** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 10: 9315, very poor signal at 1444, can make out the typical percussion; vs IBB Tibetan at 14-15 via Thailand. No other FD found 12-18 MHz before 1500.
9825, Dec 10 at 1451, CNR1 echo jamming against IBB Mandarin via Tinang, Philippines; all off after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 15630, Dec 10 at various chex around 1430, no signal from Voice of Greece, tho plenty of other signals from the area were propagating, even Galei Zahal, ISRAEL, but very poor on 15850. And open carrier on 15800, i.e. R. Cairo`s Silent Arabic Service. Too bad there`s no video, which could be captioned or signed! 9420, however, is on the air and audible with VOG music at 1445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Dec 10 at 1446, very poor signal with some music, i.e. VOI, and also causing a weak het after 1500 with CRI 9525.0. Tho totally useless here, including English before 1400, VOI has been on every day so far in December, per Atsunori Ishida. Harold Frodge and MARE DX-peditioners in Michigan heard English during the 18 UT hour Dec 1, and Ishida agrees on that date, but normally it`s German at 18, English after 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 640, Dec 10 at 0642 UT, ``40 Principales, 99.3`` and time check for 11:42. Therefore per Cantú:
640 XEHHI Los 40 Principales + FM 99.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 10,000 1,000
I couldn`t help but notice the entry right below it showing another 640 is now 50/25 kW! As yet unheard:
640 XENQ NQ + FM 90.1 Tulancingo, Hgo. 50,000 25,000
Must be a recent upgrade; new WRTH 2013 still lists XENQ as only 10 kW, ``La Superestación``. Why beef this up instead of just completing the migration to FM only? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. More winter sporadic E TV DX: UT Dec 10 at 0011, some NTSC video fades up on channel 2; big italic bug in upper right reads +v, and the plus looks like it is superimposed over a lower-case t; there is also a word below the logo, but too tiny to make out; and too short to be Guadalajara. On rest of screen, looks like basketball, but maybe just a clip of that or some other SB game.
Another fade-up at 0027 with same bug, more clearly, and then large font words ``mas vision`` --- perhaps the same as words tiny below the logo. Program now is, surprisingly, narration in English about football in Spain, with subtitles. A few more weak fades-in the next few minutes, but nothing more. This is definitely XEWO-TV in Guadalajara, as portrayed along with other channels 2 at
http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 5950, Dec 10 at 1348, RNZI is just wrapping up the last Mailbox for 2012y, reminding me to go back and retrieve it at
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox.mp3
whence I am listening to it as I write. Instead of wasting time with an opening music piece, right into Kevin Hand`s utility DX report, which is really about antennas for NDB DXing, like 100 metres of wire on ground or an active antenna. Afterwards, Adrian Sainsbury revealed that Mailbox is on summer vacation until January 21, but Myra Oh says she will be off longer than that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15430, Dec 10 at 1351, still nothing from R. Free Kenyalang via ``Kazakhstan``. WRN tells me they are still working out where to transmit this new clandestine. Stand by a few more days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035, Dec 10 at 1424, token news headline, VOT sign-off, `goodbye``, only one play of IS, but at least it`s complete, and off at 1424.5*. Fair signal, as we must be nearing peak season for this in North America far beyond Europe target in same direxion. MUCH better signal came from Turkish service on 15350 before 1355 (and also some days like today on 9700 before 0655), mostly music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. UNIDENTIFIED. 12045, Dec 9 at 1743, fair signal with very strange loop repeating message in English; checked following inquiry from Mark Morgan, N8QIK in Cincinnati:
``Listening to 12045 AM, 12/9/12 at 1700 UT. Hearing a repeating message with lots of reverb. Can't quite make out the message, but it sounds like: ``FAST STREAMING AUDIO, MILKING OFF BEDFORD FOR ALL IT'S WORTH``. Weird. Any ideas?``
I rushed to get it on tape; that`s what it sounds like to me too,
http://www.w4uvh.net/12045.rm
and replied, Only thing scheduled per Aoki is:
12045 IBRA RADIO (R. Ibrahim) 1700-1800 1234567 Arabic 300 114 Woofferton G 00243W 5219N IBRA b12 BAB
I suspect it`s another anomaly from Babcock Master Control in London; and posting to DXLD yg urged, ``Everyone, hurry to hear this!`` But apparently no one else did.
Tuned 12045 again next day Dec 10 at 1729: no signal; stepped away for a moment, and at 1731, now there is a good signal in Arabish, no weird English looping today, i.e. surely IBRA Radio as scheduled via Woofferton, also in HFCC:
12045 1700 1800 39SE WOF 300 114 0 618 1234567 281012 310313 D 11850 Arabic G IBR BAB 3160
Note CIRAF 39SE target is pretty specific, i.e. Oman, and maybe UAE too. Googling leads to Tunisia for origination of R. Ibrahim, but maybe not this one?
There is no mention of Ibrahim in HFCC, EiBi, nor in the WRTH 2013, where IBRA is now the only SW station listed under SWEDEN, International Section (and WRTH devotes a full page, 510, to cross-referencing where listings for multi-national religious broadcasters can be found; also same page in 2012 edition, following my complaint of how hard some of them were to locate).
Eibi also shows 17-18, Arabic to Mideast from IBRA Sweden via Woofferton UK. All four think it starts at 1700, but not today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1180, Dec 10 at 1415 UT, traffic report involving high-numbered triple-digit streets in the 100-200 range; must be huge city, ID as ``Zone Two, the Deuce`` and Omaha ads. So it`s KZOT, And obviously playing second-fiddle to plain old ``The Zone``, KOZN 1620; both of them licensed to Bellevue, which is a southern suburb next to Offutt AFB. As for the Omaha streets, my Rand McNally atlas goes out as far as 216, west of downtown, the numbered streets being north/south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9705, Dec 10 at 1521, noise, can`t tell if DRM or jamming, so what`s scheduled? No DRM. HFCC shows VOA Cantonese is finished at 1500, then CRI Chinese via Kashgar. BSKSA in Turkistani, 500 kW, 40 degrees from Riyadh starts at 1500, so could be that transmitter malfunxioning. But the latter is not in Aoki. 9705 is also a R. Ethiopia frequency, which might be emitting DRM jamming by mistake or deliberately as VOBME-2, Eritrea also shows up around here, as only in EiBi. Niger is not supposed to be on at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13775, Dec 10 at 1524 open carrier, but occasional tone or noise. Only schedulee here in HFCC is IBB Caucasus service, 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, Germany. EiBi specifies middle third of the R. Liberty hour is in Chechen; so lost program feed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9825, Dec 10 at 1451, CNR1 echo jamming against IBB Mandarin via Tinang, Philippines; all off after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. 15630, Dec 10 at various chex around 1430, no signal from Voice of Greece, tho plenty of other signals from the area were propagating, even Galei Zahal, ISRAEL, but very poor on 15850. And open carrier on 15800, i.e. R. Cairo`s Silent Arabic Service. Too bad there`s no video, which could be captioned or signed! 9420, however, is on the air and audible with VOG music at 1445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Dec 10 at 1446, very poor signal with some music, i.e. VOI, and also causing a weak het after 1500 with CRI 9525.0. Tho totally useless here, including English before 1400, VOI has been on every day so far in December, per Atsunori Ishida. Harold Frodge and MARE DX-peditioners in Michigan heard English during the 18 UT hour Dec 1, and Ishida agrees on that date, but normally it`s German at 18, English after 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 640, Dec 10 at 0642 UT, ``40 Principales, 99.3`` and time check for 11:42. Therefore per Cantú:
640 XEHHI Los 40 Principales + FM 99.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 10,000 1,000
I couldn`t help but notice the entry right below it showing another 640 is now 50/25 kW! As yet unheard:
640 XENQ NQ + FM 90.1 Tulancingo, Hgo. 50,000 25,000
Must be a recent upgrade; new WRTH 2013 still lists XENQ as only 10 kW, ``La Superestación``. Why beef this up instead of just completing the migration to FM only? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. More winter sporadic E TV DX: UT Dec 10 at 0011, some NTSC video fades up on channel 2; big italic bug in upper right reads +v, and the plus looks like it is superimposed over a lower-case t; there is also a word below the logo, but too tiny to make out; and too short to be Guadalajara. On rest of screen, looks like basketball, but maybe just a clip of that or some other SB game.
Another fade-up at 0027 with same bug, more clearly, and then large font words ``mas vision`` --- perhaps the same as words tiny below the logo. Program now is, surprisingly, narration in English about football in Spain, with subtitles. A few more weak fades-in the next few minutes, but nothing more. This is definitely XEWO-TV in Guadalajara, as portrayed along with other channels 2 at
http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 5950, Dec 10 at 1348, RNZI is just wrapping up the last Mailbox for 2012y, reminding me to go back and retrieve it at
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox.mp3
whence I am listening to it as I write. Instead of wasting time with an opening music piece, right into Kevin Hand`s utility DX report, which is really about antennas for NDB DXing, like 100 metres of wire on ground or an active antenna. Afterwards, Adrian Sainsbury revealed that Mailbox is on summer vacation until January 21, but Myra Oh says she will be off longer than that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15430, Dec 10 at 1351, still nothing from R. Free Kenyalang via ``Kazakhstan``. WRN tells me they are still working out where to transmit this new clandestine. Stand by a few more days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035, Dec 10 at 1424, token news headline, VOT sign-off, `goodbye``, only one play of IS, but at least it`s complete, and off at 1424.5*. Fair signal, as we must be nearing peak season for this in North America far beyond Europe target in same direxion. MUCH better signal came from Turkish service on 15350 before 1355 (and also some days like today on 9700 before 0655), mostly music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. UNIDENTIFIED. 12045, Dec 9 at 1743, fair signal with very strange loop repeating message in English; checked following inquiry from Mark Morgan, N8QIK in Cincinnati:
``Listening to 12045 AM, 12/9/12 at 1700 UT. Hearing a repeating message with lots of reverb. Can't quite make out the message, but it sounds like: ``FAST STREAMING AUDIO, MILKING OFF BEDFORD FOR ALL IT'S WORTH``. Weird. Any ideas?``
I rushed to get it on tape; that`s what it sounds like to me too,
http://www.w4uvh.net/12045.rm
and replied, Only thing scheduled per Aoki is:
12045 IBRA RADIO (R. Ibrahim) 1700-1800 1234567 Arabic 300 114 Woofferton G 00243W 5219N IBRA b12 BAB
I suspect it`s another anomaly from Babcock Master Control in London; and posting to DXLD yg urged, ``Everyone, hurry to hear this!`` But apparently no one else did.
Tuned 12045 again next day Dec 10 at 1729: no signal; stepped away for a moment, and at 1731, now there is a good signal in Arabish, no weird English looping today, i.e. surely IBRA Radio as scheduled via Woofferton, also in HFCC:
12045 1700 1800 39SE WOF 300 114 0 618 1234567 281012 310313 D 11850 Arabic G IBR BAB 3160
Note CIRAF 39SE target is pretty specific, i.e. Oman, and maybe UAE too. Googling leads to Tunisia for origination of R. Ibrahim, but maybe not this one?
There is no mention of Ibrahim in HFCC, EiBi, nor in the WRTH 2013, where IBRA is now the only SW station listed under SWEDEN, International Section (and WRTH devotes a full page, 510, to cross-referencing where listings for multi-national religious broadcasters can be found; also same page in 2012 edition, following my complaint of how hard some of them were to locate).
Eibi also shows 17-18, Arabic to Mideast from IBRA Sweden via Woofferton UK. All four think it starts at 1700, but not today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1180, Dec 10 at 1415 UT, traffic report involving high-numbered triple-digit streets in the 100-200 range; must be huge city, ID as ``Zone Two, the Deuce`` and Omaha ads. So it`s KZOT, And obviously playing second-fiddle to plain old ``The Zone``, KOZN 1620; both of them licensed to Bellevue, which is a southern suburb next to Offutt AFB. As for the Omaha streets, my Rand McNally atlas goes out as far as 216, west of downtown, the numbered streets being north/south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9705, Dec 10 at 1521, noise, can`t tell if DRM or jamming, so what`s scheduled? No DRM. HFCC shows VOA Cantonese is finished at 1500, then CRI Chinese via Kashgar. BSKSA in Turkistani, 500 kW, 40 degrees from Riyadh starts at 1500, so could be that transmitter malfunxioning. But the latter is not in Aoki. 9705 is also a R. Ethiopia frequency, which might be emitting DRM jamming by mistake or deliberately as VOBME-2, Eritrea also shows up around here, as only in EiBi. Niger is not supposed to be on at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13775, Dec 10 at 1524 open carrier, but occasional tone or noise. Only schedulee here in HFCC is IBB Caucasus service, 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, Germany. EiBi specifies middle third of the R. Liberty hour is in Chechen; so lost program feed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
