** ARGENTINA [and non]. 11710.7, UT Sat Feb 2 at 0115, RAE has nice signal in Japanese talk and song, approximately measured here, escaping het from much weaker 11710.0 by tuning USB. The external service is UT Tue-Sat only. I am checking this because someone recently reported RAE on the other side of 11710, ``11709`` while I`ve always found it on the hi side. 11710.0 would be CNR1 Beijing, until 0130, only thing in Aoki, and no doubt a bit of an obstacle to RAE reception in Japan, even if it should propagate that far over an unlikely mostly daypath (? Or night? it`s close to antipodal) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717, Feb 2 at 0055, poor signal, music with a beat, once again no doubt R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, best of the Andean signals on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Feb 2 at 0128, R. Santa Cruz, good signal with tropical music, no het tho always off-frequency. This is a good example of exotic stations benefiting from ISWBC closedowns: since St. Petersburg self-destructed at yearend, there are no major broadcasters anywhere on 6135 during a BBC break from 0000 to 0430 --- altho Aoki lists R. Aparecida, Brasil, until 0300 but not even a het audible from it, probably inactive as on some other channels. RSC also stays on much later than 0110* as in Aoki, sometimes as late as 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 14950.8, Feb 2 at 0117, NO signal from Salem Stereo, which was last heard Sept 30, 2012. I do check this occasionally in case there`s a comeback and/or in case low winter MUFs up here have been to blame, unpropagating should it exist. Note to DSWCI: DO NOT PUBLISH THIS AS A LOG --- it is a NON-LOG, but possibly useful info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, Feb 1 at 0621, in my previous report about RHC being off the air at this time, I neglected to mention that altho at first it seemed off, I then detected a carrier on 6165, presumably RHC but much weaker than the usual strength, and no modulation.
I`m reminded of this because a reply about my log came from Steve Luce in Houston TX: ``Glenn, at 0450 Feb 1, I heard RHC weakly on 6165, but a big surprise was the second harmonic on 12330, which was much stronger than the fundamental. Modulation somewhat low, but solid carrier. Nothing heard on 3X multiple of 18495``
At that time I didn`t think of checking for the harmonix; evidently the transmitter was grossly mistuned, as RHC continues to rack up anomaly after anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Feb 2 at 0057, fair signal in Turkic, no doubt Xinjiang PBS Uighur service from Urumqi again, where sunrise is 0126 UT today = 9:26 local time even in far western ``China`` where they are forced to go by the UT+8 Beijing clock instead of UT+6 as it should be. 5060 then found as good in Chinese, but the Kazkah service on 4850 is only at the ``algo`` level.
Ron Howard replied to my previous log: ``Hi Glenn, Here in Calif. the reception of PBS Xinjiang, in assume Kazakh, on 4850 varies a great deal from day to day. On a good day sounds like this recording https://www.box.com/s/wcpul1wwdn4xgd9rw7lc
[1209-1211 UT Jan 28] Of course this is best when AIR Kohima is off the air.`` Well, I wouldn`t mind hearing Kohima instead! Recordings of which Ron has also provided (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. Fourth night in a row, Montsinéry is again radiating parasitic distorted FMy spurblobs with no modulation intelligence at the usual displacements from undermodulated 9490 Radio República, at 0134 check Feb 2: approx. 9258, 9374, 9455, 9525, 9606, but too much signals from Greece on 9420 and Vatican on 9560 to be sure of that pair previously detected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Feb 2 at 0058, time for another try at R. Chaski, once again music mixing with Chinese from the CNR1 jammer, which cuts off promptly after the 0100 timesignal. Weak music continues in the clear, hymn tune, 0102:35 segué to other music, and unlike the past few nights, no announcements at all until cut off the air at 0105:10*. Seems to be precessing a few sex later each time. Bruce Maddux, Baptist missionary who runs the station, has commented that R. Chaski used to be on SW until some 10 years ago, so some research is in order:
Via LA SW Logs, a comprehensive listing by frequency of Peruvians in the 1992-2002 period shows it was logged around 5981 only during one year, 1998:http://www.mcdxt.it/HKPeru1.htm
Radio Chaski, Cusco (ex- 6087.9 [in 1997y])
5981.0 Feb 23 1101 s/on
Prgr: Alabanza en la mañana, La devocional del día
5981.5 Mar 31 0018
5981.4 Apr 20 2215
5981.5 Jul 19 1105
5981.4 Aug 27 1104
This huge listing was compiled by Henrik Klemetz and Rafael Rodríguez, and includes lots of out-of-band stations, harmonix and spurs.
Some other Peruvians have occupied 5980: Radio LTC, Juliaca, in 1996-1997; my handy WRTH 1991 shows 5980, R. Programs del Perú, Lima, OBX4M but *inactive. In that edition, Peruvian SW listings by frequency on pp. 341-343 consume almost two pages, altho some take two lines rather than a limit of one line currently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996, Feb 2 at 0117, second pips I can hear already when tuning wide selectivity LSB to 10000 for WWVH to determine the current correxion factor for 40-Hz tuning steps on the DX-398 in order to measure ARGENTINA. At 0119, 9996 switches to binary info, the usual pattern for RWM Moskva/Taldom on its unique frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 7290, Feb 2 at 0132, VOR English fair signal but with a hum. Looks like they picked one of the worst transmitters to retain, PRIDNESTROVYE, but maybe it was the cheapest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, 7490-AM, 5110v-CUSB, Feb 2 at 0120, this 0100-0230+ sesquihour+ believed to be the only time WBCQ runs all three transmitters in //, for the live `Allan Weiner Worldwide` --- Since I have two receivers handy, compare them, and find they are all unsynchronized! 5110 comes first, 7490 follows 5 seconds later, and 9330 follows 24 sex behind 5110 or 29 sex behind 7490. Must be a very convoluted setup for feeding the transmitters right next to each other, starting with AWWW presumably originating from Allan`s winter residence in Florida, referring to ``up in Monticello`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1654 monitoring: confirmed starting on time 0230 UT Saturday Feb 2 on Area 51 first monitored on webcast, and then confirmed good signal at 0255 on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB.
Next: UT Sat 0630 & 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB in Germany.
Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830; Sunday 0900, 1630; Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955. UT Sunday 0459 on WTWW-1 5830. Also Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 2240, Feb 2 at 0050 UT as I start to check the 2 MHz harmonic band in the evening, a surprisingly strong signal is here with preacher in English, but some total fade-outs. This, combined with the lack of any signal when I switch the DX-398 to LSB or USB indicates it`s an image, not really there. Punching in some of the strong US SW signals, sounds like the same thing as on WTWW-1 5830, so I get another portable and sure enough, they match. How does it land on 2240? I haven`t figured that out, but the receiver IF of 450 kHz is likely involved. None of the other WTWW frequencies were on or audible at this time: 12105, 9905, 5085, so it`s surely not a mix taking place in Lebanon. I`m reporting this to make a point of what is not really DX that one must still be aware of.
However, I am sure the signal I am hearing around sunrise on 2240 is something else, since it shows none of these symptoms, and is in Spanish, so a true harmonic from 1120 or 560.
Also, it`s important to note that my evening DX sessions around 0100 are usually performed with the DX-398 on the porch (35 degrees F tonight) with short random wire around the eaves, while in the mornings I`m using the main rig, FRG-7 inside with longwire outside, much less subject to such images. In the evening I am avoiding household noise sources, altho TVI perhaps from the neighbors is still present on many frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Feb 2 around 0053 UT, stepping thru the 2 MHz band, besides the known harmonix on 2660 and 2910, I also find JBA carriers on 2480, 2800 and 2860, which are likely to produce more harmonix if they can be pulled above the noise level.
Remember R. San Carlos, Costa Rica, was being heard three years ago on 2859.8, 2 x 1429.9. 2480 and 2800 bear hundreds of possible US fundamentals on graveyards 1240 and 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Feb 2 at 0049 UT, some music is audible here vs the noise level, same frequency where in the morning I have been getting KGLD, Tyler TX, 2 x 1330. Can`t tell if the music is gospel tonight. Still audible at 0106, and at 0125 with BFO I can tell that besides the music there is a second carrier on a slightly different frequency. So there is at least one other 2 x 1330 harmonic showing up on 2660; and KGLD itself if properly operating legal night power, would be only 77 watts on the fundamental.
However, FCC Correspondence File for KGLD shows it also has a post-sunset authority (PSSA) for February of, in CST and watts:
6:00- 6:30 | 102.0 |
6:30- 7:00 | 51.0 |
7:00- 8:00 | 36.0 |
So there would not be any point in employing it after 0030 UT when the night power is more than the PSSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4835, Feb 2 at 0056, like 24 hours earlier I am getting two very weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, before WWCR blasts on 4840 around 0059, probably R. Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba, Perú, and AIR Gangtok, Sikkim, the only two stations known to be on 4835 at this time on the darkside or grayline; unless there is a spur or mixing product from somewhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717, Feb 2 at 0055, poor signal, music with a beat, once again no doubt R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, best of the Andean signals on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Feb 2 at 0128, R. Santa Cruz, good signal with tropical music, no het tho always off-frequency. This is a good example of exotic stations benefiting from ISWBC closedowns: since St. Petersburg self-destructed at yearend, there are no major broadcasters anywhere on 6135 during a BBC break from 0000 to 0430 --- altho Aoki lists R. Aparecida, Brasil, until 0300 but not even a het audible from it, probably inactive as on some other channels. RSC also stays on much later than 0110* as in Aoki, sometimes as late as 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 14950.8, Feb 2 at 0117, NO signal from Salem Stereo, which was last heard Sept 30, 2012. I do check this occasionally in case there`s a comeback and/or in case low winter MUFs up here have been to blame, unpropagating should it exist. Note to DSWCI: DO NOT PUBLISH THIS AS A LOG --- it is a NON-LOG, but possibly useful info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, Feb 1 at 0621, in my previous report about RHC being off the air at this time, I neglected to mention that altho at first it seemed off, I then detected a carrier on 6165, presumably RHC but much weaker than the usual strength, and no modulation.
I`m reminded of this because a reply about my log came from Steve Luce in Houston TX: ``Glenn, at 0450 Feb 1, I heard RHC weakly on 6165, but a big surprise was the second harmonic on 12330, which was much stronger than the fundamental. Modulation somewhat low, but solid carrier. Nothing heard on 3X multiple of 18495``
At that time I didn`t think of checking for the harmonix; evidently the transmitter was grossly mistuned, as RHC continues to rack up anomaly after anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Feb 2 at 0057, fair signal in Turkic, no doubt Xinjiang PBS Uighur service from Urumqi again, where sunrise is 0126 UT today = 9:26 local time even in far western ``China`` where they are forced to go by the UT+8 Beijing clock instead of UT+6 as it should be. 5060 then found as good in Chinese, but the Kazkah service on 4850 is only at the ``algo`` level.
Ron Howard replied to my previous log: ``Hi Glenn, Here in Calif. the reception of PBS Xinjiang, in assume Kazakh, on 4850 varies a great deal from day to day. On a good day sounds like this recording https://www.box.com/s/wcpul1wwdn4xgd9rw7lc
[1209-1211 UT Jan 28] Of course this is best when AIR Kohima is off the air.`` Well, I wouldn`t mind hearing Kohima instead! Recordings of which Ron has also provided (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. Fourth night in a row, Montsinéry is again radiating parasitic distorted FMy spurblobs with no modulation intelligence at the usual displacements from undermodulated 9490 Radio República, at 0134 check Feb 2: approx. 9258, 9374, 9455, 9525, 9606, but too much signals from Greece on 9420 and Vatican on 9560 to be sure of that pair previously detected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Feb 2 at 0058, time for another try at R. Chaski, once again music mixing with Chinese from the CNR1 jammer, which cuts off promptly after the 0100 timesignal. Weak music continues in the clear, hymn tune, 0102:35 segué to other music, and unlike the past few nights, no announcements at all until cut off the air at 0105:10*. Seems to be precessing a few sex later each time. Bruce Maddux, Baptist missionary who runs the station, has commented that R. Chaski used to be on SW until some 10 years ago, so some research is in order:
Via LA SW Logs, a comprehensive listing by frequency of Peruvians in the 1992-2002 period shows it was logged around 5981 only during one year, 1998:http://www.mcdxt.it/HKPeru1.htm
Radio Chaski, Cusco (ex- 6087.9 [in 1997y])
5981.0 Feb 23 1101 s/on
Prgr: Alabanza en la mañana, La devocional del día
5981.5 Mar 31 0018
5981.4 Apr 20 2215
5981.5 Jul 19 1105
5981.4 Aug 27 1104
This huge listing was compiled by Henrik Klemetz and Rafael Rodríguez, and includes lots of out-of-band stations, harmonix and spurs.
Some other Peruvians have occupied 5980: Radio LTC, Juliaca, in 1996-1997; my handy WRTH 1991 shows 5980, R. Programs del Perú, Lima, OBX4M but *inactive. In that edition, Peruvian SW listings by frequency on pp. 341-343 consume almost two pages, altho some take two lines rather than a limit of one line currently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996, Feb 2 at 0117, second pips I can hear already when tuning wide selectivity LSB to 10000 for WWVH to determine the current correxion factor for 40-Hz tuning steps on the DX-398 in order to measure ARGENTINA. At 0119, 9996 switches to binary info, the usual pattern for RWM Moskva/Taldom on its unique frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 7290, Feb 2 at 0132, VOR English fair signal but with a hum. Looks like they picked one of the worst transmitters to retain, PRIDNESTROVYE, but maybe it was the cheapest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, 7490-AM, 5110v-CUSB, Feb 2 at 0120, this 0100-0230+ sesquihour+ believed to be the only time WBCQ runs all three transmitters in //, for the live `Allan Weiner Worldwide` --- Since I have two receivers handy, compare them, and find they are all unsynchronized! 5110 comes first, 7490 follows 5 seconds later, and 9330 follows 24 sex behind 5110 or 29 sex behind 7490. Must be a very convoluted setup for feeding the transmitters right next to each other, starting with AWWW presumably originating from Allan`s winter residence in Florida, referring to ``up in Monticello`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1654 monitoring: confirmed starting on time 0230 UT Saturday Feb 2 on Area 51 first monitored on webcast, and then confirmed good signal at 0255 on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB.
Next: UT Sat 0630 & 1630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB in Germany.
Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830; Sunday 0900, 1630; Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955. UT Sunday 0459 on WTWW-1 5830. Also Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 2240, Feb 2 at 0050 UT as I start to check the 2 MHz harmonic band in the evening, a surprisingly strong signal is here with preacher in English, but some total fade-outs. This, combined with the lack of any signal when I switch the DX-398 to LSB or USB indicates it`s an image, not really there. Punching in some of the strong US SW signals, sounds like the same thing as on WTWW-1 5830, so I get another portable and sure enough, they match. How does it land on 2240? I haven`t figured that out, but the receiver IF of 450 kHz is likely involved. None of the other WTWW frequencies were on or audible at this time: 12105, 9905, 5085, so it`s surely not a mix taking place in Lebanon. I`m reporting this to make a point of what is not really DX that one must still be aware of.
However, I am sure the signal I am hearing around sunrise on 2240 is something else, since it shows none of these symptoms, and is in Spanish, so a true harmonic from 1120 or 560.
Also, it`s important to note that my evening DX sessions around 0100 are usually performed with the DX-398 on the porch (35 degrees F tonight) with short random wire around the eaves, while in the mornings I`m using the main rig, FRG-7 inside with longwire outside, much less subject to such images. In the evening I am avoiding household noise sources, altho TVI perhaps from the neighbors is still present on many frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Feb 2 around 0053 UT, stepping thru the 2 MHz band, besides the known harmonix on 2660 and 2910, I also find JBA carriers on 2480, 2800 and 2860, which are likely to produce more harmonix if they can be pulled above the noise level.
Remember R. San Carlos, Costa Rica, was being heard three years ago on 2859.8, 2 x 1429.9. 2480 and 2800 bear hundreds of possible US fundamentals on graveyards 1240 and 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Feb 2 at 0049 UT, some music is audible here vs the noise level, same frequency where in the morning I have been getting KGLD, Tyler TX, 2 x 1330. Can`t tell if the music is gospel tonight. Still audible at 0106, and at 0125 with BFO I can tell that besides the music there is a second carrier on a slightly different frequency. So there is at least one other 2 x 1330 harmonic showing up on 2660; and KGLD itself if properly operating legal night power, would be only 77 watts on the fundamental.
However, FCC Correspondence File for KGLD shows it also has a post-sunset authority (PSSA) for February of, in CST and watts:
6:00- 6:30 | 102.0 |
6:30- 7:00 | 51.0 |
7:00- 8:00 | 36.0 |
So there would not be any point in employing it after 0030 UT when the night power is more than the PSSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4835, Feb 2 at 0056, like 24 hours earlier I am getting two very weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, before WWCR blasts on 4840 around 0059, probably R. Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba, Perú, and AIR Gangtok, Sikkim, the only two stations known to be on 4835 at this time on the darkside or grayline; unless there is a spur or mixing product from somewhere else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)