** AUSTRALIA. All three VL8 stations were in on 120 meters, March 14 at 1257, but this time 2310 was strongest, 2485 next, and 2325 weakest, M&W discussion in Strine thru hourtop, then C&W song. Nothing much on 90 or 105 meters at this time, but one should still check the lowest band. Sounded like same people on RA 9580, 9590, 9560 at 1327 discussion of Angel Flight, free medevax from the Outback, and coördinating with 4WD ground transportation, then ``Don`t Fence Me In`` sung (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Amused to hear the DentroCuban Jamming Command pulsing against YFR in Bengali via Nauen on 13820, March 13 at 1344 --- Commies vs Protestants! DCJC was really ramping up against R. Martí whose Greenville carrier came on at 1347, initially with weak tone tests, but Family Radio could still be heard underneath.
First checked PWBR `2009` by the radio; was that any help? Of course not! Nothing such from YFR listed in the grid, but it does claim that R. Martí broadcasts to ``Central America``. FYI, Cuba is not in CAm. Europeans frequently make this mistake from their remote vantage point, but you`d think Pennsylvanians or Paraguayans would know better. Central America is the string of countries in the Isthmus between Mexico and Colombia. Cuba is an island in the Caribbean, or rather, islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. Just after this Saturday`s scheduled DW SW broadcast at 1530 of the avant-garde music show Muzprosvet, I attempted to hear its audio file via http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,4356,00.html
But what do I get, clicking on Muzprosvet? A quarter hour of somewhat heated discussion in Russian about the financial situation, not a note of music. Geez, their automated audio system can`t even get the right program into the right file. Furthermore the player label says ``Playing Starparade, 15:30 UTC``, which this obviously was not, either. Any humans there paying attention? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. TDF DRM noise test for Winter Fest, 17540-17545-17550, March 13 at 1342 when not much else audible on 16m, primarily Chile 17680 AM. Strangely enough, this transmission is missing from the supposedly comprehensive DRM DX schedule at http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC
but publicity says it`s running 13-20 UT on March 13 and 14 only.
I gather it`s in French, anyway, so hardly of much use to a North American audience.
Evidently, HCJB is not doing a DRM special for the Fest this year, tho Kim may have been trying for its regular broadcasts to Europe, Brasil in the mornings. Those would be in German and Spanish, so hardly of much use to a monolingual North American audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VATICAN
** INDONESIA. 4790, RRI Fak2, barely audible at 1254 March 14, talk and music vs CODAR. Could not hear it at all the previous two mornings. VOI, 9525, fairly good in English at 1315, YL announcer with constant hum, also during following hour in Malay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11650, VG signal at 1358 March 14, Central Asian language giving address in Almaty, Kazakhstan, chime IS, KFBS Saipan ID, then YL in Russian with ID as Radio Teos, and off before 1400. About which more here once it loads: http://www.radioteos.ru Apparently they have a 24-hour satellite service, but nothing found about SW relays. You would think ``Teos`` refers to God, cognate Deus, etc., but Google is unable to translate the word!
KFBS is completely missing from EiBi on this frequency, whence you might list-log CRI instead, but Aoki has KFBS on 11650 with multiple languages at 11-14, concluding Fri and Sat at 1345-1400 with Kyrgyz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN [and non]. More signs of the ailing IBB transmitter on 7575 for VOA English in the 13-14 UT hour only: Sat March 14 at 1311, jazz marred by continuous whine. With BFO on, could tell there were multiple carriers on both sides of the fundamental, so I think it is a transmitter defect rather than QRM or jamming. At 1312 the pitch as heard on AM suddenly shifted higher and became somewhat less annoying. Should be interesting to watch on a spectrum display. At 1330 I noted same program on 9760 via Tinang, but five sex ahead of 7575, contact info for Jazz America and fulfilling a request from Rwanda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ, 9330-CUSB with another special transmission inspired by, if not from the SWL Winterfest: 1318 like yesterday relaying R. Caroline from UK, live webfeed? ``San Francisco`` song, 1323 name-that-tune-clip, e-mail via http://radiocaroline.co.uk --- checking that, none of the linx on the homepage work, including the one to ``relays``, but I bet it would be news to them they are on WBCQ. 1403 DJ reminiscing with anecdote about copying news from the BBC. 1404 cut abruptly to Allan Weiner in progress, an old interview from WRKO 680 about his several pirate ships and busts. 1419 he mentioned Pirate`s Cove, so a replay of that show which is intentionally running UT Wednesdays at 0000 on 7415; 1437 into aircheck from 7/23/87 of the first RNI broadcast from the m/v Sarah, as in http://www.worldmicroscope.com/?p=620 --- Nothing heard from the current Fest itself.
WORLD OF RADIO 1451 failed to appear March 13 at 2300 on webcast of 5110, despite being in the ``Confirmed Friday Line-up`` for that date, just rock music, but I assume that`s now its nominal 5110 airing time on following Fridays. I understand would-be WOR listeners closer to Monticello would like to have a reliable transmission on 5110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 15495-15500-15505, DRM Noise test to SWL Winter Fest, March 14 at 1343, weaker than 17545 GUF. An exercise in piety, gone at 1416 recheck as publicized for one hour only, but 17545 still running; see GUIANA FRENCH. Strangely enough, both transmissions are missing from the supposedly comprehensive DRM DX schedule at
http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC
I gather it`s in Italian, anyway, so hardly of much use to a North American audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Another big utility noise invading the ``exclusive`` 31m SWBC band is making 9495 and 9500 unusable much of the time, such as at 1339 check March 14, a multiplex signal covering at least 9494-9500 so centered around 9497. What is this? Searching the 20,145 posts so far in the UDXF yg on 9496, 9497, 9498 got zero relevant hits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Aside RHC 13760, at 1354 March 14, heard some 2-way intermittent SSB on approximately 13757 give or take a kHz, as never could nail it down, too close to RHC. Probably another invasion into the exclusive SWBC band by poachers or drug traffickers. Query: why don`t the feds DF these communications and nab `em? The culprits apparently transmit with impunity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA [and non]. Amused to hear the DentroCuban Jamming Command pulsing against YFR in Bengali via Nauen on 13820, March 13 at 1344 --- Commies vs Protestants! DCJC was really ramping up against R. Martí whose Greenville carrier came on at 1347, initially with weak tone tests, but Family Radio could still be heard underneath.
First checked PWBR `2009` by the radio; was that any help? Of course not! Nothing such from YFR listed in the grid, but it does claim that R. Martí broadcasts to ``Central America``. FYI, Cuba is not in CAm. Europeans frequently make this mistake from their remote vantage point, but you`d think Pennsylvanians or Paraguayans would know better. Central America is the string of countries in the Isthmus between Mexico and Colombia. Cuba is an island in the Caribbean, or rather, islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. Just after this Saturday`s scheduled DW SW broadcast at 1530 of the avant-garde music show Muzprosvet, I attempted to hear its audio file via http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,4356,00.html
But what do I get, clicking on Muzprosvet? A quarter hour of somewhat heated discussion in Russian about the financial situation, not a note of music. Geez, their automated audio system can`t even get the right program into the right file. Furthermore the player label says ``Playing Starparade, 15:30 UTC``, which this obviously was not, either. Any humans there paying attention? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. TDF DRM noise test for Winter Fest, 17540-17545-17550, March 13 at 1342 when not much else audible on 16m, primarily Chile 17680 AM. Strangely enough, this transmission is missing from the supposedly comprehensive DRM DX schedule at http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC
but publicity says it`s running 13-20 UT on March 13 and 14 only.
I gather it`s in French, anyway, so hardly of much use to a North American audience.
Evidently, HCJB is not doing a DRM special for the Fest this year, tho Kim may have been trying for its regular broadcasts to Europe, Brasil in the mornings. Those would be in German and Spanish, so hardly of much use to a monolingual North American audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VATICAN
** INDONESIA. 4790, RRI Fak2, barely audible at 1254 March 14, talk and music vs CODAR. Could not hear it at all the previous two mornings. VOI, 9525, fairly good in English at 1315, YL announcer with constant hum, also during following hour in Malay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11650, VG signal at 1358 March 14, Central Asian language giving address in Almaty, Kazakhstan, chime IS, KFBS Saipan ID, then YL in Russian with ID as Radio Teos, and off before 1400. About which more here once it loads: http://www.radioteos.ru Apparently they have a 24-hour satellite service, but nothing found about SW relays. You would think ``Teos`` refers to God, cognate Deus, etc., but Google is unable to translate the word!
KFBS is completely missing from EiBi on this frequency, whence you might list-log CRI instead, but Aoki has KFBS on 11650 with multiple languages at 11-14, concluding Fri and Sat at 1345-1400 with Kyrgyz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN [and non]. More signs of the ailing IBB transmitter on 7575 for VOA English in the 13-14 UT hour only: Sat March 14 at 1311, jazz marred by continuous whine. With BFO on, could tell there were multiple carriers on both sides of the fundamental, so I think it is a transmitter defect rather than QRM or jamming. At 1312 the pitch as heard on AM suddenly shifted higher and became somewhat less annoying. Should be interesting to watch on a spectrum display. At 1330 I noted same program on 9760 via Tinang, but five sex ahead of 7575, contact info for Jazz America and fulfilling a request from Rwanda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ, 9330-CUSB with another special transmission inspired by, if not from the SWL Winterfest: 1318 like yesterday relaying R. Caroline from UK, live webfeed? ``San Francisco`` song, 1323 name-that-tune-clip, e-mail via http://radiocaroline.co.uk --- checking that, none of the linx on the homepage work, including the one to ``relays``, but I bet it would be news to them they are on WBCQ. 1403 DJ reminiscing with anecdote about copying news from the BBC. 1404 cut abruptly to Allan Weiner in progress, an old interview from WRKO 680 about his several pirate ships and busts. 1419 he mentioned Pirate`s Cove, so a replay of that show which is intentionally running UT Wednesdays at 0000 on 7415; 1437 into aircheck from 7/23/87 of the first RNI broadcast from the m/v Sarah, as in http://www.worldmicroscope.com/?p=620 --- Nothing heard from the current Fest itself.
WORLD OF RADIO 1451 failed to appear March 13 at 2300 on webcast of 5110, despite being in the ``Confirmed Friday Line-up`` for that date, just rock music, but I assume that`s now its nominal 5110 airing time on following Fridays. I understand would-be WOR listeners closer to Monticello would like to have a reliable transmission on 5110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 15495-15500-15505, DRM Noise test to SWL Winter Fest, March 14 at 1343, weaker than 17545 GUF. An exercise in piety, gone at 1416 recheck as publicized for one hour only, but 17545 still running; see GUIANA FRENCH. Strangely enough, both transmissions are missing from the supposedly comprehensive DRM DX schedule at
http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC
I gather it`s in Italian, anyway, so hardly of much use to a North American audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Another big utility noise invading the ``exclusive`` 31m SWBC band is making 9495 and 9500 unusable much of the time, such as at 1339 check March 14, a multiplex signal covering at least 9494-9500 so centered around 9497. What is this? Searching the 20,145 posts so far in the UDXF yg on 9496, 9497, 9498 got zero relevant hits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Aside RHC 13760, at 1354 March 14, heard some 2-way intermittent SSB on approximately 13757 give or take a kHz, as never could nail it down, too close to RHC. Probably another invasion into the exclusive SWBC band by poachers or drug traffickers. Query: why don`t the feds DF these communications and nab `em? The culprits apparently transmit with impunity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
