** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 has now been missing since last heard at 1339 May 30: June 3 chex without any carrier detectable at 1235, 1250 and several more times until 1400. Or could it be that the `sweet spot` for propagation has moved away from here? But no one else is reporting it, either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15400, June 3 at 1258, closing show until next week, referencing http://planetsport.tv Sounds like a BBC announcer, but this wouldn`t be on HCJB unless it had a stealth evangelical agendum.
Website shows it does originate in UK, emphasising cricket, rugby and soccer, so hardly full-planetary! Seemingly secular but is a `Tip for Real Living` required to be inserted? And: ``Planet Sport is produced every Wednesday and broadcast between Thursday and Saturday on more than 20 radio stations in countries including Australia, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and UK.``
1259 instrumental hymn fill music snippet, 1300 sign-off from ``HCJB Global Voice Australia, until tomorrow morning at 2200 UTC on 15525; good night.`` S9+18 signal here, then tuned to their other transmitter:
15340, HCJB GVA, June 3 at 1300 with Hindi? hymn, well over Moroccan 15341 het. By 1402, SNRT had already shifted to 15345v clearing 15340 for HCJB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 3: bandscanning up from 1225, nothing from 7970 until 13130 at 1232:
10970, very poor at 1357, not earlier
13130, good at 1232
14900, very good at 1234
14950, very good but with ute QRM at 1233; good at 1351; none in 12`s
15280, fair at 1348 with het, // 13130. 15280 unusual, but Aoki shows why: 15279, V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN at 1330-1400
15430, poor at 1347
15545, poor at 1320
15970, poor at 1237
16100, fair at 1237; very poor at 1359
16980, JBA with flutter at 1359
17170, I keep checking for this one, but not heard for some time
13830, fair at 1305 and 1352 with CNR1 jamming // 11990. Aoki shows victim as R. Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14, inaudible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, June 3 at 1311 perfunctory check for VOI reveals off-frequency carrier is there registering S9+12 but JBM such that I can`t be sure if it`s really in English. Meanwhile, 9680 RRI domestic relay at 1312 hits S9+22 with good modulation during hyper commercial in Indonesian including English terms ``opportunity``, ``and win``, ``International Expo``, none of which can apparently be expressed in pure Indonesian? This shows where the priorities are at RRI/VOI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. By 1402 June 3, SNRT had already shifted to 15345v in Arabic, clearing 15340 for HCJB AUSTRALIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 9630, REE via COSTA RICA back on correct frequency ex-9675, June 3 at 0533 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, fair June 3 at 1322, VOT sign-off by OM claims this has been the ``1330-1430 broadcast on 15520 to Asia, 15450 to Europe``. More than two months into A-11 they still haven`t a clue in the studio about their real times and frequencies. Worse, these announcements are obviously read live from script by different announcers, rather than canned like on many stations, which would offer a minor excuse for perpetuating such misinformation about their own operations. Then IS played; I counted five boring times before losing interest as the variations on piano have been eliminated; if you`ve heard it once, that`s enough. Maybe went on for another minute before cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1567 monitoring. First airing 1500 UT Thursday June 2 on 9955 WRMI, but not confirmed. Second airing at 2100 not confirmed either, but after 2130, when Studio DX in Italian is scheduled, 9955 was WONJ (wall-of-noise jamming) by the DCJC (DentroCuban Jamming Command). Confirmed on WRMI webcast Friday 1430. Next airings are Saturday 0800, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730.
Also confirmed the new 1567 on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast at 0300 Friday, to be repeated 2-hourly thru 2330; and on WWRB 5050 webcast at 0330 Friday. Started very low audio level, but turned up within a minute.
Ron Norton of IPAR has advised us that WOR will not air this Saturday at 1800 on 7290, which will be off air all weekend due to maintenance, but back next week. How about on the MW relays in Italy, 1566 and 1368 kHz?
WORLD OF RADIO back on Saturday nights, WaveScan
The June 1 WWCR program schedule
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
shows the Saturday night `DX Block` has returned, with different composition, CDT on 4840 = 0145-0300 UT Sundays:
8:45P Ask WWCR WWCR Staff 0145
9:00P WaveScan Adrian Peterson 0200
9:30P World of Radio Glenn Hauser 0230
`WaveScan` is also shown at 1630 UT Saturday on 12160 after WORLD OF RADIO at 1600, but that will knock out Ask WWCR at 1645 which is still listed. It replaces the defunct 15-minute `DX Partyline`. The other WORLD OF RADIO airings remain, Friday 2030 on 15825, Sunday 0630 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, WTWW-3, which seemed finally to be in full operation as of June 1, gone again June 3, no signal at 1232 nor further checks until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, WINB hasn`t disappeared again, June 3 at 1232, but today WEWN is very strong on 13580, slushing 13570 severely. When will these gospel huxters ever learn to give WEWN a wider berth, as this defect from one of her transmitters has been allowed to go on year after year? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15795, new frequency from WWRB remains absent, June 3 at 1303, just China vs India radio war; last heard May 26 at 1333.
It did get registered with HFCC, dated from 27 March even tho it was not even thought of until May!
15795 1000 0100 4,9,27,37 WRB 100 45 1234567 270311 301011 D USA FCC
CIRAF target numbers mean E Canada, W Europe, NW Africa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11830, June 3 at 1355, WYFR closing Bible study about Boaz --- sounds like a much younger Harold Camping before his voice was cracking, maybe sesquidecades ago. They must be dredging up old tapes like University Network does with DGS, yet HC liveth. Also on many // including 17555, which at 1357 outroed as ``Family Bible Study``, part 8 on Ruth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, the irregular KJES on the air June 3 at 1356 to S9+15 level but JBM, singing with guitar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14422-SSB, June 3 at 1349 intermittent 2-way in Italian, one side barely audible. Says ``cambio`` for ``over`` just like the SS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** AUSTRALIA. 15400, June 3 at 1258, closing show until next week, referencing http://planetsport.tv Sounds like a BBC announcer, but this wouldn`t be on HCJB unless it had a stealth evangelical agendum.
Website shows it does originate in UK, emphasising cricket, rugby and soccer, so hardly full-planetary! Seemingly secular but is a `Tip for Real Living` required to be inserted? And: ``Planet Sport is produced every Wednesday and broadcast between Thursday and Saturday on more than 20 radio stations in countries including Australia, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa and UK.``
1259 instrumental hymn fill music snippet, 1300 sign-off from ``HCJB Global Voice Australia, until tomorrow morning at 2200 UTC on 15525; good night.`` S9+18 signal here, then tuned to their other transmitter:
15340, HCJB GVA, June 3 at 1300 with Hindi? hymn, well over Moroccan 15341 het. By 1402, SNRT had already shifted to 15345v clearing 15340 for HCJB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 3: bandscanning up from 1225, nothing from 7970 until 13130 at 1232:
10970, very poor at 1357, not earlier
13130, good at 1232
14900, very good at 1234
14950, very good but with ute QRM at 1233; good at 1351; none in 12`s
15280, fair at 1348 with het, // 13130. 15280 unusual, but Aoki shows why: 15279, V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN at 1330-1400
15430, poor at 1347
15545, poor at 1320
15970, poor at 1237
16100, fair at 1237; very poor at 1359
16980, JBA with flutter at 1359
17170, I keep checking for this one, but not heard for some time
13830, fair at 1305 and 1352 with CNR1 jamming // 11990. Aoki shows victim as R. Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14, inaudible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, June 3 at 1311 perfunctory check for VOI reveals off-frequency carrier is there registering S9+12 but JBM such that I can`t be sure if it`s really in English. Meanwhile, 9680 RRI domestic relay at 1312 hits S9+22 with good modulation during hyper commercial in Indonesian including English terms ``opportunity``, ``and win``, ``International Expo``, none of which can apparently be expressed in pure Indonesian? This shows where the priorities are at RRI/VOI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. By 1402 June 3, SNRT had already shifted to 15345v in Arabic, clearing 15340 for HCJB AUSTRALIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 9630, REE via COSTA RICA back on correct frequency ex-9675, June 3 at 0533 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, fair June 3 at 1322, VOT sign-off by OM claims this has been the ``1330-1430 broadcast on 15520 to Asia, 15450 to Europe``. More than two months into A-11 they still haven`t a clue in the studio about their real times and frequencies. Worse, these announcements are obviously read live from script by different announcers, rather than canned like on many stations, which would offer a minor excuse for perpetuating such misinformation about their own operations. Then IS played; I counted five boring times before losing interest as the variations on piano have been eliminated; if you`ve heard it once, that`s enough. Maybe went on for another minute before cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1567 monitoring. First airing 1500 UT Thursday June 2 on 9955 WRMI, but not confirmed. Second airing at 2100 not confirmed either, but after 2130, when Studio DX in Italian is scheduled, 9955 was WONJ (wall-of-noise jamming) by the DCJC (DentroCuban Jamming Command). Confirmed on WRMI webcast Friday 1430. Next airings are Saturday 0800, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730.
Also confirmed the new 1567 on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast at 0300 Friday, to be repeated 2-hourly thru 2330; and on WWRB 5050 webcast at 0330 Friday. Started very low audio level, but turned up within a minute.
Ron Norton of IPAR has advised us that WOR will not air this Saturday at 1800 on 7290, which will be off air all weekend due to maintenance, but back next week. How about on the MW relays in Italy, 1566 and 1368 kHz?
WORLD OF RADIO back on Saturday nights, WaveScan
The June 1 WWCR program schedule
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
shows the Saturday night `DX Block` has returned, with different composition, CDT on 4840 = 0145-0300 UT Sundays:
8:45P Ask WWCR WWCR Staff 0145
9:00P WaveScan Adrian Peterson 0200
9:30P World of Radio Glenn Hauser 0230
`WaveScan` is also shown at 1630 UT Saturday on 12160 after WORLD OF RADIO at 1600, but that will knock out Ask WWCR at 1645 which is still listed. It replaces the defunct 15-minute `DX Partyline`. The other WORLD OF RADIO airings remain, Friday 2030 on 15825, Sunday 0630 on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, WTWW-3, which seemed finally to be in full operation as of June 1, gone again June 3, no signal at 1232 nor further checks until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, WINB hasn`t disappeared again, June 3 at 1232, but today WEWN is very strong on 13580, slushing 13570 severely. When will these gospel huxters ever learn to give WEWN a wider berth, as this defect from one of her transmitters has been allowed to go on year after year? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15795, new frequency from WWRB remains absent, June 3 at 1303, just China vs India radio war; last heard May 26 at 1333.
It did get registered with HFCC, dated from 27 March even tho it was not even thought of until May!
15795 1000 0100 4,9,27,37 WRB 100 45 1234567 270311 301011 D USA FCC
CIRAF target numbers mean E Canada, W Europe, NW Africa
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11830, June 3 at 1355, WYFR closing Bible study about Boaz --- sounds like a much younger Harold Camping before his voice was cracking, maybe sesquidecades ago. They must be dredging up old tapes like University Network does with DGS, yet HC liveth. Also on many // including 17555, which at 1357 outroed as ``Family Bible Study``, part 8 on Ruth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715-, the irregular KJES on the air June 3 at 1356 to S9+15 level but JBM, singing with guitar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14422-SSB, June 3 at 1349 intermittent 2-way in Italian, one side barely audible. Says ``cambio`` for ``over`` just like the SS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###