** AUSTRALIA. 12065, Jan 3 at 1527, just as I tune in R. Australia it cuts off the air amid program; how rude! 1530 I find it instead on weaker 11880, maybe same transmitter. 1530 is supposedly the stop/start time for these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9450-9470, Jan 3 at 1532, filthy FMy distorted blob of CNR1 programming is now on the hi side of 9450 jammer, suspected of being the source transmitter. On 9450 itself, the carrier is somewhat but much less distorted and unstably wobbling with BFO engaged. At least this leaves 9430 FEBC Chinese undisturbed today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13740, Jan 3 at 0113, RHC with very poor signal // 11760, but enough to QRM even weaker R. Thailand to North America on 13745. My previous log of RHC going off a few minutes after 0000 must have been a fluke since WRTH 2014 and Aoki show 13740 on air continuously from 22 to 05 for South America. This is bad news for HSK9 trying to reach us directly from Udorn between 0000 and 0330.
RHC Spanish page for frequencies
http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias
is *still* blank when reached in Firefox; how about IE? It looks quite different with other stuff, but still, no frequencies! Going back to the homepage in IE, the black bar below the title does not even display the drop-down menus which should lead from interesantes to frecuencias. RHC website is as big a mess as their broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, Jan 2 at 2153, again I am only hearing one signal here, and it`s WRMI with R. Africa Network, which like now, is spending quite a bit of time with music fill; sounds jazzy, secular? But 2157 it`s vocal gospel rock. As a propagation check, 15580 is in well enough from VOA Botswana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11695, Jan 3 at 1403, poor signal with news in English, M&W alternating, stuff about Japan; a new format for NHK World Radio? Haven`t listened to them in English for months, in keeping with their desire not to be heard in North America, but unfortunately ran across this which is via UZBEKISTAN to S Asia; I`d rather hear R. Tashkent. Nothing noticed on listed NHK // 11925 via Palau. See also MALAYSIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [non]. 11665, Jan 2 at 2203, NHK in Japanese direct from Yamata with usual good signal, and no sign of RTM back to Sarawak, supposedly scheduled from 2200; irregular or off? Not that it was usually heard at this daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WBCQ, WRMI
** U S A [non]. 12125, Jan 3 at 1528, very poor signal in English, soon recognizable as VOA`s Learning-English exaggerated intonation. Aoki shows at 15-16 only, this is due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1702 monitoring: confirmed Thursday January 2 from 2200:58 on WTWW-1, 9475. On WWRB 3195: tune-in at 0422 UT Friday Jan 3 to find dead air; then WOR starts early at 0426:15, and cut off the air immediately it`s over after 0455*. No 5050 //.
Next: Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 7265-CUSB
UT Sunday 0030v on WTWW-2, 5085
UT Sunday 0501v on WTWW-1, 5830
UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB [new time]
Tuesday 1200 on WRMI, 9955
Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on HLR, 7265-CUSB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, Jan 2 at 2154, WRMI is very poor but recognizable with Brother Scare; not heard after 2200. Contradictory schedule indicated this ran until 2300. Is on a 44 degree antenna toward Europe, close to 90 degrees away from OK, so minimal signal this way. Jeff White requests,
``Glenn: We are doing a broadcast on 7730 kHz from 1800 to 2200 UT daily. I'm interested to hear what reception is like in Eastern North America during those hours. Any listener observations will be much appreciated.
Jeff White
WRMI Radio Miami International
175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4
Miami, Florida 33172 USA
E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com
http://www.wrmi.net
Tel +1-305-559-9764
Fax +1-305-559-8186``.
9955, Friday Jan 3 at 1400, WRMI goes from `Wavescan` vs pulse jamming, and `Scoreboard` to Brother Scare, instead of scheduled `Words of Life`, fill or mistake? By 1454 it`s not BS but presumably the scheduled `Moments in Bible Prophecy` and then BS after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]
** U S A. 5110, Jan 3 at 0106 I cannot detect WBCQ which is supposedly on since 0000 with Brother Scare; WTWW is no help with huge BS signal on 5085 which desensitizes the area, and makes the WBCQ transmission totally unnecessary anyway. Still no 5110 at 0132 check.
7491.1, Jan 3 at 0108, no BS here either, supposedly scheduled from 0100, as WBCQ is off-frequency again. Instead, rock music. 0120 announcement as ``Heart and Soul of America Music``; 0122 modulation cuts off and on and off and on. So this has no relation to the `Heart & Soul of America`` religious broadcast which WBCQ has also carried on 5110 and still on 7490 Saturday nights. Replying to my previous log, April TimeLady explained:
``Dear Glenn, Without having heard a recording of what you heard, I can very reasonably guess that, for whatever reason, WBCQ was relaying on SW, AM 950, WHVW Hyde Park NY, owned by the guy who calls himself "Pirate Joe" and has been a long term friend of Allan Weiner and co. It's frequently heard on their webstream of 7490 when WBCQ itself is not active. The slogan of the station is "The Heart and Soul of American Music" and usually plays old pre-1960 music, some on 78 rpm records.
Per the WBCQ 7490 programming schedule at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7490
it's also officially carried at 20-21 hours UTC as the "Pirate Joe Extravaganza." Whether this was an actual relay or a recording of that program is anyone's guess, but during Jewish holy days I've heard the WHVW classical music program relayed instead of "World Jewish News with Rabbi Yaakov Spivak". Now why WHVW was being played instead of BS, I certainly can't reasonably guess. Thank you for reading this, and have a good night (or day)``
Pirate Joe at 20-21 is Tuesdays, the only day of week when 7490 comes on that early. Can`t find anything about that `Heart & Soul` show on the WBCQ website! However there is a link on the WBCQ homepage about WHVW:
``WHVW AM 950 --- We are pleased to bring you a new internet webcast, from one of the country's most unique and eclectic radio stations. We're now hosting internet streaming services for WHVW, AM 950 in Hyde Park, New York. WHVW features a mix of old-fashioned blues, jazz, country and Americana music. Their website is http://www.whvw.net and the webcast can be found at http://www.splatterbox.us:6950
24 January 2013 by cosmikdebris``
By 0622 check Jan 3, 7491 is now with Brother Scare, fair signal, but eclipsed by huge signal from WRMI on 7570, plus several other overkill duplicates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, Jan 3 at 1455, WEWN English transmitter is still missing, while 12050 & 11550 Spanish are squealing as usual; other US stations on 19m are propagating, 15550 WJHR [q.v.] and 15825 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, Jan 3 at 1409, `Rock of Ages` is playing, so WJHR must be running late again: yes, soon with sign-on announcement, then more ROA theme, this time on banjo; 1412 prayer by unID preacher who thinx it is nighttime, into sermon based on Psalms LXXII: 17-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1739 UT January 3
** CHINA. 9450-9470, Jan 3 at 1532, filthy FMy distorted blob of CNR1 programming is now on the hi side of 9450 jammer, suspected of being the source transmitter. On 9450 itself, the carrier is somewhat but much less distorted and unstably wobbling with BFO engaged. At least this leaves 9430 FEBC Chinese undisturbed today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13740, Jan 3 at 0113, RHC with very poor signal // 11760, but enough to QRM even weaker R. Thailand to North America on 13745. My previous log of RHC going off a few minutes after 0000 must have been a fluke since WRTH 2014 and Aoki show 13740 on air continuously from 22 to 05 for South America. This is bad news for HSK9 trying to reach us directly from Udorn between 0000 and 0330.
RHC Spanish page for frequencies
http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias
is *still* blank when reached in Firefox; how about IE? It looks quite different with other stuff, but still, no frequencies! Going back to the homepage in IE, the black bar below the title does not even display the drop-down menus which should lead from interesantes to frecuencias. RHC website is as big a mess as their broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, Jan 2 at 2153, again I am only hearing one signal here, and it`s WRMI with R. Africa Network, which like now, is spending quite a bit of time with music fill; sounds jazzy, secular? But 2157 it`s vocal gospel rock. As a propagation check, 15580 is in well enough from VOA Botswana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11695, Jan 3 at 1403, poor signal with news in English, M&W alternating, stuff about Japan; a new format for NHK World Radio? Haven`t listened to them in English for months, in keeping with their desire not to be heard in North America, but unfortunately ran across this which is via UZBEKISTAN to S Asia; I`d rather hear R. Tashkent. Nothing noticed on listed NHK // 11925 via Palau. See also MALAYSIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [non]. 11665, Jan 2 at 2203, NHK in Japanese direct from Yamata with usual good signal, and no sign of RTM back to Sarawak, supposedly scheduled from 2200; irregular or off? Not that it was usually heard at this daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. See USA: WBCQ, WRMI
** U S A [non]. 12125, Jan 3 at 1528, very poor signal in English, soon recognizable as VOA`s Learning-English exaggerated intonation. Aoki shows at 15-16 only, this is due west from Tinang, PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1702 monitoring: confirmed Thursday January 2 from 2200:58 on WTWW-1, 9475. On WWRB 3195: tune-in at 0422 UT Friday Jan 3 to find dead air; then WOR starts early at 0426:15, and cut off the air immediately it`s over after 0455*. No 5050 //.
Next: Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 7265-CUSB
UT Sunday 0030v on WTWW-2, 5085
UT Sunday 0501v on WTWW-1, 5830
UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB [new time]
Tuesday 1200 on WRMI, 9955
Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on HLR, 7265-CUSB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, Jan 2 at 2154, WRMI is very poor but recognizable with Brother Scare; not heard after 2200. Contradictory schedule indicated this ran until 2300. Is on a 44 degree antenna toward Europe, close to 90 degrees away from OK, so minimal signal this way. Jeff White requests,
``Glenn: We are doing a broadcast on 7730 kHz from 1800 to 2200 UT daily. I'm interested to hear what reception is like in Eastern North America during those hours. Any listener observations will be much appreciated.
Jeff White
WRMI Radio Miami International
175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4
Miami, Florida 33172 USA
E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com
http://www.wrmi.net
Tel +1-305-559-9764
Fax +1-305-559-8186``.
9955, Friday Jan 3 at 1400, WRMI goes from `Wavescan` vs pulse jamming, and `Scoreboard` to Brother Scare, instead of scheduled `Words of Life`, fill or mistake? By 1454 it`s not BS but presumably the scheduled `Moments in Bible Prophecy` and then BS after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]
** U S A. 5110, Jan 3 at 0106 I cannot detect WBCQ which is supposedly on since 0000 with Brother Scare; WTWW is no help with huge BS signal on 5085 which desensitizes the area, and makes the WBCQ transmission totally unnecessary anyway. Still no 5110 at 0132 check.
7491.1, Jan 3 at 0108, no BS here either, supposedly scheduled from 0100, as WBCQ is off-frequency again. Instead, rock music. 0120 announcement as ``Heart and Soul of America Music``; 0122 modulation cuts off and on and off and on. So this has no relation to the `Heart & Soul of America`` religious broadcast which WBCQ has also carried on 5110 and still on 7490 Saturday nights. Replying to my previous log, April TimeLady explained:
``Dear Glenn, Without having heard a recording of what you heard, I can very reasonably guess that, for whatever reason, WBCQ was relaying on SW, AM 950, WHVW Hyde Park NY, owned by the guy who calls himself "Pirate Joe" and has been a long term friend of Allan Weiner and co. It's frequently heard on their webstream of 7490 when WBCQ itself is not active. The slogan of the station is "The Heart and Soul of American Music" and usually plays old pre-1960 music, some on 78 rpm records.
Per the WBCQ 7490 programming schedule at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7490
it's also officially carried at 20-21 hours UTC as the "Pirate Joe Extravaganza." Whether this was an actual relay or a recording of that program is anyone's guess, but during Jewish holy days I've heard the WHVW classical music program relayed instead of "World Jewish News with Rabbi Yaakov Spivak". Now why WHVW was being played instead of BS, I certainly can't reasonably guess. Thank you for reading this, and have a good night (or day)``
Pirate Joe at 20-21 is Tuesdays, the only day of week when 7490 comes on that early. Can`t find anything about that `Heart & Soul` show on the WBCQ website! However there is a link on the WBCQ homepage about WHVW:
``WHVW AM 950 --- We are pleased to bring you a new internet webcast, from one of the country's most unique and eclectic radio stations. We're now hosting internet streaming services for WHVW, AM 950 in Hyde Park, New York. WHVW features a mix of old-fashioned blues, jazz, country and Americana music. Their website is http://www.whvw.net and the webcast can be found at http://www.splatterbox.us:6950
24 January 2013 by cosmikdebris``
By 0622 check Jan 3, 7491 is now with Brother Scare, fair signal, but eclipsed by huge signal from WRMI on 7570, plus several other overkill duplicates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, Jan 3 at 1455, WEWN English transmitter is still missing, while 12050 & 11550 Spanish are squealing as usual; other US stations on 19m are propagating, 15550 WJHR [q.v.] and 15825 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, Jan 3 at 1409, `Rock of Ages` is playing, so WJHR must be running late again: yes, soon with sign-on announcement, then more ROA theme, this time on banjo; 1412 prayer by unID preacher who thinx it is nighttime, into sermon based on Psalms LXXII: 17-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1739 UT January 3
