** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 22 at 1517: nothing audible on any of the Big 4: 8400, 9000, 10210, 11300. Should have checked them earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, 6150, Dec 22 at 0614, Coro on Hurricane Gustav damage, in Spanish // 6120, while English was on 6140, 6060, 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ISRAEL [non]
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, RNGE, Dec 22 at 0612 YL in Spanish, poor with deep fades, newsy sounder. 0621 much better mentioning the estadio in Brazzaville, presidential elexions[?!], phone interview, then ute QRM starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 5945 at 0610 Dec 22, news in English detectable underneath skirt of RTI Spanish via WYFR 5950; 0611 DW ID, `cello riff, Newslink. This is 184 degrees via Woofferton, UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [non]. Now the Cubans are jamming Israel! WRMI has just changed to WRN relays M-F at 05-10 on 9955, with Israel scheduled 0600-0630. At 0606 Dec 22, pulsing over traces of talk, presumed Kol Israel, which thus is again broadcasting in English on SW, tho they probably don`t even know it, FWIW, much less that they are being jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WWCR
** MEXICO. 4800, Dec 22 at 0617 very weak Spanish talk vying with CODAR, presumed XERTA, which most of the time is totally inaudible. Trans-continental, indeed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Dec 22 at 1502, talk in Arabic, fair with flutter. R. Sultanate of Oman supposedly runs all the way until 2200, but seldom audible. I might have heard them in English news today if I had intuned at 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Sa`udi Arabia, not there at 1500 Dec 22, but came on around 1502, only fair signal, and buzzing too on 11785, which had also been audible before 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Glenn: Experimentally, we're going to start running WRN from 0500-1000 UT Monday through Friday, beginning tonight (i.e. Tuesday morning). This will mean some programming changes, which I'll try to have defined before long. Actually, WRN will run till 1030, because 1000-1030 is Prague, which we will take from the WRN feed for this transmission (Jeff White, WRMI, UT Dec 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Because Wire Light (= Bryne Edwards, Your World Your Way, Cheetah Radio, etc.) is gone. So WRN replaces a number of repeats of R. Prague, DX programs, etc. The current WRN sked shows this lineup:
05:00 Radio Netherlands, Network Europe
06:00 Israel Radio, Daily News Magazine
06:30 Radio Canada International, The Link
07:00 Radio Prague, News. Current Affairs. One on One. Sports News
07:30 Radio Sweden, Radio Sweden Weekend
08:00 Radio Australia, News. PM.
09:00 Voice of Russia, News. This Is Russia
09:30 Radio Canada International, The Link
10:00 Radio Prague, News. Current Affairs. One on One. Sports News
WRMI is still not on SW at M-F 17-01 UT when WRN is also scheduled, but plans to resume that in late January. Among the other changes, WORLD OF RADIO gone from 1630 UT Tuesday. Jeff also explains that the NW antenna is still out of service, at least for another several days (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ISRAEL [non]
** U S A. A strange new signal aside regular WYFR 9985, Dec 22 at 0607 on 9980 --- it`s Pastor Pete Peters! Therefore, WWCR-4 failed to make the switch to night frequency 5890 at 0200. Nothing on 5890, but quite audible on 9980, tho nowhere near the huge overloading daytime signal. Checking schedules, this collides with Israel`s sesquihour in Persian from 0500 due east on 9980, but no trace of that here. PPP still going at 0628. WWCR-2 was on 5935 as usual with TUN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11525, at 1505 Dec 22, ``It`s Christmas time`` asserted an American-accented announcer, poor with flutter, later clarified as VOA Border Crossings at 1512. This is 25 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, on the air this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. After hearing 3 x 1350, KWMO, the night before, I made sure to check 4050 Dec 22 at 0615, but nothing there. Must have been back on night power disaudiblizing the harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4750, Dec 22 at 1410, at least two stations talking at about equal levels, likely China and Indonesia, making a rapid SAH, but maybe also a third if Bangladesh was still on. Pointless trying to unravel them. There are plenty of clear channels on 60 meters, hint2, e.g. abandoned by other RRI stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. After the unID tone test on 15700, I was hearing another one on 15600, Dec 22 at 1521 and still at 1533. Nothing on the schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15700, R. Bulgaria at 1458 Dec 22 with rock music, mixed with continuous tone test making a SAH, the latter continuing past 1500, still at 1506 but gone at next check 1512. This is during a one-hour break before RB resumes at 1600. Who could it be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA. RHC, 6150, Dec 22 at 0614, Coro on Hurricane Gustav damage, in Spanish // 6120, while English was on 6140, 6060, 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ISRAEL [non]
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, RNGE, Dec 22 at 0612 YL in Spanish, poor with deep fades, newsy sounder. 0621 much better mentioning the estadio in Brazzaville, presidential elexions[?!], phone interview, then ute QRM starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 5945 at 0610 Dec 22, news in English detectable underneath skirt of RTI Spanish via WYFR 5950; 0611 DW ID, `cello riff, Newslink. This is 184 degrees via Woofferton, UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [non]. Now the Cubans are jamming Israel! WRMI has just changed to WRN relays M-F at 05-10 on 9955, with Israel scheduled 0600-0630. At 0606 Dec 22, pulsing over traces of talk, presumed Kol Israel, which thus is again broadcasting in English on SW, tho they probably don`t even know it, FWIW, much less that they are being jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WWCR
** MEXICO. 4800, Dec 22 at 0617 very weak Spanish talk vying with CODAR, presumed XERTA, which most of the time is totally inaudible. Trans-continental, indeed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Dec 22 at 1502, talk in Arabic, fair with flutter. R. Sultanate of Oman supposedly runs all the way until 2200, but seldom audible. I might have heard them in English news today if I had intuned at 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Sa`udi Arabia, not there at 1500 Dec 22, but came on around 1502, only fair signal, and buzzing too on 11785, which had also been audible before 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Glenn: Experimentally, we're going to start running WRN from 0500-1000 UT Monday through Friday, beginning tonight (i.e. Tuesday morning). This will mean some programming changes, which I'll try to have defined before long. Actually, WRN will run till 1030, because 1000-1030 is Prague, which we will take from the WRN feed for this transmission (Jeff White, WRMI, UT Dec 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Because Wire Light (= Bryne Edwards, Your World Your Way, Cheetah Radio, etc.) is gone. So WRN replaces a number of repeats of R. Prague, DX programs, etc. The current WRN sked shows this lineup:
05:00 Radio Netherlands, Network Europe
06:00 Israel Radio, Daily News Magazine
06:30 Radio Canada International, The Link
07:00 Radio Prague, News. Current Affairs. One on One. Sports News
07:30 Radio Sweden, Radio Sweden Weekend
08:00 Radio Australia, News. PM.
09:00 Voice of Russia, News. This Is Russia
09:30 Radio Canada International, The Link
10:00 Radio Prague, News. Current Affairs. One on One. Sports News
WRMI is still not on SW at M-F 17-01 UT when WRN is also scheduled, but plans to resume that in late January. Among the other changes, WORLD OF RADIO gone from 1630 UT Tuesday. Jeff also explains that the NW antenna is still out of service, at least for another several days (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ISRAEL [non]
** U S A. A strange new signal aside regular WYFR 9985, Dec 22 at 0607 on 9980 --- it`s Pastor Pete Peters! Therefore, WWCR-4 failed to make the switch to night frequency 5890 at 0200. Nothing on 5890, but quite audible on 9980, tho nowhere near the huge overloading daytime signal. Checking schedules, this collides with Israel`s sesquihour in Persian from 0500 due east on 9980, but no trace of that here. PPP still going at 0628. WWCR-2 was on 5935 as usual with TUN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11525, at 1505 Dec 22, ``It`s Christmas time`` asserted an American-accented announcer, poor with flutter, later clarified as VOA Border Crossings at 1512. This is 25 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, on the air this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. After hearing 3 x 1350, KWMO, the night before, I made sure to check 4050 Dec 22 at 0615, but nothing there. Must have been back on night power disaudiblizing the harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4750, Dec 22 at 1410, at least two stations talking at about equal levels, likely China and Indonesia, making a rapid SAH, but maybe also a third if Bangladesh was still on. Pointless trying to unravel them. There are plenty of clear channels on 60 meters, hint2, e.g. abandoned by other RRI stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. After the unID tone test on 15700, I was hearing another one on 15600, Dec 22 at 1521 and still at 1533. Nothing on the schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15700, R. Bulgaria at 1458 Dec 22 with rock music, mixed with continuous tone test making a SAH, the latter continuing past 1500, still at 1506 but gone at next check 1512. This is during a one-hour break before RB resumes at 1600. Who could it be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
