** CHINA. Firedrake June 25:
9380, good at 1141, and still at 1217
none others found 8-19 MHz until:
13680, good at 1233, // 9380. Aoki shows: 9380 and 13680*SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 0.1 ND ? TWN 11955E 2610N SOH a10
14700, good at 1235 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 19m dead except for CR 15170, so will 16m be too? No! June 25 at 1151, I get CRI English on 17490, Chinese on 17650, fair signals, both 308 degrees from Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Early sporadic-E opening from BCN, June 25 at 1500 UT on 3, movie in English, letterbox with captions presumably Spanish in black rectangle at bottom; typical almost-zero CCI bars denoting XHBC vs XHQ; a bit of vuvuzela audio QRM from a Televisa with World Cup.
I had been sitting on channel 2 for a while with antenna aimed oppositewards, not realizing this opening was in progress. Not much on 2, 4 or 5 when aimed westward, but:
1502 UT on 6, CW6 with Breaking News! At the beach, someone drowned, in a wetsuit but unsure whether he was a surfer; other local news in unaccented English; 1505 surveillance cam of a ``geezer bandit``, from San Diego 6 News; shortly faded out. XETV Tijuana. Glad to know they are atop the news that matters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, off the air the afternoon of June 24; rather than just open carrier which they have been known to run days at a time instead of overmodulated sportstalk; but back to the latter the next morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. After several months` respite from talking houses, Enid realtor Greg Winklejohn has installed his 1670 transmitter again. First noted on caradio the afternoon of June 24, poor signal, distorted and mush mixed in, so may be more than one interfering with each other, or the one transmitter is quite defective, driving away rather than attracting clients. Cannot hear on the east side of Enid and seems to come from the NW quadrant. He mentioned being near Glenwood School (elementary) which is in the 800 block of N Oakwood. I`ll track it down soon and see how it sounds at local range as a DX-blocker.
At home QTH in the nightmiddle, 0604 June 25, pleased to still hear WTDY Madison WI on 1670 with no THQRM audible, local weather, low 58, we can only dream about where we don`t even get down to 70 these nights (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17510, June 25 at 1153, YL rock song in English; could be VOA Music Mix, but of course it`s really the hip RRI, filling out English hour to 1155 sign-off until next at 1700 on 11735, 9535; with usual satellite info, WRN plug. I had just scanned 19m and found nothing at all except the REE CR open carrier on 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Altho VOT English was audible yesterday on 15450, not June 25 at 1240, while Turkish music on 13635 was only poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17585, VOA Greenville, VG signal June 25 after news, 1405 starting Music Mix, so Africans can`t hear Crossroads Asia. Today stayed on until abrupt cutoff 1430* amid music, another insult to listeners, how rude. If they had their priorities straight, would at least insert a hard break in MM to make it smooth and seem intentional, but that would require the dog wagging the tail. At least today did not dump off the air at 1417* as it did June 24; but no doubt that was an unavoidable aging transmitter problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1518 confirmed on WWRB 3185`s webcast, UT Friday June 25 at 0330 – except it started a couple minutes early. That left Dave Frantz time at 0357 to talk about his Four Course Range Historical Video on YouTube; see http://www.wwrb.org --- before joining The Overcomer, except there were several minutes of dead air until a non-BS speaker appeared after 0400.
WOR 1518 not heard before or after 0000 UT Friday on Area 51 webcast.
But confirmed on ACB Radio webcast, UT Friday June 25 after 0100 to be repeated 2-hourly thru 2330; and on WRMI 9955 webcast at 0030 and 1430 Friday. Next SW airings are Friday 2029 on WWCR 15825; Sat 0800 on WRMI; Sat 0800 on IPAR 7290 (maybe, if not pre-empted); Sat 1630 on WWCR 12160. Complete schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radiosked.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9830, VR via Sackville, CANADA, Spanish from 1130, but not switching to scheduled English at 1200 June 25. Did pause for ID with webcast URL and contact info, continued more Spanish, ``La Cruz en el Mosaíco`` previewing papal visit to Spain in October. Very heavy RTTY QRM anyway, so why care? Apparently replaying previous evening`s Spanish broadcast whose 40 minutes cannot be crammed into one semihour, so dispense with English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Wondering if RNV relays are still in place via CUBA, as some frequencies have been missing. June 25 at 1201, just open carrier on 11705; finally at 1203:30 someone hits the start button on the computer and we hear two bongs, followed by IS once, opening formalities in Spanish only. How about the 1500 on 11680? It`s there too, only fair signal at 1548 check; usually missing on Sundays at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7360? June 25 at 1127 as I start tuning around, somewhere in the 7300s, hear a strong signal in British English, so assume it`s a CRI relay from Sackville, certainly not BBC, for whom North America dropped off the world map years ago --- but none such scheduled. Well, I`ll have the rest of the hour to look at the dial and nail down the frequency, definitely ID it. O yeah? A few minutes later it`s gone, as if I had dreamt it. Checking listings later, I find the likely explanation, which can be confirmed later by someone awake:
R. Netherlands, Dutch via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, at ``1100-1127`` on 7360, 250 kW aimed 21 degrees USward, but which we know from other frequencies habitually switches to RNW`s English program feed and stays on another two sesquiminutes, to the consternation and frustration of all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17387, tuned past here only in a Firedrake search, June 25 at 1407 and startled to hear 3 or 4 syllables spoken on a fluttery AM signal peaking at S9+8, then open carrier only until off at 1412:40*. This was a longtime out-of-band frequency of All India Radio, which I thought was abandoned several years ago; was used at least for one of the GOS in English. Trying it out again? Or it could be a coastal station, legal occupant of this range, but those are normally SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
My apologies again. Original post lacked subject and may have been sidetracked, so the above is identical to it. Please delete it and replace with this one. Glenn
9380, good at 1141, and still at 1217
none others found 8-19 MHz until:
13680, good at 1233, // 9380. Aoki shows: 9380 and 13680*SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 0.1 ND ? TWN 11955E 2610N SOH a10
14700, good at 1235 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 19m dead except for CR 15170, so will 16m be too? No! June 25 at 1151, I get CRI English on 17490, Chinese on 17650, fair signals, both 308 degrees from Kashgar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Early sporadic-E opening from BCN, June 25 at 1500 UT on 3, movie in English, letterbox with captions presumably Spanish in black rectangle at bottom; typical almost-zero CCI bars denoting XHBC vs XHQ; a bit of vuvuzela audio QRM from a Televisa with World Cup.
I had been sitting on channel 2 for a while with antenna aimed oppositewards, not realizing this opening was in progress. Not much on 2, 4 or 5 when aimed westward, but:
1502 UT on 6, CW6 with Breaking News! At the beach, someone drowned, in a wetsuit but unsure whether he was a surfer; other local news in unaccented English; 1505 surveillance cam of a ``geezer bandit``, from San Diego 6 News; shortly faded out. XETV Tijuana. Glad to know they are atop the news that matters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell, off the air the afternoon of June 24; rather than just open carrier which they have been known to run days at a time instead of overmodulated sportstalk; but back to the latter the next morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. After several months` respite from talking houses, Enid realtor Greg Winklejohn has installed his 1670 transmitter again. First noted on caradio the afternoon of June 24, poor signal, distorted and mush mixed in, so may be more than one interfering with each other, or the one transmitter is quite defective, driving away rather than attracting clients. Cannot hear on the east side of Enid and seems to come from the NW quadrant. He mentioned being near Glenwood School (elementary) which is in the 800 block of N Oakwood. I`ll track it down soon and see how it sounds at local range as a DX-blocker.
At home QTH in the nightmiddle, 0604 June 25, pleased to still hear WTDY Madison WI on 1670 with no THQRM audible, local weather, low 58, we can only dream about where we don`t even get down to 70 these nights (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17510, June 25 at 1153, YL rock song in English; could be VOA Music Mix, but of course it`s really the hip RRI, filling out English hour to 1155 sign-off until next at 1700 on 11735, 9535; with usual satellite info, WRN plug. I had just scanned 19m and found nothing at all except the REE CR open carrier on 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Altho VOT English was audible yesterday on 15450, not June 25 at 1240, while Turkish music on 13635 was only poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17585, VOA Greenville, VG signal June 25 after news, 1405 starting Music Mix, so Africans can`t hear Crossroads Asia. Today stayed on until abrupt cutoff 1430* amid music, another insult to listeners, how rude. If they had their priorities straight, would at least insert a hard break in MM to make it smooth and seem intentional, but that would require the dog wagging the tail. At least today did not dump off the air at 1417* as it did June 24; but no doubt that was an unavoidable aging transmitter problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1518 confirmed on WWRB 3185`s webcast, UT Friday June 25 at 0330 – except it started a couple minutes early. That left Dave Frantz time at 0357 to talk about his Four Course Range Historical Video on YouTube; see http://www.wwrb.org --- before joining The Overcomer, except there were several minutes of dead air until a non-BS speaker appeared after 0400.
WOR 1518 not heard before or after 0000 UT Friday on Area 51 webcast.
But confirmed on ACB Radio webcast, UT Friday June 25 after 0100 to be repeated 2-hourly thru 2330; and on WRMI 9955 webcast at 0030 and 1430 Friday. Next SW airings are Friday 2029 on WWCR 15825; Sat 0800 on WRMI; Sat 0800 on IPAR 7290 (maybe, if not pre-empted); Sat 1630 on WWCR 12160. Complete schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radiosked.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9830, VR via Sackville, CANADA, Spanish from 1130, but not switching to scheduled English at 1200 June 25. Did pause for ID with webcast URL and contact info, continued more Spanish, ``La Cruz en el Mosaíco`` previewing papal visit to Spain in October. Very heavy RTTY QRM anyway, so why care? Apparently replaying previous evening`s Spanish broadcast whose 40 minutes cannot be crammed into one semihour, so dispense with English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Wondering if RNV relays are still in place via CUBA, as some frequencies have been missing. June 25 at 1201, just open carrier on 11705; finally at 1203:30 someone hits the start button on the computer and we hear two bongs, followed by IS once, opening formalities in Spanish only. How about the 1500 on 11680? It`s there too, only fair signal at 1548 check; usually missing on Sundays at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7360? June 25 at 1127 as I start tuning around, somewhere in the 7300s, hear a strong signal in British English, so assume it`s a CRI relay from Sackville, certainly not BBC, for whom North America dropped off the world map years ago --- but none such scheduled. Well, I`ll have the rest of the hour to look at the dial and nail down the frequency, definitely ID it. O yeah? A few minutes later it`s gone, as if I had dreamt it. Checking listings later, I find the likely explanation, which can be confirmed later by someone awake:
R. Netherlands, Dutch via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, at ``1100-1127`` on 7360, 250 kW aimed 21 degrees USward, but which we know from other frequencies habitually switches to RNW`s English program feed and stays on another two sesquiminutes, to the consternation and frustration of all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17387, tuned past here only in a Firedrake search, June 25 at 1407 and startled to hear 3 or 4 syllables spoken on a fluttery AM signal peaking at S9+8, then open carrier only until off at 1412:40*. This was a longtime out-of-band frequency of All India Radio, which I thought was abandoned several years ago; was used at least for one of the GOS in English. Trying it out again? Or it could be a coastal station, legal occupant of this range, but those are normally SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
My apologies again. Original post lacked subject and may have been sidetracked, so the above is identical to it. Please delete it and replace with this one. Glenn
