** BRAZIL [and non]. 5999.6, March 12 at 0601, still het on lo side of strong RHC English. Checking out my earlier log putting it on 5999.608 by indirect keyboard note method, Wolfgang Büschel measured it on 5999.603, within 5 Hz, not bad, an hour give or take from 0700 UT March 12, including a R. Nacional ID and // 6180.006, 11780.003, so reconfirms it`s not R. Guaíba on 6000 as in many outdated references (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5980, March 12 at 0601, wall-of-noise jamming already, altho I don`t think R. Martí has started signing on this frequency an hour earlier than the usual 0700; anyhow I cannot detect it. DentroCuban Jamming Command apparently thinx it`s already on, or are just confused about DST shifting. A few days ago, I noticed there was no jamming after 1200 when RM was still running until 1300.
15230, March 12 at 1304, RHC is just-barely-modulated as often the case on this transmitter; why do they even bother?
11760, March 12 at 1317, RHC again absent, just as well, leaving the frequency to the China radio war, which is plenty strong.
11750, March 12 at 1317, however, RHC has good signal and modulation here, much better than usual. Wonder if they have moved the 11760 transmitter down, as would be prudent. However, by 1412, 11750 is again JBM with CCI, while 11760 is still VG in Chinese, but only one signal audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15040, March 12 at 1306, very poor signal but nice music, i.e. AIR Burmese service until 1315; tight squeeze with AIR Sinhala in DRM already running on 15045-15050-15055 from same Delhi-Khampur site; and Trenton Military USB VOLMET on 15034 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11675, March 12 at 1421, VIRI IS fair with flutter but cuts off at 1422, leaving a very poor signal with more VIRI IS: 1420 is the nominal changeover time from Urdu via Kamalabad, to Russian via Sirjan on 11675. The strange thing is, Russian on 320 beam should be much better toward N America, than Urdu on 178 beam; perhaps a clue that these are really arriving longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, March 12 at 1415, R. Free Chosun in Korean modulation is not breaking up this time, and is somewhat louder than the annoying continuous humbuzz. R. Veritas Asia better get this Palauig transmitter fixed, or RFC will have to go somewhere else like Taiwan or Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 12 at 1303, checking whether KBSWR English is audible this early: very poor with flutter, unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17765, March 12 at 1252, RRI English with good signal but deep fades, presenting a Moldavian soup recipe; and even better on // 17530 as would be expected from 165 and 307 azimuths respectively. The hour broadcast is about to end, but now propagating this far west before it`s over. From March 30, this and all RRI outsendings will change frequencies and shift one UT hour earlier due to DST in Europe, which ought to be irrelevant for international broadcasts, and again become more iffy out here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, March 12 at 1419, huge humbuzz and no Brother Scare from WWRB; wiggle that patchcord? We`ll have to struggle along with BS only on 9930, 9955 and 9980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9735, March 12 at 1417, Indonesian from RTI is good but with SAH atop some CCI, whence? Possibly receiver overload from Brother Scare, as Aoki and EiBi have nothing but RTI at any time on 9735; while HFCC can`t include Taiwan, banned by the ChiCom, but does have Moscow and Lithuania at other hours, both wooden? Per Aoki, RTI alternates Japanese and Indonesian hours from 11 to 15, also alternating azimuths of 45 and 205/208 degrees; so the Japanese service is normally much better here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15720, Wed March 12 at *1327, good open carrier from MADAGASCAR, back off, *1329 back on, and 1330 opening PCJ Radio International special fifth anniversary show. Keith Perron mentions only this frequency, so must be separate playout, with the ones from Germany and Sri Lanka mentioning only their frequencies (15455, 9335, 5995 inaudible here). Fair signal to start, tho intended only for Africa, deep fades and weakening to poor, so I give up by 1340; first hearing Bob Zanotti of SIS with greeting; then one from Timm Breyel in Malaysia. I was hoping to hear it all this morning, since I am usually busy Wednesday evenings producing World of Radio when the North America repeat at 0130-0230 is to air UT Thursday via WRMI 7730 (not 24 hours earlier as previously publicized). I`ll probably wind up listening to an audio archive rather than direct on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. [re my 11253 log:] ``My 2008 copy of Airwaves lists both 11253 and 5450 as Volmet - Europe - Royal Air Force, and the last listing I saw for the actual location is RAF St. Eval in Cornwall. Put that in Google and you'll see lot's of detail and pictures of masts etc..
I don't think I'd hear Ascension as well as I hear these two frequencies at 1200 UT. The robo lady has been slowed down from what it was previously, but there is still some garbling, and interruption before the item being read is finished. The ID is "Military Time-slot (number) Information Broadcast", and robo lady has reached number 5 as I type this. Noel R. Green (NW England)`` 1230 UT March 12 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5202-SSB, Wed March 12 at 1325, Army MARS net with a guy lecturing, referencing various charts including #9; about how to protect FOUO info on PCs, like by changing passwords. That means for-official-use-only, in DODese, and by other government agencies, a level below classification (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1711 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955, Wednesday March 12 at one-hour-earlier shifted time of 1300, following gh ID, which followed another generic Scoreboard promo rather than any axual scores; which followed AWR Wavescan concluding with hard-to-understand Philippine DX report and some music from R. Tirana.
From tune-in at 1255 I heard no overlap of WRMI-10 and WRMI-11, and with VG signal suspect WRMI-11 on the NW antenna had already started earlier, which is fine with us. However, after 1300 some very weak CCI under detectable, tho nothing known scheduled during this hour, neither RFA nor ChiCom jamming nor T8WH nor Taiwan. WOR 1712 should be ready for 9955 by 1230 UT Thursday, if not 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, March 12 at 0603, WTWW-1 is missing; 5085, WTWW-2 with BS is still on but with hum and distortion. By 1313 check, all three are on day frequencies, 9475, 9930, 12105 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 15310, March 12 at 1406, good signal in Vietnamese, i.e. R. Free Asia via TINIAN this hour only; no jamming heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10200-SSB, March 12 at 0606, 2-way in Spanish, and another 2-way Spanish contact interfering from 10198 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1655 UT March 12
** CUBA [and non]. 5980, March 12 at 0601, wall-of-noise jamming already, altho I don`t think R. Martí has started signing on this frequency an hour earlier than the usual 0700; anyhow I cannot detect it. DentroCuban Jamming Command apparently thinx it`s already on, or are just confused about DST shifting. A few days ago, I noticed there was no jamming after 1200 when RM was still running until 1300.
15230, March 12 at 1304, RHC is just-barely-modulated as often the case on this transmitter; why do they even bother?
11760, March 12 at 1317, RHC again absent, just as well, leaving the frequency to the China radio war, which is plenty strong.
11750, March 12 at 1317, however, RHC has good signal and modulation here, much better than usual. Wonder if they have moved the 11760 transmitter down, as would be prudent. However, by 1412, 11750 is again JBM with CCI, while 11760 is still VG in Chinese, but only one signal audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15040, March 12 at 1306, very poor signal but nice music, i.e. AIR Burmese service until 1315; tight squeeze with AIR Sinhala in DRM already running on 15045-15050-15055 from same Delhi-Khampur site; and Trenton Military USB VOLMET on 15034 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11675, March 12 at 1421, VIRI IS fair with flutter but cuts off at 1422, leaving a very poor signal with more VIRI IS: 1420 is the nominal changeover time from Urdu via Kamalabad, to Russian via Sirjan on 11675. The strange thing is, Russian on 320 beam should be much better toward N America, than Urdu on 178 beam; perhaps a clue that these are really arriving longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, March 12 at 1415, R. Free Chosun in Korean modulation is not breaking up this time, and is somewhat louder than the annoying continuous humbuzz. R. Veritas Asia better get this Palauig transmitter fixed, or RFC will have to go somewhere else like Taiwan or Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 12 at 1303, checking whether KBSWR English is audible this early: very poor with flutter, unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 17765, March 12 at 1252, RRI English with good signal but deep fades, presenting a Moldavian soup recipe; and even better on // 17530 as would be expected from 165 and 307 azimuths respectively. The hour broadcast is about to end, but now propagating this far west before it`s over. From March 30, this and all RRI outsendings will change frequencies and shift one UT hour earlier due to DST in Europe, which ought to be irrelevant for international broadcasts, and again become more iffy out here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, March 12 at 1419, huge humbuzz and no Brother Scare from WWRB; wiggle that patchcord? We`ll have to struggle along with BS only on 9930, 9955 and 9980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9735, March 12 at 1417, Indonesian from RTI is good but with SAH atop some CCI, whence? Possibly receiver overload from Brother Scare, as Aoki and EiBi have nothing but RTI at any time on 9735; while HFCC can`t include Taiwan, banned by the ChiCom, but does have Moscow and Lithuania at other hours, both wooden? Per Aoki, RTI alternates Japanese and Indonesian hours from 11 to 15, also alternating azimuths of 45 and 205/208 degrees; so the Japanese service is normally much better here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15720, Wed March 12 at *1327, good open carrier from MADAGASCAR, back off, *1329 back on, and 1330 opening PCJ Radio International special fifth anniversary show. Keith Perron mentions only this frequency, so must be separate playout, with the ones from Germany and Sri Lanka mentioning only their frequencies (15455, 9335, 5995 inaudible here). Fair signal to start, tho intended only for Africa, deep fades and weakening to poor, so I give up by 1340; first hearing Bob Zanotti of SIS with greeting; then one from Timm Breyel in Malaysia. I was hoping to hear it all this morning, since I am usually busy Wednesday evenings producing World of Radio when the North America repeat at 0130-0230 is to air UT Thursday via WRMI 7730 (not 24 hours earlier as previously publicized). I`ll probably wind up listening to an audio archive rather than direct on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. [re my 11253 log:] ``My 2008 copy of Airwaves lists both 11253 and 5450 as Volmet - Europe - Royal Air Force, and the last listing I saw for the actual location is RAF St. Eval in Cornwall. Put that in Google and you'll see lot's of detail and pictures of masts etc..
I don't think I'd hear Ascension as well as I hear these two frequencies at 1200 UT. The robo lady has been slowed down from what it was previously, but there is still some garbling, and interruption before the item being read is finished. The ID is "Military Time-slot (number) Information Broadcast", and robo lady has reached number 5 as I type this. Noel R. Green (NW England)`` 1230 UT March 12 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5202-SSB, Wed March 12 at 1325, Army MARS net with a guy lecturing, referencing various charts including #9; about how to protect FOUO info on PCs, like by changing passwords. That means for-official-use-only, in DODese, and by other government agencies, a level below classification (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1711 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955, Wednesday March 12 at one-hour-earlier shifted time of 1300, following gh ID, which followed another generic Scoreboard promo rather than any axual scores; which followed AWR Wavescan concluding with hard-to-understand Philippine DX report and some music from R. Tirana.
From tune-in at 1255 I heard no overlap of WRMI-10 and WRMI-11, and with VG signal suspect WRMI-11 on the NW antenna had already started earlier, which is fine with us. However, after 1300 some very weak CCI under detectable, tho nothing known scheduled during this hour, neither RFA nor ChiCom jamming nor T8WH nor Taiwan. WOR 1712 should be ready for 9955 by 1230 UT Thursday, if not 0330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, March 12 at 0603, WTWW-1 is missing; 5085, WTWW-2 with BS is still on but with hum and distortion. By 1313 check, all three are on day frequencies, 9475, 9930, 12105 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 15310, March 12 at 1406, good signal in Vietnamese, i.e. R. Free Asia via TINIAN this hour only; no jamming heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 10200-SSB, March 12 at 0606, 2-way in Spanish, and another 2-way Spanish contact interfering from 10198 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1655 UT March 12
