** BRAZIL. 9665+, Feb 18 at 0638, gospel rock, 0641 announcement in Portuguese, S9+18 but undermodulated, deep fades, the SBOB, only other one audible being weaker Miranda wailing on 9565. No doubt ZYE890, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, slightly on hi side. MUF did not reach 12 MHz tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 18: 9980, good at 1423. Vs nothing else audible. Nothing but WWCR [4] scheduled anywhere anytime on this frequency, but obviously not on the air at this hour. Can only conclude that Sound of Hope must have appeared here. No other FD found 7-19 MHz by 1440. 9980 is new, not in Frodge`s 2011 compilation, nor in Handler`s February restricted list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Feb 18 I do not get VOA Tinang-2 checked earlier than 1513 when it manages to stay on the air and also modulate! During `New Dynamic English`, ``you look like a pumpkin`` in dialog about color-blindness at 1514. I am gratified that English-learners now know how to say that! Still no dropoffs by 1515 tuneout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Feb 18 at 0648, the hi-latitude paths are back in business as I can already hear music under Vatican, no doubt R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, confirmed by // much stronger 7320 but not exactly synchronized: 7320 is ahead by about one second. At 0652 a weak and fluttery Russian is also on 7230, as what sounds like a timesignal goes by at strange 0655; maybe a sound-effect. At 0711 it`s easier to tell during Russian news that 7230 is also // but a bit behind 7320.
Aoki shows sites and I add the sunset times today per gaisma.com:
6075, Petropavlovsk/Kamchatskiy, 0643
7230, Yakutsk, 0813 [listed under J-]
7320, Magadan, 0657
One must subtract one hour more than shown for the zones since they are all on DST (and will stay on DST unless Putin can be convinced to retract his always-DST fiat).
This map http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
shows the entire eastern end of Siberia as on UT +12
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Feb 18 at 1515, Brother Scare in a lather with live Saturday revival provoking mass insanity amongst his psychophants, as WWCR starts for him at 1500 Saturday instead of 1700 weekdays, when other gospel huxters have been running on 11580 instead. I find that 9980 is synchro (almost, to a slight reverb) with 9385 WWRB, but both are about (only!) 5 seconds behind new 9990 WTWW-2 now devoted to Brother Scare as well. If we can hear him first blasting in on WTWW, who needs the others?
Also sufficient signal via 15420v-CUSB WBCQ as on Saturdays only. Delay/offset not checked on that nor much weaker 15190 via ROMANIA which is also extended past 1500 as usual on Saturdays only [must check again Sunday after 15 to try to determine who`s on then]. Three more frequencies are supposedly on daily after 1500 per the TOM schedule, 9460, 13810 and 17580, i.e. GERMANY, not checked but often barely audible here if at all, a blessing.
Investigating further on the BS tests coming up Feb 20-21 (Mon-Tue) at 14-17 on 15750, 18-21 on 7590: tho Spaceline was represented at HFCC B-11 Dallas, their Saturday-only 18-21 DRM broadcast on 7590 is not in current HFCC B-11. SPC is however shown via ARMENIA i.a. on 7550 at 18-22, and 15780 at 12-17, from which changes apparently have never been entered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15100.6 and 15119.4, Feb 17 at 2105, spurs from very strong REE Noblejas 15110; frequencies waver slightly, and there is plenty of modulation upon each of them. Who needs 15110? Much weaker ones further out matching around 15091, 15129. These defects are rather like what we get from WEWN English on 15610, etc.; wonder if the same model transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. It`s Saturday, so BBCWS in English is showing up on extra frequencies thanks to stupid ballgames: 15510, Feb 18 at 1506 going from news to `Sportsworld`, good signal where there is normally none, but fluttery. WRTH and HFCC show 15510 at 15-16 is Saturday only in Somali via CYPRUS, but this is no Somali! Then at 1529 // on weaker 13825, ACI`d by the Cuban radio war, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7811-USB, UT Sat Feb 17 at 0644, AFN is amid sports talk promoting gambling, ahem, ``sports-investing``, instead of Jim Hightower, who apparently appears UT Mon-Fri only at this unscheduled biminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Feb 17 at 0645, R. Católica Mundial reinforces my contention that the odds are high that any random tuneby will produce that unxuous ``By the Light of the Moon`` announcer intoning ``por su dolorosa pasión``, alternating with caller mumbling whatever the required response to that be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1604: remaining SW airtimes this weekend are: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830 on 9955 WRMI; UT Sun 0500 on 5755 WTWW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9889-SSB, Feb 18 at 1425, intruder, colloquial Spanish 2-way, with het from weak 9890 broadcast carrier, QRM from remnant Cuban jamming centred on 9885 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 24940-USB, Feb 18 at 1443-1448+ languid ham QSO about antennas but only one side heard in English with an accent I couldn`t place, and nary an ID. Just about the OSOB in the voice portion of 12m, and MUF barely cooperates as 10m is dead. It`s looking like this cycle`s solar max has passed and we are on the way down, with fluxes barely exceeding 100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 18: 9980, good at 1423. Vs nothing else audible. Nothing but WWCR [4] scheduled anywhere anytime on this frequency, but obviously not on the air at this hour. Can only conclude that Sound of Hope must have appeared here. No other FD found 7-19 MHz by 1440. 9980 is new, not in Frodge`s 2011 compilation, nor in Handler`s February restricted list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9760, Feb 18 I do not get VOA Tinang-2 checked earlier than 1513 when it manages to stay on the air and also modulate! During `New Dynamic English`, ``you look like a pumpkin`` in dialog about color-blindness at 1514. I am gratified that English-learners now know how to say that! Still no dropoffs by 1515 tuneout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Feb 18 at 0648, the hi-latitude paths are back in business as I can already hear music under Vatican, no doubt R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, confirmed by // much stronger 7320 but not exactly synchronized: 7320 is ahead by about one second. At 0652 a weak and fluttery Russian is also on 7230, as what sounds like a timesignal goes by at strange 0655; maybe a sound-effect. At 0711 it`s easier to tell during Russian news that 7230 is also // but a bit behind 7320.
Aoki shows sites and I add the sunset times today per gaisma.com:
6075, Petropavlovsk/Kamchatskiy, 0643
7230, Yakutsk, 0813 [listed under J-]
7320, Magadan, 0657
One must subtract one hour more than shown for the zones since they are all on DST (and will stay on DST unless Putin can be convinced to retract his always-DST fiat).
This map http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
shows the entire eastern end of Siberia as on UT +12
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Feb 18 at 1515, Brother Scare in a lather with live Saturday revival provoking mass insanity amongst his psychophants, as WWCR starts for him at 1500 Saturday instead of 1700 weekdays, when other gospel huxters have been running on 11580 instead. I find that 9980 is synchro (almost, to a slight reverb) with 9385 WWRB, but both are about (only!) 5 seconds behind new 9990 WTWW-2 now devoted to Brother Scare as well. If we can hear him first blasting in on WTWW, who needs the others?
Also sufficient signal via 15420v-CUSB WBCQ as on Saturdays only. Delay/offset not checked on that nor much weaker 15190 via ROMANIA which is also extended past 1500 as usual on Saturdays only [must check again Sunday after 15 to try to determine who`s on then]. Three more frequencies are supposedly on daily after 1500 per the TOM schedule, 9460, 13810 and 17580, i.e. GERMANY, not checked but often barely audible here if at all, a blessing.
Investigating further on the BS tests coming up Feb 20-21 (Mon-Tue) at 14-17 on 15750, 18-21 on 7590: tho Spaceline was represented at HFCC B-11 Dallas, their Saturday-only 18-21 DRM broadcast on 7590 is not in current HFCC B-11. SPC is however shown via ARMENIA i.a. on 7550 at 18-22, and 15780 at 12-17, from which changes apparently have never been entered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15100.6 and 15119.4, Feb 17 at 2105, spurs from very strong REE Noblejas 15110; frequencies waver slightly, and there is plenty of modulation upon each of them. Who needs 15110? Much weaker ones further out matching around 15091, 15129. These defects are rather like what we get from WEWN English on 15610, etc.; wonder if the same model transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. It`s Saturday, so BBCWS in English is showing up on extra frequencies thanks to stupid ballgames: 15510, Feb 18 at 1506 going from news to `Sportsworld`, good signal where there is normally none, but fluttery. WRTH and HFCC show 15510 at 15-16 is Saturday only in Somali via CYPRUS, but this is no Somali! Then at 1529 // on weaker 13825, ACI`d by the Cuban radio war, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7811-USB, UT Sat Feb 17 at 0644, AFN is amid sports talk promoting gambling, ahem, ``sports-investing``, instead of Jim Hightower, who apparently appears UT Mon-Fri only at this unscheduled biminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Feb 17 at 0645, R. Católica Mundial reinforces my contention that the odds are high that any random tuneby will produce that unxuous ``By the Light of the Moon`` announcer intoning ``por su dolorosa pasión``, alternating with caller mumbling whatever the required response to that be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1604: remaining SW airtimes this weekend are: Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830 on 9955 WRMI; UT Sun 0500 on 5755 WTWW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9889-SSB, Feb 18 at 1425, intruder, colloquial Spanish 2-way, with het from weak 9890 broadcast carrier, QRM from remnant Cuban jamming centred on 9885 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 24940-USB, Feb 18 at 1443-1448+ languid ham QSO about antennas but only one side heard in English with an accent I couldn`t place, and nary an ID. Just about the OSOB in the voice portion of 12m, and MUF barely cooperates as 10m is dead. It`s looking like this cycle`s solar max has passed and we are on the way down, with fluxes barely exceeding 100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
