** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9965, Sept 12 at 1405, neat tune catches my attention, introducing `Late Night Live` from RA via PALAU, also on 9580, 12065 direct. This is one of the best talkshows, but I`m not up for today`s topic, a political debate. Maybe I should have stayed with it, billed as ``hilarious``. Access to this and many more of them:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/
It emits four days a week, Mon-Thu at 14-15, meaning 1405-1500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 12 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS, very poor but enough to make out off-timesignal ending at 1359:51, opening Urdu. And lest the main point be overlooked, it is this: stations unable to broadcast consistently accurate timesignals (and this is not the only one), have no business broadcasting any timesignals! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [non]. 13845, Sept 12 at 1229, WWCR has a SAH as Radio Free Asia is about to open its Khmer hour vs the Power Hour. RFA is much weaker today, allegedly via SRI LANKA, mostly evident by the continuing SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 6030, Sept 12 at 1220, I am straining to hear any peals of laughter from CFVP Calgary, which from today is publicized to abandon country music for 24/7 Comedy --- it has to, since it simulcasts ``Funny 1060`` CKMX --- but only CNR1 Chinese and remnants of Cuban jamming, tho Martí quits at 1200. BTW, CFVP is missing from Aoki list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Sept 12:
7470, poor at 1223 with low audible heterodyne (LAH)
12040, fair at 1408, mixing with CNR1 jamming // 11615
All the rest are CNR1 jamming only, before 1400 Sept 12:
15570 & 15540, very poor with hets at 1357, both gone at 1400
15115, 15195, 15265, the usual CNR1 lo-15 jammer spots at 1358
12370, poor at 1358. No others 12-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA. 21303-USB, Sept 12 at 1351, only signal found on ``15`` meters is 9A3OS, Sam, with KZ5EK and then a plain K5, short contacts, says he is in northwest Croatia. Sounds familiar: yes, I logged him Aug 10 at 1405 when he was on 21280 as in DXLD 13-33, and also the OSOB. So he really gets out, or pipeline from Cakovec to Enid? He may be the best bet left for Croatia on SW, as Croatian Radio is trying to sell their previously deactivated RIZ 100 kW Deanovec transmitter, as in a NASB Facebook item (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9505, Sept 12 at 1226, distorted spurblob from RHC; quickly compare it to 9550, and the two are an echo apart, so 9505 must come from the other transmitter on 9540, which I have just tuned across, but when I go back to it, can`t hear it there. Must be that transmitter out of whack; rather like a broken toothpaste tube, instead of coming out the proper hole evenly, it makes a mess from the break. This spur appears periodically.
11860, Sept 12 at 1240, RHC is JBM, just barely modulated
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA
** INDIA [and non]. 15040, Sept 12 at 1233, AIR music, then Burmese talk, 100 kW, 132 degrees from Delhi/Khampur; only fair but better than lots of weak signals on 19m, making this an unlikely contender for SSOB, except maybe for Cuba 15230 which however is undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 747 & 774, Sept 12 at 1151 UT, JBA NW carriers doubtless from the 500 (not 300) kW NHK-2 outlets, 747 JOIB Sapporo, and 774 JOUB Akita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11705, Sept 12 at 1403, R. Japan fair but readable English news about Fukushima. No longer via Canada, Singapore or even Japan, this one is now due west from PALAU, but possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11710, Sept 12 at 1245 sweetly harmonious hymn to guess who? from VOK, without much Juche jamming noise or Chinese mixture yet. Talk, talk, talk, all over the 25m band, so settle here as I want to doze a bit, but it`s soon over, sign-off in Korean and 1248 NA.
Then for music one must go to 11550/12050 for the Mother Angelica mass wrapping up with organ fill and an unfamiliar hymn by a non-professional cantor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Sept 12 at 1319*, another station, R. Kuwait dumps off the air as soon as I tune in, as if to evade me; but *1320 back on with carrier, no modulation until a few seconds later, drawing on Mussorgsky for dramatic music to go with Arabic narration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 570, Sept 12 at 1142 UT, PSA string, mostly federales, ``escucha Noti-Radio 570``, sounder, then mentions Monterrey, so as expected it`s XEBJB, a.k.a. just ``Radio 570`` en Cantú, IRCA and WRTH; and a departure from the NORteña/RANchera format as in IRCA Log. Also produces a low rumbling het, as it`s slightly off-frequency to the hi side. Often it`s just the het bothering other stations such as KSNM which I had suspected of being the culprit. It`s not unusual for mostly musical XE stations to include a morning newsblock and this may be one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 670, Sept 12 at 1159 UT, Grupo Radio México has job openings, qualifications specified, then full ID for Radio Ranchito, street address, etc., Torreón, con mil vatios, i.e. XETOR in Cantú:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreon, Coah. 1,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Sept 12 at 1145 UT, W&M with news in Spanish from datelines all over the country, loops SW (discounting NE). Suspect same station as I have been hearing recently with nothing but hum, likely this as in Cantú:
700 XEGD La Poderosa + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000
But can`t completely rule out:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
Retune 1201 UT, probably same station and now Jalisco is less likely, almanac for 12 de setiembre including: something about Katharine Hepburn with a movie clip in English; 1953 Stalin to Khrushchev; 1989 Luna-2 launched; 1989 Germany algo; 1998 peace in N Ireland; 2010 Chile miners rescued; 1204 UT ``Noticias MVS`` acknowledging Canal 5 and 97.3 FM. This however originates with 102.5 in the DF, XHMVS. I also logged MVS news April 25 but couldn`t find an affiliate on 700; see DXLD 13-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Sept 12 at 1150 UT, ``La Kaliente`` slogan with 105.7, i.e. this by itself now, but which all evening is the SAH nemesis of WGN, per Cantú:
720 XEDE La Kaliente + FM 105.7 Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5980, Sept 12 at 1217, poor signal in English about China, but if it`s Thursday, this must be BBC Thailand, trying to avoid alleged ChiCom jamming by changing among four frequencies depending on day of week in a regular rotation, succeeding only in confusing casual listeners who don`t know about the strategy. And BBC *never* announces any frequencies on the air, since that would only confuse listeners on their primary platforms, SW only a dying legacy. Besides, there are still too many of them to accommodate all those meaningless numbers.
In fact, a survey by Stephen Cooper for DXLD finds only 15 strategic BBC languages left on SW besides English, as overall hours are being reduced. But at least no further language deletions are pending. Steve Luce finds weekly SW transmitter hours in English are to decline from 174 in A-13 to 135 in B-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1686 monitoring: completed just in time for first airing on WRMI, UT Thursday Sept 12 at 0330, as confirmed on webcast, presumably also 9955. Next:
Thu 2105 on WTWW-1 9479
UT Fri 0327v on WWRB 5050
UT Sat 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
(Hamburger Lokalradio off the air until early October?)
Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955
Sat 2327v on WTWW-2 9930
UT Sun 0401 on WTWW-1 5830 (modulation missing last week)
Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955
also via:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sept 12 at 1403, WTWW-3 is missing, as it had been an hour earlier when it should have started; tho WTWW-1 on 9479 and WTWW-2 on 9930 are operative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 17530, Sept 12 at 1317 tune in just in time to hear carrier go off*, but back *on shortly, and a few seconds later resuming Somali modulation from VOA relay, violating Separation of Church and State. At least have not heard any unknown CCI on this since Sept 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 650, Sept 12 at 0535 UT, 24/7 Comedy station is again audible in mixture of other stuff with WSM nulled. Whence?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1686, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Started on MW this morning but Sept 12 at 1155 a quick check of 90m finds only weak carriers on 3385, 3325, 3260, 3247?, 3230, 3200, so back to MW. Some are surely PNG or Indonesia, but 3247 and 3200 call for further pursuit: nothing fundamentally on 3200, so could be a harmonic. Nothing on possible PNG channels 3205, 3315, 3345, 3365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/
It emits four days a week, Mon-Thu at 14-15, meaning 1405-1500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 12 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS, very poor but enough to make out off-timesignal ending at 1359:51, opening Urdu. And lest the main point be overlooked, it is this: stations unable to broadcast consistently accurate timesignals (and this is not the only one), have no business broadcasting any timesignals! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [non]. 13845, Sept 12 at 1229, WWCR has a SAH as Radio Free Asia is about to open its Khmer hour vs the Power Hour. RFA is much weaker today, allegedly via SRI LANKA, mostly evident by the continuing SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 6030, Sept 12 at 1220, I am straining to hear any peals of laughter from CFVP Calgary, which from today is publicized to abandon country music for 24/7 Comedy --- it has to, since it simulcasts ``Funny 1060`` CKMX --- but only CNR1 Chinese and remnants of Cuban jamming, tho Martí quits at 1200. BTW, CFVP is missing from Aoki list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, Sept 12:
7470, poor at 1223 with low audible heterodyne (LAH)
12040, fair at 1408, mixing with CNR1 jamming // 11615
All the rest are CNR1 jamming only, before 1400 Sept 12:
15570 & 15540, very poor with hets at 1357, both gone at 1400
15115, 15195, 15265, the usual CNR1 lo-15 jammer spots at 1358
12370, poor at 1358. No others 12-18 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA. 21303-USB, Sept 12 at 1351, only signal found on ``15`` meters is 9A3OS, Sam, with KZ5EK and then a plain K5, short contacts, says he is in northwest Croatia. Sounds familiar: yes, I logged him Aug 10 at 1405 when he was on 21280 as in DXLD 13-33, and also the OSOB. So he really gets out, or pipeline from Cakovec to Enid? He may be the best bet left for Croatia on SW, as Croatian Radio is trying to sell their previously deactivated RIZ 100 kW Deanovec transmitter, as in a NASB Facebook item (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9505, Sept 12 at 1226, distorted spurblob from RHC; quickly compare it to 9550, and the two are an echo apart, so 9505 must come from the other transmitter on 9540, which I have just tuned across, but when I go back to it, can`t hear it there. Must be that transmitter out of whack; rather like a broken toothpaste tube, instead of coming out the proper hole evenly, it makes a mess from the break. This spur appears periodically.
11860, Sept 12 at 1240, RHC is JBM, just barely modulated
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA
** INDIA [and non]. 15040, Sept 12 at 1233, AIR music, then Burmese talk, 100 kW, 132 degrees from Delhi/Khampur; only fair but better than lots of weak signals on 19m, making this an unlikely contender for SSOB, except maybe for Cuba 15230 which however is undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 747 & 774, Sept 12 at 1151 UT, JBA NW carriers doubtless from the 500 (not 300) kW NHK-2 outlets, 747 JOIB Sapporo, and 774 JOUB Akita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11705, Sept 12 at 1403, R. Japan fair but readable English news about Fukushima. No longer via Canada, Singapore or even Japan, this one is now due west from PALAU, but possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11710, Sept 12 at 1245 sweetly harmonious hymn to guess who? from VOK, without much Juche jamming noise or Chinese mixture yet. Talk, talk, talk, all over the 25m band, so settle here as I want to doze a bit, but it`s soon over, sign-off in Korean and 1248 NA.
Then for music one must go to 11550/12050 for the Mother Angelica mass wrapping up with organ fill and an unfamiliar hymn by a non-professional cantor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 21540, Sept 12 at 1319*, another station, R. Kuwait dumps off the air as soon as I tune in, as if to evade me; but *1320 back on with carrier, no modulation until a few seconds later, drawing on Mussorgsky for dramatic music to go with Arabic narration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 570, Sept 12 at 1142 UT, PSA string, mostly federales, ``escucha Noti-Radio 570``, sounder, then mentions Monterrey, so as expected it`s XEBJB, a.k.a. just ``Radio 570`` en Cantú, IRCA and WRTH; and a departure from the NORteña/RANchera format as in IRCA Log. Also produces a low rumbling het, as it`s slightly off-frequency to the hi side. Often it`s just the het bothering other stations such as KSNM which I had suspected of being the culprit. It`s not unusual for mostly musical XE stations to include a morning newsblock and this may be one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 670, Sept 12 at 1159 UT, Grupo Radio México has job openings, qualifications specified, then full ID for Radio Ranchito, street address, etc., Torreón, con mil vatios, i.e. XETOR in Cantú:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreon, Coah. 1,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Sept 12 at 1145 UT, W&M with news in Spanish from datelines all over the country, loops SW (discounting NE). Suspect same station as I have been hearing recently with nothing but hum, likely this as in Cantú:
700 XEGD La Poderosa + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000
But can`t completely rule out:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
Retune 1201 UT, probably same station and now Jalisco is less likely, almanac for 12 de setiembre including: something about Katharine Hepburn with a movie clip in English; 1953 Stalin to Khrushchev; 1989 Luna-2 launched; 1989 Germany algo; 1998 peace in N Ireland; 2010 Chile miners rescued; 1204 UT ``Noticias MVS`` acknowledging Canal 5 and 97.3 FM. This however originates with 102.5 in the DF, XHMVS. I also logged MVS news April 25 but couldn`t find an affiliate on 700; see DXLD 13-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Sept 12 at 1150 UT, ``La Kaliente`` slogan with 105.7, i.e. this by itself now, but which all evening is the SAH nemesis of WGN, per Cantú:
720 XEDE La Kaliente + FM 105.7 Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5980, Sept 12 at 1217, poor signal in English about China, but if it`s Thursday, this must be BBC Thailand, trying to avoid alleged ChiCom jamming by changing among four frequencies depending on day of week in a regular rotation, succeeding only in confusing casual listeners who don`t know about the strategy. And BBC *never* announces any frequencies on the air, since that would only confuse listeners on their primary platforms, SW only a dying legacy. Besides, there are still too many of them to accommodate all those meaningless numbers.
In fact, a survey by Stephen Cooper for DXLD finds only 15 strategic BBC languages left on SW besides English, as overall hours are being reduced. But at least no further language deletions are pending. Steve Luce finds weekly SW transmitter hours in English are to decline from 174 in A-13 to 135 in B-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1686 monitoring: completed just in time for first airing on WRMI, UT Thursday Sept 12 at 0330, as confirmed on webcast, presumably also 9955. Next:
Thu 2105 on WTWW-1 9479
UT Fri 0327v on WWRB 5050
UT Sat 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
(Hamburger Lokalradio off the air until early October?)
Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955
Sat 2327v on WTWW-2 9930
UT Sun 0401 on WTWW-1 5830 (modulation missing last week)
Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955
also via:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Sept 12 at 1403, WTWW-3 is missing, as it had been an hour earlier when it should have started; tho WTWW-1 on 9479 and WTWW-2 on 9930 are operative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 17530, Sept 12 at 1317 tune in just in time to hear carrier go off*, but back *on shortly, and a few seconds later resuming Somali modulation from VOA relay, violating Separation of Church and State. At least have not heard any unknown CCI on this since Sept 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 650, Sept 12 at 0535 UT, 24/7 Comedy station is again audible in mixture of other stuff with WSM nulled. Whence?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1686, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Started on MW this morning but Sept 12 at 1155 a quick check of 90m finds only weak carriers on 3385, 3325, 3260, 3247?, 3230, 3200, so back to MW. Some are surely PNG or Indonesia, but 3247 and 3200 call for further pursuit: nothing fundamentally on 3200, so could be a harmonic. Nothing on possible PNG channels 3205, 3315, 3345, 3365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
