** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Tue Nov 22 at 1353, no signal from LRA36, nor on 15475, 15474, nor a couple chex after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 22, before 1400:
9200, very good at 1327
12600, fair at 1344; none in the 10s, 11s
13130, fair at 1345; haven`t heard this one for a while; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s before 1400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non non]. 7370, Nov 22 at 0658 soft rock music, 0700 Voice of Croatia ID and English news by American accent, interrupted by stingers. Good sufficient signal, but nothing like the relays until 0600 on 7375 via Wertachtal, tho both are now 100 kW, 7370 being 320 degrees at 0700-1650, not intended for NAm. English news is scheduled for only 3 minutes M-F at 07, 11 and 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5980, Nov 22 at 0705, R. Martí very good signal from Greenville with absolutely no jamming, plugging http://etecsa.biz = http://martinoticias.com as a slap in the face to the DentroCuban controlled media and telecomms agency ETECSA. Meanwhile, wall-of-noise blocking // 6030 and 7405. But mochuelos nocturnos can hear RM with no problem on 5980.
Cuba also still jamming 5955 against long-gone R. República, instead QRMing R. Nederland in Dutch, 220 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY during this 07 hour.
9540, Nov 22 at 1331, RHC has imposed a big hum upon its poor signal here, to go with co-channel QRM causing a SAH. Wiggle that patchcord! Aoki shows the understation as CRI Chinese via Kunming (on Sundays only RHC becomes the understation to WHRI).
11840, Nov 22 at 1342 we find this RHC frequency undermodulated, much less than // 11760.
11930, Nov 22 at 1343, also no jamming yet here against R. Martí, apparently DCJC still not having fully comprehended its B-11 schedule.
At 1408, 11930 is over jamming, 13820 under jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 15220, Nov 22 at 0655, very poor signal of Chinese lesson in French, so CRI as scheduled 06-08, 500 kW, 308 degrees from Kashgar to France. Despite one recent log during same hour which seemed to be RFI, unscheduled. 15245, CRI German via Wulumuchi also audible weaker.
Pace Don Jensen of NASWA, who objects to my reporting Wulumuchi and Kashgar sites as E.T. rather than plain old China. Would XINJIANG be better? I don`t mind if editors reclassify these logs under CHINA, as some already do, if they prefer to endorse ChiCom imperialism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 6190, Nov 22 at 0702, fair signal with news in German about Bundestag, etc., no comparison to signal from Austria on 6155. HFCC has this cryptic entry: ``6190 0000 2400 18,27,28 BLN 20 45 0 750 1234567 301011 250312 D DEU D ARD FNA 3419``. Site BLN means: ``BLN Berlin (Deutschlandradio) D 52N30 013E20``.
So it`s 20 kW to the northeast but really for most of Europe. WRTH 2011 shows 6190 with 17 kW from Berlin-Britz. There had been some question whether this is really on the air. Is 6190 reliably heard 24 hours in Europe? There are plenty of bigger transmitters around the world on 6190 during the day and night. DLR has nationwide coverage on scads of FM transmitters, many of them low power; also 400 kW MW 1422, a.k.a. Deutschlandfunk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9525-, Nov 22 at 1328, carrier detected, badly squeezed between 9520 and much stronger 9530 signals, but no modulation. 9520 is RVA to Sri Lanka at +1330-1427, but 9530 is open after the Chinese radio war suspends at 1400. So at 1419 on 9525- I could make out some undermodulated Indonesian talk.
9680, RRI domestic program relay from same Jakarta-Cimanggis site is always much stronger and normally modulated, but suffers severe co-channel QRM. Nov 22 at 1333 its music is atop another Chinese radio war, i.e. R. Taiwan International in Chinese with ChiCom CNR1(?) jamming. Incredibly, KNLS Alaska is also registered in Chinese at 13-14 on 9680. Maybe it`s buried somewhere underneath. They`ve been so masochistic for years in frequency selexion; will they never learn?
I resume monitoring 9680 at 1414 and notice it`s open carrier but atop the CCCCI (Chinese co-channel interference; during rest of hour that gradually diminishes). Finally at 1418 RRI starts playing a song; more dead-air breaks with some hum continue the rest of the hour, approx. as follows: 1424 DA, 1427.5 song, 1431 DA/hum, 1435 song, 1444 segué more music, 1447 DA, 1451 music, 1455 DA, 1456 music past 1500, 1500:20 cut to other music, 1501 cut off the air. Never any announcements.
Is this any way to run a national, yea international radio service? Is this misprogrammed automation, or a neophyte studio operator who needs several minutes to find another tune, figure out what to do next? Maybe the DA breaks were supposed to contain some talk? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 21480, Nov 22 at 1530, RNW relay testing transmitter they got from defunct R. Sweden, English interview translating someone in Russian. Quite good signal tho fluttery and aimed at Europe. Occasional audio breakups. Even strong enough to overcome local VCR transmissions on 21477.5. Media Network blog had this Nov 14:
``First tests of ex-Hörby transmitter from Madagascar The first of the 250 kW ABB transmitters from the former Swedish shortwave station at Hörby installed at our Madagascar relay station is almost ready for testing. If all goes according to plan, the tests are scheduled for next week, 21-25 November, beamed towards Europe: 0700-1000 UTC on 21480 kHz (modulation: RNW Dutch) 1400-1557 UTC on 21480 kHz (modulation: RNW English)
Andy Sennitt added Nov 21: Please note the special email address for these tests: rnwmonitoring @ gmail.com
Would be nice if this is prolonged. But the current RNW schedule linked at HFCC shows test continuing until 26 November only, at 330 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349.1, Nov 22 at 1350, IMM making huge het against strong 15350 TRT, ruining its Turkish music. VOT is scheduled here all the way from 0700 to 1356, per Aoki, which also hasn`t caught up with Morocco`s new frequency as of Nov 22, still showing 0800-1410 on 15341, 1410-2100 on 15345, both 250 kW, 110 degrees from Nador.
The question is whether IMM is still on 15341, or even 15345 at an earlier hour, or is it on 15349.1 only now, from 0800, colliding with Turkey all that time? IMM is clear for an hour at 14-15, before RVA via VATICAN comes on 15350 for its one-hour broadcast; at 1404 Arabic music and talk. So only after 1600 can we almost approve of the new frequency as it gets 4 kHz away from Argentina 15345v. 5 or 10 kHz would be much better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 9765, Nov 22 at 1338, REE via COSTA RICA, usual poor signal here, but in Castilian instead of Basque scheduled M-F 1330v-1355v! Soon mentioned `En Thinco Minutos`, which me know is the 5-minute standby evergreen file to fill in for missing programming, often at top of hour when domestic RNE news source is pre-empted for sports or something. Did CR lose its feed from Madrid? No, same thing a second earlier on // 17595 direct. This filler was talking about previous elexions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Nov 22 at 0659, tuned in too late to be sure RTI relay via WYFR is still in wrong language German; just a song in Chinese, then WYFR Spanish ID and off 0700. Is this programming controlled directly from Taibei, Oakland, or Okeechobee? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. TRT 15350 gets big het from 15349.1 MOROCCO: q.v.
** U K [non]. 17870, Nov 22 at 1358, B-B-C- chimes, flutter, 1359:40 music and intro in language, thought I heard a `Huna` but not Arabic, instead Somali, 250 kW, 160 degrees via CYPRUS at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15490-15900, Nov 22 at 1353, as I am tuning up the 15 MHz band after nothing from LRA36, I start to hear spur spikes at 15490, must be out-of-whack WWCR-1 15825 transmitter again. Yes, increases as I go up, peaking around 15680 during preachertalk, QRMing countless other stations in this 410-kHz range, and likely to be even worse after 1400 with black gospel music over-modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See USA WJHR log
** U S A. 15550-USB, Nov 22 at 1405, WJHR`s only preacher suffering from WWCR splatter spikes all the way from 15825 transmitter; Christians vs Christians! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 22, before 1400:
9200, very good at 1327
12600, fair at 1344; none in the 10s, 11s
13130, fair at 1345; haven`t heard this one for a while; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s before 1400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non non]. 7370, Nov 22 at 0658 soft rock music, 0700 Voice of Croatia ID and English news by American accent, interrupted by stingers. Good sufficient signal, but nothing like the relays until 0600 on 7375 via Wertachtal, tho both are now 100 kW, 7370 being 320 degrees at 0700-1650, not intended for NAm. English news is scheduled for only 3 minutes M-F at 07, 11 and 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5980, Nov 22 at 0705, R. Martí very good signal from Greenville with absolutely no jamming, plugging http://etecsa.biz = http://martinoticias.com as a slap in the face to the DentroCuban controlled media and telecomms agency ETECSA. Meanwhile, wall-of-noise blocking // 6030 and 7405. But mochuelos nocturnos can hear RM with no problem on 5980.
Cuba also still jamming 5955 against long-gone R. República, instead QRMing R. Nederland in Dutch, 220 degrees from Nauen, GERMANY during this 07 hour.
9540, Nov 22 at 1331, RHC has imposed a big hum upon its poor signal here, to go with co-channel QRM causing a SAH. Wiggle that patchcord! Aoki shows the understation as CRI Chinese via Kunming (on Sundays only RHC becomes the understation to WHRI).
11840, Nov 22 at 1342 we find this RHC frequency undermodulated, much less than // 11760.
11930, Nov 22 at 1343, also no jamming yet here against R. Martí, apparently DCJC still not having fully comprehended its B-11 schedule.
At 1408, 11930 is over jamming, 13820 under jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 15220, Nov 22 at 0655, very poor signal of Chinese lesson in French, so CRI as scheduled 06-08, 500 kW, 308 degrees from Kashgar to France. Despite one recent log during same hour which seemed to be RFI, unscheduled. 15245, CRI German via Wulumuchi also audible weaker.
Pace Don Jensen of NASWA, who objects to my reporting Wulumuchi and Kashgar sites as E.T. rather than plain old China. Would XINJIANG be better? I don`t mind if editors reclassify these logs under CHINA, as some already do, if they prefer to endorse ChiCom imperialism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 6190, Nov 22 at 0702, fair signal with news in German about Bundestag, etc., no comparison to signal from Austria on 6155. HFCC has this cryptic entry: ``6190 0000 2400 18,27,28 BLN 20 45 0 750 1234567 301011 250312 D DEU D ARD FNA 3419``. Site BLN means: ``BLN Berlin (Deutschlandradio) D 52N30 013E20``.
So it`s 20 kW to the northeast but really for most of Europe. WRTH 2011 shows 6190 with 17 kW from Berlin-Britz. There had been some question whether this is really on the air. Is 6190 reliably heard 24 hours in Europe? There are plenty of bigger transmitters around the world on 6190 during the day and night. DLR has nationwide coverage on scads of FM transmitters, many of them low power; also 400 kW MW 1422, a.k.a. Deutschlandfunk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9525-, Nov 22 at 1328, carrier detected, badly squeezed between 9520 and much stronger 9530 signals, but no modulation. 9520 is RVA to Sri Lanka at +1330-1427, but 9530 is open after the Chinese radio war suspends at 1400. So at 1419 on 9525- I could make out some undermodulated Indonesian talk.
9680, RRI domestic program relay from same Jakarta-Cimanggis site is always much stronger and normally modulated, but suffers severe co-channel QRM. Nov 22 at 1333 its music is atop another Chinese radio war, i.e. R. Taiwan International in Chinese with ChiCom CNR1(?) jamming. Incredibly, KNLS Alaska is also registered in Chinese at 13-14 on 9680. Maybe it`s buried somewhere underneath. They`ve been so masochistic for years in frequency selexion; will they never learn?
I resume monitoring 9680 at 1414 and notice it`s open carrier but atop the CCCCI (Chinese co-channel interference; during rest of hour that gradually diminishes). Finally at 1418 RRI starts playing a song; more dead-air breaks with some hum continue the rest of the hour, approx. as follows: 1424 DA, 1427.5 song, 1431 DA/hum, 1435 song, 1444 segué more music, 1447 DA, 1451 music, 1455 DA, 1456 music past 1500, 1500:20 cut to other music, 1501 cut off the air. Never any announcements.
Is this any way to run a national, yea international radio service? Is this misprogrammed automation, or a neophyte studio operator who needs several minutes to find another tune, figure out what to do next? Maybe the DA breaks were supposed to contain some talk? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 21480, Nov 22 at 1530, RNW relay testing transmitter they got from defunct R. Sweden, English interview translating someone in Russian. Quite good signal tho fluttery and aimed at Europe. Occasional audio breakups. Even strong enough to overcome local VCR transmissions on 21477.5. Media Network blog had this Nov 14:
``First tests of ex-Hörby transmitter from Madagascar The first of the 250 kW ABB transmitters from the former Swedish shortwave station at Hörby installed at our Madagascar relay station is almost ready for testing. If all goes according to plan, the tests are scheduled for next week, 21-25 November, beamed towards Europe: 0700-1000 UTC on 21480 kHz (modulation: RNW Dutch) 1400-1557 UTC on 21480 kHz (modulation: RNW English)
Andy Sennitt added Nov 21: Please note the special email address for these tests: rnwmonitoring @ gmail.com
Would be nice if this is prolonged. But the current RNW schedule linked at HFCC shows test continuing until 26 November only, at 330 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349.1, Nov 22 at 1350, IMM making huge het against strong 15350 TRT, ruining its Turkish music. VOT is scheduled here all the way from 0700 to 1356, per Aoki, which also hasn`t caught up with Morocco`s new frequency as of Nov 22, still showing 0800-1410 on 15341, 1410-2100 on 15345, both 250 kW, 110 degrees from Nador.
The question is whether IMM is still on 15341, or even 15345 at an earlier hour, or is it on 15349.1 only now, from 0800, colliding with Turkey all that time? IMM is clear for an hour at 14-15, before RVA via VATICAN comes on 15350 for its one-hour broadcast; at 1404 Arabic music and talk. So only after 1600 can we almost approve of the new frequency as it gets 4 kHz away from Argentina 15345v. 5 or 10 kHz would be much better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 9765, Nov 22 at 1338, REE via COSTA RICA, usual poor signal here, but in Castilian instead of Basque scheduled M-F 1330v-1355v! Soon mentioned `En Thinco Minutos`, which me know is the 5-minute standby evergreen file to fill in for missing programming, often at top of hour when domestic RNE news source is pre-empted for sports or something. Did CR lose its feed from Madrid? No, same thing a second earlier on // 17595 direct. This filler was talking about previous elexions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Nov 22 at 0659, tuned in too late to be sure RTI relay via WYFR is still in wrong language German; just a song in Chinese, then WYFR Spanish ID and off 0700. Is this programming controlled directly from Taibei, Oakland, or Okeechobee? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. TRT 15350 gets big het from 15349.1 MOROCCO: q.v.
** U K [non]. 17870, Nov 22 at 1358, B-B-C- chimes, flutter, 1359:40 music and intro in language, thought I heard a `Huna` but not Arabic, instead Somali, 250 kW, 160 degrees via CYPRUS at 1400-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15490-15900, Nov 22 at 1353, as I am tuning up the 15 MHz band after nothing from LRA36, I start to hear spur spikes at 15490, must be out-of-whack WWCR-1 15825 transmitter again. Yes, increases as I go up, peaking around 15680 during preachertalk, QRMing countless other stations in this 410-kHz range, and likely to be even worse after 1400 with black gospel music over-modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See USA WJHR log
** U S A. 15550-USB, Nov 22 at 1405, WJHR`s only preacher suffering from WWCR splatter spikes all the way from 15825 transmitter; Christians vs Christians! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
