** ALBANIA. 7425, Jan 7 at 2358, R. Tirana IS before Albanian hour to NAm, 0003 Jan 8 presumed news; not much CCI from China now, as R. Tirana has declined to move to 7420 to avoid it completely. This does not necessarily mean the collision is over as conditions vary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Sat Jan 7 at 2350, can barely detect some Spanish broadcast, i.e. the LTA army relay of some domestic Bs As station, more likely to happen on weekends with sports, and nothing from AFN Guam on 13363.0-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Jan 7 at 1429, S Asian song with drumming and rustic instrument, fair signal but deep fades; must be HCJB, reminding me that I haven`t heard then in several weeks. Maybe long-path was cooperating. At least they no longer have to confront QRMorocco on 15341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Jan 7 at 0709, 0724, open carrier is again running way after 0606* of CBC Northern Quebec service. Think of all the lost programming that might as well have been modulated upon it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. Checking for the special DX test that WRMI has arranged from R. República, 5954, 10 kW from its Cariari site:
First hour at 20-21 I did not expect to hear over day path, but checked anyway at 2000. Not even carrier audible, but I stepped thru the 49m band with BFO searching for any carriers at 2002 vs the ambient noise level. 6070 was best tho unusable, CFRX, also very weak on 6010, perhaps XEOI; and 6090 --- what could that be? Anguilla is still on 11775 day frequency as usual. HFCC shows 6090 could be VOR, 200 kW, 285 degrees from `Armavir`. EiBi shows it`s Spanish to Spain; or Kaduna, Nigeria, discounting Brasil and Chile at this hour.
Getting back to the DX test, I am back on 5954.2 at 2309, finding a steady S9+18 carrier with weaker hets from both sides, something on 5955, and presumed Bolivia on 5952+. Weak talk on 5954+, can`t be sure it`s Spanish, as it is quite undermodulated. Compared it to Brasil on 5940v, which was peaking about the same as CR, but more fading, yet much louder.
I went back and forth to 5960`s Voice of Turkey where the fortnightly DX Corner was starting at 2315; including an item about this very DX test at 2324. Fortunately, VOT was not strong enough to be a QRM problem.
At 2330, the meter was showing 5954.2 almost as strong as 5960 TRT, but much less modulated; yet readability is improving little by little, and I can copy a few Spanish words, such as ``derechos humanos`` and ``Santiago de Cuba``. Even better at 2335. 2337.5, ``Cuba Linda`` song, program theme? And ``Barrio Adentro`` seems to be closing. 2338 gives schedule as Sat & Sun 7-10 de la noche on 9490 [Sackville], and also mentions ``5955`` on the 49 mb, but could not copy times for that if any were given.
2340, maybe starting new program? Hets are getting worse and I don`t have notch filter(s). 2343, ID as ``Radio República, Voz del Directorio Democrático Cubano``, and familiar theme song (what`s it called?).
2359, bad splatter from something just cut on, bothering this and many other frequencies in the 5.9-6.0 range, but I could not find a source for it. Horacio Nigro in Uruguay was complaining of Argentina 6060 doing that, and so were Argentine monitors, but it`s hard to believe its fundamental, let alone spurious signal would be sufficiently strong here. Then 5954.2 went off. At least there was never any jamming! If there were, as there had been most of last year, R. República would have been a total loss.
After 0000 Jan 8, the R.R. transmission via Sackville was incomparably better, despite being heavily jammed. R.R. started out atop it, tho by 0204 all I could hear was the jamming.
The final DX test on 5954 was for 02-03 UT, checked at 0204 --- far too much ACI from the bigsigs on 5950 and 5960, WYFR/Taiwan and Sackville/NHK respectively. Best to use USB, as that gets it further from the closer one on the low side; still definitely a signal from R.R., but no way to copy anything amid all that QRM.
This little undermodulated signal needs to be on a frequency absolutely clear of adjacent and co-channel QRM if it is to be of any use. For starters, they could get on 5955.00 to avoid one het.
Thanks to wide publicity, many others in the DXLD yg were monitoring this: generally poor reception if at all, and low modulation noted.
Dino Bloise, FL, was getting it better in this clip at 2315:
http://frecuencialdia.podomatic.com/entry/2012-01-07T16_56_54-08_00
Don Moman, Alberta, measured the carrier at 5954.26. Before 0300, Wolfgang Büschel put it on 5954.280.
While I was at it, checked 9955 WRMI itself: at 0000 January 8, surprisingly good and steady S9+20 signal, no jamming, in the middle of `La Rosa de Tokio` DX program from Argentina, about Radio Belgrano. At 0200, still fair signal from WRMI, no jamming, with gospel music, listed as Tell the World Ministry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6060 // stronger 6010, Jan 7 at 0717, RHC English is still running past nominal 0700*. Also RHC Spanish music on 6050. But not on the fourth 49m frequency, 6125, nor on 5040. All three were off at next check 0722.
13640, RHC is still colliding with AIR, serves both these outlaw stations right, refusing to participate in HFCC but what about the poor listeners? Jan 7 at 2002, RHC Portuguese is somewhat atop music from AIR, both broadcasting to Europe, where I expect AIR has the upper hand.
Arnie Coro is still maintaining that they are doing their duty by informing ITU, not HFCC about frequency usage. By the time it goes thru the ITU bureaucracy, it`s too late to resolve conflicts which could/should have been avoided in the first place, which is the purpose of having an HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Jan 7 at 0310, no sign of R. Djibouti; David Sharp in NSW had discovered it reactivated Jan 4 at 1645 in the local evening, but it was sporadic afterwards. Used to put a good signal into NAm around *0300; so let`s keep looking for it. No, nothing heard either Jan 8 at 0315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15110, Jan 7 at 2006, REE during soccer game, Real Madrid 4, opponent 1, modulation is breaking up, and carrier is also unstable. Problems at Noblejas; // Costa Rica relay on 15125 is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Jan 7 at 1512, Sudan Radio Service is in English for a change, until 1600. Except for brief IDs or announcements, had only heard it in Arabish for a long time and was wondering if there is any English any more.
WRTH 2012 shows this 15-17 daily transmission on 17745 is only in Juba Arabic, altho various other languages are scattered thruout the other times and frequencies, and English as: M-F 1730-1800 9840, Sat/Sun 0500-0600 13720, both via UAE.
Reception has generally not been as good here, off the back from the 140 degree beam out of Skelton UK this season, than on the 114 from Sines, Portugal in all previous seasons, same frequency 17745. Deep fading, S7-S9+10 peaks, and heavy accents made it hard to follow, but here is what I could make out:
1512, interview about education in Southern Sudan
1517, frequency schedule announcement, including 6-8 pm, ``near 18 on your radio``, and the ``last hour`` on 9840 (what hour is that?)
1529, country music song briefly; 1529.5, says change in schedule from ``this Sunday January 1``, Saturday ?-8 pm instead of Wednesdays(?). Is that referring to English only? No frequency mentioned this time
1530, promo about land-related law; 1531 about a weekly education program (it was hard to tell whether these were promos or starting the actual programs mentioned)
1533, `The Road to Peace` another promo? Mentions Wednesday. But if this transmission was originally intended for Wednesday, means now?
1535, clip of the Minister of Information & Communication
1543, SMS address, and ``goodbye``
1545, `Sudan Radio Service` song, not as catchy as Radio Dabanga`s.
1546, another announcement about schedule ``starting this Sunday, January 1`` as if it were still before then; 7-8 am on 13720; 6-8 pm on 17745 Monday-Saturday (? or -Sunday); song
1550, soul song ``Blame it on the Rain`` (blame what? Do they get too much rain in S.S.?)
1555, segué to another song, ska/reggae sounding
1558, music and ID announcement, schedule again, seems to be: 6-8 in the evening on 9840, ``close to #10 on your radio``, rest remaining the same, 7-9 am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, ``close to #18 on your radio``, and the ``last hour`` on 9840, ``close to #10``
1559, into Arabish, but having to pronounce the website in English, http://srs.edc.org – I thought, but that goes nowhere. However, http://edc.org is the Education Development Center, Waltham, MA, the parent agency of SRS.
Researching info on SRS is not so easy: HFCC does not list it as such, just as ``non-specific`` transmissions by BaBcoCk, which also applies to several other clients. WRTH 2012 in the C&OT section on page 508 does not give a website, but ``for contact details, see National Radio Section`` --- where it is not mentioned at all on page 360, nor would you expect it to be, as it`s quasi-clandestine without the approval of the northern regime. Oops, that`s SUDAN; now there is a separate listing for SOUTH SUDAN, alfabetized under SOUTH, rather than SUDAN, on page 349, which does include SRS, with their 2 kW FM in Juba on 98.6. If it`s not for the rest of Sudan at all, then should we file it under SUDAN SOUTH [non]?
HFCC as of Jan 5 does not show anything fitting SRS on 9840, but the third frequency mentioned, 13720, must be: 04-05, 250 kW, 240 degrees from UAE. The complete Babcock schedule at
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B11&fmor=BAB
lists 13720 in effect from 1 Jan, and 17745 from 2 Jan (implying it may be silent on Sundays, as in the announcement? but yet 1234567).
The real website of SRS is http://www.sudanradio.org/ leading to http://www.sudanradio.org/timetable which shows:
``SRS Radio Programming Monday to Friday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-8 am 13720 kHz 6-8 pm 17745 kHz
8-9 am 9840 kHz 8-9 pm 9590 kHz
Saturday and Sunday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-9 am 13720 kHz 6-8 pm 17745 kHz``
The Timetable has a separate entry:
SRS Darfur Programming Monday to Sunday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-8 am 11800 kHz 7-8 pm 15500 kHz
Is all that up to date? Times are UT +3. There is no 9590 in the current Babcock schedules. Aoki shows SRS 9840 at 17-18 in a variety of languages as Babcock via Issoudun, a rather strange combination.
Ron Howard, California, was coincidentally listening to the same English transmission with a clip after 1534 at http://www.box.com/s/x7k0m4leceyiv63i0e40
More polar-routed, he had a lot of flutter, but still clearer copy than I. Halfway thru it is the schedule announcement, saying reducing from four to three hours a day, 7-8 am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, Monday to Sunday [not Saturday; so why say that at all, instead of say, Wednesday to Tuesday?]. Then in the next minute she says adjusting the evening broadcast to 9840 at 6-8 pm, repeats 7-9 [not 8] am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, and something about 9840 again. It`s not clear to me whether 9840 is replacing 17745, but I hope not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5960, Saturday Jan 7 at 2315, V. of Turkey starts the fortnightly `DX Corner` on Saturdays, and with new theme music, YL reading the usual media info lifted from Media Network blog, including about the Costa Rican DX test which was going on simultaneously just 5.74 kHz below, as I tuned back and forth, rather confident that VOT would not have any news I had not already heard about. 2330 went to music fill, 2332 outro DX Corner with same theme as opening, in fact same announcement for opens and closes of each show, just saying the name, and not whether it is starting or finishing. Then to multi-lingual VOT ID filler, more music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 17780, Jan 7 at 1525, English discussion of Palestine quickly shifts to talk about football --- must be BBCWS Saturday sports show. HFCC shows 17780 1430-1700 Saturdays only in Hausa, 300 kW, 165 degrees from Woofferton, but I`m quite sure it was in English. (Following the daily 1400-1430 via Ascension 17780 which really? is in Hausa). Somewhat better signal than SRS on 17745 (140 from Skelton). Now it`s Hausa that is getting bumped; previously scheduled Somali broadcasts on Saturday afternoons turned out to be in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Jan 7 at 0711, 0725, open carrier from presumed WBCQ long after sign-off time UT Sat, as happens occasionally. Say, WORLD OF RADIO could use a few more airings; why not run it on a loop when leaving the transmitter on anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Jan 7 at 1522, WTWW is back on in Arabible, after missing previous afternoons; probably due to installation work on the other transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1598 monitoring: confirmed after 0500 UT Sunday Jan 8 on 5755, WTWW, VG signal. Area 51 schedule shows this is an off-week for WOR, so not on 5110v-CUSB this UT Monday at 0330v. Remaining WRMI SW airings on 9955 are: Sun 0900, 1630, 1830, Mon 1230. Plus many more webcasts; full schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, Jan 7 at 2137 UT on the caradio with nondirexional vertical antenna, skywave is in with muddle of stations, but generally atop is ``all-new country 11-90, K#QZ``, which NRC AM Log shows as KQQZ ``Killer Country`` in Desoto MO (COL Fairview Heights IL, address in Belleville, i.e. near St Louis), 10 kW U4 with application for 25. I was looking for the new 25 kW station in White Hall AR, KJJI which may not be on the air yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, Sat Jan 7 at 2350, can barely detect some Spanish broadcast, i.e. the LTA army relay of some domestic Bs As station, more likely to happen on weekends with sports, and nothing from AFN Guam on 13363.0-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Jan 7 at 1429, S Asian song with drumming and rustic instrument, fair signal but deep fades; must be HCJB, reminding me that I haven`t heard then in several weeks. Maybe long-path was cooperating. At least they no longer have to confront QRMorocco on 15341 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Jan 7 at 0709, 0724, open carrier is again running way after 0606* of CBC Northern Quebec service. Think of all the lost programming that might as well have been modulated upon it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. Checking for the special DX test that WRMI has arranged from R. República, 5954, 10 kW from its Cariari site:
First hour at 20-21 I did not expect to hear over day path, but checked anyway at 2000. Not even carrier audible, but I stepped thru the 49m band with BFO searching for any carriers at 2002 vs the ambient noise level. 6070 was best tho unusable, CFRX, also very weak on 6010, perhaps XEOI; and 6090 --- what could that be? Anguilla is still on 11775 day frequency as usual. HFCC shows 6090 could be VOR, 200 kW, 285 degrees from `Armavir`. EiBi shows it`s Spanish to Spain; or Kaduna, Nigeria, discounting Brasil and Chile at this hour.
Getting back to the DX test, I am back on 5954.2 at 2309, finding a steady S9+18 carrier with weaker hets from both sides, something on 5955, and presumed Bolivia on 5952+. Weak talk on 5954+, can`t be sure it`s Spanish, as it is quite undermodulated. Compared it to Brasil on 5940v, which was peaking about the same as CR, but more fading, yet much louder.
I went back and forth to 5960`s Voice of Turkey where the fortnightly DX Corner was starting at 2315; including an item about this very DX test at 2324. Fortunately, VOT was not strong enough to be a QRM problem.
At 2330, the meter was showing 5954.2 almost as strong as 5960 TRT, but much less modulated; yet readability is improving little by little, and I can copy a few Spanish words, such as ``derechos humanos`` and ``Santiago de Cuba``. Even better at 2335. 2337.5, ``Cuba Linda`` song, program theme? And ``Barrio Adentro`` seems to be closing. 2338 gives schedule as Sat & Sun 7-10 de la noche on 9490 [Sackville], and also mentions ``5955`` on the 49 mb, but could not copy times for that if any were given.
2340, maybe starting new program? Hets are getting worse and I don`t have notch filter(s). 2343, ID as ``Radio República, Voz del Directorio Democrático Cubano``, and familiar theme song (what`s it called?).
2359, bad splatter from something just cut on, bothering this and many other frequencies in the 5.9-6.0 range, but I could not find a source for it. Horacio Nigro in Uruguay was complaining of Argentina 6060 doing that, and so were Argentine monitors, but it`s hard to believe its fundamental, let alone spurious signal would be sufficiently strong here. Then 5954.2 went off. At least there was never any jamming! If there were, as there had been most of last year, R. República would have been a total loss.
After 0000 Jan 8, the R.R. transmission via Sackville was incomparably better, despite being heavily jammed. R.R. started out atop it, tho by 0204 all I could hear was the jamming.
The final DX test on 5954 was for 02-03 UT, checked at 0204 --- far too much ACI from the bigsigs on 5950 and 5960, WYFR/Taiwan and Sackville/NHK respectively. Best to use USB, as that gets it further from the closer one on the low side; still definitely a signal from R.R., but no way to copy anything amid all that QRM.
This little undermodulated signal needs to be on a frequency absolutely clear of adjacent and co-channel QRM if it is to be of any use. For starters, they could get on 5955.00 to avoid one het.
Thanks to wide publicity, many others in the DXLD yg were monitoring this: generally poor reception if at all, and low modulation noted.
Dino Bloise, FL, was getting it better in this clip at 2315:
http://frecuencialdia.podomatic.com/entry/2012-01-07T16_56_54-08_00
Don Moman, Alberta, measured the carrier at 5954.26. Before 0300, Wolfgang Büschel put it on 5954.280.
While I was at it, checked 9955 WRMI itself: at 0000 January 8, surprisingly good and steady S9+20 signal, no jamming, in the middle of `La Rosa de Tokio` DX program from Argentina, about Radio Belgrano. At 0200, still fair signal from WRMI, no jamming, with gospel music, listed as Tell the World Ministry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6060 // stronger 6010, Jan 7 at 0717, RHC English is still running past nominal 0700*. Also RHC Spanish music on 6050. But not on the fourth 49m frequency, 6125, nor on 5040. All three were off at next check 0722.
13640, RHC is still colliding with AIR, serves both these outlaw stations right, refusing to participate in HFCC but what about the poor listeners? Jan 7 at 2002, RHC Portuguese is somewhat atop music from AIR, both broadcasting to Europe, where I expect AIR has the upper hand.
Arnie Coro is still maintaining that they are doing their duty by informing ITU, not HFCC about frequency usage. By the time it goes thru the ITU bureaucracy, it`s too late to resolve conflicts which could/should have been avoided in the first place, which is the purpose of having an HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Jan 7 at 0310, no sign of R. Djibouti; David Sharp in NSW had discovered it reactivated Jan 4 at 1645 in the local evening, but it was sporadic afterwards. Used to put a good signal into NAm around *0300; so let`s keep looking for it. No, nothing heard either Jan 8 at 0315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15110, Jan 7 at 2006, REE during soccer game, Real Madrid 4, opponent 1, modulation is breaking up, and carrier is also unstable. Problems at Noblejas; // Costa Rica relay on 15125 is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Jan 7 at 1512, Sudan Radio Service is in English for a change, until 1600. Except for brief IDs or announcements, had only heard it in Arabish for a long time and was wondering if there is any English any more.
WRTH 2012 shows this 15-17 daily transmission on 17745 is only in Juba Arabic, altho various other languages are scattered thruout the other times and frequencies, and English as: M-F 1730-1800 9840, Sat/Sun 0500-0600 13720, both via UAE.
Reception has generally not been as good here, off the back from the 140 degree beam out of Skelton UK this season, than on the 114 from Sines, Portugal in all previous seasons, same frequency 17745. Deep fading, S7-S9+10 peaks, and heavy accents made it hard to follow, but here is what I could make out:
1512, interview about education in Southern Sudan
1517, frequency schedule announcement, including 6-8 pm, ``near 18 on your radio``, and the ``last hour`` on 9840 (what hour is that?)
1529, country music song briefly; 1529.5, says change in schedule from ``this Sunday January 1``, Saturday ?-8 pm instead of Wednesdays(?). Is that referring to English only? No frequency mentioned this time
1530, promo about land-related law; 1531 about a weekly education program (it was hard to tell whether these were promos or starting the actual programs mentioned)
1533, `The Road to Peace` another promo? Mentions Wednesday. But if this transmission was originally intended for Wednesday, means now?
1535, clip of the Minister of Information & Communication
1543, SMS address, and ``goodbye``
1545, `Sudan Radio Service` song, not as catchy as Radio Dabanga`s.
1546, another announcement about schedule ``starting this Sunday, January 1`` as if it were still before then; 7-8 am on 13720; 6-8 pm on 17745 Monday-Saturday (? or -Sunday); song
1550, soul song ``Blame it on the Rain`` (blame what? Do they get too much rain in S.S.?)
1555, segué to another song, ska/reggae sounding
1558, music and ID announcement, schedule again, seems to be: 6-8 in the evening on 9840, ``close to #10 on your radio``, rest remaining the same, 7-9 am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, ``close to #18 on your radio``, and the ``last hour`` on 9840, ``close to #10``
1559, into Arabish, but having to pronounce the website in English, http://srs.edc.org – I thought, but that goes nowhere. However, http://edc.org is the Education Development Center, Waltham, MA, the parent agency of SRS.
Researching info on SRS is not so easy: HFCC does not list it as such, just as ``non-specific`` transmissions by BaBcoCk, which also applies to several other clients. WRTH 2012 in the C&OT section on page 508 does not give a website, but ``for contact details, see National Radio Section`` --- where it is not mentioned at all on page 360, nor would you expect it to be, as it`s quasi-clandestine without the approval of the northern regime. Oops, that`s SUDAN; now there is a separate listing for SOUTH SUDAN, alfabetized under SOUTH, rather than SUDAN, on page 349, which does include SRS, with their 2 kW FM in Juba on 98.6. If it`s not for the rest of Sudan at all, then should we file it under SUDAN SOUTH [non]?
HFCC as of Jan 5 does not show anything fitting SRS on 9840, but the third frequency mentioned, 13720, must be: 04-05, 250 kW, 240 degrees from UAE. The complete Babcock schedule at
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B11&fmor=BAB
lists 13720 in effect from 1 Jan, and 17745 from 2 Jan (implying it may be silent on Sundays, as in the announcement? but yet 1234567).
The real website of SRS is http://www.sudanradio.org/ leading to http://www.sudanradio.org/timetable which shows:
``SRS Radio Programming Monday to Friday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-8 am 13720 kHz 6-8 pm 17745 kHz
8-9 am 9840 kHz 8-9 pm 9590 kHz
Saturday and Sunday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-9 am 13720 kHz 6-8 pm 17745 kHz``
The Timetable has a separate entry:
SRS Darfur Programming Monday to Sunday
Morning Frequencies Evening Frequencies
7-8 am 11800 kHz 7-8 pm 15500 kHz
Is all that up to date? Times are UT +3. There is no 9590 in the current Babcock schedules. Aoki shows SRS 9840 at 17-18 in a variety of languages as Babcock via Issoudun, a rather strange combination.
Ron Howard, California, was coincidentally listening to the same English transmission with a clip after 1534 at http://www.box.com/s/x7k0m4leceyiv63i0e40
More polar-routed, he had a lot of flutter, but still clearer copy than I. Halfway thru it is the schedule announcement, saying reducing from four to three hours a day, 7-8 am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, Monday to Sunday [not Saturday; so why say that at all, instead of say, Wednesday to Tuesday?]. Then in the next minute she says adjusting the evening broadcast to 9840 at 6-8 pm, repeats 7-9 [not 8] am on 13720, 6-8 pm on 17745, and something about 9840 again. It`s not clear to me whether 9840 is replacing 17745, but I hope not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5960, Saturday Jan 7 at 2315, V. of Turkey starts the fortnightly `DX Corner` on Saturdays, and with new theme music, YL reading the usual media info lifted from Media Network blog, including about the Costa Rican DX test which was going on simultaneously just 5.74 kHz below, as I tuned back and forth, rather confident that VOT would not have any news I had not already heard about. 2330 went to music fill, 2332 outro DX Corner with same theme as opening, in fact same announcement for opens and closes of each show, just saying the name, and not whether it is starting or finishing. Then to multi-lingual VOT ID filler, more music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 17780, Jan 7 at 1525, English discussion of Palestine quickly shifts to talk about football --- must be BBCWS Saturday sports show. HFCC shows 17780 1430-1700 Saturdays only in Hausa, 300 kW, 165 degrees from Woofferton, but I`m quite sure it was in English. (Following the daily 1400-1430 via Ascension 17780 which really? is in Hausa). Somewhat better signal than SRS on 17745 (140 from Skelton). Now it`s Hausa that is getting bumped; previously scheduled Somali broadcasts on Saturday afternoons turned out to be in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Jan 7 at 0711, 0725, open carrier from presumed WBCQ long after sign-off time UT Sat, as happens occasionally. Say, WORLD OF RADIO could use a few more airings; why not run it on a loop when leaving the transmitter on anyway? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Jan 7 at 1522, WTWW is back on in Arabible, after missing previous afternoons; probably due to installation work on the other transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1598 monitoring: confirmed after 0500 UT Sunday Jan 8 on 5755, WTWW, VG signal. Area 51 schedule shows this is an off-week for WOR, so not on 5110v-CUSB this UT Monday at 0330v. Remaining WRMI SW airings on 9955 are: Sun 0900, 1630, 1830, Mon 1230. Plus many more webcasts; full schedule at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, Jan 7 at 2137 UT on the caradio with nondirexional vertical antenna, skywave is in with muddle of stations, but generally atop is ``all-new country 11-90, K#QZ``, which NRC AM Log shows as KQQZ ``Killer Country`` in Desoto MO (COL Fairview Heights IL, address in Belleville, i.e. near St Louis), 10 kW U4 with application for 25. I was looking for the new 25 kW station in White Hall AR, KJJI which may not be on the air yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
