** BRAZIL. 11745, Oct 4 at 0557, only trace of a spur here now, from good RNA signal on 11780.
11745 & 11815, Oct 5 at 0121, no spurs detectable; seems fixed in only a few days, but what do you bet, they`ll be back? 6180 is still off. I read in radioescutas that they are trying to get DRM going and may use that transmitter to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, Oct 4 at 0552, RHC English frequency is off again, but so is presumed Mali carrier 5995 tonight.
5040, Oct 4 at 0553, RHC English for the first time in a week, is *not* wobbling, evidently repaired --- for now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, Oct 5 at 0106, R. Cairo with good signal, but mostly hum with scratches of modulation
11710, Oct 5 at 0106, this R. Cairo signal axually registers stronger on the meter than 12070, but sounds weaker, undermodulated, distorted, with flutter
9315, Oct 5 at 0107, fair signal, undermodulated, distorted R. Cairo Spanish
9965, Oct 5 at 0140, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated, whine on good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935 // much stronger 9420, Oct 5 at 0132, ERTOpen with pop music; JBA carrier on 15630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Oct 4 at 1406, V. of Kurdistan, good signal with Kurdish music also ululating in this hour; via PRIDNESTROVYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, UT Sunday Oct 5 at 0103, The Mighty KBC with Uncle Eric introducing hour #2 of `The Giant Jukebox` just as Keith Perron is doing the same on the totally conflicting `Song of India` [see TAIWAN [non]]. (I am running two receivers, DX-398 & PL-880, so I can hear both at same time or at least alternately, as well as further bandscanning.) Eric is fulfilling requests from regular listeners such as Lou Johnson in the USA at 0131 after the Radiogram (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, Oct 4 at 1254, RNZI with folk music, good signal, in fact better than usual, making me suspect it`s on the 35 rather than 325 degree antenna ---- and yes, back on this frequency altho two days earlier it was already on 6170 before 1300. By 1258, 9700 is off and 6170 is ready to go with Bell Bird IS, 1300 cut to news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 5 at 0104, poor signal with rock music from some pirate, and later. No carrier and unrecognized music made it hard to tune in; I`m mainly listening to PCJ and KBC. This thread says it was on 6924.14, Captain Morgan Shortwave:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,18763.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Oct 4 at 0609 UT, Mexican music mainly, no doubt Tulsa daytimer KXTD Wagoner still cheating; not much from KCMN CO this time, but BS on WCKY audible underneath.
1530, Oct 5 at 0125 UT, again Mexican music is dominating, from E/W, 0126 UT ``La Que Buena, en el 15-30 de su radio``, well after sunset so KXTD still cheating. No KCMN audible now either (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 9500, Oct 5 at 0125, RSO fair with Qur`an on correct frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 5 until 0103:34.5* R. Chaski carrier cutoff six seconds later than 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9520 // 7335, Oct 5 at 0121, RRI Romanian service playing classical music as usual on UT Sundays, quite a contrast to the pop stuff on KBC, PCJ, and any pirates active. Good signals, but 9520 has CCI as I previously described (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420, Oct 4 at 1421, nothing from BS via WBCQ on weekly Sabbath service broadcast, so now apparently really canceled. His almost-nightly 7490 airings continued at least till end of September altho removed from online schedule weeks ago. Not yet checked, but I suppose these are off too with BS finally breaking all ties with WBCQ as of Oct 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, Oct 4 at 0551, Spanish music, poor, must be REE on wrong frequency, as 6125 is missing. Unlike during 00-01 English, either of these later is rather weak here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 5 at 0114:15 tune-in, SLBC carrier has presumably just cut on. Altho clock is wrong, its funxioning is usually closely matching from one night to the next. 0114:47 prélude music starts; 0115:19, 2+1 mistimesignal ends and sign-on in Hindi or Bengali; fair with heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSEET)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7570, UT Sunday Oct 5 at 0100, PCJ International ID by S Asian accent, into ``Tiny Bubbles``. Mowing, I missed the first hour of a special via WRMI preëmpting Brother Scare, `Song of India`, which will continue airing weekly at 1330-1530 UT Saturdays on MW 1125 via Sri Lanka. All further announcements by Keith Perron during this hour referred only to 1125. 0103 he introduces hour #2 of a musical journey, with a film song. Turns out the music is hardly limited to Indian songs, but anything-goes for requests.
Being the first show, I didn`t hear any axual requests being fulfilled yet by name during this hour. Make them to song @ pcjmedia.com. 0110 playing `Sukiyaki` --- at least that`s the tune, but lyrix in English. 0117 outroing a song in Dutch, 0118 a novelty song about Hindustan. 0134 ending a song in Arabic, and before that one in Portuguese; next is a Bollywood song from movie ``The Jewel Thief``. 0157 sign-off by the S Asian does mention 7570.
Bigsig tnx to employing the 315 antenna right toward us, normally wasted on Brother Scare. But I found the modulation during the music not as good as it could be, maybe not enough bitrate on internet feed; a bit mushy at times. Altho this was a one-off, too bad that everyone goes for early Saturday evening: this transmission exactly same hours as weekly KBC Radio on 7375; other options: a pirate on 6925, see North America; WWCR is also musical with `The Talking [sic] Machine Show`` at 0100-0130 UT Sunday on 4840. Classical music on Romania 7335 & 9520 (latter with CCI). Not to mention the amusical WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 on KVOH 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7405, Oct 4 at 0559, happened across Radiogram beeping now via R. Martí, as per 0600 ID, into news about some imprisoned dissident going on a hunger strike. Kim Elliott had notified:
``Hello friends, Starting tonight, Radio Martí will transmit a minute of MFSK16 centered on 2500 Hz, daily, according to the following schedule:
0558:40 UTC 1180 6030 7405 kHz
0758:40 UTC 1180 5980 6030 kHz
0858:40 UTC 1180 5980 6030 kHz
Each transmission is 57 seconds.``
As usual at this hour on this frequency, RM is atop the wall-of noise jamming here; but not necessarily at the other airings, other frequencies such as 6030. This should have been a good test of the robustness of MFSK16 right up against a jammed service. I wonder what the `gram said? Hope it was something counter-revolutionary. Strangely, Arnie has not made a big deal of Radiograms as another way to enjoy our wonderful hobby – radio. Roger in Germany monitored it, but his linx are neither hot nor copiable in the DXLD yg posting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1741 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Oct 5 from 0131:04. Initially good signal but fading down somewhat by 0138. Carrier was on by 0123, music from 0125, sign-on from 0130. Next: Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580; UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Oct 5 at 0108, WRNO emitting big buzz along with the distorted gospel huxtress; what a sorry excuse for a SW station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0437 UT October 5
11745 & 11815, Oct 5 at 0121, no spurs detectable; seems fixed in only a few days, but what do you bet, they`ll be back? 6180 is still off. I read in radioescutas that they are trying to get DRM going and may use that transmitter to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, Oct 4 at 0552, RHC English frequency is off again, but so is presumed Mali carrier 5995 tonight.
5040, Oct 4 at 0553, RHC English for the first time in a week, is *not* wobbling, evidently repaired --- for now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, Oct 5 at 0106, R. Cairo with good signal, but mostly hum with scratches of modulation
11710, Oct 5 at 0106, this R. Cairo signal axually registers stronger on the meter than 12070, but sounds weaker, undermodulated, distorted, with flutter
9315, Oct 5 at 0107, fair signal, undermodulated, distorted R. Cairo Spanish
9965, Oct 5 at 0140, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated, whine on good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935 // much stronger 9420, Oct 5 at 0132, ERTOpen with pop music; JBA carrier on 15630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Oct 4 at 1406, V. of Kurdistan, good signal with Kurdish music also ululating in this hour; via PRIDNESTROVYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, UT Sunday Oct 5 at 0103, The Mighty KBC with Uncle Eric introducing hour #2 of `The Giant Jukebox` just as Keith Perron is doing the same on the totally conflicting `Song of India` [see TAIWAN [non]]. (I am running two receivers, DX-398 & PL-880, so I can hear both at same time or at least alternately, as well as further bandscanning.) Eric is fulfilling requests from regular listeners such as Lou Johnson in the USA at 0131 after the Radiogram (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, Oct 4 at 1254, RNZI with folk music, good signal, in fact better than usual, making me suspect it`s on the 35 rather than 325 degree antenna ---- and yes, back on this frequency altho two days earlier it was already on 6170 before 1300. By 1258, 9700 is off and 6170 is ready to go with Bell Bird IS, 1300 cut to news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 5 at 0104, poor signal with rock music from some pirate, and later. No carrier and unrecognized music made it hard to tune in; I`m mainly listening to PCJ and KBC. This thread says it was on 6924.14, Captain Morgan Shortwave:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,18763.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1530, Oct 4 at 0609 UT, Mexican music mainly, no doubt Tulsa daytimer KXTD Wagoner still cheating; not much from KCMN CO this time, but BS on WCKY audible underneath.
1530, Oct 5 at 0125 UT, again Mexican music is dominating, from E/W, 0126 UT ``La Que Buena, en el 15-30 de su radio``, well after sunset so KXTD still cheating. No KCMN audible now either (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 9500, Oct 5 at 0125, RSO fair with Qur`an on correct frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 5 until 0103:34.5* R. Chaski carrier cutoff six seconds later than 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9520 // 7335, Oct 5 at 0121, RRI Romanian service playing classical music as usual on UT Sundays, quite a contrast to the pop stuff on KBC, PCJ, and any pirates active. Good signals, but 9520 has CCI as I previously described (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420, Oct 4 at 1421, nothing from BS via WBCQ on weekly Sabbath service broadcast, so now apparently really canceled. His almost-nightly 7490 airings continued at least till end of September altho removed from online schedule weeks ago. Not yet checked, but I suppose these are off too with BS finally breaking all ties with WBCQ as of Oct 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 6055, Oct 4 at 0551, Spanish music, poor, must be REE on wrong frequency, as 6125 is missing. Unlike during 00-01 English, either of these later is rather weak here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 5 at 0114:15 tune-in, SLBC carrier has presumably just cut on. Altho clock is wrong, its funxioning is usually closely matching from one night to the next. 0114:47 prélude music starts; 0115:19, 2+1 mistimesignal ends and sign-on in Hindi or Bengali; fair with heavy flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSEET)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7570, UT Sunday Oct 5 at 0100, PCJ International ID by S Asian accent, into ``Tiny Bubbles``. Mowing, I missed the first hour of a special via WRMI preëmpting Brother Scare, `Song of India`, which will continue airing weekly at 1330-1530 UT Saturdays on MW 1125 via Sri Lanka. All further announcements by Keith Perron during this hour referred only to 1125. 0103 he introduces hour #2 of a musical journey, with a film song. Turns out the music is hardly limited to Indian songs, but anything-goes for requests.
Being the first show, I didn`t hear any axual requests being fulfilled yet by name during this hour. Make them to song @ pcjmedia.com. 0110 playing `Sukiyaki` --- at least that`s the tune, but lyrix in English. 0117 outroing a song in Dutch, 0118 a novelty song about Hindustan. 0134 ending a song in Arabic, and before that one in Portuguese; next is a Bollywood song from movie ``The Jewel Thief``. 0157 sign-off by the S Asian does mention 7570.
Bigsig tnx to employing the 315 antenna right toward us, normally wasted on Brother Scare. But I found the modulation during the music not as good as it could be, maybe not enough bitrate on internet feed; a bit mushy at times. Altho this was a one-off, too bad that everyone goes for early Saturday evening: this transmission exactly same hours as weekly KBC Radio on 7375; other options: a pirate on 6925, see North America; WWCR is also musical with `The Talking [sic] Machine Show`` at 0100-0130 UT Sunday on 4840. Classical music on Romania 7335 & 9520 (latter with CCI). Not to mention the amusical WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 on KVOH 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7405, Oct 4 at 0559, happened across Radiogram beeping now via R. Martí, as per 0600 ID, into news about some imprisoned dissident going on a hunger strike. Kim Elliott had notified:
``Hello friends, Starting tonight, Radio Martí will transmit a minute of MFSK16 centered on 2500 Hz, daily, according to the following schedule:
0558:40 UTC 1180 6030 7405 kHz
0758:40 UTC 1180 5980 6030 kHz
0858:40 UTC 1180 5980 6030 kHz
Each transmission is 57 seconds.``
As usual at this hour on this frequency, RM is atop the wall-of noise jamming here; but not necessarily at the other airings, other frequencies such as 6030. This should have been a good test of the robustness of MFSK16 right up against a jammed service. I wonder what the `gram said? Hope it was something counter-revolutionary. Strangely, Arnie has not made a big deal of Radiograms as another way to enjoy our wonderful hobby – radio. Roger in Germany monitored it, but his linx are neither hot nor copiable in the DXLD yg posting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1741 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Oct 5 from 0131:04. Initially good signal but fading down somewhat by 0138. Carrier was on by 0123, music from 0125, sign-on from 0130. Next: Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580; UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Oct 5 at 0108, WRNO emitting big buzz along with the distorted gospel huxtress; what a sorry excuse for a SW station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0437 UT October 5
