** AUSTRALIA. 9580, April 29 at 1314, R. Australia is back on here after absence 24 hours earlier, which must have been an anomaly. Steve Luce raised the question of whether ABC may be cutting back SW, and Mark Fahey, Australia, replied April 29 on the DXLD yg:
``Steve, on the second Tuesday in May the Australian Government announces their financial budget for the coming year. The present Australian government is right wing - they are called the Liberal Party but are not liberal in the way the term is used in the USA. Funding cuts are expected as typically the right wing support base in Australia don't value public broadcasting. Cheers``
RA was amid TV news relay, soundtrack only, interviewing someone in Nigeria about Boko Haram; 1328 wrapping up as ``The World, from Australia Net`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, April 29 at 1256, HCJB hymn, version of ``Old Rugged Cross`` has CCI from slightly weaker RHC leapfrog mixing product, since 15340 and 15370 are already on early. ``HCJB Australia`` still not renaming itself ``Reach Beyond`` signs off in English at 1300, having been Southeast Asian service originally heard on same at 2345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 29 at 1357, BB is JBA with tone, 1359 IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. ChiCom jammer survey morning of April 29:
15265, April 29 at 1349, CNR1 and usual het, but also Firedrake JBA
16100, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair
16300, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair
16450, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very poor
16920, April 29 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair-good; no others 12-19 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, April 29 at 0545 and still 0548, RHC dead air instead of English, which still survives on 6060, 6100, 6165 with varying levels of modulation.
5040, which had been in English during the 05-06 hour, is now in Spanish at 0545 check, with multi-lingual ID, then news.
5025, meanwhile, R. Rebelde is still missing at 0545, presumably having to share transmitter/antenna again with the 5040 RHC service, whatever it may be. Maybe 5025 is back on overnight.
15400, April 29 at 1256, RHC leapfrog is QRMing HCJB Australia and making a SAH, as its fundamentals, 15340 and 15370 are already on earlier than 1300.
9550, April 29 at 1320, CRI Vietnamese has CCI from open carrier, suspect RHC not turned off at 1300 as scheduled; previously had stayed on with modulation too.
9820, April 29 at 1336, RHC barely audible here, while ex-9830 is again infested with RTTY QRMing China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9680, April 29 at 1331, I`m hearing Indonesian in the mix with the China radio war, unlike yesterday, and Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org agrees that RRI 9680 is back on air April 29, after a long gap from April 4 to 28.
9526-, April 29 at 1330, VOI English is too weak and undermodulated to be of any use for this Tuesday`s presumed RRI Banjarmasin hookup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615, April 29 at 1302, weak modulated signal from presumed BSKSA is overcome by much stronger open carrier which cuts off and on several times past 1314. Sometimes produces whine/beep when cuts on at first. No more of that by 1333 check. Seems most likely explanation is two transmitters from Riyadh itself, supposedly scheduled 09-12 at 100 degrees, and 13-16 at 190 degrees per HFCC, while Aoki refines the off/on times to 1157*-*1250, but suspect they are overlapping today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 18980, April 29 at 1353-1359*, Radio Free Asia conversation in presumed Tibetan, poor fading to very poor, but no jamming audible. As in Aoki, this neglected band is suddenly full of signals! Not really, only one signal on multiple frequencies depending on which hour between 1100 and 1400, and upon which day of week, in a very complex schedule to avoid jamming (but if they stick to it, rather than jump around randomly, what`s the point? All SARFT has to do is follow the schedule too!). Well, what I heard is already off-schedule, as Tuesdays at 13-14 it`s ``supposed`` to be on 18940.
Aoki says this started April 25, 250 kW at 78 degrees from KUWAIT, using every frequency in 10 kHz steps between 18930 and 19010 at one time or another (except 18970 deferring to Sound of Hope/CNR1). 18980`s day for the 13-14 hour is allegedly Fridays, where it really was on April 25, as originally reported by Hiroshi and S. Hasegawa.
Ivo Ivanov says the 18 MHz Kuwait frequencies replace 13795 (only) at 12-14, and 17495 (only) at 11-12:http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-free-asia.html
Or put another way by S. Hasegawa more succinctly:
RFA-Tibetan via Kuwait of 15mb changes the frequency every day.
``Sunday to Saturday
1100-1200 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990
1200-1300 UT 18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990-19000
1300-1400 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990``
HFCC continues to know *nothing* about anything on the 18 MHz band.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 29 at 1346, WTWW-1 is on but the other two are off, no 9930 or 12105, apparently with continuing transmitter problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1554 UT April 29
``Steve, on the second Tuesday in May the Australian Government announces their financial budget for the coming year. The present Australian government is right wing - they are called the Liberal Party but are not liberal in the way the term is used in the USA. Funding cuts are expected as typically the right wing support base in Australia don't value public broadcasting. Cheers``
RA was amid TV news relay, soundtrack only, interviewing someone in Nigeria about Boko Haram; 1328 wrapping up as ``The World, from Australia Net`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, April 29 at 1256, HCJB hymn, version of ``Old Rugged Cross`` has CCI from slightly weaker RHC leapfrog mixing product, since 15340 and 15370 are already on early. ``HCJB Australia`` still not renaming itself ``Reach Beyond`` signs off in English at 1300, having been Southeast Asian service originally heard on same at 2345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 29 at 1357, BB is JBA with tone, 1359 IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:37 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. ChiCom jammer survey morning of April 29:
15265, April 29 at 1349, CNR1 and usual het, but also Firedrake JBA
16100, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair
16300, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair
16450, April 29 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very poor
16920, April 29 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair-good; no others 12-19 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, April 29 at 0545 and still 0548, RHC dead air instead of English, which still survives on 6060, 6100, 6165 with varying levels of modulation.
5040, which had been in English during the 05-06 hour, is now in Spanish at 0545 check, with multi-lingual ID, then news.
5025, meanwhile, R. Rebelde is still missing at 0545, presumably having to share transmitter/antenna again with the 5040 RHC service, whatever it may be. Maybe 5025 is back on overnight.
15400, April 29 at 1256, RHC leapfrog is QRMing HCJB Australia and making a SAH, as its fundamentals, 15340 and 15370 are already on earlier than 1300.
9550, April 29 at 1320, CRI Vietnamese has CCI from open carrier, suspect RHC not turned off at 1300 as scheduled; previously had stayed on with modulation too.
9820, April 29 at 1336, RHC barely audible here, while ex-9830 is again infested with RTTY QRMing China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9680, April 29 at 1331, I`m hearing Indonesian in the mix with the China radio war, unlike yesterday, and Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org agrees that RRI 9680 is back on air April 29, after a long gap from April 4 to 28.
9526-, April 29 at 1330, VOI English is too weak and undermodulated to be of any use for this Tuesday`s presumed RRI Banjarmasin hookup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615, April 29 at 1302, weak modulated signal from presumed BSKSA is overcome by much stronger open carrier which cuts off and on several times past 1314. Sometimes produces whine/beep when cuts on at first. No more of that by 1333 check. Seems most likely explanation is two transmitters from Riyadh itself, supposedly scheduled 09-12 at 100 degrees, and 13-16 at 190 degrees per HFCC, while Aoki refines the off/on times to 1157*-*1250, but suspect they are overlapping today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 18980, April 29 at 1353-1359*, Radio Free Asia conversation in presumed Tibetan, poor fading to very poor, but no jamming audible. As in Aoki, this neglected band is suddenly full of signals! Not really, only one signal on multiple frequencies depending on which hour between 1100 and 1400, and upon which day of week, in a very complex schedule to avoid jamming (but if they stick to it, rather than jump around randomly, what`s the point? All SARFT has to do is follow the schedule too!). Well, what I heard is already off-schedule, as Tuesdays at 13-14 it`s ``supposed`` to be on 18940.
Aoki says this started April 25, 250 kW at 78 degrees from KUWAIT, using every frequency in 10 kHz steps between 18930 and 19010 at one time or another (except 18970 deferring to Sound of Hope/CNR1). 18980`s day for the 13-14 hour is allegedly Fridays, where it really was on April 25, as originally reported by Hiroshi and S. Hasegawa.
Ivo Ivanov says the 18 MHz Kuwait frequencies replace 13795 (only) at 12-14, and 17495 (only) at 11-12:http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-free-asia.html
Or put another way by S. Hasegawa more succinctly:
RFA-Tibetan via Kuwait of 15mb changes the frequency every day.
``Sunday to Saturday
1100-1200 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990
1200-1300 UT 18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990-19000
1300-1400 UT 19010-18930-18940-18950-18960-18980-18990``
HFCC continues to know *nothing* about anything on the 18 MHz band.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 29 at 1346, WTWW-1 is on but the other two are off, no 9930 or 12105, apparently with continuing transmitter problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1554 UT April 29
