** BOLIVIA. 4716.9, Feb 9 at 0051, weak music, presumed R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura; much stronger SSB QRM on hi side. RYAY is slightly on the low side of 4717, most reports showing it further than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 9:
9315, very poor at 1445
12370, very poor at 1435
12500, very poor at 1435
12980, poor at 1433, first found, so worth further bandscanning
but none higher in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s by 1444
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11740, Feb 9 at 0502, NHK English relay is already on the air, unlike last night, and maybe even started at 0500.
I also suspect the 11740 carrier never got turned off, as once again at 0611, weak French from ROMANIA fights another carrier making fast SAH, and also some hum typical of Montsinéry. 0700 *still* just the carrier with hum; anyway, not hearing any spurs from it. Need to monitor at 0530 when R. Japan relay is supposed to end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4775, Feb 9 at 0052, two weak carriers here, one surely R. Tarma, Perú; two other stations might be on the air at this time, but Brazil`s R. Congonhas has not been confirmed active in the past month, per the latest Relatório referente às escutas de janeiro/2013 by Giuseppe Cysneiros. That leaves AIR Imphal, per Aoki 0020-0215, 50 kW non-direxional in Hindi.
4880.1, Feb 9 at 0055, S Asian vocal music, fair signal slightly on the hi side, and still same at 0104. Presumed AIR Lucknow, 50 kW non-direxional, starting at 0025 per Aoki. Stands out as not previously heard in 60m bandscans around this hour, and nothing much else from India tonight. Lucknow is in north central India near Nepal, between Aligarh and Gorakhpur, per WRTH map. All the logs I can find of it are for just 4880, not 4880.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11805, Feb 9 at 1427, VIRI IS, fair signal with noise which sounds self-imposed; 1430 three upward chimes, announcement, national anthem. Same music is playing on much stronger and clearer 11700. Got away from both before Qur`an. HFCC shows 11805 is Bengali, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Kamalabad, while 11700 is Hindi, 500 kW, 118 degrees from Kamalabad. So the two ought to be a near-match in reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Feb 9 at 1447, Denge Kurdistan, presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE, good signal but IADs interrupting prolonged dramatic music piece, presumably about the plight of Kurds in Turkey; finally announcement at 1501 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Sat Feb 9 at 0630, great music on RNZI prevents me from continuing DX bandscanning. It`s `Saturday Night with Peter Fry` from RNZ National, ``A weekly programme of nostalgia and musical memories including your requests, snippets from the comedy archives and Peter's own Deep Purple selections.``
It`s at 7:04-11 pm NZST, i.e. 0604-1000 UT, and here`s what I heard until 0700, from the playlist:
The Fleet's In Port Again - Billy Cotton & His Band, Alan Breeze (vocal) [Gay]
The Frozen Logger – Odetta [Stevens]
The Hippopotamus Song - Flanders & Swann [Flanders/Swann]
La Golondrina - The George Melachrino Orchestra [Serrandell]
Louise - Maurice Chevalier [Robin/Whiting]
Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie - Ambrose & His Orchestra, Sam Browne (vocal) [Lombardo/Loeb]
There's A Long, Long Trail A-Winding - John McCormack [Elliot]
Greetings From Vienna - Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Robert Stolz [Stolz]
The RNZI schedule gridhttp://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php
is very misleading showing this show only at 0808-0900, and merely generic ``RNZ National`` before then, and nothing after then, so are all four hours really on SW?
We would sure like to hear more of this programme when we are awake, but altho RNZN has an extensive audio library and podcasts, including some music shows, not this one! You`d think most of the old music played would be public-domain by now. While hunting for it I tried to hear one thing, the NZ National Anthem [not GSTQ?], http://www.radionz.co.nz/radionz/programmes/nat-music/audio/2535945/the-new-zealand-national-anthem.asx
but ``error synching to stream`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4747.2, Feb 9 at 0046, JBA carrier, presumed R. Huanta 2000, OAZ5B. It too varies, upward? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4790-, Feb 9 at 0053, carrier is only slightly below 4790, much closer to 4790.0 than to 4789.9, and a log of R. Visión a month ago agrees with this, 4789.97 by Pedro F. Arrunátegui, but on Jan 26, 4789.877 by Wolfgang Büschel, so it may vary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 9 at 0057, mainly weak CNR1 jammer, no Cuban noise jamming audible, but big splash from 5990 China via Cuba, which fortunately quit on time tonight by 0100:00, as I could barely hear the closing timesignal on 5980, but leaving only a JBA carrier. By 0104 it had grown a bit so I could hear some music modulation, and cut off at 0105:40*. So R. Chaski clock timer continues to lose about 5 sex each day; missed monitoring UT Feb 8, but since on Feb 7 it went off at 0105:30*, interpolating, the Feb 8 time would have been 0105:35*. At this rate, by a year from now, it`ll be on until at least 0135, and in two years, 0205* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11840, Feb 9 at 1505, `American Café` from VOA, very good magazine show of several short features averaging 4 minutes each: Grand Central Terminal`s 100th anniversary; cod shortage in Gulf of Maine due to wrong limits set by scientists who are now not trusted by fisherpeople; truffle-sniffing dog training in Oregon; ``12 Years a Slave`` autobiography now on audio book read by Louis Gossett Jr; young Afghan musicians on US tour; Grammy Awards. This hour only is 100 kW, 108 degrees via Lampertheim, GERMANY; so significant programming on Saturdays, instead of just `Music Mix` on weekdays; what about Sundays?
13580, Feb 9 at 1437, VOA Kurdish with a LAH (low audible heterodyne) already, presumably Cairo carrier on way early for 1500 Albanian, and which by 1450 habitually adds tone test further disrupting VOA via Wertachtal, GERMANY, and must be even worse in the Mideast, yet IBB just doesn`t care, because CIRAF targets differ? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Sat Feb 9 before 0236 end of prolonged `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, he mentions that Area 51 will have special snowstorm programming this weekend, and WBCQ is far enough north not to get the brunt of the storm (but it snows a lot there anyway). Not sure if he meant that SW 5110v-CUSB would be on extended hours, or just on the webcast, which was all I was listening to.
He also promoted new program starting a week from Sat at 7 pm on 7490, `Sonny`s Classic Country Radio Show` = 0000 UT Sundays; until now, the entire Saturday + UT Sunday schedule 2000-0500 UT on 7490 had been dedicated to `I Sing` from GFRN, as still shown on the website schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Sat Feb 9, WORLD OF RADIO confirmed on Area 51 webcast, delayed start at 0236 after extended WBCQ `Allan Weiner Worldwide`. Next: on WRMI 9955, Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1600, Mon 0530, Tue 1200. On WTWW-1 5830, UT Sun 0500. On WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sat 1830.
Also our new affiliate in Forks, WA, KFKB 1490, starts WOR on Feb 10, Sundays 1100 UT (3:00 am PST). So far I haven`t got their webstream to work; maybe only funxioning during ballgames as seems to be implied? Via http://www.forks1490.com/ try Listen Live which goes to http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v4/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KFKB
If anyone can hear KFKB on 1490 or web during WOR, please report. Best place to listen beyond Forks is probably Lemmenjoki, major DX-pedition site in Finland, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, but it should be audible around Victoria BC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13710, Feb 9 at 0610, enthusiastic Chinese conversation, one side on the phone. Since I am getting good signals on band from Pacific (13630 Australia, 13730 DRM NZ) but not Asia, I suspect this was really R. Free Asia, TINIAN rather than CNR1 jammer which surely attacked it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, KGWA Enid has continued to provide a Fox-hole every night the past week at 0600-0605 UT, during which only its hummy carrier from a few miles away remains. UT Feb 9 I first hear ABC news, i.e. KMA Iowa, and from 0601 mostly blues harmonica music, 0603 R-E-S-P-E-C-T, 0604 tentative ID at last for WABG, Mississippi. But I have been straining to hear such an ID and it may have been semi-imagined.
Previously: Hello Glenn, re: the 960 unID, did you hear anything related to "Awesome AM" or awesomeam.com? If so, that would be WABG. They are a periodic visitor here. 73, (Todd Brandenburg, Silver Lake KS, Feb 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Todd, Thanks for the tip. I`ll listen for that. I have never heard any announcement from the blues station during those 5 minutes. I may have to resort to trying to match the listen live, tho I normally turn off the noisy computer before starting my midnite monitoring (Glenn to Todd, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Since then I tried listening to webstream while DXing the Foxhole from the coldspot, but it`s too close to the computer noise, incompatible. WABG website certainly emphasizes its blues format (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. Here we go again with anomalies prior to the 0630 Latin Mass on at least four Vatican Radio frequencies: Feb 9 at 0617, 7250 is not on yet, but at 0618, 6075 is on way early, modulating French service to Africa. At 0627, 7250 is now on early in presumed Albanian. At 0628 now I hear 6075 // 9645 with music, and at 0629 both switch to bells, and joined by 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 9:
9315, very poor at 1445
12370, very poor at 1435
12500, very poor at 1435
12980, poor at 1433, first found, so worth further bandscanning
but none higher in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s by 1444
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11740, Feb 9 at 0502, NHK English relay is already on the air, unlike last night, and maybe even started at 0500.
I also suspect the 11740 carrier never got turned off, as once again at 0611, weak French from ROMANIA fights another carrier making fast SAH, and also some hum typical of Montsinéry. 0700 *still* just the carrier with hum; anyway, not hearing any spurs from it. Need to monitor at 0530 when R. Japan relay is supposed to end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4775, Feb 9 at 0052, two weak carriers here, one surely R. Tarma, Perú; two other stations might be on the air at this time, but Brazil`s R. Congonhas has not been confirmed active in the past month, per the latest Relatório referente às escutas de janeiro/2013 by Giuseppe Cysneiros. That leaves AIR Imphal, per Aoki 0020-0215, 50 kW non-direxional in Hindi.
4880.1, Feb 9 at 0055, S Asian vocal music, fair signal slightly on the hi side, and still same at 0104. Presumed AIR Lucknow, 50 kW non-direxional, starting at 0025 per Aoki. Stands out as not previously heard in 60m bandscans around this hour, and nothing much else from India tonight. Lucknow is in north central India near Nepal, between Aligarh and Gorakhpur, per WRTH map. All the logs I can find of it are for just 4880, not 4880.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11805, Feb 9 at 1427, VIRI IS, fair signal with noise which sounds self-imposed; 1430 three upward chimes, announcement, national anthem. Same music is playing on much stronger and clearer 11700. Got away from both before Qur`an. HFCC shows 11805 is Bengali, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Kamalabad, while 11700 is Hindi, 500 kW, 118 degrees from Kamalabad. So the two ought to be a near-match in reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Feb 9 at 1447, Denge Kurdistan, presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE, good signal but IADs interrupting prolonged dramatic music piece, presumably about the plight of Kurds in Turkey; finally announcement at 1501 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Sat Feb 9 at 0630, great music on RNZI prevents me from continuing DX bandscanning. It`s `Saturday Night with Peter Fry` from RNZ National, ``A weekly programme of nostalgia and musical memories including your requests, snippets from the comedy archives and Peter's own Deep Purple selections.``
It`s at 7:04-11 pm NZST, i.e. 0604-1000 UT, and here`s what I heard until 0700, from the playlist:
The Fleet's In Port Again - Billy Cotton & His Band, Alan Breeze (vocal) [Gay]
The Frozen Logger – Odetta [Stevens]
The Hippopotamus Song - Flanders & Swann [Flanders/Swann]
La Golondrina - The George Melachrino Orchestra [Serrandell]
Louise - Maurice Chevalier [Robin/Whiting]
Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie - Ambrose & His Orchestra, Sam Browne (vocal) [Lombardo/Loeb]
There's A Long, Long Trail A-Winding - John McCormack [Elliot]
Greetings From Vienna - Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Robert Stolz [Stolz]
The RNZI schedule gridhttp://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php
is very misleading showing this show only at 0808-0900, and merely generic ``RNZ National`` before then, and nothing after then, so are all four hours really on SW?
We would sure like to hear more of this programme when we are awake, but altho RNZN has an extensive audio library and podcasts, including some music shows, not this one! You`d think most of the old music played would be public-domain by now. While hunting for it I tried to hear one thing, the NZ National Anthem [not GSTQ?], http://www.radionz.co.nz/radionz/programmes/nat-music/audio/2535945/the-new-zealand-national-anthem.asx
but ``error synching to stream`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4747.2, Feb 9 at 0046, JBA carrier, presumed R. Huanta 2000, OAZ5B. It too varies, upward? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4790-, Feb 9 at 0053, carrier is only slightly below 4790, much closer to 4790.0 than to 4789.9, and a log of R. Visión a month ago agrees with this, 4789.97 by Pedro F. Arrunátegui, but on Jan 26, 4789.877 by Wolfgang Büschel, so it may vary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 9 at 0057, mainly weak CNR1 jammer, no Cuban noise jamming audible, but big splash from 5990 China via Cuba, which fortunately quit on time tonight by 0100:00, as I could barely hear the closing timesignal on 5980, but leaving only a JBA carrier. By 0104 it had grown a bit so I could hear some music modulation, and cut off at 0105:40*. So R. Chaski clock timer continues to lose about 5 sex each day; missed monitoring UT Feb 8, but since on Feb 7 it went off at 0105:30*, interpolating, the Feb 8 time would have been 0105:35*. At this rate, by a year from now, it`ll be on until at least 0135, and in two years, 0205* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11840, Feb 9 at 1505, `American Café` from VOA, very good magazine show of several short features averaging 4 minutes each: Grand Central Terminal`s 100th anniversary; cod shortage in Gulf of Maine due to wrong limits set by scientists who are now not trusted by fisherpeople; truffle-sniffing dog training in Oregon; ``12 Years a Slave`` autobiography now on audio book read by Louis Gossett Jr; young Afghan musicians on US tour; Grammy Awards. This hour only is 100 kW, 108 degrees via Lampertheim, GERMANY; so significant programming on Saturdays, instead of just `Music Mix` on weekdays; what about Sundays?
13580, Feb 9 at 1437, VOA Kurdish with a LAH (low audible heterodyne) already, presumably Cairo carrier on way early for 1500 Albanian, and which by 1450 habitually adds tone test further disrupting VOA via Wertachtal, GERMANY, and must be even worse in the Mideast, yet IBB just doesn`t care, because CIRAF targets differ? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Sat Feb 9 before 0236 end of prolonged `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, he mentions that Area 51 will have special snowstorm programming this weekend, and WBCQ is far enough north not to get the brunt of the storm (but it snows a lot there anyway). Not sure if he meant that SW 5110v-CUSB would be on extended hours, or just on the webcast, which was all I was listening to.
He also promoted new program starting a week from Sat at 7 pm on 7490, `Sonny`s Classic Country Radio Show` = 0000 UT Sundays; until now, the entire Saturday + UT Sunday schedule 2000-0500 UT on 7490 had been dedicated to `I Sing` from GFRN, as still shown on the website schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110v-CUSB, UT Sat Feb 9, WORLD OF RADIO confirmed on Area 51 webcast, delayed start at 0236 after extended WBCQ `Allan Weiner Worldwide`. Next: on WRMI 9955, Sat 1830, Sun 0900, 1600, Mon 0530, Tue 1200. On WTWW-1 5830, UT Sun 0500. On WRN via Sirius XM 120: Sat 1830.
Also our new affiliate in Forks, WA, KFKB 1490, starts WOR on Feb 10, Sundays 1100 UT (3:00 am PST). So far I haven`t got their webstream to work; maybe only funxioning during ballgames as seems to be implied? Via http://www.forks1490.com/ try Listen Live which goes to http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v4/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KFKB
If anyone can hear KFKB on 1490 or web during WOR, please report. Best place to listen beyond Forks is probably Lemmenjoki, major DX-pedition site in Finland, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, but it should be audible around Victoria BC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13710, Feb 9 at 0610, enthusiastic Chinese conversation, one side on the phone. Since I am getting good signals on band from Pacific (13630 Australia, 13730 DRM NZ) but not Asia, I suspect this was really R. Free Asia, TINIAN rather than CNR1 jammer which surely attacked it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, KGWA Enid has continued to provide a Fox-hole every night the past week at 0600-0605 UT, during which only its hummy carrier from a few miles away remains. UT Feb 9 I first hear ABC news, i.e. KMA Iowa, and from 0601 mostly blues harmonica music, 0603 R-E-S-P-E-C-T, 0604 tentative ID at last for WABG, Mississippi. But I have been straining to hear such an ID and it may have been semi-imagined.
Previously: Hello Glenn, re: the 960 unID, did you hear anything related to "Awesome AM" or awesomeam.com? If so, that would be WABG. They are a periodic visitor here. 73, (Todd Brandenburg, Silver Lake KS, Feb 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Todd, Thanks for the tip. I`ll listen for that. I have never heard any announcement from the blues station during those 5 minutes. I may have to resort to trying to match the listen live, tho I normally turn off the noisy computer before starting my midnite monitoring (Glenn to Todd, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Since then I tried listening to webstream while DXing the Foxhole from the coldspot, but it`s too close to the computer noise, incompatible. WABG website certainly emphasizes its blues format (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. Here we go again with anomalies prior to the 0630 Latin Mass on at least four Vatican Radio frequencies: Feb 9 at 0617, 7250 is not on yet, but at 0618, 6075 is on way early, modulating French service to Africa. At 0627, 7250 is now on early in presumed Albanian. At 0628 now I hear 6075 // 9645 with music, and at 0629 both switch to bells, and joined by 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
