** GREECE. 7475, VOG, UT Sat Jan 1 at 0615-0647+, continuous singing by three or four Greek Orthodox guys, like one week ago on Xmas. Only rarely do they manage to harmonize. ERA5 continues to be in holiday mode relaying a domestic network. Also on weaker // 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, Jan 1 at 1443 M soloist with vocal pyrotechnics, usual flutter adding to other-worldly ambience; plucked instrument accompaniment. We remain indebted to the PKK terrorists for this unique musical service and to TDP for keeping it on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. 9540, checked first thing Jan 1 at 1329, and no signal from WHRI, so tends to confirm that Hmong World Christian Radio is not really there at 1300 Saturdays as in WRTH 2011 page 493 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI, Jan 1 at 0657 started to play ``Be My Love``, Mario Lanza`s hit and was trying to decide whether that was he or an almost equally gifted tenor, when it was cut off rudely in less than a minute for frequency change announcement to 9765. After about a minute, 9765 came on at *0659 not with the rest of the song, but bell-bird IS until 0700 ``Radio New Zealand News at Eight`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Two SSB pirates were active NYE with music, UT January 1 at 0423, on 6925 and 6950. Better signal on the latter, and shortly found that 6925 had gone off anyway. 6950 had song about Jesus Christ, then more heavy beat music; 0430 quick ID sounded like ``Wolverine Radio``, but not sure; I do know that is the name of one pirate. 0442 another tentative ID as above. Signal is strengthening; 0455 changes to tones, probably SSTV ID before closing. Atmosferix from the tornadic storms in the SE USA are noticeable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU Stillwater-OKC legal IDs had been limited to this and KOSN 107.5 Ketchum-Tulsa, ignoring the 107.3 Tulsa-proper translator, another in Okmulgee. But the last few days they have been adding 88.3 KOSR Stillwater, e.g. at 1559 UT January 1. This is the fill-in transmitter on the OSU campus, needed since they moved the main transmitter halfway to OKC. Does this mean it has just gone on the air? In Enid it`s blocked by a YFR translator.
KOSU 91.7 reception here has degraded itself a lot in last few years with addition of IBOC making main signal weaker, plus site further away such that now it is more subject to picket-fencing on caradio, and harder to penetrate restaurant walls and noise levels on walkman. Even some of my home radios no longer get 91.7 with a solid signal, and there is the Kansan gospel-huxter elbowing from 91.5. We really need a KOSU translator in Enid, which lacks any local public radio service, or preferably full-power relay in NW OK (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, R. Blagovest is still on R. Veritas Asia, January 1 at 1507, despite Moscow DX Club report quoting engineer at RVA that they would no longer broadcast in Russian this year. In previous report this was filled under RUSSIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, Jan 1 at 1357 has heavy motorboating, but today there is also some musical modulation mixing in. 1400 timesignal 6 seconds late as Chinese CCI starts, PK stays on until 1401:15* while there is no sign of 8GAL on 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. Robert E. Kamosa`s defective transmitter is acting up again: 9715, January 1 at 1352, R. Liberty in Russian marred by hum, distortion and unstable carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 12035, which would be our better frequency for VOT English at 1330, checked Jan 1 at 1403 has SAH of about 8 Hz from some CCI: HFCC shows both VOR via Samara, and KSDA GUAM in Chinese; Aoki only the latter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. More changes at WINB: Saturday had been the only day 13570 was not on the air, but now it is, and earlier than ever: January 1 at 1405 with non-Brother Scare preacher in English. 1451 dead air except for hum. Indeed, the always undated Overcomer SW schedule at ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
no longer shows WINB at all, just WWCR, WWRB and WBCQ + unID frequencies, i.e. Germany.
Ever-more-outdated ``Dec 5`` WINB program schedule athttp://www.winb.com/schedule.htm
still shows Overcomer at numerous times including 1430-2130 on Saturdays. Check at 1735, no, still not Scare on 13570 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, checking for WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI, Saturday Jan 1 at 1503, at first something else is heard, but proves to be in Russian, so that`s the co-channel from Family Radio via Tainan, Taiwan – and thus absent from HFCC but in Aoki. Makes fast SAH with WRMI which barely audiblizes enough to recognize my voice; at least no jamming at the moment. At 1505, YFR says ``s novym godom``. It would be happier if they would quit QRMing WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, WWCR-1, Jan 1 at 1502 with preacher, poor signal but notable for the long-path echo, from some 39 megameters away.
12160, WWCR-2, Sat Jan 1 at 1700, WORLD OF RADIO has been replaced by ``The Master`s Mission`` preacher. As usual we are in the dark about whether it`s a temporary make-good, or a permanent change. January program schedule has not yet been posted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9760, via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, best frequency for VOA ``Jazz America`` is missing Saturday January 1 at 1354. The 13-14 hour has been scheduled Sat & Sun only. 9760 was on the air at 1505 for ``New Dynamic English``. Breakdown, or 2011y schedule change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SAIPAN