CHINA on 60-meters this morning

Steven C. Wiseblood
Brownsville TX
(2 miles from Boca Chica Beach,GULF of MEXICO)
Radio Shack DX-399
150' center fed LW
times in UTC

22 AUG 2009
4800  CHINA CNR-1 CPBS Geermu; 1159z M&W in CH, time pips, M in CH w/anmts talking over Instrumental music, then M in CH with news, 1204 PSA's or anmts by M&W in CH. Fair-Good, signal becomming more clear everyday as Summer comes to a close!  (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)
4820  CHINA/TIBET Lhasa, Xizang PBS; 1201z M in CH w/anmts,  1207 CH operatic/choral song. Fair (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)
4905  CHINA/TIBET Lhasa, Xizang PBS; 1204z W in CH?, Tibetan listed,  w/nx, //4920. Fair  (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)
4920  CHINA/TIBET Lhasa, Xizang PBS; 1204z W in CH?,  Tibetan listed,w/nx, //4905 better, P-F w/terrible UTE QRM (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)
4950  CHINA, Voice of Pujiang, Shanghai; 1139z CH soap opera/radio play w/excited tlk by M&W in CH.
1155 light instrumental mx   (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)
5050  CHINA Guangxi FBS Nanning; 1153z pop/rock vocal music, 1205 discussion program w/two women  in VT  (Wiseblood-TX 8/22/2009)

73's de Steve/AB5GP

Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday

Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 23rd of August 2009 at 09.00 to 10.00 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.

 

 

M.V.Baltic. Information:

MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for summer 2009

1st    Sunday – MV Baltic Radio

3rd    Sunday – European Music Radio

4th    Sunday – Radio Gloria International

 

We wish you good listening and good reception!

 

73s Tom

Glenn Hauser logs August 20-21, 2009

** AUSTRALIA. RA is regular on 15240, 15160, but not often heard on 15415, as it was Aug 21 at 0517 with song, in English? Not // the others. 15415 is 329 degrees from Shep, alternating English and Indonesian and this was during a semi-hour in the latter service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 13635 and 13660 with similar-sounding country gospel YL at 1336 Aug 21, but not //. No wonder: both are CVC Darwin, in English and Chinese services respectively. Signals about the same too tho not on same azimuths, 303 and 340 degrees. At 1336, 13635 briefly inserted an English announcement; at 1341, 13660 interrupted for brief YL announcement in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 7385, now the collision between RTI and ChiCom jamming is here, ex-7185, and sounds about the same, with a SAH between them, Aug 21 at 1325. So the mess in the hamband on 7185 is finally gone. However, that`s bad news for previous occupants of 7385, notably Tibet! The Aug 21 edition of Aoki now has nothing on 7185, but in this time period on 7385 includes:

1000-1700 RTI Kouhu and *jamming since Aug 16
1500-1700 BBCWS via South Africa in English and African languages
0930-1700+ PBS Xizang
0700-1300 WHRI-6 M-F [but not really?]

Firedrake search Aug 21 found only one stand-alone between 8 and 19 MHz: 13500, fluttery at 1334. Also barely audible // on 12040 where it mixes with CNR1 jamming and VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. Marfil Estéreo definitely absent from 5910, Aug 21 at 0509 check. It`s quite easily heard when active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Check of RHC Aug 20 at 2010: Spanish on 11760, 11770, distorted 11800, barely on 13760 eclipsed by Portugal 13755. Per RHC`s own schedule 11770 is supposed to be in Portuguese at 2000-2030, another victim of the Honduran oligarchy, or rather RHC`s obsession with Zelaya`s plight.

At 0508 Aug 21, unlike 24 hours earlier, RHC English was back on 6010, and not audible on 13790, // 6060, while Spanish on 6000, 6120, 6140. At 0514 I could also detect very weak signal on 11760 with Spanish an echo apart from other site on 6120.

13880 with remarkably strong S9+12 signal for a leapfrog spur (13680 over 13780), Aug 21 at 1337 with RHC béisbol report, and as usual much weaker on the other mix 13580.

DentroCuban Jamming Command goes bonkers, blasting away against nothing: at least two heavy pulse transmitters, at different rates and fading independently on 9545 at 0513 Aug 21, long after Radio República quits at 0400. At 0515 heard same type of jamming on 11930, but not synchronized with 9545. 11930 is of course the R. Martí frequency in use only at 14-24! Standard remark about better expenditure would be for feeding undernourished DentroCubans, if not merely conserving precious electrical fluid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Jeff White advised at 0056 UT Aug 21 that R. Discovery was on the 4730 air:

``Glenn: We're on tonight in SSB. Maybe I can get George McClintock to switch it to AM later on tonight and leave it on overnight.``

So I turned off and/or unplugged most household noise sources, computers and TVs and tried at 0335 UT --- Yes, can detect SSB talking around 4730.5, but too high atmospheric noise level plus weak (but plenty) RTTY QRM make copying any details impossible. While weather is finally clear here, there are storms as close as southern Oklahoma. Tried again at 0506, but nothing heard. What I did hear earlier was broadcast-type speech, not two-way contacts, and since Brandon Jordan in TN, previously measured R. Discovery on the same off-frequency, I am quite sure I had it; altho on this UT date he could not hear it, nor later, so maybe not on all-night. On the FRG-7 it`s easy to zero-beat WYFR on 7730.0 and then find that RD is definitely not centered on 4730.0. Presumably about done with this test as HFCC is wrapping up, but then moving transmitter to Santo Domingo for eventual regular service. If R. Descubrimiento is licensed, what is its HI- callsign? (Glenn
 Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRNO, 7505, with (temporarily?) expanded schedule, as in previous report, even more: Aug 20 at 2003 check there is music on frequency, must be WRNO. Not clear what span their ultimate 12-hour-per-day SW service will encompass, but would expect it to be mostly night hours if still avoiding 15590. OTOH, 7505 can reach a certain one-hop radius all day, tho liable to lose out to absorption around noon. 7505 is supposedly available only between 22 and 16 per A-09 version 2 FCC listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRMI, 9955, with (temporarily?) expanded schedule, to include at least part of WRN relays which are on the webcast M-F at 16-24 = 40 hours per week: poor but audible Aug 20 at 2004 with English news from Poland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR still on 15820 ex-15825, Aug 21 at 1339 with gospel music, good signal. The transmitter schedule on website still shows 15825, but the home page has this:

``NOTICE!!! As of 18 August, 15.825mHz frequency will temporarily move to 15.820mHz for testing.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 15470-15475-15476-15480, finally able to detect the DRM test from Greenville with 8 kW, Aug 20 at 2005, only S6-S9 peaks, but plenty enough to impossiblize any reception of LRA36, the poor unique Antarctican SW station which don`t get no respect from the big guns (partly Argentina`s fault for not registering its M-F 18-21 usage with HFCC --- if it`s not in HFCC, everyone not paying attention may assume it doesn`t exist; or if they are paying attention, may still pretend it doesn`t exist). The DRM sked is 20-22 UT, started in honor of HFCC Dominican Republic which is about to wrap up, but it seems the IBB/HCJB DRM experiment from Greenville is supposed to continue indefinitely; after all, this one is aimed at Europe, not DR, nor is the 9400-9405-9410 test, aimed NW, not a direxion the regular antennas at Greenville are designed for.

While I was at it, looked for other DRM at 2005: 15275-15280-15285 HCJB with S9; nothing on 17865-17870-17875 from Guiana French.

Greenville analog on 17895 was only poor vs previous log of weekend Music Time in Africa, which was probably sporadic-E enhanced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

CANADA   Radio Japan Relay-NHK   5960  0455  Japanese  333  Aug 19  YL with comments and suddenly off the air 0459.

CANADA   China Radio Intl Relay-CRI   6020  0500  English  433  Aug 19  China sending relief aid to Taiwan after a storm hit Taiwan.

CANADA   Radio Japan Relay-NHK   6110  0505  English  444  Aug 19  YL and OM with news items on the death of former So Korean president.

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES   Radio Nederland-RNI   6165  0510  Dutch 444  Aug 19  YL and OM with comments.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee   WWCR #1   3215  0435  English  444  Aug 19  OM ranting on religous subjects.

UNITED STATES, Tennessee   WWCR #3   5070  0445  English  333  Aug 19  Two OMs in conversation about various brain diseases.

UNITED STATES   WWCR #4   5890  0447  English  444  Aug 19  OM singing Amazing Grace with a Guitar. OM with comments from the Bible.

UNITED STATES, Florida   Radio Taiwan Relay   5950  0452  Chinese  444  Aug 19  YL and OM with comments and mentioning Taiwan often.


Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
"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 August 19-20, 2009

** CANADA. Big het between 6160.0/6160.9, Aug 20 at 0549 with CBC in English. As Carlos Gonçalves just reported from Portugal, CKZN is off-frequency, and here it clashes with CKZU, the two about equal level and inseparable [the only spelling accepted by MS Word]. Normally they are never zero-beat, but maybe 15 Hz apart producing a fast ripple SAH. Still at 0606; I should have checked during CBC News on the hour when they would have been // but unsynchronized. Someone must have bumped the transmitter in St. John`s. Hope they get this fixed quickly but not counting on it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC check Aug 19 at 0520: Spanish on 11760, 6120; English on 6010, 6060 and 6140, the latter sometimes in Spanish instead. 6000 too weak in storm noise to evaluate.

Latest anomaly from RHC: Aug 20 at 0540 found 13790 still on the air in English, starting UT Thu mailbag show with `Ed Newman`. Checking other channels, 6010 was missing so probably same transmitter, but why? Forgot to change frequency at 0500? Unable to change for some reason? Propagation experiment? 11 MHz from Cuba will not always propagate in the nightmiddle, let alone 13. At this time also heard in English on 6060, while 6140 and 11760 were in Spanish. Also missing, 6120 normally in Spanish, and did not hear 6000 either at first, but it was there in Spanish at 0558, as was 6120, an echo apart while Arnie was talking about the electrical grid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. Not much making it on 16m, Aug 19 at 0517, but second only to RFA Saipan on 17880 was 17720, music and then German talk, fading and some flutter. Per Aoki, this is CRI at 05-07, 500 kW, 308 degrees to Europe via Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. RNGE, 6250, Aug 20 at 0608 going from music to liners, Spanish announcement about jóvenes, prosperidad en el futuro: dictatorial government propaganda. About equal level with Polisario 6300, a neat pair, but not always both on and in at same time. As we are getting closer to equinox than solstice, reception should be holding up a bit later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9680 usually a mess of QRM among Taiwan, ChiCom jamming, and/or Indonesia; Aug 20 at 1350 continuous gamelan concert was dominant, mixing with Asian-scale singing. At 1401, clearer M&W conversation in Indonesian, over much weaker something. Aoki shows RRI only until 1300, but WRTH 2009 has it until 1500, so looks like the latter is correct, at least today. Tho 250 kW, as a domestic service relay, it`s not included in the WRTH A-09 update. There is also contradictory info about the azimuth for this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 7305, August 20 at 0547 M&W in English concluding ``Society Today`` program discussing probation, RRI ID. Not listed here in PWBR `2009` and RRI uses so many frequencies I don`t have them all memorized. This is the only semi-hour per day RRI is on 7305, 0530 via Galbeni, 300 kW, 300 degrees to Europe, and incidentally North America beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 13870 with fairly good signal in Russian, Aug 20 at 1358, Arkady with schedule announcement, including 22 meters, 1400 6-pip time signal with some character, not just pure tones, and accurate compared to WWV a few minutes later; Golos Rossii ID. Per Aoki it`s Moscow site at 190 degrees, 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. Missing the last few evenings from 9675, IRS was back UT Aug 19 at 0030 check with IS (changed for the worse, no longer as catchy?), opening English. Also at 0037 check UT August 20, altho it and VOR 9665 were much weaker with K=2.

SW service had seemed in limbo, but Dragan Lekic reports that a bad English translation on their website was the problem. In fact, it should say ``THE ONLY SHORTWAVE STATION OF SERBIA WILL ALSO (!!!) CONTINUE BROADCASTING THRU SATELLITE AND THE INTERNET``, i.e. still on SW at least thru yearend. But it`s not unusual for Bijeljina, Bosnia site to break down for one reason or another (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1474, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

9675, IRS reconfirmed in English at 0037 Aug 20. From past week`s monitoring, it may or may not be on, and even less likely at 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, Brother Scare via WWRB as I tuned by Aug 20 at 1342 was offering DE-15 shortwave radios for a $75 donation. But it`s been sold by Amazon for less than a month at $49.99. Is only one semi-inch ``think``:
http://www.amazon.com/Degen-DE15-Ultra-thin-Shortwave-Radio/dp/B002ITQB9U

But will it pick up WWRB spurs? At 1345 was hearing het on approx. 9452 against Thailand 9455, previously tracked to 9385, but too much noise now to be sure. Line(?) noise level has increased, perhaps tnx to lightning disturbing the transformers. Altho storms are still coming and going, today`s logs are on the outside antenna between them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. R. Thailand, which on Aug 17 was in English by mistake at 1330 on 9455, did not manage to check it on 18 or 19, but Aug 20 at 1345 confirmed back in Thai; het on 9452 may be the spur again from WWRB, see SOUTH CAROLINA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRMI was supposedly going to be more active on 9955 with WRN afternoon relays during the HFCC week, but could not detect it here Aug 19 around 1730 or 2030.

This week`s first SW airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1474 confirmed on WRMI 9955, UT Thu Aug 20 at 0531, mixing with DentroCuban pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13110-SSB, Aug 20 at 0535, Perfect Pauline still has not learned not to say ``nautical smiles`` but certainly brought a smile to my non-nautical face; marine weather for Atlantic, no doubt influenced by H. Bill; 0537 ID as WLO & KLB, ``now standing by for calls, end of broadcast`` but nothing further heard on this frequency next couple minutes. I`m never sure whether I am really hearing Mobile or Kent transmitter, but I suppose at this hour Washington would be more likely to propagate on 13 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The other night I observed that WRNO was still on the air only three hours a day, 0100-0400 on 7505; as if to prove me wrong, UT Aug 20, 7505 was still on the air at 0545 with, what else, gospel rock; S9+22 signal, and still at 0604 but VERY undermodulated: I could turn the volume control wide open and that was about right, but perilous when ontuning.

Next check at 1335, still/again on the air, 7505! Now the modulation is OK with music, and at 1337 live DJ announcement from Taylor Duncan, with CDT timecheck, date August 20, and said from next week WRNO would start simulcasting on web via http://www.wrno.org which we may already check; webcast would be 24 hours, and SW would be 12 hours a day.

I thought that was the URL he said, but no works; instead still http://www.wrnoworldwide.org/ which certainly has a new look since last I checked, and link to 24 hour program schedule, claiming 7505 is 24 hours, at http://www.wrnoworldwide.org/wrnoradio_Schedule.htm
which includes 30- or 60-minute newscasts at 0400, 1600 and 1700! Homepage also has news from BBC with their logo. Plus CNN, ESPN and others; and a new blog since Aug 12, but trying to read the posts gets a 503 error.

Recheck at 1609, no modulation but carrier +USB, no LSB on 7505; not sure what that is (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15820, WWCR just barely audible here with no sporadic E enhancement Aug 19 at 1410, testing instead of 15825. Christer Brunström in Sweden agrees it was on 15820 at 1300. Also on 15820 JBA at 2030 check. So when Friday 2028:30 comes with WORLD OF RADIO, I revise my advisory to check 15830 too.

For the third day, WWCR on 15820 instead of 15825, Aug 20 at 1404 check, just barely audible with no Es-enhancement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The IBB/HCJB DRM tests from Greenville supposed to start Aug 17 were reported delayed until Aug 18. The only chance I had to check 15475 Aug 18 was around 2130, however, and no DRM heard. At 0030 Aug 19, the other test on 9400-9405-9410 was inblasting. Also Aug 19 at 2030 check, no DRM heard around 15475 nor anywhere else on 19m.

However, Brandon Jordan in Memphis says: ``15475 kHz IBB/HCJB DRM noted from 2018 to 2200 UT on Aug 19, although very weak and only a few brief audio decodes.`` It is low-power and also liable to skip over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6300, La Voz de la República Árabe Saharaui Democrática, via ALGERIA, Aug 20 at 0607 with soporific wake-up chanting, usual ute beeps on low side. About equal level with Equatorial Guinea 6250, a neat pair, but not always both on and in at same time. As we are getting closer to equinox than solstice, reception should be holding up a bit later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11890, surprised to hear news in English at 1404 August 19, and as soon as ``BBC News`` IDed, cut off the air at 1406*. Figured it was a regular transmission prolonged another 6 minutes for a bit more news as BBCWS has been caught doing elsewhen, but --- no BBC at all scheduled on 11890 in any of the current online references. There is, however, in once source not including WRTH, SLBC supposedly in Sinhala or Hindi, so possibly Ekala, but I think that is really on 11905.

BBCWS news in English previously heard until 1406* on unlisted 11890, so checked earlier Aug 20: nothing audible at 1356. Wolfgang Büschel suggests it was Woofferton tuning up for DW using handy BBC audio, i.e. DW scheduled in French from 1700 on 11890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton-RA 13690 0407 English 333 Aug 18 Two YLs in a happy conversation plus an OM at times.

CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 11690 0413 Spanish 433 Aug 18 A YL with ongoing comments.

CUBA China Radio Intl Relay-CRI 9790 0426 Chinese 433 Aug 18 YL with comments and interviewing an OM 0427.

ECUADOR HCJB Global 9745 0428 Spanish 444 Aug 18 OM with comments. Time pips 0430 Music 0431.

FRENCH GUYANA Voice of Russia 9735 0433 Spanish 444 Aug 18 Two OMs with comments plus some music in the background. Classical music 0435. OM with comments.

GERMANY Voice of Croatia Relay 9925 0420 Croatian 433 Aug 18 OM with pop music vocals.

RUSSIA Voice of Russia-VOR 13775 0405 English 333 Aug 18 YL with ongoing comments.

UNITED STATES, Greenville Radio Marti 7405 0453 Spanish 333 Aug 18 Freq being jammed. OM with comments plus some music. A YL at 0454.

Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
"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

Tips estivi - seconda tranche

Secondo gruppo di alcuni ascolti estivi dalla casa in collina a San Marco la Catola (700 metri s.l.m.), in provincia di Foggia. Con me il Perseus, connesso ad una filare ad "L" invertita lunga circa 15 metri.

4770 2155 10/08 r.Nigeria, Kaduna, pop music, time at 2200, ID, EE. Good.
4976 0305 12/08 r.Uganda,Kampala, pop music. Fair.
5010 0308 12/08 r.Madagasikara, Antananarivo, african music, talk, VV. Good.
5965 0255 12/08 R.Habana Cuba, "rivista informativa de la noche", ID, SS. Good.
6090 0300 12/08 Amhara State Radio, Addis Ababa, sign-on, mx, ID, VV. Very Good.
6110 0300 12/08 R.Fana, Addis Ababa, sign-on, ID, news, VV. Very good.
15400 1208 10/08 HCJB Australia, Kununurra, program on science in special English, web address, email address, music, ID, EE. Good.

=========

Michele D'Amico
- Receivers:
   Modern:  Persues, Drake R8E, Icom IC-R72, DE1103
   Vintage: BC348R, Satellit 210, R326
- Antenna: just a random peice of wire, 7 metres long

Ultimas escuchas

Escuchas realizadas en el último mes en Santa Pola (Alicante) y Albarracín (Teruel)

ALEMANIA

9.530 kHz, Radio Liberty, Biblis, 17-08-09, 1433-1437. Comentarios de locutores en entrevista, identificación " Govorit Radio Svoboda", en ruso. SINPO 55454. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

9.670 kHz, Radio Polonia, Wertachtal, 17-08-09, 1530-1537. Identificación, locutora con noticias con referencias a Polonia, página web, en polaco. SINPO 45444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

9.725 kHz, Radio Liberty, Wertachtal, 17-08-09, 1538-1541. Locutor entrevista a invitado, en bielorruso. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

9.895 kHz, Radio Nederland, Wertachtal, 26-07-09, 1125-1130. Canción "knocking on heavens doors" de Bob Dylan, comentarios de locutora y presenta otra canción, en holandés. SINPO 55555. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

15.350 kHz, Gospel for Asia, Wertachtal, 07-08-09, 1421-1432. Locutor con comentarios, música, identificación, locutor con referencias a Jesucristo. A las 1430 acaba programa en kukna y empieza en Kotwalia. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

15.330 kHz, Radio Farda, Biblis, 07-08-09, 1437-1441. Locutor con comentarios, identificación, declaraciones grabadas, en persa. SINPO 54333. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

AUSTRIA

15.440 kHz, Adventist World Radio, Moosbrunn, 07-08-09, 1414-1421. Música y locutores con comentarios religiosos, en urdu. SINPO 53443. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

BELGICA

9.970 kHz, RTBFi, Wavre, 26-07-09, 1203-1207. Noticias sobre alpinista español perdido en Himalaya, el tiempo, el trafico y música pop, en francés. SINPO 55555. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

BULGARIA

11.700 kHz, Radio Bulgaria, Plovdiv, 26-07-09, 1210-1215. Identificación, locutora con comentarios sobre festival de música y presenta música clásica, en búlgaro. SINPO 55454. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

CHINA

9.605 kHz, Jamming China, 17-08-09, 1438-1441. Música china para interferir la emisión de BBC, en chino. SINPO 43333. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

ESLOVAQUIA

9.510 kHz, IRRS Milano, Rimavska Sobota, 26-07-09, 1142-1146. Música pop-rock, comentarios de locutor, identificación y página web, en inglés. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

GRECIA

9.935 kHz, ERT3 Radio Makedonias, Avlis, 26-07-09, 1156-1203. Música griega, identificación emisora, locutor con noticias, en griego. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

15.630 kHz, Voz de Grecia, Avlis, 07-08-09, 1409-1413. Comentarios de locutora con referencias a la emigración y música de fondo, en griego. SINPO 55544. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

MALI

9.635 kHz, Radio Mali, Bamako, 26-07-09, 1136-1142. Música africana y comentarios de locutor, en árabe. SINPO 35343. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

NIGERIA

9.690 kHz, Radio Nigeria, Ikorodu, 26-07-09, 1130-1136. Identificación, locutora con comentarios con referencias a Nigeria y música africana, en inglés. SINPO 45444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

PORTUGAL

12.020 kHz, RDP Internacional, Lisboa-Sao Gabriel, 26-07-09, 1222-1227. Música, locutor con comentarios, identificación "RDP internacional, Radio Portugal", nº de teléfono para contacto y música, en portugués. SINPO 45544. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

RUANDA

15.275 kHz, Deutsche Welle, Kigali, 07-08-09, 1444-1447. Comentarios de locutor con referencias a Corea del Norte, declaraciones en inglés traducidas con referencias a Birmania, en alemán. SINPO 34343. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

RUMANIA

11.875 kHz, Radio Rumania Int., Tiganesti, 26-07-09, 1218-1222. Música pop, identificación y bases concurso sobre Enescu, en alemán. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

TURQUIA

15.285 kHz, Voz de Turquia, Emirler, 07-08-09, 1441-1444. Locutor con comentarios y música de fondo, en árabe. SINPO 55444. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

VATICANO

9.645 kHz, Radio Vaticana, Sta. Maria di Galera, 17-08-09, 1442-1459. Música pop con comentarios de locutor, identificación y final de emisión, en italiano. SINPO 54433. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

11.740 kHz, Radio Vaticana, Sta. Maria di Galera, 26-07-09, 1215-1218. Noticias sobre Afganistán, biblioteca vaticana y entrevista, en italiano. SINPO 55454. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

15.235 kHz, Radio Vaticana, Sta. Maria di Galera, 07-08-09, 1447-1451. Comentarios de locutor con referencias a Benedicto XVI. Acaba programa en hindi y empieza en tamil, con identificación y noticias. SINPO 55555. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Albarracín)

ZAMBIA

13.590 kHz, CVC Internacional, Lusaka, 26-07-09, 1232-1240. pop, locutora con comentarios e identificación emisora, en inglés. SINPO 43443. (Sangean ATS909, Ant. Telescópica, Santa Pola)

 

Javier Robledillo
Elche (Alicante)
EA5-1028

Glenn Hauser logs August 18, 2009

** AUSTRIA. 15595, Aug 18 at 1506 hymn in English ``I will trust in you``, into language talk. Umlauts reminded me of Hungarian, so I did not think it was Turkish, but so listed in Aoki as AWR at 1500-1530 only via Moosbrunn. Careful: at 1530 Vatican ecumenically takes over 15595 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 9625 with BBCWS at 0458 Aug 18, ID and promos, but it`s really the end of the first hour of CBC Overnight as then mentioned in outro, now being carried on the NQ service, but no such ID before 0500 CBC news, just as CBC Radio 1. Anyhow, back on 9625 for sure ex-9755 excursion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or should this be UK [non]?

** CHINA. Yay, heard one Firedrake music-only jamming frequency once again, tho only poorly, this time on 15755, Aug 18 at 1453 and still at 1506. Nothing heard on any of the previous/usual channels between 8 and 19 MHz. 15755 must be the latest jump of Sound of Hope via Tajikistan in the 15.7 MHz range. I wonder if the lack of Firedrakes also means that many other SOH transmissions have disappeared?

However, times do not match the Aug 18 0400 edition of Aoki showing:
15750*Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH 1230-1300 1234567 Chinese 100 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E3829N SOH a09 May 25- 15720
15750*Xi Wang Zhi Sheng SOH 1400-1430 1234567 Chinese 100 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E3829N SOH a09 May 25- 15740
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC check Aug 18 at 1459 found 11760 already off as was 13780 just in time to clear 13775 for Austria via Canada. Still on with RHC IS were 13760 and much stronger 13680 aimed usward from the other site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. 17725, English talk about Africa fading out and in, Aug 18 at 1445; only poor at best, but certainly V. of Africa as scheduled, and seldom heard. W and M with heavy accent. A little help from the solar flux would certainly audiblize it better, but no signs of that. Perhaps approaching seasonal equinoxial conditions will assist instead. A few minutes later checked for // 21695, but nothing audible on 13m. At 1502, 17725 had declined to a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 17640 with BBCWS news in English Aug 18 at 1503. Only fair and not always audible, but BBC-famished North Americans may add this to possible frequencies: now scheduled as Ascension at 13-17, 114 degrees (and before at 08-13, 17640 is Seychelles, 270 degrees) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA

** U S A. VOA/IBB Greenville has finally followed my advice to cease interfering with itself by overlapping with Botswana at 1430 on 17585. Aug 18 at 1428 This Day in History segment was allowed to finish and then dropped carrier immediately at 1430:00* without any YDD signoff routine. Botswana takeup to continue same English hour should also have crash-started at *1430:00 but not audible here as it occasionally is. I think they are warming up on 17575 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR shows up on a different new frequency, 15820: announced plans to test 15830 this week instead of 15825, but there it was really on 15820 instead, Aug 18 at 1408, VG S9+20 signal in preaching. Still 15820 at 1505 check. Trace of squeal possibly at imagination-level, but not really a problem. Anyhow, I don`t think shifting 5 kHz up or down will have any effect on the possible squealing. No other broadcasters are scheduled on 15820 or 15830 at any time, so it seems WWCR may experiment freely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWRB, 18770 = 2 x 9385 with Brother Scare, Aug 18 at 1447. I was still on the inside antenna and could hear it even there, tho certainly stronger at 1510 check on outside antenna. I am still looking for anyone else to report DXing this. HF sporadic E assistance one again in play, as evidenced also by WWCR 15820, WWV well heard on 20000. WWV is only 500 miles away, and simply will not be heard here on 20000 without Es (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15460 with unID language, several speakers, Aug 18 at 1450. Rather than guess, I will look it up later: R. Liberty in Georgian at 14-15; Aoki says Biblis, HFCC says Lampertheim, GERMANY anyway. I haven`t yet figured out how to recognize Georgian right away; any tips with common words, phrases or characteristic phonemes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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GERMANY(non)  Summer A-09 of Media Broadcast(ex DTK T-Systems).Part 4 of 4:
Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN):
0700-0815 on  5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat         to WeEu    English
0700-0730 on  5945 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sun         to WeEu    English
1800-1830 on  6130 WER 125 kW / 055 deg Tue         to EaEu    Russian
1800-1815 on  6130 WER 125 kW / 055 deg Fri         to EaEu    Russian
1800-1815 on  6130 WER 125 kW / 055 deg Thu         to EaEu    Ukrainian
1800-1845 on  6130 WER 125 kW / 055 deg Sat         to EaEu    English
1800-1900 on  6130 WER 125 kW / 055 deg Sun         to EaEu    English
1800-1830 on  9435 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg Sun         to SoEu    Spanish
0900-1000 on 17535 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Fri         to NoAf    Arabic
1930-2000 on 11830 JUL 100 kW / 175 deg Sat         to WeAf    French/Ajda
1830-1845 on 11830 JUL 100 kW / 160 deg Sun         to CeAf    Swahili
1845-2000 on 11830 JUL 100 kW / 160 deg Sun         to CeAf    English
0430-0530 on 11865 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Mon-Thu     to EaAf    Arabic
0430-0515 on 11865 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri         to EaAf    Arabic, ex till 0545
0430-0530 on 11635 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Sat         to EaAf    Amharic
0430-0500 on 11635 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Sun         to EaAf    Amharic
1630-1800 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Mon/Tue/Fri to EaAf    Amharic/Tigrinya/Amharic
1600-1800 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Wed         to EaAf    Amharic
1630-1800 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Thu         to EaAf    Amharic
1800-1900 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Fri         to EaAf    Somali/Amharic
1600-1630 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Sat-Mon     to EaAf    Oromo
1630-1800 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Sat         to EaAf    Amharic
1800-1830 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Sat         to EaAf    Somali
1630-1800 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Sun         to EaAf    Amharic
1800-1900 on 13810 JUL 100 kW / 130 deg Sun         to EaAf    Somali/Amharic
1630-1730 on 15495 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Daily       to EaAf    Nuer/Dinka
1730-1745 on 15495 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Fri         to EaAf    Fur
1545-1700 on  9430 JUL 100 kW / 115 deg Mon/Wed     to ME      Arabic
1615-1630 on  9430 JUL 100 kW / 115 deg Fri         to ME      Arabic
1700-1800 on  9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Sat         to ME      English
1730-1800 on  9430 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Sun         to ME      English
1830-1900 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri         to ME      English
1800-1900 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sat         to ME      English
1815-1845 on  9430 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Sun         to ME      English
1530-1545 on 11955 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Sun         to ME      English/Persian
1800-1830 on 11970 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Mon/Wed/Fri to ME      Persian
1800-1900 on 11970 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Tue/Thu     to ME      Persian
1830-1900 on 11970 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sun         to ME      Persian
1800-1815 on 11970 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg Sat         to ME      English
1530-1730 on 12140 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Daily       to ME      Persian
1625-1715 on 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Mo/Tu/Th/Fr to ME      Arabic
1625-1730 on 13580 ISS 250 kW / 115 deg Wed         to ME      Arabic
1545-1600 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Mon/Wed     to ME      English
1545-1700 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Tue         to ME      English
1700-1800 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Tue         to ME      Hebrew/English
1545-1645 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Thu         to ME      English
1545-1615 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Fri         to ME      English
1730-1800 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Fri         to ME      English
1545-1730 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Sat         to ME      English
1730-1800 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Sat         to ME      Tagalog/Hebrew
1800-1830 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Sat         to ME      English
1530-1815 on 13590 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg Sun         to ME      English
1200-1230 on 15610 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Mon-Fri     to CeAs    Uyghur
0030-0100 on  9490 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Mon-Thu     to SoAs    Hindi
0030-0100 on  9490 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Fri-Sun     to SoAs    English
1530-1600 on 15295 ISS 250 kW / 077 deg Mon/Tue     to SoAs    Tamil
1515-1600 on 15295 ISS 250 kW / 077 deg Wed         to SoAs    Telugu
1500-1600 on 15295 ISS 250 kW / 077 deg Thu/Fri     to SoAs    Hindi
1500-1530 on 15295 ISS 250 kW / 077 deg Sat/Sun     to SoAs    Bengali
1400-1500 on 17805 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sat/Sun     to SoAs    English
1500-1600 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Tue         to SoAs    Urdu
1515-1600 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Wed         to SoAs    Urdu
1515-1530 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Thu         to SoAs    Urdu
1515-1530 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Fri         to SoAs    Punjabi
1530-1600 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Fri/Sun     to SoAs    Urdu
1530-1600 on 15680 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Thu/Sat     to SoAs    English
1500-1515 on 15680 NAU 250 kW / 083 deg Sun         to SoEaAs  English

Trans World Radio (TWR):
0645-0820 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sun         to NoEu    English
0715-0750 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Sat         to NoEu    English
0700-0750 on  6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg Mon-Fri     to NoEu    English
1400-1430 on  7220 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Mon         to EaEu    Belarussian
1400-1430 on  7220 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Tue-Sun     to EaEu    Russian
1430-1500 on  7220 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Daily       to EaEu    Russian
1530-1600 on  9440 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Sat         to EaEu    Romanian
1530-1600 on  9440 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Fri     to CeAs    Armenian
1630-1700 on  9505 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Daily       to CeAs    Persian

Pan American Broadcasting (PAB):
1930-2030 on  9515 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sat         to NoAf    English
1930-2015 on  9515 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sun         to NoAf    English
0030-0045 on  9640 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun         to SoAs    English
1400-1430 on 15205 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Sun         to SoAs    English
1415-1430 on 15205 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Sat     to SoAs    English
1430-1445 on 15205 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg Sun         to SoAs    English
1600-1630 on 13830 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Thu         to WeAs    Persian
1600-1630 on 13830 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Sun         to WeAs    English

Media Broadcast, last minutes changes:
WYFR Family Radio, additional txion from Aug.15
2200-0100 on  7360 GUF 250 kW / 170 deg Daily       to SoAm    Portuguese

Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN), additional txion from Aug.3
1930-1945 on 11830 WER 100 kW / 225 deg Mon-Thu     to NoAf    Arabic

DRM txion from Aug.15 till Sep.6
1905-1955 on 11955 NAU 200 kW / 335 deg Daily       to NoAm    ???????

Glenn Hauser logs August 17-18, 2009

T-storms kept developing right over Enid all evening, UT Aug 17, so computers and antennas unplugged, leaving us nothing else to do but monitor SW in primetime when we usually do not, with inside antennas only, pretty long wrapped around the ceiling several times, and presumably less direxional than the usual E-W longwire.

T-storm noise was heavy, but less human-made QRN than usual and propagation not too bad. More storms the next morning kept us off the outside wires. All the logs in this report are without external antenna, still with the FRG-7, and YB-400 as backup. Or in some cases quick checks in the yard with DX-398 portable, whip.

** ARGENTINA. Pleased to hear the RAE IS on 15344.0 or so as early as 1648 Aug 17; thought I heard them say ``atención`` once, but constant het from 15345, which must be Morocco. I was trying to measure 15344 more closely on the ATS-909 but at 1657 it had shifted much closer to 15345, still a lower-pitched het. 1700 6-pip timesignal and talk in unID language, but too much hash from TV swish. By now I am not sure whether I am hearing Morocco in Arabic or Argentina in its extra German broadcast, but one of them went off anyway at 1702, or at least there was no further het. I also had been distracted by a signal on 15340; see ETHIOPIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 9755 with unexpected program in English, Aug 17 at 0052, lofi mix including classical music; 0057 outro as ``Inside the Music`` from CBC Radio 1 --- Has RCI finally come to its senses and put CBCR1 back on shortwave?! Not exactly.

At 0059 Radio-Canada ID, then CBC ID in unknown language, mentioning 9625 more than once, 0100 CBC News. OMG, it`s the CBC NQ service on wrong frequency! Nothing on 9625; S9+20 on 9755, stronger than 9625 usually attains, so on wrong antenna too? But squeezed by RFI 9750 GUF carrier and Spanish news modulation from 0100. 9755 is the frequency used by RCI English to USA in the winter, despite lower MUFs, and is not supposed to be on at this hour in summer.

So what`s on 6100? At 0101, RCI harmonica fill music, undermodulated with hum, 0103 RCI ID mentioning The Link. 0104 Mandarin as scheduled.

9755 reception declining, but 0105 into another CBC program, probably In the Key of Charles. (BTW, there was no Outfront at 0045 as online CBC schedule claims even on local Sundays.)

0151 recheck, 9755 still in music show, but now a fast SAH from open carrier? 0158, CBCNQ ID again as ``9625``, and same in Inuktituk. 0200 sharp, RCI Spanish starts suddenly stronger on 9755, as scheduled for this hour, but still with something under. After news at 0206 gave three frequencies, but the only one I caught was on the 31m band, 9640, certainly incorrect --- not used since B-08 season and at 0000 only! Geez, are they screwed up in multiple ways.

Then El Castor Mensajero (The Messenger Beaver, i.e. mailbag show, featuring Cubans). BTW, 6100 also has Spanish this hour but 5 minutes offset, and different Internal show anyway? Did not check. 9755 wrapping up ECM at 0258, still with fast SAH from co-channel interference, then 0259 RCI off leaving weak signal, 0300 CBC News signature!

So not only was the CBCNQ service on the wrong frequency, but another transmitter in the hall at Sackville was on the SAME frequency during this hour, a really close collision! NQ probably stayed on 9755 till 0505* but unchecked later. After 0200, 9625 would have been badly squeezed between Spain on 9620 and Spain/Costa Rica on 9630.

I did check the next morning and at 1325 nothing on 9755, but usual ripple SAH on 9625 indicating the always slightly-off-frequency CBCNQ was back, with Hmong dominant from FEBC Manila; see PHILIPPINES. To be sure, another check after FEBC off at 1400: Yes, weak CBC news in English.

Also next evening UT Aug 18 at 0037 check, nothing on 9755, but weak signal on 9625. I did not notify Sackville about having NQ on 9755 the night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CROATIA. 9925 via Germany, kept an ear on VOC Aug 17 from 0207 looking for the English half-hour as per EiBi and Aoki, but only heard pop music, presumably in Croatian until 0230 when opened Voz de Croacia in Spanish. Maybe there was a quick English newscast at 0200 I already missed? Or just forget it for Sundays; or August holidays.

Why does everyone in Europe think they have to go on holidays in August? Wouldn`t it be less disruptive to stagger absences from May thru September at least? WRTH A-09 update does not attempt to break down foreign language times; it`s all just Croatian/Other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Will RHC ever resume its first English broadcast of the day at 2030? Not yet; Aug 16 at 2055 check, just Spanish on 11760 // 11770 et al. Could not hear 17660. Blame the Honduran oligarchy.

RHC check at 0117 Aug 17, found 13790 and 13760 the only signals audible on 22m. At 0120: Spanish on 5965, 6060, 6120, 6140, 9600 11760 and an echo away on 13760, at the moment talking about the Wizard of Oz; weak signal with different music in Spanish on 6000, presumably the only English-service channel running, useless.

En Contacto, the DX program ran from 0136 past 0151 UT Monday and I listened to most of it on 9600 which was strong but somewhat distorted. Featured monthly report from Pedro Sedano of AER with items including WRTH update, RRI Enescu contest, CyBC, Turquía. He takes a lot of time and trouble to spell out unfamiliar addresses, apparently assuming people will want to write to the stations.

13880 mixing product stronger than usual, Aug 17 at 1348 in talk about Barbados, 13680 leaping over 13780, both extremely strong; while leapfrog the other way on 13580 was JBA.

Secret RHC midday service reconfirmed Aug 17 at 1547 on 11760, 11800 distorted, 11690; barely audible on 5965, and 6000 which were the only stations audible on 49-50m, not even WBOH 5920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [and non]. Pleased NOT to hear DRM test on 15470-15475-15476-15480 as previously scheduled by IBB/HCJB Greenville starting Aug 17 for HFCC, when checked at 2025, nor anywhere else on 19m (tho ANTARCTICA was not making it either, its unique low-power frequency should be respected!).

11700-11705-11710, HCJB DRM at 1546 Aug 17. Kim Elliott says this is a feeder to affiliates in Brasil. I wonder how many are really using it and how many ordinary DRM listeners there are? Also noted 15275-15280-15285 HCJB DRM around 2030 as usual.

17865-17870-17875, big DRM signal Aug 17 at 1622, TDF testing from Guiana French to HFCC in Dominican Republic. These tests do not appear on the DRM/DX schedule, but are mentioned on linked fora, supposed to be Aug 18-20 at 16-18, Aug 21 at 16-21, but already going Aug 17!

A reminder that Jeff White is reactivating his Radio Discovery from Punta Cana HFCC this week Aug 17-22 on 4730 with only 100 watts to a half-wave dipole, testing WinDRM, SSB and AM. See details on DXLD 9-055. On the afternoon of Aug 17, Jeff told me they were just setting it up, ``We could be on tonight, but I`m not sure yet``.

I`ve urged him to let it run all night. This should be quite a challenge to DX anywhere, especially here around all the T-storm noise. Do they manage to evade CODAR, and military ute SSBs on both sides? BTW, the tropstorms and hurricane in the area did not cause any of the delegations to cancel, Jeff says (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. Awful modulation from R. Cairo continues: 9915, Aug 17 at 0050, level S9+20 but extremely distorted yet muffled audio, useless, supposedly Spanish at 0045-0200 only.

6290, distorted muezzin, audio also cutting out at 0118, better modulation than 9915, but not by much. 6290 still on and audible with distorted Arabic news at 0402. In fact Aoki shows it`s continuous 1900-0700, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis; targets Eu and NAm thruout tho possible span here is shorter in summer. Aoki also titles this service 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' --- which means? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Aug 17 at 1554 with revival music, undermod talk in English, has to be R. Africa, the home away from home for convict Tony Alamo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ETHIOPIA [non]. While monitoring Argentina on 15344, Aug 17 at 1643, noticed flute music, unID language talk on poor 15340, 1656 HOA(?) singing, but off by 1658. Since Morocco is on 15345 at this hour, must be something else. Looked up later in Aoki, it`s the Monday-only 1600-1700 broadcast of EOTC Holy Synod Radio, clandestine to Ethiopia in Amharic, via Samara, Russia, 200 kW, 188 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 17850, thought I had something exotic with Horn of Africa vocal music Aug 17 at 1636, but 1637 into French amid crowd noises, poor signal, 1641 hilife music. It`s just RFI`s service via Issoudun to Africa at 16-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [non]

** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM. R. Educación noted in the clear Aug 17 at 0119 with talk in Spanish, but not enough signal vs the T-storm noise level. Current listings show `ADM` UAE until 0100*, then open window until Vatican at *0205; or is UAE really on 6185 at all? Not per Aoki and EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. Meant to mention that altho RNZI was absent from analog 11725, Aug 14 after 0500, it was back the next night and every night since including Aug 17 check at 0524 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. Checking 9625 to see whether CBCNQ was back from its excursion to 9755 the night before, see CANADA, Aug 17 at 1326 heard its rippling SAH against dominant signal in Hmong, which is FEBC Manila, confirmed as such with announcer giving P and E-mail addresses, http://www.hmongradio.febc.com --- then 1331 Jesus Saves IS on chimes/vibes several times, 1332 song. Scheduled to go from Hmong to Khmu at 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. RRI, 9580, UT Mon Aug 17 at 0051 with birdlike vocalizations by human singer, into Romanian Rhapsody tune. Maybe Skylark show; love their folk music.

Also ran across another Tiganeshti broadcast, 9645, at 0223 during classical violin/piano music, het de perpetual Brazilian spoiler Bandeirantes, 0226 Spanish announcement from RRI. 9645 also used for 0300 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17560, poor with non-buzzing muezzins (two of them, or multitracked?) at 1623 Aug 17, 1635 Arabic talk; bothered by stronger but not very strong carrier on 17565 from Greenville about to start Creole at 1630. PWBR '2009` says 17560 is BSKSA Holy Qur`an Station, and per Aoki that is still correct, 1600-1755 at 270 degrees. Also noticed better signal on non-buzzing 15205 was already muezzening at 1655, in case one wants to nap before noon. Probably // but not confirmed as such. Meanwhile Sawt al-Buzz much stronger at 1555 on 15435 // no buzz on 15225 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. Since IRS had been confirmed on 9675 the last few days before 0100, I expected to hear it again UT Monday August 17 --- but nothing there at 0035 when the 6-daily 0030 English should have appeared. Propagation OK as VOR 9665 Pridnestrovye was fine next door. So is IRS phasing itself out, gone, or just sporadic? 24 hours later, UT Aug 18 at 0030 check, 9675 still vacant, unlike VOR 9665. So is anyone still hearing IRS any time on 9675 to NAm, scheduled 0000-0130, or 6100 to Europe between 1800 and 2130? They have hinted at closing down the SW service permanently, staying on Internet and satellite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare monitoring Aug 17: at 1542 on 17485 (which he thinx is 17435) via Germany, running 6 seconds behind 13845 WWCR. Recheck at 1703, 13845 had changed to Pastor Melissa Scott, but when next I noticed scarcely 2 minutes later at 1704, it was B.S. again! Unfortunately, I missed the axual transition. Just as Rick Barton, AZ, has previously monitored, for some reason at 1700 they change to PMS for a few minutes, then back to BS for another hour(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. I can`t believe how many anomalies I run across by random tuning (and knowing what is supposed to happen). On 9455, Aug 17 at 1333, heard news by YL in English, accented, Thai? 1335 on to global news about Nigeria, Obama; 1337 break for OM canned ID ``This is Radio Thailand, English language service``, then feature ``Perspective``.

Fair and clear signal --- but wait a minute, English on 9455 is supposed to be at 1400, and after a beam switch when seldom audible here. 1330-1400 is supposed to be in Thai on 54 degree beam toward Japan, which is close to same as for NAm. A nice surprise, but probably a tape mixup or something. 1357 cut to open carrier, 1358 announcements really in Thai, 1359:30 cut carrier, 1400 back on much weaker, 132 degrees. So what language then, English again, or Thai makeup swap? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY [non]. At least Sackville managed to get the right program on 7325 [cf. CANADA; unlike the entire month of March], VOT in English, UT Monday Aug 17 at 0325, VG signal with YL lecturing on circumcision, how the Turx make a big deal out of it as a coming-of-age public family ceremony for boys, rather than getting it over with as infants, if at all. How barbaric. Appropriately paused frequently for sad, wailing music. It seems high season for this is spring, and preferred days of week are Thu, Sat and Sun. 0329 ending this feature ``Our Culture,`` into next one, ``Blue Voyage``, a travelog about some bay, with OM Sedef, and that would have been more pleasant to listen to if I had time.

Did recheck at 0350 sign-off, but stays on air with multiple plays of VOT IS variations on piano, something I enjoy hearing in full occasionally; 0356 started interspersing French-only La Voix de la Turquie IDs as if that language were about to start --- but not of course, on this or any SW frequency, off at 0358* uncovering weak B-B-C chimes from Rampisham starting Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Seems WRNO is still running only 3 hours a day, and mostly rock music instead of preaching, which is fine with me, but it seems slow to reach its potential after a year back on the air, and never on reserved daytime channel 15590. Aug 17 at 0114, 7505 with good music modulation, steady S9+22, 0116 ID as WRNO Worldwide, gospel rock with refrain sounding like ``You Are God``, which would seem somewhat blasphemous, and nothing about grokking mentioned. Signal had faded down a lot by 0400 sign-off, carrier to 0401:30* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WTJC, 9370v, still putting out spurs, Aug 17 at 1343, weak on approx. 9345 but // 9370 matching Scourby modulation peaks; also a trace on 9395, but too much splash from WWRB 9385. The weaker spurs correlate with a weaker fundamental at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR announced from Aug 17 it would test 15830 instead of 15825 because of `squeal` problem, but several chex here that day found it always on 15825: at 1351 music at S9+10, not enough to overcome nearby T-storm crashes; 1407 with preacher; VG signal at 1646, no squeal audible but some hum, also at 1703. Final check at 2025, sporadic E-enhancement was over and just barely audible, still on 15825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]

** U S A. The convicted Tony Alámo still going on WINB, as I tuned by 13570, Aug 17 at 1543, interfering with CODAR as WINB faded in and out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Usually inaudible when jammed and on Caribeam, WRMI 9955 becomes audible when switches to NW antenna toward us, such as happens Sunday evenings only, UT Mondays 0200-0430 with two hours of Wire Light infomercials, and then a semihour of La Biblia Explicada, as per current sked, as heard Aug 17 at 0219 over jamming two YLs discussing metrics, what`s hot; 0406 preaching about agentes satánicos. Still jammed at both times, despite non-exile content, but atop it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9870, besides AIR Vividh Bharati service via Bangalore with Indian music at 0048 Aug 17, there was co-channel QRM from something else. Altho it does collide with various other stations later, such as Turkey in Spanish after 0100, nothing listed before then in HFCC, Aoki, EiBi, WRTH A-09 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Combined schedule file

I thought you might be interested in seeing the spreadsheet I build containing several scehdule lists all combined in a single sheet.  You can find it at http://www.hfskeds.com/A09_Combined_090817.zip .

 

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La RTI-CBS da Taiwan lascia la banda radioamatoriale

Continua lo spostamento dei trasmettitori oggi in banda radioamatoriale dopo la destinazione a questi ultimi della porzione di frequenze comprese tra i 7100 e i 7200 khz, questa volta tocca alla RTI-CBS in cinese che ha riposizionato i suoi 7185 Khz a 7385 Khz. Anche l'altra frequenza, quella dei 7130 Khz dove è ancora possibile ascoltare la CNR-1 che era utilizzata come jamming nei confronti del trasmettitore di Taiwan, è stata riposizionata su una frequenza consentita, quella dei 6075 Khz. Quest'ultima trasmissione è in parallelo con i 6145 khz. (S. Hasegawa NDXC via dxld ml)

More Australian Heritage AM Radio - Radio Heritage Media Release

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More Australian Heritage AM Radio
7DY Derby and the Queensland Network
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The 7DY Sunpolisher's Club had a membership of '2,900 juveniles' according to the latest in the popular series of Long Lost Australian Radio Stars hosted by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net.

For listeners to the 'North Eastern unit of the Tasmanian Coastal Network' between 1938-1954, Cliff Parish could be heard as the night announcer, Jean Rainbird in the afternoons and Chas. Saunders 'the local picture theater proprietor' handled the outside broadcasts.

7DY Derby ceased to exist in 1954 yet you can still visit the studios today, as this new feature about Australian Heritage AM Radio stations explains.

In another new feature at www.radioheritage.net, the Queensland Network was reaching 700,000 people of the state's total population of 1 million in the mid-1940's.

Centered on 4BC Brisbane with its 'powerful country relay station' 4SB at Kingaroy, the Five Station Queensland Network supplied 'the best drama, radio serials, music and sport' across the region.

Other stations included in the feature are 4GR Toowoomba, 4RO Rockhampton and 4MB Maryborough, and you'll enjoy old photos of the original wooden 4MB tower being taken by horse-drawn cart through Maryborough, original studio views from 4RO and the very tall radio tower of 4BC at Indooroopilly as well as some sophisticated coverage maps from the era.

These two new releases bring to thirty the number of features currently included in the Long Lost Australian Radio Stars series at www.radioheritage.net, now easily found by looking for the 'It's Always Showtime at 2CH' color image on every page.

If you have your own memories, memorabilia and more you'd like to share about 7DY Derby or any of the other stations featured, the Radio Heritage Foundation wants to hear from you. Help us protect and promote Australia's radio heritage today.

Japan AM Radio Dial 1941 - Radio Heritage Media Release

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Radio Heritage Foundation
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Japan AM Radio Dial 1941
Listening on the Eve of WWII
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"The dramatic story by a lady was broadcast at that time' wrote JOFK Radio in Hiroshima, Japan when confirming reception of its broadcasts at the other end of the Pacific during the 1930's.

This postcard is one of many rare images forming part of a new feature exploring the Japanese AM Radio Dial in December 1941 and recently released by the Radio Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.net.

In fact, many Japanese radio stations carefully cultivated foreign listeners through this period, at the same time as the Japan Travel Bureau advertised in America's National Geographic Magazine 'More for your dollars...thanks to the yen' and encouraged readers to travel by the mail liners of NYK to visit the modernising Japan.

On the eve of war, some 73 million Japanese enjoyed entertainment from almost 50 local radio stations, including English language lessons and physical exercise sessions.

The Radio Heritage Foundation details all of the stations on air, including photos of studios, radio personalities and technical facilities in this new feature at www.radioheritage.net.

So why did some Japanese radio stations include the exact geographic co-ordinates of their transmitters and towers in correspondence to foreign listeners? Whilst this question remains unanswered, it is a fact that American occupation forces were able to take over many undamaged and substantial radio station facilities.

The feature even includes a previously unknown image of the joint signage outside the undamaged JOBK and WVTQ studios in downtown Osaka.

For students of social history and those interested in radio heritage, 'Japan AM Radio Dial 1941' presents a fascinating glimpse into what ordinary Japanese people listened to on the radio on the eve of WWII.

This is the second in a series examining the radio broadcasting situation and its context in Asia in 1941 - the other being 'Shanghai Radio Dial 1941' also found at www.radioheritage.net.

LAST DAY RAE DX CONTEST

RAE, the Foreign Service of the Argentine Public Radio, with the collaboration of the Radiolisteners Group of Argentina launches a contest for our audience in Argentina and in the world.

The requirement is to send us two reception reports: one on our Spanish-language program and the other on any of the other languages broadcasts (English, French, German, Italia, Portuguese and Japanese).

The contest begins on August 3, 2009 and reception reports will have to cover any of our programs until 2359 hours of August 17, a date selected to pay homage to the most important national hero of Argentina, General San Martín. "The father of the country", as we call him, died on August 17, 1850.

Reception reports must be sent by e-mail to rae@radionacional.gov.ar or by traditional mail to RAE, PO Box 555, post code: C1000WAF, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Reports will be accepted until September 30, 2009. All participants will receive a QSL cards. Among all who take part in the contest, there will be a prize draw for two Argentine music CD compilations.

Thank you for joining!

Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA   Radio Australia-Shepparton   15560  2220  English  333  Aug 16  YL with comments on Australian Troops in Afghanistan, also a YL with additional comments. //15515[333]Shep, 15230[333]Shep and 13630[333]Shep.

COSTA RICA   Radio Exterior Espana-REE Relay   17850  2153  Spanish  433  Aug 16  Two OMs in a conversation.    MacKenzie-CA.

FRANCE   Radio France Intl-RFI   17620  2155  French  333  Aug 16  YL and two OMs in a conversation and suddenly off the air 2200. No ID was given.

GREECE   Voice of Greece   15630  2208  Greek  333  Aug 16  Two OMs with comments.

JAPAN   Radio Japan-NHK   13640  2232  Japanese  444  Aug 16  YL with comments.

SAIPAN   Radio Free Asia-RFA   13775  2230  Chinese  333  Aug 16  YL and OM with comments.

UNITED STATES   WWCR-4   9980  2300  English  433  Aug 16  OM with an ID then into religous comments by an OM.

UNKNOWN COUNTRY   Unknown Station   15600  2213  French  333  Aug 16  Two YLs with comments. IS 2215 which sounded like WEWN IS.  OM with comments 2216.

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Huntington Beach, California, USA
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Glenn Hauser logs August 16, 2009

** CHINA [and non]. No stand-alone Firedrake heard on usual frequencies Aug 16 around 1230. But at 1238 did hear it on 12040 mixing with CNR1 jamming and VOA target; and on 11710 // CNR1 jamming mixing with N Korean music, Commies vs Commies! But really targeting Taiwan, also producing subaudible heterodynes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [and non]. NHKWNRJ must be in August-vacation mode, with canned repeat programming instead of new shows. World Interactive should be the Sunday feature, but Aug 16 at 1226 on 9695 ending dramatic narrative with music, sound effects, extremely emotional story about a girl and her mother getting (atomic?) bombed in August, outro title as ``Face of Gizo (sp?)`` part 1, to be continued next week with part 2. Reception on 9695 intended for Asia was axually better than on // 6120 via Canada to NAm. 1229 sign-off as usual mentioned frequency only for the next English transmission, at 1310. In NAm it would have been more helpful to mention frequency for next transmission to here at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 11910, REE with Castilian news at 1233 Aug 16, good signal and modulation punch you do not get from Costa Rica, or even from Noblejas. This is the relay via Xi`an, CHINA, at 12-14, 120 kW, 138 degrees, so aimed nowhere near USward and not often heard. Roughly one second behind Cariari on 15170. Recheck at 1251 found 11910 still audible but underneath WYFR open carrier prior to its *1300. This week`s Amigos de la Onda Corta DX program from REE discussed the relay exchange, pointing out that they have two alternative feed routes to Beijing, one via satellite, the other some complicated landline setup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 9605, surprised to hear BBCWS in English, not scheduled here, Aug 16 at 1257 with sports news, 1258 promos, 1259 theme, 1300 timesignal mixing with others, opening in Chinese. Singapore must have turned on not only transmitter but wrong modulation early. After 1300 of course CNR1 jamming also on 9605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. We still have no idea of the exact hours Brother Scare is now on WWCR-2 instead of DGS/PMS, but not only on 13845: Aug 16 at 1210 check, 5935 was still on the air and broadcasting BS. Scheduled switchover time to 13845 is 1200, so maybe this was an error.

WWCR has announced from Aug 17 it will shift from 15825 to 15830 to see if that gets rid of the `squeal` I have occasionally reported. But I think it comes out of the transmitter, as it is only heard when WWCR is extremely strong, rather than heterodyne from another emission. Aug 16 already at 1245, 15825 was very strong with sporadic-E boost, starting ``Sold Out for Jesus``. I could not hear a squeal this time, tho there was a bit of a `frying` sound underneath. Note that 15830 will presumably be in use for WORLD OF RADIO Fridays at 2028 until further notice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The spurs from WTJC 9370v moved in a bit from 30 kHz separation: Aug 16 at 1303, distorted spurs around 9345 and 9395 matching fundamental musical modulation, not as strong as before, but neither was 9370. The higher one`s spread was bothering another gospel huxter on 9400, worse when WTJC became screaming preacher at 1316 check. 9400 victim scheduled as FEBC Manila in Chinese at 09-14, Christians vs Christians! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. Sunday Aug 16 chex for ``Aló, Presidente`` via CUBA: at 1413, open carriers on 13750 and 17750, two of the scheduled frequencies, but nothing on the other three, 11690, 12010, 13680. At 1429 found that 13750 was off but 17750 still on with OC, same at 1436. Tired of listening to nothing, did not recheck until 1530 when modulation had started on 17750. Sounded like Chávez so assumed A,P had started, but it was only a clip in news, from RNV? 13750 still off, no 12010 or 13680 either, but barely audible on 11690 which is always weakest here. Meanwhile, separate secret RHC midday programming continued on 13760.

Next check at 1641 found A,P really underway with Hugo and the audience, on 17750 and by now 13750 had come back on the air, as well as 12010 finally, and 11690 audible, still no 13680. Separate RHC still going on 11760. One more check at 1732: A,P VG on 17750, 13750, 12010; 11690 mostly RTTY but Hugo faded up long enough to reconfirm it to; and 11760 still separate RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Lots of presumed Chinese OTH radar segments as I bandscanned August 16. First at 1210 ranged (approx. in all cases) 5860-5880, with BBCWS English bothered amid on 5875, but the pulses went off at 1211; then found they had shifted down to 5780-5855. In next few minutes also found similar sounds: 6540-6590, 6830-6880, 6950-6995 – careful to stay below 7000? And at 1215, 7575-7630 bothering VOA on 7575. These average 50 kHz in bandwidth. The 5860-5880 one may have extended beyond 5900 but obscured by broadcast signals. Due to their behavior, I am pretty sure these are transmitted from overseas, but I do have plenty of local QRM-producers, so it would be nice if others tried to log these, mostly out-of-band in the 5-8 MHz frequency range. If they are from China, bound to be much stronger in E Asia, W N America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###