TWR Europe from Albania to close medium wave service

Trans World Radio has release the following information.

Albania

Please note: We will stop broadcasting on 1395 kHz as of 1 January 2017.
RTSH - General Technical Director, Eng. Henri Muca
RTSH - Director of RTV Transmitting Stations - Tirane, Eng. Valmir Hajdari
TWR Europe Mon-Fri at 1930-2145 UT, Sat/Sun at 1950-2145 UT.
Fllake relay TX#2 F-1 antenna at 330 deg to Ce/No/Ea-Europe.
Trans World Radio - FLLAKE, ALBANIA in B-16 season til 1 Jan 2017 only.
UTC         days  program        kHz   kW degr ciraf zone
1927-1930 12345.. TWR ID signal 1395  500 330  28
1930-2015 12345.. Hungarian     1395  500 330  28
1947-1950 .....67 TWR ID signal 1395  500 330  28
1950-2015 .....67 Hungarian     1395  500 330  28
2015-2030 .....6. Polish        1395  500 330  28
2015-2045 12345.7 Polish        1395  500 330  28
2030-2145 .....6. Croatian      1395  500 330  28
2045-2100 ......7 Croatian      1395  500 330  28
2045-2115 12345.. Croatian      1395  500 330  28
2100-2145 ......7 Bosnian       1395  500 330  28
2115-2145 12345.. Serbian       1395  500 330  28
Day 1 = Mon  ...  7 = Sun
Re: B16 TWR Europe will end MW 1395 kHz broadcast via Fllake Albania
broadcast center for ever on Jan 1st, 2017.
Fllake, Albania location; Made in P.R. China of 1967 year.
G.C. 41 21 52.04 N  19 30 35.46 E
(TWR Europe Oct 7, via Drita Cico-ALB, Oct 9;
Radiostacionet Shijak & Fllake.
via wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, Oct 10)
(WWDXC/Top News 1271/11 Oct 2016)

Untold Story of the Small Canadian Town that was haunted by shortwave radio transmissions

Thump, October 7
Jesse Locke

Since World War II, residents of Sackville, New Brunswick heard voices in their sinks, refrigerators, and radiator pipes. Lights glowed on and off at random, and even transmitted thoughts into their minds, causing one spooked soul to dream in languages that he was unable to speak. For anyone unaware of their source, these broadcasts from beyond could sound supernatural.

The foreign tongues filtering into the east coast Canadian town with a population of less than 6,000, were actually due to shortwave transmissions, unintentionally picked up from 13 radio towers located
in the saltwater Tantramar Marshes.

Full article including 5 minutes of video from the documentary Spectres of Shortwave and interview with filmmaker Amanda Dawn Christie.

https://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/sackville-spectres-of-shortwave-doc-amanda-dawn-christie-interview
BDXC/Mike Barraclough)

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October Specials from DX Stamp Service ...and more

Dear Customer,

Below are specials for October 2016. Take advantage of them starting now.

 If you need a current stamp list or supply list, I can mail or email it to you. 

 FLASH!!  OK!!!   Payment by credit card is OK for the forever stamps and the 47c units.....

MORE NEWS:  Check out the con-foozing envelope specials for October.  Customers buying the plain European mailers and returns are calling them Stealth Mailers and Returns! Works for me.

BIG  NEWS!!!: Almost out of European Air Return Envelopes (less than 2000 remaining, grab them NOW!)...with low sales volume, I will NOT be restocking them. With lower sales, restocking would be a smaller qty. to purchase at a much higher cost...I will sell  the European PLAIN Returns in their place once the air return stock is depleted. A few customers are QSL managers and they tell me they rarely see an airmail envelope from overseas anyway, except maybe from JA. My supply of European Air Mailers is greater (about 12,000), so they will last longer. Take advantage of the airmail close out specials while I have them!!!  The red & blue airmail border isn't necessary for international mail anymore. All international mail goes by air, renamed First Class International a number of years ago.

IDEA:  Slightly damaged Deluxe QSL Album   now $30.00 -or- buy 2 for only $55.00!!!

NEW RATES: Australia increases to $2.95 on October 3rd.

If you hear of or notice any new rates, let me know.

NEW PRICES:  

IN STOCK AGAIN: 
STAMPS ON BACK ORDER: Australia

U.S. DISCOUNT POSTAGE DEALS!!
Save Big on your domestic mailings 
 with colorful vintage stamps!
HAPPY  MAILING!!
47c Units
 Forever
 in  2 stamps
 in 5 stamps
x 100
 $45.00
 $40.00
x 200
 $85.00
 $65.00
 
x 500
 $207.00
 $157.00
 
Payment by Credit card, check or money order for forever stamps and 47c units!                                     
No Charge for shipping Discount Postage Offers

OCTOBER 2016  DX  STAMP  SPECIALS
2 Germany-$2.60    2 Russia-$2.60    3 Japan-$3.90  
2 Italy-$7.00    2 UK-$3.00    2 France-$3.60    2 Spain-$4.00

OCTOBER 2016  DX  SUPPLY  SPECIALS
200/200 European Air Mailers and Air Returns -$40.00
200/200 European Plain Mailers and Plain Returns - $40.00
200/200 European Air Mailers and Plain Returns - $40.00
yeah, it's complicated......
5 Packs of Extra QSL Album pages - $22.00

OCTOBER 2016 CLOSE OUT SPECIALS
400/400 European Air Mailers and Air Returns - $70.00
600/600 European Air Mailers and Air Returns - $95.00
500 European Air Mailers - $40.00
200/200 Stateside mailers and Returns - $23.00
500/500 Stateside Mailers and Returns - $44.00

Priority Mail Shipping Rates: Orders up to $40.00 add $9.00, orders from $41.00 to $100.00 add $15.00. orders from $101.00 to $150.00 add $20.00, orders over $150.00 add 15%. When ordering supplies and stamps, the stamps ride free, just use supply total to figure shipping costs. Shipments to Canada and overseas ship at a greater cost. (07/2015 modified)

Stamps Only Orders: Just add $1.00 P&H for posting to USA, add $2.00 for posting to Canada.
William Plum
12 Glenn Road
Flemington, NJ 08822
908 788 1020
Email: plumdx@msn.com
Greetings DXer,

 ...And now for something completely different....

Have been writing with a fountain pen for about 2 yrs now, mostly personal letters, but have added a few notes to customers and have caught the attention of other fountain pen users among you.

Have acquired a hugh collection of Sheaffer cartridge fill fountain pens. Sold some to a few customers and then that dim lightbulb above my head glows a bit brighter....Hey Bill, maybe others might be interested??? So let's see. Had thought of becoming an ebay seller, but no ditigal camera or cell phone to post pix. And to learn all the ins and outs of that, doesn't appeal to me at this time...So I've deep-sixed that idea.

I have about 300!! on hand...All are Sheaffer cartridge fill models. 100 of them I've cleaned, polished and flushed out the nibs. The other 200 are uncleaned. Most are 1960's school models, a few other styles, varieties, and some are 1950's pens. Do have 6 Scripto cartridge pens, but no cartridges for them.

Price-wise was thinking of $4 per pen for the cleaned ones and maybe $2.50 for the uncleaned ones. If any of you are ebay sellers, maybe this would be a venture to pursue?

Also, more fountain pen fanatics out there? I could easily put together a nice six-pack.

For myself, I acquired a supply of old Sheaffer cartridges. The ink had dried out of them, but I refilled with bottled ink using an ink syringe. Am using Waterman's Blue/Black. Picked up a 32 oz!! bottle. Ink's gotta be 40-50 yrs old! Vintage ink for vintage pens, right? When I started writing with my Mom's Sheaffer, I bought new cartridges at Staples....ink is made in Slovenia!! and it took FOREVER to dry...dammmm. The old Waterman's ink is great!!

Anyone interested, let me know.

I still like the 'cool' factor...writing with a 50-60 yr old pen. I write with my Mom's Sheaffer from the early '60s as well as using my Dad's Parker 51 from 1945...Ah, the good ol' days of American made quality....it still can be!!

73,
best of dx
and happy writing!

The Story of a Megasized Shortwave Station in Alaska

(HAARP via ARRL)

Construction work on a megasized shortwave station in Alaska began in the year 1993.  The location for this huge project was at an American Air Force base at an isolated location near Gakona, nearly 200 miles north east of the state capital Anchorage.
The ground plan for this massive shortwave station, HAARP High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, called for 360 transmitters at 10 kW each and 180 antenna masts, all compactly installed into a square pattern occupying 30 acres.  The Continental transmitters are grouped in pairs in special weatherproof temperature controlled containers.  The antenna masts support a total of 720 low band and high band shortwave antennas.
This very expensive project was constructed in three separate phases at an initial cost of $30 million.  An additional supercomputer system cost $25 million, and operational costs have been estimated at $30 million. 
The first phase of construction was completed in 1998, and a secondary phase was completed four years later.  The entire facility was finally and fully completed in 2007; though 6 years later, HAARP Alaska was shutdown.
Initial test transmissions took place on March 8, 1997 on 3400 kHz and 6990 kHz with an open carrier from the total system, and messages in Morse Code.  These tests were announced in advance and special QSL cards were available. 
Another series of tests took place two years later on March 27, 1999 and one international radio monitor who was in London England at the time reported that even with the total signal output at a massive 3.6 megawatts, HAARP was not audible in the United Kingdom.
Back in January 2008, HAARP conducted an additional two day series of tests beamed to the moon.  These moonbounce transmissions were noted on two shortwave frequencies, 6792.5 kHz and 7407.5 kHz.
The purpose for HAARP Alaska was to study the impact of massive radiated power into the sky, with the possibility of controlling it the ionosphere and nullifying incoming radio signals from other countries.  Much speculation about the HAARP project has suggested that weather patterns may be altered, deep earth radar could detect underground patterns, and communication could be achieved with deeply submerged submarines. 
However, the government authorities at HAARP Alaska have been quite open about the activities associated with their project, and open house events with guided tours have been staged periodically.  The well known amateur radio operator and radio writer, Gordon West WB6NOA, was granted an inspection tour in September 2001, apparently in an attempt to dispel conspiracy theories that abound about the station.  He stated in an article in Popular Communications magazine that normally the station can not be heard on regular shortwave receivers because the transmitters operate with a frequency hopping technique, that is a rapid and continuous change in frequencies.   
Ownership of the HAARP facility has recently been transferred to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and plans are now underway to reopen this transmitter station and to conduct additional propagation experiments.  The FCC has issued two transmission licenses for the revived HAARP Alaska.  Callsign WI2XFX permits experimental transmissions on seven in-between bands in the shortwave spectrum, and callsign WI2XDV permits experimental transmissions ranging from 1 MHz up to 40 MHz.
A few years ago, a total of 720 transmitting tubes were removed from the 360 transmitters and placed in warm storage for safety, and currently staff are in the process of re-inserting them back into each transmitter unit.
Interestingly, HAARP Alaska is not the only shortwave facility for ionospheric research.  It is understood that other similar, though smaller facilities are located at Fairbanks in Alaska, and also on . the island of Puerto Rico, as well as at Tromso in Norway, and Vasilsursk in Russia
The QSL card issued by HAARP Alaska presents a photo in color depicting part of their enormous antenna system.
(AWR_Wavescan-NWS 397)

VOA Radiogram weekend schedule

Hello friends,
Hurricane Matthew will probably not affect our North Carolina transmitting site, so VOA Radiogram should be on the air as scheduled.  Most models show the storm turning east into the Atlantic, then maybe south and back west into Florida again. We hope that our listeners in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina stay safe and experience minimal disruptions.
This weekend, VOA Radiogram will include a new story in Olivia 64-2000. Let's hope for poor reception ?? to provide a good test for this mode. For a correct decode of the Olivia 64-2000, the squelch (SQL) in the bottom right of the Fldigi interface  should be turned off. 

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 184, 8-9 October 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted:
1:51  Program preview
3:01  Another Saturn moon may have subsurface ocean*
7:28  Video captures detail of Hawaii volcano lava*
14:34  Olivia 64-2000: Pacific garbage patch
23:25  MFSK32: Hurricane Matthew*
26:04  Closing announcements*
* with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com .
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC)
Sat 0930-1000 5745
Sat 1600-1630 17580
Sun 0230-0300 5745
Sun 1930-2000 15670
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

The Mighty KBC will transmit to North America Sunday 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 6145 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK32 will be at about 0130 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com .
DigiDX will transmit MFSK32 and probably other modes:
Sunday 2130-2200, 15770 - via WRMI Florida
Sunday 2330-2400, 11580 - via WRMI Florida
Monday 2000-2130 UTC, 6070 - via Channel 292 Germany
For schedule updates, visit DigiDX at http://www.digidx.uk/  or https://www.facebook.com/digidx/

IBC (Italian Broadcasting Corporation) has a broadcast to Europe on 6070 kHz, Wednesdays, at the new time of 1800-2100 UTC.  The MFSK32 and Olivia 16-500 are still at 2030-2100 UTC. IBC has also added a medium wave transmission Saturday 2000-2030 UTC from Radio Studio X, 1584 kHz, in Terni, Italy, with MFSK32 at 2025-2030. IBC also has MFSK32 transmissions via WRMI in Florida: Friday 0125-0200 UTC on 9955 kHz (Thursday 9:25 pm EDT), part of its 0100-0130 broadcast. And Saturday at 0155-0200 UTC (Friday evening 9:55 pm EDT), on 11580 kHz, part of its 0130-0200 broadcast.  See http://ibcradio.webs.com/ for the complete schedule and contact information

VOA to Ethiopia. During last week's VOA Radiogram, I included the transmission schedule for VOA broadcasts to Ethiopia, which are now jammed in Ethiopia, at least on some frequencies. Two of the frequencies have been changed: 12040 and 12080 kHz have been replaced by 11720 and 15785 kHz. The new schedule is ...
Afan Oromo              
1730-1800 UTC* 11720 12110 12140 13860 15630 15700 15785
Amharic                 
1600-1630 UTC*  1431
1630-1700 UTC*  6040 15580
1800-1900 UTC  11720 12110 12140 13860 15630 15700 15785
Tigrigna                
1900-1930 UTC* 11720  12110 13860 15630 15700 15785
* Monday through Friday

Thank you for your reports. I'm still sending out galleries from program 181, and hope to respond to more reports for more recent broadcasts during the weekend.
I hope you can tune in and write in this weekend.
Kim Andrew Elliott
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net
Twitter: @VOARadiogram

Hobart Radio International schedule

Hear us this weekend!
Saturdays 11580 - 2030-2100, 2330-0000U
Sundays 15770 - 2100-2130
Sundays 9955 -  0330-0400
Mondays 5130 -  0330-0400
Tuesdays 9955 - 2230-2300
*We may be off-air this weekend as WRMI braces for Hurricane Matthew.
*Announcement: From the beginning of November (B16) we will commence every two weeks transmissions on Channel 292 6070, but will cease WRMI 11580z and 15770. WRMI on 9955kHz will remain.
Listen to us: TuneIn
More at our website: hriradio.org
Join us on Facebook at: facebook.com/hobartradiointl Over 955 likes!
Join us on Twitter @hobartradiointl
Subscribe to the MP3 RSS feed. (Add to the Apple Podcast App)
Hear us this weekend!! Our A16 shortwave & FM schedule can be found at: http://www.hriradio.org/p/current-schedule.html
Our 2016 Programming guide at: http://www.hriradio.org/p/programming-2016.html
(Rob Wise/HRI)

Weekend Euro relays

QSL via Tom Taylor

All times UTC

Saturday, October 8
Hamburger Lokal Radio
06.00-10.00 - 6190
10.00-15.00 - 7265

Radio City
08.00-09.00 - 9510 via IRRS
Email: citymorecars@yahoo.ca
Sunday, October 9

KBC
00:00-01:00 - 9925 (The Mighty KBC to the USA with 100 kW)
Email:  themightykbc@gmail.com

Hamburger Lokal Radio
09.00-12.00 - 9485
Email: redaktion@hamburger-lokalradio.de 
HLR FM-DAB+ Program via the Internet : www.hamburger-lokalradio.net  Daily 24 hours
Hobart Radio International
Full Schedule A16: http://www.hriradio.org/p/current-schedule.html
Please Email: hriradio@gmail.com 

EMR on 15 October                                                                                                                                  
21.00-22.00 - 7490 (Central & North America via WBCQ)
EMR on 16 October                                                                                                                                  
07.00-08.00 - 11650 (Southern Europe, Portugal and Spain via KBC)                                                 
08.00-09.00 - 6045 (Western Europe and United Kingdom via KBC)                                                                    
08.00-09.00 - 9485 (Western Europe and UK via MV Baltic Radio)                                                          
19.00-20.00 - 6070 KHz (Western Europe and United Kingdom via Channel 292)
For outside the listening area please try the Twente/Netherlands Web SDR receiver http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
You can also hear many European free and alternative stations via the Internet at: http://laut.fm/jukebox
Radio Channel 292  Transmission schedules
http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings/

Radio Mi Amigo schedules
www.radiomiamigo.es/shortwave

European Music Radio
website: www.europeanmusicradio.com
email:    emrshortwave@gmail.com
(Tom Taylor)

RTÉ releases statement on future of longwave station

RTÉ has announced its intention to close the Radio 1 Longwave service broadcasting on 252 kHz in 2017. While this is principally an operational matter for RTÉ, we are working with a consultative steering group, including the Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade and representatives of the Irish community in Britain, to explore possible ways forward in the context of maintaining the link with our UK audiences. We do not anticipate any revision of our position without the involvement of the consultative group.

(BDXC-UK)

RAE Argentina al Mundo updates schedule

Station relaunched as RAE Argentina al Mundo on October 5, 2016

All times UTC
Effective: 06 October 2016
1000-1100 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1200 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Japanese
1200-1300 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to SoAm Portuguese
1300-1400 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Spanish, ex 1300-1500
1700-1800 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu German, deleted
1800-1900 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu English
1900-2000 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu Italian
2000-2100 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu French
2100-2200 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu German
2200-2300 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu Spanish
2300-2400 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu Portuguese, ex Spanish
0000-0100 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Spanish, ex Portuguese
0100-0200 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Chinese, ex Japanese
0200-0300 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm French
0300-0400 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm English
0400-0500 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Spanish, ex Chinese
(DX SWL Bulgaria/07 Oct 2016)

Ancient DX Report

Research into the radio events that took place during the year 1911 indicates two areas of major activity; rapid and widespread development of the Marconi company in England and beyond, and the equally rapid and widespread activity of amateur radio operators throughout the world.  It should also be mentioned that primitive radio communication was conducted from an equally primitive airplane, and that wireless stations were installed at many locations worldwide, on lonely islands and in isolated countries.
The Marconi company was involved with so many projects worldwide that they introduced their own radio magazine, Marconigraph, in April (1911).  Even this very first issue presents a mind-boggling array of new projects and stations in which the Marconi company was involved.
 For example:-
  * Four station network in the islands of Fiji in the South Pacific
  * Four new stations in Italy
  * Four new stations in the United States
  * Two new stations in Canada
  * A multitude of additional stations in South America
  * New stations in the Mediterranean and in Asia, Middle East & Africa
 At the end of the year, Marconi reported that more than 600 commercial ships were carrying Marconi wireless apparatus, in addition to an undisclosed number of ships in major navies throughout the world.
 In India, four stations were erected and these were installed in the British Fort in Calcutta, the Red Fort in Delhi, on top of a sharp hill at Jutogh on the edge of the Himalayas, and in Allahabad, apparently in the old fort.  It was also in this year, 1911, that the British transferred the capital city of India from Calcutta to Delhi.
 At midyear, the Radio Division of the Department of Commerce was formed for the regulation and control of wireless and radio throughout the United States.  In Canada, a total of 30 shore stations were in operation for maritime communication.
The United States installed a wireless station on lonely and isolated St Paul Island, off the coast of Alaska, for the purpose of monitoring and controlling the seal population in the area, thus ensuring that encroaching sealing ships did not endanger the viability of the seal colony.
In Australia, a new though temporary wireless station was installed on the 6th floor of the Hotel Australia in downtown Sydney for maritime communication.  This station was granted the monumental callsign AAA and it was in continuous use until a new and larger station at Pennant Hills was inaugurated during the next year.
In Italy, King Victor Emmanuel officially opened a new wireless station at Coltano; and in Germanic Europe, successful communication was established between two new wireless stations, one at Nauen near Berlin in Germany and the other at Vienna in Austria.
A large new station was installed at Cadiz in Spain and a photograph shows the large antenna system that was supported on four masts.  Each pair of masts was connected with aerial wires, and 10 cross wires were stretched between the two pairs.  Although wide area coverage was intended with this aerial arrangement, yet it would seem that the resultant propagation gave two major lobes, one straight up and the other straight down.
The first overseas tour for a reigning British monarch took His Majesty King George 5 and Queen Mary to India and beyond.  While en route on the HMS Medina, maritime wireless communication was maintained with England for the transfer of news and royal information.
During the year 1911, the authorities in New Zealand enacted the stringent requirement that all outdoor antenna systems were banned.  In Australia, if an outdoor aerial was erected, the payment of a wireless receiver fee was required.
On January 21, a wireless test was conducted between an airplane and a nearby ground location.  The Western Wireless Equipment company built a special radio transmitter with a Morse Code key on top for the occasion.  Lt Paul Beck held the 29 pound box of wireless equipment on his lap while the Wright Bros plane travelled at 55 miles an hour at a height of 50 feet for a distance of 40 miles.   
The wireless aerial was a 95 ft long 7 strand trailing wire, and a clip-on wire from the transmitter was attached to the open metalwork frame of the plane as a grounding counterpoise.  Thus the counterpoise grounding system was actually above the transmitting aerial rather than below, a unique though successful procedure.
A photograph taken at the time shows the totally open frame of the plane, with the pilot and the radio operator sitting without any apparent protection from falling off.  The noise of the plane motor was so loud that reception in the air was impossible, though Morse Code signals were successfully sent from the plane and received on the ground.
During the year 1911, radio programs were broadcast by William Dubilier in Seattle Washington, and also by Charles Herrold in San Jose California.  An innovative entrepreneur in Seattle erected a small tent and charged a small fee for people to come in and hear the Dubilier music programs.
Back at this era, it is estimated that there were 10,000 amateur radio operators in the United States, and another 10,000 in England, together with another 10,000 more throughout the world.  Although the total information is unknown, yet it would be suggested that at least some of these radio amateur operators throughout the world were at times transmitting music programs during the year 1911.
(AWR-Wavescan/NWS 397)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2016 Oct 03 0200 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
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#                Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 26 September - 02 October 2016

Solar activity was at predominately very low levels with an isolated  C1/Sf flare observed at 27/0748 UTC from Region 2597 (S13, L=349, class/area Dsc/120 on 24 Sep). This region also produced numerous background flares during the period. The only other spotted region on the disk, new Region 2598 (N12, L=172, class/area Bxo/010 on 02 Oct), produced a few background flares late in the period.
Other activity consisted of a pair of CMEs that were observed lifting off the NE limb on 01 Oct. At 01/0139 UTC, a 38 degree long filament erupted that was centered near N26E27. C2 LASCO imagery observed a CME off the east limb, first visible at 01/0248 UTC. Later in the day at 01/1340 UTC, coronal dimming was observed in the NE quadrant with an associated CME off the east limb, first visible in C2 LASCO imagery at 01/1424 UTC. WSA-Enlil model output suggested a possible weak, glancing impact at Earth mid to late on 04 Oct.  No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 26 Sep, moderate levels on 27 Sep, high levels on 28-29 Sep and 02 Oct and very high levels on 30 Sep and 01 Oct.  Geomagnetic field activity was dominated during the period by a large, recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS. Field activity began the period on 26 Sep at unsettled to active levels due to a period of prolonged southward Bz to -10 Nt. Wind speeds were in the 400-425 km/s range through midday on 26 Sep when a gradual increase to near 475 km/s was observed by early on 27 Sep. Through 27 Sep, wind speeds continued to increase to end the day near 700 km/s as the CH
HSS became geoeffective. Bz was variable between +/- 9 nT. The geomagnetic field reacted with unsettled to minor storm (G1-Minor) levels with isolated major storm (G2-Moderate) levels.
From 28 Sep through midday on 30 Sep, wind speeds remained in the 700 km/s range while the Bz component was variable at +/- 5 nT. Field conditions remained at predominately unsettled to G1 storm levels with isolated G2 storm periods observed on 28 and 29 Sep. From midday on 30 Sep through 02 Oct, wind speeds slowly decreased to end the summary period near 475 km/s. Bz remained variable between +/- 5 nT. Field conditions responded with quiet to active
levels with some isolated G1 storm periods.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 03 October - 29 October 2016
Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels with a slight chance for C-class flares through the outlook period.  No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 03-06 Oct, 18 Oct and 24-28 Oct and very high levels 27-29 Oct due to the anticipated influence of multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the period.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 03-05 Oct, 16-18 Oct and 23-29 Oct. G1(Minor) field activity is possible on 17 Oct and 23-29 Oct with G2 (Moderate)
activity possible on 24-26 Oct. This activity is due to the anticipated influence of multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. Generally quiet to unsettled conditions are expected throughout the remainder
of the period.

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2016 Oct 03 0200 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
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#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
#                Issued 2016-10-03
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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest
#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index
2016 Oct 03      80          12          4
2016 Oct 04      80          15          4
2016 Oct 05      85          10          4
2016 Oct 06      85           5          2
2016 Oct 07      90           5          2
2016 Oct 08      90           5          2
2016 Oct 09      90           5          2
2016 Oct 10      90           5          2
2016 Oct 11      90           5          2
2016 Oct 12      90           5          2
2016 Oct 13      90           5          2
2016 Oct 14      90           5          2
2016 Oct 15      95           8          3
2016 Oct 16      95          10          4
2016 Oct 17      95          20          5
2016 Oct 18      95           8          3
2016 Oct 19      90           5          2
2016 Oct 20      90           5          2
2016 Oct 21      90           5          2
2016 Oct 22      85           5          2
2016 Oct 23      85          20          5
2016 Oct 24      85          35          6
2016 Oct 25      85          35          6
2016 Oct 26      85          35          6
2016 Oct 27      80          20          5
2016 Oct 28      80          15          5
2016 Oct 29      80          15          4
(NOAA)

Marconi Radio International slated for Tuesday broadcast

MRI QSL (Gayle Van Horn Collection)

Just a short reminder of our regular weekly broadcasts on Tuesdays. Marconi Radio International will once again be on air tomorrow 4 October 2016, as follows: 

October 4, 2016

17.00-21.00 UTC on 7700 kHz (USB Mode) with 100 watts. Please note that this schedule remains valid until the end of October 2016.

MRI encourages reception reports from listeners. Audio clips (mp3-file) of our broadcasts are welcome! We QSL 100%. Our electronic mail address is: marconiradiointernational@gmail.com - Please don’t forget to include your postal address as some lucky listeners will also receive a fresh off the press QSL card which can be seen on our Facebook page  at this web-address: https://www.facebook.com/mriworld

 

Last but not least, we need your help! If you are  a DX blogger, or use social networks, please post an announcement on your own blog and/or Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience.

 

We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions.

Best 73's

Marconi Radio International (MRI) 

KVOH Voice of Hope Zambia schedule update

Zambia
Updated schedule of KVOH Voice of Hope Zambia Lusaka

Effective: 01 October 2016

All times UTC

0500-0800 on  9680 LUS 100 kW / non-dir to SoAf English Mon-Fri tx#1
0500-0800 on 11680!LUS 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Mon-Fri tx#2
1200-1700 on  9680#LUS 100 kW / non-dir to SoAf English Sat/Sun tx#1
1200-1700 on 13680*LUS 100 kW / 315 deg to WeAf English Sat/Sun tx#2
!on same QRG 11680 KNG 050 kW / non-dit to NEAs Korean  KCBS Pyongyang HS 0500-0800
#on same QRG  9680 PAO 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese RTI & CNR Jamming 1100-1400
*on same QRG 13680 ISS 500 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Persian R.Japan NHK World 1430-1500
*on same QRG 13680 KAS 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu Chinese China Radio Inter 1500-1600
(SWLDX Bulgaria 03 Oct)
(VO Hope QSL via shortwave dxer blogspot)

Teak's 'Best of the Best' DX programs on shortwave

All times UTC
v   =  variable frequency or time

All times UTC
Monday
0000 WRMI AWR Wavescan 7730
0030 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
0045 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0110v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0130 KVOH Los Angeles AWR Wavescan 9975
0130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 11580
0150 BBCWS Over to You UK DAB 198LW 1413 9410 12095 15310
0210v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0310v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0330 WBCQ (Area 51) Hobart Radio Int 5130
0410v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0510v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 5040 6000 6060 6100 6165
0610v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6060 6100 6165
1030 All India R Faithfully Yours  7270 13605 13695 15030 15410 17510 17895
1100 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
1145 WWCR Bob Padula’s Australian DX Report 15795
1315 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
1345 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1430 All India R Faithfully Yours 9690 11620 13710
1630 Amateur Radio Today from South Africa 3230
1830 All India R Faithfully Yours 7550 9445 9950 11580 11670 11935 13695 17670
2120 All India R Faithfully Yours 7550 9445 9910 9950 11620 11670 11740
2300 WRMI Viva Miami 11580
2330 All India R Faithfully Yours 9690 9705 11710 11645 13605DRM

Tuesday 
0330 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
0415 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0430 R Australia Future Tense 15240 15415 17840
0522 NHK R Japan RJ Manual 5975 11970
1122 NHK R Japan RJ Manual 11695
1330 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1422 NHK R Japan RJ Manual 11705 15735
1822 NHK R Japan RJ Manual 9755
1930v R Havana DXers Unlimited 15140
1952 NHK R Japan RJ Manual 9645  9710
2100 WRMI AWR Wavescan 15770
2132 BBCWS Click UK DAB 9915 11810as 12095
2330v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 5040 11880

Wednesday
0030 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
0100 WRMI Media Network Plus 11580
0130v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0145 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0200 WTWW QSO with Ted Randall 5085
0230v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0232 BBCWS Click UK DAB 198LW
0330v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0430v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6165
0530v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 5040 6000 6060 6100 6165
0630v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 6000 6060 6100 6165
0632 BBCWS Click UK DAB 6005 6190 7445 9410 12095 13580 15105 15420
1130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
1345 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1432 BBCWS Click UK DAB 11890 15310
1530 BBC R4 The Media Show 198LW MW FM DAB online
1930 WWCR Ask WWCR 15825
2115  WRMI Viva Miami 13695
2130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 13695

Thursday
0130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 11580
0345 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0415 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1300 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
1345 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1930 R Australia Future Tense 9580 12065 12085

Friday
0315 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0430 WRMI Viva Miami 5985
0730 R Australia Download This Show 15240 15415 17840
0930 R Australia Future Tense 9580 12065 12085
1130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
1345 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1530 BBC R4 Feedback 198LW MW FM DAB online
2100 WRMI AWR Wavescan 13695
2200 WRMI Media Network Plus 9955
2300 WRMI Viva Miami 11580

Saturday
0015 WRMI Bob padula’s Australian DX Report  9955
0130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955 11580
0415 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
0615 R France Int’l The Sound Kitchen 13725
0825 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge  9570
0930 VOA Radiogram (digital tests) 5745
1100  WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955
1130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
1245 Voice of Turkey Letterbox  15450 (alternate weeks)
1325 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge 9570 15575
1600 VOA Radiogram (digital tests) 17580
1625 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge 9515 9640
1645 Voice of Turkey Letterbox  15520 (alternate weeks)
1825 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge 7275
1832 BBCWS Click UK DAB 3255 6190 6195 7445 9410 11810 13660 15400
1845 Voice of Turkey Letterbox 9785 (alternate weeks)
1900 WTWW QSO with Ted Randall 9475
1950 BBCWS Over to You UK DAB 1413 3255 6190 7445 9410 11810 13660 15400
2045 Voice of Turkey Letterbox 9620 (alternate weeks)
2200 AWR Wavescan 15435
2215 Voice of Turkey Letterbox 9830 (alternate weeks)
2225 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge 11810
2245 WRMI AWR Wavescan 9955

Sunday
0030 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
0130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 11580
0200 WTWW QSO with Ted Randall 5085
0225 KBS World R Seoul Listeners Lounge 9580 9690
0230 VOA Radiogram (digital tests) 5745
0300 WWCR Ask WWCR 4840
0315 WWCR Bob Padula’s Australian DX Report 4840
0315 Voice of Turkey Letterbox 6165 9515 (alternate weeks)
0330 WRMI Hobart Radio Int 9955
0330 WWCR AWR Wavescan 4840
0510 R Japan Friends Around the World 5975 11970
0505 WWCR Nashville Into Tomorrow 4840
0800 Amateur Radio Today from South Africa 7205 17660
0945 WWCR Nashville Ask WWCR 4840
1030 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5850
1045 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1110 R Japan Friends Around the World 11695
1130 WRMI AWR Wavescan 5950
1230 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
1300 AWR Wavescan 15430
1410 R Japan Friends Around the World 11705 15735
1530 AWR Wavescan 15670
1600 AWR Wavescan  11975 15530
1810 R Japan Friends Around the World 9755
1902 BBC R4 Feedback 198LW MW FM DAB online
1910v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 15140
1930 VOA Radiogram (digital tests) 15670
1940  R Japan Friends Around the World 9645  9710
2230 WRMI Viva Miami 9955
2300 WRMI AWR Wavescan 11580
2310v R Havana Cuba DXers Unlimited 5040 11880

Web Sites
Many of these have live or on-demand audio or program scripts.
Ask WWCR (live) www.wwcr.com
Australian DX Report www.adxr.podbean.com
AWR Wavescan www.awr.org/en/listen/program/143/ru
BBC R4 Feedback www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 (live+archive)
BBC World Service Click www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002w6r2
BBC World Service Over to You www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsn8
Chelmsford Calling (monthly) www.chelmsfordcalling.co.uk
DXers Unlimited dxersunlimited.blogspot.com
Hobart Radio Int DX Extra www.hriradio.org
R Japan www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/index.html
KBS World Radio www.world.kbs.co.kr/english
VOA Radiogram http//voaradiogram.net/
WRMI www.wrmi.net
(British DX Club)

Monster Hurricane on Devasting Path in the Caribbean

Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba brace for monster hurricane ....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/haiti-jamaica-prepare-powerful-hurricane-matthew-100108689.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/haiti-jamaica-prepare-powerful-hurricane-matthew-100108689.html

In the event that Radio Havana includes any hurricane coverage or recovery, the following shortwave schedule is effective to the first of November 2016.

All times UTC

Arabic
0000-0100 11670sa
0100-0200 11670sa
0200-0300 11670sa
0300-0400 11670sa
1800-1900 15140na
2030-2100 15370eu
2100-2200 15370eu
2200-2300 15370eu
2300-0000 11670sa
Creole
0000-0030 5040ca
1830-1900 15140na
1900-2000 15140na
2300-0000 15370sa
English
0000-0100 6000na 6060na
0100-0200 6000na 6060na
0200-0300 6000na 6060na
0400-0500 6060n
0700-0730 6100na
1100-1200 6000na
1200-1300 6000na
1900-2000 15140na
2000-2030 15140na
2100-2200 6000na
2200-2300 6000na
2300-2330 11880af
2300-0000 5040ca 6000na
Esperanto
0700-0730  Sun 6100na
1100-1200  Sun 11760va
1200-1300  Sun 11760va
1300-1400  Sun 11760va
1400-1500  Sun 11760va
1530-1600  Sun 11760va
1600-1700  Sun 11760va
1700-1800  Sun 11760va
2230-2300  Sun 15370sa
2300-2330  Sun 15370sa
French
0000-0100 11760va
0030-0100 5040ca
0100-0200 11760va
1930-2000 15370eu
2000-2030 15140na
2100-2200 11760va
2200-2230 11880af
2230-2300 11760va 11880af
2230-2300  mtwhfa  15370sa (Mon-Sat)
2300-0000 11760va
Portuguese
0000-0030 15370sa
1800-1900 15230sa
2000-2100 15370eu
2200-2300 15230sa
2230-2300 11880af
2300-0000 11880af
2330-0000 15370sa
Quechua
0000-0030 15370sa
2100-2200 9710ca
2200-2300 9710ca
Spanish
0000-0100 6060na 9535ca 9710ca 11670sa 11760na 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa
0100-0200 5040ca 6000na 6060na 6165na 9535ca 9710ca 11670sa 11760ca 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa
0200-0300 5040ca 6000na 6060na 6165na 9535ca 9710ca 11670sa 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa
0300-0400 5040ca 6000na 6060na 6165na 9535ca 9710ca 11670sa 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa
0400-0500 5040ca 6000na 6060na 6165na 9535ca 11840sa 15230sa
0500-0600 5040ca 6000na 6060na 6100na 6165na 6060na 6100na
0600-0700 6000na 6060na 6100na 6165na
0700-0800 6000va 15230sa
0800-0900 6000na 15230sa
0900-1000 15230sa
1000-1100 15230sa
1100-1200 9535va 9640ca 9710na 9850na 11760na 15230sa 17580sa 17730sa
1200-1300 9535va 9640ca 9710na 9850na 11760na 15230sa 17580sa 17730sa
1300-1400 9535va 9640ca 9710na 11760na 15230sa 15370na 17580sa 17730sa
1400-1500 9535va 9640ca 11760na 15230sa 15370na 17730sa
1500-1530 11760va
1530-1600 11760na
1700-1800 11760na 11840sa
1800-1830 15140na
1800-1900 11840sa
1900-2000 6000na 11840na 15230sa
1930-2000 15370eu
2000-2030 15370eu
2000-2100 11840sa 15230sa
2100-2200 5040ca 9535ca 9710sa 11760na 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa 15370eu
2200-2300 5040ca 9535ca 9710sa 11760na 11840sa 13740sa 15230sa 15370eu
2200-2230 11880af
2230-2300  Sun 15370sa
2300-0000 9535ca 9710ca 11670sa 11760na 11840sa 11950na 13740sa 15230sa
Spanish
Mesa Redonda Intl (Radio Habana program)
2300-0000  mtwh 6000na 11950na
Radio Rebelde
0000-2400 in Spanish on 5025ca

Radio Progreso
Spanish
0030-0100 4765ca
0100-0200 4765ca
0200-0300 4765ca
0300-0400 4765ca
(via Arnie Coro/revised edition via WWDXC Top News # 1247; Bueschel)

Target Areas
af (Africa)
ca (Central America)
eu (Europe)
na (North America)
sa (South America)
va (various areas)

RTÉ reconsiders decision to close longwave station

RTÉ  is reconsidering closure of the longwave station, and notes that it is conducting a 'review' of its decision to close its long wave transmitter on 252 kHz. The article in the Irish Independent interprets that as meaning that the decision to close 252 has been 'ditched' but that conclusion may be too definitive. There is no commitment to increasing power on 252 or to moving to 261 to avoid interference from Algiers.
(www.independent.ie 2 October via John Walsh)
BDXC-Oct 2016

DX Fanzine offers an extra source for DXers

Thanks to Antonio Napolitano for news of DX Fanzine - a new source of news for DXers.

DX Fanzine, an electronic newsletter which was originally edited in 1999/2000, brings together tips and news as contributed by individual DXers or ascertained from different sources. We are interested in any change about frequencies, times, language-services, transmitters, program contents, phone and fax-numbers, electronic and postal address, station personnel.
The purpose of DX Fanzine, which doesn’t pretend to be in competition with any other electronic DX newsletter, is to provide timely and topical news and information to shortwave enthusiasts worldwide. It is available on the web at www.dxfanzine.com and updated as soon as loggings, DX news, frequency updates as well as QSL notes are received from any SWL around the world. Although the primary platform for delivery of DX FANZINE information remains its web site, it is turned into a pdf file, (where you can see the final version of it with loggings and information, just as they appear online), a couple of days after the end of each month and sent out FREE to anyone who has subscribed. The current as well as the previous editions of DX Fanzine (including those of years 1999/2000!) can be accessed from its home page and are there almost indefinitely.

Media Broadcast Frequency Updates

Media Broadcast GmbH, part of the TDF Group is a major transmitter network operator in Germany. MB owns the shortwave transmitter center Nauen, Germany.

The following frequency updates, should remain active to 30 October 2016, when many worldwide shortwave stations will adjust to the winter schedule period.

All times UTC
Media Broadcast


Mighty KBC Radio
0000-0100 on  6145 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun from Sept.4
0100-0200 on  6145 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg to NoAm English Sun, Oct.2 only

Bible Voice Broadcasting 0832-0902 on 17535 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg to NEAf Arabic Fri, cancelled
0902-0917 on 17535 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg to NEAf English Fri, cancelled
1400-1430 on 17650 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg to SoAs English 1st Sat, cancelled
1445-1530 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs Urdu Mon-Wed, additional
1445-1530 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs Punjabi Thu-Sat, additional
1530-1600 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs Urdu Fri, no change
1445-1545 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs English Sun, additional
1500-1530 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs Urdu Wed, cancelled
1530-1545 on 15640 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs English Sun, cancelled
1645-1700 on 13580 NAU 250 kW / 125 deg to N/ME Arabic Sat, additional
1800-1830 on 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Arabic Sat, additional

Pan American Broadcasting
1400-1430 on 15205 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs English Sun, cancelled
1415-1430 on 15205 NAU 100 kW / 095 deg to SoAs English Mon-Sat, cancelled*
1430-1445 on 15205 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English Sun, no change
1930-2000 on  9515 NAU 250 kW / 155 deg to NoAf English Sun, no change

(SWL DXing 02 Oct 2016)

The legend of Voice of Vietnam's "Hanoi Hannah" passes

Death of “Hanoi Hannah”
Voice of Vietnam , 1 October: Trinh Thi Ngo, a legendary announcer of Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV), died in Ho Chi Minh City, at 5.51 am on 30 September at the age of 87. The former announcer of VOV's English service, whose alias was Hanoi Hannah, was awarded emeritus artist title and a medal for her contributions to the development of radio. Her burial service will be held in Long Tri commune, Chau Thanh district, Long An province on 2 October. (VOV World via WRTH Facebook group, via Mike Terry)
(BDXC-Oct)

During the Vietnam War, she became famous among US soldiers for her propaganda broadcasts on Radio Hanoi. (There were actually several "Hanoi Hannahs", but she was the senior and most frequently heard one.) She made three broadcasts a day, reading a list of the newly killed or imprisoned Americans, attempting to persuade US GIs that the US involvement in the Vietnam War was unjust and immoral, and playing popular US anti-war songs in an attempt to incite feelings of nostalgia and homesickness. Though she used the alias Thu Huong, (Vietnamese: "the fragrance of autumn"), the GIs usually called her "Hanoi Hannah" or "the Dragon Lady". Few if any desertions are thought to have happened because of her propaganda work and the soldiers "hooted at her scare tactics", but they were sometimes impressed when she mentioned the correct location of their unit (when they would "give a toast to her and throw our beer cans at the radio") and named US casualties. There were exaggerated legends of her omniscience, with rumors that she would give clues about everything from specific future North Vietnamese attacks to soldiers' girlfriends cheating on them at home. In reality, most of her information came from publications such as the US military newspaper, Stars and Stripes.

Here is an excerpt from one of her broadcasts:
How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
A January 1966 Newspaper Enterprise Association article by Tom Tiede described the program:
Hannah's shows are invariably the same. After the news is an editorial denouncing U.S. escalation of the war. Then a recording by an Asian soprano who sounds as if she's having her ears pierced. Then, Mailbag Time ('write us for the truth, friends').
According to war correspondent Don North:
By zapping the truth through an ostrich-like policy censorship, deletions, and exaggerations U.S. Armed Forces Radio lost the trust of many GIs when they were most isolated and vulnerable to enemy propaganda. It wasn't that Hanoi Hannah always told the truth - she didn't. But she was most effective when she did tell the truth and US Armed Forces Radio was fudging it.
After the war, she moved to Saigon with her husband. Ngo was better known in the US than in her own country. She was offered a job on HCMC Television, but she chose to stay at home and take care of her husband, who had suffered a stroke. She remained in Ho Chi Minh City until her death.

From the Isle of Music set for Monday broadcast

Our October 4 (October 3 in the Americas on WBCQ) program presents the finale of Caribe Nostrum with special guest Guido López Gavilán, and we will play selections from each of the Rock and Pop nominees in Cubadisco 2016.
Two options for listening on shortwave:
WBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0000-0100 UTC
(8pm-9pm EDT Mondays in the Americas)
Channel 292, 6070 KHz, Tuesdays 1900-2000 UTC
(2100-2200 CEST)
See our Facebook page for more information.
(Tilford Productions)