** AUSTRALIA. 4835, Jan 27 at 1347, VL8A the best yet, quite readable with sacred choral music and talk. Except for CUBA 5025, it`s the SSOB at S9+18. I bet it`s the same `Sunday Night` program as on R. Australia --- yes it is, about one word behind // 9580.
By 1405, 4835 has faded to a JBA carrier. It`ll be a sad day when VL8A goes back to 2310 at night, previously planned for March. But new WRTH National Radio Update says ``ABC Alice Springs continues using 4835 kHz for undefined period also between 0830-2130 instead of 2310 kHz.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Jan 27 at 1425 start listening to RA`s `Sunday Night`, excellent program about religion, during long `Encounter with Sacred Music` produxion about gospel choral groups in Australia, where all faiths and even Buddhists, Atheists participate for the love of music, and its social meaning as in the US Civil Rights Movement. Cut off as usual at 1458*, so retune to 11945 for the rest of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Jan 27 at 1415, RHC dead air allows English talk about JC to be heard, so HCJB is appearing again, first time heard here for several months, presumably longpath. However, WRTH 2013 shows English does not start until 1445 (Saturdays 1515). All references including own grid athttp://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/B12_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20121028-20130330.pdf
show Urdu 7 days a week at 1400-1430, so what happened? English is default, I suppose, if something is missing; or maybe this Urdu just included an English bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4752, Jan 27 at 1253, signal here as already IDed by others as Bangladesh Betar, shifted from 4750, but weaker than remaining 4750, presumably RRI; still the same at 1348. Seems like BB took my recent advice to spread out the 4 clashers on 4750 to different frequencies, but 2 kHz is not far enough; in fact, it may be worse in Asia on ordinary receivers so listeners to both RRI and BB now have to cope with a 2 kHz het.
4755 would be even worse yet, covering poor Micronesia. If BB want to stay as close as possible to 4750 on the hi side I would recommend 4770 where nothing is listed. 4760 is out due to one or two Indians, and 4765 is out due to Tajikistan. There is also nothing significant in Asia for many channels below 4750 altho that range may not be considered open for broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 27:
11500, very poor at 1325, mixing with something? Haven`t heard it here for months. Only target per Aoki is a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance transmitter on Taiwan, and no longer any V. of Russia to be collaterally damaged. No other FDs noted this morning altho did not perform a complete bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. The UT Jan 27 screwups, ahem, anomalies, so far at RHC:
5040, Jan 27 at 0551, dead air during Spanish block; 0554 some music starts, unlike what was on the four 49m English channels.
15340, Jan 27 at 1415, usual Sunday situation with dead air, during which I heard HCJB, see AUSTRALIA, but by 1419 has resumed modulation with `Amigos de Cuba` mailbag (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESTE)
** GERMANY [non]. 7425, Jan 27 at 0559, Portuguese talk about Angola, Cabo Verde, cut off in mid-word about 0559.5. Great coördination! Scheduled as 0530-0600 [sic], DW, 250 kW, 100 degrees from ASCENSION, not Rwanda. HFCC shows this only started on 1 January, despite IBB Russian via Lampertheim already on 7425 at 03-07, which must have been the weak signal audible after DW quit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13710, Jan 27 at 1328 good signal with music here seems unsubcontinental; quickly check 9690 and find it weaker //, i.e. AIR GOS about to open instead of playing the wonderful AIR IS. 1329 brief announcement in unknown language, probably Tibetan as usually happens with AIR bringing up wrong program feed, supposed to be ending at 1330 on three other frequencies including Bengaluru 9575.
1330 English opening AIR GOS announcing 9690, 13710 and 11620 which is unheard until 1331, a poor open carrier with flutter. 9690 and 13710 are also Bengaluru, while 11620 is Delhi. For some reason, 13710 is missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17550, Jan 27 at 1408, VIRI Arabic OM with crosstalk from a YL voice in unknown language. I don`t think this is external QRM from another station, but self-QRM transmitted by Kamalabad itself. Could be Urdu, Dari, Kurdish or Japanese, scheduled on other insufficiently isolated KAM transmitters, antennas at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Jan 27 at 1406, Shiokaze is still here, in Korean with Myanmar het on hi side. Expecting the 1330-1430 broadcast to make another frequency jump shortly to elsewhere on 49m, tho I have never heard Uny Juche jamming noise on 5985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Some more winter sporadic E analog TVDX, UT Jan 27 at 0044, already monitoring channel A2 NTSC, some CCI fades in, despite no activity on the two 6m ham Es maps, until later in the hour and not from Mexico there. Lasted only a few minutes. More CCI came in at 0211, stronger, and also signs of video on A4 and A5. At 0215 for several minutes, a preacher in Spanish dominated; seems odd programming for prime-time Sunday night. I wonder which station or network would be doing that? CCI remained past 0245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7275, Jan 27 at 0634, fairly good signal, undermodulated in English, i.e. Abuja, PSAs/promos with IDs in passing as R. Nigeria by bassy OM voice who is harder to copy than higher-pitched YL voice at 0637 about African Cup of Nations match, South Africa vs Morocco today. This is seldom readable here due to very low modulation, but better than usual today; and seldom even detectable under Tunisia until timer cuts it off at 0626/0627* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9635 // weaker 9620, Sunday Jan 26 at 2309, REE opening `Desde el Infierno` with unmistakable spooky music and narration. Last weekend I also heard it during the previous 22 UT hour on Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7325, Jan 27 at 0558, Arabic with echo, and SAH, indicating BBCWS is running two unsynchronized transmitters here, inevitably self-QRMing. What genius scheduled this? Uplooked later in HFCC, here`s what`s happening:
04-05, 300 kW, 185 degrees from Cyprus, CIRAF 47E, 48NW
04-07, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Woofferton, CIRAF 37S, 38W, 46NW
05-06, 300 kW, 173 degrees from Cyprus, CIRAF 38E, 39NW
Hey, there`s no overlap in fragmented CIRAF target zones, so everything`s fine and no alarm bells went off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Jan 27 at 0459.4 on WTWW-1, 5830. Another early start meant another abrupt interruption for top-of-hour canned ID spanning the last part of my 52-second intro, and the first part of the news to follow. I didn`t even get to say ``Standard disclaimer``. Otherwise fine and very good signal. Next: UT Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2660, Jan 27 at 1331 UT, S9+8 carrier but no modulation audible; 1338 maybe some mod after local noise burst; 1342 now at S9+12 I can make out an over-assertive preacher. 1404 gospel music. This is what I expected based on yesterday`s research into the KGLD Tyler TX program schedule, preaching instead of music Sundays only before 1400. Distracted by INDIA, just missed monitoring at 1330 when they should have doubled power from 500 to 1000 watts on fundamental 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9313, Jan 27 at 1316, weak humblob, fades so not local, just barely modulated, not // RHC 9540, a known spurrier but never this far down before; at 1323 fades up enough to match GFRN talk audio with VG 9330 WBCQ, my main suspect which has put spurs out before below 9330. Nothing heard on what would be a match 17 kHz higher, 9347 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, Jan 27 at 1423, tune by WINB on a Sunday, the only day it is on this early, finding wacko gospel huxter asserting that Jesus was a Baptist, the only true religion, all other sects such as Anglican/Episcopalian, Wesleyan/Methodist being ``harlot daughters``. How`d you like to have your faith called that? Or your daughter?
WINB program schedule is updated Jan 13,http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm
showing this is `Zion`s Rest Baptist Church`. No contact info or website via WINB but Googling leads to a church by that name in Austin TX, and several with `Primitive` inserted elsewhere in the South.
WINB sign-on times now shown as Sunday 1230, Saturday 1445, M-F 1845 UT, and not an Overcomer anywhere. Quickly retuned 4 MHz down and 10 kHz up for some reasonable religion on Radio AUSTRALIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, Jan 27 at 1258 UT, outro of Spanish religious show with http://hermandadcristiana.org from Anderson, Indiana, strong signal from N/S, SAH, 1259 switching to English with preacher about David & Jeremiah, apparently a promo, but no ID. However this cut off at 1300 or faded out very quickly.
Contact info at above website has no postal addresses or locations, but gringo officials with AC 765- phonumbers, i.e. east-central Indiana. No affiliate list there nor at linkedhttp://www.oneplace.com/ministries/la-hermandad-cristiana/
but the latter does give a postal address in Anderson IN, altho the Spanish version is produced in California and Texas.
At 1302, `Day of Decision` is opening. I assume it`s 50 kW daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi TX. Yes, both programs match the schedule at http://www.kctaradio.com/services.html
which we need to keep handy for this station which doesn`t like to ID, and doesn`t act like a strict daytimer.
Shows first program on weekdays is at 5:30 am CT, weekends 6:00 am. Final program listed on weekdays is `Southwest Radio Church` starting at 8:00 pm! On Sundays, last program is `In Touch Weekend` starting at 7:00 pm for unknown duration. On Saturdays has Spanish programming from noon until sign-off at unspecified sunset. You`ll recall a few months ago, we were getting a dirty carrier all night on 1030.
FAQ page has this: ``Q. Why can't I hear KCTA at night?
A. KCTA is licensed by the FCC to be operated from Boston, Massachusetts sunrise (that is so we won't interfere with them) to Corpus Christi, Texas sunset.``
FCC info for KCTA has nothing obvious about WBZ sunrise, but for KCTA SR/SS:
January 7:15 6:00 [1315-2400 UT]
February 7:15 6:15 [1315-2415 UT]
So what are the sunrise times for WBZ?
January 7:15 [1215 UT]
February 6:45 [1145 UT]
However, an imported letter from 1980http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=36851
really reproduces CP and license info dating back to the year 1945 mentioning Boston sunrise! They kept getting SSAs (special service authorizations) renewed periodically to start at Boston sunrise. BTW, this was originally KWBU, Baylor University on 1010. The deal with WBZ came when switching to 1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 7906-USB, Jan 27 at 1306, checking for Ho Chi Minh Radio, coastal station, which Ron Howard recently reminded us about with English notices: very weak SSB talk here but sounds like Vietnamese to me. At 1310 a series of rapid beeps, marking end of transmission? If not QRM. Nothing heard on // 8246-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
By 1405, 4835 has faded to a JBA carrier. It`ll be a sad day when VL8A goes back to 2310 at night, previously planned for March. But new WRTH National Radio Update says ``ABC Alice Springs continues using 4835 kHz for undefined period also between 0830-2130 instead of 2310 kHz.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Jan 27 at 1425 start listening to RA`s `Sunday Night`, excellent program about religion, during long `Encounter with Sacred Music` produxion about gospel choral groups in Australia, where all faiths and even Buddhists, Atheists participate for the love of music, and its social meaning as in the US Civil Rights Movement. Cut off as usual at 1458*, so retune to 11945 for the rest of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Jan 27 at 1415, RHC dead air allows English talk about JC to be heard, so HCJB is appearing again, first time heard here for several months, presumably longpath. However, WRTH 2013 shows English does not start until 1445 (Saturdays 1515). All references including own grid athttp://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/B12_Schedule_HCJB_Australia_20121028-20130330.pdf
show Urdu 7 days a week at 1400-1430, so what happened? English is default, I suppose, if something is missing; or maybe this Urdu just included an English bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4752, Jan 27 at 1253, signal here as already IDed by others as Bangladesh Betar, shifted from 4750, but weaker than remaining 4750, presumably RRI; still the same at 1348. Seems like BB took my recent advice to spread out the 4 clashers on 4750 to different frequencies, but 2 kHz is not far enough; in fact, it may be worse in Asia on ordinary receivers so listeners to both RRI and BB now have to cope with a 2 kHz het.
4755 would be even worse yet, covering poor Micronesia. If BB want to stay as close as possible to 4750 on the hi side I would recommend 4770 where nothing is listed. 4760 is out due to one or two Indians, and 4765 is out due to Tajikistan. There is also nothing significant in Asia for many channels below 4750 altho that range may not be considered open for broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 27:
11500, very poor at 1325, mixing with something? Haven`t heard it here for months. Only target per Aoki is a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance transmitter on Taiwan, and no longer any V. of Russia to be collaterally damaged. No other FDs noted this morning altho did not perform a complete bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. The UT Jan 27 screwups, ahem, anomalies, so far at RHC:
5040, Jan 27 at 0551, dead air during Spanish block; 0554 some music starts, unlike what was on the four 49m English channels.
15340, Jan 27 at 1415, usual Sunday situation with dead air, during which I heard HCJB, see AUSTRALIA, but by 1419 has resumed modulation with `Amigos de Cuba` mailbag (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESTE)
** GERMANY [non]. 7425, Jan 27 at 0559, Portuguese talk about Angola, Cabo Verde, cut off in mid-word about 0559.5. Great coördination! Scheduled as 0530-0600 [sic], DW, 250 kW, 100 degrees from ASCENSION, not Rwanda. HFCC shows this only started on 1 January, despite IBB Russian via Lampertheim already on 7425 at 03-07, which must have been the weak signal audible after DW quit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 13710, Jan 27 at 1328 good signal with music here seems unsubcontinental; quickly check 9690 and find it weaker //, i.e. AIR GOS about to open instead of playing the wonderful AIR IS. 1329 brief announcement in unknown language, probably Tibetan as usually happens with AIR bringing up wrong program feed, supposed to be ending at 1330 on three other frequencies including Bengaluru 9575.
1330 English opening AIR GOS announcing 9690, 13710 and 11620 which is unheard until 1331, a poor open carrier with flutter. 9690 and 13710 are also Bengaluru, while 11620 is Delhi. For some reason, 13710 is missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 17550, Jan 27 at 1408, VIRI Arabic OM with crosstalk from a YL voice in unknown language. I don`t think this is external QRM from another station, but self-QRM transmitted by Kamalabad itself. Could be Urdu, Dari, Kurdish or Japanese, scheduled on other insufficiently isolated KAM transmitters, antennas at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Jan 27 at 1406, Shiokaze is still here, in Korean with Myanmar het on hi side. Expecting the 1330-1430 broadcast to make another frequency jump shortly to elsewhere on 49m, tho I have never heard Uny Juche jamming noise on 5985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Some more winter sporadic E analog TVDX, UT Jan 27 at 0044, already monitoring channel A2 NTSC, some CCI fades in, despite no activity on the two 6m ham Es maps, until later in the hour and not from Mexico there. Lasted only a few minutes. More CCI came in at 0211, stronger, and also signs of video on A4 and A5. At 0215 for several minutes, a preacher in Spanish dominated; seems odd programming for prime-time Sunday night. I wonder which station or network would be doing that? CCI remained past 0245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7275, Jan 27 at 0634, fairly good signal, undermodulated in English, i.e. Abuja, PSAs/promos with IDs in passing as R. Nigeria by bassy OM voice who is harder to copy than higher-pitched YL voice at 0637 about African Cup of Nations match, South Africa vs Morocco today. This is seldom readable here due to very low modulation, but better than usual today; and seldom even detectable under Tunisia until timer cuts it off at 0626/0627* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9635 // weaker 9620, Sunday Jan 26 at 2309, REE opening `Desde el Infierno` with unmistakable spooky music and narration. Last weekend I also heard it during the previous 22 UT hour on Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7325, Jan 27 at 0558, Arabic with echo, and SAH, indicating BBCWS is running two unsynchronized transmitters here, inevitably self-QRMing. What genius scheduled this? Uplooked later in HFCC, here`s what`s happening:
04-05, 300 kW, 185 degrees from Cyprus, CIRAF 47E, 48NW
04-07, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Woofferton, CIRAF 37S, 38W, 46NW
05-06, 300 kW, 173 degrees from Cyprus, CIRAF 38E, 39NW
Hey, there`s no overlap in fragmented CIRAF target zones, so everything`s fine and no alarm bells went off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Jan 27 at 0459.4 on WTWW-1, 5830. Another early start meant another abrupt interruption for top-of-hour canned ID spanning the last part of my 52-second intro, and the first part of the news to follow. I didn`t even get to say ``Standard disclaimer``. Otherwise fine and very good signal. Next: UT Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2660, Jan 27 at 1331 UT, S9+8 carrier but no modulation audible; 1338 maybe some mod after local noise burst; 1342 now at S9+12 I can make out an over-assertive preacher. 1404 gospel music. This is what I expected based on yesterday`s research into the KGLD Tyler TX program schedule, preaching instead of music Sundays only before 1400. Distracted by INDIA, just missed monitoring at 1330 when they should have doubled power from 500 to 1000 watts on fundamental 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9313, Jan 27 at 1316, weak humblob, fades so not local, just barely modulated, not // RHC 9540, a known spurrier but never this far down before; at 1323 fades up enough to match GFRN talk audio with VG 9330 WBCQ, my main suspect which has put spurs out before below 9330. Nothing heard on what would be a match 17 kHz higher, 9347 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13570, Jan 27 at 1423, tune by WINB on a Sunday, the only day it is on this early, finding wacko gospel huxter asserting that Jesus was a Baptist, the only true religion, all other sects such as Anglican/Episcopalian, Wesleyan/Methodist being ``harlot daughters``. How`d you like to have your faith called that? Or your daughter?
WINB program schedule is updated Jan 13,http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm
showing this is `Zion`s Rest Baptist Church`. No contact info or website via WINB but Googling leads to a church by that name in Austin TX, and several with `Primitive` inserted elsewhere in the South.
WINB sign-on times now shown as Sunday 1230, Saturday 1445, M-F 1845 UT, and not an Overcomer anywhere. Quickly retuned 4 MHz down and 10 kHz up for some reasonable religion on Radio AUSTRALIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, Jan 27 at 1258 UT, outro of Spanish religious show with http://hermandadcristiana.org from Anderson, Indiana, strong signal from N/S, SAH, 1259 switching to English with preacher about David & Jeremiah, apparently a promo, but no ID. However this cut off at 1300 or faded out very quickly.
Contact info at above website has no postal addresses or locations, but gringo officials with AC 765- phonumbers, i.e. east-central Indiana. No affiliate list there nor at linkedhttp://www.oneplace.com/ministries/la-hermandad-cristiana/
but the latter does give a postal address in Anderson IN, altho the Spanish version is produced in California and Texas.
At 1302, `Day of Decision` is opening. I assume it`s 50 kW daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi TX. Yes, both programs match the schedule at http://www.kctaradio.com/services.html
which we need to keep handy for this station which doesn`t like to ID, and doesn`t act like a strict daytimer.
Shows first program on weekdays is at 5:30 am CT, weekends 6:00 am. Final program listed on weekdays is `Southwest Radio Church` starting at 8:00 pm! On Sundays, last program is `In Touch Weekend` starting at 7:00 pm for unknown duration. On Saturdays has Spanish programming from noon until sign-off at unspecified sunset. You`ll recall a few months ago, we were getting a dirty carrier all night on 1030.
FAQ page has this: ``Q. Why can't I hear KCTA at night?
A. KCTA is licensed by the FCC to be operated from Boston, Massachusetts sunrise (that is so we won't interfere with them) to Corpus Christi, Texas sunset.``
FCC info for KCTA has nothing obvious about WBZ sunrise, but for KCTA SR/SS:
January 7:15 6:00 [1315-2400 UT]
February 7:15 6:15 [1315-2415 UT]
So what are the sunrise times for WBZ?
January 7:15 [1215 UT]
February 6:45 [1145 UT]
However, an imported letter from 1980http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=36851
really reproduces CP and license info dating back to the year 1945 mentioning Boston sunrise! They kept getting SSAs (special service authorizations) renewed periodically to start at Boston sunrise. BTW, this was originally KWBU, Baylor University on 1010. The deal with WBZ came when switching to 1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 7906-USB, Jan 27 at 1306, checking for Ho Chi Minh Radio, coastal station, which Ron Howard recently reminded us about with English notices: very weak SSB talk here but sounds like Vietnamese to me. At 1310 a series of rapid beeps, marking end of transmission? If not QRM. Nothing heard on // 8246-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
