** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9580, April 28 at 1333, R. Australia is *missing* from its best frequency in North America, leaving a yawning gap on the dial, and remains missing the rest of the hour; fortunately the #2 frequency for us, 12065 is good as usual; and also audible on weak signals to Asia on 12085, and via Palau 9965.
9580 is scheduled from Shepparton at 1000-1500 (make that 1458*) on 70 degree beam which is aimed right at Enid; also at 08-10 on 80 degrees; and at 17-21 in our daytime when it doesn`t make it here, also 70 degrees. Hope it`s just a temporary outage! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 28 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, and so is the mistimesignal until 1359:38.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, April 28:
13130, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in 12s
13795, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, poor
13830, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, very poor, and also Firedrake?
16100, April 28 at 1341, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in the 17s, nor 15s except the usual inbanders 15115, 15195, 15265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, April 28 at 0129, don`t notice any spurs around 4709, 4737, 4793, 4821 at 28 kHz intervals from R. Progreso; may have just been suppressed below hi noise level rather than eliminated. Arnie probably found out about them by reading my previous log reports, but which he will never acknowledge as the prime monitoring source of info about the multitude of Cuban transmission problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, April 28 at 0130 and 0540, R. Rebelde is off again, and with it the leapfrogs on 5010, 5055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15400, April 28 at 1416, RHC leapfrog is VP here, 15340 over 15370, while a match on 15310, 15370 over 15340, is not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, April 28 at 1330 amid `Wavescan` Jeff White mentions that European News Network is new on WRMI, Wednesdays at 1300, and also repeated UT Thursdays at 0145 also on 9955. It website http://news-network.eu/frequencies.html has been updated to add the 0145 time, but on the wrong day, ``Wednesday``. Altho still misdated March 30 and as ``B-13``, the online WRMI program grid has in fact been updated to show both those times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11710.04 approx., April 28 at 0125, R. Cairo manages to achieve some Spanish modulation today, and again hetless since Argentina is away on UT Mondays. But this undermodulation is distorted making it almost readable. Checking the //s:
12070, April 28 at 0126, much stronger and louder, but extremely distorted, hum; I can make out ``Radio El Cairo presenta ---``.
9315, April 28 at 0127, now in // music, undermodulated and distorted, but all things considered, the best of the trio, still woefully inadequate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9680, April 28 at 1332, no Indonesian to be heard, just the Chinese radio war, also at 1423 making a SAH with each other. As Ron Howard reminds us, per http://rri.jpn.org/ RRI has not been heard on 9680 since April 3.
9526-, however, with VOI is active, April 28 at 1334, poor signal with flutter and undermodulated, but English intonation detectable; and no het since nothing is on 9530 now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11820, April 28 at 0123, NA, 0124 announcement, good signal, lite flutter. Is VIRI Kazakh service at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan, which I also happened to log yesterday on 9790. 11820 not to be confused with BSKSA in Arabic occupying 11820 at 18-23, 320 degrees toward W Europe and consequently also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, April 28 at 0502 UT, during KGWA Fox-hole of dead air, with its hummy carrier nulled, the dominant inhabitant tonight is XEK, as I immediately hear the `XEW` chimes that XEK plays as IS, 4 notes downward, probably C-G-E-C, tho my pitch is imperfect and don`t have the keyboard handy to match them. Then NA in choral version; 0504 UT full ID as XEK, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, ``desde 1937``, and then playing ``Cielito Lindo``, another kind of anthem, while KGWA blasts back on with modulation at 0505 UT. Confirmed here it was founded on 17 May 1937: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEK-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, no check UT April 28 around 0109 for Chaski cutoff as I was busy lawnmowing, but filling the gap is this from Henrik Klemetz, Sweden to the DXLD yg:
``Radio Mix, Urubamba, was heard on Radio Chaski's SW frequency of 5980 on April 20 around midnight. An audio clip was sent to me by Mike Shcherbakov. The phone number, web address and postal address of the station were given on the air along with Andean cumbias and ads for establishments in Urubamba, one them for solar panels with further info available at the Radio Mix studios. Pedro F. Arrunátegui in Lima noted Radio Mix again on April 22 at 1114. Programming with relays of Radio Red Integridad and Radio Trans Mundial is now reportedly back to normal. Radio Mix seems to be a new name and format for previous Radio Fortaleza and Radio Stereo Sur, also listed on 96.3 FM. One will have to ask the studio operator for an explanation. Did he listen to the new Radio Mix while inadvertently feeding their audio into the Chaski SW transmitter at the same time?`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, UT Monday April 28 at 0130, WTWW-3 is on for a change, bigsig not with Bibling in Spanish, but instead: country music show and Ted Randall announcing! This is normally Sunday evenings on 5085, WTWW-2. 5085 and WTWW-1 5830 are both off.
By 0310 recheck April 28, 12105 is now only an open carrier with poor signal, and by 0328 it`s gone. A test, mixup, or deliberate substitution? None of the other WTWW frequencies are on now either.
5830, however is back on with SFAW at 0546 check April 28; 5085 still off.
12105, at 1337 April 28 is off again when it used to be in Russian. 9475 is on and 9930 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, April 28 at 0555, open carrier/dead air from WWCR; 0613 recheck it`s back with `Inspirations Across America`, soul music a bit too hyper for the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: webcast of Area 51, UT Monday April 28 at 0300 starts WORLD OF RADIO on time, but --- goes silent after a few words, altho the player keeps running. At 0309 checking 5110v-CUSB, that is playing fill music instead, also at 0328, so we lost that airing completely. Ahhh, the unreliability, but redundancy of shortwave! Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 [new shifted time] on WRMI-11, 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS [non
** U S A. 88.7, April 28 at 1430 UT, KRZA Alamosa CO announces that they are still off the air; has been off since last week. Remote site on San Antonio mountain across the NM border lost power, and when it came back on, the transmitter would not fire up. Working on getting it back. Of course I am listening as usual only to webcast
http://www.live365.com/play/343732?sid=74.194.197.52-13307022132022896047641&lid=650-usa&from=pls
which plays better on Winamp than on Live365 itself with frequent buffering.
Monday at 1430 is `The Lore of the Land`, excellent narrative about native cultures of the Southwest.
Undated info atop the homepage http://krza.org as of April 28 at 1520:
Off-air update
The power was restored by Kit Carson Electric sometime yesterday afternoon. The KRZA transmitter on the tower site failed to start up. KRZA is in the process of getting an engineer to travel to San Antonio Mountain to troubleshoot or fix the transmitter. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience. You can still hear the broadcast online by clicking the "Listen Now" link to the right of this post.
[earlier:] Kit Carson Electric Power Outage
Kit Carson Electric is experiencing a power outage that affects San Antonio Mountain in New Mexico. The KRZA tower is located on this mountain and our tower, transmitter and other equipment have no power and are therefore not working. Because of this we are off-air. But you can still hear us online at http://www.krza.org
We are unsure as to when this will be fixed. Please stay tuned and thank you for listening`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 13825, April 28 at 1418, RFA fair in Vietnamese; no CCI, nor any ACI now during this hour via SAIPAN. RFA`s current QSL for all transmissions is on a Vietnamese theme. I`m hunting around their website http://www.rfa.org for info and illustration of that, but no obvious link, not even on contact page. Not among press release archive; not found by searching on QSL. Instead one has to go here for QSL gallery including the current one thru June 30, #58, Ðàn Tranh, a traditional stringed musical instrument:
http://techweb.rfa.org/qsl/qsl_gallery.html
This page with a full(?) schedule, no sites
http://www.rfa.org/about/info/frequencies.html
at the bottom says ``*frequency not promoted`` but no referents! Also fails to include the numerous out-of-band former Sound-of-Hope frequencies from Taiwan now relaying RFA in Chinese. Also thinx UTC stands for ``Universal Time Code`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5200-5300, April 28 at 0543-0544, takes exactly 60 seconds for a dirty carrier to move slowly up 100 kHz, but it stops at 5300.
5400-5500, April 28 at 0545-0546, another 60-second span for this 100 kHz upward, accelerating at 100 kHz/minute. Altho it keeps going a bit past 5500, it`s soon off too. Ionosonde? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1651 UT April 28
9580 is scheduled from Shepparton at 1000-1500 (make that 1458*) on 70 degree beam which is aimed right at Enid; also at 08-10 on 80 degrees; and at 17-21 in our daytime when it doesn`t make it here, also 70 degrees. Hope it`s just a temporary outage! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 28 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, and so is the mistimesignal until 1359:38.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, April 28:
13130, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in 12s
13795, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, poor
13830, April 28 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, very poor, and also Firedrake?
16100, April 28 at 1341, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in the 17s, nor 15s except the usual inbanders 15115, 15195, 15265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, April 28 at 0129, don`t notice any spurs around 4709, 4737, 4793, 4821 at 28 kHz intervals from R. Progreso; may have just been suppressed below hi noise level rather than eliminated. Arnie probably found out about them by reading my previous log reports, but which he will never acknowledge as the prime monitoring source of info about the multitude of Cuban transmission problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, April 28 at 0130 and 0540, R. Rebelde is off again, and with it the leapfrogs on 5010, 5055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15400, April 28 at 1416, RHC leapfrog is VP here, 15340 over 15370, while a match on 15310, 15370 over 15340, is not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, April 28 at 1330 amid `Wavescan` Jeff White mentions that European News Network is new on WRMI, Wednesdays at 1300, and also repeated UT Thursdays at 0145 also on 9955. It website http://news-network.eu/frequencies.html has been updated to add the 0145 time, but on the wrong day, ``Wednesday``. Altho still misdated March 30 and as ``B-13``, the online WRMI program grid has in fact been updated to show both those times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11710.04 approx., April 28 at 0125, R. Cairo manages to achieve some Spanish modulation today, and again hetless since Argentina is away on UT Mondays. But this undermodulation is distorted making it almost readable. Checking the //s:
12070, April 28 at 0126, much stronger and louder, but extremely distorted, hum; I can make out ``Radio El Cairo presenta ---``.
9315, April 28 at 0127, now in // music, undermodulated and distorted, but all things considered, the best of the trio, still woefully inadequate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 9680, April 28 at 1332, no Indonesian to be heard, just the Chinese radio war, also at 1423 making a SAH with each other. As Ron Howard reminds us, per http://rri.jpn.org/ RRI has not been heard on 9680 since April 3.
9526-, however, with VOI is active, April 28 at 1334, poor signal with flutter and undermodulated, but English intonation detectable; and no het since nothing is on 9530 now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11820, April 28 at 0123, NA, 0124 announcement, good signal, lite flutter. Is VIRI Kazakh service at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 5 degrees from Sirjan, which I also happened to log yesterday on 9790. 11820 not to be confused with BSKSA in Arabic occupying 11820 at 18-23, 320 degrees toward W Europe and consequently also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 960, April 28 at 0502 UT, during KGWA Fox-hole of dead air, with its hummy carrier nulled, the dominant inhabitant tonight is XEK, as I immediately hear the `XEW` chimes that XEK plays as IS, 4 notes downward, probably C-G-E-C, tho my pitch is imperfect and don`t have the keyboard handy to match them. Then NA in choral version; 0504 UT full ID as XEK, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, ``desde 1937``, and then playing ``Cielito Lindo``, another kind of anthem, while KGWA blasts back on with modulation at 0505 UT. Confirmed here it was founded on 17 May 1937: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEK-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, no check UT April 28 around 0109 for Chaski cutoff as I was busy lawnmowing, but filling the gap is this from Henrik Klemetz, Sweden to the DXLD yg:
``Radio Mix, Urubamba, was heard on Radio Chaski's SW frequency of 5980 on April 20 around midnight. An audio clip was sent to me by Mike Shcherbakov. The phone number, web address and postal address of the station were given on the air along with Andean cumbias and ads for establishments in Urubamba, one them for solar panels with further info available at the Radio Mix studios. Pedro F. Arrunátegui in Lima noted Radio Mix again on April 22 at 1114. Programming with relays of Radio Red Integridad and Radio Trans Mundial is now reportedly back to normal. Radio Mix seems to be a new name and format for previous Radio Fortaleza and Radio Stereo Sur, also listed on 96.3 FM. One will have to ask the studio operator for an explanation. Did he listen to the new Radio Mix while inadvertently feeding their audio into the Chaski SW transmitter at the same time?`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, UT Monday April 28 at 0130, WTWW-3 is on for a change, bigsig not with Bibling in Spanish, but instead: country music show and Ted Randall announcing! This is normally Sunday evenings on 5085, WTWW-2. 5085 and WTWW-1 5830 are both off.
By 0310 recheck April 28, 12105 is now only an open carrier with poor signal, and by 0328 it`s gone. A test, mixup, or deliberate substitution? None of the other WTWW frequencies are on now either.
5830, however is back on with SFAW at 0546 check April 28; 5085 still off.
12105, at 1337 April 28 is off again when it used to be in Russian. 9475 is on and 9930 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, April 28 at 0555, open carrier/dead air from WWCR; 0613 recheck it`s back with `Inspirations Across America`, soul music a bit too hyper for the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1718 monitoring: webcast of Area 51, UT Monday April 28 at 0300 starts WORLD OF RADIO on time, but --- goes silent after a few words, altho the player keeps running. At 0309 checking 5110v-CUSB, that is playing fill music instead, also at 0328, so we lost that airing completely. Ahhh, the unreliability, but redundancy of shortwave! Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 [new shifted time] on WRMI-11, 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS [non
** U S A. 88.7, April 28 at 1430 UT, KRZA Alamosa CO announces that they are still off the air; has been off since last week. Remote site on San Antonio mountain across the NM border lost power, and when it came back on, the transmitter would not fire up. Working on getting it back. Of course I am listening as usual only to webcast
http://www.live365.com/play/343732?sid=74.194.197.52-13307022132022896047641&lid=650-usa&from=pls
which plays better on Winamp than on Live365 itself with frequent buffering.
Monday at 1430 is `The Lore of the Land`, excellent narrative about native cultures of the Southwest.
Undated info atop the homepage http://krza.org as of April 28 at 1520:
Off-air update
The power was restored by Kit Carson Electric sometime yesterday afternoon. The KRZA transmitter on the tower site failed to start up. KRZA is in the process of getting an engineer to travel to San Antonio Mountain to troubleshoot or fix the transmitter. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience. You can still hear the broadcast online by clicking the "Listen Now" link to the right of this post.
[earlier:] Kit Carson Electric Power Outage
Kit Carson Electric is experiencing a power outage that affects San Antonio Mountain in New Mexico. The KRZA tower is located on this mountain and our tower, transmitter and other equipment have no power and are therefore not working. Because of this we are off-air. But you can still hear us online at http://www.krza.org
We are unsure as to when this will be fixed. Please stay tuned and thank you for listening`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 13825, April 28 at 1418, RFA fair in Vietnamese; no CCI, nor any ACI now during this hour via SAIPAN. RFA`s current QSL for all transmissions is on a Vietnamese theme. I`m hunting around their website http://www.rfa.org for info and illustration of that, but no obvious link, not even on contact page. Not among press release archive; not found by searching on QSL. Instead one has to go here for QSL gallery including the current one thru June 30, #58, Ðàn Tranh, a traditional stringed musical instrument:
http://techweb.rfa.org/qsl/qsl_gallery.html
This page with a full(?) schedule, no sites
http://www.rfa.org/about/info/frequencies.html
at the bottom says ``*frequency not promoted`` but no referents! Also fails to include the numerous out-of-band former Sound-of-Hope frequencies from Taiwan now relaying RFA in Chinese. Also thinx UTC stands for ``Universal Time Code`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5200-5300, April 28 at 0543-0544, takes exactly 60 seconds for a dirty carrier to move slowly up 100 kHz, but it stops at 5300.
5400-5500, April 28 at 0545-0546, another 60-second span for this 100 kHz upward, accelerating at 100 kHz/minute. Altho it keeps going a bit past 5500, it`s soon off too. Ionosonde? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1651 UT April 28
