** ALBANIA. Unfortunately, I did not check 13625 for R. Tirana Oct 6 at 1430, but this just in from Drita Çiço (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
Today Radio Tirana back on air on SW via Shijak radio-station. My monitoring staff has just informed me that Radio Tirana in English
to NoAm at 1430-1500 UT via Shijak r-stat is back on air. This after its interruption that started on 30 July 2011 and fully interrupted
at the beginning of August up today, 6 October 2011.
Officially it was said that interruption of Radio Tirana on SW and MW
was due to radio relay track problem; unofficially it was internally said for financial reasons.
Radio Tirana in Greek on MW via Fllaka R-stat at 1545-1600 was not
broadcast. My staff informed me that Fllaka r-station has an order to
not broadcast Radio Tirana programs on MW, yet.
Please, check the next programs according to A11 ALR schedule. Keep in touch, (Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, 1621 UT Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So here`s the full previous SW schedule:
ALBANIAN
0630-0900 daily Eu 7390
2030-2200 daily Eu 6165, 9860
2300-0030 daily NAm 7425, 9860
ENGLISH
0030-0045 .twtfss NAm 9860
0145-0200 .twtfss NAm 7425
0230-0300 .twtfss NAm 7425
0330-0400 .twtfss NAm 7425
1430-1500 mtwtfs. NAm 13625
1845-1900 mtwtfs. Eu 7520, 13735
2000-2030 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
2000-2030 mtwtfs. NAm 13735
FRENCH
1730-1800 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
GERMAN
1930-2000 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
ITALIAN
1700-1730 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7520
SERBIAN
1800-1815 mtwtfs. Eu 6015
(WRTH May update via DXLD)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 6 at 1234, no signal from LRA36. However, I retuned to 15475 with BFO at 1243 and heard the 15476 carrier cut on at *1244:07 along with traces of modulation, so it`s on again this Thursday. By 1308 inaudible, nor at 1328, 1358, so may have gone right back off if not outfaded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 6, before 1300, all with lots of flutter:
15900, good at 1236
14970, fair at 1236
13960, fair at 1238
12600, very good at 1240, much better than all the others
11500, fair at 1241 with CCI, het from VOR/Tajikistan, q.v.
10300, fair at 1242
After 1300:
10300, poor at 1324
12025, very poor at 1322, under CNR1 jamming
13960, fair at 1318
14970, good at 1319
15275, fair at 1309, het from 15278, V. of Tibet
15285, fair at 1320, het from 15288, up from 15275 in meantime
15900, good at 1319
16100, poor at 1320
16980, very poor at 1320
17170, good at 1321; no 18180
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9790, Oct 6 at 0453, CRI via filthy squealing Habana transmitter also has parasitic squishy spurs circa +/- 9 kHz, adding to the mess from Russia via GUIANA FRENCH [q.v.] originating from 9735. Both end by 0500, whew, altho 9790 carrier often stays on much later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9805, Oct 6 at 1111, R. Martí is well atop the DentroCuban Jamming Command, but the jammer is squeezing out pulsing spurs as far as 9755-9790, peaks also at 9725 in a clear spot, and 9855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9735, Oct 6 at 0452, the TDF relay of Voz de Rusia in Spanish is horribly out of whack! Huge signal for NAm to die for, but they won`t put English on it. Now it`s putting out splash/spurs as far as 9705-9775, peaking around 9706, 9721, 9749, 9763, i.e. at approx. 14 kHz intervals. Thankfully, it`s all gone by 0500*, but the range is also ruined by relay of China on 9790 via CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Oct 6 at 1329, open carrier hetting 5986v MYANMAR; 1330 piano music opening Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo; poor reception but intonation sounds Japanese today rather than Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 6 at 0504, IGIM is on much earlier than usual, mixture of almost autotuned singing, strumming and exhortations; special occasion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 6, UT:
560, Oct 6 at 1208 UT, Casas Luxor sponsors time & temp, in Monclova, XE- ID, ``Son Noticias, La ---``, starting newscast with named W&M:
560 XEGIK La Acerera Monclova, Coah. 1,400 250
O yes, heard this before and speculated name means ``steel mill``. Google says ``steelmaker`` with the definite article, but feminine?? Maybe it refers to la ciudad being this rather than individual workers. Of course one hopes that women are indeed among them.
580, Oct 6 at 1148 UT, ad for Culebra Restaurant in San Antonio, ``la tienda de la raza``. Since there`s only a non-Spanish Texan on 580 in Lubbock, I can only assume that border outlet per Cantú
580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500
has listeners in SATEX, and/or frequent travellers to there on US 57
620, Oct 6 at 1149 UT, ID for ``B-U, La Norteñita``:
620 XEBU La Norteñita Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 1,000
650, Oct 6 at 1204 UT, choral NA ends, XETNT ID with FM 106.5:
650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000
Not the dominant signal it used to have; too early now for SRS boost?
760, Oct 6 at 1152 UT, acknowledging morning show staff, ID for ABC Radio, 50,000 watts, Paseo de la Reforma; XEABC, 760 AM
760 XEABC ABC Radio México, DF 70,000 10,000
So Cantú gives it 20 kW more
760, Oct 6 at 1202 UT, NA and ID from Antena 760, Chihuahua Capital:
760 XEES Antena 760 Chihuahua, Chih. 10,000 1,000
900, Oct 6 at 1159 UT, XEW chimes, phone numbers ``en la cabina``, mixing with some other SS stations this early:
900 XEW W Radio + FM 96.9 México, DF 250,000 250,000
I also heard Monterrey and Veracruz mentioned, where there are also 900 stations, Vcz being an XEW relay, but unsure whence
900, Oct 6 at 1228 UT, ending `Mundo del Trabajo` about mujeres empresarias, programa sindical (union-sponsored), 1229 R. Vida ID, 6:29 timecheck, saludos. I`ve logged this slogan before such as Sept 21, but none listed on 900 by Cantú and assume most likely is:
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
UT-6 timecheck rules out all other listed Mexicans on 900
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 6 at 0447 tuning down the 19m band I found it to be dead, not even Australia, until I got to a steady S9+10 signal here with a big hum over drumming. VON, of course, as soon IDed, more drumming in runup to 0500 transmission. Carrier is also unstable, warbling with BFO on. 0456 NA ends, only horrible hum for a minute, then YL ID, as to N Africa and Europe, under the hum and ripple with date, programme summary, including at 0530 `Moving On` including ``lovely, lovely Nigerian music``; 0630 `Insight`, 15 minutes of analysis. She also plugs programming on the 1800 transmission.
0500 ID and talking drum, opening half-hour news magazine said to be also on http://www.voiceofnigeria.org where I sure hope reception is unhummy, but the computer is off. It was the OSOB until I found a much weaker VOA Botswana on 15580 at 0502. When, o when, will VON ever switch over to their brand-new transmitters at Abuja? If the hum is a studio or link problem, will they too still sound awful like this?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, service in Indonesian I at first assume is VOA, but it`s scheduled to be RNW via Saipan at 1100-1158. This was underneath an extremely distorted talk-only signal, language unknown, also on 9720, see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1115 I`m sure I heard a VOA jingle on the clear signal, so a feed mixup?? At 1157-1158* I did hear RNW IDs, sounded like Dutch and Spanish, as they do in breaks. Both this and the distorted signal went off at 1158. Could they both have originated from IBB Saipan, two transmitters, one out of whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 17560-, Oct 6 at 1145, I would dearly like to DX the reactivated Radio Free Sarawak, 10-12 via TAJIKISTAN, but all I can get is a JBA carrier at 1145; it`s slightly on the low side compared to RA on 9560. No better at 1157. If any signal from the E Hemisphere is going to make it here on 16m before sunrise, it`s Romania in English on 17510, and it wasn`t audible either. Would clandestines please pick more suitable frequencies for audibility in deep North America? Just kidding. Those further east should have a better shot at it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, Oct 6 at 0449, R. Dabanga with singing IDs as soon as I intuned, mixed with 1000 Hz tone jamming, // 13730 with its very different jamming of oscillating noise; during this semihour both via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Oct 6 at 1323, open carrier with hum, flutter, also at 1359. Presumed usual VOR failure via TAJIKISTAN, supposed to be in Hindi this hour. Firedrake was mixing earlier at 1241 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 850, re my previous catch of R. Variedades identified as KLSQ Nevada rather than KFJZ Texas:
Re: KLSQ http://radiovariedades870.univision.com/ They've been using the R. Variedades slogan for at least a couple of years. I can get them here in IL on great sunset skip nights since the west BOGs null WWL very well. I've also had them a couple times at night, perhaps when they've had a glitch and not switched to night power? 73 KAZ
KFJZ website is http://www.radiofortaleza.net/
(Neil Kazaross, Barrington IL, ABDX via DXLD)
OK, I concede, must have had KLSQ, tnx. And I can`t get KFJZ, R. Fortaleza on daytime groundwave; too weak and too far. Maybe around sunset, WWL permitting. I still haven`t heard KLSQ again at similar sunrise times (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 6 at 0503, R. Católica Mundial is missing again, clearing area for French ute hash above 7555. So one third of WEWN`s transmitters is AWOL. Unfortunately it`s the good one which is neither squishy nor squealy! Barely audible at 0532 on 11520, 11870 which maybe propagate somewhere else.
11550 also missing at 1317 Oct 6, while 12050 was squealing and 13580 squishy-spurring as usual. By 1400, 11550 was on with strong open carrier, still no modulation at 1404. I assume that was WEWN as scheduled, since it`s on exactly 11550.0 unlike Taiwan which can`t attain such precision and isn`t scheduled in this segment; R. Azadi via Kuwait however is listed on 11550 until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, Oct 6 at 0524, no signal from the Brother Scare service of WWRB. 0529, there he is on 9385, poor signal, much weaker than 9330 WBCQ and 9370 WTJC, so like BS via WWCR, he`s again stuck on a day frequency in the nightmiddle.
Still no 3185 at 1100, and at 1105 I am getting something weak on 9385 aside stronger WEWN 9390. By 1124, it`s a service with shouting, but not BS blathering. Finally at 1142 R.G. can be heard on 9385, still poor signal until buildup after sunrise. Can both stations have failed to make the change to night frequencies for BS, or is this some misguided change or experiment? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5999, Oct 6 at 0514, beeps at slightly irregular intervals, not timesignals, as I counted 50 of them in one minute. Appears to be plain CW, beating against something weak on 6000 (Cuba already off), and aside 5995 VOA Hausa via São Tomé at 0500-0530.
This is the same thing that Leonardo Santiago in Acarigua, Venezuela asked me about hearing on 5996, Sept 28 at 1037, and sent me a clip. If it can be heard that late, it`s not trans-Atlantic. One might have suspected Mali 5995 messing around before *0600. A wayward ute? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, extremely distorted talk-only signal atop clear Indonesian from RNW via SAIPAN, q.v. I can`t find a // on 31m, such as 9805 Martí, 9635 CVC, 9550 RHC. 1135 still the same awful mix. On 9680 there may be a // under the dominant RRI which includes music: that would be Taiwan and/or China; but I can`t be sure. Nothing else is scheduled on 9720 itself. Both 9720 signals go off at 1158* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9805, Oct 6 at 1327, distorted talk. No jamming, and nothing scheduled here after Martí -1300*. Spur? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 30692, 30689, approx., very weak carriers at 1412 UT Oct 5. Also at 1315 UT Oct 6 just below 30690- and approx. 30692. This makes them unlikely to be propagated second harmonix from Morocco and/or Argentina. Still need to hear them in the nightmiddle for a total ruleout.
However, I asked porteños on the condiglist to check whether they could hear RAE on 30690v, via groundwave, and Ernesto Paulero reports it at 2206 UT Oct 5, SINPO 23222 --- so it`s possible that harmonic could propagate far away. 15345v is on the air M-F 17-24 UT, Sat 2000-0230 Sun per Aoki. WRTH adds: Sun 1800-0300 Mon. Weekends are R. Nacional rather than M-F external service. Morocco is on 15345v from circa 1500 until 2200v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Today Radio Tirana back on air on SW via Shijak radio-station. My monitoring staff has just informed me that Radio Tirana in English
to NoAm at 1430-1500 UT via Shijak r-stat is back on air. This after its interruption that started on 30 July 2011 and fully interrupted
at the beginning of August up today, 6 October 2011.
Officially it was said that interruption of Radio Tirana on SW and MW
was due to radio relay track problem; unofficially it was internally said for financial reasons.
Radio Tirana in Greek on MW via Fllaka R-stat at 1545-1600 was not
broadcast. My staff informed me that Fllaka r-station has an order to
not broadcast Radio Tirana programs on MW, yet.
Please, check the next programs according to A11 ALR schedule. Keep in touch, (Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, 1621 UT Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So here`s the full previous SW schedule:
ALBANIAN
0630-0900 daily Eu 7390
2030-2200 daily Eu 6165, 9860
2300-0030 daily NAm 7425, 9860
ENGLISH
0030-0045 .twtfss NAm 9860
0145-0200 .twtfss NAm 7425
0230-0300 .twtfss NAm 7425
0330-0400 .twtfss NAm 7425
1430-1500 mtwtfs. NAm 13625
1845-1900 mtwtfs. Eu 7520, 13735
2000-2030 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
2000-2030 mtwtfs. NAm 13735
FRENCH
1730-1800 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
GERMAN
1930-2000 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
ITALIAN
1700-1730 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7520
SERBIAN
1800-1815 mtwtfs. Eu 6015
(WRTH May update via DXLD)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 6 at 1234, no signal from LRA36. However, I retuned to 15475 with BFO at 1243 and heard the 15476 carrier cut on at *1244:07 along with traces of modulation, so it`s on again this Thursday. By 1308 inaudible, nor at 1328, 1358, so may have gone right back off if not outfaded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Oct 6, before 1300, all with lots of flutter:
15900, good at 1236
14970, fair at 1236
13960, fair at 1238
12600, very good at 1240, much better than all the others
11500, fair at 1241 with CCI, het from VOR/Tajikistan, q.v.
10300, fair at 1242
After 1300:
10300, poor at 1324
12025, very poor at 1322, under CNR1 jamming
13960, fair at 1318
14970, good at 1319
15275, fair at 1309, het from 15278, V. of Tibet
15285, fair at 1320, het from 15288, up from 15275 in meantime
15900, good at 1319
16100, poor at 1320
16980, very poor at 1320
17170, good at 1321; no 18180
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9790, Oct 6 at 0453, CRI via filthy squealing Habana transmitter also has parasitic squishy spurs circa +/- 9 kHz, adding to the mess from Russia via GUIANA FRENCH [q.v.] originating from 9735. Both end by 0500, whew, altho 9790 carrier often stays on much later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9805, Oct 6 at 1111, R. Martí is well atop the DentroCuban Jamming Command, but the jammer is squeezing out pulsing spurs as far as 9755-9790, peaks also at 9725 in a clear spot, and 9855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9735, Oct 6 at 0452, the TDF relay of Voz de Rusia in Spanish is horribly out of whack! Huge signal for NAm to die for, but they won`t put English on it. Now it`s putting out splash/spurs as far as 9705-9775, peaking around 9706, 9721, 9749, 9763, i.e. at approx. 14 kHz intervals. Thankfully, it`s all gone by 0500*, but the range is also ruined by relay of China on 9790 via CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Oct 6 at 1329, open carrier hetting 5986v MYANMAR; 1330 piano music opening Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo; poor reception but intonation sounds Japanese today rather than Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 6 at 0504, IGIM is on much earlier than usual, mixture of almost autotuned singing, strumming and exhortations; special occasion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 6, UT:
560, Oct 6 at 1208 UT, Casas Luxor sponsors time & temp, in Monclova, XE- ID, ``Son Noticias, La ---``, starting newscast with named W&M:
560 XEGIK La Acerera Monclova, Coah. 1,400 250
O yes, heard this before and speculated name means ``steel mill``. Google says ``steelmaker`` with the definite article, but feminine?? Maybe it refers to la ciudad being this rather than individual workers. Of course one hopes that women are indeed among them.
580, Oct 6 at 1148 UT, ad for Culebra Restaurant in San Antonio, ``la tienda de la raza``. Since there`s only a non-Spanish Texan on 580 in Lubbock, I can only assume that border outlet per Cantú
580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500
has listeners in SATEX, and/or frequent travellers to there on US 57
620, Oct 6 at 1149 UT, ID for ``B-U, La Norteñita``:
620 XEBU La Norteñita Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 1,000
650, Oct 6 at 1204 UT, choral NA ends, XETNT ID with FM 106.5:
650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000
Not the dominant signal it used to have; too early now for SRS boost?
760, Oct 6 at 1152 UT, acknowledging morning show staff, ID for ABC Radio, 50,000 watts, Paseo de la Reforma; XEABC, 760 AM
760 XEABC ABC Radio México, DF 70,000 10,000
So Cantú gives it 20 kW more
760, Oct 6 at 1202 UT, NA and ID from Antena 760, Chihuahua Capital:
760 XEES Antena 760 Chihuahua, Chih. 10,000 1,000
900, Oct 6 at 1159 UT, XEW chimes, phone numbers ``en la cabina``, mixing with some other SS stations this early:
900 XEW W Radio + FM 96.9 México, DF 250,000 250,000
I also heard Monterrey and Veracruz mentioned, where there are also 900 stations, Vcz being an XEW relay, but unsure whence
900, Oct 6 at 1228 UT, ending `Mundo del Trabajo` about mujeres empresarias, programa sindical (union-sponsored), 1229 R. Vida ID, 6:29 timecheck, saludos. I`ve logged this slogan before such as Sept 21, but none listed on 900 by Cantú and assume most likely is:
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
UT-6 timecheck rules out all other listed Mexicans on 900
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 6 at 0447 tuning down the 19m band I found it to be dead, not even Australia, until I got to a steady S9+10 signal here with a big hum over drumming. VON, of course, as soon IDed, more drumming in runup to 0500 transmission. Carrier is also unstable, warbling with BFO on. 0456 NA ends, only horrible hum for a minute, then YL ID, as to N Africa and Europe, under the hum and ripple with date, programme summary, including at 0530 `Moving On` including ``lovely, lovely Nigerian music``; 0630 `Insight`, 15 minutes of analysis. She also plugs programming on the 1800 transmission.
0500 ID and talking drum, opening half-hour news magazine said to be also on http://www.voiceofnigeria.org where I sure hope reception is unhummy, but the computer is off. It was the OSOB until I found a much weaker VOA Botswana on 15580 at 0502. When, o when, will VON ever switch over to their brand-new transmitters at Abuja? If the hum is a studio or link problem, will they too still sound awful like this?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, service in Indonesian I at first assume is VOA, but it`s scheduled to be RNW via Saipan at 1100-1158. This was underneath an extremely distorted talk-only signal, language unknown, also on 9720, see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1115 I`m sure I heard a VOA jingle on the clear signal, so a feed mixup?? At 1157-1158* I did hear RNW IDs, sounded like Dutch and Spanish, as they do in breaks. Both this and the distorted signal went off at 1158. Could they both have originated from IBB Saipan, two transmitters, one out of whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 17560-, Oct 6 at 1145, I would dearly like to DX the reactivated Radio Free Sarawak, 10-12 via TAJIKISTAN, but all I can get is a JBA carrier at 1145; it`s slightly on the low side compared to RA on 9560. No better at 1157. If any signal from the E Hemisphere is going to make it here on 16m before sunrise, it`s Romania in English on 17510, and it wasn`t audible either. Would clandestines please pick more suitable frequencies for audibility in deep North America? Just kidding. Those further east should have a better shot at it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13620, Oct 6 at 0449, R. Dabanga with singing IDs as soon as I intuned, mixed with 1000 Hz tone jamming, // 13730 with its very different jamming of oscillating noise; during this semihour both via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Oct 6 at 1323, open carrier with hum, flutter, also at 1359. Presumed usual VOR failure via TAJIKISTAN, supposed to be in Hindi this hour. Firedrake was mixing earlier at 1241 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 850, re my previous catch of R. Variedades identified as KLSQ Nevada rather than KFJZ Texas:
Re: KLSQ http://radiovariedades870.univision.com/ They've been using the R. Variedades slogan for at least a couple of years. I can get them here in IL on great sunset skip nights since the west BOGs null WWL very well. I've also had them a couple times at night, perhaps when they've had a glitch and not switched to night power? 73 KAZ
KFJZ website is http://www.radiofortaleza.net/
(Neil Kazaross, Barrington IL, ABDX via DXLD)
OK, I concede, must have had KLSQ, tnx. And I can`t get KFJZ, R. Fortaleza on daytime groundwave; too weak and too far. Maybe around sunset, WWL permitting. I still haven`t heard KLSQ again at similar sunrise times (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 6 at 0503, R. Católica Mundial is missing again, clearing area for French ute hash above 7555. So one third of WEWN`s transmitters is AWOL. Unfortunately it`s the good one which is neither squishy nor squealy! Barely audible at 0532 on 11520, 11870 which maybe propagate somewhere else.
11550 also missing at 1317 Oct 6, while 12050 was squealing and 13580 squishy-spurring as usual. By 1400, 11550 was on with strong open carrier, still no modulation at 1404. I assume that was WEWN as scheduled, since it`s on exactly 11550.0 unlike Taiwan which can`t attain such precision and isn`t scheduled in this segment; R. Azadi via Kuwait however is listed on 11550 until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, Oct 6 at 0524, no signal from the Brother Scare service of WWRB. 0529, there he is on 9385, poor signal, much weaker than 9330 WBCQ and 9370 WTJC, so like BS via WWCR, he`s again stuck on a day frequency in the nightmiddle.
Still no 3185 at 1100, and at 1105 I am getting something weak on 9385 aside stronger WEWN 9390. By 1124, it`s a service with shouting, but not BS blathering. Finally at 1142 R.G. can be heard on 9385, still poor signal until buildup after sunrise. Can both stations have failed to make the change to night frequencies for BS, or is this some misguided change or experiment? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5999, Oct 6 at 0514, beeps at slightly irregular intervals, not timesignals, as I counted 50 of them in one minute. Appears to be plain CW, beating against something weak on 6000 (Cuba already off), and aside 5995 VOA Hausa via São Tomé at 0500-0530.
This is the same thing that Leonardo Santiago in Acarigua, Venezuela asked me about hearing on 5996, Sept 28 at 1037, and sent me a clip. If it can be heard that late, it`s not trans-Atlantic. One might have suspected Mali 5995 messing around before *0600. A wayward ute? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, extremely distorted talk-only signal atop clear Indonesian from RNW via SAIPAN, q.v. I can`t find a // on 31m, such as 9805 Martí, 9635 CVC, 9550 RHC. 1135 still the same awful mix. On 9680 there may be a // under the dominant RRI which includes music: that would be Taiwan and/or China; but I can`t be sure. Nothing else is scheduled on 9720 itself. Both 9720 signals go off at 1158* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9805, Oct 6 at 1327, distorted talk. No jamming, and nothing scheduled here after Martí -1300*. Spur? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 30692, 30689, approx., very weak carriers at 1412 UT Oct 5. Also at 1315 UT Oct 6 just below 30690- and approx. 30692. This makes them unlikely to be propagated second harmonix from Morocco and/or Argentina. Still need to hear them in the nightmiddle for a total ruleout.
However, I asked porteños on the condiglist to check whether they could hear RAE on 30690v, via groundwave, and Ernesto Paulero reports it at 2206 UT Oct 5, SINPO 23222 --- so it`s possible that harmonic could propagate far away. 15345v is on the air M-F 17-24 UT, Sat 2000-0230 Sun per Aoki. WRTH adds: Sun 1800-0300 Mon. Weekends are R. Nacional rather than M-F external service. Morocco is on 15345v from circa 1500 until 2200v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
