** CHINA. Firedrake June 7 before 1300:
13795, June 7 at 1233, real Firedrake music atop weaker presumed Kuwait. Propagation is really suppressed making this along with India on 13695 the SSOBs, while 15 MHz and higher bands are dead, so no CNR1 jamming at all found 12-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Surveying RHC/CRI frequencies June 6 2318-2323 for the defective wobbling transmitter did not find it, but:
5040, RHC very poor but no wobble
6 and 9 MHz, no RHC signals on or audible
11680, RHC very good with het, stronger than // 11840
11840, RHC `Sonido Cubano`, music fill hour, a bit distorted
11970, pulse jamming against no known target, a bit irregular, nothing like the wall-of-noise on 11930, but possibly spurious from one of the pileup of transmitters there; would not be second harmonic either unless it were on 11960
13650, CRI Portuguese, undermodulated and distorted
13780, RHC very good with separate `Mesa Redonda` TV program
15230, RHC music with some distortion
15370, RHC Quechua, undermodulated, distorted, with crackle
17705, RHC VG with music
However, the wobbling frequencies yesterday are back today, UT June 7:
6000, English OK at 0456
6010, at 0457, open carrier dead air with some hum, hets
6125, at 0522, RHC English with steady carrier, but squealing which changes with the modulation, becomes steady during pauses. // 5040, 6010 and 6060 are OK
6165, open carrier prior to English at 0055, warble, BFO unneeded to hear the rumble on it; 0105 modulating, and now also with spurblobs about plus/minus 12 kHz circa 6153, 6177; retuned 0456 just in time to hear it still wobbling before cut off the air, back on in a minute or less
Next morning June 7:
9850 at 1229, RHC Spanish with motorboating
13780 at 1343, normally same transmitter as 9850 and 6165, but now no motorboating.
I am still awaiting a surprise award of the Order of Che for being RHC`s most expert technical monitor abroad. Not even a gracias!
9955, June 7 at 1340, weak but readable signal in the clear from WRMI in Spanish, mentions `La Verdad para el Mundo`, then hit by pulse jamming, quickly overtaking it, altho this ``truth to the world`` is religious, not political (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, June 7 at 0457, TGAV is still on with hymns in Spanish; no word yet about their endangered license renewal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [and non]. 11665, June 7 at 1336, RA Chinese is still here colliding with RTM back to Sarawak. How much longer, now that the new régime is in charge of frequency management at RA?
Also, Ron Howard replies to my remark that RTM`s other frequency 9835 would be colliding with India after 1330 as listed by Aoki as ``AIR A13`` --- but AIR is not heard by Ron nor by me at 1338 June 7. Nor is 9835 in http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm at this time, but yes at other times.
Checking latest HFCC June 6, I also note that there are *no* MLA registrations at all, which is a good way to invite interference from stations which don`t go beyond HFCC in choosing ``clear`` frequencies. Malaysia had previously registered lots of imaginary frequencies, so is this an improvement? This from a country which even hosted HFCC A-10 in Kuala Lumpur, February 2010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010+, June 7 at 1220, weak CRI English has a weaker het on the hi side, suspected XEOI on irregular schedule.
Julián Santiago says it may be on beyond 22-03 UT; back on May 30, Ivo Ivanov (and/or Georgi Bancov?) heard it at 09 UT for this clip with an ID about 2 minutes in (via a remote receiver somewhere in USA, UT-7 zone?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2jm10YfSI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 51, June 7 at 1505 UT, I notice that KSBI OKC on its main channel 52-1 is now carrying a THIS TV movie, ``War Party``! It`s PSIP labeled KSBI-HD. Own main programming has been swapped to 52-2 as KSBI-SD, at the moment `We the People` with ``Judge`` Gloria Allred – now she`s one too?? I always found her much more menacing when her hair was jet-black, never all red. What`s going on here? KSBI had picked up THIS for its secondary channel as soon as KOCO RF 7, 5-2, dropped it a few months ago in favour of MeTV.
W9WI.com listing still shows 52.1 as INDependent, and 52.2 as Tuff TV, a net I barely remember, defunct? Tuff also was on KSBI`s LP companion, KXOC-LP 54 which since the DTV transition had (also?) been put on RF 51`s secondary channel.
THIS exchange has also caused Enid Suddenlink to put THIS on cable 16 & 116 instead of KSBI`s own programming, which has no other place to go as they were not relaying 52-2. If they were paying attention, would not duplicate on C16 & C116 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980+, June 7 at 0056, Chaski-carrier slightly on hi side; cut off circa 0102* but I was distracted by a little boy falling off his little bike with training wheels, closely pursued by parents in a car, so missed watching the exact second (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 17855, June 7 at 0519 fair signal in Chinese, the OSOB. It`s RFA at 310 degrees. If anything makes it thru an otherwise dead band, this one does (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, June 7 at 0058, WWRB still here and // 3215 with hum and preacher from Rosebud, Arkansas signing off, but 3215 cuts off at 0059:45* before he is finished. WWRB has to get off 3215 promptly to make way for WWCR, but that was in no hurry to show up. Then WWRB continued on 5050 only, not 3195, apparently off for the summer. 0100 hum and usual phone ringing on 5050, 0101 some other show starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1672 monitoring: confirmed on 5050, not 3195, from WWRB, UT Friday June 7 promptly at 0330, with some flutter unlike the other Tenneseeans on 4840, 5830.
Next: possibly sometime after 1800 Friday or anyday on WTWW-2 9930. UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 & new 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, June 7 at 1247 UT, het on the lo side, apparently caused by KCTE Independence MO being off-frequency, Mike & Mike from ESPN. Against what? Likely KNNS Larned KS which as we discovered months ago is no longer ESPN but Spanish, and is barely audible here by daytime groundwave, while KCTE comes only via residual skywave even now, a sesquihour after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6130-6135-6140, June 7 at 0455, loud DRM noise is here, not noticed before; figured it would be another Romanian segment which scatters DRM all over the bands, but HFCC as of June 6 unshows that; instead at 0430-0500 is BBC French via ASCENSION. Could that have slipped into DRM by mistake or deliberately? I believe they do have a DRM unit there but not in regular use. Searching on 6135, there are NO recent logs of anything in the drmna yg group or in the DRM Software Radio Forums (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Like last night, grinding noise field in the 6.8-7.85 MHz range only, again June 7 at 0459. It still cuts off irregularly for about a second, back on. It`s not smooth either, with peaks very roughly around: 7110, 7170, 7210, 7265, 7285, 7340, 7430, 7500, 7580, 7620, 7685, etc. Is anyone else hearing this? I don`t hear it on any other part of the HF spectrum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13795, June 7 at 1233, real Firedrake music atop weaker presumed Kuwait. Propagation is really suppressed making this along with India on 13695 the SSOBs, while 15 MHz and higher bands are dead, so no CNR1 jamming at all found 12-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Surveying RHC/CRI frequencies June 6 2318-2323 for the defective wobbling transmitter did not find it, but:
5040, RHC very poor but no wobble
6 and 9 MHz, no RHC signals on or audible
11680, RHC very good with het, stronger than // 11840
11840, RHC `Sonido Cubano`, music fill hour, a bit distorted
11970, pulse jamming against no known target, a bit irregular, nothing like the wall-of-noise on 11930, but possibly spurious from one of the pileup of transmitters there; would not be second harmonic either unless it were on 11960
13650, CRI Portuguese, undermodulated and distorted
13780, RHC very good with separate `Mesa Redonda` TV program
15230, RHC music with some distortion
15370, RHC Quechua, undermodulated, distorted, with crackle
17705, RHC VG with music
However, the wobbling frequencies yesterday are back today, UT June 7:
6000, English OK at 0456
6010, at 0457, open carrier dead air with some hum, hets
6125, at 0522, RHC English with steady carrier, but squealing which changes with the modulation, becomes steady during pauses. // 5040, 6010 and 6060 are OK
6165, open carrier prior to English at 0055, warble, BFO unneeded to hear the rumble on it; 0105 modulating, and now also with spurblobs about plus/minus 12 kHz circa 6153, 6177; retuned 0456 just in time to hear it still wobbling before cut off the air, back on in a minute or less
Next morning June 7:
9850 at 1229, RHC Spanish with motorboating
13780 at 1343, normally same transmitter as 9850 and 6165, but now no motorboating.
I am still awaiting a surprise award of the Order of Che for being RHC`s most expert technical monitor abroad. Not even a gracias!
9955, June 7 at 1340, weak but readable signal in the clear from WRMI in Spanish, mentions `La Verdad para el Mundo`, then hit by pulse jamming, quickly overtaking it, altho this ``truth to the world`` is religious, not political (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, June 7 at 0457, TGAV is still on with hymns in Spanish; no word yet about their endangered license renewal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [and non]. 11665, June 7 at 1336, RA Chinese is still here colliding with RTM back to Sarawak. How much longer, now that the new régime is in charge of frequency management at RA?
Also, Ron Howard replies to my remark that RTM`s other frequency 9835 would be colliding with India after 1330 as listed by Aoki as ``AIR A13`` --- but AIR is not heard by Ron nor by me at 1338 June 7. Nor is 9835 in http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm at this time, but yes at other times.
Checking latest HFCC June 6, I also note that there are *no* MLA registrations at all, which is a good way to invite interference from stations which don`t go beyond HFCC in choosing ``clear`` frequencies. Malaysia had previously registered lots of imaginary frequencies, so is this an improvement? This from a country which even hosted HFCC A-10 in Kuala Lumpur, February 2010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010+, June 7 at 1220, weak CRI English has a weaker het on the hi side, suspected XEOI on irregular schedule.
Julián Santiago says it may be on beyond 22-03 UT; back on May 30, Ivo Ivanov (and/or Georgi Bancov?) heard it at 09 UT for this clip with an ID about 2 minutes in (via a remote receiver somewhere in USA, UT-7 zone?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry2jm10YfSI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 51, June 7 at 1505 UT, I notice that KSBI OKC on its main channel 52-1 is now carrying a THIS TV movie, ``War Party``! It`s PSIP labeled KSBI-HD. Own main programming has been swapped to 52-2 as KSBI-SD, at the moment `We the People` with ``Judge`` Gloria Allred – now she`s one too?? I always found her much more menacing when her hair was jet-black, never all red. What`s going on here? KSBI had picked up THIS for its secondary channel as soon as KOCO RF 7, 5-2, dropped it a few months ago in favour of MeTV.
W9WI.com listing still shows 52.1 as INDependent, and 52.2 as Tuff TV, a net I barely remember, defunct? Tuff also was on KSBI`s LP companion, KXOC-LP 54 which since the DTV transition had (also?) been put on RF 51`s secondary channel.
THIS exchange has also caused Enid Suddenlink to put THIS on cable 16 & 116 instead of KSBI`s own programming, which has no other place to go as they were not relaying 52-2. If they were paying attention, would not duplicate on C16 & C116 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980+, June 7 at 0056, Chaski-carrier slightly on hi side; cut off circa 0102* but I was distracted by a little boy falling off his little bike with training wheels, closely pursued by parents in a car, so missed watching the exact second (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 17855, June 7 at 0519 fair signal in Chinese, the OSOB. It`s RFA at 310 degrees. If anything makes it thru an otherwise dead band, this one does (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, June 7 at 0058, WWRB still here and // 3215 with hum and preacher from Rosebud, Arkansas signing off, but 3215 cuts off at 0059:45* before he is finished. WWRB has to get off 3215 promptly to make way for WWCR, but that was in no hurry to show up. Then WWRB continued on 5050 only, not 3195, apparently off for the summer. 0100 hum and usual phone ringing on 5050, 0101 some other show starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1672 monitoring: confirmed on 5050, not 3195, from WWRB, UT Friday June 7 promptly at 0330, with some flutter unlike the other Tenneseeans on 4840, 5830.
Next: possibly sometime after 1800 Friday or anyday on WTWW-2 9930. UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 & new 1730 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, June 7 at 1247 UT, het on the lo side, apparently caused by KCTE Independence MO being off-frequency, Mike & Mike from ESPN. Against what? Likely KNNS Larned KS which as we discovered months ago is no longer ESPN but Spanish, and is barely audible here by daytime groundwave, while KCTE comes only via residual skywave even now, a sesquihour after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6130-6135-6140, June 7 at 0455, loud DRM noise is here, not noticed before; figured it would be another Romanian segment which scatters DRM all over the bands, but HFCC as of June 6 unshows that; instead at 0430-0500 is BBC French via ASCENSION. Could that have slipped into DRM by mistake or deliberately? I believe they do have a DRM unit there but not in regular use. Searching on 6135, there are NO recent logs of anything in the drmna yg group or in the DRM Software Radio Forums (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Like last night, grinding noise field in the 6.8-7.85 MHz range only, again June 7 at 0459. It still cuts off irregularly for about a second, back on. It`s not smooth either, with peaks very roughly around: 7110, 7170, 7210, 7265, 7285, 7340, 7430, 7500, 7580, 7620, 7685, etc. Is anyone else hearing this? I don`t hear it on any other part of the HF spectrum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
