** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 5, a dozen at once before 1400:
16700, very good at 1340; none higher
16100, fair at 1341
15760, fair at 1340
14700, good at 1343
13970, poor at 1344
13625, fair at 1344; vs RFA in Tibetan via Tinian
13130, fair at 1343
12600, good at 1345
12230, good at 1345
11500, very poor at 1346
10300, poor at 1347
7970, very poor at 1347
After 1400:
15565, fair at 1409; only Family Radio in Oriya to India from Germany is scheduled here; presumably V of Tibet via Tajikistan jumped up to within 3 kHz of here from 15557 as in Aoki
11500, very poor at 1414
CNR1 jamming, some of it with echo, Nov 5 at 1418 on 9825, 9785, both vs VOA Chinese via Philippines, and also on 9450, vs. Sound of Hope, 100 kW via Paochung, Taiwan.
Like a spoiled Child, the ChiCom try to yell so loud they cannot hear what their elders are trying to say to them. (Elders in the sense of far beyond them in political development.)
9395, Nov 5 at 1421, sounds like same YL speaking as on CNR1 9825, 9785 and 9450 jammers, but not //, or maybe far out of synch. Nothing listed here as legitimate or target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET [non].
** FRANCE. 9765, Nov 5 at 0600, RFI news in English, good on this Saturday, so back in business after a strike the night before. Used to hearing NZ, but now their 9765 does not start until 0759. RFI is 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun at 06-07 daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, Nov 5 at 1419 some music, some hum marking it immediately as AIR GOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Nov 5 at 1830 western pop music stops and news in English starts, no doubt R. Kuwait, but only poor signal and fading; just about gone by 1850. And yes, they were *still* on 21540 colliding with Spain earlier today around 1330-1400+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. After visiting the Enid Hamfest, a late turn-on of TV and computer Nov 5 found analog sporadic-E opening in progress at 1940 UT, peaking from the SW, several signals mixing on channel 2, also poking into ch 3 at times with less QRM. Briefly a bit of audio on 2 was in Spanish mentioning today`s date. In and out, but on 2 at 2000 could recognize the XHI-TV bug in the upper right from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Not much seen after that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 5 at 1850, unstable carrier, drumming and drama, hum, some CCI, and ACI from 15125 REE/COSTA RICA. No doubt V. of Nigeria, which we often hear much better around 0500. Gone at 1900 which is just as well as 15120 was then getting a double whammy with REE direct also splattering from 15110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 15190, Nov 5 at 1825, poor signal with song, 1828 sounds like Tagalog by YL, so presumed R Pilipinas; the only question was whether this would turn out to be Brazilian. Not heard after 1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. Have been intending to confirm whether PRES really resumed broadcasting to North America in B-11, and finally got around to it today Saturday Nov 5:
*2159:30 on 15260, carrier on and one RCI IS, a bit of piano music, and sign-on IDs in Polish and English. 7330 also on now, much weaker and not exactly synchronized. 2201 church organ and then hymn (anthem?) by a M soloist, 2204 into mass. Obviously there is no separation of church and state in Poland. Presumably on weekdays the programming is more secular.
This is a new one-hour broadcast on 15260, daily at 22-23, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Sackville, and on 7330, 250 kW, almost the same azimuth, 282 degrees from Woofferton UK, presumably to fill in the skip zone around Sackville.
Unfortunately the Poles will not condescend to send us their already-produced broadcasts in English, a slightly more useful language in North America, altho no station can be faulted for also reaching out to its diaspora (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 9360, Nov 5 at 1329 organ music, 1330 Russian announcement mixed with more organ music. Is R. Liberty via SAIPAN at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 5965 via COSTA RICA, Saturday Nov 5 at 0605, `Amigos de la Onda Corta` is starting, so it too has this season made a 1-UT-hour-later timeshift. Best here, also audible on 11895 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875 via WYFR, Nov 5 at 0608, RTI is once again in German instead of scheduled Spanish. Maybe the Mennonites in Mexico where it`s midnight in Chihuahua talked them into making this strange change on the 285 degree antenna? But it`s High altho Chinesish, not Low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15375, Nov 5 at 1337, noise jamming vs something, no doubt R. Free Asia in Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN.
15420, Nov 5 at 1338 heavy noise jamming (or is it DRM? None listed), atop something. Maybe V. of Tibet jumped to around here instead of 15433 as in Aoki. Tough luck for BBCWS in English via Seychelles also on 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA
** U S A. 660, Nov 5 at 1300 after some C&W music, missed ID but now CNN News about death at 92y of Andy Rooney, CBS, RIP. 1305 fade during another ID but after some more country music, English announcement and then into another language, sure sounded like Navajo as CCI grew. Altho this was looping east-west, I had been dismissing KTNN Window Rock AZ/NM as a possibility since it`s half a sesquihour before sunrise there and they should still be nulling toward WFAN and me. Official November sunrise is 1345 UT, December 1415, January 1430. (i.e. 7:45 am MDT Nov 5, 6:45 am MST from Nov 6. Watch out for many MW stations to power up at wrong time tomorrow.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9990, Nov 5 at 1415, no WTWW-2 on the air yet, but when it is, it will be encountering something in Vietnamese: here it is, in Aoki, R. Free Asia via SAIPAN at 14-15. Vs overload from 9980 WWCR. Other 9990 stations are:
1030-1330 R. Azadi (Free Afghanistan) in Pashto and Dari via Thailand
1500-1757 V. of Korea, (North) in Arabic, English, Arabic
1800-2100 R. Cairo in Hausa
Reminder that WTWW-2 is supposed to be testing with a live Ted Randall call-in show Saturday afternoon/evening on 9990 or 5085. Still not started at 2215 UT Nov 5, long after Ted`s QSO show finished at 2000 on WTWW-1 9479, altho it was probably recorded. Maybe in the evening on 5085? Or postponed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9840, Nov 5 at 1325, wacky farrightwingnut conspiracy gospel huxter about the Pope, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations; 1327 lo het hits as off-frequency V. of Vietnam is about to start English after switch from 177 degrees toward Indonesia to 57 degrees USward. This hour on WHRI is registered Mon-Sat only; at 1417, its daily broadcast is mixed with Vietnamese music, het during VOV`s Japanese service.
21515-21810 approx., Nov 5 at 1821, the 21630 transmitter of WHRI is slightly overmodulated on the fundamental, but modulation spur spikes spread to most of the 13 meter band. Only active frequency to be victimized is 21690 France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15620, Nov 5 at 1827, open S9+20 carrier with some hum vs. the squishy spur on 15619 from WEWN 15610. At 1847 in French about Burundi. 1855 ID as La Voix de l`Amerique, mentioning a co-station in Bamako. Off after 1900. VOA uses this frequency quite a lot, ignoring the WEWN problem, but this semihour is the only one via Greenville per HFCC, which I am inclined to believe rather than Aoki which says Botswana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15385.2, Nov 5 at 1831, KJES, robokids with responses in English on at least S9+25 signal, probably sporadic-E enhanced as I would discover later; see MEXICO. So strong at 1852 during break for hymn in Spanish that an unusual spur was barely audible circa 15240. Could match the audio peaks, but not find one 145 kHz higher on 15530. Off-frequency estimated by comparing to 9385 WWRB presumed not so off itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15240, Nov 5 at 1900, African flutes, choral in unknown language, tho thought I heard some French elements, easily overcoming the KJES spur heard a few minutes earlier [see U S A]. HFCC shows AWR in Fulfulde, 500 kW, 320 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA at 1900-1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15810 & 15825, Nov 5 at 1856, WWCR-1 15825 is still flanked by spurs: 15810 at S9+12, 15825 S9+25+, 15840 S9+8. I had not noticed the disparity in their strength before. Plenty to register on the meter but not much audio until I switched to SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. 17695, Nov 5 at 0613, 1Africa is propagating altho poorly, hyping phone number, gospel rap. It`s on this new higher band in B-11 at 06-20. Also heard at 1823 with very good S9+18 signal, interview with musician; much better than their Miami/Chile 17680 outlet in Spanish, peaking only S9+10 but just barely modulated at 1904 while 17695 played loud gospel disco; Chile modulation level OK by 1935 with praise music but interrupted by IADs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9570, Nov 5 at 1420, open carrier over something else. Mostly likely Habana neglected to turn off the CRI relay at 1357; scheduled this hour is KBS direct in Indonesian, and coming up at 15 is VOA Uzbek via Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
16700, very good at 1340; none higher
16100, fair at 1341
15760, fair at 1340
14700, good at 1343
13970, poor at 1344
13625, fair at 1344; vs RFA in Tibetan via Tinian
13130, fair at 1343
12600, good at 1345
12230, good at 1345
11500, very poor at 1346
10300, poor at 1347
7970, very poor at 1347
After 1400:
15565, fair at 1409; only Family Radio in Oriya to India from Germany is scheduled here; presumably V of Tibet via Tajikistan jumped up to within 3 kHz of here from 15557 as in Aoki
11500, very poor at 1414
CNR1 jamming, some of it with echo, Nov 5 at 1418 on 9825, 9785, both vs VOA Chinese via Philippines, and also on 9450, vs. Sound of Hope, 100 kW via Paochung, Taiwan.
Like a spoiled Child, the ChiCom try to yell so loud they cannot hear what their elders are trying to say to them. (Elders in the sense of far beyond them in political development.)
9395, Nov 5 at 1421, sounds like same YL speaking as on CNR1 9825, 9785 and 9450 jammers, but not //, or maybe far out of synch. Nothing listed here as legitimate or target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET [non].
** FRANCE. 9765, Nov 5 at 0600, RFI news in English, good on this Saturday, so back in business after a strike the night before. Used to hearing NZ, but now their 9765 does not start until 0759. RFI is 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun at 06-07 daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, Nov 5 at 1419 some music, some hum marking it immediately as AIR GOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Nov 5 at 1830 western pop music stops and news in English starts, no doubt R. Kuwait, but only poor signal and fading; just about gone by 1850. And yes, they were *still* on 21540 colliding with Spain earlier today around 1330-1400+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. After visiting the Enid Hamfest, a late turn-on of TV and computer Nov 5 found analog sporadic-E opening in progress at 1940 UT, peaking from the SW, several signals mixing on channel 2, also poking into ch 3 at times with less QRM. Briefly a bit of audio on 2 was in Spanish mentioning today`s date. In and out, but on 2 at 2000 could recognize the XHI-TV bug in the upper right from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Not much seen after that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 5 at 1850, unstable carrier, drumming and drama, hum, some CCI, and ACI from 15125 REE/COSTA RICA. No doubt V. of Nigeria, which we often hear much better around 0500. Gone at 1900 which is just as well as 15120 was then getting a double whammy with REE direct also splattering from 15110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 15190, Nov 5 at 1825, poor signal with song, 1828 sounds like Tagalog by YL, so presumed R Pilipinas; the only question was whether this would turn out to be Brazilian. Not heard after 1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. Have been intending to confirm whether PRES really resumed broadcasting to North America in B-11, and finally got around to it today Saturday Nov 5:
*2159:30 on 15260, carrier on and one RCI IS, a bit of piano music, and sign-on IDs in Polish and English. 7330 also on now, much weaker and not exactly synchronized. 2201 church organ and then hymn (anthem?) by a M soloist, 2204 into mass. Obviously there is no separation of church and state in Poland. Presumably on weekdays the programming is more secular.
This is a new one-hour broadcast on 15260, daily at 22-23, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Sackville, and on 7330, 250 kW, almost the same azimuth, 282 degrees from Woofferton UK, presumably to fill in the skip zone around Sackville.
Unfortunately the Poles will not condescend to send us their already-produced broadcasts in English, a slightly more useful language in North America, altho no station can be faulted for also reaching out to its diaspora (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 9360, Nov 5 at 1329 organ music, 1330 Russian announcement mixed with more organ music. Is R. Liberty via SAIPAN at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 5965 via COSTA RICA, Saturday Nov 5 at 0605, `Amigos de la Onda Corta` is starting, so it too has this season made a 1-UT-hour-later timeshift. Best here, also audible on 11895 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 6875 via WYFR, Nov 5 at 0608, RTI is once again in German instead of scheduled Spanish. Maybe the Mennonites in Mexico where it`s midnight in Chihuahua talked them into making this strange change on the 285 degree antenna? But it`s High altho Chinesish, not Low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15375, Nov 5 at 1337, noise jamming vs something, no doubt R. Free Asia in Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN.
15420, Nov 5 at 1338 heavy noise jamming (or is it DRM? None listed), atop something. Maybe V. of Tibet jumped to around here instead of 15433 as in Aoki. Tough luck for BBCWS in English via Seychelles also on 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA
** U S A. 660, Nov 5 at 1300 after some C&W music, missed ID but now CNN News about death at 92y of Andy Rooney, CBS, RIP. 1305 fade during another ID but after some more country music, English announcement and then into another language, sure sounded like Navajo as CCI grew. Altho this was looping east-west, I had been dismissing KTNN Window Rock AZ/NM as a possibility since it`s half a sesquihour before sunrise there and they should still be nulling toward WFAN and me. Official November sunrise is 1345 UT, December 1415, January 1430. (i.e. 7:45 am MDT Nov 5, 6:45 am MST from Nov 6. Watch out for many MW stations to power up at wrong time tomorrow.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9990, Nov 5 at 1415, no WTWW-2 on the air yet, but when it is, it will be encountering something in Vietnamese: here it is, in Aoki, R. Free Asia via SAIPAN at 14-15. Vs overload from 9980 WWCR. Other 9990 stations are:
1030-1330 R. Azadi (Free Afghanistan) in Pashto and Dari via Thailand
1500-1757 V. of Korea, (North) in Arabic, English, Arabic
1800-2100 R. Cairo in Hausa
Reminder that WTWW-2 is supposed to be testing with a live Ted Randall call-in show Saturday afternoon/evening on 9990 or 5085. Still not started at 2215 UT Nov 5, long after Ted`s QSO show finished at 2000 on WTWW-1 9479, altho it was probably recorded. Maybe in the evening on 5085? Or postponed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9840, Nov 5 at 1325, wacky farrightwingnut conspiracy gospel huxter about the Pope, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations; 1327 lo het hits as off-frequency V. of Vietnam is about to start English after switch from 177 degrees toward Indonesia to 57 degrees USward. This hour on WHRI is registered Mon-Sat only; at 1417, its daily broadcast is mixed with Vietnamese music, het during VOV`s Japanese service.
21515-21810 approx., Nov 5 at 1821, the 21630 transmitter of WHRI is slightly overmodulated on the fundamental, but modulation spur spikes spread to most of the 13 meter band. Only active frequency to be victimized is 21690 France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15620, Nov 5 at 1827, open S9+20 carrier with some hum vs. the squishy spur on 15619 from WEWN 15610. At 1847 in French about Burundi. 1855 ID as La Voix de l`Amerique, mentioning a co-station in Bamako. Off after 1900. VOA uses this frequency quite a lot, ignoring the WEWN problem, but this semihour is the only one via Greenville per HFCC, which I am inclined to believe rather than Aoki which says Botswana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15385.2, Nov 5 at 1831, KJES, robokids with responses in English on at least S9+25 signal, probably sporadic-E enhanced as I would discover later; see MEXICO. So strong at 1852 during break for hymn in Spanish that an unusual spur was barely audible circa 15240. Could match the audio peaks, but not find one 145 kHz higher on 15530. Off-frequency estimated by comparing to 9385 WWRB presumed not so off itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15240, Nov 5 at 1900, African flutes, choral in unknown language, tho thought I heard some French elements, easily overcoming the KJES spur heard a few minutes earlier [see U S A]. HFCC shows AWR in Fulfulde, 500 kW, 320 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA at 1900-1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15810 & 15825, Nov 5 at 1856, WWCR-1 15825 is still flanked by spurs: 15810 at S9+12, 15825 S9+25+, 15840 S9+8. I had not noticed the disparity in their strength before. Plenty to register on the meter but not much audio until I switched to SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. 17695, Nov 5 at 0613, 1Africa is propagating altho poorly, hyping phone number, gospel rap. It`s on this new higher band in B-11 at 06-20. Also heard at 1823 with very good S9+18 signal, interview with musician; much better than their Miami/Chile 17680 outlet in Spanish, peaking only S9+10 but just barely modulated at 1904 while 17695 played loud gospel disco; Chile modulation level OK by 1935 with praise music but interrupted by IADs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9570, Nov 5 at 1420, open carrier over something else. Mostly likely Habana neglected to turn off the CRI relay at 1357; scheduled this hour is KBS direct in Indonesian, and coming up at 15 is VOA Uzbek via Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
