** ALBANIA. 13625, Oct 28 at 1430, R. Tirana still missing from English to NAm; then I tune up to 13640, and there is Klara! with her opening schedule announcement, but reception too poor to tell if she has updated it; I seriously doubt it, since they never updated last spring`s initial frequencies after a change. But what`s RT doing on 13640? That`s the frequency planned for B-11, but not until Oct 31, when the time will have shifted to 1530!
Then we see a delayed by p-mail report from Edwin Southwell in England, via Mike Barraclough:
``Radio Tirana frequency changes since October 24 for the English service; noted at 1430 on 13640 (ex 13625) good reception. At 2000 noted on 7530 (ex 7465), noted Radio Tirana on 7465 with music and interval signal at 1957 for a minute or so then transmitter cut off and opened on 7520 (sic, assume typo for 7530 which is the B-11 registration) in English (Edwin Southwell, Hampshire, World DX Club Contact)``
So they made the frequency change a week early, but not the time change! Since the NAm frequency on 13 MHz was to be dropped in B-11 when English would have been at 1945 and 2100, I suppose that explain why we have not been hearing it at all on 13735 at 1845 or 2000 this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 28, before 1300:
16100, good at 1257
15900, good at 1257
13970, good at 1258
12500, good at 1258
11500, fair at 1258; none in the 10s
7970, poor at 1259
Before 1400:
16980, poor at 1356
16100, good at 1356; none in the 15s, 14s, 13s
12600, very good at 1358-1400*
10300, fair at 1359
7970, poor at 1359
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 24997-25022 and 23975-24000, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Oct 28 at 1426; none others heard in the 22-26 range, but there was some CODAR again above 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15710, Oct 28 at 1400-1402* tone test; surely the only thing scheduled, 1230-1400 R. Cairo in Indonesian, 250 kW, 106 degrees from Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15770, S Asian language, with big hum, cut off abruptly at 1251:12* before I lined up my eye to parallax the frequency for sure on the FRG-7, but since nothing is scheduled on 15765 or 15775, it looks very much like this, as in Aoki, running late:
15770 ALL INDIA RADIO 1215-1245 1234567 Telugu 250 132 Aligarh
After 1245 the language may have been other than Telugu, altho I don`t find another one scheduled to start at 1245 on any other AIR frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 27 at 1800, I am monitoring R. Kuwait on the portable, but it`s too weak to tell if still in Arabic instead of English. Checking on the main rig at 2012, 15540 has faded out and 13650 is in Qur`an.
Oct 28 at 1815, 15540 is JBA, so it`s becoming moot what language it`s in, but I can just barely tell that it`s playing music, no longer // 13650 which is speaking Arabic, so maybe English service is back? Please check in Europe where presumably it remain audible.
As for resuming 11990 for 18-21 English, the frequency they used in past years, and continued to announce until this week, in B-11 that is going to be open, altho squeezed by Russia/Armenia on the lo side and France on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, KUSH Cushing, missing for several days, is back Oct 27 at 1800 UT check, local ads, Oklahoma News Network (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF32, KXOK-LD is again being seen on the duplicate adjacent channel to its regular one, RF31 in Enid, morning of Oct 28 from 1518 UT tune-in onwards. They also have a DTV translator on 35 in Lamont, halfway to Ponca City, which I don`t usually see. Still no explanation of what they`re doing on 32.
Altho we had a near-freeze this morning, a little tropo enhancement developed tnx warmup by 1437 UT Oct 28, with visible analog signal from KWDW-LP channel 48 OKC with Univisión`s `hoy` program from Televisa, all about Salma Hayek. Then the ch 19 LP in OKC also barely locked in, so these two are still on the air in an otherwise vacant analog TV spectrum here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Oct 27 around 2015, big open carrier, no doubt WTWW-2 testing again, but no modulation this time, and cuts off and on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15825, Thursday Oct 27 at 2034, VG signal from WWCR during a decent musical program, `Into the Blue`, which means bluegrass, not blues or naughty comedy. Lots of banjo tunes. 2057 interrupt music and switch to another, interrupt again at 2058 for QSY announcement to 7465. Earlier in the hour I tried to listen to `Couleurs Tropicales` on RFI via GUF 21690, but they were chatting more than musicking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1588 monitoring. Confirmed on WTWW 9479, excellent signal Thursday Oct 27 from 2100:30, after ID inserted into SFAW, back to SFAW for a few more sex before WOR. Other time on WTWW is UT Sunday 0400+ on 5755.
Also confirmed on WRMI 9955, Thursday Oct 27 from 2100, just after signing back on. Poor but readable signal, not jammed. Further WRMI airings: Friday 0500, 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. . .
Also confirmed on WBCQ 7490 (NEW, ex-7415), from 2130 Thursday Oct 27, checked around 2140 with readable signal and no QRM audible, as closer to sunset. Next week will still be at 2130, but B-11 schedules in effect elsewhere, including konflict with Kazakhstan until 2200. Week after that, we switch to 2230 UT, and then the co-channel will be BBC via Thailand. Other time on WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB (last week it was at 0200 by mistake).
Also confirmed before 0400 Oct 28, the UT Friday 0330 airing on WWRB, now much better on 3195 but still // 5051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6942, approx. center of strange tones, Oct 28 at 0555-0610+, seems like some different carriers both with tone modulation and beating against each other, constantly shifting up and down a few kHz. Never any ID or talk at all. Poor signal. Maybe a legit ute, HAARP? It sounded rather spooky, so perhaps a pirate gearing up for the Hallowe`en weekend extravaganza here in the pirate band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 28564-USB, Oct 28 at 1420, pileup of ham stations evidently desperate to work some DXpedition? Calls or partial calls making it thru were K3HV and PE1-something. It`s really exasperating that in such situations all they say is their own call over and over, so a bystander cannot know what station they are trying to work and whether it`s on the same frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Then we see a delayed by p-mail report from Edwin Southwell in England, via Mike Barraclough:
``Radio Tirana frequency changes since October 24 for the English service; noted at 1430 on 13640 (ex 13625) good reception. At 2000 noted on 7530 (ex 7465), noted Radio Tirana on 7465 with music and interval signal at 1957 for a minute or so then transmitter cut off and opened on 7520 (sic, assume typo for 7530 which is the B-11 registration) in English (Edwin Southwell, Hampshire, World DX Club Contact)``
So they made the frequency change a week early, but not the time change! Since the NAm frequency on 13 MHz was to be dropped in B-11 when English would have been at 1945 and 2100, I suppose that explain why we have not been hearing it at all on 13735 at 1845 or 2000 this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 28, before 1300:
16100, good at 1257
15900, good at 1257
13970, good at 1258
12500, good at 1258
11500, fair at 1258; none in the 10s
7970, poor at 1259
Before 1400:
16980, poor at 1356
16100, good at 1356; none in the 15s, 14s, 13s
12600, very good at 1358-1400*
10300, fair at 1359
7970, poor at 1359
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 24997-25022 and 23975-24000, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Oct 28 at 1426; none others heard in the 22-26 range, but there was some CODAR again above 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15710, Oct 28 at 1400-1402* tone test; surely the only thing scheduled, 1230-1400 R. Cairo in Indonesian, 250 kW, 106 degrees from Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15770, S Asian language, with big hum, cut off abruptly at 1251:12* before I lined up my eye to parallax the frequency for sure on the FRG-7, but since nothing is scheduled on 15765 or 15775, it looks very much like this, as in Aoki, running late:
15770 ALL INDIA RADIO 1215-1245 1234567 Telugu 250 132 Aligarh
After 1245 the language may have been other than Telugu, altho I don`t find another one scheduled to start at 1245 on any other AIR frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 27 at 1800, I am monitoring R. Kuwait on the portable, but it`s too weak to tell if still in Arabic instead of English. Checking on the main rig at 2012, 15540 has faded out and 13650 is in Qur`an.
Oct 28 at 1815, 15540 is JBA, so it`s becoming moot what language it`s in, but I can just barely tell that it`s playing music, no longer // 13650 which is speaking Arabic, so maybe English service is back? Please check in Europe where presumably it remain audible.
As for resuming 11990 for 18-21 English, the frequency they used in past years, and continued to announce until this week, in B-11 that is going to be open, altho squeezed by Russia/Armenia on the lo side and France on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1600, KUSH Cushing, missing for several days, is back Oct 27 at 1800 UT check, local ads, Oklahoma News Network (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF32, KXOK-LD is again being seen on the duplicate adjacent channel to its regular one, RF31 in Enid, morning of Oct 28 from 1518 UT tune-in onwards. They also have a DTV translator on 35 in Lamont, halfway to Ponca City, which I don`t usually see. Still no explanation of what they`re doing on 32.
Altho we had a near-freeze this morning, a little tropo enhancement developed tnx warmup by 1437 UT Oct 28, with visible analog signal from KWDW-LP channel 48 OKC with Univisión`s `hoy` program from Televisa, all about Salma Hayek. Then the ch 19 LP in OKC also barely locked in, so these two are still on the air in an otherwise vacant analog TV spectrum here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Oct 27 around 2015, big open carrier, no doubt WTWW-2 testing again, but no modulation this time, and cuts off and on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15825, Thursday Oct 27 at 2034, VG signal from WWCR during a decent musical program, `Into the Blue`, which means bluegrass, not blues or naughty comedy. Lots of banjo tunes. 2057 interrupt music and switch to another, interrupt again at 2058 for QSY announcement to 7465. Earlier in the hour I tried to listen to `Couleurs Tropicales` on RFI via GUF 21690, but they were chatting more than musicking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1588 monitoring. Confirmed on WTWW 9479, excellent signal Thursday Oct 27 from 2100:30, after ID inserted into SFAW, back to SFAW for a few more sex before WOR. Other time on WTWW is UT Sunday 0400+ on 5755.
Also confirmed on WRMI 9955, Thursday Oct 27 from 2100, just after signing back on. Poor but readable signal, not jammed. Further WRMI airings: Friday 0500, 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. . .
Also confirmed on WBCQ 7490 (NEW, ex-7415), from 2130 Thursday Oct 27, checked around 2140 with readable signal and no QRM audible, as closer to sunset. Next week will still be at 2130, but B-11 schedules in effect elsewhere, including konflict with Kazakhstan until 2200. Week after that, we switch to 2230 UT, and then the co-channel will be BBC via Thailand. Other time on WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB (last week it was at 0200 by mistake).
Also confirmed before 0400 Oct 28, the UT Friday 0330 airing on WWRB, now much better on 3195 but still // 5051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6942, approx. center of strange tones, Oct 28 at 0555-0610+, seems like some different carriers both with tone modulation and beating against each other, constantly shifting up and down a few kHz. Never any ID or talk at all. Poor signal. Maybe a legit ute, HAARP? It sounded rather spooky, so perhaps a pirate gearing up for the Hallowe`en weekend extravaganza here in the pirate band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 28564-USB, Oct 28 at 1420, pileup of ham stations evidently desperate to work some DXpedition? Calls or partial calls making it thru were K3HV and PE1-something. It`s really exasperating that in such situations all they say is their own call over and over, so a bystander cannot know what station they are trying to work and whether it`s on the same frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
