** ALBANIA. Tirana back in English at 0230 on 7420? I wasn`t sure if or when R. Tirana would put English on 7420 at 0230 UT as I recommended, but tune in at 0238 UT Nov 4 and there is a fair signal in English on 7420, presumably R. Tirana. Talking about Mediterranean villages, and into music. Modulation sounds like RT, somewhat muffled. But there is no interference, 10 kHz away from nearest stations on 7410 and 7430. Please check 7420 before 0255 UT tonight and report on reception quality where you are. Tnx, (Glenn Hauser, 0244 UT Nov 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
But no replies, too late to reach many quickly. Went off around 0258. Wolfgang Büschel points out that Hohhot, Inner Mongolia is also on 7420 at this time, but we never hear anything from it here. Since there`s only one broadcast in English to NAm left from R. Tirana, we wanted it to be in the evening instead of 1530 on 13640, when it`s not been propagating well and fewer are able to listen.
So has 0230 [except UT Mondays] replaced 1530? Apparently: no carrier heard at 1531 Nov 4, tho there are plenty of other signals on 13 MHz. The Albanian hour at 00-01 should also have moved from 7425 to 7420 due to Chicom QRM, but did not check that yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 4, before 1230: none found 18-12 MHz. Higher bands haven`t opened up yet a semihour before sunrise here.
10300, JBA at 1225
Before 1300:
12230, very poor at 1258; none higher
Before 1400:
16100, good at 1354
15565, fair at 1354; presumably 2-3 kHz from a Voice of Tibet jump
14950, good at 1355
13970, fair at 1355
13130, good at 1355
12600, fair at 1354
12230, poor at 1357
10300, good at 1357
Before 1500:
7970, JBA at 1439; checked this since not heard earlier, but not a full rescan now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 18970-18995, Nov 4 at 1440, OTH radar pulses presumed from here. I`ve yet to hear any broadcaster in B-11 on the 18 MHz band, tho a few are now registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 17610, Nov 4 at 1218, news in Spanish with clips in French, strongly hinting it`s RFI. Yes, new frequency for the 1200-1230 broadcast, 250 kW, 295 degrees via GUIANA FRENCH. If it`s anything like the old frequency, 15515, it will occasionally stick on the air up to 75 minutes later with RFI Musique, but 17610 was off today by 1230. (Mike Cooper reports there was another strike at RFI but scheduled to end at 0600 Nov 4.)
Now also scheduled on 17610 before Spanish is 1130-1200 RFI 500 kW, 270 degrees from Issoudun, probably Météo Marine plus music fill, also still via GUF 13640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 9810, Nov 4 at 0545, DW has not cut to dead air this time, amid ``environmental news`` segment on `Living Planet`, sufficient signal here, but JBA on // 9855, both of course via RWANDA.
We can`t hear about Germany in German, but we can too in French:
17520, Nov 4 at 1230, talk about Allemagne, which is DW at 12-13, 250 kW, due south from Woofferton, UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, Nov 4 at 1402 and 1432 checks, AIR Sinhala service from Khampur is again in DRM today, poor signals not likely decodable here. I can just imagine all the Sinhalese wondering why in the world they are getting this noise racket instead of nice music normally played. O, they`ll run right out and buy a DRM receiver? Yeah, sure. AIR should do their DRM testing on some other out-of-band frequency and leave the analog alone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15190, Nov 4 at 1302, IRRS via ROMANIA, sounds like co-channel QRM from two audios, but it`s really Brother Scare`s standard opening, loud seemingly unrelated music mixed with pronouncement by some other speaker. 1303 change to only BS talking. Meanwhile at 1302 hit by overload from REE Costa Rica 15170 coming on late. Monitored again at 1400 to see what would happen on 15190: like yesterday, another carrier break interrupting the BS, at 1400:16* to *1400:37, why?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Nov 4 at 1433, R. Sultanate of Oman, news in English with American accent, about a tropical depression, killings in Syria, Israeli blockade; 1435 pause for ID as 99.4, jingle, more news. Fair signal, partly readable; could do with more ooomph in the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, RTI relay via WYFR is totally SNAFU, at least compared to RTI`s B-11 schedule: Nov 4 at 0552 it`s again in Chinese, not scheduled English; and after a half-sesquiminute-late 3+1 timesignal ending at 0600:45, switch to German again! Misprogrammed automation playout?
Or can it be an intentional new schedule? Found RTI`s German website schedule, but it`s still for summer!http://german.rti.org.tw/Others/Frequencies.aspx
showing only 19 and 21 UT via Skelton and Issoudun on 6 and 3 MHz. The English page has an up-to-date SW schedule for that language, but I don`t see one for their entire output.
0600 UT would be an ideal time for a morning broadcast to Germany and vicinity, but 6875 is not on WYFR`s 45 degree antenna toward Europe, instead 285 degrees accounting for the super-signal here in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9825, Nov 4 at 1310, good signal in English, YL interviewing the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile (who has assumed political duties from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, now self-restricted to spiritual stuff only), but with equal or stronger level CCCCI, i.e. CNR1 jamming. So they even jam VOA in English when the subject is Tibet!
Wait, this isn`t VOA English, but scheduled as VOA Chinese, 332 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15 --- I soon found a clear // on 7525, from 1319, synchronized with 9825. Just a trace of QRM on 7525, which is no doubt jammed too, but it`s 21 degrees from Tinang, bigsig USward.
Discusses separation of powers; PM mentions several times how well he gets along with Chinese, such as during his many years at Harvard. It may be the Chinese *service* but this program goes on and on in English! With the ChiCom QRM out of the way, I could also hear an undercurrent in Chinese, so maybe the interviewer is translating someone else`s questions.
At 1329 end of this interview, but she says ``We`ll be right back``; pause and then break announcements in Chinese including the English phrase ``VOA News Chinese Edition``, plug iphone apps, 1330 past 1332 still in Chinese only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1589 monitoring: confirmed on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast at 0325 UT Friday Nov 4 --- this airs a dozen times 2-hourly from 0100 Fridays, but now makes DST shifts, so from next week will be on even UT hours, from 0000, or 0200? http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
On WWRB, 3195 and still // weaker 5051: SC preacher ran over to 0333:40, protracted respectful pause until 0335:25 when WOR finally started, upcut during introduxion. Also on the 3195 webcast, but rechecking that at 0359 it had already reverted to Bible readings. Rechecking SW, both frequencies stayed with WOR until its conclusion at 0403:40. By 0404, 5051 cut off the air, and shortly following, 3195 off too, neither with any ID or sign-off. Checking the webcast which had carried WOR once again at 0405, it had switched from Bible to the SC preacher again who was on at 0300! And the alternate WWRB webcast was running Bible. From next week all this should happen one UT hour later, WORLD OF RADIO nominally from 0430.
On WRMI, 9955: JBA Nov 4 at 1442 with ACI, and overload from 9980 WWCR. Further WRMI airings: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730; Sun 0900, 1630, 1830; Mon 1230, 1630, 2230; Tue & Wed 1630.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755.
On WBCQ Area 51: UT Monday 0400v on 5110v-CUSB
On WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sat 1730, Sunday 0930 and 1830
On Hamburger Lokalradio 5980: Tuesday 1030
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7290, Nov 4 at 0550, solo music way under 7295 Algeria via France, something new. 0552 announcement is sorta Slavic. HFCC shows 05-07, 100 kW, 55 degrees from IBB Lampertheim, GERMANY. Aoki says it`s R. Liberty in Tatar-Bashkir (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1350-, Nov 4 at 1249 UT, dominant signal is ``Pueblo`s sports station, Homer 13-50``, with rumbling het. Comparing to adjacent frequencies, stepping with BFO, this one is definitely off, to the low side.
It`s now KDZA, after a frequency/call swap with 1230, which went on to become KKPC, on the Colorado Public Radio network. But the original KGHF 1350 Pueblo was one of my earliest DX catches in 1953-1954 when I started in Santa Rosa NM on the 1941 AM/SW Philco console with built-in rotatable box loop, still residing in my Enid attic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 9840, Nov 4 at 1351, English discussion of Vietnam`s musical heritage, then some of that music. Sufficient signal, 1330-1400, 100 kW 57 degrees from Hanoi-Sontay site per Aoki. If it`s off-frequency, nothing to het it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search before 1300 UT sunrise in Enid, Nov 4, on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, 9 kHz steps with offset BFO for easily perceptible beats:
From the northwest at 1240: 774, 792, 1134 (this one oscillating slightly, caused by a 1 Hz SAH between two carriers?); and at 1247 on 828.
From the southwest: 738 is strongest of all at 1238, but no audio, KRMG-740 Tulsa still a big problem. Presumably Tahiti.
702 at 1246, carrier is more westerly than 738, presumably 2BL, ABC Sydney, Australia. True bearings from Enid are 232 degrees for Papeete, 256 degrees for Sydney. These correlate nicely! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15180, Nov 4 at 1432, huge S9+25 open carrier, and off a few sex later, meanwhile enough to muscle aside another huge signal from Costa Rica on 15170. What could it be? Only thing capable of that listed on 15180 later is WHRI, but scheduled only at 22-23. Could also be Greenville on a tune-up-only frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17810, Nov 4 at 1256, open carrier with flutter, hi-pitched continuous tone; 1259 AIR IS, 1300 too poor to tell language. Trouble is, B-11 schedule of AIR athttp://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm
shows 17810 via GOA, only at 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu, so apparently an overrun if not something additional unknown?
In HFCC lacking AIR, one finds instead YFR in Telegu [sic] via UAE from 1300, plus 1400-1500 Tamil. That makes more sense for what I was hearing, except for the AIR IS --- maybe YFR was playing something similar? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
But no replies, too late to reach many quickly. Went off around 0258. Wolfgang Büschel points out that Hohhot, Inner Mongolia is also on 7420 at this time, but we never hear anything from it here. Since there`s only one broadcast in English to NAm left from R. Tirana, we wanted it to be in the evening instead of 1530 on 13640, when it`s not been propagating well and fewer are able to listen.
So has 0230 [except UT Mondays] replaced 1530? Apparently: no carrier heard at 1531 Nov 4, tho there are plenty of other signals on 13 MHz. The Albanian hour at 00-01 should also have moved from 7425 to 7420 due to Chicom QRM, but did not check that yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 4, before 1230: none found 18-12 MHz. Higher bands haven`t opened up yet a semihour before sunrise here.
10300, JBA at 1225
Before 1300:
12230, very poor at 1258; none higher
Before 1400:
16100, good at 1354
15565, fair at 1354; presumably 2-3 kHz from a Voice of Tibet jump
14950, good at 1355
13970, fair at 1355
13130, good at 1355
12600, fair at 1354
12230, poor at 1357
10300, good at 1357
Before 1500:
7970, JBA at 1439; checked this since not heard earlier, but not a full rescan now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 18970-18995, Nov 4 at 1440, OTH radar pulses presumed from here. I`ve yet to hear any broadcaster in B-11 on the 18 MHz band, tho a few are now registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 17610, Nov 4 at 1218, news in Spanish with clips in French, strongly hinting it`s RFI. Yes, new frequency for the 1200-1230 broadcast, 250 kW, 295 degrees via GUIANA FRENCH. If it`s anything like the old frequency, 15515, it will occasionally stick on the air up to 75 minutes later with RFI Musique, but 17610 was off today by 1230. (Mike Cooper reports there was another strike at RFI but scheduled to end at 0600 Nov 4.)
Now also scheduled on 17610 before Spanish is 1130-1200 RFI 500 kW, 270 degrees from Issoudun, probably Météo Marine plus music fill, also still via GUF 13640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 9810, Nov 4 at 0545, DW has not cut to dead air this time, amid ``environmental news`` segment on `Living Planet`, sufficient signal here, but JBA on // 9855, both of course via RWANDA.
We can`t hear about Germany in German, but we can too in French:
17520, Nov 4 at 1230, talk about Allemagne, which is DW at 12-13, 250 kW, due south from Woofferton, UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, Nov 4 at 1402 and 1432 checks, AIR Sinhala service from Khampur is again in DRM today, poor signals not likely decodable here. I can just imagine all the Sinhalese wondering why in the world they are getting this noise racket instead of nice music normally played. O, they`ll run right out and buy a DRM receiver? Yeah, sure. AIR should do their DRM testing on some other out-of-band frequency and leave the analog alone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. 15190, Nov 4 at 1302, IRRS via ROMANIA, sounds like co-channel QRM from two audios, but it`s really Brother Scare`s standard opening, loud seemingly unrelated music mixed with pronouncement by some other speaker. 1303 change to only BS talking. Meanwhile at 1302 hit by overload from REE Costa Rica 15170 coming on late. Monitored again at 1400 to see what would happen on 15190: like yesterday, another carrier break interrupting the BS, at 1400:16* to *1400:37, why?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Nov 4 at 1433, R. Sultanate of Oman, news in English with American accent, about a tropical depression, killings in Syria, Israeli blockade; 1435 pause for ID as 99.4, jingle, more news. Fair signal, partly readable; could do with more ooomph in the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, RTI relay via WYFR is totally SNAFU, at least compared to RTI`s B-11 schedule: Nov 4 at 0552 it`s again in Chinese, not scheduled English; and after a half-sesquiminute-late 3+1 timesignal ending at 0600:45, switch to German again! Misprogrammed automation playout?
Or can it be an intentional new schedule? Found RTI`s German website schedule, but it`s still for summer!http://german.rti.org.tw/Others/Frequencies.aspx
showing only 19 and 21 UT via Skelton and Issoudun on 6 and 3 MHz. The English page has an up-to-date SW schedule for that language, but I don`t see one for their entire output.
0600 UT would be an ideal time for a morning broadcast to Germany and vicinity, but 6875 is not on WYFR`s 45 degree antenna toward Europe, instead 285 degrees accounting for the super-signal here in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9825, Nov 4 at 1310, good signal in English, YL interviewing the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile (who has assumed political duties from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, now self-restricted to spiritual stuff only), but with equal or stronger level CCCCI, i.e. CNR1 jamming. So they even jam VOA in English when the subject is Tibet!
Wait, this isn`t VOA English, but scheduled as VOA Chinese, 332 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15 --- I soon found a clear // on 7525, from 1319, synchronized with 9825. Just a trace of QRM on 7525, which is no doubt jammed too, but it`s 21 degrees from Tinang, bigsig USward.
Discusses separation of powers; PM mentions several times how well he gets along with Chinese, such as during his many years at Harvard. It may be the Chinese *service* but this program goes on and on in English! With the ChiCom QRM out of the way, I could also hear an undercurrent in Chinese, so maybe the interviewer is translating someone else`s questions.
At 1329 end of this interview, but she says ``We`ll be right back``; pause and then break announcements in Chinese including the English phrase ``VOA News Chinese Edition``, plug iphone apps, 1330 past 1332 still in Chinese only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1589 monitoring: confirmed on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast at 0325 UT Friday Nov 4 --- this airs a dozen times 2-hourly from 0100 Fridays, but now makes DST shifts, so from next week will be on even UT hours, from 0000, or 0200? http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
On WWRB, 3195 and still // weaker 5051: SC preacher ran over to 0333:40, protracted respectful pause until 0335:25 when WOR finally started, upcut during introduxion. Also on the 3195 webcast, but rechecking that at 0359 it had already reverted to Bible readings. Rechecking SW, both frequencies stayed with WOR until its conclusion at 0403:40. By 0404, 5051 cut off the air, and shortly following, 3195 off too, neither with any ID or sign-off. Checking the webcast which had carried WOR once again at 0405, it had switched from Bible to the SC preacher again who was on at 0300! And the alternate WWRB webcast was running Bible. From next week all this should happen one UT hour later, WORLD OF RADIO nominally from 0430.
On WRMI, 9955: JBA Nov 4 at 1442 with ACI, and overload from 9980 WWCR. Further WRMI airings: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730; Sun 0900, 1630, 1830; Mon 1230, 1630, 2230; Tue & Wed 1630.
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755.
On WBCQ Area 51: UT Monday 0400v on 5110v-CUSB
On WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sat 1730, Sunday 0930 and 1830
On Hamburger Lokalradio 5980: Tuesday 1030
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7290, Nov 4 at 0550, solo music way under 7295 Algeria via France, something new. 0552 announcement is sorta Slavic. HFCC shows 05-07, 100 kW, 55 degrees from IBB Lampertheim, GERMANY. Aoki says it`s R. Liberty in Tatar-Bashkir (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1350-, Nov 4 at 1249 UT, dominant signal is ``Pueblo`s sports station, Homer 13-50``, with rumbling het. Comparing to adjacent frequencies, stepping with BFO, this one is definitely off, to the low side.
It`s now KDZA, after a frequency/call swap with 1230, which went on to become KKPC, on the Colorado Public Radio network. But the original KGHF 1350 Pueblo was one of my earliest DX catches in 1953-1954 when I started in Santa Rosa NM on the 1941 AM/SW Philco console with built-in rotatable box loop, still residing in my Enid attic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 9840, Nov 4 at 1351, English discussion of Vietnam`s musical heritage, then some of that music. Sufficient signal, 1330-1400, 100 kW 57 degrees from Hanoi-Sontay site per Aoki. If it`s off-frequency, nothing to het it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search before 1300 UT sunrise in Enid, Nov 4, on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, 9 kHz steps with offset BFO for easily perceptible beats:
From the northwest at 1240: 774, 792, 1134 (this one oscillating slightly, caused by a 1 Hz SAH between two carriers?); and at 1247 on 828.
From the southwest: 738 is strongest of all at 1238, but no audio, KRMG-740 Tulsa still a big problem. Presumably Tahiti.
702 at 1246, carrier is more westerly than 738, presumably 2BL, ABC Sydney, Australia. True bearings from Enid are 232 degrees for Papeete, 256 degrees for Sydney. These correlate nicely! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15180, Nov 4 at 1432, huge S9+25 open carrier, and off a few sex later, meanwhile enough to muscle aside another huge signal from Costa Rica on 15170. What could it be? Only thing capable of that listed on 15180 later is WHRI, but scheduled only at 22-23. Could also be Greenville on a tune-up-only frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17810, Nov 4 at 1256, open carrier with flutter, hi-pitched continuous tone; 1259 AIR IS, 1300 too poor to tell language. Trouble is, B-11 schedule of AIR athttp://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm
shows 17810 via GOA, only at 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu, so apparently an overrun if not something additional unknown?
In HFCC lacking AIR, one finds instead YFR in Telegu [sic] via UAE from 1300, plus 1400-1500 Tamil. That makes more sense for what I was hearing, except for the AIR IS --- maybe YFR was playing something similar? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
