** BOLIVIA. 5952.4, Oct 3 at 0104, Radio Pio Doce`s unique frequency is active unlike several nights, but too much storm noise from Nebraska to hear anything (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 4883, Oct 3 at 0054, the squealing blob tonight is on the low side of the 4885 broadcaster, requiring off-tuning to the hi side to avoid it.
4985, Oct 3 at 0054, the RTTY is back, totally blocking R. Brasil Central if it could otherwise be heard like it was last night. Maybe the USG shutdown affected the RTTY absence, and could again; as well as numerous other military/ute QRM situations! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165-, Oct 3 at 0056, undermodulated music is back, no doubt from N`Djamena which is sometimes all-night, sometimes not; before RHC blox it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Oct 3 at 0051, R. Progreso on new SW frequency, with music; some modulation distortion, perhaps a remnant of the old Soviet relay transmitter unmothballed? Much stronger than 24 hours ago, but still quite weaker than 5025 R. Rebelde which is supposedly same 50 kW power and same type of NVIS antenna. 4765 is not strong enough to overcome the rather high storm noise level over Nebraska tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9967, Oct 3 at 0102, Qahira is 2 kHz off-frequency with big carrier, whine, and barely audible distorted Arabic modulation. This has happened occasionally before. Why not? Everything else is out of order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa is back! Oct 2 at 1857, fruitlessly hunting for some music to accompany my nap, instead find fair signal with YL gospel huxter in English. Got to be R. Africa again on this frequency. No CCI from Philippines. Per usual pattern, no break or ID at hourtop, but continues as I doze; 1924 wrapping up with address in East Liverpool, Ohio 43920 and prayer request line 330-385-8873, which trace to Robert Hull.
Pause of less than a minute, no ID or any announcement, then starting another gospel huxter, ``Ruth Benedict Presents the Truth``, sounded like, but searches on that lead nowhere. May have lasted another quarter- or half-hour before probable closedown.
As I said in DXLD 13-17 of April 24, 2013,
``The last presumed & preserved log of it in DXLD was by Harold Frodge, MI, Feb 19 at 1835 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)``
Nor have there been any since until now. Previously was also active irregularly around 1500, 0600. At least we have not yet heard imprisoned sex-offender Tony Alamo on it again from out of the depths of his archives.
15115-15125, Nigeria DRM is also audible, and 15140 weak AM probably Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, Oct 3 at 0058, AIR Delhi-Khampur, poor fluttery signal with music instead of carrier, tone or IS, so maybe really on the correct Sinhala service today; seems // 11740 Goa, but it`s unusually worse, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 3 at 0057, R. Chaski is poor with talk and music past 0100, vs storm noise level; cut off at 0105:49.5* which is 4.5 seconds later than yesterday. I almost missed the timing as a quiet katydid had crept up my table on the porch and onto my antenna plug into the DX-398, so I quickly blew her off to the floor, apparently stunned for a while, but then crawled away, I hope unharmed. A couple nights ago it was a long-legged spider instead. An orb weaver also likes to set up a few feet away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9770, Oct 3 at 0100 I catch the sign-on announcement of La Voz de Turquía in Spanish, and OMA, she`s speaking the wrong frequencies, 9650 and 9410, which were the B-12 channels when one hour later at 02-03!! Have the wrong frequencies been announced thruout the A-13 season with less than a month left in it? They`ve also messed up English announcements, and no telling how many other languages, a station so out of it that they can`t even convey their own basic information accurately. Also on weaker // 9870, mixing as usual with AIR VBS. I keep checking this area for several spurblobs but those have not recurred since the one night I was hearing them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9830-10000, Oct 3 at 0108, WWV modulation spike spurs during weather info are still emanating as far as 170 kHz down from fundamental in clear spots. Not as strong as previously, but neither is the source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re: ``Mountainlake tropo map for VHF hams shows huge red blobs all the way from the Tex/Mex border to the Great Lakes, so I turn on DTV at 1437 UT Oct 1, finding nothing very far beyond Wichitans, except:
RF 49, KTKA 49-1 Topeka KS, with local ad, Rachael Ray; also 49-2 is KTKA-WX, a.k.a. Storm Track Weather, map and forecasts, current conditions rotating in Topeka, Lawrence, Emporia, Manhattan, Concordia, etc. with music track including cinematic. Also 49-3 with KTKACW+ ID on PSIP. In solid for a while past 1500``
Took photos of 49-2 and 49-3:
49-2: http://www.w4uvh.net/ktka-wx.jpg
49-3: http://www.w4uvh.net/ktkacw+.jpg
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 22819, Oct 2 at 1737, very weak signal sounds like car alarm cycling, on AM, no BFO needed. Checked after new query about it on DXLD yg from Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, who was hearing it much better [skip the ad with the haircut sounds]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yot4EbGLhpQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUw7FKchRP3oVw4Nh_L7oPAQo
This was already discussed in DXLDs 13-33 and 13-34, under UNIDENTIFIED; apparently concluding after lots of speculation that it is a radar in Australia called TIGER; brush up your Portuguese. Of course now it`s well before sunrise in all of Australia, when the MUF is hardly likely to reach 22+ MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 4883, Oct 3 at 0054, the squealing blob tonight is on the low side of the 4885 broadcaster, requiring off-tuning to the hi side to avoid it.
4985, Oct 3 at 0054, the RTTY is back, totally blocking R. Brasil Central if it could otherwise be heard like it was last night. Maybe the USG shutdown affected the RTTY absence, and could again; as well as numerous other military/ute QRM situations! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165-, Oct 3 at 0056, undermodulated music is back, no doubt from N`Djamena which is sometimes all-night, sometimes not; before RHC blox it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Oct 3 at 0051, R. Progreso on new SW frequency, with music; some modulation distortion, perhaps a remnant of the old Soviet relay transmitter unmothballed? Much stronger than 24 hours ago, but still quite weaker than 5025 R. Rebelde which is supposedly same 50 kW power and same type of NVIS antenna. 4765 is not strong enough to overcome the rather high storm noise level over Nebraska tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9967, Oct 3 at 0102, Qahira is 2 kHz off-frequency with big carrier, whine, and barely audible distorted Arabic modulation. This has happened occasionally before. Why not? Everything else is out of order (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, R. Africa is back! Oct 2 at 1857, fruitlessly hunting for some music to accompany my nap, instead find fair signal with YL gospel huxter in English. Got to be R. Africa again on this frequency. No CCI from Philippines. Per usual pattern, no break or ID at hourtop, but continues as I doze; 1924 wrapping up with address in East Liverpool, Ohio 43920 and prayer request line 330-385-8873, which trace to Robert Hull.
Pause of less than a minute, no ID or any announcement, then starting another gospel huxter, ``Ruth Benedict Presents the Truth``, sounded like, but searches on that lead nowhere. May have lasted another quarter- or half-hour before probable closedown.
As I said in DXLD 13-17 of April 24, 2013,
``The last presumed & preserved log of it in DXLD was by Harold Frodge, MI, Feb 19 at 1835 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)``
Nor have there been any since until now. Previously was also active irregularly around 1500, 0600. At least we have not yet heard imprisoned sex-offender Tony Alamo on it again from out of the depths of his archives.
15115-15125, Nigeria DRM is also audible, and 15140 weak AM probably Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11985, Oct 3 at 0058, AIR Delhi-Khampur, poor fluttery signal with music instead of carrier, tone or IS, so maybe really on the correct Sinhala service today; seems // 11740 Goa, but it`s unusually worse, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 3 at 0057, R. Chaski is poor with talk and music past 0100, vs storm noise level; cut off at 0105:49.5* which is 4.5 seconds later than yesterday. I almost missed the timing as a quiet katydid had crept up my table on the porch and onto my antenna plug into the DX-398, so I quickly blew her off to the floor, apparently stunned for a while, but then crawled away, I hope unharmed. A couple nights ago it was a long-legged spider instead. An orb weaver also likes to set up a few feet away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9770, Oct 3 at 0100 I catch the sign-on announcement of La Voz de Turquía in Spanish, and OMA, she`s speaking the wrong frequencies, 9650 and 9410, which were the B-12 channels when one hour later at 02-03!! Have the wrong frequencies been announced thruout the A-13 season with less than a month left in it? They`ve also messed up English announcements, and no telling how many other languages, a station so out of it that they can`t even convey their own basic information accurately. Also on weaker // 9870, mixing as usual with AIR VBS. I keep checking this area for several spurblobs but those have not recurred since the one night I was hearing them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9830-10000, Oct 3 at 0108, WWV modulation spike spurs during weather info are still emanating as far as 170 kHz down from fundamental in clear spots. Not as strong as previously, but neither is the source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re: ``Mountainlake tropo map for VHF hams shows huge red blobs all the way from the Tex/Mex border to the Great Lakes, so I turn on DTV at 1437 UT Oct 1, finding nothing very far beyond Wichitans, except:
RF 49, KTKA 49-1 Topeka KS, with local ad, Rachael Ray; also 49-2 is KTKA-WX, a.k.a. Storm Track Weather, map and forecasts, current conditions rotating in Topeka, Lawrence, Emporia, Manhattan, Concordia, etc. with music track including cinematic. Also 49-3 with KTKACW+ ID on PSIP. In solid for a while past 1500``
Took photos of 49-2 and 49-3:
49-2: http://www.w4uvh.net/ktka-wx.jpg
49-3: http://www.w4uvh.net/ktkacw+.jpg
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 22819, Oct 2 at 1737, very weak signal sounds like car alarm cycling, on AM, no BFO needed. Checked after new query about it on DXLD yg from Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, who was hearing it much better [skip the ad with the haircut sounds]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yot4EbGLhpQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUw7FKchRP3oVw4Nh_L7oPAQo
This was already discussed in DXLDs 13-33 and 13-34, under UNIDENTIFIED; apparently concluding after lots of speculation that it is a radar in Australia called TIGER; brush up your Portuguese. Of course now it`s well before sunrise in all of Australia, when the MUF is hardly likely to reach 22+ MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
