** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 20 is the 32nd anniversary of LRA36, plus being a Thursday makes it a likely day for a signal. Started checking at 1243, nothing, but a rapid ``V`` pulsing noise faded in and out, like an alarm, maybe local. Finally at 1304 I do get a JBA carrier on 15476, and at 1312, but seems gone at 1314, so may have made just another token appearance. In the 1315-1326+ period, however, I have a just as weak carrier on 15475 instead. Wonder if their tuning slipped, or another something local; computer is on but haven`t had anything on 15475 before. By 1345 nothing at all. It`s odd that we never see any reports of LRA36 from S America, where it ought to have a listenable signal, while anything more than a carrier is a rarity here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5760-5815, Oct 20 at 1252, OTH radar pulses presumed from here, barely missing WTWW 5755 and nothing audible from AFN Guam 5765; also exactly 1 MHz higher at 6760-6815, no coincidence, plus 6955-7010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 20, before 1300:
7970, fair at 1253
10300, good at 1254
11500, fair at 1254
12230, good at 1256 with flutter
13970, good at 1256
14700, very good at 1257
15670, poor, barely audible under CNR1 jamming
16100, fair at 1258
16980, good at 1257; none in the 17s
18200, good at 1259-1300*
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9620, Oct 20 at 1302, open carrier with hum, flutter, still at 1327; by 1344 there was some just-barely-modulated talk. Sounds like something AIR would do. Yes: per HFCC, AIR Sindhi/Baluchi service is on 9620 at 1215-1600, 250 kW, 245 degrees from Aligarh. Certainly not the other thing, RNW via Nauen. Aoki shows Sindhi at 1230-1500, then an hour of Baluchi; looks like same transmitter at 1615 Persian, 1730 Arabic, 1945-2030 French; they too unmodulated? Wake up in Aligarh! OTOH, the Sinhala service on 15050 managed to be modulated today around 1320 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Thursday Oct 20 at 1303 and later in the hour, VOI is off-again, during the English hour, no signal like Tuesday tho it was audible Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 20 UT, with Cantú then IRCA listings:
590, Oct 20 at 1204 UT, Veracruz mentioned in QRM, 7:04 TC, cumpleaños, so tentatively:
590 XEOM Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos Coatzacoalcos, Ver. 1,000 1,000
590 XEOM Ver Coatzacoalcos 1000 1000 Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos 1200-0600 NWS/VAR ORF1/RAMSA
660, Oct 20 at 1210 UT, after mañanitas-like song, TC for 6:09 ``en La Tremenda, Número Uno``; phone on air; 1211, 6:10 TC still a minute slow, and Radio 6-60 ID:
660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
660 XEACB Chih Ciudad Delicias 5000 1000 Radio 6-60 1300-0600 VAR OIR
670, Oct 20 at 1212 UT, yet another with mañanitas, 1215 R. Ranchito ID, naming birthday person:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR
710, Oct 20 at 1216 UT, big dominant signal with ``Noticias 7-10``, MDT/CST TCs 6:+ but one minute slow, introducing first ad block of the day, but really just two PSAs, gobierno federal on how the president is successfully fighting the Zetas and other drug cartels (with a disclaimer-like condensed too-fast-to-be-spoken-by-a-live-human appendix), and another for the Senado; back to news, item about how Mexican Día de los Muertos celebrations are infiltrating the US` Hallowe`en, including Albuquerque and Houston:
710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100
710 XEDP Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 7000 -5000 La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc 24h RAN/NOR RAMA Possibly 24h on weekends
900, Oct 20 at 1224 UT, from WSW, highly produced show with musical effects about astrobiology, called `Radio Esfera` (?), topix including water on Moon, life on Marte (Mars); outro as a UNAM produxion; 1228 Radio Vida ID in ``un café por la mañana``, program title?
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
Obviously Fred Cantú is not reading my reports, or he would have updated this by now, no more ``La Reina``
900 XEDT Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 5000 -1 La Reyna/Reina, R Divertida 1400>0200 CAR FIRM Format includes US Classic Country
980, Oct 20 at 1232, IMER [pronounced Imer] PSA about ``80 años del cine sonoro en México``, gobierno federal PSA, IMER con ``18 emisoras con personalidad propia``, 1233 ID as ``La F-Q, La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre``, 1234 ``Antena Radio en el Mundo``, news of Libya:
980 XEFQ La Voz de la Cd. del Cobre Cananea, Son. 2,500 500
980 XEFQ Son Cananea 1000 500 La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre 1200-0700 VAR/TLK MER/RCN Antena Radio news -- so is it 2500 or 1000 watts?
18 stations hardly amount to national coverage in this huge country, especially some little ones in remote spots like Cananea, but at least IMER counts with one big one, XERF, 1570. There are also a few non-IMER noncommercial/cultural/indigenous stations, some of them run by state governments, universities or federal indigenous agencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 20 at 0532, this time VON is barely atop the CCCCI (co-channel Chinese interference), but enough so to tell that VON modulation is distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1587: first airing Thursday Oct 20 at 1500 on WRMI 9955; repeats are: Thu 2100, Fri 0500, 1430, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, etc.
On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755
On WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB via Area 51
On WWRB: UT Fri 0331 on 3195, 5051
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830. Full schedule at:http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 20 at 1238-1241 UT found JBA weak signals on: 594, 702, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1035, 1098, 1134, 1143 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11800, Oct 20 at 0535, S9+20 open carrier with flutter until 0537:30*. Suspect it`s tune-up by R. Bulgaria, which will be in Spanish from 0600 on 11800; instead of leaving carrier on another 22.5 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5760-5815, Oct 20 at 1252, OTH radar pulses presumed from here, barely missing WTWW 5755 and nothing audible from AFN Guam 5765; also exactly 1 MHz higher at 6760-6815, no coincidence, plus 6955-7010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 20, before 1300:
7970, fair at 1253
10300, good at 1254
11500, fair at 1254
12230, good at 1256 with flutter
13970, good at 1256
14700, very good at 1257
15670, poor, barely audible under CNR1 jamming
16100, fair at 1258
16980, good at 1257; none in the 17s
18200, good at 1259-1300*
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9620, Oct 20 at 1302, open carrier with hum, flutter, still at 1327; by 1344 there was some just-barely-modulated talk. Sounds like something AIR would do. Yes: per HFCC, AIR Sindhi/Baluchi service is on 9620 at 1215-1600, 250 kW, 245 degrees from Aligarh. Certainly not the other thing, RNW via Nauen. Aoki shows Sindhi at 1230-1500, then an hour of Baluchi; looks like same transmitter at 1615 Persian, 1730 Arabic, 1945-2030 French; they too unmodulated? Wake up in Aligarh! OTOH, the Sinhala service on 15050 managed to be modulated today around 1320 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Thursday Oct 20 at 1303 and later in the hour, VOI is off-again, during the English hour, no signal like Tuesday tho it was audible Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 20 UT, with Cantú then IRCA listings:
590, Oct 20 at 1204 UT, Veracruz mentioned in QRM, 7:04 TC, cumpleaños, so tentatively:
590 XEOM Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos Coatzacoalcos, Ver. 1,000 1,000
590 XEOM Ver Coatzacoalcos 1000 1000 Radio Fórmula Coatzacoalcos 1200-0600 NWS/VAR ORF1/RAMSA
660, Oct 20 at 1210 UT, after mañanitas-like song, TC for 6:09 ``en La Tremenda, Número Uno``; phone on air; 1211, 6:10 TC still a minute slow, and Radio 6-60 ID:
660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
660 XEACB Chih Ciudad Delicias 5000 1000 Radio 6-60 1300-0600 VAR OIR
670, Oct 20 at 1212 UT, yet another with mañanitas, 1215 R. Ranchito ID, naming birthday person:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreón, Coah. 1,000 250
670 XETOR Coah Torreón 5000 250 Radio Ranchito, X-E-Tor 1200-0600 NOR/RAN OIR
710, Oct 20 at 1216 UT, big dominant signal with ``Noticias 7-10``, MDT/CST TCs 6:+ but one minute slow, introducing first ad block of the day, but really just two PSAs, gobierno federal on how the president is successfully fighting the Zetas and other drug cartels (with a disclaimer-like condensed too-fast-to-be-spoken-by-a-live-human appendix), and another for the Senado; back to news, item about how Mexican Día de los Muertos celebrations are infiltrating the US` Hallowe`en, including Albuquerque and Houston:
710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100
710 XEDP Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 7000 -5000 La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc 24h RAN/NOR RAMA Possibly 24h on weekends
900, Oct 20 at 1224 UT, from WSW, highly produced show with musical effects about astrobiology, called `Radio Esfera` (?), topix including water on Moon, life on Marte (Mars); outro as a UNAM produxion; 1228 Radio Vida ID in ``un café por la mañana``, program title?
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
Obviously Fred Cantú is not reading my reports, or he would have updated this by now, no more ``La Reina``
900 XEDT Chih Ciudad Cuauhtémoc 5000 -1 La Reyna/Reina, R Divertida 1400>0200 CAR FIRM Format includes US Classic Country
980, Oct 20 at 1232, IMER [pronounced Imer] PSA about ``80 años del cine sonoro en México``, gobierno federal PSA, IMER con ``18 emisoras con personalidad propia``, 1233 ID as ``La F-Q, La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre``, 1234 ``Antena Radio en el Mundo``, news of Libya:
980 XEFQ La Voz de la Cd. del Cobre Cananea, Son. 2,500 500
980 XEFQ Son Cananea 1000 500 La Voz de la Ciudad del Cobre 1200-0700 VAR/TLK MER/RCN Antena Radio news -- so is it 2500 or 1000 watts?
18 stations hardly amount to national coverage in this huge country, especially some little ones in remote spots like Cananea, but at least IMER counts with one big one, XERF, 1570. There are also a few non-IMER noncommercial/cultural/indigenous stations, some of them run by state governments, universities or federal indigenous agencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 20 at 0532, this time VON is barely atop the CCCCI (co-channel Chinese interference), but enough so to tell that VON modulation is distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1587: first airing Thursday Oct 20 at 1500 on WRMI 9955; repeats are: Thu 2100, Fri 0500, 1430, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, etc.
On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755
On WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB via Area 51
On WWRB: UT Fri 0331 on 3195, 5051
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830. Full schedule at:http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 20 at 1238-1241 UT found JBA weak signals on: 594, 702, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1035, 1098, 1134, 1143 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11800, Oct 20 at 0535, S9+20 open carrier with flutter until 0537:30*. Suspect it`s tune-up by R. Bulgaria, which will be in Spanish from 0600 on 11800; instead of leaving carrier on another 22.5 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
