vandiver (WEWN) (AL) Talk about church in English 25322 8125 km
15410 1450 USA Radio Farda, Woofferton (EN-SHP) Mx and talk in Persian 35333 1509 km
15340 1502 AUS HCJB Australia, Kununurra (WA) Indian song, ID, talk about God, in English 35222 13435 km
15215 1520 USA KSDA AWR Asia, Agat/Facpi Point (KSDA) (GU) Female and male talk, religious songs, in Mizo 35222 12211 km
15120 1534 NIG Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu (lag) International news in English 35444 4056 km
17745 1602 USA Sudan Radio Service, Woofferton (EN-SHP) Good african songs 45444 1509 km

--
Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N43 - Long 11E12 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
Antennas: 15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Indoor self-made single-turn coax Loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor long wire antenna
Website: http://diarioradio.blogspot.com
Skype - Twitter: robybenjy

QSLs Luca Botto Fiora

Clandestine
RADIO FREE SARAWAK Yangi Yul 17560 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 13 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: Bruno Manser Fonds - Socinstrasse 37 - CH-4051 Basilea (Svizzera). V/s: non leggibile. Inviato CD MP3. Il rapporto inviato tramite il sito www.radiofreesarawak.org non ha ottenuto risposta.

***

Estonia
TWR EUROPE Tartu 1035 kHz, E-mail ed E-QSL come allegato JPG in 22 giorni. No RP. QTH: P.O. Box 141 - A-1235 Vienna (Austria). V/s: Kalman Dobos kdobos@twr.org - Broadcast Monitoring & Frequency Coordination. Inviato CD MP3.

***

Germania
HAMBURGER LOKALRADIO via MV BALTIC RADIO Göhren 7265 kHz, Cartolina QSL speciale e cartolina illustrata in 11 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: Michael Knitter - Max-Eichholz-Ring 18 - DE-21031 Amburgo (Germania). Inviato CD MP3.
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HCJB Kall Eifel 3995 kHz, Lettere, scheda e QSL come allegati PDF in 51 giorni da deutsche@andestimme.org e via posta tradizionale da Quito in 74 giorni. RP: 1$. QTHs: 1) Arbeitsgemeinschaft Radio HCJB e. V. - HCJB World Office Germany - Verdistrasse 13 - D-26810 Westoverledingen - 2) Radio HCJB - Die Stimme der Anden - POstfach 17-17-691 - Quito (Ecuador). VV/ss: Marco Schaa e Iris Rauscher via e-mail, Horst Rosiak via posta tradizionale. Inviato CD MP3.
-
XVRB Wertachtal 6045 kHz, QSL pieghevole in 65 giorni. E-rpt con ID MP3 spedito a: xvrbradio@gmail.com

***

Italia
MEDIA VENETA RADIO Piove di Sacco-PD 1233 kHz, E-QSL in 25 giorni. E-rpt con ID MP3 inviato a mediavenetabroadcast@libero.it V/S: Gabriele Belloni.
-
RADIO BROADCAST ITALIA Roma 1485 kHz, E-QSL come allegato PDF e E-mail in 9 ore!!! E-rpt con ID MP3 spedito a: radio@broadcastitalia.it V/s: Stefano Ricciardetto (Frequency Manager) e Maurizio Amici (Direttore Responsabile).

***

Paesi Bassi
RADIO SEAGULL 1395 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 8 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: P. O. Box 24 - NL-8860 AA Harlingen. Inviato anche CD MP3.

***

Pirata
EUROPEAN MUSIC RADIO via MV Baltic Radio Göhren 9480 kHz, E-mail, E-infos ed E-QSL come allegati DOC in 15 giorni. Rpt con ID MP3 inviato a studio@emr.org.uk V/s: Tom & Mike Taylor.
-
SHORTWAVE MALTA RADIO 6933 kHz, E-QSL come allegato jpg in 161 giorni. E-rpt con ID MP3 spedito a: shortwavemalta@hotmail.com
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RADIO ATLANTIC 2000 INTERNATIONAL via Radio 700 Kall Krekel 6005 e via MV Baltic Radio Göhren 9480 kHz, Cartoline QSLs e fogli informativi in 7-12 giorni. E-rpts con IDs MP3 inviati ad atlantic2000international@gmail.com V/s: Tiphanie.
-
RADIO CITY via IRRS Tiganesti 9510 kHz, E-QSL come allegato PDF e lettera in 1 giorno. E-rpt con ID MP3 spedito a: citymorecars@yahoo.ca . V/s Paul Kuhn.

***

Regno Unito
POLSKIE RADIO Woofferton 11980 kHz, Cartolina QSL e lettera in 97 giorni. No RP. QTH: Al. Niepodleglosci 77/85 - 00-977 Varsavia (Polonia). V/s: Slawek Szefs - English Service.

***

Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA BROADCASTING CORPORATION Trincomalee 11905 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 34 giorni. RP: 1$. QTH: P.O. Box 574 - Colombo 7.

***

Svizzera
LA VOCE DELLA RUSSIA Cima di Dentro 558 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 27 giorni. E-rpt spedito a: post_it@ruvr.ru
-
MISSIONSWERK WERNER HEUKELBACH via VoR Cima di Dentro 558 kHz, Cartolina QSL, lettera, schede e opuscoli religiosi in 49 giorni. No RP. QTH: DE-51700 Bergneustadt (Germania).
-
RADIO FREUNDES-DIENST via VoR Cima di Dentro 558 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 20 giorni. No RP. QTH: Postfach 1432 - DE-79705 Bad Säckingen (Germania). V/s: non leggibile.

***

USA
RADIO NEDERLAND Greenville 6190 kHz, Cartolina QSL in 34 giorni. No RP. QTH: P.O. Box 222 - NL-1200 JG Hilversum (Paesi Bassi).
-
WTWW Lebanon-TN 5755 kHz, E-QSL in 1 giorno. E-rpt con MP3 inviato a George@wtww.us V/S: George McClintock - President and Manager. Un primo rapporto spedito nel 2010 via posta tradizionale non ha mai ottenuto risposta.

Luca Botto Fiora

QSLs AM-FM
(1983-2011)
Emittenti di
Radiodiffusione
EUROPA: 685
AFRICA: 116
ASIA: 194
AMERICA: 124
OCEANIA: 32
CLANDESTINE: 66
PIRATA: 341
FM ITALIA: 171
---------------
TOTALE: 1729

Log Roberto Pavanello

1062 29/12 18.30 RAI R.1 - Catania IT NX reg. Sicilia suff.
1521 27/12 22.55 R. Castellon - SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
3930 26/12 23.05 R. Doctor Tim - EE ID e MX buono
4845 26/12 22.45 R. Cultura - Manaus PP MX suff.
6045 26/12 09.30 XVRB R. - EE ID e MX ottimo
6085 1/1 09.45 Pur R. 1 - EE/Dutch ID e MX ottimo
6205 26/12 09.50 R. Mistletoe - EE ID e MX buono
6300 26/12 09.35 Crazy Wave R. - EE ID e MX buono
6305 28/12 23.30 R. Witte Reus - EE ID e MX buono
63100 1/1 10.05 UNID con MX italiana buono
6315 26/12 10.20 R. Zodiac - EE ID e MX buono
6420 26/12 10.05 Uncle Sam R. - EE ID e MX buono
7290 26/12 17.30 R. PMR - Tiraspol Tedesco NX buono
7811USB 28/12 23.15 AFN - Key West EE NX // a 12133.5 KHz suff.
9675 26/12 22.50 R. Cancao Nova - Cachoeira Paulista PP MX suff.
9910 26/12 11.00 KTWR - Guam Cinese ID e talk buono
11780 30/12 22.45 R. Nac. Amazonas - Brasilia PP MX suff.
11920 27/12 23.00 HCJB - Santiago PP predica buono
15720 31/12 11.00 R. New Zeland Int. - Wellington EE Happy New Year buono
25000 26/12 11.10 MIKES - Espoo pip pip suff.

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

WDR switched off 1593 kHz DRM signal

and announces this through the transmit signal itself:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Mr86vo8UU

Another recording in the quality as transmit:http://www.hochstrasse.ch/forum/drm_langenberg_1593khz_2011-12-24.wav

This comes to no surprise, as already months ago the program audio was no longer Kiraka but this looped announcement that hammered the message into the non-existant listeners by saying "if you hear us please keep in touch with us":http://web.me.com/nils.schiffhauer/Website/Monitoring/Eintr%C3%A4ge/2011/12/3_Audio_Clips_-_Medium_Wave_(&_Longwave)_files/1593%20WDR_DRM%200630.mp3

Here is a photo of the Transradio TRAM transmitter system for 720 and 1593 kHz, installed in 2006:http://www.deutsches-drm-forum.de/Anlage-Langenberg.jpg

More pictures of the Langenberg site are here, the latter one page also featuring the former mediumwave gear and the analogue VHF TV transmitter that has in 2007 been shut down in the most possible shabby way (out of the ongoing program, they not even managed to bid a farewell in the simple way of putting their test card on air for a last time):http://www.verstaerkeramt.eu/html/sender_langenberg_2011.html
http://www.velberteransichten.de/sender.htm

The former gear, replaced by the TRAM system in 2006, consisted in the case of 720 kHz of a 200 kW transmitter, delivered by Siemens in 1978 to put this frequency on air at Langenberg for the first time. In the case of 1593 kHz it were two 600 kW Telefunken transmitters from 1966, used as a pair to produce an output of up to 800 kW. They had to be shut down at yearend 1993 because as of 1994 it was no longer permissible in Germany to continue the operation of equipment with condensers that contained more than one litre of PCB each, and upgrading the old beasts was out of question.

Back then WDR decided to keep 720 kHz because 1593 kHz provided a marvellous skywave service but a measly groundwave coverage of just 80 km when being run at 800 kW, just too little bang for too much money. WDR arranged with the USA to leave 1593 to the Holzkirchen transmitter, allowing WDR to use the former daytime-only frequency 720 around the clock. After this the Holzkirchen transmitter has been used on 1593 with a single ND mast for Balkans services, for which it was not so terribly good, resulting in its final closure in April 2001, freeing up 1593 for WDR again.

As a reminder, since it has been announced already a year ago: On New Year's Eve all analogue mediumwave transmitters of Südwestrundfunk will be shut down as well. Their DRM on 711 kHz ceased already in last July. What will be left as of New Year's Day in this regard in Germany are only the 855 kHz signal from Berlin-Britz plus the three hour token at night on 177 kHz, left there when the conversion of this frequency, made for IFA 2005 and loudmouthly announced there ("they received listeners calls that the transmitter would be broken, since it transmits only white noise anymore, hahaha, it's so funny") had been reversed after a few months. (Kai Ludwig via dxld ml)

Special test on 5954 kHz from Costa Rica

Radio Miami International, in cooperation with its client Radio Republica, will be conducting a special DX test at 2000-2100 UTC and 2300-2400 UTC on 7 January, and 0200-0300 UTC on 8 January, 2012 on the frequency of 5954 kHz from Cariari, Costa Rica. (These times are 3-4 pm, 6-7 pm and 9-10 pm Eastern Time Saturday, 7 January in North America.) The programming aired will be Radio Republica in Spanish. The power will be 10 kW. Shortwave listeners may be aware of the fact that Radio Republica has used this frequency in the past, but it has been off the air for several weeks now. Radio Miami International will verify all reception reports with a QSL card indicating the special tests. Reports may be sent to Radio Miami International, P.O. Box 526852, Miami, Florida 33152 USA, or by e-mail to info@wrmi.net

Transmisión Especial de Prueba desde Costa Rica.

Radio Miami Internacional, en colaboracion con nuestro cliente Radio Republica, estara haciendo una transmisión especial de DX de 2000-2100 UTC y de 2300-2400 UTC el 7 de enero, y de 0200-0300 UTC el 8 de enero, 2012 en la frecuencia de 5954 kHz desde Cariari, Costa Rica. (Estos horarios son equivalentes a 3-4 pm, 6-7 pm y 9-10 pm hora del Este de los EEUU el sabado, 7 de enero). La programación sera la de Radio Republica en espanol. La potencia sera 10 kilovatios. Oyentes de onda corta sabran que Radio Republica ha utilizado esta frecuencia en el pasado, pero ha estado fuera del aire por varias semanas ya. Radio Miami Internacional verificara todos los informes de recepción recibidas con una tarjeta QSL indicando las pruebas especiales. Los informes se pueden enviar a

Radio Miami Internacional,
Apartado Postal 526852,
Miami, Florida
33152,
ESTADOS UNIDOS

o por correo electronico a info @ wrmi.net.

Gracias a la comunidad internacional de diexistas por monitorear estas transmisiones especiales y por reportarnos los resultados en su area.

New time for "Amateur Radio Today's" monday program

From January 2, 2012 the re-transmission of "Amateur Radio Today" program via Sentech will change to 1730 - 1830 UTC. The transmission will remain in the 60 metre band on a frequency of 4895 kHz. The transmitter power will be 100 kW feeding an omni-directional antenna. Reception reports are invited and can be emailed to artoday @ sarl.org.za. All reports received of the January 2nd, 2012 transmission by 5th January, 2012 will be participating in a lucky draw for the "ARRL RFI handbook", you can also fax your report to 012 991 5651.

(SARL NEWS - Sunday, 1st January 2012)

Schedule for SARL "Amateur Radio Today" program via Sentech :
0800-0900 UTC on 17760 kHz (Sunday)
1730-1830 UTC on 4895 kHz (Monday) (ex 1630-1730 UTC)

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Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE

New Delhi, India

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Sabato 24 dicembre 2011
18.52 - 1485 kHz
RADIO BROADCAST ITALIA - Roma
II, ID YL (stavolta registrato!).
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Co-ch Onda Rambla+SER x 2 txs.

***

Domenica 25 dicembre 2011
18.30 - 1395 kHz
GOLOS ROSSII - Yerevan (Armenia)
Musica locale, IDs e nxs OM.
Segnale buono-molto buono!!!
UNID co-ch in sottofondo molto bassa.
-
23.08 - 765 kHz
IRIB - Chahbahar (Iran)
Arabo, tk OM/YL.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
Altre UNIDs in sottofondo tutte mescolate.
Forte QRM RNE 774.

***

Sabato 31 dicembre 2011
22.35 - 3333,4 kHz
RADIO BILA HORA
IDs OM e musica varia.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Solo il 31 dicembre.
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22.40 - 594 kHz
FRCN - Kaduna (Nigeria)
Vernacolo, tk OM e canti locali.
Segnale sufficiente-buono!!!
R7 Drake con PBT in LSB e filtro AM da 2,3 kHz per evitare una portante su 595.

Luca Botto Fiora
QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova) - Italia
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RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
E5 Etón
ATS909 Sangean
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm interna (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop magnetico 150x100 cm su finestra (@2-5,5 MHz)
Dipolo aperto esterno 30 m (@5.5-30 MHz)
Controllate regolarmente i vostri collegamenti d'antenna.

ACCESSORI D'ANTENNA
Amplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION per loop in ferrite
Amplificatore RF LX1456 NE per loop magnetico e dipolo aperto
Balun a choke coassiali 1:1 di RG174 (dal sito di IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 (modificato W8JI)
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie
Check regularly your antenna connections.
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REGISTRATORI
ICD-BX112 Sony (R7)
TRC-1149 Sanyo o ICD-BX112 (Satellit 500)
ICD-B500 Sony (E5 - VR5000DSP)
ICD-BX800 Sony (ATS909)
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SOFTWARE (Mac)
Audacity 1.3.14 beta (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 3.8 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 5.8.1 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.1 demo (orologio mondiale)
Marble 1.1 (atlante)
Multimode 6.2.4 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.0.6 demo (orologio mondiale)

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Glenn Hauser logs January 1, 2012

** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 1, 2012, before 1400:
9200, good with flutter at 1352; no others up to 18 MHz by 1357
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910, Sun Jan 1 at 0648, Alcaraván [note spelling] Radio with music in the clear since TWR at 0645-0700 in Polish is M-F only via Wertachtal; that also clear of 7225 via Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13750, Jan 1 at 1437, RHC `En Contacto` with this week`s birthday greetings, then relisting the 80+ most regular listeners of the show in 2011y, ranking country by country up to #1: Cuba itself. All five Americans had Spanish names I did not recognize. This part of the show repeats last week`s but it`s not a 100% replay.

Initially 13750 had a SAH from some other carrier, I thought maybe Greenville still on after 1400* but Iran in Hindi is also scheduled; plus Oman per HFCC, presumably wooden. RHC comes up on 13750 only on Sunday mornings, a remnant of the long-gone Venezuelan relay, making no sense now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 17690, Jan 1 at 1405 and still at 1420, no signal from RFI Spanish service at 1400-1430; TDF Montsinéry staff still recovering from NYE festivities near Devil`s Island? Some stations may make unexpected changes Jan 1 due to funding expirations by calendar rather than HFCC seasons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Jan 1 at 0647, IGIM with poor signal in talk and music, not chanting for a change, aside much stronger Vatican 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-AM, Jan 1 at 0559, S9+10 with XFM ID as I intune, 0604 DJ with live UT timechex, ``4 after 6``, also mentions it`s midnight = 2012y in the Central zone; offering QSLs for reports to xfmshortwave @ gmail.com Music interludes I don`t recognize; 0609 mentions chatting on IRC, starts sign-off before last track, hopes to remain in the pirate scene in 2012y, maybe back on Valentine`s Day and other holidays; 0610 last track, 0613:20 cut off and back on; 0616:30 some kind of canned ID, off at 0617:18*. I expect this was a long NYE broadcast, but I missed most of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1597 monitoring: 5755, Jan 1 at 0500, confirmed with an upcut on WTWW. Next SW chances: Sunday 1630, 1830 on 9955 WRMI, UT Monday 0330v on 5110v-CUSB Area 51 via WBCQ; Tuesday 1030 on 5980, Hamburger Lokalradio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Tips DRM e convenzionali

Ascolti DRM di Giovanni Lorenzi – IT9TZZ

NHK JAPAN VIA BABCOK DRM (
SOLO VENERDI ) 30.12.11 1100 9760 kHz E-NX OTTIMO
NHK JAPAN VIA
BABCOK DRM ( SOLO VENERDI ) 30.12.11 1130 9760 kHz R-NX
OTTIMO
KBS SOUTH KOREA VIA BABCOK DRM ( SOLO SABATO ) 31.12.11
1100 9760 kHz R-NX OTTIMO
TDP RADIO ( SOLO SABATO ) 31.12.11
1230 6015 kHz MX SUFFICIENTE
KBC DRM MIX ARMENIA
31.12.11 1800 7590 kHz E- MX-PARL OTTIMO

Ascolti
convenzionali ( AM )

RADIO NEW ZEALAND 31.12.11 1200 15720
kHz E-PARL 35433

Per info tecniche circa l’ascolto delle
trasmissioni in DRM con ricevitori convenzionali: tzzlorenzi@tiscali.
it

Giovanni Lorenzi - IT9TZZ
QTH: Messina - Italy 38.11 N 15.32 E
Locator JM78SE
RX: Yaesu FRG-7000/Kenwood TS-440
Ant: Longwire 25 m / Dipole
Down converter: home brewing
Website: http://www.webalice.it/it9tzz

Nord AM

on 3995 khz with O=3
on 6005 khz with O=2-3

Peter Vaegler
QTH: Stralsund : 13°6´10´´ E; 54°16´23´´ N
RX: mod.DEGEN DE 1103
Ant: Teleskop/TG 34

QSLs Luca Botto Fiora

Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2011-January 1, 2012

** BRAZIL. Much of it currently on DST, they imagine that 2012 arrives at 0200 UT instead of 0300 or 0400, so I check out RNA 11780 at 0158 UT January 1: good signal with upbeat song, 0159:30 to legal ID for 980 kHz with 300 kW from EBC, but no mention of SW which has slightly greater reach, no timesignal, standard opening of ``Aló Brasil`` show ``nesta madrugada de domingo``, ``novo dia, novo programa`` and finally: ``feliz ano novo``. And now it`s time for the New York Philharmonic on PBS` NYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, Dec 31 at 2259 noticed VOG back on this frequency after more than a week`s silence, with Greek music, but I already missed their midnight at 2200. Still on at 0011 check Jan 1 with Greek talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RWANDA. 6055, Dec 31 at 2251, lively music and French talk, mentioning Rwanda; fair signal until totally blocked by *2259 REE IS before its French service. Tnx to tip from Brian Alexander who heard RRR`s extended broadcast on Xmas Eve and said they also do it on NYE. Local midnight was already at 2200 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. REE can be depended upon for a good time on New Year`s Eve. (No more competition from DW in the UT+1 zone for our attention.) I pick the strong CR relay on 15125 for the Jahrwechsel at 2300 UT, tuning in at 2259 to hear bells, 2300 twelve strikes of some big clock, ``Feliz 2012`` and cut immediately to IS and sign-off! At least they kept it on a few minutes longer than usual for the big moment, before the CR transmitters take their usual break, so then it`s back to Noblejas:

9535 as usual is the best signal here after 2300, and I wind up listening to it for two hours straight (also on weaker 9620, 6125, and poor 11680). At 2301 a novelty song is playing, which turns out to be the first of many; harmonies are sorta Sephardic, tho this is hardly Jewish New Year. 2304, ``Bienvenidos a 2012 en Radio Nacional, Radio Exterior, Radio Cinco y Radio Tres`` as the four networks are combining for this special dance party of music from the 30s to the 50s. I noted most of the details for the first hour. The two M hosts spoke very rapidly and I couldn`t catch all the titles. Much of the music was American, with Nueva York mentioned often:

``Boola, boola, boola`` sorta English lyrix, by Orquesta de Swing. 2307, ``Swing, swing, swing, swing; sing, sing, sing, sing``. 2310 acknowledged their first cablegrama de 2012; were encouraging listener input, dedications. Then something by Louis Prima from 1951y. Messages in from Boston, Nueva York, París, mentioned 78 rpm and some of their records sounded that old altho not scratchy. A mambo by Tito Puente. 2317 mentioned that show lasts until las 2 de la madrugada = 0100 UT; 4-network ID again; song from 1947y. 2321 Conga de NY, also 1947? 2323 QSL an e-mail from Belén, Nuevo Méjico. 2328 ``Cannonball Yodel`` from Manhattan, 1953y, a train engineer yodeling about going thru a tunnel, no, not the Wabash. 2332, really funny if somewhat sexist novelty song about women who ``Talk, talk, talk``; 2335, bluegrass on banjo; 2337 segué to promo for a show on R. 3, ``de ocho a nueve, no se mueve``. 2338, ``Ain`t Nobody Here But Us Chickens``, etc., etc.
RNE has an impressive library of old American tunes. They also played some more from Latin America.

2355 crosses to RNE in the Canarias where another midnight is imminent, playing greetings from individuals in each(?) of the seven islands. Jan 1, 2012 at 0000 full toll of twelve with each counted off upward, one by one; 0002 back to music. 0005, 9535 cuts off air so I quickly check the alternates as above, but by the time I get back to 9535 it has resumed. I also checked English on 6055, but nothing special there, probably playing back something from last year. On 9535 at 0015 mentioned they had got 5 mil mensajes, and more great music bits until 0100. Don`t need no stinkin` Internet to enjoy all this direct on my SW radio! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non?]. 15715, Dec 31 at 2218 something is here on this normally vacant frequency, and I do mean vacant: nothing ever listed on it in any of the B-11 schedules: Africanish music, good signal with flutter, then French announcements, 2221 discussion mentioning Dakar and Sénégal several times, mixing with more music. 2236 finally ID in passing as ``BBC Afrique, programme spécial pour 2012``. Signal degrading, but still heard past 2300, 2318, even 0006 Jan 1. The flutter is typical of Ascension on 19m, likely site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1597 monitoring. 9955, Sat Dec 31 at 1830, my internal noise sources are off, so I try to hear me on WRMI: yes, can just barely make out the WOR theme. I assume it`s better in the Caribbean and Latin America. WRMI is currently on the air between 15 and 23 UT only on Sats & Suns. Repeats Sunday at same time, plus 1630. Other airings: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5755; UT Monday 0330v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 10000, Dec 31, 2011y at 2359, I didn`t even try to find an audible BBC frequency, amid my bihour with Spain, but on #2 receiver cannot miss the official start of UT 2012y, precisely pipped by WWV at 0000:00 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. 17695, Dec 31 at 1940, CVC 1Africa VG signal, better than CVC Chile 17680, but lots of IADs making a salvation story unlistenable; not that their thinly-disguised monomania is ever listenable. Then a longer period of dead air. I see that Jorge Freitas in Brasil independently noted the same problem after change to 13590, Dec 31 at 2016-2021, ``Transmission with constant cuts in the modulation``. God`ll get `em (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)