** BANGLADESH. 4750, Jan 18 at 1335, very poor signal with S Asian vocal/instrumental music, implying it`s Bangladesh Betar; as RRI is still silent since May 15, 2014, per http://rri.jpn.org/dat/html/2014-05.html
The only other possibility on 4750 is China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR-1 jammers, morning of Jan 18:
6280, Jan 18 at 1345, good signal with Chinese opera, no QRM but really here to jam a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope, per Aoki. Then //s on:
6180, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1345
6175, CNR1, not a jammer! Jan 18 at 1345
6165, poor with CCI, seemed same but CNR6 listed, Jan 18 at 1345
7255, CNR1 // programming, but both CRI Russian and PBS Xizang in Tibetan listed, Jan 18 at 1347
7365, CNR1, not a jammer, Shijiazhuang 723 site, Jan 18 at 1347
7385, CNR1 jammer, under WHRI, vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348
7445, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348
7470, CNR1 jammer vs RFA Tibetan via Mongolia, Jan 18 at 1349
7545, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Cantonese via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1350
9530, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Mandarin via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1357
9810, CNR1, not a jammer via Nanning site, Jan 18 at 1357
At 1357 all go from Chinese opera to Gershwin`s `Rhapsody in Blue` but merely to be talked over as hour closes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 10345-AM, Jan 18 at 0632, HM-01 spy numbers, 5-digit Spanish YL, interspersed with digibursts, VG signal, no doubt same 100 or 250 kW broadcast transmitter as used by RHC; making this the only broadcast on the 10 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [non]. 9395, Global 24 via WRMI schedule at http://tinyurl.com/G24sked still shows R. Cairo relays Sundays at 1300-1420 and Mondays at 1100-1220, but replaced by something else on Sun Jan 18; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Sunday Jan 18 at 1357 checking Global 24 for scheduled weekly relay of R. Cairo, Egypt at 1300-1420: NO, instead hear this:
1357, British accent with song number 4 on the charts in 1971, unknown what substitute/replacement programme; 1400 Global 24 ID, and ``from the Global 24 newsroom in Miami, Florida with Jeff (Demers?)``. First time I`ve heard G24 doing own news, and first time heard to be located in Miami. But after some Bach at 1402, at 1403 into news from elsewhere, 1406 outro as FSN, and right into European News Network. Usual poor signal at this time of day, in fact weaker than Thailand in English on 9390 and Kurdistan [non] on 9400, both of which ACI G24 without narrow filtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Jan 18 at 1427 check, WEWN is again/still missing from this channel, but remains in Spanish on 12050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7565, Jan 18 at 1352, open carrier/dead air, atop weak CCI with flutter. Aoki shows 1330-1359 is BBC Bengali via THAILAND, followed at 1400-1430 by BBC Hindi via UZBEKISTAN, so presumably Tashkent was blocking Nakhon Sawan already. What poor coördination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dates were wrong on these 3 items in my previous report! replace with:
** AUSTRALIA. 19000, Jan 18 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 worshiping; but it`s a repeat from last August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 18 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 18 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)
This report despatched at 1628 UT January 18
The only other possibility on 4750 is China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR-1 jammers, morning of Jan 18:
6280, Jan 18 at 1345, good signal with Chinese opera, no QRM but really here to jam a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope, per Aoki. Then //s on:
6180, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1345
6175, CNR1, not a jammer! Jan 18 at 1345
6165, poor with CCI, seemed same but CNR6 listed, Jan 18 at 1345
7255, CNR1 // programming, but both CRI Russian and PBS Xizang in Tibetan listed, Jan 18 at 1347
7365, CNR1, not a jammer, Shijiazhuang 723 site, Jan 18 at 1347
7385, CNR1 jammer, under WHRI, vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348
7445, CNR1 jammer vs RTI, Jan 18 at 1348
7470, CNR1 jammer vs RFA Tibetan via Mongolia, Jan 18 at 1349
7545, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Cantonese via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1350
9530, CNR1 jammer vs VOA Mandarin via Philippines, Jan 18 at 1357
9810, CNR1, not a jammer via Nanning site, Jan 18 at 1357
At 1357 all go from Chinese opera to Gershwin`s `Rhapsody in Blue` but merely to be talked over as hour closes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 10345-AM, Jan 18 at 0632, HM-01 spy numbers, 5-digit Spanish YL, interspersed with digibursts, VG signal, no doubt same 100 or 250 kW broadcast transmitter as used by RHC; making this the only broadcast on the 10 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [non]. 9395, Global 24 via WRMI schedule at http://tinyurl.com/G24sked still shows R. Cairo relays Sundays at 1300-1420 and Mondays at 1100-1220, but replaced by something else on Sun Jan 18; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Sunday Jan 18 at 1357 checking Global 24 for scheduled weekly relay of R. Cairo, Egypt at 1300-1420: NO, instead hear this:
1357, British accent with song number 4 on the charts in 1971, unknown what substitute/replacement programme; 1400 Global 24 ID, and ``from the Global 24 newsroom in Miami, Florida with Jeff (Demers?)``. First time I`ve heard G24 doing own news, and first time heard to be located in Miami. But after some Bach at 1402, at 1403 into news from elsewhere, 1406 outro as FSN, and right into European News Network. Usual poor signal at this time of day, in fact weaker than Thailand in English on 9390 and Kurdistan [non] on 9400, both of which ACI G24 without narrow filtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11550, Jan 18 at 1427 check, WEWN is again/still missing from this channel, but remains in Spanish on 12050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7565, Jan 18 at 1352, open carrier/dead air, atop weak CCI with flutter. Aoki shows 1330-1359 is BBC Bengali via THAILAND, followed at 1400-1430 by BBC Hindi via UZBEKISTAN, so presumably Tashkent was blocking Nakhon Sawan already. What poor coördination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dates were wrong on these 3 items in my previous report! replace with:
** AUSTRALIA. 19000, Jan 18 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 worshiping; but it`s a repeat from last August (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Jan 18 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 18 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)
This report despatched at 1628 UT January 18
