** AUSTRALIA. 5055 > 5045, Jan 6 at 1357, two JBA carriers, no doubt remnants of the new low-power private stations, 4KZ and OzyRadio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non]. 15110, Sat Jan 6 from 1800, no signal from the new IPOB/R Biafra program in Hausa which per Jan 4 publicity was supposed to start today at 18-19 UT, a ``liberation radio service``; via Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg:
http://www.247nigerianewsupdate.co/2018/01/biafra-ipob-launches-hausa-radio-service.html
``This announcement was contained in a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful.
It said the maiden daily broadcast will hit the airwaves on Saturday, the 6th of January, 2018 at 7PM Nigerian time on Short Wave 15110 KHz 19 Meter Band.
The statement reads: "In keeping with our promise to facilitate the creation of an unbiased informative platform to take the message of liberation to the down trodden and oppressed indigenous populations of Northern Nigeria, we the family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide and it’s indomitable leadership, wish to happily announce the official launch of the much anticipated IPOB sponsored Radio Nigeria Hausa Service.
"The broadcast will have the widest coverage of any radio signal in Africa. It will be received all over West, East and Southern Africa. Every Hausa speaking community in Africa will be able to receive it. In our opinion, we feel it has become imperative to educate the poor masses of Northern Nigeria. The ruling class cleverly enslaved and impoverished ethnic populations of the North by keeping vital information and knowledge away from them. This information deficit is what Radio Nigeria Hausa Service has come to remedy..
"All the hitherto hidden history of the conquest of indigenous Hausa speaking populations of the North will be laid bare for the world to know. More importantly, enslaved minorities of Arewa North, brutally savaged by Fulani terrorist herdsmen, through this unbiased platform, will acquire the necessary education needed to liberate them from the suffocating stranglehold of the caliphate born to rule class.
"What we hope to demonstrate through the launch of this liberation radio station is to prove beyond every conceivable doubt that IPOB is not a selfish movement concerned only about the well-being of Biafrans, but are also genuinely concerned about the plight of all oppressed people in Nigeria as stated by our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on countless occasions. Regardless of ethnicity, religion or creed, IPOB is pursuing an agenda of freedom for all. Our message is very simple, 2018 will be like no other in the history of Nigeria and will prove to be the year of liberation for those brave enough to confront the evil that Nigeria has become in the lives of millions of people.
"Our quest for the total and adulterated [sic] liberation of Biafraland is unstoppable; this we shall demonstrate in the coming months. Those deluding themselves with the laughable and perverse notion that IPOB has been weakened because of the absence of our leader is in for an almighty shock. This move today is the beginning of a mass revolution against our oppressors that will spread outside the borders of Biafraland.
"The coming of this new and revolutionary Radio Nigeria Hausa Service will expose centuries old dark secrets through education of the oppressed Hausa Fulani youths that IPOB and Biafra mean well for them contrary to the lies being peddled by their corrupt leadership. We will not fail to let all Northern youths understand that their political leaders, elders and fathers like those in Biafraland are the real oppressors that over the years have kept them in the dark through a carefully crafted and systematic regime of misinformation and propagation of falsehood. Every Hausa speaking Northerner is advised to tune into 15110 KHz every night at 7PM, starting from this Saturday 6 January 2018, to be educated in order to be liberated."``
The above appears to be a verbatim quotation from here:
http://www.ipob.org/2018/01/ipob-launches-radio-nigeria-hausa.html
which displays additional logo graphic reading:
RADIO NIGERIA HAUSA SERVICE
Yan Uwana Mutanen Arewa
The Voice of Truth
Tune into Short Wave 15110 kHz
19 meter band
At 7 to 8 pm Daily
http://www.facebook.com/Radio-Nigeria-Hausa-service-506033216438570/
Underlying this logo is not a facebook, but a complicated blogspot. Clicking on it only enlarges the logo.
DXLD monitors in Europe, South Africa, and via remotes could not hear it either. Ivo Ivanov is sure that the site will be Bulgaria, whenever it may really start.
Meanwhile at 1802-1806 Jan 6, I survey what little is audible on the 19m band, starting with 15115-15120-15125 where V. of Nigeria DRM noise in English is only a poor signal. The 19m band is hardly open, just with these: 15390 Spain VP, weaker 15500 JBA; 15580 VOA VP; 15610 WEWN poor, 15825 WWCR poor. Very poor on 15490 BBC French via Ascension; best of the lot is 15420, S4-S8, R. Itahuka via Madagascar on Saturdays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Re: ``9776-9782 & 9798-9804 approx., strong spur noise fields out of the superstrong 9790 CRI Cantonese relay, 250 kW at 305 degrees. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba``
Something`s wrong here as I just noticed the time and date were missing: 0440 UT Dec 30. And no one else noticed or told me before now
(Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, Jan 6 at 0056, S9+20 open carrier except for hum. What`s left of the `Mesa Redonda` hour from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Jan 6 at 0628, R. Verdad carrier still on with S9 of dead air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4920, Jan 6 at 1355, hum-roar at S4-S5, as already established yesterday by Ron Howard, Wolfgang Büschel and the other Jim Young as the AIR Chennai/Madras transmitter very out of order, not Tibet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, Jan 6 at 0053, pirate music at S9 vs S8 noise level, off at 0059 recheck. Unidentified, and no logs of this at HFUnderground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, Jan 6 at 0119, unID pirate rock music somewhat distorted around S7-S8. This may refer to it:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,39675.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1210, Jan 6 at 0104 UT, KGYN Guymon is blasting in obviously on day pattern failing to protect Philadelphia, ``The Big Talker, 1210 KGYN``. I try nulling it and from right angle can hear a list of stations in the Rio Grande Valley, obviously the network including KUBR San Juan whose night pattern is supposed to have tight major lobe toward its west; and cardioid null toward WPHT in daytime (??), per NRC Pattern Book. I thought these might be reversed, but confirmed as such in FCC AM Query. In any event, we should not be getting so much signal from either station; together they make a heavy 160/minute SAH = 2.67 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5960, UT Sat Jan 6 at 0057, TRT IS at S9+20. This means the entire extra hour in German must have stayed on the air from 0000 instead of turning off after English before 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3272-USB, Jan 6 at 0109, MARS net hosted by YL NCS, AAR7EH; ``nothing heard, net is free``, asking for relays. This document
Army/Air Force MARS 2016 Region V Fall Conference
Date: October 15, 2016
Location: Minneapolis Emergency Operations Training Facility
identifies her as ``Joanne "Jodie" Rouse / AAR7EH``
https://afmars-nc-mil.us/.../USAF_MARS_2016_Minnesota_Fall_Conference_Agenda_1.7_Final.docx
It seems there is no way to display the complete URL replacing the three dots, but it`s the top hit in a google search on her callsign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1911 monitoring: not confirmed Saturday Jan 6 at 1531 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 6190-CUSB via UTwente SDR. Checked several times during the 15-16 hour, also for `Media Network Plus`, nothing heard but two stations mixing in unknown language, no doubt the two from China, and both are DSB, audible same with LSB tuning.
Not confirmed Sat Jan 6 at 2230 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, which continues to be inaudible, even at a time it was scheduled to be on. Confirmed Sat Jan 6 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, S9+20, and 7780 is now off after a 2-hour stint. From next week, 11580 programming is to be on 7780 instead.
(the 2300 broadcast was preceded at 2259 by that saxophone tune, and ID by Keith Perron. BTW, it appears that the ID I recorded for WRMI is gone along with the Wed 1415.5 WOR airing, as before that at 1415.0 was the only time I ever heard it.)
Next:
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE [7780 from next week]
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 #1912?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW [or #1912?]
Full WOR sked on all media, radio, satellite, internet:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395 & 9455 & 9955, Jan 6 at 0033, immediately after dispatching last report, I check the dials and find a blackout on the 9 MHz band, even low-latitude WRMIs not audible; 7730 is JBA; and 5850 is still S9+20. Other USA: 7385 WHRI S9+20 but unusually fadey; 7355 R. Martí GB JBA.
Yet WWV had reported nothing unusual as of 0000, still audible on 2500 at 0118, K index of 2, no storms. Ditto after 0300. I was hoping for some auroral conditions on MW or lower SW, but not really. It does also mean that high-latitude WBCQ on 5 and 7 MHz will be unreadable for Allan Weiner Worlwide, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395 // 9455, Sat Jan 6 at 1359, PanAmerican, Radio Africa Network ID as ``21525`` like yesterday morning on these WRMIs. On the second day of this, I notify Jeff White directly at 1538 UT that R. Africa is on wrong frequencies, in case it`s a mistake he is not aware of. But same ID at 1559 check. Meanwhile 21525 direct is a JBA carrier at best, and inaudible at UTwente SDR. Maybe he got the message, as at 1758 closing some show about ``Gospel of the Kingdom``, but by 1809 recheck both 9s have resumed Oldies with Biermann ID for both frequencies. Further chex of these:
At 1951, 9395 not // 9455, different music. the former with harp probably World Music default fill, or could be rounding out the RAE German relay hour now showing on the skedgrid for 1900; but Saturday besides Monday-Friday? Not explicit. 1954 it`s definitely WM fill on 9395, familiar tunes including Greek; much stronger than 9455 with something else, which by 1958 I conclude is Oldies. Both keep going past 2000 with no ID break. 7780 is not on yet, and 11530 has just gone off after fill music after R. Herwa, which was quite strong, S9+10 at 1950. But inaudible via UTwente at 1935, when presumed // 9580 via France was VP with some music.
9395 continues with World Music and 9455 starts a YL gospel huxter, as this is now a diverse-programming hour. After a Keith Perron canned ID, at 2100, 9395 with more music; while 9455 fires a Bob Zanotti canned ID half a minute later, starting, rather than ending, at hourtop. At 2100.5 starts `Dub Politico`; 7780 is now on but very poor, probably // 9395 music. At 2106-2111, 9395 with delayed VOA News relay. 11580 from 2100 is S9+20 with Slovakia in English as sked only on weekends, and certainly does not need to be replaced by 7780 this early. Next check at 2230: 7780 // 9395 with one gospel huxter; 9455 // 9955 with another. And something else on 11580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5129.80, very poor UT Sat Jan 6 at 0058, WBCQ The Planet ID & IS loop; 0101 music bits, while 7489.9 is a JBA carrier as `Allan Weiner Worldwide` should be starting, but can`t copy it, except at 0107 VP 5129.8, AW is ``just making sure we are on the air``, giving out phone numbers for reception reports. I`m away from the computer for rest of hour, so can`t listen to webcast either. John H Carver, Jr., mid-north Indiana, was able to hear it and reports:
``Everything frozen here. Snow on the ground. Last few nights have been 14 and 17 below zero. Haven't even gone out to check the mail this week. Listening to the radio and watching some TV is about all I can do :)
Music at 0100. Listening on 5130 again this evening. Program starts mid-sentence at 0105. Three feet of snow at the station and Allan doesn't know where anyone is up there. Angela is in the studio with Allan in FLA. Early phone call from Guatemala saying great reception there. The new program previous to AWWW which was supposed to start two weeks ago wasn't there this evening either as there was no one at the station to patch the phone call onto the air. Long talk about the dangers of portable electric heaters.
After that Allan started another long talk about making ice cream and the various experimenting that he's been doing with and what could be done with it. "Billions of options when making ice cream." [He also showed this on his twitter feed --- gh]. At 0138 Mr. Transistor Radio Norm called the station and spent the first part of his call talking about ice cream and then talked of MW propagation. Reading of emails began at 0149 interrupted by a quick check in by Tony Straka asking if Allan was going to the WinterFest this year in PA. Allan had previously announced a few weeks ago that they would be going but said this evening that he can't make it this year. Show was off the air at 0200`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, Sat January 6 at several chex such as 1808, 2105 and 2230, no signal detectable from WBCQ, so the 24/7 test period may be over, perhaps curtailed by snowstorm. At 1808, neighbor 9265 WINB was S9-S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0033 UT January 7
