Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletin

Notices:
High probability of changes in solar wind which may caused changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected for February 11, (13, 15) 16, (21,) 28 and March 1, 4 - 6.
Days in brackets refer to a lower probability of possible activity enhancements depending on previous development on the Sun. Present forecasts are unreliable.
(Dario Monferini, Italy/playdx)

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
31 January - 06 February 2011

Solar activity was at very low levels during the summary period. The visible disk was populated by three simple, bi-polar spot groups. The most active of these groups, Region 1152 (S18, L=155, class/area Cro/030 on 04 February), produced the largest event of the period, a B9.5 X-ray event at 04/1220 UTC. Region 1153 (N15, L=171, class/area Dro/050 on 08 February) appeared on 04 February and remained stable until the 7th, when it began growing and producing several low-level B-class X-ray events which will be discussed further in the
highlights next week.

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 31 January - 04 February. Flux increased on 05 February, reaching high levels on the 6th and remaining there through the summary period.

The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to major storm levels during the period. The field was mostly at quiet to unsettled levels until mid-day on 01 February when the onset of a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) brought a period of active to minor storm conditions. These levels lasted through mid-day on 02 February, after which the field returned to quiet levels. A sudden impulse was observed at 04/0236 UTC (8 nT detected at the Boulder magnetometer) from a shock behind a slow moving CME. Late on the 4th, Bz was southward between -15 to -20 nT and geomagnetic activity had increased to active to major storm levels. Solar wind speeds approached 500 km/s after the initial shock and peaked near 675 km/s
early on the 5th. The CME originated on 30 January and was embedded in a recurrent CH HSS, which arrived mid-day on 05 February. As a result, active to minor storm levels persisted through 06 February. The following day saw a return to quiet geomagnetic conditions.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
09 February - 07 March 2011

Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels with a chance for a C-class X-ray event through the period. The return of old Region 1149 (N17, L= 349) on 10 February will add a slight chance for M-class events through 23 February.

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to begin the period at high levels, returning to low levels by 11 February.

Geomagnetic activity is expected to be mostly quiet early, with occasional unsettled periods through 10 February in response to a weak CH HSS. Conditions are expected to be quiet from 11-28 February. A second CH HSS is expected to be geoeffective 01-04 March, bringing unsettled to occasionally active geomagnetic field conditons.

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2011 Feb 09 82 7 2
2011 Feb 10 82 7 2
2011 Feb 11 82 5 2
2011 Feb 12 82 5 2
2011 Feb 13 82 5 2
2011 Feb 14 82 5 2
2011 Feb 15 82 5 2
2011 Feb 16 84 5 2
2011 Feb 17 88 5 2
2011 Feb 18 88 5 2
2011 Feb 19 88 5 2
2011 Feb 20 88 5 2
2011 Feb 21 86 5 2
2011 Feb 22 84 5 2
2011 Feb 23 84 5 2
2011 Feb 24 80 5 2
2011 Feb 25 80 5 2
2011 Feb 26 80 5 2
2011 Feb 27 80 5 2
2011 Feb 28 80 5 2
2011 Mar 01 80 8 3
2011 Mar 02 80 10 3
2011 Mar 03 80 10 3
2011 Mar 04 80 8 3
2011 Mar 05 80 5 2
2011 Mar 06 80 5 2
2011 Mar 07 80 5 2
(NOAA)

Turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt: Backgrounds

Because of the recent major political events that have taken place in both Tunisia and Egypt during the past few days, we interrupt the flow of our regular programming here in Wavescan and we take a look at the radio scene in these two North African countries. In brief outline, this is what the major news media are stating about the current events in these two countries.
On December 27, a street vendor in a country town in Tunisia set himself afire as a protest against official denials to his appeals for justice in his employment needs. Already festering unrest in the country began to mount, and two weeks later, protesters took to the streets demanding government reforms. Night curfews were implemented, but the public demonstrations continued in several cities, including the capital city Tunis, with as many as 10,000 people participating. On January 14, the president fled from the country, but the unrest continues.
Soon afterwards, tensions due to smoldering grievances in nearby Egypt erupted into street demonstrations and violence with many tens of thousands of people participating. In response, on January 28, the president of Egypt ordered his entire government to resign, but the unrest, public demonstrations and widespread looting still continued. Rioters have broken into the fabulous Cairo Museum with subsequent looting and damage to ancient artifacts. The American government has closed its embassy in Cairo and they are airlifting out several thousand American citizens.
And, the intense unrest is spreading to other countries in northern Africa and the Middle East.

* Radio in the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs
As a result of the wild demonstrations in Egypt, usage of the internet has been closed, and the programming from the internal services of the Egyptian radio & TV networks has been modified for the occasion. In addition, the international shortwave service of Radio Cairo has been drastically reduced and modified also.
Internationally, many of the major shortwave stations have introduced special programming for coverage into Egypt. Radio Netherlands for example, has increased its Arabic coverage into Egypt on satellite; and on shortwave, they have introduced three hours of special programming in Dutch for the 8,000 Dutch citizens in Egypt. These shortwave broadcasts are presented in three separate transmissions, using two transmitters in parallel.
On the map, Egypt looks like a small country at the top of Africa, but in reality, it is quite a large country nearly 800 miles across and 700 miles long. It is a quite modern country in many ways, though at the same time, it is one of the most ancient countries in the entire history of our world. The beginnings of civilization in Egypt can be traced way back more than 4,000 years ago.
Egypt is well known for its pyramids and the Sphinx, the animal like creature with a human head. It is well known for the fertility along the Nile River, and also for the fabulous historic displays in the Cairo Museum. From a Christian perspective, Egypt is mentioned by name more than a thousand times in the Holy Scriptures. In addition, several of the ancient Pharaoh’s are mentioned by name in the Bible, thus enabling a reliable correlation for ancient events in the Middle Eastern areas.
Wireless came to Egypt quite early. The New York Times on March 8, 1912, stated that a large wireless station would be established in Egypt as part of the Imperial Wireless Scheme as outlined by the famous Guglielmo Marconi. This station was constructed at Abu Zaabal on the north eastern edge of Cairo during the year 1914.
The 300 kW transmitter at Abu Zaabal was on the air on 55 & 66 kHz longwave under the callsign SUC and it communicated with a similar station at Leafield in England. This station, after successive upgradings and modernizations, was destroyed in 1954 during the Suez War.
During the early 1920s, several small broadcasting stations were established in Egypt, mainly in Cairo & Alexandria; though in 1931, the government closed all of the irregular stations, permitting just a few well run stations to remain on air. The Egyptian State Broadcasting Service was established in 1934, and all radio broadcasting in Egypt has since remained under government control until more recent times.
On the shortwave scene, new shortwave transmitters were installed at the longwave transmitting station at Abu Zaabal in the late 1920s, and it appears that initially two units rated at 10 kW were in use. These units were on the air for phone communication with Europe and the United States under callsigns in the SU series, such as SUV, SUX & SUZ. The first known usage of these shortwave transmitters with the broadcast of radio programming was in mid 1935, when station SUV was noted on 9570 kHz in both the United States & Australia. Over the years, the shortwave base at Abu Zaabal has been re-outfitted with numerous additional transmitters, and at the present time a total of 18 are listed at this site.
Another shortwave station located at Mokattam, also near Cairo, was developed in the late 1950s, and at least four transmitters at 50 kW & 100 kW have been in use. This station is no longer on the air.
A third shortwave base was developed at Abis near Alexandria also in the late 1950s with several Marconi transmitters rated at 250 kW & 500 kW. The Abis station is still in use today with 9 transmitters listed.
Over the years since the mid 1930s, the statistics show that Radio Cairo shortwave has utilized a total of somewhere around 40 shortwave transmitters ranging in power from 10 kW to 500 kW. Although Egypt on shortwave was not always a reliable verifier, yet multitudes of colorful QSL cards, showing ancient monuments and current scenes have been issued.

Radio in the Land of the Ancient Phoenicians
And now we cross over to the other country of recent turmoil, Tunisia. This North African country lies at the top of Africa and it is nearly 500 miles long and a little over 200 miles wide. The total population is around 10 million, and the capital city of Tunisia is Tunis.
The history of Tunisia goes way back into antiquity, with ancient tribal peoples inhabiting the area. The famous city of Carthage was established in the year 814 BC by Phoenician colonists from Tyre on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. History tells us that Queen Elissa took a contingent of settlers from the Phoenician coast in Palestine and established Carthage in Africa, which means New City in their language.
This Queen Elissa was a grand niece to the infamous Queen Jezebel of Bible times, and her brother was King Pygmalion, about whom George Bernard Shaw wrote in one of his famous plays. According to the story, Pygmalion fell in love with a statue of a beautiful woman that he had made.
As time went by, Tunisia was overcome by the Romans from Italy, the Vandals from continental Europe, the Byzantines from Turkey, and the Arabs from the Middle East. France took over Tunisia as a protectorate in 1881, and Tunisia became independent in 1956.
Just before the beginning of World War 1, the French navy established the first wireless station in Tunisia, under the callsign TZF. After the war, the French were operating three wireless stations with just two internationally regularized callsigns, FUA & FFT.
Radio broadcasting came to Tunisia in the mid 1920s, with a longwave station operated by the French army, TUA on 205 kHz with 500 watts. During the subsequent years, in the 1920s & 1930s up to the time of World War 2, a half a dozen mediumwave broadcasting stations were established in different cities in Tunisia, including Tunis itself, as well as Sfax and the modern Carthage. However, none of these stations demonstrated any form of long term permanency.
However, in August 1938, the French government established an official radio station which was named Radio Tunis and broadcasts from this station were inaugurated soon afterwards with 30 kW on mediumwave 868 kHz.
Back around the end of the 1920s, there were a couple of attempts at shortwave broadcasting in Tunisia, from stations TUA & 8KR, and perhaps some others. Then, soon after the new Radio Tunis became stabilized on mediumwave, shortwave broadcasting was also inaugurated with the use of 15560 kHz as the main channel.
However, when France came under German occupation, the shortwave outlet in Tunis was closed. Then, in January 1943, Radio Tunis was again heard on shortwave; the channel was 7280 Khz and the programming was noted by an international radio monitor in the United States.
During the year 1959, work was completed on a new shortwave station located at Djedeida, some 20 miles west of the capital city Tunis. This station operated with just one transmitter at 50 kW and it was first noted in late December 1959 on 6125 kHz.
A second shortwave base was established near Sfax on the central Eastern coast of Tunisia. This station was inaugurated in 1968 and it operated with three Telefunken transmitters at 100 kW each, and a series of curtain antennas.
A third shortwave transmitter base was installed at Sidi Mansour, very near to the Sfax facility, and this station was inaugurated in 1997 with four transmitters at 500 kW each. This is the only shortwave station in Tunisia still on the air today, though current scheduling shows only three transmitters in operation at any one time, with a reduced power output of 250 kW each.
QSL cards from Tunisia are not common, and usually they were tourist picture cards with the QSL text typed onto the reverse side.

* Early Voice of America Relay Stations in Tunisia Back on May 7, 1943, during the North Africa campaigns, American forces captured two mediumwave radio stations in Tunisia, both of which were taken into service as relay stations for the Voice of America. One was a low powered station in the city of Tunis, and we could guess that this was a 700 watt station on 1402 kHz. This station was active on air at the time of its capture, and on the same day, it was taken over with a relay of programming from the Voice of America.
The other station was the higher powered Radio Tunis with 30 kW on 868 kHz, with studios in Tunis and the transmitter 20 miles distant at Djedeida. Early records from the Voice of America show this station with 240 kW, but apparently reliable lists show this station at the time with 30 kW. Perhaps the 240 kW is the total usage of electricity at the station.
During the six weeks after it was taken over by the Americans, Radio Tunis was renovated and restored, and it was was re-launched a little past mid June 1943 as a relay station for the Voice of America. VOA Tunis was also used at this stage to beam special programming into Italy. The VOA programming was taken off air shortwave from east coast transmitters in the United States.
It would be suggested that the VOA usage of Radio Tunis lasted for just a few months at the most. There is no evidence that there were any shortwave broadcasts from Radio Tunis during the short era of VOA usage.
(AWR Wavescan/ NWS # 102 via Adrian Peterson, DX Editor)

The Cross Radio revises broadcast schedule

Special thanks to Ron Howard for keeping me updated on the revised operating schedule for The Cross Radio. After extended antenna problems, Galcom engineers have assisted the station in returning to the air. The Cross Radio is a ministry of Pacific Missionary Aviation, on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Station Manager, Sylvia Kalau advises listeners the station is currently operating for the following tentative schedule.

All times UTC/ broadcast daily, targeted to Asia

English
0000-0100 4755
0100-0200 4755
0200-0300 4755
0300-0400 4755
0400-0500 4755
0500-0600 4755
0600-0700 4755
0700-0800 4755
0800-0900 4755
0900-0930 4755
2130-2200 4755
2200-2300 4755
2300-0000 4755
(revision 2/8/2011 from former 24 hour schedule)

Reception reports are acccepted by email to pohnpei@pmapacific.org . Station address: Pacific Missionary Aviation, The Cross Radio, P.O. Box 517, Pohnpei FM 96941, Federated States of Micronesia.

Website: http://www.pmapacific.org/

Logging
4755.44, The Cross Radio clearly off the air Feb 7 during checks at 1318 + 1348 + 1403 + 1429 + 1443. Jim Young (CA) heard them last night (Feb 7 UT): "The Cross was in very early tonight, first heard audio nearly 30 minutes earlier at 0642! At 0713 they are strong! Measured frequency tonight is 4755.452". Will have to see what tomorrow brings. Am happy that I already have two nice verifications for this one!
(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Radio Netherlands Program Guide, Feb. 4-10

Hello,
Here in the Netherlands we are quite used to people joking about serious topics. But what about other countries? Can you get away with making fun of something as serious as the burqa in a country like Pakistan? Join South Asia Wired to find out.
Enjoy our programmes!



The State We're In
Jonathan Groubert and his team look at current events from an unexpected perspective.

This week: Neighbourhood watch

From Cairo, to Juarez, to Poland and Zimbabwe: people who’ve had enough will do whatever it takes to change things for the better, even if it means risking their lives.

First airing: Saturday 02:00 UTC

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

This week: Sensing our environment

From using smell in both architecture and art to influence behavior and emotion, to customising soundscapes, we examine how smell and sound affect the way we do things.

First airing: Friday 02:00 UTC

Bridges With Africa
We're giving the microphone to Diaspora groups in Europe and are linking up with stations in Africa.

This week:

An uprising is taking place in North Africa, but could it impact the rest of the continent?
We take a private tour with the nightmare of a Somali group in Rome.
From war veterans to music stars - we feature the Rwandan group The Good Ones on this week's music slot.

First airing: Friday 00:00 UTC

Africa in Progress
Inspiring round-table discussions with guest speakers and in-depth interviews give listeners food for thought.

This week: Did Africa benefit from the 2010 World Cup?

The 2010 World Cup, hosted by an African country for the first time, is widely seen as a major achievement. But what did it bring to South Africa and to the rest of the continent? And who profited the most? A few months after the event, it’s time for a cautious preliminary assessment, with three football watchers.

First airing: Monday 18:00 UTC

South Asia Wired
Programme in which South Asians get to talk to each other, hosted by Dheera Sujan.

This week: What’s so funny about a burqa?

Pakistani comedian Saad Haroon has recorded a parody video called “Burqa woman”, in which he explains his love for a mysterious veiled woman. “My love for you grows / Everytime I see your toes”. But can you get away with making fun of a burqa in a country like Pakistan? Saad tells all about it in this week’s programme.

(There'll be a new edition of the programme on Thursday 10 February)

First airing: Thursday 15:14 UTC

Commonwealth Story
A selection of winning stories chosen from the large number of entries for the 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.

This week:

Education for Life - by Anna Lewis from the UK. A young woman is determined to transform herself.

First airing: Tuesday 00:55 UTC

Hear the World
Listen to the world’s musical heartbeat on RNW. A brand new world music series hosted by Dheera Sujan.

Three concerts from three music greats and their bands at the 2009 North Sea Jazz festival: bassist Étienne Mbappé from Cameroon, French accordionist Richard Galliano and Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes.

First airing: Monday 03:00 UTC

RNW Classical
Classical concerts from the Royal Concertgebouw as well as studio recordings of Dutch performers, presented by Hans Haffmans.

A relay of part of the music programming of our sister web station RNWclassical.com.

First airing: Monday 01:00 UTC
(R Netherlands)

Radio Netherlands - B10 English schedule
effective to: 27 March 2011

All times UTC

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

Two RFE/RL reporters detained in Cairo

Two correspondents for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been detained in Cairo. Robert Tait and Abdelilah Nuaimi - both UK citizens - had just flown into the Egyptian capital to report on the ongoing political unrest. RFE/RL made contact briefly around 1 pm local time with Tait, who said he had to cut the call short because he and Nuaimi were being detained. A local RFE/RL correspondent in Cairo spoke around the same time to Nuaimi, who told him they were being held in what he believed to be a police station in the city’s Al-Azhar area.

“We call on the Egyptian authorities to release our correspondents and their equipment immediately,” said RFE/RL News Director Jay Tolson.
(Source: RFE/RL/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Al Jazeera says Cairo office destroyed by "thugs"
Al Jazeera said today that its office in Cairo had been burnt and destroyed by “gangs of thugs”. The news channel, which was ordered earlier this week to stop its operations in Egypt, accused the Egyptian authorities or its supporters of trying to thwart its coverage of political unrest in the North African country.

“The Al Jazeera Network have reported that their office in Cairo has been stormed by gangs of thugs. The office has been burned along with the equipment inside it,” it said in a statement. “It appears to be the latest attempt by the Egyptian regime or its supporters to hinder Al Jazeera’s coverage of events in the country.” The network said it would continue to report from Egypt.

Last Sunday, the Egyptian Information Ministry ordered Al Jazeera to shut down its operations in the country, and withdrew accreditation to its staff, according to the network. On Thursday, the news channel said three of its journalists were released after being detained by Egyptian authorities while covering that country’s massive street protests.
(Source: Reuters/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Egyptian Al Jazeera Live Coverage Internet Feed

I'm not a fan of Al Jazeera but you can watch a live feed from Cairo via Al Jazeera on the net at http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/2007829161423657345.html

EBU calls for end of journalist harrasment

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) today called on Egyptian authorities to protect reporters working in Egypt, and ensure that they are not harassed and are allowed to report freely. “We condemn all violence towards journalists and urge Egyptian authorities to ensure the safety of journalists as they bring the story to the world,” said the EBU’s Director General, Ingrid Deltenre. She added “The continuing harassment and intimidation of journalists, and interference with newsgathering have to end immediately.”

The number of reports of violence towards journalists operating in Egypt has increased dramatically in the past few days. Ms. Deltenre went on to say that: “Media freedom is a fundamental human right, and we ask Egyptian authorities to ensure that it is respected, especially at this time. Independent and impartial newsgathering is essential to public media organizations. The EBU calls on the authorities in Egypt to ensure that our Members and all journalists can operate freely in Egypt.”
(Source: EBU/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

The Cold War Begins in Ottawa

The Cold War Begins in Ottawa --- In September 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk working at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, defected. Canada had its first genuine international scandal. This had many ramifications at the International Service, where Eric Koch was working at the time. The resulting "witch hunt" threatened the organization and changed the atmosphere considerably. Of particular interest is the story of Henning Sorenson, the head of the Danish section, who had helped Norman Bethune set up blood banks in Spain.
(Feb 2011 Contact/Alan Roe)

Radio Netherlands launches new Farsi website

Prompted by the tense relations between Tehran and The Hague following the execution of Dutch-Iranian Zahra Bahrami, RNW has launched a new website aimed at Iran. The new site www.rnw.nl/farsi went live today in a ‘light version’ - for social media and mobile phone use - and will be, as its name indicates, produced in Farsi, the language spoken in Iran and by the many Iranians who live outside the country.

The decision to start this new internet service has also been prompted by the continuing crises in Egypt and Tunisia, both of which are of great significance for many other countries in the region, including Iran. The current Islamic Republic there is itself the result of a popular uprising which took place in Iran in 1979. This new RNW website is also Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s first service in Farsi, the station’s 11th broadcasting and website language.

RNW Editor-in-Chief Rik Rensen believes that there is a large market within Iran which would welcome an independent and balanced service from the Netherlands: “The website’s initial launch is for a period of one month, at the end of which we’ll decide whether it should be continued.”

With social media providing popular information-sharing platforms for many Iranians, too, much of the output of www.rnw.nl/farsi will also be re-published via these channels.

RNW already provides an Arabic-language service which produces radio programmes and satellite text TV alongside its main website www.rnw.nl/hunaamsterdam . The service in Farsi will translate and publish material from the Arabic service where relevant for Iran and Iranians. A daily review of major news as covered by Dutch and international media will also be provided in Farsi.

RNW says it intends and hopes to work with media partners both in and outside Iran which want to share information in Farsi, provided these organisations are able to operate independently.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Early Days of Radio Canada International

Eric Koch has posted two interesting videos about the early days of Radio
Canada International to Youtube. These are:
The Voice of Canada --- During 1943, the government of Mackenzie King
decided that Canada should join the US and England as a shortwave
broadcaster. The CBC and the Department of External Affairs set about
creating the International Service (now called Radio Canada International).
Eric Koch and Helmut Blume began broadcasting to Germany in late 1944.
Although this was thought of as a form of "psychological warfare" in support
of the war effort, it was really a promotion of democracy and information
about Canada. In fact, after the war, arrangements were made with German
broadcasters to provide educational programming about Canada. Additionally,
visits were made to POW camps across Canada -- 32,000 people until
repatriation was completed in 1947.
(Feb Contact 2011/Alan Roe)

Australian States on Radio: Australian Capital Territory

In our program today, we begin a monthly series of topics on the subject of Australian states on shortwave; and interestingly, every state within the Commonwealth has been on the air shortwave, at least at some time or another.
As the first area of interest, we look at shortwave broadcasting in A. C. T., the Australian Capital Territory. It is true, ACT is not a separate state, but rather the federal territory in which the national capital city, Canberra is located. This slice of Australian territory is a little like Washington DC in the United States. Both are the national capital for the nation, but in Australia, the national territory also encompasses the neighboring countryside areas as well.
The Australian Capital Territory is located approximately half way between Sydney (Australia’s first settlement) and Melbourne (the temporary capital while Canberra was being developed). The original inhabitants of the area were the wandering Ngunnawal Aborigines. Exploration of the area by English settlers began in 1820, and the first homesteaders took up property four years later.
The widely separated colonies on the Australian continent, together with the island of Tasmania, were federated into a single nation on January 1, 1901, and provision was made at that time for the future development of a national capital. Exactly ten years later, to the very day, the territory was officially taken over by the federal government, and the city name, Canberra was chosen. We understand that the name Canberra is taken from an Aboriginal word meaning, meeting place.
The Australian Capital Territory is 55 miles long and 20 miles wide, and the city was designed by the American landscape architect, Walter Burley Griffin from Chicago. Griffin is also credited with the development of the now very popular home located carport; and the ornamental lake in the centre of Canberra is named in his honor. Today, this very modern capital city of Australia has 1/3rd million inhabitants.
An early wireless communication station was established for the Australian navy in Melbourne, Victoria. However, in 1925, during the era when Canberra city was still under its early development, the navy recommended that a large communication station should be established in the capital territory near Canberra.
Construction work for this new station at Belconnen, near Canberra, began without publicity in 1938. As the station was nearing completion during the following year, and on subsequent occasions also, rumors suggested incorrectly that this station might also be used as the transmitter base for the planned shortwave service of Radio Australia. The Belconnen station was officially opened on April 22 in the critical year 1939, and the first operational transmission as a navy communication station was made six months later.
The original transmitter was a high powered longwave unit, radiating from a very tall antenna system suspended from three towers 600 feet high and a quarter mile apart. As time went by, a cluster of shortwave transmitters was installed, and a bevy of curtain and rhombic antennas was erected.
At the height of its operation, the transmitter station at Belconnen contained 38 shortwave transmitters ranging in power from 10 kW to 40 kW, with 50 antenna systems, though most dominant in the skyline were the three tall longwave towers. Three receiver stations associated with the transmitter station were located progressively at three different sites nearby to Canberra; Red Hill, Fyshwick & Bonshaw.
This huge communication station was progressively decommissioned, withdrawn from service, finally closed in mid 2005, and then demolished, thus making way for a new housing development in suburban Canberra. The functions of the station were progressively transferred to a new navy communication station located further inland, near Albury, on the Murray River in New South Wales.
During its more than 66 years of service as a major communication radio station, Belconnen was on the air under at least seven different callsigns, and these were:-
VHP Navy communication
VIS Communication with commercial shipping
VIX Weather & shipping information
AXM Time signals after the closing of the chronohertz station VNG at Lyndhurst in Victoria
2AAFR Navy broadcasting service
AAFR Navy broadcasting service
ADFR Navy broadcasting service

The first known usage of the Belconnen radio station for the broadcast of radio programming occurred in the year 1956, and this was on the occasion of the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne Victoria. All available shortwave transmitter space in Australia was pressed into service to ensure that adequate radio coverage could be provided for all foreign radio media covering the sporting events in Melbourne. It is reported that the navy communication station at Belconnen in the Australian Capital Territory also was in use for the relay of radio news and commentaries to other overseas countries during the Olympic Games.
Soon after the VNG chronohertz transmitters at Lyndhurst in Victoria were closed during the year 1987, the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne provided a radio time service via the Belconnen transmitter station. This familiar ticking sound was on the air for a period of twelve years and it was heard on three shortwave channels; 5100 kHz at 5 kW, and 6488 kHz & 12982 kHz both at 10 kW.
In 1991, a small temporary studio was installed in Canberra by the navy for the production of radio programming for broadcast to Australian service personnel on duty in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and at sea. Initially, this programming was on the air as the Gulf Link Service and it was relayed by Radio Australia Darwin to the Arabian Gulf area in May 1991. Five months later, the Belconnen transmitters began to carry this service, and the Darwin relay was subsequently discontinued, in May 1993.
In the meantime, a new and more substantial production studio was installed in Canberra, and programming was produced for broadcast under the callsign, 2AAFR, Australian Armed Forces Radio, which was in reality a New South Wales callsign, not an Australian Capital Territory callsign.
Way back, the first radio broadcasting station launched in Canberra was a commercial station and it was inaugurated in 1931 under the callsign 2CA. Even though the initial digit 2 was allocated to the state of New South Wales, yet all of the early radio stations in Canberra were also allocated callsigns with the initial digit 2. However, in more recent time, amateur callsigns in the federal territory have been allocated a VK1 callsign, and several of the subsequent AM and FM broadcasting stations were also allocated callsigns beginning with the initial number 1.
As far as the radio broadcasting service from Belconnen was concerned, the callsign 2AAFR soon gave way to the initials, AAFR, and also ADFR, Australian Defence Forces Radio. This radio broadcasting service was on the air from Belconnen for a period of eight years and it was beamed to Rwanda, Malaysia, Cambodia & Timor.
For a short period of time during the year 1999, the Belconnen station was heard on air with a relay of the ABC programming service known as 2 Triple J, that is 2JJJ.
It should also be noted that programming from the Canberra studio was relayed by the navy transmitting station located at North West Cape in Western Australia. On some occasions, the programming was separate, and sometimes it was in parallel with the Belconnen broadcasts.
The broadcast of radio programming from Belconnen ended in 1999, but shortly afterwards their Canberra studio produced another series of programs beamed to Timor, and this was relayed by Radio Australia in Shepparton Victoria.
The large and powerful navy communication station at Belconnen in Australia’s Capital Territory is now gone, and it has been replaced by suburban housing. However, many international radio monitors in many countries throughout the world hold historic memories of this station in their collection of QSL cards and letters.
Cards have been issued over the years for the several callsigns in use at Belconnen, including VHP, VIX, VIS, AXM, and the navy broadcasting service itself. In addition, Radio Australia also honored the broadcast of the navy programming over their Darwin & Shepparton transmitters with their large and colorful QSL cards.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS # 101 via Adrian Peterson)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2011 Feb 01 1755 UTC
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
24 - 30 January 2011

Solar activity ranged from very low to moderate during the summary period. Region 1149 (N17, L= 349, class/area Dso/250 on 26 January) provided the bulk of activity producing 5 C-class events and the largest, an M1.3 at 28/0103Z as the region rotated around the west limb. Associated with this event was a Type II Sweep with an estimated shock velocity of 732 km/s and a CME observed in LASCO C2 imagery off the NW limb at 28/0206Z. Due to the location of this CME, it was determined not to be Earth-directed. Earlier in the period, Region 1149 produced a C1.2 X-ray event at 27/1201Z with another Type II Sweep (901 km/s estimated SV). On 28 January, two new regions were numbered. Region 1150 (S21, L-182, class/area
Dao/050 on 30 January) rotated onto the disk while Region 1151 (N09, L-306, class/area Cro/020 on 28 January) emerged on the disk. Both regions were quiet and stable producing only low-level B-class activity. A 26 degree filament erupted on 29/1219Z visible in
SDO/AIA 193 imagery. An associated faint, partial-halo CME was observed in LASCO C3 imagery at 30/1954Z and appeared to be Earth-directed.

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. However, a 10 MeV proton enhancement of 2.8 pfu was recorded at 28/1625Z associated with the M1.3 X-ray event on 28 January.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 24 - 26 and 28 January and normal levels on 27 and 29 - 30 January.

Geomagnetic field levels were predominately quiet the entire summary period. Solar wind speeds were fairly benign ranging from a high of 407 km/s at 24/0843Z to a low of 266 km/s at 30/1946Z The Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field did not vary much
beyond +/- 5 nT during the summary period.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity
02 February - 28 February 2011

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels through 08 February. A slight chance for M-class activity is possible from 09 - 22 February due to the return of old Region 1149 (N17, L= 349). Very low to low levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook period (23 - 28 February).

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels during 02 - 03 February, increasing to moderate to high levels for 04 - 09 February. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook
period (10 - 28 February).

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on 02 - 04 February due to combined effects of a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) and the 29 January CME. Isolated active to minor storm periods are possible 02 - 03 February. Predominately quiet levels will return from 05 - 08 February. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on 09 - 11 February due to another CH HSS. Isolated active periods are possible on 10 February. Predominately quiet conditions will prevail from 12 - 27 February. Quiet to unsettled levels, with isolated active periods, are expected by 28 February due to another CH HSS.

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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2011 Feb 02 82 12 4
2011 Feb 03 82 15 5
2011 Feb 04 84 8 3
2011 Feb 05 84 5 2
2011 Feb 06 84 5 2
2011 Feb 07 84 5 2
2011 Feb 08 84 5 2
2011 Feb 09 84 5 2
2011 Feb 10 86 8 3
2011 Feb 11 88 10 3
2011 Feb 12 88 8 3
2011 Feb 13 88 5 2
2011 Feb 14 88 5 2
2011 Feb 15 88 5 2
2011 Feb 16 88 5 2
2011 Feb 17 88 5 2
2011 Feb 18 88 5 2
2011 Feb 19 88 5 2
2011 Feb 20 88 5 2
2011 Feb 21 86 5 2
2011 Feb 22 84 5 2
2011 Feb 23 82 5 2
2011 Feb 24 80 5 2
2011 Feb 25 80 5 2
2011 Feb 26 80 5 2
2011 Feb 27 80 5 2
2011 Feb 28 80 10 3
(NOAA)

Adventist World Radio set to celebrate 40th Anniversary

Early Adventist Radio Broadcast

Later this year, Adventist World Radio will celebrate its 40th anniversary. It was on the afternoon of Friday October 1, in the year 1971, that the first broadcast from the new Adventist World Radio went on the air from the new high powered shortwave station located at Sines in Portugal.

In our program today, we take a historical look at very early radio events that ultimately led to the inauguration of Adventist World Radio. It is true, we did look at some of these early events back in 1986 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of AWR, but since then, a lot more interesting information has been discovered. So, we begin back almost 90 years ago.

It was on March 25 in the year 1922, when radio was very young, that the first inaugural transmission from an Adventist radio station took place. The location was Andrews University in Berrien Springs Michigan, or Emmanuel Missionary College as it was known at the time; the temporary callsign was the amateur designation 8AZ; and the operator was the young John Fetzer from Lafayette, a little further south, in Indiana. The official inauguration of the station as a program broadcasting facility occurred under the callsign KFGZ a year later.

That is a brief outline of the first radio broadcasts from the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. So let us move on now to other very early Adventist radio broadcasts, and we go up into Canada.

It so happened that there was a medical practitioner by the name of Dr. O. S. Parrett and he was the medical director of a small Adventist hospital on Vancouver Island just off the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Dr. Parrett had a friend who built his own radio broadcasting station that was on the air under the callsign CHCE with just 5 watts on 750 kHz in 1922. The doctor was invited to present a series of health topics over this small new radio station and this took place in the middle of the following year. By this time, the station was operating with a power increase up to 20 watts.

During the next couple of years, Dr Parrett made several additional radio broadcasts over several other radio stations in Canada, including:

CFCL Victoria also on Vancouver Island BC with 500 watts on 730 kHz
The Canadian National Railways station in Vancouver CNRV with 500 w, 1100 kHz
The Canadian CNR phantom station CFCN in Calgary Alberta 750 watts 690 kHz.

On a coming occasion, we will present a major feature here in Wavescan about the unique network of phantom radio stations throughout Canada.

In the meantime, we move down to the United States, and in chronological order we go to Allentown in Pennsylvania, and here we find Pastor H. A. Vandeman making his first radio broadcast over station WCBA with 50 watts on 1180 kHz. Vandeman made many broadcasts over station WCBA for a period of some 10 years, and a couple of others also assisted in these ventures. He was on the air also in nearby Harrisburg over station WCOD.

It can be remembered that Pastor Vandeman’s son, George, was the originator of the long running TV program, It is Written, which was launched in 1955.

Next we go to Springfield Massachusetts in 1924, to station WBZ, which was the Westinghouse station with 1500 watts on 900 kHz at the time. Here we find another speaker on radio, Pastor W. A. Spicer, after whom the university affiliated college in Poona India is named, Spicer Memorial College. In Springfield, Spicer presented a series of programs, Friday evening & Saturday morning, in January 1924, made up of music and the spoken word.

Three years later, another pastor, W. W. Prescott, presented a similar series of weekly broadcasts over station KFOR with 100 watts on 1380 kHz in Lincoln Nebraska.

Next we come to the era of Dr. H. M. S. Richards, the illustrious founder of the long running Voice of Prophecy radio program. Richards’ first attempt on the air was a short announcement regarding a series of public meetings he was conducting in Bakersfield California. The station was a very new and very small facility under the callsign KERN, on 1410 kHz, and the advertising announcement was on the air in February 1927.

Actually, Dr. Richards spoke over the air from many different stations in California during the late 1920s & 1930s, such as KMJ Fresno in 1928, KNX Hollywood in 1929, KGER Long Beach in 1930, KFI Los Angeles in 1934, and so on, right up to the war years and beyond. In 1937, the program title “Voice of Prophecy” was introduced and it was broadcast over the Don Lee-Mutual network in California. At the beginning of 1942, the “Voice of Prophecy” was heard on the nationwide Mutual network of 89 stations, and later the same year, on 225 stations throughout the United States.

And that’s the story of early Adventist radio broadcasting, as an introductory program honoring the 40th anniversary of Adventist World Radio.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS 101 via Adrian Peterson)

Additional news on The Cross

Listener's contnue to log Micronesia's The Cross radio station from Pohnpei. Thanks to all of those that have sent me additional loggings and station information. The following was released today.
Gayle VH

Website: www.pmapacific.org/

Contact info:

PMA Guam

P.O. Box 96932

Hagatna, Guam

Email: info@pmapacific.org

Religious broadcaster, The Cross, from Pohnpei, on 4755, is now running 24-hrs, simulcasting the FM service on 88.5 Here in Melbourne, really good signals from as early as 0700, right through our night to fade-out at around 1935.

The shortwave facility has recently been reactivated and upgraded with the commissioning of a new antenna and feeder.

Looking at postings in hobby news groups worldwide, reception has been widely reported in the Americas in the span from around 0605 to 1300, even on the East Coast!

I'd be interested in knowing the overall span of reception at your location, especially in Europe and Asia.

Pohnpei is relatively close to northern Australia, sitting in the UTC+11 time zone, not far from Papua New Guinea.

Regards from Melbourne!

Bob Padula

logging
Micronesia
4755.45, PMA The Cross Radio (Pohnpei), 0710-0736, 2/2/2011, English. Apparent syndicated religious program with talk by a man. Request for donations at 0720 along with an unintelligible web site. Joined by a woman at 0721 with info about their ministry and request for funds. Contemporary religious vocal music 0724 to 0736 tune out. Weak signal with fading and increasing local noise made program content extremely difficult to understand. Heard on my PNG/South Pacific oriented wire. At the same time also heard weak audio on SIBC's 5019.9 carrier. (Jim Evans, TN)

Hi Gayle,
Thanks for getting the word out about the reactivation of the Cross Radio. Sent this log thru to Cumbre, but not posted there yet, so thought I would send this on to you directly. Nice that this station now makes it over to the east coast.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Ron Howard
California

4755.44, The Cross Radio. Randomly from 1313 to tune out at 1502, Feb 3. Non-stop contemporary Christian songs (soul, pop, ballads, etc.) in English. IDs (local time checks, frequencies [both FM and SW] and often given by young girls [Angel, Tanya, etc.]) IDs given near top and bottom-of-the hour, but seems their clock is off by 1-2 minutes.

www.mediafire.com/?yg19uuoi5nh92op contains audio of various IDs heard today (the best one is the last one). Reception much better than yesterday. Nice to see this making it over to the east coast. If only 1 KW, then the antenna they have been working on for some years now is really fabulous! (Ron Howard, CA)

February specials from DX Stamp Supplies

Dear Customer,

February Stamp and Supply specials are listed below.

On Back Order: Serbia, Slovenia, Kuwait, Oman, Brunei

Stamps In Stock Again: Germany (0,75 rate)

New Rates: Spain now 0,80 as of Jan 1st. I checked their website in early Jan and they didn't list new rates nor did their stamp issues for 2011 show a new 0,80 stamp. Info finally appeared there about the 15th. (See special)

Argentina now $7.50 up from $6.50
Greece increases from 0,72 to 0,75 this week
Hungary increased from 260, to 270
***I have makeups for Argentina, Spain and Greece***

New Prices for Oceania:
Cook Islands $1.60
Fiji $1.50
Kiribati $1.60
Marshall Is $1.20
Micronesia $1.20
New Zealand $2.00
Norfolk Is. $2.00
Palau $1.20
Pitcairn $2.00

Countries Dropped: Tunisia and Tristan da Cunha extremely low demand.

January Specials good thru Friday 31st.

73 and good dx,
bill

February 2011 DX STAMP SPECIALS

3 Germany-$3.90 3 UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) -$3.90

2 Sweden-$4.00 2 Canada-$2.00 3 Japan-$3.60 2 Spain-$3.00

NEW!! 2 Finland 2nd Class-$2.40

February 2011 DX SUPPLY SPECIALS

200/200 European Air Mailers & Returns $35

200/200 Stateside Mailers & Returns $16

2 Standard QSL Albums $40

Shipping charges extra on supply specials

PRIORITY MAIL Shipping Rates for Supplies

Orders under $16.00 add $6.50, Orders from $16.00 to $40.00 add $9.00, Orders from $41.00 to $100.00 add $13.00, Orders from $101.00 to $150.00 add $18.00, orders over $150.00 add 12%. When ordering supplies AND stamps, use supply total to figure shipping costs. Stamps “ride free” when you order supplies. Shipments to Canada ship at a greater cost. (04/2008)
(Bill Plum)

Include a self-addressed-envelope for his current price list or request a price list via email at plumdx@msn.com . The prices represent Airmail rate to North America. Prices are subject to change without notice. No mimimum order via check, money order or credit card, but credit card orders under $ 15.00 will incur a $ 2.00 extra charge. Visa, MC, AMEX are accepted. Please include billing and shipping address for AMEX.

Don't forget the DX supplies include European Airmail envelopes (European Air Return and European Air Mailer). These envelopes are perfectly acceptable for mailing to ALL parts of the world, not just to Europe. Their size insures you that a 4"x6" DX QLSs will not come back to you folded which could happen if you used small U.S. sized airmail envelopes. Bill's European Air Return fits into a European Air Mailer without folding. These two envelopes and up to 5 QSL cards weigh less than one ounce. The European Air Return and 2 QSLs weigh less than 10 grams. All envelopes are sealed in plastic for protection. Envelopes are packed 100 per size per package. The 5-/50 Combo comes in one package.

I have used Bill's service for years and find his prices affordable and dependable. All stamps are enclosed within a glassine envelope, so no worries of stamps sticking to the letter, and you can enclose the stamps as is in the letter to the station.
Gayle Van Horn

The Cross Radio reported on shortwave again

Micronesia
4755.45, The Cross. Randomly from 1317 to tune out at 1644 UTC. Feb 2. Non-stop contemporary Christian songs in English, except for IDs also in English; poor to fair.

1330 – young girl: “Hi. My name is .. I listen to the Cross Radio”

1431 - young girl: "Hi. This is . . (gives name). The world is tuned
to ... the Cross Radio. You will like it"

1558 – young girl: “This is . . . on 88.5 FM”

1602 – man: “This is the Cross Radio. Please stay with us. We will be back in a minute” (open carrier for about a minute, then continued with their religious songs).
Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

4755.45, PMA "The Cross Radio", 1152-1325, Feb. 2. Programming consisted mostly of ballads, with occasional announcements by very professional sounding male announcer. I suspect this may have been a syndicated Christian music program. Caught their ID just before the top-of-the hour by a young sounding female, "You are listening to the Cross Radio." Despite freezing rain at the time, this is the strongest I have heard them, and I was surprised that they were still audible as late as 1325 UTC, although the peak in reception was around 1200. Thanks for the tip on the Kageyama BCL bulletin board: http://6103.teacup.com/akage/bbs/ SINPO 24222. (Maroti-NY)

My earlier post (Jan 31) New changes from the Pacific reported on shortwave covered the original news. Pleased to see Ron has heard this station as well.

Jan 31, 2011 post
A report by a Japanese listener in a newsgroup advised that the religious broadcaster "Cross Radio Pohnpei" is again being heard on shortwave, using 4755. and observed on Jan 29 from 0946 until signoff at 0934. Pohnpei is one of four States in the Pacific, part of the Federated States of Micronesia, administer by the USA. The broadcaster had commenced shortwave broadcasts some time ago but had not been heard until now.

amateur radio special event calendar

A sampling of what's up in amateur radio in the coming days

Feb 1 -Feb 28
9K50, KUWAIT (Special Event). Look for amateur radio operators in Kuwait to use the special prefix "9K50" between January 26th and February 28th. Activity is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kuwait's independence. Also, 9K50NLD will be on the air between February 24-28th. Activity will be from the members of the Kuwait Amateur Radio Society (KARS).

Feb. 1- April 30
4Z20, ISRAEL. The Israel Amateur Radio Club (IARC) is proud to announce a special 3 month activity for the Holyland Contest's 20th anniversary, starting February 1st, through April 30th, 2359z. Look for the following honorary activations of two special prefixes/callsigns, 4X20HC and 4Z20HC. Activity will be used on CW, SSB and the Digital modes. QSL via 4Z4TL. For more details about the Holyland Contest, see:
http://www.iarc.org/~4z4tl/4X20HC_fil.htm

Feb 2-9
D4, CAPE VERDE. John IK5CRH, Operators John/IK5BCM, Beppe/IK5CBE and Andrea will be active as D44TBE from Sal Island (AF-086) between February 2-9th. Activity will be on 80-10 meters, possibly 160m (depending on the space), using CW, SSB and the Digital modes. QSL via IK5CRH.

Feb 5-16
C6, BAHAMAS. Operators Bob/N4BP (C6AKQ) and Kevin/K4PG (C6APG) will once again be in Freeport, Lucaya, Bahamas, for the ARRL International DX CW Contest (February 19-20th) as individual entries (Bob/C6AKQ on 80 meters and Kevin/C6APG on 40 meters). A third operator "may" join them to operate on 160 meters, but that is not known at this time. Bob is expected to arrive early on February 15th and stay through February 22nd. While Kevin will arrive on February 17th and stay through February 21st. Prior to the contest, they will be operating on the 30/17/12 meter bands, HF bands using CW and probably the Digital modes. QSL direct to their home callsigns with SASE and/or LoTW.

Feb 5-18
8Q, MALDIVES. Andrew, G7COD, is once again active as 8Q7AK. This time from Embudu Island on the South Male Atoll, Maldives (AS-013), between February 5th and approximately February 18th. He states that this trip is a holiday and plans to be active on 80-10 meters, including 30/17/12 meters, using CW and SSB. The following are suggested times of operations: 0730-0830z, 0900-1030z, 1300-1500z and 1730-1800z. Suggested frequencies (+/- QRM) are:
CW - 3503, 7003, 10103, 14003, 18073, 21003 and 24893 kHz SSB - 3795, 7063, 14190, 18133, 21253 and 24953 kHz" He also hopes to have limited operation on the 160m band but this is not confirmed. QSL via his home callsign, direct (see Web page) or by the Bureau. Andrew now has a dedicated Web page at: http://8q7ak.freewebspace.com

Feb. 7
CTU (2011) WEBINAR. On Monday, February 7th, at 8:30 PM EST (Tuesday, February 8th - 0130z), Tim Duffy, K3LR, will present a look at Contest University (CTU) 2011, including the course line up and list of professors. Tim will review past years and tell you what makes CTU 2011 the best yet. You will find out what previous students have had to say about CTU and why you should attend this year. Registration for this Webinar can be done at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/741726946 A URL is also available at under "Upcoming Webinars".

Feb 15-22
C6, BAHAMAS. Operators Bob/N4BP (C6AKQ) and Kevin/K4PG (C6APG) will once again be in Freeport, Lucaya, Bahamas, for the ARRL International DX CW Contest (February 19-20th) as individual entries (Bob/C6AKQ on 80 meters and Kevin/C6APG on 40 meters). A third operator "may" join them to operate on 160 meters, but that is not known at this time. Bob is expected to arrive early on February 15th and stay through February 22nd. While Kevin will arrive on February 17th and stay through February 21st. Prior to the contest, they will be operating on the 30/17/12 meter bands, HF bands using CW and probably the Digital modes. QSL direct to their home callsigns with SASE and/or LoTW.

Feb 19-20
CN, MOROCCO. Operators Ahmed/CN8WK, IK1QBT, Stefano/IK2QEI, Matteo/IK2SGC, Flavio/IK1SPR, Fabio/IV3BAZ, Gianfranco/IV3JCC, Maurizio/IV3ZXQ and Saaid/CN8WW will be active as CN3A from Safi during the ARRL DX CW Contest (February 19-20th) as a Multi-2 entry. QSL via LoTW or via I2WIJ. Visit their Web page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/CN3A/112969535390789

Feb 20-April 14
5X, UGANDA. Nick, G3RWF, will once again be active as 5X1NH from Fort Portal in western Uganda, and will be there between February 20th and April 14th. Usually he is there to do voluntary work, so his activity is usually outside the work hours. He prefers to operate CW but plans to also be on the Digital modes with some SSB. Activity will be on all bands except 160m (no room for an antenna). His rig is a K3. QSL via his home callsign and LoTW.

Feb 21-27
AO1, SPAIN (AAW Op). Spanish operators Fernando/EA1GHT, Gil/EA1HFM, Dani/EB1LA, Javi/EC1KV, Juan/Carlos EA1AUM, Juanjo/EA1WX, Carri/EA1CUB and Luis EA1CS will activate AO1AWW during the "8th Antarctic Activity Week" between February 21-27th. Reference Number is WAP-203. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via EA1GHT. A full list of AAW participating stations can be found at:
http://www.waponline.it/Default.aspx?tabid=113

Feb 26-March 5
8P, BARBADOS. Nathan, KA1YMX, will be active and on vacation from here between February 26th and March 5th. Activity will be on CW and SSB using an Elecraft K2. No other details are available. QSL via his home callsign.

Feb 27
HI0, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Members of the Radio Club Dominicano Inc. invite you to celebrate the "Month of the Patria" beginning 0000z on January 26th, and ending at 2359z on February 27th, by working their special event station HI0RCD. Activity is to commemorate the birthday of their father of the Patria, Juan Pablo Duarte, and to celebrate their 167th anniversary of independence. A special QSL card will be sent to all the stations that have a contact with their 9 different circuit affiliate stations. QSL via Bureau. Activity will be on 160/80/40/20/17/15/10 meters using CW, SSB and the Digital modes. Look also for HI0RCD to be active on the AO-51 Satellite. For more details, see QRZ.com or visit Luis's, HI8LAM, Blog page at: http://www.hi8lam.blogspot.com/
(Ohio/Penn # 995)

Monitoring observations on Russian domestic station

Russia
6075, GTRK Kamchatka via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 0710-0724 UTC, Feb 1. A different, shorter format now with their local/regional programming no longer being 50 minutes long. Starts with IDs for “Radio Rossii Kamchatka” and “this is Kamchatka.” This English ID was formerly always given at the bottom-of-the hour, quickly into monologue (not in Russian). (DXer) Mauno suggests perhaps in Koryak with many mentions of “Kamchatka.” Back to Russian at 0724 and regular Radio Rossii IDs. Very good reception.

http://www.mediafire.com/?pccw2neotmcr6o0 contains audio of IDs. Mauno Ritola (Finland) comments: “you are right, definitely not Russian. I suppose it must then be Koryak, relaying Palana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koryak_language . What a pity, that Palana 4520 kHz was closed long ago.” Thanks to Mauno for his feedback. Now is the time to catch this local program while the audio is still fairly good (only slight hum), as recently the strong motorboating/hum was fixed.
(Ron Howard, CA/Cumbre DX)

Frequency changes from Media Broadcast

Via transmitters in France and Germany

All times UTC


Radio Dardasha 7 (Chat from Arabic), new station from Jan.17:
0300-0330 7325 WER 125 kW 120 deg to NE/ME Arabic
0500-0530 6100 NAU 125 kW 190 deg to WeAF Arabic
1700-1730 9440 WER 125 kW 120 deg to NE/ME Arabic
1900-1930 9430 WER 125 kW 180 deg to WeAF Arabic, co-ch RL in Russian

New schedule of Hamada Radio International from Jan.24:
0530-0600 7350 WER 100 kW 180 deg to WeAF Hausa Mon-Fri
0530-0600 9460 NAU 100 kW 185 deg to WeAF Hausa Mon-Fri, addit. freq.
1400-1430 17485 WER 125 kW 180 deg to WeAF Hausa Mon/Wed/Fri,cancelled
1930-2000 9840 WER 100 kW 180 deg to WeAF Hausa Daily, ex Mon-Fri

Lutheran World Federation - Voice of Gospel
Burmese:
1330-1345 17650 WER 250 KW 075 deg to SoEaAS Sun, cancelled from Jan.2

Brother Stair (TOM) The Overcomer Ministries
English:
1400-1600 NF 17580 WER 125 kW 180 deg to CeAF, ex1500-1600 17485

Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN)-Radio Sadaye Zindagi
Dari:
1600-1630 9445 WER 250 kW 090 deg to WeAS, cancelled effective Jan.5

Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN)
Amharic/Oromo/Tigrinya:
1600-1830 NF 11965 ISS 100 kW 131 deg to EaAF, ex13810,eff.from Jan.9

Bible Voice Broadcasting Network (BVBN)
Arabic:
1830-1900 6130 WER 125 kW 120 deg to NE/ME,cancelled eff Jan 16
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 2)
(DX Mix News # 663 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Internet restored in Egypt as violence escalates

Internet services were at least partially restored in Cairo and other Egyptian cities today after a five-day cut aimed at stymieing protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, Internet users said. Egypt’s four main Internet service providers cut off access to their customers in a near simultaneous move overnight last Thursday, two days after anti-Mubarak protests - many coordinated via the Internet - began.

Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become increasingly important for protest organisers, with only a tiny number of users in the Egyptian capital able to access the Internet since Friday. Internet on mobile telephones was also cut, while mobile voice and text services were also severely disrupted.

Around 23 million Egyptians have either regular or occasional access to the Internet, according to official figures, more than a quarter of the population. The shutdown in Egypt was the most comprehensive official electronic blackout of its kind, experts said.
(Source: AFP/R Netherlands media Network Weblog)

CBC/Radio Canada outlines strategy for the future

CBC/Radio-Canada yesterday outlined its strategy for the future. Over the next five years, CBC/Radio-Canada will strengthen its commitment to original, innovative, high-quality Canadian content. It will also commit to airing at least 10 signature events per year in English and in French.

CBC will be looking to expand its regional footprint, launching new radio stations, introducing new local websites and services, and increasing regional news and programming. Radio-Canada will enhance its presence in regional life by producing engaging local programming that can then be used for broadcast nationally, by delivering more local and regional news, and by providing more local French-language content on regional websites, especially those outside of Quebec.

And, in an evolving digital and on-demand world, CBC/Radio-Canada will continue its leadership in new platforms and digital services, doubling its investment over the next five years. To evaluate progress, CBC/Radio-Canada has developed metrics to track and assess its performance by service and genre against the strategy twice a year.

(Source: CBC/Radio-Canada/R Netherlands Media Network)

Special shortwave transmissions to North Queensland due to Cyclone Yasi

Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi will hit the northern Queensland coast between Cairns and Townsville within the next few hours. Much damage to houses, property and infrastructure is anticipated within this area when the cyclone hits the coastline. Flooding and very high winds will also be a major problem for those people who haven’t managed to leave the area. Because of this the local ABC and commercial broadcasters expect severe damage to landbased TV and radio transmitters within the region. The ABC has requested Radio Australia to transmit the ABC’s northern Queensland regional radio service using a shortwave transmitter at Shepparton, Victoria to northern Queensland until further notice.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting that Tropical Cyclone Yasi will hit land around 1200 to 1400 UTC and then produce a very large rain depression which could see around 350mm fall into northern and central Australia.

Schedule

*2100-0830 UTC on 9710 kHz 353deg
*0830-2100 UTC on 6080 kHz 005deg
The transmitter being used is a brand new 100KW Continental which is DRM capable.

Internet links


*Latest news: www.abc.net.au/news/

*Latest meteorological information: www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml
*View satellite display of Tropical Cyclone Yasi in almost real time:
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml
(Source: Nigel Holmes/Radio Australia via Mike Bird/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Babcock B10 schedule update, Part 3 of 3

Part 3 of 3 of the Babcock schedule updates have been released. Broadcast are from transmitters in Ascension Island, Austria, Norway, Palau, Singapore, South Africa and United Arab Emirates.
Gayle VH

Part 3 of 3

All times UTC

Polish Radio External Service
1130-1200 11785 MOS 100 kW 300 deg to WeEUR Polish
1130-1200 15175 WOF 125 kW 082 deg to EaEUR Polish
1200-1230 17670 WOF 125 kW 070 deg to EaEUR Russian
1200-1230 17715 RMP 250 kW 076 deg to EaEUR Russian
1230-1300 9470 WOF 125 kW 090 deg to WeEUR German
1230-1300 9850 WOF 125 kW 082 deg to WeEUR German
1300-1400 9460 MOS 100 kW 300 deg to WeEUR English
1300-1400 11860 WOF 125 kW 045 deg to NoEUR English
1400-1430 13850 RMP 250 kW 061 deg to EaEUR Russian
1400-1430 15245 WOF 125 kW 058 deg to EaEUR Russian
1430-1530 11905 WOF 125 kW 070 deg to EaEUR Belorussian
1430-1530 15245 WOF 125 kW 074 deg to EaEUR Belorussian
1530-1600 11905 WOF 125 kW 082 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
1530-1600 9580 WOF 300 kW 066 deg to EaEUR Russian
1600-1630 11905 WOF 125 kW 078 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
1600-1630 13835 WOF 125 kW 092 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
1630-1700 6100 WOF 125 kW 090 deg to WeEUR German
1630-1730 6050 SKN 300 kW 090 deg to EaEUR Polish
1730-1800 6050 SKN 300 kW 090 deg to EaEUR Belorussian
1800-1900 5895 KVI 035 kW 220 deg to NoEUR English DRM
1800-1900 9650 DHA 250 kW 315 deg to WeEUR English
1900-1930 5920 WOF 300 kW 058 deg to EaEUR Russian
1900-1930 7265 RMP 500 kW 110 deg to EaEUR Hebrew
1930-2000 6040 SKN 300 kW 090 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
1930-2000 9490 RMP 250 kW 080 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
2000-2030 6040 WOF 125 kW 090 deg to EaEUR Ukrainian
2000-2030 6135 WOF 300 kW 082 deg to EaEUR Russian
2030-2100 3975 SKN 100 kW 121 deg to WeEUR German DRM
2030-2100 6000 DHA 250 kW 315 deg to WeEUR German
2200-2300 5980 DHA 250 kW 315 deg to WeEUR Polish
2200-2300 5990 SKN 300 kW 090 deg to WeEUR Polish

WYFR Family Radio
1800-1900 6090 RMP 500 kW 095 deg to CeEUR Czech
1800-1900 7240 SKN 300 kW 110 deg to EaEUR English
1700-1800 9430 SKN 300 kW 110 deg to SoEaEUR Turkish
1800-1900 9885 RMP 500 kW 105 deg to SoEaEUR Turkish
1800-1900 9660 SKN 300 kW 140 deg to NoAF Arabic
1800-1900 11875 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to WeAF Igbo
1830-1930 17660 ASC 250 kW 085 deg to WeAF French
1900-2000 9685 DHA 250 kW 260 deg to WeAF Hausa
2000-2100 11615 ASC 250 kW 027 deg to WeAF English
1900-2000 11665 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to WwCeAF Yoruba
1800-1900 9595 MEY 100 kW 350 deg to CeAF Kituba
1900-2000 9705 MEY 250 kW 340 deg to CeAF English
1900-2000 13740 DHA 250 kW 225 deg to CeAF Lingala
2000-2100 15520 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to CeAF English
2000-2200 15195 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to CeAF English
1700-1800 6045 DHA 250 kW 225 deg to EaAF Amharic
1700-1800 11665 RMP 500 kW 120 deg to EaAF Somali
1700-1800 21680 ASC 250 kW 085 deg to EaAF English
1800-1900 9895 DHA 250 kW 230 deg to EaAF English
1900-2000 9660 MEY 250 kW 019 deg to EaAF Swahili
1900-1930 9885 DHA 250 kW 210 deg to EaAF English
1930-2000 9885 DHA 250 kW 225 deg to EaAF English
1600-1700 6225 MEY 250 kW 076 deg to SoEaAF Malagasy
1500-1600 21840 ASC 250 kW 115 deg to SoAF English
1600-1700 9795 DHA 250 kW 215 deg to SoAF English
1600-1700 17540 ASC 250 kW 085 deg to SoAF English
1700-1800 6225 MEY 100 kW 076 deg to SoAF French
1700-1800 12045 ASC 250 kW 102 deg to SoAF English
1700-1800 17505 ASC 250 kW 102 deg to SoAF Shona
1800-1900 6045 MEY 100 kW 015 deg to SoAF English
1800-1900 9770 MEY 100 kW 007 deg to SoAF Kinyarawanda-Kirundi
1900-2000 3230 MEY 100 kW 005 deg to SoAF English
1900-2000 3955 MEY 100 kW 076 deg to SoAF Portuguese
1900-2000 6100 MEY 100 kW 335 deg to SoAF Portuguese
1700-1800 9530 SKN 300 kW 110 deg to NE/ME Arabic
1300-1400 17735 DHA 250 kW 100 deg to SoAS Kannada
1300-1500 17810 DHA 250 kW 100 deg to SoAS Telugu/Tamil
1400-1500 9855 DHA 250 kW 105 deg to SoAS Marathi
1500-1600 9895 DHA 250 kW 105 deg to SoAS English
1400-1500 15520 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoAS Hindi
1500-1600 11995 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoAS English
1600-1700 11740 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoAS English
1200-1300 17505 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoEaAS Khmer
1200-1300 17545 DHA 250 kW 090 deg to SoEaAS Lao

Radio Australia
2200-2330 9630 DHA 250 kW 105 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian
2300-2330 5955 DHA 250 kW 085 deg to SoEaAS Burmese
0100-0130 11780 SNG 250 kW 340 deg to SoEaAS Burmese
1100-1300 6140 SNG 250 kW 013 deg to SoEaAS English
1300-1430 9965 HBN 100 kW 318 deg to EaAS Chinese via T8WH Angel 4
1600-1630 9965 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS Burmese via T8WH Angel 4
2200-2400 13590 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS English via T8WH Angel 4
0000-0030 17840 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian via T8WH Angel 4
0400-0430 17840 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian via T8WH Angel 4
0500-0530 17845 HBN 100 kW 270 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian via T8WH Angel 4
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 2)
(DX Mix News # 633 via Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)

Radio Prague continues on shortwave from Miami

Yesterday, January 31, Radio Prague ended its shortwave transmissions from the Czech Republic. However, an agreement between Radio Prague and WRMI will allow shortwave transmissions to continue to the Caribbean and Latin America via Radio Miami International in English and Spanish. As of today, February 1, the schedule for Radio Prague programs via WRMI is:

0630-0700 UTC Daily (Spanish)
0700-0730 UTC Daily (English)
0930-1000 UTC Daily (Spanish)
1000-1030 UTC Monday-Friday (English)
1930-2000 UTC Saturday-Sunday (English)
0300-0330 UTC Daily (Spanish)

This schedule will remain ine ffect until further notice. All broadcasts are on 9955 kHz with 50 kilowatts from Miami on an azimuth of 160 degrees.

Jeff White, WRMI General Manager, said that "Radio Miami is happy to be able to help Radio Prague stay on the air, just as we did with Radio Slovakia International when its shortwave transmissions were scheduled to end last December 31. We have had close cooperaton with Radio Prague for many years now, and we hope this cooperation will continue for many more years."

WRMI Radio Miami International
175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4
Miami, Florida 33172 USA
Tel +1-305-559-WRMI (9764)
Fax +1-305-559-8186

E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com
http://www.wrmi.net/

New clandestine station signs on

As stations leave the shortwave bands, and others revert to FM or the Internet, new station continue to sign-on. This morning I received word from contributor, Wolfgang Bueschel, of a new clandestine station on shortwave.

Radio Dardasha 7, began broadcasting January 17, 2011 on the following broadcast schedule.

All times UTC

Radio Dardasha 7, via MBR Cologne, Germany
Arabic
0300-0330 7325, Wertchtal, Germany transmitter, 125 kW, 120 deg to Northeast/Middle East
0500-0530 6100, Nauen, Germany transmitter, 125 kW, 190 ded to North/West Africa
1700-1730 9440, Wertchtal, Germany transmitter, 125 kW, 120 deg to Northeast/Middle East
1900-1930 9430, Wertchtal, Germany transmitter, 125 kW, 180 deg to North/West Africa
(co channel Radio Liberty in Russian)

Radio Dardasha 7, also broadcast on medium wave via RMC Cyclops, Cyprus, 1233 kHz AM, 0825-0905 (10:25-11:05 pm)

Contact address:
Radio Dardasha 7
P.O. Box 991
Larnaca, Cyprus

email: dardasha7@gmail.com (or) alijazeeraalkhadra@gmail.com

Website: www.alijazeera-alkhadra.com (or) www.dardasha7.com

Babcock B10 schedule update, Part 2 of 3

Yesterday I posted an updated Babcock schedule (Part 1 of 3). This morning Part 2 of 3 was released by DX Mix News. Broadcast are from transmitters in Armenia, Ascension Island, Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Japan, Moldova, Palau, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Taiwan, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
Gayle VH

Part 2 of 3

All times UTC

Radio Free North Korea (Clandestine)
1200-1400 7505 DB 300 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean
1900-2100 7530 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean

Radio Free Chosun (Clandestine)
1200-1300 11560 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean
1500-1600 5760 TAC 100 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean
2000-2100 7505 DB 100 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean

Nippon no Kaze (Clandestine)
1300-1330 9950 TAI 100 kW 002 deg to KRE Korean
1500-1530 9975 HBN 100 kW 345 deg to KRE Korean
1530-1600 9965 HBN 100 kW 345 deg to KRE Korean

CMI Voice of Wilderness (Clandestine)
1300-1330 6275 DB 100 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat
1300-1400 6275 DB 100 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean Sun
1300-1400 9725 DB 100 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean

Furusato no Kaze (Clandestine)
1330-1400 9950 TAI 100 kW 002 deg to KRE Japanese
1430-1500 9950 HBN 100 kW 345 deg to KRE Japanese
1600-1630 9780 TAI 250 kW 045 deg to KRE Japanese

JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze (Clandestine)
1400-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW 280 deg to KRE *(alt.5955/5985/6120/6135)
2030-2100 6045 YAM 100 kW 280 deg to KRE *(alt.5910/5955/5965/6135)
*Jap/Kor/Chi Tue; Jap Sun/Mon/Thu; Eng Wed; Eng/Kor Fri; Kor Sat

Open Radio for North Korea (Clandestine)
1400-1500 7560 DB 100 kW 070 deg to KRE Korean
2100-2200 7480 ERV 300 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean

North Korea Reform Radio (Clandestine)
1500-1600 7590 TAC 100 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean

Voice of Martyrs(Freedom) (Clandestine)
1600-1700 6240 TAC 100 kW 065 deg to KRE Korean

Gospel for Asia
(WRTH 2011 has revised this station name as Athmeeya Yatre Radio , listed under India)

1600-1615 9820 DHA 250 kW 100 deg to SoAS SoEaAs langs
1615-1630 9820 DHA 250 kW 070 deg to SoAS SoEaAs langs Sun-Wed
1615-1630 9820 DHA 250 kW 120 deg to SoAS SoEaAs langs Thu-Sat
2330-2400 6160 DHA 250 kW 085 deg to SoAS SoEaAs langs
0000-0130 6140 DHA 250 kW 085 deg to SoAS SoEaAs langs

Southern Sudan Radio Service (Clandestine)
1600-1630 11785 MEY 100 kW non-dir to EaAF Arabic Sat-Thu
1600-1630 17700 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to EaAF Arabic Sat-Thu
1630-1700 11785 MEY 100 kW non-dir to EaAF Fur/Masaalit/Zagawa Sat-Thu
1630-1700 17700 ASC 250 kW 065 deg to EaAF Fur/Masaalit/Zagawa Sat-Thu

SW Radio Africa (Clandestine)
1700-1900 4880 MEY 100 kW 005 deg to SoAF English

Zimbabwe Community Radio/Radio Dialogue (Clandestine)
1755-1855 4895 MEY 100 kW 000 deg to ZWE Ndebele/English/Shona

Radio Payem e-Doost (Clandestine)
1800-1845 7480 KCH 500 kW 116 deg to WeAS Farsi
0230-0315 7460 KCH 500 kW 116 deg to WeAS Farsi

Radio Taiwan International
1900-2000 3955 SKN 250 kW 106 deg to WeEUR German
1900-2000 3985 SKN 250 kW 175 deg to WeEUR French

RTE Radio One
1930-2030 6225 MEY 100 kW non-dir to SoAF English

HCJB Global
2100-2145 12025 SAC 250 kW 073 deg to NoAF Arabic

Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
2215-2245 6180 CYP 250 kW 314 deg to SoEaEUR Greek Fri-Sun 2215-2245 7210 CYP 300 kW 314 deg to SoEaEUR Greek Fri-Sun
2215-2245 9760 CYP 250 kW 315 deg to SoEaEUR Greek Fri-Sun

Suaab Xaa Moo Zoo (Clandestine)
2230-2300 5930 TAI 100 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Hmong

FEBA Radio
2145-2215 11985 ASC 250 kw 027 deg to WeAF Pulaar Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri
1830-1845 15250 ASC 250 kW 070 deg to CeWeAF French
1600-1630 9940 ERV 300 kW 192 deg to EaAF Amharic Thu-Sun
1600-1630 9940 ERV 300 kW 192 deg to EaAF Guragena Mon-Wed
1630-1700 9940 ERV 300 kW 192 deg to EaAF Amharic
1600-1630 11875 KIG 250 kW 030 deg to EaAF Afar
1630-1700 9850 DHA 250 kW 230 deg to EaAF Tigrinya Sun-Wed
1630-1700 9850 DHA 250 kW 230 deg to EaAF Amharic Thu-Sat
1700-1800 9595 KIG 250 kW 030 deg to EaAF Orominya/Tigrinya
1700-1730 6180 DHA 250 kW 230 deg to EaAF Somali
1730-1800 7510 ERV 300 kW 192 deg to EaAF Silte
0800-0830 15220 MOS 300 kW 115 deg to NE/ME Arabic
1900-1930 7235 WER 250 kW 105 deg to NE/ME Arabic
1900-2030 9550 KIG 250 kW 030 deg to NE/ME Arabic
0200-0230 6125 DHA 250 kW 045 deg to WeAS Pashto
0230-0300 6125 DHA 250 kW 045 deg to WeAS Dari (Radio Sadaye Zindagi)
0300-0315 6125 DHA 250 kW 045 deg to WeAS Mixed langs
1500-1530 9400 ERV 300 kW 100 deg to WeAS Dari (Radio Sadaye Zindagi)
0015-0030 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Bangla
0030-0045 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Hindi Sun/Wed
0030-0045 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Mixed langs Mon/Tue
0030-0045 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Bangla Thu-Sat
0045-0100 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Hindi
0130-0200 6140 DHA 250 kW 105 deg to SoAS Telugu Sun/Thu/Fri
0130-0200 6140 DHA 250 kW 105 deg to SoAS Mixed langs Mon-Wed/Sat
0200-0230 7315 DHA 250 kW 060 deg to SoAS Urdu Sun
0200-0215 7315 DHA 250 kW 060 deg to SoAS Urdu Mon-Sat
0215-0230 7315 DHA 250 kW 060 deg to SoAS Mixed langs Mon-Sat
0800-0830 15205 DHA 250 kW 060 deg to SoAS Urdu
1200-1230 15215 DHA 250 kW 055 deg to SoAS Tibetan
1400-1430 7230 NVS 250 kW 195 deg to SoAS Urdu
1430-1500 7230 NVS 250 kW 195 deg to SoAS Mixed langs
1400-1430 12045 DHA 250 kW 110 deg to SoAS English Sun
1400-1415 12045 DHA 250 kW 110 deg to SoAS Malayalam Mon-Sat
1415-1430 12045 DHA 250 kW 110 deg to SoAS Telugu Mon-Sat
1430-1445 9650 DHA 250 kW 070 deg to SoAS Urdu
1445-1500 9650 DHA 250 kW 070 deg to SoAS Kashmiri Wed-Sat
1445-1500 9650 DHA 250 kW 070 deg to SoAS Punjabi Sun-Tue
1500-1530 7485 TAC 100 kW 131 deg to SoAS Bangla
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 1)
(DX Mix News # 662/Ivo Ivanov & Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany)