Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CHINA   CPBS   15270  0335  Chinese  333  April 1  OM with comments.

CYPRUS   BBCWS Relay   12095  0352  English  333  April 1  Two OMs with comments on the recent terrorist attacks in Russia.

GUAM   Adventist World Radio-AWR   17645  0307  Russian  333  April 1  YL with comments plus some choir music. Then a YL and OM 0309 with comments.

KOREA, North   Voice of Korea-VOK   15180  0342  Spanish  433  April 1  Choir music. OM with comments 0343. //13760[433].

KOREA, North   Voice of Korea-VOK   15100  0346  Chinese  433  April 1  YL and OM with comments. YL vocal singing 0347. //13650[333].

RUSSIA, Petropavlovsk   Voice of Russia-VOR   15425  0325  English  444  April 1  YL ancr with Moonlight Opera music. OM with ID 0330. OM with news on the terrorist attacks in Moscow. World Classical Music Hour ID by a YL. Violin music 0332.

SAIPAN   Radio Free Asia-RFA   17615  0311  Chinese  333  April 1  YL with comments. Jammer heard in the background with an OM with comments.

THAILAND   Radio Free Europe-RFE   15470  0323  Russian  322  April 1  OM with comments.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA

Huntington Beach, California, USA

Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650

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Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 21725 0235 English 333 April 1 YL and OM on Emails mentioning Earth warming trends worldwide. Rap music 0320. //15515[433]Shepparton, 15240[444]Shepparton and 17750[333]Shepparton.

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 15160 0245 Chinese 444 March 30 YL with comments plus music in the background. YL with vocal music 0247. OM with comments 0345. //13655[232].

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 17710 0305 Rissian 433 April 1 YL with comments.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 5040 0240 Spanish 444 March 30.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 17810 0243 Japanese 444 April 1 YL and OM with comments. OM with piano music. OM with RJ-NHK ID 0249. OM with comments 0253. //17560[333], 11935[433]via Bonaire, 5960[444[via Canada, 15325[333], 15195[333] and 15230[333].

KOREA, North KCBS 13760 2344 Korean 333 March 29 OM with comments. Then military style music 2350. //15245[333].

KOREA, North Voice of Korea-VOK 15180 0250 Spanish 433 March 30 OM with comments. //13760[333] and 11735[433].

PHILIPPINES VOA Relay 17765 0255 Chinese 433 April 1 YL and OM with comments. Off the air 0259.
MacKenzie-CA.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2, 2010

** CHINA [and non]. 9355 // 9905 in Chinese, fair signals at 1906 April 2. RFA is scheduled via Saipan and Palau, respectively; only heard one signal on each, so either it was RFA without any jamming audible, or jamming without any RFA audible, but if China, it was plain programming, not echofeed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. The 2030 English broadcast of RHC was missing a few days ago as I checked several times during that hour on 11760 and other frequencies, but she was back April 2 at 2037 talking about journalists being ambushed in Honduras.

15330 has mostly been free of DentroCuban Jamming Command since a day after the A-season began, but April 1 at 1801 noticed irregular pulses against nothing. Probably only one of the panoply of jamming transmitters screwed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More about Martí under U S A

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, not a doubt that it`s Radio Africa, April 2 at 2114 open carrier plus hum (and also think I noticed it around 2100 or earlier). Kept tuned this time and real modulation did not start until some soft hymn singing at 2126, gradually loudening.

Next check at 2208, disgraced child-sex evangelist Tony Alamo was to be heard, but without any co-channel from WYFR Portuguese, which supposedly starts at 2200 in A-10. WYFR Spanish on 15130 not as strong as usual, but surely there would be some trace of it on 15190 if on the air. 2226 check, WYFR is finally on, atop Alamo. This transmitter seems to be especially erratic. BTW, the Brazilian who thought he had R. Inconfidência reactivated on 15190 agrees it was probably WYFR instead, scheduled until 0045 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. I`ll bet you didn`t know that RFI has a Brazilian service. It`s not in the WRTH 2010 or February update, tho they have had a Portuguese service to Africa. April 2 at 2045 I am hearing RFI on 21690 via GUIANA FRENCH with a Brazilian accent, at 2059 music break, 2100 into Spanish. The 2100 Spanish broadcast in B-09 was supposedly only on 17630.

Unknown whether the Brazilian service is daily or what time it starts. To further confuse matters, 21690 is supposedly only in French intended for Africa, not Latin America, aimed 75 degrees at 17-22 UT. Maybe another program feed screwup at Montsinéry.

This page http://www.portugues.rfi.fr/node/15397
claims that Brazilians and all Americans must listen only via satellite; the only SW frequencies in Portuguese are for Africa at other times. So was this really a program from the African service, even tho voiced by a Brazilian? Must try to listen again, if it show up again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. Correxion: My earlier report was really R. Japan in Spanish via Bonaire: ``6080, new frequency for RN 0500 in Spanish via Bonaire, March 28 until 0530* with mailbag in last few minutes. Very big signal at 290 degrees for Mexico and Caribbean, Until uncovered at 0530, totally blocking VOA English via São Tomé from 0500 to 0700`` (Glenn Hauser, April 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, not off the air, just not modulating, April 2 at 2033 UT. // 1020 KOKP Perry was modulating sportstalk normally. First noted 1580 silent in the car several minutes earlier, and could not be sure whether there was a silent carrier or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. See SPAIN [and non]

** SPAIN [and non]. We keep finding REE in frequency conflicts, which leads us to believe there is something deficient in their shortwave frequency planning and management, tho certainly not 100% their fault.

12015, April 2 at 1858 a US Government editorial in English on VOA, about Nigeria, well over the always-running radioteletype, and mixing with REE IS underneath. Then VOA into sign-off routine, 1900 timesignal and REE opening Arabic, M-F only, but it`s underneath the RTTY here.

9690, April 2 at 2039, about equal levels between a station in French and one in English. French was talking about homophobie, not // RFI on 21690. At 2047 the other one played some Romanian folk music, soon accompanied by RRI ID. At 2056 the RRI IS was mixing with REE giving its address in French and then its own IS until 2057* while RRI was on a bit longer and briefly in the clear.

How could two European transmitters of 250 and 300 kW be on the same frequency at the same time? Perhaps because RRI`s 2030 English broadcast at 307 degrees is supposedly targeted at eastern North America only, a rather early hour for that, and of course, also perfectly targeted and much better timed for UK.

Spain is aiming 110 degrees for north and central Africa, Mideast, so they couldn`t possibly overlap, right? Directly off the back from Noblejas is 290 degrees, USward. At least the latter is M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12015, VOA Greenville now here at 17-19, English to Africa concluding at 1858 April 2 with USG editorial about Nigeria, very good signal but with constant RTTY QRM, which has been on that frequency for years: so why do broadcasters keep going onto it and why doesn`t the RTTY object, whatever it is? See also SPAIN [and non] which overlaps before 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR active April 1 at 1802 with same old preacher; peaks at S9+15 when he screams ``hell, no``, presumably denying the existence of the hot place. Not audible 24-26 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, April 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR`s April program schedule shows that transmitter 4 is no longer 24/7 Pastor Pete Peters, no doubt due to all his new airtime on WTWW. This opens up lots of time for other stuff on 9980 or 5890, including two additional airings of WORLD OF RADIO: Sunday 2330 on 9980, UT Monday 0330 on 5890. Tnx to Thomas Nyberg for pointing this out first, and tnx to WWCR!

Also, #2 has shifted from 9345 to 9350 at 21-24. Confirmed April 2 at 2212, usual VG signal, during preacher. Golden Age of Radio is filling time on 9350: Wed 2300-2400; Sat 2105-2200; and Into the Blue, Sat 2200-2300. GAOR is also occupying at least seven other hours per week at various times and frequencies, and ITB, three (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WTWW remains on 9479 instead of 9480 when checked, April 2: at 1312, not up to full strength yet, has a 1 kHz het from something on 9480 and a 4 kHz het from R. Australia on 9475. At 1903 when CRI via Albania is on 9480, only a trace of its het could be detected here. After 2200, no hets audible unlike the day before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. I hesitate to mention this without the proper spin, so: Harold Camping is desperately trying to add more and more languages to infest more and more cultures with his end-of-the-world nonsense as there are only 13 months to go. Tuning across WYFR 11865, April 2 at 1343, in English they were asking for people who speak Oromo, Shona, Somali, Zulu and an Nguni (? Niugini?) language.

7520, April 2 at 2215, WYFR in Spanish during this hour, had stronger CW QRM from 7519. From the cadence if not axual copying, I am pretty sure these were Cuban spy cut numbers; not the first time these two disservices have fought over a frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Radio Martí violates separation of church and state once again: On 13820, April 2 at 1856 noticed a mass in progress, as if it were WEWN! Pretty good cantor, shortly identified by announcer as St. John`s Passion. Hardly any jamming audible here, but heavy jamming on // 11930. Not only that but the next time I noticed R. Martí, at 2220 on 6030 sounded like more of the same, mass with bits of German, Latin, Spanish, Italian mixed up.

No doubt these are Good Friday specials, but what are US taxpayers doing paying for a government station to broadcast services of one particular religion to one particular country? O sure, DentroCubans are in dire need of Catholic radio, despite the Church having reached an accommodation with the Cuban state years ago, and big 24-hour unjammed Spanish signals from Birmingham. Even if there were no such deal, this would be totally against American principles. Stop it! Or start broadcasting ALL OTHER RELIGIONS (and ATHEISM) to Cuba on R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15730, something strange is happening: April 1 at 1804 I hear an AM open carrier, and then it suddenly changes to DRM, and it has ragged edges, extending well beyond the ``only-10-kHz`` bandwidth that DRM proponents claim, out to 15720 and 15740. This bothers a weak VOA Portuguese AM signal on 15740, which is via MADAGASCAR. Then the DRM cuts on and off at 1809.

Checked again April 2: at 1850 the DRM centered on 15730 is ragged again, extending at least 15715-15745. After 1900, at 1908 it`s accompanied by TDP DRM via Bonaire at 15750-15760, i.e. almost continuous noise from 15715 to 15760.

What`s this on 15730? Not a single mention of that frequency on the drmna yg or the DRM RX fora. Once again I hear DRM without a DRM receiver, while those with DRM receivers do not tune around enough to find something like this and identify it.

Possibly it could be the Bonaire transmitter maladjusted, but note that I have heard it both with and without the nominal Bonaire frequency 15755. Bulgaria has also registered a bunch of DRM frequencies around here, but supposedly not scheduled here and now nor is it on http://www.drm.org/for-listeners/live-broadcast-schedule/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Scandinavian Weekend Radio imminent

After having to demolish their studio due to water damage, and missing a few months` broadcasts, looks like this low-power Finnish station is set to return for 24 hours from 2100 UT April 2:

 

http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm

(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM

A tutti voi i più calorosi auguri di Buona Pasqua e Pasquetta.

Venerdì 19 marzo 2010
*11.00 - 17700 kHz (B09)
DEUTSCHE WELLE - Ascensione
Tedesco, IDs e nxs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
-
*16.00 - 9960 kHz (B09) (A10 9930)
RADIO BAR-KULAN - Meyerton (Sud Africa)
Annunci, Corano e canti.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
QRM WYFR 9955+UNID CC 9965.
Modulazione un po' bassa.
Strano ronzio. Problema a Meyerton
o jamming?

***

Martedì 23 marzo 2010
*13.30 - 15430 (B09)//11925 kHz
CNR 1? vs. Voice of Tibet (not heard)
Segnale molto buono
Now as jammer vs. Voice of Tibet
is also used CNR1 alt. to FD???

***

Sabato 27 marzo 2010
*08.59 - 9510 kHz (B09)
R. RASANT/IRRS - R. Sobota (Slovacchia)
Tedesco, IDs e nxs YL/OMs.
Segnale molto buono
Solo tale giorno.
-
15.30 - 7585 kHz (B09)
R. VATICANA - Yangi Yul (Tajikistan)
Inglese, S. Messa.
Segnale buono-molto buono
Solo sabato.
-
*15.30 - 15660 kHz (B09)
R. MADA INT. - Grigoriopol (Moldavia)
Malgascio, tk OM.
Segnale buono-molto buono
The transmission has a variable duration
(I noted less than 30 minutes) and between
the end of the programme and the tx s/off
at 16.00 there is a long tone.
-
*17.00 - 11830 kHz (B09)
ADERA DIMTSE R. - Nauen (Germania)
Amarico, nxs YL.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
Solo sabato. Jamming (hash) irregolare.
-
16.00 - 9680 kHz (B09)
VOICE OF OROMO INDEPENDENCE
Issoudun (Francia) - Spenta/Off
It was only on saturdays.
Closed? Moved (day or frequency)?
-
*18.00 - 7490 kHz (B09)
WYFR - Kamo (Armenia)
Tedesco, annunci YL e coro.
Segnale sufficiente-molto buono
-
*18.00 - 9345 kHz (B09)
R. BILAL - Samara (Russia)
Amarico, Corano e annunci OMs.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Jamming on/off not dominant.
-
*19.00 - 9895 kHz (B09)
R. NEDERLAND - Trincomalee (Sri Lanka)
Arabo, portante muta per 4 minuti, mx
araba non stop per 11 minuti e primo ID YL
solo alle 19.15!!! Strike?
Segnale molto buono
-
*22.00 - 9895 kHz (B09)
R. NEDERLAND - Kigali (Ruanda)
Arabo, ID YL e stessa mx non stop
ascoltata alle 19.00! Again strike?
Segnale buono
-
23.00 - 11920 kHz (B09)
HCJB/CVC - Santiago (Cile)
Portoghese, IDs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono

***

Giovedì 1 aprile 2010
05.37 - 6104v kHz
prob. CANDELA FM - Mérida (Messico)
SS, annunci economici OM e mx ballabile.
Segnale insufficiente-sufficiente
Dopo alcuni minuti è subentrata una stazione RTTY/CW,
poi ha iniziato a imperversare il DRM proveniente da
BR 6085+RTL 6095. Infine, alle 06.00 su 6105 apre VOA
in francese e si nota chiaramente il battimento con il
Messico sottostante.

***

Venerdì 2 aprile 2010
14.15 - 7485 kHz
BIBLE VOICE - Yangi Yul (Tagikistan)
Hindi, tk YL/OM.
Segnale sufficiente
Modulazione un po' bassa.
Solo venerdì.


Luca Botto Fiora

SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia

RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
Satellit 500 Grundig
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu

ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)

VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)

RTI Qsl and T-shirt Contest

Radio Taiwan International (RTI) is giving away a limited number of t-shirts and Special QSL Cards to the listeners around the world to thank you for the support of the radio station under "Listen to RTI and Win a T-shirt" Contest.

To enter for a chance to win a t-shirt, you can send  an email or a reception report about the reception condition in your part of the world. RTI will send you a Qualified Shortwave Listener (QSL) card along with a contest entry card. Return the contest entry card back to RTI with your name and mailing address. There is no limit to the number of entries listeners can send. Photocopies of the card, however, will not be accepted..

Deadline: Mail your contest entry card to RTI with a postmark between April 1, 2010 and August 15, 2010 to enter the drawing.

More Details on: http://www.rti.org.tw/big5/2010Activity/2010QSL/english.aspx

Enjoy RTI and win the contest

73 from

Ashik Eqbal Tokon
Rajshahi, Bangladesh




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MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday

Dear Listeners,

MV Baltic Radio is on the air this Saturday the 3rd of April 2010.

The frequency will be 6005 khz, and the time slot will be 0900 utc.

For more information, please email MV Baltic Radio on the day of the Transmission.

 

Good Listening

 

73s

Tom

 

Radio Joystick Relay on 9515 kHz

Dear Listeners,

The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 3rd of April 2010 on 9515 khz.

The Transmission time is between 0800 to 0900 utc with a power of 150 KW via the IRRS.

 

Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month at the same time and on the same channel.

 

Good listening

 

73s

Tom

 

 

 

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LRA36 Antarctica back on new sked

Mail from LRA-36 says they resumed broadcasts this year 15 March, on a new schedule 9-12 Argentine time = 12-15 UT, only on M/W/F. Presumably on same frequency as always, 15476. (gh`s translation)

Fortunately nothing at all is currently scheduled on 15475, but there should be considerable adjacent interference on one side or the other. Glenn

Manuel Méndez
Lugo, España

Recibido e-mail de LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, informado que empezaron las transmisiones de este año el 15 de marzo, con nuevos horarios: de 9 a 12 hora de Argentina, o sea, 12 a 15 UTC, y sólo los lunes miércoles y viernes. Se supone que la frecuencia sigue siendo la misma de siempre, 15476 kHz. Este es el e-mail:

"Querido Manuel : Comenzamos nuestra transmicion del año 2010 el 15 de marzo,salimos al aire los lunes,miercoles y viernes de 9 a 12 hs, ( hora argentina),contanos si lograste sintonizarnos, siempre estamos en la misma frecuencia. Esperamos tu pronta respuesta,un saludo cordial conductoras de LRA36."

 

(Glenn Hauser via dxld ml)

BLANDX 2010

The April 1 2010 issue of BLANDX has been released.
www.blandx.com

Bill Kyle, CEO
The BLANDX Corporation

Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2010

** AUSTRALIA. HCJB coming in quite well April 1 on both 19m frequencies: 15340 at 1328 in S Asian language, atop 15341 Morocco het; 1329 announcer kept mixing in English phrases such as ``brand new program``, ``host with the most``, ``thanks for all the e-mails``, ``so without wasting any more time, let`s get on with the show``, and played hymn ``What a Friend We Have in Jesus``.

Schedule at
http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/A10_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20100328-20101030.pdf
shows it`s supposed to transition at 1330 from Bhojpuri on Thursdays to Hindi daily. By 1402, the het from Morocco is much worse, with its undermodulated Arabic.

15400 Chinese service at 1328 had an English ID, back to Chinese.

If these are coming long-path, the route is across the Indian Ocean, over Cape Town, up the Atlantic skirting the NE coast of Brasil, entering N America between Savannah and Jacksonville. If short-path, across Midway Island, north of Berkeley (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DJIBOUTI [non]. 15165, checking whether clandestine La Voix de Djibouti remains on B-09 frequency in A-10, Thursdays only – yes, April 1 carrier on a few seconds before 1530 and modulation a few sex after with instrumental anthem, 1531 HOA song, 1532 into talk unseeming French. Poor signal compared to the last time I heard it a few weeks ago, and traces of long-path echo. Recheck at 1615, even weaker and more echoey, with much greater ACI from BBC Russian 15170. Could not tell if it had switched to French by now like last time.

I still think a W European site is likely rather than South Africa as hypothesized by Wendel Craighead, who among others has got an e-QSL never revealing the true site. The echo would be more likely if we are getting back- and front-beams from Europe rather than South Africa which would aim in a very different direxion, roughly sideways from us, but this is all very hypothetical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI English, April 1 at 1337 with fair modulation, accented YL talking about science and technology, with music background; no adjacent-channel QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. RRI putting in several good to very good signals on 19m, none of them designated for NAm, April 1:

15195, at 1349 with pop music. This is Galbeni, 285 degrees to Europe at 12-14 in Romanian.

15140, at 1355 in Russian but giveaway Romanian folk music, mentioned Brasov. Tiganeshti at 52 degrees, 1330-1400 only, so off in time for Oman in English, inaudible as usual.

15160, at 1357 with RRI IS, briefly // 15140 until latter 1358*. Then 15160 at 1400 opening in Romanian-accented Arabic, ID ``Sawt al-Romania``, mentioning all the satellites, WRN, and also heard on // 15490. 15160 is 245 degrees from Galbeni at 14-15, while 15490 is 142 degrees from Tiganeshti.

What about English? There isn`t any from RRI, anywhere between 12 and 17 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. The co-channel QRM to REE via COSTA RICA, 15170, is no longer Romania, but BBC Russian, scheduled 1300-1730 via Woofferton. The latter was atop REE at 1349 April 1 discussing Poland and imposing a SAH of 3 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. I listened to the final Live from Turkey, Tuesday edition on 1-day-on-demand webcast. Seref Isler seemed to be saying goodbye, as apparently others will be doing the remaining Thursday edition. This is due to the current staffing situation, as Voice of Turkey needs an extra person on duty for that program, and there are higher priorities, such as doing a daily newscast in English which is loaded on Turkish airlines. He also said that because of this he did not have time to do a new Letterbox program for this Wednesday`s broadcasts, so would repeat one from 3(?) weeks ago.

I then listened to the SW broadcast on 9830, Wednesday March 31 at 2227, and it indeed sounded like an old Letterbox, until music at 2338. The trouble is, on DX Corner a few days before, he also said that feature programs on the 2200 UT broadcast would now be for the next UT day, since 2200 is after local midnight (and also the 0300 broadcast, instead of being the last repeat of the previous UT day). That should have put Letterbox on the 2200 UT Tuesday transmission, instead of Wednesday. Maybe this does not kick in until next week, or are they still confused or trying to decide what to do?

During this period, 9830 had some strange fading and noises, but did not sound like the usual RTTY interference.

13635, April 1 at 1248, good with Turkish music, a sad-sounding song. On his last LFT, Seref remarked that he could not think of any Turkish songs which were happy ones; sad songs, such as one he played about a jilted lover, are the norm. 13635 cut off at 1259 after a brief Turkish announcement. It`s scheduled 06-13, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler to western Europe but also USward.

Meanwhile, 15450 in English was somewhat weaker, during the remaining Live from Turkey show on Thursdays, not hosted by Seref. The other guy was reading poetry (Turkish translated to English, I assume) at 1320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 9479 is the frequency where WTWW has shifted its daytime frequency 9480 as of March 31, at least temporarily.

George McClintock tells me the FCC has OK`d it. The reason is an unexpected interference problem very near the transmitter site. The school system of Smith County has a remote receiver on a mountaintop which happens to use 151.680 MHz, and the sixteenth [!] harmonic of WTWW from 9.480 has been interfering with their communication to school buses, altho it is not a serious safety issue. He has been trying to deal with this for two weeks, which may account for a lot of time off the air from 9480.

WTWW`s harmonic is properly more than 80 dB suppressed, but in this circumstance it is not enough. Until a new more powerful and extremely expensive harmonic filter to 90 dB can be obtained and installed, by shifting to 9.479, WTWW moves the harmonic far enough off, to 151.664 MHz.

Unfortunately, altho the local problem has been solved, WTWW now faces heterodynes from stations still on 9480, such as CRI via Albania at 1800-2000 in French, which must be a co-channel QRM problem anyway in eastern North America and Europe. How did that get past HFCC?

WTWW is so strong here, that CRI was no problem when we checked before 2000, tho it made a big het on George`s receiver a few miles away in the skip zone. Voice of Russia might also be using 9480 after that time, and China at other times. Of course, WTWW could seek a completely different frequency, but he hates to give up 9480 which had been inherited from KAIJ and properly coördinated.

Also, Radio Netherlands via Philippines in Indonesian at 22-23 on 9475 made a noticeable 4-kHz het with WTWW, both here and in the Tennessee skip zone. George says he could also shift to 9481 if that would be more advantageous. Casual listeners tuning to 9480 may not even notice the change. WTWW was still on 9479 at 1331 check April 1, no foolin`, making R. Australia 9475 that much more difficult.

Meanwhile, Pastor Pete Peters continues to be the only programming on WTWW. George says he has been inundated with hundreds of postal reception reports to an address on FCC records, even tho he has not solicited them. Many of them enclose $1 return postage. He does not have the time or staff to deal with them all. However, a new QSL card is on the way to the printer.

Many of the reports come from Japan. George theorizes that Peters` message of racial purity appeals to the Asians, even tho PPP is from a white-Christian perspective. I question whether many Japanese DXers really appreciate what PPP is saying in English; rather just are after a QSL from a new station. Also the mail from Europe has been ``staggering``. Of course, PPP surely appeals to neo-Nazis and cowboy fans as well (gh`s comment). (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11550, large S9+25 open carrier at 1335 April 1; must be WEWN, but where`s the Spanish modulation? Other frequency 12050 is running normally. Then at 1337, 11550 with WEWN ID, and joining same programming in progress (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17585, which bore a very strong VOA English via Greenville a few days before, had only a very weak unID signal at 1406 April 1. Nothing else scheduled, so presumably still VOA, maybe not Greenville if they have switched site already; or just not propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15106, weak het against 15105, BBC Hausa via Ascension, April 1 at 1354 and still at 1359. Most likely 15105 station to be off-frequency is PBC Pakistan, scheduled from 1330 in Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Transradio installs 600 kW DRM compatible MW txer in Qatar

A 600 kW DRM compatible MW transmitter was installed on 15th March 2010 at Al-Arish, Qatar by the state broadcasting company. The overall project included the installation of two TRAM 300 AM transmitters, one Paralleling Unit (PU), two digital DRM Exciter DMOD2, and an antenna for medium wave frequency 675 kHz. Antenna design & construction was by Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia GmbH & was developed in collaboration between Thomson & Transradio. The transmissions will begin in the next few days. With this transmitter, an older station near the Qatari capital of Doha will be replaced.

 

(Source : Transradio via Alokesh Gupta)

Russian government approves expediency of introducing DRM in Russia

The Russian government has approved the expediency of introducing the European digital radio system, DRM, in Russia and will draw up national standards for it within two years to come. The Voice of Russia has been broadcasting to Europe in the DRM format since April 2003. The DRM is used by the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Radio France International.

 

(VoR website via Alokesh Gupta)

2 Tips

Radio Serbia International, 6100 KHz, 19.00 UTC, 31.3.2010
http://www.hb9gce.ch/Radio%20Serbia%20International_31032010_1900_6100.mp3

Radio Habana, 5040 KHz, 0430 UTC, 1.4.2010
http://www.hb9gce.ch/Radio%20Habana_01042010_0430_5040.mp3


RX: ICOM IC-R71E
ANT: ALA 1530S+
QTH: Fribourg, Switzerland
46°47'54"N, 7°9'7"E

73's de
HB9GCE, Andy
www.hb9gce.ch

Youtube e il Pesce D'aprile 2010: La modalità testo

Sono passati solo 15 minuti dal  1 Aprile 2010 in Italia quando su youtube è già presente il pesce d'aprile, molto divertente devo dire, oltre alle normali modalità video (360,480,HD ecc) è comparsa la fantomatica modalità TEXT che visualizza il video usando solo caratteri ASCII e come ci indica il messaggio di youtube: "fa risparmiare 1 dollaro al  secondo di banda larga!" Buon pesce d'aprile da youtube e Bclnews!

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 13730 2332 Spanish 333 March 29 YL with comments.

CUBA Radio Nacional Venezuela Relay-RNV 13680 2327 Spanish 444 March 29 Two OMs with comments. YL with comments 2329. OM with comments and RNV ID.

CYPRUS BBCWS Relay 12095 2256 English 333 March 28 Two OMs with comments. OM with BBCWS ID 2259. Off the air 2300.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13640 2302 Japanese March 28 OM with comments.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13650 2310 Thai 333 March 28 OM with comments. Cuba mixing with RJ-NHK at 2326[322].

NORTH MARIANAS KFBS-FEBC 12090 2247 Vietnamese 333 March 28 YL with comments then choir music.

NORTH MARIANAS, Tinian Radio Free Asia-RFA 13740 2336 Khmer 333 March 29 Two OMs with comments . QRM via Saipan in Vietnamese by a YL.

THAILAND VOA Relay 13755 2342 English 333 March 29 VOA in Special English by a YL and OM.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS

New clandestine for Uganda

** UGANDA. This country finally gets a SW clandestine station. In case you didn`t notice, the A-10 M&B/DTK schedule has this new client:

ABA  Radiyo Y'Abaganda (Ababaka)
 kHz     UTC    CIRAF deg ant day  from    to   site kW client
15410 1700-1800 48SW  140 217 7   280310-311010 ISS 250 ABA

7 meaning Saturdays only. ISS meaning via FRANCE.
Googling the name finds their website:
http://www.ababaka.com/cms/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=40&func=view&catid=30&id=8653&lang=lg

Seems the Buganda tribe are behind it, in support of ``occupied Buganda``, where SW radios started selling like hotcakes with reports that this webcast would now be on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs March 30-31, 2010

** ALBANIA. Further R. Tirana A-10 monitoring: March 30 at 2000 no signal on 13640, finally came on at 2005 after one brief false start, then joined English program in progress.

March 31 at 0031, 9860 opening English, good signal better than yesterday. Surprised at next check 0050 to find it still going in what is supposed to be a 15-minute broadcast. Maybe it started over at 0045 as I recall noticing on the webcast. Now there is adjacent QRM from at least as strong 9855, which is IBB SRI LANKA, 250 kW at 20 degrees, 0000-0100. Not sure when Tirana went off, but before 0100. 0230 on 7425, poor reception.

The 1430 broadcast on 13755 overlaps a bit with its successor, CRI at 1500. March 31 at 1457 just as R. Tirana was saying its broadcast was ending, on came stronger carrier causing a rippling subaudible heterodyne, with Chinese lessons in English, which often occupy the final few minutes of CRI hours.

Overlap was less than a minute with R. Tirana`s closing theme, so not a major loss and not worth changing frequency because of. Then CRI cut audio and stayed on open carrier until 1500 timesignal, IS and opening in Chinese. This is 308 degrees from Kashgar to Europe, but also US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BELGIUM [non]. 15750-15755-15760, new DRM signals noticed here March 31 at 2015. Figured it might be TDP ex-17755 which is now open with WYFR-AM on 17750. The DRM schedule at
http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC

confirms it is TDP and now via Bonaire rather than Guiana French:
1900-2000 daily 15755 320 USA/Canada 100 TDPradio BEL English Bonaire
2000-2100 daily 15755 320 USA/Canada 100 The Disco Palace USA English
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake March 31: at 1353, poor on 13500, very poor on 8400 and good on 10400, all // (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, HD2IOA, at last free of QRhaM, March 31 at 0559:40 with ID in this dekasecond rather than time announcement. It`s not as loud and clearly modulated as the latter, but I could copy fragments: ``del Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada. . .  para el territorio continental del país``, apparently meaning denizens of their Columbus Archipelago are not supposed to listen to it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. Altho NHKWNRJ has abolished the Sackville relay on 11705 for English at 1400-1430, it remains on 11705 direct from Yamata back to Asia; that was audible with fair reception March 31 at 1410 check, but no longer a loud and reliable signal here, yet the best we can do at this hour with the only two remaining parallels inaudible. Now we are apprehensive about new fiscal-year programming changes imminent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 9665.4, KCBS with mostly-music to lull the masses into compliance, March 31 at 1415 past 1437, slight het de 9665.0, presumably Mongolia or could be Iran until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. V. of Russia imagines it is on 9665, in English to North America at 2300-0200 per their own website A-10 schedule. NOT: nothing there at 2315 check March 30, and from 00 to 02, 9665 carries Radio PMR instead! It is the `Grigoriopol` transmitter site as usual in A-seasons, ex-6240 in B-seasons. From 0030 March 31 I checked sometime during each quarter hour to determine language rotation and got:

0030 German, 0045 English, 0100 French, 0115 German, 0130 French, 0145 German. You`d think they would have a bit more English instead of German to N America; I suppose there was before 0030. Presumably this runs UT Mon-Fri only.

Signal was sufficient at first, but had faded considerably and was fluttery by 0200, when it switched to VOR in English // 15425; see RUSSIA [and non].

PMR`s language rotation is not firm: on UT March 29, Joe Hanlon in NJ monitored 9665: English at 0000, 0045 and 0130, French at 0015, 0100 and 0145, and German at 0030 and 0115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. V. of Russia English to North America schedule claims to be on 9665 at 2300-0200, but it is NOT. Off the air before 0000 and then two hours of Radio PMR; see PRIDNESTROVYE. Monitoring March 31 from before 0200, found 15425 at 0157 with tune-up tone and then open carrier, 0159 VOR IS, 0200 opening in English, and 9665 via Kishinov switched simultaneously from PMR to VOR, about one second ahead of 15425, which is 65 degrees via Petropavlovsk/Kamchatskiy.

After 0200, VOR 9665 is listed for Latin America, leaving ONLY 15425 for North America, but 9665 may still hold up better in much of our continent. 15425 had declined to poor by 0230. Question is, whether VOR is axually on some other frequency in English to us before 0200? Please, just one? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. Checking 15710, new frequency for Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA, at 14-17: March 31 at 1357 found lo audible het between its carrier, and Cairo`s Indonesian service. At 1359 Miraya music started, and Cairo carrier stayed on until 1401, then Miraya in clear, Arabic dialect. Bothered by some SSB on 15708 around 1432 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 17550, hard rock at 2016 March 30, soon identified in French as having been Radiohead, and on to Vegetable. It`s VOA`s French service via BONAIRE, now scheduled 1830-2030, 250 kW due east to Africa, but considerable leakage USward; seems VOA devotes a lot of French airtime to playing rock music, in English when there are lyrix; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9775-SSB, 2-way Spanish intruders here at 1441 March 31, whistling into mike. At least they found a frequency clear of broadcasters at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15868 approx., March 30 at 2018, as I tuned by caught snatch of American YL in SSB with position report. Did not have time to pinpoint frequency, but kept monitoring for more than a semihour, and only heard occasional ute digital bursts likely from same transmitter, and at 2037 missed another very brief SSB voice transmission. Plus or minus 2 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 11990 2242 Spanish 333 March 28 Two YLs with comments.

CHINA CPBS 11960 0314 Chinese 333 March 28 YL and OM with comments.

CHINA CPBS 11750 2230 Chinese YL with comments.

CUBA China Radio Intl-CRI Relay 9790 0338 English 444 March 28 OM with comments on upcoming Asian Games. //9690[433]via Spain.

IRAN VOIRI 11925 0317 Russian 333 March 28 YL with comments. Music interlude 0318. YL with comments 0319 an suddenly off the air 0328.

MOLDOVA Voice of Russia-VOR 9665 0346 English 433 March 28 Symphony music. YL with comments 0348. More classical music 0350.

PALAU T8WH #4 9965 3335 English 232 March 28 YL and OM with comments.

PORTUGAL Voice of Germany Relay-DW 11865 German 333 March 28 Two OMs in a conversation.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS