New MW station from UAE

A new MW station 'Radio Keralam' from Ras Al Khaimah, UAE in Malayalam language is testing on 1476 kHz since 17th August 2022. They are using former Radio Asia 200 kW MW transmitter. Regular transmission expected to be start by 8th Sept, 2022, Onam day.

Online HF prediction tools, tailored for Utility DXing

Recently I bumped into the relaunched web pages of the highly esteemed HF Prediction pages of Space Weather Services from the Australian Bureau of Metereology : 

http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/HF_Systems

On their sub-page "Internet Tools" they offer some excellent tools for HF propagation prediction which seemed to be tailored just to the needs of us listeners.

I wrote a short PDF (7 pages, 22 illustrations) about that, giving some examples. This paper also deals with multipath propagation, degrading even strong digital signals plus FAX. Among the Aussies' web page you will find a set of tools under "Digital HF Prediction", dealing perfectly with just this challenge.

Link to donwload the PDF:

https://dk8ok.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/utility_iono_dk8ok.pdf

(Nils Schiffhauer DK8OK via UDXF list)

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG) , Guinea reactivated on shortwave

Radio-Télévision Guinéenne (RTG), the state broadcasting service of Guinea has been re-activated on shortwave, as per BDXC Africa Guide station was last reported on shortwave on 7125 kHz in September 2012.  Earlier a 50 kW transmitter was situated at Conakry.

 

Reactivated station on 9650 kHz was first noted by Paul Walker on 14th April 2016, Sakae Obara from New Jersey, USA identified the station as 'Radio Guinea' during a discussion in DXLD list. 

 

Logged on 16th April, 2016 0103 UTC onwards with surprisingly fair to good reception on 9650 kHz , heard till 0230 UTC onwards until it started fading, Content was mostly Afro music with occasional French talk.

 

 

And here's an audio file logged at 0107 UTC on 16th April 2016 on 9650 kHz

https://soundcloud.com/alokesh-1/radiodifusao-nacional-guinea-bissau-9650-khz-0107-utc-16-april-2016

 

Per Wikipedia, Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French: Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.[5] Guinea has a population of 10.5 million.

Related :

On 29 issuers of the Guinean Radio Television, currently operate only 6

 

http://tinyurl.com/h6hjhrm

 

Paul B. Walker  who was one of the first DXer to notice and post about 9650 kHz on April 14th as an UNID station has shared this audio link  :

 

http://youtu.be/_Nk8d6RANg0

 

(Alokesh Gupta)

CRI Kunming site off air

CRI China International Broadcasting making the shortwave broadcast on a scale of most. Sometimes going for maintenance, several frequencies is stopped sometimes. Transmitter of the two seems to have stopped at least of Kunming transmitting station in the check of December 27. I do not know from when to or has stopped. Frequency you have the 27th stop wave current...

 

0900-1100 11980, 15250 Chinese

0930-1027 17680 Malay

1030-1127 15135 Indonesian

1130-1227 11955 Filipino

1130-1527 7360 Thai / Lao

1200-1257 9730 English

1230-1327 11700 Malay

1330-1427 11805 Indonesian

1400-1457 9655 Amoy

1430-1457 11830 Filipino

1600-1657 7360 Vietnamese

2200-2257 5915 Chinese

2300-2400 5905 Cantonese

 

(google translated)

 

Source : http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/e96361.html

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FM DX - Band 2 Es Logs - 5th July 2012

5th July 2012

0245 - 0430 UTC

88.0 Radio Foorti Bdesh

88.9 Padamaya FM, Sagaing, Myanmar

87.6 Unid Burmese from Myanmar

87.9 Mandalay FM, Myanmar

88.3 Mandalay FM, Myanmar

90.7 Unid playing english songs

89.5 Radio Oman, Holy Quran Channel

87.6 Radio Oman, Holy Quran Channel

88.1 Radio Oman, Arabic Talk

90.2 Radio Oman, Arabic Talk

Sony XDR-F1HD + Triax 5 Ele Yagi Hor beamed at 40deg

B'desh stn at around 1400 kms, Oman and Myanmar stns at 2000+ kms.

Audio :

FM DX Es Radio Oman Arabic 88.1 MHz 0423 UTC 5 July 2012

http://soundcloud.com/alokesh/fm-dx-es-radio-oman-arabic-88

FM DX Es Padamaya FM Burmese 88.9 MHz 0317 UTC 5 July 2012

http://soundcloud.com/alokesh/fm-dx-es-padamaya-fm-burmese

Video :

FM DX Es Radio Oman Quran Channel 87.6 MHz 0411 UTC 5 July 2012

http://youtu.be/smkuiOHquRs

FM DX Es Radio Oman 88.1 MHz 0420 UTC 5 July 2012

http://youtu.be/WpKM7NI6ynA

Shortwave listening like a fishing expedition

Trading clicks for turns, clarity for static ... and really loving it
By Bill Husted

My secret is revealed: I'm an analog guy in a digital world. Shortwave listening, once the drug of choice for nerds, is an unlikely hobby nowadays. After all, that distant station I'm straining to hear probably is also available as a crystal clear audio stream somewhere on the Internet.

Read more at :
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/05/shortwave-listening-like-a-fishing-expedition/#ixzz1u8fNzJc8

Band 2 logs - 21 Dec 2011

Super duper condition on band 2 this morning ....

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_mid.html

Logs

‎21 DEC 2011
0225 - 0500 UTC
Beaming at 35 deg

90.4 Weak unid ..devotional prog "Aastha"
91.9 10 kW Radio Mantra Karnal Haryana
100.1 All India Radio Gorakhpur
100.2 6 kW All India Radio Patiala Punjab
100.4 6 kW All India Radio Bareilly Uttar Pradesh
100.7 All India radio Lucknow
101.3 6 kW All India Radio Aligarh Uttar Pradesh
101.4 6 kW All India Radio Kurukshetra Haryana
102.1 10 kW All India Radio Mussoorie Uttarkhand
102.2 10 kW All India Radio Kathua Jammu & Kashmir
103.1 6 kW All India Radio Alwar
103.5 1 kW All India Radio Rohtak Haryana
103.7 10 kW All India Radio Shimla
107.2 10 kW All India Radio Kasauli Himachal Pradesh
107.4 0.05 kW Radio Noida Noida Uttar Pradesh

NEPAL

92.4 Unid Nepali Talk
94.6 Unid Nepali Talk
96.2 0.5 kW Radio Mahakali, Kanchanpur, Mahendranagar, Nepal
93.2 Phoolbari FM 0410 UTC
93.8 Dinesh FM, Dhanghadi, Kailali - 1 kW 0419 UTC
94.0 Krisnasar FM 0425 UTC
94.6 Bageshwari FM, Nepalgunj, Banke - 1 KW 0437 UTC
97.9 Unid 0440 UTC
98.2 Tinau FM Butawal, Rupandehi 0447 UTC
98.6 Bheri FM, Birendranagar, Surkhet 0450 UTC
99.4 1 kW Shuklaphanta FM Kanchanpur, Mahendranagar Nepal
100.6 Phoolbari FM, Bardiya
101.2 0.5 kW Kohalpur FM, Banke, Nepal
101.8 Kantipur FM, Nepal
103.0 Radio Nepal , Buditola

Sony XDR-F1HD + Triax 5 Ele Yagi Hor

Bruce Elving, Professor of FM Radio

For DXers, catching far-away stations is kind of like fishing. You don't want to catch just the easy ones. That's one reason FM and TV DXing was more fun than AM and shortwave DXing (at least for some of us). AM and shortwave depend on the ionosphere for distant coverage as a matter of course.
More at :
http://watchingthewatchers.org/indepth/1394652/bruce-elving-professor-fm-radio

New E-mail list/id for Cumbre DX/DXing with Cumbre

"Cumbre DX" and "DXing with Cumbre" have lost a very good friend. Bob Arnold, N2JEU, who ran Cumbre DX's web and e-mail servers, and who also put the programs on iTunes for us, is a Silent Key at the age of only 58. We at Cumbre are heartbroken at this news, and send our sympathy to Bob's family and friends. "DXing with Cumbre" will continue on the air and WHR streaming audio, but the website, e-mail list and iTunes are gone for now. For those who can get to his funeral on Friday in Canastota, near Syracuse NY, details are available at the obituary link.
Please feel free to share the news, since the Cumbre DX list is gone with Bob's death. We thank Bob for all he did for us, and we know he'll be very much missed in the radio community.

http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?n=robert-d-arnold-bob&pid=152522599

New Cumbre DX list is now at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cumbre_dx/

Group Email Addresses :

To Post message: cumbre_dx@yahoogroups.com
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73 and thanks,
Cumbre DX/Dxing with Cumbre Team

Band 2 AIR logs 4th July 2011

No Es yday only tropo

FM Logs - 4th July 2011 0200-0400z

91.9 - Radio Mantra, Bareilley 218 kms
99.4 - Shuklafanta FM CRS, Mahendranagar Nepal 307 kms
100.2 - AIR Patiala 208 kms
100.3 - AIR Jammu 526 kms
100.4 - AIR Bareilley 218 kms
101.3 - AIR Aligarh 108 kms
102.1 - AIR Mussourie 235 kms
102.2 - AIR Kathua 467 kms
103.1 - AIR Chandigarh 259 kms
103.7 - AIR Nagaur, Raj (Presumed, no id heard)

AIR Kathua, J&K ID : http://tinyurl.com/66kvakk

Chinese onslaught on FM Band

Band 2 Es Logs 24 June 2011

Rx parked at 88.0, 0200z onwards got few secs of Radio Foorti couple of times.

0309z onwards ....

All unid Chinese

87.9
88.0
88.6
88.9
89.2
89.6
90.5
90.8
91.6
91.8
92.0
92.2
93.3
93.7
93.8
94.1
95.2
96.0
96.5
99.0
100.1
101.4

More chinese at 0340z

87.5
88.1
89.1
92.4
92.9
96.1
96.4
96.8
97.4
97.5
97.6
97.8
97.9
98.0
98.6
98.7
98.9
99.1
99.6
99.7
100.3
101.1
103.1
103.6

Crazy conditions noted on FM band this morning

Crazy conditions noted on FM band this morning......more than 25 unid Chinese stn's.

Here's an audio file (4.1 mb) of bandscan at 0304-0309 UTC on 87.5 - 93 MHz, hindi songs are local stns.

http://tinyurl.com/6zyqgwb

Heard an english id "easy music" on 89.3, probably CRI outlet.

QSLs Are a Portal to the Past

Recent articles in Radio World about AM DXing (long-distance listening) and QSLs (cards and letters verifying reception) are a reminder that the hobby of long-distance radio listening is still around.

Read the full story here :
http://www.radioworld.com/article/115712

Why ham radio endures in a world of tweets

Somehow it makes little sense that amateur "ham" radio continues to thrive in the age of Twitter, Facebook and iPhones. Yet the century-old communications technology -- which demands such commitment that you must generally pass an exam to receive a licence........

Read the article here :

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/03/why-ham-radio-endures?page=all

AIH3 DXpedition to Aihkiniemi

The first ever purpose-built DXpedition base in Finland was constructed earlier this year, tested by us in October, and found to be excellent. A spartan cabin in the middle of nowhere is equipped with nine beverage antennas, each almost a kilometer in length. A bunch of New Zealand AM stations and a 10-watt highway advisory station from Alaska were among the highlights heard in Aihkiniemi.

Read more at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aih3rep.dx

73
Mika Makelainen
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Oct DXing from Assam, India

Hi, I am Prithwiraj Purkayastha from Jorhat (Coordinates: 26.75°N 94.22°E), Assam, India. I am a new Dxer and learning this fabulous electronic hobby for last seven years. I am using a Plhilips Analogue Four band Radio with a telescopic antinna for SW listening.

October is always a special month for me. Its on this beautiful month I came to this earth twenty nine years back. On this October itself I also revealed the great word of Shortwave Radio in 2003. So for making this year's October I have planned a OctoDXing and I was little bit successful too through some very interesting SW logs, QSL received and three interesting interviews with BBC (Bengali), VOA (Bengali) and IRIB R. Tehran (Hindi) services. I also ordered an ANJAN DTS 10 receiver from China for more interesting logs in future and to explore this wonderful world of SW Dxing.

Some of my Logs of October, 2010.

03/10/10 – DW English, UTC 1600-1700, 9485 Khz,, SIO 544
03/10/10 – Radio Taiwan Int., UTC 1630-1700, 11550 Khz, SIO 344
03/10/10 – AWR (Wavescan), UTC 1600-1630, 11720 khz, SIO 333
03/10/10 – NHK R. Japan (Bengali), UTC 1300-1345, 11965 khz, SIO 433
04/10/10 – Radio Thailand (English), UTC 0030-0100, 15275 khz, SIO 454
05/10/10 – Radio Philipinas (Eng), UTC 0300-0330, 15510 khz, SIO 444
05/10/10 – IRIB Hindi Radio, UTC 0230 – 0300, 13750 Khz, SIO 343
07/10/10 – AIR Guwahati (Mahalaya), UTC 2300-0000, 4940 khz, SIO 232
07/10/10 – HCJB, Australia (Eng), UTC 1230-1300, 15400 khz, SIO 544
07/10/10 – B'Desh Betar (Home Service), UTC 1245-1330, 4750 Khz, SIO 243
07/10/10 – Voice of Turky (Eng), UTC 1245-1330, 15520 Khz, SIO 433
08/10/10 – Radio Pakistan (Urdu), UTC 0100-0130, 15490 khz, SIO 433
08/10/10 – IRIB (Bengali), UTC 1430-1530, 13800 Khz, SIO 333
08/10/10 – Voice of Russia (World Service), UTC 0900-0930, 15170 Khz, SIO 444
09/10/10 – AWR (Bengali), UTC 1300-1330 UTC, 11860 khz, SIO 444
10/10/10 - Radio Canada International, UTC 1500-1530, 11675 khz, SIO 544
10/10/10 – HCJB (Eng), UTC 1230-1300, 15400 Khz, SIO 433
14/10/10 – NHK R. Japan (English), UTC 1000-1030, 9605 khz, SIO 343
14/10/10 – Radio Philipinas (Eng), UTC 0300-0330, 15510 khz, SIO 444
14/10/10 – Voice of America (Eng), UTC 0100-0130, 9780 Khz, SIO 444
17/10/10 – Voice of Tibet, UTC 1330 – 1400, 15430 Khz, SIO 433
19/10/10 – Voice of Korea (Eng), UTC 0230-0300, 15100 Khz, SIO 444
24/10/10 – RCI, UTC 1500-1600, 11675 khz, SIO 544
24/10/10 – Voice of Malaysia (Eng), UTC 0700-0800, 15295 khz, SIO 322
26/10/10 – Radio Natherlands Worldwide, UTC 1400-1530, 11835 khz, SIO 544
27/10/10 – Voice of Vietnam (Eng), UTC 1600-1630, 9550 khz, SIO 544
27/10/10 – Radio New Zealand Int. , UTC 1600-1630, 9615 khz, SIO 333
28/10/10 - KBS World R. Korea (Eng), UTC 1600-1645, 9640 Khz, SIO 333

and last but not the least, the DW Bengali and Hindi historic final broadcast on Shortwave.
30/10/10 – DW Hindi, UTC 1500-1530, 9655 khz, SIO 433
30/10/10 – DW Bengali, UTC 1530-1600, 9655 Khz, SIO 444

QSL Received in October:

A very interesting and surprising QSL card received from Bangladesh Betar on 28th October, 2010 for my MW log to their Home Service on 693 khz, UTC 1500 hr dated 17th September, 2010. It is a beautifully pictured QSL card and actually I was uncertain to get such beautiful response from B'desh Betar.

Some other QSL cards received for my October logs are:

03/10/10 – Japan SW Club (Painting of Kim Yeong II) – Stn logged- AWR.
09/10/10 – Radio Free Asia ( 14th Anniversary QSL) – Language Vietnamese, UTC 0000 on 15560 Khz.
08/10/10 – The Voice of Russia ( 80th Aniversary QSL) – UTC 0900 -0930 on 15170 khz.
10/10/10 – HCJB, Australia ( QSL Pic: Sunset) – UTC 1230- 1300 on 15400 khz
10/10/10 – RCI ( QSL Pic: Maple Leaf Mailbag)- UTC 1500-1530 on 11675 Khz
09/10/10 – NHK R. Japan ( QSL Pic: Daybreak) – UTC 1345-1430 on 11825 Khz.

I shall be happy to receive your comments and feedbacks on this report and shall be grateful for any type of advises for future Dxing.

Prithwiraj Purkayastha
Pub Bongalpukhuri
Ward No. 17
Jorhat 785001-23
Assam, India
Email: prithwi20062006@yahoo.co.in
prithwiraj.purkayastha@gmail.com

(Via bangladx list)

DSWCI 1st International DX Contest "The Grand Tour Across All Continents"

The Danish Shortwave Club International
1st International DX Contest "The Grand Tour Across All Continents"

Download details here :

http://www.dswci.org/contest/2010grandtour.pdf

Radio buffs rediscover pastime on internet

B Pradeep Nair
They may not be forever emailing, facebooking or tweeting; but they are grateful to the internet. A whole generation that grew up on radio is rediscovering their lost pastime, of listening to faraway radio stations. Thanks to live online streaming, shortwave radio freaks are smiling again. They are bookmarking stations on web browsers and listening in while working on their laptops.

Read the TOI story here :
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/kaleidoscope/entry/radio-buffs-rediscover-pastime-on-internet

AIR Leh 4760 back on air ?

AIR Leh 4760 kHz noted on air during check at 0230 UTC on 10th Aug, Hindi news at 0230 followed by eng news relayed from Delhi. At 0310 UTC "Radio Kashmir" id followed by Ladakhi song. 0319 commentary in Urdu, 0350 Hindi movie songs, 0359 off air. Weaker than before, at
times barely audible.

AIR Leh 4760 kHz 10th Aug 1630 UTC Panel discussion upto 1628 UTC, followed by instrumental music, at 1635 report on CWG, interview with PT Usha, signed off at 1700.

AIR Leh 4760 kHz 11th Aug 0224 UTC Signed on with Vande Mataram foll by instrumental music, 0230 Samachar Prabhat with Vimlendu Pandey, 0244 Eng News Gaura Lal, 0300 Ladakhi songs, 0319 Discussion followed by local news, 0335 ID Radio Kashmir by YL , anncts in local dialect, 0340 Hindi movie songs.....first one was from movie Aandhi, 0359 off air.

(All times in UTC)

Alokesh Gupta