** AUSTRALIA. 19000, Jan 17 at 0009, R. Australia with good signal, better than // 17840. We`ll sure miss this only 19 MHz broadcast after January with RA cutbacks; has been on at 23-01 UT. Show is interview with English authoress Laurie Penny, first about how well-informed young women are now tnx to Internet; at 0017 interviewer issues a language advisory before uncensoredly mentioning a chapter title, ``--ck-- up Girls and Lost Boys``. Seems book is ``Unspeakable Things, Sex, Lies and Revolution``, on this show, `The List`. Penny says she gets threats. Those who approve of salty language must resort to shortwave, as I fear domestic AM & FM stations are too timid to risk it. Portrait and audio:http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/thelist/unspeakable-things/5658464
Seems this is a live relay off ABC RN, scheduled in for 11 am Sunday local time when everyone ought to be worshipping; but it`s a repeat from last August (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17890, Jan 18 at 0009, Chinese poor with flutter. Aoki shows CNR1 as a non-jammer here at 0130-1100, 100 kW, 222 degrees from Beijing 572 site but latest HFCC runs it 0000-1100; and nothing in either at any other time on this frequency.
Hardly anything else now on 16m except Australia 17840, but another non // Chinese on 17490, quite similar signal, which is CRI Cantonese, 500 kW, 193 degrees from unspecified Beijing site.
12035, Jan 18 at 0038, Chinese good with heavy flutter and SAH rumble; Aoki has CRI Chinese, 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an during this hour. Maybe the QRM was from Egypt, also scheduled here, but see 12080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17730, Jan 17 at 2200, RHC opening `Revista Nuestra América`, with frequency list 17730, 13740, 11760, 11840, 9535, 9710, 5040 in typical Soviet-style disorder, and they all check out! Plus English on 11880. Seems the 22-24 Spanish bihour used to be called something else. Their so-called program schedule athttp://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/programacion
only covers the summer morning hours of 11-15 UT.
15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12080.1, Jan 18 at 0039, open carrier/dead air, presumably R. Cairo, could be just warmup before 0045 Spanish, but more likely will continue to be non- or badly-modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420 fair-good // 9935 poor, ERT Open in Greek is on today at 2136 Jan 17 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 17540, Jan 17 at 2140, Rádio Japão with J-pop introduced in Brazuguese, VG signal, good for my nap. WHRI 2130 relay toward Brasil, but surely the best sig within North America now for NHK World. Who needs English? Off at 2200* after timesignal, no announcement from NHK or WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 17 at 0023, pirate music, fair at 0035 when announcer is ``killing time with a shoutout to Portland, Maine`` and someone in Virginia on hfunderground, but I don`t have to look it up there as then comes an ID ``Radio Free What-eever``, into song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6974.1-AM, Jan 17 at 0024, pirate music, could not copy ID completely, ``Radio --- --- --- [3 syllables], Free Radio from --- [2 syllables]``. 0026 polka, off at 0034 next check. The answer to this one is Radio Doctor Tim relay per a few logs athttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20336.0.html
which agree it went off at 0027/0028.
However, later on 6940-USB including (what else?) topless SSTV imagehttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=20346.0;attach=2990;image
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15200, Jan 18 at 0018, good signal in English, soon clearly from BBCWS, re hotels in the DRC; 0030 news headlines and now fading down some. Brand new, unlisted in latest shortwave.am, HFCC, Aoki and EiBi. Propagationally, likely from Thailand or Singapore. Dan Sheedy, California was also hearing this 24 hours earlier until 0058* // another unlisted, 13700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday January 18 at 0231 on KVOH 9975, fair. Next:
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Sat Jan 17 at 2207, WRMI playing jazz/blues music, having turned back on after all-day 15-22 UT break on original frequency, good signal, no jamming yet, and better than 9395 G24. What`s this? Program grid shows Sat 2200-2230 is `Impact Radio`; wonder what that`s about if not just another gospel huxter and this may be fill music. Impact Radio is one among many programs which have no explicatory entry on the WRMI website. Jeff White explains: ``I think there was a problem with the audio file today, but Impact Radio is from Galcom about their various mission projects.``
7455, UT Sun Jan 18 at 0028, WRMI atop RTTY, sounds like Vasily Strelnikov conversing with a YL about what a bad year it`s been for him, but at least he didn`t have to leave the country; says recorded just before New Year`s Eve, doesn`t know what will happen with this show. I think it must be the NY special `From Moscow with Love` whose several airings I have so far missed, but not scheduled now; instead Sun & Mon at 0015 on 7455 is `Viva Miami` but these weren`t Jeff & Thaïs. Furthermore, Vasily is cut off abruptly at 0029+ for classic WRUL/WRMI ID, and 0030 into Ukrainian Radio IS and ID (NOT calling itself any more Radio Ukraine International).
Meanwhile, 5850 WRMI has started R. Slovakia International relay in English as these two Slavic stations have to compete with each other into eastern North American prime time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Jan 18 at 0040, carrier with extreme FM distortion, unreadable, but then clears up to hear Yoruba, yet very poor with heavy fading. So was it previously QRM, or self-imposed as I first expected, it being WTWW-3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0529 UT January 18
Seems this is a live relay off ABC RN, scheduled in for 11 am Sunday local time when everyone ought to be worshipping; but it`s a repeat from last August (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17890, Jan 18 at 0009, Chinese poor with flutter. Aoki shows CNR1 as a non-jammer here at 0130-1100, 100 kW, 222 degrees from Beijing 572 site but latest HFCC runs it 0000-1100; and nothing in either at any other time on this frequency.
Hardly anything else now on 16m except Australia 17840, but another non // Chinese on 17490, quite similar signal, which is CRI Cantonese, 500 kW, 193 degrees from unspecified Beijing site.
12035, Jan 18 at 0038, Chinese good with heavy flutter and SAH rumble; Aoki has CRI Chinese, 500 kW, 200 degrees from Xi`an during this hour. Maybe the QRM was from Egypt, also scheduled here, but see 12080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17730, Jan 17 at 2200, RHC opening `Revista Nuestra América`, with frequency list 17730, 13740, 11760, 11840, 9535, 9710, 5040 in typical Soviet-style disorder, and they all check out! Plus English on 11880. Seems the 22-24 Spanish bihour used to be called something else. Their so-called program schedule athttp://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/programacion
only covers the summer morning hours of 11-15 UT.
15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12080.1, Jan 18 at 0039, open carrier/dead air, presumably R. Cairo, could be just warmup before 0045 Spanish, but more likely will continue to be non- or badly-modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420 fair-good // 9935 poor, ERT Open in Greek is on today at 2136 Jan 17 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 17540, Jan 17 at 2140, Rádio Japão with J-pop introduced in Brazuguese, VG signal, good for my nap. WHRI 2130 relay toward Brasil, but surely the best sig within North America now for NHK World. Who needs English? Off at 2200* after timesignal, no announcement from NHK or WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 17 at 0023, pirate music, fair at 0035 when announcer is ``killing time with a shoutout to Portland, Maine`` and someone in Virginia on hfunderground, but I don`t have to look it up there as then comes an ID ``Radio Free What-eever``, into song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6974.1-AM, Jan 17 at 0024, pirate music, could not copy ID completely, ``Radio --- --- --- [3 syllables], Free Radio from --- [2 syllables]``. 0026 polka, off at 0034 next check. The answer to this one is Radio Doctor Tim relay per a few logs athttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20336.0.html
which agree it went off at 0027/0028.
However, later on 6940-USB including (what else?) topless SSTV imagehttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=20346.0;attach=2990;image
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15200, Jan 18 at 0018, good signal in English, soon clearly from BBCWS, re hotels in the DRC; 0030 news headlines and now fading down some. Brand new, unlisted in latest shortwave.am, HFCC, Aoki and EiBi. Propagationally, likely from Thailand or Singapore. Dan Sheedy, California was also hearing this 24 hours earlier until 0058* // another unlisted, 13700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday January 18 at 0231 on KVOH 9975, fair. Next:
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB
Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Wed 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Sat Jan 17 at 2207, WRMI playing jazz/blues music, having turned back on after all-day 15-22 UT break on original frequency, good signal, no jamming yet, and better than 9395 G24. What`s this? Program grid shows Sat 2200-2230 is `Impact Radio`; wonder what that`s about if not just another gospel huxter and this may be fill music. Impact Radio is one among many programs which have no explicatory entry on the WRMI website. Jeff White explains: ``I think there was a problem with the audio file today, but Impact Radio is from Galcom about their various mission projects.``
7455, UT Sun Jan 18 at 0028, WRMI atop RTTY, sounds like Vasily Strelnikov conversing with a YL about what a bad year it`s been for him, but at least he didn`t have to leave the country; says recorded just before New Year`s Eve, doesn`t know what will happen with this show. I think it must be the NY special `From Moscow with Love` whose several airings I have so far missed, but not scheduled now; instead Sun & Mon at 0015 on 7455 is `Viva Miami` but these weren`t Jeff & Thaïs. Furthermore, Vasily is cut off abruptly at 0029+ for classic WRUL/WRMI ID, and 0030 into Ukrainian Radio IS and ID (NOT calling itself any more Radio Ukraine International).
Meanwhile, 5850 WRMI has started R. Slovakia International relay in English as these two Slavic stations have to compete with each other into eastern North American prime time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Jan 18 at 0040, carrier with extreme FM distortion, unreadable, but then clears up to hear Yoruba, yet very poor with heavy fading. So was it previously QRM, or self-imposed as I first expected, it being WTWW-3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0529 UT January 18
