** CANADA. 9555, May 21 until 0529:25* cut off Vietnamese talk abruptly, as Sackville is making up for no VOV relay modulation 24 hours earlier. Strange, as normally the last biminute consists of BaBcoCk music loop. I suppose all these anomalies from Sackville could be caused by misprogrammed computer control, perhaps back in Montréal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 21, before 1300:
11500, fair at 1252 over VOR via Tajikistan, making fast SAH
12230, poor at 1255
12600, JBA at 1255
13970, good at 1256
14800, very good at 1256
15555, good at 1258
15900, very good at 1258
16100, fair at 1259
16920, fair at 1259
17450, poor until 1300*

After 1400:
17560, fair at 1406 vs V. of Tibet, Madagascar
15600, fair at 1408, presumably vs V. of Tibet, Tajikistan, 15603
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 9595, May 21 at 1307, R. Nikkei two YLs conversing rapidly n Japanese, but occasional English terms, such as ``something else``, ``how much is?``, ``what`s the movie?``, apparently an advanced language lesson; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15425, May 20 at 2244 check, no sign of Brother Scare, which according to DX Re Mix News, was to be testing today via ARMENIA. Could well have been on and not propagating USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA [non]. 12250, May 21 at 1502, a JBA carrier is detectable with the DX-398 on battery power on the porch with short wire antenna, and still at 1512, but in the meantime closed down household noise sources and tried on the FRG-7 with regular longwire: inaudible there.

No doubt it`s the new Tamil clandestine, info about which Alan Roe discovered May 20. Sponsored by the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), it`s called Naatham, and according to
http://www.tgte-us.org/ and
http://world.einnews.com/pr_news/96213939/tamil-gov-t-starts-radio-broadcast-to-sri-lanka-on-may-18th-3rd-anniversary-of-tamil-genocide
started May 18, at 1500-1600 UT on 12250. For information contact: media@tgte.org

Sei-ichi Hasegawa then reported hearing nonstop music on 12250 at +1542-1600* on May 20, after a Japanese DXer in Hokkaido reported it for the first time as an unID station May 19. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-Cb68zG60&list=UUS_t20AguM6rl4KcDP0jV8g&index=1&feature=plcp
by Nakanaka in Hokkaido, Japan.

Aoki now has listed it May 21 but without any power or site info:
``12250 Tamil naatham Radio 1500-1600 1234567 Tamil TGTE a12 May 18-``

The far-out-of-band frequency suggests the site is a big secret, as it`s hard to believe M&B, BaBcoCk or Russia/CIS would admit to using such a frequency. WRN confirms they are not involved in this. The fact that it is audible at all here on the opposite worldside indicates that power is considerable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17510, WHRI, last Sunday was not airing `DXing with Cumbre` at 2130, and their scheduled showed it at 2100 instead. So this Sunday, May 20 I check at 2115: Christian songs (what else?) for truckers, but retune at 2131, DWC is back at this time. Marie is just doing pro-forma introduxion, then turns it over to Chris, Lobdell for `Pirating with Cumbre`, starting with an April 22 log from Bill Hassig, a previous show repeated with no new one this week.

Then on May 21 I recheck the searchable WHRI program schedules. Still shows 2100, not 2130 Sundays on 17510 for DWC. Plus numerous other times on this frequency, presumably imaginary from Angel 2 rather than 1 for the imaginary Sunday 2100 transmission: Saturday at 2000; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 2100; Sunday at 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5755, May 21 at 0523 check, WTWW-1 is back on night frequency with SFAW, having been absent 25 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1617 monitoring: 9955, UT Monday May 21 at 0526, confirmed on WRMI, about to conclude, more or less readable vs pulse jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB, May 21 at 0531, WBCQ with hard-rock travesties, courtesy of Rev. Rod Hembree: ``Runaway`` re-lyricked into some tale about leaving Egypt; segué to ``I Ain`t Nothin` But a Found God``! Retune at 1249, still doing this, ``Let`s Rock`` has become ``Let`s Talk`` about Jesus Christ. 1250 plug biblediscoverytv.com and more of this innovative tactic for ever-increasing faith (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Still missing US SW stations, May 21:
 9370-, nothing from WTJC at 1412
12105, nothing from WTWW-3 at 1552
15550-USB, nothing from WJHR at 1407
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12160, May 21 at 1511, WWCR-2 has cross talk matching modulation from 13845, WWCR-3 with DGS; same as happens earlier on 7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 6180, May 20 at 0511, RNA is off again, no loss, since 11780 is still on. UT Sunday had been the one day when both would run all-night. Now they both do every night, except when one is missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. Another big sporadic-E opening, with the 6m ham band map from DX Sherlock showing lots of transcontinental paths, centred around Kansas City, May 19 at 2130, so I start watching channel 2 analog, with antenna first aimed south, and at 2143 start to see some video. At 2152, BELL MEDIA is seen on the screen, hardly Spanish or Mexican, so rotate to NNE where it`s probably coming from instead of Mexico all the time. Signals in and out with CCI, mostly out. 2210 some ad peaks about Top Grain.

2212 on 2, Family Guy, toon with dog seen on Fox in US (but also syndicated, I assume), peaks north, presumably a Canadian
2214 on 3, basketball game, with CCI
2225 on 5, basketball here too; not on 3 at same time if //

2240 on 2, Global newscast with brunette(!) YL anchor at center of screen, moved to viewer`s left when grafix appear. International stories. Constant small rectangular bug in LR, hard to make out, but perhaps weather warning map. Includes a lake which looks like Lake Winnipeg, or maybe smaller but similar Lake Manitoba depending on scale. Since this peaks north, I am confident it is one of my common catches, CKND2 in Manitoba. Later there was a story captioned from AB = Alberta.

2300, Es mostly gone; 2350 a brief resurgence, again May 20 UT at 0130, 0140 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. More dead air, this time the scheduled VIETNAM relay via Sackville: 9555, May 20 at 0508 when they are usually playing some nice Vietnamese music, just open carrier except for a brief spurt of modulation at 0513, then continued dead until 0529:27* without even a BaBcoCk music IS. Previous frequency 6175 was OK before 0430.

More2 dead air, this time the VATICAN relay via Sackville on 13730, May 20 at 1158-1215:24*. There has been some question whether English at 1200 is every day or never on Sunday as in WRTH update. Well, Sackville kept the transmitter on anyway, just in case. Had the 1130 Spanish just ended as I intuned, or was it DA too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 21480, May 20 at 0412, CCCCCI, i.e. ChiCom Chinese language co-channel interference mixing with another station, i.e. R. Free Asia in Mandarin via TINIAN. One of them cuts off at 0458* while the weaker one continues until 0500*. My guess is that RFA went off first, about to make a frequency change. At 0500, 21580 and stronger 21710 are now on, // but a few syllables out of synch, typical deliberate offset by Tinian to even out power consumption. // stronger 17855 via SAIPAN sibling even further out of synch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake May 20, before 1300:
17250, JBA at 1237
16920, good at 1236
16700, very poor at 1237 with flutter
15970, very good at 1232
15940, very good at 1232
15900, very good at 1232
15545, poor at 1232 with additional noise jamming
14700, very poor at 1235
13970, very good at 1235
12230, poor at 1235
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Ever a source of anomalies: 9790, May 20 at 0509, CRI relay transmitter via Habana is still on with dead air except for hum. Seems they never turn it off promptly at 0500. Still burning the kW at 0518 while Cubans go hungry.

6000, May 20 at 0512, more slipshod operation at RadioCuba, with RHC English still here instead of 6125 which is supposed to be on after 0500. Also on // 6010 and weaker 6050, 6060. Still the same at 0540!

11840, May 20 at 0516, RHC Spanish is still going after nominal 0500*, and still2 at 0529.

15340, May 20 at 1403, open carrier/dead air from RHC, still at 1409, finally comes on around 1417. All the other frequencies from 9 to 17 MHz were properly modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, May 20 at 1537, assertive gospel huxter in English on poor signal, presumed R. Africa at this hour with IRRS/Romania finished (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, May 20 at 0407, IGIM is on early/late in Arabic talk, squeezed between stronger 7240 DW Rwanda and 7250 Vatican, surely 250, not 10 kW as in HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, May 20 at 0406, XEPPM, poor signal in Spanish with SAH, CCI from presumed Vatican, unreadable. ACI not much of a problem, no Brasil on 6180, but something else, presumed DW RWANDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MYANMAR [and non]. 7110, May 20 at 1208, bits of music still making it thru, but not much longer, and no way we will hear the 1430 English this far into the dayside until winter if it still exist then. SS SSB ham was right on frequency too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. Lots of dead air lately: including 6195, BONAIRE, May 20 at 0405, big S9+22 signal with no RNW Spanish modulation as scheduled. Remaining days are numbered, and they miss an opportunity! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 21510, May 19 at 2130, RRI amid the Spanish hour, good signal to S America, and can also hear some of those strange audio artifacts on the sidebands which used to bother their German service in the B-season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 11880, Sunday May 20 at 1315 I tune in to enjoy world-music show `Mundofonías` from REE COSTA RICA relay, but cut off the air at 1316, power failure? Much weaker // 11815 also missing, just NHK Japanese. 11880 back on at 1318, announcing a semi-Palestinian about to guitar bulerías; still no 11815 at 1320, and at 1321*, 11880 off again, *1325:30 on again. Direct signals were too weak on 21610, 21540 still mixed with Kuwait, and 17595 taking Sunday morning off. I give up; anyhow, at 1330 it`s time for new series of `Tracks Ahead` on OETA, and a breakfast of freshly-fallen apricots from our #1 tree, only a few of which are wormy. The `cot season is early this year (who needs Twitter?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9990, May 19 after 1500, WTWW-2 was back on the air with Ted Randall at the Dayton Hamvention, but recheck at 1830 it was already off. Supposed to be at 15-19. However, 9479, WTWW-1 was now running Ted Randall at his usual time on Saturdays 18-20, so no need for both of them to be running. One more live broadcast is on his website, Sunday May 20 at 15-17 UT on 9990.

5755 was missing May 20 at 0400 instead of WORLD OF RADIO, and still missing before 1300, but day frequency 9479 was on at 1310 check.

Meanwhile, found big open carrier on 9990, May 20 at 1217, but no 5755 or 9479 or 12105. 9990 must be WTWW-2, but no show at 1536 when it was supposed to be on for one more live Ted Randall broadcast from Dayton at 15-17. Still nothing at final check 1653. These were also supposed to be on 9330 WBCQ, but if on, it was too weak to discern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, May 20 at 0408, usual canned sign-off by Allan Weiner on WBCQ, but at odd time. The only Saturday show on 7490, `I Sing` from Rod Hembree`s evangelical network, is scheduled 1900-0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1617 monitoring: WBCQ 5110v-CUSB airing confirmed on webcast at nominal time UT Saturday May 19 at 0130-0159. WTWW 5755 airing missed, as off the air at 0400 UT Sunday May 20! And 5755 still off during the next hour. Meanwhile there was some utility hash circa 5760.

What else can one listen to instead? 9955, WRMI, Jeff White with `Wavescan` at 0409, fair with pulse jamming; 9825, WHRI, Chris, Lobdell, pirating with Cumbre, very good signal at 0409. Marie said no new DWC show this week, but not an evergreen either as a log was quoted from April 22.

Try again for WOR on WRMI, Sunday May 20 at 1532: nothing but a JBA carrier; hope it`s making it to the Caribbean/S America. Repeats at 1730, Monday 0500, 1130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, May 20 at 1406, WRMI poor with Jeff White voicing `Wavescan` vs lite pulse jamming, and fast SAH. During this semihour only now, allowed to collide with KTWR Guam, per Aoki in Yui language on Sundays, other days Cantonese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR has been missing. It`s at a distance where it doesn`t always propagate well to here, but even when nearby WEWN is inbooming on 15610/15615 with sporadic E help, not hearing anything on 15550 May 19. Also absent May 20 at 1532, 1654 when WEWN and WWCR 15825 were inbooming at similar distances (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9370, WTJC has been missing. For quite a while modulation level had been very low, but not distorted or squeezing out spurs. It`s definitely absent May 20 at chex: 0507, 1220, 1405, 1533. Comparing to WBCQ 9330: usually it`s well heard, but very poor at 1533 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7555, May 20 at 0510 check, WEWN is on with very good signal in Spanish; you never know whether it will be or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, May 20 at 1202, since it`s Sunday, WINB already on  this frequency with YL gospel huxter, constant carrier wobble (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, May 20 at 1213, WWCR-2 usual excellent signal with YL gospel huxter, but some other modulation too underneath her, soon verified as // DGS on WWCR-3, 13845. After all these years, WWCR still hasn`t isolated its transmitters and antennas one from another. Website now shows June 4 as the effective date for frequency schedule changes until August 31. The only difference is that WWCR-1 will stay on 6875 one hour longer before changing to 3215, at 0200 instead of 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [ non]. 17605, May 20 at 1327, YFR Burmese again, very good signal, I find hard to believe is really 100 kW, 131 degrees via Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN as in HFCC, Aoki, EiBi. Aha, WRTH A-12 supplement shows this as KCH instead = PRIDNESTROVYE, which is somewhat more believable. Much stronger than e.g. 17705 Saudi, and nothing much from Iran 17550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7210-LSB, May 20 at 1211, unmistakable voice of Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania, no ID needed, as he remarx in Spanish that he was divorced 17 --- no, 19 years ago due to a ``reflexión de personalidades``. Perhaps his wife had enough of his anti-Castro ranting all the time, however justified (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15660 at 1925 UT May 19, very strong signal, two guys with African language, huge crowd roars, football? special, from where? Nothing listed at this hour in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi. Channel Africa does use 15660 at 15-16 in Swahili. BBC?

I posted this immediately on the dxldyg and several members began monitoring too. Mark Davies in Wales identified the game as the important Bayern Munich v Chelsea, at half time 1938. Jorge Freitas stayed with it, and also found the same game in English on BBC 15400, and in Arabic on 15640. He says 15660 went off without ID at 2153, but came back on in English at 2155, now definitely BBC with news at 2201; for how much longer?

I checked periodically: 15660 at 1957, thought I heard a mention of ``Radio Freedom`` and Nigeria. Went right past 2000, and 2100 with no discernible IDs. Seems soccer fans are constantly screaming, since goals are so rare. At 2129 mentioned Chelsea. Now at 2130 I could hear some lite humbuzz on 15660, a signature of ASCENSION. 15400 had been audible more poorly earlier as per Jorge Freitas tip, but not heard any more.

Wish I could recognize Somali easily, but we know BBC does a lot of sports in Somali earlier on Saturdays. Website makes a big deal of this game but nothing about 15660 or any SW to be found at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/somali/war/2012/05/120519_championship.shtml
Contrastingly, not much about it on the BBC Hausa site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

 

The Voice of America's Chief White House Correspondent Dan Robinson spoke to the 2012 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB) in Washington on May 10 and 11.

 

Robinson, an avid shortwave listener since 1968, talked about how his interest in shortwave radio led him to a career as an international broadcast journalist. Over the years, he has served as VOA correspondent in East Africa and Bangkok, and director of the VOA's Burmese section. Today, he works out of the White House and travels with the U.S. President to places like Cartagena most recently, where he reported on the Secret Service controversy and the other news made at the recent Summit of the Americas there.

 

Other recent news events such as the activities surrounding Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng made the NASB annual meeting location quite timely. The conference was hosted by Radio Free Asia at its headquarters in Washington. Dan Southerland, Vice President for Programming at RFA and editors of the Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese and Korean services talked about the challenges they have with newsgathering and reporting in their target countries, and about the loyal following they have among millions of listeners throughout Asia. They explained that while RFA is using a lot of new technologies to reach Asian listeners, shortwave radio remains a primary form of delivery for the station. In countries like North Korea, shortwave is virtually the only means of reaching listeners from abroad.

 

Dr, Kim Andrew Elliott, audience research specialist at the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), presented survey results showing what types of media, including shortwave receivers, people have access to in Asian and Africa countries, and via what means they listen to international broadcasters. While he noted that shortwave listenership is small or decreasing in many countries, Elliott said it is still very popular in some countries, including many parts of Africa and in other areas of the world where press freedom is limited and people seek information from abroad.

 

Other speakers at the NASB annual meeting included A.J. Janitschek, RFA's director of program and operations support, who told broadcasters about many smartphone applications that help broadcasters and engineers do their jobs more easily. Janitschek was also the principal organizer of the NASB meeting for RFA.

 

Part of the meeting was dedicated to presentations by the USA DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) group. DRM Consortium steering board member Adil Mina of Continental Electronics in Dallas gave an update on the status of DRM, which is the only method of digital broadcasting approved for shortwave broadcasters in the United States and around the world. He talked frankly about the political and technological obstacles that DRM has encountered, including slow development of mass-production, low-cost DRM receivers. But Mina said that there are positive developments in that regard under new DRM Consortium leadership, and he demonstrated a new DRM receiver that currently costs about $120, but is not yet available in the U.S. market.

 

Charles Jacobson of HCJB's Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Indiana told about their conversion of 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitters to DRM transmission capability, and John Wineman, also of HCJB, explained how a group of students at LeTourneau University is helping to develop a “DRM diversity receiver.” Jacobson said that HCJB's German partner, Vozandes Media, has just decided to abandon its plans to build a new 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitter site in Ecuador to transmit to the Amazon region of South America. A low-power (eight kilowatt) shortwave transmitter on 6050 kHz intended to reach rural areas of Ecuador is the only remaining HCJB shortwave transmission from Ecuador, and it is operated by Vozandes Media.

 

Dr. Adrian Peterson, International Relations Coordinator for NASB member Adventist World Radio and a member of the NASB Board, provided a report on the latest activities of AWR, which continues to rely highly on shortwave broadcasts in many parts of the world. AWR is installing new antennas at its shortwave station in Guam, and it uses many shortwave relay stations around the world to transmit its programming from dozens of studios located worldwide.

 

Thomas Witherspoon heads a non-profit organization called Ears to Our World, which distributes “wind-up” shortwave receivers free of charge to teachers in Africa and other areas of the world where there is little or no electricity or Internet. He gave an emotional presentation called “Shortwave for Good” about how these listeners often have no other form of contact with the outside world, and about how shortwave radio transmissions are being used to educate young people in remote locations.

 

Tom Lucey of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) International Bureau presented his new colleague Shahnaz Ghavami to the group and said that there have been two recent applications for new privately-owned shortwave stations in the United States. Lucey said that it is still very difficult to find clear in-band frequencies, so shortwave is far from dying.

 

Dr. Donald Messer, formerly of IBB engineering and former head of the DRM Technical Committee, presented the good news that a new system of oceanographic radar that is using HF frequencies has decided to stay clear of most of the frequency ranges that U.S. shortwave broadcasters use.

 

Mark Allen of NASB's newest associate member, Antenna Products of Mineral Wells, Texas, explained the work that his company does with government and private clients around the world, including sophisticated high-power shortwave transmission antennas. He pointed out that 90 percent of the world's airports have antennas manufactured by Antenna Products. [Anyone who would like a printed or electronic copy of the Antenna Products master catalog may e-mail Mark Allen at: allen@antennaproducts.com.]

 

Another new NASB associate member is the Far East Broadcasting Company. FEBC was one of the founding members of the Association in 1990, but in 2011 it closed its shortwave station KFBS in Saipan, a U.S.-administered area in the Pacific Ocean. Only FCC-licensed shortwave stations can be voting members of the NASB, so FEBC is now an associate member. FEBC's Chris Slabaugh explained that his organization decided to consolidate its shortwave operations as a cost-cutting measure, so the transmitters in Saipan were moved to two shortwave transmission sites which the company already owns in the Philippines. Dismantling the Saipan station and moving everything to the Philippines turned out to be a long, complex project, but it has now been successfully ccompleted.

 

Dr. Jerry Plummer of NASB member WWCR in Nashville, Tennessee, presented to the group the results of a one-year survey of Spanish-speaking shortwave listeners that the NASB carried out via its webage. Not surprisingly, most respondents were from Latin America and Iberia. Interestingly, however, the survey showed that the average age of respondents to the Spanish language survey was significantly lower than that of respondents to a similar English-language survey that the NASB did the year before. This supports a conclusion that shortwave listeners in Latin America are overall younger than shortwave listeners in North America, Europe and some other parts of the world, perhaps boding well for the future of shortwave listening in Latin America.

 

The final speaker at the 2012 NASB annual meeting was NASB President Glen Tapley of WEWN in Birmingham, Alabama. He invited everyone interested in shortwave broadcasting and listening to attend the 2013 NASB annual meeting, which his station will host in Birmingham on May 16 and 17, 2013. Activities will include a visit to the breathtaking mountain location of WEWN's shortwave transmitter facility on the outskirts of Birmingham, complete with a mountain-top barbecue. More details will be available shortly on the NASB's webpage, www.shortwave.org. In the coming days, the website will also be posting audio files of most of the presentations at this year's annual meeting, and PowerPoint presentations as well.

 

At the annual business portion of the meeting, Brady Murray of WWCR was elected to a second three-year term on the NASB board of directors. Murray was re-elected NASB Vice President, and Glen Tapley was re-elected as President. Jeff White of WRMI in Miami was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer, and Thais White of WRMI was re-elected Assistant Secretary Treasurer. The NASB board voted to grant the status of “Associate Member Emeritus” for the first time, issuing the award to George Jacobs, who for decades worked as an HF frequency planner for the International Broadcasting Bureau and later for many privately-owned shortwave stations in the United States.

 

Photos from the NASB 2012 annual meeting will soon appear on the Association's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/nasbshortwave.