--------------------------------- "RUS-DX" # 1013 Broadcasting of Russia, countries of CIS, Ukraine and Baltic countries (ex. USSR) Sunday / 27 January, 2019 --------------------------------- Time : UTC --------------------------------- Editor : Anatoly Klepov --------------------------------- QTH : Moscow, Russia --------------------------------- E-mail : rusdx@yandex.ru Web site : http://rusdx.narod.ru (Russian / English) Mailing List : http://groups.google.com/group/rusdx. QSL, a photo : http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/ --------------------------------------------------------- The first issue was published in January 1991. ------------------------------------------------------------- Broadcasting and radio communication Russia, CIS and Baltic countries (ex. USSR) Worldwide broadcasting in Russian. Editor's desk. Country information. Radio broadcasting in Russian. WEB radio & TV in Russian. QSL world. DX program. Calendar radiodat. Philately. Mass Media. Radio program and schedule. ----------------------------------------------------------- "RUS-DX" may not be redistributed without permission. If quoting from the bulletin, please list the original reporter and "RUS-DX" as source. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine translation : http://translate.google.ru & https://translate.yandex.ru/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- RUSSIA ======== Krasnoyarskiy kray. Kansk. ------------------------------------- Broadcasting "Radio Russkiy Hit" began in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Residents of the city will be able 24 hours a day to enjoy the best hits in Russian, reports OnAir.ru with reference to the Krutoy Media press service. "Radio Russkiy Hit" - all the best immediately! The frequency of broadcasting is 104.3 FM, the potential coverage of the population is 113.5 thousand people. Regional partner of Radio Russkiy Hit - Super Broadcasting Company TRC LLC, director - A. Manushkin Radio Russian Hit is one of the radio stations of Krutoy Media Holding. It broadcasts in Moscow at a frequency of 99.6 FM, as well as in Anapa (104.5 FM) and Serpukhov (99.4 FM). According to Mediascope (Radio Index - Moscow, October - December 2018), 211 thousand people listen to Radio Russkiy Hit daily, 668 thousand people listen weekly. Official website: www.ruhit.fm (http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/5898.htm) Kurganskaya oblast. ----------------------------- Information from the Kurgan branch of RTRS: In 2019, it is planned to launch FM transmitters: - Vesti FM: Kurgan 1 kW 87.5 MHz - Radio Russii in the following points of the Kurgan region: Kosolapovo, Tselinny rn 100 W 87.5 MHz Keys, Kargapolsky district 250 W 104.4 MHz Komsomolskaya, Zverinogolovsky district 100 W 103.3 MHz Shatrovo 250 W 98.6 MHz Makushino 1 kW 103.0 MHz Shadrinsk 1 kW 107.7 MHz Shumikha 1 kW 87.5 MHz. (Vladimir Dyachkov, Chelyabinsk,Russia / https://vk.com/kuradiotv) Chuvash Republic. ------------------------------ On January 29, in Chuvashia, the grand opening of MIR radio broadcasting will take place. The radio station will be available both in the capital of the republic, Cheboksary, and in the second largest city - Novocheboksarsk. Thus, two more important marks will appear on the broadcast map of the MIR radio station. Today, the radio "MIR" unites 67 Russian cities and the audience of the CIS. Broadcasting is carried out in Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Russia, and since last year and Armenia. The total potential audience is 44 million people. (Internet) Rostovskaya oblast. Rostov-on-Don. -------------------------------------------------- - From February 1, the Moscow station "Radio 7 na semi kholmakhs" returns to Rostov-on-Don. It will broadcast on the frequency of 89.4 FM. Recall that the playlist of the radio station consists of golden hits of foreign music, as well as contemporary hits: Depeche Mode, Madonna, Sting, Charlie Puth, Adele, Lara Fabian, Eros Ramazzotti and others. Note that this radio station is launched in the Don capital for the third time: "Radio 7" has already been in receivers of Rostovites from summer 2001 to autumn 2010, and also from winter 2011 to spring 2016, various holdings were engaged in promoting the station. At frequency 89.4 FM, Radio 7 on seven hills will replace the autonomous local station Rostov FM, which began broadcasting in 2015. newsdelo.com (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72059/) Smolenskaya oblast. Smolensk. ---------------------------------------------- January 23 began broadcasting "Radio Dacha" in Smolensk. Now the residents of the administrative center of the Smolensk region 24 hours a day have access to the most beloved songs of the 80s and 90s and the most successful hits of our days performed by popular domestic artists. The broadcasting frequency of Radio Dacha in Smolensk is 89.9 FM, the coverage of the population is 339.1 thousand people. The license for broadcasting belongs to the holding Krutoy Media. Radio Dacha is one of the radio stations of the Krutoy Media holding. Radio Dacha is the leader in terms of listening duration among competitors, ranks second in terms of share and is in the TOP-10 of the country's top-rated music radio stations. According to Mediascope (Radio Index - Russia, April - September 2018), 7.8 million people listen to Radio Dacha daily, 18.7 million people listen weekly. Today, Radio Dacha has a regional broadcasting network of 257 transmitters located in cities of Russia and neighboring countries. The official site of "Radio Dacha": www.radiodacha.ru. (http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/5904.htm) News kaleidoscope -------------------------------- * The program "Radiopanorama". In Russian. -------------------------------------------------------- Moscow. World Radio Network. The program "Radio Panorama" for lovers of long-range radio reception. The author and presenter - Vadim Alekseev. 01/26/2019 Controllers connected to the suppression of mobile communication in places of deprivation of liberty - The Federation Council wants to register mobile devices with Internet access for a fee - Mail.ru and Yandex supported the "offline Internet" - In Zimbabwe, the Internet is completely disconnected; in response, hackers #Anonymous put government websites - #RFE_RL resumes online for Romania and Bulgaria - Review of MW broadcasters and Venezuelan military frequencies - Special Swedish program and other news #Channel292 (https://vk.com/dxing) Publication - publication of program details and sound file at https://vk.com/dxing - Publication and preparation of the sound file - Vladimir Emelyanov, Samara, Russia. * Interesting places ------------------------- Uralmash, one of the world's largest radio repeaters. Towers-jammers on Veera. December 18, 2017, Author: Stanislav Shminke. Text and photos. https://ural-n.ru/p/uralmash-odin-iz-samyh-bolshih-v-mire-radio-retranslyatorov.html (Anton Yakunin, Volgograd,Russia / https://vk.com/club3877182) * Mobile application "Radio. XX century". -------------------------------------------------- --------- The free mobile application "Radio. XX Century", created by the State TV and Radio Fund, gave a new life to the half- forgotten radio recordings of the Soviet times. Users will be able to hear the works of 1946-1966 which are carefully digitized from a magnetic tape: the best voices of the epoch, theatrical performances, concerts and children's educational programs. To make listeners comfortable, all published entries are divided by age and thematic collections. The smallest ones can be carried away for a long time with poems and fairy tales by Korney Chukovsky, Agnes Barto, Samuel Marshak and other authors. Under the heading "Kids. 0-6 years old" there are fairy tales in prose, which are read by outstanding theater actors, and fairy tale performances based on works by Soviet and foreign classics, and a collection of the best lullaby songs. Younger students are offered larger works, and more serious tales. By the way, many of the materials selected for application are included in the framework of the school curriculum in reading from grades 1 to 4 and in literature for high school students. Schoolchildren of all ages will also be interested to listen to performances on masterpieces of world literature. But the largest number of entries published in the section for an adult audience. This is, first of all, radio shows and recordings on the broadcasts of performances by leading Soviet theaters based on works by Russian and foreign authors. As interesting digitized entries appear in the application, new interesting collections are published that will brighten up everyday life and allow you to join the true radio art of an audience of any age. Download the application "Radio. XX century" in Google Play and the App Store. vesti.ru (Source: http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72004/) * Radio museum ------------------- Museum of Radio. Creator: Semenov Gennady Petrovich. Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl region, Russia. 24 photos. Photo album: https://vk.com/album-124092979_260310184 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOlorHdwe2U&featu .. (https://vk.com/radioreceiver) * On holding tenders for the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using specific radio frequencies of March 27, 2019 -------------------------------------------------- ---- Competition conditions: broadcasting time - "every day, around the clock"; The concept of broadcasting is "free." Subject of the competition 1: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Volgograd Region, Volgograd g, Volzhsky G (94.5 MHz, 1 kW, transmitter installation point - Volgograd);... Subject of the competition 2: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Volgograd Region, Volgograd g, Volzhsky G (107.9 MHz, 1 kW, transmitter installation point - Volgograd);... Subject of the competition 3: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Volgograd Region, Kamyshin g (88.6 MHz, 1 kW);... Subject of the competition 4: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Volgograd Region, Kamyshin g (107.8 MHz, 1 kW);... Subject of the competition 5: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Sverdlovsk region, Nizhny Tagil g (97.1 MHz, 1 kW);... Subject of the competition 6: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Sverdlovsk region, Nizhny Tagil g (104.2 MHz, 1 kW);... Subject of the competition 7: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Khabarovsk Territory, Komsomolsk-on-Amur g (90.7 MHz, 1 kW);... Subject of the competition 8: the right to conduct terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequencies - in the implementation of terrestrial analogue broadcasting, Khabarovsk Territory, Komsomolsk-on-Amur g (91.5 MHz, 1 kW); ... https://rkn.gov.ru/docs/Soobshhenie_o_provedenii_03.19.docx (https://vk.com/vcfm2014) * Radio Rodnykh Dorog, like a winter wizard, walks around the country and distributes gifts. Or rather, it connects new cities to the broadcasting grid. Today, three settlements have appeared on our virtual map: Taldom, Dubna and Kimry. All of them are united by one frequency - 91.0 FM. The total potential coverage of the population is more than 130 thousand people. Since September 2018, Radio Rodnykh Dorog has been successfully broadcasting under the new slogan "Major songs of a big country". In the "grid" there are even more songs in Russian, as well as even more programs devoted to Russia. You can find a complete list of connected cities and learn about future plans on radiord.ru. In addition, the latest information can be obtained from official VKontakte groups and Odnoklassniki. Radio Rodnykh Dorog: No Day Without a Song! (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72070/) - Taldom, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia. Dubna, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia. Kimry, Tverskaya oblast, Russia "RUS-DX PLUS" PARTNER CHANNELS AND INTERNET ============== SWLDXBulgaria News, Editor: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria --------------------------- * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.19-20 ARMENIA(non) Reception of Trans World Radio India via CJSC Yerevan, Jan.20 1530-1600 on 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Sat/Sun, fair signal Wrong announcement ...every Sat/Sun from 1545UT on 7505 kHz at 31 meterband! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_20.html UZBEKISTAN(non) Reception of Trans World Radio India via Tashkent on Jan.20: 1545-1600 on 6240 TAC 100 kW / 066 deg to CeAs Kazakh, fair to good + jamming https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_95.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22 NUMBERS STATION Reception of S06s Russian Lady in 49&41mb, Jan.22: 0715-0721 on 6320 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB+AM, good 0730-0736 on 7410 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB+AM, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-49.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23 KURDISTAN(non) Denge Welat via Issoudun and Grigoriopol, Jan.23: 0330-0600 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-denge-welat-via-issoudun.html NUMBERS STATION Reception of S06s Russian Lady in 60&49mb, Jan.22: 1100-1106 on 5035 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB+AM, good 1110-1116 on 5975 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian AM mode, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-60.html UZBEKISTAN(non) Three clandestine broadcasts via Tashkent, Jan.22 Radio Free North Korea from 1201 on 7610 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good Voice of Wilderness from 1331 on 7625 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, very good North Korea Reform Radio from 1430 on 7600 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-three-clandestine.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23 NUMBERS STATION Reception of S06s Russian Lady in 31mb on Jan.23: 0830-0836 on 9262 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB+AM, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-31mb_23.html UTILITY Samara & Rostov Meteo and Military One, Jan.23: 1245-1250 on 8888 kHz USB mode Samara Meteo, weak signal 1257-1300 on 11297 kHz USB mode Rostov Meteo, good signal from 1313 on 11253 kHz USB mode Military One, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-samara-meteo-rostov-meteo.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.23-24 NUMBERS STATION Reception of E17z English Lady & S06s Russian Lady in 31mb, Jan.24 0810-0816 on 9820 unknown secret tx site to Eu English CUSB E17z English Lady, good 0940-0946 on 9540 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB S06s Russian Lady, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-e17z-english-lady-s06s.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.24-25 NUMBERS STATION Reception of S06s Russian Lady in 50mb & S11a Cherta in 42mb, Jan.25 0910-0916 on 5765 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian USB+AM S06s Russian Lady, good 1020-1032 on 7600 unknown secret tx site to Eu English USB mode S11a Cherta-very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-50mb.html U.K.(non) FEBA Radio & Radio Ranginkaman via ENC-DMS Yerevan & Grigoriopol, Jan.24 1730-1800 on 7510 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Silte FEBA Radio, very good signal 1730-1800 on 7560 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi R.Ranginkaman, fair to good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/feba-radio-radio-ranginkaman-via.html UZBRKISTAN(non) Frequency changes of BBC via Tashkent effective from Jan.25: 1330-1400 NF 7520 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs Bengali, fair+jamming, ex 5875 Parallel frequencies: 9510 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg and 11750 SLA 250 kW / 075 deg And frequency changes of BBC "Premier League" effective from Jan.26 1700-1800 NF 9465 MEY 100 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 7335 1800-1930 NF 9465 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 7335 1700-1930 NF 9600 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg to EaAf Somali Sat, ex 9465 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/frequency-changes-of-bbc-in-bengali-via.html * SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.25-26 RUSSIA vs.SECRETLAND(non) GTRK Adygeyan Radio vs Brother HySTAIRical on Jan.25: 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Fri Adygeyan Radio, fair 1802-2000 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English Brother HySTAIRical, weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/gtrk-adygeyan-radio-vs-brother.html BC-DX 1369, 19 January 2019 Editor : Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany ----------------- KYRGYZSTAN Re: BUZZ of 100 Hertz distance apart each 23 x 100 Hz strings, either sideband on 4820 kHz, Lhasa Tibet Chinese px on top S=9+30dB signal at 0050 UT on Jan 10. Of course the side carriers can be visible even if Lhasa is on top. Check now, that Lhasa hasn't yet faded in in Kazkhstan: Or at 0000 or 1230 UT. (Mauno Ritola-FIN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 10) Re: BUZZy audio sound of 100 Hertz distance apart each 23 x 100 Hz strings either sideband on 4820 kHz, originate of SW Relay Sce, Krasnaya Rechka, Bishkek {acc to Mauno Ritola-FIN}, but co-channel Lhasa Tibet Chinese px on top S=9+30dB, at 0050 UT Jan 10. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 10) Yes Wolfie, seems, that the normal link doesn't work, but I found this: // SW 4820 kHz 0000-1230UT The link you gave: is // for Birinch1st prgr, which is carried on SW 4010v kHz. (Mauno Ritola-FIN, direct via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 13 => Many streams: (thanks Roger Thauer-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 13) Yes Mauno, heard an hour this morning 09-10 UT on Kazakh KiwiSDR, Kalkash KAZ, operator ZL/KF6VO Seen always 23 x 100 Hertz BUZZ strings, as well as many further 50 Hertz strings distance apart BUZZ in between. in 4817.2 to 4822.8 kHz fq range But looked out to fetch the online streams, no success, even with Google translator Kirgizh language website into English. On SW I guess heard MUSICA program, even a Hungarian Czardas music type title for example heard. 4820 kHz 60 meterband, when checked on Tue Jan 15 at 11.50 UT only CNR Mandarin Tibet was on air. check against Kyrgyz Radiosu livestreams on internet Genre: Folk music. Bitrate: 24 kHz, 80 kbps, Stereo Country: Kyrgyzstan City: Bishkek Address: Blvd. Young Guard 59 Website: Email: Phone: + 996 312 39-20-59 But Birinchi Radio was // SW 4010.221 kHz 74 meterband was on Mauno's SDR in eastern Finland location at 12.07 UT Genre: Folk music, Colloquial. Bitrate: 44 kHz, 80 kbps, Stereo Country: Kyrgyzstan City: Bishkek Language: Kyrgyz Address: Young Guard Boulevard 59 Website: Email: Phone: + 996 312 39 20 59, + 996 312 39 24 04 (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 13) KYRGYZSTAN At same place today on Maunos remote SDR in Finland heard Kyrgyz R from Bishkek on 4010.221 kHz S=9+20dB proper in Finland remote, 14.20 UT on Jan 14. At Seoul remote SDR noted on 4010.221 kHz S=8 at 16.43 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14) MOLDOVA / FRANCE Just to remind once again that 'Denge Welat' has prgrs in different dialects (languages like Kurmanji, Sorani etc) of Kurdish but also in Turkish. Confirmed by listening to 8, 9, 10 & 11th January on 9525 kHz at *0400-0445* & *0500-0545* UT, the prgrs were in only Turkish language (and not in Kurdish). (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 12) Bcast centers in use are different during daytime, via TDF Issoudun or Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA. MOLDOVA Log: 11479.5 kHz, Sender??, UT 08:05, Jan 18. SINPO 25232. Tuerkische und hindu mx, zur Zeit maennliche Stimme mit Bericht? ID nicht gehoert, nicht erkannt. Die Station hoerte ich seit Jan 14 taeglich Gruss Horst, QTH Bardudvarnok / HNG, RX AOR 7030/FCD2, 30 m LW (via A-DX ng Jan 18) Das hatten wir hier schon mal genannt im letzten Monat: Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA Moldova. Ganz einfach zwei Spurs symmetrisch von 50.283 kHz Abstand beidseitig. Fundamental 11530 kHz, und etwas huepfend unstabil wobbelnde 5 x 100 Hertz Abstand Signal-Strings sichtbar, bei 11479.713 ... 722 kHz, sowie oben auf circa 11580.280 kHz 5 strings visible, gleichermassen. Dreh' kurz mal auf die 11530 kHz und Du bekommst das gleiche Programm geliefert. 73 wb ps. Hintergrund der Aussendung auf der Kurzwelle: die 38 Millionen Kurden sind jene Volksgruppe, die vor 95 Jahren bei den Friedenskonferenzen der Briten und Franzosen Kolonial-Aufteilungen in Nahost nach dem Osmanicreich-Empire Kollaps nicht bedient wurden. Und seitdem auf einen eigenen Staat hoffen. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 19) TAJIKISTAN 4765.067 kHz odd fq reserve unit of Tajik Radio 1 progr at Dushanbe Yangi Yul now in regular use. S=9+15dB at 14.24 UT on Jan 14. Central Asian Tajik mx singer/string instrument played, 10.4 kHz wideband signal. At Seoul remote SDR noted on 4765.066 kHz S=7 at 16.40 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14) TURKMENISTAN 279 kHz longwave, TR1 Watan Asghabat TKM at 1730 UTC. Moin, Moin! Fuer die Freunde Turkmenistans, sei die Langwelle 279 kHz aus der Hauptstadt Asgabat jetzt aktuell nahe gelegt. Zur Zeit (17:30 UT) mit weiblicher Sprecherin und schwach-mittlerem Signal und lauer Modulation hier oben im Nordwesten mit absolut zugaenglicher und schneefreier Antenne. (Olaf Haenssler-D, A-DX ng Jan 11) Im Winter 2016 wurde ueber 279 kHz berichtet: in French language is a Luxembourg effect mixture signal of - stronger - RTL 234 kHz, - and lower EUR1 183 kHz signal strength. ein Luxembourg Effekt berichtet. Auch Nils hatte das damals bemerkt in der Mongolei LW Diskussion. Aber auf der Achse LUX-Saarlouis Turkmenistan, dafuer liegt Oldenburg bisserl zu weit nordwaerts? Was sagt die Diskussionsrunde ? Da wird Olaf wohl heute real die WATAN Langwelle Asgabat gehoert haben, auf dem web-Stream kamen die time pips 15 Sekunden soeben zu spaet, aber diese Diskussion hatten wir ja diese Woche schon. clicke auf media / radio / WATAN 73 wb df5sx ps. laut Google Earth images, das alte Sende-Zentrum Asgabat aus UdSSR Zeiten wurde im Jahr 2013 geschliffen, und durch neue Baum Plantagen Anpflanzungen ersetzt, das neue/alte R Moskau Sendezentrum vom 2014 images Ausbau liegt weiter im Norden bei 37 57 54.96 N 58 44 02.00 E dort sieht es eher nach trockener Sandwueste aus, mit ganz schlechter Bodenleitfaehigkeit ? Vielleicht liegt dort jetzt im Januar auch Schnee mit besserer Boden-Leitfaehigkeit, wer weiss? Rumen Pankov in Sofia Bulgarien hat die LW Asgabat 279 kHz regelmaessig im Januar / Februar berichtet, mit dem Sony ICF 2010 aus 1995, ohne weiteren Magnet Antennen-Rahmen. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 11) DX QUICK TIPS January 20, 2019 Some interesting DX signals have reached Mount Evelyn this week. Rob Wagner VK3BVW ------------- ... 4765.06 TAJIKISTAN. Tajik Radio 1 - Yangi Yul. Distinctly Central Asian sounding music programming with Tajik anncts at 1930. The music reflects this country's position on the border with Afghanistan and close to Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir. The Tajik language is a dialect of Persian (closely related to Dari). Interestingly, many Tajiks also speak Russian - a throwback to the eras of domination by the Russian Empire in the 1870s+ and later the Soviets, where it was known as the Tajik Soviet Socialists Republic (Tajik SSR). A surprisingly good signal right up until the signoff at precisely 2000 UTC. Slightly off-frequency on Jan 19. ... 11601 TAJIKISTAN. Voice of Tibet - Dushanbe. S/on 1230 in Tibetan. Moves to 11605 at exactly 1235, right in mid- sentence and runs until 1300 s/off. Fair to good signal on Jan 17. ... DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-03, January 15, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA ------------------------------------ ** KURDISTAN [non]. Anyone Know Who Is On 9525 kHz? GA All, I hate to be such a pain. I have been listening, on and off, for the last two days to a transmission I have been hearing on 9525 kHz. Yesterday, January 10th from 1742 to 1820 UT, I thought it was Radio Denge Kurdistan, operating using the Issoudun, FRANCE transmitter site. Just to confirm it, I also used their internet feed on their web site. It sure sounded like them, although I do not understand the Kurdish language. I sent a reception report to: prtc@idknet.com. I received a reply from "Sergey Omeichenko", which said "Our transmitter is not working on 9525 kHz. As I type this, today January 11th, I am still hearing them at 1803 UT, with a man speaking in what sounds like Arabic with SINPO 35444, although their is some fading (Charles Gessner, 1805 UT Jan 11, WOR iog via DXLD) The address you used is for the Pridnestrovye relay site (as the Ukrainianish name implies), which DW do use part of the time, but 9525 is now scheduled via Issoudun, France. I think people are not getting QSLs from the program/station itself rather than transmitter sites, and WRTH 2019 does not show any e-mail for it, but some websites: denge-welat.org radyo-welat.com radyowelat.com Perhaps MBR or TDF will reply, or QSL (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glen[n], Thanks for your comments. I took another look at their web site and found an email link "radyo@welat.info". I just got done sending my SWL report to that email address. I have also been listening to that broadcaster on 9525 kHz for about an hour from 1805 to 1905 UT and beyond, while listening to the internet stream on their web site. It sure sounds like the same broadcaster. Thanks for the information on the WRTH. I have a copy ordered, but not received yet. Plus I have started using the AOKI listenings. Thanks (Charles Gessner, W3ON, ibid) ** KYRGYZSTAN [non?]. Re: ``BUZZ of 100 Hertz distance apart each 23 x 100 Hz strings either sideband on 4820 kHz, Lhasa Tibet Chinese px on top S=9+30dB. 0050 UT Jan 10`` Did you check it? Here's KGR2 sign-off at 1230 and Xizang remains there with clean carrier: [screenshot] (Mauno Ritola, 1231 Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes Mauno, heard an hour this morning 09-10 UT on Kazakh KiwiSDR, Kalkash KAZ, operator ZL/KF6VO. Seen always 23 x 100 Hertz BUZZ strings, as well as many further 50 Hertz distance apart BUZZ in between. 4817.2 to 4822.8 kHz Range But looked out http://www.ktrk.kg to fetch the online streams, no success, even with Google translator Kirgizh language website into English. http://www.ktrk.kg/about http://www.ktrk.kg/online/online-1radio.php On SW I guess heard MUSICA program, even a Hungarian Czardas music type title for example heard. http://www.ktrk.kg/music Thanks, 73 wolfie df5sx wwdxc (Wolfgang Bueschel, 1005 UT Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET Yes Wolfie, seems, that the normal link http://www.ktrk.kg/online/online-kg_radio.php doesn't work, but I found this: https://topradio.me/radio/kyirgyiz-radiosu // 4820 kHz 0000-1230. The link you gave: http://www.ktrk.kg/online/online-1radio.php is for 1st program, which is carried on 4010v kHz. 73, (Mauno, ibid.) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Kyrgyz R from Bishkek on 4010.221 kHz S=9+20dB proper in Finland remote, 1420 UT on Jan 14. At Seoul remote SDR noted on 4010.221 kHz S=8 at 1643 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Radio Voice of Life (Sedaye Zindagi) seems to start broadcasting an hour earlier. I listened on January 2nd from 1558 to 1650 UT; on January 4, 2019 from 1450 UT on 5130 kHz. In both cases, a very weak signal (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Jan 13 via DXLD) * RUSSIA [and non]. The Buzzer, Pip & Squeaky Wheel; Here is an interesting read about a long time running radio transmission. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run This is usually listed under Utility Monitoring; a search can bring up more information. via 73 Rod W8GRI [These are always listed in EiBi; http://eibispace.de] (Jack Amelar, MARE Tipsheet 11 Jan via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. GTRK Adygeya / Adygeyan Radio is again on air, Jan.11 1800-1900 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg CeAs Adygeyan Fri, weak signal, from 1802 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg EaEu English Brother Stair co-ch https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/gtrk-adygeya-adygeyan-radio-is-again-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan 10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non] https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/radio-liberty-in-russian-on-shortwave.html Test broadcast of Vesti FM on shortwave, Jan.10 UNKNOWN TX SITE Test broadcast of Vesti FM on shortwave, Jan.10 0910-0925 on 9950 unknown kW / unknown to EaEu, very good signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvU-8Y9yTI&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, via RusDX Jan 13 via WORLD OF RADIO 1965, DXLD) Vesti FM [News] is one of the government radio networks, briefly mentioned on pages 338 & 488 of WRTH 2019; why would R. Liberty be involved with it?? (gh, DXLD) UNKNOWN TX SITE, Radio Liberty RL in Russian on shortwave again, Jan.10 0910-0925 9950 unknown kW / unknown EaEu probably test, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/radio-liberty-in-russian-on-shortwave.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is the same report of the same date except in the second version, Vesti FM is not mentioned, instead Radio Liberty. How come? Maybe the word vesti / izvestiya was mentioned but not a station ID (gh) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Russia changes broadcast time-zone arrangements --- Russia has updated its system of time-shifted broadcasts inherited from the Soviet era. The national radio and TV channels used to broadcast a Moscow version for European Russia and four additional time-shifted versions for areas further east. So, five different versions in total (it was a total of four versions until the late 1970s or early 80s). But as Russia has 11 time zones this meant that each time-shifted version had to cover two or three different time zones. The time-shifted versions were known as "Orbita" or "Dubl" (Double). Orbita-1 covered the far east of the country (8 and 9 hours ahead of Moscow). Orbita-2 covered the time zones 6 and 7 hours ahead of Moscow. Orbita-3 was Moscow plus 4 and 5 hours. Orbita-4 was Moscow plus 2 and 3 hours. The Moscow version covered the Moscow time zone and the zones one hour behind and ahead of it. (The exact details varied over the years as Russia reorganised its time zones.) This has now been changed so that each of Russia's 11 time zones now has its own time-shifted broadcast zone. The new system was introduced in time for Putin's New Year message to be broadcast at 2355 local time in each zone on 31 December 2018. In earlier years, some viewers might have seen the message an hour early or late. With the end (more or less) of Russian broadcasting on shortwave and mediumwave this is now somewhat academic news for DXers. Older readers though may remember the various time-shifted versions of the USSR's First Programme radio. Trivia point: In internal BBCMS documentation we didn't refer to Orbita 1/2/3/4 but to M1A (furthest east), M1B, M1C and M1D, with M1 (with no suffix letter) being the First Programme service for the Moscow zone. In 1981-83 I worked in the team that had to try to pick up the SSB feeders from Moscow carrying the various Orbita versions. It was almost impossible to find a reliable feed for Orbita 1 (M1A), but Orbita 4 (M1D) feeding the Urals was generally very good. I remember it being on 16330. The idea behind listening to the Orbita versions was that you could hear pre-recorded programmes several hours before they were broadcast to the audience in Moscow (Chris Greenway, England, Jan 9, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder what was the quality of these broadcasts when they were aired on local broadcast frequencies in the different time zones. It seems to me that their sound quality deteriorated significantly. First, they had to record in the studio, then they had to broadcast on SSB (SSB doesn't have a good sound quality), then the locals had to pick up the signal from far away, then rebroadcast lively or recording it again for a local rebroadcast at a later time. I hardly believe that the final product had't lost its original sound quality. And, we even did not take into account the propagation, the atmospheric or man-made noise or co-channel interference or adjacent channel interference. Personally I cannot remember those years since I was born in 1977 and I started to tune on mediumwave around 1986-87 when I heard from a classmate boy about the wonders of listening to foreign broadcasters. He was two years older than me and he introduced the radio listening hobby to me. First I "discovered" Radio Moscow on mediumwave at night in the dormitory of our school, the School for the Blind in Budapest after it negotiated with my parents that a Sanyo pocket radio can be with me in the school. The school was in Budapest while I lived in Magyarlak, around 260-300 kilometres west, so, the radio was very useful to me to spend time on those weekends on which I had to remain in the school. That radio had mediumwave (530-1600 kHz) and OIRT FM (66-74 MHz), but, Hungarian radios broadcasted only up to 73 MHz, then the remaining 73-74 MHz band was used by utility stations (electric power supply companies, gas supply company in Budapest, plus a water service monitoring sound). Of course I discovered these gradually step by step with my friend. We were able to pull another boy into the hobby, and soon we started to use any radio (including shortwave sets). Certainly we knew zero English or other languages, but together we figured out a lot of languages. I hope I don't have to mention that we had no literature in the field, maximum ham literature on an audio cassette, but we knew nothing about that for a long time. One thing helped us: at that time some broadcasters broadcasted in Hungarian (Moscow, Tirana, Yugoslavia, Slovakian part of Czechoslovakia, Romania, VOA, BBC, RFERL, Radio Canada, and Israel). Our teachers and some family friends could help us with geographic names and what languages are used in those countries. I get an old ML1250V receiver only around 1995 when a ham radio club was disbanded due to the lack of activity and the people there knew about my interest and that I have almost nothing to do the radio listening hobby. By the 1990s these SSB feeds disappeared. Only one Radio Mayak station remained in the so-called tropical band on SSB. But it was not too late to catch the last phase of morse in shipping (GKA, GKB: Portishead Radio, UK for example) and the phasing out of USB marine (Norddeich Radio, Spanish, Russian mobile phone calls between shippers and the coast, and the Hungarian MAHART shipping company's ship-to-coast communication). (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Tibor, Many thanks for your interesting recollections. Before satellite feeds became common in the 1980s, SSB feeders were very widely used by many broadcasters. For example, it was used by both the BBC and the VOA to feed audio to their many overseas relay stations. Tapes of some pre-recorded programmes that were not time-sensitive (dramas, music shows, talks, documentaries, etc.) would be shipped out in advance to relay stations to be played out locally in the best quality, but news and other topical programmes had to be aired live using the feeders. Quality was sometimes a problem. The most obvious feature was that the lowest bass notes are cut in SSB and so the audio lacked richness. But in general the system worked well (Chris Greenway, ibid.) I can second Tibor in his recollections but here in the USSR (or Moldavian SSR I lived in for quite a while) we studied English since grade 4. Quite a few of us had a good command of English (those who wanted to at least). The USSR has rather effectively employed satellite / MW feeds. I have seen some official papers stating MW/LW or SW frequencies where central feeds were supposed to be received locally (to be further rebroadcast to local audience). Maybe SSB was a sorta last resort (redundant feeder should the main one(s) fail) throughout Russia but here in Moldavia nobody really cared about it. There've been cable or relay lines in wide use throughout the 80s or early 90s. Who knows, maybe in Hungary it was much too different. Season's greetings (Leo Barmaleo, Jan 10, ibid.) Here in Hungary SSB feeders were not used widely in the 1980s in broadcasting or feeding. I heard in a history programme that some football matches were transmitted via dedicated phone lines from far away then somewhere was put the signal up to radio in order to reach Hungary. This is how they could transmit some events from great distances such as bridging continents, but, personally i don't know more about it since these programmes did not mention the feeder frequencies. By the 1980s Hungary built cables between the transmitters and the studios in order to secure the FM mono or stereo quality. Then microwave relay stations existed even in the late '80s relaying radio and TV to the broadcast band transmitters. In radio they had to handle Kossuth, Petofi and the 3rd programme (at the beginning this was its name, but later it was renamed to Bartók rádió after the famous composer Bela Bartok). In television the relay system had to handle the state-owned MTV 1 and 2. In this case MTV is not the famous Music Television but the Hungarian abbreviation of the state-owned television, Magyar Televízió. Plus the system was capable to retransmit some limited amount of telephony which wasn't necessarily originated in Hungary. Landline telephone was a relatively rare animal at that time because of the enormous amount of investment needed but the country had not enough money to build the landlines (telephone and telex) throughout the country then telephone/telex switching stations, not to mention automatic telephone/telex exchanges. Some state-owned companies invested money in their own internal analogue radiotelephony network to fasten communication between their units. This is why Hungary chose a mixed system and invested in the research in the wireless part of telecommunication. This is why we gave up investing into cable radios in private homes unlike in some part of the Soviet Union or in North Korea. The former socialist Hungarian system thought that the wireless, the radio is cheaper in private homes than copper-wire networks. In Hungary (before World War II) and after the 1950s you could buy shortwave radios; these were not too expensive. It means that almost everyone were able to listen to the so-called 'enemy' broadcasts like RFERL, VOA, BBC, etc. and the Hungarian official news reflected to their broadcasts with or without mentioning the sources onto which they reflect. Certainly those 'enemy' broadcasters reflected back too since they also listened to the socialist block's broadcasts. Of course talking about what you hear in those 'enemy' broadcasts was risky but not as risky as elsewhere in the socialist block. Despite Hungary being part of the Soviet-style socialism-building countries, it was impossible even here to listen Soviet internal broadcasts during daytime on mediumwave. In the evening it was possible to hear a lot of international broadcasts of Radio Moscow on mediumwave, but not the internal ones. It was rare when we could hear their internal ones. After the international part finished their job they either signed off or held a very long pause (carrier signal on but nothing else), reduced their power so significantly that I was unable to understand the broadcasts, not even hear the music. Identification of those stations was impossible for me. USSR's internal broadcasts were not retransmitted here on FM unlike what the BBC, RFI, VOA or CRI from China can do today in their target areas. Even it was rare to catch Radio Mayak on OIRT FM when the propagation allowed. Ukraine's large station on mediumwave was an easy catch in the evening but it was in Ukrainian and not the Russian internal broadcasts which I wanted to catch. Maybe I catched also Minsk but it was so weak to me that I felt hopeless to monitor it on mediumwave. Maybe shortwave was different but people listened mainly to RFERL or VOA's hungarian service, or the educated ones the BBC on shortwave and not Moscow. The most popular was the RFERL's Hungarian language programme. My radio listening capabilities increased when my brother bought a radio tuner in Austria in 1988 which contained CCIR FM (this was the most sensitive part of the receiver; I even catched Deutschlandfunk when propagation was very good), mediumwave and long wave, but the Soviet broadcasts (later Russian) were not very loud on longwave too. And, of course my studyloads in the school also increased dramatically as I became older and older, classes needed more and more efforts to perform. Then I also started to study English which took also extra time. Teachers were not very good, neither in teaching in Russian nor in English, so, it is not a wonder that most of the people here don't speak well foreign languages. I even had to struggle to learn English. Russian? I understand something but I am unable to talk at all. Interestingly exchanging students were not widely existing; only a few could travel and even those needed separate permits to the Soviet Union. Of course they spoke well in Russian as well as those who spent their 'leisure time' in one of the Soviet labour camps as a forced labourer. Those who came back to Hungary were able to speak fluently Russian and they translated a lot of art works. It is not incidental why a lot of so-called Soviet art works were published here and why I could hear some of Vladimir Visotski's poems even in kindergarten. I confess that I don't know what was the radio/TV scene in far north-east Hungary where the border existed between the Ukrainian SSR and Hungary. Rumours came that the Soviet TV programmes were not very informative, rather boring partisan films dominated it. But these just rumours. In Budapest a Soviet TV rebroadcast existed on channel 58 for a long time and even after the Soviet Union disorganised, but in West Hungary this was not existing. So, this TV rebroadcast was also limited to a very small part of Hungary. What about analogue cable television? I don't know when it started. I met with it in the very-late 1980s in Budapest when I visited one of my family members. At that time this was semi-illegal thing in that apartment block because it broadcasted some western channels. If I remember well, Sky or something similar, but I'm not 100% sure in this. At that time satellite was unaffordable to ordinary people. It was promoted after the socialist system transformed in 1990. I heard about it in the early-1990s when an expensive analogue satellite receiver was shown in a local market in Oriszentpeter, a tourist attraction site where an annual market takes place at the end of June. My brother bought an analogue satellite receiver in the middle of 1990s and I discovered that radio is available on subcarriers of the television channels. This is how I 'discovered' Radio Netherland's broadcasts over satellite. And now I'd like to comment Jonathan Marks' article about Radio Netherland's demise. Of course I read it with great sadness but with a critical view. At that time international media promoted satellite as the future medium which will replace the old, cracky shortwave. They invested into it, they promoted it and that money went into waste. Even as a teenager I realised how they were wrong. Imagine a situation in which I were. A teenager, learning somewhere, lives in dormitory. And you only broadcast on satellite, but your potential listeners are unable to pick your signal up because 1. the building owner doesn't allow the installation of a satellite dish + coaxial cabling all over a large building like dormitories, schools, apartment blocks; 2. if a miracle happens and it allows, people surely want to see TV and never radio; 3. then when the analogue satellite were switched to digital, alot of Hungarian analogue receiver owners couldn't invest into digital satellite receiver because they had no idea what happened, why this switch took place. By the time they would switch, the commercial terrestrial TVs started here and satellite became insignificant again as in the 1980s. Fortunately a lot of people know what is a parabolic antenna, what is a satellite receiver, but they will see TV earlier than to listen radio. 99% of them doesn't know that radio exist on satellite. To be fair I mention that satellite publications were/are mentioning radio and broadcasters are also mentioning it somewhere but more consumer education were/are needed. As things stand nobody wants to pick this 'dirty' job up to educate the public. After considering these I don't understand Jonathan's cries. They simply were unable to place themselves into the shoe of the ordinary, the POTENTIAL LISTENER!!! They chose a wrong strategy. They had shut down earlier than they should have. This mistake is common among western broadcasters. This is why they hardly will win the current information war again hate speech, fake news, etc. etc. They concentrate(d) on the shortest gain as the worst capitalists. Then, these international broadcasters promoted DRM, a good technology from which they pulled out much earlier before they could harvest down the results. See where DRM is, it is almost dead. Then, they promoted internet as a sole medium of broadcasting. But since consumers are not willing (or unable) to pay for content + a lot of countries (and even companies) are restricting internet access +geoblocking exists too, the business model is not the best. And among my friends I know nobody who is willing to listen radio over the internet despite I talk about university educated, middle-class, working ones with a very good job. Rather people see a good porn movie earlier than to go to a broadcaster's website containing alarming moving objects which knocks down a computer or even a fire wall, and not to mention frequent redesigns. If a consumer (oh, sorry, listener) cannot find what he/she wants within 4-5 minutes, it leaves that website. To be correct with Jonathan, I have no idea what is the best solution. Maybe multi-platform broadcasting. But I doubt that it will happen without significant investment and research with shortsightedness which defines the current media scene (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, WOR iog via DXLD) ``I wonder what was the quality of these broadcasts when they were aired on local broadcast frequencies in the different time zones. It seems to me that their sound quality deteriorated significantly. First, they had to record in the studio`` Which no longer resulted in a loss of quality since Weber/Braunmühl invented, after discovering the principle by accident, the AC bias technology. Allegedly there had abroad been surprise about the times Hitler talked on the radio, because recordings without crackle or hiss were unknown so far... By the way, the German brand Magnetophon became the generic Russian word for tape recorders. An insider included in a cartoon about Radio Moscow even the "vengerskiy magnitofon", the Hungarian tape recorder: Mechlaber, well known also in Germany. Most Russian radio studios had Hungarian-made mixing consoles, too. ``then they had to broadcast on SSB`` This was, as Leo already pointed out, only a back-up of last resort. Don't forget that regular feeds had to carry even 6 MHz bandwith signals: Video... I don't see it explicitly described at a first glance, but I would assume that the distribution also involved the troposcatter system described at http://www.trrlsever.org ``First i "discovered" Radio Moscow on mediumwave at night`` This was, as far as Hungarian-language broadcasts are concerned, 1170 kHz from the now destroyed Sosnovy station in Belarus, using one of the famous "Zarya" travelling-wave antennas. ``in the dormitory of our school, the School for the Blind in Budapest`` There was also one at Königs Wusterhausen, and one pupil there continued to be surprised about an apparently locally transmitted signal with some weird programming in Turkish. This was of course Bizim Radyo. The transmission was likely booked by SED and further details, such as delivery and playout of tapes (most likely not via Rundfunk der DDR, this would have been known there...), still remain a mystery. ``at that time some broadcasters broadcasted in Hungarian [...] Slovakian part of Czechoslovakia`` They do still so. In fact the Hungarian broadcasts are the only reason why mediumwave is still alive in Slovakia. ``By the 1990s these SSB feeds disappeared. Only 1 Radio Mayak station remained in the so-called tropical band on SSB.`` You mean the Radio Rossii transmissions, reportedly aiming at ships in the Atlantic? A characteristic frequency I remember was 8005 kHz. These SSB transmissions had finally been replaced by a 250 kW AM signal from Taldom that remained, if I recall correct, until VGTRK terminated all SW and LW in 2014. This signal usually provided very good reception here in Central Europe. I once received many thanks for recommending this as an opportunity to pick up a Russian radio station, not only in Russian language but also with interesting content, which not exactly was the case with Voice of Russia (and it is well known which final result this had five years ago). ``Russia has updated its system of time-shifted broadcasts inherited from the Soviet era.`` The usual question: Who is "Russia"? On one hand there is the former first program of TsT, later known under more or less loose references to Ostankino. This is now a commercial venture called Pervyi Kanal, and one would expect them to have kept the system of time-shifted editions. Then there is the Yeltsin-founded VGTRK which had introduced such a system as well. But on which of their programs do they use it? Rossiya 1, Rossiya 2, Rossiya K all likewise? (Rossiya 24 pretty likely not.) And then there is radio. Vsesoyusnoye Radio had collapsed very quickly, I guess their first program no longer maintained such a luxury already shortly after 1991 while lingering around for some more years as Radio 1. On the other hand VGTRK had introduced the time-shifted broadcasts on its Radio Rossii very quickly, but what are the details here nowadays? (Radio Mayak had, if I'm not terribly wrong, never such a system, being "live around the clock" by concept. And it should be safe to assume that Vesti FM always goes out live as well.) ``Orbita 4 (M1D) feeding the Urals was generally very good. I remember it being on 16330.`` I remember either this very frequency or a close one as being used for a back-up feed of 1323 kHz programming to Germany until it disappeared in the mid-nineties. Originally a professional receiving station of the postal office at Beelitz picked up this signal and also 1st program, forwarding them also to Radio Volga at Potsdam for use on the 261 kHz broadcast. In the end only a single EKD Dabendorf receiver was left, sitting on top of the console in the control room of the Wachenbrunn transmitter site. As said: This was just back-up. Regular routing was via terrestrial circuits, with signals handed over from Poland at Frankfurt/Oder. In its last incarnation this feed delivered audio up to about 10 kHz and had a bit of distortion for which one would have blamed the transmitter when not knowing that it was already on the input. Thus also until 1989 Wiederau used to run 1323 kHz with the old Lorenz transmitter and reserved the newer Funkwerk Köpenick transmitter for Radio DDR 1 on 531 kHz, fed in uncompromised studio quality. This concerned also the transmitter sites in the USSR itself. There was a specification of "second class" audio circuits for shortwave broadcasting, with the frequency range limited to 50...6300 Hz. Perhaps others also still remember how these feeds sounded on air, often with a hard gating, employed to cut out the rather high noise floor. Another specialty of the early nineties was Bolshakovo being the typical 0.3 seconds analogue satellite delay behind anything else, including Wachenbrunn of course. This feed was of high quality, and it seems that such full 15 kHz audio circuits had been routed via Raduga and Gorizont satellites as SCPC signals, not as subcarriers of video signals which, as I read somewhere, were not supposed to be of highest quality anyway but just as "ordinary" TV sound with 10 kHz bandwith. ``The idea behind listening to the Orbita versions was that you could hear pre-recorded programmes several hours before they were broadcast to the audience in Moscow.`` Have there been cases where this was of real use for newsgathering purposes? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Friends, Thanks for the answers, corrections and the vast amount of information. "You mean the Radio Rossii transmissions, reportedly aiming at ships in the Atlantic? A characteristic frequency I remember was 8005 kHz. These SSB transmissions had finally been replaced by a 250 kW AM signal from Taldom that remained, if I recall correct, until VGTRK terminated all SW and LW in 2014. This signal usually provided very good reception here in Central Europe. I once received many thanks for recommending this as an opportunity to pick up a Russian radio station, not only in Russian language but also with interesting content, which not exactly was the case with Voice of Russia (and it is well known which final result this had five years ago)." No. It was Radio Mayak with its usual Mayak interval signal. But it is also possible that it was a harmonic, I'm not sure in this. I am sure that it was Mayak and on the tropical band but I don't remember the frequency, that is, I don't want to say stupid things. At that time Mayak was a music station with some programs. Much-much later Mayak changed its music format to a talk station format. I don't know what it is now. When Mayak changed its format, music listeners could turn to other radiostations on FM like Retro, Radio Dacha (these were specialized in popular '70s, '80s, and some '90s music), then Radio Yunost' (formerly Yunost' also broadcasted on AM). Yunost' was for the youngest, techno-music loving generation. The word Magnetophon is known here, we use it to name the tape recorder and the cassette recorder. But we sortened the word to 'magnó'. The tape recorder is 'szalagos magnó' and the cassette recorder is 'kazettás magnó' in informal Hungarian. I didn't know that Mechlabor's equipment was so widely used elsewhere, it is a new information to me. Yes, it was the 1170 kHz transmitter propagated very well to Hungary in the late evening. The problem started when, after the collapse of the Soviet Union they changed the broadcast time to 1900-1945 local time which wasn't good in the summer. At those times shortwave was the other option to listen their Hungarian broadcast. High-noise: Soviet transmitters were famous for a deep, buzzing sound. You could hear it the best when the announcer held a pause or the programme was not yet started. I also think that Vesti FM is live but it is from the nature of the radio: it is a news radio (also on 1413 kHz mediumwave). "They do still so. In fact the Hungarian broadcasts are the only reason why mediumwave is still alive in Slovakia." You must know that the Slovakian FM band is very overcrowded. It started CCIR FM earlier than Hungary and they established more stations on higher mountains than we. The consequence is by the time Hungarians woke up, the best frequencies were already occupied on the CCIR band with powerful signals. And frequency allocations were and are not the best here in Hungary, it is very-very far from optimal. Latins says to late-comers such as Hungary was/is that "sero venientibus ossa" (only the bones remains to late-comers). (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, ibid.) Thanks to Tibor, Kai and Leo for their very interesting comments. To pick up some of the points raised: 1. Mayak SSB feeders in the Tropical Bands: I don't remember them myself but I note that Mayak was logged in 1998 on 2338 LSB: http://bdxc.org.uk/sheigra982.html 2. There were of course a number of Mayak AM transmissions in the Tropical Bands, even including a relay in Cuba on 4765 in the 1980s. Outside the Tropical Bands the most consistently reliable reception of Mayak in the UK was from the relay in Latvia on 5935. 3. Kai is right - Mayak didn't have time-shifted versions. 4. The Soviet SSB feeders became largely redundant following the completion of the USSR's Gorizont satellite system in time for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. But older technologies have a habit of sticking around due to inertia! I think it was the introduction of Gorizont that allowed the expansion from three time-shifted versions to four. 5. On the quality question, if the SSB feeders were run properly, with good receivers correctly operated, the quality was fine. If you listened to news programmes from BBC or VOA relay stations before the 1980s then you were hearing audio that had been fed by an SSB link. As a teenager in the UK in the mid-1970s I used to listen to the VOA in the evenings on 1196 from Munich. The SSB-fed audio sounded a bit clipped and "boxy" but was otherwise fine for the news. 6. Yes, Kai, I well remember those heavily gated Soviet transmitters. Terrible! 7. Finally, Kai asks whether there really was a news advantage in receiving time-shifted versions. One case was the newspapers. When BBCMS first got a dish that could receive the Gorizont satellites in the early 1980s, it gave us access to the next day's Soviet newspapers! At around 1200 UK time, copies of the following day's Pravda, Izvestiya, etc would be faxed via satellite from Moscow to printing presses in the east of the USSR. Tomorrow's news today! (Chris Greenway, ibid.) Just poked around a bit: It appears that VGTRK did not made such a change, at least it is reported only for Perviy Kanal, effective already Dec 25. https://vk.com/wall-26819787_25474 See also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxt-liBcwd0 their own report: Apparently the traditional "Orbita" designators (as in the footage still seen on the NOC screens) are hereby abolished altogether (Kai Ludwig, Jan 12, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Post of Russia --- Letters abroad have risen in price again From 1 January 2019, the Post of Russia has changed the tariffs for the delivery of international letters. If at the end of last year for sending a simple message weighing up to 20 grams (air, for example, to South Korea) it was necessary to pay 45 rubles, then now you have to fork out 50 rubles. The cost of delivering international letters by land has also increased: 45 rubles instead of the previous 40 rubles. Over the past 7 years, Russian Post has doubled the tariff for delivering letters abroad (25 rubles in 2012, 50 rubles in 2019). At the same time, the rates for delivery of letters inside the country have not changed since January 1 of this year. Sending a letter weighing up to 20 grams, as before, will cost 22 rubles. In the Moscow Central Post Office about the changes in tariffs for sending letters abroad, apparently, few people know. Today, it took me 15 minutes for the employees of the central post office on Myasnitskaya Street to clarify among themselves how many stamps need to be stuck on an envelope in Pyongyang. There are no announcements about the change of tariffs for the delivery of correspondence in the department. I had to turn to the Russian Post website for help. They do not know the abbreviations P.O.B. (Post Office Box / Mailbox). Today I was written by Maria Li, who said that letters from Taiwan sent to my address are being returned to the editor. The fact is, I explained to her that the Russian postal officers do not understand the abbreviations P.O.B., therefore they do not find the recipient, and send the message back. The representative of the "Post of Russia" in social networks recommended in this case to write on the envelope completely Post Office Box. Hope our email knows what that means. https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/ (Rus-DX Jan 13 via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.067 kHz odd fq reserve unit of Tajik Radio 1 program at Dushanbe Yangi Yul now in regular use. S=9+15dB at 1424 UT on Jan 14. Central Asian Tajik music singer/string instrument played, 10.4 kHz wideband signal. At Seoul remote SDR noted on 4765.066 kHz S=7 at 1640 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. BUZZ of 100 Hertz distance apart each 23 x 100 Hz strings either sideband on 4820 kHz, Lhasa Tibet Chinese program on top S=9+30dB. 0050 UT Jan 10. vy73 de wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Of course the side carriers can be visible even if Lhasa is on top. Check now, that Lhasa hasn't yet faded in in Kazakhstan: http://sdr.71036.kz:8073/?f=4820.00amz14 Or at 0000 or 1230. 73, (Mauno Ritola, 0553 UT Jan 10, ibid.) 4820 kHz, when checked on Tue Jan 15 at 1150 UT only CNR Mandarin Tibet was on air. Check against Kyrgyz Radiosu https://topradio.me/radio/kyirgyiz-radiosu But Birinchi Radio \\ 4010.221 kHz was on Mauno's SDR at 1207 UT https://topradio.me/radio/birinchi 73 wolfie Genre: Folk . Bitrate: 24 kHz, 80 kbps, Stereo Country: Kyrgyzstan City: Bishkek Address: Blvd. Young Guard 59 Website: http://ktrk.kg/kyrgyzradio Email: public@ktrk.kg Phone: + 996 312 39-20-59 - - - - Genre: Folk , Colloquial . Bitrate: 44 kHz, 80 kbps, Stereo Country: Kyrgyzstan City: Bishkek Language: Kyrgyz Address: Young Guard Boulevard 59 Website: http://www.ktrk.kg/birinchi Email: public@ktrk.kg Telephone: + 996 312 39 20 59, + 996 312 39 24 04 (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See KYRGYZSTAN! ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Reception of Voice of Tibet on Jan.13 2300-2330 on 7496 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, good 2330-2400 on 7484 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-voice-of-tibet-in-41mb-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. ARMENIA, Frequency change of BBC WS via Yerevan, Jan 8 0000-0200 NF 5835 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English, ex 5830 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/frequency-change-of-bbc-ws-via-yerevan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-04, January 21, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA ------------------------------------- ** ARMENIA. Winter B-18 shortwave schedule of Voice of Armenia: 1530-1545 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Assyrian 1545-1600 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Greek 1600-1630 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Kurdish 1630-1700 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Yezidi 1700-1715 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Turkish Mon-Fri 1700-1730 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Turkish Sat/Sun 1715-1745 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Azeri Mon-Fri 1730-1745 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Azeri Sat/Sun 1745-1815 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Farsi 1815-1845 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic (Ivo Ivanov, BULGARIA via Rus-DX 20 Jan via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. ARMENIA, Reception of Trans World Radio India via CJSC Yerevan, Jan.20 1530-1600 7550 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs English Sat/Sun, fair signal Wrong announcement: every Sat/Sun from 1545 on 7505 kHz at 31 meterband! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/01/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_20.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. MOLDOVA / FRANCE --- Just to remind once again that 'Denge Welat' has programs in different dialects (languages like Kurmanji, Sorani, etc.) of Kurdish but also in Turkish. Confirmed by listening to 8, 9, 10 & 11th January on 9525 kHz at *0400-0445* & *0500-0545* UT, the programs were in only Turkish language (and not in Kurdish). (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 12, BC -DX 19 Jan via DXLD) 19 Jan was the publication date of the ~weekly BC-DX; Jan 12 was really the date of the report from Rumen, and this confusion applies to all items from this source (gh, DXLD) Broadcast centers in use are different during daytime, via TDF Issoudun or Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA. MOLDOVA. Log: 11479.5 kHz, Sender??, UT 0805, Jan 18. SINPO 25232. Tuerkische und hindu mx, zur Zeit maennliche Stimme mit Bericht? ID nicht gehoert, nicht erkannt. Die Station hoerte ich seit Jan 14 taeglich. Gruss, Horst, QTH Bardudvarnok / Hungary, RX AOR 7030/FCD2, 30 m LW (via A-DX ng Jan 18) Das hatten wir hier schon mal genannt im letzten Monat: Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA Moldova. Ganz einfach zwei Spurs symmetrisch von 50.283 kHz Abstand beidseitig. Fundamental 11530 kHz, und etwas huepfend unstabil wobbelnde 5 x 100 Hertz Abstand Signal-Strings sichtbar, bei 11479.713 ... 722 kHz, sowie oben auf circa 11580.280 kHz 5 strings visible, gleichermassen. Dreh' kurz mal auf die 11530 kHz und Du bekommst das gleiche Programm geliefert. 73 wb ps. Hintergrund der Aussendung auf der Kurzwelle: die 38 Millionen Kurden sind jene Volksgruppe, die vor 95 Jahren bei den Friedenskonferenzen der Briten und Franzosen Kolonial-Aufteilungen in Nahost nach dem Osmanicreich-Empire Kollaps nicht bedient wurden. Und seitdem auf einen eigenen Staat hoffen. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 19)(BC-DX 19 Jan via DXLD) Despite the above, I heard a station varying 11480 to 11479 before and after 1600 UT Jan 22, which was NOT // and not out of the DK 11530 transmitter; as reported in full later; none such Jan 23 & 24 (gh, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Re: ``BUZZ of 100 Hertz distance apart each 23 x 100 Hz strings either sideband on 4820 kHz, Lhasa Tibet Chinese px on top S=9+30dB. 0050 UT Jan 10`` Wolfgang Bueschel kirjoitti 15.1.2019 klo 14:10: 4820 kHz, when checked on Tue Jan 15 at 11.50 UT only CNR Mandarin Tibet was on air. I think KGZ was just too weak to have audio. I am 100 % certain, that the strong spurs and buzz is from them. Now at 1430 ,when KGZ is off, Xizang carrier is very clean, please check here: http://newdelhi.twrmon.net:8073/?f=4820.00amz10 73, (Mauno Ritola, Jan 19, ibid.) ** KYRGYZSTAN. I think KGZ was just too weak to have audio. I am 100% certain that the strong spurs and buzz is from them. Now at 1430, when KGZ is off, Xizang carrier is very clean, please check here: http://newdelhi.twrmon.net:8073/?f=4820.00amz10 (Mauno Ritola, Jan 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At the moment (1000 UT) the Kazakh receiver hears only Kyrgyz Radyosu and the buzz and side carriers are very strong: http://sdr.71036.kz:8073/?f=4820.00amz14 (Mauno Ritola, Jan 20, ibid.) ** RUSSIA [non]. Russia / Germany --- Radio Stanica The Russian Hooligans --- Secondo ascolto di Radio Stanica [sic] The Russian Hooligans Music Station - free radio dalla Germania. Lunedi 14 gennaio 2019, alle 2126 (09.26 pm) UT a 3926.17 kHz AM, qualità della ricezione sufficiente. Per l'ascolto ho utilizzato il ricevitore SDR FDM S1 Elad abbinato ad un PC Intel Core i7-4771 CPU 3.5 Ghz e il software SDRSharper v0.3h mentre l'antenna, è una Delta-Ewe autocostruita + preamplificatore (W7IUV self-made) Report, inviato via email a radiostanciarussianhooligans@hotmail.com, conferma con messaggio email e QSL elettronica, in 2 gg [days]. https://it2021swl.blogspot.com/2019/01/radio-stanica-russian-hooligans.html?fbclid=IwAR0tl8pj0eq0i4- AVFfaIkSOE9IvFUXuqcdBS_gjo4obQiIVtAnMvGk4Hhw (Claudio Tagliabue, Italy / https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080049528677701/?ref=bookmarks (via QSL World, Rus-DX 20 Jan via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.067 kHz odd frequency reserve unit of Tajik Radio 1 program at Dushanbe Yangi Yul now in regular use. S=9+15dB at 1424 UT on Jan 14. Central Asian Tajik music singer/string instrument played, 10.4 kHz wideband signal. At Seoul remote SDR noted on 4765.066 kHz S=7 at 1640 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14, BC-DX 19 Jan via DXLD) ** TURKMENISTAN. 279 kHz longwave, TR1 Watan Asghabat TKM at 1730 UTC. Moin, Moin! Fuer die Freunde Turkmenistans, sei die Langwelle 279 kHz aus der Hauptstadt Asgabat jetzt aktuell nahe gelegt. Zur Zeit (1730 UT) mit weiblicher Sprecherin und schwach-mittlerem Signal und lauer Modulation hier oben im Nordwesten mit absolut zugaenglicher und schneefreier Antenne (Olaf Haenssler, Germany, A-DX ng Jan 11 via BC- DX 19 Jan via DXLD) Im Winter 2016 wurde ueber 279 kHz berichtet: in French language is a Luxembourg effect mixture signal of - stronger - RTL 234 kHz, - and lower EUR1 183 kHz signal strength. ein Luxembourg Effekt berichtet. Auch Nils hatte das damals bemerkt in der Mongolei LW Diskussion. Aber auf der Achse LUX-Saarlouis Turkmenistan, dafuer liegt Oldenburg bisserl zu weit nordwaerts? Was sagt die Diskussionsrunde? Da wird Olaf wohl heute real die WATAN Langwelle Asgabat gehoert haben, auf dem web-Stream kamen die time pips 15 Sekunden soeben zu spaet, aber diese Diskussion hatten wir ja diese Woche schon. clicke auf media / radio / WATAN 73 wb df5sx PS: laut Google Earth images, das alte Sende-Zentrum Asgabat aus UdSSR Zeiten wurde im Jahr 2013 geschliffen, und durch neue Baum Plantagen Anpflanzungen ersetzt, das neue/alte R Moskau Sendezentrum vom 2014 images Ausbau liegt weiter im Norden bei 37 57 54.96 N 58 44 02.00 E dort sieht es eher nach trockener Sandwueste aus, mit ganz schlechter Bodenleitfaehigkeit? Vielleicht liegt dort jetzt im Januar auch Schnee mit besserer Boden-Leitfaehigkeit, wer weiss? Rumen Pankov in Sofia Bulgarien hat die LW Asgabat 279 kHz regelmaessig im Januar / Februar berichtet, mit dem Sony ICF 2010 aus 1995, ohne weiteren Magnet Antennen-Rahmen (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 11, BC-DX 19 Jan via DXLD) Hard-Core-DX Digest ----------------------------- * Vol 193, Issue 26 Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Subject: Re: [HCDX] SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23 Bcast centers in use are different during daytime, via TDF Issoudun or Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA. 11530even kHz, this Jan 25 at 10.43 UT S=9+25 or -52dBm signal in remote Doha Qatar site. Nothing heard of the spurs yesterday noon on Jan 24. But today Jan 25 again 7main x 100 Hertz apart distance spurs seen again, 'wobbling' unstable frequencies_strings, either site on approx. 11480 and 11580 kHz 11479.417 ... x.423 kHz and 11580.577 ... x.583 kHz, both S=7 or -85dBm strength level. ps. Background of the broadcast on the short wave: the 38 million Kurds are that ethnic group, 95 years ago at the peace conferences of the British and French Empire Colonial divisions in the Middle East after the Ottoman empire collapse were N E V E R served. And hope for their own state ever since. - - - MOLDOVA Log: 11479.5 kHz, Sender??, UT 08:05, Jan 18. SINPO 25232. Tuerkische und hindu mx, zur Zeit maennliche Stimme mit Bericht? ID nicht gehoert, nicht erkannt. Die Station hoerte ich seit Jan 14 taeglich Gruss Horst, QTH Bardudvarnok / HNG, RX AOR 7030/FCD2, 30 m LW (via A-DX ng Jan 18) Das hatten wir hier schon mal genannt im letzten Monat: Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA Moldova. Ganz einfach zwei Spurs symmetrisch von 50.283 kHz Abstand beidseitig. Fundamental 11530 kHz, und etwas huepfend unstabil wobbelnde 5 x 100 Hertz Abstand Signal-Strings sichtbar, bei 11479.713 ... 722 kHz, sowie oben auf circa 11580.280 kHz 5 strings visible, gleichermassen. (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 19 / 25) ----- Original Message ----- From: "'bclnews.it' bclsiciliaclub@...it [bclnews]" Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 5:13 PM Subject: SWLDXBulgaria News Jan.22-23 KURDISTAN(non) Denge Welat via Issoudun and Grigoriopol, Jan 23: 0330-0600 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 73! Ivo Ivanov Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Subject: [HCDX] log Jan 22 - 25 ... KYRGYZ REPUBLIC On Jan 23 noted an UNID carrier on 5134.749 kHz at 1510 UT, could it be Kyrgyztelekom at Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek warm-up the small 15 kW TX unit ? scheduled religious in Dari/Persian, irreg. few days a week. ... ARMENIA 5835even BBC sce in English via CJSC Yerevan Gavar Yerevan Armenia, 14 kHz wideband audio signal, but at Gavar relay site on shortwave these days scratching annoying terrible audio quality. I wonder why the BBC London responsible tolerates such a bad audio transmission quality? Jan 25 at 01.56 UT noted on remote Delhi India SDR unit. ... TAJIKISTAN 4765.070 kHz still further now on odd fq unit, from Yangi Yul Dushanbe site. On Jan 25 at 02.05 UT S=9+20dB noted in Delhi India remote SDR. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 22 - 25) * Vol 193, Issue 27 Message: 5 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 From: Manuel Mendez Subject: [HCDX] Stations heard in Friol 19-20 January Manuel Mendez Lugo, Spain Log in Friol Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters TAJIKISTAN, 4765, Tajik Radio, Dushanbe, 1835-1849, 19-01Tajik comments and songs. 35433. (Mendez) RUSSIAN LANGUAGE RADIO. FOREIGN RADIO STATIONS ============================ Vietnam ------------- "Voice of Vietnam". Review of letters for 2018. ... In 2018, the Voice of Vietnam's Russian Editorial Office received more than 500 letters and comments from listeners from 15 countries around the world, such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Latvia ... In most of the letters sent to the Russian edition in 2014 are our listeners express love and attention to Vietnam, its people and culture, and also highly appreciate the successes achieved by our country in various areas, in particular in the areas of economy, trade and culture. We are sincere Thank you for your support and interest in our programs over the past year. ... In the new 2019, the listeners of the international broadcasting channel in Russian are waiting many innovations. From the beginning of February 2019 we will hold every week a small quiz. Five first listeners to give the correct answer to our question, will receive a gift. You can send answers to our email or write on our website. We want to emphasize that our questions will not be difficult for you because you can answer them easy enough to find on our website or on the Internet. We would also like to inform you that if earlier every year listeners who listen to our programs for three years, 5 years or 10 years, received memorable medals and certificates, then, starting from 2018, every year the Russian edition will give a commemorative medal and a certificate to only one best listener. In 2018, this title was awarded to Alexei Veselkov for the most the number of reports and letters sent to the Russian edition in the past year, as well as for useful comments and interesting questions. There is one information that was known, probably, not to all listeners. Due to a technical problem, our email stopped her work. Since 2018, the Russian edition of the radio broadcasting channel began to use the new e-mail . To avoid the loss of letters, please check information about the addressee before clicking on the button. On this we finish our transmission today. Thank you for attention. Hopefully that in the new 2019 you will continue to listen and support us. http://vovworld.vn/en-RU/%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0BB% D0% BE% D1% 80-% D0% BF% D0% B8% D1% 81% D0% B5% D0% BC-% D0% B7% D0% B0-2018% D0% B3% D0% BE% D0 % B4-717344.vov (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") South Korea -------------------- KBS World Radio. Russian service. Sunday Magazine. January 20, 2019. "Please pay attention to this message. Since March 4, some changes will occur in our programs. First of all, on Saturdays, instead of news releases, "Panorama of the Week" will sound on our air, and on Sundays at the beginning of the program - a 10-minute issue of the heading "We Speak Like Heroes of TV Series". There are no five-minute issues of "Speak as Heroes of TV Series", which are now aired from Monday to Friday after the radio magazine "Seoul Today". Due to this, the duration of "Seoul Today" will increase slightly, and we will have the opportunity to include one more song into it. Within the framework of the Sunday Magazine, instead of the column Mini-Theater: a Beautiful World, twice a month a new column will be aired with a review of news about the CIS countries in the Korean media. On Tuesdays at the end of the Seoul Today radio magazine, the World of Korean Cuisine column will be replaced by Korean cinema news. " (http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/program_segments_view.htm?lang=r&procode=one&bbs=othc_letter&no=29137) WEB RADIO AND TV IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ================================= Radio. Russia. Crimea. --------------------- Sevastopol FM was the first in the Crimea to launch a completely new service for listeners. Thanks to the synchronization of the playlist with the community of the VKontakte radio station, in real time you can see the artist and the name of the track that is on the air. But that is not all. Every hour a record with a list of tracks played in the last 60 minutes is published in the group. Innovation listeners perceived positively ... However, some media representatives of Sevastopol noted that such an "open" approach could have the opposite effect. For example, competitors will be able to borrow playlist Sevastopol FM. In turn, the chief editor of the radio station Dmitry Dorofeev noted: - The quality of the radio station depends on many factors, including exclusive projects, good hosts and many others. And we will keep the bar! In turn, I want to thank our colleague, journalist and creator of the projects "HYIP FM" and "Russian Wave" Alexey Anisakharov for the cooperation. We hope for a long and fruitful cooperation! You can rate the new service in public vk.com/fm1020 Radio Sevastopol FM - Everything that you love! (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72034/) Radio. Belarus. Radio Belarus. ------------------------- WEB: http://radiobelarus.by/ Schedule FM broadcast: http://radiobelarus.by/content/fm FM retransmission on the web page http://radiobelarus.by/ 14.00-16.00 & 20.00-23.00 repeat programs: 02.00-04.00 & 09.00-11.00 UTC (http://radiobelarus.by/content/fm) A television. Russia. ------------------- Moscow. TV channel "Secrets of the galaxy." WEB: https://www.galaxy-tv.ru/ TV channel "Secrets of the Galaxy" is a unique science fiction channel dedicated to space and aviation, the history of the development of aeronautics, astronautics and mysteries of the universe. The goal of our channel is to acquaint the audience with the history of the development of aviation and astronautics, to explore the earth's atmosphere and outer space, to engage viewers in real and fantastic events along with the heroes of exciting films about space and aviation! Together with the TV channel "Secrets of the Galaxy" you can look into the world of the future and find out what the astronauts will see when they first landed on other planets of our Solar system. Modern digital technologies will present you with incredible views of the Sun and planets from unknown angles. As part of our program policy, we will show sensational films about alien invasion, inexplicable phenomena and unidentified flying objects from ancient times to the present day! The TV channel "Secrets of the Galaxy" was created to popularize all the knowledge accumulated by mankind about the cosmos and atmosphere. Today there is a shortage of popular science and entertainment programs about the Cosmos, while the interest of the audience to this topic is enormous. "Secrets of the Galaxy" are fascinating and colorful stories about the greatest mysteries of the universe: the birth of supernovae and the death of entire star systems, "blue giants" and "red dwarfs", the structure and development of the solar system. QSL WORLD =========== AK = Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia DE = Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" DK = Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" IK = Igor Kolke, Moscow, Russia / https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019_20.html KB = Konstantin Barsenkov, St. Petersburg, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" MH = Marco Hommel, Germany / https://www.facebook.com/groups/1080049528677701/ PS = Piotr Skorek, Poland VL = Vasily Lazarev, Samarskaya oblast, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" Germany -------------- QSL card and folder from German Station Welle 370. Program was transmitted on 23. 12. 2018 on 6070 khz via Channel 292. You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/archive.html (PS) Great Britain ------------------------ Received a QSL card from Radio Gwendoline Street for accepting the Christmas program 12.23.18 / 19.00-19.25 UTC / 7290 kHz (VL) Denmark ---------- Received e-qsl from World Music Radio for receiving 01/20/19/1010-11.00 UTC / 5805 kHz e-mail: wmr @ wmr.dk Rx: Degen 1103 Ant: Horizontal 15 m long wire (VL) Japan ------------ Received 3 qsl-cards from NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN (Russian edition): upon reception 29/09/18 / 03.30-09.00 UTC / 1386 kHz for reception 30/09/18 / 04.30-05.00 UTC / 6165 kHz for reception 7/10/18 / 04.30-05.00 UTC / 6165 kHz (VL) - Received a letter from Radio Nippon No Kaze for receiving 10/08/18 / 13.00-13.30 UTC / 9465, 9900, 9940 kHz. In the envelope a large sheet of paper with a color photo. At the bottom of the schedule, also a color card is made up of a book with radio station inscriptions. (VL) Kyrgyzstan ----------------- Received QSL from Transmire radio for receiving in Russian via Red River transmitter, Kyrgyzstan - 12.20.2018, 17.30-18.00 UTC at the frequency 1467 kHz. The card is the same, consisting of several mini photos, including including a photo of all employees Transmirovogo radio. The report sent to the personal address of Mikhail Nevolin. The answer came from St. Petersburg. (DK) Poland / Lithuania ---------------------- Received a QSL card from the Russian service of Radio Poland for receiving - 12/16/2018, 17.00-17.29 UTC at a frequency of 1386 kHz (via a transmitter in Lithuania). On Card - view of Torun from the Vistula River. Report sent by e-mail: ru @ radio.com.pl. The card indicated the time of admission. (DK) Pridnestrovie ---------------------- eQSL Card TWR India from 22.1.2019 on 7535 kHz (MH) Russia / Germany -------------------------- Received QSL card "Voice of the Andes" - radio studio "Revelation". 5.1.2019 / 1530-1600 UTC / 9500 kHz / Nauen, Germany You can view the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_91.html (AK) Slovakia -------------- * Cards of the "International Radio Slovakia" in 2019 will be about Bratislava. The Russian service of the International Radio Slovakia (RSI) told about the subject of the 2019 verification cards. In March of this year, Bratislava will mark the 100th anniversary of the time when this name appeared on the map of Europe. A quiz "Bratislava: yesterday, today, tomorrow", consisting of 10 rounds, is held for listeners. Also, the management of the broadcaster decided to release QSL, dedicated to this event. "Taking into account that this year the RSI quiz is dedicated to Bratislava, we decided that the new QSL cards will fit this topic. We hope that you will like them and, of course, we look forward to your letters in which you will appreciate the new cards, "said RSI Chief Editor Josefina Mikleova. "International Radio Slovakia" broadcasts daily at mid-wave in Moscow and the Moscow region at a frequency of 738 kHz. The heading on the letters of listeners "Feedback" is published on Sundays. (IK) * Received QSL-card of the Russian edition of the International Radio of Slovakia. 04.01.2019 / 11: 30-11: 59 UTC / 738 kHz Topic: Parta - bride's wreath. (AK) Taiwan / France -------------------------- Received a QSL card from the Russian Service of Taiwan International Radio for reception - 12/16/2018, 17.00-18.00 UTC at 7,220 kHz (via a transmitter in France). The report sent by email: russ @ rti.org.tw. Card 2018-12. (DK) Thailand ------------ * QSL Radio Thailand Quite quickly, a new QSL card from Radio Thailand was received for a report dated December 22, 2018. The theme of the card is the same - Democracy Monument, a public monument in the center of Bangkok. In the envelope put the current schedule of the station and a beautiful postcard. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2019/01/24/qsl-radio-thailand-tailand-dekabr-2018-goda/ (DE) * Radio Thailand World Service - QSL-card, sked (7475 kHz / 20.30 UTC / 04-12-2018); The confirmation does not indicate the date of receipt, the stamp on the envelope is not readable; Blog: https://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2019/01/radio-thailand-world-service.html (KB) USA ------- Radio Free Asia - QSL-card (9455 kHz / 19.00 UTC / 23-11-2018); Sent from United States 12/17/2018; Received 01/21/2019; Blog: https://qsl-review.blogspot.com/2017/07/radio-free-asia.html (KB) Czech Republic / Russia ---------------------- * Received a QSL card from Radio Prague for receiving in Russian - 12/22/2018, 15.30-15.59 UTC at a frequency of 738 kHz (via the World Radio Network). On Card - studio tape. The report sent by e-mail. (DK) * Received QSL-card of the Russian edition of Radio Prague. 3.1.2019 / 21: 00-21: 29 UTC / 738 kHz Topic: Modern architecture in the Czech Republic. Dancing House, Prague (1996) You can see the card here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_22.html (AK) CALENDAR - HISTORY OF DX-HOBBIES AND RADIO ======================================= 1967 ------- 1967 radio center number 9 was put into operation. The radio center is located 80 km north-east of Novosibirsk, near the settlements of Raduga and Oyash. Built to provide broadcasting in the LW, MW and HF bands. Geographic coordinates: 55 ° 29'15.0 "N 83 ° 41'27.0" E The basis of the radio center is made up of new-generation transmitters on modern generator lamps, with a more advanced cooling system, complex antenna-feeder devices and the ability to switch to any antenna of a given direction. The radius of the zone of reliable reception of high-power transmitters of the LW and MW range is 500-1000 km. The transmitters of the HF-band allowed broadcasting in the countries of South-East Asia. On medium and long waves before closing, it said: 171 kHz - Radio Russia / Tomsk Radio / 250 kW (PB-594) 270 kHz - Radio "Slovo" [KP NSO RTRP NOSD Regional Deputy Channel] RS No. 1/150 kW 576 kHz - "Mayak" / 1000 kW 1026 kHz - Voice of Russia / 250 kW (https://vk.com/radioreceiver?w=wall-163779953_19166%2Fall) 1973 -------- Archive. Anatoly Klepov. Moscow. Russia. Confirmation of admission. 7 April 1973/12000 kHz Broadcast Leningrad Radio "For those who are at sea" You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_21.html 1994 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Radio station "Angara - Radio". Angarsk. Irkutsk region. 01/05/94 / 21.30-22.00 UTC / 1242 kHz / 2.5 kW You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_50.html 1994 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Adventist World Radio. Yekaterinburg. 28 Feb. 1994 / 2000-2100 UTC / 7140 kHz / Ekaterinburg You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_58.html 1994 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Adventist World Radio. Samara. 02.27.94 / 17.00-18.00 UTC / 12060 kHz / Samara You can see here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_63.html 1994 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Adventist World Radio. Moscow. 14.09.94 / 21.30-22.00 UTC / 13615 kHz / Moscow You can see here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_77.html 1994 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Adventist World Radio. Novosibirsk 10.21.94 / 16.00-16.25 UTC / 6150 kHz / Novosibirsk. You can see it here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_70.html 1996 ------- Archive. Dmitry Kutuzov. Ryazan. Russia. Confirmation of admission. Autoradio. Permian. 01/23/96 / 17.10-17.26 / 1116 kHz / 40 kW You can see here - https://rusdx.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_94.html 25 January / 2019 ------------------------ January 25th Radio Romantika celebrates its birthday. The launch of the radio station took place in 2011 on the Moscow frequency 98.8 FM. For eight years now, Romantika Radio has been on the air, tuning to the positive those who appreciate love, family and, of course, good music. The radio station helps listeners to achieve harmony with themselves and the world, learn a lot of interesting things, become even more active and even change the world for the better ... You can learn more about events and projects of Radio Romantika on the website www.radioromantika.ru and on the station's social networks. (http://www.gpmradio.ru/news-page/uid/15179) WORLDWIDE NEWS. ===================== Great Britain ----------------------- The largest media holding Bauer Media, which consists of 308 publications, radio stations and channels (Cosmo, Harper's Bazaar and others), launches Scala Radio in the UK. It will be led by former BBC host Simon Mayo. Bauer Media explained that the decision to create such a project is associated with a new trend among young people, according to which a young audience, tired of a rich rhythm, switches to the classics. Also, the press service of the company noted that all advertising campaigns of the radio station will be aimed at young people. According to the BBC, classical music was the fastest growing musical genre in 2018, sales of which grew by 10% over the previous year. On the wave of Scala Radio will be the works of both great composers and modern musicians. In addition, there will be themed shows, interviews and quizzes. As the head of the Bauer Group Steve Parkinson said, Scala is one of the most exciting projects in recent years. "The combination of music, conversations and the personality of the host will make him both intriguing and completely unique," the businessman noted. Simon Mayo himself added that Scala Radio will differ from its few competitors in that "we are going to have fun, laugh with the audience and have a good time". The launch of a new radio station is scheduled for March 4th. esquire.ru (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72044/) Romania. ------------- In Russian. Radio Romania International. Inter Radio Romania. Club DX program - Author and presenter: Tatiana Codreanu. 01.19.2019 Topic: News from the Romanian audio visual media market. Duration: minutes - 6:51 https://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/19_01_2019-2592698 (http://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/pages/home/) - In Russian. Radio Romania International. Inter Radio Romania. Club DX program - Author and presenter: Tatiana Codreanu. 01/26/2019 Topic: Start of radio communication in Romania. Duration: minutes - 7:55 https://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/26_01_2019-2593028 (http://www.rri.ro/ru_ru/pages/home/) USA ------- Days of amateur radio activity in connection with the anniversary of the station WWV, 09/28/19 - 02/10/19 01/19/2019 BY IGOR Press Release Radio Club of Northern Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado January 11, 2019 The Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club (NCARC) announces the days of amateur radio activities in connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the WWV time station - the oldest radio station in the world that has ceased broadcasting. She will turn 100 on October 1, 2019. In collaboration with the scientific long-wave (WWVB) and short-wave (WWV) radio stations, the radio club of Northern Colorado will work with 4 operators on different amateur bands at the same time. The goal is to conduct the largest number of radio communications throughout the world within 5 days - from September 28 to October 2, 2019, using various types of communication (telegraph, voice communication, digit). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has included this event in the list of events held. Northern Colorado Radio Club and NIST are working together to coordinate the celebration and days of amateur radio activity. Due to the current suspension of the US government (shatdown) planning and discussions have been suspended. We look forward to the end of Shatdaun, the future press release from NIST and the continuation of work on planning the celebration of this historic event. The radio club found it necessary to issue this press release on their own due to the uncertainty about the duration of the shatdaun and the need to notify all interested parties about this historical event as soon as possible. Organizing the work station is not an easy task, it will require the help of radio amateurs and radio clubs from all over Colorado, neighboring states and from across the country. Those interested in a trip to Fort Collins this fall and participating in the event are invited to submit an application starting February 15, 2019. More information on the official website dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of WWV: wwv100.com/? Based on SWLing Post. (https://swling.ru/2019/01/19/dni-radioljubitelskoj-aktivnosti-v-svjazi-s-jubileem-stancii-wwv-28-09-19-02-10-19/) Thailand ------------- In Bangkok, said farewell to the honored veteran of the Soviet radio The mourning ceremonies and funerals of Mrs. Chyachan Thapanosot, who had worked as a broadcaster and broadcast on Soviet radio broadcasting in Thai for more than 25 years, were held in the Thai capital these days. Chyachan Thapanosots lived in Moscow for a long time and worked as a Soviet radio announcer in Thai from 1966 to 1992. In Thailand, she was known not only as a host of shortwave radio broadcasts from Moscow, but also as a translator of Russian fairy tales into Thai ... Chyachan finally returned to its homeland only in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of broadcasting in Thai. For the rest of her life, Chyachan Thapanosot lived quietly and modestly in the Bangna district on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok ... The Moscow radio host and translator of Russian fairy tales died in Bangkok in December 2018, at the age of 89. According to Thai tradition, the body of the deceased was embalmed and preserved until the day of cremation in a Buddhist temple, where religious ceremonies were held for several weeks ... Moscow Radio Inoveshcheniya - the first radio station in the world that started regular broadcasting in foreign languages, existed from 1923 to 1992 and became the predecessor of the Voice of Russia and Radio Sputnik radio stations. news.rambler.ru (http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72042/) About pirate radio stations and the fate of their founders - in the compilation Info24. -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------- By Anastasia Tselykh, Tatyana Markina, info24.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__72065/ (http://onair.ru/) CLUBS FOR DXERS & INTERNATIONAL LISTENERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- EUROPE. European DX Council (EDXC) WEB: https://edxcnews.wordpress.com/ ABOUT / CALENDAR / CONFERENCES / HISTORY / MEMBER AREA / MEMBERS / ORGANIZATION (WRTH 2019) 73!