** AUSTRIA. 9830, Nov 10 at 2056, something in French, with African music, is oblivious to the heavy RTTY infesting 9830; address in Côte d`Ivoire. Maybe it`s clear over there. HFCC shows AWR, 300 kW, 210 degrees from Moosbrunn daily, and followed by another semihour in English. We know that the African service of AWR cannot spare any time for `Wavescan` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 740, Nov 10 at 0218 UT, atop KRMG OK is an ad for something in Cambridge, 519-area code, therefore CFZM Toronto with its 50 kW U1 advantage via CBL transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 17720, Nov 10 at 2026, RHC is back on this frequency today which was missing yesterday, now with music, 2033 recheck in Arabic. 2059 it`s dead air already, and turned off at 2102. Today there is no numbers transmitter on 17480, which may have needed the same unit yesterday.
17720 must have come back on circa 2200, as at 2227 it`s running in Spanish, but only poor-fair strength now, and // 11840, 9810 and 9710 (but no 15230 now or lately). 11840 has good strength, but suppressed and distorted modulation, as often the case lately. And it`s still like that at recheck 0207 UT Nov 11.
Checking others after 2200: 11880 is OFF, at 2215, which had been the English-to-Africa for the past week at 22-23, ex 23-24. But there is a strong dead carrier with lite whine on 11860, and that comes to life at 2217 with a bit of Spanish, then cut to English amid DXers Unlimited. Arnie has nothing at all to say about RHC schedule changes until he`s finished at 2225.
So has English deliberately moved from 11880 to 11860, or is this just another mistake, as 11860 is already in use at other times? No visible reason to change it. In fact there is good reason not to change to 11860, as at 2240 I hear some CCI, which per HFCC would be VOA English via THAILAND, UT Sun-Thu only.
15370, Sunday Nov 10 at 2226, open carrier; 2229 RHC IS and theme, opening Esperanto a bit early, with theme song, schedule still claiming to be Sundays at 07 on 6010, 15 on 11760, 2230 on 15370. The 15 should have shifted to 16, but unconfirmed yet; the 07 would normally be tacked on to one of the English frequencies just finished, which no longer includes 6010, so really on 6000, or maybe 6060?
9580, Nov 11 at 0203, CRI Chinese relay with very heavy wobble on the carrier and modulation, while // 9570 via ALBANIA is steady (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 9322-9349, Nov 11 at 0205, heavy OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, really QRMing 9330 WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4775, Nov 11 at 1253, JBA carrier, likely AIR Imphal, only thing listed on air now; 60m very unproductive from Asia lately, beyond 4940 China and 4750 Indonesia/? This 4775 is even weaker than 4750. Also a carrier on 4800, maybe Hyderabad if not Geermu, China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6115, Nov 11 at 0650, poor signal with jazz, and not much beyond Cuba on 49m. Must be R. Nikkei 2, 50 kW, 50 degrees from Nagano which is favorable for us; // is 9760 tho not propagating now, as it sometimes is. 0650 UT = 1550 JST, close enough to sundown now for 49m. See also RUSSIA 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JUAN FERNANDEZ. 21265-USB, Nov 10 at 2041, weak station called XR0ZR occasionally. Does not say ``this is``, but when saying only that call and not another, I assume it means his own. Mostly in clear but sometimes interrupted by co-channel callers, whistles, hets. Others come on and say ``split 5 up``.
That`s where the pileups are that I first encountered, not only 5 up, but just about every kHz from 21270 to 21280, countless stations spouting nothing but their own calls, which we can only assume are meant to be attempts to contact XR0ZR.
Here`s the DXpedition page all about it and their strict QSLing rules:
http://www.qrz.com/db/XR0ZR
I was looking for Wake Island`s K9W DXpedition on nominal 21285, but unfound on ``15`` m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [non]. 5980, Nov 11 at 0101, my usual DX-398 setup is inconvenient, so I try to hear R. Chaski on the main FRG-7 and longwire. Heavy pulse jamming, tnx a lot, Arnie, but a JBA carrier under it; however, it`s still on at 0104 and probably result of overload by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9520, Nov 11 at 1327, English hymn gives way to ID loop at least thrice, in English with jazz music, from Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City, stay tuned for the Sinhala broadcast at 1330 on 9520; good signal with a fast SAH. Squeezed between this and the China radio war on 9530 is a JBA carrier from 9526 INDONESIA. RVA has no use for English except as a continuity language. Obviously business as usual in the QC area while much of the country is suffering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6115, Nov 11 at 1258, a bit of jazz, but this time it`s not Nikkei as heard 6 hours earlier, see JAPAN; that supposedly stops at 1000. Then Chinese ID mentioning RUVR, IS, good with flutter, maybe some CCI. HFCC shows VOR, 11-14, 250 kW, 152 degrees from Irkutsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN ANDRES. 18146-USB, Nov 10 at 2046, 5J0R with quick contacts; calling different continents, Oceania, Africa, South America, VK/ZL, no takers so back to the N American pileups. This may be paired with the piles on 18130, but it`s hard to tell since the pileuppers spout nothing but their own callsigns hoping to override the QRM. There`s another pileup on 18155-USB, for what? Hey, I`m beginning to think this is no fun at all! I was looking for the Wake Island K9W DXpedition on nominal 18140, but unfound on ``17`` meters. QRZ.com:
5J0R
San Andres Island Dxpedition
IOTA NA-033
QSL via EA5RM
San Andres and Providencia
All about this DX-pedition ending Nov 11:
http://www.dxfriends.com/SanAndres2013/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LI STENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 21630, Nov 11 at 1359, REE is still here, // 21610, and colliding with Ascension BBC Hausa from 1400 on 21630; despite announcement yesterday that would move to 21640; like when? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9790, Nov 11 at 0157, VOA finishing `Today in History`, poor with flutter, and mixed with `Soviet`? tune-up tones. Then an editorial ``reflecting American ideals and institutions``, about natch, Veterans` Day.
Exactly same wording for outro, *no longer* refers to being official views from the US Government!!! But of course, it is; now listeners are supposed to find these mandated editorials more friendly, acceptable? They were usually pretty bland and generic, anyway.
Outro cut short, for loop IDs as ``RFE/RL, Praha`` a few times, and off, uncovering the weaker pre-beeping signal. HFCC as of today claims IBB used 9790, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Udorn, THAILAND, for the Week of Confusion only, ending 02 November! But here it is nine days later.
As for the understation, HFCC shows VOR in Russian, 02-04, 250 kW, 117 degrees from Moskva site, thru the entire B-13 season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Monday Nov 11 at 0030, WTWW-2 is in country music as usual on Sunday evenings, rather than an extra airing of WORLD OF RADIO as one reported last week when it was an hour earlier on 9930. I wasn`t listening carefully, but it seemed like 5085 cut on and off the air at *0022-0025*, *0026- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11870, Nov 10 at 2215, no signal from WEWN Spanish, unlike 24 hours earlier, which must have been a fluke. Now it`s still on squealless 12050 and squealing 13830. (Nor is there any sign of Romania Spanish on 11870 as scheduled now to S America; is that really on?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9975, Nov 11 at 0200, no KVOH, just weak presumed CVC as still scheduled via UZBEKISTAN at 01-04, 186 degrees from Tashkent, which means it`s also USward, across one pole or another. Finally KVOH cuts on at *0202 with VG signal, joining Spanish praise music in progress. Presumably the sign-on aired only on the STL; 0205 ID in passing. It`s somewhat overmodulated and distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 650, Nov 11 at 0215 UT, hardly any signal from WSM, instead XETNT, Radio K, mentioning Guasave and Los Mochis, and also when nulled, English talk, probably KGAB WY. Seems more than just a temp fade from WSM; something wrong there? Or strange propagation, not exactly auroral as further north stations such as CFZM 740 are in well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, Nov 11 at 1316 UT, C&W music from N/S, whence? It was ``After the War`` from 1993y, really the Mark Davis show, says he recorded it himself at an event, followed by cheers, so not just a talkshow; then DFW traffic from ``660 AM The Answer`` = KSKY The Metroplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Nov 11 at 1312 UT, country music, plug searching for Y105-5 on some smartphone app, from east/west. No doubt it`s the recent move-in to Memphis TN, now known as WUMY; http://y1055.com/ mentions they are also on AM 830. 105.5 is the tail wagging the dog, really just a translator per NRC AM Log, W288BJ, with the 830 address still way off in Poplar Bluff MO, not even adjacent AR. Yet they are calling 105.5 ``WUMY`` with a coverage map which is really pretty small: http://y1055.com/advertise/ Another search on the WUMY brand at the y1055.com website leads to ``WUMY-FM (the "Station") owned and operated by Mighty Media, LP, 230-2 Goodman Road East, Suite 202, Southaven, MS 38671``. So it`s multi-state (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 940, Nov 11 at 0220 UT, New Orleans Advocate ad, apparently black newspaper; Crimestoppers PSA on a specific murder; ad for the Audubon Insectarium, providing various bugs for cuisine. Is this a put-on? Maybe not for Cajuns, hi. I thought they said ``Ottoman``! See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon_Butterfly_Garden_and_Insectarium
Then mentions am940.com --- wow, they got the most generic URL, leading to ``WYLD for Jesus``, which per NRC AM Log is 10000/500 watts U4, ``Amen 940``. Both day and nite patterns have lobes to the northwest. Dominant signal now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Nov 10 at 2055, ZBC music good but heavy flutter, already off at 2059 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1100, Nov 11 at 1303 UT, road work reports concerning Decatur Drive, Lakeshore Drive, Martin Luther King Drive, in Bloomington, also mentions counties: DeWitt, Livingston, McLean. 1305 into Christian song. Those streets and especially counties lead not to Chicago, but to the Bloomington, Illinois area. Trouble is, there is no 1100 station anywhere around there (nor Bloomington IN). Loops about east/west. Suspect it is just my nearest 1100, KKLL in Webb City (Joplin) MO, somehow relaying off-topic programming from the IL city.
I`ve yet to find any connexion confirming this. KKLL is owned by the New Life Evangelistic Center, address in St Louis MO, and their closest IL station is WINU 870 in Shelbyville, a bit too far from Bloomington. No NLEC listed at FCC as licensee of any Bloomington IL AM or FM station. If it weren`t for the three counties, I would go hunting at several other Bloomingtons in the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17680-USB, Nov 10 at 2028, 2-way in Romance language, eventually recognized as Spanish; one of them has background noise as from an engine. A far cry from CVC La Voz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2005 UT November 11
** CANADA. 740, Nov 10 at 0218 UT, atop KRMG OK is an ad for something in Cambridge, 519-area code, therefore CFZM Toronto with its 50 kW U1 advantage via CBL transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 17720, Nov 10 at 2026, RHC is back on this frequency today which was missing yesterday, now with music, 2033 recheck in Arabic. 2059 it`s dead air already, and turned off at 2102. Today there is no numbers transmitter on 17480, which may have needed the same unit yesterday.
17720 must have come back on circa 2200, as at 2227 it`s running in Spanish, but only poor-fair strength now, and // 11840, 9810 and 9710 (but no 15230 now or lately). 11840 has good strength, but suppressed and distorted modulation, as often the case lately. And it`s still like that at recheck 0207 UT Nov 11.
Checking others after 2200: 11880 is OFF, at 2215, which had been the English-to-Africa for the past week at 22-23, ex 23-24. But there is a strong dead carrier with lite whine on 11860, and that comes to life at 2217 with a bit of Spanish, then cut to English amid DXers Unlimited. Arnie has nothing at all to say about RHC schedule changes until he`s finished at 2225.
So has English deliberately moved from 11880 to 11860, or is this just another mistake, as 11860 is already in use at other times? No visible reason to change it. In fact there is good reason not to change to 11860, as at 2240 I hear some CCI, which per HFCC would be VOA English via THAILAND, UT Sun-Thu only.
15370, Sunday Nov 10 at 2226, open carrier; 2229 RHC IS and theme, opening Esperanto a bit early, with theme song, schedule still claiming to be Sundays at 07 on 6010, 15 on 11760, 2230 on 15370. The 15 should have shifted to 16, but unconfirmed yet; the 07 would normally be tacked on to one of the English frequencies just finished, which no longer includes 6010, so really on 6000, or maybe 6060?
9580, Nov 11 at 0203, CRI Chinese relay with very heavy wobble on the carrier and modulation, while // 9570 via ALBANIA is steady (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 9322-9349, Nov 11 at 0205, heavy OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, really QRMing 9330 WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4775, Nov 11 at 1253, JBA carrier, likely AIR Imphal, only thing listed on air now; 60m very unproductive from Asia lately, beyond 4940 China and 4750 Indonesia/? This 4775 is even weaker than 4750. Also a carrier on 4800, maybe Hyderabad if not Geermu, China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6115, Nov 11 at 0650, poor signal with jazz, and not much beyond Cuba on 49m. Must be R. Nikkei 2, 50 kW, 50 degrees from Nagano which is favorable for us; // is 9760 tho not propagating now, as it sometimes is. 0650 UT = 1550 JST, close enough to sundown now for 49m. See also RUSSIA 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JUAN FERNANDEZ. 21265-USB, Nov 10 at 2041, weak station called XR0ZR occasionally. Does not say ``this is``, but when saying only that call and not another, I assume it means his own. Mostly in clear but sometimes interrupted by co-channel callers, whistles, hets. Others come on and say ``split 5 up``.
That`s where the pileups are that I first encountered, not only 5 up, but just about every kHz from 21270 to 21280, countless stations spouting nothing but their own calls, which we can only assume are meant to be attempts to contact XR0ZR.
Here`s the DXpedition page all about it and their strict QSLing rules:
http://www.qrz.com/db/XR0ZR
I was looking for Wake Island`s K9W DXpedition on nominal 21285, but unfound on ``15`` m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [non]. 5980, Nov 11 at 0101, my usual DX-398 setup is inconvenient, so I try to hear R. Chaski on the main FRG-7 and longwire. Heavy pulse jamming, tnx a lot, Arnie, but a JBA carrier under it; however, it`s still on at 0104 and probably result of overload by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9520, Nov 11 at 1327, English hymn gives way to ID loop at least thrice, in English with jazz music, from Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City, stay tuned for the Sinhala broadcast at 1330 on 9520; good signal with a fast SAH. Squeezed between this and the China radio war on 9530 is a JBA carrier from 9526 INDONESIA. RVA has no use for English except as a continuity language. Obviously business as usual in the QC area while much of the country is suffering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6115, Nov 11 at 1258, a bit of jazz, but this time it`s not Nikkei as heard 6 hours earlier, see JAPAN; that supposedly stops at 1000. Then Chinese ID mentioning RUVR, IS, good with flutter, maybe some CCI. HFCC shows VOR, 11-14, 250 kW, 152 degrees from Irkutsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAN ANDRES. 18146-USB, Nov 10 at 2046, 5J0R with quick contacts; calling different continents, Oceania, Africa, South America, VK/ZL, no takers so back to the N American pileups. This may be paired with the piles on 18130, but it`s hard to tell since the pileuppers spout nothing but their own callsigns hoping to override the QRM. There`s another pileup on 18155-USB, for what? Hey, I`m beginning to think this is no fun at all! I was looking for the Wake Island K9W DXpedition on nominal 18140, but unfound on ``17`` meters. QRZ.com:
5J0R
San Andres Island Dxpedition
IOTA NA-033
QSL via EA5RM
San Andres and Providencia
All about this DX-pedition ending Nov 11:
http://www.dxfriends.com/SanAndres2013/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LI STENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 21630, Nov 11 at 1359, REE is still here, // 21610, and colliding with Ascension BBC Hausa from 1400 on 21630; despite announcement yesterday that would move to 21640; like when? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9790, Nov 11 at 0157, VOA finishing `Today in History`, poor with flutter, and mixed with `Soviet`? tune-up tones. Then an editorial ``reflecting American ideals and institutions``, about natch, Veterans` Day.
Exactly same wording for outro, *no longer* refers to being official views from the US Government!!! But of course, it is; now listeners are supposed to find these mandated editorials more friendly, acceptable? They were usually pretty bland and generic, anyway.
Outro cut short, for loop IDs as ``RFE/RL, Praha`` a few times, and off, uncovering the weaker pre-beeping signal. HFCC as of today claims IBB used 9790, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Udorn, THAILAND, for the Week of Confusion only, ending 02 November! But here it is nine days later.
As for the understation, HFCC shows VOR in Russian, 02-04, 250 kW, 117 degrees from Moskva site, thru the entire B-13 season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Monday Nov 11 at 0030, WTWW-2 is in country music as usual on Sunday evenings, rather than an extra airing of WORLD OF RADIO as one reported last week when it was an hour earlier on 9930. I wasn`t listening carefully, but it seemed like 5085 cut on and off the air at *0022-0025*, *0026- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11870, Nov 10 at 2215, no signal from WEWN Spanish, unlike 24 hours earlier, which must have been a fluke. Now it`s still on squealless 12050 and squealing 13830. (Nor is there any sign of Romania Spanish on 11870 as scheduled now to S America; is that really on?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9975, Nov 11 at 0200, no KVOH, just weak presumed CVC as still scheduled via UZBEKISTAN at 01-04, 186 degrees from Tashkent, which means it`s also USward, across one pole or another. Finally KVOH cuts on at *0202 with VG signal, joining Spanish praise music in progress. Presumably the sign-on aired only on the STL; 0205 ID in passing. It`s somewhat overmodulated and distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 650, Nov 11 at 0215 UT, hardly any signal from WSM, instead XETNT, Radio K, mentioning Guasave and Los Mochis, and also when nulled, English talk, probably KGAB WY. Seems more than just a temp fade from WSM; something wrong there? Or strange propagation, not exactly auroral as further north stations such as CFZM 740 are in well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 660, Nov 11 at 1316 UT, C&W music from N/S, whence? It was ``After the War`` from 1993y, really the Mark Davis show, says he recorded it himself at an event, followed by cheers, so not just a talkshow; then DFW traffic from ``660 AM The Answer`` = KSKY The Metroplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Nov 11 at 1312 UT, country music, plug searching for Y105-5 on some smartphone app, from east/west. No doubt it`s the recent move-in to Memphis TN, now known as WUMY; http://y1055.com/ mentions they are also on AM 830. 105.5 is the tail wagging the dog, really just a translator per NRC AM Log, W288BJ, with the 830 address still way off in Poplar Bluff MO, not even adjacent AR. Yet they are calling 105.5 ``WUMY`` with a coverage map which is really pretty small: http://y1055.com/advertise/ Another search on the WUMY brand at the y1055.com website leads to ``WUMY-FM (the "Station") owned and operated by Mighty Media, LP, 230-2 Goodman Road East, Suite 202, Southaven, MS 38671``. So it`s multi-state (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 940, Nov 11 at 0220 UT, New Orleans Advocate ad, apparently black newspaper; Crimestoppers PSA on a specific murder; ad for the Audubon Insectarium, providing various bugs for cuisine. Is this a put-on? Maybe not for Cajuns, hi. I thought they said ``Ottoman``! See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon_Butterfly_Garden_and_Insectarium
Then mentions am940.com --- wow, they got the most generic URL, leading to ``WYLD for Jesus``, which per NRC AM Log is 10000/500 watts U4, ``Amen 940``. Both day and nite patterns have lobes to the northwest. Dominant signal now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Nov 10 at 2055, ZBC music good but heavy flutter, already off at 2059 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1100, Nov 11 at 1303 UT, road work reports concerning Decatur Drive, Lakeshore Drive, Martin Luther King Drive, in Bloomington, also mentions counties: DeWitt, Livingston, McLean. 1305 into Christian song. Those streets and especially counties lead not to Chicago, but to the Bloomington, Illinois area. Trouble is, there is no 1100 station anywhere around there (nor Bloomington IN). Loops about east/west. Suspect it is just my nearest 1100, KKLL in Webb City (Joplin) MO, somehow relaying off-topic programming from the IL city.
I`ve yet to find any connexion confirming this. KKLL is owned by the New Life Evangelistic Center, address in St Louis MO, and their closest IL station is WINU 870 in Shelbyville, a bit too far from Bloomington. No NLEC listed at FCC as licensee of any Bloomington IL AM or FM station. If it weren`t for the three counties, I would go hunting at several other Bloomingtons in the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17680-USB, Nov 10 at 2028, 2-way in Romance language, eventually recognized as Spanish; one of them has background noise as from an engine. A far cry from CVC La Voz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2005 UT November 11