** ALBANIA. 9850, May 3 at *0126:30, R. Tirana comes on with IS which keeps going past 0130 until late sign-on with English schedule at 0131:18; strong enough signal, but WHRI 9860, aimed due NW from SC across all America with anti-US government programming toward its pretend-target western Canada, is so much stronger that it would be prudent for R. Tirana to get further away from it. Nothing is heard and nothing is listed in HFCC or Aoki during this semihour only on 9845 or 9840, which ought to be an easy shift for Shijak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASCENSION. 7335, May 3 at 0513, BBCWS` best broadcast inadvertently for us, is on wrong frequency! Obviously slipped a punch-up, missing from correct 7355 during discussion of chem weapons in Syria; but recheck 0519 it`s back on 7355.
BTW, HFCC shows that from May 5, 7355 will be extended another hour until 0700, but with a beam change at 0600 from 102 to 65 degrees, which should be less favorable for us; too bad they`re not extending it an hour earlier instead of later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, May 3 at 1143, RA English with equal level CCI in Chinese, as this frequency is now colliding with RVA PHILIPPINES at 1100-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, May 3 at 1218, HCJB with song about Jesus, neat rendition with Swingle-singers-type vocalizing instead of instrumental accompaniment, then Indonesian announcement.
15400, May 3 at 1225 the other Kununurran starts with usual loop of English IDs about programming shortly, nondescript but supposedly inspirational music around them. 1230 sign-on to South Asia. First show is `A Different Perspective` about back-stabbing. Nothing said about imminent frequency changes! Nor can I find anything on their website, but Jorge Freitas forwards this info from Facebook:
``Shelley Martin, via Asia DX League: Hi all. Here's HCJB's updated broadcast schedule. These frequency changes will become effective from Sunday, May 5, 2013. Announcements regarding these changes will be made as often as possible on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to make listeners aware of the changes. To be clear, it is only the relevant frequencies which have changed. Your program times remain exactly as previously published.
The short version is that:
evening East Asia programs have been moved from 15400 to 15490;
evening South East Asia programs have been moved from 15340 to 15490;
and South Asia evening programs have been moved from 15400 to 15340.``
This must be a result of the collision with IRAN to S Asia we pointed out weeks ago on 15400! Here`s the schedule grid, which as of May 3 still shows 15400, not 15490 in the evenings, just earlier to the Pacific:
http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/HCJB%20Australia%20A13%20Schedule.pdf
The S Asian evening block means 1225-1530 on 15400. Moving that to 15340 will make it collide again with Cuba after 1300! 15400 is what they should move to 15490 which is still open, and leave 15340 as is until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 3 at *1356 carrier on, adding hum and tone, fair with flutter; 1357:46 starts IS which takes 21-22 seconds per iteration, so we hear it five times, more than usual, and the sixth stops incomplete to accommodate the mistimesignal ending at 1359:45, then opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, May 3:
7385, fair at 1149, mixing with CNR1 et al., making fast SAH; target on 7385 is R. Taiwan International in Chinese
13795, nothing yet at 1149 but fair at 1243
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 before 1200:
12670, poor at 1153
13130, fair at 1153
13820, poor at 1152
13830, poor at 1151
13850, poor at 1151
13920, fair at 1151, first one found
14700, very poor at 1155
14750, very poor at 1155
16100, poor at 1156
16250, very poor at 1156; none in the 17s
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 before 1300:
13830, poor at 1243; none in the 12s
13970, fair at 1243
14700, poor at 1240 with hets
14750, very good at 1240, with hum
14800, poor at 1240
15900, very good at 1235
16100, very good at 1237
16160, poor at 1237
16250, poor at 1237
16920, fair at 1238
17170, poor at 1239
17250, very poor at 1239
17370, very poor at 1239; none in the 18s
That`s a total of thirteen at once! Of course, there are many more CNR1 jammers but these are the ones on ex-FD mostly OOB frequencies.
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 after 1300:
15570, poor plus propeller noise at 1309, het on lo side
15610, under WEWN at 1307 & 1340, het on lo side
Not a complete search elsewhere
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17530, May 3 at 1126, M&W&W conversation with music, VG signal with some fading, before sunrise here; did not sound exactly like Vietnamese so suspected Cambodian, and CRI ID in passing, continuing past 1130, but listed as Viet at 1100-1200, 500 kW, 190 degrees from Xian, long-path? CRI does have Cambodian on other frequencies but ending at 1130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, May 2 at 2018, open carrier, dead air from RHC supposed to be in French; then checked much stronger 17720 and found OCDA too. But by 2023, 11760 had started or resumed in French, 17720 in Portuguese.
11680, May 3 at 0018 tune-in, RHC good signal but open carrier dead air, then Spanish cuts on. // 11840 is undermodulated and distorted (but no buzz noise field audible); 11760 is nominal.
6060, May 3 at 0136, RHC is re-active here in Spanish rather than underneath their English transmitter on 6165 as mis-happened for a couple of nights.
11760, May 3 at 0516, RHC is still on the air here and in English; supposed to close in Spanish at 0500. English also on the usual quintet of 5040, 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165. 11760 will be cut off abruptly whenever RadioCuba gets around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, UT Friday May 3 at 0121 tune-in to R. Prague`s only SW broadcast in English, courtesy WRMI relay, but already ending `Panorama` show and introducing fill music by Vladimir Mushik (sp?). Some pulse jamming courtesy Arnie, but mostly atop it.
The following presumably applies to English, altho we`ve only heard about it in Spanish, via Horacio Nigro: R. Praga says May 18 will be celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of broadcasting in Czechoslovakia and will send a special QSL for reports of that date only.
Following the Brother Scare onslaught, only surviving R. Prague relay via WRMI in English is UT Tue-Fri 0100-0130, but May 18 is a Saturday! (following Slovakia 0030 UT Tue-Sat); R. Praga in Spanish is only at 0200-0230 UT daily, followed by Eslovaquia, just like in the olden days, never Slovakoczechia. I suppose they liberally supply QSLs for webcast listeners, their #1 platform in the SW-is-outmoded era (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GOA [and non]. 15410, May 3 at 1136, weak SE Asian language talk marred by tone/siren jamming; 1138 song. Only thing scheduled is AIR Thai service at 1100-1200 via Panaji, Goa, which should not provoke any jamming; or are the Vietnamese now interfering in the affairs of Thailand? A restive minority in Vietnam can understand Thai? AIR Tamil service via Delhi/Khampur 15050-AM is in better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Friday May 3 at 0509, no Chinese now from R. Verdad, but instead Brazilian Portuguese with background music. It doesn`t take long to recognize keyword ``deus`` as repeatedly pronounced not as in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, May 3 at 1147, RNZI still third day with VG signal on new frequency ex-9655, and still has to be on NE rather than NW antenna, fine with me, but what about the Timorese? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 3 at 0024 I get a JBA carrier on the main FRG-7 rig with computer noise off, so this time I stay warm inside instead of DX-peditioning to the porch with the DX-398. R. Chaski signal gradually improves vs 5990 CRI/Cuba splash; at 0049 I can make out it`s in Spanish, but altho carrier is no weaker, no modulation heard after 0100; did it stop? But not cut off the air until 0105:02.5*, just about when expected at 4.5 seconds later than last night, but probably a +/- 0.5 second margin of error; anyhow, this time it has surpassed the previous 0105 reset mark. BTW, in A-13 HFCC there is nothing else on 5980 between 21 and 03, unlike in B-12 when we had Asian QRM until 0100. The Brazilian in Aoki on 5980 is probably inactive 24h.
Not even Scandinavian Weekend Radio, monthly from Finland will be on 5980, but on its other 49m channel, 6170, during this period UT May 3-4 (mislabeled April at http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm site) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Sarawak monitoring May 3: circa 1135, algo on 15430, maybe carriers on 15460, 15500, nothing on 17840.
1157 recheck 17840 and now there is a poor signal, presumably this, but it cuts off at 1158* halfway thru the 2-hour broadcast! So I retune to:
15500, at 1158.5 strong open carrier has just come on, shortly adding RFS modulation, presumably the transmitter which just quit 17840. 15500 continues to provide fine armchair reception the following hour, far from Sarawak. I can even hear a lite squeal on the signal, altho it could be from a local device. At 1202-1204, four or five Radio Free Sarawak IDs in passing, as different people are being interviewed, first on phone, and then in studio; mentions ``free media``. I keep hearing a word like ``kitay``, likely nothing to do with China.
15430, at 1207 now up to poor level, switch to a YL voice briefly which helps to calculate that 15430, the only frequency RFS acknowledges, is running about 20 seconds ahead of 15500.
15460, by 1209 is improved with bits of music, also helping to time its relation to 15500, i.e. 15460 is 6 seconds behind it. See my recent reports for speculation about the sites for each.
That settled, except when tuning around for Firedrake, etc., I stick with best by far 15500, as if serving Iban-speakers in Oklahoma (if any?). At 1250 phone rings (beeps) and another interview starts with berita from someone who has birds chirping in background (could those be Kenyalangs?). 1259 wrapping up with ``OK``, bit of music, 1259:55 cut modulation and 1300:00 cut carrier, obviously adjusted after my notice that they were cutting off too early at 1258 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, May 3 at 0015 and 0053, International Radio Serbia is missing! Nothing at all from what is normally the strongest signal out of Europe on 31m at the time including English at 0030; higher-latitude paths are somewhat weakened, with 9665, V. of Russia via PRIDNESTROVYE having a hard time against the off-frequency Brazilian het; 9490 France is also losing out to the wall-of-noise Cuban jamming which it usually manages to dominate; but 9700 Romania is quite sufficient, and I`m sure if Bijeljina were on at all it would be well audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 11985, May 3 at 1144, piano music announced in Russian as Rakhmaninov, but also a Chinese name, performer? What`s this? Aoki shows RTI in Russian at 1100-1200, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Hu Wei site, which is one doomed for demolition shortly. I already confirmed it was not // stronger CRI Russian USward on 11935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9820, UT Friday May 3 at 0122, open carrier with constant het, i.e. Greenville-B warming up for the 0130 VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish, vs R. Nove de Julho, constant off-frequency Brazilian to the lo side. Is either station aware of this clash?? If so, does anyone care? 0130 first VOA story is about marijuana. This is UT Tue-Sat only and per EiBi, is now the only frequency instead of with one or two parallels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1667 monitoring: confirmed Thursday May 2 after 2100 on WTWW-1, 9479, sufficient here but weaker than usual, reduced power, or propagation?
Then at 2118 I check WTWW-2 on 9930, and guess what: not only is it stronger, but there is WORLD OF RADIO too --- can`t get enough gh! But it`s from a biweek ago, #1665 and must have started a bit after 2100 as it ends at 2134, on to a `QSO` playback. This is probably from Ted Randall`s continuous webcast alternating the two shows. I suppose previous WORs may have appeared at other random times on 9930. After checking Zanzibar on the Twente SDR, I also try 9479 and 9930 but, shux, they are inaudible in Holland; maybe there`s a bit o` the Bible on 12105. Back to the present:
Next play of WOR 1667 also confirmed UT Friday May 3 on WWRB 3195 (no 5050), starting at 0329.8; an overassertive had been preaching until suddenly stopped, seemingly incomplete at 0329.5, amid which 0.3-minute pause Dave inserted a quick ID.
Next2: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Europeans, please reconfirm); 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 LISENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13830, May 2 at 2021-2024+, open carrier, dead air from WEWN, Radio Católica Mundial, trying to outdo Habana? Then checking the other two transmitters: 12050 has very good signal and modulation level, but severe IADs every second or two! 15610 English just barely modulated. The thing is falling apart, just in time to welcome the NASB Conventioneers in a few days.
Until recently, 15610 WEWN English had been starting at 1300, and still shown as such on own schedule http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm but registered in HFCC from 1200, and now it is really on an hour earlier, already at 1212 check with mass which is also being translated into Spanish on 11550; this allows 15610 to collide another hour with CNR1 jamming (ex-Firedrake) vs V. of Tibet, observed today:
1222 with Chinese and noise jamming, het on lo side, under WEWN sermon; 1235 now WEWN in the clear; 1307 & 1340, CCCCI and het on lo side again.
12050 is missing at 1314, supposed to be WEWN Spanish, which is now only on 11550, and not yet on 13830 either. Own sked shows 12050 in Spanish at 10-17, and also from the other transmitter at 18-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9860, May 3 at 0124, WHRI with anti-Obama rant, ``the communists have taken over America`` from Rick somebody on the ``True [sic] News`` show, which is also on WWCR and KBXD. Tnx a lot, stations for propagating this garbage. Extremely strong signal here, and // WHRI 5920 but that is running a few words behind, why? True News has also just bought the 820 station in St Kitts & Nevis from TBN, so presumably R. Paradise will be renamed Radio Paranoia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, UT Friday May 3 at 0459 UT, another check of what KGGF Coffeyville KS is doing: instead of immediate sign-off after Jim Bohannon, runs an ad for a business in Coffeyville-Independence, Utopia(?), and references own website http://www.radioresultsgroup.com plus an Ad Council PSA before sign-off ``until tomorrow``, taps starting at 0500:32 for another minute+ before stopping modulation, but not carrier. Searching directly for a KGGF website, I never found the above, but from it we do find some KGGF stuff among other stations in group, http://www.radioresultsgroup.com/id24.html but still no program schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 850, May 3 at 0144 UT, instrumental hymns, Rock of Ages, Blessèd Assurance, etc., dominant signal, certainly not KOA yet; 0150 fading but tentative ID as KFUO, which I was suspecting, LCMS mouthpiece in Clayton (St Louis) MO. FCC AM Query indeed shows this 5 kW daytimer may now funxion until 0100 UT in May, 0130 in June & July, and there is nothing about a PSSA or PSRA in its FCC correspondence folder, but it might be interesting to explore its history cards converted to pdf which start in 1925 or 1927y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, May 3 at 0521, VOV via WHRI goes from nice music to language lesson ``for Vietnamese living abroad``, i.e. presented in English during this Viet-language hour. So they expect expatriates/emigrants not fluent in the language to improve it thusly; not for total foreigners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, May 2 at 2017, JBA carrier here, checked after tip from Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, who was getting ZBC reactivated after more than a month, not heard at all in April; then I tuned to Twente at 2055 and heard some music tho signal quite weak there by then, and off at 2059:50* (as presumably delayed to get it here via web, but how much as a correxion factor?). SDR Twente was hearing it again via Jorge Freitas May 3 after 1554 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASCENSION. 7335, May 3 at 0513, BBCWS` best broadcast inadvertently for us, is on wrong frequency! Obviously slipped a punch-up, missing from correct 7355 during discussion of chem weapons in Syria; but recheck 0519 it`s back on 7355.
BTW, HFCC shows that from May 5, 7355 will be extended another hour until 0700, but with a beam change at 0600 from 102 to 65 degrees, which should be less favorable for us; too bad they`re not extending it an hour earlier instead of later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, May 3 at 1143, RA English with equal level CCI in Chinese, as this frequency is now colliding with RVA PHILIPPINES at 1100-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 15340, May 3 at 1218, HCJB with song about Jesus, neat rendition with Swingle-singers-type vocalizing instead of instrumental accompaniment, then Indonesian announcement.
15400, May 3 at 1225 the other Kununurran starts with usual loop of English IDs about programming shortly, nondescript but supposedly inspirational music around them. 1230 sign-on to South Asia. First show is `A Different Perspective` about back-stabbing. Nothing said about imminent frequency changes! Nor can I find anything on their website, but Jorge Freitas forwards this info from Facebook:
``Shelley Martin, via Asia DX League: Hi all. Here's HCJB's updated broadcast schedule. These frequency changes will become effective from Sunday, May 5, 2013. Announcements regarding these changes will be made as often as possible on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to make listeners aware of the changes. To be clear, it is only the relevant frequencies which have changed. Your program times remain exactly as previously published.
The short version is that:
evening East Asia programs have been moved from 15400 to 15490;
evening South East Asia programs have been moved from 15340 to 15490;
and South Asia evening programs have been moved from 15400 to 15340.``
This must be a result of the collision with IRAN to S Asia we pointed out weeks ago on 15400! Here`s the schedule grid, which as of May 3 still shows 15400, not 15490 in the evenings, just earlier to the Pacific:
http://www.hcjb.org.au/docs/HCJB%20Australia%20A13%20Schedule.pdf
The S Asian evening block means 1225-1530 on 15400. Moving that to 15340 will make it collide again with Cuba after 1300! 15400 is what they should move to 15490 which is still open, and leave 15340 as is until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 3 at *1356 carrier on, adding hum and tone, fair with flutter; 1357:46 starts IS which takes 21-22 seconds per iteration, so we hear it five times, more than usual, and the sixth stops incomplete to accommodate the mistimesignal ending at 1359:45, then opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, May 3:
7385, fair at 1149, mixing with CNR1 et al., making fast SAH; target on 7385 is R. Taiwan International in Chinese
13795, nothing yet at 1149 but fair at 1243
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 before 1200:
12670, poor at 1153
13130, fair at 1153
13820, poor at 1152
13830, poor at 1151
13850, poor at 1151
13920, fair at 1151, first one found
14700, very poor at 1155
14750, very poor at 1155
16100, poor at 1156
16250, very poor at 1156; none in the 17s
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 before 1300:
13830, poor at 1243; none in the 12s
13970, fair at 1243
14700, poor at 1240 with hets
14750, very good at 1240, with hum
14800, poor at 1240
15900, very good at 1235
16100, very good at 1237
16160, poor at 1237
16250, poor at 1237
16920, fair at 1238
17170, poor at 1239
17250, very poor at 1239
17370, very poor at 1239; none in the 18s
That`s a total of thirteen at once! Of course, there are many more CNR1 jammers but these are the ones on ex-FD mostly OOB frequencies.
Non-Firedrake CNR1 jamming, May 3 after 1300:
15570, poor plus propeller noise at 1309, het on lo side
15610, under WEWN at 1307 & 1340, het on lo side
Not a complete search elsewhere
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17530, May 3 at 1126, M&W&W conversation with music, VG signal with some fading, before sunrise here; did not sound exactly like Vietnamese so suspected Cambodian, and CRI ID in passing, continuing past 1130, but listed as Viet at 1100-1200, 500 kW, 190 degrees from Xian, long-path? CRI does have Cambodian on other frequencies but ending at 1130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, May 2 at 2018, open carrier, dead air from RHC supposed to be in French; then checked much stronger 17720 and found OCDA too. But by 2023, 11760 had started or resumed in French, 17720 in Portuguese.
11680, May 3 at 0018 tune-in, RHC good signal but open carrier dead air, then Spanish cuts on. // 11840 is undermodulated and distorted (but no buzz noise field audible); 11760 is nominal.
6060, May 3 at 0136, RHC is re-active here in Spanish rather than underneath their English transmitter on 6165 as mis-happened for a couple of nights.
11760, May 3 at 0516, RHC is still on the air here and in English; supposed to close in Spanish at 0500. English also on the usual quintet of 5040, 6010, 6060, 6125, 6165. 11760 will be cut off abruptly whenever RadioCuba gets around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, UT Friday May 3 at 0121 tune-in to R. Prague`s only SW broadcast in English, courtesy WRMI relay, but already ending `Panorama` show and introducing fill music by Vladimir Mushik (sp?). Some pulse jamming courtesy Arnie, but mostly atop it.
The following presumably applies to English, altho we`ve only heard about it in Spanish, via Horacio Nigro: R. Praga says May 18 will be celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of broadcasting in Czechoslovakia and will send a special QSL for reports of that date only.
Following the Brother Scare onslaught, only surviving R. Prague relay via WRMI in English is UT Tue-Fri 0100-0130, but May 18 is a Saturday! (following Slovakia 0030 UT Tue-Sat); R. Praga in Spanish is only at 0200-0230 UT daily, followed by Eslovaquia, just like in the olden days, never Slovakoczechia. I suppose they liberally supply QSLs for webcast listeners, their #1 platform in the SW-is-outmoded era (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GOA [and non]. 15410, May 3 at 1136, weak SE Asian language talk marred by tone/siren jamming; 1138 song. Only thing scheduled is AIR Thai service at 1100-1200 via Panaji, Goa, which should not provoke any jamming; or are the Vietnamese now interfering in the affairs of Thailand? A restive minority in Vietnam can understand Thai? AIR Tamil service via Delhi/Khampur 15050-AM is in better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Friday May 3 at 0509, no Chinese now from R. Verdad, but instead Brazilian Portuguese with background music. It doesn`t take long to recognize keyword ``deus`` as repeatedly pronounced not as in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, May 3 at 1147, RNZI still third day with VG signal on new frequency ex-9655, and still has to be on NE rather than NW antenna, fine with me, but what about the Timorese? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 3 at 0024 I get a JBA carrier on the main FRG-7 rig with computer noise off, so this time I stay warm inside instead of DX-peditioning to the porch with the DX-398. R. Chaski signal gradually improves vs 5990 CRI/Cuba splash; at 0049 I can make out it`s in Spanish, but altho carrier is no weaker, no modulation heard after 0100; did it stop? But not cut off the air until 0105:02.5*, just about when expected at 4.5 seconds later than last night, but probably a +/- 0.5 second margin of error; anyhow, this time it has surpassed the previous 0105 reset mark. BTW, in A-13 HFCC there is nothing else on 5980 between 21 and 03, unlike in B-12 when we had Asian QRM until 0100. The Brazilian in Aoki on 5980 is probably inactive 24h.
Not even Scandinavian Weekend Radio, monthly from Finland will be on 5980, but on its other 49m channel, 6170, during this period UT May 3-4 (mislabeled April at http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm site) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Sarawak monitoring May 3: circa 1135, algo on 15430, maybe carriers on 15460, 15500, nothing on 17840.
1157 recheck 17840 and now there is a poor signal, presumably this, but it cuts off at 1158* halfway thru the 2-hour broadcast! So I retune to:
15500, at 1158.5 strong open carrier has just come on, shortly adding RFS modulation, presumably the transmitter which just quit 17840. 15500 continues to provide fine armchair reception the following hour, far from Sarawak. I can even hear a lite squeal on the signal, altho it could be from a local device. At 1202-1204, four or five Radio Free Sarawak IDs in passing, as different people are being interviewed, first on phone, and then in studio; mentions ``free media``. I keep hearing a word like ``kitay``, likely nothing to do with China.
15430, at 1207 now up to poor level, switch to a YL voice briefly which helps to calculate that 15430, the only frequency RFS acknowledges, is running about 20 seconds ahead of 15500.
15460, by 1209 is improved with bits of music, also helping to time its relation to 15500, i.e. 15460 is 6 seconds behind it. See my recent reports for speculation about the sites for each.
That settled, except when tuning around for Firedrake, etc., I stick with best by far 15500, as if serving Iban-speakers in Oklahoma (if any?). At 1250 phone rings (beeps) and another interview starts with berita from someone who has birds chirping in background (could those be Kenyalangs?). 1259 wrapping up with ``OK``, bit of music, 1259:55 cut modulation and 1300:00 cut carrier, obviously adjusted after my notice that they were cutting off too early at 1258 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, May 3 at 0015 and 0053, International Radio Serbia is missing! Nothing at all from what is normally the strongest signal out of Europe on 31m at the time including English at 0030; higher-latitude paths are somewhat weakened, with 9665, V. of Russia via PRIDNESTROVYE having a hard time against the off-frequency Brazilian het; 9490 France is also losing out to the wall-of-noise Cuban jamming which it usually manages to dominate; but 9700 Romania is quite sufficient, and I`m sure if Bijeljina were on at all it would be well audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 11985, May 3 at 1144, piano music announced in Russian as Rakhmaninov, but also a Chinese name, performer? What`s this? Aoki shows RTI in Russian at 1100-1200, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Hu Wei site, which is one doomed for demolition shortly. I already confirmed it was not // stronger CRI Russian USward on 11935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9820, UT Friday May 3 at 0122, open carrier with constant het, i.e. Greenville-B warming up for the 0130 VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish, vs R. Nove de Julho, constant off-frequency Brazilian to the lo side. Is either station aware of this clash?? If so, does anyone care? 0130 first VOA story is about marijuana. This is UT Tue-Sat only and per EiBi, is now the only frequency instead of with one or two parallels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1667 monitoring: confirmed Thursday May 2 after 2100 on WTWW-1, 9479, sufficient here but weaker than usual, reduced power, or propagation?
Then at 2118 I check WTWW-2 on 9930, and guess what: not only is it stronger, but there is WORLD OF RADIO too --- can`t get enough gh! But it`s from a biweek ago, #1665 and must have started a bit after 2100 as it ends at 2134, on to a `QSO` playback. This is probably from Ted Randall`s continuous webcast alternating the two shows. I suppose previous WORs may have appeared at other random times on 9930. After checking Zanzibar on the Twente SDR, I also try 9479 and 9930 but, shux, they are inaudible in Holland; maybe there`s a bit o` the Bible on 12105. Back to the present:
Next play of WOR 1667 also confirmed UT Friday May 3 on WWRB 3195 (no 5050), starting at 0329.8; an overassertive had been preaching until suddenly stopped, seemingly incomplete at 0329.5, amid which 0.3-minute pause Dave inserted a quick ID.
Next2: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Europeans, please reconfirm); 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 LISENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13830, May 2 at 2021-2024+, open carrier, dead air from WEWN, Radio Católica Mundial, trying to outdo Habana? Then checking the other two transmitters: 12050 has very good signal and modulation level, but severe IADs every second or two! 15610 English just barely modulated. The thing is falling apart, just in time to welcome the NASB Conventioneers in a few days.
Until recently, 15610 WEWN English had been starting at 1300, and still shown as such on own schedule http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm but registered in HFCC from 1200, and now it is really on an hour earlier, already at 1212 check with mass which is also being translated into Spanish on 11550; this allows 15610 to collide another hour with CNR1 jamming (ex-Firedrake) vs V. of Tibet, observed today:
1222 with Chinese and noise jamming, het on lo side, under WEWN sermon; 1235 now WEWN in the clear; 1307 & 1340, CCCCI and het on lo side again.
12050 is missing at 1314, supposed to be WEWN Spanish, which is now only on 11550, and not yet on 13830 either. Own sked shows 12050 in Spanish at 10-17, and also from the other transmitter at 18-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9860, May 3 at 0124, WHRI with anti-Obama rant, ``the communists have taken over America`` from Rick somebody on the ``True [sic] News`` show, which is also on WWCR and KBXD. Tnx a lot, stations for propagating this garbage. Extremely strong signal here, and // WHRI 5920 but that is running a few words behind, why? True News has also just bought the 820 station in St Kitts & Nevis from TBN, so presumably R. Paradise will be renamed Radio Paranoia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, UT Friday May 3 at 0459 UT, another check of what KGGF Coffeyville KS is doing: instead of immediate sign-off after Jim Bohannon, runs an ad for a business in Coffeyville-Independence, Utopia(?), and references own website http://www.radioresultsgroup.com plus an Ad Council PSA before sign-off ``until tomorrow``, taps starting at 0500:32 for another minute+ before stopping modulation, but not carrier. Searching directly for a KGGF website, I never found the above, but from it we do find some KGGF stuff among other stations in group, http://www.radioresultsgroup.com/id24.html but still no program schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 850, May 3 at 0144 UT, instrumental hymns, Rock of Ages, Blessèd Assurance, etc., dominant signal, certainly not KOA yet; 0150 fading but tentative ID as KFUO, which I was suspecting, LCMS mouthpiece in Clayton (St Louis) MO. FCC AM Query indeed shows this 5 kW daytimer may now funxion until 0100 UT in May, 0130 in June & July, and there is nothing about a PSSA or PSRA in its FCC correspondence folder, but it might be interesting to explore its history cards converted to pdf which start in 1925 or 1927y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, May 3 at 0521, VOV via WHRI goes from nice music to language lesson ``for Vietnamese living abroad``, i.e. presented in English during this Viet-language hour. So they expect expatriates/emigrants not fluent in the language to improve it thusly; not for total foreigners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, May 2 at 2017, JBA carrier here, checked after tip from Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, who was getting ZBC reactivated after more than a month, not heard at all in April; then I tuned to Twente at 2055 and heard some music tho signal quite weak there by then, and off at 2059:50* (as presumably delayed to get it here via web, but how much as a correxion factor?). SDR Twente was hearing it again via Jorge Freitas May 3 after 1554 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
