Dx Re Mix News # 794

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DX RE MIX NEWS#794 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Date: August 13, 2013
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AZERBAIJAN    Strong unmodulated carrier was observed on August 9/10:
0500-0815 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs on August 9
1315-1505 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs on August 9
1315-1602 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs on August 10
At present no SW broadcasts from Voice of Justice and Voice of Talyshistan:
Voice of Justice
0600-0630 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat
1400-1430 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri
Voice of Talyshistan
0900-1000 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat
1200-1300 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat
1500-1600 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat

CUBA    Current schedule of Cuban Spy HM01 Hybrid Mode 1, Female voice:
0500-0555 on  5855 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0500-0555 on 14375 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0600-0655 on 10345 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0600-0655 on 14375 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0700-0755 on  9330 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0700-0755 on 13435 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0800-0855 on  9065 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0800-0855 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0900-0955 on  9240 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0900-0955 on 12120 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

1000-1055 on  5855 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
1000-1055 on  9155 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
1000-1055 on 12180 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

1600-1655 on 11435 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily
1700-1755 on 11530 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily
1800-1855 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily

2100-2155 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2100-2155 on 16180 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

2200-2255 on 10715 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2200-2255 on 17480 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

2300-2355 on 11530 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2300-2355 on 17540 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

GREECE    More and more wrong frequencies of ERT:
1700-2257 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek Aug.5, as scheduled
2300-0357 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to NoAm Greek Aug.6, not on  7475
0400-0707 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek Aug.6, not on 11645
The broadcasts on 7450, 9420, 15630 were cut off at around 0707 on Aug.6!

GREECE    Again unscheduled wrong frequency of ERT in Greek on Wed, Aug.7:
1400-1530 on 15630*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu not on 15650/105 deg to AUS
Morning broadcasts on 9420,11645,15630 were cut off again at around 0707UTC
*from 1500 totally blocked by Radio Liberty in Tajik via Issoudun

GREECE    Only single frequency of ERT is on the air on Thursday, August 8:
from 1200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek. No signal on parallel
from 1200 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 1657
from 1200 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 1357
from 1400 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, scheduled till 1857
The broadcasts on 9420,9935,15650 were back on the air around 1520 Aug.8!

GREECE    Entended transmissions of ERT on Friday, August 9:
0807-1200 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
0807-1157 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek
0807-1200 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek

GREECE    Another wrong frequency of ERT on Saturday, August 10:
from 0400 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, instead of 11645 //
from 0400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
from 0400 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
The broadcasts on 7450, 9420, 15630 were cut off at around 0730 on Aug.10!

GREECE    Zero signal from ERT on Saturday, August 10:
1200-1400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 0807
1200-1400 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 1657
1200-1357 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
from 1400 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, scheduled till 1857
The broadcasts on 9420,9935,15650 were back on the air around 1530 Aug.10.

GREECE    Chaos with the ERT shortwave broadcasts continues
0400-0727 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, ex till 0807 or 1200
0400-0727 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek, ex till 0807 or 1157
0400-0727 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, ex till 0807 or 1200
from 1015 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, ex from 0807 or 1200
from 1048 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, ex from 0807 or 1200
from 1102 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, ex from 1200

GREECE    Chaos with the ERT shortwave broadcasts continues on August 12:
0400-0809 on  7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to NoAm Greek, instead 11645 to Af
0400-0809 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 226 deg to CeAm Greek, instead 15630 to Eu
0400-0809 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, as scheduled

SAUDI ARABIA    On August 7-12 no signal from BSKSA on 17785/15250:
0800-0957 on 17785 RIY 500 kW / 270 deg to WCAf French Radio Riyadh
1000-1227 on 15250 RIY 500 kW / 250 deg to WCAf English Radio Jeddah

TAIWAN(non)   Radio Free Sarawak is back on air from Monday, August 12:
1100-1230 on 15420 PAO 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs in Iban Monday-Saturday
There's no regular program today. Continuous music at about 1120UT. The
regular program was back at 1150UT with website and email announcements.
Today, August 12 Radio Free Sarawak continues to broadcast until 1321UT.

U.K.(non)   New time for the evening program of BBC in Uzbek from August 5:
1700-1730 NF 12040 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs, ex 1600-1630 on 13695
1700-1730 on 15175 WOF 300 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 1600-1630 on same freq.

USA   Surprisingly on August 8 transmission of Brother Stair via WTWW-2:
1200-1500 NF  5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English, instead of 9930
New schedule or is it a mistake? 5085 is used night time 0000-0400 UTC!

USA   On August 8 WTWW transmitter # 2 continues to use the wrong frequency
from 1500 NF  5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, instead of registered 9930
Carrier until 1507 and then again Brother Stair/TOM, instead of Unshackled.

USA   Observation of WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Fri, August 9:
1203-1417 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm and then transmitter is off

USA   Brother Stair TOM in English via WTWW-2 on August 11/12
1153-2200 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 1200-1500
2200-2400 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm other program

USA(non)   Frequency change of Radio Free Asia:
1600-1700 NF 15400 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 15340

USA(non)   Summer A-13 for Voice of America and Radio Marti:
0000-0030 on  5955 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Burmese
0000-0030 on  7430 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
0000-0030 on  9325 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Burmese

0000-0100 on  7250 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0000-0100 on  9310 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue/Thu
0000-0100 on  9340 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
0000-0100 on  9350 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
0000-0100 on  9360 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun
0000-0100 on  9545 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to EaAs Chinese
0000-0100 on  9855 IRA 250 kW / 020 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0000-0100 on 15385 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to EaAs Chinese
0000-0100 on 15565 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
0000-0100 on 17560 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese

0030-0100 on  7430 KWT 250 kW / 082 deg to SoAs Learning English
0030-0100 on  9325 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Learning English
0030-0100 on  9790 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Learning English
0030-0100 on 12015 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Learning English
0030-0100 on 15290 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Learning English
0030-0100 on 17820 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Learning English

0000-0300 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0000-0300 on  7365 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

0100-0200 on  7430 KWT 250 kW / 082 deg to SoAs English
0100-0200 on  9780 IRA 250 kW / 356 deg to SoAs English
0100-0200 on 15205 UDO 250 kW / 292 deg to SoAs English

0100-0300 on  9370 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
0100-0300 on 11895 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
0100-0300 on 12035 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio

0130-0200 on  9825 GB  250 kW / 172 deg to SoAm Learning English Tue-Sat

0130-0230 on 11565 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna
0130-0230 on 15090 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna

0130-0300 on  7305 UDO 250 kW / 276 deg to SEAs Burmese
0130-0300 on 15115 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs Burmese
0130-0300 on 17780 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs Burmese

0230-0300 on  5745 GB  250 kW / 190 deg to Cuba Radiogram Sun

0300-0330 on  6135 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
0300-0330 on  7260 SAO 100 kW / 052 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
0300-0330 on  9815 NAU 250 kW / 160 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur

0300-0400 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
0300-0400 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0300-0400 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to CSAf English
0300-0400 on  7365 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0300-0400 on  9370 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
0300-0400 on  9885 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
0300-0400 on 11895 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
0300-0400 on 12035 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
0300-0400 on 15130 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0300-0400 on 17735 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0300-0400 on 21460 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon
0300-0400 on 21470 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue
0300-0400 on 21480 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed
0300-0400 on 21490 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu
0300-0400 on 21500 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri
0300-0400 on 21515 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
0300-0400 on 21530 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun

0330-0400 on  7325 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda
0330-0400 on  7340 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda
0330-0400 on 11750 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali
0330-0400 on 11905 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda
0330-0400 on 13680 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg to EaAf Somali
0330-0400 on 15620 IRA 250 kW / 267 deg to EaAf Somali

0400-0430 on  7325 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda Sat/Sun
0400-0430 on  7340 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda Sat/Sun
0400-0430 on  9885 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
0400-0430 on 11905 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda Sat/Sun

0400-0500 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
0400-0500 on  4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf English
0400-0500 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to CSAf English
0400-0500 on 12025 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
0400-0500 on 15155 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0400-0500 on 17735 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0400-0500 on 21455 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon
0400-0500 on 21465 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue
0400-0500 on 21500 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed
0400-0500 on 21510 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu
0400-0500 on 21530 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri
0400-0500 on 21550 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
0400-0500 on 21570 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun

0400-0700 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0400-0700 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun

0500-0530 on  4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf Hausa
0500-0530 on  6035 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg to WCAf Hausa
0500-0530 on  6095 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf Hausa

0500-0600 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
0500-0600 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to CSAf English
0500-0600 on 11905 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg to WeAs Kurdish
0500-0600 on 12025 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CSAf English
0500-0600 on 15265 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0500-0600 on 15525 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs Kurdish
0500-0600 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
0500-0600 on 17490 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0500-0600 on 17870 IRA 250 kW / 299 deg to WeAs Kurdish
0500-0600 on 21460 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon
0500-0600 on 21470 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue
0500-0600 on 21480 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed
0500-0600 on 21490 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu
0500-0600 on 21510 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri
0500-0600 on 21530 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
0500-0600 on 21545 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun

0530-0600 on  4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf French Mon-Fri
0530-0600 on  6095 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf French Mon-Fri
0530-0600 on  9885 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf French Mon-Fri
0530-0600 on 13830 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf French Mon-Fri

0600-0630 on  4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf French Mon-Fri
0600-0630 on  6095 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf French Mon-Fri
0600-0630 on  9885 GB  250 kW / 091 deg to CeAf French Mon-Fri
0600-0630 on 13830 IRA 250 kW / 279 deg to CeAf French Mon-Fri

0600-0700 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to CSAf English
0600-0700 on 12025 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CSAf English
0600-0700 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English

0700-0730 on  4960 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf Hausa
0700-0730 NF 11885 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WCAf Hausa, ex 11785
0700-0730 on 13725 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf Hausa

0700-0900 on  5980 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0700-0900 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun

0900-1000 on  5980 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0900-1000 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

0900-1100 on 11825 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-1100 on 11965 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-1100 on 13740 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-1100 on 17485 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-1100 on 21695 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese

1000-1200 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1000-1200 on  9805 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

1100-1130 on 12030 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg to WCAf French Sat
1100-1130 on 13735 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to WCAf French Sat
1100-1130 on 15715 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WCAf French Sat
1100-1130 on 17850 IRA 250 kW / 271 deg to WCAf French Sat

1100-1200 on  6110 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1200 on  9845 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1200 on 11785 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1200 on 11825 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese

1130-1230 on 11965 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Burmese
1130-1230 on 15555 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs Burmese
1130-1230 on 17680 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to SEAs Burmese

1200-1300 on  6110 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on  7225 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean
1200-1300 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1200-1300 on  7575 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs English
1200-1300 on  9490 TIN 250 kW / 333 deg to EaAs Korean
1200-1300 on  9510 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs English
1200-1300 on  9805 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1200-1300 on 11785 UDO 250 kW / 006 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on 11825 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on 12075 PHT 125 kW / 349 deg to SEAs English
1200-1300 on 12150 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to EaAs English
1200-1300 on 15250 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on 15775 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean

1230-1300 on  9695 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Laotian
1230-1300 on 11965 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Laotian

1300-1330 on  6095 GB  250 kW / 190 deg to Cuba Radiogram Sun

1300-1400 on  6110 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on  7225 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean
1300-1400 on  7365 UDO 250 kW / 054 deg to CeAs Cantonese
1300-1400 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1300-1400 on  7495 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1300-1400 on  7575 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to SEAs English Sat/Sun
1300-1400 on  9310 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1300-1400 on  9510 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SEAs English Sat/Sun
1300-1400 on  9695 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1300-1400 on 11785 UDO 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 11805 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 11935 TIN 250 kW / 333 deg to EaAs Korean
1300-1400 on 11990 NVS 250 kW / 120 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 12075 TIN 250 kW / 049 deg to SEAs English Sat/Sun
1300-1400 on 12150 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to EaAs English Sat/Sun
1300-1400 on 13690 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1300-1400 on 13820 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1300-1400 on 15115 UDO 250 kW / 014 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 15170 IRA 250 kW / 267 deg to EaAf Somali
1300-1400 on 15775 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean
1300-1400 on 17530 SMG 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Somali

1330-1430 on 11695 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Khmer

1400-1500 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1400-1500 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to SoAf English
1400-1500 on  6110 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on  7225 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg to EaAs Korean
1400-1500 on  7365 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to CeAs Cantonese
1400-1500 on  7495 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1400-1500 on  7575 UDO 250 kW / 268 deg to SoAs English Mon-Fri
1400-1500 on  9310 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1400-1500 on  9695 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1400-1500 on  9845 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on  9850 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1400-1500 on  9920 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1400-1500 on 11615 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to CeAs Chinese
1400-1500 on 11935 TIN 250 kW / 333 deg to EaAs Korean
1400-1500 on 11990 NVS 250 kW / 120 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on 12040 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on 12150 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SoAs English Mon-Fri
1400-1500 on 13690 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1400-1500 NF 15490 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English Mon-Fri, ex 12120
1400-1500 on 15775 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean
1400-1500 on 15580 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to SoAf English
1400-1500 on 17505 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon
1400-1500 on 17530 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue
1400-1500 on 17540 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Wed
1400-1500 on 17560 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Thu
1400-1500 on 17570 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Fri
1400-1500 on 17580 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun
1400-1500 on 17590 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
1400-1500 on 17740 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1400-1500 on 17870 IRA 250 kW / 299 deg to WeAs Kurdish

1400-1800 on 11930 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1400-1800 on 13820 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

1430-1500 on 12075 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to SEAs Burmese

1430-1530 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna
1430-1530 on  9790 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna
1430-1530 on 11965 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
1430-1530 on 15090 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna

1430-1630 on  5880 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Burmese
1430-1630 on  9320 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Burmese

1500-1530 on  9540 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1500-1530 on  9580 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1500-1530 on 11920 SMG 250 kW / 073 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1500-1530 on 12085 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf Hausa
1500-1530 on 13725 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WCAf Hausa
1500-1530 on 15100 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Tue/Sat
1500-1530 on 15120 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Sun
1500-1530 on 15140 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Mon
1500-1530 on 15255 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Wed
1500-1530 on 15285 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Thu
1500-1530 on 15290 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uzbek Fri
1500-1530 on 17690 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg to WCAf Hausa

1500-1600 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1500-1600 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to SoAf English
1500-1600 on  6140 UDO 250 kW / 284 deg to SoAs Learning English
1500-1600 on  7495 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1500-1600 on  7540 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SoAs Learning English
1500-1600 on  7575 UDO 250 kW / 268 deg to SoAs English
1500-1600 on  9310 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1500-1600 on  9355 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1500-1600 on  9400 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Learning English
1500-1600 on 12150 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SoAs English
1500-1600 on 13690 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1500-1600 NF 15490 UDO 250 kW / 284 deg to SoAs English, ex 12120
1500-1600 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
1500-1600 on 17895 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CSAf English

1530-1630 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna
1530-1630 on  9790 KWT 250 kW / 080 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna
1530-1630 on 15090 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna

1600-1630 on 12080 MEY 250 kW / 015 deg to SoAf Kirunda Sat
1600-1630 on 15460 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kirunda Sat
1600-1630 on 17530 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kirunda Sat
1600-1630 on 17860 GB  250 kW / 045 deg to WeEu Radiogram Sat

1600-1700 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1600-1700 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 138 deg to SoAf English
1600-1700 on  7475 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bangla
1600-1700 on  7495 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1600-1700 on  7545 PHT 250 kW / 332 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1600-1700 on  9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1600-1700 on  9355 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1600-1700 on  9565 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1600-1700 on  9965 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1600-1700 on 11790 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bangla
1600-1700 on 11915 SAO 100 kW / 114 deg to CeAf Learning English
1600-1700 on 12055 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali
1600-1700 on 13570 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf Learning English
1600-1700 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
1600-1700 on 15620 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf Somali
1600-1700 on 15630 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
1600-1700 on 15640 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Tue/Thu
1600-1700 on 15760 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sat
1600-1700 on 15780 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan Sun
1600-1700 on 17895 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg to CSAf Learning English

1630-1700 on 11655 ISS 250 kW / 150 deg to SDN  English South Sudan Mon-Fri
1630-1700 on 11835 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf Swahili
1630-1700 on 11905 NAU 250 kW / 150 deg to SDN  English South Sudan Mon-Fri
1630-1700 on 13630 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg to CSAf Portuguese Fri
1630-1700 on 13870 ISS 250 kW / 150 deg to SDN  English South Sudan Mon-Fri
1630-1700 on 15720 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf Portuguese Fri
1630-1700 on 15265 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf Swahili
1630-1700 on 15460 SAO 100 kW / 112 deg to CeAf Swahili

1630-1730 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna
1630-1730 on  9790 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna
1630-1730 on 11580 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna

1700-1730 on 12055 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali
1700-1730 on 13630 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf Portuguese
1700-1730 on 13680 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf Somali
1700-1730 on 15720 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf Portuguese
1700-1730 on 17895 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg to CeAf English

1700-1800 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1700-1800 on  5940 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1700-1800 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 330 deg to CeAf English
1700-1800 on  7365 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1700-1800 on  7495 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1700-1800 on  9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1700-1800 on  9780 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1700-1800 on  9850 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1700-1800 on  9965 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1700-1800 on 11795 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg to WCAf English
1700-1800 on 11985 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1700-1800 on 15455 SAO 100 kW / 126 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1700-1800 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English

1730-1800 on  7435 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg to CeAs Azeri
1730-1800 on  9490 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to CeAs Azeri
1730-1800 on 11760 SMG 250 kW / 073 deg to CeAs Azeri
1730-1800 on 11905 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri
1730-1800 on 11925 LAM 100 kW / 132 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri
1730-1800 on 12005 SAO 100 kW / 076 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri
1730-1800 on 12055 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali
1730-1800 on 12140 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri
1730-1800 on 13630 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf Portuguese
1730-1800 on 13680 IRA 250 kW / 263 deg to EaAf Somali
1730-1800 on 13870 UDO 250 kW / 276 deg to EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri
1730-1800 on 15720 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf Portuguese
1730-1800 on 17895 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf English

1800-1830 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English Sat/Sun
1800-1830 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele Mon-Fri
1800-1830 on  5940 SAO 100 kW / 126 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1800-1830 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WCAf English
1800-1830 on  9645 NAU 250 kW / 160 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1800-1830 on 11615 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1800-1830 on 13630 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf Portuguese Mon-Fri
1800-1830 on 13715 SAO 100 kW / 052 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1800-1830 on 15720 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg to CSAf Portuguese Mon-Fri
1800-1830 on 15455 IRA 250 kW / 251 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1800-1830 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CSAf English
1800-1830 on 17895 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf English

1800-1900 on  7495 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1800-1900 on  9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1800-1900 on  9780 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1800-1900 on  9965 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs Pashto Deewa Radio
1800-1900 on 11905 KWT 250 kW / 185 deg to EaAf Amharic
1800-1900 on 11925 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic
1800-1900 on 12005 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic
1800-1900 on 12140 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg to EaAf Amharic
1800-1900 on 13870 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg to EaAf Amharic

1800-2000 on 11930 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1800-2000 on 13820 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

1830-1900 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1830-1900 on  5940 SAO 100 kW / 126 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1830-1900 NF 11865 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda
1830-1900 NF 13660 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAf Kinyarwanda
1830-1900 on 15455 IRA 250 kW / 251 deg to ZWE  English/Shona/Ndebele
1830-1900 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf English

1830-1930 on  9815 IRA 250 kW / 271 deg to CeAf French
1830-1930 on 17530 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf French

1900-1930 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1900-1930 on  9600 NAU 250 kW / 155 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1900-1930 on  9775 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1900-1930 on  9850 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg to CSAf English
1900-1930 on 11830 KWT 250 kW / 235 deg to SDN  Arabic Afia Darfur
1900-1930 on 11905 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 11925 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 12005 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 12140 IRA 250 kW / 275 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 13870 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri
1900-1930 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf English

1900-2000 on  7485 IRA 250 kW / 344 deg to SoAs Learning English

1900-2100 on  5900 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs Korean
1900-2100 on  7365 UDO 250 kW / 038 deg to EaAs Korean
1900-2100 on  9490 UDO 250 kW / 038 deg to EaAs Korean

1930-2000 on  9815 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf French
1930-2000 on 15670 GB  250 kW / 045 deg to WeEu Radiogram Sun
1930-2000 on 17530 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf French

1930-2030 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
1930-2030 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CSAf English

2000-2030 on  6005 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf French
2000-2030 on  9815 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf French
2000-2030 on 11900 SAO 100 kW / 114 deg to WeAf French
2000-2030 on 15730 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf French
2000-2030 on 17530 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf French

2000-2400 on  9565 GB  250 kW / 164 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
2000-2400 on 11930 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

2030-2100 on  4930 BOT 100 kW / 020 deg to SoAf English
2030-2100 on  4940 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 on  4940 SAO 100 kW / 030 deg to WCAf English Sat/Sun
2030-2100 on  6035 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg to WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf English
2030-2100 on  7325 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 on  9815 NAU 250 kW / 200 deg to WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 on  9885 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WCAf Hausa Sat
2030-2100 on  9885 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WCAf French Sun
2030-2100 on 11885 SAO 100 kW / 020 deg to WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri
2030-2100 on 11900 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg to CeAf French Sat/Sun
2030-2100 on 15185 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf French Sat/Sun
2030-2100 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English
2030-2100 on 15730 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf Hausa Sat
2030-2100 on 15730 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf French Sun

2100-2130 on  9690 SAO 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf French
2100-2130 on  9815 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf French
2100-2130 on  9885 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WCAf French
2100-2130 on 11900 IRA 250 kW / 114 deg to WeAf French

2100-2200 on  6080 SAO 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf English
2100-2200 on 15580 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English

2130-2200 on  7310 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WeAf Bambara Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on  9620 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WeAf Bambara Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on 12005 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to WeAf Bambara Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on 13670 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf Bambara Mon-Fri

2200-2230 on  5905 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmer
2200-2230 on  9320 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmer

2200-2300 on  5895 IRA 250 kW / 065 deg to SEAs English Sun-Thu
2200-2300 on  5915 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs English Sun-Thu
2200-2300 on  6135 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs Chinese
2200-2300 on  7480 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg to SoAs English Sun-Thu
2200-2300 on  7575 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English Sun-Thu
2200-2300 on  9845 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese
2200-2300 on 12150 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs English Sun-Thu

2230-2300 on  7460 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Learning English
2230-2300 on  9570 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs Learning English
2230-2300 on 11840 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Learning English

2300-2400 on  5895 PHT 250 kW / 275 deg to SEAs English
2300-2400 on  6185 UDO 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Burmese
2300-2400 on  7430 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
2300-2400 on  7460 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Learning English
2300-2400 on  7480 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs English
2300-2400 on  7575 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English
2300-2400 on  9325 PHT 250 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Burmese
2300-2400 on  9570 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to EaAs Learning English
2300-2400 on 11840 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Learning English
2300-2400 on 12150 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs English
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Spurious signals of Brother Stair

Spurious signals of Brother Stair The Overcomer Ministries/TOM/
on 9678.4 and 9631.6 or +/- 23.4 kHz from fundamental frequency
1400-1600 on  9655 NAU 100 kW / 275 deg to WeEu English Mon-Thu
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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Radio Free Sarawak back on shortwave

TAIWAN(non)   Radio Free Sarawak is back on air from Monday, August 12:
1100-1230 on 15420 PAO 100 kW / 208 deg to SEAs in Iban Monday-Saturday
There's no regular program today. Continuous music at about 1120.
The regular program was back at 1150 with website and email announcements.

Radio Free Sarawak continues to broadcast on 15420 after 1230, probably until 1300

Today Radio Free Sarawak continues to broadcast until 1321UTC!

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs August 10-11, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 11 at 1358, BB very poor with tone test, 1358:26 starts IS, timesignal ends at 1400:02.5, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11915+, August 11 at 0059, fair signal with music, 2 or 3 time pips ending about 5 seconds late, and Brazoguese announcement, mentions Porto Alegre, so it`s certainly ZYE851, R. Gaúcha there. I haven`t heard this in a long time in the evenings, and suspect it has not always been active. Slightly on hi side of frequency. No sign of 11925v Bandeirantes now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CNR1 jamming on Sunday evening happens to consist of Western classical music, making it slightly more palatable, if we don`t think of what all it`s blocking. August 11 at 1329, Ravel`s ``Bolero`` is playing, which also makes this very easy to spot in bandscanning:

9810, poor at 1335 with flutter; none audible in the 8s or 7s
11785, very good at 1329, best here with least QRM from victim
11805, good at 1329
11990, fair at 1329
13795, fair at 1331, here only mixed with Firedrake in drumming: bad
13830, fair at 1331
15115, very good at 1331, but heavy CCCCI
15195, good at 1331 with less CCI; none higher up to 19 MHz

Bolero runs to climax at 1344, then heavy applause, so live performance by Chinese orchestra? If so, they are doing a fine job. I could also hear some audience noise during quiet passages. Announcement and 1345 starts ``William Tell Overture`` by Rossini, which finally reaches the ``Lone Ranger`` part at 1352, but announcers talk over it, and cut it off completely at 1355 before it`s finished! Thumbs down now to ChiCom treatment of serious music!

With CNR1 back to hypetalk, find another couple at 1357:
15560 & 15540, poor with hets from V of Tibet; these were not audible when I was searching at 1331+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11840, August 11 at 0102, RHC has bigsig but suppressed and somewhat distorted modulation, still R5 if you put up with it, but why bother? // 11760 is much better, with 11680 in between qualitywise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, August 11 at 0605, Byzantine chant from the unauthorised ERT, at the moment high-pitched YL voice or maybe VYM, later more conventional intoning, so back to this after missing last Sunday morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 12080, August 11 at 0104, poor signal with nice harmonies, whistling, ME music of course in minor key. It`s VIRI`s 13-hour Arabic broadcast starting at 1630, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan, much of it colliding with China and/or Australia, but nothing from 10 kW Brandon audible now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 9435, August 11 at 1326, VOK English with self-imposed choral crossmusic, i.e. the simultaneous Chinese program // 11735, and also mixed with noise jamming bleed, same situation as // but better 11710. Later in hour, both services are in similar but clashing choral music. Seems to me that 9435 had been absent lately, tho can`t say I`ve missed it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, August 11 at 1323, JBA AM carrier amid hamband, presumed another trace of R. Hargeisa when we can imagine it`s in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9930, August 10 various chex from 1400 past 2200, it`s always Brother Scare now on WTWW-2; recheck 2302 dead air, 2308.4 resumes with music past 2335, and no WORLD OF RADIO at 2330, nor after 0000 QSY to 5085, still BS past 0055 and later, but off the air at 0601 check.

George McClintock tells me that WTWW-2 will soon be 24/7 Overcomer, once a satellite receiver is installed to replace the internet feed. So, goodbye to all the other programming which has been on this transmitter, unless something can be carved out from the BS. Then perhaps he will start working on getting a #4 transmitter up and running.

Unless he drops the other station(s), this means that BS will be on *three* Tennessee 3/5/9 MHz SW stations with overlapping coverage for much of the day, 24/7 on WWRB 9370/3185, 24/7 on WTWW 9930/5085, and long hours but not 24/7 on WWCR 9980/5890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 15160, August 11 at 0106, I find REE is playing clips of Radio España Independiente, the Communist clandestine of yesteryear, but this is not the DX program; what seemed CCI at first turned out to be embedded music, better on // 9535 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, August 11 at 0109 I tune in WWRB to find Dave Frantz ad-libbing a request for business, by calling 931-728-6087; he puts down Big $$ Religion as opposed to individual ministers; ``hope I haven`t offended anybody --- have I become your enemy because I told you the truth?`` --- a fine motto. 0110 into big band music, i.e. his favorite filler for unsold time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: confirmed good on 5830, WTWW-1, UT Sunday Aug 11 at 0400.5. We can no longer expect any broadcasts on 9930/5085 WTWW-2; see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11159-USB, the mystery-site VOLMET continues to be heard just about any time of day I try it: 0103 August 11 fair vs local noise level; 0609 August 11, copy some more locations mentioned: Tampa(?), Trondheim, Keflavik, Hannover, Adana-Incirlik, Budapest, Bucharest, Porto, Tenerife-South, Dakar, Ascension Island, Recife, Mombasa, Nairobi, Brize-Norton [UK base]. The Porto to Dakar ones were repeated only a few minutes later, but maybe their timestamps were updated.

``ID`` every few minutes such as at 0616 sounds like ``Military One Time Lot 3 information broadcast``. Also audible at 1412 with Budapest, etc. After some of the QNH numbers at the end of each item, sometimes ``she`` says a couple more words, sometimes not, can`t make them out.

I wasted considerable time hunting thru the RAF and MOD websites for *any* info about VOLMET with nothing to show for it; classified, I supposed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Meanwhile, my original news of this has prompted more monitoring from others, first from the DXLD yg:

The ID, such as it is, at 0346 UT Aug 11 was "This is military one time lot 3 information broadcast". Lot could possibly be block but I'm leaning to lot; later I heard the 3 replaced by a 4, and later a 5.
Also strong up here near Edmonton, Alberta. Signal best on several omni loops and dipoles, not resonant anywhere near 11 megs as opposed to either of the log periodics that do cover this range - one of the logs is SW to eastern USA, and the other is NE to Europe. I turned one of the logs and found the signal peaking into the SW, (and now 10-20 db stronger than before) which from here is Pacific Northwest or British Columbia. Since one of the place names mentioned was Aldergrove, I am thinking perhaps the transmissions might be from there or the nearby Chilliwac transmitter site. Both are in the Vancouver general area. None of the remote Perseus receiver sites in that area are up tonite so no further data there. Perhaps someone more local there can check. 73 (Don VE6JY Moman, AB, August 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Frequency 11159 was audible here this morning (Aug. 11) at tune in 0630 UT, but a poor signal with nothing registering on the S-meter. I didn't - but I should - check if it is in sync with 11253 and 5450. 11253 was stronger than 5450 today, which is unusual. At re-check 0800, 11159 was not audible, and still isn't at 1030 UT.

In my copy of Airwaves - from 2008 - 11159 lists US HF Global Comms SYS at Andrews, Ascension Island, and Offutt/Nebraska and US Military HF Discrete - USAF/Mystic Star so there has obviously been a change for a British transmission to appear on this frequency.

Wellington-UK is in Shropshire (NW of Birmingham), but there are several Wellingtons shown in my atlas, including six in the US of A, but maybe a likely candidate is the best known one in NZL.

My best guess so far is that 11159 could be from Ascension as it fits in with current propagation, but more monitoring is required (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

I also sent previous logs to Bill Hepburn, proprietor of dxinfocentre, and he replies:

``Hi Glenn, Thanks for letting me about the new RAF broadcast on 11159 kHz. I slowed down the audio to 85% and it sounds like a male voice that is much more understandable then the speeded-up voice heard live over the air. The ID sounds like "Military (one-time?) Lot 1 Information Broadcast" with Lot 1 advancing to Lot 2 thru Lot 5 for each half-hourly broadcast segment. I cannot make out what the words that sound like "one-time" actually are. I also noticed that RAF Volmet has changed its ID to the same one, although the automated voice is different.

After listening for a while, it's clear that the same airports are broadcast on both stations and during the same 6 minute broadcast segments. I've updated my 'volmet-wx' website to list what I've been able to determine. There have been DXer reports that suggest that this station is located in the Western USA. RAF does have operations at Creech AFB in Indian Springs, NV - I wonder if the new broadcast originates from there? Or if not, at another Western U.S. USAF HF facility. According to the RAF website, they operate unmanned long endurance reconnaissance aircraft from Creech.

This is going to be a tough station to pin down since as you point out, even the location of the regular RAF volmet has been hard to verify. Regards, (Bill Hepburn, Aug 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

My post to the UDXF yg led to many more replies among its 2721 members: I have tried to put into order:

Volmet on 11159 at 0800 Z heard 9 plus from RAF Ascension Island.
Included weather and seas for Africa, and Indian Ocean (Feraltex, Aug 10, UDXF yg via DXLD)

The 11159 kHz Aviation WX has been heard here (Mojave Desert, California, USA) essentially 24 hours a day for the last couple days, although it has been weak at times. Sampling remotes around the World (Europe, Asia, South America, North America) the signal is by far strongest in Colorado much of the time. However, remotes in SA are few and far between, so the sample set from there is less than optimal. Beam bearing from my location is roughly 060 to 085; however, the peak
is ill defined and I would be careful putting to much faith in that bearing. I personally take that bearing as a "maybe".

The audio on 11159 kHz slightly leads the audio on 11253 kHz, but the
information is the same. Also the voice and information are the same as what is heard on 5450 kHz in Europe. All 3 of these frequencies seem to be simulcast with very slight time deltas.

I am thinking possibly 11159 kHz is sourced either in the USA or near it. I know the content argues against that, but unless conditions are being somewhat unusual, the signal level / frequency combination here locally hint at US / near US. Like I said, I have been able to detect it locally every time I have checked the frequency in the last 30 or so hours. Sometimes it has been fairly strong, other times it has been weak, but always audible.

Right now, at 1100 local time (1800 UT) the 11159 signal is 10 over S9, 11253 kHz not currently heard, naturally for this time of day neither is 5450 kHz. Looking at the 31 and 25 meter bands (the SWBC bands either side of 11159 kHz) I have very few signals that are not sourced in the US. (T! [original token], Mojave Desert, California, USA, August 10, UDXF yg via DXLD)

Mid-afternoon Saturday in Norway 11159 was weak, hardly readable, while the usual transmissions on 11253 were strong, good copy here.
Meaning widely different transmitter locations, or perhaps widely different quality of hardware used on the two frequencies? (Geir Stokkeland, Vestnes, Norway, August 10, ibid.)

1400 local here, same time zone as Token, I have 11159 weak with fading in and out. RAF VOLMET is on 11253 as heard on the U of Twente WebSDR. Obviously, I cannot make any accurate determinations of time latency due to the different means of reception, but it sure sounds like the same broadcast. I'll have to check at other times of day before I'm even close to making a serious guess as to location. Right now the information presented here, and the tendency for 11 MHz skip zones to lengthen out in our local afternoon, tend to suggest an origin in the western US (Hugh Stegman, 2124 UT August 10, ibid.)

Still audible in Northern California at 2309 Z, noise floor about 120 dbm (Vincent, August 10, ibid.)

11159 Volmet very very low but readable at times. QTH here is Tampa
Florida at 0115Z (Tony N2QHC Agnelli, UT Aug 11, ibid.)

At 0210 UT the VOLMET weather station on 11159 kHz is heard in Athens, Greece with low signal strength. 73 (Costas SV1XV Krallis, UT August 11, ibid.)

Very nice signal here in Ohio +9 (Bill [Matthews?], 0241 UT August 11, ibid.)

0400 UT, strong signal into western Canada. Lady with British accent
VOLMET for UK region; heard Shanghai now. I'll record until there is
an ID of some type (Ken Keeks?, Aug 11, ibid.)

Down from its peak at S9+ which happened around 0000. Now about S7 into Southern California, at 0400. WWV and WWVH are both strong on 10 MHz, the lady and the guy about equal loudness.

Say, any of you folks know what "she" is identifying as? I can't get
the middle part hard as I try. Closest I can get is, "This is military
on timed lot for information broadcast" (Hugh Stegman, 0407 UT Aug 11, ibid.)

The ID comes across so fast. I've attached a recording if anyone can pick it out. It's around the 16 second mark. Still around s7 to s8 here in Florida (Tony N2QHC Agnelli, 0427 UT Aug 11, ibid.)

At the speed she reads at, I can't see the VOLMET info being very useful. The speed Trenton Military reads at is much better especially for HF. Poor pilots have to be writing and listening furiously (Tony N2QHC, 0436 UT Aug 11, ibid.)

Yes, there's a WELLINGTON in the UK also NZ and USA. Volmets also come up on marine channel's at times (usually relayed). But this one is RAF, and here in the South Pacific it`s on 11159 (seemed to be a relay of MKL on 11253 at Ascension [sic]) and over a 24 hour period the QRM was too strong to relay decipher, in full. Never ever heard MKL on 11253 mention Wellington. Also on 11156 is a Russian Navy CW transmission at times, with splatter, up to 1.5 kHz each side (believed to be in the Vladivostok area (near Olga) (Feraltex, Aug 11, ibid.)

11159 khz USB. Volmet broadcast with many locations, begins at 0600 UT. Currently signal is S3. Possibly this broadcast is from Guam. Strongest signal is at 10 degrees from my location in Australia. Same signal as on 11253 kHz which is much weaker. S1 (Eddy Waters, South Australia, Receivers: Drake R8, Japan Radio NRD 525, Watkins-Johnson HF1000A, Ten Tec RX 340, SDR 14. Antenna. Log periodic 8 element covering 5-25 mhz inclusive. Rotator. Yaesu G-1000DXC. Decoder. Hoka Code 300 Ver 3.095. (Extended version), ibid.)

Nil here in the Netherlands, Eddy (Ary Boender, 0726 UT Aug 11, ibid.) Now (0727) I hear a very faint voice. Unreadable (Ary, ibid.)

Re VE6JY: ``The ID, such as it is, at 0346 UT Aug 11 was "This is military one time lot 3 information broadcast". Lot could possibly be block but I'm leaning to lot; later I heard the 3 replaced by a 4, and later a 5.``

S L O T. Time slot. Ascension relaying the Swanwick broadcast. 73 de (Jim (MPJ), ibid.)

Hi Jim, I doubt 11159 is being sent via Ascension - see the following screendumps made over several hours, comparing 11159, USAF Ascension with soundings on 11226 and the RAF VOLMET broadcast via the UK transmitter on 11253:http://signals.taunus.de/PUB/11159.jpg

I think West Coast of North America is a pretty good bet for 11159. 11159 was audible this morning with similar signal strength as the RATT signal from NPG on 10430. Fade out matched the typical behaviour of West Coast stations. The TX sites at Matsqui (BC) or Dixon (CA) could be good candidates. BRGDS (//Leif Dehio, near Munich/Germany, Website: http://www.signals.taunus.de/ 1039 UT Aug 11, ibid.)

Leif, The signal seems to be inland from me, beam bearing maybe 065 to 080 (yeah I know, a single station beam cut on HF is only a "maybe" indicator). So I think maybe not west coast, but probably western half of the US. It seems to be pretty consistently strong in the Colorado remotes. Not saying it is in CO at all, just that wherever it is there is more steady propagation into the CO area. Here localy it seems I can hear it 24 hours a day (every time I have checked, no matter what time, it has been there), but sometimes it gets pretty weak, other times it is well over S9 for extended periods. (T! Mojave Desert, California, USA, Aug 11, ibid.)

Just spent a couple of hours this morning monitoring on various receive platforms the RAF Volmet on 11159 kHz. I`ve posted some observations on my blog. So I will throw my two cents into the where is this transmission coming from discussion.

Based on monitoring over the last couple of days I think a very likely candidate for these transmissions is one of the CanForce bases in Canada (maybe central or western Canada).

Also looks like there are 5 time slots being broadcast. I haven`t snagged all the stations being reported, but have quite a few nailed down. Now it`s time to go to work on time stamps for each of these time slot broadcasts. 73 all and good hunting. Chief Larry (Larry Van Horn, N5FPW, Brasstown, NC USA, ibid.)

I totally agree, Western Canada. I just used a Global Tuners online
receiver in Northern Alberta for a recording (Ken Keeks? ibid.) (all via Glenn Hauser, DXLD)

Chaos with the ERT shortwave broadcasts continues

GREECE    Chaos with the ERT shortwave broadcasts continues on August 12:
0400-0809 on  7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to NoAm Greek, instead of 11645 to Af
0400-0809 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 226 deg to CeAm Greek, instead of 15630 to Eu
0400-0809 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, as scheduled

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Sun, August 11

USA   WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Sun, August 11:
1153-2200 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 1200-1500
2200-2400 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm other program

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Radio Free Sarawak resumes August 12

RFS will restart Monday on 15420 at 1100-1230, this time via TAIWAN, but may change back to PALAU which was previously used. Website http://radiofreesarawak.org has not yet been updated since it stopped May 7, still showing old 15430 at 11-13 info. As already reported, the other Sarawak clandestine, Radio Free Kenyalang, ceased after July 31 (Glenn Hauser, August 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs August 10, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 10 at 1359, BB IS, poor signal, but timesignal is clear, 5 + 1, last pip higher, ending at 1400:01.5, then ``Salam Aleikum``, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming, August 10 before 1400:
17370, good at 1354
16160, good at 1354
16100, very good at 1354 with flutter
15900, fair at 1356; none in the 14s
13920, fair at 1358
13830, very poor at 1358; none in the 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN

** CROATIA. 21280-USB, August 10 at 1405, the OSOB is 9A3OS, making numerous short 5&9 contacts with North Americans, and he also has an American accent, goes by Sam, per QRZ.com despite really being:

9A3OS Croatia, SINISA PUZAK, B. WEISS 5, CAKOVEC 40000, Croatia
Constant fonetix are nine-alfa-three-ocean-sugar. Says band is unstable; at first JBA but improving slightly. Cakovec (properly with a hook over the first C) is in the extreme northern tip of Croatia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6060 & 6125, VG August 10 at 0719, RHC is still on the air and in Spanish, tho both are supposed to quit at 0700 after English. I am seldom awake this late, but check a few things while I can`t sleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, August 10 at 1352, CRI English with a report on pop music, outro as an Easy FM show about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (apparently a music group), part 1, with Johnny Hutong on CRI News Plus Radio. Wow, how hip the ChiCom are now! VG signal amounting to the SSOB, with not even RHC audible on 17580, and much stronger than CRI French with Chinese lesson on 17560. 17560 is Kashgar, 17630 Urumqi, both on 308 degree, 500 kW beams to Europe. Urumqi has a considerably more northerly path which somehow works better for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 5910, oh oh, August 10 at 0533, a broadcast in French is heavily QRMing HJDH with a low het, since Alcaraván Radio is always off-frequency. None such scheduled at this hour. Since there is lots of news datelined Washington, I wonder if it`s VOA, but nothing to compare on 9885 via Botswana, since VOA French is M-F only and this is Saturday, and as everyone knows, nothing ever happens on weekends and who has time to listen then anyway? I keep listening when at 0540 a music program is introduced mentioning ``japonais``, keeps talking until the music finally starts at 0543.

Meanwhile I have been quickly checking the proper frequencies for NHK French at 0530: 11730 via Issoudun, FRANCE, is synchronized! And 13840 via Madagascar is several seconds behind, and a very poor signal tonight (in previous seasons, 11730 had been direct from Japan.) Therefore I conclude that 5910 is a mistake by Issoudun [note spelling; people keep getting it wrong], since ISS does relay NHK earlier, 0200-0400 in Japanese, and 0400-0430 in Spanish, 290 degrees for Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, and surely ruining HJDH in NW South America too; so brought 5910 up by mistake again at 0530! However, it vanishes at 0544, uncovering Colombia`s typical nice music. If this weren`t a Saturday it would have been just in time not to collide with another station on 5910, TWR Polish via Austria, at 0544-0559 M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 4790-, August 10 at 0531, JBA carrier with traces of music, no doubt R. Visión, which is reported to be running sometimes all-night, irregularly. Long gone are the days when this was a bigsig from the Andes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, August 10 at 0059-0100:59*, Chaski carrier cuts off 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. Meanwhile there is a noisy extremely distorted spur covering roughly 5965-5985, perhaps the LRA 6060 transmitter totally out of whack which the Southern Coners have been complaining about for months.

Also could not detect any carrier on 5980.2, where the Uruguayan pirate Emisora Chaná in Tacuarembo has reactivated, first reported by Ernesto Paulero in Argentina, and confirmed by Horacio Nigro who contacted the operator, CX6OL, who said for the past biweek it`s been running 24 hours with 30 watts, nor am I likely to with that low power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, August 10 at 1344, JBA AM carrier with CW QRM from an N4; presumed trace of R. Hargeisa, long path, which is a long shot from here, still a bihour after sunrise, but should be improving into fall, including English around 1320-1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 13725, August 10 at 0725, good signal with lively music, then Hausa talk about Obama, 0729 VOA theme ending with Yankee Doodle riff; English outro as from Washington, DC; 0730 complete Yankee Doodle Dandy sign-off. It`s via São Tomé at 0700-0730; HFCC shows 100 kW at zero degrees daily. I`m still unclear whether in HFCC, 0 means due north or non-direxional; which is it? If 0 does mean ND, then how to indicate due north, 360? Or vice versa? Neither ND nor 360 is ever entered in the azimuth column (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: checking for the ``firm`` 0200 UT Saturday broadcast on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, August 10 music fill is playing at 0203, but finally WOR starts at 0207. Next:
Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (maybe), UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (surely), Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (maybe). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 9330-CUSB, August 10 at 0636, WBCQ is certainly on all-night now and propagating well; `Insight for Living` with Chuck Swindall decrying how ignorant Americans are geography, matching numerous cities with wrong countries. Then at 0640 I hear some scratchy SSB ACI on the hi side; it`s 2-way in unID language, maybe Slavic on 9333-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. 9955, August 10 at 0204, Ecos del Torbes special via WRMI is JBA but no jamming, enough to recognize what I heard clearly 24 hours earlier on webcast. One more repeat at 2230 Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-AM, August 10 at 0547 music and announcement from some pirate, but just too weak. Logs on hfunderground.com indicate it was Radio True North from the ``west side``, on air long hours before and after then. BTW, I have to look out for fifth harmonic of local KCRC 1390 on 6950, which at this time was cutting on and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11159-USB, Aug 10 at 0057 I turn the DX-398 back on which is still tuned here, and the VOLMET station is still there, inbooming more than it had been at 1330 August 9. Includes Baghdad International, Trabzon. Now I can also hear a much weaker VOLMET on 11253-USB, sounds like same stuff, but on one receiver I can`t check if parallel. So MKL, RAF in UK is still going on 11253, not moved to 11159. To be checked further!

11159-USB, August 10 at 0538, still good signal with VOLMET including Budapest, unseems // much weaker 11253. No way 11159 is coming from Europe compared to lack of other signals from there. Still needs max ATT to avoid pumping. At 0555 I can pull enough signal on 11253-USB to compare them better: 11159 is about one word behind 11253, satellite feed? 0556 another airport mentioned is Tbilisi; some of them have ``no information available``. Still trying to copy the too-fast and garbled ID by the roboYL; sounds something like ``This is military one-five lot-time (? Or one time lot five), information broadcast``.

I keep listening to copy further locations: Kandahar NIA; Baghdad International; Schipol; Trabzon; Askhabad NIA; Tbilisi; Wellington; Birmingham; East Midlands; Manchester; Cardiff; Prestwick; Bahrain International; Sigonella; Akrotiri; Cairo International. There are still a number of other locations I have not recognized. Once I thought I heard Halifax, which would be the only N American site and perhaps a clue as to location. One might also suspect they have reactivated Ascension, requiring this new frequency; except there are NO African spots covered except Cairo. It really concentrates on UK to Middle East routes with NZ tacked on

Noel Green in NW England says Aug 10: ``There is no signal here at 0900 UT on 11159, but the usual 11253 is on air // 5450. At my location 5450 is the strongest signal. And yes, there is a Wellington in the UK.

I've been monitoring this station on and off to try to obtain an ID, but all I can understand is what Glenn does. I think Glenn has done well to understand where some of the broadcasts are about, as it's all being "read" at HIGH speed and some of it is badly garbled - I think I've just heard Brize Norton, but I don't hear 21H018 - could that be QNH and a number? Will keep an ear to 11159``

So there is a Wellington in the UK, but is there a significant airfield there? One temp I heard for that was a wintry 15. Meanwhile I have realized that the final item in each conditions-listing says ``QNH`` followed by a number just above 1000, or in one case, 999, so obviously it`s barometric pressure in millibars, not ``21H---`` as I copied previously. From http://www.answers.com/topic/volmet-volmet ---

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Aviation: volmet/VOLMET

``The continuous recorded broadcast of weather conditions at selected airfields. Volmet is updated every 30 min and, hence, the received broadcast may be slightly old. Elements of each broadcast are in the following order: surface wind, visibility, RVR (runway visual range) if applicable, weather, clouds, temperature, dew point, and QNH (atmospheric pressure reduced to sea-level pressure. The height of a place above mean sea level will be indicated when the QNH is set on the altimeter sub-scale).

Nonessential words, such as surface wind and visibility, are not spoken. When CAVOK (cloud and visibility OK), the visibility must be more than 6 miles (10 km) and the clouds not lower than 5000 ft (1500 m), or below the minimum sector latitude, whichever is greater. Also, there should be no cumulonimbus clouds. Further, there should be no precipitation, thunder, shallow fog, or low-drifting snow. The surface winds, temperature, dew point, and QNH will continue to be broadcast``

11159 still audible when I finally quit at 0715, but reawake at 1335 August 10 for next check, 11159-USB still good, no 11253 audible here.

Meanwhile another report of 11159-USB VOLMET in the UDXF yg August 10: ``English lady giving weather for Shanghai, Ascension Island, Dakar, Mombasa, Nairobi, etc. on 11159 khz USB. Clear signal (S4). 0647 UT. Eddy Waters, South Australia``. I`ve yet to hear any of those places mentioned, maybe not listening at the right hourpart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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Again chaos with programs of ERT on shortwave

GREECE    Again chaos with programs of ERT on shortwave on Sun, August 11:
0400-0727 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, ex till 0807 or 1200
0400-0727 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek, ex till 0807 or 1157
0400-0727 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, ex till 0807 or 1200

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2013/08/again-chaos-with-programs-of-ert-on.html

Two strong unmodulated carrier on August 11

UNIDENTIFIED   Strong unmodulated carriers was observed on August 11:
1000-1100 on  7330, from 1101 weak carrier
from 1000 on  9420, from 1015 ERT in Greek
from 1020 on 15630, from 1048 ERT in Greek
from 1100 on  9935, from 1102 ERT in Greek

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.it/2013/08/two-strong-unmodulated-carrier-on.html

Tips "Girolla"

Augurandovi buone vacanze....

 

UTE
25000,MIKES F Espoo,1900 7-5Aug,time signal "bip bip..",33333
16971,JJC KYODO NEWS AGENCY J,1625 7Aug,fax news 60/576,333
12412,5.NOJ ALS Kodiak,1630 7Aug,wefax chart,123
10555,VMW AUS Wiluna,1635 7Aug,wefax chart,333
11030,VMC AUS Charleville,1635 7Aug,wefax chart,111
13988,5,JMH4 J Tokyo,1640 7Aug,wefax chart,333
18560,BMF CHN Taipei,1645 7Aug,wefax chart,333
16976,PWZ33 B Marine Rio de Janeiro,18557Aug, Pactor "ryryryr sgsgs PWZ33"+ weather,233
10000,WWH HWA Kekaha,0519 10Aug, time signal female announced "bip bip ..",222
10000,WWV USA Ft.Collins ,0519 10Aug, time signal male announced "bip bip ..",333
15000,WWH HWA Kekaha,0522 10Aug, time signal female announced "bip bip ..",333
15000,WWV USA Ft.Collins ,0522 10Aug, time signal male announced "bip bip ..",333
17912,ARINC RUS Krasnoyarsk,1510 10Aug,HFDL MODE,444
17430,9VF252 Kyodo SNG Singapur,1520 10Aug, press fax 60/576 ,333
17069.6,Kyodo J Tokio,1520 10Aug, press fax 60/576 ,333
16986,CTP Marine  POR Oeiras/Palhaism,1536 10Aug,"naws naws de CTP qrx..),444
12610,RIW/RCV Marine RUS,1735 10Aug, encrypted message 36-50,444
12783.5,9MB5 Marine MLA Lumut,1745 10Aug, news RTTY 50/850,333
16135,KVM70 HWA Honolulu,1810 10Aug, wefax chart 120/576,233
9165,HLL2 KOR Seoul,1820 10Aug, wefax chart 120/576,233
13988.5,JMH4 J Kagoshima Meteo, 1833 10Aug, wefax chart 120/576,444
12789.9,NMG USA New Orleans,0645 11Aug,wefax chart 120/576 // 8503.9 ,233
4363, DP07 via Monaco radio , 0946 11Aug, wetter in D - qsl info www.dp07.com  info@dp07.com  -DP07 Seefunk Estedeich 84  21129 Hamburg GERMANY , 444

 

BC
7120,R Hargeisa SOM Hargeisa,1800 5Aug, px mx loc noise HAm,33333
4835,VL8A AUS Alice Springs,1810 5Aug, px mx relay ABC,33333
5765,AFN GUM Barrigada,1820 5Aug,USB px loc relay,33333
9525.88, Voice of Indonesia IND Cimanggis,1830 5Aug, px in D,44444
6055,R Rwanda RRW Kigali,1830 5Aug,px in vernacular,44444
2485, VL8K AUS  Katherine,1900 7-5Aug, px mx relay ABC,23333
2325, VL8T AUS Tennant Creek,1900 5Aug, px mx relay ABC,23333
15345,RAE ARG Buenos Aires,1910 5Aug, px in I mx local,33333
1323,Short Wave Gold Pirate ,1600 7Aug,px mx ID"Short Wave Gold",33333
11600, R Libya LBY Sabrata, 1610 7Aug, music + ID "RADIO LIBYA",45444
17745,Sudan Radio service Darfur G Woofferton, 1625 7Aug, px in Arabic,44444
11735, Zanzibar BC TZA Dole,1954 7Aug, px mx ,44444
5909.95, Alcaraván R CLM Lomalinda,0420 8Aug, Spanish ann +ID music,33333
4054.98, R Verdad GTM Chiquimula,0430 8Aug, religious music best on LSB,12221.
6885,Galei Tzahal ISR Tel Aviv,0445 8Aug,px local talk mx ,33333
5025,R Rebelde CUB Bauta,0450 10Aug, ID"Radio Rebelde" px ,44444
5040,R Habana Cuba CUB Bauta,0500 10Aug, px mx in E +ID,44444
4885,R Clube do Parà B Belem, 0515 10Aug, px local in P,23333
11815,R Brasil Central  B Goiânia,0528 10Aug, px local mx + ID +time
11650,R Dabanga via Vatican R,0535 10Aug, slogan "R Dabanga....",44444
17860,VOA USA ,1600 10Aug, test trasmission digital mode text+ image"MFSK",44444
9790,AWR F Issoundun,0900 11Aug,px "Studio DX" +"Voce della Speranza"in Italiano,44444

 

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Brother Stair TOM via WTWW-2 on August 10

USA   WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Sat, August 10:
1153-2400 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 1200-1500

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2013/08/brother-stair-tom-via-wtww-2-on-august.html

WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Sat, August 10

USA   Observation of WTWW-2, Brother Stair TOM in English on Sat, August 10
1153-1500 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm
from 1500 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM
from 1600 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM
from 1700 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM
from 1800 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM
from 1900 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM
from 2000 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm continues Brother Stair TOM

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

ERT on 9420,9935,15630,15650 August 10

GREECE    Zero signal from ERT on Saturday, August 10:
1200-1400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 0807
1200-1400 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, scheduled till 1657
1200-1357 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
from 1400 on 15650 AVL 100 kW / 105 deg to SoAs Greek, scheduled till 1857
The broadcasts on 9420,9935,15650 were back on the air around 1520 Aug.10

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Again strong unmodulated carrier on 9677.6

AZERBAIJAN    Again strong unmodulated carrier was observed on August 10
1315-1602 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs. QRM from 9675 and 9680
At present no SW broadcasts from Voice of Justice & Voice of Talyshistan
Voice of Justice
0600-0630 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat
1400-1430 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri
Voice of Talyshistan
0900-1000 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat
1200-1300 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat
1500-1600 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh Tue-Sat

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2013/08/again-strong-unmodulated-carrier-on.html

Glenn Hauser logs August 9, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 9 I am standing by for Bangladesh Betar to come on and it does at *1355; by 1358 I can make out the IS, but JBA. It last a few seconds past 1400, and I cannot make out any timesignal before Urdu opening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [and non] bandscan August 9 at 1342-1346 finds nothing at all 12-18 MHz out-of-band, just usual 15115 CNR1 jam mix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 17730, August 9 at 1342, no signal from RHC, nor has there been for several days now, despite 17580 being audible. Suspect at least one of the transmitters has been down. Both supposedly on the air from 11 to 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9564.38, August 9 at 1420 I heard a het here, so pull out the keyboard to find a matching note: right on E-flat, 622 Hz. Then stepped to 9564.0 with BFO I get an approximate G-note above middle-C, 392 Hz, which should really have been 378 Hz, close enough. Anyhow, a het around here is surely from Ethiopia, perpetually off-frequency; and per Aoki, the 9565 station it beats against would be Iran in Dari from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9525.9+, August 9 at 1422, since I have the keyboard out measuring the het around 9564/9565, I also check the one always-off-frequency VOI produces with CRI Russian during this hour: the note is somewhere between B and Bb, i.e. 932-988 Hz, implying it`s a little higher than where others usually measure it directly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Sorry, I keep messing up some dates! This report had them one day ahead of what they should have read, corrected now:

Following the post-sunrise 5085 broadcast of Brother Scare, August 8, nothing more heard from WTWW-2 into early UT August 9 on 9930 or 5085. George McClintock tells me that WTWW is far enough up a hill from the Upper Cumberland River for flooding not to be a threat; a different H2O problem has reduced the schedule, a leaky pump for the water-cooled transmitter.

9930, August 9 at 1322, WTWW-2 is back on with Brother Scare and on correct day frequency, but off again at 1418 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. Typo in the frequency: it was of course 9955, not 9995, where I did not even try to hear it:

9955 [non], August 9 from 0201:30, I listen to WRMI webcast for the Ecos del Torbes special. All about the history of the station which was formerly on SW 4980 and 9640, still on MW 780. (IIRC it was about one of the last Venezuelans left on 60m; must have been gone at least ten years, not even in the archive of LA SW Logs.) Almost continuous talk in Spanish, but announcements in English and French at the beginning. Also almost continuous music background, occasionally foreground, but no full songs until the last 8 minutes or so. Never heard a word about politix, let alone Chávez & Maduro. Seemed like it was still going when cut to WRMI ID and into Radio Eslovaquia Internacional relay at 0230. This repeats 24 hours later, and Saturday at 2230 on WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11159.0-USB, August 9 at 1328, surprised to find strong VOLMET broadcast in Britishish YL robo-English. It`s so strong that max attenuation is needed on the FRG-7 to avoid pumping. Catching my attention first is a location: Kandahar, but further places are hard to understand, finally including Wellington, East Midlands, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Prestwick. (Is there a Wellington in the UK? Surely.) Every few minutes, ID I can`t copy accurately either, but including ``Military --- information broadcast``. Toward the end of each item she/it says ``21H018`` and other numbers up and down from 18. Most of the weather conditions are from 1250z. Still on and in at 1415 but weaker.

This is not even inside the ``VOLMET band`` according to

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm#11.3

of 11247 to 11393. I suppose the frequency could be a mistake; check for it further. From the content, one would expect it to be the RAF station MKL at Saint Eval UK, listed on 11253 and heard several times there, but not now. Is this transmitter really in UK? Nothing making it from European broadcasters on 25m at this time. There were previous questions about the true site of 11253 as it was once listed as Ascension.

Here`s a 2.5 minute clip at 1335 with ID at 2:17 into it:
http://www.w4uvh.net/raf11159.rm
Please help with what the ID says, true source and location of this!

Bill Hepburn also has a useful page listing the content (locations covered) of different VOLMET broadcasts:
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet-wx.htm
RAF on 11253 does include Kandahar at H+24 and H+54, but not mixed in with UK locations including the ones I heard scheduled at different hourparts (and no Wellington anywhen). Kandahar appears nowhere else on this page from anyone.

Searching the UDXF yg on the frequency finds nothing about this, but there was one log this year in January of an air-to-ground contact with Elmendorf (Alaska); and in 2010-2011y of ``11159 NSY: NATO Sigonella/Niscimi`` Sicily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Current schedule of Cuban Spy HM01

CUBA    Current schedule of Cuban Spy HM01 Hybrid Mode 1, Female voice:
0500-0555 on  5855 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0500-0555 on 14375 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0600-0655 on 10345 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0600-0655 on 14375 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0700-0755 on  9330 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0700-0755 on 13435 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0800-0855 on  9065 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0800-0855 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

0900-0955 on  9240 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
0900-0955 on 12120 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

1000-1055 on  5855 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
1000-1055 on  9155 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
1000-1055 on 12180 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

1600-1655 on 11435 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily
1700-1755 on 11530 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily
1800-1855 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Daily

2100-2155 on 11635 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2100-2155 on 16180 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

2200-2255 on 10715 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2200-2255 on 17480 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

2300-2355 on 11530 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
2300-2355 on 17540 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Observation WTWW-2 on 9930 on Friday, August 9

USA   Observation of WTWW-2 on Friday, August 9:
1203-1417 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm Brother Stair
and then transmitter is off. No signal at 1500, 1600 and 1700

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2013/08/observation-wtww-2-on-9930-on-friday.html

Another wrong frequency of ERT

GREECE    Another wrong frequency of ERT on Saturday, August 10:
from 0400 on  7450 AVL 100 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek, instead of 11645 //
from 0400 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
from 0400 on 15630 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek
The broadcasts on 7450, 9420, 15630 were cut off at around 0730 on Aug.10!

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2013/08/another-wrong-frequency-of-ert.html

URUGUAY 5980v Em. Chaná, Tacuarembó reactivated (vy low power, though)

I have recently informed in my last report on SW activity in Uruguay, that Emisora Chaná, was inactive, since some press info had informed in Nov 12, 2012 that the government had closed several FM community low power in Department of Tacuarembó, being FM Chaná among them.

This is to be corrected...

DXer Ernesto Paulero, in Buenos Aires has just has hrd them (Aug 9, 2013) according to reports in Condiglist YG, so I immediately called by telephone to the station owner, Mr. Omar Lima, CX6OL, who confirms that the station has been again on the air since 15 days ago, and is now running 24h, with 30 W, (nominal 50W), AM, with no xtal (thus the variability/instability of fq reported last year). Antenna is very low (4 meters above ground, but he plans to raise it to 15 m height.

He also tells this has been corrected in some way, and there's no so strong deviation in fq. This is confirmed today by further monitoring.

Asked about its permission and closure for the FM, he stated that he was never notified or visited by telcom authorities and he has been always normally operating on FM. (This is rather weird... or the telcom didn't work effectively or the press info was not 100% correct).The SW had been off air for about six months, but is now reactivated.

They currently operate 24H.

5980.2v       0.05nominal          Em. Chaná, Tacuarembó: 24h


Email is: <emisorachanatacuarembo@hotmail.com>. No printed or electronic QSL right now, but he has already answered via email to the reports made by Mr. Paulero and myself.

Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay

(via dxld yg)

Ascolti bollenti a Sedico (BL)

Qui a Sedico nella verde vallata Feltrina Bellunese si patisce un caldo Amazzonico !
Qui, ogni tanto, un buon DX in onda media si riesce ugualmente ad appuntare nel log, ecco:

920 01/08/2013 0315- PRG ZP1 R Nacional de Paraguay, Asuncion; interviste e auguri in diretta (TNX Walter Comuzzi) 22322
1040 30/07/2013 0323- B ZYK537 Radio Capital, Sao Paulo; commenti e ID ... Capital AM 22322
1190 05/08/2013 0333- EQA HCDE2 Estudio Universidad Catolica, Guayaquil; mx, annunci e ID "... de la Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil" 33433
1200 05/08/2013 0324- B ZYH585 Ceara Radio Clube, Fortaleza; mx e ID   Ceara Radio Clube Radio 34443
1220 01/08/2013 0225- B ZYJ458 R Globo, Rio de Janeiro; sport in diretta, vari ID 44444
1270 01/08/2013 0230- ARG LS11 R Provincia de Buenos Aires, La Plata;
commenti e notizie e ID 22322
1390.06 01/08/2013 0330- PRU OCU1G Radio Fe, Chiclayo; lungo sermone in S (tnx H. Klemetz su RealDX) 34433
1399.94 05/08/2013 0348- EQA HCFL2 Radio Z-Uno, Guayaquil; px mx locale, inno ecuadoregno e ID Zeta Uno (TNX A.Groppazzi) 22422
1470 01/08/2013 0325- PRU OAU4B R Capital Lima; mx, commenti e Id Radio Capital 34433
1540.5 01/08/2013 0330- PRU OCU2X R Turbo Mix, Cajamarca; mx peruviana e Id Turbo Mix AM 33333
1570 31/07/2013 0327- PRU OCU4J R Bethel, Lima; px religioso, annunci vari 43333
1580 31/07/2013 0327- CLM HJQZ R Maria, Barranquilla; px religioso, ID Radio Maria (TNX W. Comuzzi) 32322
1620 02/08/2013 0330- ARG AM1620, Mar del Plata; mx e ID "... AM, Mar del  Plata" 23322
1670 01/08/2013 0330- ARG R Rubá, Rafael Castillo; mx, nx e ID Radio Rubá 24432

Saverio De Cian
Sedico (Belluno)
RX: JRC 535, PERSEUS SDR
ANT: Single Delta Flag + FLG100LN

Glenn Hauser logs August 8-9, 2013

** IRAN [and non]. 17650, August 8 at 1914, poor signal in French, yet it is the SSOB, better than a very poor signal on 17795, presumably BBC Woofferton. I am rather surprised that per HFCC, 17650 turns out to be IRIB, 1830-1930, 500 kW, 259 degrees from Kamalabad to Africa. The 16m band is almost vacant in our afternoons, tho surely many closer countries would be propagating if they cared to employ it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1020, August 8 at 2025 UT on caradio, the only anomaly is that KOKP Perry is off the air again (totally, not just open carrier); while sibling stations 1580 and 105.1 are // and nominal. Why does this keep happening? Touchy transmitter and someone has to get around to going out to the unmanned site and reset it? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OMAN. 15140, August 8 at 2214, Arabic music is here instead of 15355, so this time RSO has failed to QSY at 2200 as per own schedule. Next check, August 9 at 0005, 15355 is still on, that having failed to QSY to 9760 at 0000 per own schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 9 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier is barely audible, but definitely cuts off at 0100:53.5* which is 4.5 seconds later than yesterday, so there does seem to be some slight variation. I am back on the porch with the usual DX-398 and short wire, fortified by Deet on my hands and exposed neck area which would also be helpful as I moved on to half a sesquihour (one tank) of lawnmowing after this DX session (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 9685, August 9 at 0004, REE is gone again from the unscheduled, frequency it was on 23 hours earlier, but it *is* on 15160, in Spanish. Ivo Ivanov points out that 15160 was scheduled 23-02 and 9685 is a ``new`` frequency replacing it. I did check 15160 as well yesterday around 0100 and heard only Chinese weakly, as CRI is also scheduled there in a three-way collision with R. Australia. Today another check at 0058 finds 9685 still vacant of Spain as well as Serbia, and 15160 Spain // 9535, but no RA or CRI audible. So my theory holds, that Spain was on 9685 by mistake, bringing it up again after the intentional French broadcast on it at 20-21 weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday August 9 at 2100.5, very good.

Tuned in WWRB webcast just in time at 0327 UT Friday August 10 to hear Dave cut off the preacher at 0328 to announce that their ``computer looks like it`s fixed after a bad lightning strike which did a lot of damage here at WWRB, stand by for World of Radio``, and WOR 1681 followed at 0329. Also confirmed on 5050 at 0353 check, fair with some splash from Cuba 5040.

Next: UT Saturday August 10 at 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v (maybe) on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Following the post-sunrise 5085 broadcast of Brother Scare, August 9, nothing more heard from WTWW-2 into early UT August 10 on 9930 or 5085. George McClintock tells me that WTWW is far enough up a hill from the Upper Cumberland River for flooding not to be a threat; a different H2O problem has reduced the schedule, a leaky pump for the water-cooled transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. 9995 [non], August 9 from 0201:30, I listen to WRMI webcast for the Ecos del Torbes special. All about the history of the station which was formerly on SW 4980 and 9640, still on MW 780. (IIRC it was about one of the last Venezuelans left on 60m; must have been gone at least ten years, not even in the archive of LA SW Logs.) Almost continuous talk in Spanish, but announcements in English and French at the beginning. Also almost continuous music background, occasionally foreground, but no full songs until the last 8 minutes or so. Never heard a word about politix, let alone Chávez & Maduro. Seemed like it was still going when cut to WRMI ID and into Radio Eslovaquia Internacional relay at 0230. This repeats 24 hours later, and Saturday at 2230 on WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Strong empty carrier on 9677.6

AZERBAIJAN    Strong unmodulated carrier was observed on August 9
0500-0815 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs. No QRM from 9675 and 9680

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

WTWW-2 transmissions on August 7

USA   WTWW-2 transmissions on August 7:
1200-1500 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English Brother Stair/TOM
from 1500 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm no signal, scheduled till 2400

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

New time for the evening program of BBC in Uzbek

U.K.(non)   New time for the evening program of BBC in Uzbek from August 5:
1700-1730 NF 12040 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs, ex 1600-1630 on 13695
1700-1730 NF 15175 WOF 300 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 1600-1630 on same

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

WTWW-2 continues to use the wrong frequency

USA   On August 8 WTWW transmitter # 2 continues to use the wrong frequency from 1500 NF  5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, instead of registered 9930
Empty carrier until 1507 and then again Brother Stair/TOM instead of "Unshackled"

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Current status of SW in Uruguay

The current scene for Shortwave broadcasting in Uruguay is indeed painful, as it has been for most of its history.

Monitoring indicate that there are no active stations at the present time.

The unofficial 5900v Em. Chaná, from Tacuarembó dissapeared several months ago, after the closure of the FM Community station that was its main enterprise. As a matter of fact it was one of thirteen communitarian low power stations that were closed in that department in late 2012, by telcom authorities.

The SW outlets for Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay (the National Broadcaster which is next to abandon its historic denomination of SODRE) have been inactive for a long time. The last was CXA4 on 6125, but after they exhausted their stock of tubes, even the ones donated by its own officials, they have dropped broadcasts. The current transmitters, built by the technicians, use a set of 4 "813" tubes each. Technically any valve can be adjusted similar to the 813, 4/400, 4/1000, 3/500Z, etc... There are even fairly cheap Russian or Chinese in the market. The problem is that for a regime of continuous service that set of 4 tubes lasts only for about six months. A project for a solid state transmitter has ben considered, but it has no funding to build it.

Radio Sport 890 / Radio Sarandi in 6045, keeps the transmitter under the same parameters as used to (LSB, sometimes USB). The problem right now is in the antenna and they expect the tower man to come "Any time to undergo into repair," said the technical manager, per our request.

Both Universo 6055 (CWA148, Castillos) and LV de Artigas, CXA3 on 6075 (heard last summer), remain irregular and have not been monitored lately in the region.

6155 Banda Oriental, dormant for years, certainly does not operate this channel due to high power consumption bill that means to their owners along with its MW. It is certainly not easy the economic situation for these stations. Similarly occurs for for 6010/9650 Em. Ciudad de Montevideo.

Oriental on 11735 and 9595 Monte Carlo, directly said, should not hold any interest at the time, and since the end of their broadcasts many years ago, despite they are being listed in the WRTH for they still keep these transmitters within their sites, though muted.

In conclusion, the only one that could be reactivated soon appears to be 6045 Sport 890/Sarandí.


(Horacio Nigro via dxld yg)

Glenn Hauser logs August 8, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 2325 kHz, August 8 at 1203, music sounds same as on stronger 2485, jazz singer peaking S9+12, and also same as on strongest 4835, all three VL8 Northern Territory stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 8 at 1358-1400+, no signal at all from BB, compensating for above-average signal yesterday; wonder if on the air at all today; some other Asian signals were making it on 15, 17 and 21 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 8, before 1300:
13795, poor at 1236 mixing with Chinese, same as on 13830 by itself, i.e. CNR1 jamming as well; search for other CNR1 jammers finds only:

15195, fair at 1249 with more Chinese CCI
16100, very good at 1249; yet none in the 17s, 18s, 14s, 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. 11520, August 8 at 1404, Chinese signal I haven`t noticed before, not // 11615. HFCC and Aoki show that 11520 is the Thursday=day 5-only frequency this hour of Radio Free Asia in Cantonese via TINIAN; while 11615 is VOA in Standard Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Since they do not match, I guess I am really hearing them instead of ChiCom CNR1 jammers which Aoki *affirms attack both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6125, August 8 at 0522, RHC English here is just-barely-modulated (JBM), while 6060 is better, BM; and 6165, 6010 are OK.

13740, August 8 at 1402, RHC Spanish // and synchro better modulated 13780, instead of CRI English! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, August 8 at 1218, good signal from unmistakable Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania, with his daily(?) anti-Castros ranting, now about ``desayuno contra-revolucionario`` (which could be the name of his ``program``), reply from weaker contact WI4-algo; weak broadcast AM carrier not enough BFO: that would be Yunnan PBS rather than Daclac, Vietnam. Not a hint of DentroCuban jamming which instead piles upon R. Martí, 7405; perhaps even the Cubans fear a backlash if they dared to jam in the hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [and non]. 21670, August 8 at 1253, music and Indonesian(?) announcements mentioning Iran several times; almost as strong as 21540 Kuwait but not as loud; 13m conditions are improving; 1257 ``Suara`` ID as VIRI, talk continues until abrupt cutoff at 1259.6*. Figured that was uncoördinated end of a scheduled transmission, but per Aoki it`s really ``Malaysian`` supposed to last from 1230 until 1327, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan. HFCC labels this until 1330 as ``IND`` for Indonesian, so which is it? They are so similar but not to the Malays and Indonesians. WRTH calls it Indonesian, with nothing in Malay. IIRC, skeds from Tehran call it ``Melayu``. Also, in some apparent collusion, BSKSA uses same 21670 for its Indonesian at 0900-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MICRONESIA. 4755.5, August 8 at 1158, PMA The Cross carrier is audible with slightly lower noise level, maybe cleaned up by some rain overnight: so I can catch its autocutoff at 1158:28.5*. Then I quickly tune to SOLOMON ISLANDS q.v. to nab another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, August 8 at 1202, talk modulation audible from presumed NBC Madang, after others including 3385 and 3205 have gone off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, August 8 at 1159, SIBC carrier is audible so right after MICRONESIA q.v. cutting off, I tuned here to catch this cutoff at 1200:23.5*. Unfortunately this caused me to miss a third cutoff, from 3385 PNG, which was audible even better before 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WTWW

** U S A. 5205-USB, Thursday August 8 at 1354, TTX is leading a net, with other abbreviated calls heard or mentioned, always in fonetix: 6SC, 6UK, 6PG; at 1359 NCS gives his full call, AAM6TTX, so this is Army MARS.

Seems familiar: yes, I previously reported AAM6TTX et al., April 18, 2013 at 1343 on 6823-USB, traced no further than to Scott Hamende of Texas Army MARS; see DXLD 13-17. That was also a Thursday; it`s significant to note days of week for these nets which are not necessarily every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 5980, August 8 at 1212, surprised to find an American-accented station here where none existed before: talking about Olympix, terrorism, etc., apparent docu hostessed by YL, and then found same on 7575 Thailand, so it`s a brand new frequency from VOA, obviously some Asian or Pacific site, poor signal here, not yet in HFCC dated 6 August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday August 8 after 0330, but inaudible on 9955. Next: Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0325v on WWRB 5050; UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9930, August 8 at 1231 and later chex, WTWW-2 is off so no Brother Scare as recently started in the 12-14/15 period. No signal from Palau, T8WH either, which is active here only on weekends. Then at 1353 I encounter BS on 5085! So WTWW-2 is on night frequency instead of day, but this late it`s only fair vs absorption/noise level. A mistake or necessity? Ivo Ivanov also noticed this starting at 1200; must have been via remote receiver as certainly would not be propagating daypath to Bulgaria.

I see that the NWS has issued a flash-flood warning for Lebanon TN, until noon CDT August 8. Hope WTWW is not *too* ``near the banks of the Upper Cumberland River``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, August 8 at 0507, WBCQ is on with preacher, first time audible in a few days; presume transmitter was down for a while. Also at 1226 when there was an ID; by an hour later still audible but much weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15825 WWCR & 11715 KJES, August 8 at 1408 are both inbooming with obvious sporadic E enhancement to the east and west, a good sign for VHF DX --- but nothing from Mexico reaches channel 2 MUF by 1555 as I keep seeing nothing but snow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11690, August 8 at 0509-0510.4* big open carrier with lite fades, as strong as anything modulated on 25 m like Brasil 11780. The only near-miss on 11690 in HFCC is ``11690 0400 0500 52E MEY 250 340 0 416 1234567 010813 271013 D 11875 Fra AFS BAB BAB 19777`` i.e. effective 1 August, obviously another registration hoping Radio Okapi will resume, via SOUTH AFRICA, but has it? Must tune in next before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14541.5-USB, August 8 at 1239-1245+, two-way in colloquial Spanish hard for me to follow; stronger station has ``engine noise``; they mention kilos, hora de llegada, and barcos; no swearing heard, but unprofessional whistling into mikes. May have been more than two stations in contact, apparently narco-traffickers. Back on June 3 at 1250 I heard the same guys and assumed they were fishing poachers; pescaditos could also be measured in kilos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Only single frequency of ERT is on the air

GUAM    Frequency changes of Adventist World Radio - KSDA Agat, Guam:
1000-1100 on 15705 SDA 100 kW / 315 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon-Sat, additional
1000-1100 on 15705 SDA 100 kW / 315 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun, additional
1530-1600 NF 15710 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs Marathi, ex 11995*
2200-2400 NF 15260 SDA 100 kW / 330 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11830, re-12120
*on August 4 both frequencies are in parallel, but 15710 off air from 1550!

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

New frequency of Brother Stair in English via WTWW-2

USA   Surprisingly on August 8 transmission of Brother Stair via WTWW-2:
1200-1500 NF  5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English, instead of 9930
New schedule or is it a mistake? 5085 is used after 0000 until 0400 UTC!

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

New schedule of We Transmit World Wide WTWW-2 on 9930

USA   New schedule of We Transmit World Wide WTWW-2 on 9930:
1200-1500 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm Brother Stair/TOM/
1500-2000 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm transmitter is off
2000-2400 on  9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm confirmed on Aug.7

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73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs August 6-8, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 7 at 1358, BB best heard in some weeks; hope it`s a trend, S9+17 peaks with flutter during IS, timesignal ending 3.5 seconds past 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 15400, August 6 at 1621, one of few signals on 19m (except 15825 WWCR getting short-range sporadic-E boost) is here in Chinese, poor with fast SAH.

Nothing in latest HFCC, but Aoki shows since April 23, RFA in Chinese via SAIPAN has been on 15400 only on Tuesdays, which this is, and it`s likely the CNR1 jammer atop. Another of those services with futile jamming-evasion by changing frequencies depending on day of a week, in a published and predictable pattern; with neighboring *listings in Aoki: 15395 on Sundays, 15405 on Thursdays. 15410 on Saturdays, etc.

13675, August 6 at 1623 another weak Chinese signal, i.e. another CNR1 jammer, this time against daily 15-17 broadcast of RFA via TAJIKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, after missing a Chaski-check UT August 7 due to an event, and after avoiding the skeeters on the porch by monitoring from inside for a few days, on August 8 I try bundling up in the 85 degree heat like it`s winter, with a ski mask, and almost all other skin covered. Tune in at 0059, some music modulation is making it despite splash from CRI/Cuba 5990, and the 5980 carrier cuts off at 0100:49*.

The cutoff I reported 48 hours earlier at 0100:59.5 must have been a red herring, probably receiver overload from something else, as Martien Groot, Netherlands, timed it at a more expectable hour of 0100:38 August 6, which was 11.5 seconds later than August 4, and 11 seconds earlier than August 8, so we are back on track with the ~5.5 second shift per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 9685, August 8 at 0057, another perfunctory check for International Radio Serbia, whose North American service (once one of the best signals from Europe) has been missing for weeks now, and has yet to answer my inquiry: but something else is there!

Immediately IDs as Radio Exterior de España. Have they moved in deliberately, or is it a mistake? Time will tell. I check some of the other REE frequencies I can recall to see if they are missing: still on stronger 9535; much weaker but still audible, buried in its own DRM Noise from CR 9630, on 9620. CR analog relay audible on 5995. HFCC has 11680 for Spain at 23-02, and not audible there, but I`m not sure if they really had been during this hour. I know I had previously heard them (in B-12?) clashing with Cuba, scheduled 23-04 on 11680, but neither is on now. Is REE using 9685 at any other time? Yes! For the M-F 20-21 UT French broadcast. So that explains it: either forgot to change frequency since 21 or punched wrong pre-set button. Stayed on past 0101. Bet it`s gone again tomorrow.

I suspect some log editors throw out items like this if they`re probably a one-off and not repeatable; but to me mistakes are much more newsworthy than routine logs, and should be a matter of historical record --- at least they are, in DXLD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA. 7275, August 7 at 0526, familiar Western operatic piece but apparently in Arabic; fairly good signal as IWT is gradually improving now with increasing darkness on its end of the path. On 7275 for only one hour now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5110-CUSB, August 8 at 0104 I attempt to hear the new show on WBCQ, `Heart & Soul of America Broadcast`, but cannot. A reduced carrier is however detectable in the noise level. Meanwhile, 9330 WBCQ remains unheard at various times of day and night checked August 6-8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: completed in time for first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday August 8 at 0330. Thence:

Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479
UT Friday 0325v on WWRB 5050 (we hope, having missed two weeks due to computer problems there)
UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 1 kW in Germany, 7265-CUSB (please confirm it`s still on in August?)
Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955
UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830

As for WTWW-2, the Sat & Sun 2330v airings on 9930 were missed last week due to transmitter problems, but maybe will resume; it was on the air Wednesday at 2330. Even less certain are the variable times between 17 and 24 on 9930, or 00-01 on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)