** CUBA [and non]. 6010, May 12 at 0048, S8 carrier is JBM, but // undermodulated Chinese song on 5990, i.e. CRI relay, i.e. the leapfrog mixing product I first reported weeks ago, over fulcrum 6000, another Cuban transmitter at same site which is now also JBM during what should be RHC English, but // 6165 is off so no comparison. 6010 also has a weaker second carrier beating, most likely Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun May 12 at 0025, JBA presumed The Mighty Farty KBC via GERMANY, on new summer frequency, but again this week useless. QSY to 7 MHz band! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, May 12 at 0029, torchsong at S9+20, soon pause for ``Wolverine Radio`` ID, then a boogie. Usual super-signal for a pirate; 0037 ``I Saw the Light``, 0040 another ID; so figure the keyword tonight is light; confirmed by several logs here: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,53918.0.html
BTW, setting this on the PL-880 so I can keep bandscanning on the NRD-545, I hit the USB button too long, activating `SYNCH`, which sounds awful, confirming why I never use it intentionally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6934.80V-AM, May 12 at 0054, music on poor unstable signal. Log here says it`s Captain Morgan Shortwave
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,53920.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 5980, UT Sun May 12 at 0027, heavy Cuban wall-of-noise jamming against no TV Martí but instead poor RRI, which is barely matchable to // 7420 rock music at S8-S9+20 in the clear. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban JammingCommand. It`s about time RRI caught on and made another change! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6913-USB, May 12 at 0030, ``CQ Armed Forces Day Crossband, November Whisky Victor Charlie, reply on 7.203-LSB``. Soon complains about QRM there; I don`t hear any answers but there`s a pileup on 7201-LSB; is another event/contest running? AFD schedule shows:
NWVC / LST-325 EVANSVILLE, IN (USB + CW)
1200Z-0400Z -- 4,007.0 6,913.0 9,988.5 13,974.0
Has good signal, but gone by 0055 check.
I had forgotten this was AF Day [non], for crossband contacts, just ran across NWVC intruding (hi) in the pirate band. I don`t have the AFD sked handy so quickly bandscan likely areas for others, but find only this as most have secured by 23 or 24 UT:
5330.5-USB, May 12 at 0043, ``CQ from November Sierra Sierra, celebrating Armed Forces Day,`` in this case not crossband, since this is one of the discrete ``60 m`` ham channels also available to nons:
NSS / US NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS, MD (USB + CW)
1300Z-0200Z -- 4,038.5 5,330.5 7,533.5 9,447.0 14,487.0 17,545.0
Bob from the US Naval Academy in Maryland, contacts David, ND1J in Georgia, both about S7, much weaker than NWVC; mentions QSL route, another call managing?
(Online form for QSLs on website strictly excludes SWL overhearers!)
http://www.usarmymars.org/events/armed-forces-day
NSS still going at 0053 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1981 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 11 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, fair-poor, S8-S5. Preceded by IS & ID loop, and this time upcut missing only my first 8 words, picking up at ``nineteen eighty-one``. Next:
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so freshest new airings are on weekends]
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Sat May 11 at 2340, `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` finally starts late after some hamstuff runover on WTWW-2: I immediately start listening to stereo webcast instead. Bob Heil says he is in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, in the Ozarx. Really? That town is a suburb just SE of Kansas City. Boundaries of Ozarx are certainly indistinct, but most maps show nowhere near this place, beyond south/central Missouri. Maybe it`s just his Ozarx ``state of mind``. And runs 35 minutes until 2415, back to hamstuff starting with hardsell ad by Ted, tune out/turn off.
BTW, altho I have not mentioned them lately, 5085 is still/always accompanied by those weak parasitic spurs circa 5072.1 and 5097.9, i.e. plus and minus 12.9 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5915, May 12 at 0046, VP talk in unknown language, then music with heavy beat. Only thing scheduled is Myanmar, unlikely but sorta grayline; except Zambia was stuck on 24 hours for a while, but have not seen any reports of that lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7410, May 12 at 0028, dead air at S7. HFCC has something from Nauen at 0030-0130, so what is it, really? No listings in EiBi or NDXC/Aoki; but all three have VOA Thailand in Burmese until 0030, which I rather doubt this be over here. Moving on, did not catch anything further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0241 UT May 12
