DX LISTENING DIGEST 0-158, December 17, 2000 edited by Glenn Hauser, wghauser@hotmail.com {Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. For restrixions and searchable 2000 archive contents see} http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html ** ANTARCTICA. ANTARCTICA RECORD? Nobert, OE1SNW/MM, is cruising with a sailboat around the Antarctica Continent which will take about 100 Days. He is trying to set a one man record for his class of boat. He is also active on Ham Radio on 14313 kHz (reportedly around 1600z). More details and information about his daily position can be found on the Web site: http://www.icelimit.at This Web page is very interesting with photos and details on Nobert and his yacht "Oase III". Also, SSTV pictures of his trip can be found on the Web page: http://www.icom.at (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6883.5, R. Impacto Cristiano, La Paz. 10/Dec/2000 1155 NEW STATION! religious music with "Coral de los Andes". ID - "Nace una nueva señal en su dial, Radiodifusoras Impacto Cristiano... (mensaje religioso), los 6.880 Megaciclos, onda corta, La Paz, Bolivia" (Rogildo Fontenelle Aragão, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Conexión Digital via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. [IOTA] OC-135. Steve, P29BI, will be active from Bougainville Island in his spare time for the next 2 months. Activity will be on 20 meters SSB only. QSL via VK4EJ (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUVET ISLAND. NEWS FLASH OF THE WEEK. 3Y0C, BOUVET ISLAND (2000 brings one more rare entity!). A press release from Mac, WA4FFW, informs OPDX of the following: "Chuck, N4BQW, of Palmyra and Kingman Reef fame, will begin a 4 month operation from Bouvet Island. Operations will commence on Saturday, December 16th at 2000z on 14.195 MHz. Chuck has been a granted license with the callsign 3Y0C. This callsign was issued some years ago but was never activated according to officials, therefore, it was reissued to Chuck for this operation. Chuck arrived on Bouvet on December 11th aboard the 'MV Polarstern'. Landing was with the aid of a helicopter. Chuck is part of a scientific team consisting of 4 Norwegian Scientists and himself. He is the only Ham operator. He will be involved in conducting some experiments; however he will have plenty of time to operate. Joe, N4OL, the Operations Equipment Manager, states Chuck will be running an ICOM 756 Pro and an ICOM PW- 1 solid state linear. He has vertical antennas for 160-40 meters and will use beams on 30-10 meters. They are not all in place at this time but should be up in a week to 10 days as weather and work permits. Pilot station, Gene, WJ4T, states that Chuck will have a generator for approximately 12 hours a day and will use large banks of batteries when the generator is not available. Gene reports that Chuck will have some other responsibilities on the Island but will have plenty of time to operate. Gene also reports that the temperature is 0 degrees C with winds at 50 MPH. He also reported there have already been winds in excess of 70 MPH since the team landed. Therefore antenna erection has been and will continue to be difficult. WA4FFW is the QSL manager for the operation. Mac asks that no cards be sent until an address is posted sometime in early January 2001. There will be no computer logs. Logs will not be in hand until after Chuck`s return to the U.S. sometime in April." Chuck has been quite active over the past weekend on 14195 and 21298 kHz. Bruce, WD4NGB, states for 3Y0C propagation, check the Web page: http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/3y0.htm (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.63, Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro (Ecuador). December 2000 - 0000 UTC. In Chasqui DX via DXLD (see SWB 1443) a Peruvian dx-er, Pedro F. Arrunátegui, has logged "Radio Alli Michic" on 4814.9 kc. I "can take poison" that this is Radio El Buen Pastor, which sometimes, for example at 22-2300 UT, transmits in Quichua - I don`t have any knowledge of Quichua, but probably the station IDs as "Radio Alli Michic". The station often has features from the cities of Loja and Cuenca. At 2300 UT news from HCJB: "Informativo Los Andes" [Vozandes -gh]. When I was listening the station closed down at 0400 UT. Also announces FM 90.1 (Björn Malm, SW Bulletin Dec 18, translated by Thomas Nilsson for DXLD) See PERÚ for more items ** FINLAND. DX Information from the British DX Club (BDXC-UK). Scandinavian Weekend Radio is Scandinavia`s first private shortwave station. Studios and transmitters are located in Virrat, western Finland. (N 62 23' E 23 37') Transmitter power is 50 watts. (Maximum ERP power what we can use is 250 W). Antenna that SWR uses is half- wave dipole at 20 meters from ground. SWR is on the air on every month`s first Saturday 24 hours, starting 0:00 local time. (+3 UTC daylight saving time, +2 normal [i.e. *2200 UT Friday now]) SWR broadcasts on 25-metre band on frequency 11690 or 11720 kHz. An alternative Christmas by SWR. DJs Esa, Lasol, Häkä, RadioJack and Turo present something really different. No more details available in advance. You`ll have to listen it by yourself! There is tentative information for December 25th broadcast. Changes are possible. The most current schedule will be published at http://www.swradio.net/eng/ (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6243 USB. 100 watts. Radio East Side. 17 December 0610- 0647 Test transmission. Weak signal, static crashes, ute QRM. Talk till 0615, mx till 0618, tentative ID into mx @ 0620. Phoned station and told them I was hearing them around 0630. Around 0635 ute QRM went away, and around 0643 caught two positive IDs, into techno mx with female singer. At 0647 the DJ made brief statement, and the station went off. I hope for better condx next week. This was the first of three test transmissions to North America on 6240-6245 USB. The second one will be 24 December 0600-0645. The third, on 31 December, also, 0600-0645 (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [non]. The Voice of Greece has changed its frequency for the Australian service 0600-0800. This is now on 11900, in lieu of 15170 (Craig Tyson, EDXP) Noted in Greek, except for English 0750- 0755, via Delano. Good signals here in Melbourne, Dec 16 (Bob Padula, Victoria, Electronic DX Press via DXLD) No sign of 11900 Dec 17 by 0603; tho I did not care to stay awake in case it came on late (gh, OK, DXLD) ** ISRAËL. V. of Israel confirmed on new deep-winter frequency 6280 for English at 0500-0517 Dec 17; slightly better, less fading than \\ 9435 on this occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAËL. The 1630 UT French Kol Israël International broadcast, is now available (as of Dec 15) on demand, on the web, daily, after 1715 UT: http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/ I would think that a link to the French broadcast will be placed on the http://www.israelradio.org site soon. Also, since the holiday of Chanukah is 8 days, starting Thursday night, expect special holiday programming during some Kol Israel broadcasts (Daniel Rosenzweig, Dec 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAËL. The Kol Israël French now has a link from the israelradio.org homepage. You can get to the page directly at: http://israelradio.org/fr.htm All the French broadcasts (that is, 0600, 1100, 1630, 2030 UT), are all available (and have been for a while already) via live web broadcasts at: http://www.israelradio.org/livestream.htm The new thing is that the 1630 UT is now available on-demand (Daniel Rosenzweig, Dec 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. RKI Murtiwave Feedback started earlier than usual Dec 17 on the webcast; already in progress by 1935 UT. Han and Esther said it was the last edition of this year, since there would be special programming the following two Sundays, each 50 minutes long, so starting even much earlier in the hours: Dec 24: Results of the Top 10 Internet Pop Poll (all ten language services are doing this, some on Saturday if that is when they have music shows) Dec 31: Adieu 2000 -- voices behind the RKI mikes with NY greetings As a result, our Mr. DXer, William Matthews, who has been on board since Spring 1990 building his name-recognition, will do his next DX report, 279, on Jan 7, and 280 on Jan 14; Technical Corner, which normally alternates, will next appear Jan 21. The early start must have been to accommodate this prolonged announcement at 1953, upcoming topics on Saturdays` ``Listeners` Plaza`` [would a native speaker of English ever come up with such a name?] January: Freedom and Responsibility of the Press -- should media have the discretion to support candidates, or should be required to keep neutral? February: Incestuous marriage policies -- In Korea, people with the same family name and from same origin may not marry; should marriage between blood relatives be barred? Where should the borderline be drawn? March: Film Ratings -- In Korea, there is no X-rating or beyond. Such films are simply censored. Should each film be rated and released, or censored? April: Funeral traditions -- Which is better for the dead and for the living: cremation or burial? (notes by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOUNT ATHOS. Monk Apollo, SV2ASP, continues to be active as SY2A until the end of the year. He has been keeping people happy on 20/12/10 meters. Watch around 14205, 24963 and 28456 kHz between 1330 and 1530z. QSL ONLY direct to SV2ASP (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. [Re: DXLD 0-157] Brilliant work, Jürgen! That is without doubt the most exotic thing heard since this group started. FANTASTIC, now that`s what I call DX. Well done, Jürgen, that fits in perfectly, as Niger would no doubt have ancient antiquated equipment, just the sort that would be inclined to radiate a half harmonic. I will have a look for this; I don't think that the MUF is high enough in England today but no prizes for guessing which frequency I will be monitoring tomorrow! 91.3 x 0.5 = 45.650. EXCELLENT, This may be the only chance for European DXers to hear an FM Station from Niger. Don`t let them fix it yet! 73's (Tim Bucknall, UK, harmonics@egroups.com via DXLD) Hi all, Yesterday I raised the question about the location of the FM station from Niger. Now I can give the answer myself: It is the regional station from Zinder. For most of the day the national programme from Niamey can be heard on 45.65 MHz. But today at 1400 UT I heard a clear ID in French: Ici la Voix du Sahel, Station Regionale de Zinder. So I`m quite sure that 45.65 MHz is a sub-harmonic of 91.3 MHz. I have to admit that I was not the first DXer who logged this station in Europe. I think it was a Dutch DXer who heard this as an unidentified station in October, but I lost the mail from the FM- and TV-DX-WEBLIST. But finally I could identify the location of this station. I think during the week there are no programmes between 1300 and 1700 UT. Once I only heard a carrier during this time on this frequency. vy 73, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year de (Jürgen Lohuis, Lünen, Germany, harmonics@egroups.com) ** OMAN. RADIO SULTANATE OF OMAN SCHEDULE B00 WINTER 2000 - 2001 (from October 29, 2000 to March 25, 2001) ----+----+----+------------------------------+---+----+-------+---+ FREQ -- STRT-- STOP--CIRAF--ZONES--LOC--POWR ---AZIMUTH ---+------+------+-+-----+----------+---+---+---+-----+-+-----+---- 6085 0200 0400 39N,40W SEB 100 320 6085 2000 2200 39SW,48 SEB 100 240 6190 1800 2000 39SW,48 SEB 100 240 9515 0400 0600 39N,40W SEB 100 320 9735 2000 2300 28,39N THU 100 315 9760 2300 0200 28,39N THU 100 315 13640 0600 1400 39N,40W SEB 100 320 15140 1400 1800 28,39N THU 100 315 15355 0200 0400 48,53 THU 100 220 15355 1800 2000 48,53 THU 100 220 15375 1400 1800 39SW,48 SEB 100 240 17590 0400 0600 48,53 THU 100 220 17630 0600 1000 28,39N THU 100 315 (Radio Sultanate of Oman via Harjot Singh Brar, GRDXC via DXLD) ** OMAN. Sadiq, A41KJ, was heard this past weekend on 21241 kHz around 1145z. QSL via N5FTR. (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERÚ. 4655.0, R. Ecos del Edén, 12/12 2355-0105 44444. ID mv dice: ``Manténgase en la sintonía de Ecos del Edén, muy buenas noches a través de los 4655 kHz de la onda corta de Ecos del Edén, desde la ciudad de Celendín.`` advs Transporte Rojas lo lleva a Nuevo Cajamarca, Rioja, Tarapoto y Celendín, lo mejor del transporte de pasajeros y carga. ``Un saludo para nuestros amigos que nos escuchan desde el extranjero; hemos recibido la llamada de nuestro amigo Henrik Klemetz desde Suecia para saludar a sus amigos que se comunican también vía Internet, Horacio Nigro en Uruguay, Rodríguez de Colombia y nuestro colega y amigo en Lima, Perú, Pedro Arrunátegui, les dedicamos esta linda pieza musical....`` mx `` un saludo a nuestros amigos que nos escuchan a nivel internacional y nacional; hemos recibido la llamada desde Lima de Pedro Arrunátegui, quien nos reporta cómo llegamos a la ciudad de Lima, quien hace extensivos sus saludos a nuestros amigos Henrik, Horacio y Rodríguez, quien nos envió una linda carta.. muchas gracias...`` mx ``me olvida citar a un amigo de USA ...`` NOTA: no es de Belén, sino del Edén. Escuché más de una vez la grabación y se confirmó que es Ecos del Edén (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX via DXLD) ** PERÚ. Björn Malm: Quito 16 December 2000. It feels good to be back again working with "BM in Ecuador", even if I can`t guarantee a bandscan every fortnight -- there are in fact a limited number of stations. Today, Saturday this contribution will be sent from a good Internet-café in "El Recreo", which is a Centro Comercial in southern Quito, that is a huge department store. My wife and I had planned to spend a couple of hours there to buy all of the Christmas gifts. 4300.00 "La Voz de (los) Naranjos" (Perú). December - 2340 UT. At dawn about 06-0700 local time with a music px called "Pasillos y boleros". This station was heard already 5-10 years ago in Sweden! I remember neither the station QTH nor the full name ...... 4388.96 Radio Imperio, Chiclayo (Perú). December 2000 - 0200 UT. Nonstop LA-music without any announcements or with completely hopeless "milagro"-px where badly sick people are cured "en masse" -- repulsive! Announces very clearly transmitting on MW 1490 and SW 4390. "Radio Imperio está transmitiendo en sus dos frecuencias 14- 90 amplitud modulada y 4390 onda corta". Also said that the programme "La Voz de Salvación" is relayed by Radio Uno, Chiclayo on MW 1280kc. Nothing was said about Radio Uno`s SW-frequency -- when checked seems to be inactive on 4579.44v where I earlier logged Radio Uno. Pretty distorted audio. 4655.01 Ecos del Edén (?), Celendín (Perú) 12 December 2000 - 0044 UT. At this date and time, 19:44 local time in Quito, the fast talking DJ greeted one of our members, HK/ Henrik Klemetz! I can`t be completely sure that the station is called Ecos del Edén (the Garden of Eden). In HCDX and DXLD a dx-er from Uruguay, Horacio Nigro, has ID-ed the station as: Ecos de Belén (Betlehem). Very difficult to determine as the DJ is a real fast talker. Transmits from Provincia de Celendín/Dpto de Cajamarca. When I listened they had a promo for the px "Paz, amor y salud". The station certainly has a lot of jingles in the drawer, such as: "Ecos del Edén (?) la radio de la popularidad" and "La radio joven de Celendín". The programmes from the station are mostly comunicados and mixed LA-mx. 6576.45/6573.55 "Radio ?.+?.+W", unknown QTH, dpto San Martín? (Perú?). 13 December 2000 - 2300 UT. For sure a new station as the DJ stated that it was a test transmission - "Calidad de prueba". Nonstop, neutral Christmas music up to 2316 UT; the music didn`t gave any clues from which country the transmission originated. After the music up to close down 2327 UT, the DJ had an extensive "test" of his microphone - "now the mic is 3 dm from my mouth", "perhaps there is water in the mic" etc - very unprofessional! The name of the station seems to be a 3 (?)-letter combination where I am certain of the last letter "-.-.W". Lousy signal and weak modulation. The next day the station had a programme with several hours of a singing and dancing contest for children with a religious tone until close down at 0225 UT, at the frequency of 6573.55. This time the cities of Moyobamba and Tarapoto were mentioned, both in the department of San Martín. 6673.24 Radio Andina, Huancabamba (Perú). December 2000 - 0000 UT. This station started just when I shut down my radio equipment before my trip to Sweden July 15. I guess it is ex Radio Nueva Sensación, which I logged earlier on the frequency of 6673.97. Already in April I had a feeling something was going on: On April 2 Radio LV del Campesino-6956 in Huarmacaa had its premier transmission where the DJ among others greeted Radio Andina in Huancabamba! Decent reception during daylight but with a somewhat dull tone. 6816.81 x6819.63 Ondas La Voz de las Huarinjas, Huancabamba (Perú). December 2000 - 0000 UT. ID sometimes as "RVH". Went back to the Ecuadorian capital November 26, but first after a good week in December I managed to pull myself together enough to start "tweaking the tuning control"! It was a nice feeling to change rain, rough weather and +7 degrees C to brilliant sun with +23 degrees C.! Remember I have been completely inactive during 5 months now, which possibly means that a number of open doors will be broken. Take it easy! 73 from BM in Quito! (Björn Malm, SW Bulletin Dec 18, all translated by ed. Thomas Nilsson for DXLD) See ECUADOR, one more ** ROMANIA. DX Information from the British DX Club (BDXC-UK). A SPECIAL INVITATION TO OUR LISTENERS TO JOIN RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL`S LISTENERS CLUB RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL broadcasts home and world news, reports and commentaries within our daily "Radio Newsreel", programmes and features on current events from this country, as well as music. Our programmes include such regulars as: Pro Memoria - Mondays Business Club - Tuesdays Society Today - Wednesdays Cards On The Table and The Romanian Next to You, alternatively - Thursdays A Challenge for the Future - Fridays The Week; World of Culture - Saturdays Focus - Sundays We also recommend such features as: ? Political Flash; Pages of Romanian Literature; Romanian Hits - Mondays ? European-Horizons; Mother Nature; Youth Club - Tuesdays ? Partners in a Changing World; Romanian Musicians - Wednesdays ? Listeners' Letterbox; The Skylark (Romanian folk music) - Thursdays ? Cultural Survey; Romanian Folk Music at Its Best - Fridays ? Radio Pictures; Bucharest Along the Centuries; DX Mailbag; Romanian Itineraries - Saturdays ? Sunday Studio (including Letterbox, interviews, reports, music); Romanian By Radio; Romanian Itineraries (repeat) - Sundays If you want to join, all you have to do is let us know and we shall put you on the club list. To receive the First Club Diploma you have to send one reception report every month for 12 months indicating the date, time and frequency as well as a few details about the programme content and an assessment of the reception conditions. There are four diplomas (including an Honorary Diploma for the fifth year of reporting and a Loyalty Diploma for the tenth year) and two old timer labels. Even if you only listen to our programs occasionally, please drop us a line and tell us about yourself and your hobbies, send us your remarks and suggestions about our broadcasts to help us draw a pattern of listener interest and decide on future programming. THE ENGLISH SERVICE RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL, 60-62 G-RAL BERTHELOT STREET, BUCHAREST ROMANIA TEL/FAX: 223 26 13 E-MAIL: engl@rri.ro (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. The Voice of Russia recently introduced a new leased relay provided by the Vatican Radio. This is a 30 minute daily evening transmission to Africa in French, at 2100-2130 on 11900. Here in Melbourne, reception is reasonable (Bob Padula, Victoria, Electronic DX Press Dec 17 via DXLD) ** SHETLAND ISLANDS. IOTA/LIGHTHOUSE OPERATION. Pete, MM5PSL, will be operating from the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse on the Shetland Islands (EU-012) during the "Amateur Radio Light House Society" (ARLHS) sponsored Christmas Lights operation from December 18th until January 2nd. The ARLHS number is SCO-232. The following information has been received from Pete: "The following are times broadly available and I will be on the air as much as possible but obviously can't operate all the time. December 18th - 1800-1900z December 19th - 2200z through to 0900z December 20th December 20th - 2200z through to 0900z December 21st December 22nd - 1000z until 1300z December 23rd - 2200z through to 0900z December 24th December 27th, 28th, and 29th - 1200z until 2200z December 31st - 0900z until 2000z January 1st - as and when I can?? January 2nd - most of the day till close of play." The 20 meters will be his primary band, and he will be on or near the usual lighthouse frequency, 14270 kHz. Pete`s QSL Manager for the operation will be longtime IOTA and lighthouse chaser WA7OBH: Lee Graves, 4341 SE Satinleaf Place, Stuart, FL 34997 USA (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. Ananda, 4S7NB, located in Colombo was active over the weekend on 20 meters around 14180 kHz between 0100 and 0230z. Meanwhile, Nelson, 4S7NE, near Colombo, has been active on 30 meters (10108 kHz) between 2300 and 0030z (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TINIAN. VOA on 11995 and 15150 heard 0.6 seconds apart. This is explained by one of them coming via long path, the other by short path (Karl Kruger, England, HCJB DX Partyline Dec 16 via gh, DXLD) No, it isn`t! The standard delay for one synchronous-orbit satellite hop compared to an ionospheric path is 0.3 seconds, a distance of approximately 90 megameters (45 up and 45 down) beyond the great- circle distance from a transmitter. (Just divide 90 by 300, the speed of light in megameters per second.) By comparison, a 10 Mm difference between short and long paths, would entail a propagation delay of only 0.03 second (using round numbers in this example). That is why when dual-path ionospheric reception is really involved, one hears more of a reverb or an echo, than two or three words separation. Thus, 0.6 second delay, 20 times! that amount, could be a double- satellite delay, but that does not make sense for the same program from the same transmitter site on two different frequencies. Unless, the two are being fed to Tinian by two entirely different circuits involving satellites, which is conceivable. But the more likely answer appeared in DXLD 0-104 August 27, which Karl and Allen seem to have overlooked. I, and anyone else, could find it again quickly by searching the 2000 DXLD archive for TINIAN -– the only entry so far this year until now under that country: ``** TINIAN. In addition to the delays due to satellite routing, there are other sources of delay within a transmitting station. The new facility on Tinian, for instance, has some digital audio delay units that delay the audio for some transmitters, so that if multiple transmitters are running the same programming, the audio (modulation) peaks do not occur on the transmitters at the same time. At least in theory, that is the way it works. This is the same thing done at Bonaire, where two parallel frequencies may be a second or two apart, too long to be confused with satellite delays (gh, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` The reason for this is to even out power consumption. BTW, here are the entries for the frequencies in question currently in the IBB schedule: 11995 0800 1000 VOA P ENGL TIN 03 325 15150 0800 1000 VOA P ENGL TIN 01 295 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UNITED NATIONS HQ. 4U1UN made a surprise appearance on the air Friday and Saturday. Operator was Mohammed and was active on 3793 kHz after 0000z (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UNITED NATIONS [non]. The UN Radio has recently recommenced regular shortwave broadcasts, and transmissions from the Meyerton facility, in South Africa, are as follows, Mondays to Fridays only: 1700-1715 6125 French 1700-1720 21490 French and Portuguese 1725-1745 6125 Portuguese and English (Bob Padula, Victoria, Electronic DX Press Dec 17 via DXLD) ** U S A. Subject: "Broadcasters Win LPFM Fight" So reads the heading on today`s NAB FAXed "RadioWeek." They claim Congress passed the bill to drastically scale back LPFM on Friday. No specifics are mentioned, such as which bill the anti-LPFM legislation was attached to, nor whether or not it might be vetoed. The article goes on to relate the alleged interference that LPFM would bring against the FM radio- listening public. So it looks like we`re all protected by those guardians against interference: the National Association of Broadcasters. Meanwhile, John Broomall on his website mentions that Window 3 for LPFM applications is to be Jan. 16-22, 2001. Those will cover the states of CO, DE, HI, ID, MO, NY, OH, SC, SD, WI. I e-mailed John to try to find out if he knows what bill the anti-LPFM legislation might have been attached to. More DX opportunities for all of us, on fewer channels? (brucey elving, MN, WTFDA list Dec 16 via DXLD) ** U S A. From: WRFR@aol.com Dear supporters of Radio Free Richmond and Low Power FM: Well, the Republicans have majority control over ALL FOUR branches of US Govt: Executive, Legislative, Judicial and the "Fourth Estate", the media. We can thank National Public Radio (NPR) for providing that little bit of extra "judas action" to push a few Democrats into joining what was mostly a Wall-Street Republican action to strangle most Low Power FM applicants. On the other hand, we should all pat ourselves on the back for taking on : 1) The MOST POWERFUL LOBBYING GROUP in the US (according to Common Cause), and possibly by extension, the world, the National Association of Broadcasters ... AND NOT JUST THAT but also the most powerful lobbying group allied with ... 2) Big Bird (National Public Radio), now coopted by key US Information Agency personnel like Kevin Klose and Robert Coonrod ... National Public Radio has strayed very very far away from their original intent as demonstrated by their opposition to Low Power FM ... And as if that wasn`t enough ... 3) The large Religious Broadcasters of America like Pat Robertson, American Family Association etc. A hodgepodge bunch of grassroots Americans took on the biggest three broadcasting power blocks in the world ... and gave then quite a hard time of it !! And you know ... a pirate transmitter is only $1000 ... for a NICE one ! Once every city grows three or four ... it would be nearly impossible for those forces to stop us ... the citizens. Bottom Line: An oppressor can only get on your back if you bend over!!! I don't plan to give up ... especially after that "election" where the highest court in the land essentially said a proper recount would be the ethical thing but that it would also be too inconvenient !!!!! It`s obvious the citizenry have lost control of our government. And we don't have to be illegal either ... there are other possibilities ... all more expensive than pirate radio of course ... but they exist !!! Me, I`m going to look into getting a second job and "when you can`t beat them, join them", that is ... I'm going to figure out how to BUY my way in ... get a lawyer ... etc. 1) Re-invigorate Cable Public Access ... 2) Other Application possibilities at the FCC ... 3) Put together a coalition to get some shows SOMEWHERE on the radio dial ... 4) Energize the alternative print medium ... hook it all together with Indymedia.org (by the way, there's evidence the IRS is being used to try to kill Indymedia.org, a good indication of its effectiveness at bypassing the WallStreetMediaFilter ) +++++++++++++++ Forwarded message: ======= Subj: low power radio Date: 12/15/00 6:14:32 PM Eastern Standard Time From: mbracy@bracywilliams.com (Michael Bracy) [later: Note from gh: most of the names below are misspelt -- a great way to influence people. We have confirmed correct spellings of senators and congresscreatures via the C-SPAN website to: Oxley, Dingell, McCain? (''Moccasin``), Kerrey, Durbin, Bonior, Barrett; Kennard (FCC). Haven`t figured out who ``Rose dealer`` might be...] Friends- As of right now (5:30 pm on Friday 12/15) there is every indication that the Congress will pass, and the President will sign, an Omnibus Budget Act that will include an anti-lpfm rider in the form of the bill passed by the House (the Oxleye bill as amended by Wilson and Dinged; considered in the Senate as the Grams bill). This legislation essentially guts the FCC`s LPFM plan by limiting licenses to stations broadcasting with existing third adjacent channels protections in place. The Commission will set up a pilot study of the impact of placing LPFM stations on third adjacent channels, then Congress will have to pass authorizing legislation to allow the FCC to place LPFM stations on these third adjacent channels. Basically, if you are a rural part of the country, you are OK; if you are in a city or suburb you are out of luck. This rider is tucked into a massive spending bill that funds the basic operations of the government. While every effort was made to remove this rider, House and Senate leaders would not budge. I am confident that the Clinton Administration and our supporters in Congress did everything they could to stop this rider. While I am crushed by this setback, I express my gratitude to the hundreds of people and organizations across the country who have worked with us to fight for LPFM over the past two years. Because of the incredible grassroots effort you have helped mount, we came incredibly close to winning this issue outright this year, but more importantly, we have built a solid base that makes our eventual victory inevitable. It took backdoor, dead of night political dealing to deliver this setback, and we have no intention of letting this result stand. I especially want to thank leaders in Washington like Senators John moccasin, Bob Cherry, Richard Durban, Paul Wellstone and Congressmen David Bonier, Rose dealer, David Obey, Thomas Barrette and many more who stood up to one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, the National Association of Broadcasters. I want to thank FCC Chairman Knead [sic], Commissioner Tristani and all the FCC staff who have worked with enormous energy to move this proceeding ahead. I want to thank the Clifton [sic] Administration, who fought for LPFM throughout the budget negotiation process but simply did not have the votes to succeed. I want to thank Al Gore, who bravely spoke strongly and specifically against the rider in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. And I want to thank Bill Bradley and Ralph Nader, who were early and consistent advocates for LPFM. The only way not to leave out LPFM supporters who should be singled out for their efforts is to not even try to list them all...so I`m not going to list any of them. But building and working with this Coalition has been a wonderful, inspiring endeavor, and I only hope that this setback will only make us more committed to finishing the job in 2001. On behalf of the Low Power Radio Coalition, we`re going to go away for the weekend, lick our wounds, think through our next steps, and be back soon with our 2001 action plan. This isn`t over - not by a long shot. Best wishes and happy holidays, Michael Bracy, Low Power Radio Coalition (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U S A. Hi, Glenn. Last evening [UT Sun Dec 17], WPHT in Philly on 1210 was off the air for transmitter maintenance. From about 1:30 to 2 AM eastern (0630 to 0700 UT), I was hearing a station with country music. It was very weak, but with a female announcer. Heard weather report just before the top of the hour with temperatures in 50`s for today. It was not strong, and occasionally WPHT's carrier would come back on. Finally at 0700, WPHT began playing test music, including big bands, and inserting an announcement saying "This is WPHT Philadelphia conducting transmitter maintenance tests.`` I never did hear an ID off the country music station. I went looking on the web this morning for details about KGYN. A Yahoo search revealed http://www.kgyn.com I went there and found a single front page from someone called directNIC saying that the website http://www.kgyn.com is for sale at $15 per year. Are you aware of this, and is there anything else you could tell me about this station. It would be very nice to add a second OK station to the log. First was KOMA many, many years ago. Thanks (Sheldon Harvey, Québec, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Sheldon, I was about to tell you it must be something else with that high a temperature, but in fact 51 was the forecast high for today in Guymon, per Weather Channel, linked from http://www.kkbs.com -- Guymon`s other radio station. Separately owned, it seems. I remember KGYN used to have a website. 100000watts.com still has kgyn.com as the website. The thing you got probably appears for lots of possible but currently unregistered sites with call letters. Sometimes I am still up at 0630, so will try to check format on KGYN then. Tho with the null toward Philly we don`t get much from it at night even here. BTW, I have often driven right by its 3-tower array east of Guymon. They even have the call letters painted on the transmitter hut. As Kevin Redding has pointed out, they are still running AM stereo. 73, (Glenn, to Sheldon, DXLD) Thanks, Glenn. I would really like to confirm this one and add it to the log, but with Philly in the way, there isn`t much of a chance. Just got lucky with Philly doing maintenance last night. Maybe they`ll do it again tonight. I`ll check it out. Too bad more stations don`t bother to put call letters on the huts at the transmitter sites. We pass WROW 590 AM in Albany each year on the way to Kulpsville and they have the letters on the site. Sure helps out a lot. Often wonder why stations wouldn`t use the opportunity for some additional advertising. Thanks again. I`ll let you know if anything comes through tonight (Sheldon Harvey) Security. And don`t necessarily believe the danger-high-voltage signs which tend to get put up where there is no danger at all (gh) ** U S A. SPECIAL EVENT. Frank, N5VT, reports that he will be active as a special event station to celebrate the "Battle of New Orleans" from January 1-10th (2001). Activity will be on CW/SSB/RTTY and PSK31 with operations on 80/40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 meters. A special award is available if you work him on 80-10 meters. QSL via N5VT w/SASE. (KB8NW/OPDX December 18/BARF-80 via John Norfolk, OKCOK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###