** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Jan 5 at 1430, as another year of Thursdays starts, during its last known schedule, still no sign of LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 5 before 1500:
11980, good at 1451; no others 18-7 MHz found in the 1448-1453 period.
The only explanation for FD on 11980 is in Aoki: one of the countless 100-watt nuisance Sound of Hope transmitters from Taiwan could be here or anywhere from 11950 to 12100 between 2000 and 1700.
EiBi also shows both SOH and FD at these hours, as ``Mandarin``, which is not correct for FD as there are never any words, spoken or sung (except for occasional switching errors at start or finish). We have heard FD on inband 11980 occasionally before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910-, Jan 5 at 0730, open carrier, slightly on the low side, surely Alcaraván Radio HJDH failing to modulate. Probably depends on automation in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. More RFI missing transmissions: Jan 5 at 0425, nothing on 7425 or 9805 scheduled for this English hour. Nor 5865 with Algerian relay. Tnx to Wolfgang Büschel and Jorge Freitas who have monitored many more hours of the RFI schedule, also relays of others via Issoudun, and of France via other sites. Certain hours of RFI French are still heard, but greatly reduced. It appears that all the English frequencies at 04-08 are missing. Kai Ludwig suggests all these abrupt reduxions could be due to transmission contracts with TDF expiring at the end of 2011y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9680, Jan 5 at 1455-1459*, RRI with gamelan music atop China/Taiwan QRM, cut off at 1459 sharp; then in next minute an open carrier on and off a couple times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15349.1, Jan 5 at 1525 after missing several days in our mornings, IMM is back to put a nasty het on 15350.0, RVA Tagalog via VATICAN which is stronger with the only modulation audible, helped by off-tuning to hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Jan 5 at 1524, BSKSA in Arabic is not crackling or buzzing, but the carrier is wobbling as obvious with BFO employed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA [non]. Re my previous report of Channel Africa `Rise & Shine` show via WRMI 9955 at 0600-0630, which was not // SENTECH direct on 15255: Bill Bingham in RSA says that is the title of the entire 03-07 UT broadcast in English (M-F). Now I get a connexion to the website about it:http://www.channelafrica.org/portal/site/ChannelAfrica/menuitem.5531a29e85a8b98a4de34de3674daeb9/?vgnextoid=1bbaf3fd97a7c110VgnVCM10000072d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Jan 5 at 0045, middle-C tone again on strong carrier, and this time I know it`s WTWW testing #2 transmitter, as George has asked me to monitor for any spurs. No, none heard, so they have now been suppressed adequately; no het against WWCR 5070, for instance, while previously there was a spur circa 5072, and at plus/minus ~13 kHz intervals up and down. Then transmitter shifted to other frequency, 9990 which was also spur-free until 0048*. George McClintock says there are still a few other minor problems to work out, and Continental engineers are expected around January 15, after which regular service should be ready to start (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11714.8, Jan 5 at 1520 and 1648, still no signal from KJES, perhaps keeping off the air due to FCC NOV on being too far off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1598: first SW airing should be Thursday Jan 5 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; then 2230 on WBCQ 7490. On WWRB 3195: UT Fri 0430v. On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830. On WTWW 5755: UT Sun 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6183.0, Jan 5 at 0724, XEPPM 6185 during classical music has QRM from CW beeps 2 kHz lower. I count them at the rate of 50 per minute, so not based on timesignaling, and they seem slightly unevenly spaced, one missing occasionally.
6000.0, Jan 5 at 0728, the same kind of CW beeps are heard here, but not synchronized with 6183. ??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
