** ARGENTINA. 11710.60, Sept 1 at 0329, RAE with extremely distorted,
overmodulated music, during scheduled English hour. Very out of order, like
heard more often when on 15344vv (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5035, Aug 31 at 0610, weak broadcast signal,
presumably R. Aparecida, not enough here nor on 11854.9 to make a match. 5035
never audible here earlier in evenings, altho blocked by 5040 Cuba; Aoki gives
odd schedule of 05-03 UT. 5035 has another Brazilian, R. Educação Rural, Coari,
which may or may not relay R. Rio Mar, Manaus; a report of that by Carlos
Gonçalves, Portugal was never confirmed by ZY DXers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Sept 1 at 0101, RNA is back on after
missing for two nights, // 11780, hyperentusiasm likely about futebol rather
than getting rid of Pres. Dilma? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6010.160, Aug 31 at 0553, La Voz de tu Conciencia,
first heard earlier in evening on 6010.17, remeasured now with music, but it
varies audibly as a try to pin it.
5909.978, Aug 31 at 0556, Alcaraván
Radio likewise remeasured, compared to 5909.95 earlier. No trace of possible
leapfrog mixing products around 5810 or 6110 now that both frequencies are
clear.
Meanwhile I received a reply early UT September 1 from QSL manager
Rafael Rodríguez R. in Bogotá: ``Hola Don Glenn, Cordial saludo, hasta hoy te
respondo su mensaje del pasado 18 de agosto; realmente no he tenido contacto con
Martin Stendal para conocer de primera mano la realidad de las emisoras; hoy se
han reactivado aunque personalmente las noto muy bajas de señal. Pienso que ha
sido una situación técnica y decisiones del propio Martin S en mantenerlas
apagadas. El fin de semana, le hice llegar un mensaje vía un tercero; que sería
bueno con la llegada de los acuerdos de Paz poner a funcionar las emisoras y
creo tuvo eco. Ojalá pudiera chequear si te llega la señal. Buenos DX, Rafael
R.``
6009.972, Sept 1 at 0358 presumed Voice of Thy Conscience; very
weak until cut off at 0359*. Back on at *0401 with carrier, and then low
modulation tropical music, remeasured as 6009.978. Last night it was on hi side
of 6010. At 0408, I recognize ``When the Saints Go Marchin` In``, sung in
English. Nothing audible around 5910, blocked by NHK France until 0500 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1841, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840,
Sept 1 at 0328, RHC Spanish is S9+25 but very suptorted music on this frequency.
Wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA
[non]. 9955, Sept 1 at 0038, R. Prague via WRMI about the Prague Spring, Olympix
--- I suppose this is during their 80-th anniversary special for Aug 31, for
which a special QSL was offered, but publicity for it never mentioned the fact
that RP is on SW via WRMI, just some special Aug-31-only frequencies via Armenia
for Europe.
Nor does RP website, tho it does mention outdated WRMI relay
times:
The broadcasts for North America are available at
``02:00 UTC
(Monday - Friday, Sunday)
10:00 UTC (Monday - Friday)
12:00 UTC (Monday -
Saturday) [this one is still correct]
on the frequency 9955 kHz`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 9530, Sept 1 at 0321, weak
music not // 4765, so not the R. Progreso harmonic this time. Instead, as
scheduled 0300-0330 only, AWR in Tigrigna via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 9560, Sept 1 at 0322, S9-35 bigsig in
African language, I figure must be Greenville, but it`s really 0315-0400 NHK
Swahili via Talata, 250 kW, 320 degrees onward to North America. Sounded sorta
Swahili, but with an accent? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)
**
MADAGASCAR. 9480, Sept 1 at 0404, no signal from MWV, still off the air, as it
would be a bigsig like 9560 NHK relay earlier. Other APR broadcast is also still
AWOL from 17640 at 1825 Sept 1 check. I ask again, is anyone hearing the other
18 UT broadcast on 9570 in Russian? Last report I`ve found of it was by Ivo
Ivanov, Bulgaria, on August 5. Are any MWV scheduled broadcasts being heard?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, Sept 1 at
1253, RNZI is fair at S5-S7 on PNG beam, new frequency, ex-7245 since Aug 27 per
website, but first I`ve noted it. I suspect my report of 7245 QRMing US Navy ham
net before 1300 may have prompted the change [see USA]; if so, tnx. RNZI now in
the clear. 7425 scheduled 0659-1058 on Pacific beam, 1059-1258 toward PNG (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. Re: ``5980, Aug 31 at 0056, JBA
carrier from R. Chaski, but already off at 0104 retune in preparation for cutoff
which if had not been reset earlier, would have happened about 0105:53.5* per
standard slippage rate. Or it could be an anomaly``
It may well have been
an anomaly. On the condiglista, Alfredo Cañote in Lima points out that Aug 30
was a holiday causing some other radio stations to go off the air: ``hoy es
feriado en El Perú, día de Santa Rosa de Lima. No transmiten en MW: 880 Unión,
930 Moderna, 1590 Vida``
Didn`t get to recheck whether Chaski resumed
recession as before on UT Sept 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15450, Aug 31 at 1919, receiver is still tuned here
after TURKEY [q.v.] monitoring earlier, now fair signal in Spanish, soon
obviously RRI; I leave it on for my nap as there are classical music breaks,
including from Die Walküre toward end of hour, hardly dozeworthy. Announced //
17800 not really audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
**
TURKEY. 15450.014, Aug 31 at 1324, TRT IS is running following English
broadcast, off-frequency+plus as usual, poor signal with heavy flutter. And it
keeps on going, interrupted at 1328, by IDs in unknown language, as customary
when another service is about to begin. *Still* here at 1330.0 with accurate 5+1
timesignal, opening and presumed news until finally cut off at 1337:18.5*.
Should be Kazakh, which is supposed to be on 11880 from 1330. Yet another foulup
by the sloppyrators at Emirler. I`ll bet no one in charge at Ankara or Istanbul
monitors this happening again and again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGST)
** U A E. 9410.08, Sept 1 at 0319, S6 signal from something. HFCC
shows BBC Arabic via Dhabbaya at 03-04; of course: they can`t get their
frequencies right on. Another hour at 04-05 is via Woofferton, where they can. I
wouldn`t be surprised if BBC pull out of UAE relays. Remember when 9410 was a
reliable 24/7 BBCWS in English frequency, mostly from UK only? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7245.0-LSB, Thu Sept 1 at 1253, US
Navy ham net with lots of friendly informal chat, including regular K9YX;
finally seems finished at 1310, having started at 1200. I mentioned on WOR 1841
that this was on Wednesdays only and perhaps RNZI moved to 7425 to end the
clash; but it`s the net following at 1300, Tin Can Sailors, that is Weds only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1840
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 31 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, presumably
7490. Also confirmed Wed Aug 31 at 2348 during 2330 airing on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB,
fair.
WORLD OF RADIO 1841 ready for first airings Thursday September
1:
Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Thu 2330
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Fri 2130.5 WRMI
13695 to NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to
SW
Sat 0700 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sat 1400 Unique Radio NSW 3210
ND
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat
2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 0830
Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI
7730 to WNW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue
2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [we hope resumed after 3 weeks]
Tue 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
** U S A. 11580, Sept 1 at 0330,
WRMIBS missing from this frequency while still on stronger 11530; 0418 recheck,
11580 is back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
Correxion: second time reference should have read 0100 instead of 0000;
repaired: 9475-, Aug 31 at 0058, WTWW-1 is S9+50 of dead air; 0100 alive with
canned ID and back to SFAW. At 0207, 9475 is off and 5830 is not on, yet? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, as it`s almost
UT September 1, I`m tuned at 2359 UT Aug 31 for Voice of Vietnam on new WHRI
relay frequency: WHRI is on with own ID, and sure enough, 0000 UT Sept 1 opening
VOV in English, S9+20 but fadey. Further chex: at 0036 it`s VOV in Spanish,
something else new; at 0100 more VOV in English; at 0154 VOV in Spanish which
would have started at 0130. It seems VOV does not announce its frequencies in
either language at opening or closing.
At 0158, 7315 switches to LeSEA
music, AIDS promo by WorldVision, 0159 WHRI OCS theme and ID, 0200 into slanted
network news (USA?) in English, and now it`s // 9605, which WHRI is still
leaving on after the 01-02 KBS WR Spanish relay. Recheck at 0258, 7315 with WHR
in Spanish, English ID; 0300 clueless canned announcer says on 7315 ``now
broadcasting on 6175``, and more USA R Network ``news``.
6175??? Well, I
am checking this too all evening and it is not on now, nor was it ever on
earlier. At 0317, 7315 is still on with praise music, like but not // WHRI 7385,
and still no 6175.
All this was prompted by a new ``effective September
1`` English schedule from VOV forwarded by Richard Lemke, Alberta, but not
retracting the imaginary ``August`` schedule we soon debunked by real
monitoring. Significant portion of it concerning North America, in sic disorder
without sites specified, UT:
Eastern America 1:00 6175
khz
Eastern America 2:30 6175 khz
Central America - Caribbean
2:30 7315 khz
Central America - Caribbean 0:00 7315 khz
I reported:
``7315, never used by VOV before, will surely be WHRI, but will 6175 still be
WOF? Probably. Evidently the 0330 broadcast is gone, with two frequencies (and
two sites?) at 0230 instead. And a new earlier one at 0000``.
But this is
also WRONG, at least not right, YET! As per my axual monitoring above, 7315 *is
on* with VOV, English at 0000 & 0100, but at 0130 & 0230 it`s in
Spanish. And 6175 is not on at all from anywhere!
12005, not detected
earlier, but at 0205 UT September 1, JBA carrier, so seems as if Woofferton UK
relay is still active, but high time for it to QSY to 6175. Maybe by the next
night?
The current WHR program schedule is also wrong: for Angel 1:
Shows
LeSEA programming on 7315 at 00-01, KBS on 9605 at 01-02, and VOV on 6175 at
0300-0430 --- NOT! And nothing relevant on the Angels 2 and 6
schedules.
I can`t find any SW schedule on VOV`s Spanish page
where
you would never know it is even on SW. Those used to be at 0300-0330 &
0400-0430 on WHRI 6175. Also not clear if and when there will still be a
Vietnamese language relay to North America; had been 0130-0230 on 12005 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, Sept 1 at 0318 check,
WRNO is still/again OFF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 594, after receiving a carrier from the north Aug
29 at 1146 UT, which fit for the megawatt from Kolkata along the grayline, on
Aug 31 I`m up early to start monitoring at 1130, a semi-hour before local
sunrise: today there are no `regular` TP carriers like 774 Japan or Australia,
but 594 is back! It`s right on 594.0 as I calibrate the DX-398 USB offset clix
against 540.0 XETX.
This is a very steady but weak signal, far too
little to pull any audio. If only they would/could cut carrier for a ``CW`` ID
test. Repeated DFing puts it slightly CCW from due north, about 355, which is
exactly the direxion of Kolkata. I`m expecting it to be fading out by 1230 ---
but it doesn`t. In fact still there at ``full`` strength by 1300, 1337, 1420 ---
and in full daytime.
Unless it`s groundwave (hi hi), can`t be Kolkata,
but something much closer. Occurs to me that my local 960 KGWA is about the same
angle from here, could be spur from it? I walk around the block and find the
same signal and angle, so it`s not from within the household. I`ll be driving
around Enid to see if it`s stronger near KGWA site and if the DF change
significantly. -366 kHz would be an odd spur, and there is nothing at +366 kHz =
1326.
I conveyed the disappointing news to IRCA group et al., where
several stories came in of other cases involving inexplicable carriers on 9-kHz
bandplan frequencies which did not/could not turn out to be real DX, and will
put them in DXLD.
There 594 is again, Sept 1 around 1250 UT. Another
reason India was unlikely, from Sudipta Ghose, VU2UT: ``The 3 x 400 kW
transmitter of AIR Maitri uses directional antenna pointed towards East. The
configuration is generally 2 x 350 kW using a combiner. In very favourable
situation it is likely to propagate to Pacific as my fertile brain
imagines``.
Another idea: harmonic from a longwave beacon? Bill Hepburn`s
list shows the only one on 297 kHz is NH from Nouakchott, Mauritania. How about
198 kHz x 3? Only North Carolina, and China. Ken Zichi of MARE logged a DGPS in
Bobo, Mississippi on 297. And nothing audible here on either LW frequency at
1825 Sept 1 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
1499.17, Aug 31 at 0603 UT, JBA carrier is still here from some 1500
off-frequency? No replies seen to my previous inquiry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11893.0, Sept 1 at 0327, JBA carrier, I
have also detected before on the NRD-545; probably a birdie unless someone
elsewhere hear it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
11930, Sept 1 at 0327, only S6 on meter, but huge whining noise made up of
multiple closely-spaced carriers beating against each other, rather like we used
to hear on 17450. A Cuban radio war frequency, of course, and bits of pulse
jamming can be detected around the edges, despite it being a daytime-only
frequency for Radio Martí. Still the same at 0400. So is this something secret
out of Cuba, or Greenville? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1852 UT September 1
