HLR and MVBR weekend schedule

March 1
Saturday is HLR:

06 - 09 UTC on 7265 KHz
09 - 12 UTC on 6190 KHz
12 - 16 UTC on 7265 KHz

March 2

Sunday is MVBR and HLR:
08 - 09 UTC, MVBR on 7265 KHz
09 - 10 UTC, MVBR on 9485 KHz
11 - 13 UTC, HLR    on 9485 KHz


Please all reception reports for MVBR to QSL@mvbalticradio.de

Good Listening

73s

Tom

VOA Radiogram weekend schedule

Hello friends,

This weekend on VOA Radiogram, in addition to our usual MFSK32, we will conduct experiments with Olivia at different speeds.

In general, the Olivia modes are too slow for broadcasting. However, we should keep in mind that text via shortwave can be received unattended, for later retrieval, making speed less of an issue. Furthermore, the Olivia modes might be more capable of overcoming co-channel interference than our usual MFSK modes.

The speed of the Olivia modes increases as 1) bandwidth increases and 2) the number of tones decreases. However, as the number of tones decreases, the robustness of the mode, i.e. the ability to decode in difficult reception conditions, decreases.

On our shortwave broadcast channel, we will use the maximum 2000 Hz bandwidth. We will transmit about three minutes of content in each of Olivia 64-2000 (29 wpm), 32-2000 (48 wpm), 16-2000 (76 wpm), and 8-2000 (104 wpm). As the number of tones decreases, and the Olivia modes become faster, how much does performance deteriorate?  

There are RSIDs for each of these Olivia modes. If you change modes manually, you will have to use the Custom menu for the 32-, 16-, and 8-tone versions. Even if the signal is so bad that you can barely hear it, change the modes manually at the appointed time, and you might see the text. Because of latency in the Olivia modes, text will not begin to display until a few seconds after the tones begin.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 48, 1-2 March 2014:

1:34  MFSK32: Program preview (now)

2:48  MFSK32: Introduction to Olivia experiment

4:35  Olivia 64-2000: Excerpt of VOA News story

8:29  Olivia 32-2000: Excerpt from same VOA News story

12:02  Olivia 16-2000: Excerpt from same VOA News story

15:17  Olivia 8-2000: Excerpt from same VOA News story

18:23  MFSK32: Hospital machinist, with image

26:07  MFSK32: Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule

(all days and times UTC):

Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz

Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz

Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz

Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz

All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

MFSK image preambles

Last weekend's VOA Radiogram, program 47, brought good decoding results in many parts of the world. One problem noticed by some listeners is that if the preamble to an MFSK image is not received correctly, none of the picture is visible. At voaradiogram.net, I will post mp3 audio of both of this weekend's images. You can "borrow" the preamble from the mp3 recording and "graft" it into a recording of your reception of VOA Radiogram 48.

The 0930 UTC broadcast

The new broadcast Saturday at 0930-1000 on 5745 kHz is becoming very difficult to hear in Europe as we approach spring (although it doesn't feel like spring here in the USA). I was hoping for reports of this broadcast from the Asia-Pacific region, but so far have received none. This past weekend, I did receive my first report from New Zealand, but it was for the transmission Sunday at 1930-2000 UTC on 15670 kHz -- apparently via a very long path from North Carolina.  

The 0930 UTC broadcast does provide very good reception to the North American west coast, so if you live in western North America, try unattended reception while you sleep. 

In the next few weeks, we will probably change this broadcast to another time and frequency. This might be Sunday at 1400 UTC on a higher frequency receivable in Europe and perhaps farther east.

MFSK64 on The Mighty KBC

The Mighty KBC will transmit another minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1230 UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday evening 8:30 pm EST) on 7375 kHz. Reports to Eric at themightykbc@gmail.com . The Mighty KBC schedule and other information are at kbcradio.eu.

I'll now begin answering your reports from last weekend. I hope to hear from you this weekend.

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott

Producer and Presenter

VOA Radiogram

radiogram@voanews.com

http://voaradiogram.net

Twitter: @VOARadiogram

Tribute to Family Radio Shortwave: The Final Years with Walter Lemmon

In the continuing saga about the long and illustrious history of the shortwave station that finally  became WYFR and then WRMI, we pick up the chain of events in the middle of the year 1953.  At this stage, station WRUL, as it was at the time, was on the air at Hatherly Beach with five transmitters:-

                        3 @ 50 kW, 1 @ 20 kW and 1 @ 7 or 80 kW (with or without a huge power amplifier).

            On June 30, 1953, the 5 WRUL transmitters were officially released from service with the Voice of America and the station was reverted back to regular programming under its ownership with Walter Lemmon.  The usage of the Boston studios had ended two years earlier and WRUL had established a New York office at 1 East 57^th Street, which according to the city address list, is the location for the voluminous fashion icon Louis Vuitton store.  A few blocks away was the location for the original production and on-air studios of the Voice of America.                    

            At the same time as WRUL was released from VOA service in mid 1953, so also was the Westinghouse shortwave station WBOS at Hull, located at the end of the Nantasket Peninsula out from Boston.  Westinghouse then closed this station and sold the equipment to WRUL at Hatherly Beach.          The leftover equipment from the two transmitters WBOS & WPIT at Hull was incorporated into the WRUL facility, though never as a separate transmitter unit.  At this stage, WRUL was no longer an official relay station for the Voice of America with programming from VOA and the Armed Forces Radio Service.

            Then, in 1960, the 65 year old Walter Lemmon relinquished control of the station, selling it off to Metro Media in New York.  At this stage, the same five transmitters were still in use:-

                        3 @ 50 kW, 1 @ 20 kW and 1 @ 80 kW.

            MetroMedia, that is the Metropolitan Broadcasters of New York, also owned mediumwave WNEW, as well as a small network of radio and television stations across the country.  They transferred the studios for their new shortwave acquisition into 4 West 58^th Street, the location of the famed Paris Theatre, quite near to Central Park.  This new suite of radio studios was titled the Worldwide Communication Center.

            However, MetroMedia retained the usage of the Hatherly Beach shortwave station for just three years only after which they sold it off to the International Educational Broadcasting Corporation IEBC in Salt Lake City Utah for $1¾ million.  This change of ownership was effective on October 10, 1962, and a new on air slogan was introduced, Radio New York World Wide, though the old and familiar callsign WRUL was still retained.  At this stage, the same five transmitters were on the air, though they were now listed as 4 @ 50 kW and 1 @ 80 kW.  A total of eleven antenna systems were in use.

            Soon after IEBC obtained WRUL at Hatherly Beach, this organization morphed into Bonneville International both of which had close ties with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, the Mormons. 

            Interestingly, there was a previous attempt on the part of the Mormon Church to go shortwave and this was back in the year 1939.  At that time, the experimental shortwave broadcasting station W9XAA was on the air in Chicago with a 500 watt transmitter located at suburban Downer’s Grove.              This shortwave station was owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor, who also operated the well known mediumwave station WCFL.  The Chicago Federation of Labor in Chicago wanted to sell its co-owned shortwave station W9XAA to mediumwave KSL in Salt Lake City Utah. 

            They lodged a request with the FCC to sell the station, increase its power, and move it to Saltair, near Salt Lake City.  However, in September 1939, the FCC denied this request; and so this first attempt on the part of the Mormon Church to establish a shortwave station came to nothing.

            Returning to the story of the Boston shortwave station, we might add, that in the year 1964, the long standing Adventist radio program, Voice of Prophecy with the illustrious Dr. H. M. S. Richards was on the air from the shortwave station WRUL twice each Sunday.  At both 1200 & 1900 GMT, as it was in those days or UTC as it is today, this half hour program was noted on all four active transmitters in parallel, on 11950 15385 15440 & 17760 kHz.

     

            The vigorous radio entrepreneur Walter Lemmon was born in New York City on February 3, 1896, and on March 1, 1967, he passed to his rest at Old Greenwich Connecticut, age 71. 

            He gained a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering at Columbia University in New York City.  As 

Lieutenant Walter Lemmon with the Coast Guard he was appointed as a wireless operator onboard the navy vessel USS “George Washington”, and he also served as Wireless Operator for President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace Conference in France in 1919.  While the ship was anchored in port at Brest Harbor in coastal France, he made a series of experimental radio broadcasts containing news about the Peace Conference. 

            On the return journey across the Atlantic, Walter Lemmon aboard the “George Washington” presented several broadcasts of recorded music for the benefit of nearby ships and for listeners along the eastern seaboard of the United States.  When the ship was still 300 miles from port, he persuaded President Wilson to make a special July 4 radio broadcast to the United States.

            Wilson did indeed make the brief speech in between music items during the Independence Day broadcast, though he stood so far away from the microphone that his words were not heard clearly in the broadcast.  A news reporter subsequently re-read the speech which this time was transmitted quite clearly.

            Ten years later, Walter Lemmon became the general manager for shortwave station W2XAL in Coytesville New Jersey, a station that he bought two years later and ultimately transferred to Boston in association with TV experimenter Hollis Baird.  Lemmon manager the Boston shortwave station WRUL for a period of nearly 30 years, running from 1931 right up to the year 1960, developing it into one of the world’s largest and most powerful shortwave stations in the middle of last century.

            Walter Lemmon invented the 3-gang tuning condenser which he sold to RCA for $1 million; and he also invented the radiotypewriter which enabled typed messages to be transmitted by radio and instantly received on a similar typewriter anywhere in the world.  He was also an executive with the IBM Corporation; and in addition to his management of shortwave WRUL, Lemmon was the manager for an early FM station, WGCH 95.9 MHz in Greenwich Connecticut.

            Walter Lemmon sold his shortwave station WRUL in 1960, he went into retirement at the age of  64, and died seven years later.  By this time, his shortwave station was now on the air under the new callsign WNYW.  

            But that’s a story for next time.

 (AWR Wavescan/NWS260)

Australian Radio History

A most remarkable compendium of radio history comes from Dr. Bruce Carty, under the title, Australian Radio History.  This lively and colorful presentation of more then 100 pages is amply illustrated with early radio memorabilia that vividly portrays the more than 100 years of collective wireless and radio history throughout the continent of Australia.

            An introductory timeline, stretching from the ancient 1906 right up to the modern 2009, gives a progressive view of wireless and radio events throughout the Commonwealth, beginning with Australia’s first official wireless communication (across Bass Strait to Tasmania) and ending with the introduction of digital TV in five state capital cities.  Also listed is a brief life sketch of many of the leading radio personnel in the early days of radio history in Australia, 

            Several feature articles tell the story of early significant events in full detail.  Among these interesting feature articles is one that lists and describes early radio receivers manufactured by the well known radio company in Australia AWA.  This listing in the year 1926 describes the crystal set receiver as well as the more recently developed superheterodyne receiver.

            Another feature article tells the story of a portable shortwave transmitter in use for remote broadcasts by mediumwave station 2UW in Sydney in 1932.  This transmitter with its associated equipment was carried by two men, and the occasion was the long list of celebrations for the official opening of one of Australia’s major tourist icons, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.   

            Another feature article tells the story of an important amateur radio broadcasting station in Brisbane back during the 1920s.  This station, 4CM, was owned and operated by Dr. Val McDowell with 20 watts on 800 m (375 kHz longwave) and it was heard throughout eastern Australia as well as in New Zealand, and also on Ocean Island out in the Pacific some 2,000 miles distant.

            Every mediumwave callsign ever in use in Australia, all 700 of them, is listed chronologically by state, with an outline history of each station; experimental, amateur broadcast and fully licensed radio broadcasting stations.  We take a look at some of the interesting facts that Dr. Bruce Carty has listed in his new book:-

              * Australia’s first licensed radio broadcasting station was not 2SB-2BL as often quoted but rather           station 2CM which was granted License No 1.  

              * All the fish in the aquarium at 2KA died during the first day of operation at their new studios in              Penrith, New South Wales.

              * Radio station 6WF in Perth opened with the use of a 10 kW transmitter obtained from Radio                Luxembourg in Europe.  The original 6WA transmitter also came from Radio                     Luxembourg.

              * Australian personnel have established radio broadcasting stations at 6 different locations in                  Antarctica.

              * Station 2UW in Sydney operated a relay station 2UX in Wagga Wagga with all programming                 on relay from 2UW via the well known shortwave station VK2ME.

            * Station 2BH in Broken Hill relayed some of the programming from 5AD in Adelaide which was             recorded and sent by train to Broken Hill.

            * In 1946, station 2XL in Cooma reported that a railway train was lost and they asked any                         listeners if they knew where the train was located to report the information to the radio                  station.

            * In 1933, 3KZ in Melbourne used all available hair dryers from one of their client advertisers in                order to keep their transmitter on the air during floods.

              * The announcer at 3AK in Melbourne lowered a rope from the open studio window to which the           morning newspaper was tied.  He retrieved the paper each morning and from its pages                read the bulletin of early morning news.

              * All local train services were suspended when the tower at 3WR Shepparton fell across the                   railway line in 1934.

              * The announcer at station 5CL in Adelaide held the microphone outside the studio window to                 broadcast the hourly chimes from the clock on the GPO building.

            Throughout the book, there are many illustrations, some in black & white and some in color.   On an introductory page, you will find the reproduction of  the front page of a brochure advertising Australia’s first serious attempt at radio broadcasting from a train; the Great White Train with station 2XT aboard.  There is a photo of the good ship “Kanimbla” with its 50 watt broadcasting station 9MI aboard. 

            You will also find a QSL card in color from Australia’s first radio broadcasting station station 2CM; a photo of 3YB aboard the motor vehicle and the railway train; a reproduction of the motor vehicle license plate showing 7HO on 864 kHz; and a photo of the mobile broadcasting station “in the islands”, 9AO.

            The author of “Australian Radio History”, Dr. Bruce Carty, has spent a lifetime in Australian radio in several different states and he writes from a rich knowledge and experience in the radio scene.  We are grateful also, Dr. Carty, for your acknowledgement of our DX host, Dr. Adrian Peterson, in your  informative pages.  Dr. Carty may be contacted at Bruce.Carty@bigpond.com.

(AWR Wavescan/NWS 260)

Focus on Asia Philippines: Naval Wireless Station at Cavite

The Cavite Peninsula on the edge of Manila Bay in the Philippines has played a pivotal role throughout the lengthy eras of Philippine history.  The Cavite Peninsula is located on the edge of modern Metro Manila and the name comes into the Spanish language from an ancient word in the Tagalog language, Kawit, meaning a hook, which is the geographic shape of the peninsula.
The earliest settlers on Cavite came from Borneo Sulu some time during the dim distant past; and because of its deep water anchorage, this location became a moorage for ocean going Chinese junks involved in international trade.  The Spanish began their rule of the Philippines at Cavite in 1571; and ¾ century later, the Dutch came and made their attack against the Philippines at this same location.  The British followed in 1672 with an attack on the Philippines at Cavite, though their rule lasted for only two years.
The American era began on May 1, 1898 with an attack against the Spanish at Cavite.  Nearly ½  a century later, the Japanese invaded the Philippines and their attack against Cavite itself began on December 10, 1941, just three days after Pearl Harbor.  A little less than three years later, the Americans returned to Cavite; and ultimately the area was officially handed over to the Philippine government on September 1, 1971.
It was back in the Spring of 1903 that the American navy procured 20 sets of Slaby-Arco wireless equipment from Germany, both transmitters and receivers.  One of these sets of wireless equipment was installed at the American navy base at Cavite, and  a year later the station was taken into regular service for Morse Code traffic, on September 5, 1904.
The original callsign back then was UT, though this was changed on October 1, 1908 to the more familiar internationally recognized callsign NPO.  Back then, the transmitter was described as a composite unit rated at 5 kW and radiating on 500 kHz.
During the year 1915, two tall towers were erected at the American navy base at Cavite and these were 141 feet and 134 feet tall.  The operating power was increased from 5 kW up to 25 kW and station NPO identified as Radio Sangley, honoring the name of the American Naval Station, Sangley Point.
In the early 1920s, three new self supporting radio towers were erected at Cavite, each at 600 feet tall.  When these came into use for supporting the antenna system at NPO, this naval radio station was sending out in Morse Code 2,000 words daily on longwave13900 metres (21.5 kHz) to the navy receiver station in San Francisco.  It is stated that these three tall towers were visible from Manila City, ten miles distant.
  The usage of shortwave for international radio communication was implemented at the Cavite radio station in the early 1920s.  For example, it is recorded in the year 1926 that station NPO was utilizing two shortwave channels 3548 and 4283 kHz.  Then, in 1929, an additional six shortwave transmitters were installed at NPO, each at 10 kW.
During the 1930s, the PanAm Seaplane Clippers, passenger and freight service, called at Cavite once each week in their flights between the United States and several Pacific locations.  A color postcard from this era shows the PanAm Clipper moored at Cavite, with the skyline in the distance.
On December 10, 1941, a Japanese air raid badly damaged the radio station at Cavite setting the radio station building on fire, and damaging one of the tall towers.
Beginning just five days later, on December 15, 1941, eight daily special programs were beamed to the Philippines on shortwave for rebroadcast via 12 mediumwave and shortwave stations in Manila.  Some of these relay programs were picked up at Cavite and rebroadcast on their transmitters also.  Then when the Japanese took over Manila, Cavite continued to re-broadcast the program  information from California for a few additional days, apparently from temporary facilities.
Soon afterwards, on January 2 of the next year, 1942, the order was given to evacuate Cavite.  When the Americans returned three years later, they found the three towers still standing.
The famous wireless station at Sangley Point, the American navy base at Cavite in the Philippines, is an example of  the widespread network of huge wireless stations established by America in strategic locations around our globe.  As the well known writer and editor stated in Popular Communications a few years ago, “The Cavite station was a most historic wireless facility, a well known landmark.”  That statement came from the pen (or maybe the typewriter) of the late Tom Kneitel, writing under the pseudonym Alice Brannigan.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS 260)

Czech Republic longwave to close by end of February

Czech Republic

270  Czech longwave Topolna

A reminder that there are just two weeks left for you to listen to the Czech Republic on longwave, as it is marked for closure at the end of February. The ending of transmissions on 270 will leave a completely empty
channel across Europe, presumably for the first time on either longwave or mediumwave since the early days of radio.

Recently, I've noticed that they cut the transmitter for its overnight break without ceremony either at exactly 2300 (sometimes on the very last pip) and sometimes in the middle of the 2300 news. I don't know which
sounds more unprofessional!

Running on reduced power, it is now "only" 650 kW rather than 1.5 MW. The directional pattern - WNW-ESE - puts the UK in the best part of the beam, so an easy listen here on a portable in these winter evenings.
(Chris Greenway-UK, BrDXC-UK ng Febr 14/WWDXC Top Nx 1151)

News on Radio Horizon

Canary Islands

5780 Horizon FM. Per the station, they have been on the air for about three weeks as an experiment and for a bit of fun.  The transmitter is local and they are running 75 watts into an inverted V.  The schedule is
approximately 1800 local on Fridays until 2000 on Sundays.

They will QSL reports sent to studio@horizon.fm
 (via Hans Johnson)

BBC World Service to reduce shortwave transmissions

The BBC World Service will further reduce its shortwave transmissions next year as part of a £15m savings drive which staff have been warned will be a "real stretch".

The money will be used to invest in new TV and digital services, part of a programme called Invest to Innovate.

An extra £6.5m is being pumped into the World Service's budget this year, alongside an extra £1.5m of savings, helping to create 130 jobs. New initiatives include a global version of Radio 1's Newsbeat.

But the BBC's director of global news, Peter Horrocks, said further savings would be required in the future.

Horrocks told staff on Tuesday: "There will be a respite on editorial job cuts, for a year, but we will need significant further editorial and organisational savings in subsequent years.

Additional story at: 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/19/bbc-world-service-reduce-shortwave-peter-horrocks

Bolivian band scan

Band scan La Paz/El Alto – late January 2014

Reception downtown La Paz, Bolivia. Daytime only; DX-stations not included. All stations ID’ed unless otherwise stated. Some stations with limited schedule (i.e. Sundays only, weekdays only etc.) – and many stations close down quite early evenings local time. A few stations with more or less distorted modulation.    RDS is generally not used on FM.

580 Radio Panamericana, La Paz
620 Radio San Gabriel, El Alto
650 Radiodiff. Integración, El Alto
680 Andina, La Paz
700 Radio Pacha Kamasa, El Alto
720 Radio La Cruz del Sur.   “Las buenas nuevas de salvación – somos
Radio La Cruz del Sur”    
739.85 NEW:  Radio Pueblo de Dios  
760 Radio Fides, La Paz
800 NEW: Radio Play, La Paz. “107.5 – Radio Play”
820 Radio Altiplano Advenir, La Paz. “Radio Altiplano Advenir 820 AM.
Sintonía de esperanza”
840 Radio Atipiri, El Alto. Quite rare – seldom heard.
880.1 NEW: Nueva Radio Jacha, La Paz. S/off noted at 0200 UTC.  
900 La Popular, La Paz. “La programación mas estelar del 2014 – la de La
Gente 88.9 y La Popular 900 de amplitud modulada”
920 Radio Bartolina Sisa, El Alto. Probably weekdays only.
940 Radio Metropolitana, La Paz
961.4 NEW: Unid.  Noted with s/on 0930 UTC. Mostly religious screaming.
Sometimes relay of Radio Taypi  (1000 kHz).
980 Radio Mar, La Paz. “Más música, más diverción, más notícias,
sintoniza Radio Mar - más radio”
1000 Radio Taypi, La Paz. “Radio Taypi – Radio Taypi – La Mil AM”
1020 Red Patria Nueva, La Paz.  (Please note correct name: RED Patria
Nueva – and not “Radio”)
1059.9 NEW:   Radio Presencia de Dios – Ministerio de Evangelismo.
1100 NEW: Universal Radio Continia.   “Transmite Universal Radio Continia
en 1100 amplitud modulada” (Not 100% sure of “Continia”)  
1120.05 Radio Celestial, El Alto
1160 Radio Continental, La Paz. Announces 2160 kHz (sic!): “Estan
escuchando Continental. La radio que nos informa, que nos alegra, y mobiliza
.. es tu radio syndical,  trabaja en onda media en 2160 kHz Radio
Continental. Tu companía permanente, transmite desde La Paz, Republica de
Bolivia, Corazon de Suramerica”
1180 NEW: Radio La Voz de Dios. Religious screaming and crying.  (ID’s
very rare)
1200 NEW: Radio Carlos Palenque, La Paz. “La voz de los sindos. La voz de
los que gallan por miedo.  Radio red – transmitiende 1200 de amplitud
modulada. Palenque de communicaciones. La radio que sintoniza el pensamiento
- la voz y sentimiento del pueblo”.
1220 NEW NAME: Radio Nueva Splendid, La Paz.  “Nueva Splendid – una
emisora informativa, cultural, educative y musical”
1260.1 NEW: Emisora Sonido do Carrodetupeca (rather uncertain about this
ID, but I don’t  think the ID was Radioemisoras Unidas))      
1300 Radio Sol – Poder de Dios, El Alto.    
1360 NEW: Radio Cordiale, La Paz. “Desde la capital revolucionaria del
mundo, cada syndical de communicaciones. La voz de trabajadores Radio
Cordiale 13-60 amplitud modulada”
1400 Radio Nacional de Bolivia. Probably weekdays only.
1420.3 NEW: Unidentified  religious. (Several recordings but no ID)
1440 Radio Batallón Colorados, La Paz. (ID’s are rare)
1480.05 Radio Amor de Diós, El Alto
1520.3 Radio La Luz del Tiempo, El Alto. (ID’s are rare)
1540.25 Radio Bendita Trinidad y Espirito Santo, El Alto    
1559.55 NEW. Radio Luz de Mundo. “..de la señala en camino de la salvación
1560 en amplitud modulada”. (Continuous preaching; ID’s are rare)
1580 Radio El Fuego del Espíritu Santo, El Alto
1600.1 La Voz del Espíritu Santo, El Alto
6025 Red Patria Nueva, El Alto
6105.4 Radio Panamericana, La Paz

87.5 Radio Fejuve, El Alto
87.7 Unid. music station with ad’s for ‘Moviemento Sociales’
87.9 Unid.
88.1 Comercio 88.1, El Alto    
88.5 Doble 8
88.9 Radio Gente
89.3 El Sonido de la Vida
89.5 Unid.
89.7 Salesiana
89.9 Consierto FM
90.1 Unid. religious station. Preaching
90.7 Panamerica Clásica 90.7 – no ID - classical music
91.0 Unid.
91.3 Radio Ciudad
91.6 Radio Impacto
91.9 Unid.
92.2 Unid.
92.5 Estelar
92.8  Angora
93.1 Éxito FM
93.7 Chacaltaya
94.0 ‘Sensacion – de buena sabor’ (not sure)
94.3 Red Patria Nueva
94.6 La Voz de la Esperanza
94.9 Unid.
95.2 Radio Cruz del Sur
95.5 Radio Fiesta, La Paz
96.1 Radio Panamericana
96.5 Estacion Sureño  (not sure of ID)
96.7 FM La Paz
97.3 Stereo 97
97.7 Radio Las Vegas    
97.9 Mundial – la radio total    
98.2 FM San Gabriel 98.2 – tu radio a todo colór
98.5 Radio Show, La Paz
98.8 Restauración FM
99.1 Melodía 99.1 – la major Radio Latina
99.4 Radio  Fericomiyen - tu radio minera  (not sure of ID)
99.7 Christo Viene
100.3 Radio Mar  
100.6 Constelación FM
100.9 Erbol - Radio San Miguel.  Announcing a major change is due
101.5 Radio Fides   (s/off noted at 0200 UTC)
101.8 Huayna Tambo.
102.1 BBN
102.4 CTNK 102.4 Red Zonica.
102.7 Radio Disney
103.0 Unid.
103.3 Deseo 103.3
103.6 Unid.
103.9 Unid.
104.2 Radio Éxitos
104.5 RQP
104.7 Unid.
104.8 Frequencia Militar Latina 104.8
105.1 Unid,
105.4 Rdaio Qhana – tent. – no ID heard
105.7 CVC La Voz
106.3 Radio Compañera
106.6 Radio Maria (RDS ID)
106.9 Radio France International (in French and Spanish)
107.2 Radio Pasion Boliviana. No ID heard.
107.5 Radio Play.   //800 kHz
107.8 Unid. religious
108.0 Radio Independencia

Best 73's
Stig Hartvig Nielsen,
La Paz - Bolivia
RX: Perseus SDR
AERIAL: Wellbrook loop and FM dipole
(HCDX)

Monitoring observations

The following two clandestine transmissions of NEXUS-IBA IRRS Shortwave via Radiocom noted with white noise like broadband DRM interference Radio Xoriyo 1500-1530 on 15515 TIG 150 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Somali Fri Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti 1500-1530 on 15515 TIG 150 kW / 165 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat Cuba Unscheduled frequency of Radio Habana Cuba on February 21: 0500-0600 on 6070 HAB 250 kW / 315 deg to NWAm Spanish, SINPO 35543 // frequency 5040 QVC 100 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish, SINPO 45544 No trace on other three frequencies in Spanish 9810, 11840 and 15230 Kuwait Observations of R.Kuwait on Feb.19-21 after several days of absence 0200-0900 on 5960 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic Gen.Sce, comfirmed 0500-0900 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic Gen.Sce, comfirmed 0800-1000 on 7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir to WeAs Persian, uncomfirmed 0930-1600 on 11630 KBD 500 kW / 230 deg to CeAf Arabic Holy Quran, comfirmed 1000-1200 on 21580 KBD 500 kW / 084 deg to EaAs Tagalog, back on air 1100-1600 on 9750 KBD 300 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic Gen.Sce, back on air 1200-1600 on 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic Gen.Sce, x 0940-1800 1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu, back on air 1600-2100 on 6050 KBD 300 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic Gen.Sce, back on air 1700-2000 on 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic Gen.Sce, comfirmed 1800-2100 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, back on air 2000-2400 on 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic Gen.Sce, no signal Probably 1x500 kW transmitter is damaged at present and programs are reduced. Start and end of each broadcasts vary 5-15 minutes. Spain Confusion with frequency of Radio Exterior de Espana on Feb.21: 1300-1600 NF 21630*NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon-Fri, ex 21640 * co-ch BBC in Hausa 1400-1430Radio Exterior de Espana on 21630 / 21640 till mid of February: 1300-1600 on 21630 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon-Fri 1300-1700 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Sat/Sun Radio Exterior de Espana on 21640 from mid of February, including on Feb.20 1300-1600 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Daily 1600-1700 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Sat/Sun USA   Unscheduled broadcasts of WTWW-3 were observed on Feb.15/18/22. Probably this unscheduled broadcasts are temporarily on air Sat/Tue?? 0500-0600 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm Portuguese 0600-0900 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm Yoruba 0900-1200 on 12105*TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm Chinese 1200-1400 on 12105#TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm Russian * co-ch KTWR Guam in Chinese 1115-1145 Mon-Fri, 1145-1200 Sat # co-ch Radio Free Asia in Burmese from 1230 (DX Mix Nx 839) Spain Confusion with frequency of Radio Exterior de Espana on Feb.21: 1300-1600 NF 21630*NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon-Fri, ex 21640 * co-ch BBC in Hausa 1400-1430 Radio Exterior de Espana on 21630 / 21640 till mid of February: 1300-1600 on 21630 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon-Fri 1300-1700 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Sat/Sun Radio Exterior de Espana on 21640 from mid of February: 1300-1600 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Daily, including on Feb.20 1600-1700 on 21640 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm Spanish Sat/Sun (22 Feb post)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2014 Feb 24 0820 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
#
#                Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 17 - 23 February 2014

Solar activity reached moderate levels with two M-class flares observed during the week. An M3/Sn was observed on 20 Feb at 0756 UTC from Region 1976 (S15, L=320, class/area=Cho/270 on 18 February). A Type II radio sweep (estimated shock velocity 915 km/s), a Tenflare (420 sfu), and an asymmetric full-halo coronal
mass ejection (CME) were observed with this event. Most of the ejecta with this cornal mass ejection (CME) appeared to be directed westward with a minor Earthward component. On the same day, Region 1982 (S10, L=207, class/area=Ekc/570) produced a C3/Sf flare at 20/0335 UTC associated with a Type II radio sweep (estimated shock velocity 1432 km/s), a Type IV radio sweep, and an asymmetric full-halo CME with most of the ejected directed eastward with a minor Earthward component. Region 1982 was the largest region on the disk during the week, the most magnetically complex (beta-gamma), and the most productive. It was responsible for 11 C-class events and 30 optical flares. 

Old Region 1967 (S12, L=12) was responsible for a C7 flare at 22/1550 UTC and was at least partially responsible for a long-duration M1 flare at 23/0610 UTC. During the M-flare, GOES-15 SXI imagery suggested that old Regions 1967 and 1977 (S10, L=294)flared simultaneously. Subsequent SOHO LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery
showed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from both region locations with the larger of the two coming from behind the west limb. Throughout the week, old Region 1967 was the source of many CMEs while behind the east limb. 

In addition to the CMEs associated with the flares, a 45-degree filament erupted from the southeast quadrant during 18/0015 - 0158 UTC associated with an Earth-directed, asymmetric, full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). Analysis of coronagraph imagery suggested the ejecta was moving at 695 km/s, with most directed southward. 

The greater than 10 MeV proton flux at geosynchronous orbit reached the S1 (Minor) threshold at 20/0850 UTC, reached a peak of 22 pfu at 20/0925 UTC, and dropped below the S1 event threshold at 20/1125 UTC as a result of the M3/Sn flare at 20/0756 UTC from Region 1976. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels on 20/0906 UTC and again on 21/1700 UTC. High levels were subsequently observed again on the 22nd and 23rd. Peak flux during the week was 2780 pfu observed on 23/1455 UTC. 

Geomagnetic field activity reached major storm levels as successive coronal mass ejections battered the magnetosphere during the past week and produced the most extended period of planetary major storm conditions since June 29, 2013. ACE data indicated the arrival of a CME at approximately 19/0309 UTC, likely associated with a faint full-halo CME on Feb 16. Wind speed jumped from about 380 to 500
km/s with the arrival and remained elevated for the rest of the period (peak 546 km/s at 19/1747 UTC). IMF Bt (total field intensity) increased from 8 to 15 nT with the CME arrival and remained enhanced for the rest of the day (peak 18 nT at 19/0658 UTC), with a gradual decrease after approximately 19/1500 UTC. The
Bz component of the IMF was southward at around -8 nT prior to the arrival, then became further southward following the arrival (maximum reading of -15 nT at 19/0358 UTC). IMF Bz remained southward until approximately 19/0830 UTC, then became variable until approximately 19/1300 UTC, followed by mostly northward Bz conditions. IMF Phi data indicated a variable solar-sector orientation during the period. EPAM data showed a gradual increase during the latter half of the day, likely indicating the approach of the CME observed on Feb 18. In response to the arrival of the CME, the magnetic field reached major storm conditions during 19/0300 - 1500 UTC, with severe storm levels detected at high latitudes. Activity decreased to quiet to unsettled levels after 19/1500 UTC. 

A second shock arrived at approximately 20/0251 UTC, most likely associated with the filament eruption on 18 Feb. Solar wind speed at the ACE spacecraft jumped from about 500 to 640 km/s and was accompanied by a 6 nT increase in IMF Bt, and a southward turn of the Bz component of the IMF (minimum -14 nT at 20/0507 UTC). Wind speed peaked at 743 km/s at 20/0440 UTC with this CME passage, followed by a gradual decrease to about 500 km/s by the end of the period. A geomagnetic sudden impulse was observed at 20/0329 UTC (31nT, Boulder USGS magnetometer) associated with the CMEs arrival at Earth. Major storm levels prevailed from 03-12Z, followed by a minor storm period. Severe storm cinditons were recorded at some
high-latitude stations. 

Finally, the 20 Feb CME likely arrived around 23/0230 UTC. Solar wind speed was initially steady in the 420 - 440 km/s range and increased to around 520 km/s during transient passage. Total field strength values were steady near 5 nT and began a slow rise to 11 nT during CME passage while the Bz component remained predominately north throughout the period. The phi angle began the period in a negative (toward) sector and underwent minor rotation and variability to a positive (away) sector during transient passage. The CME arrival produced unsettled to active geomagnetic conditions with minor to major storm conditions for half the day at high latitudes. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 24 February - 22 March 2014

Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels, with high levels of activity likely through 16 March, with the return of Old Regions 1967 (S13, L=112) at the beginning of the period, and 1974 (S12, L=354) after 03 March. STEREO EUVI imagery suggests these regions have maintained their levels of activity. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit, however, the threat will increase during the transit of Old Region 1974, particularly after 09 March. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels for most of the forecast period. High flux levels are anticipated on 09-10 March in response to a coronal hole high speed stream. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels in the absence of any transient activity. There is a chance for active conditions 28 Feb-01 March in response to a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream. A slight chance of active levels exists on 09 March in response to another high speed stream. 

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2014 Feb 24 0820 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
#                Issued 2014-02-24
#
#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest
#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index
2014 Feb 24     175          10          3
2014 Feb 25     175           8          3
2014 Feb 26     175           5          2
2014 Feb 27     180           5          2
2014 Feb 28     175          15          3
2014 Mar 01     170          15          3
2014 Mar 02     165           5          2
2014 Mar 03     170           5          2
2014 Mar 04     175           5          2
2014 Mar 05     175           5          2
2014 Mar 06     180           5          2
2014 Mar 07     180           5          2
2014 Mar 08     180           5          2
2014 Mar 09     180          10          3
2014 Mar 10     175           5          2
2014 Mar 11     160           8          3
2014 Mar 12     145           5          2
2014 Mar 13     145           5          2
2014 Mar 14     150           5          2
2014 Mar 15     150           5          2
2014 Mar 16     150           5          2
2014 Mar 17     150           5          2
2014 Mar 18     155           5          2
2014 Mar 19     155           5          2
2014 Mar 20     155           5          2
2014 Mar 21     160           5          2
2014 Mar 22     165           5          2

(NOAA)

Annual broadcast slated for February 21

Germany

15215  Annual Transmission from Radio Öömrang via MBR.

Friday 21 February 2014
Annual shortwave broadcast of Radio Öömrang from Amrum Island, German North Frisian Islands

Schedule in 2013 was 1600-1659 UTC on 15215 kHz via Media Broadcast in Frisian dialect, German and English.

A reply in response to this year's planned broadcast:

Many thanks for your kind email. We would like to confirm that Radio Öömrang also will broadcast their
annual transmission on 15215 kHz by using the same time slot 1600-1659 UTC as last year, on Friday, February 21, 2014.

As always, reception reports are most welcome, send to:

QSL-Shortwave@ media-broadcast.com

Please take note of my new contacts:

MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH
Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1
51103 Koeln
Germany
www.media-broadcast.com
(Walter Brodowsky-D, Head of MBR Short-wave, Senior Expert Sales)
(wb, Germany)

The program Radio Öömrang (Radio Amrum) is broadcast annually on February 21 (a North Frisian holiday) The program was founded by the radio amateur Arjan Kolzow on the island of Amrum in North Germany. The first shortwave broadcast was in 2006. The program is in the North Frisian language (Öömrang dialect) as well as Standard German . It is aimed to the descendants of North Frisian immigrants in North America.

Radio Free Asia Releases 2014 Olympiad QSL Card

Radio Free Asia announces its 52nd QSL card. This latest design commemorates the 2014 Winter Olmpiad in Sochi, Russia which will be held February 7-23., 2014. The Games always bring people together from around the world in peace and harmony to respect universal moral principles. This new design shows an adaption of Radio Free Asia's Olympic pin, as created by RFA's Brian Powell, originally used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This latest version adds a sable cap to the panda design. The QSL design is used to confirm all valid reception reports from January 1 - March 31, 2014

RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA currently broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin, the Wu dialect, Vietnamese, Tibetan (Uke, Amdo, and Kham), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance, and fairness in its editorial content. As a ‘surrogate’ broadcaster, RFA provides news and commentary specific to each of its target countries, acting as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages and dialects, and most of its broadcasts comprise news of specific local interest.  More information about Radio Free Asia, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is available at www.rfa.org.

RFA encourages listeners to submit reception reports.  Reception reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by mailing a QSL card to the listener.  RFA welcomes all reception report submissions at http://techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX’ers, but also from its general listening audience.  If you have a smart phone, feel free to use the QR code below to access the automated reception report system and submit your reception reports to the web site. 

Reception reports are also accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org and by mail to:

            Reception Reports

            Radio Free Asia

            2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300

            Washington DC 20036

            United States of America. 

Upon request, RFA will also send a copy of the current broadcast schedule and a station sticker.

(A.J. Janitschek/RFA)

Radio Free Asia - B13 Winter Schedule

Effective: 27 October 2013 - 29 March 2013

All programming targeted to Asia

All times

Burmese                  
0030-0130   12115 15700 17835
1230-1400   11795 12105 13735
1400-1430   11795 12105
1630-1730    9940

Cantonese                
1400-1500   13690
2200-2300    9780

Khmer                    
1230-1330   17735
2230-2330   11850

Korean                  
1500-1700     648  5855  7210 11585
1700-1900     648  5855  9720
2100-2200     648  7460  9385 11995

Lao                      
0000-0100   15690
1100-1200    9325 15120

Mandarin                
0300-0600   11980 15665 17690 21700
0600-0700   11980 15150 15665 17690 21700
1500-1600    6020  9495  9790 11945
1600-1700    7415  9455  9915 11945
1700-1800    6020  7415  9355  9455
1800-1900    5865  7415  9355  9455
1900-2000    1098  5865  6020  6095  9355  9455
2000-2100    1098  5865  6020  6095  7495  9355  9455
2100-2200    1098  6095  7495  9355  9455
2300-2400    9585  9825 11775

Tibetan                  
0100-0200    9670 11695 13620 15610 17730
0200-0300    9670  9700 11695 15520 17730
0600-0700   17515 17675 21610 21680
1000-1100    9690 15140  17810
1100-1200    7470  9350 11545 15375
1200-1400    7470  9350 11590 12050 15375
1500-1600    5825  9955 11640 11865
2200-2300    6005  7470  9835
2300-2400    6010  7470  7550  9875

Uyghur                  
0100-0200    7480  9480  9645  9690 17805
1600-1700    5830  7310  9725 12015

Vietnamese              
0000-0030    9920 11805 15170
1400-1430    1503 12130 13735 15310
1430-1500   12130 13735 15310
2300-2330    1503
2330-2400    1503 11605 11805 15170
 (A.J. Janitschek)
(reformatted by Gayle Van Horn/International SW Broadcast Guide, available via Amazon Kindle.)

Frequency Update - International Shortwave Broadcast Guide: February 15, 2014

This is the fifth series of schedule updates for the 2013-2014 Winter - International Shortwave Broadcast Guide. The 684 page Teak Publishing shortwave radio hobby e-book can be purchased at Amazon.com for US$4.99. The e-book is available at:
http://http://www.amazon.com/International-Shortwave-Broadcast-Winter-2013-2014-ebook/dp/B00H8X7LHM/

All time references are UTC and frequencies are in kHz (kilohertz) // indicates a parallel frequency.
Broadcast are daily unless otherwise indicated.

County/Station
Language
Hrs/freq/info

Armenia, Public R of Armenia
Revised winter schedules
Arabic
1900-1930  4810me
Assyrian
1530-1545  4810me
Azeri
1145-1200  4810me
1200-1215  4810me
Farsi
1430-1500  4810me
Kurdish
1545-1615  4810me
Turkish
1200-1215  Sat/Sun  4810me
1215-1230  4810me
Yezidi
1500-1530  4810me

Bolivia, Yatun Ayllu Yura/R Yura
Correct station name is Radio Yura

Bolivia, R San Miguel
4700do (ex 4699do)

Canada, Bible VO BCN
Farsi (revised svc)
1530-1730  11600as (ex 1700-1900)
1800-1830  12150 (delete)

China, China R International
Cantonese
0700-0757  17875as (add)
0700-0800  17875as (ex 11640as)
2300-0000  5905as (delete)
Esperanto
1100-1157  9460as (add)
Hindi
1700-1757  5975af // 7375as (add)
Indonesian
0830-0927  15115as (add)  17705as (add)
Japanese
1000-1057  13735as (add)
2300-2357  13655as (add)
Russian
1300-1357  9665as (add)
Tamil
0200-0257  17505as (add)
0300-0357  13600as  (ex 15430as)

Clandestine, Denge Kurdistane
Kurdish
1600-2000  7390me (ex 11510me)

Clandestine, Echo of Hope/VO Hope
0555-0000 6250as (add) // 3985as, 6003as, 6348as

Clandestine, Ictimai R  (add new entry)
Azeri
1100-1157  9677as
1300-1403  9677as

Clandestine, LV de la Resistencia
Spanish
1400-1415  6215usb (add)
1900-1945  6215usb (add)

Clandestine, R Free Chosun
Korean
1300-1400  9300as (delete)

Clandestine, R Medrek/R Forum
Tigrinya
1700-1800  thas  11720af (add)

Clandestine, VO Martyrs (Freedom)
Korean
1600-1700  7525as (add) // 7515as
1700-1730  7525as (add) // 7515as

Clandestine, VO Tibet
Chinese
1200-1215  15543as (ex 15542as)
1215-1230  15537as (ex 15548as)
1300-1315  9318as (ex 9317as)
1315-1330  9323as (ex 1315-1345  9322as)
1330-1345  9323as (add)
1345-1400  9328as (ex 9323as)
Tibetan
1230-1245  15568as (ex 15588as)
1245-1300  15573as (ex 15582as)
1300-1315  15573as (ex 15582as)
1315-1330  11518as (ex 1315-1345  15577as)
1330-1345  11513as (add)
1345-1400  11513as (ex 11517as)
1400-1415  11507as (ex 11523as)
1415-1430  11507as (ex 11523as)

Cuba, R Havana Cuba
English
0500-0600  5040ca (add) 6100am (add)
Spanish
1200-1500  12010ca (ex 11690sa)
1500-1600  12010ca (ex 11690sa)

Ecuador, Ecuador, HCJB/LV de los Andes
New name for station is Reach Beyond
After 82 years HCJB as an organisation is changing its name to Reach Beyond.
This will include the Australian shortwave station but that transition will happen
over the next 12 months. Right now the station is still called HCJB Australia.
The call letters HCJB will (eventually) only occur in Ecuador, South America where
the whole broadcasting mission began.

France, R France International
French
0800-0900  15150af (add)

Germany, Deutsche Welle
Dari
1330-1400  15700as (add)
Hausa
1300-1400  17860af (ex 12070af)
Pashto
1400-1430  15700as (ex 9440as)
Portuguese
1930-2000  11800af (ex 7305af)
Urdu
1430-1500  9440as (delete)

Germany, R Prague
German
1630-1700  3985eu (add) //  6005eu (add)
2000-2030  3985eu (add)

India, AIR/External Svc
English
1530-1545  11740 (add, irregular broadcast)
Russian
1700-1715  11620as // 9595as

India, TWR India
Bengali
1315-1330  Sat  9790as (ex 5955as)
Bhili
1500-1515  Sat/Sun  9670as (ex 5955as)
Bondo
1330-1345  Sun  9790as (ex 5955as)
Braj Basha
1315-1330  f  9790as (ex 5955as)
Bundeli
1345-1415  Sat  9925as (ex Braj Basha 1345-1400)
Chodri
1445-1500  Sat/Sun  9925as (ex 5955as)
Dhodiya
1515-1530  wt  9670as (ex 5955as)
Gamit
1500-1515  mtw  9670as (ex 5955as)
Garhwali
1330-1345  Sat  9790as (ex 5955as)
Haryanvi
1330-1345  f  9790as (ex 5955as)
Ho
1300-1315  Sat  9790as (ex 5955as)
Kashmiri
1330-1345  w  9790as (ex h 5955as)
Kharia
1400-1415  Sun  9925as (ex 5955as)
Kui
1245-1300  Sat  9790as (ex 5955as)
Kumaoni
1300-1315  Sun  9790as (ex 5955as)
Kuruk
1345-1400  Sun  9925as (ex 5955as)
1415-1430  hfa  9925as (ex 5955as)
Magahi
1415-1430  sm  9925as (ex 5955as)
Maithili
1330-1345  mt  9790as
1345-1415  mtwhf  9925as (EX 5955as)
Mewadi
1315-1330  wh  9790as (5955as)
Mewari
1315-1330  mta  9790as (add)
Mouchi
1515-1530  mt  9670as (5955as)
Mundari
1415-1430  tw  9925as (ex 5955as)
Sadri
1430-1445  Sat/Sun  9925as (ex Sadari 5955as)
Santhali
1245-1300  Sun  9790as (5955as)
Sindhi
1430-1500  mtwhf  9925as (5955as)
Tibetan
1330-1345  h  9790as (ex 5955as)
Urdu
1500-1530  6115as (delete)
1530-1600  9670as (add)
Vasavi
1500-1515  hf  9670as (ex 5955as)

Italy, IRRS/Euro Gospel R/Warra Wangelaa
Bantu/English
1530-1600  Sun  15190af (add)
Oromo
1500-1530  Sat  15515af (add)
Somali
1500-1530  f  15515af (add)

Japan, R Japan/NHK World
Bengali
1300-1345  13615as (ex 12035as)

Morocco, R Mediterranee Intl
Arabic/French
0000-2300  9575va  (ex 9579va)

Nigeria, VO  Nigeria
English
0900-1000  15120af (ex 9690af)
Hausa
0730-0800  7255af (add)
2100-2200  11770af (add)

Poland, Polish R/External Svc
German
1700-1730  3985eu (add)
2030-2100  3985eu (add)

Russia
Russia, VO Russia
English
0800-0900  DRM  9625eu  11635eu
0900-1000  DRM  9625eu  11635eu
1000-1100  9560as (ex 21800as)
1000-1100  DRM  9625eu (ex 9560eu) // 12035as
1100-1200  DRM  9625eu // 12035as (ex 9560as)
1100-1200  9560as (ex 21800as)
1300-1400  9560as (add)
1500-1600  5900as (delete)
1600-1700  5900as (delete)
Russian
0200-0300  9790as (add)
0300-0400  9790as (add)

Russia, Tatarstan Wave/R Tatatarstan
All broadcast have been cancelled, station no longer on the air

Singapore, TWR Asia
English/Tagalog
1200-1300  15160as (ex English only)

Slovakia, Slovakia, R Slovakia Intl
German
1600-1630  3985eu  6005eu (add)
1930-2000  3985eu (add)

Spain, R Exterior de Espana
Spanish
1300-1400  21640ca (add) (ex 21630ca)
1400-1500  21640ca (add) (ex 21630ca)
1500-1600  21640ca (add) ex 21630ca)
1600-1700  Sat/Sun  21640ca (add) ex 21630va

Suriname, R Apintie
Dutch/English/Sranang/Hindi
0700-0800  irreg  4990do
0800-0900  irreg  4990do
1800-0000  irreg  4990do

Swaziland, TWR Africa
Kunama
1800-1830  Sun  5935af (add) ex Kuanyama)
Tigre
1800-1830  Sat  5935af (add)
Tigrinya
1800-1845  mtwhf  5935af (add)

Tunisia
RTV Tunisia/ Radio Tunisienne
Relays on shortwave have ceased

UK, FEBA Radio
Baluchi
0215-0230  mtw  7315as (add)
Sindhi
0215-0230  tha  7315as (add)
Urdu
0200-0215  mtwhfa  9750as (delete)
0200-0215  7315as (add)
0215-0230  Sun  7315as (ex 9750as) (ex 0200-0215 Sun 9750as)

UK, IBRA R/R Ibrahim
Oromo
1700-1730  9540af (add)
Singo
1700-1730  17500af (add)

Ukraine, R Ukraine Intl
German
1830-1930  3985eu (add)
2100-2200  3985eu (add)

Uruguay, R Nacional SODRE
Station is not listed in WRTH 2014, information is based on loggings
Spanish
2000-2100  irreg  6125do
2100-2200  irreg  6125do
2200-2300  irreg  6125do
2300-0000  irreg  6125do

USA, AFN/AFRTS
English
0800-2000  5765usb (delete)
2000-0800  13362usb (delete)

USA, Overcomer Ministry (via WWCR)
English
0600-1000  mtwhfa  3215eu (broadcast cancelled)
1000-1100  5890ca (ex 5980na)
1100-1200  5890ca (ex 5980na)
1200-1300  mtwhf  5890ca (ex daily)
2000-2100  9980ca (add)
2100-2200  9980ca (ex Sat/Sun)
2200-2300  9980ca (ex mtwhf)
2300-0000 mtwhf  9980ca (add)

USA, R Free Europe/R Liberty
Russian
1900-2000  7225as (ex 9515as)

USA, VO America
English
0030-0100  9380as (add) // 12015as (add)
0930-1000 Sat/DRM  5745na (add)
1400-1500  mtwhf  7580as (ex 7520as)
1500-1600  7580as (add) // 9900as (add)
2230-2300  9905as (add)
2300-0000  5810as (add) // 9900as (add)
Kurdish
1700-1800  9705me (add)

USA, VOA/R Ashna
Dari
1500-1530  17580as (ex 11595as) // 11825as 12140as
1500-1600  12140as (delete)

USA, VO America/Learning English
English/Special
0030-0100  9380as (add)
0030-0100  12015as (ex 11695va)

USA, WBCQ Monticello ME
English
0800-1100  delete 7490am
Spanish
2200-2230 w  7490va (add) (ex 2200-2300 smtwhf  7490am)

USA, WHRI Cypress Crk SC/Overcomer Ministries
English
0600-0800  7490eu (ex 7520eu)
0830-1000  Sun  11565pa (ex 0900-1100)
1000-1200  11565pa (add) (ex 1030-1100 Sun & 1100-1200 7520eu)

USA, WINB Red Lion PA
English
Note: From March 1, 2014 WINB will broadcast the entire schedule 9265 kHz

0000-0300  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Daily
0300-0330  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Sat-Thu
1215-1300  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Sun
1300-1500 13570 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Sun
1500-1715 13570 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Sat/Sun
1715-2145 13570 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Daily
2145-2200 13570 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English/Spanish Mon-Fri
2145-2200 13570 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Sat/Sun
2200-2330  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Daily
2330-2400  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM English Tue-Sun
2330-2400  9265 INB 050 kW 242 deg to CeAM Spanish Mon

USA, WRMI Okeechobee FL/Overcomer Ministries
English
0000-0600  7570na (delete)
0300-0400  9495ca (ex 13695am)
0600-0700  9495ca (ex 7470na)
0700-1000  9495ca (ex 7570na)
0800-0900  9495ca (ex 9840af)
0900-1000  9495ca (ex 9840af)
1000-1600  11825sa (delete) 9955ca (delete)
1000-1100  9495ca // 9690ca
1100-1200  9955ca (ex 9690ca)
1100-1600  11825sa (delete)
1200-1300  11825sa (delete)
1600-2200  11825sa (delete)
1800-1900  7730eu (add) // 9690na 9955na
2100-2200  7730eu (delete)
2200-2300 mtwhf  7730 (delete)
2200-2300   7570na  (broadcast hour cancelled)
2300-0000   7570ca (broadcast hour cancelled)

USA, WRMI/Okeechobee FL (ex WRMI/Viva Miami/Okeechobee FL)
Revised schedule
English/Spanish
0000-0100  9495am
1100-1400  9955sa
1400-1500  9955na
2200-0600  9955sa
2100-2200  7730eu

USA, WWCR Nashville TN
Spanish
2200-2300  mtwhf  6115na (ex English 2200-2300 6115eu)

Vatican City State, Vatican R
Chinese
1230-1300  mtwhfs  11875as (ex 11865as)
1230-1300  Sat  11875as (11865as)
1300-1315  Sat  11875as (11865as)
German
1730-1745  mtwhfa  3985eu (add)


Yemen, Rep of Yemen R
English
1800-1900  6135me (add)

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Legend
Days:
m (Monday)
t (Tuesday)
w (Wednesday)
h (Thursday)
f (Friday)
a/Sat (Saturday)
s/Sun (Sunday)
DRM  Digital Radio Mondiale

Target Areas:
af (Africa)
am (Americas)
as (Asia)
ca (Central America)
do (domestic)
eu (Europe)
me (Middle East)
sa (South America)
va (various)