--------------------------------------------------------------------- "RUS-DX" # 839 Broadcasting of Russia, countries of CIS and Baltiya. WEB radio. QSL world. Sunday / 27 September, 2015 Information bulletin of Russian DX League Electronic version ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "RUS-DX" may not be redistributed without permission. If quoting from the bulletin, please list the original reporter and "RUS-DX" as source. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic transfer : http://translate.google.ru RUSSIA ======= The main theses of the industry report, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, dedicated to broadcasting segment. -------------------------------------------------- ------- According to Roskomnadzor, as of January 1, 2015 in the register of registered 3182 licenses for broadcasting, which is 13% more than in 2013. Currently audiences generally divided between several broadcasters holdings. Holding / Stations VGTRK / Radio Russii, Mayak, Radio Russii Culture, Vesti FM European Media Group / Europa Plus, Dorozhnoe Radio, Retro FM, Radio 7 na seni kholmakh, Sport FM, Keks FM, Radio Record, Russian Media Group / Russkoe Radio, DFM, Radio Monte Carlo, Hit FM, Maximum Gazprom-Media / Broadcasting Corporation Prof-Media / Avtoradio, Yumor FM, Radio Energy, Radio Romantika, Echo of Moscow, CITY-FM, Detskoe Radio, Relax FM, Comedy Radio Krutoy Media / Love Radio, Radio Dacha, Taxi FM Multi Media Holding / Nashe Radio, Radio Best FM, Rock FM, Radio Jazz Rumedia / Business FM, Radio Shokolad Izyum / Stolitsa FM, Vesna FM, Vostok FM Moscow media / Moscow FM (English broadcasting), Moscow FM, Radio Moscow (http://www.radioportal.ru/news/radioveshchanie-v-rossii-tendencii-i-perspektivy) The 48th Conference of the European Council in St. Petersburg (18 - 22 September 2015) ------------------------------------ The immediate organizer of this interesting event for all fans of our hobby in Russia for the second time became St.Petersburg DX Club. According to the "schedule", the meeting was attended by 34 people, of which 23 were Russian, though, in fact, "our" was less. Delegates from Moscow was our friendly company of three people. Unfortunately, because of a difference of opinion on the situation in Ukraine, foreign participants was lower than in 2006: four were Finland, the same - the United Kingdom, two - Germany and one, or rather one, representative of Denmark. But those who attended were glad to meet again with his old colleagues on hobby and enjoy reminiscing about the first meeting. A more detailed report I will try to lay out a little later, and now invite all to listen to today (25.09, Friday) after 18:10 "Petersburg's hour" on the waves R. Liberty, which should come out interviews with some of the participants of our meeting. (www.dxing.ru) - Radio Liberty. Radio programs and podcasts / Freedom Petersburg. September 25 18.05-18.30 Petersburg Freedom Moderator: Victor Rezunkov What is DX? Why declining international service? Who are the "radiohuligany"? How many foreign radio broadcasts in Russian in Russian? What do today's Russian radio amateurs? We discuss with the participants of the 48th conference of the European DX Council. Radio program - audio recording - http://www.svoboda.org/audio/27247391.html Radio programs and podcasts / Freedom Petersburg Ham radio and "radiohuligany" Why declining international service? How many foreign radio broadcasts in Russian in Russian? Who are the "radiohuligany"? This - the participants of the 48th conference of the European DX Council. Podcast - http://www.svoboda.org/content/transcript/27271018.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) Lipetskaya oblast. Lipetsk. -------------------------------------- Branch RTRS "Lipetsk ORTPTS" began airing radio station "Mayak" in Lipetsk. Broadcasting is carried out in FM-band at a frequency of 106.6 MHz. Transmitter power - 1000 watts. "Lighthouse" - the oldest public information-musical radio station, part of the list of mandatory nationwide public television and radio channels. (http://lipetsk.rtrn.ru/news/read/159/) Krasnodarskiy kray. Sochi. -------------------------------------- On Thursday, September 24 began broadcasting ROCK FM in Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi city). For ROCK FM is broadcasting the sixth region outside Moscow and the Moscow region. Earlier, on July 16, 2014, it began broadcasting in Noyabrsk (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District), September 12 - Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk region), October 3 - Arzamas (Nizhny Novgorod region), October 21 - Ussuriisk (Primorsky Territory), 31 October - Rubtsovsk (Altai Territory). Frequency in Krasnaya Polyana - 99,9 FM. ROCKFMvhodit to "Media Holding", which also integrates the radio station "Nashe Radio" Vest FM, Radio Jazz, ROCK FM, ULTRA and Information Agency "National News Service." ROCK FM radio broadcasts in a format "Classic Rock" in Moscow and the Moscow region since 2007. ROCK FM - a permanent media partner of the Moscow concert of world rock stars. nsn.fm (OnAir.ru) UKRAINE ========= * In Crimea, started the Ukrainian radio. Monday, September 21, 2015 AM 549 kHz Crimeans have the right to know the truth Mon-Fri 5.35 UTC Mon-Fri 15.30 UTC. In annexed the Crimea starts the project "Ukrainian Radio" from Monday to Friday at 5.35 UTC and 15.35 UTC for the inhabitants of the peninsula will be available to Ukrainian radio. This in facebook adviser Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Serhiy Kostinsky. "At 5.30 am honored to open the broadcast, taking part in the first program - the author of a new transmission Alexander Jankowski," - he wrote. Radio with mainland Ukraine can be heard on medium wave. Ukrainian radio and TV stations have disappeared from the airwaves in the Crimea in March 2014, after the annexation of the peninsula Russia. (http://www.hromadske.tv/society/v-krimu-zapustili-ukrayinske-radio/) (www.dxing.ru / Alexander Egorov, Ukraine) * "Ukrainian Radio" September 24 will resume broadcasting in full Chairman of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting Yuriy Artemenko announced that on September 24, "Ukrainian Radio" to resume broadcasting in full. It is reported by the press service of the National Council. According to Mr. Artemenko, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine already provides for the needs of the National Radio Company of Ukraine 2 million 735 thousand. Hryvnia, needed to restore the broadcasting in previous volumes. This will restore the broadcasting of all three programs, "Ukrainian Radio". It is planned that on September 24, all transmitters will be included. The press service of the National Radio Company of Ukraine confirmed this information and announced the resumption of the transmitters that have been shut down on September 9. According to NRKU, September 24 to earn the VHF and FM network of UR-1 in the previous volumes, will be canceled the day break on the powerful CX transmitter on the frequency 549 kHz, which covers the south of Ukraine including Crimea. Restores work as a network of VHF channel "Promin" and "Culture". (http://www.telekritika.ua/rinok/print/111473) (www.dxing.ru / Alexander Egorov, Ukraine) MOLDAVIA ========= 11600 Radyoya Dengue Kurdistane, 12:15-12:20, escuchada el 24 de septiembre de 2015 en kurdo a locutora con comentarios referencias al kurdistán, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34443 (José Miguel Romero Sangean ATS 909 Burjasot (Valencia) España TAJIKISTAN ========== 15542 Voice of Tibet, Dushanbe-Yangiyul, 12:00-12:08, escuchada el 25 de septiembre de 2015 en chino a locutor y locutora con comentarios, SINPO 25432 15548 Voice of Tibet, Dushanbe-Yangiyul, 12:08-12:12, escuchada el 25 de septiembre de 2015 en chino a locutor y locutora con comentarios, sin señal en 15542, ya he observado otras veces que empieza la emisión en 15542 y a los ocho minutos cambia a esta frecuencia, se aprecia de fondo como una señal pareceida al morse, supongo jaming, SINPO 24432 (José Miguel Romero Sangean ATS 909 Burjasot (Valencia) España) "RUS-DX PLUS" PARTNER CHANNELS AND INTERNET ================================= DX LISTENING DIGEST 15-36, September 9, 2015 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA ------------------------------------------ ** AZERBAIJAN. Reception of Ictimai Radio on September 3 from 1130 on 9676.9 unknown transmitter to CeAs Azeri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khE3BXkgksw&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. Using HF150 an 8 m antenna: 9676, Talish/Ictimai, 1244 Sept 9 with Turkic song, extremely garbled audio, QRM 9680 from China (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 11730, Radio Belarus-Minsk, at 2155, on 1 Sep. A male announcer is talking in English. At 2200 switched language to Russian as listed. Audio is very poor but understandable. A female announcer is talking at 2201 along with musical interludes playing. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, RF Space-SDR- IQ, Sangean ATS-909X with Clear Mod, Tecsun PL-660, GAP-Hear It In Line Module, Timewave ANC-4, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, PARS-SWL Sloper End Fed x 2, NASWA yg via DXLD) 11730, Radio Belarus - Kalodziscy (Presumed), 1321, 9/6/15. Contemporary rock music. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, Eton e1, Grunding Satellit 800, Sangean 909X w/ clear mod, Tecsun PL 660 and various other portables; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Sept 6 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6990, R. Komintern, southern Voronezh region. From 1658 6/8 with rather declamatory speech style and instrumental music in the background. 1800* on the dot as scheduled. Said to be an illegal station with communist sympathies. Station claims to be about 1000 Watts (David Foster, Mansfield, Vic (Receiver ICOM R75, 70 metre longwire amongst the gum trees), Sept Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1790, DXLD) [same]. Observed on 25/8 at 1553-1801*, mainly military songs like "We Will Going To War" at 1554, at 1655-1700 speech in Russian, followed by songs (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant own made), Sept Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1790, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6990, 1712, R. Komintern. Rather poor level. Singing & talk in Russian faded by 1740. 07/08 6990, Radio Komintern. Rossosh, Voronezh Region. Scheduled 1600-1800 weekdays in Russian. Rather poor level noted here in Tauranga on Aug 7 around 1712 with patriotic music and male announcer who spoke with much passion & feeling. Had faded by 1740. QSL addr: 050353@mail.ru John Durham, Tauranga bemoans his lack of activity. "Just the one QSL this month: Radio Komintern, Rossosh, Russia 6990 kHz. Very little DX done this past month, think I have only fired the old Icom up on a couple of occasions. Cheers." (John Durham, Tauranga, New Zealand, Icom ICR70 with a Trap dipole antenna, Sept NZ DX Times via WORLD OF RADIO 1790, DXLD) Looking at pirate listings on line, I see a power of '100' shown. I presume that would be kW - and given the station seems to operate for several hours a day, local authorities must be turning a blind eye. The location is curious as well: just inside Russia from the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. TD (Theo Donnelly, ed., ibid.) ** TAJIKISTAN. According to swskeds via Aoki, BBC Uzbek on new 4790 kHz 1300-1330 daily via TJK Yangiyul from 1st Sept. (Mauno Ritola, Finland, WRTH - World Radio TV Handbook Facebook.com 2 September 2015 via RusDX Sept 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1790, DXLD) ** U K [non]. See TAJIKISTAN Shortwave DX-ing from Bulgaria Bulgarian DX blog --------------------------------------------- * Videos Sept.15-20 Sept.16 Radio Payem e-Doost 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, as scheduled www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcPHxbOxxrc&feature=youtu.be Sept.18 Radio Ranginkaman, Rainbow in Farsi to WeAs 1627 on 7575 Tashkent, 15630 Ssecretbrod www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Zv5KEXyjA&feature=youtu.be * Observer SW News Sept.21/22 CLANDESTINE and other target broadcastson September 21 No change of time and frequency of Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow 1600-1630 on 7575 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuIwOiN68-0&feature=youtu.be IRAN Denge Kurdistan, change of transmitters at 0500UT till 0459 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish from 0500 on 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArlA0n8XjA&feature=youtu.be * Observer SW News Sept.23-24 U.K.(non) BBC in Farsi at new time and frequencies from Sept.22: ... 0230-0330 on 9425 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.21 0230-0330 on 11895 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.21 ... 0330-0430 on 13825 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi, unchanged .. 0430-0530 on 13730 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex 0230-0330 0430-0530 on 15410 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex 0230-0330 1500-1600 on 6195 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.21 ... 1600-1700 on 6195 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi, ex 1500-1600 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PDUsuT2GCU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJBKJrTiOlM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25nTsa4MA9I&feature=youtu.be In this connection, please check transmission of Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow 1600-1630 on 7575 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri till Sept.21 ... 1700-1730 on 7575 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri from Sept.25 ... PLAY-DX 1659 electronic 20+21 September, 2015 Editor : Dario Monferini, Milano, Italy -------------------------------- ROBERTO PAVANELLO, VERCELLI, ITALY. LOGs RPA 4765 19/9 23.05 Tajik R. - Dushambe Tagiko MX buono - DX RE MIX BULGARIA IVO IVANOV IRAN(non) Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via Tashkent and Secretbrod on Sept.18 1600-1630 on 7575 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri till Sept.18 ... 1700-1730 on 7575 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri from Sept.21 - CARLOS GONCALVES PORTUGAL LOGs for PLAYDX CG/CGS LF/MF observations_PlayDX Cland. = clandestine, Pir. = pirate, p = presumed, t = tentative, // = parallel to, DF = direction finding. 12 - 18 Sep., 2015 * hour = s/on time, hour* = s/off time; non-BC stns in italic rx sites JRC NRD-545DSP & NRD-93; Quantum Phaser, homemade amp.(W7IUV version); raised, 4 loop K9AY, 6x19x6 m Ewe 135º, 14 m low noise LF/MF Vertical. .... Lisbon.... CG 1035.0 2212-2222 13/9 EST R.Eli, Tartu. Ru, tks. Adj. & co-ch. QRM. 24331 CG - ANKER PETERSEN DANMARK DX LOG AP-DNK the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire. 4765.00 0125-0135 19.9 TJK Tajik R 1, Yangiyul Tajik folksongs, Tajik ann 0130 43333 QRM 4765 R Progreso, La Habana Cuba AP-DNK DX LISTENING DIGEST 15-37, September 16, 2015 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA ------------------------------------------ ** ARMENIA. FEBA Radio Sadaye Zindagi on wrong frequency on Sept 14: 1500-1502 9495 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari, instead [of!] 9445 from 1504 9445 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Dari, as scheduled www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLeMf8rJ5U&feature=youtu.be www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvAAx-z0tg&feature=youtu.be Good reception of Voice of Armenia on September 14 1530-1545 on 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Assyrian 1545-1615 on 4810 ERV 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Kurdish www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSMVCCIBkos&feature=youtu.be www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5wtbkwn68&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. DOGGED REPORTING IN AZERBAIJAN LANDED A U.S.-TRAINED JOURNALIST IN PRISON --- CONTROLLING THE STORY: This is the fourth installment in an ongoing series examining the human cost of reporting the news around the world. By Dana Priest, Anita Komuves and Courtney Mabeus, http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/dogged-reporting-in-azerbaijan-landed-a-us-trained-journalist-in- prison/2015/09/ 12/5a7f9fa0-4032-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_print.html Aziz Karimov/Associated Press CAPTION: Khadija Ismayilova, shown in March 2014, was an investigative journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in Baku, Azerbaijan. She has often reported on the business dealings of top politicians in the country. The U.S. government spends millions each year on programs to improve the skills of foreign reporters, but rarely have its efforts helped produce such a media superstar as Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan. Ismayilova was 27 when she enrolled in her first U.S.-funded investigative workshop in Baku in 2003. At 30, she moved to Washington to work for the government's Voice of America, which trained her in broadcasting. Two years later, she returned home as bureau chief of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and later, became a talk-show host and investigative reporter there. Beginning in 2010, Ismayilova uncovered secret ownership amid government dealings in the telecommunications, construction, gold mining, hotel, media and airline services industries. Her bombshells won international awards and high praise from some in the State Department as well as anti-corruption groups worldwide. But in Azerbaijan, in December, she was arrested and imprisoned. The hidden fortunes she revealed were those of Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, and his family. She reported that they used their positions to vastly enrich themselves with public funds. The charges against her -- tax evasion, illegal entrepreneurship, embezzlement, inciting a suicide attempt and misuse of authority - did not cite her reporting. But U.S. and European officials and her employer say they are retribution for her articles, designed to quash her investigations and growing pro-democracy activism. Earlier this month, Ismayilova was found guilty of all but the suicide charge and sentenced to 7 ^1/[2 ] years in prison. She told the court that the government "won't be able to force me to stay silent, even if they sentence me to 15 or 25 years." U.S. officials condemned the verdict. "This sentence is clearly retribution for Khadija exposing government corruption and sends a warning shot to other journalists in the country," said Jeff Shell, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency that supports independent media abroad. "The Azeri government has demonstrated to the international community that it disdains press freedom, supports its own impunity and has little regard for human rights." Khadija Ismayilova's journey from U.S.-sponsored journalism workshops to a jail cell in Central Asia is also a tale of U.S. policy at odds with itself. On the one hand, U.S. agencies and their affiliates train, fund and publish investigative reporters such as Ismayilova, who provide some of the last remaining independent news reports in Central Asia and Russia. Congress appropriated an estimated $64 million this fiscal year for programs to promote "media freedom and freedom of information" worldwide, according to State Department records. But on the other hand, press freedom and human rights usually take a back seat in U.S. foreign relations to military, intelligence, oil or other business interests. "The U.S. government isn't doing anything in terms of pressure and sanctions against the government of Azerbaijan to make it clear the jailing of Khadija and other journalists there is unacceptable," said David J. Kramer, a human rights specialist at the McCain Institute for International Leadership and former president of Freedom House. "There are other interests with Azerbaijan that have crowded out human rights concerns." In March, two officials from RFE/RL and the International Broadcasting Bureau, an independent U.S. agency that oversees Voice of America, flew to Baku to discuss Ismayilova's case with the foreign minister, national security adviser, two other senior presidential advisers and the prosecutor and tax offices. "I said, `If you have specific information that contradicts her reporting . . . give it to us,' " said Jeffrey N. Trimble, deputy director of the IBB. He got nothing, he added, and "no hint of flexibility." The Embassy of Azerbaijan declined to comment on questions submitted by The Washington Post. Ali Hasanov, the presidential aide for public and political affairs, told media in Baku after the verdict that "Ismayilova faced criminal charges for committing concrete criminal acts unrelated to her journalistic activities. During the trial, the charges were fully proved and the adequate decision was made. That is why attempts to politicize the court's verdict about Ismayilova by some international organizations, officials of different countries and a number of international human rights organizations are unacceptable." Before Ismayilova's arrest, Azerbaijani officials portrayed her as an enemy of the state because of her reporting and on-air commentary. In a 60-page statement issued days before her arrest, Presidential Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev said Ismayilova "makes absurd statements, openly demonstrates destructive attitude towards well- known members of the Azerbaijani community and spreads insulting lies. It is clear this sort of defiance pleases Ms. Ismayilova's patrons abroad." Ismayilova, 39, is being held in Kurdakhani prison, 30 miles north of Baku and home to some of the 80 other journalists and pro-democracy activists identified by U.S. and European governments. Speaking through intermediaries, she answered questions in writing for this article. "We publish investigations because we value peoples' right to know," she said. "I expect people to struggle for their right to know, to try to hold corrupt politicians responsible." Today the government owns all television stations, and virtually all newspapers are allied with the president. "Azerbaijan has been a friend to the United States and a partner in the battle against radical Islam, but mostly it's their oil. It's important that [the oil] remains in a Western direction," said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), co-chair of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus. Even so, Cohen said, President Aliyev "has talked about human rights, but we haven't really seen it." Cohen recently co-signed a letter to Aliyev, asking him to reconsider the closing of RFE/RL, which the police shuttered in December, and assure justice to Ismayilova, whose arrest the letter called "politically motivated." Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press CAPTION: Oil derricks are seen in the background beyond the Bibi-Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan, in March 2006. Under President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan has developed its oil and gas infrastructure, turning a country the size of Maine with a population of only 9.6 million into a player at the center of multiple geopolitical competitions. Ask anyone who knows Ismayilova to describe her, and they usually chuckle to themselves first. "She gives you a healthy amount of headache," said Ayaz Ahmedov, a co-worker. "She is the most courageous man in Azerbaijan!" said Altay Goyushov, a professor at Baku State University. Ismayilova was raised in an intellectual household. Her mother was an engineer, and her father was the president of a company that made machinery for the oil industry. Their daughter was a stellar student. Khadija graduated from Baku State University with a master's degree in the Turkish language and literature and also speaks Russian. She came onto the job market shortly after Azerbaijan gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1992, and for the first time independent news outlets began springing up in the former Soviet republic. Her first jobs were at alternative monthly newsletters for nonprofit organizations; then covering politics for a Russian-language paper; then as a deputy editor in chief of an English-language newspapers's Azerbaijan section. Alakbar Raufoglu, a fellow journalist, first met her in the mid-1990s. "Sometimes people don't like her because she says everything to your face; she will not talk behind your back." Ismayilova's exposure to U.S. journalistic techniques and mind-set came in 2003 amid a dynastic transition in Azerbaijan. That year, Ilham Aliyev replaced his father, Heydar, a former chief of the KGB branch in Azerbaijan and first secretary of the Communist Party there, as president of the country. With Western help and investment, Ilham Aliyev developed Azerbaijan's oil and gas infrastructure and turned a country the size of Maine with a population of 9.6 million into a player at the center of multiple geopolitical competitions. Glass skyscrapers and garish displays of wealth sprang up in the otherwise crumbling downtown. Sandwiched between Iran and Russia, Aliyev increased intelligence cooperation with Israel and the United States and allowed the U.S. military to use commercial airports to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan. Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press CAPTION: Pedestrians walk in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, in May 2012. The capital of this former Soviet republic has shed its dour, industrial image and evolved into a vibrant metropolis, combining the Old World charm of Istanbul with the architectural ostentations of Dubai. Ismayilova's pedigree can be traced to some of the finest American investigative reporting minds in the industry, a small, sometimes awkward group of junkyard dogs. They were among the first to realize the golden nuggets of information that could be found within banal government documents. Her teachers included people like Don Ray, a California-based broadcast journalist famous among U.S. reporters as a pioneering document sleuth. Beginning in 2006, he taught Ismayilova and her colleagues to conduct what he calls a "bottoms-up investigation" that begins with a search of standard corporate, tax and property records. Another teacher was Drew Sullivan, a onetime city hall reporter at the Tennessean, who founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a nonprofit group that receives U.S. and other funding to teach reporters mostly in Central Asia and Eastern Europe how to do cross-border investigations. She also worked with a U.S.- trained Romanian computerized-records wizard, Paul Radu. Radu had built an online tool called Investigative Dashboard that contains corporate registries and company records worldwide, and much more. Ismayilova would eventually combine Ray's scrutiny of documents, Sullivan's cross-border capabilities and Radu's Dashboard to produce the half-dozen fact-filled stories about the Aliyev family that got her in so much trouble. The training that all three men provided to Ismayilova was partly subsidized by U.S. government funds. But one more thing was required to turn her into a full-fledged investigative reporter: passion. In March 2005, a friend, investigative reporter Elmar Huseynov, who had published stories linking Aliyev to hidden business holdings, was shot dead at his doorstep in Baku by assailants who have still not been identified. "That was the moment when I felt guilty," Ismayilova later told Ray in an interview. "I started crying -- I just couldn't control it. I couldn't stop crying." Ismayilova had dismissed Huseynov's work because he didn't document most of the allegations made about the Aliyev family, Ray said. Only later did she realize that "he was a one-man band going after the powers that be" with none of the training she had to find the necessary paper trail, Ray said. "She did some self-assessment and realized that the spirit of what he was doing was correct, but he didn't know the best way to do it." Deeply regretful, she promised herself that she would honor him by continuing his work and training others to do the same. freepress-video-promo-link The turning point for Azerbaijani investigative journalism came only in mid-2010. In March, The Post published an article by one of its correspondents about an 11-year-old boy with the same name and birth date as the president's son who had spent $44 million on nine Dubai mansions. Ismayilova had helped with the story but for safety reasons had asked that her name not be used. The article, according to Raufoglu, the fellow journalist, "made the local media wake up. . . . We were asking ourselves, `Why can't we write like this?' " Ismayilova, he recalled, told colleagues: "Okay, we will call our colleagues abroad. We will figure out a way to prove everything we know." Ismayilova's first bylined investigation was vetted and published by RFE/RL, once a Cold War propaganda outlet that has since evolved into the last remaining source of independent news in much of Central Asia and Russia. By then it broadcast only on the Internet, having been banned by the government from airwaves. In August 2010, using documents from the State Committee on Financial Securities, Ismayilova and a colleague reported that an Azerbaijani holding company called SW Holdings had a near monopoly on recently privatized airline services to the state airline company, Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), including ticket sales, in-flight meals, technical upkeep, duty-free stores and taxi service. SW Holdings, they wrote, was partly owned by Aliyev's then 21-year-old daughter, Arzu, and by the wife of AZAL's president. "It is unclear where Arzu Aliyeva -- who until now was best known for her role in an Azerbaijani tourism ad aired on CNN -- may have acquired the estimated . . . $7.8 million . . . she used to acquire her initial stake of 29.08 percent" in SW Holdings, they wrote. As president, her father, Ilham Aliyev, earns $230,000 a year. The next article documented the meteoric success of Azerfon, a mobile phone company. Within three years, it had 1.7 million subscribers and was the only company licensed to provide 3G services. The government had insisted that the company was owned by Siemens, the German conglomerate. Using Azerbaijani tax documents and the Panama State Registry of companies, Ismayilova walked readers through a trail of documents leading to three companies registered in Panama and the Caribbean tax haven of Nevis Island, and then to Leyla Aliyeva, 25, and Arzu Aliyeva, 22. The headline on Ismayilova's story was: "Azerbaijani President's Daughters Tied to Fast-Rising Telecoms Firm." David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters CAPTION: From left, President Ilham Aliyev votes in a referendum as his wife, Mehriban, and daughter Leyla watch in Baku, Azerbaijan, in March 2009. The country was holding a referendum on lifting the country's two-term presidential limit, thus providing Aliyev the chance to rule for life. Every investigation drew threats and invectives from Azerbaijanis defending the president. In March 2012, Ismayilova received a letter containing still images from a video of her having sex with her then-boyfriend in her apartment. The letter writer threatened to air it if she didn't stop her reporting. She immediately posted the threat on Facebook. "If they think they will stop me this way, they are wrong." The video was aired two days later, but the tactic backfired. Even radical Muslims in the mostly secular Muslim country condemned what they said was the government's attempt to smear her. Looking at the video, Ismayilova determined the camera angles and discovered phone wiring in her bedroom where the cameras had been, and followed it into her living room and bathroom. She found the installer, who recalled bringing the line to the apartment for a mysterious customer. Ismayilova asked prosecutors to investigate, but nothing came of it. Two months later, she published two more investigative stories, jointly reported with OCCRP. One article probed the hidden ownership of a gold mining company which was widely believed to be British. Using official documents again, she reported that the president's two daughters owned part of the firm through four Panamanian corporations. "The UK company is actually a front for the first family," Ismayilova wrote, "who stand to add to their already enormous wealth." The second article revealed that a $134 million glass-and-steel auditorium rising up from downtown Baku for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was largely constructed by a company secretly connected to the president's wife and two daughters. After those stories, parliament passed a law ruling that ownership of private companies could no longer be made public except by court order, by police investigators or with the owner's consent. Another law granted all presidents, ex-presidents and first ladies lifelong immunity from prosecution. Ismayilova's articles fueled small pro-democracy protests in Azerbaijan calling for the Aliyev government to step down. She joined in, crossing a line that her Western mentors found uncomfortable. Sullivan tried to get Ismayilova to stick to journalism, but she "felt she was in an historic time and needed to come out and explain what the government was doing" in a plain-spoken way people could understand, he said. "She felt the government was so evil and abusive of the people that she had to pick sides," Sullivan said. In early 2013, Ismayilova was arrested with other protesters in Baku and sentenced to community service, which she turned into another protest by sweeping the streets, joined by groups of her supporters. The government also questioned her about allegations that she passed secret documents to U.S. congressional staffers. By now, the threats to Ismayilova had become routine but still worried her, friends said. Her tactic was always to publish them on social media, thinking that the publicity would give her protection. But the threats escalated. Her mother's address was printed in a prominent newspaper, SES, under the headline: "Khadija's Armenian Mother Should Die." Armenia is considered Azerbaijan's main enemy. It had become clear to Ismayilova that she would be arrested soon, a dozen of her colleagues said in interviews. In September 2014, Thomas Melia saw her while he was serving as the U.S. envoy to an annual high-level European human rights meeting in Poland. As usual, they joked and laughed, then shared stories of how many more Azerbaijani journalists and activists they knew who had been imprisoned since the last time they met. "I told her, `Why don't you not go home,' " Melia recalled. " `Stay here or go to D.C. Let things cool off.' " She refused. Melia recalled the last thing she told him before returning to Baku: " `If they arrest me, please speak out,' " he recalled her saying. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for the International Women's Media Foundation CAPTION: Khadija Ismayilova, who was being honored with a 2012 Courage in Journalism Award hosted by the International Women's Media Foundation, speaks at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., in October 2012. Sure enough, on Dec. 6, she was arrested and denied bail. "I knew that I would be arrested," Ismayilova later said from prison in response to questions by The Post. "I am not a running-away type of person." She was charged with driving her former boyfriend to attempt suicide. He drank rat poison, he said, but later confessed he had "defamed" Ismayilova because police forced him into it. After his about-face, he was charged with tax evasion. Two weeks later, police stormed RFE/RL's bureau in Baku. They searched the safe, confiscated computers and sealed the office for reasons they have yet to clarify. The raid came six days after Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who oversees $14 million in mostly economic assistance to Azerbaijan each year, telephoned Aliyev to complain about his human rights practices. The president also then banned all foreign aid to independent media outlets and signed a law shuttering those accused of defamation twice in one year. Ismayilova's news outlet moved its operations to Prague. Some of its Azerbaijani journalists left with it for safety reasons; a handful remain in the country, keeping a low profile but reporting nonetheless. In February, Ismayilova was charged with four other crimes -- embezzlement, tax evasion, misuse of authority and illegal entrepreneurship -- and denied bail again. Kenan Aliyev, who hired her as RFE/RL bureau chief in 2008, said, "She's like this woman who's being insulted by the government, but she's still fighting back; like she's being raped, but she still fights back," he said. "She's saying. `We shouldn't be afraid of this.' . . . She's now the symbol of Azerbaijan." While she sits in prison, 20 of her OCCRP colleagues from 11 countries have banded together to carry on her work. A series of articles posted on the nonprofit organization's Web site under The Khadija Project further documents the wealth of the Aliyev family and their lobbying in the United States. Ismayilova's imprisonment illustrates the limits of U.S. support for independent media as a critical part of durable civil societies worldwide. The Voice of America, whose editorials reflect U.S. policy and where Ismayilova was widely respected as a reporter when she worked there, did not editorialize on her behalf until she was sentenced on Sept. 1. "The United States is deeply troubled by today's decision of an Azerbaijani court to sentence prominent investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova to 7 ^1/[2 ]years in prison," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said after the sentencing. Previously, the State Department had issued only brief statements of support for Ismayilova, usually in response to a question posed at a briefing. Colleagues and some members of Congress criticize the State Department for not doing more to gain her release, saying it has let oil and security interests dominate the relationship. The Senate Appropriations Committee has demanded an accounting of the department's steps to seek her release and that of a handful of other political prisoners. Pro-democracy Azerbaijanis are particularly angered by what they see as Washington's inaction. "This back-door, under-the-table diplomacy just is not working anymore, and everyone is realizing this," said Arzu Geybullayeva, who fled under threats and is currently a Vaclav Havel journalism fellow at RFE/RL in Prague. Tom Malinowski, the State Department's human rights envoy, defended the department's actions. "We have been pushing hard, and they have pushed back hard in ways that have affected the relationship," he said, but refused to give examples. "They understand what steps will be required to improve the climate, and the ball is in their court." Ismayilova has her own opinion on the U.S. response to her predicament. "Western politicians, who have compromised human rights and democracy values for energy and security cooperation, should know that corruption and organized crime does not know borders," she said from prison. "By tolerating these diseases in other countries, they open their own country for corruption." Komuves is a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Mabeus is a graduate student there. OCCRP's Khadija Project is edited by Drew Sullivan, whose brother, John, is a Washington Post investigative reporter. One of the project's editors is on the faculty with Dana Priest at the University of Maryland but was not involved with this article. Other stories in this series: Part 1: Living like a fugitive in Pakistan Part 2: After Arab Spring, journalism briefly flowered and then withered Part 3: With U.S. withdrawal looming, a nascent Afghan press is in peril (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Azerbaijan opens new TV and radio channels, said Tuesday at the National Council for Radio and Television of Azerbaijan (NTRC). http://www.trend.az/azerbaijan/society/2431214.html September 8 at the National Council meeting was held, which examined the treatment to grant licenses for the republican ASAN Service Broadcasting Ltd. and "CBC Sport" for republican sports broadcasting. On the basis of the law "On Television and Radio" NTRC decided to grant licenses to both entities for a period of six years and allocated for republican radio broadcasting services ASAN frequency 100 MHz, and for republican broadcasting channel CBC Sport frequency of 37.48 MHz (Moscow Information DX Bulletin, A weekly electronic publication #960, September 8, 2015, The editor of the current issue: Alexander Dementyev, via RusDX Sept 13 via DXLD) ! Is that frequency correct? Not a broadcast band anywhere (gh, DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. Sept 10: Ictimai Radio: from 1101 on 9676.9 unknown transmitter site to CeAs Azeri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkYjqb1F9KE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Unscheduled transmission of Radio Payem e-Doost via Secretbrod: ... 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, as scheduled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6J8BqRTmg&feature=youtu.be SECRETLAND, Again unscheduled transmission of Radio Payem e-Doost: ... 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, as scheduled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytvm8x1K3dk&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs from September 11 1600-1730 NF 7520 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean ex 7505; videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVmrhqpok6o&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxRqEEsp9s&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbBxuRb4Ku0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH1LFttlaMY&feature=youtu.be 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN [and non]. 4819.998, TIBET, PBS Xizang, female Chinese reader, S=6 signal. and adjacent: 4819.881, KGZ Kyrgyz Radio 1, via Bishkek, Krasnaya Rechka-KGZ. \\ 4009.974 kHz 1424 UT. 4009.974, Kyrgyz R1 from Bishkek Krasnaya Rechka-KGZ, S=6-7 tiny, \\ 4819.881 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Sunday Sept 13, log at 1345-1500 UT, noted on remote unit SDR at Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. LARGE-SCALE TRANSMITTER SWITCH-OFFS IN UKRAINE Effective September 9: * FM distribution of UR 1 is limited to "regional centres", whatever locations may qualify as such, * UR 2 and UR 3 are transmitted only in Kiev anymore, * 549 kHz now takes a break between 14:00 and 18:00 local time. Reason: Budget cut by 3,130,400 UAH (which in current exchange rate equals 127,000 Euro, but this probably says not much at all). Announcement: http://nrcu.gov.ua/news.html?newsID=6520 (Kai Ludwig, Sept 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1791, DXLD) I wonder whether this will (or has) affected the WRMI relays in English of RUI. Generally not well heard on the west coast, but useful when I'm off the grid at my cottage on Haida Gwaii. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1791, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NATIONAL UKRAINIAN RADIO LIMITS DISTRIBUTION OF ITS PROGRAMS: NO MONEY On September 9, 2015, The National Radio Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian Radio) forced significantly limit the distribution of its programs on the territory Ukraine. It is reported by the press service of NRKU. "This decision was taken due to the lower costs of the general fund State budget and a decrease of 3130.4 thousand. UAH budget funding of broadcasting programs of the Ukrainian radio" - It said in a statement. Notes in particular that the UR-1 (Channel) - in the MW range on the frequency of 549 kHz to work with a break from 14:00 to 18:00 in the VHF - the lower and upper (FM) band will only work in regional centers; UR-2 (Promyn) and UR-3 (Culture) in the UHF band will work only in the capital. In this specifies that a broadcast network and a wired Internet remain in full. (Edition "Russian Spring" September 10, 2015, http://rusnext.ru/news/1441833995 via Andrew Chub, Faschevka, Luhansk People's Republic, RusDX Sept 13 via DXLD) UKRAINIAN RADIO LIMITS THE PROPAGATION OF THEIR PROGRAMS. Starting today, September 9, 2015, the National Radio Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian Radio) is forced to significantly limit the distribution of its programs on the territory of Ukraine. This decision was taken due to the lower costs of the general fund of the State Budget of Ukraine and a decrease of 3130.4 thousand. Hryvnia budget financing programs of the Ukrainian radio broadcast. Therefore: - UR-1 (Channel) - MW in the range at a frequency of 549 kHz to work with a break from 14.00 to 18.00, in the VHF - the lower and upper (FM) band will only work in the regional centers; - UR-2 (Promyn) and UR-3 (Culture) in the UHF band to work only in the capital. Broadcast on a wired network and the Internet are full. Press Service of NRCU - 09/09/2015, at 16:00 (Alexander Egorov, Ukraine /http://dxing.ru/ via RusDX Sept 13 via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 11655, TWR Africa at 0341 with African vocals, language for today is listed as Sidamo, 0344:30 instrumental hymn, 0345 brief IS and off. - Fair, Sept. 10 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. RUSSIA [sic; non!] The news multimedia agency Sputnik announced the launch of Sputnik Portal Uzbekistan. The new portal will operate in the Uzbek and Russian languages. The resource is available at sputniknews-uz.com oz.sputniknews-uz.com and ru.sputniknews-uz.com aims to present the diversity of views on topical international issues. The users of the new Russian version of the portal will also be available Radio Sputnik. Portal in Uzbek and Russian languages will complement the range of information resources Sputnik, already working in English, French, Serbian, etc. Portugalskom, Arabic, Hindi, Polish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Urdu, Dari, Pashto, Kurdish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Belarusian, Moldovan, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Armenian, Ossetian and Abkhazian languages. http://ria.ru/society/20150907/1234831731.html (via Moscow Information DX Bulletin, A weekly electronic publication #960, September 8, 2015, The editor of the current issue: Alexander Dementyev, via RusDX Sept 13 via DXLD) BC-DX 1222, 21 September 2015 edited by Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany ------------------------------------------------------ ARMENIA/AZERBAIJAN The station operating in range 9675-9681 kHz, or on 9677 kHz, so called Aedaletin Sesi Radiosu, Ictimai, V of Talyshistan etc., most likely is Aedaletin S. R. or Voice of Justice (ID which I heard) operating from the Mont. Karabakh. Because it is not clear which radio organisation was registered Ictimai or VOT-n, I think it is fabricated data. I monitored from 17 to 25 August, each day(!) the frequency of 9677 kHz & the program was always in Azeri and seldom with interviews in Russian(!). The sign/on and close/down is varying within 5-10 minutes, but exact broadcast times are: DAILY *0725- 1307* UT. By the way, there is not another station on 9677 kHz which had to be jammed. The music jingles, speakers and program are of type Voice of Justice as was for many years. (Rumen Pankov-BUL, RUSdx Sept 13) AUSTRIA [USA/RUSSIA] Russian Program of Reach Beyond (HCJB) "Golos And" (Voice of Andes) is now produced by Radio Studio "Otkrovenie" ("Otkrovenie" means "revelation") in Voronezh, Russia. Reception reports should be addressed to: Radio Station "Otkrovenie" P.O.Box 585 Voronezh 394036, Russia. They are verified by QSL card written in Russian. Reception reports to USA address Reach Beyond P.O.Box 39800 Colorado Springs CO 80949-9800, USA are also transferred to Russia. A15 schedule Saturdays 1530-1600 UT 13800 kHz via ORS Moosbrunn Austria. B15 11900 kHz 1530 Russian, 1600-1630 UT Chechen, or alternate 13740 kHz. (Takahito Akabayashi-JPN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 20) RUSSIA/MOLDOVA 918 / 50 / Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan / "Mayak" + GTRK "Dagestan". 936 / 5 / n. Matveyevka, Orenburg region / "Radio Rossii" + GTRK "Orenburg". 1350 / 5 / sec. Ust-Kan and. Ulagan, Altai Republic / "Radio Rossii" + GTRK "Gorny Altai". 1395 /1 / Buguruslan, Orenburg region / "Radio Rossii" + GTRK "Orenburg". 1413 / 500 / pos. Lighthouse, Pridnestrovie / "Vesti FM". 1440/5 / sec. Turochak with. Ust-Koksa, Altai Republic / "Radio Rossii" + GTRK"Gorny Altai". ("DX Kurjer" by editor Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan-RUS, Rusdx Sept 13) UKRAINE Large-scale transmitter switch-offs in Ukraine. Effective September 9, 2015. * FM distribution of UR 1 is limited to "regional centres", whatever locations may qualify as such, * UR 2 and UR 3 are transmit only in Kiev anymore, * 549 kHz now takes a break between 14:00 and 18:00 local time. Reason: Budget cut by 3,130,400 UAH (which in current exchange rate equals 127,000 Euro, but this probably says not much at all). Announcement: (Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Sept 10) UKRAINE Ukrainian radio limits the propagation of their programs. Starting today, September 9, 2015, the National Radio Company of Ukraine (Ukrainian Radio) is forced to significantly limit the distribution of its programs on the territory of Ukraine. This decision was taken due to the lower costs of the general fund of the State Budget of Ukraine and a decrease of 3130.4 thousand. Hryvnia budget financing programs of the Ukrainian radio broadcast. Therefore: - UR-1 (Channel) - MW in the range at a frequency of 549 kHz to work with a break from 14.00 to 18.00, in the VHF - the lower and upper (FM) band will only work in the regional centers; - UR-2 (Promyn) and UR-3 (Culture) in the UHF band to work only in the capital. Broadcast on a wired network and the Internet are full. Press Service of NRCU - 09 Sept 2015. (Alexander Egorov-UKR, RUSdx Sept 13) *#*# Sunday Sept 13, log at 1345-1500 UT, noted on remote unit SDR at Brisbane in Queensland, Australia: ... 4819.881 KGZ Kyrgyz Radio 1, via Bishkek, Krasnaya Rechka-KGZ. // 4009.974 kHz 1424 UTC. ... 4009.974 KGZ Kyrgyz R1 from Bishkek Krasnaya Rechka-KGZ, S=6-7 tiny, // 4819.881 kHz. ... (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 13) Kavkaz R Gavar ARM 1395.000 kHz. Or rather R. Rossii, Buguruslan, Orenburgskaya oblast. ... 1394.999 Polskie Radio via Gavar 1395.000 R. Rossii, Buguruslan ... (Mauno Ritola-FIN, Sept 13) Hard-Core-DX Digest --------------------------------- * Vol 153, Issue 22 Message: 7 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 From: Daniel Wyllyans Subject: [HCDX] 4010 kHz Kyrgyz Radio 1 , Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan 4010 kHz Kyrgyz Radio 1 , Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan OM CXS Local and YL in 01:24 UTC sinpo 25222 Day 09/19/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1WBRnLr7nw&feature=youtu.be RX : Tecsun S-2000 Antenna: Long wire 3.000 Meters ( wire fence steel for cows ) Daniel Wyllyans Nova Xavantina MT Brazil * Vol 153, Issue 25 Message: 4 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" Subject: [HCDX] Belarus 11730, no audio - empty carrier at 1058 UT, an two spurious accompanied BELARUS 11730 Belarus Radio Minsk-Kalodzicy started 11.00:24 UT on Sept 24 into their regular radio programm, low tiny modulated though. No audio - empty carrier visible at 1055-1100 UT, and two spurious SCRATCHY broadband signals accompanied on 11700.5 - 11709.4 and 11751.4 - 11759.4 kHz. wb Message: 13 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 From: Glenn Hauser Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 21-24, 2015 ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Sept 22 at 1345, Denge Kurdistane is good with flutter during wonderful Kurdish music hour; also Sept 24 from 1320 until 1400 talk segment, still in and more music at 1426. Site during this portion is Grigoriopol`/PRIDNESTROVYE, a.k.a. KCH = Kishinev/MOLDOVA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Moscow Information DX Bulletin A weekly electronic publication # 962 September 22, 2015 The editor of the current issue: Fedor Brazhnikov. Russia -------------- VATICAN Vatican Radio Schedule for the upcoming winter season B15: 09.30-10.50 15595, 17590 (ORIENTAL LITURGY) 13.30-14.00 1260, 9695 (Tinang, 250 KW., 332 deg.), 11875 (Tinang, 250 KW., 332 deg.) 17.10-17.40 6185, 7360 (Vatican Radio Frequency Management, Editor) UKRAINE September 21 First Ukrainian radio channel started the relay transmission "Crimea. Realities", which is preparing to Radio Liberty. This is the first regular broadcasts in Russian on the waves of the First Channel. It is possible to listen from Monday to Friday at 08.35-08.59 and 18.30-18.59 (Kiev and Moscow) at a frequency of 549 kHz, as well as on the websites and nrcu.gov.ua ru.krymr.com/schedule.html (Sergey Sosedkin, USA) News Media Ukrainian Radio restores the transmitters that were off 9 September 2015 because of limited budget financing. In the Thursday, September 24 will earn VHF and FM-Network UR-1 in the previous volumes. It will be canceled day break on a powerful CB transmitter at a frequency of 549 kHz, which covers the south of Ukraine, including Crimea. Restores work as a network of VHF channels "Ray" and "Culture". The resumption of broadcasting programs NRKU made possible thanks to the measures taken by the State Committee, Mininformpolitiky, the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting and the BRT Concern, which resulted in the allocated radio further 2,735,000 hryvnia (128 thousand USD) to pay for the translation. Press Service NRKU http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/news.html?newsID=7670 (sent Sergei Sosedkin, USA) WEB RADIO IN RUSSIAN ============================= Russia ----------- "Radio Russii" - the main state radio station of the country. The first radio call sign sounded December 10, 1990. "Radio Russii" - the most popular radio station of the Russian Federation. The signal is broadcast through 1300 transmitters. We can hear not only the Internet but also in the "first button" wire broadcasting, long, medium and ultra- short waves. Director of "Radio Russii" - VyacheslavVladlenovich Umanovsky. "Radio Russii" 125040, Moscow, 5th Street Yamskogo field, 19/21, E-mail: inform@radiorus.ru Address: State Broadcasting Company "Radio Russii" 19/21, 5th Yamskogo Polya St., Moscow, 125040, Russia WEB: http://www.radiorus.ru/, http://test.radiorus.rfn.ru/ (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN ================================= Canada ----------- Weekly infotainment radio program "Megapolis" from October stops broadcasting on the airwaves Toronto. Instead of transmitting the radio station "Chin" will be a new radio program in Russian - called "Courier". People familiar with the situation, attributed the cessation of broadcasting radio "Megapolis" on AM and FM frequencies in Toronto with the difficulties faced by its producers, to attract advertisers. Radio program "Megapolis" from the eponymous Russian cultural society, began to appear in Toronto in October 2014 with the support of the "Bulletin of Toronto." Since October this year, the space program in Russian on the radio station "Chin" take weekly program "Courier" from the editorial team of the newspaper "Canadian Courier". "We will offer Russian-speaking residents of Toronto news cultural and political life, topical interviews, expert opinions. Also, the program will perform regularly heard bards and authors' songs, "- said in an interview" Bulletin of Toronto "Luba Black, president of the publishing house, which publishes the popular among Russian-speaking residents of the Toronto paper" Canadian Courier "and produces theatrical studio" N ". The new radio program "Courier" will go to Toronto every Sunday from 15:00 to 16:00 on the waves 91.9 FM and 1540 AM. vestnik.ca (OnAir.ru) Latvia ---------- Our favorite Muscovite Latvian-born Alex Dubas decided to build a linkup between Moscow and Riga. From now on, every Thursday from 19:00 to 21:00, he will say, "Something good" is not only in the air, "Silver Rain" and "Radio SWH +". Once, early in his career he worked Dubas this radio listeners and remembered as an amateur morning draws. Now Alex has grown and matured and is ready to share its evening mood and with his countrymen. Once a week, in the program "Something good" Alex Dubas sincere inspiration, the soul continues: - To tell amazing stories and fantasies - Read poems, short stories, plays, - Hanging out with friends, students, or one - Do good, useful, sensible - Compose, invent and embellish - Amuse, comfort, laugh - And believe Nadia, love, remember, be proud to remember, to set an example, ask, answer, joking, silent, listening to music, share experiences, to smile, to laugh, to be sad, to cry, to amaze, to joke, to arrange surprises, drawing, tinkering , cooking, drinking tea with cookies, naughty, intrigue, playing and all these charms the audience in Russia and Latvia. Live program "Something good" every Thursday at 19:00 Moscow and Riga time. Listen together! Good Evening, Moscow! Labvakar, Latvija! (OnAir.ru) QSL WORLD ======== India / UAE ------------------ I Got QSL-cards Gaweylon Tibetan Radio Program. August 3, 2015/15215 kHz / 12.00-12.30 / Transmitter Site Dubayy, UAE The answer sent Anil R. Alfred. Web: www.gaweylon.com E-mail: gaweylon @ gmail.com (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) Netherlands ------------------- * Poluchip e-QSL + a letter from the Dutch pirate station Radio Technical Man September 20, 2015 / 13.10 / 6200 kHz E-mail: technicalman @ hotmail.com - I Got eQSL on the pirate station Radio Batavia + photo. September 23, 2015 / 20.00-20.30 UTC / 3927 kHz E-mail: radiobatavia @ hotmail.com (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) Slovakia / Germany ------------------------------ Got QSL-cards Radio Slovakia International the German edition. 07/20/2015, 3985 kHz. Subject: Night building "pyramid" RSI. RTVS - 30th anniversary of launching regular radio broadcasting from the iconic pyramid building. (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) South Korea ------------------- Got a commemorative QSL-cards "Korea panorama 70 Years" - 70 years of independence. Panorama of the Republic of Korea. a Russian edition of KBS World Radio. 01/09/2015, 15360 kHz, 18.00-19.00 The card can be found here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2015/09/qsl-kbs-world-radio.html (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia) Russian SWL / DX site QSL album. Moscow, Russia September 27, 2015 ---------------------- Author: rusborder Reception Location: Saratov Receiver: Tecsun PL-880 | Antenna: LW 30m Moldavia Radyoya Denge Kurdistane / 11600 kHz / 24.09.2015 10:25 / e-QSL / Kurdish / prtc@idknet.com Radio Payam e-Doost / 7480 kHz / 23.09.2015 18:15 / e-QSL / Persian / prtc@idknet.com Author: ukidd102 Reception Location: Japan Receiver: ELAD FDM-S2 | Antenna: Wellbrook ALA-1530S + Taiwan Tien Sheng Broadcasting Station / 1314 kHz / 30.10.2011 15:38 / ppc / Chinese Author: KlonZelёnoyZemli Reception Location: Latvia and Latgale, Latvia and Latgale Semgallia Receiver: Japan Radio Company NRD-525G | Antenna: Beverage Grenada Harbour Light of the Windwards / 1400 kHz / 11.09.2015 00:00 / e-QSL / English Author: falnaf777 Reception Location: Lviv Receiver: Degen 1121 | Antenna: Degen 31MS Italy Radio Latino / 7630 kHz / 18.09.2015 19:32 / e-QSL / Italian / radiolatino@live.com Author: moscow.dx Reception Location: Hira, New Zealand Receiver: Sony ICF SW-77 | Antenna: LW 80 m on the altitude of 100 meters above sea level Romania Radio Romania International / 9700 kHz / 29.03.2015 06:09 / QSL-card / German / germ@rri.ro Radio Romania International / 15150 kHz / 25.04.2015 12:12 / QSL-card / Arabic / arab@rri.ro Radio Romania International / 6180 kHz / 02.04.2015 04:30 / QSL-card, schedule / Russian / rusa@rri.ro Radio Romania International / 7330 kHz / 24.12.2014 05:48 / QSL-card, a letter, schedule / Russian / rusa@rri.ro Radio Romania International / 21600 kHz / 06.03.2015 06:30 / QSL-card, schedule / English / engl@rri.ro Radio Romania International / 6180 kHz / 14.02.2015 18:35 / QSL-card, schedule / Serbian / sarb@rri.ro QSL ------ * QSL TWR India - Relay Yerevan-Gavar - ARM 12055 kHz 12.055 kHz: TWR India - Relay Yerevan-Gavar - ARM - Received QSL card printed + QSL letter in 44 days. I send the RR by the email: info@twr.in. Listened via Websdr located in the University of Twente/Enschede/HOL. Homebuilt SDR + PA0RDT Mini-whip. Rubens ferraz pedroso / QSL CHASERS (http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/) * 11510 RADIO DENGUE KURDISTAN e- QSL V/S Sergey Omelchenko, Technical Director of Pridnestrovskiy Radioteletsentr Informe enviado por via electronica Demoro: 2 días (http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.ru/) * Confirmação recebida: 12.055 kHz (25m) - TWR Índia, Relay Yerevan-Gavar, Armênia 12.055 (25m): TWR Índia, Relay Yerevan-Gavar - ARM, sinais recebidos em Bandeirantes/PR por receptor remoto e antenas instalados na universidade de Twente, Enschede/Holanda. Resposta recebida em 44 dias via correio normal (carta QSL e QSL impresso em folha A4). V/S: Kathy Gregowske. Informe enviado para: info@twr.in Recebido: Carta QSL e QSL impresso em folha A4. Distância (tx-rx): 3.838 Km. Escuta de transmissão em idioma sindhi. Receptor: Homebuilt SDR. Antena: PA0RDT Mini-whip. - Confirmação recebida: 3.985 (90m)- Radio Belarus, Relay Kall-Krekei, Alemanha 3.985 (90m): Radio Belarus, Relay Kall-Krekei - D, sinais recebidos em Bandeirantes/PR por receptor remoto e antenas instalados na universidade de Twente, Enschede/Holanda. Resposta recebida em 33 dias via correio normal (carta QSL). V/S: German Service. Recebido: Carta QSL. Distância (tx-rx): 248 Km. Escuta de transmissão em idioma inglês. Receptor: Homebuilt SDR. Antena: PA0RDT Mini-whip. Obs: A frequência correta da escuta é a de 3.985 kHz e não 3.895 kHz, como consta na carta QSL. (http://dxreunion-br.blogspot.ru/) QSL publication ----------------------- Publication QSL Window A publication QSL Window. September. 2015. The previous release was in December 2012. 40.stranits. Format -Pdf --- 1.Mb. Here, all of the countries - station - E-mail address. The publication can be downloaded freely at the website www: swl-i2- 5759.blogspot.it Or via the website www: myradiowaves.com/ here to find content www: swl-i2-5759.blogspot.com on the website of the publication of an article looking QSL Window. September. 2015. (Vasily Lazarev, Samarskaya oblast, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") - But with this site Permalink https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2iEncNE25rNUWFnUFZiUjZRdUE/view (Andrey, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") Media Publications ================== In Russian. The old radio - a little bit about the other radio. http://ottenki-serogo.livejournal.com/237447.html (Zjuzja Drundulet / "open_dx") 73!