** CUBA. 6165, Oct 26 at 0102, RHC English is AWOL while funxioning on 6000 (and 6060 is in proper language Spanish for a change); finally at *0106.4, 6165 pops on with program in progress, off and on and off and on, perhaps to stay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 9420, Oct 26 at 0110, ERTOpen, GREECE is not on tonite, and not on 9415 either, but if and when they get back on 9420 they are in for a rude surprise: Radio República and the inevitable heavy Cuban jamming.
As I tune in 9420 at 0110, what`s this, something new in Spanish; check 6, 7, 9 and 11 MHz bands for //s but none found. Cuban accents and talking about Camagüey. Definitely not // RHC, Progreso, or Rebelde! 0111 about provincia de Mayabeque. Musical stingers intervene; 0113 song by una dominicana neoyorquina, ``Nadie como tú``. 0117 announcement mentioning this program was recorded in Miami, ``aquí en los Estados Unidos``, then YL with long talk about ébola, references to Cuba, gets in digs at ``la dictadura de Castro``.
No, it`s not // R. Martí 7365 either. But NO IDs. However, I can`t hear any trace of R. República on 9490, where there remains wall-of-noise Cuban jamming. 0123 poesía de Octavio Paz, with music. 0125 another song, then mentions `Sencillamente Mujer`; report from Camagüey about political prisoners, including Sonia somebody. Finally at 0133 ID as ``Radio República presenta Sencillamente Mujer``.
So R.R. has made a surprise frequency change from 9490 to 9420, presumably still via Issoudun, FRANCE. Good signal with rolling fades, and NO jamming --- yet, until the DentroCubans catch on. Latest HFCC B14 still shows 9490 for ``RMI`` at 00-03, NOT 9420. And presumably still using only last two hours of that span.
But what if GREECE comes back on its #1 frequency, 9420 where it was just last night after a foray to 9415 for three nights. Or were they trying 9415, having been tipped off about the pending exile jump? How could R.R. pick 9420 if they knew Greece would be on it to North America already? But then the ``rebels`` aren`t registering in HFCC. Stay tuned! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 9860, Oct 26 at 0026, seems dead air, fair with flutter, but then just barely modulated in Spanish. This is right at the transition from the A-14 to B-14 season when there could be some one-day clashes. In A-14, 9860 has been Iran in Spanish at 0020-0320 [see also IRAN].
12035, Oct 26 at 0040, Arab music, good signal but heavy distortion and hum à la Cairo, and now find it to be // 9860; 0044:28 mistimesignal ends and R. Cairo news theme. So did 9860 change from Iran to Egypt in the last few minutes or was it Egypt in the first place? In B-14, Cairo has registered 12035 at 2330-0200 in Arabic, then Spanish; and 9860 at 0045-0330 in Spanish, then English. But Cairo registers additional wooden frequencies to give them some flexibility.
9860, Oct 26 at 0242, R. Cairo English to N America is indeed here now, ex-9315; good signal but muffled and distorted so I have to listen intently for a while to be sure it`s English.
12080, Oct 26 at 0105, poor signal with distortion, flutter, i.e. R. Cairo Spanish, ex-12070 with the same degradation. JBA signal on 11710, maybe still //, and also on 9860 ex-9315.
** GREECE. 9420 & 9935, Oct 26 around 0030, ERTOpen is closed tonite, but if they come back on 9420 instead of 9415 they are in for a rude surprise: see CUBA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9870, Oct 26 at 0108, VBS with Indian music, fair but fluttery, finally rid of TRT Spanish CCI during this hour. VBS at 0010-0435 via Bangalore should now be QRM-free. (Turkey`s Spanish makes usual shift an hour later to 0200-0250 but now on 9410 & 9650) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. IRIB`s B-14 Spanish is registered as: 0020-0220 on 9445, 0020-0320 on 7420. But Oct 26 at 0242 check I hear nothing on 7420. When there, it might be a problem for Albania at 0230 on 7425. In A14 these had been on 12025 and 9860 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EGYPT
** PERU. 5980, Oct 26 from first check at 0025 past 0100, can`t detect a carrier from R. Chaski, so maybe off? WRMI is now starting the BSplash from 5985 at 0000 instead of 0100, which is no help (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 9730, Oct 26 at 0027, Spanish discussion of medical issues, 0029 outro `Romanía para el Mundo`, good and // weaker 9525, so RRI now on B-14 schedule of 00-01 Spanish on 7325, 7335, 9525 and 9730.
6145, Oct 26 at 0103, RRI in English with fair signal, new frequency and time for B-14: 01-02 on 6145 // 7325 (or if you prefer Romanian with its classical music on Saturday nights: 01-03 on 5910 // 7335). I think before 0100 tonight I was hearing Colombian music on 5910, but forget about it for the next bihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 28600-USB, Oct 26 at 0057, UA0IDZ with quick contest contacts in English from Zone 19. Unlike some others, his fonetix are clear, so no doubt about the call. I figure he is in the DVR, and so he is per QRZ.com lookup:
UA0IDZ Asiatic Russia
Igor Dubinin
P.O.Box 88
Magadan 685000
Russia
10 & 15 meters have been packed with DX contesters all day, and even 10 is still wide open well after dark here. Looks like they lucked into some above normal HF conditions. It takes a contest to fill 10m above 28500 or so, now up to 28700. This will be my token log for the contest and I didn`t even bother to copy some of his contact calls. I quickly tire of the get-on-and-get-off rat-a-tat no-nonsense contacts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, UT Sunday Oct 26 at 0031, ``Radio Clandestine`` (KLAN-des-tyne) introducing some Eric Clapton, very good // much weaker 7490v, and also synchronized on 5110v, i.e. really WBCQ playing back old pirate shows on Saturday`s `Pirate Pizza Night`; but this is not what the online schedule shows, as if on only one transmitter, and with nothing on 9330 at all on weekends:
Sa 7490 06:00PM 09:00PM ET 2200 0100 UTC Pirate Pizza Night
Sa 5110 07:00PM 09:00PM ET 2300 0100 UTC Radio Timtron Worldwide
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850 & 7455, UT Sun Oct 26 at 0034, surprised to find no signals from WRMI`s TruNews subcontractor, clearing 7455 for the RTTY. All the other WRMI frequencies are on, so not a power failure. But 5850 & 7355 appear at 0100, in accordance with new B-14 schedule which is up promptly now at:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit#gid=0
showing T.N. at reduced hours of 01-07 UT but on three frequencies, adding 5015 southwards (instead of BS but who is still on it afterwards). T.N. starts at 0100 as `Radio Paradise[?]` ``with your end-time newsman, Rick Wiles`` who imagines the date is ``Friday October 24`` instead of 25 or even 26. So much for his time-keeping.
15190.0, Oct 26 at 0045, undermodulated gospel rock music, must be Radio Africa Network on WRMI: yes, per B-14 schedule, 15190 is now on air from 2103 until 0300. Goodbye, Inconfidência (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810, Oct 26 at 0105, WEWN is AWOL, tho scheduled from 0000, but still very much present on 11520 English and 11870 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 26 at 0105, KJES is off and still off by 0130. Not until Nov 3 should this nominally undaylight shift to an 0200-0330 schedule, when they get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, Oct 26 at 0102, VOV in English, now on B-14 frequency ex-12005 via Woofferton UK. While 6175 will be less subject to propagation variations thru winter nites, it`s only fair now. Why in the world don`t they use WHRI for all their relays to North America? In B-14, English on 6175 at 0330 is WHRI, but 0100 & 0230 are still and again WOF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0433 UT October 26
** CUBA [non]. 9420, Oct 26 at 0110, ERTOpen, GREECE is not on tonite, and not on 9415 either, but if and when they get back on 9420 they are in for a rude surprise: Radio República and the inevitable heavy Cuban jamming.
As I tune in 9420 at 0110, what`s this, something new in Spanish; check 6, 7, 9 and 11 MHz bands for //s but none found. Cuban accents and talking about Camagüey. Definitely not // RHC, Progreso, or Rebelde! 0111 about provincia de Mayabeque. Musical stingers intervene; 0113 song by una dominicana neoyorquina, ``Nadie como tú``. 0117 announcement mentioning this program was recorded in Miami, ``aquí en los Estados Unidos``, then YL with long talk about ébola, references to Cuba, gets in digs at ``la dictadura de Castro``.
No, it`s not // R. Martí 7365 either. But NO IDs. However, I can`t hear any trace of R. República on 9490, where there remains wall-of-noise Cuban jamming. 0123 poesía de Octavio Paz, with music. 0125 another song, then mentions `Sencillamente Mujer`; report from Camagüey about political prisoners, including Sonia somebody. Finally at 0133 ID as ``Radio República presenta Sencillamente Mujer``.
So R.R. has made a surprise frequency change from 9490 to 9420, presumably still via Issoudun, FRANCE. Good signal with rolling fades, and NO jamming --- yet, until the DentroCubans catch on. Latest HFCC B14 still shows 9490 for ``RMI`` at 00-03, NOT 9420. And presumably still using only last two hours of that span.
But what if GREECE comes back on its #1 frequency, 9420 where it was just last night after a foray to 9415 for three nights. Or were they trying 9415, having been tipped off about the pending exile jump? How could R.R. pick 9420 if they knew Greece would be on it to North America already? But then the ``rebels`` aren`t registering in HFCC. Stay tuned! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 9860, Oct 26 at 0026, seems dead air, fair with flutter, but then just barely modulated in Spanish. This is right at the transition from the A-14 to B-14 season when there could be some one-day clashes. In A-14, 9860 has been Iran in Spanish at 0020-0320 [see also IRAN].
12035, Oct 26 at 0040, Arab music, good signal but heavy distortion and hum à la Cairo, and now find it to be // 9860; 0044:28 mistimesignal ends and R. Cairo news theme. So did 9860 change from Iran to Egypt in the last few minutes or was it Egypt in the first place? In B-14, Cairo has registered 12035 at 2330-0200 in Arabic, then Spanish; and 9860 at 0045-0330 in Spanish, then English. But Cairo registers additional wooden frequencies to give them some flexibility.
9860, Oct 26 at 0242, R. Cairo English to N America is indeed here now, ex-9315; good signal but muffled and distorted so I have to listen intently for a while to be sure it`s English.
12080, Oct 26 at 0105, poor signal with distortion, flutter, i.e. R. Cairo Spanish, ex-12070 with the same degradation. JBA signal on 11710, maybe still //, and also on 9860 ex-9315.
** GREECE. 9420 & 9935, Oct 26 around 0030, ERTOpen is closed tonite, but if they come back on 9420 instead of 9415 they are in for a rude surprise: see CUBA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9870, Oct 26 at 0108, VBS with Indian music, fair but fluttery, finally rid of TRT Spanish CCI during this hour. VBS at 0010-0435 via Bangalore should now be QRM-free. (Turkey`s Spanish makes usual shift an hour later to 0200-0250 but now on 9410 & 9650) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. IRIB`s B-14 Spanish is registered as: 0020-0220 on 9445, 0020-0320 on 7420. But Oct 26 at 0242 check I hear nothing on 7420. When there, it might be a problem for Albania at 0230 on 7425. In A14 these had been on 12025 and 9860 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EGYPT
** PERU. 5980, Oct 26 from first check at 0025 past 0100, can`t detect a carrier from R. Chaski, so maybe off? WRMI is now starting the BSplash from 5985 at 0000 instead of 0100, which is no help (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 9730, Oct 26 at 0027, Spanish discussion of medical issues, 0029 outro `Romanía para el Mundo`, good and // weaker 9525, so RRI now on B-14 schedule of 00-01 Spanish on 7325, 7335, 9525 and 9730.
6145, Oct 26 at 0103, RRI in English with fair signal, new frequency and time for B-14: 01-02 on 6145 // 7325 (or if you prefer Romanian with its classical music on Saturday nights: 01-03 on 5910 // 7335). I think before 0100 tonight I was hearing Colombian music on 5910, but forget about it for the next bihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 28600-USB, Oct 26 at 0057, UA0IDZ with quick contest contacts in English from Zone 19. Unlike some others, his fonetix are clear, so no doubt about the call. I figure he is in the DVR, and so he is per QRZ.com lookup:
UA0IDZ Asiatic Russia
Igor Dubinin
P.O.Box 88
Magadan 685000
Russia
10 & 15 meters have been packed with DX contesters all day, and even 10 is still wide open well after dark here. Looks like they lucked into some above normal HF conditions. It takes a contest to fill 10m above 28500 or so, now up to 28700. This will be my token log for the contest and I didn`t even bother to copy some of his contact calls. I quickly tire of the get-on-and-get-off rat-a-tat no-nonsense contacts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, UT Sunday Oct 26 at 0031, ``Radio Clandestine`` (KLAN-des-tyne) introducing some Eric Clapton, very good // much weaker 7490v, and also synchronized on 5110v, i.e. really WBCQ playing back old pirate shows on Saturday`s `Pirate Pizza Night`; but this is not what the online schedule shows, as if on only one transmitter, and with nothing on 9330 at all on weekends:
Sa 7490 06:00PM 09:00PM ET 2200 0100 UTC Pirate Pizza Night
Sa 5110 07:00PM 09:00PM ET 2300 0100 UTC Radio Timtron Worldwide
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5850 & 7455, UT Sun Oct 26 at 0034, surprised to find no signals from WRMI`s TruNews subcontractor, clearing 7455 for the RTTY. All the other WRMI frequencies are on, so not a power failure. But 5850 & 7355 appear at 0100, in accordance with new B-14 schedule which is up promptly now at:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit#gid=0
showing T.N. at reduced hours of 01-07 UT but on three frequencies, adding 5015 southwards (instead of BS but who is still on it afterwards). T.N. starts at 0100 as `Radio Paradise[?]` ``with your end-time newsman, Rick Wiles`` who imagines the date is ``Friday October 24`` instead of 25 or even 26. So much for his time-keeping.
15190.0, Oct 26 at 0045, undermodulated gospel rock music, must be Radio Africa Network on WRMI: yes, per B-14 schedule, 15190 is now on air from 2103 until 0300. Goodbye, Inconfidência (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810, Oct 26 at 0105, WEWN is AWOL, tho scheduled from 0000, but still very much present on 11520 English and 11870 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 26 at 0105, KJES is off and still off by 0130. Not until Nov 3 should this nominally undaylight shift to an 0200-0330 schedule, when they get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, Oct 26 at 0102, VOV in English, now on B-14 frequency ex-12005 via Woofferton UK. While 6175 will be less subject to propagation variations thru winter nites, it`s only fair now. Why in the world don`t they use WHRI for all their relays to North America? In B-14, English on 6175 at 0330 is WHRI, but 0100 & 0230 are still and again WOF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0433 UT October 26
