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COMMUNICATIONMONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH DX CLUBSEPTEMBER 2014 EDITION 478

1974

2014

Contents
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6-7
8-11
12-21
22-23
24-26
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News from HQOpen to Discussion
Twickenham Meeting
DXing in the 1970s
40 Years of BDXC !
Listening at Sea 1970s
Listening Post
Collectors’ Corner

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29
30-31
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32-34
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36-37
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Radio Mi Amigo RSL
Webwatch
S European Report
PropagationQSL Report
Radio Australia
UK News
MW Report

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45-46
46-49
50-51
51-61
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DX News
Beyond the Horizon
MW Logbook
Tropical Logbook
HF Logbook
Alternative Airwaves
Contributors
QSL Gallery 1970s

News From H.Q.
BDXC EDITOR

TREASURER

SECRETARYPRINTING

AUDIO CIRCLE

MEMBERS’ REP

CHRISSY BRAND (Contributions to Communication)
Apt 827 Abito, 85 Greengate, SALFORD, M3 7NE
Email: editor@bdxc.org.uk
DAVE KENNY (Subscriptions & Change of Address)
10 Hemdean Hill, Caversham, READING, RG4 7SB
Email: bdxc@bdxc.org.uk
ANDREW TETT (Enquiries & Publication orders)
19 Park Road, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 6PF
Email: Andrew@bdxc.org.uk
ALAN PENNINGTON (Printing & Despatch queries)
10 Hemdean Hill, Caversham, READING, RG4 7SB
Email: Tropical@bdxc.org.uk
CHRISSY BRAND (Audio Circle Enquiries, Contributions)Apt 827 Abito, 85 Greengate, SALFORD, M3 7NE
Email: editor@bdxc.org.uk
MARK SAVAGE (Members’ Rep on BDXC Board)
44 Carlton Avenue, FELTHAM, TW14 0EG
Email: mark@bdxc.org.uk

Happy 40th Anniversary to the British DX Club!
40 summers ago who would have foreseen that The Twickenham
DX Club would become respected around the world by the DX
community; a club which would grow and outlive many of theradio stations that it monitored in its early years?
There are several members from 1974 who are still with us on
this ever evolving radio journey - who saw TDXC become BDXC and who helped
Communication grow in size from three pages of typing to the 60 plus pages of news, logs, andphotos that it is today- in print and in electronic format. Holding regular social events andmeetings for members to discuss radio has also long been another part of the club’s successthrough the decades.
Many DXers have passed through the various membership secretaries’ in-trays, and some havesadly passed on. But the success of the BDXC is due to all members past present and future.
Thanks to all those who have sent in messages of congratulation as we reach 40 years of BDXC.
This special 40th anniversary issue looks through members’ eyes atthe DXing scene back in the 1970s, both on land and at sea. There isa healthy dose of nostalgia, looking back into the rich heritage ofradio and the club itself. But as ever, we look at the present and thefuture too, with the latest news and events, logs and observations. It
is very difficult to predict what might be written here in another 40
years; 2054 looks like a date from science fiction, but there will surely
still be radio broadcasters out there, and DXers of the future, to listen,
log and enthuse on our shared love of radio.
Congratulations to the BDXC and Good Listening!
– Alan, Andrew, Chrissy, Dave & Mark (BDXC Board)
Next contribution deadline: Wednesday, 24 September - see page 67
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Publications
Broadcasts in English - Summer edition (A14) Extra copies available while stocks last: priced:
UK £3, Europe £4, €5 or 5 IRCs, Rest of World £5, US$7 or 6 IRCs.
Radio Stations in the United Kingdom - 24th edition (2014) BDXC’s comprehensive guide to
MW and FM radio stations in the UK and Ireland. Prices include postage: UK £4 (two copies £7),
Europe £6, €8, 7 IRCs (two copies €12), Rest of World £7, $12 or 8 IRCs.
Reception Report Forms - English language forms, featuring the BDXC logo, suitable forsending reports to most broadcasters. Price per 25. UK £3; Overseas: £5, €6, US$8 or 7 IRCs.
Please send all orders (UK cheques/ Postal Orders payable to “British DX Club”) to:
British DX Club, 19 Park Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 6PF ($ or € - cash or Paypal only)
All prices above include postage.
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British DX Club Membership Rates
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DX Diary
1-30 September 2014: AWR 2014 DX Contest: “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs” - see fulldetails in August’s Communication pages 16-17.
Friday 19 to Monday 22 September: 2014 European DX Council Conference in France.
Several BDXC members will be attending. Details at www.edxc.org
Saturday 4 October: Reading DX meeting (Reading International Radio Group) 1430-1700
BST in room 3 at Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading
RG1 4PS. Tel: Mike Barraclough 01462 643899 E-mail barraclough.mike@gmail.com(Future Reading meeting dates: 13 December 2014, 21 February 2015, 25 April 2015)
For other events see also the club website www.bdxc.org.uk and www.rsgb.org/events/index.php

New Members
A warm welcome to the following new members:
BDXC 2403 Henk Stelte, Utrecht, Netherlands

BDXC 2404 Antti Ylisoski, Helsinki, Finland

Front/Back pages A selection of QSLs from the 1970s to celebrate 40 years of the club!
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Open To Discussion
with David Morris - mailbox@bdxc.org.uk
It seems like a busy time in radio land, what with Radio Nord being heard loud and clear on
6065, Steam Fair FM, my favourite UK RSL, from the Great Dorset Steam Fair booming in with amuch better signal than previous years, 40 years of the BDXC, and 40 years since the closure of
RNI and Veronica.
And if that is not enough to keep you occupied, here is OTD with an opening comment which istypical of many: IAN BIGGAR writes to “say thanks to you and the team for doing such afantastic job producing a first class read every month. Even though, like everyone else, I am
now overloaded with information, it is almost a relief for that white envelope to drop through thedoor every month. I always find something of interest within those pages. Please try and resist
the temptation to convert to an on-line version, although I know it would being many benefits interms of producing the magazine. I sound like a technophobe, which I am not. I suppose there
are just some traditional aspects that I hope will be preserved.”
We have a few radio presenters in our midst and JULIAN WATSON tells us he “had some time
today so I transferred the highlights of another TWR DX special - this one was from Saturday,
21st April 1984 at 2.30 pm. Compared with the previous recording [heard on BDXC Audio Circle]
this one did have some reception dips - it was also the transfer over to BST from GMT.
We also made a programme for May of that year - we sent it to Monte Carlo but it didn't goout as the Germans decided to pull funding for the 15 minutes of transmitter time. I think RMC
charged about £300 - £500 per quarter hour at that stage. I believe Peter Hamm (the mainpresenter) is still about in Lewisham, although he left them when they moved out of London to
Biggleswade - I'll have to knock on the door next time I'm in the capital to see if he kept any
archives from the studio. As for me, I was just very young and somewhat in awe of being part of
the radio experience in London, coming as I did from rural Wiltshire. I suppose it was my starturn on SW! I do remember having a very sore throat on that day of recording, and I noticed myvoice slightly breaking at the end - just the adrenalin keeping me going...
The show is about 11' long [it will feature on the September/October Audio Circle
programme presented by Gary Drew]. Some buzzes were also due to the fact my parents had
the TV going downstairs, which did have an effect on both the short wave and MW from
Monaco. I've also attached pictures of the source tape, transfer process and the very Toshibaradio cassette mentioned in the programme. The old workhorse still plays radio great, but thecassette motor wore out a few years ago.”
Unfortunately, the photographs would not reproduce clearly, but you can do the next bestthing, and that is to listen to the September / October edition of the BDXC Audio Circle – details
in the magazine next month but available before then on the BDXC Yahoo email group.
Julian finishes by saying he remembers from an earlier edition of Communication there wasa reference to a member called ANDY MARTINUYK from Moscow. If Andy would like an audio
copy of a penpal request he made to Radio Luxembourg
in 1990, please contact OTD.
DAVID CRYSTAL writes from Israel and makes
observations with regard to the Tecsun PL-360 and the
Kaito KA1107 (pictured). If your main receiver when you
are on holiday is the Tecsun, I suggest you obtain a Kaito
KA1107 as it is almost ultralight, it is dual conversion, andit has an external aerial jack. The Tecsun is best withstrong signals and known frequencies. Thanks to asensitivity switch you have at least seven antennae with
the Kaito.
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On each frequency, you should try more than one antenna. This concerns dynamic range.
Dynamic range costs money. By trying out several antennae on each frequency, you get true
reception and you do not have to pay for dynamic range.” David concludes by saying you shouldfind the Kaito less expensive than the Tecsun.
To have been a broadcast journalist and have a short wave transmitting facility named after you,is some going! DAVID ANSELL from Horsham sends a copy of a fascinating article. “TheGreenville (USA) Edward R Murrow shortwave broadcast facility ‘supports the mission of the
Broadcast Board of Governors to ‘inform, engage and connect people around the world in
support of freedom and democracy’ through approximately 2200 hours of transmissions eachmonth. Most of these transmissions are provided in Spanish for Radio Marti, the radio broadcast
arm of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. The station also supports the Voice of America mission
with Creole, English and Spanish transmissions to Latin America, and English and Portuguese to
Africa.
The Greenville Transmitting Station was formally dedicated by President John F Kennedy on
8 February 1963, and re-dedicated as the Edward R Murrow Transmitting Station in October
1968 in honour of the renowned wartime broadcaster and director of the USIA. The broadcasting
complex in Greenville was originally designed with three facilities triangulated around the city ofGreenville, consisting of two identical and independent transmitter sites referred to as Site A andSite B, and a programme distribution and receiver facility designated as Site C. The Site C
facility was closed in 1995. The A Site transmitter was decommissioned in 2006.
The station is equipped with eight high power shortwave transmitters. Five of the eight are
rated for operation at 500 kW, and three are rated for operation at 250 kW. However, all eighttransmitters are operated at 250 kW in order to reduce the station’s operating budget. The
station is also equipped with approximately 40 broadcast antennas. The antennas are placed in
an arc around the main building area to provide coverage between approximately 03º and 305ºwith respect to true north. The variety of antenna structures provides the station maximum
flexibility for reconfiguring mission requirements and target areas.”
From a worldwide high power site, to a very low
power installation covering only a few square miles
the photograph shows what will be the studios of
Quay FM, Alderney. Not only do they need a few
cans of paint, but the boarded up windows needsome attention – and the inside . . . don’t ask!
The current issue of the Alderney Press has
two articles about Quay FM, the first of which is theannouncement of the public training programme.
The second article provides an interesting
insight into the connection between West Africa
and a small Channel Island. “Quay FM has an
associate radio station in Sierra Leone, CapitalRadio SL, covering about 70% of the country. The association came about in 2006 when thestation was put on the air by two consultants who were Quay FM staff members. Liking the styleand format of Quay FM the new Capital Radio sought permission to make use of the Quay FM
computer database to build their own. Now each station acts as a back up to the other.
Several years ago, the Quay FM computer failed largely wiping out the database. However,thanks to an immediate emergency feedfrom Capital Radio, the Quay FM database
was restored and Alderney’s own radio
station was back on air within hours.
Quay FM’s Colin Mason returned froma regular visit to West Africa last week and says that Capital Radio is heavily involved inbroadcasting daily reports on the Ebola situation.”
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Kilohertz, Cakes and Curry:th

BDXC 40 Anniversary Twickenham Gathering Report
Our traditional summer meeting in BDXC’s original home town took place on Saturday 2nd
August. In a locale awash with popular music history, this leisurely event has proved an annual
hit with members and friends of the club since the start of the new century. However, it also
recalls the early years of the club, when we held bi-ennial general meetings in “Twickers”, andlater popular evening meetings in several of Twickenham’s wealth of historic pubs.

left to right: Alan Pennington, Mike Barraclough, Mike Terry, Klaus Werner, Tony Rogers, Gareth Foster,Michael Blake, Darren Rozier, Simon Guettier, Chris Greenway, David Morris, Alistair Blackett,
Gordon Pilling, Alan Roe, Dave Kenny, Mark Savage and Ian Kelly.

The twenty or so folk who popped along to the centuries-old Barmy Arms between ‘start oftransmission’ at 3 in the afternoon and ‘closedown’ about 10.30 pm mostly make an appearance
in the group photo above - another Twickenham meeting tradition - with the waters of Old
Father Thames and the famous Eel Pie Island as a scenic backdrop.
As ever the conversation seemed to flow as freely as the Thames. Topics this year included one
started by Chris Greenway, when he gave some statistics as to the continuing decline in shortwave listening even in areas of Africa where it was once the norm. Darren added his own
experiences to the conversation, following another of his regular trips with his church to
Uganda. The apparent decline in SWLs was put down to the increasing practice of domestic FM
re-broadcasting of international broadcasters, notably BBC World Service, and the phenomenal
growth of mobile media, even in the most challenging of RF territory. Many agreed that
increasingly, DXing is becoming more of a ‘heritage hobby’- but this was no wake.
Enthusiasm for first catching, and then listening to the unusual or the hard to hear remains asstrong as ever. And those present ranged in age from their 30s to their eighties. Gordon
Pilling’s attendance along with his wife Marlene at the meeting came about through serendipity.
Amazed to see the couple featured on our local paper’s website the previous day (as they’d
won a ‘Cathedral Express’ steam train trip), I couldn’t resist driving over to nearby Cranford todeliver an invite, and was so pleased when they turned up, much to the surprise of many.
Gordon and Marlene were renowned for their hospitality and gifts - many a radio station
favoured them with prizes which often used to be passed on to members at meetings
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right: Mike Barraclough and Gordon Pilling.

In an impressive quiz compiled by Chris,
there were “Forty Questions for Forty
Years”. As well as multiple-choicequestions, some were multi-part, suchas match the presenter with theinternational radio station they wereassociated with. The musically-mindedwere also asked to put a name to thosefamous station sig tunes - I bet Gordon,
a well-known Albaniphile, was able toname Radio Tirana’s. I, like many I
suspect, just guessed - but still (rather
embarrassingly) got the top score. It
seemed only fair and humble to let
others choose their prize before I picked
up a morse key as my own. Thanks to David Morris for providing many of the prizes.
left: Quizmaster Chris Greenway

Apart from people, there was also a rare exarchive appearance by several early editions ofCommunication at the meeting sadly notincluding the elusive second issue. These aided
an outpouring, of course, of nostalgia- yet alsofamiliarity, as it was recognised that some ofthose stations still around from 1974 evenoccupy the same frequencies today.
You only turn forty once, and this proved to be aperfect ‘birthday party’. Not just for the club but
for Ian Kelly too, a little older than 4-0 but who
just happened to be celebrating his own birthdaythat very day. There was the obligatory “Happy
Birthday” sung and then not just one but twobirthday cakes, including one which I’dattempted to ‘crown’ with a mock up of a typical‘Communication’ cover. As it happens, thetypeface my computer chose to present“Communication” in proved to be the same oneused in the club’s earlier days!
Sadly, some of our ‘regulars’ with family commitments could not make it this year during theschool holidays - though Andy Guy did send text greetings to the meeting by text from a Doverferry terminal while en route to Italy! On the other hand, it was great to have Tony Rogers withus this year. Tony was Communication’s editor for many years, and still provides us withexcellently researched guides and articles for both magazine and website.
A superb meal was enjoyed at the Delhi Durbar where the conversation turned to some of thegreat personalities of radio, men such as Tommy Vance, and to BFBS – we were particularly
pleased that BDXC member and BFBS DJ Simon Guettier was able to join us this year - andalso to Radio Jackie, another creation of the seventies in this part of the Thames Valley.
To cap a perfect day, those not dashing off for trains had one final pint at The Barmy Arms, andeven got a free firework display from somewhere over Eel Pie Island. A balmy finish to a hobby
which is still far from barmy, and which as this meeting showed, cements some terrificfriendships. Thank you to everybody who came, and here’s to 2015! (Mark Savage)
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DXing in the 1970s
Earlier this year we asked BDXC members to share their memories of DXing in the 1970s for thisspecial 40th anniversary edition of Communication. Several sent in their reminiscences.
We start with Dell Netherton: The 1970s were for me, a child of the '60s,
a time before shortwave. Fortunately in those days there were a variety ofinternational stations on medium wave. I recall Radio Prague 1297, VOA
1296, Monte Carlo, Radio Tirana, Radio Sweden 1179 and the BBC
World Service 1088kc/s. For a while Radio Moscow to Great Britain and
Ireland enlivened the long waves. This led to "Questions in the House." I
was aware of shortwave via the World Radio Club and the elaborate ITT
and Sony portables in Fowey town's two radio shops. My listening wasdone on a cheap Ritatone Nationwide with mw and lw, battery only. Thiscame with a leatherette case and four flying bomb batteries. I sometimes
wonder what I would have heard with today's Superdrug and Asda/Intek
equivalents.
Nick Rank regales us with tales of home-brew kit, lively tropical bands andoffshore radio: The seventies bring back lots of great radio memories
for me, in fact I think it was my favourite time radio-wise. The North Sea
pirates, mf maritime coastal stations, ILR and BBC local stations starting up
and a much more lively 60 metre tropical band are all still remembered
fondly here. Practical Wireless back in the 70’s was (and still is today) fullof interesting stuff.
We DXers had “On The Air” with Charles Molloy and Derek Bell who
wrote the MW and SW columns respectively. But I couldn’t hear most of the MW stations
mentioned there, my set at the time was a large domestic transistor portable (GEC2541) so theselectivity wasn’t brilliant. But with the help of a standard box loop this set produced my first MW
NA. Clearly remembered, it was WINS 1010kHz at 0007GMT on 6 Jan 73 when an American
accent was heard giving details of a fire on Manhattan Pier. Five minutes later, they had
vanished into the noise, but I could now call myself a MW DXer!
I remember having great fun with a home-brew 10 watt valve transmitter, built from a PW design.
Everything was bought from the magazine’s advertisers, aluminium chassis, DENCO coils,
valves, holders etc. You could buy everything for your project in those days just glancing throughthe advertisers’ pages. A redundant black metal Meccano base was pressed into service to holdthe 350 volt transformer for the DC PSU. Oscillator coils were wound for the top end of themedium waveband around 1620kHz, a nice clear channel at the time. From somewhere, I
managed to acquire a second hand Garrard SP25 record deck with a G800 stylus (a good deckat the time) and an RSC transistor 10 watt audio amplifier. It all came together and we went on
air, how I managed to avoid electrocution or rf burns still remains a mystery to this day, I think I
was only around 14 or 15 at the time and studying for my O levels.
A couple of local licensed hams who regularly went on top band at weekends kept mentioning
the music being played just off the end of the MW band and were trying to track me down, but I
moved lower down in frequency into the MW band and they seemed to not mention me again.
Somewhere along the way over the years, this tx was either lost or dismantled, but I wish I still
had it as a reminder of my mis-spent youth. I think I was also inspired by a pirate radio
broadcast by the students of The University of Hull during their rag week. Our kitchen radio, aBush TR116 transistor portable, picked them up fine at a distance of 2-3 miles on 225 metres. I
forget the year, but it was the early seventies.

8Back on the right side of the law, I remember building a Codar Multiband
6 SW receiver with a school friend, a kit ordered from PW. It took us mostof one Saturday on his dining room table, but worked fine whenfinished. Radio Constructor magazine (sadly missed!) had Dick andSmithy’s workshop adventures, which were always educational andhumorous and Frank Baldwin’s monthly DX loggings column gave me somegood tips on what to listen out for. He always seemed to log some fantastic
stations, especially the Latin American ones. The annual Wireless World
Guides to Radio Stations book was one of my first listening reference
books, wish I’d kept a few copies now. Then SW transmitter powers wereso much lower then, not many 500kW entries.
Of course we had no internet or computers (as we now know them) back then. My only source ofinfo on new stations was the WRTH. I found the maritime beacons quite addictive and a quick
tune around 280-310kHz often ended up lasting into the small hours, just to try and hear all the
beacons in a particular group. My reference here was Reed’s Nautical Almanac, again I wish I’d
kept a copy now most of the maritime beacons are history.
Obviously, the background noise on all bands was far lower than today, just the odd fluorescentlamp causing occasional buzzes. It was easy to spot a new MW ILR or BBC station startingup and a test tone on a previously unoccupied frequency was soon investigated. My log
records test transmissions from Radio Trent, Nottingham on 998kHz, Radio Tees 1169kHz andPennine Radio, Bradford 1277kHz, all in June 1975. Radio Victory, Portsmouth and Radio
Orwell, Ipswich, now both long-lost stations seem to crop up in the log in the late-seventies.
Even though I had to be up for school the next morning, I remember “Dad’s Army” being a
regular show on BBC World Service in the 70’s on 1088kHz at 0230GMT. I think it was from the
Crowborough transmitter, and reception was fine where we lived after dark. Around the sametime, another evening comedy show I seemed to start listening to regularly was “The Life of
Riley” on AFN, Germany on 872kHz. The show started with the line “The Life Of Riley starring
William Bendix as Riley” (I think). This same large transistor portable that I was using at thetime was good on the SW bands, but did suffer from“images.” A tuned circuit between the aerial and the set
helped a lot with this problem though. The 60 metre
band was alive with LA stations back then, Radio Lara
4800kHz, Ecos Del Torbes 4980kHz, Radio Rumbos
4970kHz, all from Venezuela, seemed to feature in thelog regularly. Radio Santa Fe 4965kHz and Radio Colosal 4945kHz, both Colombians, were
heard frequently, the latter station even read out my reception report. Luckily I was lying in
bed that particular morning with the headphones on listening to them before getting up forschool. My log records: “4/9/73 4945kHz Radio Colosal, Neiva, Colombia. Read out my letter atapprox. 0610 GMT along with others received from Sweden and Germany.” They played us all a
Pink Floyd track and later I received a letter (all in Spanish) and a pennant. Both are still stored
in the loft somewhere.
Radio Comercial from Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic on 4880kHz was agood signal back in the 70’s and I
usually listened to their lively music
beforegoing
toschool inthemorning. But I think the 70’s for me
were dominated by the offshore
stations. Radios Atlantis, Veronica, Caroline, Mi Amigo and of course RNI. Never a dull
moment on MW with these stations going on and off the air, changing frequency, masts
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collapsing etc. A brief late-1972 entry in my log states Scheveningen Radio on 2182kHz gaveout a navigational warning around 2300GMT that the radio ship Mi Amigo had anchored 52
degrees 12 mins N, 4 degrees 16 mins E and was showing no lights. Described as a “hazard toshipping”. All exciting stuff to a 14 year old!
Somewhere I have a tape of a Christmas Day 1973 test broadcast from the Mi Amigo
on 1187kHz with, I think, Andy Archer presenting. It was during the morning so reception was
clear. During the evenings 1187kHz deteriorated badly and I recall many an occasion trying tolisten to Radio Seagull only to give up. One of the 70’s offshore stations, I can’t be sure now if it
was RNI or Veronica, on signing off in the small hours used to have a minute or two of dead-air
then suddenly announce “Don’t forget to turn your radio off, you’re wasting the batteries”.
I missed the drama of the firebomb on the Mebo II, due to being away overnight on a school
trip to Wembley. Another entry in my log dated 14/8/75 records a station received on 593kHz
repeatedly announcing as “BBC test transmissions from north London.” A week later on 20/8/75,
another announcement on 593kHz said they were “BBC test transmissions from south London.”No difference in strength as received on a Bush TR116 portable in Hull. I never did find out what
the tests were, and I didn’t hear them again, but possibly they were connected to the proposed“Carfax” traffic information service?
Andrew Tett writes: What 1970s memories do I choose?
Shortwave bands so crammed and signals so strong that they would
overload my portable radio when I connected the random-wireantenna to the telescopic. In those days I longed for the future when
the bands might not be so crowded. Now, of course, I long for thedays when they were! For this sort of reason, and the fact that cost
was always a consideration, the cheaper and much better option
was to use a jumble sale valve radio.
Picking up Band I television sound (41.5MHz) from the superpowered (200kW vision and 50kW sound) Crystal Palace transmitteroccasionally on cheap transistor equipment. Touching the audio
input would often give this effect. Radio stations closing down
overnight so the MW band was relatively clear for DXing North
America. The stations would also open up in the morning withinterval signals and theme tunes.
A relatively clear FM band, much more opportunity for the DX to get in. I had quite a few valve
radios over the DXing years of the mid-seventies. I used to pick them up at jumble sales and run
them for a while, until another one came along which was better or something went wrong. My
favourites were always Philips ones - in particular the models based on the 341A chassis. The
one that I remember most was a 522A, which had a built-in gramophone player at one stage but
which I would never use because I had a much better Garrard SP25 Mk IV deck which wasmuch better.
Norbert Scheel's memories of 1970s DXing are dominated by the offshore shortwave stations.
Radio North Sea International from the radio ship Mebo II with his favourite programme AJ
Beirens' North Sea Goes DX on Sunday mornings from 1971 to 1974. Although Norbert had
been aware of 1960s pirate stations he had no information on where the transmissions camefrom and they passed him by. From 1970 his interest was triggered, with good reception inGermany during daylight hours. Norbert was also interested in the rest of what shortwave
broadcasting bands had to offer, but with the exception of the eastern bloc stations. He recalls
how the 1970s provided much for the DXer, with programmes such as Sweden Calling DXers, amonthly programme Studio Monica/Frankfurt/Main aired by the German service of Radio
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Portugal and the weekly German language DX programme on 6155kHz Radio Austria
International. Even two stations local to him in Berlin had DX programmes: SFB - Sender Freies
Berlin's Our Shortwave Stroll (somewhat surprising for a station that didn't broadcast on
shortwave!) and RIAS Berlin on 6005kHz Radio International with Armin Amler.
Norbert mentions the excellent propagation in the European winter of 1975-76 on 60 metres
which was good for South American stations. On the downside, less enjoyable aspects of the era
for him included Morse code transmitters around 48 metres above 6200kHz which interfered withhis pirate radio listening. The jamming of signals from Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty BBC
and Deutsche Welle aimed to eastern Europe is another unpleasant memory. Collecting QSL
cards was something that was enjoyed differently 40 years ago, when Norbert would contact free
radio operators with off air recordings and reception reports, something he feels unable to do
now as he does not use the internet. Norbert concludes by asking if we could reproduce an earlyissue of Communication and sends his congratulations for the BDXC 40th anniversary.
Alan Roe writes: It is a coincidence that the BDXC Anniversary Year of 1974 was also the yearthat I first really became aware of the existence of shortwave radio. For years before, I had
always had a small transistor radio, and remember well listening to Radio Caroline and Radio
London in the mid 1960's, and also making a point of listening to the launch of Radio 1. I also
seem to remember being quite interested in seeing a radio ship offshore whilst on holiday in
Walton-on-the-Naze. I also recall listening to Radio Luxembourg in the evenings. However, I
don't recall the implementation of the Marine, etc, Broadcasting (Offences) Act in 1967 making
any impression on me at the time, and my interest in radio, although present, was fairly low.
This changed in 1974. It all started earlier in the year when late one evening I was listening to
Capital Radio on MW, and was a little bored by the output. So I started turning the dial, and after
a while came across a programme in English from Sweden. It was Sweden Calling DXers, andas I listened I realised that the presenter (I guess that it must have been George Wood) was
giving tips about radio stations broadcasting on shortwave. A couple of weeks or so later, I
spotted an advertisement in (I think) a Sunday newspaper for a cheap Russian-made 11-band
radio (or some such number of bands) including medium and long wave, air band, marine bandand several shortwave bands (where it promised that I could tune into stations from around theworld - such as Timbuktu, or live baseball from the US or cricket from India, and such like).
My birthday was coming up, so that what was I asked
for my birthday present. I got the radio a couple ofdays before my birthday, and spent an hour on
Saturday afternoon tuning around - and heard
absolutely nothing, just noise and static. I wassomewhat discouraged, but never-the-less I tried againthat evening, and found a number of stations in various
languages and then eventually (if I remember correctly)
Radio Moscow with some rather dry content. Some
more tuning brought me to the Two Bobs on Swiss
Shortwave Merry Go Round, which was much more interesting. Sunday morning, I tried again and came across Tom Meijer with The Happy Station Show. By now I was hooked
into shortwave and have never looked back - joining World DX Club in around 1977 and British
DX Club (as it had by then become) a year or so later. (Un)surprisingly, I'm still waiting to hearbroadcasts from Timbuktu and live baseball from the US via shortwave!
My congratulations and thanks to the founder members who first conceived the Twickenham DX
Club and are still here working hard to produce a first rate bulletin every month, and of course to
the other editors and everyone involved in the running of the club.

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Celebrating 40 years of BDXC 1974-2014
The first edition of Communication was published four decades ago on 10th September 1974 andso this month we are celebrating the club’s 40th Anniversary!
During the past 40 years there have been a total of 18,475 pages published in Communication!
(including Broadcasts in English booklets, this total increases to around 19,391 pages published).
You may wonder why the edition you’re reading is only Edition 478 (not 481) though? Simply as
two editions covered two months (June/July 1975 and June/July 1977) and one edition was
missed altogether in July 1985, when the club switched printing format. Apart from this,Communication has appeared every month for the past 40 years! But how did it all start in 1974?
The club has its origins in a small typewritten carbon-copied bulletin called Club DX News, thenrenamed DX 72 from the Twickenham Short Wave DX Club. About four issues of these were
produced (each with only a handful of copies - limited by the number of sheets of carbon paperthat could be produced legibly!). These newsletters were circulated within class at school
between 1972-3 by David Kenny, with some input also from Malcolm Griffiths and David
Balhatchet. However the idea for launching the club proper, was formulated by the two Davids
along with Nick Van Stigt, during the long summer school holiday of 1974, still in their home townof Twickenham, on the banks of
the River Thames, west of
London. An announcement wassent to various popular DX
programmes of the time, that thefirst bulletin of the Twickenham
DX Club (TDC for short at first,
but changed to TDXC in early1976) called Communication would be launching in September 1974. Nick’s mother would help
the club print the first few editions.
The first edition of Communication appeared in September 1974 and ran to just three A4 sides.
In it, club co-founder and editor Dave Kenny wrote:“Dear Members, This is TDC’s first newsletter. We have decided to call it “Communication” asthis single word seems to us to sum up the whole meaning of the hobby of DXing”.
The first edition included just 18 shortwave logs including Voice of Nigeria on 15120 kHz andRAE Argentina on 11710 kHz (both frequencies they still use today!) – see below:

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It also included the news that a DXer in the Soviet Union was in trouble with the authorities after
his name was read out on the Sweden Calling DXers programme. QSL Waiting Times including
a wait of 46 days for a QSL from Radio Station Peace & Progress in the Soviet Union. Also
included were Propagation Report, Spotlight on a Radio Station (on Radio Australia) and
Propaganda on the Shortwaves – a Sad Reality, an article by David Balhatchet.
A list of new members in this first edition showed the club had just five members. Editor David
Kenny requested contributions to: 37A, Pope’s Grove, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham TW1 4JZ (infact a home-made post box affixed to the wall of Nick Van Stigt’s parent’s house at Number 37).
We must pause however with a note of sadness in these recollections to note that Nick’s mother,
who helped print the first copies of Communication passed away in July this year. And we also
learned that club co-founder David Balhatchet, who left the club after only a couple of years, diedin December last year in Penzance. Our sincere condolences go out to Nick and David’s families.
But how did such a small club grow into a national and international DX Club, especially during
those early years? In 1974 of course there was no internet or email to spread the word so lettersannouncing the club’s arrival had been posted out to many of the English language DX
programmes then being aired on shortwave stations around the world. These included Short
Wave Panorama on Austria Calling from Vienna, DX Jukebox on Radio Nederland from
Hilversum and Just Ask & RNB will Answer on Radio Nacional de Brasilia. And nearer to homethe new club was pleased to receive a mention on new ILR Swansea Sound (257 metres) who
had a regular late evening DX spot at 2315 on Thursdays, presented by Alan Thompson (whoalso had a DX programme on Deutchlandfunk). As a result, membership numbers gradually
started to climb. Below is the first mention of the club on the popular DX programme Sweden
Calling DXers on Tuesday 13th September 1974 presented by Arne Skoog. Some of you may
remember Radio Sweden sent out the scripts of the show to contributors to the programme:

And a few months later, on 18th February 1975, another mention on Radio Sweden’s DX show:

The results of a survey of club members in April 1975, showed that the Radio Sweden “plugs”
had been the most successful in recruiting new members. Some stations had refused toannounce details of the new club. Arthur Cushen said his DX World programme on Radio New
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Zealand International could not contain any advertising material, as it also went out on the
NZBC’s domestic National network. And the BBC’s World Radio Club wrote back and said they
hadn’t mentioned TDC as they had many requests from clubs all over the world, so said no to
everyone. But, they added, they did make exceptions, if a studio guest belonged to a particularclub for example. So it was that on the 29th July 1975, Dave Kenny and Nick Van Stigt arrived at
Bush House in London for the recording of World Radio Club as perhaps the programme’s
youngest ever guests? And the Twickenham DX Club did receive some publicity on the BBC
World Service after all, courtesy of being interviewed by Reg Kennedy. Sadly, no recordings ofthis edition of World Radio Club were kept.
Edition Number 2 (October 1974) of Communication is unfortunately missing from the club’s
archives, but in the Tenth Anniversary issue (September 1984) editor Chris Greenway did
mention this issue: “Two more DXers had joined by the time Edition No.2 was published and they
were able to read that as Radio Veronica had been forced to close down because of the passageof the Dutch Marine Offences Act, Capital Radio was now audible over most of the country on
557 kHz from its temporary transmitter site in Chelsea.”
Edition Number 3 of Communication (November 1974) had grown in size to six sides which
prompted the editor to comment “Phew! What a bumper edition!” It listed the club’s first European
member (in Sweden), plus three new members in Japan. News included Harry Van Gelder
retiring from presenting Radio Nederland’s DX Jukebox with Dick Speekman replacing him. Also
Capital Radio and LBC (London) would soon move to new MW frequencies – 194 and 261
metres and Radio Hallam (Sheffield) was already on 194 metres and had already been heard in
Twickenham and a QSL received. Spotlight on a Radio Station featured Radio Afghanistan which
could be heard at 1130 GMT on 15195 kHz. In an article on Jamming on the Shortwaves, Dave
Kenny suggested “tuning around the 16 metre band in the evening. Every other station is ajammer” and concluded “Jamming is a great nuisance to DXers”. This issue listed a club Board:
Nick Van Stigt (Treasurer), Dave Kenny (Editor), David Balhatchet (Secretary) and new recruit
Mark Lee (Deputy Editor) all in Twickenham.
Forty years ago in 1974, what receivers were DXers using? Early editions of Communication did
not list this information although Issue number 3
included a “Wanted” advert for an RF Preselector“preferably valve” for use with “a rather imageridden Codar CR70A set”! It wasn’t until theAugust 1975 issue that Padriac Cawley in Irelandsuggested members contributing tips should list
their equipment. Reading through subsequentissues, receivers such as the AR88, Eddystone
840C, Eddystone EC10, Ekco U143, Trio
9R59DS, Hammerlund, Yaesu FR-101, the new
Grundig Satellit 2000 and Philips domestic
receivers are mentioned. Digital readout would
have been an unaffordable luxury for most DXers
in 1974, although sets such as the Barlow
Wadley XCR-30 afforded good frequency stability
and accurate analogue dial readout through its“Wadley Loop”, later used in the Yaesu FRG-7.
Above: Club founder Dave Kenny with Sony 5900W
in Sweden (1981) The radio is still in regular use!.

Communication, during its first year, had settled into regular monthly sections: DX News,
Members loggings (shortwave and mediumwave, but arranged in time order), a QSL section,
Mailbox, a Propagation Report based upon reception in Twickenham and Spotlight on a radio
station. Already after one year “with membership approaching fifty” the workload on the editors in
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Twickenham was proving too much so an appeal was made for members in the UK to volunteer
to compile the DX News, Loggings and QSL sections. The first section editor outside of
Twickenham was the late Dr Donald McKinley, in Worthing, who edited the DX News section
from November 1975 until August 1979.
Two years after the club launched as the Twickenham DX Club,
membership numbers passed the 100 mark in October 1976. The
increasing and widening geographical spread of membership led
to the decision to finally change the club’s name to The British
DX Club (or BDXC-UK for short) from March 1979. (The current
club logo right, designed by Andrew Tett, was chosen from anumber submitted by members in 1985 and appeared for the firsttime on the cover of the January 1986 issue of Communication).
Of those first 200 members, the following are still members today:
BDXC 1 Dave Kenny
BDXC 3 Nick Van Stigt
BDXC 20 Russell Holmes
BDXC 28 Jim Parker
BDXC 48 Ken Fletcher
BDXC 49 Mike Barraclough

BDXC 57 Mike Terry
BDXC 62 David Reynolds
BDXC 67 Edwin Southwell
BDXC 68 Mark Savage
BDXC 81 David Ansell
BDXC 90 Stefano Valianti

BDXC 111
BDXC 124
BDXC 128
BDXC 146
BDXC 186
BDXC 197

David MorrisMark Fisher
Tony Rogers
Chris Gibbs
Chris Greenway
Alan Pennington

Whilst looking through thepast477
issuesofCommunication I made anote of who were the club
officers and editors of themainsectionsofthemagazine over the past forty
years. I’m not sure if anybody
has made such a record
before, but there surely
deserves to be one. As wellas those mentioned there ofcourse been many temporary
or stand-in editors and othercontributors to the magazine,
too numerous to mention
here. So my apologies forany omissions or errors
which are probably due tothe speed I was skim-reading
through Communications!
Above: (l-r) James Hobson, Dave Kenny, Paul Cox, Simon Knott,
Chris Greenway & Mark Savage (Tennyson Ave, Twickenham c1979)
General Editor
Sept 1974-Aug 1976
Sept 1976-Oct 1978
Nov 1978-May 1981
Jun 1981-May 1985
Jun 1985-Dec 1987
Jan 1988-Jul 1988
Aug 1988-April 2005
May 2005-present

Dave Kenny
Mark Lee
Dave Kenny
Chris Greenway
Tony Rogers
Phil Hodgson
Tony Rogers
Chrissy Brand

Printer
Sept 1974-Jul 1976
Mrs Judith Van Stigt
Aug 1976-Oct 1978
Dave Kenny
Nov 1978-Jul 1980
Paul Cox
Aug 1980-Apr 1982
Colin WrightMay 1982-Mar 1984 John Chivers
May 1984-Jun 1985 Stephen Buckley
Aug 1985-present:
printed externally by Presto Print(in Oxford & Reading); Grosvenor Print (in Caversham)and currently by Hertfordshire Display (Ware).
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Club Treasurer
Nov 1974-Aug 1978
Sep 1978-Aug 1979
Sep 1979-Nov 1987
Dec 1987-present

Nick Van Stigt
Martin Gourley
Nick Van Stigt
Dave KennyClub SecretaryNov 1974-Jul 1976
Aug 1976-May 1985
Aug 1985-Jan 2006
Feb 2006-presentDavid Balhatchet
Dr Donald McKinley
Colin Wright
Andrew Tett

Printing of Communication: Up until August 1985, it was printed using a Gestetner duplicator in
the club printer’s home, with section editors typing onto stencils. Very occasionally a photocopied
sheet was added to include pictures, but for the most part it was 100% typed text. The magazine
was all collated and stapled by hand. In August 1985 we switched to external printing(photocopying) and then section editors typed onto A4 paper, mainly still using type writers or
early Word Processors (e.g. Amstrad). Pictures were added by pasting in photocopies.
Magazines were still posted out from Caversham until we switched to our current printers,
Hertfordshire Display, in March 2000. A pdf of Communication is now emailed to Ware (inHertfordshire) where themagazine is digitallyphotocopied. Nowadays
editors
caninsertscanned photos andimagesinto
theirsections. The magazine
is now also despatchedfrom Ware by ourprinters, so the quick
turn around the club has
always prided itself on is
maintained. The days of
messy inky stencils andwalking around a table
collating each copy now
seem medieval looking
back (the Gestetner wasrecycled at the local tip,
thoughmaybe
themuseum would havebeen more appropriate!).
Above: BDXC Board (l-r) Nick Van Stigt, Donald McKinley, Colin Wright
Alan Pennington, Dave Kenny and Andrew Tett (Catford, 1981)

Logbooks of what our members have heard have been a regular mainstay of Communication
every month since the first edition. Shortwave logs have been arranged in a variety of orders
over the years – time order, split by continent and (as now) frequency order. Before the days ofcomputers, editors would cut members’ handwritten contribution sheets into strips to arrange inorder for typing! The growth in the number of logs each month meant separate log sections were
set up through the years. Beyond the Horizon first appeared under the editorship off Andrew Tettin 1980 and included VHF/TV logs - MW logs were moved into this section in 1985. Ten years
later in 1990, a separate MW Logbook appeared. And in June 1985, shortwave logs below 5900
kHz were given their own Tropical Bands Logbook. The logbooks have had many editors over
the years but long-service awards are due for:
HF Logbook: Stephen Howie 17 years (1997-to date), Steven Rowe 8 years (1986-1994), Tony
Rogers 5 years (1981-1986);
Tropical Logbook: Alan Pennington 13 years (2001-to date), Kevin O’Daly 6 years (1992-1998);
MW Logbook: Jeff Weston 15 years (1990-2005), Tony Rogers 8 years (2005-2013);
Beyond the Horizon: Colin Ferris 7 years (1990-1997), Chrissy Brand 9 years (2005-to date).

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As weIl as regular logbooks,
reports of what has been
heard
on
DXpeditions,especially to Sheigra in
Scotland, have also becomearegularfeatureinCommunication over theyears. Many of thesereports have now been
uploaded onto the club
website at www.bdxc.org.uk
Right: (l-r) Tony Rogers, Alan
Pennington & Dave Kenny(Sheigra, October 2007)

DX News has also been avery important core sectionof Communication sinceDay 1. In the pre internet
days, club magazines, alongwith DX programmes were the only source of information on new stations, frequency changes
etc for DXers. Editors have included: Dave Kenny, Dr Donald McKinley, Chris Greenway, Alan
Pennington, Mark Hattam, Tony Rogers and Darren Beasley. Pirate news items were originally
included until they migrated to Alternative Airwaves. UK news items were covered in more depth
between September 1976 and January 1979 in Local Forum compiled by Mark Savage.
A separate UK News column edited by Dave Kenny first appeared in
December 1991, the reports in which formed the basis of editions of the
club’s popular publication, Radio Stations in the United Kingdom (which
now also includes Irish stations in a supplement). A separate list of GB
Broadcasting stations was first published by the club in 1976 and Radio
Stations in the United Kingdom has now reached its 24th edition. Anotherspin-off from DX News has been Broadcasts in English – the first listing,compiled by Tony Rogers, appeared as part of the January 1997
Communication and as a separate booklet in June 1997. It has appeared
every six months since then following the seasonal frequency changes.
Broadcasts in English as well as Radio Stations in the UK have proved
popular with non-club members also, and sales have generated extra
income for the club.
QSL Report is another section that has appeared in most editions since the very beginning,
though initially it was called “QSL waiting times” – reporting simply how many days members had
waited for their verifications from stations! The club has however never produced “league tables”
of numbers of countries and stations verified by their members though, as other clubs have done.
QSL Report has had a number of editors over the past forty years, but particular mention is due
to Stephen Proctor, editor from October 1982 to February 1996 and to Roger Bixley, editor fromMarch 1998 to February 2011 – around 13 years each! Stephen also compiled the fifth and final
edition of the club’s, QSL Survey, in 1988. This useful booklet amalgamated all the QSL data thatappeared in the monthly QSL columns and had first been compiled in 1976, then in 1978 byDave Kenny. Subsequent editions were edited in 1981 (by then QSL Report editor David
Stevenson and Shaun Geraghty) and in 1984 (by Tony Rogers). Like Roger Bixley before him,
our current QSL Report editor, Dario Gabrielli, is based outside of the UK – something that was
not possible in the club’s first few years until the invention of email!

17Mailbox / Open to Discussion has been a lively forum of discussion for members right from the
beginning. Looking through the archive it was difficult not to stop and read through the hotly
debated topics of the time, especially in the 1970s when all correspondence came courtesy ofRoyal Mail (strikes permitting)! Topics such as pirate radio, layout of Logbook and the EDXC
were refereed, usually by the editor of Communication, who also took on the role of Mailbox
editor in the early days. But from October 1991, a dedicated editor has been in charge of BDXC’spost bag - David Morris. And he’s still in charge today, nearly 23 years later! In August 1997 a
new name and masthead were adopted for the letters column – Open to Discussion – the namehas stuck, but not themasthead (left). Most
letters now arrive by email,which must be a slight
disappointment to keen
philatelist David!

A Propagation Report appeared regularly in Communication right from Issue 1 in 1974. It was
based on Dave Kenny’s observations on reception in the previous month. From March 1977 until
May 1981, a regular report produced by both Ken Fletcher and Dave appeared every month,which was carried on by Chris Greenway when he was General Editor until the mid-1980s.
Propagation news was revived by postings from Mike Terry and Ken Fletcher around 2006 and a
regular report has appeared most months, compiled by James Welsh, since February 2007.
Pirate Radio At first the club was reluctant to publish details of any pirate radio stations. In the
April 1975 edition of Communication, the editor wrote: “It will not be possible to list pop pirates
because of certain laws in most countries”. But a log of London FM pirate Radio Invicta had
already slipped through in the February 1975 edition. Those for and against listing pirates in themagazine put their cases in Mailbox. But by March 1979 a separate section devoted to “FreeRadio News” started to appear each month, edited at first by Bob Burwell. This was soon
renamed Alternative Airwaves, and was edited briefly by Mark Ward, then Shaun Geraghty, thenGavin Robertson in the years 1980-82. In January 1983 Alan Pennington took on the section andedited Alternative Airwaves for a very long 19 year period, until February 2001, covering bothland-based and offshore radio news. Initially just a pirate news section, it later adopted a logbook
style
format.
In
September 1988, theclub had a stall at theCommunicate
88
event in Blackpool.
left: Dave Kenny andJohn Fraser at our stallat Communicate 88.

In April 2001, Tom
Read took the helm of
Alternative Airwaves
for five years, editing it
until January 2006.
Although
offshoreradio ended off the
Britishcoast
inNovember 1991, Tommade a number oftrips to “offshore revival” RSLs, articles on which appeared in Communication (as well as Radio
User and still online at http://tomread.co.uk ). The internet meant Communication editors no18

longer had to be UK-based, and from February 2006 to date, Axel Roese in Germany took over
AAW, with assistance from Barry Henshall and more recently Vick Haviland.
A dedicated programme section called Listening On with Sheila Hughes appeared between May
1989 and June 1991. From May 2008 Darren Rozier wrote Listening In which looked at adifferent station each month and, since January 2013, Alan Roe has written a regular programme
column called Listening Post and also a music on shortwave section in Broadcasts in English.
Southern European Report has been a regular column in Communication since March 1995, so
over 19 years! Compiled by our long-standing member Stefano Valianti (BDXC 90) in Italy, it
gave a new perspective on radio news from further south in Europe. Stefano was our first editor
outside the British Isles until Roger Bixley (in Germany) took on QSL Report in 1998.
Ether to Speaker (subtitled ‘a review of listening hardware’) first appeared in March 1997,
penned by Adrian Moxon, who had contributed receiver reviews before then. Of course reviewsof receivers had appeared before in the pages of Communication, though this was the firstcolumn devoted to the topic. Andrew Tett has since taken on the task of flagging up new receiverand technical developments under the Ether to Speaker heading when topics arise.
Meetings & social activity Ken Fletcher, who held the post of Social Secretary for several
years in the 70s, must take credit for encouraging social activity in the club in the early days andfor challenging “DX hermits” to attend meetings! Originally TDC held a biennial meeting either insomeone's house, in a church hall or a pub room in Twickenham. Then, in the early 80s, wellattended AGMs took place in London at Baden Powell House. After a break of a few years our
now-familiar annual summer meetings in Twickenham organised by Mark Savage were resumed.
From 1975 TDXC started participating in “inter club” meetings, by far the longest-lasting of thesehas been the Reading meetings which continue to this day. Meetings have also been organisedby members of various clubs at various locations around the country over the years including
Birkenhead/Wallasey, Birmingham, Bradford, Bournemouth, Catford, Cambridge, Cardiff,
Cranford, Derby, Glasgow, Leicester, Hove/Shoreham, Manchester, Reading and Worthing.

Above: Reading meeting, summer of 1997 – standing Dave Kenny & Alan Pennington (Big L T Shirt);
seated (l-r) Ian Kelly, Derek Knight, Mike Barraclough, Edwin Southwell, Dario Monferini (Play-DX, Italy),
Clive Rooms and Chris Gibbs. (Piper’s Island, Caversham)19

As well as meetings there have been a few outings organised for members. The first of thesewas a trip to Jodrell Bank in Cheshire in the 70s. Since then outings to Bletchley Park in
Buckinghamshire; the Rampisham transmitter site in Dorset, World Radio Network HQ in London
and the Aspidistra transmitter site in Ashdown Forest near Crowborough have taken place. In
1999 we even had a boat trip to an offshore RSL broadcast in Essex. Sadly, a planned members’visit to Woofferton last year was cancelled by Babcock on health & safety grounds!
The club has taken part in a number of exhibitions over the years, notably the Communicate 88
Anoraks UK convention in Blackpool in 1988; at the EDXC Road Show in Birmingham in 1987; atthe Lee Valley amateur radio rallies in London and the National Vintage Communications Fair
near Leamington.
The European DX Council is an umbrella organisation for DX clubs acrossEurope and, apart from a short gap in the 1980s, the club has been a member, orobserver member (on cost grounds), of EDXC since 1976. Ken Fletcher, as our
first EDXC Rep, attended and reported on a number of conferences. Several
BDXC members also attended the 1984 EDXC conference in Stockholm (hosted
by Radio Sweden) as well as the 1983 conference in London (hosted by the BBC
World Service) and in recent years BDXC has been represented at many of the EDXC
conferences around Europe, including the one this month in France.
World Radio TV Handbook The club was first listed in the 1977 edition of the World Radio TV
Handbook (WRTH). TDXC also started offering members a discount on the annual World RadioTV Handbook in 1977, initially the offer was arranged through the World DX Club but
subsequently we organised sales directly. A discount for members with the distributors ofPassport to World Band Radio was arranged more recently, though sadly PWBR ceased
publication in 2009. Communication has been sent to the WRTH editors for many years and weare now credited by WRTH as a contributing organisation, as well as overseeing the annual
WRTH prize draws.
Tape Circle / Audio Circle In the October 1975 “Communication”, new member Ken Fletcher
wrote in TDC Mailbox that he was interested in “starting up a tape circle within the club”. Thisidea came to fruition in February 1976 when the first edition of TDXC Tape Circle was circulated,“including interviews with EDXC Secretary General Rudolf Heim and Radio Sweden’s DX Editor
Arne Skoog along with information from Ken
Fletcher in Birkenhead and Derek Bell in Derby”.
Ken and Derek took it in turns to edit and circulate
the programmes until September 1976 when Mark
Savage (pictured, right) took over from Ken.
Derek continued to contribute and edit from his
QTH in Chaddesden, Derby, until he too 'retired'.
Another DXer involved around this time was TerryJames in Newport, South Wales, who edited
several programmes. In a remarkable coincidence, Terry lived less than a quarter of a milefrom Damien Read, one of a later, younger pair ofeditors with a unique style. His partner at the
microphone was Andy Guy, but neither of themknew Terry.
The Tape Circle became an established extra
service for club members under editors Ken
Fletcher, Mark Savage, Andrew Tett and Chrissy Brand plus a host of rotating monthly
presenters. Sadly, the very first edition of TC was not archived for posterity, as far as we know.
However, Mark has a copy of his first programme. Many other editions from across the past20

decades have been kept (though not all), and are gradually being digitised thanks largely to
Andrew Tett. In 2009 the Tape Circle was renamed Audio Circle to reflect the fact most members
no longer listen on cassette but via CD or MP3 download. It is now produced bi-monthly and theMP3 download is available free to BDXC members.
The computer age The club’s first website was created in January 1996 by Nigel Watkinson,
hosted at UMIST in Manchester. In March 2000, the domain www.bdxc.org.uk was acquired. We
now also own the bdxc.co.uk and bdxc.uk domains. The
website is now home to a host of articles and resources,
both
articleswhich
previously
appearedinCommunication (such as Sheigra DXpedition reports)
plus regularly updated pages, many written by Tony
Rogers, such as Africa on Shortwave, External Services
on Medium wave, South Asia on Shortwave, DX
Programme Guide and Guide to Radio Museums .
In June 1998 a new column, Surfing the World Wide
Web first appeared in Communication, which is still amonthly feature sixteen years later, now renamed
Webwatch, but still edited by the club’s General Editor,
Chrissy Brand (photo left).
Forty years ago the General Editor used to receive and post out a lot of contributions to section
editors around each monthly deadline – now most are sent in via email.
In February 2002 the bdxc-news service was transferred to Yahoo! Groups enabling members toreceive and post items of hot DX news. A separate Yahoo! Group, bdxc-tc (Total Chat) was
added in 2007, enabling members to comment on news items or discuss other radio matters.
Since January 2013, new or renewing members can opt to receive a pdf by email (instead of a
printed copy) of each month’s Communication to read on their tablets, ‘phones or computers.
Membership numbers were thought to have peaked around 2002, when they were in excess of
520, though this is an estimate based on the number of copies of Communication being printed.
However, the influx of new members in January 2013, as a result of the transfer of members
from the World DX Club, following the closure of WDXC, pushed the total close to 550, including
both print and pdf subscribers. We have just issued membership number 2404, which in theory
means that number of individuals have belonged to the club over the past forty years as rejoining
members are given their old membership number whenever possible, if identified as such.
On Friday 15th July 1988, the radio section in the Independent newspaper in the UK published anarticle titled A life on the short wave, written by Robert Hanks. The article included a chart of a
selection of shortwave stations, with their frequencies and times, plus a brief comment on what
you might hear on each station. An accompanying paragraph provided an introduction toshortwave listening and gave the British DX Club’s address at the end. This produced a flood ofenquiries, which then Secretary Colin Wright replied to with an information sheet, answering themost frequent questions, plus a sample copy of Communication. This generated quite an influx of
new members, and was probably the biggest single boost to membership before the transfer of
WDXC memberships in January last year.
Usually however, new members are recruited gradually throughout the year through publicity forour publications, adverts in WRTH, mentions on DX Programmes or in magazines such as Radio
User, or appearances at events (as mentioned above). However we hope fellow BDXC members
will also promote the club themselves through word-of-mouth to fellow radio enthusiasts! A lot
has changed in our hobby over the past 40 years, but BDXC has evolved as well, thanks to ourclub officers, editors and members. Well done on reaching this 40 year milestone, and we now
look forward to the club’s 50th anniversary in 2024!
(Alan Pennington)
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Short wave listening at sea in the 1970s
By David Harris mydogisfinn@gmail.com
I left school in 1970 and joined the British Merchant Navy as a Navigating Officer Cadet. In
those days Britain had a huge merchant fleet which employed many thousands of British
seamen. I had become interested in short wave listening whilst at school and knew that when I
was at sea I would need a good world band radio to keep in touch with what was happening in
the world. On my first voyage I was able to purchase a Grundig Satellit 210 from a duty free shopin Rotterdam. This was a fabulous radio which combined superb performance with excellent
sound quality. It had bandspreads for all the SW bands and also covered MW and FM. It wasvery easy to operate and gave much pleasure as I sailed around the world. Photo fromhttp://radiopics.com/Grundig/Grundig_Satellit%20210.htm

On joining a new ship one of
my first tasks was to beg a few
bits of wood from the ships
carpenter and make a secure
shelf for my beloved radio.
Ships tend to roll about a bit at
sea and the radio needed to be
firmly fixed to the shelf. I thinksome of the more modern
ships had an aerial socket ineach cabin otherwise I rigged
up a long wire aerial throughthe porthole. The ship’s
wardroom
(bar)
had
a
broadcast receiver, probably
something like an Eddystone
EB35.
I don’t recall thesebeing used very much as many of the younger crew brought records or cassettes which provided
our communal entertainment.
My main memory of this period was being able to listen to the BBC World Service at any time ofthe day or night regardless of where I was in the world. It was a case of the sun never setting on
the BBC World Service empire. One of my favourite programmes was a pop music Top 10 (orperhaps Top 20) show which I think was broadcast three times a week. As a teenager I wasvery keen on music and seem to remember being able to listen to this programme every week. I
think it is very sad now that the BBC World Service only broadcasts in English a few hours a dayfrom a few locations. I believe now that some ships have satellite TV and access to broadband.
However many seafarers must still rely on Shortwave radio for information and entertainment
whilst at sea.
One of the most unusual stations I recall listening to was Radio Gan which was based at the
RAF station on the island of Gan in the Maldives. This Indian Ocean island was used forrefuelling flights from the UK to the Far East. I think it was AM but not part of the BFBS network.
I passed about 50 miles from Gan on a voyage to India and recall listening to the station for acouple of hours. It must have been very low power. The RAF base (and presumably the radio
station) closed in 1976. There are some pictures of Radio Gan on this website:
http://www.gan.philliptsmall.me.uk/00%20-%20HTML/PhotoGalleries/RadioGan%20[%20].htm
My voyages took me to Canada, South Africa, East Africa and the India sub-continent. I don’trecall much about Canadian radio which was often in French but in the evenings whilst in
Canadian waters I liked to listen to the American AM stations which were easily heard. Their22

diversity of content and style of presenting was quite a revolution compared with the somewhat
staid BBC. It was amazing to hear country music, jazz, R & B, gospel, rock and pop music all
coming from different stations.
South Africa in the early 1970s had tightly controlled state-run media but in neighbouring
Mozambique there was Lourenco Marques Radio which was a commercial pop music station – a
bit like Radio Luxemburg. This station was usually referred to as LM Radio and was the firstcommercial station in Africa. The station closed in 1975 when Mozambique became independentof Portugal. There is a website http://www.lmradio.org/ commemorating this station. LM Radio
which was South African owned was relaunched as Radio 5 (later 5FM) in South Africa. I reallyenjoyed listening to LM radio on the various occasions when my ship called into South African
ports as it meant I could listen to pop music all day and night.
On an ocean voyage you know when you areapproaching land as you begin to hear AM
radio stations long before you actually make aland fall. One knew that the Indian coast was
not far away when Indian music started toappear on the airwaves. Indian music seemed
to be widely played to the exclusion of westernmusic in India. However I recall listening towestern pop from FM stations in Sri Lanka.
Fortunately if local stations did not offer muchin the way of entertainment there was always
the BBC World Service. I also recall enjoying
shortwave broadcasts from Swiss Radio, Radio
Netherlands (The Happy Station) and myfavourite - Radio Sweden.
I think theybroadcast a lot of Swedish pop which was quite good but not played much outside of Sweden –this was long before Abba! After a few years the novelty of being at sea wore off and I left the
Merchant Navy to work ashore. My Grundig Satellit gave many years’ service although in theend I used it mainly as an FM tuner which I plugged into my stereo system. Some 40 years later
I am still interested in radio and recall the very strong links with home that short wave radio gave
to me in those years sailing around the world.

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Listening Post
with Alan Roe

listeningpost@bdxc.org.uk

Hello and welcome to Listening Post for September, and Happy Birthday to BDXC. I’ll start thismonth with a couple of programme recommendations from Glenn Hauser in DX Listening Digest.
WWCR, USAWWCR 15825, August 2 at 1455, neat old tunes on `The Talking [sic] Machine Show` from
WWCR; frustratingly, Phil Patton gives the year the wax cylinder was made, 1916, but *not* thename of the song nor the composer, nor performer! The next one is faded out at 1459 before
there can be another incomplete outro, let alone a program closing. Host is an engineer, not anexperienced announcer, yet this is the only WWCR show worth listening to on WWCR. They still
haven’t put up an August programme schedule, but the latest dated June 20 shows for TTMS:
Sat 1000 4840, Sat 1430 15825, Sat 2300 9350, Mon 0400 4840 (Glenn Hauser, via DX
Listening Digest)
WRMI, USA
Jeff White points out that there is now a schedule grid for all the `F` blocks [or “System F”
programming] which are attributed to Family Stations, coloured red on the graphic frequency
schedule. This schedule is not on the same page as the 9955 programming, but just below thefrequency schedule grid which I have tinyurled to: http://tinyurl.com/kjchgca or reached throughhomepage http://www.wrmi.net --> programming --> transmission schedule. Note: if you havedownloaded previous frequency schedules, you may get an old one which still exists on the web
at different incredibly complex Google URLs.
From that, the DX programmes on WRMI frequencies other than 9955 [are as follows]:• Historias de Radio: Mon 0430-0500; Fri 0130-0200• Antena DX: Thu 0430-0500; Sat 0100-0130• Viva Miami: Fri 0430-0445; Mon/Wed/Fri 1015-1030;
Wed & Sat 2115-2130, Thu 0130-0145• Frecuencia al Día: Fri 0100-0130; Sat 0430-0500• Wavescan: Sat 1000-1030; Sun 0130-0200• La Rosa de Tokio: Mon 2100-2200; Tue 0100-0200• Media Network Plus: Tue 2100-2200• WORLD OF RADIO: Fri 2130-2200; Sun 0100-0130
Some other programmes of interest:• Blues Radio International: Tue 0430-0500; Thu 2130-2200; Sat 0130-0200• Trova Libre: Wed 0430-0500; Mon 0100-0130• Acontecer Venezolano: Thu 0145-0200; Fri 0445-0500• EU News: Tue & Thu 1015-1030; Wed 2100-2115; Sun 2115-2130• From Moscow With Love: Wed 2130-2200• RFI Musique: Wed 0100-0200, Thu 0100-0130
Frequencies for “System F” broadcasts:
0100-0200 5950, WRMI-13, 181 degrees
1000-1030 5850, WRMI-8, 355 degrees
2100-2200 7570, WRMI-11, 315 degrees

0430-0500 5985, WRMI-2, 222 degrees
2100-2200 15770, WRMI-9, 44 degrees(Glenn Hauser, DX Listening Digest)

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China Radio International
You can often come across traditional Chinese music broadcast in most language services of
CRI – but for some reason not in English language programmes.
Some years ago, thisquestion was asked of CRI in their (now defunct) Listeners' Garden programme – the reason
given was that there was no available slot in their schedule for such a programme. Perhaps it’stime to ask again – the Sunday slot of World According to Words would be ideal!
An example is 16 August, where I start the evening with a random scan and settle on 11895kHz(via Xian) at 1845UT where there is some traditional Chinese music to enjoy with a little talk in a
local language (listed in EiBi & AOKI as Chaozhou). An enjoyable ten minutes until thetransmission ended at 1857UT (perfectly timed tx off immediately after the CRI theme). Thirty
seconds later the Kashi transmitter comes on air on the same frequency with CRI in (listed)
Cantonese. Following a (presumed) news bulletin, the broadcast continued with a programme ofChinese modern ballads. Again – an enjoyable programme, and so much more enjoyable (forme) than the bi-lingual Global Chinese Music in the English service which is really just a rundown of the latest “Top Twenty” hit parade with snippets of the songs.
The China Radio International website is, unfortunately, a bit of a mess – it’s very difficult tonavigate, and this is not helped by the various branding being used by different parts of CRI.
You would think that at the very least there would be an easy to find shortwave programmeschedule – but no. There is one, labelled as “Program Schedule for AM1008 in Beijing”, but it’sboth incomplete and out of date. So here is my monitored 24/7 programme schedule (actually
not quite monitored for 24/7 – I have had to make a few assumptions – but I think it’s accurate).
CRI English broadcasts consists of 4 different blocks of 1 hour programmes each day as follows:
All Broadcasts

00-05 Daily: News
05-55 Daily: Features – see below
55-59 Daily: Chinese Studio

Block A05-30 Sun: Global Chinese MusicMo-Fr: People in the Know
Sat:
Heartbeat30-55 Sun: Horizons
Mon: Frontline
Tue:
Postcard
Wed: In the Spotlight
Thu:
Voices from Other Lands
Fri:
Life Up CloseSat:
Biz Buzz

Block B
05-55 Mo-fr: The Beijing Hour
05-30 Sa-Su: News and Reports
30-55 Sat:
World According to Words
30-55 Sun: World According to Words (rpt)
Block C
05-55 Daily: China Drive
Block D
05-55 Daily: Roundtable

These 1-hour programming blocks are repeated throughout the day as follows:
0000:
0100:
0200:
0300:

A
B
A
B

0400:
0500:
0600:
0700:

A
B
A
B

0800:
0900:
1000:
1100:

A
B
A
B

1200:
1300:
1400:
1500:

A
C
D
B

1600:
1700:
1800:
1900:

C
D
A
B

2000:
2100:
2200:
2300:

C
D
A
B

The Sunday edition of The World According to Words is a repeat of the Saturday edition;
recently however these have all been repeats of programmes first aired in 2012 and 2013 andI’m not sure if there have been any new programmes produced for some months now. Global
Chinese Music is presented in English and Chinese and was introduced a few months ago
replacing the second weekly (Sunday) edition of Heartbeat. China Horizons was renamed
Horizons at around the same time.
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I haven’t listened much to CRI’s weekday programming for some time, concentrating mostly on
the weekend programmes. Horizons remains my favourite weekend programme. I’ll try andmake time over the next couple of months to listen to more of their weekday programming andreview them later in the year.
Do you listen to any of CRI’s programmes, whether that is in English or any of the otherlanguage services? If so please let us know what you like (or dislike) about their programmes. I
would be very interested to hear from you!
Music on Shortwave
Rafael Martínez writes with a welcome contribution of music listening tips.
This is the Dmitri Savitski Jazz Time programme current schedule on Radio Liberty's Russian
service:
Saturday 1805-1900 on 5995 11760 9840
Sunday 0505-0600 on 9635 11850 17770
Sunday 1905-2000 on 5995 7455 9840
Medi 1 is a commercial station well heard in the Mediterranean countries on SW 9575 and LW
171, it offers a programming based on current affairs, news and culture programmes along witha Western and Arabic pop music mix formula, including some specialised music programmes.
This is the correct schedule after monitoring of some of, from my point of view, most interestingmusic programmes offered by this station:
Ritmo Latino, modern Latin dance music presented by Layla Belarbi (in French): Saturday
1503-1600.
Jazz Session, jazz classics presented by Jawad (in French): Sunday 2304-0000.
La Bossa Nova, Bossa Nova hits presented by Sanae (in French): scheduled Sunday 1815 but
not noted at that time; shows can be heard anyway at http://www.medi1.com/musique/bossa/
La Musique Soufie, Sufi music presented by Ahmed Lekhligh (in Arabic): daily 1930-1958
repeated at 0300-0328. This programme has become one of my favorites; Wikipedia says
"While all Muslims believe that they are on the pathway to God and hope to become close to
God in Paradise--after death and after the "Final Judgment"--Sufis also believe that it is possible
to draw closer to God and to more fully embrace the Divine Presence in this life. The chief aim of
all Sufis is to seek the pleasing of God by working to restore within themselves the primordialstate of fitra described in the Qur'an -- fitra is an Arabic word meaning "disposition","constitution", or "instinct". In a mystical context, it can connote intuition or insight (...)--, in thisstate nothing one does defies God, and all is undertaken with the single motivation of love ofGod". Some prominent Sufi musicians according to Wikipedia are Abida Parveen, Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan and Sanam Marvi, all from Pakistan. La Musique Soufie is half hour of slow andsmooth music, ideal for relaxing after a workday.
For consulting the Medi 1 current programme schedule or listening to the newest or old shows
visit http://www.medi1.com
The Radio Havana Cuba Esperanto service aired on July 27 an interesting feature dedicated to
the Cuban musician Pedro Izquierdo, Pello el Afrokán, who in the early sixties created a newrhythm named Mozambique; the show is available at: http://www.ameriko.org/eo/node/715
Wikipedia info about Mozambique at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_(music)
Many thanks to Glenn and Rafael. I would like to receive your comments on what you’ve been
listening to, so please drop me a line at listeningpost@bdxc.org.uk, or by post via the Editor(address on front cover). That’s all for this month. Until next time: 73 – Alan
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Collectors’ Corner ~ Hallicrafters Sky Buddy
Tim Ritchie writes: The Hallicrafters S 19R Sky Buddy is an early World War II single
conversion superhet AM / CW communications receiver. It is mains powered and has a panel at
the rear to connect an aerial and earth. The frequency coverage is 545 KHz to 44 MHz divided
into four ranges: (1) 540 KHz – 1700 KHz; 1.7 MHz – 5.5 MHz; 5.5 MHz – 17.0 MHz; and 16.00
MHz – 46.0 MHz.

The controls consist of main and band spread tuning dials, BFO on/off, AVC on/off, AC / audio
gain and pitch control (when using BFO). Also a send / receive switch and socket for ‘phones. It
also has an internal speaker. Valve line up is: 6K8G, 6K7G, 6Q7G, 41, 76, 80. Operation isstraightforward, tuning is smooth and the band spread does help separate out adjacent signals;
it has a nice crisp audio on AM and has little frequency drift. However, it is pretty ‘deaf’ acrossmost of the higher frequencies, but considering the age of the receiver that’s not too surprising.
Sensitivity decreases quite rapidly above 15 MHz. However, using a MFJ 1045B pre selector
helps to reduce this problem. I have several World War II period communications receivers
which are of a more sophisticated design but this receiver (in my opinion) has the best visualappeal. Nowadays the Sky Buddy would probably be regarded as an entry level receiver; it cost
$30 in 1939 which would have made it available to cost conscious hams & SWLs on both sidesof the pond. Note: This set is in the first run of the model. A later version replaced the send / recslide switch with a toggle one.
See a restored Sky Buddy from 1941-42 in action,
at The You Tube channel of
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLegoboy1997,
specifically at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2w7Svka_8
See also a range of Hallicrafters' radios at
http://www.qsl.net/la5ki/s.htm where it is stated:"The first Hallicrafters radio, the S-1 Skyrider, wasin 1932. The name "Hallicrafters" was a composite
of Bill Halligan's last name, and "handcrafted." The
S-Prefix continued for over three decades. The
most famous "S" prefixed radio, the S-38,
appeared in 1946 and continued for another for 15
years."
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Radio Mi Amigo on the waves in Harwich
The LV18 lightshipat Harwich Quay,
home to Radio Mi
Amigo on 106.8 FMfrom 14th to 17th
August 2014 - asseen from the Pier
Hotel.
The LV18 has beenused for offshore
radio RSLs before:
RNI off Clacton in
1999, Caroline in2000 and Radio Mi
Amigo in 2001,
both off Harwich.
She was also usedin 2004, 2007 &2009 by Pirate
BBC Essex, and asRadio Sunshine in
the film “Boat that
Rocked”
Left: Bart Serlie, “The Floating
Dutchman” on air on Sunday morning.

right: LV18 lantern and Mi Amigo logo. The
green bike above the bridge is a piece ofHarwich Festival artwork!
Below decks on the LV18 is now home tothe old radios and pirate radio memorabilia previously on view at the HighLighthouse in Harwich. The LV18 is open daily in the summer 11am – 4pm BST(£2 admittance) - see http://www.lv18.org/ for details.
above: Jolly Roger flag flying on stern of LV18.
28(photos © AP / DK)Webwatch
Edited by Chrissy Brand - editor@bdxc.org.uk
Back in 1974 the thought of the vast majority of households in the western world owning several
computers, from desktops to mobile phones, was hard to imagine; it was the stuff of BBC
Tomorrow’s World. Today the internet offers so much for DXers: nostalgia, current tips, audio
and video, and interaction with fellow radio-heads. However, this month Webwatch looks atsome websites which reflect shortwave and other radio in the 1970s.
But we start with BBC’s Tomorrow’s World programme. Which technologies predicted from themid-1960s to the early 1990s actually came true? Look at the touchscreen’s invention in 1991
with Judith Hann at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK6iKfstF40 (this is at the channel of
https://www.youtube.com/user/ENGLISHvintageTV ); better still, go to the BBC pages at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/index.shtml to see the office of the future from1969, the mobile phone in 1970 and a review of the 1970s.
Thanks to Andrew Tett we have a BDXC Audio Circle Extra. Operation Aspidistra is a 1975 BBCplay in a series "The War in Secret” An mp3 is at: https://app.box.com/s/4d4vxp0a5c48g1ky6of6
The only known surviving recordings of the Swiss Shortwave Merry Go Round from the 1960s &1970s and the Two Bobs shows from the 1980s and 1990s are in mp3 format under The Two
Bobs section of http://www.switzerlandinsound.com. Maybe there are BDXC members who havecopies that Bob Zanotti doesn’t know about? If you type “Swiss Radio International” into Youtube
you come up with quite a few off-air snippets. These include some at the Radio Programmechannel https://www.youtube.com/user/radprog which also includes a Sweden Calling DXers
show from 1980. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCaXi0EU9Qw
There is a page on Sweden Calling DXers at the Radio Sweden website:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2408&artikel=4506968 George Wood retired
from Radio Sweden last month. Follow his current blog Notes from Sweden and Strasbourg at
http://radiowood.com/?author=1
Ian Chard has a website which includes scans of old
shortwave schedules, newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s. http://rainbow.chard.org/radio/
The DX Archive com website does what you would expect. Produced by a team dedicated topreserving free radio information (landbased and offshore stations), it also includes vintage QSL
cards from official broadcast stations too: http://www.dxarchive.com/
Other sites I recommend, which delve into DXing include the BBC WS in the 1970s (includes
audio) at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/history/story/2007/02/070122_html_70s.shtml
Love Letter from London has a 2012 tour of Bush House:
http://loveletterfromlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/bush-house-and-beeb.html
Normal Stop covers Bush House ops since the 1950s: http://radiooperations.blogspot.co.uk/
while the Radio Sounds Familiar website includes tv adverts and other 1970s nostalgia
http://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/
The Shortwave Radio Listener's Guide - Fading from the Air and Going Online archives
shortwave radio history and link to BBC Radio to encourage listening online. It includes an audio
vault with Radio Netherlands’ Media Network shows: http://www.listenersguide.org.uk/
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show started in 1974 and celebrated its 40th
anniversary with a three hour programme in July 2014. You can watch it (or hear audio only) at
the wonderful http://prairiehome.org/ (go to the archive section) and their YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/PrairieHomeVideos I’m looking forward to seeing PHC being
recorded on 5 September in Paris: http://prairiehome.org/tickets/
Normal service will be resumed next monthP
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Southern European Reportwith Stefano Valianti

Listening in Monaco Listening to local radio in the Principality of Monaco is to some extent
similar to shortwave listening, due to the variety of languages which are broadcast. Somestations that I heard during a recent trip to Monaco and the Côte d’Azur were:
90.6 Médi 1, the Col de la Madone relay, in French and Arabic, also international pop music,
many IDs such as “Médi 1, à Rabat 97.5” – RDS “MEDI 1”
93.2 According to a tip in Play DX, I expected to find Qatar-based Radio Sout Al Khaleej FM
here, however only a relay of a French station was heard, with RDS indicating it was a test
transmission.
95.4 Radio Monaco, also on 98.2, which has become the local station of the Principality sinceRadio Monte Carlo, now “RMC” or “RMC Info”, has lost every relationship with Monaco. (TheWRTH mentions a local RMC news bulletin Mon/Fri at 0650 on 98.8 MHz only, but I couldn’t
check it).
95.7 Jazz Radio, all day jazz and funky, rotating RDS “JAZZ” “RADIO” “MONACO” “JAZZ”“AND” “SOUL”
96.1 Radio FG, excellent signal from Mont Agel, ID “Il est 9 heures sur Radio FG”, news, météo,DJ with pop and electro music - RDS “RADIO FG”
96.4 Radio Chine Internationale, in French, they also broadcast many French pop songs, RDS“R.C.I.”
100.9 Music 100.9, transmitter in Sanremo, very good playlist, present day hits and oldies(Petula Clark’s Downtown was on the air when I first tuned in) – RDS “MUSIC”
101.6 Monte Carlo 2, in Italian, all day lounge music, news at 1030, 1230, 1430, 1630 - RDS“MC 2”
103.6 CHIK Radio, transmitters both in Italy and Monaco, in Russian, many IDs and electro
music, RDS “CHIK”
106 Plein Sud, a new station in French, transmitters are in Italy, heard with nonstop pop music
and IDs on the hour – RDS “PLEINSUD”
106.3 The local Monaco transmitter of well-known Riviera Radio, which years ago was heard
also on mediumwave 702 kHz; ID is “from Sanremo to Saint Tropez and all the way out to sea,
this is Riviera Radio 106.5”, RDS shows “RIVIERA” “106.5” “HELLO” “BIG HITS” “LESSTALK”
On the AM bands, thelocal frequencies are stillin their places on the dial,
218 with RMC, 702 with
RCI (in Chinese, French,
Italian), 1467 with RadioMaria (in French, Arabic,
English) and 1557 withFrance Info from Nice. I
hope to find them alive
and well next time I comehere!
Right: Studios of Radio
Plein Sud, a new French
station run by volunteers
http://radiopleinsud.emonsite.com/
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But of course, none of the many stations heard here today can match the flavour of the oldRadio Monte Carlo, la “radio du soleil” on “1400 mètres ondes longues” in 1974...
Radio Monte Carlo 40 years ago
The schedule of Radio Monte Carlo, 218 kHz, 1376 metres, for Monday, 30 December 1974:
0530 s/on with Jose Sacre, with news at 0530, 0600, 0615,
Journal at 0630, 0645; weather at 0650
0700 Frederic Gerard with Journal at 0700 and 0800, news and weather at 0730 and 0830
0900 Daniel Askain
1000 Jean-Pierre Foucault with Maurice Mességué
1200 Zappy Max presents Leave or double
1300 Liliane Rose
1500 Fifty years of songs, with Jean-Claude Laval
1600 Look for the disc1700 Taxi
1800 Guy Vial with news at 1800 and 1830, weather at 1835
and Journal at 1845
1900 Hit-Parade with Julien Lepers
2230 Journal
2245 Les routiers sont sympa (programme for truck drivers also on Radio-Luxembourg 236 kHz)
2400 Christian Alexandre with Journal at midnight, at 0100 news and s/off with national anthem

Propagation Report
With James Welsh - mailto:propagation@bdxc.org.uk Links: www.jameswelsh.org.uk
Propagation Summary
During the second half of August, Solar activity was at very low levels. This period saw
predominately B-class flare activity with isolated C-class flare activity, especially late in the
period. The largest event of the period was a C2 flare at 0930 UTC on 16 August.
In addition to the C2 flare, two additional low-level C-class flares contributed three low-level Cclass flares this period. A Coronal Mass ejection also arrived at earth late on August 19.
The Solar flux was at normal levels on 12 Aug. With normal to moderate levels observed on 11,
13-17 Aug. Geomagnetic activity was quiet on 13-16 Aug, followed by quiet to unsettled levels
on 11 and 17th, and quiet to active conditions were observed on 12 august to a Coronal HoleHigh speed Stream (CH HSS).
Propagation Forecast Up to 13 September.
Solar activity is expected to be low throughout the period with a slight chance for M-class flare
activity from 21 Aug - 06 September. The Solar flux at is expected to be at normal to moderatelevels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet on 09-13
September. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on 06-08 Sep due to CH HSS effects.
Solar Cycle Progress
Sunspot numbers have dropped so far during 2014,and a further downward trend is forecast for2015. ( http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/ )Current optimal frequency charts can be found at: http://hfradio.org/latest_chart.html and there
are more regional charts and maps at: http://www.hamqsl.com/solar3.html#hfprop

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QSL Reportedited by Dario Gabrielli qsl@bdxc.org.uk
Dario Gabrielli, Viale della Resistenza 33b, IT- 30031 Dolo (Ve) Italy

Albania: China R International 13710 kHz. English programme. QSL card received in 32 days
for postal report. QSL is endorsed "via Albania". The card is from the "The Great family of theChinese nation" series, number 56-45 and features a young lady from the Jino ethnic minority
doing some weaving. (ARo)Austria: Voice of Vietnam 9625 kHz. English programme. Two QSL cards for two separate
postal reports received in 47 days. First QSL features a fantastic Black and White photograph ofa H'Mong Lady. The second QSL features a colourful photograph of rolling terraced hills
captioned "Che Tao Commune, Vietnam".
(ARo)
Canada: CKDO, Oshawa ON 1580 kHz. eQSL email received in 1 day for report sent via
their online contact form at http://www.ckdo.ca/
Email from Music Director,Gary Bernarde. (AP)China: China R International 17490kHz.
English programme. QSL card received in 32 days for postal report. QSL card is from the "TheGreat family of the Chinese nation" series, number 56-46 and features a young lady from theJing ethnic minority. Also received a nice postcard in the same series, this as series number 5648 and features another young lady, this time from the Mulao ethnic minority group. CRI also
sent a copy of their quarterly magazine and a very nice set of paper cuts. (ARo)Cuba: Radio Havana Cuba 5040 kHz. Two QSL cards received in post in 130 days in reply toemail report sent to inforhc@enet.cu for English test. One card from Correspondence Dept andone card signed by Arnie Coro CO2KK. (AP)Finland: SWR Finland 11720 kHz. E- QSL received after 5 days for reception report sent to:
info@swradio.net (RC)Germany: Mighty KBC 6095 kHz via Nauen. English programme+MFSK64. e-QSL in 10 hours
for reception report with audio clip sent to themightykbc@gmail.com (RM)
Mighty KBC 6095 kHz. e-QSL received in a few hours for email report sent to:themightykbc@gmail.com (AJT)TWR-Europe 6105kHz. English programme. e-QSL (in jpg format) received in 9 days for postal
report to TWR-UK, P.O Box 606, Altrincham, WA14 2YS, UK. email reply received from
Austrian office (Kalman Dobos at kdobos@twr.org). QSL features a sunset photograph ofantenna towers. (ARo)Guam: International Radio for Disaster Relief via KTWR 15650 kHz. e-QSL card received in 7days for email report sent to info@twr.asia .Card was for special IRDR test in English via KTWR
and pictures KTWR transmitters. Verifier-signer Kathy Gregowske who also attached a KTWR
schedule. (AP)Guam International Radio for Disaster Relief via KTWR 15650 kHz. QSL card received in postin 28 days for email report sent to info@twr.asia .Had already received an e-QSL for this report(see QSL Report August). As well as card signed by Kathy Gregowske, also sent a personal
letter, KTWR schedule and religious tract. (AP)32

International: HFCC trial program on International Radio for Disaster Relief project 15650 and
21840 kHz. QSL postcard received in 32 days for reception report sent to info@hfcc.org (TA)Kuwait: Radio Kuwait 15540 kHz, English programme. Full data QSL certificate for report sent
to kwtfreq@media.gov.kw on 26/04/2013 with follow up on 11/10/2013. v/s Khaled Al-Ali, Asst.
Under Secretary of Engineering Affairs (RM)
Mariana Islands: Radio Free Asia. 9975 kHz via Tinian. Korean prog. Full data QSL card (dantranh musical instrument) in 24 days for reception report with audio clip sent to qsl@rfa.org (RM)
Radio Free Asia 15425 kHz via Tinian, Korean programme. Full data QSL card (IBB's Iranawila
relay site picture) received in 21 days for report with audio clip sent to qsl@rfa.org (RM)
Pirate: Bluebird 1638 kHz. e-QSL received in 69 days for email report sent to:
bleubird1944@hotmail.com (JGa)
Free Radio Bumbelstock 6240 kHz e-QSL and 5 studio pictures returned in 1 day for email
report sent to freeradiobumbelstock@hotmail.com (JGa)
Radio Technical Man 6200 kHz. e-QSL received in 21 days for reception report sent totechnicalman@hotmail.nl (RM)
Tips and Elvis Show 6220 kHz. e-QSL received in 1 day for report with audio clip sent tot.eshow@hotmail.com (RM)
Radio 5 6300 kHz e-QSL received in 7 days for email report sent to swch@live.nl (JGa)
Wie Wat Woar 95,90 MHz after report sent to:Radio Wie Wat Waor, P/a De Dorpskern,
Johannes Poststraat 59, 7918 AB Nieuwlande, Netherlands got in return after 80 days :unsigned selfprepared QSL & letter & logo & Ruimzicht sticker (JGa)
Norton 6320 kHz. e-QSL received in 42 days for email report sent to radio.norton@hotmail.com(JGa)
Zender Akenzo 6305 kHz. e-QSL received in 1 day for email report sent tohorizonradio@hotmail.com (JGa)
Carmen Radio 6666 kHz. e-QSL received in 1 day for email report sent tocarmenradio@hotmail.com (JGa)
Radio Nordsee International 6210 & 6205 kHz. 2 QSLs received & 1 picture postcard received &1 QSL card of Radio Paradise (Operator Hannibal of RNI wrote: "for many years I was also byradio paradise active" address at envelope all sent by post to me in about 8 weeks in answer for
my postal report sent to Radio Nordsee International PO Box 2209, D-77612 Offenburg,
Deutschland (JGa)
Radio Batavia 1539 kHz. e-QSL received in 1 hour and 20 minutes for email report sent to:radiobatavia@hotmail.com (JH)
Good Ship Venus 6266 kHz e-Qsl received in 22 minutes for email report sent tojonger34@hotmail.com (JGa)
Romania: Radio Romania International 9540 Khz. Colour QSL card, stickers, calendar,schedule and letter received after 6 weeks for mailed report send to Radio Romania
International, PO Box 111, 014700 Bucharest (Romania) (JK)33

USA: WRMI 9955 kHz, Spanish program. Full data QSL card (WRMI Conference Room) in 110
days for reception report with audio clip sent to info@wrmi.net. v/s Jeff White (RM)
Radio Free Asia, 13675 kHz, Mandarin program. QSL received in 6 days for email report to:
techweb.rfa.org/files/qsl_front.html (AJT)
VOA Radiogram 15670 kHz in MFSK32. Radiogram 62 was aired the week that someinternational stations made the Trial of International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR) and thetransmission included an item about the event. Kim Andrew Elliott encouraged sending reception
report to:radiogram@voanews.com with c.c. to info@hfcc.org. 16 days after was received a
special QSL card of the Trial direct from the HFCC headquarters in Prague verifying myreception report with audio clip of the Radiogram broadcast. Radiogram 62 e-QSL was received
from VOA after 6 days for the same reception report. (RM)
AWR Wavescan via WRMI Okeechobee FL 15770 kHz. QSL card received in post in 15 daysfor email report sent to wavescan@awr.org .Card pictured AWR President, Dr Dowell Chow in
WRMI studio. Verified signer was Dr Adrian Peterson who also sent AWR Wavescan contest
details, a religious tract and postcard of Indiana. (A separate QSL card for same report received
in post 6 days later!) (AP)Vietnam. Voice of Vietnam 9730kHz. English program. QSL card for a postal report received
in 47 days. The QSL features a beautiful view of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, with Turquoise blue
water and red Vietnamese boats amongst the kart landscape all around. (ARo)Dear friends,
Manythanksforcontinued
contributions to the section that I
hope can continue in future to makethis page better. Please remember toinclude details about the programmeor department of the radio stations
that you received confirmation from(e.g. English, French programmeetc.) and the postal or eMail address
where you send the reception report.
NOTE: When you received a normal
paper QSL please write in yourcontribution "QSL", while if you
received any Electronic Card please
inform in this way: "e-QSL card".
Thanks Dario

Right: The e-QSL received recently
from Scandinavian Weekend Radioin Finland by Russ Cummings
(RC)

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Radio Australia visit in 1991
By Julian Watson
I was reading with a heavy heart about what’s happening at Radio Australia. I have fondmemories of the station, having visited their then headquarters in 699 Highbury Road, Glen
Waverly in Victoria back in March 1991.
I was met by a most helpful man by the nameof Keith Synott, who was a key player in the
publicity department and he showed me all
around the studio complex. At that time they
were all talking about a move to Ultimo,
Sydney, which was subsequently completed.
The photo is of me in March 1991 sitting in thechair of their New Guinea studio at Radio
Australia-being Melbourne and in Marchjumpers were comfortably worn!
I really hope that Radio Australia will be able tocontinue, even in a reduced form, as there areso many communities that benefit from its
vibrant and culturally rich output. Perhaps aword to Prime Minister Tony Abbot himself
might be in order with so many staff facing an uncertain future?
Below is some of the publicity from the station I picked up from the department on the visit.

Friends of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) represents the Australian public
interest in its national public broadcaster. It comprises Friends of the ABC organisations fromevery Australian state and territory working together in a national campaign. See
http://www.abcfriends.org.au Thousands have been protesting against the Conservative
government’s massive cuts to the ABC, which includes Radio Australia.
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U.K. & Ireland News
Edited by Dave Kenny - news@bdxc.org.uk

Medium Wave
A 12 year licence renewal has been granted to Panjab Radio London Ltd / Turkish Gold
Radio, which broadcasts on 1584 kHz in North London. (Ofcom radio update 5 August)
FM community radio
The Hub (Cornwall 106.1 and 106.4 MHz) now has its third transmitter up and running.
Frequencies are St Mawes (200W mixed on 106.4), Megavissey (25W vertical on 106.4), Truro(200W mixed on 106.1 MHz)
Penwith Radio (West Cornwall 96.5 and 97.2 MHz) launches on 30
August after two weeks of tests. The transmitters are at Penzance (25W
vertical on 96.5) and St Just (25W vertical on 97.2) with coverage from
Sennen in the west to Hayle in the east. The station is based at Wharfside
Shopping Centre, Market Jew Street, Penzance, TR18 2GB.
www.penwithradio.co.uk
Quay FM (Alderney) When Quay FM starts up under its new community radio licence it will bewith a new frequency and from a new location at the Harbour. Chief Executive Colin Mason OBE
said it would take about six months for negotiations with the French over what frequency could
be allocated to the station. That would also give them time to convert their new Braye Lodge
headquarters into a radio station and train volunteers. (The Journal 13 June via DJM)
The timetable for inviting applications for community radio licences has been revised.
East of England Ofcom will be accepting applications from the next region, East of England(with Northampton-shire and Milton Keynes) from Wednesday 24 September. The closing date
for submissions is 5pm on Tuesday 16 December.
South East England Ofcom has amend the region covering south east England, it will now be
split it into two separate regions - south east England (outside the M25), and Greater London andother areas within the M25. By inviting applications from smaller geographical areas, Ofcom
hopes to be able to reach licence award decisions more quickly.
Midlands. The closing date for applications from the Midlands was 24 June 2014. One more
application for this region has been included - 6 Towns Radio (Stoke-on-Trent area). [see full listof other applicants in August UK News)FM commercial radio
Radio Hafren now on FM - According
to their Twitter announcements, Radio
Hafren who broadcast to Mid-Wales on
756 kHz have also been broadcastingon 102.1MHz for Newtown, Welshpool
and the surrounding area since 11 August. More info at www.radiohafren.co.uk/fm/ (Nick Rank,
16 August). Tests from Radio Hafren reported on 102.1 MHz in late July. The new transmitter ison the Dolfor to Kerry Road in Newtown, initially running 500W but will increase to 1.6 kW once apermanent mast is installed. (posts on digitalspy 28 July)
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The Pulse has moved to new studios on the top floor of One St James Business Park, Bradford.
The station had been based at Forster Square, Bradford, since its launch as Pennine Radio in
1975. It has also rebranded to Pulse 1 to match its sister station Pulse 2, following similar
branding of other stations in the UTV group (Signal 1 / Signal 2 etc). (Radio Today 28 July)
Current short-term RSLs (Restricted Service Licences)
RSL AreaMHz

Station ID

PurposeBirmingham
Bridport
East Wordham, Alton
Goodwood, Chichester
Inverness
Isle of Wight*
Keighley
Kenilworth
Tarrant Hinton, Dorset

87.7
87.7
87.7
87.7
106.1
87.7*
102.1
87.7
87.9

Indus R
Bridport FM
Jalsa FM (main)
Goodwood Revival R
Monster FM
Bestival FM
Hajj FM
Nationals FM
Steam Fair FM

community trial & Mela
20 Aug-16 Sep
radio project/literary events
15-21 Sep
Muslim convention
27 Aug-1 Sep
race commentary
10-14 Sep
student & community trial
1-28 Sep
music festival
4-7 Sep
Hajj
10 Sep-7 Oct
horse event - dressage
18-21 Sep
Great Dorset Steam Fair
23 Aug-1 Sep

Dates*station not confirmed by Ofcom as of our publication deadline

DAB Digital Radio
Triple MuxCo Somerset has applied for a change of frequency for its forthcoming Somerset
DAB multiplex. Under the proposals, the multiplex would be assigned to VHF Block 10B insteadof 10D when it launches in September. Ofcom says that changing the frequency is likely to
reduce levels of interference and thus improve local DAB coverage overall. (a516digital 8 Aug)
Yorkshire multiplex closure The last remaining MXR regional DAB multiplex is to close in ten
months time, Ofcom has confirmed. Four other regional multiplexes operated by MXR haveclosed over the last couple of years. The Yorkshire licence has not been renewed, meaning
stations on the multiplex with either have to move to alternative local multiplexes, or fall silent by
29 June 2015. MXR Yorkshire carries Heart, Capital, Gold, Smooth, UCB Gospel, UCB
Inspirational, XFM and Radio Yorkshire – a digital-only station from Leeds. (Radiotoday)
DAB multiplex changes approved by Ofcom
Bradford/Huddersfield - Addition of Paigham Radio (a station for the Muslim community)
Radio Museums Update
Harwich radio museum closes, exhibits move to LV18 A trustee of one of Harwich’s most
iconic landmarks has decided to step down after a battle with ill health. Local musician andhistorian Tony O’Neil has called time on his occupancy of the High Lighthouse in West Street
after suffering a heart attack last year. The 90ft building originally built in 1818 was the home to
the National Vintage Wireless and Television Museum from 1995 and Mr O’Neil headed a trust
which totally restored the interior. Thousands of pounds was spent on the four-year
transformation of the lighthouse including new electrics, fire alarm systems, staircase and further
health and safety improvements. Mr O’Neil is saddened to have to hand back the keys to owners
Tendring Council but believes he has to put his health first. “After suffering a heart attack a year
ago I am sad to give up the building but 100 steps to the top is now unrealistic for me,” he said.
Mr O’Neil is also the curator and trustee of the LV18 – the last manned Trinity House lightvessel which was installed on Harwich Quay after a 12 year fight in 2011. The incredibly vast collectionof radio equipment from the lighthouse will be officially moved and unveiled on the ship in the
coming weeks. (Harwich & Manningtree Daily Gazette 8 July via Mike Barraclough)The museum has now closed, but part of the collection can be seen on the LV18 Lightvessel
which is moored next to the Ha’Penny Pier in Harwich, open daily 1100-1600 until end October.
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Medium Wave Report
Edited by Dave Kenny - news@bdxc.org.uk
Bulgaria Radio Blagoevgrad informed its listeners today that the 75kW mediumwave transmitteron 864 kHz in Belo Pole had been switched off on 1 August. The station now broadcasts only on
the FM band. The only remaining MW broadcasts on the air in Bulgaria are:
576 kHz BNR1 Horizont via Vidin-Gramada (transmitting on half-power, only 200kW)
And the low power relays on:
747 kHz (Salmanovo, 10kW);
864 kHz (Samuil, 10kW);
963 kHz (Kardzhali, 50kW);
1161 kHz (Targovishte, 10kW and Dulovo/Vodno, 10kW), whichcarry both Radio Bulgaria programmes for the Turkish-speaking
minorities in the country and BNR1 Horizont.
The longwave transmitter carrying BNR1 Horizont and the Parliament Channel on 261 kHz(Sofia-Vakarel, 75kW) is also active. (Georgi Bancov dxld yg 4 August)The two frequencies earmarked for private stations in Bulgaria are 963 kHz (not 828 as reported
last month) and 1161 kHz. (Rumen Pankov)
France CSA announces call for MW nominations for Brittany. This is good news! The Higher
Audiovisual Council (CSA) has on 5 August announced the launch of a call for applications for
medium wave in Brittany. Bretagne 5, which will be a candidate for obtaining a frequency in thecontext of this appeal, welcomes the decision of the CSA. It is more than 14 years since the teamat Bretagne 5 started work for the use of medium wave, especially in order to develop new radiosin rural areas. With this call, the CSA provides a real opportunity for new radios to use medium
wave and enrich the Breton radio offerings. (Bretagne 5 web site 5 Aug via AP)
Greenland Good news from Greenland! It has been revealed that KNR is to reinstate three
mediumwave frequencies following a lot of criticism about the lack of reception of KNR on thesea and outside towns and villages in Greenland. The three frequencies are:Qeqertarsuaq - 650 kHz (5 kW) - due on the air in October or November 2014
Nuuk - 570 kHz (5 kW) - due on the air in January, February or March 2015
Simiutaq, Qaqortoq - 720 kHz (10 kW) - due on the air around 1 June 2015
With the reopening of these three MW frequencies, all plans about the launch of a Short Wavetransmitter in Greenland have been given up for the time being. When all three MW transmittersare back on the air, it will decided if more MW frequencies are to be relaunched.
And 650 kHz is of course the most commonly reported KNR frequency in Europe.
Best 73’s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark - 20-25 August WRTH Facebook page)
Italy Mark Dezzani on Facebook reports that a 1kw transmitter in North Italy is operating on 1386
kHz. There were some broadcasts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as Radio Seborga
International, email RadioSeborga@gmail.com. Mark says this was a pop-up station. Last nightthe transmitter was relaying Radio Caroline from at least 1700 when Mark's show started. No
regular schedule posted, recordings on Mark's timeline at his location in Seborga and from alistener in Nice are for evening reception. Radio Seborga International was also heard in Surrey
late Saturday evening/early Sunday morning by Graham Foy who says he has been hearing
continuous music on 1386 late evenings for a few months now. (Mike Barraclough 5 August)AM1 from Milano has been on 1386 kHz in recent months but was observed here on 1350 kHz
on 21 August from 2330 tune-in until abrupt close at 0000 utc with IDs in Italian and English.
Roberto Scaglione via Dario Monferini tells me that this was a one day test only, and that AM1
has now returned to 1386 kHz. (ed)38

Lithuania New schedule of MW transmissions from Sitkunai, Lithuania, received directly fromRimantas Pleikys, Radio Baltic Waves International project co-ordinator:
Kaunas / Sitkunai, 1386 kHz, 75 kW
0200-0330 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian
0330-0400 NHK World, Russian
0400-0500 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Belarusian
1730-1800 NHK World, Russian
1800-1900 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian
1900-2000 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Belarusian
2000-2100 Polish Radio, Belarusian
2100-2200 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian
612 kHz is not used any longer; this transmitter was switched off on 17 August. Note theshortened relay of RL Belarussian (now only 2 hours per day) and the new relay of RL Russian(3.5 hours per day). Reception reports are welcome and will be confirmed. Email: riplei@takas.lt
Postal address: Rimantas Pleikys, Radio Baltic Waves International, Algirdo Str. 13-9, Vilnius,
LT-03219 Lithuania. (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia - mwdx yg 19 August)Pakistan New 100 kW 711 kHz transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan. Radio Pakistan has installed a
new high-power transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan (NW Frontier Province) to boost reach andquality of its broadcasts. The transmitter will be inaugurated at a ceremony at DI Khan on 7
August where Director General Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Samina Parvez will be thechief guest. The new 100 kW transmitter, installed with the assistance of USAID, replaces 10 kW
low power transmitter. The new digital transmitter is strong enough to carry broadcasts of DI
Khan Radio to a radius of 160 km during day time and over 400 km at night, making broadcasts
audible in entire KPK,FATA, many areas of Balochistan, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and some areasof Afghanistan. The project is part of the plan being implemented by Radio Pakistan to replace
old transmitters with modern digital transmitters. <http://www.radio.gov.pk/newsdetail/66055/3>(via Alokesh Gupta, dxsasia 7 Aug via BC-DX)
Russia Radio Bonch, St. Petersburg, on 1593 kHz is a students' station of the Bonch-BruyevichState University of Telecommunications. I myself organised test MW transmissions. We plan toget a constant licence for amateur radio broadcasting as Radio Magic Eye of Moscow did.
And, of course, me and Omar plan to launch DX programme of St. Petersburg DX Club via thisstation (Alexander Beryozkin, St. Petersburg, 16 July, DSWCI DX Window)
Sri Lanka PCJ Radio International's new programme for listeners in India coming soon. Song ofIndia will feature classic Bollywood songs as well as other classic hits from Southeast Asia, UK,
US, Australia and more. The date and time of the first program will be announced soon. The
frequency will be 1125 kHz mediumwave [via Puttalam, Sri Lanka-ed]. (Keith Perron 26 July on
PCJ Media and PCJ Radio Facebook page)
Turkey Still active in Turkey on medium wave are 891 kHz Antalya (Aksu) and 927 kHz Izmir(Cumaovası). There are, again, the only two regional studios. The daily broadcasts start with alocal announcement 0255 GMT, followed by the Turkish national anthem. The regional
programmes end at 1700 GMT and they then relay the information programme Radyo Bir.
(Rumen Pankov 10 August via Dario Monferin)
Mauno Ritola (Finland) confirms that TRT is still also active on 630 and 1062 kHz;
Mustafa Cankurt in Turkey confirms that 702 kHz is now off air. (Mauno Ritola WRTH 22 Aug)

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Ukraine UR1 reported in late July on 549 kHz (Mykolaiv) and 711 kHz (Dokuchaievsk). (Reports
in RusDX 27 Jul- 3 Aug)USA Radio Disney is selling all but one of its AM radio stations andsays it is focusing more on digital distribution and away from broadcast.
The company partners on digital services such as SiriusXM and has
new deals with ShowMobile, Slacker and Aha Radio. There is also a
Radio Disney app for iPhone, iPad and Android phones. The company
plans to sell 23 out of its 24 AM stations, effective 26 September. The
one station its keeping, KDIS(AM), Los Angeles, will originate Radio
Disney’s national programming. (Radio World 8 August) Stations being
sold include WQEW AM 1560 in New York - which is often logged in Europe.(ed)DX News - Short Wave
news@bdxc.org.uk

Algeria A14 schedule of Radio TV Algerienne via Issoudun, France (all 500 kW to N Africa)
0400-0459 7295 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
0500-0559 7295 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
0500-0505 9535 French news bulletin
0505-0559 9535 Arabic Holy Quran px
0600-0605 11985 French news bulletin
0605-0659 11985 Arabic Holy Quran px
1800-1900 13820 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
1900-2000 11765 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
1900-1905 13820 French news bulletin
1905-1959 13820 Arabic Holy Quran px
2000-2100 9375 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
2000-2005 11765 French news bulletin
2005-2059 11765 Arabic Holy Quran px
2100-2200 7495 Arabic Nat. Chaine 1
2100-2105 9375 French news bulletin
2105-2159 9375 Arabic Holy Quran px
2200-2205 7495 French news bulletin
2205-2259 7495 Arabic Holy Quran px(Swldxbulgaria Blog 23 August)Australia Many of Radio Australia’s own programmes were cancelled in August as part of therecent cuts, with airtime replaced by relays of ABC domestic networks such as Radio National
and Triple J. The RA web site on 19 August states “We are in the process of updating our radio
schedule. We’re introducing some new shows and some existing ones have moved to new timeslots. Please stay tuned, we’ll be publishing the full new schedule soon.” The good news is thatso far there have been no cuts to shortwave frequency usage. (various reports Aug 2014)
Reach Beyond Australia (ex HCJB) seemingly now on 11590 kHz throughout the 1225-1500
UTC period. (Wolfgang Bueschel BC-DX 30 July)
Vintage FM via the facilities of OzyRadio is back on air on 3210 kHz. Heard at 1105 UTC on 19
August. (Ian Baxter-Australia dxld yg)
Azerbaijan Ictimai Radio in FM mode was back on its traditional frequency on 9677v (ex 11760)
observed around 1730 UTC on 13 August (Bulgarian SW Blog) This Baku-based station isprobably intended to jam the Nagorno-Karabakh (pro Armenian) Voice of Justice on 9677. (ed)Bulgaria / Qatar The audio of the Arabic channel of Al Jazeera TV was observed on 14 August
by the Bulgarian DX Bloggers testing on 15760 at 0400-1555 and 7300/7305/7310 kHz from
1600-0355. HFCC Registrations for 15 August gave the schedule as 0700-1555 on 15760 and
1600-0655 on 7305 kHz via Kostinbrod. Presumably a test as not heard since (as of 23 August)40China The Bulgarian DX Bloggers reported that CRI suspended transmissions on a number of
frequencies from the Urumqi site between 1-20 August. Presumably these were off the air forscheduled maintenance.
Cuba Arnie Coro mentioned these frequency changes for Radio Habana Cuba on his 'DXers
Unlimited' programme last night (heard at 0430 UTC 30-July on 6000 kHz):
from 25th July RHC have dropped 9550 kHz at 1100-1300 UTC and dropped 15340 kHz at
1300-1500 UTC [all were Spanish]
But from 25th July RHC have extended its use of 11760 kHz (100 kW) after 1500 UTC, now until
1900 UTC.
From 1500-1800 UTC 11760 now broadcasts the 'Cuba Online' programme in Spanish(previously only on the internet).
Plus from 1800-1830 11760 now has Arabic and from 1830-1900 now has Portuguese**.
No changes to English frequencies mentioned. (Alan Pennington)**Glenn Hauser reports hearing Creole instead of Portuguese on 29-30 July.:
Finland Radio Gramox is now operating on 3960 kHz with 50 W from Hämeenkyrö (Tampere),
Finland. http://www.gramox.fi (via Mauno Ritola WRTH Facebook 9 August). The station plays
old Finnish music from the 1920s to the 1960s and launched in 2013. It broadcasts locally on
FM 106.8 MHz and has a low-power short wave licence for 3960, 7230 and 25760 kHz as well as
medium wave 729 kHz medium wave (web site says 729 “coming soon”). Of the three
shortwave frequencies, only 3960 is currently active. Heard here with a very weak signal around2300 UTC on 9 and 24 August, only audible in LSB due to DRM interference from 3965.
Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Finland’s other licensed shortwave station, broadcasts only on
the first Saturday of each month starting at 2100 UTC Friday until 2100 Saturday. Frequencies
are 5890 or 6170 plus 11690 or 11720, although the 11 MHz transmitter has been off for several
months. Russ Cummings reports “I think SWR, Finland is now on 11720 at 1335 UTC although
their schedule states 11690 kHz is on at this time. Currently playing heavy rock, SINPO 34223,
lots of noise and static crashes (Russ Cummings, 2 August - BDXC-News yg)
Germany A new low-power private shortwave station called Europa 24 / Europe 24 has started
testing from Datteln, Germany on 6150 kHz. First reported in July with low power tests andthanks to a tip from Harald Kuhl heard testing around 2300 UTC on 2 August with recorded IDs
in English, German and Dutch, announcing as “coming soonU Europe 24 U information andentertainment station for the whole of Europe”. Good signal in UK at this time. Also heard
subsequent days approx 1600-2330 UTC. The station’s registered address is: DG2YID, Bernd
Feyock, Johann-Strauss-Str. 22, 45711 Datteln. HFCC has registered 0600-1900 UTC with 15
kW. (Wolfgang Büschel, Andree Bollinn, via BC-DX; Harald Kuhl, Dave Kenny)Radio Andernach on 7325 kHz DRM signal from German army station Radio Andernach wasobserved on 7325 kHz on 3 Aug at 0205UTC. No audio decoded, but the DRM text shows"Mmedia, German, Germany, audio conditional access --- Information, Radio Andernach". Web
site http://www.radio-andernach.bundeswehr.de/ (via Google translate): "Radio Andernach offers
a 24-hour full programme: In Kosovo and Afghanistan, soldiers can receive the channel on FM.
In addition, for relatives at home Radio Andernach is also available via web stream." (Alan Roe)Greece ERT Open have posted (15 July) a summer frequency schedule online as follows (times
listed on website as Greece Time, converted here to UTC):
1200-0350 9935
1200-0800 9420
0100-0800 15630
1200-1950 15650
2000-0050 15630
0400-0800 11645
Actual operating times vary considerably from the above - but I am impressed (and amazed) thatthe programmes of ERT Open continue at all. (Alan Roe 17 August)41

Laos Lao National Radio heard on 6130 kHz at 1359 UTC on 5 August with usual theme music
before segment in English; heard bits & pieces of their normal ID; "This is the Lao National Radio,broadcasting from Vientiane capital, the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Our news in English
program broadcasts at 2100 to 2130 hours local time daily, which is transmitted on AM 567 kHz.
on medium wave and on AM 6130 kHz. on shortwave"; poor, but pleased to find they still have
English at 1400 UT. (Ron Howard-California, -USA, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 6 Aug)
After several days with just a carrier on 6130 kHz tonight I have a good readable signal from
LNR, Vientiane domestic service at 2230 UTC. (Harald Kuhl, listening in N. Denmark, 12 Aug)
Lithuania Only two transmissions remain on SW per Aoki, both relays of other stations:
0100-0400 RFA in Uighur on 9400
0430-0500 NHK Russian on 6165 (Glenn Hauser dxld)
Netherlands Radio Netherlands cancels last remaining SW broadcast Radio Nederland hasannounced that after prolonging SW for two years (only for a half hour M-F broadcast in Spanish),that too is being cancelled as of 2 August - no more SW at all. Had been 0000-0030 UT Tue-Sat
via WHRI 9895, presumably now silent. However, some programs (? Is that what to call them?)remain via other media (Glenn Hauser, dxld yg 4 August)Papua New Guinea The only active PNG stations on shortwave as of 3 August are:3205 Radio Sundaun
3260 Radio Madang
3385 Radio East New Britain
7325 Wantok Radio Light(Craig Seager, Australia. Dxplorer)
3235 NBC Southern Highlands reactivated 18 August.
(Ron Howard, dxld yg)
Peru A new SW station in La Libertad Department has been registered on 4910 kHz with 1 kW.
(Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin 20 July / Glenn Hauser dxld). Glenn Hauser has
discovered three more previously unknown and potentially new SW stations in the list of new
authorisations - presumably these are planned and not yet on the air:
5020 kHz 5 kW Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Asociación Católica San José. Planta: Av. Aeropuertos/n, Afueras de la Ciudad Chachapoyas; Estudios: Jr. Amazonas No. 1177
5050 kHz, 1 kW: Empresa Radiodifusora Comercial Amistad S.C.R.L., Planta: Zona la Cantuta,
Chiquian, Ancash, Bolognesi, Chiquian; estudios: Plaza de Armas s/n Chiquian, ibid.
4940 kHz 1 kW: Asociación Promotora “San Francisco Solano”, Planta y Estudios: Esquina delas Calles Rioja con Iquitos, Ucayali, Atalaya, Raymondi (dxld yg)
Poland / Germany While scanning the bands I logged Polish Radio in English via Radio 700 on
7310 kHz around 1440 utc on 24 July. Checked the next day and Polish Radio heard from signon at 1430 utc with sign-off at 1500 utc. Fair reception. (Edwin Southwell) When checked on 21
August a Radio 700 programme in German was being carried in the 1430-1500 slot (dk)Russia Voice of Russia, which suspended shortwave broadcasts on 31 March due to financial
difficulties, has registered an extensive SW schedule with the HFCC, including English to Europe
and North America. The start date is given as 1 October 2014. However, this may just be acontingency in case funding for the broadcasts is restored. Alokesh Gupta (via dxld) wrote to
Voice of Russia and received a reply on 21 August saying that “Although the plans to re-open the
VOR shortwave broadcasts are being considered, at this point nothing can be said for sureregarding its status in the near future.”
Spain Cuts to REE shortwave broadcasts. Listening on 2 August
at 2100 UTC to the English transmission on 9660 kHz and theirprogramme "Listeners Club". Alison Hughes said that it is notcertain if REE will be on air after 1 October. I assume she isreferring to the English broadcast rather than REE as a whole, but
she didn't clarify further. (Alan Roe)42

In "Listener's Club" on 15 August more details were given of impending cuts at REE: From 1
September, REE will eliminate their live news broadcast and will present a 1-hour recorded
programme which will be broadcast on TVE television at 1am [presume local time ie 0000 UTC]
Monday to Saturday. The shortwave service [to Europe/Africa at 1900 Monday-Friday and 2100
Saturday-Sunday] will be discontinued from 1 September. The shortwave broadcast at 0000 UTC
to North America will continue until 1 October when it is likely that the shortwave service will beterminated. No mention was made of impact to Spanish language programming. Details were
unclear, but it may be that the 1-hour recorded programme will remain available via the REE
website as a daily podcast (I guess following the example of stations such as Radio Bulgaria which prepares a daily "podcast" of features and current affairs). (Alan Roe 15 August)
REE announces that from September (no date given), the only remaining transmission in French
will be at 0000-0100 (so ex 2300-0000?) [presumably to North America on 6055 khz-ed]. French
to Africa, the Mid-East & Europe will be cancelled. (REE 18 Aug via Jean-Michel Aubier dxld yg)
Sri Lanka Transmissions of PCJ Radio International (Sundays 1230-1330 on 13720 via Sri
Lanka) were cancelled from 20 July. (DX Mix) PCJ is instead planning to start a medium wave
broadcast to India via Sri Lanka - see medium wave above. (ed)SLBC noted with new sign off on 11905 kHz now from 0115-0230 (ex -0330) (Jose Jacob dxld 19
Aug). US religious programmes in English still heard Saturdays 0230-0300, Sundays 0230-0330,
but on weekdays now only in Hindi and Tamil at 0115-0230 (RP observations Aug)
Sweden The Radio Nord Revival broadcast took place on 23-24 August with test transmissions
also on 22 August. Frequencies used were as follows:
MW 1512 kHz from Kvarnberget, Vallentuna. Licensed 2.5 kW but using 1 kW, antenna 37m.
SW 3950 / 6065 / 9295 from Ringvalla, Sala. Power 10 kW, antenna height 12m.
SW 5770 kHz from The Castle, Vaxholm. Licensed power 0.5 kW antenna height 12m.
This was a one-off chance to hear a broadcasting signal from The Castle - the place where thefirst broadcast ever in Sweden was made on 1 September 1919.
Reception reports can be sent to: Ronny Forslund, Radio Nord Revival, Vita Huset, 17995
Svartsjö, Sweden. Return postage in the form of $ or IRC's is much appreciated.
http://radionordrevival.blogspot.se/
Reception of Radio Nord was widely reported on the BDXC-News group by several members.
Harald Kulh at the DX farmsite in northern Denmark
had good daytime signals
on both 6065 and 3950 kHz,
while members in the UK
reported only a weak
daytime signal on 6065, but
fair
to
good
evening
reception on both freqs. On
23 August Radio Nordswitched to 9295usb from
1910-0500 utc heard in UK,
France and North America
with
good
reception.
Broadcasts continued on 24
August on 6065 (Reports by
HK, NR, RC, AP, DK, GS see also HF Logbook)
Above Bernt Nyberg operating Radio Nord’s 10 kW SW transmitter at Ringvalla.
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Taiwan Further frequency change of Radio Taiwan International from 1 August:
2000-2100 Spanish to Europe 3965-fr (Issoudun 250 kW) ex 5915/3965
2100-2200 German to Europe 3965-fr (Issoudun 250 kW) ex 5915/3965 (DX Mix)
USA The future of SW broadcasting The Broadcasting Board of Governors has published areport from its committee on the future of SW Broadcasting. The report found shortwave radio tobe essential to listeners in target countries, but of marginal impact in most markets. Researchsuggests that the increased availability and affordability of television, mobile devices and Internet
access has led to the declining use of shortwave around the world. The report finds that
substantial audiences embrace shortwave in Nigeria, Burma, North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia,
Zimbabwe, Cuba and other target markets for the BBG. At the same time, the committee's
recommendations make clear that the BBG will need to continue to reduce or eliminate
shortwave broadcasts where there is either minimal audience or that audience is not a U.S.
foreign policy priority. It also ratifies reductions in transmissions that were made in 2013 andfurther cuts that were made in 2014. Even after recent reductions, the BBG makes programmes
in 35 of its 61 broadcast languages available on shortwave where there is a strategic reason to
do so. The report notes there is no evidence that shortwave usage increases during crises. At
such times, audiences continue to use their preferred platforms or seek out anti-censorship tools
to help them navigate to the news online, including firewall circumvention tools or offline media
including thumb drives and DVDs. (BBG press release 1 August via Morand Fachot)
Overcomer Ministry via WHRI - the following transmissions have been cancelled
1600-1800 on 9840; 1600-1900 on 17610; 2000-2100 on 9840 (SWLDX Bulgaria Blog 16 Aug)
Overcomer Ministry via WRMI updated schedule:
5015 0000-0400
7570 24h (except 2100-2200 WRMI progs)
7730 24h (except 0300-0400)
11580 24h
11825 24h
15770 24h (except 2100-2200 WRMI progs)
WRMI own programming, which includes hired airtime and relays of DX programmes is now
scheduled as follows:
0100-0200 5950 to Caribbean, Latin America
0430-0500 5985 to Central America
1000-1030 5850 to Eastern North America
2100-2200 15770 to Europe
2100-2200 7570 to Western North America
2300-1400 9955 to Latin America(WRMI schedules updated 12 August)See also Listening Post in this issue for more details of WRMI programming.
Zimbabwe [non] SW Radio Africa closes completely. It is with regret that SW Radio Africa
announces that it is closing down. We recently stopped our shortwave transmissions but havecontinued to provide broadcasts via our website and other formats, but these too will cease.
We’d like to thank the organisations and individuals who have supported us for the past 13 years
and the contributors to our programs who have given so willingly of their time and expertise.
In particular we’d like to thank our listeners, who have shared their lives, hopes and dreams andhelped us to tell the story of Zimbabwe’s sad decline to the world. We hope that one day
Zimbabwe finally has a government who understands that its sole responsibility is to ensure asafe, healthy, prosperous life for every man, woman and child in the country. Our first broadcast
was on 19th December 2001. Our last broadcast will be on 10th August 2014. It’s been aprivilege. Gerry Jackson, Founder/Editor, 4th August 2014 (swradioafrica.com via Mike Terry)
The closure of SW Radio Africa leaves just VOA Studio 7 and Radio Dialogue specificallytargeting Zimbabwe on SW. Radio Dialogue can be heard fairly well most days at 1600-1700 on
12105 kHz via Madagascar in English and Shona/Ndebele.
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Beyond the Horizon
Edited by Chrissy Brand - bth@bdxc.org.uk

Community & RSL stations heard in UK
MHz
87.7
87.9
93.2
94.7
97.5
98.0
103.2
103.4
106.3
106.8
107.5

UTC
1105
2235
1106
1520
1110
1108
2301
1104
2122
2025

Station, details, etc.
Ramadan FM, Bristol, mx
Ramadan FM, Preston (pres), OM in Urdu?.
Bristol CR, Barton Hill Bristol, rock & roll, blues mx
Saint FM, Burnham-on-Crouch. Hrd in Essex. ID no RDS.
Somer Valley FM, Midsomer Norton, Neil Young track
Ujima, Bristol, jazz mx
Preston FM, soul mx, oldies. RDS: PRESTON_
BSR Bradley Stoke, absconded prisoner from Leyhill
Bridge FM, Bridgend, club & dance mx
R Mi Amigo, Harwich, aboard LV18. Tony Currie with final px
RDS: mi_amigo + text: “Celebrating 50 years ofpirate radio” (hrd Essex)
2156 Felixstowe R, Polish song, EE ID, RDS:FELXSTWE (hrd Essex)

SIO
253
poor
354
fair
344
454
good
233
354
v gd

Date
25/07
28/07
25/07
18/07
25/07
25/07
28/07
25/07
25/07
17/08

Inits
SHo
ap
SHo
AP
SHo
SHo
ap
SHo
SHo
AP

fair

17/08

AP

Nick Ward writes that during the past few weeks he noticed few openings of any great measure.
“I have identified one more FM station on 105.6 - this is the France Info station transmitted from
Cherbourg; not so far away. I tried to listen to the Cowes RSL on 87.9 but heard nothing(Communication Aug 14, p30). I will try again with the Bournemouth Air Festival on 87.7 at theend of August.”
Simon Hockenhull writes: Not much to report this month with no Sporadic E openings andthanks to the unstable air mass which has prevailed for the last few weeks I have not noticed
any tropo openings just the usual national signals fading in from Oxford, North Hessary Tor,
Rowridge, Ridge Hill and occasionally Wrotham. On DAB I have been monitoring allocation 10B
and 10D for any test transmissions from Mendip of the new local Somerset multiplex. There has
been nothing so far. Apparently Somerset was allocated 10D but has had to change to 10B as
the coverage of the local Wiltshire multiplex is being expanded and will need to switch to 10D.
Tim Bucknall notes that this summer there have been a few RDS readings erroneously showing
up. This can occur when the RDS codes from two station become merged. He recalls seeing thiswith John Faulkner several years ago on a Blaupunkt radio. There was a Barnsley RSL on 107
which his rx displayed as "cornsley" which for some reason (perhaps because it was 2 a.m.) we
found hilarious! One of Simon Hockenhull’s logs seems to have done this, when on 87.9 on 3
July at 1351 a French station’s RDS showed up as ”RCS F1”. An interesting anomaly oftechnology. Of course there was no RDS to worry about for FM DXers back in 1974!
Bandscan, Corfu, 14-15 August 2014
Alex Mackow writes: I have just come back from a week-long stay in Corfu. We stayed at
Kassiopi, which is in the north of the island, just a few miles from Albania. Hence the FM log
includes some stations from Albania and Italy as well as the expected Greek stations. I took my
Sangean ATS-909 and used the telescopic antenna for my FM log. The log was compiled over a
couple of days around 14th and 15th of August. RDS ids in capitals. The Albanian stations played
the current chart music that can be heard in the UK with English jingles such as “Top Albania
Radio”. Some of the Greek stations played the same English music too, but others played
typical Greek as well as Greek religious music. (See also MW Logbook).

45

MHz

Station, details, Courier font indicates the scrolling RDS readout

87.6

Studio 1 87.6 FM ST THL 26610 54719 EMAIL STUDIO-1@OTENET.GR LIVEINTERNET STUDIO876.GR 14.8.14 TIME 2351
Radio Tirana // 93.0, 107.0
STAR FM 88.8 TEL 26610 44478 CORFU GR
EAGLE RADIO // 95.2, 103.2
DEEJAYKIMA FMSTUDIO LEFKATAS
Unid, Greek, distorted music
Proto programa // 93.8
TOP ALBANIA RADIO // 100.6, 104.0 but without RDS
Kiss 958 WELCOME TO KISSLAND EXPLORE THE ISLAND AND ITS MAGIC ON
WWW.INFO.GR KISS FM KERKYRAS KAI IONIAON NHSON
Kanali 1 KANALI1.BLOGSPOT.COM TEL 6945 076050 FAX 26610 45334
NEO 97.9
GAGA 984 CORFU WWW.GAGARADIO.COM THL 26610 31366
RADIO EPTANISA 98.8
ERT OpenRYTHMOS 997 KERKYRA TEL 26610 45997 WWW.RYTHMOS997.COM
RADIO KERKYRA 100.1 FM TELEF 26610 42242 KAI SKAI MAZI 26 XRONIACLUB FMCOSMOSPOP FM
LIFE RADIO 102.9 TEL 26610 38101
CAPITAL
AKTINA 104.7 FM
ORTHODOXOS 105.1 LOGOS
R-NORBARADIO TIRANA PROGRAMI I PARE 03 29 20 107.0 MHZ 29/07/13(yes the date and time were completely wrong)

88.2
88.8
89.2
90.1
90.3
90.6
91.1
91.8
94.1
95.8
97.5
97.9
98.4
98.8
99.3
99.7
100.1
100.4
101.1
102.1
102.9
103.6
104.7
105.1
106.6
107.0

Medium Wave Logbook
Edited by Susan Evans - mwl@bdxc.org.uk
Americas1520 0407
1580 0413
1610 0423
1620 0421
1660 0344

WWKB Buffalo NY. ESPN Radio, ID, promo “Mike & Mike”, ESPN3 ad. 333 31/07
CKDO Oshawa ON. promo: durhamradionews.com, jingle, Elton John. 322 01/08
Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla. YL preacher in EE //6090 kHz.
343 31/07
R Rebelde, Cuba. OM in SS plus Cuban mx //5025 kHz.
232 30/07
WGIT ‘Faro de Santidad’ Canovanas PR (pres). excited SS preacher, lotsof “Hallelujahs!”
242 31/07
1690 0357 CHTO Toronto ON (pres). Greek mx, songs. (also 31/7 @ 0343 Gk mx) 142 01/08
1700 0353 KKLF Richardson TX (pres). Distinctive Tejano music with accordions,
No ID heard at top of hour, songs continued through.
232 31/07

Asia
1071 1910 AIR, Rajkot,Vividh Bharati Sce in Hindi; songs under Al-Nur, Syria
1566 1915 AIR, Nagpur, Nat Sce in Hindi //9425
46

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ap
ap
ap
ap
ap
ap

333 11/08 RP*
232 11/08 RP*

Middle East & Caucasus
783
1935 Syrian R,Tartus. Radio theatre in AA
533 11/08
891
0254 TRT Antalya,Turkey. IS,ID,N Anthem, nx in TR (from 0301 // 927)
544 12/08
900
1906 S.Arabia,Gen.Sce in AA. Phone calls//1260,1440,1521,9555, 9870
333 04/08
927
0301 TRT Izmir,Turkey. s/on,nx in TR // 891
322 12/08
981
1930 IRIB R Iran, Hamadan. R Iran ID, N. Anthem, Farsi. //990,1503
333 11/08
1323 1600 BBC WS, Zyyi, Cyprus. Nx //9410. EE
422 12/08
1350 1846 TWR Israel via Gavar, Armenia. Rlg prgr in Hebrew; EE from 1916
444 02/08
1431 1635 IRIB Iran, Isfahan. Prog in Farsi
422 12/08
1521 2155 BSKSA, Duba OM AA
244 26/07
1521 2142 BSKSA General Service, Duba, Saudi Arabia Ara sp
243 26/07
1539 2130 VOA, Abu Dhabi YL EE
122 27/07
1575 1910 IRIB Abadan. Mx
133 14/08
1575 1630 R Farda, UAE Talks in Farsi // 5860
444 12/08
1575 1940 R Farda, UAE Huge signal, ID 1943 //5860,7585. bubble jammer on 1575 ~ 02/08

RP*
RP*
RP*
RP*
RP*
RP*
RP*
RP*
NRe
SHo
NRe
NRe
RP*
JH

Africa
531
0320
531
2214
585
1925
630
0340
981
0325
981
2235
1422 0327
1422 2230
1530 2130
1530 2000
1566 0333

Jil FM, F’kirina, Algeria. Folk songs // 549
Jill FM, F’kirina Algeria Stn ann and pop mx Ara/FF
R Tunisia, Gafsa. ID in AA // 684
R Tunisia, Tunis. Folk songs //684
R Algeria, Alger. Sermon (not as on 1422 kHz) in AA
R Algerienne 2. Ouled Fayet. mx
R Algeria, Alger. Sermon in AA (not same as on 981)
R Algerienne, Ouled Fayet
VOA via Sao Tome. Country mx prog // 6080 15580 EE
VOA, Sao Tome EE Music of Africa
TWR Benin, Parakou. ID, song and rlg sermon in VV

422 13/08
344 14/08
242 04/08
422 13/08
343 13/08
244 08/08
422 13/08
122 25/07
243 03/07
133 27/07
242 13/08

RP*
SHo
RP*
RP*
RP*
NRe
RP*
NRe
SHo
NRe
RP*

Europe
549
0300
549
2216
576
2050
585
2045
603
2123
639
2030
657
2145
666
2120
684
2020
702
2125
702
2218
711
2130
738
2155
756
2230
783
2045
792
2153
801
2155
837
2210
855
2010
864
2100
864
1854
873
1935
891
2035
936
2145
954
2130
990
2115
999
2140
1008 2255
1017 2030

Ukraine R. Nx in Ukrainian // 1404
DLF,via multi site Germany GG sp
RNE R Nacional, Barcelona. SS Jazz
RNE R Nacional, Madrid OM SSFrance Info, Lyon, France FF sp
RNE R Nacional, multisite.YL SS
RNE R5 Madrid. Folk mx then ID SS
SER Barcelona OM SS
RNE R Nat, Seville YL SS
CRI via Col de la Madone, France FF sp
NDR Info, Flensburg, Germany Weather reports GG
France Info. Rennes nx FF
RNE R Nat. Barcelona. Pop mx SS
DLF Regensberg. OM GG
COPE Barcelona YL SS
NDR Info, Linger Germany GG Sp
RNE R Nacional, multi site. YL SS
COPE, multi site OM SS
RNE R Nacional, multi site YL SS
France Bleu. Paris FF traffic report
France Bleu, Paris France Mx and FF Sp
SER, multi site OM SS
R538, Netherlands. Folk mx
RNE R5 multisite. Discussion SS
Onda Corta. Madrid. ID SS
SER, multi site OM SSRAI Uno, Italy. OM ItalianGroot Nieuws R. Netherlands, c&w mx
RNE R5. multi site. OM SS

422 14/08
333 14/08
233 19/07
233 15/08
344 03/08
222 30/07
244 15/08
233 30/07
344 16/08
344 03/08
243 14/08
444 31/07
344 01.08
444 01/08
233 02/08
243 14/08
333 02/08
133 03/08
233 04/08
444 05/08
253 02/08
233 04/08
233 07/08
222 16/08
344 08/08
344 06/08
244 09/08
444 09/08
233 10/08

RP*
SHo
NRe
NRe
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe

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1044
1116
1125
1134
1170
1179
1188
1206
1242
1242
1252
1269
1269
1278
1278
1287
1377
1404
1440
1485
1494
1494
1494
1494
1512
1512
1557

2010
2040
1910
1930
1915
2208
2220
2207
2120
2045
2155
2110
2205
2121
2125
2035
2225
2125
2140
1847
1920
2135
2045
2158
2133
2310
2135

British Isles
630
2210
657
2150
720
2150
801
1645
810
2145
810
2020
846
2147
882
2000
990
1646
1296 2200
1341 2045
1341 1850
1368 2140
1431 2143
1449 2138
1485 2300
1503 2204
1530 2145
1557 1844
1566 1847
1602 1842
1602 1857

SER, multi site. OM SS
SER, multi site. OM SS
RNE R5. Multi site. Football
HR, Zadar. OM Croatian
R Capodistria, Slovenia. YL Italian
SR Antena, Heusweiler Germany GG sp
MR4, multi site Hungary Hungarian sp local mx
France Info, Bordeaux France FF sp
France Info, Marseilles France FF sp and mx
France Info. Marseilles. YL FF
R Nostalgia, Interview Dutch
DLF, Neumunster. GG Economic nx
DLF, Neumunster Germany Stn ann GG
France Bleu, Starsbourg France Mx FF female singer
France Bleu, Strasbourg. 'Cafe de Paris' mx
SER multisite. OM SSFrance Info. Lille FF Flight MH17
France Bleu, Multisite. YL FF
RTL, Marnach Luxembourg GG Sp
ERT Greece, “Montego Bay’ song by Bobby Bloom//1404,1512
R Free Europe via Moldova in Moldovian, ID, wwwRFrance Info, Clermont Ferrand France FF sp
France Info. Clermont Ferrand OM FF
France Bleu, Bastia France FF mx female singer
ERT, Chania Greece Greek mx and sp
ERT, Hania, Crete. Greek mx // SW 9420 9935. “Ert Open” ID
France Info, Nice France FF Sp

333 11/08
233 11/08
133 12/08
133 12/08
233 13/08
333 14/08
243 14/08
445 14/08
344 03/08
233 22/07
233 22/07
244 23/07
445 14/08
243 03/08
244 23/07
244 17/08
244 24/07
133 25/07
344 26/07
232 04/08
533 11/08
253 02/08
133 26/07
333 14/08
243 15/08
222 23/08
343 02/08

NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
SHo
NRe
NRe
NRe
NRe
SHo
RP*
RP*
SHo
NRe
SHo
SHo
DK
SHo

BBC R Cornwall, Redruth Rpt on artists loft studios
BBC R Cornwall, Bodmin Extreme weather events
BBC R4, Lisnagarvney Choice of death for old people
BBC R Devon, Barnstaple Local traffic news
BBC R Scotland, multi site Female singer
BBC Scotland. Close of Commonwealth GamesR North, Redcastle, Ireland Seekers Record
BBC Wales, multi site. nx
BBC R Devon, Exeter Local traffic news
R XL, Birmingham. nx
BBC R Ulster. c&w mx
BBC R Ulster, Lisnagarvney Sport prog
Manx Radio, Foxdale Old Rock mx tracks
Smooth, Southend Local adverts
BBC R4, Redmoss Health issues in care homes
BBC R4, Carlisle Big Ben and midnight news
BBC R Stoke, Sideway News and local weather
BBC R Essex, Southend Rpt on mobile phones in cars
Smooth, Southampton Local Adverts
Eagle Xtra, Guildford. Mx Donna Summers I feel love
Desi Radio, Southall. Asian mx
BBC R Kent, Rusthal. Mx Donna Summers I feel Love

232 14/08
243 14/08
243 02/08
343 24/07
343 02/08
344 03/08
243 02/08
122 07/08
243 24/07
244 17/08
244 24/07
243 02/08
343 02/08
243 26/07
242 02/08
233 12/08
242 14/08
242 26/07
243 02/08
233 02/08
343 02/08
243 02/08

SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
NRe
Sho
NRe
SHo
NRe
NRe
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo

LPAM, Community Radio, RSL & Irish Temporary Licence (all LPAM unless stated)
1179 1225 R BGWS, Farnborough (pres) YL in Nepali (hrd on portable in power cut) 141 06/08
1287 0750 R Glan Clwyd, Rhyl. cont pops, 0800 ID: “... Radio Ysbyty Glan Clwyd” 344 30/07
1287 1500 BHR, Basildon Hospital, Essex. nx, IDs, “Basildon Hospital” “BHR-1287”
sung jingle. (Hrd Bradfield-on-Sea, Essex)
242 18/08
1386 0450 R JCom, Leeds (pres). EE talk px, 0457: mx (R Clatterbridge nulled)
222 30/07

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1386 2229 R JCom Leeds. Jewish mx, ID/jingle. 2245: old music/songs. (audible
best on LSB with local Blast 1386 on silent carrier + Energy Dublin off) 131 11/08
1386 0501 R Clatterbridge, Wirral. nx, “Light and Early”, R Clatterbridge sung jingle. 343 30/07
1521 0740 Flame CCR, Wirral. UCB UK wx. local wx, tide times L’pool & Wirral.
343 01/08
1575 1215 Stoke Mandeville Hospital R, Bucks. “Love’s Theme”, “Stoke Mandeville
Hospital Radio” ID. (hrd during power cut on Sony 7600GR)
142 06/08
Long Wave
153
2030 NReK1. OM Norwegian122 14/08
153
2135 Antena Satalor, Brasov Romania Local mx
232 26/07
162
0758 France Inter, Allouis. 2 YLs with talk on children, ad for MSF, FF
454 19/08
1712330 Medi 1, Morocco. Euro mx // weak 9575
233 05/08
1712137 Medi 1, Nador, Morocco Pop/dance mx FF
242 26/07
177
2130 DLR Documente, Zehlendorf Germany GG Sp
344 15/081830810 Europe 1, Saarlouis, Germany. OMs with discussion, // web, FF
434 19/08
1890035 RUV, Gufuskalar Iceland Male Icelandic presenter
243 02/08
2070036 RUV, Eidar Iceland Male Icelandic presenter
222 02/08
207
0040 DLF, Aholming, Germany Male presenter GG
444 02/08
216
2139 RMC, Romoules, France FF sp
344 26/07
225
2138 PR1, Solec Kujawski, Poland Polish sp
243 26/07
216
2115 RMC Info. FF OM
133 28/08
2252015 PolskieR1. YL Polish133 15/08
234
0838 RTL, Beidweiler, Luxembourg. YL on phone, comp winner, ID,FF
454 19/08
252
2250 RTE 1. Golden oldies
133 28/07
261
2326 Horizont, Bulgaria. YL ID “Radio Bulgaria” & “Horizont”. web promo.
243 05/08
261
2104 Horizonte, Sofia Bulgaria Female presenter Bulgarin sp
243 15/08
270
2126 CRo1, Topolna Czech Republic Czech sp
343 15/08

AP
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ap
AP
NRe
SHo
SH
DK
SHo
SHo
SH
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
SHo
NRe
NRe
SH
NRe
DK
SHo
SHo

Alan Pennington writes: Even in the height of summer it's possible to hear some trans-Atlantic
stations in Lancashire on the coast south of Preston just on my Sony 7600GR portable sat insidea home-made loop, though this time conditions were a bit noisy.
Simon Hockenhull writes: I managed a few interesting UK catches, one with one of my 1960’s
transistor radio and heard Iceland for the first time this summer on both its Long Wave outlets
again using one of my 1960’s portable radios. It’s sad to see three of the French AM France Infostations close down forever and I suppose it is a sign of things to come. I notice in the WRTH
that France Info seems to be slotted in on FM around the 105 MHz area although the coverage
is not as extensive as the main FM networks.
I am still able to listen to RTE1 on 252 kHz free from co channel interference day and night.
On the 02 August it was quite strange to hear Donna Summers “I feel love” record within 10
minutes of each other from two stations and from the same region.
Bandscan, Corfu, 14-15 August 2014 Alex Mackow writes:
On MW, during the day there was nothing that could be heard with ease, there were traces ofsignals on 630, 675 (Arabic sounding?), 756, 810, 936 (Italian?), 1395 but these were very weakand could not be identified. In the evenings, the band was much busier and I could hear UK
Radio 5 on 693 and 909 as well as TalkSport on 1089.
On LW, during the day I could only hear a very weak French station on 162 kHz. During theevening I could hear French on 162, German on 177, French on 183, Radio 4 on 198, French on
216 and Polish First Programme on 225. All of these were strong enough to listen to with ease.
I did not listen to short wave on this occasion. Since the BBC World Service is not broadcasting
during the day to anywhere close to Corfu, it is more or less inaudible during the day. Instead I
just checked the news on my mobile phone in the evenings when in range of a wi-fi hotspot.
guess it’s a sign of the times. (See also Beyond the Horizon)
Thanks to all the contributors. I'll make space for your late-Summer holiday loggings next month,so no excuses... 73s Susan
49

Tropical Bands Logbook
Edited by Alan Pennington – tropical@bdxc.org.uk
kHz

UTC

Station, programme details, language etc

SIO Date

Init.

3320
3950
3950

2355
1254
1929

AM
HKf

3955
3955
3960
3985
4055
4319u
4750

2005
2014
2202
2134
0100
2334
1804

Sonder Grense, South Africa - songs & anns Afrikaans.
342 17/08
R Nord Revival, Sweden - Test audible in N Denmark // 6065~~ 22/08
R Nord Revival, Sala, Sweden – special txn, 100th Anniv. Vaxholm
Radio – early 60s mx, ads, Swedish. //6065 kHz. KBS QRM 2000+ 353 22/08
KBS World R via Woofferton – German px, splattering R Nord.
555 22/08
KBS S Korea via Woofferton - GG speech
455 29/07
R Gramox, Finland. Old time Finnish mx // web (only audible in lsb) 142 23/08
R 700 via Kall, Germany - Pop mx, GG
253 26/07
R Verdad, Guatemala - Song by YL, IS, ID, ann in SS (best in lsb) 221 17/08
AFRTS relay, Diego Garcia, Chagos Is - PSAs, songs, EE
322 17/08
Dunamis Shortwave, Uganda (Pres). Afro songs, relig. talk in EE
by YL from 1830.
232 12/08
R Progreso, Havana, Cuba – OM+YL in SS with nx? Off @ 0400. 252 29/07
Tajik R, Tajikistan - Indian-style mx, talk in Tajik (about the music?) 343 16/08
R Djibouti - Anns and songs in VV
343 16/08
AIR Hyderabad, India - National Song, talk in Hindi, mx
342 17/08
CNR 1, China - anns, time pips, songs in CC // 6000
443 16/08
CNR 1, China - CC mx
244 23/07
CNR1 via Golmud - Chinese speech, male presenter
243 14/07
CNR-1, Golmud (Pres) - Man in CC with continuous talk222 16/08
VL8A Alice Springs, Australia - Commonwealth Games, ID
443 01/08
ABC Alice Springs, Australia – talks.
poor 03/08
VL8A Alice Springs, Australia - News. EE.
222 09/08
WWCR Nashville TN, USA – The Talking Machine Show, EE
454 18/08
WWCR, Nashville, USA - Man in EE with political talk
222 04/08
WWCR-3 - religious talk, OM. EE.
333 11/08
R Diff Roraima, Brazil - songs, anns in PP
332 17/08
R Difusora Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil – OM presenter with Brazilian
pops in PP. 0356: ID, c/d anns over light mx, choral NA. -0400* poor/fair 27/07
R Clube do Para, Brazil - ann, ID, song in PP
343 17/08
Xizang PBS, Tibet, China – start of programme.
fair 03/08
Xizang PBS, Tibet, China - YL Tibetan.
222 05/08
Xizang PBS Lhasa - Chinese speech (not Tibetan? – ed)
242 26/07
Xizang PBS, Lhasa (Pres) - Man in VV with songs //4920kHz
222 16/08
VL8T Tennant Creek, Australia - ABC news
322 24/07
R Daqui, Goiânia, Brazil (pres) – OM in PP w/spirited talk then vocal
selection. 0017: more talk, no ID hrd before off or lost in noise 0022 poor 14/08
AIR Chennai, India - news in EE, Hindi ann, mx
232 17/08
Xizang PBS Lhasa - Chinese speech (not Tibetan? – ed)
242 26/07
Xizang PBS, Lhasa, China - talk over mx. Tibetan // 4905
343 17/08
R Educacao Rural, Tefe, Brazil (pres) - Football commentary. PP 232 17/08
VOA relay, Botswana - Talk re Ebola outbreak. EE
322 16/08
VOA, Sao Tome - ID by man in EE with s/on then mx
333 03/08
VOA relay, Sao Tome - African songs, ID. EE/VV // 15580
443 17/08
VOA via Pinheira, Sao Tome – English, nice Afron music.
v gd 03/08
VOA Sao Tome - African mx. EE
433 02/08
VOA via Sao Tome – EE svce, OM+YL with nx, then nx features poor 27/07
UBC Radio, Uganda - Ann, talk by OM in EE
343 12/08
UBC Kampala, Uganda – songs, talks
fair 03/08
R Uganda – political commentary, YL in EE.
333 05/08
UBC, Uganda (pres) – mx, VV talk, weak+unstable, definitely on fq 251 05/08
WRMI, Miami, USA - Bro Stair // 7730 7570 11580 15770!
244 22/08

4765
4765
4780
4800
4800
4800
4800
4800
4835
4835
4835
4840
4840
4840
4875
4875.1

0350
2334
1800
0020
2058
2100
2235
2318
2022
2038
2134
0410
0502
0605
0120
0334

4885
4905
4905
4905
4905
4910
4915

0016
2050
2100
2131
2250
2134
0009

4920
4920
4920
4925
4930
4940
4940
4940
4940
4960
4976
4976
4976
4976
5015

0038
2132
2348
0129
1809
2031
2034
2046
2050
0403
1826
2042
2137
2215
0002

50

AP
AP
SHo
DK
SHo
AM
AM
AM
AP
AM
AM
AM
AM
NRe
SHo
KOD
AM
GB
DH
RM
KOD
DH
AM
RAD*
AM
GB
NRe
SHo
KOD
AM
RAD*
AM
SHo
AM
AM
AM
KOD
AM
GB
NRe
RAD*
AM
GB
DH
SH
DK

5025
5025
5025
5025
5040
5040
5040
5040
5040

0421
0545
2130
2348
0001
0557
0500
0530
0606

R Rebelde, Cuba – OM in SS, Cuban music //1620 kHz MW.
353
R Rebelde, Cuba - Man in SS with Cuban songs
222
VL8K Katherine, Australia - ABC News - plane crash, sport, etc.
342
R Rebelde, Cuba - Phone-in re children & family. ID SS343
R Habana Cuba - IS, ID, mx, world nx in (pres) Creole
453
R.Havana, Cuba - continuous Cuban songs and mx. Man in SS
222
R Havana, Cuba – “This Day in History”, nx, EE //6060 6100 6165 353
R Havana, Cuba – “Giant African Snail” dangerous to humans. EE. 353
R Habana, Cuba - talk about conflict in Gaza. OM in EE.
333

30/07
17/08
24/07
16/08
17/08
17/08
13/08
20/08
11/08

ap
KOD
AM
AM
AM
KOD
AP
AP
DH

Thanks to everybody who contributed this month! Arthur Miller has again heard what he thinks
was Dunamis Shortwave from Uganda on 4750 kHz with English religious programming atth1830 on 12 August. As there is nothing else that would broadcast English religious programmes
on 4750, I’m sure his presumption is correct!
Radio Nord Revival which celebrates the early sixties offshore
station has been broadcasting from Sala, Sweden for the past twodays on 3950 kHz. Has Sweden ever used the 90 metre band
before? Their signal has been pretty good after dark here in theUK, considering they’re only using 5 kilowatts, so it’s a pity this is
only a short term licence to commemorate 100 years of Vaxholm
Radio. Having looked through the club archive of “Communication”
in recent weeks, you realise which stations and countries havedisappeared from shortwave in the past forty years!
Until next month, 73s and Good DX! Alan

HF Logbook
Edited by Stephen Howie - hfl@bdxc.org.uk

AnaloguekHz

UTC

Station, programme details, language, etc

SIO

Date

5830
5850
5875
5875
5910
5910
5915
5920
5930
5936.735939.9
5940
5960
5960
5960
5964.7
5975
5975
5975
5985

0400
0727
0542
2054
0445
0528
2110
0358
2000
2120
2219
2224
2005
2151
2243
2213
0500
0505
0510
1820

WTWW, USA. No more World of Radio at this time
WRMI TruNews, USA. EE, high QRN, OMs w/ bible message
BBC WS via Ascension. OM EE talk abt nx items, // 6005
VO America via Thailand. YL KK talk, IS & ID 2054
R Japan via Issoudun. JJ outside bcast at live event -0500*
R Alcaravan, Colombia. OM with SS comm & lots LA mx/sx
ZNBC, Zambia. VV, political comment (nothing on 6165)
R Romania Int. Home Sce 1 s/on // MWs, over closing WHRI 2
Dardasha 7 via UNID site. OM with AA ID & talk 2000-2015
Voz Missionaria, Brazil. Soft mx, talkVoz Missionaria, Brazil. OM with PP sx // 9665
Voz Missionaria, Brazil. OM with PP talkChina R Int via Albania. Bookshelf px, EE // 5985
China R Int via Albania. Talk of family names, EE
VO Turkey. OM & YL TT talk, ID 2243. beyond scheduled 2100
RTM Klasik Nasional, Malaysia. VV, YL/OM ballad
R Japan via Woofferton. Rain-triggered disasters in JapanR Japan via Woofferton. EE nx, 0515 - Japan Focus -0530*
R Japan. Radio Japan Focus, visit to planetarium, EE
R Taiwan Int. Magazine programme – Chinese tourists, EE

252
232
343
242
454
242
252
533
444
fair
242
242
444
555
343
122
454
554
455
555

03/08 RP
28/07 MTG
16/08 MLF
09/08 MLF
13/08 AP
16/08 MLF
10/08 RP
12/08 RP
01/08 MLF
03/08 GB
10/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
27/07 SHo
05/08 DH
10/08 MLF
16/08 MTG
20/08 AP12/08 AP
01/08 CS
28/07 JCa

51

Init.

5985
5995
5995
6000
6000
6000
6000
6005
6005
6020
6025
6030
6055
6055
6060
6060
6060
6060
6060
6060
6060
6060
6065
6065
6065
6065
6065
6065
6070
6070
6080
6080
6080
6089.9
6090
6090
6090
6095
6095
6095
6100
6100
6100
6100
6100
6110
6115
6115
6120
6130
6130
6130
6130
6130
6135
6134.83
6135
6150

0431
2133
2212
0410
0425
0555
2228
0512
1645
1840
2130
0557
1900
2056
0500
0510
0515
0609
0640
2148
2155
2247
0655
1430
1230
1240
1725
2102
0620
1625
1805
1840
2143
1900
0423
0550
1830
0831
1101
1422
0535
0610
1830
1834
1843
2037
0605
2117
2203
1804
1835
1844
2215
2230
1825
0000
2332
2206

WRMI, USA. Blues Radio Intl, blues mx and comments, EE
252
RTM, Mali. Talk, audio better than recent months
fair
RTM, Mali. OM with VV sx & comm242
R Havana Cuba. EE nx, 0440 - DXers Unlimited, freq changes 353
R Havana Cuba. OM with sports news, EE
444
R Havana Cuba. OM with EE talk about OAS // 6060
243
CNR 1, China. OM with CC talk, YL commentary242
BBC WS, UK. Newsdate px, business news, EE
444
R Freundes - Dienst via R 700 Germany. OM with GG rel talk, ID 343
Adygeyskoye R, Russian Fed. Drama (pres) in VV, mx
333
Xizang PBS, China. OM with Tibetan sx then YL comm343
R Marti, USA. OMs discussions, under usual jammer // 7405
333
China R Int in FF and R Rwanda also in FF
533
R Rwanda. OM with Kinya-rwanda comm & lots local mx, ID, off 343
R Havana Cuba. ‘This day in History’, nx, EE // 6100 6165 5040 454
R Havana Cuba. YL and OM with world news update, EE
444
R Havana Cuba. UN World Humanitarian Day (19/8), EE
453
R Havana Cuba. News, EE
444
R Havana Cuba. Ebola outbreak, EE
233
VOIRI, Zahedan, Iran. Beautiful Ramadan px, sermons, AA
544
PBS Sichuan 2, Xichang, China. IDs, emphatic talk, CC
fair
PBS Sichuan 2, Xichang, China. OM with CC talk, // 7225
343
R Nord Revival, Sweden. Fair signal at this time.
343
R Nord Revival, Sweden. Old recs, ID in Swedsh. EE ID 1550
343
R Nord Revival, Sweden. Just audible, full EE ID mentions 1485. 141
R Nord Revival, Sweden. Audible with excellent audio in N Denmark ~R Nord Revival, Sweden. In USB, parallel with web stream
343
China Business R, China. YL with CC comm & local mx
333
Channel 292, Germany. OM with GG comm & GG/EE pop
242
Channel 292, Germany. “Free radio from Bavaria”, ID, rock mx 242
R Australia. Press review, EE
133
VO America via Botswana. African mx, EE, co-ch R Australia
332
VO America via Botswana. Record requests, EE
333
R Nigeria. VV (rumbling under CRI in Romanian)222
Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla. US YL preacher // 1601
354
Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla. Melissa Scott, EE talk on abortion 343
R Nigeria. OM with Hausa talk343
Transportradio, Netherlands. Web address, “punkt nl”, ID, DD
454
Mighty KBC via Nauen. Emperor Rosko playing oldies, EE
444
Mighty KBC via Nauen. Pop mx, Co-ch interference, EE
333
R Havana Cuba. YL with nx about Cuba, EE
444
R Havana Cuba. News, EE
444
Int R Serbia. Pop mx to 1830, YL RR ID, into II at 1831
444
Int R Serbia. News, EE
555
Int R Serbia. Px on start of WW I, EE
343
R Fana, Ethiopia. YL with Amharic talk & HoA mx/sx
242
R Ö1 Int, Austria. OM & YL with nx review in GG
344
R Veritas Asia via Philippines. YL with Mandarin talk
343
Super R Deus e Amor, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Usual talk, fadingweak
Mix of China + TWR Swaziland + BVB with Jack van Impe Min 222
Bible Voice BC via Germany. OM with EE religious story
333
Bible Voice BC via Germany. Rel px, EE
332
Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet. Tibetan News Gen Ch., ads, VV
453
Lao National R, Vientiane. (See DX News)
good
Yemen R. Arabic music, EE
333
R Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Local mx, anns mention Bolivia. QRM Brazil. ~R Aparecida, Brazil. OM anns, PP talk, ID at 2342, more anns
pr/frEurope 24, Datteln, Germany. EE, GG & II statement
about Europe 24 px to start soon. 1630-2325
343
52

19/08 RM
03/08 GB
02/08 MLF
30/07 ap
05/08 CS
08/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
04/08 CS
16/08 MLF
27/07 MTG
01/08 MLF
08/08 MLF
11/08 RP
31/07 MLF
13/08 AP
01/08 CS
20/08 AP
06/08 DH
09/08 NRe
21/07 CRS
03/08 GB
10/08 MLF
23/08 RC
22/08 DK
23/08 NR
22/08 HKf
22/08 GS
31/07 MLF
27/07 MLF
03/08 DK
24/07 NRe
27/07 SHo
05/08 DH
11/08 RP
31/07 ap
16/08 MLF
14/08 MLF
20/08 SH
10/08 DH
27/07 JCa
02/08 CS
06/08 DH
09/08 MLF
06/08 DH
28/07 SHo
06/08 MLF
08/08 MLF
31/07 MLF
03/08 GB
03/08 RP
09/08 MLF
27/07 SHo
24/06 CRS
12/08 HKf
05/08 DH
03/08 HKf
13/08 RAD*
28/07 MLF

6150
6150
6159.95
6160
6165
6175
6185
6195
6195
6195
6280
7240
7255
7255
7260
7265
7275
7285
7305
7310
7315
7315
7315
7365
7385
7400
7415
7415
7445
7445
7445
7460
7495
7505
7550
7550
7550
7550
7570
7585
7730
9295usb
9300
9335
9345
9370
9370
9380
9390
9390
9390
9390
9400
9410
9410
9410
9420
9420
9420

2300
2320
2259
2225
0611
1847
1904
1747
1836
2320
2221
2230
2128
2133
2232
0612
2138
2007
0614
1438
1930
1951
2359
2048
2052
0705
2009
2156
1723
1724
1800
2202
2245
2247
1806
1819
1832
1900
0000
2343
0500
1930
1530
2128
1535
1539
1605
1904
1936
1903
1940
2045
1953
0002
1722
1735
0408
1613
2255

Europe 24. Loop IDs in English, Dutch, German. Guitar mx.
~
Europe 24, Datteln, Germany. Test tx, mx, IDs, GG, EE, DD
333
CKZN, St John’s, Canada. CBC R1 ID, nx - fighting in Iraq, EE 233
CKZN, St John's, Canada. YL soccer tournament, CBC Radio 1 334
R Havana Cuba. News, EE
333
China R Int, Beijing. Buying new homes in China, EE
344
R Taiwan Int via UK. YL with GG ID & talk
343
BBC WS via Oman. Discussion on police corruption, EE
333
BBC WS via Oman. Female presenter, EE
343
BBC WS via Kranji. End of Commonwealth Games, EE
242
Sound of Hope, Taiwan. YL & OM CC talk343
KBS World Radio, S Korea. KK sx, IS & OM ID
444
R Belarus. Local songs, EE
444
R Belarus. OM with EE talk, ID at 2133
343
China R Int, Urumqi. PP service, mx px, OM and YL anns, close fair
Hamburger Local R, Germany. “Media Network”, monitoring, EE 333
R Exterior de Espana, Noblejas. Drama px, OM in SS, ID, close fr/gd
China R Int via Albania. Bookshelf px, EE
455
BBC WS via Ascension. OM with FF talk, ID at 0614
344
Polish R via ? “Europe East”, features from other stations, EE
444
VOIRI, Tehran, Iran. Nx, adj-ch QRM (‘number station’?), EE
443
VOIRI, Tehran, Iran. Virtues of patience, EE
444
WHRI, USA. ID and address
332
VO America via Thailand. YL with KK talk, ID at 2052
243
Xizang PBS, China. S/on mx, YL with Tibetan ID then talk
343
TWR, UK. YL with story about Hebrew scroll, EE
444
China R Int, Kashi. Bookshelf px, EE
444
China R Int, Kashi. Lang lesson, Chinese words for driving, EE 333
BBC WS via Madagascar. Talk about Boko Haram, EE
333
BBC WS via Madagascar. Furniture made from tyres, EE
354
BBC WS via Madagascar. Ebola outbreak, EE
333
R Free Asia via Mongolia. YL with KK talk to 2202 & abruptly off 343
R Algerienne via France. OM with AA talk444
R Free Asia via Tajikistan. OMs with Tibetan sx444
All India R. Commentary US/India relationship, EE
454
All India R. Indian classical music, EE
444
All India R. Px on Japan, EE
454
All India R. News, EE
444
WRMI, USA. Bro Stair - talk re Missouri riots // 11580 15770 etc 243
R Farda, USA. ID in Persian
555
WRMI, USA. Overcomer Ministry in EE // 15190
252
R Nord Revival, Sweden. Fair signal~~
N Korea Reform R via Uzbekistan. OM with KK talk, ID & off
242
R Free Asia via Tinian. YL with CC comm & mx, usual jammer 333
FEBC via Philippines. YL with Mandarin talk343
R Free Asia via Tajikistan. OM with Tibetan talk332
R Free Asia via Tajikistan. YL with Uighur comm & sx
343
All India R, Aligarh. Hindi comm & sx in new svce to S India
343
R Thailand. Film review show, news, EE
343
R Thailand. Report on Ebola outbreak
444
R Thailand. Talk, songs, EE
exlnt
R Thailand. OM with EE talk, ID at 2045 & into Thai344
VOIRI, Tehran, Iran. Virtues of patience, EE
354
BBC WS via Thailand news in EE
343
BBC WS via UAE. Talk about Boko Haram, EE
333
BBC WS via UAE. Football news, EE
343
ERT Open, Greece. ID in Greek // MWs454
CNR 13, China. OM with Uighur talk
343
ERT, Greece. Popular music
544
53

02/08 HK
02/08 DK
11/08 DK
16/08 MTG
06/08 DH
28/07 SHo
09/08 MLF
19/08 JCa
27/07 SHo
03/08 SHo
28/07 MLF
31/07 MLF
05/08 DH
10/08 MLF
13/08 RAD*
06/08 DH
17/08 RAD*
27/07 SHo
08/08 MLF
09/08 DH
09/08 JCa
27/07 SHo
12/08 JK
28/07 MLF
28/07 MLF
02/08 CS
27/07 SHo
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
30/07 NRe
10/08 MLF
31/07 MLF
31/07 MLF
01/08 JCa
05/08 DH
27/07 SHo
28/07 NRe
22/08 DK
12/08 JK
03/08 RP
23/08 ARo
14/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
14/08 MLF
14/08 MLF
13/08 MLF
13/08 MLF
07/08 JCa
09/08 SHo
03/08 GB
06/08 MLF
27/07 SHo
13/08 JK
05/08 DH
10/08 SHo
03/08 RP
13/08 MLF
12/08 JK

9420
9420
9430
9440
9445
9445
9455
9475
9475
9475
9475
9485
9485
9485
9510
9510
9515
9525.8
9535
9540
9540
9540
9550
9580
9585
9600
9605
9625
9630
9630
9635
9655
9655
9655
9660
9660
9660
9665
9665
9665
9665
9689.9
9700
9700
9710
9710
9710
9710
9715
9715
9715
9730
9730
9730
9730
9745
9745
9750
9755

2259
2320
2000
0650
1831
2213
1630
1748
0753
0813
1742
0850
1301
1354
1000
1102
1610
1925
2300
1750
1727
1732
2108
0814
2112
2017
1628
1718
1634
1716
0703
2001
2120
2131
2000
2115
2141
1953
1907
2116
2125
2005
0545
0836
0701
0707
0719
0810
1939
1954
2001
1928
1615
1911
2011
0030
1625
1504
1706

ERT Open, Greece. Greek talk343
ERT Open, Greece. Greek mx // 9935 15630
444
VO Vietnam via UAE. German nx
fair
BBC WS via Ascension. OM with Hausa talk343
All India R. Px on Japan, EE
242
All India R. Business news, EE
444
R Free Asia via Saipan. YL & OM CC sx & comm, off 1630
344
WTWW 1, Lebanon TN, USA. Gospel mx, YL announcer, EE
343
R Australia. YL with EE talks about childhood
243
R Australia. News, EE
333
R Australia, Shepparton. Mx px on local bands, EE
333
Atlantic 2000 via HLR, Germany. Mx, EE ID
333
Hamburger Lokal R, Germany. History of pirate radio, EE
444
Radio City via HLR, Germany. Mungo Jerry song
353
IRRS via Romania. YL with "Your Story Hour" px, EE ID at 1001 444
IRRS via Romania. What is Obama’s faith? EE
444
KBS World R, S Korea. OM with EE review of local nx
242
VO Indonesia. Strong QRM from China on 9525, poor on USB poor
R Exterior de Espana. Sign-on in Spanish
353
R Romania Int. ‘Encyclopaedia’, ‘The Cooking Show’, EE
555
R Romania Int. Talk about icons, EE
555
R Romania Int. Listeners DX reports, EE
455
VO Vietnam. YL with FF talk, ID at 2108
343
R Australia. News, EE
222
Super R Deus é Amor. OM with frantic religious talk344
China R Int, Kashi. Mention of Fred Hollit movie, EE
555
BBC WS via Singapore. YL with Hindi talk about cricket, off :30 343
VO Vietnam. Talk about trees, EE
444
VO Minorities, China. OM & YL with Kazakh discussions, // 9645 243
IBRA R via Rwanda. OM with Oromo speech, sx/mx, ID 1730
343
RFE/RL via Germany. YL with RR comm & mx, ID 0700 & off
443
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. News, Tilbury dock bodies, EE
252
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. African Link px, EE
444
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. African music, EE
444
R Exterior de Espana. feature on publishing conference, EE
444
R Exterior de Espana. Closure of REE in October! EE
343
R Exterior de Espana. Talk on tree maintenance, EE
444
R Exterior de Espana. Opera music, EE
544
R Exterior de Espana. YL with the news in EE
455
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. Px on WW I, EE
232
R Voz Missionaria, Brazil. OM with PP talk, ID at 2125
333
VO Nigeria, Ikorodu. Talk, Hausa
fr/gd
R Romania Int. Travellers Guide, EE
555
R New Zealand Int. News, EE
222
R Australia. YL with news on earthquake in China, EE
444
R Australia. YL with local nx & wx, ID at 0707 & more sports
344
R Australia. Financial news updates, EE
243
R Australia. News, EE
333
VOIRI, Iran. Commentary on Gaza conflict, EE
544
VOIRI, Iran. Prophet from Iraq, EE
444
VOIRI, Iran. Talk on Islam in EE
455
VO Vietnam. Music, YL – sign off, EE
444
VO Vietnam. Victims of Agent Orange, EE
444
VO Vietnam. YL with a news commentary in EE
455
VO Vietnam. Reports in RR
good
R Bahrain. Advertisements in AA, jingles, disco songs252
Mix of R Bahrain + Chinese talk + UNID in VV (Taiwan?)222
Nei Meggu PBS, China. OM with Mongolian talk & lots local mx 242
R France Int via S Africa. OM & YL with PP talk about Israel
344
54

03/08 SHo
05/08 DK
03/08 GB
27/07 MLF
27/07 SHo
09/08 DH
08/08 MLF
28/07 JCa
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
09/08 DK
10/08 DH
03/08 RP
10/08 MLF
10/08 DH
14/08 MLF
03/08 GB
12/08 JK
28/07 JCa
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
06/08 MLF
29/07 SHo
14/08 MLF
05/08 DH
14/08 MLF
13/08 MLF
27/07 MLF
16/08 SH
07/08 CS
05/08 DH
10/08 CB
09/08 SHo
09/08 DH
07/08 JCa
15/08 PP
09/08 SHo
06/08 MLF
03/08 GB
01/08 CS
06/08 DH
04/08 CS
27/07 MLF
28/07 SHo
05/08 DH
07/08 JCa
27/07 SHo
15/08 PP
09/08 JCa
06/08 DH
15/08 PP
03/08 GB
29/07 RP
12/08 RP
03/08 MLF
08/08 MLF

9755
9755
9755
9760
9765
9780
9785
9785
9785
9785
9790
9810
9815
9820
9820
9820
9820
9830
9830
9835
9855
9860
9860
9875
9885
9895
9900
9915
9925
9935
9940
9975
10000
11520
11520
11565
11565
11580
11595
11610
11615
11615
11620
11625
11625
11635
11635
11635
11650
11660
11660
11660
11660
11665
11670
11670
11670
11670
11670

1800
1814
2146
2015
2215
1712
1855
1835
1835
1840
1653
2021
2238
1850
1804
1850
1914
2202
2241
1928
2244
1730
1759
1935
2030
2131
2255
2002
1837
0435
1938
1843
2034
0846
1011
0900
1010
1820
1331
1521
1908
2022
1602
1732
1734
1920
1902
2029
2154
2000
2210
2218
2226
1413
1821
1830
1833
2108
2214

R Japan via S Africa. News in EE
433
R Japan via S Africa. News, EE
444
China Business R, China. YL with CC sx then comm, // 9775
343
AWR, Guam. Russian conversation
good
R Romania Int. Talk about architecture, EE
555
Deewa R via France. OM with Pashto talk about WHO, YL ID
344
VO Turkey. Reports, music, EE
555
VO Turkey. News, EE
555
VO Turkey. YL with news update, EE
555
VO Turkey. Px on end of Ramadan, EE
444
Ashna R via Philippines. OM with Pashto talk, ID at 1653
343
VO America via Botswana. Nice music, FF
good
R Free Asia via Kuwait. OM & YL with Tibetan talk343
R Australia. Live music show, EE
444
R Australia. News, young unemployment, EE
344
R Australia. Discussion with careers, Radio National ID, nx in EE 344
R Australia. OM & YL with Pacific nx & comm343
VO Turkey. News, EE
444
VO Turkey. OM with EE comm & lots local mx, ID at 2241
444
RTM Sarawak, Malaysia. OM with Malay comm, EE/Malay pop 233
R Australia via UAE. YL with EE talk on reading & writing // 9900 332
VOIRI, Sirjan, Iran. OM with GG ID, ex 9570 // 7410
444
VOIRI, Sirjan, Iran. YL with long talk, no sign of // 7240, GG
433
VO Korea, N Korea. YL with EE talks in KK // 11635
343
VO America via Sao Tome. French px startgood
R Cairo, Egypt. Very distorted audio, YL, EE
332
R Australia via UAE. EE, cookery, sports nx @ TOTH // 9855
232
BBC WS, Woofferton, UK. E Ukraine air crash, EE
455
R Pilipinas, Philippines. OM with EE/Filipino talk // 15190
242
ERT, Greece. Non stop Greek pops // 9420 15630
454
TWR via Swaziland. OM & YL with FF comm343
R Free Asia via Tinian. OM & YL with KK discussion
344
Observatorio Nacional, Brazil. Usual IDs, timefair
WEWN, USA, OM with rel px, EE
444
WEWN, USA. Bible Study, EE
433
WHRI, USA. Call to Worship Ministries until 0930
252
Overcomer Ministry, USA (via WHRI). Brother Stair, EE
333
All India R. Indian classical mx, EE
333
HCJB, Australia. Programme in Hindi
354
China R Int. Japanese politics, EE
444
R Exterior de Espana. YL with news in EE
455
R Exterior de Espana. OM with FF talk & YL comments
343
VOIRI, Iran. Zionist lobby in UK, EE
333
Vatican R. Talk about alter servers, EE
444
Vatican R. Latest on Ebola outbreak in W Africa, EE
354
VO Korea, N Korea. Commentary, music, EE
343
VO Korea, N Korea. OM with station ID, EE
434
VO Korea, N Korea. OM with KK comm & lots sx/mx // 9875
343
CNR 1, China. OM & YL with CC talk & sx/mx, Beijing // 11710 343
BBC WS via Ascension. OM with Hausa ID & off
343
China R Int, Kashi. FF service, OM with talk, YL with light mx
pr/fr
China R Int, Kashi. FF talk till 2225, ID and close, light CC mx
fair
China R Int. Signing off in French
555
China R Int, Kashi. Health discussion, EE
333
All India R. Indian classical music, EE
444
All India R. Talk on India and music in EE
545
All India R. Px on India-Pakistan war, EE
454
All India R. GOS, EE, Indian PM's fight on poverty // 11740
444
All India R. Commentary
433
55

23/07 NRe
05/08 DH
06/08 MLF
03/08 GB
09/08 DH
08/08 MLF
09/08 JCa
06/08 DH
01/08 CS
28/07 SHo
14/08 MLF
03/08 GB
03/08 MLF
09/08 JCa
27/07 SHo
19/08 DK
13/08 MLF
09/08 DH
03/08 MLF
13/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
14/08 MLF
14/08 SH
13/08 MLF
03/08 GB
09/08 DH
16/08 MTG
27/07 SHo
08/08 MLF
01/08 RM
13/08 MLF
08/08 MLF
03/08 GB
05/08 PP
06/08 DH
10/08 RP
06/08 DH
05/08 DH
16/08 PP
09/08 DH
15/08 PP
29/07 MLF
07/08 DH
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
09/08 JCa
15/08 PP
07/08 MLF
27/07 MLF
13/08 MLF
13/08 RAD*
17/08 RAD*
12/08 JK
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
15/08 PP
27/07 SHo
16/08 MTG
12/08 JK

11675
11675
11675
11675
11695
11695
11695
11695
11695
11695
11720
11725
11725
11725
11725
11725
11730
11730
11730
11735
11735
11735
11750
11760
11760
11764.7
11765
11765
11765
11770
11780
11780
11780
11785
11800
11800
11810
11845
11845
11850
11854.9
11855
11865
11865
11865
11890
11890
11890
11895
11900
11900
11945
11945
11945
11945
11955
11955
11955
11965

1414
1505
1554
1600
1430
2032
2115
2137
2215
2217
1335
0535
0645
0715
0755
1927
2129
2224
2300
1800
1803
2026
1640
1340
2202
2132
1415
1431
2032
2147
2036
2138
2222
2308
1900
2130
2201
1730
1750
2100
2213
2228
1613
1959
2132
1401
1506
1530
1552
1753
2216
0655
0815
0852
0902
2016
2127
2328
2044

China R Int. Health discussion, EE
BBC WS via Oman. News, EE
BBC WS via Oman. Sports px, EE
BBC WS via Oman. News, EE
China R Int. Pilipino service with station ID
R Australia. OM with "Pacific Beat" px
R Australia. Phone-in, cooking pumpkins // 13630 15415
R Australia, Shepparton. Commonwealth Games report, EE
R Australia, Shepparton. Song, IDs, reports
R Australia. Healthy eating
SWR Finland. Tentative with heave rock (schedule lists 11690)
R New Zealand Int. OM with stock market nx, EE
R New Zealand Int. Interview in EE
R New Zealand Int. OM presenter, EE
WRMI, USA. OM with rel px and station address in EE
R New Zealand Int. OM & YL with EE discussion abt behaviour
R Belarus. Local songs, EE
Overcomer Ministry, USA. Religious prog
Family R, USA. Spanish
ZBC, Zanzibar, Tanzania. IS, ID, news
ZBC, Zanzibar, Tanzania. “ZBC Radio”, African music, EE
ZBC, Zanzibar, Tanzania. YL with Swahili talk & local mx/sx
SLBC, Sri Lanka. Sinhala comm & local sx/mx
China R Int. EE, bio of mx group Beastie Boys and their songs
R Havana Cuba. OM with SS ID & nx review // 11840
Super R Deus é Amor, Brazil. PP, OM monologue & song
China R Int. Health discussion, EE
China R Int. Tourist px in EE
R Algerienne via France. OM with AA chanting then talk
VO Nigeria. OM with Swahili talk, sx/mx, ID at 2147, off 2158
R Nacional, Brazil. OM with PP talk
RN Amazonia, Brazil. PP, football commentary, “gooaal”
R Nacional, Brazil. “Goooooooool”, sport
R Free Asia via Tinian. OM with CC talkDeutsche Welle via Kigali. News, EE
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. African mx, EE
KBS World R, South Korea. Sign on and news, EE
VO America via Vatican. Station anns, Report from Africa, EE
VO America via Vatican. Ebola, EE
BBC WS via Singapore. OM with AA comm to 2100, ID & off
R Aparecida, Brazil. OM with PP comm & Y/L sx // 9630
R Aparecida, Brazil. Songs, IDs
AWR via Guam. Bible study
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. Station anns and close, EE
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. African mx, EE
BBC WS via Oman. Talk about space missions, EE
BBC WS via Singapore. News, EE
BBC WS via Singapore. Football, EE
BBC WS via Kranji. Sport px, EE
China R Int. Success in Profile, EE
Vatican R via Philippines. OM with CC talk, IS & off to 2300
R Australia. Sports news, EE
R Australia. News, EE
R Australia. Talk on the market, EE
R Australia. News, EE
AWR via Austria. Dyula talks, ID at 2016, not 9770 as WRTHAWR via Austria. Contact details, close down, EE
R Romania Int. Spanish
R Japan. OM & YL with JJ talk 1900-2300
56

222
333
354
422
455
343
444
444
fair
433
343
343
422
242
534
242
444
453
454
433
333
343
343
555
343
232
222
455
343
242
243
232
good
343
422
444
333
354
444
343
242
good
333
242
333
333
333
433
354
444
343
333
434
343
333
343
444
544
343

05/08 DH
05/08 DH
08/08 SHo
08/08 NRe
15/08 PP
07/08 MLF
16/08 MTG
03/08 SHo
03/08 GB
12/08 JK
02/08 RC
01/08 CS
30/07 NRe
28/07 SHo
14/08 PP
14/08 MLF
05/08 DH
12/08 JK
12/08 JK
22/07 NRe
13/10 DH
11/08 MLF
16/08 MLF
03/08 RP
27/07 MLF
16/08 MTG
05/08 DH
15/08 PP
11/08 MLF
02/08 MLF
11/08 MLF
16/08 MTG
03/08 GB
31/07 MLF
27/07 NRe
05/08 DH
09/08 DH
07/08 SHo
06/08 DH
07/08 MLF
27/07 MLF
03/08 GB
06/08 DH
27/07 SHo
05/08 DH
06/08 DH
05/08 DH
10/08 NRe
08/08 SHo
06/08 DH
27/07 MLF
10/08 DH
05/08 DH
05/08 PP
06/08 DH
13/08 MLF
05/08 DH
12/08 JK
11/08 MLF

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11985
11995
11995
11995
12000
12010
12010
12015
12015
12020
12035
12040
12055
12085
12085
12085
12085
12085
12095
12095
12095
12105
12105
12105
12120
12125
12895
13570
13580
13580
13580
13580
13580
13580
13580
13605
13610
13610
13620
13630
13630
13630
13640
13650
13650
13650
13660
13660
13670
13675
13690
13695
13695
13710
13710
13710
13750
13760

0600
2150
1606
1614
2056
2220
2310
2321
1745
1956
2222
1530
2050
1600
1535
0910
1306
1603
1647
0720
1550
2100
1627
2057
2324
1735
1607
1547
1759
1759
1747
1800
1816
1826
1829
1859
1242
0723
1308
1840
0626
1545
2137
1855
1045
1222
1700
1712
1835
1728
1655
1554
1745
1822
0819
1334
1416
0638
1303

R Dniprovskaya Khvylia, Ukraine. Tones to 0600, Ukrainian anns 232
HCJB via Ascension. OM with Pulaar talk
343
AWR via Sri Lanka. YL talk on explorers, EE
343
AWR via Sri Lanka. Bible Study333
R France Int, Issoudun. OM anns, FF, ID, close anns, off 2100 fair
VO Vietnam. YL with CC comm & mx/sx
343
BBC WS via Thailand. OM with EE talk about Ebola outbreak
332
BBC WS via Thailand. End of Commonwealth Games, EE
252
China R Int, Beijing. Chinese media survey, EE
433
VO Korea, N Korea. YL with GG comm & local mx, ID 1957
344
VO Vietnam. YL with CC sx/mx, NOT // 12000
242
VO Tajik, Tajikistan. OM with Tajik talk, "Ovozi Tojik", ID 1530 344
VO America via Germany. OMs with Hausa talk about football443
TWR India via Yerevan. OM with EE/Bhili bible readings, off343
R Australia. Discussion on crime levels, EE
333
Mongolia (tentative). Chinese type mx, YL, too weak for ID
121
R Australia. News, EE
222
R Australia. Science Show - Gravity waves w/Paul Davies // 9475 444
R Australia. Jazz music px, EE
445
BBC WS via Ascension. Commonwealth Games update, EE
242
BBC WS via S Africa. Sports news in EE
222
BBC WS via Ascension. Time pips, station anns and news, EE 343
R Dialogue via Madagascar. African music, VV
333
WTWW, USA. "Bible Worldwide" in PP, ID at 2057, off 2100
243
WTWN, USA. OM with special presentation in Yoruba,. EE ID
343
R Pilipinas, Philippines. Px for workers abroad, mainly Tagalog 333
IBRA R via Yerevan. OM with Amharic talk343
VO America via Botswana. ‘Border Crossings’ mx, EE
344
China R Int. Roundtable, EE
444
Bangladesh Betar. Mx, news commentary, EE
544
Bangladesh Betar. Sign on and news, EE
444
Bangladesh Betar. “True path of Islam”, EE
444
Bangladesh Betar. Traditional music, EE
444
Bangladesh Betar. YL with nx on court case, mx, EE
454
Bangladesh Betar. Talk on independence, EE
544
Bangladesh Betar. Mx, station anns and close, EE
444
All India R, Bangalore. OM & YL with CC talk & mx
343
CNR 1, China. OM & YL with CC talk243
China R Int. News about major earthquake, EE
444
R France Int, Issoudun. OM with passionate talk, FF – RR listed 242
R Australia. YL with EE talk about music then OM ID
243
R France Int. OM with RR talk // 15215
343
R Australia, Shepparton. Commonwealth Games report, EE
242
All India R, Bangalore. Indian mx, OM vocals, // 9720, AA
353
VO Turkey. YL with Uzbek talk343
China R Int via Albania. Drivers of the Chinese economy, EE
444
R Kuwait, Kabd. Local mx, vocals, TS, anns, fanfare, ID, AA
252
BBC WS, Woofferton, UK. Weak signal, radio play? // web, Dari 252
BBC WS, Woofferton, UK. Px on Malaria, EE
242
VOIRI, Kamalabad, Iran. OM with anns, px start, // 11965, Swah. 252
R Free Asia via Tajikistan. OM with Mandarin talk then EE comm 343
Deewa R via Germany. OM with Pashto sx & comm343
All India R, Bangalore. AIR IS loop. ID, start of EE bx, anns, EE 252
All India R, Bangalore. Indian classical mx, EE
333
China R Int. Talk on Libya, EE
444
All India R. YL with news in EE
233
China R Int. Talk about stray cats, EE
444
R France Int. OM with Hausa talk, ID & off 0630
243
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. Sign on, patriotic songs, EE
333
57

16/08 MLF
05/08 MLF
28/07 JCa
06/08 DH
17/08 RAD*
27/07 MLF
31/07 MLF
03/08 SHo
07/08 SHo
30/07 MLF
27/07 MLF
09/08 MLF
11/08 MLF
09/08 MLF
28/07 JCa
11/08 DH
05/08 DH
27/07 MTG
24/07 SHo
28/07 SHo
13/08 NRe
07/08 SHo
07/08 DH
13/08 MLF
31/07 MLF
05/08 DH
09/08 MLF
28/07 JCa
06/08 DH
19/08 JCa
06/08 DH
29/07 NRe
05/08 DH
11/08 SH
15/08 PP
27/07 SHo
14/08 MLF
27/07 MLF
05/08 DH
11/08 SH
08/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
03/08 SHo
11/08 SH
26/07 MLF
06/08 DH
14/08 SH
14/08 SH
27/07 SHo
14/08 SH
07/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
14/08 SH
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
16/08 PP
05/08 DH
08/08 MLF
05/08 DH

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13760
13760
13760
13760
13760
13760
13760
13765
13780
13780
13810
13810
13830
13845
13845
13845
13845
13870
13870
14670
15000
15030
15090
15115
15120
15120
15120
15120
15120
15120
15130
15130
15130
15140
15140
15140
15150
15160
15180
15180
15190
15190
15190
15190
15190
15190
15190
15190
15190
15195
15205
15205
15215
15225
15235
15235
15240
15240

1335
1730
1735
1747
2117
2130
2144
2146
1745
1559
1605
1416
1453
1611
1200
1335
1455
2227
1759
1804
1922
1920
1100
1304
1350
0955
0600
0816
0846
0945
0945
1108
1115
1128
1425
1424
2139
1322
1330
1130
1631
1515
0715
1500
1737
1812
1835
1912
2202
2246
1105
1412
1422
1846
1410
1720
1745
1107
2301

VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. Commentary, EE
322
China R Int. Cosmetics industry in China, EE
444
China R Int. Roundtable discussion on business, EE
555
China R Int. Chinese media survey, EE
544
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. News, EE
243
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. YL with EE & lots KK mx/sx
444
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. YL poem for re-unification
453
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. Military songs, EE
333
Vatican R. Talk about Ebola, EE
343
VOIRI, Iran. Zionist lobby in UK, EE
333
VOIRI, Sirjan, Iran. OMs with EE talk about Lebanon
242
Overcomer Ministry via Nauen. Brother Stair talk, EE
544
Overcomer Ministry via Nauen. Brother Stair, EE
333
BBC WS via Thailand. OMs with Tamil discussions, off 1615243
WWCR 3, USA. Religious px in EE
433
WWCR 3, USA. Medical properties of charcoal, EE
444
WWCR 3, USA. Talk about conspiracy, EE
222
University Network, Anguilla. Bible study454
VO America via Udon Thani. YL with nx on Afghanistan, Oromo 444
VO America via Nauen. OM with report, Ebola, // 12005, Amharic 343
CHU, Ottawa, Canada. Time service
weak
WWV, Colorado, USA. Usual time service, OM voicefair
All India R, Aligarh. Lots local mx to 1056, EE ID & nx to 1100
242
R Azadi (pres). Px in Dari333
VO America via Thailand. OM with Mandarin talk343
VO Nigeria. OM – commentary, EE
332
VO Nigeria. YL with ID and nx, EE
533
VO Nigeria. YL with EE talk, co-ch QRM from UNID station
222
VO Nigeria. Px on role models, EE
354
VO Nigeria. Civil aviation in Nigeria, EE
322
VO Nigeria. ID, press review – Ebola, EE
342
R Romania Int. Talk on Moldovan economy, EE
555
R Romania Int. The Future Starts Today px, EE
444
R Romania Int. Listeners Letterbox, OM in EE
555
R Sultanate of Oman. Pop mx show, nx by YL, EE
344
R Sultanate of Oman. “Your favourite station, 90.4 FM”, mx, EE 333
R Sultanate of Oman. AA vocals, talk, instrumental mx, off
fr/gd
BBC WS, UK. Talk on farming and fruit flies, EE
433
R Romania Int. Programme in RR
444
VO Korea, N Korea. YL with FF comm & local mx
242
VO America. Sudan in Focus px, evacuation of aid workers, EE 444
IRRS-Shortwave, Milan. OM with religious talk, EE
444
R Africa via USA. Religious px, EE
222
R Santec via Romania. GG & EE - Christian message
423
R Pilipinas, Philippines. Px for workers abroad, mainly Tagalog 333
R Pilipinas, Philippines. OM & YL Filipino talk, ID at 1824
343
R Pilipinas, Philippines. News in EE and VV
444
R Pilipinas, Philippines. Tagalog, talkfair
R Africa via Okeechobee. Vocals, ID for R Africa & WRMI
good
R Africa via Okeechobee. Many IDs, contact details, EE
good
R Free Asia via UAE. OM with Tibetan talk, Kuwait // 17495
343
Pan American BC via Issoudun. Hymn, Bible, EE
443
Pan American BC via Issoudun. OM with rel px in EE
434
Bible Voice BC via Moosbrunn. Rel px, EE
242
RFE/RL via France. Turkmen discussions, Germany // 12025
343
Channel Africa, S Africa. Talk about geology, EE
444
Channel Africa, S Africa. Africa Digest
444
VO Turkey. YL with CC talk343
R Australia, Shepparton. Female newsreader, EE
242
58

23/07 NRe
06/08 DH
17/08 CB
07/08 SHo
27/07 SHo
27/07 MLF
16/08 MTG
05/08 DH
06/08 DH
07/08 DH
03/08 MLF
20/07 JCa
05/08 DH
03/08 MLF
09/08 NRe
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
12/08 JK
11/08 SH
11/08 SH
03/08 GB
03/08 GB
26/07 MLF
16/08 PP
06/08 MLF
06/08 JCa
10/08 CS
05/08 DH
05/08 PP
24/07 NRe
07/08 DK
06/08 DH
01/08 CS
11/08 PP
27/07 JCa
05/08 DH
13/08 RAD*
16/08 PP
16/08 PP
02/08 MLF
07/08 DH
27/07 JCa
02/08 NRe
27/07 MTG
05/08 DH
07/08 MLF
15/08 PP
03/08 GB
17/08 RAD*
03/08 GB
26/07 MLF
27/07 JCa
15/08 PP
27/07 SHo
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
11/08 JK
26/07 MLF
03/08 SHo

15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15245
15250
15250
15250
15255
15275
15275
15310
15315
15344.5
15345
15345.22
15350
15360
15360
15360
15370
15375
15400
15400
15400
15400
15400
15400
15400
15415
15415
15415
15415
15435
15450
15450
15450
15450
15450
15450
15460
15465
15470
15475
15485
15485
15490
15490
15520
15520
15540
15540
15540

1800
1304
1347
1357
1507
1818
1820
1824
2115
2145
2145
1609
1425
1651
0600
1908
1742
1358
1900
2136
1815
1916
0820
1635
1436
1652
1438
1400
1109
1115
1129
1724
1735
1738
1800
0620
0654
2135
2210
1737
1437
1243
1245
1427
1438
1514
1528
0821
1455
1030
1610
1645
0800
0811
0817
1638
1922
1625
1735

VO Korea, N Korea. Station ID followed by mx, EE
343
VO Korea, N Korea. Sign on, patriotic songs, EE
333
VO Korea, N Korea. YL with station ID in EE
454
VO Korea, N Korea. OM with EE comm & KK sx, ID & off 1358 343
China R Int. News about major earthquake, EE
444
VO Korea, N Korea. Talk on human rights
444
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. OM with ID, military choir, EE 444
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. “Crimes committed by GIs”, EE 444
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. News, EE
354
VO Korea, Pyongyang, N Korea. Listeners Mailbag // 13760, EE 344
VO Korea. Pyongyang, N Korea. Military songs, EE
444
China R Int. ‘China Drive’, wx, EE
544
Athmik Yatra R via Germany. OM with Gamit talks, ID at 1429
343
China R Int. Space travel, EE
444
Channel Africa via Meyerton. News, Malaysia jet crash, EE
444
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. ‘Africa Link’ – Sudan conflict, EE
444
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. French
444
BBC WS via Thailand. Talk on comets, EE
333
Sawtu Linjiila via France. OM with Fulfulde talk, mx, ID & off
444
R Nacional, Argentina. YL with SS ID & talk343
R Argentina Exterior. Bond defaults, EE
222
R Nacional, Argentina. Culture, SS
good
China R Int. Talk on Libya, EE
333
AWR via Sri Lanka. Mx, discussion on ‘guilt’, EE
343
R France Int. OM with Farsi talk
343
AWR via Sri Lanka. Religious talk, EE
333
R Havana Cuba. Lots of rumba mx & sx, OM with SS ID at 1438 343
R Japan via Uzbekistan. Japanese novelty tunes & songs, ID
343
R Romania Int. Talk on Moldovan economy, EE
444
R Romania Int. Business Club px, EE
444
R Romania Int. Listeners Letterbox, OM in EE
454
BBC WS via Ascension. Talk about Boko Haram, EE
444
BBC WS via Ascension. IS, unrest in Nigeria, EE
433
BBC WS via Ascension. Focus On Africa
353
BBC WS via Ascension. Station anns and news, EE
242
R Australia. OM with sports commentary, EE
433
R Australia. Sports news, EE
333
R Australia. Commonwealth Games report, EE
344
R Australia. Nx, ID, breakfast show // 13630, EE
244
BSKSA, Saudi Arabia. Arabic
544
HCJB, Australia. Religious talk, US tornadoes, EE
443
VO Turkey. News by YL, EE
444
VO Turkey. European History and the Turks, EE
544
Reach Beyond, Australia. Advice on dress making, EE
333
Reach Beyond, Australia. EE, Christian,"When Tragedy Strikes" 343
Reach Beyond, Australia. YL with EE talk on stress management 343
RFE/RL via France. OM & YL with Tajik talk, YL with ID at 1527 343
China R Int. Talk on Libya, EE
222
BBC WS via S Africa. OM with Somali talk, ID at 1455
343
R Kuwait. OMs with AA talk, ID at 1030 & off
242
R Taiwan Int via France. YL with EE review Taiwanese nx, ID
344
R Taiwan Int. Talk on higher education, EE
232
Reach Beyond, Australia. OM with God’s work in EE
343
Reach Beyond, Australia. Talk on prejudice, EE
434
WEWN, USA. Discussion on pornography, EE
333
VO Turkey. News, EE
444
R Kuwait. Talk - Islam and divorce, music, EE
555
R Kuwait. YL with Urdu ID then talk343
R Kuwait. Urdu
454
59

01/08 JCa
05/08 DH
10/08 PP
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
11/08 JK
09/08 CS
05/08 DH
27/07 SHo
09/08 DK
05/08 DH
28/07 JCa
06/08 MLF
08/08 DH
23/07 JCa
13/08 JCa
11/08 JK
06/08 DH
07/08 MLF
27/07 MLF
05/08 DH
03/08 GB
05/08 DH
28/07 JCa
06/08 MLF
08/08 DH
06/08 MLF
27/07 MTG
06/08 DH
05/08 CS
11/08 PP
05/08 DH
06/08 NRe
11/08 JK
07/08 SHo
09/08 CS
10/08 DH
03/08 SHo
10/08 DK
11/08 JK
27/07 JCa
14/08 DH
05/08 CS
05/08 DH
27/07 MTG
06/08 MLF
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
06/08 MLF
10/08 MLF
09/08 MLF
08/08 DH
14/08 PP
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
08/08 DH
09/08 JCa
06/08 MLF
11/08 JK

15540
15540
15550
15550
15565
15570
15570
15570
15570
15570
15575
15575
15575
15580
15580
15580
15580
15580
15580
15580
15595
15610
15620
15640
15650
15660
15660
15700
15715
15720
15735
15735
15735
15770
15770
15780
15790
15795
15825
15825
15825
15825
15825
16450
17480
17490
17490
17500
17505
17510
17515
17530
17530
17560
17630
17630
17630
17670
17670

1834
1840
1306
1628
0818
0640
0650
1730
1731
1736
1301
1305
1349
1510
1648
1726
1756
1800
1827
2142
1625
1200
1648
1520
1320
1318
1320
0642
1116
2236
1415
1410
1415
0540
1300
1330
1639
1058
1200
1323
1638
1656
1727
1043
0822
0840
1246
1610
0625
1002
1455
0600
1336
0008
1205
1309
1421
1110
1130

R Kuwait. YL with news headlines in EE
455
R Kuwait. YL with sports news, mailing details, EE
444
UNID. Chinese [Jammer scheduled 1200 – 1430 – ed]454
R Dabanga via UAE. OM with ID in Darfuri AA then off
444
WHRI, USA. Devotional songs, EE
333
Vatican R. Talk about Ebola emergency, EE
544
Vatican R. African service, talk about Ebola, EE
444
Vatican R. African service
454
Vatican R. Talk about alter servers, EE
444
Vatican R. Latest on Ebola outbreak in W Africa, EE
252
KBS World R, S Korea. Sign on and news, EE
222
KBS World R, S Korea. YL & OM with EE talk242
KBS World R, S Korea. OM singing, EE
444
China R Int. Health discussion, EE
444
VO America via Botswana. Africa News Tonight444
VO America via Botswana. Talk on Afghanistan, EE
444
VO America via Botswana. Roundtable px, EE
344
VO America via Botswana. EE news
433
VO America via Botswana. African news in EE
534
VO America via Botswana. Record requests, EE
333
Vatican R. YL with talk on the First World War, EE
544
WEWN, USA, EE
433
VO America via Botswana. Somali
353
Bible Voice via Bulgaria. Bible study, EE
444
ERT, Greece. Greek, OM & YL song & other mx
333
BBC WS via ? Newshour, EE [via Thailand – ed]
333
BBC WS via UNID site. OM with EE world nx [via Thailand – ed] 343
Deutsche Welle via Kigali. Skateboarding police, EE
444
VO America, Greenville. FF talk, ID at 1114, Sa only 1100-1130 343
R New Zealand Int. Talk
fair
R Japan via Tashkent. Music show, EE
343
R Japan via Tashkent. Talk about food production, EE
333
R Japan via Tashkent. Japan Today px, EE
222
Overcomer Ministry via WRMI. Br. Stair talks on his many fx, EE 353
Overcomer Ministry via WRMI. Religious px in EE
233
VO America via Philippines. OM in KK, Tinian // 11935
343
BBC WS via Meyerton. Swahili (?) talk about Ebola
454
WWCR, USA. News, EE
333
WWCR 1, USA. Religious px in EE
222
WWCR 1, USA. Gospel music, EE
333
WWCR, USA. Religious px in EE
454
WWCR 1, USA. Devotional song, EE
333
WWCR 1, USA. Religious talk, EE
444
Sound of Hope via Taiwan. YL & OM with CC talk & mx bridges 232
China R Int. Talk on Libya, // 17490, EE
333
China R Int. Jome schooling programme, EE
555
China R Int. Talk on Chinese literature, EE
555
R Inyabutatu via France. OM with Kinya-rwanda talk, ex 17870 242
China R Int. YL and OM with talk on cement industry, EE
444
All India R. YL with news in EE
354
R Free Asia via Tajikistan. OM with Tibetan talk
332
VOIRI, Sirjan, Iran. Mailbag with Dario Gabrielli letter, SS
454
VO America via Vatican. OM with Somali talks
344
VO America via Tinang. CC mx, news, anns, off with TS at 0100 fair
China R Int. People In The Know px, EE
544
China R Int. News about major earthquake, EE
444
China R Int. Talk about stray cats, EE
444
R Romania Int. Talk on Moldovan economy, // 17680, EE
333
R Romania Int. Listeners Letterbox, OM in EE // 17680
545
60

15/08 PP
01/08 CS
16/08 PP
06/08 MLF
05/08 DH
09/08 CS
10/08 DH
11/08 JK
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
05/08 DH
14/08 MLF
10/08 PP
05/08 DH
11/08 JK
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
28/07 NRe
15/08 PP
05/08 DH
05/08 CS
03/08 NRe
11/08 JK
08/08 DH
05/08 MTG
05/08 DH
14/08 MLF
10/08 DH
26/07 MLF
03/08 GB
27/07 JCa
05/08 DH
24/07 NRe
15/08 RM
26/07 NRe
14/08 MLF
11/08 JK
08/08 DH
08/08 NRe
05/08 DH
11/08 JK
08/08 DH
06/08 DH
10/08 MLF
05/08 DH
05/08 PP
06/08 DH
16/08 MLF
09/08 CS
10/08 PP
03/08 MLF
15/08 RM
08/08 MLF
14/08 RAD*
07/08 CS
05/08 DH
05/08 DH
06/08 DH
11/08 PP17670
17670
17680
17690
17700
17780
17780
17790
17790
17800
17820
17820
17830
17830
17895
17895
17895
17895
17895
19000
19060
21500
21505
21515
21520
21540
21610
21660
21660
21660
21780
21780
21790

1340
1823
1100
1102
1510
1725
1750
1323
1514
0615
1030
1106
0717
1752
1520
1511
1540
1757
1826
2300
1840
0545
1335
1100
0854
1336
1556
1504
1550
1648
1337
1355
0853

AWR via Madagascar. OM with Vietnamese talk242
All India R. Indian classical mx, EE
222
R Romania Int. IS, OM with ID, YL with “Radio Newsreel”, EE
444
R Free Afghanistan via Kuwait. OM with Dari talk, // 15090
242
VO America via Vatican. OM with Hausa talk on Nigeria, ID 1510 444
BBC WS via Ascension. Talk about Boko Haram, EE
343
BBC WS via Ascension. USA interests in Africa, EE
455
BBC WS, UK. Talk on farming and fruit flies, EE
242
BBC WS via Singapore. YL then OM Urdu talk, ID at 1514
343
Deutsche Welle, Germany. African nx, Ebola crisis, EE
443
VOIRI, Kamalabad, Iran. OM with world news update, EE
433
VOIRI, Kamalabad, Iran. OM & YL with EE talk & listeners letters 343
BBC WS via Meyerton. Threat from ISIS to N Iraq refinery, EE 353
BBC WS via Ascension. USA interests in Africa, EE
344
VO America via Botswana. ‘Music Time in Africa’, EE
343
China R Int. Health discussion, EE
333
VO America. Border Crossings in EE, Neil Sedaka “Oh Carol”
555
VO America via Greenville. Roundtable px, EE
243
VO America via Botswana. Px on Art, EE
243
R Australia, Shepparton. Female newsreader, EE
242
Tajik R Home Svce. Folk songs // 4765 14295 not // 9530
[19060 is fourth harmonic of 4765 – ed]
252
R Romania Int. Business Club px, EE
444
BSKSA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (pres). Px in Arabic
455
R Exterior de Espana. Time pips and news, SS
354
VOIRI, Iran. Russia px, RR
343
R Kuwait (pres). Px in Arabic
545
R Exterior de Espana. Local mx, female singer, SS
454
BBC WS via Ascension. News, EE
333
BBC WS via Ascension. Sport px, EE
243
BBC WS via Ascension. Property in London, EE
333
Deutsche Welle, Germany (pres). Px in Hausa
444
Deutsche Welle via UAE. OM with Hausa comm, ID at 1355
343
VOIRI, Iran. Music with OM in Swahili
444

14/08 MLF
05/08 DH
04/08 CS
10/08 MLF
03/08 MLF
05/08 DH
07/08 SHo
16/08 PP
03/08 MLF
09/08 CS
03/08 CS
10/08 MLF
28/07 SHo
07/08 SHo
27/07 JCa
05/08 DH
11/08 RP
07/08 SHo
27/07 SHo
03/08 SHo
29/07 RP
06/08 CS
16/08 PP
25/07 SHo
05/08 PP
16/08 PP
08/08 SHo
05/08 DH
08/08 SHo
08/08 DH
16/08 PP
08/08 MLF
05/08 PP

DigitalkHz

UTC

Station, programme details, language, etc

dB/O Date Init

5940
7330
7435
9540
9780
9800
11810
13720
15120
15585

1906
0514
0610
1810
0750
2002
1705
1145
1840
1133

KBS World via Bulgaria. OM in GG
R Romania Int, Galbeni. OM in FF. EE at 0530
R Romania Int, Tiganesti. OM in GG
R Romania Int, Galbeni. YL in GG
R Exterior de Espana. YL in SS
R Romania Int, Galbeni. YL in FF. EE at 2030
R Romania Int, Tiganesti. YL with world news, EE
R Exterior de Espana. YL in SS
VO Nigeria, Abuja. “Allowed to continue”, EE
R Exterior de Espana. OM in SS

17/18/19/17/21/18/19/19/22/20/-

06/08 RT
15/08 RT
15/08 RT
14/08 RT
13/08 RT
13/08 RT
14/08 RT
13/08 RT
06/08 RT
15/08 RT

Many thanks to all contributors for this month’s healthy selection of logs, which come in a monththat has seen an ever changing picture on the HF bands. In recent weeks the Voice of Russia
has left SW, perhaps to come back in October. The Voice of America have almost completely
pulled out of the bands, Radio Australia have all but ended specific international programmingand Radio Exterior de Espana have announced the end of their SW years. More on all of this in“DX News”.
Until next month, 73s and take care

Stephen61with Axel Röse & Vick Haviland aaw@bdxc.org.uk
Freq

UTC

Station + details

Date

95.4
95.5
96.1
846
1350
1386
1512
1592
1611
1611
1620
1620
1638
1630
1630
1630
1630
1637
1646
1646
3905
4026
6193
6199
6199
6200
6200
6205
6205
6205
6205
6210
6210
6210
6210
6214
6220
6220
6220
6220
6220
6220
6238
6239
6239
6240
6240
6240
6240
6240

1512
1524
1550
2214
2330
2240
2233
2310
2055
2110
2035
2210
2024
2044
2110
2032
2034
1909
1946
2017
2206
2337
2028
2044
2108
1025
2010
0753
0855
2227
6205
1835
1818
2153
1920
1810
2007
1815
1946
0903
1901
2028
2023
07l32
0840
2012
1853
2225
2047
2058

Roots FM,, London. Classic reggae, “Roots 95”
12-AugSH
Ontop R,, London. Discussion on women, parents
12-AugSH
S-Dance,, London. Deep house mx, IDs
12-AugSH
R North/Gospel 846,, Redcastle, Donegal , Ireland. Gospel music, OM, E 10-Aug DH
R AM One,, Milano, Italy. One day test (ex 1386) mx, IDs.
21-Aug
DK
Energy Power,, Dublin - cont. pops, Energy jingle.
10-AugAP
UNID - Dutch songs
10-AugAP
UNID - US talk px. Exact fq 1592.57 (var.). Also 1592.45 2220 10/8? 11-Aug
AP
R. Calypso.. Ann, popmx nonstop. DD
10 JulNS
R. Calypso.. Ann, popmx nonstop. DD
10 JulNS
R. Vrolijke Milnwerker
Milnwerker. ID, ann, Dutch mx. DD
25 JulNS
R. Calypso.. Ann, popmx. DD
26 JulNS
Z. Scharia.. ID, ann, popmx. DD
20 JulNS
Z. Vrolijke Mijnwerker
Mijnwerker. ID, Dutch mx. DD
14 JulNS
Z. Vrolijke Mijnwerker
Mijnwerker. ID, Dutch mx. DD
19 JulNS
Z. Vrolijke Mijnwerker
Mijnwerker. ID, Dutch + Polkamx. DD
27 JulNS
Z. Vrolijke Mijnwerker
Mijnwerker. ID, pop+German mx DD
04 AugNS
R. Bluebird - D,, schlager, polka, greets, NE
NE-NL, instr., -20.10
27-JulAR
R. Witte Tornado - D, schlager, country, polka, alpine folk, -20.10
20.10 27-JulAR
R. Mustang.. ID, ann, Dutch+popmx. DD
07 AugNS
R. Alice.. French language ID
ID-jingle, popmx. French
26 JulNS
Laser International - old px frm 1st June (ann 7450 AM)
23-AugAP
Sluw Vos R. ID-jingle+ann,
jingle+ann, popmx. EE
03 AugNS
R. Technische Man.. ID, ann, instr
instr-Dutch+Polkamx. DD
25 JulNS
R. Technische Man.. ID, ann, popmx, utility, (!), QERM. DD, EE 25 Jul
NS
R. Rona Lisa - E, D, jingles, schlager, pirate sx, greets, c/d 11.01 17-Aug
AR
R. Technical Man – pops, rock, dance, EE; also hrd 25
25-Jul+01-Aug
Aug 24-Jul
RM
King Shortwave - E, oldies, italodisco, pop, jingles, rock, -09.20 27-Jul
AR
King Shortwave - E, oldies, jingles, -09.15
17-AugAR
R. Foxfire - E, pop
9-Aug
AR
R. Tango Italia – usual non stop tango mx and IDs
8-Aug
RM
Shortwave Gold - E, pop, jingles, -20.35
27-JulAR
Shortwave Gold - E, soul, pop, jingles, -21.35
3-Aug
AR
Shortwave Gold,, E, rock music
5-AugDH
Shortwave Gold - E, soul, //2nd station?
9-Aug
ARFree R. Bumbelstock - E, instrum., chat, polkas, -18.25
3-Aug
AR
R. Tango Italia – usual non stop tango mx; also hrd 30
30-Jul+01-Aug
Aug 25-Jul
RM
R. Tango Italia - E, S, tango music, -21.35
3-Aug
AR
R. Tango Italia – usual tango mx and IDs, big signal!, c/d 2022 11-Aug
RM
R. Technical Man - E, pop, schlager, oldies, polka, greets, c/d 10.04 27-Jul
AR
Tip and Elvis Show – pops, rock, IDs, hellos, EE/DD
26-JulRM
Tip & Elvis Show.. ID, ann, pop+rockmx. EE, DD
26 JulNS
R. Borderhunter.. ID, jingle, pop+rockmx. EE
27 JulNSFree R. Bumbelstock - E, schlager, wx report, rock, layer, -08.20 27-Jul
AR
R. Marabu - G, rock, pop, -23.05
9-Aug
AR DK
Borderhunter R. – oldies, ID jingles
jingles, pop, NS mx, c/d 2118
27-JulAR RM
R. Joey - --,, dance, pop, schlager, -20.00
3-Aug
AR
R. Likedeeler - E, rock, oldies, jingles, old Neede adr., -22.55
16-AugAR
Skyline R. Germany - G, rock, tape R. Nordsee, -21.22
16-AugAR
Sluwe Vos Radio – early 80s pop
pop-rock, EE
11-Aug
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R. Underground Int'l - E, greets, pop, fade out
9-AugAR
R. Pandora (UK) - E, utility QRM, jingles (Caroline), chat, -20.50
16-AugAR
R. Casanova - D, G, E, greets, schlager, jingles, c/d 19.37
3-Aug
AR DK
R. Telstar South (UK) - E, oldies, rock'n'roll, -19.51
9-Aug
AR
R. Casanova - D, greets, instrum., gone 08.53
17-AugAR
UNID non stop techno mx, off at 1957 check
16-AugRM
R. Good Ship Venus (GSV) - E, utility QRM, low audio, rock, pop, -19.17
9-Aug
AR
Z. Digital - --, rock, oldies, pop, -20.15
3-Aug
AR
Weekend Music R. - E, pop, oldies, rock, jingles, c/d 23.25
9-Aug
AR
Pony R. – Dutch mx and ID's, DD
16-Aug
RM
Focus Int'l - E, oldies, rock, pop, diverse DJs, -20.40
27-Jul
AR RM
Focus Int'l - E, oldies, rock, focus@live.co.uk, -21.35
3-Aug
AR DK
R. Telstar (NL) - D, schlager, jingles, greets, instrum., -11.46
17-AugAR
R. Focus Intl – 70s rock, EE, also hrd 2+3-Aug
1-Aug
RM
R. Rode Adelaar - D, greets, polka, oldies, schlager, jingles, -19.55
9-Aug
AR
R. Black Arrow. ID, Ann, Dutch+instr mx. EE, DD
19 JulNS
R. Foxfire. ID, ann, DD-ann, popmx. EE, DD
29 JulNS
Crazy Wave R. - G, E, pop, greets, rock, oldies, fade out 23.10
9-Aug
AR
Mustang R. – dance mx, hellos, EE
28-JulRM
Over The Horizon R. Satie piano pieces -2030, then varied, c/d 22.59 16-Aug
AR RM
R. Condor - E, D, dance, jingles, pop, hotline, greets, -09.-Jul
17-AugAR
The Bogusman – long talks and alternative mx, EE c/d 2108
2-Aug
RM
Reflections Europe. OM - religious talk, EE, SIO 444
27-JulJCa
R. Powerliner. ID, ann, Dutch+German mx. DD
26 JulNS
Cupid R. - E, pop, sstv picture, classic rock, c/d 22.11
9-Aug
AR DH
R. Cupid. ID, ann, rockmx. EE
9 Aug
NS
R. Akai (with R. Alice) - D, schlager, D-rock, -22.15
16-AugAR
R. Lowland - D, E, oldies, email, country, -18.03
3-Aug
AR
R. Rode Adelaar - D, polka, little audio test, greets, c/d 10.08
17-AugAR
R. Quintus - E, D, greets, oldies, rock, country, c/d 19.01
27-JulAR
Borderhunter R. – dance mx,pops,ID jingles,EE; also hrd 02-Aug@2200 1-Aug
RM
R. Merlin Int'l - E, rave, pop, jingles, rock, oldies, -23.00
16-AugAR
R. Merlin Int'l - E, Caroline extracts & chat, -11.45
17-AugAR
R. Powerliner Int'l - D, dance, QSO, greets, oldies, pop, brass, -21.35
3-Aug
AR
Mustang R. ID, rockmx. DD
27 JulNS
R. Telstar (NL) - D, yodel, instrum., greets, c/d 09.58
27-JulAR
R. Zara - E, D, rock, greets, schlager, oldies, -22.05
9-Aug
AR
R. New Wave Int'l - E, D, NE-NL, test, rock, pop, email, c/d 21.02 3-Aug
AR
Delta R. NL. ID. Oldies
8-Aug
DK
Mustang R. – dance & techno mx, IDs, EE/DD. Also hrd 15-Aug 1-Aug
RM
R. Black Bandit - D, E, oldies, greets, rock, country, -22.15
9-Aug
AR
R. Lowland - D, E, pop, greets, jingles, oldies, NL, c/d 19.27
3-Aug
AR
R. Mustang - E, D, dance, pop, email, c/d 20.02
9-Aug
AR RM
R. Underground Int'l - E, greets, Korean mx, schlager, polka, -21.35
3-Aug
AR
R. Poema - E, G, D, italodisco, bye-bye, c/d 10.02
27-JulAR
R. Zodiac. ID, ann. Popmx. DD
09 AugNS
R. Pandora (UK) - E, jingles, email
16-AugAR
R. Norton - E, instrum., c/d 20.05
9-Aug
AR
R. Good Ship Venus (GSV) - E, oldies, jingles, pop, instrum., -21.20
16-AugAR
R. Dutchwing - E, rock, country, pop, -19.30
16-AugAR
R Tower. NL. Cont DD, GG mx. ID EE
3-Aug
DK
R. Tower - E, D, schlager, oldies, email, //1620, -22.15
16-AugAR
R. Pioneer - E, dance, folk, polka, pop, rock, jingles, -21.30
9-Aug
AR
Old Time Vintage R. – Vitalis adv., Burns and Allen px, fair, -2341 13-Aug
RAD*
Pink Panther R. - E, D, oldies, pop, jingles, old commercials, -21.20 16-Aug
AR
R. Blackbeard - E, dance, pop, chat/ topics in online chat, -21.30 9-Aug
AR
Little Feat R. - E, soul, greets, jingles, rock, pop, c/d 21.25
9-Aug
ARRock R. Network - --, nonstop oldies, -21.35
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Pirate radio station scuppered as plug pulled An OAP cancer survivor has been prosecutedfor setting up a radio station to support fellow sufferers. Brian Barfoot, 70, of St David's Way,
Wickford, appeared at Basildon Magistrates Court last Friday, 8 August, to admit broadcastingfrom a pirate radio station. He insisted he had only created the station to offer advice and support
for men with cancer, claiming there was a bias in the media towards women's charities. He saidcomplicated registration processes had deterred him from seeking a radio licence. He pleaded
guilty to one charge of establishing or using a wireless telegraphy station without a licence andone charge of being in charge of a premises and knowingly failing to prevent its use for unlawful
broadcasting. He ran the station – named in court documents as Monster House Radio – from aunit in Russell Court, Wickford. He was ordered to pay £250 in fines, £500 in prosecution costs
and a £20 victim surcharge. Speaking after his court appearance, he told how he had been'raided' over the offences and had all his equipment seized. He said: “Heavy-handed isn't theword”. Magistrates ordered all his radio equipment be forfeited and destroyed as part of his
punishment. Mr Barfoot said: “It's an absolutely, 100 per cent stupid prosecution. There are
pirate radio stations out there that have been going on for 10 or 11 years, but they pick on me?
Come on. There is no way any small, self-sufficient radio station can apply for a licence. You
have to fill out about 67 pages of forms.” Speaking of his decision to set up the station, he said:“There is nothing out there that helps the male species who have cancer. I was giving
awareness. That was what it was for.” (Yellow Advertiser 14 August via MET)
Monster House Radio is listed as 88.3 and transmitting to Essex and the Medway. They playhouse music. Amongst various photos of house music DJ's and plugs for programmes on their
Facebook page there is a Cancer Research UK banner. (MWB)
Pirate Radio Museum, Clacton-on-Sea – we paid a visit to Ray Anderson’s new venture next tothe pier in Clacton on the way back from visiting the Radio Mi Amigo RSL aboard the LV18 in
Harwich. It is sited in the Atlanta Building, a short walk from where we had parked for free on thepromenade. First impression on entering, was that of a pop-up remainder shop you find on manyHigh Streets, though this one was selling lots of offshore radio memorabilia: DVDs, T Shirts,
sweat shirts, CDs, books, even videos, cassettes and old vinyl records! Plus merchandise
bearing the Pirate Radio Museum logo. Unlike aremainder shop though, none of it was cheap. This partof the building is free to enter, as it’s really a shop sellingsome of EAP’s products which are also found online atradiofab.com. So very little in the way of Museum
exhibits yet. The best part of the Museum is the audiovisual display “Anarchy on the Airwaves” which costs £5
to see for adults. You walk through the display, station bystation, which tells the story of most of the British
offshore stations, from Radio Caroline and Atlanta in
1964, through to Caroline in the 80s and Laser 558, told
mainly in large historic photos of ships, DJs etc. There isalso a small screen where you can watch about 5
minutes of historic film on each station. We did have tokeep turning the volume up (and down on adjacent screens) to listen interference free though –headphones would have been better than the TV speakers. I thought the display was quite welldone though as a general history of UK offshore radio, and we spent an enjoyable three quartersof an hour wandering through it and had it to ourselves on a Monday morning. Dominating theMuseum is a bright yellow 60s style submarine ( perhaps part of a fairground ride?) the purposeof which eluded me. And I did buy something in the shop – a copy of Chris Elliot’s book, The
Wonderful Radio London Story, which I’d wanted for ages. (It was full price at £24.99 but I savedon postage by buying there!) (AP)
Pirate Radio Museum, 1st Floor, Atlanta Building, Clacton-on- Sea CO15 1QX (next to the pier)Admission to ‘Anarchy on the Airwaves’ Audio Visual exhibition: £5 (adults). Opening hours
1000-1700 daily (summer). Check website for winter opening: www.pirateradiomuseum.com
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Radio Caroline Southampton Support group meeting Roland Beaney writes: Early news of
the next Radio Caroline Southampton Support group meeting that will take place on Wednesday
24 September from 7pm at the usual venue the Netley Victoria club near Southampton, SO31
5DG. Meet special guests, broadcasters and staff from the station and hear news of the work on
board the Ross Revenge. This time we will be celebrating another year of Peter Smith’ssponsorship of the 60s and 70s show broadcast on Tuesday nights. So come along and meet
Barry James, Clive Garrard and the sponsor of the show Peter Smith. Buy your gifts from theCaroline sales stand that Albert and Georgina Hood will be setting up. You are welcome to join
us for a £5 donation which includes a buffet and all proceeds from the evening go towards thecosts of restoration work on board the Ross Revenge.
There is accommodation available in the area if you want to stay the night. Recommended
accommodation within walking distance of the club at The Prince Consort pub (MET)
Laser Hot Hits “The shortwave transmitter on 4015kHz has been off the air for most of thismonth [July]. This is due to circumstances beyond our control and frustratingly happened aroundthe time the reduced power fault was fixed. We shall try to return to the 76m band just as soon as
possible. In the meantime our Internet streams continue 24 hours a day and we can still be heard
around 6950kHz at various times but most likely on Sundays. There may be some tests on 48m
too so please keep tuning around.” (http://www.laserhothits.co.uk/ 24 July) Laser noted back on
shortwave, but on 4026 kHz, on 23 August, and still on 4026 today. They did move to 4015
originally because of utility interference on 4026, though seems clear at present. (AP 26 Aug)
Radio Veronica and RNI remembered - Dutch special event amateur station PD538RNIOn 31 August, it will be 40 years since the Dutch offshore radio stations stopped transmissions
due to changes in legislation. Many fans still mourn the loss of their beloved stations in 1974.
Arie PD0ARI (amateur radio operator) from Giessenburg, Netherlands will be operating Special
Event Station PD538RNI from 28 August until 19 September. He will be active on 10m, 20m and
40 m. All operations will be in Phone. 538 in the callsign stands for the last frequency theoffshore radio station Veronica used, and RNI stands for Radio Northsea International, the nameof the other station that had to stop 40 years ago. Both stations closed down in the evening of 31
August 1974. (http://www.southgatearc.org via METRadios Seagull and Waddenzee offshore From 20-31 August, Radio Seagull and Radio
Waddenzee are broadcasting live from the radio ship LV Jenni Baynton anchored off the Dutch
coast of Harlingen on 1602 kHz as well as online at radioseagull.com. Radio Waddenzee in
Dutch is on air daytime from 0500-1700 UTC with Radio Seagull's English service overnight from
1700-0500 UTC. Andy Sennitt writes that “During the live broadcasts, the web feed is using the
mediumwave signal, thus giving you the feel of listening on mediumwave wherever you are. I'll
be on board for the whole of next week, and really looking forward to it. Normally our radio ship
is anchored in the harbour at Harlingen, in Friesland. But every so often, we go out to sea topromote the station and make a small amount of money by offering visitors the chance to comeand visit the ship. The 31st August 2014 is the 40th anniversary of
the closure of RNI and Radio Veronica when the Dutch passed theirown Marine Offences Act. The British equivalent had already been inforce since 14 August 1967. But Radio Veronica was soon back on
the air, landbased and licensed. On board the Jenni Baynton areseveral mediumwave transmitters, but we are only licensed tobroadcast on 1602 kHz. The whole station is run by people who loveradio and rock music :-)” (Andy Sennitt on Facebook via MET)
Martin van der Ven has uploaded 299 photos and 7 videos taken on
Saturday (23 August) of Radio Seagull and Radio Waddenzee
broadcasting offshore from the Jenni Baynton to Flickr, at this link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/offshoreradio/sets/72157646796008771/ (MWB on Facebook)65Radio Caroline ship drops anchor in the River Blackwater “An iconic pirate pop radio ship
has dropped anchor in the River Blackwater for the first time since the mid-1990s, with plans totake over the airwaves. Radio Caroline, the world's most famous pirate radio station, which ishoused on the ship MV Ross Revenge, has docked just off the shore of Bradwell after leaving its
home of 10 years in Tilbury docks last Thursday (31 July).
The station altered the face of pop music by challenging the established radio format in the
1960s, 70s and 80s by playing 24 hours of pop music a day, and tracks that other radio stations
wouldn't. Now the team is back on the Blackwater for the first time since 1993, and plan to use atemporary 28-day radio licence to give Maldon and the Dengie a taste of the famous stationwhilst they apply for an AM licence to operate permanently. Manager of the Ross Revenge Peter
Moore, 67, who lives in Maldon and who has been involved with Radio Caroline since 1976, said:"It's nice to be back at Bradwell on the Essex coast again. We've had a lot of support from thelocal community and we hope to get more involved. It was a hard old slog to get the boat here
and we're glad to be back – we've had a great reaction so far from the local community." “(http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Pirate-station-Radio-Caroline-drops-anchor-River/story22121919-detail/story.html via MET)

Above, view of the Ross Revenge with its new mast, anchored in the River Blackwater.
The ship can be seen in the far distance from Bradwell Marina, at Bradwell Waterside, Bradwellon-Sea. It is quite a walk from the visitors car park to the shore and not really worth the effort ofgoing to Bradwell as the ship is really only a speck in the distance. Access and visibility might bebetter from St Lawrence’s Bay just west of Bradwell, but I would advise waiting as boat trips out
to visit the Ross are being planned, as is an RSL broadcast next Easter. (DK - visit on 18 August)FCC upholds $15,000 pirate radio fine The FCC has upheld a $15,000 fine for Walter and M.
Rae Nadler-Olenick for operating a pirate station in Austin, Texas. They had appealed against
the penalty, but the appeal was rejected. The Olenicks operated an unlicensed station on 90.1
MHz, according to the bureau. In 2013, agents traced the signal to their apartment building andfound an antenna mounted on an approximately 50-foot tower attached to the building. A coaxial
cable ran from the antenna to a utility room, according to the agency. (Radio World via MET)66

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Adam Toynton
Torquay, Devon
DX 394, Yaesu FRG100, homemade loops, DX10 vertical
Arthur Miller
Llandrindod Wells, Powys JRC NRD 525, NRD 545, G5RV 40m long wire.
Alan Pennington
Caversham, Berkshire
AOR 7030+ / LW, Beverage, ALA1530, / Sony 7600GR
Alan Pennington
Longton, Lancs
Sony 7600GR + homebrew MW loop
Alan Roe
Teddington, Middx
Winradio G31DDC Excalibur / 17m long wire
Axel Röse
Neuss, Germany
Lowe HF-150 & Loop Antenna AOR LA-320
Chrissy Brand
Salford, Gtr Manchester
Sony ICF 7600D, Sony ICFSW100E, Degen active loop
Chris Stacey
Eastbourne, East Sussex
ICFSW7600G / internal ferrite & telescopic whip
Christopher Shorten Norwich, Norfolk
Eton Satellit 750, 10m long wireDavid Harris
Emsworth, Hants
Realistic DX 394, 15m long wire
Dave Kenny
Caversham, Berkshire AOR 7030+/Wellbrook ALA1530, 90m bev, LW, Sony XDR F1HD
Edwin Southwell
Basingstoke, Hants
Drake R8A, 50m longwire
Giampiero Bernardini Milan, Italy
Drake R7 + Perseus; antenna: T2FD 15m
Gabby Simmonds
Edgware, Middx
Sony ICF2001D + telescopic
Harald Kuhl
Fjerritslev, Northern Jylland, Denmark DX beverages
Jeff Canavan
Berwick, Northumberland
Degen 1103, Roberts R876, telescopic, 10m lw
Faversham Kent
JRC NRD515 / Wellbrook ALA1530 LF
John Hoad
Jonathan Kempster London, E14Sony ICF-SW7600G, Icom 718 / helical vertical aerial
Jouke van der Galien Vries, Drenthe, Netherlands Sony ICF SW 7600 GR + telescope & 2m wire
Kevin O'Daly
Rickmansworth, Herts
Sony 2001D, 50ft longwire
Mike Terry
Bournemouth, Dorset
Eton E5,Yupiteru MVT7100, Eton mini 300, Ryland loop
Michael L Ford
Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs
NRD515, NCM515, NRD545, 85' lw, Wellbrook 330ALA loop
Mike German
Hayfield, Derbyshire
AOR AR5000A+3 Wellbrook ALA1530 loop
Mike Barraclough
Letchworth Garden CityAOR 7030 60m LW, Sony ICF7600G, Degen active loop
Nick Rank
Buxton, Derbyshire
Sony ICF2001D, long wire and passive tuner
Nigel Reid
Enfield. Middlesex
Eton Satellit 750, indoor long wire
Norbert Scheel
Berlin, Germany
Grundig-Satellit 3000, magnetic loop Grahn GS2 ML2Paul Price
Cardigan, Ceredigion
FRG7000, Sony ICF2001D & DX934, lw
Russ Cummings
North Ferriby, East YorksAOR 7030+, 60 ft long wire
Richard A. D'Angelo Wyomissing PA, USA TenTec RX340, Drake R8B, Eton E1/E5, Alpha DX Sloper/RF sys mini
Rafael Martínez Barcelona, Catalonia Grundig YB400, G3, RP6901PLL; indoor wire+MFJ-956 tuner, Tecsun AN-200 loop
Rumen Pankov
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sony ICF2001D & VEF201, Ant Folded Marconi 16m
Richard Thurlow
Ipswich, Suffolk SDR Perseus,WR G313, AOR 7030+,DSP-599ZX, Alpha Delta sloper ALAloop
Stephen Howie
London SW13
Eton G3 receiver with Sony AN-71 5m LW
Simon Hockenhull
Bristol
Grundig Sat 700, YB 400, ferrite rods, AKD Target HF3+4m LW
Tim Bucknall
Congleton, Cheshire
RDR54D1. CLP5130, Icom ICR9500, CLP5130 VHF/UHF V+H
Wolfgang Büschel
Stuttgart, Germany
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