** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K Katherine NT, Feb 6 at 1351 discussing the Universe, surprisingly good here, S9+12 but deep fades; almost listenable, and could only detect carriers with BFO on 2310, 2325. Sunrise here was 1328 UT and getting one minute earlier every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11765, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, Feb 5 at 0628, wacky wailing David Miranda preaching in Portunhol, overriding BBCWS English via South Africa with 25 times the power, as listed in Aoki, which also says ex-R. Tupi is off the air between 0300 and 0900. Something does not compute. ZYE726 also so strong that it was causing ACI to RHC on 11760, and one had to side-tune downward to avoid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia, music // 4985, Feb 5 at 0630. 11815 only fair, much weaker than 11765 and 11925 Brazilians; 11780 not on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11925, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo, such a treat to hear real Brasilian programming rather than gospel huxters; Feb 5 at 0631 talking about Carnaval do Salvador; 0632 ``Bandeirantes, a caminho do sol``, meaning on the way to sunrise, timecheck for 4:30 am --- but that`s DST, it`s really only 3:30 am; news headlines. Good booming signal. Only on a fraxion of nites does the MUF coöperate for such reception up to 12 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK,, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CRI English, 5955, weak but clear at 1410 Feb 6, an echo apart from Cuba 13740. 5955 is 95 degrees from Beijing site, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9000, Firedrake mixing with some other audio, maybe Sound of Hope itself, or an additional CNR-1 jamming source? Feb 6 at 1420, stronger than 8400 but both poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC normally closes 6180 in Spanish at 0500, per sked, but Feb 5 at 0657 it was still going with news sounder, 0658 timecheck for ``8 de la noche, hora nacional en toda Cuba``, so a replay from 6+ hours earlier! Distorted, lo-fi, adjacent-channel interference from Brasília 6185. RHC still going past 0700. Next nite, Feb 7 did not check until 0723 and it was not on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4790, Feb 6 at 1359 tuneby with the RRI theme, Song of the Coconut Isles. At http://www.intervalsignals.net you may hear this on the RRI Pro-3 clip rather than Fak2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KCBS, Feb 6 at 1354 with singing, weaker than VL8K 2485, 26 minutes after LSR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, Sea-Breeze, the service obsessed with North Korean kidnappings of a few Japanese years ago, has returned to their previous frequency via Japan, 5910, after a few weeks on 5985: Feb 6 at 1407 in heavily-accented English, as usually on Fridays, mentioning bombing of that KAL flight; 1412 speculating on Obama`s policies vis-à-vis P`yongyang. 5910 is better here, no QRM except for lite splatter from WBOH 5920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. This time I was waiting for Furusato no Kaze to start via Darwin, 9880. Less than a minute after R. Japan finished 9875, Feb 6 a few sex before 1430 heard a few words of Chinese, then into Japanese. Uncoördinated switching at Darwin; wonder what the Chinese was about (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 13620, R. Kuwait presumed, doing very well against WYFR 13615, Feb 6 at 1537 with ME music; 1611 recheck still good and WYFR gone, axually closing at 1545 per Aoki; fast-paced Arabic programming mixing music and talk. Kuwait is 310 degrees toward us, while 13615 is 160 degrees away from us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. R. Rossii, 6075 via Pet/Kam, has developed a slightly unstable carrier --- or is it a modulation problem? Hard to tell, a bit of motor-boating underneath audio on Feb 5; and Feb 6 with late timesignal at 1400 and stayed on for a semiminute while I reconfirmed 8GAL; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3623, open carrier again Feb 6 at 1355. Following my previous log, Robin Harwood in Tasmania says it`s probably Japanese meteo; S. Hasegawa says JMH, a 5 kW NTT transmitter at Nazaki which carries Kyodo News and Meteo Fax, on 3622.5. Maybe I have caught it during idle moments, but this time I measured to be sure and it was on 3623.0, or within 0.1 of there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, Feb 6 at 1400 V/CQ marker started during R. Rossii closing timesignal on 6075, and was strong enough to reconfirm tactical ID as 8GAL, probably Russia too. Last year this was not heard after Feb 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIEED. 8000, with regular beeps on modulated carrier you could take for timesignals except there were 36 of them per minute, and no marker on the minute, Feb 6 at 1419. I believe there used to be something here from Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** BRAZIL. 11765, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, Feb 5 at 0628, wacky wailing David Miranda preaching in Portunhol, overriding BBCWS English via South Africa with 25 times the power, as listed in Aoki, which also says ex-R. Tupi is off the air between 0300 and 0900. Something does not compute. ZYE726 also so strong that it was causing ACI to RHC on 11760, and one had to side-tune downward to avoid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia, music // 4985, Feb 5 at 0630. 11815 only fair, much weaker than 11765 and 11925 Brazilians; 11780 not on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11925, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo, such a treat to hear real Brasilian programming rather than gospel huxters; Feb 5 at 0631 talking about Carnaval do Salvador; 0632 ``Bandeirantes, a caminho do sol``, meaning on the way to sunrise, timecheck for 4:30 am --- but that`s DST, it`s really only 3:30 am; news headlines. Good booming signal. Only on a fraxion of nites does the MUF coöperate for such reception up to 12 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK,, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CRI English, 5955, weak but clear at 1410 Feb 6, an echo apart from Cuba 13740. 5955 is 95 degrees from Beijing site, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9000, Firedrake mixing with some other audio, maybe Sound of Hope itself, or an additional CNR-1 jamming source? Feb 6 at 1420, stronger than 8400 but both poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC normally closes 6180 in Spanish at 0500, per sked, but Feb 5 at 0657 it was still going with news sounder, 0658 timecheck for ``8 de la noche, hora nacional en toda Cuba``, so a replay from 6+ hours earlier! Distorted, lo-fi, adjacent-channel interference from Brasília 6185. RHC still going past 0700. Next nite, Feb 7 did not check until 0723 and it was not on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4790, Feb 6 at 1359 tuneby with the RRI theme, Song of the Coconut Isles. At http://www.intervalsignals.net you may hear this on the RRI Pro-3 clip rather than Fak2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, KCBS, Feb 6 at 1354 with singing, weaker than VL8K 2485, 26 minutes after LSR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, Sea-Breeze, the service obsessed with North Korean kidnappings of a few Japanese years ago, has returned to their previous frequency via Japan, 5910, after a few weeks on 5985: Feb 6 at 1407 in heavily-accented English, as usually on Fridays, mentioning bombing of that KAL flight; 1412 speculating on Obama`s policies vis-à-vis P`yongyang. 5910 is better here, no QRM except for lite splatter from WBOH 5920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. This time I was waiting for Furusato no Kaze to start via Darwin, 9880. Less than a minute after R. Japan finished 9875, Feb 6 a few sex before 1430 heard a few words of Chinese, then into Japanese. Uncoördinated switching at Darwin; wonder what the Chinese was about (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 13620, R. Kuwait presumed, doing very well against WYFR 13615, Feb 6 at 1537 with ME music; 1611 recheck still good and WYFR gone, axually closing at 1545 per Aoki; fast-paced Arabic programming mixing music and talk. Kuwait is 310 degrees toward us, while 13615 is 160 degrees away from us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. R. Rossii, 6075 via Pet/Kam, has developed a slightly unstable carrier --- or is it a modulation problem? Hard to tell, a bit of motor-boating underneath audio on Feb 5; and Feb 6 with late timesignal at 1400 and stayed on for a semiminute while I reconfirmed 8GAL; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3623, open carrier again Feb 6 at 1355. Following my previous log, Robin Harwood in Tasmania says it`s probably Japanese meteo; S. Hasegawa says JMH, a 5 kW NTT transmitter at Nazaki which carries Kyodo News and Meteo Fax, on 3622.5. Maybe I have caught it during idle moments, but this time I measured to be sure and it was on 3623.0, or within 0.1 of there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, Feb 6 at 1400 V/CQ marker started during R. Rossii closing timesignal on 6075, and was strong enough to reconfirm tactical ID as 8GAL, probably Russia too. Last year this was not heard after Feb 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIEED. 8000, with regular beeps on modulated carrier you could take for timesignals except there were 36 of them per minute, and no marker on the minute, Feb 6 at 1419. I believe there used to be something here from Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
