** AUSTRALIA. 15400, April 7 at 1210, HCJB prélude IDs and music, fair signal but SSOB at this hour, 1215 opening to SE Asia, ``Gott sei die Ehre`` instrumental hymn but not Family Radio, into Indonesian; 1231 unfamiliar hymn in Inggeris. This transmission is 1210-1300 only, but there are two others on 15400, one closing at 1130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12085v, April 7 at 1222, weak RA to Asia also has a wobbling low audible heterodyne (LAH) --- could it be Mongolia, which supposedly stops the frequency at 1100 when RA starts it? Nothing else listed in Aoki, but HFCC shows also SLBC Trinco at 13-14 in Chinese, which would be inadvisable and probably wooden. Het could always be a ute too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 7 from *1354.6, JBA carrier from BB, 1358 IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:50.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15195, April 7 at 1213, poor signal as band is barely open, sounds like Firedrake, but too weak to be positive; CNR1 jamming later as usual, and might have coincidentally provided similar music. At 11-14, 15195 bears RFA Tibetan via UAE the first hour, Tajikistan the rest.
13830, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter and noise
13970, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter
14750, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter
14870, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, merely good with flutter
15115, April 7 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very good with target CCI
15195, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter
15265, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good plus het jammer
15560, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, very poor with VOT het on hi side
None in the 10s, 12s, 16s, 17s, 18s by 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 7 at 1309, RHC Spanish here // stronger 15340, and missing from 13780. Another error or QSY? Nothing wrong with keeping 13780. Then checked all the other frequencies, finding these on: 17730, 17580, 15230 (JBM), 12010, 11860, 11760. But also missing from 11750. At 1317 can tell that 9550 is still on colliding with Asians, but nothing audible on 9540. Furthermore, 15340 and 15370 produce a leapfrog mixing product weakly audible on 15400 at 1309 April 7 after HCJB is off. None heard on 15310.
BTW, Arnie won`t have to cope with WHRI on 17730, as Ivo Ivanov reports WHRI has moved to 21600 starting at 1400 Sundays (1500 Saturdays, 1600 M-F) --- but not yet: April 7 at 1620 check it`s still on 17730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7450 & 7475, April 7 at 0517, neither H.R. frequency on the air this morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 12923, April 7 at 1223, weak but barely readable CQ CQ CQ marker from HLW2. Rodolfo Tizzi in Uruguay produced a YouTube of this as HLW, Seoul Coastal Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, April 7 at 1243 UT, fútbol news about Spain: do Mexicans really care that much? 1245 attributed to Noticias M-E-X, federal PSA, 1247 local DJ mentions Parral twice, and FM 90.3, hi temp to be 26 today. Poor signal but steady from the WSW, i.e. XEGD, La Poderosa [not very], Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per Cantú. No sign of SS KHSE from The Metroplex yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 7 at 0102, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, cuts off at 0107:35* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. Time marches on toward 0108 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, April 7 at 1211, very poor signal with talk, hardly improving by 1230.8*, presumed R. Free Sarawak, which was taking a one-week break to resume today after a change of (studio) location. We`ve confirmed that the previous transmitter site has resumed, i.e. Palauig, PHILIPPINES, of R. Veritas Asia, at 1100-1230; altho their other clandestine relay, R. Free Chosun, now on 15630 at 1300-1500, has moved to Uzbekistan for the summer, but will probably go back to Palauig for B-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 7 at 1401, V. of Tibet fair via MADAGASCAR, jump to 15530 at 1407; no CNR1 jamming audible, but uncovers a JBA signal on 15525, presumably that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9770 // 9870, April 7 at 0058, TRT IS prior to 0100 Spanish hour, stronger and clearer on 9770, 290 degrees, like last summer, with 20 degrees of azimuth advantage for us over 9870 at 270; is SLBC Trincomalee in Hindi also on 9770 after 0115 as in HFCC A-14? Did not recheck, but looks like the service really on 11905, which HFCC claims is still Ekala. Also in HFCC, you`d never know that 9870 TRT collides with AIR VBS, 500 kW from Bengaluru starting at 0015 as in Aoki.
15450, April 7 at 1230, JBA signal, presumably VOT in English as scheduled for summer toward UK and US; 1310 improved to very poor during music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1715 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB starting a tad early at 0259 UT Monday April 7, also on webcast. Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 7 at 1315, WTWW still not on day frequency, audiblizing weak R. Australia, until *1316 WTWW blasts on with SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.6, April 7 after 0100, WRNO still absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, April 7 after 0100, no recurrence of KJES on its day frequency at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 740, April 7 at 1240 UT, Houston ad, Gallery Furniture, traffic on the 610 and Katy Freeway, making 3 Hz SAH with KRMG Tulsa OK which I have carefully nulled. Usually it`s too strong on day pattern to get anything past it, but SRS is helping KTRH Houston. KTRH day and night patterns both have big lobes to its southwest and deep nulls toward us; out of whack? Meanwhile KRMG is running a political ad, ``don`t send our jobs to Texas`` sponsored by the anti-tax oil & gas industry which controls Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 890, April 7 at 1251 UT, classic ``Release Me, Let Me Go``, looping NW/SE, and KTLR OKC to the SSE can be more or less nulled, but music quickly fades out. Presumably KJME Fountain CO, nostalgia format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, April 7 at 1300 UT, tune-in catches partial ID by YL in English, ``Liberty, and 102.9 FM``, into ABC News, fadeout. So KCXL Liberty MO which does have such an FM translator duplicator, and which I recently confirmed to be in Spanish before 1300 UT. Wish I had heard the transition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1719 UT April 7
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12085v, April 7 at 1222, weak RA to Asia also has a wobbling low audible heterodyne (LAH) --- could it be Mongolia, which supposedly stops the frequency at 1100 when RA starts it? Nothing else listed in Aoki, but HFCC shows also SLBC Trinco at 13-14 in Chinese, which would be inadvisable and probably wooden. Het could always be a ute too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 7 from *1354.6, JBA carrier from BB, 1358 IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:50.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15195, April 7 at 1213, poor signal as band is barely open, sounds like Firedrake, but too weak to be positive; CNR1 jamming later as usual, and might have coincidentally provided similar music. At 11-14, 15195 bears RFA Tibetan via UAE the first hour, Tajikistan the rest.
13830, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter and noise
13970, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter
14750, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter
14870, April 7 at 1348, CNR1 jammer, merely good with flutter
15115, April 7 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very good with target CCI
15195, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter
15265, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, good plus het jammer
15560, April 7 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, very poor with VOT het on hi side
None in the 10s, 12s, 16s, 17s, 18s by 1350 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 7 at 1309, RHC Spanish here // stronger 15340, and missing from 13780. Another error or QSY? Nothing wrong with keeping 13780. Then checked all the other frequencies, finding these on: 17730, 17580, 15230 (JBM), 12010, 11860, 11760. But also missing from 11750. At 1317 can tell that 9550 is still on colliding with Asians, but nothing audible on 9540. Furthermore, 15340 and 15370 produce a leapfrog mixing product weakly audible on 15400 at 1309 April 7 after HCJB is off. None heard on 15310.
BTW, Arnie won`t have to cope with WHRI on 17730, as Ivo Ivanov reports WHRI has moved to 21600 starting at 1400 Sundays (1500 Saturdays, 1600 M-F) --- but not yet: April 7 at 1620 check it`s still on 17730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7450 & 7475, April 7 at 0517, neither H.R. frequency on the air this morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 12923, April 7 at 1223, weak but barely readable CQ CQ CQ marker from HLW2. Rodolfo Tizzi in Uruguay produced a YouTube of this as HLW, Seoul Coastal Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, April 7 at 1243 UT, fútbol news about Spain: do Mexicans really care that much? 1245 attributed to Noticias M-E-X, federal PSA, 1247 local DJ mentions Parral twice, and FM 90.3, hi temp to be 26 today. Poor signal but steady from the WSW, i.e. XEGD, La Poderosa [not very], Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per Cantú. No sign of SS KHSE from The Metroplex yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 7 at 0102, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, cuts off at 0107:35* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. Time marches on toward 0108 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, April 7 at 1211, very poor signal with talk, hardly improving by 1230.8*, presumed R. Free Sarawak, which was taking a one-week break to resume today after a change of (studio) location. We`ve confirmed that the previous transmitter site has resumed, i.e. Palauig, PHILIPPINES, of R. Veritas Asia, at 1100-1230; altho their other clandestine relay, R. Free Chosun, now on 15630 at 1300-1500, has moved to Uzbekistan for the summer, but will probably go back to Palauig for B-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 7 at 1401, V. of Tibet fair via MADAGASCAR, jump to 15530 at 1407; no CNR1 jamming audible, but uncovers a JBA signal on 15525, presumably that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 9770 // 9870, April 7 at 0058, TRT IS prior to 0100 Spanish hour, stronger and clearer on 9770, 290 degrees, like last summer, with 20 degrees of azimuth advantage for us over 9870 at 270; is SLBC Trincomalee in Hindi also on 9770 after 0115 as in HFCC A-14? Did not recheck, but looks like the service really on 11905, which HFCC claims is still Ekala. Also in HFCC, you`d never know that 9870 TRT collides with AIR VBS, 500 kW from Bengaluru starting at 0015 as in Aoki.
15450, April 7 at 1230, JBA signal, presumably VOT in English as scheduled for summer toward UK and US; 1310 improved to very poor during music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1715 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB starting a tad early at 0259 UT Monday April 7, also on webcast. Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, April 7 at 1315, WTWW still not on day frequency, audiblizing weak R. Australia, until *1316 WTWW blasts on with SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7506.6, April 7 after 0100, WRNO still absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, April 7 after 0100, no recurrence of KJES on its day frequency at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 740, April 7 at 1240 UT, Houston ad, Gallery Furniture, traffic on the 610 and Katy Freeway, making 3 Hz SAH with KRMG Tulsa OK which I have carefully nulled. Usually it`s too strong on day pattern to get anything past it, but SRS is helping KTRH Houston. KTRH day and night patterns both have big lobes to its southwest and deep nulls toward us; out of whack? Meanwhile KRMG is running a political ad, ``don`t send our jobs to Texas`` sponsored by the anti-tax oil & gas industry which controls Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 890, April 7 at 1251 UT, classic ``Release Me, Let Me Go``, looping NW/SE, and KTLR OKC to the SSE can be more or less nulled, but music quickly fades out. Presumably KJME Fountain CO, nostalgia format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1140, April 7 at 1300 UT, tune-in catches partial ID by YL in English, ``Liberty, and 102.9 FM``, into ABC News, fadeout. So KCXL Liberty MO which does have such an FM translator duplicator, and which I recently confirmed to be in Spanish before 1300 UT. Wish I had heard the transition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1719 UT April 7
