** CANADA. Ch A2 NTSC, June 9 at 1653 UT with antenna NNE, video flashes in for a second or two with English wording, likely meteor scatter as Es continues to be otherwise absent. Probably from Ontario or Manitoba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, June 10:
17490, June 10 at 0523, poor and no others nor CNR1 OOB jammers found between 12 and 22 MHz. Why here? HFCC shows daily at 05-06 is IBB Bod via Thailand, 250 kW, 324 degrees. Bod = one of the Tibetan dialects.
13795, June 10 at 1237, FD is fair; no search for CNR1s today, but 12-18 MHz are quite depressed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC messups June 10 at 0513 check: serves him right, Arnie Coro marred on 6165 by motorboating and undermodulation; on 6125 by squeal and even more undermodulation; 6060 mod OK but weaker with ZY het; 6010 OK except for some hum; 5040 OK; and bonus VG 11760 on late in English as happens occasionally.
Meanwhile from the DentroCuban Jamming Command this UT Monday when R. Martí is taking a break: at 0514 still pulsing against nothing on 6030, 9565, 7365, 5980, 11930 and 13820! Altho at this hour only 6030 would ever be on the air! However, 7405 is totally free of jamming and Martí for a change. Too bad there`s nothing else to hear there.
Back to RHC for anomalies: at 1300 June 10, just tuned across 17580 and 17730 where RHC is propagating but little else on 16m except EAST TURKISTAN, but when I tune back down, 17580 has vanished. And stays vanished.
11860, June 10 at 1419, 11860 is now the one with rapid wobble/motorboating sounding like a big hum in AM mode, during hoary old Fidel speech on `Voces de la Revolución`; all the other 11, 13, 15 and 17 MHz frequencies seem nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Regarding Radio Road upon which KZUE is addressed in El Reno at 2715 South Radio Road: Looking at Google maps, I now see that the North Radio Road which turns south off SH 3 NW of OKC, and which I could not find anyway (no GPS or even internet in the car for me!) goes only a little way, and is not continuous all the way to KZUE, which is marked on the east side of S Radio Road, between Historic US 66 and I-40. The northern part is a.k.a. N2860 road. There is more than one discontinuity of Radio Road, majorly by no crossing of the North Canadian River. So it`s just as well I did not try to reach KZUE from the north!
South of the river, the N/S Radio Road is slightly further east than it is north of there. I assume calling it Radio Road further to the north is merely an extension from its original raison d`être as the site for KELR just SE of El Reno. This is common practice in OK; as even some OKC street names get extended into the rural area around El Reno, and dubbed ``northeast`` in terms of El Reno, while they are really northwest in terms of OKC, and also have their own NE segments on the true NE side of OKC. E.g. Britton Road, Memorial Road, etc. Totally rural areas must now have named `streets` for 911 purposes. AFAIK there is no reason such as another radio station, to call it Radio Road anywhere north of KZUE (Glenn Hauser, Enid, June 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 10 at 0101, R. Chaski is still bothered by splash from CRI via CUBA 5990 overrun opening English until that cuts off at 0101:20*, in time for me to clearly ascertain that R. Chaski cuts off at 0102:13.5* which is 11 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, June 10 at quick 0038 check, IRS is back on after missing 48 hours earlier; no English since it`s UT Monday, continuing past 0100. Strong but not very strong as it can be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 9925, UT Monday June 10 at 0001, test from PCJ Radio International via MBR Nauen, GERMANY: altho WTWW just went off 9930, too much noise around here for PCJ until I turn off the computer, while WTWW easily overcomes it. Then reception is sufficient but hardly inbooming. Must rate as only fair with moderate fading, but mostly readable. First part is news about Asia introduced by Andy Sennitt in Asia [non]. 0014 Keith Perron with a commercial for Tecsun SW radios, about half a minute --- the only advertising heard during the hour; was there more at the beginning? All it takes to pay for this airtime?
0015 Keith presents `Happy Station`; still remarkable how much he sounds like (younger) Tom Meijer; is Keith trying to emulate Tom or does it come naturally? Mostly mailbag, starting with Japan, interspersed with music, including a Bengali song at 0035. Keith mentions that Victor Goonetilleke will be on shortly with antenna advice for beginners ---- but never heard, edited out, but forgot to edit out the teaser??
Rest of hour is interview with Tom Meijer himself, mainly about his not so pleasant parting with Radio Nederland. 0053 plays Tom performing ``I`ll Be Seeing You``, 0057 band playing ``Happy Days Are Here Again``, no further announcement, IS at 0100 and off*. I assume once this transmission is assessed as successful, it will continue following weeks. Rwanda would be a better site and not very busy at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1672 monitoring: confirmed Sunday June 9 starting at 2331 on WTWW-2 9930; thus it ends at 2400 UT sharp, and it takes most of another minute for the QSY announcement to 5085 before going off, clearing 9925 for PCJ Radio International. (5085 was still on past 0105 June 10 with country music) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sunday June 9 at 2121 check, WTWW-3 Bible Worldwide service is in Russian at the moment, i.e. well after midnight in Moscow, 1:21 am as they imagine the time there by out-of-whack zones.
12105, Monday June 10 at 1312 and 1417 chex, in Arabic today instead of Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110-CUSB, June 10 at 0106, faux commercial for 1-800-H*NDJ*B by Johnny Lightning on Area 51 via WBCQ, tee hee. It`s so nice to hear adult humor somewhere on SW! (I myself censored the word only to foil spam filters) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660+, June 10 at 0527, JBA carrier, slightly on the hi side compared to 1660 stations, which was also the case for KGLD Tyler TX, 2 x 1330, last logged March 12, and previously definitely IDed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, June 10:
17490, June 10 at 0523, poor and no others nor CNR1 OOB jammers found between 12 and 22 MHz. Why here? HFCC shows daily at 05-06 is IBB Bod via Thailand, 250 kW, 324 degrees. Bod = one of the Tibetan dialects.
13795, June 10 at 1237, FD is fair; no search for CNR1s today, but 12-18 MHz are quite depressed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC messups June 10 at 0513 check: serves him right, Arnie Coro marred on 6165 by motorboating and undermodulation; on 6125 by squeal and even more undermodulation; 6060 mod OK but weaker with ZY het; 6010 OK except for some hum; 5040 OK; and bonus VG 11760 on late in English as happens occasionally.
Meanwhile from the DentroCuban Jamming Command this UT Monday when R. Martí is taking a break: at 0514 still pulsing against nothing on 6030, 9565, 7365, 5980, 11930 and 13820! Altho at this hour only 6030 would ever be on the air! However, 7405 is totally free of jamming and Martí for a change. Too bad there`s nothing else to hear there.
Back to RHC for anomalies: at 1300 June 10, just tuned across 17580 and 17730 where RHC is propagating but little else on 16m except EAST TURKISTAN, but when I tune back down, 17580 has vanished. And stays vanished.
11860, June 10 at 1419, 11860 is now the one with rapid wobble/motorboating sounding like a big hum in AM mode, during hoary old Fidel speech on `Voces de la Revolución`; all the other 11, 13, 15 and 17 MHz frequencies seem nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Regarding Radio Road upon which KZUE is addressed in El Reno at 2715 South Radio Road: Looking at Google maps, I now see that the North Radio Road which turns south off SH 3 NW of OKC, and which I could not find anyway (no GPS or even internet in the car for me!) goes only a little way, and is not continuous all the way to KZUE, which is marked on the east side of S Radio Road, between Historic US 66 and I-40. The northern part is a.k.a. N2860 road. There is more than one discontinuity of Radio Road, majorly by no crossing of the North Canadian River. So it`s just as well I did not try to reach KZUE from the north!
South of the river, the N/S Radio Road is slightly further east than it is north of there. I assume calling it Radio Road further to the north is merely an extension from its original raison d`être as the site for KELR just SE of El Reno. This is common practice in OK; as even some OKC street names get extended into the rural area around El Reno, and dubbed ``northeast`` in terms of El Reno, while they are really northwest in terms of OKC, and also have their own NE segments on the true NE side of OKC. E.g. Britton Road, Memorial Road, etc. Totally rural areas must now have named `streets` for 911 purposes. AFAIK there is no reason such as another radio station, to call it Radio Road anywhere north of KZUE (Glenn Hauser, Enid, June 9, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 10 at 0101, R. Chaski is still bothered by splash from CRI via CUBA 5990 overrun opening English until that cuts off at 0101:20*, in time for me to clearly ascertain that R. Chaski cuts off at 0102:13.5* which is 11 seconds later than two nights ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 9685, June 10 at quick 0038 check, IRS is back on after missing 48 hours earlier; no English since it`s UT Monday, continuing past 0100. Strong but not very strong as it can be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 9925, UT Monday June 10 at 0001, test from PCJ Radio International via MBR Nauen, GERMANY: altho WTWW just went off 9930, too much noise around here for PCJ until I turn off the computer, while WTWW easily overcomes it. Then reception is sufficient but hardly inbooming. Must rate as only fair with moderate fading, but mostly readable. First part is news about Asia introduced by Andy Sennitt in Asia [non]. 0014 Keith Perron with a commercial for Tecsun SW radios, about half a minute --- the only advertising heard during the hour; was there more at the beginning? All it takes to pay for this airtime?
0015 Keith presents `Happy Station`; still remarkable how much he sounds like (younger) Tom Meijer; is Keith trying to emulate Tom or does it come naturally? Mostly mailbag, starting with Japan, interspersed with music, including a Bengali song at 0035. Keith mentions that Victor Goonetilleke will be on shortly with antenna advice for beginners ---- but never heard, edited out, but forgot to edit out the teaser??
Rest of hour is interview with Tom Meijer himself, mainly about his not so pleasant parting with Radio Nederland. 0053 plays Tom performing ``I`ll Be Seeing You``, 0057 band playing ``Happy Days Are Here Again``, no further announcement, IS at 0100 and off*. I assume once this transmission is assessed as successful, it will continue following weeks. Rwanda would be a better site and not very busy at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1672 monitoring: confirmed Sunday June 9 starting at 2331 on WTWW-2 9930; thus it ends at 2400 UT sharp, and it takes most of another minute for the QSY announcement to 5085 before going off, clearing 9925 for PCJ Radio International. (5085 was still on past 0105 June 10 with country music) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sunday June 9 at 2121 check, WTWW-3 Bible Worldwide service is in Russian at the moment, i.e. well after midnight in Moscow, 1:21 am as they imagine the time there by out-of-whack zones.
12105, Monday June 10 at 1312 and 1417 chex, in Arabic today instead of Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110-CUSB, June 10 at 0106, faux commercial for 1-800-H*NDJ*B by Johnny Lightning on Area 51 via WBCQ, tee hee. It`s so nice to hear adult humor somewhere on SW! (I myself censored the word only to foil spam filters) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660+, June 10 at 0527, JBA carrier, slightly on the hi side compared to 1660 stations, which was also the case for KGLD Tyler TX, 2 x 1330, last logged March 12, and previously definitely IDed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
