** BRAZIL. 11780, RNA, Sat Jan 15 is already on at 0639 UT, VG with music. On Jan 16, being a UT Sunday, it will be on all-night. BTW, 11780 usually starts showing up in the afternoons around 2100 in time for A Voz do Brasil, but I assume it is on all day every day. Still no sign of RNA any time on 6185, good news for XEPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. The excellent series about advertising, ``Age of Persuasion`` has begun a new season on CBC Radio 1 since Jan 8, Sats 1532, Thus 1832 UT plus 1/2/3/4 hours across the timezones, and also ondemand: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/
BTW, the multi-timezone cbc.ca audio player, ``select a radio stream``
http://www.cbc.ca/video/radio-popup.html#/networkKey=cbc_radio_one&programKey=london
displays programming one hour off for me! Is it confused by my computer clock on UT, pretending to be Azores DST, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9450, Jan 15 at 1409, Russian from CRI but with Chinese QRM: tsk2, Sound of Hope via Taiwan is also on 9450 during this hour, requiring ChiCom jamming against it and thus also against CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6110, RHC here instead of 6140, Jan 15 at 1329 with commentary on tri-country flooding, still 6110 at 1417. 6140 is still on the B-10 schedule as 11-05 UT, so has RHC deliberately gone back to 6110 which served this purpose in A-10, or is it just another of their SNAFUs? Time will tell. It did not take much time: at 1702, the JBA signal is back on 6140. When punching up frequencies, do the RadioCuba operators rely on their deficient memories, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Several Indo-Chinese carriers on 60m, Jan 15 at 1335, and by that I do not mean ``Indochina``; only one with some significant audio is 4920, South Asian music, so more likely Chennai than Lhasa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. Juche jamming with noise quite dominant over clandestines, Jan 15 at 1416, same sound on 6600 and 6518 vs Voice of the People, and almost the same sound on 6348 vs Echo of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 21695, V. of Africa, Jan 15 at 1457 in English about climate, history of Mauritius, fair while JBA on // 17725. Lucky Mauritius, to get at least this attention on SW, since abandoning its own SW service from Forest Side sesquidecades ago, extinct like the dodo. IIRC it was on 9710 and somewhere on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Altho frigid, some early-morning fog enhanced tropo from OKC, greatly improving remaining analog TV signals from OKC, Univisión on 36, 48, Jan 15 at 1505 UT, so I also check the others: 19 is still on, at 1559 with ``Cornerstone Television, Raising High His Signal`` animated ID, ha, from low-power KUOT-CA but is it 23 or 150 kW as in W9WI.com, which also shows it as GCN as we have previously seen there; is that a change or is one part of the other? 21, apparently only black screen, not quite attaining horizontal lock: KTOU-LP with 41 kW supposed to be HSN.
This was one of those tropo enhancements which helps some stations, attenuates others, as this signal must be getting ``tropped out`` toward us: 46 Daystar, KOCM, Norman, normally marginally visible DTV, signal now too `bad` to decode. The tropo burned off by 1630, but 46 still not making it at 1730, hardly any loss.
Not much from elsewhere in OK, except at 1532 onwards during animated kidvid, Muskogee`s KQCW-20, ``19`` with no sub-channels, was running crawler that if agreement is not reached with Dish Network by Jan 16, viewers will no longer be able to see it there, but still by all other platforms.
Several other OK stations have run such warnings the last few weeks, notably KOCO-7, ABC, which finally reached a last-minute agreement. Is this going on all over the country? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 5965, REE via CR, Sat Jan 15 at 0635 with promo for ``Sexto Continente`` literary contest entries, short stories, essays or poems? Instead of mailbag show previously in this slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7335, RTT, Jan 15 at 0631, fair in Arabic music, announcement. Seems keeping to regular schedule despite regime change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 17755, astounded to encounter VOT in English here, Jan 15 and just as I tune in at 1345, ``DX Corner`` is starting! This frequency is supposed to be only for German at 1230-1330, so they missed changing to proper 12035 where nothing was audible. Wake up in Emirler!
Altho 17755 was poor, it was no worse than 12035 usually is, and on a better day might well be superior. If 16m is best for Germany at 1230, why do they think 25m is best for UK at 1330, all full-day paths?
I could // it to JBA 11735 eastward. 17755 signal diminished and was finished off from *1356 by WYFR IS on 17760.
Topix on DXC by YL included ISWL and cancer; 1352 into music. I was going to retrieve it on-demand, but as of 1550 UT Jan 15, the latest broadcast is from Jan 13! In the lower-left corner of:
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx
I`m afraid VOT cannot join the ranx of major world SW broadcasters, despite all their languages, until they get their act together by adhering to their own schedule and keeping the OD uptodate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, BBC vs BBC, again audible at about equally weak levels, Jan 15 at 1415, Arabic via Cyprus longpath and English via Thailand shortpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9760, still no VOA via Tinang, PHILIPPINES to be heard Saturday Jan 15 around 1330 when ``Jazz America`` used to be audible. 9760 is still on the HFCC schedule, 13-14 only on Sat/Sun. However, propagation conditions are degraded but surely would have heard some sign of it if on, as it normally comes in well after 1500.
Had to settle for VOA Korean, 5890 via TINIAN, which was playing a YL jazz singer at 1332; fair signal with het on hi side. At 1414 noise-jamming also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB QSY from 3185 to 9385 later than usual, Sat Jan 15: at 1409, nothing on 9385 yet, and BS on 3185 still audible. Next check at 1452, 9385 was on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI at 1500:37 Jan 15 starting WORLD OF RADIO 1547, fair signal and not jammed except for bleed from 9965. Next airings on WRMI: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. Hoped-for next airing on WWCR: Sat 1700 on 12160 --- no, still something else. That leaves only: Sun 0730 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Ted Randall was planning to repeat his interview with me soon on QSO, perhaps today Jan 15 at 19-21 on WTWW 9479, but not confirmed. Is QSO still on WBCQ 7415 Saturdays at 19-20, and is it the same as on WTWW or different? No specific info yet at http://www.tedrandall.com where music autolaunches, beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1720 UT Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17605, Sat Jan 15 at 1454, repetitive song by a few singers, ``eee-sah-mee-rah-boh`` syllables heard every few sex, which means? 1456 segué to HOA music, from AWR`s Afar service via AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CANADA. The excellent series about advertising, ``Age of Persuasion`` has begun a new season on CBC Radio 1 since Jan 8, Sats 1532, Thus 1832 UT plus 1/2/3/4 hours across the timezones, and also ondemand: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/
BTW, the multi-timezone cbc.ca audio player, ``select a radio stream``
http://www.cbc.ca/video/radio-popup.html#/networkKey=cbc_radio_one&programKey=london
displays programming one hour off for me! Is it confused by my computer clock on UT, pretending to be Azores DST, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9450, Jan 15 at 1409, Russian from CRI but with Chinese QRM: tsk2, Sound of Hope via Taiwan is also on 9450 during this hour, requiring ChiCom jamming against it and thus also against CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6110, RHC here instead of 6140, Jan 15 at 1329 with commentary on tri-country flooding, still 6110 at 1417. 6140 is still on the B-10 schedule as 11-05 UT, so has RHC deliberately gone back to 6110 which served this purpose in A-10, or is it just another of their SNAFUs? Time will tell. It did not take much time: at 1702, the JBA signal is back on 6140. When punching up frequencies, do the RadioCuba operators rely on their deficient memories, or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Several Indo-Chinese carriers on 60m, Jan 15 at 1335, and by that I do not mean ``Indochina``; only one with some significant audio is 4920, South Asian music, so more likely Chennai than Lhasa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. Juche jamming with noise quite dominant over clandestines, Jan 15 at 1416, same sound on 6600 and 6518 vs Voice of the People, and almost the same sound on 6348 vs Echo of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 21695, V. of Africa, Jan 15 at 1457 in English about climate, history of Mauritius, fair while JBA on // 17725. Lucky Mauritius, to get at least this attention on SW, since abandoning its own SW service from Forest Side sesquidecades ago, extinct like the dodo. IIRC it was on 9710 and somewhere on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Altho frigid, some early-morning fog enhanced tropo from OKC, greatly improving remaining analog TV signals from OKC, Univisión on 36, 48, Jan 15 at 1505 UT, so I also check the others: 19 is still on, at 1559 with ``Cornerstone Television, Raising High His Signal`` animated ID, ha, from low-power KUOT-CA but is it 23 or 150 kW as in W9WI.com, which also shows it as GCN as we have previously seen there; is that a change or is one part of the other? 21, apparently only black screen, not quite attaining horizontal lock: KTOU-LP with 41 kW supposed to be HSN.
This was one of those tropo enhancements which helps some stations, attenuates others, as this signal must be getting ``tropped out`` toward us: 46 Daystar, KOCM, Norman, normally marginally visible DTV, signal now too `bad` to decode. The tropo burned off by 1630, but 46 still not making it at 1730, hardly any loss.
Not much from elsewhere in OK, except at 1532 onwards during animated kidvid, Muskogee`s KQCW-20, ``19`` with no sub-channels, was running crawler that if agreement is not reached with Dish Network by Jan 16, viewers will no longer be able to see it there, but still by all other platforms.
Several other OK stations have run such warnings the last few weeks, notably KOCO-7, ABC, which finally reached a last-minute agreement. Is this going on all over the country? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 5965, REE via CR, Sat Jan 15 at 0635 with promo for ``Sexto Continente`` literary contest entries, short stories, essays or poems? Instead of mailbag show previously in this slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7335, RTT, Jan 15 at 0631, fair in Arabic music, announcement. Seems keeping to regular schedule despite regime change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 17755, astounded to encounter VOT in English here, Jan 15 and just as I tune in at 1345, ``DX Corner`` is starting! This frequency is supposed to be only for German at 1230-1330, so they missed changing to proper 12035 where nothing was audible. Wake up in Emirler!
Altho 17755 was poor, it was no worse than 12035 usually is, and on a better day might well be superior. If 16m is best for Germany at 1230, why do they think 25m is best for UK at 1330, all full-day paths?
I could // it to JBA 11735 eastward. 17755 signal diminished and was finished off from *1356 by WYFR IS on 17760.
Topix on DXC by YL included ISWL and cancer; 1352 into music. I was going to retrieve it on-demand, but as of 1550 UT Jan 15, the latest broadcast is from Jan 13! In the lower-left corner of:
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx
I`m afraid VOT cannot join the ranx of major world SW broadcasters, despite all their languages, until they get their act together by adhering to their own schedule and keeping the OD uptodate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, BBC vs BBC, again audible at about equally weak levels, Jan 15 at 1415, Arabic via Cyprus longpath and English via Thailand shortpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9760, still no VOA via Tinang, PHILIPPINES to be heard Saturday Jan 15 around 1330 when ``Jazz America`` used to be audible. 9760 is still on the HFCC schedule, 13-14 only on Sat/Sun. However, propagation conditions are degraded but surely would have heard some sign of it if on, as it normally comes in well after 1500.
Had to settle for VOA Korean, 5890 via TINIAN, which was playing a YL jazz singer at 1332; fair signal with het on hi side. At 1414 noise-jamming also audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB QSY from 3185 to 9385 later than usual, Sat Jan 15: at 1409, nothing on 9385 yet, and BS on 3185 still audible. Next check at 1452, 9385 was on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI at 1500:37 Jan 15 starting WORLD OF RADIO 1547, fair signal and not jammed except for bleed from 9965. Next airings on WRMI: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. Hoped-for next airing on WWCR: Sat 1700 on 12160 --- no, still something else. That leaves only: Sun 0730 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Ted Randall was planning to repeat his interview with me soon on QSO, perhaps today Jan 15 at 19-21 on WTWW 9479, but not confirmed. Is QSO still on WBCQ 7415 Saturdays at 19-20, and is it the same as on WTWW or different? No specific info yet at http://www.tedrandall.com where music autolaunches, beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1720 UT Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17605, Sat Jan 15 at 1454, repetitive song by a few singers, ``eee-sah-mee-rah-boh`` syllables heard every few sex, which means? 1456 segué to HOA music, from AWR`s Afar service via AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
