** ALBANIA. 13735, Oct 15 at 1840 standing by for R. Tirana English which sometimes comes on this early, but still zero signal at 1846 tho various others are incoming on 22m, e.g. 13750 YFR due south from Wertachtal. Assumed R. Tirana off again, but recheck at 1852 found it on at end of news, then a feature about a scientific conference in Shkodër; S9+12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 15 at 1855, `Caribbean Beacon` off again, only a weak carrier from something, maybe CRI Kashgar if not France about to start Algeria; while fellow Caribe RHC had pre-English sufficient open carrier on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6924.7 AM, UT Sat Oct 15 at 0515, R. True North is getting to be an easy pirate to log, ID immediately upon intuning, timecheck as 0515; 0516 introducing song called ``Silence``; rated S9+12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 15, starting with unusual ME/Asian opening:
16100, very poor at 0539, none higher
15970, very poor at 0538
14700, poor at 0542
13970, very poor at 0542
Before 1230:
16100, good with flutter at 1219
15900, good with flutter at 1219
14650, fair at 1221
13130, poor at 1221
12230, poor at 1221; none in the ``s, 10s, 7s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GOA. 11715, Oct 14 at 2138, AIR music // much stronger 11670, but bothered at *2140-2141* by open carrier on 11710, something tuning up? 11715 at 2045-2230 is notable only for being the only English broadcast from the Panaji, Goa site, for NASWAns a separate radio country since Goa was once a Portuguese colony. (Two other AIR transmissions on 11715 are from other sites, per Aoki.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, Oct 14 at 2037, EZL music, with squishyspur QRM around 15628 from VG 15610 WEWN +9 +9 kHz parasitic. Has anyone determined the new schedule spans for V of Greece frequencies? This one is never on any more by 1400, nor is 9420 on by 0500. 15630, Oct 15 at 1756 sounds like Romanian folk music; 1906 playing piano-jazz variations on ``Summertime``. VOG`s commitment to being our mostly-music SW station is much appreciated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Oct 15 at 1132, TGAV in Japanese, not just an ID, but still past 1136 with continuous musical bed, not Hammond. Now sermonizing to convert some DXer from Shinto? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15530, Oct 15 at 0526, choral music, rather distorted, and fluttery, 0527 soft instrumental music; 0530 choral NA, Spanish sign-on of LV de la República Islámica de Irán, Santo Corán reading, or rather singing, #204; 0533 full schedule of IRIB Spanish on SW including this // 17530, but 16m is closed while 19m is much wider open than usual at this hour with lots of Eu/ME/Af signals. Also gives p- and e-mail address (requiring the English palabra ``Spanish``), website, 0536 giving date in both calendars, program summary ending with `Debate Semanal`, news theme and finally at 0537 news by YL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, Oct 15 at 0537, song on fair signal peaking S9+5, presumably Galei Zahal in superior nightmiddle ME conditions; also heard at 1902 but very poor in talk presumed Hebrew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 15 I am standing by for R. Kuwait to come on and so it does at *1755, good signal with pop music in progress, 1757 Urdu announcement and more music as tail of this service gets tacked onto early-opening English trihour. 1759 brief NA on military band, 1800 accurate 5+1 timesignal, English ID, same NA again as they always do, assuming no one is really listening from 1759 to 1801 when once is enough. Then sign-on with MW, FM and imaginary SW frequency 11990; program summary, right into talk about Islam, which was really Sunni-slanted, but what would you expect? 1815 outro as something about the ``righly-guided caliph``; culture-shock: into autotuned pop, rap music; content approved by Islamists? 1830 `major` newscast mostly about Kuwait and ME, but ending with NZ oil spill, 1836 back to music. Good signal so far today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 15 at 0510, IGIM is already on with apparent call-ins, lo-quality phone/IP audio. MW DXers in ENAm have been getting their MW 783 and wanting to // it to SW 4845, but that`s been off for months and a single log lately has not been confirmed. In fact, Old Roy Barstow on Cape Cod tells me on Oct 15, he was getting both 783 and // 7245 as early as 0328 UT, no 4845. IGIM is not the only Arab which could be heard on 783, when on the air, with 50 kW; there`s also 300 kW from Syria and some weaker Algerians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. In yesterday`s log of 910 R. Disney being Salt Lake City, I mentioned its IBOC QRMing Mexican on 900, but forgot to include that log:
900, Oct 14 at 1227 UT, a talk in Spanish about astrobiología, i.e. life on other planets. Wish I could have heard it better, and long enough for an ID. IBOC QRM from 910, R. Disney in UT, but somewhat nullable. The usual station heard here around sunrise is the only one in NW Mexico, XEDT in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua.
Pre-sunrise MW DX, October 15 UT, with Cantú and then IRCA listings:
690, Oct 15 at 1201, Monterrey NL mentioned in full ID:
690 XERG RG La Deportiva Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 1,000
690 XERG NL Monterrey 10000 1000 La Deportiva 690, R-G 690 1200-0600 VAR GRC/ORO
800: see UNIDENTIFIED
1090, Oct 15 at 1157 UT tune-in, XEAU ID, 5000 watts, Multimedios Radio group.
1090 XEAU Milenio Radio (audio Milenio TV) Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500
1090 XEAU NL Monterrey 5000 250 La Más Buena 12000-0600 TRO ORO // XHPAG 103.7 FM, and quoting Cantú on TV audio
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 15 at 0528, VON is strong again, YL in English suggesting we listen to their Arabic service at 1730 on 15120, listing 8 languages aired, also French which at 2000 presents `Choix des auditeurs` request show. Offers QSL cards, stickers, ending mailbag show on Saturday with address PMB 4004 – something - something, Lagos; or englishvoice @ yahoo.com Program credits including host sounding like Kissett Gollett. Strong signal, but big hum and some distortion, grinding noise. At 0540 it`s S9+18 during interview about women in farming at a conference; now in addition to modulation defects, there is background noise from location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 15545, Oct 15 at 1753, poor signal as I am standing by for Kuwait 15540; Only listee in HFCC is IBB via Lampertheim, GERMANY at 17-18, 100 kW at 77 degrees. Aoki says it`s the `Caucasus Echo` service in Russian of RFE/RL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, Oct 14 at 2147, rapid ME music bits mixed with Arabic phone-ins, 2200 no break or ID but switch to YL talking; hum. Per Aoki is R. Riyadh, BSKSA General first program at 1755-2255, 500 kW, 295 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, Friday Oct 14 at 2036, WWCR with hokey drama and music, must still be `Unshackled` instead of some DX program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 15 at 1203 UT, ``KSAH, Universal City, Texas`` legal ID in English, right back to Spanish ID by SHVA [super-hype voice actor], also with an FM, and this is another ``La estación de la raza``, which in chicano terminology is not considered racist. It`s the one appropriately producing a sub-audible heterodyne with WGN most of the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 15 at 1204 UT, this early more than a semi-hour before LSR now, the extremely distorted station is dominating, and prime suspect remains:
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
800 XEDD NL Montemorelos 10000 [D] La Tremenda 24h BAL/RAN SMR Stereo
which no doubt anyone near the border could confirm in the daytime or deny (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 15 at 1855, `Caribbean Beacon` off again, only a weak carrier from something, maybe CRI Kashgar if not France about to start Algeria; while fellow Caribe RHC had pre-English sufficient open carrier on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6924.7 AM, UT Sat Oct 15 at 0515, R. True North is getting to be an easy pirate to log, ID immediately upon intuning, timecheck as 0515; 0516 introducing song called ``Silence``; rated S9+12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 15, starting with unusual ME/Asian opening:
16100, very poor at 0539, none higher
15970, very poor at 0538
14700, poor at 0542
13970, very poor at 0542
Before 1230:
16100, good with flutter at 1219
15900, good with flutter at 1219
14650, fair at 1221
13130, poor at 1221
12230, poor at 1221; none in the ``s, 10s, 7s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GOA. 11715, Oct 14 at 2138, AIR music // much stronger 11670, but bothered at *2140-2141* by open carrier on 11710, something tuning up? 11715 at 2045-2230 is notable only for being the only English broadcast from the Panaji, Goa site, for NASWAns a separate radio country since Goa was once a Portuguese colony. (Two other AIR transmissions on 11715 are from other sites, per Aoki.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, Oct 14 at 2037, EZL music, with squishyspur QRM around 15628 from VG 15610 WEWN +9 +9 kHz parasitic. Has anyone determined the new schedule spans for V of Greece frequencies? This one is never on any more by 1400, nor is 9420 on by 0500. 15630, Oct 15 at 1756 sounds like Romanian folk music; 1906 playing piano-jazz variations on ``Summertime``. VOG`s commitment to being our mostly-music SW station is much appreciated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Oct 15 at 1132, TGAV in Japanese, not just an ID, but still past 1136 with continuous musical bed, not Hammond. Now sermonizing to convert some DXer from Shinto? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 15530, Oct 15 at 0526, choral music, rather distorted, and fluttery, 0527 soft instrumental music; 0530 choral NA, Spanish sign-on of LV de la República Islámica de Irán, Santo Corán reading, or rather singing, #204; 0533 full schedule of IRIB Spanish on SW including this // 17530, but 16m is closed while 19m is much wider open than usual at this hour with lots of Eu/ME/Af signals. Also gives p- and e-mail address (requiring the English palabra ``Spanish``), website, 0536 giving date in both calendars, program summary ending with `Debate Semanal`, news theme and finally at 0537 news by YL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 15850, Oct 15 at 0537, song on fair signal peaking S9+5, presumably Galei Zahal in superior nightmiddle ME conditions; also heard at 1902 but very poor in talk presumed Hebrew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 15 I am standing by for R. Kuwait to come on and so it does at *1755, good signal with pop music in progress, 1757 Urdu announcement and more music as tail of this service gets tacked onto early-opening English trihour. 1759 brief NA on military band, 1800 accurate 5+1 timesignal, English ID, same NA again as they always do, assuming no one is really listening from 1759 to 1801 when once is enough. Then sign-on with MW, FM and imaginary SW frequency 11990; program summary, right into talk about Islam, which was really Sunni-slanted, but what would you expect? 1815 outro as something about the ``righly-guided caliph``; culture-shock: into autotuned pop, rap music; content approved by Islamists? 1830 `major` newscast mostly about Kuwait and ME, but ending with NZ oil spill, 1836 back to music. Good signal so far today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 15 at 0510, IGIM is already on with apparent call-ins, lo-quality phone/IP audio. MW DXers in ENAm have been getting their MW 783 and wanting to // it to SW 4845, but that`s been off for months and a single log lately has not been confirmed. In fact, Old Roy Barstow on Cape Cod tells me on Oct 15, he was getting both 783 and // 7245 as early as 0328 UT, no 4845. IGIM is not the only Arab which could be heard on 783, when on the air, with 50 kW; there`s also 300 kW from Syria and some weaker Algerians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. In yesterday`s log of 910 R. Disney being Salt Lake City, I mentioned its IBOC QRMing Mexican on 900, but forgot to include that log:
900, Oct 14 at 1227 UT, a talk in Spanish about astrobiología, i.e. life on other planets. Wish I could have heard it better, and long enough for an ID. IBOC QRM from 910, R. Disney in UT, but somewhat nullable. The usual station heard here around sunrise is the only one in NW Mexico, XEDT in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua.
Pre-sunrise MW DX, October 15 UT, with Cantú and then IRCA listings:
690, Oct 15 at 1201, Monterrey NL mentioned in full ID:
690 XERG RG La Deportiva Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 1,000
690 XERG NL Monterrey 10000 1000 La Deportiva 690, R-G 690 1200-0600 VAR GRC/ORO
800: see UNIDENTIFIED
1090, Oct 15 at 1157 UT tune-in, XEAU ID, 5000 watts, Multimedios Radio group.
1090 XEAU Milenio Radio (audio Milenio TV) Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500
1090 XEAU NL Monterrey 5000 250 La Más Buena 12000-0600 TRO ORO // XHPAG 103.7 FM, and quoting Cantú on TV audio
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 15 at 0528, VON is strong again, YL in English suggesting we listen to their Arabic service at 1730 on 15120, listing 8 languages aired, also French which at 2000 presents `Choix des auditeurs` request show. Offers QSL cards, stickers, ending mailbag show on Saturday with address PMB 4004 – something - something, Lagos; or englishvoice @ yahoo.com Program credits including host sounding like Kissett Gollett. Strong signal, but big hum and some distortion, grinding noise. At 0540 it`s S9+18 during interview about women in farming at a conference; now in addition to modulation defects, there is background noise from location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 15545, Oct 15 at 1753, poor signal as I am standing by for Kuwait 15540; Only listee in HFCC is IBB via Lampertheim, GERMANY at 17-18, 100 kW at 77 degrees. Aoki says it`s the `Caucasus Echo` service in Russian of RFE/RL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, Oct 14 at 2147, rapid ME music bits mixed with Arabic phone-ins, 2200 no break or ID but switch to YL talking; hum. Per Aoki is R. Riyadh, BSKSA General first program at 1755-2255, 500 kW, 295 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, Friday Oct 14 at 2036, WWCR with hokey drama and music, must still be `Unshackled` instead of some DX program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, Oct 15 at 1203 UT, ``KSAH, Universal City, Texas`` legal ID in English, right back to Spanish ID by SHVA [super-hype voice actor], also with an FM, and this is another ``La estación de la raza``, which in chicano terminology is not considered racist. It`s the one appropriately producing a sub-audible heterodyne with WGN most of the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 15 at 1204 UT, this early more than a semi-hour before LSR now, the extremely distorted station is dominating, and prime suspect remains:
800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500
800 XEDD NL Montemorelos 10000 [D] La Tremenda 24h BAL/RAN SMR Stereo
which no doubt anyone near the border could confirm in the daytime or deny (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)