** CHAD [and non]. 6165, checking Nov 5 at 2228 to see how R. Tirana is doing, intended for Europe at 2130-2300. It may have been underneath, but the dominant 6165 signal was not // RT Albanian talk on 7435, as 6165 was musical, and 2229 into announcement I finally decided was in French but with an extremely heavy accent; closing ID included ``Ici poste national de l`ONRT``, anthem and off at 2231:30* and even then there was little of Tirana to be heard.
I was not expecting ONRT as an ID for this station usually referred to as RNT = Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne, but uplooked later, ONRT fits perfectly to the WRTH heading: Office National de Radio et Télévision du Tchad. Does this mean that both poste and office are masculine?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Fluttery intruder in Chinese, 7105, Nov 5 at 2202, a late-afternoon time when we do get lower-frequency Asian signals. Must be CNR1 jammer, and per Aoki we may blame this on Falung Gong clandestine Sound of Hope, which per Aoki is on 7105 only at 22-23 for the early birds on the Mainland, 100 kW, 325 degrees via Tanshui, Taiwan site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC check Nov 5 at 2146, found nothing but Spanish in // except some were an echo apart, and I did not try to sort out this time: 11730, 11760, 11770, 11800, 13770, 13790.
Nothing on 15 MHz, but 17705 was S9+12 with open carrier only, same at rechex 2200, 2214, 2226. However at 2231, RHC theme had started, then into French (not Creole), with `news` about the `putsch` (is that a French word?) in Honduras.
17705 originally alternated Portuguese, Guarani and finally Quechua, 2200-2430 but the latter two have not been confirmed in a long time, and even Portuguese is replaced by French; personnel problems at RHC? Or did the studio forget to feed whatever program audio to the transmitter at 2200? Did not check it after 2300 tho should have if propagation was holding up this time.
With 11760 off after 2200, RNV relay on 11670 at 2203 and no spurs for a change either!
I did find yet another new frequency for RHC Spanish, 9660, at 2218 // 13790, 11730, 6110, etc. Not sure of its span, but by 0010 Nov 6 it was off and usual 9600 was on. Could have been a transmitter frequency typo? But nothing already scheduled on 9660 to or from the W Hemisphere between 1300 and 0230. And 9600 normally opens at 2300.
Jamming report: see USA: VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non]. 12025, still nothing but VTC fill-music loop, Nov 5 from before 2130 to 2144. Period is 63 or 64 seconds; why couldn`t they make it exactly 60? Hard to tell exactly when it starts as the music fades up rather than downbeat. It`s soft enough to serve as lullaby during my nap. 2144 switch to RCI IS and ID until 2145* during the half-sesquihour that the HCJB Arabic service is supposed to air. Third time in a week I have noticed this, probably occurring every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Something strange on 7450, Nov 5 at 2157: two stations at once with SAH of 260/minute (just over 4 Hz apart); also mixed in to this was a tone (or a het?). One was surely Greece, and the other one just about as strong, but hard to sort out the mess or be certain of the language when there was talk. Still the same at 2226 and past 2230 when I quit monitoring this.
Looked up later, I see nothing but Greece scheduled anywhere on 7450 during these hours except CNR Lhasa, Tibet, and the other station was really far too strong for that.
Then I heard from John Babbis, perpetual VOG monitor in Maryland, that he was still hearing weak Greek on 7450 at 0025 UT Nov 6. ``Did the engineer forget to switch Avlis 1 to 12105 at 2250? Nothing on 7475 and 9420 here.``
So my theory now is that Avlis was running both the Makedonias station ERT3 (scheduled until 2250, right John?) on 7450, and ERA5 Voice of Greece also on 7450 by mistake. If so, not good for the adjacent transmitters.
And then John replies: Glenn: ``I noticed interference on 7450 which I assumed was from 7445 at 2100 UT Thursday November 5. I just tuned in Voice of Greece AVLIS 1 at 0136 UT Friday. 7450 is coming in at Sinpo 45354. Nothing on 7475, 9420, and 12105. Now, I am positive that 7450 is on by mistake on AVLIS 1 instead of on 12105`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Altho Aligarh 9470 was a mushy mess earlier UT Nov 5, at 2214 check it was normally narrow and clearly modulated, weaker than // 9425 Bengaluru. Thus we know AIR *can* transmit on this frequency correctly, so why don`t they do so all the time?? Maybe swapping between different transmitters without the resolve to dump the offender once and for all, if they cannot repair it. 9470 still OK in Hindi at 2238 recheck, and still // stronger 9425.
AIR GOS in between on 9445 with much better S9+20 signal than the National Channel flankers, tho fluttery still, at 2215 Nov 5 ending commentary on Japan/US security alliance, ID, into Listeners` Choice playing a song whose title and artist I could not possibly understand even tho the broadcast is in English. Know your audience! Also found // on very much weaker 9950 in AM, not DRM as previously scheduled. Have AIR ended their DRM experiment? Not likely as they supposedly have a long-term commitment to build it up.
Comparing the parameters on these three frequencies: 9425 is 500 kW, 18 degrees from Bengaluru, NNEward across India
9445 is 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru toward Europe and close to NAm direxion too, 2045-2230; also at 1730-1945 at 300 degrees
9470 is 250 kW, 188 degrees from Aligarh southward across India. It could be, tho not necessarily long path when we hear this one in our morning or evening
9950 is 100 kW, 312 degrees from Delhi NWward toward Europe, at least when scheduled in DRM at 1730-2230, and supposed to resume in AM at 2245 from Aligarh, 250 kW at 65 degrees to China and Japan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Extremely distorted noise spurs covering roughly 9395-9405 and 9340-9350, Nov 5 at 2239, which altho not precisely matched strongly imply that the S9+20 signal from WTJC amid them on 9370 was the source, as previously traced several times when the modulation peaks could be matched, and nothing else now in the area to suspect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. VOA Spanish reception varies greatly from night to night on the only two frequencies left at 0000-0100, 5890 and 9885. Nov 6 around 0010, 9885 bore DentroCuban jamming only, while 5890 had a mix of VOA Spanish and heavy jamming. On other occasions, 9885 has been absent or free of jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
