Ivo Ivanov SW News July 9/10

ETHIOPIA   Voice of Tigray Ravolution, R.Oromiya, R.Amhara, R.Fana on July 9
from 1654 on  5950 GDR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Tigrigna VOTigray Ravolution
from 1656 on  6030 GDR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Oromo Radio Oromiya
from 1658 on  6090 GDR 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Amharic Radio Amhara
from 1700 on  6110 ADD 100 kW / non-dir to EaAf Amharic FBC Radio Fana
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/voice-of-tigray-ravolution-roromiya.html


FRANCE(non)  The final day of Nigerian Armed Forces Radio via MBR/TDF, July 10
0600-0700 on 11825 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa/English/Text messages/Mx
0600-0700 on 13775 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa/English/Text messages/Mx
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-final-day-of-nigerian-armed-forces.html


KUWAIT   Radio Kuwait missing on shortwave from the beginning of July.
The only active transmitter on 5960, 7250, 11630, 13650 and 17550 kHz,
no longer broadcasts. From the end of May no signal on 9750, 6050 kHz,
from the end of February no signal on 21580, 21540 and 15540 kHz:
0200-0750 on  5960 KBD 200 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Sce
0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 150 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic General Sce
0800-1000 on  7250 KBD 200 kW / non-dir to WeAs Persian
1000-1200 on 21580 KBD 150 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino
1010-1600 on 11630 KBD 200 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Qur'an
1100-1600 on  9750 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic General Sce
1210-1550 on 21540 KBD 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Sce
1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 150 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu
1610-2100 on  6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic General Sce
1700-2000 on 13650 KBD 200 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Sce
1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 150 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English
2010-2400 on 17550 KBD 200 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic General Sce
My video collection of Radio Kuwait between February and May 2015:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/radio-kuwait-missing-on-shortwave-from.html


TIBET(non)   Frequency changes for Voice of Tibet
1345-1400 NF 15537 DB  100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15542
1345-1400 NF 15552 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15562
1400-1415 NF 15542 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15492
1415-1430 NF 15548 DB  100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15498
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/frequency-changes-for-voice-of-tibet.html


UNSCHEDULED broadcast of Number Station Russian Lady S06s in Russian
0840-0844 on 9610 USB plus carrier on July 10, also heard on July 9:

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/unscheduled-broadcast-of-number-station.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Glenn Hauser logs July 9-10, 2015

** CHINA. 6000, July 10 at 1202, Chinese music, highly stylized dialog sounds like children`s voices but maybe adults pretending, opera; no doubt CNR1, and // several other spots on 49m, all poor signals. Aoki shows 6000 as 100 kW ND from Beijing 572 site, and NOT a jammer!!

16100, July 10 at 1254, CNR1 jammer, fair; none in the 18s, 17s, 15s OOB, 14s

13980, July 10 at 1255, CNR1 jammer, very poor

12920, July 10 at 1257, CNR1 jammer, very poor

18980, July 10 at 1326, CNR1 jammer presumed, JBA, per Eibi the Fri & Tue 13-14 spot for RFA Tibetan via Kuwait and this is Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6165, July 10 at 0102, open carrier/dead air from RHC instead of English; and the only other early frequency, 6000 is totally off the air! What are we to do?? Wait for the hourly redundant repeats if we really want to hear it. 

5990, July 10 at 0103, CRI English relay is still running past 0100, while 6000 RHC is missing --- but we recently found both on at same time, so not a matter of switching frequencies for same transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CUBA [and non]. 9955, July 10 at 0101, it`s the voice of Manolo de la Rosa, RHC`s Spanish DX program host of `En Contacto` --- via WRMI!! AND, ``RHC`` is getting jammed! A day we have longed for. Really, it`s `Antena DX` with an opening clip in tribute to `En Contacto` which just marked its 30th anniversary with a special on July 5 (which I missed --- all three airtimes are inconvenient for me). 

Unlike Arnie, Manolo has always been friendly to me, so I will view him as a fellow victim of Cuban jamming, rather than a conspirator. The only main time 9955 ``needs`` to be jammed is M-F 2300-2400 for `Radio Libertad`, but the DentroCuban Jamming Command runs at least pulses far beyond then out of spite and/or incompetence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 11935, July 10 at 0107, R. Cairo in Spanish, poor signal but good modulation

12070, July 10 at 0107, R. Cairo, Spanish, good signal but overmodulated/distorted, // 11935

9315, July 10 at 0108, R. Cairo, supposedly Spanish, fair signal, dead air

9965, July 10 at 0108, R. Cairo, good signal, but Arabic distorted, whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420 & 9935, July 10 at 0112, both ERA Avlis transmitters are off tonight; still quite irregular under the nouveau regime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OMAN. 9500, July 10 at 0111, undermodulated Arabic on fair signal, so RSO is on proper frequency tonight. This is often absent, maybe instead on extended 15140 whether propagating or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 10 at 0523, NBC good signal with play-by-play of something, crowd noises.

6075, July 10 at 1204, NBC National Radio, good signal with news in English of matches, rugby finals involving Fiji, basketball, so it seems the Games involve a variety of silly balls, not just soccer; lots of clips. 1207 outro as ``NBC News in Brief``, ad for PNG Power, one of the major sponsors; 1209 starts some songs in English about the games: evidently a source of great national pride. 1218 some Tarzan-yells, drumming, more songs, including one which sounds like some American YL pop star. 

Except for ghoulish 5830 WTWW, 6075 is the strongest signal on band!! Far exceeding numerous China frequencies. Just what you would expect from a 100 kW Shepparton, AUSTRALIA transmitter, not a 10 kW Brandon/Townsville --- and I would not be surprised if 6075 is also beamed more into the Pacific and North America than into PNG. 

1226 giving phone or app numbers, more music; 1230 announcement for 90.7 FM, some AM frequency and ``shortwave`` but no numbers; 1233 goes into Tok Pisin for interviews. Now it`s fading down as expected more than an hour after sunrise here; 1243 music and promos. Note: I mistakenly referred to these relays as 24 hours on WORLD OF RADIO 1781 --- per skeds, they amount to only 19 hours a day with a break at 14-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, July 10 at 0100, carrier detectable from R. Chaski, until autocutoff at 0106:03.5*, which is 42.5 seconds later than last timing 7 days ago, July 3 at 0105:21*, or averaging 6.1 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** ROMANIA. 17680 fair // weaker 17670, July 10 at 1148, excerpts from Mendelssohn`s `Midsummer Night`s Dream`, interrupted by RRI English announcement that it`s a Romanian orchestra`s recent performance; also on // 15130 at 1152 with deep fades. On a good summer morning shortly after sunrise here, RRI can propagate on 16m for at least the tail of the English hour from 1100. 17680 and 15130 are 307 degrees USward from Tsiganeshti; 17670 and unnoticed 15150 are 165 degrees East Africaward from Galbeni (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, July 10 at 1155, SIBC poor signal but better than usual here with talk; 1158 national anthem; 1159 open carrier, all with ACI splash from 5025 Cuba but that is weakening. 1202 still seems to be OC, and still audible at 1223 by when maybe there is some modulation but just too weak. You never know what they will do after 1200 --- often plugs in to overnight relay of Wantok FM channel, mostly music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, July 10 at *0114:11 carrier cuts on from SLBC, very poor signal, but stays dead air past 0116, failing to modulate the usual musical prélude, mistimesignal and opening in Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 13800, July 10 at 0524, R. Dabanga vs R. Dabanga, already overlapping sites far out of synch --- I think, or could it be Sudanese jamming using program audio like CNR1 instead of hets/tones? No, at 0527:15 one of them goes off, i.e. MADAGASCAR, leaving VATICAN alone. Mad carriers soon come up on 13840, 13765 for NHK & Vatican 0530 relays, likely one of them from the ex-13800 transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. 11253-USB, July 10 at 0518, VOLMET mixing English and metric units for many airports but hard to recognize them with poor signal. However, ``no information available`` from Ascension and a few others, not including Bamako; 0519 ID as ``--- information broadcast``. Site thought to be in UK; EiBi lists merely as RAF VOLMET, 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1781 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, Thursday July 9 at 2100 on WRMI 7570; poor reception gradually improves as the sun lowers, notably better by 2130 for `Blues Radio International`. Next:

Fri 2130 WRMI 15770

Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570

Sat 0630 Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Sat 1430 Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM

Sat 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM

Sun 2100 WRMI 15770

Sun 2300 WRMI 11580

Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51

Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 

Tue 1100 WRMI 9955

Wed 0630 Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 

Wed 1430 Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, July 10 at 0107, WWRB is absent instead of BSing as usual; 3185, July 10 circa 1150, no signal now either when WWRB is normally still audible. 9370, July 10 at 1431, however, is audible with BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 600, July 10 at 0457 UT, Jim Bohannon is wrapping up third live hour. He used to be on WMT Cedar Rapids, and 0459 UT ID for WMT, 0500 UT Fox ``news``. Still looking for KSJB ND to show up again if really back on full power, rebuilt antennas. There are no loud & clear signals here for Jimbo from 0307 UT; and he`s no longer on WMT, so I must have been hearing KTBB Tyler TX, where per 

http://www.jimbotalk.net station finder only his third hour is carried (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1538 UT July 10

Propagation outlook from PIG

Solar activity forecast for the period July 10 - 16, 2015

Activity level: mostly low
X-ray background flux (1.0-8.0 A): in the range B2.5-B9.0
Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 95-135 f.u.
Events: class C (0-12/day), class M (0-6/period), class X (0/period),
        proton (0/period)
Relative sunspot number (Ri): in the range 20-95

Jozef Lesko
RWC Prague, Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic
e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz
_________________________________________________________________________

Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period July 10 - 16, 2015

At the Friday, July 10, we expect at most unsettled conditions. Next day,
Saturday, July 11, active episode is expected (geomagnetic conditions can
reach minor storm level but for Budkov observatory, K-index = 4 is more
probable).
At the July 12-13, unsettled conditions are most probable. Tuesday, July
14, we expect at most unsettled conditions with possible active period.
The last days of forecasted week, quiet to unsettled conditions are probable.

Tomas Bayer
Institute of Geophysics ASCR
Budkov Geomagnetic Observatory (BDV)
_________________________________________________________________________

Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period July 10 - Aug 5, 2015

Geomagnetic field will be:
quiet on July 15
mostly quiet on July 16 - 17, 26 - 29, Aug 3 - 5
quiet to unsettled on July 10, 13 - 14, 18, 22 - 25, Aug 1 - 2
quiet to active on July 11 - 12, 19 - 21, 30 - 31
active to disturbed on July (11)

Amplifications of the solar wind are expected on July 10 - 12, 30 - 31

Remark:
- Reliability of predictions remains more reduced than before.

Petr Kolman, OK1MGW, Czech Propagation Interest Group
(OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978)
e-mail: kolmanp(at)razdva.cz

Agenda DX 10/07

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio Atlantida, Bolivia 1410 Khz (1970)
Classic Gold, Gran Bretagna 1332 khz (1980)

FESTE NAZIONALI
Giornata dell'Indipendenza alle Bahamas

Glenn Hauser logs July 8-9, 2015

** CUBA. 9530, July 9 at 0208, pulse jamming too close for comfort to 9535 RHC Spanish. Timed at rate of 100 per minute, and sounds the same as others on 7430 and 6080. 9530 seems new to me; happens to be two times 4765, the R. Progreso frequency, but I suppose coincidental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 13850, July 9 at 0205, R. Cairo, VG signal on 5-hour frequency to N America, but Arabic music is suptorted (suppressed and distorted). Not any better after 0500.

9315, July 9 at 0207, R. Cairo, fair signal but open carrier/dead air instead of English to N America; as usual.

9965, July 9 at 0210, R. Cairo good signal but presumed Arabic is just barely modulated (JBM) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1530, July 9 at 0220 UT, KXTD Wagoner (Tulsa market), 5 kW daytimer is still running way past official sunset, with regional Mexican music, various slogans by super-hype voice actor (SHVA) inserted between two seguéd songs, such as ``Radio Estilo(?), Qué Buena``; 0226, ``Qué Buena, Tulsa``, and again at 0237; still on at 0251; 0253, ``la estación que marcó la diferencia y lo sigue haciendo, la Qué Buena``, 0259 same one, and no legal call letter ID either. Spelling it with a Q as per NRC AM Log, rather than Ke as may be trademarked in México, in which case I guess the accent on the E is unnecessary. Was making medium-fast SAH with somestation, WCKY or maybe fellow cheater KVDW AR (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 9 at 0527, good signal from NBC relay via AUSTRALIA, we think Shepparton site; discussing game stats, but not during play at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1781: not ready until 1730 UT July 9, so Thu 1130 on WRMI 9955 would have replayed 1780. 1781 thence:

Thu 2100 on WRMI 7570

Fri 2130 on WRMI 15770

Fri 2130.5 on WRMI 7570

Sat 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Sat 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Sat 1930v on WA0RCR 1860-AM

Sat 0315v on WA0RCR 1860-AM

Sun 2100 on WRMI 15770

Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580

Mon 0300v on WBCQ 5110v Area 51

Mon 0330 on WRMI 9955 

Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955

Wed 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 

Wed 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB

Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17895, July 8 at 1410, very strong open carrier, except for some clicking – almost sounds like Morse code without any tones, until off at 1412*. No doubt it`s Greenville checking out the transmitter for later broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 11750, July 9 at 0525, fair signal with child singing, sounds like Qur`an; could it be? As this is VOA Hausa via Woofferton UK; not much 11745 crackling spur this time from Brasil 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7505.3, July 9 at 0212, still AWOL is WRNO. If anyone ever hears them again, do let us know. Previously bookmarked About Us page http://wrnoradio.com/?page_id=1729 is now unfound, ``just another WordPress site`` --- but home http://wrnoworldwide.com is still there and linx directly to ten reception reports over the past year+, even from Russia, the latest from March 5, apparently submitted via the site. Otherwise nothing to indicate they are really silent; shhh! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5890, July 9 at 0213, VG signal but open carrier/dead air from WWCR-4, still so at 0252 check. Website transmitter schedule shows it`s supposed to be on from 02 to 12. More detailed program sked shows E. C. Fulcher`s `Truth House Ministries` at 02-03 UT Tue-Sat before the BS from 0300. Only on UT Mon is 5890 supposed to be off until 04, and UT Sun until 03 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1802 UT July 9

Relays over the weekend 6070kHz

CHANNEL 292 RELAYS ALL TIMES IN UTC

SATURDAY 11/07: 

16:00 Hobart Radio International

SUNDAY 12/07: 

8:00 Superclan Radio

9:00 DARC 

10:00 Chelmsford Calling World Service

16:00 Chelmsford Calling World Service

MONDAY 13/07:

15:00 DARC

16:00-18:00 Popradio Ostfriesland

18:00 DARC

Further info from: http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings

Voice of Greece this morning July 9

GREECE   Voice of Greece in Greek and 8 other languages on July 9:
from 0300 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
from 0300 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek, terrible audio
from 0500 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Vary*
from 0600 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek
*2-4 minutes news in Greek/Serbian/Romanian/Spanish/Russian/Polish/Albanian/
Italian/Arabic. Freqs 9935/11645 are off, 11645 blocked by Dabanga till 0600

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/voice-of-greece-in-greek-and-8-other_9.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Agenda DX 09/07

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina 1270 Khz (1937)
Radio La Cronica, Perù 1320 Khz (1935)
Radio Nacional San Miguel de Tucumàn, Argentina 1190 Khz (1966)
Radio Libertad, Argentina 950 Khz (1923)
Radio Champaquì, Argentina (1970)
Radio Nacional Santa Rosa, Argentina 730 Khz (1950)

Glenn Hauser logs July 7-8, 2015

** BRAZIL. 11855, July 8 at 0554, ``Bridge Over Troubled Waters`` song, but lyrix unseem English; maybe Brazuguese, but not sure of that either. It`s R. Aparecida, but this song is not religious, rather about friendship, or by extension love; 9630, July 8 at 0556 hearing more of same on weaker signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11880, July 8 at 0553, no signal from RHC English, unlike 24 hours ago; back on 6060 where it`s supposed to be, keeping company with the rest of The Cuban Five.

11845, July 8 at 1317, lite pulse jamming is *still* here on frequency R. Martí abandoned years ago. Turn it on and forget it forever!

11860, July 8 at 1318, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while all others checked are nominally modulating: 11950, 13740, 15230, 15370, 15730. Left a receiver on 11860, which finally came to life at 1333, programming JIP by the Radio Cuba sloppy-rator (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Channel A2 NTSC, July 7 at 2235 UT, brief fade-in of novela with TRECE legend at upper-right, i.e. bug for Azteca-13 network. Had been monitoring 54-60 MHz most of the day waiting for Es MUF to reach it, but nothing more than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 9690-, July 8 at 0557, VON is already on with good signal, drumming and singing prior to Hausa hour. // 7255- also audible at 0603 July 8 but much weaker and undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 13775, July 8 at 0600, wake-up music, brief interruption by uteblatt, ``I want to be a soldier`` song which it seems they play every day, then ``This is the Nigerian Armed Forces Radio, broadcasting on 11825 in the 25 meter band and 13775 in the 21 meter band. The Nigerian Armed Forces Radio will bring you news, views and comment on matters of the moment``; 11825 is much weaker, but seemingly //. These tests via FRANCE have been extended at least until July 10. Note: I am not quoting Ivo who has now also stated this, but he is quoting me without saying so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 8 at 0551, good signal from NBC relay amid silly ballgame coverage. Seems a lot of them are played in the local afternoons, this being almost 4 pm in PNG; evenings would be only marginally cooler in the tropix. 

9860, July 8 at 0557, poor signal but finally able to hear the other scheduled frequency for NBC relay, also with SBG and // 12025 --- not exactly! 9860 is about a second, or one word behind 12025. This bolsters our belief that contrary to published info, not all of this is from ``Townsville`` --- Brandon when carrying R. Australia would also be a satellite delay behind Shepparton. 12025 signal remains ``too good`` to be 10 kW, and the only 100 kW transmitters had been idle in Shepparton, Victoria. 

6075, July 8 at 1251, NBC with poor signal in music past hourtop, 1302 NBC ID and a bit of news?, ads, 1306 back to music; still audible very poorly with music at 1326. Until 1300 there was hardly anything else audible around 49m except 5830 WTWW; after 1300, RNZI on 6170 with much stronger signal but it too is losing out by 1330, a bihour after sunrise here.

Dan Ferguson points out that ``The HFCC public data file now shows entries covering the broadcasts of the Pacific Games by PNG`s National Radio, via Brandon, Australia. The entries cover the dates July 1 to October 24. Perhaps this implies continuing broadcasts after the conclusion of the Games, perhaps not.``

These are over-registered including 5995 as alternate for 6075, and 9660 as alternate for 9860. And frequency management is still being outsourced to Bernd Friedewald = BFM. Like too much of HFCC ``official`` info, this must include disinformation, as real monitoring still indicates 12025 and 6075 are Shepparton, while 9860 is Brandon. Possibly even NBC is in the dark about this; at least they claim to be on Townsville only. But what does Friedewald know? He`s not likely to say. I`m rather amused/bemused that other sources continue to believe the official info rather than our own monitoring evidence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 550, July 8 at 0605 UT, Missouri and Illinois news by guy with a Britishish accent. I wish I could place it exactly, not Queen`s. Then KTRS Forecast from St Louis; outroed his name but hard to catch, maybe something like Trevor Phillips Ford? And into Jim Bohannon. Searching on Trevor Phillips leads to a report on Ferguson he did from KTRS for WFLA in Florida (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15350.5-USB, July 8 at 1404, colloquial Spanish 2-way intruding, one much stronger than the other, with weak het from a legit station on 15350.0, which per HFCC could be Germany or Egypt; per Aoki no Egypt, just Gospel for Asia in Bondo on Wednesdays via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1530 UT July 8

Ivo Ivanov SW News July 8

CHINA   Unsynchronized broadcasts of China Radio International on July 8
0900-0957 on 17650 KUN 500 kW / 135 deg to AUS  English with weak signal
0900-0957 on 17650 KAS 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu English with 2 sec delay
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/unsynchronized-broadcasts-of-china.html

EGYPT   Unscheduled transmission of Radio Cairo again on the air, July 8
0830-0930 on  9965.3vABS 200 kW / 325 deg to ENAm open carrier, dead air
0930-1030 on  9965.2vABS 200 kW / 325 deg to ENAm Arabic General Service
1150-1155 on  9964.6vABS 200 kW / 325 deg to ENAm Arabic General Service
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/unscheduled-transmission-of-radio-cairo.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Official shortwave schedule of audio of Al-Jazeera TV via BABCOCK

U.K.(non)   Official shortwave schedule of audio of Al-Jazeera TV via BABCOCK:
1200-1400 on 11835 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to N/ME Arabic Sun-Thu eff.from July 5
1800-1930 on 17680 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg to N/ME Arabic Sun-Thu eff.from July 5
Poor signal on 11835, powerful signal on 17680. Videos from the past several days

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/official-shortwave-schedule-of-audio-of.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Ivo Ivanov SW News July 7/8

GREECE   Voice of Greece in Greek is on the air after 1900 UTC on July 7:
1938&2000 on  9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu, co-ch VIRI/IRIB in Arabic
1938&2000 on  9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu, terrible audio + hum tone
Thanks to Kai Ludwig for this information. But nothing at 0530 UTC July 8.
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/voice-of-greece-in-greek-is-on-air.html

FRANCE(non)  Test of Nigerian Armed Forces Radio on SW continues until July 10
0600-0700 on 11825 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa/English text messages/Mx
0600-0700 on 13775 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa/English text messages/Mx
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/test-of-nigerian-armed-forces-radio-on.html


PAPUA NEW GUINEA   Radio NBC, National Radio of Papua New Guinea via SW
transmitter site Brandon, according to official HFCC database on July 7
1000-1400 on  6075 BRN 025 kW / 010 deg to NPac English, alt.freq. 5995
1900-2200 on  6075 BRN 025 kW / 010 deg to NPac English, alt.freq. 5995
2200-1000 on  9860 BRN 025 kW / 010 deg to NPac English, alt.freq. 9660
2200-1000 on 12025 BRN 025 kW / 080 deg to EPac English, + video July 7

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/radio-nbc-national-radio-of-papua-new_8.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Agenda DX 08/07

ANNIVERSARIO EMITTENTI
Radio General Urquiza, Argentina 1260 Khz (1945)
Radio Difusora Acreana, Brasile 4885 Khz (1971)

Frequency change of Voice of Nigeria in English in 1800-1930 UT time slot

NIGERIA   Frequency change of Voice of Nigeria in English:
1800-1930 NF 9689.9*AJA 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf, ex 1800-2000 on 7254.9
* QRM 9685 CRI Hausa and Chinese 1800-1827; R.Cairo Russian from 1900
* QRM 9695 CRI Chinese till 1827 and CRI Bulgarian 1830-1857

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/frequency-change-of-voice-of-nigeria-in.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

FRANCIA 15245 Eritrean Forum, Radio EYSC Medrek, Issoudun, 17:31-17:35, escuchada el 7 de julio de 2015 en tigriña a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34222

17580 Codka Khaatumo, Issoudun, 17:15-17:30, escuchada el 7 de julio de 2015 en somalí a locutor con entrevista a invitado, referencias a “Ogadén y Sudán”, emisión de música étnica, locutor con despedida,  SINPO 44333

José Miguel Romero

Burjasot (Valencia)

España

Grundig Yacht Boy 80

Antena telescópica

NORTH KOREA was back on the air on 11680 and 6400 kHz, July 7

KOREA NORTH   KCBS Pyongyang on 11680 kHz was back on the air on July 7:
2000-1800 on 11680 KNG 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS Pyongyang
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/kcbs-pyongyang-on-11680-khz-was-back-on.html


KOREA NORTH   PYONGYANG BS on 6400 kHz also was back on the air on July 7:
2100-1900 on  6400 KNG 050 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PYONGYANG BS, more videos-later

http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/07/pyongyang-bs-on-6400-khz-also-was-back.html

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73!

Ivo Ivanov

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

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

Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/

Glenn Hauser logs July 7, 2015

** CUBA. 5990, July 7 until 0101:45* or so, CRI relay carrier is again left on past 0100; at least they cut the modulation, so not a problem for Chaski-checking. Obviously a different transmitter than 6000, already on with RHC English.

11880, July 7 at 0531, RHC English is here, VG! So which 6 MHz transmitter is missing? 6060 for New York. This certainly makes sense in the summer, frequency-band diversity instead of putting all English eggs in the 5 and 6 MHz basket; 9 MHz would also be good, something propagation expert Arnie Coro has never figured out. But this is probably a Radio Cuba mistake, as 11880 is the RHC Africa frequency at 22-24 including English at 23. You guessed it, oui, mes amis, both 11880, and 6060 scheduled at 00-07 are the Bauta-2 transmitter (and its only other usage [not including spy numbers] is for 13740 at 11-14) so 11880 may well have stayed on ever since 0000, in which case it would have clashed with Iran in Uzbek, and after 0600, AWR Arabic via Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 580, July 7 at 0542 UT, a Mexican station underneath WIBW in `Coast to Coast` about Bigfoot, and close to opposite, as if I null WIBW Topeka, I also null this. I am trying to re-reconfirm since late May that XEMU Piedras Negras, Coahuila is still on the air, not yet abandoning AM for FM only as encouraged by the government and already removed from an official listing. It`s tough to catch any details with WIBW dominant; eventually I might get something definite during a WIBW fade. At 0600 UT, a tentative XEMU ID as WIBW is going to CBS bong and news. Generally, I suspect that XEMU may be underpowered now from listed 5/2.5 kW ND. Meanwhile with both of them nulled, I am hearing a third station: see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 610, July 7 at 0554, XEBX is dominant over KCSP with Mexican music; 0606 ranchera, 0610 ID also for FM sounded like 107.9, and timecheck. Neither IRCA Log nor Cantú had an FM to go with this, but WRTH 2015 does: XHBX on 105.9, Sabinas, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** NIGERIA. 9690-, July 7 at 0601, VON fair, mixing Hausa with bits of music; and also // weaker 7255- which is sometimes there, sometimes not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** NIGERIA [non]. 11825, July 7 at 0602, poor signal from Nigerian Armed Forces Radio via RMI via MBR Issoudun, FRANCE site; in Hausa with a long slow string of syllables, as heard before; // good 13775 shortly into singing, still mostly music at 0622. 

Richard Langley in NB explains to the DXLD yg about the Hausyllables I also referred to in an earlier log:

``Fair reception of the Nigerian Armed Forces Radio test this morning (3 July) on 13775 kHz despite local RFI. I recorded the transmission unattended. Carrier came on the air at about 0559:53 UT and the initial music started at 0600:07 (assuming no time slips from the start of recording). The test, as with the past few days, consists of Nigerian music interspersed with IDs in Hausa and English. The first musical piece had the interesting line "I want to be a solider." The IDs include an SMS number to which to send messages. In English, it sounds like +2308108366886 with the "0"s pronounced as the letter "O." But this cannot be right as the country code for Nigeria is 234. Indeed, in Hausa, the number is given as 2348148366886 with the "4"s clearly pronounced as "hudu" -- Hausa for "four." Does anyone hear the English numbers differently? The test program ended at 0659:31 with transmitter sign-off at 06:00:05 UT``

Was July 7 the final test broadcast? Just in from Jeff White at 1521 UT July 7: ``Glenn: NAFR extended until Friday, July 10. Jeff``.

If they permanentize this, may we expect a bit more propaganda, and less music? Hope not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 7 at 0526, NBC relay with PNG promos, no SBG at the moment; plug Prime Minister`s Excellence Awards, at http://pmeapng.org which URL does check out; adstring including Air Niugini, PNG Power; 0529 ``Fifteenth Pacific Games broadcast on NBC National Radio, Sámoa 5, PNG 3 at halftime``, then phoner about cricket; by 0534, the football SBG has resumed. Meanwhile, no signal on 9860 which I have yet to hear at any time.

12025 has usual good strength belying alleged 10 kW ``Townsville``; too bad there is no other R. Australia frequency nearby to compare it with, but this could be done at 09-10, when 12085 and 12065 are on from Shepparton. 

17840, RA is however very good as usual at 0539 July 7 also with report about the PNG games, how condoms are being distributed in Port Moresby vs AIDS; no violence reported yet.

6075, July 7 at 1258, NBC relay is still here despite lacking from some schedule versions, music, 1259 announcement, ads, 1300 news, etc. and starting fade down from fair to very poor by 1320. 

Sounded like a lot of what I heard was in Tok Pisin. Ron Howard, who listens to a lot more PNG, also on 3365 alone, answers about the language: ``July 6, all in English 0300-0507 on 12025, whereas 6075, about 1130 to past 1300 is usually in Pidgin (except the Sunday "Island Praise" program, which I think is 1200-1400).``

Meanwhile FWIW, RNZI is still better on 6170 at 1320 July 7. Too bad there is no RA frequency anytime on the 6 MHz band to compare 6075 with (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, July 7 at 0101 I attempt to track the autocutoff of R. Chaski, vs strong storm noise level; can`t pinpoint it but circa expected 0105:45* and then I disconnect FRG-7 longwire for the evening of lightning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 13800, July 7 at 0536, R. Dabanga, fair after switch to VATICAN site, but also lacking any audible carrier/tone/het jamming, in which case I would have headed this SUDAN [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 600, July 7 at 0553, no sign of KSJB Jamestown ND, unlike 24 hours earlier with C&W music, ID; just `C2CAM`, no doubt WMT Cedar Rapids. Paul Walker says ``KSJB has been back at full power since November 2014, per their Facebook page``. Maybe so, but maybe had a relapse, until reaudiblizing themselves last night. Either that or the ``now with improved signal`` promo was rather stale. Of course, simply propagational variations might account for their coming and going here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 580, July 7 at 0542 UT, as I null WIBW and XEMU(?) trying to get the latter, a third weak station is heard, in English, with polka(?), 0550 UT it`s gospel music. The only religious 580 stations in the NRC AM Log 2014 are possibilities here: KSAZ in AZ, and KJMJ in LA, but both are supposedly Spanish. KJMJ`s 1 kW night signal pattern is surprisingly NW/SE meaning it should be more of a problem for WIBW here; 390-watt KSAZ has lobes to the NNE, SE and SW, mainly concerned with protecting Fresno (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1617 UT July 7

NBC National Radio for Pacific Games

The program you were listening to is part of our broadcast for the coverage of the 15th Pacific Games hosted by the country for the 3rd time. The first was in 1969 and the last was in 1991.

The current shortwave service is provided by Broadcast Australia from transmitters based in Townsville. This is a temporary measure so that the NBC can provide coverage of the games for the whole of the country. 

We are working towards purchasing our own SW transmitters and hopefully this will be in operation by the beginning of 2016.

For your information tune into 6075 khz from 5am to 8am (PNG time), 8am to 8 pm 9860 khz (PNGTime) or the Pacific Islands frequency of 12025khz from 8am to 8pm (PNG time)

(Ralph Perry via dxld yg)

SAQ transmission - June 28, 2015- preliminary report

Radiostation Grimeton SAQ: 

Preliminary listeners summary report from the SAQ transmission on June 28th, 2015

Unfortunately we got problem with the antenna at the first transmission at 09:00 UTC. It was a short circuit which caused fire in an isolator in one of the feeders. We were happy to be able to repair it fast and thesecond transmission at 12:00 UTC worked out very well.

In fact we think it was one of the best transmissions ever, and the frequency was surprisingly clear from interferences.

The number of reports were however less than usual, some 200, compared to the Christmas Eve  2014 transmission, when we received nearly 4 00 reports. Possibly the interrupted transmission is a reason.

We thank you for being so understanding when we had trouble and patiently waited for the next transmission.

The Alexander-Grimeton Veteranradios Vaenner Association.
Jan Steinbach/Chairman

P.S. The fire can be seen in a short film sequence on our website www.alexander.n.se. Next intended transmission will be on Christmas Eve, Dec 24th, 2015. D.S.

Preliminary Summary Report
Here is also a Preliminary Summary Report on transmission from Grimeton Radio/SAQ on 17,2 kHz on Alexanderson Day 2015-06-28.

An updated version of the report will be published on our web site www.alexander.n.se, later on.

Lars

htt p://alexander.n.se/preliminary-listeners-summary-report-from-saq-transmission-june-28th-2015/?lang=en

Progressive Radio 1512 kHz

Dal canale Youtube di IW3FZQ il segnale di Progressive Radio su 1512 kHz ascoltato Domenica 5 Luglio 2015 sul Monte Lisser in Prov. di Vicenza a 2 Km dal confine con il Trentino !!
https://youtu.be/gfIAovSezHw

Roby

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Roberto Rizzardi
Porto S. Stefano (GR) - Italy
Lat 42N26 - Long 11E07 - Locator grid JN52nk
SWL I0216GR
eQSL.cc Member - SWARL IZ5013SWL
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS 909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
RTL-SDR RTL2832U/E4000 and RTL2832U/R820T usb tuners
SDRSharp, HDSDR, SDR Console software
Antennas: Indoor self-made single-turn 75 cm diameter coax loop
Indoor self-made MW-SW 75 cm side square tunable loop
15 meters outdoor random wire with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor wire antenna
Dual-band VHF/UHF vertical antenna without radials
Websites: http://diarioradio.blogspot.it/ - http://hamqsl.blogspot.it/
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