Blog Logs

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on / sign-off*

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
All India Radio via Port Blair, 4760, 1512. (presumed not be Leh). One of their stronger receptions, ended local programming and started audio feed from Delhi. Format: 1512-1515, ads in Hindi for bank loans, etc., 1515-1530 news in Hindi, 1530-1545, news in English. At 1545 returned to local programming.

1512-1545 segment noted // with 4775, 4835.0, 4840, 4895, 4940 (stronger than VOS), 4970, 5010, 5040 (fair-good), 9425 and 9470. 1634 with subcontinent music; // 5010 and 9425. (Ron Howarde, CA/Cumbre DX).

Austria
Radio Austria, 17620, 1600. German broadcast with special on the 50tju Anniversary of Austria's Military Radio. SIO 554. (Bob Fraser, ME)

Bolivia
Radio Santa Cruz, 6134.814, 1045-1100. Noted a very weak signal here in Spanish with comments. Signal never improved during the listening period.(Chuck Bolland, FL).

Bulgaria
Radio Bulgaria, 7400, 2218. Plodiv in English to Events and Developments segment. SIO 554. Noted on // 6200 with 454 SIO. (Bob Fraser, ME).

Canada
CFVP, 6030, 1444-1459. Part of Classic Country AM 1060 promo, followed by local time check as "7:45." C&W music mixing with co-channel interference. (John Wilkins, CO)

CKZU, 6160, 1500-1511. CBC newscast to 1510, followed by local traffic update and weather that included an avalanche warning for the coastal mountains. Generally fair signal quality. (John Wilkins, CO).

KBS Worldwide relay via Sackville, 9650, 1250. Worldwide Friendship segment covering letters and reception reports. SIO 454. (Bob Fraser, ME)

Radio Canada Int'l, 9610, 1608. Report on a Canadian woman novelist receiving a $ 50,000 prize. SIO 454. (Bob Fraser, ME)

Clandestine
Shiokaze, 5910, *1406-1430.* Usual Friday program in English, closing station ID as "JSR, this is Shiokaze Sea Breeze, the shortwave radio program from Tokyo, Japan." Good signal quality. (John Wilkins, CO)

Radio Furusato no Kaze, via Taiwan, 9780.0v, *1558-1630.* First time I heard them here was back in 2007. Carrier on with easy-listening guitar music till one pip at 1600, in Japanese, some easy-listening songs in Japanese. Sign off announcement with email address
and website, for the dot they say “dot dot,” info @ rachi.go.jp and http://www.rachi.go.jp/ . Signal fair. Dec 9 heard them on 9779.83. (Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Egypt
Radio Cairo, 6270, 2205. Travelog with local Egyptian music bridges. SIO 352. (Bob Fraser, ME).

France
Radio France Int'l, 15605, 1640. Network Europe program including book reviews and art news. SIO 332. (Bob Fraser, ME).

Guam
American Forces Netowrk, 5765 USB, 1447 + 1533. Back to normal AFN format (non-music) fair-good, never sure just what format they will be carrying from day to day, // AFN Diego Garcia on 4319 USB which was almost fair.(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX).

Iran
VOIRI, 7320, 2003. Commentary on the world news to station IDs. SIO 353. (Bob Fraser, ME).

Kashmir
Radio Kashmir, 4950, *0122-0213.* Open carrier wiht tone noted at 0118 tune in. Their sign on/off times vary as much as four to five minutes, even the format varies some. Because of the later sign on time today they did not play the national song (“Vande Mataram”) after the AIR interval signal, mostly played pop subcontinent songs. Two segments with series of what sounded like ads, went off the air suddenly. Audio seemed rather distorted, best in USB due to Angola carrier. Slowly fading down after 0200. Only possible for me in the wintertime.(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Malaysia
Asyik FM via Kajang, 6049.62, 1410-1425. Koran program in progress, presumed Suara Islam, seemed to end at 1418, replaced by lady announcer's chat and local music. Signal fair at best and deteriorating. (John Wilkins, CO)

Nigeria
Voice of Nigeria, 7255, 1955-2020. Tune-in to English news programming. Closing English ID announcements and contact information at 1959. Into French at 2000 with talk and local
music. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander-PA)

Oman
Radio Sultanate of Oman, 15140, 1430-1445. Time pips at 1430 and opening them music. English news at 1431-1440. Weak. Very poor. Not able to make out many program details.
(Brian Alexander-PA)

Peru
La Voz de la Selva, 4824.478, 1055-1105. Music in progress at tune-in to male's Spanish comments during the music. Visually(SDR) the signal is good, but the audio is very weak. Overall the signal is poor.(Chuck Bolland, FL),

Radio Victoria, 6019.323, 1035-1045. Noted usual morning format of preaching in Spanish language by David Miranda. He's so easy to identify from his style. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland,FL)

QSL Report Central

The following QSL contributions were omitted from an upcoming QSL Report column in Monitoring Times, due to space constraints.

Amateur Radio
Canada:CK6EX. 20 meters USB. Full data card via ARRL. Received in six months. (Larry Van Horn, NC)

Canada: VY2TT, 20 meters USB. Full data photo card via ARRL. received ub three months, (Van Horn)

France: TM2V. 10/15/20 meters USB. Full data card via ARRL. Received in seven months via
ARRL. (Van Horn)

Germany: DF2UU, 10 meters USB. Full data card via ARRL. Received in eight months. (Van Horn)

Greece: SV2CXI, 20 meters USB. Full data color scenery card via ARRL. received in two years.
(Van Horn).

Italy: IK4ALM, 40 meters LSB. Full data color scenery card via ARRL. Received in two years and three months. (Van Horn).

Japan: JA7NVF, 10/15 meters. Full data color scenery card via ARRL. Received in six months.
(Van Horn).

Belarus
Radiostation Belarus, 7360 kHz. Full data card signed by Larisa Suarez. Received in 95 days
for report to: radiostation-belarus@tvr.by (Rafael Rodriguez, Colombia/playdx)

Czech Republic
Radio Prague, 7355 kHz, Partial data The Year of Czech Music card, plus program schedule and wallet calendar, received via postal mail. Received in ten days for an English report posted online. (Rod Pearson, FL). Get this station confirmed while you can. Scheduled to leave shortwave Jan.1, 2011.

Ecuador
Radio Oriental, 4780 kHz. Full data card signed by Luis Espin Espinova-Gerente, and station promotional material. Received inb 120 days for report to: Av. Jumandy 536 Tena, Napo, Ecuador (Rodriguez).

Equatorial Guinea
Radio Africa, 15190 kHz. Two full data cards for monitoring two broadcast. Color card features station's transmitter. Station letter and program schedule included. Received in one month from Pleasanton, California address. (Sam Wright, Biloxi, MS)

Germany
MV Baltic Radio via Wertchal, Germany, 6140 kHz. Full data card from Ronald Rohde. Received in 46 days for report to: R&R Medienservice, Seestrasse 17, DE-19089 Gohren, Germany. (Luca Botto Fiora, Italy/playdx)

Madagascar
Radio Netherlands relay, 11655 kHz. Full data, A Dutch Morning card. Received in 78 days for postal report to Hilversum. (Banks).

Rwanda
Radio Netherlands relay via Kigali, 9895 kHz. Full data station QSL. Received in 57 days for report to the Hilversum address. (Olanda/playdx)

Spain
China Radio International relay via Noblejas, 9690 kHz. Full data The Great Family of the Chinese Nation card, plus program scheule and calendar. Received in 30 days for an English report. (Wright).

Onda Cero Madrid, 954 AM kHz. Two reception reports confirmed with two seperate verification letters, signed by Celso del Rio Marcos-Subdirector de Programas, plus station stickers. Received in three-and-half years. Station address: Onda Cero Madrid, e/Fuerteventura, 12, ES-28700 San Sebastian de los Reyes. (Osuna).

Sri Lanka
Deutsche Welle relay, 13780 kHz. Full data DW card with site notation. Received in 20 days for an English report. (Pearson)

Radio Netherlands relay via Trincomalee, 9895 kHz. Full data scenery card. Received in 57 days for report to Hilversum address. (Olanda/playdx)

Syria
Radio Damascus, 12085 kHz. Full data QSL card, signed by Amelia Puga (Segretaria Redaccion Espanol) plus stickers, flag of radio station and souvenir sheet of the Arabic alphabet. Received in seven days for report to amelucas@hotmail.com (Alvaro Lopez Osuna, Spain/playdx)

Tajikistan

Bible Voice via Yangi Yul, 7485 kHz. Full data card. Received in 30 days for e-repor to mail@biblevoise.org (Luca Botto Fiora, Italy/playdx)

United Kingdom
Spectrum Radio, 558 kHz AM. Full data verification via email from John Ogden-Station Director. Received in three days for repor to: jogden@spectrumradio.net . Website: http://www.spectrumradio.net/ (Mauricio Molano, Spain/playdx)

United States
WDCD, 1540 kHz AM. Full data email verification. Received in five minutes from my follow-up email to Rich Leighton richleighton.djr@gmail.com (Molano)

WTDY, 1670 kHz AM, Madison, WI. Partial data letter from Rex Charger-Program Director, plus coverage map. Received in 23 days. (Molano)

Vatican State
Vatican Radio, 11740 kHz. Full data St. Peter's Basilica scenery card, plus program
schedule, stickers and photo card of Pope Benedict. Received in 30 days. (Tom Banks, Dallas, TX)

Venezuela
YVNG Ondas Del Mar, 1380 kHz AM. Full data verification received via email. received in eight hours for email follow up report to: ondasdelmar1380@gmail.com (Molano)

Radio Azadi's Radio Distribution Drive in Afghanistan

Since September, RFE’s (Radio Free Europe's) Afghan service Radio Azadi -- the most popular radio station in the country -- has been distributing 20,000 hand-cranked and solar powered radios to people all across Afghanistan. The aim of the project is to promote access to news and information, especially in rural and remote areas where illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world and where radio is often the only means for people to receive news.

Continued story and photos at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty: http://www.rferl.org/content/off_mic_radio_azadi_distribution_drive/2241690.html

Clandestine schedule update

Zimbabwe
New schedule for Voice of People

English, Shona and Ndebele - effective from Dec 10:

All times UTC

0400-0500 11610 MDC 050 kW 265 deg to ZWE
1530-1630 11695 MDC 050 kW 265 deg to ZWE,new
1800-1900 9345 MDC 050 kW 265 deg to ZWE,new,co-ch Radio Bilal til 1830 UT.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13)
(DX Mix News 655 via Wolfgang Bueschel & Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria)

Radio Veritas B10 winter schedule

Effective to 26 March 2011

Radio Veritas does not broadcast in English

All times UTC

Bengali
0030-0057 11945 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs
1400-1430 11870 PUG 250 kW 300 deg to SoAs

Burmese
1130-1157 15450 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
2330-2357 9720 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Chinese
1430-1457 9520 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Hindi
0030-0057 11730 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs Hmong
1200-1227 11935 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Kachin
1230-1257 15225 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
2330-2357 9645 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Karen
0000-0027 11935 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
1200-1230 15225 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Khmer
0130-0157 15280 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
1000-1027 11850 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Mandarin
1000-1157 9615 PUG 250 kW 355 deg to EaAs
2100-2257 6115 PUG 250 kW 350 deg to EaAs

Filipino
1500-1555 15350 SMG 250 kW 130 deg to N/ME
2300-2327 9720 PUG 250 kW 331 deg to CeAs

Russian
0200-0257 17830 PUG 250 kW 000 deg to FE
1500-1600 9570 PUG 250 kW 331 deg to CeAs

Sinhala
0000-0027 9720 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs Tamil
0030-0057 11935 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs
1400-1427 9520 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs

Telugu
0100-0127 15530 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs
1430-1457 9515 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SoAs

Urdu
0100-0127 15280 PUG 250 kW 300 deg to SoAs
0100-0127 17860 PUG 250 kW 300 deg to SoAs
1430-1457 15435 SMG 250 kW 070 deg to SoAs

Vietnamese
0130-0230 15530 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
1030-1127 11850 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
1300-1327 11850 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
2330-2357 9670 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs

Zomi-Chin
0130-0200 15255 PUG 250 kW 280 deg to SEAs
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13)

A Voice from the sky in Mysore India

Before we begin the Mysore story in this edition of Wavescan, let us return to the story of radio broadcasting in Hyderabad. You will remember that back in August we presented two major features
on the history of radio broadcasting in Hyderabad Deccan, one of the major cities on the Indian plateau.
Jose Jacob VU2JOS at the National Institute of Amateur Radio informs us that All India Radio Hyderabad has launched a campaign to collect as much archival material as possible in connection with their Diamond Jubilee. They are interested in hearing from anyone who had connections with the station in its early years, and they would like to have access to printed materials dating way back to the very early days of their station.
OK, and now, on to the Mysore story. The city of Mysore in south India is the second largest city in the state of Karnataka. It is located about 80 miles south of the state capital Bangalore.
The history of Mysore goes way back into the era of Indian mythology, and the earliest known written report is dated 245 BC during the reign of King Ashoka when the city was known as Mahishur. During the early times of the British raj, Mysore town was the capital of the kingdom, under the Maharajah of Mysore.
The city of Mysore these days is a tourist attraction, and two of the major items of interest are the beautiful Brindavan Gardens and the fabulous palace of the Maharajah. The Brindavan Gardens, covering 150 acres, were set out in 1924; and the Maharajah’s palace was constructed in 1912.
Back around ¾ of a century ago, a shortwave broadcasting station was established in the city of Mysore under an amateur callsign, VU7MC. Interestingly, there was another amateur broadcasting station in Mysore, located at Akaskivaria and it was on the air under the callsign VU7MD.
This station was heard in the United States with three hours of broadcast programming on a somewhat irregular basis during the year 1936. The frequency in use was 4270 kHz. The news items about station VU7MD are found in several issues of the radio bulletin published by the International Shortwave Club in the United States.
The same issues of ISWC also state that broadcasts from other Indian stations were heard during this same era. Now, if there were two Indian stations in Mysore listed under the callsigns VU7MC & VU7MD, then we would presume that there were at least two others, with the earlier sequential callsigns, VU7MA & VU7MB.
The 50 watt amateur broadcast station VU7MC was inaugurated with a special program of music and poetry on September 10, 1935. The station was located in the suburban home of Professor M. V. Gopalaswamy, and the available evidence would suggest that it was a small shortwave facility.
Apparently station VU7MC was moved into the palace of the Maharajah of Mysore two years later where it was on the air again with the broadcast of radio programming. Monitoring reports, as heard in the United States at the time, list VU7MC as the “Mysore Palace” station, and it was noted on 6080 kHz in 1937, and on 6590 kHz in 1938.
On the occasion of the 4th anniversary of station VU7MC, a new transmitter facility, rated at 250 watts was inaugurated, still at the palace of the Maharajah. However, two years later, the station was handed over to the city government of Mysore; and on January 1 of the following year, 1941, the station was taken over by the state government of the Maharajah of Mysore.
Two years later, Professor Gopalaswamy retired. He was the original founder of the station and he had continued on in government service as the music director for the station. A painting was later commissioned in his honor.
The station was apparently silent during the latter part of World War 2, and it was revived again around September 1945. Soon afterwards, station listings show that radio station VU7MC was operating on both mediumwave & shortwave. Mediumwave was shown with 30 watts on 968 kHz and shortwave on 6065 kHz with 300 watts.
Around this era, the Mysore shortwave station was listed with 5 kW, but this seems to be an intended plan that was never implemented.
Interestingly, entries in the World Radio Handbook for the years 1951, 1952 & 1953 show the Mysore station under a regularized callsign, VUM7, instead of VU7MC. It should be remembered that the callsign for the AIR station in Madras was also VUM during that era.
However, we understand that the station in Mysore was actually closed in 1950, and the equipment was transferred to Bangalore where it was re-installed, and it was inaugurated five years later on November 2, 1955.
Radio returned to Mysore almost 20 years later when a 1kW mediumwave transmitter was activated on 1602 kHz. However, these days there is no mediumwave nor shortwave station in Mysore, but instead there are just three official stations all on air in the FM band.
During the past month of September, All India Radio in Mysore remembered its earliest origins in a series of programs and events honoring its Platinum Jubilee.
In addition to the unique radio service offered to Mysore and beyond by the unusual shortwave and mediumwave station in this princely state, Mysore has one other honor. During its 15 years of service, station VU7MC was identified on air with the Indian designation, “Akashvani”, a term derived from the ancient Sanskrit language meaning literally, “sky voice”. This identification was subsequently adopted nationwide by All India Radio in all of its official languages in the year 1956.
There are no known QSLs verifying the reception of station VU7MC, the voice from the sky in Mysore India.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS 94 via Adrian Peterson)

Shortwave frequency updates

The following frequency updates comes via International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), an independent agency that supports the day-to-day operations of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Marti and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Transmitters from Germany, Madagascar, Marianas-Saipan, Philippines and the United States.

All times UTC

0000-0100 NF 17770 SAI 100 kW 270 deg,x 9815 RFA in Laotian
0200-0300 NF 7390 LAM 100 kW 075 deg,x 7295 RL in Turkmen
0530-0630 NF 12060 MDC 250 kW 295 deg,x 7265 VOA in French Mon-Fri
1230-1300 NF 13750 GB 250 kW 174 deg,x13715 VOA in Spanish Mon-Fri
1300-1400 NF 13750 GB 250 kW 174 deg,x13715 VOA in Spanish
1300-1330 NF 11675 PHX 050 kW 276 deg,x11695 VOA in Vietnamese
1400-1500 NF 11930 SAI 100 kW 325 deg,x11635 VOA in Indon Thu-Sat
1600-1700 NF 7240 LAM 100 kW 075 deg,x12025 RL in Russian
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13)
(DX Mix News # 655 via Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany & Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria)

NF new frequency

RFA Radio Free Asia
RL Radio Liberty
VOA Voice of America

Voz Crista La Voz B10 winter schedule

Chile

B-10 for Voz Crista La Voz via Santiago-Calera de Tango

Portuguese to Brasil
1800-2000 17860 SGO 015 kW 045 deg DRM

German to Brasil
2300-2400 9835 SGO 050 kW 045 deg


Spanish to Northern South America
1100-1200 9780 SGO 100 kW 000 deg till March 12
1200-0100 17680 SGO 100 kW 000 deg, from March 13 1200-0200 same

Spanish to Southern South America
1100-0100 9635 SGO 100 kW 030 deg, from March 13 1200-0200 same
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13)
(DX Mix News 655 via Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany & Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria)

Greenland to cease shortwave and medium wave in 2011

Stig Hartvig Nielsen writes: On 11 February 2011 at 8 AM local time all mediumwave stations carrying KNR (Radio Greenland) - Upernavik (810 kHz), Uummannaq (900 kHz), Qeqertarsuaq (650 kHz), Nuuk (570 kHz) and Simiutaq (720 kHz) - will be switched off for good, and the transmitters will be dismantled. On the same day the relays of KNR newscasts twice daily via Tasiilaq 3815 kHz will also cease.

The decision has been taken by the Ministry of Housing, Infrastructure and Transport in the Government of Greenland.

After February 11 2011 KNR will only be available via low power FM in inhabited areas of Greenland. Thus no coverage of the country outside the towns and villages - and KNR will no longer be available for the fishermen at sea nor the Inuit population in Canada.

The decision was made because the transmitters were getting old and too costly to maintain. Besides, very few people are using the mediumwave transmissions. Weather forecasts will be available for fishermen and others via VHF coastal radio.

At one point it was considered replacing the aging mediumwave transmitters with one or two new shortwave AM transmitters near Nuuk, but it was estimated that it would cost 4 million DKK (535,000 euros) to establish such a new shortwave operation. It was also felt that few listeners would invest in a shortwave receiver and the quality would be ‘doubtful’ - suffering from ‘atmospheric phenomena’. So these plans were abandoned.

(Source: Stig Hartivig Nielsen via HCDX mailing list)
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

KNR shortwave schedule:
1500-1600 UTC in Danish and Greenlandic on 3815 kHz
1600-1615 UTC in Danish and Greenlandic on 3815 kHz
2100-2200 UTC in Danish and Greenlandic on 3815 kHz
2200-2215 UTC in Danish and Greenlandic on 3815 kHz
(Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager/Monitoring Times

Website with on-demand audio and video: www.knr.gl

Radio Prague to close shortwave services

On the heels of this weeks' announcement that RAE Argentina and Radio Slovakia International will terminate shortwave at the end of the year, comes word from the Czech Republic on Radio Prague.
Gayle VH

The following has been posted on Radio Prague’s Facebook Page: Radio Prague will be terminating shortwave broadcasting as of January 31. The station’s financing for next year has been drastically reduced by the Foreign Ministry in line with government austerity measures aimed at cutting the state deficit. The details of the budget are still being discussed. At present, broadcasting will continue in all six languages via the internet, satellite and partner stations.
(Radio Prague via Mark Coady, Ontario DX Association)

Voice of America adjust French service frequency

Via Madagascar relay

The frequency of the VOA French transmission to Africa at 0530-0630 Mon-Fri via Madagascar has been changed from 7265 to 12060 kHz at the request of the IBB.
(Source: RNW Programme Distribution/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

All India Radio - B10 Winter Schedule

All India Radio - B10 Multilingual schedules

Effective: 31 October 2010 - 27 March 2011
target areas: af (Africa) al (alternative frequency that will be used later) as (Asia) eu (Europe)
me (Middle East) pa (Pacific)

all broadcast daily

All times UTC

Arabic
0430-0500 15210me 15770me 17845me
0500-0530 15210me 15770me 17845me
1730-1800 6180me 9620me 9905me
1800-1900 6180me 9620me 9905me
1900-1945 6180me 9620me 9905me

Baluchi
1500-1600 6165as 7340as 9620as

Bengali
0300-0400 7420as
0400-0430 7420as
0800-0900 7420as
0900-1000 7420as
1000-1100 7420as
1445-1500 7420as
1500-1515 7420as
1600-1700 7420as
1700-1730 7420as

Burmese
1215-1300 11620as 11710as 15040as
1300-1315 11620as 11710as 15040as

Chinese
1145-1200 11840as 15795as 17705as
1200-1300 11840as 15795as 17705as
1300-1315 11840as 15795as 17705as

Dari
0300-0345 9835as 9910as 11735as
1315-1400 7410as 9910as 7255al
1400-1415 7410as 9910as 7255al

English
0000-0045 6055as 7305as 11645as 13605as 9705al
9950as
1000-1100 7270as 13710pa 15235as 15260as 17510pa
17800as 17895pa 13695al 15020al
1330-1400 9690as 11620as 13710as
1400-1500 9690as 11620as 13710as
1530-1545 9910as 7255al 9820al
1745-1800 6280eu 7400af 7410af 7550eu 9415af
9445af 11935af 6120al
1745-1800 DRM 9950eu
1800-1900 6280eu 7400af 7410af 9415af
9445af 11935af 6120al
1800-1900 DRM 9950eu
1900-1945 6280eu 7400af 7410af 9415af
9445af 11935af 6120al
1900-1945 DRM 9950eu
2045-2100 6280eu 7550eu 9445eu 11620pa 11715pa
9910al 9940al
2045-2100 DRM 9950eu
2100-2200 6280eu 7550eu 9445eu 11620pa 11715pa
9910al 9940al
2100-2200 DRM 9950eu
2200-2230 6280eu 7550eu 9445eu 11620pa 11715pa
9910al 9940al
2200-2230 DRM 9950eu
2245-2300 6055as 7305as 11645as 13605as 9705al
9950al
2300-0000 6055as 7305as 11645as 13605as 9705al

French
1945-2000 6180af 7410af 9620af
2000-2030 6180af 7410af 9620af

Gujarati
0415-0430 15075af 15185af 17715af
1515-1600 11620af 13645af 15175af

Hindi
0315-0400 15075af 15185af 17715af
0400-0415 15075af 15185af 17715af
0430-0500 15075af 15185af 17715af
0500-0530 15075af 15185af 17715af
1615-1700 9950af 12025me 13770me 15075af 17670af
7410al
1700-1730 9950af 12025me 13770me 15075af 17670af
7410al 9950al
1945-2000 6280eu 7550eu 9940al
1945-2000 DRM 9950eu
2000-2045 6280eu 7550eu 9940al
2000-2045 DRM 9950eu
2300-0000 11740as 13795as 9910al

Indonesian
0845-0900 15770as 17510as 17875al
0900-0945 15770as 17510as 17875al

Kannada
0215-0300 11985me 15075me

Malayalam
1730-1800 12025me 7250al
1800-1830 12025me 7250al

Nepali
0130-0200 3945as 7420as 9810as 11715as
0200-0230 3945as 7420as 9810as 11715as
0700-0800 7250as 7420as 11850as
1330-1400 3945as 4860as 7420as 11775as

Persian
0400-0430 15210as 15770as 17845as
1615-1700 9620as 9905as 7250al

Pushto
0215-0300 9835as 9910as 11735as
1415-1500 7410as 9910as 7255al

Russian
1615-1700 9595eu 11620eu 15140eu
1700-1715 9595eu 11620eu 15140eu

Sindhi
0100-0200 5990as 7370as 9635as
1230-1300 6165as 7340as 9620as
1300-1400 6165as 7340as 9620as
1400-1500 6165as 7340as 9620as

Sinhala
0045-0100 7270as 11740as 11985as
0100-0115 7270as 11740as 11985as
1300-1400 7270as 9820as 15050as
1400-1500 7270as 9820as 15050as

Swahili
1515-1600 9950af 13605af 17670af
1600-1615 9950af 13605af 17670af

Tamil
0000-0045 7270as 9835as 11740as 11985as
13795as 9910al
1115-1200 7270as 13710as 15050as 15770as 17860as
17810al
1200-1215 7270as 13710as 15050as 15770as 17860as
17810al

Telugu
1215-1245 13710as 15770as 17810al

Thai
1115-1200 15235as 17740as 13645al

Tibetan
1215-1300 7420as 9575as 11775as
1300-1330 7420as 9575as 11775as

Urdu
0015-0100 6155as 7340as 9595as
0100-0200 6155as 7340as 9595as 11620as
0200-0300 6155as 7340as 9595as 11620as
0300-0400 6155as 7340as 9595as 11620as
0400-0430 6155as 7340as 9595as 11620as
0830-0900 7250as 7340as 9595as 11620as
0900-1000 7250as 7340as 9595as 11620as
1000-1100 7250as 7340as 9595as 11620as
1100-1130 7250as 7340as 9595as 11620as
1430-1500 3945as 4860as 6045as
1500-1600 3945as 4860as 6045as
1600-1700 3945as 4860as 6045as
1700-1735 3945as 4860as 6045as
1800-1900 4860as 6045as
1900-1930 4860as 6045as
(original PDF prepared by Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, India/transcribed by Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager, Monitoring Times)

Five new products for 2011 from Klingenfuss

Dear friends,

All new products for 2011

- 2011 Super Frequency List on CD
- 2011 Shortwave Frequency Guide
- 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations
- 2011 Frequency Database for the PERSEUS Software-Defined Receiver
- 1997-2010 Digital Data Decoder Screenshots on CD

Have been published by 4 December. We've worked around the clock and hundreds of advance orders have been mailed by Monday 6 December, i.e. well in time for the Christmas holiday and radio monitoring season.

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Please note that we did NOT increase our prices for 2011.

Since Larry Magne's Passport to World Band Radio has been discontinued in 2009, our 2011 Shortwave Frequency Guide remains the only international handbook that gives you full schedule details for each entry in the unique broadcast frequency list, e.g.

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Mon-Sat

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dom - Sat Sun

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The 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations is the 26th edition of this standard reference book for both professional HF radio monitoring services and non-professional radio listeners worldwide.

Deadline for the very latest 2011 broadcast schedules published in the brandnew Shortwave Frequency Guide was on 20 November 2010. Unlike traditional publications in this field, our clear layout and new typeface provides for excellent legibility. See the brandnew PDF sample pages on our comprehensive webpage!

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Australian DX Report podcast

The latest episode, No. 232, of the weekly 15-minutes internet-delivered Australian DX Report audio news magazines about shortwave broadcasting is now available for download from the Australian Internet Radio Service website at http://adxr.podbean.com

The site has been extensively modified, with new features added.


Free subscriptions to the service are available at the site.

Each episode includes a summary of solar/geophysical activity, schedule changes and information, propagation news, and monitoring reports.

Short musical interludes are featured.

Using resources of the Electronic DX Press Radio Monitoring Association, the podcasts are very popular:

- channel views have reached 39,343
- 2299 site visitors (last 30 days)
- 1776 feed hits (last 30 days)
- 233 episode hits (last 30 days)

Shorter versions of the ADXR are broadcast over HCJB-Australia (monthly in DX Partyline), WWCR (weekly in the DX Block), AWR (monthly in Wavescan), and World Harvest Radio (monthly in DXing with Cumbre)

Soon, the episodes will also be available on shortwave over NEXUS-IRRS, reaching out to Africa, Middle East, and Europe through high powered facilities at Rimatska Sobota, Slovak Republic.

Your comments and reactions about the site and service would be welcomed!

Regards from Melbourne

Bob Padula
Host/Producer

On the Air and Off the Air in Sweden - Part 1

On this occasion, we call two international shortwave listeners, and they are Claes Englund in Sweden and Bruce White in Australia. In our recent mid year DX contest, both Claes & Bruce requested a Station Profile on radio broadcasting in Sweden. So gentlemen, here is your story, or at least Part 1 of your story, and we go way back to the very beginning.
Sweden is the southern or eastern country situated on the Scandinavian peninsula in Northern Europe. It is nearly 1,000 miles long, with a total population of a little less than 10 million.
The history of this Nordic country goes way back into the dim distant past, though the earliest written records were made by the Romans some 2,000 years ago. The daring exploits of the Vikings in their Atlantic conquests to the west and the south have been chronicled and re-chronicled, though it should be stated that the Swedish Vikings usually travelled east, spreading out into Russia.
Actually, as the old records tell us, wireless came very early to Sweden. It was back in the year 1900, that the Swedish navy borrowed some Marconi wireless equipment from the AEG company in Germany. This electrical equipment was used in a series of successful wireless tests at Stockholm, on land and at sea.
Two years later, the first permanent wireless station in Sweden was installed in Stockholm, and in fact it was in use for ship communication for exactly 100 years. This station was originally installed in the year 1902, it went through several series of modernizations, and it was ultimately closed on February 1, 2002. The long history of the Swedish coastal radio station SDJ must be one of the longest terms of radio service anywhere in the world.
During the era of wireless telegraphy in Morse Code, a whole network of coastal and regional stations was established in Sweden. These stations were installed mainly at coastal locations throughout the country and each callsign was issued in consecutive order, beginning with SAA in Karlskrone, SAB in Gothenberg, SAC in Trallerborg, and so on down through the alphabet.
And again, as the old records tell us, radio broadcasting also came quite early to Sweden. The first amateur radio broadcasters began their experimental transmissions during the year 1922, and interestingly, the callsign for each of these stations during this era consisted of four letters of the alphabet, beginning with SA or SM. These days, a regional identification number is inserted into the amateur callsigns in Sweden.
It is stated that there were many local stations on the air in Sweden during the 1920s and these were operated by radio clubs, commercial organizations and individual operators, as well as by the government Royal Telegraph Administration. Music programs were on the air quite often from many of these longwave & mediumwave stations.
The Swedish government announced in 1924 that it planned on nationalizing the broadcasting industry, as in England, and on Thursday January 1 of the next year, 1925, the new organization, Radiotjanet, produced its first network broadcast. This epic radio occasion was a special program held in Jakob’s Church Stockholm.
Back in the late 1920s, there was a total of 15 mediumwave stations scattered throughout Sweden, all of which were on the air with the four letter callsigns beginning with either SA or SM. Over the years, a total of more than 100 mediumwave stations have been established throughout Sweden, mostly with quite low power, though half a dozen would be described as high power stations.
On longwave, as in many other countries of Europe, there were three high powered stations and these were located at Motala, Lulea & Gotheberg. However, Sweden abandoned the usage of longwave broadcasting in 1991.
The best known high powered mediumwave station in Sweden was located at Solvesborg, and in the 1980s it was on the air with an evening relay of the Foreign Service for Europe at a power of 600 kW. This station on 1179 kHz was the last mediumwave station in Sweden and it was closed down on Saturday October 30, just a little over a month ago. All radio for local coverage in Sweden is now on FM.
We now take a look at Sweden on shortwave. Back in the mid 1930s, there were two shortwave stations on the air with program broadcasting. These two stations, both with amateur style callsigns, SM5SD & SM5SX, were located in Stockholm, and they were logged in the United States and Australia. Station SM5SX was installed at the Technical University and its operating channel was 15080 kHz.
With political tensions rising in Europe during the late 1930s, Sweden opted to enter the field of international shortwave broadcasting. The longwave station at Motala was inaugurated in the summer of 1927, and 10 years later, two Swedish made shortwave transmitters rated at 12 kW each were installed at this location. These two new units were inaugurated, one in 1938 and the other in 1939. Four different channel callsigns were in use for these shortwave units, SBO & SBU and SBP & SBT.
The usage of these two historic shortwave transmitters was phased out after the higher powered shortwave stations were inaugurated at Horby & Karlsborg. In 1962, the longwave service at Motala was transferred to a new location at nearby Orlunda. Some 35 years later, the Motala building was turned into a radio museum, and the original longwave transmitter is now there on display.
OK, now that’s as far as we can go in this program. In two week’s time, we plan to complete this story, the story of radio broadcasting in Sweden, as suggested and requested by Claes Englund in Sweden and Bruce White in Australia.
(AWR Wavescan # 93 via Adrian Peterson)

Radio Panorama RP6: Early Electronic Inventions

When radio was finally invented a hundred years ago, the procedures were very dependent upon other inventions that had already been developed. In this feature item here in Wavescan today, we list half a dozen of these interdependent inventions.
First, we look at the telegraph, a procedure for distant communication whereby the messages were sent along a system of connecting wires. The well known Samuel Morse and his assistant, the almost equally well known Alfred Vail, began working on these matters in the year 1835.
A little more than two years later, on January 6, 1838, Morse & Vail successfully tested their new telegraph system at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown New Jersey. One month later they gave a public demonstration of their new telegraph system at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and six years later, they performed their now famous communication epic with a long distance transmission by wire between Washington DC & Baltimore Maryland. Their first message, you will remember, was a statement from the Bible, “What hath God wrought!”
These first messages were all sent in the familiar Morse Code with its system of dots and dashes, but how much better it would be, if voice communication could be developed.
A quarter of a century later, Alexander Bell and Elisha Gray were both working quite independently in the United States on the development of the telephone, and they both unknowingly lodged their patent applications on the same day. However, Bell’s patent application was lodged a couple of hours ahead of Gray’s application, and so the patent for the new telephone was awarded to Bell.
The first ever message by telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson, his assistant, who was working in another room at the time. Bell asked Watson to “come here”. Interestingly, the microphone in use for this first telephone is described as a liquid microphone; that is, a small container containing a weak solution of sulfuric acid with a small metal needle suspended into the liquid.
During the same year that Bell & Watson developed the telephone, another well known inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, developed a carbon microphone that considerably improved the quality of the voice reproduction.
Soon afterwards, Edison went on to develop another significant radio invention, and this was the matter of voice & music recording. Initially, the recordings were made by wrapping tin foil around a cardboard cylinder. The needle at the end of the phonograph horn made indentations into the tin foil, thus recording the sound. However, each playing of the recording damaged the indentations, so that it could be used only a few times at the most. That was in the year 1877.
Eight years later, two other inventors, Chichester Bell & Charles Tainter, developed a wax coated cardboard cylinder that improved the quality of reproduction and could be played many more times before its usability was diminished.
Two years later again, a German migrant to the United States, Emile Berliner, developed the gramophone disc, a flat metal disc covered with shellac. The sound reproduction was greatly improved, and this style was easy to mass produce for sale to the public.
Next came the magnetic recording, and this procedure was developed in Denmark by Valdemar Paulsen around the turn of the century. His Telegraphone, as he called it, made a magnetic recording on a moving wire. The sound reproduction, even without electronic amplification, was more than adequate for headphones and for transmission over the telegraph wires.
At the occasion of the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, Paulsen recorded the voice of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and this is the world’s oldest surviving magnetic recording.
The final invention that we look at today is the electric light bulb. During the latter part of the 1800s, many inventors were working on the development of an electric light bulb. This would replace the arc light that was very noisy, too bright, and very difficult to control.
Over in England, Sir Joseph Swan succeeded in manufacturing an electric light bulb that produced light with the glowing of a carbon filament in a vacuum inside a sealed glass container. Likewise, in the United States, Edison produced a similar light bulb with a carbon filament, though as he stated later, he tested 6,000 different vegetations in his attempts to do so.
In both England & the United States, carbon filament light bulbs went into production. However, a better product was taken into production, when William Davis Coolidge introduced the metal tungsten filament, which is still in use to this day.
Thus, we have investigated the development of half a dozen inventions from a hundred years ago that ultimately found their way into radio:-
* The telegraph system with interconnecting wires gave way to wireless.
* The telephone gave way to the microphone.
* The phonograph & the Telegraphone gave way to tape recordings & computerized recordings.
* The electric light bulb was developed into the radio tube, or valve; and after that, came the transistor.
(WAR Wavescan # 93 via Adrian Peterson)

Hamburger Lokalradio set for two December broadcast

Germany
For almost ten years, Hamburger Lokalradio (HLR) offers international shows for listeners living outside their Hamburg FM 96,0 MHz reach. The station rents airtime from Media Broadcast for programmes on 6045 kHz (first Sunday of each month, between 10-11 UTC), and from WRN for weekly shows on the WRN Deutsch channel.

Since December 2009, HLR can be heard daily from 10-11 UTC on 5980, with 1 kW, using the Kall transmitter site. To commemorate one year of low-power short wave programmes, Hamburger Lokalradio will air two multi-hour shows. They can be heard on Su, Dec 05, and Su, Dec 26, from 06-16 UTC, on 5980. Most of the programmes will feature highlights from the HLR archives. In addition, there are programmes in English, Spanish, and Swedish. Here are some excerpts from the line-up:

Sunday, December 05

0600 R Tropical, a show in Spanish with Raul Kristeller
0700 50 Jahre Rundfunk in Deutschland, two hour feature on the history of radio broadcasting in Germany
0900 Für Freunde der Kurzwelle / For Short Wave Fans, featuring audio samples of former international radio services
1000 Hallo Hamburg, a show in Swedish with Bo Nyström
1100 Schwarz auf weiss, a programme on literature with Thomas Voelkner
1200 New Letters on the Air - A Magazine of Writing and Art, in English
1300 R Nostalgie, featuring songs from the early decades of audio recording
1500 Jazz-Brunch, one-hour music show with Hans-Olaf Henkel

Sunday, December 26

0700 Die Geschichte der Piratensender / History of Pirate Radio, show in English
0800 Weihnachtszeit im Hamburger Lokalradio, christmas novella by Fyodor Dostoyewsky
0900 Für Freunde der Kurzwelle / For Short Wave Fans, featuring studio recordings from Latin American stations
1000 Hallo Hamburg, a show in Swedish with Bo Nyström
1200 Swingin' Down The Lane, a music show in English with David Miller
1500 Jazz und Literatur; HLR's Gaby Helbig interviews Peter Schulz, former major of Hamburg and author of the book "Rostock, Hamburg und Shanghai"

Hamburger Lokalradio welcomes reception reports which can be sent to: Hamburger Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum Lola, Lohbruegger Landstr. 8, 21031 Hamburg, Germany; E-Mail: redaktion@hamburger-lokalradio.de . Return postage is appreciated. Reception reports for daily programmes on 5980, monthly shows on 6045 and relays via WRN will also be confirmed. (Voelkner)

6085, Classic Broadcast test transmission, 0959-1021, Su Nov 21, German, pop music and IDs "Sie hoeren eine technische Versuchssendung ueber den Kurzwellensender HE3 auf 6085 kHz von Classic Broadcast in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Funkhaus Euskirchen, Strahlungsleistung 1kW", 35433. (Robic)
(DX Window 416 via Anker Petersen)

Scandinavian Weekend Radio set for Dec 3-4 broadcast

After the December 3-4, 2010 weekend broadcast, Scandinavian Weekend Radio plans to take a winter broadcast break.
Plans are to give their staff a bit of a break and refresh their equipment maintenance. SWR's first broadcast in 2011, will be the weekend broadcast on May 6-7, 2011. Plans are to also conduct a Midsummer Day broadcast later in 2011. The SWR staff says their goal is for their listeners to tell the difference in their sound after the maintenance.
(Alpo Heinonen/SWR)

To learn more about Scandinavian Weekend Radio, their schedule, products for sale and QSLing please refer to www.swradio.net/index2.htm

Radio Netherlands Program Preview Dec 4-10

Welcome to our weekly guide to Radio Netherlands Worldwide's English Service - a list of the new programmes coming up on Radio Netherlands Worldwide this coming week, beginning on Saturday.

*** The State We're In ***

"Spilling Secrets"

The lone survivor: On December 9, 1947, Dutch soldiers on Java, Indonesia walked into villages and massacred the men. Siah Bin Sakam was supposed to be one of the executed, but the bullet hit his hand. He kept still under a corpse for half an hour. Now, over 60 years later, he's seeking compensation from the Dutch government. And he wants them to determine the worth of the lives they took.

Holland's black page: Former Dutch soldiers who served in Indonesia back in the late 1940s reflect on what they saw and what they did and in some cases were forced to do.

What the night watchman saw: Christoph Meili was doing his rounds at a Swiss bank back in 1997 when he noticed something by the paper shredder. They were documents that implicated the bank in taking money from the accounts of Holocaust victims. So he did what he thought was the right thing: he blew the whistle. The result: the banks had to pay compensation to the descendants' families. And Christoph lost his job, his wife, and eventually returned to Switzerland where he faced public criticism. Yet he'd do it all again.

Erasing David: David Bond lives in the UK -- one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He put himself under surveillance and tried to make himself disappear. His chilling journey forced him to contemplate the meaning of privacy - and the loss of it.

*** Earth Beat ***
Marnie Chesterton and her team look at the footprint we're leaving on our planet

"Not In My Backyard"

From cocaine labs in the wilderness of Colombia to what living next to a windfarm is really like, we take a look at what happens when someone decides to build something in your backyard.

*** Africa in Progress ***

Disability, once a curse from the gods

In the past, disabled or deformed children were often believed to be a curse from the gods. Nowadays, disabilities are explained by genetics, biological flaws, and side effects of certain medicines. In this programme, we look at how an Orthopaedic Training Centre in Ghana treats children with birth defects, diabetes patients who need amputations, and victims of road accidents from the entire region.

Guests: Staff and patients at Orthopaedic Training Centre in Nsawam, Ghana

*** Network Europe Week ***

A collaboration by Europe's leading broadcasters

A pan-European team links up across the continent every day to provide a fresh perspective on events and life in Europe.

On the next Network Europe Week:
* Close, but no cigar: The EU's Irish bailout fails to calm investors' nerves;
* Wiki-mess: who benefits from the release of secret information?
* Licence to kill Israelis... could Turkey's James Bond harm international relations?
* And all that art - Picasso's retired electrician could find himself in for a shock...

*** Network Europe Extra ***

Arts and Culture brought to you each Sunday from Europe's widest partnership of international broadcasters.

On the next Network Europe Extra:
* What a mess: No, not your closet. The name of Warsaw's newest club. Literally.
* Have camera, will travel: we meet photographer-explorer Leïla Ghandi
* And Palace Politics: Slovenia's castles up for sale

Broadcast times on SW (UTC):
1530 South Asia 11835, 15745

***European Jazz Stage/World Music***

A performance by the Zimbabwean singer Chiwoniso and her band Culture Vibe. Chiwoniso accompanies her songs with the thumb piano. Her music is a mixture of traditional and modern influences, a wonderful combination of rhythms and melodies from the Zimbabwean Shona culture with soul, reggae and blues elements.

Singer Atongo Zimba from Ghana accompanies himself on the molo, a two-stinged calebash banjo. His voice is raw and bluesy and the music is a swinging fusion of traditional Ghanaian music with Afrobeat, jazz and funk.

Hosted by Dheera Sujan.

*** Live! at the Concertgebouw ***

Monday:
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Hans Vonk. This week's soloist is Michael Pletnev on piano. The music includes works by Escher, Grieg and Holst.
The programme is hosted by Hans Haffmans.

Tuesday:
Twentieth-century music figures largely in this concert by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Marcus Stenz. The music is by Serly, Bartók, Ketting and Kodály.
Your host is Hans Haffmans.

*** Bridges with Africa***

Lively discussion and thought-provoking reports about and from the African continent

In Bridges with Africa this week, it's sex, the city, and high level meetings. Fresh out of the Euro African summit, what does the new Dutch foreign aid minister have to say about Africa? We talk sex on World AIDS Day. And we take you on a whirlwind tour of African cities.

*** Commonwealth Story ***

Dinner for Three, by Shola Olowu-Asante from Nigeria.
A desperate quest. Read by Nadine Marshall.
(Radio netherlands via Ashleigh Elson)

Radio Netherlands - B10 English schedule

Effective: 31 October 2010 - 27 March 2011
broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated
target areas: af (Africa) am (Americas) as (Asia) ca (Central America) eu (Europe) na (North America)pa (Pacific)
sa (South America) va (various areas)

All times UTC

English
1000-1057 9720as 12065as
1400-1500 12080as 15595va
1500-1557 15595as
1800-1857 6020af 11655af
1900-1957 7425af 9895af 11615af 11655af
2000-2057 5935af 7425af 11655af
(R Netherlands/Leo van der Wounde)

Shortwave Blog Bytes

All times UTC *sign-on / sign-off*

All India Radio shortwave schedules
The updated B-2010 schedules of All India Radio is now available as follows:

SW Frequency http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm

External Service (by-time) http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

External Service (by-language) http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm
Jose Jacob, VU2JOS
National Institute of Amateur Radio
Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India
(Alokesh Gupta, India)

Audio clip: Cross la Garde
http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/9577541.html
(Francesco, Italy/playdx2003)

Bible Voice via Alma Ata
6225, *1405-14230.* Broadcast in Cantonese with opening announcements. BVB identification into religious format. Sign-off with ID and website information. Promotion for the Final Chapter bible series. next also in English 1410-1435 sign-off. Male pastor includes website at the close of programming and sign-off melody. (Ed Kusalik, Canada)

Brazil's Radio Rio Mar heard again
After a few month's absence, Radio Rio Mar is being heard again on 9695 kHz, 1000-1010 UTC. Their schedule is 1000-2300 UTC. Website with streaming audio at: http://www.riomaronline.com/

Brazil's Difusora Roraima back on 4878.1
4878.1v, Radio Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, RR, 0027-0358*, Nov 16 and 17, musical, Portuguese ID, 0030 programme “A Vóz da Libertação da IPDA.” Station ID and closedown announcement, choral national anthem. The carrier was terminated during the anthem, back on the air, way off from nominal 4875, SINPO 24432 ( audio poor). (Barbour in Dxplorer, D’Angelo and Cássio/DX Window 416 )

KBS World French update
Via France and South Korea: KBS World in French, NEW from Nov.29 via TDF:
2100-2158 5920 ISS 250 kW 185 deg NoWeAF,very good reception in BUL
2100-2158 6165 ISS 250 kW 191 deg NoWeAF,co-ch R.N'Djamena & HRT-1.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 1/DX Mix News 653)

Pakistan reactivates frequency
4790.02, Radio Pakistan, Rawalpindi, *0226-0325 fade out, Nov 27 and 28. Reactivated after 21 months absence! Pop music, 0230 opening announcement in Urdu, Pakistani folk music, 0300-0310 English news, songs and talk in Urdu, SINPO 35232. (Petersen)(DX Window 416)

Radio Belarus' Guestbook
Radio Station Belarus would appreciate your comments in the Guestbook. We are looking forward to hearing your opinion, on how to make our programs more interesting and useful for you. All our friends are welcome to take part in the discussion!
Comments may be left at: http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/guestbook.asp
(Yimber Gaviria)

Radio Farda changes frequency
Via Germany, frequency changes of Radio Farda in Farsi:
0830-1130 new freq 11975 BIB 100 kW 105 deg to WeAs, ex9520.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 1/DX Mix News 653)

Radio Gloria weekend logs
Germany: 6140, Radio Gloria International, *100-1015, 28-11, Signing on at 1000male: "this is Radio Gloria International waiting for you." "listen to us in the forty-nine meter band 6140 kilohertz every fourth Sunday of the month." Pop music. SINPO 44444. (Manuel Méndez/HCDX)

6085, Radio Gloria, via Kall-Krekel, 0835-0901, Su Nov 28. Religious sermon in German. IDs in German and English. Report about Israel in French and Christmas songs. Reception reports requested to qsl@radiogloria.eu or by snail mail to P.O.Box 540, 6280 Hochdorf, Switzerland. SINPO 34333. (Robic/DX Window 416)

Radio Taiwan update via TDP
Via France and Taiwan: Winter B-10 of Radio Taiwan International via TDF:
1400-1458 15225 ISS 500 kW 060 deg to RUSS in Russian
1600-1658 12055 ISS 500 kW 085 deg to SoEaAS in English
1700-1758 6120 ISS 500 kW 055 deg to RUSS in Russian till Feb. 26
1700-1758 9840 ISS 500 kW 055 deg to RUSS in Russian from Feb. 27
1700-1758 11850 ISS 500 kW 160 deg to SoAF in English till Feb. 26
1700-1758 15690 ISS 500 kW 160 deg to SoAF in English from Feb. 27
1800-1858 3965 ISS 250 kW 345 deg to U.K. in English
1900-1958 9365 ISS 500 kW 190 deg to NoAF in French till Feb. 26
1900-1958 11875 ISS 500 kW 190 deg to NoAF in French from Feb. 27
2000-2058 3965 ISS 250 kW 215 deg to SoEu in Spanish
2100-2158 3965 ISS 250 kW 050 deg to WeEu in German
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 1/DX Mix News 653)

Clandestine radio activity

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on / sign-off*

3480, AINDF, Wonsan, North Korea, 1055-1104, Nov 16. Korean strident talk, ballad at 1057 into orchestral music and ann 1100, music bit at 1102. Alternating talk by man and woman, fair // 4450-poor. (Barbour in Dxplorer)

3930.69/3931.07, Radio Voice of Kurdistan, Sulaimaniya, Northern Iraq, *0141-0320, Nov 21, 22, 24 and 28, sign on with non-stop Kurdish pop songs, no jamming, Singla S 9+10 dB, at exactly 0200 cut off in a song. Station ID by man in Kurdish: "Era Radyo Dengi Kurdistana", martial song about Kurdistan, 0203 ID by man again, female ID and proclamation about Democracy in Kurdistan, ID again mentioning just one frequency, 0205 orchestra music with big choir, 55444, but then Iranian jamming started, Kurdish talk and some amateur radio operator splatter, 52442(D’Angelo/FCDX and Petersen)

4870.03, Radio Voice of Kashmir, Kingsway, India, *0230-0240, Nov 21, Kashmiri announcement, songs, strong CODAR interference. SINPO 21221. Also heard much better at 1445-1510*, Nov 19, Kashmiri talk, mentioning Copenhagen, Pashto, Sindhi, Pakistan. Indian song, 1507 ID: "Radio Sedayee Kashmir", abrupt sign off, 45434. (Petersen)

4870.78, Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, Salah Al-Din, Northern Iraq, 0245-0335, Nov 17, Kurdish martial songs, 0254 ID by woman: "...... Kurdistan Irana" followed by a martial song, interference from CODAR and a strong tone which at 0259 became the Iranian jammer, 32432. Heard much better on // 3970. At 0330 the clandestine jumped to 4885followed by the jammer also disturbing R Clube do Pará. (Petersen)

4880, SW Radio Africa, via Meyerton, 1640-1644, Nov 14, English talks, SINPO 34343. (Mille)

7505, Free Radio North Korea, via Dhabbaya (p), 1202-1217, Nov 23. News in Korean, weak but clear. (D’Angelo/FCDX)

7530, Suaab Xaa Moo Zoo, via Taipei (100 kW 250 degrees). Daily 2230-2300 in Hmong to South East Asia. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22). Heard at *2230-2238, Nov 22. Chinese style song. Signal strength increasing to SINPO 15232. (Liangas)

7540, Denge Mezopotamya, via Simferopol, Ukraine (129 degrees), daily 1500-1900 (500 kW) and 1900-2100 (300 kW) in Kurdish to West Asia. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)

7590, Radio Free Sarawak, via Yangiyul, Tajikistan, *2230-2330*, Nov 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27. Sign on with man speaking in Bahasa Malaysia, but lots of English words were used, mostly talks with numerous mentions of “Malaysia”, vocal selection. Several nice IDs, closing announcement at 2328 with "Radio Free Sarawak" and ann: “Bye-Bye”, tone. SINPO 34333. (D’Angelo/FCDX, Van Arnhem, Bueschel, Cássio, Herkimer, Ivanov, Kuhl in Dxplorer, Liangas, Petersen, Robic, Sellers, Wilkins in Dxplorer). This new clandestine was introduced in DX-Window No. 415. (Ed)

9345, Radio Bilal, via Samara, Russia (250 kW 188 degrees). Daily 1800-1830 in Amharic to East Africa, ex 1800-1900 B09. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)

9605, Voice of Asena, via Samara, Russia (250 kW 188 degrees), Mo/Fr 1730-1800 in Tigrinya to East Africa, ex Mo/We/Fr B09. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)

9605, Voice of Meselna Delina, via Samara, Russia (250 kW 188 degrees) Tu/Th/Sa 1730-1800 in Tigrinya to East Africa. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)

9960, Radio Bar-Kulan, via Meyerton (500 kW), *1556-1700*, Nov 26. Orchestra music, 1600 Horn of Africa song, ID in Somali, mentioned cities where Somali expatriates live, e.g. Stockholm, frequency ann,1601 time signal. Station ID, announcement, Call to Prayer, talk, report from a place with shouting people. Station ID, Horn of Africa music, SINPO 55444. Schedule thanks to Ritola who also told about the other broadcast to Somalia at 0500-0600 on 15750 via Dhabbaya, UAE (500 kW). (Petersen)

11530, Denge Mezopotamya, via Simferopol, Ukraine (300 kW 129 degrees) Daily 0500-1500 in Kurdish to West Asia. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)

11955, BVBN Radio Sadaye Zindagi, via Wertachtal, Germany (250 kW 090 degrees), 1600-1630, since Nov 12 in Dari to Western Asia, new frequency ex 11895. (Ivanov via BC-DX Nov 19). Heard at 1621-1629*, Nov 28, talk in Dari and music, poor to fair. (D’Angelo)

12130, Voice of Wilderness, *1300-1310, Nov 19, Korean program, moderate-good signal. (Van Arnhem).

13755, Voice of Tibet, via Dhabbaya, UAE (250 kW 070 degrees), 1330-1400 in Tibetan, ex 15430, via BABCOCK. (Ivanov via BC-DX, Nov 22)
(excerpts from DX Window 416)

Clandestine reactivates on 3970 kHz

Voice of Iranian Kurdistan - Clandestine

*sign-on // parallel frequency

3970.04 kHz. Via Salah Al-Din, Northern Iraq, *0226-0335 UTC, Nov 17, 19, 21, 27 and 28. Trumpet interval signla to Kurdish ID as: " Era dengi Kurdistani Irana." Announcement, political talks about Iran and songs. Very clear as long as the Iranian jammer stayed on 3975 or 3980, SINPO 45333. Heard // 4870 or 4890, but 3970 was 12 seconds delayed! At at 0330 the jammer arrived to 3970 resulting in SINPO 43332. My logging on Nov 11 in DX-Window No. 415 with the clear ID (recorded): "Era dengi Kurdistani Iraq" seems to be a mis-announcement by the speaker in the early morning! (Petersen). At 1300 on Nov 19 I could hear it a short time without jammer, because they were late returning from 3980. The signal was very weak, but I think there was first a frequency announcement giving at least three frequencies and then lady IDs: "In Sedaye Kurdistani Iran" in Farsi. I could not confirm, if this was // with 4880, but probably not. They also signed off much earlier than 4880, on Nov 19, maybe 1330. (Ritola)
(DX Window # 416 via Anker Petersen)

RT Algeria B10 Arabic schedule

Via France and Algeria

RT Algeria

Effective to: 27 March 2011
All times UTC


Holy Qura'n in Arabic via TDF:
0400-0458 5865 ISS 500 kW 162 deg to CeEaAF
0500-0558 5865 ISS 500 kW 194 deg to NoWeAF
0500-0558 7295 ISS 500 kW 162 deg to CeEaAF
0600-0658 5865 ISS 500 kW 194 deg to NoWeAF till Feb. 26
0600-0658 7295 ISS 500 kW 194 deg to NoWeAF from Feb. 27
1800-1958 9390 ISS 500 kW 162 deg to CeEaAF
1900-2058 7455 ISS 500 kW 194 deg to NoWeAF
2000-2158 7455 ISS 500 kW 162 deg to CeEaAF till Feb. 26
2000-2158 9390 ISS 500 kW 162 deg to CeEaAF from Feb. 27
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 1)
(DX Mix News 653 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Alokesh Gupta, India, Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Blog Logs

special thanks to Ron Howard and Cumbre DX, for sharing the following loggings.

All times UTC *sign-on / sign-off*

Argentina
15344.88v, Radio Nacional, 2259-0047, Nov 28-29. Fútbol coverage in Spanish, after 0030 noted IDs for the regional station “Radio Nacional Santa Fe,” 0032 reading out numbers (sounded maybe like a lotto?). Signal mostly fair.

Equatorial Guinea
15190, Radio Africa, 2244-2257*, Nov 28. Tony Alamo program, assume interference from Brazil, but too weak to make out after sign off.

Guam
5765 USB, Armed Forces Network. Continues to be very erratic, 1322, Nov 29, off the air.

1447, Nov 30. Finally back to the normal AFN shortwave format. Dr. Joy Browne call-in show, parallel on AFN Diego Garcia (4319 USB), which had about a one second delay.1310 + 1416, Dec 1, off the air again.

India
4990, AIR Itanagar, 1352, Dec 1. Indigenous chanting/singing, 1415 news in Hindi followed by local ID and news in English (World AIDS Day observed, etc.). Weather forecast, program in English started with “broadcasting from All India Radio Itanagar” on MW “675 kHz and shortwave on “4,990 kHz,” along with “corresponding” frequencies in meters. Talk given about “self confidence.” Signal almost fair, certainly one of their better receptions. No sign of PBS Hunan.

Kashmir
4950, Radio Kashmir, 0119, Nov 29. Probably missed their sign on by a few seconds. AIR interval signal - Vande Mataram song. Subcontinent music to bottom-of-the-hour time pips. Sounded like the news in vernacular. Signal almost fair, best in USB to get away from Angola carrier.

Papua New Guinea
3905, Radio New Ireland, 1333-1347, Dec 1. Special coverage of a speech given in English for the observance of World AIDS Day; “N-B-C New Ireland” station ID.

5960, Radio Fly (presumed), 1630-1650, Nov 29. Pop songs (Beatles, Love Me Do, etc.). A few announcements in English but could not make them out. Signal poor, but during earlier checks starting about 1315 was unable to hear them at all.

Sikkim
4835.0, AIR Gangtok. Ex: 4837.19. Are they really back on frequency to stay this time? Noted Nov 29, 30 and Dec 1, exactly on frequency from around 1315 to 1430.

Zambia
6065, Radio Christian Voice/CVC, 1605, Nov 29. After CNR2 signs off (1605*) they are in the clear. Carried DW news in English, 1611 IDs for “Radio Christian Voice.” DJ with pop songs and an interview. Signal almost fair, via long path.
(Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA/Etón E1)

World Radio TV Handbook 2011

Published 3 December 2010 - Order your copy today!

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 2011 edition of WRTH. Visit our website at http://www.wrth.com/ to find out more and to order a copy.
I hope you enjoy using this new edition.

Nicholas Hardyman
Publisher

I will be reviewing the World Radio TV Handbook 2011 edition, in an upcoming 2011 edition of Monitoring Times.
Gayle Van Horn
Frequency Manager

Iran updates winter B10 schedule

Effective to 27 March 2011

Iran

Updated winter B-10 for VOIROI / IRIB Tehran:

All times UTC

Albanian
0630-0727 13810 15235
1830-1927 6100 7285
2030-2127 6100 9740

Arabic
0230-0527 6065 7350 9895
0330-0427 5915 7295 "Voice of Palestine"
0530-0827 13790 13800 15550
0830-1027 9885 13800 15550 [13790 is cancelled]
1030-1427 13790 13800 15550
1430-1627 9830 15550
1630-1727 6065 9830
1730-0227 6065

Armenian
0300-0327 5915 7295
0930-0957 9690 15220
1630-1727 6185 7230

Azeri
0330-0527 6200
1430-1657 6200

Bengali
0030-0127 5915 6100
0830-0927 13680
1430-1527 7380 11600

Bosnian
0530-0627 13760 15235
1730-1827 7200 7295
2130-2227 5950 9710

Chinese
1200-1257 9900 11670 13650 15150
2330-0027 5945 7325 9710

Dari
0300-0627 9885 11935
0830-1157 11670 13725
1200-1427 9940 13725
1430-1457 9940

English
0130-0227 6120 7250 "Voice of Justice"
1030-1127 15460 17630
1530-1627 9915 11655
1930-2027 6010 #6115 7320 11695 11860

German
0730-0827 15085 17690
1730-1827 #3955 6205 7380

French
0630-0727 13600 15560
1830-1927 #6115 5980 7380 11775

Hausa
0600-0657 17810
1830-1927 9715 11965

Hebrew
0430-0457 9820 11925
1200-1227 13740 15390

Hindi
0230-0257 7340 9510
1430-1527 7370 9585

Indonesian
1230-1327 15515 17690
2230-2327 7315 9675

Italian
0630-0727 #9770 13620 15085
1930-1957 5890 7380

Japanese
1330-1427 9585 9905
2100-2157 5995 6145

Kazakh
0130-0227 7205 7265
1530-1627 9540 9850

Kurdish
0430-0527 6170 9610 Sorani dialect
1330-1627 5920 Kirmanji dialect

Pashto
0230-0327 6095 6155
0730-0827 11990 15440
1230-1327 7225 9520
1430-1527 5890
1630-1727 6015 7345

Russian
0300-0327 7370 9510
0500-0527 12025 13680 17680 17780
1430-1527 7345 #7420 9610 9685
1700-1757 3965 6090
1800-1857 6035 7305
1930-2027 3985 7205

Spanish
0030-0227 6010 7240
0230-0327 6010
0530-0627 13710 15400
2030-2127 5950 #6055 7200

Swahili
0400-0457 13680 15260
0830-0927 17660 21640
1730-1827 9830 11715

Tajik
0100-0227 5955 7355
1600-1727 5955 7200

Turkish
0430-0557 9865 11640
1600-1727 6175 7315

Urdu
0130-0227 3965 6030 6185
1300-1427 5940 9790 11685
1530-1727 5890

Uzbek
0230-0257 6175 7360
1500-1557 6070 7215
# Sitkunai, Lithuania
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 1)
(DX Mix News # 653 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Radio Slovakia confirms shortwave closure

Radio Slovakia International has confirmed that it will stop broadcasting on shortwave on 31 December 2010, due to budget cuts. Explaining that broadcasting on shortwave uses a whopping 60 percent of its budget, the English presenter on Sunday’s listener contact programme said that the station had the choice of closing down completely or continuing on satellite and Internet. She asked disgruntled shortwave listeners to stop sending angry emails to the broadcasting team, who are not responsible for the decision. (R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

original Shortwave Central post: November 30, 2010 - Slovakia to close all shortwave Dec. 31, 2010

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2010 Nov 30 2250 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html



Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
22 - 28 November 2010

Solar activity was at very low levels during the entire period. Region 1127 (N25, L=056, class/area Hsx/80 on 22 November) was the dominant region, producing the occasional B-class event. Region 1130 (N13, L=330, class/area Csi/60 on 28 November) emerged quickly on
the disk and was numbered late in the summary period.

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 12-27 November and was at low levels on 28 November.

The geomagnetic field was mostly quiet with isolated active periods (at high latitudes) during 22-23 November. Generally quiet levels prevailed from 24-27 November. Late on 27 November, from 1800-2400 UTC, activity increased to mostly unsettled to active levels with an isolated storm period. This increase in activity was due to the combined effects of a coronal hole high-speed stream (CHHSS) and a slow moving CME observed on 24 November. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed throughout the remainder of the period.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
01 - 27 December 2010

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels. There is a chance for an increase in C-class flare activity for 04-16 December with the return of longitudes associated with old Regions 1123 (S22, L=190) and 1124 (N14, L=171). Activity is expected to return to predominantly very low levels from 17-27 December.

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels for 01-10 December. An increase to high levels is possible for 10-17 December due to a recurrent CHHSS. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the forecast period.

Geomagnetic field is expected to be predominantly quiet for 01-02 December. A small increase to quiet to unsettled levels is possible n 03-04 December due to a CME associated with a DSF. A return to quiet levels is expected from 06-10 December. Quiet to unsettled levels are possible for 11-15 December due to a recurrent CHHSS. Mostly quiet levels are expected for the remainder of the forecast period.

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2010 Nov 30 2333 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact: www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html
# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table


# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2010 Dec 01 83 7 3
2010 Dec 02 83 5 2
2010 Dec 03 85 7 3
2010 Dec 04 85 7 3
2010 Dec 05 85 5 2
2010 Dec 06 85 5 2
2010 Dec 07 85 5 2
2010 Dec 08 85 5 2
2010 Dec 09 85 5 2
2010 Dec 10 85 5 2
2010 Dec 11 85 7 3
2010 Dec 12 88 7 3
2010 Dec 13 88 7 3
2010 Dec 14 88 7 3
2010 Dec 15 85 7 3
2010 Dec 16 85 5 2
2010 Dec 17 80 5 2
2010 Dec 18 80 5 2
2010 Dec 19 80 5 2
2010 Dec 20 80 5 2
2010 Dec 21 80 5 2
2010 Dec 22 80 5 2
2010 Dec 23 80 5 2
2010 Dec 24 80 7 3
2010 Dec 25 80 7 3
2010 Dec 26 83 5 2
2010 Dec 27 83 5 2
(NOAA)