** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 10: nothing found 8-14 MHz by 1258. See also UNIDENTIFIED 10500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 17705, Oct 9 at 2250, RHC French, lo-fi and distorted but this time not putting out buzzes and spurs way above and below the frequency. Yet this is still anomalous: supposed to be in Guaraní at 2230-2300 per own schedule.
RHC anomalies Oct 10: at 0510, English very poor on 6060 under REE 6055 splash, undermodulated on 5970. Nothing on 6010, nor on 11760 where English has been appearing some nights until 0600. Then at 0511, carrier cutting on and off 6010, also English modulation on and off, covering and uncovering Colombia/Mexico. At 0512, another English channel 6150, is unmodulated. Spanish on 6120 but unusually poor signal; VG on 5040.
Just about everything that could be SNAFU`d at RHC has been at one time or another, but this may be a new twist: Oct 10 at 1314 during mailbag, 13780 is missing but 13680 is on --- with huge subaudible heterodyne of about 280/minute = 4 and two-thirds Hz. This means that RHC is running TWO powerful transmitters on 13680; if there is modulation on both of them, and I think there is, that at least is synchronized, but there is some audio fading as if the audio partly cancels itself out periodically.
The super-SAH makes a kind of pulsing which can be heard extending down to 13620 without modulation, with a weaker peak around 13530. Putting both transmitters on one frequency also eliminates the leapfrog on 13880, but I doubt if this was the intent. Still the same at 1333.
Next check at 1410, they have finally taken one of the transmitters off 13680, and now there is an open carrier on 13750, the usual Sunday situation, standing by for Aló, Presidente, if any. Also a carrier on 17750 over VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal, but that carrier soon goes off. At 1447 and 1510, 13750 still on with open carrier.
But at 1549, 13750 and several frequencies are now running // RHC programming, not RNV, about Cuban music: 17750, 15380-with CCI, 13750, 12010, 11760, 11730. Nothing now on 12030, 15360; and 13680 has something in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, Oct 10 at 0517 weak music with carrier matching REE 6055.0 instead of TGAV being slightly off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, Oct 10 at 1328, annoying pop music instead of wonderful AIR IS; 1330 formal opening, ``Namaskar, welcome to the General Overseas Service of All India Radio``, announcing as on 9690, 11620, 13710, and into news; poor signal, hum and flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 10, RRI Palangkaraya back to normal schedule, something audible at 1209 vs artificial noise level plus natural noise from T-storms a couple counties away; better at 1238 in Indonesian talk. I assume the absences and/or late starts the past few days were transmitter or power problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9500, Oct 10 at 1328, fair signal with very heavy flutter plus Doppler causing frequency to seem unstable on BFO. Presumed VIRI Pushtu service as listed, 500 kW, 68 degrees from Sirjan at 1230-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. TP MW bandscan around 1200 and 1230 UT Oct 10 unproductive; some of the usual lower-band carriers, best being 747 at 1202, presumably 500 kW JOIB, NHK Sapporo-2, Hokkaido (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Another sunrise and time to check for the fourth Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chiahua2 MW station, after having heard the ones on 550, 710 and 900: Sunday Oct 10 at 1230 on 990, a station from the right direxion, WSW (surely not ENE), vs Mexican music from the south, i.e. Monterrey or Metroplex. But this one is in Spanish Rosary, 1231 interrupted for a hymn, 1234 back to Rosary but losing out to QRM. Tentatively XEER, R. Lobo. Hope they do something less generic on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. Re question in my previous report whether 7350 is on the air in evenings: WORLD OF RADIO monitor James MacDonell in Nigeria says R. Nigeria, Abuja is only at 0530-1200*; tones until 0555 NA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. Overlooked checking for the 10/10 special from RTI pre-empting English via WYFR 5950 and 9680 at 0200; however, at 0525, speech in Chinese with PA reverb on 5950, so this English hour is also pre-empted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, WWCR-1 back here Oct 10 at 0518 (along with spur carriers on 3199.5 and 3230.5), after a week testing 3255 instead. If anyone did object to 3255, it could take weeks to reach WWCR thru the bureaucracy, and besides, they were not testing it during the hours they want to use it in B-10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950 // 5985, Oct 10 at 1242 nice organ music from WYFR; standard remark about lack of classical music, and furthermore: if Harold Camping had his way and churches were eliminated, where would we get such organ music??
At 1244 cut the fill music to another erroneous frequency change announcement. YL says 5950 and 5985 are ending, to be replaced by 17555 and 17750, and in 15 minutes add 11910 to Canada. Trouble is, checking the 17 MHz channels at 1308, 17555 was in Portuguese, not English, and nothing on 17750; while WYFR was really on 17795 as usual in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, checking WRMI for Sunday 1530 airing of WORLD OF RADIO on Oct 10: nothing audible nor jamming, but confirmed on webcast at 1552 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10500-SSB, weak 2-way, not sure if Spanish, Oct 10 at 1323 in absence of Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA [and non]. 17705, Oct 9 at 2250, RHC French, lo-fi and distorted but this time not putting out buzzes and spurs way above and below the frequency. Yet this is still anomalous: supposed to be in Guaraní at 2230-2300 per own schedule.
RHC anomalies Oct 10: at 0510, English very poor on 6060 under REE 6055 splash, undermodulated on 5970. Nothing on 6010, nor on 11760 where English has been appearing some nights until 0600. Then at 0511, carrier cutting on and off 6010, also English modulation on and off, covering and uncovering Colombia/Mexico. At 0512, another English channel 6150, is unmodulated. Spanish on 6120 but unusually poor signal; VG on 5040.
Just about everything that could be SNAFU`d at RHC has been at one time or another, but this may be a new twist: Oct 10 at 1314 during mailbag, 13780 is missing but 13680 is on --- with huge subaudible heterodyne of about 280/minute = 4 and two-thirds Hz. This means that RHC is running TWO powerful transmitters on 13680; if there is modulation on both of them, and I think there is, that at least is synchronized, but there is some audio fading as if the audio partly cancels itself out periodically.
The super-SAH makes a kind of pulsing which can be heard extending down to 13620 without modulation, with a weaker peak around 13530. Putting both transmitters on one frequency also eliminates the leapfrog on 13880, but I doubt if this was the intent. Still the same at 1333.
Next check at 1410, they have finally taken one of the transmitters off 13680, and now there is an open carrier on 13750, the usual Sunday situation, standing by for Aló, Presidente, if any. Also a carrier on 17750 over VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal, but that carrier soon goes off. At 1447 and 1510, 13750 still on with open carrier.
But at 1549, 13750 and several frequencies are now running // RHC programming, not RNV, about Cuban music: 17750, 15380-with CCI, 13750, 12010, 11760, 11730. Nothing now on 12030, 15360; and 13680 has something in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055.0, Oct 10 at 0517 weak music with carrier matching REE 6055.0 instead of TGAV being slightly off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, Oct 10 at 1328, annoying pop music instead of wonderful AIR IS; 1330 formal opening, ``Namaskar, welcome to the General Overseas Service of All India Radio``, announcing as on 9690, 11620, 13710, and into news; poor signal, hum and flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 10, RRI Palangkaraya back to normal schedule, something audible at 1209 vs artificial noise level plus natural noise from T-storms a couple counties away; better at 1238 in Indonesian talk. I assume the absences and/or late starts the past few days were transmitter or power problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9500, Oct 10 at 1328, fair signal with very heavy flutter plus Doppler causing frequency to seem unstable on BFO. Presumed VIRI Pushtu service as listed, 500 kW, 68 degrees from Sirjan at 1230-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. TP MW bandscan around 1200 and 1230 UT Oct 10 unproductive; some of the usual lower-band carriers, best being 747 at 1202, presumably 500 kW JOIB, NHK Sapporo-2, Hokkaido (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Another sunrise and time to check for the fourth Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chiahua2 MW station, after having heard the ones on 550, 710 and 900: Sunday Oct 10 at 1230 on 990, a station from the right direxion, WSW (surely not ENE), vs Mexican music from the south, i.e. Monterrey or Metroplex. But this one is in Spanish Rosary, 1231 interrupted for a hymn, 1234 back to Rosary but losing out to QRM. Tentatively XEER, R. Lobo. Hope they do something less generic on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. Re question in my previous report whether 7350 is on the air in evenings: WORLD OF RADIO monitor James MacDonell in Nigeria says R. Nigeria, Abuja is only at 0530-1200*; tones until 0555 NA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. Overlooked checking for the 10/10 special from RTI pre-empting English via WYFR 5950 and 9680 at 0200; however, at 0525, speech in Chinese with PA reverb on 5950, so this English hour is also pre-empted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, WWCR-1 back here Oct 10 at 0518 (along with spur carriers on 3199.5 and 3230.5), after a week testing 3255 instead. If anyone did object to 3255, it could take weeks to reach WWCR thru the bureaucracy, and besides, they were not testing it during the hours they want to use it in B-10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950 // 5985, Oct 10 at 1242 nice organ music from WYFR; standard remark about lack of classical music, and furthermore: if Harold Camping had his way and churches were eliminated, where would we get such organ music??
At 1244 cut the fill music to another erroneous frequency change announcement. YL says 5950 and 5985 are ending, to be replaced by 17555 and 17750, and in 15 minutes add 11910 to Canada. Trouble is, checking the 17 MHz channels at 1308, 17555 was in Portuguese, not English, and nothing on 17750; while WYFR was really on 17795 as usual in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, checking WRMI for Sunday 1530 airing of WORLD OF RADIO on Oct 10: nothing audible nor jamming, but confirmed on webcast at 1552 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10500-SSB, weak 2-way, not sure if Spanish, Oct 10 at 1323 in absence of Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
