ARLB013 Important Notice - New MF and LF Bands are Not Yet Availableto Use!The new 630-meter and 2200-meter bands are not yet available forAmateur Radio use. The effective date of the recent FCC Report andOrder (R&O) granting these allocations has not yet been determined,and until the start date has been set, it is not legal under anAmateur Radio license to transmit on either band.The R&O can be found on the web in PDF format at,https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-17-33A1.pdf .The fact that the new rules contain a new information-collectionrequirement - notification of operation to the United TelecomsCouncil (UTC) - complicates the matter of determining an effectivedate. According to the FCC R&O, the Office of Management and Budget(under the Paperwork Reduction Act) must first approve theinformation-collection requirements in Part 97.303(g)(2), which mustbe in place before radio amateurs can use the new bands.Once that happens, the FCC will publish a notice in The FederalRegister "announcing such approval and the relevant effective date."ARRL will announce the UTC notification procedures and the effectivedate to use these new bands as soon as these are known._________________________________________ZCZC AG13QST de W1AWARRL Bulletin 13 ARLB013From ARRL HeadquartersNewington CT May 5, 2017To all radio amateurs ARRL Web site <memberlist@www.arrl.org> ** ALBANIA [non]. 5850, Monday May 1 at 2300, again NO signal from WRMI for the R. Tirana relay, but cuts on, joining news in progress at *2301:46.5. Same thing happened April 29 (and not checked April 30; no Sunday May 1 broadcast). It`s not like a quick change has to be made by this transmitter from another frequency, as nothing is scheduled on it for hours before 2300. Must not be starting to warm it up soon enough. No Clara but the OM is doing the broadcast today, some news item about Macedonian elexion; then something about Grand Valley State University and the mayor of Tirana; 2306.5 press review. Good on the PL-880. Retune at 2320 about the Ministry of Culture; 2323 brief Sports Roundup of some scores; 2324 unannounced song; 2327:45 station theme; 2328:30 IS plays four times and a fraxion before the 2329:30 Okeechobee song WRMI ID.Alan Roe, Teddington UK supplies this rough guide to their programmes:``Daily: News, then Press Review (mo-fr) or Mosaic of the Week (sa)Mo: Albania in a Week, Cultural Activities, SportTu: Interview/Comment (Albania, elections and EU integration)We: Albania and the EU Integration Process; Hits Through the YearsTh: Albanian Economy and Facts; Around AlbaniaFr: ProfileSa: Tourism/Cultural items; Folk Traditional MusicAdditional music items appear between features, and to end the programme`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, UT Tue May 2 at 0035, this WRMI in Oldies, ID as ``world-band radio``, fair signal S9+20 before I turn computer noise off. At 0100 without computer it`s good at S9+10. Just after 0100, the WRMI ID, and then smoothly into d?but of RAE relay in English to North America (but does another bit o` Biermann interrupt just as I am distracted by the doorbell?).RAE Opens with multilingual IDs in: Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, German, Spanish again. Plugs North American 641+ phone number to hear RAE. OM announcer is very