** AUSTRALIA. 5980 & 6010, Dec 3 at 1428, dirty distorted spurblobs from RA Shepparton 5995 are back, approx. frequency centres; last time they were closer to 5982 and 6008; during interesting `Big Ideas` discussion with author of a book about a people-smuggler, Ali, who was really a noble survivor of Iraqi/Saddam torture; she wrote it in the first person. I had been listening to that on loud & clear 9580. The `modulation` on the spurs could be matched to 5995 and 9580.
Unless the transmitters have been swapped around (and there is also a spare), the 5995 unit is the same `A` one employed at other dayparts on: 9710, 11650, 15230, 15240, and until 1400 on 6020. Have not noticed such spurs around any of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Dec 3 at 1436, Farsi talk // 15690 synchronized, and 15410 out of synch: R. Farda which on 12005 is via Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 3 at 1432, open carrier with fast SAH, no doubt XEPPM, probably on all night, never turned off after 0600. Now if they could accidentally modulate it too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Dec 3 at 0635, poor signal, but VON with a report about mothers and medicine, the OSOB and consequently the SSOB; not a bit from Australia or any other African, otherwise deadband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0024 check, still no signal from REE. Alison Hughes of the English department said this would resume by Monday at 0000-0100, so check again UT Tuesday.
Listened to the first part of `Amigos de la Onda Corta` this week; not much specific from the boss, but did say they now have 53 programs, of which 21 are new ones. The other new time for `AdlOC` is confirmed, 0005 UT Mondays, in progress at 0024 check on poorly audible 6125, 9620 and slightly better 9535, all direct. (Why they have never run the CR relay in the prime evening hours of 23-02 is a mystery.)
17595, which was inbooming Sat & Sun mornings, gone again on Monday before and after 1400; and 15170 still gone too from CR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5450-USB, Dec 3 at 0625, VOLMET by YL, poor signal, hard to catch locations cited, but finally heard Kuwait and Bahrain, so is it from ME? DX Info Centre http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm
still lists the only VOLMET on 5450 as RAF ASCENSION, tho previous log of this led to info that it`s decommissioned, and now coming from the UK, apparently Inskip tho an ID as RAF Bournemouth had been heard (not this time). See DXLD 12-36 under UK,http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1236.txt
Another // frequency for this is 11253 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Dec 2 at 2020, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music, but WTWW-3 is off 12105.
5085, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0028, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music; usually operates on UT Sundays but not this week. Hours of operation for WTWW-2 and WTWW-3 are quite erratic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7490, Sunday Dec 2 at 2233, WBCQ with `Marion`s Attic` in progress, mixing with BBC CCI, and also bothered by Algeria via FRANCE on 7495, especially the hi notes from the cantor. M.A. music was cut off abruptly at 2259:40 ID, in time for the gospel huxter at 2300.
The BBC QRM was even worse 47 hours earlier, Nov 30 at 2345: signals about equal with BBC atop at times, vs disposable `Money Talk` show, a log I inadvertently skipped in previous report. But `Behaviour Night` faces same QRM Fridays at 22-23.
WBCQ had the same problem last winter, when I tried to persuade them to do something about it. It seems that WBCQ: 1) hates to change frequency; 2) is defeatist about QRM problems, or getting the other station to move; 3) relies on a frequency consultant based on theory rather than reality; and perhaps 4) along with HFCC and BBCWS just can`t believe that there could be any collision in this case:
7490 1900 0500 3-5,9-11 BCQ 50 245 0 805 1234567 281012 310313 D
7490 2200 2400 43E,44 NAK 250 25 0 156 1234567 281012 310313 D
Look how different the CIRAF targets are! N.B. that CIRAF zones 6, 7 and 8 are missing from WBCQ --- the entire conterminous USA is NOT a target of WBCQ, yeah right, even tho the 245 degree beam goes right across us!!
Note also that the 25 degree beam from THAILAND, altho designated for the eastern half of China, happens to aim further, right across North America from Victoria to Juárez, just a few degrees away from Oklahoma, and with 250 kW has no problem reaching here under near-grayline conditions.
But it`s not our problem, as WBCQ has no room for WORLD OF RADIO on 7490, even tho it does have room for a Spanish DX program, Tuesdays at 2230 which is also a victim of this failure of frequency management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1645 monitoring: 0530 UT Monday broadcast on WRMI 9955, confirmed at 0540 check, but not completely readable due to pulse jamming from CUBA; tnx a lot, Arnie! (one of my neighbor`s beepers is also hetting 9955). Next: Tuesday 1200 on 9955, probably jammed too, both far beyond any hours jamming is ``necessary`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, Dec 3 at 1438, KJES in English and the modulation is axually sufficient! Altho not completely up to par, on very strong carrier. Nothing is forever, and I`m sure it`ll be back to JBM before long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 2 at 2020, ZBC with easy-listening music, 2024 YL DJ in presumed Swahili; fair signal and steadily improving from day to day on the average, vs hardly anything a month or more ago. Closing varies around 2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Unless the transmitters have been swapped around (and there is also a spare), the 5995 unit is the same `A` one employed at other dayparts on: 9710, 11650, 15230, 15240, and until 1400 on 6020. Have not noticed such spurs around any of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Dec 3 at 1436, Farsi talk // 15690 synchronized, and 15410 out of synch: R. Farda which on 12005 is via Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 3 at 1432, open carrier with fast SAH, no doubt XEPPM, probably on all night, never turned off after 0600. Now if they could accidentally modulate it too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Dec 3 at 0635, poor signal, but VON with a report about mothers and medicine, the OSOB and consequently the SSOB; not a bit from Australia or any other African, otherwise deadband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0024 check, still no signal from REE. Alison Hughes of the English department said this would resume by Monday at 0000-0100, so check again UT Tuesday.
Listened to the first part of `Amigos de la Onda Corta` this week; not much specific from the boss, but did say they now have 53 programs, of which 21 are new ones. The other new time for `AdlOC` is confirmed, 0005 UT Mondays, in progress at 0024 check on poorly audible 6125, 9620 and slightly better 9535, all direct. (Why they have never run the CR relay in the prime evening hours of 23-02 is a mystery.)
17595, which was inbooming Sat & Sun mornings, gone again on Monday before and after 1400; and 15170 still gone too from CR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5450-USB, Dec 3 at 0625, VOLMET by YL, poor signal, hard to catch locations cited, but finally heard Kuwait and Bahrain, so is it from ME? DX Info Centre http://www.dxinfocentre.com/volmet.htm
still lists the only VOLMET on 5450 as RAF ASCENSION, tho previous log of this led to info that it`s decommissioned, and now coming from the UK, apparently Inskip tho an ID as RAF Bournemouth had been heard (not this time). See DXLD 12-36 under UK,http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1236.txt
Another // frequency for this is 11253 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9990, Dec 2 at 2020, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music, but WTWW-3 is off 12105.
5085, UT Monday Dec 3 at 0028, WTWW-2 is on with gospel music; usually operates on UT Sundays but not this week. Hours of operation for WTWW-2 and WTWW-3 are quite erratic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7490, Sunday Dec 2 at 2233, WBCQ with `Marion`s Attic` in progress, mixing with BBC CCI, and also bothered by Algeria via FRANCE on 7495, especially the hi notes from the cantor. M.A. music was cut off abruptly at 2259:40 ID, in time for the gospel huxter at 2300.
The BBC QRM was even worse 47 hours earlier, Nov 30 at 2345: signals about equal with BBC atop at times, vs disposable `Money Talk` show, a log I inadvertently skipped in previous report. But `Behaviour Night` faces same QRM Fridays at 22-23.
WBCQ had the same problem last winter, when I tried to persuade them to do something about it. It seems that WBCQ: 1) hates to change frequency; 2) is defeatist about QRM problems, or getting the other station to move; 3) relies on a frequency consultant based on theory rather than reality; and perhaps 4) along with HFCC and BBCWS just can`t believe that there could be any collision in this case:
7490 1900 0500 3-5,9-11 BCQ 50 245 0 805 1234567 281012 310313 D
7490 2200 2400 43E,44 NAK 250 25 0 156 1234567 281012 310313 D
Look how different the CIRAF targets are! N.B. that CIRAF zones 6, 7 and 8 are missing from WBCQ --- the entire conterminous USA is NOT a target of WBCQ, yeah right, even tho the 245 degree beam goes right across us!!
Note also that the 25 degree beam from THAILAND, altho designated for the eastern half of China, happens to aim further, right across North America from Victoria to Juárez, just a few degrees away from Oklahoma, and with 250 kW has no problem reaching here under near-grayline conditions.
But it`s not our problem, as WBCQ has no room for WORLD OF RADIO on 7490, even tho it does have room for a Spanish DX program, Tuesdays at 2230 which is also a victim of this failure of frequency management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1645 monitoring: 0530 UT Monday broadcast on WRMI 9955, confirmed at 0540 check, but not completely readable due to pulse jamming from CUBA; tnx a lot, Arnie! (one of my neighbor`s beepers is also hetting 9955). Next: Tuesday 1200 on 9955, probably jammed too, both far beyond any hours jamming is ``necessary`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, Dec 3 at 1438, KJES in English and the modulation is axually sufficient! Altho not completely up to par, on very strong carrier. Nothing is forever, and I`m sure it`ll be back to JBM before long (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 2 at 2020, ZBC with easy-listening music, 2024 YL DJ in presumed Swahili; fair signal and steadily improving from day to day on the average, vs hardly anything a month or more ago. Closing varies around 2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
