** CUBA [and non]. 6000, Sunday Feb 9 at 0705, open carrier presumably RHC failing to broadcast its weekly Esperanto semihour; not strong and off by 0708; all the other English frequencies were dead air by 0657 and off the air by 0700. Meanwhile another carrier on 5995 is JBM and slightly stronger, i.e. MALI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11675, Feb 9 at 1420, fair with very heavy flutter, IRIB IS and sign-on routine, but cut off abruptly during Qur`an at 1424 (Allah`ll get`em for that). However, there is still a much weaker unmodulated carrier on 11675, also with flutter. HFCC shows it`s the Russian service at 320 degrees via Sirjan which is supposed to start at 1420, taking over from Kamalabad 178 degrees with Urdu until 1420. I surmise that the remaining carrier is Kamalabad which had not been turned off.
However, I did not recognize the language as Russian, so alternatively it could have been something else such as Bengali, Hindi or Arabic, which was supposed to be on the same Kam unit but on another frequency, which finally switched late, and then uncovering the Sirjan one. In any event, VIRI once again fails to get its acts together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 9595, Feb 9 at 0652, R. Nikkei I with severe QRDRM from ROMANIA centred on 9600; DRM off at 0700 and RN1 is sufficiently audible in Japanese; while non // RN2 on 9760 was and is stronger in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575, Feb 9 at 0651, very poor signal with music; must be Médi Un; 0700 a little better with presumed news theme and talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11685-11690-11695, Feb 9 at 0654, DRM noise must be RNZI. HFCC shows DRM on 13730 at 05-08, and on 11690 at 0645-0800, but it can`t possibly be on both at the same time, with one DRM-capable transmitter. Instead, this registration overlap leaves RNZI plenty of leeway to adjust the real QSY time. Its current online schedule shows it happens at 0650-0651, while // AM 11725 remains from 0459 to 0758 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 9595-9600-9605, Feb 9 at 0652, DRM noise severely QRMing 9595, R. Nikkei, Japan. It`s RRI as scheduled 0630-0700 in English, 300 kW at 300 degrees per HFCC. Really? DRM powers are normally much reduced from full AM level, but it`s plenty strong. This schedulehttp://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=ITU,UTC
shows all ROU DRM are only at 90 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1802 UT February 9
** IRAN. 11675, Feb 9 at 1420, fair with very heavy flutter, IRIB IS and sign-on routine, but cut off abruptly during Qur`an at 1424 (Allah`ll get`em for that). However, there is still a much weaker unmodulated carrier on 11675, also with flutter. HFCC shows it`s the Russian service at 320 degrees via Sirjan which is supposed to start at 1420, taking over from Kamalabad 178 degrees with Urdu until 1420. I surmise that the remaining carrier is Kamalabad which had not been turned off.
However, I did not recognize the language as Russian, so alternatively it could have been something else such as Bengali, Hindi or Arabic, which was supposed to be on the same Kam unit but on another frequency, which finally switched late, and then uncovering the Sirjan one. In any event, VIRI once again fails to get its acts together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 9595, Feb 9 at 0652, R. Nikkei I with severe QRDRM from ROMANIA centred on 9600; DRM off at 0700 and RN1 is sufficiently audible in Japanese; while non // RN2 on 9760 was and is stronger in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 9575, Feb 9 at 0651, very poor signal with music; must be Médi Un; 0700 a little better with presumed news theme and talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11685-11690-11695, Feb 9 at 0654, DRM noise must be RNZI. HFCC shows DRM on 13730 at 05-08, and on 11690 at 0645-0800, but it can`t possibly be on both at the same time, with one DRM-capable transmitter. Instead, this registration overlap leaves RNZI plenty of leeway to adjust the real QSY time. Its current online schedule shows it happens at 0650-0651, while // AM 11725 remains from 0459 to 0758 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 9595-9600-9605, Feb 9 at 0652, DRM noise severely QRMing 9595, R. Nikkei, Japan. It`s RRI as scheduled 0630-0700 in English, 300 kW at 300 degrees per HFCC. Really? DRM powers are normally much reduced from full AM level, but it`s plenty strong. This schedulehttp://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=ITU,UTC
shows all ROU DRM are only at 90 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1802 UT February 9
