** BRAZIL. 11780, July 17 at 0543, RNA is off the air! Maybe they finally got the message about all the spurs I have been monitoring. Tim Rahto in Iowa was hearing Iran instead on 11780 at 0420-0435*. As Ken Zichi points out, Iran`s English is scheduled until 0420, normally blocked here by Brasil, but as often happens apparently did not get turned off on time. (11780 an absolutely stupid frequency choice for Iran to North America!) RNA 6180 is still on at 0528 check.
Wolfgang Büschel says RNA was still on at 0209 UT July 17, spreading from 11770.3 to 11789.2 but no spurs or splatter beyond that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non] on 16500: For the past hour I have been enjoying a nice concert of Chinese traditional music on 16500 --- NOT Firedrake, much calmer, no ``crashing & banging``. They must have found a new CD to play at Jamming HQ in Beijing. Tune-in at 1323, no break at 1400 and still at 1422. Good signal with lite fading. Not // usual CNR1 jamming on 11785, 11805, 13830, 15115, 15195, 15265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1422 UT July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Same stayed on until exactly 1500*. Never any vocals, never any announcements, and never any sign of a jamming target. It so happens that 16500 is not in the current Aoki list including countless out-of-band jamming frequencies against Sound of Hope, RFA, et al.
19000, July 17 at 1353, CNR1 jammer barely audible vs FRG-7 birdie, as scheduled during this hour on Thursdays only, against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. Circa 1325, no other CNR1 jammers found 12-19 MHz except inbanders as noted above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 12010, July 17 at 1318, RHC`s missing frequency today, while still on 11760, 11860. Next check at 1357, 12010 is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710-, July 17 at 0548 UT check, XEDP is off-frequency again tonight hetting KCMO on 710.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, July 17 at 0528, XEPPM is still on later than usual 0500v*, talking about Michael Jackson and playing some of his music. Until 0530, much more signal from 6175 Vietnam/WHRI than from 6180 Brasil, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Weak sporadic E is trying to get going July 17, UT:
1548 on 2, fade-in with f bug in LR = Televisa-4 net
1602 on 2, looks like the horoscope show again, traced July 13 at same hour to XHFM, TeleVer in Veracruz
1630 on 2, f bug in LR continues to fade in and out occasionally
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11720-11725-11730, July 17 at 0534, DRM noise on what is supposed to be the AM frequency of RNZI! While 11690, the DRM frequency, is open carrier AM; both go off at 0535* as someone must have realized they were reversed. At *0536, the open AM carrier comes up on 11725, and the DRM noise on 11685-11690-11695. 1 kHz(?) hi-pitched tone starts shortly on 11725, 0537 dead air again, then very lo-pitched tone QRMing NHK French on 11730. While DRM was on, NHK was totally blocked. 0539 on 11725, tone, dead air, tone again. Recheck at 0543, now 11725 is modulating RNZI as it should be.
Our observations contradict those of Ivo Ivanov, which must be based on only partial monitoring of the time period shown:
``0459-0650 on 11725 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to All Pacific AM, on 15720 July 17
0459-0650 on 11690 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to All Pacific DRM, cancelled``
He quotes them: ``Expect schedule changes from time to time to take account of propagation to our target audience. Every month on the first and third Wednesday 2230-0600 it is Maintenance day at our transmitter site.`` But this is the third Thursday, not Wednesday, both in UT and in NZ.
Wolfgang Büschel refers to:http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen
``Note: Every month on the first and third Wednesday it is Maintenance day at our transmitter site from 2230 - 0600 UTC. (Thursdays 1030 - 1800 NZST) During this period there may be interruptions to our programmes.`` [that means ending at 0600 UT Thursdays]
Tim Rahto and Steve Luce also monitored further discrepancies in RNZI frequency usage before and after this hour; Steve in Houston reports:
``The RNZI frequency change at 0458 did not happen, and they are still on 15720 at 0515 with "Checkpoint" program. Apparently having transmitter control problems? Perhaps earlier disappearance wasn't an outage, but on wrong frequency? They switched over to 11725 an hour later than usual at around 0600. I woke up this morning a little before 1200 to find 11725 still active, with a better signal than I usually get out of 9700 as well`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7302-USB and 7305-USB, July 17 at 1307, TWO Air Force MARS nets QRMing each other (at least on the normal bandwidth of the FRG-7); 7305 with pauses and at 1317 in digital mode. Bothered to copy only two of the calls: at 1320 on 7305-USB, AFA7PQ, apparently the NCS; he`s Frank Miller, with North Central in Nebraska:http://www.afmars.org/PictureGallery/AFA7PQ.htm
and at 1321 on 7302-USB, AFA6LP, searched out to Russellville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1730 monitoring: confirmed first airing, UT Thursday July 17 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955 --- but very poor reception. Second airing also confirmed until 1259 July 17 on 9955 --- now good reception, better than usual; the CCI from France via TAIWAN is still detectable as a fast SAH rather than a LAH; it goes off at 1301 after another WRMI program has started. There is also some hum on the WRMI signal both during WOR and the next show. Next:
Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
UT Friday 0327v on WWRB 3185 (presumably like last weeks, not 5050?)
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (may be 1729 instead)
UT Sunday 0130 on KVOH 9975
UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, July 17 at 0548 UT, Spanish mixing with WSB, so KAMA El Paso still out of whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1701 UT July 17
Wolfgang Büschel says RNA was still on at 0209 UT July 17, spreading from 11770.3 to 11789.2 but no spurs or splatter beyond that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake [non] on 16500: For the past hour I have been enjoying a nice concert of Chinese traditional music on 16500 --- NOT Firedrake, much calmer, no ``crashing & banging``. They must have found a new CD to play at Jamming HQ in Beijing. Tune-in at 1323, no break at 1400 and still at 1422. Good signal with lite fading. Not // usual CNR1 jamming on 11785, 11805, 13830, 15115, 15195, 15265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, 1422 UT July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Same stayed on until exactly 1500*. Never any vocals, never any announcements, and never any sign of a jamming target. It so happens that 16500 is not in the current Aoki list including countless out-of-band jamming frequencies against Sound of Hope, RFA, et al.
19000, July 17 at 1353, CNR1 jammer barely audible vs FRG-7 birdie, as scheduled during this hour on Thursdays only, against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. Circa 1325, no other CNR1 jammers found 12-19 MHz except inbanders as noted above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 12010, July 17 at 1318, RHC`s missing frequency today, while still on 11760, 11860. Next check at 1357, 12010 is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710-, July 17 at 0548 UT check, XEDP is off-frequency again tonight hetting KCMO on 710.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, July 17 at 0528, XEPPM is still on later than usual 0500v*, talking about Michael Jackson and playing some of his music. Until 0530, much more signal from 6175 Vietnam/WHRI than from 6180 Brasil, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Weak sporadic E is trying to get going July 17, UT:
1548 on 2, fade-in with f bug in LR = Televisa-4 net
1602 on 2, looks like the horoscope show again, traced July 13 at same hour to XHFM, TeleVer in Veracruz
1630 on 2, f bug in LR continues to fade in and out occasionally
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11720-11725-11730, July 17 at 0534, DRM noise on what is supposed to be the AM frequency of RNZI! While 11690, the DRM frequency, is open carrier AM; both go off at 0535* as someone must have realized they were reversed. At *0536, the open AM carrier comes up on 11725, and the DRM noise on 11685-11690-11695. 1 kHz(?) hi-pitched tone starts shortly on 11725, 0537 dead air again, then very lo-pitched tone QRMing NHK French on 11730. While DRM was on, NHK was totally blocked. 0539 on 11725, tone, dead air, tone again. Recheck at 0543, now 11725 is modulating RNZI as it should be.
Our observations contradict those of Ivo Ivanov, which must be based on only partial monitoring of the time period shown:
``0459-0650 on 11725 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg to All Pacific AM, on 15720 July 17
0459-0650 on 11690 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg to All Pacific DRM, cancelled``
He quotes them: ``Expect schedule changes from time to time to take account of propagation to our target audience. Every month on the first and third Wednesday 2230-0600 it is Maintenance day at our transmitter site.`` But this is the third Thursday, not Wednesday, both in UT and in NZ.
Wolfgang Büschel refers to:http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen
``Note: Every month on the first and third Wednesday it is Maintenance day at our transmitter site from 2230 - 0600 UTC. (Thursdays 1030 - 1800 NZST) During this period there may be interruptions to our programmes.`` [that means ending at 0600 UT Thursdays]
Tim Rahto and Steve Luce also monitored further discrepancies in RNZI frequency usage before and after this hour; Steve in Houston reports:
``The RNZI frequency change at 0458 did not happen, and they are still on 15720 at 0515 with "Checkpoint" program. Apparently having transmitter control problems? Perhaps earlier disappearance wasn't an outage, but on wrong frequency? They switched over to 11725 an hour later than usual at around 0600. I woke up this morning a little before 1200 to find 11725 still active, with a better signal than I usually get out of 9700 as well`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7302-USB and 7305-USB, July 17 at 1307, TWO Air Force MARS nets QRMing each other (at least on the normal bandwidth of the FRG-7); 7305 with pauses and at 1317 in digital mode. Bothered to copy only two of the calls: at 1320 on 7305-USB, AFA7PQ, apparently the NCS; he`s Frank Miller, with North Central in Nebraska:http://www.afmars.org/PictureGallery/AFA7PQ.htm
and at 1321 on 7302-USB, AFA6LP, searched out to Russellville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1730 monitoring: confirmed first airing, UT Thursday July 17 at 0330 on WRMI, 9955 --- but very poor reception. Second airing also confirmed until 1259 July 17 on 9955 --- now good reception, better than usual; the CCI from France via TAIWAN is still detectable as a fast SAH rather than a LAH; it goes off at 1301 after another WRMI program has started. There is also some hum on the WRMI signal both during WOR and the next show. Next:
Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
UT Friday 0327v on WWRB 3185 (presumably like last weeks, not 5050?)
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (may be 1729 instead)
UT Sunday 0130 on KVOH 9975
UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 750, July 17 at 0548 UT, Spanish mixing with WSB, so KAMA El Paso still out of whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1701 UT July 17
