** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 12075, Jan 29 at 1451, SW Asian pop music reminiscent of what R. Sohl used to play, since this is also for Afghanistan, good signal, 1500 ID as Radio Ashná, and habari. HFCC shows IBB via Woofferton UK in Pashto & Persian (= Dari) at 1430-1530 (also 1330-1430 via Biblis, Germany and Aoki clarifies that this hour is R. Azadi = Free Afghanistan). 12075 fits neatly between the two Radio Australias on 12065 and 12085, both of which will continue in Feb at 09-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815 approx., Jan 29 at 0644, poor level crackling spurs matching musical modulation peaks on fundamental 11780.1v of RNA/RNB. Yes, this is tiresome; but only when they stop transmitting them, shall I stop logging them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, Jan 29 at 0636, RHC is in Spanish instead of English on this frequency only, with usual LAH, presumably off-frequency Brasil, SRDA Curitiba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15700, Jan 29 at 1417, CRI English relay continues, with usual dirty signal. Now that there are two of these blasting in on 19m, along with RHC 15370 both until 1600, if the transmitters & antennas are physically close enough, leapfrog mixing products should be possible on 15040 and 16030, but none audible yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Jan 29 at 0642, ERTOpen in Greek, motorboating but readable, // stronger 9420. With BFO, 9935 carrier is obviously wobbling rapidly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Jan 29 at 1449, R. Farda ID and pop music. 13615, Jan 29 at 1454, here`s another R. Farda, about one second ahead of 12005; both good with deep fading. Per HFCC, on Jan 12, 12005 usage changed starting at 1430: had been Lampertheim, Germany; now it`s due east from Woofferton UK with 300 kW until 1730, also replacing Biblis at 1530-1730. 13615 remains Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6055, Jan 29 at 1352, R. Nikkei I with usual English lesson on Thursdays, starting Grades 3 and 4, on theme: elexions. Apparently presented entirely in (American) English; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6135, Thu Jan 29 at 1354, atop SAH but no jamming audible, weekly English; 1355 ``Shiokaze - Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan``; lengthy closing from 1356 with contact info spelled out, including P O Box 222, Tokyo CPO.
And also plugs special broadcast on 15740 in Feb; did not copy details now but previous info in Aoki was: Furusato no Kaze Specials, Sat Feb 14 at 0700-0930; and Sun Feb 15 at 0400-0630, both in Japanese, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Tamsui District, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 105.5, Jan 29 at 1415 UT, K288FX North Enid is back on the air again today, blocking 105.7 KROU. When I was getting KROU, and KWOU 88.1 Woodward, found the latter to be behind by about one satellite delay (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1758 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Jan 29 at 1330 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next:
Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770
Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
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. 1480, Jan 29 at 1344 UT, Spanish ad for AutoLite in dólares, another for Goodwill, so obviously a US station, CCI from KQAM Wichita in English about 4 Hz away. Probably the closest one, KCZZ Mission KS (Kansas City), 1000/500 watts U4, a Radio Luz, i.e. religious. Close to same direxion as Wichita but somewhat separable.
Per NRC AM Log, all the other US SS on 1480 are much further, in CA, FL, FL, ID, MI, SC, VA, VA, WA, WI, PR. Madison WI might be possible, but day pattern goes NW, nite pattern NE. KCCZ day pattern goes east, nite southeast. KQAM aims westward day & nite which explains its less than strong signal here to the SSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520, Jan 29 at 1341 UT, KOKC is on, but with tough CCI in English mentioning Hong Kong, ``program from G&E Studios``. It`s KYND Cypress (Houston) TX, almost the same angle as OKC from here, making usual slow SAH just after sunrise. Streema.com explains,
``KYND is a broadcast radio station in Cypress, Texas, United States. As part of G&E Studio, KYND provides Chinese Entertainment, and News and Talk shows about China to the Houston, Texas area, with content from EasyFM, an English-language broadcast radio station from China Radio International (CRI), Beijing, China``.
So G&E is a front organization for the ChiCom. What does it stand for? Here`s more about it and the several other cities where it operates out of HQ in West Covina CA:http://gestudio.us/index.php/en/radio-network/houston
Same programming is on 1540 KGBC Galveston, but not audible now with KXEL dominant on day pattern. They also run KXYZ 1320 in Houston, but in Chinese language; I wonder how much if any of that is locally originated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Jan 29 at 0654 UT, listing gospel musical or worship events in Little Rock and several other Arkansas cities, losing out to CCI in Spanish, with medium SAH. NRC AM Log shows the AR station here is supposed to be a daytimer! KVDW, England AR, 2500 watts D1, UC:GOS/REL format, // 100.9 translator as ``Victory 1530`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 970, Jan 29 at 1334 UT, Spanish music and announcements, losing out to English, probably Tulsa. NRC AM Log shows of the 51 USA stations on 970, the only SS is WNNR Jacksonville FL, 1 kW, so not possibly thence. Could XEJ Juárez be back? Not up to the level it used to attain around sunrise, so maybe another XE. Seems to peak roughly from the southwest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Jan 29 at 1320, SE Asian(?) music with pileup of at least 3 stations, SAHs. Aoki listings show all these on the air now: AIR Delhi in Sindhi; CNR6 Beijing in Chinese; Myanmar Rakhine in Burmese; Voice of Vietnam 4 in Hmong. At least we can rule out Zambia and Chad due to propagation and probably also inactivity. This must make an even more horrible mess in Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1751 UT January 29
** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815 approx., Jan 29 at 0644, poor level crackling spurs matching musical modulation peaks on fundamental 11780.1v of RNA/RNB. Yes, this is tiresome; but only when they stop transmitting them, shall I stop logging them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, Jan 29 at 0636, RHC is in Spanish instead of English on this frequency only, with usual LAH, presumably off-frequency Brasil, SRDA Curitiba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15700, Jan 29 at 1417, CRI English relay continues, with usual dirty signal. Now that there are two of these blasting in on 19m, along with RHC 15370 both until 1600, if the transmitters & antennas are physically close enough, leapfrog mixing products should be possible on 15040 and 16030, but none audible yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Jan 29 at 0642, ERTOpen in Greek, motorboating but readable, // stronger 9420. With BFO, 9935 carrier is obviously wobbling rapidly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Jan 29 at 1449, R. Farda ID and pop music. 13615, Jan 29 at 1454, here`s another R. Farda, about one second ahead of 12005; both good with deep fading. Per HFCC, on Jan 12, 12005 usage changed starting at 1430: had been Lampertheim, Germany; now it`s due east from Woofferton UK with 300 kW until 1730, also replacing Biblis at 1530-1730. 13615 remains Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6055, Jan 29 at 1352, R. Nikkei I with usual English lesson on Thursdays, starting Grades 3 and 4, on theme: elexions. Apparently presented entirely in (American) English; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6135, Thu Jan 29 at 1354, atop SAH but no jamming audible, weekly English; 1355 ``Shiokaze - Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan``; lengthy closing from 1356 with contact info spelled out, including P O Box 222, Tokyo CPO.
And also plugs special broadcast on 15740 in Feb; did not copy details now but previous info in Aoki was: Furusato no Kaze Specials, Sat Feb 14 at 0700-0930; and Sun Feb 15 at 0400-0630, both in Japanese, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Tamsui District, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 105.5, Jan 29 at 1415 UT, K288FX North Enid is back on the air again today, blocking 105.7 KROU. When I was getting KROU, and KWOU 88.1 Woodward, found the latter to be behind by about one satellite delay (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1758 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Jan 29 at 1330 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next:
Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770
Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850
Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975
Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580
Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v
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. 1480, Jan 29 at 1344 UT, Spanish ad for AutoLite in dólares, another for Goodwill, so obviously a US station, CCI from KQAM Wichita in English about 4 Hz away. Probably the closest one, KCZZ Mission KS (Kansas City), 1000/500 watts U4, a Radio Luz, i.e. religious. Close to same direxion as Wichita but somewhat separable.
Per NRC AM Log, all the other US SS on 1480 are much further, in CA, FL, FL, ID, MI, SC, VA, VA, WA, WI, PR. Madison WI might be possible, but day pattern goes NW, nite pattern NE. KCCZ day pattern goes east, nite southeast. KQAM aims westward day & nite which explains its less than strong signal here to the SSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520, Jan 29 at 1341 UT, KOKC is on, but with tough CCI in English mentioning Hong Kong, ``program from G&E Studios``. It`s KYND Cypress (Houston) TX, almost the same angle as OKC from here, making usual slow SAH just after sunrise. Streema.com explains,
``KYND is a broadcast radio station in Cypress, Texas, United States. As part of G&E Studio, KYND provides Chinese Entertainment, and News and Talk shows about China to the Houston, Texas area, with content from EasyFM, an English-language broadcast radio station from China Radio International (CRI), Beijing, China``.
So G&E is a front organization for the ChiCom. What does it stand for? Here`s more about it and the several other cities where it operates out of HQ in West Covina CA:http://gestudio.us/index.php/en/radio-network/houston
Same programming is on 1540 KGBC Galveston, but not audible now with KXEL dominant on day pattern. They also run KXYZ 1320 in Houston, but in Chinese language; I wonder how much if any of that is locally originated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, Jan 29 at 0654 UT, listing gospel musical or worship events in Little Rock and several other Arkansas cities, losing out to CCI in Spanish, with medium SAH. NRC AM Log shows the AR station here is supposed to be a daytimer! KVDW, England AR, 2500 watts D1, UC:GOS/REL format, // 100.9 translator as ``Victory 1530`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 970, Jan 29 at 1334 UT, Spanish music and announcements, losing out to English, probably Tulsa. NRC AM Log shows of the 51 USA stations on 970, the only SS is WNNR Jacksonville FL, 1 kW, so not possibly thence. Could XEJ Juárez be back? Not up to the level it used to attain around sunrise, so maybe another XE. Seems to peak roughly from the southwest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Jan 29 at 1320, SE Asian(?) music with pileup of at least 3 stations, SAHs. Aoki listings show all these on the air now: AIR Delhi in Sindhi; CNR6 Beijing in Chinese; Myanmar Rakhine in Burmese; Voice of Vietnam 4 in Hmong. At least we can rule out Zambia and Chad due to propagation and probably also inactivity. This must make an even more horrible mess in Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1751 UT January 29
