Log Roberto Pavanello

 2310 15/4 19.10 VL8A - Alice Spring EE talk YL buono
 2325 15/4 19.15 VL8T - Tennant Creek EE talk YL buono
 2485 15/4 19.20 VL8K - Katherine EE MX suff.
 3330 16/4 14.10 CHU - Ottawa EE/FF ID e pip pip buono
 3905 15/4 19.25 Skyline R. Int. - EE ID e MX buono
 3905 16/4 21.55 R. Festivum - EE ID e MX buono
 4026 16/4 22.05 Laser Hot Hits - EE ID e MX buono
 5815 17/4 08.30 Orion R. - EE ID e MX buono
 6240 16/4 22.30 R. Overijssel - EE ID e MX buono
 6296 16/4 22.35 R. Powerliner - EE ID e MX buono
 9675 16/4 22.20 R. Cancao Nova - Cachoeira Paulista PP predica buono
10000 16/4 22.15 WWV - Fort Collins EE ID e pip pip buono
11765 16/4 22.10 R. Deus è Amor - Curitiba PP predica buono
11780 15/4 19.05 R. Nac. Amazonia - Brasilia PP NX buono
15345 16/4 21.50 R. Nacional - Buenos Aires SS intervista ad attrice buono

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Glenn Hauser logs April 19, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, April 19 at 1253, LRA36 very poor with some music audible; peaking around 1305, YL talk in Spanish, seems undermodulated. Caught a few words such as ``Segunda Guerra Mundial``, ``Varsovia``, and referred to many different years before and after, evidently a ``Today in History`` feature. Stations which can`t do justice to News instead feature Olds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 19:
7970, fair at 1236
10300, good at 1255
10965, poor at 1316, not earlier; and now obscuring 10970
10970, good at 1256, not // 10300 but // 7970; poor AT 1316
13060, fair at 1258 with ute QRM, // 13850. Hardly any of these OOB FD frequencies ever have any ute QRM, pure luck, or does Sound of Hope work to avoid that?
13850, good at 1257, // 10970, but off at 1300*
14700, fair carrier with flutter at 1259, but JBA audio. No others up to 16 MHz by 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 7390 and 7425 approx., pulsing spurs from the wall of noise jamming against Martí on 7405, April 19 at 0540. Yes, not exactly symmetrically displaced.

13820 and weaker 11930, pulse jamming including a tone, April 19 at 0531 against nothing, R. Martí using these frequencies only much earlier/later in the daytime. They were at the same rate, but just slightly out of sync. Meanwhile, tnx to such wastage of resources, food is still rationed in the people`s paradise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, April 19 at 1350, VOI is only fair with heavy flutter, contrary to usual loud, clear and steady signal, during Tuesday ``Exotic Indonesia`` co-produxion with RRI Banjarmasin. After some music, noting only one IAD, 1354 conversation between Banj guy and Jak gal. 1357 blocked by much stronger 9525.0 het from CRI Russian musical prélude aimed USward, 37 degrees from SZG site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, April 19 at 1304, RTM Arabic hetting but weaker than HCJB Australia 15340. Yesterday RTM was on 15345 as early as 1235. Nominal change is at 1500, but really whenever they get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 17860 and 21460, April 19 at 1400 Hamada Radio International, via RMI via MBR Wertachtal, GERMANY, starting with roughly equal reception, a little better on the lower at the outset. Presumably, 17860 will be used only thru April 21 per registration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. On the sixteenth anniversary of the OKC bombing, the Big Four TV stations all covered the ceremony live from the site, around 1400 UT April 19. Instead of a pool feed, each had their own coverage. Strange thing was, KFOR-27`s rostrum camera, the main one focusing on the speakers, was in stretcho-vision, fattening everyone. Our governor Fallin suddenly had a round face instead of an oval one (and her roots were showing as she had pulled her hair back to keep it from blowing in the considerable wind --- ``Shux, I wouldn`ta voted fur her if`n I`da knowed she ain`t no blonde!``)

All the other stations, and KFOR`s shots from other cameras were properly configured. But on channel `4`, in order to get the picture right, we would have had to keep switching the DTV converter between ``squeezed`` and non-squeezed = letterbox or cropped. All the still-store slide photos of the 168 victims, whose names are always read every year, were unsqueezed, so if we squeezed the picture to make the live video correct, their faces were far too vertical. Yes, this distracted from the solemnity of the event (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN. 13620 and 13730, R. Dabanga, still the same story as the last several nights, about the radically different forms of jamming, altho not checked until RD was finished, April 19 at 0529, the jamming still going (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5890, a terrible vacuum with Brother Scare and WWCR missing, April 19 at 0549, while the other three transmitters were normal, 5935, 4840, 3215. Around 1245, the BS disservice on 9980 is back as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, April 19 at 1543, WORLD OF RADIO barely audible on WRMI for the Tuesday 1530 repeat --- fast SAH from YFR Russian via Tainan, TAIWAN. But no jamming. I have been remiss in not saying ``Thanks a lot, Arnie!`` for NOT jamming us at certain times, but still does so at other times. Next WOR airings are UT Wednesday 0100 and 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 17823 approx., intruders April 19 at 1338-1340, 2-way SSB in Spanish, BFO het 17825 where nothing in AM is scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Radio 9 de julho 9820 kHz

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Martedì 19 aprile 2011
Chissà che propagazione c'era, sta di fatto che sui 31 metri prima delle 06.00 UTC il Brasile arrivava molto bene.
05.40 - 9820 kHz
RADIO 9 DE JULHO - S. Paulo (Brasile)
PP, molte citazioni di Aparecida OM/YL e mx locale.
Segnale sufficiente-molto buono!!!
Con l'E5 Etón una meraviglia anche di audio, peccato il QRDRM di REE su 9780...


Luca Botto Fiora

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


RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000 DSP Yaesu
Satellit 500 Grundig
E5 Etón
G3 Etón
ATS909 Sangean
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite ACA di 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop filare da finestra da 1 spira 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 21 m (@6-30 MHz)
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VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiali 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Software demo Multimode 6.2.3 Black Cat Systems
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Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CANADA Vatican Radio Relay-VR 9610 0305 GMT English 444 April 15 Two YLs with comments on people meeting the Pope.

CANADA China Radio Intl Relay-CRI 9560 0323 GMT Spanish 333 April 15 YL and OM with comments.

CUBA China Radio Intl-Relay-CRI 9570 0320 GMT English 444 April 15 Two OMs with comments on China assisting recovery in Japan in the People in the Know program.

EGYPT Radio Cairo 9305 0350 GMT Arabic 333 April 15 Arabic music then an OM with comments.

GREECE Foni Tis Helladas 9420 0340 GMT English 333 April 15 Greek music then a YL with comments. Tis a noisy frequency.

SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana-REE 9535 0325 GMT Spanish 433 Apri; 15 Two OMs with comments.

TURKEY Voice of Turkey-VOT 9515 0330 GMT Turkish 444 April 15 OM with comments then an OM singing.

UNITED STATES,No Carolina WTJC 9370 0346 GMT English 333 April 15 Choir music continuous.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
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

Ondamedia Broadcast: programmazione per la giornata del 25 Aprile

In occasione del prossimo 25 Aprile, Anniversario della Liberazione dal nazifascismo, Ondamedia BROADCAST offrira' una programmazione particolarmente attenta al carattere celebrativo della Giornata, proponendo un adattamento radiofonico del documentario "Racconti di Liberta'", prodotto dall'Unione dei Comuni Reno-Galliera (BO) e molti materiali inediti fra i quali canti partigiani registrati dal vivo ed il discorso tenuto nel 1980 dall'On. Nilde Iotti (all'epoca Presidente della Camera dei Deputati) a Reggio Emilia per la commemorazione dell'eccidio dei Fratelli Cervi.

 

A titolo sperimentale e con potenza ridotta, la stessa programmazione sara' trasmessa anche dal nuovo impianto di Padova su 1503 kHz.

ANZAC Radio Heritage 2011

Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
April 18 2011

____________________________
ANZAC Radio Heritage 2011
Fighting Voices from
Downunder
____________________________


Radio was still a teenager when called up for active duty in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II but had moved into respectable middle age by 1970 when the Vietnam War was raging says the Radio Heritage Foundation in the latest feature at website www.radioheritage.com.

Released to remember ANZAC Day on April 25 2011, this new feature looks at how Australian and New Zealand military forces took radio along with them on their journey to battlefields as far flung as the Middle East, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, South East Asia, the Pacific, and even within Australia's Northern Territory.

"Fighting Voices from Downunder' visits the extensive ABC Radio facilities at Gaza in Palestine, RAAF Madang 'The Voice of the Islands', 5DR Darwin, 9AF Labuan in the Straits Settlements, AKAA Yamaguchi 'Voice of the 2NZEF', WLKS Kure, Radio Commonwealth near the North Korean border, RAAF Butterworth and AFR Vung Tau.

This new feature places ANZAC Radio into context with US Armed Forces Radio networks in the Asia and Pacific region, and British Forces Broadcasting and Radio SEAC services.

There are extensive links and references to nearly 40 other AFRS and related features throughout www.radioheritage.com. Illustrations from the Australian War Memorial collections accompany the feature, as well as a previously unseen photo from New Zealand station AKAA.

If you have your own memories, memorabilia and more you'd like to share about ANZAC Radio or any of the other stations featured, Radio Heritage Foundation wants to hear from you.

It may be some old photos, booklets, newspaper or magazine articles or even some recordings. Memories of listening to ANZAC Radio over the years are also important and wanted because they help people understand the important role played by ANZAC Radio stations over several generations.

The Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific and its website is www.radioheritage.com where full contact details can be found. Email: info@radioheritage.net

Suggested annual supporter donations of A$50 are welcome to help continue ongoing radio heritage projects including those connected with ANZAC Radio. Donations can be made by creditcard at www.radioheritage.com.

Aggiornato HF Archive

Vi segnalo che ho aggiornato il mio sito Hf Archive con questi nuovi impianti:

Rai impianto onde medie di Trieste - Monte Radio
Rai impianto onde medie di Gorizia - Piuma
Challenger Radio - Emittente privata in onde medie

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http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
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Glenn Hauser logs April 17-18, 2011

** ALBANIA. 13625, April 18 at 1443, R. Tirana English to North America in the clear, fluxuating S7 to S9+5, but just barely modulated; useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, April 18 at 1229-1233+ music, very poor but enough to confirm LRA36 is on the air today; by 1432 no carrier detectable, supposed to run until 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ASIA [non]. 17855, April 18 at 0524, good signal, in fact the SSOB, with informal Chinese conversation, one side on the phone. 0540 quite a bit weaker, with a bit of the `diamond` theme R. Free Asia uses, and now there may be some CCI = jamming. This RFA is 03-07, 100 kW, 310 degrees from SAIPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, April 18 at 1235, HCJB with slow-English talk about lead poisoning. It`s the Spotlight program produced by FEBA for English learning and stealth religious indoctrination, M-F 1230-1245. Good signal but with flutter, also infesting so many extracontinental emissions on the bands today during propagation disturbance (but not all, e.g. Turkey 15450).

15340, the other HCJB frequency, at 1235 sounds like Burmese, but axually listed as Rawang for Myanmar, without the flutter. The only outgoing difference from these adjacent Kununurra transmitters is that 15400 is on an antenna aimed 340 degrees, while 15340 is 307 degrees.

At 1433, 15340 still in the clear with Morocco on 15345 instead of waiting until 1500 to move from 15341 --- but don`t count on it. HCJB language during this quarter-hour on Mondays is Kuruk, followed M-F by Spotlight again at 1445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 17800, April 18 at 0524 heard some English, some Indonesian, RA via PALAU during this semihour only.

My previous headline that R. Australia has been ``dumbed-down`` may have been a tad too harsh. We do have pop music, time & temp, vapid DJ chatter, but mixed with talk segments, such as 9580 and 9590, April 18 at 1313 interview by someone else with Deborah Davis, author of ``Disconnect`` about the dangers of cellphones to brains and gonads. 1321 enough of that! Gotta play some rap, in this magazine format for typical RA listeners with severely impaired attention spans and horrible taste in `music`. Can`t have a full hour or even a semihour of straight talk, intellexual stimulation! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 18:
 7970, very poor at 1254
10300, poor at 1253
12180, poor at 1249. Nothing listed, but Sound of Hope probable target; Aoki shows 12165, 12175, 12190 via Tajikistan at various times
13060, fair at 1247 with flutter; new one
14700, poor at 1247 with heavy flutter; no others up to 18 MHz
15670, poor at 1241 mixing with presumed Tibetan, RFA via TAJIKISTAN
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 11775, DentroCuban Jamming Command moderate pulsing April 18 at 0533 marring Arabic music and talk from CRI via ALBANIA; Commies vs Commies! Jamming is left over from R. Martí which is on 11775 via Greenville, then Sackville, only at 0000-0300.

6030, April 18 at 1300-1303+ looking for Firedrake as usual during this hour but hear R. Martí still going past nominal 1300* with several promos about R. Martí including its news, but no news on the hour. No Cuban jamming audible, but some FE co-channel remnant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, April 18 at 1435, R. Africa poor with American low-key gospel huxter; sounds like Tony Alamo but not positive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTIENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 11645, Monday April 18 at 0535 talk may be in Greek, but not // 9420; or is it something Slavic? Presumably the R. Filia service relay, which is supposedly mostly in English during this hour relaying BBCWS, but with segments in Albanian, French, Spanish on weekends, per EiBi via Harold Sellers. This scheduling is extremely flexible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [and non]. 15770, April 18 at 1242, WYFR normally clear in Spanish, has some CCI, which must be AIR Telugu service until 1245, 250 kW, 132 degrees from Aligarh site, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, April 18 at 1335, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, fair with great music, but dumped off the air between 1347.5 and 1348.4; weakening after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. 17725, April 18 at 1402, V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, poor in English, mentioning, what else? 9.9.99; and after some hilife at 1413 again 9.9.99, about the African Union. BORING. Was also audible during previous sesquihour in Swahili; lately had been JBA during English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 17860, Hamada Radio International`s extra frequency for the 1400-1430 broadcast: as previously reported, it was heard on April 15, but not on April 16. On April 17 it was barely audible to // 21480. On April 18 at 1401, 17860 is on again, quite echoey and different from // 21480 reception which had fair signal, not echoey. 17860 must have come on right at 1400 as did not hear a carrier before then. Both via RMI via MBR Wertachtal, GERMANY.

Also checked the 0530-0600 broadcast which in different schedule versions lately has been shown on 9545, 9610, 9860 and 11970. April 18 at 0529, open carrier on 9610, 0530 usual percussive opening, and // 9860. There is also a JBA signal on 11970 which I think is //. Earlier at 0528, 11970 had somewhat stronger music. Before 0529 there was Russian on 9545, i.e. DW via Woofferton, but nothing after, as HFCC shows 9545 not used for Hamada after March 31 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, April 18 at 1441, WWRB sticking with Brother Scare instead of E-Persian Radio we were treated to on Sat-Sun. Earlier in the hour, horrible caterwauling by a BS psychophant was heard on 17485 Germany, 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 21610, Monday April 18 at 1245, REE in Castilian about the Spanish cinema, also // 21540 at the moment way over konstantly kolliding Kuwait, providing only a SAH. Basque is supposedly scheduled at this hour, but exact timing varies a lot and sometimes does not show at all. By 1442 it`s reversed, Kuwaiti drama in Arabic way over 21540 Spain, providing only a subaudible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, April 18 at 0525, R. Dabanga still jammed with tone on slightly offset carrier so also producing a heavy SAH, 0526 R. Dabanga singing ID and then spoken ID before closing at 0527, MADAGASCAR carrier off at 0527:10* while tone continues.

Other Dabanga frequency, 13730 as usual audible only with totally different jamming, ringing and pulsing at rate of about 72 per minute. Due to skip distance factors, quite possibly neither jammer is anywhere near Khartoum, even outside Sudan by a coöperative, sinister ally of Omar al-Bashir (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11500, April 18 at 1252 open carrier, with het, flutter. Aoki has V of Russia going from English to Hindi at 1300 via Tajikistan, and also Sound of Hope. Dushanbé lost feed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12190, as I was hearing Firedrake on 12180, April 18 at 1249 there is also open carrier here, fair with flutter. Only listing for 12190 is Aoki with SOH via Tajikistan at 1500-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Dx Mix News # 673

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DX MIX NEWS # 673                                             18 April 2011
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ROMANIA    Summer A-11 schedule of Radio Romania International:
Arabic
0630-0657 on 11730 11790 15180 15400
1400-1457 on 11830 11945 15160 15490

Aromanian
1430-1457 on  7340
1630-1657 on  5980
1830-1857 on  5920

Chinese
0400-0427 on%15530 17780
1300-1327 on 15435 17600

English
0000-0057 on  7385  9580
0300-0357 on  7335  9645 11895 15340
0530-0557 on !7305  9655 17760 21500
1100-1157 on 15210 15430 17510 17670
1700-1729 on @7350
1700-1757 on *9535 11735
2030-2057 on !9765 11880 11940 13800
2200-2257 on  5960  7435  9790 11940

French
0100-0157 on  7385  9570
0500-0527 on$11810  9655 15340 17770
1000-1057 on 11830 15240 15380 17785
1600-1657 on  9680 11950
2000-2027 on $9655 11970

German
0600-0627 on *7230  9740
1200-1257 on  9675 11875
1600-1629 on #7460
1800-1857 on  7240 *9495

Italian
1400-1427 on  9800
1600-1627 on  9610
1800-1827 on ^7425

Romanian
0000-0057 on  7355  9525
0100-0157 on  7355  9525
0400-0457 on  9770 11920
0700-0757 on  9700 11970 15270 17720 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
0800-0857 on 11870 11970 15450 15700 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
0900-0957 on 11830 15240 15380 17600 "Curierul romanesc" Sun
1200-1257 on  7300 11920 15195
1300-1357 on 11920 15195
1500-1557 on  9855 11895
1600-1657 on  9690 11825, last freq. is not in DRM mode
1700-1757 on 11970 15310
1800-1857 on 11970 15310
1900-1957 on 11970 15310

Russian
0430-0457 on &7390  9800
1330-1357 on 11835 15140
1500-1557 on&11615  9690

Serbian
1530-1557 on  6025
1730-1757 on  6125
1930-1957 on  6125

Spanish
0200-0257 on  7400  9520  9645 11945
1900-1957 on  9700 11715
2100-2157 on  9755 11965
2300-2357 on  9655  9745 11795 11955

Ukrainian
1500-1527 on  5945
1700-1727 on  6135
1900-1927 on  5910
* DRM via TIG 090 kW / 307 deg
^ DRM via TIG 090 kW / 270 deg
% DRM via TIG 090 kW / 067 deg
& DRM via TIG 090 kW / 027 deg
! DRM via GAL 090 kW / 300 deg
$ DRM via GAL 090 kW / 285 deg
@ DRM via KVI 035 kW / 220 deg
# DRM via KVI 035 kW / 160 deg

U.K.(non)    New schedule of Sudan Radio Service from April 11:
0400-0500 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Arabic
0500-0530 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic  Sat/Sun, ex Daily
0530-0600 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English Sat/Sun, ex Daily
1500-1530 on 17745 SIN 250 kW / 114 deg to EaAf English
1530-1700 on 17745 SIN 250 kW / 114 deg to EaAf Arabic
1700-1730 on  9590 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Various*Mon-Fri
1700-1730 on  9590 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic  Sat/Sun, deleted
1730-1800 on  9590 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English Mon-Fri, ex Daily
*Dinka Mon; Zande Tue; Moru Wed; Bari Thu; Shiluk Fri

U.K.(non)   Frequency changes of BBC from April 11:
1400-1500 NF  7565 NAK 250 kW / 280 deg, ex 7600 in Hindi
1500-1545 NF  7565 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg, ex 7600 in Urdu

U.K.(non)   From April 18 BBC in Chinese again on SW:
1300-1530 on  6095 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg
              9605 NAK 250 kW / 020 deg
             11920 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg
             15285 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg
2200-2300 on  7325 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg
              9580 KIM 250 kW / 285 deg
              9610 NAK 250 kW / 020 deg
              9855 SLA 250 kW / 060 deg
             11795 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg
             11980 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg

U.K.(non)   Additional SW txions of BBC in Hindi from April 18:
0100-0130 on  6065 SLA 250 kW / 060 deg
              9425 SLA 250 kW / 060 deg
             11995 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg
             13745 TAC 200 kW / 131 deg
             15510 NAK 250 kW / 280 deg
0230-0300 on 11995 SLA 250 kW / 100 deg
             15660 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg
             17510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg
             17655 NVS 250 kW / 195 deg
1700-1730 on  5910 SLA 250 kW / 060 deg, but really not active at 1720 UTC!
              7460 NAK 250 kW / 280 deg, but really not active at 1720 UTC!
              9605 CYP 250 kW / 090 deg, but really not active at 1720 UTC!
             11740 NAK 250 kW / 275 deg, but really not active at 1720 UTC!

Glenn Hauser logs April 17, 2011

** CHINA. Firedrake April 17:
 7970, fair at 1237. Again nothing on 8400, replaced by this?
10300, good at 1250, much stronger than 10965/10970; poor at 1316
10965, poor at 1248 // 10970 about equal level; poor at 1316; poor at 1333, obscured by stronger // 10970, also // 16980
10970, poor at 1248 // 10965 about equal level; gone at 1316; back on good at 1332 // 14950
11150, open carrier with Firedrake-like flutter 1245-1246* Else?
13920, poor at 1253; poor at 1352 with RTTY QRM
14700, fair at 1253 and not // 10300
14950, good at 1327
15430, fair at 1339 // 16100; vs V. of Tibet via UAE

15560, fair at 1349 // 16100, before Portugal is on from 1400. What`s to jam here? HFCC shows: ``15560 1300 1400 44 DB 100 70 1234567 270311 291011 D TJK NEW WRN 16445 res`` -- I guess that means in reserve. However, Aoki shows:
15559 1330-1342 TJK * VOICE OF TIBET Chi Dushanbe-Ya 1-7 
15562 1335-1407 TJK * VOICE OF TIBET Tib Dushanbe-Ya 1-7

15670, sometimes with FD, but not now at 1349, something in Chinese(?). Maybe 15560 was a mispunch for this? Or CNR1 jamming instead against R. Free Asia in Tibetan via Tajikistan

16100, good at 1328 and // 16980; better than 16980 at 1333; was listening to 16100 when it cut off at 1400*
16980, good at 1256, fair at 1327; // 10965, 10970, 16100 at 1333
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 6010, April 17 at 0522, open carrier from RHC, vs Colombo-Méxican hets underneath. 6050 was OK with RHC English. Note to transmitter operators: both modulation and carrier are necessary to complete the mission. Put this reminder on a post-it on the unit. O, they probably don`t have post-its in ancient Cuba, a modern luxury.

15120, Sunday April 17 at 1335, RHC `En Contacto` DX program, an echo apart from 15230 but not from // 15360 with monthly report from Pedro Sedano, Spain, including the schedule of HCJB on 6050! Naturally, no mention that RHC is blocking it for at least 4 hours a night despite pleas to get off.

Later he has a more intriguing item: From Mexico, Radio Insurgente is broadcasting Saturdays at 09-10 UT on 6000; see http://www.radioinsurgente.org website. This Chiapan clandestine was in the news several years ago, but no one (?) ever reported really hearing it. Is it back, or is this extremely stale info?

Anyhow it has quite a website, ``Radio Insurgente, la voz de los sin voz, voz del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, transmitiendo desde las montañas del sureste mexicano`` but `new` latest audio is dated 20 April 2009! The page ``Programas semanales de Onda Corta`` says:

``Estos programas de Radio Insurgente están dirigidos a la sociedad civil nacional e internacional. Se transmiten semanalmente, todos los sábados a las 15:00 horas (hora del centro de México GMT-6) en la frecuencia 6.0 MHz en la banda de 49 metros. Cada programa tiene una duración de aproximadamente una hora. Puedes escucharlos o bajarlos para su retransmisión. Para escucharlos haz clic en Escuchar. Para bajarlos haz clic en el botón derecho del ratón (con la opción "guardar como").``

So it says Saturdays 1500 local time = 2100 UT, not 0900, mis-converted! Except local time is now UT -5 = 2000 UT, in stark daylight when 6000 if really on the air is not going to penetrate very far even with decent power which this is unlikely to enjoy. Unless RHC lend them a transmitter, a theory we have always doubted. And the broadcasts listed on this page are from no later than 2008y.

Back to RHC itself: being Sunday, 13750 fired up instead of 13680, and // 13780 with own programming at 1415; no signals on 15370 (which did have a suspicious open carrier at 1338), or 17750. Further check at 1550 found none of the `Aló, Presidente` frequencies on the air.

For once the A,P website, with a misspelt URL,
http://www.alopresidente.gob.ve/info/2/2093/%5Caluepresidente%5Cno_serutransmitido_por.html

provides some date-specific info, that it will not be aired April 17 or 24: ``El programa dominical "Aló, Presidente", conducido por el comandante Hugo Chávez, no será transmitido este domingo 17 de abril, debido al asueto de semana santa.

La información la suministró el ministro del Poder Popular para la Comunicación y la Información, Andrés Izarra, a través de su usuario en la red social Twitter, @izarradeverdad.

El programa del presidente, es el espacio comunicacional más importante del país, y cuenta con una alta audiencia. La suspensión del mismo, también se extiende al domingo 24 de abril`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 15245, April 17 at 0526 some nice guitar music causes me to pause, but it`s mixed with talk in German. Seems like a clash of two stations; 0527 the German changes to YL singing; 0529 Chinese mixed with German. Per HFCC this is only CRI`s German service, 05-07, 500 kW, 308 degrees from Wulumuchi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE [and non]. 15630, April 17 at 0534, VOG with usual Sunday-morning Greek Orthodox off-key singing; at 0532 was also hearing 15595, Vatican Radio with similar but more tuneful singing in mass, then speaking Latin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15530, April 17 at 0531 something in Spanish, poor with flutter, then into Qur`an, à la VRII, and so it is, the 0530-0630 Spanish to Europe, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. R. Insurgente, EZLN clandestine: see CUBA [and non]

** PALAU. 9930, April 17 at 1312, co-channel QRM between singing and  a YL preacher mentioning her sked on various stations including KFNX 1100 (which keeps spamming me to buy time for WORLD OF RADIO), and offering free! bookmark with her schedule on request from 95252 ---
No! It`s not CCI, but deliberate programming, for at 1314 both stop and WHR promo starts in the clear including long-distance phone number 011+. Is anyone really going to phone South Bend from Pacificasia?? 1315 ``Easy English Studies`` by reading Psalm XXIII, follow along in your Bible --- but which of countless versions? That could be quite confusing unless they match. ``I shall not want``? What does that mean? Virtually the opposite of current usage. Archaic! HFCC shows ``HBN`` which really means T8WH, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Koror (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 12070, fair April 17 at 0537, ``For Me & My Gal``, then Russian announcement. R. Rossii sure plays a lot of American music - good for them, and us. HFCC shows 250 kW, 265 degrees from Moscow at 04-08. Meanwhile I checked VOR English to NAm on 13775 and they were talking about microörganisms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 11880 via COSTA RICA, Sunday April 17 at 1233, REE `Amigos de la Onda Corta` has just started, mentioning some Radio Habana Cuba frequencies, one of which does not ring true, if I heard it right, so later at 1520 I try to listen to the latest show via http://programasdx.com/amigosdelaondacorta.htm
but it`s still last week`s program --- and the page still shows both wrong times for it.

AOC also audible much weaker on the other two CR frequencies, 5970 mixed with YFR via Komsomol`sk/Amure, and 11815 mixed with Japan. At 1251 I come across AOC on better 13720 direct from Noblejas in mailbag segment subtitled ``hemos recibido cartas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, April 17 at 0524 another check of the jammings against R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR: once again the continuous tone from another carrier also producing a subaudible heterodyne; 13730 with oscillating tone and pulsing, quite a bit weaker. Are they aware of this back in Hilversum, and thinking of doing anything about it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3185, April 17 at 0520 WWRB still with E-Persian Radio from Los Angeles rather than Brother Scare, traditional Persian music. But by next check at 1235 on day frequency 9385, back to the doom & gloom of BS. The fun is done! Now the LDPOG is // but not synchronized with 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, April 17 at 1247, squealing WEWN transmitter nicely fills in the long boring pauses during daily morning TV mass live simulcast, with nothing else but an occasional cough. Even so, the order of the mass is to say the least, extremely predictable, so why keep doing it over and over? God likes his followers to be in a rut? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1560 monitoring: 9955, WRMI, Sunday April 17 at 1550 check, cannot detect anything more than a carrier altho not jammed; but confirmed on webcast. WRMI is still not able to use its NW antenna, and we often suspect it`s also on the backup 5 kW transmitter instead of 50. Next airings are: Sun 1730, Mon 1130, 2130, Tue 1530, Wed 0100, 1530.

Thanks to Ivan Huziak, who checked WOR reception in Karlovac, Croatia:

``Hello Mr. Glenn Hauser, This is reception report of your show World of Radio on Friday April 15, 2011 and Saturday April 16, 2011:
Friday   20:30 UTC on 15825 - no signal
Saturday 16:00 UTC on 12160 - no signal
Saturday 18:00 UTC on 7290 SINPO is: 44455
Saturday 18:00 UTC on 1566 and 1368 MW - no signal
Receiver: Toshiba RT-6390 (made in 1977 year)
Antenna: Whip antenna 90 cm long``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. No `Aló, Presidente` this Sunday or next: CUBA ###

Glenn Hauser logs April 16-17, 2011

** ALBANIA [and non]. 13640, April 16 at 2023 check, heavy collision at equal levels still between R. Tirana, rightful occupant, English to North America, and usurper All India Radio, French to Europe. RT is aware of the problem now ongoing for a semimonth, and being urged to move, but the bureaucracy takes its time; meanwhile it`s unlistenable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. Big day in Habana, tough luck for RHC languages ---
RHC has blown away its regular programming today April 16, for live coverage of the opening of the sixth Communist Party Congress (only five before now?). Raúl just started speaking at 2000+ on 11760, weaker 12020, 12040, frequencies which are normally off the air at this hour, and on 17560, Spanish instead of French before 20, instead of Portuguese after 20, and colliding as usual with VOA Bonaire in French until 2030. It`s a momentous day, he says, also 50th anniversary of the victory at Playa Girón.

For the other side of the story, at 1959 I checked Radio Martí on 11930, audible above the jamming: but they were talking about exoplanets. How far away can you get from today`s Cuba?

Tnx to a tip from Joe Buch, here`s CO2-caca on NBC Nightly News, a 3-minute video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/ns/nightly_news/#42623970
Coro only makes a brief appearance toward the end, but, that`s him, about repelling the invaders a semicentury ago (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 15630, April 16 at 1759, rock music from VOG, Greek announcement, poor signal. No Metropolitan Opera live this week! It was too good to be true, on the SW air last Saturday only due to a strike disrupting normal programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9385, kept checking WWRB from time to time the afternoon of April 16, since all morning it was carrying E-Persian Radio from Los Angeles, instead of Brother Stair, as in previous report.

Yes, still with EPR at 1800, 1951, except for brief legal ID break at 2000, then Persian drama(?). Persian pop music at 2047. By next check 2346, 3185 was on instead, and STILL it`s Persian music, poor signal in noise this early, and no BS except on WWCR 9980. UT Sunday April 17: 0126, 3186 now good with Persian song, and 0336 still Persian music. Meanwhile, WWRB`s regular programming in English is now running on 2390/5050. Will EPR be on 3185 all night, and Sunday morning on 9385 again?

Since this has gone on for at least 15 hours, I am beginning to think that just possibly, it`s intentional and WWRB has deliberately replaced BS with EPR. But it`s still quite a coincidence that they are on the same transponder. What does the WWRB website program schedule show? Ha, it hasn`t been updated in months, still showing WORLD OF RADIO et al. on 3185, no listing for 2390, and BS all day on 9385.

Scenario: even if a human being is operating WWRB rather than just automation, they can`t stand to listen to him, and haven`t even turned up a monitor all day to discover they are broadcasting something else.  Is anyone paying attention in Manchester, or Walterboro?

Overcomer also still thinx it`s on 9385 and 3185:
ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
I can`t help but wonder if I am the only listener who has noticed this or who ``cares``. If Stair had any audience at all, they would surely be deluging him with complaints and inquiries about this strange programming on ``his`` frequencies, obviously work of the devil. Meanwhile, spread the word to all your Persian friends while this last (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs rom WDX6AA

ARGENTINA Radio Argentina Exterior-RAE 15345 2353 GMT Spanish 333 April 12 Two OMs with comments. Suddenly off the air at 2354 GMT.

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton-RA 17715 0017 GMT English 433 April 13 YL and OM with news items. //17795[444]Shepparton.

BONAIRE Radio Japan Relay-NHK 15265 2350 Japanese 333 April 12 Two OMs in a conversation, also a YL heard often.

CHINA CPBS??? 15385 0012 GMT Chinese 333 April 13 YL and OM with comments.

CUBA Radio Havana Cuba-RHC 15370 0008 GMT Spanish 433 April 13 Two YLs with comments.

KOREA, South Radio Canada Intl Relay-RCI 9685 0026 GMT Chinese 333 April 13 YL with comments.

SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana-REE 9620 0027 GMT Spanish 333 April 13 YL with comments. China CPBS in Chinese heard in the background with a YL with comments.

THAILAND BBCWS Relay 15360 2359 GMT English 333 April 12 Bells ringing, OM with BBCWS ID 2359 GMT. Then a YL with World News plus an OM who ID'd as BBCNews.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
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 15-16, 2011

** ALBANIA. 13625, April 16 at 0527 just after monitoring R. Dabanga on 13620 --- see SUDAN [non], I notice that a station has appeared on 13625 which was vacant a few minutes earlier: playing jazz music, variations on ``Hit the Road, Jack``. What in the world? YL then mentions Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis. Shortly, several IDs for Radio Tirana, and a www. website; ``Ju Flet Tirana``, songs. Fair-good signal, flutter, good modulation. Slightly on the low side of 13625- compared to Vatican on 11625 (which could have been on the hi side). But Tirana cut off 13625 at 0536:40*.

This also explains my previous ``UNIDENTIFIED. 13625, April 6 at 0518 open carrier between Dabanga 13620 and Australia 13630, and I think there was some modulation on it before 0515; nothing listed by HFCC or Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

R. Tirana is not scheduled on 13625 at this time, only for the English to NAm at 1430-1500 Mon-Sat. Evidently tests are carried out much earlier relaying domestic service in Albanian, which really does not start on SW until 0630 on 7390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 11700, April 15 at 0129 ID as ``Radio Bulgarie Internationale``, so we have another RBI? In English it`s just R. Bulgaria. Checking their French site,
http://bnr.bg/sites/fr/Pages/default.aspx
We also see only ``Radio Bulgarie`` and no Internationale, so maybe the announcer was really saying non-capitalized ``internationale`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 16:
 7970, poor at 1242; a new one tnx to SOH, and not on 8400, to 1300*
 9170, sounded like Firedrake music, but not // others, and 1300 CJKT spoken ID. Aoki says the CNR-6 service from Beijing 491 site
10300, fair at 1257-1259* off a minute before not // 7970
14700, VG at 1326 and // VP 7970 back on
15670, poor at 1328 mixing with something, i.e. RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan, and // 14700; no others up to 17 MHz by 1330
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX ISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. Re my previous report: ``17560, April 14 at 2019, RHC Arabic still colliding with VOA French via Bonaire, and at the moment way atop it here, far outside the target zone of both.`` --- my original log notes do show Arabic, but RHC should be Portuguese during this semihour, then Arabic from 2030. Not sure now whether it was my mistake or theirs.

6010, 6050, 6060, 6150, April 16 at 0547 RHC English playing some really wild avant-garde music including various percussive sounds and video-game firing noises; 0550 cut to `Ed Newman` promoting their `Real Audio` linx on website, as if it were something new and we needed that because of poor SW reception on the overkilled 49m band. He insists on calling this Real Audio even tho it`s Windows Media! Then 2 YLs mumble their names with final ``newscast`` starting with, what else, Posada Carriles not being prosecuted by the US as Cuba demands, or extradited to Venezuela.

13880, first noted on leapfrog mixing product, but much stronger on 13780 and 13680, April 16 at 1323 RHC seems live from rally on the Plaza mentioning also broadcast by R. Cadena Habana and R. Metropolitana, commemorating some event 50 years ago today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 13695, April 16 at 0526, French much stronger than RA 13690. In many nights of bandscanning around this time, first time I have heard something here beside Australia, tho RFI supposedly scheduled since A-11 began at 0500-0600, 500 kW, 155 degrees from Issoudun (and also at 04-05, 136 degrees) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 9695, April 16 at 1250 song about Fukushima, apparently by an amateur singer, then Thai announcement, from R. Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650, KBSWR via CANADA, April 16 at 1253-1256 with ``listening tips`` from Kevin O`Donovan, Farmington NM, including: R. Bulgaria tests coming up; Ozyradio 5050, barely heard in W NAm around 1000 --- I wonder where he read about those? He never credits his sources. AFAIK, Ron Howard, DXLD, is the only one who has heard it over here so far. Also apps for DW and a repeater-finder; NBA and NHL playoffs on XM/Sirius. A few weeks ago I didn`t hear Kevin on this Saturday slot, but he`s still there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MONACO [non]. 7220, April 16 at 0545 TWR chime IS, into Slavic language, fair signal. HFCC shows 0545-0615 daily in Polish/Czech, 100 kW, 65 degrees from ``Monte Carlo`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, April 16 at 1410, Hamada Radio International via Wertachtal, fair signal, but no sign of extra frequency 17860 as scheduled, which was on the air April 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 14268-USB, April 16 at 0539, RL3A working all over in contest, including a TI, ZL, VE7, W`s; uses fonetix Radio London, and also Romeo Lima. Name is Slava, in Moscow. QRZ.com shows:
RL3A
Amateur Radio Club ROSTO
Sosnovaya alleya, dom 4, stroyenie 1
Moscow, Zelenograd, 124489
Russia
See website: http://www.rk3awl.ru/index-e.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. 11500, April 16 at 1322 talk in S Asian language, hum. Aoki shows VOR in Hindi via TAJIKISTAN at 13-14. That`s missing from HFCC, instead listing R. Bulgaria DRM at 10-18, fortunately not really in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 9630, REE via COSTA RICA, VG UT Sat April 16 at 0510 with DX program `Amigos de la Onda Corta` in progress, Antonio Buitrago with program ID, interviewing proprietor of http://www.guiadelaradio.com which is all about domestic radio in Spain: weekly magazine whose issues are linked in html rather than pdf! Also has button for English translation.

Weekly publicity about this DX program has been showing time as 0630 Sat, and the other time also wrong as 1330 Sunday instead of 1230, which I have already confirmed. So I sent this to the noticiasdx and other lists:

``Ambas horas citadas para este programa son erróneas! ¿Puede ser que aun Sr. Buitrago no sabe en qué horas transmite su espacio?

Desde comienzos de la temporada A-11, escucho la emisión del domingo a las 1230 TU en todas las frecuencias habituales, y no a las 1330. Hoy sábado pude averiguar que la otra emisión está en el aire a las 0505, y no a las 0630! Esto acontece cada vez que se cambian las temporadas. El esquema de programación de REE se renueva sin publicarlo con veracidad. Solo hay que: sintonizar. 73, Guillermo Glenn Hauser``

The 0505 Saturday broadcast was also coming in well, direct from Noblejas on 11890, less well on // 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, again April 16 at 0517 ID, and has tone QRM, worst yet, also producing heavy SAH. Seems the pitch of the tone varies a little bit, presumed jamming from Sudan. Dabanga finished at 0527, tone continued a while longer.

13730, Dabanga`s other frequency via UAE, itself unheard, but also again with the completely different jamming, at 0519-0526+; has more of a ringing sound than previous nights, mixed with other oscillating pitches, pulsing timed at the rate of 76 per minute but slightly irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15580, after hearing VOA English a few times in the 05-06 hour, lately attributed to BOTSWANA, no sign of it UT Sat April 16 at 0524, when 19m had various other signals including Nigeria 15120 with CCI. Has VOA moved again? Or M-F only? Latest HFCC for IBB
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=IBB
still shows 15580 as 05-07 daily from Moepeng Hill since April 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9385, April 16 at 1301 instead of Brother Scare`s Sabbath on WWRB, flutish music, Farsi announcement mentioning ``Irani``, then plucked string music, adding tabla and from 1306 male vocal. Wonderful dreamy, trance-like music; 1317 other ME music, slow tempo with YL singer, a world apart from Martha Garvin belting out Jesus tunes on 7490. 9385 remained with music-only, no announcements until 1350.

Since WWRB doesn`t always make the switch from 3185 by 1300, at first I wondered if it was something else, but nothing else is scheduled on 9385 between 12 and 21, and this big signal has to be WWRB. Anyhow, nothing audible on 3185 which probably would not be propagating this late. I posted these notices to the dxldyg without delay:

``WWRB 9385 is relaying Persian Radio out of Los Angeles, instead of Brother Scare. Great music without interruption April 16 1300-1350, then adstring, 1400+ news and talk. Still going at 1423. Presumably plugged into wrong satellite feed. Much more detail in my upcoming
log report.

9385 is // and only about a second apart from this webfeed:
http://www.epersianradio.com/
Perhaps on Lyngsat we can find adjacent or similarly-numbered satellite channels to Brother Scare.

At 1400-1434+ they are in turn relaying Kol Israel`s Persian broadcast! Which should also be direct on 11595 and 13850, unchecked here yet.

Yes! Both Persian Radio and The Overcomer are on Galaxy 19, Transponder 14, 11966H: http://www.lyngsat.com/galaxy19.html
Glenn``

BS was heard as usual on WWCR 9980. 9385 is at S9+22. After all that music it`s time to bombard us with commercials from 1350: ``Yih Sedaye Persian Radio``, ads with phone numbers including 011+ pronounced in English, rest of the number in Persian. 1352 ad with Carmina Burana theme music, 1354 double-trips, or Double Tree? 1355 pharmacy; 1356 India Gate; Design Center, InfoServices, Los Angeles; 1358 mentioned ``hash tag`` for which there is apparently no Persian term. 1359 Renaissance Catering. Tho there are English names and terms mixed in, it`s all in Persian, except mention of ``International Music Foundation, non-profit foundation``, also heard in a following hour.

1400 interrupted by quick WWRB legal ID by Dave Frantz, evidently automated and nobody notices yet they are broadcasting this instead of Brother Scare. 1401 jingle acout Canada, 1-800-NEXT-BEST(?), Anaheim mentioned now and several other times. 1402 ``Persian Radio, Idar, Los Angeles``.

1403 ``Shabat Shalom`` and news centered on Israel, mentioning Obama,, Netanyahu, Falestin, helicopter, Assad, Bahrein. With music background for a couple minutes, then just continuous talk by YL from 1405. 1434 mentions kolisrael.com  So I realize that this is a direct relay of Kol Israel`s Persian service which is also on SW. No doubt the words ``Shabat Shalom`` are banned from IRIB.

I then match the audio here to epersianradio.com as above, running about one second behind WWRB. I continue listening mainly on web but with 9385 on in background with pre-echo. 1452 finally back to some music; 1500 another break on 9385 for quick WWRB ID, more Persian. 1501 another program Sedaye – something, also mentions Israel, local to LA? 1524 back to music. 1528 ``Inja Persian Radio``, more ads and some music; 1544 Persian pop music; 1555 mentions Radio Israel, so maybe it`s almost two hours from Jersualem. 1600 did not catch any WWRB ID, then to a commentary about Iran phoned in, I think from someone in New York. All this still going on 9385 and webcast at 1630 when I quit. Final check at 1738 before dispatching this report: 9385 still with Persian, no BS!

Apparently this E-Persian Radio is a satellite/web station only, not related to the big AM station in LA, KIRN 670. Thanks, Dave, for improving your programming by many orders of magnitude. Hope you`ll do it again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1560 monitoring: confirmed on 15825 WWCR, Friday April 15 at 2030, but very weak. MUCH stronger signals from other US stations at similar distances but different direxions and azimuths: 15610 WEWN, and even 15550-USB WJHR had greater signal! WWCR is registered for 46 degree antenna, to CIRAF zones 4, 9, 27, 37-39, which means Canada east of 90W, Western Europe, North Africa, Middle East. I hope that`s really where reception is solid.

12160, WWCR, 1600 UT Saturday broadcast of WOR confirmed April 16, excellent reception here with heavily-processed audio on #2 transmitter. Final repeat to be Sunday 0630 on 3215.

I again ask for some informal reports from Europe and vicinity about reception quality of WORLD OF RADIO Saturday at 1800 on 7290 via IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS-IBA. Any co- or adjacent-channel interference?

BTW, the only WOR broadcast on WBCQ, 7415 checked on webcast, was at 2130 Wednesday April 13 rather than 2115 or 2100. Lately this has been carrying a week-old show as the new one is not quite ready at that time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, open carrier from WBCQ, April 16 at 0136: here we go again, with hours and hours of dead air like last night? No, at 0142, low-distorted modulation became audible and gradually strengthened to normal level in a few minutes. Axually, since I was sleeping rather than monitoring between 0430 and 0935 April 15, I cannot swear that there was never any audio in that 5-hour period and other breaks between my chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

La verita' su Arissat-1

Per chi e' interessato a capire che cosa e' successo, anzi che cosa non e' successo, con il satelite Arissat-1 qui

http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?293273-ARISSat-1-not-heard-during-Gagarin-commemoration

c'e' un lungo report in inglese che spiega tutte le procedure relative al satellite, leggendo si capisce che c'e' una specie di conflitto tra russi e americani per l'uso del satellite e che l'attivazione del 12 aprile e' stata fatta dai russi..non informando l'amsat e non seguendo le procedure....

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Ascolti FM

Ascolti FM (ora italiana)

Martedì 12 aprile 2011
Prima che cominci la migrazione turistica quaresimale - ma qualche timido segnale già era tangibile - sono tornato un paio d'ore a Santo Stefano d'Aveto per il completamento del bandscan FM.
Tra 92 e 108 MHz, sempre con la Degen modificata ho racimolato ancora qualche decina di nuovi ascolti, in prevalenza sempre dal nord Italia, però questa volta la propagazione era un po' più debole perché la RAI dal Monte Venda-PD arrivava più bassa rispetto all'8 aprile, forse era più spostata verso il basso Piemonte. In totale comunque, nell'elenco di S. Stefano d'Aveto, disponibile già aggiornato agli iscritti del gruppo Yahoo! tigullioamfm_dx, mi pare ci siano quasi 300 impianti FM ricevibili.
L'unico ascolto interessante, tuttavia, l'ho fatto in pullman al ritorno, in località Cabanne dove c'è un pianoro tra le montagne nel quale hanno ricavato anche una piattaforma per l'elisoccorso. Naturalmente non in elicottero (HI!), però non è detto che se potrò ci vada perché ho addocchiato delle panchine nel verde niente male.
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17.01 - 87.700 MHz
RADIO TRS - Giovenzana-Colle Brianza (Lecco)
Italiano, saluti e IDs OM/YL.
Segnale buono


Luca Botto Fiora

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QSL Democratic Voice of Burma

Democratic Voice of Burma 11515 KHz  - P.O.Box 6720 . St. Olavs Plass - 0130 Oslo - Norvegia con lettera in 401 giorni. v/s Nanthikarn Khetcharatsaeng Executive Administration Officer. 1 IRC.

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Glenn Hauser logs April 14-15, 2011

** ANGUILLA. 6090, April 15 at 1008 UT, DGS is still pontificating past nominal 1000 switch to day frequency 11775, and even at 1019, but gone at next check 1031; by 1046, 11775 was on air with successor PMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, after LRA36`s official reactivation yesterday, I am listening again April 15 from 1229, with vocal music already in progress. After a pause, 1232 sign-on by YL, program `Amanecer Austral` (southern dawn), then talk mixed with same happy theme song heard yesterday, ``Soy Feliz``. 1242, LRA36 ID in passing with music.

Signal is a bit better than April 14, reading S9 to peaks of S9+10. 4-kHz het from 15480 is also stronger so helps to side-tune-down a bit. Still good with mostly music at 1305, 1329 chex, but by 1358 has declined to JBA, S4-9 at best. Perhaps peak reception area has shifted to west coast as Ron Howard was getting it after 1408 yesterday but weaker and weaker.

The April 14 audio clip I linked in previous report via Roberto Scaglione, he says was made ``in Argentina by our contributor Marcello Caneva``, and must have started around 1230. Listening to that
http://www.bclnews.it/110414-15476-1230z.mp3
there is a lot of spoken info. The three women announcing ``en la producción y conducción`` are Lidia Guzmán, Mónica García [the 41-year-old nurse], and Vanesa ---. Their husbands are involved in base support., etc.

They agree they are at 63 degrees south, and the schedule after this `first broadcast` is M-F 9:30-12 [1230-1500 UT]. Also mentioned names of several other people involved including: Dirección, Teniente Coronel Guillermo Bolger(?); Coordinación General de la Radio, Teniente Coronel Pablo González. Phone 0810-222-0760 (or 0770?), and added 02-16, as extension? Totally different from the one in WRTH 2011. E-mail LRA36 @ infovia.com.ar which is the address I have used twice recently without any reply.

Clarifying the phone number above, Horacio A. Nigro in Uruguay says: According to http://www.marambio.aq/radioarcangelsangabriel.html  the phone nr. is 0810-222-0770. There appears another email address: lra36esperanza@yahoo.com.ar

I`m afraid much of the info on that page should be considered historical rather than current. I wonder how much power they are using now, what kind of antenna and direxionality? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ARGENTINA. 6060, April 15 at 1024, Andean music, very weak compared to Nikkei 6055 adjacent. Then talk on 6060 also sounds like Japanese. 1030 timesignal and continues talk in Japanese. Thought it might be from Asia, until consulted Aoki, not HFCC, reminding us that RAE does do Japanese here at 10-11. I wonder how well that makes it to Japan, considering the competition; see also JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6020, April 15 at 0944, heavy collision between R. Australia, and RNW in Dutch via BONAIRE, at 0930-1000, reduced weekends to only -0957. I am rather amazed that several stations choose to collide with RA on 6020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11780, RNA, April 14 at 2354 as I tuned across was finishing a promo about inaugurating a new 50 kW MW transmitter at 7 am local on April 18 for RNB, then ID for this as ``Rádio Nacional Amazônia, Brasília, uma emissora EBC – Empresa Brasil de Comunicação``.

If a frequency was mentioned for the new 50 kW, I missed it. Don`t see anything about it on website http://www.ebc.com.br/ but may refer to RNB 800 kHz, as the Amazon MW frequency 980 has a 250 kW transmitter run at somewhat lower power, and 50 kW would hardly be anything to brag about there. However, WRTH 2011 shows 800 as Rádio MEC with 10/1 kW in Brasília and 100 kW no Rio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11855, April 15 at 0957 ``Aparecida`` ID in passing, with usual low het we also hear in other dayparts since this station is always off-frequency. I suppose the competition was WYFR in Spanish, so lucky to have surpassed it; also on 11855 for long hours is Saudi Arabia. 11765 SRDA was in better, but who wants to listen to David Miranda wail? Besides himself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. Lots of watts wasted with open carriers during my April 15 monitoring, including 9625 with hum, CBCNQ transmitter still on the air at 0509 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [non] Martí; RUSSIA; USA: WBCQ; UNIDENTIFIED 17730

** CHINA. Firedrake April 15:
15900, good at 1245
10300, good at 1250
10970, fair at 1250
No others found between 19 and 8 MHz. 15900 reception strength and fading was very much like CRI English on 17490, Chinese on 17650 before 1300, making me suspect the same site for this Firedrake, i.e. Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954.2, April 15 at 0942, R. República surprisingly good in Spanish with only lite pulse jamming under, while heavy DentroCuban jamming fell upon R. Martí 5980, 6030 and 9805 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [and non]

** CUBA [and non]. 17560, April 14 at 2019, RHC Arabic still colliding with VOA French via Bonaire, and at the moment way atop it here, far outside the target zone of both.

9620, April 15 at 0321, RHC with Fidel way over original occupant REE, making a heavy SAH. Both are to South America, and a collision likely to endure as isolated Arnie is obstinant once he has picked a bad frequency, and REE is not known for being willing to move to solve such problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 9805, April 15 at 0937 R. Martí over heavy jamming. At 0945, 5980 was over jaming and 6030 about equal to jamming, during item about béisbol. 7405 without RM at this time, still had jamming pulses. Extracted from latest HFCC, the full RM schedule via Greenville, daily except truce 03-09 UT Mondays:
22-13  6030
00-01 11775 plus 01-03 Sackville
00-03  7365
03-07  7405
07-12  5980
09-13  9805
12-14  7405
13-17 11845
13-20 13820 plus 20-22 Sackville
14-24 11930
17-24  9565
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also COSTA RICA [and non]

** CZECHIA [non]. R. Prague regains a daily English relay via WRMI at 1400 on 9955, replacing France: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9315, April 15 at 0310, R. Cairo, English, good modulation on music, fair on talk, of course much better than neighboring R. Cairo in Arabic on 9305. 0322, YL ID as ``North American service of Radio Cairo beamed to the eastern coast``. Now it has modulation spikes from 9305 QRMing.

As for 9305, at 0420 with Qur`an somewhat less distorted, 0430 Arabic talk more distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 7375, April 15 at 1003 VG signal with news in Spanish about more corpses found in Durango, Mexican state ``en la frontera con Estados Unidos``! Durango is NOT a border state. I am not impressed with RFI, in this 1000-1030 relay, 250 kW, 305 degrees via GUIANA FRENCH. And like NHK on 6120, why such an early broadcast? RFI`s official CIRAF target area extends to New Mexico, where it`s only 4 am (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI --- no longer relaying RFI at all

** GREECE [and non]. 9420, April 15 at 0312, good with Greek music and announcements; can`t hear any IRIB underneath, which started the season colliding all the way from 1630 to 0530; is it still there? Probably. John Babbis in Maryland is still reporting co-channel QRM around 2300-0200+ but no worse than I=4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, April 15 at 1033, R. Verdad already on the air with hymn, 1035 sermon in Spanish with musical background. 1042 daily Bible reading mentioning ``la buena ceniza``(?). Somewhat distorted and overmodulated, good signal for 700 watts at S9+18.

Normal sign on is circa 1130, nominally 1100. At first I wondered if Guatemala had gone on DST as sometimes happens, but no; then I suspect it`s something to do with Good Friday, maybe a pre-sunrise service? Usual late-Sunday sign-on may also be earlied for Easter. I also asked Dr Madrid about it and her replies:

``It is a SURPRISE to me too. I suppose Mary Zacarías got confused with her time. Our schedules are:
Monday through Saturday: 1100 to 0605 UT
Sunday: 1250 to 0400 UT
Thank you for listening. Dr. Édgar Madrid, Radio Truth, Chiquimula, Guatemnala`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 17715, April 15 at 0410 S Asian popsong, poor with flutter; 0414 announcement, hum, 0415 AIR ID, and news. Delhi (Khampur) site, 250 kW, 245 degrees, is scheduled to be going from Hindi to Gujarati at 0415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ISRAEL [non]. 9955, Israel Radio relay via WRN via WRMI is gone, April 15 at 0511, instead a gospel huxter in Spanish, and with moderate jamming, the wall of noise about equal to the pulsing. Had been M-F at 0500-0515, (or 0600-0615 before DST).

WRMI has just put up a new program schedule dated April 15 which shows this as `Buscando Verdad` plus other 15-minute programs Mon-Thu. See USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 6055, April 15 at 1028 as I was checking out the Japanese on 6060 [ARGENTINA], R. Nikkei was partly in English, outro as having been from the Society for Testing English Proficiency, Inc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MICRONESIA [and non]. 4755.4, April 15 at 0940, JBA carrier, presumed PMA The Cross, by carefully comparing to WTWW 5755.0, 1.000 MHz lower on FRG-7 BFO; WTWW carrier, BTW is as usual slightly unstable, hard to zero-beat exactly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 17860, April 15 at 1400 carrier, 1400:20 percussion and Hamada Radio International opening ID, about equal to // 21480 which is weaker than usual, but the latter improving after 1405. 17860 is the new April 15-21 extra frequency for the 1400-1430 broadcast during an elexion week in Nigeria, both 125 kW due south from Wertachtal, GERMANY. See my previous report for full schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 11955 // weaker 11795, April 14 at 2346 a Beethoven piano concerto at frenetic tempo. I can`t pull myself away from a welcome bit of classical music on SW, even tho I know it must be RRI, and they will disrespectfully dump out of it before it`s over: seems like the coda is almost complete when they do fade it out at 2352 to talk Spanish about an oratorio involved in EBU concerts to be performed April 17, and then some of that. HFCC shows RRI Spanish at 23-24:
11795, 300 kW, 280 degrees from Galbeni
11955, 300 kW, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti –
So 11795 is aimed further north than 11955; why is it weaker? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 15110, April 15 at 0346 open carrier, somewhat less flutter than Saudi 15170; still OC past 0400. Next check 0416 YL in Russian, lo-fi and muffled. Turning on carrier that early is SOP for Tatarstan Wave, A-11 scheduled 0410-0500, 250 kW, 60 degrees from Samara to Far East, per DX-Mix News.

12065, April 15 at 1338 interview in English, OM subject sounds American. Too poor to follow, 1349 VOR ID. HFCC shows 500 kW, 205 degrees via Chita at 1100-1400. Aoki breaks this down as English 11-12 and 13-14 with Vietnamese in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 15170, April 15 at 0345 HQS with, what else, Qur`an beautifully sung, fair with flutter and no CCI yet. It`s stronger by 0359 but now I can tell modulation is somewhat distorted and splattering. One of those defective BSKSA transmitters. Well, they have some new DRM-capable ones which will do even more damage if employed in that mode. Best to hear this during the first hour from 0300, as after 0400 CRI can clash via Kashgar, East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** SPAIN [and non]. Since various versions of the REE A-11 schedule are unreliable and contradictory, I check out the alleged Catalan/Galician/Basque token newscasts shown on one at 2330-2345 M-F: April 14 at 2330 yes, in Catalan, 2335 sea-shanty theme and into Gallego, but 2340 back into Castilian with other programming; audible on all four frequencies on air at this time, in decreasing quality: 11680, 9535, 9620, 15160. All these are direct, so no one can benefit from the CR relay in the Americas! Basque was removed from the mix six months ago when it got its own expanded separate slot.

In B-10 Catalan and Galician were repeated at a secret time, 0505-0515, discovered by WRTH, so I check 6055, and Costa Rica 5965, 3350, April 15 at 0505, but no, some music, and from 0506 a Castilian program, `Mundo Solidario`, starting with murders in Ciudad Juárez, and DX host Antonio Buitrago billed as one of the participants later in the hour. So if there is a repeat of ``co-official languages`` benefiting from CR relays, it is at some other time, maybe 0405? But there was no one-hour shift for the original airing.

BTW, 9630 CR was already blasting DRM noise as early as 2357 before scheduled *0000-0200* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA: collision on 9620

** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, April 15 at 0514, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, VG signal but with continuous tone underneath. Last night I only caught the end of the broadcast until 0527 and tone until 0529* so supposed it was at tail of AIR Arabic as scheduled 0430-0530, but if the tone is already there at 0514, it`s more likely deliberate jamming from Sudan, rather less effective than the grind and whine on Dabanga`s other frequency, 13730 via UAE. That pulsing amounted to 72 times per minute vs 78 last nite, and this time there were no breaks every 15 seconds. I reconfirmed it is just modulation on a normal carrier which could be zero-beat with BFO, and this time there were traces of Dabanga program audio underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, WBCQ with dead air instead of GFRN/Radio 2:11, April 15 at 0311 and further chex thru the nite at 0335, 0343, 0412, 0430, 0935, 1017, 1252; finally at next check 1354, modulation had resumed, now overshadowed by 9335 VOK closing English mixing with IBB.

Except when I happened to be monitoring at hourtop 0500, 9330 came to life for a few sex with legal ID by Allan Weiner --- obviously automated, while the feed from Orangeville was lost for hours and hours before and after, and nothing done about it until next morning. Such is the plight of stations outsourcing programming. When I checked 7415 at 0328, it was also on the air with open carrier, and at 0335, but 7415 was off by 0412 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1560 monitoring: confirmed on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast, UT Friday April 15 from 0100, to be repeated 2-hourly thru 2330.

On WWRB, April 15 at 0331 dead air after preacher, 0332 Dave Frantz comes on live about World of Radio, ``stand by, we`re working on it``, and new WOR 1560 finally starts at 0334:10, on both frequencies 2390 and 5050. As usual, 2390 much stronger here, but T-storm noise on both from eastern OK/AR area.

WRMI has just put up a new program schedule grid, in UT -4 = EDT: Several changes to be found at http://www.tinyurl.com/wrmisked a shortened link we ordered. If the ungainly real URL change, pursue it via http://www.wrmi.net/ and click on Progamming.

A quick look shows WORLD OF RADIO at the same times as before, except losing the Saturday 1400 airing, replaced by R. Prague in English, which has resumed 7 days a week at that time instead of RFI on M-F.

Our WWCR times: Friday 2030 15825, Saturday 1600 12160, Sunday 0630 3215. How are these doing in Eurafrica? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ISRAEL [non]

** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, VOV via CANADA is still running Vietnamese lessons for English speakers toward the end of Vietnamese-language hours rather than English! April 15 at 0524 sentence-by-sentence translation of text about the Olympix, women allowed since 1928. 0525 finished, into all-Vietnamese, 0527 switch to Babcock fill music loop as always, 0529 a few iterations of the RCI IS and IDs in French and English, and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9396.5, April 15 at 1355 at first sounds like distorted music spur cutting on and off, but maybe it`s a ute, hard to pinpoint somewhere between 9396 and 9397, definitely not a spur from WTJC 9370 music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 17730, April 15 at 1332, open carrier with `Russian` tones, on and off a few times a minute, but 1333-1334 stayed on constantly for a full minute, then off a semiminute, back on for some 65 seconds. Nothing is scheduled in HFCC or Aoki on 17730 after 1200. Poor signal, at first thought it was 17725 Libya, but that was even weaker, JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

BRAZIL 11780 2302 GMT Portuguese 433 April 12 OM with comments and mentions Brazil often.

CANADA China Radio Intl Relay-CRI 11840 2305 GMT English 444 April 12 OM with updates on the earhquake in Japan.

CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 12020 2315 GMT Spanish 333 April 12 Two OMs with comments. OM with RHC ID 2312 GMT, OM with bongo music and singing. //12040[333], 13670[444], 15230[333].

CUBA Radio Nacional Venezuela Relay-RNV 13680 2326 GMT Spanish 444 April 12 YL with an ID 2327 GMT. Spanish band music then an OM with comments. YL with an ID 2330 GMT. //15250[444] via Cuba.

JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13640 2320 GMT Japanese 433 April 12 YL and OM with comments.

SPAIN Radio Exterior Espana-REE 15190 2342 GMT Spanish 333 April 12 OM with ongoing comments.

UNITED STATES, Greenville Radio Marti 2310 GMT Spanish 444 April 12 Two OMs with comments and mentioning Radio Marti often.

UNITED STATES, Alabama WEWN 13830 2332 GMT Spanish 433 April 12 YL with comments. //12050 [444].
..
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
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"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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Glenn Hauser logs April 14, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 finally back in business, following sporadic logs of it past two days, and Roberto Scaglione`s news that they hoped to have all the problems solved by April 14 for 1230-1500 transmissions (presumably M-F only) ---

1228 tune-in April 14 to open carrier, fading up from S6 to peaks of S9+10. 1229 YL says ``Transmite LRA36 . . . 15476``. Copy is still marginal but definite. Into music, 1234 ID also mentioning full name ``Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel`` (people tend to leave out the middle word, for some reason, but I still heard it), ``Antártida Argentina . . . el futuro. . .``. More talk mixed with music. 1238 ``saludos . . . nuestras operadoras``. 1239 introducing Señora ---, who says she has ``41 años, soy enfermera [nurse]``. 1242 a male voice is heard briefly, the only one.

1243 weakening, vocal song. Generally mix of music and talk; 1312 YL seems named Lidia; 1313 giving some numbers, phone? And something .com.ar  At 1316 I was surprised to hear a couple of fast CW messages ending with K. I had BFO on, but did not want to touch it, so not certain whether this was QRM or something they sent. 1317 music with heavy beat, 1330 announcement, and checked 15480 UK signal, which was steadier at S9+5 but no problem for 15476.

On this auspicious reinauguration occasion, I stayed on 15476 for a full hour, passing up my usual bandscanning, but reception waned.
Occasional chex later found at 1403 still carrier but S3 to S7 max with little audio; 1422 quick CW occurred again.

Esperanza Base is about latitude 63 which puts it outside the Antarctic Circle, and closer to the Equator than Reykjavik, Umea, Arkhangelsk, Anadyr, Unalakleet, Iqaluit.

Then we hear from Roberto Scaglione, recorded in Sicily? Only music 1210-1230 UT, regularly on the air. First 11 minutes are available on
http://www.bclnews.it/110414-15476-1230z.mp3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [non]. 21490, no trace of a signal from BVB in English, April 14 at 1339 and further chex to 1400, unlike April 13, so that must have been a test. Or BVB transmissions may vary depending on day of week. Will we ever know whence? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 14: no bandscanning 1230-1330 as I was sticking with ANTARCTICA [q.v.], but then found:
13920, good at 1346; gone at 1405
By 1350, no others 8-17 MHz.
10300, very poor at 1351 // 13920; no 8400 now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 6050, while RHC was missing later last night, it`s back on the air as usual, // 6010 English during music, April 14 at 0229 check, totally blocking poor HCJB, as Arnie Coro continues to prove what a bully he is, refusing to move off the only channel HCJB can use direct from Ecuador (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 11830, April 14 at 0539, Portuguese soon with DW ID in passing; I was expecting RFI, but its Portuguese is on 11830 after 0600 via Meyerton, while DW is 0530-0557, 250 kW, 150 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 15050, April 14 at 1333, after shivering in the Antarctic for an hour on 15476, I warm up by tuning here for South Asian music, flutter, S9 to S9+10 from AIR`s Sinhala service, 250 kW, 174 degrees from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SUDAN [non]

** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, R. Kuwait, April 14 at 1340, good signal, in fact the Strongest signal on band (SSOB), better than #2 Saudi 21505, during drama in Arabic, complete with music including some Bach, SFX including neigh, 1341 ``Idha`at - Kuwait`` ID, 1343 mentions Lebanon, Brasil. Way atop co-channel Spain; in fact only a hint of a SAH from REE during Kuwait fades, while Spain in clear on 21610, Portugal 21655 were quite weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, April 14 at 1358 open carrier, like before shifting very slightly and regularly at rate of 72 times per minute, obvious with BFO slightly off-tuned. Something is amiss with this Wertachtal, GERMANY transmitter, but not noticeable in ordinary AM-mode listening.

1400 sharp, percussion starts and Hausa from Hamada Radio International, ``Salaam Aleikum``. At same time started to notice some lite second-ACI from BBC Cyprus which just opened English on 21470.

Latest RMI schedule from MBR via HFCC shows additional frequencies following week only:
 9610 0530-0600 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
 9860 0530-0600 daily 15-21 April,   180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
11970 0530-0600 daily since 8 April, 185 degrees, 100 kW Nauen

17860 1400-1430 daily 15-21 April,   180 degrees, 125 kW Wertachtal
21480 1400-1430 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 125 kW Wertachtal

11945 1930-2000 daily since 8 April, 180 degrees, 100 kW Wertachtal
13800 1930-2000 daily 15-21 April,   183 degrees, 100 kW Nauen

While registered as daily, weekends may be contingency basis only; all due to elexions in Nigeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, April 14 at 0527*, tuned in just in time to hear closing ID from ``Radio Dabanga``, good signal. This is 250 kW, 330 degrees from MADAGASCAR at 0430-0527.

Meanwhile there was a tone test in background which continued in the clear until its 0529*. Jamming? Unseems: that gave me time to tell it was a DSB tone on an AM carrier, rather than a het. What else is there there? HFCC shows:
13620 0345 0530 38-40 BGL  500 300 Pers/Arab. IND AIR AIR
Presumably this tone happens at the tail of the AIR transmission, but if also heard much earlier in the Dabanga hour, could be jamming.

13730, April 14 at 0527, whine and grind jamming against something inaudible. The sound cuts out every 15 seconds proving that it is modulation on a normal carrier. It is also pulsing regularly at the rate of 78 times per minute. Continues past 0530 until 0537:28*. The victim is surely R. Dabanga on its other frequency, 500 kW, 255 degrees via UAE at 0430-0527 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15580, April 14 at 0532, VOA news in English about Libya. Tho listed as Iranawila, Sri Lanka site, until 0700, there is no flutter on this, just normal lite fading, so I suspect IBB has changed to another site. They are always fiddling with sites.

Ahá, latest IBB schedule at
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=IBB
indeed shows Sri Lanka from 0300, switching to BOTSWANA at 0500 since April 8, 100 kW, 350 degrees. See my previous log April 11, when I also thought it should be Botswana, and in fact it was. Today this was much better than Nigeria on 15120, worse than Australia on 15160, 15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1560 monitoring: confirmed on first airings, via WRMI 9955 webcast, UT Thursday April 14 at 0330 and 1600. Next: Thu 2100, Fri 1430, Sat 0800, 1400, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730. On WWRB: Fri 0330 on 2390 (and probably 5050 as last two weeks). On WWCR: Fri 2030 on 15825, Sat 1600 on 12160, Sun 0630 on 3215. On IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS-IBA: Sat 1800 on 7290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370-, slightly on low side as usual compared to 1370 stations, WTJC continues to enjoy good modulation for a while, but April 14 at 0541 during hymn, also has spurs around 9335 and 9405, +/- 35 kHz. One might guess the latter were WINB, but now an ex-frequency for it. Unlike previous spur outbreaks, these are not distorted but also with good modulation, but much weaker, fading in and out. With BFO I can tell that 9405 is somewhat wobbly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14579-SSB, April 14 at 1347, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, hardly any of it understandable; in fact, at first I thought it was Greek. One station had engine noise background, the other breaking up severely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Glenn Hauser logs April 13, 2011

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, April 13 at 1257, 1325 and 1357, not even a carrier detectable from LRA36 --- However, Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa was hearing it a bit earlier, at 1206-1215, and Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec in Embu, SP, Brasil, the day before at 2035-2102 --- so still testing, or what will their complete new schedule be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BONAIRE. 6250, April 13 at 0526-0527* song // much stronger signal on 6080, which is NHK Spanish relay, with 6080 leapfrogging over 6165 RNW Dutch which always goes off at 0527* sharp, thus eliminating the fulcrum. Still need to look for the dozen other Bonaire leapfrogs at various other times as previously computed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [non]. 21490, surprised to hear gospel huxter in English, April 13 at 1331 with over-dramatic delivery, sounding almost like a parody, saying the devil`s phone number is 666-4355 (=HELL, hee hee); 1334 outro with address in Ohio given about five times: Ed Bousman, P O Box 511, Lynchburg OH 45142; ``God is just a prayer away`` book of gospel bible lessons available free; 1337 Bible Voice Broadcasting ID, Toronto address. 1338 says is to Eastern Europe; 1353 still in English, cut off at 1400* sharp as another gh is saying ``the apostles . . .``

Must be brand new frequency, as have been checking 13m frequently around here for Hamada 21480 --- see NIGERIA [non] --- and never noticed a trace of it before today. In fact, not listed in latest HFCC. Seems BVB often runs programming at odd times rather than hours or quarter-hours. Maybe a test. Fair signal but less than Hamada via Wertachtal. Site for this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 13: still nothing heard 8-18 MHz between 1305 and 1325. Propagation conditions still have not recovered from yesterday`s geomagnetic storm at G1 level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6050, RHC English absent April 13 at 0536 check as DXers Unlimited is starting on usual 6010, 6060, 6150. Can Arnie finally have found his heart and eliminated 6050 QRM to HCJB starting before 0100? More likely another transmitter failure, but we`ll see subsequently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 21580, RFI, April 13 at 1329 with ad for Jeune Afrique, hebdomadaire, cut off abruptly at 1330* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 11875, April 13 at 0523, YL in English with ACI from WEWN 11870. Normally nothing heard here, but HFCC shows DW via SOUTH AFRICA, 0500-0530, 250 kW, 5 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 21480, Hamada Radio International, April 13 at 1347 carrier via Wertachtal, 1400 starts promptly today in Hausa.

The WRMI website schedule has now been updated for A-11:
 9545  0530-0600  46  100   180        1234567
11970  0530-0600  46  100   180        1234567
21480  1400-1430  46  100   180        1234567
11945  1930-2000  46  100   180        1234567
But DX Mix News says the 0530 is on 11970 and 9610 ex-9545, and I am not sure that all three are really 7 days a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PORTUGAL. 21655, RDPI is the SSOB, April 13 before 1400, as 13m has recovered somewhat, also Spain 21540, 21610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 11880 via COSTA RICA, April 13 at 1430, REE ``Noticias en idiomas del mundo`` starts with Portuguese, so back to normal after previous swap with French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###