Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA

AUSTRALIA Radio Auistralia-RA Shepparton 17715 0020 GMt English 444 Nov 20 Two YLs discussing how young girls should dress. Also an OM on how young boys should dress. //17750[333]Shepparton, 17795/444] Shepparton.

CHINA CPBS 15670 0022 GMT Chinese 333 Nov 19 YL and OM with comments.

CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 17495 0035 GMT Cantonese 433 Nov 19 OM with comments plus a YL. YL with comments 0005 GMT on Nov 20th. //11820[333].

GUAM Adventist World Radio-AWR 17635 0007 GMT Burmese 333 Nov 20 OM with comments.

PHILIPPINES VOA Relay 15385 0017 GMT Chinese 444 Nov 19 YL and OM with comments.

PHILIPPINES VOA Relay 17645 0012 GMT Chinese 444 Nov 20 YL with comments. //15385[433], 11925[333], 9545[333].

NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 15720 0024 GMT English 433 Nov 19 Two OMs in a conversation on an upcoming female singer.

SINGAPORE BBCWS Relay 15335 0008 GMT English 333 Nov 19 Two OMs with comments on a noisy frequency //13725[433], 15360[433]..

Too all my shortwave radio friends, I wish you all a good Thanksgiving Holiday on the 25th. Good listening and DX often in the B10 season. Happy Holidays to all!!
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Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, United States of America
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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Glenn Hauser logs November 23, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 still missing, Nov 23 at 1356 and 1415 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 23:
 8400, very poor at 1341; fair at 1430
10500, poor at 1341; gone at 1430, instead some SSB.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Has RHC finally acceded to HCJB and removed itself from La Voz de los Andes` frequency forever, and now the only one left, 6050, since RHC was missing from it Nov 22 at 0632?

No! Next check Nov 23 at 0200, RHC English still/again on 6050 obliterating HCJB here and no doubt seriously QRMing it around Ecuador. And at 0609 this date RHC English on 6050, plus 6010, 6060, 6150, overkill. Meanwhile, Havana`s ex-5970 goes begging for an occupant after Spain is finished at 0100.

Perhaps Arnie needs a face-saving way to make a compromise and resolve this totally unnecessary collision. Of course, HCJB takes a break between 0503 and 0827. He could reduce RHC usage of 6050 to the English 0500-0700 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. 6185, world news in Spanish, Nov 23 at 0611 including some clips in English, over SAH from Vatican. This has to be Radio Educación, XEPPM, but certainly not produced by them. Yes, at 0616 outro, it`s de Radio Francia Internacional, RFI; perhaps a midnight regular in Mexico; delayed from 0100? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN, Ron Howard says was gone again Nov 22, but I can barely hear it Nov 23 at 1346, some music underneath heavy RTTY, which never used to bother this frequency. Perhaps some higher-priority military traffic is forcing AFN to get off?

How is their day frequency doing, which I have been remiss in checking since it`s so far out of band? Aoki shows ``13362 AFN LOS ANGELES 2200-0800 1234567 English 3 ND Barrigada GUM 14449E 1329N`` while 5765 runs 0800-2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9870, Nov 23 at 1442, VG signal but fluttery from AIR VBS with traditional Indian music, sadly marred by IADs, which are less frequent but longer than those on VOI 9526-. Strangely, the other two AIR 31m frequencies, 9690 GOS, and 9425 National Channel, provided not even carriers, so altho their reception always diverges widely from 9870, I must conclude that two of the three, all supposed to be from Bengaluru, were really off the air. I think I had noticed signs of 9690 an hour earlier, however (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, Nov 23 at 1312 quick check to reconfirm VOI is doing another Exotic Indonesia hookup on Tuesday with RRI Banjarmasin, as Banj guy is taking turns with Jak announcer in news items. As always, interrupted by IADs, so I`m not going to put myself thru this, and have plenty else to monitor during this hour. Next check 1337, introducing this week`s feature from Banjarmasin, still with IADs; and signal is not so strong today, bothered by ACI from 9530 Chinese, i.e. ChiCom jamming and/or VOA Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15550, VOIRI in Arabic, Nov 23 at 1416, poor but free of QRMilton, no sign of SSB; until later: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. Let not breaking news get in the way of local holidays: NHK World Newsline Tuesday Nov 23 contracted from 28 to only 10 minutes at 1700 UT via OETA OKLA, as has happened occasionally before. Usual anchor missing, replaced by an anchorette named Fukushima who speaks much better English, perhaps a semi-American. Lead story was the war between N&S Korea, but soon on to truncated other items, including very brief weather, just grafix, Sumo summary by the gaijin who has more of an Aussie than an American accent, and 1710 to filler from Kyoto, all about how and why wagashi are made, which I must admit was quite interesting and lovely to look at (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze via JSR Tokyo, Nov 23 at 1404 this Tuesday it`s in Chinese with usual piano background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, glad to have reports from Mike Barraclough, England, and Jorge Freitas, Brasil, that R. Kuwait is still audible with English, checked between 1805 and 1921 UT Nov 22. So I try again Nov 23 at 1902: not even a carrier making it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA [and non]. 17800 NF, two signals mixing, Nov 23 at 1410; one is in German, so it can`t be from Germany, but probably is from DW, and the other one conveniently IDs immediately in English as ``Voice of Africa``. Yes, Libya is missing from 17725, has moved to 17800 where it collides with Deutsche Welle, at this hour and the next, 250 kW, 80 degrees from Sines, PORTUGAL. By 1451 still a mix with VOA atop, but at 1532 German was atop. 17725 is otherwise unoccupied, no reason in the world to leave it; // is still on 21695, much weaker today, and 17800 has the usual rippling Libyan modulation.

No, 17800 is not one of the frequencies TDF has imaginatively registered for Libya via Issoudun: 1400-1600 English is claimed to be on 21675, 21695, the latter instead of Sabrata, which we do not believe.

If Libya is also using 17800 for Swahili at 12-14, as it did 17725, that too collides with DW, but via Rwanda in French and Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. See FRANCE [non], XEPPM relays RFI

** NEW ZEALAND. 5950, Nov 23 at 1347, RNZI ending Tradewinds show mentioning Tahiti, engineered by Myra Oh; good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1690, checking for Talking House on home rig, Nov 23 at 1336 UT, I am not hearing it, just WVON claiming there is only one place to go for seafood in Chicago, which I find unlikely in such a megacity. But there is NO place to go in Enid for seafood in particular, except as an add-on to Chinese restaurants. Yesterday`s reception could have been a test from Smith Realty`s office in central Enid at 528 N Van Buren, rather than the house cited/sited in far SE Enid? But at 1730 with no skywave, Samantha`s spiel is again audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 15435, collision at 1456 Nov 23 as BSKSA OC is already on and 1456.5 adds Arabic modulation. Meanwhile it is making fast SAH with some station playing vocal music, but that stops at 1457* leaving frequency to Riyadh. It`s Vatican`s Urdu service from SMG direct, so if BSKSA would wait one minute longer, there could be a clean transition and make a fine show of œcumenism. BTW, in MS Word you make the combined o+e by control/shift/ampersand and then o, however it may appear now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11680, another new frequency for the Walterbore, Nov 23 at 1350, relatively poor compared to // 15495, but at 1357:05* 11680 cuts him off while 15495 continues past 1400, still going at 1409 and later. DX Mix News, Bulgaria reports: ``Brother Stair TOM from Nov 18: 1300-1400 on 11680 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 17595, REE, Nov 23 at 1452 with enlamar @ rtve.es address for Españoles en la Mar show ending, and then sea song by a great bass-baritone in catalán, chopped off at 1455 as they insist on ``interrupting`` this frequency in order to change 21540 to 15385 for Africa, and say goodbye to NAm until 1800 on 17850, 1900 on 15110. IS once, and off 1456*. But we know 17595 will come right back on with equal reception in NAm after an antenna change.

At 1535 I am again listening to 17595, when there is news in French, mainly about Western Sahara and Mauritania; 1537:17 over to English by Justin Coe but different content, about Ireland, N & S Korea fighting, France agrees to extradite ETA guy, stampede on bridge in Phnom Penh kills hundreds. No news concerning Spain except the ETA item indirectly.

After exactly three minutes, Justin introduces news in Arabic from 1540:17 starting with Korea and Russia, but Arab gets almost 4 minutes until outro in Spanish of multilingual news segment, which we first reported about three weeks ago, and allegedly also in Russian and Portuguese. When first heard Nov 2, Portuguese was first at 1530, and no Russian then either. Has it ever been included?

1545 onto next show ``Español con Ñ`` about how the language evolved from Latin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service via PORTUGAL, Nov 23 at 1533 in some kind of Arabic, at first with usual heavy echo, but as the signal fades in stronger there is less echo. I have previously concluded the echo is self-imposed in the studio to seem hip, and long/short path is unlikely, but now I am wondering if it is caused by backscatter, making a considerably longer second path if not round the world. It`s 250 kW, 114 degrees from Sines. Or they are messing with the amount of echo at the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 5875, two signals mixing Nov 23 at 1405. One is in Arabic, and I hear the BBC sounder, not sure of other language under, seems Asian. But it should be English per current registrations, as BBC is QRMing itself from two sites at once, Britons vs Britons:

1300-1600 English via THAILAND, 250 kW, 25 degrees, and
1400-1600 Arabic via CYPRUS, 300 kW, 121 degrees, so could be longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 7525, Nov 23 at 1437 VG signal in Chinese mentioning Mei-guo and Chung-guo several times, atop weak echoing Chinese jammer. So this is VOA Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, at 1400-1500 only, 250 kW, 21 degrees also USward --- and the only transmission currently scheduled at any time on 7525, per HFCC and Aoki. Should be glommed onto by other broadcasters in need of a clear 40m frequency at other dayparts.

13750, surprised to find VOA Spanish here instead of 13715, Nov 23 at 1353 with deportes report in Buenos Días, América; // 9885, and JBA 15590. Perhaps a mistake at Greenville, caused by sub-vocalizing, as 13715 and 13750 sound much alike; where tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15550-USB, Nov 23 at 1416, no sign of WJHR USB vs poor signal from IRAN [q.v.] in Arabic; but other US signals at similar megameter distances from much greater stations, WWCR 15825 and WEWN 15610, were barely audible. By 1732, however, WJHR loud and clear with offensive preacher.

WJHR is about to celebrate its first anniversary on the air. How much longer is the FCC going to allow George Scott Mock to operate a low-power ham rig pretending to be a SW broadcast station, required to run 50 kW minimum? Since he can get away with it, this should open the floodgates for anyone including pirates who want to get a SWBC license to broadcast legally in SSB in the SWBC bands, saving the great expense of a real AM 50 kW SWBC transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1050, Nov 23 at 1321 UT I find a signal dominating from N/S, the ``KMOH Swap Shop`` or so it sounded, two guys discussing items for sale or rent, including a mechanical bull; mentioned Laverne, wheat fest, basketball Osborne-Columbia. Closest call in the NRC AM Log is KLOH Pipestone MN, and it`s in the right direxion, but I don`t get any significant hits searching on those names in Minnesota.

But it`s right next to South Dakota, and the KLOH website http://www.klohradio.com/ indicates impact in SD, but no significant hits there either; it shows they do have a swap shop, http://www.klohradio.com/SwapShop/Index.cfm
altho not a program by that name, but they do have two guys on the air at this time, Bill Van Hoecke / Collin Christensen per
http://www.klohradio.com/KLOH/ProgramSchedule/Index.cfm

Day power is an even 9380 watts. November sunrise is 1315 UT, but December 1400. So tentatively KLOH, an interesting station; history: http://www.klohradio.com/AboutUs/Index.cfm
LOH stands for Land Of Hiawatha, and it`s ``Stereo Country 1050``, so C-QUAM is still in use? Beginning to be bothered by WHO IBOC as I move on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL check Nov 23: at 1359 I am hearing R. Rossii concluding 6075, timesignal 1400 + 6 seconds late. Still no sign of CW on the side. But I keep listening as motorboating carrier goes off and then hear Chinese. Finally a bit after 1400 there are three long dashes, and only at 1402 the standard message starts: VVV CQ CQ CQ DE 8GAL 8GAL K (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15270-15275-15280, DRM noise Nov 23 at 1528, but nothing DRM scheduled in HFCC on any of these frequencies at any time! Tho DW is supposed to be on 15275 via Rwanda in German, analog.

Are there any reports of this in the DRMNA yg? Not since March 2008, when HCJB was using it! Is it on the current schedule here? http://www.drm-dx.de/
No! Are there any reports in the adjacent fora? Not since Dec 2008. Altho HCJB did use 15280 exactly two years ago, but it is no longer in a position to do any DRMing from Ecuador. Thus the DRM movement again shows it is not really serious, carrying out tests from somewhere with no publicity, making its audience even more minuscule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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Glenn Hauser logs November 22-23, 2010

** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190, another check Nov 22 for the collision between R. Africa, Equatorial Guinea, and R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais: at 2239 convicted child-molesting evangelist Tony Alamo is on top from EqG, maybe a hint of ZYE522 under, but there is lots of flutter and with BFO, the frequency is extremely unstable, apparently due to Doppler effects in the equatorial ionosphere, as previously R. Africa was quite stable.

At 2256 still Doppler, but only hearing Portuguese vs the EqG carrier. 2259 that carrier goes off leaving Brasil clearly in Portuguese, but also with unstable carrier. With BFO off, the modulation sounds OK. 2300 mentions Inconfidência, then full ID for MW, SW and FM with callsigns for each frequency. There is so much instability on the carrier that it cannot be zero-beat.

The only other signal anywhere close on 19m is RAE on 15345v. Its carrier is somewhat wobbly, but much less so than 15190. It`s really difficult to sort out what is propagational and what is real transmitter instability, so it could be 15190 is unstable as it goes out from the antenna; or both that and Doppler, and making EqG seem worse than it really is until closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1670, talking houses of Greg Winkeljohn continue to be missing from the Enid X-band, but now there`s a new one from someone else, on 1690:

Nov 22 at 1921 UT in central Enid I hear a YL voice loop on 1690. She speaks slowly and clearly with some long pauses. Spends as much time promoting the TH concept as about the axual house broadcasting on this frequency. Details: Samantha Sabedra of Smith Real Estate, claims to be the only realtor (here) offering this service, plus a free video about TH.

Now she`s pushing 3509 McClaflin Drive, which is in the Pioneer school district (rural SE of Enid), on a school bus route. Phone 580-354-7279. I had never heard of this street but found it on a city map and got correct spelling. It`s in a development at the SE corner of Enid, S of Owen K. Garriott = US 412, and east of 30th Street.

No website announced, but I found her here, so also spell her name right: http://www.samanthakennington.com/default.html
The address above is not among the 13 Featured Homes linked therefrom. Nor is there anything about TH on the website.

I vaguely recall hearing her a couple years ago in a previous talking house spate. Yes, in DXLD 8-095, ``1570 kHz, around 2000 Aug 28, 2008, found new talking house at 1330 West Elm`` voiced by the same Sam.

Altho it is not on the way to anywhere I normally go, no doubt eventually I will get out to 3509 McClaflin and make the usual inspexion for antennas, evaluate Part 15 strength. Since it has a good signal halfway across town, I suspect it is excessive. OTOH, on the west side of Enid it is losing out, and once skywave is starting to kick in by 2112 UT, Denver and Chicago are atop 1690. Heard alone, the signal seemed clean, on BFO-less caradio, but as QRM to broadcasters it sounds a bit mushy like Winkeljohn`s 1670 transmitters (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 7590, Nov 22 at 2230 I am standing by for R. Free Sarawak (Percuma), but there is only an extremely weak signal, and it gets no better past 2300 or at 2325, hardly any modulation detectable, presumably Tajikistan site. The other airing, 1000-1100 on 15680 via Palau is a bit inconvenient for those who sleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. Emisión Sefarad from REE, 15385 as usual on Mondays, fair signal at 1425-1455 Nov 22 for ME; could not reconfirm the repeat to SAm at 0115-0145 Nov 23 UT Tuesday on 11780, as too much Brasília, and Europe not really propagating on 25m. Nothing audible on 11795 either, its former and should be future frequency in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 7385, BBCWS, poor but audible at 2326 Nov 22 via THAILAND. Heard 48 hours earlier, without QRM de scheduled WHRI, which I assumed would be weekdays only, but not there on Monday either --- more wooden registrations from LeSEA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1560, Nov 22 at 2159 UT on caradio, dominant signal is from Family Radio, then quick and clear ID ``KKAA, Aberdeen``, i.e., South Dakota. At 10 kW day and night, hi-band, this is the best MW DX bet for many from this state, unless there is some other transmitter with a COL across the state line. There is only one SD station on a higher frequency, but with much lower power: 1570, KVTK Vermillion, 500/71 watts.

Too bad it`s the same apocalyptic nonsense one can already get on dozens of SW frequencies and hundreds of FM translators and relays. I assume from May 21, 2011, KKAA will self-destruct or suddenly become for sale. One might also want to stand by to scoop up all the empty piles of clothes on the ground; full wallets too, I suppose, if anything is left after The Foolish Faithful have given countless millions to keep Harold Camping`s monomania going (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM, Nov 22 at 2251 emphatic speech, into soft music and talk in presumed Hassania Arabic.

Harold Frodge in MI had been hearing R. Bulgaria on 6300 at 2215 in English // 7400, but I am sure I would have noticed it if still there at 2251; must have been a punch-up error, supposed to be on 6200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 21664.5-SSB, approx., no broadcasters audible on 13m, Nov 22 at 2244, but found someone calling ``ola, ola`` a few times around this frequency. 15m was open at least from a CO in Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

DX MIX NEWS # 652

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DX MIX NEWS # 652                                          23 November 2010
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BELGIUM(non)    Winter B-10 of TDP stations:
Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish:
0500-1500 on 11530 SMF 300 kW / 129 deg to WeAs Daily
1500-1900 on  7540 SMF 500 kW / 129 deg to WeAs Daily
1900-2100 on  7540 SMF 300 kW / 129 deg to WeAs Daily

TDP Radio in DRM:
0700-0800 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Mon
0800-0900 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Tue
0900-1000 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Wed
1000-1100 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Thu
1100-1200 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Fri
1200-1300 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sat
1300-1400 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sun
2100-2200 on 15755 BON 100 kW / 320 deg to NoAm Daily, ex 1900-2000 B09

Radio Democracia in Amharic
0900-1000 on 21555 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Sun

La Voix de Djibouti in Somali+News in Arabic and French:
1200-1300 on 21525 UNIDtransmitter/SAM? to EaAf Thu

The Disco Palace in DRM
1400-1500 on  6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Daily
2000-2100 on 15755 BON 100 kW / 320 deg to NoAm Daily

Voice of Asena in Tigrinya
1730-1800 on  9605 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Mon/Fri, ex Mon/Wed/Fri B09

Voice of Meselna Delina in Tigrinya
1730-1800 on  9605 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Tue/Thu/Sat

Radio Bilal in Amharic
1800-1830 on  9345 SAM 250 kW / 188 deg to EaAf Daily, ex 1800-1900 B09

Suaab Xaa Moo Zoo in Hmong
2230-2300 on  7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Daily

KUWAIT    Frequency change of Radio Kuwait in Arabic:
1600-2200 NF  6080*KBD 500 kW / non-dir to N/ME, ex  6050
*co-ch Belarussian Radio HS in Belarussian+VOA in English

PHILIPPINES    Frequency changes of Radio Veritas Asia from Nov.21:
Hindi
0030–0057 NF 11730 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs, ex 11710
Sinhala
0000–0027 NF  9720 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs, ex 9865 to avoid VOR Port.
Zomi-Chin
0130-0200 NF 15255 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs, ex 15520

RUSSIA(non)    Winter B-10 of clandestine Radyo e Rahoye Iran in Farsi:
1630-1730 NF  5825 ARM 100 kW / 104 deg to WeAs Mon/Wed/Fri, ex 5840 in A10

RUSSIA(non)    Cancelled frequencies for Voice of Russia from Nov.15:
0600-1200 on 17650 DB  500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs in Ru/Ru/En/En/En/Ru
1200-1600 on 12025 SAM 250 kW / 117 deg to CeAs in Ru
1300-1700 on 11630 DB  500 kW / 100 deg to SoAs in Hi/Ur/Hi/En
1700-2000 on  7400 DB  500 kW / 070 deg to N/ME in Ar
1700-2200 on 12035 SAM 250 kW / 117 deg to CeAs in Ru
2100-2300 on  5920 DB  500 kW / 300 deg to SoEu in Sp/Port

RWANDA(non)    Frequency change of Deutsche welle in English from Nov.17:
2100-2200 NF 12070 KIG 250 kW / 295 deg to WeAf, ex 11865

TAJIKISTAN(non)    Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay-new st'n from Nov.15:
2230-2330 on  7590 DB  100 kW / 117 deg to SEAs. Good reception here in BUL
1000-1100 on 15680 DB  100 kW / 117 deg to SEAs. Poor reception here in BUL

U.K.(non)    Frequency change for Voice of Tibet in Tibetan via BABCOCK:
1330-1400 NF 13755 DHA 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs, ex 15430

USA(non)    Additional txions of Brother Stair TOM in English from Nov.18:
1300-1400 on 11680 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs
1300-1400 on 17765 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg to EaAs

USA(non)    Frequency changes of IBB:
Voice of America
0130-0230 on  5925 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs,  deleted in Persian
0130-0230 on  7215 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs,  deleted in Persian
0130-0230 on  9495 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs,  deleted in Persian
0230-0330 NF  7205 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs, new time in Persian
0230-0330 NF  9495 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs, new time in Persian
0230-0330 NF  9745 IRA 250 kW / 324 deg to WeAs, new time in Persian
0300-0330 on  7340 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to ECAf,  deleted in Swahili Mo-Fr
0300-0330 on  9440 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to ECAf,  deleted in Swahili Mo-Fr
1200-1300 NF 11700 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs, ex 11705$in English
1300-1400 NF 11700 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAs, ex 11705 in English Sa/Su
1400-1500 NF 13735 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs, ex 13710#in Kurdish
1600-1700 NF 11850 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs, ex  6000$in Bengali
1700-1730 on  9565 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to ECAf,  deleted in Swahili
1700-1730 on 13740 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to ECAf,  deleted in Swahili
1700-1730 on 15730 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to ECAf,  deleted in Swahili
2000-2100 NF  7470 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to N/ME, ex  9420^in English Mo-Fr
2030-0030 NF  7560 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to AFG , ex  7405&in English
2200-2300 NF  7365 PTH 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs, ex  7220*in English Su-Th
2300-2400 NF  7365 PTH 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs, ex  7220*in English
2200-2300 NF 11860 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to EaAs, ex  9490 in English Su-Th
2300-2400 NF 11860 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to EaAs, ex  9490+in English
2200-0030 NF  9895 UDO 250 kW / 156 deg to SEAs, ex  9620=in Indonesian
& to avoid CNR in Chinese on 11710
# to avoid AIR in English
$ to avoid VOR in Serbian
^ to avoid ERA in Greek
& to avoid CRI in Polish/English/Chinese/Russian
* to avoid CRI in Chinese/Vietnamese
+ to avoid Radio Republica in Spanish
= to avoid Radio Japan NHK in Japanese and REE in Spanish

Radio Liberty in Avari/Chechen/Cherkassian
0400-0500 NF 15230 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs, ex 15205

Radio Mashaal in Pashto
1100-1200 NF 15715 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to SoAs, ex 13580

Radio Free Asia
1100-1400 NF  9435 DB  200 kW / 125 deg to CeAs, ex 11540 DB  in Tibetan
2200-2300 NF  7505 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg to EaAs, ex 11740*KWT in Cantonese
* to avoid CNR in Chinese

Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay-new st'n from Nov.15:
2230-2330 on  7590 DB  100 kW / 117 deg to SEAs
1000-1100 on 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, not DB 100 kW / 117 deg

Glenn Hauser logs November 22, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. Another week starts with no signal from Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 15476 checked Nov 22 at 1352 (while Turkey was OK on 15480), and at 1419. Last time LRA36 was detected here: Nov 12. So off the air, or totally unpropagating? Conosuristas ought to be able to tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 22:
8400 and 10500, nothing at 1344.
8400 at 1542, very poor, still no 10500 nor any others found in incomplete interim bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9955, DentroCuban Jamming Command, UT Monday Nov 22 at 0624, heavy pulsing atop WRMI music, altho during this quarter hour on the schedule is Maravillosas Palabras, religious talk rather than music.

RHC DXers Unlimited ending at 0632 UT Monday Nov 22 on 6150, 6060, 6010, so if ~12 minutes long, started around 0620. NO signal on 6050! First time found absent since that started Nov 8. Was this an all-too-common fluke, or has Arnie finally been persuaded by HCJB to get off their frequency? Had not checked 6050 earlier in the evening; starts circa 0100 and normally stays on until 1100, switching to Spanish at 0700. No replacement found, e.g. 5970 also vacant. This was also good news for KBS World Radio Spanish listeners on 6045 via Sackville at 06-07.

11760 missing Nov 22 at 1347 allowing BBC OMAN to be heard; see UK, but RHC back on by 1357.

Spurs showing up again, distorted and mushy on 13950 and about 13921, Nov 22 at 1413, much weaker than normal leapfrog on 13880, and much, much weaker than fundamentals 13780 and 13680, the spurs probably originating from the lower one which squeals. No others found closer to 13680 nor below it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non?]. 17620, RFI with usual hum on this frequency, so GUF rather than ISS? Nov 22 at 1422 playing Elvis, ``Are You Lonesome Tonight``, except he keeps breaking up and laughing, so must have been from a live performance; then H&F commenting on that in French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 5955, NHK World Radio Japan, Nov 22 at 1404 in English news, interrupted by musical stingers between items, meaning fewer items can be conveyed in the time available; mid ID 1405 as above, no longer inserting --Network--, or is it optional; sufficient reception with some ACI from NZ 5950 especially during music. For Asia, as Japan blew off its North American English listeners at 1400. 1410 in discussion of Ireland`s economy and the EuroZone.

Since it`s available via OKLA at a convenient time, I find myself watching NHK World Newsline on TV more than SW, weekdays at 1700-1728 UT, and comparisons with NHK radio are unavoidable. Overall, the standard of English is much better on the radio! The TV anchor has a heavy accent, but he`s a lot better than many of the academic `experts` brought into the studio to read their carefully translated scripts, mostly with accents so severe they are hard to understand. At least they try, unlike 99.9% of Americans who couldn`t speak more than three words of Japanese.

OTOH, the curvy weatherwomen later in the broadcast (is one of them pregnant? Time will tell) speak good English and some of them appear to be Americans, or semi-Japanese. This is the only way we can get any Oklahoma weather on OETA! NHK provides just E Asian, European and North American weather maps, where Celsius lives!

This is a good source of news about Japan and elsewhere in Asia, with clips coming in from other broadcasters such as BTV Bangladesh, MCOT Thailand, CCTV China. Beware: it`s sum-o-h season again, and there are also weekdaily reports on those matches, sometimes by an American guy, but back to a Japanese Nov 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze, Monday Nov 22 at 1402, YL in Japanese this Monday, with piano music. No jamming audible against JSR, JAPAN, unlike 5890 vs VOA Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT [and non]. 9750 with Qur`an is definitely Kuwait, not Malaysia. Nov 22 at 1340 signal is very poor mixed with Japan/ese but I start to monitor 21540 where Kuwait mixes with Spain, also very poor, but in a few minutes at 1343 I can hear a match. (What happened to the dramas in Arabic that used to appear around 1330?).

9750 could be long or short path, aimed 275 degrees from Kabd, while 21540 is certainly short. Since there is no sign of a third station on 9750, now we wonder if Malaysia is really active on that frequency then, or at any time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OMAN. 15140, I seek the English broadcast most mornings between 14 and 15, usually without result, only traces, and/or OTHR, SSB QRM, but Nov 22 at 1433 it`s barely making it, YL with English news, VP tho metering S9+10 peaks, only problem being bits of splat from WYFR 15130. Occasional words readable, such as at 1436 about SE China coal mine rescue of 29, but do they include any news about Oman itself?? 1438.5 starts mixing music with talk, and 1440 OM says ``Radio Sultanate of Oman presents ---`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. REE Basque reconfirmed Monday Nov 22 at 1337 on 21610, 21570; 21540 mixed with Qur`an from Kuwait, q.v. Last week we found all REE frequencies back in Castilian well before 1400, and today at 1353 recheck, 15170 via Costa Rica had song in Spanish, 1355 promo in Spanish for REE as ``la emisora que une ---``. So Euskera lasts considerably less than a full semihour from 1330 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 11760, RHC missing Nov 22 at 1347 allowing BBCWS in English to be audible, with hum; discussion of ambiguous gender identity among infants and children. A little better on // 15575, outro as Health Check. Back on 11760 at 1357, RHC has resumed with IS over BBC, site OMAN 07-14 at 320 degrees intended for Iraq and Iran but also USward. At 14-15 changes to Cyprus, 90 degrees, same as at 06-07. Meanwhile, did not hear any CRI English on 11760, also scheduled 12-14, southeastward from Kunming.

11830, BBCWS in English, 95 degrees from Rampisham, audible here Nov 22 at 1514 underneath WYFR in Chinese blasting right at us, 315 degrees from Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Monday Nov 22 after 0300, WORLD OF RADIO 1539 in temporary timing via Area 51, WBCQ, to happen again Nov 29 before Pirates` Week resumes its usual slot in December. Good reception here; hope some other night times on WBCQ can be obtained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. 11680, RNV via CUBA, Monday Nov 22 at 1501 YL opening in stilted English, reading scripts far too literally translated, still or again in English at 1510, but at 1520 in Spanish, 1530 English, then Chávez in Spanish. It is impossible for a single hour to go by without hearing from and about El Hugazo for a considerable fraxion of that time on this propaganda outlet as if nothing happen in Venezuela without concerning him; the state, it`s he. This transmission gets lost on Sundays when transmitters are tied up with the more often than not no-shows of El Hugazo on five other frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, once again CW from 8GAL started before 1400, at 1359:45 Nov 22, mixing with motorboat from R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, 6075 which stayed on until a sesquiminute past the hour. Except it was not the usual V/CQ marker de 8GAL. I could not copy all the letters but I definitely heard a U ..- which is not part of the usual marker. And there was a long dash --- at the end, held down the key. On occasions before, non-8GAL messages have appeared here, perhaps conveying some axual intelligence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

RAE

RAE Argentina's Public National Radio's Foreign Service broadcasts on the Short Waves to the whole planet.

RAE was originally established as International Service of the Argentine Republic, under the acronym SIRA on April 11th, 1949, by then President Juan Domingo Perón. It transmitted 24/7 in seven languages.

After a coup d'etat -the so-called "Liberating Revolution"- toppled Peron, SIRA was shut down, re initiating transmissions in 1958, under the present name of Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior.

RAE is part of Radio Televisión Argentina, the State-ran company that groups the National Public media of Argentina, and is based at the Buenos Aires building of Radio Nacional, the public AM Station.

RAE's programs focus on Argentine current affiars, culture, tourism, science, sports, interviews, geography, history, and biographies of outstanding Argentines of the most varied fields. It also airs Argentine music, mainly Tango and Folk, and there's a weekly cycle on Argentine Rock. Twice a week there's a feature aimed at DXers.

RAE's programs are aired in seven languages: Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, German, French and Japanese.

Some of the contents aired by RAE are generated by LRA Radio Nacional, so Argentines living abroad can be in touch with their homeland. On weekends, RAE transmitts football matches on a paralell with Radio Nacional.

Museo Rai di Torino

Segnalo con piacere che è attivo il sito del museo radio-tv della Rai di Torino. All'indirizzo http://www.museoradiotv.rai.it è possibile visitare la collezione unica che si trova nella sede Rai di Via Verdi 16.

--
Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK
http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk
http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
http://www.biciurbana.org
http://iwohk.tumblr.com

Glenn Hauser logs November 21, 2010

** ARGENTINA. 15345, R. Nacional, Nov 21 at 2303, ``Argentina te informa; Nacional de Córdoba; dictadura militar`` mentioned perhaps in program promo from regional station. Fair signal and improving (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15240, poor signal in Strine at 2235 Nov 21, banned from HFCC but presumably R. Australia as per Aoki via Tainan, TAIWAN; 2257 had long/short path echo. Meanwhile, I could not detect RA Shepparton on 15230 under usurper CUBA; still there? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [and non]. 15190, R. Inconfidência had not been heard for a couple of weeks, but it`s certainly on Nov 21 at 2228 making awful collision with R. Africa, EQUATORIAL GUINEA [q.v.], overmodulated/distorted. Both have heavy equatorial flutter making matters even worse. EqG signal is stronger with Tony Alamo; ZYE522 with enthusiastic Brazilians, probably sports coverage. Bata kept going almost until 2300, but then Brazil still had a hum to contend with, carrier remaining on from the other? I note corroborating log from Harold Sellers in BC, tho it seems I was getting more of a signal from BH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Further chex Sunday Nov 21 for the allegedly scheduled RHC broadcasts in weekly Esperanto: at 2127, 11760 in French. At 2225, 15370 with open carrier past 2230; 2233 also in French.

As suspected from last Sunday`s monitoring of other programs one UT hour later than on RHC`s former and still published schedule, En Contacto is again later for its second known airing, Nov 21 from 2242:30 on 15230, 11770, 11730, 9820, 6140, 5040, preceded by El Mundo de la Filatelia with requests for stamp exchanges from El Salvador; and succeeded by Cuba Campesina a quarter-hour later. I say ``known`` because there may be one or two more repeats between 1450 and 2242 during RHC`s continuous all-day but schedule-less programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 5936, no trace of R. República or anything, Nov 21 at 2244, nor jamming, unlike the noise around 5954-5955. Terry Krueger
says another very weak R.R. was heard on 5936.22 at 0038 Nov 15, now sure to be jammed. No doubt it`s another low power nuisance transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9305, R. Cairo, Nov 21 at 2249, Arabic, VG signal strength but horribly distorted and splattering plus/minus 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa, also has convicted child molester Tony Alamo on its Sunday evening air, Nov 21 at 2228 but making awful mix with ZYE522; see BRAZIL. Remained the same almost until 2300, Alamo mumbling doctrine with his YL sidekick (long dead wife, or molestee?), yet overmodulated, distorted, and with heavy equatorial flutter. A bit of music at 2258 must have been a wrap, as when retuned a couple minutes later only hearing Brasil, but hum perhaps still coming from Bata carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 15320 KSDA, UT Sunday Nov 21 at 2230, AWR Wavescan opening theme, 2233 Jeff White narrating script about RCA and Rocky Point LINY; later the heavily struxured JSWC report. Good reception, better, I daresay than we normally get from WRMI itself, which only aims outward from CONUS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 13650, NHKWNRJ IS in well at an odd time, 2237 Nov 21. That`s because they are about to open a 20-minute broadcast in Chinese, followed by three more third-hours until 2400 in Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 15280, Nov 21 at 2229, boards creaking and doors squeaking, other sound effects, pauses past 2231. 2232 Indonesian mentions ``elektro-akustik``. Good signal but has squeal on carrier to add to the mystique. Not // 11550 R. Australia via Taiwan, so must be R. Netherlands. Yes, this is one of two transmissions on their schedule via SAIPAN, 1234567:
2159 2257 SAI 15280 225 31-10-2010 27-03-2011 100 RNW Ind INDONce
0759 0827 SAI 15750 180 31-10-2010 27-03-2011 100 RNW Nld eAU/INDONe

One should monitor the additional three minutes before hourtop/bottom, in case like other IBB relay deals, they get a bonus of two more sesquiminutes in some other language (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 7590, first time I am looking for R. Free Sarawak, scheduled 2230-2330 from secret site, Nov 21 at 2255, only a weak signal with flutter, but seems like dead air and/or then undermodulated. Did not get any better by 2305. Presumed this, as nothing else yet scheduled in this frequency-hour. Could it be via Angel 4, PALAU, already known to be site for the other broadcast at 1000-1100 on 15680, since Alan Pennington soon heard that // on the Angel 4 stream? Now I check WHR online schedules, to find:

Angel 4:
1000-1100 5:00-6:00 AM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa Radio Percuma 15.680 MHz

Percuma? That`s a new name for it. What does Percuma mean? I Google translate it first in Indonesian, and get ``useless`` --- then in Malay and get ``free`` --- so much for the two languages being almost identical! This must amuse Indonesians. Maybe the full ID in Malay is ``Radio Percuma Sarawak`` or ``Radio Sarawak Percuma`` --- the c is probably pronounced like tj or ch as in Aceh; altho they say they are mainly using the local language Iban.

But schedule for the same transmitter reminds us it is occupied by R. Australia during this hour, on 13590, which I also heard today:
2200-0000 6:00-7:00 PM Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa ABC Radio 13.590 MHz
And Angel 3 is otherwise accounted for with WHR programming on 9930.

Steve Lare points out that Aoki already shows 7590 as via TAJIKISTAN, but also for 15680, the latter certainly not correct. Considering the poor reception here, Tajikistan could certainly be right for 7590, but who knows for sure? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9385, tuned in Nov 21 at 2247 just as WWRB announcer was talking over Brother Scare that it`s time to retune to 3215, and off at 2248*. OK, I keep checking 3215 every few minutes but nothing there until 2304, so it came on sometime after previous check 2257. Does it need to take that long to retune the transmitter?

No doubt BS psycophants followed instruxions and waited some 12 minutes vacantly staring at the radio, enjoying the noise until The Last Day Prophet of God magically was resurrected on 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9325, Nov 21 at 2247 open carrier, 2250 tone test; presumably IBB tuning up for VOA Burmese via SRI LANKA at 2300-2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Glenn Hauser logs November 20-21, 2010

** AUSTRALIA [non]. 11550, fair at 2242 UT Saturday Nov 20, English lesson, M & W with English words and phrases, pauses for listeners to repeat, and explanations in Indonesian. It`s RA via Tainan, TAIWAN, per Aoki, 2200-2330.

BTW, no hint of this in HFCC B-10. Altho the listings seem more complete now, there is not a single entry for TWN, as the ChiCom continue to forbid HFCC from including its breakaway province, even when it concerns relays of other stations having nothing to do with the mainland. Do HFCC participants (except China) have a secret schedule from Taiwan to consult anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHAD [and non]. 6165, Saturday Nov 20 at 2255, fair signal with hilifish music, 2300 French announcements but could not make out an ID or sign-off, yet 2301 right into military band with anthem to 2302*. RNT presumably still signs off a semihour earlier on days other than Saturday. And Jean-Michel Aubier reports it`s about to get whammed by KBS World Radio via France on 6165 at 2100-2200 starting Dec 1, in French to Africa!

What are they thinking? Poor Chad is not in HFCC, so ignore it! And why should Chad bother, with only one active SW transmitter? Will it be driven back to 4905, or even 7120? And what about Croatia, also on 6165? Another failure of frequency management, by KBS and/or M&B/TDF, relying on documents rather than turning on a radio, or godforbid, consulting DX bulletins to find out what is really on a frequency before picking it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 21:
8400, good at 1351; not on 10500 but did not do a complete bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CROATIA [non]. I`ve been intending to confirm the supposed time for English from V of Croatia, 2315 UT on 7375 via GERMANY. Guess what I hear when I tune in Nov 20 at 2314? DRM noise, from 7370! No trace of Zagreb. What does HFCC say? Nothing! No DRM on 7370 except Romania at 2100-2130. But didn`t Vatican used to DRM on 7365-7370-7375? Aoki says it still does: ``7370 VATICAN RADIO(DRM) 2300-2345 1234567 English (Digital) 125 300 Santa Maria di Galeria CVA 01219E 4203N VAT b10``

At 0001 UT Nov 21, with Vatican DRM off, HRV becomes audible in Croatian on 7375, as another Wertachtal transmitter is added at 300 degrees, while before 2400 it`s only to South America at 240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC into Sunday-morning mode Nov 21: at 1406, 13680 is off the air but 13750 is on with open carrier, also 17750. Modulation cuts on at 1410 with Cartas a la Redacción, or is it Amigos de Cuba?

1435 once again Encuentro DX at its new hour-later time, including a plug for a Colombian non-broadcast station with bilingual podcasts, including some English, Radio Ciudad Global, http://www.radiociudadglobal.com where we see they have a new program of their own each week, plus some from R. Bulgaria, R. México Internacional.

Missing last week, but RHC`s Esperanto service is back this Sunday, Nov 21 at 1510. Need to check again at 2100 on 11760, 2230 on 15370, no-shows last week.

Meanwhile, RHC Spanish had Mundo de la Filatelia at its new 1510 hour-later time on 17750, 15370, 15230, 13750, 11730, 11690.

By 1702, Aló, Presidente should be underway, but instead all frequencies on the air have RHC music in //: 17750, 15370, 15230, 13750, 13680-weak, 11760, 11730-weak, 11690-vs RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI not off the air this Sunday, Nov 21 at 1349, music with the usual IADs, one of them lasting a couple seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 9750, Nov 21 at 1349, Qur`an is atop NHK Japanese, and some flutter. Yesterday I assumed Kuwait more likely, but having consulted Aoki, I now assume Malaysia is as likely since it says the RTM program in A10 at 08-10 and 14-16 was Voice of Islam, alternating with Voice of Malaysia at 06-08, 10-14, 16-18 --- altho this was 11 minutes too early by that schedule. Perhaps further monitoring here, or from further west can resolve which be which. Maybe I can even compare it to Kuwait shortpath on 21540 vs Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 9435, Nov 20 at 2228 ``Jesus Saves`` IS, and opening Indonesian from FEBC Manila, VG signal. Rechecked a few minutes later at 2236, heard YL preacher with muezzin in background, as if Christianity is overriding Islam, a bit insensitive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN. The Robert E. Kamosa Transmitting Station, 9715, carrier seems OK now, but Russian modulation of R. Svoboda still defective, Nov 21 at 1345, some breakup and IADs; sounds like lo-quality internet feed. This and Tinian come up for bids every few years, and the same private contractor keeps getting renewed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, Nov 20 at 0625 RTT with secular music, Arabic announcements and still cutting off abruptly at 0627* after a few sex of open carrier; continuing on 7335 which until 0620 had co-channel from Vatican`s Scandinavian service. Don`t you believe HFCC that Tunisia does not start 7335 until 0700. Those registrations are about an hour late, as recently heard starting a few minutes before 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 7385, UT Saturday Nov 20, surprised to find BBCWS on yet another unfamiliar frequency, news reports, IDed at 2312 as World Today. Whence? HFCC shows WHRI at 23-02 on 7385! Another BBC relay has snuk in? No, WHRI is M-F only, while BBC is daily at 23-24 only, 250 kW, 25 degrees from THAILAND so also USward: another one-hour broadcast in the incredible fragmentation of the BBCWS instead of keeping several good and long-established frequencies and running them for hours and hours. So it`s blocked on weekdays if WHRI is really on rather than wooden. And have the floodwaters receded at Nakhon Sawan? If drowned out, BBC might well substitute another site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7415, WBCQ on very late again UT Sunday, Nov 21 at 0611 with Doobie Bros; 0628 Ted Randall with his QSO Radio Show, then Handyman by James Taylor. Maybe is open-ended, I wonder how much later? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search, Nov 21: on the DX-398 in USB mode upward from 1320 UT: weakies on 747, 774, 828, 1422. The first three no doubt the usual NHKs, while 1422 in decreasing order of power listed could be China, Taiwan, Japan. Enid sunrise today was 1315; might have been more productive in previous semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Adesso on air R Incofidencia 15189,6khz + log "Girolla"

21/11 1807      15189,6          R.Incofidencia            B    Belo Horizonte-px locale in B               
21/111758      5010             R Nasionaly Malagasy         MDG   Ambohidano- px locale                        
20/11 0635      7175             Voice of Broad  Masses        ERI   Asmara- px locale mix Ham                       

UTE
20/11/2010 0949      17384,4  CPK     Santa Cruz      GW          BOL    GW marker                                   

- Mauro IK2GFT - Swl 1510-
-JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150-
Filter PAR Electronics – BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF
-Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop LFL1010
-Lat. 45°25'0"N Long. 9°7'0"E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-

Log Roberto Pavanello

  819   17/11 21.45 RAI R. 1 - Trieste IT commento a Italia-Romania in // a 900 KHz suff.(non doveva essere chiusa ?)
  819   17/11 21.50 Sud. R. - Toulouse FF NX suff.
 1035   15/11 23.05 Northsound Two - Aberdeen EE ID e MX buono
 1035   17/11 21.40 Semeinoe R. Tartu Russo predica suff.
 1035   17/11 21.59 R. Club Portuguese - Lisboa PP ID e MX buono
 1062   15/11 23.10 Country R. - Praha Ceco MX suff.
 1610   20/11 05.00 Caribbean Beacom - Anguilla EE predica in // a 6090 KHz suff.
 4052.5 20/11 05.10 R. Verdad - Chiquimula EE gospel buono
 5820   21/11 09.20 Orion R. - EE ID e MX buono
 6200   21/11 10.15 R. Borderhunter -EE ID e MX buono
 6295   21/11 09.40 R. Trans Europe - EE ID e MX buono
 9645   20/11 23.15 R. Bandeirantes - Sao Paulo PP live phone buono
 9675   20/11 23.20 R. Cancao Nova - Cachoeira Paulista PP MX buono
 9720   20/11 23.25 R. Veritas - Manila Tagalog predica buono
11765   20/11 23.05 R. Deus es Amor - Curitiba ID e frequenze buono
11780   20/11 23.10 R. Nac. Amazonas - Brasilia PP calcio buono

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Radio Free S'wak goes on air

Radio Free Sarawak, is aimed as an alternative voice for Sarawakians. In an e-mail to FMT, the Bruno Manser Foundation, said that the new alternative radio station will have two daily broadcasts on shortwave, presumably in Iban and Bahasa Malaysia. "It aims at Sarawak's rural communities who lack access to independent media," stated the e-mail. It is an open secret that the media in Sarawak are strictly controlled by the state government under Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and logging companies who own and control all major media outlets in the state.

 

 

The transmission details of Radio Free Sarawak are as follows:
1st transmission: 0630-0730 local time (GMT +8) on 7590 kHz (short wave)
2nd transmission: 1800-1900 local time (GMT +8) on 15680 kHz (short wave)

 

The e-mail had also attached a message from the producers of Radio Free Sarawak. Below is the message; "Please send the details to all your Sarawak friends so that they know the existence of the radio-which will become an alternative news source to the Sarawakians, especially to those who stay in the interior. "The folks in the interior have been fed with a monotonous one-sided views from the ruling parties-if at all they can receive the TV and radio transmissions. So they need another avenue-and Radio Free Sarawak intends to fill in this gap."(http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com)

Torrential Rains Threaten TWR Bonaire

Torrential Rains Threaten TWR Bonaire

http://www.twr.org/news_and_blogs/2010/11-19/torrential-rains-threaten-twr-bonaire


Images of txer under flooding :
http://www.twr.org/files/456/The%20Flood%20of%202010.pdf

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Alokesh Gupta
New Delhi

R.W.I. 27th birtday

R.W.I 27th birtday continue this weekend
Radio Waves International   rwaves@free.fr

more broadcast this weekend more special QSL Cards 

                 Saturday   November    20th   on 7480 khz   + on 6055 khz  21.30 to 22.30 utc

                Sunday  November 21st   on 7480 khz

on the final hour of this relay on 6055khz on Saturday November 27th we will do a special DX program with the reports we already get and play some free radio & offhores tunes.

Many thanks for your support

without you , the station couldn't stay alive.

good Dxs & good weekend

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30 Years FRS Nov. 21st & 28th

Dear FRS Friend,

Sunday October 31st we kicked off with the first out of a total of 3 different anniversary broadcasts. The FRS Anthology !
During that broadcast our 6005 signal was badly affected by a powerful DRM signal on 6015 between 13-15 UTC. The DRM transmitter splattered some 15 to 20 kHz on both sides and as you will understand we were not happy at all (to say the least).
The responsible Radio 700 person has offered us a free two hour repeat. In particular Jan van Dijks programme was victim of the DRM signal. Therefore his complete 90 min. October 31st show will be repeated tomorrow Sunday November 21st between 09-11 UTC (10-12 CET) on 6005 kHz. He features 1983+1984. Between 10.32-11.00 UTC Peter V. will inform you about next week's second part of our anthology.
Correct reception reports will be verified with our October 31st 2010 QSL.

Next week on the 28th November we will feature the period 1988- 1997. Mind you: the schedule is different from October's broadcast!
Here's the schedule:
08.52- 15.00 UTC         7600//5800 kHz
08.59- 11.00 UTC        6005 kHz
11.00- 15.00 UTC        5980 kHz

That means no silence on 6005 between 11.00-12.00 UTC but instead we continue for the remaining 4 hours on 5980 (with the same power!).
In this way we avoid 6015 splatter in the afternoon hours.
The November 28th broadcast will be again streamed between 14:52- 21:00 UTC/ 15:52- 22:00 CET via < http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u>

The period 1998- 2010 will be featured in part 3 and that won't take place in December but on Sunday January 16th 2011. 

If you feel you want to be part of the celebrations with your personal FRS memories: you can still do so as we can include that in our January 2011 broadcast. For this final Anniversary broadcast we only accept contributions via mail.
Of course we have special QSLs for the three broadcasts...one based on the 80s, one on the 90s and one on the 00s.
The three different QSLs together form the FRS 30th Anniversary QSL Series.

Hope to have your company next Sundays...it will be great fun November 21st & 28th 2010: 30 Years of FRS-Holland on SW!


73s, on behalf of the FRS staff (Peter V., Jan van Dijk, Paul Graham, Dave Scott, Brian & Bobby Speed)

a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

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a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

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Glenn Hauser logs November 19-20, 2010

** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 20: 8400, good at 1350. No others found until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad, Nov 20 at 0602 amid national anthem before closing, fair and clear signal. TGAV has decided to move to 4055 once a new crystal can be obtained, to facilitate tuning on 5-kHz-step receivers, and to be further from Kyrgyzstan and Missouri on 4050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALAYSIA. 5030, RMS now managing to provide some music and talk audio, Nov 20 at 1340, poor vs Cuba 5025. Still, it`s the OSOB from Asia. Now it has some competition from Radio Free Sarawak, yet to be heard here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 9750, Nov 20 at 1352 Qur`an, mixing with Japanese from NHK Yamata, 1400 into ME music and Arabic talk, I think, so presumed Kuwait as scheduled 1100-1600, 300 kW, 275 degrees; rather than Malaysia, 100 kW, 150 degrees. Between 12 and 16 all three are registered here per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEWFOUNDLAND. 3485-SSB, 0620 Nov 20, immediately after New York Radio [see USA], ``This is Gander Radio, time 0620 zulu``, with VOLMET. I am paying attention to the mixture of units: winds in knots, ceilings in unspecified units but sound like feet; visibility in miles. Not giving any temps or altimeters yet, as starts with 2- to 24-hour ``temporary`` conditions, i.e. forecasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA [non]. 7350, still trying to hear whether R. Nigeria, Abuja is still here, vs the QRM. Sat Nov 20 at 0611, a very weak carrier could be it. No sign of BBC French via Skelton, which B-10 is supposedly scheduled 0600-0630 daily, 300 kW, 195 degrees. Perhaps they have left in deference to Nigeria, or not really daily? Other Eurafsigs were in well, Vatican on 7360 to 0627*, Tunisia 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. Since REE`s own schedules are contradictory and unreliable, I make a point of monitoring UT Saturday Nov 20 at 0605 on 5965 via COSTA RICA: yes, this is the correct time for ``Amigos de la Onda Corta``, their DX program in Spanish, started at 0605:35, with considerable co-channel from Vatican, as these two stations have enjoyed colliding with each other here for years. The // 25m frequencies from Spain direct were not propagating.

Closing electronic theme kept going past 1-second-late timesignal at 0630, along with CCI and SAH from Vatican under; finally at 0631:25 opens next show, like last week ``Edición Exclusiva``, not the mailbag (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UGANDA [non]. 17725, standing by for weekly clandestine Redio Y`Abaganda, now scheduled for only 15 minutes via FRANCE, Saturdays 1700-1715: Nothing there at 1659, so I quickly check 12160 to confirm WORLD OF RADIO 1539 is airing nominally on WWCR: it is, excellent signal with reverby audio from the bottom of the barrel.

When I get back to 17725 at 1700:30, RYA is on with anthem or Christian-sounding hymn. It is cut off abruptly at 1702:30, for opening in vernacular, and I think a few words of English, but so heavily accented it`s hard to differentiate from the vern. Is it really Swahili as per Aoki? Listened a few more minutes, and sounds extremely amateurish, recorded on lofi consumer equipment, bad phone quality audio, saying hello? Hello? Trying to get someone to answer. Signal was sufficient, but no comparison to VOA Portuguese 17740 which had just signed on and was splattering 17725-17755; presumably Greenville rather than Sackville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1539 confirmed on WWCR 7465, VG signal Friday Nov 19 but starting a sesquiminute late at 2131:30, as previous program ran over; probably had to start a bit late after frequency change at 2100. But WOR played to conclusion 2200, then into Spanish. Also VG Saturday Nov 20 at 1700 on 12160. Remaining airings are UT Sunday 0330 on 4840, 0730 on 3215.

Also circa Europe remember our new frequency via IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS-IBA, 6090 via SLOVAKIA, Saturdays at 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3485-SSB, WSY70, a.k.a. New York Radio is reactivated on this frequency, Nov 20 at 0616 with VOLMET for places such as Miami, Nassau, Atlanta. And heard same locales repeated at 0619. Strange mixture of metric and American units: temps in Celsius, altimeters (barometric pressure) in inches of mercury. Until 0620*, ``New York Radio, out`` and Gander takes over immediately: see NEWFOUNDLAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1340, Sat Nov 20 at 1326 UT, something in Spanish is atop the graveyard jumble, ad for Mariscos Bicentenario and other local items, but can`t catch any identifiable addresses; 1328 mentions mil trescientos cuarenta, frequency in Spanish, later sounds Spanglish. I was hoping that was name of a restaurant which could be Googled to some 1340 town, but the few hits lead to Chile; unlikely to be CB134, CC134 or CD134. Apparently it is the name of a dish instead, and of course the bicentennial of Mexico is in progress, but doubt it`s unAmerican. As the signal was somewhat steady, suspect it could have just been KJMU Sand Springs OK, near Tulsa if they are now doing any such programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9825, S9+15 open carrier with hum, Nov 20 at 0613. Nothing scheduled on 9825 between 0300 and 0755. NHK Yamata is next, but this signal could be RFI via GUF tuning up for Spanish from 1000. Only guesses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15141.5-SSB, Nov 20 at 1436 Spanish 2-way, het from 15140, presumably OMAN, which fails to assert any dominance over this frequency, the day before marred by OTH radar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2010 Nov 15 1323 UTC
:Product: documentation at http://www.sidc.be/products/bul
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# SIDC Weekly bulletin on Solar and Geomagnetic activity            #
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WEEK 515 from 2010 Nov 08 

SOLAR CONDITIONS
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Solar flaring activity was on B and C flaring level during this week. Two active regions in each others vicinity were responsible for most of this activity: Catania sunspot group 59 (NOAA AR 1121)  and group 62 (NOAA AR 1123), which developed strongly on Nov 11 inside the western part of NOAA 1121. At this time GOES X-ray flux showed repeated B and C flares. This must have been related to the magnetic flux emergence as observed in magnetogram movies from HMI/SDO. STEREO images indicated that a halo CME was associated with this activity. This continuous flaring activity  remained until noon Nov 13 when solar activity returned to very quiet conditions again.

There were two filament eruptions in the northern hemisphere this week. A filament erupted from the north-east on Aug 8 around 15 UT. The associated CME that is observed in LASCO is not expected to be geoeffective. Another filament erupted early on Nov 13 in the northern hemisphere at central meridian. At first glance the associated CME seems to be directed northward. We expect only a small influence at earth (if there is any influence at all) of this CME.

GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS
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Geomagnetic conditions have been quiet with active intervals on Nov 11-12. This could have been due to the arrival of CMEs of past solar activity. The IMF oscillated between +10 and -10 nT and the wind speed reached values of around 500 km/s. At around noon Nov 14 the wind speed increased further to 650 km/s.

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2010 Nov 08  066    024  84  004  A9.6  0  0
2010 Nov 09  045    018  84  002  A9.0  0  0
2010 Nov 10  074    036  86  005  A9.9  0  0
2010 Nov 11  074    032  85  020  B1.0  0  0
2010 Nov 12  060    026  85  018  B1.0  0  0
2010 Nov 13  070    046  85  010  B1.0  0  0
2010 Nov 14  ///    ///  86  010  B1.1  0  0
# RC  : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm  radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak  : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG  : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X  : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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DAY BEGIN MAX  END  LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                      Cat NOAA NOTE


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Glenn Hauser logs November 18-19, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, now a full week of no signals from LRA36, Nov 19 at 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRIA. 6155, Ö1 or ORS, still has token English news capsule relayed from domestic service, Nov 19 at 0708-0711:51 when switched to French. Mostly world, not Austrian news, e.g. clip of President Obama. Fair signal but with ACI from Cuba 6150, tho its perpetual undermodulation is a blessing in this case. English and French news is UT M-F only, supposedly closing at 0710* Sat/Sun rather than 0715* M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 19:
None found 8-18 MHz by 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9153, extremely strong cut numbers (10 letters instead of numbers sent on full carrier with Morse code tones), Nov 19 at 0708; caused overload on weaker 31mb signals where one could also hear the code. Meanwhile there were also non-cut spy numbers in Spanish voice below 5.9 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 5905, Nov 19 at 1358 poor signal in Arabic, soon obviously BBC with vamp music, 1400 one Big Ben bong (or two?), continues in Arabic, site? Listed as Cyprus, 0500-1600, 300 kW, 173 degrees. Unusual to get at this hour, more likely long path. No QRM audible from co-channels scheduled: CRI Russian via Kashgar until 1400, then VOR via Moskva (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 15195-15220 approx., OTH radar pulses presumed from here, Nov 19 at 1426, mostly bothering WYFR Portuguese 15210; another bit of it in an otherwise clear spot around 15140 rather than Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 5910, Nov 19 at 1358 nothing there, but 1359 open carrier, in fact two as there was a SAH, but 1400 opening Shiokaze without SAH, or jamming yet, ex-5985. First three minutes with contact info for Sea Breeze in English, including website, e-mail, p-mail, phone number, all over piano music; 1403 into news theme and items about North Korea, English on Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1390, Nov 18 at 1736 UT I am about 20 miles south of Enid, and astonishingly am hearing co-channel QRM under local KCRC, only one hour before low noon. This time of year on hiband it`s conceivable that residual skywave could be in play, e.g. from KGNU Denver CO, 5 kW ND, where it is a semihour earlier by the sun, but there are 1390s, one or two in every state adjacent to OK, the closest being 5 kW KFFK Rogers AR, and 500 W KNCK Concordia KS. Those two and most of the others are non-direxional but KCRC main lobe is 280 degrees day and night, evidently to protect Rogers, and diminishing its own signal to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Brother Scare via WWCR, Nov 19 at 1405, overpowering signal amid huge envelope of buzz extending 9965-9995 or so, abutting DentroCuban jamming command on the low side. Meanwhile, clear audio and no such buzz via new German relay frequency 15495 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3185, WWRB, UT Friday Nov 19 at 0430 with last week`s WORLD OF RADIO 1538. We were never able to get a connexion to upload the latest program; they have it now in case there is any other time to play it, but have never been aware of any such substitutions.

WOR 1539 confirmed on WRMI, Friday Nov 19 at 1530. Next chance: Friday 2130 on WWCR 7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, WGN, Extension 720 continues to be an oasis of intelligent discussion on the commercial MW band tnx to Milt Rosenberg, especially if the topic does not lend itself to Milt making anti-Obama remarx, such as UT Nov 19, on the significance of The Lord`s Prayer. As always, here in OK one must put up with periodic fades down by WGN, and fades up by Spanish KSAH San Antonio, whose subaudible heterodyne is an almost constant annoyance.

Extension 720 is at 0405-0600 UT, had been UT Tue-Sat, but at the end Milt said from now on it will be local Sunday thru Thursday nites (except of course when pre-empted by stupid ballgames), instead of M-F, so in UT that makes it really Monday thru Friday. Website also provides lots of (too many) ways to listen online:
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/

Who takes over on UT Saturdays? Nick Digilio at 04-08, as well as UT Sundays 00-04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, Nov 19 at 0713 fair signal with morning chantfest. This time I check to reconfirm it`s slightly on the hi side of 6297 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. 13590, Nov 19 at 0715 gospel rock, no doubt 1Africa, CVC, back on its original frequency after some forays to 13600. Would be the OSOB if it were not for a much weaker R. Australia on 13630, so make it the SSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

Tips da Buccinasco "Girolla"

18/11/2010 0531      3810     HD2IOA  IST.OCEAN.ARMADA     EQA  bip bip voice time -suff   tips audio
18/11/2010 0528      4985             R Brasil Central    B    Goiania-px locale in P -suff                    
18/11/2010 0524      5035             R Aparecida          B  Aparecida- px locale in P  -suff                 
16/11/2010 2155      4845,2           R Culturas Ondas Tropicas     B   Manaus-px mx -suff                                  
16/11/2010 2149      5025     VL8K    Katherine ,NT    AUS  px in E ABC mix Rebelde -suff                       
16/11/2010 2147      15345            RAE       ARG   px in D  - suff                                      
16/11/2010 2101      9645,4           R Bandeirantes     B      Sao Paulo-px locale in P  - suff                  
16/11/2010 2053      11765            Super R Deus è Amor    B    Curitiba // 9565khz ps religioso +mx -suff       
16/11/2010 2044      5045             R Cultura do Parà       B      Belèm-px locale in P    suff                             
16/11/2010 2042      5005             R.Nacional, Batà   GNE    px mx     suff                                           
16/11/2010 1901      2310     VL8A    Alice Springs      AUS    //2325 khz // 2485 khz relay ABC -suff

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