** ALBANIA. 6100, Nov 10 at 0227 tune-in, R. Tirana with pop music, and ``end of our program for today; goodnight from Radio Tirana`` then switch to IS, 0230 opening English with usual B-12 schedule claiming this is on the air 7 nights a week instead of 6. So the only scheduled English at 0230 got a prepeat, but from how early, 0200? Probably not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Nov 10 at 0034, LTA feeder is on and in again, song in English, ``I Love You So``, 0035 DJs talking over it, introducing comerciales, a looong adstring, including speech-compressed tags, websites in .ar, ``espacio publicitario``; 0040 ``tu radio``, QRM for a couple of minutes from Enid acoustic sirens; still ads past 0042, 0043 headlines including something about Uruguayan transit, Pope on Twitter, finally back to a song. Never caught an ID of the originating station. But:
As I mention on WORLD OF RADIO 1642, Eduardo Peralta within Argentina heard a new one Nov 8 at 0154, ``Metro 95.1, well-known FM station from Buenos Aires; at 0154 "Fin espacio publicitario", into English rap music at 0156. Terrible, noisy quality``. That matches what I was hearing tonight. Gone at 0100 recheck when there might have been an ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Nov 10 at 0044, RAE good signal, het, in Portuguese with a porteño accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4700, Nov 10 at 0022, JBA carrier and a trace of modulation, probably R. San Miguel, heard in the mornings by Andy Robins and Bob Wilkner on 4699.95 or 4699.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Nov 10 at 0014, presumed Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, is in again tonight with music, better at 0022, and at 0047 it`s become the best of the 4.7+ MHz signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5580.2, Nov 10 at 0023, JBA carrier, matching the frequency reported by Bob Wilkner for Radio San José, Oct 21 and 25 during the previous hour. On 4 November he had it on 5580.16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, Nov 10 at 0046, Radio Pio Doce in Spanish, blasted away by CRI Spanish via Cuba on new 5950 ex-5990, and causing a big het to it, but no contest here about which dominates. RPXII was in the clear 24 hours earlier; we can only hope the Cubans punched up the wrong frequency rather than a permanent change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4925, Nov 10 at 0029, poor in Portuguese with timecheck for 20 horas and something, i.e. UT-4 zone which makes it R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Amazonas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2748.7-USB, Nov 10 at 0054, weak signal with weather, sort of British accent, then some different voices, traffic contacts? 0057 it`s French Canadian with an English accent, mentions Îles de la Madelaine. I know I`ve heard something like this before: see DXLD 11-12, and also 10-48.
One schedule at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL
shows three Coast Guard stations in NS in rotation with Grindstone, Quebec, i.e. Magdalen Islands, but the latest one starting before 0054 as VCO Sydney from 0040. The CCG schedule athttp://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/RAMN2012/Atlantic/Part2
agrees: ``MCTS Sydney / VCO - Broadcasts Time UTC 0040 Frequency 2749-J3E RADIOTELEPHONY`` J3E means single sideband, suppressed carrier. And there is no listing now for VCN or Grindstone, which apparently has been decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 15340, oops! Nov 9 at 1929, we find the RHC new frequency to Europe instead broadcasting cut numbers in MCW, i.e. tones on a regular AM carrier. Cut numbers are ten Morse letters each standing for a different number, easier and quicker to copy than the five dits/dahs making up each proper Morse code number. And they are sent in groups of five each, then pauses, just like we hear on various frequencies in the 5.8-5.9 MHz range late at night. Of course, we already know these spy numbers, as well as the Spanish-spoken variety, are from Cuba, but putting them on an RHC frequency will make this a little harder to deny, if the dentroCubans even try to.
Not only is it an RHC frequency, but obviously an RHC transmitter, sharing the site with the DGI spy numbers service, as finally at 1934 the numbers suddenly stop, replaced by the RHC French service already in progress.
5950, Nov 9 at 2305, surprised to find CRI English here with good modulation, and not on 5990, so must be the Cuban relay, which in HFCC B-12 is still shown on 5990 for 23-24 English and 00-01 Spanish. A mistake, or are the ChiCom rubbing in Taiwan`s departure from 5950 via WYFR? We`ll see subsequently. If not the only occasion for CRI/HAB on 5950, it`s the first, as yesterday before 0100 it was certainly not there when I was getting BOLIVIA, q.v. unimpeded on 5952.44.
Yes, at 0024 UT Nov 10, CRI Spanish is still on 5950, and now has a big het from Bolivia, even bigger at 0046 when I can hear some of its audio in the sideband of ChiCuba.
5980, Nov 10 at 0046, jamming pulses against nothing, the R. Martí frequency used only from 07 to 13.
6165, Nov 10 at 0050, big open carrier is already on prior to RHC English at 01-07.
5025, Nov 10 at 0233, R. Rebelde has big continuous het on the hi side, probably that unID transmitter, which usually sends RTTY, approx. 5025.64 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 6180, Nov 10 at 0048, M&W in English discussing natural wonders. Must be CRI via Kashgar, scheduled 00-01 southward, tnx to the absence now for more than a week of RNA/RNB Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Nov 10 at 0012, R. República, missing 24 hours earlier, is back with huge signal atop the Cuban jamming. The spurs have been suppressed, no longer heard up around 9500, tho there is still a lot of hash closer in, around 9485/9495 at 0032 check.
But TDF still hasn`t fixed the 49m spurs out of NHK relay transmitter on 5960 after 0200: Nov 10 at 0227 I am still hearing the blobs around 6076, 5994, 5926, 5844 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 9 at 2308, XEPPM is already on with Mexican music. Guess they start at 2300 even during standard time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160.9, Nov 10 at 0051, no carrier detectable from CKZN which has been off-frequency for a few months. Meant to check earlier before Cuba on 6165, but that carrier was already on by 0050. There was a weak signal on 6160.0. So is CKZN off, or back on frequency to collide more directly with CKZU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4746.75, Nov 9 at 0018, weak signal with music and talk, probably R. Huanta Dos Mil, which may vary a little around 4747. On Nov 4 in the morning, Andy Robins had this tentatively on 4747.08
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1642 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, starting promptly at 0230 UT Saturday November 10. Better signal here, now one hour later into the nightside thanks to the end of DST, and so it should be elsewhere westward. Next:
Saturday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265, 1 kW from Germany
Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830 on WRMI 9955
Saturday 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 6190, 1 kW (new, ex-7265)
Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120
UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5745 (ex-0400)
Sunday 0900, 1630 on WRMI 9955
Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9479, Nov 10 at 0030, again tonight WTWW-1 is still on its day frequency altho it`s night and signal has dropped to poor level and with growing het from China(?) 9480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Nov 10 at 0033 UT, open carrier from the direxion of Dallas is dominating, i.e. KBXD testing (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1620, Nov 9 at 2035 UT, sports talk, which means that KOZN in Nebraska is already skywaving, barely one bihour after local mean noon, but the sun is steadily sinking to lower and lower zeniths. These on the caradio; an hour later at 2134 I am hearing ``Newstalk 16-20, WTAW``, College Station TX from the south where the sun is of course still higher than here or Nebraska, but low enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4417, Nov 10 at 0021, fair and steady open carrier, wonder what? Probably North American ute, too strong for a South American broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4775, Nov 10 at 0015, something very weak here, probably R. Tarma, Perú, but there is also a Brazilian, R. Congonhas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4825.0, Nov 10 at 0025 two nearby signals making a het, one of which is right on - probably R. Canção Nova, Brasil, while there are two Peruvians reported, one slightly lower, one slightly higher, La Voz de la Selva and Radio Sicuani respectively, but are all currently active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4864.7, Nov 10 at 0027, music, het from another station. R. Logos, Bolivia was reported on the low side of 4865 but not this low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7255, Nov 9 at 0730, very poor broadcast signal, maybe Arabic? First guess would be Nigeria, except Aoki and EiBi B12 show no usage of 7255 by VON in the mornings. How about Belarus? 250 kW from Minsk is here at 05-08, say HFCC and EiBi, but Aoki says 04-07 (more timezone confusion). Nothing else at this hour in any of them, and HFCC excludes anything from Nigeria. BBC English from Ascension is finished with 7255 at 0600, all agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Nov 10 at 0034, LTA feeder is on and in again, song in English, ``I Love You So``, 0035 DJs talking over it, introducing comerciales, a looong adstring, including speech-compressed tags, websites in .ar, ``espacio publicitario``; 0040 ``tu radio``, QRM for a couple of minutes from Enid acoustic sirens; still ads past 0042, 0043 headlines including something about Uruguayan transit, Pope on Twitter, finally back to a song. Never caught an ID of the originating station. But:
As I mention on WORLD OF RADIO 1642, Eduardo Peralta within Argentina heard a new one Nov 8 at 0154, ``Metro 95.1, well-known FM station from Buenos Aires; at 0154 "Fin espacio publicitario", into English rap music at 0156. Terrible, noisy quality``. That matches what I was hearing tonight. Gone at 0100 recheck when there might have been an ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Nov 10 at 0044, RAE good signal, het, in Portuguese with a porteño accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4700, Nov 10 at 0022, JBA carrier and a trace of modulation, probably R. San Miguel, heard in the mornings by Andy Robins and Bob Wilkner on 4699.95 or 4699.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Nov 10 at 0014, presumed Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, is in again tonight with music, better at 0022, and at 0047 it`s become the best of the 4.7+ MHz signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5580.2, Nov 10 at 0023, JBA carrier, matching the frequency reported by Bob Wilkner for Radio San José, Oct 21 and 25 during the previous hour. On 4 November he had it on 5580.16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, Nov 10 at 0046, Radio Pio Doce in Spanish, blasted away by CRI Spanish via Cuba on new 5950 ex-5990, and causing a big het to it, but no contest here about which dominates. RPXII was in the clear 24 hours earlier; we can only hope the Cubans punched up the wrong frequency rather than a permanent change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4925, Nov 10 at 0029, poor in Portuguese with timecheck for 20 horas and something, i.e. UT-4 zone which makes it R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Amazonas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2748.7-USB, Nov 10 at 0054, weak signal with weather, sort of British accent, then some different voices, traffic contacts? 0057 it`s French Canadian with an English accent, mentions Îles de la Madelaine. I know I`ve heard something like this before: see DXLD 11-12, and also 10-48.
One schedule at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm#O%20ATL
shows three Coast Guard stations in NS in rotation with Grindstone, Quebec, i.e. Magdalen Islands, but the latest one starting before 0054 as VCO Sydney from 0040. The CCG schedule athttp://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/RAMN2012/Atlantic/Part2
agrees: ``MCTS Sydney / VCO - Broadcasts Time UTC 0040 Frequency 2749-J3E RADIOTELEPHONY`` J3E means single sideband, suppressed carrier. And there is no listing now for VCN or Grindstone, which apparently has been decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 15340, oops! Nov 9 at 1929, we find the RHC new frequency to Europe instead broadcasting cut numbers in MCW, i.e. tones on a regular AM carrier. Cut numbers are ten Morse letters each standing for a different number, easier and quicker to copy than the five dits/dahs making up each proper Morse code number. And they are sent in groups of five each, then pauses, just like we hear on various frequencies in the 5.8-5.9 MHz range late at night. Of course, we already know these spy numbers, as well as the Spanish-spoken variety, are from Cuba, but putting them on an RHC frequency will make this a little harder to deny, if the dentroCubans even try to.
Not only is it an RHC frequency, but obviously an RHC transmitter, sharing the site with the DGI spy numbers service, as finally at 1934 the numbers suddenly stop, replaced by the RHC French service already in progress.
5950, Nov 9 at 2305, surprised to find CRI English here with good modulation, and not on 5990, so must be the Cuban relay, which in HFCC B-12 is still shown on 5990 for 23-24 English and 00-01 Spanish. A mistake, or are the ChiCom rubbing in Taiwan`s departure from 5950 via WYFR? We`ll see subsequently. If not the only occasion for CRI/HAB on 5950, it`s the first, as yesterday before 0100 it was certainly not there when I was getting BOLIVIA, q.v. unimpeded on 5952.44.
Yes, at 0024 UT Nov 10, CRI Spanish is still on 5950, and now has a big het from Bolivia, even bigger at 0046 when I can hear some of its audio in the sideband of ChiCuba.
5980, Nov 10 at 0046, jamming pulses against nothing, the R. Martí frequency used only from 07 to 13.
6165, Nov 10 at 0050, big open carrier is already on prior to RHC English at 01-07.
5025, Nov 10 at 0233, R. Rebelde has big continuous het on the hi side, probably that unID transmitter, which usually sends RTTY, approx. 5025.64 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 6180, Nov 10 at 0048, M&W in English discussing natural wonders. Must be CRI via Kashgar, scheduled 00-01 southward, tnx to the absence now for more than a week of RNA/RNB Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Nov 10 at 0012, R. República, missing 24 hours earlier, is back with huge signal atop the Cuban jamming. The spurs have been suppressed, no longer heard up around 9500, tho there is still a lot of hash closer in, around 9485/9495 at 0032 check.
But TDF still hasn`t fixed the 49m spurs out of NHK relay transmitter on 5960 after 0200: Nov 10 at 0227 I am still hearing the blobs around 6076, 5994, 5926, 5844 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 9 at 2308, XEPPM is already on with Mexican music. Guess they start at 2300 even during standard time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160.9, Nov 10 at 0051, no carrier detectable from CKZN which has been off-frequency for a few months. Meant to check earlier before Cuba on 6165, but that carrier was already on by 0050. There was a weak signal on 6160.0. So is CKZN off, or back on frequency to collide more directly with CKZU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4746.75, Nov 9 at 0018, weak signal with music and talk, probably R. Huanta Dos Mil, which may vary a little around 4747. On Nov 4 in the morning, Andy Robins had this tentatively on 4747.08
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1642 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, starting promptly at 0230 UT Saturday November 10. Better signal here, now one hour later into the nightside thanks to the end of DST, and so it should be elsewhere westward. Next:
Saturday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265, 1 kW from Germany
Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830 on WRMI 9955
Saturday 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 6190, 1 kW (new, ex-7265)
Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120
UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5745 (ex-0400)
Sunday 0900, 1630 on WRMI 9955
Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9479, Nov 10 at 0030, again tonight WTWW-1 is still on its day frequency altho it`s night and signal has dropped to poor level and with growing het from China(?) 9480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Nov 10 at 0033 UT, open carrier from the direxion of Dallas is dominating, i.e. KBXD testing (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1620, Nov 9 at 2035 UT, sports talk, which means that KOZN in Nebraska is already skywaving, barely one bihour after local mean noon, but the sun is steadily sinking to lower and lower zeniths. These on the caradio; an hour later at 2134 I am hearing ``Newstalk 16-20, WTAW``, College Station TX from the south where the sun is of course still higher than here or Nebraska, but low enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4417, Nov 10 at 0021, fair and steady open carrier, wonder what? Probably North American ute, too strong for a South American broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4775, Nov 10 at 0015, something very weak here, probably R. Tarma, Perú, but there is also a Brazilian, R. Congonhas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4825.0, Nov 10 at 0025 two nearby signals making a het, one of which is right on - probably R. Canção Nova, Brasil, while there are two Peruvians reported, one slightly lower, one slightly higher, La Voz de la Selva and Radio Sicuani respectively, but are all currently active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4864.7, Nov 10 at 0027, music, het from another station. R. Logos, Bolivia was reported on the low side of 4865 but not this low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7255, Nov 9 at 0730, very poor broadcast signal, maybe Arabic? First guess would be Nigeria, except Aoki and EiBi B12 show no usage of 7255 by VON in the mornings. How about Belarus? 250 kW from Minsk is here at 05-08, say HFCC and EiBi, but Aoki says 04-07 (more timezone confusion). Nothing else at this hour in any of them, and HFCC excludes anything from Nigeria. BBC English from Ascension is finished with 7255 at 0600, all agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
