** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 23 at 1440: good with flutter on 8400; nothing on 9000, 10210 or 11300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. CNR1 echo jamming, Dec 23 at 2323 on 11775, and same on 15430. Aoki shows both are in use that hour by RFA in Chinese via Tinian. At 2329 I was also hearing non-echoing CNR1 on 15550, yet another RFA Mandarin frequency via Tinian, but this one had some weak audio under, which sounded like WJHR. Were they testing overtime? It`s pointless unless the frequency is absolutely clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. The DentroCuban Jamming Command is still interfering with Kol Israel via WRN via WRMI 9955, Dec 23 at 0619, pulses about equal level to KI which was concluding a talk program and going into music. Same type of pulse jamming but much louder, against nothing on 9810, 9825. SF hit 82 the day before but propagation still poor tonight with nothing above 12 MHz, and weakish signals even on 7 MHz.
Yet another RHC leapfrog mixing product I had not noticed before: 13570, Dec 23 at 2253, very weak but identifiable RHC talk and music // 13790. That was jumping over the adjacent transmitter on 13680 which was running open carrier before the RNV relay at 2300. Fortunately for WINB, it`s off 13570 by then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [and non]. The Horn-of-Africa trio in the 40m hamband were all in at about equal poor-fair levels, presumably long-path, Dec 23 at 1426 past 1430: 7175 noted first with HOA music when hams relented; 7165 with talk going into music; 7110 with not // talk. 7110 is surely R. Ethiopia, but one cannot be sure whether the others are V. of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, or Ethiopian jamming/clandestines. However, I could not hear more than one audio on each frequency, and no noise jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh, the one which was blobbing all over the place for months, checked Dec 23 at 1443, very weak but music seems // 9425 Bengaluru. With BFO on I can tell this transmitter is wobbly, but fortunately still keeping to its permitted bandwidth. Or maybe it was trans-polar Doppler effect, also fluttery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI is millimetering closer and closer to 9526.0, Dec 23 at 1446 with music during presumed Malay hour. As I step 1 kHz up and down with the BFO on the YB-400, there is hardly any difference in pitch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 7790-SSB, 2-way contact in Spanish between YL with stronger signal, and OM weaker, discussing a kilometer marker on the highway to Querétaro. I speculate it`s a trucking company using old-fashioned HF to check in. For clarity in Spanish, they express numbers not only as cardinals but also as ordinals, something which doesn`t work in English, where ``fifth`` and ``sixth`` are hard to tell apart, while in Spanish they are ``quinto`` and ``sexto`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, was licensed to Catoosa, NE of Tulsa, but as I found when I tracked down the transmitter site, it`s really in Sperry, N of Tulsa. Yet I was surprised to hear an ID Dec 22 at 2012 as ``Old School R&B, KEOR, Sperry-Tulsa, and Hot 1340, KJMU Sand Springs``. Anyhow it seems to be on the air every day now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 7470 at 1432 Dec 23, talk in tonal language and with ``AIR hum``, so I thought this would turn out to be India; instead, it`s a frequency used long hours for IBB broadcasts, VOA and RFA, in Tibetan and some neighboring languages. During this hour only, it`s VOA via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Would not expect that transmitter to hum, so perhaps it`s a sign of jamming which is surely applied by the ChiCom to these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Due to some lost airtime on 9955, WRMI has to do some make-goods instead of complimentary DX programs. A lo-fi preacher was heard instead of WORLD OF RADIO, Tue Dec 22 at 1630, but Jeff White says the program schedule M-F at 15-17 UT has not made any permanent changes.
Then on Wed Dec 23 at 1645, WOR was interrupted halfway thru for another preacher, says Miami groundwave listener Mike Lantz, who wanted to throw something at his radio. That was the first broadcast of new edition 1492, but only a semi-airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, KXTR Kansas City back on the air with classical music, Dec 23 at 2039 UT check, some QRM from other skywave stations. Need more checking to decide whether KXTR`s skywave signal has been reduced.
1680, KRJO, seems a regular afternoons here with early skywave kick-in, such as Dec 23 around 2200 UT with ``Old School`` slogan IDs, references to ``The Twin Cities``, TOH ID as pertaining to Monroe-West Monroe-Bastrop, Louisiana --- but no mention of Tallulah or Vicksburg. Is this ``Old School`` stuff something new, a syndication format? I know there are some other stations using that slogan; see OKLAHOMA. Old school could mean practically anything that is not current (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12030, Dec 23 at 2256 open carrier, 2257 tone test, 2258-2300+ open carrier again, 2302 tone again. Nothing scheduled here; Spain is on 12030 until 21, and Pet/Kam from 02 or 03. I keep running across such mystery carriers and tones; something must be up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA [and non]. CNR1 echo jamming, Dec 23 at 2323 on 11775, and same on 15430. Aoki shows both are in use that hour by RFA in Chinese via Tinian. At 2329 I was also hearing non-echoing CNR1 on 15550, yet another RFA Mandarin frequency via Tinian, but this one had some weak audio under, which sounded like WJHR. Were they testing overtime? It`s pointless unless the frequency is absolutely clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. The DentroCuban Jamming Command is still interfering with Kol Israel via WRN via WRMI 9955, Dec 23 at 0619, pulses about equal level to KI which was concluding a talk program and going into music. Same type of pulse jamming but much louder, against nothing on 9810, 9825. SF hit 82 the day before but propagation still poor tonight with nothing above 12 MHz, and weakish signals even on 7 MHz.
Yet another RHC leapfrog mixing product I had not noticed before: 13570, Dec 23 at 2253, very weak but identifiable RHC talk and music // 13790. That was jumping over the adjacent transmitter on 13680 which was running open carrier before the RNV relay at 2300. Fortunately for WINB, it`s off 13570 by then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [and non]. The Horn-of-Africa trio in the 40m hamband were all in at about equal poor-fair levels, presumably long-path, Dec 23 at 1426 past 1430: 7175 noted first with HOA music when hams relented; 7165 with talk going into music; 7110 with not // talk. 7110 is surely R. Ethiopia, but one cannot be sure whether the others are V. of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, or Ethiopian jamming/clandestines. However, I could not hear more than one audio on each frequency, and no noise jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh, the one which was blobbing all over the place for months, checked Dec 23 at 1443, very weak but music seems // 9425 Bengaluru. With BFO on I can tell this transmitter is wobbly, but fortunately still keeping to its permitted bandwidth. Or maybe it was trans-polar Doppler effect, also fluttery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI is millimetering closer and closer to 9526.0, Dec 23 at 1446 with music during presumed Malay hour. As I step 1 kHz up and down with the BFO on the YB-400, there is hardly any difference in pitch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 7790-SSB, 2-way contact in Spanish between YL with stronger signal, and OM weaker, discussing a kilometer marker on the highway to Querétaro. I speculate it`s a trucking company using old-fashioned HF to check in. For clarity in Spanish, they express numbers not only as cardinals but also as ordinals, something which doesn`t work in English, where ``fifth`` and ``sixth`` are hard to tell apart, while in Spanish they are ``quinto`` and ``sexto`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR, was licensed to Catoosa, NE of Tulsa, but as I found when I tracked down the transmitter site, it`s really in Sperry, N of Tulsa. Yet I was surprised to hear an ID Dec 22 at 2012 as ``Old School R&B, KEOR, Sperry-Tulsa, and Hot 1340, KJMU Sand Springs``. Anyhow it seems to be on the air every day now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 7470 at 1432 Dec 23, talk in tonal language and with ``AIR hum``, so I thought this would turn out to be India; instead, it`s a frequency used long hours for IBB broadcasts, VOA and RFA, in Tibetan and some neighboring languages. During this hour only, it`s VOA via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Would not expect that transmitter to hum, so perhaps it`s a sign of jamming which is surely applied by the ChiCom to these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Due to some lost airtime on 9955, WRMI has to do some make-goods instead of complimentary DX programs. A lo-fi preacher was heard instead of WORLD OF RADIO, Tue Dec 22 at 1630, but Jeff White says the program schedule M-F at 15-17 UT has not made any permanent changes.
Then on Wed Dec 23 at 1645, WOR was interrupted halfway thru for another preacher, says Miami groundwave listener Mike Lantz, who wanted to throw something at his radio. That was the first broadcast of new edition 1492, but only a semi-airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, KXTR Kansas City back on the air with classical music, Dec 23 at 2039 UT check, some QRM from other skywave stations. Need more checking to decide whether KXTR`s skywave signal has been reduced.
1680, KRJO, seems a regular afternoons here with early skywave kick-in, such as Dec 23 around 2200 UT with ``Old School`` slogan IDs, references to ``The Twin Cities``, TOH ID as pertaining to Monroe-West Monroe-Bastrop, Louisiana --- but no mention of Tallulah or Vicksburg. Is this ``Old School`` stuff something new, a syndication format? I know there are some other stations using that slogan; see OKLAHOMA. Old school could mean practically anything that is not current (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12030, Dec 23 at 2256 open carrier, 2257 tone test, 2258-2300+ open carrier again, 2302 tone again. Nothing scheduled here; Spain is on 12030 until 21, and Pet/Kam from 02 or 03. I keep running across such mystery carriers and tones; something must be up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
