** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 15 at 1448: 8400 fair, 9000 JBA, 10210 none, 11300 good steady at S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command against nothing, on 7365 pulsing away at 0623 Dec 15, managing to impede two adjacent frequencies in French: 7370 Romania and weaker 7360 Vatican. The only time jamming is `necessary` on 7365 is when R. Martí is using it, 0000-0500, but hey, close enough for Commie government work.
Much heavier jamming on 7405 which R. Martí is axually using until 0700. But at 0705 check, no jamming at all on 7365 or 7405, instead concentrating on 6030 and 5980. A brief very strong open carrier and tone did appear on 7405 until 0706, Greenville testing? See also USA: WRMI; UNIDENTIFIED 15580.
RHC, UT Dec 15 at 0704* tuned in 6010 just in time to hear English news being cut off the air abruptly four minutes late; continued on 6060, while 6140 in English before 0700 had switched to Spanish, along with 6120 and 6150. This appears to be the nominal pattern for what happens around 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM, Dec 15 at 0630 with space music one might have heard on ``Music from the Hearts of Space``; tnx to the eclectic format of R. Educación, you never know what kind of music they will be playing during the all-too-brief QRM-free window, which tonight lasted until *0645 Brasília playing Silent Night in progress in Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. Monitored RTT on 7275 again Dec 15 to see when it would go off, at 0627:30 like yesterday? Almost: YL started outro to previous music, with cuckoo-clock sounds, but faded her out after a few Arabic words, OC and off by 0627:20; continued on // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI, clear of jamming Dec 15 at 0657 ending ``El Camino`` religious program, brief fill music, 0659 IDs and reception report info by Jeff White, 0701 R. Prague relay in English. Back to usual very heavy jamming, no WRMI audible before 1500 UT. Between 1505 and 1510 the jamming noise gradually abated audiblizing another R. Prague relay in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Two MARS nets noted the morning of Dec 15: 4623-SSB, Navy MARS, which still exists, was just securing at 1422 with ``final comments``. Copied one call among several weak stations, NNN0YQP, the last three letters expressed fonetically. Frequency approximate as did not have a chance to measure it or determine which sideband.
Googling on that call I got ONE hit, Sept 2009! Internet security must be pretty tight. http://www.navymars.org/national/cmi/CMIB-2009-35.txt
``NNN0YQP JAMEWS -------------------- WI 10 YEARS OF SERVICE``
4517-USB, Air Force MARS, 1425 with NCS AFE7DM, strongest signal, discussing QRM, where it was being heard and where not in parts of the ``Midwest`` --- and just what states that term applies to. Called the QRM ``sweeper``, ``Star Wars``, one station even imitating it with his mouth, but never called it CODAR, making me wonder if they know what it really is. AFE7DM was using group callsign NCM3 in his calls for other check-ins. Some of them were hearing CODAR relayed from other stations over linx. 1438 ``the net is free`` and individual stations contacted each other without management by the net control station.
Googling on that call got five hits, including:
http://region3digital.tripod.com/
``AFE7DM (NC Area Digital Manager) is Conrad Steinel, AFA7VP
located in Emporia, KS``. NC means North Central, even tho Emporia`s latitude is about one sesquidegree south of the geographical center of the Lower 48 in north-central Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another quick MW bandscan on the caradio at a hotspot in western Enid the afternoon of Dec 14, times UT!
1200, at 2137, skywave in, something in Spanish atop WOAI, various ads for juguetes, etc., causing slow SAH with WOAI; later mentioned ``Chicago informa … 1,200 AM``. So it`s WRTO, 10 kW, ``La Tremenda`` per NRC AM Log 2009-2010. Strangely enough, per NRC pattern book, its daytime design has a null to the SE, but plenty of signal to the SW. WOAI soon faded up overtaking it, but 1200 is hardly a ``clear channel`` any more!
540, at 2144, KWMT Ft Dodge IA, groundwave, with two or three IDs in passing during info about local events. Usually it`s a mix with KDFT, but no sign of Spanish this time; the latter off the air? If it stays off I may finally have a chance of inpulling KNMX by daytime groundwave, which ought to be possible here.
570, at 2147, usual mix of KLIF with groundwave from WNAX SD, way under but audible with SAH of about 3.5 Hz. Someone was wondering whether WNAX was running usual spex; seems so to me (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15580, listening to weak signal from VOA in English news, Dec 15 at 1451, it was overridden for about 20 seconds by a very strong open carrier. Likely Greenville testing a frequency they would use later, but at least they kept it quick. But why not test on open 15570 instead as they do before 2100? GB VOA is currently scheduled on 15580 at 17-18 and 21-22, while at 14-15 15580 is via SOUTH AFRICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###