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It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. International Broadcasters Know DCC (Zacharias Liangas ) 2. Peculiar Russian shortwave numbers station is an unlikely internet star (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. Digital Radio and the Future of Shortwave (Zacharias Liangas ) 4. Glenn Hauser logs October 17, 2011 (Glenn Hauser) 5. AFRS India-Burma Memories Honored (Radio Heritage Mail) 6. World of Radio imminent on 5980 (Glenn Hauser) 7. Free WRTH 2012 Shipped Worldwide (Radio Heritage Mail) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:32:09 +0300 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] International Broadcasters Know DCC Message-ID: <4e9c6699.13405.236...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bundled radio news service : http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F06600224598981072865%2Fbundle%2Fradio or http://goo.gl/Mgbqk Visti my page : https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/kaito-an200-antenna-review International Broadcasters Know DCC by Ernie Franke on 10.12.2011 http://www.rwonline.com/article/international-broadcasters-know-dcc/24576 The author, WA2EWT, is a broadcast consultant in St. Petersburg, Fla. The FCC has formally approved a "green" technique for AM radio stations that want to reduce their operating costs. The technique is known as Modulation Dependent Carrier Level, or MDCL. Public notice was issued on Sept. 13, extending what had been an experimental program in Alaska to all U.S. AM stations. International broadcasters have been familiar with the concept for many years under the name of Dynamic Carrier Control. The purpose of this article is to explain to U.S. AM stations a technology already familiar to their colleagues abroad. With escalating power bills, controlling electricity usage is especially important to the international broadcaster. Dynamic Carrier Control, offering significant savings in power bills for high-power broadcast transmitters, was proposed more than 75 years ago. It took the power of the integrated circuit digital signal processor (DSP) and pulse-step modulation (PSM) to bring it to fruition. Power savings are impressive when DCC is added to 100, 250 and 500 kW transmitters. Today, all modern super-power (output power greater than or equal to 100 kW) shortwave, and most medium-wave (AM band) transmitters, incorporate DCC capability. Total power consumption typically is reduced by 15 to 30 percent, and the effects are virtually undetectable to the listening audience. As a benchmark, the average household in the U.S. consumes about 11,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. Assuming an average power savings of 25 percent with DCC, a single modern 250 kW transmitter, operated 12 hours per day, saves 342,000 kilowatt-hours per year, or the equivalent of powering 30 average homes. If we multiply this by the over 1,000 shortwave, super-power transmitters positioned around the world, we save enough electrical energy to power over 30,000 homes, a small city. The AM modulator impresses the program onto the high-frequency radio wave. BACKGROUND ON AMPLITUDE MODULATION Amplitude modulation occurs when a voice or music signal?s varying voltage (fm) is applied to a carrier frequency (fC). The resultant AM signal consists of the carrier frequency, plus upper and lower sidebands, known as double sideband amplitude modulation (DSB-AM), more commonly referred to as plain AM. When a carrier is amplitude-modulated, only one-third of the total RF power is contained in the information-bearing sidebands. The other two-thirds of the RF output power is contained in the carrier, which does not contribute to the transfer of information. The intelligence is in the sidebands, and the carrier is aptly named for its purpose of merely carrying the modulation. With a complex modulating signal, such as voice or music, the sidebands generally contain only 20 to 25 percent of the overall signal power; thus the carrier consumes 75 to 80 percent of the total output power, making AM a very inefficient mode of transmission. This raises the question: "How can the transmitted waveform be modified to reduce power without reducing received quality in simple AM receivers?" WHAT DOES THE CARRIER DO FOR US? The carrier in any AM system has two functions: to translate the information signal to a higher frequency that is suitable for transmission and to suppress static noise and interference during silent intervals in the program. When the amplitude of the audio signal is significantly less than that required for 100 percent modulation, it is possible to save on the power consumption of the transmitter by reducing the amplitude of the carrier, without affecting demodulation of the sidebands. Power savings of 15 to 30 percent (depending on program material) are feasible if carrier power is reduced 3 to 6 dB (carrier reduced one-half to one- fourth) of the rated output power when modulation is low, with little or no effect on reception of the signal. DCC is designed to keep the carrier at sufficient amplitude to achieve 100 percent modulation, even during the low-level portions of the audio program. WHAT IS DCC? The spectrum of AM signal shows the wasteful carrier power compared to the information- bearing sideband power. Traditionally, AM systems have provided a fixed carrier level and applied modulation up to 100 percent (or +125 percent positive). Using DCC, during periods of low or no modulation, power consumption can be significantly lowered by automatically reducing the carrier level and restoring the carrier level when modulation later increases. The transmitter is adjusted for full carrier power output when the audio input appears at 100 percent modulation. If the audio input level falls, the carrier level will dynamically adjust itself to maintain modulation at 100 percent. If modulation is totally removed, the carrier level will fall to a pre-selected minimum level (-3 dB to -6 dB). Typically a front-panel switch or remote control offers selectable levels and types (different transfer curves) of DCC. With a typical 0.1 ms attack and 200 ms release time, DCC retains the ability to modulate to positive 125 percent as we do now. At +125 percent modulation, the carrier remains at the same level corresponding to 100 percent modulation. ORIGIN OF DCC This amplitude modulation energy-saving mode was devised in the late 1930s. DCC was not implemented in transmitter designs until the 1980s, because of the complexities of the control circuitry. If we journey back in time to the 1930s to the village of Gliesmarode in Germany, we find the first trace of DCC with Professor Pungs, who was involved in the development of broadcasting technology. His system was known as "HAPUG" Modulationsverfahren, incorporating the last name of each of the three inventors: Harbich, Pungs and Gerth. This system never made it beyond the experimental stage, due to a lack of computing and processing technology. PULSE STEP MODULATION The transfer function between the program audio and the actual level of the carrier has evolved to a curve that reduces the carrier power by a factor of four in the mid-volume range, but retains half-power at low audio moments. The advent of PSM in the 1980s and DSPs in the 1990s allowed the implementation of DCC in all modern, high-power transmitters today. Using signal processing, we can readily break the modulation voltage waveform into a large number of steps. These small increments are used to turn a series of switches on or off. Thus modulation losses are now reduced to very low switching losses, increasing the efficiency of the modulator itself to better than 95 percent. The modulator typically consists of 48 series-connected modules, mimicking the sampling levels, which are switched into and out of operation to superimpose high-level audio onto the high-voltage DC anode (plate). The switching is accomplished with insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). A low-pass filter follows the series-connected modules, which removes the switching signals and allows the DC and audio signals to pass to the RF amplifier. To further refine the linearity, each power supply step is pulse-width modulated, creating a smooth transition from one step to the next. PROGRAMMING TYPE AFFECTS POWER SAVINGS As might be expected, actual power saving over that of non-DCC usage is highly affected by audio program content, with talk programs giving more power-saving than most music programming. Even the short blank spaces between spoken words allow the carrier to be reduced in conjunction with the decrease in modulation power. Popular music programming dwells longer at modulation peaks, as evidenced by the higher degree of modulation index. Audio processing, which artificially increases the average level of modulation, tends to reduce power savings and increases the total power consumption. Tests using processed music programs consistently produced a power saving of 18 percent, whereas talk programs produced power-savings in excess of 22 percent. DOES DCC AFFECT THE LISTENERS? In AM transmission systems, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is largely determined by sideband power, not by carrier power. Thus, if an AM transmitter is modulated at 50 percent, a listener will have to turn the volume up 6 dB (x4) to get the same loudness as a transmitter modulated at 100 percent, consequently bringing up the background noise level by the same amount. If the carrier level of the same transmitter is lowered to obtain 100 percent modulation, no change in sideband power will occur. A receiver?s automatic gain control (AGC) circuitry will bring the volume up much as a volume control does, and background static noise will also increase by the same amount. Thus the SNR remains constant. The advent of the digital signal processor (DSP) and the solid-state pulse-step modulator (PSM) have allowed DCC to emerge as a `green? technology. When folks seriously discuss the quality of the received signal over audio, they are most likely talking about local AM or FM, where small imperfections are readily noticed. The quality of audio over shortwave or international medium-wave is inherently low, due to atmospherics, fading and noise. Laboratory tests on subjective listening quality using DCC, even with co- channel interference, showed no degradation. Today, with so many Web-controlled, remote monitoring receivers, it is easy for a broadcaster to access their signal audio via the Internet. This allows the broadcaster to monitor their signal and make their own assessment of DCC under real-world propagation effects when transmitting to remote areas on shortwave. DCC tends to have little effect on listener perception because of slow receiver AGC. Experience has shown that when running a transmitter with DCC, response time is best set to fast attack/slow decay (0.1 ms attack / 200 ms release) and carrier suppression, with no modulation, is set to -6 dB for first-hop targets and -3 dB for third-hop targets. HOW DOES DCC AFFECT THE TRANSMITTER? DCC extends the life of transmitter components because the transmitter operates below its design capability. One first notices that the power amplifier (PA) current meter now starts to wiggle with DCC energized. PA current will decrease with low-level audio as the carrier level is dynamically in accordance with the average modulation. Without DCC, the majority of PA current was needed just to produce the large constant-amplitude carrier power. This variable power-line loading can cause audio modulation on the AC mains if the power lines are exceptionally long to the broadcast station. This is especially true at large transmitting centers, where two or more transmitters are simultaneously broadcasting over different bands, but using the same audio program. When powered by diesel generators, feedback control circuitry in the generators must be modified to handle these increased load swings on the AC power line. WHO OFFERS DCC? DCC?s effectiveness and acceptance by broadcasters is indicated by the fact that all of the super-power shortwave transmitter manufacturers - Continental Electronics in Dallas, RIZ- Transmitters in Croatia, Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia in Switzerland and Nautel in U.S./Canada - offer it as built-in or optional. Nautel has long offered DCC on its NX series of high-power medium-wave models. Harris Corp. offers DCC in its line of high-power AM transmitters. The addition of DCC can pay for itself in as little as a few months, based on the broadcast power level and the price of oil. Transmitters more than 30 years old evidenced an overall efficiency of only 70 percent. With the use of switch-mode Class D and pulse-step modulation, the overall (AC power-to-RF power) efficiency has improved to nearly 80 percent for high-power shortwave and nearly 90 percent for high-power medium-wave transmitters. FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL DCC?s appearance can be linked to NATO nations trying to save energy as a result of the ripple effects of OPEC-related oil supply crises. Eastern European manufacturers of shortwave transmitters never adopted DCC because Russia, in particular, had no energy crises due to its abundant supply of oil. International broadcasters are indeed interested in "going green," and even more so in the future as power bills continue to esculate. Not only do all the manufacturers of high-power transmitters offer DCC, but all the broadcasters use it to help contain expenses. DCC was pioneered by the broadcasting giant British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and AEG Telefunken in the late 1980s. As the cost of electricity steadily increased, others such as Voice of America (VOA), Trans World Radio (TWR), HCJB (Voice of the Andes), Radio France Internationale (RFI), Deutsche Welle (DW), Radio Canada International (RCI), Far East Broadcasting Co. (FEBC), Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC Radio Australia), Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) quickly joined the fray. As a simple matter of economics, it is to be expected other broadcasters will add to the numbers, as they are able to make the switch. In April 2011, the FCC authorized the use of DCC on non-commercial AM stations in Alaska as long as notification was given to the commission. The high cost of electricity in the state was a factor in the decision to allow stations to use DCC experimentally.Power reductions of 30 to 35 percent were reported, with no deterioration of received sound and no complaints about reception from listeners. The experimental operation appears to have been a success, confirmed by the recent FCC action to allow DCC for all U.S. AM stations. Comment on this or any other story to r...@nbmedia.com @Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:32:10 +0300 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Peculiar Russian shortwave numbers station is an unlikely internet star Message-ID: <4e9c669a.22850.236...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bundled radio news service : http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user%2F06600224598981072865%2Fbundle%2Fradio or http://goo.gl/Mgbqk Visti my page : https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/kaito-an200-antenna-review Peculiar Russian shortwave numbers station is an unlikely internet star Posted on October 12, 2011 by Paul Riismandel http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/10/12/peculiar-russian-shortwave-numbers-station-is-an- unlikely-internet-star/ Page from the UVB-76 station log dated 2005. Anyone who has spent some quality time scanning the shortwave radio bands has likely come upon what are known as numbers stations. To the uninitiated the stations air what the name describes, someone reading of a sequence of numbers. They can be in any language, but most commonly are in English, Spanish or Russian. They are believed to transmit secret coded messages to agents overseas, but nobody really knows for sure what they?re purpose is. The Russian shortwave station UVB-76 is a peculiar example of a numbers station, mostly because it is known to air a wide variety of noises and sounds besides numbers. Thanks to an Estonian blogger (full disclosure: I?m half Estonian) the Russian station has become somewhat of an internet sensation. Or at least more of a sensation than most shortwave stations that aren?t streamed on the internet. The October issue of Wired magazine features an article on the station and the mystery surrounding it, as well as an interview with blogger and tech entrepreneur Andrus Aaslaid who decided to start streaming the station. I can really identify with Aaslaid when he tells Wired, "I?ve spent nights just randomly browsing and sometimes getting really, really drunk," Aaslaid says. (His drink of choice is Aberlour A?bunadh, a single-malt Scotch.) "In the era of the Internet and corporations, people?s lives are so well planned and predictable," he says. "In some ways, UVB-76 represents the good kind of unpredictability and mystery." ... "Imagine somebody with a Morse key or a reel-to-reel tape deck in the middle of the Namibia desert, running a shortwave transmitter off a diesel generator and sending music or messages toward the ionosphere. In the middle of the night, it does not get any more spiritual than that." Reading that makes me want to stay up late with the lights off, wearing headphones, scanning the shortwave dial. Damn, I?ve got work in the morning. More on point, on Tuesday Aaslaid posted that supposed pages from a logbook used at the station in 2005 have surfaced in a Russian radio online forum. It even includes a mention of the station?s guard dog, noted to be on duty at 18:30 on October 4. Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:32:09 +0300 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Digital Radio and the Future of Shortwave Message-ID: <4e9c6699.32623.236...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Visti my page : https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/kaito-an200-antenna-review Digital Radio and the Future of Shortwave by James Careless on 10.16.2011 http://www.rwonline.com/article/digital-radio-and-the-future-of-shortwave/24599 Digital shortwave radio is no dream: It exists today. Right now, foreign-service broadcasters in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceana and the Americas are providing regular digital radio broadcasts over shortwave, using the DRM30 transmission standard. "The Digital Radio Mondiale AM solution operates worldwide," said Ruxandra Obreja. She is chair of the DRM Consortium, the international not-for-profit group of broadcasters, transmitter/receiver manufacturers and broadcasting unions, who use and promote the DRM30 standard for short, medium and longwave and DRM+ for VHF. "In the past 18 months, India and Russia have already adopted it [DRM30] as their digital solution and have earmarked serious investment for its implementation." In July 2010, Indian public-service broadcaster All India Radio issued a tender for 40 new medium-wave and five new shortwave transmitters for DRM operation, as well as the upgrade of 36 other transmitters to support DRM30. RELIABLE SYSTEM DRM30 is meant to replace interference-prone analog AM broadcasting with a reliable digital signal that delivers high quality audio plus a host of data features. However, the system has been stymied by a limited availability of receivers. DRM?s progress to date has been "very little in Europe and North America," said Andy Sennitt, longtime shortwave radio watcher and editor in charge of the Radio Netherlands "Media Network" website. "Most emphasis now seems to be on India, China and South America." However, at the IBC2011 trade show in Amsterdam, the situation showed signs of changing. At several events during the exhibition, the DRM Consortium highlighted new partnerships with receiver manufacturers that are expected to bring several new models to market over the coming year, including new standalone, USB-based, in-car and professional receivers. Also, chipmaker Frontier Silicon announced that it was adding implementations of DRM30 and DRM+ to its Kino 3 radio processor, one of the most widely used digital radio IC chips on the market. However, these positive signs have been a long time in coming. Gerhard J. Straub, director of the Broadcast Technologies Division at the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB); the agency that runs the Voice of America and Radio Marti', says the slow uptake of DRM30 are shared by all digital radio systems, which have not benefited from governmental mandates the way digital television has. "I think the consumer is overwhelmed with media choices today and unless there is compelling content available on a specific platform, what incentive is there to migrate to a specific technology over another one?" he said. Then there?s the issue of supply and demand: Broadcasters don?t want to switch to DRM30 unless there are enough receivers in use worldwide. Meanwhile, receiver manufacturers have been reluctant to commit to DRM, due to a lack of programming. "DRM is not seen as a profitable line for the major manufacturers," said Sennitt. "A few smaller manufacturers have produced DRM receivers, but the unit cost is still too high, and there simply aren?t enough DRM transmissions audible at any one location to stimulate consumer demand. It?s a classic chicken and egg situation - which comes first, the transmissions or the receivers? The broadcasters and the receiver manufacturers are each waiting for the other to move first." ADDITIONAL RECEIVERS The decisions by Russia and India to adopt DRM30 for domestic broadcasting may be changing that equation. "Our experience over the past year has been that chipset and receiver manufacturers are increasingly interested in creating DRM platforms or very often multi-standard platforms that accommodate several digital audio solutions including DRM," said DRM Consortium Chair Ruxandra Obreja. In fact, Obreja said. "Our membership has increased in the last 12 months and it is no wonder that the companies which have joined us are the top manufacturers of radio chipsets in the analog and digital world." Receiver partners MSway, Frontier Silicon, Chengdu NewStar Electronics and Himalaya all highlighted their DRM30/DRM+ receiver solutions during IBC2011. With the potential DRM30 audience in India and Russia, use of the system in medium wave may prove feasible, but for shortwave it may be too late. While DRM30 theoretically has what it takes to resurrect shortwave into a digital radio band, the real culprit behind shortwave?s decline is the Internet: After the Web arrived, many shortwave listeners had a better, far more reliable way to get the content they wanted. In the developed world, this killed much of the demand for shortwave broadcasts from international broadcasters. In the developing world, however, the need for shortwave radio remains, but listeners do not have the money to buy expensive DRM receivers. "Unless a company comes along with a DRM receiver that can cost less than $40 for countries in the developing world, it won?t happen," said Keith Perron, founder of shortwave program producer PCJ Media. In the context of a Web-dominated world, can DRM30 save shortwave radio? "Definitely not," said Andy Sennitt. "There are too many other factors that have sealed the fate of shortwave." OTHER USES Glenn Hauser, host of "World of Radio," does hold out some hope for DRM30 on shortwave, seeing it being useful for "single-hop coverage at limited distances, as feeder to relay stations as with Radio New Zealand International to the Pacific." In fact, Thomson Broadcast demonstrated a DRM30-based rebroadcasting system at IBC2011 which would facilitate delivery to local FM stations programming via shortwave. "Maybe we should ask that question from another angle," says IBB?s Gerhard Straub. "If traditional shortwave broadcasting fades away, someone is going to use that spectrum for something, and we can be almost certain it is going to be used with a digital system. I think the DRM system has the ability to revitalize the HF spectrum, but I think it is up to the broadcasters to find a way to utilize the technology to give the audience something that they cannot get somewhere else." In response to these doubts, the DRM Consortium?s Ruxandra Obreja poses a question of her own: "Is there a demand for digital radio or will analog do? The obvious answer is that in a digital world, with very congested and limited spectrum resourStandard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:39:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 17, 2011 Message-ID: <1318873161.94566.yahoomailclas...@web114014.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** CANADA. 750, Oct 17 at 1202 UT, amid QRM, Canadian news in English about HIV outbreak in Ottawa from unlicenced clinic; temps in Celsius, but could not catch any locations. Since it`s inconceivable any American or Mexican station would do this, fortunately there is only one Canadian possibility: CKJH Melfort, Sask., 25000/25000 U3. Per NRC AM Log, 24 hours as ``CK 750, The Greatest Hits Of All Time``. A new one here; NRC Pattern Book shows all the night signal going just east of due north, yeah right, but non-direxional daytime which it is not yet. It`s certainly not CBGY in Newfoundland, nor one of two 40-watt LPRTs in Quebec/Qu?bec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1190, Oct 17 at 1219, pizza ad with phone 848-5000, AM-1190 ID, C&W music from N/S. Leads to Weyburn, Sask, and a Facebook item from August: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=250555248308868&id=111247462239648 ``Call 848-5000 or play along on the AM 1190 Facebook page. The winner will be given the title od [sic] Coffee Row Genius of the Day and win lunch at T & C Dallas Pizza in downtown Weyburn. Good luck! - Corey`` So it`s another unexpected Canadian, CFSL, Weyburn SK, 10000/5000 U2, C&W 24h, ``AM 1190`` per NRC AM Log. If I had heard ``Dallas Pizza`` mentioned that would really have led to a wild goose chase. Like CKJH-750, CFSL-1190 night pattern is supposed to throw all the signal slightly east of due north, yeah right2; daytime non-direxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 17, before 1200: 12230, very poor at 1142; no others found 7-17 MHz by 1151. Higher bands still mostly dead before sunrise Before 1300: 7970 and 10300: nothing at 1250 12230, very good at 1256 13970, very good at 1257 16100, very good at 1258 18200, good at 1259-1300*. Yes, 18200, not 18180; none on other bands Before 1400: 16700, very good at 1348; yes, not 16900 16100, very good at 1348; none in the 15s, 17s, 18s 14700, very good at 1351 13970, very good at 1354 13920, very good at 1354 12230, very poor at 1354; none in the 11s, 10s, 9s, 8s, 7s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, Oct 17 at 0347, I can detect a carrier here under heavy jamming (not 5955), presumably still R. Rep?blica via ELCOR. I hear that their schedule has been reduced to roughly 0200-0400, and no longer on daytime 9965, which also continues to be fiercely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 6150, Oct 17 at 0523, RHC`s crummy squealing and undermodulated transmitter is gone! But probably not for good. English remained on redundant 6010, 6050 and 6060. This allowed AUSTRIA to be unimpeded in German on 6155. 13880, Oct 17 at 1353 I am not hearing RHC`s leapfrog mixing product altho fundamentals 13680 and 13780 are strong enough, S9+22. Can RHC have suppressed it? Or made some change in transmitters and/or antennas which are less subject to intermodulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 25985-26010, Oct 17 at 1411, OTH radar pulses presumed from here; no others at the moment from 22 to 27 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. So much for personal diplomacy. Despite my explaining the collision on 11920 both to delegates from RRI and from VIRI at Dallas HFCC a month ago, they are still both on the frequency. Oct 17 at 0348, ``Voice of Justice`` in English is good and clear on 11920, stronger than // 9605, but at 0358 recheck, as usual RRI is on early with domestic service relay in Romanian, music and announcements before 0400, and is stronger than Iran, a bad mixture. Who cares about the listeners? It`s so much easier not to do anything, and just wait for the next seasonal change to take care of it. For B-11, neither will be on 11920. VIRI plans to move English back to 0130-0230 on 7220 Kamalabad, 333 degrees, and 7230, Sirjan 313 degrees, both for N America, and the latter also for Europe; While RRI plans to have an English broadcast at 0400-0500, on 6130 and 7305 to NAm, 11895 and 15220 to Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 17, UT, with Cant? then IRCA lookups: 670, Oct 17 at 1206 UT, TC as 7:06, ``la voz del pueblo`` slogan again twice, maybe a program title which seemed to be ending, full ID as Radio Ranchito, mil watts, including street address in Colonia Ampliaci?n Los ?ngeles, Torre?n, Grupo Radio M?xico. Then to live DJ mentioning date 17 de octubre 670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torre?n, Coah. 1,000 250 670 XETOR Coah Torre?n 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR So they claim only 1000 watts, not 5000, and it sounds like the lower 680, Oct 17 at 1210 UT, greeting listeners who are pescadores, or in Municipio de Angostura; 1212 mentions ``el sur de Sonora, y Chihuahua``; loops E/W or so. Greeting fishermen implies it`s near the coast. Altho there are surely several Angosturas, there is one SE of Guasave near Guamuchil, so these clews lead once again to: 680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500 680 XEORO Sin Guasave 1000 500 La Mera Jefa, X-E-oro 1200-0600 RAN RDIO 680, Oct 17 at 1228 UT with KNBR nulled, TC for 6:29, ``noticias en punto``, news of an event Thu-Sun, norte de M?xico, mentions people coming from diverse states including BCS, Hidalgo, Durango. CCI from another Mexican with music. XEORO is also UT -6 but now it`s likely the more northerly one: 680 XEFO ?xtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250 680 XEFO Chih Chihuahua 1000 250 W Radio, ?xtasis Digital 1200-0100 JUV CIMA (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 17 at 0535, VON is the SSOB at S9+8, report in English on banking, with background noise, distortion, awful hum. Became slightly better when returned to the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 9610, Oct 17 at 0530, fair signal and good modulation with Hamada Radio International ID immediately in Hausa, the clandestine, oops target broadcast via RMI via M&B due south from Wertachtal, GERMANY, M-F 0530-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 32, since first noticed last week, KXOK-LD, Enid has continued to broadcast RTV in DTV both on RF channel 31 as listed, and on weaker RF 32, such as Oct 17 at 1445-1700+ UT. I dropped by the TV-OK office in the Broadway Tower Friday afternoon, but it was dark. Now I phone them and the person who answers is unaware of this, but the CE Shawn (Sean?) is supposed to call me back. I asked Doug Smith of WSMV and W9WI.com and he cannot imagine how there could be a DTV image or spur on an adjacent channel to the real one. 32 was their original analog channel. Perhaps the old 40-watt transitional DTV transmitter on 31 has been moved to 32 as a standby/backup? But it still ought to be on 31 as authorized, not 32. FCC TV Query has KXOK only on 31; on 32 in OK there are 5 LP CPs, none near here, and one LP DTV licensed in Altus, certainly not what I am getting (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. See IRAN [and non] re 11920 collision all A-11 ** RUSSIA. 28555-USB, Oct 17 at 1407, RN3AC, George in Moscow, making hasty contacts, `beaming stateside` but interrupted for a quickie in Italian, then English with KA1SJD, Jim in Massachusetts. QRZ.com: RN3AC George B. Melnikov Rossoshansky pr. 2-2-153 117535, Moscow Russia Lots more signals on 10m up to 28600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 9575, Oct 17 at 1358, gong IS and English ID as ``HSK9, Radio Thailand`s World Service, broadcasting from the Public Relations Department in Bangkok``, repeat IS and ID. Good and clear signal right after Australia closed 9580. However, off at 1359* and back on weaker at *1400 just in time for pips, ID as ``Radio Thailand, AM 9-18, time for the 8 pm news magazine``. Must be delayed an hour since local time is now 9 pm (UT +7). And Udorn must have been late, making the beam switch from 54 degrees for the 1330-1400 Thai broadcast to 132 degrees for the 1400-1430 English. Should have done so before the IS/ID break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 9540, Oct 17 at 1357, VOT IS, Arabic ID, fair. Could be long-path; is 250 kW, 150 degrees from Emirler at 14-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17530, Oct 17 at 1315-1320, R. Sawa interrupts pop music for fast-paced newscast including axualities, one of them Sarkozy starting to speak French. Previously heard the other hourly newscast lasting only one minute at :45. 17530 is 13-15, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Kuwait, and well heard even here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP MW DX 9-kHz-step scan on DX-398 with internal antenna only in offset USB mode, Oct 17 at 1225-1228 UT: very weak carriers on 1044, 828, 774, 747, 738 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17535, Oct 17 at 1304-1305* and right back on *1305-1306*, strong and steady open carrier, just like Greenville used to do a few minutes later on 17820 preparing for the 1700 VOA Portuguese service. Then I check 17820 for a few minutes past 1315, but DW Hausa is not impeded by an OC, so maybe GB got my message and decided to find a clear frequency for warmup? Still on 17820 at 1725 check. HFCC A-11 has Riyadh registered on 17535 at 12-14, but I`ve never heard it there, so presumably wooden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:17:42 +1300 From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <i...@radioheritage.net> To: i...@radioheritage.net Subject: [HCDX] AFRS India-Burma Memories Honored Message-ID: <380-2201110117231742...@radioheritage.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Media Release Radio Heritage Foundation October 18 2011 _________________________ US Armed Forces Radio 70th Anniversary 1941-2011 Six New Features Released India-Burma WWII _________________________ The Radio Heritage Foundation releases six new features celebrating AFRS radio stations in India and Burma during the 1940's at its global website www.radioheritage.com. 2011 is the 70th anniversary of American Armed Forces Radio broadcasts, and the six new features look at AFRS radio in a part of the world that few people today know once had these temporary radio stations. 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Full details are at www.radioheritage.com. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, playdx <playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, bclnews <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, d...@yahoogroups.com, NoticiasDx <noticia...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] World of Radio imminent on 5980 Message-ID: <1318906721.37921.yahoomailclas...@web114020.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I would appreciate some informal reports at least from UK and Europe, on how reception is for WORLD OF RADIO, now scheduled Tuesdays at 0930 UT on Hamburger Lokal Radio, Germany, 5980. 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