** ARGENTINA. 11710.6 approx., RAE with good clear signal in music during English hour, UT Wed Jan 26 at 0219 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake music jammer Jan 26 at 1546: fair on 9000, 8400 but 9000 had an unstable het on it, not noticed previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 5965, Jan 26 at 1556 could hear CRI theme music weakly and co-channel from something else. Per Aoki, CRI is until 1557 in Russian via Beijing site, while RCI is in Chinese until 1559 via Yamata, JAPAN site, which one would expect to be mutually exclusive, but they are officially to different target areas, aimed in different, almost opposite direxions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11600, Jan 26 at 1559 noise jamming, while a few minutes earlier there was none and Slovakia was audible in Spanish. Consistent schedule by the DCJC which must be convinced there is something here needing jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI carrier was off around 1415 Jan 26, but at 1553 it was back on causing a het with CRI East Turkistan on 9525.0, and continued past 1600, as CRI continues another hour in English, but I could not copy languages from either. Aoki shows VOI in Indonesian at 1600, but monitoring Jan 21 by Atsunori Ishida found Arabic during that hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15345, RTVM missing Jan 26 at 1515, tho it had been on the air before 1500 on 15340. Recheck at 1545, 15345 was back on tho hummy and undermodulated. Transmitter appears to be ailing, and previously did not find it colliding with reactivated Argentina later in the day. Neither country registers its frequencies with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the worst ever, Jan 26: from the 15435 transmitter, already on at 1456 blasting away R. Farda 15410 whose music I had just started to enjoy. Could hear the buzz between 15390 and 15455, along with some Arabic modulation underneath. By 1516 recheck the buzz could be heard all the way from 15355 to 15500, tapering off at both edges, but still audible under WYFR 15355, making Spain 15385 unlistenable. Instead of multiple overlays of buzzing, at the edges it was steady pulsing at the rate of four times per second, something I had not noted previously. Certain other days there was little if any buzz audible around 15435, I suppose depending on propagational variations.
I find it incredible that other users of this spectrum have not filed official complaints about it through ITU, or if they have, that nothing has been done about it; just as incredible that the Saudis are unable or unwilling to fix it or turn it off since it is doing them no good whatsoever, making them a laughingstock in the international engineering community, and wasting countless megawatts.
The // 15225 with Qur`an from the same Riyadh transmitter site has no such problems, but a relatively minor one at 1525 Jan 26: some intermittent hum and minor buzz on the modulation; wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, SRS via PORTUGAL, Jan 26 at 1520 with neat jingle IDs featuring ``Sudan Radio Service`` sung in English several times along with music by full hilife orchestra; continued in Arabic dialect with the echo turned off, thankfully (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 12095, BBCWS in English, Jan 26 at 1500 with news teasers, huge echo; in fact it sounded like a double echo. Scheduled as Rampisham site only at 95 degrees. Short/long path plus another unscheduled site on the air too? 1507 story about France vs the veil and the burka.
9505, Jan 26 at 1558 with BBCWS promos in English, poor signal, but 1600 switch into another language. Scheduled as Urdu via Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, still on secret frequencies 7465 and 7590 Jan 26 at 0219 quick check. This pair have been running until 0300 despite missing from A-Z schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
Was also still hearing covert 13725 before 2200 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW was back on testing with music Jan 26 at quick check 0219, good signal and modulation. George McClintock says he has been experimenting with 125% positive modulation, rather than negative, both on this and earlier in the afternoon Jan 25 on 9480, and wanted reports on modulation quality as heard. This is common on MW, but rarely employed on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. Firedrake music jammer Jan 26 at 1546: fair on 9000, 8400 but 9000 had an unstable het on it, not noticed previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 5965, Jan 26 at 1556 could hear CRI theme music weakly and co-channel from something else. Per Aoki, CRI is until 1557 in Russian via Beijing site, while RCI is in Chinese until 1559 via Yamata, JAPAN site, which one would expect to be mutually exclusive, but they are officially to different target areas, aimed in different, almost opposite direxions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11600, Jan 26 at 1559 noise jamming, while a few minutes earlier there was none and Slovakia was audible in Spanish. Consistent schedule by the DCJC which must be convinced there is something here needing jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI carrier was off around 1415 Jan 26, but at 1553 it was back on causing a het with CRI East Turkistan on 9525.0, and continued past 1600, as CRI continues another hour in English, but I could not copy languages from either. Aoki shows VOI in Indonesian at 1600, but monitoring Jan 21 by Atsunori Ishida found Arabic during that hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15345, RTVM missing Jan 26 at 1515, tho it had been on the air before 1500 on 15340. Recheck at 1545, 15345 was back on tho hummy and undermodulated. Transmitter appears to be ailing, and previously did not find it colliding with reactivated Argentina later in the day. Neither country registers its frequencies with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the worst ever, Jan 26: from the 15435 transmitter, already on at 1456 blasting away R. Farda 15410 whose music I had just started to enjoy. Could hear the buzz between 15390 and 15455, along with some Arabic modulation underneath. By 1516 recheck the buzz could be heard all the way from 15355 to 15500, tapering off at both edges, but still audible under WYFR 15355, making Spain 15385 unlistenable. Instead of multiple overlays of buzzing, at the edges it was steady pulsing at the rate of four times per second, something I had not noted previously. Certain other days there was little if any buzz audible around 15435, I suppose depending on propagational variations.
I find it incredible that other users of this spectrum have not filed official complaints about it through ITU, or if they have, that nothing has been done about it; just as incredible that the Saudis are unable or unwilling to fix it or turn it off since it is doing them no good whatsoever, making them a laughingstock in the international engineering community, and wasting countless megawatts.
The // 15225 with Qur`an from the same Riyadh transmitter site has no such problems, but a relatively minor one at 1525 Jan 26: some intermittent hum and minor buzz on the modulation; wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, SRS via PORTUGAL, Jan 26 at 1520 with neat jingle IDs featuring ``Sudan Radio Service`` sung in English several times along with music by full hilife orchestra; continued in Arabic dialect with the echo turned off, thankfully (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 12095, BBCWS in English, Jan 26 at 1500 with news teasers, huge echo; in fact it sounded like a double echo. Scheduled as Rampisham site only at 95 degrees. Short/long path plus another unscheduled site on the air too? 1507 story about France vs the veil and the burka.
9505, Jan 26 at 1558 with BBCWS promos in English, poor signal, but 1600 switch into another language. Scheduled as Urdu via Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, still on secret frequencies 7465 and 7590 Jan 26 at 0219 quick check. This pair have been running until 0300 despite missing from A-Z schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
Was also still hearing covert 13725 before 2200 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW was back on testing with music Jan 26 at quick check 0219, good signal and modulation. George McClintock says he has been experimenting with 125% positive modulation, rather than negative, both on this and earlier in the afternoon Jan 25 on 9480, and wanted reports on modulation quality as heard. This is common on MW, but rarely employed on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
