** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake July 23:
11500, good at 1237
12980, fair at 1238
13130, very good at 1243
13920, fair-good at 1236; poor at 1258
14700, fair-good at 1244
14950, fair-good at 1244
15900, fair-good at 1244
CNR1 jamming (among many other usuals):
15330, poor at 1301. Blocking BBC Uzbek via Oman; standard remark about China interfering in internal affairs of other countries, etc.
15230, poor at 1301, CNR1 mixing with RHC. No target known to Aoki, EiBi, HFCC or me, but anyway, it`s Commies vs Commies!
13650, July 23 at 1240, CRI English via ALBANIA // 13790 via Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN, but 13650 is mixed with something producing a rumbling SAH. In HFCC you would not find any collision, but you sure would in Aoki: V. of Korea on here for many hours, including this hour in Korean, to be followed at 1300 by --- Chinese! Commies vs Commies again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9530, July 23 at 1231, RHC // 9550, apparent mix with CRI Chinese relay on 9570. In such leapfrogs one normally hears mostly audio from the further frequency, not the fulcrum, but 9570 is as always very undermodulated altho strong in strength. 9530 remains audible with max attenuation, aside weak Indonesia 9526- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA, jamming Cuba
** GREECE. 11645, July 22 at 0516, Greek(?) songs on R. Filia service. They keep changing language segments and never heard any announcements to ascertain now. Not // definitely Greek talk on main ERA5 service, 9420 and 15630, not 15650 [date is correct; inadvertently omitted from my previous report] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Bits of signals from south appeared now and then mostly on channel 2, all evening July 22 from 2232 into UT July 23, but nothing developed. The sporadic E season normally is starting to decline by late July, but it has been plenty heavy earlier in July and June.
Turn-on and tune-in at 1437 UT July 23 found heavy Es CCI from south on 2, 3, less so on 4; 1440 peaked to ch 5, net 5 with Smurfs, then also on 3 but weakening; 1513 on 2, net-5 more Smurfs, but MUF drops below 2 by 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17820 log in last report of Greenville carrier/tone test at 1313-1314* had typo in the date. It was really July 22, not 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, July 23 at 0550, WTJC out of whack again; respite as in last report was far too brief. Not only is the S9+18 fundamental very distorted, but spurs cover the 9340-9400 range.
Even worse at 1233 July 23: 9370 extremely distorted, and strong spurs from 9335 to 9400; one peak around 9385 where WWRB has not yet signed on. Apparently nobody at the FCC, let alone FBN, cares about this POS polluting the SW spectrum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9635, July 23 at 1229, CVC La Voz, Miami via CHILE, promoting some sort of contest for a $1000 prize based on guessing who wins the Copa América sillyballgames. Seems the good Christians at Vision have plenty of dough to regale and no qualms about games of chance. But only if you listen in Spanish. In fact their homepage http://cvclavoz.com has Copa América as wallpaper; what has that to do with evangelism?? Details from http://cvclavoz.com/concursos/ ---
``Tema del Concurso --- Viviendo la emoción deportiva del fútbol, CVC la voz presenta su concurso ¡Copa América en CVC! Mientras crece la expectativa en cada juego, los oyentes tendrán la oportunidad de participar apostando a su equipo favorito. Hay $1.000 de premio que se dividirán en dos partes. El día 13 de julio se escogerá a una persona de nuestra audiencia entre quienes hayan contestado la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuál será el primer equipo de cada grupo?
``¿Qué puedo ganar? El ganador recibirá $500 y podrá seguir participando para responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Quién ganará "La Copa América"?. El día 23 de julio se seleccionará un correo electrónico entre los que hayan acertado con su respuesta y el oyente recibirá $500.``
So it`s a drawing among correct answers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13580, July 23 at 1241 as I tune in WEWN, nothing but loud hum/squeal, apparently during pause in snail-paced live mass designed for TV. Then cuts intermittently to OK modulation during sung passages. As always, accompanied by constant squishy spurs plus and minus 9 kHz which will disrupt any fellow broadcasters foolish enough to schedule themselves only 10 kHz from this mess of a mass (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, July 23 at 1244, WINB escaped the spur from WEWN 13580 by not being on the air, nor on its only other frequency 9265. WINB used to be active in mornings, especially Saturdays.
WINB left its long-outdated March 13 program schedule up for months at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm claiming 24/7 which didn`t last long after Rod Hembree discovered that all-night broadcasts on WBCQ 9330 were far more effective; but when I wasn`t looking, WINB has put up a newer one dated July 3. Headed by reduced frequency schedule in EDT:
13570 kHz, 1415 - 1659 [1815-2059 UT]
9265 kHz, 1700 - 2230 [2100-0230 UT]
So start at 2100 to look for 9265 x 2 on 18530.
Yet the program timings below would produce this UT schedule; length of final programs never displayed, so we just add a plus to 0200.
Sun 1300-0200+
Mon-Thu 1815-0200+
Fri 1845-0200+
Sat 1900-0200+
No more relays of Fámily Radio, no surprise there, nor anything in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15370, July 23 at 1301 station in French news, 1302 a clip in English mentioning al-Shabab; poor with splash from Cuba 15360. Only thing scheduled here is BBC; HFCC and EiBi say Somali via Cyprus; Aoki says English via South Africa. All agree it`s on Saturdays only at 1300-1600. I think I can tell French from Somali!
BBC is not scheduled on any frequency for French at this hour. Searching latest DXLD 11-29 on 15370 gets no hits, including the drastic site and schedule changes prompted by the Iranian armsdump explosion on Cyprus destroying the power station and curtailing the BBC relays. Hmmm, maybe it was really English service and the French I heard first was the clip. Should have listened longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
11500, good at 1237
12980, fair at 1238
13130, very good at 1243
13920, fair-good at 1236; poor at 1258
14700, fair-good at 1244
14950, fair-good at 1244
15900, fair-good at 1244
CNR1 jamming (among many other usuals):
15330, poor at 1301. Blocking BBC Uzbek via Oman; standard remark about China interfering in internal affairs of other countries, etc.
15230, poor at 1301, CNR1 mixing with RHC. No target known to Aoki, EiBi, HFCC or me, but anyway, it`s Commies vs Commies!
13650, July 23 at 1240, CRI English via ALBANIA // 13790 via Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN, but 13650 is mixed with something producing a rumbling SAH. In HFCC you would not find any collision, but you sure would in Aoki: V. of Korea on here for many hours, including this hour in Korean, to be followed at 1300 by --- Chinese! Commies vs Commies again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9530, July 23 at 1231, RHC // 9550, apparent mix with CRI Chinese relay on 9570. In such leapfrogs one normally hears mostly audio from the further frequency, not the fulcrum, but 9570 is as always very undermodulated altho strong in strength. 9530 remains audible with max attenuation, aside weak Indonesia 9526- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA, jamming Cuba
** GREECE. 11645, July 22 at 0516, Greek(?) songs on R. Filia service. They keep changing language segments and never heard any announcements to ascertain now. Not // definitely Greek talk on main ERA5 service, 9420 and 15630, not 15650 [date is correct; inadvertently omitted from my previous report] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Bits of signals from south appeared now and then mostly on channel 2, all evening July 22 from 2232 into UT July 23, but nothing developed. The sporadic E season normally is starting to decline by late July, but it has been plenty heavy earlier in July and June.
Turn-on and tune-in at 1437 UT July 23 found heavy Es CCI from south on 2, 3, less so on 4; 1440 peaked to ch 5, net 5 with Smurfs, then also on 3 but weakening; 1513 on 2, net-5 more Smurfs, but MUF drops below 2 by 1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17820 log in last report of Greenville carrier/tone test at 1313-1314* had typo in the date. It was really July 22, not 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, July 23 at 0550, WTJC out of whack again; respite as in last report was far too brief. Not only is the S9+18 fundamental very distorted, but spurs cover the 9340-9400 range.
Even worse at 1233 July 23: 9370 extremely distorted, and strong spurs from 9335 to 9400; one peak around 9385 where WWRB has not yet signed on. Apparently nobody at the FCC, let alone FBN, cares about this POS polluting the SW spectrum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9635, July 23 at 1229, CVC La Voz, Miami via CHILE, promoting some sort of contest for a $1000 prize based on guessing who wins the Copa América sillyballgames. Seems the good Christians at Vision have plenty of dough to regale and no qualms about games of chance. But only if you listen in Spanish. In fact their homepage http://cvclavoz.com has Copa América as wallpaper; what has that to do with evangelism?? Details from http://cvclavoz.com/concursos/ ---
``Tema del Concurso --- Viviendo la emoción deportiva del fútbol, CVC la voz presenta su concurso ¡Copa América en CVC! Mientras crece la expectativa en cada juego, los oyentes tendrán la oportunidad de participar apostando a su equipo favorito. Hay $1.000 de premio que se dividirán en dos partes. El día 13 de julio se escogerá a una persona de nuestra audiencia entre quienes hayan contestado la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuál será el primer equipo de cada grupo?
``¿Qué puedo ganar? El ganador recibirá $500 y podrá seguir participando para responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Quién ganará "La Copa América"?. El día 23 de julio se seleccionará un correo electrónico entre los que hayan acertado con su respuesta y el oyente recibirá $500.``
So it`s a drawing among correct answers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13580, July 23 at 1241 as I tune in WEWN, nothing but loud hum/squeal, apparently during pause in snail-paced live mass designed for TV. Then cuts intermittently to OK modulation during sung passages. As always, accompanied by constant squishy spurs plus and minus 9 kHz which will disrupt any fellow broadcasters foolish enough to schedule themselves only 10 kHz from this mess of a mass (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, July 23 at 1244, WINB escaped the spur from WEWN 13580 by not being on the air, nor on its only other frequency 9265. WINB used to be active in mornings, especially Saturdays.
WINB left its long-outdated March 13 program schedule up for months at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm claiming 24/7 which didn`t last long after Rod Hembree discovered that all-night broadcasts on WBCQ 9330 were far more effective; but when I wasn`t looking, WINB has put up a newer one dated July 3. Headed by reduced frequency schedule in EDT:
13570 kHz, 1415 - 1659 [1815-2059 UT]
9265 kHz, 1700 - 2230 [2100-0230 UT]
So start at 2100 to look for 9265 x 2 on 18530.
Yet the program timings below would produce this UT schedule; length of final programs never displayed, so we just add a plus to 0200.
Sun 1300-0200+
Mon-Thu 1815-0200+
Fri 1845-0200+
Sat 1900-0200+
No more relays of Fámily Radio, no surprise there, nor anything in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15370, July 23 at 1301 station in French news, 1302 a clip in English mentioning al-Shabab; poor with splash from Cuba 15360. Only thing scheduled here is BBC; HFCC and EiBi say Somali via Cyprus; Aoki says English via South Africa. All agree it`s on Saturdays only at 1300-1600. I think I can tell French from Somali!
BBC is not scheduled on any frequency for French at this hour. Searching latest DXLD 11-29 on 15370 gets no hits, including the drastic site and schedule changes prompted by the Iranian armsdump explosion on Cyprus destroying the power station and curtailing the BBC relays. Hmmm, maybe it was really English service and the French I heard first was the clip. Should have listened longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###