November 2009 ABDX Journal
Vol 4. Issue 11
Editors Corner:
ABDX membership is 226 members and still growing! I thank all of
you for being members of ABDX. This is definitely an all time high for
membership.
This month set the record all time for the Journal at 135 pages.
What a lot of logs we got for shortwave. People are still listening. We got some
nice FM logs as well. Your great logs show what the DX hobby can be when many
contribute. There are 98 pages of HF logs from 7 DXers. At ABDX we love your
logs and for each log, you get an extra year of membership. J
Testing, Testing… We have an announcement of a DX test upcoming
from WGGH! There are test results from the WSRY test and an unusual impromptu HF
test from WWCR. If you heard this test, then send in a log. I already received a
paper QSL, the first in 20 years for me.
Its
time for High School basketball and just like football the
“FCC STA” for small towns who leave the station on high power and day
pattern to get the signal for their HS BKB team to be heard far and wide. For
sports DXers, there is a plethora to choose from. FB, Hockey, BKB from pro and
college are going gangbusters. Many of us got started
DXing by listening to distant sports coverage.
Don’t
forget to listen to FM right now the Geminids Meteor Showers are going on and
you may hear something via a “ping” on Ms. Also in December the winter E
skip DX season comes around. You can get 1500 miles or so out on FM! This is a
short season unlike the summer and may give you something to do during the MW
midseason anomaly while MW is kind of dormant.
On
a sad note, we lost two very prominent DXers who were instrumental in the early
days of ABDX, Paul Lafrieniere and Harry Helms. Paul was one of the earliest on
ABDX and was always a prodigious logger and a friend to DXers who were young or
had fallen on harder times. He was generous enough to help people belong to one
of the pay for membership clubs. Harry Helms was a giant in the DX world as an
author for the hobby. He was a great friend to me and a great supporter to ABDX.
We will miss them both greatly.
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What are you hearing?
Kevin Redding, Phil Rafuse,
The Broadcast Band – AM 3
Down In The Basement – LW 21
The Whole Earth – HF/SW 23
The Line of Sight and Beyond – FM 121
The Visible Universe – TV 124
Nothing But Net – Net Video and Audio 124
You Don’t Need a Weatherman – Weather Band 124
Extra, Extra – News 125
Bargain Barn –
Show And Tell – Review of New Toys 116
Testing, Testing… - Upcoming Tests 128
Call Sign Changes – From the FCC 130
I Got The Bird – Satellite 135
800
Getting someone on here at 11/22 2110 ELT with classic country music fighting it
out with XEROK and someone with Christian programming (probably KQCV). I
have my Quantum Loop pointed in a direction towards
It
was rather fun a few weeks ago, so I thought I'd try again. I was
pleasantly surprised by the fact that despite my horrid noise level the
conditions were excellent (e.g. WBBM under KKOH on 780) and lots of mix &
matches on the regional frequencies.....PST used thru-out
830
860
980
1080
KFXX OR 2127
1120
KPNW OR Eugene 2122 HSFB game Sheldon (Eugene) whopping Tigard in state playoff
game 64-26 with about 9 minutes left.
1140
KHTK CA Sacramento 2119 w/NBA BKB...Kings leading Rockets 107-98 with 52 seconds
left.
1160
KSL UT Salt Lake City 2114 with BKB wrap-up of BYU's 70-60 win over Bradley.
1380
KTKZ CA Sacramento 2101 HSFB between Christian Bros (Sacto) and unknown
opponent. QRM from KLPZ & assumed KRKO/KSRV that I never did get the
opponent. Gather that the Catholics were getting beaten. Amazes me how
these HSFB local announcers can hide the score & even the teams competing
while they babble between themselves over trivial subjects.
1430
1430
KLO UT Ogden 2055 wrap up of Utah State Aggies win over
1430
KYKN OR Salem 2055 HSFB game mixing with KFIG/KLO etal....
1440
KVON CA Napa 2048 local big game between 2 local HSs--Napa & Vintage.
First half almost over with
1460
KION CA Salinas/Santa Cruz 2043 Palma Chieftains up over Alisal
Trojans 20-7 with 2 minutes remaining in the half.
1550
KFRC CA San Francisco 2039 with game between De La Salle of Concord
(always one of the nations top teams) and California High located in one of
those suburban Contra Costa County urban centers. DLS leading 35-3 in the 3rd
quarter. Interestingly this local was severely bothered by a SS station
which was probably KXTO in
1560
KNZR CA Bakersfield with BKB game between
1600
KUBA CA Yuba City 2033 HSFB game at halftime with Yuba City HS ahead 14--0
over mystery opponent.
1700
XEPE MEX Northern Baja 2030 with HSFB game between Oceanside & Ramona
HS.
990
WEIS AL Centre - 11/27/09 2300 -
963
khz -
1360
khz - WDRC Hartford, Conn Nov 7/09 2:00 UTC w/ " The Talk
Of Connecticut " slogan then into news
720
khz - WGN - Chicago,
760
khz - WJR -
1570
khz - CKMW - Winkler,
1540
khz - KXEL -
1550
khz - CBE Windsor, Ontario Nov 7/09 2:13 UTC w/ talk about
industry (stronger than usual signal )
1630
khz - KCJJ -
1610
khz - CJWI -
840
khz - WHAS -
1010
khz - CFRB -
Had
a sleepless stretch early this morning so concentrated on 960-980 on the dial .
Signals on 960 this morning produced 3 new ones and my 8th province , my native
All
logged with SRF-M37V Ultralight w/ Terk Advantage loop
960
khz - CFAC - Calgary,Alberta Nov 11 8:35 UTC w/ The Fan
and ESPN ID's , Calgary mentionNEW Province # 8 ULR Station
# 429
960
khz - WFIR -
960
khz - WTGM -
980
khz - WOFX -
01-Nov-09
// 1900 local // 1400 khz. // WAMC // 1 kw //
Graveyard
mush then a faint mention of WAMC and WAMC-AM. // New. A 226 mile
catch.
08-Nov-09
// 1700 local // 590 khz. // WLES // 0.6 kw day, 0.028 kw night //
08-Nov-09
// 1700 local // 650 khz. // WSRO // 0.25 kw day, 0.009 kw night //
08-Nov-09 // 1700 local // 680 khz. // WPTF // 50 kw // Raleigh, NorthCarolina // Male with "Newstalk 680 WPTF Raleigh, a Curtis Media Group station with the news you need at AM 680 and WPTF.com." // New. A 320 mile catch.
08-Nov-09
// 1802 local // 540 khz. // WGTH // 1 kw day, 0.097 kw night //
08-Nov-09
// 1800 local // 560 khz. // WFRB // 5 kw day, 0.055 kw night //
11/1
0100CDT XECPN COAH Piedras Negras Mexican NA followed by what is apparently the
Coahuila state anthem, La Poderosa slogan and lots of mentions of "Radiorama"
11/1
0400CST and 0500CST Loud "AM 10-50 KCHN Brookshire-Houston" by deep
voiced male and gone. KCHN 1050 and KXYZ 1320 have the same mailing address per
the NRC log 30th ed. so presume this was KXYZ with some sort of automation
"glitch"?
11/1
0600CST a real rarity now-days: instrumental SSB in the mix but nothing IDable
at the end, just a jumble with XECPN dominating.
Listened
to 1320 on the way home this evening and found c&w on top around 1710CST
02NOV09. Then at 1714CST a female announcer appeared giving a full sign-off with
power, ownership info, transmitter location and call-letter ID as KNCB Vivian
LA, followed by "Ladies and Gentlemen, our National Anthem" into
instrumental SSB. Listening to the sign-off
announcement
and SSB really made me nostalgic for the "good ol' days" when stations
signed off--a real pleasant trip down memory lane!
11/5
Noted
KEOR-1120 with dual ID at 0808CST as "KEOR 1120 Sperry,
only
OC. KMOX clearly audible now (1650CST) u/
Did
a bit of searching and found a Wikipedia entry for KJMU-1340 that shows
"owner" as "Birach Broadcasting Cort (leased by Hardman
Broadcasting)".
1120
went to OC at 1710CST 05NOV09, then off right at 1715CST 05NOV09 (FCC SS time
for November in
11/11
I've been monitoring 1120 during drive-time this week and it seems that KEOR is definitely "on" and //1340 KJMU. Hearing dual IDs "Hot 13-40 The Groove and Hot 11-20 KEOR" and "Today's R&B and yesterday's old school" slogan. This evening KEOR went to OC at 1714CST in the middle of a sentence, carrier gone right at 1715CST leaving KMOX and KFAB IBOC fighting. KEOR seems to be about 2-3 seconds "behind" KJMU. For those DXers that can get past KMOX/KFAB IBOC with phasing/nulling, give KEOR a try.
RVC
530 kHz. 2300Z 1 Nov 09 (just now) Clear ID in English, where the YL ann gave
their other callsigns first, finishing with "
11/20
0023Z 1370 WGIV Pineville NC Modern gospel, ads for Charlotte Thanksgiving Day
parade, Family Dollar, local barber college
They
are supposedly 45 W night (Wikipedia says 450 W but FCC says 45) and NDA, but
strong enough 100 miles north of
Think
I just caught another one. 11/21 0700Z 1560 kHz KGOW Bellaire (Houston) TX
w/sports talk and local ads. They seem to be looking for auxiliary nighttime
power of 15 kW but are licensed for 100 W. Uh-huh.
780
WTME Rumfort, ME NOV 2 2235-2300 EST + - playing an eclectic blend of soft rock,
new country and 80s pops with weather forecast for Maine and WEZR-1240 simulcast
announcements. Excellent, way over both WBBM and Venezuelan Radio
600
CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norrís NOV 8 0214 UTC - relaying
their FM feed with IDs such as "Música Viva 96.7 Potencia FM" and
heard with requests from listeners living in QTHs like Pinar del Río. One of
them requested a song by Ricardo Arjona which is one of the most popular Central
American rockers (outside
670
710
760
780
North
American domestic DX
Logged
between 6:00 and 6:15 P. M. Eastern, WIGN, 1550,
The receiver was an RCA Victor 4-Volt pocket portable, Model 3 RH21G.
In
right now 5:19 PM PDT 11/25.
1600 KUBA Yuba City, CA 11/25 4:52 PM PST tune in to Classic Rock, IDs, ads, CBS news at 5:03, local news, back to Classic Rock.
11/22
WBBM
has their IBOC off for once, presumably for Bears coverage so I can DX 790 by
phasing WBBM (13 miles SSE) and sometimes atop 790 is Steven Chwok with the
Ukranian program from CFCW for a new catch for me. I caught one call ID and a
bunch of local ads for area Ukranian events...a Ukranian church in Edmonton etc.
CX
are decent to western
1600
KYBC Cottonwood, AZ local station with Mingus Unified HS
game at 0145. (10/31 * Barton-AZ)
1320
KFNZ Salt Lake City, UT noted 0155 with HS
game
.(10/31 Barton-AZ)
810
KGO San Francisco 1420 local spots and references Bay
Area on car radio well after local S.R. with still strong signals . (10/31
Barton-AZ)
1340
KPGE Page,
640
KFI Los Angeles , CA still hanging in there 1530 ,
newsbreak , local traffic.
didnt
note if "the405" was backed up. 640 KFI Los
Angeles , CA still hanging in there
760
KFMB San Diego , CA with break from "Rick
Roberts" to spots at 1550. 2 hrs. + after local S.R. (11/1 Barton-AZ)
1440
KAZG Scottsdale , AZ 1600 Oldies music
format, jingles. not always heard well locally, disappears after 90 miles when
going to
Heard
from 2:45 p.m. AST to 3:55 p.m. AST on November 1, 2009
was
just doing a casual daytime bandscan, and then I noticed:
1134
KHz Croatia. Hmmm,
1179
KHz Sweden - with news item in English on
1206
KHz France in
1215
KHz classical music, made me suspect
1377
KHz France Info in
1413
Unid - so weak, all I could detect was that a human being was speaking a
language
1431
KHz Radio
1548
KHz Trans World Radio
1550
KHz Algeria parallel to their SW outlet on 6300 KHz. See, SW is usful to
the MW DXer. Also very useful, Herman Boel's EMWG!
1575
KHz UAE Radio Farda
Now,
to try lower down the dial, and with the Icom R-75 tag teaming the R-390A - the
Icom loves to shine on ECSS:
1089
KHz Talksport
1053
KHz Talksport
999
KHz Spain COPE
972
KHz Unid with some jazz
945
KHz France Info
774
KHz Spain Radio Nacional
765
KHz Switzerland
756
KHz Deutschland Funk parallel to 6190 KHz
720
KHz
Oh
yes, I noted the following domestic:
1320
KHz WDER in NH
Heard
at 12:00 a.m. midnight AST, November 3, 2009:
Receiver:
Icom R-75
Antenna:
Wellbrook 1530 loop [located in the basement, on a stand, the centre point of
the loop right at the level of the soil]
1140
CHRB High River AB - playing C&W [sounded rather like Country Gospel], then
into a non ID blathering about being a 'Community Radio Station', then into
Perry F. Rockwood's The People's Gospel Hour.
The
Wellbrook really proved itself here. On the M601C, 1140 was CBI Sydney NS
and background jumble. With the Wellbrook aimed just right, CHRB was
crystal clear for several minutes. Nothing like a B&W antenna switch
for making a dramatic A to B comparison!
I
logged CHRB for the very first time in early October at the Priest Pond
DXpedition. Of course, there I was right by salt water and had the mighty
DGS EWE - plus I was up well before daybreak. To get CHRB at home in a
suburban/small town neighbourhood, with an indoor antenna, is even sweeter!
Heard
on an Icom R75 using a Wellbrook 1530 loop on a stand beside my radio room
chair:
November
12, 2007 12:05 a.m. AST
1130
CKWX Vancouver BC with talk about Rememberance Day services in
1130
WBBR in
I
have caught CKWX before, but it took the mighty DGS EWE close to salt water at
the Priest Pond DXpedition. Tonight's catch was sweet since it was using
an indoor antenna and right in town.
Heard
from 11:55 p.m. AST Nov 27/09 to 12:35 a.m. AST Nov 28/09
Receiver:
Icom R-75 and Palstar R30A tag team
Antenna:
Wellbrook 1530 indoor stand mounted active loop
1070
KNX Los Angeles CA "7:55, KNX traffic on the 5"
960
CFAC Calgary AB "
1290
CFRW Winnipeg MB playing oldies, including lots of Can-con. Didn't hear
any liners or IDs, but confirmed the identical music from their listen live on
their website. [Heard lots of WKBK and WRNI of course while listening]
1190
CFSL Weyburn SK "playing all your country favourites AA 1190"
I
Tried in vain fo 1130 CKWX in
I
then proceeded to pull in CINW, CFRB, CKHJ, CJCB and CBN. All easy, but
those 5 easy catches plus the AB, SK and MB catches above gave me 8/10
Provinces. No AM stations in
960
CFAC Calgary - 0326 EST - out of ESPN network sports scores, into commercial
break with ads from the Calgary area, an Alberta government Web site, then
"Fan 960" ID at 0328 and back to ESPN network. Similar signal level to
Priest Pond DX-pedition catch last month. [Taylor -
As
I type this I'm listening to the Rolling Stones' "It's Only Rock and
Roll" on Absolute Radio, loud, from the NEXT ROOM.
In
addition to the big sig on 1215, there's also 1089, 1521 etc.Big stuff, and a
good night ahead.
Put
up the new Super Loop today, measuring 60 feet long, by 20 feet high at each
end. The loop is oriented to "disfavour" the
Without
phasing hooked up yet, I was curious as to how the antenna would perform for
western
910
CKDQ AB Drumheller -11/11 0410 - fair in fade up over
Latino station with "Red Dirt Road" C&W song, then into
"Q91 country dot com" ID @ 0412 and another country song.
(BT-PE)
920
CKNX ON Wingham - 11/11 0344 - "I Hope You
Dance" segue into another C&W song, and yet another segue with no
ID @ 0348. Then finally female with "You're listening to CKNX, AM 920,
we'll be right back," and promo for morning talk show and 519 area
code phone number given, as well as "am920.ca" web
address. Then back to C&W song. (BT-PE)
960
CFAC AB Calgary - 11/10 2147 - Flames/Canadiens NHL play
by play by Peter Maher, fair to good, with ads for the "Fan 960"
morning drive show and Calgary area car dealers. (BT-PE)
1130
CKWX BC Vancouver - 11/11 0425 - Mostly buried under
WBBR, but up nicely on fades, first with "this day in entertainment
history" piece about TV Announcer Don Pardo, then back up again at 0431
with female news announcer. Finally, at 0433, a traffic report mentioning
1290
CFRW MB Winnipeg - 11/11 0335 - Fair, with April
Wine's "Bad Side of the Moon," then choral "CFRW"
jingle ID and straight into "Yellow River" by Christie @ 0337.
(BT-PE)
BT-PE
Brent Taylor,
Good
day ABDXers! Like Phil VY2PR, I had an excellent morning of TP DX here on
Logs
below:
774
JAPAN JOUB Akita - 13/11 1028 - Man in Japanese introducing the next
segment of an English lesson. // 747 and 693 [Taylor - PE]
918
UNID - 13/11 1112 - Sounded like woman in Chinese to me, but I
read that
972
981
1116
UNID (4BC
1206
1413
JAPAN JOIF
1557
UNID - 13/11 1031 - Man talking in quite obvious Chinese
dialect. Not sure if this is Taiwan WYFR or mainland
Just
a couple here. The usual suspects were in this morning, but one relog from
Alberta and one new call and slogan not heard before worthy of mention.
910
CKDQ AB Drumheller - 15/11 0542 - Good, with
male country song, recorded slogan ID "Q-91" and segue right into next
song. (BT-PE)
920
WNBZ NY Saranac Lake - 15/11 0541 -
excellent on up-fade with full ID at 0545, "A broadcasting legacy with the
morning news, information, and
540
HUNGARYp MR1-Kossuth Rádió Solt 14 NOV 2117 - Good, presumed with man
talking in Eastern European sounding language and mention of
684
693
810
SCOTLAND BBC Radio
837
AZORES RDP Açores Antena 1 Pico da Barrosa 15 NOV 0420 - Two men talking
in Portugese, then played clip of woman speaking, presumed followed by a
discussion on what she said. [Taylor-PE]
882
WALES BBC Wales 14 NOV 2131 - Fair, with male announcer in English at
2131, COPE
909
963
981
1044
1089
ALGERIAp Alger Chaîne 1 Adrar NOV 14 2058 - Over Talksport
1089
1179
SWEDEN Radio Sweden International Sölvesborg NOV 14 2104 - Well over
Spanish sports programming, with woman reading news in presumed Swedish,
followed by nice interval signal style chimes at 2105. [Taylor-PE]
1179
SPAIN SER Radio NOV 14 2104 - Fighting it out under co-channel Swede, with
sports play-by-play action, likely soccer. [Taylor-PE]
1215
KALININGRAD Voice of
1224
BULGARIAp Radio Bulgaria
1539
11/16
Audio
from Korea 972, with female announcer and music at 1028Z Getting audio on Korea 972 and
Japan 774, as well as good western domestics, like KNX 1070 in the clear,
Brandon under WCBS and Calgary under WABC.
Hets
on practically all TP splits.
11/28
I
had CKWX in a deep WBBR fade around 5 a.m. local time this morning, but
not
nearly as good as they can get out here. I found most signals down quite
a
bit from usual in recent weeks. I've been hearing pretty much the same
stations,
just weaker.
1130
WBBR
fade with female announcer and traffic reports for
highways. [BT-PEI]
Conditions
at the end of October were good, but not great (better last night, but a day
late for favorable sunset times!), but I did manage to snag a few new ones.
Times are EDT.
890
KQLX Lisbon, ND 1928 31 Oct - C&W, local ads and weather,
ID "KQLX-FM,
1060
KGFX Pierre, SD 2000 30 Oct - Fluttery signal under nulled KYW
with C&W music, KGFX TOH ID, and into ABC news, gone shortly thereafter
(power/pattern change). New!
1410
WSHY Lafayette, IN 0500 28 Oct - popped up with TOH ID
"this is 95.3 BOB-FM, WBPE Lafayette/Brookston, broadcasting live from Bob
Roman's Subaru studios", over all for a short time. New!
Some
domestic catches from the past week, (all times EST). Good conditions to
the west tonight, though they seem to have taken a downturn in the last couple
of hours. KNX is not mentioned below, but they were heard here tonight
more than an hour before sunset in
720
KDWN NV Las Vegas 11/29 1917 Man and woman talking, rough copy
under semi-nulled WGN, but then I got lucky, and heard "720 KDWN, and
streaming online at kdwn.com".
New! NV #2.
790
WAYY WI Eau Claire 11/29 1712 ESPN stuff, then promo for wayy790.com
website, fair in a jumble of stations.
860
UNID 11/24 2015 IRN
860
KKOW KS Pittsburg 11/27 1749 Farm market report,
"Classic Country 860 AM" ID, good in mix with CJBC.
880
CHQT AB Edmonton 11/29 1821 Traffic report and weather for Edmonton,
with several references to "I-News 880" and the inews880.com
website, good at times over WCBS and CKLQ.
1000
KOMO WA Seattle 11/29 2020 Mostly unreadable under nulled WMVP,
but rising to good peaks every few minutes with "KOMO newstime" time
checks, Seattle traffic, etc.
1080
WOAP MI Owosso 11/28 1843 Daytimer, apparently on late (should
go off at 1715) for testing: snippets of oldies, periods of dead air, and then a
live announcer with "1... 2... 3... (clears throat), The
Big
1080,
1080
WUFO NY Amherst 11/28 1728 Sign-off with full legal ID and
invitation to continue listening on the web. They should've signed off at
1645, though.
1080
KFXX OR Portland 11/22 1938 Heard sports talk under WTIC and
figured probably KRLD, but then caught an ESPN reference, followed by several
"1080 The Fan" IDs. New! OR #2.
1090
WAQE WI Rice
1130
KWKH LA Shreveport 11/29 2245 Earlier it was CKWX under nulled
WBBR, but now KWKH has taken over with C&W and IDs as western conditions
deteriorate.
1560
KBEW MN Blue Earth 11/27 1733 Over a gaggle of stations
with WQEW nulled, with Johnny Cash tune, then PSA and promo for upcoming show
"right here on KBEW", and into a Christmas tune.
Heard
on an
1540
KGLA Gretna, LA 2100 after playing corridos, cumbias and
tropical
music, ToH ID. New!
780
XEMTS [t]
into
Radio Formula type programming. Under WBBM.
Heard
on an Eton E-1 and 150 foot wire with Bailey and Babette the DX cats 12/4:
1390
WMER
1560
KGOW
On
the porch with Brunswick the DX cat and a Zenith Royal 3000-1 Transoceanic and
200 foot wire into a Q-Stick+:
880
KRVN
Heard
on an Eton E-1 with 150 foot wire 11/5:
930
WGAD Rainbow City,
Heard
on a nekkid Digital GE Superadio 10/9:
1160
KSL Salt Lake City, UT 1953 with stopset and 801 a/c phone numbers. Not new but
quite rare. Steady but weak.
960
KROF
970
KHVN Ft. Worth, TX 11/102134
with BoH ID GOS MX. NEW
Heard
on a Sony ICF 2010 265' wire 11/10:
970
WMAY
1020
1110
KTTP Pineville, LA 1717 program moving to KTTP AM getting set up for sign off.
1150
Heard
on a DX-398 and 1971 Joe Worcester Space Magnet 2 antenna 11/14:
1300
WFRX
1480
WPFJ Franklin, NC 1409 with Eastern Kentucky U. football.
1490
KTTR
580
KJMJ Alexandria, LA 1650 Choral MX, Catholic program.
590
KZHS Hot Springs, AR 1659 "The bad ass of sports talk, Fox Sports Radio,
KZHS Hot Springs"
600
KTBB Tyler, TX 1705 with Texas A&M football pregame. Playing OU.
630
WLAP
Heard
on an
1180
KOIL Omaha, NE 0900 after quack medicine informercial ToH ID into CNN News. NEW
1640
KFXY Enid, OK 0918 SNR about Ole Miss and then J. K. Harris ad. Slogan "The
Score." NEW
1660
WOLR Kalamazoo, MI 0923 FSR an ad for Great Lakes Broadcasting Seminar in
920
WGKA Atlanta, GA 0700 stopset with WGKA intelligent talk slogan, then GKA
weather, ToH ID and into Born to Win. NEW
930
WSFZ Jackson, MS 0704 ESPN and ads for
1310
WPLV West Point, GA 2037 www.myfavstation.com
was given, a generic website for a pile of stations. There is a frequency list
at myfavstation.com/article.asp?id=1564054
and this is the only 1310 on the list. This station features lots and lots of
dead air spots. NEW
1370
WGIV
1380
WWMI St. Petersburg, FL 2120 with R. Disney and stopset. NEW
Heard
on an Eton E1 XM and 150 foot wire 11/26/09:
1580
WCGO Evanston, IL 1650 with stopset in SS for businesses in the
540
KMLB Monroe, LA 1653 with stopset and ID then business news into Hannity. New
550
11/28
1490
WDPT Decatur, AL 1020 in a big pile of mess but coming out "WTKI and WDPT
are back on the air!" They have been silent for almost 8 months. NEW.
1300
WTLS Tallassee, AL 1959 with Christmas music and note that it is // 106.9 and
giving a non ToH ID without COL. NEW
11/29
1600
WXVI Montgomery, AL 1738 ad for a preschool in
560
KLVI Beaumont, TX 2200 with slogan News Talk 560 KLVI. NEW
**
Recheck
at 2059, soul music splattering upon 1130, KLEY,
1670,
the talking house in NW Enid I have previously reported and even visited,
finally has turned off its transmitter, or possibly turned it down, long after
the house was sold and occupied; had been routinely audible as far as downtown
Enid, some 5 miles away, but Nov 6 no sign of it and instead DX for a change,
WTDY in Wisconsin; see U S A. Same unit will probably pop up from another
property. I never got around to contacting realtor Winklejohn about it, but to
be well-informed he should have been reading DXLD, or googling comments about
his house (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. We`re into the low sun season when the X-band can open up surprisingly
early to skywave. Nov 6 at 2005 UT, only a sesquihour after local mean noon, on
1620, ID as ``Omaha`s ESPN Radio, 1620 The Zone``; light SAH with something
else, WTAW TX? While closer 1660
Really,
1620 is KOZN, Bellevue NE. Presumably name alludes to ``end zone``, an American
football field term, tho unclear why that is worth naming a station after. What
about all the stations that might want to call themselves ``Ozone`` only to find
this call is taken?
Then
at 2050 UT, another X-band skywaving in on 1670, talk show mentioning Rachel
Maddow, another talk show, discussion of Obama. From this brief bit, unclear
their political stance. 2054 adstring including some aimed at farmers, such as
Accelerated Genetix, then ID and promos as ``
**
**
But
Nov 22 at 2045 UT it was back to its old self, with country music and 2053 ID as
``serving five states … US Country, KGYN 1210``. So I am even more convinced
that in the interim they had been stuck on the direxional night pattern
westward, null eastward, even in the daytime, and/or at much reduced power.
Signal quite steady and I don`t think skywave had kicked in yet, nor on other
frequencies north/eastward, tho it would also have been weaker that way while
direxional-daytime.
BTW, from the middle of No Man`s Land, it would be hard *not* to serve five states (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
Nov
24 at 2030 UT, KGYN-1210 Guymon back up to usual good groundwave signal level,
instead of inaudible. Nov 25 at 1915 seems gone again.
Nov
24 at 2054 UT, KEOR-1120 Sperry is again IDing as `Hot 1340` KJMU Sand Springs;
SAH from KMOX skywave already showing up. It must cut considerably into KEOR
coverage area long before LSS this time of year (Glenn Hauser,
1310kHz
WDOD Chattanooga TN, Fox Sports Radio "Tony Bruno" mentions of "Thirteen-Seventy
and Thirteen Ten[n], Get Your Ball On!". Fair to good, dominant over others
on channel 11:30 PM Eastern - 11:46PM November 30, 2009.
774
JAPAN JOUB NHK2,
I
started monitoring a half hour or so before local dawn. With the Perseus in
waterfall showing all three frequencies, it was easy to see the carriers
and click back and forth as one would become more prominent. It was definitely
better with the flag peaked to the East. I am not sure if it's the signal path
or just the fact that with the antenna pointed West and the rest of the country
in darkness, the weak
909
BOTSWANA Voice of America, Sebele Pikwe 06Nov09 2100 - End of English
transmission and sign/off with "This is the Voice of America, Washington
DC, signing off" and Yankee Doodle, then carrier cut at 2100 - Recorded -
Poor under UK [Black-MA]
Been
trying for a few days for
954
CZECH REPUBLIC Ceský rozhlas 2/6, various 08Nov09 2200 - Woman in Arabic, TOH
pips (2 sgl, 3 dbl, last longer), theme music and man with "Cezky Rozhlas"
ID followed by news in Arabic - Recorded - Fair, verified Sylvain Naud and Chuck
Hutton via RealDX [Black-MA]
The
747
BULGARIA Radio Horizont/Radio Bulgaria, various 10Nov09 2200 -
Interval Signal per IntervalSignals online, then woman in East-European lang.
EMWG shows program in Serbian 2200-2300. - Recorded - Poor, mixing with
1215 KALININGRAD
(RUSSIA) Voice of Russia, Bolshakovo 15Nov09 2100 - Man with
"This is the Voice of Russia World Service at 21 hours UTC we continue our
transmission to Europe in the 41 meter band Short wave and 247 meters medium
wave. Please stand by for news on the hour. For more information on our
broadcasts please visit our web site on the internet at WWW.RUVR.RU.
"Great Gate of Kiev" interval signal and Russian National anthem. -
Good mixing with UK Absolute Radio [Black-MA]
630
NORWAY NRK, Vigra 17Nov09 2100 - US pop music, TOH pips and
man in Norwegian. - Recorded - Fair-Good under WPRO [Black-MA]
963
1053
1440
LUXEMBOURG RTL Radio – Die Grössten Oldies/ China Radio
International/KBS World Radio 17Nov09 2100 - China Radio International
Interval signal (March of the Volunteers), then man in French with "Radio
Chine International". - Recorded - Good under WEEI [Black-MA]
909
BOTSWANA Voice of America, Sebele Pikwe 19Nov09 2100 - End of
EE transmission and sign/off with "This is the Voice of America,
819
EGYPT Egyptian Radio, Batrah 20Nov09 2100 - Mid-east music
past TOH with man announcer in Arabic. At 21:00:27 pips (5 and last higher
pitch) then man with "id'ha'atu jumhuriya misr al'arabbiya min al qahira"
and "Assalaamu Aleikum" but no "Big Ben", then 25 second
military march segment, then man in Arabic. - Recorded - Good, thanks to Jari
Savolainen and Henrik Klemetz via RealDX for ID translation. [Black-MA]
594
SAUDI ARABIA General Arabic Programme, Duba 22Nov09 0300 - TOH
pips (5 and 1 long) then man in Arabic, theme music and man in Arabic with news.
- Recorded - Good [Black-MA]
783
SYRIA Radio of Syrian Arab Republic 1st px/Radio Damascus, Tartus
22Nov09 0300 - Koranic vocals through TOH, then multiple cycles short stringed
Interval Signal, "Guardians of the Homeland" through 0302, verified
via Interval Signals Online. QRM too heavy on 828 for parallel. - Recorded -
Poor-Fair [Black-MA]
594
630
TUNISIA RTT, Tunis-Djedeida 22Nov09 2131 - Woman in Tunesian
with
819
EGYPT Egyptian Radio, Batrah 22Nov09 2100 - Mid-east music
with man announcer in Arabic. "Big Ben" then woman with full Arabic
ID, then 25 second military march segment. - Recorded - Very Good [Black-MA]
917
NIGERIA R Gotel, Yola 22Nov09 2131 - Woman in vernacular
language. - Recorded - Poor, Alessandro Groppazzi via RealDX [Black-MA]
12/5
Assuming
Just
got back from my second "there and back again" overnight trip from
730
WJTO
870
WLVP Gorham ME, announcing //1470 WLAM
930
WGIR Rochester NH, announcing "
1380
WMYF Portsmouth NH, liner of "
1230
WFAS White Plains NY, liner of "
1300
WIMG Ewing NJ with urban gospel. Listed as Spanish, running gospel on
weekends?
1580
WVKO
580
CFRA Ottawa ON, heard this station in the motel in
The
radio in my 2003 Windstar stinks, but still some DX is possible.WPHT-1210
I'll
probably be making a drive to
*SUN
01 NOV
20.18
** WCXZ-AM 740 Harrogate, TN - Poor under CFZM with C&W mx, ID between
records. Listed as seven watts; new catch! TN #60!
20.26
** KWKH-AM 1130 Shreveport, LA - Faded up with ads, wx, jx, C&W mx.
20.59
** WBGX-AM 1570
21.12
** WKTI-AM 1040
21.40
** WBYS-AM 1560
21.29
** WQXY-AM 1560 Hazard, KY - Tentative catch; poor under WQEW with Good Time
Oldies satellite; only station I could find as affiliate. Daytimer running late;
new catch! KY #50!
11/10
Fellow
DXers,
I
am hearing a Radio Rebelde outlet on 530. When I attempted to hear Radio Visión
Cristiana
on
530, instead I hear a Radio Rebelde instead.
Whether
it is real station, I know not. I only hear when it I null out Radio
Encliclopedia-
I
hear a Radio Encliclopedia emission on 1710 almost every night.
Does
anybody know about Radio Rebelde- 530.
11/7
8:00-8:40
central
I
was listening to Neb-Okla ,on KOKC Okla.City ,with my fairly new Tecsun PL
600 ,and I kept hearing Classic country songs underneath ,so I grabbed my 4 foot
loop and went outside ,took a while but at halftime I got a good ID ;
KRHW
'Classic Country' 5000 w day 1600 w night ,Class b From Sikeston Mo.
617 miles distant.
Radio
Locater lists it as Solid Gospel 1520 ,but they are running older Country Hit's.
Even
without the loop I could copy the station but the loop clears it up some.
After
much research online , I finally got the newest version of the Mini Bog
up...........or is it down? he heh
2:15-2:45
central
New
ones ;
KNLV
Ord Ne. 'memories 1060' oldies format with local D J's 650 W Day 23
Night,Class D, 61 miles.
KWYR
Winner S.D. 'Country 1260' Country \news, 146 W Class D 88 miles.
This
one runs out from the radio about 10 feet (in shielded 2 wire cable) to a
transformer ,then into a two wire light cord {twisted together}14/2 i
think?,then goes south for 100' then turns east for another 25' ,terminated in a
project box with a 1300 ohm resistor (to much i know ,but it's what i had )then
a piece of bare 10/2 wire stuck in the ground about 3 feet.
Having
all 125' to the south gave tons of static ,of course it could be that the
termination was only 3 feet from a power pole ? :)
When
i get to the shack ill look for a lower value resistor .
Tonight
could be fun ?
Nov
18 2009 7:40 -10:50 pm Central
1680
KRJO 'Old School 1680' class B 10,000w Monroe La. 775 miles ,listed as Rejoice
1680 but I found an article saying as of Nov. 08 it's been oldies format.
1430
KZQZ 'Krazy Q 1430' oldies format class B St. Louis Mo. 515 miles.
1130
KWKH 'Home of the legends' Class A 50,000w
960
KFLN 'Good times,Real Country' Class D 5000w
Day 91 Night! Baker Montana 387 miles. (I'll log them ,i'm sure it's
right)
Also
i'm getting some music on 530 ,sounds like instrumental elevator tunes
from the 70's ,with a female voice between in Spanish ? signal very weak.
11/22
WVAL-AM
800 "Original Country Radio" Sauk Rapids Minn. 2600 day 850 night,
class B
New
for me! BTW even the pan 2200 struggled with this one.
9:30-10:20
pm central 11/23
I
was messing around on the lower part of med wave tonight and i'm getting a SS on
540 khz it's well underneath KWMT and CBK but now and then it comes up
enough for me to make out that it is SS .
The
only thing i can find is XESURF from Tijuana Mex.? hope it is ,but can
find no web stream ,and no id yet. [XETX ed.]
162
171
183
189
198
207
207 GEMRNANY
Deutschlandfunk, Münich NOV 3 0440 UTC - Tentative with Classical music QRMing
216
225
234
252
252 IRELAND RTE Radio
One, Clarkestown NOV 3 0300 UTC - with a very short national anthem-like piece
of music, time pips, then "RTE Radio 1" ID leading to nx. Fairly good
and over
270
153
162
183
189 ICELAND Rikisútvarpid,
Gufusukalar NOV 8 0640 UTC - Lite rock music mix, then a sudden switch to 19
century classical organ followed by a conversation in Icelandic between a
man and a woman with a very soothing voice, ideal for unwinding ! Around 0840,
while the radio was still open, they were playing jazz music as the person who
turned off the Grundig G5 ultralight told me today ! (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC)
198
216 FRANCE RMC, Romoules
NOV 7 0429 UTC - French sports talk regarding several soccer teams noted in
passing sligthly over what seemed to be the CLB beacon in South Carolina (I
don't understand Morse though). (Chiochiu-Pierrefonds-QC)
252
Freq Call Location
Date Time (UTC)
200 HQX Hartford
WI
11/29/2009
0816
201 RI Rivere du Loop PQ
11/29/2009
0827
203 DMZ Dickson TN
11/29/2009
0832
204 GB Buffalo NY
11/29/2009 0838
204 TWL Monroe NC
11/29/2009 0841
205 XZ Wawa ONT
11/29/2009 0847
205 YRQ Trois Rivieres PQ
11/29/2009 0850
206 AP Alpena MI
11/29/2009 0902
Nov 1
Been a while since I checked Navtex.
This must be a fairly new station. It's Split Radio
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3985
at 0215z, Voice of Croatia, Deanovic site, 100kw ND, in Croatian // to 7375.
English news and weather at 0300z, into music at 0314z.
3945
at 0220z, (tentative) All India Radio,
Hindi
at 0230. At first I assumed this was
but
the music I could make out under the ham QRM sounded more South Asian. Plus the
music continued past 0230 whereas
11/8
The
31m band was more open than recent weekend days, I even logged a target that has
eluded me for a long time,
over
several seconds during which the het changed tone before stabilizing. Arabic 2nd
program underway with
minutes,
no sign of
The
BBC was audible at 1800z on 9505 via
The
BBC World Service can be tough to find during the day if the 19m channels aren't
propagating but today 9410 was putting in a good signal at 1830z via
with
250kw at 280° aimed toward southern
A
station that is expected to soon leave shortwave is RTBF (Radio-Television Belge
de la Communaute Francaise) via
(and
central
(22
Nov 09)
(which
was propagating via long path at this time) but I would guess that R Farda 5810
is via
(22
Nov 09)
(28
Nov 09)
China:
Beibu Bay Radio, 5050 @ 2325z, in Vietnamese, grayline path from Nanning, listed
as only 15kw @ 225° (off the back to NoAm).No sign of WWRB at this time.(29 Nov
09)
Late
Sunday morning (29 Nov 09) the 31 meter band was open to stations across the
northern third of the compass, from
A
sample of some stations that were logged (counter clockwise order).
IBB
2670
USB USCG Group North Bend OR 27Nov09 0606 tuned in to marine weather read by a
man. Heard small craft advisories. Off with ID at 0612. New. (Foltz-CA)
2670
USB USCG Group Port Angeles OR 27Nov09 0615 weak male reading weather but too
weak to really understand much. New. (Foltz-CA)
2670
USB USCG Long Beach-
9-Nov-09
// 0058 UTC // 4845 khz. // Radio Mauretanie // 100 kw //
male
with station ID: "Huna Nouakchott ... Mauritaniya." Continued talking
until
abrupt sign-off at 0103 UTC. // Fair to good signal with some fading.
3560
N. KOREA Korean Central B.S. (p) noted 1215 in Korean,
but constant CW over top of the bx. code hand sent for sure, sloppy and slow.
(10/31 Barton-AZ)
5925
RUSSIA Voice of Russia 1500 YL interviews with
6215
RUSSIA Voice of Russia 1530 still on ; fading. music pgm with
YL narration, ID at TOH and i.s. & close , leaving very threshold level unid
in its place. i dont have this in my refs as a valid frequency, but i heard this
during morning sesson. (10/31 Barton-AZ)
9710
AUSTRALIA Radio Australia on after 1705 with current events
stuff. (10/31 Barton-AZ)
6947
Uncle Harry's Foghorns exceptionally ud here noted at 0400. (11/1 Barton-AZ)
3290
PAPUA NEW GUINEA R. Central (t) talk my OM under Uncle Harry "rasper".
very faint , then long open carrier with only RTTY bursts off and on during
listening 1030-1038. (11/1 Barton-AZ)
7325
CHINA CRI (via Beijing) to SE-Asia with nx and strong at
1500.(11/1 Barton-AZ)
5030
CHINA CPBS (Beijing) with YL in CC and really strong at 1530.
(11/1 Barton-AZ)
9240
USA - (WYFR) and Radio Taiwan via relay 0200-0250 heard
strong o.c. before TOH, then into WYFR ID, Radio Taiwan Intl. heard RTI pgm for
5 minutes, then carrier suddenly off. waited for return of RTI and nothing
until 0230, when Uncle Harry's "Forgorn" began intermittent
BRAAAAAAAAPing . Still going on at this post. (11/14 Barton , AZ)
11092.5/U
St. HELENA ISLAND R.S.H. 0055 mostly a no-show
here, heard British anthem, talk until apparent close at 0100. ( 11/14 and
11/15 Barton-AZ)
4976
UGANDA (t) R. Uganda 0340 on with lively AFR type mx and very
good sigs here. (11/15 Barton-AZ)
4960
SAO TOME Voice of America 0445 Fred Barnes , etal., w/
current events panel discussion show. (11/15 Barton-AZ)
5574/U
San Francisco Center working Delta 1469 and United 2 at 0549. (11/15
Barton-AZ)
2325
AUSTRALIA ABC (NT from Tenant Cr.) 1010 Country music to
call-in show . Fair, but better than the 2310 // (via
"Alice") . (11/15 Barton-AZ)
3250
NORTH KOREA South Pyongyang P.S. (pres.) 1030 with long talk
by unhappy sounding woman in Korean . (11/15 Barton-AZ)
3279.9
ECUADOR La Voz del Napo (p) 1025 w/ long talk by YL.
3912
Voice of the People (p) 1100 long talk by female , Korean.
later covered by some amateur traffic . np, since its really thier band, IMO.
(11/15 , Barton-AZ)
9425
INDIA A.I.R. (Bangalore) 2120 pgm of Indian music
, solid, talk pres .Hindi . (11/15 Barton-AZ)
3365
(t) PAPUA NEW GUINEA Radio Milne 0900. Right at
threshold level, some music heard, talk, just hanging in there. (11/16
Barton-AZ)
6075
RUSSIA R. Rossii 0915 Male in RR speaking over
intermittent background music, echo effect . ID by Male at BoH to talk by YL.
(11/16 Barton-AZ)
6070
CANADA CFRX Toronto , ONT. 0940 breaks
from discussion show to promos for upcoming pgms , "on News/Talk
1010". ( 11/16 Barton-AZ)
4450
NORTH KOREA Korean Nation Democratic Front 1145
with choral music, muddy sound. Went to USB to eliminate CODAR-QRM.
It worked. ( 11/16 Barton-AZ)
3260 PAPUA NEW GUINEA (t) Radio Madang 1050 long talk by YL, faded to just above noise , male after that. too early for Ecuador; must have been PNG. ( 11/16 Barton-AZ)
Outdoor DXing - Pueblo Park
Las Vegas
Monday 26.10.09
9895
DEUTSCHE WELLE at 2245 English, YL ancr. Prgm "Living in Germany." VG
signal.
13790
R. HABANA CUBA at 2250 Spanish, OM ancr. VG signal. // 13760 G signal.
13700
CHINA RADIO INT (via Sackville) at 2255-57* Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd
eastern music and possibly a lang lesson. VG signal.
13615
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 2300 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
11690
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2303, Spanish, Hrd Spanish music. G
signal.
13790
R. HABANA CUBA at 2305 English, OM and YL ancrs with the Nx. Now rcvd as F-G
signal with slight QRM. Co-channel interference was somewhat eliminated when
whip ant was used.
9755
R. CANADA INT at 2310 English, OM ancr. Prgm "The Link." Report on
bilingual Canadian medical university students. G signal.
17795
R. AUSTRALIA at 2320 English, OM ancr. Prgm "Contact Asia." F signal
w/ QRN.
12025
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2324 German, OM ancr. G signal.
12050
R. CATOLICA NACIONAL (del Ecuador) at 2326 Spanish, OM ancr. Mentioned
"Nuevo Tiempos." G signal.
9600
R. HABANA CUBA (?) at 2338 Spanish, OM ancr. Hrd Latin music. G signal. Did not
hear the sta ID and found no listing in AoKi. It's a given that RHC schedules
are confusing at best.
9885
V. OF AMERICA at 2346 Spanish, OM ancr. The "New England Journal of
Medicine" was mentioned. F signal.
Pueblo Park Las Vegas
Sunday 01.11.09
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2254 Arabic, OM ancr. VG signal.
9370
WTJC (USA) at 2300 English, OM ancr. Nx (IRN) and rel programming. VG signal.
6055
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA at 2311 French, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
6240
R. PMR (PRIDNESTROVIE/MOLDOVA) at 2320 English, OM ancr. F signal.
6100
R. CANADA INT at 2324 Spanish, OM ancr. F-G signal.
6085
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 2327 French, OM ancr. F signal w/ QRM fm 6090.
5990
CHINA RADIO INT (via Cuba) at 2333 English, OM talking about H1N1 virus. F-G
signal. // 11790 F signal.
11805
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2337 Indonesian, OM and YL reporting Nx. F
signal.
7295 CHINA RADIO INT (via Mali) at 2345 Chinese, OM ancr. F signal w/ SSB sta interference.
Kaito
KA1103, 20' wind-up antenna.
Sunday 01.11.09
6010
R. HABANA CUBA at 0620 English, YL with "World of Stamps" prgm. Spoke
of United Nations and Australian coastal stamp series. G signal.
9840
V. OF RUSSIA at 0631 English, F signal.
Kaito
KA1103, 32' longwire antenna, indoor.
Pueblo Park Las Vegas
Monday 02.11.09
11740
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 2211 English, OM ancr. VG signal.
11770
R. HABANA CUBA at 2218 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2240 Arabic, OM ancr. G signal.
9660
R. HABANA CUBA (?) at 2242 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
9490
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2250 English, OM ancr talking about online
universities. Prgm "Life in the United States." Followed by world Wx.
F signal.
9370
WTJC (USA) at 2300 English, OM ancr with Nx and rel programming. G signal.
12050
R. CATOLICA NACIONAL (del Ecuador) at 2304 Spanish, OM ancrs. G signal.
12025
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2307 German, YL ancr. G signal.
11885
R. TAIWAN INT (via USA) at 2310 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. F signal.
11805
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2313 Indonesian, YL ancr. F signal.
11665
R. JAPAN at 2318 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. F-G signal.
11550
R. AUSTRALIA at 2320-2328* Indonesian, OM ancr. Hrd jazz music. OM with Nx at
2328 was abruptly cut off. G signal.
7360
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 2333 Portuguese, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd music. F-G
signal.
6055
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA (Spain) at 2341 French, YL ancr. F-G signal.
11790
CHINA RADIO INT (via Cuba) at 2345 English, OM ancr. Talk about living in
harmony w/ our planet. Mention made of Individual Social Responsibility (ISR).
VG signal. // 5990 G signal.
Remarks:
I'm using a reel antenna much like the Kaito AN-03L or Sangean ANT-60. I've only
23" of wire to work with so it's not much. At this particular outdoor
setting I find only marginal improvement over the telescopic. In many cases the
whip provides for a cleaner reception. However, the wind-up results show a
slight increase in signal strenght. I'm still working on perfecting this
antenna's location. Conditions at the park make it difficult to position the
antenna and its height is not high at all. I'm working on finding an alternative
which will involve a much longer antenna. I'd appreciate any suggessions posters
may have. On the positive side, it's great being outdoors in a park setting.
Today's Vegas temperature was a pleasant 83. And my little Kaito gives an
outstanding performance using only the whip.
Pueblo Park Las Vegas
Tuesday 03.11.09
9625
CBC RADIO NORD QUEBEC (Canada) at 2127 Inuktitut, Hrd country music song. P-F
signal.
11910
R. JAPAN at 2145 Japanese, OM ancr. G-VG signal.
11845
R. CANADA INT at 2149 French, OM ancr. F-G signal.
11770
R. HABANA CUBA at 2150 Spanish, OM ancr with music & talk. F-G signal. //
11800 F signal.
11690
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2153-2157* English, OM ancr. Spoke of
climate change and algae as bio fuel. F signal with CW co-channel interference.
13640
R. JAPAN at 2201 English, YL and OM ancrs. Spoke of Japan's "Stand Up Speak
Out" anti-poverty campaign to fight against poverty globally. F-G signal.
11665
R. JAPAN at 2208 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. F signal.
11535
V. OF KOREA at 2211 Chinese, YL and OM ancrs. P signal.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2214 Arabic, OM and YL ancrs. F-G signal.
9660
R. HABANA CUBA at 2217 Spanish, YL ancr. G signal.
17675
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 2226 English, OM ancr with "Dateline Pacific."
F-G signal w/ QRN.
17605
R. JAPAN at 2233 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
15640
WHRI DEUTSCHE WELLE (USA) at 2238 German, OM ancr. F-G signal.
15560
R. AUSTRALIA at 2240 English, OM ancr. Financial Nx, spoke of India and the gold
standard. Prgm "Radio Australia Today." G signal. // 15515 F signal //
15240 P-F signal // 15230 F signal // 13530 P signal.
15280
R. NETHERLANDS (via Northern Mariana Islands) at 2245 Indonesian, Hrd language
lesson. F signal.
13650
R. JAPAN at 2247 Chinese, OM ancr speaking of the Japanese "Stand Up Speak
Out" campaign. F signal w/ echo hrd only during OM's announcements and not
when music played.
13700
CHINA RADIO INT at 2249 Chinese, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd Chinese-Spanish lang
lesson. P-F signal.
Monday 02.11.09
7240
R. AUSTRALIA at 1504 English, OM ancr reporting Nx. Then YL w/ "Asia
Pacific" prgm. F-G signal.
Tuesday 03.11.09
9535
R. JAPAN at 1600 Japanese, OM ancr. G signal. 544 // 9835 F-G signal. 444
7240
R. AUSTRALIA at 1604 English, OM ancr. P signal buried in QRM and QRN.
11545
V. OF KOREA (DPR) at 1611 English, YL with Yeou News. P signal w/ QRM fm 11550.
// 9990 VP signal, hardly audible.
12050
EWTN (WEWN, USA) at 1623 Spanish, OM playing Christian music. G signal. // 11550
F signal.
11710
V. OF KOREA (DPR) at 1643 French, OM with rel programming. G signal.
13740
R. NETHERLANDS (via Madagascar) at 1653-1657* Dutch, OM ancr. F signal.
9570
CHINA RADIO INT at 1702 English, YL reporting Nx. VP signal.
11935
R. CANADA INT at 1715 Russian, OMs speaking. P-F signal.
Wednesday 04.11.09
15560
R. AUSTRALIA at 2229 English, YL and OM ancrs with Nx. F signal w/ QRN.
15610
EWTN (WEWN, USA) at 2233 English, OM ancr. Discussion of the rel faith of Oscar
Wilde. F signal w/ QRN.
13650
R. JAPAN at 2241 Chinese, OM and YL ancrs and music. F signal w/ echo.
13700
CHINA RADIO INT at 2247 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd language lesson. F signal.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2250 Arabic, YL ancr giving sta address. Then
Arab music was hrd. G signal.
17605
R. JAPAN (via Neth. Antilles) at 2255 Spanish, OM ancr. P signal.
9625
CBC RADIO NORD QUEBEC (Canada) at 2256 English, YL ancr speaking to someone fm
the Housing Corporation. P signal.
12025
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2301 German, YL ancr. G signal.
11805
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2303 Indonesian, OM repoting the Nx. F
signal.
11885
R. TAIWAN INT (via USA) at 2305 Spanish, YL ancr with the Nx. F signal.
11665
R. JAPAN (via Taiwan) at 2309 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. F-G signal.
11970
CHINA RADIO INT (via Sackville) at 2326 English, OM ancr. Talk about Taiwan's
Disneyland. G-VG signal.
9765
CHINA RADIO INT at 2331 Cambodian, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd music selection. F
signal.
9620
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA at 2334 Spanish, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
9640
R. CANADA INT at 2336 Spanish, YL ancr. P signal w/ QRN and QRM.
11605
R.FREE ASIA (via Taiwan) at 2348 Vietnamese, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
11780
R. NACIONAL DA AMAZONIA (Brazil) at 2352 Portuguese, OM ancr on vocal steroids
screaming soccer game (or special event) commentary. 'Ecuador' was mentioned, so
I believe it was the World Cup Qualification game between Brazil and Ecuador. G
signal.
Kaito
KA1103, 32' longwire antenna, indoor.
Balcony Listening Post
Friday 06.11.09
7255
V. OF NIGERIA at 2231 Hausa, OM ancr. F signal w/ QRN.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2254 Arabic, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
11665
R. JAPAN at 2300 Japanese, OM ancr. F-G signal.
12025
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2304 German, OM ancr mit den Nx. F signal
w/ QRN.
11780
R. NACIONAL DA AMAZONIA (Brazil) at 2309 Portuguese, OM ancr. Indigenous pop
music was being played. F-G signal.
11885
R. TAIWAN INT (via USA) at 2321 Spanish, YL ancr. P-F signal.
15720
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 2326 English, OM ancr. Topic discussed was honey bees (and
other insects) pollination. At 2330 hrd "Nasty Dan" by Johnny Cash.
F-G signal w/ QRN.
17795
R. AUSTRALIA at 2334 English, OMs talking sports to incl World Cup Qualifiers
news. // 15560 both F-G signal w/ QRN.
15250
R. NACIONAL DE VENEZUELA (via Cuba) at 2346 Spanish, OM ancr giving sta target
areas and freqs. P signal due to noise spurs.
Pueblo Park Las Vegas
Thursday 05.11.09
11550
EWTN (WEWN, USA) at 2048 Spanish, YL ancr. G-VG signal.
11565
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 2052 German, OM ancr. G signal.
11655
R. NETHERLANDS (via Madagascar) at 2054-2057* English, YL ancr reporting Nx. F
signal.
11910
R. JAPAN at 2106 Japanese, OM ancr. G signal.
12025
UNIDENTIFIED at 2110 Music only. Hrd serene instrumental music (guitar &
strings) on a tape loop. Keep rechecking until 2149 at which time the signal was
gone. Continued monitoring to TOH but did not hear any sta ID. Could this have
been HCJB testing via Sackville? G signal.
12040
R. PORTUGAL INT at 2111 Portuguese, OM announcing soccer match. G signal.
12095
BBC (via Ascension Island) at 2115 English, OM ancr. Talk of African massacres.
P signal.
7255
V. OF NIGERIA at 2128 English, YL (with French accent) reporting Nx. The
"Taliban" was mentioned. At 2130 hrd OM broadcasting in French. F
signal with CW co-channel interference.
15365
R. CANADA INT at 2140 French, YL and OM ancrs. F signal.
16630
R. AUSTRALIA at 2146 English, YL and OM ancrs reporting Nx. F-G signal.
13640
R. JAPAN at 2152 Japanese, OM ancr. F-G signal.
11845
R. CANADA INT at 2154-2159* French, OM ancr. F signal.
15315
R. NETHERLANDS (via Neth. Antilles) at 2210 Dutch, YL & OM ancrs. F signal
w/ QRM.
Weekend DXing
Saturday 07.11.09
17595
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA at 1456 Spanish, Music followed by YL reporting Nx. F
signal.
15530
R. MARTI (USA) at 1514 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs con noticias. F signal.
15560
R. PORTUGAL INT at 1518 Portuguese, Hrd pop music. F signal.
12095
BBC (UK) at 1524 English, OM announcing sports event. F signal.
7240
R. AUSTRALIA at 1528 English, Hrd country music. F signal.
6890
KNLS ANCHOR POINT (Alaska, USA) at 1546 Russian, YL ancr. P-F signal.
9905
R. FREE ASIA (via Palau) at 1553 Mandarin, OM and YL ancrs. F signal (no QRN).
9535
R. JAPAN at 1611 Japenese, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd was some sort of variety prgm to
incl snippets of music and audience laughter. F-G signal.
9640
R. PORTUGAL INT at 2131 Portuguese, OMs announcing soccer game. G-VG signal.
Sunday 08.11.09
6145
R. JAPAN at 0721 Japanese, OM ancrs. Hrd pop music. F-G signal.
6185
R. NACIONAL DA AMAZONIA (Brazil) at 0731 Portuguese, OM ancr with music
programming. P-F signal (no QRN).
5965
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA (via Costa Rica) at 0744 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. F-G
signal.
9505
BBC (via Singapore) at 1541 Bengali, OM ancr. F signal.
13740
CHINA RADIO INT at 1547 English, YL with report on Chinese foods. F signal. //
7325 P-F signal.
9335
V. of Korea (DPR) at 1551 English, YL speaking of Korean independence. F signal
15560
R. PORTUGAL INT at 1607 Portuguese, OM and YL ancrs announcing soccer game. G
signal.
9535
R. JAPAN at 1628 Japanese, OM ancr. G signal.
9905
R. FREE ASIA (via Palau) at 1643 Mandarin, OM ancr. Hrd indigenous music. F-G
signal. // 9355 P signal // 9455 P signal.
15580
V. OF AMERICA at 1729 English, OM ancr. Hrd "Today in History" segment
of program. Followed by YL ancr with "Press Conference USA." P-F
signal.
Pueblo Park Las Vegas
Sunday 08.11.09
9520
R. FREE EUROPE/R. LIBERTY (via Thailand) at 2018 Russian, OM ancr. Hrd jazz
piano music. F-G signal.
13650
R. CANADA INT at 2024 Arabic, YL ancr. She was speaking to an OM who mentioned
"fusion music" and "Latin jazz." At 2030 a fusion selection,
w/ Arabic influence, was played. F-G signal.
11945
R. FREE ASIA (Northern Mariana Islands) at 2036 Chinese, OM and YL ancrs. F
signal w/ QRN)
12040
R. PORTUGAL INT at 2039 Portuguese, OMs announcing soccer game. G-VG signal.
11865
R. CANADA INT at 2041 Arabic, YL and OM ancrs. F-G signal.
15580
V. OF AMERICA at 2100 English, OM ancr with Nx on Afghanistan and the Taliban.
VG signal.
15365
R. CANADA INT at 2103 French, OM ancr. F-G signal.
11910
R. JAPAN at 2123 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. F signal.
7255
V. OF NIGERIA at 2130 French, YL ancr. P-F signal.
Wednesday 11.11.09
9420
V. OF GREECE at 0024 Greek, Hrd indigenous music. P-F signal w/ QRN.
9640
R. CANADA INT at 0029 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
9455
R. PORTUGAL INT at 0032 Portuguese, Hrd popular music being played. G signal.
7580
R. CAIRO at 0034 Arabic, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
9775
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Ascension Island) at 0038 German, OM ancr. G signal.
7325
R. AUSTRIA at 0048 German, OM ancr. F-G signal.
11735
V. of Korea (DPR) at 0100, YL ancr with slanted Nx. F signal w/ QRN.
11780
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA at 0119 Sefardi, YL ancr. F signal.
6175
CHINA NATIONAL RADIO (CNR-1) at 0949 Chinese, OM and YL ancrs. F signal w/ QRN.
9845
CHINA NATIONAL RADIO (CNR-1) at 1001 Chinese, OM ancr. F signal w/ QRN.
12065
R. NETHERLANDS (via Northern Mariana Islands) at 1004 English, YL reporting the
Nx. P signal w/ QRN.
11720
V. OF AMERICA (via Northern Mariana Islands) at 1006 Chinese, YL and OM ancrs. F
signal w/ QRN.
6120
R. JAPAN (via Sackville) at 1016 Spanish, YL and OM ancrs. F signal.
6040
CHINA RADIO INT at 1020 English, OM ancr talking about opera in China. P signal
w/ QRN.
7325
CHINA RADIO INT at 1541 English, OM ancr. Report on classical music in Shanghai
w/ emphasis on German composers. Followed by story on "Singles Day"
(Nov 11) in China. F signal.
12025
HCJB QUITO (via Sackville) at 2129-2145* Arabic, OM ancr. Hrd pop vocal. G
signal.
Friday 13.11.09
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2220 Arabic, YL ancr speaking to OM. Mentioned
were Nicaragua and the Sandinistas. G-VG signal.
9660
R. HABANA CUBA at 2224 Spanish, OM ancr. G signal.
11635
R. TAIWAN INT at 2229 Chinese, YL ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
9915
BBC (via Ascension Island) at 0232 English, YL ancr with "Business
Weekly" prgm. F signal w/ QRN.
9490
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2238 English, OM ancr reporting Nx. F signal.
15720
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 2310 English, OM ancr with the Wx. P signal w/ QRN.
15250
R. NACIONAL DE VENEZUELA (via Cuba) at 2346 Spanish, YL ancr. Talk about Russia
and Georgia. F-G signal w/ hum in bg. // 13680 F signal.
11970
CHINA RADIO INT at 2330 English, YL and OM ancrs with "Letterbox" as
part of "Listeners' Garden." Followed by report on "Singles
Day," a Chinese pop culture holiday celebrated on November 11th. F-G
signal.
11990
CHINA RADIO INT at 2342 Cambodian, OM ancr. Hrd pop music. F signal.
Sunday 15.11.09
9700
R. BULGARIA at 0215, Hrd music. Bc was difficult to copy. P signal w/ QRN.
6140
R. HABANA CUBA at 0218 Spanish, YL ancr. F signal w/ QRN.
11780
R. NACIONAL DA AMAZONIA (BRAZIL) at 0220 Portuguese, Hrd pop music. F signal.
9680
R. TAIWAN INT at 0228 English, YL ancr. Spoke about prolonging death which is
often painful to patient. Prgm "Women Making Waves." G signal. // 5950
P-F signal w/ QRN.
6010
R. SWEDEN at 0235 English, YL ancr reporting Nx. P signal w/ QRN. Difficult to
copy.
9780
HCJB (Quito, Ecuador) at 0242 German, YL ancr. F-G signal.
7335
V. OF RUSSIA (via French Guiana) at 0252 Spanish, YL ancr. F-G signal.
Monday 16.11.09
9710
CHINA RADIO INT at 2007 Arabic, OM and YL ancrs. G signal.
11655
R. NETHERLANDS (via Madagascar) at 2027 English, OM with rpt on the third North
Sea Underwater Film Festival in Amsterdam. F signal.
11660
R. AUSTRALIA at 2037 English, OM speaking about Germany's 20th anniversary of
the fall of the Berlin Wall. P-F signal.
15190
R. AFRICA (Equatorial Guinea) at 2042 English, OM ancr. VP signal, inaudible.
Signal improved somewhat at 2130 UT.
11865
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via UK) at 2051-2059* Russian, OM ancr. G signal.
13640
R. JAPAN at 2104 Japanese, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
11690
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2117 English, YL ancr. Report of land
grab in Madagascar. G signal with CW interference.
15580
V. OF AMERICA at 2121 English, Hrd popular music mix. F signal.
11845
R. CANADA INT at 2129 French, YL playing pop music. F signal.
Tuesday 17.11.09
11700
R. BULGARIA at 1431 Bulgarian, YL ancr. F signal.
13740
CHINA RADIO INT at (via Sackville) 1437 English, OM ancr. Spoke of Consumer
Price Index (CPI) and price of crude oil. G signal.
13820
R. MARTI (USA) at 1444 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. F signal.
7240
R. AUSTRALIA at 1447 English, OM speaking to female author. F-G signal w/ QRM.
7220
CHINA RADIO INT at 1452 Nepali, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
9615
R. Cultura at 1504 Portuguese, OM ancr. P-F signal.
9605
BBC (via Singapore) at 0512 Chinese, YL ancr with classical music in bg. F
signal busy with QRM.
9610
R. CANADA INT at 1515 Russian, OM ancr. F signal w/ QRM.
9590
R. AUSTRALIA at 1517 English, YL ancr. "Asia Pacific" prgm. P-F
signal.
5875
BBC (via Thailand) at 1533 English, OM reporting Nx. F signal. // 9740 F signal.
9905
R. FREE ASIA (via Palau) at 1539 Chinese, YL with music in bg. G signal w/ QRM.
9665
V. OF TURKEY at 1545 Arabic, Hrd continuous music. F signal w/ QRN.
9635
R. CANADA INT (via China) at 1551-1557* English, OM ancr with "The
Link" prgm. Followed by Ian Jones and "Sports Wrap." P-F signal
11565
FAMILY RADIO (WYFR, USA) at 1613 English, Hrd continuous music. G signal. //
17760 F signal.
9610
R. CANADA INT at 1639 English, YL speaking to doctor about prostate cancer in
Canada. F signal w/ QRN.
9535
R. JAPAN at 1644-1700* Japanese, YL ancr. Instrumental "Raindrops Keep
Falling On My Head" hrd in bg. G signal.
Balcony Listening Post
Tuesday 17.11.09
11665
R. JAPAN at 2300 Japanese, OM ancr reporting Nx. G signal.
11690
R. HABANA CUBA at 2303 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs. Latin music. F signal.
11780
R. NACIONAL DA AMAZONIA (BRAZIL) at 2305 Portuguese, Hrd pop music. F signal.
11805
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2308 Indonesian, YL ancr. P-F signal w/ QRN.
13790
R. HABANA CUBA at 2319 English, YL ancr reporting Nx. Spoke of Cuba bestowing
the Medal of Friendship on José Alfredo Pineda Dubón, a prominent Salvadorian
revolutionary.
15250
R. NACIONAL DE VENEZUELA AT 2329 Spanish, YL ancr. Hrd Latin music. At 2334 ancr,
in Eng, read letters from listeners. G signal w/ hum. // 13680 F-G signal (no
hum).
11885
R.TAIWAN INT at 2343 Spanish, OM ancr. P signal.
11800
R. HABANA CUBA at 2346 Spanish, OM ancr. Hrd Latin music. P-F signal w/ QRN.
Thursday 19.11.09
5025
R. REBELDE (Habana, Cuba) at 0752 Spanish, Hrd Latin pop music. F signal w/ QRN.
6060
R. HABANA CUBA at 0754 English, OM ancr with "Mailbag" prgm. F signal.
9580
R. AUSTRALIA at 0805 English, YL ancr with Nx about fires in NSW. F-G signal. //
9590 F signal.
9765
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 0830 English, OM ancr reporting Nx. F-G signal.
6075
DEUTSCHE WELLE (GERMANY) at 0854 German, Hrd pop music. F signal.
6060
R. HABANA CUBA at 0849 English, OM ancr with "music for social
change." Prgm featured the music of John Lennon. Hrd the Plastic Ono Band's
"Give Peace A Chance." F-G signal.
9825
R. JAPAN at 0906 English, YL ancr reporting the Nx. P signal w/ pulsing noise in
bg.
6175
CHINA NATIONAL RADIO (CNR-1) at 0916 Chinese, OM ancr. F signal.
9885
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Neth. Antilles) at 0919 German, OM ancr. F signal.
7295
V. OF RUSSIA at 1321 Russian, OM and YL ancrs. F-G signal w/ minor QRM.
7255
CHINA RADIO INT at 1326 Russian, OM ancr. G signal.
9580
R. AUSTRALIA at 1347 English, Ivan Lloyd hosting "Jazz Notes," a prgm
of Australian jazz. G signal. // 9590 F signal.
11705
R. JAPAN at *1400 English, YL ancr reporting Nx. F-G signal.
7300
CHINA RADIO INT at 1405 English, OM with the Nx. F-G signal.
9450
CHINA RADIO INT at 1411 Russian, YL ancr. VG signal.
9870
All India Radio at 1416 Hindi, YL ancr. Hrd indigenous pop music. F signal.
6145
R. TAIWAN INT at 1422 Chinese, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd pop music. F signal.
7240
R. AUSTRALIA at 1453 English, YL ancr. Talk about adoption. F signal.
5875
BBC (via Thailand) at 1457 English, YL ancr. F signal.
6140
V. OF AMERICA (via Thailand) at 1502 English, YL ancr reporting the Nx. F-G
signal w/ QRM.
7325
CHINA RADIO INT at 1506 English, OM ancr reporting Nx. F-G signal.
5965
CHINA RADIO INT at 1511 Russian, YL ancr. F-G signal.
5980
CHINA RADIO INT at 1513 Japanese, YL ancr. P-F signal w/ QRN.
7260
V. OF RUSSIA at 1517 English, YL ancr with the Nx. P-F signal.
9740
BBC (via Singapore) at 1528 English, YL and OM ancrs. Report on events of 1989 -
the Romanian Revolution. The news followed. G signal. // 5845 F signal.
9665
V. OF TURKEY at 1535 Arabic, Hrd continuous music. G signal.
9760
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 1548 English, OM ancr. Prgm "The Making
of a Nation." Installment - Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Siege of
Vicksburg. G signal.
Outdoor DXing - Pueblo Park
Las Vegas
Friday 20.11.09
13630
R. AUSTRALIA at 2147 English, YL ancr on subject of climate change and the
Mekong River. G signal.
13640
R. JAPAN at 2151 Japanese, YL and OM ancrs. English bc began at 2200. G signal.
13745
R. FREE ASIA (Northern Mariana Islands) at 2155 Chinese, OM ancr. G signal.
13790
R. HABANA CUBA at 2188 Spanish, YL and OM ancrs. G-VG signal.
17675
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 2205 English, YL ancr. Discussion on architecture. G
signal w/ QRM.
11905
V. OF AMERICA at 2211 Creole, OM ancr. F signal.
11910
R. JAPAN at 2214 Japanese, YL and OM ancrs. F-G signal.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2220 Arabic, OM and YL ancrs. G-VG signal.
7450
R. MAKEDONIAS (Greece) at 2225, Hrd indigenous music. F signal.
11635
R. TAIWAN INT at 2231 Chinese, YL ancr. F signal.
7345
CHINA NATIONAL RADIO (CNR-1) at 2336 Chinese, YL ancr. Hrd indigenous music. F
signal w/ QRN.
15515
R. AUSTRALIA at 2245 English, YL ancr with discussion on eco-tourism in
Australia. F-G signal. // 15240 G signal // 15230 F signal w/ QRN // 15560 G
signal // 13630 F signal.
11970
CHINA RADIO INT at 2302 English, OM ancr reporting Nx. VG signal. // 5990 (via
Cuba) F signal.
11805
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 2305 Indonesian, OM and YL ancrs reporting
Nx. G signal.
11690
R. HABANA CUBA at 2307 Spanish, OM ancr playing Latin music. G signal.
15720
R. NEW ZEALAND INT at 2314 English, OM ancr with report on food waste. F-G
signal.
7415
WBCQ (USA) at 2330 English, OM ancr. "Hawkeye" Danny Haller hosting
"Bluegrass State of Mind" prgm. Included music by Flatt & Scruggs,
L.C. Smith, The Churchmen and Hawkeye's band Driving Blind. G signal.
Weekend DXing
Saturday 21.11.09
9760
V. OF AMERICA (via Philippines) at 1514 Special English, OM and YL ancrs.
"Teaching English" prgm. // 6140 (via Thailand) F signals.
7260
V. OF RUSSIA at 1519 English, YL ancr speaking of US President John F. Kennedy's
assassination. F signal w/ QRM.
7305
V. OF RUSSIA at 1538 Hindi, OM ancr. F signal.
5965
CHINA RADIO INT at 1545 Russian, OM and YL ancrs with language lesson. F signal.
9665
V. OF TURKEY at 1548 Arabic, Hrd continuous music. P-F signal.
9605
BBC (via Singapore) at 1550 Tamil, OM ancr. P signal w/ QRN.
9335
V. OF KOREA (DPR) at 1553-1557* English, Hrd music followed by OM ancr giving
sta ID, times and freqs. F signal. // 11710 P-F signal.
9535
R. JAPAN at 1644 Japanese, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd music and variety programming. G
signal.
9710
R. AUSTRALIA at 1651 English, YL ancr speaking to male guest. Bc was difficult
to copy. P signal.
Balcony Listening Post
Sunday 22.11.09
15580
V. OF AMERICA at 2146 English, Mary Morningstar hosting "Country Hits
USA." Hrd Toby Keith's "Crying For Me." G signal w/ QRN.
11690
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2150 English, YL and OM ancrs. Talk of
European Union. F-G signal with CW in bg.
15515
R. AUSTRALIA at 2154 English, OM ancr with soccer scores. P signal w/ QRN.
12075
R. FREE ASIA at 2157-2200* Korean, OM ancr giving sta web address. Music, then
s/off. F signal.
13640
R. JAPAN at 2201 English, YL ancr. "World Interactive" prgm. Read
listeners' letters. Hrd song "Perfect Day" written by Lou Reed.
G signal.
11940
R. EXTERIOR DE ESPANA at 2205 Spanish, OM and YL ancrs over Queen's "We
Will Rock You" in bg. G signal.
9895
R. NETHERLANDS (via Rwanda) at 2212 Arabic, OM ancr. Hrd pop music. G-VG signal.
9980
WWCR (USA) at 2220 English, OM ancr (Kurt Wilson) with the "Armchair
Survivor" prgm. G-VG signal.
15315
R. NETHERLANDS (via Neth. Antilles) at 2223-2227* Dutch, OM ancr. F-G signal.
12040
R. PORTUGAL INT at 2234 Portuguese, OM ancr. G signal.
12025
DEUTSCHE WELLE GERMANY (via Rwanda) at 2237 German, OM ancr. F-G signal.
11550
R. AUSTRALIA at 2242 Indonesian, OM and YL ancrs. Hrd language lesson. F signal
w/ QRN.
9925
Radio Farda Iranawila, Sri Lanka 11/5 2023 with man singing.
Fair signal some fading.
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 1 at 1419: good on 10210, poor on 9000, null on 8400 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA [non]. 13670 with news in French at 1402 Nov 1, with severe QRM from CRI
English via Canada on 13675. Strangely, the news in French was all chinoiserie
too: yes, it`s CRI via Albania, 240 degrees to W Africa, ChiComs vs ChiComs!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN
**
EAST TURKISTAN. 9460 in English, Nov 1 at 1421, sounds like CRI style: yes, //
Canadian relay 15230 but a few sex behind it. 9460 suffers from AIR blobhash
(see INDIA), and also has a wavering het on it. All this QRM serves the jamming
SOBs from China right, and we can only hope it is even more bothersome in their
zone-41 target area, i.e. S Asia, on this 212 degree aim from Urumqi site, now
under control of ChiCom imperialism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA [and non]. DCJC jamming against nothing (except innocent victim R. Tirana),
on 6110, Nov 1 at 0000-0100, then jamming level quickly fades audiblizing
Albania for the final semihour of its Albanian broadcast to NAm.
9810,
checking for R. República vs jamming: Nov 1 at 0030, RR was axually atop the
jamming, less so around 0100, and just jamming heard at 0130. The jamming was
still audible at 0355, so that may mean RR is on too until 0400. See also U S A
for R. Martí/VOA mixup
RHC
15360 still on at 1502 Nov 1, but just as I intuned, modulation cut, and open
carrier for a bit until off, ditto 15120. Then tuned to 11760 to reconfirm
Esperanto scheduled Sundays only at 1500 --- no, it is still in Spanish, but
1504 cut into Esperanto opening giving usual sked of a semi-dozen transmissions
contrary to the imaginary RHC website sked. By really being on the 11760
transmitter, Esperanto also gets the bonus of 24 spurs, altho none were
announced! These were radiating as usual at earlier 1346 check, in the 11.2-12.3
MHz range, but did not take time to measure them yet again.
At
1505 as expected nothing showing on the listed Aló, Presidente channels 13750
or 12010. Still nothing at 1730 on 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010. Regular RHC was
going on 13760, 11800 distorted, 11760+spurs, 11690, presumably also on
inaudible 6000, 5965 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CYPRUS. OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Nov 1 at 1343 upon one of its
favorite haunts spanning 16 MHz, i.e. approx. 15990-16015 kHz, where it can do
no harm against broadcasters --- Unlike some stronger pulsing of same type
13637-13662 at 1413, bad for the gospel station on 13645; see U S A [non]. If
still on at 1530-1600 will also degrade R. Tirana 13640 Mon-Sat in English to
NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA. AIR Aligarh blob has *not* been fixed, as supposedly promised for the
B-09. A week into season on Nov 1 at 1326 we find its extreme wideband
distortion centered about 9465 and extending 9455-9470, so at least not
bothering Australia today on 9475; but instead CRI on 9460 later; see EAST
TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDONESIA. VOI English missing from both 9524.9 and 9525.9 at 1326 November 1,
as occasionally happens. Hope this does not mean they have switched
unpredictably to another of their always-announced frequencies, 11785, since
that has the usual blockage; see LAOS [non]. No VOI heard either during the 1400
hour in Malay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
LAOS [non]. Checking Sunday Nov 1 for Hmong Lao Radio, via WHRI, expected to be
one hour later now to stay at the same Central Time in Hminnesota: 11785 already
on at 1333 with gospel music. At 1400, HLR indeed starting, so that should also
apply to Saturdays now: 14-15 Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
NEW ZEALAND. 6170, RNZI at 1318 Nov 1, with het presumably from DZRM on 6170.4
which had not been audible for several days. Could not hear any Chlash from
Khabarovsk, so not sure if that is still on 6170, or just too far north to
propagate today (however, Pet/Kam motorboat was audible on 6075 tho underneath
Thailand, BBC Indonesian, during this semihour).
As
I tuned in, RNZI had interesting report about how the ``New Methodists`` were
favored by the police force, supposedly helping reduce crime rate, at the
expense of the out-of-favor (old) Methodists, thus an unfortunate church/state
problem; trouble is, the island concerned was never mentioned even as the item
wrapped up; Tonga?? It`s one of the Maori-titled shows tho presented in
NZEnglish, and on to next topic, the Marshall Islands parliament (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. In October, Brother Scare was appearing again on WWCR-2
13845 part-time, after the transition from Pastor Scott at 1400. Now with
standard time the switch is apparently at 1500, as at 1401 Nov 1 I was still
hearing PMS // Anguilla 11775, but at 1507 it was BS on 13845. Need to monitor
WWCR`s announcement just before 1500 to see if the times are still wrong. But
the new Nov 1 WWCR program schedule finally shows B.S. at 1500-1900 daily on #2,
all other times Dr Gene Scott (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SPAIN [and non]. I was listening to RHC`s En Contacto DX program on 15360,
Sunday Nov 1 at 1346 as they coincidentally mentioned Antonio Buitrago and their
counterpart on REE, Amigos de la Onda Corta, which reminded me that Sunday 1330
is the new time for the latter, and immediately found it running on 15170 via
CR, a phrase ahead on 17595 direct; and furthermore on 15125 via CR, too close
to bigger signal from RHC again, on 15120! Too bad those two DX programs now
conflict not only in frequency but in time! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
SUDAN [non]. 15650, Nov 1 at 1501 found heavy clash with subaudible het between
Greece and Miraya FM via IRRS Milan via IPAR Slovakia; one of them had a
timesignal 74 seconds late, and I`m sure it wasn`t Greece (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. 11710, Nov 1 at 0525 something in African language, bothered by
RHC spur circa 11708 --- fundamental 11760 not very strong at this hour, but
enough to carry with it at least the closer spurs circa 52 kHz away. 0530 VOA
sign-off. It`s Hausa via Botswana daily at 0500-0530.
On
the first day of standard time, one expects some SNAFUs at VOA, which would
never happen if it operated strictly on the worldwide standard of UT, regardless
of local clock changes.
The
morning VOA Spanish service has been running an hour later when Wáshington is
off DST, even tho that is irrelevant for Latin América. So at 1325 Nov 1 I find
that 9885 is still on the air in Spanish, with PSA about US immigration policy,
promos for several programs including `` Las Noticias Como Son`` [is that a play
on words, alluding to singing the news?] --- wait a minute! Those are Radio Martí
shows, not VOA, and sure enough, this frequency is carrying RM instead of usual
VOA.
The
feeds are mixed up, a sure way to encourage even more unjustified jamming
against VOA! However, the DentroCubans had not caught this one yet. Radio Martí
IDs around 1330 and shortly into their periodismo.com
show. At 1332 check, 9885 was // real Martí frequency 13820. At 1359 the RM QSY
announcement ``en algunos minutos`` barely got out ``11930`` before it was cut
off and then to Voice of America sign-off in English, something which is never
supposed to happen on RM channels.
The
letter-by-letter VOA language schedule still shows on Nov 1:
Spanish
1130-1200
UTC 9885 13715 15590
1200-1300
UTC 9885 13715 15590
2300-0000
UTC 5890 5940 9885
So
I check the other two morning frequencies which were supposed to quit at 1300:
13715 is also still on, really carrying VOA Spanish, and at 1329 there is a VOA
sign-off announcement in English. But it keeps right on going, ``Music Country``
with songs in English, presented in Spanish. Both it and // 15590 still going at
1343-1344, presumably really closing at 1400. So does the morning show really
start at 1230 now? We won`t be surprised if the evening broadcast also shifts to
0000-0100, yanking listeners around who have no use for DST (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. The past two Saturday nights (early UT Suns) WWCR was caught on 4755
instead of 3215 at various times between 0300 and 0600, but on Nov 1 stayed on
3215 at 0400 for IRN/USA network `news`, and a few other chex until 0600.
WWCR
has put up their new frequency schedule as of November 1, and we are pleased to
see that unlike the last few winters, WWCR-1 is switching from 15825 to 7465 at
2100 UT instead of 2200, which means the Friday airing of WORLD OF RADIO, now
one UT hour later at 2130v, will once again be on 7465, with much better
coverage of North America and beyond.
Another
novelty is new 3230 at 2300-0200, since WWRB beat them to 3215 at 2100-0200 and
WWCR did not want to stay on 7465 past 2300 in the B-season. Here`s the full
sked in CST and UT at http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html
WWCR
B09 Schedule November 1, 2009 to March 7,2010
Transmitter
#1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees
12:00
AM-04:00 AM 0600-1000 3.215 MHz
04:00
AM-06:00 AM 1000-1200 9.985 MHz
06:00
AM-03:00 PM 1200-2100 15.825 MHz
03:00
PM-05:00 PM 2100-2300 7.465 MHz
05:00
PM-08:00 PM 2300-0200 3.230 MHz
08:00
PM-12:00 AM 0200-0600 3.215 MHz
Transmitter
#2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees
12:00
AM-07:00 AM 0600-1300 5.935 MHz
07:00
AM-07:00 PM 1300-0100 13.845 MHz
07:00
PM-12:00 AM 0100-0600 5.935 MHz
Transmitter
#3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees
12:00
AM-06:00 AM 0600-1200 5.070 MHz
06:00
AM-11:00 AM 1200-1700 7.490 MHz
11:00
AM-05:00 PM 1700-2300 12.160 MHz
05:00
PM-12:00 AM 2300-0600 5.070 MHz
Transmitter
#4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees
12:00
AM-06:00 AM 0600-1200 5.890 MHz
06:00
AM-08:00 PM 1200-0200 9.980 MHz
08:00
PM-12:00 AM 0200-0600 5.890 MHz
WWCR`s
program schedule has also been updated promptly as of Nov 1, not accessible in
text, but pdf:
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. On several chex starting at 0000 UT Nov 1, nothing audible on 9955, no
WRMI, no jamming, and was wondering if they were on, or did the MUF just drop
out? But at 0532, WRMI had fair signal, no jamming audible, in Jeff White`s
filler of eclectic world music. Wire Light (so-called Cheetah Radio) was
supposed to run on the NW antenna at 0200-0400 UT while DST was still in effect.
Perhaps the music fill was just to occupy the extra hour being gained by clock
change, which officially did not happen in the ET zone until 0600 UT, 2 am EDT
becoming 1 am EST. Afterwards, R. Praga relay is supposed to occupy 0530-0600 UT
daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [non]. 13645, Nov 1 1412, preacher in American with Boston address, heavy
OTH radar QRM, hymn, prayer, then introducing Pastor Rockwood on the Book of
Ruth. 13645 at 1400-1445 is on the MB/DTK schedule as carrying brokered shows
from Panamerican Broadcasting in Cupertino CA, 85 degrees via Nauen, GERMANY and
doubling power from 125 to 250 kW for whatever follows Sundays only at 1430
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [non]. 17610, Nov 1 at 1449 with HOA music, seemingly secular, and so
repetitive it could be a loop, but is it obviously Adventist if you are Afar?
What does PWBR `2009` say? AWR via Austria to E Africa --- and it is still
correct per B-09 skeds, 1430-1500 daily! 1452 segué to similar music but
different rhythm and key, 1455 announcement and off before 1459 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ALBANIA [and non]. R. Tirana monitoring Nov 1 into UT Nov 2: At 2258, just
caught the last few notes of anthem as 7435 was closing daily Albanian
sesquihour to Europe and North America. Very good S9+20 signal, but poor audio
on worn-out (?) recording. Open carrier remained on past 2300.
Next
broadcast is 0000-0130 in Albanian to NAm on 7425; and on 6110, which has been
getting jammed by Cuba. At 2355, Tirana`s open carrier already on 6110 and in
the clear, but at 2358 jamming appeared and ramped up steadily to full force as
Tirana started modulating at 0000 Nov 2. But tonight, Albania`s signal is strong
enough to fight the jamming, at least a more than equal mix, if not overcoming
it completely. That`s gratifying, but RT should not have to cope with any
jamming whatsoever on what would otherwise be a free frequency, and as we found
most nights in previous week, the jamming was totally on top.
6110
was quite a bit stronger than // 7425 which also had adjacents squeezing both
sides, Ascension and Sri Lanka and/or Armenia listed. RT was playing music until
abrupt stop at 0028, then a talk feature, apparently a hookup with the Radio
Kosova studio in Pristina for an historical discussion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BIAFRA [non]. Correxion to my Oct 30-31 report. The Friday date for VOBI via
WHRI 15665 should have been Oct 30, not 29 (gh)
**
BRAZIL. 11815, distorted Brazilian music, song sounded like a round, Nov 1 at
2339; good signal and blessedly free of the plus-one RHC spur from 11760 during
this hour circa 11812 since that transmitter was on 19m: see CUBA. Identity of
11815 quickly confirmed as Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia, by // 4985 now,
which I was already hearing around 2300 as the best SAm signal on 60m, no
contest compared to 5045, 4885, tho 5045 is usually best later at night (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake November 1 at 2306: poor with heavy flutter on 10210, just
barely audible on 9000; at 2307 poor on 8400, but not // 10210, so must be the
6-minute displaced playback. Same frequencies we hear just about every morning
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA [and non]. Observations in the 2253-0039 period Nov 1-2, a time when I am
not monitoring SW every day: At 2253, 17660 with S9+18 signal but distorted
during music from RHC Spanish service, // 13790 synchronized, and an echo apart
from 13760, 11800. The other RHC 16m frequency at this time, 17705 was just as
strong, in French.
While
tracking RHC and DCJC, also tried 9810 for R. República, but this time could
hear nothing but jamming at several chex Nov 1 at 2302 and during the following
sesquihour, unlike the night before.
RHC`s
English hour at 2300 existed Nov 1 on 13790; at 2319 bitching about the
blockade; at 2334 ``Ed Newman`` with mailbag letter from Tom Power in Canada.
``Tom Power`` sounds even more pseudonymous.
Now
we know where they put the transmitter with two dozen spurs during the bihour it
is not on 11760: previously heard at 22-23 spurring from 11670 with Venezuela
relay; and at 23-24 it is on 15250, making the 19mb band a mess instead of 25.
At 2320 Nov 1 found RNV with a statement in Spanish about Honduras, outroed in
English. Fundamental is S9+20 but with hum and somewhat undermodulated.
Analog-tuning
across 19m, we heard the same modulation and a whine every 50+ kHz, further out
just the whine, same pattern as on 25m. 15250 was a smidgin on the hi side, but
ignoring that, spur minus 1 we put at 15198.9 with plenty of audio, i.e. 51.1
kHz displacement, so the others are multiples of that, detectable down eight
steps to 14841.2 and nine steps up to 15709.9. Along the way, more mushy QRM
blobs centered on 14994.5 and 15556.6 bothered WWVH which was IDing on 15000 at
2329 and Radio Australia in English on 15560.
And
what became of the other frequency for RNV at 23-24, 13680? No sign of it any
time during the hour. This is the only RNV daily hour which had been running on
two frequencies. But then, the 17 spurs from 15250, potentially 24, more than
compensate for it. I am amazed that apparently no one else has noticed or
reported these, which must have been happening since at least October 10 when we
first found all the spurs surrounding 11760.
At
2340 I went looking for RHC`s Esperanto service, supposedly scheduled during
this semihour on Sundays only. Instead heard uncharacteristically soft choral
music and eventually Spanish announcements in // on 5965, 6120, 9600, 11690.
Nothing audible on 9640, 6000 or any other RHC frequency I could think of.
Contrary
to the wacky transmission schedule presented in Spanish, this one presented in
Esperanto shows the frekvencoj for 2330-2400 as 5965, 6120 and 9600:
http://www.radiohc.cu/esperanto/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
Esperanto
did make an appearance earlier today at 1504 on 11760.
R.
Prague, English on 5930 at 2341 Nov 1, bothered by clix, probably spur from
heavy Cuban jamming on 5890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More on
Cuban jamming: see ALBANIA; USA: VOA, WRMI
**
EGYPT. R. Cairo, English to WNAm on 7580 with good signal Sunday Nov 1 at 2350,
YL concluding ``Life in Egypt`` segment with credits; modulation level good at
the moment but audio muffled on mike, good on music. 2352 next show ``Questions
& Answers``, starting with birdwatching, a pastime which is ``in its
infancy`` in Egypt, but a good location on migratory routes between Europe and
Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GUAM. Without even trying, confirmed at least one AWR Wavescan time is unchanged
via KSDA, UT Sunday 2230 on 15320. As I bandscanned across the channel Nov 1 at
2252, there was the JSWC YL`s voice recognizable despite the flutter and echoes
on poor signal here. On the assumption that the same English broadcasts on
Sundays as previously still carry that program, those have been included in my
DX/SWL/Media programs reference with frequencies changed for B-09 at http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WRMI
**
GUINEA. 7125, RTG or Radio Conakry, Nov 1 at 2309 in hilife music, fair signal
with fading, and good modulation. I have not had any luck hearing it from
nominal sign-on 0600; the nominal sign-off is 2400. Brian Alexander had heard
them go off abruptly at 2020* this day, but they certainly came back; a holdout
in the mostly evacuated hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA [and non]. The AIR Aligarh blob which has been infesting the mornings
circa nominal 9470 is also audible in the evenings here. It`s the National
Channel`s all-night service scheduled straight through from 1318 to 0040 UT. Nov
1 at 2304 there was the mushy blob covering 9460-9470 and mixing with Spanish
preaching at center 9465: YFR via GUIANA FRENCH at 22-24, 500 kW, 215 degrees,
tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NETHERLANDS [non]. 11655, RNW in Spanish, announcing frequencies at odd time of
2336 UT Sunday Nov 1, then mailbag/DX show Cartas Arroba RN with Jaime Báguena.
Fair signal but QRM under sounded like Spe-cial Eng-lish. Guess what: both of
these are IBB signals, so they should know about each other: RN via Greenville,
250 kW, 160 degrees at 2300-2357; and VOA via Thailand, 250 kW, 30 degrees
USward at 2330-2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
POLAND [non]. 11675, via AUSTRIA, Nov 1 at 1336 Slawek Szefs giving an ID as
``Polish Radio Warsaw`` so I guess that is still kosher, if not official; or
should it be with a comma, ``Polish Radio, Warsaw``? Anyhow, next ID I heard
from someone else at 1353 more conventionally said ``Polish Radio External
Service``. Ditto, comma question. Just don`t call them ``Radio Polonia``! This
is harder for Spanish speakers to avoid, since Polonia is the name of the
country in that language. Look for and please confirm their Multimedia show
which should now appear Thursdays around 1323-1345, also on // 11860 eastward
from UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PRIDNESTROVYE. Radio PMR is on winter frequency of 6240, where I expected it to
be since that`s the site for Voice of Russia to NAm after 2300 on same, ex-9665
in A-09. Nov 1 at 2311 intermittent tones in typical Russian site tune-up style,
2315 ``This is Tiráspol``, actually pronounced Radio DMR this time, and into
usual stilted propaganda in English. At 2354 tuneby even more stilted in German,
and presumably in stilted French betwixt. This 2315-2400 service is M-F in local
terms, i.e. UT Sunday-Thursday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. From what happened in the morning of Nov 1, VOA Spanish appearing
contrary to its own initial B-09 schedule, I was expecting more contradixions in
the evening, and was not to be disappointed.
It
had been at 2300-2400 UT on 9885, 5940 and 5890. At 2255, there was an open
carrier on 9885, but off at 2257.
At
2300, 5890 had no trace of VOA, just DentroCuban jamming, which still expected
VOA to be there. No VOA or jamming on the third frequency, 5940. 9885 remained
unoccupied. Obviously the Spanish hour was not going to show up between 23 and
24 as it had through October.
So
I start looking again before 2400. At 2355, 5890 is still heavily jammed, but
the open carrier is back on 9885. At 0000 Nov 2, instead of VOA Spanish
programming we get fill music in // on those two, still nothing on 5940. The
jamming level on 5890 is decreasing, or at least the VOA non-programming is
achieving an S/N advantage at the outset.
Final
check at 0037 found no signal on 5890, so Greenville apparently concluded by
then that they were wasting watts with fill music. Perhaps from Monday there
will axually be some Spanish programming, if Wáshington and Greenville can get
coördinated.
Meanwhile,
Dragan Lekic in Serbia found an updated VOA Spanish schedule, effective Nov 1,
all Greenville, with azimuths, confirming the one-hour-later timeshifts for
convenience only of Washingtonians:
SPANISH
0000-0100
5890/174 9885/183
1230-1300
9885/205 13715/176 15590/164 [MO-FR]
1300-1400
9885/205 13715/176 15590/164
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Not only was AWR Wavescan on KSDA [see GUAM] but at the same time on
originating station WRMI, Sunday Nov 1 at 2256, altho I can`t be sure it was the
same edition, wrapup giving P-address in Indianapolis, voice sounded like Allen
Graham, but this was no DX Partyline(?). Fair signal on 9955, no jamming.
Next
check a few minutes later at 2300, nothing but jamming and no WRMI audible. For
once the DentroCuban Jamming Command is coördinated on when to start jamming as
the 2300 program is Voz de la Coordinadora. WRMI has a few other exile programs
until 0300 UT Monday, but mostly not and partly in English. Are they all getting
jammed, anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. WBCQ is making numerous programming changes this week on 7415, basically
to clear everything off the Saturday schedule except two hours of Brother Scare,
UT Sundays. Among the moveouts is Marion`s Attic, which had been at 2100 UT
Saturdays, but we heard the Oct 31 edition announce that it is moving to 5 pm
EST Sundays in November. We thought this might mean already Nov 1, but no, as
Allan Weiner Worldwide was still occupying the 22-23 UT hour as heard upwrapping
at 2258. Signal getting fluttery already, after dark in Monticello.
Shortly
afterward, Area 51 on 5110v was more solid with an oldtime radio SF drama at
2313. Per this week`s sked at http://www.worldmicroscope.com/?p=1423
it was X Minus One from 8/11/1955, ``Almost Human`` episode. It seems that Area
51 now starts at 2300 on Sat & Sun, 0100 UT Tue-Sat, commencing on UT
Fridays with WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. WWCR-1 confirmed on new 3230, from *2300 Nov 1, quick change
from 7465 which announced the QSY a minute before. It seems we aren`t hearing
much steel drumming any more for the transitions. VG signal on both, while WWRB
is already on 3215, the WWCR frequency it previously usurped, but WWCR still
gets to use that after 0200.
WWCR
on 3230 may be bad news for Radio El Sol de los Andes, Juliaca, Perú, still
listed in Aoki, and in WRTH 2009 as irregular with 1 kW. But I haven`t seen any
reports of it for ages. WRTH gives callsign as OBX72, which can`t be correct as
the last character is always a letter, probably should be Z. It doesn`t even
appear in the archive of http://www.mcdxt.it/LASWLOGS.html
tho a 3230v Brazilian does, from over five years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. NMN, USCG Chesapeake VA, heard in SSB // on 12778 and 13089 at 2331 Nov 1 with robot feigning human male voice in frequency announcement already in progress, about a change in schedule I wish I could have copied from the outset. Mentioned other NM- callsigns. 13089, heard first, was quite distorted, and I wondered if it were a spur. Halfway between the two would be 12933.5, but did not check that in time before they went off with `end` (English for ``final``) at 2333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CANADA. 7310 at 1326 Nov 2 with Spanish report about dogs, 1329 listing numerous
phone numbers, presumably toll-free, from countries all over the Americas to
contact Radio Canada Immigration, including a 1-877 one from the USA. Show
titled ``Canadá y las Américas``. Ex-7325, which all during A-09 collided
heavily with CRI in Japanese, but nobody cared (because nobody was listening?).
The Spanish hour has just shifted from 1205-1304 to 1305-1404 UT (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 2: at 1352, nothing on 10210 or 9000, but good on 8400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. 9730, Nov 2 at 1353, CRI English hour upwrapping by playing the old CRI
IS, and multilingual IDs, so I quickly retuned to much stronger Sackville relay
on 15230, but it was over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA [and non]. CNR1 with operatic singing Nov 2 at 1433 on 7525 and 7535, the
latter jamming something co-channel in Chinese, and CNR1 also // on 7385, 7365
and 7295. 7535 is BBC Chinese via Thailand, while 7525 is VOA Chinese via
Thailand, both of which must not be allowed to enter China unscathed. More of
the same on 9785 and 9825 at 1438, both of which are successfully blocking VOA
Chinese via Tinang. Why does IBB take this lying down? Even kindly informing the
ChiCom of all the latest schedule changes thru HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command doesn`t want you to hear WORLD OF RADIO.
Please direct complaints to Arnie Coro. Another time on WRMI 9955 ruined by
heavy two-tone pulse jamming, altho not a wall of noise, UT Monday Nov 2 at 0620
during the new shifted time of 0600, which I had first confirmed by webcast as
airing then. R. Prague relay, however, now shifted to 1500 was loud and clear of
jamming Nov 2 at 1513.
A
week after the official start of B-09, and the dust is starting to settle, after
refusing to coördinate in advance with any other station at HFCC, as an outlaw
broadcaster, RHC makes its own changes. UT Nov 2 found on several new
frequencies: 6110, 6150, 11730, 13770. Our preliminary monitoring shows:
At
0633 on new 6150 in Spanish // 6140 and the as usual distorted 6120. Separate
music in English service heard on 6060 only. At first I was not hearing RHC
English on 6010; nor Spanish on 6000, just WYFR English. At 0643, RHC English
became audible on 6010, much weaker than before, mixing with Mexico/Colombia.
6150
had a somewhat stronger signal than // 6140, but lower modulation. Nothing to or
from the western hemisphere was scheduled on 6150 between 0400 and 0800, but if
RHC is on before 0400 it will collide with Tirana in English, and after 0800
with KNLS Alaska in English.
As
for programming, the Spanish service was concluding El Mundo de la Filatelia at
0635, starting En Contacto, the DX program at 0636, which is another new
additional time for it. Among other things they played a clip of the old Radio
Taíno with English ID, ``tourist radio``; that occupied MW 1180 for a while a
number of years ago to block Radio Martí. I wonder why they did not keep it
going? Apparently it is long gone, not found on any MW frequency in the WRTH
2009, or survives it on FM?
There
could be more changes in the 11-13 period which I am yet to be awake to monitor.
Are any of these showing yet on the RHC website schedule in Spanish? Of course
not!
Resumed
monitoring at 1320 and found RHC on another new one, 6110, ending ``Figuras en
la Historia`` segment about cinema during Despertar con Cuba. This is now the
only RHC signal audible on 49m, no longer 5965 and 6000. At 1400 a weak het on
6110. Schedules indicate it is more or less clear at this time, but will be
unwelcome in México [q.v.] as QRM to nearby Mérida 6105v.
At
1332 I find another new RHC frequency, 11730. This only adds to the mess on 25m
provided by the 11760 transmitter with its two dozen spurs ranging from 11190 to
12330, approximately.
11760
is also putting out closer noise-only spurs circa 11745 and 11775, the latter
bothering Anguilla. At 1352, Poland via Austria 11675 is also getting some hash,
likely from the widespread crap as Habana is infesting the 25m band with CubaRM.
I
keep bandscanning, now up to 22m, and what new frequency will I find from RHC
there? 13770 ex-13760. 13680, 13780 and 13880 are still on as usual. As are on
19m the 15360 and 15120 pair, the latter much stronger here. At 1341 I confirm
that 13770 and 13780 are an echo apart from different sites, just as 13760 and
13780 had been.
I
make sure to monitor the frequency announcement at 1400: with some hesitation,
Tony has a modified script to read, in the usual jumbled order: 15120, 15360,
13760(?), 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 11800, 6110. I am not positive he was
still saying 13760 instead of 13770, as 60 and 70 are very hard to tell apart in
Spanish. But they did get in the other new ones, 11730 and 6110.
Preparing
for the next frequency announcement at 1500, which should be different for the
midday broadcast, at 1455 I found several of the earlier channels already off
the air: 11760, 13680, 13780, 15120, while these were still running: 6110,
11730, 11800, 13770, 15360.
At
1500 on 13770, these were announced: 13770(? or 13760), 11730, 11780, 11800,
6110. BUT 11760 is now back on, and nothing on 11780 now or later. I suspect
11780 was a typo for the usual 11690! Where there was open carrier vs RTTY at
1501, and which by 1515 was in RHC programming // 11730, 11760, 11800 and
weakening 6110. Meanwhile, RNV relay was still on 11680, opening in English at
1501.
At
1501, since 11760 was back on, so were its spurs, and I measured the closest
blob pairs centered about 11708.4 and 11811.6 = plus and minus 51.6 kHz, with
the usual panoply covering a MHz or more.
The
shift from 13760 to 13770 means the leapfrog mixing product with CRI relay on
13740 at 14-16 also shifts, from 13720 to 13710, and now at 1517 I hear it
mixing with Qur`an from Saudi Arabia! BSKSA is at least on top but hardly
deserves such QubaRM.
Weak
noise jamming around 11490, Nov 2 at 1347, perhaps a spur from the main 25m
channel being jammed, 11930. To be a leapfrog, there would have to be a fulcrum
on 11710, close to the RHC spur on 11708v.
As
I finish compiling this report which took the rest of the morning and then some,
at 1825 I check RHC frequencies again, now on the DX-398 portable in the yard.
6110 is just barely audible, no more 6000 or 5965; also 11690 but with RTTY and
heavy co-channel from DW in Hausa via Rwanda at 295 degrees USward. 11760
relatively weak and even more so its spurs but 11708v still detectable; 11800
fading in and out; and 13770. They have been running five intentional
frequencies at midday, so there they are now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
INDIA [and non]. The AIR Aligarh blob shifted a bit higher on Nov 2 than Nov 1:
at 1327 it covered 9475-9485, worst on 9480. At 1510 its edge was bothering VOA
on 9485, 49 degrees via Sri Lanka, trying to announce something about a contest,
apparently during Border Crossings show. At 1356 I was hearing the same kind and
pitch of noise circa 9540, a further spur? Or DRM from BBC Woofferton as
scheduled 10-15 on 9540-9545-9550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDONESIA. VOI missing for the second day from 9525v/9526v, no carrier even at
1328 check Nov 2. Could it be on alternate 11785v? At 1402 all I could hear was
Chinese, fluttery with tones, evidently cues in language lesson from CRI via
East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 5985 via Japan, still well-heard here with no
jamming or Myanmar audible, Monday Nov 2 at 1403 in Japanese; 1414 YL singing
sad solo, presumably a lament for the lost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
MADAGASCAR [non]. Did anyone try and/or have any luck hearing Radio Mada this
weekend, 1530-1600 Sat/Sun on 15670 via Pridnestrovye? I have yet to see any
firm reports of its full broadcasts successfully aired since it started a few
weeks ago. All I have been able to hear is a trace of a signal on 15670 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MEXICO [and non]. It looks like XEPPM has only one half-hour at most clear of
co-channel QRM from Vatican or Brasília on 6185. Nov 2 at 0651 I found RNA
already on the air at 4:51 am BDT, // 11780 and blocking Radio Educación on
6185. That had been in the clear around 0630, after Vatican closed at 0620.
Brasil is also on before XEPPM signs on at 0000, and one or the other remains on
6185 all evening. Brasil may fade out sometime before XEPPM sign-off 1200, but I
am not listening then to find out if there is anything else in the way.
XEQM,
Mérida, makes its presence known by hetting 6105 at 1430 Nov 2 as Chinese
inserted a VOA jingle. That`s Tinang 332 degrees during this hour, and of course
despite CNR1 jamming. Now XEQM is abutted on 6110 by CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 9600.4
**
MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, RTVM keeps to its off-frequency, Arabic music at 1441
Nov 2 causing het with something weaker on 15340, i.e. HCJB Australia which is
now on there 1145-1530, 307 degrees from Kununurra in many S Asian languages,
some of them quite obscure, but gotta evangelize `em! And capped by English
during the final semisesquihour. By 1507 Morocco had switched to 15345 (why not
15346?) with more music but not enough signal to copy HCJB even tho de-hetted.
Why
does RTVM do that? It certainly is to no one`s advantage to run one kHz off.
Perhaps the transmitter tuning program originally had a typo in it and no one
noticed or cared, like happened at REE Cariari, Costa Rica for months and months
too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PORTUGAL. DRM on 13805-13810-13815, Nov 2 at 1345. These frequencies are
scheduled for extensive DRM in B-09, 08-14 the DW/BBC service in English via
Sines, and available 16-24 for R. Bulgaria, but not on their current schedule;
with Brother Scare analog from Nauen in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
ROMANIA. 15235 in Arabic, Nov 2 at 1508, VG signal kept talking about Romania,
so I suspect it is RRI, as who else would be so obsessed with that country? Yes,
scheduled 15-16, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti to W Africa. If only RRI would put
on some English in our mornings; aimed anywhere we would probably get it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SPAIN [and non]. REE Emisión Sefarad, 15385, Monday Nov 2 at 1440 with ladino
song, and more nice music to sign-off announcement at 1453. The YL STILL thinx
she is on 15325, just as wrong as during the entire A-09 season, in sked
announcement for 1425, also giving 11780 to SAm Tuesdays at 0115, and 9690 to
NAm Tuesdays at 0415. Besides getting the frequencies right, she really ought to
make clear to her non-DX audience, that by ``Tuesday`` she really means Monday
nights in the target areas. Contact sefarad @ rtve.es
Meanwhile,
something else is really now on 15325, Nov 2 at 1442, seems S Asian language,
but heavy splatter from Martí 15330. Yes, it is YFR in Oriya via Wertachtal
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Tuning in 9885 at 1330 Monday Nov 2, heard ``Welcome to the Voice of
America in Spanish``, then Buenos Días América, news magazine unlike music
fill heard on Sunday; 8:30 am timecheck, and // 13715, 15590. This has moved one
UT hour later due to Wáshington going off DST, even tho that is irrelevant in
Latin America.
Altho
it was pretending to sign on, VOA Spanish on weekdays axually starts on same
triad at 1230, including the Andean service. BTW, there have been vague reports
that the administration is having VOA beef up its Andean broadcasts to counter
hostile left-leaning governments` increasing media control. Will that mean more
on SW??
No
more VOA on 17585 Greenville/Botswana 14-15 now that B-09 is in effect, but did
find weakish VOA English Nov 2 at 1445 on 17650 mentioning stox in Asia, //
17715. These are São Tomé and Botswana respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Fortunately Cuba`s 1500 frequency announcement came a few sex later than
WWCR`s switch from DGS to Brother Scare announcement on 13845, so I was able to
tell Nov 2 that they were still playing the out of date recording with the wrong
times for him, Mon-Sat 7 am-1 pm = 12-18 UT when on CDT, and Sundays 7 am-noon =
12-17 UT, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 9265, no signal from WINB at 1435 Nov 2, tho it was on the air before
1400 with convicted child-sex-molesting evangelist Tony Alámo. On Sunday Nov 1,
however, I had noticed WINB was still on 9265 past 1400 and it is now
FCC-registered as available until 1500. It depends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. RHC is running new 6110 all day and into the night, replacing 5965. Nov 2
it was still on the air at 2330 and at next check 0005 Nov 3, atop DentroCuban
jamming! Which had been occupying 6110 needlessly at 0000-0100 as we have been
observing. Now it`s Cuban Commies vs Cuban Commies! Tho the appearance of RHC
should encourage the DCJC to finally get off this frequency.
RHC
usage of 6110 appears to be in retaliation for our complaints about the jamming,
on behalf of R. Tirana, which expected this to be clear in B-09 for their
Albanian sesquihour to NAm at 0000. Now R. Tirana is still in the mix, causing a
fast SAH with RHC at fadeups. By 0058 I was not hearing any jamming but RHC on
top of Tirana.
So
RHC is in Spanish on 49m, 6060 strongest, then 6110, then distorted 6120. What
about 6140? Carrier there did not come on until 0101, and at next check 0106 was
fitfully modulating Spanish, audio fading in, then cutting out and in --- but at
0107 suddenly switched to English feed // 6000, but not much better. So not only
after 0500, but after 0100 is RHC terribly indecisive about which language to
put on 6140. Still in English at 0250, 0350 and 0452 chex. By 0250, RHC Spanish
on 6110 had weakened somewhat and could still hear some bubble jamming. 6120 had
a SAH of a few Hz from Iran and some of its modulation under.
At
0515, 6110 had switched to 6150 for RHC in Spanish, avoiding NHK via Canada
which has been on 6110 for sesquiyears at 0500-0530. RHC remained // in Spanish
on 6120, and possibly 6000, too weak to tell, while English was now on 6060 and
6140, not any more on 6010.
Backing
up before 2400 on Nov 2, the DCJC was busy on 5890, jamming nothing at 2320
check, but still jamming after VOA Spanish began at 0000 Nov 3. At the start of
the hour, the jamming was on top here, but at 0058 VOA was atop as it ended a
USG editorial, 0100 Yankee Doodle sign-off. Meanwhile, nothing audible on the
only scheduled //, 9885 --- off the air or simply not propagating from
Greenville? No jamming heard there either.
A
quick check of 19m, Nov 2 at 2321 confirmed that the RNV relay from Cuba on
15250 was still accompanied by those detestable spurblobs every 51 kHz or so, at
least down to 14842 and also upward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EGYPT. R. Cairo, 6270 at 0101 Nov 3, dead air into news theme, low modulation.
Then checked 7580 and found same news theme, but not //. 6270 is in Spanish at
this hour, instead of planned 7540, and 7580 in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ROMANIA. 5910, Nov 3 at 0106 poor signal in Romanian, so what could it be but
RRI? Yes, now scheduled from Tiganeshti to ENAm at 01-03, 307 degrees;
appropriately right next door to Bulgaria on 5900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SERBIA [non]. The transmitter operator at Bijeljina failed to follow orders and
change from 9675 to 6190 for the N American service at 0100-0200 from the start
of B-09, Dragan Lekic found out as he notified management of the discrepancy we
have been reporting, which they said would be rectified starting UT Nov 3. And
so it was: at 0058 carrier on 6190, and the IRS IS, 0100 opening in Serbian,
good signal on 6190, nothing on 9675. English no doubt followed at 0130 (Glenn
Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The timeshifted WORLD OF RADIO airing now at 2300 UT Mondays on WBCQ 7415 has escaped adjacent-channel interference, good and clear Nov 2 at 2320 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ALBANIA. 13640, R. Tirana, English to NAm, Nov 3 at 1532 going from transmission
schedule to news, good signal and absolutely no interference on channel or from
the sides. CODAR (``ocean wave radar``) swishing pulses did not extend above
13575 at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ASCENSION. BBCWS on 17640 now provides quite good reception in NAm, contrary to
their best efforts to cut us off from SW. Nov 3 at 1435 during Newshour, it was
good enough to audiblize a bit of continuous hum in the background, attributable
to the generators? I wonder if the sound will change once windpower is up and
running, if not dashed by the financial crisis on the island, and what about the
danger to protected birds? Now scheduled 1300-1700, 250 kW at 114 degrees for
C&SAf, but excluding South Africa and Magagascar, where I bet this can be
heard too anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
AUSTRIA [non]. I did not get around to checking ORF`s Canada relay on B-09
schedule until Nov 3, and guess what? It`s gone. Tho planned for 16-17 on 13675,
nothing there at 1615 check, nor on possible alternative 13775. I was wanting to
confirm whether the token 3-minute local news in English from 0708 UT M-F on
6155 was still being played back in the middle of the German external
broadcasts, in this case circa 1613. Maybe it still is, along with French, if
the direct transmissions to Americas still exist, 0000-0100 on 7325, 0100-0130
on 9840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 3 at 1341: zero on 8400, poor on 9000, fair on 10210 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA [and non]. RHC check Nov 3 at 0713 finds them still on the air: Spanish on
6150, 6140, 6120, and weak 6000. English on 6060; nothing on 6010. Evidently
6010 after 0500 has been abandoned, good news so the Colombians and Mexicans can
get back to fighting over it. Would those awake after 0800 check whether RHC is
still on 6150 then, blocking KNLS English?
The
RHC 11760 spurblob generator was especially efficient Nov 3 at 1352 when the
whine could be detected down to 11140.8. Usually the lowest one I can hear is
11192.4. These calculations based on measuring the closest pair this date at
1350 on 11708.4 and 11811.6, or 51.6 kHz displaced. So 11140.8 is the twelfth
one down.
If
there were one more it would be on 11089.2, perilously close to the Radio Saint
Helena Day frequency 11092.5 coming up the evening of Saturday Nov 14. If the
spur displacement were to vary to 51.346 kHz, it would land right on RSH.
However, by sheer luck, the 2200-2400 portion of the broadcast should be safe,
as during those two hours only, RHC puts the offending transmitter on 11670,
then 15250 for Venezuela relays.
I
monitored the RHC frequency announcements again Nov 3 at 1401 and 1500, both
given by some announcer other than Tony. Once again they had been updated, but
not accurately.
At
1401 on 13780 he said: 15120, 15360, 13760(definitely), 13680, 13780, 11760,
11730, 11800, 6110, i.e. to be used during the following hour. Yet 13760 has
been replaced by 13770, as reconfirmed at 1359 altho it was weak getting splash
from much stronger RHC 13780, Cuban Commies vs Cuban Commies! And also bothered
from 13765 by Vatican IS.
At
1500 he said: 13770, 11730, 11780, 11800, 6110. Once again, 11780 is obviously a
typo for the real channel, 11690. How long before that gets corrected? Altho
11760 was off at the moment for an antenna change, it and its two dozen spurs
came right back on at 1501, despite having been omitted from the announcement!
Into program featuring trovas.
Meanwhile,
the website schedule still has not been updated to show any such changes as of
Nov 3 at 1700, even tho current date autodisplays:
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
Furthermore,
both 11760 and new 11730 have co-channel interference. At 1350 I was hearing
something under 11760 in English: it`s CRI via Kunming at 135 degrees, 1200-1400
to Australia, ChiComs vs CubComs!
And
at 1459, 11730 had something under with a timesignal at 1500, and worse mixing
at 1530, in Arabic. That`s RRI to the Mideast, 140 degrees from Galbeni at 15-16
daily; but the timesignal may have come from BBC Russian via Rampisham, also at
15-16 M-F on 11730: those two must make quite a collision in Europe/ME, quite
aside from having Habana in addition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CYPRUS. 10940-10965, OTH radar, Nov 3 at 1348, presumed from here, bothering
some kind of ute carrier around 10945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA [and non]. AIR Aligarh blob shifted upwards from position the previous two
days: Nov 3 at 1343 centred approximately 9497, covering 9490-9505, so RA clear
on 9475, but something getting creamed on 9500: scheduled as CVC via Tashkent at
11-14 in, heh heh, Hindi! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDONESIA. VOI missing for the third day in a row from 9525v/9526v, no trace
even of a carrier at 1344 Nov 3, so we lack our weekly Tuesday Banjarmasin fix
on the Exotic Indonesia excursion. Not that we could make out what they are
saying if it were on the air. Again, no sign of it on 11785v either. We are
beginning to get worried. Is VOI being heard at any other times, anywhere else,
around 9525, 11785 or 15150? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
IRAN. Qur`an with long, pregnant pauses, in // on 13790 and 13800, Nov 3 at
1357, both fair but somewhat stronger on the former. IRIB Arabic service from
two different sites, both scheduled at 0530-1430: 13790, 178 degrees from
Kamalabad; and 13800, 289 degrees from Zahedan. A bit more frequency diversity
would be prudent. Despite the diversity in azimuths, both are for same targets
from Libya to Turkey to Iraq to Oman to Yemen and everywhere in between (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ISRAEL [non]. Galei Zahal has been missing lately from 15786v: Nov 3 at 1406
nothing there aside 15790, BBC Arabic via Cyprus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
KOREA SOUTH. Quickly scanning 60m, the only readable signal below 5 MHz was on
4900, Nov 3 at 1336, just in time to hear a few Korean numbers by no-nonsense YL
until 1337*, (faux?) spy transmission as previously caught on several higher
channels such as 6730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
KUWAIT. In contrast to the more traditional Qur`aning on 13790/13800 [see IRAN],
different rendition on 15110, Nov 3 at 1403, voice almost sounds like a female,
but maybe just a boy, as surely Kuwait is not that liberal; then 1404 into
equally reverent but non-musical talk in Arabic. Kabd transmitter site, 500 kW
at 100 degrees to S Asia, poor-fair signal here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
NEW ZEALAND. DRM noise on 9865-9870-9875 at 0709 Nov 3; must be RNZI on new
schedule, ex-11675. Yes, accompanied by loud and clear analog RNZI on 9765, and
I prefer to listen to the latter.
At
1332, 6170 is the only frequency for RNZI, but on Nov 3 it has heavy co-channel
QRM in Chinese from VOR even tho that is allegedly aimed due west from
Khabarovsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Double dose of convicted child-marrying/sex-molesting evangelist Tony
Alamo, courtesy WINB, Nov 3: his mind-numbing ramblings were ongoing around 1342
when I tuned across 9265; and again 1615 on 13570 as I was looking for Austria
via Canada on 22m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. In bandscan of 16m, unlike some days inbooming before 1430, no trace of
KVOH on 17775, Nov 3 at 1535. Is their transmission irregular, or are we totally
at the mercy of HF sporadic-E `short-skip` enhancement in order to hear KVOH at
all, from less than 2 Megameters away? Lots of signals on 16m at the time, but
all from points eastward. This was well after sunrise on Rancho Simi (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. 9555 with WYFR Spanish Nov 3 until sign-off at 1345*,
uncovering VOA Korean, but not soon enough. These two US stations are colliding
on 9555 from 1200 when VOA starts Korean via Saipan, and 1300 via Tinang,
Philippines. WYFR is registered until 1400 but TG for small favors, like so many
of its transmissions ends a quarter-hour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
ALBANIA. R. Tirana 2100-2130 English check Nov 3: at 2111 very poor signal on
9895, just noise on 7520. Propagation conditions had degraded. At 2346, during
Tirana`s one-hour break before resuming in Albanian on 7425, I found that
frequency bearing something in Chinese, and furthermore jamming noise
underneath, the latter probably spurious from the barrage against Martí on
7405, as there were similar sounds on otherwise open 7385, 20 kHz on the
opposite side.
Chinese
is now scheduled as CRI via Kunming, 500 kW at 177 degrees, but CRI is also
scheduled during the following hour on 7425, 00-01 in English via Kashgar, East
Turkistan, 100 kW at 174 degrees, and that explains the weak co-channel or SAH
that has been heard when R. Tirana to NAm is quite weak after 0000. One needs to
hear it on 7425 since:
The
other RT frequency, 6110 from 0000, it is still occupied by RHC but the two
could be heard mixing at 0052 Nov 4, plus DentroCuban bubble jamming underneath
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CANADA. 11865, some nice oud music on VG signal, Nov 3 at 2039. This
frequency-hour now occupied by RCI Arabic service, 73 degrees from Sackville
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. I monitored RHC periodically the afternoon and evening of Nov 3 to
determine what they are really doing since Nov 2, whether there are any further
new surprise frequencies, etc. Chex were made for a few minutes within almost
every semihour period between 2016 Nov 3 and 0140 UT Nov 4 ---
RHC
Spanish was audible:
13790
at 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234
13770
at 2016, 2037 with CCI, SAH; 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234
11800
at 2016, 2037, 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234, 2307, 2342
11770
at 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234, 2307; OFF at 2342
11760
at 2016; at 2036 was on but two dozen spurs missing temporarily; 2107 plus spurs
back, 2134
11730
at 2037, 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234, 2307; OFF at 2342
11690
not heard at 2016; it probably went off at 1900 or 2000; back on at 2307, 2342
By
0052, 11, 13 MHz and higher bands are dead, so can`t be sure if some of those
frequencies are still running
9600
at 0052
6140
at 0140, undermodulated. Night before it was in English
6120
at 0052, 0140
6110
at 2016, 2047, 2107, 2134, 2202, 2234, 2307, 2342; 0052 mixed with Tirana and
Cuban bubble jamming, 0140
6060
at 0052, 0140
RHC
Mesa Redonda, separate programming:
9640
and 6000 at 2342, not on during previous semihour. Probably started at 2330 and
explains 11730 and 11770 going off by then
RHC
Portuguese:
11770
at 2016
13770
at 2307, 2342
RHC
Arabic:
11770
at 2036
RHC
English
Not
found on any frequency between 2030 and 2130; no 17660 audible
13790
at 2307, 2342 with DXers Unlimited
RHC
in ???
17705
at 2205, weak carrier, either open or undermodulated
5965
no longer heard at any time, but still may have missed some language
transmissions previously scheduled
Venezuela
relays:
17705,
trace of something at 2018, maybe this; 2042 Chávez audible not // RHC
15250,
at 2307, plus spurs 15198, 15302, etc.; 2342 all weakening
13680,
missing 24 hours earlier, on at 2307 with better mod and no spurs unlike //
15250; 2342
11670,
at 2203 plus spurs 11618 etc.; 2234 plus spurs 11722 etc.
Summarizing,
with presumed approximate on/off times:
17705,
20-21 RNV, 22-? Algo
15250+spurs,
23-24 RNV
13790,
21-23 Spanish, 23-24 English
13770,
+20-23 Spanish, 23-24 Portuguese
13680,
23-24 RNV // 15250
11800,
+20-24 Spanish
11770,
20-2030 Portuguese, 2030-21 Arabic, 21-2330 Spanish
11760+spurs,
-22 Spanish
11730,
+2030-2330 Spanish
11690,
23- Spanish
11670+spurs,
22-23 RNV
9640,
2330- Spanish/MR
9600,
00- Spanish
6140,
01- Spanish
6120,
00- Spanish
6110,
+20-02+ Spanish
6060,
00- Spanish
6000,
2330- Spanish/MR
Also,
the jamming against non-existent VOA Spanish on 5890, Nov 3 at 2342 was only
lite, so some of the DentroCuban jammer sites may be getting word that they
don`t `need` to go full-bore until 0000
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ECUADOR [non]. 12025, Nov 3 at 2109 with VTC fill music loop. They still haven`t
figured out how to get HCJB`s Arabic service into the modulator of this
Sackville transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MAURITANIA. Jari Savolainen in Finland heard ORTM reactivated on 4845, Nov 3 at
1735, and Harold Frodge, MI, was also getting something in Arabic there at
2233-2324+ with ute QRM. So was I at 0143 Nov 4, but should be better around
sunrise; WRTH 2009 said nominal span on 4845 was 1700-0800, then 7245 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NETHERLANDS [non]. RN`s English hour 20-21 UT well audible via Bonaire 21525 and
South Africa 11655, Nov 3 at 2017 discussing health care (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
PORTUGAL [and non]. Some fantastically exciting sporting event must have been
going on, as RDPI was frantically yelling about it on 12040, Nov 3 at 2110. This
is one of those frequencies that is fired up at this time on weekdays, only if
there is some special event, 300 kW and 300 degrees.
Daily
program schedule, which lagged more than a week behind in realigning Lisboa time
with UT, shows: ``19:30 19:30 FUTEBOL - LIGA DOS CAMPEÕES - Fase de Grupos
APOEL NICOSIA / FC PORTO [até] 22:00 22:00``. Similar coverage in Spanish from
REE on 9640 at same time must have been some other game. Then at 0136 Nov 4,
Brazilian music on 9455, same Lisboa parameters, scheduled weekdays only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. VOA in Kriyol to Haïti has been shifted one UT hour later, even tho it
is Washington, not Port-au-Prince which just changed local clock time: now heard
with VG signals from Greenville at 2204 Nov 3 on 13725, 15390 and 11905 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Tho inaudible in the morning, KVOH 17775 with fair signal at 2017 check
Nov 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. WRMI, 9955 during scheduled R. Prague relay in English, Nov 3
at 1520 and for the next few minutes I monitored, just open carrier, modulation
missing. This did allow us to detect that DentroCuban jamming *was still
running* underneath; but when WRMI is modulating in the mornings on their NW
antenna, can suppress it.
Happy
Station heard at one of its new bonus repeat times, UT Wed Nov 4 at 0134 on
9955, sounded like familiar Strelnikov interview from last week. Poor signal now
but no jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 3185, WWRB playing Dave`s favorite fill music, big band, with
``Chattanooga Choo-Choo``, UT Wed Nov 4 at 0144, while the next transmitter was
occupied with Brother Scare on 3215. With such a choice, how could one possibly
pick one over the other to listen to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ALBANIA. R. Tirana check Nov 4 at 1555 on 13640: Good S9+18 signal and good
modulation in song a few minutes before closing. Catch this 1530 Mon-Sat
broadcast if you can for best propagation and lack of interference (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775 missing Nov 5 at 1438 and later after 1500, when
University Network is also missing from WWCR 13845, leaving PMS voiceless on SW.
If she really cared about being heard 24/7, she would have kept the Cahuita,
Costa Rica facility operational for additional redundancy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
AUSTRIA [and non]. Another check for R. Austria International`s scheduled relay
via Canada on 13675: Nov 4 at 1559* ending CRI relay, and nothing further. Still
need to confirm whether Austria`s direct transmissions to the Americas still
exist, 00-01 on 7325, 01-0130 on 9840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BURKINA FASO. Not only Mauritania, but Ouagadougou 5030 was also reactivated Nov
3, says Jari Savolainen, Finland, heard at 1745. This one is not so easy with
powerful Rebelde next door. Nov 4 at 0628 there was certainly a carrier on
5030.0 and lo modulation amid Cuban splash. WRTH 2009 shows sked as 0530-0800
and 1700-2400, with daytime frequency 7230 0800-1700; is that reactivated too?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 4 at 1429: nothing on 8400, 9000; JBA on 10210 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. Missing the last few nights, 6010 with RHC in English was back Nov 4 ---
tough luck, Conciencia and Mil, presumably from 0500, found at 0629 in English,
Ann(e) Sullivan with news on the half-hour // 6060 and this time 6140 is in
English too. She has a peculiar accent I am trying to place. Is she new with
RHC? 0636 over to Ed Newman with weekly Focus on Africa, about African influence
in Cuban music.
RHC
Spanish at 0635 on 6150, 6120; and just barely audible // 11760 at 0642.
DentroCuban
Jamming Command pulsing on 9955, Nov 4 at 0640 underneath VG signal from WRMI
with Wire Light infomercial. Since it`s UT Wednesday, WRMI is on their NW
antenna at this time.
Nov
4 at 1439 started checking for spurs from 11760, but there aren`t any! Yet 11760
is on; seems they have either fixed them, or more likely swapped transmitters,
as this one has no underlying whine either, and 15120 is missing at 1445 check,
while 15360 is still running. Also on // 11730, distorted 11800. In case the bad
unit has been put somewhere else, checked 13 and 15 MHz bands but no RHC spurs
there either. I am not foolish enough to imagine this problem be gone for good.
New
11730 being run long hours is not exactly clear for RHC. At 1459 heard RRI IS
mixing and opening in Arabic; then Russian too, with RHC the #3 signal beneath
these. During this one hour only, RRI via Galbeni at 140 degrees and BBC via
Rampisham at 62 degrees are already colliding. Welcome aboard, RHC! At 1559, RHC
again with 11730 to itself.
At
1500, non-Tony RHC announcer on 11760 listed these frequencies: 13770
(correct!), 11730, 11760, 11800, 6110. But he did not say ``11780`` this time
even tho the real frequency that represented, 11690, was up and running by 1507
with usual RTTY QRM.
At
1501 we find RHC 11800 even more distorted than usual, and audio breaking up.
11760 carrier is cutting off and on, and modulation cutting off and on during
the periods carrier is on; breakups not synchronized with 11800. At 1507, 11760
is mostly off, 1510 back with open carrier; 1523 staying on with modulation.
The
poor Venezuelans also get messed up by the incompetent Cubans, but hey, they`re
co-religionists, so give them a pass, and keep shipping the oil. RNV relay
supposed to be on 11680 at 15-16, but nothing there at 1504, except something
else weak in Arabic, i.e. BBC via Rampisham. Finally at *1505:30 on comes the
Cuban transmitter joining program in progress, but modulation cutting off and on
--- oops, it`s RHC // 11730 and 11800. Finally at 1507 cut over to RNV
programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CYPRUS. Strong OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Nov 4 at 1443 covering
14900-14930. Also at 1525, 11432-11460 approximately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 6250, RNGE had been missing for several weeks, but
Nov 4 at 0631 there is something in Spanish on 6250.0, ute QRM. Checked RHC on
49m to be sure not a // mixing product. 0632 seems into music, but fading and
soon gone or off. Used to cut on irregularly sometime between 0530 and 0600.
Polisario in as usual on 6297, and it holds up later being far to the NW of
Malabo. A banner day for African reactivations, along with Burkina Faso and
Mauritania, qq.vv. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GREECE. VOG, 15650, clashing with Miraya FM, Sudan via Slovakia, early in the
1500 UT hour Nov 4, so when will Athens get off the frequency? At 1553 still
mixing with music, but off at 1554*, and a minute later *1555 comes up in
mid-song on 15630, clearing 15650 for IRRS. Now why couldn`t they do this 55
minutes earlier, to everyone`s benefit? Besides, ERT has registered Avlis on
15630 for 23 hours a day anyway, much of which is wooden. IRRS will not protest
to ERA about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA. AIR National Channel, 9425 with news in English at 1431 Nov 4; so where
is the Aligarh blob today? Weak signals, but seems mushy centered around 9460
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDONESIA. VOI still missing from 9525v/9526v for the fourth day, Nov 4 at 1432
check. 11785? See SAUDI ARABIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ISRAEL [and non]. 11595, OM public-speaking emphatically in Persian, Nov 4 at
1526, interspersed with calm comments by studio YL. If it`s in Persian, can`t be
Iran, since they modestly refuse to broadcast their own language on SW, except I
suppose for clips quickly translated. Instead this is the only remaining
external service from Kol Israel, 1500-1630, 250 kW, 27 degrees. Modulation is a
bit rough, and bothered by Praga from 11600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
MAURITANIA. ORTM, reactivated on 4845 after several weeks` silence, Nov 4 at
0625 with usual undermodulated low-key chanting, which seems designed to put
listeners to sleep rather than awaken them; ute QRM on hi side evitable by
tuning to lo side. At the very western tip of Africa, 4845 can hold up amazingly
long in Nov-Jan with latest sunrises, all the way to 0800 or whenever they
switch to daytime frequency 7245; has that been reactivated too? Revival of 4845
all-night will again facilitate MW DXers` identifying MW // 783.
Tnx
to Jari Savolainen who first reported 4845 resumed at 1740 Nov 3. Ron Howard
says 4845 was off by 0111 Nov 4, so apparently not really all-night, and what I
heard at 0143 may have been Brasil instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
MEXICO [and non]. Never mind my previous comment that XEPPM 6185 had only a
half-hour in the clear around 0620-0650. Nov 4 at 0635, Brasília is already on
and way on top, but always with rumbling lo het since Mexico is off-frequency.
RNA sign-on // 11780 apparently varies, so one really needs to sit on 6185 in
the 06-07 period and see what happen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 11785 with weak Saudi-style buzz, Nov 4 at 1440 as I was
searching for missing Indonesia. Current schedules do not show BSKSA there, but
the B-08 in WRTH 2009 does! 250 kW Riyadh at 10-17. So it seems this has been
resumed in B-09. 13m was not open so could not hear if it was still buzzy on
21505 too.
The
huge buzz on 15435, bothering BBC as far away as 15420, was there after 1500,
but no sign of it at 1552. The abuzzy // 15225, was OK with Qur`an earlier but
it too missing at 1552; both scheduled until 1800 with first program, so power
failure, schedule change, or big propagational dropout? Farda was still in well
on 15410 from Skelton.
With
Cuba missing from 15120, Nov 4 at 1445 could hear weak Qur`an, then talk in
presumed Bengali as BSKSA scheduled here at 12-16, 500 kW, 70 degrees from
Riyadh. As best as I could tell, it was on 15120.0, which would not account for
the audible het previously heard vs Habana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
SUDAN [non]. The muffled CRI English relay signal via CUBA on 13740 at 14-16 is
normally big enough to blot out anything else, but Nov 4 just before it closes
at 1556 with vamp music, I notice it mixing with something Arabish. Bears more
attention another day, as uplooked later, this has to be: R. Dabanga via
Wertachtal 500 kW, 150 degrees for Sudan at 1530-1627 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENINGN DIGEST)
**
U S A [non]. 17610, AWR Afar service via Austria, Nov 4 at 1448 with
up-and-down, up-and-down music of only a few notes over and over, which could
have been a loop, somehow going to convert the Djiboutians to Adventism? Perhaps
by hypnosis. 1458 cut to more melodic music by combo until 1459* (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ALBANIA [and non]. Checking R. Tirana, Albanian to NAm, Nov 5 at 0015: 7425 very
weak and seems two signals, the other being China; 6110 heavy mix of RT and RHC
in Spanish which has usurped this frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
AUSTRIA. Since R. Austria International has vanished from the Canadian relay,
despite being in the B-09 schedules on 13675 at 16-17 UT, I had to confirm
whether this station teetering on the brink of extinxion was still broadcasting
direct to the Americas.
Yes,
on 7325, good signal at 0034 Nov 5 in Austrian, 0039 switch to English, the
3-minute token newscast repeated from the domestic service at 0708 UT on 6155,
concluding with the local weather forecast which is no longer a predixion, 0042
into more of the same in French, from 0712 UT originally.
Instead
of returning to Austrian at 0045, played 5 minutes of Blue Danube IS and
quadrilingual IDs, including Spanish which has been banned from any other usage
on ORF SW! Love that music, but enough is enough, and what a waste of valuable
airtime. 0050 resuming programming in German to 0059* when changes to 9840 to
SAm for repeat to 0130, but unchecked. The 7325 starts at 0000, and I think all
three semihours are identical, so the English should also be at 0009 and 0109,
UT Tue-Sat only, except when there is a weekday holiday in Austria and no news
can possibly happen anywhere in the world, nor local weather (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1485, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 5 at 1353: 8400 good with flutter, 9000 fair with flutter,
10210 very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. RHC chex during the afternoon and evening of Nov 4-5: none; too busy doing
WORLD OF RADIO 1485. Finally at 0642 I find: 6140 is in English tonite // 6060
and 6010; Spanish on 6150 // 6120. I don`t think 6000 is on, tho sometimes too
weak to tell vs WYFR which is Camping out on that frequency overnight, and
beside, Mali 5995 was stronger. After 0700, 6010 was off, clearing channel for
XEOI [see MEXICO], but 6060 still running RHC in English at 0717, for how much
longer?
Since
I had not yet checked RHC`s axual frequency usage before 1300 UT since the Nov 2
schedule shakeup, I finally managed to do so Nov 5:
At
1235 a suspicious open carrier on 6110, must be RHC, but no modulation and still
just OC well past 1300. Next check at 1348 now Spanish // 15120 et al., tho
missing from frequency announcement.
Others
running RHC Spanish at 1235: 6180, 9600, 11760, 11800, 13770 ex-13760, JBA on
15120, 15360. At 1249 I noticed 6150 too, maybe missed it a few minutes earlier?
This is bad news for KNLS Alaska, with English at 12-13 on 6150, which we did
manage to hear in the first week of B-09 before RHC usurped that frequency. 6150
starts at 0500, so are they running it all night?
RNV
relay also as usual on 11705 at first check 1235.
At
1259, the RHC QSY announcement as monitored on 11760: said 9600 and 6180 were
about to close, and would be on the following thenceforward, in the usual
disorder, Soviet-style: 15120, 15360, 13770, 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 11800.
Meanwhile
as this was going on, 11760 was hit by timesignal and CCI from something in
English, I think. Trying to ID this later we find BBCWS in English listed via
Oman, but that`s already running from 0700, to 1400. CRI English via Kunming
also at 1200-1357 on 11760. AND R. Australia via Taiwan starts 11760 at 1300,
but in Chinese. What a logjam!
At
1301, 9600 and 6180 were indeed off and replaced by 13680 and 11730. 13780 was
also running; both it and 13680 are big signals here spawning the leapfrogs on
13880, 13580. Weak 13770 still on too, plus distorted 11800, and 11760 --- AND
THE TWO DOZEN SPURS FROM 11760 ARE STILL GONE! We are beginning to be hopeful
about that. No note from Arnie has been received, thanking us for drawing the
spur problem to their attention.
The
unannounced 6150 also went off around 1300, and the open carrier on 6110
continued; see above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EGYPT. 15080, poor signal Nov 5 at 1350, but enough to tell that the music being
broadcast is distorted. Must be Cairo! Yes, scheduled Arabic at 1300-1600, 250
kW, 241 degrees from Abis. How do these broadcasters get away with operating
inside the exclusive(?) off-route aeronautical band? Except for spurs, they do
manage to keep out of 10010+ and 17900+, other such bands. See also INDIA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA. 15050, poor with flutter, some kind of music, Nov 5 at 1350. It`s AIR
Sinhala service at 1245-1500, 250 kW, 174 degrees from a Delhi site. How do
these broadcasters get away with operating inside the exclusive(?) off-route
aeronautical band? AIR has several more transmissions on 15040, 15075. See also
EGYPT.
AIR
Aligarh blob, extremely distorted mush extending 9455-9475, bothering RA on
9475, and centred approx. 9465, Nov 5 at 1355. I am beginning to suspect that my
almost-daily monitoring reports of this plastered ``all over the Internet`` are
not enough to embarrass them into fixing it. How about some others joining in?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDONESIA. VOI missing for the fifth day in a row from 9524.9 and 9525.9 –
nothing on either at 1306 Nov 5. The RRI domestic relay on 9680 may also be
missing altho I have not been looking for it every day, but Nov 5 at 1356 only a
trace of some carrier there, while it used to put in a good signal, and
well-modulated unlike VOI. What`s going on at Cimanggis? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
IRAN. 15545, YL in Arabic, Nov 5 at 1347, good signal giving websites ending in
.ir, pronounced in English (but how much longer will that last?), yahoo.com
e-mail address, mixing with nice string music (mugam?). Is VIRI`s expansive
Arabic service, 0530-1630, 500 kW, 295 degrees from Sirjan site. Went on to talk
about Islamic stuff, an obsession of theirs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
ISRAEL. After a few days` absence, not unusual, Galei Tsahal is heard again, now
varied down to 15783.5, Nov 5 at 1345 with discussion in Hebrew, one side of
which was via telephone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
KOREA NORTH [non]. 9880, Nov 5 at 1452, strong signal but heavy flutter playing
``Sukiyaki``, so must be Japanese-related? Tho widely recognized abroad,
apparently not considered so stereotypically Japanese that it should be avoided.
Provoked harmonica accompaniment in this household. But faded it down before
finished for announcement by YL in Japanese, shortly mentioning kHz.
This
is Furusato no Kaze, one of the abduxion-obsessed services, listed as via
Darwin, 250 kW at 3 degrees. Flutter is not something we normally get from
trans-equatorial Australia. Went off a few sex before 1500, tho a second
semihour with same parameters is registered until 1530, on stand-by for the
sibling service in Korean? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MEXICO [and non]. RHC is back on 6010, but apparently only 05-07 UT, so Nov 5 at
0717, Radio Mil was in the clear with ID, ``Vive México`` slogan, timecheck,
temperature, ads, back to next music which was doo-wop in Spanish, quite a
treat. No co-channel QRM audible from Colombia if it was on; 5910 was not when
checked a bit earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SAUDI ARABIA. Not hearing any BSKSA buzz today on 11785, so is it audible on
13m? Barely, on 21505, Nov 5 at 1455, with slightly better signals on 21460 and
21640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. AWR Wavescan is now scheduled just before Happy Station on WRMI 9955,
Thursdays at 1530, so listened Nov 5 – this week`s feature is about the
history of and radio from St. Helena, with more to come next week, for obvious
reasons. Break at 1538 for Indianapolis address voiced by Allen Graham, tho not
IDed as such, using the pronouns ``us`` and ``our`` as if he were part of the
AWR organization instead of HCJB? But DX Partyline continues separately,
evidently worthy of salvation by HCJB Global. I suppose he was roped into
recording the announcement for vocal variety, something unknown on WORLD OF
RADIO.
Then
a musical break in the form of the R. Portugal IS, chimes, ID in French and
anthem, from Ian McFarland`s idents collexion, off-air recording complete with
adjacent-channel QRM. Should have been pointed out that this is nostalgic
history too, as they banned French from SW long ago, in fact nothing but
Portuguese is permitted, and I don`t think RDPI airs Lisbon`s version of Big Ben
any more either; this was followed by seven bongs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. A late change I was not aware of in time to mention the previous week,
nor in the WORLD OF RADIO schedule expected to appear in the November NASWA
Journal out shortly: The Friday 2130 UT airing this standard-time season is on
7465 instead of 15825, so coverage of North America and beyond should be much
better without skipovers or MUF-dropping fadeouts. But will 7465 make it as well
to Nigeria? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. VOA Spanish service, now retimed to 00-01 UT, Nov 5 at 0015
audible on 9885 unlike previous nights when no signal. No jamming audible, but
// 5890 still had DentroCuban jamming. There used to be a third frequency for
this, 5940, but now just two (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BELGIUM. RTBF has not quit SW yet: Nov 5 at 2217 heard some French on 9970,
mentioning Belgique, then jazz, but hard to copy with splash from WWCR 9980.
Wavre is the only transmitter in the world scheduled on 9970, at 0400-2315, 100
kW, 167 degrees across Eurafrica. Are they still running a separate DRM
schedule, the wave of the future? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHAD [and non]. 6165, checking Nov 5 at 2228 to see how R. Tirana is doing,
intended for Europe at 2130-2300. It may have been underneath, but the dominant
6165 signal was not // RT Albanian talk on 7435, as 6165 was musical, and 2229
into announcement I finally decided was in French but with an extremely heavy
accent; closing ID included ``Ici poste national de l`ONRT``, anthem and off at
2231:30* and even then there was little of Tirana to be heard.
I
was not expecting ONRT as an ID for this station usually referred to as RNT =
Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, but uplooked later, ONRT fits perfectly to
the WRTH heading: Office National de Radio et Télévision du Tchad. Does this
mean that both poste and office are masculine?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Fluttery intruder in Chinese, 7105, Nov 5 at 2202, a late-afternoon time
when we do get lower-frequency Asian signals. Must be CNR1 jammer, and per Aoki
we may blame this on Falung Gong clandestine Sound of Hope, which per Aoki is on
7105 only at 22-23 for the early birds on the Mainland, 100 kW, 325 degrees via
Tanshui, Taiwan site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. RHC check Nov 5 at 2146, found nothing but Spanish in // except some were
an echo apart, and I did not try to sort out this time: 11730, 11760, 11770,
11800, 13770, 13790.
Nothing
on 15 MHz, but 17705 was S9+12 with open carrier only, same at rechex 2200,
2214, 2226. However at 2231, RHC theme had started, then into French (not
Creole), with `news` about the `putsch` (is that a French word?) in Honduras.
17705
originally alternated Portuguese, Guarani and finally Quechua, 2200-2430 but the
latter two have not been confirmed in a long time, and even Portuguese is
replaced by French; personnel problems at RHC? Or did the studio forget to feed
whatever program audio to the transmitter at 2200? Did not check it after 2300
tho should have if propagation was holding up this time.
With
11760 off after 2200, RNV relay on 11670 at 2203 and no spurs for a change
either!
I
did find yet another new frequency for RHC Spanish, 9660, at 2218 // 13790,
11730, 6110, etc. Not sure of its span, but by 0010 Nov 6 it was off and usual
9600 was on. Could have been a transmitter frequency typo? But nothing already
scheduled on 9660 to or from the W Hemisphere between 1300 and 0230. And 9600
normally opens at 2300.
Jamming
report: see USA: VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ECUADOR [non]. 12025, still nothing but VTC fill-music loop, Nov 5 from before
2130 to 2144. Period is 63 or 64 seconds; why couldn`t they make it exactly 60?
Hard to tell exactly when it starts as the music fades up rather than downbeat.
It`s soft enough to serve as lullaby during my nap. 2144 switch to RCI IS and ID
until 2145* during the half-sesquihour that the HCJB Arabic service is supposed
to air. Third time in a week I have noticed this, probably occurring every day
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GREECE. Something strange on 7450, Nov 5 at 2157: two stations at once with SAH
of 260/minute (just over 4 Hz apart); also mixed in to this was a tone (or a
het?). One was surely Greece, and the other one just about as strong, but hard
to sort out the mess or be certain of the language when there was talk. Still
the same at 2226 and past 2230 when I quit monitoring this.
Looked
up later, I see nothing but Greece scheduled anywhere on 7450 during these hours
except CNR Lhasa, Tibet, and the other station was really far too strong for
that.
Then
I heard from John Babbis, perpetual VOG monitor in Maryland, that he was still
hearing weak Greek on 7450 at 0025 UT Nov 6. ``Did the engineer forget to switch
Avlis 1 to 12105 at 2250? Nothing on 7475 and 9420 here.``
So
my theory now is that Avlis was running both the Makedonias station ERT3
(scheduled until 2250, right John?) on 7450, and ERA5 Voice of Greece also on
7450 by mistake. If so, not good for the adjacent transmitters.
And
then John replies: Glenn: ``I noticed interference on 7450 which I assumed was
from 7445 at 2100 UT Thursday November 5. I just tuned in Voice of Greece AVLIS
1 at 0136 UT Friday. 7450 is coming in at Sinpo 45354. Nothing on 7475, 9420,
and 12105. Now, I am positive that 7450 is on by mistake on AVLIS 1 instead of
on 12105`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INDIA. Altho Aligarh 9470 was a mushy mess earlier UT Nov 5, at 2214 check it
was normally narrow and clearly modulated, weaker than // 9425 Bengaluru. Thus
we know AIR *can* transmit on this frequency correctly, so why don`t they do so
all the time?? Maybe swapping between different transmitters without the resolve
to dump the offender once and for all, if they cannot repair it. 9470 still OK
in Hindi at 2238 recheck, and still // stronger 9425.
AIR
GOS in between on 9445 with much better S9+20 signal than the National Channel
flankers, tho fluttery still, at 2215 Nov 5 ending commentary on Japan/US
security alliance, ID, into Listeners` Choice playing a song whose title and
artist I could not possibly understand even tho the broadcast is in English.
Know your audience! Also found // on very much weaker 9950 in AM, not DRM as
previously scheduled. Have AIR ended their DRM experiment? Not likely as they
supposedly have a long-term commitment to build it up.
Comparing
the parameters on these three frequencies:
9425
is 500 kW, 18 degrees from Bengaluru, NNEward across India
9445
is 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru toward Europe and close to NAm direxion
too, 2045-2230; also at 1730-1945 at 300 degrees
9470
is 250 kW, 188 degrees from Aligarh southward across India. It could be, tho not
necessarily long path when we hear this one in our morning or evening
9950
is 100 kW, 312 degrees from Delhi NWward toward Europe, at least when scheduled
in DRM at 1730-2230, and supposed to resume in AM at 2245 from Aligarh, 250 kW
at 65 degrees to China and Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. Extremely distorted noise spurs covering roughly 9395-9405 and 9340-9350,
Nov 5 at 2239, which altho not precisely matched strongly imply that the S9+20
signal from WTJC amid them on 9370 was the source, as previously traced several
times when the modulation peaks could be matched, and nothing else now in the
area to suspect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. VOA Spanish reception varies greatly from night to night on the
only two frequencies left at 0000-0100, 5890 and 9885. Nov 6 around 0010, 9885
bore DentroCuban jamming only, while 5890 had a mix of VOA Spanish and heavy
jamming. On other occasions, 9885 has been absent or free of jamming (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ANGUILLA. Ho, hum, no hum, since DGS/PMS missing again from 6090, Nov 6 at 0640
check; 11775 on at next check 1330. See also CUBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CHINA. Firedrake Nov 6 at 1341: fair on 8400, poor on 9000, very poor on 10210.
See also unID [non] 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)