** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 25 at 1408, pro-forma non-log of LRA36 on another Thursday a year after last heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Oct 25 at 0217, all I am hearing from RAE during its English hour is noise, and same at 0330 recheck during French. Maybe like an open FM studio-transmitter link; isn`t anyone paying attention at General Pacheco? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 25 at 1258, bug hum with music, YL in English sign-off of BB to dear listeners saying next broadcast will be on 41.3 m band, 7250. Not sure if she was referring to Nepali at 1315, or next English broadcast at 1745; after brief tone, cut off the air taking the big hum with it.
15505, carrier and IS already on at 1357 Oct 25, timesignal ending 17 sex early at 1359:43, opening Urdu, but I am distracted by what`s going on 15510; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9555, Oct 25 at 0520, good signal from Sackville`s Voice of Vietnam relay in Vietnamese music and talk; 0528 heard no BaBcoCk music loop, but RCI IS and ID before 0529*.
11795, Oct 25 at 1156, KBS World Radio in Spanish talk but voiceovering an English clip, fair signal, usual characteristic ``clacking`` on feed from Soul to Sackville. No known replacement for this come Oct 28, tho they could try to broadcast direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 25: no thoro search today but noted:
9680, very good at 1151 with Chinese CCI and a fast SAH, but no RRI
15515, fair at 1356 with het
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9955, Oct 25 at 1155, wall-of-noise jamming with WRMI inaudible. CBS News at 1200 reported widespread power outages in eastern Cuba due to hurricane, but no reduxion in jamming noticeable, mostly from western Cuba, I suppose, and RHC seemed to be as normal as it ever gets on all frequencies.
15215-15245, Oct 25 at 1256, the RHC 15230 transmitter has matching big buzzy noise fields extending out 15 kHz either side peaking around 15220 and 15240. Cleared up by an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1080, Oct 25 at 0525, Spanish talk looping SE, and SAHing KRLD at the rate of 80 per minute, same rate as in previous Oct 14 log when I thought I heard a ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana`` ID instead of listed Radio Cadena Habana, so I am hoping to confirm that. The CM conveniently fades up but inconveniently starts playing music, past 0530 when KRLD is regaining (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 25 at 0515, characteristic carrier with hum is still/again audible, but very poor strength tonight at first seemed missing till it faded up a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15045, Oct 25 at 1257, very poor carrier, just barely modulated. Suspected to be AIR Delhi/Khampur Burmese service up from now vacant but listed 15040. On second radio I compare to very poor but slightly better signal on listed // 11620, and by 1301 conclude that they are a match. Fortunately the 15040-15045-15050 DRM was late to cut on after *1303. So AIR is QRMing itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710, Oct 25 at 1157, open carrier from VOK between broadcasts, except for bleedover noise from jamming transmitter next to it at Kujang. Not to be confused with louder noise from ARGENTINA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Oct 25 at 1227, YL DJ with ID as ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, i.e. per Cantú:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250
As this little station again dominates the channel in just the right pre-sunrise conditions. What or where is Paquimé? It`s an archaeological zone around NCG; interesting illustrated article:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/aug/stories/paquime.html
So another DX log turns into a learning experience
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 25 at 0521, Médi Un in Arabic, big het with Africa No. Un in French on 9580.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0500-0505, local KGWA`s dead-air Fox-hole again causes me to null the remaining strong carrier, and strain to hear anything else: quite a mix of signals, but one slightly dominant is bluesy music, presumably WABG in Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 25 at 1153, Brother Scare is already on WWCR-4, presumably now from *1100. Sufficient signal almost an hour before sunrise, but not yet at daytime blast level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 9505, Oct 25 at 0519, poor signal with almost HOA music, presumed Voix du Soudan, with some splatter from much stronger Arabic on 9515, CRI via Albania (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1640: reading for first airing UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0330 on WRMI 9955: confirmed on webcast. Further repeats are: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 0500; Tue 1100.
On WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sat 0130 or 0200 or ???? on 5085, UT Sun 0400 on 5745.
On WWRB: UT Fri 0330 on 5050 and/or 3195
On Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB
On HLR: Sat 0630 & 1630 on 7265
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
Also on numerous webcasting stations as in full schedule:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Which has direct audio linx, including to new affiliate, WGXC 90.7, Acra NY in the Hudson Valley, Saturday 1000 UT, and associated webcaster free103point9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Oct 25 at 1206 UT, Spanish with several AC 713 phone numbers, loops somewhat east of south, vs KRVN. So it`s KJOZ Conroe TX, religious rimshotter into Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 950, Oct 25 at 1212 UT, local news, at least three mentions of Jefferson City, including ``here in Jefferson City`` so I`m confident it`s KWOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1180, Oct 25 at 1216 UT, Spanish sports discussing European fútbol, so likely ESPN Deportes network, loops NNW/SSE, and surely the only one listed in NRC AM Log, KGOL in Humble TX (Houston market), 50/3 kW, but must have just surged to day power at official October sunrise 1215 (November: 1245). Had SAH and CCI from hard to null Yahoo Sports Radio ``48 hours a day`` in English from opposite KZOT Nebraska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1440, Oct 25 at 0538 UT, sports talk with an echo, the main station looping NE/SW and surely WGEM Quincy IL, and it is same as on KSTP 1500, i.e. ESPN. There are more than half a dozen affiliates elsewhere in the NRC AM Log, from CA, to TX to OH, PA, NY, MA and ME, none of which look very likely, many with very low nite powers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11912: No blob tonite UT Oct 25 around 0216, but I notice a bigsig from NHK Japanese via Bonaire on 11935, and I have a sneaking suspicion it was missing last night while the FMy distortionblob was centered on 11912; the times 02-04 UT fit for that transmission. Did anyone else notice for sure if 11935 was not on? Should it happen again the next few nights before both Sackville and Bonaire are kaput, check for // 5960 Sackville, tho probably not in synch. From B-12 Oct 28, 5960 and 11935 are to continue at 02-04, but then both via Guiana French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15510-LSB, Oct 25 at 1357 as I am tuning to 15505 for another Betar check, something very strange: VOR carrier via Samara mixing with American military accented transmission, always with ICAO fonetix, ``O2X, out``. At 1400 he`s ``in`` for another transmission, and by now VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal provides the BFO. Perfectly zero beat, he could pass for AM instead of SSB, but why pick such an occupied broadcast frequency? I copied one of his encrypted series:
``VHLMY27WXMRRG4BQLSBK7KUG2GB``
No guarantees I got every character right; strong enough signal but some fading/distortion. ``This completes --- 28 characters, O2X, out``. Well, I must have missed one, only 27 above.
Message intro by repetition at least thrice, ``VH76ST [?] stand by; 22 characters follow``. 1407 ``this completes __ characters, this is O2X, out`` at 1408.
Time for breakfast but rechecked at 1427 he`s still going with another (same?) 28 characters and now his signal is so much stronger than the VOA BFO that it sounds more like SSB, i.e. insufficient carrier insertion. ``O2X, out``.
No significant hits searching 15510 and 15.510 in the 44,593 posts so far in the UDXF yg. Nor does O2X appear anywhere as a callsign, and just once coincidentally embedded inside a huge PGP message.
Nor is O2X to be found in this huge database of military callsigns:
http://www.udxf.nl/MCL.pdf
But it deals with word-name calls rather than random alfanumerix
Or course as a tactical call it may be used only once or often changed
Nor anything near 15510 in this list:
http://www.shortwavewatch.com/15-30.htm
Nor in Klingenfuss` 2002 book (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11711v, Oct 25 at 0217, all I am hearing from RAE during its English hour is noise, and same at 0330 recheck during French. Maybe like an open FM studio-transmitter link; isn`t anyone paying attention at General Pacheco? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 25 at 1258, bug hum with music, YL in English sign-off of BB to dear listeners saying next broadcast will be on 41.3 m band, 7250. Not sure if she was referring to Nepali at 1315, or next English broadcast at 1745; after brief tone, cut off the air taking the big hum with it.
15505, carrier and IS already on at 1357 Oct 25, timesignal ending 17 sex early at 1359:43, opening Urdu, but I am distracted by what`s going on 15510; see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9555, Oct 25 at 0520, good signal from Sackville`s Voice of Vietnam relay in Vietnamese music and talk; 0528 heard no BaBcoCk music loop, but RCI IS and ID before 0529*.
11795, Oct 25 at 1156, KBS World Radio in Spanish talk but voiceovering an English clip, fair signal, usual characteristic ``clacking`` on feed from Soul to Sackville. No known replacement for this come Oct 28, tho they could try to broadcast direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 25: no thoro search today but noted:
9680, very good at 1151 with Chinese CCI and a fast SAH, but no RRI
15515, fair at 1356 with het
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9955, Oct 25 at 1155, wall-of-noise jamming with WRMI inaudible. CBS News at 1200 reported widespread power outages in eastern Cuba due to hurricane, but no reduxion in jamming noticeable, mostly from western Cuba, I suppose, and RHC seemed to be as normal as it ever gets on all frequencies.
15215-15245, Oct 25 at 1256, the RHC 15230 transmitter has matching big buzzy noise fields extending out 15 kHz either side peaking around 15220 and 15240. Cleared up by an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1080, Oct 25 at 0525, Spanish talk looping SE, and SAHing KRLD at the rate of 80 per minute, same rate as in previous Oct 14 log when I thought I heard a ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana`` ID instead of listed Radio Cadena Habana, so I am hoping to confirm that. The CM conveniently fades up but inconveniently starts playing music, past 0530 when KRLD is regaining (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 25 at 0515, characteristic carrier with hum is still/again audible, but very poor strength tonight at first seemed missing till it faded up a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15045, Oct 25 at 1257, very poor carrier, just barely modulated. Suspected to be AIR Delhi/Khampur Burmese service up from now vacant but listed 15040. On second radio I compare to very poor but slightly better signal on listed // 11620, and by 1301 conclude that they are a match. Fortunately the 15040-15045-15050 DRM was late to cut on after *1303. So AIR is QRMing itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710, Oct 25 at 1157, open carrier from VOK between broadcasts, except for bleedover noise from jamming transmitter next to it at Kujang. Not to be confused with louder noise from ARGENTINA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Oct 25 at 1227, YL DJ with ID as ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, i.e. per Cantú:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250
As this little station again dominates the channel in just the right pre-sunrise conditions. What or where is Paquimé? It`s an archaeological zone around NCG; interesting illustrated article:
http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/aug/stories/paquime.html
So another DX log turns into a learning experience
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 25 at 0521, Médi Un in Arabic, big het with Africa No. Un in French on 9580.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0500-0505, local KGWA`s dead-air Fox-hole again causes me to null the remaining strong carrier, and strain to hear anything else: quite a mix of signals, but one slightly dominant is bluesy music, presumably WABG in Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 25 at 1153, Brother Scare is already on WWCR-4, presumably now from *1100. Sufficient signal almost an hour before sunrise, but not yet at daytime blast level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 9505, Oct 25 at 0519, poor signal with almost HOA music, presumed Voix du Soudan, with some splatter from much stronger Arabic on 9515, CRI via Albania (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1640: reading for first airing UT Thursday Oct 25 at 0330 on WRMI 9955: confirmed on webcast. Further repeats are: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 0500; Tue 1100.
On WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sat 0130 or 0200 or ???? on 5085, UT Sun 0400 on 5745.
On WWRB: UT Fri 0330 on 5050 and/or 3195
On Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB
On HLR: Sat 0630 & 1630 on 7265
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
Also on numerous webcasting stations as in full schedule:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Which has direct audio linx, including to new affiliate, WGXC 90.7, Acra NY in the Hudson Valley, Saturday 1000 UT, and associated webcaster free103point9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Oct 25 at 1206 UT, Spanish with several AC 713 phone numbers, loops somewhat east of south, vs KRVN. So it`s KJOZ Conroe TX, religious rimshotter into Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 950, Oct 25 at 1212 UT, local news, at least three mentions of Jefferson City, including ``here in Jefferson City`` so I`m confident it`s KWOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1180, Oct 25 at 1216 UT, Spanish sports discussing European fútbol, so likely ESPN Deportes network, loops NNW/SSE, and surely the only one listed in NRC AM Log, KGOL in Humble TX (Houston market), 50/3 kW, but must have just surged to day power at official October sunrise 1215 (November: 1245). Had SAH and CCI from hard to null Yahoo Sports Radio ``48 hours a day`` in English from opposite KZOT Nebraska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1440, Oct 25 at 0538 UT, sports talk with an echo, the main station looping NE/SW and surely WGEM Quincy IL, and it is same as on KSTP 1500, i.e. ESPN. There are more than half a dozen affiliates elsewhere in the NRC AM Log, from CA, to TX to OH, PA, NY, MA and ME, none of which look very likely, many with very low nite powers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11912: No blob tonite UT Oct 25 around 0216, but I notice a bigsig from NHK Japanese via Bonaire on 11935, and I have a sneaking suspicion it was missing last night while the FMy distortionblob was centered on 11912; the times 02-04 UT fit for that transmission. Did anyone else notice for sure if 11935 was not on? Should it happen again the next few nights before both Sackville and Bonaire are kaput, check for // 5960 Sackville, tho probably not in synch. From B-12 Oct 28, 5960 and 11935 are to continue at 02-04, but then both via Guiana French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15510-LSB, Oct 25 at 1357 as I am tuning to 15505 for another Betar check, something very strange: VOR carrier via Samara mixing with American military accented transmission, always with ICAO fonetix, ``O2X, out``. At 1400 he`s ``in`` for another transmission, and by now VOA Kurdish via Wertachtal provides the BFO. Perfectly zero beat, he could pass for AM instead of SSB, but why pick such an occupied broadcast frequency? I copied one of his encrypted series:
``VHLMY27WXMRRG4BQLSBK7KUG2GB``
No guarantees I got every character right; strong enough signal but some fading/distortion. ``This completes --- 28 characters, O2X, out``. Well, I must have missed one, only 27 above.
Message intro by repetition at least thrice, ``VH76ST [?] stand by; 22 characters follow``. 1407 ``this completes __ characters, this is O2X, out`` at 1408.
Time for breakfast but rechecked at 1427 he`s still going with another (same?) 28 characters and now his signal is so much stronger than the VOA BFO that it sounds more like SSB, i.e. insufficient carrier insertion. ``O2X, out``.
No significant hits searching 15510 and 15.510 in the 44,593 posts so far in the UDXF yg. Nor does O2X appear anywhere as a callsign, and just once coincidentally embedded inside a huge PGP message.
Nor is O2X to be found in this huge database of military callsigns:
http://www.udxf.nl/MCL.pdf
But it deals with word-name calls rather than random alfanumerix
Or course as a tactical call it may be used only once or often changed
Nor anything near 15510 in this list:
http://www.shortwavewatch.com/15-30.htm
Nor in Klingenfuss` 2002 book (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
