** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 17: 8400 good at 1315. Nothing on 9, 10 or 11 MHz bands. But at 1440 found with good signal on 12970, none of the other `970s.
All India Radio Vividh Bharati service (mostly musical entertainment, one of our favorites) now has severe competition for its longtime frequency 9870. April 17 at 1342, English/Chinese gab from CRI English service well atop AIR, still so at 1417.
The CRI infexion spreads wider and wider, as they ignore other stations` previous frequency occupancy to put on more and more unneeded transmitters. I hear that the Chinese delegations to HFCC conferences are scary and uncooperative, as you might expect.
CRI is now using 9870 at 1300-1600 for three hours in English via Xi`an site at 200 degrees, as if to rub it into the Indians by aiming more or less toward Bengaluru. The ChiCom don`t really care if some of their own programs have unnecessary interference; there are so many frequencies that transmitters can burn off 500 kW just to show how omnipotent China is; and how totally lacking in respect for its neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, ran across R. República via Sackville, good signal April 17 at 0155 as they were just finishing a frequency announcement ``en 31 metros``, I suppose saying they were about to change to 9780. Continued plugging http://www.radiorepublica.org and off abruptly at 0159* interrupting programming. The horarios page of that website merely lists hourly program titles for each day of the week, nothing about frequencies!
Then I tuned up to 9780 at 0159 and find the jamming is already running; about 0159.5 I can tell R.R. has come on, but roughly equal level to jamnoise, and quickly loses out to the jamming, so much less favorable here than 9490 had been.
At 0547 April 17, 9460 had lite pulse jamming against nothing, since R. Martí is on that temporary new frequency only until 0400. There was also some intermittent Spanish 2-way SSB nearby on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA [non] WRMI
** GERMANY [non]. 13840, April 17 at 1356 Farsi with severe echo about a syllable apart. This is too much to be a case of longpath/shortpath. Here`s why: DW Persian at 1330-1400 is listed as via BOTH Trincomalee, SRI LANKA at 335 degrees, and Samara, RUSSIA at 140 degrees! So they are getting the echo even worse in Iran. Someone really messed up with this arrangement. At least one of the transmitters was also emitting hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 15680, R. Farda ID and music at 1406 April 17, fair; it`s via Lampertheim, GERMANY at 1330-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also see GERMANY [non]
** KOREA NORTH [non]. After hearing that guy on WRMI at 1345 say that Shiokaze could not really be heard any more as far into the dayside as OK, I set out to prove him wrong, tuning 6135 at 1400 April 17: yes, there it is, with piano music, but very poor and not sure whether it`s in Japanese or Korean today; Aoki says normally Korean on Saturdays.
Also SAH and CCI from some other modulation. That could still be Madagascar long-path as was hearing a few weeks ago before Sea Breeze moved here; only other possibility on 6135 at this hour is Yemen which would also have to be longpath, but a longshot. 6135 is also reserved for some relay via Irkutsk, Russia, but no confirmation it is axually in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9335, surprised to find RFA Burmese in the clear at 1316 April 17, rather than clashing with VOK, which must be off the air during English hour. 1339 checked // 11710 and not audible there either. Back to 9335 at 1339, just as carrier cut on resuming the SAH with TINIAN. Not checked again until 1412 when VOK was modulating in French, back to normal huge collision with RFA.
And it`s not really necessary, considering several open frequencies in the vicinity. How is reception in Myanmar? Is IBB being self-destructive, or just off the ball overlooking VOK`s long usage of 9335 since as an outlaw nation, it does not participate in HFCC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI with WORLD OF RADIO 1508 mid-program break at 1344 Saturday April 17, squeezed between stronger Furusato no Kaze via TAIWAN on 9950 and omnipresent RTTY on 9960, but no 9955 jamming audible. If the DentroCuban Jamming Command has taken steps to avoid jamming WRMI English programs, we appreciate that. More likely it`s just a tossup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, WWRB with Brother Scare Sabbath, April 17 at 1412, accompanied by buzz out to plus/minus 30 kHz, 9355-9415, QRMing e.g. WTJC 9370 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES reactivated, April 17 at 1455, good signal but just barely modulated, sounds like catechisms. Tnx to a tip from Thomas Nyberg, IA, who discovered them earlier in the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 12020 fair with SE Asian music April 17 at 1419; 1429 brief announcement and off, but then a weaker carrier came back on. This fits the schedule of VOV which at 1430 makes a beam switch from 57 to 177 degrees, as language changes from Japanese to Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15575, open carrier at 1404 and still at 1413 April 17. At first figured it`s Greenville tuning up for later 15580 broadcast, but that is no longer scheduled at any time. However, Botswana has to take over 15580 from São Tomé at 1530, and until then needs to stay off 15580. VOA English via Botswana is now scheduled on 15580 all the way from 1530 to 2200, following the initial sesquihour via Pinheira (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
All India Radio Vividh Bharati service (mostly musical entertainment, one of our favorites) now has severe competition for its longtime frequency 9870. April 17 at 1342, English/Chinese gab from CRI English service well atop AIR, still so at 1417.
The CRI infexion spreads wider and wider, as they ignore other stations` previous frequency occupancy to put on more and more unneeded transmitters. I hear that the Chinese delegations to HFCC conferences are scary and uncooperative, as you might expect.
CRI is now using 9870 at 1300-1600 for three hours in English via Xi`an site at 200 degrees, as if to rub it into the Indians by aiming more or less toward Bengaluru. The ChiCom don`t really care if some of their own programs have unnecessary interference; there are so many frequencies that transmitters can burn off 500 kW just to show how omnipotent China is; and how totally lacking in respect for its neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, ran across R. República via Sackville, good signal April 17 at 0155 as they were just finishing a frequency announcement ``en 31 metros``, I suppose saying they were about to change to 9780. Continued plugging http://www.radiorepublica.org and off abruptly at 0159* interrupting programming. The horarios page of that website merely lists hourly program titles for each day of the week, nothing about frequencies!
Then I tuned up to 9780 at 0159 and find the jamming is already running; about 0159.5 I can tell R.R. has come on, but roughly equal level to jamnoise, and quickly loses out to the jamming, so much less favorable here than 9490 had been.
At 0547 April 17, 9460 had lite pulse jamming against nothing, since R. Martí is on that temporary new frequency only until 0400. There was also some intermittent Spanish 2-way SSB nearby on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA [non] WRMI
** GERMANY [non]. 13840, April 17 at 1356 Farsi with severe echo about a syllable apart. This is too much to be a case of longpath/shortpath. Here`s why: DW Persian at 1330-1400 is listed as via BOTH Trincomalee, SRI LANKA at 335 degrees, and Samara, RUSSIA at 140 degrees! So they are getting the echo even worse in Iran. Someone really messed up with this arrangement. At least one of the transmitters was also emitting hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 15680, R. Farda ID and music at 1406 April 17, fair; it`s via Lampertheim, GERMANY at 1330-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also see GERMANY [non]
** KOREA NORTH [non]. After hearing that guy on WRMI at 1345 say that Shiokaze could not really be heard any more as far into the dayside as OK, I set out to prove him wrong, tuning 6135 at 1400 April 17: yes, there it is, with piano music, but very poor and not sure whether it`s in Japanese or Korean today; Aoki says normally Korean on Saturdays.
Also SAH and CCI from some other modulation. That could still be Madagascar long-path as was hearing a few weeks ago before Sea Breeze moved here; only other possibility on 6135 at this hour is Yemen which would also have to be longpath, but a longshot. 6135 is also reserved for some relay via Irkutsk, Russia, but no confirmation it is axually in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9335, surprised to find RFA Burmese in the clear at 1316 April 17, rather than clashing with VOK, which must be off the air during English hour. 1339 checked // 11710 and not audible there either. Back to 9335 at 1339, just as carrier cut on resuming the SAH with TINIAN. Not checked again until 1412 when VOK was modulating in French, back to normal huge collision with RFA.
And it`s not really necessary, considering several open frequencies in the vicinity. How is reception in Myanmar? Is IBB being self-destructive, or just off the ball overlooking VOK`s long usage of 9335 since as an outlaw nation, it does not participate in HFCC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI with WORLD OF RADIO 1508 mid-program break at 1344 Saturday April 17, squeezed between stronger Furusato no Kaze via TAIWAN on 9950 and omnipresent RTTY on 9960, but no 9955 jamming audible. If the DentroCuban Jamming Command has taken steps to avoid jamming WRMI English programs, we appreciate that. More likely it`s just a tossup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, WWRB with Brother Scare Sabbath, April 17 at 1412, accompanied by buzz out to plus/minus 30 kHz, 9355-9415, QRMing e.g. WTJC 9370 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, KJES reactivated, April 17 at 1455, good signal but just barely modulated, sounds like catechisms. Tnx to a tip from Thomas Nyberg, IA, who discovered them earlier in the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 12020 fair with SE Asian music April 17 at 1419; 1429 brief announcement and off, but then a weaker carrier came back on. This fits the schedule of VOV which at 1430 makes a beam switch from 57 to 177 degrees, as language changes from Japanese to Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15575, open carrier at 1404 and still at 1413 April 17. At first figured it`s Greenville tuning up for later 15580 broadcast, but that is no longer scheduled at any time. However, Botswana has to take over 15580 from São Tomé at 1530, and until then needs to stay off 15580. VOA English via Botswana is now scheduled on 15580 all the way from 1530 to 2200, following the initial sesquihour via Pinheira (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
