** CHINA [non]. VOA isn`t the only station having problems getting its transmissions going before news starts at hourtops: 13675, CRI English via Sackville March 17 at 1400 with RCI IS and ID, 1400:30 JIP news. Then I check 13740 // via CUBA: open carrier until JIP news at 1402:30. Inverted pyramid style of newscast organization, top story given first, is thus thwarted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11590, R. Cairo with OK modulation March 17 at 0052 during Arabic music; 0058 dead air, and then 5+1 timesignal ending at 0059:19* --- such a way-off TS is worse than none at all. Who do they think they are kidding? News theme, and news in Arabic. This frequency also has English at 2300-2430, which is usually just barely modulated, at best, unchecked this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, RNGE, March 17 at 0543, Spanish talking about events the last few years in Malabo. Fair with usual ute bursts on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 9755, excellent signal in English, March 17 at 0523 plugging http://www.dwworld.de [which morphs to correct http://www.dw-world.de site] and then interesting report on how Spain is replete with immigrants, but their numbers are now declining due to high unemployment rate, many going back. Cut off abruptly in mid-word at 0527*!
This could be mistaken for a North American service, but it`s really 250 kW, 295 degrees from RWANDA for W Africa, also USward. Indeed it is registered only until 0527, but back at the studios they ignore this little problem cutting off their produxions before they can complete. Couldn`t Kigali spare another sesquiminute or two? It`s not like some third party is doing the relaying!! O yeah, who cares about SW --- no doubt not cut off on webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, Galei Tsahal has been here for some weeks but rarely more than a trace of a signal here until now: March 17 at 1505 in Hebrew, only poor but clearly mentions ``Galei Tsáhal`` just as I tune in. Seems I have been misstressing it as Tsahál, yet no one told me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [non]. 9955, WRMI at 0519 March 17 blocked by wall-of-noise jamming, so Kol Israel WRN relay now an hour earlier at 0500-0515 Tue-Sat must also be blocked, tnx to incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9770, March 17 at 0521 poor signal in English discussing complex disasters, as Japan`s. Didn`t realize it was axually R. Japan until 0528 giving Tokyo stox; 0529 NHK World sign-off until next English at 1000; also squeezed in frequencies for this 0500 including 9770, 5975, and I could have heard it clearly via Canada on 6110. They even announced sites: 9770 Issoudun, FRANCE; 5975 Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, R. Kuwait, March 17 at 1500 VG S9+18, SSOB with beautiful Qur`an singing, no Spain cochannel by now, still Qur`aning when cut off abruptly at 1502.5*. Allah`ll get `em for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, fair signal and good modulation, March 17 at 1409 in English ID, African music; 1415 YL with ``a special program`` on ``The Jamahiriyah, ideal system for governance`` or something like that. Still no 21695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11650, March 17 at 1329, unaware of the irony, ``Mission: Impossible`` theme by Lalo Schifrin in neat electronified version, R. Teos ID in Russian, mentioning Moscow time, 1330 into a Turkic language. G signal but ACI from NHK/Sackville 11655. This is KFBS, per Aoki going from Kazakh to Kyrgyz, 323 degrees from Marpi.
Axually, it`s not ironic if you go past the literal title, as ``impossible`` missions were accomplished in the erstwhile TV series. altho they were never evangelical in nature (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 17580, March 17 at 1421 dead air, tho had heard Brother Scare on earlier tuneby; finally cut back on at 1425. No, I did not waste 4 minutes listening to nothing, meanwhile tuning on main receiver. 1503 recheck noted an IAD. 17580 is via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15710, March 17 at 1428, African music, M&W in colloquial Arabic, 1434 mentions Sudan, so must really be Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA as scheduled, unlike March 15 when had English religion. I suspect that when IRRS loses feed, they default to other fill programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15105, March 17 at 1510, English interview re refugees on the Ivory Coast/Liberia border, then Libyan rebels appear to be losing. Sounds like BBC African service, but if one were list-logging by HFCC, one would also see Pakistan on 15105 in Urdu and English until 1530. It is really BBCWS via SOUTH AFRICA in English at 1500-1530 and no Pak really on 15105, that being a perpetual wooden registration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1556 monitoring: first airing, Wednesday March 16 at 2115 confirmed on WBCQ 7415, poor signal here, but nothing reaching us from Kashgar which probably blox it in Europe. We were blocked for part of a minute at 2117 by much stronger ``running water`` ute, which starts with a brief tone. Such are the risks of extending broadcasting into a utility band. Couldn`t stay and monitor the entire semihour on 7415, but recorded webcast and there were no breaks in that.
At 2115 I also checked 9955 and found it jamming-free, as due to DST, WRMI is signing on an hour earlier weekdays, Weds with gospel huxter, but maybe this Thursday at 2100 WOR will not be jammed, until Cuba gets back in synch with EDT. First 9955 airing at 0330 UT Thursday was ruined by wall-of-noise jamming, but confirmed on WRMI webcast. Next at 1500 Thursday was not jammed, except for bleed from 9965, but very poor signal and vs overload from WWCR 9980.
Further WRMI airings of WOR are: Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1400, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WWRB: UT Friday 0330 on 2390. On WWCR: Friday 2030 on 7465, Saturday 1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215. On IPAR: Saturday 1900 on 6090, 1566, 1368 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9405, WINB, March 17 at 0531 is very poor in Radio 2:11, but with BFO I can easily recognize its perpetually warbly carrier. No BBC to be heard on 9410, but Greece was good on 9420. Guess what --- this was a notable end-times log. Leonardo Bolli, Italy, reports to DXLD:
```9405, WINB, Red Lion, 0840-0845, Mar 17, rlg tlk in EE with sermon "word of God...", 44444. Hans from WINB wrote to me: "Hi Leonardo - I was very surprised that you heard us on 9405 kHz. The reason is that from March 13th, we were suppose to stop using 9405 and go to 13570. The board operator made a mistake and didn't switch to the correct frequency last night."```
Since propagation is so unreliable overnight on 9405, how can it be any better by going 4+ MHz higher? IF MUF cooperates it may get out further but skip over more of NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17475, distorted spur spikes around here at 1458 March 17. Naturally, prime suspect was KVOH 17775, already on before 1500 with VG signal, but no match there: instead, matches modulation on WYFR 17555. Still at 1518 spreading 17460-17500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11960, March 17 at 0052, traditional music singing and drumming, same ditty over and over; 0054 brief Arabic announcement and off at 0054.6*. Checking HFCC, Aoki and EiBi later, besides CNR1, the only thing scheduled here is Romania in Spanish to South America! Wide variety of music RRI plays can fool you, but I think I can tell Arabic from Spanish. Wrong language by mistake? Jordan also uses this frequency, but supposedly only at 0500-0600. Need to check this another night. IIRC, 11960 was once a Mali frequency; compare to 5995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17505-SSB, March 17 at 1422, colloquial Spanish 2-way among 2 or 3 stations, swearing, whistling, rude noises, so poachers or narcos? The only word I understood was ``c*ño`` [self-censored removing the o in deference to SS DX lists; Google translate provides eight naughty words]. Slightly off this frequency compared to 21505 Sa`udi, but before I could decide which side, they were gone by 1426 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** EGYPT. 11590, R. Cairo with OK modulation March 17 at 0052 during Arabic music; 0058 dead air, and then 5+1 timesignal ending at 0059:19* --- such a way-off TS is worse than none at all. Who do they think they are kidding? News theme, and news in Arabic. This frequency also has English at 2300-2430, which is usually just barely modulated, at best, unchecked this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, RNGE, March 17 at 0543, Spanish talking about events the last few years in Malabo. Fair with usual ute bursts on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 9755, excellent signal in English, March 17 at 0523 plugging http://www.dwworld.de [which morphs to correct http://www.dw-world.de site] and then interesting report on how Spain is replete with immigrants, but their numbers are now declining due to high unemployment rate, many going back. Cut off abruptly in mid-word at 0527*!
This could be mistaken for a North American service, but it`s really 250 kW, 295 degrees from RWANDA for W Africa, also USward. Indeed it is registered only until 0527, but back at the studios they ignore this little problem cutting off their produxions before they can complete. Couldn`t Kigali spare another sesquiminute or two? It`s not like some third party is doing the relaying!! O yeah, who cares about SW --- no doubt not cut off on webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, Galei Tsahal has been here for some weeks but rarely more than a trace of a signal here until now: March 17 at 1505 in Hebrew, only poor but clearly mentions ``Galei Tsáhal`` just as I tune in. Seems I have been misstressing it as Tsahál, yet no one told me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [non]. 9955, WRMI at 0519 March 17 blocked by wall-of-noise jamming, so Kol Israel WRN relay now an hour earlier at 0500-0515 Tue-Sat must also be blocked, tnx to incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9770, March 17 at 0521 poor signal in English discussing complex disasters, as Japan`s. Didn`t realize it was axually R. Japan until 0528 giving Tokyo stox; 0529 NHK World sign-off until next English at 1000; also squeezed in frequencies for this 0500 including 9770, 5975, and I could have heard it clearly via Canada on 6110. They even announced sites: 9770 Issoudun, FRANCE; 5975 Rampisham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, R. Kuwait, March 17 at 1500 VG S9+18, SSOB with beautiful Qur`an singing, no Spain cochannel by now, still Qur`aning when cut off abruptly at 1502.5*. Allah`ll get `em for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, fair signal and good modulation, March 17 at 1409 in English ID, African music; 1415 YL with ``a special program`` on ``The Jamahiriyah, ideal system for governance`` or something like that. Still no 21695 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11650, March 17 at 1329, unaware of the irony, ``Mission: Impossible`` theme by Lalo Schifrin in neat electronified version, R. Teos ID in Russian, mentioning Moscow time, 1330 into a Turkic language. G signal but ACI from NHK/Sackville 11655. This is KFBS, per Aoki going from Kazakh to Kyrgyz, 323 degrees from Marpi.
Axually, it`s not ironic if you go past the literal title, as ``impossible`` missions were accomplished in the erstwhile TV series. altho they were never evangelical in nature (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 17580, March 17 at 1421 dead air, tho had heard Brother Scare on earlier tuneby; finally cut back on at 1425. No, I did not waste 4 minutes listening to nothing, meanwhile tuning on main receiver. 1503 recheck noted an IAD. 17580 is via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 15710, March 17 at 1428, African music, M&W in colloquial Arabic, 1434 mentions Sudan, so must really be Miraya FM via IRRS via SLOVAKIA as scheduled, unlike March 15 when had English religion. I suspect that when IRRS loses feed, they default to other fill programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15105, March 17 at 1510, English interview re refugees on the Ivory Coast/Liberia border, then Libyan rebels appear to be losing. Sounds like BBC African service, but if one were list-logging by HFCC, one would also see Pakistan on 15105 in Urdu and English until 1530. It is really BBCWS via SOUTH AFRICA in English at 1500-1530 and no Pak really on 15105, that being a perpetual wooden registration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1556 monitoring: first airing, Wednesday March 16 at 2115 confirmed on WBCQ 7415, poor signal here, but nothing reaching us from Kashgar which probably blox it in Europe. We were blocked for part of a minute at 2117 by much stronger ``running water`` ute, which starts with a brief tone. Such are the risks of extending broadcasting into a utility band. Couldn`t stay and monitor the entire semihour on 7415, but recorded webcast and there were no breaks in that.
At 2115 I also checked 9955 and found it jamming-free, as due to DST, WRMI is signing on an hour earlier weekdays, Weds with gospel huxter, but maybe this Thursday at 2100 WOR will not be jammed, until Cuba gets back in synch with EDT. First 9955 airing at 0330 UT Thursday was ruined by wall-of-noise jamming, but confirmed on WRMI webcast. Next at 1500 Thursday was not jammed, except for bleed from 9965, but very poor signal and vs overload from WWCR 9980.
Further WRMI airings of WOR are: Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1400, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WWRB: UT Friday 0330 on 2390. On WWCR: Friday 2030 on 7465, Saturday 1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215. On IPAR: Saturday 1900 on 6090, 1566, 1368 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9405, WINB, March 17 at 0531 is very poor in Radio 2:11, but with BFO I can easily recognize its perpetually warbly carrier. No BBC to be heard on 9410, but Greece was good on 9420. Guess what --- this was a notable end-times log. Leonardo Bolli, Italy, reports to DXLD:
```9405, WINB, Red Lion, 0840-0845, Mar 17, rlg tlk in EE with sermon "word of God...", 44444. Hans from WINB wrote to me: "Hi Leonardo - I was very surprised that you heard us on 9405 kHz. The reason is that from March 13th, we were suppose to stop using 9405 and go to 13570. The board operator made a mistake and didn't switch to the correct frequency last night."```
Since propagation is so unreliable overnight on 9405, how can it be any better by going 4+ MHz higher? IF MUF cooperates it may get out further but skip over more of NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17475, distorted spur spikes around here at 1458 March 17. Naturally, prime suspect was KVOH 17775, already on before 1500 with VG signal, but no match there: instead, matches modulation on WYFR 17555. Still at 1518 spreading 17460-17500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11960, March 17 at 0052, traditional music singing and drumming, same ditty over and over; 0054 brief Arabic announcement and off at 0054.6*. Checking HFCC, Aoki and EiBi later, besides CNR1, the only thing scheduled here is Romania in Spanish to South America! Wide variety of music RRI plays can fool you, but I think I can tell Arabic from Spanish. Wrong language by mistake? Jordan also uses this frequency, but supposedly only at 0500-0600. Need to check this another night. IIRC, 11960 was once a Mali frequency; compare to 5995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17505-SSB, March 17 at 1422, colloquial Spanish 2-way among 2 or 3 stations, swearing, whistling, rude noises, so poachers or narcos? The only word I understood was ``c*ño`` [self-censored removing the o in deference to SS DX lists; Google translate provides eight naughty words]. Slightly off this frequency compared to 21505 Sa`udi, but before I could decide which side, they were gone by 1426 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###