** ALBANIA [non]. 5850, Jan 24 at 2300.5, WRMI yet again starts playing familiar World Music fill instead of Radio Tirana, which, yes, does still appear on the frequency sked grid, for XMTR 12, http://tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Jan 24 at 1452, CB is still off again; but at 1912, PMS is on again; at 2054 off again. Others report it cutting on and off today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Jan 24 at 1903, WRMI playing reggae? tune from World Music instead of RAE in German. Not // 9455 music, presumably Oldies. 9395 still music at 2054 instead of RAE Italian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 11995, Jan 24 at 1533, south Asian song, S9 to S9+10 with flutter; 1535 AWR ID in presumed Punjabi as scheduled 1530-1600 via Moosbrunn, mentioning several languages including Punjabi, Hindi, address in Lahore, Pakistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOUVET ISLAND [non]. 14203-USB, Jan 24 at 1554, WB3BFC keeps repeating nothing but his callsign every few seconds, a sure sign of a pileup near a DX-pedition. A bigger pileup on 14201-USB with K2AJY, W2DAR and many others. No one ever spares the precious time to utter callsign of the station they are calling.
14185-USB was the nominal publicized frequency for the 3Y0Z two-week DXpedition which must now be underway. Standard protocol is for the DX to listen a few kHz away, usually upward, from own frequency, no one else allowed to use it. If 3Y0Z is around 14185 or 14195, I can`t hear it.
Nothing heard later in the day on or above these in 20m band, nor the other SSB publicized: 21285, 18130, 7082, 5400, 3785. As of 2246 UT Jan 24, their website does not yet confirm they have arrived and are on the air:
http://www.bouvetdx.org
Want to check the SR/SS times for Bouvet, but gaisma.com doesn`t have it in its database, unlike timeanddate.com:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/@3371123
Tho they show its far-south latitude 54-26, and SR/SS times converted to UT seem right for mid-summer rather than mid-winter: 0356/1959 for a day 16+ hours long, summer temps near or below freezing, it`s otherwise treated as part of European Norway! As if it were on CET in the Northern Hemisphere, with DST dates from March to October. My faith in the accuracy of timeanddate.com is damaged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15031, 15097, 15168, 15234, 15302, 15439, 15508, 15576, 15644, 15710, 15779, Jan 24 at 1446, approx. centers of RHC-FM spurblobs out of 15370-AM, which are back today, so yesterday`s clear band was indeed a fluke. 15234 QRMs RHC`s other real frequency 15230. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [non]. 9455, Wed Jan 24 at 2100, WRMI with `FG Radio`, misc. news about the area, which sounds vaguely familiar, and at 2109 feature about a 94-year-old scuba diver, which I know I heard before ---
``9955, Wed Dec 20 at 1400, WRMI starting `FG Radio`, another new episode with several subjects, about the situation in Syria, a 94-year-old diver, etc.``
So they are back to repeating same episode week after week, soon to be months? Followed by `Viva Miami` at 2115 repeating the Allan Weiner interview (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRITIMATI. 846, Jan 24 at 0655, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 13800, Jan 24 at 1525, sounds like two stations mixing, one with talk, one with music, during Radio Tamazuj, also a long/short path echo? Or is single station programming just over-produced? And a fast subaudible heterodyne, or is it just propagational flutter?
By 1528, it`s Radio Dabanga only with their singing IDs. In previous seasons there was a site change about now, with overlapping audio, but in B-17 both are scheduled exactly same parameters via Talata. I can see how one might suspect it`s a totally different station under there, i.e. Radio Puntland, but we certainly need more evidence of that.
BTW, Tamazuj for Sudan South is surely in the Juba dialect of Arabic, not that I can hear the difference, but I don`t think R. Dabanga which is mainly for Darfur, would also be in the Juba dialect as some schedules keep assuming. Both services are produced by Free Press Unlimited in the Netherlands.
WRTH 2018 page 518 does not mention Juba Arabic at all, just Arabic for Tamazuj (which means Blend), but this about the Dabanga languages: ``aimed at listeners in the Darfur area of Western Sudan. In Standard Arabic, Darfuri Arabic, Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 9985.020, Jan 24 at 1537, off-frequency in Korean, i.e. IBB at 1500-1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710, Jan 24 at 1523, S6 BSKSA with Qur`an --- at tune-in the pause was so long I thought it was open carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SINGAPORE. 7395, Jan 24 at 1546, lively conversation in Korean, i.e. BBC at 1530-1830, 250 kW at 25 degrees also USward beyond. Stronger than NZ 7390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WBCQ 9330v
** SPAIN. 15390, Jan 24 at 1915, no signal from REE, while 15500 is S6-S8 and 9690 S7-S9 with silly ballgame. Others report the distortion on 15390 fixed, but I doubt if it`s permanent and can`t check if there is no signal at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1914 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January 24 at 2200 on WBCQ webcast, and on 7489.910 after that. Earlier at 2124 I had measured it on 7490.052. Next:
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2230.5 WRMI 5850 to NW
Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1531 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1915?]
Full WOR schedule via all media, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9329.978v, Jan 24 at 1542, S6-S8 open carrier, must be WBCQ resuming daytime testing, also with signature slight variation in frequency as I try to measure it.
Recheck at 1906, still on at S4-S6, just barely modulated on 9330.112v. By 1920 it`s fully modulating with a young Brother Hystairical, confirmed as such by running 26 seconds behind 9980 WWCR. Still going at 2054 and 2123 chex. Another way to keep him on the air beyond 23-24 on 7490; previous 9330 tests contained WBCQ-FM C&W music, playbacks of AWWW and WOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9455, Jan 24 at 1910, WRMI Oldies during news, not townhall.com but really VOA as in mid-ID at 1911, // JBA 7780. At 2100 9455 switches to FG Radio; see CYPRUS [non].
9395, Jan 24 at 2100, after Argentina [NON], WRMI joins GCN for `The Power Hour`, but at 2116-2122+ recheck, both this and // 7780 are back to Oldies music fill; what happened to TPH? Not that I miss it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI: see also ALBANIA; ARGENTINA
** U S A. 17774.989, Jan 24 at 1912, KVOH is S9+30 with a song about Yeshua (in Hebrew?), then Spanish announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Wed Jan 24 at 1532, Rep. of Yemen R. is Qur`aning at S7-S9, so is it vesper time? No, Sana`a sunset was already 1458 per gaisma..com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1790, Jan 24 at 0656, trace of CW JBA, probably WH2XDE/3 in MA or MD, as logged Jan 14. The 1711-1799 kHz range is virtually empty in North America, quite a waste of spectrum; per Carlos Gonçalves logs from Portugal, in Europe it`s full of pirates, marine weather stations, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0026 UT January 25
