** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, June 8 at 0148 weak music audible here with heavy QRM from the TADIL-A bonker on the lo side, constant intruder into the exclusive 49m SWBC band, and lots of storm noise on the band. Is well-known off-frequency of R. Santa Cruz, and I have no doubt this is it. BFO did not help much; music ran past 0201. At 0207 when I had switched to AM, could then barely copy ID, ``Transmite Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia``, and more music. 0208 said ``Emisora del Instituto ---`` algo, some Andean music and off at 0211*. Others report some nights it closes an hour earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 7305, June 8 at 0446, VG signal with CRI English story about Hainan Island, // 6020, here instead of correct 6080. So Sackville failed to change transmitter to 6080 after the 7305 Vatican relay in Spanish until 0400. But they woke up again in time to cut 7305 off at 0459:20* and retune it to 6190 from *0459:50 with CRI English continuing, having interrupted the dispensable Chinese lesson filling last 5 minutes of every hour.
9650, June 8 at 1255, KBS World Radio relay via Sackville is in Spanish instead of English! Interview with a Castilian about Corea`s relations with España. This compensates for at least once having run the 06-07 broadcast on 6045 in English instead of correct Spanish, as caught June 3 by Juan Franco Crespo, Spain. I assume Seoul is responsible in these cases for playing out the wrong languages, rather than Sackville --- unless each is pre-fed and stored for later transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 8, before 1300:
11500, fair at 1256 with CCI, from VOR if not SOH
13920, poor at 1256; none in the 12s
14800, good at 1256
15555, fair at 1258
15900, very good at 1257
15970, fair at 1257
16100, fair at 1259
16980, poor at 1259
17100, poor at 1259
17250, good at 1259, music cut off at 1300 but stayed on air another 15 seconds with announcements in Chinese starting with ``Beijing``
Before 1400:
16100, poor at 1346
15900, very good at 1346
15605, very poor at 1346
15490, very poor at 1346
14800, very poor at 1349
13920, poor at 1349; none in the 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. CRI English on wrong frequency: see CANADA
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, June 8 at 0504, still missing for the 0500 NHK World R. Japan relay in English via Canada; and still audible only on 11970 via FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS World Radio in wrong language: see CANADA
** MAURITANIA. 7245, June 8 at 0445, there is a weakish Arabish signal between 7240 DW/Rwanda, and 7250 Vatican, presumably IGIM as usual rather than V. of Tajik; and on the air earlier than usual for the Fribbath. Lately it has not been showing up before 0600 on Islamic weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, June 8 at 0205, XEPPM is back to just-barely modulating. A pity as much of the evening now, there is no CCI and little ACI. 0444 recheck, still JBM but I can tell there is music; as usual blasted away at *0459:50 by 6190 CRI via Sackville, unfortunately still on the correct frequency, unlike an earlier broadcast: see CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1620 monitoring: confirmed Thursday June 7 after 2100 on WTWW 9479. I missed monitoring the 0330v UT Friday on WWRB 5050; if anyone heard it or noticed anything amiss, please let me know. Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB/LSB. On WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. On HLR Germany 5980: Tue 0930. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830.
This edition includes a clip of the Fiji clandestine via WHRI 11565; Björn Fransson hears from them that due to a holiday, they will be replaying exactly the same program June 11 at 0830 as on June 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13620, June 8 at 0141 big open carrier not quite as strong as 15590 found three minutes earlier, q.v.. Never any modulation here either until cut off at 0156*. In this case there is something scheduled, R. Cairo in Spanish, 0045-0200, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis, which of course is a strong suspect for broadcasting without modulation.
India in Pashto via Bengaluru is also scheduled to start at 0200, but only in HFCC, not EiBi or Aoki, so may not really exist either. FCC, HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, also show WHRI-5 on 13620 at 22-23, so possibly they were testing the transmitter or frequency later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15590, June 8 at 0138, big S9+25 open carrier. Kept monitoring and never any modulation past 0200 until cut off at 0204.5*. (Meanwhile found another one just like it on 13620, q.v.). So what could it be? Nothing scheduled, of course at this time, but HFCC reminds us 15590 is a longstanding imaginary registration for inactive WRNO at 14-01. I don`t think so. Maybe it`s the ghost of KUSW/KTBN. It`s also the morning frequency for VOA Greenville in Spanish. They have to fiddle a lot with their old transmitters to keep them going, and I suspect this was most likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 7305, June 8 at 0446, VG signal with CRI English story about Hainan Island, // 6020, here instead of correct 6080. So Sackville failed to change transmitter to 6080 after the 7305 Vatican relay in Spanish until 0400. But they woke up again in time to cut 7305 off at 0459:20* and retune it to 6190 from *0459:50 with CRI English continuing, having interrupted the dispensable Chinese lesson filling last 5 minutes of every hour.
9650, June 8 at 1255, KBS World Radio relay via Sackville is in Spanish instead of English! Interview with a Castilian about Corea`s relations with España. This compensates for at least once having run the 06-07 broadcast on 6045 in English instead of correct Spanish, as caught June 3 by Juan Franco Crespo, Spain. I assume Seoul is responsible in these cases for playing out the wrong languages, rather than Sackville --- unless each is pre-fed and stored for later transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 8, before 1300:
11500, fair at 1256 with CCI, from VOR if not SOH
13920, poor at 1256; none in the 12s
14800, good at 1256
15555, fair at 1258
15900, very good at 1257
15970, fair at 1257
16100, fair at 1259
16980, poor at 1259
17100, poor at 1259
17250, good at 1259, music cut off at 1300 but stayed on air another 15 seconds with announcements in Chinese starting with ``Beijing``
Before 1400:
16100, poor at 1346
15900, very good at 1346
15605, very poor at 1346
15490, very poor at 1346
14800, very poor at 1349
13920, poor at 1349; none in the 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. CRI English on wrong frequency: see CANADA
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, June 8 at 0504, still missing for the 0500 NHK World R. Japan relay in English via Canada; and still audible only on 11970 via FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS World Radio in wrong language: see CANADA
** MAURITANIA. 7245, June 8 at 0445, there is a weakish Arabish signal between 7240 DW/Rwanda, and 7250 Vatican, presumably IGIM as usual rather than V. of Tajik; and on the air earlier than usual for the Fribbath. Lately it has not been showing up before 0600 on Islamic weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, June 8 at 0205, XEPPM is back to just-barely modulating. A pity as much of the evening now, there is no CCI and little ACI. 0444 recheck, still JBM but I can tell there is music; as usual blasted away at *0459:50 by 6190 CRI via Sackville, unfortunately still on the correct frequency, unlike an earlier broadcast: see CANADA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1620 monitoring: confirmed Thursday June 7 after 2100 on WTWW 9479. I missed monitoring the 0330v UT Friday on WWRB 5050; if anyone heard it or noticed anything amiss, please let me know. Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB/LSB. On WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. On HLR Germany 5980: Tue 0930. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830.
This edition includes a clip of the Fiji clandestine via WHRI 11565; Björn Fransson hears from them that due to a holiday, they will be replaying exactly the same program June 11 at 0830 as on June 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13620, June 8 at 0141 big open carrier not quite as strong as 15590 found three minutes earlier, q.v.. Never any modulation here either until cut off at 0156*. In this case there is something scheduled, R. Cairo in Spanish, 0045-0200, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis, which of course is a strong suspect for broadcasting without modulation.
India in Pashto via Bengaluru is also scheduled to start at 0200, but only in HFCC, not EiBi or Aoki, so may not really exist either. FCC, HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, also show WHRI-5 on 13620 at 22-23, so possibly they were testing the transmitter or frequency later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15590, June 8 at 0138, big S9+25 open carrier. Kept monitoring and never any modulation past 0200 until cut off at 0204.5*. (Meanwhile found another one just like it on 13620, q.v.). So what could it be? Nothing scheduled, of course at this time, but HFCC reminds us 15590 is a longstanding imaginary registration for inactive WRNO at 14-01. I don`t think so. Maybe it`s the ghost of KUSW/KTBN. It`s also the morning frequency for VOA Greenville in Spanish. They have to fiddle a lot with their old transmitters to keep them going, and I suspect this was most likely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
