** ARMENIA. 9395, Dec 16 at 0055, at least three SS announcers, one W and two M, taking turns with narration about churches, fair with lite flutter. HFCC shows V of Russia, 500 kW, 305 degrees from ERV = Gavar site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 9450, Dec 16 at 0029, The Mighty KBC, Netherlands via Kostinbrod, modulation is somewhat distorted. Ad for antennas from kbcimports.com, says SW reception was bad last week and hope better this week --- yes it is, good signal altho still much weaker than 9420 Greece and 9490 Guiana French, and too bad about the modulation. Is this an ex-jamming transmitter, or what? Recheck 0131 just in time to hear a few tones in another Kim Andrew Elliott digital text test, immediately followed by jingle, still distorted and I wonder if that detracted from the digital (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9470, Dec 16 at 0032 rock music, heavy flutter, 0033 uncertain language. Was wondering if AIR National Channel would be back on its nominal frequency. 0053 Chinese language lesson, and thought I heard some Russian, but scheduled as CRI Mongolian service, 500 kW northwards from Xian; and off at 0058 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 9580 & 9590, Dec 16 at 0058 surprised to hear same music on both frequencies, 9590 weaker. Must be the prélude/interlude music from CRI altho different services are scheduled: 9580 is about to start English via CUBA; 9590 is amid Spanish services via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Dec 16 at 0032, VOG has very good signal, and with a noise envelope peaking about 9426, not so much on the lo side 9414. I was trying to detect if India was on 9425; no way to tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Dec 16 at 0026, R. República is so strong that it`s splattering up to plus/minus 20 kHz, rather than the discrete spurs of before. Way over jamming too, but bad for EMR on 9480, CRI on 9470; see UNID and CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 93.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, sucking-straw sounds originating with totally out of order translator K226BR Enid are also heard at somewhat open spots on the dial as far away as 95.3 and 87.9.
92.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KAMG-LP Enid is on the air and modulating at the moment, gospel rock in Spanish, but rather distorted.
94.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KLGB-LP Enid with gospel rock in English. I was tuning by on the DX-398 with headphones, so couldn`t help but notice that it`s in stereo but on right channel only. BTW, any resemblance to anything gay is surely coincidental, tho I don`t know what the call letters were intended to signify (hmm, Keep Lauding God`s Boy?)
96.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KXXY OKC is playing Xmas music; could this mean a format change in the offing? Or at least current format, whatever it be, is not strong enough to override seasonal temptation, especially with that X-y call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9480, Dec 16 at 0030, JBA carrier, with splatter from 9490 Guiana French. European Music Radio was publicized with a `DX to the World` special during this hour, but needs a bit more power than 1 kW if it is really on from Germany. Propagation from Europe VG, with Greece inbooming on 9420, KBC Bulgaria sufficient on 9450. At least WTWW is now off 9479 by 0000, but 9480 could more likely be CNR`s 100 kW Tibetan service from Beijing site. Another EMR broadcast on 9480 is scheduled later this Sunday at 09-10, plus 08-09 on 7265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17536-USB, Dec 15 at 2009, weak 2-way in Spanish, intruders except there are hardly any broadcasters on the 16m band at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 9450, Dec 16 at 0029, The Mighty KBC, Netherlands via Kostinbrod, modulation is somewhat distorted. Ad for antennas from kbcimports.com, says SW reception was bad last week and hope better this week --- yes it is, good signal altho still much weaker than 9420 Greece and 9490 Guiana French, and too bad about the modulation. Is this an ex-jamming transmitter, or what? Recheck 0131 just in time to hear a few tones in another Kim Andrew Elliott digital text test, immediately followed by jingle, still distorted and I wonder if that detracted from the digital (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9470, Dec 16 at 0032 rock music, heavy flutter, 0033 uncertain language. Was wondering if AIR National Channel would be back on its nominal frequency. 0053 Chinese language lesson, and thought I heard some Russian, but scheduled as CRI Mongolian service, 500 kW northwards from Xian; and off at 0058 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 9580 & 9590, Dec 16 at 0058 surprised to hear same music on both frequencies, 9590 weaker. Must be the prélude/interlude music from CRI altho different services are scheduled: 9580 is about to start English via CUBA; 9590 is amid Spanish services via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Dec 16 at 0032, VOG has very good signal, and with a noise envelope peaking about 9426, not so much on the lo side 9414. I was trying to detect if India was on 9425; no way to tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Dec 16 at 0026, R. República is so strong that it`s splattering up to plus/minus 20 kHz, rather than the discrete spurs of before. Way over jamming too, but bad for EMR on 9480, CRI on 9470; see UNID and CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 93.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, sucking-straw sounds originating with totally out of order translator K226BR Enid are also heard at somewhat open spots on the dial as far away as 95.3 and 87.9.
92.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KAMG-LP Enid is on the air and modulating at the moment, gospel rock in Spanish, but rather distorted.
94.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KLGB-LP Enid with gospel rock in English. I was tuning by on the DX-398 with headphones, so couldn`t help but notice that it`s in stereo but on right channel only. BTW, any resemblance to anything gay is surely coincidental, tho I don`t know what the call letters were intended to signify (hmm, Keep Lauding God`s Boy?)
96.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KXXY OKC is playing Xmas music; could this mean a format change in the offing? Or at least current format, whatever it be, is not strong enough to override seasonal temptation, especially with that X-y call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9480, Dec 16 at 0030, JBA carrier, with splatter from 9490 Guiana French. European Music Radio was publicized with a `DX to the World` special during this hour, but needs a bit more power than 1 kW if it is really on from Germany. Propagation from Europe VG, with Greece inbooming on 9420, KBC Bulgaria sufficient on 9450. At least WTWW is now off 9479 by 0000, but 9480 could more likely be CNR`s 100 kW Tibetan service from Beijing site. Another EMR broadcast on 9480 is scheduled later this Sunday at 09-10, plus 08-09 on 7265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17536-USB, Dec 15 at 2009, weak 2-way in Spanish, intruders except there are hardly any broadcasters on the 16m band at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
