** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 26 at 1259, Bangladesh Betar is signing off, this time the OM announcer, asking for listener correspondence to the Director, referring to 41.3 mb, 7.250 MHz, and off at 1300*. Does he think this very transmission is on that frequency?
15505, Oct 26 at 1357, BB is on with IS, heavy flutter; timesignal ends at 1359:43, 17 sex early today, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 26 circa 1330, all with flutter:
12230, good at 1330
12670, fair at 1330
15495, fair at 1330, het on hi side
15900, good at 1333
16980, good at 1333
17450, very good at 1335; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, covers wide areas:
5750-5850 at 1310 Oct 26, main peak is around 5800; above 5820 the pitch is different than below 5820, two of them abutting?
5875-5910 at 1311 Oct 26 with BBC 5875 on the edge
6760-7000 at 1312 Oct 26, several different peaks, avoids 40m hamband
7850-7930 at 1324 Oct 26, CHU 7850 on the edge
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS
** CYPRUS. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, invading the 15m hamband: 21250-21275, Oct 26 at 1307. See also CHINA for more OTHR of different pitches, wider bandwidth on lower frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 11711, RAE has heavy noise QRM, Oct 26 at 0125 but unlike last night, this time it`s really coming from DRM centred on 11715, which must be India`s Nepali service. (Wow, Nepal must be a really modern country full of DRM receivers!!), as scheduled in Aoki:
11715 ALL INDIA RADIO(DRM) 0130-0230 1234567 Nepali(Digital) 250 124 Delhi (Khampur) IND 07709E2850N AIR a12
Strangely enough, HFCC has this transmission starting at 0115 but claims it is not in DRM. 124 degrees is a bit too far south as Nepal is east of Delhi. 95 degrees would be about right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 26 at 1326, VOI in English but as always very undermodulated, with hum, heavy flutter. All I can make out is something about ``25 km from the city`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Friday Oct 26 at 1336, Sea Breeze in English via JAPAN, YL with headlines and datelines from September about events concerning North Korea, stingers between them. So it`s now ``in season`` for us to hear this late, English on Fridays.
Constant het on hi side from Myanmar, which my keyboard places at C6 = 1046 Hz, but it`s usually measured direct around 5985.8, such as 5985.812 by Wolfgang Büschel Oct 7; 5985.828 on Sept 24, 5985.808 on Sept 25. By Ralph Perry, 5985.86 on Oct. 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 540, Oct 26 at 0514, amid CCI I catch a mention in Spanish of ``90.5 FM`` from the west, i.e. it`s a match for XETX again, Cantú:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250. The main CCI was C&W music, presumably KWMT Fort Dodge IA again with its resurgent night signal. On daytime groundwave, it`s under KDFT with a 1.5 Hz SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Friday Oct 26 at 0500-0505 another deadair Fox-hole from KGWA Enid, during which nulling its strong local carrier, I hear mostly blues music dominating, presumed WABG Greenwood MS; 0503, 800-299-8255 phone number probably during a break in ABC news from WERC or KMA. Any phone number ending in 8255 means ``TALK``, i.e. for call-ins. I find it amazing how unhelpful the dozens of reverse-phone number lookup sites are. About 15 sex before KGWA blasts back on at 0505 with a local ad, the understation starts a political ad with a black accent, probably WABG, but can`t copy any clue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 26 at 1315, JBA carrier, upon which an intermittent SSB ham is saying ``hello test, 1, 2, 3`` until 1319. Was not expecting to be hearing R. Hargeisa, long path this early, as has been easy for Ron Howard, California. Still there at 1340, now with some CW QRhaM. 1347 trace of music, less CW QRM. 1357 the signal is a bit better and can make out some HoA music vs CW QRM on hi side. 1357 an announcement, 1358 seems dead air, 1400 talk, but gone by 1404.
This matches recent observations by Ron Howard, that they have this earlier transmission now, take a break and resume around 1500. And on Oct 25 he says there was even English, probably at 1320-1340, definitely from 1328.
Sunset today at Hargeisa is 1442 UT. The long path cross the Indian Ocean south of Australia and NZ, up across the Pacific, total water path after Africa until hitting North America. And there was no carrier at all today from 7110 Myanmar`s very different transpolar path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRNO is back on, 7506.4, Oct 26 at 0124, strong signal with gospel huxter, very distorted modulation. Latest absence still did not improve anything (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: confirmed Thursday October 25 on WTWW 9479, excellent signal. They are still running the announcement that 5755 ``will`` change to 5745, which is interrupted by canned ID, then WOR starts intact.
WWRB is on both 5050 and // 3195 at 0125 Oct 26, so WORLD OF RADIO at 0330 probably will be too this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: Maybe so, but I start listening to the webcast at 0329. ``Amen & amen`` SC preacher ends at 0330 (he interjects more amens every few sex during his sermon, an extremely annoying tic), and deadair/noise level rises; 42 seconds later just silence; 54 seconds after that, hum and noise start up; 2+ minutes after that, Dave comes on and says he`s very sorry, but can`t get WORLD OF RADIO to play tonight; knows we are disappointed, but will have to fill with something else. Me too; wish I knew how to fix his computer problem. WWRB gets the same mp3 file other stations have no problems playing.
Better chances to hear WOR 1640: UT Sat Oct 27 at 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5745. Maybe also at 0130 or 0200 or ???? UT Sun on WTWW 5085, if on the air this week. Circa Europe, UT Sat 0630 & 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265. In Latin America, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955. Also Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 16207, Oct 26 at 1335, the frying-sound transmitter is in again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15505, Oct 26 at 1357, BB is on with IS, heavy flutter; timesignal ends at 1359:43, 17 sex early today, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 26 circa 1330, all with flutter:
12230, good at 1330
12670, fair at 1330
15495, fair at 1330, het on hi side
15900, good at 1333
16980, good at 1333
17450, very good at 1335; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, covers wide areas:
5750-5850 at 1310 Oct 26, main peak is around 5800; above 5820 the pitch is different than below 5820, two of them abutting?
5875-5910 at 1311 Oct 26 with BBC 5875 on the edge
6760-7000 at 1312 Oct 26, several different peaks, avoids 40m hamband
7850-7930 at 1324 Oct 26, CHU 7850 on the edge
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS
** CYPRUS. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, invading the 15m hamband: 21250-21275, Oct 26 at 1307. See also CHINA for more OTHR of different pitches, wider bandwidth on lower frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 11711, RAE has heavy noise QRM, Oct 26 at 0125 but unlike last night, this time it`s really coming from DRM centred on 11715, which must be India`s Nepali service. (Wow, Nepal must be a really modern country full of DRM receivers!!), as scheduled in Aoki:
11715 ALL INDIA RADIO(DRM) 0130-0230 1234567 Nepali(Digital) 250 124 Delhi (Khampur) IND 07709E2850N AIR a12
Strangely enough, HFCC has this transmission starting at 0115 but claims it is not in DRM. 124 degrees is a bit too far south as Nepal is east of Delhi. 95 degrees would be about right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 26 at 1326, VOI in English but as always very undermodulated, with hum, heavy flutter. All I can make out is something about ``25 km from the city`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Friday Oct 26 at 1336, Sea Breeze in English via JAPAN, YL with headlines and datelines from September about events concerning North Korea, stingers between them. So it`s now ``in season`` for us to hear this late, English on Fridays.
Constant het on hi side from Myanmar, which my keyboard places at C6 = 1046 Hz, but it`s usually measured direct around 5985.8, such as 5985.812 by Wolfgang Büschel Oct 7; 5985.828 on Sept 24, 5985.808 on Sept 25. By Ralph Perry, 5985.86 on Oct. 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 540, Oct 26 at 0514, amid CCI I catch a mention in Spanish of ``90.5 FM`` from the west, i.e. it`s a match for XETX again, Cantú:
540 XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé + FM 90.5 Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. 1,000 250. The main CCI was C&W music, presumably KWMT Fort Dodge IA again with its resurgent night signal. On daytime groundwave, it`s under KDFT with a 1.5 Hz SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Friday Oct 26 at 0500-0505 another deadair Fox-hole from KGWA Enid, during which nulling its strong local carrier, I hear mostly blues music dominating, presumed WABG Greenwood MS; 0503, 800-299-8255 phone number probably during a break in ABC news from WERC or KMA. Any phone number ending in 8255 means ``TALK``, i.e. for call-ins. I find it amazing how unhelpful the dozens of reverse-phone number lookup sites are. About 15 sex before KGWA blasts back on at 0505 with a local ad, the understation starts a political ad with a black accent, probably WABG, but can`t copy any clue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Oct 26 at 1315, JBA carrier, upon which an intermittent SSB ham is saying ``hello test, 1, 2, 3`` until 1319. Was not expecting to be hearing R. Hargeisa, long path this early, as has been easy for Ron Howard, California. Still there at 1340, now with some CW QRhaM. 1347 trace of music, less CW QRM. 1357 the signal is a bit better and can make out some HoA music vs CW QRM on hi side. 1357 an announcement, 1358 seems dead air, 1400 talk, but gone by 1404.
This matches recent observations by Ron Howard, that they have this earlier transmission now, take a break and resume around 1500. And on Oct 25 he says there was even English, probably at 1320-1340, definitely from 1328.
Sunset today at Hargeisa is 1442 UT. The long path cross the Indian Ocean south of Australia and NZ, up across the Pacific, total water path after Africa until hitting North America. And there was no carrier at all today from 7110 Myanmar`s very different transpolar path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRNO is back on, 7506.4, Oct 26 at 0124, strong signal with gospel huxter, very distorted modulation. Latest absence still did not improve anything (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: confirmed Thursday October 25 on WTWW 9479, excellent signal. They are still running the announcement that 5755 ``will`` change to 5745, which is interrupted by canned ID, then WOR starts intact.
WWRB is on both 5050 and // 3195 at 0125 Oct 26, so WORLD OF RADIO at 0330 probably will be too this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1640 monitoring: Maybe so, but I start listening to the webcast at 0329. ``Amen & amen`` SC preacher ends at 0330 (he interjects more amens every few sex during his sermon, an extremely annoying tic), and deadair/noise level rises; 42 seconds later just silence; 54 seconds after that, hum and noise start up; 2+ minutes after that, Dave comes on and says he`s very sorry, but can`t get WORLD OF RADIO to play tonight; knows we are disappointed, but will have to fill with something else. Me too; wish I knew how to fix his computer problem. WWRB gets the same mp3 file other stations have no problems playing.
Better chances to hear WOR 1640: UT Sat Oct 27 at 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5745. Maybe also at 0130 or 0200 or ???? UT Sun on WTWW 5085, if on the air this week. Circa Europe, UT Sat 0630 & 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265. In Latin America, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955. Also Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 16207, Oct 26 at 1335, the frying-sound transmitter is in again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
