** 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)
** 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)
