** ANTARCTICA. 15476, still no trace of a signal from LRA36, Monday Jan 24 at 1358, almost 2.5 months since the last log. Summer vacation or staff rotation time is almost over? We may hope for a revival in February as sometimes happens (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 13363-LSB, Jan 24 at 2228 once again today there is a very weak broadcast relay with music, IDed yesterday as R. Rivadavia, but it could now be a different station input (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6065, Jan 25 at 1436, motorboating noise, mixing with talk, seems Chinese, also music, very distorted, cuts off but only for a few sex, at 1440:27 during which I could not hear anything else; presumably a monitoring check by Jammer Central in Beijing.
Aoki shows nothing but CNR2 on 6065 at 1200-1605, 150 kW, 220 degrees from Beijing 491 site, China Business Radio; and EiBi shows an English semi-hour from same at 1430. Only HFCC displays what might be target of jamming, BBC via S Korea at 1300-1530, 250 kW, 290 degrees, no language but Mandarin likely
7295, Jan 25 at 1443, CNR1 echoing, to jam VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, Russia, 200 kW, 111 degrees. // 7445 which is jamming R. Taiwan International in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5936, considerable het on PMS from WWCR 5935 which was not up to full strength, Jan 25 at 0633; is spur from R. República via ELCOR, Guápiles, on 5954.2v, matched by another carrier but no audio detectable circa 5972, both approx., while wall-of-noise jamming on 5955 itself prevented any RR from being heard on fundamental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Jan 21 press release from BBG, via Clara Listensprechen, about a ``groundbreaking new program`` on R. Martí, ``El Revoltillo``, i.e. classified ads, tradio for DentroCubans, daily at 1530-1600 UT. WTFK? Of course not mentioned, but we know them well, as do the DentroCuban Jamming Command: 15330, 13820, 11930.
Does this show on the RM program grid displaying current dates at
http://www.martinoticias.com/RDprogramacion.aspx
As of Jan 21, of course not, instead Periodismo.com! But by Jan 25 Revoltillo does show during this semihour, M-F only, NOT daily. Still marked as EDT and consequently wrong GMT conversion as pm, ``14:30``, with Periodismo.com remaining on weekends. And still displays Major League Baseball on Friday evenings! Sure. So they update part of the schedule, but not all of it.
I check this out Jan 25 at 1541 when 15330 is well atop the jamming. W&M anchors seem to be having a good time, joking around, but plenty of participation, with phone numbers, and/or e-mail addresses, mostly yahoo.es or gmail from anonymous people risking everything to engage in private capitalism!
One was selling Rosetta Stone language courses; at 1548 someone advertises that he will make home repairs of microwaves, with 6-month guarantee. I assume this is about ovens rather than satellite receivers. 1556, Ruben wants to rent a car in good condition for at least a month. Congrats to RM which has come up with an excellent new way to undermine The System. This also proves RM does have listeners in Cuba, unless of course everything is made up, which would quickly backfire. PR translates the name as ``Scramble`` but it could also connote ``A little revolt`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, Jan 25 at 0648, HD2IOA with Spanish timesignals every ten sex, and for once the QRhaM is ACI, not CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Jan 24 at 2225, S9+15 with ``Tony Alamo`` talking about being damned; the child-``marrying`` and convicted evangelist should know about that from his federal prison cell. With continuing crackles, and transmitter strength drop-downs every few sex, but not totally dropping off the air. No ZYE522 audible to mix this time. R. Africa transmitter is really ailing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 25 at 1431, AFN very poor with music, 1432 W&M DJs discussing bears and packers, about exotic meat processing? ``This is country`` and back to music. Continues to be absent some days, and we hope on occasion reverting to news/talk format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 25 at 1424, some signal with talk barely audible in high local noise level, presumably RRI Makassar which was just reported Jan 24 to have reactivated after several months, discovered by Phil Finkle, K6EID in GA and by Ron Howard in CA; unfortunately I was not up any earlier to hear it for sure yet. Also seemed to be a second carrier on slightly different frequency, China, China, or Bangladesh. Ron measured RRI at 4749.94 until 1559* Jan 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 13790, VIRI, Jan 24 at 1355 Arabic with long/shortpath echo, // stronger signal on 13800 with no echo. Furthermore, 13800 and 13790 are an echo apart from each other, obviously different sites. HFCC shows 13790 is 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad, while 13800 is 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan, both until 1430. K is near Teheran, while Z is on the eastern border next to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tri-country area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5910, Tue Jan 25 at 1428, Japanese, piano music, 1429 Shiokaze ID, and finally ``JSR desu``; fair signal until 1430* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 24 at 0629, only open carrier from XEPPM when it is supposed to be relaying RFI. This is happening too frequently; wake up in the cabina! Where no doubt much greater attention is devoted to same programming on XEEP 1060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, Jan 24 at 1500, bells, R. Blagovest sign-on in Russian, flutter, via RVA. Also audible around 1515 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, Jan 25 at 0629, DW German in the clear with no motorboating-rumble from Pet/Kam! And Ron Howard found it had been fixed the previous morning --- but for how long? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, RTT, Jan 25 interrupted music at 0626:12, and cut off the air 10 sex later at 0626:22*, leaving carrier with little if any modulation, presumably R. Nigeria, Abuja (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7410, Jan 24 at 0632 good signal in German, DW, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Woofferton.
7425, Jan 24 at 0632, good signal in Russian, BBC, 500 kW, 62 degrees from Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1681, tnx to many monitors closer to the Great Lakes who IDed the source of my het on 1680 as off-frequency WPRR, Ada MI, Public Reality Radio. One report had them back on 1680, before I heard 1681 again, Jan 24 at 0643 UT, so it was recurring.
I have no idea what kind of transmitter they are using, but could someone familiar with AM outsenders explain how this could happen? AM units are normally fixed on one frequency and of course there is no need to be able to switch them, unlike frequency-agile international SW transmitters with a keypad making it quite possible to manually punch in the wrong frequency. Or does the WPRR unit have a 1-kHz-step tuning knob someone could bump? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, Jan 25 at 1422, ID in passing as ``570 KLIF``, adstring, SAH. It`s KKLF, Richardson TX in The Metroplex, which is supposedly simulcasting another Dallas station, ``The Ticket``, KTCK-1310, but previously ran KLIF as implied by the call letters. Speculation is that no one is paying attention to which station goes out on 1700, and it still might be either one. I have no interest in listening to either, stupid ballgames or farrightwingnuts. Supposedly they both have local coverage gaps needing 1700 to fill in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, Jan 24 at 1458, still no WWRB with Brother Scare, but still audible on 3185. QSY time varies widely between 13 and 15 UT, it seems, depending on when someone wakes up or gets to work (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15115, Jan 24 at 2226 WYFR in proper language, Arabic. My inquiry to Okeechobee led to an investigation in Oakland, finally revealing that the other language I had heard on occasion during part of this Arabic half-sesquihour (also at 2100 on 11665) was: Burmese! Due to some kind of mixup in the playout. That`s what I thought the language sounded like, but could not imagine why they would have it on in the middle of the Myanmarianese night, and on frequencies to Europe, Africa, so had wondered if it was Yoruba, another tonal language (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4079.5, Jan 25 at 0640, very weak beacon on CW slowly sending repeatedly nothing but TMP 44, presumably meaning the temperature is 44 F at its secret transmitter site in the middle of somewhere. Should be listed at http://www.highfrequencybeaconsociety.com/
but not getting anything beyond the almost-blank homepage.
This was dealt with in DXLD 11-01, when it was TMP 45 on 4079.6, with references to the Mojave Desert and
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=2029.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ARGENTINA. 13363-LSB, Jan 24 at 2228 once again today there is a very weak broadcast relay with music, IDed yesterday as R. Rivadavia, but it could now be a different station input (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6065, Jan 25 at 1436, motorboating noise, mixing with talk, seems Chinese, also music, very distorted, cuts off but only for a few sex, at 1440:27 during which I could not hear anything else; presumably a monitoring check by Jammer Central in Beijing.
Aoki shows nothing but CNR2 on 6065 at 1200-1605, 150 kW, 220 degrees from Beijing 491 site, China Business Radio; and EiBi shows an English semi-hour from same at 1430. Only HFCC displays what might be target of jamming, BBC via S Korea at 1300-1530, 250 kW, 290 degrees, no language but Mandarin likely
7295, Jan 25 at 1443, CNR1 echoing, to jam VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, Russia, 200 kW, 111 degrees. // 7445 which is jamming R. Taiwan International in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5936, considerable het on PMS from WWCR 5935 which was not up to full strength, Jan 25 at 0633; is spur from R. República via ELCOR, Guápiles, on 5954.2v, matched by another carrier but no audio detectable circa 5972, both approx., while wall-of-noise jamming on 5955 itself prevented any RR from being heard on fundamental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Jan 21 press release from BBG, via Clara Listensprechen, about a ``groundbreaking new program`` on R. Martí, ``El Revoltillo``, i.e. classified ads, tradio for DentroCubans, daily at 1530-1600 UT. WTFK? Of course not mentioned, but we know them well, as do the DentroCuban Jamming Command: 15330, 13820, 11930.
Does this show on the RM program grid displaying current dates at
http://www.martinoticias.com/RDprogramacion.aspx
As of Jan 21, of course not, instead Periodismo.com! But by Jan 25 Revoltillo does show during this semihour, M-F only, NOT daily. Still marked as EDT and consequently wrong GMT conversion as pm, ``14:30``, with Periodismo.com remaining on weekends. And still displays Major League Baseball on Friday evenings! Sure. So they update part of the schedule, but not all of it.
I check this out Jan 25 at 1541 when 15330 is well atop the jamming. W&M anchors seem to be having a good time, joking around, but plenty of participation, with phone numbers, and/or e-mail addresses, mostly yahoo.es or gmail from anonymous people risking everything to engage in private capitalism!
One was selling Rosetta Stone language courses; at 1548 someone advertises that he will make home repairs of microwaves, with 6-month guarantee. I assume this is about ovens rather than satellite receivers. 1556, Ruben wants to rent a car in good condition for at least a month. Congrats to RM which has come up with an excellent new way to undermine The System. This also proves RM does have listeners in Cuba, unless of course everything is made up, which would quickly backfire. PR translates the name as ``Scramble`` but it could also connote ``A little revolt`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, Jan 25 at 0648, HD2IOA with Spanish timesignals every ten sex, and for once the QRhaM is ACI, not CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Jan 24 at 2225, S9+15 with ``Tony Alamo`` talking about being damned; the child-``marrying`` and convicted evangelist should know about that from his federal prison cell. With continuing crackles, and transmitter strength drop-downs every few sex, but not totally dropping off the air. No ZYE522 audible to mix this time. R. Africa transmitter is really ailing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 25 at 1431, AFN very poor with music, 1432 W&M DJs discussing bears and packers, about exotic meat processing? ``This is country`` and back to music. Continues to be absent some days, and we hope on occasion reverting to news/talk format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 25 at 1424, some signal with talk barely audible in high local noise level, presumably RRI Makassar which was just reported Jan 24 to have reactivated after several months, discovered by Phil Finkle, K6EID in GA and by Ron Howard in CA; unfortunately I was not up any earlier to hear it for sure yet. Also seemed to be a second carrier on slightly different frequency, China, China, or Bangladesh. Ron measured RRI at 4749.94 until 1559* Jan 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 13790, VIRI, Jan 24 at 1355 Arabic with long/shortpath echo, // stronger signal on 13800 with no echo. Furthermore, 13800 and 13790 are an echo apart from each other, obviously different sites. HFCC shows 13790 is 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad, while 13800 is 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan, both until 1430. K is near Teheran, while Z is on the eastern border next to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tri-country area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5910, Tue Jan 25 at 1428, Japanese, piano music, 1429 Shiokaze ID, and finally ``JSR desu``; fair signal until 1430* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 24 at 0629, only open carrier from XEPPM when it is supposed to be relaying RFI. This is happening too frequently; wake up in the cabina! Where no doubt much greater attention is devoted to same programming on XEEP 1060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9570, Jan 24 at 1500, bells, R. Blagovest sign-on in Russian, flutter, via RVA. Also audible around 1515 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075, Jan 25 at 0629, DW German in the clear with no motorboating-rumble from Pet/Kam! And Ron Howard found it had been fixed the previous morning --- but for how long? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA [and non]. 7275, RTT, Jan 25 interrupted music at 0626:12, and cut off the air 10 sex later at 0626:22*, leaving carrier with little if any modulation, presumably R. Nigeria, Abuja (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7410, Jan 24 at 0632 good signal in German, DW, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Woofferton.
7425, Jan 24 at 0632, good signal in Russian, BBC, 500 kW, 62 degrees from Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1681, tnx to many monitors closer to the Great Lakes who IDed the source of my het on 1680 as off-frequency WPRR, Ada MI, Public Reality Radio. One report had them back on 1680, before I heard 1681 again, Jan 24 at 0643 UT, so it was recurring.
I have no idea what kind of transmitter they are using, but could someone familiar with AM outsenders explain how this could happen? AM units are normally fixed on one frequency and of course there is no need to be able to switch them, unlike frequency-agile international SW transmitters with a keypad making it quite possible to manually punch in the wrong frequency. Or does the WPRR unit have a 1-kHz-step tuning knob someone could bump? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1700, Jan 25 at 1422, ID in passing as ``570 KLIF``, adstring, SAH. It`s KKLF, Richardson TX in The Metroplex, which is supposedly simulcasting another Dallas station, ``The Ticket``, KTCK-1310, but previously ran KLIF as implied by the call letters. Speculation is that no one is paying attention to which station goes out on 1700, and it still might be either one. I have no interest in listening to either, stupid ballgames or farrightwingnuts. Supposedly they both have local coverage gaps needing 1700 to fill in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, Jan 24 at 1458, still no WWRB with Brother Scare, but still audible on 3185. QSY time varies widely between 13 and 15 UT, it seems, depending on when someone wakes up or gets to work (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15115, Jan 24 at 2226 WYFR in proper language, Arabic. My inquiry to Okeechobee led to an investigation in Oakland, finally revealing that the other language I had heard on occasion during part of this Arabic half-sesquihour (also at 2100 on 11665) was: Burmese! Due to some kind of mixup in the playout. That`s what I thought the language sounded like, but could not imagine why they would have it on in the middle of the Myanmarianese night, and on frequencies to Europe, Africa, so had wondered if it was Yoruba, another tonal language (Glenn Hauser, OK, Jan 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4079.5, Jan 25 at 0640, very weak beacon on CW slowly sending repeatedly nothing but TMP 44, presumably meaning the temperature is 44 F at its secret transmitter site in the middle of somewhere. Should be listed at http://www.highfrequencybeaconsociety.com/
but not getting anything beyond the almost-blank homepage.
This was dealt with in DXLD 11-01, when it was TMP 45 on 4079.6, with references to the Mojave Desert and
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=2029.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###