** BRAZIL. Some Brazilian DXers are reporting that RNA 11780 must be on a low-power transmitter such as 7.5 kW. I suspected they had mixed it up with the inactive R. Guaíba on 11785. That odd power is a common one for some private Brazilian SW stations, from 6 to 11 MHz bands, if you search on it in Aoki, which also shows 7.5 in 11780! Possibly they have a backup to the regular 250 kW unit, and/or possibly Brazilians are in the skip zone leading to unwarranted assumptions that 11780 is low-powered. But it`s Aoki which is certainly mistaken.
I suppose some manufacturer long ago was making SW transmitters of this power, and also sold a couple to Radio New Zealand, which was their rating until the 50/100 kW units at Rangitaiki went in. WRTH also shows 7.5 for Brazilians on 6-11 MHz bands, but none on trop bands except one inactive on 4945, R. Progresso.
Reception of RNA 11780 varies widely here in the nightmiddle, but I attribute that to propagation. On Jan 4 at 0550, a UT Sunday when it is on all-night rather than cutting on sometime between 0630 and 0700, RNA 11780 was inbooming at S9+20 and could not possibly be only 7.5 kW. Normally it far outstrips the signal levels of any other 25m Brazilians that may be audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Jan 3 at 1416 ranging approximately 4835-4870 and 4935-4970 --- hmm, these two are exactly 100 kHz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 3 at 1427: good on 8400, JBA on 9000, not audible on 10 or 11 MHz frequencies.
Time was omitted in yesterday`s report, so try again: Firedrake Jan 2 at 1435: 8400 fair with flutter, 9000 very poor, nothing audible on 10210, 11300 or 11350. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, 9425, fair Jan 3 at 1430 with news in English by well-understood YL, including at 1432 fog disrupting train service around New Delhi, and along with cold weather blamed for dozens of deaths. 1435 after brief Hindi announcement, into talk by OM, and I had trouble deciding whether it was English with a heavy Hindi lilt, or really Hindi. // 9470 if on was not audible between stronger 9465 and 9475 signals.
9870, AIR VBS, Sunday Jan 3 at 1442 with enthusiastic drama, including music produxion, and also hum which normally is not heard on this frequency. Was the hum on the program recording only? 1445 Vividh Bharati ID, sirens, SFX, music; 1451 ads in Hindi, first one for ``Super Het`` ! Is that a radio receiver brand? If not, what else could it be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. A local mixing product no one else will hear, but the computation may be of interest, applicable elsewhere. 2250 kHz, Jan 3 at 0615, extremely weak modulation in the noise level, but quite steady, making me suspect it`s local, rather than a 3 x 750 DX harmonic. As always, time to check my only two strong MW locals, KGWA 960 and KCRC 1390. Yes, sure enough, 2250 audio matches 960, and it is mixing with something else, but how does it get on 2250? Out comes the calculator: 3 x 1390 = 4170 (where KCRC is always audible with its weak third harmonic). Subtract 2250 from 4170 = 1920, which is the second harmonic of KGWA, where it is also audible weakly. So we have 2250 as the difference between the third harmonic of KCRC and the second of KGWA. The two sites are about 5 km apart, so how do they mix? Externally (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1860-AM, WA0RCR in MO, Jan 3 at 0621 with classic Jean Shepherd monolog somehow mixing being hung up on a girl he wanted to take out, with a young man`s conflicting desire to spend the few dollars he had on some component at a ham radio store; that was from This Week in Amateur Radio, altho it dates from many years before this week, Shep`s WOR radio show. It seems WA0RCR may broadcast entertainment as well as information (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4517-SSB, AF MARS net Sunday Jan 3 at 1410, with AFF7MO, Gene, conveniently giving his e-mail address based on his ham call, WA0KHP. This was during an informal QSO without giving any callsigns for several minutes, off topic into global-warming-doubting, as tends to happen in winter when it`s still cold, duh. Finally IDed at 1414, and his contact was AFA7DP. ARRL lookup shows WA0KHP as: FOLLMER, EUGENE L, WA0KHP (General), 34 NW 79TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64118-1434 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Will Martin reports that the only known SW airtime for DXing with Cumbre, Sunday 1200 on WHRI 9410, was replaced by a preacher on Dec 27, so I checked Jan 3 at 1220: yes, preacher, no Marie.
However, searching on the WHR website by program host, ``Marie Lamb``, it now shows the 1200 broadcast on 9410 as Saturday instead of Sunday. Previously, we had confirmed that when it was on Sunday at this time, it was not on Saturday, tho listed for both. Readout now claims 18 other airings per week on WHRI, and 9 on T8WH, all of which are probably imaginary, but maybe on corresponding webcasts/satellite feeds. If anyone axually hears DXing with Cumbre on SW, which it seems is no longer produced every week, perhaps leading to many of its scheduled times missing, please let us know (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The US-based Adventist World Radio finally has a US station carrying its programming: WINB. Sunday Jan 3 at 1438, when 9265 was on the air unlike weekdays, concluding Your Story Hour with contact info, mentioned 3ABN (7DA`s Three Angels Broadcasting Network; actually I am not sure how closely related are AWR and 3ABN, mainly on satellite and as feeder to domestic outlets. Could be they have doctrinal differences like the ``Historic Adventist`` ex-WVHA crowd? But YSH is a longtime Adventist program carried by AWR.)
Trouble is, YSH is not on the WINB program schedule, even tho it was just updated December 6: http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm nor is anything like it on the programs by title. They also still unabashedly include Tony Alámo, convicted child-sex predator, sentenced to 175 years in prison.
BTW, despite the December update, WINB still thinx Eastern Time is 4 hours behind UT. I suppose that makes the ET listings correct as EST, with all the UT times shown as one hour off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR at 1555 Sunday Jan 3 was carrying PMS // 11775 Anguilla, instead of Brother Scare, who supposedly is 7 days at 15-19, as we also heard on a corrected announcement a few days ago at the 1500 changeover.
WWCR 15825 had a good altho not solid signal, at 1557 Jan 3, so I tried 18770 just in case, the second harmonic of nearby WWRB 9385, and there it was, Brother Scare clearly readable, so that compensates for losing out on 13845. No sign of sporadic E on VHF, unfortunately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 5745, WYFR in English, fair Jan 3 at 0607 mixed with pulses from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, which only *needs* to jam 5745 at 11-14 when R. Martí is using it! WYFR is scheduled 05-10, and runs such a risk by daring to use an elsewhen jammed channel. WWRB is also authorized on 5745 at 21-04, but I think they are not using it so long, perhaps because of more offtime jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was falling asleep, Jan 3 around 0645 UT, old time radio show on 1670. Must be WTDY Madison WI, which favors far-right wacko talkhosts much of the time, Beck, Miller, Medved, Ingraham, but per sked http://www.wtdy.com/content/SHOWS-16.html
When Radio Was is indeed on its air UT Sundays 05-08. This title does *not* refer to ``when radio was subject to the Fairness Doctrine``. Also of possible interest: UT Mondays 00-03, Sunday Night Bandstand with Ben Benedetti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. No-show again from El Hugazo, Sunday Jan 3 looking for Aló, Presidente on scheduled Cuban relay frequencies: 13750 came on at *1558, off at 1559, back on with carrier only, but nothing further heard, nor 12010. Rechex of both at 1655 and 1850: nothing on the air. However, RHC`s Esperanto show on 11760 was not a no-show at 1520 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. The pirate I heard on 6930-USB, Jan 2 at 0607-0642+, was Wolverine Radio, says Brian Alexander, PA, who was listening at exactly the same time and heard some of the same music. Tnx, Brian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
I suppose some manufacturer long ago was making SW transmitters of this power, and also sold a couple to Radio New Zealand, which was their rating until the 50/100 kW units at Rangitaiki went in. WRTH also shows 7.5 for Brazilians on 6-11 MHz bands, but none on trop bands except one inactive on 4945, R. Progresso.
Reception of RNA 11780 varies widely here in the nightmiddle, but I attribute that to propagation. On Jan 4 at 0550, a UT Sunday when it is on all-night rather than cutting on sometime between 0630 and 0700, RNA 11780 was inbooming at S9+20 and could not possibly be only 7.5 kW. Normally it far outstrips the signal levels of any other 25m Brazilians that may be audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Jan 3 at 1416 ranging approximately 4835-4870 and 4935-4970 --- hmm, these two are exactly 100 kHz apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 3 at 1427: good on 8400, JBA on 9000, not audible on 10 or 11 MHz frequencies.
Time was omitted in yesterday`s report, so try again: Firedrake Jan 2 at 1435: 8400 fair with flutter, 9000 very poor, nothing audible on 10210, 11300 or 11350. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR National Channel, 9425, fair Jan 3 at 1430 with news in English by well-understood YL, including at 1432 fog disrupting train service around New Delhi, and along with cold weather blamed for dozens of deaths. 1435 after brief Hindi announcement, into talk by OM, and I had trouble deciding whether it was English with a heavy Hindi lilt, or really Hindi. // 9470 if on was not audible between stronger 9465 and 9475 signals.
9870, AIR VBS, Sunday Jan 3 at 1442 with enthusiastic drama, including music produxion, and also hum which normally is not heard on this frequency. Was the hum on the program recording only? 1445 Vividh Bharati ID, sirens, SFX, music; 1451 ads in Hindi, first one for ``Super Het`` ! Is that a radio receiver brand? If not, what else could it be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. A local mixing product no one else will hear, but the computation may be of interest, applicable elsewhere. 2250 kHz, Jan 3 at 0615, extremely weak modulation in the noise level, but quite steady, making me suspect it`s local, rather than a 3 x 750 DX harmonic. As always, time to check my only two strong MW locals, KGWA 960 and KCRC 1390. Yes, sure enough, 2250 audio matches 960, and it is mixing with something else, but how does it get on 2250? Out comes the calculator: 3 x 1390 = 4170 (where KCRC is always audible with its weak third harmonic). Subtract 2250 from 4170 = 1920, which is the second harmonic of KGWA, where it is also audible weakly. So we have 2250 as the difference between the third harmonic of KCRC and the second of KGWA. The two sites are about 5 km apart, so how do they mix? Externally (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1860-AM, WA0RCR in MO, Jan 3 at 0621 with classic Jean Shepherd monolog somehow mixing being hung up on a girl he wanted to take out, with a young man`s conflicting desire to spend the few dollars he had on some component at a ham radio store; that was from This Week in Amateur Radio, altho it dates from many years before this week, Shep`s WOR radio show. It seems WA0RCR may broadcast entertainment as well as information (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4517-SSB, AF MARS net Sunday Jan 3 at 1410, with AFF7MO, Gene, conveniently giving his e-mail address based on his ham call, WA0KHP. This was during an informal QSO without giving any callsigns for several minutes, off topic into global-warming-doubting, as tends to happen in winter when it`s still cold, duh. Finally IDed at 1414, and his contact was AFA7DP. ARRL lookup shows WA0KHP as: FOLLMER, EUGENE L, WA0KHP (General), 34 NW 79TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64118-1434 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Will Martin reports that the only known SW airtime for DXing with Cumbre, Sunday 1200 on WHRI 9410, was replaced by a preacher on Dec 27, so I checked Jan 3 at 1220: yes, preacher, no Marie.
However, searching on the WHR website by program host, ``Marie Lamb``, it now shows the 1200 broadcast on 9410 as Saturday instead of Sunday. Previously, we had confirmed that when it was on Sunday at this time, it was not on Saturday, tho listed for both. Readout now claims 18 other airings per week on WHRI, and 9 on T8WH, all of which are probably imaginary, but maybe on corresponding webcasts/satellite feeds. If anyone axually hears DXing with Cumbre on SW, which it seems is no longer produced every week, perhaps leading to many of its scheduled times missing, please let us know (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The US-based Adventist World Radio finally has a US station carrying its programming: WINB. Sunday Jan 3 at 1438, when 9265 was on the air unlike weekdays, concluding Your Story Hour with contact info, mentioned 3ABN (7DA`s Three Angels Broadcasting Network; actually I am not sure how closely related are AWR and 3ABN, mainly on satellite and as feeder to domestic outlets. Could be they have doctrinal differences like the ``Historic Adventist`` ex-WVHA crowd? But YSH is a longtime Adventist program carried by AWR.)
Trouble is, YSH is not on the WINB program schedule, even tho it was just updated December 6: http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm nor is anything like it on the programs by title. They also still unabashedly include Tony Alámo, convicted child-sex predator, sentenced to 175 years in prison.
BTW, despite the December update, WINB still thinx Eastern Time is 4 hours behind UT. I suppose that makes the ET listings correct as EST, with all the UT times shown as one hour off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR at 1555 Sunday Jan 3 was carrying PMS // 11775 Anguilla, instead of Brother Scare, who supposedly is 7 days at 15-19, as we also heard on a corrected announcement a few days ago at the 1500 changeover.
WWCR 15825 had a good altho not solid signal, at 1557 Jan 3, so I tried 18770 just in case, the second harmonic of nearby WWRB 9385, and there it was, Brother Scare clearly readable, so that compensates for losing out on 13845. No sign of sporadic E on VHF, unfortunately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 5745, WYFR in English, fair Jan 3 at 0607 mixed with pulses from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, which only *needs* to jam 5745 at 11-14 when R. Martí is using it! WYFR is scheduled 05-10, and runs such a risk by daring to use an elsewhen jammed channel. WWRB is also authorized on 5745 at 21-04, but I think they are not using it so long, perhaps because of more offtime jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was falling asleep, Jan 3 around 0645 UT, old time radio show on 1670. Must be WTDY Madison WI, which favors far-right wacko talkhosts much of the time, Beck, Miller, Medved, Ingraham, but per sked http://www.wtdy.com/content/SHOWS-16.html
When Radio Was is indeed on its air UT Sundays 05-08. This title does *not* refer to ``when radio was subject to the Fairness Doctrine``. Also of possible interest: UT Mondays 00-03, Sunday Night Bandstand with Ben Benedetti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. No-show again from El Hugazo, Sunday Jan 3 looking for Aló, Presidente on scheduled Cuban relay frequencies: 13750 came on at *1558, off at 1559, back on with carrier only, but nothing further heard, nor 12010. Rechex of both at 1655 and 1850: nothing on the air. However, RHC`s Esperanto show on 11760 was not a no-show at 1520 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [non]. The pirate I heard on 6930-USB, Jan 2 at 0607-0642+, was Wolverine Radio, says Brian Alexander, PA, who was listening at exactly the same time and heard some of the same music. Tnx, Brian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
