** ANGUILLA. 11775, Feb 21 at 1340, PMS is back after missing a couple days from sunlit frequency, atop the usual Sino-Indian radio war (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Feb 21 at 1333 and 1406 chex, still no sign of LRA36, only 24 hours until ``Argentine Antarctica Day`` --- which axually belongs to all humanity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 21:
12670, very poor at 1339
No others found 10-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7435, Feb 21 at 1358, REE IS barely audible, with het on hi side, i.e. VIETNAM off-frequency as recently confirmed by Wolfgang Büschel. HFCC shows it as the VN1 site (unusually with a number in it), 24 hours, 100 kW, 97 degrees.
This reminds me that on many previous occasions, marveling at the CRI Kunming site mis-broadcasting REE before their own Nepali, I was hearing no such het on 7435. Today the het was also there earlier in the hour when CRI Chinese via Nanning site is HFCC-registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17580, Feb 21 at 1333, RHC with open carrier/dead air, while 17730 was nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15215, Feb 21 at *1559:35, very good carrier cuts on, but modulation from R. Öömrang joined in progress about 12 seconds after the hour, off to a rocky start. This is the once-a-year special celebrating that island off Germany a.k.a. Amrum, with its own Frisian dialect. Hour is a mixture of this Lo and Hi German, and also English here and there briefly, keeping us up with what`s being discussed. Opening says these specials started in 2006, name of speaker and other credits, and spelling out address of the individual in Nebel sponsoring them.
Never a note of music, just interviews with old-timers about their experiences, such as buying a pig in 1936, chasing rabbits in 1940-1952. Finally at 1649 a female voice is heard. 1657 closing announcement in English is repeated almost four times before cut off in progress at 1700*. Gives Nebel address, strange nomenclature as ``High 90-FM, 15215 K-H-Z via Jülich [sic, long gone, really Wertachtal now], 11 o`clock New York time, 16 hours UTZed, 17 hours MEZed, Goodbye till next year`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 21 at 1347, VOI has poor level carrier, which is an improvement, but usual ACI from Sino-American radio war on 9530; can`t detect any modulation during English hour, altho Ron Howard found it greatly improved on Feb 18. 1400 recheck, now clear of ACI, still poor signal and essentially dead air in Indonesian. So VOI is capable of broadcasting properly but still cannot do so reliably (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Feb 21 at 1526, R. Kuwait is still on in Arabic, instead of closing circa 1500; and also at 1557 past 1604. Ivo Ivanov reported Feb 18 that Kabd had expanded 21540 from 1000 until 1800, 500 kW, 310 degrees to W Europe, but also onward to N America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. A bit more sporadic-E analog TVDX, Feb 21: Ch A2 NTSC, turned on at 1816 UT to find opening in progress, weak CCI with antenna south; 1821 a bit of Spanish audio comes thru, and at 1825 ch A4 with some singing and dancing. 6m Es maps show little activity, contacts from CO, NM, MO to the NE corner of Mexico. Fitful bits of A2 video continued to show until about 1900, all too weak to make out any upper-right network bugs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, Feb 21 at 1717 UT as I was driving by KLGB-LP, broke thru on 90.1 KCSC I was trying to listen to, during an outright commercial for Henniger-Hinson Funeral Home as confirmed by quick switch to own frequency, then back to religious music. Is the FCC monitoring? Of course not! Just another example of how fundamentally dishonest gospel-huxters are (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 21 at 1303 UT, KYHN still on with promo reel only, at the moment for Mike Huckaby, who will be at 11 am-2 pm. Means launch is approaching? Most of the promos are not specific about times; then for own Morning Show, and for Clark Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 7414-, Feb 21 at 1326, V. of Tibet with some Chinese modulation audible beneath the self-imposed humroar, still from site uncertain, not necessarily Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9900, Feb 21 at 1343, poor signal with B-B-C- chimes, just before 1345 opening Burmese as expected on its peculiar schedule. HFCC shows 100 kW, 340 degrees from SINGAPORE at 1345-1430, and this frequency just started 15 January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Feb 21 at 1325, WWCR imposes hi-pitched squeal upon Joyce; it varies slightly as she modulates, while // 13845 is clean. Needs new modulation card(s) in the #2 transmitter, a recurrent problem at this and some other stations. Don`t they listen to their own output?? If not, how can they expect anyone else to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1657: first SW airing should be Thursday Feb 21 at 2200+ on WTWW-1 9479; then 0430v UT Friday Feb 22 on WWRB 3195 and maybe 5050; UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1600, Tuesday 1200 and maybe Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955. Sat 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120. Full schedule including many webcasts at http://www.worldofadio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Feb 21 around 0420 check, WWRB is off rather than USB instead of AM. We`ll see what happen during WORLD OF RADIO 24+ hours later on 3195, and maybe this in one mode or another. 9405 & 13705, heard yesterday morning testing USB, are also absent 24 hours later Feb 21 at 1328 & 1406 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 660, Feb 21 at 0656 UT, big hum only, seems roughly NE/SW. Nothing else audible; most likely KSKY Balch Springs TX (what??? Ugly name means The Metroplex, essentially Dallas) which is 700 watts night, rather than KCRO Omaha, 54 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Feb 21 at 1333 and 1406 chex, still no sign of LRA36, only 24 hours until ``Argentine Antarctica Day`` --- which axually belongs to all humanity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 21:
12670, very poor at 1339
No others found 10-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7435, Feb 21 at 1358, REE IS barely audible, with het on hi side, i.e. VIETNAM off-frequency as recently confirmed by Wolfgang Büschel. HFCC shows it as the VN1 site (unusually with a number in it), 24 hours, 100 kW, 97 degrees.
This reminds me that on many previous occasions, marveling at the CRI Kunming site mis-broadcasting REE before their own Nepali, I was hearing no such het on 7435. Today the het was also there earlier in the hour when CRI Chinese via Nanning site is HFCC-registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17580, Feb 21 at 1333, RHC with open carrier/dead air, while 17730 was nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15215, Feb 21 at *1559:35, very good carrier cuts on, but modulation from R. Öömrang joined in progress about 12 seconds after the hour, off to a rocky start. This is the once-a-year special celebrating that island off Germany a.k.a. Amrum, with its own Frisian dialect. Hour is a mixture of this Lo and Hi German, and also English here and there briefly, keeping us up with what`s being discussed. Opening says these specials started in 2006, name of speaker and other credits, and spelling out address of the individual in Nebel sponsoring them.
Never a note of music, just interviews with old-timers about their experiences, such as buying a pig in 1936, chasing rabbits in 1940-1952. Finally at 1649 a female voice is heard. 1657 closing announcement in English is repeated almost four times before cut off in progress at 1700*. Gives Nebel address, strange nomenclature as ``High 90-FM, 15215 K-H-Z via Jülich [sic, long gone, really Wertachtal now], 11 o`clock New York time, 16 hours UTZed, 17 hours MEZed, Goodbye till next year`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 21 at 1347, VOI has poor level carrier, which is an improvement, but usual ACI from Sino-American radio war on 9530; can`t detect any modulation during English hour, altho Ron Howard found it greatly improved on Feb 18. 1400 recheck, now clear of ACI, still poor signal and essentially dead air in Indonesian. So VOI is capable of broadcasting properly but still cannot do so reliably (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Feb 21 at 1526, R. Kuwait is still on in Arabic, instead of closing circa 1500; and also at 1557 past 1604. Ivo Ivanov reported Feb 18 that Kabd had expanded 21540 from 1000 until 1800, 500 kW, 310 degrees to W Europe, but also onward to N America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. A bit more sporadic-E analog TVDX, Feb 21: Ch A2 NTSC, turned on at 1816 UT to find opening in progress, weak CCI with antenna south; 1821 a bit of Spanish audio comes thru, and at 1825 ch A4 with some singing and dancing. 6m Es maps show little activity, contacts from CO, NM, MO to the NE corner of Mexico. Fitful bits of A2 video continued to show until about 1900, all too weak to make out any upper-right network bugs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, Feb 21 at 1717 UT as I was driving by KLGB-LP, broke thru on 90.1 KCSC I was trying to listen to, during an outright commercial for Henniger-Hinson Funeral Home as confirmed by quick switch to own frequency, then back to religious music. Is the FCC monitoring? Of course not! Just another example of how fundamentally dishonest gospel-huxters are (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 21 at 1303 UT, KYHN still on with promo reel only, at the moment for Mike Huckaby, who will be at 11 am-2 pm. Means launch is approaching? Most of the promos are not specific about times; then for own Morning Show, and for Clark Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 7414-, Feb 21 at 1326, V. of Tibet with some Chinese modulation audible beneath the self-imposed humroar, still from site uncertain, not necessarily Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9900, Feb 21 at 1343, poor signal with B-B-C- chimes, just before 1345 opening Burmese as expected on its peculiar schedule. HFCC shows 100 kW, 340 degrees from SINGAPORE at 1345-1430, and this frequency just started 15 January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Feb 21 at 1325, WWCR imposes hi-pitched squeal upon Joyce; it varies slightly as she modulates, while // 13845 is clean. Needs new modulation card(s) in the #2 transmitter, a recurrent problem at this and some other stations. Don`t they listen to their own output?? If not, how can they expect anyone else to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1657: first SW airing should be Thursday Feb 21 at 2200+ on WTWW-1 9479; then 0430v UT Friday Feb 22 on WWRB 3195 and maybe 5050; UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1600, Tuesday 1200 and maybe Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955. Sat 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120. Full schedule including many webcasts at http://www.worldofadio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, Feb 21 around 0420 check, WWRB is off rather than USB instead of AM. We`ll see what happen during WORLD OF RADIO 24+ hours later on 3195, and maybe this in one mode or another. 9405 & 13705, heard yesterday morning testing USB, are also absent 24 hours later Feb 21 at 1328 & 1406 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 660, Feb 21 at 0656 UT, big hum only, seems roughly NE/SW. Nothing else audible; most likely KSKY Balch Springs TX (what??? Ugly name means The Metroplex, essentially Dallas) which is 700 watts night, rather than KCRO Omaha, 54 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
