** ALBANIA. 13625, R. Tirana, March 30 at 1439 is slightly stronger on the meter than adjacent 13620 IBB Kuwait, but less readable due to low modulation despite being in English vs Urdu. Not that I understand Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, March 30, still no show from LRA36 at 1310 and later chex. Sawa now QRMs from 15470 until 1330; see USA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake March 30:
8400, fair March 30 at 1250; no others found up to 18 MHz by 1317, but plenty more later:
12240, very poor at 1346 // 15900
12600, poor at 1346, not // 15670 but // 15900
13130, very poor at 1347
13500, poor at 1347 // 15670
15520, fair at 1338 // 8400, and also a het circa 15522. A-11 Aoki not available yet, and nothing to account for this in B-10, but likely either peripatetic clandestine Sound of Hope, or Voice of Tibet
15540, very poor at 1353, not positive it`s FD; hi side het like 15520
15670, poor with flutter at 1342 // 15520. Same comment as 15520
15900, poor at 1342, not // 15670
16100, good at 1349 // 15670
16980, fair at 1348 // 15670
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. On March 28 I caught RHC on 6050 until 1300*, unscheduled frequency surely blocking HCJB again in the mornings if on from *1100. Did not have a chance to check it March 29, but March 30 at 1115, 6050 is not on, just usual 6000, 6095, 6140 and 6150, 49 mb overkill enough for RHC Spanish, and 6050 with presumed HCJB vs the constant het from off-frequency Malaysia (how bad is that in the Amazon?). Same at 1235, still no RHC on 6050, so perhaps it was really a mistake on March 28.
6030, R. Martí still clear of jamming March 30 at 1240 // jammed 7405 as the DCJC must still be out of synch with RM`s A-11 schedule. News about México; the DentroCubans must be so envious of their great, free neighbor to the west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, March 30 at 1403 ID in English, drumming, poor signal and just logged to confirm it`s still on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 11805-11810-11815, March 30 at 0522, DRM noise, so we can forget about hearing RBC, Goiânia 11815 during this semihour. Listed as RRI in French to France. Would everyone in France or anywhere axually listening to this DRM broadcast please raise their hands? I`ll settle for a réponse from any reader of this message (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, March 30 at 1246, R. Rossii with rock music, in English, // 5940; 1259 R. Rossii closing ID, timesignal three sesquiseconds late, not as far off as it used to be, and open carrier remained on for a sesquiminute. 5930 is the A-11 replacement for Pet/Kam on 6075 in B-seasons, and one UT hour earlier.
6075 was frequently accompanied by CW on 6074, VVV CQ marker from 8GAL or 2MTL right around 1400, but never a sign of anything like that near 5930. 5940 keeps being registered as Okhotsk but WRTH shows Arman = Magadan.
13870, March 30 at 1320 good in Russian with slogan as ``Radio Bolshoi Strane`` [great country], i.e. VOR via St Pete, 200 kW, 145 degrees at 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 15170, March 30 at 0513, fluttery Qur`an under something in Chinese. Once again this A-season, BSKSA HQS is back here at 03-06, 500 kW, 355 degrees from Riyadh, but like so many other frequencies, China spoils this at 04-06, via Kashgar, then Jinhua. BSKSA could still lullaby us clearly before 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11880, REE via COSTA RICA again in Basque at 1235 check March 30; tried // 5970 but too buried under listed YFR via Komsomol`sk/Amure, DVR to be sure.
Don`t you believe this schedule which shows 5970 the entire three hours 1200-1500 both in Spanish and Basque!
http://www.bclnews.it/a11schedules/ree.htm
17595, // 21610, CR 11880, token English world news headlines from REE March 30 at 1435-1437.5 this time by Justin Coe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9890, HSK9, R. Thailand, March 30 at 1255 ID, as news but then commentary that Thailand should get submarines like Vietnam and China; 1259 says at half-hour mark in the news hour, mentions several FM frequencies before this 1230 semi-hour cuts off. Fair signal, and Greenville VOA Spanish 9885 no stronger, so not a problem on this occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, March 30 at 1322, VOT 1230 English concluding with news headlines by YL who talks far too fast and indistinctly: another one trying to flaunt her fluency by speaking incomprehensibly rather than clearly, like any good SW announcer should. She also gave the old expired B-10 time and frequencies for this as 1330 on 11735, 12035! Doesn`t she even know what Universal time it is in the studio? Just read the script, please, don`t engage brain.
Only time for a few repeats of the VOT piano IS until 1325* --- but enough to tell that they have eliminated the multiple variations, so each repeat is identical! What a shame! It wasn`t broken, but they `fixed` it. I think I have the whole thing recorded somewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, for the first time since it allegedly changed 9405 to 13570 for overnight broadcasts, WINB audible and with VG signal, March 30 at 0510, Radio 2:11. 22m was really hopping this night with lots of other signals, all overseas. 14670 CHU was also unusually audible at this hour. Are these wild fluxuations in WINB audibility solely due to propagation, or also operation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17750, not only is 16m propagating in the nightmiddle, just barely past equinox, March 30 at 0515, but revealing collisions, here between R. Australia in English and the only other thing listed, VOA Kurdish, 250 kW due north from MADAGASCAR // 11905 Germany and 15130 Sri Lanka.
17855, another late signal, March 30 at 0517 in slow Chinese conversation, either R. Free Asia, 100 kW, 310 degrees from SAIPAN or ChiCom jamming. CRI English from Beijing site is also scheduled here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15470, yet another new frequency for R. Sawa, not yet seen on any updates, March 30 at 1310 from site unknown, with colloquial Arabic man-on-the-street comments about Libya, 1311 rock music in English; 1315 ID and akhbar; 1322 check already back in music; 1328 giving http://www.radiosawa.com and then more music until 1330 cut to ``Voice of America, Washington DC, signing off`` with YDD, and carrier a minute longer. Steady S9+15, much stronger than 15480 Woofferton relaying Poland, so 15470 will certainly impede LRA36, if and when it ever come back, and if R. Sawa really stay there. This is the first day on 15470, as I am sure I would have noticed if on during March 29`s LRA36 check. Originally planned for A-11 on 15470 at 13-14 was Brother Scare via Nauen, never heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR, March 30 at 1359 `Rock of Ages` on banjo(?), seems like turning up power as steadily stronger, 1400 no sign-on or even ID, into gospel huxter at a multi-night tent revival citing John IV:1. Iran collision is gone for A-11, only VOR is registered until 1500, unheard here, probably another of their countless wooden ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, KVOH, already underway March 30 at 1430, VG signal with Spanish gospel huxter; on March 29 it was starting at *1455:30. For A-11 it is registered to start at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17475, tuning a bit further down from Brother Scare on 17485 via Germany, March 30 at 1405-1410* I hear an `IS` of six notes repeated in AM mode. Three rising tones, and another three rising tones but starting lower than the first set; Anyone recognize? I may put up a clip of it later.
Utility? Searching the 32,854 posts so far in the UDXF yg on 17475 and 17.475 and 17,475 gets zero hits. Nothing on 17475 either in the 2002 Klingenfuss Shortwave Frequency Guide (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, March 30, still no show from LRA36 at 1310 and later chex. Sawa now QRMs from 15470 until 1330; see USA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake March 30:
8400, fair March 30 at 1250; no others found up to 18 MHz by 1317, but plenty more later:
12240, very poor at 1346 // 15900
12600, poor at 1346, not // 15670 but // 15900
13130, very poor at 1347
13500, poor at 1347 // 15670
15520, fair at 1338 // 8400, and also a het circa 15522. A-11 Aoki not available yet, and nothing to account for this in B-10, but likely either peripatetic clandestine Sound of Hope, or Voice of Tibet
15540, very poor at 1353, not positive it`s FD; hi side het like 15520
15670, poor with flutter at 1342 // 15520. Same comment as 15520
15900, poor at 1342, not // 15670
16100, good at 1349 // 15670
16980, fair at 1348 // 15670
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. On March 28 I caught RHC on 6050 until 1300*, unscheduled frequency surely blocking HCJB again in the mornings if on from *1100. Did not have a chance to check it March 29, but March 30 at 1115, 6050 is not on, just usual 6000, 6095, 6140 and 6150, 49 mb overkill enough for RHC Spanish, and 6050 with presumed HCJB vs the constant het from off-frequency Malaysia (how bad is that in the Amazon?). Same at 1235, still no RHC on 6050, so perhaps it was really a mistake on March 28.
6030, R. Martí still clear of jamming March 30 at 1240 // jammed 7405 as the DCJC must still be out of synch with RM`s A-11 schedule. News about México; the DentroCubans must be so envious of their great, free neighbor to the west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, VOAf from the GJ, March 30 at 1403 ID in English, drumming, poor signal and just logged to confirm it`s still on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 11805-11810-11815, March 30 at 0522, DRM noise, so we can forget about hearing RBC, Goiânia 11815 during this semihour. Listed as RRI in French to France. Would everyone in France or anywhere axually listening to this DRM broadcast please raise their hands? I`ll settle for a réponse from any reader of this message (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, March 30 at 1246, R. Rossii with rock music, in English, // 5940; 1259 R. Rossii closing ID, timesignal three sesquiseconds late, not as far off as it used to be, and open carrier remained on for a sesquiminute. 5930 is the A-11 replacement for Pet/Kam on 6075 in B-seasons, and one UT hour earlier.
6075 was frequently accompanied by CW on 6074, VVV CQ marker from 8GAL or 2MTL right around 1400, but never a sign of anything like that near 5930. 5940 keeps being registered as Okhotsk but WRTH shows Arman = Magadan.
13870, March 30 at 1320 good in Russian with slogan as ``Radio Bolshoi Strane`` [great country], i.e. VOR via St Pete, 200 kW, 145 degrees at 12-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 15170, March 30 at 0513, fluttery Qur`an under something in Chinese. Once again this A-season, BSKSA HQS is back here at 03-06, 500 kW, 355 degrees from Riyadh, but like so many other frequencies, China spoils this at 04-06, via Kashgar, then Jinhua. BSKSA could still lullaby us clearly before 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11880, REE via COSTA RICA again in Basque at 1235 check March 30; tried // 5970 but too buried under listed YFR via Komsomol`sk/Amure, DVR to be sure.
Don`t you believe this schedule which shows 5970 the entire three hours 1200-1500 both in Spanish and Basque!
http://www.bclnews.it/a11schedules/ree.htm
17595, // 21610, CR 11880, token English world news headlines from REE March 30 at 1435-1437.5 this time by Justin Coe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 9890, HSK9, R. Thailand, March 30 at 1255 ID, as news but then commentary that Thailand should get submarines like Vietnam and China; 1259 says at half-hour mark in the news hour, mentions several FM frequencies before this 1230 semi-hour cuts off. Fair signal, and Greenville VOA Spanish 9885 no stronger, so not a problem on this occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, March 30 at 1322, VOT 1230 English concluding with news headlines by YL who talks far too fast and indistinctly: another one trying to flaunt her fluency by speaking incomprehensibly rather than clearly, like any good SW announcer should. She also gave the old expired B-10 time and frequencies for this as 1330 on 11735, 12035! Doesn`t she even know what Universal time it is in the studio? Just read the script, please, don`t engage brain.
Only time for a few repeats of the VOT piano IS until 1325* --- but enough to tell that they have eliminated the multiple variations, so each repeat is identical! What a shame! It wasn`t broken, but they `fixed` it. I think I have the whole thing recorded somewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, for the first time since it allegedly changed 9405 to 13570 for overnight broadcasts, WINB audible and with VG signal, March 30 at 0510, Radio 2:11. 22m was really hopping this night with lots of other signals, all overseas. 14670 CHU was also unusually audible at this hour. Are these wild fluxuations in WINB audibility solely due to propagation, or also operation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17750, not only is 16m propagating in the nightmiddle, just barely past equinox, March 30 at 0515, but revealing collisions, here between R. Australia in English and the only other thing listed, VOA Kurdish, 250 kW due north from MADAGASCAR // 11905 Germany and 15130 Sri Lanka.
17855, another late signal, March 30 at 0517 in slow Chinese conversation, either R. Free Asia, 100 kW, 310 degrees from SAIPAN or ChiCom jamming. CRI English from Beijing site is also scheduled here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15470, yet another new frequency for R. Sawa, not yet seen on any updates, March 30 at 1310 from site unknown, with colloquial Arabic man-on-the-street comments about Libya, 1311 rock music in English; 1315 ID and akhbar; 1322 check already back in music; 1328 giving http://www.radiosawa.com and then more music until 1330 cut to ``Voice of America, Washington DC, signing off`` with YDD, and carrier a minute longer. Steady S9+15, much stronger than 15480 Woofferton relaying Poland, so 15470 will certainly impede LRA36, if and when it ever come back, and if R. Sawa really stay there. This is the first day on 15470, as I am sure I would have noticed if on during March 29`s LRA36 check. Originally planned for A-11 on 15470 at 13-14 was Brother Scare via Nauen, never heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, WJHR, March 30 at 1359 `Rock of Ages` on banjo(?), seems like turning up power as steadily stronger, 1400 no sign-on or even ID, into gospel huxter at a multi-night tent revival citing John IV:1. Iran collision is gone for A-11, only VOR is registered until 1500, unheard here, probably another of their countless wooden ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, KVOH, already underway March 30 at 1430, VG signal with Spanish gospel huxter; on March 29 it was starting at *1455:30. For A-11 it is registered to start at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17475, tuning a bit further down from Brother Scare on 17485 via Germany, March 30 at 1405-1410* I hear an `IS` of six notes repeated in AM mode. Three rising tones, and another three rising tones but starting lower than the first set; Anyone recognize? I may put up a clip of it later.
Utility? Searching the 32,854 posts so far in the UDXF yg on 17475 and 17.475 and 17,475 gets zero hits. Nothing on 17475 either in the 2002 Klingenfuss Shortwave Frequency Guide (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###