** ALBANIA. 13640, R. Tirana, Oct 22 at 2006 in English to NAm with S9+12 signal peaks, but so undermodulated that the propagational fading was loud enough to make it uncopiable. BTW, Christian Milling of Radio 700 has performed a new hi-fi version of variations on RT`s IS, accessible via the dxldyg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Last summer, this country stayed on UT -4, not observing DST of UT -3 as it had previous years. According to
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/argentina-dst-2009-2010.html
and more recent entries there, Argentina will not observe DST this summer either --- except for San Luís province, but that`s irrelevant for SW purposes.
So we may expect RAE transmissions to stay at the same UT, i.e. for English M-F 18-19 on 15345v, Tue-Sat 02-03 on 11711v. See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DCJC wall of noise missing from 9965 as previously reported Oct 22 at 1430, and still missing at 2003 UT. The jamming used to last from 1358 to 2058. This could mean that R. República has moved to a new daytime frequency, or off; look for otherwise unexplained DCJC during those hours. Previously it was on 11600. Is there still Cuban jamming on 5955 in the evenings vs R. República / ELCOR on 5954.2v, 22-04? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa, which conveniently went missing last week just as ZYE522 reactivated 15190, heard again for the first time Oct 22 at 2018, lo-fi gospel singer, S9+18 and no QRM, not even a het detectable during music. At 2013 YL preacher allowed a very lite het to be audible, but so weak I could not tell with BFO whether it was on the hi or lo side of R. Africa, which maintains a tight frequency, whatever its other failings, such as long periods of dead air between huxters.
I left one receiver on WWRB`s 9385 dead air, and another here, and took a bit of a nap. At 2030 VOA, surely still Greenville backup, signed on 15185 in Hausa after its own open carrier and no more 15190. So a few minutes before then, R. Africa went off while I was dozing. YFR Ascension continued on 15195 with Harold Camping in English until almost 2100, and VOA went off at 2101.
Now without side-QRM or co-QRM I can concentrate on 15190 once again: very weak carrier there, maybe R. Inconfidência. At 2102, Morocco 15345 had a slightly variable het from weaker Argentina, so there was some propagation from South America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Still unable to hear any trace of R. Kuwait on 15540, where English has been running at 18-21, checked at 2050 Oct 22; nor Arabic to NAm on 17550, clear of VOA after 2030. Could be RK will go back to 11990 for another B-season in English, or already has, but nothing audible there yet either. We still get a good Kuwait MOI signal some mornings around 1330 on 21540 but only in Arabic, and colliding with weaker Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR Sperry-Tulsa, off the air again Oct 21 around 1900 UT, but back on the air at 1915 UT Oct 22, usual R&B music format (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [non]. 9495, sufficient reception of R. Sweden in English, Oct 22 at 2056, about to sign off the 2030 relay via MADAGASCAR at 320 degrees for West Africa, and hence USward too. Only 8 more days left for this or any SWBCs from R. Sweden (except unacknowledged relays likely to continue in the nightmiddle via WRMI 9955, from WRN, M-F at 0630/0730). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9460, nice Turkish music, brief announcements Oct 22 at 2047-2057* from TRT, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non?]. 11680, fair Oct 22 at 2051, strange mixture of Arabic and English comments, mentioning Price-Waterhouse-Cooper, and a little later, ukuleles. BBCWS in Arabic is scheduled here until 2100; HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all show both Rampisham at 168 degrees, and Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA at 115 degrees, but presumably only one or the other at any time; no echo audible, at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, KSOK, Arkánsas City KS, after beer/tear C&W song Oct 22 at 1945 UT said ``Drop by our station, and you`ll see cars in the parking lot and people outside`` ---- OK, but how about inside? Still sounds like it`s automated like almost all stations are these days, and has had failures logged before, off the air the afternoons of March 13 and August 10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Not only was 9385, WWRB dead air the morning of Oct 22 whenever checked, but also the afternoon: at 2002 UT, still open carrier, with usual hum instead of Brother Scare. Left a receiver on frequency; still DA at 2027, 2043, but at 2100 standard telco-quality canned ID by Dave, asking for reports, back to OC, still the case at 2110, 2119. Meanwhile, The Overcomer was ranting on as usual on WWCR 9980. So it looks like WWRB was burning 100 kW for nothing during at least 8 hours, evidently on autopilot still putting out ToH IDs but nothing else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I tuned down the 17 MHz band, Oct 22 at 2010, first hit 17920 with whine and distorted Spanish modulation, immediately // to 17775 KVOH on another receiver. 17920 registered S4-5, 17775 S9+19. Did not hear anything from it on 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ARGENTINA. Last summer, this country stayed on UT -4, not observing DST of UT -3 as it had previous years. According to
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/argentina-dst-2009-2010.html
and more recent entries there, Argentina will not observe DST this summer either --- except for San Luís province, but that`s irrelevant for SW purposes.
So we may expect RAE transmissions to stay at the same UT, i.e. for English M-F 18-19 on 15345v, Tue-Sat 02-03 on 11711v. See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DCJC wall of noise missing from 9965 as previously reported Oct 22 at 1430, and still missing at 2003 UT. The jamming used to last from 1358 to 2058. This could mean that R. República has moved to a new daytime frequency, or off; look for otherwise unexplained DCJC during those hours. Previously it was on 11600. Is there still Cuban jamming on 5955 in the evenings vs R. República / ELCOR on 5954.2v, 22-04? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa, which conveniently went missing last week just as ZYE522 reactivated 15190, heard again for the first time Oct 22 at 2018, lo-fi gospel singer, S9+18 and no QRM, not even a het detectable during music. At 2013 YL preacher allowed a very lite het to be audible, but so weak I could not tell with BFO whether it was on the hi or lo side of R. Africa, which maintains a tight frequency, whatever its other failings, such as long periods of dead air between huxters.
I left one receiver on WWRB`s 9385 dead air, and another here, and took a bit of a nap. At 2030 VOA, surely still Greenville backup, signed on 15185 in Hausa after its own open carrier and no more 15190. So a few minutes before then, R. Africa went off while I was dozing. YFR Ascension continued on 15195 with Harold Camping in English until almost 2100, and VOA went off at 2101.
Now without side-QRM or co-QRM I can concentrate on 15190 once again: very weak carrier there, maybe R. Inconfidência. At 2102, Morocco 15345 had a slightly variable het from weaker Argentina, so there was some propagation from South America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Still unable to hear any trace of R. Kuwait on 15540, where English has been running at 18-21, checked at 2050 Oct 22; nor Arabic to NAm on 17550, clear of VOA after 2030. Could be RK will go back to 11990 for another B-season in English, or already has, but nothing audible there yet either. We still get a good Kuwait MOI signal some mornings around 1330 on 21540 but only in Arabic, and colliding with weaker Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, KEOR Sperry-Tulsa, off the air again Oct 21 around 1900 UT, but back on the air at 1915 UT Oct 22, usual R&B music format (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [non]. 9495, sufficient reception of R. Sweden in English, Oct 22 at 2056, about to sign off the 2030 relay via MADAGASCAR at 320 degrees for West Africa, and hence USward too. Only 8 more days left for this or any SWBCs from R. Sweden (except unacknowledged relays likely to continue in the nightmiddle via WRMI 9955, from WRN, M-F at 0630/0730). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9460, nice Turkish music, brief announcements Oct 22 at 2047-2057* from TRT, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non?]. 11680, fair Oct 22 at 2051, strange mixture of Arabic and English comments, mentioning Price-Waterhouse-Cooper, and a little later, ukuleles. BBCWS in Arabic is scheduled here until 2100; HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all show both Rampisham at 168 degrees, and Moosbrunn, AUSTRIA at 115 degrees, but presumably only one or the other at any time; no echo audible, at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, KSOK, Arkánsas City KS, after beer/tear C&W song Oct 22 at 1945 UT said ``Drop by our station, and you`ll see cars in the parking lot and people outside`` ---- OK, but how about inside? Still sounds like it`s automated like almost all stations are these days, and has had failures logged before, off the air the afternoons of March 13 and August 10, 2010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Not only was 9385, WWRB dead air the morning of Oct 22 whenever checked, but also the afternoon: at 2002 UT, still open carrier, with usual hum instead of Brother Scare. Left a receiver on frequency; still DA at 2027, 2043, but at 2100 standard telco-quality canned ID by Dave, asking for reports, back to OC, still the case at 2110, 2119. Meanwhile, The Overcomer was ranting on as usual on WWCR 9980. So it looks like WWRB was burning 100 kW for nothing during at least 8 hours, evidently on autopilot still putting out ToH IDs but nothing else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I tuned down the 17 MHz band, Oct 22 at 2010, first hit 17920 with whine and distorted Spanish modulation, immediately // to 17775 KVOH on another receiver. 17920 registered S4-5, 17775 S9+19. Did not hear anything from it on 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
