--------------------------------- "RUS-DX" # 937 Broadcasting of Russia, countries of CIS and Baltiya (ex. USSR). Sunday / 13 August, 2017 --------------------------------- 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/ --------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- "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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- EDITOR'S DESK ================ * * What is radio? In dictionaries. 3 part. Explanatory dictionary Dmitriev -------------------------------------------------- - - Radio ... is the first part of complex words and denotes the attribution of something to radioactive radiation. Radiobiology, radioisotope, radiotherapy, radiotherapy. - Radio ... is the first part of complex words and denotes a reference to broadcasting. Radio audience, radio issue, radio interview, radio distribution. - Radio ... is the first part of complex words and denotes a reference to radio communication. Radio warfare, radio broadcast, radio reconnaissance, radio recording, radio club, radio amateur, radio signal. - Radio ... is the first part of complex words and means the use of radio communication for any applied, practical purposes. Radiosonde, radio beacon, radar, radio meteorology. - Radio ... is the first part of complex words and refers to the attribution to the technical means by which someone carries out the reception and transmission of radio signals. Radio equipment, radio components, radio transmitters, radios, radiotags. (Http://investments.academic.ru/1331/Radio) * * Denmark. MW station. --------------------------- DENMARK Three new radio stations are due to launch in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Medium Wave within the next couple of months. No on air date has been decided yet. The stations will be broadcasting on 846 kHz (300 W), 927 kHz (300 W) and 1440 kHz (power not yet confirmed but maximum power allowed is 500W). Two of the stations will be music based. Stig Hartvig Nielsen (3 / 8-2017) (Https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/10155528278418698/) * Journal "Radio" # 08/2017 --------------------------------------- Http://www.radio.ru/ Radio reception / V. Gulyaev. News broadcast. In Russian. Ftp://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2017/08/15.pdf * Wondrous things. Nature and Technology. -------------------------------------------------- Interesting photo - Photo by Dino Bloise from the publication "Frecuencia Al Día". Curiosidades. Naturaleza vs. Tecnología. Posted by https://www.facebook.com/groups/140003342701545/1456820714353128/ You can view the photo here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/blog-post_9.html * The Ministry of Communications specified the list of users for the FSB. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications has submitted draft amendments to a number of laws on what personal data users should pass to special services. Users, including instant messengers and social networks, will be obliged to pass on to law enforcement agencies data on the date and time of registration, name, surname, first name, patronymic, pseudonym, date of birth, IP address, residential addresses, passport data, and information about committed online purchases. Mandatory for the transfer of security agents can make information about the location, as well as the date and time of authorization and exit from the service. If the service supports encryption of data, the company, upon the request of the FSB, must provide the keys for decoding, Gazeta.ru reports. To the register of the organizers of the dissemination of information now include "Classmates", "VKontakte", "My World" and "My Circle", as well as instant messengers "Agent@Mail.ru", IMO and Telegram. (Https://iz.ru/631621/2017-08-12/minkomsviazi-utochnilo-spisok-dannykh-polzovatelei-dlia-fsb) * * Welcome to Interval Signals Collection! -------------------------------------------------------- On this site you will find signature tunes, interval signals, jingles, and identification announcements from radio stations of Russian Federation and other countries around the world. (http://radiolistener7.narod.ru/) * Changes and Updates for VORW Radio International - Newsletter 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear VORW Radio Listeners, Since the last newsletter, there are several changes and updates to announce for VORW Radio International. Broadcasts directed to Europe have now fully resumed after multiple requests from listeners in the region. Transmissions to Europe take place every Sunday at 1600 UTC - that's 12 PM Eastern, 5 PM BST. The frequency to listen on is 9400 kHz which is transmitted with 150 kW of power from Bulgaria. This transmission may also be audible in North Africa, the Middle East and portions of Central Asia. Reception reports for broadcasts on 9400 kHz are greatly encouraged! Here is the Transmission Schedule: Thursdays: 6 PM Eastern - 11 PM BST - 9955 kHz to South America 8 PM Eastern - 1 AM BST - 7490 kHz to North America 8 PM Eastern - 1 AM BST - 9395 kHz to North America 8 PM Eastern - 1 AM BST - 7730 kHz to Western North America 8 PM Eastern - 1 AM BST - 9455 kHz to Central America Sundays: 12 PM Eastern - 5 PM BST - 9400 kHz to Europe 4 PM Eastern - 9 PM BST - 9395 kHz to Eastern North America 6 PM Eastern - 11 PM BST - 7490 kHz to Eastern North America You may also be able to hear VORW Radio International on Tunein Radio at 8 PM every Thursday and 6 PM every Sunday at: https://beta.tunein.com/radio/The-Planet-7490-s24829/ For more information on ways to listen without a shortwave radio, please reply to this email with inquiries. If you are interested in obtaining VORW Radio International merchandise (T-Shirts, Hoodies, Stickers or Coffee Mugs) you may now obtain them from our Teespring store, https://teespring.com/stores/thereportoftheweek VORW Radio International is a light entertainment program featuring a mixture of commentary and listener- requested music of all genres. (VORW Info) RUSSIA ======== Belgorodskaya oblast. Stary Oskol. -------------------------------------------------- - RTRS began broadcasting FM radio station "Retro FM" in Stary Oskol Branch RTRS "Belgorod ORTPTS" began broadcasting the radio station "Retro FM" in the FM-band in Stary Oskol. The broadcasting frequency is 87.7 MHz. The transmitter power is 0.5 kW. (Http://belgorod.rtrs.ru/tv/analog/rtrs-nachal-fm-translyatsiyu-radiostantsii-retro-fm-v-starom-oskole/) Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Surgut. ---------------------------------------------------- Surgut included Radio Dacha. August 11 to the regional network broadcast "Radio Dacha" joined Surgut - the largest city in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. The broadcasting frequency is 91.6 FM. The coverage of the population is 381.7 thousand people. The license for broadcasting is owned by Krutoy Media. "Radio Dacha" is one of the radio stations of the media holding company Krutoy Media. Included in the TOP-10 music radio stations of the country. According Mediascope (Radio Index - Russia, January -. June 2017), on a daily basis "Radio Dacha" listen to 6.6 million people every week - 16.1 million people. To date, the regional network broadcast "Radio Dacha" consists of 230 transmitters deployed in the cities of Russia and CIS countries. Krutoy Media owns the license to perform broadcasting in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Blagoveshchensk, Bryansk, Novgorod, Vologda, Volgograd, Ivanovo, Irkutsk, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Kemerovo, Kemerovo, Kerch, Magnitogorsk, Murmansk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhni Tagil , Perm, Rybinsk, Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Sochi, Stavropol, Surgut, Syktyvkar, Tambov, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Feodosia, Khabarovsk, Cheboksary, Yaroslavl. The official site of Radio Dacha: www.radiodacha.ru. (Http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/4608.htm) Moscow ---------- The schedule of the World Radio Network, broadcasting at 738 kHz, was updated http://wrn.ru/programm.html. Also added 2 programs: Theatrical box and Author's transfer of journalist Natalia Vershinina. (Victor Varzin, Leningradskaya oblast, Kommunar, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") - World radio network in Russian The programs of the World Radio Network can be received: on air (round the clock): Moscow, Moscow Region - 738 kHz Schedule of the World Radio Network from July 17, 2017. The schedule may change. UTC / Broadcast 0000-0029 Mon The UN Weekly review Tue Radio Exterior de Espana Wed Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Thu The UN - weekly review Fri Weekly magazine from Prague Sat Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Sun Russkoe Radio of Australia 0030-0059 KBS World Radio 0100-0128 Polish Radio * 0130-0159 Radio Slovakia International 0200-0229 Mon "Radiosetka"2 Tue "Radiopanorama" Wed "Special programm" Thu "Theatrical Box" Fri "Radiosetka"1 Sat "Radiosetka"1 Sun "Radiosetka" 2 0230-0259 Mon Russkoe Radio of Australia Tue UN - weekly review Wed Radio Exterior de Espana Thu Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Fri UN - Weekly review Sat Weekly Magazine from Prague Sun Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina 0300-0329 On Islamic Culture and Civilization 0330-0400 NHK Radio Japan * 0400-0429 Radio Slovakia International 0430-0458 Mon "Radiopanorama" Tue "Special programm" Wed "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"1 Sat "Radiosetka"2 Sun "RadioSetka" 2 0500-0529 KBS World Radio 0530-0559 MHK Radio Japan * 0600-0629 On the Islamic Culture and Civilization 0630-0659 Radio Slovakia International 0700-0729 Mon Radio Exterior de Espana Tue Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Wed UN - weekly review Thurs Weekly magazine from Prague Fri Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Sat Russkoe Radio of Australia All UN Weekly Review 0730-0758 Mon "Special programm" Tue "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Wed "Radiosetka"1 Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"2 Sat "Radiosetka"2 Sun "Radiopanorama" 0800-0829 KBS World Radio 0930-0959 Radio Slovakia International 0900-0928 Polish Radio 0930-0959 On Islamic Culture and Civilization 1000-1029 Mon - Weekly review Tue Radio Exterior de Espana Wed Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Tue The UN - weekly review Fri Weekly magazine from Prague Sat Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Sun Russkoe Radio of Australia 1030-1059 KBS World Radio 1100-1130 NHK Radio Japan * 1130-1159 Radio Slovakia International 1200-1228 Polish Radio 1330-1358 Mon "Radiosetka"2 Tue "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Wed "Radiosetka"1 Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"2 Sat "Radiopanorama" * Sun "Special programm" * 1300-1329 Mon Radio Exterior de Espana Tue Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Wed UN - weekly review Thu Weekly magazine from Prague Fri Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Sat Russkoe Radio of Australial Sun UN Weekly Review 1330-1359 KBS World Radio * 1400-1429 On Islamic Culture and Civilization 1430-1459 Radio Slovakia International * 1500-1528 Mon "Special programm" Tue "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Wed "Radiosetka"1 Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"2 Sat "Radiosetka"2 Sun "Radiopanorama" 1530-1559 KBS World Radio 1600-1630 NHK Radio Japan * 1630-1659 Radio Slovakia International 1700-1729 On the Islamic culture and civilization * 1730-1759 KBS World Radio 1800-1828 Mon "Radiopanorama" Tue "Special programm" Wed "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"1 Sat "Radiosetka"2 Sun "Radiosetka" 2 1830-1859 Radio Slovakia International 1900-1929 About Islamic Culture and Civilization 1930-1959 Mon Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina * Tue UN - weekly review Wed Weekly magazine from Prague * Thu Author's program of journalist Natalia Vershinina * Fri Russkoe Radio of Australia * Sat UN - weekly review * Sun Radio Exterior de Espana * 2000-2029 KBS World Radio 2030-2058 Mon "Theatrical Box" * Tue "Radiosetka"1 * Wed "Radiosetka"1 Thu "Radiosetka"2 * Fri "Radiosetka"2 Sat "Radiopanorama" Sun "Special programm" 2100-2129 Polish Radio 2130-2159 On Islamic Culture and Civilization 2200-2230 NHK Radio Japan 2230-2259 Mon Radio Exterior de Espana Tue Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Wed UN - weekly review Thu Weekly magazine from Prague Fri Author program of journalist Natalia Vershinina Sat Russkoe Radio of Australia Sun UN Weekly Review 2300-2329 Radio Slovakia International 2330-2358 Mon "Special programm" Tue "Teatral'naya shkatulka" Wed "Radiosetka"1 Thu "Radiosetka"1 Fri "Radiosetka"2 Sat "Radiosetka"2 Sun "Radiopanorama" * - new issue (http://wrn.ru/programm.html) Republic of Sakha ----------------------- RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, 1255-1325 UTC, on Aug 7. Surprisingly strong signal, but mixing with CRI; 1300 IS (Jew's harp - khomus) and time pips; 1300-1325 unusual format that I have never heard before after ToH; non-stop traditional indigenous songs. My audio at http://goo.gl/cYQydd . 7295 remains silent, after being recently briefly reactivated (Ron Howard, oceanside at Pacific Grove, CA, USA) Republic of Tatarstan. Shmordan. ------------------------------------------------- In Shemordan, Radio Russii was launched in the FM band. 08/10/2017 Today in Shemordanskom radioteletsentre ceremonial start broadcasting "Radio Russii" with regional sidebar "Radio of Tatarstan" in the FM-band at a frequency of 107.5 MHz. The ceremony was attended by the Acting Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan - First Deputy Minister Dmitry Vandyukov, head Sabinsky municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan Rais Minnikhanov, Director of RTRS 'RTBC Republic of Tatarstan "Vladimir Yakimov, as well as the director of the branch VGTRK STRC" Tatarstan "Firdus Gimaltdinov. "The opening of this site will contribute to the development of the republic. All modern receivers accept the channel, which today will be available to the Tatarstanians. Work is underway to commission radio transmitters in five settlements, next year we plan to complete the project. From the side of the republic we will provide support, "said Dmitry Vandyukov in his speech. The need to transfer broadcasting in FM-band due to the fact that currently almost all the existing radios in the park of foreign manufacture population. As a result of the work done under the program transfer to the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan broadcasting in FM-band to improve the quality and accessibility of broadcast. The implementation of such a program in Tatarstan, while maintaining the format of national broadcasting, underscores an important step towards a technological breakthrough. Http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/index.htm/news/985824.htm (Https://vk.com/vcfm2014) Ryazanskaya oblast. Ryazan. -------------------------------------- RTRS began the FM-broadcasting of the radio station "Sport FM". On August 1, the branch of the RTRS "Ryazan ORTPTS" began broadcasting "Sport FM" in the FM band in Ryazan. The broadcasting frequency is 97.3 MHz. The transmitter power is 1 kW. Radio station "Sport FM" can receive more than 615 thousand inhabitants of Ryazan and its environs. (Http://ryazan.rtrs.ru/tv/analog/rtrs-nachal-fm-translyatsiyu-radiostantsii-sport-fm/) Service Radio -------------------------- * "Hummer": radio station for spies or "dead man's hand"? (BBC) Http://www.bbc.com/russian/vert-fut-40827447 (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk / "open_dx") * In Russia, the radio station broadcasts for 35 years. Nobody knows what and to whom it transmits Short-wave radio station UVB-76 broadcasts since 1982. It broadcasts continuous noise around the clock, occasional aired voice messages. The air force's journalists tried to figure out why this station might be needed. Anyone anywhere in the world can listen to this station by tuning the radio to a frequency of 4625 kHz. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, she broadcasts a monotonous sound. Every second a second tone joins him, similar to the sound of a horn. Then the rumble continues. It sounds like this: ... One or two times a week, a male or female voice pronounces words in Russian. For example, here are these: "Zhenya, Uliana, Olga, Zinaida. 80, 474. Dmitry, Ivan, Nikolai, Grigory, Ivan. 66, 77, 09, 85 ". In January 2013, the station transmitted this: "The MGB announced a team of 135". The station was nicknamed "Hummer", or Buzzer. The signal is transmitted from two places - from points near St. Petersburg and near Moscow. It is believed that the frequency belongs to the Russian armed forces, although they have never officially recognized this. Around the station, many fans of conspiracy theories have gathered, who are trying to decipher the messages and their addressees. Many guesses - from communication with submarines to communicating with aliens. There is a version that this is part of the "Perimeter" system, which, in the case of a massive attack, is able to make a decision about an adequate retaliatory strike independently. Perhaps this is one of the numbered radio stations that are supposedly serving to link spy networks abroad (although no government of the world recognized their existence). One more assumption: a constant rumble is used to show that the frequency is busy. The message through the UHB-76 will be given only in the case of a military invasion - and in this case it will be available to addressees in the remotest corners of the Earth. 42.tut.by (Http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__66415/) Plan. Competition frequency. ------------------------------- On holding competitions for the right to carry out terrestrial broadcasting using specific radio frequencies of September 27, 2017. Terms of the contest: broadcasting time - "daily, round the clock"; The concept of broadcasting is "free". The right to carry out terrestrial broadcasting using radio frequency terrestrial analogue radio broadcasting The subject of the contest 1: Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk, 93.5 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the contest 2: Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk, 93.9 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the contest 3: Chelyabinsk Region, Magnitogorsk, 105.6 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the competition 4: Chelyabinsk Region, Magnitogorsk, 107.0 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the contest 5: Samara region, Novokuybyshevsk g (the installation point of the transmitter is Zhiguliovsk), 95.5 MHz, 1 kW *; * - the applicant takes into consideration that the license for broadcasting № 27822 from 20.05.2016 is issued by MEDIA SPORT LLC (broadcasting at 95.5 MHz, 1 kW, in Tolyatti, Samara Region). The subject of the contest 6: Krasnoyarsk Territory, Norilsk, 104.5 MHz, 0.5 kW; The subject of the contest 7: Krasnoyarsk Territory, Norilsk, 106.5 MHz, 0.5 kW; The subject of the contest 8: Karelia Republic, Petrozavodsk, 100.0 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the contest 9: Karelia Republic, Petrozavodsk, 99.6 MHz, 1 kW; The subject of the competition 10: Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl g (installation point of the transmitter - Dubki), 95.8 MHz, 0.25 kW; The subject of the competition 11: Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl g (installation point of the transmitter - Dubki), 98.3 MHz, 0.25 kW; Rkn.gov.ru (Http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__66439/) TURKMENISTAN ============== TURKMENISTAN EXPANDS RADIO BROADCASTING NETWORK Specialists of the Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan have completed setting-up and installation of several radio transmitters in suburban areas of Turkmenbashi city on the coast of the Caspian Sea with the aim of establishing conditions for quality reception of programs of national radio channels. The work has been done under the direct order of president of state Saparmurat Niyazov. As the Ashgabat correspondent was told in the republic's Ministry of Communications, two USW (ultra-short waves) - FM (euro standard) radio transmitters operating on 103.2 MHz and 104.4 MHz frequencies have made it possible to start the broadcasting of Watan, Miras and Char Tarapdan radio channels. One more SRV-7 radio transmitter with a capacity of 10 kW has started broadcasting programs of Watan radio channel on 1,476 kHz frequency. Besides, Miras and Char Tarapdan radio channels are broadcast on 675 kHz via SRV-5 radio transmitter with a capacity of 9 kW. Work related to the further expansion of national radio broadcasting and installation of similar radio transmitters is continuing in other regions of Turkmenistan as well. (c) TURKMENISTAN.RU, 2017 Source: http://www.turkmenistan.ru/en/node/3141 Laszlo Tringer HNG (7/8-2017) (http://www.mediumwave.info/news.html) UZBEKISTAN ========== Logbook 1-6 August 2017 UZBEKISTAN Adventist World Radio, transmitting from Tashkent, was monitored from 16.10 till 16.30 UTC (broadcast time16.00 till 16.30 UTC). A segment of Wavescan featuring the history of the Australian VLN call sign, JSWC DX report, and Indonesian music was heard in this half-hour show. Reception on 11.985 kHz was (SINPO) 34343 -- fair signal strength, atmospheric noise and slight fade, yet clear and audible content was received. Initially Wavescan was logged on 11.975 kHz (Trincomalee, Sri Lanka), but their signal dropped off completely by 16.15 UTC. RX: Tecsun S-2000 for SW and Sangean ATS-909 for MW ANT: 1/4 wave for SW and internal ferrite rod for MW RX LOC: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Posted by T.L. Breyel (http://shortwavedxer.blogspot.ru/) UKRAINE ======== In Bakhmutivtsi, Lugansk region, the construction of a 134-meter television and radio station was completed, which will ensure the broadcasting of Ukrainian television and radio close to the line of demarcation. The installation took 1 month. This was reported by a member of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting Sergei Kostinsky in Facebook. "This is the third tower that was built during the last two years (after Kramatorskaya and Chongarska)." So, there is one new tower in Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and the development of the telecommunications infrastructure will continue, "he wrote. As Kostinsky writes, now the installation of the necessary equipment will start. "From the tower in Bakhmutivtsi, digital and analogue television broadcasting, as well as FM broadcasting, will begin this month," the report said. "It is planned to launch programs of the Public Broadcasting (NSTU), a number of national TV channels, the Army of FM and other broadcasters," Kostinsky said. (Source: Portal "Era Media"). (Http://proradio.org.ua/news/2017aug.php) "RUS-DX PLUS" PARTNER CHANNELS AND INTERNET ============== Hard-Core-DX Digest ---------------------------- * Vol 176, Issue 5 Message: 9 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 From: Jota Xavier Subject: [HCDX] JRX Logs: Fri, August 4, 2017. JRX Logs: Fri, August 4, 2017. Receiver: Sony ICF-SW100S. MOLDOVA. ** 11600. Fri, Aug 4 at 2000-2012, Denge Kurdistan, Grigoriopol-MDA, in Kurdish. Man talks, ID and a religious chant (?); Woman announcer talks news, presumably; People manifestation with many shouting; Man talks news, too. Clandestine station with good signal and fair modulation, today, 45433. * Vol 176, Issue 8 Message: 3 Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 From: Manuel Mendez Subject: [HCDX] Stations heard in Friol yesterday and today Manuel Mendez Lugo, Spain Logs in Friol Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters ARMENIA, 4810, Armenian Public Radio, Gavar, 1829-1837, 05-08, Arabic, comments. 25322. (Mendez) * Vol 176, Issue 10 Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 From: Glenn Hauser Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 6-7-8, 2017 ** ARMENIA. 9975, August 6 at 2150 check, not even a JBA carrier detectable from the surprise 60th anniversary broadcast of Radio Luxembourg which was widely heard in Europe. EiBi shows scheduled only this date between 18 and 22. I am aware of no advance publicity for this in the DX press, tsk2. Huge splash here from bigsig 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) * Vol 176, Issue 12 Message: 6 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 From: Glenn Hauser Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 9-10, 2017 ** TIBET [non]. 15528, August 10 at 1357, JBA carrier, surely V of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN as scheduled 1230-1300 & 1330-1400 in EiBi; and an equally weak JBAC on 15525, the ChiCom jammer, which I was getting 25 hours ago in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) El Dial 08/17 Asociación Española de Radioescucha (AER) Espana ------------- Onda Corta Redactor: Deogracias López Ros - ARMENIA Weak to good signal of Voice of Armenia, via Yerevan Gavar site 1530-1545 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Assyrian 1545-1600 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Greek 1600-1630 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Kurdish 1630-1700 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Yezidi 1700-1715 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Turkish 1715-1745 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Azeri 1745-1815 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Farsi 1815-1845 4810 ERV 050 kW non-dir to NE/ME Arabic (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria) - REINO UNIDO R.Ranginkaman, Payem e-Doost & TWR via BAB Grigoriopol Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi + BBC English* Mon/Fri * including BBC English teaching program "Beta Speaking", but only on Friday Today again no signal of Sedoye Mardo / Voice of Men via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol 1700-1730 on 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri, cancelled and the frequency 7530 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs was deleted in HFCC Database Radio Payem e-Doost 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, good signal plus echo Trans World Radio Africa 1815-1845 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Fri, fair to good (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria) - TAJIKISTAN Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet 1200-1210 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11507 1210-1230 NF 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 15513 1300-1310 NF 11512 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11513 1310-1330 NF 11517 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11507 1335-1345 NF 15522 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15513 1345-1400 NF 15528 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 15537 2335-2400 NF 7487 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7497 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria) BC-DX 1309, 6 August 2017 Editor : Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany ----------------- ARMENIA 7510 at 1725 UT on July 1. 54544 R Ibrahim (FEBA) via Yerevan Gavar. 17:24 UT tx on, 17:29 UT Babcock mx theme, 17:30 UT Silte rlg. 11845 at 1730 UT on July 30. 54444 R Mi Amigo Int'l via Yerevan Gavar (Noratus). English Offshore Summer Beach Party. (Hans-Friedrich Dumrese-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1) ARMENIA 11845 on July 30 at 1703 UT, no signal from the R. Mi Amigo special as publicized to Europe at 17-19 UT today only; nor did I expect any, as they are certainly not aiming to be heard in North America. (Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, hcdx and dxld July 30) DX RE MIX NEWS # 1021 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Bulgaria. Date August 7, 2017 ---------------------------- ARMENIA(non) Reception of Trans World Radio India via Yerevan on August 2: 1245-1445 on 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs varoius indian langs, incl. 1245-1300 on 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Maithili Mon-Fri 1415-1445 on 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Sindhi Mon-Fri Upcoming frequency change of TWR India via Yerevan eff. from August 13: 1245-1445 NF 9910 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs varoius langs, ex 12055 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india.html NUMBERS STATION S06s Russian Lady in 31mb & 25 mb, August 2 0820-0826 on 9485 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB 0830-0836 on 11565 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-31mb.html NUMBERS STATION S06s Russian Lady in the heart of 31mb, August 4 0940-0946 on 9655 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/s06s-russian-lady-in-heart-of-31mb.html RUSSIA Adygeyan Radio and Brother Stair on 6000 kHz on July 31: 1800-1833 on 6000#ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Ad/Ar/Tu Mon, good 1833-1900 on 6000*ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Ad/Ar/Tu Mon, poor #till 1805 on 6000 BEI 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR1, weak *strong co-ch 6000 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Brother HySTAIRical http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/adygeyan-radio-and-brother-stair-on.html SWAZILAND(non) TWR Africa via Manzini & Grigoriopol on 15105 kHz, August 3 1557-1627 on 15105 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg to SoAf Kirundi Mon-Fri, weak signal 1630-1700 on 15105 KCH 300 kW / 160 deg to EaAf Somali Daily, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/twr-africa-via-manzini-grigoriopol-on.html U.K.(non) Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, July 31: 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow-via.html U.K.(non) Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok via BaBcoCk Tashkent on August 3: 1130-1200 on 17860 TAC 100 kW / 122 deg to SEAs Khmer Thu/Sun, very weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/voice-of-khmer-mchas-srok-via-babcock.html U.K.(non) Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, August 4 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, good signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow-via_4.html Shortwave DX-ing from Bulgaria Bulgarian DX blog, Ivo Ivanov -------------------------- * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 6-7 ARMENIA(non) Special transmission of RTL Radio Luxembourg on August 6 via Shortwaveservice Yerevan to celebrating 60th anniversary of RTL German Sce: 1900-2200 on 9975 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu German, fair to very poor http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/special-broadcast-of-rtl-radio.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 7 U.K.(non) Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, August 7 1600-1630 on 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, good signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow-via_7.html U.K.(non) Reception of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Yerevan on August 7 1730-1800 on 7510 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAf Silte, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-feba-radio-via-babcock_93.html U.K.(non) Trans World Radio Africa via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on August 7 1800-1845 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Thu, strong 1815-1845 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Fri 1800-1830 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigre Sat 1800-1830 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Kunama Sun 1830-1900 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/trans-world-radio-africa-via-babcock_7.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 8 NUMBERS STATION S06s Russian Lady in 25mb, 60mb & 41mb, August 8 0740-0746 on 11655 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB, good 1000-1006 on 4820 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB, weak 1100-1106 on 7560 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB, weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-25mb.html U.K.(non) North Korea Reform Radio via BaBcoCk Tashkent, August 8 1430-1530 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/north-korea-reform-radio-via-babcock.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 9 NUMBERS STATION S06s Russian Lady in 31mb & 25mb, August 9 0820-0826 on 9485 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB 0830-0836 on 11565 unknown secret tx site to Eu Russian CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-s06s-russian-lady-in-31mb_9.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 10 U.K.(non) Radio Payem e-Doost via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol, August 10: 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, fair to good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/radio-payem-e-doost-via-babcock.html * SWLDXBulgaria News, August 10-11 U.K.(non) No signal of Voice of Martyrs via BaBcoCk Tashkent, August 10 1530-1700 on 7525 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, nothing, and also no signal on alternative frequencies: 7505, 7510, 7515, 7520 and 7530 kHz http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/no-signal-of-voice-of-martyrs-via.html DX LISTENING DIGEST 17-32, August 8, 2017 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, USA -------------------------------------- ** ARMENIA. Reception of Trans World Radio India via Yerevan August 2: 1245-1445 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs various Indian langs, incl. 1245-1300 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Maithili Mon-Fri 1415-1445 12055 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Sindhi Mon-Fri Upcoming frequency change of TWR India via Yerevan eff. August 13: 1245-1445 NF 9910 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs varoius langs, ex 12055 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1021 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 7, 2017 via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. Special transmission of RTL Radio Luxembourg on August 6 via Shortwaveservice Yerevan celebrating 60th anniversary of RTL German Sce: 1900-2200 9975 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu German, fair to very poor http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/special-broadcast-of-rtl-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Aug 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9975, August 6 at 2150 check, not even a JBA carrier detectable from the surprise 60th anniversary broadcast of Radio Luxembourg which was widely heard in Europe. EiBi shows scheduled only this date between 18 and 22. I am aware of no advance publicity for this in the DX press, tsk2. Huge splash here from bigsig 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also LUXEMBOURG [non] ** ARMENIA. Radio "Voice of Justice" (also the Voice of Talishistan, Public Radio) in the Aser language at 9677 kHz was not heard here for the last Of the week. Radio Yerevan did not work on the 18th and 19th of July at 4810 kHz, and in the redistributed timetable of the Bulgarian blog is a traditional mistake. In the time from 1700 to 1745 at 4810 kHz from Monday to Friday from 1700 in Turkish, and from 1715 to 1745 in the Azerski, on weekends from 0500 to 1730 in Turkish and from 1730 to 1745 in the Azarian (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic edition Number 1054, July 25, 2017, The editor of the current issue is Alexander Dementiev, via Rus-DX August 6 via DXLD) ** CRIMEA. Republic of Crimea. In Alushta (the Republic of Crimea) began broadcasting Comedy Radio, reports OnAir.ru with reference to the press center of the GPM Radio (VKPM). The radio station sounded in the resort city on August 1, 2017 at the FM frequency of 107.9 MHz. The city is located on the southern coast of the Crimea. Alushta is an abundance of sun, fresh air, warm sea, picturesque mountains, and now Comedy Radio is also a source of good mood and a powerful charge of positive emotions! The basis of the Comedy Radio format is its own entertainment talk shows, which are broadcast live. Any radio listener can in real time influence the course of the program with the help of comments and questions. Comedy Radio also presents content from Comedy Club Production programs. This is the best of the Comedy Club, Comedy Woman, "Our Russia", the Stand Up show and others. Round-the-clock on air the top foreign music sounds. Comedy Radio is a part of Russia's largest radio-holding company - GPM Radio. The coverage area of ??the station currently covers more than 310 localities in the country. Every day more than 1.9 million Russians are tuned to the wave of Comedy Radio, and the monthly audience exceeds 6.7 million people (Radio Index - Russia, October 2016 - March 2017, MediaScope). In Moscow, Comedy Radio has been broadcasting for almost 5 years, having increased the daily audience by three times and occupying a place in the TOP-15 of the most popular metropolitan stations. The success of Comedy Radio has been repeatedly noted by the National Award "Radio Mania" - the most prestigious award in the sphere of broadcasting in Russia. More information about the station is available at http://www.comedy-radio.ru (From http://www.gpmradio.ru/news-page/uid/12821 via RusDX August 6 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. On the wave of our memory. ---------------------------------- The business card of P. Mikhailov. Photo courtesy of Ruslan Slavutsky, Moscow Region, Russia. - Pavel Mikhailov. Number of the pager. You can see here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/blog-post.html - Radio station "Voice of Russia", Moscow. CLUB DX. You can see here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/blog-post_1.html (Rus-DX August 6 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 1991 & 2006. ----------------------- '' CLUB DX '' (No. 775) Ether: January 29, 2006 Author and presenter: Vadim Alekseev Editor of the Internet version: Pavel Mikhailov --- DX-HISTORY The final part of our program will today be devoted to our history, friends - it is ours with you. The fact is that 15 years ago, in January 1991, an amateur print publication appeared, as it was said, "samizdat", from which the longest history of the periodical DX- edition begins in our country. This is the "Moscow Information DX- Bulletin" (''MIDXB"'). Immediately I will say that the bulletin that appeared in 1991 was not the first. There were also other "samizdat" bulletins before him, coming out in those years when talking about foreign radio stations was unsafe. But today we will talk specifically about the birth of the "MIDXB", since he turned 15, and although he has not published in print for several years, the life of this publication continues on the Internet. The idea to produce a printed edition was born at a meeting of a small group of DXists who met, if I remember correctly, thanks to an announcement read out in the DX program of Swedish Radio, whose author suggested to colleagues that they have a passion for communicating through correspondence. [Clarification: in fact, the beginning began to directly communicate the DXistov of the former USSR put the program '' Club DX '' Pavel Mikhailov, which appeared on the waves of the World Russian Service of Moscow Radio since August 1989. - NOTE. REV.]. After some time, five Muscovites decided to meet to personally meet and talk. The result of this communication was the idea of ??creating a "Moscow DX Association". That's what happened. Written in the first issue of the bulletin for January 1991 (read): '' ... The idea to create a "Moscow DX Association" came during a meeting of the Moscow DX-stories on July 22, 1990. The purpose of the Association is to popularize the DX movement in the Soviet Union. The Association is a regional organization and accepts only DXistov from Moscow and the Moscow region, Five people are included in the initiative group. Members of the Association take part in the preparation of DX-programs of the Moscow Radio, collaborate with the DX-program of Almaty radio and issue a newsletter ''Moscow Presents'', the first issue of which we offer to your attention ... '' (end of quote). Yes, you did not misinterpret, the first four issues of the newsletter were called that way. And the initiative group then included Mikhail Paramonov, Anatoly Klepov, Andrei Nekrasov, Sergei Sosedkin and your humble servant. And, of course, the common thing for all members of the so-called initiative group was the issue printed edition. The principle was based on the principle of collective creativity. That is, each member of the editorial board of the bulletin collects information and writes on a topic that interests him exactly. From this, and there is a variety of material that should make the newsletter interesting to any DXist, regardless of what ranges he likes to listen to, and for which stations he hunts. In May 1991, it was decided to change the English name of the bulletin to Russian, and it became known as the Information Bulletin of the Moscow DX Association. And soon the herd is clear that the idea of ??creating the Association has not gone anywhere beyond the idea, but the idea to issue a regular (monthly) newsletter - began to develop gradually. Began to appear authors who sent to the bulletin various notes, air news and even whole articles. Many became permanent correspondents of the bulletin, and some, the most active, wished to become members of the editorial board, having incurred a part of a hard burden for the regular collection, editing and publication of materials on the pages of the publication. I now deliberately do not call any more names, because I want to recall all those who collaborated with this edition in the past, and, of course, talk with those who continue to be among the authors of this (now electronic) edition. Therefore, I appeal to everyone who has or had anything to do with the Moscow Information DX Bulletin: let's all together in the coming months, we will remember how everything started, which was interesting and memorable; Than, perhaps, a newsletter someone helped. I really hope that I will be able to contact and invite many of those who are involved in the history of the Moscow Information DX-Bulletin to the microphone in our next programs. I'm afraid that this will sound too loud, but still it seems to me that the history of this publication in Largely reflects the history of the Russian DX movement in the last 15 years. (Continuation in the next issue) Here is how the bulletin "Moscow Presents" looked - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/07/blog-post_30.html - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/07/blog-post_82.html (Rus-DX August 6 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. THE GHOSTLY RADIO STATION THAT NO ONE CLAIMS TO RUN [4625 buzzer] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170801-the-ghostly-radio-station-that-no-one-claims-to-run [see original for numerous embedded linx including audio clips] "MDZhB" has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. By Zaria Gorvett 2 August 2017 [Zaria?? Is that a real person`s name? Zarya are very large transmitting antennas too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarya_(antenna) The word zarya merely means ``dawn`` -- This story never explains what `MDZhB` stands for --- certainly not a callsign, but a 4-letter Russian initialism --- gh] see Kai`s reply below In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars is a collection of radio towers, abandoned buildings and power lines bordered by a dry-stone wall. This sinister location is the focus of a mystery which stretches back to the height of the Cold War. It is thought to be the headquarters of a radio station, "MDZhB", that no-one has ever claimed to run. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it's been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it's joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn. Then the drone continues. Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as "dinghy" or "farming specialist". And that's it. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz. It's so enigmatic, it's as if it was designed with conspiracy theorists in mind. Today the station has an online following numbering in the tens of thousands, who know it affectionately as "the Buzzer". It joins two similar mystery stations, "the Pip" and the "Squeaky Wheel". As their fans readily admit themselves, they have absolutely no idea what they are listening to. In fact, no-one does. "There's absolutely no information in the signal," says David Stupples, an expert in signals intelligence from City University, London. What's going on? The frequency is thought to belong to the Russian military, though they've never actually admitted this. It first began broadcasting at the close of the Cold War, when communism was in decline. Today it's transmitted from two locations - the St Petersburg site and a location near Moscow. Bizarrely, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, rather than shutting down, the station's activity sharply increased. There's no shortage of theories to explain what the Buzzer might be for - ranging from keeping in touch with submarines to communing with aliens. One such idea is that it's acting as a "Dead Hand" signal; in the event Russia is hit by a nuclear attack, the drone will stop and automatically trigger a retaliation. No questions asked, just total nuclear obliteration on both sides. There are clues in the signal itself This may not be as wacky as it sounds. The system was originally pioneered in the Soviet era, where it took the form of a computer system which scanned the airwaves for signs of life or nuclear fallout. Alarmingly, many experts believe it may still be in use. As Russian president Vladimir Putin pointed out himself earlier this year, "nobody would survive" a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. Could the Buzzer be warding one off? As it happens, there are clues in the signal itself. Like all international radio, the Buzzer operates at a relatively low frequency known as "shortwave". This means that - compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals - fewer waves pass through a single point every second. It also means they can travel a lot further. While you'd be hard pressed to listen to a local station such as BBC Radio London in a neighbouring county, shortwave stations like the BBC World Service are aimed at audiences from Senegal to Singapore. Both stations are broadcast from the same building. It's all thanks to "skywaves". Higher frequency radio signals can only travel in a straight line, eventually becoming lost as they bump into obstacles or reach the horizon. But shortwave frequencies have an extra trick - they can bounce off charged particles in the upper atmosphere, allowing them to zig-zag between the earth and the sky and travel thousands, rather than tens, of miles. Which brings us back to the Dead Hand theory. As you might expect, shortwave signals have proved extremely popular. Today they're used by ships, aircraft and the military to send messages across continents, oceans and mountain ranges. But there's a catch. The lofty layer isn't so much a flat mirror, but a wave, which undulates like the surface of the ocean. During the day it moves steadily higher, while at night, it creeps down towards the Earth. If you want to absolutely guarantee that your station can be heard on the other side of the planet - and if you're using it as a cue for nuclear war, you probably do - it's important to change the frequency depending on the time of day, to catch up. The BBC World Service already does this. The Buzzer doesn't. Another idea is that the radio station exists to "sound" out how far away the layer of charged particles is. "To get good results from the radar systems the Russians use to spot missiles, you need to know this," says Stupples. The longer the signal takes to get up into the sky and down again, the higher it must be. There is a station with some striking similarities Alas, that can't be it either. To analyse the layer's altitude the signal would usually have a certain sound, like a car alarm going off - the result of varying the waves to get them just right. "They sound nothing like the Buzzer," says Stupples. Intriguingly, there is a station with some striking similarities. The "Lincolnshire Poacher" ran from the mid-1970s to 2008. Just like the Buzzer, it could be heard on the other side of the planet. Just like the Buzzer, it emanated from an undisclosed location, thought to be somewhere in Cyprus. And just like the Buzzer, its transmissions were just plain creepy. At the beginning of every hour, the station would play the first two bars of an English folk tune, the Lincolnshire Poacher. "Oh 'tis my delight on a shining night In the season of the year When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire 'Twas well I served my master for nigh on seven years..." After repeating this 12 times, it would move on to messages read by the disembodied voice of a woman reading groups of five numbers - "1- 2-0-3-6" - in a clipped, upper-class English accent. To get to grips with what was going on, it helps to go back to the 1920s. The All-Russian Co-operative Society (Arcos) was an important trade body, responsible for overseeing transactions between the UK and the early Soviet Union. Or at least, that's what they said they did. In May 1927, years after a British secret agent caught an employee sneaking into a communist news office in London, police officers stormed the Arcos building. The basement had been rigged with anti- intruder devices and they discovered a secret room with no door handle, in which workers were hurriedly burning documents. It may have been dramatic, but the British didn't discover anything that they didn't already know. Instead the raid was a wake-up call to the Soviets, who discovered that MI5 had been listening in on them for years. "This was a blunder of the very first order," says Anthony Glees, who directs the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham. To justify the raid, the prime minister had even read out some of the deciphered telegrams in the House of Commons. The upshot was that the Russians completely reinvented the way messages are encrypted. Almost overnight, they switched to "one-time pads". In this system, a random key is generated by the person sending the message and shared only with the person receiving it. As long as the key really is perfectly random, the code cannot be cracked. There was no longer any need to worry about who could hear their messages. Enter the "numbers stations" - radio stations that broadcast coded messages to spies all over the world. Soon even the British were doing it: if you can't beat them, join 'em, as they say. It's quite difficult to generate a completely random number because a system for doing so will, by its very nature, be predictable - exactly what you're trying to avoid. Instead officers in London found an ingenious solution. They'd hang a microphone out of the window on Oxford Street and record the traffic. "There might be a bus beeping at the same time as a policeman shouting. The sound is unique, it will never happen again," says Stupples. Then they'd convert this into a random code. Of course, that didn't stop people trying to break them. During World War Two, the British realised that they could, in fact, decipher the messages - but they'd have to get their hands on the one-time pad that was used to encrypt them. "We discovered that the Russians used the out-of-date sheets of one-time pads as substitute toilet paper in Russian army hospitals in East Germany," says Glees. Needless to say, British intelligence officers soon found themselves rifling through the contents of Soviet latrines. Now North Korea are getting in on the act, too The new channel of communication was so useful, it didn't take long before the numbers stations had popped up all over the world. There was the colourfully named "Nancy Adam Susan", "Russian Counting Man" and "Cherry Ripe" - the Lincolnshire Poacher's sister station, which also contained bars of an English folk song. In name at least, the Buzzer fits right in. It also fits with a series of arrests across the United States back in 2010. The FBI announced that it had broken up a "long term, deep cover" network of Russian agents, who were said to have received their instructions via coded messages on shortwave radio - specifically 7887 kHz. Now North Korea are getting in on the act, too. On 14 April 2017, the broadcaster at Radio Pyongyang began: "I'm giving review works in elementary information technology lessons of the remote education university for No 27 expedition agents." This ill-concealed military message was followed by a series of page numbers - No 69 on page 823, page 957 - which look a lot like code. It may come as a surprise that numbers stations are still in use - but they hold one major advantage. Though it's possible to guess who is broadcasting, anyone can listen to the messages - so you don't know who they are being sent to. Mobile phones and the internet may be quicker, but open a text or email from a known intelligence agency and you could be rumbled. It only becomes a numbers station in moments of crisis, such as if Russia were invaded It's a compelling idea: the Buzzer has been hiding in plain sight, instructing a network of illicit Russian spies all over the world. There's just one problem. The Buzzer never broadcasts any numbered messages. This doesn't strictly matter, since one-time pads can be used to translate anything - from code words to garbled speech. "If this phone call was encrypted you'd hear "...enejekdhejenw...' but then it would come out the other side sounding like normal speech," says Stupples. But this would leave traces in the signal. To send information over the radio, essentially all you're doing is varying the height or spacing of the waves being transmitted. For example, two low waves in a row means x, or three waves closer together means y. When a signal is carrying information, instead of neat, evenly spaced waves like ripples on the ocean, you're left with a wave like the jagged silhouette of an ECG. This isn't the Buzzer. Instead, many believe that the station is a hybrid of two things. The constant drone is just a marker, saying "this frequency is mine, this frequency is mine..." to stop people from using it. It only becomes a numbers station in moments of crisis, such as if Russia were invaded. Then it would function as a way to instruct their worldwide spy network and military forces on standby in remote areas. After all, this is a country around 70 times the size of the UK. It seems they're already been practicing. "In 2013 they issued a special message, 'COMMAND 135 ISSUED' that was said to be test message for full combat readiness," says Maris Goldmanis, a radio enthusiast who listens to the station from his home in the Baltic states. The mystery of the Russian radio may have been solved. But if its fans are right, let's just hope that drone never stops. -- Join 800,000+ Future fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called "If You Only Read 6 Things This Week". A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital, and Travel, delivered to your inbox every Friday. Follow BBC Future (via Gerald T Pollard, NC; Terry L Krueger, FL; Charlie Harlich, NJ; Mike Cooper, GA; Artie Bigley, OH; Chuck Albertson, WA; David Cole, OK; DXLD) No one has ever accused me of being a smart man but I can honestly say that the first thing that popped into my mind after reading this message was the Star Trek movie with the whales in it. Alien probe broadcasting whale speech waiting for reply. No reply and they destroy the planet (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) "During the Cold War, Soviet spies were instructed via shortwave radio (Credit: Alamy)" And now take a look at the depicted stamp. Do I expect too much when assuming that one should note the "1895-1944" and, before using the picture with such a caption, wonder for a moment if it really is related to the Cold War? It is not a matter of knowing who that certain Richard Sorge was. Looking up Wikipedia suffices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sorge I'm sorry, but this tells a lot about the journalistic standards there. By Zaria Gorvett 2 August 2017 [Zaria?? Is that a real person`s name? https://twitter.com/ZariaGorvett [This story never explains what `MDZhB` stands for It is described as "a circular callsign, assigned to the military units in the Western Military District". I.e. not a callsign in the narrowest sense. http://priyom.org/military-stations/russia/the-buzzer/ Also has much more detail, including the circumstance that "MDZhB" is obsolete. But of course you would not tell this [to] a BBC editor when selling such a sexy story about the dead hands of Russians. Показать цитату целикомПоказать всю переписку The "Lincolnshire Poacher" Aha, now let's further sex up the story by lumping in spy numbers, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station) (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is an amazingly similar story in the Express, without any credit to BBC: (gh) Is mysterious The Buzzer radio station MDZhB for Vladimir Putin's secret spy network? | Weird | News | Express.co.uk http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/836652/The-Buzzer-MDZhB-radio-mystery-Russia-vladimir-Putin-spies (via Mike Cooper, Artie Bigley, DXLD) MORE copycat versions! https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4167148/mystery-of-the-russian-radio-station-that-has-buzzed-every-day-for-40- years-sparking-wild-speculation-i ts-a-secret-military-project-or-even-aliens/ http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/mystery-surrounds-creepy-radio-signal-emanating-from-the-middle-of-nowhere/ http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/634790/Russia-Radio-Buzzer-Nuclear-War-Missiles-MDZhB-Spies- Cold-Soviet-Union-Vladimir-Putin (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 1975 year. --- Acknowledgment from the Tajik radio. September 8, 1975 / 1800-1810 MSK / 4635 kHz. Card from the archive Sergei Izyumov, Moscow, Russia. DX-Friend from Dushanbe Yefimov in 1975 helped me to get a QSL-postcard from Radio Dushanbe You can see the card here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/07/blog-post_29.html (Rus-DX August 6 via DXLD) 4635 later acquired by The Buzzer, USSR ** TURKMENISTAN [non]. 15255, August 2 at 1422, fair S9-S7 signal with M&W in Turkic language, lots of pursed-lips umlauting. Aoki shows it`s RFE/RL in Turkmen, 1400-1600, 300 kW, 74 degrees via Woofferton UK. Considering hostility toward a free press, surprised this is not being jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RFE/RL CORRESPONDENT ACHILOVA THREATENED WITH DEATH IN TURKMENISTAN July 31, 2017 WASHINGTON -- RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent Soltan Achilova reports (in Turkmen) she was threatened with death on July 29, while en route to take photos documenting Turkmenistan's "Day of Bicycles." Achilova further reports that today (July 31), the man who made the July 29 threat identified himself to her as a police officer tasked to watch her wherever she goes, and again warned her against taking photos, or she will be "finished." The threats follow an assault last week when a man tried to steal her cellphone as she was about to take a picture. - ... https://pressroom.rferl.org/a/28651354.html (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Aug 2, DXLD) The rest, with many embedded linx in original: The recent attacks on Achilova, 68, resemble assaults she experienced in November 2016, when two women approached her, yelling "This is the one who takes pictures and pours dirt on Turkmenistan" in the cafeteria at a rehabilitation center northeast of the capital, Ashgabat. This attack came one day after Human Rights Watch issued a statement decrying an October 25 assault on Achilova, saying "Achilova's ordeal was clearly yet another orchestrated attempt to silence a critic." "Journalism is not a crime, in Turkmenistan or elsewhere in the modern world. Soltan's life has now been explicitly threatened in an effort to stop her from doing her job in Turkmenistan," said RFE/RL President Thomas Kent. "The Turkmen government must immediately put an end to the persecution of Soltan Achilova and assure her safety." Achilova's reports appear regularly on the website of RFE/RL's Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk radiosy. According to Turkmen Service Director Farruh Yusupov, she is one of the main contributors to the website of photos and videos from within Turkmenistan. Recently, the focus of her reporting has been the government's preparations for the Asian Games, including a story on the removal of a statue of former Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov from a major thoroughfare in the capital, Ashgabat. Attacks on RFE/RL contributors in Turkmenistan, one of the world's most closed societies, have intensified over the past three years. Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a video journalist who contributed to the Turkmen Service, disappeared more than two years ago, and is now in prison on narcotics charges that rights groups say were "trumped up" in retaliation for his reporting on decrepit infrastructure and economic inequality in the country's western region. After filing video reports about local life in Turkmenistan's northern Dashoguz province, correspondent Khudayberdy Allashov was taken into custody and severely beaten in December, 2016; he and his mother were subsequently jailed for three months on charges of possessing chewing tobacco, a product that is widely used in Turkmenistan and is not known to have led to any previous arrest. In December 2014, Achilova was questioned by unidentified men in civilian clothing, as she interviewed people waiting to purchase fresh meat that had suddenly became available in shops around the country. The United States, the OSCE, and media advocacy organizations have expressed concern about Turkmenistan's persecution of journalists. Turkmenistan is ranked "not free" in Freedom House's 2017 press freedom survey of 199 countries and territories, tied with North Korea at the bottom of the scale with 98 points out of 100. Because of political conditions, RFE/RL has no bureau inside Turkmenistan, instead working through a local network of contributors to provide the country's only Turkmen-language alternative to state- controlled media. Its Turkmen Service website logged a monthly average of 440,000 visits and 800,000 page views in 2016, and it has 175,000 followers on Facebook (RFE/RL via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. R Ukraine International --- I do enjoy book/story readings and drama/radio play programmes on shortwave; however there are relatively few such programmes to be found. But there are some. R Ukraine International has such a weekly programme called Reading Lounge on Tuesdays (which I heard via WRMI (11580 kHz) on 11 July at 2330 UT). It is an audio book reading programme with audio versions of Ukrainian classical and modern literature. RUI are currently reading a story called The Fatal Eggs. It is well-read, includes a little incidental music to liven up the reading. My only criticism of this reading, (and this is something that I have noticed on occasion on other stations where the reading continues week-by-week) is that the reader launched straight in to where the previous episode ended without any context setting, or even a brief recap for newcomers to the reading or to remind existing listeners of where the story had reached. However, this aside, I enjoyed the programme and add it to the list of recommended programmes. The background to the current story itself is quite interesting, as I find in this Wikipedia entry: The Fatal Eggs is a science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet novelist and playwright whose most famous work is The Master and Margarita. It was written in 1924 and first published in 1925. The book became quite popular, but was much criticised by some Soviet critics as a satire of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the leadership of Soviet Russia. The Reading Lounge is aired Tuesdays at 2330 and Wednesdays at 0200 on 11580 kHz via the facilities of WRMI. Until next time - good listening and 73 (Alan Roe, Listening Post with Alan Roe, listeningpost@bdxc.org.uk Aug BDXC-UK Communication, via Alan Roe for DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ INSIDE A NUMBERS STATION A newly published article on the Numbers Research and Information Centre website: "Our site has various articles and documents showing the use of numbers stations. Yet, never before have we had an account from a person who has 'worked at the numbers stations'. This person whose name we will not disclose has shared his story in working in foreign radio transmission base six decades ago. While his story carefully conceals what was the station and to whom it broadcasted, it tells us the basics of numbers stations operation." http://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/working-at-a-numbers-station (via August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) WEB RADIO AND TV IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ================================= Radio --------- The most visited stations in the Urals Federal District (Rambler Top 100) in 2016: - Echo of Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region WEB: http://www.echoekb.ru Online: https://www.echoekb.ru/online/ The radio station "Echo of Moscow" has been aired in Yekaterinburg since 1998. Broadcasting is carried out at a frequency of 91.4 MHz. "Echo of Moscow" in Yekaterinburg is a unique information product on the fm-broadcasting market in Yekaterinburg. It is represented by a wide variety of information flows: politics, business, economics, medicine, sports, technology, culture, etc. - Radio SI, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region. WEB: http://www.radioc.ru/ Online: http://www.radioc.ru/broadcast.php 103.7 MHz - Radio SK, Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region. WEB: http://www.radiosk.ru Online: https://www.radiosk.ru/on_air 90.2 MHz, Round the clock. Radio SC operates in the format "CHR - Dance" (Modern Hit Radio), it is one of the few radio stations in Russia and Yekaterinburg that broadcasts in a worldwide popular music format. The mission of the format is to provide listeners with fresh dance hits that you want to listen to again and again, thereby distinguishing yourself from most formats of other radio stations. (Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications Broadcasting in Russia in 2016) TV. -------------------- Russia. Moscow. ------------------------ The channel "Friday". WEB: http://friday.ru/ A TV channel for those who hunt for impressions and want to taste the world. TV channel for travelers, for fighters for the quality of service, for activists and contemplators. TV channel-guide, revealing new amazing opportunities. QSL WORLD ======== AK = Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia DE = Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" DK = Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" VK = Vasily Kuznetsov, Moscow, Russia / "open_dx" VL = Vasily Lazarev, Samarskaya oblast, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" VV = Victor Varzin, Kommunar, Leningradskaya oblast, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" Brazil ------------- I received a paper QSL from Radio Trans Mundial from Brazil for Portuguese - 04/06/2017, 03.05 UTC at the frequency of 5965 kHz. Report Sent to the address: qsl @ transmundial.com.br. The report was confirmed by Rudolf Grimm. Mailing address indicated on QSL: Radio Trans Mundial, Caixa Postal: 80761 Sao Paulo, SP-Brasil, CEP: 04646-970. (DK) Germany / Bulgaria ----------------------------- A new QSL card from Radio Santec from Germany was received for the report of July 23, 2017. You can see the card here. Http://freerutube.info/2017/08/11/qsl-radio-santec-germaniya-bolgariya-iyul-2017-goda/ (DE) Hong Kong / Philippines ----------------------------- Received QSL from LiangYou radio. Reception July 12, 15.00, frequency 9345. This is a religious broadcaster, a division of FEBC for broadcasting to China. Accordingly, FEBC transmitters are used in the Philippines. In Moscow they are audible well. For collectors of paper QSL, to which I belong and myself, is an excellent opportunity to replenish the collection. I received a card with antennas against the sky (the image can be found on the network). Confirms Peter Tong deputy station manager. E-mail of the station: febc (@) febchk.org. Website: 729ly.net. But you can use the on-line translator. (VK) Madagascar ---------------- Radio Dabanga - reception was 15 in February, on March 2 came a response from the station by e-mail that the card was sent to me (the letter, by the way, fell into the spam). Confirmation came from Amsterdam, on small figures it looks like 2.18.17 - 22 (I guess the card could be sent on February 18). Transmitter in Madagascar. (VV) Netherlands ----------------- Received an e-QSL card from a pirate station from the Netherlands Radio Polkawelle in response to a report on July 15, 2017. The author of the station is the famous radio pirate Dr. Tim. The card is here http://freerutube.info/2017/08/12/e-qsl-radio-polkawelle-niderlandyi-iyul-2017-goda/ (DE) South Korea --------------------. * KBS World Radio - 2 qsl for June (talismans OI and diver). Posted on July 4th. (VV) * I received a QSL card from the Russian service KBS World Radio. 25.06.17 & 02.07.17 / 18: 00-19: 00 UTC / 12065 kHz The card is in 2016. Subject: Cultural values and years of their inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. (AK) USA / Bulgaria ---------------------- Received an E-confirmation from Radio Shortwave Radiogram for receiving 22.07.17 / 16.00 - 16.30 UTC / 9400 kHz / Signal reception MFSK32 E - mail: radiogram@verizon.net (VL) USA / Germany ---------------------- Received a card from Free Radio Skybird for the report of July 8, 2017. The program of the station was broadcast through Channel 292 in Germany. A letter from Manchester, New Hampshire, USA was sent on July 17. The author of Frederick Moe does not send e-QSL. The paper card is not free and is made on a regular sheet of A4 paper. The card is here http://freerutube.info/2017/08/08/qsl-free-radio-skybird-ssha-germaniya-iyul-2017-goda/ (DE) Vietnam ------------ The voice of Vietnam is confirmation for the June reports. A new card "Chan trau" (translated "herd", and in real life - a boy on a buffalo). (VV) CALENDAR OF RADIO ===================== 8 / August. Five years of Radio Dacha-Buzuluk August 8, 2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the broadcasting of Radio Dacha in the city of Buzuluk, Orenburg region. The broadcasting frequency of the radio station in the city is 104.9 FM, the population coverage is 90.0 thousand people. Regional partner of Radio Dacha is Absolut Buzuluk LLC, director - Namesnikova O.V. The official site of Radio Dacha: www.radiodacha.ru. (Http://www.krutoymedia.ru/news/4600.htm) 15 / August. On August 15, Radio Chanson celebrates its birthday! 17 years of radio station ... (Http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__66445/) The history of radio in the Belgorod region. -------------------------------------------------- ------- Today we will talk about the events of the middle of summer. The first day of July 2008 was the birthday of a new radio station in Belgorod, on 106.8 appeared Road Radio. The first time was technical broadcasting, but soon the radio went to full capacity. 17 years ago, on July 5, 2000, Europe plus "moved" one division forward, from 103.5 to 103.6 MHz. On the same day, 16 years ago, the Retro radio test began at 100.9. July 10, 2010 radio station Radio appeared in Valuiki and Novy Oskol. On the 18th of 2009 the radio of the World of Belogorie began broadcasting in Rakitnoye, Borisovka and Graivoron. July 28, 2011, 10 years after the "freeze", the process of completion of the new RTPZ Belgorod began. And on the same day, but in 2015, Radio Radio appeared in St. Oskol on 100.4. (Https://vk.com/radio.tv_31?w=wall-83427404_7407) HISTORY DX ============ The data is published as the material is received. We hope for your participation in the section. * QSL from the archive of Sergei Izyumov, Moscow, Russia. Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty. Broadcasting to the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. You can see the card here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/qsl.html * "Today listen to Murzilka. 1920.", illustrator Lehman Nikolai Adolfovich. Antenna on a giraffe. You can see here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/blog-post_11.html (Http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic14444-73.html) * Painter Zenkova Raisa Dmitrievna (1919-?) Picture "Young radio constructors" 1950s. You can see here - http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2017/08/1950_11.html (Http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic14444-74.html) * 1991 & 2006. ----------------------- (Continuation: The beginning of last issue) '' CLUB DX '' (No. 775) Ether: January 29, 2006 Author and presenter: Vadim Alekseev Editor of the Internet version: Pavel Mikhailov --- DX-HISTORY ... Continuation. The beginning of last issue. '' CLUB DX '' (No. 775) Air: 29 JANUARY 2006 Author and presenter: Vadim Alekseev Editor of the Internet version: Pavel Mikhailov - DX-HISTORY ... Let's move again 15 years ago and see what was written about in the first issue, then "Moscow Presents" ... The bulletin opened an article about the BBC's monitoring service, telling about the activities of this organization, which, by the way, was and still is the source of many messages that are of interest to DXists. Then came the section "On the broadcasting ranges". The name speaks directly about its content. By the way, this section lasted throughout the history of the existence of the printed bulletin, although the structure of the publication underwent some changes. Among other things, in the section it was reported, for example, about the broadcasting of '' BRT '' from Belgium in English, when on Saturday it was possible Listen to the program for radio amateurs "Radio World" ... There was also a note about the possibility of accepting programs from Kabul, Afghanistan, at a frequency of 9635 kHz. In addition, the frequencies of the International Swiss Radio were reported, which were well audible in the European part of the USSR. You noticed - after all All this in today's broadcast no longer exists? .. The next was the section "Broadcasting in the USSR" with a story about Radio stations "Atlantic" and "Peace and Progress". Both stations worked on short waves and both of them, like the name of the section, could not survive the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Section was renamed, and the radio stations remained in the memories of listeners. Section '' Unconventional DXing '' opened with a small introductory article, the author of the section in which, in particular, wrote: '' ... To my deep regret, in the Soviet Union there was a somewhat one-sided view of DXing. It is generally accepted that DXing is a reception of exclusively broadcasting Stations. However, it is not. In all civilized world there are dozens of DX-clubs specializing in reception and service broadcasting. For Soviet DXists reception of service Broadcasting is still a '' white spot in the ocean of radio waves ''. In order to eliminate this injustice, it was decided to organize the rubric "Unconventional DXing ..." (end of the quote). In the News of World Radiological Feasibility, it was told, in particular, that on a Tuesday night, on the air of the First Program of the then All-Union Radio, the religious program "Hour of Revelation" prepared by the international broadcasting corporation " Telesi '(Texas, USA) and the radio station KNLS (Alaska, USA). The heading '' Tropical Survey '' offered an overview of stations operating in the so-called '' tropical '' range, some of which could be heard at higher frequencies. The penultimate section of the first issue was the '' Information Sheet '', where "all sorts of things" were published. For example, a report stating that the management of the Russian edition of Swedish radio Decided to resume the DX-program, but the regularity of the output of these programs is not yet known. And he completed the first issue of the Bulletin "Technical Department", in which at that time the scheme of the regenerative preselector improving the sensitivity of the radio receiver and the selectivity of its input circuit was described. This is how the first issue of the The beginning of the history of the Moscow Information DX Bulletin. 73!