DX QUICK TIPS and STATION NEWS - December 1, 2018
DX QUICK TIPS and STATION NEWS
December 1, 2018
DX QUICK TIPS
Some interesting signals have appeared on the shortwave bands this past week. Here are some of my monitoring observations:
đź‘Ť 3930 KOREA REP. Voice of the People - Goyang, Gyeonggi-do. Korean talks at 1203, some jamming noted but the signal was generally copyable. // 3480 where there was no jamming and a good signal, Nov 28.
đź‘Ťđź‘Ť 4760 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLAND. AIR - Port Blair. Noted at 1210 with lovely female vocals and anncts in Hindi or possibly one of the local languages. Over the years, the station has been noted at various times in a variety of languages including Hindi, Nicobarese, Tamil, Sanskrit, Telegu, Bengali, Malayalam and English. The co-channel AIR-Leh is currently off air, making Port Blair much easier to hear and ID. Fair signal on Nov 28.
4800 INDIA. AIR - Hyderabad. A variety of musical styles and Hindi anncts at 1226. Fair signal but with slight co-channel QRM from CNR 1 - Golmud. Nov 28.
7370 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point AK. English to EAs at 1030, ID at 1037, fair signal, Nov 27.
7510 GUAM. KTWR - Agana. Korean to EAs at 1335, fair signal with some evidence of co-channel jamming, Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 7625 UZBEKISTAN. Voice of the Wilderness - Tashkent. Heard signing on in Korean at 1330 but well covered by jamming on this day, Nov 28.
9305 ARMENIA. TWR India - Gavar. Scheduled for the Bondo language at 1330-1345 on Wednesdays. Other minority languages on other weekdays at this time. Very good signal on Nov 28. Bondo is an indigenous language spoken in Odisha State in Eastern India. At a census held in 2002, there were only 9000 speakers of Bondo. There is no traditional written script, but largely a spoken language.
đź‘Ť 9585 ESWATINI (Swaziland). TWR Africa - Manzini. S/on at 1418 with their pleasant music box interval signal. ID in English then programming in the local Lomwe language which native choral signing. Eswatini is the new name for Swaziland, as declared by that nation’s king. A weak signal on Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 9700 TURKEY. VoT - Emirler. Interesting early f/in at 0435 for the Turkish service to CEu, with chat and occasional Turkish music. Weak and variable signal. Not usually heard here at this time of year until about 0530. Nov 28.
9830 USA. WHRI - Cypress Creek SC. American preaching at 0445, weak signal, Nov 28.
9950 PRIDNESTROVIE. TWR India - Grigoriopol. Listed as the Marwari language service on Mon-Wed at s/on 1345. Booming signal on Nov 28.
11530 FRANCE. DengĂŞ Welat - Issoudun. S/on 0600 with Kurdish music and anncts at 0601. Fair signal, Nov 28.
11629.75 KUWAIT. R. Kuwait - Sulaibiyah. Qur’an at 1415 to Af, excellent signal, Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 11760 PHILIPPINES. VoA - Tinang. S/on 1400 in Tibetan to CAs. NF (ex 17830), a very good signal and only light jamming along with co-channel QRM from R. Habana-Bauta. Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 11925 BOTSWANA. VoA - Moepeng Hill. English to Africa at 0450 with pops until sign off anncts at 0458. NF (ex 15580 and possibly made to avoid CNR 1’s DRM transmissions on that channel). Fair signal, Nov 23.
đź‘Ť 13830 KUWAIT. VoA - Umm al-Rimam. Tibetan to CAs at 1410. Fair signal and light jamming, NF (ex 15160), runs // with 11760 where the signal was much better, Nov 28.
đź‘Ťđź‘Ť 21670 SAUDI ARABIA. R. Saudi Int’l - Riyadh. Long Indonesian talks at 1045, Arabic song at 1057, news at 1100. A weak and variable signal, suddenly fading away at 1103. Last heard about 10 months ago last summer. One of the very few stations still making use of the 13mb during this sunspot minimum. Nov 27.
DX QUICK TIPS and STATION NEWS
December 1, 2018
DX QUICK TIPS
Some interesting signals have appeared on the shortwave bands this past week. Here are some of my monitoring observations:
đź‘Ť 3930 KOREA REP. Voice of the People - Goyang, Gyeonggi-do. Korean talks at 1203, some jamming noted but the signal was generally copyable. // 3480 where there was no jamming and a good signal, Nov 28.
đź‘Ťđź‘Ť 4760 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLAND. AIR - Port Blair. Noted at 1210 with lovely female vocals and anncts in Hindi or possibly one of the local languages. Over the years, the station has been noted at various times in a variety of languages including Hindi, Nicobarese, Tamil, Sanskrit, Telegu, Bengali, Malayalam and English. The co-channel AIR-Leh is currently off air, making Port Blair much easier to hear and ID. Fair signal on Nov 28.
4800 INDIA. AIR - Hyderabad. A variety of musical styles and Hindi anncts at 1226. Fair signal but with slight co-channel QRM from CNR 1 - Golmud. Nov 28.
7370 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point AK. English to EAs at 1030, ID at 1037, fair signal, Nov 27.
7510 GUAM. KTWR - Agana. Korean to EAs at 1335, fair signal with some evidence of co-channel jamming, Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 7625 UZBEKISTAN. Voice of the Wilderness - Tashkent. Heard signing on in Korean at 1330 but well covered by jamming on this day, Nov 28.
9305 ARMENIA. TWR India - Gavar. Scheduled for the Bondo language at 1330-1345 on Wednesdays. Other minority languages on other weekdays at this time. Very good signal on Nov 28. Bondo is an indigenous language spoken in Odisha State in Eastern India. At a census held in 2002, there were only 9000 speakers of Bondo. There is no traditional written script, but largely a spoken language.
đź‘Ť 9585 ESWATINI (Swaziland). TWR Africa - Manzini. S/on at 1418 with their pleasant music box interval signal. ID in English then programming in the local Lomwe language which native choral signing. Eswatini is the new name for Swaziland, as declared by that nation’s king. A weak signal on Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 9700 TURKEY. VoT - Emirler. Interesting early f/in at 0435 for the Turkish service to CEu, with chat and occasional Turkish music. Weak and variable signal. Not usually heard here at this time of year until about 0530. Nov 28.
9830 USA. WHRI - Cypress Creek SC. American preaching at 0445, weak signal, Nov 28.
9950 PRIDNESTROVIE. TWR India - Grigoriopol. Listed as the Marwari language service on Mon-Wed at s/on 1345. Booming signal on Nov 28.
11530 FRANCE. DengĂŞ Welat - Issoudun. S/on 0600 with Kurdish music and anncts at 0601. Fair signal, Nov 28.
11629.75 KUWAIT. R. Kuwait - Sulaibiyah. Qur’an at 1415 to Af, excellent signal, Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 11760 PHILIPPINES. VoA - Tinang. S/on 1400 in Tibetan to CAs. NF (ex 17830), a very good signal and only light jamming along with co-channel QRM from R. Habana-Bauta. Nov 28.
đź‘Ť 11925 BOTSWANA. VoA - Moepeng Hill. English to Africa at 0450 with pops until sign off anncts at 0458. NF (ex 15580 and possibly made to avoid CNR 1’s DRM transmissions on that channel). Fair signal, Nov 23.
đź‘Ť 13830 KUWAIT. VoA - Umm al-Rimam. Tibetan to CAs at 1410. Fair signal and light jamming, NF (ex 15160), runs // with 11760 where the signal was much better, Nov 28.
đź‘Ťđź‘Ť 21670 SAUDI ARABIA. R. Saudi Int’l - Riyadh. Long Indonesian talks at 1045, Arabic song at 1057, news at 1100. A weak and variable signal, suddenly fading away at 1103. Last heard about 10 months ago last summer. One of the very few stations still making use of the 13mb during this sunspot minimum. Nov 27.STATION NEWS
BOLIVIA
I have just received a note from Ron Howard (San Francisco, USA) that will be of interest to our US readers:
6134.8 kHz - On December 8 (UTC), R. Santa Cruz (BOLIVIA) will undoubtedly have special live coverage of the upcoming annual major festival being held in their area. This religious festival is known as "Comarapa – Portachuelo y Cotoca (Santa Cruz) Day of the Purisima Concepcion". R. Santa Cruz usually has a greatly extended broadcast well past their normal sign off time of just after 0200 UTC. This is a unique chance to hear something a little different from Bolivia. (Thanks for the heads-up, Ron)
BRAZIL
In recent days, word has come down from a number of Facebook DX groups that Rádio Nacional de Amazônia has returned to 6180 kHz after a long absence. This is great news! Listeners have noted it at s/on before 1000, between 2000 and 2200, and at 0300 UTC. Here at Mount Evelyn in southeastern Australia, I have not had any luck as yet in my evening listening. At 1000, Radio Taiwan International occupies 6180 for six hours of Mandarin programming along with the usual CNR 1 jammer, making it very difficult to hear Brasilia. But a quick check of the online Kiwi SDR run by SWL PY2-81502 shows that the station is strong and steady with very good modulation. However, the other frequency of 11780 kHz is off the air. Many IDs can be heard for Rádio Nacional (you don't seem to hear "da Amazônia" used much!). One to watch out for!
JAPAN
I have just received a note from Ron Howard (San Francisco, USA) that will be of interest to our US readers:
BRAZIL
JAPAN
Watch out for the special broadcast from NHK World Radio Japan to India on Friday, December 7 from 0330 until 0500 UTC on 13780 kHz. The purpose of this one-off transmission is to improve friendship and relationships between Japan and India. The 90-minute program will feature multilingual announcers from the Hindi, Bengali and Urdu sections of Radio Japan. I don't know which transmitter site this will be coming from, but I suspect that the Tashkent facility in Uzbekistan would be the likely contender. Radio Japan already uses Tashkent for some of its services to South Asia, and indeed the signal from that site to New Delhi should easily provide strong reception at that time of day on 13780 kHz.
Interestingly, Radio Japan will issue a special once-only QSL card for reception reports on this broadcast. We all know that over the years, NHK has produced some absolutely lovely and unique QSLs for their listeners, so the card for this December 7 broadcast could be one to add to your collection! The address to send your reports is:
India Special Reception Report, NHK World Japan, 150-8001 Japan.
RUSSIA
Our DXing friend and longtime radio enthusiast, Shaikh Jawahar, has received a fantastic QSL card from the Russia State Time and Frequency Service for his reception report of RWM on 14996 kHz. The card is quite striking with its yellow lettering against an enlarged clockface. There are also full details of the Shaikh's reception on the back of the card. RWM can be heard quite well in many parts of the world. Here at Mount Evelyn, southeastern Australia, the three frequencies of 4996, 9996 and 14996 kHz can be monitored at various times of the evening hours. I don't have this card in my collection so I might just send off a report myself one day soon. That card would look great on the wall of my radio shack! Congratulations, Shaikh!
AND FINALLY
I stumbled across this rather comical short film from 1939 called Radio Hams. It is by the short documentary filmmaker Pete Smith, whose real name was Peter Schmidt. Smith worked for MGM and produced over 150 shorts that were very popular in the movie houses of the 30s, 40s and 50s. His dry sense of humour was a hit with audience goers of the day. Here is Radio Hams:73 and have a great weekend everyone! And don't forget to "Call Jimmy!!"
Rob Wagner VK3BVW
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