** MADAGASCAR. 17670, Feb 16 at 1356, song, probably hymn in Asian language, fair signal, but when I tune back across at 1357, it`s gone already. Per HFCC must have been AWR in Vietnamese, 1300-1400[sic], 250 kW, 60 degrees.
Meanwhile World Christian Broadcasting is still being stalled by the Mad government from importing their own new SW transmitters for ``Madagascar World Voice``, everything else including antennas being ready to go; while they could have been in operation years ago and right now if they were willing to use the existing Mad SW site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, further monitoring of KYHN, ``Fort Smith AR``: Feb 16 at 0638 UT, still running program previews, the same Geraldo Rivera one as heard before; amid lots of QRM. At 1332, the Dennis Miller promo, ID, also lots of CCI so at first I wasn`t sure it`s still there. Fritze Prentice in AR reminds us that its STA deadline is Feb 19, so once proved they *can* be on the air, may well redisappear as of Feb 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1656 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955 at 1609 UT Feb 16; poor signal but little if any jamming. The Sat 1600 airing is now your best chance to hear it on WRMI, vs. Tue 1200, Thu 0430. Noel Green in England confirms hearing WOR well on HLR 7265-CUSB Sat at 1430. Next: Sat 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sun 0500 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, Sat Feb 16 at 1323 UT, Spanish ad for car parts business in area code 773, then song ``Amor Sincero``. 773 means Chicago, i.e. WNDZ Portage IN, the multi-ethnic station we usually hear in Ukrainian in the mornings, and tho there is no program schedule, Spanish is a language mentioned for it athttp://www.accessradiochicago.com/page1.htm
Fits, as WSCR and WGN were still in well, a few minutes after sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17156, Feb 16 at 1443, approx. center of huge dirty FMy spurblob covering most of the 17150-17160 range, initially Qur`an-sounding, then conversation in extremely distorted Arabic. First checked the BSKSA frequencies on 17 and 21 MHz, which were all much weaker, accounted for and not //: 17615, 17705, 17895, and 21505. Nor could I find anything else to match on 17 MHz, and no similar blobs anywhere from 16 to 19 MHz. At 1500 no timesignal, no pause or anything resembling an ID as the talk continued. 1518 quite a bit weaker, 1528 seemed gone, and now there is fax on the low side; 1530 again some traces of talk and the blob; 1541 seems gone again.
#2 suspect would be EGYPT under general principles of nothing working properly: uplooked later in HFCC, I see at 13-16 UT ERTU are registered for identical parameters on 15770 and 15800, Arabic, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis, which I don`t recall hearing as I tuned around. Nothing fitting on 17 MHz.
Meanwhile, I recorded 9+ minutes of this mess at 1454-1503, and would appreciate Arabic-speakers listening to it if they can stand it, for any clues as to origin:http://www.w4uvh.net/17156unid.rm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Meanwhile World Christian Broadcasting is still being stalled by the Mad government from importing their own new SW transmitters for ``Madagascar World Voice``, everything else including antennas being ready to go; while they could have been in operation years ago and right now if they were willing to use the existing Mad SW site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, further monitoring of KYHN, ``Fort Smith AR``: Feb 16 at 0638 UT, still running program previews, the same Geraldo Rivera one as heard before; amid lots of QRM. At 1332, the Dennis Miller promo, ID, also lots of CCI so at first I wasn`t sure it`s still there. Fritze Prentice in AR reminds us that its STA deadline is Feb 19, so once proved they *can* be on the air, may well redisappear as of Feb 20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1656 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955 at 1609 UT Feb 16; poor signal but little if any jamming. The Sat 1600 airing is now your best chance to hear it on WRMI, vs. Tue 1200, Thu 0430. Noel Green in England confirms hearing WOR well on HLR 7265-CUSB Sat at 1430. Next: Sat 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sun 0500 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, Sat Feb 16 at 1323 UT, Spanish ad for car parts business in area code 773, then song ``Amor Sincero``. 773 means Chicago, i.e. WNDZ Portage IN, the multi-ethnic station we usually hear in Ukrainian in the mornings, and tho there is no program schedule, Spanish is a language mentioned for it athttp://www.accessradiochicago.com/page1.htm
Fits, as WSCR and WGN were still in well, a few minutes after sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17156, Feb 16 at 1443, approx. center of huge dirty FMy spurblob covering most of the 17150-17160 range, initially Qur`an-sounding, then conversation in extremely distorted Arabic. First checked the BSKSA frequencies on 17 and 21 MHz, which were all much weaker, accounted for and not //: 17615, 17705, 17895, and 21505. Nor could I find anything else to match on 17 MHz, and no similar blobs anywhere from 16 to 19 MHz. At 1500 no timesignal, no pause or anything resembling an ID as the talk continued. 1518 quite a bit weaker, 1528 seemed gone, and now there is fax on the low side; 1530 again some traces of talk and the blob; 1541 seems gone again.
#2 suspect would be EGYPT under general principles of nothing working properly: uplooked later in HFCC, I see at 13-16 UT ERTU are registered for identical parameters on 15770 and 15800, Arabic, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis, which I don`t recall hearing as I tuned around. Nothing fitting on 17 MHz.
Meanwhile, I recorded 9+ minutes of this mess at 1454-1503, and would appreciate Arabic-speakers listening to it if they can stand it, for any clues as to origin:http://www.w4uvh.net/17156unid.rm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
