** ANGUILLA. 6090, Dec 14 at 0615 just as I tune by there is no signal, then PMS cuts back on. How long was she off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6070, Dec 14 at 0617, something is wrong with CFRX --- at first I suspect it is off, but then fades in a very weak signal with English talk, presumably the usual all-night comedy. It`s not a propagation problem, as CHU 7850 has a fine signal. CFRX may be on exciter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5075, Dec 14 at 1422, poor carrier but seems just barely modulated. Surely the only station in the world on 5075, V. of Pujiang, 15 kW southward from Shanghai at 1130-1600 as in Aoki. Weaker than the only other Asian signal on 60m, 4940 V. of Strait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Have not heard the 8-kHz galaxy of spurs around 11760 or other frequencies lately from the defective CNR1 jammer; have they fixed it or merely rescheduled it?
11775, Dec 14 at 1426, instead of a het from 11776, PMS has Firedrake underneath her. According to Aoki, the only thing jammed here is the AIR Tibetan service via GOA at 1215-1330, but the ChiCom must have kept it going for the Nepali service which follows until 1430.
Then searched for other Firedrakes, starting with a 7 and a 9 MHz channel where they are often heard, and there they are again:
9315, very poor at 1427 vs: VOA Tibetan via Thailand at 14-15
7390, poor at 1427 mixing with: VOA Cantonese via Tinang at 13-15
None of the usual 10-19 MHz out-of-band FDs found by 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Dec 14 at 0607 tune-in, TGAV, R. Verdad just in time for last minute of NA: modulation is rather distorted and with BFO, carrier is also slightly unstable. In dead air which follows from 0608, now the carrier is stable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9760, Dec 14 at 0628, poor signal, some classic Queen with ``Bicycle``, and more after 0630. Soon pegged as JOZ7, R. Nikkei-2, as it`s // weaker JOZ6, 6115 already audible, but not // Nikkei-1 on 9595, 6055. WRTH 2013 shows -2 closes at 0605, except Fri & Sat extended to 0800 on 9760, 0900 on 6115. Why is the Japanese stock market running a SW station that plays classic western rock? I guess it must be profitable, somehow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Dec 14 at 1429, NHK IS, good signal, 1430 opening Persian but as always pronouncing ``NHK World`` as in English. It`s 500 kW, due east from Issoudun, FRANCE, and now marred by the new CODAR swisher which has further invaded the 22m SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Dec 14 at 1356, Shiokaze at first seems Japanese, but then at 1357 my brain can lock into an English ID with heavy accent, as usual for Fridays. Has het on hi side, no doubt Madagascar off-frequency again by long path. Both still audible but both weaker by 1425 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Dec 14 at 1328 UT, a couple of federal PSAs, about safety and the laudable Cámara de Diputados, 1329 ``Regresamos: 7-20 Extremo`` a bit of `Mona Lisa` tune as theme? Then talk about Ixtapaluca (I think, or similar Aztec place). This is XEJCC in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which WRTH 2013 shows as 1 kW fulltime, while Cantú still lists as 1,000 watts day, 1,0000 [sic] watts night. Anyhow it is dominant on frequency for the moment close to sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9579.1, Dec 14 at 0626, at first seems Médi Un is not on the air, since the <1 kHz het we usually hear with Gabon or whatever on 9580 is missing. But with BFO I find the M1 carrier is still there, and it`s 9580 that is off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15560, Dec 14 at 1434, YL with news in English, poor signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman; het on the lo side, not sure if V. of Tibet on a split frequency or from a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 17815, Friday Dec 14 at 1316, 1359, 1436 chex, no signal today from R. Free Kenyalang via Romania, following yesterday`s seemingly successful test by IRRS. We await some definite schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 14 at 1353, HOA music at S9+18, good signal for R. Hargeisa considering it`s long-path; first checked a semihour earlier and found only JBA carrier, so went to MW DXing in the interim. It had really built up in the meantime. 1359 announcement, 1400 more music, 1401 announcement, 1402 anthem starts with 4 notes down, 4 notes up, and both again, before body of tune includes drumming until 1403 OC, off at 1403.5*. Was stronger than Myanmar 7110, but subject to constant CW QRhaM, mainly on the hi side from an automatically keyed N0 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 9505, Dec 14 at 0623, Sudanese music similar to Horn-of-Africa, from V. of Sudan, fair signal; has QRM from weak SSB slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1647 monitoring: ready in time for first airing Thursday Dec 13 at 2200 on WTWW 9479, confirmed with usual bigsig. Also second airing, UT Friday Dec 14 on WWRB 3195, and better signal on // 5050 which was missing last week: from 0431.5 UT after respectful one-minute pause following amen & amen by Pastor Cain.
Third airing: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (last week several minutes late, so stay tuned if necessary). Then:
Sat 0630 on 7265, 1630 on 6190, lowpower Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany
On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830
On WTWW 5830: UT Sunday 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Total typo I didn`t catch in previous report. Date for this one was not Dec 4 but Dec 13; replace with:
660, Dec 13 at 1428 UT, English ads for a business in Gallup, and Home Depot, then 1429 right into Navajo. Fair steady signal; that makes it KTNN Window Rock AZ, which I haven`t heard for some time, behaving itself with nighttime null toward New York. Now it`s definitely non-direxional daytime starting at 1415 UT in Dec, 1430 in January; KHAC 880 had been heard a bit earlier at 1408, again, in its case before same official sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Dec 14 at 1404 UT, no signal today from KLRG 50 kW in next state AR when I wanted to hear `Canada Calling` like 24 hours earlier; instead KRVN NE is dominant and in its null only some weak music, probably KHAC AZ/NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, UT Friday Dec 14 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid provides another dead-air break, during which the dominant understation this time has ABC News, which I always assume is KMA Shenandoah IA. KGWA continues to be sporadic, silent most midnites, but occasionally plugged with Fox `News` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Dec 14 at 1407 UT, Spanish opening ``el mejor informativo de los Estados Unidos``. Probably 10 kW, non-direxional daytimer KXPL El Paso TX, as would not expect Spanish gospel-huxter KIJN Farwell TX to be broadcasting news, tho a fast SAH revealed its presence too. Official FCC sunrise for KXPL in Dec and Jan is 1400 UT.
It also has a PSRA of 150 watts starting at 1300 UT in Dec & Feb, the limiting station being ``XENVA2`` but in Jan reduced to only 8 watts due to XEEP. These NVA entries in FCC database are not real calls, but mean `new` station, i.e. not necessarily anything really on the air. Does this mean SCT will never assign a real callsign XENVA to anystation? There are a few other SS on 1060 in the USA, but at this time, KXPL is most likely and the only one in NRC AM Log with NWS/TLK format.
BTW, I`ve read that there is a movement in Mexico to eliminate ``Estados Unidos`` from the official name of that country, which was adopted long ago to match the other United States country abutting it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Dec 14 at 1346 UT, KNSS Wichita KS and KCKM Monahans TX are making fast SAH slightly more than the one on 1480. KCKM was going from country music to local ad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Dec 14 at 0050 UT on caradio, fast SAH again like before with KBXD vs other stations, so my previous comment about their moving closer to 1480 appears incorrect (unless it varies, unlikely). The 1.47 Hz SAH I computed Dec 13 at 1420 UT may have happened to be beating with something other than KQAM, which was closer to KBXD.
Next morning around 1338 UT I again find the fast SAH of 10-12 Hz on 1480, but KQAM is dominating for a change. KBXD is unusually weak; on reduced power? Domestic MW propagation is strange this morning, much inferior to yesterday morning, despite trans-Pacific carriers being audible; see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1412, on 10 kHz DX-398 steps with BFO, KQAM pitch matches adjacent frequencies so I continue to think KBXD is the one that is slightly off. Next time it is dominant I will try the same thing with it and maybe determine whether it is plus or minus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Domestic MW reception was below normal today, and was not getting much from Korea on 2850, but around sunrise at 1332-1337 UT Dec 14, tried some trans-Pacific MW frequencies anyway, and to my surprise there were several carriers as I then stepped thru the entire band: 594, 693, 747, 774, 1566, 1575 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6070, Dec 14 at 0617, something is wrong with CFRX --- at first I suspect it is off, but then fades in a very weak signal with English talk, presumably the usual all-night comedy. It`s not a propagation problem, as CHU 7850 has a fine signal. CFRX may be on exciter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5075, Dec 14 at 1422, poor carrier but seems just barely modulated. Surely the only station in the world on 5075, V. of Pujiang, 15 kW southward from Shanghai at 1130-1600 as in Aoki. Weaker than the only other Asian signal on 60m, 4940 V. of Strait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Have not heard the 8-kHz galaxy of spurs around 11760 or other frequencies lately from the defective CNR1 jammer; have they fixed it or merely rescheduled it?
11775, Dec 14 at 1426, instead of a het from 11776, PMS has Firedrake underneath her. According to Aoki, the only thing jammed here is the AIR Tibetan service via GOA at 1215-1330, but the ChiCom must have kept it going for the Nepali service which follows until 1430.
Then searched for other Firedrakes, starting with a 7 and a 9 MHz channel where they are often heard, and there they are again:
9315, very poor at 1427 vs: VOA Tibetan via Thailand at 14-15
7390, poor at 1427 mixing with: VOA Cantonese via Tinang at 13-15
None of the usual 10-19 MHz out-of-band FDs found by 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Dec 14 at 0607 tune-in, TGAV, R. Verdad just in time for last minute of NA: modulation is rather distorted and with BFO, carrier is also slightly unstable. In dead air which follows from 0608, now the carrier is stable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9760, Dec 14 at 0628, poor signal, some classic Queen with ``Bicycle``, and more after 0630. Soon pegged as JOZ7, R. Nikkei-2, as it`s // weaker JOZ6, 6115 already audible, but not // Nikkei-1 on 9595, 6055. WRTH 2013 shows -2 closes at 0605, except Fri & Sat extended to 0800 on 9760, 0900 on 6115. Why is the Japanese stock market running a SW station that plays classic western rock? I guess it must be profitable, somehow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Dec 14 at 1429, NHK IS, good signal, 1430 opening Persian but as always pronouncing ``NHK World`` as in English. It`s 500 kW, due east from Issoudun, FRANCE, and now marred by the new CODAR swisher which has further invaded the 22m SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Dec 14 at 1356, Shiokaze at first seems Japanese, but then at 1357 my brain can lock into an English ID with heavy accent, as usual for Fridays. Has het on hi side, no doubt Madagascar off-frequency again by long path. Both still audible but both weaker by 1425 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Dec 14 at 1328 UT, a couple of federal PSAs, about safety and the laudable Cámara de Diputados, 1329 ``Regresamos: 7-20 Extremo`` a bit of `Mona Lisa` tune as theme? Then talk about Ixtapaluca (I think, or similar Aztec place). This is XEJCC in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which WRTH 2013 shows as 1 kW fulltime, while Cantú still lists as 1,000 watts day, 1,0000 [sic] watts night. Anyhow it is dominant on frequency for the moment close to sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9579.1, Dec 14 at 0626, at first seems Médi Un is not on the air, since the <1 kHz het we usually hear with Gabon or whatever on 9580 is missing. But with BFO I find the M1 carrier is still there, and it`s 9580 that is off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15560, Dec 14 at 1434, YL with news in English, poor signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman; het on the lo side, not sure if V. of Tibet on a split frequency or from a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 17815, Friday Dec 14 at 1316, 1359, 1436 chex, no signal today from R. Free Kenyalang via Romania, following yesterday`s seemingly successful test by IRRS. We await some definite schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 14 at 1353, HOA music at S9+18, good signal for R. Hargeisa considering it`s long-path; first checked a semihour earlier and found only JBA carrier, so went to MW DXing in the interim. It had really built up in the meantime. 1359 announcement, 1400 more music, 1401 announcement, 1402 anthem starts with 4 notes down, 4 notes up, and both again, before body of tune includes drumming until 1403 OC, off at 1403.5*. Was stronger than Myanmar 7110, but subject to constant CW QRhaM, mainly on the hi side from an automatically keyed N0 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 9505, Dec 14 at 0623, Sudanese music similar to Horn-of-Africa, from V. of Sudan, fair signal; has QRM from weak SSB slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1647 monitoring: ready in time for first airing Thursday Dec 13 at 2200 on WTWW 9479, confirmed with usual bigsig. Also second airing, UT Friday Dec 14 on WWRB 3195, and better signal on // 5050 which was missing last week: from 0431.5 UT after respectful one-minute pause following amen & amen by Pastor Cain.
Third airing: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (last week several minutes late, so stay tuned if necessary). Then:
Sat 0630 on 7265, 1630 on 6190, lowpower Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany
On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830
On WTWW 5830: UT Sunday 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Total typo I didn`t catch in previous report. Date for this one was not Dec 4 but Dec 13; replace with:
660, Dec 13 at 1428 UT, English ads for a business in Gallup, and Home Depot, then 1429 right into Navajo. Fair steady signal; that makes it KTNN Window Rock AZ, which I haven`t heard for some time, behaving itself with nighttime null toward New York. Now it`s definitely non-direxional daytime starting at 1415 UT in Dec, 1430 in January; KHAC 880 had been heard a bit earlier at 1408, again, in its case before same official sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Dec 14 at 1404 UT, no signal today from KLRG 50 kW in next state AR when I wanted to hear `Canada Calling` like 24 hours earlier; instead KRVN NE is dominant and in its null only some weak music, probably KHAC AZ/NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, UT Friday Dec 14 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid provides another dead-air break, during which the dominant understation this time has ABC News, which I always assume is KMA Shenandoah IA. KGWA continues to be sporadic, silent most midnites, but occasionally plugged with Fox `News` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Dec 14 at 1407 UT, Spanish opening ``el mejor informativo de los Estados Unidos``. Probably 10 kW, non-direxional daytimer KXPL El Paso TX, as would not expect Spanish gospel-huxter KIJN Farwell TX to be broadcasting news, tho a fast SAH revealed its presence too. Official FCC sunrise for KXPL in Dec and Jan is 1400 UT.
It also has a PSRA of 150 watts starting at 1300 UT in Dec & Feb, the limiting station being ``XENVA2`` but in Jan reduced to only 8 watts due to XEEP. These NVA entries in FCC database are not real calls, but mean `new` station, i.e. not necessarily anything really on the air. Does this mean SCT will never assign a real callsign XENVA to anystation? There are a few other SS on 1060 in the USA, but at this time, KXPL is most likely and the only one in NRC AM Log with NWS/TLK format.
BTW, I`ve read that there is a movement in Mexico to eliminate ``Estados Unidos`` from the official name of that country, which was adopted long ago to match the other United States country abutting it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Dec 14 at 1346 UT, KNSS Wichita KS and KCKM Monahans TX are making fast SAH slightly more than the one on 1480. KCKM was going from country music to local ad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, Dec 14 at 0050 UT on caradio, fast SAH again like before with KBXD vs other stations, so my previous comment about their moving closer to 1480 appears incorrect (unless it varies, unlikely). The 1.47 Hz SAH I computed Dec 13 at 1420 UT may have happened to be beating with something other than KQAM, which was closer to KBXD.
Next morning around 1338 UT I again find the fast SAH of 10-12 Hz on 1480, but KQAM is dominating for a change. KBXD is unusually weak; on reduced power? Domestic MW propagation is strange this morning, much inferior to yesterday morning, despite trans-Pacific carriers being audible; see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1412, on 10 kHz DX-398 steps with BFO, KQAM pitch matches adjacent frequencies so I continue to think KBXD is the one that is slightly off. Next time it is dominant I will try the same thing with it and maybe determine whether it is plus or minus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Domestic MW reception was below normal today, and was not getting much from Korea on 2850, but around sunrise at 1332-1337 UT Dec 14, tried some trans-Pacific MW frequencies anyway, and to my surprise there were several carriers as I then stepped thru the entire band: 594, 693, 747, 774, 1566, 1575 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
