** BOLIVIA. 4700, Jan 26 at 0051, two signals making a LAH (low audible heterodyne). One no doubt R. San Miguel, always reported off-frequency, but what else? Only on-channel MW fundamental which could harmonicize here is 940 x 5. I am making a quick check of 60m for signals, rather than trying to pull IDs from everything.
4717, Jan 26 at 0044, music on poor signal here, no doubt R. Yura, also at 0051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4815, Jan 26 at 0119, preacher in Portuguese vs CODAR, and must use USB to avoid the ute noise, i.e. R. Difusora, Londrina.
4845, Jan 26 at 0048, some music, flute and voice, probably R. Cultura, Manaus, as there are no Asians here, tho some flutter.
4877.2, Jan 26 at 0115, music, less fading than the Asians, and frequency measurement of 5 x 40 Hz DX-398 clix above 4877 strongly suggests R. Roraima. In DXLD archive I find only one report of it on this exact frequency, from Carlos Gonçalves in Portugal, 3 August 2011 at 2235+. Harold Sellers, BC, had it on 4877.1, 24 Nov 2012 at 0200. ZYG810 does vary a lot, reported during past year on many split spots from 4875 past 4878. Now it had some SSB QRM on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 26 before 0100:
12670, good at 0055
12980, good at 0055
13530, good at 0057, very heavy flutter
13920, good at 0054, very heavy flutter
13970, fair at 0054, very heavy flutter
14800, fair at 0057, with flutter
14980, fair at 0058, with heavy flutter
Instead of the usual quick tuning on the FRG-7 I was using the DX-398 so hastened to step 5 kHz at a time as far as I could before hourtrop, but no more found up to 17300 by 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4800, Jan 26 at 0043, fair signal in Chinese as I start a 60m session on the chilly porch with DX-398 to avoid household noise sources. Geermu again, no doubt. See also EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Comments on jamming: see GUIANA FRENCH, PERU
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, Jan 26 at 0045, fair signal in Chinese nicely spaced between two much stronger US stations; of course, it`s PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi (which so many including Aoki insist on misspelling Urumqui --- the ``Q has to be followed by U`` rule is inapplicable in Chinese orthography, as the Q does not even represent a K sound.) Still in at 0113 but declined to very poor signal.
4980, Jan 26 at 0046, Turkic-sounding talk, axually Uighur service, another 100 kW at Wulumuchi (alternate spelling of Urumqi) from PBS Xinjiang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9606, Jan 26 at 0125, roaring spur centered around here, not very strong but previously matched with Montsinéry during the R. República 00-02 transmission on 9490, 116 kHz above it. And yes, there is a match, somewhat stronger, 116 kHz below it around 9374. On very strong 9490, RR itself is undermodulated during a lo-fi phone interview; in fact, the two spurblobs axually sound louder than the fundamental! Which is suppressing any jamming, surely is being transmitted; it would propagate, as 9955 has the wall of noise, as it did at 2216 Jan 25 during WRMI`s silent period. Anyhow, the spurs show that TDF still hasn`t fixed that problem, which also emanate 116 kHz away from the NHK relay on 5960 after 0200, i.e. 6076 and 5844, which I have not reconfirmed lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. QSL: nice full color card depicting a sailing ship riding the waves and a pirate, from Channel Z Radio, received in p-mail January 25 from maildrop, P O Box 109, Blue Ridge Summit PA 17214. Had sent e-mail report containing my log of this, Jan 13 at 2140-2148 on 15067.6 AM. Specifies 18 watts from an LU8EHA transmitter. Had replied earlier by e-mail from channelzradio@gmail.com Also with card, personal letter about his homebrew transmitters. This QSL has been added to my gallery via:http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Thanks, Channel Z Radio! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. Prompted by Bob Wilkner tip that R. Logos was powerful at 2340 Jan 26 on 4810, I try it an hour+ later, but not much here. Some OA frequencies are making it, altho well-known 60m ones I do not stick with trying to dig out IDs, January 26:
4747, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast, presumably R. Huanta 2000. Aoki shows sign-off at 0100 already
4775, Jan 26 at 0049 music, no doubt usual R. Tarma. At 0120 I am also hearing some English QRM, must be a local mix
4790, Jan 26 at 0120, weak signal, presumed R. Visión, also with LAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Jan 26 at 0100 during the half-hour window when supposedly no other stations in the world are on this frequency, another try for the new R. Chaski, Cuzco. To my surprise I am not hearing any jamming this time, but the local noise level on the porch is yet hitting 6 bars on the DX-398. Nevertheless I have some very weak talk past 0103. I have left the computer on inside, so go turn it off hoping to lower the noise, but makes no difference, both good news and bad, as there are still 6 bars of noise when I resume at 0112, but now the station is gone. More tries will ensue. Has anyone definitely heard R. Chaski in N America yet? At 0127 check, the Cuban jamming was definitely on and propagating on 5890, 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 4765, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast audible, seemed Russish. Tajik Radio 1 does have some Russian segments, tho Aoki shows Tajik at this time; Russian-influenced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9905, Jan 25 at 2216, WTWW-2 is off; and AAMOF, think it has been missing all week during the hours previously dedicated to Brother Scare. 12105, WTWW-3 is also off, when usually in French; it had been on earlier today circa 1400 in Russian. BS could still be heard on 9980 WWCR, more than sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21630, Jan 25 at 1902, WHRI with heavy echo, as one would expect from long path delay vs short path, 24 vs 1 kilomile, altho it seem unlikely at midday here when half the path must be thru the darkside. Maybe there is some other explanation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB starting at 0245 UT Saturday Jan 26 (a sesquihour earlier, I had noted 5110- coming in well during `Allan Weiner Worldwide` which again ran late until 0239).
Next, on HLR Germany, 7265-CUSB, Sat 0630 & 1630; on WRMI 9955, Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200; on WTWW 5830, UT Sun 0500. Also WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat 1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. 15775, Fri Jan 25 at 1900, VOA is signing off with Yankee Doodle Dandy routine to 1901, carrier a bit longer, fair signal. What had I just missed? VOA Studio 7, last part in Shona, also in Ndebele and English. HFCC shows M-F 1800-1900, 100 kW, 124 degree antenna with a +24 slew from SAO TOME, extending the daily 1700-1800 broadcast which is on a different 126 degree antenna at a -12 slew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Jan 26 during the 0600-0605 UT Fox-hole of local KGWA with unmodulation: at first echoey ABC news like KMA/KNEB; then 0603-0605, poetic recitation in Spanish with musical background. Don`t think it was `Soy Soldado`, super-patriotic spiel which some Mexican stations add to war-mongering national anthem at midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 26 at 0053, JBA carrier, so circa sunrise should still be better chance for presumed 1330 harmonic, maybe KGLD Tyler TX when it would be on much higher fundamental power of 1 kW from 1330 to 2345 UT, or even PSRA of 500 watts 1200-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, Jan 26 at 0048, music mixing with CODAR. Choices are Mongolia, India and Brasil. Not on 4896 where AIR Kurseong has recently jumped. At 0115 I find a LAH, i.e. two stations on almost but not quite 4895, along with CODAR swishes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4717, Jan 26 at 0044, music on poor signal here, no doubt R. Yura, also at 0051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4815, Jan 26 at 0119, preacher in Portuguese vs CODAR, and must use USB to avoid the ute noise, i.e. R. Difusora, Londrina.
4845, Jan 26 at 0048, some music, flute and voice, probably R. Cultura, Manaus, as there are no Asians here, tho some flutter.
4877.2, Jan 26 at 0115, music, less fading than the Asians, and frequency measurement of 5 x 40 Hz DX-398 clix above 4877 strongly suggests R. Roraima. In DXLD archive I find only one report of it on this exact frequency, from Carlos Gonçalves in Portugal, 3 August 2011 at 2235+. Harold Sellers, BC, had it on 4877.1, 24 Nov 2012 at 0200. ZYG810 does vary a lot, reported during past year on many split spots from 4875 past 4878. Now it had some SSB QRM on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 26 before 0100:
12670, good at 0055
12980, good at 0055
13530, good at 0057, very heavy flutter
13920, good at 0054, very heavy flutter
13970, fair at 0054, very heavy flutter
14800, fair at 0057, with flutter
14980, fair at 0058, with heavy flutter
Instead of the usual quick tuning on the FRG-7 I was using the DX-398 so hastened to step 5 kHz at a time as far as I could before hourtrop, but no more found up to 17300 by 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4800, Jan 26 at 0043, fair signal in Chinese as I start a 60m session on the chilly porch with DX-398 to avoid household noise sources. Geermu again, no doubt. See also EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Comments on jamming: see GUIANA FRENCH, PERU
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, Jan 26 at 0045, fair signal in Chinese nicely spaced between two much stronger US stations; of course, it`s PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi (which so many including Aoki insist on misspelling Urumqui --- the ``Q has to be followed by U`` rule is inapplicable in Chinese orthography, as the Q does not even represent a K sound.) Still in at 0113 but declined to very poor signal.
4980, Jan 26 at 0046, Turkic-sounding talk, axually Uighur service, another 100 kW at Wulumuchi (alternate spelling of Urumqi) from PBS Xinjiang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9606, Jan 26 at 0125, roaring spur centered around here, not very strong but previously matched with Montsinéry during the R. República 00-02 transmission on 9490, 116 kHz above it. And yes, there is a match, somewhat stronger, 116 kHz below it around 9374. On very strong 9490, RR itself is undermodulated during a lo-fi phone interview; in fact, the two spurblobs axually sound louder than the fundamental! Which is suppressing any jamming, surely is being transmitted; it would propagate, as 9955 has the wall of noise, as it did at 2216 Jan 25 during WRMI`s silent period. Anyhow, the spurs show that TDF still hasn`t fixed that problem, which also emanate 116 kHz away from the NHK relay on 5960 after 0200, i.e. 6076 and 5844, which I have not reconfirmed lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. QSL: nice full color card depicting a sailing ship riding the waves and a pirate, from Channel Z Radio, received in p-mail January 25 from maildrop, P O Box 109, Blue Ridge Summit PA 17214. Had sent e-mail report containing my log of this, Jan 13 at 2140-2148 on 15067.6 AM. Specifies 18 watts from an LU8EHA transmitter. Had replied earlier by e-mail from channelzradio@gmail.com Also with card, personal letter about his homebrew transmitters. This QSL has been added to my gallery via:http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Thanks, Channel Z Radio! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. Prompted by Bob Wilkner tip that R. Logos was powerful at 2340 Jan 26 on 4810, I try it an hour+ later, but not much here. Some OA frequencies are making it, altho well-known 60m ones I do not stick with trying to dig out IDs, January 26:
4747, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast, presumably R. Huanta 2000. Aoki shows sign-off at 0100 already
4775, Jan 26 at 0049 music, no doubt usual R. Tarma. At 0120 I am also hearing some English QRM, must be a local mix
4790, Jan 26 at 0120, weak signal, presumed R. Visión, also with LAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Jan 26 at 0100 during the half-hour window when supposedly no other stations in the world are on this frequency, another try for the new R. Chaski, Cuzco. To my surprise I am not hearing any jamming this time, but the local noise level on the porch is yet hitting 6 bars on the DX-398. Nevertheless I have some very weak talk past 0103. I have left the computer on inside, so go turn it off hoping to lower the noise, but makes no difference, both good news and bad, as there are still 6 bars of noise when I resume at 0112, but now the station is gone. More tries will ensue. Has anyone definitely heard R. Chaski in N America yet? At 0127 check, the Cuban jamming was definitely on and propagating on 5890, 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 4765, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast audible, seemed Russish. Tajik Radio 1 does have some Russian segments, tho Aoki shows Tajik at this time; Russian-influenced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9905, Jan 25 at 2216, WTWW-2 is off; and AAMOF, think it has been missing all week during the hours previously dedicated to Brother Scare. 12105, WTWW-3 is also off, when usually in French; it had been on earlier today circa 1400 in Russian. BS could still be heard on 9980 WWCR, more than sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21630, Jan 25 at 1902, WHRI with heavy echo, as one would expect from long path delay vs short path, 24 vs 1 kilomile, altho it seem unlikely at midday here when half the path must be thru the darkside. Maybe there is some other explanation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB starting at 0245 UT Saturday Jan 26 (a sesquihour earlier, I had noted 5110- coming in well during `Allan Weiner Worldwide` which again ran late until 0239).
Next, on HLR Germany, 7265-CUSB, Sat 0630 & 1630; on WRMI 9955, Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200; on WTWW 5830, UT Sun 0500. Also WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat 1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. 15775, Fri Jan 25 at 1900, VOA is signing off with Yankee Doodle Dandy routine to 1901, carrier a bit longer, fair signal. What had I just missed? VOA Studio 7, last part in Shona, also in Ndebele and English. HFCC shows M-F 1800-1900, 100 kW, 124 degree antenna with a +24 slew from SAO TOME, extending the daily 1700-1800 broadcast which is on a different 126 degree antenna at a -12 slew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Jan 26 during the 0600-0605 UT Fox-hole of local KGWA with unmodulation: at first echoey ABC news like KMA/KNEB; then 0603-0605, poetic recitation in Spanish with musical background. Don`t think it was `Soy Soldado`, super-patriotic spiel which some Mexican stations add to war-mongering national anthem at midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 26 at 0053, JBA carrier, so circa sunrise should still be better chance for presumed 1330 harmonic, maybe KGLD Tyler TX when it would be on much higher fundamental power of 1 kW from 1330 to 2345 UT, or even PSRA of 500 watts 1200-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, Jan 26 at 0048, music mixing with CODAR. Choices are Mongolia, India and Brasil. Not on 4896 where AIR Kurseong has recently jumped. At 0115 I find a LAH, i.e. two stations on almost but not quite 4895, along with CODAR swishes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
