** CHINA. 9455, Dec 26 at 1934, weak Firedragon music jamming at S6. Also seems
to be a LAH; target is RFA Chinese via Saipan, supposedly until 2100 but nothing
audible at recheck shortly after 2000. Someone mentioned that the axual music on
the Firedragon jamming has changed for the better, but I haven`t heard it well
enough in a long time to opine. Is it really different? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, Dec 27 at 0052, weak signal
but registering S9 vs the storm noise level, and definitely in Chinese, so it`s
Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, which we also sometimes detect around our sunrise, and now
this leads us to try the other three services on 60m, immediately finding weaker
JBA carriers, as listed: 4980 Uighur, 4850 Kazakh, 4500 Mongolian. The
Chinese-language service is first among equals, but 4980 is second (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9860, Dec 27 at 0049, JBA
music and talk, S6. Could it be Cairo active on this in Spanish? 12070 is also
detectable, even weaker and not enough to make a //. If so, there`s a chance
9860 would stay on past 0200 for the English sesquihour previously on 9315. Can
anyone confirm that, further east? But 9860 is no longer audible here at 0135.
9860 could well be CRI from Jinhua site at 00-02. The Cairo Arabic frequency at
0050 was S7 but just barely modulated and not offset, 9965.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non?]. 9830, Dec 27 at 0058, surprised to
heard NHK IS and IDs in Japanese and English, as frequent bandscanning around
this hour has never encountered it before. No program ever starts, just IS &
IDs continuing at further chex past 0102, 0107; 0136 but weakening. Not
scheduled here in HFCC or Aoki, instead CNR1 non-jammer from Beijing, but no
sign of it. NHK apparently testing, from where? FWIW, NHK was stronger than
other frequencies direct from China on 31m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Dec 26 at 1302, poor signal with
piano music and YL in presumed Korean as listed, tho my first impression was
Japanese, anyhow Shiokaze from JAPAN on its latest frequency change as first
reported by Ron Howard yesterday, ex-5985. And today he says the other
broadcast, far too late at 1600 for us to hear on 6 MHz band, has moved from
5910 to 5955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Dec
27 at 0121, romantic music, break and ``continuamos con el fonógrafo de 720 AM``
atop WGN most of the time. Might have been KSAH TX, but definitely Mexican at
0142, with PSAs from INE - Instituto Nacional Electoral, SCT - Secretaría de
Comunicaciones y Transporte, CNDH - Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos;
another ``continuamos`` non-ID as above and back to music. Presumed the usual
irritant to WGN, making a slow SAH with it, XEDE, Saltillo, Coahuila (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1060+, Dec 26 at 0604, choral
NA ending, as usual making LAH on the hi side of 1060.0 stations, full ID for
XERDO, ``La Raza`` also mentioning 93.7 FM, i.e. Reynosa. This is a new station
first appearing in the WRTH 2016 edition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7395, Dec 27 at 0147, The Mighty KBC has
Uncle Eric introducing Wolfman Jack, with an Xmas medley, interviewing a member
of the Elf Liberation Front; S7 via Nauen, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.0-AM, Dec 27 at 0138, just as I
tune in very weak S5 signal I hear an ID in form of e-mail address from Radio
True North (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Dec 27
at 0104 two weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, the stronger one
with traces of modulation, until it cuts off at 0104:53*, which is 6.5 seconds
later than last night at 0104:47.5*, so it`s Radio Chaski back on track with its
slipping autotimer, leaving a bit from BBC UAE still carriering on 5980 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Dec 27 at
*0114:11.5, S3 carrier cuts on over the JBA Chinese one; 0114:46.5, music
prélude starts; 0115:17.5, 2+1 timesignal ends by SLBC. These times vary little,
so they are reliable within their off-time universe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENNG DIGEST)
** U S A. 15740, Dec 26 at 1925, steady S9 open carrier,
no doubt Greenville warming up for switch to modulating 15730 in French from
1930, while VATICAN site is in 15730 use 1830-1930, violating Separation of
Church and State; after an hour from NC, another semihour in French is tacked on
15730, Sundays only via Botswana at 2030-2100 (and Saturdays same in Hausa)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1805
monitoring: despite storm noise, confirmed at Equatorial Guinea item circa 0434
UT Sunday Dec 27 on WA9RCR, 1860-AM, so started somewhat later than nominal
0415. Next:
Sun 0900 WRMI 5850 to NW [please confirm, ye who are
awake]
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 5085, Dec 26 at 0610, Art Bell is still back on another holiday rerun
before he resigned from `Midnight[sic] in the Desert`, via WTWW-2, but still
gone from 6070, CFRX. Who will be doing the next show, UT Tuesday Dec 29 from
0500+? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, Dec 26 at
1937, as I tune in WTWW-1, it`s off; then cuts on during a ham show, off again
by 1938.
9930, WTWW-2 is on at 1938 Dec 26, still with Xmas music. At
0051 check Dec 27, 9930 is still on with Ted selling a radio, starting to fade
down, not yet on night frequency 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.75, Dec 27 at 0152, WRNO is already on with
distorted gospel music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
3215, UT Sunday Dec 27 at 0154, a couple guys offering anti-Hillary material,
0157 wrapping up reminding us that from next Saturday they will be on
``shortwave 1``, 3215, at 7:30-9 pm Eastern [0030-0200 UT Sunday], ``American
Prophecy`` with a 330-area code phone number. Well, they are already on that
time and frequency this week!
This has been WWRB, as Dave Frantz then
comes on at 0158, apparently live, after the `Prophecy News Hour` with QSY
announcement to ``secondary frequency`` 3195 mentioned multiple times, where he
will be reading reception reports. He says they are driving two antennas, to
northeast and south, with 15,000 (? 50,000?) watts. Off at 0200 and WWCR comes
on 3215 a few seconds later. It seems the two rivals are well-coördinated about
this, only by clock or by monitoring?
3195, WWRB comes up in about half a
minute after 0200, with Dave again; now sounds like he says power is 110,000
watts. He talks on and on past 0215 about: WWRB as only station to use aircraft
to align antennas; other US stations are just guessing at their rhombic
coverage. His main business is aviation, including pipeline tracing,
tax-mapping, and when he was in Key West found the WWRB signal on south beam to
be ``astoundingly strong``, thus also into Cuba, and also has reports like that
from Jamaica and Costa Rica (50 over 9).
Measuring field strength in all
direxions, he has flown circles around the site testing at low power, at a
distance of 10 miles, first at 500 feet, then up to higher flight levels (so he
has a 3-D picture of the signal patterns). A SW signal looks like an open
clamshell. Look at the WWRB website for a photo gallery.
At 0205 he`s
pushing for customers to broadcast to Cuba, where they have no Bibles and no
internet, but US AID gave away some shortwave radios. Then a rant against most
``Taj Mahal`` churches which are in growing debt and only interested in getting
money from members, rather than evangelism, little more than vanity social
clubs.
Based on what I heard tonight, my logs of last two nights were
incorrect. I didn`t have 3195 in my BST-1 caradio memories, so thought when 3215
was closing he really meant 3185, which I could hear, instead of 3195 to be
next, which is certainly active. Tonight 3185 was already running before 0200
with Brother Scare, and sounded much weaker, tho the S-meter showed only about 5
dB less than 3195. Maybe it`s the solid state modulator on SW-1 which makes the
difference?
Altho the current date is auto-displayed at the top of the http://www.wwrb.org homepage, everything else is
in dire need of updating, from 2011, 2012, etc. Better not to look at the
program or transmitter schedules at all, lest you should believe some of the
long-gone details (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130,
Dec 26 at 1354 UT, open carrier/dead air from KLEY Wellington KS on groundwave
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Dec 27 at 0110
UT, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is in dead air again, as a winter storm is
approaching, scared silent? So I can hear some music playing under the carrier,
unlikely stupid sports-talking from WTNI MS; tweaking the NRD-545 tuning for
tight bandwidth and passband, past the KZLS carrier, 0130 UT Spanish
announcement, ``disfrute la diferencia``, 0131 UT ad with an 801-area code,
which nails it as the SS Utahn, KBJA Sandy. This had been DKBJA for a while,
Deleted by FCC, but now the D is gone, so they are apparently legally on air
again. Nothing helpful about this in their Correspondence File at AM Query
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Dec 26 at
1320, R. Sana`a is only S3, very poor, not having faded up yet, so I doze. Then
at 1344 it`s up to S9 during phoner interview in Arabic; By 1430 peaking at
S9+10 with rousing music, 1439 and 1440 changing musix, until finally cut to
Maghrib Qur`an call to prayer starting at 1441:26, which is a good 130 seconds
later than yesterday at 1439:16, so now they`re catching up to the sunset,
calculated (to the minute, not the second) by gaisma.com for Dec 26 as 1442 UT
in Aden, 1441 in Sana`a, both to reach 4 minutes later in 1 week.
By
1520 the 11860 signal has diminished to S9, and by final check 1611 only S6,
and/or with IBB KUWAIT, which at the peak I could only hear during Qur`anic
pauses. So let`s say ~1345-1530~ UT is the current window for this at amazingly
good strength, starting about sunrise here which was 1341 UT today. At random
chex elsewhen during the alleged 24-hour schedule of 11860, I hear little or
nothing. Where is this Radio Sana`a really from, what power and azimuth? (Glenn
Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 890.7, Dec 27 at
0123, quite a het here not against WLS, but against Cuba`s R. Progreso on 890.0.
Can`t pull any audio from it, but is best on E-W rather than N-S antenna. Surely
Algeria would not be that far off 891 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0532 UT December 27
