sabato 3 dicembre 2016

Glenn Hauser logs December 2-3, 2016


** ANGOLA. 4949.73, Dec 3 at 0103, RNA is S8 and with much improved modulation, which they must have fixed during recent outage: Portuguese talk; Also at 0510 check in S6 music, but gone by 0611 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 7415, Dec 2 at 1758, JBA carrier 34 minutes before local mean noon. IBB Chinese via TINIAN is here at 1500-2100, and thus so is CNR1 jamming (or possibly Firedragon). After 1800, CRI in Farsi via Xi`an is also supposed to be on 7415. Only other one audible on band is 7445, presumably BBC MADAGASCAR as before; altho 1730-1830 is also scheduled CRI Chinese via Urumqi toward Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Dec 3 at 1334, KCBS is S8 in Korean talk, better than usual; at least a carrier is usually audible around sunrise; OSOB on 105 meters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST0

** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Dec 2 at 1801, still no signal from African Pathways on MWV English. 

9600, Dec 3 at 0108, MWV`s other English hour = New Life Station as on KNLS Alaska, ending ``music from the 80s, 90s and today`` at S9, into ``American Highway`` about I-70 in Kansas and some historic site there. This segment is by Paul Ladd, but I don`t find a script for it on the KNLS website (monarchists: where the K stands for King`s):
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 7409.995, UT Sat Dec 3 at 0440, here`s [Station YHWH] at S8, hardly readable but recognizable. Still on at 0509 but now there is ACI from 7415 Ascension.

Chris Smolinski, Maryland, also tells me, ``Better propagation tonight, I have him on 7410 at 0431z. Weak, but I recognize the voice`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, Dec 2 at 1756, mid-day JBA carrier search on 49m finds XEPPM, but also an even weaker one on 6070, CFRX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Dec 3 at 1320 UT, KXTD with non-ID for ``Que Buena, 104.9 y 100.3`` but not 1530. 104.9 is the translator in Tulsa, while 100.3 is KCXR in Taft OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. 3950-3955-3960, Dec 3 at 0617, DRM noise, forcing North American hams to avoid these 10 kHz to which they are entitled. It`s BBCWS in English, 100 kW, 114 degrees from Woofferton at 0559-0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK< DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1854 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday December 3 at 0056, the 0030 broadcast on WBCQ 9330.1v-CUSB, very poor S4. Next:
Sat 2030v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 
Sat 2330   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0410v  WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 
Mon 0030   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v  WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430   WRMI 9955 to SSE  
Tue 0030   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030   WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 1200   WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130   WRMI 15770 to NE
Wed 0030   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 2200   WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu 0030   WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5130.07-AM, UT Sat Dec 3 at 0056, WBCQ IS & ID loop, S9+10; nothing on 3250v; 7490.03, from 0100, `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, then joined by 5130 several seconds delayed. AW starts out with ``WBCQ is not a safe place`` with its free-speech political programmers, and he doesn`t like being linked to Trump despite having supported him. Ramsey on the phone is his sounding board (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7504.985v, UT Sat Dec 3 at 0447, WRNO in Chinese at S9+10 fading to S7. Keeps drifting upward as I try to measure it, here as of 0453 when it`s music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Dec 3 UT, all from NW pointing to Japan or Korea, except 1098-W from Marshall Islands:
 594 at 1313
 693 at 1312
 747 at 1311
 774 at 1311
 828 at 1315
1053 at 1316
1098 at 1316
1566 at 1320
Local sunrise today: 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11595-11618, Dec 3 at 1341, OTH radar pulsing/clicking. A victim would be CRI Bengali via Kunming on 11610, but nothing of it heard amid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1707 UT December 3