** AUSTRALIA. 5755, April 26 at 1224, now fax sounds are audible, so VMW Wiluna WA as in EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 26 at 1359 tune-in, just in time to hear a few iterations of the BB IS, and timesignal ending at 1359:40.5, opening Urdu; very poor, but somewhat impressive considering very degraded hi-latitude propagation conditions; even lo-latitude HCJB Australia 15400 was quite weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4716.7, April 26 at 0058, Yura with music, back on the low side of 4717 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4754.9, April 26 at 0059 music, presumed the only American station known circa 4755, Radio Immaculate Conception, Big Field, Thick Bush. (Since Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, translates names of stations never broadcasting in Portuguese, into Portuguese, I am no less justified in translating Brazilian names to English, hi) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, April 26 at 0100, Brazilian music vs CODAR, 0101 TC as ``dez horas`` and ID as R. Daqui, best ZY on band. Any station might utter ``daqui`` as it merely means ``from here``, but only ZYF691 in Goiânia turns the expression into a proper name. Perhaps at founding they had a hard time thinking of a more original, less generic name (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 26 before 1300:
13795, poor at 1245 vs R. Free Asia Tibetan via Kuwait, and very poor an hour later at 1350. All the other traditional FD frequencies audible are still occupied instead by CNR1 jamming:
12230, poor at 1242
12370, fair at 1242, not synchronized with 12230
13970, poor at 1245; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s; in fact the 16m band was totally dead, not even Cuba, and 19m had only a few weakies
Before 1400:
13970, CNR1 very poor at 1348; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, April 26 at 0056 surprised (not really) to find RHC in wrong language, French, which is supposed to be on 5040 only, with 11760 in Spanish. Probably was also in Kriyol at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 26 at 0452 UT, choral NA is already playing early, maybe the station which will cut to big hum afterwards, but by 0454 losing out to other Mexican music stations, so all unID now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 26 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier audible as usual with BFO vs the pervasive local and band noise level; automatic cutoff at 0104:26*, five seconds later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11530, April 26 at 1234, nothing but big hum and flutter, no modulation, as Voice of Russia is wasting its relay rubles on this site; the hum is always there even when modulating. Was it thus for the entire scheduled 5-hour span, 10-15 UT in English except 13-14 Hindi? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday April 25 after 2100. Next airing 0330v on WWRB: confirmed first on webcast, predecessor ending with ``let`s bow our heads`` at 0327, background noise level surges, Dave IDs, false restart of that (?), and then WOR from 0328, later confirmed also on 3195, no 5050.
Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 26 at 1359 tune-in, just in time to hear a few iterations of the BB IS, and timesignal ending at 1359:40.5, opening Urdu; very poor, but somewhat impressive considering very degraded hi-latitude propagation conditions; even lo-latitude HCJB Australia 15400 was quite weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4716.7, April 26 at 0058, Yura with music, back on the low side of 4717 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4754.9, April 26 at 0059 music, presumed the only American station known circa 4755, Radio Immaculate Conception, Big Field, Thick Bush. (Since Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, translates names of stations never broadcasting in Portuguese, into Portuguese, I am no less justified in translating Brazilian names to English, hi) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, April 26 at 0100, Brazilian music vs CODAR, 0101 TC as ``dez horas`` and ID as R. Daqui, best ZY on band. Any station might utter ``daqui`` as it merely means ``from here``, but only ZYF691 in Goiânia turns the expression into a proper name. Perhaps at founding they had a hard time thinking of a more original, less generic name (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 26 before 1300:
13795, poor at 1245 vs R. Free Asia Tibetan via Kuwait, and very poor an hour later at 1350. All the other traditional FD frequencies audible are still occupied instead by CNR1 jamming:
12230, poor at 1242
12370, fair at 1242, not synchronized with 12230
13970, poor at 1245; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s; in fact the 16m band was totally dead, not even Cuba, and 19m had only a few weakies
Before 1400:
13970, CNR1 very poor at 1348; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, April 26 at 0056 surprised (not really) to find RHC in wrong language, French, which is supposed to be on 5040 only, with 11760 in Spanish. Probably was also in Kriyol at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 26 at 0452 UT, choral NA is already playing early, maybe the station which will cut to big hum afterwards, but by 0454 losing out to other Mexican music stations, so all unID now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 26 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier audible as usual with BFO vs the pervasive local and band noise level; automatic cutoff at 0104:26*, five seconds later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11530, April 26 at 1234, nothing but big hum and flutter, no modulation, as Voice of Russia is wasting its relay rubles on this site; the hum is always there even when modulating. Was it thus for the entire scheduled 5-hour span, 10-15 UT in English except 13-14 Hindi? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1666 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday April 25 after 2100. Next airing 0330v on WWRB: confirmed first on webcast, predecessor ending with ``let`s bow our heads`` at 0327, background noise level surges, Dave IDs, false restart of that (?), and then WOR from 0328, later confirmed also on 3195, no 5050.
Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
