** ALGERIA [and non]. 7295, Feb 24 at 0649, Qur`an, no doubt the RTA relay via Issoudun, FRANCE, which so far in the B-12 season had been running only at 05-06, followed by RFI Hausa at 0600-0630*.
Feb 24 is the off-season change date for RFI scheduling, moving many of its own broadcasts one or two bands higher, and this obviously also affects relays of Algeria --- but as of 18 Feb, NO *240213 dates are in HFCC for RTA, while there are many for RFI itself. Nothing on 5865 now, which until today had been running RTA at 04-07. No doubt there are many more shifts to rediscover.
The OLD RTA (or rather initialed TDA) entries in HFCC B-12 all show effective from *281012 to 300313* --- 04-07 5865, 05-06 7295; 18-19 11955, 19-21 7390 & 11775, 21-22 9395, 21-23 7495; all via Issoudun. Note that when two frequencies are on, they have usually been carrying two separate services, some including news in French on the hour.
HFCC also includes IMAGINARY B-12 listings until 30 March for two sites inside Algeria itself, ORG and BEC: 04-06 7265 & 7360; 06-07 9490 & 9815; 18-19 11690 & 11715; 19-23 11770 & 11785. If anyone ever hear Algeria on any of these frequencies, it will be big news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda curta``, a website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macapá``, so I am confident it`s not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macapá, ZYF360 in Acre. Signal is second only to Pará on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macapá supposedly has a 25 to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 24 at 1420-1425: none found 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, Feb 24 at 0653, RHC missing from one of its overkill five English frequencies, audiblizing BBC on 6005; see U K [non]. Another day, another anomaly or more from RHC. Yes, more:
11760, Sunday Feb 24 at 1416, this is the RHC dead-air open-carrier channel, audiblizing BBC underneath, while RHC Spanish music is nominal on 11690, 11750, 11860, 13780, 15340, 17580, at least.
12220.0, Feb 24 at 1419, RHC in `Amigos de Cuba` show, very poor, but heard on two receivers and // synchronized with 11860. This one does not compute as a leapfrog mixing product among any of the 25mb frequencies; nor is RHC supposed to be on 6110, which could harmonicize here and indeed nothing audible there at 1428 check.
Ahá, I`ve got it: leapfrog of 15340 over 13780 another 1560 kHz lower! Never a dull day from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4780v, Feb 24 at 0056, unlike 24 hours earlier, no signal at all around this frequency from suspected R. Oriental; on Feb 10, Rich D`Angelo had that signing off already at 2359* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. 9490, Feb 24 at 0104, R. República is back to VG signal after weakened last night, and furthermore, can`t find any spurblobs on 9374 or 9606, so maybe the replacement part has finally arrived and been installed at MSY? Can`t be sure, pending further chex of this, 5960 and 11740 output at other hours.
9606 area is however generally noisy, traced to bleed from REE Costa Rica DRM centered on 9630, far beyond its touted bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Feb 24 at 1459, good signal with ``Inja`` something, so it`s Farsi or related, mentions some kHz, fast SAH develops, 3-pip timesignal and off; immediately replaced by R. Free Asia theme, English ID and into Chinese. HFCC has the answers:
NHK Persian via Issoudun, FRANCE at 1430-1500, 500 kW, 90 degrees;
RFA Mandarin via TINIAN at 1500-1700, 250 kW, 295 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Feb 24 at 0616, a Suprema Corte ``tiempo oficial`` government PSA, dominant signal from NE/SW but with a SAH of about 4 Hz; 0617 balada music; 0623 ``La Super Estación, 550 AM``, 11:22 timecheck. Therefore it is, per Cantú:
550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 150
No sign of Low German or indigenous language at the moment. IRCA and WRTH agree on night power, if we can believe that: not bad for 150 watts, rather than 5 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, VG signal in Spanish, timecheck for 6:37, so it`s the usual XEP Ciudad Juárez, which penetrates well even a semihour past sunrise here with its 38 day kW per Cantú (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Feb 24 at 0104, Mighty KBC via BULGARIA has fair signal in music with flutter. Goodbye to this site and frequency, as from March it moves to 7375 via Nauen, Germany, still 0000-0200 UT Sundays, expecting better results. Will someone assume Croatia is back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Feb 24 at 1346 UT, NBC Sports Radio update as it`s late enough for KGHM Midwest City to reclaim the graveyard on groundwave; 1350 ad for something in Norman at http://www.jdmc.org i.e. the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental disabilities; non-ID as 1340-The-Ghame, back to sports talk referencing fox.com --- so with the proliferation of silly sports networks, KGHM has added NBC to its main network, Fox Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 24 at 0100, CNR1 jammer timesignal and off, while China/Cuba 5990 is still on with splatter. It soon cuts off, but still splatter from further afield covers all but the carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba. Is it from RHC 6000? No, the splat is talk while RHC is music. Best bet then is from WWCR 5935, also extremely strong. WWCR can put a mixing product directly on 5980, a leap from 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, but 5890 is not on yet. I can still copy the exact time R. Chaski cuts its carrier: 0106:53.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6005, Feb 24 at 0653, BBCWS discussing Catholic reform; good signal with characteristic ASCENSION hum, and in the clear thanks to RHC missing from 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 24 at 0059, WWRB is up and running in carrierless mode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 24 at 0110, WWCR-3 on this frequency too is suffering from a squeal, little affected by the emanations of Texe Marrs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB & 7490-AM, Feb 24 at 0112, `Thru the Bible` on both WBCQ frequencies with contact info in Pasadena CA, etc. Using the DX-398 only on the porch, can`t be positive they are // and synchronized, but certainly seem to be so, switching back and forth. These two transmitters supposedly carry two different services from Good Friends Radio Network; and from next week/month, 7490 is supposed to introduce some new secular programming on Saturday nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3390-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0101 as I am quickly scanning down the 90m band for broadcast signals, here`s a Navy MARS net, someone in Michigan, over to NNN0APN in Indiana.
3315-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0103, further down the 90m band, an Air Force MARS net with AFA- calls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1800-2000 kHz, Feb 24 at 0702 UT, tuning across the 160m band, it`s crammed with SSB hams, unlike usual here and there. They are in a contest, exchanging signal reports from one state to another. If there were any foreign stations, they would be hard to find. Logged only one without noting the frequency, WW8OH, which ARRL/FCC lookup shows:
CENTRAL OHIO OPERATORS KLUB EXTRA - NOVICE, WW8OH (Club), PO Box: 4,
THORNVILLE, OH 43076 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Feb 24 at 0627 UT, open carrier/dead air presumed from dominant KGGF Coffeyville KS, with two other stations underneath, one with C2C, which would be KTSM El Paso TX rather than WOKV Jaxonville FL, the only two 690s on affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, Feb 24 at 1353 UT, single signal with promo for something Sunday at 2 pm ``on Faith 1200, KFNW``, then an Aleluya song. Must have been in a WOAI fade, as it`s soon coming back with a SAH of about 6 Hz. KFNW is 50/13 kW U4 from West Fargo ND. Day power starts at 1330 UT in Feb, 1245 in March (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1336 UT, in KSOK Kansas null, YL in Spanish with local weather somewhere, ``a través de Qué Bueno``, on to music. That slogan clinches it as KBNO in Denver CO, 5/5 kW, in NRC AM Log as ``La Cadena Nueva Qué Bueno``. Note the masculine bueno, instead of the usual buena in station slogans. But what does it refer to as masculine? Maybe it`s only to match the callsign, someone else having KBNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1356 UT, encounter a station axually playing our national anthem, but it can`t be a sign-on, from KSOK Arkansas City KS. It`s a country version by an OM soloist --- but boo! Faded down before finished at 1358, outro as a ``country classic``, and then a CBS News Update. ``Country Classics`` is the slogan of KSOK, and NRC AM Log showed it affiliated only with ABC.
If I owned a radio station, especially a SW one, I would play the ``Star Spangled Banner`` at least twice a day, whether signing on/off or not, and in a different version from one time to the next. There must be scores of them recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1320, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, Spanish balada music, and signal growing, roughly east-west; and at 1342 in its null, a different Spanish music station, roughly north-south; by 1344, the E/W station is being overtaken by the Oklahoman, KCLI Clinton, which is the off-frequency one causing a LAH --- yes reconfirmed at 1800 UT noon, KCLI is on the lo side.
Consulting the NRC AM Log, the only two SS around here do fit this pattern:
KRDD Roswell NM, 1000/188 watts, non-direxional day and night
(oh oh, official February sunrise is not until 1345 UT; 1315 in March)
KXYZ Houston TX, 5000/5000 watts, non-direxional days, but also ETHnic, and I think usually heard in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Feb 24 at 1339 UT, ``The 12 thousand watt west Texas powerhouse, 1330 KCKM``, Monahans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3400, Feb 24 at 0102, JBA carrier; could it be some 1700, 850, or 680 station harmonicizing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4850, Feb 24 at 0058, either a het or a tone test where we usually hear Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan in Kazakh service, which should be amid a morning broadcast, not testing. If there were two signals, the only other broadcaster would be AIR Kohima. Aoki has no morning span for it, but Eibi does, at 0000-0415. Too much else going on to stay with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Feb 23 at 2211, open carrier. Suspect it`s XEPPM already, as in Aoki & EiBi there is nothing scheduled this hour, nor in HFCC except for an imaginary 10-kW Malaysian. EiBi does have both China Huayi and XEPPM starting at 2230, while as in Aoki, XEPPM officially does not start until 0000 and no listing there for Huayi in the local mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Feb 24 is the off-season change date for RFI scheduling, moving many of its own broadcasts one or two bands higher, and this obviously also affects relays of Algeria --- but as of 18 Feb, NO *240213 dates are in HFCC for RTA, while there are many for RFI itself. Nothing on 5865 now, which until today had been running RTA at 04-07. No doubt there are many more shifts to rediscover.
The OLD RTA (or rather initialed TDA) entries in HFCC B-12 all show effective from *281012 to 300313* --- 04-07 5865, 05-06 7295; 18-19 11955, 19-21 7390 & 11775, 21-22 9395, 21-23 7495; all via Issoudun. Note that when two frequencies are on, they have usually been carrying two separate services, some including news in French on the hour.
HFCC also includes IMAGINARY B-12 listings until 30 March for two sites inside Algeria itself, ORG and BEC: 04-06 7265 & 7360; 06-07 9490 & 9815; 18-19 11690 & 11715; 19-23 11770 & 11785. If anyone ever hear Algeria on any of these frequencies, it will be big news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda curta``, a website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macapá``, so I am confident it`s not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macapá, ZYF360 in Acre. Signal is second only to Pará on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macapá supposedly has a 25 to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 24 at 1420-1425: none found 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, Feb 24 at 0653, RHC missing from one of its overkill five English frequencies, audiblizing BBC on 6005; see U K [non]. Another day, another anomaly or more from RHC. Yes, more:
11760, Sunday Feb 24 at 1416, this is the RHC dead-air open-carrier channel, audiblizing BBC underneath, while RHC Spanish music is nominal on 11690, 11750, 11860, 13780, 15340, 17580, at least.
12220.0, Feb 24 at 1419, RHC in `Amigos de Cuba` show, very poor, but heard on two receivers and // synchronized with 11860. This one does not compute as a leapfrog mixing product among any of the 25mb frequencies; nor is RHC supposed to be on 6110, which could harmonicize here and indeed nothing audible there at 1428 check.
Ahá, I`ve got it: leapfrog of 15340 over 13780 another 1560 kHz lower! Never a dull day from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4780v, Feb 24 at 0056, unlike 24 hours earlier, no signal at all around this frequency from suspected R. Oriental; on Feb 10, Rich D`Angelo had that signing off already at 2359* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. 9490, Feb 24 at 0104, R. República is back to VG signal after weakened last night, and furthermore, can`t find any spurblobs on 9374 or 9606, so maybe the replacement part has finally arrived and been installed at MSY? Can`t be sure, pending further chex of this, 5960 and 11740 output at other hours.
9606 area is however generally noisy, traced to bleed from REE Costa Rica DRM centered on 9630, far beyond its touted bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Feb 24 at 1459, good signal with ``Inja`` something, so it`s Farsi or related, mentions some kHz, fast SAH develops, 3-pip timesignal and off; immediately replaced by R. Free Asia theme, English ID and into Chinese. HFCC has the answers:
NHK Persian via Issoudun, FRANCE at 1430-1500, 500 kW, 90 degrees;
RFA Mandarin via TINIAN at 1500-1700, 250 kW, 295 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Feb 24 at 0616, a Suprema Corte ``tiempo oficial`` government PSA, dominant signal from NE/SW but with a SAH of about 4 Hz; 0617 balada music; 0623 ``La Super Estación, 550 AM``, 11:22 timecheck. Therefore it is, per Cantú:
550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 150
No sign of Low German or indigenous language at the moment. IRCA and WRTH agree on night power, if we can believe that: not bad for 150 watts, rather than 5 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, VG signal in Spanish, timecheck for 6:37, so it`s the usual XEP Ciudad Juárez, which penetrates well even a semihour past sunrise here with its 38 day kW per Cantú (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Feb 24 at 0104, Mighty KBC via BULGARIA has fair signal in music with flutter. Goodbye to this site and frequency, as from March it moves to 7375 via Nauen, Germany, still 0000-0200 UT Sundays, expecting better results. Will someone assume Croatia is back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Feb 24 at 1346 UT, NBC Sports Radio update as it`s late enough for KGHM Midwest City to reclaim the graveyard on groundwave; 1350 ad for something in Norman at http://www.jdmc.org i.e. the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental disabilities; non-ID as 1340-The-Ghame, back to sports talk referencing fox.com --- so with the proliferation of silly sports networks, KGHM has added NBC to its main network, Fox Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 24 at 0100, CNR1 jammer timesignal and off, while China/Cuba 5990 is still on with splatter. It soon cuts off, but still splatter from further afield covers all but the carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba. Is it from RHC 6000? No, the splat is talk while RHC is music. Best bet then is from WWCR 5935, also extremely strong. WWCR can put a mixing product directly on 5980, a leap from 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, but 5890 is not on yet. I can still copy the exact time R. Chaski cuts its carrier: 0106:53.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6005, Feb 24 at 0653, BBCWS discussing Catholic reform; good signal with characteristic ASCENSION hum, and in the clear thanks to RHC missing from 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 24 at 0059, WWRB is up and running in carrierless mode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 24 at 0110, WWCR-3 on this frequency too is suffering from a squeal, little affected by the emanations of Texe Marrs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB & 7490-AM, Feb 24 at 0112, `Thru the Bible` on both WBCQ frequencies with contact info in Pasadena CA, etc. Using the DX-398 only on the porch, can`t be positive they are // and synchronized, but certainly seem to be so, switching back and forth. These two transmitters supposedly carry two different services from Good Friends Radio Network; and from next week/month, 7490 is supposed to introduce some new secular programming on Saturday nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3390-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0101 as I am quickly scanning down the 90m band for broadcast signals, here`s a Navy MARS net, someone in Michigan, over to NNN0APN in Indiana.
3315-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0103, further down the 90m band, an Air Force MARS net with AFA- calls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1800-2000 kHz, Feb 24 at 0702 UT, tuning across the 160m band, it`s crammed with SSB hams, unlike usual here and there. They are in a contest, exchanging signal reports from one state to another. If there were any foreign stations, they would be hard to find. Logged only one without noting the frequency, WW8OH, which ARRL/FCC lookup shows:
CENTRAL OHIO OPERATORS KLUB EXTRA - NOVICE, WW8OH (Club), PO Box: 4,
THORNVILLE, OH 43076 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Feb 24 at 0627 UT, open carrier/dead air presumed from dominant KGGF Coffeyville KS, with two other stations underneath, one with C2C, which would be KTSM El Paso TX rather than WOKV Jaxonville FL, the only two 690s on affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, Feb 24 at 1353 UT, single signal with promo for something Sunday at 2 pm ``on Faith 1200, KFNW``, then an Aleluya song. Must have been in a WOAI fade, as it`s soon coming back with a SAH of about 6 Hz. KFNW is 50/13 kW U4 from West Fargo ND. Day power starts at 1330 UT in Feb, 1245 in March (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1336 UT, in KSOK Kansas null, YL in Spanish with local weather somewhere, ``a través de Qué Bueno``, on to music. That slogan clinches it as KBNO in Denver CO, 5/5 kW, in NRC AM Log as ``La Cadena Nueva Qué Bueno``. Note the masculine bueno, instead of the usual buena in station slogans. But what does it refer to as masculine? Maybe it`s only to match the callsign, someone else having KBNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1356 UT, encounter a station axually playing our national anthem, but it can`t be a sign-on, from KSOK Arkansas City KS. It`s a country version by an OM soloist --- but boo! Faded down before finished at 1358, outro as a ``country classic``, and then a CBS News Update. ``Country Classics`` is the slogan of KSOK, and NRC AM Log showed it affiliated only with ABC.
If I owned a radio station, especially a SW one, I would play the ``Star Spangled Banner`` at least twice a day, whether signing on/off or not, and in a different version from one time to the next. There must be scores of them recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1320, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, Spanish balada music, and signal growing, roughly east-west; and at 1342 in its null, a different Spanish music station, roughly north-south; by 1344, the E/W station is being overtaken by the Oklahoman, KCLI Clinton, which is the off-frequency one causing a LAH --- yes reconfirmed at 1800 UT noon, KCLI is on the lo side.
Consulting the NRC AM Log, the only two SS around here do fit this pattern:
KRDD Roswell NM, 1000/188 watts, non-direxional day and night
(oh oh, official February sunrise is not until 1345 UT; 1315 in March)
KXYZ Houston TX, 5000/5000 watts, non-direxional days, but also ETHnic, and I think usually heard in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Feb 24 at 1339 UT, ``The 12 thousand watt west Texas powerhouse, 1330 KCKM``, Monahans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3400, Feb 24 at 0102, JBA carrier; could it be some 1700, 850, or 680 station harmonicizing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4850, Feb 24 at 0058, either a het or a tone test where we usually hear Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan in Kazakh service, which should be amid a morning broadcast, not testing. If there were two signals, the only other broadcaster would be AIR Kohima. Aoki has no morning span for it, but Eibi does, at 0000-0415. Too much else going on to stay with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Feb 23 at 2211, open carrier. Suspect it`s XEPPM already, as in Aoki & EiBi there is nothing scheduled this hour, nor in HFCC except for an imaginary 10-kW Malaysian. EiBi does have both China Huayi and XEPPM starting at 2230, while as in Aoki, XEPPM officially does not start until 0000 and no listing there for Huayi in the local mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
