** ALBANIA. 6100, Oct 30 at 0227, R. Tirana IS on new frequency for B-12, only fair signal but no jamming or other QRM. 0230 opening announcement still gives A-12 times and frequencies: seasonal changes always seem to take the studio by surprise. Program preview includes news, cultural activities of the week, sports. SINPO 35433 altho local noise level holds it down, which a much stronger signal like Anguilla 6090 could overcome. Greece still audible as well on 7475, but we hope the 6 MHz channel will penetrate better thru the darkest winter nights to come (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 5960, Oct 30 at 0239, Sackville just won`t let go of this ex-NHK Japanese relay frequency, but instead of R. Japan they are playing a C&W song in English, then a song in French! These are way atop what sounds like Japanese talk, and then a Japanese song, no doubt the proper NHK relay via Guiana French. Last night they were both with R. Japan an echo apart. See also JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]; VIETNAM [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Oct 30 at 0234, R. Rebelde, plus considerable RTTY QRM. A few nights ago, R.R. was off and we were only hearing the RTTY, which we had never noted QRMing the station, perhaps because we are not usually tuning around at this hour. R.R. may well have gone off to try to identify the source, so whence is it? Something new? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 15330, Oct 29 at 1955, R. Martí back on this B-season-only frequency, so now the jamming Cuba has been running all summer is doing some ``good``, altho certainly ramped up to full bore now. But RM goes off at 2000 and moves to also jammed 9565, while // 11930 and 13820 continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo check Oct 30 at 0235 finds some differences from last night:
9905 is missing, and so is ex-9305, the extremely distorted Arabics
9965 is also missing, the undermodulated/distorted one
but it can`t be due to propagation since:
9720 is still there with JBM English, ex-9315
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Oct 29 at 1957, R. Africa, fair signal with gospel huxter; off the air at next check 2007; meanwhile YFR English via Ascension is still on 15195 from 20 to 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15275, Oct 29 at 1956, DW in English, VG signal discussing spacesuits, rudely cut off the air at 1957. Well, that`s what the schedule calls for, 1900-1957, 250 kW non-direxional from RWANDA. This transmitter has a squeal on it like on one of the WEWNs and several others around the world. 15275 is used at many various hours from DW Kigali starting at 0630, but only this last 0.95 hour in English. Someone please tell the studio to wrap it up by :57!
9655, Oct 29 at 2005, here`s DW English again, with `Africa Link`, not as strong but has same squeal as 15275; bet it`s exactly the same Kigali transmitter. This one is in English at 2000-2057 and 2100-2200 at 295 degrees USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. See CANADA [and non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]
** JAPAN [non]. 11935, Oct 30 at 0239, after hearing the mess on 5960, see CANADA, what`s going on here? Still for another night playing nothing but the NHK IS and IDs in English in Japanese, while 5960 under Sackville appears to have NHK Japanese programming. How much longer will it take to get all this straightened out?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 11635, Oct 30 at 0110, KBS World Radio, Spanish relay confirmed at new time 01-02 and new frequency via GUIANA FRENCH, only fair signal here aimed toward S America. TDF thought it was going to be at 03-04 on 15400. No sign of that at 0332 check.
Sackville may have turned off the ex-Vietnam frequency 6175, but the ex-Korea frequency 9560 is still on with tone and clacking, Oct 30 at 0228, i.e. ex-Spanish at 0200-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 29 at 1930 UT, KEOR is not on the air. Wayne Heinen, editor of the NRC AM Log, says, ``A look at the Silent STA filing at the FCC says that the reason the station went silent back in June was "technical". Maybe they replace a part or two, run a few tests and then shut it off and try to find another way to fix it``.
Maybe, but as I said before, if it was ever on the air this past June, we missed it completely, and/or it was very brief; as it had also been off the air for many months before that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. 7290, Oct 29 at 2214, fair signal in English from Radio PMR on B-season channel, ex-9665. Their undated schedule page
http://www.radiopmr.org/about/27/Cetka-veshhaniya
shows 7290 at the top, 9665 at the bottom, and times in EET which apparently = UT +2 with English starting at 18, 20 and 22 UT M-F. Except their usual pattern is to run the 22 UT broadcasts on Sun-Thu, since by local time, those are also M-F at midnite; need to reconfirm that they start at 2200 Sunday and stop at 2200 Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Taking a look at the B-12 VOR schedule which J-M Aubier pointed to, http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio/
I am surprised to see 15 and 17 MHz frequencies in the evening to North America --- higher than in the summer, and must be hitting us from E Asia, not Europe. Will they work? They sure do tonight, Oct 30 at 0237 check with `In Between` conversation: 17665 and 15630 are very good, in fact the SSOBs! And 17690 is there but considerably weaker. What are the spex? HFCC shows
15630 0200 0600 1,2,6 P.K 250 67 0 288
17665 0200 0400 1,2,6 P.K 250 61 0 288
17690 0200 0400 1,2,6 VLD 500 50 0 218
Pet/Kam always does better here than Vladivostok for some reason, considerably further away, despite twice the power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Oct 29 at 1958, guitar and flute hymn audio is cutting off and on, 2000 AWR theme, ID and Voice of Hope in English, introducing Arabic. Still cutting out past 2008, a shame with some more neat music. I had no idea what the site would be until uplooked: Meyerton at 19-21 in Arabic. Looks like SENTECH has big problems; or AWR does in getting the audio in from Battle Creek or wherever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 15125, Oct 29 at 1958, REE COSTA RICA winter frequency is on, but in the meantime, NIGERIA has started regular DRM broadcasts centered on 15120, causing QRDRM to REE/CR --- serves them right for QRDRMing neighbors of 9630 in the evenings. The 15125 collision is timed just right on M-F at 18-20, but longer hours on weekends per REE B-12 schedule, all to S America and not strong here in NAm --- Sat 16-23, Sun 12-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9350, Oct 29 at 2006, tuning across I note that VG signal from WWCR in Bible reading has modulation problems, hitting on peaks only; unlistenable. Is no one noticing at 1300 WWCR Avenue? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 30 at 0111 check, WRNO with usual very strong signal and heavy distortion on gospel huxter modulation no one in his right mind would listen to. Hmmm, nor would anyone in his right mind if it were perfectly modulated. Wrong minds, yes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Oct 30 at 0110, WWRB with remote report about the storm --- could it be live? But then cut back to studio for preacher with I-told-you-so rant correlating it with prophecy. 3195 is not on at this time. Next check at 0233, both are on in // with Martha-like hymnbelter before preacher takes over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 9640, Oct 30 at 0110 during English, VOV`s new North American service via UK replacing Sackville, not only is on too high a band for winter, but this particular frequency is a bad choice, only 10 kHz from 9630 REE/CR QRDRM which until 0200 is covering up to 9645 at least. 0229 check, 9640 is off the air, but back on at 0232 for next English, poor with fading, 25432. They must be making a beam change before 0230. But none shown in HFCC, just continuous 294 degrees from Woofferton to E North America at 0100-0300 and 0330-0400. Meanwhile, Sackville has finally turned off VOV`s former frequency 6175, at 0228 check; last two nights they had kept running it with BabCoCk music for hours and hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 5960, Oct 30 at 0239, Sackville just won`t let go of this ex-NHK Japanese relay frequency, but instead of R. Japan they are playing a C&W song in English, then a song in French! These are way atop what sounds like Japanese talk, and then a Japanese song, no doubt the proper NHK relay via Guiana French. Last night they were both with R. Japan an echo apart. See also JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]; VIETNAM [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5025, Oct 30 at 0234, R. Rebelde, plus considerable RTTY QRM. A few nights ago, R.R. was off and we were only hearing the RTTY, which we had never noted QRMing the station, perhaps because we are not usually tuning around at this hour. R.R. may well have gone off to try to identify the source, so whence is it? Something new? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 15330, Oct 29 at 1955, R. Martí back on this B-season-only frequency, so now the jamming Cuba has been running all summer is doing some ``good``, altho certainly ramped up to full bore now. But RM goes off at 2000 and moves to also jammed 9565, while // 11930 and 13820 continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo check Oct 30 at 0235 finds some differences from last night:
9905 is missing, and so is ex-9305, the extremely distorted Arabics
9965 is also missing, the undermodulated/distorted one
but it can`t be due to propagation since:
9720 is still there with JBM English, ex-9315
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Oct 29 at 1957, R. Africa, fair signal with gospel huxter; off the air at next check 2007; meanwhile YFR English via Ascension is still on 15195 from 20 to 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15275, Oct 29 at 1956, DW in English, VG signal discussing spacesuits, rudely cut off the air at 1957. Well, that`s what the schedule calls for, 1900-1957, 250 kW non-direxional from RWANDA. This transmitter has a squeal on it like on one of the WEWNs and several others around the world. 15275 is used at many various hours from DW Kigali starting at 0630, but only this last 0.95 hour in English. Someone please tell the studio to wrap it up by :57!
9655, Oct 29 at 2005, here`s DW English again, with `Africa Link`, not as strong but has same squeal as 15275; bet it`s exactly the same Kigali transmitter. This one is in English at 2000-2057 and 2100-2200 at 295 degrees USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. See CANADA [and non]; JAPAN [non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]
** JAPAN [non]. 11935, Oct 30 at 0239, after hearing the mess on 5960, see CANADA, what`s going on here? Still for another night playing nothing but the NHK IS and IDs in English in Japanese, while 5960 under Sackville appears to have NHK Japanese programming. How much longer will it take to get all this straightened out?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 11635, Oct 30 at 0110, KBS World Radio, Spanish relay confirmed at new time 01-02 and new frequency via GUIANA FRENCH, only fair signal here aimed toward S America. TDF thought it was going to be at 03-04 on 15400. No sign of that at 0332 check.
Sackville may have turned off the ex-Vietnam frequency 6175, but the ex-Korea frequency 9560 is still on with tone and clacking, Oct 30 at 0228, i.e. ex-Spanish at 0200-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 29 at 1930 UT, KEOR is not on the air. Wayne Heinen, editor of the NRC AM Log, says, ``A look at the Silent STA filing at the FCC says that the reason the station went silent back in June was "technical". Maybe they replace a part or two, run a few tests and then shut it off and try to find another way to fix it``.
Maybe, but as I said before, if it was ever on the air this past June, we missed it completely, and/or it was very brief; as it had also been off the air for many months before that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. 7290, Oct 29 at 2214, fair signal in English from Radio PMR on B-season channel, ex-9665. Their undated schedule page
http://www.radiopmr.org/about/27/Cetka-veshhaniya
shows 7290 at the top, 9665 at the bottom, and times in EET which apparently = UT +2 with English starting at 18, 20 and 22 UT M-F. Except their usual pattern is to run the 22 UT broadcasts on Sun-Thu, since by local time, those are also M-F at midnite; need to reconfirm that they start at 2200 Sunday and stop at 2200 Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Taking a look at the B-12 VOR schedule which J-M Aubier pointed to, http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio/
I am surprised to see 15 and 17 MHz frequencies in the evening to North America --- higher than in the summer, and must be hitting us from E Asia, not Europe. Will they work? They sure do tonight, Oct 30 at 0237 check with `In Between` conversation: 17665 and 15630 are very good, in fact the SSOBs! And 17690 is there but considerably weaker. What are the spex? HFCC shows
15630 0200 0600 1,2,6 P.K 250 67 0 288
17665 0200 0400 1,2,6 P.K 250 61 0 288
17690 0200 0400 1,2,6 VLD 500 50 0 218
Pet/Kam always does better here than Vladivostok for some reason, considerably further away, despite twice the power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Oct 29 at 1958, guitar and flute hymn audio is cutting off and on, 2000 AWR theme, ID and Voice of Hope in English, introducing Arabic. Still cutting out past 2008, a shame with some more neat music. I had no idea what the site would be until uplooked: Meyerton at 19-21 in Arabic. Looks like SENTECH has big problems; or AWR does in getting the audio in from Battle Creek or wherever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 15125, Oct 29 at 1958, REE COSTA RICA winter frequency is on, but in the meantime, NIGERIA has started regular DRM broadcasts centered on 15120, causing QRDRM to REE/CR --- serves them right for QRDRMing neighbors of 9630 in the evenings. The 15125 collision is timed just right on M-F at 18-20, but longer hours on weekends per REE B-12 schedule, all to S America and not strong here in NAm --- Sat 16-23, Sun 12-23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9350, Oct 29 at 2006, tuning across I note that VG signal from WWCR in Bible reading has modulation problems, hitting on peaks only; unlistenable. Is no one noticing at 1300 WWCR Avenue? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 30 at 0111 check, WRNO with usual very strong signal and heavy distortion on gospel huxter modulation no one in his right mind would listen to. Hmmm, nor would anyone in his right mind if it were perfectly modulated. Wrong minds, yes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Oct 30 at 0110, WWRB with remote report about the storm --- could it be live? But then cut back to studio for preacher with I-told-you-so rant correlating it with prophecy. 3195 is not on at this time. Next check at 0233, both are on in // with Martha-like hymnbelter before preacher takes over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 9640, Oct 30 at 0110 during English, VOV`s new North American service via UK replacing Sackville, not only is on too high a band for winter, but this particular frequency is a bad choice, only 10 kHz from 9630 REE/CR QRDRM which until 0200 is covering up to 9645 at least. 0229 check, 9640 is off the air, but back on at 0232 for next English, poor with fading, 25432. They must be making a beam change before 0230. But none shown in HFCC, just continuous 294 degrees from Woofferton to E North America at 0100-0300 and 0330-0400. Meanwhile, Sackville has finally turned off VOV`s former frequency 6175, at 0228 check; last two nights they had kept running it with BabCoCk music for hours and hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
