17170, JBA at 2348; no others audible from 15 to 20 MHz
Firedrake Sept 11:
7970, very poor at 1224
10300, poor at 1231 with flutter, over CCI maybe really Sound of Hope
11500, poor at 1251 with flutter like 10300; none in the 12s
13920, JBA at 1252, none in the 14s, 15s or 16s. Overall propagation very
poor today, altho K-index at 12 was only 1; at 15, built up to 3.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non]. 7375, Sept 11 at 0000 Hrvatski Radio ID and news in
Croatian on non-summer frequency via GERMANY, just changed Sept 7, ex-9925.
Good but with slight reverb sound caused by more than one transmitter not
precisely synchronized, and/or scattering up from South America? The current
overlapping 7375 schedule as in HFCC for the rest of A-11, all 100 kW
Wertachtal, no more Nauen, so from 23 to 03 there are two transmitters:
2200-0300, 240 degrees to S&C Am, Caribbean
2300-0100, 300 degrees to USA, E Canada and Mexico
0100-0300, 315 degrees to Canada, USA, Mexico
0300-0500, 330 degrees to western Canada & USA, Mexico
And 100 kW, 140 degrees via Singapore to Au/NZ:
0800-1200 11675
[non non]. To complete the schedule, direct from 100 kW, non-direxional
Deanovec, Croatia itself:
0500-1800 7410
1800-0500 3985
1800-2030 6165
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. Another day of trying to monitor the strange new frequency of
17625, Sept 10: on the home rig, tune-in at 1900 to find open carrier, a lot
stronger than another OC on 15270, which is the scheduled frequency for a
sesquihour of R. Cairo English to W Africa. Nothing audible on wooden
registered // 11510. 17625 ranged from S6 to peaks of S9+10 so if it were
normally modulated, reception would have been sufficient. At 1901 I make out
the Cairo theme, and some just-barely-modulated talk, which was softer than
the mere sounds of fading on the signal! 1904 some singing, seems like
Qur`an, as is typical of Cairo openings. 1914 some JBM talk; meanwhile no
modulation audible on 15270, may have been similarly JBM but just too weak a
signal in the first place. At 1932 no modulation audible on 17625; 1940
increases to JBM, and so it went until cut off at 1955:28* about the same
time as previous days, while at 1956, 15270 still had a JBA carrier (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise tuning Sept 11, UT:
850, at 1207 after NA, in KOA null, ``Chihuahua, Chihuahua`` and 5,000 watts
mentioned in sign-on, ergo per Cantú:
850 XEM Radio Renacimiento Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500
A relog, also 920 XEHQ Hermosillo, Sonora; 650 XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa is
in every morning too (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, Sept 11 at 1210 UT, talkshow in perfect English on WKY,
interview about some public-service organization, 1212 called `Sunday
Morning Magazine`, and cut to adstring in exaggerated super-hyped Spanish,
this station`s usual language, but forced to pronounce some advertiser names
more or less in English. A few minutes later they were back in English
magazine show.
Website http://www.laindomable.com/ does not even include a program
schedule, and does not find that program title even when internally
searched! So for the uninitiated, WKY can seem 100% Spanish, as asserted by
upper-left block ``Al Aire``: La Indomable from 12 am to 12 am; and ``next
up``: La Indomable. But why do they bother with any English? Perhaps some
perceived public-service obligation? So beware: if you hear English on 930
for at least half an hour on Sunday mornings, it could be OK! (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880, Sunday Sept 11 at 1232, REE via COSTA RICA very good,
ending `Informativo Fin de Semana` and into `Amigos de la Onda Corta`, so
this must be its precise start-time after headlines. As usual, opening
segment is called ``Noticias DX`` but there is not a single SW time or
frequency mentioned. So-called ``DX`` news is really general media news,
mostly having nothing to do with SW. Later, interview with REE`s Russian
service, i.e. the single lady who does it, who won some sort of award,
mentioning how they present Russian programs from the defunct Russian SW
services of Slovakia and Czechia, with special QSLs issued by the
originating stations, as already reported in DXLD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9760, Sept 11 at 1259, VOA YDD sign-on, 1300 VOA 9/11
coverage mixing with CRI English, the brutes, which will not concede the
frequency, a legacy VOA channel if there is one. HFCC shows for 13-14 UT,
VOA now wants it only on weekends via TINIAN, 250 kW, 305 degrees, while CRI
has Kunming on it daily with 500 kW, 135 degrees, officially to
non-overlapping targets, but I bet the collision in SE Asia is horrendous,
let alone in OK (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13830, Sept 10 at 1936, WEWN Spanish has audio continually
breaking up, altho the carrier is steady at S9+18. // 12050 is not breaking
up. Next check at 2351, 13830 is weaker but still breaking up. Is no one
paying attention at Vandiver to their own output? Then why should any
listener? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, Sept 10 at 2355, WINB with soft hymn, distorted modulation,
rather like WEWN on 13830; as always, even when modulation sounds OK, the
WINB carrier is warbling, obviously unsteady with BFO engaged. Distortion
far less than on Qahira 9305.
The extent of defective transmitters on shortwave, yet remaining in service
continues to amaze (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925.1 AM, Sept 11 at 0457, pirate claiming to be live from a
party at 979 Perry(? or similar) Road. Carrier is slightly unstable, hard to
zero-beat but not as bad as the pros at Red Lion. Music with a heavy steady
beat continued thru TOH past 0505; 0511 announcement ``We`re live on ----
Radio``, but couldn`t copy it in fade. 0512:40 a minute of dead air,
0513:40, ``test 1, 2``, more music including beeping past 0518 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
