** BRAZIL [and non]. As I was saying last time under EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Now without side-QRM or co-QRM I can concentrate on 15190 once again: very weak carrier there, maybe R. Inconfidência. At 2102 Oct 22, Morocco 15345 had a slightly variable het from weaker Argentina, so there was some propagation from South America.
And updating: At 0057 UT Oct 23, after WYFR is off 15190, I find a very poor signal on 15189.9 with talk by YL. Can`t make out the words, but the intonation fits for Brasilian/Portuguese. After 0100 mixing in some music bits. Only QRM: occasional spikes from incomparably stronger North Korea on 15180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9570, CRI relay Oct 23 at 1203 just open carrier instead of Cantonese; wake up, RadioCuba! Back in biz at next check 1256 pronouncing website in English: http://www.chineseradio.com.cn
13920.4, Oct 23 at 1314, RHC spur with whine, resembling the squeal on 13680, rather than 13780, both of which had very good signals as usual and also coöperated to leapfrog upon 13880, but 13920 is something else, and unmatched by any mirror on the low side: nothing like it audible around 13440, 13540 or 13640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, Oct 23 at 0613, weak talk could be Spanish, and presumably RNGE; some ute QRM. With sunrise underway, it really helps when they sign on a semihour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. In last report, fixing typo on the first time cited, 2008 UT not 2018:
15190, R. Africa, which conveniently went missing last week just as ZYE522 reactivated 15190, heard again for the first time Oct 22 at 2008, 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. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7450, Oct 23 at 0538 VOG with Greek music, better here than // 9420. Gone at next check 0603. Come to think of it, this frequency has been missing at night, like 15630 has been in the daytime.
At 1310, I find 15630 is also back on the air, fair with Greek talk and music, better than Turkey 15450 which was flutterier. Wolfgang Büschel also heard 15630 again from 0600 after four weeks` downtime. John Babbis says, ``I think the set-up for that transmitter is:
0000-0350 15650 105
0400-0550 7450 323
0600-1000 15630 285
1000-1100 BREAK
1100-2250 15630 285
2300-2400 15650 105`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, R. Verdad, Oct 23 at 0549 reads S9+12 with music, better than usual, fades, 0559 gets mushy and can`t tell if NA is playing later. Still on standby 50 watts, but expects to reactivate refurbished main transmitter with new antenna and revert to 4052.5 within a couple days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. MW TP carrier search Oct 23: in USB mode on the DX-398, upward 1208-1240 UT: 594, 747 and 774; LSB mode downward at 1210-1213, snagged only 828 and 774; back to MEXICO on 10-kHz channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 13840, Oct 23 at 0533, the OSOB (only signal on band) is French from NHK, as relayed 295 degrees this half hour. (I could file this under JAPAN [non], but the point of this item is how propagation was behaving; however, NHK in Russian was audible direct at same time on 11715) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. ORTM has been reported missing from 4845 lately, but I hear an unexpected signal on 7245, Oct 23 at 0605 with soporific wakeup chanting rather like SASASAM`s on 6297, and like we used to hear on 4845, and still going at 0615. Surely it`s Mauritania on its daytime frequency much earlier than the usual switch circa 0800. Maybe it means they cannot operate on 60m for some reason. I rechecked 4845, and could not detect even a carrier in sideband of WWCR 4840. I check 41m just about every night at this time, and am sure I was not hearing anything on 7245 previously. Also inaudible on its MW 783, which more easterly North Americans often hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX Oct 23 on the DX-398 with internal antenna only:
550, Oct 23 at 1214, 6:14 TC, rooster, Cuauhtémoc promo for something at 300 pesos, PSAs, from XEPL, Chihuahua, a regular.
610, Oct 23 at 1232 from the SW, news of Caborca and Guasave, Sinaloa, with music stingers in between items, with single word ``Altavoz`` = loudspeaker, the day`s upcoming local events. So XEGS, Guasave.
660, Oct 23 at 1219, ads for celular, sounded like Barbacoa Cacoy, Morelos, probably street rather than state; sábado 23 de octubre, M&W with missing or wanted person info. 1221 ad for exterminator (of bugs), phone 472-09-33, another ad to phone 472-43-63? ``Buenos días . . . se espera 11 grados,`` into romantic music. Nothing much googlehits except the phone number and exterminador leading to Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, whence XEACB transmits on 660.
680, Oct 23 at 1216, promo Cadena Cinco news, 1217 ad for something in Colonia del Bosque; loops SW, but too much CCI. Unfortunately, that Colonia is too generic, as they are all over Mexico. Cinco may refer to Televisa network 5 XHGC, so which station on 680 is in Grupo W? Here`s the list, showing 680 = Chihuahua:
http://www.wradio.com.mx/emisoras.aspx
There is a Colonia del Bosque not in Chihuahua city, but 47 km down the highway at Meoqui. Pretty good circumstantial evidence, maybe not quite enough to be positive it`s XEFO; but I`m not counting.
700, Oct 23 at 1229, open carrier from the southwest, with some crackles maybe from transmitter, past 1230, so I move on, but rechecked at 1243, now Spanish talk from the WSW, phone 52-3-13-13. That clix as the number of a psychologist in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, i.e. XEGD, and no hits for the only other likely possibility, Etchojoa, Sonora. At 1245 gives phone number again twice (I also discover that my Indigo watch light transmits on this frequency! O for the good ole days of clean, pure radium dials.)
710, Oct 23 at 1235, TC for 25:7, ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` singing ID, 24:7 TC, karaoke ad. XEDP.
870, Oct 23 at 1238, TCs for 6:38, XETAR ID, local Guachochi announcements (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. We continue to find an anomalous situation comparing the two Woodward DTVs on adjacent channels. Oct 23 at 1450 UT, low-power KOMI-34 is decoding, while high-power KUOK-35 is not. Possible explanation is that 35 has too much CCI from other stations, such as KMTW Hutchinson KS, about 90 degrees away, and very strong with tropo help when pointing toward it. KSNC-22 (``2``), Great Bend KS was also in with NBC Satmorn kidvid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9945, Oct 23 at 1159 came upon T8WH ID with usual South Bend address, cut off before fightin`-words ``Onward Christian Soldiers`` theme concluded, and by the time I tuned down to 9930 it had already switched there, starting YL preacher in English. Angel 3 is indeed scheduled to move from 9945 to 9930 at 1200, staying on the same type 146 antenna at 318 degrees, which facilitates the quick QSY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, only a week to go before the Pet/Kam motorboat moves to its winter channel 6075. Oct 23 at 1259 can`t make out much modulation, but at 1300 I can copy the 6-pip timesignal and compare it to WWV, which reaches hourtop five sex earlier. We remain incredulous that the Russkies have allowed this sorry situation to go on for years, Saudi-like (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, RTT manages to appear on its correct frequency for second morning in a row, after alternating with 7225. Oct 23 at 0537 music, and rather undermodulated compared to Algeria/FRANCE on 7295, BBC/ASCENSION on 7255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 17695, Oct 23 at 1305, loud & clear S9+15 in news including 1307 clip of SOS Clinton, ``The Department of State does not comment on ---``, quickly voiced over, more news by YL. I recalled this is a Radio Farda frequency, but unseems Persian. Uplooked later in Aoki, we find that 1300-1330 is a break from Farda on 17695, instead BBC Uzbek via Rampisham, subject to ChiCom jamming but none heard now. Until 1300 it is Farda via Sri Lanka, and Farda resumes from 1330 via Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3160, Oct 23 at 1156 can make out some gospel music under T-storm noise, so WPJK x 2 is still harmonicizing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, WWCR-4 with Brother Scare, Oct 23 at 1321 accompanied by huge buzzy spurs out to 9970 and 9990, far more than your usual SWBC bandwidth. The buzz goes on even when The Overcomer is pausing, coming out of his incredibly dirty uplink audio. I shudder to think what it would look like on a scope, but perhaps someone could send a screenshot to us and WWCR.
Wanted to compare it to TOM via WWRB 9385, but Oct 23 at 1322 it`s open carrier again. Are we going to have another amodulated day? No, it`s going at 1325, BS arguing with a caller on whether he believes in The Rapture (yes, he does, and claims to know when, but I guess he is not saying, unlike Brother Harold; Maranatha). Some of the buzz is also audible on WWRB, but much less severe, as it seems they are doing a better job of filtering it out (not always the case). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on WRMI 9955, Saturday Oct 23 at midpoint 1414; poor signal, but no jamming; nor on 9965 vs República. The 1600 UT Saturday airing of WOR on WWCR 12160 was disrupted. Mick Delmage in Alberta tells me the transmitter was off the air at 1600, but had come on by 1620 check. Remaining chances on WWCR are UT Sunday 0230 on 4840, 0630 on 3215; on WRMI 9955, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, and more on Tuesday, Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, another log of KDWN Las Vegas NV cutting to non-direxional day pattern one hour earlier than authorized, and going from zero to sufficient signal here on the way to Chicago: Saturday Oct 23 at 1244:40 UT, during infomercial by a Dr. Pincus for his ``Omega-Krill`` with an 800 number. Yeah, cut out the middlefish and eat krill ourselves! That makes sense? More entertaining than far-right Angle-pusher Heidi Harris on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, Oct 23 at 0606, open carrier with characteristic roaring noise, presumably SASASAM as usual on this off-frequency, but no modulation yet; was going to compare its chanting with 7245 MAURITANIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 940+, every morning during Mexican SRS sessions, I hear a lo het on the hi side of this frequency, looping E/W so can`t be XEQ in the DF which is considerably off-channel. What I get may be local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
And updating: At 0057 UT Oct 23, after WYFR is off 15190, I find a very poor signal on 15189.9 with talk by YL. Can`t make out the words, but the intonation fits for Brasilian/Portuguese. After 0100 mixing in some music bits. Only QRM: occasional spikes from incomparably stronger North Korea on 15180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9570, CRI relay Oct 23 at 1203 just open carrier instead of Cantonese; wake up, RadioCuba! Back in biz at next check 1256 pronouncing website in English: http://www.chineseradio.com.cn
13920.4, Oct 23 at 1314, RHC spur with whine, resembling the squeal on 13680, rather than 13780, both of which had very good signals as usual and also coöperated to leapfrog upon 13880, but 13920 is something else, and unmatched by any mirror on the low side: nothing like it audible around 13440, 13540 or 13640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, Oct 23 at 0613, weak talk could be Spanish, and presumably RNGE; some ute QRM. With sunrise underway, it really helps when they sign on a semihour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. In last report, fixing typo on the first time cited, 2008 UT not 2018:
15190, R. Africa, which conveniently went missing last week just as ZYE522 reactivated 15190, heard again for the first time Oct 22 at 2008, 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. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7450, Oct 23 at 0538 VOG with Greek music, better here than // 9420. Gone at next check 0603. Come to think of it, this frequency has been missing at night, like 15630 has been in the daytime.
At 1310, I find 15630 is also back on the air, fair with Greek talk and music, better than Turkey 15450 which was flutterier. Wolfgang Büschel also heard 15630 again from 0600 after four weeks` downtime. John Babbis says, ``I think the set-up for that transmitter is:
0000-0350 15650 105
0400-0550 7450 323
0600-1000 15630 285
1000-1100 BREAK
1100-2250 15630 285
2300-2400 15650 105`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, R. Verdad, Oct 23 at 0549 reads S9+12 with music, better than usual, fades, 0559 gets mushy and can`t tell if NA is playing later. Still on standby 50 watts, but expects to reactivate refurbished main transmitter with new antenna and revert to 4052.5 within a couple days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. MW TP carrier search Oct 23: in USB mode on the DX-398, upward 1208-1240 UT: 594, 747 and 774; LSB mode downward at 1210-1213, snagged only 828 and 774; back to MEXICO on 10-kHz channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 13840, Oct 23 at 0533, the OSOB (only signal on band) is French from NHK, as relayed 295 degrees this half hour. (I could file this under JAPAN [non], but the point of this item is how propagation was behaving; however, NHK in Russian was audible direct at same time on 11715) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. ORTM has been reported missing from 4845 lately, but I hear an unexpected signal on 7245, Oct 23 at 0605 with soporific wakeup chanting rather like SASASAM`s on 6297, and like we used to hear on 4845, and still going at 0615. Surely it`s Mauritania on its daytime frequency much earlier than the usual switch circa 0800. Maybe it means they cannot operate on 60m for some reason. I rechecked 4845, and could not detect even a carrier in sideband of WWCR 4840. I check 41m just about every night at this time, and am sure I was not hearing anything on 7245 previously. Also inaudible on its MW 783, which more easterly North Americans often hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise DX Oct 23 on the DX-398 with internal antenna only:
550, Oct 23 at 1214, 6:14 TC, rooster, Cuauhtémoc promo for something at 300 pesos, PSAs, from XEPL, Chihuahua, a regular.
610, Oct 23 at 1232 from the SW, news of Caborca and Guasave, Sinaloa, with music stingers in between items, with single word ``Altavoz`` = loudspeaker, the day`s upcoming local events. So XEGS, Guasave.
660, Oct 23 at 1219, ads for celular, sounded like Barbacoa Cacoy, Morelos, probably street rather than state; sábado 23 de octubre, M&W with missing or wanted person info. 1221 ad for exterminator (of bugs), phone 472-09-33, another ad to phone 472-43-63? ``Buenos días . . . se espera 11 grados,`` into romantic music. Nothing much googlehits except the phone number and exterminador leading to Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, whence XEACB transmits on 660.
680, Oct 23 at 1216, promo Cadena Cinco news, 1217 ad for something in Colonia del Bosque; loops SW, but too much CCI. Unfortunately, that Colonia is too generic, as they are all over Mexico. Cinco may refer to Televisa network 5 XHGC, so which station on 680 is in Grupo W? Here`s the list, showing 680 = Chihuahua:
http://www.wradio.com.mx/emisoras.aspx
There is a Colonia del Bosque not in Chihuahua city, but 47 km down the highway at Meoqui. Pretty good circumstantial evidence, maybe not quite enough to be positive it`s XEFO; but I`m not counting.
700, Oct 23 at 1229, open carrier from the southwest, with some crackles maybe from transmitter, past 1230, so I move on, but rechecked at 1243, now Spanish talk from the WSW, phone 52-3-13-13. That clix as the number of a psychologist in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, i.e. XEGD, and no hits for the only other likely possibility, Etchojoa, Sonora. At 1245 gives phone number again twice (I also discover that my Indigo watch light transmits on this frequency! O for the good ole days of clean, pure radium dials.)
710, Oct 23 at 1235, TC for 25:7, ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` singing ID, 24:7 TC, karaoke ad. XEDP.
870, Oct 23 at 1238, TCs for 6:38, XETAR ID, local Guachochi announcements (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. We continue to find an anomalous situation comparing the two Woodward DTVs on adjacent channels. Oct 23 at 1450 UT, low-power KOMI-34 is decoding, while high-power KUOK-35 is not. Possible explanation is that 35 has too much CCI from other stations, such as KMTW Hutchinson KS, about 90 degrees away, and very strong with tropo help when pointing toward it. KSNC-22 (``2``), Great Bend KS was also in with NBC Satmorn kidvid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9945, Oct 23 at 1159 came upon T8WH ID with usual South Bend address, cut off before fightin`-words ``Onward Christian Soldiers`` theme concluded, and by the time I tuned down to 9930 it had already switched there, starting YL preacher in English. Angel 3 is indeed scheduled to move from 9945 to 9930 at 1200, staying on the same type 146 antenna at 318 degrees, which facilitates the quick QSY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, only a week to go before the Pet/Kam motorboat moves to its winter channel 6075. Oct 23 at 1259 can`t make out much modulation, but at 1300 I can copy the 6-pip timesignal and compare it to WWV, which reaches hourtop five sex earlier. We remain incredulous that the Russkies have allowed this sorry situation to go on for years, Saudi-like (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, RTT manages to appear on its correct frequency for second morning in a row, after alternating with 7225. Oct 23 at 0537 music, and rather undermodulated compared to Algeria/FRANCE on 7295, BBC/ASCENSION on 7255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 17695, Oct 23 at 1305, loud & clear S9+15 in news including 1307 clip of SOS Clinton, ``The Department of State does not comment on ---``, quickly voiced over, more news by YL. I recalled this is a Radio Farda frequency, but unseems Persian. Uplooked later in Aoki, we find that 1300-1330 is a break from Farda on 17695, instead BBC Uzbek via Rampisham, subject to ChiCom jamming but none heard now. Until 1300 it is Farda via Sri Lanka, and Farda resumes from 1330 via Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3160, Oct 23 at 1156 can make out some gospel music under T-storm noise, so WPJK x 2 is still harmonicizing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, WWCR-4 with Brother Scare, Oct 23 at 1321 accompanied by huge buzzy spurs out to 9970 and 9990, far more than your usual SWBC bandwidth. The buzz goes on even when The Overcomer is pausing, coming out of his incredibly dirty uplink audio. I shudder to think what it would look like on a scope, but perhaps someone could send a screenshot to us and WWCR.
Wanted to compare it to TOM via WWRB 9385, but Oct 23 at 1322 it`s open carrier again. Are we going to have another amodulated day? No, it`s going at 1325, BS arguing with a caller on whether he believes in The Rapture (yes, he does, and claims to know when, but I guess he is not saying, unlike Brother Harold; Maranatha). Some of the buzz is also audible on WWRB, but much less severe, as it seems they are doing a better job of filtering it out (not always the case). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1535 confirmed on WRMI 9955, Saturday Oct 23 at midpoint 1414; poor signal, but no jamming; nor on 9965 vs República. The 1600 UT Saturday airing of WOR on WWCR 12160 was disrupted. Mick Delmage in Alberta tells me the transmitter was off the air at 1600, but had come on by 1620 check. Remaining chances on WWCR are UT Sunday 0230 on 4840, 0630 on 3215; on WRMI 9955, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, and more on Tuesday, Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, another log of KDWN Las Vegas NV cutting to non-direxional day pattern one hour earlier than authorized, and going from zero to sufficient signal here on the way to Chicago: Saturday Oct 23 at 1244:40 UT, during infomercial by a Dr. Pincus for his ``Omega-Krill`` with an 800 number. Yeah, cut out the middlefish and eat krill ourselves! That makes sense? More entertaining than far-right Angle-pusher Heidi Harris on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, Oct 23 at 0606, open carrier with characteristic roaring noise, presumably SASASAM as usual on this off-frequency, but no modulation yet; was going to compare its chanting with 7245 MAURITANIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 940+, every morning during Mexican SRS sessions, I hear a lo het on the hi side of this frequency, looping E/W so can`t be XEQ in the DF which is considerably off-channel. What I get may be local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
