** ANTARCTICA. LRA36 is supposedly scheduled 12-15 UT, only on M/W/F, so after hearing it Monday, I did not even check for it Tuesday, heard it again Wednesday but did check for it Thursday April 22 as I was already only 26 kHz away on Ankara. By golly, there is a carrier with some pop music audio on 15476 (not 15475) at 1308. In fact this is a better signal than previous days, peaking around 1315, but soon declining to hardly any audio by 1330, and nothing but a carrier past 1421. So Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel may also be active on other weekdays. Trouble is, there is another carrier at least as strong around 15478, and even stronger 15480 in Belarussian, Poland via Woofferton UK at 1300-1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9650, Sackville again running KBS World Radio in Korean, April 22 at 1413 instead of default RCI ID and IS loop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Replacement of Firedrake by CNR1 jamming on April 21 has been explained by Sei-ichi Hasegawa and Robin Harwood as due to the anniversary of the Qinghai earthquake. Apparently the ChiCom felt it would be inappropriate to jam with such lively music on such a sad occasion. Of course this does not make the jamming any less evil.
Now on April 22 it`s back to Firedrake as the audio source: at 1310 fair on 10970 but none of the other `970s. at 1405, 13970 has an open carrier with het, flutter, and FD cuts on at 1405:45. At 1408 FD also on 13300 about the same level as 13970. At 1409 also on 12950. 1411 on 10300 and stronger 10440 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. April 22 did not start monitoring until 1235 and could still hear music on 4870-, 46 minutes after LSR in Enid, surely RRI Wamena. And much stronger 4750 RRI Makassar with Indonesian talk. Must have been a good Indo morning propagationally, but just as well to miss with all the static crashes below 5 MHz from T-storm lightning in central Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 15450, April 22 at 1421 fair signal with flutter in unknown language, but giveaway Family Radio riff. Aoki says it`s Sindhi via Almaty-Nikolayevka site, power and azimuth unknown. Not BBC which had originally been scheduled on this frequency at 1330-1500 via Armavir, Russia. Do the Kazakhs not care what crusading use is being made of their transmitters? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. I was too engrossed in the daytime MW DX opening April 20 to even think of checking for Kuwait`s new English frequency 15540, which I had discovered the day before; but April 21 I tuned in at 1757 to hear music already, and 1800 accurate timesignal, R. Kuwait ID and opening English, some music, 1801 program summary, 1802 another show about Islam; the Kuwaitis do their duty. Fairly good signal; still fair at 2048 during more pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, just barely audible carrier here, April 22 at 1424 but no doubt the previously multi-IDed Radio Victoria, Lima, on its distinctive third harmonic frequency, maybe a shade closer to 18057.8. I then looked for activity on the ``17m`` hamband just above, and found only one weak signal, on 18151-SSB. Never could catch his call, speaking English with a Spanish accent, but he did mention K8EHB fonetically more than once. Had the impression that was his QSL manager rather than contact at the moment, but K8EHB at qrz.com says nothing about such management. The LA station gave his QTH as Miraflores (or Villaflores?) in the ``central part of ---``. Miraflores is of course a well-known district of Lima, but I was already in a Peruvian state of mind. At 1430 he was calling QRZ? I wish hams would put as much effort into conveying their own callsigns clearly and frequently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, BSKSA program 1, April 22 at 1335 M&M conversation in Arabic, one of them apparently on the phone; occasional strumming interludes. 1400 news headlines with a stinger after each; one mentioned George Mitchell. 1415 some traditional music, 1417 resuming interview. This frequency now scheduled at 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. UNIDENTIFIED. 15540, we still have a mystery from before 1330 to 1400*. April 22 at 1322 there is a wavering het and hum over a bit of audio. This is presumably from Pakistan`s Tamil service until 1330. Then the het went away and there is still a mixture of two audios with flutter. At 1336 it seems that one of them could be Chinese, but not sure. At 1400 there is a two(?) pip timesignal, and carrier off a few seconds later; the two signals` disappearance is closely coördinated.
Then I check the April 22 edition of Aoki, and the answer has been added: Voice of Tibet, via Dushanbe-Yangiyul, TAJIKISTAN, 100 kW at 131 degrees, 1300-1400 in Tibetan except for Chinese at 1315-1330. I wonder if this is the `extra` broadcast VOT says they put on to convey condolences to Tibet after last week`s earthquake on the Tibetan plateau, and complain that the ChiCom kept jamming it anyway despite pleas to turn it off. See http://tinyurl.com/29a4zlx as found by Alokesh Gupta and http://bit.ly/99M3cj as found by Yimber Gaviría. And Yimber forwards this from VOT website http://www.vot.org/ ---
VOT starts message line to quake victims
VOT encourages all those who want to have their message of support or condolences transmitted on short wave radio to Tibet to call the VOT main editorial office in Dharamsala. Your message will be recorded and included in our daily transmissions. To send your message call VOT at +91 1892 222384 or e-mail to info @ vot.org
VOT - Shortwave broadcast frequency and time
Frequency mHz UTC time
on/around 15.520 11:00 - 12:30
around 15.540 12:30 - 13:15
around 15.430* 13:30 - 14:00
17.560* 13:30 - 14:30
* Transmissions on 15.430 mHz between 7 and 7.30pm and 17.560 mHz between 7 pm and 8 pm Indian time are best options for listeners in India
Contact
Voice of Tibet Foundation (adm. office) Kirkegata 5, 0153 Oslo NORWAY
Telephone: (+47) 22 11 12 09 Fax:
Email: editor @ vot.org info @ vot.org oystalme @ gmail.com
Note that our log on 15540 does not correspond to the schedule above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, at last fairly audible for Live from Turkey, now scheduled only on the 1230 Thursday broadcasts, April 22 starting later than usual at 1303 after Agenda. Seref is prime host for this one too, but I did not stay with it as irresistibly drawn to Antarctica nearby. Tuned back and forth a few times and did not hear any callers but instead music fill and the multi-lingual ID filler toward the end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Since I was checking Kuwait 15540, extremely convenient to see if WJHR is active on 15550-USB: yes, April 20 at 1803 a bit of hymusic which I recognize as what`s on their only (?) produced ID, and JIP their exclusive gospel huxter. Pretty good signal, but not heard at 2048 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR inbooming at 1406 April 22, with free seed offer from Alex, while 15825 was much weaker --- so the HF sporadic E MUF must have been between those two frequencies, and/or 15825 is running much less power than 13845. At 1420 still the same situation, but 15825 is strong enough to tell that it is squealing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, but only listening on webcast, WRMI at 1502 Thursday April 22 finally has replaced The Happy Station, now with some DX program in Spanish playing interval signals, CRI`s at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CANADA. 9650, Sackville again running KBS World Radio in Korean, April 22 at 1413 instead of default RCI ID and IS loop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Replacement of Firedrake by CNR1 jamming on April 21 has been explained by Sei-ichi Hasegawa and Robin Harwood as due to the anniversary of the Qinghai earthquake. Apparently the ChiCom felt it would be inappropriate to jam with such lively music on such a sad occasion. Of course this does not make the jamming any less evil.
Now on April 22 it`s back to Firedrake as the audio source: at 1310 fair on 10970 but none of the other `970s. at 1405, 13970 has an open carrier with het, flutter, and FD cuts on at 1405:45. At 1408 FD also on 13300 about the same level as 13970. At 1409 also on 12950. 1411 on 10300 and stronger 10440 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. April 22 did not start monitoring until 1235 and could still hear music on 4870-, 46 minutes after LSR in Enid, surely RRI Wamena. And much stronger 4750 RRI Makassar with Indonesian talk. Must have been a good Indo morning propagationally, but just as well to miss with all the static crashes below 5 MHz from T-storm lightning in central Kansas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 15450, April 22 at 1421 fair signal with flutter in unknown language, but giveaway Family Radio riff. Aoki says it`s Sindhi via Almaty-Nikolayevka site, power and azimuth unknown. Not BBC which had originally been scheduled on this frequency at 1330-1500 via Armavir, Russia. Do the Kazakhs not care what crusading use is being made of their transmitters? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. I was too engrossed in the daytime MW DX opening April 20 to even think of checking for Kuwait`s new English frequency 15540, which I had discovered the day before; but April 21 I tuned in at 1757 to hear music already, and 1800 accurate timesignal, R. Kuwait ID and opening English, some music, 1801 program summary, 1802 another show about Islam; the Kuwaitis do their duty. Fairly good signal; still fair at 2048 during more pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, just barely audible carrier here, April 22 at 1424 but no doubt the previously multi-IDed Radio Victoria, Lima, on its distinctive third harmonic frequency, maybe a shade closer to 18057.8. I then looked for activity on the ``17m`` hamband just above, and found only one weak signal, on 18151-SSB. Never could catch his call, speaking English with a Spanish accent, but he did mention K8EHB fonetically more than once. Had the impression that was his QSL manager rather than contact at the moment, but K8EHB at qrz.com says nothing about such management. The LA station gave his QTH as Miraflores (or Villaflores?) in the ``central part of ---``. Miraflores is of course a well-known district of Lima, but I was already in a Peruvian state of mind. At 1430 he was calling QRZ? I wish hams would put as much effort into conveying their own callsigns clearly and frequently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, BSKSA program 1, April 22 at 1335 M&M conversation in Arabic, one of them apparently on the phone; occasional strumming interludes. 1400 news headlines with a stinger after each; one mentioned George Mitchell. 1415 some traditional music, 1417 resuming interview. This frequency now scheduled at 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. UNIDENTIFIED. 15540, we still have a mystery from before 1330 to 1400*. April 22 at 1322 there is a wavering het and hum over a bit of audio. This is presumably from Pakistan`s Tamil service until 1330. Then the het went away and there is still a mixture of two audios with flutter. At 1336 it seems that one of them could be Chinese, but not sure. At 1400 there is a two(?) pip timesignal, and carrier off a few seconds later; the two signals` disappearance is closely coördinated.
Then I check the April 22 edition of Aoki, and the answer has been added: Voice of Tibet, via Dushanbe-Yangiyul, TAJIKISTAN, 100 kW at 131 degrees, 1300-1400 in Tibetan except for Chinese at 1315-1330. I wonder if this is the `extra` broadcast VOT says they put on to convey condolences to Tibet after last week`s earthquake on the Tibetan plateau, and complain that the ChiCom kept jamming it anyway despite pleas to turn it off. See http://tinyurl.com/29a4zlx as found by Alokesh Gupta and http://bit.ly/99M3cj as found by Yimber Gaviría. And Yimber forwards this from VOT website http://www.vot.org/ ---
VOT starts message line to quake victims
VOT encourages all those who want to have their message of support or condolences transmitted on short wave radio to Tibet to call the VOT main editorial office in Dharamsala. Your message will be recorded and included in our daily transmissions. To send your message call VOT at +91 1892 222384 or e-mail to info @ vot.org
VOT - Shortwave broadcast frequency and time
Frequency mHz UTC time
on/around 15.520 11:00 - 12:30
around 15.540 12:30 - 13:15
around 15.430* 13:30 - 14:00
17.560* 13:30 - 14:30
* Transmissions on 15.430 mHz between 7 and 7.30pm and 17.560 mHz between 7 pm and 8 pm Indian time are best options for listeners in India
Contact
Voice of Tibet Foundation (adm. office) Kirkegata 5, 0153 Oslo NORWAY
Telephone: (+47) 22 11 12 09 Fax:
Email: editor @ vot.org info @ vot.org oystalme @ gmail.com
Note that our log on 15540 does not correspond to the schedule above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, at last fairly audible for Live from Turkey, now scheduled only on the 1230 Thursday broadcasts, April 22 starting later than usual at 1303 after Agenda. Seref is prime host for this one too, but I did not stay with it as irresistibly drawn to Antarctica nearby. Tuned back and forth a few times and did not hear any callers but instead music fill and the multi-lingual ID filler toward the end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Since I was checking Kuwait 15540, extremely convenient to see if WJHR is active on 15550-USB: yes, April 20 at 1803 a bit of hymusic which I recognize as what`s on their only (?) produced ID, and JIP their exclusive gospel huxter. Pretty good signal, but not heard at 2048 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, WWCR inbooming at 1406 April 22, with free seed offer from Alex, while 15825 was much weaker --- so the HF sporadic E MUF must have been between those two frequencies, and/or 15825 is running much less power than 13845. At 1420 still the same situation, but 15825 is strong enough to tell that it is squealing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, but only listening on webcast, WRMI at 1502 Thursday April 22 finally has replaced The Happy Station, now with some DX program in Spanish playing interval signals, CRI`s at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
