** ARGENTINA. See MOROCCO
** CHINA. CNR1 jamming observed April 7: at 1310 on 9605 vs BBC Singapore, // strongest 9845 vs IBB Tinang; at 1415 coloratura singer has her art degraded by being turned into a jammer, on 11805 and 12040 vs IBB Tinang. Only on 12040 could I hear some audio from the victim too, all except 9605 being VOA in Mandarin.
China does not even pretend to register any of these frequencies for its own services, ``coincidentally`` blocking Western voices. Just wait: some list-logger will report these as BBC or VOA rather than what is really being heard, ChiCom jamming.
Meanwhile, the other kind of ChiCom jamming, Firedrake, was well heard at 1411 on 9000 against Sound of Hope, but nothing on 9300, 8400 or anywhere from 8000 to 8999 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7365 with DCJC jamming pulses, 0600 April 7, interfering with WHRI preacher in English, tsk2, instead of R. Martí, as Greenville is on this frequency only between 2300 and 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa, good signal at 2200 April 6 with choir incongruously singing OLTOB – Xmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, then preacher with a tinge of a British accent in Xmas greetings to ``this station`` and an Xmas sermon. Well, it probably takes that long to ship tapes from Cupertino to Bata by surface mail. Tony Alamo usually is on at this hour, but they must have been running late. Alamo, who claims to be too old and infirm to have sex with minors, was in progress when rechecked at 2232 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525, VOI with rather interesting programming, Tue April 7 at 1340, a `live` interview (in English!) with some OM at RRI Banjarmasin, promoting tourism there. This was by way of introducing a pre-produced feature, with rustic music and YL talking about the Banjari ethnic group, going back to 2500 BCE; at 1348 to OM on the local language, which is sort of a mix between Malayan and Javanese; there are two major dialects. One of them is a lingua franca in E, S and C Kalimantan, but not in W Kalimantan where Malayan is. One of the dialects also has only three vowels, i, u and a, forcing foreign words to be reworked, such as ``local`` becomes ``luku``; there has been a lot of intermarriage with the Dayaks, to confuse matters further. To be continued next week, about the Banjari kingdom; back to bookender with previous introducer, 1354 playing a song from Jakarta. Good signal with some hum and fading until *1357 CRI prélude on 9525 producing
fast rippling SAH with off-frequency VOI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 11705, NHKWNRJ still colliding with itself in A-09, pre-echo audible under Sackville in English at 1414 April 7, as they also run Yamata with same program on 11705 for Asia, but unsynchronized. Fortunately this is not a problem every day, depending on propagation. It was not noticeable the previous morning, but it is bound to be worse and worse the further west in NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9665 at 1418 April 7, lo het, so suspect KCBS is off-frequency again. However, could be the collider, either Iran or Mongolia, so further digging needed by those in a better position to ID who else is really on 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WEWN QRMing VOK 9335
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15345, Arabic music ending abruptly at 2159:50 April 6, open carrier for a few sex and off, an undignified and rude conclusion to this transmission from RTM. Before it went off, no sign of a het from Argentina, and afterwards no trace of a carrier from it in the vicinity, so I wonder if RAE is off again? Has anyone heard them on 11711v lately either, such as English to NAm at 0200-0300 Tue-Sat? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. See SERBIA [non], collision on 9580
** RUSSIA. 9850, VOR English news of Italian quake aftermath at 1401 April 7, running 2 seconds ahead of 15605, sites supposedly Samara and Moskva respectively; so why does Samara get the audio so far ahead of Moscow? At 1405:30 went to press review, 1408 to News and Views (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. Checking at 0000 and again at 0019 April 7, IRS is very strong on 9580, and I cannot be sure RRI is there any more underneath it. Could RRI have moved already to avoid the conflict? RRI audible with fair signal on 6135. Schedule on website still shows 9580 and 6135: http://www.rri.ro/art.shtml?lang=1&sec=20&art=20011
I had not been checking the 9580 collision every evening, but Harold Sellers also recently reported Serbia back on B-08 frequency 6190 at one time, 9580 at another. IRS is expected to move the 0000-0130 transmission to 9675 by April 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 9455, bothered by WWRB spur on 9453 [see USA], April 7 at 1314, as after Japanese quarter-hour, RT goes into English for continuity announcement, chime IS and off for a few sex, back on with chimes, stronger signal and in English introducing Mandarin, which is unjammed! The 250 kW IBB transmitter at Udorn is changing azimuth from 54 to 30 degrees, which is closer to our direxion in CNAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT, 9830 to NAm, fair signal at 2212 Monday April 6, and no RTTY QRM audible as someone else has reported on this transmission. The RTTY is more pervasive here in our mornings. I thought they might have a special on Pres. Obama`s visit to Turkey, but just regular program about Turkey`s relations with Russia, which I guess is ``Diplomacy Platform`` per the schedule folder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. We`ve got you surrounded! WEWN on new 9340 in A-09 prevents one from listening to VOK 9335, English to North America at 1300. Not only is there heavy splash from 9340, April 7 at 1309, but WEWN has spur peaks plus and minus 10 to 9330 and 9350, at the moment straying from the usual anti-choice rhetoric to discussing aid to earthquake victims in a country of similar nominal religious persuasion. Catholix vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. What a dirty transmitter WWRB is operating on 9385! Still putting out spurs, April 7 at 1312 as the fundamental signal strength is building up, this time quite close to 9317 hetting 9320, which is RFA Tinian in Burmese; and 9453 vs R. Thailand [q.v.] on 9455. But also:
At 1407, 9385 also putting out buzz spurs à la Saudi Arabia, worst peaks 9375 and 9395, but extending 15 kHz to bother WTJC 9370, and to 9400 on the hi side. The frying sound also perceptible on 9385 itself. Rechecking the other 9317 and 9453 spurs at 1410, Brother Scare is relatively readable without the buzz, whoopee! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9865, at 1400 April 7, YFR theme, but much harsher modulation than we hear from Okeechobee, opening in English with Psalm 29:1-2, introducing Brother Camping`s Open Forum. So whence is this? Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 200 kW, 263 degrees but plenty of signal over here in CNAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9885, open carrier, and intermittent tone tests, April 7 at 1320. Something about to start at 1330? No, still on just with carrier; gone at 1357 recheck. Typical behavior of IBB Greenville, which has a break on 9885 between 1300 and 1600, but why are all these tone tests needed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. CNR1 jamming observed April 7: at 1310 on 9605 vs BBC Singapore, // strongest 9845 vs IBB Tinang; at 1415 coloratura singer has her art degraded by being turned into a jammer, on 11805 and 12040 vs IBB Tinang. Only on 12040 could I hear some audio from the victim too, all except 9605 being VOA in Mandarin.
China does not even pretend to register any of these frequencies for its own services, ``coincidentally`` blocking Western voices. Just wait: some list-logger will report these as BBC or VOA rather than what is really being heard, ChiCom jamming.
Meanwhile, the other kind of ChiCom jamming, Firedrake, was well heard at 1411 on 9000 against Sound of Hope, but nothing on 9300, 8400 or anywhere from 8000 to 8999 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7365 with DCJC jamming pulses, 0600 April 7, interfering with WHRI preacher in English, tsk2, instead of R. Martí, as Greenville is on this frequency only between 2300 and 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R. Africa, good signal at 2200 April 6 with choir incongruously singing OLTOB – Xmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, then preacher with a tinge of a British accent in Xmas greetings to ``this station`` and an Xmas sermon. Well, it probably takes that long to ship tapes from Cupertino to Bata by surface mail. Tony Alamo usually is on at this hour, but they must have been running late. Alamo, who claims to be too old and infirm to have sex with minors, was in progress when rechecked at 2232 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525, VOI with rather interesting programming, Tue April 7 at 1340, a `live` interview (in English!) with some OM at RRI Banjarmasin, promoting tourism there. This was by way of introducing a pre-produced feature, with rustic music and YL talking about the Banjari ethnic group, going back to 2500 BCE; at 1348 to OM on the local language, which is sort of a mix between Malayan and Javanese; there are two major dialects. One of them is a lingua franca in E, S and C Kalimantan, but not in W Kalimantan where Malayan is. One of the dialects also has only three vowels, i, u and a, forcing foreign words to be reworked, such as ``local`` becomes ``luku``; there has been a lot of intermarriage with the Dayaks, to confuse matters further. To be continued next week, about the Banjari kingdom; back to bookender with previous introducer, 1354 playing a song from Jakarta. Good signal with some hum and fading until *1357 CRI prélude on 9525 producing
fast rippling SAH with off-frequency VOI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 11705, NHKWNRJ still colliding with itself in A-09, pre-echo audible under Sackville in English at 1414 April 7, as they also run Yamata with same program on 11705 for Asia, but unsynchronized. Fortunately this is not a problem every day, depending on propagation. It was not noticeable the previous morning, but it is bound to be worse and worse the further west in NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9665 at 1418 April 7, lo het, so suspect KCBS is off-frequency again. However, could be the collider, either Iran or Mongolia, so further digging needed by those in a better position to ID who else is really on 9665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WEWN QRMing VOK 9335
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15345, Arabic music ending abruptly at 2159:50 April 6, open carrier for a few sex and off, an undignified and rude conclusion to this transmission from RTM. Before it went off, no sign of a het from Argentina, and afterwards no trace of a carrier from it in the vicinity, so I wonder if RAE is off again? Has anyone heard them on 11711v lately either, such as English to NAm at 0200-0300 Tue-Sat? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. See SERBIA [non], collision on 9580
** RUSSIA. 9850, VOR English news of Italian quake aftermath at 1401 April 7, running 2 seconds ahead of 15605, sites supposedly Samara and Moskva respectively; so why does Samara get the audio so far ahead of Moscow? At 1405:30 went to press review, 1408 to News and Views (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. Checking at 0000 and again at 0019 April 7, IRS is very strong on 9580, and I cannot be sure RRI is there any more underneath it. Could RRI have moved already to avoid the conflict? RRI audible with fair signal on 6135. Schedule on website still shows 9580 and 6135: http://www.rri.ro/art.shtml?lang=1&sec=20&art=20011
I had not been checking the 9580 collision every evening, but Harold Sellers also recently reported Serbia back on B-08 frequency 6190 at one time, 9580 at another. IRS is expected to move the 0000-0130 transmission to 9675 by April 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 9455, bothered by WWRB spur on 9453 [see USA], April 7 at 1314, as after Japanese quarter-hour, RT goes into English for continuity announcement, chime IS and off for a few sex, back on with chimes, stronger signal and in English introducing Mandarin, which is unjammed! The 250 kW IBB transmitter at Udorn is changing azimuth from 54 to 30 degrees, which is closer to our direxion in CNAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT, 9830 to NAm, fair signal at 2212 Monday April 6, and no RTTY QRM audible as someone else has reported on this transmission. The RTTY is more pervasive here in our mornings. I thought they might have a special on Pres. Obama`s visit to Turkey, but just regular program about Turkey`s relations with Russia, which I guess is ``Diplomacy Platform`` per the schedule folder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. We`ve got you surrounded! WEWN on new 9340 in A-09 prevents one from listening to VOK 9335, English to North America at 1300. Not only is there heavy splash from 9340, April 7 at 1309, but WEWN has spur peaks plus and minus 10 to 9330 and 9350, at the moment straying from the usual anti-choice rhetoric to discussing aid to earthquake victims in a country of similar nominal religious persuasion. Catholix vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. What a dirty transmitter WWRB is operating on 9385! Still putting out spurs, April 7 at 1312 as the fundamental signal strength is building up, this time quite close to 9317 hetting 9320, which is RFA Tinian in Burmese; and 9453 vs R. Thailand [q.v.] on 9455. But also:
At 1407, 9385 also putting out buzz spurs à la Saudi Arabia, worst peaks 9375 and 9395, but extending 15 kHz to bother WTJC 9370, and to 9400 on the hi side. The frying sound also perceptible on 9385 itself. Rechecking the other 9317 and 9453 spurs at 1410, Brother Scare is relatively readable without the buzz, whoopee! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9865, at 1400 April 7, YFR theme, but much harsher modulation than we hear from Okeechobee, opening in English with Psalm 29:1-2, introducing Brother Camping`s Open Forum. So whence is this? Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 200 kW, 263 degrees but plenty of signal over here in CNAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9885, open carrier, and intermittent tone tests, April 7 at 1320. Something about to start at 1330? No, still on just with carrier; gone at 1357 recheck. Typical behavior of IBB Greenville, which has a break on 9885 between 1300 and 1600, but why are all these tone tests needed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
