** ALBANIA. 7425, Nov 22 at 0223, very poor signal from something other than the R. Tirana IS; 0225 some talking which doesn`t fit either. At 0227 stronger fair signal from R. Tirana now on with IS, but with fast SAH, so another station? 0230 theme and sign-on but undermodulated. So is some other transmitter overlapping now? Nothing else scheduled in HFCC, EiBI or Aoki. Or was the 0223-0227 portion really Shijak too with some other programming than the usual RT IS, like a prepeat of the English semihour, which has happened before? Despite RT signal level, no problem from 7420 Iran or 7430 stray Cuban pulse jammer, also weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11710.82 approx., Nov 22 at 0159, RAE ID and IS, very poor with heavy flutter, no het during this hour starting with music, but at 0214 I can tell it`s in French, having swapped 0300 with English; UT Tue-Sat only while same transmitter as Radio Nacional stays on 15345v into weekend nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11745, Nov 21 at 2307, distorted spur from 11780.1 RNA is audible. Next check Nov 22 at 0212, it`s stronger, and can also hear the match on 11815, IDable by // modulation peaks on 11780.1, despite competing splatter from 11825 WRMI BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA [and non]. 9465.0, Nov 22 at 0153, JBA carrier presumed the 24-hour Global 24 test via Kostinbrod; heavy splatter from 9475 WTWW. At 0203 after WTWW has QSYed to 5830, now I can hear some music on 9465, sounds jazzy but not // `Jazz from the Left` as IDed at 0221 on WRMI 9395; on 9465, at 0210 and 0221 Global 24 IDs, but hard to copy. Occasional ``running water`` ute QRM briefly such as 0237 and 0241 when 9465 is weakening.
Ivo Ivanov says this 00-24 UT test is 50 kW at 306 degrees to western Europe. Propagation is coöperative at the moment, with even RWM Moskva/Taldom clicking away on 9996 at 0154. At certain hours 9465 might come in better in parts of North America beyond than 9395 does (which pales by comparison to the BS still blasting in from same Okeechobee plant on 7570 and 11825).
9395 breaks at 0203 to advertise the Global 24 Marketplace; see http://marketplace.global24radio.com/
for an impressive list of advertisers already
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6270, Nov 22 at 0207, RHC news very poor // 6060, which transmitter is leaping over 6165 English to land here, another 105 kHz beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Nov 22 at 0154, R. Cairo, fair with heavy flutter, whine, muffled presumed Arabic.
9860, Nov 22 at 0215, R. Cairo, poor with heavy flutter, can`t make out any scheduled English modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, 9935 & 11645, Nov 22 at 0232 check, ERTOpen is closed on all frequencies tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11740, Nov 22 at 0213 tone, then AIR IS, 0215 opening Pashto, poor-fair. HFCC shows 11740 site as Panaji, Goa at 0200-0345, but Aoki says for this transmission it`s Aligarh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 5960, Nov 22 at 0227, very poor signal with Qur`an. Must be R. Kuwait, per EiBi here at 0150-0900, rather than PBS Xinjiang Chinese service from 0230, unQur`anic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 5975, Nov 22 at 0209, good signal in French with Romanian accent --- at first I thought it was Romanian! From RRI via Galbeni.
5910, Nov 22 at 0225 really is in Romanian, RRI with folk music, no het from no Colombian, and better on stronger // 7340 but which has more flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9650, Nov 22 at 0239, V. of Turkey with its multi-lingual ID spiel including one in English, mixed with music, fair with flutter; 0241 on to music program. These fillers appear somewhere in every English broadcast and I suppose in all other languages too as this hour is really Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1748 monitoring: confirmed Friday Nov 21 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 and 15770, both good but 7570 better.
Next:
Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sunday 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sunday 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580
Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Monday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395; etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7488 approx., pulse jamming bothering 7490.44 approx., WBCQ, Nov 21 at 2257 as `Behaviour Night` is wrapping up. Now I am hearing the jamming that Lou Johnson has been complaining about. Usually what I assume to be a stray Cuban jammer resides around 7480, far enough away from WBCQ, but it`s still hard to conclude this approach be deliberate; also bothers `Money Talks` after 2300, but that`s also on 9330-CUSB from WBCQ.
Furthermore, a het hits 7490.44 from *2258, which is no doubt 7490.0, BBCWS in English, 23-24, 250 kW, 25 degrees via THAILAND and also USward (plus 7495 at 00-01, IBB, 250 kW, 30 degrees also USward via Thailand in Mandarin, surely jammed, and even BBC English could be CNR1-jammed to add to the QRM over here). Frequency managers apparently don`t understand the inevitable collisions in such cases even from opposite sides of the world.
Recheck at 0222 UT Saturday Nov 22, 7490v still has `Allan Weiner Worldwide` as AW is giving ``tonight`s email address`` as wbcq7415@gmail.com --- ah, the good old days of 7415 kHz --- as he then proceeds to read incoming mail. During this show, 7490v is // 9330v and // but delayed on 5110v.
According to HFCC B-14, there is no broadcaster on 7415 between 22 and 16 UT, which should almost cover WBCQ scheduling, but FCC took it away from WBCQ in deference to some USG ute requirement, MARS? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085 & 9930, Nov 22 at 0219, both frequencies of WTWW-2 are off with nothing to BS about, while 12105 and 5830 are on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.3v, Nov 22 at 0223 no show from WRNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Nov 22 at 0223, KJES is AWOL from its nominal 0200 sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, Nov 21 at 1835 UT on caradio, tell-tale het caused by KCTE Independence MO being perpetually off-frequency, audible at local mean noon (1832 UT), with the solar insolation angle approaching its wintry nadir allowing skywave. The hetee is presumably on-frequency KNNS Larned KS barely by grouondwave. At least we haven`t heard daytimer KCTE`s het at night lately. 1931 UT recheck, IDs as ESPN 1510 (and 1660 Kansas City, Bloomberg Radio is also audible); 1943 UT ad for Hendrix Buick-GMC on Stateline Road, which is a dead giveaway for Kansas City MO/KS market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Nov 21 at 0233 UT, Mexican music, roughly N/S with WLAC nulled, also rumbling lo het with something; 0235 UT fades up between songs for non-ID in English! ``Dial us up on your FM radio, 94.3 FM, K-rock`` (not sure of the K-Rock part but positive of the FM frequency), back to music in Spanish. I was checking an hour later than usual for the Mexican I`ve been tracking, thought to be XEQI Monterrey. But if it`s really a daytimer, it may have gone off at 0200 UT – not sundown but a typical time for Mexicans. So which of the US 1510 stations have an FM on 94.3? The only one in the NRC AM Log 2014 is:
KROB Robstown TX, D1, 500 watts, PSRA 500 but no PSSA. It`s really in Corpus Christi, SS-OLD format which fits, and // K232DE 94.3, ``Classic Konjunto`` a slogan I certainly did not hear.
The WTFDA FM database for all 94.3 stations agrees on this matchup and slogan, but does not show AM frequencies of stations translated, in case there is another on 1510. These Tejano stations play music in Spanish but don`t hesitate to talk, ID in English, like KKLF 1700 and KEDA 1540. Wikipedia says it`s branded as the Conjunto Station, and the 94.3 translator is in Corpus Christi itself.
Of course, on 1510 there is also KCKK Littleton CO which I have also heard recently, ``The Rock`` but its FM is 93.7, and I`d be surprised if it`s partly Spanish. Furthermore there is no 94.3 around Denver in case it`s a sibling station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 9560, Nov 22 at 0156, news in English about slavery, those who beat a woman to death near Lahore, Pakistan, are now sentenced to death ---- can that be correct? Fair signal, 0158 sign off English service to S Asia from Vatican Radio, ``Praised be Jesus Christ; Laudetur Iesus Christus``, interval signal and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-AM, Nov 22 at 0231, very poor signal with music. For once, no pirate ID of this in the freeradiocafe or hfunderground fora, unless it was Liquid Radio still on here long after reported Nov 21 at 2310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0619 UT November 22
** ARGENTINA. 11710.82 approx., Nov 22 at 0159, RAE ID and IS, very poor with heavy flutter, no het during this hour starting with music, but at 0214 I can tell it`s in French, having swapped 0300 with English; UT Tue-Sat only while same transmitter as Radio Nacional stays on 15345v into weekend nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11745, Nov 21 at 2307, distorted spur from 11780.1 RNA is audible. Next check Nov 22 at 0212, it`s stronger, and can also hear the match on 11815, IDable by // modulation peaks on 11780.1, despite competing splatter from 11825 WRMI BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA [and non]. 9465.0, Nov 22 at 0153, JBA carrier presumed the 24-hour Global 24 test via Kostinbrod; heavy splatter from 9475 WTWW. At 0203 after WTWW has QSYed to 5830, now I can hear some music on 9465, sounds jazzy but not // `Jazz from the Left` as IDed at 0221 on WRMI 9395; on 9465, at 0210 and 0221 Global 24 IDs, but hard to copy. Occasional ``running water`` ute QRM briefly such as 0237 and 0241 when 9465 is weakening.
Ivo Ivanov says this 00-24 UT test is 50 kW at 306 degrees to western Europe. Propagation is coöperative at the moment, with even RWM Moskva/Taldom clicking away on 9996 at 0154. At certain hours 9465 might come in better in parts of North America beyond than 9395 does (which pales by comparison to the BS still blasting in from same Okeechobee plant on 7570 and 11825).
9395 breaks at 0203 to advertise the Global 24 Marketplace; see http://marketplace.global24radio.com/
for an impressive list of advertisers already
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6270, Nov 22 at 0207, RHC news very poor // 6060, which transmitter is leaping over 6165 English to land here, another 105 kHz beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965, Nov 22 at 0154, R. Cairo, fair with heavy flutter, whine, muffled presumed Arabic.
9860, Nov 22 at 0215, R. Cairo, poor with heavy flutter, can`t make out any scheduled English modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, 9935 & 11645, Nov 22 at 0232 check, ERTOpen is closed on all frequencies tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11740, Nov 22 at 0213 tone, then AIR IS, 0215 opening Pashto, poor-fair. HFCC shows 11740 site as Panaji, Goa at 0200-0345, but Aoki says for this transmission it`s Aligarh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 5960, Nov 22 at 0227, very poor signal with Qur`an. Must be R. Kuwait, per EiBi here at 0150-0900, rather than PBS Xinjiang Chinese service from 0230, unQur`anic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 5975, Nov 22 at 0209, good signal in French with Romanian accent --- at first I thought it was Romanian! From RRI via Galbeni.
5910, Nov 22 at 0225 really is in Romanian, RRI with folk music, no het from no Colombian, and better on stronger // 7340 but which has more flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9650, Nov 22 at 0239, V. of Turkey with its multi-lingual ID spiel including one in English, mixed with music, fair with flutter; 0241 on to music program. These fillers appear somewhere in every English broadcast and I suppose in all other languages too as this hour is really Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1748 monitoring: confirmed Friday Nov 21 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 and 15770, both good but 7570 better.
Next:
Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sunday 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sunday 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580
Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Monday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395; etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7488 approx., pulse jamming bothering 7490.44 approx., WBCQ, Nov 21 at 2257 as `Behaviour Night` is wrapping up. Now I am hearing the jamming that Lou Johnson has been complaining about. Usually what I assume to be a stray Cuban jammer resides around 7480, far enough away from WBCQ, but it`s still hard to conclude this approach be deliberate; also bothers `Money Talks` after 2300, but that`s also on 9330-CUSB from WBCQ.
Furthermore, a het hits 7490.44 from *2258, which is no doubt 7490.0, BBCWS in English, 23-24, 250 kW, 25 degrees via THAILAND and also USward (plus 7495 at 00-01, IBB, 250 kW, 30 degrees also USward via Thailand in Mandarin, surely jammed, and even BBC English could be CNR1-jammed to add to the QRM over here). Frequency managers apparently don`t understand the inevitable collisions in such cases even from opposite sides of the world.
Recheck at 0222 UT Saturday Nov 22, 7490v still has `Allan Weiner Worldwide` as AW is giving ``tonight`s email address`` as wbcq7415@gmail.com --- ah, the good old days of 7415 kHz --- as he then proceeds to read incoming mail. During this show, 7490v is // 9330v and // but delayed on 5110v.
According to HFCC B-14, there is no broadcaster on 7415 between 22 and 16 UT, which should almost cover WBCQ scheduling, but FCC took it away from WBCQ in deference to some USG ute requirement, MARS? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085 & 9930, Nov 22 at 0219, both frequencies of WTWW-2 are off with nothing to BS about, while 12105 and 5830 are on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.3v, Nov 22 at 0223 no show from WRNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Nov 22 at 0223, KJES is AWOL from its nominal 0200 sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, Nov 21 at 1835 UT on caradio, tell-tale het caused by KCTE Independence MO being perpetually off-frequency, audible at local mean noon (1832 UT), with the solar insolation angle approaching its wintry nadir allowing skywave. The hetee is presumably on-frequency KNNS Larned KS barely by grouondwave. At least we haven`t heard daytimer KCTE`s het at night lately. 1931 UT recheck, IDs as ESPN 1510 (and 1660 Kansas City, Bloomberg Radio is also audible); 1943 UT ad for Hendrix Buick-GMC on Stateline Road, which is a dead giveaway for Kansas City MO/KS market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Nov 21 at 0233 UT, Mexican music, roughly N/S with WLAC nulled, also rumbling lo het with something; 0235 UT fades up between songs for non-ID in English! ``Dial us up on your FM radio, 94.3 FM, K-rock`` (not sure of the K-Rock part but positive of the FM frequency), back to music in Spanish. I was checking an hour later than usual for the Mexican I`ve been tracking, thought to be XEQI Monterrey. But if it`s really a daytimer, it may have gone off at 0200 UT – not sundown but a typical time for Mexicans. So which of the US 1510 stations have an FM on 94.3? The only one in the NRC AM Log 2014 is:
KROB Robstown TX, D1, 500 watts, PSRA 500 but no PSSA. It`s really in Corpus Christi, SS-OLD format which fits, and // K232DE 94.3, ``Classic Konjunto`` a slogan I certainly did not hear.
The WTFDA FM database for all 94.3 stations agrees on this matchup and slogan, but does not show AM frequencies of stations translated, in case there is another on 1510. These Tejano stations play music in Spanish but don`t hesitate to talk, ID in English, like KKLF 1700 and KEDA 1540. Wikipedia says it`s branded as the Conjunto Station, and the 94.3 translator is in Corpus Christi itself.
Of course, on 1510 there is also KCKK Littleton CO which I have also heard recently, ``The Rock`` but its FM is 93.7, and I`d be surprised if it`s partly Spanish. Furthermore there is no 94.3 around Denver in case it`s a sibling station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 9560, Nov 22 at 0156, news in English about slavery, those who beat a woman to death near Lahore, Pakistan, are now sentenced to death ---- can that be correct? Fair signal, 0158 sign off English service to S Asia from Vatican Radio, ``Praised be Jesus Christ; Laudetur Iesus Christus``, interval signal and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-AM, Nov 22 at 0231, very poor signal with music. For once, no pirate ID of this in the freeradiocafe or hfunderground fora, unless it was Liquid Radio still on here long after reported Nov 21 at 2310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0619 UT November 22
