New on RNZI - Kaua'i, Hawai'i

Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
February 28 2013

RNZI Airs new Radio
Heritage Feature -
Contemporary
Kaua'i Radio
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Join us from Monday, March 4 2013 to hear an exciting visit to the contemporary Kaua'i radio dial on the Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International.

You'll hear KKCR the local community radio station created in direct response to the destruction of Hurricane Iniki some years earlier when local residents wanted a local radio station to stay safe, in touch and connected.

The HHawaii Inc FM station cluster including KJMQ Jamz, KITH Island Radio and KTOH Rooster Country is well represented with audio grabs - KTOH being the current version of the original AM station on the island.

KQNG and KUAI are the two AM stations on the island, which is about 100 miles from Oahu, where the Hawaiian state capitol of Honolulu is located.

KQNG is also known as KONG radio, and Kaua'i has featured in many well known films over the last 50 years or so, including a King Kong ape movie, and several with Elvis Presley.

There are a growing number of stations on the island, which has a small population of under 70,000 people, and an economy centered on tourism, with just one working sugar cane plantation remaining.

It's an unusual opportunity to cruise along the Kaua'i radio dial without buying an air ticket there, and the range of radio stations serving the small community is fascinating. We hope you'll join us.

You can listen directly via shortwave radio from RNZI in New Zealand, or audio on demand [for the following month] with full details of current broadcast frequencies [both DRM and analog] and times possible for your area as well as audio downloads at www.rnzi.com.

Join us from Monday, March 4 2013 as we enjoy this special visit to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i and are entertained by local radio DJ's and hear some wonderful music.

We have great radio memories about a visit to KQNG and KUAI on Kaua'i  and other Hawaiian radio memories at our website www.radioheritage.com available every day 24/7, and all for free.

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Dx Re Mix News # 769

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DX RE MIX NEWS # 769 from Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov. Date: Thu Feb.28,2013
Also visit:, sections "DXPeditions"&"Schedules"
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AZERBAIJAN   Voice of Justice was heard on We/Th Feb.27/28 with poor signal
1400-1457 on  9676.6vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri. On air Mon/Wed/Fri
0600-0657 on  9676.6vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri. On air Tue/Thu/Sat

ERITREA    New frequency for Voice of Broad Masses of Eritrea-2 (VOBME-2):
morning broadcast*
0300-0700 NF  4700 ASD 100 kW / non-dir to ERI  Amharic/Afar/Arabic/Somali
& parallel on 7175-7195 ASD 100 kW / ND to ERI  Amharic/Afar/Arabic/Somali
evening broadcast*
1400-1800 NF  4700 ASD 100 kW / non-dir to ERI  Amharic/Afar/Arabic/Somali
& parallel on 7175-7195 ASD 100 kW / ND to ERI  Amharic/Afar/Arabic/Somali
* including Ginbot 7 Dimts Radio Amharic 0500-0600 and 1400-1500, variable
New frequency 4700 probably replaced the old frequencies: 9715 or alt.9820
All frequencies are jamming by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise

FRANCE/ALGERIA     Frequency change of Radio and TV Algerienne from Feb.24:
0600-0605 NF  7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx bulletin, ex 5865
0605-0658 NF  7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qura'n, ex 5865
New frequency 7295 is not registered in HFCC database effective from Feb.24

FRANCE(non)   Unchanged frequency of Radio France Internationale in Swahili
0530-0558 on 11790 MEY 100 kW / 007 deg to EaAf not 15160 on Feb.24 // 9835

GERMANY    New test frequency of Radio 700 via Kall Eifel from mid February
0900-1400 NF 13820 KLL 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu German,ex 1000-1300 on 9700
Very, very weak signal in Sofia. Very poor signal on // 3985, 6005 and 6085

KURDISTAN(non)   Frequency change of Denge Kurdistan from Feb.14:
1600-2000 NF 11510 secret transmitter site WeAs Kurdish, ex  7390
0400-1600 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish unchanged

Two different transmitters are on the air and I am convinced in this:
0400-1600 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg. poor to fair signal in Sofia
1600-2000 on 11510 secret/hidden site POWERFUL signal in Sofia 55555+

KUWAIT    Some changes of Radio Kuwait:
1000-1800 on 21540*KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS, ex 1000-1500
1800-2000 on 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg to NoAm Arabic GS, ex 1700-2000
*co-ch Radio Exterior de Espana in Spanish from 1100

SPAIN    A minor change in Radio Exterior de Espana:
1100-1500 on 21540*NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Spanish, ex 0900-1500
*co-ch Radio Kuwait in Arabic

USA(non)   Latest IBB's changes (updated version):
Voice of America in Special English:
0030-0100 NF  9790 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs, ex  9490 PHT from March 6
1600-1700 NF 13570 SAO 100 kW / 126 deg to CeAf, ex 13755 SAO from March 3

Radio Liberty in Russian from March 3:
0800-1000 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to FERu, addit. //9360PHT,11705 BIB
1700-1800 NF 12060 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg to EaEu, ex  9840 co-ch RTI Russian

Radio Aap ki Dunyaa in Urdu from March 2:
1400-1500 NF 15515 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs, ex 11675 IRA

Deewa Radio in Pashto from Feb.25:
1400-1500 on  9370 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 1400-1900
1500-1600 on  9370 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs, ex  9370 PHT
1500-1600 NF 11825 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to WeAs, ex  5835 IRA
1600-1900 NF  9310 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs, ex  5835 IRA
1600-1900 on  9370 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 1400-1900

Voice of America in Korean from March 6:
1900-2100 on  9800 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to EaAs, ex  6060 UDO

Voice of America in Bambara, new service from March 4:
2130-2200 on  7325 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on  9620 SAO 100 kW / 335 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on 12025 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri
2130-2200 on 13670 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf Mon-Fri

Voice of America in Swahili, extra transmissions on March 4/5:
0900-0930 on 13740 IRA 250 kW / 259 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue
0900-0930 on 15265 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue
0900-0930 on 17865 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue
2100-2130 on 11875 IRA 250 kW / 259 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue
2100-2130 on 13740 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue
2100-2130 on 15265 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf Mon/Tue

USA(non)    Winter B-12 SW schedule of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
0000-0100 on  5860 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0000-0300 on  5850 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0100-0200 on  7235 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Kazakh
0100-0200 on  9790 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to CeAs Kazakh
0100-0300 on  5860 IRA 250 kW / 299 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0100-0300 on  9880 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Tajik
0100-0400 on 11795 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to CeAs Tajik
0200-0300 on  9855 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0200-0300 on 12025 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0200-0400 on  7390 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Turkmen
0200-0400 on 12015 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to CeAs Turkmen
0200-0400 on 15650 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0200-0500 on  9430 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0230-0300 on  9335 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0230-0300 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0230-1100 on 15690 IRA 250 kW / 322 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0300-0330 on  9335 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0300-0330 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0300-0400 on  5975 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to CeAs Avari/Chechen/Circassian
0300-0400 on  5995 KWT 250 kW / 350 deg to CeAs Avari/Chechen/Circassian
0300-0400 on  6075 SMG 250 kW / 035 deg to EaEu Belorussian
0300-0400 on  7235 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to CeAs Tatar
0300-0400 on  7400 LAM 100 kW / 068 deg to CeAs Tatar
0300-0400 on  9520 BIB 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
0300-0400 on  9855 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0300-0400 on 12025 KWT 250 kW / 054 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0300-0400 on 13615 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0300-0400 on 15530 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs Tajik
0300-0500 on  6105 WER 250 kW / 060 deg to EaEu Belorussian
0300-0700 on  7425 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
0300-0700 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 030 deg to FERu Russian
0300-0830 on  5860 KWT 250 kW / 058 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0330-0400 on  9335 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0330-0430 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0400-0430 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0400-0500 on  9520 KWT 250 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian
0400-0500 on 13580 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0400-0500 on 13615 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0400-0700 on 12130 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0400-1100 on 15760 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0430-0530 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0430-0530 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0400-0500 on  6075 WER 250 kW / 060 deg to EaEu Belorussian
0500-0600 on  5945 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to EaEu Moldovian Mon-Fri
0500-0600 on  9520 BIB 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
0500-0600 on  9535 KWT 250 kW / 355 deg to CeAs Tatar
0500-0730 on 13615 NAU 250 kW / 110 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0500-0900 on 13580 NAU 250 kW / 094 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0500-0930 on 15535 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0530-0630 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0530-0630 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0600-0700 on 15205 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg to FERu Russian
0630-0730 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0630-0730 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0700-0800 on 12130 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0730-0830 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0730-0830 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0730-1100 on 13800 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0730-1530 on 12005 LAM 100 kW / 080 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0800-1000 on  9360 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to FERu Russian
0800-1000 on 11705 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg to EaEu Russian
0800-1000 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to FERu Russian
0800-1100 on 12130 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0830-0930 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0830-0930 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
0830-1200 on 11750 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
0900-1100 on 13580 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
0930-1030 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0930-1030 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
0930-1300 on  9990 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1030-1130 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1030-1130 on 19010 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1100-1300 on 12130 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
1100-1300 on 13700 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
1100-1300 on 15690 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1100-1300 on 15760 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Mashaal
1100-1500 on 13800 LAM 100 kW / 104 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1130-1230 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
1130-1230 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
1200-1230 on 11990 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to CeAs Kyrgyz
1200-1230 on 15265 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Kyrgyz
1200-1230 on 17735 IRA 250 kW / 348 deg to CeAs Kyrgyz
1200-1400 on  9360 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg to FERu Russian
1200-1400 on 15410 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1200-1500 on 15130 LAM 100 kW / 053 deg to EaEu Russian
1230-1330 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1230-1330 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1300-1400 on 12025 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Kazakh
1300-1400 on 15690 IRA 250 kW / 322 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1300-1400 on 15525 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Kazakh
1330-1400 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
1330-1400 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto R.Free Afghanistan
1400-1430 on  9335 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1400-1430 on 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan
1400-1500 on  7550 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Tajik
1400-1500 on  9595 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1400-1500 on 11975 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tajik
1400-1500 on 11995 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to EaEu Russian
1400-1500 on 12025 BIB 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Turkmen
1400-1500 on 13645 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1400-1500 on 15265 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1400-1600 on  6060 KWT 250 kW / 040 deg to CeAs Turkmen
1400-1600 on 15410 WOF 300 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1400-1700 on 15690 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1400-1800 on 11850 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu Russian
1430-1500 on 13680 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1500-1530 on  7485 UDO 250 kW / 319 deg to CeAs Kyrgyz
1500-1530 on 11790 NAU 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Kyrgyz
1500-1600 on  7465 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Tajik
1500-1600 on  9445 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Tatar
1500-1600 on 11775 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Avari/Chechen/Circassian
1500-1600 on 11870 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Tatar
1500-1600 on 11975 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tajik
1500-1600 on 12025 WOF 300 kW / 082 deg to CeAs Turkmen
1500-1600 on 13775 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Avari/Chechen/Circassian
1500-1630 on 13680 WER 250 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1500-1700 on  6120 WER 250 kW / 060 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1500-1700 on  9840 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu Russian
1500-1700 on 11890 WOF 300 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1500-1730 on 13615 LAM 100 kW / 104 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1530-1700 on 12005 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1600-1630 on  9760 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to EaEu Moldovian Sat/Sun
1600-1700 on  7480 IRA 250 kW / 310 deg to CeAs Azeri
1600-1700 on  7550 KWT 250 kW / 050 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1600-1700 on  9445 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tajik
1600-1700 on  9540 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1600-1700 on  9695 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tajik
1600-1700 on 11610 LAM 100 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Azeri
1600-1700 on 11975 LAM 100 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Uzbek
1600-1700 on 12060 BIB 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
1600-1800 on  5820 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs Turkmen
1600-1800 on  7225 KWT 250 kW / 056 deg to CeAs Turkmen
1600-2300 on  7580 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1700-1730 on  7430 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to EaEu Moldovian Mon-Fri
1700-1800 on  5885 UDO 250 kW / 319 deg to CeAs Russian Caucasus Echo
1700-1800 on  9515 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1700-1800 on  9540 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
1700-1800 on  9585 NAU 250 kW / 095 deg to CeAs Russian Caucasus Echo
1700-1800 on 12060 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu Russian
1700-1900 on  5930 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1700-1900 on 12035 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1730-1900 on  9395 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1730-2100 on  7520 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1800-1900 on  7220 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
1800-1900 on  9405 WOF 300 kW / 066 deg to EaEu Russian
1800-1900 on  9515 SMG 250 kW / 026 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1900-1930 on  6135 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to EaEu Moldovian Mon-Fri
1900-2000 on  5850 IRA 250 kW / 322 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
1900-2000 on  7235 WOF 300 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Russian
1900-2000 on  7470 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to CeAs Tatar
1900-2000 on  9405 WOF 300 kW / 066 deg to EaEu Russian
1900-2100 on  5895 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Belorussian
1900-2100 on  5930 BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu Belorussian
2000-2100 on  5885 UDO 250 kW / 022 deg to FERu Russian
2000-2100 on  7235 LAM 100 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian
2000-2130 on  5850 IRA 250 kW / 310 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
2100-2400 on  7520 IRA 250 kW / 332 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda
2130-2400 on  5850 KWT 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Persian Radio Farda

USA(non)    Winter B-12 SW schedule of Radio Free Asia:
0000-0100 on 15690 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg to SEAs Lao
0000-0100 on 17770 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to SEAs Lao
0030-0130 on 12115 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
0030-0130 on 15700 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg to SEAs Burmese
0030-0130 on 17835 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg to SEAs Burmese
0100-0200 on  7480 DB  200 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Uyghur
0100-0200 on  9480 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg to CeAs Uyghur
0100-0200 on  9645 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Uyghur
0100-0200 on  9690 DHA 250 kW / 050 deg to CeAs Uyghur
0100-0200 on 13620 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0100-0200 on 15610 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0100-0200 on 17805 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to CeAs Uyghur
0100-0300 on  9670 DB  200 kW / 110 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0100-0300 on 11695 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0100-0300 on 17730 U-B 250 kW / 178 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0200-0300 on  9700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0200-0300 on 15520 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0300-0400 on 21765 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon
0300-0400 on 21775 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue
0300-0400 on 21785 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Wed
0300-0400 on 21700 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Thu
0300-0400 on 21710 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri
0300-0400 on 21745 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat
0300-0400 on 21755 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sun
0300-0700 on 11980 DB  250 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese
0300-0700 on 13710 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg to EaAs Chinese
0300-0700 on 15665 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to EaAs Chinese
0300-0700 on 17880 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese
0300-0700 on 21540 TIN 250 kW / 309 deg to EaAs Chinese
0400-0500 on 21775 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon
0400-0500 on 21785 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue
0400-0500 on 21700 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Wed
0400-0500 on 21710 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Thu
0400-0500 on 21745 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri
0400-0500 on 21755 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat
0400-0500 on 21765 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sun
0500-0600 on 21785 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon
0500-0600 on 21700 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue
0500-0600 on 21710 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Wed
0500-0600 on 21745 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Thu
0500-0600 on 21755 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri
0500-0600 on 21765 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat
0500-0600 on 21775 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese Sun
0600-0700 on 15150 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg to EaAs Chinese
0600-0700 on 17515 DB  220 kW / 117 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0600-0700 on 17675 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0600-0700 on 21610 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg to CeAs Tibetan
0600-0700 on 21695 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1000-1100 on  9690 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1000-1100 on 15140 LAM 100 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1000-1100 on 17810 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1100-1130 on 15120 IRA 250 kW / 065 deg to SEAs Lao
1100-1200 on  9325 IRA 250 kW / 065 deg to SEAs Lao
1100-1200 on 11545 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1100-1200 on 15375 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1100-1400 on  7470 U-B 100 kW / 230 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1100-1400 on  9350 DB  200 kW / 125 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1130-1200 on 15120 SAI 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs Lao
1200-1400 on 15375 DB  250 kW / 110 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1200-1400 on 11590 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1200-1400 on 13625 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1230-1330 on 15160 TIN 250 kW / 288 deg to SEAs Khmer
1230-1330 on 17735 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Khmer
1230-1400 on 11795 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
1230-1400 on 12105 IRA 250 kW / 057 deg to SEAs Burmese
1230-1400 on 13735 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to SEAs Burmese
1400-1430 on 11795 KWT 250 kW / 094 deg to SEAs Burmese
1400-1430 on 12105 IRA 250 kW / 049 deg to SEAs Burmese
1400-1500 on  7330 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun/Tue/Thu/Sat
1400-1500 on  7470 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon/Wed/Fri
1400-1500 on 11605 TSH 250 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1400-1500 on 12130 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1400-1500 on 13690 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun
1400-1500 on 13735 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1400-1500 on 13765 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon/Wed
1400-1500 on 13785 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Tue/Fri
1400-1500 on 13855 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Thu/Sat
1400-1500 on 15310 TIN 250 kW / 267 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1500-1600 on  5825 DB  200 kW / 125 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1500-1600 on  6025 TIN 250 kW / 288 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1600 on  9790 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1600 on  9955 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1500-1600 on 11905 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1500-1600 on 12085 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1500-1700 on  5855 TIN 250 kW / 333 deg to EaAs Korean
1500-1700 on  7210 IRK 250 kW / 125 deg to EaAs Korean
1500-1700 on  9605 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1700 on 11585 TIN 250 kW / 321 deg to EaAs Korean
1500-1700 on 13725 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1800 on  9905 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1900 on  7445 TIN 250 kW / 305 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-2200 on 11945 DB  250 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-1700 on  5810 DB  200 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Uyghur
1600-1700 on  7310 IRA 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs Uyghur
1600-1700 on  9725 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Uyghur
1600-1700 on 12035 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to CeAs Uyghur
1600-1800 on  6020 TIN 250 kW / 296 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-1900 on  7415 TIN 250 kW / 303 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-2200 on  9455 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1630-1730 on  9940 TIN 250 kW / 278 deg to SEAs Burmese
1700-1900 on  5855 TIN 250 kW / 333 deg to EaAs Korean
1700-1900 on  9385 IRA 250 kW / 049 deg to EaAs Korean
1700-1900 on 11965 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to EaAs Chinese
1700-2200 on  9355 SAI 100 kW / 300 deg to EaAs Chinese
1800-1900 on 13670 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg to EaAs Chinese
1800-2000 on  9905 TIN 250 kW / 294 deg to EaAs Chinese
1800-2000 on 11790 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1800-2200 on  6025 TIN 250 kW / 288 deg to EaAs Chinese
1900-2100 on  5860 TIN 250 kW / 317 deg to EaAs Chinese
1900-2200 on  6095 TIN 250 kW / 305 deg to EaAs Chinese
1900-2200 on  9875 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Chinese
2000-2200 on  7495 TIN 250 kW / 278 deg to EaAs Chinese
2000-2200 on 11900 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
2100-2200 on  7460 U-B 100 kW / 128 deg to EaAs Korean
2100-2200 on  9385 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg to EaAs Korean
2100-2200 on 11995 TIN 250 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Korean
2200-2300 on  6005 TIN 250 kW / 288 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2200-2300 on  7250 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon/Wed/Fri
2200-2300 on  7330 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Tue/Thu
2200-2300 on  7510 TIN 250 kW / 287 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sat/Sun
2200-2300 on  9780 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun
2200-2300 on  9785 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Cantonese Tue/Fri
2200-2300 on  9795 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon/Wed
2200-2300 on  9815 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Cantonese Thu/Sat
2200-2300 on  9835 LAM 100 kW / 088 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2200-2300 on 11550 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to EaAs Cantonese Mon/Wed
2200-2300 on 11565 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to EaAs Cantonese Tue/Fri
2200-2300 on 11585 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to EaAs Cantonese Thu/Sat
2200-2300 on 11600 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun
2200-2400 on  7470 DB  250 kW / 110 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2230-2330 on  5840 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Khmer
2230-2330 on 11850 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Khmer
2300-2400 on  6010 DHA 250 kW / 075 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2300-2400 on  7540 DB  500 kW / 071 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on  7550 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2300-2400 on  9585 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on  9825 TIN 250 kW / 305 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on  9875 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to CeAs Tibetan
2300-2400 on 11775 TIN 250 kW / 329 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on 11975 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on 15550 TIN 250 kW / 311 deg to EaAs Chinese
2330-0030 on  9920 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
2330-0030 on 11605 TSH 250 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
2330-0030 on 11965 TIN 250 kW / 278 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
2330-0030 on 15170 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
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USA(non)   Latest IBB's changes:
Radio Liberty in Russian from March 3:
0800-1000 on 17770 UDO 250 kW / 018 deg to FERu, addit.//9360PHT,11705 BIB
1700-1800 NF 12060 BIB 100 kW / 065 deg to EaEu, ex 9840 co-ch RTI Russian

Radio Aap ki Dunyaa in Urdu from March 2:
1400-1500 NF 15515 IRA 250 kW / 334 deg to WeAs, ex 11675

Deewa Radio in Pashto from Feb.25:
1500-1600 NF 11825 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg to WeAs, ex 5835 IRA
1600-1900 NF  9310 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs, ex 5835
1400-1500 on  9370 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 1400-1900
1500-1600 on  9370 IRA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs, ex PHT
1600-1900 on  9370 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 1400-1900

Voice of America in Special English from March 3:
1600-1700 NF 13570 SAO 100 kW / 126 deg to CeAf, ex 13755

--
73!

Ivo

 

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

 

Siti RAI onde medie notturne

Queste le stazioni RAI in onde medie rimaste accese anche dopo la mezzanotte ricevute in provincia di Grosseto:

657 - Pisa
900 - Milano
936 - Venezia
981 - Trieste (Filodiffusione4)
999 - Volpiano (TO)

1431 - Foggia
Verosimilmente potrebbero essere le 6 stazioni superstiti dopo la chiusura preannunciata, forse aggiungendo anche Genova e Cagliari.
Di certo non rispondono ad una logica di copertura del territorio nazionale, con uno sbilanciamento in favore del nord-Italia.
Ma in fin dei conti, una logica non c'è mai stata in tutta questa operazione.

--
Roberto Rizzardi
SWL I/0216/GR
Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy
Lat 42N26 - Long 11E07 - Locator grid JN52NK
Receivers: ICOM IC-R71E
Sangean ATS909 with 2x80kHz Murata filters in FM
RTL-SDR RTL2832U+E4000 usb tuner with SDRSharp software
Antennas: Indoor self-made single-turn 75 cm diameter coax loop
15 meters outdoor random wires with RF System Magnetic Longwire Balun
MW-SW 75 cm side square loop
Telescopic and 7 meters indoor wire antenna
Dual-band VHF/UHF vertical antenna without radials
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Tips "Girolla"

Tips con una abbondante nevicata  a  Buccinasco!!!  BC

4319 USB ,AFN DGA Diego Garcia ,1710 23feb,mx prog ,33333(Giroletti)
5010,AIR IND Thiruvananthapuram,1720 23feb,px mx loc,33333(Giroletti)
4810,AIR IND Bhopal,1730 23feb,px in Eng mx loc+ID,33333(Giroletti)
7120,R Hargeisa SOM Hargeisa,1740 23feb, px loc noise HAm,32332(Giroletti)
7180,Voice  of the Broad Masses of Eritrea ERI Asmara,1750 23Feb, px mx loc +iD,33333(Giroletti)
4700,???HARMONIC???Voice  of the Broad Masses of Eritrea ERI Asmara,1750 23Feb,Very Low modulation //7180,33333(Giroletti)
9835,R Television Malaysia MLA Kajang,1755 23feb, px mx + id //11665,43333(Giroletti)
11735,Zanzibar BC Corp TZA Dole,1800 23feb, px nx in Eng +ID ,33333(Giroletti)
5915,Zambia National BC Corp ZMB Lusaka, 1815 23feb, px in vern px mx,33333(Giroletti)
5025,R Rebelde CUB Bauta,0100 24Feb, px mx Cubana,44444(Giroletti)
5109.8,WBCQ USA Monticello,0110 24feb, USB mode px mx,33333(Giroletti)
7190,Sri Lanka BC Corp CLN Ekala,0126 24feb, px local mx noise Ham //11905-44444,33333(Giroletti)
9745,R Bahrain BHR Abu Ayan,0140 24feb, px mx loc better USB !!!!splash 9750!!!,33333(Giroletti)
4055,R Verdad GTM Chiquimula,0230 24feb,px mx better LSB,23333(Giroletti)
4885,R Clube do Parà B Belem,0315 24feb,px mx + ID,33333(Giroletti)
4949.74,Radio Nacional de Angola ANG Mulenvos,0325 24feb, px mx low modulation,33333(Giroletti)

Tips UTE

6391 ,AQP4 Marine Karachi PAK vvv vvv AQP4/5,0252 24feb,549(Giroletti)
6450,PWZ33 Marine de Rio de Janeiro B RJ,0259 24feb, wx Pactor1,333(Giroletti)

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Ascolti AM Treviso 23 - 25 febbraio

una selezione di ascolti in onde corte fatti a fine di febbraio

1602 23/2 2100 Radio Vitoria, Cerro Estibaliz TS ID Informativos QRM SER Es 22322
9610 24/2 1002 AWR Europe, Nauen Px "Studio Dx 504" It 55555
981 24/2 1100 RAI FVG "Trst A", Trieste Px sloveno Sl 34444
21610 24/2 1305 R. Exterior España, Noblejas Px "Amigos O.C." Es 55555
15340 24/2 1530 Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana ID Nx Es 34443
7390 24/2 1506 Radio Romania Int., Saftica Px "Posta ascoltatori" It 55555
1107 25/2 600 RAI Radio1, Roma Nx QRM AFN It 22322
1116 25/2 620 RAI Radio1, Palermo ID TGr Sicilia QRM 12322

 73 da N. Marabello

 Treviso, Italia
 RX: 1) SONY ICF SW7600G
 Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
 RX: 2) SANYO MW737K
 Ant.: interna a ferrite

Log Roberto Pavanello

 1035 23/2 23.30 R. Eli - Tartu Russo gospel suff.
 1224 22/2 20.30 COPE - Malllorca SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
 1539 22/2 20.58 R. Elche - SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
 3330 23/2 23.15 CHU - Ottawa EE/FF ID e pip pip suff.
 3905 22/2 20.30 R. Skyline Int. - EE ID e MX buono
 4055 23/2 05.10 R. Verdad - Chiquimula EE predica suff.
 6070 23/2 23.30 CFRX - Toronto EE NX buono
 6085 24/2 13.15 R. 700 - Euskircken Tedesco ID e MX buono
 6285 24/2 09.35 R. Focus - EE ID e MX suff.
 6400 23/2 23.10 Pyongyang Bc St. - Coreano talk OM buono
 6450 24/2 09.50 R. Universe - EE ID e MX suff.
 7685 24/2 09.30 FRS Holland - EE ID e MX buono
15215 21/2 16.30 R. Oomrang - Nebel-Westerheide Frisono intervista buono

Roberto Pavanello

Vercelli / Italia

Glenn Hauser logs February 24-25, 2013

** BOLIVIA. 4716.68 approx., Feb 25 at 0110, best signal in the 4700s tonight is here, presumed R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, in Yura, allegedly 1 kW. Some music is audible, while the rest are mostly carriers. Previously rounded to 4717v, this time I measure it as closely as possible using the 40-Hz per click method on the DX-398 on the porch with battery power, after calibrating it to WWV on 5000.000. Winter storm with thunder approaching from the TX panhandle is producing some lightning crashes on these lower frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. Re my previous report, Jorge Freitas points out that Rdif. Macapá is in Amapá state, not Acre, which I got by referring to the `Carmen Miranda Report` in DXLD 13-08 instead of the WRTH 2013. Corrected:

4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda curta``, a website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macapá``, so I am confident it`s not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macapá, ZYF360 in Amapá. Signal is second only to Pará on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macapá supposedly has a 25 to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Feb 25 at 0102, the RMI R. República transmission is back to full strength, way over jamming and with good modulation; so if the plus/minus 116 kHz and other spurs are still radiating, they should be audible tonight. However, 9606 is blocked by bigsig from WHRI on its single night broadcast UT Mondays only, and I can`t detect it in the sideband. 9374 on the lower side is in the clear with no blob detectable. There is also some quite different weak OTH radar noise pulsing circa 9360-9385.

However2, the fundamental has another problem, perhaps exacerbated by good propagation: splashing out to plus/minus 23 kHz or so, i.e. gradually declining out to 9467-9513. I would not want to be another station within that range.

Same transmitter previously put out same 116 kHz separation spurs from very strong 5960 after 0200 for the NHK Japanese relay, so checking around that at 0228 UT Feb 25: 6076 and 5844 are clear, nor can I find the +36 kHz spur around 5996, nor the -71 spur around 5889. But there is a lot of other noise on the band, especially around the other former spurspot 5924 as well as 5996.

Overall, as far as I can tell, the GUF spurs have been suppressed, perhaps as of Feb 23 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 25 at 0059, DentroCuban Jamming Command is messing up the frequency with noise pulses, unlike many nights lately; can`t even hear the CNR1 jammer closing timesignal at 0100*, but the R. Chaski carrier remains audible with BFO under the noise, and this time as expected, it cuts off at 0106:58.5* which is 5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4593.5-USB, Air Force MARS net encountered Feb 25 at 0055; NCS seems AFA1TN (or TM?), about to close it with the group call NES2 given fonetikaly unlike his own call.

Googling on AFA1TN leads to a Silent Key:
Robert Joyce
AFA1TN
W8JBS
July 6, 2005
at http://www.marsregionone.org/SK.html
while AFA1TM leads to no significant top hits, so maybe AFA1TN call has now been reassigned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9605, Feb 25 at 0102, WHRI is on strong with some pseudo-network news on the blizzard about to strike us, as I am checking for the Guiana French [q.v.] spurblob around 9606. WHRI 9605 usage is registered, and so far heard, only on UT Mondays, tho probably tested one other night with KBS World Radio in Spanish to S America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Feb 25 at 0108, WTWW-2 is on-again with country music, presumably Ted Randall once again doing his evening show on Sunday night = UT Monday, instead of original Saturday night = UT Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 25 at 0109 check, WWRB is on again in pure USB, but g.h. of the moment is the one with lots of background noise keeping the SB modulated even his during pauses. At this point it will be more newsworthy if it goes back to AM, or goes off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4849, Feb 25 at 0057, again tonight I am hearing a het or tone test estimated close to 1 kHz with the DX-398 on the porch, where without continuous tuning it`s harder to tell than on the FRG-7 whether this is a DSB tone or a het on one side or the other, but I think it`s only the low side vs carrier on 4850. After 0059 obscured by squeal and splash from 4840 WWCR, but barely audible at 0101. Again PBS Urumqi and AIR Kohima are the two broadcasters listed on 4850, but a utility could also be involved. Would appreciate listeners in Asia checking around this time, and also in Latin America in case it`s something from there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

[all logs in this report, except the Brazilian correxion, were on the DX-398 with random wire around eaves of porch; mild temp ~lo 50s]

Glenn Hauser logs February 25-26, 2013

Note: except for Feb 25 and PERU 5980 logs, all the later Feb 26 entries below are during 10+hour power outage from 0411 to 1419 UT due to blizzard, ice on lines, etc., so noise level is much lower, using FRG-7`s 8 x D cell battery pack or in mostly MW cases, the usual DX-398 on its 4 X AA cells.

The main longwire for the FRG-7 had been replaced a few months ago, so did not break despite icing about an inch in diameter. There were some strange weak birdies on the FRG-7, however, perhaps due to battery getting weak, not having been replenished for years.

Altho we have a good stock of batteries, and no telling how long the outage would last (hopefully less than a few weeks like a few years ago!), figured it was time to dust off the Baygen Freeplay and wind it up. Initially OK, then it makes huge noise louder than any audio it can play: seems like the spring broke. Now what? Good thing we are not depending on it. It does have a jack for DC.

More breakage: the ice load on our main TV antenna broke most of the VHF elements, altho the smaller and much sturdier UHF part seems to be OK; other TV antennas were further damaged. Snow total here was roughly 10 inches, and winds were quite high at times, at one point causing sparx along our powerline altho didn`t go off quite yet.

As soon as we got power back, could see the situation from OKC TV stations reporting from Enid, via the DTV on the broken antenna, while Suddenlink digital cable remained black; their legacy analog cable of lower channels already came back about the same time as internet.

We were lucky to get power back after only 10 hours, as 3 hours after that at 17 UT, OG&E map still showed 20K out in Enid, from a peak of 22K. It was down to only 10K a couple hours later. Some reports said at worst, the entire city of Enid was dark, as well as most of the little towns around it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 11750, Feb 26 at 0726, repeated announcements with continuous music if not an IS, ``This is HCJB Australia; our programs on this frequency will commence shortly``. 0730 HCJB Global sign on in English with UT timecheck, into an hymn. Good signal at a time I am usually asleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 4755, Feb 26 at 0715, very poor signal with talk in uncertain language; 0744 now it sounds like a Brazilian, i.e. R. Imaculada Conceição, rather than MICRONESIA, q.v. The YB-400 which I conveniently use to detect off-frequencies is not batteried up, as it normally stays in one spot with its wallwart. With that I QRT but if I wake up around 1000 I will go after the South American sign-ons --- No, not back until 1130 when there is still some interesting stuff, e.g. ECUADOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** BRAZIL. 11765, Feb 26 at 0647, SRDA Curitiba with amazing signal, best ever, rivalling 11780 RNA. SRDA is only 10 kW; break in Davi Miranda wailing, to announce something about ``terceira emissão, ouvir os milagres de deus``, 3:48 timecheck, back to Davi. Next check 0727 has sunk back to usual much weaker level as has 11925 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11885-11905 approx., extremely distorted FMy Brazilian music, peaking about 11895; not strong, but first time I`ve heard it tnx to lack of local line noise. It`s totally out of order R. Brasil Central, Goiânia, as recently IDed by Jorge Freitas et al. in Brazil and also reported by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal. Missing from its proper frequency 11815. Music continued past hourtop until 0704 unreadable announcement. Not audible by 0727 when all the 25m Brazilians have weakened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [and non]. 11925v, Feb 26 at 0651, good modulation in Brazilian Portuguese discussion, i.e. R. Bandeirantes. No het tho we know it`s off-frequency, until 0659 when there`s now a LAH which would be from Turkey just signed on, after a one-hour break following BBC Seychelles until 0600. By 0727, much weaker like 11765. Meanwhile I checked the other Bandeirantes frequency, 9645.3v, at 0657, but no het on Vatican choral music, so conclude it is off, unlike another bigsig from Brasil on 9665, Voz Missionária.

BTW, Zacharias Liangas points out that Google produces a spurious translation of Bandeirantes as Girl Scouts! See DXLD 13-08 for discussion of what it really means (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 1650, Feb 26 at 0535 UT in the mix of English and two Spanish, I hear a S Asian song in null of Denver, which I think can only be from CINA in Mississauga, Ont., ``Seena Radio`` with 680 watts night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 12060, Feb 26 at 0654, DCJC pulse jamming fading in and out, i.e. 2 x 6030 against Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 4782-, Feb 26 at 1132, I awake too late for most of the S Americans on 60m despite my very rare lack of local line noise due to icy power outage, but still a good signal here with news in Spanish vs CODAR; in fact, it`s the SSOB except Cuba 5025 (skipping WWCR 4840 of course). 1135 timecheck for 6:35, local adstring with lots of addresses mentioned but no city heard, as everyone knows that already; 1137, 6:37 TC, ``decreto del gobierno ecuatoriano`` about something, so it`s surely R. Oriental, Tena, Napo, HCLE7, which I`ve also heard in the early evenings, irregular per WRTH and the frequency varies considerably. Weakening at 1153 and gone by 1159.

Per http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/tena.html today`s sunrise in Tena was 1120 UT, and of course it varies little, only to 1113 one month from now and 1106 three months from now. That should mean it`s slightly to the north side of the Equator while most of Ecuador is south of it. No, Tena is really about 1 degree south, beyond Quito, so is gaisma.com inaccurate or is there something else to explain this disparity? Every log a potential learning experience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 6050, Feb 26 at 1203, HCJB is still in, as expected on a higher band, while HCLE7 on 60m has just faded out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 11740, Feb 26 at 0646, 0701, 0726 and 0735 checks, poor strength open carrier with hum, which I strongly suspect is at least the exciter at MSY still on the air after the NHK relay at 0500-0530 which was very strong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 3325, Feb 26 at 1336, Indonesian talk with good signal, nice to be without line noise for once. RRI Palangkaraya, comparable to 4750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, Feb 26 at 1131, fair signal in Indonesian, still audible at 1330 with conversation, one side on the phone, so RRI Makassar is back. It had been missing since Feb 20, and Ron Howard reported it still off Feb 24. But Atsunori Ishida says it resumed Feb 25. Nothing audible here from anything else around 4750: Bangladesh, China or China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ISRAEL. 6885, Feb 26 at 0415, Hebrew announcement and music, fair, no doubt Galei Zahal on its unique frequency. Lack of AC noise level helps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Feb 26 at 1332, Shiokaze is still here from JAPAN, this Tuesday in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 730, Feb 26 at 0622 UT, Morse code goes by a few times, but I don`t copy it completely in the QRM: not RR as in CUBA. Must be TDW, which XEX DF uses as a non-ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 990, Feb 26 at 1313 UT, Spanish ID as ``La Rocola``, ballad, and 1316 jingle, east-west. That`s XECL Mexicali BCN, per IRCA axually spelt ``Rockola 9-90``, 5/3 kW, a kilomile away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 2910, Feb 26 at 1151, harmonic here is often a carrier, but power outage today lowers the noise level enough to make out a few Spanish words, ``pantalones de color naranja`` (meaning prison garb?), i.e. previously identified as 3 x 970, XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MICRONESIA. 4755, Feb 26 at 1130, after 3.75 hours of sound sleep tnx to gas heating during electricty outage, I turn the FRG-7 back on to the frequency last tuned, which was probably BRAZIL, q.v., altho 0745 was not too early for PMA The Cross to propagate too. Now it`s way too late for Brazil, as I do have a weak signal from something; at 1154 it`s a hymn, but at 1158 it`s gone.

This neatly/nearly matches Ron Howard`s info that they now have an automatic system to turn off the SW transmitter, as he heard Feb 24 until 1159* called "DTMF tones" (dual-tone multi-frequency signaling) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Shortly after power around Enid goes off, circa 0430 UT Feb 26, checking to see which stations are on or not:

Of the major secular stations:
 530, `K530AM` Vance AFB off [don`t they have 10 watts of aux power?]
 960, KGWA on
1390, KCRC off
1640, KOAG open carrier [and still thus by sunrise]

 95.7, KXLS off
103.1, KOFM OC
107.1, KNID off

Gospel huxters, translators and LPFM:
 88.7, 89.1, 89.7, on
 91.1, 94.3, 98.5, off
 92.1, 93.1, 105.5, probably off, not noticed
104.7, KEIF on

Another check at 0552 UT, tuning the entire FM band, wide vacant spaces, also missing stations from other cities, tho most of the OKC signals still on. May have missed some weaker signals:

ON: 88.5, 89.1,  89.7, 90.1, 91.7, 92.5, 98.9, 100.5, 101.9, 102.7, 103.1, 104.1, 105.1, 106.7, 107.7

OFF: besides the earlier ones: 104.7 KEIF

95.7: meter shows signal, only hearing noise, from KXLS
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Feb 26 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA produces another Fox-hole of dead air, having managed to keep power at studio and transmitter during power outage affecting ``all`` of Enid according to some reports. Just the usual stuff audible underneath, but no hum this time, which must be significant. Maybe they are on generators instead of usual OG&E power, somehow not hummy.

Frequent chex of KGWA, however, find it only in automated national programming, not a word about the local situation, including not before 7 am, 1300 UT when ``J. Curtis Huckleberry`` usual morning man comes on and fills us in; along with Alan Klepper, his counterpart at KOFM, who has nothing to do since 103.1 is still off the air.

Thus KGWA was our only local source of info about this emergency, altho it took them some 7 hours to get around to it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 26 at 0540 UT, KYHN is *still* running program promo reel rather than programming, Geraldo Rivera at the moment.
And Feb 26 at 1249 UT, Clark Howard promo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 4789.9, Feb 26 at 0711, Spanish weak signal vs CODAR, no doubt R. Visión (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, Feb 26 at 0105 it`s not feasible to monitor from the porch with DX-398 as usual due to blizzard, so I see if I can hear the R. Chaski carrier on the inside rig, FRG-7 with ice-encrusted longwire: yes, vs high noise level, just barely audible carrier which goes off at 0107:03.5*, having surpassed the 0107 mark by another five seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. 7290, Feb 25 at 2131, only fair signal in vocal music, uncertain language, but 2133 French talk, from Radio PMR`s legacy hour on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, Feb 26 at 0459, R. Hargeysa still audible with talk, very poor signal no doubt about to fade (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 11770, Feb 26 at 0732, ending BBC semihour news headlines in English, poor signal but now better than 11765 Brasil. HFCC shows it`s ASCENSION, as 11770 is employed this one hour only by BBC in needlessly fragmented scheduling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13845, Feb 25 at 2125, WWCR squealing along with DGS, sounds just like the squeal surrounding 13830, Feb 25 at 2125, WEWN Spanish. I bet they have the same type transmitters, in need of fresh cards in the modulator, but they can`t figure out they have a problem or how to fix it. Being high-pitched, the squeal is louder if you tune slightly to the side of either frequency.

11870, Feb 26 at 0705, this WEWN Spanish frequency overnight is also squealy; normally it`s too weak and too noisy to detect that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, Feb 26 at 0502 tune-in to some guitar music, then a hymnsing starts and WBCQ cuts carrier at 0502:15*. I think 0500 is the nominal sign-off time most nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4079, Feb 26 at 1141, MCW beacon sends TMP 38 over and over. This is one of those HIFERs, per
http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/High_Frequency_Beacon

``4079.7 TMPnnn SW Arizona The TEMPERATURE BEACON - Temperature in deg. F. - sends 'TMP' then 2 - 3 digit temp. in CW every 10 seconds. 1 watt [3] March 4, 2012``

It may well have been on 4079.7, as did not try to measure it closely, but definiely on lo side of 4080.0.

And here is [3] thread about it being heard, latest almost a year ago:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=6200.0
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4045-USB, Feb 26 at 1143, marine weather for Bahamas, Turx & Caicos --- it`s the Bel Ami net as often reported by Bob Wilkner, as in DXLD 13-07, presumably this being the base station in Lakeland FL, WCY as in DXLD 9-050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 790, Feb 26 at 1226, KNST is dominant, with promo. Tucson AZ station is 5/0.5 kW, so should be on night power; Feb sunrise is not until 1415; March 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1390, Feb 26 at 1243 UT, at least one definite ID while local KCRC is iced off: jingle for KNCK, i.e. Concordia, Kansas, presumably on PSRA of 500 watts instead of 54 watts night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Checking likely spots for TP carriers around 1306 UT sunrise here Feb 26: at 1310: JBA carriers on 747, 828, probably Japan; at 1311, on 774, probably Japan, 738 probably Tahiti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1110, Feb 26 at 0558 UT, soft jazz in null of KFAB making SAH. None of the other nighttime US stations look likely in the NRC AM Log, so switch to the IRCA Mexican log for most likely candidate there, XEWR in Ciudad Juárez, 500 watts at night, but there are several others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1390, Feb 26 at 1240 UT with local KCRC Enid off due to power outage, it`s time to DX anything else on 1390 --- but it`s generally frustrating with a graveyard-like pileup of equally weak signals. At this point I do hear a promo mentioning 107.5, seems to be east/west. No sure match in the NRC AM Log; Googling leads to a relationship between WGRB Chicago IL and 107.5, such as in a crossover person: http://www.inspiration1390.com/pages/drea.html
but that`s a bit too tenuous to base an ID on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1390, Feb 26 at 1241 UT in the absence of local KCRC Enid, something(s) from Arkansas: ``serving the heart of Arkansas for 100 years``. But neither of the two 1390 AR stations is anywhere near the `heart` i.e. Little Rock --- KFFK Rogers in the NW corner, and KDQN DeQueen in the SW corner. Googling on that phrase is inconclusive, maybe applying to United Way or a children`s hospital, not necessarily as of 2013y.

At 1242 UT, Arkansas Federal Credit Union offers free app; and 433-1010 is the traffic number at The Buzz Radio Network.

OK, that number for traffic center (not clear if it means road reports, or booking commercial time!) traces to http://www.point941.com/contact/default.aspx
so this AM station must be related to that FM station in Little Rock.

This site http://www.buzzradionetwork.com/
merely lists a series of callsigns which don`t go anywhere, ``KAGL | KDRS | KFFA | KGPQ | KNAS | KNWA | KREB | KSAR | KTLO | KTTG | KXJK``
not including KDQN or KFFK, but does include KFFA --- could that be related to KFFK? Not geographically: KFFA is FM 103.1 way over on the Mississippi River in Helena. KNWA is 1600 in Harrison/Bellefonte, not too far from Rogers but not the same market, apparently unrelated.

Another little problem with the 1390 Arkansawyers is that both are Spanish per the NRC AM Log and all this was in English. KDQN-FM is English, AM is Spanish. Can`t find a real website for KFFK.

I give up trying to sort this out and decide which station(s) I really heard. Perhaps someone with an intimate knowledge of Arkansas radio can unravel it, at least confirm which 1390(s) be in Spanish and which in English, or both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9410-9445, Feb 25 at 2128-2129, wandering banshee blob is back, slowing moving upward with decreasing and then increasing hets against fixed broadcasters on 9410, 9420, 9435, 9445. This is what was previously associated with the defective All India Radio transmitter on 9470; among the victims is AIR GOS on 9445 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9578 approx., Feb 26 at 0737, as I am checking out Morocco vs Gabon? See UNIDENTIFIED 9580, I also find a very weak SSB signal on the low side of Médi Un, no doubt an intruder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9580, Feb 26 at 0735, something very weak is hetting 9579.1 MOROCCO in French. Can it be GABON, which has been missing the last few days at various chex? Australia doesn`t start until 0800, and Aoki, EiBi show the only other 9580 at this hour is Tibet, in English, in fact --- except this is Tuesday, the one day of the week when this and many other ChiCom SW transmitters take a siesta or maintenance break at 0700-0930! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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RFI and RTV Algerienne

FRANCE/ALGERIA     Frequency change of Radio and TV Algerienne from Feb.24:
0600-0605 NF  7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx bulletin, ex 5865
0605-0658 NF  7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qura'n, ex 5865
New frequency 7295 is not registered in HFCC database effective from Feb.24

FRANCE   Again strange frequencies of Radio France Internationale in French
1700-1758 on 17853.35 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to CeAf // 17860 from same tx!!!
1800-1858 on 11996.45*ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf // 13740 new from Feb.24
1900-1958 on 12001.00*ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WCAf // 13740 new from Feb.24
* but no signal on fundamental 11995 which was changed to 13740 from Feb.24
No problem on other freqs of RFI 04-09, 12-13, 20-22, checking on Feb.24-25

FRANCE(non)   Unchanged frequency of Radio France Internationale in Swahili
0530-0558 on 11790 MEY 100 kW / 007 deg to EaAf not 15160 on Feb.24 // 9835

--
73!

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs February 25, 2013

** CANADA. 1610, Feb 25 at 0702 UT, some Spanish is making it thru the IBOC noise from 1600 KATZ MO, so it`s reduced by monitoring in LSB (yes, LSB since the IBOC peaks at +13 from the main channel). The IBOC noise fades in a regular pattern as if it is subject to subaudible heterodyning, but maybe it`s really the 1610 carrier which is fading up and down. Apparently a drama, and presumed CHHA Toronto, Voces Latinas. The SAH could be from much weaker CJWI Montreal, further on in the same direxion. This log on the FRG-7 with fixed E-W longwire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GABON [non]. 9579+, Feb 25 at 0620, once again, I am only hearing MOROCCO, talk in Arabic, and no het, no carrier from Africa Number One on 9580 --- could it be gone for good? Is anyone else hearing it anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 960, Feb 25 at 0600-0605 UT, local KGWA Enid continues to provide a Fox-hole of dead air most nights --- well, almost, except for that nasty hum. Carefully nulling it on the DX-398 by the window, from long experience I recognize three stations coming thru: at 0602, 4-descending `XEW` chimes really from XEK Nuevo Laredo; then at 0603 harmonica blues music presumably from WABG Greenwood MS.

And also ABC News from KMA Shenandoah IA --- the latter playing a clip of Oklahoma`s reaxionary governess Mary Fallin (at least: she`s anti-smoking), which is very strange, since I remember hearing a clip from her exactly 24 hours earlier altho did not bother to log it then. Could ABC have been playing back a day-old newscast? Or does Fallin get a regular spot on the midnight report? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, Feb 25 at 0623, WRMI with some pulse jamming is relaying ABC TV news! Terry Moran with his emotional reporting from inside Syria, sounds like something previously on `Nightline`. I think I know which side this journalist is on, but it is pretty hard to be objective when bloody opthalmologist-dictator Assad is concerned. Would you trust your eyesight to that creature? Then found same a few words behind on 3185 WWRB, so it`s really Brother Scare who is playing this clip to serve his own wacky purposes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 15270, Feb 25 at 1542, S Asian vocal music, good with flutter; 1545 into talk. HFCC and Aoki agree it`s AWR via Trincomalee, 250 kW, 355 degrees in Hindi at 1530-1600, preceded by Punjabi at 1500. This azimuth carries onward to N America transpolar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 910, Feb 25 at 1316 UT, level-headed report about gay marriage which does not condemn the idea! On AM radio! O, it`s `Morning Edition`, as at 1318 ID for IPR, Iowa Public Radio, i.e. WSUI Iowa City, where NPR has this strange concept of objectivity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 990, Feb 25 at 1306 UT, CBS World News Roundup with report from Larry Miller in London; 1308 ID as AM 990, a bit of music and then Memphis TN traffic, 1310 weather from WREG-TV, expecting to escape the snowstorm further west in OK et al. AM-990 is really KWAM, 10 kW day power. CBS WNR did not formally close and I had the feeling AM-990 cut away from it; network newscasts are far too cooperative in allowing affiliates to do that. Enough, already of news from the world beyond US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15180, Feb 25 at 1541, big open carrier. Nothing scheduled here now, anytime between 1457 and 2200. I would have guessed a characteristic VOA GB tuneup far in advance of scheduled transmission, except there aren`t any on 15180: still could be that, as some frequencies are for test-only, to avoid QRMing other stations on the ultimate channel. WHRI is listed here daily at 22-23 by the big four references, but I only hear it on Fridays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

USA: B-12 schedule Greenville

USA   B-12 SW schedule from Greenville Edward R.Morrow Transmitting Station
0000-0300 on  9825 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0000-0500 on  7365 GB  250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0000-0700 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0030-0200 on  5890 GB  250 kW / 164 deg to SoAm Spanish Tue-Sat VOA
0030-0200 on  9885 GB  250 kW / 172 deg to SoAm Spanish Tue-Sat VOA
0030-0200 on 12000 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to SoAm Spanish Tue-Sat VOA
0130-0200 on  5960 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to SoAm Special English Tue-Sat VOA
0130-0200 on  7465 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to SoAm Special English Tue-Sat VOA
0200-0245 on  7305 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to CeAm Spanish Vatican Radio
0300-0500 on 15580 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf English VOA
0300-0700 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0700-0900 on  5980 GB  250 kW / 172 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0700-0900 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti Tue-Sun
0900-1100 on  5980 GB  250 kW / 172 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
0900-1200 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1100-1300 on  5980 GB  250 kW / 190 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1100-1300 on  9805 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1100-1400 on  5745 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1130-1200 on  7305 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to CeAm Spanish Vatican Radio
1200-1400 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1300-1400 on  5745 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to SoAm Spanish VOA
1300-1400 on  9885 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to SoAm Spanish VOA
1300-1400 on 13750 GB  250 kW / 168 deg to SoAm Spanish VOA
1300-2200 on 11930 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1400-2000 on 15330 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1400-2200 on 13820 GB  250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
1630-1700 on 17655 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf Portuguese Fri VOA
1700-1800 on 17655 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf Portuguese VOA
1800-1830 on 17655 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf Portuguese Mon-Fri VOA
1830-1900 on 15620 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf French VOA
1830-2030 on 15225 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to CeAf French VOA
2000-2100 on 15580 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to EaAf English VOA
2130-2200 on 13670 GB  250 kW / 094 deg to WeAf Bambara Mon-Fri VOA from March 4
2200-2400 on  6030 GB  250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
2200-2400 on  7405 GB  250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti
2200-2400 on  9565 GB  250 kW / 174 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Marti

Ascolti AM Treviso 23 - 24 febbraio

1602 23/2 Radio Euskadi, Cerro Estibaliz (Vitoria) TS ID Informativos QRM SER Es 22322
9610 24/2 1002 AWR Europe, Issoudun Px "Studio Dx 504" It 55555
981 24/2 1100  RAI FVG "Trst A", Trieste Px sloveno Sl 34444
21610 24/2 1305 R. Exterior España, Noblejas Px "Amigos O.C." Es 55555
15340 24/2 1530 Radio Habana Cuba, La Habana ID Nx Es 34443
7390 24/2 1506 Radio Romania Int., Saftica  Px "Posta ascoltat" It 55555

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia
RX:  1) SONY ICF SW7600G
Ant.: VHF esterna azimuth 230 gradi
RX: 2) SANYO MW737K
Ant.: interna a ferrite

Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2013

** ALGERIA [and non]. 7295, Feb 24 at 0649, Qur`an, no doubt the RTA relay via Issoudun, FRANCE, which so far in the B-12 season had been running only at 05-06, followed by RFI Hausa at 0600-0630*.

Feb 24 is the off-season change date for RFI scheduling, moving many of its own broadcasts one or two bands higher, and this obviously also affects relays of Algeria --- but as of 18 Feb, NO *240213 dates are in HFCC for RTA, while there are many for RFI itself. Nothing on 5865 now, which until today had been running RTA at 04-07. No doubt there are many more shifts to rediscover.

The OLD RTA (or rather initialed TDA) entries in HFCC B-12 all show effective from *281012 to 300313* --- 04-07 5865, 05-06 7295; 18-19 11955, 19-21 7390 & 11775, 21-22 9395, 21-23 7495; all via Issoudun. Note that when two frequencies are on, they have usually been carrying two separate services, some including news in French on the hour.

HFCC also includes IMAGINARY B-12 listings until 30 March for two sites inside Algeria itself, ORG and BEC: 04-06 7265 & 7360; 06-07 9490 & 9815; 18-19 11690 & 11715; 19-23 11770 & 11785. If anyone ever hear Algeria on any of these frequencies, it will be big news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda curta``, a website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macapá``, so I am confident it`s not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macapá, ZYF360 in Acre. Signal is second only to Pará on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macapá supposedly has a 25 to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 24 at 1420-1425: none found 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6010, Feb 24 at 0653, RHC missing from one of its overkill five English frequencies, audiblizing BBC on 6005; see U K [non]. Another day, another anomaly or more from RHC. Yes, more:

11760, Sunday Feb 24 at 1416, this is the RHC dead-air open-carrier channel, audiblizing BBC underneath, while RHC Spanish music is nominal on 11690, 11750, 11860, 13780, 15340, 17580, at least.

12220.0, Feb 24 at 1419, RHC in `Amigos de Cuba` show, very poor, but heard on two receivers and // synchronized with 11860. This one does not compute as a leapfrog mixing product among any of the 25mb frequencies; nor is RHC supposed to be on 6110, which could harmonicize here and indeed nothing audible there at 1428 check.

Ahá, I`ve got it: leapfrog of 15340 over 13780 another 1560 kHz lower! Never a dull day from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 4780v, Feb 24 at 0056, unlike 24 hours earlier, no signal at all around this frequency from suspected R. Oriental; on Feb 10, Rich D`Angelo had that signing off already at 2359* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. 9490, Feb 24 at 0104, R. República is back to VG signal after weakened last night, and furthermore, can`t find any spurblobs on 9374 or 9606, so maybe the replacement part has finally arrived and been installed at MSY? Can`t be sure, pending further chex of this, 5960 and 11740 output at other hours.

9606 area is however generally noisy, traced to bleed from REE Costa Rica DRM centered on 9630, far beyond its touted bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Feb 24 at 1459, good signal with ``Inja`` something, so it`s Farsi or related, mentions some kHz, fast SAH develops, 3-pip timesignal and off; immediately replaced by R. Free Asia theme, English ID and into Chinese. HFCC has the answers:

NHK Persian via Issoudun, FRANCE at 1430-1500, 500 kW, 90 degrees;
RFA Mandarin via TINIAN at 1500-1700, 250 kW, 295 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 550, Feb 24 at 0616, a Suprema Corte ``tiempo oficial`` government PSA, dominant signal from NE/SW but with a SAH of about 4 Hz; 0617 balada music; 0623 ``La Super Estación, 550 AM``, 11:22 timecheck. Therefore it is, per Cantú:

550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 150
No sign of Low German or indigenous language at the moment. IRCA and WRTH agree on night power, if we can believe that: not bad for 150 watts, rather than 5 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, VG signal in Spanish, timecheck for 6:37, so it`s the usual XEP Ciudad Juárez, which penetrates well even a semihour past sunrise here with its 38 day kW per Cantú (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Feb 24 at 0104, Mighty KBC via BULGARIA has fair signal in music with flutter. Goodbye to this site and frequency, as from March it moves to 7375 via Nauen, Germany, still 0000-0200 UT Sundays, expecting better results. Will someone assume Croatia is back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Feb 24 at 1346 UT, NBC Sports Radio update as it`s late enough for KGHM Midwest City to reclaim the graveyard on groundwave; 1350 ad for something in Norman at http://www.jdmc.org i.e. the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental disabilities; non-ID as 1340-The-Ghame, back to sports talk referencing fox.com --- so with the proliferation of silly sports networks, KGHM has added NBC to its main network, Fox Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 24 at 0100, CNR1 jammer timesignal and off, while China/Cuba 5990 is still on with splatter. It soon cuts off, but still splatter from further afield covers all but the carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba. Is it from RHC 6000? No, the splat is talk while RHC is music. Best bet then is from WWCR 5935, also extremely strong. WWCR can put a mixing product directly on 5980, a leap from 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, but 5890 is not on yet. I can still copy the exact time R. Chaski cuts its carrier: 0106:53.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 6005, Feb 24 at 0653, BBCWS discussing Catholic reform; good signal with characteristic ASCENSION hum, and in the clear thanks to RHC missing from 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 24 at 0059, WWRB is up and running in carrierless mode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4840, Feb 24 at 0110, WWCR-3 on this frequency too is suffering from a squeal, little affected by the emanations of Texe Marrs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9330-CUSB & 7490-AM, Feb 24 at 0112, `Thru the Bible` on both WBCQ frequencies with contact info in Pasadena CA, etc. Using the DX-398 only on the porch, can`t be positive they are // and synchronized, but certainly seem to be so, switching back and forth. These two transmitters supposedly carry two different services from Good Friends Radio Network; and from next week/month, 7490 is supposed to introduce some new secular programming on Saturday nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3390-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0101 as I am quickly scanning down the 90m band for broadcast signals, here`s a Navy MARS net, someone in Michigan, over to NNN0APN in Indiana.

3315-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0103, further down the 90m band, an Air Force MARS net with AFA- calls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1800-2000 kHz, Feb 24 at 0702 UT, tuning across the 160m band, it`s crammed with SSB hams, unlike usual here and there. They are in a contest, exchanging signal reports from one state to another. If there were any foreign stations, they would be hard to find. Logged only one without noting the frequency, WW8OH, which ARRL/FCC lookup shows:
CENTRAL OHIO OPERATORS KLUB EXTRA - NOVICE, WW8OH (Club), PO Box: 4,
THORNVILLE, OH 43076 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, Feb 24 at 0627 UT, open carrier/dead air presumed from dominant KGGF Coffeyville KS, with two other stations underneath, one with C2C, which would be KTSM El Paso TX rather than WOKV Jaxonville FL, the only two 690s on affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1200, Feb 24 at 1353 UT, single signal with promo for something Sunday at 2 pm ``on Faith 1200, KFNW``, then an Aleluya song. Must have been in a WOAI fade, as it`s soon coming back with a SAH of about 6 Hz. KFNW is 50/13 kW U4 from West Fargo ND. Day power starts at 1330 UT in Feb, 1245 in March (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1336 UT, in KSOK Kansas null, YL in Spanish with local weather somewhere, ``a través de Qué Bueno``, on to music. That slogan clinches it as KBNO in Denver CO, 5/5 kW, in NRC AM Log as ``La Cadena Nueva Qué Bueno``. Note the masculine bueno, instead of the usual buena in station slogans. But what does it refer to as masculine? Maybe it`s only to match the callsign, someone else having KBNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1356 UT, encounter a station axually playing our national anthem, but it can`t be a sign-on, from KSOK Arkansas City KS. It`s a country version by an OM soloist --- but boo! Faded down before finished at 1358, outro as a ``country classic``, and then a CBS News Update. ``Country Classics`` is the slogan of KSOK, and NRC AM Log showed it affiliated only with ABC.

If I owned a radio station, especially a SW one, I would play the ``Star Spangled Banner`` at least twice a day, whether signing on/off or not, and in a different version from one time to the next. There must be scores of them recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1320, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, Spanish balada music, and signal growing, roughly east-west; and at 1342 in its null, a different Spanish music station, roughly north-south; by 1344, the E/W station is being overtaken by the Oklahoman, KCLI Clinton, which is the off-frequency one causing a LAH --- yes reconfirmed at 1800 UT noon, KCLI is on the lo side.

Consulting the NRC AM Log, the only two SS around here do fit this pattern:
KRDD Roswell NM, 1000/188 watts, non-direxional day and night
(oh oh, official February sunrise is not until 1345 UT; 1315 in March)
KXYZ Houston TX, 5000/5000 watts, non-direxional days, but also ETHnic, and I think usually heard in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, Feb 24 at 1339 UT, ``The 12 thousand watt west Texas powerhouse, 1330 KCKM``, Monahans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 3400, Feb 24 at 0102, JBA carrier; could it be some 1700, 850, or 680 station harmonicizing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4850, Feb 24 at 0058, either a het or a tone test where we usually hear Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan in Kazakh service, which should be amid a morning broadcast, not testing. If there were two signals, the only other broadcaster would be AIR Kohima. Aoki has no morning span for it, but Eibi does, at 0000-0415. Too much else going on to stay with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Feb 23 at 2211, open carrier. Suspect it`s XEPPM already, as in Aoki & EiBi there is nothing scheduled this hour, nor in HFCC except for an imaginary 10-kW Malaysian. EiBi does have both China Huayi and XEPPM starting at 2230, while as in Aoki, XEPPM officially does not start until 0000 and no listing there for Huayi in the local mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs February 22-23, 2013

** CUBA. 15510+, Feb 23 at 1400, RHC IS and ID weak but clear as I tune across, slightly offset, and doesn`t go away with attenuation, so apparently a real spur out of the 15340 transmitter; doesn`t compute either as a mix with 15230 which is at the other site, anyway, an echo apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GUIANA FRENCH, TURKEY, USA

** GUIANA FRENCH. 9606 & 9374, Feb 23 at 0103, cannot detect the usual +/- 116 spurs from 9490 R. República, checking after getting 11635 OK, relaying KOREA SOUTH. Then I find the fundamental 9490 is abnormally weak, in fact, JBA under wall-of-noise jamming. It`s the carrier which is much attenuated, not just the modulation level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA SOUTH [non]

** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325, Feb 23 at 1325 music, 1332 YL in Indonesian, 1334 music, now 25 minutes after sunrise in Enid, so RRI Palangkaraya instead of PNG; it`s the SSOB except for WWRB 3185.

This encourages me to check 60m: 4750, NO RRI here, just JBA carrier, Bangladesh or China or China. Ron Howard reported yesterday that both RRI and Bangladesh were absent.

4870, however, at 1325 Feb 23 has a LAH --- low audible heterodyne between two carriers, not much, but the TADIL-A bonker on the lo side is even weaker, so not a problem now. Per Aoki, the only two 4870 broadcasters are RRI Wamena, and from 1330, AIR Nepali service, Delhi-Kingsway site. Not bad for 300 vs 100,000 watts, respectively, and Wamena is always reported off-frequency low, as 4869.93 by Ron Howard on Feb 21.

Atsunori Ishida reports on http://www.rri.jpn.org/ ---
4750, Makassar was last heard on Feb 20.
4870, Wamena went off at 1318* Feb 20, missing Feb 21-22, and today Feb 23 until 1458* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 11635, Feb 23 at 0102, KBSWR in Spanish about Seul, fair signal via GUIANA FRENCH and with characteristic lite hum. Still here rather than 9605 tested from unknown site a week ago, so decided against that? BTW, someone observed that programming on 9605 and 11635 did not match, further evidence that 9605 was not GUF. But see also GUIANA FRENCH.

15575, Feb 23 at 1339, KBSWR, English to ``North`` America (or BBC?) is a JBA carrier, unlike its surprise audibility yesterday, so did not expect to hear `Worldwide Friendship`; however, next check at 1404 KBS was fairly audible in Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Channel A2 NTSC, Feb 22 at 2332 tune-in, traces of analog video with antenna south, soon gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 23 at 0054 UT check, KYHN still running promos only; it`s Smerconish again talking about Larry David. Some Spanish CCI which could be El Paso or DF, but far more likely Denver (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 23 at 0100, noise level even on the subfreezing porch is very high, altho unseems jamming, so I can barely hear a pip as the CNR1 jammer signs off. Only with offset BFO can I continue to hear the R. Chaski carrier and time its cutoff tonight at 0106:48.5 as it closes in on 0107 which will be attained in a triday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 21540, Feb 23 at 1448, REE is still on and QRMing KUWAIT, altho some days it`s off before 1500.

REE continues to run 17595 on Sat and Sun mornings only from 1300(?), obviously on NAm antenna with bigsig, tho you will not find that in schedules such as Aoki, or even from REE itself. There is no signal at all on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TIBET [non]. 7414-, Feb 23 at 1329-1330* check, still awful roaring blob of distortion, little program modulation detectable, i.e. V. of Tibet, Chinese via Tajikistan or somewhere. What in the world are transmitter operators thinking, when they let something like this go on the air day after day, as in too many other cases as well? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY [and non]. 15350, Feb 23 at 1341, VOT with beautiful but sad Turkish song by YL in mandatory very minor key; 1342 announcement and another sad song by OM. At first clear of RHC 15340 splatter, but now its signal is building and starting to bother: not off the air unlike yesterday, when Turkey was too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1657 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, UT Sat Feb 23 starting just before 0230, following some filler after an `AWWW` ending earlier; and also confirmed on 5110v-CUSB at 0257 check.

Our ``best`` remaining airing on WRMI is Saturday 1600: checked Feb 23 at 1622, JBA carrier, and noise level is slightly higher on 9955 than adjacent 9950 & 9960, so apparently some weak jamming is also running. Presumably WRMI can be heard with much better signal on its 160-degree azimuth from Hialeah toward the Caribbean and South America, but I rarely get any reports from there. Presumably2 WRMI is keeping on this beam only, despite 24/7 transmissions, 65.5% dedicated to Brother Scare, as the enlightenment of The Last Day Prophet of God must go forth unto all the world.

WOR Next: Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 23 at 0055, WWRB not on yet, but yes, on at 0108 with a-huffin` & a-puffin` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15825, Saturday Feb 23 at 1405, WWCR with `Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories`, and crosstalk underneath: not // 13845 DGS, nor the other playout of MM on 7490; and fourth transmitter is not on 9980 yet this day of week. So that leaves 1300 WNQM as presumed source of mixture, their MW station at same site. At least there are no modulation spike spurs today in the 15650 area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [and non]. 11605, Feb 23 at 1353, good open carrier, already with whoop-whoop siren jamming, both sides warming up for RFA`s Vietnamese hour at 1400 via TAIWAN. Altho annoying, this kind of jamming doesn`t really block the offensive signals as heard here; how bad is it inside Vietnam? Are these sirens intended for groundwave around a city or cities? It`s 708 miles or 1140 km between Hanoi and Saigon, so the north and south could jam each other effectively at a good skip distance on 25m. However, we never hear more than one siren transmitter at a time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4779.88 approx., Feb 23 at 0057, Andean music has better signal than 4775 R. Tarma, Perú or any of the others below 4800 --- 4790, 4747, 4717. Probably R. Oriental, ECUADOR, which is usually closer to or even above 4781. But does it vary down to here?

Note this from 2011y: ``Bob [Wilkner] and I heard a similar Spanish speaking UNID on 4779.87 on Sep 02, 06, 07, 12 and 13 between 2255 and 0218 UT. R Tacana, Tumupasa, Bolivia or R Oriental, Tena, Ecuador? Best 73, Anker [Petersen]``. R. Tacana has not been reported in a long time now, presumed inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs February 21-22, 2013

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Feb 22, ``Argentine Antarctica Day`` has finally arrived, but no show of even a JBA carrier from LRA36, which might have reactivated for the occasion, at chex 1342, 1408-1413; so much for that. How about some news from Argentina about RNASG`s latest plans? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 2325 & 2485, Feb 22 at 1334, carriers from presumed VL8s detectable, but 2485 has heavy ute QRM noise of some sort (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 11660, Feb 22 at 1423, RA with English lesson for Chinese, repeating numerous times ``neither do I``, with alternate pronunciation also, ``neether``; apparently in reply to ``he doesn`t like classical music``. I object! After 1430 this frequency goes into fulltime Strine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Feb 22 at 1350, fair signal in S Asian language, i.e. HCJB, daily in Hindi during this semihour, tnx to the absence of RHC; HCJB much weaker after 1400, faded to JBA by 1414, with RHC still missing. As usual, suspected long path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 22:
15510, fair at 1348; by 1351 improved to good, off at 1400
No others found 12-18 MHz in next few minutes

15400, poor at 1406; unheard target per Aoki: V. of Tibet, in Tibetan, 250 kW, 45 degrees from Madagascar at 1400-1428
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15340, today`s anomaly from RHC: no signal Feb 22 at 1350, audiblizing HCJB AUSTRALIA, q.v.; while still on 15230, 17580, 17730, 11 MHz channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 15330, Feb 22 at 1402, only jamming noise, but by 1404, R. Martí has come on late mostly atop the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]

** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 22 at 1344, KBS World Radio`s rescheduled English to ``North America`` direct at 13-14, ex 12-13 via defunct Canada 9650, is finally audible!! First time since it started in November, on 81 degree antenna which is really aimed at Hawaii and Buenos Aires. M&W discussing whether S Korea should go nuclear in power and weapons, in response to N Korea. No sign of BBC co-channel, but a slight SAH appeared at 1359, as KBS wrapped up English, ``Korea`s flagship international broadcaster`` plugging webcasts and other platforms; 1400 theme music and opening Korean language hour; this fades down a lot in the next few minutes.

It`s to be expected that approaching equinoxial/springtime conditions will audiblize this transmission which has been totally useless all winter; but could have been a fluke and not likely to be reliable daily. Will it be there 24 hours later on Saturday for `Worldwide Friendship` including DX news? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Feb 22 at 1426, another great concert of Kurdish vocal music from V. of Kurdistan; brief announcement at 1432, more music to 1500. Good signal with lite fading, via PRIDNESTROVYE. Much weaker at 1557 as I am again monitoring for evidence of site change: no break in transmission, but signal seems to surge a bit at 1559, and this hour the timesignal is only 6 seconds late after 1600! I had BFO on and it was really too weak anyway to hear whether there was any overlap in audio. Ivo Ivanov says circa 1600 it now changes to the Kostinbrod, BULGARIA site until 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 22 at 1326 UT, KYHN still promoting, not axually programming, now with Michael Smerconish again talking about Larry David (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, Feb 22 at 1330, carrier here with slight wobble, traces of modulation vs noise level, presumably can only be NBC East New Britain, Rabaul. Tuned in too late, 19 minutes after sunrise already; another carrier on 3325 which could be PNG or Indonesia. Australia 120m frequencies were also detectable.

This led me to check the 75m frequencies for PNG: amid heavy QRhaM, carriers detectable on 3905 and 3915 at 1335-1337, weaker than the Korean radio war jamming on 3912 and incomparably weaker than Japan 3925, which the hams sensibly avoid.

Those two carriers could have been AM hams, but while I listened did not interrupt. Only broadcaster on 3905 is NBC New Ireland, Kavieng; and on 3915 only one is Radio Fly, Kinunga, per Aoki (BBC Singapore is 21-24 UT only), but I`ve seen no reports of Fly since October, so presumed inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 22 at 0100, CNR1 jammer timesignal and off, uncovering very weak music from R. Chaski, Urubamba. 0101 talk and music, muffled announcement, music, 0103 mostly talk with music, 0105 music only, instrumental hymn? Carrier cut tonight at 0106:43.5* So continues to slip 4-5 sex later each night. Missed checking a couple nights due to bad weather, but for a few minutes braved the ice around the porch, temp 27 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, Feb 22 at 0643 and 1337 chex, Brother Scare vs Cuban jamming. I can`t think of two ``services`` that deserve each other more. If the DentroCubans paid any attention to what they are really jamming, the 110 hours per week of BS on WRMI might help to clear out the jamming by the end of May, but don`t count on it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11680, Feb 21 at 2058, REE IS, 2100 opening Portuguese; recheck at 2154, closing with full schedule including the 1830 broadcast on ``17850 to North America``, which was the Costa Rica relay, gone since last November! Is no one paying attention? After one REE IS, cut off at 2156:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TIBET [non]. 7414-, Feb 22 at 1327, mainly roar from terrible transmitter, bit of talk audible under, presumably Chinese from V. of Tibet, maybe Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 12095, Feb 22 at 1349, BBCWS clashing with assertive gospel huxter in unknown language. Aoki and HFCC show that BBC tolerates a collision at 10-14 from FEBC Bocaue, Philippines, in Laotian languages toward the WNW, 280 degrees at the moment, while BBC at 06-15 is 15 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA --- which means the beams cross over Ethiopia. Yet BBC complained to the FCC about WTWW on 12100, forcing it to shift to 12105 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 11840, fair via Lampertheim, GERMANY, Feb 22 at 1518, VOA `Border Crossings` request show in English, inexplicably inserting an announcement about it in Croatian! That language is not even on the list at http://www.voanews.com/#
so not on any platform, unlike Serbian, Macedonian and ``Bosnian``.

Lest we consider VOA first among equals, WRTH 2013 lists all the other BBG ``stations`` before it under USA, or is it just a matter of alfabetization?

Larry London`s shtick at the moment is ``most annoying songs`` according to someone`s survey, so playing in full #1, Celine`s Titanic tune, which I feel is beautiful and really moving, altho would not want to hear it every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1657 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing, Thursday Feb 21 after 2200 on WTWW-1 9479, excellent signal as usual.

WWRB was again in pure USB only on 5050 at 0057 & 0253 chex UT Friday Feb 22, during gospel huxter with so much hum, the USB never went silent during long pauses. Retune 0426 in preparation for WORLD OF RADIO nominally at 0430: now there are Bible stories if not quotations, with continuous musical background, and this keeps going past 0430, also on // 3195-AM, no WOR! Pauses every so often as a new chapter of something is introduced, 21, then 22 at 0440, etc. Finally at 0442, Dave comes on apologizing for WOR delay due to ``computer problems``, again, and WOR playback finally starts at 0442.6. How many listeners gave up before then? Do not! Also on webcast, but as always, that cuts to KJV Bible at 0500 no matter what, while the two SW frequencies do stay on late past 0500, still at 0504+ and presumably to the conclusion of WOR circa 0511.

Next: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB. Saturday 1600 on WRMI 9955. Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120. UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7506.4, Feb 22 at 0252, WRNO gospel huxter with good modulation now; there had been reports of horrible modulation again or even absence. At least the frequency is still unrepaired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 15495, Feb 22 at 1352, good signal in Vietnamese monolog, what? 1358 VR IS and off, scheduled as 250 kW, 280 degrees via TINIAN at 1315-1400. So it`s not only from SMG that VR signals spray out in totally unwanted direxions.

At 1407 Feb 22, now 15495 has a weaker signal in Chinese, i.e. KSDA, 100 kW, 300 degrees from Agat, GUAM at 14-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Feb 21 at 2053, ZBC is poor-fair with hilife music, 2057.30 brief announcement over music which continued a bit more until cut off abruptly at 2057:47* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)