** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Jan 19 at 1444 het with MOROCCO [q.v.] on 15341, no doubt HCJB, while its other frequency 15400 is missing, already off at 1430. 15340 is to S Asia, large variety of languages in a complex schedule from 1145 to 1445, including Telugu at 1430 Wednesdays, but English daily 1445-1530 per Aoki. 15340 also has to cope with splatter from R. Martí, Greenville 15330 (not so much jamming yet).
At 1445 I hear English being spoken slowly. Wish Morocco would hurry up and move to 15345. At 1500-1501, it does. Now 15340 can be copied at times, Oz YL keeps going past 1500 about food? 1502 advice on calamine lotion vs scabs, then YL song, hymn? 1512 weaker, mentioning it`s an HCJB produxion, Melbourne, Australia ID, 15330 splash is also growing, and by 1520 with music, HCJB is just about gone. Presumably one of its occasional appearances by longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625.1, Jan 19 at 0702, S9+12 open carrier, lite fades, more wasted wattage from Sackville, running CBCNQ transmitter after-hours, this time lacking tone test, why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 19:
6030, good but flutter atop Taiwan victim at 1305, still at 1350
8400, very poor at 1243
Harold Frodge has compiled all the Firedrake frequencies and times reported in 2010y into one master list, within DXLD 11-01; quickly find it by searching on the first one, 5820, athttp://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1101.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9153.0, extremely strong S9+25+ open carrier before 0700 Jan 19 became 5-character cut spy numbers at 0702, on A2, i.e. modulated 1 kHz tones on continuous carrier, like Arnie`s DXers Unlimited closing on RHC.
Since I quit listening after 0700 tuned to XEPPM 6185, when I turn on the FRG-7 at 1211, it`s already off, but I hear RHC on 6190, very poor but steady // 6000, 6095, 6140, 6150, all seeming synchronized. 6095 would leap over 6150 to land on 6205, so that doesn`t work out, and it would leap over 6140 (probably different site, undermodulated) to land on 6185, so not that either. Ahá, 6000 leaps over 6095 another 95 kHz higher to land on 6190. Reverse leap of these could put a twin on 5905. Could not hear 6190 after 1216.
The RHC studio clock is losing more and more. Timechex have been running at least a minute slow, and Jan 19 at 1231:45 on 6000, Tony Gómez claims it`s ``exactamente las 7 con 30 minutos``. Can`t they pick up Radio Reloj?
At 1256, 6000 and 6095 were off, transmitters about to move to 13 MHz, while 6140 and 6150 were still on. Then 6150 went off a few sex before 1301, with 6140 remaining, where it should stay all day.
12040, Jan 19 at 1317, RHC with echo and 3 Hz SAH, so they are running transmitters from both sites here! Great internal coördination. Subject: what else but Los 5, and Luis Posada Carriles. RHC cannot get thru a single hour without devoting a sizeable fraxion to these, its absolutely obsessive propaganda targets, yawn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, R. Prague in English via WRMI, Jan 19 at 0703 good but with lite pulse jamming on a fine night for MUF from SFL, 0704 ending news already, previewing topix for rest of semihour. With Radio Prague slated to self-destruct its own SW broadcasts at monthend, we await word whether WRMI will continue them beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 19 at 1351, AFN with C&W music, W&M DJs mentioning a contest on ``---- Country``. Better signal now than an hour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, TGAV, Jan 19 at 1220, S9+12 with music, but rather distorted and carrier unstable with BFO on.
Via Jan WWDXC DX News, Christoph Ratzer, Austria in A-DX forwards an undated reply from Dr. Madrid:
``We had a long fight (two years) to get our short wave transmitter on the air again. Thanks to Eng. Ralph Borthwick, from Canada, we got our transmitter repaired and a very effective new antenna built.
About a month ago, we had one module amplifier accidentally burned out, and now, we are transmitting with 210 watts only. (That was a new attack from Satan.) We hope to have the other amplifier repaired very soon. We are facing another trouble, and it is that our transmitter is delaying from one and a half to two hours to get started in the morning. Anyhow, our signal is very strong still, due to the effectiveness of the new antenna.
Thank you for your intentions of providing us with an offering. We are desperately needing offerings, but we have not received any. (You know, we don't ever advertise offerings. We operate by faith.)
If you visit our Web Site, on the left menu, there is an article entitled "Radio Truth up to Date". In that article, I published last week the information that Radio Truth is on a financial bankruptcy status right now, as we spent very much money on the recent repairs. And this is despite that Brother Borthwick did not charge us any money for the repairs he did.
So, if you send us an offering, you will help us on this difficult situation, and you will become the second person in the whole world who has helped Radio Truth financially (the other one did several years ago, and he is from Finland). You just do whatever God our Lord leads you to do. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Apartado 5, Chiquimula, Guatemala`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI: While the English hour 13-14 Tuesday lacked IADs, and Harold Sellers agrees, they were back in force during the Japanese hour on Wednesday, Jan 19 at 1246 – amid a long one as I intuned, then ``Voice of Indonesia, keeping dignity alive``. ?? It`s IADs they keep alive, on into song opening with English lyrix, then Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. Sometimes it takes several minutes for RTM to change frequency from 15341 to 15345, and not always at 1500, but Jan 19 it takes them only one minute from 15341 off at 1500* to 15345 carrier with hum on at *1501, escaping het from HCJB staying on 15340; see AUSTRALIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR [and non]. 5986-, Jan 19 at 1307 considerable het with something on 5985, and some audio but hard to tell from which. HFCC shows Vatican via Irkutsk. But nothing to het off-frequency Burma at 1315-1400 till Russia may come on at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 17485, Jan 19 at 1425, Hamada Radio International is still in business, Hausa talk and music, poor via RMI via Wertachtal, GERMANY on M/W/F only at 1400-1430, tho missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. ThisTV is finally coming to the OKC market. KOCO-7 seen Jan 18 promoting on its 5.2 channel currently occupied by almost continuous Accuweather and local inserts, that ThisTV (a `free` movie channel) would start on January 24. So will wx be moved to an activated 5.3, or vanish? We are still waiting for another virtual entrepreneur, AntennaTV to appear on KFOR-27, 4.2 or 4.3 later in Jan; to join TheCoolTV already on 34.2 via KOCB-33, and CMN on 25.2 via KOKH-24 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Jan 19 at 1223, I hear music vs a TADIL-A bonker, two bangs on the anvil, one beat pause, repeated. So I stay tuned to R. East New Britain, Rabaul, for the anticipated abrupt timer-controlled cutoff the air which does occur mid-music at 1225:20* exposing the bonker in the clear. Some other PNG carriers remained, with bits of audio, such as 3365, 3275 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. Never mind what I say on WORLD OF RADIO 1548 about R. Blagovest being gone from R. Veritas Asia. Altho it was absent Jan 17 and 18, it`s back with good signal Jan 19! 1503 tune-in, Russian talk, about Yerushalim, Paul, etc., bothered by DentroCuban Jamming Command on 9565, despite its use by R. Martí only between 20 and 24 UT (half Sackville, half Greenville)!
RB keeps talking, presumably sermonizing at further chex, 1520 had switched to YL, 1534 finally some sacred classical music where they usually put it to break up the gab; 1543.6 bells and ID ``Vy slushayetye Radio Blagovest``, more talk by OM until 1553 music with bells, 1554 ID, 1555 RVA 14-note IS and off by 1556* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: VOA
** PORTUGAL. 15560, Jan 19 at 1603, RDPI (not as I sometimes typo it RFPI!), VG signal with sports clips, scores in hyper-Portuguese, 1604 ``gooooooooooooooooooooaaalllllllll`` enhanced by video-game `firing` SFX; nothing on 15690, often poor here, which is 14-16 M-F to ME. And 15560 is not normally on the air weekdays to NAm, but activated now for this ``extraordinary emission`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 6205, R. Free Sarawak, Jan 19 at 1233 M&M conversation in Malay(?), one the deep-voiced studio guy, the other on phone. S9+20 but heavy flutter. I hear some English words, such as `overwhelming majority`` from the phoneguy. 1235 Q: ``What do you think about this?`` and seems like the answer is in English too. 1238 mentions ``economic development``. 1256 not in English, mentioning Islam; 1258 music to 1300:09* after one beep.
Site is assumed to be Dushanbé, TAJIKISTAN, since this transmission replaced the 2230-2330 one on 7590; and DB is registered for other clients at 1030-1145. It seems a bit odd to be hearing it this well in deep NAm, but sunset in Dushanbé was 1231 and sunrise here 1341, so a darkness near-grayline path existed. At 1245, WWVH 5000 reported 12 UT K-index as 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non non and non]. 5030, R. Malaysia Sarawak, Jan 19 by 1409 with some music, signal poor but starting to exceed fading Cuba 5025. I have not had much luck with the new peninsular transmitter on 9835, but check it for // as Ron Howard has been reporting from California. It was not making it in previous hour, but at 1411 some vocal music seems // 5030 and now stronger than it. Difficult to // during music and am not positive; would be surprised if they are synchronized.
More on 9835: at 1423 after all-romantic music spate, YL announcement with faster-tempo music in background; now I have to attenuate overload from 9980 WWCR built up to full-day strength. 1427 back to romx, 1438 Celine Dion or clone; 1441 YL seems to mention warta berita, but signal is worsening, and squeezed between 9830 RTTY and 9840v Vietnam/het.
Ron says the channel relayed is Sarawak FM, tho some downunderite claims a variety of other networks show up. Anyhow we have this alternative to Radio Free Sarawak, from the imperialist Malayans occupying the territory (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Jan 19 at 1600, Sudan Radio Service ID names pronounced in English amid other language, colloquial Arabic? Also contact info, srs@edc.org and phone numbers not pronounced in English. Strumming instrument in background, F-G signal. This is daily 15-17, 250 kW, 114 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL.
17700, weaker Jan 19 at 1602, very similar music in background of non-// announcement from the separate SRS hour for Darfur, per Aoki in Arabic, 16-17 daily except Fridays, 250 kW, 65 degrees from ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 11860, since BBCWS in English is sometimes heard in the 13-14 hour, such as Jan 18, likely an overrun by GUIANA FRENCH scheduled 1215-1300 only, I am hoping to catch a continuation with no break in transmission, Jan 19 around 1300. No such luck today, off the air at 1259:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9640, Jan 19 at 1249, VOA news in English, poor with ACI from CVC Chile music 9635. Surprised to find VOA here, as used to be on 9645 via Thailand, but not any more. HFCC shows 9640 as due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 12-13 daily plus 13-14 weekends, the latter presumably with ``Jazz America``, which has been missing from 9760.
9760, after missing or sporadic appearances, VOA Tinang, PHILIPPINES is back with very good signal Jan 19 at 1505, after news, introducing English teaching, and special English, i.e. ``New Dynamic English`` and ``Funxioning in Business`` during first half; UT-half hour news, then ``The Health Report``, and ``Explorations``. 1506 starts NDE with Max & Cathy (Kathy?). No breaks in transmission so far and still there at recheck later in the hour.
15460, Jan 19 at 1605 I am hearing exactly the same special English intro as on 9760 an hour earlier; this is via Lampertheim, GERMANY, 100 kW, 132 degrees at 16-17 only.
13750, VOA Spanish news about Hu`s visit to Washington, Jan 9 at 1333 interrupted for quick frequency announcement, 9885, 13750 and 15590. Finally, they have corrected 13715 to 13750 weeks after it really changed. 13750 itself was VG now, but 15590 still poor; what a difference 1.84 MHz makes in the MUF from NC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, Jan 19 at 0659, WINB this night is S9+18 instead of S0, usual wobbling carrier, tale of Narnia, lofi feed from Radio 2:11, and much worse audio when a bit of music plays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Wed Jan 19 at 1630, first airing of new WORLD OF RADIO 1548 confirmed, not jammed. Further chances: Thu 0430, 1600, 2200-probably jammed, Fri 1530, Sat 0900, 1500, 1830-jammed last week.
We expect to be back on WWCR, Fri 2130 on 7465 which had a transmitter problem last week; and Sat 1700 on 12160 which had been occupied by another program`s bonus broadcast.
WOR also: on WBCQ, Wed and Thu 2000 on 7415; on WWRB, UT Fri 0430 on 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050-, Jan 9 at 0709, country music peaks S9+8 and sounds like the strongest I have yet heard this third harmonic of 1350 KWMO Washington MO near St Louis. 0711, ``From Waylon Jennings to [missed; what`s the opposite of him?], we`ve got you covered in Country``; really cranking out the sesquiwatts tonight, but some fades below noise level; 0714 the usual YL DJ, syndicated or local? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4800, shortly after sunrise in Enid, Jan 19 at 1348, a fluttery signal with some music vs CODAR; CNR Geermu or AIR Hyderabad? Also something on 4920, Chennai or Lhasa? Jim Young in California says you can isolate Lhasa by // 4905, but RTTY blox it until 1400. So I kept checking 4905, but today the RTTY kept going, at 1408, 1430, 1441, even 1503 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9779.5-SSB, 2-way intruders in Spanish, Mexican accent, Jan 19 at 1523 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
At 1445 I hear English being spoken slowly. Wish Morocco would hurry up and move to 15345. At 1500-1501, it does. Now 15340 can be copied at times, Oz YL keeps going past 1500 about food? 1502 advice on calamine lotion vs scabs, then YL song, hymn? 1512 weaker, mentioning it`s an HCJB produxion, Melbourne, Australia ID, 15330 splash is also growing, and by 1520 with music, HCJB is just about gone. Presumably one of its occasional appearances by longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625.1, Jan 19 at 0702, S9+12 open carrier, lite fades, more wasted wattage from Sackville, running CBCNQ transmitter after-hours, this time lacking tone test, why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 19:
6030, good but flutter atop Taiwan victim at 1305, still at 1350
8400, very poor at 1243
Harold Frodge has compiled all the Firedrake frequencies and times reported in 2010y into one master list, within DXLD 11-01; quickly find it by searching on the first one, 5820, athttp://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1101.txt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9153.0, extremely strong S9+25+ open carrier before 0700 Jan 19 became 5-character cut spy numbers at 0702, on A2, i.e. modulated 1 kHz tones on continuous carrier, like Arnie`s DXers Unlimited closing on RHC.
Since I quit listening after 0700 tuned to XEPPM 6185, when I turn on the FRG-7 at 1211, it`s already off, but I hear RHC on 6190, very poor but steady // 6000, 6095, 6140, 6150, all seeming synchronized. 6095 would leap over 6150 to land on 6205, so that doesn`t work out, and it would leap over 6140 (probably different site, undermodulated) to land on 6185, so not that either. Ahá, 6000 leaps over 6095 another 95 kHz higher to land on 6190. Reverse leap of these could put a twin on 5905. Could not hear 6190 after 1216.
The RHC studio clock is losing more and more. Timechex have been running at least a minute slow, and Jan 19 at 1231:45 on 6000, Tony Gómez claims it`s ``exactamente las 7 con 30 minutos``. Can`t they pick up Radio Reloj?
At 1256, 6000 and 6095 were off, transmitters about to move to 13 MHz, while 6140 and 6150 were still on. Then 6150 went off a few sex before 1301, with 6140 remaining, where it should stay all day.
12040, Jan 19 at 1317, RHC with echo and 3 Hz SAH, so they are running transmitters from both sites here! Great internal coördination. Subject: what else but Los 5, and Luis Posada Carriles. RHC cannot get thru a single hour without devoting a sizeable fraxion to these, its absolutely obsessive propaganda targets, yawn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, R. Prague in English via WRMI, Jan 19 at 0703 good but with lite pulse jamming on a fine night for MUF from SFL, 0704 ending news already, previewing topix for rest of semihour. With Radio Prague slated to self-destruct its own SW broadcasts at monthend, we await word whether WRMI will continue them beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 19 at 1351, AFN with C&W music, W&M DJs mentioning a contest on ``---- Country``. Better signal now than an hour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, TGAV, Jan 19 at 1220, S9+12 with music, but rather distorted and carrier unstable with BFO on.
Via Jan WWDXC DX News, Christoph Ratzer, Austria in A-DX forwards an undated reply from Dr. Madrid:
``We had a long fight (two years) to get our short wave transmitter on the air again. Thanks to Eng. Ralph Borthwick, from Canada, we got our transmitter repaired and a very effective new antenna built.
About a month ago, we had one module amplifier accidentally burned out, and now, we are transmitting with 210 watts only. (That was a new attack from Satan.) We hope to have the other amplifier repaired very soon. We are facing another trouble, and it is that our transmitter is delaying from one and a half to two hours to get started in the morning. Anyhow, our signal is very strong still, due to the effectiveness of the new antenna.
Thank you for your intentions of providing us with an offering. We are desperately needing offerings, but we have not received any. (You know, we don't ever advertise offerings. We operate by faith.)
If you visit our Web Site, on the left menu, there is an article entitled "Radio Truth up to Date". In that article, I published last week the information that Radio Truth is on a financial bankruptcy status right now, as we spent very much money on the recent repairs. And this is despite that Brother Borthwick did not charge us any money for the repairs he did.
So, if you send us an offering, you will help us on this difficult situation, and you will become the second person in the whole world who has helped Radio Truth financially (the other one did several years ago, and he is from Finland). You just do whatever God our Lord leads you to do. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Apartado 5, Chiquimula, Guatemala`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI: While the English hour 13-14 Tuesday lacked IADs, and Harold Sellers agrees, they were back in force during the Japanese hour on Wednesday, Jan 19 at 1246 – amid a long one as I intuned, then ``Voice of Indonesia, keeping dignity alive``. ?? It`s IADs they keep alive, on into song opening with English lyrix, then Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. Sometimes it takes several minutes for RTM to change frequency from 15341 to 15345, and not always at 1500, but Jan 19 it takes them only one minute from 15341 off at 1500* to 15345 carrier with hum on at *1501, escaping het from HCJB staying on 15340; see AUSTRALIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR [and non]. 5986-, Jan 19 at 1307 considerable het with something on 5985, and some audio but hard to tell from which. HFCC shows Vatican via Irkutsk. But nothing to het off-frequency Burma at 1315-1400 till Russia may come on at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 17485, Jan 19 at 1425, Hamada Radio International is still in business, Hausa talk and music, poor via RMI via Wertachtal, GERMANY on M/W/F only at 1400-1430, tho missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. ThisTV is finally coming to the OKC market. KOCO-7 seen Jan 18 promoting on its 5.2 channel currently occupied by almost continuous Accuweather and local inserts, that ThisTV (a `free` movie channel) would start on January 24. So will wx be moved to an activated 5.3, or vanish? We are still waiting for another virtual entrepreneur, AntennaTV to appear on KFOR-27, 4.2 or 4.3 later in Jan; to join TheCoolTV already on 34.2 via KOCB-33, and CMN on 25.2 via KOKH-24 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Jan 19 at 1223, I hear music vs a TADIL-A bonker, two bangs on the anvil, one beat pause, repeated. So I stay tuned to R. East New Britain, Rabaul, for the anticipated abrupt timer-controlled cutoff the air which does occur mid-music at 1225:20* exposing the bonker in the clear. Some other PNG carriers remained, with bits of audio, such as 3365, 3275 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. Never mind what I say on WORLD OF RADIO 1548 about R. Blagovest being gone from R. Veritas Asia. Altho it was absent Jan 17 and 18, it`s back with good signal Jan 19! 1503 tune-in, Russian talk, about Yerushalim, Paul, etc., bothered by DentroCuban Jamming Command on 9565, despite its use by R. Martí only between 20 and 24 UT (half Sackville, half Greenville)!
RB keeps talking, presumably sermonizing at further chex, 1520 had switched to YL, 1534 finally some sacred classical music where they usually put it to break up the gab; 1543.6 bells and ID ``Vy slushayetye Radio Blagovest``, more talk by OM until 1553 music with bells, 1554 ID, 1555 RVA 14-note IS and off by 1556* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: VOA
** PORTUGAL. 15560, Jan 19 at 1603, RDPI (not as I sometimes typo it RFPI!), VG signal with sports clips, scores in hyper-Portuguese, 1604 ``gooooooooooooooooooooaaalllllllll`` enhanced by video-game `firing` SFX; nothing on 15690, often poor here, which is 14-16 M-F to ME. And 15560 is not normally on the air weekdays to NAm, but activated now for this ``extraordinary emission`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 6205, R. Free Sarawak, Jan 19 at 1233 M&M conversation in Malay(?), one the deep-voiced studio guy, the other on phone. S9+20 but heavy flutter. I hear some English words, such as `overwhelming majority`` from the phoneguy. 1235 Q: ``What do you think about this?`` and seems like the answer is in English too. 1238 mentions ``economic development``. 1256 not in English, mentioning Islam; 1258 music to 1300:09* after one beep.
Site is assumed to be Dushanbé, TAJIKISTAN, since this transmission replaced the 2230-2330 one on 7590; and DB is registered for other clients at 1030-1145. It seems a bit odd to be hearing it this well in deep NAm, but sunset in Dushanbé was 1231 and sunrise here 1341, so a darkness near-grayline path existed. At 1245, WWVH 5000 reported 12 UT K-index as 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non non and non]. 5030, R. Malaysia Sarawak, Jan 19 by 1409 with some music, signal poor but starting to exceed fading Cuba 5025. I have not had much luck with the new peninsular transmitter on 9835, but check it for // as Ron Howard has been reporting from California. It was not making it in previous hour, but at 1411 some vocal music seems // 5030 and now stronger than it. Difficult to // during music and am not positive; would be surprised if they are synchronized.
More on 9835: at 1423 after all-romantic music spate, YL announcement with faster-tempo music in background; now I have to attenuate overload from 9980 WWCR built up to full-day strength. 1427 back to romx, 1438 Celine Dion or clone; 1441 YL seems to mention warta berita, but signal is worsening, and squeezed between 9830 RTTY and 9840v Vietnam/het.
Ron says the channel relayed is Sarawak FM, tho some downunderite claims a variety of other networks show up. Anyhow we have this alternative to Radio Free Sarawak, from the imperialist Malayans occupying the territory (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Jan 19 at 1600, Sudan Radio Service ID names pronounced in English amid other language, colloquial Arabic? Also contact info, srs@edc.org and phone numbers not pronounced in English. Strumming instrument in background, F-G signal. This is daily 15-17, 250 kW, 114 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL.
17700, weaker Jan 19 at 1602, very similar music in background of non-// announcement from the separate SRS hour for Darfur, per Aoki in Arabic, 16-17 daily except Fridays, 250 kW, 65 degrees from ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 11860, since BBCWS in English is sometimes heard in the 13-14 hour, such as Jan 18, likely an overrun by GUIANA FRENCH scheduled 1215-1300 only, I am hoping to catch a continuation with no break in transmission, Jan 19 around 1300. No such luck today, off the air at 1259:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9640, Jan 19 at 1249, VOA news in English, poor with ACI from CVC Chile music 9635. Surprised to find VOA here, as used to be on 9645 via Thailand, but not any more. HFCC shows 9640 as due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 12-13 daily plus 13-14 weekends, the latter presumably with ``Jazz America``, which has been missing from 9760.
9760, after missing or sporadic appearances, VOA Tinang, PHILIPPINES is back with very good signal Jan 19 at 1505, after news, introducing English teaching, and special English, i.e. ``New Dynamic English`` and ``Funxioning in Business`` during first half; UT-half hour news, then ``The Health Report``, and ``Explorations``. 1506 starts NDE with Max & Cathy (Kathy?). No breaks in transmission so far and still there at recheck later in the hour.
15460, Jan 19 at 1605 I am hearing exactly the same special English intro as on 9760 an hour earlier; this is via Lampertheim, GERMANY, 100 kW, 132 degrees at 16-17 only.
13750, VOA Spanish news about Hu`s visit to Washington, Jan 9 at 1333 interrupted for quick frequency announcement, 9885, 13750 and 15590. Finally, they have corrected 13715 to 13750 weeks after it really changed. 13750 itself was VG now, but 15590 still poor; what a difference 1.84 MHz makes in the MUF from NC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, Jan 19 at 0659, WINB this night is S9+18 instead of S0, usual wobbling carrier, tale of Narnia, lofi feed from Radio 2:11, and much worse audio when a bit of music plays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI, Wed Jan 19 at 1630, first airing of new WORLD OF RADIO 1548 confirmed, not jammed. Further chances: Thu 0430, 1600, 2200-probably jammed, Fri 1530, Sat 0900, 1500, 1830-jammed last week.
We expect to be back on WWCR, Fri 2130 on 7465 which had a transmitter problem last week; and Sat 1700 on 12160 which had been occupied by another program`s bonus broadcast.
WOR also: on WBCQ, Wed and Thu 2000 on 7415; on WWRB, UT Fri 0430 on 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050-, Jan 9 at 0709, country music peaks S9+8 and sounds like the strongest I have yet heard this third harmonic of 1350 KWMO Washington MO near St Louis. 0711, ``From Waylon Jennings to [missed; what`s the opposite of him?], we`ve got you covered in Country``; really cranking out the sesquiwatts tonight, but some fades below noise level; 0714 the usual YL DJ, syndicated or local? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4800, shortly after sunrise in Enid, Jan 19 at 1348, a fluttery signal with some music vs CODAR; CNR Geermu or AIR Hyderabad? Also something on 4920, Chennai or Lhasa? Jim Young in California says you can isolate Lhasa by // 4905, but RTTY blox it until 1400. So I kept checking 4905, but today the RTTY kept going, at 1408, 1430, 1441, even 1503 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9779.5-SSB, 2-way intruders in Spanish, Mexican accent, Jan 19 at 1523 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
