** ALBANIA. 13735, Oct 7 at 1841 open carrier, 1842 R. Tirana IS, 1845 English sign-on, so confirmed resumed, but too poor to copy. Is daily except Sundays.
7425, altho still missing UT Oct 7, was on Oct 8 at 0353 check with music, to conclude the 0330 English broadcast UT Tue-Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 8 at 1317, missing, uncovering weak Asian signals instead; next check 1514, DGS is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 8, before 1300:
7970, poor at 1248
10300, good at 1252
11500, open carrier with hum, at 1252, i.e. not Firedrake but perpetual TAJIKISTAN SNAFU; no FD on 11510 either
11990, poor at 1253, underneath CNR1 jammer, // 10300
13920, JBA at 1256
14700, very good at 1256
16100, very good at 1258
After 1300:
16100, very good at 1324, none in the 17s, 18s
15900, very good at 1318
15285, very poor at 1323, vs het from 15288 V. of Tibet
14700, good at 1325
12230, good at 1326 --- a new spot, first log here, but first reported Oct 1 & 2 by Rick Barton, AZ, and Giampiero Bernardini, Italy
11990, no FD at 1327, just CNR1 echo-jamming now
10300, absent at 1328
7970, poor at 1329
After 1400:
17560, poor at 1413: vs V. of Tibet via Madagascar: unheard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Oct 8 at 1309, RHC open carrier, unlike modulated 11690, 11730, 11830, 12040. Still OC at 1316, 1328, as it vies with Indonesia (9525), Tajikistan (11500), Morocco (15345) et al. for honors in who-can-waste-the-most-watts contest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15620, Oct 7 at 1837, Hausa broadcast suffers from squeal de WEWN 15610 spur around 15619. It`s DW, 250 kW, 295 degrees from Kigali, RWANDA and also USward at 1800-1857 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Oct 8 at 1250, dead air with flutter, a VERY long IAD during Japanese hour from VOI; still DA at 1303, 1316; 1318 finally English modulation comes up for a minute or so, gone again, on and off; by 1336 more or less stayed on during music portion as signal weakened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11620, Oct 8 at 1307 Qur`an, 1310 cut abruptly and rudely to announcement, news theme and items starting with Iran, then other countries in the area. Is VIRI Urdu service, 1300-1427, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad, and thus not aimed at Pakistan, or us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Saturday Oct 8 at 1330, Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo, JAPAN, opening in Korean with piano music, poor with usual Myanmar 5986v het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 8 at 0603 chanting, IGIM had just come on, and not abutting 7250 VATICAN [q.v.] for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Post-sunrise MW DX Oct 8, UT; woke up too late:
1040, Oct 8 at 1237 UT, ``Frecuencia Mega, número uno`` between news items. Cantú likely leads to this one, heard several times before:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
Back in May, fellow MexDXer John Wilkins in CO thought the call had definitely changed to XEGIS, also heard ``Frecuencia Mega`` as in DXLD 11-27
For Mexican national anthem info, played all over the dial circa 1200 UT in two basic versions, orchestral and choral, some sources with the lyrix and English translations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_Nacional_Mexicano
but for only a few of the original ten stanzas; since on some stations it goes on and on for some 5 minutes, it`s multi-stanzaed but haven`t counted them. It would be nice to know when to anticipate the final beat to be prepared for sign-on/ID.
more lyrix here:
http://www.inside-mexico.com/anthem.htm
again skipping some of the stanzas; have they been withdrawn?
http://www.nationalanthems.info/mx.htm
It`s really war-mongering, but then so is the Star Spangled Banner. In the case of Mexico the inspirational enemy was the unnamed USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, Oct 8 at 1302, IMM missing from here and not on 15345v either, allowing HCJB Australia to be clear on 15340 during S. Asian song, presumably with Christian lyrix imposed. At 1509, 15345 had come on, but unmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 24080, Oct 8 at 1454, open carrier, so suspect 2 x 12040 harmonic as first reported 25 Sept by Juergen Lohuis, Germany, heralding the return of SWBC harmonics 23+ MHz! Unfortunately it is fading down; at 1458 I can barely hear the typical Russian tone go on and off, 1500 modulation starts but JBA.
At 1458 also checked fundamental 12040, but it`s still infested by Cuba and the Chinese radio war. HFCC shows 12040 at 15-22, 250 kW, 260 degrees from Moscow site with VOR; Aoki shows 12040 starting at 16, same parameters for VOR in English, and BTW, both agree that VOA Tinang in Chinese was supposed to finish an hour earlier at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN MARINO. 24940-USB, Oct 8 at 1450, T77C with quick contest contacts, kept asking for ``Number One`` -- meaning US call area 1 = New England? Anyhow, several of his contacts were from there. 12 and 10m were full of signals, and I luckily picked this one to log from a rare country. QRZ.com shows:
T77C
TONY CECCOLI
VIA A. BELLUZZI 7/B CAILUNGO
47893 BORGO MAGGIORE -REP. SAN MARINO
How many active HF hams are there in SM, anyway? He also warns to look out for a pirate using his call; anyhow, the accent sounded authentic, and no one was questioning him (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, Oct 8 at 0552, WWCR is extremely strong this time with Brother Scare, but I can still hear pulse jamming in the background. That`s what they get for using the same frequency as VOA Spanish earlier, vs the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7325, Oct 8 at 0540 Arabish interview between M on the phone and W in the studio; stronger than Russia 7320. 0559 BBC sounder and ``BBC Arabiya`` ID, off just before 0600. Is 250 kW, 168 degrees from Rampisham at 04-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15370, Oct 8 at 1510, no signal from BBC via CYPRUS as scheduled Saturdays only at 13-16 in Somali (or English, or French). Did not look for it earlier; in case it has just been curtailed, closing earlier rather than deleted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15809.4 and // 15840.6, Oct 8 at 1506, gospel huxter in American, perfectly readable at S9+5 level; you`d easily assume these were intentional stations if it weren`t for the huger S9+20 matching signal between at 15825 from WWCR, which apparently has improved the signals and modulation on its WWCR-1 +/- 15.6 kHz spurs. Used to be tough to hear much more than just carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17580, Oct 8 at 1504, Harold Camping lives! There he drones, pontificating about I Corinthians XIII: 12, fair with some hum. Certainly nothing about May 21 or October 21. Hadn`t heard him in many weeks of random tuning across YFR frequencies. HFCC shows this English hour is 250 kW, 114 degrees from hummy Ascension; ascending, of course, being exactly what the rapture-eligible are counting on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1585 monitoring: Saturday Oct 8 at 1517 trying WRMI 9955, but can only hear JBA signal(s), not enough to be certain my voice is on one of them. One often wonders whether besides aiming the other way, WRMI is also on its 5 kW backup instead of 50 kW.
Further repeats on WRMI: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 1130, 1530, 2130, Tuesday & Wednesday 1530.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755
On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB
On Hamburger Lokal Radio: Tuesday 0930 on 5980
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, Oct 8 at 0354 check, WWRB is still on this reactivation with preacher // weaker 5051 with het. Maybe will be turning off 5051 after transition period. Full extent not explored, i.e. when 3195 comes on but it goes off after 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Oct 8 at 1241, Spanish ad with 1-800 number, ID ``8-70, Radio [algo]``, perhaps Variedades, KLSQ Nevada; making SAH of about 7 Hz with XETAR(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, what`s become of Vatican Radio? Absent from reliable frequency, Oct 8 at 0538 check when noticed BBC 7255 with no ACI; still gone at 0603 when IGIM 7245 also had no ACI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6050, Oct 8 at 1331, still hearing a het, one of which has to be off-frequency MALAYSIA on 6049.6 or so, but would 10 kW HCJB still be propagating 6050.0 so long after 1058 UT sunrise there? I have heard it as much as a sesquihour later but this is an additional hour, also an hour past sunrise here.
Only other thing listed (besides discounted Brazilian in full day) is PBS Xizang which Aoki says is 100 kW, 85 degrees from Lhasa-Baiding 602 site, while HFCC says is 100 kW, 290 degrees from Lhasa, both as continuously from 2000 until 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6923-AM, Oct 8 at 0543 rock music, 0547 ID as 6925 kHz shortwave, this is Radio --- (something, North?), fades, and by 0551 fading weaker, out or off? Maybe R. True North. I wish the pirates would make more effort to ID clearly, like slow it down, repeat it a few times in a row to compensate for fades, don`t have music in background, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7225-7230-7235, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise has started here, and also:
7425-7430-7435, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise. I can`t positively ID them without a DRM receiver, and since they are listed from different countries, ROMANIA and AUSTRIA I conveniently file them both here:
7230, RRI in German at 0600-0630, 300 kW, 307 degrees from Tiganeshti
7430, BBC in English at 0600-0700, 40 kW, 300 degrees from Moosbrunn
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Really 300 kW full AM power??
UNIDENTIFIED. Further evidence that the higher frequencies are propagating now, besides ham DX on 12m, Russian harmonic on 24080:
23280-23305, 23577-23602, 23927-23952, Oct 8 at 1455, same-sounding OTH radar pulses, all 25-kHz bandwidth associated with CYPRUS, but it seems there are too many possible sources to be sure.
24450-24840, weak CODAR pulses audible thruout this range Oct 8 at 1456, stronger at the low end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7425, altho still missing UT Oct 7, was on Oct 8 at 0353 check with music, to conclude the 0330 English broadcast UT Tue-Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 8 at 1317, missing, uncovering weak Asian signals instead; next check 1514, DGS is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 8, before 1300:
7970, poor at 1248
10300, good at 1252
11500, open carrier with hum, at 1252, i.e. not Firedrake but perpetual TAJIKISTAN SNAFU; no FD on 11510 either
11990, poor at 1253, underneath CNR1 jammer, // 10300
13920, JBA at 1256
14700, very good at 1256
16100, very good at 1258
After 1300:
16100, very good at 1324, none in the 17s, 18s
15900, very good at 1318
15285, very poor at 1323, vs het from 15288 V. of Tibet
14700, good at 1325
12230, good at 1326 --- a new spot, first log here, but first reported Oct 1 & 2 by Rick Barton, AZ, and Giampiero Bernardini, Italy
11990, no FD at 1327, just CNR1 echo-jamming now
10300, absent at 1328
7970, poor at 1329
After 1400:
17560, poor at 1413: vs V. of Tibet via Madagascar: unheard
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Oct 8 at 1309, RHC open carrier, unlike modulated 11690, 11730, 11830, 12040. Still OC at 1316, 1328, as it vies with Indonesia (9525), Tajikistan (11500), Morocco (15345) et al. for honors in who-can-waste-the-most-watts contest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15620, Oct 7 at 1837, Hausa broadcast suffers from squeal de WEWN 15610 spur around 15619. It`s DW, 250 kW, 295 degrees from Kigali, RWANDA and also USward at 1800-1857 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Oct 8 at 1250, dead air with flutter, a VERY long IAD during Japanese hour from VOI; still DA at 1303, 1316; 1318 finally English modulation comes up for a minute or so, gone again, on and off; by 1336 more or less stayed on during music portion as signal weakened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11620, Oct 8 at 1307 Qur`an, 1310 cut abruptly and rudely to announcement, news theme and items starting with Iran, then other countries in the area. Is VIRI Urdu service, 1300-1427, 500 kW, 178 degrees from Kamalabad, and thus not aimed at Pakistan, or us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Saturday Oct 8 at 1330, Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo, JAPAN, opening in Korean with piano music, poor with usual Myanmar 5986v het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 8 at 0603 chanting, IGIM had just come on, and not abutting 7250 VATICAN [q.v.] for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Post-sunrise MW DX Oct 8, UT; woke up too late:
1040, Oct 8 at 1237 UT, ``Frecuencia Mega, número uno`` between news items. Cantú likely leads to this one, heard several times before:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
Back in May, fellow MexDXer John Wilkins in CO thought the call had definitely changed to XEGIS, also heard ``Frecuencia Mega`` as in DXLD 11-27
For Mexican national anthem info, played all over the dial circa 1200 UT in two basic versions, orchestral and choral, some sources with the lyrix and English translations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_Nacional_Mexicano
but for only a few of the original ten stanzas; since on some stations it goes on and on for some 5 minutes, it`s multi-stanzaed but haven`t counted them. It would be nice to know when to anticipate the final beat to be prepared for sign-on/ID.
more lyrix here:
http://www.inside-mexico.com/anthem.htm
again skipping some of the stanzas; have they been withdrawn?
http://www.nationalanthems.info/mx.htm
It`s really war-mongering, but then so is the Star Spangled Banner. In the case of Mexico the inspirational enemy was the unnamed USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, Oct 8 at 1302, IMM missing from here and not on 15345v either, allowing HCJB Australia to be clear on 15340 during S. Asian song, presumably with Christian lyrix imposed. At 1509, 15345 had come on, but unmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 24080, Oct 8 at 1454, open carrier, so suspect 2 x 12040 harmonic as first reported 25 Sept by Juergen Lohuis, Germany, heralding the return of SWBC harmonics 23+ MHz! Unfortunately it is fading down; at 1458 I can barely hear the typical Russian tone go on and off, 1500 modulation starts but JBA.
At 1458 also checked fundamental 12040, but it`s still infested by Cuba and the Chinese radio war. HFCC shows 12040 at 15-22, 250 kW, 260 degrees from Moscow site with VOR; Aoki shows 12040 starting at 16, same parameters for VOR in English, and BTW, both agree that VOA Tinang in Chinese was supposed to finish an hour earlier at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN MARINO. 24940-USB, Oct 8 at 1450, T77C with quick contest contacts, kept asking for ``Number One`` -- meaning US call area 1 = New England? Anyhow, several of his contacts were from there. 12 and 10m were full of signals, and I luckily picked this one to log from a rare country. QRZ.com shows:
T77C
TONY CECCOLI
VIA A. BELLUZZI 7/B CAILUNGO
47893 BORGO MAGGIORE -REP. SAN MARINO
How many active HF hams are there in SM, anyway? He also warns to look out for a pirate using his call; anyhow, the accent sounded authentic, and no one was questioning him (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, Oct 8 at 0552, WWCR is extremely strong this time with Brother Scare, but I can still hear pulse jamming in the background. That`s what they get for using the same frequency as VOA Spanish earlier, vs the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7325, Oct 8 at 0540 Arabish interview between M on the phone and W in the studio; stronger than Russia 7320. 0559 BBC sounder and ``BBC Arabiya`` ID, off just before 0600. Is 250 kW, 168 degrees from Rampisham at 04-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15370, Oct 8 at 1510, no signal from BBC via CYPRUS as scheduled Saturdays only at 13-16 in Somali (or English, or French). Did not look for it earlier; in case it has just been curtailed, closing earlier rather than deleted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15809.4 and // 15840.6, Oct 8 at 1506, gospel huxter in American, perfectly readable at S9+5 level; you`d easily assume these were intentional stations if it weren`t for the huger S9+20 matching signal between at 15825 from WWCR, which apparently has improved the signals and modulation on its WWCR-1 +/- 15.6 kHz spurs. Used to be tough to hear much more than just carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17580, Oct 8 at 1504, Harold Camping lives! There he drones, pontificating about I Corinthians XIII: 12, fair with some hum. Certainly nothing about May 21 or October 21. Hadn`t heard him in many weeks of random tuning across YFR frequencies. HFCC shows this English hour is 250 kW, 114 degrees from hummy Ascension; ascending, of course, being exactly what the rapture-eligible are counting on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1585 monitoring: Saturday Oct 8 at 1517 trying WRMI 9955, but can only hear JBA signal(s), not enough to be certain my voice is on one of them. One often wonders whether besides aiming the other way, WRMI is also on its 5 kW backup instead of 50 kW.
Further repeats on WRMI: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 1130, 1530, 2130, Tuesday & Wednesday 1530.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755
On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB
On Hamburger Lokal Radio: Tuesday 0930 on 5980
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, Oct 8 at 0354 check, WWRB is still on this reactivation with preacher // weaker 5051 with het. Maybe will be turning off 5051 after transition period. Full extent not explored, i.e. when 3195 comes on but it goes off after 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Oct 8 at 1241, Spanish ad with 1-800 number, ID ``8-70, Radio [algo]``, perhaps Variedades, KLSQ Nevada; making SAH of about 7 Hz with XETAR(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, what`s become of Vatican Radio? Absent from reliable frequency, Oct 8 at 0538 check when noticed BBC 7255 with no ACI; still gone at 0603 when IGIM 7245 also had no ACI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6050, Oct 8 at 1331, still hearing a het, one of which has to be off-frequency MALAYSIA on 6049.6 or so, but would 10 kW HCJB still be propagating 6050.0 so long after 1058 UT sunrise there? I have heard it as much as a sesquihour later but this is an additional hour, also an hour past sunrise here.
Only other thing listed (besides discounted Brazilian in full day) is PBS Xizang which Aoki says is 100 kW, 85 degrees from Lhasa-Baiding 602 site, while HFCC says is 100 kW, 290 degrees from Lhasa, both as continuously from 2000 until 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6923-AM, Oct 8 at 0543 rock music, 0547 ID as 6925 kHz shortwave, this is Radio --- (something, North?), fades, and by 0551 fading weaker, out or off? Maybe R. True North. I wish the pirates would make more effort to ID clearly, like slow it down, repeat it a few times in a row to compensate for fades, don`t have music in background, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7225-7230-7235, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise has started here, and also:
7425-7430-7435, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise. I can`t positively ID them without a DRM receiver, and since they are listed from different countries, ROMANIA and AUSTRIA I conveniently file them both here:
7230, RRI in German at 0600-0630, 300 kW, 307 degrees from Tiganeshti
7430, BBC in English at 0600-0700, 40 kW, 300 degrees from Moosbrunn
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Really 300 kW full AM power??
UNIDENTIFIED. Further evidence that the higher frequencies are propagating now, besides ham DX on 12m, Russian harmonic on 24080:
23280-23305, 23577-23602, 23927-23952, Oct 8 at 1455, same-sounding OTH radar pulses, all 25-kHz bandwidth associated with CYPRUS, but it seems there are too many possible sources to be sure.
24450-24840, weak CODAR pulses audible thruout this range Oct 8 at 1456, stronger at the low end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
