** ANGOLA [and non]. 4950- and 4950, Feb 15 at 0117 considerable het from two stations, the lower one presumably RNA, and the higher one AIR Srinagar, Kashmir (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELGIUM [non]. 17870-17875-17880, Feb 14 at 2015, still no DRM noise signal from BRB The Disco Palace via GUIANA FRENCH. I thought I had tuned across it since then, but in the DRMRX Forum, this was last reported on 8 January and first reported missing 9 January, both by AF4MP in Roswell GA. http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2401&page=16&highlight=17875
On 30 January, tpreitzel posted, ``I`d like to know as well. I e-mailed the Disco Palace about a week ago via their address as posted on their website, but I haven't received a response. The disappearance of the broadcast could be permanent due to a reduction in the budget of the sponsoring company or temporary due to a maintenance issue at Montsinery.``
Now I`ve asked Ludo Maes too. This hour still appears on various schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Feb 15 at 0057, RNA/RNB is missing, but still bigsig on 11780 during a phoner mentioning 50th anniversary of R. Nacional (is that all? which R. Nacional?). Fortunate for XEPPM, 6185, see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 15, before 0130:
13920, good at 0122
13850, good at 0122, first found, so then I look for others
13820, fair at 0122
13775, very poor at 0123
Aoki shows the only targets on all of these are 100-watt nuisance transmitters of Sound of Hope, Taiwan.
This was from the DX-398 on the porch, so I head back inside to continue searching on the FRG-7 where continuous tuning makes it a lot easier. Checking the 13 MHz ones first, I find that I was getting considerably better signals from them on the DX-398, but then also:
15610, poor at 0128; target here is RFA Tibetan via Tinian at 01-02
15800, fair at 0129
16100, fair at 0130
No others in the 17s, 18s, 14s, 12s or 11s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4500, Feb 15 at 0049, presumed Mongolian service from PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, poor signal. And its siblings:
4850, Kazakh service is JBA
4980, Uighur service is stronger with usual hum and distortion
5060, Chinese service, natch, is as usual best and clear. They amount to the best Asian signals on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Feb 15 at 0057, BRAZIL is missing from 6180, luckily for XEPPM which just as I tune in is IDing their SW frequency, and then YL introduces ``primer bloque de música, ranchera``. Fair signal and enough not to be bothered by Serbia on 6190, but considerably undermodulated as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Feb 14 at 1911, no DRM noise signal from VON, nor the last few days. Last reported on the DRM RX forum on 10 Feb:http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2390&page=16&highlight=15120
``Voice of Nigeria 15120 kHz reception near Atlanta, Georgia, USA
This afternoon's last hour reception report - 3.71% audio decoded, max SNR 9.63 dB. Attached Images
File Type: png 15120-130210-1900-1958-AF4MP.png (31.3 KB, 9 views)
73, -Zyg- AF4MP, 34°02' N, 84°24' W EM74ta``
which does not necessarily mean it was not on since then, as he doesn`t log it every day anyway, but I haven`t heard it. Look at that less than 4% decode rate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 4835+, Feb 15 at 0053, two JBA carriers on slightly different frequencies, with CODAR QRM. The one on the hi side of 4835 matches the original measurement by Pedro F. Arrunátegui in Lima of R. Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, as soon as it moved from 5120 to 4835.03. That it was offset was easy to notice, by stepping 5 kHz on the DX-398 with BFO, and finding weak carriers on 4840, 4850, 4860, etc., all matching pitch unlike 4835. The other: presumed AIR Sikkim. Assumed would be blown away by 4840 WWCR from 0058 so not until 0115 did I notice that WWCR was missing --- along with all its other frequencies: see U S A. By now I am only hearing one JBA carrier on 4835, so nothing was gained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.0, Feb 15 at 0056 CNR1 jammer in Chinese vs some music; the latter could be its real target, VOA Tibetan, 250 kW, 20 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, or R. Chaski. If it is VOA, it`s always off by the time CNR1 6-pip timesignal ends at 0100* and that goes off. Fortunately there is no Cuban noise jamming audible tonight.
Now uncovered is music and talk continuing from presumed R. Chaski, Urubamba, which turns out be one of its better nights: 0100.7 announcement says ``saludos, amigos oyentes`` but after that it`s too muffled to make out; 0101.7 brief sounder and another announcement; 0103.3 another ditto; 0104.3 definitely Spanish; 0105.4 mentions ``número 1,054``, maybe part of an address? music sounds like an hymn, but cut off the air as expected at 0106:10* = 5 or 6 sex later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1656 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thu Feb 14 at 2200:37 on WTWW-1 9479. Playback is now starting well after the ID fires automatically at Lebanon overriding the SFAW feed, at top of hour exactly, lasting 14 seconds, and then the rest of SFAW promo resumes. Perhaps the clox at WTWW and SFAW HQ are not synchronized.
Next: UT Friday 0430v on WWRB 3195, and we hope also 5050, which was on the air at 0052 with big band music, and at 0228. Lately WOR on WWRB has been starting a few minutes early. Then: UT Sat 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; lately that has been starting a few minutes late, but apparently never starts earlier than 0230. On HLR 7265-CUSB: Sat 0630 & 1430. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830 UT.
On WRMI 9955: we would have been heard Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200, but oh oh, this just in from Jeff White:
``Glenn: Brother Stair has bought a large amount of time on WRMI beginning on short notice tonight at midnight ET. The exact schedule will hopefully be on our website sometime tomorrow. This new schedule will mean that a lot of the free repeats of programs will have to be eliminated, or in some cases moved to new days and times. But we will go to 24/7 on 9955 kHz effective tomorrow. This is a short-term contract till May 31. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 15 at 0115 I notice that WWCR is missing instead of usual start just before 0100; then I check the other three transmitters: at 0121, finding 3195, 5935 and at 0133, 7520 are all missing too, a total shutdown for some reason, thus depriving us of four gospel huxters and/or super-patriots. At 0227, check all four are back on: 3215, 4840, 5890, 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6020, Feb 15 at 0107, CRI English news via Albania has considerable QRM from an understation which I struggle to recognize. Intonation sounds Brazilian, but can`t make out any Portuguese words for sure; at one point sounded like an Arabic word or name.
Rádio Gaúcha used to be on 6020, but WRTH 2013 shows it inactive, and it`s missing from current Brazilian activity listings as in DXLD 13-06. This understation is also virtually zero-beat with CRI, no mean feat for a Brazilian.
The other possibilities per Aoki at this time on 6020 are another CRI broadcast via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN in Urdu, which is certainly possible at this hour and much more so than VOV4, Vietnam, 20 kW ND from Daclac (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELGIUM [non]. 17870-17875-17880, Feb 14 at 2015, still no DRM noise signal from BRB The Disco Palace via GUIANA FRENCH. I thought I had tuned across it since then, but in the DRMRX Forum, this was last reported on 8 January and first reported missing 9 January, both by AF4MP in Roswell GA. http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2401&page=16&highlight=17875
On 30 January, tpreitzel posted, ``I`d like to know as well. I e-mailed the Disco Palace about a week ago via their address as posted on their website, but I haven't received a response. The disappearance of the broadcast could be permanent due to a reduction in the budget of the sponsoring company or temporary due to a maintenance issue at Montsinery.``
Now I`ve asked Ludo Maes too. This hour still appears on various schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Feb 15 at 0057, RNA/RNB is missing, but still bigsig on 11780 during a phoner mentioning 50th anniversary of R. Nacional (is that all? which R. Nacional?). Fortunate for XEPPM, 6185, see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 15, before 0130:
13920, good at 0122
13850, good at 0122, first found, so then I look for others
13820, fair at 0122
13775, very poor at 0123
Aoki shows the only targets on all of these are 100-watt nuisance transmitters of Sound of Hope, Taiwan.
This was from the DX-398 on the porch, so I head back inside to continue searching on the FRG-7 where continuous tuning makes it a lot easier. Checking the 13 MHz ones first, I find that I was getting considerably better signals from them on the DX-398, but then also:
15610, poor at 0128; target here is RFA Tibetan via Tinian at 01-02
15800, fair at 0129
16100, fair at 0130
No others in the 17s, 18s, 14s, 12s or 11s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4500, Feb 15 at 0049, presumed Mongolian service from PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, poor signal. And its siblings:
4850, Kazakh service is JBA
4980, Uighur service is stronger with usual hum and distortion
5060, Chinese service, natch, is as usual best and clear. They amount to the best Asian signals on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Feb 15 at 0057, BRAZIL is missing from 6180, luckily for XEPPM which just as I tune in is IDing their SW frequency, and then YL introduces ``primer bloque de música, ranchera``. Fair signal and enough not to be bothered by Serbia on 6190, but considerably undermodulated as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Feb 14 at 1911, no DRM noise signal from VON, nor the last few days. Last reported on the DRM RX forum on 10 Feb:http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2390&page=16&highlight=15120
``Voice of Nigeria 15120 kHz reception near Atlanta, Georgia, USA
This afternoon's last hour reception report - 3.71% audio decoded, max SNR 9.63 dB. Attached Images
File Type: png 15120-130210-1900-1958-AF4MP.png (31.3 KB, 9 views)
73, -Zyg- AF4MP, 34°02' N, 84°24' W EM74ta``
which does not necessarily mean it was not on since then, as he doesn`t log it every day anyway, but I haven`t heard it. Look at that less than 4% decode rate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 4835+, Feb 15 at 0053, two JBA carriers on slightly different frequencies, with CODAR QRM. The one on the hi side of 4835 matches the original measurement by Pedro F. Arrunátegui in Lima of R. Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, as soon as it moved from 5120 to 4835.03. That it was offset was easy to notice, by stepping 5 kHz on the DX-398 with BFO, and finding weak carriers on 4840, 4850, 4860, etc., all matching pitch unlike 4835. The other: presumed AIR Sikkim. Assumed would be blown away by 4840 WWCR from 0058 so not until 0115 did I notice that WWCR was missing --- along with all its other frequencies: see U S A. By now I am only hearing one JBA carrier on 4835, so nothing was gained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.0, Feb 15 at 0056 CNR1 jammer in Chinese vs some music; the latter could be its real target, VOA Tibetan, 250 kW, 20 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, or R. Chaski. If it is VOA, it`s always off by the time CNR1 6-pip timesignal ends at 0100* and that goes off. Fortunately there is no Cuban noise jamming audible tonight.
Now uncovered is music and talk continuing from presumed R. Chaski, Urubamba, which turns out be one of its better nights: 0100.7 announcement says ``saludos, amigos oyentes`` but after that it`s too muffled to make out; 0101.7 brief sounder and another announcement; 0103.3 another ditto; 0104.3 definitely Spanish; 0105.4 mentions ``número 1,054``, maybe part of an address? music sounds like an hymn, but cut off the air as expected at 0106:10* = 5 or 6 sex later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1656 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thu Feb 14 at 2200:37 on WTWW-1 9479. Playback is now starting well after the ID fires automatically at Lebanon overriding the SFAW feed, at top of hour exactly, lasting 14 seconds, and then the rest of SFAW promo resumes. Perhaps the clox at WTWW and SFAW HQ are not synchronized.
Next: UT Friday 0430v on WWRB 3195, and we hope also 5050, which was on the air at 0052 with big band music, and at 0228. Lately WOR on WWRB has been starting a few minutes early. Then: UT Sat 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; lately that has been starting a few minutes late, but apparently never starts earlier than 0230. On HLR 7265-CUSB: Sat 0630 & 1430. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830 UT.
On WRMI 9955: we would have been heard Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200, but oh oh, this just in from Jeff White:
``Glenn: Brother Stair has bought a large amount of time on WRMI beginning on short notice tonight at midnight ET. The exact schedule will hopefully be on our website sometime tomorrow. This new schedule will mean that a lot of the free repeats of programs will have to be eliminated, or in some cases moved to new days and times. But we will go to 24/7 on 9955 kHz effective tomorrow. This is a short-term contract till May 31. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 15 at 0115 I notice that WWCR is missing instead of usual start just before 0100; then I check the other three transmitters: at 0121, finding 3195, 5935 and at 0133, 7520 are all missing too, a total shutdown for some reason, thus depriving us of four gospel huxters and/or super-patriots. At 0227, check all four are back on: 3215, 4840, 5890, 5935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6020, Feb 15 at 0107, CRI English news via Albania has considerable QRM from an understation which I struggle to recognize. Intonation sounds Brazilian, but can`t make out any Portuguese words for sure; at one point sounded like an Arabic word or name.
Rádio Gaúcha used to be on 6020, but WRTH 2013 shows it inactive, and it`s missing from current Brazilian activity listings as in DXLD 13-06. This understation is also virtually zero-beat with CRI, no mean feat for a Brazilian.
The other possibilities per Aoki at this time on 6020 are another CRI broadcast via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN in Urdu, which is certainly possible at this hour and much more so than VOV4, Vietnam, 20 kW ND from Daclac (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
