** ALASKA [and non]. Have not seen KNLS reported lately, so wondering if both transmitters are currently down. I look for the English hour scheduled on 9655 at 15-16, Jan 2: as soon as Sackville 9650 is off, yes, there is KNLS IS on 9655, fair with flutter. But at 1500 Romania is on top in Arabic while KNLS is still ISing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 3210, no sign of the just activated new private SW station of unknown name in NSW, January 2 at 1349, and I am not surprised, considering the very low power and testing may be intermittent. Should be quite a challenge to hear in NAm, but possible if Radio Symban can make it on 2368.5. Details from Johno Wright to DXLD as of 2300 UT Jan 1:
``3210 kHz: Folks, last night 1st January 2011 from around 0710 to past 1100 UT, we heard the ex Pifo HCJB transmitter from Schofields, western Sydney. Running between 50 & 70 watts. It has a religious programme on a loop every 2 hours. This is just a pre tune and get it right phase, so the sked is not finalised. reports to dx1234 @ gmail.com If you want a snail mail QSL: to John Wright, 29 Milford Rd, Peakhurst 2210, NSW, Australia. Please include either 2 IRC's or 2 USD's. Always something new on shortwave, Cheers from Australia`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Jan 2 at 0608, CBC NQ is still on with tone test a few minutes after sign-off; good S9+18 signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Finally heard RHC in Esperanto! UT Sunday Jan 2 at 0700 it`s already in progress on 6050, while 6060 and 5040 are in Spanish. SNAFU, the listed frequency for Esp`o at 0700 is 6010 per WRTH 2011, and the RHC online schedule presented in Spanish, but that was not on the air. At 0720 I find 6150 is also // in Esp`o with usual undermodulation, but at 0722 it`s over, both to RHC IS, and ``Ed Newman`` reopening the English hour for ``January 1``, 52nd anniversary of The Triumph Of The Revolution. Esperanto must have started circa 0653; English ordinarily is over at 0700, and per observations a night or two ago when all frequencies were in Spanish after that.
Since I knew an Esperanto program existed for January 2, I looked again for it at the next scheduled time, 1500 on 11760: no, continues in Spanish // all the other frequencies, also at later chex in the semihour.
13750 et al., Sunday Jan 2 at 1438, RHC En Contacto, as Manolo had warned, is repeating last week`s Xmas show listing by name and location all 150 of his show`s ``oyentes activos`` during 2010y, with ``Jingle Bells`` in the background. USA has five, not including me, but he did include Héctor/Luigi Pérez who is really in Puerto Rico, so we now know that Cuba recognizes US sovereignty there.
13750 is the Sunday-only frequency originally for ``Aló, Presidente``, but it`s another no-show by El Hugazo. Checking at 1532, 1600 and 1800 UT, 13750, 17750, 15370, 13680 and 11690 are all // mainstream RHC on 11730, 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 7450, January 1 at 2204, ID for Radiophonikós Stathmós Makedonías, with het from the -15.6 kHz spur de WWCR 7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad running late UT January 2, tune-in at 0616 to hear the national anthem playing until about 0620, and now with a considerable het from 4050, KWMO: see U S A. TGAV has been planning for weeks to move to 4055 once a new crystal has arrived and been installed, and this reminds us why they should (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13710, AIR GOS, Jan 2 at 1425 ID after talk about cloud computing, into song. Good here, and unusually better than // 9690. Third frequency 11620 has something else atop, AIR // barely audible under. HFCC shows KTWR in Korean, BBC Cyprus in Hindi! plus AIR all on 11620 at this time.
At 1434, 13710 is temporarily overmodulated/distorted with YL/YL interview, plus background noise, bad recording but aired anyway. 1457 audio good again from studio announcer with closing newscast. I must say he has a pleasing lilt to his accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI missing Sunday Jan 2 at 1415, tho had been on in Indonesian the days before. Was it also missing during 13-14 English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 6225, Sunday Jan 2 at 1408, screaming YL preacheress in North American English, poor signal. Aoki says it`s Bible Voice, 200 kW, 132 degrees via Almaty-Nikolayevka at 1405-1435, in English on Saturday & Sunday; Mandarin on Mondays; other days only until 1420 in Cantonese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, Jan 2 at 1517 weak signal seems in English, presumed V. of Nigeria; however it may have some competition now as Victor Goonetilleke says Family Radio is testing in English on 15120 via 35 kW Ekala, SRI LANKA at 1330-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7335, Jan 2 at 0334, surprised to find Golos Rossii instead of La Voz de Rusia, i.e. in Russian instead of Spanish, via GUIANA FRENCH. Listened for a while to be sure it was not just a clip about to be voice-overed into Spanish. Still Russian at 0351, 0434, 0551. Another mixup in Moscú, or Montsinéry? Or a 2011y sked change. Website still shows 7335 at 03-06 for Spanish:
http://spanish.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/spa_schedule
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, at 0342 UT Jan 2 already has motorboating QRM to Deutsche Welle, i.e. the R. Rossii transmitter on the air until 1401*. Sunset Jan 2 in ``Kamchatka`` was 0520 UT per timeanddate.com which strangely does not pin it down to a specific city, not necessarily Pet/Kam. But even so, at that latitude at solstice, 6 MHz is obviously propagable eastward that early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. Checking for new RSI relay via WRMI, scheduled daily 0330-0400 in Spanish, UT January 2 at 0348: nothing but wall of noise Dentro-Cuban jamming audible on 9955. I did not check the webstream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More under U S A
** UKRAINE. Several DXLD ygroup members reported RUI missing from SW as of January 1, so I check 7440 after 0100 Jan 2: nothing heard. At least the big transmitter appears off, not renewed for 2011y? There was no warning about a yearend cutoff for it, but this has happened several times before, eventually resuming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. 7445 with VG reception of BBCWS in English, Jan 2 at 0338 something scientific so guessed maybe ``Science In Action``, tho the primary webstream has ``Global Business``. It`s 114 degrees from ASCENSION during this hour only, but back-radiation does a good job for us.
5875 also often provides good BBCWS reception in the 05-07 period, 500 kW, 62 degrees via Rampisham, and so it was Jan 2 until 0658 until hit by DRM noise. At first I thought it was from an adjacent, but HFCC shows BBC itself switches from analog to DRM at 0700, now 40 kW, 300 degrees via AUSTRIA on 5870-5875-5880.
9740, BBCWS via SINGAPORE carries ``World of Music``, Sundays at 1432, as noted with Algerian music, closing announcements with address at 1455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9350, Jan 1 at 2155, surprised to hear a clarinet concerto on WWCR during scheduled ``Golden Age of Radio Theater``. Audio processing on this transmitter boosts everything to the max including quiet music passages. Maybe just fill provided by USA network; it was allowed to finish, but no back-announcement, WWCR ID, and 2159:40 starting USA-IRN `news` before hourtop! Is the whole thing pre-recorded? Caster was Precious Watson (f.), wow, what a name.
Yes, the DX Block is gone as of UT January 2 from WWCR 4840, checked after 0300 and 0330, replaced by more remunerative gospel-huxtering. Altho WORLD OF RADIO was also missing from Sat 1700 on 12160, I confirmed it was still airing at 0730 UT Sunday January 2 on 3215, following a Girl Scouts PSA.
The January 1 WWCR program schedule has been posted on January 2:
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
It still shows WORLD OF RADIO Fri 2130 7465, Sat 1700 12160, Sun 0730 3215. It no longer shows DX Partyline at all.
The new Ask WWCR show explains why 5890 was missing one night recently. #4 transmitter was down for a routine maintenance check, as it had been running continuously since the flood in May (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, WWRB, supposedly running all-night from 0500 with Brother Scare, absent at 0727 Jan 2, but back on at next check 1349 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Saturday Jan 1 at 2203 surprised to hear Jeff White with historical talk about Curacao radio, i.e. Wavescan, without jamming! Previous days at this hour it`s been a wall of noise including against WORLD OF RADIO on Thursdays. See also SLOVAKIA [non]. At 0609 Sunday January 2, Encontro DX, in Portuguese was underway, mostly over the pulse jamming as Arnie continues to demonstrate his lack of respect for any DX program but his own (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, new frequency and extended schedule for WINB: January 2 at 0450 poor with preacher, hum, distortion and clinching it, the unstable carrier. Media Network blog reported that as of UT Jan 1, WINB started overnight 0330-1130 UT on 9405 with ``Radio 2:11``, which has been adding more and more airtime during the day, and already on WBCQ-9330, i.e. part of the Good Friends Radio Network.
Why not just extend 9265? No one else is there overnight. The imaginary WMLK is registered for 9265 at 04-09! And WINB has to respect that! It looks like 9405 is a good open frequency for WINB. But such a band puts it at a serious competitive disadvantage to WWRB and WWCR which go down as low as the 3 MHz band at night, 99% reliably propagating, and even WYFR which goes down to 5745. I suspect that WINB simply cannot operate on any band lower than 9 MHz; I can`t remember it ever doing so. The MUF varies around 10 MHz and you never know from night to night whether 31m will be hopping or dead. At 0607 check, 9405 was still very poor, but after 0700 had axually improved a bit.
There is no reason to think that 9405 is on any other beam than 13570 and 9265, all transmissions at 242 degrees to CIRAF 10 and 11, i.e. Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, altho 242 really aims at Nashville, Houston, Laredo, and Tuxpan.
Once again on Sunday Jan 2, 13570 is on the air earlier than before, already at 1414, YL preacher with strange accent, Filipina? At 1422 besides wobbly carrier, it`s evidently reduced so under-modulation makes the S-meter fluxuate.
WINB website schedule still shows in ``EDT`!:
0630 - 1100 9265 kHz
1100 - 1700 13570 kHz
1700 - 2300 9265 kHz
Obviously outdated and missing the latest news about 9405, earlier 13570. What`s left of 9265? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506v, WRNO still missing January 2 at 0339 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050-, slightly on low side compared to 1050 and 6050, US commercial station Jan 2 at 0617 with het from TGAV 4052.5, see GUATEMALA. Previously IDed as third harmonic of KWMO, 1350, Washington MO. Now there is an adstring in English with 800 numbers, the first one by a YL about makeup; next one with 800-531-5376, or maybe 521-5375; third one with 800-897-1987 or maybe 397-1987. Then into country music, but fading down. Despite frequent logs of TGAV, had not heard KWMO for a few months and was wondering if they had fixed the harmonic. Occasional appearances may be due to running day power at night, and/or unusually favorable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7415, WBCQ still on the air much later than usual, UT Sunday Jan 2 at 0703 with preacher, then Ted Randall saying it had been part of his QSO Radio show, antenna plug, WBCQ ID by Ted and then dead air. I assume WBCQ shortly signed itself off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9725, Jan 2 at 1455 open carrier, 1459 VOA YDD sign-on, 1500 ``welcome to the Voice of America, in Vietnamese!``. Is the 50 kW ``PHX`` unit in the PHILIPPINES at 285 degrees but sufficient here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297+, Jan 2 at 0725, SASASAM holding up nicely with chanting accompanied by percussion instruments, chorus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** AUSTRALIA. 3210, no sign of the just activated new private SW station of unknown name in NSW, January 2 at 1349, and I am not surprised, considering the very low power and testing may be intermittent. Should be quite a challenge to hear in NAm, but possible if Radio Symban can make it on 2368.5. Details from Johno Wright to DXLD as of 2300 UT Jan 1:
``3210 kHz: Folks, last night 1st January 2011 from around 0710 to past 1100 UT, we heard the ex Pifo HCJB transmitter from Schofields, western Sydney. Running between 50 & 70 watts. It has a religious programme on a loop every 2 hours. This is just a pre tune and get it right phase, so the sked is not finalised. reports to dx1234 @ gmail.com If you want a snail mail QSL: to John Wright, 29 Milford Rd, Peakhurst 2210, NSW, Australia. Please include either 2 IRC's or 2 USD's. Always something new on shortwave, Cheers from Australia`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Jan 2 at 0608, CBC NQ is still on with tone test a few minutes after sign-off; good S9+18 signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Finally heard RHC in Esperanto! UT Sunday Jan 2 at 0700 it`s already in progress on 6050, while 6060 and 5040 are in Spanish. SNAFU, the listed frequency for Esp`o at 0700 is 6010 per WRTH 2011, and the RHC online schedule presented in Spanish, but that was not on the air. At 0720 I find 6150 is also // in Esp`o with usual undermodulation, but at 0722 it`s over, both to RHC IS, and ``Ed Newman`` reopening the English hour for ``January 1``, 52nd anniversary of The Triumph Of The Revolution. Esperanto must have started circa 0653; English ordinarily is over at 0700, and per observations a night or two ago when all frequencies were in Spanish after that.
Since I knew an Esperanto program existed for January 2, I looked again for it at the next scheduled time, 1500 on 11760: no, continues in Spanish // all the other frequencies, also at later chex in the semihour.
13750 et al., Sunday Jan 2 at 1438, RHC En Contacto, as Manolo had warned, is repeating last week`s Xmas show listing by name and location all 150 of his show`s ``oyentes activos`` during 2010y, with ``Jingle Bells`` in the background. USA has five, not including me, but he did include Héctor/Luigi Pérez who is really in Puerto Rico, so we now know that Cuba recognizes US sovereignty there.
13750 is the Sunday-only frequency originally for ``Aló, Presidente``, but it`s another no-show by El Hugazo. Checking at 1532, 1600 and 1800 UT, 13750, 17750, 15370, 13680 and 11690 are all // mainstream RHC on 11730, 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 7450, January 1 at 2204, ID for Radiophonikós Stathmós Makedonías, with het from the -15.6 kHz spur de WWCR 7465 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad running late UT January 2, tune-in at 0616 to hear the national anthem playing until about 0620, and now with a considerable het from 4050, KWMO: see U S A. TGAV has been planning for weeks to move to 4055 once a new crystal has arrived and been installed, and this reminds us why they should (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13710, AIR GOS, Jan 2 at 1425 ID after talk about cloud computing, into song. Good here, and unusually better than // 9690. Third frequency 11620 has something else atop, AIR // barely audible under. HFCC shows KTWR in Korean, BBC Cyprus in Hindi! plus AIR all on 11620 at this time.
At 1434, 13710 is temporarily overmodulated/distorted with YL/YL interview, plus background noise, bad recording but aired anyway. 1457 audio good again from studio announcer with closing newscast. I must say he has a pleasing lilt to his accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI missing Sunday Jan 2 at 1415, tho had been on in Indonesian the days before. Was it also missing during 13-14 English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 6225, Sunday Jan 2 at 1408, screaming YL preacheress in North American English, poor signal. Aoki says it`s Bible Voice, 200 kW, 132 degrees via Almaty-Nikolayevka at 1405-1435, in English on Saturday & Sunday; Mandarin on Mondays; other days only until 1420 in Cantonese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, Jan 2 at 1517 weak signal seems in English, presumed V. of Nigeria; however it may have some competition now as Victor Goonetilleke says Family Radio is testing in English on 15120 via 35 kW Ekala, SRI LANKA at 1330-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7335, Jan 2 at 0334, surprised to find Golos Rossii instead of La Voz de Rusia, i.e. in Russian instead of Spanish, via GUIANA FRENCH. Listened for a while to be sure it was not just a clip about to be voice-overed into Spanish. Still Russian at 0351, 0434, 0551. Another mixup in Moscú, or Montsinéry? Or a 2011y sked change. Website still shows 7335 at 03-06 for Spanish:
http://spanish.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/spa_schedule
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, at 0342 UT Jan 2 already has motorboating QRM to Deutsche Welle, i.e. the R. Rossii transmitter on the air until 1401*. Sunset Jan 2 in ``Kamchatka`` was 0520 UT per timeanddate.com which strangely does not pin it down to a specific city, not necessarily Pet/Kam. But even so, at that latitude at solstice, 6 MHz is obviously propagable eastward that early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. Checking for new RSI relay via WRMI, scheduled daily 0330-0400 in Spanish, UT January 2 at 0348: nothing but wall of noise Dentro-Cuban jamming audible on 9955. I did not check the webstream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More under U S A
** UKRAINE. Several DXLD ygroup members reported RUI missing from SW as of January 1, so I check 7440 after 0100 Jan 2: nothing heard. At least the big transmitter appears off, not renewed for 2011y? There was no warning about a yearend cutoff for it, but this has happened several times before, eventually resuming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. 7445 with VG reception of BBCWS in English, Jan 2 at 0338 something scientific so guessed maybe ``Science In Action``, tho the primary webstream has ``Global Business``. It`s 114 degrees from ASCENSION during this hour only, but back-radiation does a good job for us.
5875 also often provides good BBCWS reception in the 05-07 period, 500 kW, 62 degrees via Rampisham, and so it was Jan 2 until 0658 until hit by DRM noise. At first I thought it was from an adjacent, but HFCC shows BBC itself switches from analog to DRM at 0700, now 40 kW, 300 degrees via AUSTRIA on 5870-5875-5880.
9740, BBCWS via SINGAPORE carries ``World of Music``, Sundays at 1432, as noted with Algerian music, closing announcements with address at 1455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9350, Jan 1 at 2155, surprised to hear a clarinet concerto on WWCR during scheduled ``Golden Age of Radio Theater``. Audio processing on this transmitter boosts everything to the max including quiet music passages. Maybe just fill provided by USA network; it was allowed to finish, but no back-announcement, WWCR ID, and 2159:40 starting USA-IRN `news` before hourtop! Is the whole thing pre-recorded? Caster was Precious Watson (f.), wow, what a name.
Yes, the DX Block is gone as of UT January 2 from WWCR 4840, checked after 0300 and 0330, replaced by more remunerative gospel-huxtering. Altho WORLD OF RADIO was also missing from Sat 1700 on 12160, I confirmed it was still airing at 0730 UT Sunday January 2 on 3215, following a Girl Scouts PSA.
The January 1 WWCR program schedule has been posted on January 2:
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
It still shows WORLD OF RADIO Fri 2130 7465, Sat 1700 12160, Sun 0730 3215. It no longer shows DX Partyline at all.
The new Ask WWCR show explains why 5890 was missing one night recently. #4 transmitter was down for a routine maintenance check, as it had been running continuously since the flood in May (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, WWRB, supposedly running all-night from 0500 with Brother Scare, absent at 0727 Jan 2, but back on at next check 1349 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Saturday Jan 1 at 2203 surprised to hear Jeff White with historical talk about Curacao radio, i.e. Wavescan, without jamming! Previous days at this hour it`s been a wall of noise including against WORLD OF RADIO on Thursdays. See also SLOVAKIA [non]. At 0609 Sunday January 2, Encontro DX, in Portuguese was underway, mostly over the pulse jamming as Arnie continues to demonstrate his lack of respect for any DX program but his own (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, new frequency and extended schedule for WINB: January 2 at 0450 poor with preacher, hum, distortion and clinching it, the unstable carrier. Media Network blog reported that as of UT Jan 1, WINB started overnight 0330-1130 UT on 9405 with ``Radio 2:11``, which has been adding more and more airtime during the day, and already on WBCQ-9330, i.e. part of the Good Friends Radio Network.
Why not just extend 9265? No one else is there overnight. The imaginary WMLK is registered for 9265 at 04-09! And WINB has to respect that! It looks like 9405 is a good open frequency for WINB. But such a band puts it at a serious competitive disadvantage to WWRB and WWCR which go down as low as the 3 MHz band at night, 99% reliably propagating, and even WYFR which goes down to 5745. I suspect that WINB simply cannot operate on any band lower than 9 MHz; I can`t remember it ever doing so. The MUF varies around 10 MHz and you never know from night to night whether 31m will be hopping or dead. At 0607 check, 9405 was still very poor, but after 0700 had axually improved a bit.
There is no reason to think that 9405 is on any other beam than 13570 and 9265, all transmissions at 242 degrees to CIRAF 10 and 11, i.e. Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, altho 242 really aims at Nashville, Houston, Laredo, and Tuxpan.
Once again on Sunday Jan 2, 13570 is on the air earlier than before, already at 1414, YL preacher with strange accent, Filipina? At 1422 besides wobbly carrier, it`s evidently reduced so under-modulation makes the S-meter fluxuate.
WINB website schedule still shows in ``EDT`!:
0630 - 1100 9265 kHz
1100 - 1700 13570 kHz
1700 - 2300 9265 kHz
Obviously outdated and missing the latest news about 9405, earlier 13570. What`s left of 9265? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506v, WRNO still missing January 2 at 0339 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050-, slightly on low side compared to 1050 and 6050, US commercial station Jan 2 at 0617 with het from TGAV 4052.5, see GUATEMALA. Previously IDed as third harmonic of KWMO, 1350, Washington MO. Now there is an adstring in English with 800 numbers, the first one by a YL about makeup; next one with 800-531-5376, or maybe 521-5375; third one with 800-897-1987 or maybe 397-1987. Then into country music, but fading down. Despite frequent logs of TGAV, had not heard KWMO for a few months and was wondering if they had fixed the harmonic. Occasional appearances may be due to running day power at night, and/or unusually favorable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7415, WBCQ still on the air much later than usual, UT Sunday Jan 2 at 0703 with preacher, then Ted Randall saying it had been part of his QSO Radio show, antenna plug, WBCQ ID by Ted and then dead air. I assume WBCQ shortly signed itself off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9725, Jan 2 at 1455 open carrier, 1459 VOA YDD sign-on, 1500 ``welcome to the Voice of America, in Vietnamese!``. Is the 50 kW ``PHX`` unit in the PHILIPPINES at 285 degrees but sufficient here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297+, Jan 2 at 0725, SASASAM holding up nicely with chanting accompanied by percussion instruments, chorus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###