John Bryant fell from a ladder and received injuries that resulted in his death yesterday. Raise a glass to John...
R.I.P.
mercoledì, febbraio 10, 2010
Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
BONAIRE Radio Netherlands Intl Relay-RNI 9865 0005 Spanish 444 Feb 9 OM with
comments. //6165[333].Bonaire.
BOTSWANA Voice of America Relay-VOA 17895 1815 English 444 Feb 8 YL
interviewing an OM on the Nigerian President being in the hospital. YL with
VOA ID 1808. //15580[333] Botswana.
CHINA Music Jammer 11945 1845 Music 444 Feb 8 Jamming Radio Free Asia from
North Mariannnas. //11790[333] and 9905[444].
CHINA China Radio Intl-CRI 9860 0010 Hakka 333 Feb 9 OM with comments. YL
with vocal music 0042.
//9610[333] and 9550[433].
COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE 17850 1818 Spanish 444 Feb 8 OM
interviewing a YL. Pop music vocals by a YL 1827. //17595[444]via Spain.
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 9835 1850 Japanese 444 Feb 8 OM with vocal music. OM
anncr 1852 then some good instrumental music followed by an OM singing.
PORTUGAL Voice of Germany Relay-DW 15440 1832 German 333 Feb 8 YL and OM
with comments.
UNITED STATES, Greenville VOA 21495 1805 Portuguese 444 Feb 8 Two OMs with
comments. (This is the first station that I have heard in the 21Mhz band in
months!!!).
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come
Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
martedì, febbraio 09, 2010
Glenn Hauser logs February 9, 2010
** CHINA. Firedrake music-only ChiCom jamming is showing up less and less at the moment, as also noted by other monitors. Feb 9 at 1518 I was able to detect it only on 8400, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15080, DentroCuban Jamming Command on yet another strange new frequency, Feb 9 at 1509, relatively lite level with pulsing atop what could only be Cairo which runs distorted Arabic at 13-16. Could make out a carrier and some mod underneath jamming, still at 1519, but not at next check 1548. Could it be that Radio República or some other counter-revolutionary put a peanut-whistle on 15080 provoking this? Or is DCJC totally out of its mind, jamming Cairo in Arabic?
From 1556 I monitored 11600 for another DCJC to turn on, and so it did at *1558:40, lite pulses at first, quickly building up from additional transmitters to S9+18 level, against presumed R. República which we have never been able to detect here, unlike those intrepid Habana monitors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13605, AIR IS very poor at 1514 Feb 9 interfering with CODAR; 1515 sign on with ``Hii ni``, an immediate confirmation that it`s in Swahili as scheduled until 1615, 150 kW, 280 degrees from Bangaluru per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 5990, UT Tue Feb 9 at 0620 as I tuned across, heard the unmistakable voice of ``Tony Alamo``. Some adjacent QRM from Mali 5995. 5990 is IRRS via SLOVAKIA, a.k.a. European Gospel Radio, a.k.a. NEXUS-IBA, whose frequency schedule shows 5990 at 0530-0630 Mon-Thu, while the program schedules have been changed to show 5990 and Alamo starting instead at 0700 CET = 0600 UT Mon-Thu only; still until 0630, or 0700 now? Standard remarx about Alámo. The latest press reports on his unenviable situation: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530 via UKRAINE, V. of Mesopotamia, Feb 9 at 1424 Kurdish rap with piano accompaniment, which must be heard to be believed; 1425 segué reverted to more traditional music, whew, for rest of hour until 1500* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 5030, RTM Sarawak, Feb 9 at 1359 fair playing Tom Jones` ``Lonely Is a Man Without Love``, accurate 2-pip timesignal at 1400, less modulated talk, presumed news in local language; SINPO 25433, i.e. Cuba 5025 too weak to bother now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, tuned in at 1554 Feb 9 just in time to hear closing bells, 1555 sign-off, different IS and off by 1556, i.e. R. Veritas Asia with the R. Blagovest ``bells`` service in Russian supposedly until 1557 per Aoki, 250 kW, 331 degrees from Palauig-Zambales site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, WEWN Spanish, Feb 9 at 1420, music and talk interrupted over and over for long periods of dead air. Why is it so hard to get reliable program feed from Irondale to Vandiver? Wiggle that patchcord? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA. 15080, DentroCuban Jamming Command on yet another strange new frequency, Feb 9 at 1509, relatively lite level with pulsing atop what could only be Cairo which runs distorted Arabic at 13-16. Could make out a carrier and some mod underneath jamming, still at 1519, but not at next check 1548. Could it be that Radio República or some other counter-revolutionary put a peanut-whistle on 15080 provoking this? Or is DCJC totally out of its mind, jamming Cairo in Arabic?
From 1556 I monitored 11600 for another DCJC to turn on, and so it did at *1558:40, lite pulses at first, quickly building up from additional transmitters to S9+18 level, against presumed R. República which we have never been able to detect here, unlike those intrepid Habana monitors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13605, AIR IS very poor at 1514 Feb 9 interfering with CODAR; 1515 sign on with ``Hii ni``, an immediate confirmation that it`s in Swahili as scheduled until 1615, 150 kW, 280 degrees from Bangaluru per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 5990, UT Tue Feb 9 at 0620 as I tuned across, heard the unmistakable voice of ``Tony Alamo``. Some adjacent QRM from Mali 5995. 5990 is IRRS via SLOVAKIA, a.k.a. European Gospel Radio, a.k.a. NEXUS-IBA, whose frequency schedule shows 5990 at 0530-0630 Mon-Thu, while the program schedules have been changed to show 5990 and Alamo starting instead at 0700 CET = 0600 UT Mon-Thu only; still until 0630, or 0700 now? Standard remarx about Alámo. The latest press reports on his unenviable situation: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530 via UKRAINE, V. of Mesopotamia, Feb 9 at 1424 Kurdish rap with piano accompaniment, which must be heard to be believed; 1425 segué reverted to more traditional music, whew, for rest of hour until 1500* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 5030, RTM Sarawak, Feb 9 at 1359 fair playing Tom Jones` ``Lonely Is a Man Without Love``, accurate 2-pip timesignal at 1400, less modulated talk, presumed news in local language; SINPO 25433, i.e. Cuba 5025 too weak to bother now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, tuned in at 1554 Feb 9 just in time to hear closing bells, 1555 sign-off, different IS and off by 1556, i.e. R. Veritas Asia with the R. Blagovest ``bells`` service in Russian supposedly until 1557 per Aoki, 250 kW, 331 degrees from Palauig-Zambales site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, WEWN Spanish, Feb 9 at 1420, music and talk interrupted over and over for long periods of dead air. Why is it so hard to get reliable program feed from Irondale to Vandiver? Wiggle that patchcord? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
Dhabayya Tx site images
Vi consiglio di visitare questa galleria di foto:
http://picasaweb.google.com/gungadoo/DhabayyaTxSite#
sono gil impianti HF di Dhabayya negli Emirati Arabi, qualcosa di incredibile !!
http://picasaweb.google.com/gungadoo/DhabayyaTxSite#
sono gil impianti HF di Dhabayya negli Emirati Arabi, qualcosa di incredibile !!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ian Baxter
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [SW BCB TX Site Archive] Dhabayya Tx site images
From: Ian Baxter
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [SW BCB TX Site Archive] Dhabayya Tx site images
Hi folks,
Our member Lev from Canada struck gold with a fantastic link showing many terrific images of antennas & associated transmission infrastructure of the Dhabayya SW TX site in the UAE.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gungadoo/DhabayyaTxSite#
or see our LINKS page from our YG website: Links > SW TRANSMITTER SITES > Middle East > UAE > Al-Dhabayya
Thanks Lev - its great when members share their discoveries. It makes the establishment of this Yahoo Group so worthwhile & enjoyable.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Ian
--
Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK
http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk
http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
http://www.biciurbana.org
http://iwohk.tumblr.com
Our member Lev from Canada struck gold with a fantastic link showing many terrific images of antennas & associated transmission infrastructure of the Dhabayya SW TX site in the UAE.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gungadoo/DhabayyaTxSite#
or see our LINKS page from our YG website: Links > SW TRANSMITTER SITES > Middle East > UAE > Al-Dhabayya
Thanks Lev - its great when members share their discoveries. It makes the establishment of this Yahoo Group so worthwhile & enjoyable.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Ian
--
Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK
http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk
http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
http://www.biciurbana.org
http://iwohk.tumblr.com
Nuovo ricevitore Aor 2300
Sta per uscire sul mercato il nuovo ricevitore della ditta giapponese AOR, si tratta del modello AR 2300 un "black box" receiver controllato dal pc che copre la banda di frequenza da 40 kHz a 3150 MHz. Da 0 a 25 mhz il ricevitore usa un architettura "direct digital sampling" con un convertitore a 14 bit 65MS/s e una FPGA. Il software di controllo è molto simile a quello del Perseus, infatti è stato realizzato in collaborazione con Nico Palermo della Microtelecom Srl. Da segnalare la presenza di un uscita Video per la visualizzazione segnali Tv e di un connettore per schede SD da usare per memorizzare e registrare segnali ricevuti. Usando l'opzione I/Q il ricevitore puo' essere usato come un vero ricevitore SDR con una banda passante di 1 mhz.
Maggiori informazioni qui:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/2300.html
http://www.aorja.com/receivers/pdf/ar2300_catalog_rev1.pdf
Da segnalare anche il modello AOR AR5001B praticamente la versione "da tavolo" dell'AR2300.
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/5001.html
--
Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK
http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk
http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
http://www.biciurbana.org
http://iwohk.tumblr.com
Maggiori informazioni qui:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/2300.html
http://www.aorja.com/receivers/pdf/ar2300_catalog_rev1.pdf
Da segnalare anche il modello AOR AR5001B praticamente la versione "da tavolo" dell'AR2300.
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/5001.html
--
Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK
http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk
http://www.mediasuk.org/archive
http://www.biciurbana.org
http://iwohk.tumblr.com
Glenn Hauser logs February 8-9, 2010
** ARGENTINA. Have not been able to detect RAE on 15345 while Morocco is on, so wondering if it`s gone again? No, Feb 8 at 2156, very poor signal with flutter, but enough to recognize the RAE IS.
Also weak and fluttery signal with music during scheduled Japanese hour, Feb 9 at 0147 on approx. 11710.7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, have not checked R. Africa lately whether they are still broadcasting convicted and sentenced to 175 years, child-marrying sex-criminal ``Tony Alamo``? Yes! Feb 8 at 2201, in the clear after YFR off 15195, there he is, conversing with his YL sidekick, and at 2226 she is reading some verses, prompted and with interjexions by Alamo. Good signal but deep fades.
I also heard him earlier the same day around 1330 on WINB 9265, as he was comparing himself to some other religionists at the margins who have had problems with the law, David Koresh and Warren Jeffs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. I have long noticed on the caradio that there is something wrong with KSPI 780 Stillwater, a sports talker; Feb 8 at 2049 UT I was hearing hets of almost the same pitch when stepped 10 kHz to much weaker stations on adjacent frequencies, both of them attempting to play music for our enjoyment:
770, KAAM Garland, The Metroplex, TX, with ``The Way You Look Tonite``, nostalgia format, and
790, KXXX Colby KS, with ``Rhinestone Cowboy`` in country format; and mixed with news/talk from KFYO Lubbock TX
There is also a higher-pitched whine when tuned to KSPI itself. It`s about 50 miles away, and hard to believe a daytimer with such a big signal here is only 250 watts. They must be modulating it to the hilt. I think it is putting out spurs, but will have to see if I can measure them on some other radio.
BTW, years ago in Enid I had no problem hearing daytime groundwave from KXXX in the NW corner of KS, or KFYO, also over 300 miles away in West Texas, nulling one or the other, but not any more with KSPI on one side and augmented KQCV OKC 800 on the other, now 2.5 kW instead of original 250 watt outlet. Trying to remember its original call from the 1960s when I started, but FCC call sign history can`t either. KQCV also makes it tough to listen to WHB ex-KCMO Kansas City on 810.
1220, Feb 8 at 2052 UT, looking for the Asian station from The Metroplex, but only hearing weak soul/gospel music outlet; a few minutes later, lengthy local commercial by obnoxious pitchman, but could not copy anything pinning it to KTLV Midwest City or OKC, due to splash from 1230 WBBZ Ponca City with music most of the time. Less than an hour later, I was not getting 1220 at all.
FCC shows the 250 watts are direxional with major lobes at 60 and 250 degrees, nulls including 340 degrees, close to Enidward, so it could still be on but with little signal here, while 250 W would be plenty if it were nondirexional. Forget about it at night, 5 watts on same pattern.
NRC AM Log 2009 shows format UC/GOS, which fits, and slogan ``Key To Living Victoriously`` --- gee, I always thought KTLV was supposed to evoke ``Twelve``. And furthermore it`s marked -I for IBOC, if so, certainly undetectable here.
1610, at quiet spots in western Enid one can make out the NWS relay via Great Salt Plains State Park TIS, WQCL720, axually licensed to the town just south, Jet. Quick & Easy leads right to the GE image at http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.742500,-98.132222&=0.03805,0.06727&t=k&hl=en
We located the mast in the park area to the left of the road opposite the airstrip, where BTW, our ``local`` NEXRAD weather radome is located, identified with Vance AFB, both quite a distance away.
1610 used to alternate NWS Enid 162+ MHz relays with local loop of info about attraxions at the park and other towns such as Cherokee, but lately I have heard nothing but NWS so perhaps the old tape wore out after never having been changed for years, turn-it-on-and-forget-it.
Back to the point, on Feb 8 at 2140 I was unusually getting QRM from another 1610 TIS, believe it`s YL voice, making 1 Hz SAH, most likely from the next closest one, Kansas Turnpike Authority, per MW List Quick & Easy: ``WPQG483 Wellington, KS 0.01 nr jct k35 & us 160 hwy``
which provides its own weather and traffic alerts for paying travelers (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. Missed it by that much: at 0146 UT Tue Feb 9 I remembered to check for the SAm broadcast of RNE/RE`s Emisión Sefarad, which I hear Monday mornings at 1425 on 15385, not announced 15325.
Hostess says the 0115-0145 broadcast is on 11780, but at 0146 RNA Brasil is inbooming as usual, some flutter, with ``goooooooooaaaaaaaaallllllll`` remark. Hard to imagine REE being audible here, let alone there, no stronger than the weak REE signal arriving on 11680 --- and the 0115 broadcast is registered B-09 on 11795 which should be clear if axually in use, so let`s hope her announcement in this case is also wrong, but have to wait at least another week to check it out.
Strangely, 11795 is also on the books for the repeat to NAm at 0415 along with 9690 and 9650, but surely only using one of them, 9690 the last we checked, with the others being wooden alternates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KVOH, often absent and either not propagating or off the air, but loud S9+20 signal with Spanish religion on 17775, Feb 8 at 2157. When that`s the case, time to look for its parasitic spurs --- yes, noisy blob around 17921, weak and could not make out any modulation to //, and an even weaker one at matching 17629, both 146 kHz away from fundamental. One semihour later, 17775 had faded to only S9+7 at peaks, and the spurs went below threshold.
BTW, I keep seeing schedules published for this station showing they are also on 9975 morning and/or evening. KVOH does repeatedly register that with FCC and consequently HFCC, Aoki, and even WRTH show it, but don`t you believe it until someone axually hears KVOH on 9975.
Is anyone paying attention to reality, and our reports about it? Only EiBi has got the message NOT to list KVOH on 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Checking around 0136-0140 during the 01-02 UT Tuesday hour Feb 9 whether VOA is still operational as last week? Yes:
A Fondo: best on 7340, good on 9415, barely audible on 11625. No jamming on those, but heavy jamming on R. Martí 6030, 7365, 9825 which are supposedly carrying same program.
Lavwadlamerik: best on 7465, rather poor on 5960, 5835. No 7590.
And WWCR: active on 9980, 7490, 5070 and presumably 5935.
9810 also with Cuban jamming against R. República, along with some rhythmic tones I don`t hear elsewhere, so wonder if that is from the jamming or a bit of RR programming sounders poking thru the noise.
The Feb 8 issue of DX Mix News, Bulgaria shows this as a VT Communications transmission via Rampisham UK:
2300-0400 on 9810 RMP 500 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish
Even tho VT does not admit it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955 WRMI tonight: Pretty good signal at 0140 UT Feb 9 with JSWC reporter, at first I thought DXPL, but I guess it`s Wavescan, scheduled 0115-0145, and apparently no jamming. Are you on the NW antenna yet? (Glenn to Jeff White)
Glenn: That's good to hear. No, we haven't found the problem yet with the NW antenna, but they're working on it off and on. Our consulting engineer is coming back from Panama around Feb. 15th, so my guess is they'll try it again while he's here.
Yes, Yukiko does the JSWC report on both DXPL and Wavescan. I'm not sure if it's the exact same material though (Jeff White, WRMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
Also weak and fluttery signal with music during scheduled Japanese hour, Feb 9 at 0147 on approx. 11710.7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, have not checked R. Africa lately whether they are still broadcasting convicted and sentenced to 175 years, child-marrying sex-criminal ``Tony Alamo``? Yes! Feb 8 at 2201, in the clear after YFR off 15195, there he is, conversing with his YL sidekick, and at 2226 she is reading some verses, prompted and with interjexions by Alamo. Good signal but deep fades.
I also heard him earlier the same day around 1330 on WINB 9265, as he was comparing himself to some other religionists at the margins who have had problems with the law, David Koresh and Warren Jeffs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. I have long noticed on the caradio that there is something wrong with KSPI 780 Stillwater, a sports talker; Feb 8 at 2049 UT I was hearing hets of almost the same pitch when stepped 10 kHz to much weaker stations on adjacent frequencies, both of them attempting to play music for our enjoyment:
770, KAAM Garland, The Metroplex, TX, with ``The Way You Look Tonite``, nostalgia format, and
790, KXXX Colby KS, with ``Rhinestone Cowboy`` in country format; and mixed with news/talk from KFYO Lubbock TX
There is also a higher-pitched whine when tuned to KSPI itself. It`s about 50 miles away, and hard to believe a daytimer with such a big signal here is only 250 watts. They must be modulating it to the hilt. I think it is putting out spurs, but will have to see if I can measure them on some other radio.
BTW, years ago in Enid I had no problem hearing daytime groundwave from KXXX in the NW corner of KS, or KFYO, also over 300 miles away in West Texas, nulling one or the other, but not any more with KSPI on one side and augmented KQCV OKC 800 on the other, now 2.5 kW instead of original 250 watt outlet. Trying to remember its original call from the 1960s when I started, but FCC call sign history can`t either. KQCV also makes it tough to listen to WHB ex-KCMO Kansas City on 810.
1220, Feb 8 at 2052 UT, looking for the Asian station from The Metroplex, but only hearing weak soul/gospel music outlet; a few minutes later, lengthy local commercial by obnoxious pitchman, but could not copy anything pinning it to KTLV Midwest City or OKC, due to splash from 1230 WBBZ Ponca City with music most of the time. Less than an hour later, I was not getting 1220 at all.
FCC shows the 250 watts are direxional with major lobes at 60 and 250 degrees, nulls including 340 degrees, close to Enidward, so it could still be on but with little signal here, while 250 W would be plenty if it were nondirexional. Forget about it at night, 5 watts on same pattern.
NRC AM Log 2009 shows format UC/GOS, which fits, and slogan ``Key To Living Victoriously`` --- gee, I always thought KTLV was supposed to evoke ``Twelve``. And furthermore it`s marked -I for IBOC, if so, certainly undetectable here.
1610, at quiet spots in western Enid one can make out the NWS relay via Great Salt Plains State Park TIS, WQCL720, axually licensed to the town just south, Jet. Quick & Easy leads right to the GE image at http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.742500,-98.132222&=0.03805,0.06727&t=k&hl=en
We located the mast in the park area to the left of the road opposite the airstrip, where BTW, our ``local`` NEXRAD weather radome is located, identified with Vance AFB, both quite a distance away.
1610 used to alternate NWS Enid 162+ MHz relays with local loop of info about attraxions at the park and other towns such as Cherokee, but lately I have heard nothing but NWS so perhaps the old tape wore out after never having been changed for years, turn-it-on-and-forget-it.
Back to the point, on Feb 8 at 2140 I was unusually getting QRM from another 1610 TIS, believe it`s YL voice, making 1 Hz SAH, most likely from the next closest one, Kansas Turnpike Authority, per MW List Quick & Easy: ``WPQG483 Wellington, KS 0.01 nr jct k35 & us 160 hwy``
which provides its own weather and traffic alerts for paying travelers (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. Missed it by that much: at 0146 UT Tue Feb 9 I remembered to check for the SAm broadcast of RNE/RE`s Emisión Sefarad, which I hear Monday mornings at 1425 on 15385, not announced 15325.
Hostess says the 0115-0145 broadcast is on 11780, but at 0146 RNA Brasil is inbooming as usual, some flutter, with ``goooooooooaaaaaaaaallllllll`` remark. Hard to imagine REE being audible here, let alone there, no stronger than the weak REE signal arriving on 11680 --- and the 0115 broadcast is registered B-09 on 11795 which should be clear if axually in use, so let`s hope her announcement in this case is also wrong, but have to wait at least another week to check it out.
Strangely, 11795 is also on the books for the repeat to NAm at 0415 along with 9690 and 9650, but surely only using one of them, 9690 the last we checked, with the others being wooden alternates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KVOH, often absent and either not propagating or off the air, but loud S9+20 signal with Spanish religion on 17775, Feb 8 at 2157. When that`s the case, time to look for its parasitic spurs --- yes, noisy blob around 17921, weak and could not make out any modulation to //, and an even weaker one at matching 17629, both 146 kHz away from fundamental. One semihour later, 17775 had faded to only S9+7 at peaks, and the spurs went below threshold.
BTW, I keep seeing schedules published for this station showing they are also on 9975 morning and/or evening. KVOH does repeatedly register that with FCC and consequently HFCC, Aoki, and even WRTH show it, but don`t you believe it until someone axually hears KVOH on 9975.
Is anyone paying attention to reality, and our reports about it? Only EiBi has got the message NOT to list KVOH on 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Checking around 0136-0140 during the 01-02 UT Tuesday hour Feb 9 whether VOA is still operational as last week? Yes:
A Fondo: best on 7340, good on 9415, barely audible on 11625. No jamming on those, but heavy jamming on R. Martí 6030, 7365, 9825 which are supposedly carrying same program.
Lavwadlamerik: best on 7465, rather poor on 5960, 5835. No 7590.
And WWCR: active on 9980, 7490, 5070 and presumably 5935.
9810 also with Cuban jamming against R. República, along with some rhythmic tones I don`t hear elsewhere, so wonder if that is from the jamming or a bit of RR programming sounders poking thru the noise.
The Feb 8 issue of DX Mix News, Bulgaria shows this as a VT Communications transmission via Rampisham UK:
2300-0400 on 9810 RMP 500 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish
Even tho VT does not admit it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955 WRMI tonight: Pretty good signal at 0140 UT Feb 9 with JSWC reporter, at first I thought DXPL, but I guess it`s Wavescan, scheduled 0115-0145, and apparently no jamming. Are you on the NW antenna yet? (Glenn to Jeff White)
Glenn: That's good to hear. No, we haven't found the problem yet with the NW antenna, but they're working on it off and on. Our consulting engineer is coming back from Panama around Feb. 15th, so my guess is they'll try it again while he's here.
Yes, Yukiko does the JSWC report on both DXPL and Wavescan. I'm not sure if it's the exact same material though (Jeff White, WRMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
lunedì, febbraio 08, 2010
Tre ascolti e due radiofari
Tre BC e due radiofari, i pochi che riesco a ricevere qui in mezzo al qrm
Radio Marti, 5/2, 0430 UTC, 6030 KHz, in spagnolo
http://www.hb9gce.ch/Radio%20Marti_05022010_0430_6030.mp3
WWCR, 7/2, 0800 UTC, 4775 KHz, in inglese
http://www.hb9gce.ch/WWCR_07022010_0800_inglese.mp3
WWCR, 8/2, 0500 UTC, 4775 KHz, in inglese
http://www.hb9gce.ch/WWCR_08022010_0500_4775.mp3
LPS, Les Eplatures, Svizzera, 0422 UTC, 403 KHz
http://www.hb9gce.ch/LPS%20NDB_05022010_0422_403.mp3
HR, Hericourt, Francia, 0423 UTC, 289 KHz
http://www.hb9gce.ch/HR%20NDB_05022010_0423_289.mp3
RX Icom IC-R71E
Ant. ALA1530S outdoor
MFJ-1026 noise cancelling signal enhancer
QTH: Friburgo, 46°48'N / 7°09'E
Andrea www.hb9gce.ch
Radio Marti, 5/2, 0430 UTC, 6030 KHz, in spagnolo
http://www.hb9gce.ch/Radio%20Marti_05022010_0430_6030.mp3
WWCR, 7/2, 0800 UTC, 4775 KHz, in inglese
http://www.hb9gce.ch/WWCR_07022010_0800_inglese.mp3
WWCR, 8/2, 0500 UTC, 4775 KHz, in inglese
http://www.hb9gce.ch/WWCR_08022010_0500_4775.mp3
LPS, Les Eplatures, Svizzera, 0422 UTC, 403 KHz
http://www.hb9gce.ch/LPS%20NDB_05022010_0422_403.mp3
HR, Hericourt, Francia, 0423 UTC, 289 KHz
http://www.hb9gce.ch/HR%20NDB_05022010_0423_289.mp3
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QTH: Friburgo, 46°48'N / 7°09'E
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Giornata mondiale di ascolto radiosonde 21 marzo 2010
La nostra giornata d'ascolto annuale delle Radiosonde avrà luogo, quest'anno, domenica 21 marzo.
Sul sito www.radiosonde.eu c'è una pagina di informazioni. Per ora è inaccessibile salvo direttamente all'indirizzo: http://www.radiosonde.eu/RS09/RS09H/RS09H04.html
Sul sito www.radiosonde.eu c'è una pagina di informazioni. Per ora è inaccessibile salvo direttamente all'indirizzo: http://www.radiosonde.eu/RS09/RS09H/RS09H04.html
Prima di pubblicarla verso la fine della settimana desideriamo sottoporvela per parere.
Abbiamo messo l'essenziale di ciò che è stato fatto l'anno scorso.
73 e grazie in anticipo per le vostre annotazioni.
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Glenn Hauser logs February 8, 2010
** CUBA. So much for lack of jamming against WRMI during its Haitian service at 12-13 M-F on 9955: Feb 8 at 1248 check, nothing but heavy DCJC noise wall vs scheduled UN Radio relay in French. I don`t know whether it was already grinding as early as 1200, but seems the callous Cubans can`t risk anything positive getting thru to Haiti.
Since I have had occasion more than once recently to criticize the atrocious quality of the 11705 transmission relaying Venezuela at 12-13, such as distorted modulation and splatter, it is only fair that I also make note of its fine clear modulation achieved on Feb 8 at 1254 about the Haitian earthquake and Venezuela`s aid, what else? The carrier was still on, open, at 1309 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Feb 8 at 0608, Spanish talk with a bit of reverb, poor signal but with Castilian accent and anyhow there are no LAs on this frequency, so surely RNGE Bata --- or rather RGE, as WRTH 2010 names it just Radiodifusión de Guinea Ecuatorial; nothing audible on 6250 but lots of ute QRM. Oops, WRTH does show a Radio LTC, Juliaca, Perú on 5005 or 5006, but have seen zero reports of that anytime in last few years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI missing again Feb 8 at 1243 check, while RRI 9680 was in well with music. No 9526- either at some other tunebys (tunebies?) in the following bihour. 9680 was airing ``Indonesian opera`` just before 1500 and as usual ran over, this time until 1501. Just as applause started, cut the carrier, so at least this transmitter op is paying some attention to what`s being modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15785.0, instead of 2-3 kHz lower was Galei Tsahal, Feb 8 at 1525 with discussion in Hebrew; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 4800, Feb 8 at 0621, preacher speaking Spanish in conversational tone, what a relief compared to overwrought David Miranda via Brasil 9565 a few minutes earlier; weak but almost readable signal vs CODAR. XERTA is seldom heard here this well, or at all, and must be very low power, tho it does make it to Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. So much for my hypothesis that RTM had quit using 15341 in favor of 15345 as monitored the past couple days: Feb 8 at 1414 they were back on 15341, poor signal and undermodulated Arabic. Sometime during the next hour, probably circa 1500, switched to 15345 where found at next check 1526. I suppose the variation is just a matter of sloppy get-around-to-it operation. Still not detecting HCJB Australia even as a het from 15340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7260, Feb 8 at 1531, VOR English starting Russian by Radio lesson, fair but ham SSB QRM and I bail out. This is 230 degrees from Vladivostok. During same hour R. Liberty in Tajik, 316 degrees from Thailand is also scheduled, but inaudible here. I should think VOR would bother RL reception in Tajikistan, close to its targets from Kashmir to Vietnam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. This Monday Feb 8 I set the alarm to remind me to check REE`s weekly Sephardic service, but of course, remembered this time and did not need the alarm. Already at 1416 open carrier on 15385, but off at 1420*. *1420:30 cut back on with REE IS for three sesquiminutes. 1425 to fanfare and sign-on as ``Radio Nacional de España/Radio Exterior, emisión Sefarad en judeo-español``. YL then announces frequencies for the three transmissions, starting with this one on ``15325`` --- she STILL doesn`t know what frequency she is really on, 15385, but just as well since it`s clear and 15325 is not. Then detailed summary of upcoming program content, so much that I found it hard to imagine how they could cram all that into a semihour.
Nevertheless, no less than the first half was dedicated to an interview with a musician named Paco. He was speaking Castilian and she was speaking JE, but of course they have no trouble understanding each other. Too bad there wasn`t time to hear much of his music. Still, it`s a well-produced show and we loved what music there was. Wrapped up with another frequency schedule announcement, fanfare and off at 1455* sharp. After antenna switch, 15385 back on at *1456:30 for regular REE service in conventional Castilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5790, Feb 8 at 0615 Russian dialog about Ukrainian elexion, shortly mentioning BBC, fair signal but would be better without QRM and overload from Cuban spy cut numbers superstrong 5800. BBCWS English on 5875 was very good. 5790 is 250 kW, 47 degrees from Rampisham at 05-07 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Based on a remark from someone at BBCWS Trust, kimandrewelliott.com assumed that the first week in February was to be the ``last week`` for Connexion Haïti, the special Creole program BBCWS pulled together a week or two after the quake, in the wake of immediate Creole expansion by VOA.
It had been inserted into the Spanish hour, at 1232:30-1252:30 via WHRI 9410 and Guiana French 11860; however, on Friday Feb 5 we heard them say they`d be back the next day, altho unchecked on Saturday and Sunday. Surely this would be gone by Monday, and the Spanish frequencies back to classical music fill?
No. But it almost seemed that way, as the show did not start at the appointed time. When we intuned 9410 Feb 8 at 1237 there was an apology loop in French (not Creole), with music, saying programming was unavailable from BBC Afrique, so check out bbcafrique.com. Afrique? How did that get in here?
But at 1238 axually started Connexion Haïti which thus still exists; perhaps it is being extended, maybe, day to day, or week to week. If it was needed before, it is not needed any less now. This late start should have been just in time to get it finished before the transmissions end at 1300 sharp.
Receptionwise, at the outset 9410 was quite weak and mixed with Chinese QRM, i.e. CNR5 Beijing blocking Fu Hsing, Taiwan, per Aoki, and 11860 was much better, but at 1241, WHRI 9410 rapidly built up to full strength as if someone were turning up the power, but apparently, the morning ionosphere was just getting itself together, now way over the Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, VOA with morning service in Spanish called Enfoque Andino, whose remit would seemingly overlap that of the new evening show with Martí, A Fondo; at 1245 Feb 8 with report from Venezuela, someone highly critical of adopting Haitian `orphans` abroad to such awful places as New York; then anchor asked for people in Venezuela to send photos of what`s going on there, presumably meaning anti-government demonstrations, to comentarios @ voanoticias.com to be published on its website http://www.voanoticias.com --- looking around, I don`t find much of that, but here`s one:
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/latin-america/Niegan-marcha-en-Caracas--83554712.html
At 1310 they were plugging A Fondo, M-F at 8-9 pm on 9825 et al. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. To emphasize my disdain for stupid ballgames, I wanted to see how long I could go without finding out who won the so-called Superbowl, UT Feb 8. That evening I was watching mostly C-SPAN and OETA/PBS; even avoided seeing it surfing past Yahoo headlines, but scanning MW quite by chance I couldn`t help but find out as WOAI was mentioning it just as I tuned across 1200 at 0633 UT, drat! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
Since I have had occasion more than once recently to criticize the atrocious quality of the 11705 transmission relaying Venezuela at 12-13, such as distorted modulation and splatter, it is only fair that I also make note of its fine clear modulation achieved on Feb 8 at 1254 about the Haitian earthquake and Venezuela`s aid, what else? The carrier was still on, open, at 1309 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Feb 8 at 0608, Spanish talk with a bit of reverb, poor signal but with Castilian accent and anyhow there are no LAs on this frequency, so surely RNGE Bata --- or rather RGE, as WRTH 2010 names it just Radiodifusión de Guinea Ecuatorial; nothing audible on 6250 but lots of ute QRM. Oops, WRTH does show a Radio LTC, Juliaca, Perú on 5005 or 5006, but have seen zero reports of that anytime in last few years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI missing again Feb 8 at 1243 check, while RRI 9680 was in well with music. No 9526- either at some other tunebys (tunebies?) in the following bihour. 9680 was airing ``Indonesian opera`` just before 1500 and as usual ran over, this time until 1501. Just as applause started, cut the carrier, so at least this transmitter op is paying some attention to what`s being modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15785.0, instead of 2-3 kHz lower was Galei Tsahal, Feb 8 at 1525 with discussion in Hebrew; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 4800, Feb 8 at 0621, preacher speaking Spanish in conversational tone, what a relief compared to overwrought David Miranda via Brasil 9565 a few minutes earlier; weak but almost readable signal vs CODAR. XERTA is seldom heard here this well, or at all, and must be very low power, tho it does make it to Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. So much for my hypothesis that RTM had quit using 15341 in favor of 15345 as monitored the past couple days: Feb 8 at 1414 they were back on 15341, poor signal and undermodulated Arabic. Sometime during the next hour, probably circa 1500, switched to 15345 where found at next check 1526. I suppose the variation is just a matter of sloppy get-around-to-it operation. Still not detecting HCJB Australia even as a het from 15340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7260, Feb 8 at 1531, VOR English starting Russian by Radio lesson, fair but ham SSB QRM and I bail out. This is 230 degrees from Vladivostok. During same hour R. Liberty in Tajik, 316 degrees from Thailand is also scheduled, but inaudible here. I should think VOR would bother RL reception in Tajikistan, close to its targets from Kashmir to Vietnam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. This Monday Feb 8 I set the alarm to remind me to check REE`s weekly Sephardic service, but of course, remembered this time and did not need the alarm. Already at 1416 open carrier on 15385, but off at 1420*. *1420:30 cut back on with REE IS for three sesquiminutes. 1425 to fanfare and sign-on as ``Radio Nacional de España/Radio Exterior, emisión Sefarad en judeo-español``. YL then announces frequencies for the three transmissions, starting with this one on ``15325`` --- she STILL doesn`t know what frequency she is really on, 15385, but just as well since it`s clear and 15325 is not. Then detailed summary of upcoming program content, so much that I found it hard to imagine how they could cram all that into a semihour.
Nevertheless, no less than the first half was dedicated to an interview with a musician named Paco. He was speaking Castilian and she was speaking JE, but of course they have no trouble understanding each other. Too bad there wasn`t time to hear much of his music. Still, it`s a well-produced show and we loved what music there was. Wrapped up with another frequency schedule announcement, fanfare and off at 1455* sharp. After antenna switch, 15385 back on at *1456:30 for regular REE service in conventional Castilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5790, Feb 8 at 0615 Russian dialog about Ukrainian elexion, shortly mentioning BBC, fair signal but would be better without QRM and overload from Cuban spy cut numbers superstrong 5800. BBCWS English on 5875 was very good. 5790 is 250 kW, 47 degrees from Rampisham at 05-07 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Based on a remark from someone at BBCWS Trust, kimandrewelliott.com assumed that the first week in February was to be the ``last week`` for Connexion Haïti, the special Creole program BBCWS pulled together a week or two after the quake, in the wake of immediate Creole expansion by VOA.
It had been inserted into the Spanish hour, at 1232:30-1252:30 via WHRI 9410 and Guiana French 11860; however, on Friday Feb 5 we heard them say they`d be back the next day, altho unchecked on Saturday and Sunday. Surely this would be gone by Monday, and the Spanish frequencies back to classical music fill?
No. But it almost seemed that way, as the show did not start at the appointed time. When we intuned 9410 Feb 8 at 1237 there was an apology loop in French (not Creole), with music, saying programming was unavailable from BBC Afrique, so check out bbcafrique.com. Afrique? How did that get in here?
But at 1238 axually started Connexion Haïti which thus still exists; perhaps it is being extended, maybe, day to day, or week to week. If it was needed before, it is not needed any less now. This late start should have been just in time to get it finished before the transmissions end at 1300 sharp.
Receptionwise, at the outset 9410 was quite weak and mixed with Chinese QRM, i.e. CNR5 Beijing blocking Fu Hsing, Taiwan, per Aoki, and 11860 was much better, but at 1241, WHRI 9410 rapidly built up to full strength as if someone were turning up the power, but apparently, the morning ionosphere was just getting itself together, now way over the Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, VOA with morning service in Spanish called Enfoque Andino, whose remit would seemingly overlap that of the new evening show with Martí, A Fondo; at 1245 Feb 8 with report from Venezuela, someone highly critical of adopting Haitian `orphans` abroad to such awful places as New York; then anchor asked for people in Venezuela to send photos of what`s going on there, presumably meaning anti-government demonstrations, to comentarios @ voanoticias.com to be published on its website http://www.voanoticias.com --- looking around, I don`t find much of that, but here`s one:
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/latin-america/Niegan-marcha-en-Caracas--83554712.html
At 1310 they were plugging A Fondo, M-F at 8-9 pm on 9825 et al. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. To emphasize my disdain for stupid ballgames, I wanted to see how long I could go without finding out who won the so-called Superbowl, UT Feb 8. That evening I was watching mostly C-SPAN and OETA/PBS; even avoided seeing it surfing past Yahoo headlines, but scanning MW quite by chance I couldn`t help but find out as WOAI was mentioning it just as I tuned across 1200 at 0633 UT, drat! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
WDX6AA Shortwave Radio Logs
ARGENTINA Radio Nacional 15345 2238 Spanish 333 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments.
AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 15560 2345 English 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments on spots events.
CHINA Music Jammer 15430 2343 Jammer music 444 Feb 6 Overpowering Radio Free Asia via the North Mariannas.
COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana-REE 15125 2233 Spanish 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments.
CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 13770 2215 Spanish 333 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments. OM with RHC ID 2217. YL and OM with more comments 2219. //13790[333], 11800[333], 11770[333] and 9660[333].
NORTH MARIANNAS VOA Relay 13725 2227 Creole 333 Feb 6 OM with comments.
PHILIPPINES Radio Veritas Asia-RVA 15280 2235 Mandarin 333 Feb 6 Two OMs with comments.
UNITED STATES, Greenville VOA 15390 2244 Creole 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments to 2258. Music interlude to 2300. VOA IS and off the air 2300.
Starting Friday night Feb 5th we had a big rainstorm come through Southern California. It caused many mud slides in the inland areas. It all ended around 11pm that evening. Today the 6th is a bright and sunny day!!
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 15560 2345 English 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments on spots events.
CHINA Music Jammer 15430 2343 Jammer music 444 Feb 6 Overpowering Radio Free Asia via the North Mariannas.
COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana-REE 15125 2233 Spanish 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments.
CUBA Radio Habana Cuba-RHC 13770 2215 Spanish 333 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments. OM with RHC ID 2217. YL and OM with more comments 2219. //13790[333], 11800[333], 11770[333] and 9660[333].
NORTH MARIANNAS VOA Relay 13725 2227 Creole 333 Feb 6 OM with comments.
PHILIPPINES Radio Veritas Asia-RVA 15280 2235 Mandarin 333 Feb 6 Two OMs with comments.
UNITED STATES, Greenville VOA 15390 2244 Creole 433 Feb 6 YL and OM with comments to 2258. Music interlude to 2300. VOA IS and off the air 2300.
Starting Friday night Feb 5th we had a big rainstorm come through Southern California. It caused many mud slides in the inland areas. It all ended around 11pm that evening. Today the 6th is a bright and sunny day!!
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
domenica, febbraio 07, 2010
Glenn Hauser logs February 6-7, 2010
** AUSTRALIA. 11660, RA at 1433 Sunday Feb 7, quiz asking ``what mythical Hindu bird is similar to the Phoenix?`` Contestant needed a hint: Indonesian airline. This is during the 4-hour, except for news on the hour ``Sunday Nights`` program at 12-16 per the RA program schedule:
``The program features talkback on an issue of topical interest (usually the first hour), an in-depth interview, the popular Inquizition quiz, great music, and the One O'Clock Chat Room.
Presenter: John Cleary``, see http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/
RA is currently scheduled on 11660, 13-17, 329 degrees from Shepparton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Arnie Coro`s henchmen at the DentroCuban Jamming Command are still attacking his former colleague at RHC, Keith Perron: UT Sunday Feb 7 at 0613, a repeat of Happy Station on WRMI 9955 vs jamming pulses. See USA: WRMI for more.
11760, Sunday Feb 7 at 1539 with VG signal unlike weekdays when they have switched to the other antenna/transmitter which is weaker at midday. Probably because still on same setup as for Esperanto 1500-1530 Sundays only. 1539 program had some memorias culturales of Cuban musicians in New York, during Formalmente Informal, which is normally heard weekdays at 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9560, Sunday Feb 7 at 1534 station in Chinese, with het whose pitch was constantly wavering. No doubt the latter is the perpetually off-frequency Ethiopia. Per WRTH, at 15-16 it`s carrying the clandestine Voice of Democratic Alliance, headquartered in Khartoum, against Eritrea, at the moment in Tigrinya, and also using Arabic, Afar, Kunama depending on day of week and which half hour. Aoki shows the Chinese as CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, ERT at 0650 Feb 7, fun music which another listener evaluated as ``beer drinking songs``, due to wavering amateur pitches and general level of enthusiasm, but this was really the Sunday morning trihour Voice of Greece dedicates to Greek Orthodox services, where there is no separation of church and state broadcaster.
But just as we were getting into it, cut off abruptly without announcement, explanation or apology, at 0652:35*. Yes, it`s time to retune that Avlis to 12105, come hell or high water. All we could do was retune to // 9420 for continuation, but much weaker there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. 11940, at 1430 Feb 7, English ID from KSDA, Agat, introducing program in a language I could not catch, due to co-channel from Romania. Aoki says it`s Karen daily following Chin daily at 1400-1430. Coincidentally, both stations are aiming 285 degrees from their respective sites, RRI`s being Galbeni, which due to their wide separation means there should be no conflict --- except way off here in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. RTVM still on 15345 instead of 15341, Feb 7 at 1424, Arabic with perpetual whine out of transmitter. Have they also left 15341 completely earlier in the day? Morocco does not participate in HFCC, but we can`t help but wonder if as part of the just-concluded conference in Kuala Lumpur, representative of HCJB Australia somehow prevailed upon Morocco to get off 15341, especially since they weren`t running it on 15340, and always causing a het to HCJB using 15340 at 1145-1530, 307 degrees from Kununurra to Asia.
Aoki`s latest info was for B-08: `15340`, 09-15, RTVM, 250 kW, 110 degrees from Nador, then 15345 same parameters at 15-22. Making a shift at 1500 from 15340/1 to 15345 may have originally had some interference-avoiding purpose, no longer vigent and may as well be on 15345 from 0900.
Axually, in the best of all possible worlds, the current situation calls for RTVM to shift from 15345 back to 15340 sometime between 1530 and 1700 or 1800, liberating 15345 for ARGENTINA! Fat chance.
RAE was supposedly developing some kind of relationship with HFCC short of full participation requiring payment of dues, much less attending conferences in person. Did the Moroccans even show up as informal observers when a recent HFCC was held in nextdoor Tunisia? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. VOR`s English to NAm frequencies in the 06-07 UT hour, 9840 and 9855, from Pet/Kam and Vladivostok respectively, have not been making it here the past several weeks during the darkest nights of winter; but a bit of solar flux and tilting toward spring helped audiblize them Feb 7 at 0646, during some story-telling.
As before, 9840 quite a bit stronger than 9855, but 9840 has co-channel QRM under from the other Russian transmission from Moscow area in a prime example of self-defeating frequency planning. // 12030 if still in use, is even less likely to propagate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Another check of the collision on 15670, Sunday Feb 7: already on at 1418, not anything African, but Celine Dion with some of her popular hits, still at 1427; and ``We Are the World`` on and on at 1437, presumably including her participation. Is this really being outsent by Miraya FM from Sudan, or from somewhere else as prélude to the intentional relay via Rimavská Sobota, SLOVAKIA?
By 1459 reception had worsened, still music; 1504 could tell they were now in expected programming, mixing English and Arabic about Southern Sudan.
At 1513 the fluttery 15670 signal had SAH, I think, from the Pridnestrovye transmitter already upwarming open carrier as also noted yesterday. At 1529, the Russian tuneup tones were ending and 1530 starting Radio Mada audio mixing about equally with Miraya and SAH of almost 3 Hz.
Alfredo Cotroneo of NEXUS says there is no QRM from Mada in Miraya`s Sudan target area, so doesn`t plan to move. That may be, but Madagascar is only 10 degrees away from the 160-degree azimuth out of Slovakia, so Mada listeners are likely to have a problem with Miraya.
Anyhow, there`s no point in going head to head when plenty of clear frequencies are available nearby such as 15660 and 15680, where Miraya should have gone in the first place, ex-9825. Altho Mada was on 15670 first, since its usage is relatively brief, it should make the shift. Tune in next weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9440, Feb 7 at 0647 XYLs discussing, with babies constantly crying and wailing in the background (thus I assume the women are not mere YLs). 0658 mention BBC World Service, and Nigeria, off at 0659:30. Had not noticed this before, Hausa via Ascension at 0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA
** U S A. While 15390 was missing for a while, it`s back as the third frequency for the 22-23 UT hour of Lavwadlamerik, Feb 6 at 2221 check // 13725 and 11905. Also reconfirmed 7590 still in use at least during the 00-01 hour, at 0013 Feb 7.
A Fondo, the new VOA/Martí collaboration, was originally announced as M-F only, tho still listed on the VOA A-Z schedule as daily 01-02. But nothing on 7340, 9415 and 11625 at 0140 check Feb 7, so it really is off weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO confirmed on new 4775 via WWCR, UT Sundays 0330, checked Feb 7, ex-5070. Our apologies to the Djiboutians, and those who would DX them, but it was not our idea. I suppose it`s still possible if they turn 4780 on a few minutes before 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955: at 1503 Feb 7, R. Prague relay in English fairly audible without jamming; more of a problem, overload from PPP WWCR 9980. 1536 during Baseball Mexico, Bruce Baskin mentioning various teams including the Chihuahua somethings. This certainly is a curious program, but he does his best to make an obscure subject interesting in a non-native language.
WORLD OF RADIO reconfirmed after 1615 Sunday when I was only checking webcast. 16-18 UT programming on weekends repeats at 18-20, i.e. WORLD OF RADIO again at 1815. At 1825 check, I could hear nothing but jamming on 9955, wondering if WRMI is now on the air, but WOR confirmed repeating then on webcast.
Yet another playback of WOR is on the schedule for 2000 UT Sunday; can anyone hear that on 9955? It`s the last until Tuesday at 1630 and new UT Wednesday 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More jamming: see CUBA
** U S A [and non]. 11715, KJES at 1432 Feb 7, steady S9+12 dominating Lampertheim, kids singing with guitar, then into robokids copying catechisms prompted by adult. Wanted to tell whether RVA relay via Vatican during the next hour was mass in English instead of Tagalog as heard a few Sundays ago, but still too much KJES to discern that, also causing low het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Aló, Presidente check Sunday Feb 7 at 1824: all five frequencies via CUBA audible with El Hugazo speaking, in order of decreasing strength: 12010, 13750, 11690, 17750, 13680. But 11690 had SAH and co-channel in Hausa, i.e. DW via RWANDA during this hour. I never catch exactly when A,P is starting now; has anyone? RHC long ago gave up doing its own prologue from 1400, despite displaying that on its schedules. And where`s Calabazo?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15570, once again with strong open carrier, and some hum, Feb 7 at 1500, splatter from Portugal 15560. Presumably Greenville test before coming up later on 15580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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RA is currently scheduled on 11660, 13-17, 329 degrees from Shepparton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Arnie Coro`s henchmen at the DentroCuban Jamming Command are still attacking his former colleague at RHC, Keith Perron: UT Sunday Feb 7 at 0613, a repeat of Happy Station on WRMI 9955 vs jamming pulses. See USA: WRMI for more.
11760, Sunday Feb 7 at 1539 with VG signal unlike weekdays when they have switched to the other antenna/transmitter which is weaker at midday. Probably because still on same setup as for Esperanto 1500-1530 Sundays only. 1539 program had some memorias culturales of Cuban musicians in New York, during Formalmente Informal, which is normally heard weekdays at 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9560, Sunday Feb 7 at 1534 station in Chinese, with het whose pitch was constantly wavering. No doubt the latter is the perpetually off-frequency Ethiopia. Per WRTH, at 15-16 it`s carrying the clandestine Voice of Democratic Alliance, headquartered in Khartoum, against Eritrea, at the moment in Tigrinya, and also using Arabic, Afar, Kunama depending on day of week and which half hour. Aoki shows the Chinese as CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, ERT at 0650 Feb 7, fun music which another listener evaluated as ``beer drinking songs``, due to wavering amateur pitches and general level of enthusiasm, but this was really the Sunday morning trihour Voice of Greece dedicates to Greek Orthodox services, where there is no separation of church and state broadcaster.
But just as we were getting into it, cut off abruptly without announcement, explanation or apology, at 0652:35*. Yes, it`s time to retune that Avlis to 12105, come hell or high water. All we could do was retune to // 9420 for continuation, but much weaker there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. 11940, at 1430 Feb 7, English ID from KSDA, Agat, introducing program in a language I could not catch, due to co-channel from Romania. Aoki says it`s Karen daily following Chin daily at 1400-1430. Coincidentally, both stations are aiming 285 degrees from their respective sites, RRI`s being Galbeni, which due to their wide separation means there should be no conflict --- except way off here in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. RTVM still on 15345 instead of 15341, Feb 7 at 1424, Arabic with perpetual whine out of transmitter. Have they also left 15341 completely earlier in the day? Morocco does not participate in HFCC, but we can`t help but wonder if as part of the just-concluded conference in Kuala Lumpur, representative of HCJB Australia somehow prevailed upon Morocco to get off 15341, especially since they weren`t running it on 15340, and always causing a het to HCJB using 15340 at 1145-1530, 307 degrees from Kununurra to Asia.
Aoki`s latest info was for B-08: `15340`, 09-15, RTVM, 250 kW, 110 degrees from Nador, then 15345 same parameters at 15-22. Making a shift at 1500 from 15340/1 to 15345 may have originally had some interference-avoiding purpose, no longer vigent and may as well be on 15345 from 0900.
Axually, in the best of all possible worlds, the current situation calls for RTVM to shift from 15345 back to 15340 sometime between 1530 and 1700 or 1800, liberating 15345 for ARGENTINA! Fat chance.
RAE was supposedly developing some kind of relationship with HFCC short of full participation requiring payment of dues, much less attending conferences in person. Did the Moroccans even show up as informal observers when a recent HFCC was held in nextdoor Tunisia? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. VOR`s English to NAm frequencies in the 06-07 UT hour, 9840 and 9855, from Pet/Kam and Vladivostok respectively, have not been making it here the past several weeks during the darkest nights of winter; but a bit of solar flux and tilting toward spring helped audiblize them Feb 7 at 0646, during some story-telling.
As before, 9840 quite a bit stronger than 9855, but 9840 has co-channel QRM under from the other Russian transmission from Moscow area in a prime example of self-defeating frequency planning. // 12030 if still in use, is even less likely to propagate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Another check of the collision on 15670, Sunday Feb 7: already on at 1418, not anything African, but Celine Dion with some of her popular hits, still at 1427; and ``We Are the World`` on and on at 1437, presumably including her participation. Is this really being outsent by Miraya FM from Sudan, or from somewhere else as prélude to the intentional relay via Rimavská Sobota, SLOVAKIA?
By 1459 reception had worsened, still music; 1504 could tell they were now in expected programming, mixing English and Arabic about Southern Sudan.
At 1513 the fluttery 15670 signal had SAH, I think, from the Pridnestrovye transmitter already upwarming open carrier as also noted yesterday. At 1529, the Russian tuneup tones were ending and 1530 starting Radio Mada audio mixing about equally with Miraya and SAH of almost 3 Hz.
Alfredo Cotroneo of NEXUS says there is no QRM from Mada in Miraya`s Sudan target area, so doesn`t plan to move. That may be, but Madagascar is only 10 degrees away from the 160-degree azimuth out of Slovakia, so Mada listeners are likely to have a problem with Miraya.
Anyhow, there`s no point in going head to head when plenty of clear frequencies are available nearby such as 15660 and 15680, where Miraya should have gone in the first place, ex-9825. Altho Mada was on 15670 first, since its usage is relatively brief, it should make the shift. Tune in next weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9440, Feb 7 at 0647 XYLs discussing, with babies constantly crying and wailing in the background (thus I assume the women are not mere YLs). 0658 mention BBC World Service, and Nigeria, off at 0659:30. Had not noticed this before, Hausa via Ascension at 0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA
** U S A. While 15390 was missing for a while, it`s back as the third frequency for the 22-23 UT hour of Lavwadlamerik, Feb 6 at 2221 check // 13725 and 11905. Also reconfirmed 7590 still in use at least during the 00-01 hour, at 0013 Feb 7.
A Fondo, the new VOA/Martí collaboration, was originally announced as M-F only, tho still listed on the VOA A-Z schedule as daily 01-02. But nothing on 7340, 9415 and 11625 at 0140 check Feb 7, so it really is off weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO confirmed on new 4775 via WWCR, UT Sundays 0330, checked Feb 7, ex-5070. Our apologies to the Djiboutians, and those who would DX them, but it was not our idea. I suppose it`s still possible if they turn 4780 on a few minutes before 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955: at 1503 Feb 7, R. Prague relay in English fairly audible without jamming; more of a problem, overload from PPP WWCR 9980. 1536 during Baseball Mexico, Bruce Baskin mentioning various teams including the Chihuahua somethings. This certainly is a curious program, but he does his best to make an obscure subject interesting in a non-native language.
WORLD OF RADIO reconfirmed after 1615 Sunday when I was only checking webcast. 16-18 UT programming on weekends repeats at 18-20, i.e. WORLD OF RADIO again at 1815. At 1825 check, I could hear nothing but jamming on 9955, wondering if WRMI is now on the air, but WOR confirmed repeating then on webcast.
Yet another playback of WOR is on the schedule for 2000 UT Sunday; can anyone hear that on 9955? It`s the last until Tuesday at 1630 and new UT Wednesday 0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More jamming: see CUBA
** U S A [and non]. 11715, KJES at 1432 Feb 7, steady S9+12 dominating Lampertheim, kids singing with guitar, then into robokids copying catechisms prompted by adult. Wanted to tell whether RVA relay via Vatican during the next hour was mass in English instead of Tagalog as heard a few Sundays ago, but still too much KJES to discern that, also causing low het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Aló, Presidente check Sunday Feb 7 at 1824: all five frequencies via CUBA audible with El Hugazo speaking, in order of decreasing strength: 12010, 13750, 11690, 17750, 13680. But 11690 had SAH and co-channel in Hausa, i.e. DW via RWANDA during this hour. I never catch exactly when A,P is starting now; has anyone? RHC long ago gave up doing its own prologue from 1400, despite displaying that on its schedules. And where`s Calabazo?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15570, once again with strong open carrier, and some hum, Feb 7 at 1500, splatter from Portugal 15560. Presumably Greenville test before coming up later on 15580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
WDX6AA Shortwave Radio Logs
ARGENTINA Radio Argentina Exterior-RAE 15345 2240 Spanish 333 Feb 5 YL with comments and some vocal music.
AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 15560 2235 English 433 Feb 5 Two YLs with comments on making movies in Australia. //15230[333].
BONIARE Radio Japan-NHK Relay 17605 2220 Japanese 433 Feb 5 Two Oms interviewing and OM. YL with comments 2222. //11665[333].
CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 15305 2245 Portuguese 333 Feb 5 Two YLs in a conversation. Pop band music 2247. //11990[333].
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13650 2308 Japanese 433 Feb 5 YL and OM with comments. China CRI via Cuba on the same frequency causing qrm to RJ.
NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 17675 2213 English 433 Feb 5 Two YLs in a conversation on the usefullness of Public Debates.
PHILIPPINES Radio Veritas Asia-RVA 15280 2249 Mandarin 333 Feb 5 YL with vocal music. YL with RVA ID 2257. Suddenly off the air 2258.
UNITED STATES, Cypress Creek Voice of Germany Relay-VOG 15640 2230 German 444 Feb 5 DW IS then YL and OM with comments. //12025[333]Rwanda and 11865[333]Portugal.
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AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 15560 2235 English 433 Feb 5 Two YLs with comments on making movies in Australia. //15230[333].
BONIARE Radio Japan-NHK Relay 17605 2220 Japanese 433 Feb 5 Two Oms interviewing and OM. YL with comments 2222. //11665[333].
CANADA Radio Canada Intl-RCI 15305 2245 Portuguese 333 Feb 5 Two YLs in a conversation. Pop band music 2247. //11990[333].
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13650 2308 Japanese 433 Feb 5 YL and OM with comments. China CRI via Cuba on the same frequency causing qrm to RJ.
NEW ZEALAND Radio New Zealand Intl-RNZI 17675 2213 English 433 Feb 5 Two YLs in a conversation on the usefullness of Public Debates.
PHILIPPINES Radio Veritas Asia-RVA 15280 2249 Mandarin 333 Feb 5 YL with vocal music. YL with RVA ID 2257. Suddenly off the air 2258.
UNITED STATES, Cypress Creek Voice of Germany Relay-VOG 15640 2230 German 444 Feb 5 DW IS then YL and OM with comments. //12025[333]Rwanda and 11865[333]Portugal.
Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
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Glenn Hauser logs February 6, 2010
** ANGUILLA [and non]. Another screwup by The University Network audio feed, occurring anywhere from LA to International Vacuum, but not at the hapless/helpless SW transmitter sites: Feb 6 at 0636, 6090 Anguilla mostly dead air with bits of PMS audio occasionally cutting on. Exactly the same thing is happening on 5935 WWCR at 0639 check. Allows us to enjoy the het from Nigeria 6090v with less QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** ASIA [non]. 12035, Feb 6 at 1520, screaming American-accented gospel huxter about the dark age we are in; around 1530 I was engrossed with 15670 so missed ID if any, but at 1532-1545*, 12035 was wasting kilowatts with open carrier only.
This is Bible Voice Broadcasting scheduled via Wertachtal, GERMANY, due east with 100 kW, English, Urdu or Punjabi depending on day of week and quarter-hour. Aoki shows it at 1500-1615 but nothing on day 7 = Saturday, so it must be highly flexible. A DTK schedule instead shows Saturday span is 1515-1545. Who pays for the 15 minutes of dead air? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 6185, RNA cut on *0632 Feb 6, obliterating music from XEPPM with its own music; how rude! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13670, Feb 6 at 1515 YL talk in French, then song vs splatter from 13675 CRI via CANADA, confidently list-logged as CRI via Cërrik, ALBANIA, as scheduled, ChiCom vs ChiCom! But widely divergent targets supposedly not QRMing each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** CUBA [and non]. 9955, DentroCuban Jamming Command noise wall obliterating WRMI before 1500 Sat Feb 6 when WORLD OF RADIO is scheduled. Standard denunciation of Arnie Coro for allowing this against a fellow DX program. And he pretends to be ``our friend in Habana``??!! At 1500 jamming as usual abated somewhat so we could tell that WRMI was still relaying R. Prague in English. But at 1657 recheck nothing but jamming audible.
11600, jamming vs presumed Radio República, grinding away Feb 6 at 1658; no doubt started as usual one hour earlier.
13770, RHC`s weak but long-hours frequency all day in Spanish, Feb 6 at 1702 had weaker station under. AIR in Hindi, 500 kW, 300 degrees from Bangaluru is scheduled at 1615-1730, and nothing else, per Aoki.
As an outlaw nation, Cuba refuses to participate in HFCC, so all others may unsafely assume RHC is not on any particular frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Having heard a quarter hour of open carrier at 1530 on 12035, see ASIA [non], I was not too surprised to hear more OC on frequency at 1701, no audio until 1703, YL news in French joined in progress; not // 15300 so not RFI but this is something else. 1705 all is revealed with DW jingle and ID as to Africa. This hour is scheduled via Woofferton UK, following a previous hour of same via Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750, RRI Makassar, SSOB, Feb 6 at 1420 in long-form piece of familiar piano music I wish I could place, with YL narration in Indonesian, later breaking into song. Must have been a `good Indonesian morning` on 60m if only I had been monitoring earlier. 5030 Malaysia also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, Feb 6 at 1440 YL monolog in Japanese, then Korean, 1444 definitely Japanese, unusually strong signal muscling aside even the DentroCuban jamming against WRMI on 9955. At 1450 she was announcing e-mail and website, using English letters, but so Japanese-accented that I could not copy them, except for .jp. Off at 1459:30*.
Must be mixing languages, but this is officially the Japanese version of Furusato no Kaze, one of the clandestines concerned with abduxions by the North Koreans, site being PALAU at 1430-1500, while their other transmitter on 9930 also closed at same time; see USA [non].
As on WORLD OF RADIO 1498, Hiroshi and S. Hasegawa gave us the current schedule for these via Taiwan and Palau, as of Feb 2, post-Darwin:
Furusato no Kaze in Japanese
1333-1357 9775 via TWN (ex 9950)
1430-1500 9950 via PLW (ex 9880 via Darwin)
1600-1630 9780 via TWN
Ilbone Baram (Nippon no Kaze) in Korean
1300-1330 9655 via TWN
1500-1530 9975 via PLW (ex 9690 via Darwin)
1530-1600 9965 via PLW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 7590, Feb 6 at 1533 oscillating Juche jammer against something weak under, i.e. North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, 15-16, 100 kW, 65 degrees per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 7540, V. of Mesopotamia with typical Kurdish music, Feb 6 at 1533, fair with flutter. Not often heard here unlike regular 11530 before 1500 QSY. Both are 129 degrees from ``Simferopol``, UKRAINE, meaning really Mykolaiv as in Ukrainian, Nikolayev as in Russian. I get the spelling differences toward the end, but not why one starts with M and the other with N.
BTW, at least half the time, it seems, English-writers misspell ``Ukrainian`` leaving out the I in the middle, despite the fact that the natives stress that very letter, not allowing it to be swallowed as merely a member of a diphthong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. R. Mada, 15670 now colliding with Miraya FM: see SUDAN [non]
** OKLAHOMA. KFAQ 1170 Tulsa IBOC is still off at 1555 UT check Feb 6; I am beginning to be hopeful (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, BSKSA still buzz-free, Feb 6 at 1505, good with Qur`an, only light squeal/whine to mar it.
Just how long was the buzz going on? Searching on that keyword in my DXLD archive, the first reference I found was in 5-021, when Wolfgang Büschel reported it February 1, 2005, on 21460 and 21495; more in 5-029 on 21, 17 and 9 MHz channels, March 2, 2005, but already had been buzzing ``for some months``.
The first buzz report on 15435 was in 6-140 for Sept 19, 2006, from yours truly. We still need to confirm whether the buzz also be gone from the same transmitter on other frequencies at times other than 15-18 UT. It`s probably on 21495 or one of the other seldom-propagating 13m channels until 1500. We had also been hearing abuzz recently on 11785, possibly from a second defective unit.
Later monitoring Feb 6, 2010 at 1647: 15435 still very good, stronger than // 15205 now on the air, again with Qur`an, and that stronger than // 15225 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. While other 16m signals are so-so, REE still inbooms on 17595, Feb 6 at 1650 with modern classical piano music. Tuned on up to 17850 // via Costa Rica, at 1654 outroing piece as ``Fracciones Líricas``, and 1655 outro program title ``América Mágica``, as on schedule grid for 16-17 Saturday hour only. From the title, you would never guess it deals with contemporary classical Latin American music.
Equally huge but lo-fi signal on 17850 was atop much weaker co-channel despite lots of open spaces on 16m, so outmatched that it was hard to compute the SAH around 3.5 Hz. It had a French touch, and sure enough, that`s RFI in French at 16-17, 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun.
11765, at 1659 Feb 6, REE IS at VG level about equal to Habana 11760; 1700 accurate timesignal, fanfare and Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA, Sat Feb 6 at 1430 with ID, promo music, poor. I had warned both WRN and IRRS about the impending collision between this and R. Mada, which has been using 15670 via Pridnestrovye, only on Sat & Sun at 1530-1600 for many weeks, but they did not manage to untangle in time. Maybe by next day or next week?
As early as 1508, I detected an open carrier mixing with Miraya, making a 2.8 Hz SAH, so Mada transmitter is on, way early. Rate varied slightly either due to transmitter warmup/instability or Doppler disruptions in transit.
At 1528 recheck, the OC had added ``Russian tuneup tones`` vs Miraya. At 1530 their audios were mixing at about equal levels here, intolerable, and likely as bad in Sudan and Madagascar, except both of them much stronger in target zones. At 1539, one had hilifish music, the other talk; at 1550 both were mixing music.
Meanwhile, nothing at all heard on 15660, 15665, 15675 or 15680, so this could be easily solved by one of them shifting to one of those. Nothing scheduled either on any except WHRI on 15665, but they aren`t really using it, at least not this early, one of countless wooden WHR registrations.
Next check at 1625, Miraya again had 15670 to itself, good but with increased flutter. Is it now closing at 17 instead of 18 since it`s starting an hour earlier at 14? Unchecked after 17.
The poor Sudanese (or are they fortunate?) have a logjam of target broadcasts from abroad; see also next item, Dabanga. At the same time as Miraya, there is Sudan Radio Service on 17745 via PORTUGAL, at 1511 Feb 6 in English with drums and hilife music. Supposedly there is more English on Saturdays than elsewhen. SRS still good at 1653 with choral music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. Unidentified 13800, continuous tone test of about 1 kHz (not a het on just one side), Feb 6 at 1703 mixing with station in Arabic or similar. So R. Dabanga service to Sudan via MADAGASCAR at 1529-1727 has an interference problem tho nothing else is listed; or could it be a form of jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 11850, ``this day in history`` segment making some of the same points as on VOA at :27 past the hours, Feb 6 at 1709, fair signal in clear from R. Taiwan International, ID, a cappella singer joined by others briefly, then Charlie Stark introducing features for rest of English hour starting at 1711 with ``Occidental Tourist`` tale of mystix and doppelgangers, prompted by a Facebook week. This broadcast is 160 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Collision on 9930: Feb 6 at 1440 I am hearing an American preacher, good signal atop some weaker audio. Preacher is certainly T8WH PALAU, registered here at 0700-1800, and underneath is VOA via SRI LANKA at 1400-1600. Azimuths are 345 and 322 degrees, respectively, which means a worse clash likely in Asia, altho the CIRAF target zones are officially distinct, 43-45 and 41, respectively. 1457, plug for WHR Bible giveaway and off by 1459, uncovering VOA weak and fluttery, but apparently they are about to sign off too.
Now I check VOA on 9760 at 1502: yes, it`s back with English news via Philippines, instead of R. Farda as heard yesterday, which I suppose was a horrible mistake.
15460, Feb 6 at 1506 poor signal with flutter from VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish, but better than 9930 had been. Not noticed on 15460 before; this is Thailand at 166 degrees, 15-16 UT only.
15620, Feb 6 at 1645, urgent-sounding speech in an HOA language. Aoki shows VOA Somali. This is that wacky 2-hour transmission 16-18 with a site change every semi-hour, just to keep the Somalis on their toes and/or all the IBB transmitter techs.
At 16 it`s 10 degrees from Botswana; at 1630 it`s 135 from Wertachtal, GERMANY; 1700 it`s 263 from Sri Lanka; 1730 it`s 76 from São Tomé. I wonder if they all manage to drop carrier immediately and crash start in order to avoid interfering with each other at handovers.
Check of Lavwadlamerik`s mid-day Creole service to Haiti, Feb 6 at 1729, some music already playing apparently as a prélude, on 15390, or have they really expanded that broadcast too earlier into the morning when not checked? Anyhow at 1730 cut to ``Welcome to the Voice of America --- in Creole!`` as if just starting then.
Washington host then spent the next three minutes trying to bring up counterparts in Miami with no success; live radio! Also on 17565, and after 1930, 15390 is still on the air until 2100, with 13725 also still heard after then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17575 at 1650 Feb 6, HOA music. Is AWR in Somali via France at 1630-1700, 250 kW at 125 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 700, Feb 6 at 1607 on the caradio I hear KHSE, The Metroplex, TX, in English! Usually is in some S Asian language. YL opens program of the India Association of North Texas, inviting calls to studio at a 214-AC number for requests and dedications, soon into Indian music.
Last time I logged this in Sept, found program schedule at http://funasia.net/Files/rad_saturday.html
At ``10-12 AM`` Saturday host is Shabnam Modgil, program is Radio Bharti, and the content is ``India Association Of North Texas``. You can`t really tell from this schedule which programs are in English unless the title includes Punjabi or something, and even then could be bilingual. I see that during various unsold hours, the default is nonstop music.
Besides the splash from KGGF-690 KS, this morning I am hearing a weaker signal underneath on 700. I suppose the 15 kW in Houston with its unfavorable pattern tho not a null is about as likely as remnant WLW 50 kW non-direxional, less than twice as far. Salt Lake aims due south even daytimes, per NRC Pattern Book.
Meanwhile, 720 bore two weak signals with the typical SAH between KSAH TX and WGN IL. Running only 1.5 kW, KHSE would be much better here were it not for its own null (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15570, big open carrier at 1507 Feb 6, even stronger than Portugal 15560, but some splatter from it. Surely another Greenville test in lieu of 15580 which they will use later. Still or again OC on 15570 at next check 1646, much stronger than VOA 15580 with African music, site for that being São Tomé at 15-17, pending switch to Greenville at 1700, very likely from the same transmitter standing by on 15570 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ASIA [non]. 12035, Feb 6 at 1520, screaming American-accented gospel huxter about the dark age we are in; around 1530 I was engrossed with 15670 so missed ID if any, but at 1532-1545*, 12035 was wasting kilowatts with open carrier only.
This is Bible Voice Broadcasting scheduled via Wertachtal, GERMANY, due east with 100 kW, English, Urdu or Punjabi depending on day of week and quarter-hour. Aoki shows it at 1500-1615 but nothing on day 7 = Saturday, so it must be highly flexible. A DTK schedule instead shows Saturday span is 1515-1545. Who pays for the 15 minutes of dead air? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 6185, RNA cut on *0632 Feb 6, obliterating music from XEPPM with its own music; how rude! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13670, Feb 6 at 1515 YL talk in French, then song vs splatter from 13675 CRI via CANADA, confidently list-logged as CRI via Cërrik, ALBANIA, as scheduled, ChiCom vs ChiCom! But widely divergent targets supposedly not QRMing each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** CUBA [and non]. 9955, DentroCuban Jamming Command noise wall obliterating WRMI before 1500 Sat Feb 6 when WORLD OF RADIO is scheduled. Standard denunciation of Arnie Coro for allowing this against a fellow DX program. And he pretends to be ``our friend in Habana``??!! At 1500 jamming as usual abated somewhat so we could tell that WRMI was still relaying R. Prague in English. But at 1657 recheck nothing but jamming audible.
11600, jamming vs presumed Radio República, grinding away Feb 6 at 1658; no doubt started as usual one hour earlier.
13770, RHC`s weak but long-hours frequency all day in Spanish, Feb 6 at 1702 had weaker station under. AIR in Hindi, 500 kW, 300 degrees from Bangaluru is scheduled at 1615-1730, and nothing else, per Aoki.
As an outlaw nation, Cuba refuses to participate in HFCC, so all others may unsafely assume RHC is not on any particular frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Having heard a quarter hour of open carrier at 1530 on 12035, see ASIA [non], I was not too surprised to hear more OC on frequency at 1701, no audio until 1703, YL news in French joined in progress; not // 15300 so not RFI but this is something else. 1705 all is revealed with DW jingle and ID as to Africa. This hour is scheduled via Woofferton UK, following a previous hour of same via Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750, RRI Makassar, SSOB, Feb 6 at 1420 in long-form piece of familiar piano music I wish I could place, with YL narration in Indonesian, later breaking into song. Must have been a `good Indonesian morning` on 60m if only I had been monitoring earlier. 5030 Malaysia also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, Feb 6 at 1440 YL monolog in Japanese, then Korean, 1444 definitely Japanese, unusually strong signal muscling aside even the DentroCuban jamming against WRMI on 9955. At 1450 she was announcing e-mail and website, using English letters, but so Japanese-accented that I could not copy them, except for .jp. Off at 1459:30*.
Must be mixing languages, but this is officially the Japanese version of Furusato no Kaze, one of the clandestines concerned with abduxions by the North Koreans, site being PALAU at 1430-1500, while their other transmitter on 9930 also closed at same time; see USA [non].
As on WORLD OF RADIO 1498, Hiroshi and S. Hasegawa gave us the current schedule for these via Taiwan and Palau, as of Feb 2, post-Darwin:
Furusato no Kaze in Japanese
1333-1357 9775 via TWN (ex 9950)
1430-1500 9950 via PLW (ex 9880 via Darwin)
1600-1630 9780 via TWN
Ilbone Baram (Nippon no Kaze) in Korean
1300-1330 9655 via TWN
1500-1530 9975 via PLW (ex 9690 via Darwin)
1530-1600 9965 via PLW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 7590, Feb 6 at 1533 oscillating Juche jammer against something weak under, i.e. North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, 15-16, 100 kW, 65 degrees per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 7540, V. of Mesopotamia with typical Kurdish music, Feb 6 at 1533, fair with flutter. Not often heard here unlike regular 11530 before 1500 QSY. Both are 129 degrees from ``Simferopol``, UKRAINE, meaning really Mykolaiv as in Ukrainian, Nikolayev as in Russian. I get the spelling differences toward the end, but not why one starts with M and the other with N.
BTW, at least half the time, it seems, English-writers misspell ``Ukrainian`` leaving out the I in the middle, despite the fact that the natives stress that very letter, not allowing it to be swallowed as merely a member of a diphthong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. R. Mada, 15670 now colliding with Miraya FM: see SUDAN [non]
** OKLAHOMA. KFAQ 1170 Tulsa IBOC is still off at 1555 UT check Feb 6; I am beginning to be hopeful (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, BSKSA still buzz-free, Feb 6 at 1505, good with Qur`an, only light squeal/whine to mar it.
Just how long was the buzz going on? Searching on that keyword in my DXLD archive, the first reference I found was in 5-021, when Wolfgang Büschel reported it February 1, 2005, on 21460 and 21495; more in 5-029 on 21, 17 and 9 MHz channels, March 2, 2005, but already had been buzzing ``for some months``.
The first buzz report on 15435 was in 6-140 for Sept 19, 2006, from yours truly. We still need to confirm whether the buzz also be gone from the same transmitter on other frequencies at times other than 15-18 UT. It`s probably on 21495 or one of the other seldom-propagating 13m channels until 1500. We had also been hearing abuzz recently on 11785, possibly from a second defective unit.
Later monitoring Feb 6, 2010 at 1647: 15435 still very good, stronger than // 15205 now on the air, again with Qur`an, and that stronger than // 15225 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. While other 16m signals are so-so, REE still inbooms on 17595, Feb 6 at 1650 with modern classical piano music. Tuned on up to 17850 // via Costa Rica, at 1654 outroing piece as ``Fracciones Líricas``, and 1655 outro program title ``América Mágica``, as on schedule grid for 16-17 Saturday hour only. From the title, you would never guess it deals with contemporary classical Latin American music.
Equally huge but lo-fi signal on 17850 was atop much weaker co-channel despite lots of open spaces on 16m, so outmatched that it was hard to compute the SAH around 3.5 Hz. It had a French touch, and sure enough, that`s RFI in French at 16-17, 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun.
11765, at 1659 Feb 6, REE IS at VG level about equal to Habana 11760; 1700 accurate timesignal, fanfare and Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA, Sat Feb 6 at 1430 with ID, promo music, poor. I had warned both WRN and IRRS about the impending collision between this and R. Mada, which has been using 15670 via Pridnestrovye, only on Sat & Sun at 1530-1600 for many weeks, but they did not manage to untangle in time. Maybe by next day or next week?
As early as 1508, I detected an open carrier mixing with Miraya, making a 2.8 Hz SAH, so Mada transmitter is on, way early. Rate varied slightly either due to transmitter warmup/instability or Doppler disruptions in transit.
At 1528 recheck, the OC had added ``Russian tuneup tones`` vs Miraya. At 1530 their audios were mixing at about equal levels here, intolerable, and likely as bad in Sudan and Madagascar, except both of them much stronger in target zones. At 1539, one had hilifish music, the other talk; at 1550 both were mixing music.
Meanwhile, nothing at all heard on 15660, 15665, 15675 or 15680, so this could be easily solved by one of them shifting to one of those. Nothing scheduled either on any except WHRI on 15665, but they aren`t really using it, at least not this early, one of countless wooden WHR registrations.
Next check at 1625, Miraya again had 15670 to itself, good but with increased flutter. Is it now closing at 17 instead of 18 since it`s starting an hour earlier at 14? Unchecked after 17.
The poor Sudanese (or are they fortunate?) have a logjam of target broadcasts from abroad; see also next item, Dabanga. At the same time as Miraya, there is Sudan Radio Service on 17745 via PORTUGAL, at 1511 Feb 6 in English with drums and hilife music. Supposedly there is more English on Saturdays than elsewhen. SRS still good at 1653 with choral music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. Unidentified 13800, continuous tone test of about 1 kHz (not a het on just one side), Feb 6 at 1703 mixing with station in Arabic or similar. So R. Dabanga service to Sudan via MADAGASCAR at 1529-1727 has an interference problem tho nothing else is listed; or could it be a form of jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 11850, ``this day in history`` segment making some of the same points as on VOA at :27 past the hours, Feb 6 at 1709, fair signal in clear from R. Taiwan International, ID, a cappella singer joined by others briefly, then Charlie Stark introducing features for rest of English hour starting at 1711 with ``Occidental Tourist`` tale of mystix and doppelgangers, prompted by a Facebook week. This broadcast is 160 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Collision on 9930: Feb 6 at 1440 I am hearing an American preacher, good signal atop some weaker audio. Preacher is certainly T8WH PALAU, registered here at 0700-1800, and underneath is VOA via SRI LANKA at 1400-1600. Azimuths are 345 and 322 degrees, respectively, which means a worse clash likely in Asia, altho the CIRAF target zones are officially distinct, 43-45 and 41, respectively. 1457, plug for WHR Bible giveaway and off by 1459, uncovering VOA weak and fluttery, but apparently they are about to sign off too.
Now I check VOA on 9760 at 1502: yes, it`s back with English news via Philippines, instead of R. Farda as heard yesterday, which I suppose was a horrible mistake.
15460, Feb 6 at 1506 poor signal with flutter from VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish, but better than 9930 had been. Not noticed on 15460 before; this is Thailand at 166 degrees, 15-16 UT only.
15620, Feb 6 at 1645, urgent-sounding speech in an HOA language. Aoki shows VOA Somali. This is that wacky 2-hour transmission 16-18 with a site change every semi-hour, just to keep the Somalis on their toes and/or all the IBB transmitter techs.
At 16 it`s 10 degrees from Botswana; at 1630 it`s 135 from Wertachtal, GERMANY; 1700 it`s 263 from Sri Lanka; 1730 it`s 76 from São Tomé. I wonder if they all manage to drop carrier immediately and crash start in order to avoid interfering with each other at handovers.
Check of Lavwadlamerik`s mid-day Creole service to Haiti, Feb 6 at 1729, some music already playing apparently as a prélude, on 15390, or have they really expanded that broadcast too earlier into the morning when not checked? Anyhow at 1730 cut to ``Welcome to the Voice of America --- in Creole!`` as if just starting then.
Washington host then spent the next three minutes trying to bring up counterparts in Miami with no success; live radio! Also on 17565, and after 1930, 15390 is still on the air until 2100, with 13725 also still heard after then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17575 at 1650 Feb 6, HOA music. Is AWR in Somali via France at 1630-1700, 250 kW at 125 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 700, Feb 6 at 1607 on the caradio I hear KHSE, The Metroplex, TX, in English! Usually is in some S Asian language. YL opens program of the India Association of North Texas, inviting calls to studio at a 214-AC number for requests and dedications, soon into Indian music.
Last time I logged this in Sept, found program schedule at http://funasia.net/Files/rad_saturday.html
At ``10-12 AM`` Saturday host is Shabnam Modgil, program is Radio Bharti, and the content is ``India Association Of North Texas``. You can`t really tell from this schedule which programs are in English unless the title includes Punjabi or something, and even then could be bilingual. I see that during various unsold hours, the default is nonstop music.
Besides the splash from KGGF-690 KS, this morning I am hearing a weaker signal underneath on 700. I suppose the 15 kW in Houston with its unfavorable pattern tho not a null is about as likely as remnant WLW 50 kW non-direxional, less than twice as far. Salt Lake aims due south even daytimes, per NRC Pattern Book.
Meanwhile, 720 bore two weak signals with the typical SAH between KSAH TX and WGN IL. Running only 1.5 kW, KHSE would be much better here were it not for its own null (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15570, big open carrier at 1507 Feb 6, even stronger than Portugal 15560, but some splatter from it. Surely another Greenville test in lieu of 15580 which they will use later. Still or again OC on 15570 at next check 1646, much stronger than VOA 15580 with African music, site for that being São Tomé at 15-17, pending switch to Greenville at 1700, very likely from the same transmitter standing by on 15570 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
sabato, febbraio 06, 2010
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Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2010
** GUIANA FRENCH. Now I think I know why I heard RFI Spanish at 0100-0130 on 7360 instead of 5995, UT Feb 4 but vice versa on Feb 5. At 2312 Feb 5 I noticed a VG signal in Portuguese from YFR on 7360, prompting me to look it up and find that Montsinéry is scheduled all the way from 2200 to 0100. Aoki shows all three hours in Portuguese, but it was Camping in English after 0000 Feb 6. So GUF must have just failed to make the frequency change to 5995 on the date I heard RFI on 7360. Once again on Feb 6 at 0100, RFI Spanish was on correct 5995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, KFAQ, IBOC had been turned off at 2012 UT check Feb 5; finally 1160 and 1180 were clear for DX on the caradio, altho this early, there wasn`t any. Had been on constantly in daytime, so we`ll have to see if this be a fluke or a policy change. Then a sesquihour later, the powerline noise level around much of Enid was up, a lot like IBOC except it`s all over the band. Arrgh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. As of Feb 5, Lavwadlamerik appears to have cut back its unpublicized extra broadcasts in Creole to Haiti. Did not check before 2200, when it had been on 15390 until 21 and 13725 until 22, but at 2311 nothing to be heard on 7590, 5835 nor any other frequency we could find in the 5-10 MHz range. We know that 7590 at least had been heard a few days ago during this hour.
Checked again just before 2400 and still no sign of LVA. UT Feb 6 at 0002, however, 5835 popped on the air with VG signal; at 0003 weak carrier from 7590, and // modulation audible from 0004.
Next check at 0101 or the next couple minutes found all the LVA frequencies, 5835, 5960 and 7465 AND all the VOA/Martí A Fondo frequencies, 7340, 9415 and finally 11625 --- // in VOA ENGLISH news! Wrong feed input, or Spanish and Kreyòl feeds unavailable?
After a pause at 0105, played some instrumental fill music. But circa 0108 these had switched to the correct languages. Anomalies may have been caused by heavy rain at the moment, or previous damage to some antenna?
But an hour later at 0158: A Fondo in Spanish about to end, audible on 11625, much better on 9415 which seems to have some co-channel QRM under, but nothing listed; and best strength on 7340 but it now has QRM from VOR IS via GUF on 7335 about to start Spanish loud and clear, while for English to N America we have to fish around for much weaker and unreliable frequencies from the Eastern Hemisphere.
LVA is also going on 5835, 5960 and 7465, off by 0200. However, at 0201, 7465 is on with VOA news in English, like an hour ago, not Kreyòl, joined by 5835 which comes back on at 0201:30. Still nothing on 7590 and of course 5960 is off in deference to NHK Japanese via Sackville.
English news finished at 0205 with reference to voanews.com for more, semi-minute of dead air before instrumental fill music inkix again. At 0208 change to ``Good morning, VOA World News Now`` on 5835 and 7465, so more English, the announcer imagining he is in Asia, or at least speaking to Asia rather than America in this fluke, which BBG believes is not entitled to any VOA English unless it`s Spe-cial. However, by final check 0228, 5835 was back in Kreyol and 7465 not audible, faded out? So tonight we had quite a mix of English, Spanish and Creole (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Contrary to a report from a Downunderite, that WWCR-3 is using 4775 from 2300 due to an interference complaint to the FCC about 5070, 4775 really starts at 0300. Still on 5070 at 2311 check Feb 5 and after 0000, 0100 and 0200 Feb 6.
WWCR has been on 5070 for many years, and just now someone finds it a problem during the next nine hours? As I recall, initially it was on 5060 or 5065 but soon settled on 5070.
Another check of WWCR-1 found it going strong on 7465 after 2300 Feb 5, but almost like someone threw a switch, it became quite weak after 0000 Feb 6. I`m sure propagation would have been inbooming on previous 3240 --- but who knows, another interference complaint may have knocked them off that too like 3230 before it, which was used only briefly. After 0100, 7465 again had switched to 7490.
WWCR`s homepage now says:
``WWCR's Transmitter #3 will broadcast on 4.775 MHz from 0300-1200 UTC until further notice. WWCR's Transmitter #1 will broadcast on 7.490 MHz (moved from 7.465 MHz) for 1 hour daily, 0100-0200 UTC. These changes are noted in the program guide, updated 5 February.``
All these frequencies on 3, 4, 5 and 7 MHz are ``out of band``, really fixed bands in the US, and broadcasters trying them must take the risks associated with their usage being on a non-interference basis (NIB) to higher-priority transmissions, however sporadic.
Complaints from utility stations at home or abroad seem to count for more, or be more likely, than from broadcasters which are in-band tropical stations in their own areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking out VOA around 0100 UT Sat Feb 6, I also could hear DX Partyline on WRMI 9955, weak signal but not jammed. Jeff White just sent me a new program schedule, but he`s not yet finished updating it.
As of now, DXPL is on it as follows: Sat 0100, 1100, 1600, 1800; Sun 0215, 0500, 1130; Mon 1600; Tue 0100, 1600; Wed 1530; Fri 0115.
AWR Wavescan: Fri 0230, 1100, 1630; Sat 0830, 1400, 2030; Sun 0930, 2230; Mon 1630; Tue 0115; Wed 1130; Thu 1530.
Happy Station: the main first broadcasts are still UT Thu 0200 and 1600, usually different but not always. The repeats may be one or the other? Fri 1400, Sat 0500, 1900, Sun 0600, Tue 0500, Wed 0100.
WORLD OF RADIO: Wed 1630; Fri 0200, 1530; Sat 0900, 1430, 2000; Sun 0900, 1615, 1815, 2000; Tue 1630; Wed 0230 [NEW].
As for WORLD OF RADIO on Area 51, UT Fri 0100 but WBCQ 5110 was missing --- Larry Will says that unfortunately, weeknight broadcasts of A51 have been suspended due to insufficient financial support, but he does plan to keep the webcast going including WOR at that hour.
Larry says: ``We are now Sunday 2200 to 0300 [UT Sun] and Saturday 2300 to 0300 [UT Mon] on 5110. Webcast will remain Tuesday-Saturday 0000-0300.`` For latest info see http://www.worldmicroscope.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 5885, tuned in Feb 5 at 2309 to hear classical guitar music, but off at 2310* before there could be a 2.5 minute fragment of a Vatican Radio English broadcast as might have happened on 7395 or 9600 if I had remembered which frequency to check, leading up to Vietnamese from 2315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, KFAQ, IBOC had been turned off at 2012 UT check Feb 5; finally 1160 and 1180 were clear for DX on the caradio, altho this early, there wasn`t any. Had been on constantly in daytime, so we`ll have to see if this be a fluke or a policy change. Then a sesquihour later, the powerline noise level around much of Enid was up, a lot like IBOC except it`s all over the band. Arrgh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. As of Feb 5, Lavwadlamerik appears to have cut back its unpublicized extra broadcasts in Creole to Haiti. Did not check before 2200, when it had been on 15390 until 21 and 13725 until 22, but at 2311 nothing to be heard on 7590, 5835 nor any other frequency we could find in the 5-10 MHz range. We know that 7590 at least had been heard a few days ago during this hour.
Checked again just before 2400 and still no sign of LVA. UT Feb 6 at 0002, however, 5835 popped on the air with VG signal; at 0003 weak carrier from 7590, and // modulation audible from 0004.
Next check at 0101 or the next couple minutes found all the LVA frequencies, 5835, 5960 and 7465 AND all the VOA/Martí A Fondo frequencies, 7340, 9415 and finally 11625 --- // in VOA ENGLISH news! Wrong feed input, or Spanish and Kreyòl feeds unavailable?
After a pause at 0105, played some instrumental fill music. But circa 0108 these had switched to the correct languages. Anomalies may have been caused by heavy rain at the moment, or previous damage to some antenna?
But an hour later at 0158: A Fondo in Spanish about to end, audible on 11625, much better on 9415 which seems to have some co-channel QRM under, but nothing listed; and best strength on 7340 but it now has QRM from VOR IS via GUF on 7335 about to start Spanish loud and clear, while for English to N America we have to fish around for much weaker and unreliable frequencies from the Eastern Hemisphere.
LVA is also going on 5835, 5960 and 7465, off by 0200. However, at 0201, 7465 is on with VOA news in English, like an hour ago, not Kreyòl, joined by 5835 which comes back on at 0201:30. Still nothing on 7590 and of course 5960 is off in deference to NHK Japanese via Sackville.
English news finished at 0205 with reference to voanews.com for more, semi-minute of dead air before instrumental fill music inkix again. At 0208 change to ``Good morning, VOA World News Now`` on 5835 and 7465, so more English, the announcer imagining he is in Asia, or at least speaking to Asia rather than America in this fluke, which BBG believes is not entitled to any VOA English unless it`s Spe-cial. However, by final check 0228, 5835 was back in Kreyol and 7465 not audible, faded out? So tonight we had quite a mix of English, Spanish and Creole (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Contrary to a report from a Downunderite, that WWCR-3 is using 4775 from 2300 due to an interference complaint to the FCC about 5070, 4775 really starts at 0300. Still on 5070 at 2311 check Feb 5 and after 0000, 0100 and 0200 Feb 6.
WWCR has been on 5070 for many years, and just now someone finds it a problem during the next nine hours? As I recall, initially it was on 5060 or 5065 but soon settled on 5070.
Another check of WWCR-1 found it going strong on 7465 after 2300 Feb 5, but almost like someone threw a switch, it became quite weak after 0000 Feb 6. I`m sure propagation would have been inbooming on previous 3240 --- but who knows, another interference complaint may have knocked them off that too like 3230 before it, which was used only briefly. After 0100, 7465 again had switched to 7490.
WWCR`s homepage now says:
``WWCR's Transmitter #3 will broadcast on 4.775 MHz from 0300-1200 UTC until further notice. WWCR's Transmitter #1 will broadcast on 7.490 MHz (moved from 7.465 MHz) for 1 hour daily, 0100-0200 UTC. These changes are noted in the program guide, updated 5 February.``
All these frequencies on 3, 4, 5 and 7 MHz are ``out of band``, really fixed bands in the US, and broadcasters trying them must take the risks associated with their usage being on a non-interference basis (NIB) to higher-priority transmissions, however sporadic.
Complaints from utility stations at home or abroad seem to count for more, or be more likely, than from broadcasters which are in-band tropical stations in their own areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking out VOA around 0100 UT Sat Feb 6, I also could hear DX Partyline on WRMI 9955, weak signal but not jammed. Jeff White just sent me a new program schedule, but he`s not yet finished updating it.
As of now, DXPL is on it as follows: Sat 0100, 1100, 1600, 1800; Sun 0215, 0500, 1130; Mon 1600; Tue 0100, 1600; Wed 1530; Fri 0115.
AWR Wavescan: Fri 0230, 1100, 1630; Sat 0830, 1400, 2030; Sun 0930, 2230; Mon 1630; Tue 0115; Wed 1130; Thu 1530.
Happy Station: the main first broadcasts are still UT Thu 0200 and 1600, usually different but not always. The repeats may be one or the other? Fri 1400, Sat 0500, 1900, Sun 0600, Tue 0500, Wed 0100.
WORLD OF RADIO: Wed 1630; Fri 0200, 1530; Sat 0900, 1430, 2000; Sun 0900, 1615, 1815, 2000; Tue 1630; Wed 0230 [NEW].
As for WORLD OF RADIO on Area 51, UT Fri 0100 but WBCQ 5110 was missing --- Larry Will says that unfortunately, weeknight broadcasts of A51 have been suspended due to insufficient financial support, but he does plan to keep the webcast going including WOR at that hour.
Larry says: ``We are now Sunday 2200 to 0300 [UT Sun] and Saturday 2300 to 0300 [UT Mon] on 5110. Webcast will remain Tuesday-Saturday 0000-0300.`` For latest info see http://www.worldmicroscope.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 5885, tuned in Feb 5 at 2309 to hear classical guitar music, but off at 2310* before there could be a 2.5 minute fragment of a Vatican Radio English broadcast as might have happened on 7395 or 9600 if I had remembered which frequency to check, leading up to Vietnamese from 2315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
venerdì, febbraio 05, 2010
Glenn Hauser logs February 5, 2010 part 2
** BRAZIL [and non]. Just as I tune across 9695, Feb 5 at 1236, I hear ``Fundação Rio Mar`` mentioned in Brazilian, so no waiting required for an ID from R. Rio Mar, Manáus, making an awful het of about 0.2 kHz with something in Thai on 9695.0, i.e. R. Japan aimed Thaiward from Yamata, whilst Rio Mar is Africaward at 70 degrees, both per Aoki; and NHK soon overtaking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165, checking for Chad Feb 5 at 0558 just in time to hear some hilife music with SAH from weak open carrier, and start of French announcement before Bonaire blasted on at 0559 with tone and RNW IS starting Dutch to NAm. Anyhow, that was enough to confirm RNT active on 6165, the interim carrier probably Croatia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 2980, Feb 5 at 0614 just barely audible music, presumed HJAY Barranquilla. Wish they would turn up the power a bit on the second harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11705, I noticed an open carrier shortly after 1300 Feb 5, presumed no quick turn-off for the Venezuela relay at 12-13; but at 1315 still OC here with occasional clicking.
11600, DentroCuban Jamming Command noise starts at *1557 Feb 5. Ramping up a bit ahead of hourtop is typical. Still going strong at 1800. I still have not been able to uncover any victim beneath the noise, but I have an unconfirmed report that Radio República is running a low-power transmitter from California. Can anyone detect that, perhaps closer to the site, or closer to Cuba in the skip zone of the jamming??
I`ve been hearing this `jamming against nothing`(?), several weeks on 11600 in the daytime as late as 2200, and even in the nightmiddle. If RR is the cause, they need to wise up and jump to different clear frequencies. Anyhow it ties up jammers which might be doing more damage somewhere else, à la Sound of Hope`s teeny ham transmitters vs Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More on jamming: see USA: WRMI
** ETHIOPIA. 7110.0, Feb 5 at 0549 with Horn of Africa music, 0550 announcement and more music, fair. Always seems odd to hear them at this time, almost 9 am local, but has to be R. Ethiopia, domestic service scheduled 03-21 overall per WRTH.
Aoki, however, shows this frequency OFF the air at 05-08 except weekends, and Uganda starting at 0600, but there have been NO reports in years of Uganda really on 7110. Also a weaker signal with music on 7175, no doubt more from Ethiopia, but nothing on 7165 except hams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI at 1307 Feb 5 in English, presumed news but too undermodulated to follow, especially with the propagational fades being louder. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya was also in later in the hour, mostly music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15545, at 1420 Feb 5, Qur`an with long pauses, fluttery signal peaking S9+8; 1442 conversation in Arabic. This is VIRI which has a very long continuous Arabic broadcast 0530-1628 via Sirjan, 500 kW, 295 degrees, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. RTM normally switches from 15341 to 15345 around 1500, but Feb 5 it was already on 15345 at 1418, undermodulated and with usual whine, leaving 15340 clear for HCJB Australia, which was inaudible. This transmission is supposedly not among those HCJB has suspended because of wind damage to antennas, and often does not propagate here anyway.
Recheck at 1802, Arabic music still on 15345, and I think the whine is still self-imposed, not a het from Argentina if it is still there, as usual blocked by Morocco during European service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. I`m such a lucky guy; once again quite by chance without any conscious intent, I am tuned to 9670 for RNW`s easily missed one-minute English broadcast! Feb 5 at 1256 I hear the RNW IS, 1257-1258* interview in English with a kid about something.
What is really happening: this is the tail end of the 1230 Dutch transmission to Indonesia via IBB Tinian, where they don`t cut it off when it`s really over at 1257, and the program feed circuit switches to English in progress for reasons unknown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Feb 5 from *1456.6 with carrier, Arabic modulation with conversation from 1457.4: BSKSA remains in whack, good modulation and just occupying its proper bandwidth. Only problem is a bit of whine with varying pitch, but not too bad, noted at 1511 but continuous (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Míraya FM at 1419 Feb 5 with African music, via IRRS via SLOVAKIA. Propagation not so good today and weaker at 1443 when it had already started talking, intonation sounding English. A bit better at next check 1511, with usual mix of English and Arabic dialect from one sentence to the next, about Juba, Southern Sudan.
It will be interesting to hear what happens Sat and Sun at 1530 when Radio Mada via Pridnestrovye has been operating on same frequency. I have notified both IRRS and WRN of the potential collision (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT wasting more megawatts on the 1330 English broadcast: Feb 5 at 1415, 12035 has fair signal strength but just barely modulated, while // 15300 is OK modulated but colliding with RFI in French.
Here`s what they should do, if they are not going to fix the modulation on 12035 and get off 15300: swap transmitters, so the unmodulated one is on 15300, and the modulated one is on clear 12035! More free advice TRT are sure to ignore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. This is the `final week` for BBC`s temporary Creole service, ``Connexion Haïti`` produced in Miami, according to someone at BBCWS Trust via kimandrewelliott.com, so I made a point of listening to some of the 1232:30-1252:30 UT broadcast via WHRI 9410, Friday Feb 5. At 1238 an interview about vaccinations; 1241 message from the Haitian ambassador à Washington, Raymond Joseph, with musical accompaniment. 1252 sign-off listed the FM frequencies in each Haitian city for the 9:10 am repeat, but no mention of SW --- who listens to that??? Was this the final broadcast? No, ``à demain``, she says, however you spell that in Kreyòl, so maybe Feb 6 will be the last one. Immediately followed by classical music fill introduced in Spanish, ``Compositores de Siempre`` but never identifying the musical tidbits played (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7235, VOA Korean underneath a much stronger open carrier at 1356 Feb 5. At 1358 the latter begins VOA sign-on in English, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and reepated at 1359. Meanwhile modulation has stopped on the weaker signal, or it`s off before hourtop.
At 1400 no English announcement that `the following broadcast is in Korean``, but did say in English ``VOA World News,`` immediately back into Korean.
1400 is when VOA switches sites for the continuing Korean service, from Tinian to Tinang. No telling how long the Tinang carrier has been on, VOA vs VOA! Should crash-start it instead.
9930, Feb 5 at 1507 with Pink Floyd, ``Another Brick in the Wall`` starting VOA Border Crossings requests, but poor reception here, 322 degrees from Sri Lanka.
Should be better on 9760 via Tinang --- but that`s no longer VOA English as still shown on Aoki! Or rather, it was Spe-cial Eng-lish at 1500, not BC, anyway, as the VOA A-Z schedule still claims.
Now at 1508, 9760 is really R. Farda, Persian music mix one second ahead of 15410 via Skelton. A feed mixup, or yet another inexplicable schedule shift by IBB?
The Farda schedule with today`s date when you click on Waves at http://www.rferl.org/howtolisten/FRD/ondemand.html
displays 9760 in use only in the mornings, at 0730-1100 local = 0400-0730 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI good in French 1233 Feb 5, to gain an audience in Haïti. The M-F 12-13 hour now consists of 1200 R. Prague, 1230 R. Vatican and 1245 R. des Nations-Unies, but any of that may be replaced by religious programming in Creole. Already on the schedule Fridays at 1230-1245 is a program called ``Jesus Christ``, but I listened too briefly to tell what it was this week, assuming it was Vatican.
No jamming until end of hour at 1258 when the DCJC is getting a jump on R. Libertad. Nothing but jamming audible next bihour. At 1509, WRMI still relaying R. Prague in English about equal level to annoying DCJC pulses, but losing to them during fades. May be back on NW antenna now? Was not expected to be yet. But still needs more oomph vs accursèd uncalled-for jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, KJES at 1454 Feb 5 with steady S9+20 signal, better than usual, and way over Lampertheim; only problem is its own audio which is somewhat low and distorted, and apparently crosstalk with OM reading verses on top, YL/kids and guitar singing underneath.
At 1458 Vatican carrier came on 11715.0 with het since KJES is off-frequency. I was watching the S-meter to see if I could detect any change in KJES strength at 1500 when they are listed to rotate from 70 to 350 degrees, the former being OKward, but could not see any change, altho the Vatican relay of RVA complicated matters. At 1500:30 KJES broke for standard rather plaintive kid ID with plea for reports, continued in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WJHR, Milton FL was not reported at all during January, while they were supposedly installing a higher-gain antenna, but now there have been reports from Jim Evans in TN and Harold Frodge in MI in the 18-21 UT span Feb 3.
I never hear it when bandscanning around 15-16, so may not be on that early, nor necessarily every day. Programming of nothing but old screaming sermons is not exactly a big draw, but I try again anyway Feb 5 after 1800 on 15500-USB: Yes, there it is, as weak as ever, barely audible at 1801 but I am not lucky enough to catch another standard ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 11850, VR at 1449 Feb 5 Laudeturing Jesus Christus, into S Asian language, with some long-path echo, but sufficient signal direct from SMG holding up against WYFR 11855. Musical bits sounded like koto (the Japanese instrument, not the Telluride station).
Then checked 7585 and that was barely audible // but an echo apart. In previous report I failed to remention that the latter is via TAJIKISTAN. No Firedrake, so the ChiCom have apparently figured out that they don`t need to jam something in Tamil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: KJES
UNIDENTIFIED. 6930.0 SSB, pirate at 0556 Feb 5 with song ``I told the patriot(?) goodbye``; some splatter from WYFR 6915. 0559:35 pause but no ID, 0600 resuming more music. Poor signal. Anyone get an ID on this one? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHAD. 6165, checking for Chad Feb 5 at 0558 just in time to hear some hilife music with SAH from weak open carrier, and start of French announcement before Bonaire blasted on at 0559 with tone and RNW IS starting Dutch to NAm. Anyhow, that was enough to confirm RNT active on 6165, the interim carrier probably Croatia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 2980, Feb 5 at 0614 just barely audible music, presumed HJAY Barranquilla. Wish they would turn up the power a bit on the second harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11705, I noticed an open carrier shortly after 1300 Feb 5, presumed no quick turn-off for the Venezuela relay at 12-13; but at 1315 still OC here with occasional clicking.
11600, DentroCuban Jamming Command noise starts at *1557 Feb 5. Ramping up a bit ahead of hourtop is typical. Still going strong at 1800. I still have not been able to uncover any victim beneath the noise, but I have an unconfirmed report that Radio República is running a low-power transmitter from California. Can anyone detect that, perhaps closer to the site, or closer to Cuba in the skip zone of the jamming??
I`ve been hearing this `jamming against nothing`(?), several weeks on 11600 in the daytime as late as 2200, and even in the nightmiddle. If RR is the cause, they need to wise up and jump to different clear frequencies. Anyhow it ties up jammers which might be doing more damage somewhere else, à la Sound of Hope`s teeny ham transmitters vs Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More on jamming: see USA: WRMI
** ETHIOPIA. 7110.0, Feb 5 at 0549 with Horn of Africa music, 0550 announcement and more music, fair. Always seems odd to hear them at this time, almost 9 am local, but has to be R. Ethiopia, domestic service scheduled 03-21 overall per WRTH.
Aoki, however, shows this frequency OFF the air at 05-08 except weekends, and Uganda starting at 0600, but there have been NO reports in years of Uganda really on 7110. Also a weaker signal with music on 7175, no doubt more from Ethiopia, but nothing on 7165 except hams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI at 1307 Feb 5 in English, presumed news but too undermodulated to follow, especially with the propagational fades being louder. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya was also in later in the hour, mostly music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15545, at 1420 Feb 5, Qur`an with long pauses, fluttery signal peaking S9+8; 1442 conversation in Arabic. This is VIRI which has a very long continuous Arabic broadcast 0530-1628 via Sirjan, 500 kW, 295 degrees, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. RTM normally switches from 15341 to 15345 around 1500, but Feb 5 it was already on 15345 at 1418, undermodulated and with usual whine, leaving 15340 clear for HCJB Australia, which was inaudible. This transmission is supposedly not among those HCJB has suspended because of wind damage to antennas, and often does not propagate here anyway.
Recheck at 1802, Arabic music still on 15345, and I think the whine is still self-imposed, not a het from Argentina if it is still there, as usual blocked by Morocco during European service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. I`m such a lucky guy; once again quite by chance without any conscious intent, I am tuned to 9670 for RNW`s easily missed one-minute English broadcast! Feb 5 at 1256 I hear the RNW IS, 1257-1258* interview in English with a kid about something.
What is really happening: this is the tail end of the 1230 Dutch transmission to Indonesia via IBB Tinian, where they don`t cut it off when it`s really over at 1257, and the program feed circuit switches to English in progress for reasons unknown (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Feb 5 from *1456.6 with carrier, Arabic modulation with conversation from 1457.4: BSKSA remains in whack, good modulation and just occupying its proper bandwidth. Only problem is a bit of whine with varying pitch, but not too bad, noted at 1511 but continuous (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Míraya FM at 1419 Feb 5 with African music, via IRRS via SLOVAKIA. Propagation not so good today and weaker at 1443 when it had already started talking, intonation sounding English. A bit better at next check 1511, with usual mix of English and Arabic dialect from one sentence to the next, about Juba, Southern Sudan.
It will be interesting to hear what happens Sat and Sun at 1530 when Radio Mada via Pridnestrovye has been operating on same frequency. I have notified both IRRS and WRN of the potential collision (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT wasting more megawatts on the 1330 English broadcast: Feb 5 at 1415, 12035 has fair signal strength but just barely modulated, while // 15300 is OK modulated but colliding with RFI in French.
Here`s what they should do, if they are not going to fix the modulation on 12035 and get off 15300: swap transmitters, so the unmodulated one is on 15300, and the modulated one is on clear 12035! More free advice TRT are sure to ignore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. This is the `final week` for BBC`s temporary Creole service, ``Connexion Haïti`` produced in Miami, according to someone at BBCWS Trust via kimandrewelliott.com, so I made a point of listening to some of the 1232:30-1252:30 UT broadcast via WHRI 9410, Friday Feb 5. At 1238 an interview about vaccinations; 1241 message from the Haitian ambassador à Washington, Raymond Joseph, with musical accompaniment. 1252 sign-off listed the FM frequencies in each Haitian city for the 9:10 am repeat, but no mention of SW --- who listens to that??? Was this the final broadcast? No, ``à demain``, she says, however you spell that in Kreyòl, so maybe Feb 6 will be the last one. Immediately followed by classical music fill introduced in Spanish, ``Compositores de Siempre`` but never identifying the musical tidbits played (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7235, VOA Korean underneath a much stronger open carrier at 1356 Feb 5. At 1358 the latter begins VOA sign-on in English, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and reepated at 1359. Meanwhile modulation has stopped on the weaker signal, or it`s off before hourtop.
At 1400 no English announcement that `the following broadcast is in Korean``, but did say in English ``VOA World News,`` immediately back into Korean.
1400 is when VOA switches sites for the continuing Korean service, from Tinian to Tinang. No telling how long the Tinang carrier has been on, VOA vs VOA! Should crash-start it instead.
9930, Feb 5 at 1507 with Pink Floyd, ``Another Brick in the Wall`` starting VOA Border Crossings requests, but poor reception here, 322 degrees from Sri Lanka.
Should be better on 9760 via Tinang --- but that`s no longer VOA English as still shown on Aoki! Or rather, it was Spe-cial Eng-lish at 1500, not BC, anyway, as the VOA A-Z schedule still claims.
Now at 1508, 9760 is really R. Farda, Persian music mix one second ahead of 15410 via Skelton. A feed mixup, or yet another inexplicable schedule shift by IBB?
The Farda schedule with today`s date when you click on Waves at http://www.rferl.org/howtolisten/FRD/ondemand.html
displays 9760 in use only in the mornings, at 0730-1100 local = 0400-0730 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI good in French 1233 Feb 5, to gain an audience in Haïti. The M-F 12-13 hour now consists of 1200 R. Prague, 1230 R. Vatican and 1245 R. des Nations-Unies, but any of that may be replaced by religious programming in Creole. Already on the schedule Fridays at 1230-1245 is a program called ``Jesus Christ``, but I listened too briefly to tell what it was this week, assuming it was Vatican.
No jamming until end of hour at 1258 when the DCJC is getting a jump on R. Libertad. Nothing but jamming audible next bihour. At 1509, WRMI still relaying R. Prague in English about equal level to annoying DCJC pulses, but losing to them during fades. May be back on NW antenna now? Was not expected to be yet. But still needs more oomph vs accursèd uncalled-for jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, KJES at 1454 Feb 5 with steady S9+20 signal, better than usual, and way over Lampertheim; only problem is its own audio which is somewhat low and distorted, and apparently crosstalk with OM reading verses on top, YL/kids and guitar singing underneath.
At 1458 Vatican carrier came on 11715.0 with het since KJES is off-frequency. I was watching the S-meter to see if I could detect any change in KJES strength at 1500 when they are listed to rotate from 70 to 350 degrees, the former being OKward, but could not see any change, altho the Vatican relay of RVA complicated matters. At 1500:30 KJES broke for standard rather plaintive kid ID with plea for reports, continued in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WJHR, Milton FL was not reported at all during January, while they were supposedly installing a higher-gain antenna, but now there have been reports from Jim Evans in TN and Harold Frodge in MI in the 18-21 UT span Feb 3.
I never hear it when bandscanning around 15-16, so may not be on that early, nor necessarily every day. Programming of nothing but old screaming sermons is not exactly a big draw, but I try again anyway Feb 5 after 1800 on 15500-USB: Yes, there it is, as weak as ever, barely audible at 1801 but I am not lucky enough to catch another standard ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 11850, VR at 1449 Feb 5 Laudeturing Jesus Christus, into S Asian language, with some long-path echo, but sufficient signal direct from SMG holding up against WYFR 11855. Musical bits sounded like koto (the Japanese instrument, not the Telluride station).
Then checked 7585 and that was barely audible // but an echo apart. In previous report I failed to remention that the latter is via TAJIKISTAN. No Firedrake, so the ChiCom have apparently figured out that they don`t need to jam something in Tamil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: KJES
UNIDENTIFIED. 6930.0 SSB, pirate at 0556 Feb 5 with song ``I told the patriot(?) goodbye``; some splatter from WYFR 6915. 0559:35 pause but no ID, 0600 resuming more music. Poor signal. Anyone get an ID on this one? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
Ascolti AM
Domenica 31 gennaio 2010
10.24 - 6220 kHz
R. MARABU/MYSTERY R.
Tedesco, mx rock e IDs OM.
Segnale sufficiente-molto buono
***
Martedì 2 febbraio 2010
17.33 - 1026 kHz
IRIB 1 - Tabriz (Iran)
Farsi, mx locale e tk OM.
Segnale insufficiente-buono
-
17.34 - 1026 kHz
RESHET DALET - Tel Aviv (Israele)
Arabo, canzone locale OM.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Spagna attenuata fino circa le 18.00.
***
Mercoledì 3 febbraio 2010
06.50 - 1098 kHz
RNE 5 TN - Almeria/Huelva (Spagna)
Spagnolo, nxs Andalucia.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Co-ch prob. Lugo (Galicia).
***
Venerdì 5 febbraio 2010
06.20 - 1116 kHz
RAI RADIO 1 - Cuneo (Italia)
II, nxs regione Piemonte.
Segnale sufficiente-buono
Co-ch SER Albacete.
Luca Botto Fiora
SITO RICEVENTE
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova)
Italia
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
Satellit 500 Grundig
ATS909 Sangean
DE1103 Degen
VR500 Yaesu
ANTENNE
Loop ferrite ACA 75 cm modificata (@70 kHz-2 MHz)
Loop 1 spira da finestra 150x100 cm (@2-6 MHz)
Dipolo aperto 20 m (@6-30 MHz)
VARIE
Ampli RF K0LR per loop ACA modificato (WA1ION)
Ampli RF LX1456 Nuova Elettronica per loop SW e dipolo
Balun a choke coassiale 1:1 di RG174 per dipolo (IZ7ATH)
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato (W8JI)
Glenn Hauser logs February 5, 2010
** FRANCE [non]. On UT Feb 4 as in my previous report, I discovered that RFI`s Spanish service at 0100-0130 was on 7360 instead of 5995, via French Guiana, so naturally assumed that was one of their unpublicized February shifts. But 24 hours later, at 0102 UT Feb 5, 7360 is vacant and RFI is back on 5995, VG signal. May they make up their mind? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another night to check what WWCR does, UT Feb 5: at 0055 I find 7465 already missing; it used to run until 0100. At 0059, however, 7465 cuts on for a few sex, ``At this time, WWCR ---`` and back off before we could find out what WWCR was going to do at this time.
I checked 3240 where same transmitter used to reside at 23-02 until they decided to extend 7465 until 0200, despite Lavwadlamerik having put its Creole service there at 01-02. No, nothing on 3240. After colliding on UT Feb 2, they simply turned off for the hour on Feb 3 and 4 (I think).
Seemed to be the same tonight as I was punching up various VOA and other frequencies to check on the DX-398, rather than full analog bandscans. I happened to be on LVA 7465 which had just come up late around 0104, when at 0105, WWCR popped back on that frequency for another few sex, during a Discount Gold website commercial, then LVA to itself again. WWCR appeared to be indecisive.
So it was not until 0135 that I noticed a big signal on 7490 --- that`s WWCR, mentioning First Amendment Radio, then resident herbalist Wendy Wilson on motherwort, which stimulates the uterus. The audio is cutting out and skipping; anyhow, good signal but not solid with some fading.
So 7490 is apparently where WWCR intends to be in the 01-02 hour. That works, as it`s already a WWCR frequency in the mornings but with transmitter 3 then instead of 1 now.
In B-09, WWCR is already registered on 7490 for 24 hours a day, so no problem for them to expand usage of it under these circumstances. Yes, the transmitter schedule page
http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html
has now been updated to show this as well as 4775 ex-5070 at 03-12 from WWCR-3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking Greenville`s hectic 01-02 hour another night, UT Feb 5:
A Fondo, the new VOA/Martí collaboration again came up first on 9415 already at 0100. I suppose that particular transmitter is not required somewhere else right up to 0100. 11625 not audible yet but could come on and not be noticed due to poor propagation up there.
At 0104, 7340 still absent. Did not catch when it finally came on, but it was certainly in play at 0128 thereupon when A Fondo announced frequencies: 11625, 9415 and 7340, plus Radio Martí frequencies 1180, 6030, 7365 and 9825. Initially the RM frequencies were not announced, so we were not positive whether the same program was on them under jamming. The new trio are as yet unjammed. While the old RM channels continue to be.
This page introducing A Fondo
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/A-fondo-83291037.html
originally gave the time but not the frequencies, and had a comments option. So I commented, telling them what their own frequencies are, and that it would be nice to add them. By the time I refreshed the page, they had been added, but comments no longer enabled. As of UT Feb 5 we are still waiting for them to add the four original R. Martí channels.
Lavwadlamerik: At 0101, 5835 was running, but not 7465. At 0104, 7465 had come on, 0105 with some dead air, and then interrupted briefly by WWCR, q.v. I also checked 7590 at 0101 and 0109 and there seemed to be something there, but too weak to tell if // 5835. Previous nights it seemed 7590 was no longer in use after 0100. At 0107, also had LVA on its third and worst frequency 5960.
The Creole schedule at http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
still does not show any of the extra frequencies or times, but does still claim the 0100 broadcast is on 1180, which A Fondo also now claims to be using!
On the S page, A Fondo has been added at 0100-0200 on its original three frequencies only, as if it were just another nameless VOA Spanish hour; and the lack of color coding implies it is seven days a week, contrary to original publicity that it would be only five; change of plans or another SNAFU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI again audible on 9955 with 50 kW transmitter reactivated, but not very well since it`s only on the SSE antenna so far. UT Fri Feb 5 at 0117 can recognize the baseball show, no jamming. After 0200 I was back online and checked the webcast, confirming the first SW broadcast of WORLD OF RADIO 1498.
The first one was expected one hour earlier on WBCQ Area 51, but that was inaudible here on 5110, and its webcast was just music during the entire hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** U S A. Another night to check what WWCR does, UT Feb 5: at 0055 I find 7465 already missing; it used to run until 0100. At 0059, however, 7465 cuts on for a few sex, ``At this time, WWCR ---`` and back off before we could find out what WWCR was going to do at this time.
I checked 3240 where same transmitter used to reside at 23-02 until they decided to extend 7465 until 0200, despite Lavwadlamerik having put its Creole service there at 01-02. No, nothing on 3240. After colliding on UT Feb 2, they simply turned off for the hour on Feb 3 and 4 (I think).
Seemed to be the same tonight as I was punching up various VOA and other frequencies to check on the DX-398, rather than full analog bandscans. I happened to be on LVA 7465 which had just come up late around 0104, when at 0105, WWCR popped back on that frequency for another few sex, during a Discount Gold website commercial, then LVA to itself again. WWCR appeared to be indecisive.
So it was not until 0135 that I noticed a big signal on 7490 --- that`s WWCR, mentioning First Amendment Radio, then resident herbalist Wendy Wilson on motherwort, which stimulates the uterus. The audio is cutting out and skipping; anyhow, good signal but not solid with some fading.
So 7490 is apparently where WWCR intends to be in the 01-02 hour. That works, as it`s already a WWCR frequency in the mornings but with transmitter 3 then instead of 1 now.
In B-09, WWCR is already registered on 7490 for 24 hours a day, so no problem for them to expand usage of it under these circumstances. Yes, the transmitter schedule page
http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html
has now been updated to show this as well as 4775 ex-5070 at 03-12 from WWCR-3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking Greenville`s hectic 01-02 hour another night, UT Feb 5:
A Fondo, the new VOA/Martí collaboration again came up first on 9415 already at 0100. I suppose that particular transmitter is not required somewhere else right up to 0100. 11625 not audible yet but could come on and not be noticed due to poor propagation up there.
At 0104, 7340 still absent. Did not catch when it finally came on, but it was certainly in play at 0128 thereupon when A Fondo announced frequencies: 11625, 9415 and 7340, plus Radio Martí frequencies 1180, 6030, 7365 and 9825. Initially the RM frequencies were not announced, so we were not positive whether the same program was on them under jamming. The new trio are as yet unjammed. While the old RM channels continue to be.
This page introducing A Fondo
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/A-fondo-83291037.html
originally gave the time but not the frequencies, and had a comments option. So I commented, telling them what their own frequencies are, and that it would be nice to add them. By the time I refreshed the page, they had been added, but comments no longer enabled. As of UT Feb 5 we are still waiting for them to add the four original R. Martí channels.
Lavwadlamerik: At 0101, 5835 was running, but not 7465. At 0104, 7465 had come on, 0105 with some dead air, and then interrupted briefly by WWCR, q.v. I also checked 7590 at 0101 and 0109 and there seemed to be something there, but too weak to tell if // 5835. Previous nights it seemed 7590 was no longer in use after 0100. At 0107, also had LVA on its third and worst frequency 5960.
The Creole schedule at http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
still does not show any of the extra frequencies or times, but does still claim the 0100 broadcast is on 1180, which A Fondo also now claims to be using!
On the S page, A Fondo has been added at 0100-0200 on its original three frequencies only, as if it were just another nameless VOA Spanish hour; and the lack of color coding implies it is seven days a week, contrary to original publicity that it would be only five; change of plans or another SNAFU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI again audible on 9955 with 50 kW transmitter reactivated, but not very well since it`s only on the SSE antenna so far. UT Fri Feb 5 at 0117 can recognize the baseball show, no jamming. After 0200 I was back online and checked the webcast, confirming the first SW broadcast of WORLD OF RADIO 1498.
The first one was expected one hour earlier on WBCQ Area 51, but that was inaudible here on 5110, and its webcast was just music during the entire hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
giovedì, febbraio 04, 2010
Radio Joystick Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
The relay of Radio Joystick is on this Saturday the 6th of February 2010 on 9510 khz.
The Transmission time is between 0900 to 1000 utc with a power of 150 KW via the IRRS.
Radio Joystick is on the air every 1st Saturday of the month at the same time and on the same channel.
Good listening 73s Tom
MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday
MV Baltic Radio is on 6005 khz this Saturday (TX power of 1 kw)
MV Baltic Radio is on the air with a test Transmission this Saturday the 6th of February 2010.
The frequency will be 6005 khz, and the time slot will be 0900 utc.
For more information, please email MV Baltic Radio on the day of the Transmission.
Good Listening 73s Tom
Glenn Hauser logs February 4, 2010
** AUSTRALIA. VL8 survey Feb 4 at 1313: Strine M&W conversation about equal level on 2310 and 2325, but much worse on 2485 at least due to local noise around the latter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7410, Pekin Hoso, the CRI Japanese service, VG at 1431 Feb 4, lively talk and music with drumming, Afro-Cuban beat; 1434 fanfares and talking about Shanghai. Then found // much weaker on 7400, which would seem to be redundant, but:
7410 is 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua site;
7400 is 500 kW, 73 degrees from Xi`an site
So presumably emphasize northern and southern Japan, and indeed 7410 is closer to USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 7365, DCJC lite pulsing against nothing at 0629 Feb 4, right between Vatican IS on 7360 and Romanian IS on 7370.
9885 also had residual DCJC pulses at 0631 under VOA English via South Africa, tho originally on this frequency to block VOA Spanish (NOT R. Martí) at 00-01 and 1230-1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 15330, as I tuned across R. Martí, Feb 4 at 1439 it was giving horoscopes for Sagitarios, Acuarios. And our tax dollars are paying for this crap? Hardly what the DentroCubans need to hear. At least it`s being jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, African music at 0644 Feb 4, 0645 ID as ``Radiodiffusion Nationale de la République de Guinée, à Conakry`` and news headlines from around the continent, with drumming underneath, potted up between them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, Feb 4 at 1333 with YL speaking in Hindi on 9425 and weaker // 9470 which leads 9425 by a split second. 9470 Aligarh also has a lite long-path echo, while 9425 Bengaluru does not. The echo is not so pronounced, as from a site that far away, there is not so much difference between short and long path distances, unlike North American stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI at 1332 Feb 4, soft Indonesian song with piano, good modulation during presumed English hour. Off the air when rechecked about an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, R. Nikkei, G signal at 1317 Feb 4 with medley of US film music from the 30s or 40s; same at 1327 on 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 5910 with whoop-whoop oscillating jammer at 1443 Feb 4, no doubt left over from the Shiokaze transmission which ended at 1430, and now disrupting Iran`s Bengali service via Kamalabad, tsk2. It was a good morning for Juche jamming. Noise type also noted on 5890 vs VOA; 3480, 6003, 6015, 6518, 6600 vs various clandestines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM eclectic/freeform music brought us enjoyable tangos, Feb 4 at 0632, breaking for announcement by live DJ mentioning today`s date ``jueves, 4 de febrero``; nice and clear until *0642:30 RNA Brasil cut on 6185 putting an end to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925+ USB, pirate playing music at 1446 Feb 4, a familiar surfin` song with heavy drumming, what else but Wipeout! 1448 pauses for ID as Radio Gaga. There is a little bit of carrier, but it`s hard to zero-beat with the dense music playing. Still going at 1502. Please QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Standing by for BSKSA 15435, Feb 4: cut on abruptly with modulation in progress at *1456, spirited Arabic conversation, or rather lexure, as one guy was doing all the talking and the other was murmuring assent, briefly interrupted for announcement at 1500, and then at 1501 full ID from Riyadh, Idha`at al-Islam, into Qur`an but with audience responses. No chirping today and certainly no buzz, almost back to normal, only marred by a slight hum and whine, and occupying proper bandwidth only, so congratulations are in order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Feb 4 already on at 1407 with African music, chanting, poor signal but presumably Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA as IDed yesterdays, so starting at 1400? Homepage http://www.mirayafm.org/ still claims to be on 15650! What do they know? Searching the site for 15670 gets 0 results --- but so does 15650 even tho it is showing on the very same page. When will Fondation Hirondelle ever get its act together? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Another check of VOT`s English hour at 1330, Feb 4 at 1409: 12035 is just barely audible but I can tell there is some modulation on it this time. 15300 modulation seems OK, but as always is under RFI producing a fast SAH. It`s Thursday so this must be Live from Turkey, with some other program heard the day before. BTW, when there is near-zero modulation from a transmitter on one frequency, chances are the same happens on many other broadcasts from the same unit, multiplying the MWh wasted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, the BBC English via Thailand clash with BBC Arabic via Cyprus is still audible here, the latter surely via long-path, Feb 4 at 1443 but English` From Our Own Correspondent atop, A. Johnston introducing a report from Kenya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik still going with morning Kreyòl service Feb 4 at 1327 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505 Greenville, but both rather poor toward end of transmission. Bonaire has been changing antennas on this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR-3 on 4775 instead of 5070 for reasons unknown, 0300-1200 UT until further notice, says their homepage. UT Feb 3, a leapfrog mixing product with 5935 was first heard on 7095, but glad to note it was lacking 24 hours later at 0626 check Feb 4, so apparently suppressed, as I was only hearing an SSB ham QSO in Spanish about antennas and receivers, Mexicans? WWCR fundamentals were pretty strong but it could also be they were sufficiently weaker to put the spur below threshold (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Convicted and sentenced child sex criminal evangelist Tony Alamo is still preaching on WINB, as I tuned across 9265 Feb 4 at 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES atop the QRM, Feb 4 at 1412 with Bible passage about Jesus` trial; brings to mind ``Jesus Christ, Superstar`` but we`ll never hear anything from that on KJES! Fairly good reception and KJES` frequency offset causes the other station to sound off-key for a change. Can`t let an hour go by without a performance of Ave María by these Marian cultists, and so that was heard at 1436, when KJES had less of an advantage over Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Since YFR in Hindi via UAE, 15520, lacked modulation on Feb 3, I checked again Feb 4 at 1406. Only a very poor signal today but I could tell it was modulated for a change. Of course, Dhabayya may not be to blame for the failure; it could have been anywhere along the line from Oakland, so who has to make a refund can only be determined by those in the know. Even FR HQ itself may have failed to get the audio out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I often hunt for LSA, the 338 kHz NDB in Lamesa TX which puts a seventh harmonic on 2366, during my 06-07 UT bandscans, but never hear it then, so suspect it is not 24h. Did hear it again Feb 4 at 1311 on 2366, negative keying making copy difficult but still possible with careful BFO tuning. I wonder if this airport has a regular flight coming in around sunrise, but none around midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Jeff White advises that the main 50 kW WRMI transmitter is back on 9955 the morning of Feb 4, but I am still not hearing it after 1500 or 1600, so must be on the SSE antenna instead of the NW one previously in use during this bihour. Listened to Happy Station on webcast from 1600, but audio quality awful, much worse than usual. A new program schedule from WRMI is very much needed as there will have been many changes with the cancellation of Aventura Diexista and most of the R. Prague relays, for example (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7585, VR IS fair-poor Feb 4 at 1429; at 1430 flute music, Laudetur Jesus Christus, Vatican Radio ID and into S Asian language. This frequency has had inexplicable Firedrake ChiCom music jamming on it before, but not today at rechecx 1450, 1457 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I happened to be at the breakfast table before 1400 UT Feb 4, so turned on the insensitive DX-390 which only has a reel-out clip-on antenna around the room, and with BFO on punched up 6075 as a lark, not expecting to hear 8GAL. But, a good thing I started at 1358, since its V/CQ marker on 6074 did too at 1358:50, more than a minute early, overlapping the motorboating R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk / Kamchatskiy, and finished about 1359:40 well before the 5-second-late closing timesignal from RR. 8GAL was totally clear copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11471-USB, 2-way Spanish contact at 1343 Feb 4, but I could only hear one side, so duplex? As usual, no IDs heard, and due to idiomatic country accent, I have trouble understanding what he is saying, other than ``puta madre``, which amounts to a general expletive like the F-word, not necessarily referring to a specific person having a whore for a mother and consequently being a bastard. Also whistles into mike, sure sign of a non-professional radio user (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. 7410, Pekin Hoso, the CRI Japanese service, VG at 1431 Feb 4, lively talk and music with drumming, Afro-Cuban beat; 1434 fanfares and talking about Shanghai. Then found // much weaker on 7400, which would seem to be redundant, but:
7410 is 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua site;
7400 is 500 kW, 73 degrees from Xi`an site
So presumably emphasize northern and southern Japan, and indeed 7410 is closer to USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 7365, DCJC lite pulsing against nothing at 0629 Feb 4, right between Vatican IS on 7360 and Romanian IS on 7370.
9885 also had residual DCJC pulses at 0631 under VOA English via South Africa, tho originally on this frequency to block VOA Spanish (NOT R. Martí) at 00-01 and 1230-1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 15330, as I tuned across R. Martí, Feb 4 at 1439 it was giving horoscopes for Sagitarios, Acuarios. And our tax dollars are paying for this crap? Hardly what the DentroCubans need to hear. At least it`s being jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 7125, African music at 0644 Feb 4, 0645 ID as ``Radiodiffusion Nationale de la République de Guinée, à Conakry`` and news headlines from around the continent, with drumming underneath, potted up between them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, Feb 4 at 1333 with YL speaking in Hindi on 9425 and weaker // 9470 which leads 9425 by a split second. 9470 Aligarh also has a lite long-path echo, while 9425 Bengaluru does not. The echo is not so pronounced, as from a site that far away, there is not so much difference between short and long path distances, unlike North American stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI at 1332 Feb 4, soft Indonesian song with piano, good modulation during presumed English hour. Off the air when rechecked about an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, R. Nikkei, G signal at 1317 Feb 4 with medley of US film music from the 30s or 40s; same at 1327 on 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 5910 with whoop-whoop oscillating jammer at 1443 Feb 4, no doubt left over from the Shiokaze transmission which ended at 1430, and now disrupting Iran`s Bengali service via Kamalabad, tsk2. It was a good morning for Juche jamming. Noise type also noted on 5890 vs VOA; 3480, 6003, 6015, 6518, 6600 vs various clandestines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM eclectic/freeform music brought us enjoyable tangos, Feb 4 at 0632, breaking for announcement by live DJ mentioning today`s date ``jueves, 4 de febrero``; nice and clear until *0642:30 RNA Brasil cut on 6185 putting an end to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925+ USB, pirate playing music at 1446 Feb 4, a familiar surfin` song with heavy drumming, what else but Wipeout! 1448 pauses for ID as Radio Gaga. There is a little bit of carrier, but it`s hard to zero-beat with the dense music playing. Still going at 1502. Please QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Standing by for BSKSA 15435, Feb 4: cut on abruptly with modulation in progress at *1456, spirited Arabic conversation, or rather lexure, as one guy was doing all the talking and the other was murmuring assent, briefly interrupted for announcement at 1500, and then at 1501 full ID from Riyadh, Idha`at al-Islam, into Qur`an but with audience responses. No chirping today and certainly no buzz, almost back to normal, only marred by a slight hum and whine, and occupying proper bandwidth only, so congratulations are in order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15670, Feb 4 already on at 1407 with African music, chanting, poor signal but presumably Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA as IDed yesterdays, so starting at 1400? Homepage http://www.mirayafm.org/ still claims to be on 15650! What do they know? Searching the site for 15670 gets 0 results --- but so does 15650 even tho it is showing on the very same page. When will Fondation Hirondelle ever get its act together? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Another check of VOT`s English hour at 1330, Feb 4 at 1409: 12035 is just barely audible but I can tell there is some modulation on it this time. 15300 modulation seems OK, but as always is under RFI producing a fast SAH. It`s Thursday so this must be Live from Turkey, with some other program heard the day before. BTW, when there is near-zero modulation from a transmitter on one frequency, chances are the same happens on many other broadcasts from the same unit, multiplying the MWh wasted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, the BBC English via Thailand clash with BBC Arabic via Cyprus is still audible here, the latter surely via long-path, Feb 4 at 1443 but English` From Our Own Correspondent atop, A. Johnston introducing a report from Kenya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik still going with morning Kreyòl service Feb 4 at 1327 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505 Greenville, but both rather poor toward end of transmission. Bonaire has been changing antennas on this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR-3 on 4775 instead of 5070 for reasons unknown, 0300-1200 UT until further notice, says their homepage. UT Feb 3, a leapfrog mixing product with 5935 was first heard on 7095, but glad to note it was lacking 24 hours later at 0626 check Feb 4, so apparently suppressed, as I was only hearing an SSB ham QSO in Spanish about antennas and receivers, Mexicans? WWCR fundamentals were pretty strong but it could also be they were sufficiently weaker to put the spur below threshold (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Convicted and sentenced child sex criminal evangelist Tony Alamo is still preaching on WINB, as I tuned across 9265 Feb 4 at 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES atop the QRM, Feb 4 at 1412 with Bible passage about Jesus` trial; brings to mind ``Jesus Christ, Superstar`` but we`ll never hear anything from that on KJES! Fairly good reception and KJES` frequency offset causes the other station to sound off-key for a change. Can`t let an hour go by without a performance of Ave María by these Marian cultists, and so that was heard at 1436, when KJES had less of an advantage over Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Since YFR in Hindi via UAE, 15520, lacked modulation on Feb 3, I checked again Feb 4 at 1406. Only a very poor signal today but I could tell it was modulated for a change. Of course, Dhabayya may not be to blame for the failure; it could have been anywhere along the line from Oakland, so who has to make a refund can only be determined by those in the know. Even FR HQ itself may have failed to get the audio out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I often hunt for LSA, the 338 kHz NDB in Lamesa TX which puts a seventh harmonic on 2366, during my 06-07 UT bandscans, but never hear it then, so suspect it is not 24h. Did hear it again Feb 4 at 1311 on 2366, negative keying making copy difficult but still possible with careful BFO tuning. I wonder if this airport has a regular flight coming in around sunrise, but none around midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Jeff White advises that the main 50 kW WRMI transmitter is back on 9955 the morning of Feb 4, but I am still not hearing it after 1500 or 1600, so must be on the SSE antenna instead of the NW one previously in use during this bihour. Listened to Happy Station on webcast from 1600, but audio quality awful, much worse than usual. A new program schedule from WRMI is very much needed as there will have been many changes with the cancellation of Aventura Diexista and most of the R. Prague relays, for example (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7585, VR IS fair-poor Feb 4 at 1429; at 1430 flute music, Laudetur Jesus Christus, Vatican Radio ID and into S Asian language. This frequency has had inexplicable Firedrake ChiCom music jamming on it before, but not today at rechecx 1450, 1457 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I happened to be at the breakfast table before 1400 UT Feb 4, so turned on the insensitive DX-390 which only has a reel-out clip-on antenna around the room, and with BFO on punched up 6075 as a lark, not expecting to hear 8GAL. But, a good thing I started at 1358, since its V/CQ marker on 6074 did too at 1358:50, more than a minute early, overlapping the motorboating R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk / Kamchatskiy, and finished about 1359:40 well before the 5-second-late closing timesignal from RR. 8GAL was totally clear copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11471-USB, 2-way Spanish contact at 1343 Feb 4, but I could only hear one side, so duplex? As usual, no IDs heard, and due to idiomatic country accent, I have trouble understanding what he is saying, other than ``puta madre``, which amounts to a general expletive like the F-word, not necessarily referring to a specific person having a whore for a mother and consequently being a bastard. Also whistles into mike, sure sign of a non-professional radio user (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
WRMI coming back
Jeff White advises that WRMI`s main 50 kW transmitter is back on the air this morning, 9955. Not sure yet whether will be using the NW antenna, but try Happy Station live feed from Taiwan at 1600. Around 1510 I was still not getting much of a signal, so may be on the SSE antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn Hauser logs February 3-4, 2010
** FRANCE [non]. While R. Martí was missing from 7365 at 0100 UT Feb 4, instead something very strong in Spanish on 7360, a real station, not a gospel huxter, which I assumed I could look up later --- but nothing listed. So I went back and monitored from 0115 to 0125. Interview about some art exhibit involving Iceland, but not until 0124 did they give me a clue, ``aquí en París``, which is just what I had figured, as RFI has Spanish at 0100-0130 on 5995, except that frequency is now missing.
So it`s Guiana French on 7360 replacing it, another February change by RFI. These February changes are normally planned at the beginning of the B-seasons, and published in asterisked RFI schedules, but I haven`t seen any this season; perhaps buried somewhere on the RFI website. Not here: http://www.rfi.fr/actues/articles/073/article_100.asp
which still shows 5995, but has admittedly not been updated for almost a year! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. As I was checking Lavwalamerik on 5835 and 7590, Feb 4 around 0010, I also punched up 13725, which LVA uses at least until 2300, but instead heard a good signal with news in English. That`s BBCWS via Thailand, incidentally USward at 25 degrees, used during this one hour only, and not supposed to be overheard by Americans, targeted for China and North Korea. Hmmm, are there yet more English speakers, however imperfectly, in China than in North America? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Since I was not sure when new 5835 starts with Lavwadlamerik, I checked again Feb 3 before 2400 and not on yet; waited and waited past 0000 UT Feb 4 and it finally popped on at 0004.5, and 7590 also in use during this hour. A late join-in-progress like that is of course typical of Greenville.
What happened at 0100 UT Feb 4: A Fondo was on 9415 already at 0000; 7340 came up at 0102:30 or so; 11625 weakly audible by 0104.
LVA at 0100: 5835 continued; 5960 weaker with fast SAH and Chinese QRM; 7465 on shortly. 5960 QRM must be Urumqi, 100 kW non-direxional with PBS Xinjiang in Chinese from 2330 to 1800 except for the usual Tue & Thu 08-11 siesta, per Aoki, but should be fading out as the sun rises over East Turkistan.
R. Martí frequency 7365 had lite jamming on it but no trace of Martí, so I think this transmitter had shifted to one of the A Fondo channels. Not sure about 6030, still heavily jammed. 9825 also jammed but signals on this band weakened anyway.
Just as well to be off 7365, as there is now a very strong Spanish station on 7360, which I assumed I could look up later --- but nothing listed. See FRANCE [non].
What about WWCR, 7465 to avoid colliding with LVA at 0100? Tuned in at 0058, and announcement started, ``At this time, WW--`` but cut off the air before anything more could be said. Probably like last night, taking an hour off for ``technical adjustments``; at least, a few minutes later not to be found on 3240, 4755 or 4775, while 5070 was still running. 0215 check: WWCR ops normal on 3215, 5070, no 4 MHz frequency.
But at 0325 it was again on 4775 instead of 5070. The transmitter schedules page at the website has not been updated, but the homepage http://www.wwcr.com/index.html says:
``WWCR's Transmitter #3 will broadcast on 4775 from 0300 to 1200 UT until further notice``
I did not realize the hours were that long: means that the Saturday night airing of WORLD OF RADIO, 0330 UT Sundays may well be on 4775 instead of 5070. Please spread the word. What`s wrong with 5070? No interference problems that I know of, and 295 kHz isn`t going to make much different versus falling nighttime MUFs.
WWCR 4775 blox reception in North America of, and perhaps interferes in their own areas, according to Aoki:
4770, Kaduna, Nigeria from 0430;
4775, AIR Imphal, India, from 1030;
4775, R. Tarma, Perú until 0600 and from 1000;
4775, TWR Swaziland, from 0340;
4780, Djibouti, from 0300 . . .
As I was checking 4775 on the portable, could not hear the mixing product on 7095, but is anyone else hearing 4775 audio mixing with 5935 audio there? Or on 7005, mix of 4775 and 5890? We`ll see what happens on the main rig after 0600, when we were hearing 7095 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another check for KXTR, 1660, Kansas City KS, which was missing the afternoon of Feb 1: On the caradio at 2015 Feb 3 I am only hearing some talk station, but about half an hour later some classical music is making it thru, must be KXTR, but why is it so weak for 10 kW, non-direxional at the top of the band?
Nearby KYYS, Spanish on 1250 is much stronger by skywave already. I still think of it as a 5-kW regional as it was when WREN Topeka, but I must not, as it`s now 25 kW in the daytime, and with a large main lobe aimed 257 degrees. That`s considerably north of here, and we are on its edge but not in a null, so apparently its ERP Enidward is still more than 10 kW ND from KXTR --- but I still have doubts KXTR is running full power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
So it`s Guiana French on 7360 replacing it, another February change by RFI. These February changes are normally planned at the beginning of the B-seasons, and published in asterisked RFI schedules, but I haven`t seen any this season; perhaps buried somewhere on the RFI website. Not here: http://www.rfi.fr/actues/articles/073/article_100.asp
which still shows 5995, but has admittedly not been updated for almost a year! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. As I was checking Lavwalamerik on 5835 and 7590, Feb 4 around 0010, I also punched up 13725, which LVA uses at least until 2300, but instead heard a good signal with news in English. That`s BBCWS via Thailand, incidentally USward at 25 degrees, used during this one hour only, and not supposed to be overheard by Americans, targeted for China and North Korea. Hmmm, are there yet more English speakers, however imperfectly, in China than in North America? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Since I was not sure when new 5835 starts with Lavwadlamerik, I checked again Feb 3 before 2400 and not on yet; waited and waited past 0000 UT Feb 4 and it finally popped on at 0004.5, and 7590 also in use during this hour. A late join-in-progress like that is of course typical of Greenville.
What happened at 0100 UT Feb 4: A Fondo was on 9415 already at 0000; 7340 came up at 0102:30 or so; 11625 weakly audible by 0104.
LVA at 0100: 5835 continued; 5960 weaker with fast SAH and Chinese QRM; 7465 on shortly. 5960 QRM must be Urumqi, 100 kW non-direxional with PBS Xinjiang in Chinese from 2330 to 1800 except for the usual Tue & Thu 08-11 siesta, per Aoki, but should be fading out as the sun rises over East Turkistan.
R. Martí frequency 7365 had lite jamming on it but no trace of Martí, so I think this transmitter had shifted to one of the A Fondo channels. Not sure about 6030, still heavily jammed. 9825 also jammed but signals on this band weakened anyway.
Just as well to be off 7365, as there is now a very strong Spanish station on 7360, which I assumed I could look up later --- but nothing listed. See FRANCE [non].
What about WWCR, 7465 to avoid colliding with LVA at 0100? Tuned in at 0058, and announcement started, ``At this time, WW--`` but cut off the air before anything more could be said. Probably like last night, taking an hour off for ``technical adjustments``; at least, a few minutes later not to be found on 3240, 4755 or 4775, while 5070 was still running. 0215 check: WWCR ops normal on 3215, 5070, no 4 MHz frequency.
But at 0325 it was again on 4775 instead of 5070. The transmitter schedules page at the website has not been updated, but the homepage http://www.wwcr.com/index.html says:
``WWCR's Transmitter #3 will broadcast on 4775 from 0300 to 1200 UT until further notice``
I did not realize the hours were that long: means that the Saturday night airing of WORLD OF RADIO, 0330 UT Sundays may well be on 4775 instead of 5070. Please spread the word. What`s wrong with 5070? No interference problems that I know of, and 295 kHz isn`t going to make much different versus falling nighttime MUFs.
WWCR 4775 blox reception in North America of, and perhaps interferes in their own areas, according to Aoki:
4770, Kaduna, Nigeria from 0430;
4775, AIR Imphal, India, from 1030;
4775, R. Tarma, Perú until 0600 and from 1000;
4775, TWR Swaziland, from 0340;
4780, Djibouti, from 0300 . . .
As I was checking 4775 on the portable, could not hear the mixing product on 7095, but is anyone else hearing 4775 audio mixing with 5935 audio there? Or on 7005, mix of 4775 and 5890? We`ll see what happens on the main rig after 0600, when we were hearing 7095 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another check for KXTR, 1660, Kansas City KS, which was missing the afternoon of Feb 1: On the caradio at 2015 Feb 3 I am only hearing some talk station, but about half an hour later some classical music is making it thru, must be KXTR, but why is it so weak for 10 kW, non-direxional at the top of the band?
Nearby KYYS, Spanish on 1250 is much stronger by skywave already. I still think of it as a 5-kW regional as it was when WREN Topeka, but I must not, as it`s now 25 kW in the daytime, and with a large main lobe aimed 257 degrees. That`s considerably north of here, and we are on its edge but not in a null, so apparently its ERP Enidward is still more than 10 kW ND from KXTR --- but I still have doubts KXTR is running full power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
WDX6AA Shortwave DX Radio Logs
AUSTRALIA Radio Australia-Shepparton 13630 2252 English 444 Feb 2 OM with Radio Australia ID. OM interviewing an OM on China and its warships.
COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE 11815 2332 Spanish 333 Feb 2 YL with comments.
ECUADOR HCJB 12025 2317 German 444 Feb 2 YL and OM with comments.
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13640 2250 Japanese 333 Feb 2 OM with comments.
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 11910 2322 Japanese 433 Feb 2 Two OMs with comments.
RUSSIA Voice of Germany Relay-DW 11830 2328 Chinese 333 Feb 2 YL with comments. YL and OM with DW ID 2329. YL and OM with comments 2330.
SAIPAN KFSB1 12090 2257 Vietnamese 333 Feb 2 Choir vocal music. OM with ID 2259. YL with comments and off the air 2300.
UNKNOWN Unknown Station??? 12050 2310 Spanish 444 Feb 2 OM with Musica program.
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.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
COSTA RICA Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE 11815 2332 Spanish 333 Feb 2 YL with comments.
ECUADOR HCJB 12025 2317 German 444 Feb 2 YL and OM with comments.
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 13640 2250 Japanese 333 Feb 2 OM with comments.
JAPAN Radio Japan-NHK 11910 2322 Japanese 433 Feb 2 Two OMs with comments.
RUSSIA Voice of Germany Relay-DW 11830 2328 Chinese 333 Feb 2 YL with comments. YL and OM with DW ID 2329. YL and OM with comments 2330.
SAIPAN KFSB1 12090 2257 Vietnamese 333 Feb 2 Choir vocal music. OM with ID 2259. YL with comments and off the air 2300.
UNKNOWN Unknown Station??? 12050 2310 Spanish 444 Feb 2 OM with Musica program.
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.Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA
Huntington Beach, California, USA
Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650
"World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive"
ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC
SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS
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Voice of Nigeria, 2/2, 0757 UTC, 15120 KHz, francese, s/off
http://www.hb9gce.ch/Voice%20of%20Nigeria_02022010_0757_15120.mp3
Chine Radio International, 2/2, 0800 UTC, 15335 KHz, cinese/russo, s/on
http://www.hb9gce.ch/CRI_02022010_0800_15335.mp3
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