** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Friday August 2 at 1305, RA English is starting `Asia Review` hosted by someguy with a Vietnamese name; contrary to own schedule showing this at 1330, with `Australia Network News Bulletin` at 1300-1330. Anyhow, it sounds like a radio programme rather than a TV soundtrack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake jamming August 2 before 1300:
13795, fair around 1250
All the rest are CNR1 jammers, after 1300:
15565, poor at 1313, // 11785 with mix; het on hi side
17510, 15330 good; and 17735 poor at 1319, all to block BBC Uzbek during this semihour only (so BBC have just added another Uzbek broadcast at 1600-1630 on 13695, 15175 which the jammers had not yet caught up with by August 1, says Ivo Ivanov)
Before 1400 August 2:
15560, fair at 1356, stays on past 1402, het on lo side; ex-15565
15900, very good at 1356
15970, very good at 1356
16100, good at 1357; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 17s, 18s
After 1400 August 2:
17740, fair at 1406 with CCI, i.e. VOA Tibetan via Thailand this hour only; CNR1 confirmed by // 15560
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, August 2 at 0539, tonight`s anomaly from RHC is just-barely-modulation on this one, while the other four English frequencies are OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 13820, August 1 at 1835, R. Martí is VG and no jamming audible, unlike weaker // 11930 --- I pause my bandscan because the `Star Spangled Banner` is playing, in a rock guitar version! (not Hendrix). What`s this got to do with Cuba??? YL Spanish announcer talks over it explaining that Francis Scott Key wrote the original, but this version was by Grupo Boston --- I find several takes by them on YT, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am0G4T2EeDE --- then on to something about YSL --- apparently these are birthday bits, then something about rock hits of 1983y. What`s this got to do with Cuba2? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, August 2 at 0054, ERT is not in dead air like the last two nights, but Greek music; also 9420 at 0057 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 13760, August 2 at 1310, VOK in English, but almost equal mix with Chinese audio, and Juche-jamming noise to boot! Same on // 11710, while Chinese and jamming, but no English are audible on 13650 // 11735. And at 1316 more English on 15245, poor signal, at first no Chinese, but the music mixing there is what`s on the Chinese frequencies now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 13650, August 1 at 2000, tune-in R. Kuwait Arabic to North America just in time to hear it cut off at 2000:30*, good signal, now retuning to 17550, which comes on at *2001:10, somewhat weaker. As heard yesterday, 17550 sometimes axually strengthens later into the night by 2400* (3 am in Kuwait).
Meanwhile, 15440 R. Kuwait English is in between, at 2018 amid history of Kuwait dialog by M&W with dramatic music, this episode being about The Ancestors, with Sabah prominently figuring.
I realize with shocked regret that at this hour, there are only a couple of decent signals from abroad in English on SW --- this and better 15275 DW via Rwanda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15355, August 2 at 0025 check, R. Sultanate of is not heard tonight as the past two days running late past 0000, but at 0055 I do find an unexpected weak signal on 15140, maybe Arab, so RSO could be on that wrong frequency instead, as right frequency 9760 is missing again (but there is ME music on 9770; Turkey not scheduled until 0100 in Spanish). At 0147 not heard on any of them. HFCC has nothing on 15140 after Iran until 0030, or before 0100 when CRI Chinese via Xian starts. Further chex needed of RSOman`s off-schedule frequency usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 2 at 0058, Chaski check again on the FRG-7 and this time bewaring of overloads: cuts off at 0100:18.5* or so which computes to 7 seconds later than last night, too much, so I will attribute that to margin of error due to fading, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 21505, August 2 at 1320, propagation has improved a little to re-audiblize Arabic here, the Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as mixed with the Arabic, a perpetual problem on this transmitter; haven`t they noticed? Are they clueless how to fix it, or don`t care? Fortunately, we have a clearer, stronger signal from Kuwait on 21540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1680 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, very good at 2100.5 UT Thursday August 1.
Not confirmed on WWRB, 5050, at 0345 UT Friday August 2 check --- instead, fill music ``Smoke Gets In Your Eyes``. Second week in a row with no WOR, apparently due to continuing computer problems at WWRB; sigh. Next:
UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110-v-CUSB [NEW time confirmed from this week, ex-0135v]
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955
Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 or Sunday 0000 on 5085
UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830
Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (or Monday 0000 on 5085?)
WOR can also appear at any time, any day between 17 and 24 on 9930, 00 and 01 on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, August 2 at 1401, ``Rock of Ages`` theme on plucked instrument, banjo? 1403 dead air and then gospel huxter starts. It`s WJHR, Milton FL, the vanity station for only one preacher whose name I forget; wonder if he`s dead like Gene Scott and Pastor Pete Peters, who merit 24/7 post-mortem broadcasts? Or BS who`s still ante-mortem. This one enjoys only 8 hours a day, so maybe not dead yet either.
WJHR has told FCC they are running 50 kW but experienced SWLs can`t believe it. Often inaudible or JBA here, but logged today with a sufficient signal except for lack of any carrier, ``incompatible USB``, a fact which is not shown in the FCC A-13 schedule. Suspicion is that ``50 kW`` is really the PEP, but can`t believe even that much either. Maybe it`s a lot stronger around the 5-degree boresight toward CIRAF 4 = eastern Canada? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 15470, August 2 at 1314 open carrier, 1315 cut on a fragment of the VR IS and opening Vietnamese as a ``Phat-thanh``. Good signal. HFCC shows 250 kW, 280 degrees from TINIAN, i.e. IBB, so a violation of Separation of Church and State.
In the country-column, HFCC also shows MHL for all Vatican via TIN listings including this one, i.e. the WRONG country! Tinian is in the Northern Mariana Islands, NOT the Marshall Islands way off to the east from there; MRA is the proper ITU abbr. for NMI. All other TIN entries are labeled ``USA``, so the MHL error apparently originates with the fallible Vatican Radio, not IBB. Both Aoki and EiBi place TIN correctly in MRA, even Vatican relay listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake jamming August 2 before 1300:
13795, fair around 1250
All the rest are CNR1 jammers, after 1300:
15565, poor at 1313, // 11785 with mix; het on hi side
17510, 15330 good; and 17735 poor at 1319, all to block BBC Uzbek during this semihour only (so BBC have just added another Uzbek broadcast at 1600-1630 on 13695, 15175 which the jammers had not yet caught up with by August 1, says Ivo Ivanov)
Before 1400 August 2:
15560, fair at 1356, stays on past 1402, het on lo side; ex-15565
15900, very good at 1356
15970, very good at 1356
16100, good at 1357; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 17s, 18s
After 1400 August 2:
17740, fair at 1406 with CCI, i.e. VOA Tibetan via Thailand this hour only; CNR1 confirmed by // 15560
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, August 2 at 0539, tonight`s anomaly from RHC is just-barely-modulation on this one, while the other four English frequencies are OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 13820, August 1 at 1835, R. Martí is VG and no jamming audible, unlike weaker // 11930 --- I pause my bandscan because the `Star Spangled Banner` is playing, in a rock guitar version! (not Hendrix). What`s this got to do with Cuba??? YL Spanish announcer talks over it explaining that Francis Scott Key wrote the original, but this version was by Grupo Boston --- I find several takes by them on YT, such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am0G4T2EeDE --- then on to something about YSL --- apparently these are birthday bits, then something about rock hits of 1983y. What`s this got to do with Cuba2? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, August 2 at 0054, ERT is not in dead air like the last two nights, but Greek music; also 9420 at 0057 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 13760, August 2 at 1310, VOK in English, but almost equal mix with Chinese audio, and Juche-jamming noise to boot! Same on // 11710, while Chinese and jamming, but no English are audible on 13650 // 11735. And at 1316 more English on 15245, poor signal, at first no Chinese, but the music mixing there is what`s on the Chinese frequencies now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 13650, August 1 at 2000, tune-in R. Kuwait Arabic to North America just in time to hear it cut off at 2000:30*, good signal, now retuning to 17550, which comes on at *2001:10, somewhat weaker. As heard yesterday, 17550 sometimes axually strengthens later into the night by 2400* (3 am in Kuwait).
Meanwhile, 15440 R. Kuwait English is in between, at 2018 amid history of Kuwait dialog by M&W with dramatic music, this episode being about The Ancestors, with Sabah prominently figuring.
I realize with shocked regret that at this hour, there are only a couple of decent signals from abroad in English on SW --- this and better 15275 DW via Rwanda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15355, August 2 at 0025 check, R. Sultanate of is not heard tonight as the past two days running late past 0000, but at 0055 I do find an unexpected weak signal on 15140, maybe Arab, so RSO could be on that wrong frequency instead, as right frequency 9760 is missing again (but there is ME music on 9770; Turkey not scheduled until 0100 in Spanish). At 0147 not heard on any of them. HFCC has nothing on 15140 after Iran until 0030, or before 0100 when CRI Chinese via Xian starts. Further chex needed of RSOman`s off-schedule frequency usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 2 at 0058, Chaski check again on the FRG-7 and this time bewaring of overloads: cuts off at 0100:18.5* or so which computes to 7 seconds later than last night, too much, so I will attribute that to margin of error due to fading, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 21505, August 2 at 1320, propagation has improved a little to re-audiblize Arabic here, the Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as mixed with the Arabic, a perpetual problem on this transmitter; haven`t they noticed? Are they clueless how to fix it, or don`t care? Fortunately, we have a clearer, stronger signal from Kuwait on 21540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1680 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, very good at 2100.5 UT Thursday August 1.
Not confirmed on WWRB, 5050, at 0345 UT Friday August 2 check --- instead, fill music ``Smoke Gets In Your Eyes``. Second week in a row with no WOR, apparently due to continuing computer problems at WWRB; sigh. Next:
UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110-v-CUSB [NEW time confirmed from this week, ex-0135v]
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955
Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 or Sunday 0000 on 5085
UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830
Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930 (or Monday 0000 on 5085?)
WOR can also appear at any time, any day between 17 and 24 on 9930, 00 and 01 on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, August 2 at 1401, ``Rock of Ages`` theme on plucked instrument, banjo? 1403 dead air and then gospel huxter starts. It`s WJHR, Milton FL, the vanity station for only one preacher whose name I forget; wonder if he`s dead like Gene Scott and Pastor Pete Peters, who merit 24/7 post-mortem broadcasts? Or BS who`s still ante-mortem. This one enjoys only 8 hours a day, so maybe not dead yet either.
WJHR has told FCC they are running 50 kW but experienced SWLs can`t believe it. Often inaudible or JBA here, but logged today with a sufficient signal except for lack of any carrier, ``incompatible USB``, a fact which is not shown in the FCC A-13 schedule. Suspicion is that ``50 kW`` is really the PEP, but can`t believe even that much either. Maybe it`s a lot stronger around the 5-degree boresight toward CIRAF 4 = eastern Canada? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 15470, August 2 at 1314 open carrier, 1315 cut on a fragment of the VR IS and opening Vietnamese as a ``Phat-thanh``. Good signal. HFCC shows 250 kW, 280 degrees from TINIAN, i.e. IBB, so a violation of Separation of Church and State.
In the country-column, HFCC also shows MHL for all Vatican via TIN listings including this one, i.e. the WRONG country! Tinian is in the Northern Mariana Islands, NOT the Marshall Islands way off to the east from there; MRA is the proper ITU abbr. for NMI. All other TIN entries are labeled ``USA``, so the MHL error apparently originates with the fallible Vatican Radio, not IBB. Both Aoki and EiBi place TIN correctly in MRA, even Vatican relay listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
