DX Listening Digest 8-034 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8034.txt
CONTENTS: WOR 1399 / ABKHAZIA / AFGHANISTAN +non / ALGERIA non / ARGENTINA / ARMENIA non / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA 7LA/TAB+ / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA A08 / BURKINA FASO / BURMA non / CANADA CBCNQ / CANADA RCI/NHK / CANADA CBCR1 / CANADA CFGT / CHAD / CHINA / CLIPPERTON ham / COSTA RICA / CROATIA / CUBA +non / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EGYPT / ETHIOPIA non / GABON / GHANA non / GUATEMALA / HAITI non / INDIA / INTERNATIONAL WATERS +non SNOX / IRAN +non DRM+ / KOREA NORTH non / KUWAIT +non / LATVIA / MADAGASCAR / MEXICO +non / MOROCCO / NETHERLANDS / NIGER / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Crystal Ship / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND non / RUSSIA +non / SAUDI ARABIA / SWAZILAND / THAILAND / TIBET +non / TURKEY / UK BBCTV / UK non BBCWS / USA non IBB / USA AT&T+ / USA WBCQ / USA WNTP / USA CBS / USA WFLA+ / USA LYQ / USA WCAL / USA KAVT/KGED / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 3325 / UNIDENTIFIED 6024 / PUBLICATIONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / WORLD OF TELEPHONY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.html NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1399 SUMMARY: *Portugal on 11620 blocking India, sometimes partly in Spanish when silly ballplayer interviewed; parallel 11960 leapfrogs over it to land on 11280 *Radio PMR, 6240, Moldova, seems Mon-Thu only, not M-F, 2300-2345 and next UT day 0000-0045 *Romania DRM via Norway, English 1800-1830, interfered with Austria on 6155-6160-6165, quickly moved to 7460-7465-7470; also German 1700- 1730 on 7565-7570-7575 *RFE/RL denigrates shortwave as it admits it is forced to resume it for Armenia which closed its FM relays: 1500-1600 on 9830 and 11695 [site now known: both Biblis, Germany] *Turkey 15350 transmitter at Çakirlar at 0800-0830 produces oscillating spurs: 15280-15284, 15302-15305, 15324-15328, 15372- 15375, 15395-15398 *Israel 11590 transmitter at 0615 produced oscillating spurs on 11552- 11557, 11622-11630, latter covering Vatican 11625 *Unclear whether absolutely all SW transmissions from Israel Radio will cease March 30: only Persian has been an external service, the rest domestic relays; and efforts were made to preserve Persian *We should still have IDF station Galei Zahal, whose two frequencies vary: 15780-15785 and 6970-6975; heard on 15784.7 at 1545 until blocked by WEWN at 1555 *Kuwait`s Pinoy service in Tagalog heard around 1130 off-frequency on 17886.0; first seemed Portugal due to samba *Iran`s Arabic service at 2125 off-frequency on 6067.03 variable; and at 1134 on 13801.4 *Iran via Lithuania in English until 2029 on 7565, then in Spanish from 2029 on 6055, mixing with Rwanda *R. Democracy Shorayee, clandestine to Iran, at 1733 on 7470 *Aslam Javaid translates Radio Solh`s anti-Taliban announcement on 15265, and recognizes some Pakistani Pushto singers as Khayal Muhammad, Javed Akhter, Rahim Shah and female singers like Ms. Zarsanga, Ms Gulnar Begum, Ms Mahjabeen Qizilbash, Ms Mashooq Sultan *North Korea starts jamming Shiokaze, 1400-1430 on 5985 via Japan; not too effective in California, but prolonged at first to 1450, blocking Myanmar in English on 5985.83 *Thanks this week for financial support from Chuck Ermatinger, who sent a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com *R. Taiwan International broadcasts English to South Asia via France, for better propagation, 1600-1700 on 11995 ex-9785 *RTI held very popular listener club meetings in Chennai, Kolkata and New Delhi, India; see DXLD 8-028 and 8-029 for reports. Can you imagine a SW station doing this in North America? *GTRK Kamchatka, 6075, breaks away from R. Rossii relay for local programming at 0810-0900 *Wantok Radio Light, Papua New Guinea, tentatively heard in Missouri on 7325 from 1231 to 1345; RCI did not move from 7310 to 7325, contrary to its own schedule; WRL also heard in Japan around 0800 on 7324.96 *RCI`s morning service in odd languages to USA now on 7310 until 1405, then 9515 ex-9610 *WNTP 990 Philadelphia DX test postponed from Feb 23 to March 15, early Saturday 0400-0500 UT, changing power and antenna in the middle; see http://www.dxtests.info *Hifer beacons in Oklahoma heard coast to coast claiming 300 or 200 milliwatts power: OK on 3450, MO on 4077; send nothing but callsign in CW 10 times per minute; see http://highfrequencybeaconsociety.bravehost.com/beacons.html *1680 in Fresno abruptly changes from KAVT with Radio Disney to KGED with nostalgia, Legends 1680 *Leaves only one R. Disney on 1680, easier for Swedes to ID: WDSS, Ada, Michigan *KVOH Los Angeles, 17775, again heard with distorted spurs on 17920, 17630 at 2308 *WWCR spur on 4915 at 2320, 9985 minus 5070 *WWRB, 5050, authorized at 0000-0500 only, heard as early as 2259 with big band prélude, its best programming by far *Air Force MARS nets heard at 1400 on 7457, controlled by AFA2AJ in Virginia; and at 1500 on 7302 by AFA4MK in south-central US; both probably one UT hour earlier now *R. Taiwan International relay via WYFR on 5950 has English hour twice at 0200 and 0300, but from two different transmitters overlapping at 0257-0300, on different beams 355 and 285 degrees, so no quick antenna change necessary; but second signal blots out the first *RHC, at 0130-0200 heard same date March 10 by two different listeners on two different frequencies, 9600 and 6060 with Radio Reloj programming *Radio Buenas Nuevas, Guatemala, 4800, heard after and before 1200 in Texas; don`t assume you have XERTA Mexico on 4800 without a firm ID *Station on 4111.602 is R. Virgen de los Remedios, Bolivia, ex- 4545.396 *R. Cultura, São Paulo, wandering again from 9615, reported in Brazil on 9590 and 9580, despite R. Globo, SP on 9585 *Long-haul trans-equatorial FM DX from Caribbean again being reported in southern Brasil, local evenings; reverse path should also work *Propagation outlook from Boulder, March 11: A and K indices peaking at 25 and 6 March 27; solar flux still stuck at 70 at least thru April 7 ### NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1399 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 7385 Wed 1130 WRMI 9955 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org Regards, Glenn Hauser ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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