** AUSTRALIA. 9965, Oct 14 at 1308, R. Australia`s Sunday-night religion show in English, about 4 seconds behind much stronger // 9580 Shepparton. Trouble is, this PALAU T8WH4 relay is supposed to be in Chinese for a sesquihour from 1300 per the latest revision 19 August, and also in Aoki. How come? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 14 at 1359, JBA carrier which was not there a minute earlier, presumably BB about to start Urdu. We are about ready for propagation conditions to recover and reach an October peak! BTW, Ivo Ivanov confirms, that just as we suspected, the missing Nepali broadcast at 1315-1345 on 15105 has in fact been moved to 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6175, Oct 14 at 0513, VOV relay in Vietnamese is surprisingly weak, not enough to elbow aside the ACI from 6180 Brasil, and *much* weaker than the other Sackville relay, NHK English inbooming on 6110. 6175 is of course the wrong frequency, supposed to be on 9555 after 0430. Three different azimuths are listed in Aoki: 6110 253 degrees, 6175 212 degrees, 9555 240 degrees, all 250 kW. Since they fail to change frequency to 9555, do they also fail to change antenna azimuth? Probably, but surely that is not enough to account for the wide disparity in strength tonight. The 6175 transmitter must not be up to full power, but who cares?
It only needs to last for two more weeks before oblivion, then in B-12, Guiana French takes over this frequency-hour (6175, not 9555 unless they SNAFU too), while the preceding Spanish at 0400-0428 moves from Sackville to WHRI. 01-03 in English and Vietnamese will also be GUF, 0300-0330 Spanish HRI, and current 0330-0400 English unaccounted for (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. 12365-USB, Oct 13 at 2219, no signal from R. Cooperativa relay unlike 23.5 hours earlier, nor at 2359, 25.25 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 14 at 1253-1257: NONE found 12-18 MHz, in continuing degraded propagation conditions. However, we noted CRI English after 1300 fair and fluttery on 13790 which is 308 degrees from Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1080, Oct 14 at 0528, Spanish is overriding KRLD, and loops SE instead of Mexicoward; soon ID in passing as ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana``, en tercera hora of current programa. Makes 80/minute SAH with KRLD, = one and a third Hz. A seemingly straightforward log raises questions:
WRTH 2012 shows Cuba on 1080 only as CMCH, Radio Cadena Habana, in Villa María CH which means Ciudad de la Habana province, yet keyed as entry HA01, which leads to the separate La Habana province. The Radio Cadena Habana website (no abbreviating here), mentions 1080 as its only AM frequency: http://www.cadenahabana.cu/quienes-somos/
WRTH 2012 listed website for Radio Ciudad de la Habana (CMBE 820) http://www.habanaenlinea.cu/ goes nowhere.
Terry Krueger`s info via https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/cubalist
also indicates the 1080 station is Radio Cadena Habana. I had a pretty clear ID of Radio Ciudad de la Habana, but no proof other than my handwritten log note. Assuming what I heard was correct, the most likely explanation is that after midnight, one of them relays the other.
While Radio Cadena Habana website lists a number of its programs, it does not give any times and I can`t find a plain old program schedule grid. It`s not unusual for KRLD at 400 km to fade out but not usual for a Cuban to fade in at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0521, ERA is JBA, so no joy on hearing the Greek Orthodox cantors this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALI. 15505, Oct 13 at 2220, open carrier with considerable fading; 2230 maybe starts a trace of modulation. Aoki and HFCC have the answer: CRI relay at 2230-2300 (only) in Chinese, 100 kW, 85 degrees from Bamako, with usual far-substandard performance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, UT Oct 14 at 0450, I find a sufficient signal to serenade me on the insensitive shower radio, XEG Monterrey. Turns out to be a preacher but not a screamer. I am paying more attention to the quena in the background looping `El Condor Pasa` --- should this be filed under ECUADOR [non]? ECP even continued playing during his sign-off prayer at 0456 which was accompanied by louder sacred choral music. He`s from a local Monterrey church, gave phone numbers on both sides of the border, and apparently is on every night at this time; XEG appended a standard disclaimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Oct 14 at 1226 UT, ``Radio Trece, con la música de siempre`` then rock song in Spanish. It`s the usual XEP in Ciudad Juárez, not to be confused with another Radio ``Trece`` really on 1290 in the DF, XEDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 0519, Médi Un Nador transmitter is still off-frequency and accomplishing nothing except interfering with legitimate 9580.0 stations, such as Africa No. Un, from which French was audible beside that het, no modulation detectable from 9579.12 itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, WKY OKC, Sunday Oct 14 at 1229 UT ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine en La Indomable`` --- Yes, their weekly token English semihour, back to Spanish, altho some ads may be partly or fully English (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid, 5-minute dead air Fox hole occurs again UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0500-0505, but tonight I can`t really pull anything significant when nulled, vs also the increasing hum level near the null position (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880 & weaker // 11815, Sunday October 14 at 1251, REE COSTA RICA relays again lacking `Amigos de la Onda Corta` at former Sunday 1230 time; instead, interview in Castilian with a singer named Johnson, preceded and followed by his songs in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0253, WTWW-2 is on again with Ted Randall, inbooming signal; still at 0515 amid `HF Radio Show` from Rod Hembree talking about comparing `The Munsters` with `The Addams Family`, except he kept mispronouncing as ``Monsters`` and John ``Austin`` instead of Astin! Soon on to the barely hidden agenda of all his seemingly secular programming, a pro-God promo. Seems WTWW-2 is hoping to lure some business from Good Friends Radio Network.
Last week there were indications that WTWW-2 would be on the air the following Saturday nights, perhaps including WORLD OF RADIO, but I received no specific information. I did check 9990 and 5085 earlier but they were not on yet. Fortunately, Thomas Nyberg in IA caught 5085 playing WORLD OF RADIO 1638 at 0200 UT Sunday, ``rock solid signal and audio``, so perhaps that will be a continuing new time for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: besides the new time of 0200 UT Sunday on WTWW-2 5085: still heard UT Sunday 0400:34 on WTWW-1 5745, starting intact following canned TOH ID, which covered up the first part of the ``we will be changing to 5745`` advisory, which axually started 2+ weeks ago.
WRMI 9955: October 14, Sunday 1530, JBA carrier, can`t be sure it`s me, but nothing else scheduled at this hour, and no jamming audible either. Hope it`s audible southward from Hialeah Gardens. Confirmed on webcast. Tried again at 1730 Sunday: no better here; UT Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100. The Sunday 1730 broadcast is axually from WRN also via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9825, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0400, checking for `DXing With Cumbre` on WHRI: no signal; wait! At 0401 fades in just barely so I can tell it is DWC opening. 168 hours earlier it was inbooming, and e.g., CRI via CUBA 9790 is also inbooming right now. What`s going on at Furman? BTW, last Sunday after 2130+ I could confirm Pirating with Cumbre on 17510.
21670, Sunday Oct 14 at 1427, gospel huxter in English, good signal from WHRI; this is per Aoki only on Sat & Sun at 14-15, since BBCWS in Hausa occupies 21630 until 1430. When on the air after 15, WHRI takes over 21630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8990-USB, Oct 13 at 2359, looking for `Pescador Preacher` circa Nicaragua often reported in this hour on 8989-USB, nothing there but here instead some QSOs in Spanish, weak signals, one mention of tortillas. Something else, or is P.P. net ever 1 kHz higher? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15739.2-SSB, approx., Oct 13 at 2215, Spanish 2-way, also heard around this frequency earlier at 1358 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 14 at 1359, JBA carrier which was not there a minute earlier, presumably BB about to start Urdu. We are about ready for propagation conditions to recover and reach an October peak! BTW, Ivo Ivanov confirms, that just as we suspected, the missing Nepali broadcast at 1315-1345 on 15105 has in fact been moved to 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6175, Oct 14 at 0513, VOV relay in Vietnamese is surprisingly weak, not enough to elbow aside the ACI from 6180 Brasil, and *much* weaker than the other Sackville relay, NHK English inbooming on 6110. 6175 is of course the wrong frequency, supposed to be on 9555 after 0430. Three different azimuths are listed in Aoki: 6110 253 degrees, 6175 212 degrees, 9555 240 degrees, all 250 kW. Since they fail to change frequency to 9555, do they also fail to change antenna azimuth? Probably, but surely that is not enough to account for the wide disparity in strength tonight. The 6175 transmitter must not be up to full power, but who cares?
It only needs to last for two more weeks before oblivion, then in B-12, Guiana French takes over this frequency-hour (6175, not 9555 unless they SNAFU too), while the preceding Spanish at 0400-0428 moves from Sackville to WHRI. 01-03 in English and Vietnamese will also be GUF, 0300-0330 Spanish HRI, and current 0330-0400 English unaccounted for (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHILE. 12365-USB, Oct 13 at 2219, no signal from R. Cooperativa relay unlike 23.5 hours earlier, nor at 2359, 25.25 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 14 at 1253-1257: NONE found 12-18 MHz, in continuing degraded propagation conditions. However, we noted CRI English after 1300 fair and fluttery on 13790 which is 308 degrees from Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1080, Oct 14 at 0528, Spanish is overriding KRLD, and loops SE instead of Mexicoward; soon ID in passing as ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana``, en tercera hora of current programa. Makes 80/minute SAH with KRLD, = one and a third Hz. A seemingly straightforward log raises questions:
WRTH 2012 shows Cuba on 1080 only as CMCH, Radio Cadena Habana, in Villa María CH which means Ciudad de la Habana province, yet keyed as entry HA01, which leads to the separate La Habana province. The Radio Cadena Habana website (no abbreviating here), mentions 1080 as its only AM frequency: http://www.cadenahabana.cu/quienes-somos/
WRTH 2012 listed website for Radio Ciudad de la Habana (CMBE 820) http://www.habanaenlinea.cu/ goes nowhere.
Terry Krueger`s info via https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/cubalist
also indicates the 1080 station is Radio Cadena Habana. I had a pretty clear ID of Radio Ciudad de la Habana, but no proof other than my handwritten log note. Assuming what I heard was correct, the most likely explanation is that after midnight, one of them relays the other.
While Radio Cadena Habana website lists a number of its programs, it does not give any times and I can`t find a plain old program schedule grid. It`s not unusual for KRLD at 400 km to fade out but not usual for a Cuban to fade in at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0521, ERA is JBA, so no joy on hearing the Greek Orthodox cantors this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALI. 15505, Oct 13 at 2220, open carrier with considerable fading; 2230 maybe starts a trace of modulation. Aoki and HFCC have the answer: CRI relay at 2230-2300 (only) in Chinese, 100 kW, 85 degrees from Bamako, with usual far-substandard performance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1050, UT Oct 14 at 0450, I find a sufficient signal to serenade me on the insensitive shower radio, XEG Monterrey. Turns out to be a preacher but not a screamer. I am paying more attention to the quena in the background looping `El Condor Pasa` --- should this be filed under ECUADOR [non]? ECP even continued playing during his sign-off prayer at 0456 which was accompanied by louder sacred choral music. He`s from a local Monterrey church, gave phone numbers on both sides of the border, and apparently is on every night at this time; XEG appended a standard disclaimer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Oct 14 at 1226 UT, ``Radio Trece, con la música de siempre`` then rock song in Spanish. It`s the usual XEP in Ciudad Juárez, not to be confused with another Radio ``Trece`` really on 1290 in the DF, XEDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 0519, Médi Un Nador transmitter is still off-frequency and accomplishing nothing except interfering with legitimate 9580.0 stations, such as Africa No. Un, from which French was audible beside that het, no modulation detectable from 9579.12 itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, WKY OKC, Sunday Oct 14 at 1229 UT ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine en La Indomable`` --- Yes, their weekly token English semihour, back to Spanish, altho some ads may be partly or fully English (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid, 5-minute dead air Fox hole occurs again UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0500-0505, but tonight I can`t really pull anything significant when nulled, vs also the increasing hum level near the null position (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880 & weaker // 11815, Sunday October 14 at 1251, REE COSTA RICA relays again lacking `Amigos de la Onda Corta` at former Sunday 1230 time; instead, interview in Castilian with a singer named Johnson, preceded and followed by his songs in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0253, WTWW-2 is on again with Ted Randall, inbooming signal; still at 0515 amid `HF Radio Show` from Rod Hembree talking about comparing `The Munsters` with `The Addams Family`, except he kept mispronouncing as ``Monsters`` and John ``Austin`` instead of Astin! Soon on to the barely hidden agenda of all his seemingly secular programming, a pro-God promo. Seems WTWW-2 is hoping to lure some business from Good Friends Radio Network.
Last week there were indications that WTWW-2 would be on the air the following Saturday nights, perhaps including WORLD OF RADIO, but I received no specific information. I did check 9990 and 5085 earlier but they were not on yet. Fortunately, Thomas Nyberg in IA caught 5085 playing WORLD OF RADIO 1638 at 0200 UT Sunday, ``rock solid signal and audio``, so perhaps that will be a continuing new time for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: besides the new time of 0200 UT Sunday on WTWW-2 5085: still heard UT Sunday 0400:34 on WTWW-1 5745, starting intact following canned TOH ID, which covered up the first part of the ``we will be changing to 5745`` advisory, which axually started 2+ weeks ago.
WRMI 9955: October 14, Sunday 1530, JBA carrier, can`t be sure it`s me, but nothing else scheduled at this hour, and no jamming audible either. Hope it`s audible southward from Hialeah Gardens. Confirmed on webcast. Tried again at 1730 Sunday: no better here; UT Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100. The Sunday 1730 broadcast is axually from WRN also via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9825, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0400, checking for `DXing With Cumbre` on WHRI: no signal; wait! At 0401 fades in just barely so I can tell it is DWC opening. 168 hours earlier it was inbooming, and e.g., CRI via CUBA 9790 is also inbooming right now. What`s going on at Furman? BTW, last Sunday after 2130+ I could confirm Pirating with Cumbre on 17510.
21670, Sunday Oct 14 at 1427, gospel huxter in English, good signal from WHRI; this is per Aoki only on Sat & Sun at 14-15, since BBCWS in Hausa occupies 21630 until 1430. When on the air after 15, WHRI takes over 21630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 8990-USB, Oct 13 at 2359, looking for `Pescador Preacher` circa Nicaragua often reported in this hour on 8989-USB, nothing there but here instead some QSOs in Spanish, weak signals, one mention of tortillas. Something else, or is P.P. net ever 1 kHz higher? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15739.2-SSB, approx., Oct 13 at 2215, Spanish 2-way, also heard around this frequency earlier at 1358 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
