** AUSTRALIA. 2325 kHz, August 8 at 1203, music sounds same as on stronger 2485, jazz singer peaking S9+12, and also same as on strongest 4835, all three VL8 Northern Territory stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 8 at 1358-1400+, no signal at all from BB, compensating for above-average signal yesterday; wonder if on the air at all today; some other Asian signals were making it on 15, 17 and 21 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake August 8, before 1300:
13795, poor at 1236 mixing with Chinese, same as on 13830 by itself, i.e. CNR1 jamming as well; search for other CNR1 jammers finds only:
15195, fair at 1249 with more Chinese CCI
16100, very good at 1249; yet none in the 17s, 18s, 14s, 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 11520, August 8 at 1404, Chinese signal I haven`t noticed before, not // 11615. HFCC and Aoki show that 11520 is the Thursday=day 5-only frequency this hour of Radio Free Asia in Cantonese via TINIAN; while 11615 is VOA in Standard Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Since they do not match, I guess I am really hearing them instead of ChiCom CNR1 jammers which Aoki *affirms attack both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, August 8 at 0522, RHC English here is just-barely-modulated (JBM), while 6060 is better, BM; and 6165, 6010 are OK.
13740, August 8 at 1402, RHC Spanish // and synchro better modulated 13780, instead of CRI English! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, August 8 at 1218, good signal from unmistakable Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania, with his daily(?) anti-Castros ranting, now about ``desayuno contra-revolucionario`` (which could be the name of his ``program``), reply from weaker contact WI4-algo; weak broadcast AM carrier not enough BFO: that would be Yunnan PBS rather than Daclac, Vietnam. Not a hint of DentroCuban jamming which instead piles upon R. Martí, 7405; perhaps even the Cubans fear a backlash if they dared to jam in the hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 21670, August 8 at 1253, music and Indonesian(?) announcements mentioning Iran several times; almost as strong as 21540 Kuwait but not as loud; 13m conditions are improving; 1257 ``Suara`` ID as VIRI, talk continues until abrupt cutoff at 1259.6*. Figured that was uncoördinated end of a scheduled transmission, but per Aoki it`s really ``Malaysian`` supposed to last from 1230 until 1327, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan. HFCC labels this until 1330 as ``IND`` for Indonesian, so which is it? They are so similar but not to the Malays and Indonesians. WRTH calls it Indonesian, with nothing in Malay. IIRC, skeds from Tehran call it ``Melayu``. Also, in some apparent collusion, BSKSA uses same 21670 for its Indonesian at 0900-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.5, August 8 at 1158, PMA The Cross carrier is audible with slightly lower noise level, maybe cleaned up by some rain overnight: so I can catch its autocutoff at 1158:28.5*. Then I quickly tune to SOLOMON ISLANDS q.v. to nab another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, August 8 at 1202, talk modulation audible from presumed NBC Madang, after others including 3385 and 3205 have gone off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, August 8 at 1159, SIBC carrier is audible so right after MICRONESIA q.v. cutting off, I tuned here to catch this cutoff at 1200:23.5*. Unfortunately this caused me to miss a third cutoff, from 3385 PNG, which was audible even better before 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WTWW
** U S A. 5205-USB, Thursday August 8 at 1354, TTX is leading a net, with other abbreviated calls heard or mentioned, always in fonetix: 6SC, 6UK, 6PG; at 1359 NCS gives his full call, AAM6TTX, so this is Army MARS.
Seems familiar: yes, I previously reported AAM6TTX et al., April 18, 2013 at 1343 on 6823-USB, traced no further than to Scott Hamende of Texas Army MARS; see DXLD 13-17. That was also a Thursday; it`s significant to note days of week for these nets which are not necessarily every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 5980, August 8 at 1212, surprised to find an American-accented station here where none existed before: talking about Olympix, terrorism, etc., apparent docu hostessed by YL, and then found same on 7575 Thailand, so it`s a brand new frequency from VOA, obviously some Asian or Pacific site, poor signal here, not yet in HFCC dated 6 August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday August 8 after 0330, but inaudible on 9955. Next: Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0325v on WWRB 5050; UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, August 8 at 1231 and later chex, WTWW-2 is off so no Brother Scare as recently started in the 12-14/15 period. No signal from Palau, T8WH either, which is active here only on weekends. Then at 1353 I encounter BS on 5085! So WTWW-2 is on night frequency instead of day, but this late it`s only fair vs absorption/noise level. A mistake or necessity? Ivo Ivanov also noticed this starting at 1200; must have been via remote receiver as certainly would not be propagating daypath to Bulgaria.
I see that the NWS has issued a flash-flood warning for Lebanon TN, until noon CDT August 8. Hope WTWW is not *too* ``near the banks of the Upper Cumberland River``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, August 8 at 0507, WBCQ is on with preacher, first time audible in a few days; presume transmitter was down for a while. Also at 1226 when there was an ID; by an hour later still audible but much weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825 WWCR & 11715 KJES, August 8 at 1408 are both inbooming with obvious sporadic E enhancement to the east and west, a good sign for VHF DX --- but nothing from Mexico reaches channel 2 MUF by 1555 as I keep seeing nothing but snow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11690, August 8 at 0509-0510.4* big open carrier with lite fades, as strong as anything modulated on 25 m like Brasil 11780. The only near-miss on 11690 in HFCC is ``11690 0400 0500 52E MEY 250 340 0 416 1234567 010813 271013 D 11875 Fra AFS BAB BAB 19777`` i.e. effective 1 August, obviously another registration hoping Radio Okapi will resume, via SOUTH AFRICA, but has it? Must tune in next before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14541.5-USB, August 8 at 1239-1245+, two-way in colloquial Spanish hard for me to follow; stronger station has ``engine noise``; they mention kilos, hora de llegada, and barcos; no swearing heard, but unprofessional whistling into mikes. May have been more than two stations in contact, apparently narco-traffickers. Back on June 3 at 1250 I heard the same guys and assumed they were fishing poachers; pescaditos could also be measured in kilos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 8 at 1358-1400+, no signal at all from BB, compensating for above-average signal yesterday; wonder if on the air at all today; some other Asian signals were making it on 15, 17 and 21 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake August 8, before 1300:
13795, poor at 1236 mixing with Chinese, same as on 13830 by itself, i.e. CNR1 jamming as well; search for other CNR1 jammers finds only:
15195, fair at 1249 with more Chinese CCI
16100, very good at 1249; yet none in the 17s, 18s, 14s, 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 11520, August 8 at 1404, Chinese signal I haven`t noticed before, not // 11615. HFCC and Aoki show that 11520 is the Thursday=day 5-only frequency this hour of Radio Free Asia in Cantonese via TINIAN; while 11615 is VOA in Standard Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Since they do not match, I guess I am really hearing them instead of ChiCom CNR1 jammers which Aoki *affirms attack both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, August 8 at 0522, RHC English here is just-barely-modulated (JBM), while 6060 is better, BM; and 6165, 6010 are OK.
13740, August 8 at 1402, RHC Spanish // and synchro better modulated 13780, instead of CRI English! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, August 8 at 1218, good signal from unmistakable Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania, with his daily(?) anti-Castros ranting, now about ``desayuno contra-revolucionario`` (which could be the name of his ``program``), reply from weaker contact WI4-algo; weak broadcast AM carrier not enough BFO: that would be Yunnan PBS rather than Daclac, Vietnam. Not a hint of DentroCuban jamming which instead piles upon R. Martí, 7405; perhaps even the Cubans fear a backlash if they dared to jam in the hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 21670, August 8 at 1253, music and Indonesian(?) announcements mentioning Iran several times; almost as strong as 21540 Kuwait but not as loud; 13m conditions are improving; 1257 ``Suara`` ID as VIRI, talk continues until abrupt cutoff at 1259.6*. Figured that was uncoördinated end of a scheduled transmission, but per Aoki it`s really ``Malaysian`` supposed to last from 1230 until 1327, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan. HFCC labels this until 1330 as ``IND`` for Indonesian, so which is it? They are so similar but not to the Malays and Indonesians. WRTH calls it Indonesian, with nothing in Malay. IIRC, skeds from Tehran call it ``Melayu``. Also, in some apparent collusion, BSKSA uses same 21670 for its Indonesian at 0900-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.5, August 8 at 1158, PMA The Cross carrier is audible with slightly lower noise level, maybe cleaned up by some rain overnight: so I can catch its autocutoff at 1158:28.5*. Then I quickly tune to SOLOMON ISLANDS q.v. to nab another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, August 8 at 1202, talk modulation audible from presumed NBC Madang, after others including 3385 and 3205 have gone off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, August 8 at 1159, SIBC carrier is audible so right after MICRONESIA q.v. cutting off, I tuned here to catch this cutoff at 1200:23.5*. Unfortunately this caused me to miss a third cutoff, from 3385 PNG, which was audible even better before 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WTWW
** U S A. 5205-USB, Thursday August 8 at 1354, TTX is leading a net, with other abbreviated calls heard or mentioned, always in fonetix: 6SC, 6UK, 6PG; at 1359 NCS gives his full call, AAM6TTX, so this is Army MARS.
Seems familiar: yes, I previously reported AAM6TTX et al., April 18, 2013 at 1343 on 6823-USB, traced no further than to Scott Hamende of Texas Army MARS; see DXLD 13-17. That was also a Thursday; it`s significant to note days of week for these nets which are not necessarily every day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 5980, August 8 at 1212, surprised to find an American-accented station here where none existed before: talking about Olympix, terrorism, etc., apparent docu hostessed by YL, and then found same on 7575 Thailand, so it`s a brand new frequency from VOA, obviously some Asian or Pacific site, poor signal here, not yet in HFCC dated 6 August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1681 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday August 8 after 0330, but inaudible on 9955. Next: Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0325v on WWRB 5050; UT Saturday 0200 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, August 8 at 1231 and later chex, WTWW-2 is off so no Brother Scare as recently started in the 12-14/15 period. No signal from Palau, T8WH either, which is active here only on weekends. Then at 1353 I encounter BS on 5085! So WTWW-2 is on night frequency instead of day, but this late it`s only fair vs absorption/noise level. A mistake or necessity? Ivo Ivanov also noticed this starting at 1200; must have been via remote receiver as certainly would not be propagating daypath to Bulgaria.
I see that the NWS has issued a flash-flood warning for Lebanon TN, until noon CDT August 8. Hope WTWW is not *too* ``near the banks of the Upper Cumberland River``! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, August 8 at 0507, WBCQ is on with preacher, first time audible in a few days; presume transmitter was down for a while. Also at 1226 when there was an ID; by an hour later still audible but much weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825 WWCR & 11715 KJES, August 8 at 1408 are both inbooming with obvious sporadic E enhancement to the east and west, a good sign for VHF DX --- but nothing from Mexico reaches channel 2 MUF by 1555 as I keep seeing nothing but snow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11690, August 8 at 0509-0510.4* big open carrier with lite fades, as strong as anything modulated on 25 m like Brasil 11780. The only near-miss on 11690 in HFCC is ``11690 0400 0500 52E MEY 250 340 0 416 1234567 010813 271013 D 11875 Fra AFS BAB BAB 19777`` i.e. effective 1 August, obviously another registration hoping Radio Okapi will resume, via SOUTH AFRICA, but has it? Must tune in next before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 14541.5-USB, August 8 at 1239-1245+, two-way in colloquial Spanish hard for me to follow; stronger station has ``engine noise``; they mention kilos, hora de llegada, and barcos; no swearing heard, but unprofessional whistling into mikes. May have been more than two stations in contact, apparently narco-traffickers. Back on June 3 at 1250 I heard the same guys and assumed they were fishing poachers; pescaditos could also be measured in kilos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
