** ANTARCTICA. 15476, straining to detect LRA36, Monday June 28 at 1424, carrier JBA, not 15475 compared to trace of RA on 9475 under huge WTWW splash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake search June 28: None heard, 8-16 MHz before 1400; nor 16-19 MHz at 1406-1408. Before 1400, CNR1 jammer vs BBC on 15285 audible; and weaker on 15265 vs RTI, again with het. By 1416, BBC atop 15285 with ``BBC Guangbo Diantai`` ID mentioning forbidden areas, Xizang and Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7405, R. Martí clear at 1320 June 28, no jamming audible, interviewing an ``independent correspondent`` by phone from Cuba about health problems there. Plenty of jamming on 11845 and 11930 at 1410 but Martí still atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15275, June 28 at 0604 world news in English, fair with deep fades, soon IDed with DW jingle. I don`t normally hear this, but of course it`s via RWANDA, 295 degrees at 0600-0630. DW uses 15275 for many more hours per day, 1200-1955 via Kigali or Woofferton in German but starting with a bit o` French. Also 0630-0700 in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. See SPAIN [and non]
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI signal good again, S9+18 with romantic music at 1338 June 28 filling out the English hour; next check at 1446, big het with more music marring CRI Russian on 9525.0 at about equal levels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 15525, unlisted in Dutch June 28 at 1348, VG S9+22 signal, weather report, discussing imminent match between Nederland and Slowakije at Durban RSA, Radio Een jingle and ID in passing; vuvuzelas in background. 1403 game seems underway with commentary.
On radio I had to imagine the TV camera panning across the players` faces before getting down to business: they have all obviously been instructed never to smile and never to look at the camera. While TV DXing Mexican WC coverage, seeing fans with stocking caps, coats, I wonder just how cold it is in wintry RSA. Weather.com shows Jo`burg average lows and highs in June and July are 6-16 degrees; another reference showed lows down to 2 degrees, but that`s not during game times. Presumably somewhat colder at Durban, Cape Town, which at 34 south could be almost as frigid as Enid here at 36 north --- but CT with nothing but ocean to Antarctica.
RNW via site? There is NO listing for any 15525 transmission at:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/rnw-frequency-schedule-summer-2010
But Media Network blog had this info as of June 27:
``Frequencies for Netherlands-Slovakia on 28 June
June 27th, 2010 - 11:51 UTC by Andy Sennitt.
The following shortwave/ mediumwave frequencies will be available for coverage in Dutch of the World Cup football match between the Netherlands and Slovakia which will be played tomorrow (28 June) between 1400 and 1545 UT:
1000-1700: 1296 kHz to Benelux
1200-1700: 5955 kHz to Central Europe
1300-1700: 7235 kHz to Germany
1300-1700: 9595 kHz to Great Britain and Ireland
1200-1700: 9895 & 13700 kHz to SW Europe
1300-1700: 9620 kHz to Scandinavia
1300-1700: 13700 kHz to Greece and Turkey
1300-1700: 9420 kHz to Caribbean
1300-1700: 15525 kHz to Caribbean & SE USA
1300-1700: 15760 to Atlantic Ocean
1300-1700: 17530 kHz to East Africa
1300-1630: 7300 kHz to South Africa``
Who cares about the sites? I would guess Bonaire on 15525, but could be Guiana French or something less likely in the hemisphere. This is a slack time for normal Bonaire transmissions, nothing scheduled 1227-1830, so plenty transmitters available. Did not know about or check 9420, likely same emanance.
This loud and clear signal rubs in to Central North Americans what RN could easily have done but never did --- provide us a morning SW broadcast in English, and now there are none at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15385, REE Emisión Sefarad check Monday June 28 at 1425, JBA carrier in very poor propagation from Europe; Greece 15630 also barely audible before 1400 with non-Greekish music presumably substituting during 2-day strike. Have set the alarm for 0110 June 29 to see whether the South American Sephardic repeat is really reactivated on 11795 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re previous report: Jeff White explains that on WRMI 9955 and webcast, only the La Voz del Consejo repeat at 0500-0600 UT Sundays has been replaced by Encontro DX. Its other airings continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1580, June 28 at 1325 UT, KOKB Blackwell OK is still on open carrier only, which helps to alleviate the higher noise floor we are forced to endure from all the cable DTV converter boxes we have had to add to the household appliances. (Of course, we could unplug them all in an emergency, and later they would all have to re-scan for signals.)
No Spanish audible unlike two days earlier, but weak English discussion of World Cup; hmmm, I wonder if that could be like 1% modulation from KOKB itself? 1359 hoping for algo identifiable, sounds like two very weak signals mixing. At 1443 I tried the caradio in the garage which is further from the noise, and a preacher in English was atop one or two others.
Wayne Heinen of NRC says there are no US Spanish stations known in this area; could it have been XEDM, Hermosillo, Sonora? Possibly, but in an unusual daytime opening that long after sunrise in the 900-mile range, and no Space Shuttle to stir up the D-layer. XEDM has downgraded itself from 50 to 10 kW in the last few years, presumably still non-direxional; news format apparently now as ``DM Noticias`` per WRTH 2010.
There are several other Mexican 1580s less likely due to power, distance. I should note that when I was getting Spanish on 1580, there was no sign of XERF 100 kW on 1570 vs the not very strong Catoosa OK station. XERF has made surprising daytime appearances before in the winter, but here we are at summer solstice when insolation angles are rising quickly after sunrise here at 1115 UT, Hermosillo 1228 UT.
KGAF 1580 Gainesville TX has now replied confirming it was not them in Spanish on Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15244.5, intruder, June 28 at 1350, Spanish SSB 2-way --- make that 3-way, as a stronger communicant cuts in, whistling into mike; weak het from broadcaster on 15245.0. Consulting HFCC you would think it`s V. of Russia via Moscow site. But as an outlaw nation, V. of Korea`s extensive broadcasts are missing from HFCC but showing in Aoki, as an English hour to Europe; and Aoki lists no Russia, so probably a wooden registration for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake search June 28: None heard, 8-16 MHz before 1400; nor 16-19 MHz at 1406-1408. Before 1400, CNR1 jammer vs BBC on 15285 audible; and weaker on 15265 vs RTI, again with het. By 1416, BBC atop 15285 with ``BBC Guangbo Diantai`` ID mentioning forbidden areas, Xizang and Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7405, R. Martí clear at 1320 June 28, no jamming audible, interviewing an ``independent correspondent`` by phone from Cuba about health problems there. Plenty of jamming on 11845 and 11930 at 1410 but Martí still atop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15275, June 28 at 0604 world news in English, fair with deep fades, soon IDed with DW jingle. I don`t normally hear this, but of course it`s via RWANDA, 295 degrees at 0600-0630. DW uses 15275 for many more hours per day, 1200-1955 via Kigali or Woofferton in German but starting with a bit o` French. Also 0630-0700 in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. See SPAIN [and non]
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI signal good again, S9+18 with romantic music at 1338 June 28 filling out the English hour; next check at 1446, big het with more music marring CRI Russian on 9525.0 at about equal levels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 15525, unlisted in Dutch June 28 at 1348, VG S9+22 signal, weather report, discussing imminent match between Nederland and Slowakije at Durban RSA, Radio Een jingle and ID in passing; vuvuzelas in background. 1403 game seems underway with commentary.
On radio I had to imagine the TV camera panning across the players` faces before getting down to business: they have all obviously been instructed never to smile and never to look at the camera. While TV DXing Mexican WC coverage, seeing fans with stocking caps, coats, I wonder just how cold it is in wintry RSA. Weather.com shows Jo`burg average lows and highs in June and July are 6-16 degrees; another reference showed lows down to 2 degrees, but that`s not during game times. Presumably somewhat colder at Durban, Cape Town, which at 34 south could be almost as frigid as Enid here at 36 north --- but CT with nothing but ocean to Antarctica.
RNW via site? There is NO listing for any 15525 transmission at:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/rnw-frequency-schedule-summer-2010
But Media Network blog had this info as of June 27:
``Frequencies for Netherlands-Slovakia on 28 June
June 27th, 2010 - 11:51 UTC by Andy Sennitt.
The following shortwave/ mediumwave frequencies will be available for coverage in Dutch of the World Cup football match between the Netherlands and Slovakia which will be played tomorrow (28 June) between 1400 and 1545 UT:
1000-1700: 1296 kHz to Benelux
1200-1700: 5955 kHz to Central Europe
1300-1700: 7235 kHz to Germany
1300-1700: 9595 kHz to Great Britain and Ireland
1200-1700: 9895 & 13700 kHz to SW Europe
1300-1700: 9620 kHz to Scandinavia
1300-1700: 13700 kHz to Greece and Turkey
1300-1700: 9420 kHz to Caribbean
1300-1700: 15525 kHz to Caribbean & SE USA
1300-1700: 15760 to Atlantic Ocean
1300-1700: 17530 kHz to East Africa
1300-1630: 7300 kHz to South Africa``
Who cares about the sites? I would guess Bonaire on 15525, but could be Guiana French or something less likely in the hemisphere. This is a slack time for normal Bonaire transmissions, nothing scheduled 1227-1830, so plenty transmitters available. Did not know about or check 9420, likely same emanance.
This loud and clear signal rubs in to Central North Americans what RN could easily have done but never did --- provide us a morning SW broadcast in English, and now there are none at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15385, REE Emisión Sefarad check Monday June 28 at 1425, JBA carrier in very poor propagation from Europe; Greece 15630 also barely audible before 1400 with non-Greekish music presumably substituting during 2-day strike. Have set the alarm for 0110 June 29 to see whether the South American Sephardic repeat is really reactivated on 11795 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re previous report: Jeff White explains that on WRMI 9955 and webcast, only the La Voz del Consejo repeat at 0500-0600 UT Sundays has been replaced by Encontro DX. Its other airings continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1580, June 28 at 1325 UT, KOKB Blackwell OK is still on open carrier only, which helps to alleviate the higher noise floor we are forced to endure from all the cable DTV converter boxes we have had to add to the household appliances. (Of course, we could unplug them all in an emergency, and later they would all have to re-scan for signals.)
No Spanish audible unlike two days earlier, but weak English discussion of World Cup; hmmm, I wonder if that could be like 1% modulation from KOKB itself? 1359 hoping for algo identifiable, sounds like two very weak signals mixing. At 1443 I tried the caradio in the garage which is further from the noise, and a preacher in English was atop one or two others.
Wayne Heinen of NRC says there are no US Spanish stations known in this area; could it have been XEDM, Hermosillo, Sonora? Possibly, but in an unusual daytime opening that long after sunrise in the 900-mile range, and no Space Shuttle to stir up the D-layer. XEDM has downgraded itself from 50 to 10 kW in the last few years, presumably still non-direxional; news format apparently now as ``DM Noticias`` per WRTH 2010.
There are several other Mexican 1580s less likely due to power, distance. I should note that when I was getting Spanish on 1580, there was no sign of XERF 100 kW on 1570 vs the not very strong Catoosa OK station. XERF has made surprising daytime appearances before in the winter, but here we are at summer solstice when insolation angles are rising quickly after sunrise here at 1115 UT, Hermosillo 1228 UT.
KGAF 1580 Gainesville TX has now replied confirming it was not them in Spanish on Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15244.5, intruder, June 28 at 1350, Spanish SSB 2-way --- make that 3-way, as a stronger communicant cuts in, whistling into mike; weak het from broadcaster on 15245.0. Consulting HFCC you would think it`s V. of Russia via Moscow site. But as an outlaw nation, V. of Korea`s extensive broadcasts are missing from HFCC but showing in Aoki, as an English hour to Europe; and Aoki lists no Russia, so probably a wooden registration for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
